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Pembroke College
cambridge society
annual gazette
issue 87 w september 2013
Pembroke College, Cambridge, cb2 1rf
Telephone (01223) 338100
Fax (01223) 338163
www.pem.cam.ac.uk
© The Master & Fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge
book2net Spirit scanner in Pembroke College Library
CONTENTS
Editor’s Note
From the Master
From the President
A. WRITINGS AND TALKS
Humphrey Jennings and Pandæmonium – Marie-Louise Jennings
Václav Klaus in Pembroke – Max Reibman
A Sermon for the Commemoration of Benefactors – Peter Meadows
Robert Stoneley and Core-Mantle Boundary Stoneley Modes –
Paula Koelemeijer
Searching for Charlie Andrews – Ramachandra Guha
Dame Ivy Compton Burnett Prize for Creative Writing
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B. COLLEGE NEWS
New Fellows
Chris Blencowe: A Tribute – Andrew Enticknap
Fellows’ News
Gifts to the College
The Dean’s Report
Development Office Report
The Valence Mary (1997) Endowment Fund
College Clubs and Societies
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C. THE COLLEGE RECORD
The Master and Fellows 2012–2013
College Officers 2013–2014
Matriculation 2012–2013
Annual Examinations, First Class Results 2013
College Awards
Graduate Scholarships and Awards
Higher Degrees Conferred
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D. THE PEMBROKE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY
Members’ News
Annual General Meetings of the Society
Dinners and Receptions
Local Contacts
Rules of the Society
Presidents of the Society
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E. DEATHS AND OBITUARIES
List of Deaths
Obituaries
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F. BOOK REVIEWS
Sarah Martin, Davis McCaughey: A Life (UNSW Press, 2012)
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G. MEMBERS’ CORNER
And Justice For All? Six Months as a Criminal Barrister – Anna Midgley 165
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EDITOR’S NOTE
The Frontispiece is a photograph of a machine – appropriately enough for a
Gazette that celebrates, among other things, Pembroke alumnus Humphrey
Jennings’ Pandaemonium, on the advent of the industrial age. The machine is a
revolutionary new scanner which provides Pembroke students with a green and
silent alternative to photocopying pages from books. Pembroke is the first
institution in Cambridge to acquire this type of scanner, and the quality of the
images it produces has already attracted envious comments from other Colleges.
The scanner has been used to produce some of the images in this Gazette, such as
the pages from Humphrey Jennings’ original notes for the Pandaemonium project
and the photograph of Mahatma Gandhi at Pembroke. The photograph of the
scanner in the Frontispiece represents Pembroke’s standing commitment to
seeing that our students get the best of everything they need to make the most of
their potential.
The images used to mark the divisions of the different sections of the Gazette
come from a digital reproduction of the orientalist (and former Pembroke Fellow)
Edward Granville Browne’s diaries, which are held in the Pembroke College
Library archives. As many of the diary entries were written in pencil, they were
beginning to fade, and the College thought it was imperative that a digital copy
of the diaries be produced before their contents were lost forever. The work
of digitising the diaries was very generously funded by Ibrahim Birvani.
A fascinating video about the process of digitising the diaries, and the diaries’
significance, can be found on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v= n09Xrde
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As usual, this year’s Gazette simply could not have been produced without the
great help provided to me by my secretary, Frances Kentish. I am also very grateful
to Becky Coombs, Sally Clowes, Pat Aske, Sally March, David Franks, Angela
Anderson, Andrew Enticknap and Eileen Green for their individual contributions
to various elements of this Gazette. I am also extremely grateful to the Fellows and
students who have taken time off from their busy schedules (and, in the case of
the students, post-exam celebrations) to ensure that all Members of the College
can keep up to date with everything that has been happening in this most vibrant
and exciting of Cambridge colleges.
Nick McBride
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FROM THE PRESIDENT
The academic year has ended on a positive note – three very good things for
Pembroke have happened together. We have had an outstanding set of Tripos
results. The endowment has passed the £60million mark and the Vice Chancellor
has expressed his strong support for early progress towards a tri-college
development on the Silver Street side of the Mill Lane site. Three of our main
objectives for this year have therefore been fulfilled.
Nearly a third of those taking Tripos exams took Firsts. Only once, in 2002,
have we been more highly placed in the overall tables (with a lesser number of
Firsts). What is pleasing however is to see the College getting the top results in
the Arts, and being second in the Sciences. In recent years we have not done so
well in the Sciences, so a return to previous form very much reflects what we had
hoped to achieve. In particular very strong results in Engineering shows a striking
turn around from 2010 when we resolved to make a collective effort to secure such
an improvement. What is also impressive is that the success is more or less
uniform across all three undergraduate years. My congratulations go not only to
our students, but to our Directors of Studies and the Admissions Tutor who
together have taken the College to such a high level of overall performance.
Sustaining it will be a challenge but the indicators are encouraging, though we
should resist the temptation to over-interpret the conclusions to be drawn for
a single year’s results. However, it does point towards the College having well
co-ordinated admissions and teaching policies, and also shows that aspiring to
meet our access targets and aiming for a top level academic performance are
thoroughly compatible.
As all of you will now be aware, we concluded our Development Campaign for
the endowment ‘Excellence in Perpetuity’ and raised £29million against a target of
£25million. It is always a worry when raising money for endowment that the
endowment fails to increase at the same rate as the money raised. Fortunately we
have avoided this trap. With the help of a kinder investment climate than
prevailed during the financial crisis, the endowment has grown by an amount
equivalent to the target that we set. This larger endowment in particular allows us
to meet the cost of the growing bursary needs of our undergraduates and
graduates and also provides the financial buoyancy that the College will require
as the cost of university education continues to rise and the government’s funding
of it declines in real terms. The Development Office have done an outstanding
job and even though we are no longer in campaign mode, continue to do so. All
the hard work that the College has put into developing a mature Development
Office is now paying off handsomely. However, the £60million threshold is by no
means a destination; we must start looking already towards an endowment of
£100million by the end of the next decade.
I have on previous occasions referred to the College’s ambition to extend the
College site across Trumpington Street to include the Pitt Building (formerly
the premises of the University Press) and the area behind it. This will probably be
our last opportunity to add substantially to the College site. The University has
hitherto been focused on the development of North West Cambridge, where
construction has recently started, so their attention has been elsewhere. However,
in the last few months the Mill Lane project has evolved rapidly, with the
University appointing developers to advise it on the exploitation of the site on
both sides of Mill Lane down to the Cam. In the meantime Pembroke, Queens’,
St Catharine’s and Darwin have also purchased the freehold of Miller’s Yard
(halfway down Mill Lane on the left towards the river) to give themselves a
bridgehead in the centre of the potential development area. I will refrain from
burdening you with more of the detail, except to add that the University and the
planners, subject to certain conditions, do now accept that a substantial part of
any development should be College accommodation. I am therefore optimistic
that in my remaining time as Master (my term will end in the summer of 2015) we
can put in place the outline planning, the planning consent and the finance to
start construction and conversion of the buildings which will be preserved in 2016
(though that date will be dependant on the University departments still on the site
being moved to new premises). We will be working closely with Queens’,
St Catharine’s and Darwin to take this forward. The likelihood is that the College
would need to raise a minimum of £10million by 2018 towards the cost of the
project, with the remainder of the finance being covered by a bond issue. The
College regards this new challenge with great excitement – and carrying it
through successfully will, I know, be well within our capabilities. The facilities
that the College will gain will house the growing graduate side of the College, and
would also allow our generally over-used plant and facilities to function with
much greater efficiency and less crowding.
No-one has contributed more in recent years to strengthening those
capabilities than Chris Blencowe our Bursar. It is entirely appropriate that his
large contribution in so many different areas to Pembroke’s success be
acknowledged formally here in the Gazette with the gratitude and thanks of the
Society. We also extend a warm welcome to his successor, Dr Andrew Cates, who
joins us in mid-September. Dr Cates read Mathematics at Trinity with distinction,
was a Research Fellow at Emmanuel, then was an executive at Shell and, more
recently, has been the Chief Executive of a major UK charity. We are confident that
his varied experience has equipped him well to take on the considerable
challenges that I have outlined in the preceding paragraphs.
Another important change in the coming academic year will be to replace
Dr Alan Dawson, the Director of International Programmes. These programmes
have become an important part of Pembroke’s academic and financial life;
they generate nearly a tenth of our annual income, deliver a series of impressive
courses which count for credits in our various partner universities around
the world and spread Pembroke’s reputation to a whole new constituency of
international students, quite a few of whom return to do MPhils. This year we
have added courses in Creative Writing and Intelligence & Security Studies, both
of which have attracted a high level of interest on account of the quality of the
teaching and lectures on offer.
Dr Dawson has been an inspirational leader of the project and highly
entrepreneurial in the way that he has adapted the overall programme to a
sophisticated market where the demand seems to shift every three to four years.
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No other college has so far been able to capture this market with the consistency
and success of Pembroke. Finding Dr Dawson’s replacement will not be easy.
We have had a number of special visitors to the College this year who have
given some excellent lectures. For me the most interesting has been Václav
Klaus, the retiring President of the Czech Republic who delivered the third
Adam Smith Lecture, sponsored by Madsen Pirie (and the lecture is reprinted
in this edition of the Gazette). The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, as it was
then, played an important part in my previous career. I served in the Embassy
in Prague for four years in the 1970s and was a Czech speaker. Klaus was
already identified as a talented but unorthodox economist in the Central
Bank. However, the Czechoslovak Communist Party, through a process
euphemistically referred to as ‘normalization’, marginalised him. To listen to
Klaus forty years on extolling the theories of Smith, with all the authority gained
from his turbulent and contentious political career, brought home to me how
unpredictable the politics of central Europe have been, even over a relatively
short timespan. Klaus himself was very conscious of this, having travelled
a long road politically from a Soviet-dominated Czechoslovak to an extreme
free-market, anti-European Union view of the Czech Republic future. However,
what had a big impact on Klaus was the institutional stability and continuity
that Pembroke represented over nearly seven centuries. Clearly he had not
anticipated being affected by it. He was visibly moved.
On a lighter note, the College gardens, as I write, have never looked better in
my whole time here. The very late spring and cold early summer has caused a
simultaneous late flowering of all the roses and herbaceous plants, which I have
certainly never seen before. It is a pity more members are not here to witness it
and celebrate with us a notable end to a notable Pembroke year.
R.B.D.
FROM THE PRESIDENT
Members’ attention is drawn to the insert enclosed with this issue of the
Gazette, concerning the imminent process of finding and electing the next
Master of the College. The President would be pleased to receive any
suggestions from Members either by email (president@pem.cam.ac.uk) or by
post (Jan Maciejowski, Pembroke College, Cambridge CB2 1RF).
J.M.
A. WRITINGS AND TALKS
From Volume II of EG Browne’s Diaries
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Humphrey Jennings and Pandaemonium
Marie-Louise Jennings
Readers of this year’s Martlet will know that Pembroke
graduate Humphrey Jennings’ book Pandaemonium
provided the inspiration for last year’s highly successful
Olympics Opening Ceremony. In an introduction to an
edited version of Pandaemonium (published by Icon
Books in 2012), Humphrey Jennings’ daughter MarieLouise explains how her father came to write
Pandaemonium. Interested readers will find interspersed
with Marie-Louise’s account scans of some documents
relating to Humphrey Jennings’s Pandaemonium project,
taken from the Humphrey Jennings archives held in the
Pembroke College Library.
My father, Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings, was born in 1907 in Walberswick,
Suffolk. He was the elder son of Frank Jennings, an architect, and Mildred Hall,
an artist. His father was the fourteenth child of a successful racehorse trainer;
his mother the only child of a London solicitor. My grandfather restored and
designed houses, using materials from demolished 16th-century buildings, and
travelled around East Anglia collecting beams, bricks and stained glass. He was
a gentle, unworldly man, deaf because of service in the First World War. My
grandparents subscribed to the tenets of guild socialism, which took its ideals
from John Ruskin and William Morris, believing that the devaluation of the
workman’s labour in a capitalist society could only be arrested by the creation
of small, self-governing groups of craftsmen. My grandparents founded such a
workshop, the Walberswick Peasant Pottery Company, which bought, made and
sold furniture and pottery. My grandmother was the stronger character; of her my
father said, ‘My mother believes she carries the keys of the universe in her pocket’.
They read the radical weekly magazine, The New Age, founded by AR Orage as
a bulletin for socialist ideas on culture. Like Orage himself, my grandmother
became involved with the mystic world of Gurdjieff and ‘the Work’, and by the
end of the 1930s she had left my grandfather and lived in a community near
London. Throughout their married lives my grandparents had little money, and as
far as I know my father never inherited any during his lifetime.
As a result of a recommendation by Orage, my father was sent at the age of
eight to the Perse School, Cambridge. The headmaster then was WHD Rouse, a
liberal eccentric, who made the Perse very different from the other minor public
schools of the period. What he described as his ‘wild, lonely childhood’ gave my
father a considerable knowledge of English literature which was enlarged by the
teaching of English at school by Caldwell Cook, who encouraged boys to write
and act plays and to stage dramatic disputations. Acting, set building and design
appealed strongly to my father and he continued to work on Perse productions
after he left. The Perse also gave him – again through unconventional teaching
methods – an ease and fluency in French, Latin and Greek. Later he told my
mother that in his early school days he was lonely and bullied, but he was in fact
very successful though this success may well have made him difficult for others
to tolerate. Excelling at academic subjects, he also led in acting and in sport. He
refused to join in the other conventional organised groups of a public school,
and was dismissed for misconduct from both the Officers’ Training Corps and
the Scouts.
From the Perse he gained a scholarship to Pembroke College, Cambridge to
read English. At that time the English school was particularly exciting, before
what William Empson has called ‘the great wave of self-righteous dismalness
broke into “Eng-Lit”’. He attended lectures by IA Richards and Mansfield
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Forbes, of whose work Richards wrote: ‘He gave original character to the
English Tripos – an imagination from which ours caught fire – a sureness of
taste and rightness of judgment.’ Empson wrote of my father at that time: ‘He
was, though quite unaffectedly, a leader, not at all a bully. He was not interested
in “mastering” people or “possessing” them, let alone frightening them or
bribing them – in fact he was rather unconscious of other people, except as an
audience – he did have a good deal of consciousness of whether he was
swinging round his audience to vote to his side.’ Of my father’s later academic
work, Richards wrote that ‘his powers of assimilation, of perceiving possible
and hitherto unnoticed connections and synthesising his perceptions with
systems are most impressive…his work may be of real importance in
illuminating the tradition of English literature.’ Between 1926 and 1929, while
he was at Pembroke, he designed and acted in seven productions at the Amateur
Dramatic Club and the Festival Theatre, among them Thomas Heywood’s Fair
Maid of Perth and the first production in Britain of Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale,
with Lydia Lopokova. During his finals in May 1929 he designed the first
production of Honegger’s King David as a theatrical pageant, supervising the
scenery and forty costumes. He went on to gain first class honours in both parts
of the Tripos with a mark of distinction.
In late 1929 my parents married in the face of strong family opposition. It is
not hard to see why: my father had an income of £1 a week from a scholarship for
postgraduate work, supplemented occasionally by money for designing and
painting scenery at the Festival Theatre. My mother, Cicely Cooper, who was tall
and elegant, beautifully dressed in clothes from Paris and Brussels, came to
Cambridge with a white Pekinese dog and no income of her own. They lived in a
flat above a gallery of modern art which they attempted to run with the painter
Julian Trevelyan. My mother hated Cambridge. It was not just that they were poor:
it was her feeling of isolation and exclusion from my father’s circle. When Jacob
Bronowski, Empson and my father had what Empson has described as ‘heady,
bouncy’ talk, my mother, extremely shy, felt unable to join in. They appreciated
her elegance and taste but she could not share their lives.
My father began research for a doctoral thesis on Thomas Gray, supervised by
Richards with whom he kept in touch until the end of his life. He edited
Shakespeare’s 1593 Quarto of Venus and Adonis, and together with Bronowski and
others founded and wrote for the magazine, Experiment. His knowledge of the
state of modern art in France in the late 1920s and early 1930s put him ahead of
others in the use of colour and materials and he designed sets and costumes for
productions of Locke and Gibbons’ Cupid and Death, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and
King Arthur, and The Bacchae of Euripides. From this one might have thought he
would go on to gain a fellowship, remaining for the whole of his life in
Cambridge, or that he would work in the theatre. But to his wife he wrote in 1929:
‘You know I hate “Art”, but I want to draw and that is the business of the lifetime,
not of leisure hours.’ This, in part, may have been why he gave up his work on
Gray. He taught in a boys’ school for a term in 1931 and then went to Paris for two
months to paint, supported by my mother who worked as a fashion model. In
1932 a small legacy enabled them to live in the south of France for a few months,
and in 1933 they were back in Cambridge, where my father painted scenery at
the Festival Theatre and where I was born. However, any progress at the theatre
was blocked by a serious disagreement with the director, Terence Gray, who wrote
to him: ‘Surely your experience of the theatre has shown you that, without unity
of conception, a play can only succeed by accident. Giving artists an opportunity
does not mean offering them the stage as a canvas independently of the play and
its method of performance. A scenic artist needs a capacity for co-operation.’ The
difficulty was one for which my father was open to criticism later in life. A failure
to submit coherent designs, clear synopses and final film scripts, and a working
method written on the backs of envelopes caused panic and resulted too often,
and perhaps not surprisingly, in producers being unable or unwilling to back his
ideas. At this point too, in a serious emotional and financial crisis, my mother
with a small baby had had enough of a cold basement flat and lack of money and
Cambridge, and returned to her parents. At this my father seriously attempted to
get his material on Gray published and to return to academic work. He obtained
testimonials from Richards and from his former tutor and in early 1934 sent a
long piece, ‘A Passage on the Progress of Poetry’ to TS Eliot at The Criterion. Eliot
welcomed its content and asked him to shorten it for publication. My father
seems never to have replied, probably because by the end of the year he had left
Cambridge to work for the GPO Film Unit, and we had settled in London where
my sister was born.
Stuart Legg, a contemporary at Cambridge, had introduced my father to John
Grierson, the founder of the Unit. Although Grierson gave my father a job
editing, designing and directing documentary film, they did not get on well.
Their views of the role of public service cinema could never be reconciled.
Between 1934 and 1939 my father was involved in twelve films, some lightweight
(Post Haste and Pett and Pott), some visually experimental (The Birth of a Robot), and
a number which demonstrated his interest in the machine. While making films
he was still painting and by the mid-1930s had become involved in surrealism.
He had by then met Ronald Penrose the painter and art collector, and Edouard
Mesens, a Belgian painter and gallery owner. Penrose’s close friendship with
Picasso and André Breton was instrumental in bringing surrealist ideas to this
country and in the scheme for an International Surrealist Exhibition in 1936. My
father translated the poetry of the surrealist, Paul Eluard, and Eluard and his wife
Nusch remained my parents’ close friends. The International Surrealist
Exhibition was a jeu d’esprit but from it came Edouard Mesens’ London Gallery
in Cork Street and the magazine, London Bulletin, on which both my parents
worked at one time or another. At this moment my father saw himself as having
‘survived the Theatre and English Literature at Cambridge and…connected with
colour film direction and racehorses’. But ‘to be already a “painter”, a “writer”,
an “artist”, a “surrealist” what a handicap’.
In 1936, the public debate about the abdication of Edward VIII saw politicians
and the press asserting that they knew what the public really felt about the
conduct and ultimate fate of the King and Mrs Simpson. My father, together with
Stuart Legg and David Gascoyne, felt strongly that more should be done to
attempt to discover the national consciousness through ‘an anthropology of our
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own people’. In a letter to The New Statesman signed by anthropologist Tom
Harrison, Charles Madge, then working on the Daily Mirror, and my father, the
aims of Mass Observation were set out – an invitation to self-selected ‘Mass
Observers’ from all over the country who would be ready to write ‘reports’ on
their day-to-day lives. My father’s involvement in Mass Observation was, in fact,
short-lived. He worked on one large project with Charles Madge, publishing
observers’ ‘reports’ on Coronation Day, May 12th 1937, but then moved back into
film. The scientific analysis of the ‘reports’ did not interest him; what was
important to his work was the content. He himself had written poetry in report
form before 1936, and in 1937 he wrote monthly reports on his own day on the
12th of each month. In later life he would occasionally write reports of a
particular day: the weather; how he felt mentally and physically; the content of
the day’s newspapers and his work.
At this point it is possible to discern a change in my father’s work. England
was a more serious place at the end of the decade: unemployment and the real
threat of war affected everyone physically and intellectually. My mother’s younger
brother had been killed fighting for the Spanish Republic at Jarama. Until the late
thirties it seemed as though my father had dealt only in ideas. Now other peoples’
daily concerns became important. In 1938 he did a series of talks on the radio on
poetry and national life. Poetry, he said, enabled man to deal with himself: to
protect and arm himself. He spoke of Apollinaire who said that the poet must
stand with his back to the future because he was unable to see it; it was in the past
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that he would discover who he was and how he had come to be. In this sense my
father began to work on material that was later built into Pandaemonium. In July
1938 he edited an issue of the London Bulletin devoted to the machine. A ‘collection
of texts on the Impact of the Machine’ was included: these were the germ of
Pandaemonium. In 1939 he went north to make a film, Spare Time, which drew
directly on his Mass Observation work. This visit he later described to Allen Hutt
as the most important turning point in his life. He had never been to the industrial
north before and wrote to my mother, ‘Cotton seems to produce a desolation
greater – more extended – than any other industry…The desolation – the peculiar
kind of human misery which it expresses comes I think from the fact that
“Cotton” simply means work: At Manchester there was a sort of thin wet sunlight
which makes it look pathetic. It has a grim sort of fantasy. And a certain dignity
of its own from being connected with certain events in history.’
With the outbreak of war, my father’s work with what later became the Crown
Film Unit had intensified; between 1939 and 1950 he worked on twenty films. My
mother, my sister and I went to America in 1940 and he had no permanent base:
his books and our furniture went into store, and he worked all over the country on
location: not the ideal conditions for working on an extended literary project. It is
for the films made between 1940 and 1944 that he is best known. In 1941 he
made Listen to Britain, a film without commentary which is close in some ways
to the construction of Pandaemonium: each a series of images carefully placed to
illuminate not just themselves in isolation but each other. In 1943 he wrote and
directed Fires Were Started which used amateurs as actors. His relations with other
people had changed for the better, as he himself admitted. The men and women
in the film were asked to stage real fires in a phoney blitz and it was dangerous.
The writer, William Sansom, who served as a fireman during the war and acted in
the film wrote ‘Why did we do these things? In a way, they looked and felt more
dangerous than they were, and we were in uniform and duty bound. Yet I think
also our immediate acceptance came because it was Jennings who asked for it,
and we had by then developed a kind of hero worship for him. Humphrey had a
personal passion, an obsessive drive and the knowledge that he was a thoroughly
intelligent tough aesthete carried him way above the ordinary run.’ Making a film
in Wales about the destruction of the Lidice in 1943 my father wrote ‘I feel we
have really begun to get close to the men – not just as individuals – but also as a
class – with an understanding between us: so that they don’t feel we are just
photographing them as curios or wild animals or “just for propaganda”’ adding
that he had got out the material assembled years back on the Industrial
Revolution to give a series of talks to miners in the Swansea Valley on poetry and
the Industrial Revolution which is ‘really a golden opportunity – so doing some
work on that, I have got as far once again as thinking of it as a book and looking
for a publisher and so on. Masses of new material – but again no time, or very
little.’ He made contact with Herbert Read at Routledge, who gave him a contract
for a book to be delivered by June. But film location work, including filming the
invasion of Sicily, made that impossible.
In early 1944 he moved to Allen Hutt’s house in Camden Town, where he
lived until his death in 1950. Here he had not only his books and a settled life
but also Allen Hutt’s encouragement. My father’s politics have been crudely
assigned to being of the left. But it was not as simple as that. He described them
in 1944 as ‘those of William Cobbett’. Like Orwell in The Lion and the Unicorn he
was intensely patriotic, believing that patriotism was not just the possession of
the right. His view of Britain at the end of the war is expressed in the film Diary
for Timothy which reflects on how life would be in post-war years. ‘England has,
you will find, changed a great deal’, he wrote to my mother, ‘not so much as any
one person is different but the young coming up are pretty determined – and
people in general have had a good think…are very definite as to what went
wrong five years ago.’
After the war, my father left the Crown Film Unit to work with Ian Dalrymple,
the producer with whom he had the greatest rapport during the war. Together
they looked at a number of possibilities: a film of HE Bates’ The Purple Plain, for
which he went to Burma for three months in 1947; a film about the century of
industrialism between 1846 and 1946; a film on the London Symphony Orchestra
at work. None of these came to anything. He made three films between 1947 and
1950 which are generally regarded as a critical disappointment. In 1950 he went
to Greece to make a film on health for the European Economic Commission. He
died in an accident on the island of Poros. He was forty-three years old.
My father’s method of working on Pandaemonium has been compared with
Isaiah Berlin’s artist who hopped from subject to subject: the fox who had no
continuity of thought and aesthetic approach, no evolution. I believe that
although on the surface he gave the impression of being foxlike, my father was
inwardly more like Berlin’s hedgehog: he might seem to be hopping about, but in
fact he was in pursuit of one end: the purpose of the poet. He wrote ‘The poets are
guardians of the Animistic system; the scientist of the Materialist system.’
When it was first published, some reviewers believed Pandaemonium was an
anthology. It is not. Unlike an anthology where the texts may be ordered but are
discrete, its composition can be compared to a film: each piece moves on to the
next, telling a story which never stops. My father used the word ‘image’
constantly, whether about film, painting or writing. Each piece in the book is an
image of thoughts, ideas and experiments from 1660 onwards. They show how
the Industrial Revolution could inspire wonder and horror. They show how the
pastoral land of Britain was transformed – for better or for worse. The readers
must make up their minds.
In 1982 Riverside Studios in London staged a major exhibition of my father’s
paintings, photographs and collages, with screenings of his films. Roland
Penrose, David Gascoyne and Lindsay Anderson discussed the importance of
his work. This event led indirectly to the publication of an edition of
Pandaemonium in 1985.
Since then interest in the work and ideas of Humphrey Jennings has grown.
There have been conferences in London and Paris, and his films screened at
film festivals in London, Paris and Marseille. A conference at the Imperial War
Museum led indirectly to a Blue Plaque being installed on the house where he
lived in Camden Town. In 2007 in Walberswick, Suffolk, where he was born a film
festival was held by the village to mark his centenary.
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A number of books, theses and monographs have been brought out on his life
and work. The Humphrey Jennings Film Reader, a collection of letters, scripts and
poetry edited by Kevin Jackson was published in 1993. Kevin Jackson also wrote a
biography published in 2004. Kevin Macdonald made a film about his work for
Channel 4 in 2000, now on DVD. The British Film Institute has brought out a
complete collection of Jennings’ films on DVD.
A quote from Marx’s Das Kapital typed out by Humphrey Jennings for the
Pandaemonium project; overleaf, quotes from Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven
and Hell, and The Magazine of Domestic Economy
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Last, Danny Boyle and Frank Cottrell Boyce were strongly influenced by
Pandaemonium when they staged the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics in London
in July 2012. The millions of people who watched the ceremony on television
would have been unknowingly touched by the genius of Humphrey Jennings.
The present book is about one third of the original text. One day when
money can be found it is planned that the complete text will be published
with illustrations.
© Marie-Louise Jennings 2012
Václav Klaus in Pembroke
Max Reibman
On 24 April 2013, Pembroke played host
to the provocative economist and former
President of the Czech Republic, Václav
Klaus, who delivered the third annual
Adam Smith Lecture in Political
Economy to a packed, standing-room
only audience in the Old Library. The
lecture series is endowed through the
generosity of Dr. Madsen Pirie, the cofounder and current President of the
London-based think tank, the Adam Smith Institute. As Klaus reminded
listeners, it has the crucial but not always celebrated task of keeping ‘the name of
Adam Smith alive’. Entitled Smithian Inspirations and Their Difficult Fate in Central
Europe, Klaus’ lecture was an impassioned plea for market-friendly policies and a
tribute to the late British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, who was, Klaus
suggested, in the second half of the 20th century the pre-eminent practitioner of
the economic and social vision Smith articulated 200 years earlier. As an homage
to Thatcher and what her supporters have argued were her close intellectual ties
to Smith, Klaus’ lecture paralleled many of the themes emphasised by Nigel
Lawson – the long-serving Chancellor of the Exchequer in the 1980s – and
Charles Moore – the journalist and authorised biographer of Mrs Thatcher – who
delivered the Adam Smith Lectures in Pembroke in 2011 and 2012, respectively.
Amid the fallout of the European debt crisis and as Central and Eastern European
countries continue to negotiate their entry into the Eurozone, Klaus’ lecture
provided a more focused window into the politics of transition economies and a
uniquely Central European perspective on both the legacy of Thatcher and the
future of European economic integration more broadly.
After a spirited welcome – partially in Czech – from the Master, Sir Richard
Dearlove, who was posted to Prague early in his own career as a young British
intelligence officer, Klaus was quick to stress that he was not a ‘Smith scholar’,
only a ‘lifelong humble student…of this great economic and moral philosopher’.
Trained as an economist in communist-era Czechoslovakia, Klaus, by his own
admission, came late to Smith. Along with the other pre-Marx economists, Smith
was viewed favourably but, according to Klaus, only as a minor figure who failed
to warrant the attention directed toward Marx. At the time, Marx was considered
in official Czechoslovak economic circles to be the ‘original actor and scholar’ of
modern economic theory. In a revealing anecdote that says much about his flair
for independence, Klaus described how he rejected this view openly in a 1967
lecture on Das Kapital, in which he dismissed Marx as a ‘post-Ricardian of lesser
importance’. In what might have unsettled the Czechoslovak economic
establishment only several years earlier, Klaus explained how this view was
possible in the brief but more open political climate following a stifling recession
of the early 1960s and amid new challenges to state economic planning and
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capital controls. Soon the Soviet and Warsaw Pact intervention put an end to the
Prague Spring of 1968, and as Klaus lamented, Smith was effectively forgotten in
Czechoslovakia for another 20 years.
At a time when Keynes influenced much mainstream academic thinking and
economic policymaking, Thatcher, Klaus observed, should be credited with
shifting the intellectual paradigm back to Smith. In creating a ‘second
renaissance of Smith’, Klaus applauded Thatcher’s promotion of capitalist
leaders, ‘not trade union ones’, and her adherence to ‘markets without
objectives’, as opposed to the then fashionable ‘Third Way’ of economic thinking,
which Klaus claimed to be the ‘fastest way to the Third World’. Klaus reminded
listeners that Smith was conditioned in the century following the Peace of
Westphalia, which protected the autonomy of the principalities of Central
Europe, and reasoned that Smith himself would have been a sceptic of European
integration and its main, policymaking framework of a monetary union.
‘Freedom and prosperity’ Klaus mused, ‘cannot be saved by suddenly enlightened
politicians’, and he insisted instead that society – and Europe, in particular –
should allow for a ‘Hayekian spontaneous evolution’ of financial markets and the
global economy.
As the effects of the most recent European debt crisis continue to unfold,
elements of Klaus’ larger Euro-scepticism seem to have been vindicated. The
Eurozone is not, as Klaus argues in his 2012 book, The Shattering of Illusions, a
catch-all solution to Europe’s problems. Seen in even greater historical context,
his book’s very title – which both the Master and Klaus agreed was a
mistranslation – is itself a rejection of what the British journalist Norman Angell
proclaimed in a 1909 pamphlet, Europe’s Optical Illusion, to be the nearimpossibility of war given the existing, close economic arrangements between
Britain and the Continent. World War I erupted five years later and then, as now,
close economic integration – although not institutionalised – failed to curb rising
political tensions.
Elsewhere, however, Klaus’ economic prescriptions have been confronted by
the reality of the 2008 crisis and the consequences of 21st century financial
engineering. ‘Spontaneous evolution’ produced the alphabet soup of financial
products derived from the securitization of housing debt. Where would Smith
have stood on regulating CDOs, CDSs, SPVs, and other off-balance sheet
derivatives? Even outside the Eurozone and exempt from participating in
sovereign bailouts, the Czech economy has not been insulated from wider credit
disruptions and a dampening of demand for its exports in Germany, by far its
largest trading partner. If Klaus, too, preserved the independence of his country’s
central bank, it was an aggressive central bank rate cut – a form of state
intervention in the market – in August 2008 that helped the Czech economy
cushion the initial blow of a broader European economic downturn. For her part,
Thatcher, as Erik Berglof of the European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development argued recently in the Financial Times, understood the need for a
radical transformation but not a wholesale destruction of the state’s relationship
to the market in Central and Eastern Europe. Not an absolute Euro-sceptic (as
some see her), she strategically used the path of EU accession – including both
carrots and sticks – Berglof writes, as an incentive to bring about reforms in
the former Czechoslovakia; successful policies which, as Klaus conceded, were
already in place by the time he took office in 2003.
Still, if Klaus’ interpretation of Smith, Thatcher, and larger market philosophy
are debatable, he presented his views openly and with a style and panache that
enlivened the evening. He gladly entertained a wide range of questions and, as
the Master commented at the close of the lecture, the evening presented a rare
glimpse into the worldview of an accomplished Central European economist and
public servant whose career spanned the Cold War, and whose Presidency
straddled both the emergence of, and potential existential challenges to, the EU.
Klaus remains, above all else, an acute observer and participant in all of Europe’s
pressing political and economic debates, and his 2013 Adam Smith Lecture in the
Old Library will surely be a memorable one.
Photograph by Nigel Luckhurst
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A Sermon for the Commemoration of Benefactors
Peter Meadows
The following sermon was preached at Pembroke College, on 12 May 2013
346 years ago yesterday, on Saturday 11th May 1667, the funeral of Matthew
Wren, Bishop of Ely, took place in this Chapel. It was certainly the most lavish
ceremony to have taken place here. Two years earlier Wren had come here, on
21st September 1665, St. Matthew’s Day, to consecrate the new Chapel, his
thank-offering to his College for having been restored to his bishopric along
with the monarchy in 1660, after eighteen years’ imprisonment in the Tower of
London under the Commonwealth and Oliver Cromwell. In 1667 Wren’s body
was brought from Ely House, Holborn, his London home, and the coffin lay in
state for two days at the University Registry in the Old Schools. It was then
brought along King’s Parade in a procession with family, university and college
figures, some of the craftsmen who had worked on the Chapel while it was being
built, and heralds from London, led by Norroy King of Arms, William Dugdale,
who had planned the ceremony carefully with Wren, on traditional lines. Wren
even revived the custom of creating funeral regalia, having commissioned the
silver crozier and silver-gilt mitre, which are placed in front of the lectern today
(not made to be worn: Anglican bishops took to wearing mitres only at the
end of the 19th century), as they were displayed at the funeral, not really for show
and display, but rather for seemliness and tradition. Dugdale was a great
antiquary, and so was Matthew Wren. Few people in England knew as much
about ancient liturgy and ceremony as Wren, schooled as he had been as the
chaplain, and in the chapel, of Lancelot Andrewes. Wherever Wren had access to
archives and manuscripts, here, as Fellow and President, at Peterhouse, as
Master, at Windsor, where he was Dean, and at Ely, he filled notebook after
notebook with extracts from the archives, neatly written in his small, spidery
hand, quite often preserving information which otherwise had been lost. We
who look after the College archives are in considerable awe of him for his skill
and industry in deciphering and transcribing. If the Church of England had ever
taken to creating saints (though it came close with the Blessed Charles the
Martyr), and if Matthew Wren had been so honoured, we are sure that he would
have been the patron saint of archivists.
Wren, then, was a tireless antiquary, fascinated by the past and tradition. As a
disciple of Lancelot Andrewes he was also filled with a sense of the ‘beauty of
holiness’, that what was done in churches and chapels should be done ‘decently
and in order’, what we might call today ‘High Church’. In his will he wrote ‘I had
bound myself by a secret promise in my prison unto the Almighty that if ever it
should please him to restore my auncient estate unto me, I should returne unto
him by some holy and pious employment, that summe and more which by way
of his gracious providence was unexpectedly conveyed unto me during my
eighteen yeares captivity in the Tower of London.’ Why then did he choose
to give us a new Chapel, and not seek to restore and re-beautify the old one?
That room which we now call the Old Library, where we shall go after this
service, had been the Chapel since the Foundress’s time. It had been wrecked by
the Parliamentarian iconoclast William Dowsing in 1644, when despite spirited
resistance from the Fellows Dowsing smashed the stained glass windows and
pulled down other ‘idolatrous’ or ‘superstitious’ images, but it had been
restored, no doubt in a plain style, by the Puritan Fellows intruded during the
Commonwealth. Why did a man such as Wren, rooted and grounded in tradition
and the records of the past, not seek to make his ‘holy and pious employment’
the refitting and readornment of the Foundress’s chapel? And why, once he had
decided not to do this, did he build his new Chapel in the classical style, without
any allusions to the traditional Gothic?
I think the answer might be this. We think of this Chapel as non-symbolic of
Wren himself. If he had wanted it to commemorate himself, he might have asked
for little wrens to be carved among the swags and festoons of the decorative
woodwork, or intertwined Ms and Ws to be worked into the scheme. There are
none. The stall cushions, with their coats of arms of Ely impaling Wren, were
made for Wren’s London chapel, now St. Etheldreda’s, Ely Place, and came to us
only after Wren’s death. He ordained this Chapel to be his burial place, for as he
wrote in his will ‘Now of this new chapel haveing purposely caused the East end
to be soe raysed, as that under the holy table there is a Vault strongly inclosed,
My Will is that (if God soe please) it shalbe for my own Sepulture, and for
the interring of the succeeding Masters of the said College if they shall have a
minde thereto.’ The present east end beyond the marble columns is 19th-century;
under where I am standing is the vault, in which there are nine stone sarcophagi,
the first enclosing Matthew Wren’s coffin; as architectural archivist I have seen
this vault twice in recent years, when it has been open for photography or
measurement. Wren’s sarcophagus is the second smallest, exceeding in length
only the tomb of his son Thomas Wren. Wren’s tomb, like the other eight, is
inscribed with his details. But here’s the point. Nowhere in his will did Matthew
Wren ask for any monument or tablet to be placed in the Chapel to indicate
that he had built it or that it housed his mortal remains. Not even, as was placed
over the remains of his nephew Sir Christopher Wren, the designer of this Chapel,
in Christopher’s masterpiece, St. Paul’s Cathedral, the inscription which in
translation from the Latin reads ‘Reader, if you seek his memorial, look around
you.’ The Chapel might not have any overt commemorative symbolism, but I
think it was symbolic in Wren’s mind. I think it was partly a symbolic memorial
to King Charles I, whom Wren has served as chaplain, both as Prince of Wales and
as King, as Dean of Windsor and as Bishop, successively of Hereford, Norwich
and Ely, and most intimately, as Dean of the Chapel Royal in London from 1636.
Ten years earlier the architect Inigo Jones completed a new Chapel Royal, and that
chapel, which still stands today, just off The Mall facing St. James’s Palace, was
the first purely classical religious building in England. Matthew Wren’s chapel
was the second.
‘Quiet determination’ might be one way to sum up Matthew Wren’s religious
outlook. His descendant Stephen Wren compiled a family history called
Parentalia which was published in 1750. In it he wrote this about his ancestor,
adapting the funeral oration which John Pearson, Master of Trinity made – in
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Latin – at Matthew Wren’s funeral in 1667. ‘Among all his Virtues, there were two
especially worthy of Remembrance and Imitation, his Modesty and Humility; he
never asked the least Reward; never solicited any Man by Word or Letter; never
sought any Dignity he enjoyed, but always obtained what he never sued for … In
the greatest Affluence of Propriety and Plenty, he gave no Way to Pleasure, but
study’d and practis’d the highest Degrees of Temperance and Anxiety; he drank
no Wine for almost twenty Years, (except that of the sacred Chalice,) and would
eat on no other than a wooden Trencher; he persever’d to macerate his body with
Abstinence and Fasting, indulgent enough to others, severe to none but himself,
as if he had been weary of this Life, and made haste to Eternity. Nor though his
own Family was most dear to him, did he ever exceed the Bounds of his usual
moderation in providing for it …’
Those are words spoken in tribute to Matthew Wren, but we have words of
Wren himself, which seem to express something of the same outlook from
earlier in his life. In February 1627 he preached before King Charles I in the new,
classical-style Chapel Royal, a sermon which was published the same year,
entitled ‘Feare God, my sonne, and the King’, a text taken from the Book of
Proverbs. It was a long, carefully constructed sermon, very much in the style of
Wren’s mentor, Lancelot Andrewes. Wren teased out the religious meaning of
the word ‘fear’showing how it means to be in awe of God rather than in dread of
Him, and how it can be a positive rather than a negative state of mind. Why, he
asks, does the Holy Spirit so often prompt us to fear God, rather than to love Him
or praise Him or trust and obey Him? With a slight, but not inappropriate, play on
words and meanings, he explains the Holy Spirit’s prompting in this way:
‘It makes us look well to our Eare, for feare we should heare unprofitably; to our
Eye, for feare we should glance unreverently; to our Love, for feare ought slip from us
which God may take for unkinde and unlovely; to our Obedience, for feare we grow
carelesse or presumptuous; to our Faith, for feare it be immoderate; to our Griefe, for feare
it be unwarrantable; to our Devotion, for feare it be hypocriticall; to our Religion, for feare
it be superstitious; to our whole Life, for feare it be licentious … All is well if God be but
rightly feared.’
There were, as Bill Grimstone, like Wren a former President of the College,
points out in his book Building Pembroke Chapel, many reasons why Wren made his
benefaction of a Chapel to us. ‘Gratitude to Pembroke, a personal mausoleum, a
symbol of Restoration and an affirmation of the bishop’s power in Cambridge’,
Bill Grimstone writes. And, as I have suggested, personal gratitude to a King
whom he had served faithfully and so long.
‘Fear God, my sonne, and the King’ he had preached back in 1627. It shouldn’t
be forgotten that Wren was, with John Cosin, Master of Peterhouse and from 1660
Bishop of Durham, one of the revisers of the Prayer Book of 1662, and in that
book for the first time, alongside services for the Gunpowder Plot and the
Restoration of King Charles II, was a form of prayer to be used on the anniversary
of the execution of Charles I in 1649. The co-operation with John Cosin over the
Prayer Book might have led to conversation with him on other topics, for when
Cosin became Bishop of Durham he created a new Chapel at his palace, Auckland
Castle, converting the great hall of the Castle into the Chapel which was to be his
place of burial. And while Pembroke Chapel was being built, Cosin gave money
to complete Peterhouse Chapel, which Matthew Wren had had built, with a stone
east end.
Wren’s promise to himself, in his prison in the Tower of London, was that he
would return a thank-offering to God, ‘by some holy and pious employment’ of
his restored fortune. This glorious Chapel is the result of his promise, and here,
year by year, we give thanks to God for the gifts of Matthew Wren and all our
benefactors with reverence and joy and goodly fear. ‘The fear of the Lord is the
beginning of wisdom’ sang the psalmist, and Matthew Wren said Amen to that in
his sermon before the King: ‘All is well if God be but rightly feared.’
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Robert Stoneley and Core-Mantle Boundary Stoneley Modes
Paula Koelemeijer
Robert Stoneley was a Pembroke Fellow from 1943 until his death in 1976 and made many
important contributions to geophysics and in particular seismology. Current Pembroke
graduate student Paula Koelemeijer1 and Pembroke Fellow Dr Arwen Deuss2 have now made
the first observations of the seismic waves, the existence of which Robert Stoneley theoretically
predicted in 1924.
Robert Stoneley FRS3
Robert Stoneley was born in London on 14 May 1894 and went to Parmiter’s
School and the City of London School, where he was awarded several medals for
arithmetic and chemistry. He entered St. John’s College, Cambridge in 1912 with
a £40 Scholarship in Natural Sciences, intending to specialise in Chemistry, which
had been his passion from the age of 12. However, upon taking Mathematics in
his first year, his interest in Chemistry diminished and he fully focused on
Mathematics in later years, obtaining a First Class with distinction in 1916.
Robert spent several years lecturing in Sheffield and Leeds before returning to
Cambridge in 1934 as a University Lecturer in Mathematics. After having been
Director of Studies and College Lecturer from 1936 at Pembroke, he became a
Fellow on 9 March 1943. He remained in Cambridge, first as a Stokes Lecturer
(named after Sir George Stokes (1819–1903), an important physicist and
mathematician, and another Fellow of Pembroke) and then as a Reader in
Theoretical Geophysics until his retirement in 1961. During World War II he was
called on to carry a very heavy teaching programme as well as serving in the
Home Guard. He taught many classes on waves, tides, meteorology and elastic
vibrations in relation to seismology. Even after his ‘retirement’, Robert greatly
enjoyed his work and spent several years as Professor at institutions in the
United States.
In addition to his research and teaching, Robert also took an active part in
promoting geophysics. He occasionally even provided some of his own funds to
pay shortfalls in the salaries of staff maintaining important seismological data
bases. He was honoured for his many contributions to the geophysics community
in several ways: he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1935,
Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and had the honour of being elected
Fellow of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in 1970.
Robert was a keen cyclist, going on many cycle tours across the country. He
also had a great interest in botany and music. He always warmly welcomed
students and visitors to his house. Robert married Dorothy Minn in 1927 and
they had two sons who are both members of Pembroke College and hold PhDs
from the University of Cambridge. He passed away on 2 February 1976 in
Cambridge after having celebrated his 81st birthday in Emmanuel College with a
splendid party and many friends. Robert Stoneley is still remembered at
Pembroke, with an undergraduate award named after him for the best Tripos
performance in Earth Sciences.
Stoneley waves
Within the geophysics community, Robert Stoneley is mainly known for his
work on surface waves; he greatly developed the theory and analysis when only
hand calculators were available. Surface waves travel along the Earth’s surface
and are analogous to ripples on a pond of water. The amplitude of these waves
dies away with increasing depth in the Earth, leaving them ‘trapped’ on the
surface. These waves are typically the largest amplitude arrivals in a seismogram
and cause the most destruction during an earthquake (see (a) and (b) on the
diagram on page 31).
Robert Stoneley, photographed by Walter Bird
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After very large earthquakes, surface waves circle the Earth multiple times,
interfering with each other and making the Earth ring like a bell. These free
oscillations or normal modes can last for months and are like the different tones
of a musical instrument. Normal modes appear as clear peaks in the frequency
spectrum of long temporal recordings of seismic data (see (c) on the diagram
below). The observed frequencies depend on the internal structure of the Earth,
similar to the dependence of the sound of a guitar string on its thickness.
Robert Stoneley explored the occurrence of surface waves at interfaces within the
Earth. On the Earth’s surface, the existence of surface waves arises from the fact
that the atmosphere surrounds the solid Earth. At solid-liquid interfaces within
the Earth, one could expect a similar phenomenon of ‘trapped’ waves. In one of
his first papers in 1924, Robert theoretically predicted that these interface waves
exist and derived the corresponding equations.4 Such waves have since then been
observed along the sides of oil wells and at the bottom of the ocean using local
recording instruments. These interface waves have become known as ‘Stoneley’
waves, although he himself did not like to use this name. Similar to ‘Stoneley’
waves or trapped travelling waves, one would also expect equivalent ‘Stoneley’
modes; standing waves trapped at solid-liquid interfaces inside the Earth.
The core-mantle boundary and our research
Located at 3000 km, half way to the centre of the Earth, the boundary between
the fluid outer core and solid mantle experiences temperatures of 4000°C and
pressures 150 billion times that at the Earth’s surface. This region is the largest
thermal and chemical interface in our planet and strongly influences convection
in the mantle, Earth’s magnetic field and the evolution of the Earth. Shallower
parts of the Earth can be studied using volcanic rock samples or gravity
measurements amongst other techniques, but to study the deep mantle we have
to resort to seismology for observations.
The velocity of seismic waves or the frequency of normal modes depends on
the material. Therefore, we use seismic observations to obtain information on
Earth’s internal structure. Travelling waves are used extensively to study the coremantle boundary region and have found many complex structures. However,
travelling waves are limited by the uneven distribution of earthquakes and
seismic stations over the globe. Normal modes do not suffer from this limitation
and automatically provide a global coverage. The additional advantage of using
normal modes is that they are directly sensitive to density variations in the Earth;
a property that is hard to constrain using other data types.
My PhD project, which is partially funded by the Nahum Scholarship in
Physics from Pembroke College, has been focused on studying the core-mantle
boundary region using normal modes. This project is part of a larger ERC
research project on Earth’s core which is headed by Pembroke Fellow Dr Arwen
Deuss. Over the last few years, we have put many efforts into using normal
modes to constrain seismic structures in the deep mantle.
Core-mantle boundary Stoneley modes
The core-mantle boundary is a solid-fluid interface and hence we expect Stoneley
modes to exist there as well (see (d) in the diagram on page 31). These modes are
only sensitive to structures near the core-mantle boundary and observations of
these modes would provide a wealth of information regarding possible
structures in the deep mantle. However, even though these core-mantle
boundary Stoneley modes had been predicted by Robert Stoneley now more than
70 years ago, they had not yet been observed.
Core-mantle boundary Stoneley modes are extremely difficult to observe at
the surface of the Earth as their amplitude is negligible there. They only
produce a very small signal in seismic data and previous attempts to observe
these Stoneley modes have therefore been unsuccessful due to the lack of data
available. The last decade has seen several large magnitude earthquakes,
increasing the amount of useful seismic data for studying normal modes
significantly. This has resulted in a large data set containing earthquakes such
as the Sumatra event of 2004 and the Japan earthquake of 2011.5 Following
Pembroke’s tradition in geophysics and motived by Stoneley’s earlier work, we
searched for the small amplitude signal of core-mantle boundary Stoneley
modes and successfully made the first ever robust observations of eight
different Stoneley modes.6 Comparison of our results with predictions for
existing Earth models and travelling wave data produces a very good match. In
addition, we demonstrate the sensitivity of these new observations to density
variations in the deep mantle. As no consensus exists regarding deep mantle
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density variations, we are currently using our core-mantle boundary Stoneley
mode observations to obtain tighter constraints on seismic structures in Earth’s
core-mantle boundary region.
Notes
1 Paula Koelemeijer (2010) is a graduate student at Pembroke College and was secretary of
the Graduate Parlour Committee in 2011–2012. She is working on her PhD with Dr Arwen
Deuss in the Department of Earth Sciences and has a MSc and BSc from Utrecht University.
2 Arwen Deuss is an University Reader in Earth Sciences at the Department of Earth
Sciences and a Fellow and Graduate Tutor at Pembroke College since 2004. She did her
DPhil in Oxford and has a Drs (MSc) from Utrecht University.
3 For further information about Robert Stoneley, see H Jeffreys, ‘Robert Stoneley’ (1976)
22 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 554, and B Bolt, ‘Memorial: Robert
Stoneley FRS’ (1976) 66(3) Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 1021.
4 R Stoneley, ‘Elastic waves at the separation of two solids’ (1924) 106(738) Proceedings of
the Royal Society of London Series A 416.
5 A Deuss, J Ritsema, and H-J van Heijst, ‘A new catalogue of normal-mode splitting
function measurements up to 10mHz’ (2013) 193(2) Geophysical Journal International 920.
6 P Koelemeijer, A Deuss, and J Ritsema, ‘Observations of core-mantle boundary Stoneley
modes’ (2013) 40(11) Geophysical Research Letters 2557.
Searching for Charlie Andrews
Ramachandra Guha
Charles Freer Andrews (12 February 1871 – 5 February 1940) was a Pembroke graduate ( first
class in Classics and Theology in 1893) and former head of the Pembroke College Mission in
London. He was a close friend of Mahatma Gandhi, and persuaded Gandhi to return to India
from South Africa to help lead the cause of Indian independence. The article below, by
distinguished Indian historian Ramachandra Guha about his search for Charles Andrews’
grave in, was first published in the Indian Calcutta Telegraph.
It was on my last trip to Calcutta that I went searching for the grave of Charlie
Andrews. A friend had told me that it was in a cemetery on Lower Circular Road.
I decided to walk there from my hotel in Park Street. Fortunately, it was winter, so
the weather was (relatively) mild. More fortunately, I had as my companion the
historian, Mukul Kesavan, who (difficult though this may be for readers of The
Telegraph to believe) is even more interesting to listen to in person than he is to
read in print.
Mukul lived his first five years in Calcutta. I had spent exactly the same time in
the city, also at a stretch. Since this was when I was an adult, he generously
allowed me to be the guide. I walked confidently down Russell Street and Little
Russell Street to reach Lower Circular Road. We then, on my advice, turned left,
and walked under the flyover that wasn’t there when I was in the city. We passed
Hazra Road and Landsdowne Road, but there was no sign of any cemetery. I told
Mukul that it must be further down, near where I knew some other Christian
institutions to be (such as La Martiniere and Bishop’s College). We walked on,
past the curve which gives the road its middle name, but we still couldn’t find it.
By now the sun was out, and we were sweating. We pushed on, because we had
started, and because the person we were in search of meant something to us.
Charles Freer Andrews was a priest from Cambridge who had identified
completely with India and Indians. When he died in Calcutta in April 1940, his
close friend, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, wrote that while the numerous
misdeeds of the English would be forgotten, ‘not one of the heroic deeds of
Andrews will be forgotten as long as England and India live.’ ‘If we really love
Andrews’ memory,’ said Gandhi, then ‘we may not have hate in us for
Englishmen, of whom Andrews was among the best and noblest. It is possible,
quite possible, for the best Englishmen and the best Indians to meet together and
never to separate till they have evolved a formula acceptable to both. The legacy
left by Andrews is worth the effort. That is the thought that rules me whilst
I contemplate the benign face of Andrews and what innumerable deeds of love he
performed so that India may take her independent place among the nations of
the earth.’
The next year, Andrews garnered more heartfelt praise from his other close
friend, Rabindranath Tagore. In April 1941, Tagore gave what turned out to be his
last major lecture – in fact, it had to be read out for him, since he was too ill. It was
entitled ‘Crisis in Civilization’. Here, Tagore chastised the British for their
imperial arrogance, before adding: ‘And yet it has been my privilege to come in
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contact with big-hearted Englishmen of surpassing goodness, and it is on
account of them that I have not lost faith in the people to whom they belonged.
There was Andrews, for instance; in him I had for a very close friend an
Englishman, a real Christian and a gentleman.… We in India are indebted to
Andrews for many acts of love and devotion. But speaking from a personal angle,
I am especially grateful to him for this reason: he helped me to regain in my old
age some of that sincere respect for the British people which I had acquired in my
youth under the power of their literature. The memory of Andrews perpetuates
for me the nobility in the British heart. I have counted men like him as my own
intimate friends and they are friends of all humanity. To have known such
men was for me an enrichment of my life. It is they who will save British honour
from shipwreck….’
Mukul Kesavan and I knew what Andrews had meant to the two greatest of
modern Indians. We knew also of his work on behalf of indentured labourers in
Fiji, Africa, and the Caribbean, for which he was given the title, ‘Deenbandhu’,
friend of the poor. But Andrews also spoke more directly to us, because of his
connection with our college, St Stephen’s. For some, this old Delhi institution is
identified with social privilege and Christian intolerance. That is certainly one
side of the college, but there is another side too, which emphasizes social
commitment and religious pluralism, and which, in the present as in the past, is
identified with the memory and example of Charlie Andrews.
Andrews taught at St. Stephen’s for 10 years, declining the job of principal so
that an Indian (SK Rudra) could be elevated in his place. To look for Andrews’s
grave was thus, for Mukul and me, to pay homage to the best traditions of our
college. And so we walked on, past the Park Street cemetery which housed the
bodies of those who were once rich and famous (and always white), in search of
the other place where our man lay buried. At last, after an hour on the road, we
saw a handsome red church. This, we thought, must surely be it.
As we entered the church we saw an old Anglo-Indian lady walking out. We
asked her where the graveyard was. She answered that there was none in this
church; however, a free-standing, so to say unattached, cemetery, did lie in the
direction from which we had come. We retraced our steps, and, walking more
slowly this time, scrutinized every wall for an entrance to tombstones within.
After about twenty minutes we found the graveyard. We had missed it on our way
up because it was on the other side of the road.
At the entrance to the Lower Circular Road Cemetery is a large board guiding
the visitor to where the poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt is buried. Within sight is
a smaller and neater sign, marking the last resting place of our good fellow
Stephanian. I had once seen a wonderful photograph of Charlie Andrews,
hanging at the entrance to the main library in Visva-Bharati. The decency of the
man was captured in his dress and posture; his manifest kindliness, in his
shining eyes. A photograph is of course more evocative than a sculpture; that
said, the bust of Andrews here was quite nice too, with his broad face and beard
chiselled to give a fair idea of how he actually looked.
We walked round the cemetery, to notice the names of those buried there a fair
sprinkling of Basus, Mitters, and Mullicks, the odd Gomes and Menezes, and
(in a nice and very Calcutta touch) a Patricia Wong. A cricket ball’s throw away lay
the Park Street Cemetery, where lay associates of Warren Hastings, governors,
and generals. There were other English graveyards in the city, but naturally
Andrews lay with the Indians. Another lovely touch was provided by the boys who
ran in and out of the line of graves, chasing the kites they had brought with them
to fly this Sunday, in one of the few open spaces left in the centre of an old and
very crowded city.
Before we left, we visited Andrews’s grave once more. We read the lettering
on the bust – this told us it had been recently installed, by the Old Boys of the
College, with the unveiling done by a man whom I recognized to be the most
distinguished Old Stephanian then resident in Calcutta. The likeness, as I said,
was close; but a somewhat jarring note was provided by an aluminium sheet that
had been hung above it. Mukul remarked that the protection was well intentioned
but inappropriate. A man who had identified with the humblest and most
vulnerable would not have minded if his gravestone was subject to periodic
droppings from the winged creatures of creation.
Ramachanda Guha at the grave of Charles Freer Andrews
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A photograph of Gandhi on his visit to Pembroke College in 1931
The Dame Ivy Compton Burnett Prize for Creative Writing 2013
This year, the prize was judged by the writer, poet, illustrator and natural
historian Helen Macdonald, who wrote the following comments on the
winning entry:
In ‘Fated Flesh’, an Oxford undergraduate in 1895 reads a report on the
sentencing of Oscar Wilde and reflects on his own background, life and sexuality.
This is an excellent piece of historical fiction with present-day personal and
political import. It is one of the best pieces of prose I have ever read from a
student: lyrical, moving and assured, with faultless narrative progression and
control. The narrative form reaches back to works of the late nineteenth-century,
yet never descends to pastiche or feels strained. It deals with big themes:
fantasies, models, families real and assumed; shame, guilt, independence, love,
identity and desire. The material world of the period is as expertly handled as the
characterisation. I particularly admired the way in which this piece demonstrates
and elucidates the physical manifestation of emotional states. The ambition and
quality of this piece leads me to hope – and suspect – that its writer is working on
longer pieces. A novel from this writer would be a glorious thing.
The author of ‘Fated Flesh’ is Thomas Crewe, a history graduate at Pembroke
College.
Fated Flesh
Rupert sat with the evening paper before him. He had run to fetch it, wet the
type with his sweat; he saw now that he had marked his fingers with it. He
remembered reading somewhere that criminals might be discovered this way,
betrayed by the stamp of the skin on their bones. His skin betrayed him now:
dumb witness to the panic he had set his teeth against as he handed over his
coins in the stationers, tracing in ink the very connection his studied calm had
been intended to deny. It occurred to him that perhaps all flesh is fated in this
way. Not in the sense of the seer at a fair, for he did not think that life follows
the crease of a palm, but in its conspiracy to force to the surface that which is
hidden, that which is wished away. Why should he be surprised, to find
darkness welling in his fingertips?
He decided to roll a cigarette, noticing how his hands shook and shivered
the tobacco out of the paper and into his lap. He had taken up smoking when
he first came up, conscious he intended it as a proof of some sort. Not just that
he was now an Oxford man, though of course it was that as well. In his own
mind he had thought of it as proof of an inheritance, which was not an
inheritance of the conventional sort, but of the startling kind one reads about
in Dickens, the kind that offers rescue or escape.
For the fact was that he loathed his parents. The idea had crept up on him like
an illness, and once it had established itself it was as futile to trace its progress
– in slights, scoldings, resentments – as to isolate the first sneeze, cough,
shiver. It existed. Pickled in their marriage, suspended in lifeless proximity,
Rupert’s parents had made his childhood surrogate for all their sour violence
and swallowed anguish. He had come to reek of their failure. Returning home
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after school was like stepping off the street into an alley: the air a little staler, the
voices of passers-by dimmed almost to nothing, echoes of forsaken vitality. He
had arrived in Oxford longing to break the neck of his stoppered youth, eager to
be carried off in its gushing torrent. And so he had pinched the cigarette
between his lips, taken his first breath, and begun life again.
But it was not so simple, not even for Pip or Mr Dorrit. The past will not
allow itself to be left behind; it will shave, put on a new suit of clothes, and take
your arm again. Even as he took his first unsteady steps in the world of men,
Rupert could feel its breath in his ear. But it was not his home that followed
him. Like a magic circle, its limits extended only so far as his parents could
stretch their misery; to escape it was to escape its power. It was the whisper of
something else, half-hidden and compelling, amplified by his changed
surroundings as the blood that beats in your ears when you submerge your head
in the bath. He had nerved himself to acknowledge it, to answer to what truth
there was in him; he had vowed he would not live on the surface only, as his
parents had done.
On his desk were volumes by Pater, Whitman and Symonds, their names
picked out in gilt. In them he had read, or thought he had read, of love between
men. It was a thing incredible to him that he should have bought these books
in broad daylight, a scandal almost that for this secret knowledge he had
exchanged coins stamped with the old Queen’s head. So strange was it that he
used to convince himself he had misunderstood, and for reassurance would
re-trace with his finger passages he knew by heart. But there was no mistaking
it. Passions he had spent years coldly strangling, still-born on his lips, were
made to speak. They were made honest and historic, polished until like marble
they admitted of no impurity, until they began to gleam in his imagination. Love
between men. How much nobler and purer it seemed than the stories his
friends traded like cards made yellow and shabby with over-use, how much
gentler, kinder. He remembered the childish pleasure he had felt when he had
noticed the correspondence: two fellows, to be fellows together. And this was
how he conceived it, as like the end of a rugger match, when in the fug of
victory someone would sling their arm around his shoulders and they would fall
in step together, encircled by warm damp jersey and the healthsome tang of
sweat. This was what it would feel like, he had thought, to balance one life
against another.
Now, smoking with stained fingers, Rupert scoffed at this pretension, at its
bloodlessness. He had imagined he could take this thing inside himself,
establish bounds within which it might be loosed; that he could corral desire
into this space, step back and smilingly observe it, as if it were a curiosity in a
cage. It was foolishness to have believed it would not catch him with its teeth,
that he would not press his lips to the oozing wound.
He had noticed Cooper look at him and spied the angle of his gaze. When
they sat hugger-mugger in someone’s set, he had felt him shift his weight so
that he might lean against his knee. Once, Rupert had absent-mindedly slipped
his hand into his hair, curled it softly in his fist, and Cooper had not moved an
inch. Finally, one evening the two of them had sat up later than the others in his
rooms, in that quiet coincident with the taking of too much wine. With the fire
low in the grate, Cooper had moved to leave, and as he crossed the room their
eyes had met. In that moment – he could not explain it – Rupert recognised an
admission. He had lurched to his feet, pressed against him, his hand surging
under his jacket and into the soft warmth of the small of his back; he had forced
his lips against his, their teeth knocking together as he pushed with his tongue.
Then he had pulled sharply away, and bundled Cooper roughly out the door
without another word. He had gone to his window and held his breath as he
watched his friend’s shadow cross the quad. Then he had hurriedly undressed,
got into bed and brought himself off under his nightclothes, with the frantic
furtiveness of a boy. The next morning, bleakly washing in his basin, he had
noticed a rash on his chin – it had taken some time before he realised it had
been caused by Cooper’s whiskers against his flesh. It was a badge of sin.
And now there was this; this newspaper reporting the sentencing of Mr
Oscar Wilde to two years hard labour. Standing in the dock, Wilde had spoken
nobly of a love that was pure and perfect, of David and Jonathan, Plato,
Michelangelo and Shakespeare. Apparently there had even been applause. But
Rupert knew, as the jury knew, and Oscar Wilde surely knew, that this was a
perfect lie. Love between men meant blackmail and bribery, stained sheets and
corrupted air. It itched under the skin, pulsed in the veins, sweated in the
darkness. It tasted of tobacco and claret; it was a rash on one’s chin.
He thought about what they were doing to Wilde now. He pictured him
driven round a prison yard, his velvet suit stained and matted, like the bloodied
fur of an animal gone under a carriage. Then he corrected himself, dissolving
the image in his head and beginning again. Of course he would not be wearing
a suit. They would have forced him into coarse overalls, and hacked off his long
hair with a razor. He wore the guise of a criminal now, and only the nature of
his crime distinguished him from the miserable mass. Would they mock him,
the other men, now they knew what sort of man he was? Or would they be too
afraid; too disgusted by his unnatural appetites? Even thinking about it made
Rupert sick to his stomach – had driven him to sit alone in his rooms this
evening, had made his hands shake. It was not that he thought it unjust, but
rather that he feared this might be justice after all; that Wilde had got what he
deserved. What he deserved. This same desire was tangled in Rupert too, was a
clew that would lead him in step with Wilde to degradation. Perhaps it already
had. When he had read the news he had thought: it should be me, I should be
in the dock for molesting Cooper.
And yet, and yet against this swarming terror he hoisted a fragile hope. The
morning after, Cooper had visited his rooms. They had stepped around each
other, clutching at words. Rupert had laid out tea-cups, feeling as he did so that
they were like props in a play, anchors to another reality. They had sat down and
looked at each other, silence suddenly announcing itself after minutes of
desultory conversation. Guilt prickled on Rupert’s neck, and flared where he
did not wish it. At last Cooper began to talk, at first so generally that Rupert had
anxiously strained for his meaning. But then his abstractions began to swing
into coherence, and Rupert realised that he was talking of it too – of love
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between men. It was then that Cooper had mentioned Oscar Wilde and Bosie
Douglas. Rupert had seen them of course – so had half of Oxford. He had seen
them in the summertime, walking close enough to share a shadow, smiles
sheltered under the brims of their hats. Cooper had seen them too, but had seen
something different. Cooper had spied them lodged in the coil of a college
staircase, their linen bright against the cool grey stone, their lilting voices
dancing its length, like light on water. Oblivious, alone in their togetherness,
held in their crook of stone, they seemed to have overlaid their existence onto
the world. And then Oscar had brought the boy’s golden head to his lips, kissed
it softly, softly. And Cooper’s hand was on Rupert’s, his eyes shining; ‘Like a
son’, he said.
B. COLLEGE NEWS
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NEW FELLOWS
Five new Fellows of the College introduce themselves to the Pembroke College
Cambridge Society in their own words:
WARREN GALLOWAY was appointed as a Post-doctoral
Research Associate in Organic Chemistry in October
2012. He writes: I was born in Dundee in 1981. The son of
an RAF officer, I grew up in a variety of different places,
spending time in other locations in Scotland, as well as
in England, Wales and Germany. I came to Cambridge
in 2000 to read Natural Sciences at Fitzwilliam College.
After finishing my undergraduate degree (taking
Chemistry at Part III), I stayed on to study for a PhD in
organic chemistry. My research focused around the use of
organic synthesis to discover new molecules with antibacterial activity. In
particular, I worked in a field known as diversity-oriented synthesis (DOS),
which involves the efficient generation of structurally, and thus functionally,
diverse small molecule collections. Using a DOS approach, we were able to
discover several new molecules that are capable of inhibiting the growth of
a wide variety of bacterial strains. These include the “superbug” methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which is resistant to many commonly
prescribed antibiotics.
I have remained in Cambridge for my postdoctoral studies. My research
continues to centre on the use of organic synthesis to make new biologically
active small molecules that can be used to understand and exploit biological
systems. In particular, I am interested in addressing two of the key scientific
factors underlying the disappointing degree of drug discovery successes by
pharmaceutical companies in recent years, namely: (1) the relative lack of
structural diversity in small molecule screening libraries, and (2) the relative lack
of biological targets that are exploited. Current topics of interest include: (1) the
use of DOS to discover new antibacterial agents, (2) the disruption of bacterial
intercellular signalling (quorum sensing) as a novel strategy to treat bacterial
infections, and (3) the design and synthesis of new small molecule modulators of
protein-protein interactions and their use as anti-cancer agents. Outside of the
laboratory I enjoy being involved in the undergraduate teaching process. I have
recently been elected to a temporary Lectureship in Organic Chemistry at
Cambridge. In addition, as the Director of Studies in Chemistry at Pembroke, I
have the privilege of being able to interact with a very talented cohort of young
chemists on a regular basis.
HENNING GRUNWALD was appointed as the University Lector in Modern
German History in October 2012. He writes: I was born in Göttingen, a small
university town in northern Germany. My parents never took the risk of the family
gathering moss, so we moved every five years or so, from Göttingen to Munich
and back, then on to Heidelberg, where we finally settled. Aged 17 I won a
scholarship to Atlantic College in Wales, where I sat the International
Baccalaureate and – less usefully for my academic career –
was accredited as a coxswain by the Royal National
Lifeboat Institution. Clare College admitted me to read
history in 1994.
Having graduated with a First, I enrolled in the MPhil
in Political Thought and stayed on for the PhD, generously
supported by the German Studienstiftung and the William
Senior studentship in legal history. My subject was a
fascinating niche in the legal profession of interwar
Germany: ideologically committed and habitually
pugnacious barristers specializing in political defense work for extremist parties.
Under the inspiring guidance of Chris Clark (a Pembroke alumnus and now
distinguished University Professor), and without particularly wanting to, my
work challenged the orthodox view of German lawyers as a structurally – if not
always politically – conservative elite.
Much of the archival work for my doctoral dissertation had been done in
Berlin, an exciting city then as now, and I was happy to get a postdoc position at
the Institute for Theater Studies at Freie Universität. I had become interested in
the performativity of justice, and spent two years studying how trials
approximated spectacle. To this end, I borrowed liberally from the sociology of
law and from performance studies. Both disciplines had sophisticated conceptual
tools for analyzing the meaning of legal procedure, but had not really been in
conversation, nor shown much interest in historical case studies. In Weimar
Germany, it emerged, both party lawyers and theatrical innovators sought to
collapse the boundaries of politics and life, and art and politics. This is evident in
the lawyers’ rhetorical grandstanding and cavalier disregard for the legal
outcome of proceedings as much as in the radical identification of performers
and audience in Brecht’s ‘learning plays’ and Piscator’s ‘political theatre’. In
keeping with the interdisciplinary nature of Erika Fischer-Lichte’s research
group, however, I had the freedom to do many other things besides – for example,
a book on the genealogy of the notion of ‘crisis’ coedited with Shakespeare
scholar Manfred Pfister.
Quite unexpectedly, I had the opportunity to join the staff of Christoph
Markschies, the president-elect of Humboldt-Universität. Much as I enjoyed the
hands-on task of Berlin university reform, when I was offered an Assistant
Professorship at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, I did not hesitate.
With a vibrant community of cultural historians and specialists in modern
Germany – first and foremost, Helmut Walser Smith – it was a congenial
environment for my research. Vanderbilt was also where I really cut my teeth as a
university lecturer, co-directing European Studies and inaugurating a Berlin study
abroad program.
In my time in the US, I developed a more ambitious interpretation of Weimar
legal culture and its role in the Republic’s fateful collapse, published in book
form by Oxford University Press last October (Courtroom to Revolutionary Stage:
Performance and Ideology in Weimar Political Trials). It locates ‘my’ party lawyers, the
spectacular trials they appeared in, and Weimar theatrical innovation in the
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context of the aestheticization of politics in interwar Europe. The extremist
parties’ efforts to create a community of conviction and transcendent aspiration,
I argue, turned on the spectacular performance of self-sacrifice in Weimar
courtrooms and beyond. Seen from this vantage point, Nazis and Communists
appear interested not in the legal outcome of proceedings so much as in the
forceful representation of their ideology in court. The point, as a colleague put it,
was not legal victory so much as ‘losing with a splash’.
I am delighted to return to Cambridge as DAAD University Lecturer, and feel
privileged to be a part of Pembroke. In the coming years, I will continue to work
on the legal culture of interwar Europe. I am also mulling over a textbook on
Weimar history through the lens of celebrated trials, and plan to continue
research into Holocaust memory and European identity (or rather identities).
More speculatively at this point, I am exploring a study of terminal care regimes
and the genesis of modern health care.
STEPHEN JOHN was appointed as a University Lecturer
in the Philosophy of Public Health in October 2012. He
writes: I first arrived in Cambridge in 1997 as an
undergraduate at St Catharine’s, where I read Philosophy
for my first degree. After a brief spell teaching English in
China, I returned to Cambridge, but this time to Darwin
College, to read for an MPhil in History and Philosophy
of Science, with plans to pursue academic research on
the relationships between early modern science and
philosophy. However, inspired by contact with Onora
O’Neill, I quickly developed an interest in ethical issues arising in health policy,
so in 2002 I started a PhD (under Baroness O’Neill’s supervision) on concepts
of vulnerability in public health. My PhD took five years to complete, as in 2004
I was appointed to a three-year temporary lectureship in Medical Ethics in
the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. From 2007–2012 I held a
five-year College Lectureship in Philosophy at Hughes Hall. In 2012, I took up
a permanent lectureship in the Philosophy of Public Health at the Department
of History and Philosophy of Science. I was also appointed to a fellowship at
Pembroke, where I direct studies in Philosophy, and am happy to report that my
College-hopping has now finished!
It is, admittedly, rather peculiar to study the philosophy of public health policy.
Indeed, I suspect that many of my philosophical colleagues think what I do is
worthy-but-dull, and my scientific colleagues think it is just dull! However, I find
this area fascinating for three reasons. First, thinking through public health
policy allows me to indulge my interest in two distinct areas of philosophy –
political philosophy and the philosophy of science – and, just as importantly, to
study the relationships between them. Second, it is exciting to pursue research
which is both philosophically rigorous and yet has some hope of being directly
relevant to on-going debates and policy-making. Third, public health policy
throws up cases which show standard philosophical categories may be wrong:
for example, in recent research I argued that the controversy over the MMR
vaccine has important implications for apparently abstruse debates over the
epistemology of testimony.
In current research, I am investigating the concepts of ‘public’ and
‘population’ as they are used in public health policy-making. Clearly, this project
relates to fundamental problems in political philosophy: what makes some
good, such as health, a matter of ‘public’ concern, and how should we balance
the public good against individuals’ rights and interests? Less obviously, but
as importantly, it relates to basic problems in philosophy of statistics: risk
estimates are often relative to a population, but how do we decide which
population is relevant? However, research on this topic not only reaches
‘upwards’ to timeless concerns, but ‘downwards’ to pressing political concerns.
Some of these applications are obvious. For example, the recent debate over
whether or not to introduce ‘minimum unit pricing’ for alcohol can be
understood in terms of a tension between promoting population health and
individuals’ right to take risks. Other applications are less obvious: for example,
I am currently trying to show that worries about the quality of ‘risk
communication’ in cancer screening largely stem from confusion over how to
balance the ‘public’ and ‘private’ roles of physicians.
CHLOE NAHUM-CLAUDEL was admitted to Pembroke
in October 2012 as the Trebilcock-Newton Research
Fellow. She writes: I was born in Geneva, and grew up in
France, then Surrey and then Oxfordshire, moving around
to family dotted a bit all over the place and frequently
immersed in multilingualism. A fanatic reader as a child,
I eschewed studying English Literature at University (too
obvious) and opted for Social Anthropology because it
sounded exotic and fascinating. I was not disappointed.
When I came up for interview to read SPS at Pembroke,
Barbara Bodenhorn assured me that bones and rocks were not at all dead and dull
(as I feared) and pulled me out from the intercollegiate pool to read Archaeology
and Anthropology in 2002. I have not looked back and though I liked thinking
about digs and hominids, the living peoples of the world, their political dramas,
cosmologies and forms of expressiveness (and getting dirty in manioc swiddens)
have been my preoccupation ever since.
By the end of my undergraduate career I was set on doing PhD fieldwork in
either Melanesia (Papua New Guinea and the islands surrounding it) or the
Amazon basin. I settled on the Brazilian Amazon because the anthropology
coming out of that region was reaching heights of theoretical ingeniousness at
the time. I took advice and sought to work with the Enawene-nawe, a 600-strong
people who lived in a single village in the headwaters of the Juruena River, spoke
a unique Arawkan dialect and had been little studied. Based on the limited
existing scholarship it was clear that Enawene-nawe ethnography was
exceptional in the Amazonian context; these were non-predatory, fisher-people
who did not hunt, but produced huge garden and fish surpluses to feed into
constant ceremonial gift exchange. My hypothesis was that Melanesian-derived
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gift analytics (think of the famous Trobriand Kula and Marcel Mauss’s famous
book The Gift) – might allow me to develop an account that was at once
theoretically original for Amazonian anthropology and descriptively loyal to
Enawene-nawe kinship processes, economy and gender relations.
My PhD thesis (supervised by Stephen Hugh-Jones) explored these themes
through an account of ‘Yankwa’, an annual, eight-month long ‘ritual’ process
through which the Enawene-nawe recreate the reality of their world and weave
themselves into its fabric. The thesis broaches diverse themes such as kinship,
cookery, technology and material culture; economy and gender relations;
sacrifice and supernatural becoming; aesthetics and performance; and diplomacy
with affines, spirit-daemons, hydroelectric damming companies and the
Brazilian state.
During the Fellowship I intend to publish various articles based on this work
(about indigenous relations with the state, shamanic weir-fishing technologies,
and ritual work) in addition to a book, which I have provisionally entitled Yankwa,
A Vitalizing Cosmogony. The book’s central problematic is the dramatic extent to
which Enawene-nawe life is lived as cosmogony, and cosmogony entails people’s
ongoing subjective transformation. Ritual channels the energies of the Enawenenawe community all year round and is an everyday event; this means that there is
no sense in distinguishing between the sacred and profane, or the ceremonial and
everyday; rather, different moods, intensities and configurations of relations
unfold in action sequences over the long durée. This begs a major question for
anthropology: What is ‘ritual’ where ‘ritual’ absorbs the whole of life?
Alongside this book project, I’ll be taking my interest in the comparison of
Melanesian and Amazonian societies onwards by beginning fieldwork in the
Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea. While I do not yet know what I will find
there, what I do know is that it will shed brilliant lights on my Amazonian
experience. Beyond that, my intuition and reading suggest that I’ll be thinking
around the intersection of gender, work and politics.
ANNA YOUNG was appointed as the Maudslay-Butler
Research Fellow in October 2012. She writes: After
growing up in North London, I moved to Cambridge
in 2004 to study Engineering at Jesus College. On my
application form, I had stated that I was interested in
cars, and the first two years of general engineering did
little to change my interest in all things mechanical. In
the end, however, I opted for courses in aerospace and
power generation.
The latter courses led to a final-year research project at
the Whittle Laboratory on aero engine compressors, concentrating on the
problem of stall. Stall is an aerodynamic disruption of the flow that can lead to
engine shutdown and cause extensive damage. The dangers associated with stall
therefore necessitate a compromise between safety margin and efficiency, and
this increases fuel burn. A clearer understanding of the stalling process will help
to reduce this wasteful safety margin. I was able to contribute to this aim by
taking high-resolution measurements of the flow and developing a novel data
analysis technique.
The data analysis led to the positive identification of a new disturbance in the
compressor as it approached stall, and then led on to a collaborative project
between Cambridge and MIT. By combining computational and experimental
data, we were able to build up a physical model of the stall inception process. This
new insight is now being used to develop methods of avoiding stall. This work
has been recognised with two Best Paper awards from the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, and a prize for the best paper written by a Rolls-Royce
funded PhD student. Since completing my PhD, I have continued to work closely
with Rolls-Royce, and have also branched out into tidal power generation –
a comparatively new area of research for the Whittle Laboratory.
In terms of my ongoing compressor work, I have used results from my PhD to
initiate a new project into improved compressor designs for future highefficiency, low-emission aero-engines. A recent high-level study on emissions
targets identified a trend towards smaller compressors. This reduction in size will
lead to a design trade-off between mechanical and aerodynamic considerations
and my project aims to understand the nature of this compromise.
My other main interest is in tidal power generation. I believe this is a vital part
of the UK’s future energy mix, as estimates suggest it could easily provide 10% of
our electricity. Several prototype devices for capturing this power are in
development in the UK, but fatigue problems prevent the large-scale deployment
of tidal turbines. Unsteady loads due to waves and turbulence in the sea can
reduce a predicted lifespan of 10 years on land to 10 months in salt water, and so
innovative mechanical techniques are required to reduce the unsteady forces on a
device at sea.
The problem of tidal turbine reliability is multi-faceted, and so I have been
using different approaches: working to improve the measurement of flows in
tidal channels, developing a test rig to generate appropriate unsteady flows for
blade response studies, and considering how the overall blade design could be
adapted to produce a more robust turbine.
The main part of my work involves applying aerospace load-shedding
techniques to a tidal turbine. I have used the combination of my experimental
experience and the specialist facilities in the Whittle Laboratory to build a novel
test rig for developing prototype designs. I am also working with Cranfield
University to develop a novel transmission system to further improve reliability.
This work is putting Cambridge on the map as a key player in the field
and ought to deliver tangible results in terms of bringing tidal turbines to
commercial viability.
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Chris Blencowe – A Tribute
Andrew Enticknap
Chris Blencowe is retiring as Bursar of Pembroke College in
September 2013. He will be succeeded by Dr Andrew Cates, a
former Fellow in Mathematics at Emmanuel College, and the
CEO of the charity SOS Children. Here Andrew Enticknap, the
Finance Manager at Pembroke, pays tribute to Chris’
distinguished contribution to life at Pembroke.
I have only had the pleasure of knowing Chris
through College life and I’m sure others from his
personal life will be better placed to describe his
doubtless other qualities and, heaven forbid, flaws.
Eight years ago, Chris began the first of his two roles
at Pembroke College and by his own admission, did not expect a long stay
(perhaps no more than five years). Chris describes his thoughts on the College in
a recent Martlet article. He started as Domestic Bursar in 2005 when Nick Baskey
was Bursar. Nick decided to move on in the following year and Chris seemed the
natural choice to replace him. I enjoyed working with Nick, but it was not
immediately clear to me which characteristics would shape Chris’s tenure, as I
had not initially worked particularly closely with Chris.
Chris is a people-person. By that I mean he knows how important people are
to the running of the College, in particular how to communicate and motivate
them. Chris is interested in all College staff and Fellows. He usually knows their
names and makes an effort to speak to them. When Chris first started, he
managed ‘by walking around’. This meant he met individuals on their turf,
getting to know them and I’m sure will continue to do that until he leaves the
College stage. Working with people can bring great satisfaction but also
challenges and emotional situations. Chris can be supportive and sympathetic
but also tough when appropriate; a man that can adapt and be relied upon to
judge the situation correctly. Many have commented on how supportive he has
been, not only in a professional sense but also when dealing with personal issues.
I see Chris at close quarters when interacting with Heads of Department
(HoDs). As the College no longer has a Domestic Bursar, Chris is the line
manager of all HoDs. To aid clear lines of communication, Chris set up weekly
HoDs meetings on a Monday morning. The objective is to cover specific areas, as
well as to get HoDs talking: What happened over the weekend? Is there any
news to report? What is going on in the week ahead? The meetings only last
fifteen minutes but are crucial. Chris also initiated the HoDs Christmas lunch.
This sounds trivial but ensures that Chris has a chance to say thank-you from the
College once a year. Chris can also be seen at work when together, we carry out
thrice yearly budget meetings with HoDs. A lot of ground is covered but
importantly all parties can see where they fit into the bigger financial picture.
Beyond these meetings, an annual financial presentation is made to Fellows and,
separately, to staff and students. Again, communication is central to this exercise.
When asked, HoDs feel empowered by Chris’s style of management and can run
their departments, although he is available to give advice.
Immediately on starting work with the College, Chris seemed to understand
the special ‘feel’ of the place. To borrow from his RAF past, Chris has flown
the plane straight and level although doing so in his own particular way.
Changes have been subtle and yet often necessary. Despite not being a ‘finance
person’, Chris has a very clear idea of what is needed to manage College
finances. The endowment is the bed-rock of the College and I will always
remember his description of managing the long-term nature of it by saying we
have “good centuries and bad centuries”. I know the Fellowship immensely
appreciates the straightforward way in which financial matters are presented.
The relationship between Finance Manager and Bursar is important, as the
Bursar is also the Treasurer. The Finance Manager needs to have a sounding
board – if Chris understands a matter, it will be certainly be communicated
clearly to the Fellowship.
Times are not always easy for a Bursar. Not every day is comfortable but Chris,
as far as possible, tends to deal with situations with great common sense and
good humour. I have heard a number of Blencowe quotes over time (and now
wish I’d written more down!) When Chris was once having a difficult day, with
many competing pressures, it was described as being ‘nibbled to death by ducks’.
Good advice for dealing with Bursarial issues was to ‘deal with the alligators
closest to the boat first’. Chris is now passing on this knowledge to some of our
students as he is a Tutor; they may not have heard the quotes but there is unlikely
to be anything Chris hasn’t come across before! Another quality Chris has
becomes apparent when tricky questions have to be asked. He likes to ask the
‘What if…?’ question about a range of issues. He doesn’t take matters at facevalue and is prepared to challenge. On the other hand, he doesn’t waste time
when an answer is apparent.
Finally, I return to Chris as a ‘people-person’. This is never more apparent
when we talk about sport. Chris is not a big football fan, probably highlighted by
his fondness for ‘the Villa’! He prefers rugby, cricket and golf. Chris started the
now annual Fellows/Staff vs Student cricket match and I think Chris is most at
home on the fabulous College sports ground turning his arm over once a year.
University golf, as well as his own golfing performance, is closely followed as are
the College sports teams. I think Chris will still be a regular at the sports ground
long into the future. And, of course, Chris is a family man and needs to retire as
his family commitments continue to grow with several grandchildren and family
members scattered widely. He’ll have a full-time job keeping up with them all!
To conclude, Chris has brought many obvious and some subtle skills to the
role of Bursar. He has left his mark on those who have worked with him and has
made many friends. Chris will not expect all the praise that will doubtless be
heaped upon him as he retires, but he will certainly deserve it.
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FELLOWS’ NEWS
Trevor Allan’s book The Sovereignty of Law was published by Oxford University
Press.
Caroline Burt’s book Edward I and the Governance of England 1272–1307 was
published by Cambridge University Press.
The fourth edition of Nick Davies’s An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology (coauthored with John Krebs and Stuart West) was published by Wiley-Blackwell.
Howard Erskine-Hill co-edited (with Jonathan Clark) two books that were
published by Palgrave Macmillan: The Politics of Samuel Johnson and The Interpretation
of Samuel Johnson.
Andrea Ferrari was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science. He also been
appointed Director of the Cambridge Graphene Centre.
Clare Grey was given the 2013 Gunther Laukien Award at the Experimental NMR
Conference, a Research Award by the Lithium Ion Battery Association, and an
Honorary PhD by the University of Orleans.
Tony Hopkins was awarded an Honorary D.Litt by the University of Birmingham
in July 2013.
Jan Maciejowski was elected a Fellow of the International Federation of
Automatic Control.
Charles Melville co-edited (with Lynette Mitchell) a collection of essays Every Inch
a King: Comparative Studies on Kings and Kingship in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds that
was published by Brill.
Eric Miska was awarded the British Society for Cell Biology Hooke Medal, in
recognition of his outstanding research work in the field of cell biology.
Jacob Norris’s book Land of Progress: Palestine in the Age of Colonial Development
1905–1948 was published by Oxford University Press.
Stephen O’Rahilly was awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours
list in recognition of his services to medical research. He has also been named as
director of the newly established MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, the first de novo
university Unit to be set up by the MRC, and the first new MRC Unit in the UK for
more than a decade. This Unit will form part of a broader Wellcome Trust-MRC
Institute of Metabolic Science, which he will co-direct.
Anna Young was awarded (in conjunction with her supervisor, Dr Ivor Day, and
lecturer Dr Graham Pullan) the Rolls-Royce Howse and Ruffles Award for the
Best Doctorate Paper. The paper was based on Anna’s PhD work on a warning
system for the failure of a jet engine compressor through stalling.
Mark Wormald co-edited (with Neil Roberts and Terry Gifford) a collection
of essays Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected that was published by Palgrave
Macmillan.
Chris Young co-edited two books: (with Alan Tomlinson and Richard Holt)
Sport and the Transformation of Modern Europe: States, Media and Markets 1950–2010,
published by Routledge; (with Michael Eskin and Karen Leeder) Durs
Grünbein: A Companion, published by de Gruyter.
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GIFTS TO THE COLLEGE
From –
Gileena Andreeva, a book on George Dawe.
Angus Barker, donated a book by Sarah Martin, Davis McCaughey: A Life.
Anthony Barton, the 4th edition of his book, Clinical Negligence.
John Bell, 21 books on law.
Ibrahim Birvani, sufficient money to fund the digitisation of EG Browne’s
diaries.
John Blatchly, a DVD of The Town Library of Ipswich.
Matthew Clark, 12 history books.
Richard Coates, A Restatement of the Law of Unjust Enrichment (by Andrew Burrows).
Nick Davies, the 4th edition of his An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology
(co-authored with John Krebs and Stuart West).
Roy Davids, the manuscript of an unpublished poem on fishing by Ted Hughes,
entitled ‘Conrad’s Gaffe’.
Heather Dixon, a number of items that belonged to her father, J. Trevor Spittle,
President of the College in 1949: six books relating to Pembroke history; a
silver spoon; a red martlet on a silk athletics sash; a truncheon that may
have been used in the General Strike; miscellaneous memorabilia in a folder;
a photograph of the 1906–7 Rugby XV; an engraving of Marie de St Pol; the
pocket from a lacrosse blazer; and a portrait of J. Trevor Spittle.
Richard Eden, a copy of his memoirs, Sometimes in Cambridge.
Merryn Everitt, a copy of the Folio Society edition of Le Goff’s Medieval
Civilisation (translated by Julia Barrow).
Ian Fleming, seven DVDs.
The Friends of the National Libraries, a grant towards the purchase of an early
draft of Ted Hughes’ poem ‘Go Fishing’ and a fair copy of his poem ‘The
Thought-Fox’.
Loraine Gelsthorpe, three books on criminology.
Colin Gilbraith, a book by Walter Scott.
Florence Gildea, two history books.
Nancy Graham, descended from Lancelot Andrewes’s family, a donation to
the Library Special Projects Fund in memory of Lancelot Andrewes.
Priscilla Grew, a donation to the Library Special Projects Fund in honour of
the 300th anniversary of the death of Nehemiah Grew.
David Hall, two editions of Thomas Gray’s works: Poetical Works of Thomas Gray
(William Pickering, 1836) and The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray (Stanhope
Press, 1803); and an edition of The Poetical Works of William Collins and Thomas
Gray (Whittingham, 1808).
Carol Hughes, a suite of six lithographs (one of a set of 25) on the subject of
‘The Great Irish Pike’, comprising a poem by Ted Hughes and illustrations by
Barrie Cooke.
Olwyn Hughes, a collection of newspaper articles, translations and other
ephemera relating to Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Peter Jones, a number of antiquarian books. (See Peter Jones’ obituary later in
this Gazette.)
Václav Klaus (former President of the Czech Republic), his book, Europe: The
Shattering of Illusions.
John Lebus, assistance towards the purchase of an early draft of Ted Hughes’
poem ‘Go Fishing’ and a fair copy of his poem ‘The Thought-Fox’.
Steven Loveridge, a copy of his novel, The Palace Library.
Bill Martin and Sandra Mason, memorabilia relating to A.J. Mason, which
were displayed with other new acquisitions in the 2013 Plate Display.
Nick McBride, 21 books for the Law Library, and a Shakespeare DVD.
Torsten Meissner, a copy of Einleitung in Die Griechische Philology.
John and Lindsay Mullaney, their book, Reformation, Revolution and Rebirth.
Yvonne Perret, a rowing boat (which the College has named Geoffrey Perret II);
a copy of Cambridge Armorial in memory of her husband, Geoffrey Perret; and
her own book (co-authored with Lee Wills), Journeys in Gifted Education by Some
Who Have Made Their Mark.
Alberto Perucchini, 125 books on anthropology and related subjects in
memory of his father.
Martin Rowson, the documentation and original art work relating to his
publication of his graphic novel The Waste Land.
Kazama Shobo, a book in Japanese.
John Smith, 90 books from the collection of his late father, Dr Jack Smith
(1947).
Guy Storrs, two original documents relating to Sir Ronald Storrs.
Yubun Suzuki, a book published by Kyushu University Press relating to the
Summer Schools programme at Pembroke.
Andrew Todd, six books in Modern and Medieval Languages.
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John Tolley, Stefan Lorant’s Pittsburgh: The Story of an American City.
Sir Roger Tomkys, seven books on Middle Eastern Studies.
Syed Tanvir Wasti, his book An Introduction to Late Ottoman Turkish Poetry
1839–1922.
Cliff Webb and his wife, Dianne, sufficient money to fund the acquisition of a
rare manuscript in three hands relating to Lancelot Andrewes. The book is
now with the Cambridge Colleges Conservation Consortium for repair and
rebinding.
Dr Tony Wilkinson, Neil Sheehan’s A Bright Shining Lie, and six fine art books.
THE DEAN’S REPORT
Pembroke House
Pembroke House continues to diversify its activities, and to offer crucial
opportunities and support in Walworth and Southwark. The vision statement
on the website is a good description of what actually happens, ‘Our vision for
Pembroke House is of a place bubbling with creativity and good humour, where
unlikely combinations of people work together to build relationships, delight
in our differences, celebrate the journeys we are on, and do our bit to transform
our community.’
The work of the house has been strengthened by the arrival of Grisel Tarifa as
Director of Projects and Administrator. In these roles she provides the necessary
level of professionalism in a context where charities can be overwhelmed by
the demands of regulations, grant applications, targets and structures of
accountability.
Pembroke House is not overwhelmed, but is managing to find and to host
new and exciting projects, as well as sustaining the best of its traditional work.
To mention just some:
The Pembroke Academy of Music (PAM) has around 45 children on average.
It is making links with the orchestral project In Harmony, and it was part of a
winning group in the Cultural Olympiad. There was a very successful visit to
Pembroke College, with the House and the College having opportunities to
learn and teach each other’s music, which made for a really enjoyable day. We
have a date in the diary to repeat this next year.
Inclusive Dance works with young people with Autism and Down’s Syndrome,
and uses Dance and Drama to teach social skills. It has been of enormous
importance to the participants who are given freedom to learn and explore in a
safe environment through interaction.
DT17 is a Dance Theatre group for local boys between the ages of 8 and 12.
This has been quite a challenging group benefiting greatly from structured
cooperative activity.
The Choir with No Name is a choir for people who are homeless or vulnerably
housed and has been meeting this year at Pembroke House.
Other projects include Walworth ABC (a project to enable residents to
nominate people or buildings that make Walworth special), Mahogany Opera,
and Narcotics Anonymous.
The annual Pembroke House Cycle Ride took a slightly different form this
year, with a group cycling from Pembroke College to Pembroke House following
a beautiful route up the Lee Valley. We hope to repeat this with larger numbers in
the coming year.
The Warden has been making a very fruitful link with Ernst & Young, who, as
well as being generous donors, have shown a strong desire to get involved in
projects in practical ways.
Two important sources of support need to be mentioned. The Residency
attached to Pembroke House houses a number of young people who volunteer to
support projects locally. They make all sorts of events possible which could not
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otherwise be attempted. Brian Watchorn and Andrew Morris administer the
Subscribers network composed largely of College members, who make
contributions to the finances of the House, and have a say in its governance.
Pembroke Chapel
This has been a very positive year for the Chapel.
We have benefited from an active and committed Chapel Planning Team,
composed of undergraduates and graduate students, meeting weekly to reflect on
and plan Chapel activities. This has produced a series of good ideas and initiatives
to make the Chapel more open, more prayerful during the week, and more of a
community on Sunday.
The choir has been particularly strong this year with a number of long serving
members. Katrina Faranda Bellofiglio & Theodore Hill have led the music
beautifully under Dr Sam Barrett’s guidance, and at the time of writing the choir
is in Rhode Island celebrating the 350th anniversary of the foundation of the
Commonwealth by Roger Williams (Pembroke).
We opened the year with Matriculation Services before the Matriculation
Dinners for Undergraduates and Graduates, and we closed, with a Leaver’s
Evensong, all well attended, and providing an opportunity for prayer and
reflection at times of change. We celebrated our link with St Christopher’s
Walworth (Pembroke House) with regular visits in both directions.
The Remembrance Day Requiem Mass and the Carol Service this year were
outstanding examples of the way Chapel and music can enable the College to
remember in sadness, or rejoice as a community.
We are looking forward to the coming year with a wide range of new ideas
proposed and refined by the Chapel Planning Team to help the Chapel and its
worship reach out to and support the wider College community.
J.T.D.G.
DEVELOPMENT OFFICE REPORT
From the Development Director
Yesterday, Pembroke’s finalists took their degrees and we said goodbye to another
remarkable year. As much as I have found, with my newly donned tutor’s hat on,
the matriculation stage to be exciting and energising, I find this graduation
period a little melancholic, as familiar faces depart for the next stage of their lives,
but also intriguing, as these graduands have so many questions and opportunities
ahead of them.
I would like to think that they feel they have been able to take advantage of a
huge number of opportunities, academic, sporting, social, musical, theatrical,
intellectual and that Pembroke will mean more to them for this than simply for
being a place where they ate, slept and worked on the way to a degree.
These opportunities have almost all been created thanks to centuries of
innovation, aforethought and generosity, and this generation knows it. There
seems to be a stronger sense among them that they are likely to want to ‘give back’
than may have been the case in, say, my day (the early 1990s). This is paradoxically
despite a background in Higher Education funding that has transferred the
burden of fee payment from the state to the student. It is encouraging to the
College then that our youngest graduates give in proportions that are as high if
not higher than those further along in life.
In total this year, the College raised £3.65 million, and received more than
£3 million in cash. This, in the first year since the successful conclusion of the
Excellence in Perpetuity endowment campaign, represents a really good result,
although all the credit is due to you, the donors. Once again, we have been
indebted to the Campaign Board, led by Paul Skinner (1963), for its generosity
and leadership throughout the campaign and even into the next phase of our
efforts. I am glad to say that Peter Jackson (1995) has agreed to chair the
Development Board, which is in a formative stage but will certainly be glad to
retain the services of a number of the Campaign Board.
Some of those graduating students will one day be able to contribute in similar
ways and it is certainly my intention to include some of the youngest generation
of alumni on the new Development Board. There is an appetite, for everywhere we
‘pop up’, there seems to be an enthusiastic welcome. The dinners in London,
Bristol, Leeds and Edinburgh thrive as always, but this year thanks to Simon
McDonald (1979) – HM Ambassador to Berlin – we have established a Pembroke
society in Germany, while Pembroke visitors to the USA, Canada, Japan, China,
Australia, Malaysia and Singapore have been bowled over by the kindness
bestowed in hosting them. We are compiling a directory of Pembroke alumni
around the world and if you are interested in participating as a ‘local rep’, please
do contact my office.
I am also pleased to report on a successful year of growth for the Corporate
Partnership Programme, the College’s unique and versatile programme for
helping companies navigate their way around a labyrinthine Cambridge. Recently
joined partners are The Chinese Weekly, a leading international Chinese-language
newspaper based in London; AIG, the insurance giant; Vanke, China’s largest
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residential construction company and Zurich Insurance Group. During the
course of 2012–13, we also welcomed Kai Dai (MD, The Chinese Weekly) and Peter
Hancock (CEO, AIG Property Casualty) as William Pitt Fellows, with the election
processes soon to begin for others.
A showcase of the Corporate Programme is the William Pitt Seminar series,
and in 2012 the College and its guests raised the question, ‘What’s so good about
growth?’ about which the seminar’s chair, Jonathan Smales, wrote for the 2013
Martlet. Our followers on Twitter (@pembroke1347) were treated to a series of tothe-point summaries of the talks and Q&A session in 140-character or less bites.
These seminars were intended to demonstrate the reach of the Corporate
Programme throughout Cambridge and to ensure that there were opportunities
for corporate partners, academics, alumni and students to mingle and chew over
(literally, at dinner) important issues of the age.
On 18 October 2013, BBC broadcaster Fi Glover will chair the eighth William
Pitt Seminar to look at ‘The Anxiety of Age’ from a number of perspectives. We
hope, but do not promise, to broadcast these ‘live’ thanks to our friends in The
Chinese Weekly and other connections we have through Richard Parmee (1970).
Pembroke seems uniquely committed to bringing together various
generations of Members and other friends as something far above and beyond its
core charitable mission; I know of no other college that does it quite like we do.
That we can is principally down to the flexibility and support of the Fellowship
and other members of College staff and I do feel privileged and lucky, indeed, to
be part of an institution that is so committed to openness and a lifelong
relationship with its Members and friends. And it is also due to the good offices
of my colleagues in the Development Office who have put so much into furthering
the College’s cause and are as proud to be part of Pembroke as I am.
And this is what I hope our graduating students are asking themselves now –
‘How do I stay involved in this place?’, and ‘How do I ensure that this place stays
involved in me?’. Everyone here is working hard to ensure that we have good
answers to these questions.
M.R.M.
The Matthew Wren Society
The 16th meeting of the Society was held in College on Saturday 20 October
2012. 75 members of the society, and their guests, were entertained to lunch in
Hall, following a reception hosted by the Master in the Senior Parlour and the
Inner Parlour.
Membership of the Society is open to anyone who has notified the College of
an intention to benefit the College by a bequest. Matthew Wren (1585–1667),
undergraduate, Fellow and President of the College (1616–24), and Bishop of Ely
(1638–67), had been a notable benefactor (his body is interred in the crypt of the
Chapel, which he had built as a gift to the College, in 1665). The Society has a
membership of 366. The names of those who have consented to be identified –
together with a number of recent bequests received – are listed below. To all, the
College is extremely grateful.
Mr I A Ewen (1933)
Mr I N Turner MBE (1938)
Mr M D Jepson OBE
(1940)
Mr C A Price (1944)
Mr P B Mackenzie Ross
(1945)
Mr D R Smith OBE (1945)
Mr R G Bennett (1946)
Mr G R Evans (1946)
Professor K N Palmer
(1946)
Sir Robert Sanders KBE
CMG (1946)
Dr M W Thompson (1946)
Mr P R Langham MC
(1947)
Dr H G Penman (1947)
Mr R M L Humphreys
(1948)
Mr J M D Knight DL
(1948)
Mr J G Parker (1948)
Mr R N Quartano CBE
(1948)
Mr C J Addison (1949)
Mr R Bonnett (1949)
Mr H J L Fitch (1949)
Mr J F K Hinde (1949)
Mr R H King (1949)
Mr E D Peacock (1949)
Mr R L Stewart (1949)
Mr P L Tennant (1949)
Mr M J C Annand (1950)
Mr P C Flory (1950)
Mr A N Savage ISO (1950)
Mr J J M Barron (1951)
Dr A B Carles OBE (1951)
Mr J L Dixon (1951)
Dr A M Hall-Smith (1951)
Mr R T Kingdon CBE
(1951)
Mr R T Lawman (1951)
Mr K A C Patteson (1951)
Mr G B Smethurst (1951)
Mr M B Whittaker (1951)
Professor J P Barber (1952)
Mr J C R Downing DL
(1952)
Mr R N Field (1952)
Dr G R Hext (1952)
Mr M J Munz-Jones (1952)
Mr P J Pugh (1952)
Mr D F Beckley (1953)
Mr I D Crane (1953)
Mr I D McPhail (1953)
Mr A N Paterson (1953)
Mr J D P Phillips (1953)
Mr N A Robeson (1953)
Mr N F Robinson (1953)
Mr P H Vince (1953)
Mr J M Whitehead (1953)
Mr C Beadle (1954)
Mr N I Cameron (1954)
Dr G F Fooks (1954)
Mr A H Isaacs MBE (1954)
Mr I Meshoulam (1954)
Mr R L Allison (1955)
Sir Michael Bett CBE
(1955)
Mr J E Bowen (1955)
Mr D W Eddison (1955)
Mr C Gilbraith (1955)
Mr D A Hewitt (1955)
Mr J D Hind (1955)
Mr T R Hopgood (1955)
Mr N La Mar (1955)
Dr H J F McLean CBE
(1955)
Mr G S Pink (1955)
Mr N M Pullan (1955)
Mr J M P Soper (1955)
Mr R J Warburton (1955)
Mr P W Boorman (1956)
Professor B M Fagan
(1956)
Professor D H Mellor
(1956)
Mr M A Roberts (1956)
Dr T G Rosenthal (1956)
Mr T J Harrold (1957)
Professor J M H Hunter
(1957)
Mr J B Macdonald (1957)
Mr D W H McCowen
(1957)
Mr R B Wall (1957)
Mr P J Yorke (1957)
Sir Michael Atiyah OM
FRS (1958)
Mr R A C Berkeley OBE
(1958)
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Mr O C Brun (1958)
Mr R J M Gardner (1958)
Mr J D Harling (1958)
Mr J Lawrence (1958)
Mr A E Palmer CMG CVO
(1958)
Professor G Parry (1958)
The Rt Hon Sir Konrad
Schiemann (1958)
Mr J Sutherland-Smith
(1958)
Mr W R Williams JP (1958)
Dr J N Woulds JP DL
(1958)
Mr H A Crichton-Miller
(1959)
Mr P N Jarvis (1959)
Mr M G Kuczynski (1959)
Mr J A McMyn (1959)
Mr B G Tunnah (1959)
Professor Y A Wilks (1959)
Mr R J Gladman (1960)
Dr J P Warren (1960)
Mr J B Wilkin (1960)
Mr P G Bird (1961)
Mr J A H Chadwick (1961)
Dr S Halliday (1961)
Mr J C Robinson (1961)
Mr R M Wingfield (1961)
Mr R W Jewson (1962)
Dr M J Llewellyn-Smith
AM KStJ (1962)
Professor K M McNeil
(1962)
Mr R C Sommers (1962)
Professor J C R Turner
(1962)
Mr S C Palmer (1963)
Mr P D Skinner (1963)
Mr J A Stott (1963)
Dr J C D Hickson (1964)
Mr D J Shaw (1964)
Mr C R M Kemball MBE
(1965)
Mr J J Turner (1965)
Dr R G H Bethel (1966)
Dr E M Himsworth (1966)
Mr R I Jamieson (1966)
Mr C R B Goldson OBE
(1967)
Mr M Goodwin (1967)
Mr C R Webb (1967)
Mr I C Brownlie (1968)
Mr I P Collins (1968)
Mr D E Love (1968)
Mr P D Milroy (1968)
Mr T J H Townshend
(1968)
Mr J P Wilson (1968)
Mr P G Cleary (1969)
Mr B C Heald (1969)
Mr J H Kellas CBE (1969)
Mr M G Pillar (1969)
Mr W R Siberry QC (1969)
Professor J R Wiesenfeld
(1969)
Dr J R Deane (1970)
Dr W S Gould (1970)
Dr H J Perkins (1970)
Mr D A Walter (1970)
Mr R H Johnson (1971)
Dr R Kinns (1971)
Mr M H Thomas (1971)
Mr M S Oakes OBE (1972)
Mr A G Singleton (1972)
Mr K J Russell (1973)
Mr M A Smyth (1973)
Mr A S Ivison (1974)
Mr S G Trembath (1974)
Mr R D Jacobs QC (1975)
Dr K P Van Anglen (1975)
Dr M J Burrows (1976)
Mr P C Nicholls (1976)
Mr N G Walker (1976)
Mr N J Brooks (1977)
Major General S M
Andrews CBE (1978)
Revd Father J C Finnemore
(1978)
Mr M K Jackson (1978)
Mr D S Walden (1978)
Dr L J Reeve FRHistS
(1979)
Professor H H ErskineHill FBA (1980)
Mr M E Bartlett (1981)
Mr D J Hitchcock (1982)
Mr D N Pether (1983)
Ms V J Bowman (1984)
Mr J P Johnstone (1986)
Mr R D R Stark (1986)
Dr J W Laughton (1989)
Miss L Rice (1989)
Ms L J Walker (1990)
Dr G P Shields (1991)
Professor J P Parry (1992)
Mr M A Bagnall-Oakeley
(1994)
Mr H P Raingold (1994)
Mr A R B A Mydellton
(1997)
Mr J Mayne (2004)
Miss J A Rennie (2004)
Mr M R Mellor (2006)
The College apologises for any inadvertent omissions, and invites members
willing to see their names listed in future to write accordingly to Sally March at
the College.
Bequests
The College acknowledges with gratitude the following bequests which were
received between 1 July 2012 and 30 June 2013 –
Mr J C F Townsend (1950) £466,436
Mr H M Ireland (1944) £5,000
Mr J H Crowther (1944) £30,000
Mr J A C Drew (1936) £5,000
Dr A J Oxley (1949) a further £58,273
Mr D R Stirling-Wylie (1954) £500
Mr T R Howard (1949) a further £8, 362
Mr V I Chapman (1935) £1,000
Mr H H Sebag-Montefiore (1943) £5,000
Mr H J Milner (1972) £38,805
Dr J M Smith (1947) £20,000
Mr L J Bradnick (1948) £1,000
A Legacy to Pembroke College Cambridge, helpful information on making a legacy, can
be obtained by telephoning Sally March on (01223) 339079, writing to her at the
College, or on e-mail (sally.march@pem.cam.ac.uk).
J.C.D.H.
The 1347 Committee Parents Luncheon
The 19th 1347 Committee Parents Luncheon was held at the beginning of the
Easter Term, on Sunday 21 April 2013. 140 parents and other family members
joined current members of the College for the occasion in Hall after drinks in the
Old Library.
The former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, and Chairman of
the Environment Agency, and Honorary Fellow of the College, the Rt Hon Lord
Smith of Finsbury, was this year’s guest speaker.
The Committee would like to thank all those who attended this year’s Lunch
and those who made donations. The £4,000 raised has been given to a College
fund that directly supports Pembroke students in need of financial assistance.
The next Parents Luncheon will be held on Sunday 12 January 2014 and details
will be circulated to the parents of Junior Members in Autumn 2013.
1347 Committee 2012–2013 Officers
President: E C Hughes (2010)
Vice-President: E C Morgan (2009)
Secretaries: L Aitchison (2011), E Fairhurst (2011)
Publicity Officer: B Plumptre (2010)
1347 Committee 2012–2013 Officers
President: J I Hirschowitz (2011)
Other officers will be elected at the outset of the 2013–14 Academical Year
Master’s Society
The eleventh meeting of the Master’s Society was held in College on Saturday
23 February 2013. 85 guests were entertained to an enjoyable lunch in the Hall
following a drinks reception in the Senior Parlour. Sir Richard Dearlove thanked
all those present for their generous support.
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Membership of the Society is open to anyone who has made gifts totalling £2,000
or more to the College in the financial year prior to the event; invitations are also
sent to donors for the two years following a gift of £5,000 or more, and for five
years following a gift of £10,000 or more. Donors of £50,000 or more will be
granted indefinite membership of the Society. To all, the College is very grateful.
Among those attending this year’s lunch were:
Mr C J Addison (1949) &
Mrs M Jewell
Mr H L Allan (1970) &
Ms J Harrison
Mr D W Andrews (2006) &
Mrs S G Andrews
(1955) & Lady Bett
Mr G D Blyth (1972)
Dr P J Brown FRPharmS
(1960)
Mr J A H Chadwick (1961)
Mr H A Crichton-Miller
(1959) &
Mrs M Crichton-Miller
Mr D F Crompton (1944)
& Mrs J Crompton JP
Dr J R Deane (1970) &
Mrs D A Deane
Mr F C F Delouche (1957)
Mr C M Fenwick (1957)
Mr M C Foster (1956) &
Mrs R Foster
Mr J M Furniss (1985) &
Mrs A Furniss
Mr C R B Goldson OBE
(1967)
Mr A R Hewitt (1967) &
Miss I Quental
Mrs S I Hewitt JP
Mr M J Horrell (1956)
Mr D N Howard (1956) &
Mrs J E Howard
Mr A H Isaacs MBE (1954)
& Dr M Caroe
Dr R I Issa (1966) &
Mrs M Issa
Professor N Itoh &
Mrs P A Trebilcock
Mr R D Jacobs QC (1975)
& Mrs P Jacobs
Dr W H Janeway CBE
(1965)
Mr A M J Keeley (1987) &
Mrs C Keeley
Mr R H King (1949) &
Mrs A King
Mr A D Marcus (1984)
Mr R D Marshall (1981)
Mr N F Mason (1956)
Professor A C Palmer FRS
(1958)
Mr R J Parmee (1970) &
Mrs B White
Mr R B A Purcell (1963)
Mr H P Raingold (1994)
Mr M A Reay (1981) &
Ms C Binnington
Sir Mark Richmond ScD
FRS (1996)
Miss J S Ringrose (1997) &
Professor M Mills
Mr J Sarkar (1996) &
Ms D Bensberg
Mr G M Scarcliffe (1975)
Mr P D Skinner (1963) &
Mrs R Skinner
Mr H M Skipp (1965)
Mr K G Sykes (1965) &
Sig.ra L Gentilini
Mr A K A Wallis ACA
(1979) & Mrs J Wallis
Mr D A Walter (1970) &
Mrs M N Walter
Mr C C Williams
Mr J A Wilson QC (1977)
& Mrs S T Wilson
The College was represented by:
The Master
Dr B A Bodenhorn
Professor J P Parry
Dr M R Wormald
Professor L R R
Gelsthorpe FRSA
Mr C J Blencowe
Mr M R Mellor
Mr M G Kuczynski
Dr J C D Hickson
Mr E R G Button
Ms S A March
Miss N Morris
Mr J I Hirschowitz (2011)
Miss K M Suddaby (2009)
THE VALENCE MARY (1997) ENDOWMENT FUND
The Trustees of the Valence Mary (1997) Endowment Fund were informed at their
meeting in June that the total value of the Fund, comprising equities, cash and
fixed interest investments, now stood at £2,251,871 and that, since inception,
£743,244.85 had been received in contributions. It is also worth noting that
grants of £873,000 have been made to the College over the life of the Fund. A copy
of the annual accounts is available on request to Andrew Cates (Treasurer and
Bursar of the College).
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COLLEGE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES
BADMINTON
2012–2013 has been another successful year for Pembroke Badminton as the club
continues to grow, cementing its position as one of the largest and most popular
sports teams in college.
Following a mass exodus of players from the 2011 league winning team the
Men’s Firsts have finally managed to find their feet again in the league second
division. With a strong fresher intake to complement the old hands, the team
have re-established their reputation as a force to be reckoned with. For me the
season highlight was undoubtedly back-to-back wins on a single weekend
against Darwin College and the Clinical school, doubling in one fell swoop, the
victory tally from the entire previous year!
Under the guidance of captain Arham Qureshi, the Men’s Second team have
had something of an annus mirabilis, securing a double promotion and jumping
from the 6th to the 4th division. This is a particularly impressive feat considering
that the majority of opposition were college first teams – truly a testimony to the
strength in depth of the Pembroke squad.
What the Men’s Thirds might have lacked in terms of results has been more
than made up for by sheer enthusiasm. With over 12 players having appeared for
the team, it would be fair to say that there can be very few college third teams
across the entire university where competition for places has been so fierce.
Not to be outshone by the men the Pembroke’s ladies have had an excellent
year, regaining and consolidating their first division status. With several strong
fresher players the future looks bright.
The final match of the season was the annual Old Boys’ match. Reinforcement
from several current players was not enough to help a somewhat depleted Old
Boys’ team and at the end of a highly enjoyable afternoon the Tom Karkinsky
Memorial Trophly was firmly back in the hands of the students. Any Old Boys or
Girls who would like to attend the annual dinner and match next year should
contact Oliver Lockwood (oliver.lockwood@cantab.net) to be added to the
mailing list.
Outgoing Committee:
Captain – Rupert Barton
Women’s Captain – Victoria Wang
Second Team Captain –
Arham Qureshi
Third Team Captain – Chris Bridge
Treasurer – Adam Chai
Rupert Barton
Incoming Committee:
Captain – Terence Kwan
Women’s Captain – Emma Cai
Second Team Captain –
Richard Stockwell
Third Team Captain – Ahran Aujla
Treasurer – Ben Laird
BOAT CLUB
The 2012–13 season was always going to be a tough one for PCBC. While the club
has benefited from considerable depth in the past few years, many of our most
experienced rowers flew the nest after last year. This, coupled with the hesitancy
of some returning rowers, led to a vacuum of experience in the middle of the club.
When I noviced two years ago, none of the nine people who made up the Mays M2
boat had started rowing that season. This year, by contrast, all but two of the
oarsmen in M2 began their rowing careers in Michaelmas 2012. However despite
this, PCBC had an active and exciting year. We did not shine out as we have done
in previous seasons; however I believe that the club has passed an important
turning point. We began the season in uncertainty, but leave it with the club on
sure footing once again. We have nurtured a keen group of novices and have a full
and dedicated committee to lead the club into the new season. Plans are coming
together for an off-Cam, European training camp and the Reg Howard (M1’s May
term boat) has claimed his first bumps after three years on the water. The only
way is up!
Before I go on to discuss the year in general, I would like to highlight the
extraordinary generosity of one of our Alumni members. In my opinion, it is quite
a feat to give so much to a boatclub that one of the club’s boats is named for you
or for one of your loved ones. It is therefore truly remarkable that we have not one,
but two boats named for one man. The Perret family, in particular Dr Yvonne
Perret, have been supporters of the club for many years and I would like to take
this time to honour them. Due to Dr Perret’s financial support, donated on behalf
of her late husband Geoffrey (1948 matriculation), the club was able to buy the
‘Geoffrey Perret II’. This shell joins the ‘Reg Howard’ and the ‘Sir Richard
Dearlove’ to become one of the club’s three flagship boats, used only by rowers
able enough to row in the May’s first boats. However, this restriction does not
mean that the ‘Geoffrey Perret II’ has not been used this year. Unlike most of our
shells, she is a bowloading IV: with room for four oarsmen and a coxswain, who
lies in the bow. She has been indispensable this year as we have tried new training
regimes which focus more on work in the smaller boats. In addition, we shall be
taking the ‘Geoffrey Perret II’ to Henley to compete in the Prince Albert Challenge
Cup, as we did last year.
Though only one of last year’s May first boat returned to row for the Men in
Michaelmas, there was still promise. We had two blue boat trialists in the pipeline
as well as a considerable amount of new talent. The situation on the Women’s
side was similar, with several trialists looking to return. However, things were
always going to be difficult for the women’s side of the club, as they began the
year without a captain. Nevertheless the role of captain was quickly and ably taken
up by their vice-captain, Ery Hughes. Though there was a lack of known talent
on the Men’s side in Michaelmas, there was no shortage of enthusiasm.
Unusually for the first term, the competition for M1 was so tough that I was forced
to seat race the rowers in IVs (made possible by the ‘Geoffrey Perret II’). Out of
these races emerged the core six oarsmen who would row all the way into May
Bumps. As usual there was a keen influx of novices, with two boats entered into
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novice Fairbairns from the Men’s side, and one from the Women’s. The men
finished 31st and 40th respectively, and the women finished 47th. The senior men
finished 18th with M2 at 39th; the senior women finished 22nd.
We began Lent Term with the traditional Pre-Lent, on-Cam training camp. My
thanks go out to all those who helped, in particular Jonathan Garner, Paul Wright,
Andrew Eames, Bill Edgerley, Paul Lyristis and Richard Johnson who all gave their
time coach and Chris Hinde, who organised the camp. Though the camp was
successful, Lent itself was plagued by the usual ice, floods and novice attrition.
However, M2 still managed an impressive result in the Pembroke regatta, beating
a competent Homerton crew before falling to First and Third. M1 fled the Cam for
some useful training in Peterborough the week before bumps which seemed to
pay off. Though we were disappointed not to bump our Trumpington Street rivals
Peterhouse, four row-overs was certainly an honourable result. W1 and M2 also
held on well in a tough field of competition, both avoiding spoons to go down
two and three places respectively. W2 managed our only bump of Lent, taking
revenge on St Edmunds on the third day and finishing down one.
Easter Term saw the women’s side taken over by Kat Suddaby, whose
leadership bound them together through a tough term. Trialists returned to us,
strengthening the first boats and inspiring the rest of their crews. However a late
injury meant that one of M1’s most able oarsmen was out of action for the first
two days of bumps. Overall, May Bumps was a little disappointing for the club,
particularly with reference to our success in recent years. The Men only managed
to enter two boats: safety concerns from CUCBC denied our third boat a chance
to race. Though M3 will have to work hard in years to come to regain their
position, the decision to scratch their boat this year is a tribute to the integrity of
PCBC. There were many crews on the river who did not fulfil the entry
requirements and yet still raced. There is sometimes a price for honesty, but it is
never as great as the eventual cost of deception.
As in Lents, the first men managed to hold their position on the river, though
decided to do it with somewhat more style. On the first and second day we were
bumped by Queens and Clare respectively, though we achieved redemption by
bumping both those crews back on the third and fourth days: a feat rarely seen in
the first division. The second men matched their lent term performance, avoiding
spoons by rowing over on the third day.
The first women rowed well, but were caught up by the success of previous
years and the strength of the competition. Though at one point they were able to
gain considerable distance on Clare, a crew who took blades to headship, they
finished the week with spoons. W2 were more successful, managing to hold their
position. W3 came together well and avoided spoons, though achieved the
dubious honour of getting 1.5 over bumped (down four in one day), a result which
was only made possible by one of CUCBC’s bizarre ‘technical row-overs’
happening in front of them… But such is the joy of bumps!
The club was represented at the university level by Alex Fleming and Grant
Wilson (Blue boat), Arav Gupta and Clare Hall (Blondie), and Lenka Veselovska
(Women’s Lightweights).
The Master pushes out the Second Men’s crew on the Saturday of May Bumps
As we look to the future, a future with bright prospects for PCBC, we must
remember those who have done so much to help us get to where we are. Kevin
Bowles has worked as boatman for 31 years and continues to give much to PCBC.
The Master of the college and president of the club, Sir Richard Dearlove, is a
wonderful ambassador for us. He is a tireless supporter of PCBC in every way, in
particular its captains, and for this we thank him wholeheartedly. Our thanks also
go out to the coaches who have helped us throughout the year. I cannot name
them all, however two individuals must be mentioned. Alan Marron and Andrew
Watson have shone out as coaches new to PCBC. Though Alan took M1 for several
outings in previous years, this year he dedicated a significant portion of his time
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to guide us through all of Lent and Easter Terms. Andrew (or ‘Gripper’ as he is
more often called) has worked hard with both M1 and W1 this May term. I hope
that he will continue to work with us in the future! Also thanks to Moritz
Dümbgen, who rowed in M1 and took on the role of Overall Captain for
Michaelmas and Lent Terms, before finishing his PhD in Lent.
Men’s 1st May Boat: Jonathan Tham, Tom Zawisza, Tom Hoier, Archie Wood,
Scott Runyon, Grant Wilson (fit for the last two days of bumps), Christian
Cimorra (subbed in for the first two days of bumps), Scott Warden, Alex Fleming,
Arav Gupta (coxswain).
Women’s 1st May Boat: Ery Hughes, Izzy Stone, Chloe Ramambason, Victoria
Ormond, Verity Bennett, Kat Suddaby, Eleanor Metcalf, Clare Hall and Benedict
Collins-Rice (coxswain).
The boat club website provides
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Next year’s Captains are:
Overall Captain: Scott Warden
Men’s Captain: Archie Wood
Women’s Captain: Ery Hughes
Jonathan Tham
PCBC Captain 2012–13
CRICKET
2013 squad: H McNeill Adams (Captain), G Smith (Secretary), T Hogan,
T Fletcher, I Khan, O Budd, A McWilliams, J Hirschowitz, P McMullen, K Holden,
G Sydenham, T Mansfield, R Stockwell, N Cole, A Hadjirin, J Wikeley, E Devane,
M Bittlestone, S Willis, J Reland, A Jackson, J Phillips, H Lazell, OJ Watson,
R Ollington, M Yoon, J Savage, J Spencer, A White, R Lightwood
Record: Played 11: Won 5, Lost 6
The phrase ‘there are lies, damned lies, and statistics’ has never been more true
than describing Pembroke’s 2013 season. While we ended with a losing record,
this was comfortably the best season Pembroke has enjoyed for years.
First, the negatives. The side’s record in friendlies was not very good. Losses
to Heitaroi, the Strollers, the Trevor Munns Invitational Eleven, the Gentleman
and Camden and, most mortifyingly, the Staff and Fellows, were all
disappointing. That said, there were some excellent individual performances in
these games. McMullen’s spell against Heitaroi, Hogan’s 101 against Camden
and then James Savage’s spectacular diving catch in the same game were all
magnificent, but we were unable to play consistent enough cricket in any of the
games. The only friendly victory of the season came against the Refreshers, a
seven wicket win in which Tom Mansfield took three wickets to restrict the
opposition to 179 off 40 overs, before Harry McNeill Adams and Oliver Budd put
on an unbroken stand of 145 to see Pembroke home.
The positives, however, substantially outweighed the negatives. Pembroke
reached the semi-finals of Cuppers, playing some superb cricket along the way.
We started out by beating Christ’s, who were furnished with five current or
former University squad players, by eight runs. Budd’s 30 not out was crucial in
lifting Pembroke to a respectable 129–4, before a committed bowling and
fielding performance restricted Christ’s to 121–9. McMullen deserves special
praise for his three wickets, but Izhan Khan’s tight spell of four overs for 18 was
also instrumental.
Then, on to Downing, who were dispatched very comfortably. Pembroke put
217 on the board in their 20 overs, including a monster opening stand of 150 in
15 overs between McNeill Adams and Tom Fletcher, who ended on an excellent
unbeaten 93. In reply, Downing never got close, ending up on 153–4, with Khan
and Josh Hirschowitz again bowling tightly. This put us into the quarter-finals
against Queens’. A below par batting performance saw Pembroke post only 122,
with Tom Hogan hitting what proved to be a crucial 50 not out. In response,
Queens’ were going well on 35–0 off five overs, but after McMullen removed their
dangerous opening batsman, they collapsed to 61 all out, with Khan finishing
with the remarkable figures of 5–6 off 3 overs.
The semi-final was played at Clare College as part of a finals day. Pembroke
fielded first, and did extremely well to restrict a Caius team containing no less
than 8 University Squad players to 146–4 off 20 overs. Khan and McMullen were
both economical again. In reply, Pembroke fell agonisingly short. Despite being
well poised on 76–2 after 10 overs, we fell 13 runs short, with McNeill Adams top
scoring with 54 off 39 balls.
All in all, this was a hugely successful season for the cricket club.
Unfortunately, 2013 sees the departure of Hogan, Fletcher, Alastair McWilliams
and Budd. Nonetheless, a talented core of players remains. The new captain will
be George Sydenham, and the new secretary Tom Mansfield.
Leading Batsmen: T. Hogan (268 runs at 33.50), H. McNeill Adams (254 runs at
42.33), T. Fletcher (187 runs at 46.75), O. Budd (162 runs at 32.4)
Leading Bowlers: I. Khan (11 wickets at 6.18), P. McMullen (8 wickets at 25.50),
T. Mansfield (6 wickets at 16.33), J. Hirschowitz (6 wickets at 12.5), O. Budd
(6 wickets at 19.5), G. Smith (6 wickets at 16)
Harry McNeill Adams
FOOTBALL (MEN’S)
Pembroke’s dreams of a third successive Cuppers semi-final were cruelly
snatched away by penalties after a solid team performance against Jesus I.
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Unfortunately, this game mirrored our season: we played some excellent football
but just lacked that little bit of luck.
Although this season we had lost a few core players, as a squad we were
hopeful after an excellent first year intake into both the club and the first XI.
Preseason we beat recently relegated Trinity Hall and drew with Division One
Gonville and Caius; it was looking like we may have broken our traditional slow
start to the season which had previously prevented PCAFC I from reaching the
promotion places. This season we held our own in these early games; however,
we could not deliver the killer blow to turn a draw into three points. With two
more goals giving us a few more points we could have easily been promoted.
We were much stronger in Lent Term, showing our full potential with wins
against the eventual champions and second place finishers: Trinity Hall and
St Catz respectively.
Once again Cuppers provided the most excitement for PCAFC I. A comfortable
victory over visiting Robinson I set up an early test for the squad against a
competent Homerton I side sporting a number of blues. An excellent
performance and a well-earned 2–1 win led to a quarter-final clash with Jesus I.
With the game stuck at 1–1 after two early excellent goals, Pembroke managed to
get 2–1 ahead via an exquisite chip over the Jesus keeper. Unfortunately, after
sustaining a great deal of pressure, in the final 10 minutes Jesus found a gap in
our defence and threaded a neat ball down the wing that was squared into the box
leaving an easy tap in for the oncoming Jesus striker. The game remained at 2–2
until penalties where Jesus I capitalised on a few Pembroke misses on the spot.
It’s a horrible way to go out of the cup. However, the squad can hold their heads
high. The pain of losing on penalties and missing the final in the previous two
seasons will, I’m sure, drive the squad towards that elusive first Cuppers victory.
Pembroke has enjoyed a great deal of football this season with the 2nd XI
competing in division four and the reformation of the ever popular 3rd XI. Both
had good seasons, especially after the loss of so many excellent players for the
seconds last season, and managed to notch up respectable finishes in the league.
Both had a brief flutter in the cup and both, like the firsts, succumbed to the cruel
fate of penalties. After a season awash with hopes of what could have been,
PCAFC will come back fighting in 2013/14 with the hope of the club getting its
hands on some much needed silverware.
This year has seen PCAFC continue to grow from strength to strength. This is
best demonstrated by the success of the second annual Pembroke Five-a-side
tournament involving mixed-sex college teams. Over 70 members of the college
community took part in a morning of football at Pembroke pitches.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Groundsman Trevor Munns
for his continued support and invaluable tactical guidance. I would also like to
thank all of the outgoing committee for their help over the season and wish the
very best for PCAFC for the coming campaign.
2012–13 Season Committee:
Captain – Peter Harries
Secretary – Rory Scott
2013–14 Season Committee:
Captain – Rory Scott
Secretary – Mark Bittlestone
Vice-Captain – John Boreham
Vice-Captain – John Carroll
Second Team Captain – Keiran Dodds Second Team Captain – James Weber
Third Team Captain – Oliver Watson Third Team Captain – Joseph Spencer
Peter Harries
FOOTBALL (WOMEN’S)
Having clung to a place in the top division it was clear from the start that league
matches were going to be an uphill battle for Pembroke Ladies, especially with a
number of key players having graduated the year before. Our concerns were
confirmed after a shaky start culminating in a loss to Fitz. However, considering
the inexperience of our team, many of whom had been lured from the hockey
team with the promise that football involved no risk of being hit by a wooden
stick, we were not disappointed with the result. A few weeks later we were
granted our first victory of the year, an 8–1 win over King’s, following a match
played early on a Sunday morning with only eight players, who showed
unbounded enthusiasm despite the bitter cold slowly painting their faces an
appropriate shade of Pembroke blue. TFortunately, a loss in the first round of
Cuppers meant we were entered into the Plate and having reached the quarter
finals last year we were hopeful of ending the season with silverware. Our second
round match was immortalised by a (our first ever?) match report kindly
provided by defender Kat Suddaby which held pride of place outside the porters
lodge for months; and with good reason. We faced the combined might of Clare
and Peterhouse and came away with a staggering 18–0 victory. After ensuring our
lead with a number of goals from set pieces, those usually holding the back line
moved forward to add to the onslaught of goals, leading to a number of players
opening their scoring accounts for PCLFC. Our keeper was left spectating from
the halfway line and used her hands for little more than applauding each ball
fired into the back of the net.
Unfortunately, on returning from the Christmas break chances to play
football stagnated as winter either froze the pitch solid or transformed it into
an unplayable bog. When the weather finally sided with us we were called to
continue our run of impressive wins in a semi-final against Corpus. Despite the
patchwork of different sports teams’ kits resulting from a mismatch of girls
begged from brunch to boost our depleted numbers, we managed a convincing
win which took us one step further than last year and into the semi-final of
the Plate.
We were up against Churchill and playing our first match in at least two years
without ex-Captain and playmaker Liz Robinshaw. Despite some brilliant passing
play and perfectly timed runs from our wingers, Churchill were a strong team and
with just minutes of normal time left we were 2–1 down. Fortunately we managed
to grab an equaliser from somewhere but extra time passed without a change to
the score line. As the final whistle blew we knew we were about to be subjected
to the stomach churning, heart in mouth battle of nerves which is the penalty
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shoot-out. Unknown, even to ourselves, we had a secret weapon in the form of
first time keeper Katie Threadgill. She managed to save two of Churchill’s
penalties and keep our hopes of reaching the final alive. Unfortunately Pembroke
failed to score from the spot and we were knocked out and denied our chance of
reaching a final which will surely be ours next year…
Susie Wright
HOCKEY (MEN’S)
Pembroke Men’s Hockey team has gone from strength to strength throughout
the 2012–13 season. Having dropped to Division Three last year we quickly
returned to Division Two in the Michaelmas Term and in fact finished the Lent
Term only one point short of double promotion – marking this as one of our
strongest seasons in recent years. It was particularly pleasing that this success
was achieved with a team comprised of an incredibly diverse range of individuals
from freshers to 6th years and from university hockey players to those who had
never played before.
With a record number of 17 available players for the opening match against
a very strong Jesus II team, confidence levels were high. However, illusions of
an easy victory were quickly dispersed and a fast, physical game ensued giving
an indication of the high calibre of hockey we were to expect in Division Three
for the Michaelmas Term. A gutsy performance saw Pembroke win 3–2, with
particular credit going to George Smith, who claimed all three goals and would
prove to be a valuable asset to the team when he could be dragged away from
rugby commitments. The team was relieved, if a little shaken, and with some
work on positional play and defensive strategy the next few matches were
won with rather more breathing space. Notably a 6–2 victory against Corpus, a
6–0 walkover against an incomplete Fitz team and a 5–0 win over a spirited but
erratic Clare team. In any normal season four wins would be comfortably
enough to ensure promotion; however, Division Three also contained a high
quality Cauis team who were also undefeated. With a slightly inferior goal
difference Pembroke required victory in order to be promoted. Luckily we were
able to put out a near full strength team. New recruit Pete Fletcher proved
impassable at central defense and two neat short corner moves gave Pembroke a
2–0 win and an undefeated term.
Pembroke’s Cuppers campaign began with a tough match against a Christ’s
side that had just finished second in Division Two. In spite of a couple of notable
absences from the starting line-up Pembroke managed to scrape a 4–3 victory
in a controversial game. The match was somewhat mired by poor umpiring;
however, it illustrated the spirit and fight in this year’s Pembroke team. This
would continue into the next round where we met a John’s team containing
several blues and an outstanding keeper. Pembroke dominated much of the game
but some clinical finishing by John’s two blues strikers and a number of
outstanding saves by their keeper resulted in a 5–2 defeat. Whilst it was
disappointing to exit at this stage, it was one of the highest quality hockey
matches that Pembroke has played in a number of years.
A snow interrupted Lent Term caused a rather more erratic fixture schedule
leading to occasional difficulties in availability. Thankfully we were able to rely on
a number of the ladies team being able to stand in and were never short of players.
Division Two turned out to be much better suited to the quality of this season’s
team. Easy victories were recorded over Trinity, Homerton and Emmanuel. A
greatly anticipated rematch against Christ’s proved a highlight of the season with
Pembroke dispersing any comments that they were ‘lucky’ to have won the
Cuppers contest by tearing through the Christ’s defence continually to finish with
a 6–2 victory. We ended up second in Division Two, missing out on double
promotion by a single point to John’s, who defeated us once again and ended up
as the only team to beat us over the year.
Although it was disappointing not to achieve double promotion, this does not
detract from what has been an outstanding season. Recording 10 wins, one draw
and two losses reflects on the strength of character and talent of the team; and
with many members returning next year I am confident that we can continue to
build Pembroke’s reputation under the leadership of incoming Captain Peter
Fletcher. He already represents the university at hockey and being a medic should
(I hope) be a stalwart of the team for many years to come. I would like to thank all
those involved with PCHC for making this a successful season and I look forward
to continuing progress in the 2013–14 season.
Outgoing Captain: Hamish Lazell
Incoming Captain: Peter Fletcher
Outgoing Secretary: Subon Sivananthan
Incoming Secretary: Jack Tawney
Hamish Lazell
HOCKEY (WOMEN’S)
The women’s division of Pembroke College Hockey Club has enjoyed a good
season, comfortably maintaining our position in the Second Division. The
graduation of more star hockey players left several gaps in the Pembroke hockey
scene which were quickly filled by keen new players, particularly from the second
year. Our performance in the league has been unpredictable, winning some
games very well, and losing some dramatically. Determined to maintain our
position in the Second Division, we were well matched with the teams we faced
and certainly found the Second Division to be challenging and enjoying.
We started strongly in the first match of the season, with a 1–0 win over
Newnham. This gave us a lot of confidence. The next game was an intense one
against Christ’s. However, without a full team, playing on a frozen pitch, and
suffering a ball to the face of one of our star defenders who took a trip to A&E, we
maintain that a 0–4 loss was an understandable result, and certainly better than
the 0–6 defeat we would have recorded had we forfeited. We finished the season
in the middle of Division Two and are proud of that, with high hopes for next year.
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Congratulations are also due to the several ladies at Pembroke who have qualified
for the University teams: second year Quinta Pusey and third year Anna Robinson
enjoyed a successful first season in the Bedouins; second year Stephanie Willis
enjoyed a second season with the Nomads; while Susie Stott once again formed an
integral part of the Blues squad, scoring one of the winning goals in the Varsity
match. Their presence was greatly missed in our weekly league squad, and very
much valued in our Cuppers matches.
Our Cuppers performance was not as successful as we had hoped. With a bye
into the second round and a walkover against Churchill we hoped to make it past
Round 3, but finding ourselves once more up against Christ’s strong side, we
suffered a disappointing defeat. Pembroke put up a good fight but the strong
Christ’s side dominated in the first half. We held our own throughout the second
half, but were unable to fight back. Though it was of course disappointing to be
knocked out of the tournament at this stage, our performance showed the great
commitment and determination of the team, and the quality of hockey from the
Pembroke side was something to be proud of.
Player of the season, after much deliberation over the claims of many worthy
candidates, was awarded to our goalkeeper Katie Threadgill, whose dives and
saves were remarkable. Catherine Hogg won the award for best newcomer, who
has been consistently reliable in her defending and whose performances have
gone from strength to strength. Freya Rowland was the recipient of our award for
best moment when she scored a fantastic goal that was disallowed because she
had tackled her teammate to get the ball. I have every confidence that the new
captain, Steph Willis, will lead next year’s squad to success, and (we hope) a
promotion. The squad this year was a strong one and with the anticipation of
more new talent PCHC is hoping to be back on top.
Outgoing Captain: Anna Robinson
Captain 2013–14: Stephanie Willis
Outgoing Social Secretary: Katie Threadgill
Social Secretary 2013–14: Annie Woodcock
Anna Robinson
NETBALL
Team:
Defence: Connie Chapman, Becca Hitchings (Player of the Year), Rhianna Ilube,
Sophie Oakes, Neeru Ravi, Kat Suddaby
Centre court: Tamara Bell, Fabia Crole, Charlie Flammiger, Freya Mead, Naomi
Mellor, Holly Miller, Elsa Morgan, Janneke Simpson
Attack: Catherine Hogg, Jaspreet Khaira, Gigi Perry
Pembroke Netball has gone from strength to strength this year. We welcomed to
the team a number of very talented and enthusiastic freshers, which made my task
of choosing a team each week very difficult. I often had two excellent and
deserved players for every position! Unfortunately, as has often been the case for
Pembroke in recent years, we had only a few self-identified shooters. I must thank
those who were willing to play out of their comfort zone, and congratulate them
on how quickly they learned to excel in their new positions.
Michaelmas – Division 3 (Won 4, Lost 2, Drew 1)
The potential of the Pembroke Ladies team was evident in our Michaelmas
matches, of which the majority we won. The new shooters settled into their roles,
the central court players commanded the play and Becca led the defence in the D.
We finished second in Division 3 leading to a promotion to Division 2 for Lent.
Lent – Division 2 (Won 2, Lost 5, Drew 0)
There is a noticeable difference in the standard between Division 2 and Division
3, and the games were inevitably much more challenging. Despite the score lines
and statistics, we played better in those matches which we lost this term, than in
those that we won comfortably last term. The defence was outstanding
throughout, unsettling many of our opponent’s shooters. Unfortunately, despite
our best efforts, we were relegated to Division 3 for the start of next year.
Netball Cuppers
Although we didn’t qualify for the afternoon knock-out, we held first division
champions Newnham to a 1–1 draw at half time in our first match. Although we
eventually lost, the first 6 minutes was arguably our best all year.
With half the team comprising First Years, the next few years are looking good for
Ladies Netball, with a clear aim to get back into Division 2 and stay there. The
team is left in the very capable hands of Catherine Hogg, and I wish them the best
of luck!
Sarah Barber
RUGBY
President: Howard Raingold
1st XV Captain: Matthew McBride
2nd XV Captain: Adam Lee
Secretary: George Smith
Squad: Adam Barker, Mark Bittlesone, John Boreham, Olly Budd*, Will Burrow*,
Richard Coates, Rupert Cowan*, Jack Di Lizia, Ross Elsby*, Tom Fletcher, Joey
Gateshill, Michael Georgiou, Oli Hilsdon, Tom Hoier, Alfie Ireland, Hamish
Lazell, Adam Lee, Roger Lightwood, Tom Mansfield, Matthew McBride*, Alastair
McWilliams, Felix Nugee, Yemi Ogunyemi, Ben Pugh, Jamie Robson, Rob
Sanders, James Savage, Rory Scott, Lee Sharkey, George Smith*, Will Snowden,
Alex Stride, Jack Tavener, George Sydenham, Jack Tawney, Josh Hirschowitz, Josh
Wade, James Weber, Jon Whitby*, Archie Wood, Matteo Yoon*
*University representative
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The 2012/2013 season was a special one for PCRUFC. A third place finish in
Divison 1 alongside a Cuppers semi-final represented the most successful
season for the club in over fifteen years (according to folklore). However, the
tinge of disappointment that accompanied this achievement illustrates how far
PCRUFC has come in the past few seasons and the quality of this year’s side.
There was a feeling that this was a ‘golden generation’: three strong rugby years
moulded over the preceding three seasons with the aim of securing silverware
for the college. This was complemented by a small but quality intake of first
year undergraduate and postgraduate students and the return from long-term
injury of Blues sprinter Ross Elsby to add some potency to the side.
The homecoming of MML students and stalwarts of PCRUFC, Ben Pugh
and Alastair McWilliams, wiser from their year abroad, further rejuvenated
the squad.
The season started early, in July 2012, with something previously unheard of
for PCRUFC – pre-season fitness. To ensure we were prepared for the physical
step up to top flight college rugby, each squad member completed a varied and
intense schedule, including a much maligned vomit-inducing anaerobic fitness
programme. There were concerns that much of this hard work had been undone
by the now legendary first drinks session of Michaelmas in the Free Press, in
which Fletcher LJ redefined justice in the Kangaroo Court. (Old members may be
pleased to hear that PCRUFC has found its new spiritual home in the Free Press,
with its Paul McCartney lookalike Landlord adding to the fun, following the
closure of the Crosskeys.) These concerns were, however, shown to be unfounded
by the flying start PCRUFC made to the season.
A pre-season warm up game against CCK was met with both apprehension
and excitement to see how Pembroke’s most dynamic backline in years – every
one of whom would go on to represent the university in Varsity Matches this
season – would function together. The combinations were devastating, as Ross
Elsby ran in three 60 metre tries off the back of expansive and ambitious back
play. The win against CCK was of significance firstly in setting the tone for the
season with a win against a Div 1 side from the previous season, but also in laying
down how we were going to play. The traditional Pembroke ‘up-the-jumper’,
eight man rugby was scrapped in favour of a free-flowing Barbarian style game
which suited the strengths of this side. The new-look pack were a svelte bunch,
and it was often hard to tell the difference between forwards and backs (with a
few notable exceptions in the front row).
We enjoyed a winning return to Division 1, with a bonus point victory over
Homerton – a 60 point swing from the corresponding fixture last season
showing just how much work had been done. The fixture list was not kind,
however, as Division 1 giants St. John’s and Jesus followed in successive weeks.
The St John’s game provided one of the highlights of the season. In front of
a packed Pembroke touchline, the lightning Ross Elsby rounded his man on
the 22 yard line and finished wonderfully in the corner to give us a 12–10 lead
with 15 minutes remaining and hope of one of the biggest college rugby upsets
in years. Frustratingly, St John’s scored two soft tries to take the match 24–12.
However, we had shown that we were in contention in this division. The St
John’s game was followed by a disappointing 28–16 defeat to Jesus with an
underwhelming performance.
For the remainder of Michaelmas, we became somewhat crippled by our own
success. As the Varsity Matches approached, representative players were
withdrawn from the college leagues. With PCRUFC providing eight players
across the university teams, this should have severely limited the team’s
performance. It is testament to the strength of this season’s squad that the term
ended with a 50–0 demolition of Homerton, followed by a 20–20 draw with
undefeated Downing; the enduring memory being The Master, Bursar and Mr
Raingold jumping down the touchline in celebration following another Elsby
wonder try with two minutes remaining.
After an early league win away to Robinson, Lent Term was all about Cuppers.
For the first time in recent history, PCRUFC managed to field a 2nd XV (with
substitutes!) in the competition – the only college to do so this year. Unfortunately
a tough draw saw the 2nd XV exit the competition in the first round to eventual
finalists Trinity Hall. However, holding the opposition scoreless for the first half
hour displayed the heart and determination with which the 2nd XV represented
the college. As a Division 1 side, the 1st XV earned a bye in the first round of
Cuppers. This set up a tie with top of Division 2 Selwyn. Despite being behind for
most of the game, both sides seemed to feel that PCRUFC would progress to the
quarter-finals. There had been glimpses of the class within the team throughout
the game, but it took 15 phases of touchline to touchline rugby, which resulted in
Rupert Cowan receiving the ball in a wide channel and barging over, to finally put
us ahead in the 70th minute. The game finished 24–19. We were rewarded with a
quarter-final tie with St. Edmunds, who knocked us out at the same stage last
year, but there was little joy in revenge with a 72–5 win.
Sadly our cup run ended in a 28–14 semi-final defeat in front of an enormous
and inspiring Pembroke crowd to a Downing side which had too much bulk up
front to manage. As had been the case last season, the number and quality of
Blues players for the opposition proved to be the difference.
The term did end positively, with a hard-fought 17–15 victory over Robinson,
thanks to a last minute try and touchline conversion from full back and Secretary
George Smith. This secured third place in the league for PCRUFC after the fixture
list could unfortunately not be finished.
This season represented a monumental success for PCRUFC, a third place
finish by the new-boys of the top division and a Cuppers semi-final with a team
featuring no blues players are astonishing achievements for a middle sized
college. The number of representative players supplied to the university U21,
U21A and LV’s teams also made Pembroke one of the best represented colleges in
Varsity Matches this year, whilst Rupert Cowan was unfortunate not to get any
action off the bench for the Blues at Twickenham. This team also demonstrated
what college rugby is about, a close group of friends off the field enjoying hard
but sociable rugby. The nights in pintpots attire stand out as some of the most
enjoyable in our university careers.
Once again, thanks must go to our President Howard Raingold for his
continuing support of the club and lively social events, and to Trevor Munns for
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providing undisputedly the best college rugby pitch in Cambridge. The sight of
Sir Richard Dearlove and Chris Blencowe on the touchline throughout the season
was welcome encouragement for the team, and I would like to thank them both
for their support.
Despite a large number of this ‘golden generation’ moving on from the glory
of college rugby, there remains a solid core of players well equipped to retain
Pembroke’s Division 1 status next year. I look forward with anticipation to
hearing of the performances both on and off the field and wish the new Secretary
Felix Nugee and Captain Will Burrow all the very best.
Matthew McBride
PEMBROKE PLAYERS
Another busy year for the Pembroke Players is coming to an end. Although it is
hard to believe it is over a year since I took over the mantle as President, and a fair
few months now since I’ve passed it into the capable hands of Jack Heywood, I
suppose that is the curse of Cambridge. Although three years sounds like a long
time, the clocks move at a faster pace here, and before you know it, you are done.
The continued success of a committee like ours relies, then, on a never-ending
stream of enthusiastic young actors, directors, producers, tech officers, and of
course audiences. This year the Pembroke Players have been in luck once more.
Freshers Week brought its traditional supply of chaos, with the Players
attending events at Kelsey Kerridge, the ADC and Pembroke, in the hopes of
luring in enthusiastic new students before they knew any better. Thankfully, we
found a lot, from both within and without college, many of whom went on to
become actively involved with the society. Michaelmas Term saw the introduction
of a new membership scheme, an endeavour that led to over dozens of new
people getting involved with the Players, and a unprecedented number of shows7 in one term, cementing our reputation as Cambridge’s most prolific drama
society, with the premier of a new theatre group New Word Order in Week 8
adding to the usual main show/late show structure. A double header of new postapocalyptic student writing in What? World, and classic writing in Madame Bovary
set the tone for the whole year: an emphasis on new, exciting student-driven
work, with both new writing and old benefiting from the intimate and unique
venue of the New Cellars. In Week 5 we had the Rose Tattoo and more new
writing in the terrific triple header Indelible Acts. Week 7 saw more new writing in
gambling drama Luck of the Draw, but most notably the traditional Freshers show,
this year a production of the Noel Coward farce, Hay Fever, which TCS deemed
‘sufficiently funny’. If they thought that was sufficiently funny, they should have
seen the Freshers Panto, which was its usual mix of the surreal and the terrifying.
Things didn’t let up in Lent, with another run of seven shows. We had new
sketch comedy with Tough Crowd, new writing in Folding Chair, which ran two
special matinée performances for local schoolchildren, and political intrigue with
Truth Speak. Although all our shows were fantastic and were well received by the
student press, and more importantly everyone who came to see it, one in
particular deserves special mention. Snap Out of It was one of the most moving and
innovative performances I have ever seen, a raw portrayal of mental illness
through the real words of those suffering from it. Many audience members were
reduced to tears, and the reviews were universally glowing. Their Edinburgh run
is sure to be a huge success. To round off the term, there was the roaring success
of the Black Tie Smoker in the luxury of the Old Library, always the classiest
comedy night in Cambridge.
The next term started as the last had ended: in the Old Library, in black tie, with
the society’s first (but I hope not last) annual dinner. Although, as ever, exams
took priority for the rest of Easter Term, the new Committee took to their jobs with
aplomb, organising their first comedy night, getting things prepared for next
terms shows, and putting on a truly unique May Week performance, Hammered
Hamlet: Hamlet, but drunk, and as riotously good fun as that description would
suggest. After the exams Pembroke welcomed actors from Théâtre du Soleil, the
renowned Parisian avant-garde theatre group, who did a workshop with
Pembroke and Cambridge students. This was a brilliant and unique experience for
all involved and I hope a lasting relationship has been established between the two
groups. Likewise, I hope the tradition will continue of funding numerous shows
around Cambridge in venues like the ADC and the Corpus Playrooms. This
summer brings the return of the Japan Tour, Edinburgh, and beyond then? You’ll
have to hear from Jack about that. It has been a great pleasure to serve the
Pembroke Players, and it’s with some degree of sadness that I pass on the mantle.
Time moves quicker in Cambridge, but I’ve enjoyed every minute.
Jamie Webb, Pembroke Players President 2012–2013
MUSIC SOCIETY
It’s been another busy year for music at Pembroke. PCMS was expertly led by
Duncan Mearns during Michaelmas Term and by Georgina Feary thereafter.
Highlights included performances by the recently formed Façade ensemble
directed by Benedict Collins Rice, who drew on the Lob fund to give rare
performances of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ O magnum mysterium and Alma
redemptoris mater in Advent, and Arvo Pärt’s St John Passion in Lent. The May Week
Concert saw the return of Gregory Drott and Joseph Middleton performing
Schubert’s F-minor Fantasia and two current Instrumental Award holders (Sam
Turton on clarinet accompanied by Benedict) performing movements from
Hindemith’s Clarinet Sonata. An eclectic second half in Chapel featured Gregory
Drott in a rendition of Bach’s Pastorale (BWV 590) on the chamber organ,
Georgina Feary playing Emma Johnson’s arrangement of three rhapsodic
Hungarian Dances, a revival of the much-loved ‘Pembershop’, and the Chapel
Choir in Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine and Handel’s Zadok the Priest.
Sunday recitals went from strength to strength under the auspices of PCMS.
The Graham Maw (Theodore Hill) and Sidney Kenderdine (Katrina Faranda
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Bellofiglio) Organ Scholars performed to much acclaim on the main organ in
Chapel. Lovely Choir treated us to their annual performance and several
Instrumental Award holders from across the University made good use of the
resonant acoustics of the Old Library. Particular mention should also be made
of moving solo recitals by Duncan Mearns and Elspeth Carruthers before highly
appreciative college audiences. The year was capped by the PCMS Garden Party
in May Week, which featured arrangements from the still-popular album Birth
of the Cool.
The Sir Arthur Bliss Song Series co-ordinated and accompanied by the College
Musician, Joseph Middleton, and generously supported by the Kenderdine Fund,
continued in more or less rude health. Things started well in Michaelmas Term
with an exquisite recital by Christopher Maltman of songs by Haydn, Mozart,
Loewe, Britten and Vaughan Williams. The series of Britten recitals scheduled to
mark the centenary of the composer’s birth was postponed until later this year
when the College Musician broke a wrist falling in unseasonal ice before a concert
at the Wigmore Hall. Suitably healed, Joseph Middleton returned early in Easter
Term to give a memorable recital of English song with Roderick Williams.
Convalescence had not been without its benefits, allowing time to devise a new
Lieder Scheme to provide coaching for leading singers and pianists drawn
from across the University. Sponsorship is still sought for duos to be trained by
the College Musician alongside regular vocalists in the Bliss series, an exciting
prospect for anyone interested in promoting the next generation of Lieder
performers – all enquiries are welcome.
The Chapel Choir continued to fulfil its primary function of singing services to
the highest standard possible. The performance of Fauré’s Requiem on
Remembrance Sunday in an arrangement for ‘cello and violin will live long in the
memory. Visits this year included the now established transfer of the Advent Carol
Service to Pembroke House, whose musical programme returned the favour with
a lively joint concert in Easter term. Drawing on the continued support of Raymond
Nasr, the Chapel Choir took up its annual residency over Epiphany weekend at
Hereford Cathedral, where the acoustics were particularly sympathetic to a
soprano section welcoming back several old members. A fund-raising concert at
the end of Lent term provided much-needed support for an ambitious summer
tour to the East Coast of the United States. The pre-tour recital this year took us
to St Nicholas’ Church, Rawreth, erstwhile parish church of Lancelot Andrewes.
The summer tour coincided with the 350th anniversary of the granting of
the Royal Charter by Charles II to the State of Rhode Island on 8 July, 1663. Roger
Williams (BA, 1627) co-founded Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations,
bringing back the Royal Charter from England. Following in his footsteps
with only a little geographic latitude, our first performances were in New York: a
Choral Eucharist at St Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, followed by a late afternoon
reception at the New York Athletic Club hosted by Cambridge in America. A
performance of partsongs and light arrangements in the presence of dozens of
alumni was followed by refreshments and stunning views over Central Park.
Suitably fortified, we headed to the Village Vanguard for a late set led by the
legendary jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove.
The choir’s next stop was amid the more relaxed surroundings of Kent School,
Connecticut, where we were generosly hosted by the headmaster Rev. Richard
Schell, who gained our lasting respect by coaching us in an impromptu game of
American Football on his expansive lawn. The performance of our concert
programme in St Andrew’s Church was perhaps the finest of the tour, enabled by
a sympathetic acoustic and unusually cool environment. Emmanuel Church,
Boston was distinctly warmer, but as tempertatures climbed into the mid 30’s
celsius the choir rose to the challenge of performing in a sweltering back room.
Rhode Island provided a fitting climax. A concert performance in Trinity
Episcopal Church, Newport, tested the choir’s heat endurance to the limit, while
the final Sunday saw the choir sing the services at Grace Episcopal Church in
Providence. As we departed, richer in friends and memories, we were privileged
to toast the semi-miraculous organizational skills of the outgoing Senior Organ
Scholar, Katrina Faranda Bellofiglio, without whom a peculiar act of Anglican
homage would not have been possible.
Sam Barrett
STOKES SOCIETY
Following the committee handover last Easter, the Stokes Society kicked off
another great year with the annual garden party. Drinks, snacks, and giant Jenga
provided a great atmosphere, while the traditional arm-wrestling tournament
added a bit of excitement, particularly with the new addition of a Presidential
Match (in which I was narrowly defeated by the outgoing Julian Willis).
Michaelmas saw an influx of new members to the society, particularly with
our second successful showing at the university-wide CUSU Societies’ Fair.
While the vast majority of our members are still Pembroke students, we are
becoming increasingly known around the university as a great, friendly science
society, and our talk attendees include undergraduates, graduates, and even
staff from around Cambridge.
After another fantastic Freshers’ Week used textbook sale, we started off our
year of talks with Professor Andy Parker, founder of the ATLAS experiment,
telling us about ‘The LHC Project: the Higgs Boson and Beyond’ and giving us an
exciting glimpse into the field of high energy physics. In another highlight of the
term, PhD student and TEDx Oxbridge speaker Tanya Goldhaber provided a
fascinating look at how technology impacts our everyday lives.
In November, we helped launch the new Peter Clarke Prize for Scientific
Communication, which invites Pembroke students to write about scientific
research in a way that is clear and accessible to the general public. The release,
which also included an excellent talk by Dr Elizabeth Wager on the ethics of
scientific publishing, was very well-attended and helped boost publicity for the
society. This look into the publishing industry provided an interesting
complement to our annual Careers Night later in term, which featured speakers
from industry, academia, and public health.
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Lent Term started with the return of the popular science quiz night, with
categories ranging from GCSE science to ‘guess the real paper title’. This year’s
quiz also saw the addition of a hands-on construction round, which the committee
team won with a nearly metre-tall tower of marshmallows and dry spaghetti.
The rest of the term was filled with an eclectic lineup of talks, ranging from
mathematics to medicine. Highlights included Dr Julia Gog, speaking on ‘Why
Biologists need Mathmos (and Vice Versa)’, nanoscience PhD student Patrick
Beldon presenting his research in ‘Shaking Things Up: New Ways of Doing
Chemical Reactions and a New Class of Semiconductors’; Dr Kristian Franze
explaining the biophysics of the nervous system in ‘Neurons Feel the Force’; and
Dr Jo Howes giving us a look at medical research in ‘Platelets: Our Human Velcro
in Health and Disease’. In addition, we held a Grad Talks night to highlight
scientific research within the Pembroke graduate community. Mark Nelson,
Richard Heywood, Maya Hanspal, and Krishnaa Mahbubani each gave short
presentations of their research into energy technology, cancer research,
synaesthesia, and phospholipid membranes. On the social side of things, we kept
up our tradition of swaps with other science societies, having a great formal with
the Darwin Society of Christ’s College, in addition to the annual black tie dinner
in the Old Library.
The AGM and committee election were held at the beginning of Easter term,
and the new committee is listed below. Notably, it was decided at the AGM to add
the position of Speakers Officer to the committee, to assist the president in
finding and liaising with the best possible selection of speakers. The new
committee has already been hard at work improving the society (you can now
follow us on Twitter! @StokesSociety), and I am confident that we will have yet
another great year.
Outgoing committee
President – Fiona Love
Secretary – Craig Burns
Careers/Acting Treasurer – Nick Spooner
Events Officer – Matthew Lim
Publications Officer – Duncan Mearns
Membership Officer – Sian Amis
IT Officer – Graham Edgecombe
Graduate Representative – Jack Tavener
Fiona Love
Incoming committee
President – Craig Burns
Secretary – Oliver Stevens
Treasurer – Victoria Wang
Speakers Officer –
Lachlan Stibbard Hawkes
Events Officer – Susie Wright
Publications Officer – Amy Danson
Membership Officer – Chloe Scott
IT Officer – Graham Edgecombe
Careers Officer – Joanna Buckland
Graduate Representative – Heidi Howard
IVORY TOWER SOCIETY
This academic year the Ivory Tower Society of Pembroke College has strived to
diversify its intellectual contribution and bridge the academic community with
the professional and independent research clusters of Cambridge. Expanding
and creating a more comprehensive understanding also implied debating and
selecting issues that are of great actuality, from foreign policy to intellectual
property, so on and so forth. Nonetheless, the Society guarded its propensity
towards exploring the invisible life of our College, its past and how it
reverberates Pembroke’s identity at present.
Held in Nihon Room, the talks hosted speakers from a variety of academic
backgrounds and subjects. Commencing with Dr James Gardom, from the
Faculty of Divinity, Dean of Pembroke and patron of our Society, the discussion
explored the implications of Pentecostal religious cults across the world, their
increasing appeal and how they modify the postmodern interpretation of
religion and faith. Professor Christopher Hill, Director of POLIS (Department
of Politics and International Studies) thoroughly examined British foreign
policy in a transforming global spectrum, attempting to define its scope, not
only against the background of a European crisis of legitimacy, but also in the
context of operational military engagement. From Cambridge IPE, a
Cambridge-based niche intellectual property consultancy, Dr Quentin Tannock,
its founder and CEO, exposed the research nexus behind the discovery of
graphene, and the emerging Cambridge-based research clusters. The talk was
perhaps unique in the history of the Ivory Tower itself, as it assembled experts
from both the academic and professional spheres, in one of the most vivid and
prolific debates. Guarding its interdisciplinary pursuit, alongside
professionals, the Ivory Tower gathered high profile discussants from the
Department of Chemistry and Engineering, Nanotechnology or the Judge
Business School, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Moreover, this past academic year our agenda sought to expand the
intellectual profile of our College, perpetuating the knowledge and
understanding of Pembroke’s past. Two outstanding accounts explored the
lyrical motives present in Ted Hughes’ poetry, himself a student and scholar of
the college; and the spiritual formation of Marie de St Pol, the Foundress. The
Senior Tutor, Dr Mark Wormald, from the Faculty of English, and Professor
Sylvia Huot, specialising in Medieval Literature, both Senior Fellows of
Pembroke, exposed fragments of the past, revealing and honouring the identity
of the College on a historical continuum.
Although the weekly format has been altered, this experimental path of the
Ivory Tower can be deemed a success. With talks that hosted high profile
speakers, mandatory visual input and followed by a port reception, enabling
further debate in a more informal context, the identity of the Ivory Tower
Society has been reshaped. The quality of the discussion has improved greatly
as well as the attendance. We actively sought to build upon the great resources
offered by the College and for the first time, we worked closely with the
Development Office. In this regard, we are extremely grateful to Sally March for
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her sustained efforts and presence. Moreover, we are profoundly indebted to Dr
James Gardom, Mrs Frances Kentish and Dr Becky Coombs for their constant
support. The Ivory Tower is looking forward to its future quests, the coming
academic year, hoping to preserve its identity and role within the intellectual
formation of Pembroke and Cambridge.
Andra-Lucia Martinescu
JUNIOR PARLOUR
President: Harry McNeill Adams
Vice-President: Patrick Kirkham
Treasurer: Jack Tawney
Entertainments Officer:
Richard Ollington
Welfare Officer: Sydney Wesley-Weeks
Men’s Officer: Jeremy Wikeley
Women’s Officer: Charlotte Chorley
LGBT+ Officer: John King
Disabled Students Officer: Edd Bankes
Internationals’ Officer: Tristan Downing
Ethnic Minorities’ Officer: Abby Jitendra
Charities Co-ordinator: Nick Robinson
Publications Officer: Gabrielle Schwarz
Food and Bar Officer: Izzy Stone
Senior Access Officer: Grace Hadley
Junior Access Officer:
Steph Spreadborough
Green Officer: Phoebe Power
IT Officer: Jonathan Hazell
Hostels Officer: Sophie Oakes
It has been a good year for the JPC, with its focus alternating between matters of
material improvement in College life to benefit students and more weighty
political issues.
As in previous years, a good working relationship with the College
authorities has helped us to find solutions to problems when they arise
together, rather than adopting an adversarial relationship. This has helped us to
ensure that students’ concerns are brought to senior management efficiently
and effectively. In Michelmas Term, the JPC negotiated with College authorities
to make sure that a necessary revamp of the College library’s borrowing system
did not impact too heavily on student life. Our regular meetings with the Bursar,
Senior Tutor and Dean at the Consultative Committee have ensured another
smooth year.
Several changes to the JP have been made, including the introduction of a new
television. For the first time, day lockers have been introduced into College as well.
The welfare team, led by Sydney Wesley-Weeks, once again coped with exam
season with aplomb. Many of the popular activities from last year, including yoga
and welfare snacks outside the library, were continued, but some new ones, such
as the wildly popular Zumba, proved instant hits. Pembroke Street, the JPC’s
bi-annual publication, was redesigned to good effect. The JPC has continued to
run a successful series of Bops in the JP, including innovations such as having
jugglers present and the bop mascot, Bananas the monkey. These were well
attended and enjoyed by all.
On a more serious note, the JPC made some changes to its Constitution and
internal governance, pending referenda. Firstly, the role of Charities Co-ordinator
was added to the JPC, and the name of what had been the old-fashioned LBGT
Officer was changed to LGBT+ Officer. Pembroke again voted, much more
strongly this time, in favour of remaining affiliated to CUSU. Towards the end of
the year, an open meeting, attended by over 50 people, voted to boycott The Sun
newspaper on the grounds of its objectification of women.
Attention now shifts to Freshers’ Week, and attempting to give the next
generation of Valencians a smooth and useful introduction into College and
University life.
Harry McNeill Adams
GRADUATE PARLOUR
President: Jack Tavener
Vice-President: Paul McMullen
Treasurer: Paul Richards
Secretary: Steve Gage
External Officer: Martin Chilla
IT Officer: Anna Blair
Charity Rep: Eleanor Dalgleish
Welfare Officer: Dimitra Kestoras
Events Officer: Rahul Khubchandani
Events Officer: Kate Howell
GP Steward: Ed Monk
Women’s Officer: Charlotte Sutherell
LGBT Officer: Elena Ilioi
4th Year Rep: Holly Miller
It has been an incredibly enjoyable and successful year for the Graduate Parlour,
with our main aim to make the GP a more inclusive and thriving place for
everyone to be involved in. With a very active incoming year group and existing
members being enticed back, it has been possible to make significant
improvements to how the GP is used, its events and even the constitution (!),
which should allow the GP to grow even further in the future.
Key developments in the GP include incorporating a Charity Officer (now an
elected position from Michaelmas 2013) and a 4th Year Rep into the committee,
dealing with some important issues and a vote of no confidence within the
Graduate Union, updating our Associate Membership Scheme to further enrich
the GP community, expanding the role of the Puboard – open several times a week
with trained stewards – and a greatly increased online presence through social
media, a GP blog and the re-launching of our GP website.
A busy Freshers’ Week schedule kicked off the year, with a focus on welcoming
new arrivals and 4th year students to the GP through events in College (G&T
Night, BA Dinner, ‘P is for Pembroke’ GP Bop) as well as across the university (bar
tour with Hughes Hall, visits to the Societies’ Fair and tours of the city). We also
held a GP Family Night, taking inspiration from the Junior Parlour to match
incoming students with a ‘family’ of existing grads to help them settle in and get
to know even more people.
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Re-Freshers’ Week brought everyone in the GP back together following a
refreshing Christmas vacation and this along with other joint events such as a
four-way college bar tour with King’s, Caius, and Trinity Hall have cemented
strong relationships with other MCRs. A packed schedule of dining swaps was
organised by our External Officer, often leading to multiple groups of guests at
BA Dinner and the opportunity for our members to dine at more than ten other
colleges, particular highlights including Halloween fancy dress at both Emma
and Sidney Sussex.
Events have been a significant part of GP activities, with a commitment to
refresh our schedule and running at least one GP event a week in addition to BA
Dinners. Our GP Facebook group is testament to this, with 38 events listed at the
last count, varying from a Pot Luck Dinner Night to Fireside Whiskey Tasting with
Chestnuts and Marshmallows, but also including ice-skating, a walk to
Grantchester (including cream tea, of course), a GP charity auction, GP/JP Field
Day & BBQ, poker and cards, and a joint pub quiz with Corpus Christi. Together
with James Bond, Valentine’s and Masquerade themed BA Dinners, there is no
doubt our Events duo have surpassed themselves!
But this was not without the GP providing strong student representation both
internally and across the University. The Cambridge University Graduate Union
has faced a problematic year, with constitutional issues causing operational
difficulties as well as concerns about the GU President’s ability to fulfil his role,
ultimately leading to a vote of no confidence forcing him to resign. The Pembroke
GP played an active role in discussions to resolve this university-wide issue.
Furthermore, we have taken the time to update our constitution, via Open
Meetings and a referendum, to improve student representation, make better use
of technology in voting and to make the operation of the GP more efficient.
Since January, charity events have featured prominently in the GP calendar, to
now incorporate charitable initiatives as a fundamental part of the GP
community and raise money for two student-proposed charities each term. So
far we have raised a superb £1,784 for Streetbite (a student-run initiative for the
homeless in Cambridge), the British Red Cross, Médecins sans Frontières and
the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. Fundraising has taken a variety of forms with a charity
box now fixed in the GP, themed BA Dinners and a charity event each term.
Highlights include the Promises Charity Auction which even featured a lot for
John Spelzini to hand deliver breakfast in bed to a whole college house for a
week! Later in the year we hosted the Chapel Music Evening with actress Jenny
Agutter as our special guest, also kindly donating autographed raffle prizes.
After such a successful start, we hope this new facet of GP life will continue to
go from strength to strength.
For anyone wanting to catch up with past GP members, re-engage with the GP
or simply stay informed with what is going on, you can do so via the Facebook
page (search for ‘Pembroke College Graduate Parlour (GP)’ or visit
facebook.com/PembrokeCollegeGraduateParlour).
Personally, it has been a pleasure to become so involved with the GP and we all
owe huge thanks to our fantastic committee members this year. It is their hard
work which has changed the face of and brought new life to the GP. The success
of this year was reflected in the unprecedented turnout for the final BA Dinner
photo and the biggest GP Garden Party to date. It should be noted that all of this
was made possible by the fantastic support we received from numerous college
figures – a special thanks to Loraine Gelsthorpe, James Gardom, Becky Coombs,
Mark Wormald, Chris Blencowe, Frances Kentish, Andrew Enticknap, David
Harwood, John Spelzini, Chris Elbourne, Savino Cafagna, Ken Smith, Roger
Cutter and the Graduate Tutors. It is with great satisfaction that I can hand over
to my successor, Paul McMullen, who we are all looking forward to see leading
the GP further into its new chapter in 2013–14.
Jack Tavener
C. THE COLLEGE RECORD
From Volume III of EG Browne’s Diaries
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THE MASTER AND FELLOWS 2012–2013
THE MASTER
Sir Richard Billing Dearlove, MA (2003), KCMG, OBE
FELLOWS
1956
Malcolm Cameron Lyons, LittD (1997)
1958
Albert Victor Grimstone, PhD (1958), MA (1959)
1961
Leslie Peter Johnson, BA Newcastle, DPhil Kiel, MA (1959)
1964
James Christopher Durham Hickson, MA (1964), PhD (1966)
1979
Nicholas Barry Davies, MA (1977), DPhil Oxon, FRS, Professor of
Behavioural Ecology
1982
(1961) John Peter Dougherty, MA (1960), PhD (1961)
(1977) Jan Marian Maciejowski, MA (1976), PhD (1978), Professor of Control
Engineering President of Pembroke College
Norman Andrew Fleck, MA (1983), PhD (1984)), FREng, FRS, Professor of the
Mechanics of Materials, Director of the Cambridge Centre for Micromechanics
1984
Michael Christopher Payne, MA (1985), PhD (1985), FRS, Professor of
Computational Physics
1985
Charles Peter Melville, MA (1976), PhD (1978), Professor in Persian History
Trevor Robert Seaward Allan, BCL Oxon, MA (1983), Professor of Jurisprudence
and Public Law
1990
Barbara Ann Bodenhorn, MPhil (1979), PhD (1990), College Lecturer in
Archaeology and Anthropology and in Social and Political Science
1992
Jonathan Philip Parry, MA (1982), PhD (1985), Professor of Modern British
History
Mark Roderick Wormald, MA, DPhil Oxon, PhD (2008), College Lecturer
in English
1993
Donald Robertson, MA (1987), MSc, PhD LSE, University Senior Lecturer
in Economics
1994
Loraine Ruth Renate Gelsthorpe, BA Sussex, MPhil (1979), PhD (1985),
Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Torsten Meißner, MA Bonn, DPhil Oxon, PhD (1997), University Senior
Lecturer in Classics
1995
Robin James Milroy Franklin, PhD (1992), Professor of Neuroscience
Christopher John Young, MA (1994), PhD (1995), Professor of Modern and
Medieval German Studies
Silvana Silva Santos Cardoso, BA, MEng Porto, PhD (1994), Reader in Fluid
Mechanics and the Environment
1996
Sylvia Huot, MA (2004) BA California, PhD Princeton, FBA, Professor of
Medieval French Literature
1997
Nicholas John McBride, BA, BCL Oxon, College Lecturer and James Campbell
Fellow in Law
(2000) Nigel Robert Cooper, MA (1995), DPhil Oxon, Professor of
Theoretical Physics
1998
Kenneth George Campbell Smith, BMedSc, MB, BS, PhD Melbourne, MA
(2000), Genzyme Professor of Experimental Medicine, Honorary Consultant
Physician, Addenbrooke’s Hospital
Alan Garth Tunnacliffe, MA (1994), PhD London, Professor of Molecular
Biotechnology
Lauren Tamar Kassell, BA Haverford, MSc, DPhil Oxon, University Senior
Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science
1999
Vikram Sudhir Deshpande, BTech Bombay, MPhil (1996), PhD (1998), Professor
of Materials Engineering
2001
Demosthenes Nicholas Tambakis, MA (1993), PhD Princeton, College Lecturer
and Pyewacket Fellow in Economics
Nilanjana Datta, MA (2008), BSc, MSc Jadavpur, PhD ETH Zurich, College
Lecturer and Overstall Fellow in Mathematics
John Stephen Bell, BPhil Gregorian University Rome, MA (1978), DPhil Oxon,
Professor of Comparative Law
Timothy John Bussey, BSc Victoria BC, BSc Vancouver BC, PhD (1995), Reader
in Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience
Andrea Carlo Ferrari, Laurea, Politechnico di Milano, PhD (2001), ScD (2013)
Professor of Nanotechnology
2002
Rosalind Polly Blakesley, MA (1996), DPhil Oxon, University Senior Lecturer in
the History of Art
2003
Alexander William Tucker, MA (1989), VetMB (1992), PhD (1997), University
Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Public Health
2004
Arwen Fedora Deuss, MSc Utrecht, DPhil Oxon, PhD (2008), University
Lecturer in Theoretical Geophysics
2005
Simon Learmount, BA, MA University of East Anglia, MBA (1996), PhD (2000),
University Lecturer in Corporate Governance
Alan Michael Dawson, MA (1978), PhD (1994), Director International
Programmes
Jorge M Gonçalves, MSc, PhD MIT, University Lecturer in Engineering
Samuel James Barrett, BA Oxon, MPhil (1996), PhD (2000), University Senior
Lecturer in Music
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2006
Alexei Shadrin, MSc, PhD Moscow, University Lecturer in Numerical Analysis
James Theodore Douglas Gardom, BA Oxon, PhD King’s College London, Dean
and Chaplain
Katrin Christina Ettenhuber, BA (2000), MPhil (2001), PhD (2005), College
Lecturer in English
Eric Alexander Miska, BA Dublin, PhD (2000), Group Leader at the
Gurdon Institute
2007
Christopher John Blencowe, BA Reading, MA King’s College London, Treasurer
and Bursar
Matthew Robert Mellor, BA Oxon, MA (2010), Development Director
Stephen O’Rahilly, MD, MB, BCh, BAO Ireland, FRS, Professor of Clinical
Biochemistry and Medicine
Gábor Csányi, MA (1994), PhD MIT, University Senior Lecturer in Engineering
Menna Ruth Clatworthy, BSc, MBBCh Wales, PhD (2006), University Lecturer
in Transplantation Medicine
Ashok Ramakrishnan Venkitaraman, MA (1993), PhD London, MB and BS
Vellore, India, Professor of Cancer Research
2008
David John Huggins, MChem, DPhil Oxon, Research Associate, Cambridge
Molecular Therapeutics Program, and Supernumerary Fellow
2009
Colin Martyn Lizieri, BA Oxon, PhD LSE, Grosvenor Professor of Real
Estate Finance
Alexander Houen, BA, MPhil Sydney, PhD (1999), University Senior Lecturer
in English
Renaud Gagné, BA, MA, Montreal, PhD (2007) Harvard, University Lecturer
in Classics
Mina Gorji, BA (1996), MPhil, PhD Oxon, University Lecturer in English
Caroline Burt, BA (1999), MPhil (2000), PhD (2004), College Lecturer in
History, Admissions Tutor
Siân Katharine Pooley, BA (2005), MPhil (2006), PhD (2010), Temporary
University Lecturer in the Faculty of History
Sarah Maria Heiltjen Nouwen, LLB, LLM Utrecht, MPhil (2005), PhD (2010),
University Lecturer in Law
2010
Jacob Norris, BA, MA University College London, PhD (2011), Randall Dillard
Research Fellow
2011
Krzysztof Kazimierz Koziol, MSc Silesian University of Technology, PhD
(2005), Royal Society Research Fellow
Joanna Ruth Bellis, BA (2007), MPhil (2008), PhD (2011), Harry F Guggenheim
Research Fellow
Sky Trillium French, BA, MSci (2008), PhD (2011), Drapers’ Company
Research Fellow
Moritz Toby Matthiesen, BA Berne, MA SOAS, PhD SOAS, Abdullah Al
Mubarak Al Sabah Research Fellow
Randall Scott Johnson, BA/BS Washington, PhD Harvard, Professor of
Molecular Physiology and Pathology
Christoph Loch, Diploma-Wirtschafts-Ingenieur Darmstadt, MBA Tennessee,
PhD Stanford, Director and Professor of Management Studies at the
Cambridge Judge Business School
Clare Philomena Grey, BA Oxford, DPhil Oxford, FRS, Geoffrey Moorhouse
Gibson Professor of Chemistry
Maria Abreu, BSc LSE, MPhil Tinbergen, PhD Amsterdam, Adam Smith Fellow
and College Lecturer in Land Economy
2012
Anna Mollie Young, MEng (2008), MA (2011), PhD (2012) Maudslay-Butler
Research Fellow
Chloe Nahum-Claudel, BA (2005), Trebilcock-Newton Trust Research Fellow
Stephen David John, BA (2000), MPhil (2002), PhD (2007) University Lecturer
in Philosophy of Public Health
Warren Robert Joseph Daniel Galloway, BA (2004) MA (2007) PhD (2008) Postdoctoral Research Associate in Organic Chemistry
Ernst Henning Edmund Grunwald, BA (1997) PhD (2003) University Lector in
Modern German History
Jonathan Ben-Artzi, BSc Hebrew University of Jerusalem, PhD Brown University
RI, Research Associate in Mathematics in the Department of Applied
Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Supernumerary Fellow
EMERITUS FELLOWS
Charles William McElroy Pratt, MA (1953)
Anthony William Nutbourne, MA (1954)
Richard Hawley Grey Parry, ScD (1983)
Colin Gilbraith, MA (1975), MVO
Amyand David Buckingham, CBE, ScD (1985), FRS
Colin George Wilcockson, MA (1958)
Michael James David Powell, ScD (1979), FRS
Antony Gerald Hopkins, FBA
Ian Fleming, ScD (1982), FRS
John Ryder Waldram, MA (1963), PhD (1964)
Howard Henry Erskine-Hill, LittD (1988), FBA
Sir Roger Tomkys, KCMG, MA (1973)
William Bernard Raymond Lickorish, ScD (1991)
Robert Joseph Mears
Leo Brough Jeffcott, MA (1994)
Sathiamalar Thirunavukkarasu, MA (1971)
Nicholas Stanislaus Baskey, MA (1998)
Brian Watchorn, MA (1965)
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Howard Peter Raingold, MA (1982)
Richard James Jackson, MA (1968), PhD (1968)
Michael David Reeve, MA (1966), FBA
Michael George Kuczynski, MA (1972)
Susan Helen Stobbs, MA (1970)
Rex Edward Britter, MA (1979)
Geoffrey Richard Edwards, MA (2008)
HONORARY FELLOWS
1983
1989
1992
1993
1998
1999
2000
2002
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2010
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, OM, MA (1956), PhD (1955), Hon ScD, FRS
Ray Milton Dolby, Hon OBE, PhD (1961), Hon ScD
Sir John Frank Charles Kingman, ScD (1969), FRS
The Rt Hon James Michael Leathes Prior, Baron Prior of Brampton, PC, MA
(1970)
Sir Constant Hendrick (Henry) de Waal, KCB, MA (1955), LLB (1952)
Simon Kirwan Donaldson, MA (1985), FRS
Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood, CBE, MA (1967), Hon MusD
James Gee Pascoe Crowden, CVO, MA (1955)
Sir John Anthony Chilcot, GCB, MA (1973)
The Rt Hon Sir Konrad Hermann Theodor Schiemann, PC, MA (1965), LLB
(1962)
The Rt Hon Sir Alan Hylton Ward, Lord Justice Ward, PC, MA (1968), LLB (1963)
Emma Louise Johnson, MBE, MA (1992)
Sir John Edward Sulston, PhD (1982), Hon ScD, FRS
William Hall Janeway, PhD (1971)
Sir Michael Bett, CBE, MA (1977)
Roger Walton Ferguson Jr, MA (1976), PhD Harvard
Sir Christopher Owen Hum, KCMG, MA (1971)
His Excellency George Maxwell Richards, TC, PhD (1963)
Sir Marcus Henry (Mark )Richmond, ScD(1971), FRS
The Rt Hon Christopher Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, PC, MA
(1977), PhD (1979)
Amyand David Buckingham, CBE, ScD (1985), FRS
Stephen John Nickell, CBE, BA (1965), FBA
Martin Biddle, OBE, MA (1965), FBA
Peter Stuart Ringrose, MA (1971), PhD (1971)
Paul Anthony Elliott Bew, Baron Bew of Donegore, MA (1971), PhD (1974)
Stephen Jay Greenblatt, MA (1968)
David Anthony Brading, BA (1960), LittD (1991), FBA
Jeremy Bloxham, BA (1982), PhD (1986), FRS
The Rt Hon Sir Patrick Elias, Lord Justice Elias, PC, PhD (1974)
Clive Vivian Leopold James, BA (1964) MA
WILLIAM PITT FELLOWS
1996
Sir Mark Henry Richmond, ScD (1971), FRS
Richard Tak Sang Chiu, BA (1971)
1997
2001
2003
2008
2009
2010
2012
Peter Stuart Ringrose, PhD (1971)
Jeremy Henry Moore Newsum, BA, Reading
Barrington John Albert Furr, OBE, BSc, PhD, Reading
Ismail Kola, PhD, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Richard Parmee, BA (1973)
Sir Michael Derek Vaughn Rake, FCA
Robert Carlton Booker, BSc, University of East Anglia; MFin,
London Business School
BYE-FELLOWS
2001
2008
2009
2010
2011
Jayne Sinclair Ringrose, MA (1970)
Daniela Passolt, BA Hamburg, MSc SOAS, PhD LSE
Rebecca Lucy Coombs, BA Bristol, PhD Paris
Andrew Enticknap, MBA UEA
Mark Reinhard Norbert Kotter, MD Graz, MPhil (2001), PhD (2006)
William Fawcett, MA (1974), PhD (1979)
Mark Strange, BA Durham, MSt, DPhil Oxon
Katharina Rietzler, MA PhD UCL
FELLOW-COMMONERS
2004
2005
2006
2007
2009
George Simon Cecil Gibson
John Andrew Hulme Chadwick, MA (1968)
Keith Gordon Sykes, MA (1973)
Randall Wayne Dillard, LLM (1983)
Norman Mcleod Bachop, BA (1968)
Anthony Harwick Wilkinson
Christopher Bertlin Turner Adams, MA (1957)
John Charles Grayson Stancliffe, MA (1952)
John Kevin Overstall, BA (1962)
Master: Sir Richard Dearlove
COLLEGE OFFICERS 2013–2014
President: J Maciejowski
Senior Tutor: M Wormald
Dean and Chaplain: J Gardom
Treasurer and Bursar: A Cates
Praelector: T Meißner, B Watchorn
Librarian: N McBride
Tutorial Bursar: L Kassell
College Proctor: D Tambakis
Steward: M Mellor
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College Curator: C Melville, S Learmount
Tutor for Graduate Affairs: L Gelsthorpe
Admissions Tutor: C Burt
Tutor for Graduate Admissions: N McBride
Development Director: M Mellor
Assistant tutors: M Abreu, S Barrett, C Blencowe, K Ettenhuber, J Gardom, M Gorji,
H Grunwald, N McBride, T Meißner, M Mellor, S Nouwen, S Pooley, A Tucker
Graduate tutors: C Burt, A Deuss, J Gardom, D Huggins
College lecturers: B Bodenhorn (Arch & Anth, SPS), C Burt (History), N Datta
(Mathematics), H Diemberger (HSPS), K Ettenhuber (English), G Kolios (Economics),
N McBride (Law), D Tambakis (Economics), M Wormald (English)
Directors and Assistant Directors of Studies:
Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic: P Russell
Architecture: M Sternberg
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies: C Melville, T Mathiesen
Chemical Engineering: S Cardoso, A Tunnacliffe
Classics: T Meißner, M Arbabzadah
Computer Science: C Hadley
Economics: D Tambakis, D Robertson
Education: E Taylor
Engineering: G Csanyi, V Deshpande, J Durrell, A Ferrari
English: M Wormald, K Ettenhuber
History: C Burt
History of Art: R Blakesley, J Munns
Human, Social and Political Sciences: H Diemberger
Land Economy: M Abreu
Law: N McBride, S Nouwen
Linguistics: D Willis
Management Studies: S Learmount
Mathematics: N Datta
Medicine: A Tucker, M Clathworthy
Modern Languages: C Young, S Huot, M Kant
Music: S Barrett
Natural Sciences: T Bussey, N Cooper, A Deuss, W Galloway, L Kassell, K Koziol,
M Payne, A Tunnacliffe
Philosophy: S John
Theology: J Gardom
Veterinary Medicine: A Tucker
Director for International Programmes: A Dawson
Lecteur in French: R Laforgue
Lektorin in German: A Nospickel
Academic Associates:
Anatomy: A May
Chemistry: D Baker
Classics: M Arbabzadah
Economics: M Arbabzadah
Mathematics: M Castle
Physics: F Lee
Social Anthropology: M Magalhaes
Zoology: J Gerlach
MATRICULATION 2012–2013
MICHAELMAS TERM 2012
Abbs, Ian Charles (University of London)
Anketell, Matthew James (The Judd School, Tonbridge)
Antonova, Daria Borisovna (Lomonosov Moscow State University)
Archer, Eva Jacqueline (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Armstrong, Louise Sarah (University of St Andrews)
Arnold, Richard Dafydd (Cardiff University)
Arora, Pankaj (Oklahoma State University)
Arshad, Samad (Pimlico Academy, London)
Baillie, James Matthew (Diss High School)
Baker, James Edward (Magdalen College School, Oxford)
Bamford, Joshua Thomas (Greenhead College, Huddersfield)
Barbosa, Elton Gargioni Grisoste (State University of Londrina, Hyderabad)
Barker, Adam James (Ponteland Community High School)
Barker, Antony William (St Olave’s and St Saviour’s Grammar School, Orpington)
Basuita, Simrun-Shaan Singh (Reading School)
Beech, Jake Mark (Swanwick Hall School, Alfreton)
Bell, Tamara Alexandra (St Marys School, Ascot)
Bellamy, Jennifer Emma (South Cheshire College, Crewe)
Bennett, Joe Mancha (Oxford University)
Bergamasco, Maria Lorenza (International School Monaco)
Billington, James Alexander (Cheadle Hulme School, Cheadle)
Bittlestone, Mark Christopher (King’s College School, Wimbledon)
Blair, Anna Kate (University of Cambridge)
Blower, Camilla Amy (Loreto Grammar School, Altrincham)
Botwright, Siobhan Paula (Kendrick School, Reading)
Burns, David Ian (Imperial College London)
Byfield, Peter John (Wells Cathedral School)
Cai, Emma Yu-Chieh (Altrincham Girls Grammar School)
Capel-Shyu, Jack (Pershore High School & Sixth Form College)
Carroll, John Patrick (Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College)
Cervantes, Eduardo Carlos (Universidad del Norte, Columbia)
Chang, Joyce May (University of Virginia, Chalottesville)
Chapman, Constance Alice (King Edward’s School, Bath)
Cheak, Seck Fai (US Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey)
Cheng, Kate Yan Hei (Wycombe Abbey School, High Wycombe)
Chorley, Charlotte Mary (Thomas Bennett Community College, Crawley)
Cifci, Melissa Zerrin (Haringey Sixth Form Centre)
Clothier, Holly Louise (The Sixth Form College Farnborough)
Cochrane, Harry James Campbell (Royal Grammar School, Newcastle)
Colfer, Barry (University of Cambridge)
Colwill, Elisabeth Ellen (Sir William Perkins’s School, Chertsey)
Conneely McInerney, Mebh (European School (Brussels 2))
Currie, Jessica Elizabeth (Gosforth Academy, Newcastle upon Tyne)
Dalgleish, Eleanor Claire (University of Cambridge)
Darragh, Kathy (St Killian’s College, Carnlough)
de Andres, Marta (King’s College School, Wimbledon)
Deeley, Christopher Alan (Cirencester College)
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Del Bigio, Patrick Victor Parida (Trinity College Dublin)
Denyer, Helen Victoria Wolf (Sherborne School for Girls)
Descotes, Caroline Marie (L’Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)
Dilov, Dimitar Ivanov (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
Downing, Tristan Alexander Lee (Semiahmoo Secondary School, British Columbia)
Evans, Frances Mary Margarita (University College London)
Faye, Robert Eckart (California Polytechnic State University)
Fisher, Beth (Canon Slade Cof E School, Bolton)
Fleming, Alexander James (Brown School of Engineering, Rhode Island)
Fletcher, Peter John (Samuel Whitbread Community College, Shefford)
Flowers, Sarah (Harvard University)
Forbes, Thayne Juliusz (Eltham College, London)
Gage, Stephen Gary (Yale University)
Garside, Benjamin John Elliot (Minster School, Southwell)
Georgiou, Michael John Alexander (Sutton Grammar School, Surrey)
Godfrey, Luke James (Strode College, Street)
Gould, Elinor Lucy (Lutterworth College)
Green, Jamie Nathan (Highgate School, London)
Griffiths, Katharine June (King Edward VI Handsworth School, Birmingham)
Groves, Emily Louise (University College London)
Gu, Kevin Li (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena)
Guyon, Louisa Antonia Elisabeth (Nonsuch High School for Girls, Cheam)
Hadley, Grace Lillian (King Edward VI College, Stourbridge)
Hammond, Mark David (Royal Grammar School, Guildford)
Hanspal, Maya Annika (University of Sussex )
Harrison, Benjamin (Carlton le Willows Academy, Gedling)
Hazell, Jonathon Alexander David (Westminster School)
Heywood, Jack Anthony (Elizabeth College, Guernsey)
Hieske, Julia (University of Cologne)
Hill, Theodore Alexander (Royal Grammar School, Buckinghamshire)
Hitchings, Rebecca Madeline (Sevenoaks School)
Hopkinson, Angus John (Queen Elizabeth II High School, Isle of Man)
Hoyos, Theres (Kings College London)
Hudson, Matthew Stephen (Ermysted’s Grammar, Skipton)
Huetlin, Josephine (Nelson Mandela School, Birmingham)
Humphreys, Alison Rose (St Benet Biscop High School, Bedlington)
Hutt, James William (Bedford Modern School)
Ilioi, Elena Cristiana (McGill University, Canada)
Ilube, Rhianna Kemi Adesuwa Louise (St Benedicts School Ealing)
Innes, Mairi Catriona (The Mary Erskine School, Edingburgh)
Innes, Matthew James MacDonald (Royal Grammar School, Guildford)
Jackson, Benjamin Michael (Chenderit School, Banbury)
Johnson, Abigail Elizabeth (King James’s School, Knaresborough)
Kant, Deborah (Anglia Polytechnic University)
Keller, Michael Moshe (Kings College London)
Kemp, Alexander Frederick Anderson (Dr Challoners Grammar School, Amersham)
Khan, Izhan Saif (Dr Challoners Grammar School, Amersham)
Khubchandani, Rahul (University of Western Australia, Perth)
Kim, Jeong Min Jaymin (Harvard College, Massachusetts)
King, John Anthony (Belvedere College, Ireland)
Korherr, Sonja (Elly-Heuss-Knapp-Gymnasium, Stuttgart)
Koseki, Hiroaki (Tokyo University)
Kroon, Adriaan Anton (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire)
Kulkarni, Priyanka (St Olave’s and St Saviour’s Grammar School, Orpington)
Kwan, Terence Tai Lun (University of Cambridge)
Lai, Lucinda (Stanford University)
Laird, Benjamin David (Thomas Hardye School, Dorset)
Lam, Pui Hei (Colchester Royal Grammar School)
Laniel, Stéfanie (University of Montreal)
Lloyd, Lewis Alexander (Dulwich College)
Lodge, Archie John Ralph (Winchester College)
Lowther, James Clitus (Salford City College, Pendleton)
Mansfield, Thomas Haddon (Trinity College Dublin)
Mansour, Renad (Queens University, Kingston, Canada)
Marcarian, Hannah (Guildford High School)
Masciandaro, Michael John (University of Pennsylvania)
Masson, Robert Bryan (Tapton School, Sheffield)
Matheson, Hannah Mollie (Salesian School, Chertsey)
McCann, John Kelan (Aylesbury Grammar School)
McConkey, Matthew Sam (Ballymena Academy)
McKinlay, Beth Charis (Mearns Castle High School, Glasgow)
McMullen, Paul Ian (University of Sydney)
Mead, Freya Constance Grace (Sevenoaks School)
Meekley, Lucy Simone (Trinity School, Carlisle)
Metcalf, Eleanor Charis (The Godolphin and Latymer School, London)
Milev, Nikolay Branimirov (University of Durham)
Mills, Frederick Walter Osborne (Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College)
Morrissey, Peter Dwyer (Fordham University)
Mottaghi-Irvani, Sara (University of Virginia)
Mouat, Samuel John (All Hallows Catholic School, Farnham)
Murphy, Sarah Elizabeth (Sandown High School, Sandown)
Myer, Walter Rupert Hordiern (Melbourne Grammer School, Australia)
Naing, Rose (Royal Grammar School, Newcastle)
Nelson, Mark Whitfield (Oklahoma State University)
Nichol, Alan Michael Anthony (Edinburgh University)
Nicol-Harper, Alex (Cheney School, Oxford)
Nuti, Alasia (London School of Economics)
Oades, Jack Dominic Rory (Torquay Boys Grammar School)
Ollington, Richard Patrick (Royal Grammar School, Guildford)
Ong, Yee Tat (Concord College, Shrewsbury)
Ormond, Bryan John (Institut Florimont, Geneva)
Osborne, Rachel Laura (University of Warwick)
Paris Smith, Tim Eugene (University of Nottingham)
Parodi-Huml, Liliana (Oxford Brookes University)
Parsons, Preston David Sunabacka (Graduate Theological Union)
Perry, Georgia Victoria (St Mary’s School, Calne)
Phillips, James Nelson (Twyford Church of England High School)
Piette, Anjali Amélie Alison (St Leonard’s Catholic School, Durham)
Pirie, Ailith Molly (University of St Andrews)
Plastina, Matthew Constantino (University of Toronto)
Poh, Jason Wei Jie (Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island)
Polex Wolf, Joseph (Brandeis University, Massachusetts)
Pourkarimi, Roxanna Rose (Beaconsfield High School)
Priebe, Marian Karl (The Latymer School)
Prior, Daisy Cordelia Charlotte (The Grammar School at Leeds)
Ramambason, Chloe Marine (Westminster School)
Reimer, Jonathan Mark (Regent College, Lennoxville, Cananda)
Reland, Joel Harry Jacques (The Latymer School, London)
Reuvers, Robin (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Robertson, Nicole Freya (City University, London)
Rossel, Sven Dominik (Schule der Dominikanerinnen, Vienna)
Runyon, Robert Scott (Stanford University, California)
Rutherford, Niall Patrick (International School of Toulouse)
Schoenberg, Martin Oliver (London School of Economics)
Schriever, Annalena (RWTH Aachen University)
Schroeder, Florian (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich)
Schulz, Kathryn (Keith Country Day School, Illinois)
Seah, Tiffany (Raffles Junior College, Singapore)
Spencer, Joseph Edmund (Colchester Royal Grammar School)
Spreadborough, Stephanie Gillian (Katharine Lady Berkeley’s School, Gloucestershire)
Starling, Kenneth (Duke University, Durham, USA)
Stojanovic, Tamara (Oxford High School GDST)
Stride, Alexander Tarik (St Albans School, Hertfordshire)
Strover, Johnathan Miles (Eton College)
Swords, Beth Leonie (Headington School, Oxford)
Tan, Jan Joo (Bishop Ramsey C of E Voluntary Aided Secondary School, Ruislip)
Thorpe, Michael John (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
Uthayophas, Mookroi (EF International Academy UK Ltd, Torquay)
Valdebenito, Sara (University of Cambridge)
van Niekerk, Andre Isak (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
van Strydonck, Nine Allegra Clio (Antwerp International School)
Walker, Zoe Claire Palmer (St Laurence School, Bradford-on-Avon)
Wang, Alice Aixin (Harvard University)
Wang, Qiuhu (Tsinghua University, Beijing)
Wangwiwatsin, Arporn (University of Bristol)
Ward, Kirsten Mary (Woodford County High School, Woodfrod Green)
Webb, Rachel Catherine Marie (US Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey)
Weber, James Michael (Sevenoaks School)
Whettlock, Emily Margaret (North Halifax Grammar School)
White, Charles Rory (Merchiston Castle School, Edingburgh)
Wild, Philip Hayden (Bablake School, Coventry)
Willis, Catherine Rosemary (Wimbledon High School)
Wilson, Grant Packard (University of Pennsylvania)
Winkler, Thue Sebastian (University of Copenhagen)
Wong, Hok Hei Nicholas (Queens College, Hong Kong)
Wong, Ting Kwan Alison (St Catherine’s School, Bramley)
Wood, Jake (Westminster School)
Woodcock, Annabel Mary (Haileybury & Imperial Service College, Hertford)
Xu, Chenzi (Harvard University)
LENT TERM 2013
Alfonsi, Nicolas Arthur Guy Jean Louis (Harvard University)
Barry, Justin Edward (University of Pennsylvania)
Bo, Fei (University of California, Berkeley)
Bowen, Haley Elisabeth (Harvard College, Massachusetts)
Chen, Bing-Jen Joanna (Cornell University)
Coons, Margaret Elisabeth (Yale University)
Ding, Han (Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania)
Fung, Yeun Ying (Princeton Univeristy)
Green, Christopher Kenneth (University of Nottingham)
Hassan, Nima (Harvard College, Massachusetts)
Hulme, Charlotte Jude (Wellesley College, Massachusetts)
Kahane, Kelila (Barnard College, New York)
Kang, Tiffany (University of Pennsylvania)
Kleinbock, Elias (Yale University)
Koc, Victoria (University of Pennsylvania)
Kurtukova, Irina (Lomonosov Moscow State University)
Lakra, Anada (Yale University)
Leib, Dana Leanne (Wesleyan University, Connecticut)
Lerer, Joseph Benjamin (Harvard College, Massachusetts)
Liu, Qingyang (Macalester College, Minnesota)
Mehra, Amiya (Smith College, Massachusetts)
Moses, Molly (University of California, San Diego)
Panda, Arpit (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena)
Parikh, Sadev (Cornell University, New York)
Penn, Jonathan Nigel (McGill University, Montereal)
Rachetta, Maria Teresa (Sapienza University of Rome)
Ryan, Richella Clara (University of Cambridge)
Tolgay, Sera (Yale University)
Tomarchio, Flavia (University of Catania, Sicily)
Turco, Linnea Rose (George Washington University, Washington)
Willis, Helen McCarty (Wellesley College, Massachusetts)
Yuan, Tiffany Jackie (Cornell University, New York)
EASTER TERM 2013
Regan, Amie (National University of Ireland, Galway)
ANNUAL EXAMINATIONS, FIRST CLASS RESULTS 2013
Preliminary Examination for Part I Anglo-Saxon,
Norse and Celtic
McKinlay, Beth Charis
Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Part II
McIvor, Katherine Mary Christian
Archaeology and Anthropology, Part I
Denyer, Helen Victoria Wolf
Archaeology and Anthropology,
Part IIA
Brownlee, Emma Claire
Lea, Vanessa Lucía
Archaeology and Anthropology,
Part IIB
Schroff, Maurice Horst
Architecture, Part IB
Grechishkin, Mikhail Sergegwich
Norris, Thomas George
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Part IB
Flesher, James David
Gradel, Adam
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Part II
Carruthers, Elspeth Ruth Ferguson
Chemical Engineering Tripos, Part I
Hoier, Thomas Peter
Huang, Anqi
Classical Tripos, Part IB
Schulz, Kathryn Anne
Classical Tripos, Part II
Megson, Bethany Rose
Sharman, Samantha Clare
Snowden, William Ian Andrew
Computer Science, Part IA
Baker, James Edward
Computer Science, Part IB
Edgecombe, Graham Philip
Computer Science, Part II
Sim, Shao Qi Daniel
Spooner, Nicholas Perry
Economics, Part I
Hazell, Jonathon Alexander David
Hudson, Matthew Stephen
Tan, Jan Joo
Wong, Ting Kwan Alison
Economics, Part IIA
Nugee, Felix Henry
Rezai-Tabrizi, Parisa Mariam
Economics, Part IIB
Carpenter, William John Wakefield
Eckardt, Dita
Lee, Eui Jung
Engineering, Part IA
Downing, Tristan Alexander Lee
Forbes, Thayne Juliusz
Lodge, Archie John Ralph
Ormond, Bryan John
Prior, Daisy Cordelia Charlotte
Wong, Hok Hei Nicholas
Engineering, Part IB
Bardsley, Oliver Paul
Griggs, Philip John
Liu, Sichen
Obeyesekere, Danton Gamini
Sears, Luke William
Sivananthan, Subon Haren
White, Matthew William
Engineering, Part IIA
Barton, Rupert Anthony
Jackson, Adam John Robert
Ravi, Neeraja
Tapner, Frederick James
Warden, Scott
Engineering, Part IIB
Bridge, Christopher Philip
Gateshill, Joseph Geoffrey
English, Part I
Cherry, Francesca Georgia Rosanne
Greaves, Abigail
Peres, Tessa Penelope Careek
Temple, Joseph
English, Part II
Blomvall, Laura-Maria Johanna
Forrest, Elizabeth Rose
Jacobs, Rebecca
Keith, Charlotte Victoria
Pepin, Ryan Robert
Preliminary Examination for Part I
of the Historical Tripos
Baillie, James Matthew
Historical Tripos, Part I
Burrow, William Oliver
Gildea, Florence Hazel
McNeill Adams, Harold George
Linguistics, Part IIA
Stockwell, Richard
Law, Part IB
Kumar, Ashish Xiangyi
Scott, Rory Alexander Mccall
Law, Part II
Adams, Zoe Louise
Creelman, Gavin Shields
Fletcher, Thomas George
Schulman, Julia Lilian
Master of Law
Coates, Richard Stephen
Flowers, Sarah Christine
Management Studies
Ulmann, George Oliver
Manufacturing Engineering, Part IIA
Bush, Abigail Ann
Mathematical Tripos, Part IA
Hopkinson, Angus John
Willis, Catherine Rosemary
Mathematical Tripos, Part IB
Boyd, Michael Edward
Pike, Sarah Victoria
Turton, Sam Edward
Master of Advanced Study Degree in
Applied Mathematics
Reuvers, Robin Johannes Petrus
Schmitz, Ruediger
Final M.B. Examination Part III, Clinical
examination
Mundy, Louise
Winder-Rhodes, Sophie Elizabeth
Yeldham, Francesca Charlotte M
Medical and Veterinary Sciences, Part IA
Seah, Tiffany
Medical and Veterinary Sciences, Part IB
Foster, Victoria Claire
Khaira, Jaspreet Kaur
Mellor, Naomi Sarah
Williams, Thomas George Samuel
Modern and Medieval Languages, Part IA
Myer, Walter Rupert Hordiern
Modern and Medieval Languages, Part IB
Aitchison, Lucy
Fitch-Bunce, Jessica Betty
Modern and Medieval Languages, Part II
Fleming, Helen Susan
McWilliams, Alastair Robert
Pugh, Benjamin John
Music, Part II
Faranda Bellofiglio, Katrina
Natural Sciences, Part IA
Anketell, Matthew James
Botwright, Siobhan Paula
Byfield, Peter John
Darragh, Kathy
de Andres, Marta
Hammond, Mark David
Hutt, James William
Laird, Benjamin David
McCann, John Kelan
Nicol-Harper, Alex
Natural Sciences, Part IB
Ader, Jacob Samuel
Ireland, Alfred Thomas
Lazell, Hamish William
Scanes, Robert John Hoope
Smith, Catherine Anne
Wang, Victoria Min-Yi
Wood, Archie Edward Merriman
Natural Sciences, Part II: Biological and
Biomedical Sciences
Plumptre, Isabella Ruth
Natural Sciences, Part II: Chemistry
Officer, Hannah Lindsey
Natural Sciences, Part II: Experimental and
Theoretical Physics
Lim, Matthew Alexander
Penney, Camilla Emily
Natural Sciences, Part II: Geological
Sciences
Tweed, Lucy Emily Langran
Natural Sciences, Part II: History and
Philosophy of Science
Selvackadunco, Athiban
Natural Sciences, Part II: Physiology,
Development and Neuroscience
Rela, Mariam
Natural Sciences, Part II: Psychology
Barber, Sarah Josephine
Gardiner, Prudence Frances
Woolley, Rebecca Louise
Natural Sciences, Part II: Zoology
Jamilly, Maximilian George
Natural Sciences, Part III: Astrophysics
Hatfield, Peter William
Politics, Psychology, and Sociology, Part IIA
Kelly, Dominic Patrick
Natural Sciences, Part III: Chemistry
Johnson, Ian David
Willis, Julian Charles Whittington
Politics, Psychology, and Sociology, Part IIB
Powell, Thomas Jamie
Yoong, May-Wen Melissa
Master of Advanced Study Degree in
Physics
Schroeder, Florian Alexander Yinkan
Nepomuk
Theological and Religious Studies, Part IIA
Pangsrivongse, Pongsit
Politics, Psychology, and Sociology, Part I
Bell, Tamara Alexandra
Ilube, Rhianna Kemi Adesuwa Louise
Lloyd, Lewis Alexander
COLLEGE AWARDS 2012–2013
Kilby Prize
best undergraduate performance
Keith, CV; Pugh, BJ
Atiyah Prize
for Part III Mathematics
Reuvers, RJP
Blackburne-Daniell Prize
best second-year performance
Bardsley, OP; Kumar, AX;
Pangsrivongse, P; Peres, TPC
Bethune Baker Prize
for Divinity
Pangsrivongse, P
Peter de Somogyi Memorial Prize
special merit in an Arts subject
Adams, ZL; Gildea, FH; Lloyd, LA;
Megson, BR
Hansen Prize
outstanding first or second-year performance
in the Arts
Hill, TA
Satish Kumar Aggarwal Prize
outstanding first-year performance in
Mathematics or Natural Sciences
Darragh, K
Crowden Award
for a distinguished contribution to
College life
Suddaby, KM; Yoon, MHY
Adrian Prize
for Medical and Veterinary Sciences
Seah, T
EG Browne Prize
for Oriental Studies
Carruthers, ERF
Cadell Prize
for Architecture or History of Art
Norris, TG
Collins Prize
for English
Keith, CV
Ginsberg Prize
for Classics
Megson, BR
Ginsberg Award
for Classics
Hill, TA; Schulz, KA; Sharman, SC;
Snowden, WIA
Hadley History Prize
usually for Part II of the Tripos
Gildea, FH
Sir William Hodge Prize
for Mathematics or Natural Sciences
Darragh, K
Dr Stoneley’s Prize
for Geology and Geophysics
Tweed, LEL
Hodgson Memorial Prize
for Part IIB Engineering Project
Gateshill, JG
Henry Sumner Maine Prize
for Archaeology and Anthropology
Schroff, MH
Howard Raingold Prize
normally for Part I of the History Tripos
McNeill Adams, HG
Tomkys Prize
for Social and Political Sciences
Yoon, M-W M
Joslin Prize
for Economic History
Burrow, WO
Trebilcock Prize
for Economics
Carpenter, WJW
Lancaster Prize
Turner Prize
for Music
Faranda Bellofiglio, K
for Engineering
Downing, TAL
Legg Prize
Turton, SE
Ubaydli Prize
for Computer Science
Spooner, NP
Ann Ellen Prince Prize
for Modern Languages
Pugh, BJ
S M Jamil Wasti Prize
for Part I English
Peres, TPC
BM Roberts Prize
for Part III Chemistry
Johnson, ID
Willoughby Prize
for Private Law
Scott, RAM
Marie Shamma’a Frost Prize
in Oriental Studies (Arabic)
Flesher, JD
Ronald Wynn Prize
for Engineering
Bridge, CP
Robin Shepherd Memorial Prize
for Chemistry
Officer, HL
Ziegler Prize
for Law
Adams, ZL; Kumar, AX
for Mathematics
Dr Stevens Prize
for Natural Sciences
Barber, SJ
Foundress Prizes
Ader, JS (Natural Sciences)
Anketell, MJ (Natural Sciences)
Baker, JE (Computer Science)
Bardsley, OP (Engineering)
Cherry, FGR (English)
Coates, RS (Law)
Colwill, EE (Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic)
Creelman, GS (Law)
Eckardt, D (Economics)
Edgecombe, GP (Computer Science)
Fletcher, TG (Law)
Gardiner, PF (Natural Sciences)
Greaves, A (English)
Hazell, JAD (Economics)
Hoier, TP (Chemical Engineering)
Huang, A (Chemical Engineering)
Hudson, MS (Economics)
Jackson, AJR (Engineering)
Laird, BD (Natural Sciences)
Lazell, HW (Natural Sciences)
Lloyd, LA (Politics, Psychology and Sociology)
McIvor, KMC (Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic)
Nicol-Harper, A (Natural Sciences)
Obeyesekere, DG (Engineering)
Penney, CE (Natural Sciences)
Pepin, RR (English)
Plumptre, IR (Natural Sciences)
Powell, TJ (Politics, Psychology and Sociology)
Prior, DCC (Engineering)
Ravi, N (Engineering)
Rela, M (Natural Sciences)
Schmitz, R (Mathematics)
Schroeder, FAYN (Physics)
Sears, LW (Engineering)
Selvackadunco, A (Natural Sciences)
Sim, SQD (Computer Science)
Stockwell, R (Linguistics)
Tan, JJ (Economics)
Ulmann, GO (Management Studies)
College Prizes
First year
Baillie, JM (History)
Bell, TA (Politics, Psychology and Sociology)
Botwright, SP (Natural Sciences)
Byfield, PJ (Natural Sciences)
de Andres, M (Natural Sciences)
Denyer, HVW (Archaeology and Anthropology)
Forbes, TJ (Engineering)
Hammond, MD (Natural Sciences)
Hopkinson, AJ (Mathematics)
Hutt, JW (Natural Sciences)
Ilube, RKAL (Politics, Psychology and
Sociology)
Lodge, AJR (Engineering)
McCann, JK (Natural Sciences)
Myer, WRH (Modern and Medieval Languages)
Ormond, BJ (Engineering)
Rossel, SD (Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic)
Willis, CR (Mathematics)
Wong, HHN (Engineering)
Wong, TKA (Economics)
Second year
Aitchison, L (Modern and Medieval Languages)
Boyd, ME (Mathematics)
Brownlee, EC (Archaeology and Anthropology)
Fitch-Bunce, JB (Modern and Medieval
Languages)
Foster, VC (Veterinary Sciences)
Gradel, A (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)
Griggs, PJ (Engineering)
Ireland, AT (Natural Sciences)
Kelly, DP (Politics, Psychology and Sociology)
Khaira, JK (Medical Sciences)
Liu, S (Engineering)
Mellor, NS (Veterinary Sciences)
Nugee, FH (Economics)
Pike, SV (Mathematics)
Rezai-Tabrizi, PM (Economics)
Scanes, RJH (Natural Sciences)
Sivananthan, SH (Engineering)
Smith, CA (Natural Sciences)
Temple, J (English)
Wang, VM-Y (Natural Sciences)
White, MW (Engineering)
Williams, TGS (Medical Sciences)
Wood, AEM (Natural Sciences)
Third year
Barton, RA (Engineering)
Blomvall, L-MJ (English)
Bush, AA (Manufacturing Engineering)
Forrest, ER (English)
Jacobs, R (English)
Jamilly, MG (Natural Sciences)
Lee, EJ (Economics)
Lim, MA (Natural Sciences)
Schulman, JL (Law)
Tapner, FJ (Engineering)
Warden, S (Engineering)
Woolley, RL (Natural Sciences)
Fourth year
Fleming, HS (Modern and Medieval
Languages)
Flowers, SC (Law)
Hatfield, PW (Natural Sciences)
Sixth year
Mundy, L (Clinical Medicine)
Winder-Rhodes, SE (Clinical Medicine)
McWilliams, AR (Modern and Medieval
Languages)
Willis, JCW (Natural Sciences)
Sixth year
Yeldham, FCM (Clinical Medicine)
Elected to a Foundation Scholarship
Ader, JS (Natural Sciences)
Aitchison, L (Modern and Medieval Languages)
Bardsley, OP (Engineering)
Barton, RA (Engineering)
Boyd, ME (Mathematics)
Brownlee, EC (Archaeology and Anthropology)
Burrow, WO (History)
Bush, AA (Manufacturing Engineering)
Cherry, FGR (English)
Edgecombe, GP (Computer Science)
Fitch-Bunce, JB (Modern and Medieval
Languages)
Flesher, JD (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)
Foster, VC (Veterinary Sciences)
Gildea, FH (History)
Gradel, A (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)
Greaves, A (English)
Griggs, PJ (Engineering)
Hoier, TP (Chemical Engineering)
Huang, A (Chemical Engineering)
Ireland, AT (Natural Sciences)
Kelly, DP (Politics, Psychology and Sociology)
Khaira, JK (Medical Sciences)
Kumar, AX (Law)
Lazell, HW (Natural Sciences)
Liu, S (Engineering)
McNeill Adams, HG (History)
Mellor, NS (Veterinary Sciences)
Norris, TG (Architecture)
Nugee, FH (Economics)
Obeyesekere, DG (Engineering)
Officer, HL (Natural Sciences)
Pangsrivongse, P (Theology)
Penney, CE (Natural Sciences)
Peres, TPC (English)
Pike, SV (Mathematics)
Rezai-Tabrizi, PM (Economics)
Scanes, RJH (Natural Sciences)
Scott, RAM (Law)
Sears, LW (Engineering)
Selvackadunco, A (Natural Sciences)
Sivananthan, SH (Engineering)
Smith, CA (Natural Sciences)
Temple, J (English)
Turton, SE (Mathematics)
Tweed, LEL (Natural Sciences)
Wang, VM-Y (Natural Sciences)
White, MW (Engineering)
Williams, TGS (Medical Sciences)
Wood, AEM (Natural Sciences)
Foundation Scholarships Continued
Cowan, RM (Chemical Engineering)
Elsby, RA (Engineering)
Jackson, AJR (Engineering)
Keynes, AAC (Asian & Middle Eastern Studies)
Lim, MA (Natural Sciences)
Ravi, N (Engineering)
Stockwell, R (Classics)
Tapner, FJ (Engineering)
Warden, S (Engineering)
Watson, AR (Engineering)
Retrospective Foundation Scholarships to Commoners
Adams, ZL (Law)
Blomvall, L-MJ (English)
Faranda Bellofiglio, K (Music)
Fleming, HS (Modern and Medieval Languages)
Flowers, SC (Law)
Forrest, ER (English)
Gardiner, PF (Natural Sciences)
Gateshill, JG (Engineering)
McIvor, KMC (Anglos-Saxon, Norse and Celtic)
Megson, BR (Classics)
Plumptre, IR (Natural Sciences)
Powell, TJ (Politics, Psychology & Sociology)
Reuvers, RJP (Mathematics)
Schmitz, R (Mathematics)
Schroeder, FAYN (Physics)
Schroff, MH (Archaeology and Anthropology)
Schulz, KA (Classics)
Ulmann, GO (Management Studies)
Woolley, RL (Natural Sciences)
Foundation Award Holders
Ashmore, JL (English)
Carpenter, WJW (Economics)
Creelman, GS (Law)
Foxall, TB (Classics)
Hall, CE (Engineering)
Lee, EJ (Economics)
Little, CE (Clinical Medicine)
McIvor, KMC (Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic)
Pepin, RR (English)
Ross, IFW (Veterinary Medicine)
Schulman, JL (Law)
Shafquat, SF (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)
Snowden, WI (Classics)
Thompson, RP (Natural Sciences)
Tickell Painter, CR (History)
Willis, JCW (Natural Sciences)
Foundation Award Holders Continued
Bell, RA (Physics)
Cymes, T (Clinical Medicine)
Dudfield, P (Mathematics)
Eastwood, MJF (Music)
Harvey, JE (Mathematics)
Howe, EK (Natural Sciences)
Judson, AP (Classics)
Qiu, Y (Economics)
Ramsden, CM (Clinical Medicine)
Tavener, JE (Engineering)
Walker, MI (Engineering)
College Scholarships
Anketell, MJ (Natural Sciences)
Baillie, JM (History)
Baker, JE (Computer Science)
Bell, TA (Politics, Psychology and Sociology)
Botwright, SP (Natural Sciences)
Byfield, PJ (Natural Sciences)
Colwill, EE (Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic)
Darragh, K (Natural Sciences)
de Andres, M (Natural Sciences)
Denyer, HVW (Archaeology and Anthropology)
Downing, TAL (Engineering)
Forbes, TJ (Engineering)
Hammond, MD (Natural Sciences)
Hazell, JAD (Economics)
Hill, TA (Classics)
Hopkinson, AJ (Mathematics)
Hudson, MS (Economics)
Hutt, JW (Natural Sciences)
Ilube, RKAL (Politics, Psychology and Sociology)
Laird, BD (Natural Sciences)
Lloyd, LA (Politics, Psychology and Sociology)
Lodge, AJR (Engineering)
McCann, JK (Natural Sciences)
Myer, WRH (Modern and Medieval Languages)
Nicol-Harper, A (Natural Sciences)
Ormond, BJ (Engineering)
Prior, DCC (Engineering)
Rossel, SD (Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic)
Seah, T (Medical Sciences)
Tan, JJ (Economics)
Willis, CR (Mathematics)
Wong, HHN (Engineering)
Wong, TKA (Economics)
Searle Reading Prize
Cotton, MAF
Christine Hansen Music Travel
Scholarship
Hill, TA
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett Prize
For creative writing
Crewe, TJ
Peter Ringrose Africa Travel Scholarships
Pourkarami, RR; Qureshi, AF
Peter Clarke Science Writing Prize
Plumptre, IR
Jack Lander Travel Scholarships
Power, PRA; Grechishkin, MS
Kenderdine Organ Scholarship
Hill, TA
de Somogyi European Award
Wallis, ML
Graham Maw Organ Scholarship
Parkinson, R
Peter May Award
For Tripos and University sports
Lloyd, LA; Ormond, BJ; Ravi, N
Brian Riley Declamation Prize
Morrissey, PD
Idle Scholarship
Pugh, BJ
Monica Partridge Award
Balkan Studies
Börjesson, JPE; Martinescu, AL
Keith Sykes Awards
Dalgleish, EC; Sydenham, GD;
Wikeley, JB; Williams, TGS
Derek Rose Memorial Studentship
White, AHC
Nicholas Powell Travel Bursary
Chapman, CA
Blues Awards
Ginsberg Awards For a Blue
Elsby, R (Athletics)
Fleming, AJ (Rowing)
Hoyos, T (Golf)
Kent, F (Football)
Lloyd, LA (Cross country)
Lloyd, LA (Athletics)
Mahbubani, KTA (Powerlifting)
Stott, SV (Hockey)
For a Half Blue
Conroy, RT (Athletics)
Gupta, A (Rowing)
Hirschowitz, JI (Water polo)
Ormand, BJ (Sailing)
Osmjana, K (Volleyball)
Tawney, JJA (Windsurfing)
GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS 2012–2013
The following named scholarships and awards were made for the academic year 2012–2013:
Bristol Myers Squibb studentship
Hiroaki Koseki (PhD in Clinical Neurosciences) from Tokyo University, Japan.
Lander Studentship in the History of Art
Anna Blair (PhD in History of Art) from King’s College, Cambridge.
Monica Partridge Studentship
Elena Ilioi (PhD in Public Health) from McGill University, Canada.
Thornton Graduate Studentship in History
Fraser McNair (PhD in History) already a member of Pembroke College.
Ziegler Studentship in Law
Nicolas Alfonsi (PhD in Law) from Harvard University, USA.
The College also made significant ad hominem awards from various funds:
Pembroke College fund for MPhil study or equivalent study
Richard Coates (LLM) already a member of Pembroke College.
Frances Pickworth (MPhil in Classics) already a member of Pembroke College.
Yuhang (Calvin) Qiu (MPhil in Economic Research) already a member of
Pembroke College.
Pembroke Research Fund
Barry Colfer (PhD in International Relations) from Homerton College, Cambridge.
Paul McMullen (PhD in Classics) from University of Sydney, Australia.
Renad Mansour (PhD in International Relations) from Queens University,
Kingston, Canada.
Alasia Nuti (PhD in Politics and International Relations) from London School
of Economics.
HIGHER DEGREES CONFERRED
PhD
Bauer, W-A, Complex emulsion systems via droplet-based microfluidics
Berger, S B, The Art of Philosophy: Early-Modern Illustrated Thesis Prints, Broadsides and Student
Notebooks
Bruce, E A, Role of the Rab11 pathway in influenza virus assembly and budding
Charteris, C M, The Queer Cultures of 1930s Prose
Collins, D M, Modelling and characterisation of the microstructure in a polycrystalline nickel-base
superalloy
Crellin, R, The Greek Perfect Active System: 200 BC – AD 150
Ene, C, The Relevance of Histone 3 Lysine 27 Modifiers in Neural Stem Cells and Malignant Brain
Tumours
Githitho-Muriithi, A, The Reconstruction of Childhood: a community study of child labour and
schooling in Kenya
Gordon, D E, Investigating the SNAREs required for constitutive secretion in Metazoans
Gurian, E, Serial and single-incident acts of murder: an exploration of women’s solo and partnered
offending
Huff, A R, Parliamentary Discourses on the European Security and Defence Policy in Britain, Ireland
and Poland: 1998–2008
Humphreys, M T G, Law, power and imperial ideology in the iconoclast era
Ibbeson, B M, Chemical Strategies to Target Commonly Acquired Nosocomial Infections
Leung, A, Molecular dynamics study of shaped charge penetration and crystal structure properties
Liang, H, Quantitative analysis of interactions between cell cycle kinases and checkpoint pathways
during checkpoint recovery
Logan, T G, Harmonic analysis of the brushless doubly-fed machine including single-phase operation
Lowe, D, Extraction of chemical structures and reactions from the literature
McAllister, K A L, Development and validation of touchscreen automated tasks to assess cognition in
preclinical models of schizophrenia
McTighe, S, Mechanisms of Memory and Pattern Separation in Rodent Models of Amnesia and
Dementia
Mundhenke, H-G, The Adaptation of Process Management Practices Across National Borders
Nielsen, S B N, From the ‘Workshop of Wonders’: Observing Generation in Danish Medicine,
1650–1800
Patell, S, Identification and characterization of PA3572, a biofilm-associated gene of Pseudomonas
aeruginosa
Potter, A T, Rotation and magnetism in massive stars
Prina, A M, An investigation of common mental disorders and health services in later life
Randell, K A, Kings Over the Water: narrative structure in some Middle Welsh prose tales
Richardson, J O, Ring-Polymer Approaches to Instanton Theory
Schlaepfer, C, Counter-subversion in Britain, c 1945–62
Shekhar, R C, Variable horizon model predictive control – robustness & optimality
Siva, E, Algorithms for non-convex predictive control with application to air traffic management
Stenke, K, Parts and Wholes in Long Non-narrative Poems of the Eighteenth Century
Sunter, J, Regulation of the sub-cellular localisation of GPI-PLC in Trypanosoma brucei
Verbeeten, D R, The Politics of non-Assimilation: Three Generations of Eastern European Jews in the
United States in the Twentieth Century
Winder-Rhodes, S E, Genetic contributions to the cognitive heterogeneity of Parkinson’s Disease
Zhao, R F, Investigating the requirements for CTL cytotoxicity through studies on Hemophagocytic
Lymphohistiocytosis and X-Linked Lymphoproliferative Disease
MRes
Yang, P, Medical Science (Metabolic & Cardio)
MPhil
Arnold, C A, African Studies
Bogner, S P, International Relations
Cliff, A R, History and Philosophy of
Science and Medicine
Eldridge, R M, Economic and Social History
Everitt, M, European Literature
Fender, K A, English Studies
Gomes, M K, Management
Ievins, A, Criminological Research
Judson, A P, Classics
Keyes, A K M, Land Economy Research
Lalevee, R J, Political Thought and
Intellectual History
Lehtinen, M K, Advanced Computer Science
McNair, F A, Medieval History
Mecham, A, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Montague, T G, Biological Science (Genetics)
Moody, R O, Economic & Social History
Morgan, A J, History of Art & Architecture
Moriarty, S, Philosophy
Mortensen, E, Environment, Society and
Development
Mueller, C, International Relations
O’Sullivan, O J, International Relations
Peters, J, Computational Biology
Pruwer, D, Political Thought and
Intellectual History
Ramani, S M, Modern South Asian Studies
Rokpelnis, K, Environmental Policy
Sarsfield-Watson, J, International Relations
Smith, R H, Biological Anthropological Science
Stanton, R O, Theology
Thomas, N, Modern Society and Global
Transformations
Underwood, T, Biological Anthropology
von Ferscht-Fountain, M J, History of Art
& Architecture
Westra, M, Latin American Studies
Whittock, H, Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic
Williams, N, Computational Biology
Yee, N M, Management
MMath
Riaz, U
Master of Law
Coates, R S
Flowers, S
Starling, K G
Fallows, M J
Franklin, M J
Gateshill, J G
Hall, C E
Robinson, M P M R
Scott, L A O
Steinitz, R
Stott, S V
Suddaby, K M
Wolf, S M R
Haitao, S
Li, H
Moriyama, S
Murray, L
Oliver, A
Sadasivan, S
Teixeira, A M
MEng
Batishcheva, A
Bridge, C P
Budd, O M T
Chung, P H-H
Dafinone, I O
Deng, Z X
MBA
Tsuwaki, Y
Executive MBA
Badanyan, A
Cohen, E
Fridman, A
Grewal, B K
Med
Buxton, E K
Caruda Martinez de Castilla, M
MSci
Bennett, V A S
Hatfield, P W
Johnson, I D
Joseph, D D
Norman, S M
Shaw, M J
MB
Ho, J
Hussain, S
Vet MB
Gonella, N
Youngs, E.L.A.
Thompson, R P
Willis, J C W
D. THE PEMBROKE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY
MEMBERS’ NEWS
1946 Michael Thompson’s Reading, Writing and Archaeology: An Autobiographical
Essay was published by Fast-Print.
1950 Richard Eden’s memoirs Sometimes in Cambridge were published by
Clare Hall.
1952 John Fenwick was awarded a CBE for services to retailing.
1953 John Phillips’s Moorland Management for Agriculture, Conservation and Field
Sports: A Practical Guide was published by Quiller.
1954 Nigel Cameron’s A History of the Solihull Society of Arts was published by
Brewin Books.
Eric Middleton’s Dimensions of the Spirit: Science and the Work of the Holy Spirit
was published by Piquant Editions.
1955 Three books edited by Michael Faraday were published: Deeds of the
Palmers’ Guild of Ludlow; The Herefordshire Musters of 1539 and 1542; and The
Herefordshire Chantry Valuations of 1547.
1956 Michael Counsell’s translation of Nguyen Du’s poem Kieu was published
by Gioi Publishers; his The Canterbury Preacher’s Companion 2013 and 2014
Year A was published by Canterbury Press.
Thomas Rosenthal’s Paula Rego: The Complete Graphic Work was published
by Thames & Hudson.
1958 Bernard Adams’s translations of Hungarian Art Nouveau Architecture (by Bela
Bede) and The Power of Humanity (by Szabolcs Szita) were published
by Corvina.
Hugh MacDonald’s book Music in 1853: The Biography of a Year was
published by Boydell Press, 2012.
Andrew Palmer’s Arctic Offshore Engineering (co-authored with Ken
Croasdale) was published by World Scientific Publishing.
Cedric Watts’s edited versions of Richard III and Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 were
published by Wordsworth Classics.
1961 Robert Leach’s Partners of the Imagination: The Lives, Art and Struggles of John
Arden and Margaretta d’Arcy was published by Indigo Dreams Publishing.
1962 Michael Llewellyn-Smith was named a Member in the Order of Australia
for significant service to local government through the promotion of city
and state relations and planning.
1963 Rolfe Birch’s Peripheral Nerve Injuries: A Clinical Guide and the second edition
of his Surgical Disorders and Peripheral Nerves were published by Springer.
1964 Clive James was named an Officer in the Order of Australia for
distinguished service to literature through contributions to cultural and
intellectual heritage, particularly as a writer and a poet. His translation
of Dante’s The Divine Comedy was published by WW Norton & Co.
1965 William Janeway was awarded an honorary CBE in the 2012 Birthday
Honours List. His book, Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy was
published by Cambridge University press.
Two books by Gerald O’Collins were published: the first volume of his
memoirs, A Midlife Journey (Gracewing), and The Second Vatican Council on
Other Religions (Oxford University Press).
1973 Roger Ferguson was appointed Chairman of the Economic Club of
New York.
Oliver Heald was appointed Solicitor-General for England and Wales.
1974 Jonathan Brown’s Five Ways of the Cross, Cook au Vin, and La Merveille dans la
Realité were all published by Brown Paper Editions.
George Goodwin’s Fatal Rivalry: Flodden 1513 – Henry VIII, James III and the
Battle for Renaissance Britain was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Stuart Thomas was appointed an Honorary Canon of Guildford
Cathedral by the Bishop of Guildford.
1977 Kevin P Van Anglen was appointed a Senior Lecturer on English by
Boston University. He was also given the Walter Harding Memorial
Award for Distinguished Service by the Thoreau Society.
Jamie Gilchrist was appointed as a sheriff, based at Inverness Sheriff Court.
1978 Martin Rowson’s graphic novel The Waste Land was published by the
University of Chicago Press. His collection The Limerickiad Volume II: John
Donne to Jane Austen was published by Smokestack Books.
Edmund Yorke has published three books in the past 18 months: Playing
the Great Game: Britain, War and Politics (2012), Battle Story: Kabul 1841–1842
(2012), and Battle Story: Maiwand 1880 (2013).
1979 Patrick Derham was appointed Headmaster of Westminster School,
starting in September 2014.
1980 Rupert Myer was appointed Chairman of the Australia Council for the Arts.
1981 Peter Bradshaw’s novel Night of Triumph was published by Gerald
Duckworth & Co.
Charles Craib’s book (co-authored with John Lavranos) The Bushman
Candles was published by Penrock Publications.
Richard Pleming was appointed Headmaster of Charterhouse, starting
in January 2014.
1982 Jonathan Neame was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Kent.
1984 Marcus Buckingham’s Leadership Development in the Age of the Algorithm was
published by Harvard Business Review.
1988 Steven Loveridge’s novel The Palace Library was published by CreateSpace.
Nazir Razak was given an Outstanding Contribution Award by Euromoney.
1990 Robert Costin’s recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, performed on the
Pembroke Chapel organ, was released on the Stone Records label.
1992 Sarah Hamilton won a BAFTA (the Flaherty Documentary Award) and the
Royal Television Society Television Award for Best Single Documentary for
the 2012 documentary 7/7: One Day in London, which she produced; in both
cases, the award was shared with Ben Anthony (director), Rupert
Houseman (editor) and Morgan Matthews (executive producer).
1995 Kona Macphee’s third poetry collection What Long Miles was published by
Bloodaxe Books.
1996 Madsen Pirie’s novel Silver Dawn was published by Arctic Fox Books.
1999 Signe Johansen’s book Scandilicious Baking was published by Saltyard Books.
Peter Matthews was appointed Chair of the Welsh Government’s new
body for managing natural resources in Wales.
James Piper was appointed as Headmaster of Perse Prep School.
2000 Mary Flannery’s book John Lydgate and the Poetics of Fame was published by
Boydell & Brewer.
National, European and Human Security, a collection of essays edited by Mary
Kaldor, Mary Martin, and Narcis Serra was published by Routledge.
2001 Margaret Fetzer’s John Donne’s Performances: Sermons, Poems, Letters and
Devotions was published by Manchester University Press.
2002 The third edition of Alexander Robson’s The Path to Pupillage: A Guide for the
Aspiring Barrister (co-authored with Georgina Wolfe) was published by
Sweet & Maxwell.
2003 Rome Across Time and Space: Cultural Transmission and the Exchange of Ideas, a
collection of essays co-edited by Claudia Bolgia, Rosamond McKitterick
and John Osborne, was published by Cambridge University Press.
Jessica Johnson was elected a Junior Research Fellow at Peterhouse,
Cambridge.
2004 Mike Humphreys was elected a Junior Research Fellow at St John’s
College, Cambridge.
2005 Krishnaa Mahbubani was elected a University Lecturer at the
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology in Cambridge.
She also broke four Hong Kong powerlifting records at the Hong Kong
Powerlifting Championships in April 2013, as well as being ranked as
the top powerlifter in the Varsity Match between Oxford and Cambridge
(Cambridge won).
2006 Rachel Hoffman was elected a Fellow in History at King’s College,
Cambridge.
Katherine McDonald was elected a Junior Research Fellow at Gonville &
Caius College, Cambridge.
2011 Dominic Kelly was named Student Critic of the Year at the 2012 Guardian
Student Media Awards for his articles on music.
Phoebe Power was given an EC Gregory Award by the British Society of
Authors in recognition of her outstanding promise as a poet.
2012 Alex Fleming and Grant Wilson were selected to row for Cambridge in
the Boat Race.
Lewis Lloyd was selected for the Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Junior Men’s team at the World Cross Country Championships in
Bydgoszcz, Poland.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY
AGENDA FOR THE 2013 AGM
Thursday 14 November; The Drapers’ Hall, London; drinks at 7.00 pm, dinner
at 7.30 pm
Nominations for 2013–2014
President: The Master
Vice-Presidents: J G P Crowden, Lord Prior, Sir Roger Tomkys, H P Raingold
Chairman of Committee: Mrs J E Morley
Secretary: M R Mellor
Treasurer: A Cates tbc
Editor of Gazette: N J McBride
Secretary of London Dinner: A S Ivison
Secretary of Scottish Dinner: R M B Brown
Secretary of South Western Dinner: A B Elgood
Secretary of Northern Dinner: D R Sneath
Committee to 2014: A E Palmer, J B Meyer, R B Tregoning, A J Sheach,
R M V Blaney, E K Lee
Committee to 2015: C B Hall, R J A van den Bergh, C R Ottey, A M Lloyd-Williams,
E J Williamson, S E Ruthven
Committee to 2016: J W S Macdonald, R K Perkin, A G Singleton, E C S Price,
T C Young, J A Bashford
MINUTES OF THE 2012 AGM
Thursday 22 November; The Drapers’ Hall, London; drinks at 7.00 pm, dinner
at 7.30 pm
Nominations for 2012–2013.
President: N G H Manns
Vice-Presidents: J G P Crowden, Lord Prior, Sir Roger Tomkys, H P Raingold
Chairman of Committee: Mrs J E Morley
Secretary: M R Mellor
Treasurer: C J Blencowe
Editor of Gazette: N J McBride
Secretary of London Dinner: A S Ivison
Secretary of Scottish Dinner: R M B Brown
Secretary of South Western Dinner: A B Elgood
Secretary of Northern Dinner: D R Sneath
Committee to 2013: G Courtauld, C M C Crawford, N P McNelly, R R Schomberg,
O K R Hoggard, C S Stevenson
Committee to 2014: A E Palmer, J B Meyer, R B Tregoning, A J Sheach,
R M V Blaney, E K Lee
Committee to 2015: C B Hall, R J A van den Bergh, C R Ottey, A M Lloyd-Williams,
E J Williamson, S E Ruthven
DINNERS AND RECEPTIONS
Pembroke College Cambridge Society London Dinner
The 86th annual dinner of the Society was held at the Drapers’ Hall on the evening
of Thursday 22 November 2012. The Toast to the College was proposed by Mr
John Wilson QC (1977), and the response was given by Dr Mark Wormald,
President of PCCS and Senior Tutor.
PRESENT
1953
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1966
1970
1971
1973
1975
1976
The Master
Mr I D Crane
Mr C Gilbraith
Mr G S Pink
Mr D N Howard
Mr C D Massiah
Mr C M Fenwick
Dr C B Hall
Mr F C Simeons
Mr R A C Berkeley
OBE
Mr G Courtauld DL
Mr J H Jones
Dr L P Johnson
Mr M G Kuczynski
Mr G K Toland
Mr G P Balfour
Mr C Barham Carter
Mr J A H Chadwick
Mr C D D Woon
Mr R B Tregoning
Mr T J Barwood
Mr K B Fitzsimons
Mr D A Walter
Mr W C M Dastur
Mr J T Griffiths
Mr D E Dickson
Mr D M Edwards
Mr O Heald MP
Mr M A Smyth
Mr C Comninos
Mr J P Repard
Mr M Rogerson
Mr N H Denning
Mr A M LloydWilliams
Mr N P McNelly
1977
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1987
1988
1989
Mr J B Meyer
Mr W J van
Oosterom
Mr N A Cadwallader
Mr D R Miller
Mr D J Morum
Mr R G N Spencer
Mr J A Wilson QC
Mr J D R Howard
Mr P B Kempe
Mr M A Williams
Dr P Campbell
Mr D M Holland QC
Mr S E Lugg
Mr P N Cutforth
Mr A M Fox
Mr S H Goldsmith
Mr M Gordon
Mr J M Rackowe
Mr D C Ross
Revd Canon B
Watchorn
Mr J I Weeds
Mr G N Withers
Mr M P H M
Bokkerink
Mr S J Hilton
Dr J E Morley
Mr R O H Morley
Dr D S Richardson
Mr J I Cheal
Mr N A Pink
Mr C W N Proddow
Miss E S Stopford
Professor N R
Cooper
Mr R A Sigee
Mr C R Ottey
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1997
1998
2000
2002
2003
2004
Mr B J S Bell
Mr J R C Paton
Mr T F Pick
Dr M R Wormald
Dr G N A Heilpern
Mr H P Raingold
Ms D N Ellis
Miss C A Frith
Mr J M Samuel
Mrs S E Samuel
Dr K Shmueli
Dr H J West
Mrs A C Henning
Miss O K R Hoggard
Mr R M V Blaney
Mr A W Morris
ARAM
Mr R S Jenkinson
Mr O G Lockwood
Mr D M Matanhelia
Dr D R Shouler
Mr W E J Bakewell
Mrs I J D Clarke
Mr O J Clarke
Mr P W Gate
Mr J D Goss
Miss K Lange
Mr J P Lovat
Mr J W Macdonald
Miss J R Scott
Mr A M Scriven
Miss E C N Sharples
Mr R J Swan
Dr J A Bashford
Mr G P Cunningham
Mr T H Ellerton
Dr T M Funnell
Miss H L Jaconelli
2005
2006
Miss C Moss
Mr S C Picot
Dr A T Potter
Dr J P Sturgeon
Mr M S Williams
Dr K J Woolcock
Miss J H Bird
Mr C J Blencowe
Miss H E Burt
Miss H K Green
Ms E D Guerry
Miss N V Shah
Mrs A C Swan
Miss E D Burns
Dr J T D Gardom
Miss S E Ruthven
2007
2008
Miss C F Alonzo
2009
Miss K F Grant
Mr J R Howells
Dr T Y Kwong
Mr H C G Lamarque
Mr K W Lawson
Ms C E Llewellyn- 2010
Smith
Mr F Lyon
Miss A E Newton
Miss S D A Prichard
Mr J Tavener
Miss E R Tyler
Mr M A Whitman
Mr A M R Young
Miss A Shyy
Mr O M T Budd
Miss C E Hall
Mr A R McWilliams
Miss K E Nicholson
Mrs A Petreanu
Miss K M Suddaby
Mr M Duembgen
Miss E C Hughes
Mr M J McBride
Miss B Plumptre
Mr R Stockwell
Mr M Yoon
Miss M Young
Mr E R G Button
Miss N Morris
The 87th annual dinner of the Society will be held at the Drapers’ Hall on the
evening of Thursday 14 November 2013. The Toast to the College will be proposed
by Mr Noel Manns FRICS (1977), President of PCCS, and the response by
Professor Jan Maciejowski, President of the College.
Scottish Dinner
The 62nd Annual Dinner in Scotland was held at the New Club on Friday
2 November 2012. The College Representative was Professor Sir Stephen
O’Rahilly, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine.
PRESENT
1945
1948
1950
1959
1961
1965
1978
Mr P B Mackenzie
Ross
The Revd A W
Macdonell
Mr A H Trevor
Dr S Crampin
Mr N C Kemp
Mr P L Dix
Professor H R Kirby
Mr N M Bachop
Mr D E Knox
1979
1981
1984
Mr J W S Macfie
Dr I M McClure
Mr A J Clarkson
1989
1986
1987
1988
Dr B A Cuthbert
2010
Mr S J Nieminski
Professor A J McNeil
Dr A J Roscoe
Professor J L W
Schaper
1995
2007
Mr R M B Brown
Mr C S Loudon
Mr A W Barklie
Professor Sir Stephen
O’Rahilly FRS
Miss M Young
Miss N Morris
Robbie Brown (1989) has arranged to hold the 63rd Annual Dinner in Scotland at
the New Club on Friday 8 November 2013. The College Representative will be the
Master, Sir Richard Dearlove KCMG OBE.
Northern Dinner
This year’s PCCS Northern Dinner was held at the Leeds Club, 3 Albion Place, on
Friday 27 July 2013, and hosted by David Sneath (1966). The College
Representative was Mr Matthew Mellor, the Fellow for Development.
PRESENT
1952
1964
1966
Dr D Blackburn &
Mrs X Liu
Mr P D Ogden
1967
Mr D R Sneath TD
DL & Mrs C Sneath
Mr R B Tregoning & 1980
Mrs G Tregoning
Mr G P Wilson &
Mrs F Wilson
2006
Mr K M Benson
Professor D P
Newton
Mr M R Mellor
The next PCCS Northern dinner will be held in Leeds on Friday 28 March 2014.
Members can be accompanied by a spouse or partner. Contact David Franks in
the Development Office (events@pem.cam.ac.uk) for further information or
return the booking form which accompanied the Gazette.
South Western Dinner
The 12th Annual South Western Dinner was held at the Clifton Club on the
evening of Friday 9 November 2012. The College representative was Mr Chris
Blencowe, Bursar of the College.
PRESENT
1957
1961
1962
1963
Professor Sir John
Kingman FRS &
Lady Kingman
Mr R H Jarratt &
Mrs S E Jarratt
Mr R C Sommers
Dr T R Jones
Professor K A
McEwen &
Dr U McEwen
Professor V P Snaith
ScD FRSC FFI &
Mrs C J Snaith
Dr M A Turpin &
Mrs C Turpin
1964
1966
1970
1971
1972
Mr J D Midgley &
Mrs J A Midgley
Mr N A Rogers
Mr C G Toomer &
Mrs H Toomer
Professor A D
Buckingham
CBE FRS & Mrs J
Buckingham
Mr J A C Drake &
Mr H Drake
Mr F G D Montagu
Mr A B Elgood
Dr J W Lumley
1978
1984
1990
1997
2001
2005
Dr S N Kukureka
Professor J H Tobias
& Mrs I Tobias
Dr A C Harwood
Mr S W White
Mr N J McBride
Miss A V J Midgley
& Mr I Hughes
QC
Mr C J Blencowe &
Mrs R Blencowe
Ms S A March
Tony Elgood (1972) has arranged to hold the thirteenth Annual South Western
Dinner at the Clifton Club on the evening of Friday 1 November 2013. The College
representative will be Mr Nick McBride, Director of Studies in Law and Editor of
the Gazette.
Melbourne Dinner
A dinner was held on Friday 12 April, 2013, in the Garden Room, at the Australia
Club, 110 Williams Street, Melbourne. The dinner was organised by Mr A J R
Barker (1994).
PRESENT
1947
1960
1962
1963
1967
The Master
1970
Mr S B Myer AC LLD
Mr L V Luxton
Dr M J LlewellynSmith AM KStJ
Mr A W Gunther
Mr J McCaughey
Mr P M McLennan
Mrs M-R
McLennan, &
Ms C Heine
1975
1976
1979
1981
1987
1988
Professor N R
1989
Norman
1994
Mr S V Cullimore
Mr A G Shelton & 1995
Mrs R Shelton
Dr L J Reeve FRHistS 1997
Mr M E Bartlett &
2006
Mrs M G R Bartlett
Mr D M Horsley
Miss P R Purser &
Mr M Tun Tun
Mr V F Arthur
Mr A J R Barker &
Mrs A Barker
Dr J A Forrest &
Ms C Ralph
Mr J S Emmett
Miss K A O’Shea
Miss J J M Paul
Professor R Black
Mr R Dammery
Dr A Strazzera
Hong Kong Dinner
A Hong Kong dinner was held at Lusitano, 16 Ice House Street, Central, on
Tuesday 4 December 2012 and organised by The Hon Peter Wong GBS OBE (1985).
PRESENT
1962
1964
1970
1979
1980
1981
1983
1984
The Hon Peter Wong 1985
GBS OBE &
Mrs W Wong
Dr J C D Hickson
Mr C H Hall
Mr J R James
1991
Mr J K S Foo
1992
Dr S A Tan
1994
Mr B D Clarke
Mr A R Rahim
1998
Dr B T M Wong
Mr P Tao &
Dr P Hon,
Mr R Tao &
Mrs W Tao, and
Mr H Tao
Mr A B Richards
Mr P L-F Tam
Mr B P H Li
Mr M K-T Mok
Miss M G Poon &
Mr C W Pang
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PRESENT
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The Master
1983
Professor A C Palmer
FRS & Mrs J R
1984
Palmer
1985
Mr S M Timms
Mr G M Ambrose &
Mrs L Ambrose
Mr S J Fenley
1987
Mr T H Tan
1988
Mr B D Clarke &
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Mr W W Soh
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Mr P J Illingworth & 1991
Mrs T Illingworth
Mr A R Arul
Dr H M Cheah
1996
Mr J Marvi and
1998
Dr S Siddiqui
2000
Mr P Tao
Mr A E K Vanderlip 2001
Dr M Malik-Kudaisya
& Mr G Kudaisya
Mr C R Ottey &
2002
Mrs K Ottey
2005
Mr J Mladenic
Judge B G Tan &
Mrs V Tan
Miss H Y B Law
Miss P C L Hee
Mr J S Mythen &
Ms P Koh
Ms L Y Chong &
Guest
Mr G C T Lim
Mr R C P Troughton
Mr Y Y Xie
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RULES OF THE SOCIETY
1.
The Society shall be composed of past and present Members of
Pembroke College, Cambridge, and shall be called the ‘PEMBROKE
COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY’.
2.
The objects of the Society shall be:
(a) To promote closer relationship among Pembroke Graduates, and
between them and the College.
(b) To compile an Address Book of past and present Members of the
College, to publish an Annual Gazette, and to issue these free to all
Members of the Society.
(c) To make grants to the College.
3.
The subscription for Life Membership of the Society shall be decided
from time to time by the Committee.*
4.
The Officers of the Society shall be a President, one or more VicePresidents, a Chairman of Committee, a Treasurer, a Secretary (who
shall be a resident Fellow of the College), a Dinner Secretary, an Editor
of the Gazette, and such local Secretaries as may be desirable.
The Officers shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting and shall
hold office for one year. Nominations, with the names of the Proposer
and Seconder, shall be sent to the Secretary six weeks before the
Annual General Meeting. The retiring President shall not be eligible
for re-election for a period of three years after his retirement.
5.
The Management of the Society shall be entrusted to a Committee
consisting of the following Officers, namely the Chairman of
Committee, the Treasurer, the Secretary, the Secretary for London, the
Dinner Secretary, the Editor of the Gazette and not less than twelve other
Members of the Society to be elected annually. Nominations for the
Committee, with the names of Proposer and Seconder, shall be sent to
the Secretary six weeks before the Annual General Meeting. Of the
elected members of the Committee, six shall retire annually by rotation
according to priority of election, and their places shall be filled at the
Annual General Meeting; a retiring member shall be eligible for reelection after a period of one year from his retirement. The Committee
shall have power to co-opt additional members for a period of one year.
6.
The Capital Fund of the Society shall be vested in the Master, Fellows
and Scholars of the College, who may administer this Fund both as to
capital and income as they in their discretion may think fit, provided
always that it be primarily applied to making contributions to the funds
of the Society.
7.
The income and expenditure of the Society shall be administered by the
Committee through its Secretary.
The Committee may at their discretion add to the Capital Fund vested
in the College, but shall have no power to require withdrawal from this
Fund.
8.
The Committee shall meet at least twice in every year. At all meetings
of the Committee seven shall form a quorum.
9.
The Committee shall arrange an Annual Dinner or other Social
Meetings of the Society in London.
10.
The Annual General Meeting of the Society shall be held on the day
fixed for the Annual Dinner or other Social Meeting. The Secretary
shall send out notices of the Meeting at least one month before it
takes place.
11.
The Committee in their discretion may, and upon a written request
signed by twenty-four Members of the Society shall, call a Special
General Meeting. Fourteen days’ notice of such a Meeting shall be
given and the object for which it is called stated in the notice.
12.
No alteration shall be made in the Rules of the Society except at a
General Meeting and by a majority of two-thirds of those present and
voting, and any proposed alteration shall be stated on the notice calling
the Meeting.
*The Committee decided (10 December 1982) that, for the time being, the Life
Membership subscription shall be nil. This decision was made possible by an offer from
the College of an annual subvention from the Bethune-Baker Fund which, it was hoped,
would provide a sufficient supplement to the Society’s income to enable expenses to be
met, particularly the expenses of printing and postage of the Annual Gazette.
PRESIDENTS OF THE SOCIETY
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1966
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1972
J.F.P. Rawlinson
E.G. Browne
G.R. Eden
L. Whibley
F. Shewell Cooper
A. Hutchinson
F.S. Preston
E.H. Minns
J.B. Atkins
H.G. Comber
E.H. Pooley
J.C. Lawson
J.E. Singleton
J.K. Mozley
M.S.D. Butler
J.C.C. Davidson
S.C. Roberts
R.A. Butler
M.S.D. Butler
J.W.F. Beaumont
J.T. Spittle
P.J. Dixon
H.E. Wynn
W.W. Wakefield
V.C. Pennell
E.H. Pooley
B.E. King
H. Grose-Hodge
S.C. Roberts
H.F. Guggenheim
W.V.D. Hodge
C.B. Salmon
A.J. Arberry
A.G. Grantham
B. Willey
G.W. Pickering
M.B. Dewey
J.M. Key
W.A. Camps
D.G.A. Lowe
W.S. Hutton
R.G. Edwardes Jones
T.G.S. Combe
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2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
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H.F.G. Jones
G.C. Smith
A.E.C. Drake
J. Campbell
J.G. Ward
D.R. Denman
W.L. Gorell Barnes
M.C. Lyons
D.A.S. Cairns
M.V. Posner
P.R.E. Browne
Lord Adrian
J.G.P. Crowden
L.P. Johnson
Lord Prior
J. Baddiley
T.J. Brooke-Taylor
J.C.D. Hickson
P.J.D. Langrishe
J.R. Waldram
G.D.S. MacLellan
S. Kenderdine
Sir Peter Scott
A.V. Grimstone
The Rt. Hon. Lord Taylor
The Master
Sir John Chilcot
C. Gilbraith
J.K. Shepherd
B. Watchorn
R.H. Malthouse
M.G. Kuczynski
Sir Patrick Elias
Sir John Kingman
Ms V Bowman
M.G. Kuczynski
R.H. King
J.S. Bell
R.G. Macfarlane
M.R. Wormald
N.G.H. Manns
The Master
E. DEATHS AND OBITUARIES
LIST OF DEATHS
The College notes with regret the deaths of the following members
1926 Richard Scholefield Nickson (date of death unknown)
1932 Peter Copmann Messer (31 January 2002; BA English/Divinity)
1935 Victor Chapman (31 July 2012)
Guy Elwin Millard (26 April 2013; see obituary p 153)
1936 John Albert Cyril Drew (26 August 2012; see obituary p 141)
John Denis Forman (24 February 2013; see obituary p 142)
Eric Jeffrey Harrison (28 July 1971; BA Natural Sciences, BChir, MB)
John Noel Martin (6 March 2013; see obituary p 152)
1939 William Lionel Heap Franceys (12 December 2012; BA Modern &
Medieval Languages/Economics)
Donald Kirkpatrick Smith (30 September 2012; BA Modern &
Medieval Languages)
Frank Herbert Wyman (21 April 2013)
1940 Leslie Ernest Handford (30 October 2011; BA Mechanical Sciences)
1942 John Logan Lewis (11 October 2012; see obituary p 151)
Anthony Edward Nassau Molesworth (January 2013; BA Natural
Sciences/Theology; Canon of Swaziland 1968–71)
1944 Michael Atkins (27 March 2013; BA Mathematics)
Roy Arthur Wilton (24 August 2012)
1945 John Dillon Humphreys (18 March 2013; BA Mechanical Sciences)
1946 Roy William Burlton (14 July 2008)
Michael Ivor Gee (9 July 2013; BA Mathematics)
John Edmund Hopkinson (3 November 2012; BA Law; High Court
Judge in Hong Kong 1985–89)
Geoffrey Alan Mattana (April 2011; BA Mathematics)
George Humphrey Toulmin (8 April 2013; BA Mathematics, PhD)
1947 Aubrey Hugh Dimond (13 March 2013; BA Natural Sciences, BChir, MB)
Christopher Lawrence Proctor (11 November 2012; BA Modern &
Medieval Languages)
Charles Richard Woosnam (8 April 2012; BA Estate Management)
1948 Anthony Frederick Rivers Fennell (26 May 2012; BA Theology)
Thomas James Peter Hunter (3 June 2012; BA History/Law)
Thomas Ridley Sharpe (6 June 2013; see obituary p 156)
Dudley Alan Woodget (10 November 2012; BA History)
1949 Gilbert Michael Diarmuid Archer (20 February 2013; BA Natural
Sciences, BChir, MB)
Charles Geoffrey James (22 January 2013; BA Natural Sciences, PhD
Physical Chemistry)
1951 Robert Miles Atterton (1 November 2012; see obituary p 137)
Rex John Clements (10 August 2012; BA Mechanical Sciences)
Richard Harold Malthouse (8 June 2013; BA Modern & Medieval
Languages/Law; London Dinner Secretary, PCCS 1983–1996)
1952 Johannes Petrus Botha (27 March 2013; PhD Engineering)
1954 Peter John Bonfield (21 February 2000; BA Natural Sciences)
Michael Walcot Gordon Duff (15 July 2012; BA Mathematics)
Ian Robert McLeod (5 April 2013; BA Modern & Medieval Languages)
1955 Adrian Hector Hobart (9 August 2012; see obituary p 146)
Robert Keith Middlemas (10 July 2013; an obituary will appear in next
year’s Gazette)
1956 John Alfred Bather (7 September 2012; see obituary p 137)
1957 Michael William Cuddigan (10 November 2012; BA Economics)
Charles Nowell Howard (29 October 2012; BA Mechanical Sciences)
1958 Keith Nelson Foster (2 March 2013; see obituary p 143)
Gordon Herbert Waddell (13 August 2012; see obituary p 157)
Gordon John Williams (18 July 2012; see obituary p 158)
1959 David Ritchie Ives (4 February 2013; see obituary p 147)
Frederick Alexander Leckie (14 June 2013; see obituary p 150)
George Nicolas Mallory Mellersh (12 December 2012; BA
Economics/Natural Sciences)
1961 Barrie Leslie Irving (20 February 2013; see obituary p 146)
1963 David Francis Boyle (date of death unknown; BA Modern &
Medieval Languages)
Thomas Henry Gibbons (16 February 2012; see obituary p 144)
William Garth Morrison (24 May 2013; see obituary p 154)
Michael Pinney (20 July 2012; BA Classics)
1964 Peter Cartmel (17 May 2013; BA Modern & Medieval Languages)
1965 Ronald Walter Osborne (9 April 2013; see obituary p 155)
1966 Peter Barrington Jones (16 April 2013; see obituary p 149)
1972 Robert Roddick Ackrill Breare (12 July 2013; BA Law)
1978 Nicholas Tetley Beazley (19 May 2013; see obituary p 138)
1993 Bonnie Muir (10 April 2012; graduate student)
1999 Daniel James Brennan (26 April 2012; see obituary p 139)
Anthony Lee (16 July 2012; William Pitt Fellow)
This Gazette also carries (at p 140) an obituary for Robert Arthur Dobbin Crawford
(1935), whose death was announced in the previous Gazette.
OBITUARIES
Robert Miles Atterton
19 March 1931 – 1 November 2012
Obituary by Harry Atterton (1975)
After attending Sir William Turner’s School, Redcar, where Miles was head
prefect and school captain, Miles served two years in the Royal Electrical &
Mechanical Engineers where he rose to the rank of Captain before going up to
Cambridge to read science. He moved to Redhill in Surrey to become a research
scientist at the nearby British Brewing Research Establishment at Nutfield,
eventually obtaining a Master’s degree in brewing at Birmingham University.
After working for several brewers in the UK, notably Bass, he became head
brewer at the Municipal Brewery in Bulawayo, then Rhodesia. He returned to
England when Ian Smith declared unilateral independence and continued
to work in the sales side of the brewing industry. A career change followed
when he obtained a Master’s degree in biochemical engineering at London
where he lectured in this field until retiring to his home in Redhill where he
became a legendary, if somewhat eccentric, figure in his local pub, The Home
Cottage, continuing until the end to enjoy the product of his labours. A corner
of this hallowed institution, graced with his picture, has been named in
his memory.
John Alfred Bather
20 January 1936 – 7 September 2012
Obituary by Sir John Kingman (1957)
When John Bather was at Pembroke reading for
the Mathematical Tripos, the subject of statistics
was regarded in Cambridge as well below the
mathematical salt. But it caught John’s attention,
and with characteristic determination, he insisted on making it his main interest,
and became one of the country’s leading mathematical statisticians.
He came up from Burnley Grammar School as a Scholar in 1956, and took a
First in Part I. He found that Cambridge mathematics was polarised between
pure mathematics, represented in Pembroke by the great geometer Sir William
Hodge (Master from 1958) and his equally brilliant follower Michael Atiyah
(now Sir Michael, OM and our senior Honorary Fellow), and classical applied
mathematics represented by the geophysicist Robert Stoneley. Neither Stoneley
nor Atiyah would agree to cover statistics in their supervisions, but they
arranged for John to have a few sessions with Dennis Lindley, whose Part I
lectures had so interested him.
John was placed high in the list of Wranglers in Part II, and after his BA he took
the Diploma in Mathematical Statistics, and went on to research in the statistical
problems of optimal control and dynamic programming. The originality of his
work gained him a lectureship at Manchester in 1962 even before he got his PhD.
He moved to the fledgling University of Sussex in 1967, to a group which had also
by coincidence attracted his fellow Pembroke Wranglers Ray Lickorish and John
Kingman. He succeeded the latter as Professor in 1969, and remained at the
University for the rest of his career.
Throughout his time as an undergraduate, when others were sowing wild
oats, John remained faithful to his childhood sweetheart June, and they married
in 1959. They had three sons, one of whom was tragically killed on military duty.
June looked after him devotedly when he fell ill after his retirement, and she died
suddenly only a week before him.
In his youth John was an enthusiastic footballer, and he remained a powerful
swimmer. He was also a considerable pianist, and it is said that he arranged to
have a piano in the lecture theatre so that he could intersperse his mathematics
with musical entertainment.
His published work is a corpus of some fifty papers, most of them substantial
and original. He disliked the tendency to rush out short papers, and preferred to
work his ideas through and write definitive accounts which often proved highly
influential. He liked working with people who needed to apply his ideas, and for
instance his latest work was with engineers concerned with aircraft control. He
was a powerful and scholarly mathematician, who will be remembered with
respect and affection.
Nicholas Tetley Beazley
19 January 1960 – 19 May 2013
An appreciation by Jonathan Flory (1979)
Nicholas was a very special person, with a warmth of personality and kindness of
heart. He had a real gift of friendship and his loss at the young age of 53 is deeply
felt by so many.
Nicholas came up to Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1978 where his father
Harry had studied. We met a year later as I joined my father Peter’s old College.
Nicholas was immediately likeable. Tall, and good looking, Nicholas was open
and engaging, with a twinkle in the eye and a great sense of humour.
His study of law did not prevent Nicholas from enjoying an active social life-in
fact the Squire Law library seemed to be as much a centre of social activity as
academic pursuits. The student house that six of us lived in for a year was also a
lively, if untidy, place. Nicholas shared with us his love of good company and of
good French wine. He formed lasting and valued friendships and was much in
demand as a godfather.
It was perhaps on one of those Cambridge weekends that Nicholas first met
Sarah, and later they worked together at Freshfields in the City. We were all
delighted when they became engaged. I remember a blisteringly hot Hertfordshire
wedding where they both radiated happiness. It was a pleasure to meet and to get
to know the Beazley family; to see reflected in Harry and Susan the kind and
upright person that Nicholas was; and to meet his brothers James and Thomas
(Peterhouse, 1979) and their future wives Sarah and Glynis and to appreciate close
sibling ties.
Nicholas and Sarah formed a strong team. Nicholas was above all a devoted
husband and proud father. Blessed with four talented children he committed to
encouraging and supporting all their activities and enthusiasms. Many miles
were added to the milometer for Hattie, Mili, Ed and Hugo in visiting schools and
attending events sportive, theatrical and musical.
Nicholas upheld the highest standards of integrity in his business life as in all
things. He thrived in his career and made a seamless change from commercial
lawyer to management consultant and was then head-hunted to BUPA. He
fulfilled the roles of Head of Strategy and Company Secretary and earned the
respect and affection of his BUPA colleagues.
Nicholas and Sarah have made a wonderful family home at the Dower House
which has a particular spirit of peace and timelessness. Nicholas needed little
encouragement to throw a party and was a generous host. For smaller gatherings,
there might be a convivial lunch and maybe a walk around that beautiful landscape.
Travel has been a big part of Beazley family life. It was a typically brave decision
of Nicholas and Sarah to confront a long term condition by not telling family and
friends and so allowing the children to grow up and to enjoy a decade of family
experiences and overseas travel. There are so many happy family memories and
this was truly ‘A Time of Gifts’ – in fact, a lifetime of gifts.
University life creates strong bonds of friendship. I have been privileged to
know Nicholas as a friend before welcoming him as a brother-in law. He was a
true gentleman. Kind and loyal, generous and warm-hearted, with a great sense
of humour and a positive outlook. His four children have inherited these and
other qualities and his spirit endures in them.
Nicholas was and is widely loved. He enriched the lives of his many friends and
we hold his memory in warm affection.
Daniel James Brennan
15 November 1980 – 26 April 2012
Obituary by Patrick Brennan
Daniel Brennan was born in Chester, but lived most of
his life on Tyneside. He attended St Thomas More RC
Comprehensive at Blaydon, Tyne and Wear, where he
was regarded as one of the brightest students, and a
potential candidate for Oxford University. However,
displaying a streak of independence which was
characteristic of him, he opted instead to apply to Cambridge. He entered
Pembroke College in 1999 to read Economics, becoming the first pupil from his
school to win a place at Cambridge. Daniel engaged himself fully in both
academic and social activities, and represented the college at both football and
golf. It was while playing football for the college in his first term that he suffered
a badly broken leg, which caused him to be wheelchair-bound for a period of
time. This did not dissuade him from his footballing interests however, and he
continued to play and to coach the Ladies’ Football team during his remaining
time at Pembroke.
Daniel graduated in 2002 and was initially uncertain as to his future career. He
studied for an MA in International Political Economy at the University of
Newcastle upon Tyne, and then considered a career in Law. Eventually he decided
to train as an accountant, and joined Deloitte at their Newcastle upon Tyne office.
His work took him on auditing assignments to a variety of places, some more
exotic than others. His favourite client was in Panama City, Florida, where he was
able to enjoy some of the magnificent golf courses in that part of the world.
At the age of 24 he suffered an apparent epileptic fit, but on further
investigation he was found to be suffering from a brain tumour. Such
devastating news might have caused him to despair, but in a remarkable display
of courage and maturity he determined to live as normal a life as possible in the
time remaining to him. His career progressed steadily, and in 2009 he gained a
position with Price Waterhouse Cooper in Vancouver, BC. He was assigned to
the mining and forestry division, and travelled all over North America visiting
places that tourists rarely see. He devoted his spare time to golf, and he also
volunteered for charity work, in particular assisting as a marshal at numerous
sponsored runs.
In 2011 Daniel began to suffer mobility problems, and his doctors
recommended he return to the UK to live with his parents. He enjoyed the
company of his seven nephews and nieces, and was surrounded by them during
his last summer holiday in the Dordogne. His mobility declined rapidly on his
return from France, and despite a course of radiotherapy his condition worsened.
He accepted his fate bravely, and during his last months, when he was so
dependent on others for basic needs, he never once complained. On 23rd April
2012, while taking a shower, he suffered a seizure, from which he did not recover
consciousness. He died three days later on 26th April 2012.
Daniel was proud of his achievements, he was proud of having been part of
Pembroke, and his parents and extended family are so proud of him.
Robert Arthur Dobbin Crawford
26 October 1916 – 18 January 2012
Obituary by Peter Crawford
Robert Crawford, born in Dublin in 1916, where both
parents held Fellowships and Masterships in surgery,
became an eye surgeon.
From Repton, Pembroke and St Thomas’ Hospital he
spent two years residency at Moorfields Eye Hospital,
and was then the ophthalmologist in a team at Swindon
receiving the first casualties from the D-Day Invasion of France, reporting on
866 patients.
Posted to India, he was eye surgeon to the British and Indian Army Hospitals
at Delhi, and Advisor in Ophthalmology to the Surgeon-General at GHQ,
New Delhi.
On return he obtained a Cambridge MD based on surgical work done in India,
and was Consultant to the Canterbury and Thanet hospitals until emigrating with
his wife Clare to Australia in 1975 to be within reach of their three children (and
later eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren).
He practised on the Queensland Sunshine Coast, opening a new hospital
service, and eventually retired to grow a range of tropical fruits. In 2009 he had a
cataract removed, benefiting like millions of others worldwide from the work of
his mentor Sir Harold Ridley (1924).
John Albert Cyril Drew
24 January 1918 – 26 August 2012
Obituary by Sarah Biffen, Richard Drew (1965) and David Drew.
John Albert Cyril Drew was born towards the end of the
First World War, the only child of Albert, a serving
cavalry officer in the King’s Dragoon Guards, and Violet,
both of Paisley in the West of Scotland.
Known as Cyril for most of his life, he preferred to be
called John after he moved to South Africa in the 1980s.
He was educated at Cargilfield School and then Loretto near Edinburgh, before
going up to Pembroke to read history just before the outbreak of the Second
World War.
After Cambridge John served with distinction as an officer in the Royal Corps
of Signals in Scottish Command. He was closely involved in the invasion of
Norway, where the presence of more than 400,000 armed German troops posed
a potential threat as a new theatre of war before the final surrender. He rose to the
rank of Acting Lieutenant Colonel at the age of 26.
During the war he married Joane Tunbridge, daughter of a solicitor in
Warwickshire, and they had four children: Sarah, Richard, John and David. The
family now includes eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Life in Scotland in the 1950s was concerned with rebuilding and re-equipping
the family business, McCrae & Drew Ltd, a manufacturing plc specialising in the
production of seating – including seats for the Mini motor-car and for the House
of Lords. The West of Scotland provided an idyllic setting for outdoor activities:
the family kept a number of horses, which they hunted in the winter, while
summer was the time for sailing and golf. Many family holidays were spent on the
East Coast of Scotland to enable John and his father to play golf at Muirfield. He
owned a 1933 Milne-designed Scottish Island Class boat in which many happy
sailing holidays were spent.
Following the sale of the Company and the death of his wife in 1969, John
moved to Jersey and married Penny Livock, who shared his passion for horses.
They both hunted and were very involved with the Jersey Race Course. Always an
avid reader and historian, he built up a second business as the owner of a small
but successful chain of bookshops in St Helier. It was named after his much-loved
wooden yacht, Jura.
In the early 1980s John visited Cape Town and was captivated. After frequent
visits he bought a house in the Cape Town suburb of Kenilworth. In his later
years, as his health declined, he was fortunate to receive a very high standard of
care. The family is also particularly grateful to the wonderful band of friends who
visited him so frequently and sustained him during this time. The fact that he died
peacefully in his own bed is testament to this high level of care and friendship.
Jeremy Lawrence (1958) adds:
Cyril Drew was the doyen of those Pembroke alumni based in the Cape who meet
annually for convivial purposes and to toast the College. His death is a significant
loss to our small group.
John Denis Forman
13 October 1917 – 24 February 2013
Sir Denis Forman was one of the greatest figures in the
history of British television. As director, and then
chairman, of Granada TV, he was responsible for the
production of many classic British television
programmes, including What the Papers Say, World in
Action, University Challenge, Brideshead Revisited and The
Jewel in the Crown – which won more awards than any
other British TV series in history.
Denis was born in Dumfries and educated at Loretto School, Edinburgh,
before going to Pembroke College to study Classics. Unfortunately, he failed his
Part I exams in Classics, and switched to Rural Economy – in which subject he
took an aegrotat. He later boasted that he was the only MA Cantab who had never
passed an exam. World War II broke out when Denis was 21, and he joined the
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He was appalled at the quality of the training
he received, and convinced his superiors to allow him to join a new Battle School
being run by Lionel Wigram in order to set up a similar training course in his own
division. As it turned out, Denis succeeded Wigram as head of the Battle School
when Wigram went to the Mediterranean to observe operations out there. Denis
followed Wigram out to the Mediterranean a few months later, and was appalled
the way Wigram had been treated by the military for criticising the performance
of Montgomery’s Eighth Army. Wigram was killed in action in 1944 and Denis
would later write in defence of his memory in his memoirs To Reason Why (1991).
Denis lost a leg at Monte Cassino and was invalided out to a officer cadet training
unit, where he met Fred Majdalany. Majdalanay got a job as a film critic at the Daily
Mail, and this inspired Denis to think that he too might make a career in cinema.
The first job he obtained was in 1947, as chief production officer in the Central
Office of Information’s film division. The following year he was made the director
of the British Film Institute, in which role he increased the BFI’s membership
from 2,000 to 25,000 and founded the National Film Theatre on the South Bank.
One of the governors of the BFI was Cecil Bernstein, who owned with Sidney
Bernstein the Granada chain of cinemas and had been awarded the independent
television franchise for the North of England. In 1955 Denis accepted Cecil’s
invitation to join the newly formed Granada TV as one of its directors, becoming
joint managing director in 1965, chairman in 1974 and retiring as chairman in
1987. He strongly believed in allowing talented people to make the best possible
programmes with the minimum of interference. Under his stewardship, TV
personalities such as Michael Parkinson, Kenny Everett, and Anna Ford, directors
such as Mike Newell, Michael Apted, and Paul Greengrass, writers such as Jack
Rosenthal, Paul Abbott, Colin Welland and Tony Warren (the creator of Coronation
Street), and producers such as Jeremy Isaacs, Gus MacDonald, and John Birt, all
got their start.
Denis’ aim was always to produce popular programmes that were good. This
philosophy seemed to reach its apotheosis with the 1981 production of Brideshead
Revisited, but Denis was to top that achievement in 1984 with The Jewel in the Crown
– a production that he personally oversaw. The inspiration for this 14 part series
came from Denis’ reading Paul Scott’s Staying On while on holiday in 1978. This
led him to read Scott’s Raj Quartet and the idea of making a TV series out of this
four volume masterpiece was born. In order to prove that a major British TV
drama could be shot in India (something that had never been done before), he
first made Staying On. The positive reception that that drama received allowed him
to move forward to shooting The Jewel in the Crown. At the time, it was the most
expensive series ever made (costing £5.5 million), and Denis was unable to raise
the funding required to complete the series. Undaunted, he shot the first two
hours of the series, showed it to representatives from the Mobil oil company, and
they agreed to fund the rest of the series. It was nominated for 15 BAFTAS, wining
five; and won the Golden Globe for Best Mini-Series, and the Emmy for
Outstanding Limited Series.
Denis’ passion for opera – ignited by attending a production of La Bohème just
after war’s end – led him to be appointed director of the Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden in 1980, becoming deputy chairman from 1984–1991. He
published three books on music – Mozart’s Piano Concertos (1971) (subsequently the
basis of a TV series produced by him in 1981), The Good Opera Guide (1994), and The
Good Wagner Opera Guide (2000). After his retirement in 1987, he published his
memoirs in three volumes: Son of Adam (1990) (his father, a Presbyterian minister,
was Adam Forman), To Reason Why (1991), and Persona Granada (1997). An almost
lifelong atheist – he rebelled against his Presbyterian upbringing very young – he
also presented a Channel 4 series Beyond Belief: Religion on Trial in 1992.
Denis was awarded an OBE in 1956 and knighted in 1976. His first wife, Helen
de Mouilpied – with whom he worked at the Central Office of Information’s film
division, and whom he married in 1948 – died in 1987. They had two sons, Charlie
and Adam. In 1990, Denis married Moni Cameron, the widow of the
distinguished journalist James Cameron. Moni and his children survive Denis.
Keith Nelson Foster
31 May 1938 – 2 March 2013
Obituary by Alan Foster (1965)
Keith Foster died after a seven year battle with cancer. After being Head Boy at
Cheltenham College and doing his two years’ National Service in the Royal
Engineers, he matriculated in 1958 on a BP Scholarship to read Natural Sciences
at Pembroke. After his first 10 years as a research scientist with BP he spent five
years as the coordinator between Shell Mex and BP and successfully achieved the
separation of the two, with BP becoming for the first time since 1932 its own
national marketeer. For the following four years, as General Manager of BP
Arabian Agencies, he claimed to be proud to be selling oil back to the Arabs. On
his return to UK, just before the fall of the Shah of Iran, he became, sequentially,
Director of Jos Bateson’s Ltd and Price’s Candles Ltd. He was renowned amongst
his BP colleagues for his interest in computers: a skill which led him in 1984 to be
made Manager of BP Oil UK’s Information Systems. From 1990 he was
responsible for managing a three year, Europe-wide, six-nation integrated
Information System project for BP, which he brought in on time and budget.
Retiring in 1994, he set up his own Management Consultancy business
specialising in the oil industry and management of IT. What does not appear on
his regular CV is that he considered this time also to be ‘pay-back time’: as tutor,
mentor and guide with The Prince’s Trust to younger members starting out in
business, even after his first operation for cancer.
A day or two after his first operation, which robbed him of his booming laugh
but not his zest for life, his medical team were surprised to find him absent from
his room. He was found outside, standing on one leg making peculiar gestures
with his arms. Tai Chi was added to the list of his diagnoses, and credited with the
unusual speed with which he recovered from his operation. Keith used his cancer
experiences to great effect in two directions, firstly teaching the NHS staff what it
was like being on the other end of the stethoscope and, secondly, giving guidance
to fellow following sufferers what to expect. By invitation, he joined the Luton and
Dunstable Hospital Cancer User Group, whose aim was to work in partnership
with health professionals to improve cancer services within the Trust. He
encouraged members of the group to take part in reviewing cancer services at the
hospital and he was also involved in external verification and travelled to many
different hospitals. Keith became a reviewer for the National Peer Review
Programme in 2009 and undertook a significant number of reviews for the
programme. Keith was also the Chair of the National Cancer Peer Review User
Steering Group in 2009. Over these last four years he made an enormous
contribution to the peer review programme. He was well-respected by both
service users and NHS professionals alike. Up until only a few weeks before his
death he was still busy ‘in harness’. His colleagues have written that he was ‘a true
gentleman and professional of an older era, but had all the enthusiasm of a
younger man’, and that he would be greatly missed by all. Not only would he
be remembered for his insight and diligence but be missed for his tenacity and
quick wit.
He is survived by his wife Elizabeth and daughter Deborah.
Thomas Henry Gibbons
10 May 1928 – 16 February 2012
Tom Gibbons was an artist and scholar who helped to transform art and culture
in Western Australia as a founder member (in 1958) of the Perth Group, a group
of modernist artists who exhibited their works in the
Skinner Galleries in Perth.
Tom was born in Salford, Manchester, and obtained
degrees from the University of London (1949) and
University College, Hull (1950). After doing National
Service in the RAF, he started teaching in Derbyshire, but
in 1955, he emigrated to Perth with his first wife Jean and
son Dan. His main job at Scotch College in Perth was to
teach English and arithmetic, but he was encouraged by
the headmaster’s artist wife to start teaching art. This
resulted in his starting to produce art work of his own –
still lifes informed by a fascination with a significance of
the everyday, recycling and transforming car batteries,
typefaces, liquorice allsorts, and toasting forks in
paintings, collages and sculptures. His work was always
informed by a sense of fun, though serving the serious purpose of helping us to
see the transcendent in the ordinary.
In 1957, Tom became a lecturer in English literature at the University of
Western Australia (where he would stay until retirement in 1993). It was at about
this time that he was asked by Guy Grey-Smith – an abstract painter – whether he
would be interested in exhibiting some of his works along with Guy’s and Robert
Juniper’s and Brian McKay’s at the newly opened Skinner Galleries under the
group name ‘The Perth Group’. The exhibition was a sell-out, much to the
surprise of Rose Skinner, the co-owner of the Skinner Galleries, whose
scepticism as to whether the exhibition would be a success had led her to agree
that the Group would hire out the Galleries, and provide their own invitations and
refreshments for the exhibition, while she would charge no commission on any
sales of paintings. A second exhibition was similarly successful, and when GreySmith proposed a third exhibition, Rose Skinner insisted on going back to her
normal arrangement, where she would provide the Galleries and associated
amenities free of charge, in return for 25% commission on any sales. Grey-Smith
was outraged by this, but Robert Juniper and Brian McKay wanted to agree to this
arrangement in order to retain Rose Skinner’s patronage. As a result, the Perth
Group broke up.
Shortly afterwards, in 1963, Tom came to Pembroke College, obtaining a PhD
in English in 1966. He returned to Australia, and combined teaching and writing
(Rooms in the Darwin Hotel: Studies in English Literary Criticism and Ideas 1880–1920
(1973), Literature and Awareness: An Introduction to the Close Reading of Prose and Verse
(1979)) with designing and building theatre sets for the University of Western
Australia and putting on various solo shows of his art. Just before he died from
cancer, an exhibition of works by the Perth Group called Setting Their Sights was put
on at the Mundaring Arts Centre, near Perth. The exhibition curator commented
on Tom’s work Allsorts (made up of liquorice allsorts): ‘This was important to a
man who grew up during the Depression and World War II because it’s the “jar of
lollies” view of life. The future “will be full of goodness.” And he discovered it to
be so.’
Tom was predeceased by his sons from his first marriage, Dan, Tim and Ben,
but is survived by his second wife, Miriam Stannage.
Adrian Hector Hobart
2 February 1934 – 9 August 2012
Obituary by Barbara Hobart
Adrian Hobart was a surgeon, poet, pilot, and most importantly to him a triple
blue in boxing from Pembroke College. He is survived by his wife, Barbara, his
son Peter, Peter’s wife, Kathi, and granddaughter Suzi. He will be missed for the
twinkle in his eye, and his ability to make a pun, and his amazing left hook.
Barrie Leslie Irving
6 October 1942 – 20 February 2013
Barrie Irving played a fundamentally important role in
reforming the way the police and the criminal justice
system operated. His work led to the passage of the
Police and Criminal Justice Act 1984 and the formation
of the Crown Prosecution Service in 1985.
Barrie was born in Stoke-on-Trent and educated at
Stowe School before coming to Pembroke College in
1961, studying English in his first two years before
switching to Social Anthropology for his final year. He then went to the
University of California, Berkeley, to do a Master’s in Sociology, studying under
Erving Goffman.
On Barrie’s return to England in 1966, he joined the legal studies division of
the Tavistock Institute, which studies organisational behaviour. He created the
first non-medical forensic psychology research centre in the UK, with the aim of
focussing on suspected miscarriages of justice, in particular the Maxwell Confait
case. Maxwell Confait was discovered dead in a burning house in 1972. The police
arrested an 18 year old with a mental age of 8 on suspicion of having set that
building on fire. He was interrogated without a solicitor being present and later
claimed that he had been beaten by the police. He confessed to setting Confait’s
house on fire with two friends, a 15 year old and a 14 year old. They were also
interrogated without a solicitor or adult friend being present, and also confessed
to being involved in setting the building on fire. There were again claims that they
had been the subject of police violence. In November 1972, the 18 year old was
convicted of manslaughter and arson; his friends were convicted of arson and
burglary. Public concern over the safety of the convictions led Roy Jenkins, the
then Home Secretary, to refer them to the Court of Appeal in 1975. The Court of
Appeal quashed the convictions, criticising the police conduct in interrogating
the defendants.
The quashing of the convictions in the Confait case led to the setting up of an
inquiry under Sir Henry Fisher. Fisher’s conclusions led to the setting up of a
Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure, which sat from 1979–1981. Barrie was
commissioned to observe 76 police interrogations. He identified 165 dubious
police tactics used to obtain confessions. As a result of Barrie’s work, the Police
and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 was passed in order to set out a comprehensive
and enforceable code of conduct for the treatment of suspects by the police.
Barrie did a follow-up survey in 1986, and found that the number of dubious
police tactics used to obtain confessions had dropped from 165 to 42. Barrie
argued that the main problem affecting the police in the way they treated
suspects was that they were more interested in obtaining a conviction for an
offence than getting to the truth of what had happened in a particular case. In
order to deal with this problem, he recommended that the responsibility for
prosecuting offences be taken out of the hands of the police and handed to an
independent body. This was done in 1985, with the foundation of the Crown
Prosecution Service.
In 1980, Barrie was asked to establish and lead the Police Foundation, an
independent think tank concerned with improving policing. Under his
leadership, the Police Foundation did pioneering work on crime mapping and
facial recognition technology, and instituted pan-European debates and
conferences on drug control and neighbourhood policing. In 1997, the Police
Foundation set up the Runciman Inquiry into the working of the Misuse of
Drugs Act 1971, The resulting Runciman Report recommended that cannabis be
reclassified from a Class B drug to Class C, and that LSD be reclassified from
Class A to Class B.
Barrie served as Director of the Police Foundation until 2005. He then returned
to live in Cambridge, collaborating with the Institute of Criminology (where he
was awarded an PhD in forensic psychology in 1990), while working for Matrix
Knowledge Group, a London consultancy group advising on policing and
security, and Rand Europe, as a senior research fellow focussing on the workings
of European criminal institutions. He spent two years at Pembroke College as a
Visiting Fellow from 2004–2006.
Barrie is survived by his third wife, Patricia, and three children (one of
whom, Benjamin Irving (2003) was a student at Pembroke College) and
four stepchildren.
Loraine Gelsthorpe (1994) adds:
Barrie was widely known as a wise, thoughtful and brilliant researcher. He was a
renaissance man in many ways, bringing wide ranging insights to bear on
problems, reflecting his liberal arts interests as much as his social scientific,
organisational and psychological training. He was also something of a raconteur,
a fine pianist, sportsman, and mentor to successive generations of criminologists.
David Ritchie Ives
13 March 1939 – 4 February 2013
Obituary by Rosie Ives and the Ives children
David was born in Sidcup, Kent, the son of AGL Ives, who was Secretary of the
King’s Fund.
At school David initially pursued Classics and was
planning to apply for an Oxbridge place in 1957.
However, the year proved to be one of enormous
challenges as his father suffered horrendous injuries in
the notorious Lewisham train crash. With Oxbridge
plans on hold, it was only after his father’s recovery that
his interest turned to medicine.
Arriving at Pembroke College in 1959, good friend,
Peter Gornall (Trinity Hall) recalls that they were
anatomy dissection and physiology partners. He
particularly remembers David’s pride when their physiology experiments went
well. However, Peter says, ‘He was a lot less happy when I was doing gastric acid
experiments on him, and when it came to my turn (blood sugar experiments) I
was the guinea pig while he learned venepuncture!’
In his final year, David’s research topic for the Part II Pathology course was on
the multiplication of the influenza virus. It was so successful that the work was
published in the June 1962 edition of Nature, and this confirmed his interest
in research.
It was whilst completing his medical training at University College Hospital,
London, that David met ‘Nurse Carter’, or Rosie. Romance followed and they
married in 1967. He and Rosie took their young family to the US in 1971, where
David worked as the MRC Travelling Fellow and Research Fellow in Medicine, at
Harvard Medical School Endocrine Unit. Later, in 1973, David took a post as a
Senior Research Fellow at Sidney Sussex, Cambridge, studying bone disease at
Addenbrooke’s Hospital.
Returning to clinical work in 1980, David quickly became a Consultant
Physician in Geriatrics at Leicester General Hospital. During his career David
strove to ensure the integration of Medicine for the Elderly in Leicestershire, and
equal access of care for elderly patients to medical specialties.
Being pragmatic, he volunteered to be part of the commissioning team for the
Leicester Royal Infirmary (LRI) ‘Windsor’ Building. The new wing design
achieved closer liaison between disciplines, such as Orthopaedic surgery,
Physiotherapy and Nursing staff. All worked together to support rehabilitation, to
help patients get home more quickly and safely.
Over 20 years, David took a lead role in Geriatrician training and worked hard
to improve the standing, and provision, of Medicine for the Elderly. For this, he
gained recognition for his work as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians,
and later Emeritus Consultant and Hon. Senior Lecturer.
David’s yearning for knowledge was infectious, and his enthusiasm for
medicine and teaching had inspired many medical students and junior doctors,
many now flourishing Consultants and academics themselves.
By his retirement from the NHS in 2004, David had achieved his goal, as
Geriatrics became part of Integrated Medicine at the LRI. He was regarded as the
epitome of a caring dedicated doctor, and had provided outstanding quality of
care for elderly patients.
Retirement gave time for travelling, walking and gardening. He had a great
love of gardens, with his own full of rhododendrons, camellias and magnolias.
Indeed, on his first trip after retirement he travelled to Sikkim to see
rhododendrons at the foothills of the Himalayas.
David was delighted to return to Pembroke on many occasions, and as chair of
the Leicestershire and Rutland Cambridge Society, he much enjoyed sharing his
interests with others, whether history, art, languages or science.
Ever keen to seek out merit for others who deserved it, David recently
succeeded in gaining further recognition for clinical scientist, Dr PM Cotes, and
her early work in erythropoietin biology. He also had great enthusiasm in
supporting a PhD bursary in Biomedical Sciences at Pembroke in her name.
David died on 3 February 2013. His friends and colleagues remember a highly
respected physician, a gentleman, a trusted friend and a devoted family man. He
leaves behind his wife Rosie, and their children, Andrew, Christine and Alice.
Peter Barrington Jones
4 January 1947 – 16 April 2013
Obituary by Lewis Braithwaite
I first met Peter in 1992 on his annual visit to his mother
(by then a widow) in Birmingham. I drove them both on
many expeditions around the country which he greatly
enjoyed. Later when he was no longer able to stay with
his mother he and some of his friends used to stay with
myself and my wife. I formed a deep friendship with
Peter often having long discussions about such diverse topics as architecture,
churches, language and linguistics.
Peter was the only child of David (from Maesteg) who came to work in
Birmingham and Phyllis (a milliner from Chelsea). From 1953 (until he went to
university) he lived in a semi-detached house in Castle Bromwich where Phyllis
lived until her death in 2006. He went to Coleshill Grammar School. Here he
showed a lively intelligence, was widely read and musical, liking classical and
early music also playing piano and violin. Known as ‘the Professor’, he was more
a dilettante than an academic. Peter was a ‘social animal’ with a great capacity for
friendship, forming a group of boys and four staff (they would go to his house),
that lasted all his life. His headmaster Tom Wilson went to Pembroke College in
1947, where Peter was to follow in 1966 reading English and where his tutor was
Ian Jack. On one notable occasion for a bet Peter busked in a Cambridge street
playing a one string fiddle (earning quite a bit of money). He left with a 2.2,
determined to live abroad.
In 1969 Peter went to Genoa (which was to become very much his adopted city)
and where he met his wife Natalia Grazi. They went to work near Alassio on Thor
Heyerdahl’s book The Ra Expeditions. Peter bought a Fiat 500 and they had a son,
Francis. However, they split up, after which Peter went briefly to Zermatt. He was
soon back in Genoa where he was for many years to teach English at the Shenker
Institute. He was an outstanding teacher, although some of his students were
puzzled by his meticulous and idiosyncratic artistry. He had a flat in the Old Town
and went to concerts and the opera. Eventually he became bi-lingual, speaking
perfect Italian (and dreaming in it). I visited Peter several times in Genoa but
could not stay in his flat (a pipe organ occupied the space for the spare bed). We
explored this great city together: Peter loved and knew it well, picking out with
pride a nearby palazzo still occupied by a member of the Doria Family.
Peter had an understated and undemonstrative Christian faith, making up his
own mind, never following the crowd. He became a lay reader and church warden
in the Anglican Church of the Holy Ghost in Genoa, making many new friends
who were to support him to the end of his life. Peter had an old fashioned
courtesy even courtliness and a kindness and generosity of spirit. He was precise
in speech (his idol was Dr Johnson) and he delighted in the prose of the King
James Bible. He was not greedy or unduly concerned about money. He was a
bibliophile and left a number of antiquarian books to Pembroke.
Sadly, his health deteriorated and he died of cancer in April 2013 aged 66 after
43 years in Genoa. On my last visit Peter took me up a funicular to a medieval
aqueduct (a beautiful place), and he is buried at the bottom of this, in the main
cemetery of his adopted city.
Frederick Alexander Leckie
26 March 1929 – 14 June 2013
Fred Leckie served as Fellow and Director of Studies in
Mechanical Sciences at Pembroke College from
1959–1967, a position he held concurrently with a
University Lectureship in Mechanical Sciences. This was
just one highlight in a very distinguished academic career
that then led to his becoming Professor of Engineering
at the University of Leicester (until 1977), Professor of
Mechanical Engineering at Illinois University (until 1988,
serving as head of the Theoretical and Applied Mechanics department from 1984),
and then Professor and head of the Mechanical Engineering department at the
University of California, Santa Barbara from 1988 to 2005.
Fred was born in Dundee, Scotland and obtained a BA in engineering from St
Andrew’s in 1947. He then spent two years consulting on bridge and tunnel
projects and served for three years in the RAF. In 1954, he went to study in the
United States, obtaining a PhD in Engineering Mechanics in 1957 from Stanford
University. He returned to Europe, working for a year as a research assistant at the
Technische Hochschule in Hanover before obtaining the Lectureship at
Cambridge that brought him to Pembroke College. He was revered by his
students wherever he went for the care he took over their work, the fertility of his
ideas and suggestions for their research, and the depth and breadth of
his knowledge of recent developments in his field, to which he was a
major contributor. He wrote three textbooks: Matrix Methods in Elastomechanics
(1963), Engineering Plasticity (1968), and Strength and Stiffness of Engineering Systems
(2009) (co-authored with Dominic J Dal Bello). He was awarded the Nadai
Medal in 2000, in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the field of
materials engineering.
Fred leaves behind his sons Gavin (1978) and Gregor, and six grandchildren.
He was predeceased by his wife of 43 years, Elizabeth, and their son Sean.
John Logan Lewis
9 September 1923 – 11 October 2012
John Lewis taught physics for almost 40 years at Malvern
College, Worcester, and while doing so helped to
revolutionise the teaching of physics all over the world.
John was born in Reading and was educated at the
Abbey School, Beckenham, and then Malvern College.
He came to Pembroke College in 1942 to study
Mathematics and Natural Sciences. His studies were
disrupted by the war, which saw him spending some
time at the tank armament research centre at Porton Down, and teaching at
Eastbourne College and Malvern College before going back to Pembroke to finish
his degree. After graduating, John joined the teaching staff at Malvern College in
1949 and stayed there until his retirement in 1983.
In the late 1950s, John took the first steps in a parallel career which saw him
help transform the way physics was taught in schools all over the world. At that
time, science teaching in schools was virtually indistinguishable from the
sort of teaching that was provided at the start of the 20th century and it
was widely recognised that it needed to be updated. In the late 1950s, John
joined the physics panel of the Science Masters’ Association (SMA) and
subsequently became chair of the modern physics committee of the Association
of Science Education (ASE), which succeeded the SMA. As a result, John
became a senior member of the O-Level Physics Project, which was funded by
the Nuffield Foundation and charged with developing modern teaching
materials and methods for the teaching of physics in schools. John was
responsible for placing a new emphasis on learning through hands-on
experiments and helped to design many of the experiments and apparatus that
were employed in these new method of learning. In the 1970s, John went on to
set up a nationwide 6th Form course called ‘Science in Society’, which was
designed to help students appreciate the impact of science on their daily life,
particularly in the fields of nutrition, agriculture and the environment. Even in
his retirement, John still contributed to improving education, coming up in the
1990s with a Diploma of Achievement which was intended to help address
complaints from industry that students were leaving school unequipped with
certain basic skills.
John’s work on revolutionising education led him to serve on numerous
international educational committees. He became secretary for the International
Commission on Physics Education from 1971–1978. He was also vice-president
for education at the Institute of Physics between 1983 and 1988. He was honoured
with the 1969 Bragg Medal for services to physics education, a Queen’s Silver
Jubilee Medal in 1977, an OBE in 1980, and – to his great delight – an Honorary
Fellowship of the Institute of Physics in 1999.
John is survived by his wife, Maureen, and their two sons.
John Noel Martin
26 December 1917 – 6 March 2013
John Martin was a distinguished local government solicitor who had served in
minesweepers in the RNVR in the early years of WWII. A family man with a love
of nature he was responsible for the legal work which established the Peak
District National Park, the first national park to be designated.
Born on Boxing Day in 1917 at Southsea where his father was stationed during
the First World War, John was educated at the Jesuit public school Beaumont
College at Old Windsor. His older brother Harvey (always known as Bimbo)
was also at Beaumont. John matriculated in 1936 and read Modern Languages
and Geography. While at Pembroke he was a keen sportsman, and rowed in the
2nd VIII.
Following the outbreak of the Second World War John was commissioned
into the RNVR as a sub-lieutenant. He spent the first years of the war as the
captain of minesweepers, sweeping the Thames estuary and the west coast of
Scotland where he was stationed at the Kyle of Lochalsh. In his discharge
papers from HMS Helicon, in which he served from July 1942 until August
1943, his Commanding Officer recorded that John had conducted himself
‘entirely to my satisfaction…but has been handicapped in the performance
of his duties by his indifferent health…could be trusted with work of a
confidential nature.’
After being invalided out of the RNVR, he married, in May 1944, Rene
Cunningham (nee Groocock). Rene had been a Wren officer working at Bletchley
Park. They moved to Exeter where he worked in the Town Clerk`s Dept. of Exeter
Council and qualified as a solicitor. In the following 13 years John and his young
family moved to Stoke on Trent, Matlock and then Southampton as he rose within
the ranks of local government. Jonathan (Pembroke, 1964–1967) was born in
1945 and Timothy in 1947. It was while he was working for Derbyshire County
Council in the early 1950s that he carried out the legal work to establish the Peak
District National Park, which he later said was his proudest achievement.
Finally, in 1958 he became Town Clerk of Wandsworth Council in London. His
third son Guy (Pembroke, 1978–1981) was born in 1960.
In retirement he lived happily with his wife Rene in the Dordogne playing
bridge with friends and shopping at the market in Riberac but returned to
England for the last years of his life in order to be near his growing set of
grandchildren. After Rene died in 2006 John went into a care home near
Nottingham suffering from Alzheimer`s disease. He died peacefully on 6th
March 2013.
He enjoyed sailing and music – particularly the work of English composers
such as Benjamin Britten – and had a lifelong passion for gardening. Upon
returning to Pembroke to visit his sons Jonathan, in the 1960s, and Guy, in the
1970s, he would admire with affection the latest ground designs of the Dean, the
Revd Meredith Dewey.
He is survived by his sister, Paula, his three sons Jonathan, Timothy and Guy
and seven grandchildren.
Guy Elwin Millard
22 January 1917 – 26 April 2013
Sir Guy Millard was witness to one of the most
important moments in British post-World War II history,
when Sir Anthony Eden, the then Prime Minister, was
persuaded to commit British forces to a secret plot to
seize the Suez Canal, which had been nationalised by
Egypt’s President Gamal Abdel Nasser in July 1956.
Eden saw the nationalisation of the Suez Canal –
through which virtually all of Britain’s oil supply passed
– as a direct threat to Britain’s interests, and saw in Nasser a second Hitler. Guy
was Eden’s private secretary at the time, having first worked as Eden’s assistant
private secretary in 1941, when Eden was Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office.
Israel proposed to the French government that Israel would invade Egypt, and
British and French forces would then enter Egypt, with the ostensible purpose of
separating the Egyptian and Israeli forces, but was the actual intention of
recapturing control of the Suez Canal. On August 14, 1956, French emissaries
went to see Eden at Chequers, to put the plan to him. Guy was there, to keep a
record of the conversation. ‘There’s no need to take notes, Guy,’ Eden told him.
Eden agreed to the plan, and Guy was one of only three officials who knew that
the British action in Suez was part of a plot between Britain, France and Israel.
The action resulted in national humiliation: the Americans demanded that Britain
and France withdraw from Egypt and threatened Britain with economic disaster
if it did not comply. Eden’s health was broken by the Suez experience and he
resigned on 9 January 1957. His successor Harold Macmillan commissioned a
report on the Suez affair. Guy was charged with writing the report. He did not
mention the secret plot: ‘I used my own judgment. I left that out because I didn’t
think it would be discreet at that time to write about that aspect of it,’ he said
30 years later. He also thought (contrary to later revisionist opinion) that Eden
had been wrong to try to move against Nasser: ‘I think he overestimated the
importance of Nasser, Egypt, the Canal, even of the Middle East itself.’
Guy was educated at Charterhouse, and came to Pembroke College in 1935 to
study Modern & Medieval Languages and History (declining a scholarship on the
ground that he did not need the money). On the outbreak of war, he joined the
Royal Navy, and after two years of service started working for Anthony Eden at the
Foreign Office. In 1945, Guy spent four years in the Embassy in Paris, and then
three years in Ankara. In 1955, he joined Eden’s staff at No 10 Downing Street,
leaving in 1957 with the CMG. His later roles in the Diplomatic Service were less
dramatic: three years in Tehran (1959–62), two years in the African Department of
the Foreign Office in London, Minister to Nato (1964–67), Ambassador to
Hungary (1967–69), Minister to the Embassy in Washington (1969–1971),
Ambassador to Sweden (1971–74), and finally Ambassador to Rome (1973–76).
He was appointed CVO in 1961, and KCMG in 1972. On retirement, he became
honorary chairman of the British-Italian Society (until 1983), and was appointed
a Grand Officer of the Italian Order of Merit in 1981.
Guy married twice: in 1946, to Anne Mackenzie, with whom he had a son and
a daughter; and a year after they split up, he was married in 1963 to Judy Dugdale,
with whom he had two sons.
William Garth Morrison
8 April 1943 – 24 May 2013
With thanks to the Reverend Barry Morrison (1963)
Sir Garth Morrison is best known for having served as
Chief Scout for the UK and Overseas Territories from
1988 to 1996. He made an outstanding contribution to
securing the future of the Scout Movement, relaxing the
uniform rules to make it more accessible to everyone,
and allowing girls to become scouts. He was heavily
involved in the 1992 Promise Appeal, which raised £2.5 million for Scout Groups
across the country.
Garth was born in Edinburgh and was educated at Pangbourne College, where
he became Chief Cadet (head boy). He captained the English schools under-15s
rugby union team, and also made the Scottish schoolboys under-19s team when
it played England. He spent two years in the Navy (1961–63), with the first year
spent at the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth where he won the
Queen’s Telescope award, and the second year spent at sea on the Ark Royal. He
then came to Pembroke in 1963 with the assistance of a naval scholarship to study
Mechanical Sciences. He won three golf Blues, captaining the side in 1965, as well
as playing rugby and rowing for Pembroke. On graduation, Garth went back into
the Navy, obtaining qualifications in engineering and training to serve on one of
the UK’s first nuclear submarines. He had risen to the rank of Lieutenant by the
time he retired in 1973.
Garth went back home to help work with his father on the family farm at West
Fenton, East Lothian. A neighbouring farmer, George Gray, invited Garth to help
with the Scout Association, and so began his ascent within the Association: fairly
quickly, Area Commissioner for East Lothian, and then Chief Commissioner for
Scotland from 1981–88 (obtaining Scouting’s Silver Wolf Award in 1982), before
becoming Chief Scout in 1988. He was also a member of the World Scout
Committee (1991–2001), and after that Honorary President of the Scottish
Council of the Scouting Association.
Garth also served as Deputy Lieutenant for East Lothian from 1984–2001 and
after that held the honorary title of Lord Lieutenant for East Lothian until his
death. He also held major roles within the health service, acting as Chairman of
East and Midlothian NHS Trust (1993–98), Chairman of the Royal Infirmary of
Edinburgh NHS Trust (1998–99), and Chairman of the Lothian Primary Care
Trust (1999–2004). He and his wife developed ‘Muirfield Riding Therapy’ – a
riding school on their farm where young people with mental or physical
disabilities could ride ponies.
Garth was awarded the CBE in 1994 for his work in the voluntary sector and
knighted in 2007, on World Thinking Day – a day (always February 22 – Lord
Baden-Powell’s birthday) of special significance for Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
all over the world, when they think of each other, and the role the Guide and Scout
Movement has played in their lives.
In everything he did, Garth was particularly noted for sharing leadership and
encouraging all to play their full part, offering security and assurance under
which lay a quiet but deep practical Christian faith, which also especially
sustained him in his final illness.
Garth is survived by his wife, Gill, and their three children, Alastair, Clare and
Christopher, and six grandchildren. The Queen sent them her condolences on
his death.
Ronald Walter Osborne
11 May 1946 – 9 April 2013
Ron Osborne was renowned as one of the best – and
sharpest minded – corporate directors in Canada.
Ron was born in Worthing, West Sussex, and was
educated at Collyer’s School in Horsham. He came to
Pembroke College in 1965 to study Modern & Medieval
Languages. In 1968, after graduating, Ron emigrated
to Canada to become a partner in the accounting firm
of Clarkson Gordon & Co. In 1969, he married Grace
Snead, an American that he had met while she was on holiday in England. In
1981, Ron was poached by the media company Maclean Hunter Ltd. He was
hired as Chief Financial Officer but three years later became President, and in
1986 CEO.
When Maclean Hunter acquired a majority stake in the Sun Media chain of
newspapers, Ron became a member of the Sun board and immediately impressed
everyone on the board with his advice and insight (advising, for example, against
cutting crossword puzzles to increase the space for editorials). He also oversaw
that acquisition for $600 million of Selkirk Communications, which increased
Maclean Hunter’s cable assets. However, this attracted the attention of media
magnate Ted Rogers, who launched a hostile takeover bid of Maclean Hunter in
1994. The bid was successful, despite Ron’s efforts to fend it off, and Maclean
Hunter was acquired for $3.1 billion.
Ron then left Maclean Hunter and went on to work for a number of different
companies: CEO of Bell Canada; CEO of Ontario Hydro and later Ontario Power
Generation; board member at Four Seasons, Tim Hortons, Shell Canada, Sun Life
Assurance Co, Air Canada; chariman of the board of Post-media Network Inc. He
was famous for posing very penetrating questions with the preamble ‘This is
probably a dumb question but I’m going to ask it anyway.’
Ron is survived by his wife Grace (with whom he celebrated their 44th
anniversary shortly before his passing), their three children David, Charlotte and
James, and two grandchildren.
Thomas Ridley Sharpe
30 March 1928 – 6 June 2013
Tom Sharpe was one of England’s great comic novelists,
who in just three years published three classic comic
novels: Porterhouse Blue (1974), Blott on the Landscape
(1975), and Wilt (1976). All three were later adapted for
the big or small screen.
Tom was born in Croydon, and was educated at
Lancing College in West Sussex. After doing national
service from 1946–48, Tom came to Pembroke College
to study History and Archaeology & Anthropology. On graduation, Tom moved to
South Africa, and worked there as a social worker in the Non-European Affairs
Department, which gave him a chance to witness the way the majority black
population was treated under apartheid. He also taught in Natal, before setting
up a photographic studio in 1957. His experiences resulted in his writing a
political play, The South Africans, which – despite the fact that it was only performed
in London, and not in South Africa – resulted in his being deported back to
Britain in 1961.
Tom then spent eight years working as a Lecturer in History at the
Cambridgeshire Arts and Technology College (where his experiences there would
form the basis of his later novel Wilt). At the age of 43, in 1971, he published his
first comic novel, Riotous Assembly, which mocked the South African police (the
book was dedicated to ‘the South African police force whose lives are dedicated to
the preservation of western civilisation in southern Africa). Tom’s publishers
(Secker and Warburg) were convinced of his talent and offered to pay him £3,000
a year for three years to enable him to work as a full-time writer. The offer enabled
Tom to quit his job at the Arts and Technology College. His next novel, Indecent
Exposure (1973), was a sequel to Riotous Assembly. And then came the streak of
books that made Tom’s reputation as a true successor to Evelyn Waugh and PG
Wodehouse. Time magazine hailed Porterhouse Blue, set in a Cambridge college, in
the following terms: ‘If Wodehouse wrote a plot and Waugh wrote a book around
it, the result could hardly be more hilarious.’ After Wilt came The Great Pursuit
(1977), about literature and the publishing business; The Throwback (1978) and
Ancestral Vices (1980), about the aristocracy; Vintage Stuff (1982), a send-up of John
Buchan and Herman McNeile’s Bulldog Drummond series; and two Wilt sequels:
The Wilt Alternative (1979) and Wilt on High (1984).
It may be that it was impossible for such a stream of comic novels to continue
indefinitely. After Wilt on High, Tom would publish nothing more for 13 years.
Tom himself said that his lack of output was due to the fact that he had been
ordered by his doctors to give up smoking – an order prompted by Tom’s having
a heart attack live on Spanish TV. Whatever the reasons, Tom lived quietly at first
in Dorset and then in Cambridge pursuing his interests in gardening and
photography. He eventually moved to Spain in the mid-1990s, and from there
published a sequel to Porterhouse Blue (Grantchester Grind (1995)) and two more
sequels to Wilt (Wilt in Nowhere (2004) and The Wilt Inheritance (2010)). He died of
complications associated with diabetes in his home in Catalonia.
He is survived by his wife, Nancy Looper, whom he married in 1969, and his
three daughters.
Gordon Herbert Waddell
12 April 1937 – 13 August 2012
Gordon
Waddell’s
remarkable
career
encompassed the worlds of sport, business and
politics. He was a distinguished fly half who
played rugby union for Scotland; a director of
several companies owned by Harry Oppenheimer;
and an opposition South African MP at the height
of the apartheid regime.
Gordon was born in Glasgow and was educated
at Fettes College in Edinburgh. He did his National Service as a Royal Marine
commando, and won his first Scottish national rugby cap in 1957 in a game
against England. He went to Pembroke College in 1958 to study Economics and
Law. Unsurprisingly, he won three rugby blues at Cambridge, and was a leading
figure in the legendary 1961 Cambridge Varsity team – one of the best Varsity
teams ever, which went through the season with a 100% record against allcomers, including the best teams in England and Wales.
After graduation, Gordon played club rugby for London Scottish and
continued to play for Scotland and also the British Lions, with whom he went on
tour in 1959 and 1962. It was on the Lions tour of South Africa in 1962 (in which
Gordon played in two Tests) that Gordon met his future wife, Mary Oppenheimer,
the daughter of Harry Oppenheimer, one of the world’s richest men. Gordon and
Mary married in 1965, after Gordon had done an MBA at Stanford in 1964. They
settled in South Africa, establishing a stud farm north of Cape Town. Gordon
became a director of E Oppenheimer & Sons Ltd in 1967, and remained in that
position for 20 years. This was despite the break-up of his marriage with Mary in
1971, which did not affect Harry Oppenheimer’s relations with Gordon. Instead,
in 1971 Gordon became executive director of Anglo American, and director of
Johannesburg Consolidated Investments and Rustenburg Platinum Mines.
From 1974 to 1977, Gordon served as MP for Johannesburg North, under
the banner of the Progressive Federal Party, an anti-apartheid party founded
and funded by Harry Oppenheimer. Before 1974 (and since 1961), the party
had had only one representative in Parliament – Helen Suzman. In 1974, she
was joined by seven other MPs, including Gordon. Gordon became the party’s
economics spokesman.
In 1973, Gordon married Kathy Gallagher, and in 1987 they moved back to the
UK with their children. Gordon pursued various business interests in the UK,
serving as a director on the boards at Cadbury Schweppes (1988–97), the Scottish
National Trust (1988–96), London and Strathclyde Trust (1989–96), Gartmore
Scotland Investment Trust (1991–2001), and the Mersey Docks and Harbour
Company (1997–2006).
Gordon is survived by Kathy and their five children.
Gordon John Williams
14 April 1937 – 18 July 2012
Obituary by Graham Parry (1958)
Gordon Williams came up to Pembroke in 1958 to read Natural Sciences after
National Service in the RAF. He was born in Bristol and was educated there at
Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital School. After graduating he decided to remain at
Cambridge to undertake research on unstable gases for his PhD, which he
received in 1965. After a pause to marry Shirley Clarke, who had just qualified
as a nurse at the Royal Free Hospital, he moved with Shirley to Seattle for three
years of post-doctoral work at the University of Washington. Gordon was then
drawn back to England in 1968 by Harold Wilson’s promise to encourage ‘the
white heat of technology’, taking a post with the Ministry of Defence at
Westcott in Buckinghamshire, where he became a specialist in rocket
propulsion. Since the Official Secrets Act prevented him from talking about his
work, his friends could only speculate about what he got up to there, and
speculation could become quite imaginative.
Gordon and Shirley settled in the village of Marsh Gibbon, in a picturesque
thatched cottage, where they brought up their children Lynn and Owen. Gordon
became involved in the organisation of the annual rally for agricultural steam
engines, and then took up cross-country running with the local branch of the
Hash House Harriers, an international organisation which gave him the
opportunity to join in long-distance runs in many countries over the years.
After retirement in 1995, he acted as a Defence Science consultant for a while,
and also took up the cause of fairness and transparency in pension rights,
recognising that legislation over pensions was becoming more complex and
difficult to understand. In this cause he linked up with the Occupational
Pensioners Alliance, and had extensive dealings with Parliamentary Committees.
Two years ago he had a major operation, but made such a good recovery that
within six months he was able to accompany Shirley on a professional visit to
Ethiopia, and then, some months later, to China. Unfortunately, he was
diagnosed with cancer in February 2012, and he died in July. In private life,
Gordon was a kind and gentle figure, whose genial nature and wide-ranging
interests brought him many friends. He is survived by Shirley, Lynn and Owen,
and three grandchildren.
F. BOOK REVIEWS
From Volume III of EG Browne’s Diaries
Sarah Martin, Davis McCaughey: A Life
(UNSW Press, 2012)
Davis McCaughey touched indelibly and deeply the lives of
every one of us who ever knew him. The high standards he
set for almost everything he did deserved a high-standard
biography. In Sarah Martin’s work, released in October
2012, he has gotten it. Sarah has delved inside Davis’s
clockwork mind and described and illustrated it, flushing
out his aspirations, his struggles, his disappointments, and
capturing perfectly his life-long commitment to the
principles of Christian love and respect, progressed with a missionary zeal to be
active in making institutional changes by taking bold steps and risks. Hardly a
stone along Davis’s long journey remained unturned, and Sarah has unearthed so
much that none of us, including his family, ever knew.
I valued most the penetrating accounts of parts of Davis’s life I knew little
about, but wanted to: his prosperous Presbyterian upbringing in Belfast; his time
in Pembroke College (where he sent me and many others, but in the 1930s) and
why and how he chose ‘economics’ of all things; the differences with extreme
conservatives (his parents, Irish Presbyterians, Australian Presbyterians, and any
church leaders opposed to his ecumenical instincts) despite the strands of
undiminished conservatism within him that he never shrugged off. Sarah
captures all this as it really was. I also enjoyed Sarah’s incisive account of things
I knew or know about quite intimately: Cambridge and Pembroke since 1970,
and being one of Davis’s Ormond students, from the middle 1960s. I remain
overwhelmed at how well Sarah has researched every detail. From my own
knowledge, I found two minor glitches: (i) in Cambridge we have ‘supervisors’
not ‘tutors’ (p 54); and (ii) Dr. John Yates at Ormond tutored chemistry, not maths
(pp 200 and 260). (John was actually Senior Tutor for much of the time.) There is
a mini-glitch at p 329 where ALP Industry Minister John Button is mentioned as a
friend of Davis, but not that he was in Ormond College as a student. We need to
note these minor slips. I don’t want them to reflect badly on so much that Sarah
had done which is good, very good.
Sarah sets so much of Davis’s life and contributions into good historical
context. Stand outs include Ireland, the 1930s Depression, the Second World War,
Australia’s post-War immigration, and church history wherever Davis intersected
with it. Sarah’s treatment of struggles with his conservative parents, pig-headed
church people and his own high standards are fully evidenced. The pivotal role of
Jean, Davis’s wife, is emphasised throughout Sarah’s text, and rightly so. Davis’s
dilemmas on coming to Melbourne as an academic, blending that role with the
College Mastership, battling with the hard-line Presbyterians, and on whether to
accept the offer to be Governor of Victoria, are all superbly handled and will give
new insights into any of us who thought we knew Davis extremely long and well.
The forces behind Davis McCaughey’s moves from Cambridge to theology and
the SCM (Student Christian Movement), variously within the UK, then to
Australia and within Ormond College to the Mastership are meticulously
analysed, drawing anything that could be found from documents and personal
interviews. It seems that Sarah has found almost everything to be sourced in
piecing together Davis’s story. This is all the more commendable because, it
seems, there are whole epochs where Davis did not keep letters or other
documents, and Sarah herself came apparently to know Davis (and Ormond) only
at the end of Davis’s life, despite her husband, Pete Martin, being an Ormond
resident in the 1960s. The treatment of the appointment of Davis McCaughey as
Governor of Victoria and Jean and Davis’s time at Government House Melbourne
are closely and usefully analysed.
Each of us might have arranged and analysed the materials in other ways,
though it would be difficult to paint the person honoured and what drove him
more precisely than Sarah has done. The attention Davis gave to getting names
right from the start grew from his determination to love and respect others, as did
his impeccably-good manners in treating others. (I remember in 1967 bounding
up the back stairs of Main Building at Ormond, 3 or 4 at a time, when I was still
able to do that, selfishly not noticing Davis, who merely stood aside at the top of
the stairs, offering a lovely smile as he let me fully pass: ’tis I who should have
yielded. He would always rise when anyone entered a room, not just ladies, while
others kept sitting. At his last-ever Ormond Christmas Carols, Davis rose with
difficulty from his wheelchair to stand to every hymn. Two years before this, he
made a valiant effort to come to our home in Brighton to honour the retirement
of Alan Gunther, walking with difficulty 500 m up a steeply-inclined footpath
in Dendy Street after his taxi left him at the wrong address, all this after a
unfortunate car injury that he sustained and which Sarah mentions at p 336.)
I might have given more weight to Davis’s grace, respect and love for others,
though Sarah captures it with force in other examples. I might have found a way
of stating that nobody I know felt they ever really got close to Davis. You can sense
this when you stare at Fred William’s ‘portrait’ of Davis hanging prominently in
Ormond’s Dining Hall, as many of us have. Sarah rightly gives much attention to
that painting in her book, because it clearly sent many messages to her. I had
hoped that Sarah, or somebody, might seek to categorise Davis’s management
style: Libertarian or regulationist? Autocrat or democrat? Decision making that
was research-based or intuitive? Strangely, Davis could be any and all of these
things, which makes his management style so difficult to categorise. Perhaps he
really was unique.
Sarah’s account may not be the last word on Davis McCaughey, especially in
relation to his contribution to Australian church history and Ormond College,
and to the restoration of respect for the vice-regal position in Victoria. But Sarah’s
work will provide the springboard for any such further work, and a sound
foundation for such it truly is. I have no doubt that if Davis McCaughey were,
somehow, to look upon this well-researched reflective by Sarah Martin on his
long and amazing life, he would not be entirely displeased.
Neville R Norman (1970)
G. MEMBERS’ CORNER
From Volume IV of EG Browne’s Diaries
And Justice For All? Six Months as a Criminal Barrister
Anna Midgley
Anna Midgley (2001) reflects on life at the Criminal Bar in an age of austerity.
January
As always I return to work in the New Year armed with many resolutions, and with
optimism. I have a significant Section 18 (causing grievous bodily harm with
intent) in my diary for March, for three weeks, which should help to keep the wolf
from the door. The allegation is of shaking a baby, which means it will be a
stressful but fascinating case. My lay client, the baby’s father, jointly charged with
the mother, says he didn’t harm the baby and that the baby suddenly spasmed one
day whilst he was holding him, and he went to get help immediately. His mother
(the baby’s grandmother) confirms this.
In all, as the case is to be contested, there will be between six and eight experts
giving live evidence, in relation to cutting edge, ambulatory science. In spite of the
responsibility, I look forward to the case as I am confident that as it is so complex
(requiring an understanding of paediatrics, radiology, ophthalmology,
haematology and neurology) the court will grant me a ‘leader ticket’ allowing me
to be led by a Silk – Queen’s Counsel. One of the tests for being allowed a leader
is that the case is an exceptionally complex case of its type. You do not get a more
complex section 18 than this. I file my application with the Court and settle down
to analysis of the papers, conferences with the accused and so on, fitted in around
my other court cases this month. I look forward to learning from someone more
experienced than me the art of cross-examination of such technical experts, and
to the challenge of mastering this medical science.
February
reducing the number of ‘leader tickets’ granted to allow Silks to take on work?
Incidentally, this policy is the death of ambition at the Criminal Bar, as the
incentive to achieve the greatest accolade has vanished. There is now too little
work for Silks. Many earn less than juniors, whilst undertaking those cases which
carry the greatest responsibility and require the greatest expertise, and worrying
about whether they will get another brief any time soon...
For now though, I am not thinking of Silks. I am disappointed and angry as
I genuinely think this was a case where a leader ticket should have been granted.
I also have a bigger problem. I took this case on when it was charged as a child
neglect, an offence I am familiar with and which is well within my competence.
The prosecution then raised the stakes by adding the charge of section 18. I am
also well able to conduct trials of section 18s, but this one is exceptional. I am
confident I can master the medical and technical aspects of this case, and the
associated law. I also trust my tactical judgment. However, can I honestly say to
my lay client, having never conducted a case like this before, that I am the best
representation he can have, alone? If I don’t do the case, I will lose an invaluable
learning experience and three weeks’ work. That’s more than a twelfth of my
annual income, given that this case is better paid than the average case I do. There
are many examples of very inexperienced solicitor advocates keeping cases which
are beyond their competence because of the commercial pressures upon them. Is
this case beyond my competence? I feel I could do it. I want to do it. I need it,
financially. I am in a quandary.
Pressure is added by the fact that many of my shorter trials have been
postponed at the last minute in the last two months; either because there isn’t in
fact a court for the case (the number of courts sitting is being reduced in order to
save money, which is leading to massive delays in trials being heard, to the
detriment of innocent defendants and truthful victims and witnesses alike), or
because the over-worked, under-funded and frankly chaotic Crown Prosecution
Service has failed to serve vital evidence or deal with some important matter of
disclosure. I receive no payment in such cases, and an empty diary results.
March
I decided to return the baby-shaking case to more senior counsel. I explained to
my client that I felt he needed someone more experienced than me in cases of this
nature.
My diary is empty. I am frustrated. I know I did the right thing for the client but
I am demoralised and worried about my financial position.
Another case I have recently been instructed in which is interesting and involves
complex medical facts is suddenly re-listed by the Court when I cannot do it
because the complainant’s family are unhappy with the delayed trial date. The
delay is not my fault, but results from the CPS’ failure to serve any of the medical
evidence in the case at all until the last minute, in spite of having had it in their
possession for nine months. I have done a lot of work on the case for which I will
now not get paid.
I feel that March can’t give way to April soon enough.
April
The Ministry of Justice – without having first obtained the opinion of even one
lawyer (by the admission of the MoJ representatives who visit to explain its
proposals to us) – launches its consultation on ‘best value tendering’ for legal aid.
This, in a sentence, is a proposal to reduce the number of providers of legal aid
representation by 75% (i.e. to put 1,200 high street firms of solicitors out of
business), reduce payments to the remainder by 17.5% (on top of the 13.5% cuts
we have already sustained in the last two years), and open up the ‘industry’
(pointedly not referred to as a profession?) to those who will provide criminal
defence services most cheaply. The consultation document proposes that
suspects and defendants will be allocated a lawyer, and will have no choice in the
matter. It is acknowledged that this allocation and thus guarantee of work,
combined with the tendering process, will result in standards of service provision
falling. The standards of service many of my lay clients receive are already barely
adequate, as in an effort to remain afloat, solicitors’ firms lay off staff and reduce
the time which is spent on each case.
Chris Grayling says at a meeting of the leaders of the circuits of the Bar that he
believes he is protecting the Criminal Bar. It is pointed out to him that if legal aid
contracts are given to the lowest bidder, but the advocacy fees are ring-fenced
within the Crown Court, contract holders are provided with a huge commercial
incentive to undertake the Crown Court advocacy work in-house. They will be
able to pay a low annual salary to a barely qualified advocate while claiming the
full case fee that would be payable to an experienced barrister. How do we know
this? It is already happening, as solicitors’ firms employ in house advocates to
undertake criminal trials. Some such advocates are excellent. A lot would not have
a hope of securing a place in chambers. The circuit leaders tell Chris Grayling that
his proposals mean the end of the Criminal Bar.
I am exhausted this month. Partly because anger is draining, as is uncertainty
about my future, and partly because almost every evening is taken up with
meetings, reading, and lobbying in relation to the consultation. The Northern
Circuit of the Criminal Bar goes on strike. Let us call it that, because that is what
it is; they refuse to work for an afternoon. The Bar Council is touchy about such
things in case it is anti-competitive. I am past caring. Our circuit leader in the
South West asks for the circuit judges’ permission for us to have an afternoon out
of court to meet to discuss the consultation. The circuit judges say no.
Eddie Stobart, the haulier, has set up ‘Stobart Law’ so as to be ready to bid for
a legal aid contract. The politicians we meet whilst trying to wake MPs up to the
reality of what is being proposed think we’re joking. We are not. Chris Grayling
says that another contender, the Co-Op, should be fine dealing with Legal Aid as
they offer an excellent funeral service. Am I dreaming?
I register with jobs’ websites and investigate retraining in another sphere, by
selling my flat and using the equity to fund my training. I try to think that it
doesn’t matter that I have spent 12 years working to get to this point, or that I am
good at my job or one of the youngest people in the south west to have reached
my grading as a prosecutor. I can say to myself this was a good career for a while,
and go back to being a student. People suggest I could move into commercial law,
tax law or some such – but that’s not why I became a barrister.
I am unable to plan financially as I have no idea what my future income will
be, if any.
Meanwhile, I am instructed to represent Father Christmas. A lovely man, in his
sixties, white hair and beard, rotund. Married for 40 years to his childhood
sweetheart. I read her statement about their life together, taken by the police, and
am almost reduced to tears (a rarity as I have become fairly detached in these
matters). Loves his children and grandchildren, would do anything for them, a
softie. He faces charges of having sexually abused his step-granddaughter on
numerous occasions. If convicted, the starting point for his sentence is 15 years.
His health is bad, so he will die in prison. His wife has left him. He no longer has
contact with his grandchildren, or family, and he lives alone. He is depressed and
intermittently suicidal. I am instructed on Friday. The case starts on Monday.
Counsel originally instructed has overrun in another trial.
Father Christmas or horrific paedophile? I am worried. If he is acquitted,
perhaps his marriage will mend... I am genuinely worried by the evidence. I think,
there are substantial grounds for doubting the complainant’s account. However,
there is a potential problem. Medical evidence, the holy grail, the proof. Some
physical abnormalities characteristic of abuse have been noted by the prosecution
expert. An expert is instructed for the defence, who says: (1) the prosecution expert’s
methods of examination were incorrect; (2) nevertheless the examination reveals no
abnormality; and (3) even the findings reported by the prosecution expert are not
necessarily diagnostic of abuse as they can occur in non-abused children. The battle
lines are stark; such extensive disagreement between experts is exceedingly rare.
I go to court, and for various unavoidable reasons my expert is unavailable (she
has been admitted to hospital). I am confident that the judge will grant my
application to adjourn the case so that the jury can hear both experts before
returning their verdicts. Wrong... The judge feels that a further adjournment of
the case is contrary to the interests of the complainant who has already suffered a
delay – which was because the case was removed from the list as a result of one of
those last minute cancellations due to lack of court time. The case will continue.
I make submissions to the judge about the unfairness of a trial at which the
defence expert is not present to advise counsel during the prosecution expert’s
evidence, I argue about the medical evidence being pivotal and so on and on. The
judge rules against me.
Cross examination of the complainant, her mother and step-father (the
defendant’s son) goes well. Then the prosecution expert is called. I have worked
until midnight and risen at 4am, reading the Royal College of Paediatricians’
handbook on injuries due to sexual abuse. I am tired. I am prepared.
So is the expert. He knows no defence expert is coming, so he becomes more
entrenched and absolute in his views. He pronounces that some of the findings
he made are never present in non-abused children, whilst others are present in
only 2% of non-abused children. These findings can only be the result of abuse,
he says. I begin cross examination by establishing with him that the findings he
made used to be considered diagnostic of abuse, but the medical profession now
acknowledges that they are not and may exist where abuse has not occurred. He
responds that this is the case individually, but not with the combination of injuries
found here. In response, I point out that his 2% was the finding of one study,
whereas another study found that 49% of non-abused children showed the same
features he found. He states that one of the types of abnormality he noted simply
does not occur in non-abused children; I refer him to a study which flatly
contradicts this.
The defendant gives evidence, not brilliantly, but then I am not sure I would
give evidence brilliantly if I was in my sixties and facing what amounts to a life
sentence. I make a closing speech. I have missed a lot of sleep. The defendant is
constantly tearful. The jury is out. The prosecutor is confident of a win.
The waiting is mercifully short. Not guilty. The defendant is in floods of tears.
I hope his wife will take him back. If not, at least he can live out the rest of his days
quietly in his home alone, rather than being reviled in prison. My principal
emotion is relief that I do not have to appeal against conviction on the basis of the
judge’s ruling that the trial should go ahead in the absence of my expert.
I made a difference.
May
More sex. This time, not Father Christmas. A school teacher, charged with sexual
offences, including attempted rape against various children in a number of
different schools. Some of my friends (medics) ask me why I do my job, can I not
refuse to represent such people? No; the ‘cab rank rule’ of the Bar exists to ensure
that representation is available to all, no matter how heinous the charge or their
background. Oddly, no one ever asks if I feel unhappy prosecuting the innocent.
I have nothing to work with, in spite of five pre-trial conferences in which I
have upturned every stone I can think of. My client maintains his innocence. His
entire family attend almost every day of the trial, which takes four and a half
weeks. They are understandably demanding and difficult. Lay clients and their
families often cannot see the wood for the trees, and want you to ask pointless
questions which lead to damning evidence. Time and time again I try to explain
to them my strategy. All the complainants meet my cross examination with
devastatingly good answers.
The defendant is found guilty of almost all charges. He receives a ten year
sentence, less than it might have been, as I had argued successfully at the close of
the Crown’s case that the attempted rape charge was ill-founded in law and fact.
The defendant’s wife wants to appeal the conviction. The defendant does not.
In the middle of the case I attend a rally in London to try to raise awareness of
the government’s proposals for our justice system. It was well attended, but
barely features in the press. Angelina Jolie’s double mastectomy steals the
coverage. Those who are there make much of Chris Grayling’s assertion that he
doesn’t see a problem with the removal of client choice of representative, because
he doubts that many users of criminal legal aid are great connoisseurs of legal
skills. It is both refreshing and heartening to attend an event at which the Bar and
solicitors stand as one. We are all equally concerned about the creation of a twotier (American) system, in which the rich can afford proper representation and
the poor make do with Eddie Stobart. The most powerful speech is made by the
retired Lord Justice Hooper. He asks the rhetorical question: Where, if the Bar is
undermined, will our judges come from?
Unfortunately, even if client choice is preserved, now that solicitors and CPS
lawyers have higher rights of audience, choice of trial advocate is not always
decided on merit. There is a profit margin to consider. Keep it in-house if
you can…
June
Full steam ahead to get our responses to the consultation in. I have battle fatigue.
I contemplate that it would in some respects be a relief if all our plaintive cries
were ignored and the government pressed ahead with its plans; at least then I
would know that I have to get out, now. This death by a thousand cuts is the worst.
The Bar has finally instructed a press team to put across our views, which
seems to bear some fruit as a piece is featured on The Now Show and a few antiprice competitive tendering articles appear in publications as diverse as the Daily
Mail and The Times. In amongst it all though there remains the undertone of ‘fat cat
lawyer’ nonsense. In the meantime my opponent in my current trial tells me he is
selling his house and can’t afford to pay a builder for the renovations, so is taking
two weeks off to do it himself. It is cheaper to lose two weeks’ work as a barrister
of 30 years’ call than to pay a builder. What fat cats we are. One talented member
of chambers resigns as he can’t take it anymore.
I wind up towards the end of the month as I prepare for next month’s
unaffordable joy; a long break over the summer. I am hoping it will give me
perspective and help me decide what to do. I try to leave my approaching cases in
apple-pie order so nothing can go wrong whilst I am away.
And finally some good news – at the end of the month we are told that the
government has said it understands the importance of including client choice in
whatever scheme for the provision of criminal representation funding they bring
in early next year. What that will mean, we still don’t know.
Pembroke Portraits
A. V. Grimstone
This book aims to be a complete
catalogue of the College’s collection of
portraits: oil paintings, watercolours,
drawings, silhouettes and sculptures.
No such catalogue has previously
existed. The catalogue will include
112 depictions of 74 members of the
College or people associated with it,
plus another seven with only marginal
Pembroke connection.
The subjects, presented in
chronological order, include most of
the more interesting and/or important Pembroke people, ranging in time from
the fourteenth century to the present day. The brief biographies of them that are
included cumulatively throw interesting light on the history of the College. These
are followed by technical details of the artist, date, medium etc and what is known
about how the College came to own the portrait: there are some important new
findings there. Every work will be reproduced, mostly in colour.
Publication is expected in early autumn 2013.
An order form is available on the back of the address cover sheet of this copy of
the Gazette.
MA Degree
The following information concerning the MA degree may be useful to members
of the Society:
Standing: a Bachelor of Arts may be admitted Master of Arts six* calendar years
after the end of his or her first term of residence, provided that (which is usually
the case) at least two years have elapsed since taking the B.A. degree.
Fees: a fee of £5 is payable by those who took their BA degree in 1962 or earlier.
Please give at least four weeks’ notice before the Congregation at which you wish
to take your degree. Correspondence should be addressed to the Praelector
* For affiliated students, five years.
Dining Rights and Guest Rooms
Members who hold an MA or other Master’s degree or a higher degree from the
University, or are qualified for an MA, are welcome to dine in College during Full
Term or the period of residence in the Long Vacation. For the academic year
2013–2014, ‘Full Term’ means 8 October to 6 December, 14 January to 14 March,
and 22 April to 13 June; residence in the Long Vacation runs for five weeks from
early July.
Dining for Members is available on any evening of the week during term or
Long Vacation Residence except Tuesday or Saturday and on occasions when
large College events take place. A Member may dine as a guest of the College at
High Table up to four times each academic year (once a term and once in the
Long Vacation residence), provided a Fellow is present to preside. On one of
those occasions, overnight accommodation is free of charge for the Member if
it is available.
It is regrettably not normally possible for spouses/partners to dine at the High
Table. However, for the academic year 2013–2014, the College has introduced
“Members’ Evenings”, when up to ten Members and their guests (ten people in
all) may dine at the College’s expense. It is recommended that large parties of
Members, or Members and their spouses/partners, should seek to use these
evenings as particularly good opportunities to dine in the College. The dates of
these occasions in 2013–14 are: Monday 21 October and Sunday 3 November (also
a Scarlet Day – Commemoration of University Benefactors), Monday 20 January
2014 and Sunday 23 February, Wednesday 7 May and Sunday 8 June.
Overnight accommodation may also be available in College, at a reasonable
charge, for a visit of a maximum of two nights. The College has four en suite guest
rooms (two twin-bedded rooms and two double-bedded rooms). Given these
limited facilities, early notice is strongly advised when making inquiries. The
College would be grateful to be informed at the earliest opportunity if a Member’s
plans to visit have to be amended. The College also regrets that it will be necessary
to charge a Member for the full cost of the room in the event that that Member
should cancel his or her visit without notice.
Arrangements for dining, or for staying in a guest room, should be made through
the Development Office either by telephone (01223 339079), letter, fax (01223
339081), or email (dev@pem.cam.ac.uk). Should Members simply wish to book
a guest room, this can be done directly with the Porters’ Lodge by telephone
(01223 338100).

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