Pembroke College Record2006 - 2007

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Master's Notes 3

Feature Article: The World of James Smithson by Heather Ewing 6

Feature Article: A Pembroke Launch for Smithson 10

Master and Fellows 2006-7 11

Welcomes and Farewells in the Pembroke Community 14

New Professorships Amongst Pembroke Fellows 22

Fellows' Publications 2006-7 23

University and Other Distinctions 35

College Societies 39

JCR 39

MCR 40

Blackstone Society 42

Music Society 42

College Wine Society 44

College Choir 44

College Sports 46

Damon Wells Chapel 59

The McGowin Library 61

The Emery Gallery 62

The College Archives 64

Samuel Johnson News 67

Feature Article: Pembroke and the Oxford Portraits Project 68

Alumni News and Features 70

News 70

Damon Wells: a Profile 76

Rededication of the War Memorial 77

Minutes of the Pembroke Society AGM 78

Alumni Representatives 79

Obituaries 83

Contents

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Master's Notes

This has been another year in which a very positive atmosphere has prevailed in the College on many fronts.

We have been able to appoint two excellent new Fellows in place of those retiring: Dr Linda Flores (Japanese) and Dr Gabriel Uzquiano Cruz (Philosophy). After an 18 month gap, a new Strategic Development Director has been appointed in Andrew Seton, formerly an investment banker. Andrew is a Fellow and member of the Governing Body.

Our most substantial current benefactor, Dr Damon Wells (an Honorary Fellow) was admitted to the Chancellor of the University’s Court of Benefactors and had his name inscribed on the Clarendon Arch to recognise the extent of his generosity, thereby joining a most distinguished list of benefactors to the University over several centuries.

One of our alumni, Sir Robert Crawford, the Director-General of the Imperial War Museum, was knighted in the New Year’s Honours List and we extend our congratulations.

We succeeded in a major fundraising feat, securing the permanent endowment of a new Fellowship in Chinese Studies, one of the central priorities in our Strategic Plan, together with funds towards a Research Fellowship in the subject. Dr Stanley Ho, the benefactor, becomes a Foundation Fellow of the College.

We elected three new Honorary Fellows: Professor Simon Blackburn, Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University (and formerly Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at Pembroke), Professor Nicholas Mann, Dean of the School of Advanced Study and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of London (and formerly Tutorial Fellow in French at Pembroke) and Sir Peter Ricketts, the Permanent Under Secretary at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (and alumnus of the College). The new Honorary Fellows were feted by us at the revived Wightwick Dinner in May at which our distinguished Visitor (and the Chancellor of the University), Chris Patten, was present.

Undoubtedly one of the highlights of the year was the performance in Finals of

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Pembroke students. In the Norrington Table, which ranks the comparative success of each College in Finals, we achieved 10th position with 31 Firsts and 75 2:1s. This is by far the highest ranking in the Norrington Table achieved by Pembroke in recent memory. Two of our students obtained the top Firsts across the University in their subjects, Rob Avis in English and Ed Mitchard in Biology.

No one should think that these academic successes by students are achieved at the cost of extra-curricular activities. For example, this year the President of the JCR achieved a First in her Finals (being the third JCR President in succession to do so); and Ed Mitchard referred to above has been an outstanding Organ Scholar in his time at the College, being responsible for a massive leap in the range and quality of music in the College and in particular for transforming the Choir into a high calibre group of performers.

Indeed, music is now increasingly at the heart of Pembroke activity. The Choir has thrilled with many of its performances this year and has recently been on tour in Esto-nia. It returned to take up an invitation from the University to perform at the ceremony for the induction of new members to the Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors, which it did in stunning fashion. Our two singing Scholarships, provided by an alumna, Nicola Harrison, are greatly appreciated. The informal recitals in the Master’s Lodgings con-tinue twice a term to attract a range of musicians performing either on their own or in duets or quartets. We have had two excellent concerts and an enterprising performance of ‘All That Jazz’ in the Hall (with contributors drawn in, as in previous recent years, from many other Colleges). A small a cappella group entertained the guests in College at the new Ossulston Lunch for major donors. The way in which music flourishes in the College, in so many different ways, is a source of great delight to me.

The Emery Art Gallery, located in the upper reaches of the Alms building and housing some of the key works belonging to the marvellous JCR Art Collection, has been much visited and admired by students, alumni and others. An outstanding website showing off the Collection has now been created and is part of the ‘new look’ College website.

The very recent launch of the redesigned College website was a significant highlight,

Master's Notes (continued)

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A College Colours ceremony with Pembroke sports playersMaster's Recitals continue twice a term

as it demonstrates the importance being placed on communicating effectively with prospective students, alumni and conference clients alike. The new design aims to make information more accessible and appealing to prospective students and conference clients, and the new on-line community for alumni is intended to improve connections between all members of the Pembroke community. It is now possible to use the website to re-establish contact with contemporaries, to provide careers guidance to current students, to book places at alumni events, and to make donations to the College.

The students in the College continue their now customary widespread participation and success in sport. Women have been particularly successful in netball and rugby and the performance of their First VIII in Summer Eights in rowing over all four days in a very competitive First Division, with five novices in the crew, was a splendid achievement. The mens’ First VIII was the fastest crew on the river in Summer Eights, and very nearly managed to bump Magdalen to go Head. We were once again the College with the largest number of crews on the river. We continue to work hard to find solutions for our serious graduate and undergraduate accommodation shortfall, mention of which I made in these Notes last year. It would be wonderful to have some favourable news to report on this in the near future.

All in all, I am confident that you will find reflected in this issue of the Record the stimulating and successful year which the College has experienced.

Giles Henderson Master of Pembroke

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The World of James Smithson: Eighteenth Century Pembroke and the Foundation of the Smithsonian Institution

Just inside Pembroke College, on a courtyard wall by the Porters’ Lodge, is a plaque commemorating one of Pembroke’s more illustrious alumni, James Smithson. Smithson’s story is an extraordinary one, and yet it is one that is scarcely known.

James Smithson matriculated in 1782 as James Louis Macie (his mother’s name, which he retained until he was 35 years old). He was the illegitimate son of the first Duke of Northumberland (formerly known as Hugh Smithson), born in secret in Paris, and his mother was a cousin of the Duchess of Northumberland and a wealthy widow in her own right. Smithson dedicated his life to chemistry and mineralogy, living a restless, peripatetic life amidst the capitals of Europe. He never married and had no children. At the end of his life he left his fortune in a contingency clause of his will to the United States to found in Washington, D.C., under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, “an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.”

The Smithsonian Institution, of course, went on to become the largest museum and research complex in the world. Today it spans some nineteen museums of art and history and science, and the National Zoo, as well as scientific research stations in many countries. It is most famous as the home of America’s iconic cultural heritage: the Star-Spangled Banner, Abraham Lincoln’s top hat, Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis, and Dorothy’s ruby slippers from the Wizard of Oz. But not many people know that this most American of places was the creation of a Pembrokian: one who never even set foot in the United States.

I came to Oxford in 2000 at the start of my research, in the hopes of finding evidence of Smithson’s life here. The Smithsonian lost virtually all of Smithson’s papers and belongings in a fire early in the institution’s history, and little was known about their founder; I hoped through the papers and diaries of others to be able to gain a new window into this lost life. In Pembroke’s Archives I pored through the battel or buttery books, which recorded the students’ daily expenditures. They gave me clues as to when he was in residence, and they also showed how much he was spending in relation to his classmates (Smithson was often the biggest spender, or close to the top of the list).

Oxford in Smithson’s day was a famously decadent place. Some professors had not taught a course in years, and many of the wealthier students scarcely attended lectures. They lived a life on the whole unsupervised, free of many responsibilities, focused instead on games

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Heather Ewing with the Smithson plaque in Pembroke during her book launch.

in the gardens and arrack punch and jellies in Oxford’s many pubs and coffeehouses. There was a lot of gambling, a habit Smithson continued throughout his life (he came close, in fact, in the 1820s to losing his fortune entirely at the Paris gaming tables). And Edward Gibbon, author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, described his fourteen months at Magdalen as “the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life.”

Smithson was a gentleman-commoner, which meant that he lived a life of great privilege. Nobles and gentleman-commoners enjoyed seats at table and common rooms with the Fellows. They had the most magnificent suites of rooms in college, which they decorated with prints and elegant furniture, making them into the sites of elaborate parties and drinking sessions. Graham Midgley’s University Life in Eighteenth-Century Oxford (Yale University Press, 1996) offers a colorful window into the Oxford of Smithson’s day.

The hierarchical nature of English society was keenly mirrored at the university. Under the nobles and gentlemen-commoners came the commoners, by far the largest rank of student at Oxford. And then there were the exhibitioners, who were at university on scholarship. And at the bottom were the servitors, who gained their education in exchange for waiting on their fellow students.

Each rank of student had its own costume. The noblemen stood out from afar. While everyone else’s gowns were black, theirs were of brightly coloured silk, in whatever color they and their tutor chose: a rich claret, perhaps, or emerald or turquoise. And the tassels (or tufts as they were called) on their velvet caps were equally easy to spot. They were gold instead of black – which gave rise to the term “tuft-hunters,” to denote those toadies who sought out the richest students for friends. In starkest contrast, at the other end of the spectrum, the servitors’ gowns were of plain black stuff, and their caps, instead of the square academic cap, were round and sometimes derisively called cow-pats.

Smithson, despite enjoying the privileges of a gentleman-commoner, felt acutely his illegitimacy – and the fact that he did not enjoy the status of a nobleman, like other sons of dukes. The register of his matriculation at Oxford shows that he left blank the space where students were supposed to list the name of their father; Smithson was the only one during his tenure at Pembroke to omit this information.

This clue in the matriculation record at Pembroke became one more piece of the puzzle

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The World of James Smithson: Eighteenth Century Pembroke and the Foundation of the Smithsonian Institution (continued)

that helped illuminate Smithson’s thinking, and how much he was consumed with efforts to claim his father. He notated all the mentions of his father in his collection of books, which are one of the few things to survive still at the Smithsonian, and he collected memorabilia with the ducal arms on it; and of course, most striking of all he changed his name. At the age of 35, he abandoned Macie for Smithson – to identify himself more publicly as a son of the late Duke of Northumberland, who had been one of the most fashionable members of the aristocracy in the early decades of George III’s reign.

There was one other aspect of Smithson’s story that became clear during my research at Oxford. Typically, an education at Oxford in the eighteenth century was grounded, as it had been for centuries, in classics, logic, and philosophy. But Smithson found a small coterie of people passionately dedicated to the exciting and distinctly ungentlemanly field of chemistry.

Chemistry was the cutting-edge field of Smithson’s lifetime, one at the heart of the making of modern, commercial society. The decade of the 1780s, when Smithson was at Oxford, saw the founding of the related new sciences of mineralogy and geology, as well the publication of Lavoisier’s revolutionary treatise, which laid the foundations for modern chemistry. Oxford was not by any means at the forefront of chemical and industrial developments in England, but just around the time Smithson was matriculating, the university refurbished the chemical laboratory in the basement of the Museum building (today the Museum of the History of Science) to accommodate it “to the purposes of a chemical school” and hired Martin Wall to present the first series of chemistry lectures.

Pembroke seems to have been the focus of much of the growing excitement for chemistry at Oxford. The Master, Reverend William Adams, was said by one student to be “considerably deep” into chemistry. And a number of students in addition to Smithson were very actively pursuing the subject. Davies Giddy (later Gilbert), who went on to become the President of the Royal Society in the late 1820s, was at Pembroke during this time. Another Pembrokian was Thomas Beddoes, the future father of the Romantic poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes, who went on to teach chemistry at Oxford after graduation, though he lost his position in the 1790s over his radical political leanings. Pembroke seems to have been a place where excitement about chemistry, modernity, and ideas of liberty all converged. The Master was a regular correspondent of the Unitarian minister Richard Price, who was then in the 1780s gaining widespread notoriety for his prominent support of the American cause.

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Heather Ewing, formerly an architectural historian at the Smithsonian, is the author of The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution and the Birth of the Smithsonian (Bloomsbury, 2007).Adapted from an article written for the Michaelmas 2007 issue of ‘Oxford Today’.

(Right) The Lost World of James Smithson

(Left) William Adams, Master of Pembroke during Smithson's time., by James Roberts (1785)

Smithson carried these philosophical discussions on to the coffeehouse societies in London, and the scientific circles he joined in Europe, as he eagerly built an international network of colleagues – both to aid in the building of natural history collections through exchange of specimens and to foster the spread of knowledge. Many of the friends from Oxford who were likewise dedicated to a life of public-minded science remained Smithson’s close associates throughout their lives. Smithson believed that “the work of scientists being for all men, they themselves should be considered citizens of the world.” His highest ambition was to be a benefactor of all mankind.

He wrote his will toward the very end of his life. Incredibly, his gift to the fledgling nation across the Atlantic very nearly didn’t happen. His fortune was destined initially to his nephew and that young man’s as-yet-unborn heirs. But Henry James Hungerford died six years after Smithson, still in his twenties, unmarried and without children – the event which set in motion Smithson’s extraordinary bequest. Even then, the future of a Smithsonian was not entirely secure. The fortune was tied up in Chancery, at a time when the court was some 800 cases in arrears, the very scene evoked in Dickens’ Bleak House. Even when the U.S. succeeded in shepherding the Smithson monies through in two years, the cause stalled once again, as Congress debated for nearly a decade over Smithson’s intent. It was 1846 when the Act to establish the Smithsonian was finally passed, twenty years after Smithson had penned his will.

For all the mystery, and all the serendipity, Smithson’s bequest emerged from a deeply held belief in the power of scientific knowledge to advance society and better the human condition. Uncovering Smithson’s story reveals these Enlightenment ideals at its heart, and opens up the possibility that it was at Pembroke – in an environs that fostered open debate and curiosity, epitomized by the convivial “blue-stocking parties” held by the Master – that he first caught the spark of these ideas.

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A Pembroke Launch for Smithson: The UK launch of The Lost World Of James Smithson, May 2007

Pembroke, “that college so polite and shy ..[with].. more character then Queen’s or Univ. splendid in the High” (Betjeman), has been shy of publicizing its alumni. An opportunity arose in 2003 when Heather Ewing, Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution, made a return visit to the College to research information additional to that which we had supplied to her on her first visit to the College in 2000. I suggested to her and to the Master that the UK launch of her book could be in the College. They both then, and Bloomsbury the publishers later, agreed.

Godfrey Howard (1946), himself an award-winning author, became the consultant for this event and made exacting demands for a successful event. Beforehand there was to be early notification to VIPs, sexy publicity (which he wrote), and on the day, it was essential to have a throng of invitees, canapes and a good white wine. The SCR graciously made available Broadgates Hall, which Smithson would have known as the College refectory. Guest lists were drawn up, and some 250 emails later, more than 60 guests were welcomed by The Master in Broadgates; au pied de l’escalier of the gallery from which Marc Pachter, National Portrait Gallery Director, Smithsonian Institution gave 'Greetings from the American heirs of James Smithson', Godfrey introduced Heather Ewing as the ‘star of the evening’, saying how grateful we were to her for bringing one of Pembroke’s great alumni to life for us. After Heather read from her book, mostly about Pembroke in the 18th Century, Professor Ben Davis, Fellow in Chemistry, chaired a Q & A session. Mr Michael Macy, Cultural Attaché at the US Embassy, thought he might be related to James Macie (Smithson’s name at the College) whilst Mrs Dominic Lyle, who came from Belgium, is a Smithson relative.

On show were samples of smithsonite (zinc carbonate, a mineral named in honour of Smithson, who was a brilliant undergraduate chemist), and an antique geologists’ field blowpipe, all loaned by the OU Museum of Natural History. College archives showed £24 caution money by Macie on entering as a Gentleman Commoner in May 1782 and his battels for the week ending 13 December the same year. We printed a commemorative programme with reproductions of the plaque on the wall of the Porters’ lodge (courtesy of by Dr. Annette Peach who has completed a digital inventory of all the College’s historic portraits), a portrait of Smithson aged 21, seated in MA gown (the picture possibly shows the Pembroke gardens and the Chapel in the background), and another of him aged 51 (both licensed from the Smithsonian Institution NPG). After a book signing session by Heather, a special dinner was held for her in the Forte room with a display of late 18th century Georgian silver, some donated by Smithson’s contemporaries. College wines and port were selected by the SCR Butler. Success of the book launch was due to great teamwork on behalf of the College and alumni, who all helped to make the evening a great success, and an event which brought something special to our College, worth all the work we had put into it.

Brian Wilson (1948)

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MASTERGILES HENDERSON, CBE, BCL, MA (BA Witwatersrand) (elected 2001) (Formerly Senior Partner, Slaughter and May)

FELLOWSDANIEL DAVID PRENTICE, MA (LLB Belfast; JD Chicago) (elected 1973) Allen and Overy Professor of Corporate Law

BRIAN JOHN HOWARD, MA (MA Camb, PhD Southampton) (elected 1976) Professor of Chemistry, Tutor in Physical Chemistry, Frank Buckley Fellow in Chemistry

KENNETH MAYHEW, MA (MSc London) (elected 1976) Reader in Economics, Tutor in Economics

DAVID YORK MASON, BM, BCh, (MA, DM) FRC Path (elected 1987) Fellow by Special Election, Professor in Cellular Pathology

LYNDA CLARE MUGGLESTONE, MA, DPhil (elected 1989) Professor of the History of English, Vicegerent, Tutor in English Language and Literature

MARK DAVID FRICKER, MA (PhD Stirling) (elected 1989) Tutor in Biological Sciences

ALEJANDRO KACELNIK, MA, DPhil (Lic Enciado en Ciencias Biologicas, Buenos Aires) (elected 1990) Professor of Behavioural Ecology, Tutor in Zoology, EP Abraham Fellow

TIMOTHY JOHN FARRANT, MA, DPhil (elected 1990) Tutor in Modern Languages

PAUL WILLIAM SMITH, MA (BSc London, MSc Southampton, PhD London), AMIEE (elected 1991) Reader in Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering Science

MALCOLM REGINALD GODDEN, MA,

DPhil (MA, PhD Camb) (elected 1991) Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon

JEREMY SIMON HUDSON TAYLOR, MA (BSc Bristol, PhD London) (elected 1992) Tutor in Physiological Sciences, O’Brien-Abraham Fellow

STEPHEN DOUGLAS WHITEFIELD, MA, DPhil (elected 1993) Professor of Comparative Russian and East European Politics and Societies, Tutor in Politics, Rhodes Pelczynski Fellow in Politics

HELEN WENDA SMALL, MA (BA Wellington, New Zealand; PhD Camb) (elected 1996), Dean, Tutor in English Literature, Jonathan and Julia Aisbitt Fellow in English Literature

OWEN RICHARD DARBISHIRE, MA (MSc, PhD Cornell) (elected 1996) Tutor in Management Studies, Sue Cormack Fellow in Management

ADRIAN MARK GREGORY, MA (MA, PhD Camb) (elected 1997) Deputy Dean, Tutor in Modern History, Damon Wells Fellow in Modern History

HELENA JANET EFSTATHIOU, MA (PhD Durham) (elected 1998) Reader in Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering, Richard and Ester Lee Fellow in Engineering

CHRISTOPHER MELCHERT, MA (AB California at Santa Cruz; MA Princeton, PhD Pennsylvania) (elected 2000) Abdullah Saleh Fellow in Arabic

RAPHAEL HAUSER, MA (Dipl. Math ETH, MSc, PhD Cornell) (elected 2001) Reader in Computing Science, Tanaka Fellow in Applied Mathematics

BENJAMIN GUY DAVIS, BA, DPhil (elected 2001) Professor of Chemistry, Tutor in Organic Chemistry

STEPHEN GEORGE NEWSAM TUCK, (BA, PhD Camb) (elected 2003) Tutor in

Master and Fellows 2006-2007

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History

THEO MAARTEN VAN LINT, (MA, PhD Leiden) (elected 2002) Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies

CHRISTOPHER MARK TUCKETT, MA (MA Camb, PhD Lanc) (elected 2002) Professor of New Testament Studies, Tutor in Theology

JOHN EDWIN CHURCH, MA (MA Camb), ACIB, C.Dip.AF (elected 2003) Bursar

ARIEL EZRACHI, MSt DPhil (LL B, BB Coll. Man Tel Aviv) (elected 2003) Tutor in Law, Slaughter and May Fellow in Competition Law

ANDRÉ MARTIN FURGER, (BSc BEd, PhD Bern) (elected 2003) Tutor in Biochemistry

GUIDO BONSAVER, (Dott Verona; PhD Reading) (elected 2003) Tutor in Italian

BRIAN JAMES ROGERS, MA (BSc, PhD Bristol) (elected 2003) Tutor in Psychology

JONATHAN LLOYD REES, (MB BS, MD London), FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Tr&Orth) (elected 2004) Fellow by Special Election

ANNE E HENKE, DPhil (DipMath Heidelberg), (elected 2005) Tutor in Pure Mathematics

REBECCA ANNE WILLIAMS, BCL, MA (PhD Birm) (elected 2005) Tutor in Law, Blackstone-Heuston Fellow

LINDA MARIE FLORES, (BA Penn; MA St Louis, PhD UCLA) (elected 2006) Tutor in Japanese Studies, TEPCo Fellow in Japanese

GABRIEL UZQUIANO CRUZ, (Lic Barcelona, PhD MIT) (elected 2006) Tutor in Philosophy, Robert and Rena Lewin Fellow in Philosophy

ANDREW SETON, MA, BPhil, (elected 2007) Strategic Development Director

ACADEMIC DIRECTORJOHN MICHAEL EEKELAAR, BCL, MA, LLB Lond, FBA, Senior Tutor, Tutor for

Admissions, Dean of Graduates, Dean of Visiting Students

ADVISORY FELLOWSALAN JACKSON DOREY, MA, DPhil, Hon DCL (to 2007)

SIR ROBERT CYRIL CLARKE, Kt, MA (to 2008)

CHARLES FULLERTON MACKINNON, MA (to 2008)

PETER JOHN FARTHING, MA, (to 2010)

JULIAN SCHILD, MA, (to 2012)

EMERITUS FELLOWSDOUGLAS GRAY, MA (MA New Zealand), FBA

PETER JOHN CUFF, MA, DPhil

EDGAR LIGHTFOOT, MA (MSc London, PhD Leeds), CEng, FICE, FISE

PIERS GERALD MACKESY, MA, DPhil, DLitt, FBA

ARTHUR DENNIS HAZLEWOOD, BPhil, MA (BSc. (Econ) London)

JOHN WILKS, (now deceased) MA, DPhil, DSc

PAUL RAPHAEL HYAMS, MA, DPhil

SIMON WALTER BLACKBURN, MA (MA PhD Camb)

VERNON SPENCER BUTT, MA (BSc, PhD Bristol)

REVD COLIN MORRIS, MA, FRHistS

COLIN NICHOLAS JOCELYN MANN, CBE, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Camb) FBA

ERIC GERALD STANLEY, MA (PhD Birmingham) FBA

ZBIGNIEW ANDRZEJ PELCZYNSKI, OBE, MA, MPhil, DPhil (MA St Andrew’s)

JOHN HUGH COLIN LEACH, MA

GORDON HARLOW WHITHAM, MA (PhD Manchester)

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IAN PHILIP GRANT, MA, DPhil, FRS

MICHAEL JOHN GORINGE, MA, DPhil, (MA, PhD Camb)

JOHN RAYMOND ROOK, MA (BSc, PhD Manchester)

ALAN JONES, MA (MA Camb)

THE MOST REVEREND METROPOLITAN KALLISTOS TIMOTHY WARE OF DIOKLEIA, MA, D.Phil

JOHN SEBASTIAN KNOWLAND, MA, DPhil

REVD JOHN EMERSON PLATT, MA, DPhil, (MTh. Hull)

JOHN MICHAEL EEKELAAR, BCL, MA (LL B London) FBA

MARTHA KLEIN, BPhil, MA, DPhil (BA Reading)

IAN JAMES MCMULLEN, MA, DPhil, FBA (MA PhD Camb)

SUPERNUMERARY FELLOWSALEXANDER CRAMPTON SMITH, MA (MB, ChB Edinburgh) DA, FFARCS

COLIN JAMES RICHARD SHEPPARD, MA, DSc, (MA, PhD Camb)

JOHN ROBERT WOODHOUSE, MA, DLitt, (PhD Wales), FBA

DAVID STEPHEN EASTWOOD, MA, DPhil, FRHistS

ANDREW JOHN KEANE, MA (BSc, MSc Lond, PhD Brun)

ROBERT SAMUEL CLIVE GORDON, MA (PhD Camb)

CHARLES CARROLL MORGAN, MA, (BSc New South Wales, PhD Sydney)

PHILIP CHARLES KLIPSTEIN, MA (PhD Camb)

ROBERT WILLIAM THOMSON, MA (BA PhD Camb), FBA

MARTIN BRIDSON, MA (MS, PhD Cornell)

PIERRE FOËX, MA, DPhil (DM Geneva)

MIRI RUBIN, MA, DPhil (MA Jerusalem, PhD Camb)

ROGER CHARLES BONING, MA

HONORARY FELLOWSJAMES MCNAUGHTON HESTER, MA, DPhil (BA Princeton)

NORMAN STAYLER MARSH, CBE, QC, BCL, MA

IVOR SEWARD RICHARD, The Rt Hon Lord Richard of Ammanford, PC, QC, MA

ROBERT DOUGLAS CARSWELL, The Rt Hon The Lord Carswell, Kt, PC, MA (JD Chicago), Hon DLitt Ulster

RICHARD GREEN LUGAR, MA

DAMON WELLS, CBE, MA (BA Yale, PhD Rice University)

MICHAEL RAY DIBDIN HESELTINE, the Rt Hon The Lord Heseltine, CH, PC, MA

ALAN JACKSON DOREY, MA, DPhil, Hon. DCL

JOHN OLAV KERR, Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, GCMG, BA

JOHN ALASTAIR CAMERON, The Rt Hon Lord Abernethy, MA

SIR ROGER GILBERT BANNISTER, Kt, CBE, MA, MSc, DM, FRCP

SIR ROBERT CYRIL CLARKE, Kt, MA

HRH PRINCESS BASMA BINT TALAL, DPhil

SIR PHILIP MARTIN BAILHACHE, Kt, MA

HON SIR ROCCO JOHN VINCENT FORTE, Kt, MA

SIR MALCOLM KEITH SYKES, Kt, MA (MB, BChir, MA Camb)

HON PHILIP LADER, (MA Michigan, JD Harvard)

SIR LEONARD HARRY PEACH, Kt, MA

SIR GRAHAM HART, KCB, BA

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WALTER SEFF ISAACSON, MA (BA Harvard)

ARTHUR KROEGER, MA (BA Alberta)

HRH PRINCE BANDAR BIN SULTAN

SIR ROD EDDINGTON, Kt, DPhil (BE, MEngSci.Western Australia)

ROBERT BOCKING STEVENS, MA, DCL (LLM Yale)

THE LORD KREBS Kt, MA, DPhil, FRS, FMedSci, Hon DSc

SIMON BLACKBURN, MA, (PhD Camb), FBA

NICHOLAS MANN CBE, MA, DPhil, (MA, PhD Camb), FBA

SIR PETER RICKETTS, KCMG, MA

FOUNDATION FELLOWSANDREW GRAHAM STEWARD MCCALLUM, CBE, MA

JONATHAN ROBERT AISBITT, MA

IAN DONALD CORMACK, MA

KENJI TANAKA, (BA, LLM Keio University, Japan)

KAI HUNG MICHAEL LEUNG, (BA University of Hong Kong)

ABDULLAH MOHAMMED SALEH

DAVID ROWLAND

WELCOMES AND FAREWELLS IN THE PEMBROKE COMMUNITY

LINDA FLORES

WELCOMES

GABRIEL UZQUIANOGabriel joined Pembroke in October 2006 as the Robert and Rena Lewin Fellow and CUF Lecturer in Philosophy. Born in Palma de Mallorca and having spent most of his childhood in Tarragona, just south of Barcelona, he remained on Mediterranean shores until he completed his BA in Philosophy in the University of Barcelona. Funded by a scholarship from La Caixa, a Spanish bank, in 1993, he moved to the US to obtain a PhD in Philosophy at the Linguistics & Philosophy Department at MIT with a dissertation in ontology and the philosophy of mathematics. After MIT, in 1999, Gabriel joined the Philosophy Department at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY, just on the shores of Lake Ontario. In 2002, for a term’s research leave, Gabriel visited the UK for the first

Linda Flores (B.A., University of Pennsylvania, M.A., Washington University in St. Louis, Ph.D., UCLA) was appointed in 2006 as the TEPCO Tutorial Fellow in Japanese at Pembroke College and University Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the Oriental Institute. She is a specialist in modern Japanese literature and gender theory. Her research interests include Japanese women writers and proletarian literature, and she was co-organizer of an international workshop on proletarian literature in East Asia and Europe, held in Oxford in September 2007. She has worked extensively on the proletarian writer Hirabayashi Taiko and is revising for publication a manuscript provisionally titled “Maternal Infanticide in Japanese Fiction.”

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ANDREW SETONAndrew has joined Pembroke’s fellowship as Strategic Development Director to run the College’s fundraising and alumni relations activities. He was born and raised in Oxford, gaining his MA in Modern Languages (Russian) at Univ. and later a B.Phil in Russian and East European studies at Wolfson in the 1970s.

Despite harbouring somewhat unrealistic ideas of becoming an academic during his postgraduate years, Andrew left Oxford to pursue a career in the City. He was offered a job at Morgan Grenfell, one of the few merchant banking institutions with a focus on Russia and Eastern Europe in the 1970s. Finding that his Russian was useful after all, he found himself setting up the bank’s representative office in Moscow within 2 years of joining. He spent a good part of his early career travelling repeatedly to Russia and the Balkans, negotiating capital goods credits with companies and banks all over the region. In the 1980s, he switched his attention temporarily to the Middle-East, North Africa and the Caribbean, arranging project finance transactions in Morocco, Trinidad and Cuba.

Towards the end of the 1980s, with Gorbachev at the helm in Moscow and economic reform in the air, Andrew led his department on some large, highly structured banking transactions which used western techniques of off-balance sheet financing in Russia (project loans with no guarantees from state-owned banks) for the first time. His success in this area helped to put him on the Board of the bank and gave him the right to choose what he did next: he spent the next four years running Morgan Grenfell’s business in New York. When he returned to London in 1994 after drumming up US corporate business mandates for Morgan Grenfell’s international structured finance division, it was to the world of corporate finance and privatisation in Central Europe, as well as capital market fund-raising for start-up investments in the area.

He left Morgan Grenfell, which had become part of the Deutsche Bank group, in 1997 at a time when further take-overs were in the offing. After a two-year spell working on his own and with friends in financial consultancy, he was hired by the EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) as their Director for Ukraine, a post which required him to live for 3 years in Kiev, oversee work on direct investment and project lending as well as close dialogue with the government on economic reforms. After this final satisfying stint in the field, which Andrew regards as a sort of “swansong” for his Eastern European banking focus, he took on a number of non-executive positions on the boards of banks and companies at various times, including Polish Telecommunications and one of Russia’s largest private banks, MDM.

Andrew and his wife Anna had returned to live in Oxford after 30 years away, when Pembroke advertised the vacancy. He regards his new role as a welcome return to his

time. He spent six months as a Visiting Fellow in Arche, a research centre on logic, language and mathematics in the University of St Andrews. In 2005, after six years in Rochester, Gabriel joined the Philosophy Department at The Ohio State University, which is where he spent his last year in the US.

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roots and an opportunity to put his business development experience to good use.

NEW HONORARY FELLOWSThis year, the Governing Body of Pembroke was delighted to celebrate the distinguished careers of two previous tutors at Pembroke and an alumnus of the College with Honorary Fellowships.

Professor Simon Blackburn has been Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge since 2001. Between 1970 and 1990, he was Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Pembroke, where he entered fully into College life and this included a period of time as Dean. He then moved to the University of North Carolina before returning to Cambridge. He is a past editor of ‘Mind’ and his publications list includes many works of major influence in the discipline of Philosophy.

Professor Nicholas Mann CBE is Dean of the School of Advanced Study and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of London. Previously, he was Director of the Warburg Institute, where he currently retains the role of Senior Research Fellow. He was also Professor of the History of Classical Tradition at the University of London (1990-2001). Professor Mann was Fellow and Tutor at Pembroke between 1973 and 1990, and an Emeritus Fellow from 1991.

Sir Peter Ricketts, an alumnus of College and Head of the Development Service, is Permanent Under Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He has served the Foreign Office in London, Washington, Hong Kong, Paris and Brussels, where he was the UK Permanent Representative of the UK Delegation to NATO. He was awarded a knighthood in 2003.

The elections were celebrated at a reinstated Wightwick Dinner in May 2007, when the Chancellor of the University and Visitor to Pembroke, the Right Honourable the Lord Patten of Barnes, recalled his time as Governor of Hong Kong, where he and Sir Peter frequently liaised during the challenging diplomatic work which preceded its return to Chinese rule. It was an evening of joyous celebration and pride in the remarkable achievements of these former colleagues and this alumnus of the College.

FAREWELLSROGER BONINGRoger Boning was a member of the College’s Governing Body for ten years from 1996, and I was there, too, for eight of those years. I have therefore been able to observe the great contribution he has made to our College over more than 70 meetings, and I am delighted to write this appreciation.

Roger’s first involvement with Pembroke was in 1969, when he came up to read Greats. Thereafter, he entered the accountancy profession and qualified as an FCA. In 1979 he joined the Oxford University Press (OUP) in a financial role, becoming the Group Financial Director from 1995. His very considerable contribution to the outstanding success of the OUP is well-known and much respected. It was his position there which brought with it his Professorial Fellowship at Pembroke. Last year he was asked to take on the new and very demanding role of Director for Business Services and

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Projects for the University. It is of no surprise to any of us that he is already making his mark there.

Roger’s particular contribution to the Governing Body can be divided into three main areas.

Firstly, his outstanding financial skills were of immense help during the very difficult period which the College went through in the late nineties. He deserves considerable credit for the key role he played at that time and since when, as a member of the College’s Finance and General Purposes Committee, he played his full part in the successful improvement in the College’s finances.

Secondly, he also made a major contribution in the many discussions which were necessary in the formulation of the College’s Strategic Plan, which is now being successfully implemented.

Finally, Roger’s warm and sensitive personality has been of considerable benefit to the Governing Body in handling difficult personnel situations. He has always been ready to take the lead when asked to do so by the Master. He played an active part in the recruitment of the current Bursar and Director of Finance, to whom he has offered support and guidance, but always in the most sensitive and constructive way.

We thank Roger for the outstanding contribution he has made to the College over the last ten years, and we send to him and his wife, Anne, our very best wishes for the future. The University’s gain in his new role is, sadly, our Governing Body’s loss, but we know that he will always be available to help and advise when called upon to do so.

Robert Clarke, Advisory Fellow

JAMES MCMULLENA speech given by John Eekelaar in honour of James McMullen’s retirement.

Pembroke has been doubly blessed in its pursuit of Japanese studies. The first blessing was securing, in 1988 from TEPCo, a sum to support a Tutorial Fellowship and other aspects of Japanese studies in Pembroke, with the help of Graham McCallum, nephew, I believe, of Ronald McCallum, who was Master when I came to Pembroke in 1965, and who has long been associated with Anglo-Japanese initiatives. The second was the appointment of James as the first TEPCo Fellow. TEPCo sounds suitably grand and mysterious, but is in fact, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, which James has confessed makes him sound a little as if he were the equivalent of a Southern Electric Fellow in English literature. James has been a wonderful addition: an adornment to the College. I want to mention just three aspects of this.

First, as a Tutorial Fellow he has played his full part in the administration of the College, although he may not wish to be reminded of the grinding years as Secretary of Governing Body – a position which allows you to see into the innermost workings, if they can be called such – of the College. He has made it a point to come to as many

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College functions as he can: when sometimes the Fellowship has been a little thin on the ground, James could be counted on to be there. But in particular he has been a caring and conscientious tutor.

Dealing with James is a delight. If one of his students has been – shall we say, underperforming – James will personally apologise, as if he were the delinquent. Well, some other tutors do that too, but James goes even further. If you yourself have made a mistake, not got something quite right, James has the wonderful knack of making you feel this it was actually his fault. I don’t know how this works as a teaching tool. I could just imagine James saying: “Mr Smith, I am really sorry about your inadequate Collection marks. I will do everything I can, to do better in ensuring you improve for the examination.” Perhaps there is a little menace in this too?

The other aspect has been the commitment he has shown to developing Japanese studies in Pembroke. The TEPCo benefaction included resources for building the Japanese section in the College library. It is accepted that Pembroke now has the best Japanese collection of any College library in Oxford: about 500 volumes. This has been a labour of love for James, and will be one of his enduring legacies. The Chinese collection is also very impressive.

The benefaction also had provision for the support of a doctoral student, primarily one whose funds were running low at the end of their project, and to support occasional visiting lecturers.

We now have our 14th TEPCo doctoral student: their work has spanned an amazing range of topics connected with Japan: from “Japanese relations with sub-Saharan Africa”, through “Developments in the Japanese ceramic industry in the Meiji period” to “The determinants of residential energy consumption in Japan and the effect of environmental awareness, with special reference to air conditioning.”

We have admitted 64 undergraduates reading Japanese since James arrived. For most of this time James has also been the Tutorial Fellow with responsibility for students reading Chinese. There is no doubt that James’s careful nurturing for Japanese and Chinese in Pembroke, and his tactful and assiduous cultivation of the TEPCo connection, has been the major factor that has put us in the position of being able to claim to be the leading College in Oriental Studies in the University, and in a very strong position to build further on this base.

The final aspect is one his colleagues in Pembroke may only have a vague idea about. I knew little, and have had to glean it from colleagues of his who, as seems to be inevitable for those who study distant parts, are often in those parts and regrettably are under-represented here tonight. They speak of a similar devotion to his subject at the Oriental Studies Institute, especially bringing together the three separate teaching and research units of Japanese, Chinese and Korean. But mostly they refer to his scholarship: “the quintessential scholar” as one put it. They talk of James’s “encyclopaedic” knowledge of Japanese historical development, literature and art, quite beyond his own specialisation: bringing together methodologies derived from those disciplines which has allowed him to challenge orthodoxies which lack his attention to detail and

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MARTHA KLEINI first met Martha when I was a member of the selection committee for the Philosophy Fellowship. One of my enduring impressions comes from those first meetings. The Committee had decided that it wanted to recommend to Governing Body that we offer her the job. Governing Body was due to meet a few days later and we were anxious that, in the interim, Martha might be offered and accept a Fellowship that was being filled at another college. So during the dinner for the short-listed candidates the then Senior Tutor and I took Martha to his room and told her that we wanted her for the job and that we hoped that she would not be seduced by other offers. An expression of consternation appeared on her face and she looked at the two us and said “Are you sure?” Neither of us quite knew how to interpret the question. Was she testing us on the steadfastness of our decision? Or, was she suggesting to us that we might have made the wrong choice? Both of us got the distinct impression that, at least in part, she was concerned for us that we might have got it wrong. Rapidly it became absolutely clear that no mistake was made. To the contrary, the selection committee had made an inspired choice.

Shortly before Martha’s arrival at Pembroke in 1993, the editors of the College Record had adopted the practice of asking new Fellows to write a short article about themselves. Incidentally, in the same issue that Martha’s autobiography appeared there was a piece by the new Politics Fellow, one Stephen Whitefield. It carried clear intimations of the future. Already in those early days, he was bewailing the decline of academic living standards. To quote him, “I often wonder what academic life was like in the old days, when dons could afford to own a house in Boar’s Hill, have children and dogs, and a summer cottage in Tuscany.” “Could the decline in academics’ lifestyle continue?”, he speculated.

Martha’s own piece was unlike any other entry seen before or since. Not for her the dry recitation of an academic’s early life and times. She took us back to her birth in California and to her schooling in New York City. She described how she dropped out of college and took on a variety of jobs – as a waitress, a clerk, a receptionist, a film cutter, a film production assistant and a script girl. In fact rumours amongst undergraduates in her early years in Pembroke suggested that she had been a member of a Californian flower power band – she herself denied this by arguing that she had been too old to be a hippy. However she had been a beatnik.

Her life, and ultimately ours, changed dramatically when, at the grand old age of 21, she met, fell in love with and married an English sailor called Larry. Little more than a year later they joined the crew of a Norwegian ship and sailed the seven seas for nearly three years. Larry was the Second Mate and Martha, as she herself describes it,

dedication to research. The British Academy undoubtedly got this one right. James: the College holds you and Bonnie in great affection. We hope we will continue to see you both on many occasions.

John Eekelaar, Academic Director

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was “the girl who served in the mess.” Not only did she emerge from this experience with fluent Norwegian, she was also a member of the Norwegian Seamen’s Union – making her, we believe, unique among Oxford philosophers. Ultimately Martha and Larry settled in Reading (we have all made some strange choices in our lives). Larry started his career as a social worker there, and Martha took a job in the Photographic Department of the University. This re-engaged her intellectual ambitions. She took A levels, doing night classes at the local college of technology, and, at the age of 33, obtained a place to read Philosophy at Reading University. There she got a First and came to Oxford to do the B.Phil. at Somerville, subsequently going on to the D.Phil. Paul Snowdon and Peter Strawson were her supervisors and in 1986 she completed her doctorate on free will and moral responsibility. Meanwhile she had been teaching at Reading and at several Oxford colleges. In 1987 she got a full time lecturership at Christ Church where she remained until she joined Pembroke 6 years later. It was a pleasure to have two of her colleagues from her Christ Church days - Hugh Rice and Lindsay Judson - with us at her farewell dinner.

I would not dare to write much about her professional life as a philosopher – I do not have the knowledge or the expertise. Suffice it to say that during her time at Christ Church she published the book of her doctoral thesis (Determinism, Blameworthiness and Deprivation) together with an article on Kant’s view on actions, duty and morality. After coming to Pembroke she continued to work on the philosophy of mind and especially on free will, moral responsibility and moral psychology, publishing consistently in these fields. In particular she has been concerned with questions such as the nature of moral responsibility and the relationship between thoughts and actions. In addition to her research, she played an active role in the affairs of University Philosophy, not least as a member of the Faculty Board for Philosophy, as Director of Undergraduate Studies and as a member of the Committee for Graduate Studies.

Of course it is of Martha and Pembroke that I can write with much more authority. A few days before I was due to give a speech at her farewell dinner, I happened to be talking to one of our recent PPE graduates, Ryan McGhee, whom many readers will remember as President of the JCR. When I mentioned the dinner, his first reaction was: “I can’t believe Martha is retiring.” This reflects a perpetual preoccupation of her students – speculation about her age and a refusal to believe that she was not at least 15 years younger. Much more importantly he commented with pleasure and affection about her tutorials. He said that he would never forget, as he put it, “her ability to make the most complex theory suddenly dawn on you after leaving one of her tutorials.” He went on to remark “I distinctly recall picking my options for Finals and Martha giving a reassuring smile and nod as I told her that Kant would be one of them. Upon starting the course I found it to be unbelievably tough, and when I explained this it was met with her usual style of reassurance: ‘Well, of course you find it difficult; it’s one of the toughest philosophy papers you could have chosen. I did wonder at the time but then why should you let that stop you?” I remember laughing and thinking ‘couldn’t you have warned me!’, but I have to admit that in retrospect her advice rang remarkably true, and I ended up getting more out of that paper than most of the others.” Ryan concluded: “She was always a tutor you could talk to about anything at any time – and I know that was really important to us.”

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His comments encapsulate what we heard from all of her students. She was sympathetic and welcoming, always willing to listen and to encourage. She was also demanding of her students and concerned to stimulate their intellectual ambition. She was critical in the best sense of the word - constructive and never dismissive or condescending. This is because she was always concerned for them as people, in matters ranging far beyond their academic performance. She was always willing to help them with personal problems but was never intrusive. Notwithstanding her kind and sympathetic approach, the students very quickly got to learn that Martha was not a push-over. She demanded high standards and got them. At the same time I never heard a single student talk of her with anything but respect and affection. As Ryan said, “she was renowned during our first year tutorials as being remarkably nice whenever you gave an answer which was blatantly barking up the wrong tree. She would always reply with ‘hmm…that’s interesting…not quite what I was thinking…have you thought more of…’ – which was in stark contrast to many other tutorials where you would be met with ‘absolute rubbish – where did you get an idea like that?’” I should emphasise that Ryan did stress that these other tutorials never took place in Pembroke!

Martha’s colleagues in Pembroke – academic and non-academic – saw and benefited from exactly the same qualities. Her three years as Tutor for Admissions were at a time of rapidly changing procedures. Martha coped splendidly, exhibiting conscientiousness and attention to detail almost beyond the call of duty. She did a stint as a Staff Advisor, which can be a delicate and difficult role. Of necessity it is also an almost anonymous one, but the signals I got from various members of the non-academic staff suggest that she filled it effectively and with enormous tact. Personally, of course, my greatest pleasure has been to have shared Martha as a PPE colleague for thirteen years. Perhaps the most telling (but, to those who know the other PPE tutors, unsurprising) comment I can make is that she probably got the rough end of the relationship. She was always incredibly easy and pleasant to deal with. I am less confident that she could say the same of her Politics and Economics colleagues. But, if it is any consolation to her, she almost certainly made us behave better than we would have done in her absence.

Mind you, the sternness could show through. The other PPE tutors quickly learnt to expect an annual e-mail, sent sometime in August, telling us at which times we would not be able to see the new students in Freshers’ Week two months hence, because she had already arranged her slots, and in which slots in subsequent weeks of term we would not be able to arrange tutorials because she had already bagged them. Apart from anything else, this certainly made me extremely nervous that I was not approaching the new academic year with sufficient speed or organisation.

Martha has been a wonderful colleague, and we all hope that we will continue to see her and Larry – going back to the College Record, it is revealing that her piece is as much about the two of them as it is about herself. Meanwhile I presume that retirement means that they will be able to spend more time at their house in Devon and much more time at their house in Switzerland, the existence of which, for some strange reason, she has always denied.

Ken Mayhew, Fellow in Economics

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After reading Law at Pembroke (1952) John joined the Overseas Civil Service as a District Officer. After seven years in Kenya he returned to the UK, joined the insurance industry and spent 30 years in financial services.

For more than three decades now he has lived near Wantage, close enough to be lured back to Pembroke in January 1997 when he joined the Development Office. His principal role was as a Bequests Officer to set up what is believed to have been the then first legacy programme in an Oxford College, a programme which has become of crucial importance to the College. During this time, John also assisted with whatever tasks required an extra pair of hands in the office.

In April 2002 he generously stepped in at short notice to become the Acting Development Director and continued in this role for some 2½ years before handing over to me and moving to a part-time commitment. During most of the time when John was Acting Development Director, he was assisted only by Jo Bowley. John was therefore seeking to maintain the donations income and, with Jo’s help, producing the publications and arranging the events. Whenever possible, John also increased College contact with alumni, particularly those in the older generations, and sought – with some success – to bring widows into the Pembroke fold.

Being an alumnus himself and having a well above average love for, and commitment to, the College meant that John was in many ways an ideal candidate for the wide-ranging role he has carried out in the Development Office. He can look back with pride and a sense of achievement at the way it developed over the period of his involvement and the positive impact his work has had on the life of the College and its members.

From my personal standpoint as Master, I have greatly valued John’s wide-ranging knowledge of alumni. This was particularly important in my early years as I began the process of getting to know them. The College is indebted to him for stepping in so willingly and successfully in 2002 to run the office, in difficult circumstances.

John will be much missed in the College and by the many alumni whom he knows and has made to feel so special. We wish him and Ann a very happy and restful retirement.

Giles Henderson

JOHN BARLOW

NEW PROFESSORSHIPS AMONGST PEMBROKE FELLOWS

PROFESSOR BEN DAVISProfessor Davis has numerous awards dating from 1999 onwards, and was named, in 2003, as among the 100 top young innovators in the world by Technology Review. In 2006, he was awarded one of the RSC’s Corday-Morgan Medal and Prizes for 2005, and was chosen as the recipient of the 2006 International Association for Protein Structure Analysis and Proteomics Young Investigator Award. His research on the modification of proteins into protein probes, which can be sent into the human body, holds great

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promise for advances in the detection and treatment of disease and inflammation. These synthetic proteins can mimic their natural partners and are better at binding with their targets than standard antibodies.

PROFESSOR LYNDA MUGGLESTONEProfessor Mugglestone has received recognition for her recent work on the history of English, especially on the history of spoken English and, in particular, English pronunciation. She has also undertaken research on the history of the Oxford English Dictionary and the discovery of the significance of the (hitherto unread) early versions of the Dictionary from before publication.

PROFESSOR STEPHEN WHITEFIELDProfessor Whitefield, as Fellow in Politics, has been awarded the title of ‘Professor of Comparative Russian and East European Politics and Societies’. The primary criteria for this distinction is that a Professor should have produced research of outstanding quality that has led to a significant international reputation. Professor Whitefield’s work over the years included a prize-winning monograph, Industrial Power and the Soviet State (OUP, 1993) and recognition by the American Political Science Association. Professor Whitefield continues to work on the great transformations in post-communist societies and politics, in particular, as Coordinator of a current EU funded project on the character of social inequality and its political consequences in thirteen East and Central European States. (More information on that project can be found at http://euroequal.politics.ox.ac.uk/)

FELLOWS' PUBLICATIONS 2006-2007

GUIDO BONSAVERCensorship and Literature in Fascist Italy (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2007)

‘Water Drops on Burning Rocks. An Interview with Ennio Morricone’, Sight and Sound, 16.7 (July 2006) 30-32

‘Beyond the Classics’ (on M. Antonioni) Sight and Sound 16.7 (June 2006), 24

‘Berlusconi Burlesque’, Sight and Sound, 16.6 (June 2006), 24

‘Vittore Branca e la fascistissima Firenze liberata’, in Jill Kraye and Laura Lepschy (eds.), Caro Vitto. Essays in Memory of Vittore Branca, Supplement to The Italianist, 27.1 (2007), pp. 46-61

‘Dalle novelle ai film: un’intervista con i fratelli Taviani’, in Lauretta Enzo (ed.), Quando una novella diventa dramma film musica fumetto (Pesaro: Metauro, 2007), pp. 263-273

‘You Must Be Joking’ [on R. Rossellini], Sight & Sound, 17.5 (May 2007), pp.28-30

Member of the Advisory Board and contributor to Marrone-Puglia G. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies, 2 vols (New York: Routledge, 2007)

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Book and Film Reviews - ‘The Golden Door’ by Emanuele Crialese, Sight & Sound, 17.7 (July 2007), p. 54 - ‘The Caiman’, by Nanni Moretti, Sight & Sound, 17.5 (May 2007), p. 56 - ‘The Family Friend’ by Paolo Sorrentino, Sight & Sound, 17.4 (April 2007), pp. 58-59 - ‘Libero’ by Kim Rossi Stuart, Sight & Sound, 17.2 (February 2007), p. 40 - ‘Romanzo criminale’ by Michele Placido, Sight & Sound, 16.11 (November 2006), pp.78-80 - Ruth Glynn, ‘Contesting the Monument: The Anti-Illusionist Italian Historical Novel (Leeds: Northern Universities Press, 2005), in Italian Studies, 64 (2006), pp. 76-77

BBC documentary, ‘Edwardians in Colour: The Wonderful World of Albert Khan’ (BBC Four, programme 3: “Europe on the Brink”, 3 May 2007)

RAI documentary, ‘Aule antiche eppure giovani: Cambridge e Oxford’ (RAI Due, Dossier Storie, 19 April 2007)

BEN DAVISPatent: Synthesis, structure-function relationship, and use of glycodendrimer reagents, R.R. Bott, B.G. Davis, J.B. Jones, PCT Intl Application WO 055437, 25 May 2006; Chem. Abs. 2006, 145, 8387 [claiming priority to U.S. Patent Application 62/8829P, November 16, 2004]

Patent: Synthesis, structure-function relationship, and use of glycodendrimer reagents, R.R. Bott, B.G. Davis, J.B. Jones, PCT Intl Application WO 055644, 25 May 2006; Chem. Abs. 2006, 145, 8388 [claiming priority to U.S. Patent Application 62/8755P, November 16, 2004]

Patent: Preparation of 3,4-dihydroxy-2-pyrrolidinecarboxamide derivatives, T. Block, B.G. Davis, T. Chapman, C. Schofield, PCT Intl Application WO 061585, 15 June 2006; Chem. Abs. 2006, 145, 63143 [claiming priority to U.K. Patent Application GB0426661.A, December 6, 2004]

Polyfluoropyridyl Glycosyl Donors; C.A. Hargreaves, G. Sandford and B.G. Davis in Current Fluoroorganic Chemistry (ed. V.A. Soloshonok, K. Mikami, T. Yamazaki, J.T. Welch, J.F. Honek); ACS Symposium Series 949, American Chemical Society, 2006, Papers

Spectral Signatures of Structural Motifs in Isolated and Hydrated Monosacharides: phenyl α- and ß-L-fucopyranoside, P. Çarçabal, T. Patsias I. Hünig, B. Liu, C. Kaposta, L.C. Snoek, D.P. Gamblin, B.G. Davis and J.P. Simons, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2006, 8, (1), 129-136.

Exploring and Exploiting the Therapeutic Potential of Glycoconjugates, K.J. Doores, D.P. Gamblin and B.G. Davis, Chem. Eur. J., 2006, 12, (3), 656-665.

Carbohydrate-Derived Amino-Alcohol Ligands for Asymmetric Alkynylation of Aldehydes, D.P.G. Emmerson, W.P. Hems, and B.G. Davis, Org. Lett., 2006, 8, (2), 207-210.

Building Up Key Segments of N-Glycans in the Gas Phase: Intrinsic Structural

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Preferences of the α (1,3) and α (1,6) Dimannosides, P. Carcabal, I. Huenig, D.P. Gamblin, B. Liu, R.A. Jockusch, R.T. Kroemer, L.C. Snoek, A.J. Fairbanks, B.G. Davis, and J.P. Simons, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, (6), 1976-1981.

Structure of a Flavonoid Glucosyltransferase Reveals the Basis for Plant Natural Product Modification, W. Offen, C. Martinez-Fleites, M. Yang, K-L. Eng, Kiat-Lim; B.G. Davis, C.A. Tarling, C.M. Ford, D.J. Bowles, and G.J. Davies, EMBO J. 2006, 25, (6), 1396-1405.

Direct Deprotected Glycosyl-Asparagine Ligation, K.J. Doores, Y. Mimura, R.A. Dwek, P.M. Rudd, T, Elliott, and B.G. Davis, Chem. Commun. 2006, (13), 1401-1403.

The Expanding Roles of Biocatalysis and Biotransformation, G. DeSantis, and B.G.Davis, Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 2006, 10, (2), 139-140.

Unique Regulation of the Active site of the Serine Esterase S-Formylglutathione Hydrolase, I. Cummins, K. McAuley, A. Fordham-Skelton, R. Schwoerer, P.G. Steel, B.G. Davis and R. Edwards, J. Mol. Biol. 2006, 359, (2), 422–432

Direct Formation of Glycosyl Thiols from Reducing Sugars Allows One-pot Protein Glycoconjugation, G. Bernardes, D.P. Gamblin, and B.G. Davis, Angew. Chem. Intl Ed. 2006, 45, (24), 4007-4011.

Is it alive? Recognising Cellular Systems: A Computational-Chemical Perspective, L. Cronin, N. Krasnogor, B.G. Davis, C. Alexander, N. Robertson, J.H.G. Steinke, S.L.M. Schroeder, A.N. Khlobystov, G. Cooper, P.M. Gardner, P. Siepmann, B.J. Whitaker and D. Marsh, Nat. Biotechnol. 2006, 24, 1203-1206.

The Crystal Structure of Two Macrolide Glycosyltransferases Provides a Blueprint for Host Cell Antibiotic Immunity, D.N Bolam, S. Roberts, M.R. Proctor, J.P. Turkenburg, E.J. Dodson, C. Martinez-Fleites, M. Yang, B.G. Davis, G.J. Davies and H.J. Gilbert, Proc. Natl Acad. Sci., USA 2007, 104, (13), 5336-5341.

Folding of an MHC class II-restricted Tumor Antigen Controls its Antigenicity via MHC-guided Processing, Y. Mimura, Y. Mimura-Kimura, K.J. Doores, D. Golgher, B.G. Davis, R.A. Dwek, P.M. Rudd and T. Elliott, Proc. Natl Acad. Sci., USA 2007, 104, (14) 5983-5988.

Expanding the Diversity of Chemical Protein Modification allows Post-translational Mimicry, S.I. van Kasteren, H.O. Kramer, H.H. Jensen, S.J. Campbell, J. Kirkpatrick, N.J. Oldham, D.C. Anthony and B.G. Davis, Nature 2007, 446, (7139), 1105-1110.

Infrared Spectral Signatures Of Aromatic-Sugar Complexes: Probing Carbohydrate-Protein Interactions, J. Screen, E.C. Stanca-Kaposta, D.P. Gamblin, B. Liu, N.A. Macleod, L.C. B.G. Davis and J.P. Simons, Angew. Chem. Intl Ed. 2007, 46, 3644-3648.

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Discovery of a Glycosynthase-Catalyst for Synthesis of Flavonoid Glycosides, M. Yang, G.J. Davies and B.G. Davis, Angew. Chem. Intl Ed. 2007, 46, 3885-3888.

JOHN EEKELAARFamily Law and Personal Life (Oxford University Press, 2006)

‘Empowerment and Responsibility: The Balance Sheet Approach in the Principles and in English Law’ in Robin Fretwell Wilson (ed), Reconstructing the Family: Critical Reflections on the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution (Cambridge University Press, 2006)

‘Invoking Human Rights’ in Timothy Endicott, Joshua Getzler and Edwin Peel (eds), Properties of Law: Essays in Honour of Jim Harris (Oxford University Press, 2006) ch. 16

JANET EFSTATHIOUS. Saavedra, J. Efstathiou, and F. Reed-Tsochas, ‘Identifying the Underlying Structure and Dynamic Interactions in a Voting Network’, Physica A, Vol 377, pp672-688, 2007

Y. Wu, G. Frizelle, and J. Efstathiou, ‘A study of the operational complexity in customer-supplier systems’, International Journal of Production Economics, Vol 106, March 2007, pp 217-229, 2006

T. Zhang, and J. Efstathiou, ‘The complexity of mass customization systems under different inventory strategies’, International Journal of Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Vol. 19, Issue 5, pp423-433, July 2006

S. Sivadasan, J. Efstathiou, A. Calinescu and L. Huaccho Huatuco ‘Advances on measuring the operational complexity of supplier–customer systems’, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. Volume 171, Issue1, 208-226, January 2006

D. Fenn, O. Suleman, J. Efstathiou and N. Johnson, ‘How does Europe Make Its Mind Up? Connections, cliques, and compatibility between countries in the Eurovision Song Contest’, Physica A, http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0505071, Volume 360, Issue 2, 1 February 2006, Pages 576-598

W. Lu, J. Efstathiou and E. del Valle Lehne, ‘Customer service level in a lean inventory under mass customization’ in Mass Customization: Challenges and Solutions, eds. Thorsten Blecker and Gerhard Friedrich, Springer 2006

Ng Alex K S, Fiona Essig, Bo Hu, Jennifer Gurd and J Efstathiou, ‘Hierarchical control architecture for the switching of internal models on verbal tasks’, Proceedings of Twenty-forth European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone, Italy, 22-27 January, 2006

Ng Alex K S and J. Efstathiou, Structural robustness of complex network, Proceedings of International Workshop and Conference on Network Science, NetSci 2006, Bloomington IN, USA, 16-25 May, 2006

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Ng Alex K S and J Efstathiou, ‘Optimisation through network structural robustness’, Proceedings of CNLS/LANL Workshop on Optimization in Complex Networks, 2006, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA, 19-22 June, 2006

Ng Alex K S and J Efstathiou, ‘Towards a formal specification of network robustness: a case study of metro network’, Proceedings of Potentials of Complexity Science for Business, Governments and the Media 2006, Budapest, Hungary, 3-5 August, 2006

Ng Alex K S and J Efstathiou, ‘Network disconnectedness: a novel robustness metric for infrastructure network’, Proceedings of European Conference on Complex Systems 2006, ECCS ‘06, Oxford, 25-29 September, 2006

Ng Alex K S and J Efstathiou, ‘Classification of Engineered Networks’, Proceedings of Networks computations, communications and applications, NCCA ‘06, in: European Conference on Complex Systems 2006, ECCS ‘06, Oxford, United Kingdom, 25-29 September, 2006

Ng Alex K S, J Efstathiou and Henry Y K Lau, ‘A Load Scattering Algorithm for Dynamic Routing of Automated Material Handling Systems’, Proceedings of 2006 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security, CIS’2006, Guangzhou, China, 3-6 Novermber, 2006

B. Hu and J. Efstathiou., ‘Responsive system based on a reconfigurable structure’, 2nd I*PROMS (Innovative Production Machines and Systems) conference, 2006.

B. Hu and J. Efstathiou, ‘Designing and Scheduling of Responsive, Dynamically Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems’, 5th CIRP International Seminar on Intelligent Computation in Manufacturing Engineering, CIRP ICME ‘06, Ischia, Italy, 25-28 July, 2006

J. Efstathiou and A. Calinescu, ‘Agents in the Supply Chain; Lessons from the Life sciences’, in Proceedings of I*PROMS conference July 2006.

TIM FARRANTAn Introduction to Nineteenth-Century French Literature, London: Duckworth, 2007

MARK FRICKERP.R. Darrah, M. Tlalka, A. Ashford, S. C. Watkinson and M.D. Fricker, ‘The vacuole system is a significant intracellular pathway for longitudinal solute transport in basid-iomycete fungi’,Eukaryotic Cell, (in press, 2006)

M. D. Fricker, J. Reunions and I. R. Moore, ‘Quantitative Flourescence Microscopy: From Art to Science’, Ann. Rev. Plant Biol., 57:79, (2006), 107

D. P. Bebber, M. Hynes, P. R. Durrah, A. Ashford, S. C. Watkinson and M. D. Frick-er, & L. Boddy, ‘Imaging complex nutrient dynamics in mycelial networks’ in G. M. Gadd (ed), Fungi in the Environment, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, in press)

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S. C. Watkinson, D. Bebber, P. R. Darrah, M. D. Fricker, M. Tlalka and L. Boddy, ‘The role of wood decay fungi in the carbon and nitrogen dynamics of the forest floor’ in G. M. Gadd (ed), Fungi in Biogeochemical Cycles, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, in press)

M. D. Fricker, D. P. Bebber, P. R. Darrah, M. Tlalka, S.C. Watkinson, L. Boddy, L. Yiasoumis, H. M. Cartwright, A. Meskauskas, L. J. McNulty, D. Moore, D. M. D. Smith, T. Nakagaki, C. F. Lee and N. Johnson, ‘Inspiration from microbes: from pat-terns to networks’ (in press)

D. Bebber, J. Hynes, P. R. Darrah, L. Boddy and M. D. Fricker, ‘Biological solutions to transport network design.’ Proc Roy. Soc. In press.

M. Tlalka, D. Bebber, P. R. Darrah, S. C. Watkinson and M. D. Fricker, ‘Emergence of self-organised oscillatory domains in fungal mycelial networks.’ Fungal Genetics and Biology (in press) doi:10.1016/j.fgb.2007.02.013

M. D. Fricker, M. Tlalka, D. Bebber, S. Takagi, S. C. Watkinson, and P. R. Darrah, ‘Fourier-based spatial mapping of oscillatory phenomena in fungi.’ Fungal Genetics and Biology (in press) doi:10.1016/j.fgb.2007.02.012

A.J. Meyer and M.D. Fricker, ‘Imaging thiol-based redox processes in live cells’ in Sulfur Metabolism in Phototropic Organisms. Ed: C. Dahl, R. Hell, D. Knaff, T. Leustek. (in press)

M. Samalova, M.D. Fricker and I.R.Moore, ‘Quantitative and qualitative analysis of plant membrane traffic using fluorescent proteins.’ Methods in Cell Biology. (in press)

M.D. Fricker, D. Bebber and L. Boddy. ‘Mycelial networks: structure and dynamics’ in Ecology of saprotrophic basiodiomycetes. Eds L. Boddy, J.C. Franklin and P. van West. ISBN : 978-0-12-374185-1

D.M.D. Smith, M.D. Fricker, C. Fan Lee, N.F. Johnson and J.-P. Onnela, ‘The functional dynamic network framework and the network automata.’ arXiv.org:phys-ics/0701307.

M. D. Fricker, L. Boddy, and D. P. Bebber, ‘Network organisation of mycelial fungi’ in The Mycota. Vol VIII, Biology of the Fungal Cell (2nd Ed). Eds R.J. Howard and N.A.R. Gow. 2nd ed., 341 p

D. P. Bebber, M. Tlalka, J. Hynes, P. R. Darrah, A. Ashford, S. C. Watkinson, L. Boddy, and M .D. Fricker, ‘Imaging complex nutrient dynamics in mycelial net-works’ in G.M. Gadd (Ed). Fungi in the Environment. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.)

S. C. Watkinson, D. Bebber, P. R. Darrah, M. D. Fricker, M. Tlalka and L. Boddy, ‘The role of wood decay fungi in the carbon and nitrogen dynamics of the forest

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ANDRE FURGERM. Dalziel, N. M. Nunes and A. Furger, ‘Two G-rich regulatory elements located adjacent to and 440 nucleotides downstream of the core poly(A) site of the intronless melanocortin receptor 1 gene are critical for efficient 3’ end processing.’ Mol Cell Biol. 2007 Mar;27(5):1568-80

floor’ in G. M. Gadd (ed.) Fungi in Biogeochemical Cycles. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.)

Invited Conference Speaker:2006, 5th International Conference on Ecological Informatics, Santa Barbara2006, SEB Annual Meeting, Canterbury

RAPHAEL HAUSERR. A. Hauser & T. Muller, ‘Algebriac tail decay of condition numbers for random conic systems under a general family of distributions’, Research Report NA-06/01, (Oxford University Computing Laboratory, 2006) Accepted for publication in Found. Comput. Math., subject to minor modifications.

A. Argyriou, R. A. Hauser, ‘A DC-programming algorithm for kernel selection’, Ch. Micchelli & M. Pontil, Proceedings of ICML (2006)

R. A. Hauser, S. Martinez & H. Matzinger, ‘Large deviations based upper bounds on the expected relative length of longest common subsequences’, to appear in Advances in Applied Probability, 38 (3) (September 2006)

ANNE HENKEA. Henke, O. Hadas & A. Regev, ‘Z_2-graded number theory’, to appear in Arch. Math

A. Henke, M. Fang & S. Koenig, ‘Isomorphisms between generalized Schur algebras’, to appear in Forum Math

A. Henke, S. Doty & K. Erdmann, ‘Explicit formulas for primitive orthogonal idempotents of S(2,r), to appear in J.Algebra.

A. Henke & R. Paget. ‘On Brauer algebras acting on tensor space’, to appear in Algebras and Representation Theory

O. Hadas, A. Henke, A. Regev, ‘$Z\sb 2$-graded number theory’, Comm. Algebra, 34 (2006), no.8, 3077-3095

S. Doty, K. Erdmann, A. Henke, ‘Endomorphism rings of permutation modules over maximal Young subgroups’, J. Algebra 307 (2007), no. 1, pp. 377-396

ALEX KACELNIK‘Meanings of rationality’ in Rational Animals? (Eds. M Nudds and S Hurley) pp 87-106 (OUP, Oxford 2006)

‘Feathered friends’: review of ‘In the Company of Crows and Ravens’ by John R

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Marzluff and Tony Angell, and ‘Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys of the Avian World’ by Candace Savage, Nature 2006 439: 914-915

A. Kacelnik, J. Chappell, B. Kenward & A. Weir ‘Cognitive adaptations for tool-related behaviour in New Caledonian Crows’, in T. Zentall & E. Wasserman (eds.), Comparative Cognition Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence (Oxford University Press, 2006), pp.515-528

B. Kenward, R. Kenward & A. Kacelnik, ‘An automatic technique for selecting, feeding and logging of individual wild squirrels’, Ethology & Evolution 17 (2006) pp.271-277

R. Nair-Roberts, J. Erichsen, J. Reboreda & A. Kacelnik, ‘Distribution of Substance P reveals a novel subdivision in the hippocampus of parasitic South American cowbirds’, Journal of Comparative Neurology 496 (2006) pp.610-626

L. Pompilio, A. Kacelnik & S. T. Behmer, ‘State-Dependent Learned Valuation Drives Choice in an Invertebrate’, Science Vol. 311 (2006) pp.1613-1615

A. Kacelnik, C. Schuck-Paim & L. Pompilio, ‘Inconsistency in animal and human choice’, in L. Daston & C. Engel (eds.), Is There Value in Inconsistency? (2006) pp.379-396

A. Weir and A. Kacelnik, ‘A New Caledonia crow (Corvus moneduloides) creatively re-designs tools by bending or unbending aluminium strips’, Animal Cognition 9 (2006) pp.317-334

B. Kenward, C. Rutz, A. Weir and A. Kacelnik, ‘Development of tool use in New Caledonia crows: inherited action patterns and social influences’ Animal Behaviour (2006)

C. Schuck-Paim and A. Kacelnik, ‘Choice processes in multi-alternative decision making’, Behavioral Ecology (2007)

C. Rutz, L. A. Bluff, A. Weir, and A. Kacelnik, ‘Video Cameras on Wild Birds’ (2007) Science Vol 318, P 765, November 2007 (online publication October 4 2007).

L. A. Bluff, A. Weir, C. Rutz, J. H. Wimpenny and A. Kacelnik, ‘Tool- related cognition in New Caledonian crows’ Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews 2 online (2007) pp.1-25 http://psyc.queensu.ca/ccbr/Vol2/Bluff.html

J R Krebs and A Kacelnik, Foreword in Foraging: Behavior and Ecology (Eds: D W Stephens, J S Brown and RC Ydenberg. Pp ix-xii (Chicago)

KEN MAYHEW'Improving productivity: opening the black box', Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Winter 2006 (with A. Neely)

'From skills revolution to productivity miracle', Oxford Review of Economic Policy,

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Winter 2006 (with E. Keep)

'Opportunity in the workplace: the quality of low wage employment', Britain Today, 2007 (with C. Lloyd) 'Scoring better on skills, still trailing on productivity?', Work Foundation Briefing Paper, 2006 (with E. Keep and J. Payne)

'Improving the human capital of older workers', Ageing Horizons, Autumn 2007

'The changing nature and context of higher education in the UK', in T. Butler and M. Dane (eds) AGCAS 1967-2007: Reflections on Change, 2007 (with C. Deer)

CHRISTOPHER MELCHERT‘Basran Origins of Classical Sufism’, Der Islam 83, (2006), 221-40

Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Makers of the Muslim World. Oxford: Oneworld 2006

‘Whether to keep Women out of the Mosque: A Survey of Medieval Islamic Law’ pp.59-69 in Authority, Privacy and Public Order in Islam: Proceedings of the 22nd Congress of the l’Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants. Edited by B. Michalak-Pikulska and A. Pikulski. Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta 148. Leuven: Peeters 2006LYNDA MUGGLESTONEThe Oxford History of English (ed.) (OUP 2006)

Talking Proper. The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol 2nd edn.Revised and extended paperback edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)

‘A History of the English Language?’ in L.C. Mugglestone (ed.) The Oxford History of English (OUP 2006), pp.1-6

‘English in the Nineteenth Century’, in L. C. Mugglestone (ed.), The Oxford History of English (OUP 2006), pp.274-304

‘Accent as Social Symbol’. In Changing English eds. D. Graddol. D/ Leith, J. Swann, M. Rhys, J. Gillen (London: Routledge, 2007), pp.153-78.

‘‘The Indefinable Something’. Taboo and the English Dictionary’ in M. Gorji (ed.) Rude Britannia (London: Routledge, 2007), pp.22-32.

‘The Rise of Received Pronunciation’. Forthcoming in M Matto and H. Momma, Blackwell Companion to the History of the English Language. Oxford: Blackwells, 2007.

‘The Oxford English Dictionary; 1857-1928’. Forthcoming in A. Cowie (ed.), The Oxford History of Lexicography. 2 vols. OUP, 2007.

‘Benjamin Smart and Michael Faraday; The Principles and Practice of Talking Proper

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in Nineteenth-Century England’. Forthcoming in M. Adams and A. Curzan (eds.) Contours of English and English Language Studies: In Honor of Richard W. Bailey. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

‘BBC English: In the Beginnings’. Forthcoming in J. Scwyter (ed.), Broadcast English (Berlin: de Gruyter).

‘John Walker’, in K. Brown (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd ed.) (Oxford, Elsevier, 2006), vol. 13, 508

‘Thomas Sheridan’, in K. Brown (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd ed) (Oxford, Elsevier, 2006), vol. 11, 278

‘Academics Laying Down a Standard through their Dictionaries’, in K. Brown (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd ed.), (Oxford, Elsevier, 2006), vol. 1, pp.12-14

‘“Shining a farthing candle at Dover” – Samuel Johnson and Thomas Sheridan’. Paper presented at ‘Samuel Johnson and the Theatre’, Pembroke College, Oxford, 21st-23rd June 2007

‘The Inventory of English: The Oxford English Dictionary’, Oxford University Summer Programme in English Literature, July 2007

‘Living History’ – Andrew Clark, the OED, and the Language of the First World War’. Keynote paper presented in Leiden, September 2007, at the Third Late Modern English Conference.

Reviews:

Jack Lynch and Anne Mcdermott, Anniversary Essays on Johnson’s Dictionary. Pp. xi + 245. Cambridge, New York, Oakleigh: Cambridge University Press, 2005. And Samuel Johnson, Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the Dictionary of the English Language. A Facsmile Edition, ed. Allen Reddick. Pp. xxix + facsimile. Cambridge, New York, Oakleigh: Cambridge University Press, 2005. £100.00 (ISBN 0 521 84470 3). Notes and Queries , n.s. 53 (2006), pp.560-563.

Peter Burke, ‘Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe.’ Cambridge: CUP, 2004. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Vol.28 (2007), pp. 240-42

G J Kolb and R DeMaria (eds.) The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Vol. XVIII: Johnson on the English Language. Yale University Press, 2005. Forthcoming in The New Rambler

A Wierzbicka, 'English, Meaning and Culture. Oxford and New York': OUP. 2006 Forthcoming in Modern Language Review

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‘Talking for Britain’, S. Elmes (London, Penguin), (TLS, forthcoming)

‘Language and Communities in Early Modern Europe’, P. Burke, (Cambridge University Press 2004) in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (forthcoming)

JONATHAN REESP. Reilly, J. L. Rees, A. J. Carr, ‘An aid to removal of cement during revision elbow replacement’, Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons, (2006), 88 (2), 231

T. J. W. Matthews, G. C. Hand, J. L. Rees, N. A. Athanasou, A. J. Carr, ‘Pathology of the torn rotator cuff tendon’, J. Bone J.Surg, Br,(2006), 88-B. pp.489-495

T. Matthews, S. Smith, C. Peach, J. L. Rees, J. Urban, A. Carr, ‘In-vivo measurement of tissue metabolism in rotator cuff tendons: Implications for surgical management.’ J Bone and Joint Surg [Br] 2007; 89B: pp.633-38

STEPHEN TUCK‘De-centering the South: the nationwide rise of white supremacy after Reconstruction’, Past and Present, February 2007

‘Democratization and Disfranchisement of African-Americans in the late 19th century American South’, Democratization, June 2007.

CHRISTOPHER TUCKETTThe Gospel of Mary (Oxford Early Christian Gospel Texts; Oxford: OUP, 2007)

The Nature of New Testament Theology (edited with Christopher Rowland; Oxford: Blackwell, 2006)

‘Does the ‘Historical Jesus’ belong within a ‘New Testament Theology’?’, in Christopher Rowland and Christopher Tuckett (eds), The Nature of New Testament Theology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 231-247

‘Nomina Sacra in Codex E’, Journal of Theological Studies 57 (2006) pp.487-499

‘The Gospel of Mary’, Expository Times 118 (2007) pp.365-371

‘The Parable of the Mustard Seed and the Book of Ezekiel’, in H. J. de Jonge & J. Tromp (eds), The Book of Ezekiel and its Influence (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), pp.87-101

‘Moses in Gnostic Writings’, in A. Graupner & M. Wolter (eds), Moses in Biblical and Extra-Biblical Traditions (BZAW 372; Berlin: de Gruyter, 2007), pp.227-240

GABRIEL UZQUIANOA. Rayo and G. Uzquiano, Absolute Generality. (Oxford: Oxford University Press.)

‘Receptacles’ Philosophical Perspectives. Vol 20, December 2006, pp.427-451

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STEPHEN WHITEFIELDR. Rohrschneider and S. Whitefield, ‘Political Parties, Public Opinion and European Integration in Post-Communist Countries: the State of Art’, European Union Politics 7 (1), (2006), pp.141-160

G. Evans and S. Whitefield, ‘Explaining the Emergence and Persistance of Class Voting in Post-Soviet Russia’, Political Research Quarterly, 59 (1), (2006), pp.23-34

‘Political Parties, Public Opinion and European Integration. The Theoretical Backdrop’, in R. Rohrschneider and S. Whitefield (eds), Public Opinion, Party Competition and the European Union in Eastern Europe, (Palgrave, 2006)

R. Rohrschneider and S. Whitefield, ‘Conclusion. The Political Consequences of Post-Communist Accession’, in R. Rohrschneider & S Whitefield (eds), Public Opinion, Party Competition and the European Union in Eastern Europe, (Palgrave, 2006)

R. Rohrschneider, R. Alisauskene and S. Whitefield, ‘Support for European Integration in the Baltic States’, in R. Rohrschneider & S. Whitefield (eds), Public Opinion, Party Competition and the Europen Union in Eastern Europe, (Palgrave, 2006)

‘Representation and New Democracies: Party Stances on European Integration in Post Communist Eastern Europe’ (with Robert Rohrschneider), The Journal of Politics, forthcoming, November 2007

‘Do Expert Surveys Produce Consistent Estimates of Party Stances on European Integration? Comparing Expert Surveys in the Difficult Case of Central and Eastern Europe’ (with Milada Anna Vachudova, Marco Steenbergen, Robert Rohrschneider, Gary Marks, Paul Loveless, Liesbet Hooghe), Electoral Studies, 26, 2007, pp.50-61.

‘Mind the Representation Gap: Explaining Differences in Public Views of Representation in Post-Communist Democracies’, Comparative Political Studies, 40(6), 2006, pp.733-758

‘Unrestricted Unrestricted Quantification: The Cardinal Problem of Absolute Generality’, in A. Rayo and G. Uzquiano (eds.) Absolute Generality. (Oxford: Oxford University Press.) November 2006, pp.305-332

REBECCA WILLIAMS ‘Intoxication and Sexual Assault, R v Lee Heard’ [2007] Cambridge Law Journey 260 Casenote

‘Federalism in the EU’ Revista de Direito da Associação dos Procuradores do Estado do Novo Estado do Rio de Janeiro

‘Causal Responsibility for the Actions of Others’ Charles University of Prague October 2006 (forthcoming publication of Conference papers)

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University and other DistinctionsFIRSTS IN FINAL HONOUR SCHOOLS

Davies, Miss K.L. (Biological Sciences)Mitchard, E.T. (Biological Sciences) - Top FirstAwarded Harley Prize of the New Phytologist Trust

Au, K.Y. (Mathematics)Collins, Miss S.C. (Mathematics)

Franklin S.D. (Mathematics)Swan, Miss D. (Medical Sciences)

Addison, Miss C.L. (English Language & Literature)Avis, R. (English Language & Literature) - Top First

Bridgestock, Miss L.E. (English Language & Literature)Delaney, Miss M.J. (English Language & Literature)Kessler, Miss S.G. (English Language & Literature)

Macabuag, J.L. (Engineering Science)Winterburn, J.B. (Engineering Science)Salih, Miss H. (Oriental Studies, Arabic)

Valk, J. (Oriental Studies, Jewish Studies)Woodward, Miss J. (Oriental Studies, Japanese)

Feast, G.C. (Chemistry)Hopkinson, M.N. (Chemistry)Hopkinson, R.J. (Chemistry)Winship, P.C. (Chemistry)

Minami, K. (Experimental Psychology)Warrillow, N.P. (Modern Languages)

Barrett, M.L. (Modern History)Castle, M.H. (Modern History & Economics)

Buttigieg, P.P. (PPE)Jenkins, Miss A. (PPE)

Welford, D.I. (PPE)Mahendran, J.J. (Economics & Management)

Patel, A.N. (Economics & Management)Stochniol, Miss K.A. (Economics & Management)

Awarded John Hicks Foundation Prize for best overall performance in MicroeconomicsChaudhuri, P. (Law)

FIRSTS/DISTINCTIONS IN FIRST PUBLIC EXAMINATIONSUnruangsri, Miss J. (Chemistry)

Louphrasitthiphol, Mr. P. (Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry)Prize for best performance in FPE in Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry

Deliss, L.M. (PPE)Can, Miss L. (Economics & Management)

Chin, Miss R.M. (Economics & Management)

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Spencer, C. (Economics & Management)Downie, J.B. (History & Economics)

Reed, D. (History & Economics)Joshi, N.D. (Oriental Studies, Japanese)

Awarded Gibbs Prize for performance in JapaneseBeard, Miss T. (Modern Languages)

Mitchell, Miss C.D. (Modern Languages)Khreisheh, Miss S.N. (Oriental Studies, Arabic)

Awarded James Mew Junior Prize 2007 for performance in ArabicAnderson, J.W. (Mathematics)

Cheng, F. (1st BM, Part I)Awarded Proxime Accessit (joint) Gibbs Prize for First BM Part I

Armstrong, C. (History)Arnold, Miss E.M. (History)

Hoyle, Miss C. (History)Matthews, D.J. (History)

Sich, B.J. (History)Hayter, Miss K.E. (English Language & Literature)

Thursten, C.J. (English Language & Literature)Butcher, R.M. (History & Politics)Hazell, W.J. (History & Politics)

Fachiri, Miss M.V. (Biological Sciences) - Top First

DISTINCTIONS IN GRADUATE EXAMINATIONSMonk, I.P. (Medicine, Fast Track Part II)

Wheeldon, M.A.J. (M.St. History)Emary, Miss K.R. (BM Second Examination)

Cottam, J. (M.Sc. Neuroscience)Francis, Miss A. (M.Sc. Neuroscience)Ricketts, T.L. (M.Sc. Pharmacology)

McInerney, A. (MBA)

ADDITIONAL PRIZESRobert Avis (English) was awarded the Turville-Petre Prize by the Viking Society for Northern Research for work in branches of study relevant to the Society’s interests.

COLLEGE PRIZESAyres-Evans Prize in Medicine A. VaratharajSir Roger Bannister Scholarship Jointly: J.M. Mercer and Miss R.A. BaylissBannister Medical Scholarship Miss D. SwanBlackett Memorial Prize Miss D. SwanArthur Felix Broomfield (History) D.J. MatthewsCleobury Prize Miss S.C. Collins (now Mrs. S.C. Banting) Miss S.D. FranklinChristopher Pratt Prize Miss T.H. BeardCrystal Prize for Law J.G. Pierce

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Currie Prize Miss C.D. MitchellFarthing Prize for Constitutional Law J.G. PierceHedges Prize Miss C.S. HodgeInstrumental Award Miss T.H. BeardLevick Prize P. Buttigieg and R.J.R. AvisMonk Prize for Criminal Law Ms V.C. HaslamPatrick Higgins Travel Scholarship Miss A. SabatiniKatie Prescott Scholarship in Miss C.D. MitchellModern LanguagesRonald Bartlett Prize F. ChengTEPCo Prize N.D. JoshiTechnos Prize D.W. BlagdenTechnos International Week Participants L. Giancola Miss S. Janezic Miss L.C.O. Shearing H.E. SullivanPaul Martins – BP Scholarship R.E. GatesPicot Prizes Miss J. Allen Miss R. Biasini Miss S.A. Brierley D.L. Green W.F. Hadman Miss K. Hoddesdon R.T. Nicholson Miss L.B. Pangbourne J.E. Stout D.J. WhitesideRev’d Professor Dr John Tyman Award Miss M. HoveBrian Wilson Scholarships Arabic – Miss J. Hayes Chinese – Miss I.A. Rawlings and Miss L. Russell The Year of 1954 Fund (in memoriam S.R.F. KingPeter Prescott) Miss C. Usherwood E. HaynesSinging Scholarships Miss D. Ivory and Miss A. HillBregal Scholarship J.S.L. Yeow

Senior Studentships Arts: Miss J. Genevaez and Miss D. Ivory Science: B. Wilson (Lord Miles)

TEPCo Scholar Miss H. Fu

Graduate Scholars Miss S. Kazan D. Williams (transferred), M. Finch

Collingwood Prize R.D. Glomsrud and M. Finch

GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS

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SPORTS

Geoffrey Absalom College Colours (Football/Rugby)Zillah Anderson Blue (Netball)Marc Baghdadi Blue (Lawn Tennis)Rebecca Bayliss Blue (Judo)Rebecca Bayliss Half-Blue (Women’s Cricket)Catherine Butler Half-Blue (Ski Racing)Tim Catling College Colours (Rugby)Robert Clark College Colours (Football)Alastair Craggs Half-Blue (Karate)Alastair Craggs College Colours (Football)Mark Evans College Colours (Rowing)George Feast Half-Blue (Pistol Shooting)Mike Finch College Colours (Rugby)Danielle Fountain College Colours (Rowing)Sarah Franklin Half-Blue (Pistol Shooting)Philippa Girling Blue (Sailing)Jake Harris Half-Blue (Ice Hockey)James Hastings-Trew College Colours (Rugby)Will Heald Blue (Hockey)Will Heald College Colours (Hockey)Cath Hodge College Colours (Hockey/Rowing)Will McFarland College Colours (Rowing)Emma McMahon College Colours (Netball/Rowing)Teresa Meacham Half-Blue (Kayaking)Nicholas Milburn Blue (Lacrosse)Alice Millest Half-Blue (Rowing)Steve Mills College Colours (Rowing)Edward Morgan College Colours (Rugby)Chris Morris College Colours (Rowing)Alex Puxley College Colours (Rugby)Hannah Skelton Blue (Women’s Rugby)Homer Sullivan College Colours (Football)Adam Taylor College Colours (Football)Adam Tozzi College Colours (Hockey)Amanda Welford Half-Blue (Pistol Shooting)Robert White College Colours (Rugby)Julia Will Half-Blue (Women’s Ice Hockey)Jessica Wynter-Bee Blue (Women’s Rugby)

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College SocietiesTHE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM

As JCR President over the past year, I have been privileged to witness the fullest picture of the range of Pembroke life. From the perspective of the JCR Committee, we are happy to report a on a year which ran smoothly. Arriving last October, the freshers and JYAs have fully embraced the close community of which our College should be duly proud. The end of my term of office and, with it, the handover process, has arrived far faster than we could ever have anticipated.

It all commenced at the beginning of Michaelmas term, helping the mums and dads take bags up to the rooms; then handing out ‘essentials’ in the freshers’ bags; introducing them to the ‘uniqueness’ that is Oxford’s all-too-often fancy-dress-clad nightlife; calming nerves about the first piece of written work due in; then singing farewells through Pembroke-adapted Christmas carols. Then it was time to welcome them back to their first College Collections in Hilary term, while Trinity term began in the sun with games of croquet and picnics in our quad and cheering our College heroes on during Summer Eights. Now the time has come to hand over to our capable new JCR Committee, who prepare to start the process all over again!

As a member of the Art Fund, I can report that it has been a most fruitful year. The Gallery is looking quite superb, and it is great to see the freshers taking the unique opportunity which Pembroke offers them to display some of these paintings in their college rooms. We had a student Art Competition this term, judged by Gavin Delahunty, a curator at Modern Art Oxford. The standard, and, indeed, sheer volume of the work submitted was impressive – especially by those many participants studying non-art related degrees. In addition to these contributions, the Art Fund Committee was most grateful to receive a beautiful pastel depicting a wave, which now hangs in the Gallery. This piece was thoughtfully offered to us by its creator, Pembroke alumnus George Jenkin.

The student body has had much to celebrate this year. The Ball was a resounding success. Although some might accuse me of college-bias, I can, in all honesty, report that the ‘hype’ and subsequent success of Pembroke’s Crystal Maze Ball has been unmatched by any other Oxford college ball this year. With a full working dome and THE Richard O’Brien on board (not to mention ‘Fake That’ as our headlining band), the night was magical!

The College music and drama scene has flourished over the past 12 months. Anyone lucky enough to hear the Chapel Choir this year, attend one of the Master’s Music Recitals, or see one of the productions (e.g. Danielle Orchard’s ‘All that Jazz’) will testify to this claim. And, as always, the athletes of Pembroke uphold the Pembroke tradition, once again enjoying a hugely successful year.

Pembroke College continues to provide a wealth of opportunities which, as students, we can embrace during our time here. I have to admit that I have fallen hopelessly in

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love with our College’s charms, and I am still in utter awe of the wonderful people with whom I share this experience. For all of this, I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to all the fellows, tutors and staff who have supported us during our time here at Pembroke.

Dawn Rennie, JCR President 2006-07

THE MIDDLE COMMON ROOM

The academic year 2006-2007 saw the Pembroke College Middle Common Room cement its reputation as one of the most diverse and active in Oxford. This year’s intake of 64 students included some 21 different nationalities, studying for post-graduate degrees in 42 disciplines. The year launched with an action-packed, and highly successful, Freshers’ Week programme of dinners, drinks receptions and outings. The intention was to integrate the new graduates into the MCR as quickly as possible, and I was pleased to see that after just a few days the new arrivals had found their feet, and were beginning to fit into the community.

The MCR is contained within two attractive rooms on the Old Quad, which provide the locale for many of our organised events, but also for the day-to-day life of the graduate community. This year, for instance, large lunchtime gatherings formed to view the Australian TV soap, ‘Neighbours’: clearly graduate students can live up to the student stereotypes more often afforded their undergraduate colleagues! In the evenings, the Pembroke MCR bar continues to thrive with sixteen different brews in stock and twelve varieties of whiskey, and that is surely the best selection in the city - town, or gown!

At the beginning of the year, the MCR made history by becoming the only middle common room to have its own necktie. The design, which combines the dark blue of Oxford as its base colour, with the cerise of Pembroke represented in polka dots, has proved immensely successful with both male and female members – certainly, it has turned a few heads at our exchange dinners when twenty-or-so of us turn up with matching ties!

With the onset of the punting season in Trinity term, the MCR took it upon itself to renovate and rename its punt. The operation took place under the careful guidance of the admiral of punts, ex-Navy man, Matthew Wheeldon. The ‘Mary Rose’, as she is now known (so-called because she spent the duration of the winter at the bottom of the river), now graces the Thames and its tributaries, laden with various Pembroke MCR luminaries, and resplendent in Pembroke cerise.

The MCR prides itself its on running an action-packed termcard, and this year was no exception. Social secretaries Mia Finsness (Michaelmas), Chris Armstrong, and Jonathan Lloyd (Hilary and Trinity), played an enormous part in making the year a success, arranging the events that give the common room its distinctive character The highlight of each term is, without doubt, the formal banquet held in Hall. These dinners provide the opportunity to showcase the college at its very best, and I was

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delighted that each of the three dinners saw the hall packed to near capacity. Certainly the combination of formal surroundings, good food, good company, speeches, and the acerbic wits of sconce-masters Peter Buttigieg, Ryan Glomsrud, and Ed Glücksman, seems to be a winning one.

Similarly, this year’s graduates have enjoyed a bumper programme of costumed bops - themes included ‘Pirates and the Caribbean’, Chinese New Year, and a James Bond themed poker night. Bi-monthly brunches continue to be a hit among hungry graduates, and termly ‘soirees’ offer the chance for members, lubricated with wine, to showcase their artistic talents in the relaxed surroundings of the MCR Woodroom. Moreover, the two countryside rambles with the Master and Mrs Henderson provided an excellent opportunity for our non-British members to get a sense of the beautiful countryside just a few miles outside the city.

Our academic seminar series, organised this year by MCR Secretary Danielle Ivory, and run in conjunction with the SCR, has provided members with the chance to enjoy engaging talks in intimate surroundings. Speakers included Lord May, the former Chief Scientific Advisor to the Government and former President of the Royal Society, and Greg Neale, a Newsnight correspondent and founding editor of BBC History Magazine, who is the first MCR alumnus to give a talk at such an event. The MCR also held a ‘mini-seminar’ during Trinity term which featured former Kentucky Congressman, Romano Mazzoli, an architect of the important Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.

With such a high intensity of social events, it is easy to forget that the MCR is an academic community, and that our members are among the University’s finest scholars. The year saw Pembroke graduate students excel in their fields, with numerous M.St and M.Phil students making the step up to the D.Phil, sitting final examinations, or vivas, presenting papers at conferences, publishing in journals and books, and winning scholarships, academic awards and travel stipends.

In rowing, the MCR was well represented on the river. Phil Howard, James Gillies, and Andrew Roberts rowed in the men’s first boat, as did Sabrina Badger in the ladies’, and there was a large MCR contingent in the lower boats too.

On the football field the MCR fared less well. To the eternal frustration of team captain Edward Glücksman, the Pembroke MCR ‘Smurfs’, competing in the FIFA accredited MCR league, failed to sustain the step forward they had made last year. On rare occasions there were flourishes of brilliance, not least from Mr. Glücksman himself, who scored goals on a handful of occasions. Ultimately, however, our overworked defence could not withstand the assaults of our better prepared opposition. Certainly my own skills, not witnessed since primary school, did not do us any favours!

The MCR members of 2006-2007 have enjoyed a stellar year, and it is a source of great satisfaction that Pembroke MCR continues to have one of the most vibrant graduate communities in the university.

Ross Nicolson, MCR President 2006-2007

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BLACKSTONE SOCIETYThe Blackstone Society, the Law Society of Pembroke College, has had a great year in respect of speakers, lectures and dinners for Pembroke lawyers and their guests.

The Blackstone Society members are an extremely active group of law students and meet on a number of occasions throughout the academic year for talks, drinks and dinners, both formal and informal. The dinners, which are usually held in the Forte Room in College, are very popular and are usually attended by approximately 30 students and tutors. Throughout the year, the Blackstone Society has invited guests, who lecture to the Pembroke law community on a legal topic of interest or their experience as a legal professional. The Blackstone Lectures are the most prestigious legal event held in Pembroke, and attract a host of the highest quality legal minds, well represented by Law Lords and QCs, as well as Law undergraduates. This year’s lecture (the 30th Blackstone lecture) was delivered by Professor Sir Roy Goode and was entitled ‘Removing the Obstacles to Commercial Law Reform.’

Lectures are followed by a dinner, which may include guests of the Speaker and of Pembroke lawyers. In the last year, Blackstone Society dinners and drinks receptions have been sponsored by Clifford Chance, White and Case, Herbert Smith, Lovells, Freshfields, Linklaters and Slaughter and May. Of particular interest were the lectures given by John Beechey, a partner at Clifford Chance, who recounted his exciting international career, and Graham White, the graduate recruitment partner at Slaughter and May, on the application process for training contracts.

The events have been mutually beneficial for students and law firms alike. As students, we were able to meet partners, associates and trainees from leading law firms and learn about the career opportunities available to us, and the law firms had the opportunity to promote their firm to law and non-law students interested in a career in law, ranging from first year undergraduates to finalists and post-graduates. Blackstone Society events have proved very successful in making students better informed and have prepared them for their future careers.

I am sure that the Society will continue to flourish, as it has done in the past year. I have thoroughly enjoyed being Blackstone Society President, and I must thank the Master, John Eekelaar, Ariel Ezrachi and Rebecca Williams, for their continued support and enthusiasm for the Society and, of course, Joanne Bowley and Robert Wilson in the Conference Department for helping me to organise the dinners. I wish all the best to next year’s Presidents, who I understand have many exciting plans for Pembroke law students in the terms ahead, including a Criminal Law Moot Competition!

Neha Arora, Blackstone Society President

MUSIC SOCIETYAs the President of the Pembroke College Music Society, I am proud to announce that musical activity within College this year has gone from strength to strength. The aim of the Committee was to draw a larger percentage of the student body into the College’s musical life, which, in the past, had tended to be the reserve of a select few

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groups of players. We certainly succeeded in increasing the available opportunities for the student body to perform or to listen to music.

The twice-a-term Master’s Recitals, which take place in the beautiful surroundings of the Master’s Lodgings, have continued, giving students a chance to perform in a very relaxed and informal environment. What has been most refreshing in these recitals is the diversity of performers and performances to which we have been treated. This has exposed new talents to the Pembroke College music scene. It has also been wonderful to see an enthusiastic and ever growing MCR presence, a link which will be vital in expanding the scope of musical activities at Pembroke in the future. I sincerely hope that these recitals continue with the same enthusiasm in the years to come.

Another of our aims for the year was to introduce a weekly recital series held in the Damon Wells Chapel, the building’s size and beautifully warming acoustic providing the perfect setting for the most intimate of performances. These recitals have featured some of the best performers from around Oxford, including the prestigious Holywell String Quartet and Grove String Quartet, Pembroke’s very own Madrigal Ensemble, recitals for lute and tenor, and professional standard performances on the glorious Letourneau organ. This has provided a real diversity of music, attracting audiences from all over the University, as well as alumni. Such recitals have placed the Chapel at the very centre of College life, and introduced Pembroke into the University-wide musical circle – a new phenomenon for the College, and something we should be very proud of and seek to maintain. As well as the recitals held in the Chapel, PCMS has hosted two formal concerts in the Rockefeller Room (Geoffrey Arthur Building), and these have both attracted large audiences, and have featured some of Pembroke College’s finest musical talent in both solo and chamber group performances. I would like to commend the professionalism and teamwork of each and every performer who helped make these concerts such enjoyable events for all involved.

The Chapel choir has also had a fantastic year, its standard reaching an unprecedented high. Highlights include an incredibly well attended Christmas Carol Service and Concert, receiving wonderfully positive feedback; the Tenebrae service at the end of Hilary term including a performance of Allegri’s ethereal and complex Miserere; and Joe Bolger’s semi-staged production of Purcell’s opera, The Tempest during Arts Week; and 24 Sunday services. The choir has also toured Tallinn in Estonia this September. I would like to commend the work of the two organ scholars, Edward Mitchard and Laurence Lyndon-Jones, for their amazing contributions to College musical life.

One of the most stunning events of the year was Danielle Orchard’s acclaimed and spectacular All That Jazz production, when the Pembroke Hall was transformed into a sophisticated jazz lounge, and the guests treated to highly professional jazz and cabaret performances whilst sampling wine and canapés. Danielle’s professionalism, talent and passion for this project were outstanding, as was the work put in by the rest of the production team: Charlie Spencer directing the jazz band made up primarily of talented Pembrokians, and Lara Delaney (Lincoln) and her dazzling choreography. The three nights of performance were totally sold out and were certainly nights to remember.

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as President. I would firstly like to thank Charlotte Tu (Secretary) and James Kellas (Treasurer) for all their help and hard work, and also Giles and Lynne Henderson, Andrew Teal and all of the College staff who have helped us and given us so much support. I have thoroughly enjoyed everything about working with Pembroke’s wonderfully dedicated musicians, and it has been an honour being surrounded by so many friendly and talented people and the diverse musical activities they have initiated and participated in. I would like to thank everybody who has helped us raise the status of PCMS, bringing music to the very heart of College life. I am very excited about what the future of Pembroke College Music Society has in store, and I wish the new committee the best of luck and our total support.

Laura Shearing, President of Pembroke Music Society

COLLEGE WINE SOCIETYThe Wine Society returned to action this year after a brief absence from the Pembroke social scene, and proved to be as highly popular as ever. The principal event was a tasting led kindly by the Bursar, John Church, and his wife, Jo, who guided the guests through the ‘Wines and Cheeses of France.’ All the places were snapped up with unprecedented speed, and the evening was a great success. Seven different wines were served, each accompanied by a chosen saucisson or cheese and terminating with ‘tarte tatin.’ Moving from a light rosé, Château Sainte Roseline Cru Classé 2005, we worked our way through two whites and three reds, including a wonderful Château Pontoise Cabarrus Cru Bourgeois 2001, and ending with a Sauternes, Château des Deux Lions 2004. The wines were wonderfully complemented by the cheeses, including a delicious Roquefort, imported fresh from the South of France specifically for the event.

With the founding committee now leaving Oxford, the running of the Wine Society has been passed on to Bobby Butcher, and we are confident that, with the Bursar’s continuing support, he will ensure the Society remains a successful and popular component of Pembroke life.

Nick Warrillow, PresidentJames Cottam, Secretary

COLLEGE CHOIRThis year has been another fantastic one for the Choir, with the quality of the singing continuing to go from strength to strength. We were very pleased to welcome our new Organ Scholar, Laurence Lyndon-Jones, and in the first week of Michaelmas term we appointed six choral bursaries and our first Choral Scholar, Joseph Bolger; they have all been faithful supporters of all that the Choir does, and they provided a constant core of singers, giving us more continuity from week to week.

The Carol Service and Christmas Concert were both very well attended; there were over 120 people in Chapel for the Carol Service. The performances featured traditional carols, many of which were unaccompanied, and solo organ performances by both organ scholars. These services were both very successful and highly acclaimed. We also sang from the balcony at the JCR Christmas Dinner, which, as well as being great

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fun, was very well received.

As usual, we sang evensong every Sunday during full term, as well as singing a Mass once a term, including Schubert’s Mass in G and Mozart’s Mass in C Major. For the first time this year, we sang a Tenebrae service at the end of Hilary term, which featured five anthems from the Choir, including Allegri’s ‘Miserere nobis.’ This was very enjoyable for all, and we hope it will happen again next year.

In Trinity term, 20 members of the Choir came together to form the Pembroke Chamber Singers, and performed Purcell’s opera “The Tempest” with a chamber orchestra for Arts’ week, under the direction of Joe Bolger. An audience of nearly 100 people attended, and hopefully this was the first of many such productions at Pembroke.

The Choir came back early after the summer for a week-long tour to Tallinn, Estonia, at the end of September. This was subsidised by generous donations from Linda Jones and Gary Hornberger, for which we are extremely grateful. The tour began with an a capella concert in Tallinn Town Hall, which was a beautifully intimate space in which to sing. The next concert was in the German St Nicolas Church, and featured Mozart’s Mass in C major and Handel’s “Zadok the Priest”, among others, and was very well attended. Finally, we sang Sunday mass in the Church of the Holy Spirit, the Anglican Cathedral in Tallinn.

One of the greatest occasions of the year, however, was being invited to perform at the annual ceremony of admission of the Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors in Convocation Hall. This occurred just the day after returning from the Tour, so the Choir was well prepared. We were delighted to be the first mixed choir ever to have been asked to sing at this prestigious event. We sang unaccompanied motets by Purcell, Bruckner, Tallis and Victoria to great acclaim.

We are fortunate in that only one member of the choir is leaving this year: Edward Mitchard the Senior Organ Scholar (though he promises to return if wanted!). We therefore look forward to an even better choir next year, with hopes for a vibrant new intake to supplement those staying on.

Ed Mitchard, Senior Organ Scholar

The Choir in Tallinn

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College Sports

BOAT CLUB

The first half of the 2006-07 season was highly frustrating for PCBC. Talented and fast crews at both Christ Church Regatta and Torpids had their progress checked by appalling weather conditions that meant the Isis was unrowable for long periods of time. The first two days of racing during Christ Church saw Pembroke novice crews recording wins across the board with the Men’s A crew widely tipped to win the title. Torrential rain and a rapid stream ensured that the final two days of racing were a complete write-off.

In a similar vein the weather caused the complete cancellation of Torpids as the Isis spilled over its banks and a stream more reminiscent of white-water rapids in Colorado than central Oxford was deemed too much of a safety risk to allow racing to proceed. This was undoubtedly a shame as the Men’s 1st VIII had comfortably beaten all of the other Oxford colleges at Bedford Head and looked capable of winning a three bump Headship, while talented novices in the Women’s 1st VIII suggested that a similar climb up the bumps chart was possible.

Indeed, the Women underlined their potential at the Women’s Head of the River Race on the Tideway in March, finishing 109th overall, and 3rd in their category as a novice crew, which was a particularly impressive feat for a largely scratch crew that had been unable to row for the preceding three weeks. Unfortunately, after putting in such a good performance, a combination of dodgy steering, a fast stream and confused marshalling instructions led to the Women’s 1st VIII boat ‘The Friends of Pembroke College Boat Club’ colliding with Putney Bridge and actually wrapping itself around the central support pillar of this famous rowing landmark.

At Abingdon Head in late April the Men’s 1st VIII once again won the S3 title, while the stern four of the Women’s 1st VIII claimed victory in the Novice 4+ event. These victories were also claimed within mere hours of the annual PCBC Pimm’s Party which was the largest and most successful to date, a point demonstrated by the less than optimum condition of most of the rowers on the start line and the popular decision to don sunglasses.

M1 close on Magdalen, Wednesday of Eights Week

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Other notable achievements saw a Pembroke quartet triumph in the inaugural ‘Street Olympix’ over a combined distance of 2000m on ergos located on Broad Street. Despite nursing the dizzying after-effects of the Pembroke Ball the previous evening, all other colleges were still resoundingly beaten. In addition, a four comprising M2 rowers won blades in the City of Oxford Bumps with a series of impressive performances in early summer sunshine.

In terms of University representation, only two Pembrokians trialled this year. Of particular note was Alice Millest, who returned to the Women’s Lightweight squad as President. She led a much underestimated Dark Blue crew to a length’s victory over a much-vaunted Cambridge crew, proving that tow-path punditry is a fairly useless race predictor!

Despite a restricted early season, Summer 8s 2007 began in promising fashion for Pembroke with PCBC once again qualifying more boats than any other college. Nine crews in all lined up on the bung-lines and impressive performances from M1 (who were the fastest Oxbridge crew at Wallingford Regatta) demonstrated that Magdalen and the Headship were reachable. Throughout the week a host of notable performances were recorded by Pembroke crews. Each day the Women’s 1st VIII rowed with a determination and maturity that gave no indication that 5 of them had only started rowing in November. Blasting off the start they closed to within half a length each day of a Christ Church crew which was crammed with Blues, and included both a Dutch international and current European Indoor rowing champion. However, despite getting so close Christ Church kept finding a slightly better mid-race rhythm and were able to pull away to the extent that they almost managed to bump St. Edmund Hall, who remain at Head of the River.

The Women’s 2nd VIII stormed their way down the bumps course, rarely rowing past Donny Bridge and won their blades with four bumps in four days. The bump on Wadham was a particular sight to behold: the stubborn cox’s refusal to concede resulted in 200m of side by side racing which ended in thumping fashion as Pembroke finally decided to ram their bows into the Wadham stern. The Men’s 2nd VIII formed a formidable unit that was arguably the fastest for several years and were unfortunate not to win blades themselves.

However, it was the Men’s 1st VIII who were a particular health risk to those Pembroke supporters of a nervous disposition. On each day M1 closed the gap on Magdalen to tantalisingly close proportions and pressurised them all the way to the finish. On both Wednesday and Friday, the gap was closed to within a canvas at the exit of the gut, and stayed within a ¼ length or under all the way until the finish with Magdalen literally hanging on by the skin of their teeth at the end. Indeed, everything was set for a grandstand finish on the Saturday with a huge crowd united in a desire to see Magdalen knocked off the top to the extent that even Oriel supporters were screaming for Pembroke! But all credit to Magdalen, who saved their best until last, and (despite the gap narrowing to agonisingly close proportions) they were just able to hold off a late Pembroke surge on the finish line. However, if the course was 100m longer it might well have been a different story!

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This year six members of Pembroke M1 will team up with two rowers from Queens’ College to enter the Temple Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta. To date, training has gone well and the crew are confident of qualifying and, unlike last year, we will hopefully avoid meeting the finalists in the first round this time around!

After an exciting and action-packed Eights Week Pembroke rowing remains in fine health. We are 2nd and 3rd on the river and remain the only college realistically capable of being Head of the River in both Men’s and Women’s rowing, despite some flagrant attempts by Christ Church to import a squad of internationals! The vast majority of boat Headships remain in Pembroke hands with the only glaring absentees being those at the top of the 1st Divisions, but we are not far off.

Christopher Morris, President

WOMEN'S BASKETBALLIn Trinity term, Pembroke Women’s Basketball team enjoyed another successful Cuppers season. The team (Pamina Bou, Nicola Blackford, Jisun Choi, Emma Mottarelly [Univ], Kelly Stephenson, Dawn Rennie, Jess Wynter-Bee, Emma McMahon, Zillah Anderson and Sarah Brierley) was consistently committed, determined and upbeat, and Pembroke spirit sent us storming past a St Cross/Merton composite team, St Hugh’s and Oriel, putting us into the Cuppers Semi-Final. The match was tough and we fought hard, but sadly we were outplayed by the skill of the Balliol girls, who thoroughly deserve their Cuppers title.

The girls, however, should be very proud of what we achieved. We responded well to the situations we encountered, we were flexible in our positioning, and with some excellent attacking moves we were able to raise our game when things got tough. St Edmund Hall forfeited the play-off for 3rd and 4th position, meaning we came 3rd overall in the Cuppers league.

Although sadly this year we did lose our Cuppers crown (a title that we had held for 3 years!) we look forward to Michaelmas and a fresh intake of female basketball superstars – and we will be back on court next year with every intention of bringing back the Cuppers title.

Sarah Brierley

DARTSAfter the successes of PCDC1 last season in winning Division 2 and reaching the Cuppers’ IVs final, little was expected of a new-look side that found themselves in the top tier of college darts for the first time in recent memory. Indeed the league season was generally forgettable, with only two wins and a draw from the ten matches. However, the team managed to stay up due the inexplicable decision of St Peter’s to concede their last two matches when only requiring one point to overtake Pembroke. This unexpected avoidance of relegation seemed to inspire PCDC. The summer term saw both the Pembroke IV and Pembroke VIII produce astounding Cuppers’ runs, with the likes of Teddy Hall, Mansfield, Merton, Oriel and Wadham falling victim to the all-conquering PCDC team, who found themselves in the unprecedented position

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of reaching both IVs and VIIIs Cuppers finals. In an exact repeat of the previous year’s final, the Pembroke IV (Matthew Barrett, Tim Horrocks, Richard Nutton, Dado Misljencevic) lost out 4-2 to Mansfield, a somewhat harsh reflection of the very even contest that Pembroke had perhaps edged.

However on 19th May 2007, the Pembroke VIII played St. Anne’s (who had beaten us 10-2 and 7-5 in the league earlier in the year) in a battle for the Cuppers VIIIs title. What was witnessed will live long in the memory of all who were there. Exeter bar, neutral territory. Not for long. Pembroke, roared on by a huge travelling crowd, decimated the St. Anne’s line-up, wrapping up a 7-2 victory with utmost efficiency and devastating scoring. Cuppers Champions. We got a trophy. It had no stand. It had only one handle. It was a rubbish trophy. But it was our trophy. So we bought a new shiny one. This now sits in Len’s for anyone who visits Pembroke in the next 12 months and wishes to marvel at the skill of PCDC. The 9 heroes who comprised the squad were Matthew “Spade” Barrett, Tim “The Dogz” Horrocks, Richard “Big Time” Nutton, Dado “Slobodan” Misljencevic, Barney “Rubble” Sich, Adam “Northern” Taylor, Chris Heaton, Alex “Apuckalypse” Puxley and Geoff “Crazy Dutch” Absalom.

Pembroke darts thus continues to go from strength to strength. PCDC2, a fully-fresher outfit under the able captaincy of Edward Sherrington, eased to the Division 6 title, beating as many all-female sides as the division could offer, and should provide a solid foundation for future PCDC success. Pembroke also produced 2 members of the Oxford side who beat Cambridge 12-3 in the Varsity Match: Matthew Barrett and Tim Horrocks. The inaugural Pembroke Old Boys Match was a stunning success, although more for entertainment purposes than through quality of darts. I leave the club in the capable hands of Mr Alex Puxley, and look forward to seeing more silverware in coming years.

Matthew Barrett, Captain

FOOTBALL - FIRST XIPembroke 1st XI started the 2006/2007 season with plenty of optimism. The squad had not lost any key players from the previous year’s finalists and the general feeling was one of confidence heading into the new Division after relegation at the end of a forgettable 2005/2006 season.

Pembroke started erratically. A narrow 2-1 loss to Somerville was followed by a crushing 6-1 defeat at the hands of St. Anne’s, with Rob Clark’s superb volleyed goal the only positive from the game. A superb 3-0 win away to local rivals Christ Church buoyed team spirits with great goals from Blues regular Homer Sullivan and Barney Sich, the latter scoring on his debut. However, the run up to Christmas became something of a trudge. Losses to Magdalen, Oriel, Lady Margaret Hall and St Anne’s, this time in Cuppers, overrode the effect of a hard-earned 2-0 victory over Wadham. These results ensured that Pembroke entered the New Year rooted firmly to the bottom of the table. Four losses in January (to Somerville, Wadham, Oriel and Christ Church) looked to have put an end to Pembroke’s season several weeks early. With six games to go, Pembroke

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were ten points adrift of safety. However, as February came, the team experienced something of a renaissance. Korean import Jun Chung found his scoring boots, grabbing two goals as Pembroke crushed LMH 5-2 in arguably the finest performance of the season. Encouraged by goals from Matt Barrett and Ali Craggs, wins against Trinity (twice) and Queens in the space of barely a week meant that Pembroke needed only two points from their last two games to ensure survival for the next season. A hard fought match against the undefeated St Anne’s resulted in a 3-2 loss, with a clear Pembroke penalty denied in the last minute by the St Anne’s referee.

The match against Queen’s became all-important. The winner would stay up; the loser would be relegated. In the 80th minute, a dominant Pembroke team were 1-0 down. After Bobby Butcher tumbled in the box, Matt Barrett, in his final game for the club, slammed home the penalty to equalize. Barely seconds later, Ali Craggs ran onto the end of Geoff Absalom’s neat through ball and rounded the keeper to score. With minutes to go, Pembroke were 2-1 up. With the last play of the game, an aimless long ball into the Pembroke box calamitously ricocheted off a defender into the path of the unmarked Queen’s forward who turned and finished crisply. The final score of 2-2 meant both teams were relegated.

Attention turned to the Summer’s 5-a-side Cuppers tournament. The squad of Ali Craggs, Homer Sullivan, Adam Taylor, Geoff Absalom, Rob Clark, Ed Sherrington and ‘keeper Adam Tozzi were desperate to make amends for the main season disappointment. It started well enough – wins of 4-1 and 3-0 against St Catz and St John’s meant Pembroke moved to the last 16. A tough match against Balliol was locked at 2-2 until goals from Clark and Sullivan finished the game in Pembroke’s favour. An average Exeter side were crushed 4-0 in the Quarter-Finals with an exemplary defensive display from newly elected Captain Ed Sherrington. The Semi-Final against Oriel was a tough match, with Pembroke under pressure for much of the time. Nevertheless, goals from Ali Craggs and a double from Homer Sullivan sealed a comprehensive 3-0 win. The final, against the graduates of the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice was a vicious affair. The OXILP team found that they could not bully Pembroke as they had done to all the other teams in the competition. An early penalty from Ali Craggs put Pembroke 1-0 up. Tough tackling from Absalom and a string of great saves from Adam Tozzi kept Pembroke in the lead before Sullivan scored his ninth goal in only six games to put Pembroke firmly in the driving seat. Late in the match, Captain Craggs scored his second of the match and 5th of the tournament to seal a 3-0 win. Cuppers glory had finally come to Pembroke football, and with 21 goals scored and only three conceded, no-one could say it was undeserved.

Next season, we will hope to achieve promotion from the lower tier of College football back to the 1st Division, along with a shot at the 11-a-side Cuppers trophy to go with the 5-a-side version. I wish all the best to my successor, Edward Sherrington, for next season.

Ali Craggs, Captain

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FOOTBALL - SECOND XIPembroke 2nd team enjoyed a successful year in 2006/07. Retaining many players from last season, the team was also bolstered by several new freshers, giving a large and strong squad. Having narrowly missed out on promotion last season, there were high hopes at the outset for achieving this, and throughout the year we looked very impressive. Conceding few goals, we found ourselves consistently the better team, recording impressive wins against St Anne’s, Balliol and LMH among others, and on many occasions were unlucky not to score more than we did. We eventually finished second in the league, losing only once to Regents Park, and securing a place in the top reserves division for next season.

In Cuppers the 2nds also did well, with a strong cup run. Along the way we knocked out Somerville II (a team in the division above us) in a thrilling third round match. After 120 minutes the game was still level at 2-2, and Pembroke eventually emerged victorious after Lawrence Barclay scored the winning penalty in a nerve-racking shootout. We were unfortunately knocked out in the quarter finals by Worcester III in extra-time, despite dominating the first half of the game.

An important contributory element to the team’s success this season has been the great team spirit both on and off the pitch. With a close-knit team, and everyone showing a great deal of commitment and enthusiasm, the 2nds were not only a difficult team to beat, but also one that was very enjoyable to play for. Although several players will be missing next year, the 2nds will still have a strong foundation on which to build, and hopefully will be able to carry on winning next season.

Jonathan Harris, Captain

HOCKEYThe hockey club had something of a mixed season this year. It was a delight to see various players coming through, winning a place in the team and then performing at a high enough level to keep playing, and in this respect I am very hopeful about the outlook for the hockey team because many of these players are returning next year. However, our results this year sadly do not make easy reading, a mid-table finish in Division 4 and a first-round exit from both Cuppers and Mixed Cuppers. In truth, whilst these outcomes do not reflect the talent undoubtedly coursing through the team, much work remains to be done next year by incoming captain Ashley Grossmann at getting full teams out and restoring PCHC to its former glories. A young star in the making, I have every faith in him and he will be ably assisted by the other stand out fresher from this year, Oliver Baggaley, whose performances in goal in the League often kept us in games.

The season began with a tough game against Osler-Green with a team that featured two returning Blues. The 1-1 draw was a testament to the grit of the team, as well as the poor finishing of the opposition! Despite being buoyed by this early result the team then lost two close games to Exeter (2-1) and Balliol (2-0) and were forced to concede to Linacre due to a lack of players. However, the team was awarded another three points after New MCR conceded, leaving us with four points for the season. We had high hopes for the Cuppers campaign partly because of the return of Blues goalkeeper

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MIXED LACROSSEThis year a group of enthusiastic players, many of them new to the game, and with a not-inconsiderable amount of sporting talent, combined to make it a successful season for Pembroke College Mixed Lacrosse. In the league played across Michaelmas and Hilary terms, Pembroke managed to win all of its group matches convincingly, most notably a memorable victory over Corpus Christi coming from 5-0 behind to win 8-7. In the knockout stages of the competition Pembroke advanced to the semi-finals, losing at that stage to St Edmund Hall, a talented team full of university players who, ultimately, won the competition.

The Cuppers competition took place early in Trinity term, although it unfortunately coincided with a number of other sporting events and, as a result, Pembroke’s team was somewhat depleted. Victory in the first round over Hertford was swiftly followed by defeat to a strong New College team in the second round to bring to a close an enjoyable season.

On the University front, Pembrokians Sam Wright and Nick Milburn represented Oxford in the mixed and men’s varsity matches respectively, and Philippa Girling also represented the University Mixed team during the year.

Nicholas Milburn, Captain

William Heald to the squad, although Baggaley’s performances had certainly put his automatic selection in doubt. In the end Heald got the nod, and responded by producing a magnificent man-of-the-match display in our 2-0 defeat to Magdalen, whose team was dominated by a full Welsh international who ran the game and scored both unstoppable goals. Whilst everyone played well, one other player has to be singled out, Alexander Puxley, who has come on leaps and bounds this season after only starting hockey last year. I hope as one of the senior players next year he continues his rapid development and looks to push towards University hockey.

I am hopeful about the situation of Pembroke College hockey next year, there are many people still interested in turning out for the team. Grossmann will do a fine job and with a potential merger with St. Edmund’s Hall to strengthen our numbers I feel confident that Pembroke will once again return to the higher echelons of College hockey.

Adam Tozzi, Captain

MEN'S CRICKETA combination of injuries, terrible weather and a change of captaincy all contributed to make this a turbulent year for the Pembroke men’s cricket team. With over half the players from last year’s Cuppers semi-finalist team remaining, and the return of Nick Warrillow and Captain Chris Owen, the season started with much promise. Our batting line-up looked strong, with genuine strength in depth, though with the loss of key players such as Tom Bullock, Adam Hunter and Marcel Dutoit our bowling line-up always looked a little lightweight.

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In many ways, the best newcomer was in fact second-year Adam Tozzi, who, after an indifferent season in his first year, came to realise his potential with the ball. Adam found genuine pace and swing and soon became our strike bowler, skidding in at a mean height of 5’8”. Old timer Matt Barrett and newbie Bobby Butcher also contributed well with the ball, with Bobby’s action and confidence improving with every match. Other notable bowlers were Catling, Fennell, Puxley and Rodrigues, with Baines and Pemberton-Piggott also chipping in with some good overs.

Although the loss of Captain Chris Owen was a big blow, much of this team’s failings can be attributed to the inability of many of the batsmen to play to the level they are capable of. Geoff Baines, former captain and a batsman of undoubted class, played well and scored valuable runs, but never got the luck to go on and get the big score that we all knew he deserved. This can also be said of wicket-keeper, batsman and stand-in captain Leo Sloley, who, despite some good starts, never managed to hit full stride. Only Mike Hills and Will Heald managed to build innings of any real worth, the former missing the rest of the season after two half-centuries in two matches, when he dislocated his finger making a spectacular catch in the first round of Cuppers against Exeter. Hills proved this year that he could score 50s, answering the taunts of his critics from the previous season. Heald hit the innings of the year with a bludgeoning 100 not out against Wadham. Later in the season there were improvements, with some good innings from Mitesh Patel and Chris Heaton.

A convincing win against Cuppers Champions St Anne’s towards the end of the season proved that this was not a team that deserved to be embroiled in a relegation battle, and, fortunately, a good run of form at the end of the term ensured that Pembroke stayed in Division 1.

A stunning victory in a bowl-out against Brasenose took us through to the quarter finals of Cuppers, but the dream was cut short when exam commitments and injuries meant that a weakened side endured a painful loss at the hands of St Catz. Had rain not delayed this match by two weeks, the outcome might well have been different.

Though the results conceal the true quality of this team, it is fair to say that we always showed enthusiasm and willingness, even when it was damp, cold and essay deadlines were closing in. The team continued to show the enthusiasm and determination of the two previous, and more successful, years, and hopefully this is a trait that will continue despite the large number of players leaving at the end of this year.

Best of luck next year to the remaining players, and to the new captain Bobby Butcher.

Leo Sloley

WOMEN'S CRICKETThis year has been highly successful for the Pembroke College Women’s Cricket Team.

The bulk of the squad, as ever, came from new arrivals to both the College and the sport

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itself. This led to unrivalled entertainment for all concerned as the task of teaching the complexities of the game (including the particularities of how one can loose their wicket) ensued – often during the matches themselves! Much fun was also had in teaching our American friends a ‘proper sport’ and slowly teasing them out of their baseball habits.

Under the watchful eye of the team coach, Minesh Patel, PCWCC cruised unbeaten through the group stages of the Cuppers Competition. The run of results this season was highly encouraging with memorable bowling and batting coming from the newest members; Rebecca Harrison (who has been training with the Blues Team) deserves special mention, as does newcomer Kelly Stephenson. Captain Rebecca Bayliss set the example throughout the season, however, with superb contributions with both the bat and the ball.

Both Lottie Waller and Rebecca Bayliss have been selected to play for OUWCC in the Varsity Match this summer – their performances in the early stages of the Cuppers competition were exemplary and guided the team to the semi-finals. Unfortunately, eventual winners, Worcester, finally overcame Pembroke in the knock-out stages.

Thanks must go to our ever-supportive and helpful coach, Minesh Patel, for all his hard work this term in organising and taking training sessions. We are also grateful to our social secretaries, Felicity Furness and Katie Parry, for providing an incredible selection of cricket teas at every match, and to Radha Patel for providing the on-field entertainment with her continuous sledging.

We look forward to next year and plan on building on the successes of this season with an assault on the next Cuppers Competition.

Minesh Patel, Coach, and Rebecca Bayliss, Captain

MEN'S RUGBYAfter last year’s achievements on and off the field, it appeared that this year’s team would find it hard to match their predecessors’ successes. Fortunately a strong influx of fresher talent, the return of some students from International Duty and the continued improvement of our overseas players meant that, when it was time to begin the season against Oriel, the team appeared to ooze quality.

Unfortunately the rigorous fitness training programme instigated over the summer left these athletes ill prepared for the hard season ahead, beginning the season in the same way as they finished the last: as narrow losers.

Thankfully this losing streak was not to last, and winning ways were soon returning against Queens, Jesus and Univ, setting up what has become customary in the history of PCRFC, a last game of the season promotion decider! Standing between this group of gallant men and the green pastures of division II was Wadham. A spirited performance in the first half meant that, at the interval, Pembroke were edging the lead. Whilst the defence remained strong in the second half, a last-minute ‘howler’ allowed the boys from Wadham to slip in from behind and secure the victory and, with it, promotion.

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The second half of the season saw further victories over St Anne’s, Balliol and Oriel. An undeserved loss to the old foe Christ Church was not enough to deny this team another shot at promotion. This time the enemy was Exeter. The hard season and the sacrifices required to get to this stage meant that, on match day, the team were fairly depleted. Hard decisions had to be made and, reluctantly, Tim “I´m just a torso” Catling was judged to be worthy of a recall from his blues exile. This decision was potentially too premature as, due to hysterical pleas from the Exeter team after their defeat, the match was voided, and they were given the promotion instead, leaving Pembroke, once again, to fight in the depths of Divison III.

Cuppers promised great things, until a first round draw against the favourites Univ, bulked by their returning Blues players, saw the dream put to rest for another year. Instead, victory in the Cuppers Plate seemed the only way of rescuing the season. The road to Iffley allowed two previous old scores to be settled, with comprehensive victories over Christ Church and Exeter to set up a tense final match with Jesus. The match was played in the usual high spirit that only a Cuppers Plate match can achieve, and, despite a late attack by Jesus, Pembroke ran out deserved winners, so allowing the players to celebrate their victory and effort throughout the season in the deserved manner!

Rob White, Captain

WOMEN'S RUGBYThis season has been a very successful one for Pembroke Women’s Rugby Football Club. We began the season by recruiting a number of new players, as well as a new coach, Dan Johnson. During Michaelmas, we had weekly training sessions and built up to the 7s tournament at the end of term, in which we were joined by two girls from St Cross college.

The 7s tournament began with two divisions and we beat a variety of teams in our pool to progress to the semi-final. This was a hard fought contest against Exeter/Jesus but we managed to win and reach the final. Here we met the Merton team who were well drilled and hungry for victory. The match was a fast-paced game with good plays by both sides but again the Pembroke girls managed to get the vital points on the board and walked away the winners. In Hilary term we combined with St Catherine’s College team and reached the final of the 10s Cuppers tournament where we played Merton again but this time they emerged as the victors. At the beginning of Trinity term we had a high table dinner with the Master to celebrate the 7s victory.

This year the team includes three players with rugby Blues: Hannah Skelton and Jessica Wynter Bee (Pembroke) and Renee Ovrut (St Cross).

Jessica Wynter Bee

NETBALLFirstly, I would like to say a HUGE congratulations to all those who played for Pembroke netball teams this year. We have had one of the most successful years of netball Pembroke has ever seen. I will attempt to capture some of this success in a few

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The team this year consisted of two returning 4th years, Polly Gant and Lottie Waller; one 3rd year, Jisun Choi; two 2nd years, Sarah Brierley and Emma McMahon; and three Freshers, Carolyn Hoyle, Georgina Weetch and Zillah Anderson. A special mention goes to both Georgina Weetch and Zillah Anderson who were selected to play for the 2nd and 1st Blues netball teams respectively.

In Cuppers, we won all our qualifying games comfortably to secure a place in the quarter-finals. We then won our quarter-final and played Wadham in the semi-final: it was a tight game and unfortunately we weren’t quite strong enough to go all the way to the final.

In the league, we started the season in Division Two and after an undefeated run of 9 games we were promoted in 1st position to Division One. After a convincing performance in Division One, including 5 wins, 1 draw, and 3 losses, we finished the year with a strong 8th position after our promotion to the Division only a term before. Hopefully next year the team will be able to build on this performance and rise further up the Division. A special mention goes to Lottie Waller who was awarded Player of the Match more times than any other Pembroke player this year.

During the Easter vacation a mixed team of 1st team, 2nd team, and new netball players represented Pembroke in the Doxbridge Tournament in Dublin. We played against teams from Oxford, Cambridge and Durham and had a really great few days.

At the end of the season we were awarded ‘Pembroke College Team of the Year 2007’ – a great honour which I feel reflects the commitment and achievement of the netball team throughout 2006-07.

Finally, I would like to thank everyone who has made it such a pleasure to be Pembroke Netball Captain this year – I have enjoyed every minute of it! I would also like to wish next year’s team, under the captaincy of Zillah Anderson, the very best of luck.

Emma McMahon, Captain

Winners of Pembroke College Team of the Year – Zillah Anderson (Young Player of the Year), Lottie Waller (Player of the Year), and Emma McMahon (Captain)

SKIINGIn many ways this was a good year for Pembroke skiing. We were successfully able to get both current and past Pembrokians en masse to the French slopes on two separate occasions, and it has been extremely enjoyable participating in these events. The first event was the Varsity Trip 2006. This truly was an excellent holiday, both for skiing and après ski (which lasted into the early hours of the morning). Something

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in the region of 1400 students from Oxford and Cambridge invaded the slopes of Les Deux Alpes in early December for some of the first skiing of the season. Pembroke’s contingent was around 25 strong - mainly first and second years, but there were a few third year and visiting students as well. The main week of the trip was blessed with an initial snowfall and good weather from then onwards, meaning great conditions for December skiing. Whilst Pembroke sent skiers of all levels, the College’s chance to shine would come in the races. In the Varsity races Pembroke had three skiers competing: Will Forbes (3rd Year, E&M) - Men’s 1sts; Kate Butler (Visiting) - Women’s 1sts; and Joss Corner (1st Year, PPE) - Women’s 2nds. As expected Oxford dominated Cambridge at every level, and a special Pembroke mention should go to Kate Butler who was the fastest woman for Oxford. In the individual races, Luca Giancola and Chris Heaton competed in the ‘combi’ event (a wild mix of jumps and giant slalom gates), with Luca finishing in the top 10.

In Cuppers slalom, Pembroke fielded a strong team of racers, featuring Will Forbes, Luca Giancola, Joss Corner, Kate Butler, and Chris Heaton. We cruised through the first round and then, because of a mistake made by the Cambridge organisers, were pitted against New College in the 2nd round. We should not have met New until the final because we were seeds 1 and 2. Their team consisted of a range of university level skiers and one British national skier! Nevertheless, we raced on. The duel was close, with Pembroke ahead for the entire race until the last 5 meters, where British national Freddie Clough just got a few centimeters over us. All credit to New though, as Freddie had to ski half the race on one ski (after his other fell off) and still managed to win! All in all the Varsity Trip was great fun and commendably well organised. It would be nice to see a similar sized Pembroke contingent on the trip next year to Val Thorens. I am also extremely keen to get more members of the College involved in the competitive side of skiing and so hope that next year’s President will encourage this. The other main event of the year was the Pembroke Ski Trip 2007, organised by Luca Giancola and Adam Smith. Pembroke is very proud to be one of the only colleges to hold its own ski trip, and, despite a few initial setbacks, this year was no exception. This year the trip took place in 10th week of Hilary and, by pure coincidence, was again in Les Deux Alpes. 40 members of the JCR came on the trip, and we were met by another 10 ex-Pembrokians out in the resort. The standard of skiers ranged from the 10 ski virgins to those who could ski before they could walk, but it didn’t matter because the trip is very easy going, with optional lessons and numerous après-ski opportunities. By March the resort had the benefit of half a season’s snowfall and, to add to this, we received a large snowfall over the first few days of the trip. This meant excellent snow, but poor visibility and some of the coldest weather I have ever experienced. The visibility eventually did improve, although for most of the week temperatures remained below minus 20C and that is without accounting for the serious wind chill! Despite the weather, the week was extremely enjoyable and, in my view, a definite improvement over last year with better food, accommodation and ski hire. The days

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were spent out on the pistes and the evenings were either spent breaking the no-alcohol rule in the hotel or out in the town, ice skating, clubbing or attending the heroes and villains themed bop. The great Pembroke spirit made the trip an excellent holiday. Despite a few minor aches and bruises, everyone had a good week and the Pembroke ski trip upheld its reputation as a great week in the snow. The Pembroke ski trip was also the occasion for the election of a new President and Secretary. There was a fair amount of competition this year for the two positions and so some seriously arduous and messy husts were planned to separate the weak from the strong. Eventually, the following were elected: President - Faye JonesTreasurer - Alex Harrison-DeesSecretary - Victoria Spratt This is the first time, to my knowledge, that there have been three organisers instead of the usual two. They are all first years, and so will be organising the next Ski Trip during their second year. I wish them the best of luck in this and hope that they can maintain Pembroke’s strong presence on the piste.

Luca Giancola and Adam Smith

TABLE TENNISThe 2007 season saw a more focused approach to Pembroke College Table Tennis. The mass participation of 2005 and 2006 had not brought success. In truth, the Club had never recovered from the loss of Ashby, Baker, and Jeavons from the glory days.

The implementation of a new structure and squad rotation system, focused on the one team, paid off with early victories. The sweeping stroke of Murat Yahya and devilish cunning of Tak Li saw us breeze past some fresh faces from St Anne’s and Jesus in the group stages. The second round saw us against the old nemesis, Jesus again. The efficiency of victory was stunning, occurring in record time. Templeton were next up. The early signs were not good; the tie had to be held during the hectic 8th week of Hilary; the Captain’s recurring blister problems were now just too much to play through; and another member of the team had been troubled with a “30 hour straight problem sheet.” Luckily Jim, surname unknown, stepped up to bring the team up to its full strength, and the strategic use of the power nap brought about a rejuvenated Tak. In the end, however, Templeton were just too strong. Their team contained players with international experience, all adept at using the old man slice tactic. Our team never got to grips with this. In fairness, we played well and were rewarded in some way by the doubles victory to Murat and Tak. Templeton had beaten us 5-2. They went on to be the only team to trouble the eventual champions Balliol, losing 4-3.

The Cuppers competition is great fun and I would advise anyone with a talent for the game, however minimal, to enter it with a couple of mates. In the future the Club intends to increase participation and rebuild the Mac JCR as the table tennis fortress that it once was.

Philip Howard, Captain 05-07

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Damon Wells ChapelThe life of the Chapel has become much more connected in various ways to students and staff, and has become more visible (and more audible), over this year.

In terms of its presence as a place of prayer, reflection and sanctuary, I am delighted to observe that it is used by people of many different faiths and roles in the College as a place of perspective and peace. Daily prayers are scheduled of course, and there are two Eucharists a week at lunchtime, but the Chapel is used by groups and individuals daily in a variety of spontaneous ways. Visible changes in chapel this year include a gift of a triptych icon from Mrs Joy Clegg in memory of her late husband who was a Pembrokian now on the altar, and an embossed leather lectern Bible given in memory of The Venerable Archdeacon Brian Kirk-Duncan. These generous gifts are gratefully acknowledged. In the summer the JCR War Memorial was relocated to the Chapel Quad, and rededicated by the Revd John Platt, with His Excellency Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, myself and other clergy and alumni in attendance.

Services this year have been led by a growing and capable choir – and attended by a steady number of students, staff and former students on a regular or occasional basis. The advantage of this is that we can invite speakers from a distance of good calibre because there is now a viable number present. I wish to record my sincere thanks to Ed Mitchard for enabling this to happen during his time as Senior Organ Scholar, not least because, in addition to being a very skilled musician and accomplished student, he has naturally welcomed and included people into the Choir and life of the Chapel. Laurence Lyndon-Jones takes over as Senior Organ Scholar from summer 2007, and I have every confidence that he will manage our flourishing in the coming year. We have this year had a Choral Scholar, Joe Bolger, who has a role in assisting in conducting the choir, to whom thanks is also due. We are interviewing for an Organ Scholar to start in 2008, and intend to appoint an assistant Organist in the meantime to assist Laurence this academic year. To match the blossoming enthusiasm and talent, College has been immensely generous in funding these developments, as has our Patron, Dr Damon Wells, by his continued support of the Chapel.

The Choir also has participated in the pastoral ministry of the Chapel to people at times of private need, through weddings and funerals. I am very grateful to Linda Jones, who, after the funeral of her late husband Derek in Chapel, made a generous donation to the Chapel to assist with the expenses of our first international tour as a Choir to Tallinn. Mr Gary Hornberger, a student whom I taught Greek from another College in the University, matched her donation amount in honour of Damon Wells, his late mother, and Frances D Weatherford, to enable the costs to students participating in the trip to be minimal: and I acknowledge with thanks their kindness and generosity.

The crowning glory came this summer when, for the first time, the Chancellor’s Office of the University approached us to sing for the prestigious Court of Benefactors. The Choir rescheduled their return flights from Tallinn to accommodate this because of the great honour that this represents.

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There is now a grand piano in the Chapel, which, as well as enabling a diversity of accompaniment to the choir and worship, will contribute to the weekly concerts, which have been held on Thursday lunchtimes and evenings. I am very pleased that the Music Society has provided such a lively schedule of concerts and cultural events.

This public aspect of our life is good for the ministry of the chapel – people of many faiths and none participate and come to see the chapel and its community as trustworthy. It remains an immense joy to be the chaplain here, not least because of the way in which the life of the chapel is owned and celebrated by staff and students. I am deeply grateful for the kindness and support of the Master and Fellows, the Bursar and the Finance Office, and to all for the general good will given to the Chapel; and I look forward to enjoying a new year of fresh musical initiatives and pastoral care.

I never cease to be humbled by the way people at times of various difficulties feel able to share their concerns and choose to explore things confidentially. It would be entirely inappropriate to reflect further upon this here, apart perhaps from saying that those moments, where heart speaks to heart, and where in vulnerability the dignity of students and staff shine forth, continuously refresh my faith and hope – in God and in people.

In the coming year, as well as having planned a diverse programme of public worship on Sunday nights – with speakers of other faiths and many different Christian denominations – we hope to record a CD with the choir, which we hope that Pembrokians will buy and enjoy. I say this not least because at Gaudy nights and Pembroke Society meetings the Choir are always absent! If nothing else, a CD would provide evidence that when I praise the Choir, it is not without foundation.

Andrew Teal, Chaplain

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The McGowin LibraryThere has been another year of progress in the development of library services.

Pauline Marshall has retired after 17 years providing consistent and enduring support to our students; we wish her every good fortune in her retirement. We welcome Sarah Cox to her appointment as the new Library Assistant.

After much discussion we are pleased to report that the College has agreed to the appointment of a part-time Archivist, Amanda Ingram. This appointment will enhance the provision of the archival service through the conversion of the archival catalogue onto a computerised database and the conservation of the archive. Please see Amanda’s full article in this edition of the Record.

In response to requests from students who use their laptops in the library, all reader desks are now fitted out with power sockets. Our readers also have the benefit of a wireless network connection, so all readers are able to access the internet and the University network from anywhere in the library via their own laptops. In line with the College’s energy saving policy, individual light switching on all desk lights has now been installed.

The library was grateful for donations received from the following (an asterisk denotes that the book was written, co-authored or edited by a College member):

G. Aldrick; Al-Imaan Foundation; J.G. Basker; T.L. Beddoes Society; B. Bennett; A. Bilton; Dr G. Bonsaver; B. Buckley; M. Burn; J.W. Byrne; E. Chen; J. Choi; Prof. Dudbridge; Dr R. d’Unienville; Dr D. Dwyer; H. Ewing; Dr A. Ezrachi; Dr T. Farrant*; N. Fukuda; Prof. I. Grant; Prof. J. Gray; Dr A. Gregory; Dr N. Griffin; G. Hadfield; Prof. J. Hattendorf; N. Henderson; C.N. Hill; M. Illmer; D. Johnson; N. Joshi; P. Kendall; J. Kershaw; Dr M. Klein; Dr Tao Tao Lin; H. Maskill; Dr C. Melchert; Dr J. McMullen; N. Mehmet; Prof. L. Mugglestone*; G. Neale; Dr H. Parish; M. Parmiter; C. Philpin; Dr J. Platt; R. Ordonez Sandoval; Rev. K. Sawyer; L. Sonesson; Dr H. Small; Rev. Dr A. Teal; Mr Tian; A. Walker; Dr H. de Weerdt*; Prof. H. Weinbrot; Prof. S. Whitefield*; Dr R. Williams; and several anonymous donors.

We are pleased to have received a substantial donation of modern Italian books from the late Louise Jenkins. David Rees donated a large number of Mathematics textbooks.

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The Emery Gallery

Pembroke JCR Art Collection has developed over the past couple of years, and it has been my pleasure to look after it and take it forward for Pembroke this year. There have been a number of developments and activities, such as establishing a website (now available via a link through the College website), organising student art competitions and acquiring new art for the collection. In the first term we saw the departure of our Prunella Clough painting ‘Fishermen with sprats’, which is currently touring England with a Tate retrospective exhibition of her work. Before the piece left, we took the opportunity to introduce the freshers to the Collection and opened the Gallery for them to come and have a good look at all the works, which was a very pleasant evening.

With one painting now gone until November, I am pleased to say that we have recently been given a new painting by alumnus George Jenkin, which was inspired by the Tsunami of 2005. It is a wonderful addition to the Collection and we appreciate his involvement with the JCR. We hope that it will bring much pleasure to all the undergraduates who visit it for many years to come.

The Garden Party was also a great success and many people came through the Emery gallery to have a look at the Collection Exhibition. This has been re-organised and re-hung using different themes: Comedy, Modern life, Portraiture. It was particularly good to hear alumni giving their recollections of the Collection during their time at Pembroke.

One of the highlights of the year for the Art Fund was the Student Art Exhibition, which took place during Arts Week. Over 16 undergraduates entered the competition. There was a broad spectrum of entrants – quite a few scientists came ‘out of the woodwork’ to reveal their artistic side! Entries were not only paintings, but included video art, photography, collage and installation. The competition was judged by Gavin Delahunty from the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford. He gave an in-depth analysis of the works before awarding the first prize to Gemma McMahon. Phil Osbourne came second, and Ian Robertson third. Gavin also highly commended the works of Tom Hardiman and Natalia Rodionova.

The other highlight of the summer term was choosing a new work for the Collection, and this is an annual event. This year the Art Fund decided on a work by the artist Alan Davie, a well-established British artist who has been working since 1954, and is internationally renowned. I was fortunate enough to be able to visit him in his studio – possibly one of the great studio spaces any artist could dream of: light and airy and with his most recent paintings hung up everywhere. Despite being aged 86, he heaved around a huge amount of work for us to look at throughout the afternoon. Alan’s work is characteristically very colourful, and filled with archetypal images which embrace a world history of art. This very much fits with the type of art in our JCR Collection. The piece which was eventually chosen is called ‘Without Devices’ and is now on display in the Gallery.

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It has been an excellent year for the Art Fund and many people have taken advantage of the travel grants which we are able to provide for the JCR. I hope the College will continue to appreciate both the artwork done by the students, and the Collection itself. If anyone wishes to look round the Gallery during term time, please get in touch with my successor, Faye Jones, to arrange a Gallery tour or take a look at it online at: http://clsmac70.ndcls.ox.ac.uk/art-fund/

Constance Usherwood

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The College Archivesby Amanda Ingram, Pembroke's new Archivist

The History of the Archive

According to the original College Statutes, the College Archives were to be kept, along with the College seal, in a chest with three locks, the keys to which were to be held by the Master, the Senior Bursar and the Senior Dean. This “great chest of ye Treasury of P Col” is referred to in the first catalogue of the College Archives, dated 16 Aug 1647.

One of the earliest surviving catalogues of the College Library includes a list of manuscripts and documents “in ye Archives”, dated 1733, which was repeated in subsequent 18th century catalogues. By the 19th century, the Archives as a whole appear to have been transferred to the Library (at that time in Broadgates Hall) and arranged by the different Foundations and the properties that provided their endowment.

When the new Dining Hall was built in 1848, it included a muniment tower for the storage of archives, despite the dangers of fire inherent in any rooms over the College Kitchens. In December 1886, in an attempt to address this, Governing Body passed a resolution to install a cast-iron door “to protect the Muniment Room in the Tower from fire.”

After the construction of the McGowin Library in 1974, the archives were transferred to a controlled environment in the new building and, in 1982, a project was funded to produce the first full catalogue of the archive collection. Pembroke College’s archive collection now contains a wealth of information relating to the history and governance of the College and its members. The documents range from the early accounts of the 17th century up to the present day and the collection also includes photographs, maps, plans and artefacts.

Archive Re-boxing Project

This year, the College funded an archive conservation project which has been carried out by the University Collections Care Department. Over a period of three weeks, the team removed the entire collection from the stack, carried out cleaning on both the

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documents and the stack itself, measured the volumes in order to make up bespoke archival storage boxes and, finally, re-packaged the collection in the new boxes before returning it to the stack.

This has been a major step forward in the care of the archive. Previously, volumes had become damaged and extremely dirty from handling and exposure to the environment. Some types of media, such as photographs, are particularly vulnerable but, in their new boxes, they are protected from pollutants and are much easier to identify and handle.

Outline of the cataloguing project

Between 1982 and 1985, a paper catalogue of the archive collection was produced. Since then, archiving standards and technology have both moved on and the main purpose of my three year project role is to transfer this existing catalogue, together with updated and additional information, into a specific archive computer package (CALM). This will greatly increase the accessibility of the catalogue and improve its usefulness as a research tool. The long term aim is to enable access to the catalogue via the internet which will further increase accessibility and serve to encourage use of the archive by researchers.

Future plans

In addition to the catalogue conversion and the day to day running of the archive, there are two main projects that I am hoping to consider in the future.

As a priority, I am keen to arrange for the digitisation of a number of items from the archive, for example the photographic collection, older volumes and documents that we wish to keep on display. Continued handling and exposure of popular items leads to damage and decay and so it is a priority to provide quality reproductions that can be displayed and used, while the originals can be protected.

Whilst the focus of an archive is often on its older documents, it is important to ensure that the records created today are also captured in order to create an ongoing history of

Exhibits from the College Archives

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Amanda IngramA graduate of St. Andrews and University College, London, Amanda has previously worked at the archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and Freemasons’ Hall, Holborn.

The College Archives (continued)

the College. With modern day technology and volumes of information, this requires a very different approach to that taken in the past. It is, therefore, important that the College has a robust records management policy that will ensure the capture of appropriate modern records into the archive and this would also involve the development of digital storage, particularly in the case of photographs which are increasingly taken with digital cameras.

Access

The archives are available for consultation and research, by appointment, from Wednesday to Friday, 9.00a.m – 4.00p.m. If you have any enquiries about the archives, please email archives@pmb.ox.ac.uk.

The archive contains battels books dating back to the 17th century

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Samuel Johnson News

A very successful conference on ‘Samuel Johnson and the Theatre’ was held in Pembroke in June 2007; participants enjoyed a range of seventeen papers and presentations, beginning with Johnson and Shakespeare, and concluding with an illuminating presentation on Johnson and Southwark Fair by Dr Tiffany Stern of University College. Other papers looked at Johnson and opera (which Johnson regarded as ‘an exotick and irrational entertainment’), theatre history, and the problems and practices of performing identity. A theatrical performance of Samuel Becket’s “Human Wishes” by some of our current students was undoubtedly one of the highlights of the conference.

Pembroke will also play an important part in the Tercentennial celebrations of Johnson’s birth in 2009, when it will hold a four day conference leading up to the Johnson weekend in Lichfield, where Johnson was born. Professor Lynda Mugglestone has recently taken over as President of the Johnson Society of Lichfield and was present at the birthday celebrations for 2007 (as well as being accompanied by the town crier of Uttoxeter before giving an address to commemorate Johnson’s famous act of penance in the market square there).

MORE JOHNSON NEWSPembroke has purchased at auction the last letter written by Dr Samuel Johnson to William Adams, Master of Pembroke in 1784. This acquisition was made possible by the generosity of Judith and William Scheide, and the College is grateful for this new addition to our Archive and our Samuel Johnson resources.

Work is currently under way to decipher the battels entries for Dr Johnson during his time at Pembroke. We should have a much more detailed knowledge and understanding of Johnson’s time at Pembroke within the next two years, as the painstaking work to decipher the entries reaches completion. We hope that this will enhance the Johnson resources and future articles in the Record will keep readers informed of any major developments.

JOHNSON EVENTS AT PEMBROKE

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Pembroke and the Oxford Portraits by Annette Peach

The Oxford Collection

Oxford University’s portrait collection is unrivalled in scope and diversity, and collectively constitutes the second largest portrait collection in the world, second only to the National Portrait Gallery’s. With over 3000 portraits in the University and its constituent colleges, the collection is of major importance for art historians, University and college alumni, and for people in the media, fashion and film-making worlds. It also offers an invaluable record of academic, legal and ecclesiastical dress.

Often donated by famous people, the portraits shed a flood of light on the University’s history and interaction with other institutions, including the government, the monarchy and the professions. They celebrate the University’s past and present achievements, benefactions and international role in cultural/intellectual life.

The collection, whose portraits date from c.1450 to the present, includes images of significant individuals from all walks of life: leaders of nations, British and foreign monarchs, scientists, writers, scholars and artists. It includes paintings, drawings, sculpture, medals and photographs by world-famous artists.

Pembroke and the Beginnings of the Project

Pembroke’s portraits are now available to be viewed online at the Oxford Portraits website, a project created by Dr Annette Peach in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery and Oxford Digital Library (part of Oxford University Library Services), with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Portraits held by Pembroke College and the Examination Schools have been used to create the pilot, which developed a sustainable technical framework which can include the entire collection of the portraits in the University and its constituent colleges.

Closely modelled on the award-winning Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the Oxford Portraits project has created a database and website, catalogued the selected collections and made these accessible online. As the first College portraits to be included in the online catalogue, Pembroke’s collection provides a model that will enable users world-wide to study a college’s history via its portraiture.

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The Oxford Portraits Project

The Oxford Portraits website makes University portraits available to all users on open access. Following a simple registration procedure, users may access the integrated catalogue which currently includes 184 University and Pembroke College portraits. The website allows users to study portraits in fine detail by zooming in on high quality digital images. Individual webpage links with the Oxford DNB and the National Portrait Gallery websites enhance understanding of the collections and enable them to become more widely known. Website feedback shows clearly that current users find the site informative, interesting, visually attractive, and easy to use.

The Oxford Portraits project is deeply grateful to the Master and Fellows of Pembroke College for permission to catalogue the College’s portraits as part of the pilot study, and would like to thank all College officers and staff who generously assisted with numerous queries and requests.

Viewing the Collection

To view the collection please visit http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/oxfordportraits

Dr Annette Peach, formerly research editor for art and architecture for the award winning Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, is the creator of the Oxford Portraits Project.

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AlumniNEWS OF OUR ALUMNI

BRIAN WILSON (1948) has an interest in maintaining the Pembroke College Biographical Dictionary (PCBD) of members of Broadgates and the College. It contains approximately 12,700 names in total, comprising 700 Broadgates (1397-1623); 5800 Pembroke (1624-1944) and 6200 Pembroke post WWII-1998. This continues the work on the College Registers of Lionel Salt (Bursar 1922-1950), and involves recording data from several sources.

EDMOND L. WRIGHT (1948) has recently had a book published: Narrative, Perception, Language and Faith (Macmillan, Dec. 2005). A further book is forthcoming: The Case for Qnalio (MIT Press, 2007).

REVAN A. F. TRANTER (1954) resigned as Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley after 11 years (1995-2006). He completely updated his chapter on local government in the University’s new edition of the book Governing California. He is very active as Trustee and Finance Committee member of the Wright Institute, a leading independent graduate school of Psychology.

MARTIN R. C. BATES (1955) is delighted to be “found again” after so long being “lost” according to Pembroke records. He writes: “One reason for lack of contact is that I spent many years abroad - Argentina, Sudan, Iran, Egypt etc teaching English as a Foreign Language and, more recently, writing schoolbooks for Longman (Nucleus ESP Series; NILE Course of the Sudan; Welcome to English – Egypt) Nearly all out of print now! Also written and published several books of poetry which survive with their author so far! These include an anthology of EFL poetry called Poetry as a Foreign Language, and other recent collections Wounded Lion (Redbeck) and Exploding Cicadas (White Adder).”

PETER B. GROSE (1957) writes “All is well with us. My old-age medical problems are all repaired. I’m back to a 51 year old stud.” With their children settled in the West, Claudia and he have decided that an island in the middle of the Atlantic was not a logical place to live. They have “cut loose” from the vineyard with no real regrets.

RAYMOND J. MONELLE (1957) has been awarded an Honorary Chair by the University of Edinburgh, where he taught Music from 1969-2002. His latest book, The Musical Topic, was published by Indiana University Press last September. He continues to teach part-time both at Edinburgh University and Napier University.

MICHAEL PICARDIE (1958) has a website at www.michaelpicardie.co.uk relating to his playwrighting, acting and theatre research. He has been teaching part-time at the Cardiff University Centre for Lifelong Learning on Jewish religion and mysticism. His most successful play, Shades of Brown, which toured Britain in 1978 and played in London, New York, the Scandinavian capitals, Canada and South Africa is being

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revived in the UK in 2008 starring Paul Vaughan-Teague and Picardie, to be followed by a sequel set in the New South Africa featuring the same characters 30 years on – Van Tonder and Veldsman seeking redemption after the triumphs and disappointments of truth and reconciliation in the transition to democracy. Michael lived in South Africa from 1989-2000 studying the plays of South African women writers and interviewing them - research towards an M.Phil degree at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth - and doing community work in Johannesburg setting up a pre-school for children in Hillbrow. Contact him through his website.

BRUNO SCARFE (1958) writes: “Some information about me, should you want it, can be found on Google upon entering BRUNO SCARFE. The first few entries include: “Bruno Scarfe – search for out of print books” and “AbeBooks – search results”; “Scarfe-La Trobe Collection of Spanish plays”, “Scarfe La Trobe Sueltas” and “Dialnet: El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes”. My most important role has been in locating and defining what I have termed the “Scarfe-La Trobe Collection”, the “La Trobe” after the Australian University where I lectured for 12 years and was working at the time of the discovery”. There have been two published articles and, in typescript, a body of research material, including a quasi-facsimile catalogue of 2000 items, housed at Glasgow University. Currently, he is revising this catalogue (on computer) for publication and electronic access. He ran his own bookshop in Australia for 14 years and now runs a private business on the internet (AbeBooks), where he is disposing of his father’s specialist French/English Library, together with other items of his own. He is also working towards an exhibition of his art work, seeking a publisher for his poetry and researching several collections of Spanish Theatre (the Scarfe-Atocha Collection; the Scarfe Arozamena Collection, and his own personal collection) in order to make their contents available electronically and, perhaps, in print.

ROBERT L. FELIX (1962) taught at the University of SC Law School’s programme at Grey’s Inn until retiring on 31st May 2006 after 38 years at USC, but will teach a course in Roman Law in spring 2007.

ATTIPAT K. SRINIVASAN (1966) has made contact with College from Chennai, India.

DR MICHAEL REES (1967) After leaving Pembroke he graduated with a PhD in Computing in 1975 and became a lecturer at the University of Southampton. In 1984, he moved to the University of Tasmania as a senior lecturer. From 1989 he was an Associate Professor and a Foundation Staff Member at Bond University, Australia’s first private university. His research interests span interactive web sites known as Web 2.0.

STEPHEN HAMNETT (1968) was recently appointed a Commissioner of the Environment, Resources and Development Court of South Australia. Stephen retains his position as Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of South Australia.

KENNETH ROBIN JACKSON (1969) has been Chief Executive and Secretary at the British Academy since September 2006.

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RHYS TORRINGTON (1970) is Commercial Director, Gateway Broadcast Services, GTV, Africa.

KENNETH I. PAUL (1971) writes: “I’m Copy Editor at the New York Times. I am married to a native of Sofia, Bulgaria, whose name is Sevara Jeleva and we have a wonderful 12 year old named Kathryn.”

PETER A. WRIGHT (1971) is now Professor of Music at the University of Nottingham.

JOHN B. HATTENDORF (1973) has published the four volume Oxford Encyclopaedia of Maritime History (OUP March 2007)

STEVEN C. SWEETMAN (1973) has achieved a long-held ambition. He writes: “As some may recall, I read Geology in the mid 70s but my primary interest in the Earth Sciences was Palaeontology, and, in particular, Microvertebrate Palaeontology. This stemmed from the discovery of small vertebrate remains in the Early Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, where, as an undergraduate, I lived. Unfortunately, no-one else in the Department of Earth Sciences shared my interest. However, in the hope that, upon completing my degree, I might embark upon research for a PhD, Tom Kemp, now a tutorial fellow in Zoology at St John’s, kindly provided extracurricular tutorial guidance in matters relating to Vertebrate Palaeontology. To cut a long story short, I decided to marry, and the pressing need to earn a living curtailed my ambition and involved work in industry, living on the North Island as we Caulkheads (Isle of Wighters) call it.

In 2001, after an absence of 25 years, my wife Pru and I decided to return to live on the Isle of Wight, adopting a radically different lifestyle. We bought a small farm where we now run a holiday cottage, a trout fishery and livery stables (www.mys.uk.com). At that time, the BBC was making a series of programmes called ‘Live from Dinosaur Island.’ The day before making a trip to the Island, in connection with the purchase of the farm, I found the box of vertebrate fossils I had collected as an undergraduate. On the BBC that evening, the scientists involved in making the programme made an appeal for anyone with fossils from the dig sites to bring them in for them to look at. Knowing that I would probably have an hour to spare during the day, I put the box in the car. I did, indeed, have time to show my collection to the scientists who included Paul Barrett, then a vertebrate palaeontologist at Oxford, and Dave Martill from the University of Portsmouth. All were impressed with the collection and, not long after my visit, Dave Martill contacted me and asked if I would like to make a proper study of the microvertebrate fauna of the Wessex Formation. I said “I might” and, a short time later, I received a letter from the University offering me a scholarship to undertake the research on a part-time basis. Not knowing what I was letting myself in for, I accepted. To date, my research has resulted in the recovery of more than 40 new tetrapod taxa, the majority of which are new to Science. I submitted my thesis in April 2007, and was awarded a PhD at a degree ceremony the following July. Thanks to all for their support, and, particularly, to Tom Kemp, who gave up his time all those years ago, and who I now see regularly at conferences.”

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JONATHAN B. YOUDAN (1974) writes: “Having worked as a schoolteacher for 14 years I found myself early retired on health grounds with a wife and two small children. Since then my wife and I have run a shop and studied at the Urban Theology Unit in Sheffield, gaining a diploma in Theology and Mission. Currently I am a self-employed shopkeeper selling pet and animal supplies until such time as we have an opportunity to operate an educational / spiritual centre enabling people to study goats / environment / spiritual matters. Many more details are available by contacting us. Since the summer of 2007 Susannah and I have been appointed as pastors to a small congregation on the outskirts of Sheffield (http://hometown.aol.co.uk/mayfieldwrc/).”

TIMOTHY POOLE (1975) writes: “after 20+ years in banking (very suitable after a Classics degree!) I now work at Standard & Poor’s in Canary Wharf and travel to interesting places like South Africa and the Gulf. I recently attended Adrian Lajtha’s wedding (also Classics 1975).”

DR RICHARD GREEN (1976) writes: “I have been in General Practice in Oxford now for almost 15 years - started on Medicine, of course, after leaving Pembroke - the last six of which I was Clinical Governance Lead for Oxford City PCT. Following yet another government reorganisation I have just been appointed Lead for the new Countywide organisation, with the remit of improving quality and patient safety across all aspects of healthcare in the County. As the children grow up I am again singing (Oxford Bach Choir) and cycle as much as possible. I keep in regular touch with many of my Pembroke contemporaries, and we will be celebrating our Silver Wedding Anniversary with many of them in August of this year.”

DR EDWARD FURGOL (1977) would be happy to help any Pembroke students interested in careers in museums or history.

KEVIN BRENNAN (1979) has been appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children, Young People and Families in Gordon Brown’s new government.

RICHARD COOKE (1979) is Diocesan Adviser for Continuing Ministerial Education in the Diocese of Coventry.

LYNN FILE (1979) is based in Cornwall and runs a marketing consultancy called Brand Innovation. She has two boys, Rory (14) and Alex (13). She and her husband Larry spend as much time as possible at their home on the Greek Island of Skopelos, and would love to hear from any alumnae with interests in Greece.

CHARLES H WRENCH (1979): After six years with Landor, based in London, he has moved (with his family: Amanda, Bertie, Harry and Holly) to San Francisco as CEO of the Company.

TONY SZCZEPANEK (1980) writes: “After leaving Pembroke, I pursued a successful career in Information Technology, which led to the successful sale of my own business in 1993. Since then, I have worked for a number of FTSE companies, and currently work for Royal Liverpool Assurance in the famous Liver Building, Liverpool, as Group

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Head of IT. I received my MBA with distinction in 2001 from Lancaster Management School, and spent 4 years in strategic planning in the North West. I have been married to Lesley since 1990 and we have two sons, Christian and Stephen (13 and 11). Spare time includes managing my son’s football team and flying microlights, having got my pilot’s licence in 2001.”

C. S. LIM (1981) is professor of English at the University of Malaya (1998-the present). In 1996, he was Visiting Fellow at Yale, and in 1995 and 2001 Visiting Professor at the Centre for Advanced Study in English, Jadavpur University, Calcutta. In 2006 he co-edited Shakespeare without English (New Delhi: Pearson Longman). He is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Shakespeare Association (1996-2011), and a past International Chairman of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (1997-99).

JOHN J. McGRAIL (1985): After qualifying as a chartered accountant with Coopers and Lybrand (now PWC) in Manchester, he has spent a number of years in senior finance roles in Further Education and the wider public sector. He is married to Sally and they have two children, Joseph (10) and Sarah (8). He is still based in the North West in Lymm near Warrington. He writes: “I continue to play football (badly) and am tasked with finishing my MBA at Manchester Business School, whilst developing my time management skills moving the children from A to B to C.”

BEN BENNETTS (1987) writes: “After 12 years pushing papers in an increasingly bloated public sector, I’m now Managing Director of Land Management Information Service. We provide mapping software and information for farmers, rural land managers and parish and town councils.” Ben is married with four daughters, lives in Romsey, Hants and still sings sporadically.

AMANDA MUIR (1987) writes that she is “still working in government relations but have my own business now; combine that with a three year old and there isn’t time for anything else these days – or maybe that’s just age! My partner (David) and I have recently invested in an old fishing trawler which we are currently converting and hoping to travel to Papua, New Guinea in the next year. As always, I have been a woeful correspondent but do sporadically keep in touch with Emma Lewis from my Pembroke days.”

NICK PALMER (1987) writes: “After leaving Pembroke I meandered into banking and have spent the last 15 years working in some form or other of Risk Management, primarily Market Risk. In 2002 I emigrated to Sydney with my Australian wife Emma. Since then we have been blessed with three boys – Alexander, Matthew & Jacob. After five years working for Macquarie Bank I am now back working for Poms at the Australian operations of Halifax Bank of Scotland. I would be delighted to hear from any Old Pembrokians.”

ADAM R. H. CLARKE (1988) is teaching Physics and Chemistry at the Merchant Taylors’ School, Northwood, where he is also Assistant Director of Studies. He is married to Anusha, also a teacher, and they have a daughter, Tanya.

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NANCY A. RECTOR-FINNEY (1989) is an obigyn practising in San Antonio, TX. She is married and has three children: Clark (11), Caroline (eight) and Cole (two).

JULIAN R. SHEAHAN (1989) writes: “After leaving University, I embarked on a most exciting career in Reinsurance, it’s like insurance for insurance companies, and always goes down well as a conversation piece at social gatherings! I was fitted with the ball and chain in 1996, to Catherine, which was a very well attended event down in Devon. We initially lived in Hampton and have now moved to Hampshire. After some trouble, we eventually had beautiful twins, Elizabeth and William in 2003. Unfortunately, both of them have been recently diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis, cards dealt to one by life can unfortunately not be changed. This has had a massive impact on our lives as it is rather an all-encompassing disease, but the children are extremely stoic and are in all other respects as normal as any other child. Other events in our lives make “Eastenders” look positively cheerful and dull by comparison. Would love to hear from anyone.”

TIM GRIFFIN (1990): Tim writes that he has a new baby and a new job. Mary Katherine Elizabeth Griffin was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas to Tim and Elizabeth Griffin on 27th July 2007. Tim has accepted a position as General Counsel and Managing Director of Mercury Public Affairs LLC (www.mercurypublications.com), a New York based company with offices in New York City, Washington D.C., Sacramento, St. Louis, Austin, Minneapolis and Little Rock. Tim is opening and managing the Little Rock office. Mercury Public Affairs is an Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC) company. He previously served as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas.

NIALL O’DONNELL (1991): In May 2006, Niall won a place in the Kauffman Fellows Program, and joined Rivervest Venture Partners. This ended five happy years at Johnson & Johnson. In August he completed an MBA at the Rady School, UCSD.

NICHOLAS S. WORTH (1991) writes: “I am President of Schematic, an interactive agency which I co-founded in 1999. My wife Siân (who was at Trinity and who I met while I was at Pembroke) and I have a five year old son, Shaw, and live in Hollywood.”

HAZEL BLOSS (1994) married Matthew James (Queens 1994) in Derbyshire on 21st October 2006. In attendance were Zibby Alfred (1994); Claire Smith (1994) and Aruna Karunathilake (1994) and their sons Joe and Dylan; Audrey Hartford (1994) and Marchel Alexandrovich (1998) and their baby daughter, Eve; Martin Commons (1994); Jenny Owen (1994); Kate Ames (1994) and Duncan Robertson (1994). Helen Clarke (1994) gave a reading during the service. Hazel and Matt are now living in Hertfordshire. Hazel works at the Warburg Institute, University of London, while Matt is a secondary school teacher.

GEORGINA GLASBY (1999) married Steven Dunkley on 21st July 2007.

CHRISTOPHER GRIFFIN (2000): Chris Griffin, who graduated from Georgetown University in 2002 and completed the MPhil in Economics in 2004 as a member of Brasenose College, has enrolled at Yale Law School for the 2007-08 Academic Year.

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After finishing at Oxford, Chris served as a Postgraduate Fellow at Yale Law School (2004-2006) and as a Research Associate at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York. While beginning his legal studies, Chris will continue to work with former Princeton president William G. Bowen on a book examining the socioeconomics of degree completion at American public universities.

SEBASTIAN A NELSON (2001) was appointed a Serving Brother in the Order of St John by Her Majesty the Queen in 2004. In December 2006, he graduated from San Jose State University with a Master of Library and Information Science Degree, and he is now an archivist at the California State Archives.

DR GREGORY TASIAN (2003) together with his wife, Sarah, is enjoying living and working in beautiful San Francisco.

NIKESH KALRA (2005) is now an investment banker and private fund manager for the media and information services sector.

DAMON WELLS: A PROFILE OF A PEMBROKE ALUMNUS AND BENEFACTOR

In March 1992, the British Ambassador to the United States, Sir Robin Renwick, acting on behalf of the Queen, presented Damon Wells with the CBE medal and ribbon, making him only the fourth American in modern times to be dubbed Honorary Commander of the most noble Order of the British Empire, the others being General Norman Schwarzkopf, President Ronald Regan and Senator J.William Fulbright (alumnus 1925). Such an honour is often given “to recognize those who have shown great generosity that might not otherwise be evident.” Such a one is Damon Wells.

Described as a “low-profile Houstonian”, Damon has devoted much of his life to promoting Britain and all that is British, at one time funding exchange visits and lectures “to enable British citizens to present the British point of view to prominent public institutions in Texas.” He sponsored the Wells Lecture Programme at his old school, The Kincaids and contributed substantially to the construction of St Martin’s, the premier Episcopalian church in Houston. But it is in Oxford, and specifically at Pembroke, where he was elected an Honorary Fellow in 1984, that his extraordinary generosity has been of such importance, qualifying him for admission in 2006 to the Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors and having his name engraved on the Clarendon Arch alongside such famous names as Cecil Rhodes, John Radcliffe and Queen Elizabeth I.

Modern History is one of the few Fellowships in Pembroke which is fully endowed, thanks to the generosity of Damon, who also established years ago a Fellows’ Travel Fund, contributed generously to the Geoffrey Arthur Building and, most significantly, paid for the complete refurbishment of the Chapel in 1973 in honour of his grandfather, James Monroe Wells. Since then he has provided, and is continuing to provide for the foreseeable future, for its maintenance as well as for the chaplaincy. Damon’s

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REDEDICATION OF THE JCR WAR MEMORIALThis moving tribute to those alumni who fought and died during the Second World War has been re-sited in the corner of Chapel Quad, thanks to the promptings of John Semken (1946) and other alumni who served in the war, and were up at Pembroke at the time the memorial was commissioned.

The three figures, which represent the Pride of those who served, the Grief of those who mourned and the Compassion of those who cared, have for many years stood largely unnoticed along the south side of North Quad. Now, however, they have been moved to a more fitting location, and have been re-grouped as conceived by the sculptor John Harvey.

extraordinary love for the chapel, expressed in such a practical way, is but a reflection of his own Christian commitment and was recognized in 1996 when the Chapel was named for him at a service of dedication led by Archbishop Robert Runcie.

What manner of man is this, who lavishes his financial favours on churches, colleges and who-knows-what-else in America and in England? A third generation Houstonian, whose grandfather had been a local GP, he is immensely proud of being a Texan. A historian scholar of note, Damon took his first degrees at Yale and at Pembroke before obtaining his doctorate at Rice University. He has devoted his life to the efficient and profitable management of the fortune and business interests which he inherited when his father, a brilliant entrepreneur with interests in property and banking, died just as Damon was finishing at Yale. Damon added mining in base and precious metals to his portfolio, and this has taken him to many parts of the world including Canada, Australia and South Africa. The beneficiaries of his philanthropy have been many and varied and reflect the very Englishness of this dedicated anglophile. The décor and furnishings of his home are said to resemble that of a London gentlemen’s club; Paddington Bear is on hand for the benefit of the younger of his eight god-children; his preferred residence in London is Claridges and high on his list of close friends are members of the Churchill family.

Despite his high profile friends, his wealth and his incredible generosity, recognized by the Queen, the University and the College, Damon eschews any flamboyance, preferring to entertain quietly and to project all the simple charm and humility which is the mark of a Christian philanthropist. Remembered by his fellow students as shy and self-effacing but always pleasant and extremely hard-working, Damon must be one of Pembroke’s most devoted sons, whose honours are truly deserved.

John Barlow (1952)

The JCR War Memorial in its new location

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The Annual General Meeting of the Society took place in Broadgates Hall at 3.30pm on 15th September 2007.

1.The minutes of the previous meeting held on 22nd September 2006 were approved.

2.Matters ArisingThere were no matters arising. 3.Treasurer’s ReportThe Treasurer reported that as of 31st December 2006 there was a balance of £982.50 in the Society’s account.

4. Committee ElectionsThe following committee members who were due to retire were proposed, seconded and elected en bloc by the members to serve for a further three years: Gary Flather (1958), Maurice Headon (1969), Graham Layer (1971), Elizabeth Wieser (1983) and Jill Walker (1984). It was agreed that elections should proceed despite the recommendation tabled by Malcolm Cooper in order that committee members could direct future developments.

5. Future of the SocietyMalcolm Cooper reported on the future of the Pembroke Society in light of the evolving role of the Development Office over a number of years, and the increasing pressure placed upon the College diary to host events. The recommendations are therefore as follows:i. The College Society elects its President annually at the AGM.ii. The President and committee take full responsibility for planning and executing an annual programme of events including the AGM.iii.The Society’s constitution be amended as necessary to reflect these decisions.It was noted that historically the Society did little more than organise a dinner, AGM and produced the Record (now produced by the Development Office). It was generally agreed that the alumni favoured a dinner in College for nostalgic and logistical reasons and would be loathe to lose its contact with College. The Society Dinner serves to bring together alumni from all years annually whereas the Gaudies and Jubilees concentrate on particular years and are not annual events. The question of partners has been solved by the Reunion Dinner and by other events held by the College, such as the London Dinner. It was agreed that all the above comments were not contrary to the recommendations proposed by the report and it would be possible for the committee

MINUTES OF THE PEMBROKE SOCIETY AGM

At the conclusion of the Gaudy chapel service on 3rd August 2007, some 100 alumni crowded on to the lawn by the Chapel to hear Rev Dr. John Platt (1956), flanked by Bishop Edwin Barnes (1955), the Chaplain Andrew Teal, and the Most Reverend Metropolitan Kallistos Ware (Emeritus Fellow), proclaim a moving prayer of dedication.

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to steer the Society in such a way as to take on board all of the concerns raised. The Society should continue to maintain its close links with the College. It was proposed that recommendation 2 should be altered to read ‘The President and committee take full responsibility for planning and executing a programme of events’ but the members present voted to accept the recommendations as originally proposed. In light of this vote the committee was charged with the alteration of the Constitution to reflect the new recommendations. It was agreed that the Master should remain as President for a short ‘hand-over’ period until a new President is elected.

6. Election of SecretaryThe Society noted the resignation of Jill Walker as Secretary of the Society. James Forde-Johnson was proposed, seconded and elected as Secretary for a period of one year.

7. Election of TreasurerJohn Barlow was re-elected for a further year.

8.Any Other BusinessThe Society recorded its thanks to Jill Walker for her efficient work as Secretary to the Society.

It was agreed that the Committee will meet to decide when the AGM should next be held. This should be held before next September. A vote of thanks was made to the Committee for its work for the Society.

A question was raised about the use to which the Society funds are put. The Treasurer informed the Society that it was mainly used for contingency purposes, for example the purchase of retirement gifts.

YOUR ALUMNI REPRESENTATIVESYear Group Leaders or ‘YGLs’ are alumni volunteers based in the UK who work with the Development Office to keep their peers in touch with College, and vice versa. Their responsibilities range from helping to organize events and activities for members of their year group to acting as fundraising facilitators, in conjunction with the Development Office.

1949 SIR ROBERT CLARKE

1951 JOSEPH GILCHRIST joseph.gilchrist@fipra.com JEREMY FORTY jeremy@jifgrist.org.uk

1952 DAVID PRICHARD prich.thornhill@btinternet.com DICK STOPFORD dickstop@evenley3.freeserve.co.uk

1953 SIR LEONARD PEACH

1954 GOS HOME diana@Gospatric.fsnet.co.uk DAVID SPELLER dspeller@blueyonder.co.uk

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1955 ALAN GRANT alangrant@ukonline.co.uk JULIAN CRISPIN jcrispin4@breathemail.net

1956 GEOFFREY M TAYLOR geoffrey_taylor@btinternet.com GEOFFREY TAYLOR

1957 MALCOLM COOPER mtcm4@waitrose.com DAVID HEATH heathdavid@tiscali.co.uk GEORGE LILLEY drgplilley@yahoo.co.uk

1958 DAVID MITCHELL walpolecottage@telinco.co.uk CONRAD SEAGROATT

1959 CHARLES WOOD charlesawood@btinternet.com

1960 NIGEL BEEVOR dnbeevor@aol.com

1961 MICHAEL PINTO-DUSCHINSKY pintoduschinsky@btopenworld.com

1962 MICHAEL DEWAR mike@oneismore.com

1963 NIGEL JAMES n.t.james@sigmamatrics.co.uk

1966 IAN CORMACK ian.cormack@ctpartners.co.uk IAN TINSLEY ian_tinsley@haygroup.com

1968 PETER FARTHING peter-farthing@btconnect.com PAUL MONK paulmonk1949@yahoo.co.uk

1969 ANDREW CARRUTHERS ajcarruthers@btinternet.com MAURICE HEADON maurice.headon@rwh-tr.nhs.uk

1972 DAVID FELL david@fellinvestments.co.uk KEITH HOWICK kandahowick43@aol.com

1973 ROD BURGESS rod@cantsfield.com

1974 MICHAEL HOCKEN trepolpen@hotmail.com TIMOTHY EVANS tevans@maitlandchambers.com

1975 MARTIN BOWDERY mbowdery@atkinchambers.law.co.uk

1977 JULIAN SCHILD julian.schild@btinternet.com DOLF KOHNHORST dolfjr@kohnhorst.com

1980 MICHAEL WAGSTAFF mwagstaff@vpc.co.uk

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1981 NICK BOWERS nick_bowers@btinternet.com

1982 ROB REES robrees@freestylemarketing.com

1983 CHRIS MACK chris.mack91@ukonline.co.uk DONALD JACKSON ddd@donaldjackson.fsnet.co.uk

1984 ANDREW PITT andrew.pitt@citigroup.com

1986 CLAIRE DAVIES hugh.davies@btinternet.com

1990 JEREMY GOLDRING jeremygoldring@southsquare.com

1991 EDWARD MITCHELL ed.oxford@gmail.com

1992 JAMES SLEEMAN jamessleeman@btopenworld.com

1994 RICHARD HOYLE rhoyle@greenhill-co.com

1995 CARINA BLOOM carina@bloomie.co.uk DAVID BRICKELL david.brickell@alumni.insead.edu

1997 NICK MASON nick@nickmason.org.uk AIMEE HASSELL aimehassell@yahoo.co.uk

1999 MATT CLAYTON-STEAD matthewclaytonstead@hotmail.com HUW EDWARDS hj_edwards@hotmail.com

2001 RYAN McGHEE ryanmcghee21@yahoo.co.uk

2002 KATE ADLINGTON katherineadlington@gmail.com

2003 CATHERINE NEWTON newtoncatherine@googlemail.com

REGIONAL CAPTAINS

In the USA we have a group of Regional Captains who provide a similar point of contact to our YGLs for our American alumni, but arranged on a regional basis across the States.

NEW ENGLAND TOM HERMAN(MA, RI, ME, VT, NH) therman@smithduggan.com

NEW YORK MICHELLE PELUSO(NY,NJ,CT) michelle.peluso@travelocity.com

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NEIL ARNOLD neil@narnold.com

MID ATLANTIC ANDREW MORRIS(DC,PA,MD,VA,DE) amorris@mayerbrownrowe.com

WEST COAST ARASH FARIN(CA) arash@farin.biz RICHARD CHANG rc@attglobal.net

MID WEST BRADLEY PEACOCK(IL,MO,IN,IA,WI,MI) bpeacock@peacocknine.com

SOUTH EAST JAMES BRATTON(GA,FL,AL,MS jbratton@sgrlaw.comTN, NC)

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Obituaries

Herbert John Hedges 1941Donald Wilkinson 1946Henry Horsfall Turner 1950Colin Leonard Beacham 1955Richard Gray Jenkins 1956Harold Paul Maltz 1959Kenneth Thomas Burgoine 1969HRH Prince SulumlomoDlamini 1969David John Keaveny 1977

THE DEATHS OF THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED SINCE THE LAST EDITION OF THE RECORD

Cyril Aidan Oswald Warman 1927Andrew Leslie Morrison 1930Raymond Steward Weightman OBE 1933Charles HenryReginald Hillman 1934Brian Horsfall Heddy 1935Bromley Challenor 1937Hugh Rose 1939John Waddington Fielding 1941George A Jenkin MC 1946Peter Joseph Isola 1947Geoffrey Maurice Batchelor 1948Alan Blyth 1948Anthony Langdon Johnson 1948Jean-Pierre Matossian 1948Graham Terry Page 1950Robert Samuel Woof CBE 1950

THE FOLLOWING OBITUARIES ARE INCLUDED IN THIS EDITION

Geoffrey Cecil Leslie-Smith 1951John Michael Morris 1952David John Wright 1953Roy Sydney Chivers 1954Peter John Prescott 1954Roger Goddard Huband 1956Richard Jenkins 1956John Robin Paul Clarke FRSC 1957Anthony John Woolley 1957John Derek Jones 1958Robert Alan Finch 1959Charles William Parkinson 1959Michael John Troughton 1959Michael William Mills 1963Jepthah David Wandera 1963Stephen John Forsdick 1972

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DAVID ALLEN (1934)1916-2002

On 28th July 1951 Jennifer Arden-Clarke, the daughter of the Governor, celebrated her 21st birthday in the castle at Christiansburg in Accra, West Africa. David and Mary were her guests and this chance acquaintance blossomed. When Mary’s tour of duty ended they decided to make the journey across Africa, from the west coast to the east. The journey took them up the Congo river in the old paddle steamer The Reine Astrid to Stanleyville, overland through the Ituri forest to the Ruwenzori Mountains, which they climbed in tennis shoes. They followed the Semliki river south to Ruanda Urundi and then east to Uganda and Kenya. David took the plane to England and Mary sailed from Mombasa. The day after their engagement was announced David took Mary to Oxford to show her Pembroke College. They were married in the Catholic church in Accra on 17th January 1953.

David was born at the family home Holly Bush in Chislehurst. He was the youngest child of Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs. Vernon Moor Allen. In 1934 David was Head Boy at Bloxham and from there was awarded an Exhibition Scholarship to read History at Pembroke College. After graduating he joined the Devonshire Course which prepared graduates for the Colonial Service. At this time Peter Canham, also from Pembroke, joined the course, and in 1938 they were appointed to the Ashanti District in the Gold Coast. The days of living in the bush (actually rainforest) were to be their most memorable time in the Gold Coast. The war brought a change of emphasis to the role of the D.C. He had to become more of a diplomat, for after the fall of France the Gold Coast was surrounded by Vichy France and German supporters. Coupled with the threat of invasion there was the knowledge that MI5 was ever present. It was deemed advisable to play the courteous approach to the French across the borders. However the war effort still went on. Planes were brought into Takoradi harbour disguised as small engine and machine parts, and they were hidden in the cargo of merchant ships crossing the Atlantic from the U.S.A. They were then reassembled in nearby huts, and flown north to the Western Desert.

In 1947 David was made Senior District Commissioner in charge of Kumasi. At this time Nkrumah had arrived in the country from the U.S.A. With his demands for self government, and with the economy being in a poor state with the war veterans demanding employment, disturbances in towns began to surface. These factors resulted in serious riots in Accra and when Nkrumah stopped in Kumasi on his way to Tamale jail, riots erupted and continued for three days. David addressed the crowd in the market place – maybe because he was a close friend of the Asantehene, or maybe because he spoke Twi and could express himself strongly, the riots never got out of control as they had done in Accra.

A Report of the Commission of Enquiry into the Disturbances in the Gold Coast was published in1948. It was evident that there was not much time before the Gold Coast would make demands for independence. One of the crucial needs was the establishment of Local Councils in all districts. David was given the responsibility of making this effective in Ashanti. This was a very difficult task because tradition had always been that authority should emanate from and through the local chiefs and

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ultimately the Parampount Chief (Asantehene). Compromises were made and Councils were established. Other regions followed this pattern thus easing the way for elections in later years.

There was a happy interlude in 1952 when David was appointed Coronation Secretary. He was told to conduct everything as it had been done for the last coronation: this seemed incredibly dull so he had the idea of inviting a senior operator of Brock’s fireworks to come and light up Ghana. The operator did this in a very spectacular way. A box of fireworks was sent to every small town in Ghana. Bolgatanga lit their box in one go and it blew up in a minute taking the very old baobab tree with it. The hole is still there and meetings are still held around the hole rather than the ancient baobab tree!

In 1954 David was appointed to the new Regional Office in Ho, Togoland, as Assistant Regional Officer under George Sinclair (Pembroke College). Trans-Volta Togoland was Trust Territory. After Nkrumah’s party came to power there was a need to ascertain the wishes of the people in that country. A Regional Council was formed which resulted in a positive result for integration. Here again David’s skills in this area were noted and when the Regional Council was abolished in 1958 a personal letter of thanks was sent to him. From 1955-1960 he was Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, helping to formulate the Ministry of Health’s contribution to the government’s Five Year Development Plan, and orchestrating a recruitment drive to fill the shortage of trained medical personnel following the departure of many Europeans.

Independence came to Ghana on 6th March 1957. At midnight Nkrumah made his famous speech on Freedom and then danced a Highlife on the polo ground with Ghanaians. David and Mary danced too. During the week of celebrations Nkrumah held a dinner to which David and Mary were invited. During his speech he said “All Civil Servants are welcome to stay and work in Ghana not as Civil Masters but as Civil Servants.” David took up his invitation and stayed.

In 1960 David began University life. Roger McMeeking Bursar of the University of York 1980-1996 wrote this tribute: “Many long-serving staff members will have been saddened by the death on 18th March of David Allen, the University’s second Bursar. David came to York in 1965 as second in command to the founding Bursar, Douglas Cannon. When Douglas left later in the year, David Allen was appointed in his place as his strengths had been quickly recognised by members of University Council. Before York, he had served as administrator in the University of Newcastle’s Physics Department.

David was a quiet, mild mannered man, but with a very strong will and the clearest sense of right and wrong. In his new role, he had direct oversight of the massive and unrivalled building programme, which saw York grow from 400 students on his early arrival to nearly 3,000 by the time of his retirement in 1980.

In the short period to 1968, he steered the fledgling institution to physical viability through the establishment of Derwent, Langwith, Vanbrugh, Alcuin and Goodricke Colleges, the completion of laboratories for Chemistry, Physics and Biology and the

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Following a wartime education at Repton School, where we understand that he was better known for his sporting prowess than academic achievement, and National Service in the immediate post war period, Geoffrey went up to Pembroke College to read Law in 1949. After graduation with a degree that belied his reputation at Repton, he joined Chambers as a pupil, and was called to the bar in 1953. He decided not to practice as a barrister, and instead joined Unilever as a trainee. My father’s rendition of the story always suggested that he joined at his own father’s request: Unilever had some years before acquired the eponymous family company, Batchelor’s Foods, and there was some lingering hope that once again a Batchelor would be in charge. In the event, Geoffrey became focused on the detergents side of the business, and rose over the years to the Lever Brothers’ Board and then in 1981 to Head of External Affairs for Unilever PLC, before retiring in 1986. Retirement was to some extent a beginning for him, as he went on to become Director General of the Marketing Society, and then a very successful outplacement counsellor, assisting Senior Managers being made redundant to find new positions. He achieved this largely through his great ability as a communicator, ensuring that subtly he turned the initial anger and despair into determination and hope. Even after formally retiring from this activity in the mid 1990s, Geoffrey continued to mentor informally an increasing number of his friends’ children as they, too, found themselves in difficult positions in the workplace.

Despite his conspicuous business success, the centre point of my father’s life was his family and friends. He married Yvonne in September 1955, and together they had four children, Stephen, Nigel, Martin and Roger. Despite the difficulties of raising four boys and putting them through private school in the high tax 1970s, he was always positive about the future, and ensured that he gave us as much time as was needed and tried his best to encourage us as individuals with our own foibles, however trying

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building of the Library, Central Hall and the Concert Hall. Without exception, each building was brought in on time and on budget. In those days, the Bursar also had the overall responsibility for the finance function, in which David was admirably supported by the First Finance Officer.

David was a leading member of the negotiating body for University non-teaching staff salaries and conditions of service and helped to found the University of York Pension Fund.

But above all, David Allen was a much loved leader of a strong staff. Much of the University’s subsequent success can be attributed to the caring atmosphere and environment in which the Bursary staff members worked together. From 1980, he greatly enjoyed a long retirement with his wife Mary and their four children and grandchildren.

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that might have been at times. We remained a very close family: upon the arrival of grandchildren, he decided that Grandad suggested someone of more advanced years, and insisted on being known as Geoffrey, establishing a fantastic rapport with each of his nine grandchildren. Throughout his life Geoffrey was a keen sportsman, always as a participant rather than spectator: football, tennis, sailing and squash morphed into golf as the years rolled by, and all the while Geoffrey collected friends and acquaintances to add to those he already had. At his funeral in Esher the church was standing room only with people from all aspects of Geoffrey’s life: he was a great father, colleague and friend, and will be missed by us all.

Nigel Batchelor

ALAN GEOFFREY FREDERIC CECIL BLYTH (1948)1927-2007

Alan Blyth was one of a group of young men up at Oxford together in the immediate post-war years who went on to distinguished careers as music critics without having read music: they included Peter Heyworth (Balliol, PPE), David Cairns (Trinity, History), Andrew Porter (Univ, English) and Jeremy Noble (Worcester, Greats). The Music course in those years was more limited in scope than it later became, and still strongly associated with the organ loft; but the Faculty did have, as Heather Professor, Jack Westrup, a Balliol and Greats man but an eminent Purcell scholar and both a pioneering founder of the OU Opera Club in 1925 and reviver of its fortunes in 1947. To the Club, and to Westrup’s lectures, Alan swiftly gravitated when he came up to Pembroke to read History. He was on the committee of the Club in 1950 when Westrup staged the epoch-making production of Berlioz’s Les Troyens in the Town Hall, and the vigorous regrowth of Oxford music among undergraduates in those years left a permanent mark upon him.

He was born in London in 1929, and, after evacuation to America at the outbreak of war, returned in 1943 (on a ship that, to his youthful awe, also brought Sir John and Lady Barbirolli back to these shores). After schooling at Rugby, where he sang tenor in the choir, Pembroke claimed him, to his enduring gratitude and loyalty (he was one of the first to contact me when I joined the Music Faculty in 1984, with a Fellowship that was, to my pleasure and his, extended to include teaching at Pembroke). On going down, he did a few journalistic jobs before finding more regular work in 1963 on The Times under the paternal figure of Frank Howes, the Music Critic. His interest in singers was growing, and in 1967 he became Assistant Editor of Opera, where his tasks included donkey work getting very diverse reports into shape (he was always a stylish writer of English) and contributing reviews of his own. He remained on the editorial board to the end of his life. In the same year he was recruited to review for The Gramophone, again remaining permanently on the panel and taking on such not-insubstantial tasks as the comparative reviewing of records of all Wagner’s operas.

Apart from broadcasting and newspaper journalism, especially as a staff critic for The Daily Telegraph from 1976 to 1989, Alan’s more enduring work, in book form, was almost entirely connected to the voice. Books he edited and to which he contributed included The Enjoyment of Opera (1969), three volumes of Opera on Record (1979,

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1983, 1984), Song on Record (1968 and 1988), Choral Music on Record (1991) and Opera on Video (1996). He also wrote short biographies of Colin Davis (1969) and Janet Baker (1972). His experience as a newspaper interviewer stood him in good stead with these two books; but their success was really based on his warm and friendly nature, and on the knowledge of music which gave him standing in his interviewees’ eyes. Dame Janet remained a lifelong friend, her own warmth of personality matching his, and he was later able to persuade her to come and to talk to the music society he formed at Lavenham in Suffolk.

He moved there permanently in 1991, by when regular newspaper reviewing had perhaps become something of a chore. I think he was also growing disillusioned with the tendency in opera production towards directors imposing their own often irrelevant ideas upon an opera rather than drawing new ideas out of an opera – a deconstructionist approach which, perhaps encouraged by Alan’s deft pen, is only now beginning to fade along with its literary exemplars. In Lavenham, he and his German-born wife Ursula, a deeply devoted companion, formed a music society to which musicians including Sir Charles Mackerras, another personal friend, were happy to go and talk out of their regard for him. Ursula’s long illness and death from cancer in 2000 affected him deeply; and though I saw little of him in latter years, correspondence, telephone and email kept us in touch and revealed a disorientating grief from which he was movingly happy to have been rescued by his second wife, the Buddhist scholar Dr Sue Hamilton.

He embraced Suffolk life, adding, to work for his music society, a position on the committee of the Lavenham Guildhall, a National Trust building. His garden and a well-judged cellar drew his attention. He continued to amass a vast collection of records, which he has bequeathed to the Royal College of Music. Suffolk also brought him into closer contact with Aldeburgh and Benjamin Britten. Alan had been chosen by the tight Aldeburgh inner circle to interview Britten for The Times after complicated heart surgery, knowing that the frail composer, now unconfident of his abilities and ever suspicious of journalists, would not respond readily. Making friends with Britten was always easier than retaining his friendship, but Alan managed both, and was encouraged by him to take the view that ‘criticism should not be one’s whole life.’ He responded, after Britten’s death, with a book Remembering Britten (1981), in which his interviewing skills drew 30 contributors into a composite portrait which has greater depth than some of the earlier more hagiographical accounts.

Alan’s last venture was one he was happy to have seen into print shortly before his own battle with cancer was lost. This was a study of Heddle Nash, a British singer he deeply admired and believed to be underrated. It was not the last thing he wrote: he was still busy with notes for CD albums and record reviews within a week of his death. When I heard that he was very ill we exchanged what we both really knew were farewell letters, and his included a touching expression of gratitude for having lived in a time when the great tradition of music was still held in high regard, and for having been lucky enough to have contributed his part to it.

John Warrack (Fellow in Music at Oxford and former Pembroke Lecturer)

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BROMLEY CHALLENOR (1937)1918-2005

‘In my Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.’

I wonder how many times Bromley heard those words sitting on the organ stool in St Mary Magdalene, Shippon, over the last twenty years – or, indeed, at Besselsleigh, Dry Sandford, Dorchester Abbey to mention but three of the other churches where he played. I am sure there were many others, but Bromley was a very private person and only occasionally talked about his past. In fact, when Christopher and I first came to Shippon six years ago, he said very little to us at all. I thought he was weighing us up. Was he afraid we would introduce too many modern hymns?

I was wrong. We soon realised that his reticence came from the fact that he was afraid that we might be judging him, and that we might just suggest that he should stop playing the organ. As if we would have dared. The congregation would never have forgiven us – and, in any case, we very quickly came to value him not just as an organist, but also for his loyalty, his commitment, his generosity and, above all, as a friend.

Gradually, as he realised that he was in no imminent danger of being sacked, he did begin to tell us stories, often at his own expense, and, often, with considerable indignation. We heard about the policeman who stopped him and asked why he was driving so slowly: ‘I told them I always drive slowly. I like driving slowly.’ About the travel agent who suggested that, just maybe, he was too old to go cross-country skiing anymore. It might be difficult to get insurance: ‘well, I do find it a bit difficult to keep up now.’ It was not always so. As a pupil at Bradfield College, he had been a cross-country running champion.

The many family holidays in the Channel Islands and the South of France when he was a child gave him a great love of travel. In recent years, he has explored Europe by train, flown to Lapland to see Father Christmas, visited Hawaii. The real highlight for him though was always the next visit to his nephew in America. When he was away, he always remembered his friends. He sent them postcards, brought them back boxes of chocolates, and whenever he went to America he searched out new carols for our church choir to sing. Back at home, he always remembered family birthdays, and each year undertook the increasingly demanding, and often meandering journey to Seer Green to be with them at Christmastime. He would take with him the traditional Christmas presents, as well as a homemade chocolate log.

Last Christmas, he arrived on our doorstep with a delicious looking cherry cake. He explained that originally he had missed out some of the ingredients and had had to add them in later. He need not have told us. The result, of course, was excellent. Just like all the cakes made for numerous bazaars, not to mention his legendary pavlovas.

Yes, Bromley was an excellent cook, and he loved cooking for other people – just as he loved making music for them.

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Music was Bromley’s life. It was hoped that he would enter the family firm of solicitors after his law studies at Pembroke College, Oxford, but he knew it was not for him. After the War, when he served in North Africa with the Royal Army Service Corps, he engrossed himself in music. The piano was his first love. When the family home, Waysmeet, was sold, he had a music room built in the garden at Little Garth to house his two grand pianos – his prize possessions (closely followed by his sports car!). He also played the viola – which he claimed he never practised. Formerly a player in the orchestra of the Abingdon Operatic Society, he remained a very loyal and much respected member of the Abingdon and District Musical Society Orchestra. He enjoyed going to concerts and much appreciated it when his neighbour drove him to London to hear a piano concerto at one of the proms.

Bromley knew that his musical talent was a gift from God and he used it to the full and for the benefit of others. He did his best to pass on his love of music to those he taught both privately and at several local schools. He still played regularly for the local Alzheimers Club and for, and with, his friends. But his concern for others went further than his music. After his sister Janet died, he continued to visit her friends taking them strawberries picked from Peachcroft farm, fetched his neighbours newspapers for them and visited anyone he knew who was in hospital.

How much Bromley cared for others is perhaps best summed up by a letter which I understand was sent to the nurses at the John Radcliffe Hospital by an elderly ill friend after he had broken his hip. She wrote, ‘Bromley was a very good man. He was always looking after other people. Now you must be very sure to look after him.’

Caring for others was an essential part of Bromley’s life and it was part of the expression of his deep Christian faith. That so many of you have gathered here this afternoon, some travelling from the USA, France and many parts of this country is, in itself, a tribute to the esteem in which he was held, and to the extent to which his friendship and musicianship were valued.

We will miss him greatly and are all saddened by his death, but Bromley had great faith and it is to God, and to the words of Jesus, that he would want us to turn for comfort.

In the parable of the sheep and the goats, when the king was asked by some when they had seen him hungry and given him food, a stranger and welcomed them, sick and visited them, he replied ‘Truly I say to you, as you did to the least of these my brethren, you did it to me’. In the parable of the Talents, the servants who had made good use of the money their maser had given them were told, ‘Well done good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a little. Enter into the joy of your master.’

There is no doubt in my mind that Bromley made great use of his gift of music and that he served God through serving others. I feel sure that one of those mansions or dwelling places in the Father’s house has long been prepared for him and that he is already playing his part in the eternal song of Heaven. May he rest in peace.

Address given by the Rev. Pauline Seaman

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ROY CHIVERS (1954)1933-2007

Roy began his vigorous association with Pembroke in 1954 where he arrived after doing his National Service as a Pilot Officer, Fighter Controller. From the beginning, he showed huge commitment to, and affection for, the College, never stinting his support or efforts though, perhaps unwisely, giving Mathematics rather a low priority.As might be expected, he played a full role at Owens School, London. There, he both rowed and played cricket for the school, but it was rowing that was to become one of his great passions, and it was through rowing that he was able to make his major contribution to Pembroke. He himself was a very good oarsman, good enough to stroke a Trial Boat in 1956 and to be elected to the Leander Club - but it was for his infectious enthusiasm for the sport that he will be most remembered. He was an inspirational, persuasive Captain of College Boats; not only did he recruit the most unlikely Freshmen from their desks and even their sofas into one of his crews, but he then coached them and drove them to become good oarsmen who enjoyed their sport. As a coach he was generally very patient, but always demanding. I remember his disbelief when a member of a lowly Eight chose to stop rowing in the middle of a strong practice row because he had coughed a set of dentures into the river.

No-one was surprised when Roy returned to coach the First Eight from 1959 to 1962. In 1966, when rowing at College seemed to be faltering, he was invited to return, and was undoubtedly one of those who led to its revival and the development which has produced its present success. He himself returned to rowing in 1995, as a member of a successful Vesta Veteran Four on the Tideway. They won a Veteran event at Marlowe Town Regatta in 1998 by a canvas. He continued to row every week until last September despite a severed Achilles, the result of a skiing accident. He had intended to row in a ‘Wrinklies’ Blues Race’ planned for 2008.

Naturally highly competitive and athletic, he continued his sporting activities after going down. Perhaps unusually for an oarsman, Roy loved cricket. His talents were scarcely exposed in Incompetents matches, but he went on to play more serious games: in 1962 he was chairman of Alcan’s cricket club, played for the team and became Vice President of the Buckinghamshire County Cricket Club in the mid 1980s. Golf and skiing also became important to him but his other great sporting enthusiasm was sailing. Besides the excitement, he particularly enjoyed the technical aspects, particularly navigation, of sailing in foreign waters, especially the eastern Mediterranean and New Zealand. It is a demanding sport and the survival of the boat and crew owed much to his coolness and determination in a particularly ferocious storm off Lyme Bay.

Roy’s enthusiasms were not confined to the sporting world, for he loved his friends, good food in convivial company and, above all, theatre and classical music, particularly opera. It was typical of him that he should set out to master the piano in his late 60s and 70s; it was not long before he was playing quite complex pieces, and this became one of the great pleasures of his later years.

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John Robin Paul Clarke was born on 23rd June 1936, the son of the Rev. W H and Kathleen, in Edgbaston. As son of a Methodist Minister, he became accustomed to moving home every few years. In order to ensure continuity of education, Paul was sent to boarding school, initially at Prior’s Court in Berkshire, and, latterly, to Kingswood School, Bath. Both establishments definitely suited Paul’s temperament. From an early age, he was frequently to be found in the woodworking shop, and the family have many artefacts made by him still in daily use, over half a century later. A sign of things

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technical companies. He took with him those characteristics so effective in developing College rowing: clear mindedness, high standards, and a modest charm that enabled him to disagree without giving offence. He had boundless interest in other people and tackled the most serious of topics with a twinkle in his eye. I remember so often my best-argued ideas and beliefs being felled with his ‘you think so; I hardly agree’ or ‘but surely…’, presented with an unbelieving charm. His realistic self-confidence and ambition enabled him to shift from company to company long before this became common practice. He started on the graduate training scheme with Northern Aluminium, later to become Alcan, before moving successively and successfully into various management roles with Maynards (1964), Hoover (1966) and Smiths Industries (1968) where he was the Senior Manager of the Radiomobile Division. Then he moved to High Wycombe in 1975 to become the Managing Director of Molins. (It was there that he and Gospatrick Home (Pembroke 1954) would unknowingly pass each other on the way to work.) In Norwich, in 1986-1994, he was the Managing Director at Thurne Engineering Company. Finally, he became a Consultant in Executive Recruitment for CJA and served as Chairman of the Norfolk Club.

Throughout his highly active life, Roy was strongly supported by his two wonderful wives. Jean, a girlfriend from school (where she had been Head Girl), will be remembered by many Pembrokians for that sweet, gentle and quiet manner that disguised a real strength of character and restraining influence which were so important to Roy throughout their married life. They made a delightful couple and her death so soon after their Silver Wedding was a major tragedy. At this difficult time, Roy was strongly supported by his friends, and, particularly by his two children, Graham and Helen, and this enabled him to follow Jean’s hope that he would make full use of his remaining life; he was particularly delighted, at the age of 70, to have become a grandfather. Later, he and Caroline were exceedingly fortunate to meet when both were crew on a yacht cruising off the south coast of Turkey. They married and made a successful new life together for twenty years in Norfolk. Once again he was able to build a lively and happy companionship in which they shared travel, skiing, sailing and, especially, music.

Through all his many activities, both at work and play, shone forth his huge enthusiasm and energy, his limitless generosity, humour and kindness, his friendship, warmth, playfulness and loyalty. He lived a very full and productive life.

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to come was his successful attempt to make a camera by melting aluminium on the kitchen stove. After Kingswood, Paul undertook two years of National Service in the Royal Air Force as a wireless fitter.

In 1957, Paul went up to Pembroke to read Chemistry alongside Martyn Berry, David Jones and Hywel Madoc Jones. In Oxford, he met a History undergraduate, Alice Gamblen (St Anne’s 1957) whom he married in August 1961. While Alice began a career in teaching, Paul, as he called himself, was concerned with “Analysis of the formation of n-octenes using Gas Chromatography”; his practical mastery ensured that his doctorate was completed in just 21 months. It was typical of Paul that, during his research, he worked with Mark Whiting, both his D.Phil. supervisor and Dean of Pembroke, to ensure the safety of all the unofficial entrance routes to the College used by undergraduates after the official lock-up time! Having declined the opportunity to pursue a research career in the United States of America, because he would have been unable to take his Mini Cooper S, Paul joined the industrial giant ICI in 1963.

Alice and Paul moved north to Chester, and four years of research followed at ICI’s Petrochemical laboratory in Runcorn. By 1967, Paul had evolved into a Control Engineer, now based in Manchester and working in ICI’s Organics Division at Blackely. Two children arrived shortly afterwards and, by 1979, he was back at Runcorn, the youngest of four ICI Mond Division Engineers, promoted to the status of Division Research Associate.

Two stories from this phase of his life provide insight into his nature. One Friday evening, Paul arrived home concerned by the suggestion that workers were being poisoned by vinyl chloride. The family saw little of him that weekend but, by Monday morning, ICI had a prototype personal vinyl chloride meter and disaster had been avoided. On a different occasion, Paul was required to tell some of his younger colleagues their services were no longer required. Paul drew on his contacts to ensure that these men, several with young families, all had a job to move on to.

At the peak of his powers, Paul was renowned for bridging the gap between the needs of industry and the expertise of universities. With his enthusiasm for research collaboration and ability to network, he was able to make alliances with the best partners to deliver strategic research projects both in this country and the rest of the European Union. He was the inventor of the Draeger® tube for gas sensing. Paul held the learned societies in high regard and, as Fellow of both the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of Measurement and Control (IMC), he remained a highly effective committee man until his final illness was well advanced. Paul’s reputation for scholarship and far-sightedness had spread far beyond ICI and, by 1985, he held a visiting chair at the Department of Instrumentation and Analytical Science at UMIST. In the same year, he received the IMC’s Alec Hough Grassby Award.

In the final years of his working life, Paul remained productive, co-authoring “Sampling Systems for Process Analysis” with Ken Carr-Brion, as well as many articles. He relished his role as an academic and was always conscientious without fault when faced with an undergraduate degree course which required accreditation or simply a postgraduate’s M.Sc. Viva. He was also a long-term consultant to four government

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John, the only child of elderly parents, was brought up in a closely-knit and supportive community in Great Harwood. He attended the local council school and went to chapel on Sundays. He did well at school and won a scholarship to Clitheroe Royal Grammar School. After gaining his School Certificate and Matriculation, he opted for Main French along with Main Mathematics, Subsidiary English and Subsidiary Physics for Higher School Certificate. At this time he also started to learn German at night school. On the basis of passing all the HSC exams, he was offered a place at Pembroke College Oxford, to read French. In spite of financial difficulties in the past, John’s parents were now able to commit themselves to the full cost of a three-year course. When he returned to Oxford after the war all his fees and maintenance were paid for by the Government.

During his early childhood John had developed a passion for sport. He followed Great Harwood Football Team from a very early age and soon moved on to support Blackburn Rovers. He also played cricket for Clitheroe Grammar School. It was while he was at Clitheroe Grammar School that he developed an interest in amateur dramatics, appearing in their production of J.B. Priestley’s “When We Are Married.” He also began to take an interest in politics and, although his parents were Liberal supporters, John was already moving towards a more left wing approach to politics.

John’s first year at Oxford was not a particularly happy one. The lifestyle was alien and, with the prospect of having to join up to go to war, he was never very settled. At 19, John joined the Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment. He was sent to the Officer Training Unit at Heysham but, as he did not take the army very seriously, he was soon thrown out of OCTU. John’s war experiences were varied and interesting. He took the

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departments and the European Community.

Away from his professional life, he was a widely acknowledged expert on Leica® cameras and lenses. A long tem personal research project resulted in the publication of a monograph concerned with resolution characteristics of lenses in the Leica catalogue. He was a member of Circle 14 and Circle 16 of the Leica Postal Portfolio Group for over 40 years, and achieved the unusual distinction of winning the Posford Tankard four times in four different decades.

By 1999, he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. The last years were undoubtedly uncomfortable, although there was some compensation in the arrival of three grandchildren in three years. Those who met Paul for the first time in his later years were quick to comment on his dignity and personal courage. Mention should be made of Alice, who cared for Paul throughout his extended illness. Her unceasing support speaks volumes about her love for Paul. No wife could have done more and the family is very, very grateful for her sustained efforts for him. He died in Rutland Memorial Hospital in the early hours of 30th January 2007.

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opportunity to learn and develop other languages, namely Italian and German. He served in Egypt as a Desert Rat. He landed in Italy and perfected his Italian. When he returned to England in 1944 he decided to brush up his German. He landed in Normandy on 8th June 1944 and was wounded at Villers Bocage. He was sent back to the front line and then moved with the liberating forces through Belgium and Holland and thence into Germany. This was when life took a major turn for the better. His French teacher from Clitheroe Grammar School, who was an officer in the Intelligence Corps, arranged an interview for him. This resulted in his being transferred to the Intelligence Corps of the Army of Occupation in Hanover. He spent a wonderful two years here brushing up his German, gaining a German girl friend and learning to drive!

John returned to Oxford for the Trinity Term 1947. He soon met and palled up with his lifelong friend Ewart Taylor, who was reading Greats at Pembroke College. By this time John was a dedicated member of the Labour Party and the OU Labour Club. John, as intended, changed his degree course from French to French and German, French remaining the major subject. John was a very active member of the College. He represented the College playing football and captained the College cricket team. He also played chess for the College. On 22nd October 1949, John met his future wife, Bridget Fielding, at the Labour Club Social, which was held at the Arlosh Hall in Mansfield College.

John took his finals in the Michaelmas Term 1949 and got a Second Class degree in Modern Languages. He returned in the Hilary Term to study for his Postgraduate Teacher Training Certificate and stayed on during the Trinity Term. John became engaged to Bridget at the Pembroke Eights Week Ball on 24th May 1950. He did his teaching practice at Blackburn Grammar School during the Michaelmas Term 1950. After completing and passing his postgraduate year, John got a job as head of German at Retford Grammar School. He was also in charge of junior boys’ cricket and football. Whilst living in Retford, John joined the Retford Amateur Dramatic Society and took leading parts in several of their productions. During this time he also embarked on a course of study with a correspondence college, aiming at possibly taking a degree in Mathematics. However, he did not take this any further than London University Intermediate level, gaining a Distinction in both Pure Mathematics and Applied Mathematics. He took these exams after he had left Retford and was teaching at Millfield School in Street, Somerset.

R.J.O.Meyer, the headmaster of Millfield School, instigated the move to Millfield. He offered a job to John’s fiancée, Bridget, on the hockey pitch when he was impressed by the performance of the OUWHC. He then invited them both for interview and offered them both jobs. They started working in Somerset in the Autumn of 1953. They bought their first car and were able to tour the South West, camping at places like Westward Ho and Lulworth Cove. They were season-ticket holders at the Bristol Old Vic and members of the Street Players, where John once again took leading parts. However, John felt unsettled and insecure teaching in a private establishment. He had also made up his mind that he wanted to work in educational administration. He made a successful application for the post of Assistant Education Officer for Middlesbrough Education Committee and started work there on 1st January 1957.

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Today’s memorial service marks the passing of a man who was intellectually curious, generous, kind, humorous, enthusiastic, well-read, self-deprecating, diffident, occasionally infuriating and, undoubtedly, eccentric.

My first meeting with Bob was in a wash-room in Pembroke College, Oxford, during the late summer of 1959. We were both there to sit university preliminary examinations,

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John loved the work and two of his sons were born during this time, Richard in July 1957, and Andrew in September 1959. However, John had other ideas in mind. He wanted to be nearer his beloved Lancashire; nearer his ageing parents; nearer his favourite football team Blackburn Rovers; and he wanted to be his own boss. He had set his heart on becoming a Divisional Education Officer in Lancashire. He had made a couple of applications before he landed the job as Lancashire Divisional Education Officer for Division 13. He took up this post in September 1960. This was what he had always wanted, and he loved his work. He was fortunate in that they also managed to buy a house almost opposite his office so that he achieved another ambition, being able to walk to work!

John was a born entertainer. He had a fantastic memory and had various monologues in his repertoire, which he would recite whenever he was given a chance. He was also a mimic, and, on one occasion, entertained the gathered Divisional Officers from Lancashire with a welcome from a “representative Mayor” that he had conjured up from all his memories of Mayoral welcomes at conferences! This went down very well.

In 1967 their third son Michael was born. John’s mother had died in 1961 so John had been collecting his father to stay at weekends. It was quite a responsibility, and, in November 1967, he moved his father to stay with the family in Wigan. His father became increasingly frail and in July 1968 he died. The period following this was a time of change, with local government reorganisation and the amalgamation of several Lancashire Divisions into the new Wigan Authority. John’s post with the Lancashire County Council disappeared, and he had to apply for a post in the new Wigan Authority. He got one of the posts as Assistant Director of Education but was never happy. When he was offered early retirement in 1983 he jumped at it. John was never bored and spent much of his time after he retired playing chess on a computerised chessboard, listening to music, reading T.S. Elliot and still doing various types of puzzles. He and Bridget did quite a bit of walking in the Lake District and went on various organised walking holidays in England, Scotland and Germany.

He was a good man, honest and hard working, gifted at Languages, Music and Mathematics. He was also very well read and knowledgeable about World Affairs. His political beliefs did change, but he always reminded Bridget to vote so they cancelled each other’s votes out!

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prior to starting our first term as undergraduates, he in Botany, and I in Chemistry. Bob immediately impressed me; it was just after lunch and he was cleaning his teeth. Now I was aware of people who brushed their teeth twice a day, but I reasoned that a three-times-a-day man was surely someone exceptional; and so it proved.

For Bob, Botany was an obvious subject to study. He had grown up in a home where an interest in Natural History was enjoyed and shared; he was also fortunate in being taught at Hastings Grammar School by a biology teacher who encouraged his interest in the plant world, and, in particular, his fascination with the bryophytes - mosses and liverworts to us laymen. Bob was lucky too in Oxford, as he found himself in a first year class of just a handful of students, in a small but friendly department. Amongst his tutors was Dr H. E. F. Warburg, an expert on plant identification and co-author of the standard work on the British Flora. In addition, HEF had a special interest in the bryophytes, and was always ready to share his expertise with his students.

To Bob, mosses were not just an interest, they were an enduring passion. Throughout his life he enjoyed the challenge of identifying them, he enjoyed finding them in new places, he enjoyed their microscopic beauty, he enjoyed photographing them and he enjoyed sharing these pleasures with his friends. As a bryologist he was painstaking and thorough, and it was fitting that he should discover two mosses which were new to Britain, a major accomplishment and a great delight to him. Occasionally he would feel guilty about spending so much spare time on his mosses. He would say that there were surely more important things in life than mosses and that he should be out there saving the world. Fortunately, the pangs of guilt were largely suppressed and he made his contribution to saving the world through being the man he was.

Of course, bryology wasn’t Bob’s only interest. He had a good knowledge of wild plants, astronomy, birds and butterflies; in the words of the passage which Kirsty has just read us, ‘all these he had learnt.’ Partly for this reason, he was a good companion on walks, although as friend, Bill, observed, it did make for very slow progress!

As a gardener, however, Bob was useless. He was the last person to approach if you wanted cultural information on garden plants. He adopted the ‘wilderness approach’ to gardening; to him, a garden was a space in which the growth of wild plants should be encouraged. Nothing would please him more than to discover the presence of some unexpected, insignificant weed growing smack-bang in the middle of his lawn. It would be carefully cordoned off, and all future visitors would be treated to a viewing, with an enthusiastic invitation to, “come and have a look at this little chap.” He told me with much satisfaction recently that there were over 50 species of moss and liverwort growing wild in his garden. I could believe it!

I think that it was the qualities of curiosity, enthusiasm and generosity which so endeared Bob to those who knew him. Jessica has shown me some of the letters of condolence which she has received, and they all tell the same story. Whether it was showing ladybirds to a toddler down the road, or plant-hunting with an 80 year old in Ireland, he managed to do it in a kindly, helpful manner, free of all pomposity. One of Bob’s neighbours wrote that “Robert’s magnifying glass was his constant companion and his ability to get down on his hands and knees and grub about in the vegetation

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with great delight was so refreshing.” Another wrote that “he used his wide knowledge of plants to help others enjoy them.”

Something I particularly relished about Bob was his undergraduate sense of humour, which happily never left him. He was an awful lot of fun and always a pleasure to be with. He never took himself too seriously, and was quite prepared to tell stories against himself. One of his eccentricities lay in the way he ate his food. Most people, on being presented with a plate of meat, potatoes and peas will sample the three alternately. But not Bob. For some reason, Bob first ate all of one item, then all of the second, concluding with all of the third. He claimed that when he had worked in the Plant Breeding Institute at Trumpington, colleagues in the works canteen used to lay bets on which item he would start eating first.

Several friends and neighbours have commented on the kindliness of Bob’s nature, and of his inability “to ascribe a bad motive to even the most blatant sinner.” Nor was he the sort to take pleasure in the misfortunes of others; Schadenfreude, as he would have called it. Schadenfreude - what a good word! Bob enjoyed words, their use, misuse and their origins. He was a meticulous proof-reader for a botanical journal, and I can imagine him scrutinising today’s Order of Service for typing errors and for misplaced apostrophes. I can also imagine him challenging me to somehow work the word Schadenfreude into today’s Tribute. Had he chosen ‘Manchester United’ or ‘Pink Floyd’ I would have had a severe problem, as these were subjects about which he knew nothing and cared even less. It was the natural world, literature, his Christian faith and his family and friends which occupied him most. He enjoyed the company of his friends, and was, himself, a good friend, ready to give sensible advice when asked or to diffidently proffer it unasked when it was needed.

After obtaining his doctorate in Oxford, Bob had a year as a temporary lecturer in Newcastle. I recently found a letter he wrote to me in 1966, during that period. He was not happy in his work there and wrote, “I spend so much time struggling with the preparation of intellectual matter which is increasingly failing to satisfy me as a career. Do you think it is a criminal waste of my education to consider getting out of Science, Botany’s courtesy classification? Perhaps I just need a good woman to straighten me out.” Well we know that he did find a good woman, but not until after he had come to work in Cambridge. He had decided to move into Applied Botany and came to work on barley at the Plant Breeding Institute. To break up his dull bachelor weekends, he took to driving over to friends in the Kettering area, always somehow arriving just before Sunday lunch. These visits continued for some months until they stopped abruptly, without explanation. Some time later, they resumed but now there were two visitors. The hiatus was now explained – Jessica had arrived on Bob’s scene!

It has always been a pleasure to have Bob and Jessica visit us in Yorkshire. It has to be said that the Finches don’t travel light, and their car would arrive full of essential equipment for a week-end in the country: one microscope, two quite often, sound-recording equipment, spy-glass, gumboots and a library of reference books. Sometimes they failed to arrive at the time expected, but they were rarely more than an hour or two late. It was difficult to be cross with Bob for long, as he was always profuse in his apologies and always had an excellent reason for the delay in setting off; on one

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occasion it was an urgent need to take some refuse to the tip. But the visits were always interesting and fun. They always involved some trip to a mossing area. Bill reminded me of one expedition that took place many years ago when Bill himself was also visiting us. It involved a 50 mile each-way dash to the Winnats Pass in Derbyshire, to re-find a moss that Bob had found the year before. But it was the dead of winter, and everything was under 6 inches of snow. Bill and I were convinced that we would be lucky to find the Winnats Pass, let alone the moss. But we went, and, sure enough, Bob led us to the spot, dug down through the snow and found the moss.

Bob’s last mossing expedition in Yorkshire took place last April. Again, he wanted to check out some finds he had made previously in a gritstone gully a couple of miles from where Stella and I live. It was a dreadful day with a howling gale blowing ice-cold rain horizontally across the hillside. There stood Bob on a 45° slope, wearing sou’wester and long coat, satchel over his shoulder, a crutch under one arm, holding in his hands collecting bags and a GPS positioning instrument, and with a look of anticipation on his face. There I stood, stone cold, desperately hoping that Bob would quickly find what he was looking for so that we could cut along home. But Bob was absolutely in his element, and I could tell by the mutterings of approval which came from his direction that it was proving to be a very successful expedition. That trip said everything about Bob’s determination to carry on his life as normally as possible even when his illness was well advanced. I never heard him complain once about his misfortune. Indeed, during his last few days at the Arthur Rank House, he was still recording the birds he could see from the ward window, and was still showing a genuine concern for the well-being of his family and friends.

In conclusion, I would like to read from a letter to Jessica from one of Bob’s mossing friends. I think it beautifully sums up the man whose life we are celebrating today.

“When I came to co-lead the mossing excursions, I knew Bob could be relied on to take any newcomers under his wing, and to show them the commoner mosses, explaining how to identify them with great clarity and patience. He had a gift of making a difficult subject seem quite manageable. Many people, some of them very different to Bob in upbringing and temperament, became extremely fond of him, admiring his consideration, expertise, and great modesty. We have already missed Bob’s presence on our excursions, and it’s hard to come to terms with the fact that he’ll no longer be with us. The values of politeness, consideration and disinterested pursuit of knowledge which he represented sometimes seemed to be a reminder of an older, more decent world - one which Bob had the courage to stick with throughout his life.”

A remarkable man.

A tribute given by Richard Southam at a Service of Thanksgiving, at St John’s Church, Hills Road, Cambridge, on 5th January 2007

One of Bob’s students, Chris Preston wrote his Obituary for the Journal of Bryology:Bob could sometimes appear to be ineffectual and muddled, and he did nothing to try to counter this impression, often describing himself in later life as ‘useless’ or

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STEPHEN FORSDICK (1972)1954-2006

Stephen Forsdick arrived to study medicine at Pembroke in 1972, after his schooling at Radley. Although his arrival was a means to an end in developing a career, his time at Pembroke had a profound effect on the undergraduate who, until then, was quiet and somewhat shy. A new world opened up to him as, balancing the demands of study, he found the time to enjoy the freedom of College life and, more importantly, the forging of bonds of friendship with his contemporaries. He was Captain of Boats and many of these friendships, often centred around the camaraderie of the Boat Club, continued up until he died, on Christmas Eve 2006, after a short illness. His funeral on January 8th, in St Austell, Cornwall, was attended by many who were at Pembroke with him, including many of his friends in the legendary Quilting Society.

He took to Medicine with great passion, not surprisingly, given his father was a GP and mother a physiotherapist. Success after graduation took him on to Guy’s Hospital in London, where both his parents had trained. He completed his own training there and also met Dorianne Owen, a Nursing Officer and his future wife.

‘a broken reed.’ It was all too easy to be taken in by this and to overlook his real contributions to bryology. As a bryologist, Bob was extraordinarily meticulous, taking nothing for granted. He was an all-round botanist. Bob was not really eccentric, but like many bryologists, he perhaps lived in the broad borderland between normality and eccentricity. His manner was so close to that of the stereotypical well-meaning clergyman that Robin Stevenson christened him ‘The Reverend’, a nickname that stuck. All his friends will have their favourite Bob stories. Bill Meek remembers him lying full length on a church path to examine a moss, blocking the way of a couple heading towards the building. When he eventually realised that they were waiting to pass, he apologised with the words ‘Don’t worry about me, I am of course completely mad.’ Bob had little affection for the modern world and looked back nostalgically to an age in which knowledge was pursued for its own sake, before modern scientific management with its targets, deadlines and citation metrics. Bob must have needed some courage to stick to his values in changing times but he did so, treading the path he chose quietly and without rancour. He might regret that relatively few joined him but he was not a ‘grumpy old man’ and would never dream of lecturing or preaching to others.

Despite failing health Bob retained his almost boyish enthusiasm for bryophytes until his death. The last time I visited him at his 1930s house in Cambridge he showed me around his garden, though he was, by then, walking on crutches, and handed me the list of bryophytes he had recorded there since 2000. The list amounted to 54 species (most of them checked microscopically), a remarkable total, considering that fewer than 250 species have been recorded from the entire country in this period. A few weeks later he discovered an extra species, Syntrichia papillosa, growing as a single stem but in the garden of a neighbour, to Bob’s mock-annoyance. We will miss him on our excursions, but will remember him with affection over the coming years as we swap ‘Bob stories.’

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The move into General Practice was achieved when Stephen and Dorianne transferred to Plymouth and he joined a local practice there. The country life definitely suited them and there soon followed a position in a practice in St Austell, which he held for 23 years. His passion for medicine never faded and his professional colleagues remark that his standards were of the highest, approaching diagnosis and treatment meticulously. He devoted considerable time as an accredited trainer for up and coming GPs and gained a Post Graduate Certificate in Education. He also viewed alternative medicine, such as acupuncture, as a valuable complement to the traditional. Stephen never gave up learning.

As well as holding appointments in various Occupational Health establishments, including with the Devon and Cornwall Police Force, his deep interest in community medicine took him on working trips to Kenya and, more recently, Australia. Here he savoured the experiences and challenges of being a locum in remote areas, such as Bourke and Broken Hill and other outback towns. It’s not always easy for an Englishman to be accepted quickly in such places, but his good work and inclusive nature overcame any hurdles. The experience was sufficiently rewarding that Stephen planned to return for a longer period prior to retirement.

Outside medicine, Stephen was an active participant in his local community, a member of the Round Table for many years and of the 41 Club. A devout Christian, he also found time to reach the dizzy heights of deputy church warden at his parish church, Holy Trinity in St Austell. Even with all these local and international interests, throughout his life Stephen maintained his strong links with Pembroke and the friends he had made there. There were regular reunions and Henley Regatta was never missed, with his long time membership of Leander. The family house in Corfu, a place Stephen dearly loved, having spent many summers there as a child, was also a frequent meeting place.

Stephen and Dorianne had a rich family life too, bringing up two daughters, Clare and Samantha, along with a menagerie of animals, ranging from horses to bees. Ever the consummate hosts for many social gatherings, the nostalgia for undergraduate days would see Stephen hosting the occasional croquet afternoon there, turned out in blazer and boater, dispensing Pimms.

Stephen had a sharp sense of humour, balanced with an often serious outlook. General practice was his forte and he held strong views on what it took to be a true family doctor. Many of his patients became good friends and some of his good friends even patients, but he was professional enough to keep them in separate compartments.

His energy and a gregarious, generous nature meant he connected with many people from all walks of life. His early passing has sadly taken from many a man with a zest for life and an unwavering belief in the strength of the human spirit.

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BRIAN HEDDY (1935)1916-2007

Brian was the only child of William Reginald Heddy, whose combined medical and legal qualifications fitted him for the post of HM Coroner of the London Eastern District, and Ruby, nee Norton-Taylor.

Brian spent the main part of his childhood and adolescence in South West London, in Richmond and East Sheen. He was educated at Colet Court and St Paul’s School, where he was a Foundation Scholar. Brian noted in his memoirs: “I was very proud to wear on a watch chain the little silver fish, which was given to each of the 153 Foundation Scholars – the number of the miraculous catch mentioned by St John (Ch 21 v. 11).”

Youthful trips with his parents in Belgium, France and Switzerland sowed the seeds of a lasting interest in European cultures. Also during this time, Brian developed an abiding interest in, and knowledge of, cricket. He later became an MCC life member, and, in retirement, one of his favourite outings from Somerset was to go up to Lords for a good day’s play.

After obtaining a classical scholarship to Pembroke College, Oxford, Brian spent a few weeks in Munich, where he observed the chilling rising tide of Fascism and anti-Semitism. At Oxford, his classical studies were interrupted by illness, and he went to convalesce for a spell in South Africa. His time there engendered a lifelong love of that country, and suitably enough, he concluded his career with a posting to this country as HM Consul-General in Durban.

On his return to Oxford he completed his degree course. During his time in Oxford Brian developed a relationship with Barbara, whom he married in 1940. Brian spent the first part of the War in the Royal Artillery, and, as part of the British Expeditionary Force, was evacuated in the aftermath of Dunkirk. Later, he was recruited to Special Operations Executive (SOE), and went to West Africa (Sierra Leone and Ghana). He found the mood and atmosphere of those times later perfectly evoked in Graham Greene’s “The Heart of the Matter.” On returning to Europe, Brian worked first at the Special Operations Executive Baker Street HQ, and later, after the Allied Invasion, in Paris, where he arrived two days after its liberation. In the period immediately after the War, Brian was engaged in writing up the official War Diary section dealing with SOE operations in Southern France.

On demobilisation, Brian was one of 20 successful candidates for the first Foreign Office intake since 1939, and was, in 1946, posted to Brussels. The first posting was followed by postings in Denver, Tel Aviv, Luxembourg, with the European Coal & Steel Community (forerunner of the EEC/EU), Lourenco Marques (Maputo) and, finally, to Durban. Between postings, Brian was in London, where he and the family lived mainly in what is now the RBCK. Of all his postings, Brian rated Denver and Durban as being the most enjoyable. He wrote vividly of the climates, geography, flora and fauna of these landscapes, and it is clear that he felt particularly energised in these two very different settings. After the death of Barbara in 1965, he re-married (Ruth

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Mackarness), but was sadly again bereaved in 1967. In 1969, he married Clare, with whom he lived happily for 37 years.

On retirement in 1976, Brian and Clare decided to live near Chard in Somerset. For three years, Brian spent four days a week working with the British Council for Aid to Refugees as Chief Resettlement Officer at Sopley in Hampshire, helping Vietnamese “Boat People” to integrate in the local community while they learnt new skills, and it was work which he took to with gusto. He was full of admiration for these people with their determination, ingenuity and adaptability. Brian rejoiced in this work, which allowed him to use his skills and professional experience for the benefit of others. This seemed to give him an added dimension, in terms of compassion, humour and zest for life.

After retiring from this activity, Brian and Clare continued to enjoy their house and garden, made many trips abroad, received visitors and family members, and generally enjoyed their retirement to the full. Brian was eternally fascinated by the history of people and places, and this led him with Clare on many happy cultural quests over the years. Brian maintained many firm friendships around the world over time and distance, but, living to the age he did, meant that most of his friends pre-deceased him.

Nevertheless, he was interested in the lives of the younger family generations, and wanted to keep up with what they were doing and how they were getting along in their lives. He had eight grandchildren and five great grandchildren. In 1999, Brian and Clare moved to Sherborne, Dorset, where they enjoyed a different kind of garden and a comfortable home, right up to Brian’s death. Always a voracious reader, Brian spent much time delving into historical and political memoirs, and, latterly, into contemporary fiction. His tastes were nothing if not catholic, in the universal sense, and he was particularly attuned to Graham “Greeneland.”

Brian had a winning self-deprecatory humour and there was nothing he enjoyed more than a bit of light teasing, and as he grew older he seemed, more than ever, to value a good laugh. He loved a “bon mot” and repartee. All the sadder it was then, and very frustrating for him, that latterly he could not get the words out – or not in the order he would have wished. He is remembered by family and friends for his passion to communicate.

When death approached, Brian was as sanguine about the whole affair as anyone could be, urging “not too much fuss, old boy.” He meticulously planned his own funeral service some years before he died. The service was held in Sherborne Abbey with stone tracery fanning out over his coffin in the Quire (sic) which perfectly overarched his life.

Funeral oration by his brother.

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CHARLES HENRY REGINALD ‘REX’ HILLMAN (1934)1915-2007

Charles Henry Reginald Hillman, known as Rex, was a man of charm, and an amusing raconteur who was much loved by his many friends. Trees were a major focus in his life and he became widely respected within the world of forestry. He greatly loved his secluded woodland home in East Sussex where he lived for 47 years until his death aged 91.

Born in Tunbridge Wells on 9th July 1915, he was educated in Tunbridge Wells at Rose Hill Preparatory School and then at St George’s School where he became School Librarian and Senior Prefect. He also represented the school at both cricket and football, although in later years tennis became his favourite sport.

As a boy Rex regularly travelled to Europe with his parents and he developed an interest in languages, becoming fluent in Swedish and French and with a good knowledge of German, Danish and Norwegian. Rex’s father was a man with many interests but his main role was that of Managing Director of Baltic Saw Mills and it was this that probably stimulated Rex’s love for trees.

Rex went up to Pembroke College in 1934 for what proved to be some of the happiest years of his life. The friendships he made with his fellow students Brian Kirk-Duncan, O’Brien Hamilton, and Wimburn Horlock were lifelong and they were all saddened that in 2006 none of them were well enough to attend each other’s ninetieth birthday parties. Rex made the most of his time in Oxford, enjoying the social life as well as succeeding in his studies. After receiving a BA [Pass Degree in French, Economics and Law] in 1937, he went on to the Oxford University School of Forestry where two years later he was awarded a Diploma for his thesis on “The Structure and Organisation of the Timber Trade in Great Britain”, based partly on work experience gained at William Brown & Co Ltd of Ipswich. In 1941 he received a Master of Arts degree.

At the outbreak of war, Rex enlisted in the Army as a volunteer but was later discharged because of diabetes. Instead he served in the Home Guard before being seconded to Forest Protection Duties. He gained forestry experience at Dartington Hall in South Devon and then became a District Officer for the Forestry Commission in first the South-West and then the South-East Conservancies. For five years from 1952 Rex was employed as an information officer in the library at the Forestry Commission Research Station in Farnham, Surrey and then undertook consultancy work on behalf of both the Commission and the Swedish Forestry Research Institute, specialising in translating and abstracting technical articles in the Scandinavian languages.

In 1964 Rex took up the challenge of teaching forestry at Claverham County Secondary School in Battle, East Sussex. This proved successful and the role expanded to also take in schools in Robertsbridge and Bexhill, but in 1971 he accepted a full-time appointment with Kent County Council as a Trees and Woodland Officer advising on planting schemes and arboriculture. Prior to his retirement in 1980, his role expanded to include forest policy, tree preservation orders and compensation claims.

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Throughout his career Rex was also heavily involved in voluntary committee work for both the Forestry Commission and the Royal Forestry Society. In 1946 he was appointed the Honorary Secretary of the Kent Branch of the RFS. He visited Sweden and Denmark on a number of occasions and in 1949 represented the Society as a member of the UK delegation at the Third World Forestry Congress in Finland. In 1962 Rex was appointed Honorary Secretary of the RFS South East Division and later represented the Society as a member of the South-Eastern Regional Advisory Committee of the Forestry Commission. He became a well known figure at the Kent County Agricultural Show where he was in charge of the Society’s exhibit for many years and was also appointed a Forestry Steward for the Show. In 1990 he was elected Committee Chairman of the RFS South-East Division. Rex’s keen interest in arboriculture also led to his appointment as an ex-officio member of the Bedgebury Pinetum Committee.

Rex made many friends in his forestry career just as he had done at Pembroke College and, although he never married, he also held long and treasured friendships with several ladies who were very dear to him. His sister, Doris, also never married and they made their lives together, moving in 1960 from the old family home in Tunbridge Wells to the village of Cowbeech in East Sussex. Quorn Lodge became a major love of his life, outdoing even his father’s Model T Ford which he kept for so many years. He so enjoyed the woodland, orchard, trees and birds in the garden.

Rex loved music and particularly enjoyed the dance music of the 1930s and 40s. He was an excellent dancer and a big fan of Glenn Miller. Even during his last year when bed-ridden, he would sometimes entertain his visitors with a rendition of “Chatanooga-Choo, won’t you choo-choo me home.”

Throughout his life Rex was strong in his Christian faith nurtured in the Baptist Church, in Crusaders, and with his friends at Oxford, and latterly leading to his election as Church Warden of All Saints, Herstmonceux. He was a man worthy of respect. A man of great determination, of dignity and of faith. He died peacefully at home on 31st January 2007.

Douglas Bird (Nephew)

ROGER HUBAND (1956) 1935-2007

The death of Roger Huband has occurred recently, following a heart attack at the age of seventy one.

Roger came to Pembroke from Warwick School as an Exhibitioner in English, after National Service as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. As well as being an entertaining and witty conversationalist, he will also be remembered by his contemporaries for his contributions to College life as a cricketer and oarsman.

He was the first of a trio of family members to attend Pembroke: the others being his younger brother Paul (Zoology, 1958) and his niece Sue Fullilove (Medicine, 1984).

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PETER JOSEPH ISOLA (1947)1929-2006

Peter Isola was one of the key figures in Gibraltar Politics in the period of troubles with Spain, which culminated with the border closure in 1969. Peter Joseph Isola, the son of Albert Isola QC, was born in Gibraltar in 1929, and was educated at Stonyhurst and Pembroke College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1952, and went on to become one of Gibraltar’s leading litigation lawyers and to head the family firm, Isola & Isola.

Conservative in his politics, and Roman Catholic in his faith, Isola believed passionately in Gibraltar retaining close links with Britain. His ambition to be the Rock’s Chief Minister was thwarted by events, and by his rivalry with the late Sir Joshua Hassan QC, who dominated politics for four decades. First elected to the then Legislative Assembly as an independent candidate in 1956, he served in the local parliament, the House of Assembly, until 1983. He served two terms as Leader of the Opposition, once as an independent, and once as Leader of the Democratic Party of British Gibraltar. He was also Minister of Education for four years.

At the height of the problems with Spain in 1965, a coalition Government was formed and, being Leader of the Opposition, he became Deputy Chief Minister, with Hassan as Chief Minister. The two politicians set their rivalry aside, and appeared five times

Following graduation, Roger joined an overland Land Rover expedition to Singapore and from there moved on to Hong Kong to take up a teaching post. It was in Hong Kong that he met his future wife Susanne. When they returned to England, Roger joined an innovative team at Land Rover which was exploring the then-new application of computer technology to the motor industry – an occupation well suited to his extremely logical and methodical mind. He was particularly involved in the development and implementation of computerised stock control systems and in the training of distributor networks in their use; an operation that eventually contributed to the formation of Unipart and other similar parts-distribution networks.

Subsequently, he spent the remainder of his working life in various consultancies, devising and implementing training schemes for the motor industry and for such clients as the National Health Service and Educational Authorities.

Roger had abiding interests in sailing, walking and in history; and had an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of church and domestic architecture as well as many other aspects of the “built environment” and its related topography. At the time of his death he was working on a detailed study of the ecclesiastical history of the associated parishes of Wootton Wawen and Bearley in Warwickshire, and their link to University “gift” and patronage (St John’s College, Cambridge).

Roger is survived by his two children Marcus and Harriet.

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before the UN on Gibraltar’s behalf to resist demands to integrate Gibraltar into Spain. In 1969 he led the Isola Group at the general election, which would align with the IWBP (Integration with Britain Party) to form a Government under Gibraltar’s then-new Constitution.

Keen-witted and charming, Isola was popular as a politician and as a litigator, and he made Isola & Isola one of the leading local firms. On leaving Parliament, he remained a leading former of public opinion, regularly consulted by citizens as he strolled down Main Street to work each day. More recently, he was invited by the Chief Minister, Peter Caruana, to join the Gibraltar delegation in constitutional reform talks with Britain. He married Rose Bellotti in 1956, and is survived by her, their three sons and a daughter. Peter Isola QC, was born on 20th March 1929. He died on 28th January 2006 aged 76.

GEORGE ALFRED OSBORNE JENKIN MC (1946)1921–2007

George Alfred Osborne Jenkin, who has died aged 85, won an MC within 24 hours of landing in Normandy.

George was born on 26th June 1921 in Surbiton, Surrey and educated at St Paul’s School, London. He was a keen all-round sportsman. He was due to attend Oxford in 1939, but, with war on the doorstep, visited the Admissions Tutor to discuss the situation. The Tutor advised as follows, “I would go to war my boy, it will be over by Christmas”! George enlisted in 1939 and joined the East Riding Yeomanry (ERY). He was soon recognised as officer material. In June 1944 the ERY were among the first armoured units in action on D-Day and took heavy casualties in the fierce fighting to make the beachhead secure.

The next day 3 Troop, “B” Squadron, commanded by Jenkin, was given the task of supporting a company of 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles (RUR) in an attack on the village of Cambes-en-Plaine, north of Caen. On the way there his troop was engaged by a Mark VI Tiger Tank and two Mark IVs. After one of them had been knocked out and set ablaze, Jenkin advanced towards the village, where the RUR had been halted on the outskirts by withering machine-gun fire. “We found ourselves in a hornets’ nest,” he said afterwards. “The place was swarming with Germans.”

He destroyed a half-track, an AA carrier, three ammunition lorries and killed many of the enemy infantry. One German with an automatic weapon tried to shoot him, but Jenkin drew his revolver and shot him before he could open fire. Later Jenkin dismounted from his tank to liaise with another troop which had been sent to help him, but found that he could not return because of snipers. While talking to anti-tank officers of the RUR, he spotted two Mark IV tanks about 1,300 yards away. He laid a six-pounder gun on the leading tank and set it on fire. He was awarded an immediate MC; the citation stated that he had shown exemplary coolness and courage.

After the war, following a number of secondments to the Far East, he retired from the Army and went up to Pembroke College, Oxford, to read PPE. He worked for a time

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for the Bank of England and in 1952 emigrated to South Africa, where he lived in Johannesburg and was employed by a subsidiary of ICI.

In 1958 Jenkin founded the Labrador Club of South Africa and was its first chairman. He started running training classes for gundogs and organised working tests. In 1965 George and second wife Pamela returned to England to follow their long term ambition to farm and bought a farm in Herefordshire. As a farmer he was keen to try new methods but always returned to the tried and tested. Breeding Labradors for work became an important part of their life, and he thoroughly researched bloodlines and the origins of the breed.

He founded the Usk Valley Working Gundog Club, of which he was President for the remainder of his life. He was chairman of the Midland Gundog Society, a member of the Labrador Club for 30 years, and on the Committee for 20 years until his retirement, at which time he was made an honouree life member in recognition of all he had done for the club. He was probably the one of the foremost experts in the country on the bloodlines of the breed.

George loved fishing, and stocked the lakes on the farm with trout. Shooting and working his dogs as well as helping others to train their dogs took a large part of George’s time. He was an A’ list Field Trial Judge.

George was an avid writer and contributed to a number of magazines with articles about the Labrador and other country issues, often using a pseudonym. He had started painting in the 1960s; then, in 1999 achieved A level Art. In 2000, following a major stroke, he learned to write again and taught himself to paint left-handed. He designed his own home for retirement in a glorious position on the farm overlooking the lakes, and created a lovely garden with a rill running through it.

He was a very proud grandfather to Elliot, encouraging him with his education and sporting activities.

George Jenkin died on June 19. He married first, in 1951 (dissolved), Doreen Morgan. He married secondly, in 1961, Pamela Hope (née Watson), who predeceased him. He is survived by his daughter and grandson and a stepson and stepdaughter of his second marriage.

RICHARD GRAY JENKINS (1956)1935-2007

Born in Southfield, Wimbledon, in 1935, Richard became the newest member of a large, close-knit, extended Liberal London/Welsh family of grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins, as well as his immediate family of parents Mair and Richard Jenkins, and his older brother, Michael. Having been brought up as Welsh Methodists, Richard’s parents became members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in the 1930s and in 1949 Richard was sent to Leighton Park School, Reading. It was this background of close family ties and moral values that contributed to Richard’s development as a person. Lively discussions and argument were part of life in the Jenkins household, and Richard and

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his older brother and younger sister were encouraged to think seriously about political and social issues. Like his father, ‘R.G.’, who had been a keen sportsman, playing football for Chelsea, Oxford (BNC), England and the Corinthians in the 1920s as well as tennis and athletics, Richard enjoyed tennis, squash, gymnastics and athletics and participated in all these sports at school, National Service in the RAF, university and continued to play tennis, squash and golf.

In 1959 Richard was awarded an Upper Second class degree of PPE and was also given a half-Blue for gymnastics. In the September after coming down from university, Richard married Kay and for a year worked for the International Wool Secretariat in London as an economist. In the early years of Richard’s working life, he often spoke of his admiration for several of his tutors at Pembroke, in particular, Neville Ward-Perkins (who sadly died) and Zbigniew Pelczynski.

In 1960 Richard joined his father’s firm of Patent and Trademark Agents in Quality Court, Chancery Lane, as a technical assistant. Having qualified as a Patent Agent in 1964, Richard began to attend patent and trademark conferences as well as visiting foreign patent lawyers in Europe, the United States and the Far East and succeeded in expanding the business, building up one of the largest trademark practices in the U.K. As Richard and Kay’s son, Neil, explained in his funeral eulogy, ‘Richard’s success in all areas of this life was, I believe, due not merely to innate skill or education but to the way in which he related to people – be they family, friends or colleagues. He was open and considerate with them, he had a sparkle in his eye and all these qualities were appreciated and earned him many friends.’ Both in his personal and professional life, Richard was a kind, friendly and amusing man making friends and acquaintances all over the world. His wife and family were devastated when Richard was diagnosed with Alzheimers Disease in 2002, and the following five years were difficult as he declined rapidly, finally passing away at the end of January this year. His success and popularity was evident in that some 200 people attended his funeral service in early February 2007, and his family received over 150 letters of condolence. Richard is survived by his wife, Kay and their three children, Neil, Claire and Sian.

Kay Jenkins

ANTHONY LANGDON JOHNSON (1948)1926-2003

In nearly 30 years’ teaching, the Head Teacher who knew him best wrote that my grandfather was a man devoted to his family. And Tony was proud of it. Proud because it was accurate: spot on, in fact.

So he was a teacher, a family man and a stickler for precision. But there was more to Anthony Langdon Johnson than that.

With his unruly red curly hair, slender frame, wide smile and habitual whistling of Mozart, for most of his 77 years Tony cut a youthful figure.

He was fond of saying that two weeks after he was born the country ground to a halt.

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The 1926 the General Strike broke out. He was the son of an unlikely couple. His father was a shy tax inspector, a Yorkshire man and supposed confirmed bachelor. His mother was of Irish descent and quite the socialite. Both parents shaped, and were reflected in, his character.

Fate was fair to Tony; the luck and misfortune evened themselves out. In 1939, his Uncle Saxy, a stinker of the first order, took in Tony and sister Patricia as evacuees, principally to avoid unknown children being foisted upon his comfortable chartered accountant’s home in Oxford.

Just as cynically, two years later and without warning, Saxy drove the children to Oxford station and told them to make their way home to Epsom with only the clothes they were wearing. But crucially when Tony was in his charge, the cad had paid for him to attend Magdalen College School. And while teenage Tony had to cycle over 80 miles dodging Hitler’s bombs between Surrey and lodgings in Oxford, his parents did scrape together the cash for him to continue at Magdalen. It follows, then, that even though the war intervened for 345760 Airman Johnson, without the grounding funded by despised Uncle Saxy, Tony would never have gone up to Pembroke College, Oxford in 1948. There, he coxed the College fourth eight, played the clarinet, read English, and made lifelong friends.

The bittersweet pattern repeated on Tony’s honeymoon. The couple’s wedding night was a write-off courtesy of food poisoning, and his bride fell from their boat in the Norfolk Broads. But after all, it was the start of a wonderful marriage which lasted 43 years until Margaret’s death.

Tony was meticulous, not to say fastidious. He planned all of his lessons carefully, and he marked every scrap of paper put in front of him. He fumed silently that his degree class attracted a teacher’s salary inferior to that which some of the layabouts in the staffroom were paid. But pupils and colleagues appreciated him deeply.

He corresponded with some for life and friendsreunited.com contains fond speculations about what became of him.

A part of Tony’s charm was his marvellous sense of humour. Among his papers when he died was a 1967 Guardian article about a Frenchman who could fart to music. When goaded, he occasionally spoke of Margaret’s former fiancé, Alec. Alec had been a paragon, allegedly walking ahead of London buses waving a red flag during ‘pea soupers.’ Tony delivered this eulogy with suitable contempt. He was uncontrollable whilst recounting a failed attempt by a colleague to dye her pubic hair blonde, only to see it turn green. And finally, he and a fellow airman spent a night in the cells in Canada for giving the names “Cross and Blackwell” under interrogation when caught out of bounds.

Notwithstanding this last escapade, Tony was respected for his scrupulous principles and honesty. He watched my mother, his then pupil, revise irrelevant topics for hours for exams he had set, without breathing a word.

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Tony was fanatical about order and recording things. He kept a diary every day from 1935 until shortly before he died in 2003. He filed thousands of photographs, slides, vinyl records, cassettes and CDs so that he could he could lay his hands on any of them in a trice. He faithfully recorded every gallon of petrol purchased in a notebook. Despite being an unaccomplished mathematician – his early attempt at an accountancy career soon fell over – he would provide the family with full and complete information on average miles per gallon achieved.

Tony was a great planner, but his dreams were realistic. He cut out and harboured an article in the 1960s about Border Terriers, and when Margaret went part-time in 1975, back out it came and he pounced. “Beth” was acquired from Bannerdown Kennels in Bath to the delight of Margaret, my mother Sarah, and Auntie Ann. Similarly, for years, family holidays were spent in the dales in anticipation of retirement. And sure enough, in 1988 with the chicks flown from the coop, Margaret, Beth and Tony packed up and relocated to Leyburn.

Tony was a lifelong Christian and a generous man. The bulk of post after his death was from charities he had quietly supported for years.

He is buried alongside my grandmother in Hauxwell Churchyard, North Yorkshire.

Rachel Prosser, (Granddaughter, aged 15)

JOHN ‘DEREK’ JONES (1958)1940-2007

Derek Jones died in the John Radcliffe Hospital on 18th January 2007 after a short battle with inoperable cancer.

Born in Liverpool in 1940, the only child of a cabinet maker, Derek had no memories of his father, who was tragically lost in action while serving in the RAF during the Second World War. However his mother was a great inspiration to him. She was an avid reader who encouraged Derek from a very early age in his own literary interests.

As a pupil of Alsop High School in Liverpool, Derek excelled academically and became Head Boy. It was during these years that the Head Master of the School took a personal interest in Derek’s development and encouraged him to apply for Oxford, as well as for the necessary scholarship to make this possible.

In 1958 Derek gained a place as a scholar at Pembroke, where he was to read Chemistry. However a year later he transferred to Metallurgy and the brand new department of Material Sciences, graduating Matallurgy and then completing a D.Phil.

After leaving Pembroke, Derek went into Marine Engineering before joining Kurt Salmon and Associates, international management consultants. It was while he was on a long assignment in America that he became involved with the development of production planning systems for major manufacturing companies. In 1975 Derek and his family moved to Cape Town, where he took up the post of consultant for

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the National Productivity Institute before becoming Managing Director of a leading clothing manufacturer.

In the early 1970s Cape Town was the major centre for clothing manufacturing in South Africa, and Derek quickly became instrumental in the formulation of industry standards. He was a founder member of the Clothing Institute, set up principally to ensure accredited training and the continuing development of all levels of employees. This, along with his life long passion for computers, soon led him to become one the most respected authors of computerised management systems, specialising in the clothing industry. In 1980 Derek became an independent consultant to the industry and continued in this role until he was forced to retired due to heart problems.

Derek’s other passion in life was music, especially choral music. He was member of the Pembroke Choir, Harrogate Bach Choir and later became Chairman of the Cape Town Philharmonia Choir. It was a great sadness to Derek when ill health curtailed his singing.

During his early retirement in South Africa, Derek worked as volunteer tutor teaching under-privileged township children basic computer skills. His passion for the subject and his quiet approach and patience soon endeared him to the children.

In 2002 he and his second wife returned to England to settle in Oxford. By that time Derek’s cardiac issues had stabilised, allowing him to take up a position with the Department of Continuing Education at Oxford University, a post he held until his death.

Derek greatly valued his time at Pembroke and understood that his time at Oxford was a life changing privilege for him. It was fitting then that his memorial service was held in the Pembroke Chapel with the very accomplished choir singing magnificently.

This was the life of a quiet, gentle and utterly wonderful man.

Linda Jones

GEOFFREY CECIL LESLIE-SMITH (1951)1931-2006

Geoffrey was born in Blackheath on 23rd March 1931, but he spent most of his early life in Shortland, Bromley, Kent. He was the oldest of four children and the only boy. He was educated at St. Christopher’s, Letchworth. He entered the RAF for his two years of National Service in 1949, and followed this by three years at Pembroke College reading Geography. He graduated and then spent four years out in Ghana with the United Africa Company, returning to England to take up a post with the British Council in 1959. Here he met his wife, Judith, and together they spent five happy years in Belfast. Their two children, Jonathan and Nicola, were born there before they returned to a new posting with the British Council in London. The main period of Geoffrey’s working life was spent commuting to London from his ‘cottage in the country’ in Farnham. He retired in 1991 to spend fifteen happy years helping to

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run the family small holding, involved in lots of building and carpentry projects and holidaying in their small campervan. He developed sideroblastic anaemia in 2005 and died in July 2006.

Judith Leslie-Smith

JEAN PIERRE MATOSSIAN (1948)1929-2006

I was asked by the family of Jean Pierre Matossian (Conde de la Torre) to write an obituary some weeks ago. I thought I had overcome the grief of his death last year, but this task has proven otherwise. The memories are incredibly happy and positive. He was a huge influence on my life, a lodestone, and I owe him more than he ever knew – or perhaps he did?!

I had the honour, pleasure and luck to meet Jean Pierre in 1977. He was born in Cairo in 1929, and had an international education, including Oxford. He ran a family-owned tobacco business in Egypt, and then moved to Spain. I can only comment on the man I met when he was 48 years old. At that time, he was living in Madrid with his wife Cristina and their children Juan, Jaime, Mico and Cristina. He had this wonderful family home that he had built about two hours from Madrid, past Toledo, near a tiny village called Polan. Here, in a finca called Daramazan, he created what we youngsters considered a weekend paradise. One could either be frightfully energetic and rise before the sun to shoot “tortolas” (turtle doves) or one could be a complete “lounge lizard” and do nothing but partake of the wonderful food, wine, and sun, surrounded by an enormous garden full of more roses than I had seen in my life. I remember well the pool area where, prior to a typically late Spanish lunch, water polo was played imbibing gin and tonics, surrounded by his home grown mint which was permitted to grow amongst the roses.

He and Cristina were accomplished and generous hosts, and various cosmopolitan guests invariably arrived for lunch from Madrid, aided by plenty of Spanish locals, among them the much loved “Bunting” Teba. The conversations were always eclectic and the Spanish language ruled until the “Conde” (or sometimes the “General”), as he was known to one and all, decided to change to his impeccable English. I have never met any foreign born person who had such an enormous English vocabulary. If he could not think of the perfect translation, he would invariably inform us later in the day.

Apart from being a family man, he was dedicated to his garden and his beloved roses. There must have been 200 varieties, perhaps more. The main problem, throughout the long, hot and very dry Castillian summer, was how to make sure there was enough water for the roses. Forget about a shower, the roses came first! The discussion on Friday evenings was invariably of whether there was any water in the “deposito.” It was then decided when and which roses got the water. Cristina could be seen “dead heading” the roses in her usual elegant manner. This was a task to infinity as there were so many of them! There were always many dogs, and Jean Pierre spent his time either shooing them away or yelling for them to come to his side.

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I had the great fortune to spend many wonderful weekends, never to be forgotten, in a paradise created by a very special human being. He is missed by everyone he came into contact with, from all continents. He died aged 76 (far too young) leaving his fabulous wife Cristina, the four children and 11 grandchildren (plus dogs) on the 21st July 2006, a black day for so many.

Alec Hutchinson

Jean-Pierre was educated to run the family business in tobacco. He also ran a company called ‘Eastern’, which was listed on the Alexandria Stock Exchange, and which was a joint partnership between the Family and BTI British American Tobacco. They had 80% of the market share in the Gulf Area, and blended American, English and Oriental tobacco with a factory of some 8000 employees. Jean Pierre married in 1953 in Madrid, and they settled in Cairo until 1962 when Nasser ‘confiscated’ the company. Jean Pierre lost everything he had worked for, including his home, and moved to Madrid with his family. He stared from scratch with no money in 1962 at the age of 33 and with 4 children. He went into technology with ‘Telex’ products and represented a French company called ‘Sagem’, which was finally sold to Siemens. There were some problems in the 1990s with high Spanish interest rates and the business foundered. He ended his professional life and resumed the life of Patriarch of his large family.

Miguel Matossian

MICHAEL WILLIAM MILLS (1963)1944-2006

William was born in Newbury, Berkshire in 1944. He was educated at Mount House Prep School in Tavistock, Hurstpier Point in West Sussex and Pembroke College, Oxford.

His first job was with McCorquodale PLC., a large printing and packaging company with overseas interests. He worked in Sao Paulo, Brazil as Commercial Manager and then as Managing Director in Johannesburg, South Africa where he met Penny. He returned to England to manage a packaging company in Bristol. He realised in the hot summer of 1976 that he was missing Penny and that year got married in her old school chapel in Johannesburg.

After 19 years with the same company William left to become Divisional Managing Director of the Food Packaging Engineering Division of GEI International and was based in Norfolk. William travelled a lot during this time, visiting the eight companies in his division in Belgium, the USA and the UK, but always came home as quickly as he could to see his little children growing up.

The next move was to Polymark International where he was Chief Executive. Here he had full executive responsibility for three operating divisions. This meant moving to live in a more central location near Chinnor, Oxfordshire.

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Polymark was acquired by a foreign company and so in December 1992 William began a nine year career as managing director of Jarrold Printing and a director of Jarrold and Sons. This brought the family back to Norfolk to live in Bramerton. Travel abroad was now generally for pleasure and William was often accompanied by Penny to European printers’ networking meetings and similar events.

More recently his experience and business acumen led him to being appointed chairman or non executive director of a broad range of companies in the printing, packaging and engineering sectors. These include Biddles Ltd, HH Associates, Chairman and Shareholder of Cliffe Industrial Packaging, Chairman of Tony James Component Wiring, Chairman of Ex-Press Plastics, non executive director of Benhamgoodheadprint and non executive board member of Hethel Engineering Centre.

William loved wildlife. His ambition was to buy a farm, plant trees and create a wildlife haven. He had recently become particularly passionate about barn owls as there is a pair roosting in the neighbouring barn and breeding in the special barn owl box in the garden sycamore. If there is one good thing that comes out of William’s untimely death it should be that more people become aware of the plight of these fascinating birds and something is done to improve their chances of survival. Half of the collection from William’s memorial service has gone to the Wildlife Conservation Partnership which works hard to conserve the barn owls’ habitat.

On Friday 24th November William died very suddenly from a brain haemorrhage, leaving behind his wife, Penny, and two children Edward (22) and Katherine (20).

Extracts taken from his Memorial Address and CV kindly provided by his family.

JOHN MICHAEL MORRIS (1952)1934-2006

John was born in Manchester in 1934, the elder of two sons of Alfred and Marjorie Morris. With the War imminent, they moved to Gloucester where he was educated at the Crypt School. His father, being self-educated, decided that one son was to go to Cambridge and the other to Oxford and, although he was killed when John was 10, the family honoured his wishes. John sat the Scholarship for Oxford at 16 as a trial run for Cambridge the following year. He gained it and so came to Pembroke to read English Literature.

On arrival, he auditioned for OUDS and was accepted. His tutor summoned him and told him that, as a Scholar, he was there to work and not play. John heeded his advice but always regretted it (although his children benefited from his dramatic skills when he read aloud to them, as he did throughout their childhoods). He did, however, enjoy his time at Pembroke and, to the end of his life, was proud of his connection with “Pemmy.”

After National Service, a postgraduate year at University College, London and a spell at Leeds Public Library, he was appointed Superintendent of the Reading Room at Cambridge. There he researched and wrote the first of many papers and articles, A

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Checklist of Prints made at Cambridge by Peter Spendelowe Lamborn (1722-74) which was published by the Cambridge Bibliographical Society. This was followed by a monograph on Thomas Thomas and then by a number of other papers.

His next appointment was as a lecturer in Bibliography at the North Western Polytechnic, London, where he met his wife, Della. In London he acquired an Albion printing press which he ran with the students. It was also during his time in London (in 1964) that Howard Nixon suggested he should take on the research on the identification of heraldic bookbindings, which had been started by one HB Clements in the 1930s. This became his passion and his work on the Armorial of British Bookbindings dominated the rest of his life, even, on occasion, dictating where he and his wife spent their holidays! In 2002-3 the Bibliographical Society awarded him the Antiquarian Booksellers Association Award to allow him to continue his work on the collection of British Armorial Bookbindings held at Parham Court, Sussex. In 2005, he privately printed and distributed a DVD of the Armorial. Subsequently, he had a collaborator in Philip Oldfield of Toronto, who is continuing to work on it since the Bibliographical Society of London intend to publish the Armorial in the form of an online database. With changes in the Library Association’s Syllabus, he moved back to academic libraries with an appointment as Superintendent of the Reading Room at Glasgow University. Three years later, in 1971, he and his wife and their young family moved to Edinburgh where he was appointed to the staff of the National Library of Scotland (NLS) where he stayed in the Rare Books Department until his retirement. There he became the Library’s unofficial expert on the book as a physical object, including bookbindings and identifying types of illustrations. Before the advent of photocopying, rubbings were made of book bindings. He was regularly to be seen rubbing bindings with his special pencils and paper. (He swore that British Rail toilet paper was the best for the purpose!) Amongst other papers, he bequeathed to the Library many volumes of loose-leaf binders of rubbings of tools used to make the pattern of bindings and of heraldic stamps, through which he identified owners and binders.

In the 1970s he organised the 18th Century Imprint Index. He went on to develop it into the Scottish Book Trade Index (now on the NIS web site). This he compiled almost single-handed. After his retirement, he continued to improve and add to it, using commercial directories, contemporary papers, and registers of marriages and deaths.

Despite his retirement in 1997, and his increasingly poor health, he continued to work right up until his death in November 2006. He spent the day before he went into hospital with his final illness in the National Library correcting the proofs of a chapter entitled 'The Scottish Chapman' which was his contribution to Fairs, Markets and the Itinerant Book Trade edited by Myers, Harris and Mandelbrote, and published in 2007. He also made a substantial contribution (chapters on papermaking, type-founding and bookbinding) to the History of the Book in Scotland Volume 3, which is due to be published later this year.

His interests and knowledge were wide, covering amongst other things Scottish chapbooks and chapmen, the development of ballads, children’s books, street markets,

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bookbindings and armorial bookbindings. He was always ready to share his knowledge. Despite his contermacious* nature, which often made him difficult (but rewarding) to live or work with, his wife and their three children were gratified by the number of letters they received after his death remarking on how generous he had always been with his knowledge and how helpful in answering questions.

*His Widow, Della, writes that this is a Scots word – but so aptly described John. Concise Scots Dictionary Aberdeen University Press: “perverse, self-willed, obstinate.”

Obituary provided by his daughter

REV. A LESLIE MORRISON TDMA (1930)1911-2007

The Reverend A Leslie Morrison was born in Jarrow-on-Tyne in 1911. His schooldays were all spent in the Durham Diocese. After his senior education at King James the 1st Grammar School in Bishop Auckland, he was awarded a Kitchener Scholarship. He wanted to try for Oxford and was interested in Pembroke College as he had become very engrossed in the life and writings of Samuel Johnson. He was accepted at Pembroke to read Literature and History. His main sport was hockey and some tennis, and he gained an ‘occasional’ Hockey Blue.

Towards the end of his time at Oxford, he became sure he was being called to the ministry of the Church. After many talks with the then Bishop of Durham, the Bishop gave his approval, and after graduating from Oxford, he was accepted at Westcott House, Cambridge for Ordination training. He was ordained deacon in 1935, and priest in 1936.

His time as an assistant priest was spent in various parishes, both in the North and South, and during this time he joined the Territorial Army. In late 1937, he was offered the living of Castleside, County Durham. He was already engaged and planning his marriage, so decided to bring forward the date – and on 8th February 1938 he married Nancy Maugham Marks, a doctor’s daughter. He was inducted into Castleside in 1938. His first child, a daughter, was born in the December. He was commissioned a Chaplain TT early in 1939, and was doing the three weeks TT Training (14th August-9th September) when war was declared and he was immediately mobilised, and attached to an infantry battalion stationed in various places in the UK.

In October 1942, his second child, a boy, was born. He resigned his living in Castleside as he felt the parish should have a resident vicar. He was next with the Royal Tank Regiment and the K.R.R.C. He was with them in the Desert Campaign and up through Sicily and Italy, and he acted as Senior Chaplain of the Brigade. In February 1944, his Battalion was brought home to prepare for the invasion of Europe, and was stationed at Worthing, Sussex for three months. He crossed to Normany on D Day + 3 and was involved in all the battles through France, Holland, Belgium and Germany. When

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the War ended, he was in Denmark and was released in 1945. He was a popular and respected Chaplain and was subsequently awarded the Territorial Decoration. His second son had been born in September 1944.

On his return to civilian life, he was offered the living of Branston (near Lincoln). Then in March 1949 he was asked by the Bishop to go to Gateshead-on-Tyne a large and very busy parish. After many years there, he felt that for his own and his wife’s health he needed a smaller parish in a softer climate and moved to Fenny Compton in Warwickshire. Again, after a time, he felt another change was necessary. The parish of Bury W. Sussex was vacant, and the living was in the gift of Pembroke College. They offered it to him and in 1964 he became Vicar of Bury.

After many happy years, sadly, his wife died in 1972. He carried on alone but in 1974 married again to a widow, Mary Woelfell. By 1976, he decided that being 65 he should retire and they bought a house about a mile north of Chichester City. Although retired, he continued to do many priestly voluntary duties around Chichester and the local villages and at the Cathedral. His interests were reading and books and he devoted much care and time to building up a library (which he bequeathed to Pembroke College Library). In 1982 he really retired as his doctor had advised him he would eventually need two hip replacements. So then he and his wife enjoyed gardening, walking and reading and visits from their families and friends.

He always, each day, spent a quiet hour morning and evening saying his Matins and Evening Prayer. He maintained this until three weeks before his sudden illness in February 2007, which was very brief. He was able to be at home and cared for until his last week, when he was taken to St Richard’s Hospital, Chichester. He gradually slipped into a quiet unconsciousness, and died very peacefully on 10th March.

With the accord of his second wife, he had arranged to be buried at Bury with his first wife. His funeral there, a full Requiem Eucharist, was celebrated on 23rd March with all the joint families and friends present. He was a faithful priest, and a loved and loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. May he now rest in the peace of his Lord.

M.C.M, his widow

GRAHAM TERRY PAGE (1950)1929-2006

Terry Page was born in Gloucester on 9th December 1929. He was the son of Fred and Bobby Page; Terry had two younger sisters, Diane and Janet, and I am told he was his Mum’s blue-eyed boy.

Terry was educated at the Crypt Grammar School in Gloucester. He was a bright boy, and enjoyed sport – his first love was cricket, followed by Rugby Union. Later, Terry became a member of the Old Cryptians, the alumni organisation for the school, and played cricket for them for many years.

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After leaving school at the age of 18 in 1948, Terry was conscripted into the RAF to do his national service. It seems he didn’t have too bad a time of it, playing cricket, rugby and football for his station in Norfolk, and editing a flourishing service magazine Perhaps this was his first dip into journalism. He worked in Operations, and had fond memories of his time in blue. His time in the services gave him a lifelong love of corned beef – it seems it was the one thing that RAF cooks couldn’t ruin.

On his discharge from the RAF in 1950, Terry went up to Oxford, where he read History at Pembroke College. Terry’s room was on the same stairs as a certain undergraduate by the name of Michael Heseltine. One day, Michael went to borrow a bow tie from Terry, but turned his nose up because it was a readymade one.

Whilst he was at Oxford, Terry first joined the Labour Party and became an activist. He once invited Michael Heseltine to join the Labour Party too! The answer is not recorded for posterity, but I believe it was an open invitation. Cricket and rugby featured heavily during Terry’s time at Oxford, as well as politics.

On leaving university, Terry moved to Manchester in 1954 to work as a management consultant, a career path he continued until 1956, moving to Melton Mowbray to work for the Production Engineering Research Association. In 1960, Terry became Education and Training Editor and Senior Leader Writer with a magazine called Engineering, then a major weekly journal, and during his time there was seconded to do some educational research for the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. In 1966, Terry became a communications consultant for the City University in London, whilst at the same time developing his career as a freelance journalist.

In 1967 Terry became co-founder of Kogan Page Ltd, the management and educational publishers. During the ensuing years, Terry worked for Project Technology at Loughborough University and continued his freelance work. In 1978 he was recruited by Sheffield Polytechnic – now Sheffield Hallam University – in the Department of Educational Services. When they moved to Sussex, Terry became Communications Officer for the Institute of Manpower Studies at the University of Sussex, and, in 1991, became editor of a magazine called Transition. He took early retirement in 1993, but continued as a freelance writer and editor, based at home.

As if all this were not enough, Terry wrote no less than 17 books, innumerable technical articles, served as a governor to two schools – one of which he became Chairman – and a college, and still found time to be a devoted husband and father.

During the early part of his career, Terry had met and married Pat. They had four children, Simon, Jon, Tim and Suzanne, from whom they derived great pride. Sadly, the marriage was not ultimately successful, and they separated in the early 1960s; Terry took care to maintain contact with his children. Later, in the mid 1960s, Terry met Letta, who was a teacher. They were staying in the same guest house in Norwood Lodge. A relationship developed, and they married in 1968. Their son Guy appeared later to complete the family.

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commitment. Terry had joined the Labour party as a young man, driven by the fact that he cared passionately for an equal, just and fair society. He believed strongly in social justice, and was a member of the Fabian Society, the left-of-centre think tank and political society. In the 1970s, he was elected a member of Charnwood Borough Council in Leicestershire and, in the 1990s, served on Willingdon Parish Council. He also served as Secretary to the Eastbourne Labour Party, a thankless task in an area where the grass varies in colour between blue and gold, but never red. Terry also had aspirations to become a Member of Parliament, but sadly for him, that was not to be.

Terry loved all his children unconditionally. He was a gentle man, and very proud of his children’s and grandchildren’s achievements. Guy told me he was a ‘good Dad’ and when I asked what kind of husband he was, Letta simply answered ‘the best.’ He had a good sense of humour – of the mainly dry variety. Often he would begin to tell a funny story, but would be unable to reach the punch line because he was laughing too much. He retained that sense of humour during his final stay in hospital.

Terry could never be accused of being a practical man. If someone wanted an apple, he would slip out of the back door to the shop to buy some, because he wouldn’t know they were kept in the fridge. Soon after Terry and Letta moved into the Wannock Lane house, Terry called to Letta asking her where his shirt was. Letta answered ‘It’s in the airing cupboard.’ Silence followed. Then he piped up again – ‘Where’s the airing cupboard?’ We can laugh at that, because Terry would be laughing with us now.

As to his interests and hobbies, sport – particularly cricket and rugby – is well documented. He also liked current affairs, and writing for pleasure as well as work. The family have memories of always going on holiday via the post box and the printing firm. At the end of his life, he still had plans to write further books. He was a great lover of cars, particularly a Mini Cooper S and a Jaguar which he once owned. On the down side, he was also an avid collector of parking tickets. But above all, Terry was a family man, relishing the company of his children, grandchildren and Letta. They were his abiding interest and passion to the end of his days.

Terry’s difficulties with Parkinson’s disease are well documented, but he coped stoically and still lived a full life. The news that he was suffering from cancer came as a shock to us all, including Terry. 20/20 hindsight is a wonderful thing, and some might question his wisdom in electing to have the operation earlier this year. However, I believe Terry treasured life, and I suspect he wanted it in its fullness, or not at all. I, for one, admire his courage in choosing his course of action – he would not have wanted to become an increasing burden on his family, and so elected to have something which might give him better health and strength to live his life.

This tribute would not be complete without mention of Letta – and I say this on behalf of Terry. All of us at Trinity looked on in admiration as Letta tended to Terry’s needs in her quiet, loving, devoted way. We respected the way she worked hard to help Terry achieve the best possible quality of life, often at great personal cost. When he went into hospital and things began to go wrong, Letta unstintingly gave of her time and love, spending countless hours by his bedside and suffering from lack of sleep, to the point of exhaustion. Each of us should recognise that, because I know Terry did.

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Terry was never overtly religious, but he had a spirituality, and would worship with us here at Trinity. From our talks together, I am confident that he had come to a place of faith. Certainly his life, dedicated to social justice and a fair society, was compatible with Biblical values. If we are to take the reading from Jeremiah seriously, then Terry knew God.

We give thanks for Terry’s life, one that was full of achievement, but one which did not lose sight of the important things, especially family. Terry, we are the better for knowing you, and give thanks that you are now at peace, where pain and sickness can touch you no more.

Revd Les Mather, Trinity Church, Lower Willingdon

CHARLES WILLIAM PARKINSON (1959)1939-2006

During First Year, Charles and I had rooms on adjacent staircases in Pembroke Old Quad. We discovered a mutual enjoyment of jazz and became lifelong friends. I recall his lanky frame settled deep in an armchair where he would mull over all manner of issues into the small hours. No ‘couch potato’, Charles was as lithe as a cat. From Lancashire, he was already a rock-climbing ‘leader’ in the Lake District and taught Mountain Leadership until his death. Tony Woodward (1959) recalls clammy apprehension as Charles walked round a third floor banister-rail in the Besse Building saying anyone would do it at ground level. He was the only person I ever saw who could jump onto a College mantelpiece without touching the wall and falling off again. He danced with a regular partner at the University Jazz Club: they were spectacular; the floor would clear as everyone stopped to watch. Sometimes a bit grumpy, though he claimed to outgrow that, he was good company, a certain friend and never lost his cool. One phrase consistently emerges when people talk about him. It had not struck me but is obviously true – it’s almost quaint these days – Charles was a gentleman.

He surprisingly took digs over a pub before Finals; the murmur of voices stopped him feeling isolated when studying. I once asked which was more important in his activities: excelling in competition or companionship. He said: “the sports, walking, sailing, skiing and gym are not important in themselves, the sharing is. I nearly bought a studio in the French Alps, then I realised that skiing alone, or with one or two people, could never be as enjoyable for me as a chalet shared with 15 or 20 good friends.” However, he had no problem with solitary music practice or do-it-yourself renovating. When I ‘graduated’ to the alto-saxophone, having realised it is fingered like a school recorder, Charles bought my clarinet with the fancy extra keys. He practiced so assiduously at his digs that his landlord said Charles, or his clarinet, must go. His clarinet didn’t go – it lasted a lifetime.

Charles William Parkinson, ‘Parky’ or ‘Charlie’ out of his mother’s hearing, was born in Lancaster to John Talbot, and Agnes Jane, Parkinson. The youngest, he is survived by his siblings; Ronald Talbot, Michael John and Susan Patricia Parkinson. A relationship to the Earl of Shrewsbury, presumed in the Talbot name, is unlikely but Charles’s

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longish face had resonance with certain aristocratic portraits. In the 18th century the family origins lay with Husbandmen, Pipemakers and Shoemakers; by 1881 Charles’ great-grandfather, John Parkinson, had established the family firm of builders who, said Charles, built the original Wigan Pier – a coal staithe.

Mike recalls that: “As a boy he was, I think, the nicest of our family….he had a commendable distaste for family rows… he seemed to assume a detachment from many of the storms of life. He would trail and get into scrapes on family expeditions, nearly drowning twice and breaking bones before eight. At Lancaster Royal Grammar School he was immensely popular and became Head Boy – The People’s Choice – any opposition to his nomination by staff was overwhelmed by Prefect support.” Mike illustrates a quality he admired: “Being Head Boy Elect, Charles was in Lancaster with a few chums. A Master in full Scouting Regalia was sighted, to their uncontrolled mirth which was noted. Duly summoned before the Head, he was told he had a choice between resignation of the upcoming post or three of the best. He chose the latter and the Head shook him by the hand, congratulating him (unpunished) on his style!”

Charles grew up in a substantial, middle-class home paradoxically addressed ‘High Trees, Deep Cutting.’ He came to feel constrained under the school and parental eye but that eased after a year in Derby as a Rolls Royce Apprentice working on jet engine tests. Relatively mature when he came up, he retained some more than usually reactive attitudes; I once said he carried his family round ‘on his shoulder’ like a pirate’s parrot. Mike, later an ophthalmic surgeon, preceded him to Pembroke in 1953 so Charles knew the ropes. In first year most of us only engaged with College and University but Charles moved in a wider sphere. In the spirit of the 60s, he took pride in crossing class–boundaries. Iain Morley (1959) says: “He used to drink at an Oxford pub not usually frequented by undergraduates, he was often the only one there. He became a welcome figure to the locals, who would normally, I imagine, have despised students. He told me that his favourite moment of his first year was when he was selected for the pub darts team, it showed him that he was now fully accepted by them.”

In College, we knew little of his prior life; his extensive, non-overlapping, spheres of activity lent him an oddly private air. A balance was apparent between detachment and a capacity for easy and genuine personal relationships. Charles was difficult to ‘book in’ suggesting he liked to be free to choose the best option on offer at the last minute. But he did write of ankle injuries from regular Pembroke Rugby and Tony Mobbs (1959) recalls him playing soccer with the College Seconds. In later years he appeared unpredictably in College but always to a welcome. On summer evenings he sometimes joined us in driving out to sample country pubs. He could double–declutch so, each term, we took turns to drive my 1932 Austin 10 with its green light up to, and down from, Oxford. He would stay at my Liverpool home and so began our reflections on life-progress.

After Finals Charles was hosted by Tom Solis’s (1959) family in Port Arthur and New Mexico while working and touring in the USA. Enthusiastic about what he saw, and tempted, he returned to Rolls Royce to work on marine nuclear reactors. He soon acknowledged a preference for people over engineering. Strictly agnostic, apprehensive when Mike expressed some affection for the Church of England, he laughed at a formal

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skill-profiling test which suggested him suited to be a Social Worker, Musician or Clergyman. Mike feels it picked up genuine qualities of selflessness and concern.

Charles spent much of his working life with IBM Information Technology. He began as a Systems Engineer in Manchester where he met Phillipena Callow during his Lotus-driving phase. They married at St Mary’s, Ashton-on-Mersey in October 1973. Before that, Charles was already involved in renovation of a Welsh cottage co-owned with Mike. The combined efforts of Ena and Charles made the Parkinson homes far from run-of-the-mill and he contributed an enormous amount of labour. Their first child, Jonathan, was born in 1975 when they owned a pleasant townhouse at Chiswick Staithe, London. In 1977 they moved to Utkinton, Cheshire, where they had two more sons, James in 1977 and Alex in 1981. This house was impressive and seemingly ideal; two acres in the country, a spectacular thatched roof, space for children’s games and self-sufficiency; the ambience helped along by the large dog, duck and peacock equipped garden (the dogs ate the cat!).

He had considered emigrating but lacked conviction. When offered a fixed–term posting to the USA in 1987 they took it and lived in Atlanta from 1987 to 1991, visiting 35 States. Looking back from 1996, Charles said, regardless of much satisfaction, he had come to feel that his commitment to profession, property renovation and domestic obligations meant he lost sight of what he really wanted, though “I am not sure that I ever did know what I really wanted – apart from short-term gratification.” Coincidentally, upon his return to the UK, IBM abandoned its ‘Job for Life’ philosophy and Charles took early retirement. He was immediately re-contracted but now in control of his time. With sons growing up, the Parkinsons surrendered the country and car dependency by buying run-down ‘Dorchester House’ in Chester. Near Old Government House, the garden is on the U-bend of the Dee with a view to Grosvenor Gardens. Free to re-think his life, Charles began renovating again. He shifted 100 tons of earth in terracing the garden down to the river. He also suffered an occluded vessel in his eye but his vision was restored by laser treatment. Having become involved in Health Industry IT in Atlanta, he continued with Hospital Procurement Systems development. This later became an enabling factor on his path towards a balanced sense of fulfilment in work and play.

City life suited the family; neighbours with common interests became close friends. One, his skipper John Hagan, had a new 40’ boat, Sea Dreamer, Jeanneau-built in France and exhibited at the Boat Show. Charles looked forward to taking delivery with him and sailing her to Holyhead. He had obtained a day-skipper certificate; he always did things ‘properly’, even sitting GCSE’s in later life to ‘brush up’ languages. John says: “Charles was an enthusiastic, brave and very competent yachtsman, a pivotal member of my crew on many passages including at least two of 1,500 miles each, non-stop and miles off-shore in the ocean. He was particularly reliable once you had made absolutely certain he’d written the dates and details in his voluminous diary. After one near crisis, I would check that the diary was for the correct year, but once he was in place, others would join without a second thought.

Charles had other characteristics which made him an invaluable companion on a yacht, the first an almost mystical ability to fall asleep instantly his watch ended, day or night.

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I used to make sure he’d found somewhere to perch within seconds of coming off watch otherwise he would go to sleep standing up. This meant he was refreshed and alert when next his turn came, an important point on long passages.

His other great attribute appeared whenever we stopped at a new destination. Within moments he would be involved in friendly conversation with complete strangers; he’d taken advice on the best pub, the supermarket, all you need for a run ashore. People instantly trusted him, and he them. I’m sure you will have been told how much he is missed by friends here. I can add to them countless others met in various ports in the Algarve and the Med who ask after him and are devastated to hear of his death, and I would say that this characteristic of his – the instant trust he received from strangers treated from the first as friends – is the rarest of all qualities and our greatest loss.”

Still exploring, Charles teamed up with Di Worby’s GAT, a group training pilots and crew in anti-terrorist tactics while he also acted as an Expert Witness. Meanwhile, Ena built up a very successful property business and, though divorced amicably in 1997, they remained good friends with Charles lending assistance and holidaying at her Tuscan Mill House.

In the ‘90s, financially secure, Charles had talked to his brother Ron about voluntary service. A Hospital Trust was suggested as ideal and he put his name forward for approval by the Secretary of State. One day Ena demanded of him “Why does someone at the Liverpool Obstetrics and Gynaecology Hospital want to talk to you?” His sense of a lack of direction faded; he found himself doing what he did best – part of a team using lifetime skills, he was working with people who help people. Todd Kashdan’s Science of Wellbeing says “pleasure isn’t enough” in life. “True happiness comes with meaning.” Though not a realisation of the long–ago pointer to the Clergy, this role was perhaps the closest Charles came to it and the qualities Mike had recognised. He now had meaning plus long-term gratification in both his work and leisure.

Charles had come up with the rare ‘A’ Level combination of Biology with Maths, Physics and Chemistry but felt no call to medicine. That background now came into its own underpinned by his experience in Hospital IT Systems. He committed far beyond the usual time – in addition to Board Meetings he sat on Committees for Corporate Performance, Audit, IM&T, Steering Group, Clinical Excellence Awards, Clinical Governance, Performance Review and Remuneration. He undertook courses, spent ‘memorable’ time in theatre and escorted Princess Diana during the formal opening of new buildings.

By 1999 Charles was Vice-Chair. Ann Marr, then Chief Executive of Liverpool Women’s Hospital said: “Charles was in every way the elder-statesman and father-figure of the Board; he brought good sense, good humour, guidance and direction. He was passionate about quality and a man of great integrity. I always valued his opinion and advice and thoroughly enjoyed his company. His workload far exceeded the terms of his contract and he truly made a significant contribution to the health and well being of the women and babies of Liverpool.”

Liz Craig, Acting Director of Governance, Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust

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wrote: “I met Charles in 1998 when I was Executive Director of Nursing and Midwifery. We worked together on the Board of Directors until 2003 . . . I found him intelligent, considerate and interesting - a ‘gentleman’. He was full of life and had a passion for the National Health Service and public service issues in general. On the Board his background knowledge of IT was particularly helpful. He was very supportive of the Trust and colleagues but challenged and made innovative suggestions.”

After serving his ten years Charles transferred to the world-renowned Walton Centre for Neurosurgery and leading UK Pain Management Centre. The Chief Executive says “Charles was renowned for his inability to say ‘no’ and for the fact that he only ever made friends.” Familiarised with the outcomes of brain-surgery and pain control for terminally-ill patients he simply said it is a “privilege to work there.” Enthusiastic about Geoffrey Raisman’s (1957) glial stem-cell work towards spinal-cord repair, he sent me the Sunday Times Magazine article about it. His role expanded again: Liz Craig says: “In 2005 LWH became a Foundation Trust with a Membership Council, a Board of Governors, and to our delight Charles came back to us as a Councillor. I know he saw this as an opportunity to continue to support the Trust in a new role.” He represented the Hospital to the Secretary of State at the House of Commons. In-line for the Chair, the re-think had succeeded beyond his expectation.

Like so many others, I was shocked and saddened by his early death. But he had already prepared for it after his admired sister in-law died. The College Record Obituary for Ivor Levi (1959), a mutual friend, led him to write that he was going to pack even more into 2006 so he would have no “last minute regrets” if anything happened to him. His increased Trust work did not mean he dropped other activities. Not long ago he was with the Royal Chester Rowing Club, training 4-5 days a week and rowing in the 31 mile Lincoln–Boston marathon. He dropped rowing for the Chester Old Hall Walking, Gym and Ski Clubs and was ‘naturally’ “modernising the house, sorting out the garden and doing more cycling.” Even that was hardly casual. He cycled with Polly Dangerfield, headmistress of a Chester School of Dance, whose marathon cycling raises funds for charity. She says: “He was one of the most honest, honourable and genuine people I have known. Although over ten years older he could out-cycle me.” After the Dolomites; voyages from Portugal to Majorca; time in Italy; walking in Austria and teaching Mountain Leadership weekend-courses, in 2006 he planned to ski in the Alps; stay at the Mill House; do more weekend walking and the annual week’s walk in Slovenia, plus undertake voyages to Portugal and Italy. I find it incredible but typical that, nearly 67, due for a hip replacement, Charles wrote: “20 of us are off skiing in Italy. However, the skiing may be problematic. I had to have a knee x-rayed yesterday. It was injured kickboxing, which I think I should pack in!” Above his signature was the last goal: “More attempts to keep fit at the gym . . .” and that is where he fell from a treadmill on 28th July 2006. I can imagine his snort of amusement had he known.

Alex met the ambulance. Charles joked that he had messed up the birthday celebrations: two sons and their mother celebrate within three days of the 29th. But, by the time Ena arrived, he was comatose and died on 29th July 2006. She says “ . . . we were both very proud of the fact that we remained friends and workmates after divorce. He was my rock. It will be a very long time before I stop wanting to pick up the phone and speak to him. He was proud to be an Oxford man and talked fondly of his time there.”

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PETER JOHN PRESCOTT (1954) 1936-2005

Peter Prescott was born in April of 1936 and grew up during the war on a council estate in Windsor. The 1944 Education Act provided new opportunities for children from that sort of background and, after passing the Eleven Plus examination, he found himself at the boys’ grammar school in Windsor, where he flourished and eventually got a History scholarship to Pembroke.

When he came up in the autumn of 1954, the most immediately obvious things about him were that he was strikingly good-looking and had a self-deprecatingly diffident manner, which seemed more characteristic of the stately home than the council house. The fact that he was a member of the Eton Excelsior Rowing Club in Windsor and wore their badge on his blazer led to a rumour that he was an Old Etonian, who preferred a scholarship at Pembroke to a place across the road in Christ Church. His gentle and amused dismissal of such an idea seemed to some to be a confirmation of its truth.

He and his old school friend, Colin Oakley, came up to Oxford at the same time and both rowed in their college 1st VIIIs. In the vacation, they rejoined Eton Excelsior on the Thames and one evening Peter remembered long afterwards was when their eight turned into the home reach and they rowed down a shaft of light with the huge red ball of the sun resting on the horizon behind them. There was no wind. The timing and rhythm of the oars seemed perfect. The boat ran steady and free, and the moment seemed timeless. Years later, Peter still remembered “the magic evening when we rowed down the setting sun.”

Jon says “It is starting to sink in that my dad is no longer with us. He died peacefully, with people who love him . . .he had a fantastic life; I can’t think of anyone who was as happy as he was. His great passion for living stayed with him right to the end. Only a month before he died he phoned from Portugal where he was having a drink with friends and watching the Portuguese play in the World Cup. This is how I will remember him; sorely missed, and always loved.” The family funeral was followed by a September Memorial Service in Chester. His ashes were cast into the Dee and a plaque overlooking the river commemorates him where he spent many happy hours.

The last story I heard about Charles is from his friend Bryan Tyrer. He describes the same Charles I met at Pembroke in October 1959: “I recall his passion for walking and debating . . . whilst never letting the pace slack off . . . a purposeful stride and a thought-through opinion . . . His interest in “bigger picture” issues, a keenness to understand the global village was dear to him. His amiability was his strength and never have I witnessed anything other than his charm and concern for others. I can recall one star-struck evening, moored in Frenchman’s Creek off the English Channel. Ready to sleep on the deck of a boat, it’s the early hours, pitch black punctuated by the brightest stars you’ll ever see and Charles, lying flat, debating the big picture with a glass of scotch in his hand, clad in his warm fleece, collar up - it doesn’t get much better than that.”

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At Oxford, where he looked particularly striking in his scholar’s gown and 1st VIII scarf, he examined drainage policy in the premiership of Sir Robert Peel in the morning, cleared his puddles on the river in the afternoon, and reflected on papal infallibility and the nature of Truth in Hall in the evening. But he still found time for those various other things that Oxford undergraduates characteristically did in the 1950s. In his first long vacation, for example, he worked as a labourer building Eton College’s new open air swimming pool and was summarily dismissed for sky-larking. Then, on coming down, he did his National Service in the Royal Artillery and had his commission delayed as a consequence of some other cheerful misdemeanour.

After a brief shot at the world of business in the early 1960s, he found his niche when he was appointed to a post with the British Council. He also found his future wife, Gillian Lowe, who was working as a Youth Exchanges Officer with the Council, and, in 1971, they went off together to Paris, the year before Great Britain at last joined the European Community, and the government provided the British Council with wealth beyond the dreams of avarice to promote all things British to the Europeans – everything from string quartets to sausages.

That first tour in Paris was followed in 1975 by some years back in London presiding over the East Europe and North Asia Department, and negotiating a series of agreements to enable the British Council to operate in countries where it was not automatically welcomed. It was at this stage that he travelled to Ulan Bator to sign the first ever Cultural Exchange Agreement with Mongolia. Much later he accompanied Mrs Thatcher to open a British Council Cultural Centre in Uzbekistan.

Then, after a couple of years on secondment to the Department of Education and Science, he and Gilly were off to Sydney, where Peter took charge of all the Council’s operations in Australia, and, after that, they were back in Paris again, this time with Peter in full charge, with a magnificent house in which to live and entertain and with a splendid new office building, which had only been on the drawing board when he had left back in 1975. But it was now a time of drastic cuts in almost every area of public expenditure, and Peter found himself presiding over a programme of grim retrenchment until he returned to London in 1990 to run the Arts Division, his last post before retirement.

Peter and Gilly had no children of their own, but they lavished care and affection on nieces and nephews, godchildren and the children of their friends. At home in St John’s Wood, away from the splendours of Paris and Sydney, they enjoyed going to the opera, the theatre and to concerts, but they did not live extravagantly and Peter was always generous in remembering College. In most of the years when he was working for the Council, he found time to go walking on the Fells with his old friend, Colin Oakley. In retirement he also re-established contact with Pembroke friends, whom he had only seen intermittently during his years (and sometimes theirs) abroad. He listened to a lot of music. He read a lot of books. He reflected on things eternal and, if not always comfortable with the Roman Catholicism in which he had been brought up, he continued to seek understanding and travel hopefully towards the destination he has now reached.

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Hugh Rose passed away on 20th September 2004. He was born 20th July 1920. He went to St Paul’s School and then in 1939 to Pembroke College. After one year, he was called up and in 1941 was commissioned in the Royal Horse Artillery. He served in action in North Africa and Italy and was wounded and Mentioned in Despatches. He was granted an early release in 1945 and re-joined the College where he switched from Classics to Economics. He graduated in 1947 and chose an academic career. His first appointment was at Exeter University and later at Grahamstown in South Africa. He spent some time at Nuffield College. Initially he went to USA at Rochester University and in order to qualify for permanent residence in the US spent a year at a Canadian university - probably Toronto - after which he returned to the USA and was appointed to a chair at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland which he held until his retirement in the 1990s. He received US citizenship in January 1977. He was a master chess player and always had season tickets to the theatre in Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, DC. He is survived by two sisters, a brother-in-law, and numerous nieces and nephews.

Dr Perry Hall (Cousin) and Carlo Jacobs (Brother-in-law)

PROFESSOR MICHAEL JOHN TROUGHTON (1959)1939-2007

Michael J. Troughton, BA (Hons), BLitt., MA, PhD, LLD, Professor of Geography at The University of Western Ontario, (London, Ontario, Canada) from 1964 to 2005, died quietly in hospital on Saturday 10th March 2007, after a short battle with cancer. Mike was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, educated at Huddersfield College and won a State Scholarship to Pembroke College, Oxford, taken up following National Service in the RAF. He was given immediate membership of the 1st XV and went on to captain the side in his third year. He also became a member of the Teasel Club, the College Dining Club, who met once a term to indulge in an extravagant meal fortified by the best wines from the College cellar! Mike was committed to educating “effete southerners” and

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On 6th April 2006, which would have been his seventieth birthday, a large number of his friends, relatives and former colleagues met at St James’s, Piccadilly, to celebrate and give thanks for his life. At the beginning of the Order of Service was printed a quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson: “That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it…” Stevenson could well have been writing about Peter.

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organized an annual expedition to the rugby league cup final at Wembley. Mike also suffered the companionship of PPE students who always seemed to take their exams before his – a particularly acute problem when sharing a flat in his final year. Despite this handicap he obtained a good degree that was the foundation of his subsequent academic career.

Mike married Ulla in Copenhagen in the summer immediately following graduation and went on to spend a year at the Geografiske Institute at Copenhagen University gathering material for his BLitt. thesis on Danish Land-Use Patterns. Following completion of his thesis, under the supervision of Ernest Paget, tutor in geography at Jesus College, he accepted an appointment at UWO and he and Ulla arrived in London in 1964. In 1970 he became the second doctoral graduate of the Department with a thesis entitled 'Farm-Level Investigations in Agricultural Geography', based primarily on his work in Elgin County, Ontario.

Mike worked with passion on the geography of his adopted country for over 40 years. He was a tireless advocate for the study of Ontario rural landscapes with a strong focus on agriculture and rural resources. He published over 80 papers in refereed journals, books and conference proceedings that dealt primarily with Ontario and the Canadian Rural Landscape, exploring most aspects of Canadian agriculture. More recently he focused on broader studies of the rural landscape, its built heritage and the sustainability of rural environments, work best captured by his Past President’s Address to the Canadian Association of Geographers on “Rural Canada and Canadian Rural Geography” in 1994. He was a sustaining member of the GIRMS Discussion Group (Geographers Interested in Resource Management, based at the University of Waterloo) of which he was chair in 1983-85. His reputation as the leader in Canadian Agricultural Geography was established by his Atlas of Canadian Agriculture (1979) and book on Canadian Agriculture (1982). He also was co-editor of two well-used conference proceeding volumes on “The Countryside in Ontario” published in 1975 and 1998. Latterly, he was a prominent and successful advocate for naming the Thames as a Heritage River and for the inventory and preservation of the architectural heritage of rural Ontario.

Although his research was primarily in Ontario and Canada, he was an international leader in the development of Agricultural Geography. He was Secretary of the International Geographical Union Commission on Rural Development from 1974-1984, President of the Commission on Changing Rural Systems from 1984-1992 and remained actively involved in successor organisations and meetings. Several diverse presentations at these meetings focused a global spotlight on multiple facets of the agricultural geography and rural landscapes in Canada. Mike was very active in CAG, attending over 27 national meetings where he organised many special sessions on Agriculture and Rural Resources. Twice serving on the CAG executive (1978-81 and 1991-94), he was President in 1992-3 and Vice-Chair of the Canadian National IGU Committee between 1985 and 1988. He was the main organizer of the largest CAG meeting in history (800 participants, 653 papers), held at UWO in June 2005, where he was surprised by a special session honouring his imminent retirement. Mike was also a prominent participant in, and proponent of, agricultural geography sessions at more than 15 AAG meetings.

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Mike was the longest serving member of the Department at UWO and his record of 41 years of service is unlikely to be equaled. Always carrying one of the heaviest undergraduate teaching loads, his courses were fundamental to resource management, agriculture, rural landscapes, the geography of food and food production. He was instrumental in founding the Environment and Resource Management degree programme. The 52 undergraduate theses he supervised covered a huge diversity of topics and nine of his students won the CAG (best thesis) prize between 1967 and 1982 when the thesis was compulsory. He supervised 29 graduate theses with many former students going on to careers in academe, conservation and rural planning. An inveterate supporter of field camp, he constantly challenged students to experience, understand and value the Ontario landscape, whether it was the relics of abandoned farmsteads, industrial archeology on the Canadian Shield or during the annual visits to local pig farms in his agriculture course. He remained focused on the diverse Ontario landscape and the rural resource themes of forestry, land use, heritage values and conservation. Never an armchair geographer, he practised what he preached, venturing into municipal politics and planning issues at City Hall. In London he was active in local community organizations, stood for public office and was involved in several architectural heritage committees.

Mike Troughton was a genuine all rounder, who served Geography, his University and Canada well as researcher, teacher, administrator and colleague throughout a long and distinguished career. He was the personification of integrity, a feisty proponent for the causes he believed in and consistently championed the need and value of studies in Ontario. He was honoured by the AAG’s J. Fraser Hart Award for research excellence and by a Doctor of Laws degree from Dalhousie University. In 2003 he was presented with the CAGONT Award for Service to Geography in Ontario in recognition of his achievements.

Mike’s sudden death was a great loss to the discipline, his Department, family, friends and colleagues. Although he “retired” in 2005, he led Departmental field camps in the autumn of 2005 and 2006 and worked most days in the Department until the beginning of this year. When his illness was diagnosed, his primary academic concern was to complete the book he was preparing on the architectural heritage of the Thames River basin and ensure its publication. With Mike’s death colleagues will deeply miss his sage advice, insight, trivia questions, infectious laugh and sense of humour. The “Michael Troughton Graduate Bursary Fund” has been established in his memory. A celebration of Mike’s life took place at Museum London on Saturday 17th March and was attended by almost 400 people. He is survived by his wife Ulla, sister Christine, daughter Camila, son Martin and four young grandchildren.

Ulla Troughton

JEPHTHAH DAVID WANDERA (1963)1933-2006

Jephthah David Wandera was born on 5th August 1933 in the town of Kitale, to Andrea Odhiambo and Rahel Akuku of Bukamba Samia. Jephthah grew up in the mission field where his father, an Anglican priest, and his mother were serving.

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In his childhood he went to school in Kitale, Eldoret and Butere. His secondary education took him to Maseno School and thereafter to Kagumo College.

He went into the world of work and served as an educationist in various capacities. He was a college tutor, headmaster and schools supervisor. It was during this time that he met his wife-to-be Lorna Auma Ougo. They got married in 1958 and God blessed them with their children: Stephen, Caroline, Angela, Michael, the late Andrew, Peter and the late Emmanuel.

Jeph, or J.D. as he was fondly referred to by his friends, moved on to provincial administration in the Civil Service. After first working as a District Officer, he attended a course at the Kenya Institute of Administration and later went to Oxford University. On his return he was posted to Bungoma as District Commissioner after which he served in the same capacity in Nakuru District. He was then appointed Director of Aerodromes, the first Kenyan to hold that post following Independence. He went on to hold the position of Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Labour, and that of Tourism and Wildlife.

After retirement from the Civil Service, he ventured into farming and business until he developed ill health. This led to his hospitalization at St. Monica’s Hospital, Kisumu. Jephthah David Wandera was saved. He went to be with the Lord on 20th July 2006. He leaves behind a family he was extremely devoted to, a family who loved him most dearly. He will be profoundly missed.

May the Almighty God rest his soul in eternal peace.

Stephen O. Wandera

CANON CYRIL AIDAN OSWALD WARMAN (1927)1908-2001

Aidan, as he was always known, died on 5th March 2001. He was born at St Aidan’s College, Birkenhead, where his father Guy was Principal. Guy, who had been at Pembroke himself, was later bishop of Truro, Chelmsford and Manchester (1929-47). Aidan read Maths (Mods) and Theology. His theology was of course later to be of vital importance to his ministry, but his maths also found regular use in helping his sons with homework. During his time in Oxford, Aidan met Elisabeth Clarke, “Betty”, the second eldest of the lively family of five daughters of Fred and Edith Clarke.

Aidan graduated in 1930 and went on to Ridley Hall, Cambridge before ordination in 1931. He was a curate in Battersea and then in Rugby, and his long and caring pastoral ministry continued as Vicar of Shepshed (Leicester), Manningham (Bradford), Normanton (Wakefield) and finally Kellington (also Wakefield). Guy Warman had been one of the founders of the Anglican Evangelical Group Movement (AEGM) before the Great War, and the movement had its main period of activity and influence between the wars. Aidan was also an active member. AEGM stood for a liberal evangelical theology, with an acceptance of scientific views and critical study of the Bible, and a

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LT. COL. RAYMOND WEIGHTMAN OBE (1933)1915-2006

Three narratives inform a man’s life: the public, the personal and the internal.

Born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, into a family of soldiers, farm labourers and miners, Raymond Weightman, through force of intellect, integrity and rigorous self-discipline, won himself a place at Pembroke College, Oxford, gained an Honours Degree in Modern History, and so transformed his life.

Oxford was his great constant. Indeed, in his late eighties Raymond would travel up to Pembroke, followed by a day at the Bodleian continuing his research into eighteenth-century domestic convivia, later to return home to Cheltenham with wry and fond observations on both the current crop of dons and the mores of Oxford society.

Always well dressed, with a touch of the dandy, Raymond delighted in remarking that his rowing blazer had served him some 70 years and could still be worn without fear or favour. Pewter tankards recording his success in the Robinson Fours and Junior Sculls of ’34 were complemented by a similar memento of the ’36 Senior Pairs.

Raymond was a man of honour. In 1937, during a period as a commercial trainee at Pilkington Brothers, the St Helen’s glass manufacturers, he joined the King’s Regiment as a Territorial Army Officer. On the outbreak of the Second World War he attended the Staff College in Camberley. In 1942, aged 27, he was posted to India and served with distinction under General Auckinlech in the Military Operations Directorate of the

commitment to group study, the social implications of the Gospel, and the deepening of spiritual life and worship. This suited Aidan’s deeply held views, and he continued with AEGM after the Second World War, although by then its influence was declining. Significantly he chose for his funeral FW Faber’s hymn “There’s a wideness in God’s mercy”, which includes the verse: “But we make his love too narrow by false limits of our own; and we magnify his strictness with a zeal he will not own.”

After retirement Aidan and Betty moved to Bridlington and later to Scarborough, to the Yorkshire coast which they loved. From the beginning of their married life they had shared a great delight in literature, and in particular poetry, which continued into retirement, and Aidan had always had a great and expert interest in flowers and fungi, a hobby which he was then able to follow to the full.

The connection with Oxford had continued: Aidan and Betty (who pre-deceased him) were married at St Giles, Oxford in 1935, beginning a partnership which was to last for sixty-five years, and in due course all four of their sons came to Oxford, although only John, the eldest, followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather to Pembroke and to ordination.

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GHQ, and subsequently under General Bruce. He participated in the Burma theatre. Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Artillery, he was awarded the OBE in 1946.

In 1947, aged 32, Raymond joined Booths Limited of Tunstall – one of the Five Towns that make up The Potteries – and so began his lifetime professional career within that industry.

The following year he was appointed Sales Director of Booths and Colcloughs, and was subsequently main board director of Allied English Potteries. At 49 he was appointed Chairman and Managing Director of Ridgway Potteries, and was a director of Royal Crown Derby. He represented the English ceramic tableware industry on the Export Council for Europe, and was a member of the industry committee negotiating import quotas with the Japanese. In 1972, aged 57, he retired from the Allied English Potteries. He joined the board of Worcester Royal Porcelain, and, subsequently, the board of Royal Worcester Spode.

Retiring from Royal Worcester Spode in 1981, he nevertheless continued to act as a management consultant for several UK and US enterprises. Amongst these were Taylor and Bligh, Diamond Creations and Brontë Porcelain. He contributed to Tableware International, and co-authored a ceramic industry study.

Throughout his professional life Raymond travelled extensively, and formed many enduring friendships. He served variously as a Church Warden, a local councillor and a Justice of the Peace, retiring in 1985 as vice chairman of the Evesham justices.

Raymond married Michelle Jacob in 1940. He is survived by her and their two children, Humphrey and Charlotte. He was a man of humour, a man of mischief. A man with great personal charm. A man who welcomed change, and a man who embraced innovation. A man who was free from racism and bigotry and who gathered and returned friendship. He made and retained bonds amongst men and women of many nations and faiths.

Raymond enjoyed dance, yoga, dogs, pretty girls, gardening, watercolour painting, travel and long-distance walking. Only a few weeks before his death at 91 he took ship from Falmouth on a cruise that led him to Casablanca. The lead image on the order of service at his funeral showed him, at the age of thirty, pushing north through the snowfields east of Nanga Parbat toward Gilgit and Afghanistan.

Alongside the public and the personal runs an ancillary and internal narrative. Raymond struggled, as do we all, with issues of identity and self. The prejudices and constraints that defined society during the early years of his life have been largely dissipated, and we who knew him give thanks that he lived to see these times.

To a large measure it was his years at Oxford that provided him with the intellectual and political validation that enabled him to fully realise his potential. Contrary to certain revisionist analyses, the Oxford of the mid 1930s demonstrated an enlightened egalitarianism of the intellect. Raymond embraced, welcomed, profited from and embraced that dialectic. Throughout his long journey, Oxford remained his spiritual

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Sir Nicholas Pearson, friends, my thanks go to the Trustees of the Wordsworth Trust for their generosity in hosting this evening gathering for Robert. And my thanks to Sandy Nairne, Director of this Gallery, for welcoming us.

It was on 17th October, five months ago, that I was last here at the National Portrait Gallery. Robert was with me in London, at our daughter Emily’s, but clearly that evening too ill to come himself, and taking no denial in his insistence that I come to the Art/AXA ceremony. He had a feeling that the Trust might receive an award. I rang him from this Gallery to give him the good news about the Paradise Lost catalogue, and tell him how the crowded room applauded. His death same so soon, on 7th November, and since then some 750 people have written to me. Many of the writers are here tonight in these rooms, far more crowded now with friends than Robert could ever have thought. His thought, as on 17th October, was always for the Trust, on that evening fro the catalogue, and not for how he himself was regarded. I now acknowledge for him the warmth that is in those letters and cards. For me they have conjured recollections, brought up half-forgotten facets of Robert, boyhood episodes unknown to me, and evoked such affection for Robert who held his spectacles together with a paperclip, never tied his shoes, and whose old grey coat and odd hats could not quench the sparkle of his intellect and person. Letters were, and still are, a comfort. I move them in their three, now four, baskets from Grasmere to Newcastle and back, and will slowly move through the re-reading and replying.

Robert’s father was a farmer. “I have been wanting a hut for such a long time and Dad…told me to go and look at the pig huts. I went… but I did not like them. In the afternoon I went again and chose a small hut for myself. But there was an awful lot of ‘buts’ and I nearly decided not to have it.” So Robert, at 12, in his diary. Next day: “Found a dead cat, and climbed some quite nice trees. I thought of putting my hoped forthcoming hut there… In the afternoon the hut came… cleaned it out with stirrup pump. Dad and Mum came and had a peep at it… Rob (elder brother) and Gracie (cousin) pushed hut around to the dairy. I put rug in. Everybody is inquisitive, I am not telling them what it is for.” Next day, Good Friday 1944: “I had my hut moved into the Padock, a very nice place. Mum came and looked at it. I put some maps up. OK. It is very comfy. In the afternoon I read a book.” Saturday: “I went to the library. I got three books. Stayed until 12.10. Had a bad dinner. In the afternoon I went to my hut and read. It was quite pleasant. I came back and had my tea. Ron wanted to go to the hut. We went.” Easter Monday: “It is a lovely day. I fixed up curtain in my hut.” Next day: “Me and Philip decided to put wallpaper up in hut. Peter came to the window.” Wednesday: “Pushed hut to top of field. Had to push it down again. Quiet day. Philip came at night

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We give thanks for his life. We wish his spirit well.

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with wallpaper… I went to the library.” Next morning: “We put wallpaper up. In the afternoon we went to the Odeon to see ‘And the Angels Sing’. It was quite good. Saw it through twice.” Friday: “Quiet morning. We decided to modle an aerodrome.” Saturday: “We prepared a bit of the hut for the modle… I read… I had a good read.” Robert’s “good reads” were Biggles in Borneo, The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel, William and the Evacuees, Biggles – Secret Agent, Light Over Lundy, Beauty of the Flying Squad, and for such books, he was quick with his critical ‘symbols in order of merit’: very excellent, excellent, very good, nearly very good, good, quite good, fairly good, moderate, poor, awful, rubbish.

Sixty years on, that hut, wanted for so long, has become the monumental Jerwood Centre, its site difficulties of paddock, dairy, top of field then bottom, reflect the long, often discouraging planning for the building: its possible site shifting from Restaurant to How Foot, to an underground lecture theatre and finally to the arrow-shaped space where the handsome building now rests. The “good reads” of the hut are the Jerwood’s Romantic Poets and the works of their contemporaries; the hut’s maps and wallpaper are these same books as they line the Reading Room walls, as well as the oils, watercolours, drawing and prints that hang in the Museum; the model aerodrome is a 3° West installation by today’s artists; the curtain is the Jerwood’s high clere-storey windows that protect from direct light; the rug on the hut floor is the luxurious carpet that Robert, despite all arguments of expense, insisted upon; and the boy Peter, coming to the window, indeed everybody “inquisitive” is the interest shown today by scholars, architects, students, visitors alike. Wordsworth has his hut, and Robert saw it finished. And I see now, finding his boyhood diary, that he had known hut essentials all along, yet he had not known that he knew, and nor had I; we had no motive for thus looking back, for pursuing our former selves through diaries, poems, letters. I only know that paths that Robert came upon he always took. There were no roads not taken.

A new father, singing to his first child in 1961, he concluded that she was musical (she was); we went with the baby, Madeleine, to buy a washing machine and a blue garden chair: “This,” I wrote, “the second day we have shopped all together… it is quite exotic to us.” It remained exotic, and rare, to have Robert with me in that way. Robert’s intellectual concerns then, beyond lectures and seminars, were schemes to get Oxford to publish the Wordsworth notebooks as Notebooks, to ensure that James Losh’s diaries were in print, to agree with Routledge on the Wordsworth Critical Heritage volume, to edit and add to Thompson’s “Wordsworth’s Hawkshead”, to complete a study of Wordsworth, Coleridge and their newspaper contributions. And there was always Grasmere – Robert, if alone, staying at Miss Borwick’s lodging house, No. 1 Lake Terrace, getting to know the manuscripts, and soon acquiring funding for their conservation.

It was stimulating, active and not without anxiety. So there was a happiness when I could record that R. spent two hours mending punctures (31st March 1973), or put back into the bird box a tiny blue tit that fell out due to the excitement of our little children watching it, so that he rang the Hancock Museum for advice. Or how he went out for me one Christmas Eve in 1973 to buy a 10-11lb turkey and came back with one of 18.5lb, pleased that the butcher had said that, since he was such a good sport, he’d let him have the sausage meat free. Family jaunts were not now for kitchen goods; we

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went to bookshops in Alnwick, Darlington, Hexham; we wandered about graveyards for inscriptions; we went to country house sales hoping for engravings, books and bookshelves.

Work, we discussed in the study. In the study we read poetry; Robert wrote it, needing that solitude that was the other side of his public energy. Poems became for him a sporadic diary. He helped poets, talking, urging, moving hard committee-men in Durham and Newcastle Universities to find a living wage for Basil Bunting, banished from Persia. He engineered that first literary Fellowship. He thought also about the finances of the young Tony Harrison and of Jon Silkin, and he always thought to some effect. His generous feeling for poets and artists with flower in Grasmere.

But four children, a miscarriage, a widowed mother, cats, puppies and kittens limited our shared working. I would then drive Robert to the outskirts of Newcastle, reluctantly leave him on the West road at 8.20am so that he might hitch a lift and get a good day at the small Wordsworth library – heated by a one bar radiator – in Grasmere. Once, I record, he reached home in the morning, having been all night on the road from London. Later, he would take the train, but never did Robert refuse a commitment, whether to Northern Arts, to the Literature and Drama panels of the Arts Council in London, to the English Touring Theatre, of which he was founder and Chairman, to Dove Cottage and its need for structural attention, to the Trust’s manuscripts and their need for conservation, to his students at Newcastle, even to the Parents’ Association of our children’s junior school, an association which he started. He began to be the busy man he became, a busy man who always had time for somebody with a creative idea, or for a creative idea of his own. Yet, where did our time go, we sometimes felt? And still somehow he could find the time one April to ring me and tell me that he had “heard a cuckoo today at the University.” Away or at home we always talked, but Robert was much away, and as the children went to school, I too, became busy – a lectureship in the extra-mural department of the University (he, in the English department). I was also busy with and alongside Robert, helping in the writing, talking, teaching, furthering the hopes he so passionately held for the learning, poetry and beauty of Wordsworth’s Grasmere. He enjoyed people and what they could tell him, so we had Grasmere picnics with Peter and Mari Bicknell, talking of water-colours and the discovery of the Lake District, Robert soon able to shoot back and forth from literature to the visual arts, quickly becoming a frequent and, it appeared to me, not unwelcome figure, hungry to borrow or buy in the London, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh galleries, salerooms and print shops. In 1966 we saw civil engineer Professor Peter Isaac’s collection of Bulmer printed books and gasped at the magnificent Boydell Shakespeare, now, hopefully, to join our own collection. With visiting poet and critic, William Empson, we found ourselves in a discussion, indeed a demonstration, not of poetry but of chopsticks. In 1988, we ate lettuce dropped onto the floor and picked up from it with Mary Moorman and John, her Bishop husband, while crumbs showered down, tea slopped, as we turned over the fragile pages of the charming Fox How boyhood magazines of Matthew Arnold and his siblings, treasures that the trust now has.

People who had nothing special to give were equally sharers in Robert’s attention. The children had long ceased to complain that their father did not take them camping, though they might be reminded that our single attempt – though only for one night

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We came home to activity. And how lucky we were as a family that Robert was able from 1992 to be so fully himself in Grasmere at the Wordsworth Trust. Walks and hills everywhere. And now, poetry, old and new, could be at the heart; so could history (and we forget that Robert went to Oxford with an open scholarship in history); so could landscape and the images of landscape; so could people, both visitors and friends, who through Robert experienced a joy in the imagination, and the new young staff and volunteers whom Robert taught over the years with profound affection. It had always seemed to me that Robert knew everything, yet he, too, grew in knowledge as he constantly enriched the collection, and at the same time, he, and I with him, had fine forward-looking chances to meet new people, confront new thoughts, new words, new art. I both wanted him to do less and I loved him for doing more. I still recorded as rare: “R stayed at home for the first time in a long time” or, in August 1980, “two of us only in the house. R and I enjoying each other as of old,” we were to do so again in the too short time, alas, of Robert’s illness.

Though University, Arts Council and theatre commitments lessened, Robert never did less. In his constant promotion of the Trust, catalogue essays and exhibitions were created one after another, all of them – great thanks, too, to Stephen and Jeff – as beautiful as the striped Buren sails that astonishingly chased their colours over Grasmere Lake one green and golden afternoon only last July. The essays are scholarly, for Robert’s attention was always to detail and his precision in academic matters was equalled by his care, for example, over the choice of chairs for the Jerwood, so recently opened by Seamus Heaney, or his insistence that invitation cards should be of an appropriate weight and quality, the print font exactly right. Nothing was too minor. His energy seemed undiminished, and he continued to send most rich letters to his friends abroad, continued to elucidate and display – he as fascinated as his visitors – the Treasures of the Museum and Jerwood, continued to communicate enthusiasm on radio and television, continued even as the wonderful Turner of Ullswater was secured, to strive for future delights for the Trust. Time had to be held back. “Only a little walk,” I would write, “R. thinking about D.C. problems.” Latterly, twice, Robert quoted to me that terrible line towards the end of Marlowe’s Dr Faustus: “O lente, lente currite noctis equi!” – drive slowly, slowly, horses of the night. Yet the deep tiredness, the mortal illness even, gave a shining to his vitality.

In less extreme forms, both that vitality and an exhaustion had always been with him: he would take, if, by rare chance, he came back from his office in time, a 15-minute sleep during the 7pm news; he would likewise snatch a short sleep in the first acts of even great plays with great actors, sleep in opera, in films, in cars, in telephone conversations, in poetry readings, in other people’s lectures – once in his own – and then he would wake and spring into vibrant life. Never a husband, father or director who would settle into cultivating his garden, Robert, with his wit and jokes, his warm voice and alive eyes, was a quicksilver man who caught life on the wing, and flew high; loving, he did his best not to leave us, his family, or the Trust, his larger family, without strength, and we must each respond creatively as he would wish.

Address given by Pamela Woof, National Portrait Gallery, March 2006.

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Anthony (Tony) Woolley was a contemporary of Alan Bennett and they shared the same background if not the same fame. Both were North Leeds grammar school boys, though Woolley went to Roundhay and Bennett to Leeds Modern. They were from very similar backgrounds though Bennett’s father was a butcher (with Woolley’s Aun-tie Marjorie as one of his clients) and Woolley’s a bank clerk in Bradford. The two boys both went to Oxford on scholarships.

In later life they met, Bennett being filmed in Temple Newsam House, a celebrity in late middle age. A mischievous friend told the film crew that Woolley was a fan and a meeting was set up at the foot of the grand staircase. Cameras rolled and the great man descended and took his admirer’s hand. “My cousin,” said Tony “was a great fan of yours before she died.” It is an exquisite line, worthy of Bennett himself, and a com-ment on Woolley that one cannot quite be sure whether he was clumsy with embar-rassment or gently mocking the celebrity. It was undoubtedly said with an absolutely straight face and in the sort of northern tones they shared.

When Woolley left Oxford, he returned to Leeds and briefly worked in the Midland Bank before turning to teaching. Always a very private man, at that period in his life, he could be gauche, coming out with things which shocked the Northern ladies. The family thought teaching a respectable profession for which the only suitable candi-dates were mature men, probably with wives and children of their own. Tony, a quiet single man with unpredictable moments, didn’t fit the mould. Pressure was exerted for him to change his plan. Even the Baptist minister paid a visit to urge a change of course. Woolley was implacable – he wanted to teach, and primary children at that, and that is what he did for the rest of his working life.

The family and the minister were wrong. Tony liked his charges, enjoyed their childish ways and was probably a very good teacher, though not ambitious. A man who some-times found the society of adults difficult, he found real affection in children. Every evening he returned to the little suburban house he had bought in his late twenties and lived in until he died. He had bought it for its very large garden and the garden was as magnificent as the house was plain. There were splendid flower beds with careful thought about colour coordination, a vegetable garden carefully organised on the old rotation system, an orchard with apples and pears and, at the very bottom, far from the house, fields of rhubarb and a riot of blackberries in an ancient hedge.

His domestic arrangements weren’t always orthodox. A careful man with money he was, in the 1970s, loathe to spend on the extravagance of a washing machine, as he calculated that the capital involved, discounted over the years, would be better in-vested on the stock market. As term times were busy and the launderette at a distance, he decided to buy sufficient linen for half a term and store all the used items in a spare bedroom. Then at 8am on the first day of the holiday, he would drive to the shop, his car stuffed with plastic sacks of dirty clothes, and take over every machine. An unusual arrangement but logical in its way.

ANTHONY WOOLLEY (1957)1937-2005

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By the age of 55, he had burnt out as a teacher and his careful investments allowed him to seek and obtain early retirement. With more time at his disposal he joined and reinvigorated a social club for single people in their middle years. Though a private man he was not unsociable. His particular contribution to the club was organising country walks for the members, the routes carefully explored beforehand and written up, without fail, after. He was also the Treasurer and dedicated to the book keeping. However three years before his death, and to the surprise of many members, he gave that up. The reason, though he didn’t mention it at the time to friends or family, was the onset of Parkinson’s.

Family was important to him and he made regular twice weekly visits to his mother until his final illness, which he bore with great stoicism. He died as he had lived, very quietly, but surrounded by good loyal friends who saw, beyond the eccentricity and the carefully guarded privacy, a very decent man. He left a mother and a brother.

Michael Woolley

DAVID JOHN WRIGHT (1953)1932-2006

John was descended from a family of 18th century Nottingham Bankers. His ancestor John Wright financed the formation of the Butterley Company in 1790 at Ripley, Derbyshire which mined coal, built railways including St Pancras Station, forged wrought iron and made bricks. The Wright family were also deeply committed evangelical Christians with members of every generation going into the mission field in India. John’s father was a very brave, much decorated Swordfish pilot in the Fleet Air Arm who contributed to the sinking of a German Battleship with his torpedo. John’s most distinguished living cousin is the Duchess of York!

After a law degree at Pembroke, Oxford, John did his National Service in the Fleet Air Arm as an observer in Fairey Fireflies. He then started his business career as an apprentice at the Butterley Company starting the morning shift at 7am in the Iron Foundry. This was not an obviously sensible use of his law degree so before long he moved to be the Company Secretary of British Steel from elegant offices overlooking Buckingham Palace. Redundancy proved to be a blessing in disguise. It launched John into fundraising, which was to be his life’s work. He loved it and excelled at it. Polly Hewett, Head of the Kensington & Chelsea Centre for Young Musicians, writes, ‘as Honorary Chairman and Fundraiser John was boundlessly enthusiastic, passionate about his work and endlessly creative in devising new ways to raise funds for the Centre.’ His especial love was the Iricambi Project promoting public awareness of the tragedy of the shrinking Amazon Rain Forest. One hopes that one day, deep in the Amazon Rain Forest, there will be a giant tree with a plaque saying in English, Portuguese and the local dialect, ‘Here I stand thanks to the life and work of John Wright.’ It was a great joy for John when he combined different charities in a common purpose. Only this year he raised funds for the Young Musicians to put on a music and song writing performance to support Iricambi. John also enabled the Lyndon’s Art Trust to bring creative opportunities to prisoners and people suffering from mental illness.

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John married later than most. In Amanda, and in his children, John blossomed and found fulfilment. As we all know, marriage is a very sanctifying experience, but we are all the better for it. John’s keel was cleansed from some of the barnacles of his long bachelordom and he gained the love and artistic satisfaction that only Amanda and the children could give him. Together they made Oakley Gardens a safe and loving home for their children to grow up in.

It is a sad fact that, often, it is only after people depart this life that one comes to really appreciate their great qualities. John is such a one for me and maybe for some of you. He was a great English Gentleman, a loving husband and father, a delightful eccentric, an inspired fundraiser, a loyal and good friend. I only wish I had known him better.

John loved his family, who remember him as ‘an incredibly kind and massively doting father and husband with a huge heart.’ Ellie remembers that he liked all things extra mature, horribly smelly and basically inedible. Jell comments on Dad’s love for the Iricambi Save the Rainforest Project, the music CD and especially the frogs’ chorus. Thomas saw his father as being very eccentric. He would never give up on his scooter even if the front fell off. He also loved broken washing machines!

At first meeting John could seem a bit shy and diffident, but for those who got to know him he was a pot of gold. These are some of the comments made about his character: a one-off person, gentle, never raised his voice; sweet, loyal, kind, considerate; a man of integrity, not ambitious, a charming eccentric, serious but always with a twinkle in his eye; reliable, doting on his family. Generous with what little money he had, but especially generous with his time. ‘Never worry about money’, John used to say, ‘because you will always have what you need.’ I am sure we can all remember those wonderful moments when John, in the midst of a serious discussion, would suddenly break into the most beautiful smile, like a sunbeam bursting through the clouds, followed by a chortle of delight at some piece of bizarre human behaviour or unexpected turn of events.

John had an adventurous spirit. At the age of 21 he took off as navigator with Brian Barford on a two week mission to fly a Hornet Moth biplane all the way up to North Cape. They had only five hours fuel and made one landing ground after 4hrs 45 mins! They had neither radio nor navigation equipment but only got lost once which says much for John’s skill combined with a powerful providence that seemed to accompany all his escapades!

On another occasion he took Jackie Kenna to try out his second-hand hang glider. As John was too heavy he invited Jackie to have a go, but not before giving him a crash helmet and attaching a string to the nose of the glider in case it should fly away. Jackie took off but as the string was only 50ft long. When John pulled on the string the glider nose-dived with predictable results. Happily Jackie is here today but not the glider!

John had a charming if impracticable streak and could make hilarious mistakes. Invited to go to a May Ball in Cambridge on ‘the twelfth’ he turned up on 12th May not aware that May Balls take place in June. Later when invited to spend a holiday on a Greek

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Island by his best man Gavin Sorrell he sent his scooter on ahead, driven there at great expense by a student. On arrival, not surprisingly, the scooter died of exhaustion but otherwise a good holiday was had by all. Back home on the River Hamble Gavin was rowing John’s rubber dinghy ashore for a visit to the pub. John gently encouraged him to row hard. ‘Why?’ Gavin asked. ‘Because it leaks,’ John said, ‘and otherwise we might not get there!’

John’s boating escapades are legendary. Another old friend Robert Clarke tells of an ill-fated sail over to France before John’s marriage. They were on John’s 24 ft yacht. The tiller broke in a storm on the way back and John’s girlfriend lay in the scuppers, so sea sick that she did not notice the rising bilge waters which threatened to engulf her. John called all hands to bail out the boat which leaked somewhat! Back in the Solent John put his bowsprit clean through the mainsail of a passing yacht. ‘Can I help?’ John shouted. ‘No, please go away!’ came the anxious reply. The boat was finally sold to two young enthusiasts with the caution not to sail beyond the sight of land. They happily sailed away to America and back before finally sinking in Southampton harbour!

But more important than all this was the legacy that John received in the last days of his life from his ancestress Mrs John Wright. Writing in 1776 Ann Wright exhorted her descendants with these words, ‘You know I have spent many hours in my closet, to acquaint myself with the Lord; that I might be at peace with Him through Christ Jesus. This is the most important study, and without this, all other knowledge will only add to our condemnation at the last day; therefore, my dear children, seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all other things shall be added; for what will it profit, if you should gain the whole world, but lose your own souls? May you give all diligence to make your calling and election sure; that you may, none of you, my dear children, fail to find the Grace of God; but that an abundant entrance may be given to you all into the Kingdom of God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen’

I mention this because in the last week of his life John became an Evangelist. The shock of cancer had concentrated his mind on the urgent need to find God and despite his natural shyness, John shared his new faith with those around him in his ward with the joy and the boldness that only the Holy Spirit can give.

Johnnie Wright (Cousin)

RECOLLECTIONS OF PEMBROKE DAYS - some memories of his friends, Simon Coke and Michael Roe.

Simon and John arrived at Pembroke in the autumn of 1953. Mike Roe had joined the College a year earlier. All three soon became good friends. Three years later, on a glorious spring day, John and Simon, together with Richard Capstick and Geoffrey Boston were ushers for Mike Roe and Judy’s wedding at Pembroke Chapel. 50 years afterwards, in the spring of 2006, the same group attended Mike and Judy’s Golden Wedding Celebrations at Pembroke. What a truly happy occasion for all concerned.

Michael’s firm friendship with John was based in part on a shared in interest in, and

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ownership of a variety of, motor vehicles. This started with an MG of pre-war interest and progressed through a 4.5 litre Bentley, an HRD 1000cc motorcycle, a Riley special and a Hyper Lea-Francis. Michael recalls that John “had a spirit of great generosity and, at one time or another, allowed me to borrow one of these desirable toys”. He also writes:- “At weekends he used to disappear to Ford in Sussex where he continued his duties with the Fleet Air Arm, occasionally flying to the Continent from where he once returned with a quantity of German beer called, I believe, ‘Lion’s Breath’. These we shared one evening, and it proved to be unexpectedly strong. I can only apologise for the fact that, later that evening, we spent a happy time dropping empty bottles down the stairwell. It seemed a good idea at the time. We were duly summoned to appear before Bobby Heuston, the Dean, the next morning.”

John was a member of the Teasel Club and both Simon and Michael testify to his many friends and the full social life which he led. Simon writes: “John was a very good-looking man who, like me, spent a fair amount of time attempting and, in his case succeeding, in meeting girls; in the University libraries, parties and, last but not least, nurses’ dances. In his last year, John took a large room up the Abingdon Road. What used to amaze John’s friends was the fact that his landlady hardly complained when he used his room as a garage/repairshop and the floor was covered in half dismantled motorbike engines, related bits and equipment.” Simon also recalls how, in later life, he and John, coincidentally and unbeknown to each other, acquired holiday homes on the Greek island of Skiathos and so met again. John’s many friends from Oxford days remember him as a very sociable, charming and gentle man who was not at all garrulous, and all are grateful for having enjoyed his friendship.

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