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one hundred and first annual report 2005

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From July to December this year the Fitzwilliam Museum is showing a most magnificent exhibition ofilluminated manuscripts, many of which are from college collections. Jesus was not asked to lend anythingfor this exhibition – ‘as most of our manuscripts are of the working kind and not elaborately decorated’.Some of the college manuscripts, however, do have illuminations. A 13th century Holy Bible in the college’scollection (Q.A.11: no. 11 in M. R. James’ 1895 catalogue) not only has beautiful writing but ‘historiatedinitials of more than usual interest’. So that readers can see something of what the Fitzwilliam has missed,this year’s Annual Report carries a number of illustrations taken from that Bible.

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Above, two men paddling in a boat; below, Jonah emerges from the fish’s mouth and clutches a treep

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Message from the Master 5The College Year 2004–5 7

College News 7Domestic Bursar’s Notes 13The Old Library and College Archives 15Chapel 17Chapel Music 19Art 20Sculpture in the Close 21

Development Office 24Development Director’s Report 24Society of St Radegund 24Bequests 24Report of Events 24 Calendar of Events 2005–6 30M.A. Dining 30

Jesus College Cambridge Society 31Executive Committee 31Draft Minutes of AGM 24 September 2005 32Annual General Meeting and Annual Dinner 2006 33Reports of JCCS Events 2004–5 33Forthcoming JCCS Events 33

Awards 35University Prizes, Grants and Scholarships 35University Tripos Prizes 35College Awards, Elections and Prizes 35Tripos Results 39

Approved for Ph.D.s 40College Societies 42The Undergraduate Art Collection 48College Sports Clubs 49Jesus College Boat Club Trust 60Years Ago 62Women at Jesus – An Anniversary Event and Exhibition 64

The Anniversary Event 64The Exhibition: History of Women at Jesus College 66Reminiscences 75

Early American Connections 78Organ Scholars 83Members’ News 84Births and Marriages 88Publications and Gifts to the College Libraries 90Obituaries 95

A Short but Memorable Life 115Return Forms

Records UpdateCDs from Jesus CollegeJesus College CushionsAnnual Fund

Saint Radegunda from a window by Morris & Co in Chapel, designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

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Message from the Master

This year the Annual Report begins its second century. Through its pages we can allshare in the successes of the college’s senior members, graduates and undergraduatesand of its old members. If we missed Jesuan names in the honours lists, the AnnualReport can be relied on to tell us who they were. We can learn from it of theachievements of our fellows, what prizes they won, their promotions, elections andappointments. Society and club reports keep us informed about all that happens on theplaying fields, courts and river and the awards section proclaims students’ achievementsin the examination rooms. Once again there were some superb results and we havecontinued to rise in the academic league tables – Jesus is now one of the top Cambridgecolleges. The women’s 1st VIII went Head of the River in the May Bumps and six of ourother boats won their oars. In addition to this, the cricket team won Cuppers. And, todispel any myths about rowing and academic excellence being incompatible, ourCaptain of Boats and our President of the University Women’s Boat Club obtained firsts,as did a number of others in both our first boats.

The longest section of this year’s report celebrates the single most important change inthe history of Jesus College, the admission of women undergraduates in 1979. There isan account of the Women’s Day in September 2004, a fascinating article on theexhibition held in the Quincentenary Library on the history of women at Jesus and anabstract of reminiscences recorded during the Women’s Day. As if in further celebration,the college in May elected Dr Jana Howlett as its first female president. The Works of ArtCommittee chose five women out of seven exhibitors for the successful Sculpture in theClose exhibition held in College this summer.

Professor Michael O’Brien, much honoured this year for his book on the intellectualhistory of the American South, has written an article on Early American Connections. Muchof this will be new to most of us and it invites us to reflect on how much the college owesto those who come to it from overseas, as well as how much it exports through thoseJesuans who live and work abroad. The college continues to encourage donors who wishto set up scholarships or bursaries to help those from abroad who would not otherwisebe able to afford it. Some of these bursaries are mentioned in College News.

Photographs have enlivened the Annual Report for a number of years, but before 1995 they were all black and white. Coloured photographs first appeared in the quincentenaryedition and each year there seem to be more of them. The editor tries to balance picturesof the courts and buildings, which I hope will bring back happy memories to Jesuanswho do not manage to get back to College, with those of sports and other events whichillustrate the things we get up to. There are also some photos of the construction andrenovation that has been taking place. Last year, I said that ‘the College will besomething of a building site.’ The domestic bursar’s report gives details of what hasbeen achieved: the Prioress’s Room has been refurbished, the cricket pavilion extended,the new maintenance and gardeners’ compound completed, and a refurbished NorthCourt again has a full complement of undergraduates. We are fulfilling our commitmentto provide the best facilities we can afford.

The hundred and first edition of the Annual Report is full of interest and informationand reminds us all what a marvellous thing it is to be a member of such a distinguishedcollege. Degree Day in July particularly highlighted this for me. Starting with thephotograph in Chapel Court (endless adjustments of gowns and hoods), thenmarshalling by the praelector in First Court, the procession was led by our head porterin top hat to the Senate House, where it gave me enormous pleasure to confer degrees

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on our very talented graduands. The lunch in College afterwards with their proudparents is a celebratory occasion, tinged with some sadness that this really is the end ofan era. Although it is goodbye to student life, it is clear that many of the friendshipsmade here will endure. And, of course, it is emphatically not goodbye to the college. Atthe Graduation Dinner, I remind those leaving that they have been extremely fortunateto have been resident members over the past few years of a very distinguished college,but that it is not over. All Jesuans have lifelong membership and we very much hope thatthey will come back and visit – they are always welcome.

I see many of the final year undergraduates on an individual basis – to review what they have made of their time here at Jesus and to find out what they are planning to do with their lives. In preparation for the meeting I ask them to write a brief summary. It isalways heartening to read what they write of their experiences. Recently one youngwoman wrote: ‘Jesus College has changed my life more than I could ever have imagined’.Earlier I referred to league tables. Cambridge has recently been ranked second in aprestigious world league table (Harvard again winning top ranking). As the universitycelebrates its achievements and faces the many challenges of the coming years, so willJesus strongly support it – and the college will continue to change the lives of its studentsmore than they could ever have imagined.

Robert Mair

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The new extension to the cricket pavilion

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Chaplain & Archbishop

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The College Year 2004–5

College News

A memorial service for the life of Sir Robert Jennings was held in Great St Mary’s onSaturday 11 December 2004; there was an address by H.E. Judge Rosalyn Higgins,D.B.E., Q.C. One for the life of Derek Taunt was held in Chapel on Saturday 20 November 2004; Dr Jim Roseblade gave the address.

On 8 June, HRH the Duke of Edinburgh, Chancellor of the University, made an informalvisit to the college after engagements elsewhere in Cambridge. He was entertained todinner in the master’s lodge by the master and Mrs Mair, college officers and otherfellows. At drinks beforehand he met students of the college.

On Sunday 8 May the Most Revd and Right Honourable Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishopof Canterbury, preached at choral evensong. After the service undergraduates and otherstalked with Dr Williams over drinks in the cloisters. The last time an archbishop ofCanterbury was in Jesus chapel was in March 1956 when Geoffrey Fisher attended thecommemoration of the 4th centenary of Cranmer’s death, but he did not preach.

A dinner was held on 1 November to celebrate the 80th birthdays of Professors AustinGresham (1 November), Kenneth Johnson (19 March) and David Fieldhouse (7 June).The master and each of the guests of honour gave speeches.

From left to right:Austin Gresham;

Kenneth Johnson;David Fieldhouse

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Professor Lord Renfrew was elected to an honorary fellowship. He was also awarded theBalzan Prize for Prehistoric Archaeology, for his outstanding contributions to archaeology.He was presented with the prize by the President of Italy at a ceremony in Rome in November2004. The prize is awarded by the Fondazione Internationale Balzan.

Professor Sandra Dawson, honorary fellow, has been appointed Dame of the British Empirefor services to higher education and management research.

Professor Sir Martin Rees, honorary fellow, was in August appointed to the House of Lordsas a non-party political peer sitting on the cross benches. He has taken the title of Lord Reesof Ludlow. He will begin his five-year presidency of the Royal Society on 1 December 2005.Lord Rees was also a joint recipient of the Crafoord Prize 2005, awarded by the RoyalSwedish Academy of Sciences for ‘contributions towards understanding the large-scalestructure of the universe’, especially ‘for his early recognition of the importance of darkmatter for the formation and properties of galaxies’.

Sir David Hare, honorary fellow, received the degree of Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) at acongregation of the Regent House on 22 June 2005. When he presented Sir David to thechancellor, the orator delivered a Latin speech whose translation follows.

This is a hare coursed and caught in his youth by Dionysus himself: while still a student he had formed acompany of actors. He used to act himself, he used to direct, he still writes a variety of things, but pre-eminently he writes plays. Of all who busy themselves in the world of theatre, it is truly said that posterityremembers best the names of playwrights.

When he began, there was a good deal of Juvenal’s scorn and indignation in him. The energy of that remains,combined with a rare talent for going straight for the point at issue and staying on it, but his femalecharacters in particular are now drawn with the sympathy of a larger human understanding. In his playPlenty, Susanna is someone you may at first dislike; when she has put her whole case you may also feel theopposite, and the character called Alice may impress you similarly. To a considerable extent each works inreaction to the other. In his play Teeth ‘n’ Smiles, there is a character called Margaret (In vino veritascould be her motto, but other substances come into the picture) who suddenly says, ‘There are no great, thereare no beautiful, there is only the thin filth of getting old.’ He seldom writes so poetically, but he is alwayspolitical (Stuff Happens is the clearest example), in that his plays are penetrated and shaped by the wholewider world in which they happen, and the perceptions of it are expressed by characters who, as people withouta privileged intelligence, may well speak with a shrewdness beyond their own understanding.

And will plays born of a contemporary concern find readers in the future? They will indeed: scholars are atwork on his oeuvre already, and his plays will continue to find theatres too, because actors enjoy them. Withtheir force goes a wit: I laughed out loud when I heard Susanna say, almost as an aside, ‘And I don’t reallylike young men. You’re through and out the other side in no time at all.’ The two Muses have endowed himmost richly.

I present to you

Sir DAVID HARE, M.A.,Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, playwright

In September 2004, Professor Robert Mair gave the Jennings Lecture in Johannesburg. He spoke on Underground construction in urban areas – recent advances in research and practice.Professor Mair has also been appointed one of the Septemviri for two years.

Ian Paterson, professor of organic chemistry, has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society. Heis distinguished for his contributions to the stereo-controlled synthesis of biologically activenatural products and for pioneering work on new methods and reagents for the total synthesisof polyketides, which include anti-cancer agents, antibiotics and immuno suppressants.

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Sir David Hare, M.A.

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Professor Alastair Compston was the 2004 Croonian Lecturer of the Royal College of Physicians of London. He has also become editor of Brain, the leading journal of neurology.

Professor James Crawford has been awarded a degree of Doctor of Laws honoris causafrom the Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Budapest.

Professor Roberto Cipolla was awarded a 2005 Pilkington prize for excellence in teaching.

Professor Bruce Ponder has given a number of important invited lectures during the yearincluding plenary ones to the American Society of Human Genetics, Los Angeles, and tothe Australasian Human Genetics Meeting, Perth; he also gave the Wick WilliamsMemorial Lecture, Fox Chase Cancer Center, USA and the Meyenburg Lecture, DKFZ, Heidelberg.

In February Professor Juliet Mitchell gave the opening Wolfson lecture Speaking of othersin Oxford. She has also lectured at the Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists, SanFrancisco, New York University, the American University of Beirut and the University ofBilgri in Istanbul.

Professor Jean Bacon held a successful exhibition of watercolours at the Art Centre,King’s College, Cambridge.

Professor Ian White has been appointed chairman of the council of the School ofTechnology for two years.

Professor Michael O’Brien’s book Conjectures of order: intellectual life and the American south, 1810–1860, volumes 1 & 2, published in 2004 by The University of NorthCarolina Press, caused him to be nominated as a finalist (with two others) for a Pulitzer Prize in Letters and was the reason for his winning two of the most covetedhonours in history. The Organization of American Historians selected him to receive theMerle Curtis Award ‘for the best book published in American social, intellectual, orcultural history’ whilst the trustees of Columbia University chose him as one of three winners of Bancroft prizes, awarded to the authors of books of exceptional merit in the fields of American history, biography and diplomacy. The Bancroft prizejurors commented ‘In what can only be described as magisterial fashion, O’Brien has chronicled the lives and works of antebellum Southern writers and thinkers – from dissenters like the Grimke sisters to the man Richard Hofstadter called the Marx of the Master Class, John C. Calhoun, and almost everyone in between.’

Dr Natasha Berloff was awarded a 2005 Pilkington prize for excellence in teaching.

Mr Nicholas Ray delivered the second Brick Development Association Annual Lecture atthe Building Centre, London. His title was About a millimetre, or less: Alvar Aalto and thetechnology of the twentieth century. Mr Ray’s book Alvar Aalto has recently been published byYale University Press.

John Cornwell’s book Hitler’s scientists: science, war and the devil’s pact has won the Scientificand Medical Network book of the year prize 2004.

Professorships were established from 1 October 2005 for Drs Jean Bacon, StephenHeath, Michael O’Brien and Simon Redfern.

A readership was established from 1 October 2005 for Dr Ian Wilson.


Drs Mary Laven and Paul Alexander were promoted to university senior lectureshipsfrom 1 October 2004 and Natalia Berloff and Stuart Clarke from 1 October 2005.

The master will be taking sabbatical leave for Lent and Easter terms 2006, so that he canprepare for and deliver the Rankine Lecture, a major international lecture on the very latestresearch developments in geotechnical engineering, sponsored by the British GeotechnicalSociety and the Institution of Civil Engineers. It is given first in London and then at variousinternational locations, where Professor Mair will also be able to host a few Jesuan receptions.

For the period of the master’s leave Professor Stephen Heath has been elected vice-master.

So that a new president might have a term’s experience before the master’s leave, Mr AntonyBowen generously resigned from his position as president a term before he need have done.

The Society elected Dr Jana Howlett to be president for one year from 1 October. Dr Howlett is the first woman to hold this position.

Dr Roger Bowers retired from his readership in medieval and renaissance music.

Professor Michael Waring gave up being fellows’ wine steward and fellows’ steward after adistinguished ten years. Dr Janet Soskice was appointed fellows’ steward to replace him andDr Alexander was appointed fellows’ wine steward.

Dr Howlett has resigned her position as tutorial adviser.

Ms H. J. McDonald has been appointed a tutorial adviser.

As part of the university’s gender studies programme, Carol Gilligan and Juliet Mitchellwere in discussion with the actress Jane Fonda about her autobiography. The event tookplace in Great St Mary’s Church.

In recognition of the significant contribution made by Dr Picken to music bothinternationally and in college, the music room will be renamed the Picken music room.

Alan Watchman, sometime senior bursar, retired as a director of Lynxvale Ltd, a companyset up by the university to let and supervise its major building projects. For the first five ofhis nine years service, Alan was chairman of the company.

There have been five elections to class ii fellowships this year: Dr Gregory J. DiGirolamo(psychology), Dr Miranda Gill (French), Dr Andrew R. Johnston (law), Dr Walter Federle(zoology) and Dr Simon J. Wadsley (mathematics).

Gregg DiGirolamo is a U.S. citizen aged 42. After a B.S. at Harvard he went to the Universityof Oregon, Eugene, where he obtained an M.S. in 1996 and two years later a Ph.D. Hisspecialization is cognitive neuroscience and his dissertation was on Costs and benefits ofnovelty and object processing. From 1998 to 2000 he held a post-doctoral research fellowship atthe University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since then he has been a university lecturerin the department of experimental psychology here in Cambridge. He studies the cognitiveneuroscience of attention and memory addressing familiarity and novelty, executive controland visual cognition.

At the beginning of the year Miranda Gill was elected to a research fellowship at PembrokeCollege; six months later she had to give it up because of her appointment to a universitylectureship (in nineteenth-century French studies). She chose to come to Jesus. FromOakham School in Rutland, Miranda went to read modern languages at St John’s College,Oxford, where in 1996 she was awarded a Casberd scholarship; in 1999 she was awarded the


Gibbs prize for the highest first in modern languages finals. A year later, she obtained amaster’s degree with distinction for her work on textual structuring and fragmentation inthe writing of Gérard de Nerval. In 2002 she moved for her doctoral work to Christ Churchwith a senior scholarship. Her D.Phil. dissertation was on Eccentricity and the culturalimagination in nineteenth-century France. Miranda’s next research project is Paranoid imaginationin French culture, 1830 to the present.

Andrew Johnston is 34. He comes to us from Sheffield where he has been a lecturer in thedepartment of law for two years. Originally from Liverpool he read law here at Jesus(1990–93) and in 1994 was awarded a distinction in the diploma in legal practice at theCollege of Law, Chester. Since his solicitor’s training at Herbert Smith, Andrew has workedin the Treasury Solicitor’s Department, lectured for two years and been a research assistantto Professor Sadurski at the European University Institute, Florence, where he studiedEuropean company law and corporate governance and where, in 2004, he was awarded aPh.D. for a dissertation on Theories of the company, employees and takeover regulation.

Walter Federle, who is 38, comes to us from Würzburg, where he studied biology at theuniversity from 1988 to 1998 and violin at the conservatory. From 1990 to 1994 he studiedant colonization in the peat swamp forests of West Malaysia and from 1995 to 1998 wrote adoctoral dissertation on Mechanisms structuring the ant community of a myrmecophyte. Since 2002he has been a junior group leader in the department of zoology at Würzburg University. Hehas been a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard (1998–99) and at Berkeley (2001–02). He hasperformed violin solo concerts with the Würzburg Conservatory Orchestra, the TelemannOrchestra Nürnberg and the Munich Youth Chamber Orchestra. He also plays jazz violin invarious bands.

Simon Wadsley is 27 years old. He is a pure mathematician who works principally in algebrabut teaches across the board of pure mathematics. He was an undergraduate and graduatestudent at Gonville and Caius College. In 2002 he won a Smith-Knight prize for work on Thetensor square of modules for group algebras of nilpotent class 2 groups and obtained his Ph.D. in 2004with a dissertation on Representations of Noetherian Algebras. In May he was appointed to anEPSRC postdoctoral fellowship in mathematics, which he will hold for three years.

A new research fellow arrived in October 2005. Dr Neil D. Drummond is 26 years old. Hewas educated at Fortrose Academy (1990–6) and the University of Edinburgh (1996–2001),where he won prizes for first- and second-year mathematics and obtained first classhonours in mathematical physics. He came to Clare College in 2001 to do research in thecalculation of energies of molecules and crystals from first principles. Amongst otherprojects he calculated optical gaps and electron affinities of nanometre-sized diamonds.The title of his Ph.D. dissertation is Application of quantum Monte Carlo methods to electronicsystems. His interests include cycling, badminton and choral music.

Four new research associates were appointed for three years from 1 December 2004: Dr Oliver Hadeler, a German engineer, who works in the engineering department’s centreof molecular materials for photonics and electronics and is an accomplished bassoonist;Miss Harriet V. Hunt, a geneticist who has been tracing the development of broomcornmillet, a grain of archaeological interest, and who plays first board for the English women’schess team; Dr Fermín Moscoso del Prado Martín, a Spaniard, is working towards abiologically realistic model of lexical processing in the brain, using English, Arabic, Dutchand Serbian to test languages of different morphologies and Dr Lutwina (Linda) Otten, aDutch biochemist, who is working on enzymes, varying them as a way of understandingtheir means of reaction.


Mr Christopher Hare resigned his fellowship from 17 July 2005 to take up a seniorlectureship at Auckland University.

Dr Serena Margadonna resigned her fellowship from 30 September 2004 to take up apost at the University of Edinburgh.

Dr Marta Mazzocco resigned her fellowship from 31 December 2004 to take up a post atthe University of Manchester.

Dr Kristina Shea resigned her fellowship from 30 September 2005 to take up a position of professor of applications of virtual product development at the TechnischeUniversität, Munich.

Dr Jane Reid has resigned her research fellowship from 1 January 2006 to take up a RoyalSociety research fellowship at the University of Aberdeen followed by a lectureship there.

Dr Alexander Paseau came to the end of his research fellowship and went to Oxford as auniversity lecturer in philosophy.

Dr N. Gambino, one of last year’s research associates, resigned to take up a postdoctoralfellowship at the University of Quebec at Montreal.

After very many years of loyal devotion to the college as assistant keeper of the records and keeper of the records, Mrs Muriel Brittain will retire at the end of 2005. Her indefatigable work for old members and the annual report will long be remembered. She will leave college and return to South Mimms to live in Ingham Lodge, the house where she was born.

Gurnee Hart, Society of St Radegund, has retired from ‘Cambridge in America’ afterseven outstanding years of service, first as a director of the American Friends ofCambridge University and the Cambridge University Development Office in the USAand, since 2000, as the first chairman of the Board of Cambridge in America. Gurnee hasnow joined the college’s development campaign committee.

Professor Michael Mann from the University of California at Los Angeles UCLA, Pitt professor for the academic year, was a member of high table from January to August 2005.

Dr Ralph Gillis was a visiting member of high table for Lent and Easter terms 2005,whilst he was working with Professor Crawford at the Lauterpacht Centre forInternational Law.

Under the Cambridge colleges’ hospitality scheme Dr Sos Khachikyan spent a month at the college in the summer. Dr Khachikyan is an Armenian expert at the Economic Research Institute of the Ministry of Finance and Economy of the Republicof Armenia.

Dr Farooq Ahmad, an astrophysicist with a deep understanding of the statisticalmechanics of gravitating systems, last here in 2001, came to college for six weeks in thesummer to continue his collaboration with Bill Saslaw. Dr Ahmad is head of the physicsdepartment at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar.


Muriel Brittain in 1987

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Professor Bernard Balleine, a research fellow here from 1992 to 1995, was in collegeduring the summer, whilst on sabbatical from the University of California at LosAngeles. Bernard worked for a month at the department of experimental psychology onthe neurobiology of learning memory.

The Wong Foundation has given £30,000 for the creation of the ‘S.K. and MargaretWong Fund’ which will provide one or two undergraduate bursaries of up to £1,000 eachyear for designated students, giving priority to a student involved in swimming or witha strong involvement in college sports.

Mr A. Marshall, a graduate of the University of Waterloo, Ontario, has been selected as the first Kenneth Sutherland memorial scholar. He will be studying for a Ph.D. ingeotechnical engineering.

Council accepted the offer from the JCCS of £1,000 a year for five years to fund two travelawards each year to be called the Jesus College Cambridge Society Travel Awards. This yearthose chosen were Laura Lane, for travel to Ecuador to work with Grupo FARO on a projectto improve state education, and Martha Stickings, for travel to Thailand to act as teamleader for a party of ten Cambridge students working on a water system constructionproject organised by the Karen Hilltribes Trust.

The family of Mr Leonard Curzon (1930) has given to the college a large collection of Mr Curzon’s diaries which offer an interesting insight into life here in the 1930s.

Council acceded to a request of Professor H. W. Livermore (1932), who owns SandycombeLodge and lives there, that the college be designated a patron of the Sandycombe LodgeTrust, jointly with the Royal Academy. Sandycombe Lodge, Twickenham, is the onlyknown building designed by J. M. W. Turner, R.A., who also lived there.

A blue plaque was erected at 1 Salisbury Villas, Station Road, Cambridge, with the words:From January 1938 to November 1939 twenty-nine Basque children, refugees from the Spanish CivilWar, were cared for by local volunteers in this house provided by Jesus College.

In November 2004 Andrew Roberts was sentenced at Norwich Crown Court to five years’imprisonment (reduced on appeal to 21/2 years) for the manslaughter in the previous Mayof Kenneth Sutherland, whose death was reported in last year’s report.

Domestic Bursar’s Notes

Student accommodation. The refurbishment of North Court commenced at the end of June 2004 with a completion date of September 2005. The building, like many others fromthe 1960s, was showing signs of distress. Large areas of the concrete façade required repair,the flat roof could no longer resist heavy rain and the building as a whole had not stood thetest of time. In addition to restoring the fabric of the building, the work converted theexisting shared gyp areas into 85 en suite student study bedrooms with communal kitchens,dining rooms, laundry and storage areas located in the lower ground floor areas.

College facilities. The extension to the cricket pavilion has been completed and provideschanging rooms, showers and toilets. These better facilities are used for weddings andconferences as well as by sports players. The architects were Nicholas Ray Associates. Newmaintenance and gardens workshops have been built in the space west of the tennis courtsbehind North Court. The new building, also designed by Nicholas Ray Associates, is sowell camouflaged that anyone looking from Jesus Green would find it almost impossible


to detect. It blends into its surroundings, making it green both physically andenvironmentally. The building has a timber frame, creating lots of open space withinwhich key facilities have been arranged. The design is flexible so that as the needs of thedepartment change walls can be removed or relocated to meet them. The outer walls areclad in cedar and the roof is topped with sedum. The Prioress’s, Alcock and Cranmerrooms have all been refurbished.

College chapel. The other major project during the year was the rewiring and lighting of thechapel. This was the most complicated task initially involving a number of differentdesigns and trials before a satisfactory solution was agreed. The work also included thecomplete redecoration of the interior. The building looks magnificent with its new lightsand fresh coat of paint.

Several members of staff gained long service awards this year:

10 years – N. Sajadi, housekeeping; Ashley Meggitt, IT manager; Jacky Poskitt,college nurse; Grahame Appleby, head porter

15 years – Tony Johnson, maintenance department; Susan Chapman, housekeeping;Alison Rolfe, web and information officer

20 years – Brenda Welch, secretary to tutor for graduates and chapel secretary;Charlie Moore, IT networking and ex-college electrician

25 years – Peter Fowler, porter; Michael Morris, gardener


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During the year there have been a number of staff changes. The most noticeable was theappointment of the college’s first female porter, Helen Stephens. Although in the past therehad been enquiries from women regarding vacancies in the lodge, this was the first timethat one had applied for a job. Helen filled one of the vacancies caused by three retirementsat the end of 2004. A farewell dinner in Upper Hall was given for Peter Stretton, deputy headporter. Peter came to Jesus from St John’s almost twenty years ago. He was a legendarysquash player and captain of the staff cricket team. Hank Wingett left after serving the lodgewell for almost 19 years. Hank was renowned for his sense of humour and his quick-wittedretorts. Gordon Guest also retired, after nearly seven years service. Last year saw CherylGreen, admissions secretary, retire after almost 10 years with the college. Initially LouiseHind and Jenny Jenyon took on her duties in addition to their own, but more recently thisprompted a restructuring with the appointment of Janet Nurse as fellows’ secretary, nowbased in the tutorial office; Janet also provides support to the tutorial team.

Charlie Moore, network engineer and college maintenance engineer, died on 30 June2005 a few weeks after having an inoperable cancer diagnosed. He became a permanentmember of staff in 1985 but for more than thirty years before that had been associatedwith the college as an apprentice and employee of the college’s contractors MatthewsElectrical. It was thanks to Charlie that Jesus was the first college to install a college-wide IT network system that included all its student houses. He will be remembered notonly for his technical skill and knowledge of the college’s infrastructure but also for hislove of the college, its members and staff. Charlie was regularly present at college events– May races, May balls, graduation dinners and sculpture exhibitions – and was anenthusiastic member of the Chariots of Fire teams. For many years he played FatherChristmas after the Christmas carol service.

Martin Collins, Domestic Bursar

The Old Library and College Archives 2004–5

The Old Library was inaccessible to visitors for most of Lent term of 2005, because of theactivities of electricians rewiring the Cranmer and Alcock Rooms. This meant that some of theOld Library’s floorboards had to be lifted – a ticklish process in itself – and much ferreting-about took place underneath them to identify the routes of old wiring and substitute the new.The boards could not be refixed until it was certain that the work was satisfactorily completed.

One advantage arising from this situation was that the space beneath the floor could becleared of dust and rubbish and closely inspected, possibly for the first time since the roomwas constructed. The reed construction of the Cranmer Room ceiling below was revealed. Allthe dust and debris removed was bagged up, labelled with its exact source, and preserved for


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sifting and examination by archaeologists. No significant finds among the dust have beenreported. The potentially most interesting material was not removed: some chunks ofbroken plaster with traces of painted decoration were found in the area closest to the OldLibrary Annexe. This seems to indicate that the wall that lies just below the floor wasoriginally decorated and considerably taller; it must have been at the gable end of a nunnerybuilding and cut off without ceremony when the new College ‘Library’ room was created.

Before and after the period of closure, the Old Library received visits by a number ofreaders studying our medieval manuscripts. One came from Stockholm and several fromthe USA – from Mississippi State University, Berkeley, Stanford and Notre Dame. Therewere also postgraduate students and other academics from Cambridge itself, includingsome from the Fitzwilliam Museum cataloguing particular items in connection with aforthcoming major exhibition of illuminated manuscripts. (We have not been asked tolend anything for this exhibition, as most of our manuscripts are of the working kind andnot elaborately decorated, but it is good that the illuminations we have will be recorded in this important reference work.) Readers of college archives have included an arthistorian interested in the Bray family (sponsors of the college in its earliest years) and apostgraduate history of science student interested in identifying the sixteenth-century RedeLecturers (the Master of Jesus was a trustee of the supporting fund), as well as the usual runof local historians and people seeking information about former college properties.


David seated plays on three bells.Above his head is an organ,below his feet is a harp

A king with a sword; below, a queen with green apple or cup

Above, Boaz with staff; below,Ruth stretches her hand up to it:below her, a reaper in close cap

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The most significant change in the archives office has been the presence of Mrs SusanSneddon, who started work as modern records manager in September 2004. She issurveying the records held by each department, compiling a retention schedule to ensurethat things are kept or thrown away at the appropriate times, clearing out great weights ofdusty paper from forgotten basements and overseeing the weeding of material stored in themodern records room. At the same time, she has dealt with matters relating to Freedom ofInformation, under the new act that came into force in January 2005; the college hasreceived and successfully handled several FoI inquiries. Mrs Sneddon is also involved inimproving our management of electronic records and in promoting the development of adisaster plan, with the aim that as many essential records as possible can be protected andretrieved in the event of any major disruption.

All this has ensured that the archivist has more time to deal with the ever-growing streamof enquiries and other archival tasks. Through the summer of 2004, much of her time wastaken up by preparations for the 25th anniversary of the admission of womenundergraduates, working with a research assistant to compile the exhibition describedelsewhere in this report. In due course a version of this exhibition will be made accessiblethrough the college website. A successful first experiment on a smaller scale has alreadybeen carried out, with the mounting on the website of last year’s exhibition on John Eliot.In recognition of the award of an honorary degree to Sir David Hare, in June 2005, anexhibition of his work was put on in the Quincentenary Library.

Dr Frances Willmoth, Archivist

The Chapel

The long awaited restoration of the interior of the chapel took place over the course of theLong Vacation of 2004, transforming it from its somewhat dingy and dark former state intoone dramatically lit and freshly painted. The last major work on the chapel interior took placein the 1950s, and since then there had been only occasional repainting (on occasion with thewrong sort of paint, which caused problems with damp affecting the stonework), and moreor less improvised lighting expedients. Now the old paintwork was stripped back to theoriginal stonework or plaster, and stonework that was capable of remaining exposed was leftunpainted; on the rest a single, slightly warmer shade of paint was applied over the wholechapel, unifying the building while remaining true to the traditional colours chosen for theinterior. Care was taken to ensure that the walls can ‘breathe’, though the process of dryingout is likely to take several years.

During the removal of the old paint on the north wall of the nave a sketch of flowers andfoliage was revealed, as well as a lion’s head. These are probably the sketches done by WilliamMorris at the time he was designing the nave roof, and proposing to the college that he do thewalls as well, a proposal rejected. It would certainly have given a very different feel to the nave– whether it was an opportunity missed is rather a matter of taste. At any rate, the sketch hasbeen left uncovered for historical interest. Interestingly, the stripping away of unnecessarypaintwork and the stabilising of surfaces has meant that the chapel has become significantlymore resonant. While the scaffolding was up to the level of the tower roof the tower ceilingwas cleaned, and small areas of the nave, chancel and transept ceilings were cleaned to get anidea of what lies beneath the dirt of decades – but their full-scale cleaning, which would againhave a dramatic effect on the colour of the interior, must wait until funds permit.

Other smaller works were done at the same time. The transepts and nave were tidied ofaccumulated furniture and objects, and most of the pictures of one sort or another have beenput into store. The picture of the Presentation in the north transept remains, and the largepicture of the Last Supper hanging over the stalls has been cleaned and restored, revealing amuch more spectacular work than one would have suspected. The black curtain behind the

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altar is to be re-hung in the organ chamber, and the hope is to borrow an altarpiece to focusthe eye to the east wall. The Morris curtains and the Pugin altar cloth are undergoingconservation reports with regard to their restoration. Meanwhile, the kneelers have beenrecovered with Pugin design fabric, and other cushions restuffed.

The restoration itself was completed by the rewiring and relighting scheme. The old wiringwas dangerous, and the lighting inadequate even when it was working. The new schemeseeks to make the building as flexible as possible in terms of the many uses to which it isput, and to enhance its many beauties. In this it has been signally successful, especiallygiven the complexity of the constraints that come with the layout and historic nature of thefabric. A proper sound reinforcement and loop system has also been installed.

This project, while vital to the long-term future of the chapel, has raised its own short-termproblems this year, not least because the project over-ran into the Michaelmas term by somefour weeks making the opportunity to introduce freshers to the chapel more difficult.Fortunately, through the kindness of our neighbours at Wesley House, we were able to usetheir chapel with its pipe organ for choral services. The Wesley House chapel, however, issmall and acoustically dead, though this did have a tonic effect on the choirs’ precision, asthere could be no hiding behind an echo.

Chapel life has continued to flourish within these constraints. Two members of thecongregation, Rachel Holdforth and Chris Trundle, were confirmed at the UniversityConfirmation, with Rachel herself being baptised in Chapel earlier in the year. Twoinnovations this year have proved of lasting value. The first is the holding of Taizé services,with their reflective and meditative music, a couple of times each term, by drawing on theexpertise of Catherine Sikorski and Richard Hewitt, who run the weekly university Taizéservices. The second is the introduction of short addresses, known as ‘nanosermons’ toTuesday evensongs, preached by student members of the college. These have drawn infriends and supporters, and have uncovered homiletic talent which bodes well for theChurch of the future. The faithful round of morning and evening services, enriched by thechoirs, continues and attracts a considerable number of people over the course of theacademic year. There is a steady stream of occasional services, encompassing compline,special sung eucharists, corporate communion, carol services and Holy Communion on theEve of the Commemoration of Benefactors in conjunction with JCMS.

There have been some particular high points during the year.One was the dedication of the new lighting scheme at theAdvent Service by the Visitor of the College, the Bishop ofEly, and another the visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury inMay to preach at evensong; both occasions drew more than300 people. Other preachers of note include Bishop JohnTaylor (Jesus 1950), and a ‘flying bishop’, the Bishop ofRichborough, Keith Newton, who has pastoral care of thecollege living of St Clement’s, Cambridge. The retreat thisyear was at Launde Abbey, and as a pre-exam jaunt there wasa day trip to Walsingham.

Those who have served within the chapel have done much to keep going the practicalitiesof maintaining high standards of worship and welcome through a period of disruption andchange. They include the chapel secretaries, Jamie Barron, Gordon Lawrence, RachelHoldforth, Hanna Weibye, Lucy Razzall and Guy Willis, together with the chapel clerk, EdMorgan, and the dean’s clerk from Westcott House, Camilla Campling.

Jonathan Collis, Chaplain

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Chapel Music

Given that the chapel was out of action for the first month of Michaelmas term, thecollege choirs began the year in exile, singing services in the chapel of Wesley House.This proved to be a good opportunity to blend, balance and develop the new choirs in abuilding with no acoustic, where every fine detail can be heard. Early in the term, themixed choir spent a day at Ely Cathedral, filming an edition of Songs of Praise for the BBC.Following its recent transmission on Trinity Sunday, the programme prompted a healthy post-bag, with many favourable letters. Both choirs have visited college livings for events, including a concert in Guilden Morden and a sung mass at St Clement’s Church in Cambridge.

In addition to the four weekly sung services during term time, the gentlemen of the choirhave sung compline on Friday nights, three times a term. This has proved a popular extrain the chapel calendar, with congregational numbers rising as high as sixty. Other‘special’ services included memorial services for Sir Robert Jennings in Great St Mary’sand for Dr Derek Taunt in chapel.

Out of term, both choirs have undertaken concert projects. During Holy Week the mixedchoir gave two sell-out performances of Bach’s St John Passion, one in Lavenham ParishChurch and the other in Chapel. The choristers rounded off Michaelmas term with aChristmas concert; they raised over £250, which they gave to ‘Make Poverty History’.Towards the end of Easter term, the mixed choir joined King’s College choir at thehonorary degree ceremony, and both choirs recorded a portrait CD, to be used by thedevelopment and admissions offices, raising the profile of chapel music at Jesus. In July,the choristers hosted a singing day for primary school children as part of the Cambridgesummer music festival, before embarking on a tour to Ireland.

All of these activities would not take place were it not for the support of the master,chaplain and dean. Amongst the choir, we have been fortunate to have had a particularlysociable group, made up mostly of Jesus undergraduates and postgraduates. We are alsograteful to the choristers and their families, who give their time and enthusiasm to allthat is chapel music. Overseeing all of this, I am particularly grateful to the organscholars, James Kennerley and David Humphreys, without whom we would not be ableto train and nurture both choirs simultaneously. James Kennerley took up the organscholarship at St Paul’s Cathedral this autumn.

Daniel Hyde, Director of Chapel Music


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Art

At the end of his stay here, Fung Ming Chip, artist in residence during Michaelmas term,gave a demonstration in Cloister Court of his mural work. An exhibition Calligraphy inAction of some of his works on paper was mounted in Chapel.

On a fine morning at the end of April there was a brief ceremony in College when themaster thanked the staff and children of Park Street School for their art display that forthe past year has enlivened the hoardings around North Court.

The Last Supper, a work of the 16th century that hangs in Chapel, has been cleaned todramatic effect. For a long time it was thought to be by a member of the Bassano family.After examination by experts, the question of attribution has been opened up again. Thepainting dates almost certainly from around 1570, and several artists from Venice andthe Veneto are currently being considered as possible authors. It was last cleaned in 1955when Chanticlere described the painter as ‘anonymous’.

The Works of Art Committee made a number of purchases for the permanent collection of pieces that had been ondisplay during this summer’s successful Sculpture in theClose exhibition, described below. They bought Red Womanby Sand Laurenson, a young artist not long out of the RoyalAcademy School, and Moon Landing by the very well-established Cornelia Parker. Moon Landing, bought with theaid of a grant from the Woodward Charitable Trust, wasmade especially for the fellows’ garden and will remain ondisplay there. A permanent position has not yet been chosenfor Red Woman. The committee also bought three of SandLaurenson’s drawings.

Dr Alan Earp has given a group of prints of views of the college.

An anonymous Jesuan has made a magnificent gift to the college of more than twenty-five prints by contemporary artists, with more to come. Some of these will go into theundergraduate collection.

Rod Mengham, Curator


‘Red Woman’ by Sand Laurenson

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Children from Park Street School in front of their art display

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Sculpture in the Close

For six weeks from 26 June the ninth biennialSculpture in the Close took place in College. Tohelp celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary ofthe admission of women undergraduates, theWorks of Art Committee had selected fivefemale and only two male artists. Five of JohnGibbons’ steel angels hung between thechandeliers in Hall whilst a twin audio-visualdisplay by Sam Taylor-Wood was on displayin Chapel. Some of Sand Laurenson’s more

delicate pieces were shown in Upper Hall. Other exhibits were all outdoors in the collegegardens. Kate Whiteford’s Excavation ( Jesus College) took up most of Chapel Court andinvited the visitor to reflect on more than 500 years of continuous habitation here while Cornelia Parker’s Moon Landing demanded an equal amount of reflection about the college’s position in the cosmos. Diane Maclean contributed a kinetic sculpture,Aeolus, while Eilis O’Connell’s Carapace intrigued visitors with its deceptive structure.Mark Firth’s Primary Sections dominated Library Court because of its architectural scale and design.

Between three and four hundred people cameto the opening on a brilliant summer’sSunday. In his speech the master pointed outthat for over ten years hardly any of thesubstantial costs of the sculpture exhibitionshad fallen on the college, that with this exhibition the profits from theQuincentenary portfolio of prints would befinally expended and that the money-raisingbaton had been handed on to The Friends ofArt at Jesus College, whose appeal had raised enough to keep modern art on the agendafor another few years. He referred to Alexander and Elisabeth Kasza-Kasser to whosememory the exhibition had been dedicated and to the handsome donation received tenyears ago from the Kasza-Kasser Foundation to fund the preparation of the portfolio. He welcomed Alexander and Elisabeth’s daughter, Mary Mochary, together with her daughter and grand-children. Robert Mair finished by inviting Phillip King, recently retired president of the Royal Academy and for forty years one of the country’smost distinguished sculptors, to open the exhibition. Phillip King’s opening speech isprinted below.

“Thank you Robert for that very kindintroduction. I was very thrilled, andhonoured, when I was asked to open theexhibition but became a little bit worried whenI discovered I was expected to say some wordsabout sculpture, knowing that the radical earof Colin Renfrew would be listening to myprobably much too conservative remarksabout sculpture. Before I foolishly pronounce

on the subject, I would like to say how lucky any sculptor is to be in this exhibition. Thecollege has some of the most magnificent settings a sculptor could ever hope to show in.When I showed some pieces two years ago, I became truly enchanted with the place. The


‘Excavation ( Jesus College)’ by Kate Whiteford

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Geoffrey Clarke, Phillip King and Colin Renfrew

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venue is unique and extraordinarily varied. Some of my work, much exhibited before, neverlooked better. I would like to pay tribute to Colin, for his extraordinary insight, energy andcourage in setting up the Biennale backed up, of course, by a wonderful team of supportersand true lovers of sculpture, now led by Rod Mengham. What makes it all possible is thegenerosity of benefactors. Some of them are here, and on behalf of the college I would liketo thank them warmly. I would not like to miss mentioning the gardeners – who sculptthese wonderful dark green Yew eggs dotted about the well kept lawns, like those marbleeggs in hencoops encouraging us sculptors to lay our own eggs – not forgetting the teamof art handlers, who are amongst the best.

So, what is sculpture? I ask myself that all the time. What seems to me one of its mainattributes came to me one day, when I was visiting the Louvre during my national serviceand was looking at a marble torso of an early Greek sculpture in one of the rooms wherethere was no attendant. This work particularly fascinated me. And as there was no guard Iput my hand on the surface to feel the form. To my amazement, there was a life of formsgoing on which I couldn’t see. It was absolutely there, but invisible. It struck me then, thatsculpture had a paradox, built in, at its very core. Sculpture being the most visible of all thearts, is nevertheless the art of the invisible. Rodin once said that sculpture is the art of thecone, the cube and the cylinder. It doesn’t make sense when you look at his work. But therippling flame like surface hides behind it a structured universe. I can believe in thosewords. Following on, can a cube ever be a real cube in sculpture? Can sculpture ever beliterally there, nothing more than a fixed reality that meets the eye? This great conundrumhas occupied much of the concerns of modern sculptors, many attempting to blur thedivision between Art and reality. Probably not! Its very nature is anti-literal.

So what is the condition of sculpture? I have just made the claim that it is visible butinvisible. Another inescapable condition is that it is subject to gravity more than any otherart form. You can never get away from it. How a sculptor deals with it can have a profoundeffect on the viewer. The apparent liberation of sculpture from the effect of gravity can anddoes have a transcendental effect on what you see. A wonderful example of that isBrancusi’s endless column, which I recently saw in Turgu ju in Roumania. The sculptureseems to link the earth to the sky. It is literally uplifting. You feel lighter on your feet andnaturally in your heart as you look at it. So sculpture is there in our world, occupying thesame space as people, as objects, like chairs and trees. There and yet separate. Thisseparateness, if we can get into it, is liberating and transcendental, it opens up otherrealities. It transforms our everyday awareness, making new connections. It is there infront of our nose, but we can sense something beyond. I believe that all the sculpture hereon view for us to enjoy attempt each in their own unique way to do just that. The work ofobject makers like Mark Firth, John Gibbons and Eilis O’Connell do it no less than themore consciously transcendental works of Cornelia Parker and Sam Taylor-Wood. KateWhiteford, Sand Laurenson and Diane Maclean bring to consciousness awareness of otherrealities, through processes, memories, almost before we experience the visual reality ofthe work itself, a reverse order of experiencing sculpture, first the thought then the object.But the result is the same. A liberating experience. Through looking at these unusualobjects that live in the boring everyday world in which we all live, we are forced to take noticeprecisely because it turns out that the real world is not as we expect it to be. We become alive.Paradoxically, we are going to feel more real within ourselves by doing just that.

And I now declare the exhibition open.”

A full catalogue can be viewed on http://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/news/sculpture/2005.htlm

Rod Mengham, Curator



Rod Mengham helping to make ‘Excavation ( Jesus College)’

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Development Office

Development Director’s Report

The year has once again been a busy one. To thank the increasing numbers of Jesuanschoosing to support our Annual Fund we held our first Donors’ Garden Party, anaddition to our existing regular programme of events. Held in early May when thegrounds of College were looking quite superb, this afternoon event proved extremelypopular and will be repeated in future years.

I am particularly grateful for the continuing support of our campaign committee underthe chairmanship of Christopher Rodrigues (1968). Its original purpose was to advise onthe establishment of our current development campaign. With the Annual Fund nowsuccessfully underway, we have agreed that greater focus is now needed on potentialsources of funding for the college’s larger projects. To address this, a dedicated sub-group has been formed under the chairmanship of Richard Briance (1971).

In this future endeavour we hope to be helped by the umbrella of the University ofCambridge’s 800th Anniversary Campaign. This will be a campaign for the university asa whole with funds donated to the colleges counting toward the overall campaign target.The goals of the 800th Campaign include a strong college dimension, aiming to sustainand enhance our educational role.

Richard Dennis

Society of St Radegund

On 23rd June 2005 the annual dinner for members of the Society of St Radegund washeld in the Master’s Lodge. Prior to dinner a ceremony was held to induct the Society’s17th member, Mr James Hudleston, a recent and generous benefactor. Mr Hudleston istaking a particular interest in our project to replace the Mander organ in Chapel.

Bequests

The college wishes to record its great gratitude for the following bequests received in theacademic year 2004–5:

Dr D. R. Taunt (1936): £5,000; Mr C. L. Kirby (1940): £1,000; Mr B. H. McGowan(1943): £1,000; Mr N. R. L. Thomas (1955): £20,000; Mrs I. E. E. C. Brain (widow of Dr F. H. Brain (1926)): £2,000.

Report of Events

Reunion Dinner 24 September 2004

The master and fellows invited as their guests those who matriculated in 1953, 1954, 1955 and 1956 to dine and spend the night in college on 24 September 2004. The following accepted this invitation:

1953 E T. Boddye, R. Carr, E. E Cliffe, P. A. Colinvaux, D. T. I. G. Davies, J. M. Davies, R F. Davies, J. P. M. Denny, A. L. Dowding, M. J. Fairey, V. R. Goodwin, R. A. C. Meredith, D. G. B. Mitchell, M. C. Mitcheson, T. G. Munro, G. C. Partridge, P. J. Pybus, J. W. S. Rickett, R. D. H. Roberts, P. Spufford, F. A. Strang, A. T. Traill, A. J. Truelove, A. J. H. Weber, P. O. G. White, J. A. Williams, D. A. Wright, M. Zander

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James Hudleston

Charles Rawlinson

Firdaus Ruttonshaw

Richard Bawden

Geoffrey Granter

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At the Society of StRadegund dinner ...

1954 G V. Baguley, R. H. Crawshaw, M. G. Delahooke, G. F. Dimond, N. D Durand, A. C Dyball, J. M. B. Gotch, A. G. Ground, W. B. L. Hallam, B. G. Harrison, C. Haynes, J. K. Henwood, K. P. Hicks, P. A. Littleton,J. P. Martin, R. C. Maxwell, C. H Mills, G. H. Morris, M. H. O’Neill,

T. G. Penny, A. O. Russell Vick, N. M. Scott-Brown, W. G. Studdert-Kennedy,C. J. Turner, C. M. Turner, I. H. C. Waters, T. J. Willis, P. L. Wright

1955 B D. Bartlett, J. D. F. Bellamy, B. J. S. Bull, M. T. A. Bulman, D. W. Cairns, M. J. Chapman, M. W. J. Clegg, F. Dickenson, B. J. Dicker, M. F. A. Dove, W. H. Durran, P B. M. Early, A. M. Edwards, A. E. Furness, A. W. Gethin, M. F. Harcourt Williams, M. W. Harvey, M. P. Jackson, J. A. Jefferis, R. D. Killick, G. N. Leah, D-G. A. d’A Lumsden, R. C. Mackenzie, J. A. P. Marriott, D. Nudds, M. E. Nugent, P. J. Padley, D. M. Parr, P. O. Prior, J. N. Rhodes, A. G. Slater, J. F. Spencer-Jones, M. Stafford Good,P. J. G. Stow, W. H. C. Streatfeild, A. E. T. Stroud, K. M. Treves-Brown, J. R. H. Walker, J. A. Wesley

1956 J C. Beveridge, M. V. L. Foss, T. J. Gowan, C. H. Green, N. Hartley, N. Horner, J. Keenan, R. F. Kinloch, R. C. Maingay, M. J. Massy-Beresford,J. R. Meadows, N. J. F Neve, M. E. Peach, J. M. Peirce, R. M. Polhill,

B. Powell, J. C. A. Rathmell, J. D. Rimington, D. R. Robinson, J. B. Spooner,J. R. Stanbridge, B. H. I. H. Stewartby, A. J. Walker, A. B. Wigginton, P. J. E. Woods, B. L. Wright

City Alumni Reception 12 October 2004

The second annual City reception in support of the college’s development campaign washeld on 12 October 2004 at the Oxford and Cambridge Club, Pall Mall, London. Thisevent was again made possible thanks to the generous support of Cubitt Consulting(Simon Brocklebank-Fowler (1979)). The following accepted the invitation:

Prof Robert Mair, Mrs Margaret Mair

1949 J. P. Charkham

1954 J. M. B. Gotch

1956 J. Brill

1958 G. P. Blaker

1959 M. J. Booth, C. B. G. Masefield

1960 T. G. Barker

1961 J. P. Gerry

1963 D. W. Mann, A. N. Utley

1966 E. S. Funnell, D. J. Hall, S. A. Hockman, P. M. Hollins

1967 S. P. Hardy

1968 W. Allan, C. J. Rodrigues, F. S. Ruttonshaw

1969 I. W. Goldie, D. H. Wootton

1970 A. B. Vowles

1971 R. H. Briance, H. A. G. Lee, R. H. A. Muray, G. V. B. Thompson

1972 R. J. Fort

1973 R. C. Aylard, N. J. Dumbreck, C. J. Weight

1974 C. J. Hopton, P. N. G. Wilson

1975 M. A. Clarke, K. M. Keegan, A. P. Levinson, K. McCarten, A. J. B. Mitchell, A. H. Wettern

1976 N. E. Burstin, D. J. A. Casserley, W. O. A. Coales, R. A. Collins, J. A. Fry

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1977 D. I. Rawlinson

1978 S. J. Henbrey, R. W. Rogers, E. B. Tompkins, C. J. Wigglesworth, T. R. F. Wilson

1979 F. M. Birt-Llewellin, S. E. Brocklebank-Fowler, M. Harrison, A. L. Scott, D. R. West

1980 M. D. D Chaloner, N. D. R. Goddard, A. T. M. Wyles

1981 C. W. Grant, E. M. G. Pearson, N. J. Walmsley

1982 A. W. Davison, T. P. Murray

1983 D. Miller Smith, A. E. D. Patterson

1984 N. J. Hyslop, M. I. Jaffe

1986 T. W. Carruthers, A. J. S. Cohen, J. N. Darlow, S. P. Lonergan, S. Watt

1987 D. E. Brown, O. Hiwaizi, D. H. Martin

1988 R. J. Lewis, H. Ronte

1989 S. W. G. Cohen, N. S. Dove, C. V. S. Hoare Nairne, R. J. Landauer, S. R. Middleton

1990 W. J. F. Carpmael, N. J. Clarry, M. A. Pink

1992 T. A. Bristowe, S. Broadhead, R. D. Rawlings, J. G. M. Traynor, D. M. Yates

1993 V. Z. Chorniy, C. Demetriou, J. E. Shenton

1994 V. S. Georgiadis, R. P. Stuber

1995 P. M. A. Lane, S. A. Oppler

1997 L. J. Ficenec

2000 R. J. P. Dennis

1496 Lunch 27 February 2005

On Sunday 27 February a lunch for parents was organised by the 1496 Committee of second year undergraduates chaired by Rachel Powell (2003). There were 89 parents, 46students and 8 fellows at the event, which raised just over £1,100 to fund the annual 1496student bursary.

Glanville Williams Society Reception 2 March 2005

The fourth Glanville Williams Society reception was held at Exchange House, PrimroseStreet, London, on 2 March, and was generously hosted by Clive Barnard (1978), GarethRoberts (1979), Charles Howarth (1986), Stephen Wisking (1990) and Alex Kay (1991). Thefollowing Jesuans connected with the Law attended the event:


1949 R. D. Bartle

1951 G. J. Tayar

1956 J. W. Youngs

1963 B. A. Fireman

1964 D. J. Burnstone, J. G. Rhodes

1965 S. J. Barton

1966 S. A. Hockman

1967 P. R. Glazebrook, R. M. Jackson, J. C. Rees, C. M. Treacy

1969 M. P. Kendall

1971 P. Crook, N. P. Ready

1972 G. R. F. Hudson, S. J. Irwin, J. P. Wotton


1974 A. R. Kennon

1975 D. J. Moss

1976 R. S. Tolson

1977 S. J. Paget-Brown

1978 C. D. Barnard, R. J. Cowper

1979 P. H. Hawkins, M. D. Kerr, C. P. Mullen

1980 T. D. Huckle

1981 R. S. Parlour, N. J. Walmsley

1984 R. C. H. Alexander, S. S Bhakar

1986 C. B. P. Howarth

1988 M. P. C. Oldham

1990 A. M. Clason, S. L. Fietta, S. Wisking

1991 A. Kay

1992 J. R. Crawford, G. M. Flood, C. C Fowkes, M. R. Parker

1993 E. J. Cawte, R. A. Stocks, D. S. White

1994 E-J Horton

1995 N. L. Davies, A. J. Evans, N. P. Fetto, M. J. Lampert, A. V. Nawbatt

1996 H. L. d’Arjuzon, H. K. V. Fetto, G. H. Kirk, I. M. Maxwell, J. J. McNae, R. S. Moretto, J. E. Rees

1997 I. J. Hudson, T. E. Rolls, J. A. Thackray

1998 A. E. Coultas

1999 O. P. Markham, M. E. Page, F. A. R. Rees

2000 R. S. Brown, R. J. P. Dennis, S. J. Hollander, A. M. V. Jeffrey

2001 A. J. M. Lee, J. L. T. Nichols

2002 H. E. Burns, L. A. Humphries, C. T. Singleton, K. L. Smith

2003 R. S. Boyd, S. J. Hlásková Murphy, C. Olsburgh, B. J. Sander, K. G. Sutton

2004 E. M. Davies, G. L. Huang, K. P. Mawdsley, P. J. Nicholas, K. Parlett, B. A. Pykett, J. P. Santos, M. Thompson, E. Wei

Reunion Dinner 8 April 2005

The master and fellows invited those who matriculated in 1957, 1958 and 1959 to dineand spend the night in College on 8 April 2005 as their guests. The following acceptedthis invitation:

1957 P. J. D. Allen, A. J. Almond, I. C. Balfour, J. Beveridge, M. J. Bowtell, P. D. Bowyer, W. P. J. Brandon, T. C. Brooke, M. G. Brown, J. H. Champness, R. Cole, H. D Craig, C. M. Cripps, R. B. Davison, P. Dawson, E. C. T. Edwards, W. R. Edwards, M. A. Finlay, T. P. Francis, A. J. Gordon, D. R. Harrison, A. G. Jackson, B K. Johnson, M. D. C. Johnson, G. A. Johnston, J. M. Lowe, J. A. Morrison, F. Navab, C. J. Nicholson, N. P. O’Farrell, E. G. J. Oliver, R. A. Peters,D. L. Setchell, J. P Smith, P. B. Steghart, K. W. G. Valentine, P. J. van Berckel

1958 S. J. Alexander, J. S. Banks, J. B. Barbour, J. D. N. Bardolph, W. J. A. Beeston, G. P. Blaker, B. J. R. Blench, M. A. H. Bond, A. B. M. Braithwaite, D. A. Brooks,C. F. Churchill, L. F. East, J. G. Farnhill, T. R. Finlow, B. D. Foord, S. R. Foster,C. J. S. Garner, J. E. Gillett, C. R. Gordon Jones, E. A. Hackford, D. A. Hogg, R. N. Ingram, R H. Jordan, C. M. Kenyon, J. M. Loughridge, A. R. McCormack,D. P. V. McLaughlin, P. J. P. Mulhall, J. S. Neiger, G. A. Neilson, B. A. Noble,


G. C. Powell, J. S. Ransom, C. H. Reeson, M. Reupke, A. E. A. Ridgway, H. Salmon, R. B. Sinker, R F. B. Smith, A. Stillmark, I. R. Streat, C. Tabeart, R. C. Tanner, W. I. M. Taylor, P. W. Thomson, A. C. Thorne, J. D. C. Vargas, J. A. D. Webb, P. G. F. West, A. C. White, R. S. Wornell

1959 C. H. Adams, C. F. L. Austin, R. C. Baker, L. V. Barber, R. E. Beale, P. W. Bearman,J. R. Bone, M. J. Booth, O. C. K. Boydell, J. A. Carrington, C. J. Date, C. G. Dean,W. J. Elliott, C. J. Fallows, J. I. Farquharson, R. M. Freeman, M. H. Goss, D. C. Hanna, G. N. Harby, P. J. Herring, D. A. Johnson, W. A. C. Knowles, G. W. Lowick, C. B. G. Masefield, T. G. Melling, R. D. Merer, A. A. Mitchell, J. D. Moore, P. W. Newman, R J. Nuthall, K. W. L. G. O’Flaherty, N. H. Osborne,N. T. Otty, J. C. Pillans, J. H. B. Rew, F. C. Schneider, D. Schulster, S. G. H. Sinclair, D. G. Smith, I. R. Spence, A. F. Tongue, J. A. Tuck, B. E. Walton, R. P. Watson, M. F. R. Whalley, J. S. Whitehead, J. Winney

Donors’ Garden Party 7 May 2005

To thank all those who donated to Jesus College during 2004 the college organised itsfirst donors’ garden party, which took place on 7 May 2005. Over 200 Jesuans, theirpartners, parents and friends of the college attended this popular event. Variousactivities were available throughout the afternoon, including sculpture tours by Prof.Lord Colin Renfrew and Dr Jim Roseblade, a talk on cancer by Prof. Bruce Ponder, toursof the Old Library by Dr Stephen Heath and tours of the gardens and grounds by the headgardener. This was followed by tea in a marquee overlooking the cricket pitch. The dayculminated in Chapel with evensong. The following Jesuans and parents attended:


1937 D. W. Pennick

1940 W. N. Jeeves

1945 R. J. Gates

1946 K. M. L. Benson, P. G. A. Ramsay

1947 R. L. S. Blackadder

1948 J. L. Pattinson

1949 R. D. Bartle, J. P. Charkham, M. A. Salmon

1951 M. H. S. Muller, S. J. Robinson

1952 W. J. Chandler, M. W. Clegg, M. J. Marshall, A. D. Moss, J. S. W. Pulford, C. F. M. Rawlinson, R. H. Stone, D. G. Winter

1953 M. J. Fairey, A. J. H. Weber

1954 M. G. Delahooke

1955 R. D. Killick, W. H. C. Streatfeild

1956 J. E. Everitt, M. V. L. Foss, R. C. Todd

1957 T. P. Francis, D. J. Lawrence, R. A. Peters, P. B. Steghart

1958 B. A. Noble, P. M. Slotkin, J. Wilton-Ely

1959 C. F. L. Austin, A. M. Bateman, M. Fireman

1960 P. A. Oppenheim

1961 D. R. Tant, R. B. Woodd

1962 J. E. Beeson, J. A. K. Douglas, J. G. Ross Martyn

1963 P. Beasley-Murray, C. G. G Born, R. H. Leech, J. Marshall, R. H. Mayo, N. L. Wicks


1965 A. H. Farley, J. E. Roseblade, A. Sutton, M. J. Waring

1966 R. W. Allchin, P. M. Hollins

1967 J. D. Barber, P. Burnham, R. J. Haygreen, R. A. McKee

1968 F. S. Ruttonshaw

1969 I. F. Perry, D. H. Wootton

1970 E. J. W. Houghton

1971 R. H. Briance, G. Gardner, J. G. Morgan, N. Paterson

1972 N. S. Hoult, D. R. Martin

1973 M. W. Canby

1974 P. N. G. Wilson, D. N. Yeandle

1975 K. McCarten

1976 D. C. C. Dodd, A. M. L. Tottenham

1979 S. E. Brocklebank-Fowler, C. E. Gonzalez-Carvajal

1981 J. E. Evison

1982 G. C. Harcourt

1983 D. R. Birch

1985 J. G. Whitehead

1986 T. W. Carruthers

1987 H. J. Cordell

1988 P. K. Murphy

1992 E. M. Bartnovskaya, D. M. Yates

1994 R. P. Dufresne, G. F. Hart

1995 R. J. Graham

1996 M. Brittain

1997 L. J. Ficenec

1998 T. M. McCann

1999 L. Y. Pickering, S. T. C. Siklos

2000 S. E. Ambrose, R. J. P. Dennis

2001 R. S. M. Chrystie, A. R. I. Newman

2002 A. D. Basford, K. I. Birkwood, R. L. Filby, C. R. Lewis, S. R. Thorp

2003 E. J. Amos, C. A. Boulden, L. K. Monaghan-Pisano, R. A. Powell, T. N. Ready, R. I. C. Ross, N. W. K. Wong

2004 S. Gardiner, J. Collis, J. N. Banfield

Parents

D. & C. Bailey, G. & C. Basford, G. & B. Birkwood, A. & M. Chrystie, R. Filby, R. & K. Gardiner, P. & L. Hawker, R. & M. Oettle, A. & C. Ross, M. & S. Thomas, A. & G. Thompson, T. & A. Waldock, N. & V. Wong

Bumps Saturday at the Paddock 18 June 2005

A large crowd of Jesuans and their families gathered at the paddock to cheer on the Jesusboats in the May Bumps. A combination of glorious weather and Jesus’ outstandingperformance on the river created a lively atmosphere which all enjoyed.


Anniversary Dinner 2 July 2005

An anniversary dinner was held in college on 2 July 2005 to commemorate the 10th,20th, 30th and 40th anniversary of those who matriculated in 1995, 1985, 1975 and 1965. The following attended:

1965 K. Balkow, S. J. Barton, J. V. Betts, A. Bond, J. L. Burston, S. B. Crooks, J. S. Curtis, J. F. Drinkwater, T. J. Ellis, M. G. Emmison, A. H. Farley, R. J. Frost,M. Harford-Cross, T. C. Harris, M. D. Hendry, C. J. Hudson, M. P. W. Lance, P. J. Mason, J. L. Miller, J. A. Morgan, P. S. Morrell, T. R. T. Morris, E. F. V. Perrott, R. B. Posey, M. C. Preston, P. A. Ray, P. W. J. Rigby, M. J. Rudkin,R. Sinclair, S. J. Skeates, M. J. Soley, J. Spurrier, A. Sutton, R. Thornton, G. A. Trantham, R. F. Vellacott, P. Virley, R. E. Walker, M. J. Waring, A. C. Wheating, G. J. White, B. L. Wignall, C. C. Wilson, C. B. Woodd, A. Youle.

1975 A. J. Barnes, E. J. Broadbent, J. G. W. Bruce-Jones, M. A. Clarke, B. Derby, A. P. Harbor, K. Hodge, K. E. Jones, K. M. Keegan, A. P. Levinson, N. R. W. Long,D. J. MacAlister, K. McCarten, A. J. B. Mitchell, P. G. Murphy, D. T. O’Reilly, R. J. Parker, H. G. Rees, C. H. Richardson, G. M. Swallowe, C. T. H. Townshend.

1985 H. F. Alexander, R. D. Ashwell, S. D. Barker, A. J. Blewett, W. L. C. Buckland, M. Callaway, A. E. Eady, A. S. A. Evans, R. B. Findlay, M. Hall, T. R. Holt, C. A. Holwell, C. T. Jones, J. D. C. Langtry-Langton, P. W. H. Marsland, I. J. McDonald, S. H. McDonald, R. J. Montague, A. M. Moseley, R. C. Nolan, P. S. Rowbotham, S. Sansbury, D. G. Simon, K. Solomon, G. M. Williger, D. I. Wilson.

1995 V. S. Altman, M. J. Blakemore, J. E. M. Carmichael, R. J. M. d’Arjuzon, G. Gilkes, G. L. Gower, L. M. Handley, M. G. Harries, D. A. S. Hugh-Jones,R. L. Johnson, H. O. Linklater, E. A. Mitchell, M. L. W. Padilha, D. E. J. Padua, C. Perry, S. M. Pirie, L. V. Reid, A. C. Robinson, K. J. Shaheen, L. T. Singer, R. A. Skidmore, L. J. Skowron, J. A. Tighe.

Calendar of Events 2005–6

8 March 2006 – Glanville Williams Society Reception, Middle Temple Hall

25 March 2006 – M.A. Congregation (1999)

7 April 2006 – Reunion Dinner (1981, 1982, 1983)

1 July 2006 – Annual Fund Donors’ Garden Party

17 June 2006 – Marquee at the paddock, Fen Ditton

1 July 2006 – Anniversary Dinner (1966, 1976, 1986, 1996)

Except for 17 June 2006, invitations to all these events will be posted or e-mailed to thoseconcerned. If, however, you wish to attend any of these events but do not receiveanticipated postal or e-mail notification please contact the Development Office (tel: 01223 339301) or visit the alumni events section of the college’s website(www.jesus.cam.ac.uk) where details are also posted.

M.A. Dining

Members of M.A. or similar status are invited to dine at high table free of charge twice ayear and to bring a guest at their own expense. The master and fellows very much welcomethe opportunity to maintain contact.

Because of staffing arrangements there is no dining on Saturdays but it is usually possibleto accommodate visitors on Sundays during term. Other available days are usuallyTuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. It is always advisable to book in good timeby phoning the manciple’s office on 01223 339473.


Jesus College Cambridge Society

Executive Committee as at 24 September 2005

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

Officers First Elected

1953 M. J. FAIREY (Trustee) (Michael) 2003

1957 A. G. JACKSON (Trustee) (Andrew) 1982

1963 J. MARSHALL (Hon. Dinner Secretary) (Jim) 2005

1965 DR J. E. ROSEBLADE (Trustee) (Jim) 2000

1970 A. D. C. GREENWOOD (Hon. Secretary) (Adrian) 1998

1971 T. SLATOR (Hon. Treasurer) (Tom) 2002

1985 DR D. I. WILSON (College Council Rep.) (Ian) 2000

1998 Dr J. P. T. CLACKSON (James) 2004(College Council Rep.)

Members Period of Office

1979 F. M. BIRT-LLEWELLIN (Fiona) 2002–6

1976 M. P. HAYES (Mark) 2002–6

1997 L. J. FICENEC (Lucy) 2002–6

1996 K. T. D. EAMES (Ken) 2003–7

1963 R. F. LEWIS (Roger) 2003–7

1956 J. D. RIMINGTON (John) 2003–7

1987 M. P. VOS (Mariel) 2003–7

1963 G. H. HADLEY (Graham) 2004–8

1983 M. A. SAWARD (Anastasia) 2004–8

1983 M. E. SHIACH (Morag) 2004–8

1995 I. O. STEED (Ian) 2004–8

1960 M. R. HADFIELD (Max) 2005–9

1971 J. G. MORGAN (Guy) 2005–9

1989 C. V. S. HOARE NAIRNE (Charles) 2005–9

1992 K. L. SLOWGROVE (Katie) 2005–9

2000 R. J. P. DENNIS (Richard) Co-opted

Honorary Treasurer

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

Honorary Dinner Secretary

J. MARSHALL, 56 Melody Road, London SW18 2QF

Honorary Secretary

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

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Draft Minutes of Annual General Meeting 24 September 2005

The Annual General Meeting of the Jesus College Cambridge Society took place on Saturday24 September 2005 in the Prioress’s Room at Jesus College. The Master, Professor RobertMair, was in the chair. Some twenty-five members of the Society were present and some fifteen members had sent apologies for absence, including twelve members of theExecutive Committee.

MinutesThe minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 25 September 2004 were approved andsigned as a correct record.

Secretary’s Report The honorary secretary reported that the Annual Report, for which the college now has totalresponsibility, and which is being edited by Dr. Jim Roseblade will be published in November.It will contain the 2005 AGM minutes and notice of the 2006 AGM. The secretary encouragedmembers to attend the JCCS London Reception on 22 November 2005 at The House of Lords.The secretary informed members that the committee had decided to establish the JCCS TravelBursary. This summer bursaries had been awarded to two undergraduates, one visitingEcuador (Laura Lane) and the other Thailand (Martha Stickings).

Treasurer’s Report In the absence of the honorary treasurer, the honorary secretary presented the annualaudited accounts to 31 December 2004. These showed an income surplus of £1,528. Theaccumulated fund stood at £52,521. The committee had previously approved a donation tothe JCSU of £2,000. The meeting agreed to receive the accounts.

Appointment of Auditor The meeting agreed to appoint N. J. Mitchell F.C.A. as auditor for 2005.

Dinner Arrangements for 2006 The secretary announced that the 2006 dinner would take place in college on Saturday 23September 2006. Partners will be welcome. The guest of honour will be Sir Nigel Wicks (1961).

Election of Officers The meeting agreed to elect for one year Adrian Greenwood as honorary secretary, TomSlator as honorary treasurer and Jim Marshall as dinner secretary. A vote of thanks wasrecorded to the retiring dinner secretary, Max Hadfield.

Executive Committee The meeting agreed to elect the following as members of the executive committee to servefor 4 years in succession to those retiring by rotation: Max Hadfield (1960), Guy Morgan(1971), Charles Hoare Nairne (1988) and Katie Slowgrove (1992).

Any Other Business Members agreed to record a vote of thanks to Andrew Jackson whose term of office astrustee expires in March 2006. Andrew has served on the committee continuously since thelate 1970s and was treasurer for over 20 years; under his stewardship the finances of theJCCS strengthened considerably.

Date of 2006 AGMSaturday 23 September 2006 in College. The date is fixed to coincide with the UniversityAlumni weekend.

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Annual General Meeting and Annual Dinner 2006

Next year’s AGM will take place at 6.30 pm on Saturday 23 September 2006 in the Prioress’sRoom in College. This will be followed by the annual dinner.

The guest of honour will be Sir Nigel Wicks (1963). Spouses and partners are warmly invitedand the dress code for men will be black tie. Tickets will be on sale from May 2006.

Reports of JCCS Events 2004–5

Centenary Dinner 25 September 2004The Jesus College Cambridge Society (JCCS) was founded in 1903 as a means for all Jesusgraduates to maintain contact with each other and the college. From the beginning it hasenjoyed the support of successive masters and fellows. It was the JCCS that first producedand published the Annual Report, although the college took on full responsibility for thisfrom the early 1970s.

There were 124 members present at the first annual dinner in 1904 held in London; ticketscost 10s 6d (exclusive of wine). The centenary dinner was held in Hall on 25 September 2004.There were 145 people present including partners and spouses of members. The guest ofhonour was Jeremy Gotch (1954) who served on the committee from 1966 to 2003, as dinnersecretary and trustee.

At the start of its second century, the JCCS committee continues to seek to provideopportunities for Jesuans to meet together and to support the college.

London Reception 9 November 2004The London autumn cocktail party for Jesuans and their guests took place in the PictureRoom of the Athenaeum on 9 November 2004. The event was again very well supported.

Buffet Lunch 18 June 2005The Buffet Lunch was once again well attended, with nearly 40 Jesuans and their familiesenjoying fantastic weather and a delicious lunch in the fellows’ garden. Many then went downto the paddock in Fen Ditton to cheer the Jesus boats on to many successes on the river.

Western Regional Party 6 August 2005Thirty five members and guests met at the Cheltenham Cricket Festival to see the fourth dayof Gloucestershire’s match against Hampshire on Saturday 6 August. We were fortunatewith the weather and that the match lasted till well after the tea interval, though the likelyeventual result had become clear during the day.

We much enjoyed an excellent lunch and tea prepared by Cheltenham College Catering,who also provided a television so that we could keep up with the Edgbaston test match.Although this was a new departure for JCCS it was well supported by a wide range ofJesuans, including next year’s college cricket captain.

Annual Dinner 24 September 2005Following the society’s AGM on 24 September 2005, the company adjourned for the annualdinner, at which there were 111 members and their guests present. The secretary proposedthe health of Lord (Alan) Watson. Lord Watson replied and proposed a toast to the College,to which the master replied.

Forthcoming JCCS Events

17 June 2006 Buffet Lunch in College23 September 2006 AGM and Annual Dinner in College

Further information about these events will be posted on the web in due course (seewww.jesus.cam.ac.uk/alumni/events). Alternatively, please call the Development Office on01223 339301 for further details.

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Awards

University Prizes, Grants and Scholarships

Robert Gardiner Memorial Scholarship John F. Lysaght

Schiff Studentship 2004–5 Sam D. Waller

Henry Arthur Thomas Travel Exhibitions, 2005 Georgina M. Morgan

Eric Evans Fund Steven Stuart

Kettle’s Yard Travel Fund, 2005 Macarena Ibarra,Karolina A. Watras

Oliver Gatty Studentship Janos. T. Locsei

Smith-Knight Prize Christopher J. Heaton

University Tripos Prizes

The Anglia Prize for Part IIB Archaeology Iona H. Robinson(awarded jointly)

The William Vaughan Lewis Prize for Amy H. Gunnoutstanding Part II dissertation

The Hartree and Clerk Maxwell Prize Richard Hewitt

The Frank Smart Prize Anna E. Brookfield

The Sociology/Psychology Part IIA Prize Russell H. Russell

College Awards, Elections and Prizes

The Raymond and Helen Kwok Research Scholarship:

Ms Rui Zhang to study for a Ph.D. in the Department of Engineering, supervised by Dr Y. J. Jhi.

Ms Xinbei Zhao to study for a Ph.D. in the Department of Genetics, supervisedby Professor D. Glover.

Choral Scholarships:

Rosemary S. Taylor, Timothy W. K. Willott

Instrumental Exhibitions:

Kate E. Conway, Laurence S. C. Lok, Rosemary S. Taylor, Lei Wang, Timothy W. K. Willott

Thomas Cook Travel Scholarships:

Samuel Waldock, Victoria M. Yuan

Edward Daniel Clarke Travel Bursary:

Anna E. Brookfield

James Baddeley Poole Bursaries:

Alexander N. Fergusson, Catherine A. Sikorski, Andrew J. Widgery

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Sir Moses and Lady Finley Travel Bursaries:

Rebecca A.Barr, Tawfique Hasan, Faye S. Karababa, James R. McMahon

Jesus College Cambridge Society Travel Bursaries:

Laura A. Lane, Martha E. Stickings

Sir James Knott Bursary:

Martyn G. Frampton

Scholarships for Graduate Students (awarded in Michaelmas 2005 for 2004 results):

Hannah G. Davies, Sarah D. I. Drummond, Sarah J. Hlásková Murphy, Patrick James,Muireann Maguire, Matthew Pritchard, Martin Stein

Scholarships:

Andrew P. Acred, Bilen S. Ahmet, Toby A. S. Austin, Joseph H-C. Bae, Gargi Banerjee,Deborah E. Banks, Natalie C. Barker, Duncan W. A. Barrett, James, A. A. Barron, Louise C. Bazalgette, Stephen J. Benjamin, Jocelyn P. Betts, Emma E. Blackhurst, Kate E. Bland, Andrew R. Borrell, David G. J. Broady, Anna E. Brookfield, Elinor C. Browne, Christopher Burnie, Paul M. Burton, Will D. Carroll, Peter J. Collins,James C. Dacre, Jeremy G. H. Davies, Matthew J. Davis, Alexandra L. De Lorenzo, Nisha A. Doshi, Alison J. Drewitt, Sian E. Dutton, Ian R. Evans, Victoria E. Eyre-Brook,Nisreen Fahmy, Michael E. B. FitzPatrick, Martin N. Fox, Paul J. Fox, Manjeet S. Gill,Amy H. Gunn, Olaf T. Henricson-Bell, Richard Hewitt, Kate E. Hillier, Richard N. E. Hodge, Hannah J. Hope, Louise M. Hopper, Jennifer B. Houghton,Timothy H. Hughes, Johanna M. K. Hull, Philip A. Hunt. Timothy D. Hutt, Simon J. Jackson, Matthew O. Kitching, Laura D. Kotseroglou, Mahesh S. Kudari, Lydia Y-W. Lee, Charles J. D. Le Grice, Kai Lin, James R. Marson, Lisa A. McAdam, Douglas J. McMahon, Francisco N. Newby, Sarah O’Connor, Thomas Ogden,Christopher P. O’Rourke, John Pratt, Lucy M. F. Razzall, Katy J. Read, Samuel J. Richardson, Sarah A. Richardson, Christopher Rimmer, Iona H. Robinson,Rosalyn A. V. Robison, Rebecca I. C. Ross, Susanne-Marie Rothe, Olivia Rowlands, John B. Russell, Rupert H. Russell, Jonathan Scragg, Leo Shapland, Anna Shawcroft,Fred Smith, Elizabeth E. Stratford, Nicole L. Taylor, Philip Tooke, Gareth A. Walton,Matthew Westlake, Johannes Wieland, Andrew C. Wild, Benedict J. Wilkinson, Charles P. Williamson, David J. Wilson, Louise Woods

Exhibitions:

Richard J. Bartholomew, Nicholas A. W. Bell, Tobias R. Constantine-Cort, Kate E. Conway, Alice C. Coombs, James-Patrick Crilly, William H. George, Joanna A. Hepworth, Thomas J. Heritage, Mohamad I. Idris, Samuel F. Lees, Thabodhan Mahendiran, Georgina M. Morgan, Timothy Moss, Dimple Patel, Jennifer C. Peters, Joshua P. Phillips, Gwendolen M. Pinches, David J. Simner, Clare L. Southworth, James Waters, Andrew D. Wimbush, Anna M. Young


Prizes:

Senior Keller Iona H. RobinsonLeo Shapland

Keller Andrew R. BorrellJeremy G.H. DaviesGareth A. Walton

Benefactor’s Richard Hewitt, Rupert H. Russell, Philip Tooke, Nisha A. Doshi, Timothy H. Hughes, Alexandra L. De Lorenzo, Louise Woods

Sir Leslie Martin (Architecture) Alison J. Drewitt

Farrell (Greek Studies) Benedict J. Wilkinson

Brereton (Classics Part IA) Kate E. Conway and Georgina M. Morgan

Carruthers (Computer Studies) Part IA David J. SimnerPart IB Paul J. FoxPart II Toby A. S. Austin

Malthus Economics Johannes WielandSPS Rupert H Russell

Evans (Engineering) Thomas J. Heritage

Engineers’ Timothy H. Hughes

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jeremy G. H. Davies and(English or any arts subject) Christopher P. O’Rourke

Newling (History Part I) Elinor C. Browne

Schiff (History Part II) Jocelyn P. Betts

Russell Vick (Law) Kate E. Hillier

Glanville Williams (LL.M.) Nicholas M. Bender

Bronowski (Mathematics Part IA) Samuel F. Lees

Ware (Mathematics Part IB) Bilen S. Ahmet

Spencer Jones (Mathematics Part II) Emma E. Blackhurst

Watchman (Mathematics Part III) Janos T. Locsei

Eliot (MML Part II) Gareth A. Walton

Perrett (Medical Sciences Part IA) Matthew J. Davis

Duckworth (Medical Sciences Parts IA & IB) Anna Shawcroft

Roberts (Pathology) Jennifer B. Houghton

Gulland (Natural Sciences (Biological) Rebecca I. C. RossParts IA & IB)

Gulland (Natural Sciences Part II) Richard Hewitt

Sir Alan Cottrell (Natural Sciences Joseph H-C. Bae, Lydia Y-W. Lee(Physical) Part II or Part III)

McKie (Natural Sciences Part II or Part III) Hannah J. Hope, Anna E. Brookfield

Allhusen (Chemistry) Victoria E. Eyre-Brook

Corrie & Otter (Theology and Kate E. BlandReligious Studies)


Robert Malthus(1766–1834), the first

of the Cambridgeeconomists, who entered

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G F Hart (History Prelims to Part I) Edwin T. Bond

Gilbertson Prize (for the third or fourth Hannah E. Burnsyear undergraduate most deserving of a first who did not get one)

Glanville Williams (Law Part IA) Charles P. Williamson

Lovell (Law Part IB) Johanna M. K. Hull

Sir Peter Gadsden (for the best result Sarah J. Hlásková Murphyby an Australian doing one-year taught Master’s course in 2004)

Crighton (Music) Louise F. Steele

Gray Reading Prizes Chapel Sarah V. WilliamsHall Luke B. Busbridge

Morgan (English essay) Duncan W. A. Barrett

Prawer (dramatic criticism) Lucy M. F. Razzall

Roe (for a tripos dissertation) Louise Woods, Amy H. Gunn and James R. Marson

Sir Denys Page Award (for a classics student Benedict J. Wilkinson and to travel to Greece) Georgina M. Morgan

Renfrew (for the most significant Katherine I. Birkwoodcontribution to the musical life and Simon J. Jacksonof the college)

Waring (for sporting achievement) Anush R. I. Newman

College Prizes:

Archaeology & Anthropology Part IIA Nicole L. Taylor

Chemical Engineering Part IIA David G. J. Broady

Economics Part I Dimple Patel

Engineering Part IIA Fred Smith

English Prelims to Part I Andrew D. Wimbush

Geography Part IA Timothy Moss, Joshua P. Phillips

Geography Part IB Christopher Rimmer

Geography Part II Amy H. Gunn

Linguistics Peter J. Collins

Medical & Veterinary Sciences Part IB Gargi Banerjee

Modern & Medieval Languages Part IA Clare L. Southworth(Russian)

Modern & Medieval Languages Part IB Louise M. Hopper

Music Part II Lisa A. McAdam

Natural Sciences (Biological) Part IA William H. George

Theological & Religious Studies Part IIA James C. Dacre


Tripos Results


2005 2004 2003

Number of Examinations taken 513 508 477

Number obtaining First Class (or stars) 113 112 105

Number obtaining Second Class (Upper) 241 230 212

Number obtaining Second Class (Lower) 67 73 78

Number obtaining Second Class (Undivided) 26 30 27

Number obtaining Third Class 17 15 11

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Degree Day: Andrew and Margaret Chrystie

Degree Day: Iona Robinson, winner of a Senior Keller prize, with her parents Degree Day: waiting for the procession of graduands

Approved for Ph.D.s

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

T. D. ARCHER Computer simulations of calcite

R. M. BENITES DA COSTA Endodermal patterning in Xenopus laevis

J. W. G. BOS Synthesis, structures and properties of new double perovskite oxides

A. R. DAVIES Novel applications of monolithic tunable laser diodes for optical communication systems

C. T. EAGLETON Instruments in context: telling the time in England, 1350–1500

K. T. D. EAMES Dynamics of infectious diseases on mixing networks

M. V. FERNÁNDEZ-SERRA First principles characterization of natural matter: biomolecules and water

J. M. FITZPATRICK The development and use of tachyzoite c-DNA micro asseys

P. M. FOWLER Characterization of an essential determinant of gammaherpesvirus latency

S. HOFMANN Low temperature growth of high aspect ratio nanostructures

S. JOSEPH Proust and Joyce in dialogue

B. KALLENBERGER Transcriptional repression mediated by nuclear receptors in health and disease

J. M. J. KEELING Thermodynamics and signatures of Bose-condensation of excitons and polaritons

F. LEA Uncertainty between inspection reporting and material quantities and properties

J. LEE The impact of venture capital participation on firm performance: evidence from Korean IPO’son the KOSDAQ market

A. L. LE SAGE Somalia and the war on terrorism: political Islamic movements and US counter-terrorism efforts

L. LIU An examination of national and local industrial policies and challenges they face in the epoch ofglobal business revolution: the cases of China’s domestic appliance industry and Haier, Hisense and Aucma

E. J. LONGSTAFF Good enough parenting? Youth crime and parental responsibility

R. J. McLAUGHLIN Authority and naval peacekeeping: peace operations in the territorial sea

A. O. MILLER Emerging institutions in global business ethics

E. J. MITCHELL Patronage and politics at Barking Abbey, c.950–c.1200

S. P. MULLIGAN On the uses of legitimacy in international relations

P. NAMASIVAYAM Molecular and cell biological study of winter oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.spp. Oleifera) embryogenic cultures

Z. NORGATE Gene expression in rat uterine natural killer cells

H. NOWELL Determinatin of molecular crystal structures from powder diffraction data

R. L. O’MALLEY Time resolved x-ray absorption spectroscopy studies of electrogenerated species

M. OMURA Property rights and natural resource management: a theoretical and empiricalinvestigation into their linkages and evolution

A. ORAKHELASHVILI The effect of peremptory norms in international law

A. E. PHIPPS Women’s education in science, engineering and technology: researching the arena of activity

S. M. REID-HENRY Cuban biotechnology: an experimental milieu

M. A. ROBISCHON Cytokinins and poplar transformation

D. P. ROWLANDS Seismic investigations of active volcanoes in extensional tectonic settings

G. J. RUSHTON High-pressure turbine shroud leakage

C. RUSSELL Romance and the ethics of response, 1765–1837

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F. S. SCOTT Approved under special regulations

F. P. SCHULLER Dirac-Born-Infeld kinematics, maximal acceleration and almost product manifolds

T. A. STENHOUSE The development of an O[3, NO and NO[3 measurement system for the urbanboundary layer

K. L. STOKES Welsh kingship, A.D. 383–1063: a reassessment of terminology and political formation

K. T. TAN Enhanced performances 1.3μm quantum dot laser for fibre optic communication

Y. TATENO Studies towards the total synthesis of superstolide A

C. J. TAYLOR Intracellular pH regulation in rat brain endothelial cells

N. S. THOMPSON The nativeness of settlers: constructions of belonging in Soviet and contemporary Chukotka

R. D. C. THOMPSON The status of anti-Nazi resistance in post-war Western Germany,1944/45–1957

M. D. G. P. TOSCANO Studies on enzymes of the shikimate pathway

M. WEBER Curve and surface reconstruction from images and sparse finite element level-sets

H. J. WESTON Seeking cultural safety: NGO responses to HIV/AIDS among South Asians in Delhiand London

A. J. WILLS Studies on oxazolidines, oxazolines and oxazoles

J. ZENG Globalisation and competitiveness in the telecommunications industry: a case study ofChina Telecom

G. ZWIRN Essays on the relationship between human agency and social structure in the writings ofLudwig v. Mises, Friedrich A. v. Hayek, and Ludwig Lachmann: a realist analysis and development

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College Societies

Student Union

Our first event was a bop in aid of the Tsunami appeal. The theme of ‘Pimps, Whores andLabradors’ saw people flashing their money around and donating generously. In the endwe made more than £350. After all the partying, we settled down to the serious businessof re-writing the JCSU constitution. Changes to the constitution included giving aformal status to the welfare committee and highlighting the different JCSU financialaccounts. The new constitution was passed by a referendum and by College Council andcame into force in October 2005.

The JCSU also teamed up with the college to renovate the Marshall room. Our belovedbroken leather sofas were moved into the post room to make way for a selection of lovelynew sofas (no more having to sit on the floor!) in the TV room. We now have a coffeemachine in permanent action for those late night library sessions and a new widescreen TV.

Everything was a bit quieter in Easter term, while preparations were going ahead forSuicide Sunday, when there was entertainment galore. We had the usual barbecue andwater-fight, but also hired sumo suits and a bouncy castle. On the music front we hadour Ents boys DJ-ing, The Swing Band, live acoustic sets and Midnight Schemes. We hadpeople from virtually every college coming round and the day was a massive success.

Adam Watson. President

Graduate Society

An enthusiastic and fresh-faced committee welcomed freshers with two weeks of dailyevents and socialising. Drinks with the committee, ‘Latino’ night, ‘nightcaps at nine’ andcheese-and-wine evenings helped to break the ice. Cinema, curry, punting and a pub crawlaimed to give the freshers a whirlwind tour of what the city has to offer. As in previous years,the fortnight culminated in the phenomenally successful ‘safari’ night dinner, with newgrads and old mixing over dinner in the comfort of their own homes.

Having been coaxed out of their shells a little, the new grads were happily bewitched byHallowe’en. An excellent standard of costumes and an impromptu visit from the Macbethwitches helped to make this fiendishly good fun. To help break up the long cold Cambridgewinter, Christmas dinner trumpeted the seasonal festivities into action in Hall. Traditionalturkey, crackers, mince pies and mulled wine together with the unstoppable DJ Bubblemanhelped to keep the cold at bay. January signalled the highlight of the social calendar that isBurns night. With speeches and whisky toasts ranging from the ridiculous to the sublimeand the post-haggis shindig organised by ceilidh maestro Karl Sanderman in Hall, this wasan outstanding event for the GradSoc. We are also pleased to report that feeling of goodwillextended to raising £120 for Tsunami relief through the charity raffle. As ever, the ‘end ofyear’ dinner provided a sophisticated conclusion to the year with a string quartet toaccompany pre-dinner drinks and the ‘Kaiser Six’ swing band to play out the event.

The weekly grad halls that provide the backbone of the GradSoc social scene have beenparticularly well attended and were occasionally spiced up by an international theme.Without input from the grads, the Mexican, Thanksgiving, St Patrick’s, Australian, Swiss,Czech and Turkish nights wouldn’t have been quite so authentic or have tasted so good! Tomaintain the sense of community out of term, we have enjoyed the special grad hallsarranged in the more intimate setting of the Prioress’s room. Jesus’s reputation as thefriendly college once again earned us many invitations to sample other colleges.

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In a more experimental vein, we were fortunate to host a well-attended master class onfilm narratives, with screenings by film directors Zsuzsanna Ardó and Mark Lewis fromLondon. To satisfy the grad appetite for knowledge further there was a tour of thecollege’s Old Library and wine cellars and a visit to the Scott Polar Research Institute. Akids’ Hallowe’en party was a huge success with costumed kids of all ages enjoying all theusual treats. Busy parents appreciated the chance to meet fellow parents in college.

In November we marked last year’s tragic loss of Kenneth Sutherland by planting aCanadian sugar maple in the grounds.

On the sports field, participation was encouraged at all levels of experience and abilityand this paid off handsomely as graduates helped make this an outstanding year forcollege sport. In football, the captaincy of Laurie Shaw saw the graduate team bring thecuppers trophy back to Jesus, adding to two other cups earned with the skill of seasonedgraduate footballers. We shall also remember cricket cuppers under the captaincy ofDan Vaca and an embarrassment of accolades for rowing, recorded elsewhere.

Once again we owe a debt of thanks to fellows, in particular Geoff Harcourt andJonathan Collis, for their continued support of graduate events. We have had the goodfortune to work with Simon Hawkey, a very understanding manciple, the porters and theever popular Steve T. Barman. We are also grateful to the graduate tutor, Dr Minden, andhis secretary, Brenda Welch, for all their efforts on our behalf.

Alex Corbett, Vice President.

Creative Writing

The college arts magazine, eliots face continues to thrive. The photocopying and pritt-stick of the old days have been replaced by completely computer-based editing this year,and Jesus’ many talented artists and photographers have made the most of thetransformation in picture quality (special thanks to the cover artists, Sophia Davis andLei Wang). In fact, eliot has had more contributors than ever before, a full twenty for theMichaelmas issue. Iain Mobbs, the first editor not to be reading English, took over inLent, and produced a flawlessly elegant magazine on the back of a grisly postercampaign: he thanks Elliot Furminger, his muse, for the latter. Some exceptionallytalented poets – Rosie Snajdr, Hannah Fenton, Luke Pagarani – left College last summer,and we’re very grateful to all the freshers and other new contributors who have taken their place. In particular, there have been a lot of excellent prose poems and veryshort stories.

This is eliots fifth year, and thanks to the JCSU’s generosity we celebrated by publishinga May Week special edition, with selected poems from all previous issues. From thenonsense verse that started it all (“I saw T.S. Eliot’s face in a bowl of soup...”), via eliotslong-time editor Julia Gillick, to acute recent poems by people like Marta Ciechanowicz(“If you hold me up to the light / To see where I’m fragile I’ll be/ Honest as light, thoughit hurts, / Though it hurts my fragility”) and Chris O’Rourke, the standard was very high.

Jeremy Davies, Editor

Drama Society

In 2004–5, JCDS took over the Forum bar and set about putting it on the Cambridgetheatre map. Following the successful Michaelmas pantomime – Troy Story or My Big FatGreek Blood Shedding, featuring Ali G, a host of togas, the chaplain ‘shaking that ass’ andmuch cheesy music (superbly played by Simon Jackson) – the double of Ellie Decamp

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and Bella Watts’ Antigone and Rebecca Leigh’s Closer started Lent term off with a bang. InFebruary, the JCDS touring wing, ‘Cock Around the Block’, was formed to present twostaged readings at the Corpus Playroom: Crave by Sarah Kane and A Number by CarylChurchill. These were both expertly helmed by Rebecca Leigh and starred JCDSpresidents Duncan Barrett and Chris O’Rourke, together with Alexa Lamont and MatildaJames. The college freshers’ play, Jim Cartwright’s Road, directed by Vikki Newton andRos Velds, was a bold and resounding success, transforming the Forum with aninventive diagonal seating arrangement and three separate playing spaces. Week 8 sawtwo simultaneous productions: Leigh’s masterful The Dybbuk, which drew crowds to theCorpus Playroom, and Barrett’s Lear (by Edward Bond), which turned the Forum into ablood-soaked house of horrors (special commendation goes to props-maker Susie Batey).

An Easter term production of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia had to be postponed until next yearafter Rebecca Leigh broke her leg – which happened on stage, during Chris O’Rourke’sMay Ball ‘pandamime’. Sadly, this meant Leigh also had to postpone taking Plenty, byDavid Hare, to Edinburgh. But JCDS will still be represented on the Scottish stage, asLear is taken on tour by the Ariel Society along with a new production of Richard II.

Having a semi-permanent base has made all the difference to JCDS this year. Bleak andurban, freezing in winter and sweltering in summer, the Forum is the antithesis of thesafe, cuddly world of mainstream Cambridge theatre, and, lit by Chris Rimmer, it glowswith glorious deathly splendour. JCDS has carved out a niche this year for dark,provocative, edgy and experimental drama. Warmest thanks go to the outgoingcommittee: Jez Davies, Rebecca Leigh and Barrie Sander.

Duncan Barrett and Chris O’Rourke, Presidents

Law Society

It has been a busy year for the Jesus College Law Society. It kicked off with freshers’cocktails in the Prioress’s Room, a great chance for all the new first years to meet the oldhands. More socialising was done at the Christmas drinks, where an array of partygames was enjoyed by all and which was accompanied this year with a cheesy Christmassongs soundtrack. Returning after the Christmas vacation, the first- and second-yearsunderwent collections in college but their hard work was rewarded with a Valentine’ssoirée, kindly sponsored by MacFarlanes. Lent was also the term of the Magdalene–Jesusmoot, a great event hosted by the Magdalene Law Society and followed by a tasty dinner.The first-years then trod in second-year footsteps as the first-year mooting competitionwas hosted in college. The finalists went on to be judged in a moot by Dr Munday ofPeterhouse; Ben Pykett was awarded the Glazebrook prize for mooting. Another socialevent enjoyed by all who attended was the Glanville Williams reception, hosted byHerbert Smith in their London offices. It was a good chance for the current students tomeet with former Jesuan lawyers. Easter term began with the annual Law Society dinnerin Upper Hall, which all the Jesus lawyers attended. They were privileged to welcome Mr Justice Rupert Jackson back to Jesus College as guest speaker. The year ended on arelaxed note as the annual garden party, generously sponsored by Herbert Smith, washeld in the fellows’ garden on a sunny May Week Thursday with the sipping of Pimmsaccompanied by a jazz band.

Lily Humphries, President


Medical Society

Now in its 5th year, the Medsoc is going from strength to strength. A host of talks havebroadened our medical knowledge beyond the realms of dreary textbooks. Social eventshave been numerous and fun-filled, providing opportunities for medical students across theyears to relax together. A number of Jesuans have returned to speak to us about theirexperiences in practice. In Michaelmas, Lydia Eccersley and Lionel Tan spoke about theirwork in Uganda and the challenges facing healthcare in the developing world. Lent termsaw Barry Kay return to discuss allergy and Daniel Birch to talk about atherosclerosis.

The social side of the society has flourished. Freshers’ week saw the ever-enjoyable ‘safari’supper and obligatory post-dinner partying. The Medsoc ‘give up’ in January raised £250 forMerlin, a charity providing medical support in areas affected by the Boxing Day Tsunami.Lent term saw the highly enjoyable annual dinner. In particular, guest speaker AndrewUnwin’s discussion of the NHS gave an intriguing insight into the challenges which lieahead in clinical practice. May week brought the Medsoc garden party held in all thesplendour of post-tripos sunshine.

Huge thanks go to James Warland, vice-president, and Helen Matthews, treasurer.

Rebecca Charlton, President

Music Society

Building on the success and development in the last few years,JCMS has continued to hold termly concerts and Wednesdayevening recitals, featuring many fine musicians within andoutside College. The opening of the new music room and theinstalling of a new lighting system in Chapel are both assets thisyear, and JCMS benefits from them both.

The year started with the traditional Freshers’ Concert, hosting arange of musical talents in the Forum. The Michaelmas termconcert was equally successful, beginning with Sullivan’s overtureto Iolanthe and ending with Beethoven’s First Symphony.


Tables I and XI from Browne’s Anatomy, 1681

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Lent term was very busy for JCMS. With the financial support of the David CrightonFund, a strings coaching evening with Chris Hirons was organised. The Lent termconcert, held in Chapel, featured an impressive and inspiring performance of Poulenc’sOrgan Concerto by James Kennerley, conducted by Simon Jackson. Also in theprogramme were Beethoven’s Coriolan overture, conducted by David Humphreys, andTchaikovsky’s Second Symphony, conducted by James Kennerley. This was followed bythe David Crighton concert, supported by a generous benefaction by Hitachi Limited tothe David Crighton Music Fund. To a packed West Road Concert Hall, the world-renowned Endellion String Quartet performed string quartets by Mozart, Haydn andBritten. The stark contrast of the Endellion’s refined interpretation of the Mozart andHaydn, and the intense and thought-provoking performance of the Britten, provided theaudience with a wonderful and memorable evening. The term ended in the Forum withthe annual ‘JCMS Ent’, which hosted a mix of groups from close harmony to gospelchoir, from swing band to solo playing and singing.

The May Week concert included a delightful, skilled and virtuosic performance ofCrusell’s Third Clarinet Concerto by clarinettist Louise Steele. Louise was also presentedwith the David Crighton prize in recognition of her contribution to the musical life of thecollege. The concert also featured Brahms’ St Anthony Variations, Vaughan Williams’English Folksong Suite, and Britten’s Soirées Musicales, conducted by Laura Lane, JamesKennerley and Simon Jackson. During the interval, the audience enjoyed strawberriesand wine with music from the swing band.

During the year there were weekly Wednesday evening recitals, with many talentedmusicians and a loyal and appreciative audience. These are made possible by the hardwork put in by members of the JCMS committee. It has been a privilege to be a memberof the music society.

Laurence Lok, Secretary

May Ball

‘In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree …’ – Coleridge would havebeen proud of this year’s May Ball Committee, inspired by his poem to create a ball calledXanadu. He would have looked out from D staircase to see origami cut-out birds struttingon lawns edged with bamboo, and, in the distance, trees in the orchard decorated withChinese lanterns and declared that the college grounds looked lovely. As for the otherpleasures, he would have approved of the fire eaters, Chinese Lion Troupe and Tai Chishows. Just what he would have made of the Champion Deluxe Scale Electrix (model carsfor big kids) or the funfair on the hockey pitch or The Cambridge University Rock ‘n’ RollTeam is anyone’s guess. Had he ventured out and mingled with the crowds he wouldhave seen and heard the impressively energetic Tyler James, been captivated by Nizlopiwith their original mix of double bass and beatboxing and been encouraged by Kings ofQueen to sing along to Bohemian Rhapsody. Wild boar and apple might have beenfamiliar to him but we can only speculate on whether he would have enjoyed kangarooand red wine or emu and cracked pepper. One thing is certain: he would have seen howvery much everyone else had enjoyed themselves and written a note of the warmestcongratulation to the May Ball committee, whose months of preparation and hard workhad come to such wonderful fruition.

For the May Ball Committee


The Roosters

The most enjoyable Roosts this ninety-eighth year have shown that simple good fellowshipis the key to good Roosting, structured by the rules of the Codex Gallorum and our traditions.Of the Roosts this year who can forget the Christmas pantomime The Spanish Armada or Carryon Roosting? Fuelled by mulled wine, this was acted out all over the college, including thePorters’ Lodge. It included a half-mile chase sequence, and concluded with an epic call fortown and gown to unite against the callous King of Spain. Also worthy of note were theWinter Cocklympics which had the game of ice skating as its centrepiece, using pucks of iceshoved by broomsticks across Chapel Court. Bishop Alcock was condemned for criminalacts against the Nunnery of St. Radegund in a trial presided over by the vice-president,T.W.B. Mr. Jack Chickles Q.C. (Quiller-Coucher), with the counsel for the prosecution (OldCock) facing his adversary the devil’s advocate (Mr. Guy ‘squawks and a rope’ Willis). In acompromise measure Bishop Alcock was sentenced to be executed and then raised to theArchbishopric of Canterbury.

The celebrations in honour of the Chinese Year of the (green wooden) Rooster began in theearly morning as we unfurled a banner (courtesy of Miss Georgie Fowl) on the gatehouse.On a hot day in June the Breakfast-at-Lunchtime saw T.W.B. Mr. Robbie ‘the spuriousspurious’ Dean, elevated to the Grainsack as the new – 195th (& 171st-pending) – President,Old Cock. We celebrated the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar with high-serioustoasts from T.W.B. Jim ‘Cockrates’ Marshall (131,108), Mary Hilton, Esq.; the A.C.S.&M. ofRoosting from T.W.B. Bob ‘Jesus’ Green (98,76), the Old Cock responding; and an all-tooimpressive presentation by the Rooster Arkeologist T.W.B. Mr. George Giri (71, 50), whopresented us with a gallinaceous metal rooster tea-pot, salvaged from the ark, which hadunfortunately run dry. There were many other Roosts.

The Red Herrings

The Companions surfaced for fish and chip supper shoals in Michaelmas and Lent terms asguests of the Dame mmuriel before Carriages or Porter’s Trolley.

New Companions (CRH): Ian S. ‘Brooding’ Blaney (170th GMRH), Jack Chickles, Chick Morris, Luke ‘Eggs’ Bennedict Busbridge, Jonathan ‘Port’ Collis, Verity Moorhen,James ‘round and round the’ Burberry ‘bush’, Robbie ‘spurious, spurious’ Dean (171st GMRH pending).

T.W.B. Mr. Ian S. ‘Brooding’ Blaney 194th & 170th

Science Society

The science society continued to organise talks by graduate students, showing the diversityof research carried out by members of the college. These covered subjects ranging fromgene function in human embryonic stem cells and the role of proteolysis in coordinatingmitosis to the formation of white dwarf-neutron star binaries and automated detection ofmusical structure. They provide an opportunity both for graduate students to present theirwork to a non-specialist audience and for other members of college to find out about thefascinating research undertaken by graduates in the college.

We were also privileged to have as guest speaker one of the physical sciences editors ofNature magazine, who gave a talk entitled How to publish in nature, a subject close to the heartof many scientists.

Jonathan Keeling, President

The Undergraduate Art Collection

Elsewhere a passage from the Annual Report of 1955 is reprinted about the setting up ofa loan scheme for students of pictures and other works of art. Michael Zander (1953) andM. R. Cornwall-Jones (1953) are the surviving members of the original committee offive. Amongst the nine pieces bought during the first year of the scheme were AutumnWoodscape by Ivon Hitchens, currently hanging in the Fellows’ Parlour, and Leaf figure byHenry Moore, on display in the Marshall Room. The collection now has over 200pictures, including works by Michael Ayrton, John Bellany, Hugh Casson, BarryFlanagan, Elisabeth Frink, John Piper, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Long, Joan Miró,Paul Nash and Utamoro. The college makes an annual grant to the scheme of £1,000.New work is bought each year by the undergraduate curator and committee. They areadvised by the senior treasurer (James Clackson) and Jonathon Miles from theTrumpington Gallery. There are also occasional gifts made to the collection. Fellows arecharged rent to borrow pictures, but junior members only pay a deposit.

The organisation of the collection this year owes much to Rina Sinha, the junior curator.The junior curator for 2005–6 is Tom Watson, a history of art student.

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‘Autumn Woodscape’ by Ivon Hitchens

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College Sports Clubs

Athletics

This has been the most successful year for Jesus athletes for a long time, owing to moreenthusiasm from the college and to some very talented freshers. In Michaelmas term wesent a strong team to Cuppers and, despite a few injuries preventing people competing,the men finished 4th and the women 5th. Bilen Ahmet deserves special mention for hiscommitment to the team and for doing so many events. After some impressive runs, WillGeorge and Steve Stuart were both selected for the freshers’ match against Oxford andWill won the 1500m.

In Lent term Jesus sent a much weaker team to compete in the inter college field eventsand relays match, because it clashed with BUSA athletics and a rowing regatta. However,Louise Steele impressed in the throws and Bilen Ahmet in the jumps.

There are no college competitions in Easter term, but members of Jesus were selected forthe varsity match. Will George, Richard Reader and Louise Steele competed for the bluesteams, while Rob Buxton, Rich Hewitt, Steve Stuart and Bilen Ahmet competed in thesecond team. Will George and Richard Reader were also selected for the Oxford &Cambridge US tour. Next year’s captains will be Bilen Ahmet and Louise Steele.

Richard Reader, Captain.

Badminton

Men

The first half of the season in division two was very successful. The team included lastyear’s captain as well as several new members and won every game they played. ChrisLimmond and Josh Phillips were especially useful and proved a good pairing. The second half, in division one, proved more of a challenge. Jesus easily beatFitzwilliam 6–3 and, after some long battles in a most exciting game, also beat Queens’5–4. They were worthy opponents of Trinity but lost to them (3–6), as they did toWolfson, Christ’s and Churchill. Two wins were not enough to prevent relegation. Theteam for Cuppers included Sam Lees and Jan Moellers; they easily won their first fewgames but lost against Trinity in the quarter-finals. Sadly Jesus were missing JohnBooth, their star player, whilst a German international was playing for Trinity.

Next year’s captain will be Chris Limmond.

Dan Barnes, Captain

Women

Thanks to a combination of seasoned players and eager freshers, women’s badmintonenjoyed increased popularity at Jesus this year and we were able to field a team in theannual Cuppers tournament. After coming through the first round unscathed we wereunfortunately beaten 2–1 to a place in the quarter-finals by Newnham. In the women’sintercollegiate league we retained our place in the third division by winning a fairnumber of our weekly matches in both Michaelmas and Lent terms. The season endedwith an 8–1 victory over Clare.

Next year’s captain will be Jo Hepworth.

Rosie Young, Captain

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Basketball

Because the majority of last year’s team had graduated, and because we were competingfor the first time in recent years in the top flight of college basketball, this season proveda difficult one for Jesus College Basketball Club. The season started with promise, as oldfaces James Hyslop and Guillermo Ramos-Tomas combined with freshers Liam Atwaland Nick Bell to see off Emmanuel and Pembroke in the opening games. As the fixturesbuilt up, however, a lack of squad strength began to show and a further victory againstPeterhouse did not help Jesus avoid relegation. In a transitional period for Jesus, thesecond division could prove the ideal environment to foster new talent.

Next year’s co-captains will be Liam Atwal and Nick Bell.

Patrick Herron, Captain

Boat Club

This year has seen a real turnaround in the fortunes of Jesus College Boat Club. The yearbegan with success for the men’s 1st IV in the University IVs races. Victory, however, wasnot repeated in Fairbairn’s with the 1st VIII losing out to Caius by one second, and the 1stIV to Pembroke by three. Nevertheless these were the best results in several years. Thewomen’s boats, with many women trialling for the university, had a more difficult time.The novice boats achieved strong results throughout the term, particularly in Fairbairn’s– the women came in second and the men fourth.

After a highly successful training camp at Banyoles in Spain, the men returned toCambridge in top form, winning the Head to Head and recording the fastest time by acollege crew at the Head of the Nene. In the Lent bumps the first VIII went up fromseventh to fifth, a pleasing result. The 2nd VIII (all of whom were novices) had a strongweek of row-overs only to be bumped on the final day by a blades-winning crew. The 1stwomen (four of whom were novices) won Newnham Short Course and held their own inbumps, going down only one to a swift Clare boat.

This year Jesus has a number of rowers in the university boats. James Orme and EdSherwood were in Goldie for the second year running, Kate Hillier (president) and LouiseHopper were in the blue boat, Jen Hawton (JCBC captain) and Rachael Robinson rowedin Blondie and Junaid Fukuta was Goldie’s cox. Fiona Parry was in the lightweight VIII.

The May Bumps were our most successfulfor many years with seven out of ten crewswinning their oars. The highlight waswithout doubt the 1st women’s VIII takingthe headship rowing in the Muriel Brittain,a new boat purchased thanks to the JCBCTrust and donations from old members.From fourth place they bumped on each ofthe first three days, taking the headshipfrom Emmanuel on Grassy Corner onFriday, before rowing over in style onSaturday. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th women’sVIIIs all won their blades, as did the 2nd,3rd and 4th men’s boats. The 1st men’s VIII

had a mixed week, bumping Magdalene on Wednesday, only to be bumped back after anaccident the next day. They regained tenth place on the river on Friday and were left withnothing to chase on Saturday when the crew in front bumped out. Nevertheless, the boatmoved up for the first time in eleven years.

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At the May Bumps: Mariah Mansvelt and

Michelle Bradfield; BronwenByrnes in the background

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The break the club has made with the past few years of disappointments can be attributedto two factors: the re-emergence of a boat club spirit in college – people enjoying theirrowing and the camaraderie of other rowers – and the efforts of our new boatman andhead coach, Don McLachlan.

Next year’s captains will be Stephen Benjamin and Siobhan Maguire.

James Marson, President

Chess Society

The newly revived Jesus College Chess Society had an excellent first year, fielding twoteams successfully in the university league. The first team, captained by myself, won the2nd division with seven victories and just one defeat, ensuring promotion to the topdivision. In Cuppers they progressed to the semi-finals, knocking out first Kings andthen St John’s (a first division team) on the way, before being eliminated by a strongDowning side. Stephen Chester, Tim Segal, Geoff Stanning, Tim Swain, and John Wongwere all crucial in the team’s success, whilst the best individual performance was byLaurence Hunt, who remained unbeaten throughout the season. Laurence also providedone of the highlights of the season by winning his game against Queens’ second boardin just five moves, to the amazement of all.

The second team, under the captaincy of Patrick Snow, played in the third division, and any worries that the team would not be strong enough to compete were quickly forgotten as they started the season strongly before finishing in a mid-table position.

Overall, the first year of the reformed society has been a great success and as most of the first team players will still be here next year to compete in the 1st division the future looks promising as we try to emulate the successes of past Jesus college chess teams.

Richard Mycroft, President.

Cricket

After years of under-achievement in Cuppers the cricket club has finally met its ownexpectations. Trouncing Churchill in the final was the reward for the 1st XI after beingforced to dig deep in the preceding rounds – most notably batting all the way down the order to squeeze out a talented Hughes Hall in the quarter-final. Matt Bunning’smatch-winning lower-order innings in both this game and the semi-final are emblematicof the determination, commitment and strength-in-depth that have turned a talented sideinto champions.

Leaving Cuppers aside, the club has once again shown itself capable of playing a goodstandard of friendly cricket against local and touring sides of considerable repute. Theonly loss of the season came against the Jesters. A draw against Stoics and four winsrounded off another good season. The 2nd XI also played, encouraging more players toget involved, and recorded wins against the Old Spring as well as our friends of the St. Radegund pub.

The future of the club seems bright. We are sad to lose ‘player of the-year’ AnushNewman, whose performance and wisdom have been invaluable, and Ed Morgan, whosethoughtful bowling will be missed, but they are the only two leavers from the Cuppers-winning XI. In particular the club will be able to call on the services of Sam Grimshaw,Dave Madden and James Loxam, all of whom have averaged above 30 with the bat, as wellas look to Alex Fergusson to lead the way with the ball as he has done so convincingly


this season. The fresher intake was strong this year, with James Waters and Ed Bush in particular making valuable contributions, and next year’s captain, Fran Newby, making 240 runs.

James Burberry, Captain

Cross Country

The Jesus team has had another very successful year, maintaining a high position in thefirst division in all of the college league events. The first event of the year was the ‘freshersfun run’, where we saw a fantastic performance from first-year Will George, who finishedan impressive fourth overall. This form continued in all the events and Will always finishedin the top three. He gained a place in the blues team.

Cuppers saw Jesus reach second place, thanks to a determined race from everybodyconcerned. Rich Hewitt secured a place in the second (Spartans) team. Special thanks areowed to Ian Blaney, whose commitment to the college team has been excellent, and to PeteLeek. It is a shame that we have not always been able to sport a full women’s team at everyevent, but many thanks go to Marina Bradbury and Jessie Barker for their dedicationthroughout the season. All in all, it has been another very successful year for the college.Will George will be next year’s captain.

Football

Women

From the outset I was confident that we had a very strong team which had the potential to doextremely well this year. They did not disappoint. The return of Kim Smith, Sarah Ambroseand Jane Reid from last season gave us a very strong midfield and the arrival of talentedfreshers, Rebecca Mahoney and Jo Minikin provided strength at the back and pace on thewing, respectively. We had a highly successful league run, winning all-but-one of ourmatches. Particular high points were the 2–0 victory over St Catharine’s, who beat us in theCuppers semi-final last year, and the 9–1 victory over Sidney Sussex, where we were able todemonstrate our skill with superior elegance. A weakened Jesus side lost 3–0 to Newnham inthe league and this meant that our final match against King’s was a crucial league decider.Unfortunately our 4–0 victory over King’s was not enough and we missed the title by twogoals, finishing in second place.

Determined to make up for missing the league title, we went into the Cuppers competitionwith full force. After convincing victories against Downing and Clare, our first real challengeof the competition came in the quarter-final against Emma. Finding themselves 2–0 down athalf time, the Jesus girls gave a hundred per cent to drag the score line up to 3–3 at full time,and eventually won on penalties. The Cuppers final was equally eventful, with Newnhamtaking the lead after five minutes. Jesus fought hard with tremendous passion to find theequaliser ten minutes from time. The back four of Megan Goldman, Rebecca Mahoney, SusieThorpe and Anne Blackham were a real asset to the Jesus side, proving solid throughout. Themidfield and attacking players were certainly not lacking in talent either; Laura Kotseroglou,in particular, had an outstanding match. The whole team put in maximum effort, giving Jesusa much deserved Cuppers victory: we eventually won 7–6 on penalties. This season’s top goalscorer was Sarah Ambrose and ‘player of the season’ (as voted for by the team) was Jane Reid.It has been a pleasure to captain such a talented and committed team.

Next year’s captain will be Rebecca Mahoney.

Lisa Grimes, Captain


Men’s First XI

The first XI had a successful season, winning the inter-collegiate cup to become the firstJesus side to do so since the war. Second half goals from Laurence Brenig-Jones, TimSwain and a hat trick from Will Stevenson secured an emphatic 5–0 victory in the finalagainst Christ’s. Yet the road to Cuppers glory was far less straightforward. Narrowvictories against Girton and Emma were followed by a dramatic semi-final against Fitz.With the score level at 1–1 after extra time, Jesus won 10–9 on penalties in a shoot outthat involved all eleven out-field players.

The league campaign was slightly overshadowed by the cup run. An unlucky opening-day defeat against Fitz, who went on to win division 1 without dropping a point, meantthat our league challenge was effectively over before it had begun. Having gone intoChristmas in second place, we eventually finished fourth as Cuppers took over in thesecond half of the season.

The year’s success was built on rock-solid defence. Richard Corns, in his seventh seasonof college football, was superb throughout and was deservedly voted ‘player of theseason’. Alfie Atkinson, who partnered Corns in central defence, was alsoindispensable, and will play a vital role as vice-captain next year. Going forward, WillStevenson and the new captain, Laurence Brenig-Jones, scored several crucial andspectacular goals. There were also regular quality performances from Sam Richcardson,Geoff Stanning, Martyn Frampson, Tim Swain, Vesa Kangaslahti and ‘fresher of theseason’ Ed Bond.

The season’s other highlight was the 4–1 victory against the Old Boys. The fixture thisyear was the first to be played in honour of Nick Webber, whose death is reportedelsewhere and whose memorial trophy should be hotly contested in the years to come.

John Russell, Captain

Men’s Second XI

It has been a season of high achievement for Jesus II. After the previous season’spromotion-winning antics, we found ourselves in division 3 of the league, and, with theloss of some key players, had fears for the team’s survival at this higher level. These fearswere dispelled by a strong pre-season drubbing of Queens’ (4–1). The following game,however, was lost 2–0 to league leaders Trinity Hall. This proved to be the only loss ofthe season; the famous Jesus II spirit pulled us through the remaining six games


The women’s football team; Lisa Grimes holds the cup

unbeaten. Particular highlights included a 3–2 victory over Clare in which we were 2–0down with half an hour to play, and an 8–1 destruction of Girton II. Emerging as division3 champions and with a trophy to prove it, this was perhaps the most successful season inJesus II’s history. Division 2 awaits next year’s team and their captain Mark Thompson.

Olaf Henricson-Bell, Captain

Hockey

Women

Jesus 1st team had yet another good season but were unfortunately unable to repeat lastyear’s league-winning form and finished second behind rivals St Catharine’s.

The start of the season saw an extremely successful club day, bringing male and femalehockey players of all abilities together to play in a mixed tournament. It proved anexcellent way to introduce the freshers to the club and was followed by the traditionalhockey club curry in the evening. The season started well with a convincing 5–0 victoryover Newnham. Subsequent opposition was not so obliging and in the absence ofseveral of our regular players we suffered a couple of defeats that were to cost us theleague title. This didn’t damage our confidence and we resolved to make Cuppers ouraim. Unfortunately, we were knocked out by Trinity in the quarter-finals but lateravenged this loss with a victory in the league. The season came to an end with asatisfying 7–0 victory over St John’s followed by the annual club dinner in Upper Hall.

Once again the fresher influx greatly strengthened the Jesus team, with special mentionsto Sarah Martin, Sophia Cuenes-Grandidier, Alice Coombs and Anna Lewis. This year’s‘top goal scorer’ was Verity Threlfell and ‘player of the season’ was Lindsey Plenderleith.Full blues were awarded to Clare Skirrow and Claire Frith.

Special thanks go to vice-captain Katie Harries and Sophia Davies for all their help onand off the pitch.

Next year’s captain will be Sarah Martin.

Clare Skirrow, Captain

Men

Initial worries about the loss of some senior players were soon quelled by the influx ofmany talented freshers, boosting the club at all levels. We took this optimism into ourfirst league matches, beating Clare 8–0 and Robinson 5–2, and continued to develop asa side throughout Michaelmas term. However, some tight results before the winterbreak woke us to the need to raise our game. After Christmas, a reinvigorated Jesus sidethrashed Trinity 10–0 and Magdalene 7–1 and beat a strong Caius side 3–2. Overall wefinished third in the league, a commendable performance from a young side.

However, all thoughts of the league fade into distant memory in comparison to oursuccess in Cuppers. We followed an 8–2 thrashing of Corpus in the first round with a


The men’s second XI, division 3 champions

15–0 drubbing of Peterhouse in the second, before claiming a hard fought 1–0 victoryover APU in the quarters. The semi-final brought a battle against the old foes, St. John’sCollege. Despite largely dominating the league competition, John’s were paralysed bysome excellent Jesuan possession hockey, and by half-time Jesus were 2–0 up courtesyof goals from Wong and Grimshaw. A second half opposition goal raised the tempo ofthe last quarter, but a chaotic John’s team were unable to make a further breach in theimpregnable Jesuan defence and the result was a deserved 2–1 win to Jesus. In the final,Jesus faced St. Catherine’s, the self-proclaimed favourites for the title. However, despiteSt. Catherine’s wealth of university players, their pedigree was notably absent as Jesusseized the upper hand through an early Wong goal, and proceeded to dominate the firsthalf. Unfortunately, a surprise Catz equalizer on the stroke of half-time caught Jesus off-guard and after the break the balance of play started to shift in favour of the defendingchampions. St. Catherine’s then launched a sustained siege of the Jesuan castle, whichultimately proved fruitless as the resolute Jesus defence held firm. Goalkeeper AnushNewman put in the performance of his life to ensure that the scores remained level atfull-time. In the frenetic ten minutes of extra time, both sides came close to scoring,with Jesus demonstrating character, resolve and commitment to the very end. With thescores still tied, the result was to be decided on penalty flicks. Jesus shot first and were4–3 up by the time of the final St Catherine’s flick. However, the pressure proved toomuch for the opposition and the last Catz flick-taker faltered under the toweringpresence of Newman and shot wide, handing Jesus the Cuppers title they so deserved,and ending St. Catherine’s 18 match unbeaten run in the competition.

At the annual dinner, colours were awarded to Bush, Gordon, Hunt, Lemoine, Watersand Wong. Sam Grimshaw was named ‘top goal scorer’ (32 goals), Chris Rimmer was‘most improved player’ and Nick Wong was awarded ‘player of the season’. A ‘lifetimeachievement award’ was presented to Anush Newman as he leaves the college after manyyears faithful service to the club.

Dave Madden is next year’s captain.

Chris Boulden, Captain

Mixed

Jesus Mixed Hockey team had a characteristically relaxed season. They lost 1–0 in thefirst round of Cuppers to arch foes John’s in a very competitive, enjoyable game.Remarkably, twenty or thirty fans came to cheer them on, on a cold Friday night inNovember. The pace and spirit with which the game was played made it feel like thefinal.

With cup distractions out of the way Jesus played a friendly against local club sideCambridge South and a mini series against Pembroke which they won 2–1 overall. ThreeJesus sides entered the May Week John’s 6 a-side tournament which was followed bybarbecue and beers. Mixed hockey has been well represented this year at Jesus, givingboth new and experienced players a chance to play relaxed, fun hockey. Anna Shawcroftand I were captains this year; next year’s will be Anna Lewis and Paddy Gordon.

Sam Grimshaw

Pool

With many of last year’s players still here, and a new batch of freshers, hopes were highthat we could build on last year’s 4th place. With a strong side let down by a few keygames last year, we entered the fray with a confidence-boosting 6–3 win over last year’s


champions, Magdalene. Our next match was a tightly fought contest against the pre-season favourites, Catz, boasting three university players, who narrowly took us in amatch that could have gone either way. Another two losses left us in danger of relegationand holding little hope of a serious challenge at the top spots. However, all the teamfound their form and the re-emergence of traditional Jesus flair pool, combined with useof world rules tactics, led to some spectacular pool and we won the five remaininggames. The final frame of the final match decided the league. We finished 4th again,with only a few points separating the top 4 teams.

In Cuppers the team started off well, beating a good Cauis side, and then exactedretribution on a full strength Catz side by knocking them out of the tournament.Reaching the quarters was a serious improvement on last year’s first round exit againstJohn’s, but, missing several players, we were beaten by Magdalene. All in all, it was a verycreditable year for the Jesus 1st team.

The second team attempted to regain their position in the second division, but, despitesome good results, finished just below promotion.

David Hirsch will be next year’s captain.

Patrick Snow, Captain

Rugby

Men

With very much a new-look team, including several stalwarts of last year’s 2nd XV, theseason started well with a solid win against newly-promoted Trinity Hall. This wasfollowed by an emphatic 34–13 win against a strong St Catherine’s side, our bestperformance of the season, with outstanding individual performances from ‘fresher ofthe season’ Rich Bartholomew and fellow fresher John Messer. Girton conceded a walk-over so we entered the first big test of the season against John’s at the top of the table.With the mercurial Mickey Barr controlling a game played at a ferocious pace, we easedinto a 6–0 lead only to concede a sucker punch of a try to go in at half-time trailing. Afterthe break the tempo dropped and the opposition pack proved too strong, grantingJohn’s first blood. Under the temporary leadership of ‘player of the season’ RichHouston, the side were then narrowly defeated by a technically superior Downing pack,but deservedly won against Trinity Hall and Girton. After victory over St Catherine’s, theteam lost to John’s because of a couple of momentary lapses in defence during a bizarregame with uncontested scrums due to John’s temporary lack of front row. Our last gameof the season was a second place against Downing, who forced themselves into a four-point lead with twenty minutes to go and desperately clung on for a narrow victory.

In Cuppers we overcame a poor King’s side with ease; full-back James Marson crossedtheir line four times and confirmed his status as top points scorer this season. In thenext round we were again overpowered by John’s, the eventual winners, whose pack wasback up to full strength.

Other highlights of the season included the hugely successful Maris-Piper bingo socialand the club dinner in March. There was also a match against the WD Invitational XV inwhich Jesus displayed some sublime moments of skill including a hat trick from Jesusdébutant Will Swift.

Next year’s captain will be John Messer.

Jonathan Hopkins, Captain


Women

Despite playing most of our rugby sevens matches short of players, team spirit wasinfallible, with regular training resulting in vast improvements in everyone’s play. Thisseason saw almost a complete turnover of girls – with only two regulars left, experiencedloose head prop Rowan Williams and captain Anna Shawcroft (out for most of theseason due to injury). We had a large intake of first-years and recruited players fromChrist’s and Caius colleges, who were lacking teams, to make up numbers. Actingcaptain Clare Southworth used her prior match experience well to direct play on thepitch; Rebecca Faulkner and Anna Young proved a solid defence, whilst hooker VerityMoore made good use of her football skills consistently to gain possession of the ball incontested scrums. With a full team of Jesuans we reached the second round of theCuppers tournament – Jo Hepworth shone and the talented university forward LisaGrimes gave indispensable help. The team’s league performance suffered due to lack ofpace on the wing because our fastest player, Sophie Cuene-Grandidier, was out with ashoulder injury. Lisa Grimes won a half-blue.

Anna Shawcroft, Captain

Squash

Despite a general lack of fresher talent, the squash season at Jesus promised much as weretained the core of our squad from last year. Chris Burnie, last year’s captain, battledback from long-term injury to reclaim his place in the team, alongside the ever-consistent Chris Akerman. James Wood was persuaded to dig out his enormous racketbag, which alone was enough to cast fear into the hearts of opponents. Leo Shaplandand Will Brown made significant improvements to their game thanks to intensivetraining sessions with the university squad.

Any team member was capable of beating any other on their day, and this strengthproved to be our main asset as we dominated the second division in Michaelmas term,winning it without losing a single rubber.

Exuding confidence and kitted out in shiny new team t-shirts, we took on far tougheropposition in the top division in Lent term. The highlights were fantastic teamperformances in narrowly beating Cauis and the title favourites, Downing. Thoughnever officially confirmed, due to the usual poor league organisation, it is almost certainthat we won the college title.

During Lent term there was even sufficient enthusiasm to field a second team, who heldtheir own in the fourth division, ably captained by Bilen Ahmet.

Four of the five first team players moved on in the summer. Newly refurbished courts,now among the best any college can offer, will help encourage freshers to replace them.

Will Brown, Captain

Table Tennis

The club continued the upward trend of the last three years. The first team usuallyincluded Adam Edelshane, Will George, Sam Richardson, Johannes Wieland and JohnWong and reached the semi-finals in Cuppers for the third consecutive year. There wasa most rewarding 5–1 win against St John’s in the first round. In the league Jesus 1 was narrowly beaten into second place, one up from last year. Jesus also fielded a second and, for the first time in years, a third team. With great enthusiasm from Bilen


Ahmet, Patrick Gordon, Yi Li, Tim Willott, and Ed Young-Lidard among others, theseteams fared almost as well as the first. I would like to thank the club’s ex-captain, SamRichardson, who will be leaving us this year, for his outstanding contribution anddedication during the last three years.

Johannes Wieland, Captain

Tennis

Men

Although last year saw the loss of several quality players, we were lucky to have a largequantity of fresh talent. With Martin Fox as captain we managed to win the collegetennis ladder with little difficulty. We overcame Downing and Christ’s to secure this,thanks to the help of Sam Lees and Andrew Papanastasiou who proved to be an excellentpairing. Unfortunately Cuppers was not as successful. Our first match against Clare IIwas a simple warm up and we knocked them all over the court. The next game againstCaius was a little trickier but with Jamie Macpherson and Martin Fox at first pair weeasily brushed them aside. Selwyn was our next challenge and they proved to be toomuch for us. Jamie and Martin could not quite manage to beat the blues number oneplayer. We lost narrowly in the end winning some close matches in the second and thirdpairings. I would like to thank Tom Watson, Josh Phillips and Paul Burton for their on-court endeavours. It has been an enjoyable term of tennis.

Dan Barnes, Captain

Women

Things were looking very promising for Jesus women’s tennis team when more than tennew faces turned up to trials to battle against two hours of rain. With fresher talent,particularly in the form of Anna Lewis, Helen Macintyre and Gemma Grass-Orkin,together with the captain, Alexa de Lorenzo, we looked set to have as successful a seasonas last. However, our reputation clearly preceded us and on many occasions we weregiven walkovers which left us eager but frustrated. Nevertheless, we remain high in our league division, with a particularly convincing win against Magdalene. Despitebeing knocked out of Cuppers in the quarter finals by Trinity Hall, who boasted three university players, this was our most challenging and exciting match. SophieCuene-Grandidier, who showed impressive stamina in the stifling heat, did particularlywell to be the only one to win her singles match. To make up for the lack of inter-collegeplay this term, an American mixed doubles tournament was organised after exams. Itmade for a very enjoyable afternoon and the standard of play was consistently high.

Alexa de Lorenzo, Captain

Ultimate Frisbee

Jesus College said goodbye to almost the entire team of 2004 and in their placewelcomed a new crop of keen freshers, most of them meeting the game for the first time.The lack of experience showed in the winter league and Cuppers and many gamesfrustratingly slipped away in the closing stages. The Corinthian spirit of the team,however, never dipped as they picked up the wooden spoon for being the best of the restat the winter Cuppers tournament.

Easter term saw the departure of old hands Paul Hunter and Nathan Dimmock from theteam but in spite of this the squad went from strength to strength, receiving many wisewords of advice from ‘player of the season’ and self-appointed coach Dounan Hu. The


summer league again ended with Jesus picking up the wooden spoon as they defeated ajoint Clare–Magdalene team in the play-off. The summer Cuppers tournament is thehighlight of the Ultimate calendar and Jesus did more than their fair share to make it so.The squad, comfortably the largest in any college, was daubed in war paint andperformed the Haka à la All Blacks before every match, leaving the opposition quakingin their boots – or giggling. Almost inevitably the team won the wooden spoon,finishing 9th out of 12 teams but it also won the ‘spirit award’ for the team with the bestattitude and approach to the sport. Jess Eisenstein and Kelly Hogan represented theuniversity team. There was excellent play from Adam Tun, Ben Heidlage and theincoming captain Pete Budge.

Nick Wong, Captain

Volleyball

With legendary names (PhilHewinson and Matt Harwood) andunpronounceable ones (AtsushiTateno) moving on to sunnierclimes, a season of rebuildingappeared to be on the cards butliving legend Jean and MartinWeber were still in Cambridge sothe foundations were in place for agood season.

The arrival of two superb freshersproved a massive bonus. Blues starHelen MacIntyre settled in instantlyas outside hitter, and, in this worldof sexual inequality, was even worthan extra two points per gamedespite being better than anyone onthe opposing teams. Greek setterAndrew Papanastasiou wasdeservedly involved in the universityset-up. Phil Hunt and Duncan

Brewer were plucked from obscurity and proved excellent additions to the team,imitating Richardson’s own style of play, by waving their hands around and staying outof the way at vital moments.

The race for the league championship, which Jesus had not won in living memory, startedin the best possible fashion. St John’s were humbled for the third time running, as Jesusstormed to a straight sets victory. Once the highly-fancied Churchill and dark horsePembroke had been dispatched in similar fashion, defending champions Emma dared notstand in the path of the Jesus bandwagon and were walked over. With an historicchampionship within reach, Jesus even managed to win a game without Jacquet, as Darwinwere narrowly beaten; Caius went the same way. The only loss was to Downing.

The second team, promoted last year, coped admirably in division 3, finishing safely inmid-table and winning the second-team championship. The first team now holds aposition of uncontested dominance at the head of college volleyball: Jesus holds all threemajor trophies, Beach Cuppers, Cuppers, and, at last, the league trophy.

Sam Richardson, Captain


Jean Jacquet making a kill at John’s

Jesus College Boat Club Trust

The results in the Mays described in the boat club’s report – the women’s 1st VIII Headof the River and seven crews (the top 4 women’s and the men’s 2nd, 3rd and 4th)winning their oars – represent a marked turnaround in JCBC’s fortunes and reflected theefforts of recent captains, crews and coaches. They are a particular credit to the quiteexceptional leadership of James Marson, president and men’s captain, and Jen Hawton,women’s captain: both have done very well indeed. The success owes a huge amountalso to the expertise and enthusiasm of Don McLachlan, our head coach and boatman,whose brief has been to set about the lack of rowing technique and basic fitness and toreverse the drift towards mediocrity of recent years. Don has indeed brought about aculture change within the club, to one where members are keen to train and to work hardto earn success, and to enjoy that success when it comes (and success is not limited tothe river: six firsts and eight 2.1s in the men’s and women’s 1st VIIIs). He has beenassisted throughout the year by a number of dedicated coaches, including his wife Mary.We are very grateful to Don and all the other coaches who have given so much of theirtime and energy to the club.

The results of the year also show the benefit of investment in the club by the trustees andother supporters. At the beginning of the year the trustees asked Don to set out his viewof how the club might reform itself over the coming years and where he would likeinvestment made. His top priority was a gym and a significant quantity of weighttraining and other equipment was acquired by the Trust, leased to the college andinstalled in a new gymnasium in one of the squash courts, creating an easily accessibleand highly effective training facility which has helped the crews become amongst thefittest on the river.

The trustees again supported a week’s training camp for men’s and women’s crews inBanyoles in Spain and one for the men on Loch Ard, thanks to James Cowderoy. Sensingin the autumn of 2004 the potential of this year’s women’s crews and the fact that theJCBC is no different from any other club in needing the best equipment to obtain thebest results, the trustees initiated the Women’s 25th Anniversary Appeal directed at pastwomen members – to mark the founding of the JCWBC – to raise money to acquire a newwomen’s 1st VIII ahead of normal schedule. Muriel Brittain very kindly agreed to bepresident of the appeal and we were delighted that she performed the ceremony in Maynaming the boat with her own name. We were all delighted to see ‘Muriel Brittain’ rowingHead past the Paddock – where Muriel was watching – on the last night of the Mays.

It has always been, and will continue to be, the policy of the trustees not to spend thecapital of the fund, but to invest in the club out of income. With the other expenditureapproved by the trustees, the income of the Trust was insufficient to pay for the newwomen’s VIII. The proceeds of the appeal did not meet the full costs of the new boat andthe trustees agreed, exceptionally, to make a loan out of capital so that the boat was readywhen needed. The generosity of those past members who contributed to the appeal, andthose who gave last year to the 2004 Capital Appeal, is very much appreciated. TheWomen’s 25th Anniversary Appeal remains open and the trustees are keen to receivefurther contributions so that the ‘loan’ can be repaid and their long established policymaintained; they would, therefore, be delighted to hear from members who would liketo support the appeal.

Our investments, under the prudent management of our investment sub-committee andwith the benefit of external advice, have performed very well, with the aim of generatinghigh income while preserving or growing the capital value. The trustees are willing to

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invest where they can see that the expenditure will produce results, but needless to say,given what we have to spend to give the crews the chance they deserve, we are alwayslooking to increase our resources.

We continue to publish our termly newsletter, edited by Richard Tett and distributed bye-mail to all those on the development office’s database who have indicated an interestin the JCBC and have given an email address. Others who wish to receive the newslettershould contact [email protected]. There is also a JCBC alumni web page onhttp://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/alumni/boatclub.html and an up-to-date JCBC website atjcbc.jesus.cam.ac.uk with news, results and photographs.

We maintain our aim of bringing together those able to give practical guidance andsupport to the club and the captains. An evening gathering was held in London inSeptember. We encourage direct links between alumni and the current JCBC: lastNovember a number of alumni dined with the club in Formal Hall, and we plan to repeatthis very happy occasion.

The trustees remain very grateful to the master and college for their continuing supportthroughout the year.

We are very pleased that this year’s results on the river show JCBC in better form. Wehave discovered in recent years that going down is very easy. Stopping the descent andgoing up takes a great deal of effort, application and hard work, which have been amplyshown this year. Staying up, and continuing to go up, takes increasingly more of thesame: we believe that we now have in place the ingredients for precisely that, and wewish the club, under the new captains, Stephen Benjamin and Siobhan Maguire, allsuccess in the coming year.

David Wootton, Chairman

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The Jesus refreshment tent at the Paddock

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Seventy-five Years Ago

From the twenty sixth annual report, July 1930.

‘George William Neville, who died lastJanuary, was justly known as one of the grand old men of West Africa. He was one of the founders of the Bank ofBritish West Africa, and took part in thepunitive expedition to Benin in 1897. He has left a memorial in the splendidbronze cock of ancient native workmanshipwhich he brought back and presented to the College …’

‘The Roosters are numerous and vociferous in debate. They have recently published CodexGallorum, a new edition of the rules of the Society, which provides a worthy example ofthat peculiar type of humour developed under the influence of Mr. Fred Brittain. OldRoosters will find it well worth reading.’

‘A new event on the Cam is the lock-to-lock race for the Fairbairn Cup, open to allcolleges, though it remains in the hands of the J.C.B.C. Last autumn fourteen clubs andtwenty-seven eights took part. The Newnham eight was the slowest – but only just.’

‘Prominent over the gateway from the new court to the Close are the arms of the Bishopof Ely supported by two angels. The sculptor was Mr. Eric Gill, celebrated for his originaland daring work. The angels are much admired by those who can rise superior to theanatomical prejudices of the Creator.’

Sixty Years Ago

From the forty-first annual report, July 1945

‘The censorship has hitherto prevented us from telling our readers that half or more ofthe College was occupied by the Royal Air Force from the beginning of the war until thespring of this year.

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On 6 September 1939 an advance partyof four officers arrived to set up theheadquarters of the 1st (soon afterwardsstyled the 2nd) Initial Training Wing in the College. In order to provide their Wing with an office theycommandeered the ground floor of DStaircase, which at the time wasoccupied by the College Office andShield Library. The College, before thewar began, had arranged to move theOffice and Library to North House, butthe new premises were not ready.Consequently, the office files and librarybooks had to be moved hurriedly on abarrow. The office found a temporaryhome in the undergraduates’ CommonRoom, the books in heaps on the floorof North House.

About 250 members of the Wing –officers and others – arrived next day.We can still see them sitting on thegrass in brilliant sunshine in FirstCourt, waiting for orders shouted fromtime to time from their new office, outof which barrow-loads of books werestill being trundled. No one who waspresent is likely to forget the scene inHall after dinner that night, when ourguests lined the walls and our venerableMaster, Mr Arthur Gray, who had beenat the College since 1870, welcomedthem all with a charming speech, just ashe had welcomed the men of 1914.’

Fifty Years Ago

From the fifty-first annual report, July 1955

‘The College has joined the ranks of those which have a scheme for building up an artcollection for loan to undergraduates. The scheme has been established by theAmalgamated Clubs and will be run by a committee of undergraduates and Fellows. Ithas been decided that the collection is to be exclusively of original works of art, and thatsculpture may be included. So far, 150 undergraduates have promised to subscribe aguinea a year and the College Council is making an initial loan to the fund equal to themoney subscribed this year. The collection will inevitably move slowly towards meetingthe demand for pictures, and the subscribers are willing to accept this slowness in thehope that the collection will become a valued possession of the College and also for theinterest of seeing and living with actual works of art. No buying policy has been laiddown, but for obvious reasons the purchases are likely to be mainly of contemporaryEnglish work.’

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Women at Jesus – An Anniversary Event and Exhibition

The Anniversary Event

On 18 September 2004, nearly one hundred female Jesuans visited Jesus for a celebrationmarking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first admission of women undergraduates tothe college. The event was acclaimed a great success. It had taken more than a year ofplanning and organisation, carried out by a working party established for the purpose inFebruary 2003. This group was chaired by Professor Madeleine Arnot and also consistedof Dr Mary Laven, Professor Juliet Mitchell, the Development Director and two studentrepresentatives – Alison Phipps (as JCGS Women’s Officer) and Emma Broadbent (JCSUWomen’s Officer). They were later joined by old member Carolina Gonzalez-Carvajal(1979, one of the first women undergraduates), Dr Frances Willmoth (Archivist) and theReverend Jonathan Collis (Chaplain). Professor Michael Waring, as Fellows’ Steward,facilitated the provision of lunch, refreshments and the afternoon activities. TerrieMcCann, Development Office assistant, played a pivotal role in arranging practicaldetails of the day and ensuring the event ran smoothly.

The event opened with a reception in the master’s garden. At lunch the master made anintroductory speech of welcome, noting “that our College is dedicated to St Radegund,a saint who fostered female learning, and that the ancient buildings that form the coreof the college were occupied first by women, more than 800 years ago.” He went on tostate that “the decision to admit women undergraduates in 1979, after a gap of nearly500 years, has been one of the most important events in the entire life of the college.Everyone agrees that it was one of the best things that has happened to Jesus.” Later, asuccession of speakers took the floor to present their memories of their particular erasin college: Julia Swindells (1981) spoke on behalf of Lisa Jardine (the first woman fellow,1976), who was prevented from being present by illness; she was followed by ClareSambrook (JCR President 1983–4), Holly Linklater (JCSU President 1996–7), and KateLonie (Graduate Society President 2002–3). Clare suggested that it took about five yearsfor the presence of women to be fully accepted and to begin to be taken for granted byall residents, by which time a noticeable alteration in the attitudes (and manners) ofsome of the men had become evident.

During the afternoon, the guests split into groups to take part in a wide choice ofactivities. A few brave rowers went out on the river, in spite of the unpromising weather,while others of a sporting disposition played croquet in Chapel Court. Former members

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of the Chapel Choir joined the present Mixed Choir in rehearsal in order to singevensong later in the day. Lord Renfrew led a very popular tour of the college’s works ofart, ending with a glass of wine as an antidote to the damp. Drier indoor tours of theQuincentenary Library and Old Library were conducted at intervals through theafternoon, by Rhona Watson and Frances Willmoth. The Quincentenary Library alsoprovided a base for two interviewers (Alison Phipps and Philip Raymont), who invitedold members to record reminiscences of their time in College; more than a dozen tookup this invitation. Tea-time refreshments were provided for all the participants and theirfamilies, to help them recover from the exertions of the afternoon.

Evensong at six brought the day to a harmonious close. This took place at All SaintsChurch in Jesus Lane, just across from the college entrance, because Chapel was closedfor rewiring and refurbishment. Built in the 1860s, All Saints was designed by G. F.Bodley and decorated by William Morris and his associates; consequently it has featuresreminiscent of the college chapel, upon which they also worked. The service was led bythe Reverend Dr Jane Tillier, who as Pastoral Assistant at Jesus from 1984 to 1988 was thefirst woman to occupy a chaplain’s stall in a Cambridge college; the Reverend EmmaPercy (née Bray, 1982) gave an excellent sermon; Carolina Gonzalez-Carvajal and TerrieMcCann read the lessons: Proverbs 31, v. 10–31, which describes the capabilities, hardwork and managerial skills of the “virtuous woman” whose “price is far above rubies”,and Mark 15, v. 33–41, which comments on the role of women followers of Jesus at thecrucifixion and as supporters of His earlier ministry. The choir’s contribution includedthe anthem ‘O be joyful’ by Benjamin Britten. A retiring collection was donated to thework of CAMFED International, a charity that supports the education of girls in westernand southern Africa.

In her sermon, Emma Percy began by reflecting on the distance travelled in the twenty-five years since the first admission of women: “What felt like a momentous change thenseems pretty ordinary now ... and earlier debates about women in trousers at high tableand whether to use the term freshwomen seem quaint.” She went on to draw acomparison between developments in the education system and the situation in theChurch of England since the first ordination of women priests ten years ago: in botheducation and the church, “it is recognition and opportunity that women have soughtand a chance to offer their insights into the way we all work together.” She then turnedto the lessons just read, commenting that, despite the ways in which theology has beenused to the detriment of women, encouraging “snapshots of achieving women” havesurvived in Biblical narratives. These had informed her view “that my very femalenessmay contain insights about both the God in whose image I am made and the humanityof which I am a normative part,” and encouraged her “to write about my experiences ofmotherhood and the insights that experience has to offer in terms of leadership andhuman community relations”.

In the wider world, the last quarter of a century of women’s achievement may perhapsbe followed by a period in which “women become secure enough to allow theirexperiences to change the worlds in which they work and for men to become secureenough to listen and learn from those whose experience of being human is subtlydifferent and yet equally normal.” The men might even learn something about multi-tasking! In conclusion, Emma observed that in celebrating 25 years of women studentsat Jesus College, “we hope for a time when human beings will be truly valued for theirdiversity and men and women confidently able to learn from one another and we do sotrusting in a God who is beyond gender, who created men and women in the divineimage, that through the richness of human experience we may learn more of the divineand be a blessing both to God and each other.”

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A further feature of the day’s event, offering another means of reflecting on recentexperience, was an exhibition in the Quincentenary Library: Women at Jesus: History andReminiscences. The historical part of this was founded upon research speciallycommissioned by the college and carried out by Philip Raymont as research assistant, inclose collaboration with the archivist. The resulting exhibition, housed in the CreswickRoom, presented detailed records of discussions surrounding the 1974 decision toadmit women, and of the subsequent stages of the implementation of that decision – thefirst female fellow, the first female postgraduates, the first female research fellow –culminating in the arrival of the first women undergraduates in October 1979. It alsooffered illustrative material from a much longer historical background – recalling thesite’s former occupation by a medieval nunnery and the sometimes invisible but oftenindispensable presence of women throughout earlier centuries of college life. Thisdisplay has remained in place during the 2004–5 academic year, and a version of it willfind a long-term home on the college website. The other, complementary but moreinformal, display occupied the Garden Room during the anniversary celebration;assembled by Carolina Gonzales-Carvajal, it aimed to reflect the experience of womenmembers of Jesus College during their time here and their contribution to college lifeand the wider world. It included a number of evocative photographs and memorabilialoaned by alumnae, written reminiscences, records of professional careers, jewellerymade by professional craftswoman Alison Levy (1985), and an impressive array of book-jackets and publications, representing the work of current female fellows.

The Exhibition: History of Women at Jesus

The research carried out in preparation for the main event and the exhibition hasprovided many fresh insights into the college’s recent and less recent history. Some willbe illustrated in what follows here, with the aid of evidence from the college archives,Society and Council Minutes, the college magazine (The Chanticleer, alias Chanticlere) andthe college’s Annual Reports (J.C.C.S. Annual reports until to 1971). A final section,offering a picture of Jesus College as experienced by its women members in the pasttwenty-five years, is based upon the interviews taped on 18 September and associatedwritten reminiscences. These capture the ease with which the first women fitted into thecollege, though always aware of their minority status.

St Radegund. Its full title – “College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St John the Evangelistand the Glorious Virgin St Radegund” – is a reminder that the college, founded byBishop John Alcock in 1496, occupies the site of a Benedictine nunnery founded in thetwelfth century outside the Cambridge town boundary. The nunnery was technically apriory, ruled over by a prioress, and was dedicated to St Mary and St Radegund.Remnants of its buildings survive at the core of the college today and this historyaccounts for the distinctively peaceful and spacious character of the site. While adedication to the Blessed Virgin Mary or St Mary is not unusual among Cambridgecolleges, the dedication to St Radegund is unique to Jesus.

Radegund was a sixth-century Queen of the Franks, who separated from her husband tolive as a nun in a monastic house she founded at Poitiers. Links between that region andEngland multiplied following the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1152,and more than one of the people involved in supporting the Cambridge nunnery hadassociations that might have led them to seek St Radegund’s favour. CountessConstance, the widowed daughter-in-law of King Stephen and sister of Louis VII ofFrance, is likely to have looked to Radegund as a patron of widows; she made asignificant gift to the nuns before returning to France. King Malcolm IV of Scotland


(Earl of Huntingdon and Cambridge), visited Poitiers, the centre of Radegund’s cult, inthe course of a military campaign around the time of his main benefaction to the nuns.King Malcolm was traditionally credited with founding the nunnery and certainly gavethe land on which the nuns’ church – now the college chapel – was built; but Constancehas recently been put forward as a more plausible originator of the dedication. BishopAlcock chose to preserve the name (probably to give an impression of continuitybetween the nunnery and his new college) and it has been perpetuated in connectionwith college properties and activities: one can find Radegund Buildings in Jesus Lane,Radegund Road in the Station Estate, the St Radegund pub in King St, The Rhadegundsas a society for college sportspeople (specifically blues), and, in more recent years, TheSociety of St Radegund, created in 1994 as a way of honouring the college’s modernbenefactors.

St Radegund (sometimes spelt Rhadegund, Radegunda in Latin and Radegonde inFrench) was a woman with whom, in retrospect, the college might be well pleased toassociate, as she not only fostered female learning but is said to have exhibited suchvirtues as strength of character, humility and wisdom. Details of her life were recordedby her friend Venantius Fortunatus and by one of her nuns, Baudonivia; she also founda place in Gregory of Tours’ Historia Francorum. An anonymous verse Lyfe of SayntRadegunde, possibly by Henry Bradshaw, a monk at Chester, was published in 1525. Thestory goes that Radegund was a Thuringian princess who was captured as a child byClothaire I, a Frankish king, and later forced into marriage with him, becoming one ofhis seven recognised wives. He was a violent and unscrupulous man. Around the year552 AD, he treacherously murdered Radegund’s brother and she fled from the court; asshe had by then adopted the Christian faith and became acquainted with the saintlyBishop Medard, she sought sanctuary with him at Noyon and begged him to ordain herdeaconess. The bishop at first refused on the grounds that her married state disqualifiedher. With the pursuing king and his warriors at the door of the church, she hurried tothe sacristy and, laying aside her rich clothing and jewelled girdle, put on a religioushabit she found there, then returned to the altar and said to the bishop: “If thou shaltrefuse to consecrate me, and shall fear men rather than God, let the soul of the sheep berequired of the shepherd at thy hand!” Struck by this solemn adjuration, he consecratedher deaconess.

Through the mediation of another bishop, Germanus, the king was induced to consentto a separation, and Radegund retired to Poitiers, where she founded a doublemonastery. Living under the Rule of Caesaria of Arles, the cloistered sisters wererequired to be able to read and write, and to devote several hours of the day to readingthe scriptures and copying manuscripts, as well as such traditional female tasks asweaving and needlework. Radegund herself was not the abbess, but lived as a simplenun; she became renowned for her saintliness and was consulted by rulers of state. Herformer husband was eventually persuaded to respect her aims.

A copy of the 1525 Lyfe of Saynt Radegunde reached Jesus College as a gift from Dr Farmer, Master of Emmanuel College, in 1792. In 1926 Freddy Brittain republishedthis book as a complement to his 1925 work Saint Radegund, Patroness of Jesus College,Cambridge. The earlier volume provided a brief sketch of the saint’s life and cult and wasthe result of a visit the author had made to Poitiers in 1924. He expressed the hope thatthe book might have broader appeal than just to the membership of Jesus College, but“it will have achieved its object, even if it succeeds only in eradicating the error whichleads some to refer to the third and most distinctive patron as ‘he’”.


This suggests that the college’s memorywas either short or very selective. In 1886the wives and sisters of some members ofthe college, led by Mrs Morgan, themaster’s wife, had contributed to theplacing of a statue of St Radegund on theeastern side of the newly completedCarpenter building. It was designed as acompanion to St John, on the westernside, and the Virgin Mary, on the southernside, both presented by the master, HenryMorgan. All three were “from the studioof Mr Singer” – John Webb Singer ofFrome (working with his sons Herbertand Edgar). The Chanticleer reported thatwhile the men had noticed how “ourpatron saint sheds her sweet influencefrom an elevated niche in the ChapelCourt … We are ashamed to say that we haven’t the least idea of who St Rhadegund is.”

While considerable evidence of St Radegund’s career remains to us, most survivingrecords of the Cambridge nunnery are property deeds. This has not deterred attempts toportray its daily life. Arthur Gray, master from 1912 to 1940, wrote The Priory of StRadegund, Cambridge, published in 1898; his personal papers preserved in the collegearchives include a notebook containing material relating to his work on the book. Healso made use of his research to provide a background for one of his ghost stories(published as Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Gramarye, 1919), though its plot is entirelyfictional. More recent associations with the nunnery have come through excavations,undertaken for various practical purposes, which have resulted in the bones of nuns andof their medieval parishioners being disturbed and recovered.

Women in College. While some members of the college sporadically looked forinspiration to its forerunners and name-saints, the place and role of ordinary women inthe college over the centuries has varied. They were, at times, invisible, but were oftenindispensable; and sometimes their contribution was appreciated. Some of thesewomen lived at the college as wives and daughters of the master. Edmund Pierpoint,master from 1551 to 1557 was the first married master; it was only after 1882 that fellowswere also allowed to marry.

Other women dedicated their workinglives to the college as members of staff,including one college cook, Mrs Willis,who succeeded her late husband in thatonerous role in 1830. Others stillenhanced the life and reputation of thecollege through generous benefactionsand gifts. Texts of the annualCommemoration of Benefactors servicepreserved from earlier centuries illustratevery clearly the generosity of severalwomen in funding scholarships. Latergifts might be valuable additions to the


Mrs and Henry Morgan with speaking trumpet

collection of works of art, like Mrs Gordon’s presentation of silver candlesticks, finetankards and a collection of plate in 1969, or Lady Martin’s gift in 1971 which enabled aportrait of James I to be acquired, or academic, like Mrs Allhusen’s foundation in 1905of a science prize in honour of her husband, Mr F. E. Allhusen. Finally there were somewomen who wrote about the college and its members. In 1914, Iris and Gerda Morgan,daughters of Henry Morgan, published The Stones and Story of Jesus Chapel Cambridge, aproject which they started many years earlier as a small volume containing drawings anda short history of the chapel; their completed volume is over three hundred pages inlength. Iris also published a Memoir of her late father in 1927. A few decades on, PhyllisTillyard, wife of E. M. W. Tillyard (Master 1945–59), compiled a detailed history of theMaster’s Lodge.

Students, of course, had relativelylittle contact with the master’s familybut much more with college staff. Ifthe annals of the college magazine areany indication, the women employedas bedmakers held a special place inthe hearts of college men. Sometimesit was suggested they interfered a littlemore than they might, and protestmight be recommended “To make yousee that I will brook None of yourdamned domestic interference!”;there were also frivolous debates as towhether ‘bedders’ should beabolished. But reports of these standalongside grateful acknowledgmentsof their often life-time devotion to thecollege and its students. In 1943, forexample, Mrs E. Gray retired afterfifty-six years as a bedmaker havingserved earlier as a ‘help’, adding up toa period of sixty years in the service ofthe college. At the same time two

others retired having spent twenty-nine and twenty-five years in their posts. The firstCollege Nurse was appointed in 1946 and she also gave long and meritorious service,staying until her retirement in 1975.

Still other women, closer to their own age, enlivened the lives of the students, especiallyin the earlier part of the twentieth century. Young ladies might perform at a collegeconcert, or alongside the men on the stage, or appear as partners at a May Ball.Recounting a successful ball in 1902, a Jesuan noted that at four o’clock in the morning,when the photograph was taken, not only was “the sun shining brightly, the birdssinging”, but “The complexions of the ladies stood the ordeal of morning light mostnobly”. Sometimes, it might be said, the men thought of themselves as exuding greatcharm upon the ladies, as a 1949 poem by Hobson entitled Sexual Behaviour of the JesusMale suggested:

I’ve a girl up at Girton who will sometimes come to tea;I’ve another up at Newnham who will not;There’s another at Homerton whose name I’ve quite forgot –She’s an Homerton foot beagler – and her scent’s enough for me.


From Chanticlere, Michaelmas term 1924

As students at the women’s colleges became more numerous and less firmly chaperoned,members of Girton and Newnham participated in lively debates against those of Jesus;several such occasions are recorded in Chanticlere and in the Roosters’ minutes (where it isdifficult to guess what the visitors thought of some of the jokes made at their expense,though they were quick to respond in kind).

But Jesuan debaters also burdened themselves with more serious issues – whether womenshould be admitted to the professions, whether it was acceptable for women to smoke,and even whether women should be entitled to join them as academic equals. Some in LentTerm 1888 felt “knowledge turned sour in the female mind and made them acid”, otherswere concerned that the admission of women into the professions would bring normaldomestic life to an end, while still others liked women as they were and insisted that therewould be dangers in setting women on an equal footing. When it came to the question ofsmoking, the Common Room in Lent Term 1890 voted in favour of women being allowedto smoke, mainly because they favoured women’s rights and a gentleman “would not denyhis fair friends a pleasure in which he indulged himself”, but this was only after someopponents had attempted to draw a line between ladies and women, only the latter beingpermitted to smoke. Even in 1889, some members of the college recognised that theirviews on the place of women might be seen in future years as examples of bigotry. Onewriter in the 1889 Easter Term edition of The Chanticleer suggested that in 2070 AD a femaleFellow when speaking of the college “during the dark ages” might mention the shape ofan eight oar and the incredible brutality of football, while recognising that ladies, due tothe bigotry of men, were not allowed to be members of the male colleges.

Discussions about admitting women. The college did not wait until 2070 to alter itscomposition. The first archival record to allude to the possibility that Jesus College mightconsider admitting women is a Society minute of 8 June 1964. This states that “Notice wasgiven of a proposal ‘that the Council be asked to investigate and report on how the Collegecould be made a mixed Society of men and women.’” But the climate was not yet right forthe matter to be taken any further – the proposal seems never to have been put to Council– and the next relevant document comes from a decade later. This is a paper entitled,‘Admissions for 1974’ written by the then senior tutor, Bruce Sparks, in the January of thatyear. It indicated that he was concerned about the continuing decline in the number ofapplications by men to Cambridge colleges; while Jesus College had actually received onemore application than the year before, the ratio of applicants to places of 1.75 to 1 was nocause for satisfaction, even though the college usually met its need for 125 men by takinga few pool students. While he was comfortable enough with that situation, it was obviousthat the senior tutor was looking longingly at the increasing number of applications, for areduced number of places for men, being obtained by the colleges that were alreadyaccepting women students: “It seems likely from present experience that mixed collegeswill be popular and likely to have a larger share in better quality applicants.” To avoid beingaccused of succumbing to changing societal attitudes associated with the political cry ofequality of opportunity for both sexes, Sparks was emphatic that “these argumentsconcern only the intellectual standards of the College”.

Momentum was maintained with the election of Sir Alan Cottrell as master on 16 April1974. Further discussions, highlighting a greater range of reasons for admitting women,soon followed.

A paper submitted to the Society by Dr John Adkins made a number of points. First, hestated that, in the context of current social attitudes, a mixed society made for a morehappy, stable, enjoyable and stimulating community. Secondly, because the University ofCambridge accepted only seventeen per cent of women as opposed to a national average ofthirty per cent, it was clear that women were being rejected who were better than some ofthe men admitted, a situation exemplified by the decision of King’s College to admit “on


purely academic grounds” a proportion of women undergraduates which representedforty-five percent of their intake. Thirdly, any college “which drags their feet over thisissue” would lose out in the short term by the greater restriction on possible choices andin the longer term by gaining an image that would do harm for many years, not least inhow it would affect the quality of the fellowship. The opposing position, expressed by theretired dean, Dr Percy Gardner-Smith, preferred profound caution and close observationof “the result of a feminine invasion in other colleges which have taken the plunge” beforetaking any action; he was less concerned with the academic rationale for the admission ofwomen and was keen that the college should be seen as much more than an institutionproducing graduates: “there is no denying the character of the College would be changed”.In highlighting this apprehension he wondered if old Jesus men, whose devotion to theCollege was revealed in their generous response to various appeals, “might lose theirenthusiasm for a co-educational establishment”.

Opinions might differ amongst the fellowship, but the J.C.R. Executive was clear in itsbelief that “support for co-residence within the undergraduate body is known to be great”;it had been pressing for this reform for some time. Undergraduate opinion in favour of co-residence was predicated on a belief that education should be open to all those capable ofgaining from it, regardless of sex, as well as other social and financial factors. To that end,the J.C.R. Executive’s submission to the Society regarding amendments to the CollegeStatutes (10 June 1974) argued that a larger degree of equality could only be obtainedwithin Cambridge by a change in the admissions procedures of most colleges, involving,at the very least, removal of the restriction based on difference of sex. Their submissioncontended that the 8,000 students of the university were as united as any group of that sizecould be in wishing to see an end to discrimination on the grounds of sex. On the broaderquestion of what ‘equality’ might actually be, the J.C.R. were of the opinion that Jesus menfavoured “free academic competition” whereby places were offered to the best applicantsirrespective of their sex, as opposed to the Cambridge Student Union’s stated position of“positive discrimination”, where women would be favoured in faculties where it could beargued they had been disadvantaged at school. Unlike the senior tutor, who seemed mostanxious to base his support for women on the need to improve academic standards, thestudents’ submission indicated that this argument had not been influential amongstundergraduates. The J.C.R. Executive believed that the improvement the Senior Tutorsought would be an inevitable consequence of equality of opportunity.

On the 13 June 1974, only three days after this J.C.R. document was submitted, the Societydecided that it was “desirable that the College should have the power to admit women asmembers if they wished to do so”. This power could only be obtained by abolishing oramending the 1926 College Statute, Statute 1.6, which stated “No woman shall be electedor admitted as Pensioner, Scholar, Officer, Fellow, or Master of the College”. To assistconsideration of how the change could best be made, the Senior Tutor was asked toprepare a statement of conditions which should govern the admission of women. At thenext Society meeting, he reported that the interconnected questions – about whether toimpose quotas, admissions procedures, women fellows, domestic segregation and thetiming of the entry of women – were “all perfectly soluble if there is the slightest will toresolve them”. He thought 1977 the earliest year that women could be admitted, and insummation claimed that “the only real decision is whether to admit women”.

In keeping with his previous pronouncements on the reasons for admitting women,Sparks was keen to promote the introduction of women into the fellowship; but he saw nojustification for electing women fellows on criteria different from men, and atdisproportionate expense. He was sure that many of the male fellows would be just as wellequipped to advise women as might “a middle-aged spinster in a women’s college”. He opposed segregated living, believing this demonstrated a lack of trust, though he was


prepared to countenance “an odd loo or two with appropriate pictorial symbols in this non-literate age”. As a matter of principle, he held the view that women could make the choiceto apply to the college or to “opt out if they objected to being treated equally with men”.

On 22 November 1974, the Society decided that Statute 1.6 should be repealed (amongst aseries of alterations to other college statutes). But the desire to move towards admittingwomen had not only to gain the support of the Society; it had also to negotiate a range ofprotocols put in place by the Colleges’ Standing Consultative Committee on EqualOpportunities for Men and Women. This body existed to ensure an orderly and gradualtransition towards co-residence across the University, thereby allaying certain fears of thewomen’s colleges (chiefly, the fear that they might lose out if the best female applicantswere suddenly all attracted to former men’s colleges). During March 1975 negotiationstook place with the Consultative Committee to establish an acceptable timetable foradmissions to Jesus College. On 30 May 1975 the Society formally adopted a new set ofstatutes for the College by a margin of thirty-seven to three, with two abstentions, and dulysubmitted them for the approval of “Her Majesty in Council” (the Privy Council). They wereapproved on 4 March 1976. In the meantime, a time-table was agreed; a statement of intentto admit women for the first time in 1980 was issued on 21 July 1975.

The first action taking advantage of the new statutes came at a Council meeting on 10 May1976, when Dr Lisa Anne Jardine was elected a fellow, on the proposal of the master and thesenior tutor. Jardine was at that time a fellow and assistant lecturer in English at King’sCollege, Cambridge. Having read mathematics and English as an undergraduate atNewnham College, she had pursued research at the University of Essex, as a research fellowat Girton College and as a post-doctoral fellow at Cornell. Thus this daughter of Dr JacobBronowski (1908–74), a sometime scholar and honorary fellow at Jesus, became the firstwoman entitled to membership of the College. Less than one month later, the GraduateTutor, Dr John Killen, pointed out to the College Council that other colleges that hadchanged their statutes to permit women becoming members were proposing to admitwomen graduates. He thought no particular problems would arise from such a move, and,while the college’s two graduate hostel-keepers were not enthusiastic, they were resigned tothe change and could envisage no problems arising. Council concurred and the first womenpostgraduates (five of them) were admitted in 1978.

The idea of having to queue along with other colleges before being permitted to implementthe admission of women undergraduates created a sense of frustration. Another ingredienthastening change was the Sex Discrimination Bill, which was before Parliament in thesummer of 1975 and came into force, as the Sex Discrimination Act, in January 1976.College Council was concerned about the likely effects of provisions of this Act andconsequently resolved, on 15 December 1976, to admit women as undergraduates in 1979.This would be a year earlier than had previously been indicated to the Colleges’ StandingConsultative Committee, but was the date ultimately adhered to.

To complete, as it were, the set of forms of membership, the first woman research fellowwas elected on the 14 February 1977. This was Vivian Law, the holder of a CanadianCommonwealth Scholarship at Girton, with first class honours in both classics andGerman from McGill University. Her research subject was “Anglo- and Hiberno-Latingrammatical treatises of the seventh and eighth centuries and their influence onContinental grammarians”. (Dr Law remained in Cambridge as lecturer in the history oflinguistics, latterly reader in the history of linguistic thought and a fellow of TrinityCollege, until her untimely death in 2002.) While at Jesus, she was joined by two researchfellows in English, both admitted in October 1978: Dr Susanne Kappeler (studying theworks of Henry James) and Kathleen Wheeler (an expert on Coleridge, looking closely athis Biographia Literaria).


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While these decisions about women gaining membership were taking place, significantchanges were also being made to accommodate the needs of female guests. In 1975 thefellowship moved to change dining arrangements for wives of fellows, Jesus College beingonly one of three colleges still maintaining a distinction between these and academicwomen. The Jesus College Cambridge Annual Report of 1975 announced the changes, whichabolished the former annual ‘Ladies’ Nights’ and provided for women guests, includingwives, to be introduced at High Table on most ordinary nights and at the four LesserExceedings.

Along with the changing economiccircumstances came changing socialnorms which affected the feminisationof student life. One of the moresymbolic events was the decision ofCouncil in February 1975, followingstrong representation from the J.C.R.,to abolish the sex distinction previouslyapplied in guest regulations. TheTutorial Board, in making itsrecommendation on this matter, agreedto support the change because thedetection of breaches of the rules hadbecome impracticable, but at the sametime it wished to affirm its disapprovalof the accommodation of womenguests in men’s rooms. Councilexpressed the hope “that members ofthe College will share its view that

women guests should be accommodated in the guest rooms available”. As the J.C.R. noted,Tutorial Board and Council objections were based entirely on moral considerations, for theregulations permitted male guests and female family members to stay in undergraduaterooms. While keen that undergraduates (all of whom were over the age of legal majority)should be assumed to be capable of deciding their own moral position, the J.C.R. alsoargued that the moral force of the college’s position was unclear given that the appropriaterules were never strictly enforced, and, when they were, it placed an unfair burden of choice– between reporting students and turning a ‘blind eye’ – upon porters and bedders, who ifthey worked in most other colleges would not be faced with such a dilemma.

The decision to admit women students meant that the college authorities needed toconsider domestic and tutorial implications. A comprehensive report was prepared inFebruary 1977 by a committee led by Lisa Jardine. They took the view that there should notbe any overall percentage quota of women and that in making the necessary arrangementswith reference to showers, bathrooms, washbasins, lavatories, launderettes, hostels andgyp facilities, “women should be assured of comfort and privacy in the first instance andthat we should be prepared and ready for further modifications as experience dictates”. Thecommittee recommended that women should be in mixed tutorial groups, but, on anyoccasion that a specific problem arose, a woman or married family man could be calledupon as a ‘consultant’ tutor.

The college received 125 applications from women for admission in 1979, representingthirty per cent of total applications. The thirty-one women who arrived in early October1979 constituted twenty-seven percent of the total number of students accepted. Twenty-one percent of the awards were gained by women, three as scholars and eight asexhibitioners. At the same time, no loss of interest by male applicants was experienced;


From Chanticlere, Michaelmas term 1949

on the contrary, their total number exceeded that in the previous year, which had alreadyshown a dramatic increase “quite atypical of the University”. There was overall anincrease in post-A-level applications, to be considered on A-levels and interview alone,though very few were accepted on this basis; more were told to go away and take theentrance examination. In providing such details for the information of the fellowship,the senior tutor observed “Women are apparently far less nervous at interviews thanmen, but seemingly lose their cool more easily if needled or provoked”. He also added:“True to the College traditions we have accepted a girl whose other qualificationsinclude swimming in the 100 and 200m butterfly in the Commonwealth Games”.

Curiously, the most negative reaction to the new situation did not come from withinCollege but just outside, from a band of women with a territory of their own to guard.The fellow for rooms met with considerable resistance when trying to makearrangements for women undergraduates’ accommodation during the 1980–1 academicyear, as all but one of the lodging-house keepers expressed strong opposition to theaccommodation of female undergraduates, either in mixed or single-sex houses. Thereasons they gave were described by the fellow for rooms as ludicrous. Comments inreminiscences by students suggest the lodging-house keepers’ protests were probablyexpressed in terms of practical issues – that young women would demand highstandards of domestic comfort and use unacceptable quantities of hot water – while theunderlying problem seems most likely to have been a perceived threat to their own well-established dominance over houses full of young men. But this seems to have beenthe one real hiccup in an otherwise smooth transition.

The women quickly established their presence in student life: Elizabeth Bellamy becamethe first woman on the J.C.R. Committee, which looked forward to having its firstwoman president (achieved with the election of Helen Warburton in the year 1981–2).The first chapel service sung by a mixed choir took place on St Radegund’s Day 1981,with the formal foundation of the Mixed Choir occurring soon afterwards. Many womentook up rowing and other sports: in the first year a women’s novice eight was formed,constituting the start of J.C.W.B.C, and a ladies’ squash team was assembled; a mixedhockey team was joined in 1981–2 by a Women’s 1st XI, which had the chance to play ina new women’s league in the following year. Netball appears in the club reports from1983–4 and Ladies’ Football from 1984–5; 1986–7 was the first year in which a ladies’team played league badminton, and in 1987–8 there was a four-woman team ofswimmers. Women’s rugby was in existence by 1990–1.

By the time of the Quincentenary celebrations in 1996, there were enough female Jesuansfor a Women’s Dinner to form part of the festivities, and this event was repeated on agrander scale in 1997. In 1996, too, Mrs Muriel Brittain was appointed a life fellow-commoner, “in recognition of her unique and devoted contribution to the life of theCollege for a period exceeding twenty-five years” (as the wife of former fellow, FreddyBrittain, Muriel was given special permission in 1965 to live in College with her husband;since his death she has played an invaluable role in maintaining records of old members,


Women’s Rugby Union Football Club 1990–1 Women’s eight 1979–80. Kindly lent by Carolina Gonzalez-Carvajal

keeping in touch with them, and helping to compile Annual Reports). In the late autumnof 1996, honorary fellow Jessye Norman (1989) sang at a memorable celebratory concertin Chapel.

In recent years women’s creative work has appeared in a college setting through theparticipation of women artists in the biennial sculpture exhibitions. The first suchexhibitor was Veronica Ryan, originally from Montserrat, who spent 1987–8 at Jesus as‘artist in residence’ (as Kettle’s Yard Arts Council Fellow). She showed four sculptures inthe first exhibition in 1988, which she helped organise. One of the most memorablecontributions was displayed in 1996: in Nina Saunders’ installation Pure Thought Part 1,“the windows of the south side of first Court were all obscured by panels of whiteleatherette,” in imitation of padded furniture. Her related sculpture Pure thought Part 2took the form of a pregnant sofa, placed in Chapel. These challenging works could betaken as a reminder not to become complacent about progress. To help mark the 25thanniversary, the Works of Art Committee decided to include five female artists asparticipants in this year’s exhibition.

Reminiscences

Well, was it a total success? What did the women who benefited from these decisionsthink? Seventeen of the returning alumnae responded to the invitation to record onaudiotape some of their thoughts about the college. They were asked to comment on whythey applied to Jesus, their first impressions of the place, any emblematic stories orreminiscences, what it was like to be a woman here, and finally what those days meant tothem in retrospect. The group was made up of undergraduates from throughout theperiod (reading for a broad cross-section of disciplines) a number of graduates, includingone part-time mature student, a pastoral assistant and a fellow. Their commentscomplement the reminiscences recorded on paper by other alumnae, included in theGarden Room section of the exhibition and now preserved in the college archives. Theanalysis that follows must be read with one caveat in mind: those reminiscing were a self-selected sample.

The contributors’ mixture of reasons for coming here and their initial impressions weremuch as one would expect of any cohort of students, male or female; the graduates hadslightly different concerns, but again without any obvious link to gender. Manyundergraduates, from whatever background, came from co-educational schools or atleast had experienced being taught in mixed groups; they show no signs, at any stage, ofhaving worried about sharing their academic activities with the opposite sex. Most of thedoubts senior members may have had about it were soon overcome; one fellow hascommented that, although he was initially reluctant to see the college’s character altered,he swiftly changed his mind on finding that the women students were much keener towork hard than their male counterparts. Where the students’ remarks about their firstimpressions include any negative comments on gender-related issues, they tend not toconcern academic matters but aspects of general culture and attitudes: “being excludedfrom a number of college activities and institutions due to my sex”, the dominance ofsport and sporting clubs, particularly for rowing and rugby, in which women had noimmediate place, and the emphasis on consuming large quantities of alcohol. There wasalso one comment that the fact that the serving staff and porters were all male tended togive the place “a rather Dickensian” atmosphere.

Some of these issues are echoed again in women’s more general comments on theircollege experience. There is some variation depending on the era, but even in the 1990s,when women made up around a third of the undergraduates, it could seem that tokenismwas at times exercised towards the women and that the College was still an “Old Boys’


Club”. For the women who played sport, however, it seems that such issues werecomparatively unimportant; from the earliest years, some specifically say that, althoughthere was a very male atmosphere, they fitted in because they were very “sporty”. Agraduate squash-player continued to play in the men’s league as well as the women’sonce the latter had been created (after the arrival of the undergraduates), though she wasirritated to find that on earning her half-blue in the sport she was not invited to join theRhadegunds. In general, the variety of opportunities to participate in sports was widelyvalued, and those who did so reported that the men were generous and encouraging tothe women’s sports teams. A successful rower commented: “we were respected becausewe did well at rowing, in fact made to feel a bit special”. A couple of the first graduateswere welcomed on board men’s eights as coxes – at least until the captain of boats andcollege boatman found out.

At the same time, a few of the shyer or less sporty women could feel threatened by therowdy and “lecherous” behaviour of the “rugby boys”, along with “initiation ceremonies,tribalism and the destructiveness of the men’s drinking societies”; the idea of womenfounding their own drinking societies could be viewed with some ambivalence by otherwomen. Whilst agreeing that these should, in principle, have an equal right to exist, onecommentator at least found it disappointing to see women so committed to imitating maletraditions when a more critical and radical approach could have been hoped for. Anotherobserved, with some regret, that her fellow women undergraduates were not political andmostly resisted or ignored any attempts to radicalise them.

Graduate students judged that it was in their circle that women had the highest profile, anda far greater impact than their numbers would have suggested: one recalls that GraduateHall was transformed into “a wonderful social occasion”, because “members felt muchmore comfortable inviting their wives/girlfriends to dine when there were guaranteed to beother women present”. The women valued having a variety of other students to talk to,appreciated the facilities available – their own rooms and computers, the use of a computerroom and research costs paid – and were grateful that they were being helped towardsgetting a job. At the same time, they could not but be aware from their observations of theundergraduate and senior sectors of the college that it remained predominantly a maleinstitution. One, who was a member of College Council and had set up a feminist group todiscuss women’s and leftist issues, recalls her surprise at the low profile of women; therewere not many women on Council and she felt that some fellows had “an unthinkingdisinterest” in women. On the other hand, the relative scarcity of women fellows mightmean that their presence was especially noticed: students at all levels mention theirappreciation of Lisa Jardine’s encouragement and helpfulness; other women fellows wereappointed in due course, and students could also turn for advice to Jane Tillier, PastoralAssistant to the Dean from 1984, and to Ros Hunt, the first female chaplain, from 1988.

Graduates and undergraduates shared an appreciation of many other positive features ofcollege life. For the first groups, there was the pride and pleasure associated with beingpioneers and being part of the college’s history, which made them willing to put up withsome of the inconveniences inevitably attached to that status. They were often pleasantlysurprised by the welcome they received – for instance, the first graduate student to sign inat the Porter’s Lodge in 1978 recalled that “Mr West, then Head Porter, was thrilled towelcome ‘the first woman since the nuns left’”; others noted their appreciation of the waythe porters seemed to look out for women students. For those who came later, there wasthe perception that the college’s culture was gradually changing in ways that made womenmore comfortable (one commenting that the men had been “tamed” even by 1981), andthat they could assist in ensuring that process continued. In the late 1980s security issuescame to the fore, with self–defence classes provided, and lights and alarms placed in the


basements and cellars where students did their washing and took their baths. Thedevelopment of a statement of ‘policy and guidance on harassment’ for students and staffwas another landmark, in 1994.

At all stages, the support provided by other women was of great importance to many. Itarose in an informal way through individual friendships, but was also fostered by eventsorganised by the Women’s Officer, such as a regular ‘women’s breakfast’. TheQuincentenary celebrations in 1996 included a Women’s Dinner, at which Lisa Jardine,as guest of honour, recalled the hazards of being inducted to her fellowship in Chapelwhile in the late stages of pregnancy. A second Women’s Dinner in the following yearwas held in Hall, on a grander scale; Professor Sandra Dawson was guest of honour, andspecial tribute was paid to Lady Renfrew for her contribution to college life during herhusband’s mastership (1986–96). A participant noted that in the same year a survey wasmade of Jesus women graduates and a ‘resource book’ of contact details compiled to aidnetworking; she added that “one of my strongest memories is of a rather feminisedgraduation – with Jana Howlett marching us all proudly to the Senate House” (Dr Howlett was the college’s praelector from 1992 to 2002).

When the interviewees were asked, “Looking back, what did it mean to you to have spentthose years at Jesus?”, words like “fantastic”, “honoured” and “privileged” rang fromtheir lips. Intellectually, they believed they had received an extremely high-qualityeducation, in a place that was a kind of “half-way house”, teaching them through theexperience of supervisions to have confidence in themselves and talk to anyone withoutfeeling intimidated. It was also a “half-way house” socially, where the women felt safe toenjoy their freedom to be themselves, and to develop a range of extra-curricular activities– not only sports, but theatre and music. They enjoyed a great deal of camaraderie, whilelearning to fend for themselves under the oversight of the porters and senior members.A few look back with regret for all the interesting people they could have met but didn’t,as they now realise they had been too young to appreciate some of the opportunitiesavailable. But most respondents said the overall result was “altogether a greatexperience”, and one that left them with a warm affection for the institution that hadprovided it. One added “It’s a hard act to follow”.

The celebration thus not only commemorated the historic decision made in 1974 andfirst admission of women undergraduates in 1979, but reflected twenty-five years of thesuccessful integration of women into college life. In 2004 the college was home tonineteen women fellows, ninety women graduates and two hundred and thirty-sevenwomen undergraduates. One alumna attending the celebration expressed her delightthat the college now has more female than male undergraduates, and that a baby hadbeen present at the celebratory lunch. The process of development has, of course, beena gradual one, and not merely a question of numbers; it has included, for instance, theincreasing chance that women might be taught by women, as well as by men, and mightencounter them holding other offices as the variety of posts held by women hasexpanded. The opening up of sporting and club activities to women’s participation wasalso something that did not happen overnight. Recent minor landmarks include thearrival of the college’s first female porter, Helen Stephens, which attracted some interestfrom the press, and in the appointment of Nicola Rogers (1990) as the university’s firstever female Esquire Bedell. A major landmark has just been reached, with theannouncement of Jana Howlett’s election by the Society as the college’s first femalePresident. Dame Sandra Dawson (once a fellow here) was elected Master of SidneySussex in 1999, but the election of the first female Master of Jesus is still to come.

Frances Willmoth, Philip Raymont, Mary Laven and Madeleine Arnot, for the Working Group.


Early American Connections

The links between Jesus College and the British colonies in North America were notextensive. This was typical of most Cambridge colleges, except, famously, EmmanuelCollege which supplied so many pulpits in New England and helped to created HarvardCollege. For its part, Jesus sent the occasional minister, received the stray sons of planters,and looked upon these far parts with much indifference. In the seventeenth and earlyeighteenth centuries, little or no distinction would have been made between those colonieswhich subsequently became the United States, Canada, and various West Indian countries,for all belonged to a zone of British power, unstably holding its own against imperialcompetition from France, the Netherlands, Spain, and the Native Americans who tried toresist conquest and avoid extinction. So the college would have regarded as “American”undergraduates like Thomas Fultun and Samuel Alpress, who came from Jamaica aspensioners in 1713 and 1756, and Butler Fenton and Joseph Webbe who came likewise in1732 and 1733 from the “West Indies”, about which the college records are thus vague.

It is probable, though difficult to prove – we have only scraps of information – thatfamilial connections with Cambridge were often of moment. This was certainly the casewith Maryland’s Peter Dent (b.1667), who came from St. Mary’s County on the WesternShore of Chesapeake Bay to the college in 1700.1 The Dents were originally a Yorkshirefamily from Gisborough in the North Riding, who migrated in substantial numbers tothe Americas. Of those that remained in England, another Peter Dent (ca. 1628/9–89) ofOrmsby in Yorkshire attended Trinity College, Cambridge, became an apothecary,surgeon, and botanist in the city, where he came to own properties in the parish of HolySepulchre and belonged to the circle of friends who gathered around John Ray, to whoseHistoria Plantarum (1686–1704) Dent contributed useful observations.2 His cousin, athird Peter Dent (1637/8–1717) also lived in Cambridge and seems to have furnishedfood to colleges. So the Peter Dent who came from Maryland, matriculated at JesusCollege as a sizar on 13 November 1700 at the unusually-advanced age of 23, was givena Mr Marsden as a tutor, but never obtained a degree, arrived in a Cambridge wherefamily members were much to hand.

His father was Captain John Dent (ca. 1645–1712) and his mother Mary Hatch(1647–1725/26). It is likely that the former was born in Yorkshire and was a nephew ofthe more-notable Thomas Dent (1630–76), who went to Maryland in about 1660,became a barrister and judge, and made a tidy extra living by arranging thetransportation of indentured servants; at his death at “Nanjamie”, his plantation, heowned more than a thousand acres and had an estate valued at £596.8.0, or, as hard-headed local usage had it, the equivalent of 130,129 pounds of tobacco. The estateincluded, among other things, six slaves and eight indentured servants. John Dent – hismilitary title came from being militia Captain of the Foot for Chaptico Hundred – wasscarcely less affluent but more turbulent, since he played a role in the insurrection of1681 which tried to overthrow, and that of 1689 which succeeded in expelling theproprietary rule of Charles Calvert, the third Lord Baltimore. (Calvert was Roman

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1. The best source is Harry Wright Newman, The Maryland Dents: A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Judge Thomas Dent and Captain John Dent Who Settled Early in the Province of Maryland (Richmond, VA: Dietz Press, 1963); excerpts from it can be found athttp://members.aol.com/lewilde76/genmain/dent/john1_mdd_article.html.

2. F. Horsman, “Peter Dent,” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Volume 15, Daly-Dewar, ed. H. C. G.Matthew and Brian Harrison (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 851–52.

Catholic, the Dents Protestant.) The Captain prospered and lived well, not least byowning and then selling Cool Spring, whose waters were said – mostly by him – topossess healing powers. In his will, dated 3 September 1711, he disposed of 2591 acres tohis various children, of whom he had nine, Peter Dent of Jesus College being the eldest.3

The will gives a clue that all had not been well between father and son. That Peter Dentcame to Cambridge as a sizar, that is, an undergraduate who paid his way by serving inhall, would suggest that he came without his father’s blessing and money. In 1711, at least,the father seems to have been very uncertain about his son’s fate. Land was reserved forhim in the will, but only “if my son Peter Comes to Maryland to settle”, which he evidentlynever did and so never obtained, among other things, “all that tract of Land CalledHorserange 200 acres”, which by default went to his sister Christian. Peter never obtaineda Cambridge degree, either, and it seems likely that he stayed in England, in a manner andplace now lost to memory.

Less obscure is East Apthorp (1733–1816), who sounds like a village, but was in fact aworldly Anglican minister from Boston, where his father was a merchant.4 The youngerApthorp was educated at the Boston Latin School, then matriculated at Jesus College in1751, received his B.A. in 1755, his M.A. in 1758, won the Chancellor’s Medal in 1755,and was a fellow from 1758 to 1761. Then he became a missionary for the Society forPropagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the particular foreign part being Cambridge,Massachusetts, where Apthorp established the first Anglican congregation, ChristChurch, amid that sea of Congregationalists and set himself up with a munificencewhich much troubled the locals, inclined to stern minimalism.5 From his inheritance,Apthorp built what John Adams was later to speak of as “a great house, at that timethought to be a splendid palace”, set in many acres, extending down to the Charles River.The house still survives, is still called Apthorp House and now serves as the Master’sResidence for Adams House of Harvard College. In the early 1760s, however, it came tobe called the “Bishop’s Palace”, to denote the inhabitant’s pretensions and ambitions.In 1764 Apthorp, much bruised by Congregationalist abuse (especially from JonathanMayhew), returned to England and there rose with unspectacular regularity through thehierarchy: he was vicar of Croydon (1765–93) and rector of Saint Mary-le-Bow,Cheapside (1778–92). In about 1790, he became blind and briefly became Chancellor ofSt. Paul’s Cathedral (1791–92) and in 1796 a prebendary of Finsbury, a lucrative sinecureattached to the same cathedral. In his last years, he came back to Cambridge, which ishow he came to rest in the North Transept of the college chapel, where he lies beneath ablack marble slab. Apthorp was a dutiful and orthodox author, who delivered worthy andunnoted discourses on prophecy, missionary work, “the felicity of the times”, the“character and example of a Christian woman”, sacred music and poetry – he thoughtwell of the fine arts which “under the conduct of a good imagination, have so muchinfluence in polishing and humanizing the mind” – but he was fleetingly and bestknown for contributing to those “vollies of ... Ecclesiastical ordnance”, which tried topepper Edward Gibbon. Apthorp’s Letters on the Prevalence of Christianity, Before Its CivilEstablishment: With Observations on a Late History of the Decline of the Roman Empire (1778) issaid to have earned him preferment at Saint Mary-le-Bow. At the time, the historian wasless than amused, even a little startled, but did note that Apthorp said little or nothing of

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3. The text can be seen at http://members.aol.com/lewilde76/genmain/dent/john1_will.html.

4. Evert A. Duyckinck and George L. Duyckinck, eds., Cyclopedia of American Literature (New York: CharlesScribner, 1856), 1:144. The best source is John C. Shields, “East Apthorp,” in Oxford Dictionary ofNational Biography: Volume 2, Amos-Avery, ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 2004), 309–11.

5. See http://hcs.harvard.edu/-adams/history.php.

substance in the mere three pages devoted to refuting Gibbon and but promised a futurevolume, which was never to appear. In retrospect, in his memoirs, Gibbon recovered hisamusement and observed that, by his useful skepticism, he had “enjoyed the pleasure of...collating Dr Apthorpe to an Archiepiscopal living”.6 So Apthorp is best known, asmany eighteenth-century clerics are, for being the object of Gibbon’s wit. The fact isunrecorded on the tombstone, which instead speaks of Apthorp’s expectation ofChrist’s mercy in life eternal, which is a different sort of immortality. But Apthorp, wholiked music in sacred places, might be pleased to know that today the chapel’s grandpiano often sits above his grave.

Of the Jesuans who went from east to west, the most famous, of course, is John Eliot, theso-called “Apostle to the Indians”, the founder of the Roxbury Latin School, and thetranslator of the Bible into the Algonquin language. He has been much described, notleast, recently, with useful crispness on the college’s website, so a repetition here isunnecessary. Less famous in modern times, but perhaps more notable in theseventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was Francis Higginson (1588–1630). Even in1891, a little eccentrically, a New York publisher thought it worthwhile to include him asone of the “Makers of America”, in a series which memorialised figures like JohnWinthrop, Thomas Jefferson, and Charles Sumner.7 Earlier, Cotton Mather, the mostindefatigable of Puritan historians and, infamously, the chief agitator of the SalemWitch Trials, in the Magnalia Christi Americana (1702), that majestic and wayward jeremiadcelebrating the founding of New England and chastising its subsequent degeneracy,thought it right to place Francis Higginson as the first of Puritan divines. Subsequenthistories, notably the canonical work of Perry Miller on the Puritan mind, have notendorsed that judgement, but Boston in 1702 thought otherwise.

Francis Higginson’s father John was also a Jesuan – his M.A. came in 1568 – whobecame the Perpetual Vicar of Claybrooke in Leicestershire, and had several sons, one ofwhom, John, was later described as “a gentleman that kept high company”. This canscarcely be said of Francis, who in Cambridge came to haunt evangelical circles, whichtended to the middling and stern. In the nineteenth century, his descendant andbiographer Thomas Wentworth Higginson – himself famous for being an abolitionist,an advocate of women’s rights, and an officer during the Civil War in the Massachusetts54th, an experience he documented in the classic Army Life in a Black Regiment (1869) –was to speak of visitors to his ancestor’s old college, who observed “the somewhatisolated and stately air of Jesus College; its sombre brick walls and ancient gateway; itsheavy tower surmounting a chapel of the twelfth century; and the meadows, extendingto the river, and still making the situation beautiful,” which was thought somehow toexplain Francis’s proclivities. (It did not, of course.) Upon graduation, Higginsonreturned to become his father’s curate and began to acquire some reputation as apreacher, but one inclining more and more to nonconformity, a man inclined to be fussyabout excluding “ignorant and scandalous persons” from communion, someone given tofasts and often consulted by the anxious about, as Mather was to put it, “their interiourstate”, people who like Higginson were worried by the “hour and power of darkness”emanating from William Laud, then Bishop of London. It was logical, therefore, thatHigginson responded to a call from the Massachusetts Bay Company, who were


6. Patricia B. Craddock, Edward Gibbon: Luminous Historian, 1772–1794 (Baltimore, MD: Johns HopkinsUniversity Press, 1989), 130; Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of My Life, ed. Georges Bonnard (New York:Funk & Wagnalls, 1969), 160.

7. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Life of Francis Higginson: First Minister in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, andAuthor of “New England’s Plantation” (1630) (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1891) remains the only biography.Subsequent information is drawn from this, unless otherwise specified.

planning to send five ships to their barren plantation in 1629 and needed ministers totend souls and enlist God’s help for their purpose. He probably gave a sermon – there issome dispute over the authorship – to outline the cogency of migration. His reasonswere many and apocalyptic: among them, to spread the gospel and “raise a bulwarkeagainst the kingdom of Antichrist which the Jesuits labour to rear up in all places of theworld”, to find a refuge against the “general destruction” threatening Europe, and toease the strain on an England whose “land grows weary of her inhabitants”. In whatmight have been a commentary on his old college, whose Master in 1629 was RogerAndrewes (denoted even now as “overbearing, quarrelsome, and unscrupulous”),8

Higginson also lamented that “schools of learning and religion are so corrupted, as ... most children (even the wisest, wittiest, and of fayerest hopes) are perverted,corrupted and utterly over powered by the multitude of evill examples and licentiousgovernors of those seminaries.” His wife Ann did not agree with this logic, for she “fella weeping” at the prospect of leaving Leicestershire, but to no avail. In theory, Higginsongot a good bargain: £30 to prepare for the voyage, £10 for books, an annual salary of £30for three years and, during that time, provision of “family necessaryes of diuett, housingand firewood”, which extended to a house, land, cattle, and care for his widow (whichturned out to be necessary). He was even promised “a man servant to take care and lookto his things, and to catch him fish and foule and provide other things needful and alsotwo maid servants to look to his family.”

Two documents give greatest insight into Higginson: the journal he kept on board theTalbot, which sailed in company with the Lion’s Whelpe from London on 25 April 1629 andreached New England on 27 June; and his propaganda pamphlet, New-Englands Plantation,or, A Short and True Description of the Commodities and Discommodities of That Countrey, Written bya Reverend Divine Now There Resident (1630), published in London by Michael Sparke“dwelling at the Signe of the Blew Bible in Greene Arbor in the little Old Bailey”.9

The former is one of the best extant accounts of such a voyage: its delays (“staying for awind”), storms (“sore and terrible”), quarrels (“a notorious wicked fellow that was givento swering and boasting of his former wickednes ... mocked at our daies of fast, railingand jesting against puritans”), progress (“a fayre gale of winde”), sporting aquatic life(“an abundance of grampus fishes, 2 or 3 yards long, and a body as bigg as an oxe”),sights (“a mountayne of ice shining as white as snow like to a great rocke or clift onshoare”), illness (“some of our men fell sicke of the scurvie and others of the smallpockes”), and death. The Higginsons lost a four-year-old daughter, whose loss was “agriefe to us her parents and a terrour to all the rest”.

The latter is a document of artful sensuality, full of intoxicating lists intended toencourage further migrants and written when Higginson was newly established as theschismatic minister at Salem. It gives an extended account of what was blessed andcursed in New England, whose qualities were quaintly classified by reference to earth,air, fire and water. All God’s plenty is said to be in Massachusetts: “good Clay to makeBricke and Tyles”, rich grasses which fatten “Kine and Goats, Horses and Hogges”, newplants and old ones “bigger and sweeter then is ordinarily to be found in England”,“Penyroyall, Wintersaverie, Sorrell, Brookelime, Liverworr, Carvell and Watercresses”,

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8. See http://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/college/history/masters.html#andrewes.

9. The former is reprinted in Higginson’ biography and excerpts from the latter can be read on the college website, but the full text is online at the Early English Books website(http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home). See also Perry Miller and Thomas H. Johnson, eds, The Puritans: ASourcebook of Their Writings, rev. ed., rev. George McCanlish, reprint, 1938 (New York: Harper and Row,1963), 1:122–25.

“plenty of single Damaske Roses”, “Wolves, Foxes, Beavers, Otters, Martins, great wildCats”. The rivers and ocean furnish richness (lobsters, bass, salmon, whales, “Herring,Turbot, Sturgion, Cuskes, Hadocks, Mullets, Eeles, Crabs, Muskles, and Oysters”). Theair is clean and agreeable, with the happy effect of driving away “Cold, Melancholy,Flegmatick, Reumaticke temper of Body”. Birds crowd the sky and the earth. Of“discommodities”, on the other hand, Higginson speaks with evasive brevity. Indeed hementions but four difficulties. There are mosquitoes in the summers, which he admitsare hot. In winter there is snow and “Frosts, something more sharpe then is in oldEngland”. The woods abound in “Snakes and Serpents of strange colours and hugegreatnesse”, not least the alarming rattlesnake, which will “flye upon” a man “and stinghim so mortally, that he will dye within a quarter of an houre after”. The population isscanty. But these are the only problems. Even the Indians, who are curious people withstrange ways, are manageable: “We use them kindly, they will come into our Housessometimes by halfe a douzen or halfe a score at a time when we are at victuals, but willaske or take nothing but what we give them.” Still, it was pertinent to note that “we havegreat Ordnance, wherewith we doubt not but we shall fortifie our selves in a short timeto keepe out a potent Adversarie.” And God was on their side.

Higginson quickly separated himself from the Church of England and carried many withhim, for he was as skillful a preacher as he was an artful writer. Local tradition spoke ofhim as not tall, but “slender and erect”, with a manner said to have been “courteous andobliging”, a man “well cultivated in the fields of literature and divinity” and “able toconvince gainsayers”. But he had little chance to exercise these charms and skills, for hewas dead scarcely more than a year after his arrival. All the benign gifts of New Englanddid not prevent consumption and a “hectic fever”, as Mather has it. He was only forty-three. He left a widow, who moved to New Haven and lived another ten years, but thecouple had had nine children, of whom one (Neophytus) was born in Salem; eightsurvived their parents. Not all stayed in New England. Francis (b. 1617) went back toEngland and became a minister in Westmoreland. Three became mariners, whocaptained East-Indiamen and plied the Jamaica trade. Most of the numerous Higginsonsof New England are descendants of the eldest son, John, who became a minister andeventually took over his father’s congregation at Salem, where he became notable forstanding against the frenzy of the Salem Witch Trials.

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One of John Gibbons’ angels hanging in Hall during Sculpture in the Close

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Organ Scholars

Last year’s article on ‘The Organ Lofts of England’ elicited a number of very helpfulletters from old members; the editor is most grateful. The main conclusion to be drawnfrom them is that we are even better than we thought we were: Malcolm Archer (1972) isorganist at St Paul’s Cathedral and James O’Donnell (1979) organist at WestminsterAbbey. Can any other Oxbridge college claim to have had two of its members in the toporganist posts in England?

Our concentration on organ lofts of England led us to neglect John Turner (1957), thelongest serving organist in Britain, who has been organist and director of music atGlasgow Cathedral for nigh on forty years. We also omitted David Butterworth (1973)who was organist of St Mary’s Nottingham from 1967 to 1983 and Jim Wrightson (1975).

We have learned that Roddy Shaw (1977) is based in Cologne as a freelance conductor,pianist, organist and harpsichordist and plays with the Kölner Kammerorchester(possibly as resident pianist). He is married to soprano Camille van Lunen.

We are grateful to Richard Lloyd (1952) for some of this information and also forpointing out that he was deputy headmaster of Salisbury Cathedral School and not asstated in last year’s report. The editor apologises for this error.

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Members’ News

P. M. ACKROYD (1979) has been awarded a Ph.D. by the University of Edinburgh. Hisdissertation was on The Unwelcome Bridle: Peter Martyr Vermigli, the Doctrine of the Church, andthe English Reformation.

M. J. ARCHER (1972) is organist at St. Paul’s Cathedral.

The Very Revd J. E. ATWELL (Chaplain 1977) has been appointed Dean of Winchesterfrom March 2006. He has been Dean of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich since 1995. He wasthis year’s preacher at Mere’s Commemoration, in St Benedict’s Church, Cambridge.

J. L. A. AUSTIN (1959) has retired after a busy and successful career as a photographerand is now living in France.

T-S. AW (1995) has had his first novel The Harmony Silk Factory published by Fourth Estate.It was on the long list for both the Man Booker and the Guardian First Book prizes.

J. D. N. BARDOLPH (1958) stopped full-time teaching in schools in 1993 and has sincetaught English as a foreign language and had a four-year spell at a teachers’ trainingcollege in Oman. He is also a tour escort taking coach parties to Europe, Scandinavia,Finland and North Africa.

The Very Revd D. A. BELLENGER (1969) has been made a Chaplain of Magistral Graceof the Knights of Malta and a visiting scholar at Sarum College, Salisbury.

Helen BERRY (1995) is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Dr F. N. K. BHATTI (1987) became a Doctor of Medicine in 2004.

M. BIRKS (1993) is a registered architect in practice with Monahan Blythen, Architects.

Dr M. E. BRAMLEY (1964) was appointed OBE for services to the environment.

Dr P. J. BUSSEY (1964) has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Science, University ofCambridge.

Dr J. M. BUTTERFIELD (Fw 1981), currently senior research fellow at All Souls College,Oxford, has been elected into a senior research fellowship at Trinity College,Cambridge, from 1 October 2006.

M. W. J. CLEGG (1955) worked in Baghdad as legal counsel to the Independent ElectoralCommission of Iraq for the elections in early 2005 and later advised on the newconstitution and associated referendum.

Dr R. COLE (1957) received an honorary doctorate of civil law from the University ofNorthumbria at Newcastle last year. He served as a governor of that university,1994–2003, and as chairman of its audit committee for seven years.

R. J. COLES (1960) has retired as Deputy Group Solicitor at ICI.

Lizzie COLLINGHAM (Fw 1998) has had her book Curry: a biography. published byChatto & Windus.

T. C. COX (1963) has built a library to house his collection of 11,000 books about horse-racing and make them accessible to researchers.

F. G. CROZIER (1962) has retired to live in Spain.

H. H. DAVIS (1968) was awarded an honorary doctorate by Kazan State University,Russian Federation.

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Canon C. P. DOBBIN (1971) was awarded an M.Phil. from Birmingham University in2005; his subject was ‘mutual fulfilment theology’.

P. DOWDING (1962) retired in 2004 after 36 years’ teaching at Trinity College, Dublin.He now grows trees on his 46 acre farm near Dublin.

C. T. (Katy) EAGLETON (1995) has joined the curatorial staff in the department of coinsat the British Museum and been promoted to the curatorship of modern money.

E. F. ELSWORTH (1968) is currently a senior lecturer and undergraduate programmedirector in computer science at Aston University.

Professor N. FLECK (1976) has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society.

P. K. FLORENCE (1983), co-founder and director of the Guardian Hay Festival, wasappointed MBE for services to literature.

Dr Helen J. FRASER (1994) has been appointed university lecturer in physics atStrathclyde University.

A. W. U. FURLONG (1969) resigned as dean of Clonmacnoise and as rector of Trim andAthboy in May 2002.

Trixie GADD (1982) sailed as core crew in BG SPIRIT, overall winner of the GlobalChallenge (round the world the ‘wrong’ way) yacht race in 2004–5. The boat arrived backat Portsmouth on 16 July 2005, after a journey of some 29,000 miles, and beat its nearestcompetitor by half a mile in the final leg.

The Ven. T. A. GIBSON (1958), formerly archdeacon of Ipswich, became archdeaconemeritus on his retirement on 31 January 2005.

B. GUTTRIDGE (1974) has been appointed director of the Southwest Peninsular HealthProtection Unit.

M. HALLMARK (1986) is working for the Royal Bank of Scotland in Milan.

A. J. HARDING (1969) left the department of English, University of Saskatchewan, inJune 2005 and moved with his wife to Nova Scotia.

D. J. HARLEY (1972) is a senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales LawSchool, Sydney.

S. HOCKMAN QC (1966) was in July elected chairman of the Bar Council, unopposed,and will hold office for the calendar year 2006.

R. J. HOWAT (Fw 1979) has completed his AHRB research fellowship at the RoyalCollege of Music and since September 2003 has been keyboard research fellow at theRoyal Academy of Music.

J. W. HUDSON (1979) became headmaster of St George’s Junior School, Weybridge, in 2003.

J. M. D. HUGHES (1997) was ordained deacon on 3 July 2005 and has taken up a curacyat St David’s with St Michael and All Angels, Exeter.

S. IRWIN QC (1972) was chairman of the Bar Council in 2004.

Professor Susan IVERSEN (Fw 1981) was appointed CBE for services to higher educationand to science.

Prof. Lisa JARDINE (Fw 1976) was appointed CBE for services to education.

Professor H. LIVERMORE (1932) has been awarded the Grand Cross of Prince Henry theNavigator for his services to Portuguese historical and literary studies.

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The Revd A. C. MACROW WOOD (1989) became priest-in-charge of the Oakdale teamministry, Poole, in July 2004.

Prof. E. S. MASKIN (Fw 1976) has been elected into an honorary fellowship at St John’sCollege, Cambridge

A. T. A. McCLURE (1965) has received the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service for workwith the Belfast Central Mission.

Emily J. MITCHELL (1995) is a librarian in the rare books department of CambridgeUniversity Library and has been appointed assistant library officer.

The Revd M. MORETON (1960) has retired and is living in Bewdley.

The Ven. J. A. MORRISON (1957), formerly archdeacon of Oxford, will be master of theSpectacle Makers’ Company in 2006.

Dr J. R. MORTON (1955) has retired after six years as professor of biology at theUniversity of Papua New Guinea, three years farming with his son in Vanuatu, eightyears as the EU regional biometrician for the Pacific ACP states and seven years as aconsultant biometrician in Fiji. He is living near Brisbane.

N. A. NAGLER (1964) retired as director general of the Board of Deputies of British Jewsin January 2005. He is now working as director of the Sternberg Foundation and asinterfaith consultant to the Board of Deputies. He has been elected vice-chairman of The Inter Faith Network for the United Kingdom.

Penelope NEVILL (2001) has been elected into an official fellowship at Downing College,Cambridge.

T. N. NUNNS (1971) is a licensed lay reader in the Church of England.

N. B. PEPLOW (1986) works at Barclaycard, Northampton.

M. J. L. PERCIVAL (1983) is chief of manufacturing engineering in combustion systemsat Rolls Royce and team leader of their university liaison team with Cambridge.

D. G. PHILLIPS (1990) is director of music at King’s College School, Wimbledon.

G. C. POWELL (1958) was appointed CBE for services to financial regulation and to thecommunity in Jersey.

J. RANDALL QC (1974) was elected a bencher of Lincoln’s Inn in December 2003 andcompleted a three year term as head of St Philips Chambers, Birmingham, in May 2004.In the second half of 2004, he taught at the University of New South Wales Law School,in Sydney.

D. W. RATHBONE (1975) has been appointed professor of ancient history at King’sCollege, London. This appointment brings to three the number of Jesuan classicsprofessors in London University; the other two are C. CAREY (1969) and N. S. R.HORNBLOWER (1967), both at University College.

Prof. T. W. ROBBINS (1968) has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society.

The Revd Claire ROBSON (1996) has been appointed a minor canon chaplain at St Paul’sCathedral.

Nicola ROGERS (1990) has been appointed administrative officer, grade I, CambridgeUniversity.

Clare SAMBROOK (1982) has had her first novel, Hide and seek, published by Canongate.

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K. M. SANDS (1991) is teaching at the British Council, St Petersburg.

R. J. SCIVER (1981) is finance director of Unilever in Poland.

Professor G. M. SHELDRICK (Fw 1960) received the Max Perutz prize at the 22ndEuropean Crystallographic Meeting, Budapest, in August 2004.

Dr H. J. P. SINGH-RAUD (1999) was appointed OBE for services to education and todiversity.

T. H. SMITH (1989) has been elected to a fellowship at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge,for research in philosophy.

D. A. J. TAYLOR (1951) was appointed OBE for services to the hospitality industry.

Julie J. TAYLOR (1999) was elected a Rhodes scholar in late 2002 and took up a place atSt. Antony’s College, Oxford, in 2003. In February 2005 she was selected for the OxfordUniversity women’s lightweight boat competing at the Henley boat races.

J. M. E. TOOK (1947) has been chairman of the Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trustsince 1998.

R.A.C. TURNER (1970) is head of biology at Ashford School, Kent.

The Revd D. J. WARNES (1969) was ordained deacon at St Edmundsbury Cathedral inJune 2004.

Lord WATSON (1960) was made Grand Officer of the Rumanian Order of Merit, forservice to the government of Rumania.

Zoe C. WILLIS (1981) was appointed head of finance with Novartis Consumer Health B.V.in Breda, The Netherlands, in March 2004.

Professor J. WILTON-ELY (1958) delivered the 2004 Soane lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons. His subject was From conception to construction: Sir John Soane and thearchitectural model.

J. M. WINTER (1973) has been seconded to Australian Aid for three years from April 2005.

M. P. WINTER (1975) took up the post of director of the British Council, São Paulo, inSeptember 2004. He has been appointed OBE for services to the British Council.

D. H. WOOTTON (1969) has been elected alderman for the ward of Langbourn, City ofLondon. He succeeds Sir Alan Traill (1953).

Professor M. ZANDER, QC (1953) has been elected a fellow of the British Academy.

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Jesus College cushion, one of anumber of attractive items on salein the Development Office

Births and Marriages

Births

Jane (née GARWOOD) (1985) and Simon BEAUFOY have two children: Ellen, born 2001,and Kit, born 2004.

Jonathan COLLIS, chaplain, and his wife Judith have a second daughter, Lily Veronica,born 26 May 2005.

Dr Fiona GREEN (Fw 2001) and Peter RODGERS have a daughter, Martha Frances, born 15 July 2005, a sister to Molly and Joseph.

Dr Beverley INKSON (Fw 1994) has a son, Mark Lucas Mobus, born 29 April 2004, abrother for Sebastian.

Dr Marco KAMPP (1999) and Maria have a daughter Elisabeth Sophie, born 23 March2005, a sister for Jacob, born 11 October 2001.

Vicky MASTEN (1993) and Paul STEARN have a son, Jack Sebastian, born 5 July 2005.

Tom and Corinne LEWIS-REYNIER (1991) have a daughter, Loanne.

Nicholas PEPLOW (1986) and Joanne have two children: Holly, born 1999, and Jack,born 2002.

David REID (1991) and his wife Elizabeth have a son, Finlay Robertson Reid, born 27 July 2005.

Olga and Keith SANDS (1991) have a daughter, Yeva Catherine.

James SHENTON (1993) and Natalia BONDARENKO have a daughter, Anna Olegovna,born 9 June 2005.

Alison SMITH (née GOURLAY) (1984) and Alastair have 3 sons, Rory, Max and Freddie.

David STEPHENSON (1977) and his wife, Anna, have a son, Hector John Westgate, born20 June 2004.

Andrew WHYMAN (1991) and his wife Fran are parents to Lily, born 19 October 2002,and Frederick, born 15 November 2004.

Peter J. WILLIAMS (1989) and Kathryn (née EELEY, 1991) have a son, Leo David, born 25 May 2005.

Marriages

Dr Emma BALLISON (1994) married Dr Mike SEDDON (Magdalene 1993) in Suffolk on26 July 2003.

Dr Helen BERRY (1995) married Dr Scott ASHLEY in chapel in April 2003.

Malcolm BIRKS (1993) married Katherine M. DAYNES (1996) at St Martin’s, Bryanston,Dorset, on 14 August 2004.

G. J. A. BUSUTTIL (1988) married S. H. N. NIELSEN in St Margherita Ligure, Italy, on 27 August 2004.

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James CLACKSON (Fw 1998) married Véronique MOTTIER (Fw 1999) in Lindos, Greece,on 8 September 2005.

Joshua GOODMAN (2000) married Anna LUMELSKY in Woodcliffe Lake, New Jersey, on 5 June 2005.

Matthew HAZELL (1993) married Mine SOBACI in Izmir, Turkey, on 3 December 2004.

Debjani JASH (1983) married Charles MILLER SMITH on 26 June 2004.

Lucy G. KENNEDY (1993) married Elia MONTANARI on 30 April 2005. They live inBelgium where women do not take their husband’s surname, so she is now Mrs L. G.Kennedy.

C. M. MUTTER (1988) married Odile OLLAGSON on 15 July 2005.

Deborah RAMSBOTHAM (1992) is now Mrs Dick.

Nicholas B. PEPLOW (1986) married Joanne in 1997.

K. M. SANDS (1991) married Olga in 2002.

Robert SMITH (1990) married Lucienne MAYHEW in March 2004.

Andrew SUTTON (1965) married Jane CARTER on 24 October 2003 and acquired threeteenage stepchildren.

Fay TINNION (1992) married Ft. Lt. Steve BLOOMER in County Durham in April 2004.

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Publications and Gifts to the College Libraries, 2004–5

Books and articles by members and old members

(* Denotes a gift to the college libraries)

Please note that the donations acknowledged here are those received before the end ofJuly 2005. Any items received after that date will be listed in next year’s Report.

* ACKROYD, Peter (1979), Strangers to Correction: Christian discipline and the EnglishReformation (St Antholin’s Lectureship Charity Lecture, 2003)

AW, T-S. (1995), The Harmony Silk Factory (Harper Perennial, 2005)

BACON, J. M. (Fw 1997), (i) Invited keynote address for Int. Assoc. of Science andTechnology for Development: ‘Expectations and reality in distributed systems’, inT. Fahringer and M. H. Hamza, eds, Proceedings of IASTED Int. Conf. on Parallel andDistributed Computing and Networks (Insbruck Austria, February 2005), pp. vii – xiv;(ii) with N. Dimmock, D. Ingram, and K. Moody, ‘Risk models for trust-basedaccess control (TBAC)’, in Proceedings of the Third Annual Conf. on Trust Management(iTrust 2005), vol. 3477 of LNCS (Springer, May 2005)

* BELLENGER, D. A. (1969), with S. Fletcher, The Mitre and the Crown: a history of the Archbishops of Canterbury (Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 2005)

* BLAKE, R. J. (1967), George Stubbs and the Wide Creation (Chatto and Windus, 2005)

* BURROWS, E. W. (1960), ‘To me to live is Christ’: a biography of Peter H. Barber(Paternoster, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, and Waynesboro, GA – USA, 2005)

* COLLINGHAM, E. M. (1998), Curry: a biography (London, 2005)

COMPSTON, D. A. S. (1990), (i) editor of Brain (the world’s leading journal ofneurology) from 2004; (ii) ed. 4th edition of McAlpine’s Multiple Sclerosis (2005)

* COOPER, B. N. (1938), The Murder Column (2003)

* DATE, C. J. (1959), Database in Depth: relational theory for practitioners (O’Reilly Media,Sebastopol, California, 2005)

* DE LACEY, G. J. (1957), with others, Accident and Emergency Radiology: a survival guide,2nd edn (Philadelphia, 2005)

DOWDESWELL, J. A. (Fw 2002), (i) with S. Evans (Emer. Fw), ‘Investigations of theform and flow of ice sheets and glaciers using radio-echo sounding’ Reports onProgress in Physics, v. 67 (2004), pp. 1821–186; (ii) with J. O. Hagen, ‘Arctic glaciersand ice caps’ in J. L. Bamber and A. J. Payne, eds, Mass Balance of the Cryosphere,(Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 527–557; (iii) with T. J. Benham et al.,‘Form and flow of the Devon Island Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic’ Journal of GeophysicalResearch, v. 109 (2004), F02002, doi:10.1029/2003 JF000095; (iv) with C. Ó Cofaighand C. J. Pudsey, ‘Thickness and extent of the subglacial till layer beneath anAntarctic paleo-ice stream’ Geology, v. 32 (2004), pp. 13–16; (v) with C. Ó Cofaigh andC. J. Pudsey, ‘Continental slope morphology and sedimentary processes at the mouthof an Antarctic palaeo-ice stream’ Marine Geology, v. 204 (2004), pp. 203–214

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* EAGLETON, C. T. (1995), contributor to An Elizabethan gilded pocket sundial byAugustine Ryther, dated 1585, published by Trevor Philip & Sons Ltd [London, 2005]

* EDMONDS, R. D. (1959), Fit for a Queen: by Matt (privately published, 2004)

* FINLAY, T. E. (1962), contributor to G. Dunn and C. Ambidge, eds, Living Togetherin the Church – including our differences (2004)

* FISKE, S. J. H. (1959), with Lisa Freeman, Living with early oak: seventeenth-centuryEnglish furniture then and now (Belmont, Vermont, 2005)

* GILBERT, W. J. (1959), with S. J. Vanstone, An introduction to mathematical thinking: algebraand number systems (Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 2005)

* GIMLETTE, J. E. (1982), Theatre of Fish: travels through Newfoundland and Labrador(Hutchinson, 2005)

* HAPPÉ, P. (1978), Cyclic Form and the English Mystery Plays: a comparative study of theEnglish Biblical cycles and their continental and iconographic counterparts (Amsterdam andNew York, 2004)

* HARCOURT, G. C. (Fw 1982), (i) ed. with C. Bliss and Avi J. Cohen, Capital Theory,3 vols. (Cheltenham, Glos.: Edward Elgar, 2005); (ii) with S. Turnell, ‘Somereflections on Keynes, policy and the Second World War’, in T. Aspromourgas andJ. Lodewijks, eds., History and Political Economy. Essays in Honour of P.D. Groenewegen,London: Routledge, 2004, pp. 236–44; (iii) ‘The economics of Keynes and itstheoretical and political significance: Or, what would Marx and Keynes have madeof the happenings of the last 30 years?’, in G. Magnusson and J. Jesperson, eds.,Keynes’s General Theory and Policies (Faculty of Economics and BusinessAdministration, University of Iceland, 2004) pp. 17–32; (iv, v) biographies ofWilliam Brian Reddaway (1913–2002) for the Biog. Dict. of British Economists (2004)and Sir (E.) Austin G. Robinson (1897–1993) for the ODNB (2004)

* HEATH, S. C. (1964), César (British Film Institute Film Classics series, London, 2004)

* HORNE, A. A. (1948), Friend or Foe: an Anglo-Saxon History of France (Weidenfeld &Nicholson, 2004)

HORNBY, N. P. J. (1976), A Long Way Down (2005, Penguin Viking)

ITALIA, I. M. (1988), The rise of literary journalism in eighteenth century: anxiousemployment (Routledge, 2005)

KEARNS, G. (Fw 1996), (i) ‘Mother Ireland and the revolutionary sisters,’ CulturalGeographies 11 (2004), pp. 459–483; (ii) ‘The political pivot of geography,’Geographical Journal 170 (2004), pp. 337–346

* LEWIS, R. F. (1963), with Q. Whitlock, How to Plan and Manage an E-learningProgramme (Aldershot, 2004)

* LIVERMORE, H. V. (1932), Portugal: a traveller’s history (Boydell & Brewer,Woodbridge, 2004)

MAIR, R. J. (Master 2001), (i) with S.M. Gourvernec et al., ‘Ground conditionsaround an old tunnel in London Clay’ Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers,Geotechnical Engineering 158, (2005), Issue GE1, 25–33; (ii) with A. Klar et al., ‘Soil-Pipe-Tunnel Interaction: Comparison Between Winkler and Elastic ContinuumSolutions’, Géotechnique 55, No. 6, 461–466

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* MENGHAM, R. (Fw 1973) (i) ‘Failing Better: Salcedo’s Trajectory’, in Doris Salcedo,Neither (London: White Cube, 2004), pp. 9–11; (ii) ‘A Wild Nursery for the Arts: the Siteof the V&A’, in V&A Magazine 5 (Winter 2004/5), pp. 56–64; (iii) ‘Auden, Psychologyand Society’ in The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden, ed. S. Smith (CUP, 2004), pp. 165–174; (iv) ‘The Thirties: politics, authority, perspective’, in The Cambridge Historyof Twentieth-Century English Literature, ed. by L. Marcus and P. Nicholls (CUP, 2004), pp. 359–378; (v) Vanishing Points: New Modernist Poems, ed. Rod Mengham and J.Kinsella (Salt Publishing, 2004); (vi) ‘Waterworld’, in Anselm Kiefer, Für Chlebnikow(London: White Cube, 2005) and several more articles and translations

* MORSE, M. A. (1992), How the Celts Came to Britain: druids, ancient skulls and the birthof archaeology (Tempus, Stroud, 2005)

* MURRAY, A. L. (1949), (i) ‘The Bishop’s Castle, Glasgow, 1598–1744’, Proc. of theSoc. of Antiquaries of Scotland, 133 (2003), pp. 343–358; (ii) ‘A memorandum on thecustoms, 1597’, in Scottish History Society Miscellany XIII (Edinburgh 2004)

* O’BRIEN, M. (1993, Fw 2002), (i) Henry Adams and the Southern Question (Universityof Georgia Press, Athens, 2005); (ii) review of Bill Clinton, My Life, in The TimesLiterary Supplement 5291 (27 August 2004), pp. 3–4; (iii) review of Jimmy Carter, The Hornet’s Nest, in The Times Literary Supplement 5297 (8 October 2004), p. 22

* PAWSON, J. M. (1949), Gematria: the numbers of infinity (Sutton Mallett, 2004)

PECHEY, G. K. (1967) ‘“The scop’s twang”: Adventures of the monosyllable inEnglish verse’, published in three parts in PN Review 161 (January-February 2005),162 (March-April 2005) and 163 (May-June 2005)

* READY, N. P. (1971), ed. Brooke’s Notary, 12th edn (Sweet and Maxwell, 2002)

* REES, T. D. M. (1950), translator of Lord Byron’s Life in Italy, by Teresa Guiccioli, ed.by P. Cochran (Associated University Presses, Cranbury, New Jersey, 2005)

* RENFREW, A. C. (1986), ‘A Panoramic Synthesis’, in Premi Balzan 2004; laudationes,discorsi, saggi (Fondazione Internationale Balzan, Libri Schweiwiller, 2005)

* RIMINGTON, J. D. (1956), C L Reynolds, MA: Headmaster, Nottingham High School,1925–54 (London, 2004)

* SAMBROOK, C. T. (1982), Hide & Seek (Canongate, Edinburgh/NewYork/Melbourne, 2005)

* SLOTKIN, P. M. (1958), translator of Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and the Psychoanalysisof children and adolescents, by Alex Holder (H. Karnac Books Ltd, London, 2005)

* SUTCLIFFE, J. V. (1947), Hydrology: a question of balance (International WaterManagement Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Int. Assoc. of Hydrological SciencesSpecial Publication 7, 2004)

* TABEART, C. (1958–61), Australia New Zealand UK Mails to 1880: rates routes and ships,out and home (published by the author, Fareham, 2004)

* TAYLOR, S. J. C. (1986), ed. with C. Jones, Tory and Whig: the parliamentary papers ofEdward Harley, 3rd Earl of Oxford, and William Hay, M.P. for Seaford, 1716–1753(Woodbridge, 1998)

* THEOBALD, S. (1985), Trix (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2004)

* THOMPSON, J. B. (Fw 1979), Books in the Digital Age: the transformation of academic andhigher education publishing in Britain and the United States (Polity Press, 2005)

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* THOMSON, P. W. (1958), The Cambridge History of British Theatre, 3 vols (CambridgeUniversity Press, 2004)

* VALENTINE, K. W. G. (1957), (i) with P. N. Sprout, et al., Soil Landscapes of BritishColumbia (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 1978); (ii) Soil Resource Surveys forForestry: soil, terrain and site mapping in boreal and temperate forests (Clarendon Press,Oxford, 1986)

WARING, M. (Fw 1965) (i) with J. B. Chaires, eds, Topics in Current Chemistry, Vol. 253:DNA Binders and Related Subjects (Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 2005);(ii) with C. Bailly, J. Kluza et al., ‘DNase I footprinting of small molecule binding siteson DNA’, Methods in Molecular Medicine 288 (2005), pp. 319–342; (iii) with Y. D. Tseng,H. Ge et al., ‘Atomic force microscopy study of the structural effects induced byechinomycin binding to DNA’, J. Mol. Biol. 345 (2005), pp. 745–758

* YOUNG, F. R. (1943), Cavitation (Imperial College Press, 1999)

Other Gifts

R. A. BAWDEN (1947) has presented a copy of A Guide to Japanese Art Collections in the UK (TheJapan Society, Amsterdam, 2004).

R. S. CORNISH (1950) has presented a copy of Frank Fletcher, 1870–1954: a formidableheadmaster, by John Witheridge, a book to which he contributed as an adviser to the author.

T. C. COX (1963) has sent us a copy of an article in Racing Post 7, Apr. 2004, about theopening of his new library.

A. L. DOWDING (1953) has given a copy of John Arlott, Jack Hobbs: profile of ‘the Master’(1981), Hobbs having been the son of a Jesus College groundsman.

M. G. EBISON (1952) has donated a copy of M. Brittain et al., The Jesus College Cambridge BoatClub, 1827–1994 (1995).

J. L. EVANS (1974) has given a complete set of tapes of two Radio 3 series he wrote andpresented: ‘The Romantic Road: a journey through the European novel’, parts 1 (Apr. 2000– Mar. 2001) and 2 (Apr. 2001 – Mar. 2002), each of 10 programmes.

R. D. M. IVY (1946) has given a revised copy of his collection of poems, ‘Through a range-finder darkly’, and a typescript of ‘Leaves from the Cam: Town and Gown’.

C. Lindberg has presented a copy of his King Henry’s Bible, MS Bodley 277, the revised version ofthe Wyclif Bible, vol. IV: The New Testament (2004), noting our ownership of two manuscripts ofWyclif ’s text.

Christine McKie has presented an original copy of the first printed map of Cambridge(published by Georg Braun, 1575) to the College Archives.

Presented on behalf of the late E. C. READ (1933), An Exact and most Impartial Accompt of theIndictment, Arraignment, Trial and Judgment ... of Twenty Nine Regicides (London, 1679).

C. A. P. REYNARD (1967), as a publisher, has presented a Collector’s Library case of 16reprinted literary classics to the Quincentenary Library.

We have received a copy of Sanford Schwartz, William Nicholson (Yale UP, New Haven andLondon, 2004), in acknowledgment of the reproduction in it of Nicholson’s portrait of ‘Q’.

The widow of Ronald Smith (Schoolmaster Fw 1983, died 28 July 2004) has presented tothe Old Library, in his memory, Thomas Arnold, The Second Punic War (London, 1886).

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Obituaries

SIR EDUARDO PAOLOZZI, born 7 March 1924, was elected an honorary fellow in 1994.He died on 22 April 2005.

The following notice by Frank Whitford is reprinted here by kind permission of The Guardian, where it first appeared on Saturday 23 April 2005.

Relentlessly creative sculptor and printmaker whose legacy ranges from pop art tomonumental public works.

Of the few British artists who came to international prominence soon after the second world war, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, who has died aged 81, was one of the most inventive, prolific and various. Chiefly a sculptor (and one of the first to react against the all-pervading influence of Henry Moore), he was also a highly original printmaker, some ofwhose collage-based silkscreen images are among the finest examples of pop art – the stylehe was instrumental in shaping.

Paolozzi’s career was the more remarkable for its unpromising beginnings. His parents,immigrants to Scotland from the remote Italian province of Frosinone, ran a small ice-cream parlour in Leith, where Paolozzi was born. Although seemingly destined to inheritthe business, he liked drawing so much that he thought of becoming a commercial artist. Hisambitions became more elevated, however, partly as a result of his determination to make hisname in a country which he never regarded as entirely his own.

Paolozzi’s father admired Mussolini, and sent Eduardo to a fascist youth camp in Italy everysummer, where he acquired a liking for badges, uniforms and aeroplanes. When Italydeclared war in 1940, his father was interned as an enemy alien. So was Paolozzi; he spentthree months in Saughton jail, Edinburgh, while his father and grandfather were transportedto Canada on the Arandora Star. The ship was sunk and they drowned. Although notembittered by the tragedy, Paolozzi had nothing but contempt for most British politicians forthe rest of his life.

His internment over, he helped his mother make and sell ice cream, while he also attendedEdinburgh College of Art, learning calligraphy and lettering. Conscripted in 1943, he spentmore than a year with the Pioneer Corps, aimlessly bivouacked on a soccer pitch in Slough.Feigning madness to secure his release, he enrolled at the Slade School of Art, then evacuatedto Oxford.

Paolozzi’s natural gifts as a draughtsman quickly became evident. So did his enthusiasm forthe unconventional. Although he copied old master paintings in the Ashmolean, he preferredto draw the tribal art at the Pitt-Rivers museum. Once the Slade returned to London, he alsodiscovered Picasso, of whom his teachers deeply disapproved.

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Picasso’s influence is plain in the primitivistic sculptures, energetic drawings and elegant,cubist-derived collages which Paolozzi produced as a student. Their quality was immediatelyrecognised, and, in 1947, he was given a one-man exhibition at the Mayor gallery, in London.Everything on show was sold. Soon after, the celebrated magazine Horizon published anarticle about his work.

By then – and before completing his studies – Paolozzi had moved to Paris, armed with lettersof introduction to Brancusi, Braque, Giacometti and several other famous artists. He intendedto remain permanently in France, but, after failing to attract the interest of dealers and critics,he returned to London, somewhat crestfallen, in 1949.

None the less, he saw and learned a great deal in Paris, above all about Dada and surrealism.His sculptures at this time combine organic and mechanistic forms so as to suggest strangeartefacts or mysteriously exotic growths. They share something with Giacometti’s surrealistobjects, but are less threatening and strikingly assured.

It was also while in Paris that Paolozzi produced rudimentary collages from advertisementsin American glossy magazines, the lurid covers of cheap novelettes, and illustrations fromscientific books. They were inspired by Dada photomontage, but were made chiefly for hisown amusement and only shown to friends some years later. Today, they are regarded asimportant early examples of pop art.

Back in London, Paolozzi briefly shared a studio with Lucian Freud, and then with WilliamTurnbull, whom he had met at the Slade. He also came into contact with Francis Bacon, andwas stimulated by the painter’s determination to take risks and by his use of photographs assource material. Paolozzi’s closest friendship, however, was with Nigel Henderson, thebrilliant experimental photographer. They taught together at the Central School of Art andfounded a shortlived company, Hammer Prints, which made and sold textiles, wallpaper andtiles decorated with silkscreen images.

During the early 1950s, Paolozzi worked on several architectural projects, making a fountainfor the Festival of Britain and another for the 1953 Hamburg Garden Show. In the same year,he was a finalist in the much publicised international competition to design a monument tothe unknown political prisoner.

At the Central School, Paolozzi used silkscreening not only as a means of decoration but alsoto make limited edition prints. Many of the stencils were reproduced from drawings (some byyoung children), cut up and rearranged to make seemingly spontaneous compositionsreminiscent of American abstract expressionist paintings, then virtually unknown in Europe.

Collage remained central to Paolozzi’s methods, both as printmaker and sculptor, for the restof his career. Everything he created began as an accumulation of unrelated images culled froma wide variety of sources which, when rearranged, achieved a new and surprising unity.

In his prints, crude outlines of heads and standing figures were filled with fragmentarydiagrams of automotive parts, and other machines, to suggest primitivistic robots. Hissculpture was similar. The surfaces of his roughly cast, rudimentarily formed bronze headsand figures were thickly encrusted with the impressions of nuts, bolts, bits of toys and junkcollected from dustbins and scrapyards. By turns horrifying, pathetic and comicallyramshackle, these figures seemed to allude to the results of nuclear destruction, or to reflectthe existential angst then current throughout Europe. They touched a contemporary nerve,and they made his reputation.

Many of these sculptures were begun in the isolated cottage on the Essex coast to whichPaolozzi moved soon after marrying in 1951. His wife, Freda Elliot, was a textile designerwhose handsome English looks made a striking contrast with his thick-set Mediterraneanappearance. Mounting success enabled him to lease a studio in Chelsea, where he lived alone

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during the week. He quickly came to lead two largely separate lives: one in London, theother as a weekend visitor to the country, where Freda soon began to feel isolated, especiallyafter their three daughters had left for boarding school.

During the 1950s, Paolozzi became involved in the Independent group, a loose associationof young members of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. They met to discuss ideas andenthusiasms then ignored by the art pundits, above all, science, technology and popularculture, especially American movies and science fiction. In 1952, at the group’s firstmeeting, Paolozzi projected a large number of his collages on to a screen. For most of hisaudience, the juxtaposition of the weighty and trivial, the artistic and technological, was arevelation. The collages suggested a radically new aesthetic, which, before the end of thedecade, was to form the basis of pop art.

Paolozzi’s determination to make his art mirror a wide range of disparate ideas andinformation also resulted in contributions to several unconventional and imaginativeexhibitions. The most important were Parallel Of Life And Art (1953) and This Is Tomorrow(1956), both of which used photographs and installations to illustrate unexpectedconnections and affinities between art, science, technology, ethnography and archaeology.

During the same period, Paolozzi also established a reputation abroad. His work wasshown at the Venice Biennale of 1952, in New Images of Man at the Museum of Modern Art,New York, in 1959, and at Documents, in Kassel the same year. In 1960, there was aretrospective at the British pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

By then, his sculpture had begun to change. A visiting professor at the school of art inHamburg between 1960 and 1962 (where he taught Stuart Sutcliffe, one of the originalBeatles), Paolozzi regularly visited the dry docks, collecting discarded components fromthe wrecking yards.

He used these, together with standard engineering parts ordered from catalogues, to createsculptures which simultaneously suggested curious machines and totems from some lost,but technologically advanced, culture. The earliest were cast in bronze, but later exampleswere made by welding. Some were painted in bright colours so as to emphasise theirgeometric elements.

Many were constructed at an engineering works near Ipswich, with which Paolozziremained associated for several years. The craftsmen there showed him the advantages ofworking with assistants, and, from then on, he regularly employed model-makers andtechnicians at every stage of his sculptural production.

Paolozzi also treated printmaking with a new seriousness, and, in 1965, created one of themasterpieces of pop art, As Is When, a portfolio of 12 screenprints improbably inspired bythe life and work of the philosopher Wittgenstein. Based on elaborate collages, the printsemploy fragments of texts, abstract patterns, pictures of aeroplanes and other machines,together with Disney characters. Other print portfolios followed, most notably MoonstripsEmpire News (1967).

The 1960s were one of the most creative periods of Paolozzi’s career. Towards the end ofthat decade, however, his abstract sculptures in welded aluminium and chromium-platedsteel betrayed a decline in invention and originality, and his prints became repetitive. Somethought that slightly later works, designed to satirise minimalism and other fashionablekinds of contemporary art, reflected a creative crisis. They dominated Paolozzi’s only fullretrospective in Britain, at the Tate gallery in 1971, which was a critical flop.

This was the lowest point in Paolozzi’s artistic development. But he began to work withrenewed energy in 1974, after being invited to West Berlin. There, he spent almost twoyears creating several portfolios of ravishingly beautiful abstract prints (especially


Calcium Light Night) and a number of impressive reliefs assembled from small,standardised wooden elements. Some were later cast in bronze.

Paolozzi loved Germany. He was exhilarated by the dynamism of its cities and the high regardin which artists were held. He also relished the attention given him by German critics andcollectors. Between 1977 and 1981, he was a professor at the Cologne Fachhochschule and,then, more happily at the Munich Academy, where he taught until regulations forced him toretire in 1994.

However, he retained his London studio, continued to teach part-time at the Royal College ofArt (which had appointed him in 1968), and regularly flew back and forth between Heathrowand Munich, always accompanied by copious suitcases stuffed with plaster maquettes,sketchbooks and the makings of collages. In Munich, he would sleep on a camp bed in hiscluttered studio, and eat, usually surrounded by admiring students, at a local pizzeria.

Commissions for public sculptures multiplied, first in Germany and then in Britain. He madedoors for the Hunterian museum in Glasgow, an abstract monument for Euston Square inLondon, and mosaic decorations for Tottenham Court Road underground station. He alsocreated a large sculpture for the headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland in Edinburgh, anda bronze figure of Isaac Newton for the entrance of the British Library.

The last two works revealed a growing interest in classicism, which had begun in Munich,where Paolozzi frequently visited the Glypothek, the outstanding collection of Greek andRoman statuary. But even his neoclassical heads and figures continued to employ collage andassemblage. Constructed from unconnected fragments, or cut into sections before beingrearranged, many of them appear mechanistic, as though informed by a classicising aestheticmodified to reflect a modern distrust of absolute values.

Powerful though it is (and, in its eclectic, postmodernist use of allusion, very much of itstime), the work of Paolozzi’s last period lacks the freshness and originality of the sculptureand prints of the 1950s and 1960s. Yet it is on this later work, no doubt, that his considerablereputation will continue to rest.

As a man, Paolozzi was a mixture of childlike enthusiasm, unquenchable curiosity andpowerful intelligence. He could grasp the essence of a book or the argument of a scholarlyarticle from a few hastily read paragraphs. He was at ease with abstract ideas. He wasimpressively well informed about the latest trends in music, the theatre and cinema, and, inhis studio, listened constantly to Radio 3, which, as he put it, had been his only education. Hetried to keep in shape with the aid of judo (he was a black belt), gymnastics, swimming and avariety of diets, though he never seemed able to concentrate on anything for long.

Those who knew him rarely saw Paolozzi at work. His day seemed to consist of diversions.He would flip idly through magazines or folders filled with clippings, go for a drink at theChelsea Arts Club close to his studio, lunch at the Royal College of Art, or dine in one of theseveral restaurants where, thanks to gifts of his sculpture or prints, he never saw a bill. But hewas prodigiously productive, working for several hours very early in the morning and late atnight, when he knew he would not be interrupted.

Remarkably generous to his friends, to whom he would hand out artists’ proofs of prints,plaster maquettes and expensive books like sweets, Paolozzi was nevertheless subject toblack moods, during which he could be woundingly insensitive. He was represented by veryfew dealers, and stayed with none of them for long.

He was made a CBE in 1968, an RA in 1979 and a knight in 1989; he was awarded numeroushonorary doctorates, one by Cambridge University, where he was also an honorary fellow ofJesus College; he was even a member of the Athenaeum. Such recognition delighted him; hewas especially pleased to appear on Desert Island Discs.


Discreet about his private life, Paolozzi was attractive to women. Apart from his wife, threewere important to him: the collector Gabrielle Keiller, the Berlin art dealer Helga Retched,and Marilee Robinson, who acted as his personal assistant for more than a decade andarranged for him to fill the vacant, Ruritanian post of Queen’s sculptor in ordinary inScotland. She also organised Paolozzi’s defence after his wife, to his surprise and shock,brought divorce proceedings in 1988.

Towards the end of his life, Paolozzi became increasingly concerned about his posthumousreputation. Eager to shape it, he began to write an autobiography and donated countlessprints and sculptures to museums in Britain and abroad. He relished every visible sign of hiseminence, especially from Scotland, and his emotional attachment to Edinburgh becameincreasingly evident.

In 1994, he offered a large quantity of works to the national galleries of Scotland. The Deangallery, in Edinburgh, contains his works in many media, his large and varied library, areconstruction of his chaotic London studio, and examples of the surrealist art from thecollections of Roland Penrose and Gabrielle Keiller, which crucially inspired Paolozzi at everypoint of his career.

Paolozzi spent his final years in a nursing home, paralysed from the waist down and unableto talk, an especially tragic fate for a man to whom lively conversation meant so much. Hisdaughters, Louise, Anna and Emma survive him.

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ADAMS, Robert (Bob) (1965) died on 27 January 2005 aged 59.

Bob Adams, born 1945, attended Downer Grammar School, Edgware. He read naturalsciences and economics then went on to the London Graduate School of BusinessStudies where he took an M.Sc. in 1970. At Jesus he was a sportsman and a member ofthe Union. He joined Rio Tinto in 1970 in the planning department and was director ofplanning and development from 1991 to 1998. From 1995 he was a director of Rio Tinto(Australia) Limited. A shy man who avoided the spotlight whenever possible, Adamswas a key figure in building Rio Tinto into one of the most successful mining groups.‘He hired people he trusted and let them get on with it.’ He was a non-executive directorof Foreign and Colonial Investment Trust (1998–2005). Remembered for his wit andwarmth, his passions were his family, his work and watching cricket; he loved thetheatre and opera. He married Lesley Ann Thomasson in 1982. She and their twodaughters survive him.

ARDITTI, Samuel (Sam) Jack Victor (1945) died on 25 February 2005 aged 78.

Sam Arditti, born 1927 in Didsbury, Greater Manchester, went to Rydal School, ColwynBay. His time at Jesus was interrupted from 1946 to 1948 by national service as a 2ndlieutenant in The Royal Tank Regiment. He took his degree in natural sciences in 1950.From 1952 he ran the Stockport-based family textile business Victor S. Arditti and Son,which he sold to William Baird plc in 1988; he remained a director of Baird until 1995.As chairman from 1994 to 1997 of Trafford NHS Healthcare Trust, Sam Arditti wasparticularly proud of the Seymour unit for the rehabilitation of the elderly opened in1997 and the Macmillan cancer treatment unit opened in 1998. He was honorary consulfor Spain (1973–86) and for Mexico (1987–2001). He played a vigorous part in the affairsof Greater Manchester and was a member or trustee of many charitable organizationsthere. Arditti was High Sheriff (1992–3) and director of the Chamber of Commerce and


Industry (1987–94). He was Chief Commandant of Cheshire Special Constabulary(1956–91) and in 1965 received a Special Constabulary long service medal. He wasappointed MBE in 1984. Arditti was married first to Cynthia Rayman and they had a sonand a daughter, and secondly to Carol Ann Morgan. His son Michael came up in 1972.

ARGENT, Christopher Quentin (1984) died on 9 October 2004 aged 40.

Christopher Argent, born 1964, came up from King’s School, Rochester where he wasorgan scholar, as he was at Jesus; he read music. In 1986 he became an Associate of theRoyal College of Organists and won the Sawyer, Durrant and Doris Wookey prizes. Aftergraduating he was assistant director of music at Coventry Cathedral (1987–90), directorof music at Christ Church Cathedral School, Oxford (1990–3), assistant organist atChrist Church cathedral (1991–2), head of academic music at St Edmund’s School,Canterbury (1993–4), deputy organist at Lichfield cathedral (1995–9) and organist andchoirmaster at Shrewsbury School (1994–2003). From 2003 he was director of musicministry at St Matthew’s Anglican Church, Ottawa. He loved to travel and had visitedmost countries in the northern hemisphere on his own or on choir trips. He was amodest, self-taught chef. His brother Nick and a sister survive him.

BARKER, Anthony (Tony) Hugh (1971) died on 7th February 2005 aged 52.

Tony Barker, born 1952 came up from Manchester Grammar School to read classics. Hisfriends remember long nights in his smoky rooms drinking fresh coffee, listening to hishighly idiosyncratic rock music and discussing everything from linguistics to politicalmatters relating to his deep compassion for the powerless. After graduation Tony workedas a health service manager in the north-west and later became director of mid-Staffordshire Mind, the mental health charity. He enjoyed the countryside and historicbuildings, eventually moving to Shropshire, where a vegetable garden cultivated with hissecond wife Jean gave him much pleasure. Friendship mattered deeply to him, and despitehis personal difficulties in later years he maintained many close connections. Those whohad taken the time to know him loved him for his concern for other people’s lives, and hisdelight in good-natured teasing. He leaves two daughters from his first marriage.

BIRDSALL, James Neville (1946) died on 1 July 2005 aged 77.

Neville Birdsall, born 1928 in Leicester, son of a timber yard foreman, came up as anexhibitioner from Alderman Newton’s School, Leicester, to read English, but changed totheology after two years. He played hockey for the college 2nd team and was a memberof the Student Christian Movement and Robert Hall (Baptist) Society. Birdsall became aredoubtable biblical scholar, publishing over a hundred articles and writing numerousdetailed, sometimes trenchant, reviews. Whilst a minister of the Baptist Union (1951–6)he undertook research, first as Stanton student at Trinity College, Cambridge, into theninth century Byzantine patriarch Photius, then as part-time research student at theUniversity of Nottingham into an important ninth-century manuscript of Paul. Heobtained a Nottingham Ph.D. in 1959. After four years as an assistant lecturer in biblicalstudies at Leeds University he moved to Birmingham, where he stayed until he retired in1983 as professor of New Testament studies and textual criticism. He made importantcontributions to knowledge of Georgian and Armenian literature and from 1965 to 1966was visiting professor of Caucasian languages at the University of California, LosAngeles. In the 1970s Birdsall did a vast amount of work as executive editor of theInternational Critical Greek New Testament Project, eventually published under hissuccessor. Birdsall was a stalwart of the Association of University Teachers and, aspresident of its Birmingham branch at the end of the 1960s, showed wisdom andcourage during the difficult period of student unrest. He married Irene Adams in 1951


and together they worked to spread the Christian message and to support developingcountries They established an education fund in the Saki region of Nigeria and in 2001the Okere of Saki conferred on Birdsall the title Alawajoye of Saki, meaning HonoraryChief. Irene died in 1998; they had two sons and two daughters.

BRASHER, Norman Henry (1941) died on 15 September 2003 aged 81.

Norman Brasher, born 1922 in Cheltenham, son of an insurance agent, came up as ascholar from Cheltenham Grammar School to read history. He rowed and played rugbyfor the college and enjoyed tennis and squash. His time here was interrupted by fouryears’ war service in Europe as an officer in the Airborne Division of the Royal BerkshireRegiment, the Parachute Regiment and the Devonshire Regiment. After two years(1946–8) as assistant archivist for the Northamptonshire Record Society, Brasherreturned to Cambridge in 1948 for a year to train at the Department of Education as ateacher. He spent 13 years at Beckenham and Penge County Grammar School (1949–62)then moved to Bexley Grammar School, where he was head of history and from 1973director of studies; he retired in 1982. He was a quiet, unassuming man, keen on sport,who enjoyed coaching the school hockey and cricket teams. Throughout his teachingcareer and for another ten years he served as examiner, chief examiner and moderatorfor Cambridge University Examination Board. Brasher wrote several history books foruse in schools and by a wider public: Studies in British Government (1965), Arguments inhistory (1968) and The young historian (1970); he co-authored Britain in the twentieth century,1900–64 (1966). He was a schoolmaster fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in1968. He met his wife Marguerite Noble at a tea dance in Cambridge Guildhall inOctober 1945 while she was training for teaching at Homerton College, and they marriedin 1947. He is survived by Marguerite and their two sons.

BRAY, Denis Campbell (1944) died on 8 July 2005 aged 79.

Denis Bray, born 1926 in Hong Kong, son of a Methodist minister, went to school inChefoo, N. China until 1939 and then at Kingswood School, Uppingham, Rutland. Heread mathematics for a year and then changed to physics because the Ministry of Labourand National Service required him to do so to help meet the great demand for men withqualifications in that subject. He was secretary of the boat club and rowed for the firstboat, which won numerous races in Cambridge and elsewhere, including the GrandChallenge Cup at Marlow and at Henley in 1947. After graduation he did national servicefor two years as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy and was then at the London School ofEconomics for a year on a Devonshire course training for the Colonial Service. For thirty-five years, from 1950 until he retired, Bray had a distinguished career working for theHong Kong government in the colonial administrative service, as colonial administrator(1950–71), district commissioner for the New Territories (1971–3) and secretary forhome affairs (1973–7; 1980–5). From 1977 to 1980 he was Hong Kong Commissioner inLondon. He was appointed CVO in 1977 and CMG in 1975. Bray also played animmensely active part in Hong Kong affairs. He was chairman of the English SchoolsFoundation (1986–92), the Jubilee Sports Centre (1985–92) and Christian Action HongKong from 2001. He was executive director of the Hong Kong Community Chest from1985 to 1992 and president of the Hong Kong Yachting Association (1990–1). He was adirector of the Hong Kong Symphony Orchestra from 1985 and chairman of the JesusCollege Cambridge Society in Hong Kong from 1998. He belonged to numerous clubs.He is survived by his wife Marjorie Bottomley, whom he married in 1952, and by theirfour daughters. He and Marjorie had sold up in Hong Kong last December and were juststarting life in their Edwardian house in Headington, Oxford, when Denis died. Hisyounger brother Jeremy Bray came up in 1949.


BRICE, John Russell (1959) died on 19 August 2004 aged 66.

John Brice, born 1938 at Barton on Humber, attended Barton on Humber GrammarSchool. He did national service before coming up and was awarded the GSM Cyprus in1959. He read natural sciences (metallurgy), played cricket and was in the 2nd Rugby XV.He became a management consultant. Fly fishing was his recreation. In 1964 Bricemarried Ann Wright who, with their three sons, survives him.

CHAPPEL, William (Bill) Arthur Brian (1943) died on 21 December 1999 aged 74.

Bill Chappel, born 1925 in Bedford, son of a major-general in the Indian army, came upfrom Marlborough on an RE short course. Commissioned in the Royal Engineers in 1945,he at once volunteered for parachute training and joined 591 Airborne Squadron justbefore they flew to Norway to supervise German prisoners clearing land mines. Postingsto Palestine and Schleswig-Holstein followed. In May 1949 he became an air portabilityinstructor at Brize Norton and while there played rugger for the Corps. After a short spellas second-in-command at Chatham, he became adjutant of the Royal MonmouthshireRoyal Engineers in 1954. Two years later he was posted to Malaya where he was adjutant of51 Field Engineer Regiment in Kluang. He then joined the Malayan Federation Engineersand became officer commanding 2 Malay Field Squadron at Ipoh, building the Ipoh Road.After a few years in Germany and at home, he was posted to HQ Wales District where hewas much involved in the aftermath of the Aberfan disaster. His final appointments werewith HQ Engineer Support Group at Woolwich and in London from 1971 until 1977, whenhe retired from the army and joined Halcrow Engineer Consultants as an administrator.The success of the organization when it combined with Balfour for a massive job in SaudiArabia was largely owing to Chappel’s persistence, hard work and good humour. Chappelretired from Halcrow in 1990, after suffering heart trouble followed by a stroke. He leaveshis wife Sheila (née Ibbotson) and their two sons.

COLLINSON, Peter Robert Holt (1948) died on 9 February 2005 aged 75.

Peter Collinson, born 1929 in Manchester, went to Manchester Grammar School. Aftera year at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, he came up as an exhibitioner to readmechanical sciences. He played hockey and tennis at college level and was a half-blue atlacrosse in each of his three years. He spent 35 years in the Royal Navy in the submarineservice, rising to the rank of captain. In the 1970s he was assistant director of submarineweapons systems at the Admiralty Establishment, Portland, Dorset, and spent sometime at Cape Canaveral. His last appointment in the Navy was as captain of HMSCollingwood. In 1982 Collinson became general manager of Marconi UnderwaterSystems in Portsmouth and in 1985 changed career to become district general managerfor West Cumberland health authority. In 1993 he returned to Hampshire to indulge hispassion for fly-fishing for trout in chalk streams. He is survived by Elaine, his wife of 52years, and their daughter.

COX, Cecil Gordon (1946), died on 11 May 2005 aged 82.

Gordon Cox, born 1922 in Madras, India, disliked his first name and resented that thecomputer age often forced him to use it. He went to Bedford School and then to theUniversity of Birmingham, but only for a year. He saw war service in the Royal Engineersfrom 1942 and reached the rank of major. Cox read mechanical sciences, played scrumhalf at rugger and represented the college at tennis. After graduation he joined theColonial Engineering Service. He was executive engineer for the government ofNyasaland (1949–55) and director of public works for the governments of BritishSolomon Islands (1955–65) and of Fiji (1965–8). He returned to the UK to work for


Shoosmith Howe & Partners (1968–71), as project engineer for the large grain-handlingterminal in the new Seaforth Docks in Liverpool, and then as principal engineer for theCrown Agents (1971–81). Besides administering road construction projects in severaloverseas countries, including Sierra Leone and Ethiopia, Cox was a member of teamsinvestigating development proposals for international aid donors. From 1981 until 1985 he was director of J. W. Pilgrim Associates, consultants for rural development worksoverseas, notably in Papua New Guinea. He was appointed OBE in 1963. He is survived byJean (née Crane) whom he married in 1952.

DAICHES, David (Fw 1951) died on 15 July 2005 aged 92.

David Daiches, born 1912 in Sunderland, was the son of a Lithuanian immigrant, thedistinguished Rabbi Salis Daiches. His brother Lionel became a famous advocate, David anequally famous scholar and critic in the fields of modernist and Scottish literature. In 1919the family moved to Edinburgh, where David was brought up. He went to George Watson’sCollege and, with many prizes and a scholarship, to Edinburgh University and then, withmore prizes and the Elton exhibition, to Balliol College, Oxford. He returned to Edinburghin 1935 as an assistant in English and a year later became a fellow and lecturer at Balliol. In1939 Daiches went to the University of Chicago, where he was stranded by the war until1943 when he got work with British Information Service in New York. In 1944 hetransferred to the British embassy in Washington as second secretary. He came home afterthe war, but not for long. He went to Cornell University in 1946 and remained there until1951 when he came to Cambridge as a lecturer. Daiches was elected a fellow of Jesus in1957 and stayed for four years. In 1961 he moved to Sussex University, the first of the newuniversities that began the expansion of higher education, and helped build up adepartment that has remained strong to this day. He was professor and dean of Englishstudies until he retired in 1977. In 1980 he moved back to Edinburgh and for six years washost and mentor to foreign scholars at the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.Throughout his academic career Daiches was a prolific author and wrote on numeroustopics including The novel and the modern world (1939), Virginia Woolf (1942), Robert Burns(1950) and A critical history of English literature (1960). His best loved book was Two worlds(1956), in which he described his upbringing and his loving relationship with hisunworldly father. A second autobiographical volume – A third world – was published in1971. He also wrote an authoritative account of Scotch whisky (1969). His first wife IsobelMackay died in 1977. He married Hazel Neville in 1978 and she died in 1986. He is survivedby two sons and a daughter of his first marriage.

DUNCAN, Paul Saville (1938), died on 24 November 2004 aged 84.

Paul Duncan, born 1920 in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, came up as anexhibitioner from Nottingham High School to read classics. When he came back fromthe war, he changed to English. He was to earn the gratitude of scholars and traditionalsingers by arranging the publication of eight volumes of traditional Scottish songscollected between 1904 and 1914 by Gavin Greig and James Duncan, Paul’s grandfather.From 1940 to 1946 Duncan served in the Sherwood Foresters in Britain and West Africa;he rose to the rank of major. He was director of English at Mill Hill School (1946–57) andprincipal lecturer in English and warden of the Town Halls at Loughborough TrainingCollege (1958–62). From 1962 to 1975 Duncan worked for the British India SteamNavigation Company, for four years as director of education on school ships Devonia andNevasa and then as senior education officer organizing school cruises. From 1975 until1983 he was head of establishment and finance at the central bureau for educationalvisits and exchanges. His recreations were cricket, tennis, squash, bridge and travel. Hemarried Mary Burleigh in 1944 and leaves one daughter.


FALKINER, Franc Norman (1936), died on 21 March 2004 aged 86.

Franc Falkiner, born 1917 in Melbourne, Australia, attended Geelong Grammar School. Hecame up in January 1936 to read general and military studies. In 1940 he married GwynnethMorris. From 1940 to 1945 Falkiner was a captain in the AIF, the special force set up by theAustralian government for service ‘at home or abroad as circumstances permit’. After thewar he was a consultant to Falkiner Collins, Sharebrokers, which became Falkiner’sStockbroking Ltd., and a member (1946–76) and committee member (1966–73) of theMelbourne Stock Exchange. In his later years Falkiner became legally blind and extremelyfrail but his mind remained clear and he greatly enjoyed ‘talking books’. He is survived byGwynneth and their two sons.

FITZWALTER, Brook Plumptre, 21st Baron FitzWalter (1934) died on 14 October 2004aged 90.

Brook FitzWalter, born 1914 in Barbiton, South Africa, was at Diocesan College,Capetown. At Jesus he read estate management. On the outbreak of war in 1939 he joinedthe Buffs, went with them to France and took part in the evacuation from Dunkirk. He laterserved in India. After the war he started to farm and until 1980 managed the familyproperty at Goodnestone, Kent. In 1951 he married Margaret Deedes and in 1953 when hisfather’s older brother died Brook succeeded, as 21st Baron, to one of the most ancientbaronies. (To understand how he came to succeed, knowledge is needed of the intricaciesof lineage.) In 1955 they moved into the house at Goodnestone Park that had been thefamily home since 1704. In 1959 it was seriously damaged by fire and FitzWalter carefullyreconstructed it. He and Margaret were notably successful in restoring and developing thegardens of Goodnestone Park, which are now widely admired. During the 1970s and 1980sthey bred Sussex beef cattle and built up the Deedstone herd (whose name is made up outof Deedes and Goodnestone), one of the most renowned in the breed’s history. Brook wasa quiet, modest countryman who was active in the Country Landowners’ Association andwas a popular president of its Kent branch. He was also a magistrate and a governor ofKing’s School, Canterbury. Lord FitzWalter leaves his wife and five sons, one of whom, theHon. W. G. Plumptre, came up to the college in 1975.

GOULD, James William (1932) died in May 2004 aged 92.

James Gould, born 1911 in Durban, Natal, went to Durban Boys’ High School and fromthere to the University of Cape Town. In 1930 he obtained a bachelor’s degree withdistinction in pure mathematics; he took an MA in English the following year. He cameto Jesus as an affiliated student and took part II mathematics in 1934. He was known as amountaineer. From 1935 for three years he was a lecturer in Natal University and thenjoined Prudential Assurance Co. After war service in the South African Air Force (1940–5)he went back to work for Prudential until 1972 when he retired as their Actuary for SouthAfrica and moved to Macquarie University, Sydney, as senior tutor in actuarial studies(1973–80). He married Wilhelmina Kelfkens in 1940; they had two sons and a daughter.

HABERSHON, Richard Percy Rix (1937) died on 29 January 2005 aged 85.

Richard Habershon, born 1919 in Sheffield, came up from Gresham’s School, Holt, to readmechanical sciences. He was a member of the Umbrage club. After graduating he joined thefamily steel business. During the Second World War the works produced steel componentsfor the Spitfire and Hurricane. Apart from this important contribution to the war effort,Habershon joined the Home Guard ack ack unit in Sheffield. He was co-director with hiscousin of J. J. Habershon & Sons until the 1960s. Habershon was a motor enthusiast and inhis twenties competed at Silverstone, Goodwood and Prescott; at various times he drove a


Maserati, a Bugatti and a Delage. Later he competed in several Monte Carlo rallies. Herebuilt and ran a 21. Ballot. Habershon was also a talented photographer and pianist. Inthe 1950s he made several promotional films for Castrol Oil and in the 1960s made anumber of visits to Jordan to search for the Dead Sea Scrolls. His film Search in the desert wasshown by the BBC. He is survived by his wife Joan (née Hulme) and their two daughters.

HALLAM Henry Adrian Newton (1953) died on 8 January 2005 aged 72.

Henry Hallam, born 1933 in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, was at Winchester College until 1951. Hedid national service in the Intelligence Corps, mostly spent in Cambridge in the ArmySchool of Languages learning Russian. He took his B.A. in Russian and German. His timehere overlapped that of his brother W. B. L. Hallam (1954). A fellow of the Society ofAntiquaries, Hallam worked from 1960 at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, as a cataloguer ofmaterial in Western European languages; he later played a significant part in the library’scomputerisation. In 1988 he retired to Suffolk to look after his wife Maggie, butcontinued to help Balliol College library and to work on his own project of listing booksprinted in Suffolk.

HARRIS, Richard (1941) died on 9 July 2005 aged 84.

Richard Harris, born 1922 in Taunton, son of the managing director of Taunton andDistrict Gas Company, came up in January 1941 from Taunton School with an exhibition.He read history and took part II in 1943. He had been rejected by the army in 1941 becauseof extreme short sight, but in November 1943 became a temporary assistant with theForeign Office, which was classed as national service. In 1945 he was promoted totechnical assistant, but at the end of that year transferred to an executive post in the InlandRevenue at Llandudno. He left there in 1947 and spent a year at the London School ofEconomics. Because he had become too old to return to the Foreign Office he went to theSchool of Librarianship at the North-Western Polytechnic, finishing in June 1951. Harrispursued a subsequent career as a librarian.

HOBBS, Peter Joseph (1954) died on 5 May 2005 aged 72.

Peter Hobbs, born 1932 in Hornsey, Essex, was at Enfield Grammar School. He didnational service as a lance-corporal in REME before coming up to read natural sciences.After graduating, Peter followed in the footsteps of his father who was product manager atMurex Welding Processes Ltd. He began in 1957 as a research metallurgist and rose to bemarketing manager of BOC Murex. From 1965 to 1992 he was managing director ofsubsidiary companies of the UK branch of the Swedish welding and cutting companyESAB. He was vice-chairman of the Welding Manufacturers Association board andchairman of various committees of the European Welding Association. Hobbs was a fellowfrom 1980 of the Welding Institute, Cambridge, and in 1998 received its distinguishedservice award. His recreations were walking, bowls, ballet and conservation. He marriedValerie Brooks in 1959 who survives him. They had two daughters.

INGLE, George Thomas David (1943) died on 5 November in 2001 aged 76.

David Ingle, born 1923 in London, came up from Felsted School, where his father, theRev. G. E. Ingle (1919), was a housemaster. He read mechanical sciences. He worked inthe field of electrical engineering for companies such as Compton Parkinson, MaschFabrik Oerlikon, an electrical company in Switzerland and ASEA, a major Swedishelectrical manufacturer. His recreation was amateur radio. Ingle was twice married, firstto Janet Andrews and secondly to Lydia Rivera; both marriages ended in divorce. Heleaves a daughter of his first marriage and a son and daughter of his second.


IRELAND, Kenneth Frederick Gardnor (1943) died on 9 November 2004 aged 87.

Kenneth Ireland was born 1917 in Eastbourne. From Canford School, he went in 1937 tothe London School of Economics, spending eighteen months there, then worked for theBank of England until 1942. After a short period in the Royal Navy serving on HMS Caballain 1943, he came up to read history. He was captain of college hockey, played for theUniversity Wanderers and was president of the Natives. Ireland became a schoolmasterand was head of history at Ardingly College (1948–50). Between 1950 and 1960 he taughthistory and English at Strathallan School, Perthshire, and at other schools. After 1960 hewas of independent means and engaged in the study of history of art. He had a lifelonginterest in that subject and in historic houses, particularly those in the Palladian style, andwrote British Art Galleries and Connoisseur Houses, but both remained unpublished. His olderfriends could remember him as a keen tennis player, golfer and sportsman.

JAMSON, Maurice William (1945) died on 12 January 2005 aged 77.

Maurice Jamson, born 1927 in Nottingham, son of a grocer, came up as an exhibitionerfrom Nottingham High School where he was captain of boats and played rugby for thecounty. He read history. He was in the first rugby XV and also took part in dramatics. Afternational service in the RAF, he took up the offer in 1950 of a traineeship at ImperialTobacco Ogden’s in Liverpool and stayed there until he retired as factory manager aged 58.He then travelled a great deal. Jamson loved skiing and golf and had had a sporting careerin rugby football, playing for Waterloo and Lancashire. He was made a JP and elected to theJuvenile Bench from which he retired at 70. He leaves his wife Hazel, whom he married in1957, and their son.

JEFFERY, John Gilbert (1949) died on 6 April 2005 aged 76.

John Jeffery, born 1928 at Rushey Green, London, son of an estate agent, was at Colfe’sGrammar School, Lewisham. He came up after national service in the RAF and read Frenchand German, taking part II in 1952. After a year to gain a post-graduate certificate ineducation, he was a foreign language assistant in France and Germany (1953–7) and thenbecame a teacher. From 1957 for nine years Jeffery taught in Cheshire and London. In 1966he became a lecturer in French at St Mark and St John, Chelsea, and was then lecturer,senior lecturer, head of languages and assistant registrar at Avery Hill College, London. Hemoved in 1983 to be principal lecturer and colleges’ liaison officer at the University ofGreenwich. Jeffery was chairman of the European Association of Teachers (UK) (1979–97).His main outside interest was the Church of England and he was secretary of TootingDeanery from 1997. He was co-secretary of Natural Justice from 1999. He married GillianManthorp in 1957. They had three sons and two daughters.

JENKINS, David George (1958) died on 28 November 2004 aged 67.

David Jenkins, born 1937 in Bath, one of twin sons of an accountant, was at King Edward’sSchool, Bath. He came up after national service in the Royal Signals at Catterick and readmechanical sciences. He was awarded an exhibition on his part I results. He was a memberof CICCU, played in the first XV and rowed in the 4th and 5th boats. In 1962 he took partas a support worker in the medical Cambridge South India Expedition. After a master’sdegree at Imperial College, London (1965) he followed a career in systems technology,serving in Hawker Siddeley (1962–4), ICI (1965–70) and Pilkington (1970–3). Realising theimportance of investment in people, he moved in 1973 to teaching, first as lecturer incomputing science at Glasgow University (1973–9) and then as senior research fellow atPaisley. After he retired he was a consultant to the Scottish Council for EducationalTechnology and partner in Jenkins Associates. His strong Christian faith and desire to


serve the worldwide church in a professional capacity led him to a breathtaking régime ofactivity, publication and visits which helped the developing world as well as the communityon his doorstep through his ministry in West Glasgow New Church. Following long andsuccessful stem-cell treatment, this time as a patient, he was able to admire thesophisticated technological treatment, until he succumbed to a more minor infection. Heleaves a son.

KIRBY, Cyril Leonard (1940) died on 16 July 2004 aged 82.

Cyril Kirby, born 1922 in Lincoln, son of a draper and outfitter, came up from LincolnSchool which he represented at tennis. He read mechanical sciences for two years. In 1942,found unfit for military service, he was taken on as a junior stressman by ArmstrongWhitworth Aircraft, which counted as war work. After the war Kirby became a municipalengineer, with Lincoln City Council (1945–48) and Nottingham City Council (1948–51). In1951 he returned to Lincoln as City Engineer. He was a governor of Lincoln School from1964 to 1998. His recreations were tennis and badminton. He maintained close contactwith the college. He is survived by Gwendoline (née Fox), whom he married in 1964, andby their daughter Jill. Jill Kirby came up to Jesus in 1984.

LOCKE-WHEATON, John Antony Charles (1972) died on 29 January 2005 aged 52.

John Locke-Wheaton, born 1952 in Chiswick, came up from King Edward VI GrammarSchool, Louth, to read mathematics. In 1975 he joined Mobile Data Communications,Sema Group plc as a consultant and stayed there until 1999. In 2000 he became foundingmanaging director of Above the Horizon Limited, a telecommunications training firm. InOctober 2004 he was diagnosed with cancer. He is survived by his wife Margaret Hunt,whom he married in 1977, and by their son and daughter.

LUSHINGTON, Roger Geoffrey Law (1954) died on 4 October 2004 aged 71.

Roger Lushington, born 1933 in Ceylon, was the son of a retired tea planter. Hisgrandfather and two great-uncles had been at Jesus in the 1870s. He was at WellingtonCollege. After national service as a 2nd lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, he came up toread natural sciences. After graduating he was with Shell Chemical (1957–68), Formica(1968–71) and Rockware Glass (1971–7). From 1977 to 1999 Lushington was a self-employed market research analyst operating under the name RGL Associates. In 1967he published Plastics and you. He is survived by Diana (née Sugden), whom he married in1959, and by their three daughters.

MACKIE, John Beveridge (1941) died on 25 May 2005 aged 73.

John Mackie, born 1923 in London, son of a regular army colonel, came up from DownsideSchool to read medicine. He played rugby for the first XV and was a member of the Nativesbut failed medical qualifying examinations and left in 1944 without a degree. He continuedwith medicine in London for a short while and later in Glasgow, but without success. Hedid national service in the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders and by January 1947 was anacting captain with an appointment as a personnel selection officer in Singapore. For mostof the rest of his career he was with Union Carbide International Company. He is survivedby his widow, Frances, who lives in Miami, Florida.

MALEY, John Hugh Patrick (1954) died on 26 January 2005 aged 69.

John Maley, born 1935 at Southend-on-Sea, came up from Charterhouse to readeconomics. He was captain of the boat club in 1957 when Jesus was head of the Lentsand Mays. He retained a close connection with college all his life. From 1957 to 1959


Maley did national service as a flying officer in the Royal Air Force. He won the Sword ofMerit at the RAF Officers’ Training College in 1957. After three years in the textileindustry with Courlak Ltd, he joined the management consultants McKinsey andCompany and worked for them from 1962 to 1970 (and again in 1975), becoming aprincipal. In 1968 Maley went to live in the USA; he transferred in 1971 to Technicare. He became president and chief executive officer of a subsidiary which he named Invacare Corp – now the leading company in the durable medical equipment industry.After buying Chatanooga Group, he became its chairman, president and chief executive officer (1976–94) and built it into the leading company in the physical therapy products industry. Maley retired from Chatanooga in 1994 and formed Magister Corporation, which makes and markets simple rehabilitation and fitnessproducts. He was also involved with other companies in the medical device industry – as chairman of Compex Technologies, Minneapolis, and a director of AtrionCorporation, Dallas. In 1991 he was the recipient of the Magistro Award from theFoundation for Physical Therapy and in 1995 was made an honorary member of theAmerican Physical Therapy Association. He married Anne Reinhold in 1964; they had ason and a daughter.

MARLOW, Roy George (1950) died on 11 October 1988 aged 57.

The editor apologises for the wholly inadequate notice about Roy Marlow that waspublished in the 2004 annual report and for any distress it may have caused his friendsand relatives.

Roy Marlow, born 1931 in Bulwell, Nottingham, son of a coal miner, came up to readclassics as a scholar from Nottingham High School, where he had been vice–captain ofrugby and a prefect. He was taught classics there by a Jesuan, C. H. Beeby (1932).Although he had wanted to do his national service before university, his hopes had beenthwarted by his rejection for military service on a footling medical technicality. Likemany boys from that school he had ambitions inclined towards public service andthought that in preparation he ought to change from classics to Modern Greek andRussian, but his director of studies talked him out of it. On leaving the university heworked first for Unilever and became an executive in their West African subsidiary, G.S.Ollivant. In 1966 he fulfilled his earlier ambitions by late entry to the Foreign Office. Hisdistinguished career took him as first secretary to Calcutta in 1967, to Bogota in 1971 andback to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1973. After spending four years from1976 as head of chancery and consul in Quito and three as consul-general in Manila, hewas British Ambassador to the Dominican Republic from 1983 to 1985. He was consul-general in Karachi when he died.

McCRAE, Angus Wilson Ritchie (1953) died on 15 August 2004 aged 72.

Angus McCrae, born 1932 in Putney, was one of twin sons of William McRae, aphysician. From 1940 to 1944 he lived in Canada, and had an early start in entomologyat St Catharine’s in Ontario, where there was an experimental station. In 1945 he wentto the Leys School, Cambridge. After national service as an officer in the Royal Signals,he came up to read natural sciences and took part II zoology in 1956. In 1955 he wassenior secretary of the Cambridge Natural History Society. He took part in twoCambridge expeditions, to Nigeria in summer 1955 and to Nyasaland in summer 1956,which gave him experience for later survey work. After a year as a research assistant inthe midge control unit, University of Edinburgh (1957–8), McRae went to Africa, wherehe was an entomologist at the Ugandan ministry of health in Kampala from 1958 to 1966and principal research officer at the East African Virus Research Institute at Entebbe(1966–7). From 1971 he worked for a year for the Medical Research Council (MRC)


attached to the Hope Department of Entomology, Oxford University. After a year as aconsultant for the World Health Organization in Ghana (1972–3) he worked for the MRCagain until 1977 and was in the Gambia (1974–5). From 1977 to 1982 he was at theInternational Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology and, following four further yearsas a WHO consultant, became reader at the London School of Hygiene (1986–7), thenScientific Information Officer at CAB International (1989–92). The final stages of hiscareer were spent as a Leverhulme emeritus fellow at Oxford, where he was also anassociate curator at the University Museum. In 1977 he obtained a Cambridge Ph.D.under special regulations. His marriage in 1963 to Janet Gregory was dissolved in 1991.They had two sons.

McLACHLAN, Geoffrey (Geoff ) Roy (1949) died on 17 January 2005 aged 81.

Geoff McLachlan, born 1923 in Cape Town, went to school at Diocesan College, CapeTown. He was always passionate about nature and wildlife and became aninternationally renowned ornithologist, respected natural scientist and imaginativemuseum director. From school he went to the University of Cape Town (UCT) but hisstudies in zoology and geology were interrupted by three years’ war service as a pilot inthe South African Air Force. He returned to UCT and gained an M.Sc. He came up toJesus as a research student in geology and obtained a Ph.D. in 1952. For two years he wasa departmental demonstrator in the geology department in Oxford, where he wasattached to Jesus College. In 1954 McLachlan returned to South Africa to becomedirector of the Port Elizabeth museum and snake park and later took the lead in theestablishment of Port Elizabeth’s new museum, snake park and oceanarium atHumewood. He saw to it that a very large room was constructed to house a reconstructedbrontosaurus, the dimensions of which were calculated from a fossilized thigh bonethat he had discovered. In 1955 he married Paula deKock at the deKock family farm atAddo. From 1957 to 1978, with Richard Liversedge, McLachlan was responsible forrevising later editions of Roberts’ birds of Southern Africa. In 1966 he moved near Cape Townto start the Tygerberg Zoo, with which he was involved until 1975 when he joined theSouth African Museum in Cape Town as a herpetologist. He was responsible for severalbooks on birds; a lizard, Cordylus mclachlani, was named after him. He retired to aproperty in Plettenberg Bay full of bird-attracting indigenous plants. In 1972 he wasmade an honorary life member of the South African Ornithological Society. To the endhe was working on distribution maps of snakes in South Africa. He is survived by Paula,their two daughters and son.

PAGAN, Henry (1926) died on 11 April 2005 aged 97.

Henry Pagan, born 1908 at Alburgh, Norfolk, where his father was rector, came up fromWestminster School as a Rustat and a Tew scholar. He read classics and rowed for thecollege in Cambridge and elsewhere. He was an advertising copywriter with GodboldsLtd from 1931 to 1939. During the war Pagan served as a lieutenant in the Royal NavalVolunteer Reserve. He afterwards became a bee farmer in Norfolk and from 1961 to 1968was chairman of the Bee Farmers’ Association of Great Britain. In the 1970s he was adistrict councillor for South Norfolk and from 1984 to 1986 president of the SouthNorfolk Liberal Democrat Association He is survived by Annette (née Green),whom hemarried in 1943, and by their three daughters.

PARKER-WOOD, Basil Frederick Howard (1931) died on 17 December 2004 aged 93.

Basil Parker-Wood, born 1911 in South Africa, son of a commercial traveller, came upfrom Diocesan College, Cape Town, and read medicine. He was a house surgeon andphysician at Lambeth Royal Hampshire and Essex County hospitals (1940–2) and at


Severall’s Mental Hospital (1945–6). From 1942 to 1945 he was a general practitioner inColchester and from 1946 in Cape Town, where he became an honorary consultant to the South Peninsula hospitals group. He was a member from 1946 and life memberfrom 1986 of the South African medical authority. His recreations were the Bible, bowlsand fishing. He married V. A. Cliff in 1940; they had a son and daughter.

PATEMAN, John Anderson (1931) died on 18 January 2005 aged 92.

John Pateman, born 1912 in Leytonstone, Essex, came up as a scholar from Christ’sHospital. He read classics and was given a distinction in Latin verse composition in partI. He played rugby for the college and later for the Eastern Counties. He was Cambridgesecretary of the College Boys’ Club in Camberwell. Pateman became a teacher and wasat Loretto School from 1934 to 1940. During the war he served with the Royal Scots inShetland, West Africa and in the department of chemical warfare at H.Q. WesternCommand in Chester. He went back to Loretto in 1946 as housemaster, stayed for twoyears and in 1948 accepted an invitation to become headmaster of Hilton College, Natal,where he stayed until giving up teaching in 1953. He was awarded the Queen’sCoronation Medal for services to education in Natal. From 1954 to 1972 he was in chargeof staff recruitment in London for Anglo-American and then for Charter Consolidatedand later became a consultant for the Overseas Mining Association. Pateman was a firstrate athlete, hugely well read and with a strong sense of service. He was always involvedwith voluntary work, especially for the under-privileged. When he retired he becamesecretary and trustee of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution and for the last25 years of his life was bookkeeper and archivist for the Friends of Highgate Cemetery,founded by his wife who is still chairman. He married Jean Ouseley-Smith in 1946 andthey had two sons and a daughter.

PERKIN, Harold James (1945) died on 16 October 2004 aged 78.

Harold Perkin, born 1926, son of a builder, came up from Hanley High School, Stoke-on-Trent, and read history. In spite of finding the curriculum narrow and constrictive, hegraduated with a starred first. In 1948 he married Joan Griffiths, who became a much-published social historian. After national service in the RAF (1948–50) he was for fifteenyears lecturer in the novel subject of social history at Manchester University. In 1965 hemoved to the University of Lancaster, where he was a senior lecturer until 1967 and fromthen until 1985 held the country’s first professorship of social history. For almost twentyyears he dealt with the employment issues of non-academic staff there and was muchvalued for his fairness and equity. Perkin’s classic book on The origins of modern Englishsociety 1780–1880, published in 1969, ‘made his academic reputation’. He becamepresident of the Association of University Teachers and wrote its history: Key profession(1969). Perkin founded and became chairman of the Social History Society (1976–85). Inthe 1970s he was much concerned with two television series for Granada, whichappeared as The age of the railway (1970) and The age of the automobile (1976). In 1985,disenchanted with Thatcherite England, Perkin took up a professorship at NorthWestern University in Chicago where in 1989 he published The Rise of the professionalsociety: England since 1880. This was followed in 1996 by The third revolution: professional élitesin the modern world. In 1997 Harold and Joan returned to London where both of them wereregular and much–valued visitors at the Institute of Historical Research. In 2002 he published his autobiography The making of a social historian, recording his remarkablelife of striving, self-help and upward social mobility. He is survived by Joan and their sonand daughter.


REDMAN, Noel Vernon (1940) died on 5 February 2004 aged 83.

Noel Redman, born 1921 in Cheltenham, came up from Cheltenham College to read law,but in 1941 enlisted in the 5th Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment. He latertransferred to the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment. He was mentioned in dispatches.After the war, Redman joined the Colonial Service and served in the BechuanalandProtectorate (1946–8) and as private secretary to the UK High Commissioner in SouthAfrica (1948–51). Later appointments included principal, Commonwealth RelationsOffice (1958–61), permanent secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Botswana (1962–6) andtraining administration manager for the Agricultural Industry Training Board(1967–86). Redman was chairman (1984–96) and president (1996–8) of the HaywardsHeath branch of the Royal British Legion and a member of the UK Botswana Society. Hewas appointed OBE in 1966 and in 1980 received the Rhodesia Medal for services as anelection supervisor. He leaves a wife, Vera (née Hodgkin), whom he married in 1952.

SAMARA, Hilmi (1944) died on 2 April 2002 aged 80.

Hilmi Samara, born 1922 in Palestine, was at the Arab College, Jerusalem, until 1939 and thenat University College, Nottingham, where he obtained a B.Sc. in mathematics and physics. Heobtained a Cambridge Ph.D. in 1948. Our information is that he returned to Palestine to teach.

SANDERS, Francis (Franc) Norman (1945) died on 20 November 2004 aged 77.

Franc Sanders, born 1927 at Erdington, Birmingham, son of a diemaker and toolmaker,came up from Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield, to read naturalsciences. He served as an officer in the Royal Artillery from 1946 for two years andreturned in 1948 to complete his degree. In 1950 he began work in the researchdepartment of B & P Plastics Ltd, Manningtree, and in 1958 joined the National CoalBoard as a materials engineer at their mining research and development establishment,Bretby. The NCB sent him to Oxford in 1965 (Jesus College) for a one-year diplomacourse in the science of materials. He was head of British Coal’s non-metallic materialsbranch when he retired in 1986. His wife Patricia survives him.

SAVILL, John (Jo) Loscombe Lydall (1936) died on 28 March 2005 aged 87.

Jo Savill, born 1917 at Chobham, Surrey, son of a surveyor, came up from Radley Collegeto read archaeology and anthropology then geography. He was captain of the boat cluband a member of the Natives. He rowed at 5 in the 1938 Cambridge crew and at 4 in thewinning 1939 crew. After Sandhurst in 1940, Savill was an officer in the Irish Guards; hewas wounded and awarded the Croix de Guerre de Belge avec Palme. After the war heworked for the family property and estate management company Alfred Savill & Sons(now F.P.D. Savills) and was a partner from 1962 to 1982. He was a director ofClockhouse Property Limited from 1962. Jo Savill was a member of the Hawks Club, ofLeander and of the London Rowing Club. Besides rowing he was keen on fox hunting,rugby and sailing; he belonged to the Royal Yacht Squadron. He married Betty Mence in1952. Their son Jolyon died in 1992 but their two daughters, Amanda and Belinda,survive him. Amanda is married to Alan Walden-Jones (1973).

SCOTT, Patrick Henry Fowlis (1948) died on 24 February 2005 aged 79.

Patrick Scott, born 1925, son of H. P. F. Scott (1902), went to Monkton Combe School. He came up at 23 to read theology. He was a member of the boat club and the Student Christian Movement. He was ordained in 1953, becoming curate at Milton-next-Gravesend, and priest in 1954, when he was appointed vicar of New Hythe,


Kent. In 1957 he joined the Royal Army Chaplains Department where he remained until1980. He was awarded the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977. In 1953 he married AnneJupe and they had a son and two daughters.

SMITH, Robert Higson (1935) died on 15 April 2005 aged 87.

Robert Smith, born 1917 in Lincoln, son of a Sheffield MP, came up from Rugby Schooland read mathematics then geography. He had been in his local branch of the Royal AirForce Reserve before he came up and was an extremely active member of it during histime here. He was an officer in the Royal Air Force from 1937 to 1959 and rose to the rankof wing commander. As a squadron leader, he was reported missing while serving in theMiddle East in 1942 and was in prisoner of war camps in Italy. After his release he servedin Singapore and Egypt. He was appointed OBE in 1959.

SPROT, Gerald Hugh Cleghorn (1938) died on 25 July 2004 aged 84.

Hugh Sprot, born 1919 at Strathvithie, St Andrew’s, Fife, son of Hereward Sadler (1895),came up from Shrewsbury School to read for the chemistry/general B.A. He becamesecretary and, like his father, captain of the boat club. Hugh belonged to the Natives, RedHerrings and Roosters. He was called up in 1940 and in March 1941 sailed for Calcutta, as2nd lieutenant in his father’s regiment, the 3rd Prince of Wales’s Dragoon Guards. Heserved in India and Burma and ended up as a major in the Allied Control Commission inimmediate post-war Western Germany, where he met his wife Elizabeth. Afterdemobilisation Sprot learnt farming the hard way in the Scottish borders before takingover the family estate and its farms at Strathvithie. He was soon drawn into managementof the family firm of Sadler & Co. in Middlesborough and worked there from the late 1950sto the late 1960s, transforming it into a highly successful fuels and storage business,eventually taken over by Hays Wharf. Hugh Sprot played a central role in the Royal AncientGolf Club at St Andrew’s and served on the original links management committee. Hechaired the local Conservative Association and the board of governors of New Park School.He is survived by Elizabeth, his wife of 58 years, their daughter and three sons.

VANRENEN, John Charles Douglas (1934) died on 30 December 2004 aged 90.

John Vanrenen, born 1914 in Lahore, Punjab, son of a major in the Indian army, came upfrom Clifton College. He read agriculture. As a giant of a man (6ft 7ins), he waspersuaded to box heavyweight in university championships. After failing hisexaminations he worked on a farm in Suffolk before returning to Pakistan. During thewar he served with Probyn’s Horse. After his mother, Ysobel Aimée, was murderedduring the chaos of Indian partition he moved to farm in South Africa.

WEBBER, Nicholas George (1994) died on 11 October 2004 aged 28.

Nicholas Webber was born in Malawi but grew up in Littlehampton and Climping,Sussex. He came up from Worthing Sixth Form College to take a first in history andrepresent the college at football. After graduating in 1997 he toured Africa with friendsand fell in love with Malawi. He went on to University College, London, where hecompleted a master’s degree in the history of medicine and in 1999 travelled round theworld with his girl friend Jane Bowers, who came up to Jesus a year after him. After twoyears training in the litigation department of the law firm Ashurst, where he was heavilyinvolved in their community programme and spent hours giving free legal advice at acentre in Islington, he had returned to Malawi for five weeks to work for a human rightsorganisation. He died there in a car crash. Nick was loved for his dry wit and exceptionaltalent to help others. His sister Mary Webber came up to Jesus in 1996.


WELLER, John Eric (1938) died on 7 January 2005 aged 86.

John Weller, born 1918 in Selston, Nottinghamshire, son of R. D. Weller, rector ofFinchhampstead, was at Haileybury College and spent a year at the Royal MilitaryAcademy, Chatham, before coming up to read mechanical sciences. Commissioned in1938, Weller spent 32 years as an army officer in the Royal Engineers. He served duringthe war, was mentioned in dispatches in 1940 and in 1945 won the Military Cross (N. W.Europe). By 1963 he had risen to the rank of colonel and from 1966 to 1969 was chiefengineer for Scotland. He retired in 1970 to live at Bradninch, Exeter. He is survived byhis wife Barbara (née Campbell) whom he married in 1951.

WELLINGS, Paul (1947) died on 7 December 2004 aged 75.

Paul Wellings, born 1929 in London, son of a clergyman, came up from MarlboroughCollege where he was a foundation scholar; he read natural sciences. He rowed in the first May boat in 1950. He served for three year in the RAMC from 1954 to 1957,obtained a diploma in child health from University College, London, in 1959 andbecame senior house surgeon at Booth Hall Children’s Hospital. From 1960 to 1990 hewas in general practice at Henfield, Sussex. His recreations were making furniture,walking and gardening. He married Margaret Connell in 1960 and they had a son and daughter.

WILTSHIRE, Edward (Ted) Parr (1928), died on 8 July 2004 aged 94.

Ted Wiltshire, born 1910 in Gorleston on Sea, Norfolk, son of a solicitor killed at Arras in1917, came up from Cheltenham College to read classics and got a first. He became aconsular official whose spare time was spent studying and collecting butterflies andmoths. At his prep. school, Tyttenhanger Lodge, Sussex, the headmaster and his wifeencouraged the boys to take an interest in butterflies and moths, and Ted became hookedon entomology. While still at Cheltenham he hatched the already rare Large Blue butterflywhich remained the only British example in his collection. At Jesus he edited Chanticlere andwas secretary of the University Natural History Society. He stayed up for a fourth year tostudy modern languages and economics for the Civil Service examinations and shared digswith Alistair Cooke, who became a lifelong friend. Like Cooke he was a contributor toGranta. Much of his career in the consular service was spent in the Middle East, whichproved a rich source for his passion for moths and butterflies. In 1932 Wiltshire becamevice-consul in Beirut; he then went to Mosul in Iraq and in 1935 to Baghdad. He publishedarticles in the Entomologist’s Review illustrated with his own photographs taken oncollecting trips. In 1937–8 he was in Tabriz and Ahwaz; and back in Persia posted toTeheran when war broke out. In 1940 he was in the consulate in Shiraz, where his love forPersia and its people was confirmed. Two years later he returned to Iraq, this time to Basra,where in 1944 he became ill. During home leave Wiltshire transferred his collection fromNorwich Castle Museum to the Zoological Museum at Tring, Hertfordhire. Subsequentpostings took him as consul to New York, Cairo and Baghdad and then in 1957 to Rio deJaneiro, where he was ‘bewildered by a new insect world’. He was political agent in Bahrain(1959–63) and consul general in Geneva (1963–7). In 1967 he returned to London and foreight years was director of the Diplomatic Service Centre. In 1968–9 he was editor ofHabitat. He was appointed CBE in 1965 and in 1980 made an Honorary Associate of theBritish Museum of Natural History. His classic work The Lepidoptera of Iraq was firstpublished in 1944 (in a ‘rather scrappy’ edition) by the Government of Iraq and publishedin full in 1957. He also wrote A revision of the Armadini (1979). He married in 1942 GladysStevens (‘Steve’), who died in 1995. He leaves a daughter.


WIND, Herbert Warren (1937) died on 30 May 2005 aged 88.

Herbert Wind, born 1916 in Brockton, Massachusetts, son of a tanner, came to Jesus aftergraduating from Yale. He read English. During the war he served in the US Army Air Forceand was in China in 1944. A fine golfer, who competed in the 1950 British AmateurChampionship, Wind became a staff writer for The New Yorker (1947–54; 1960–90) and forthe magazine Sports Illustrated (1954–60). With a fluid, graceful style, he was a master of golfprose, renowned for his lengthy profiles, and for many years wrote wonderful storiesabout the Masters’ Tournament and the players who competed in it. He was on first nameterms with the legends of the game and in collaboration with Ben Hogan wrote the classicFive lessons: the modern fundamentals of golf. He wrote or edited more than a dozen other golfbooks. He was also renowned for his dress: even in the hottest months of the year, hewould always wear a tweed jacket, tie and cap and carry a walking stick. In 1992 theProfessional Golfers Association presented Wind with its lifetime achievement award andin 1995 he was the first writer ever to receive the Bob Jones Award of the United States GolfAssociation. He is survived by a brother and three sisters.

WOOD, Arthur Christopher (1934) died on 10 July 2003 aged 88.

Christopher Wood, born 1915 in Murree, North India, came up with a Rustat exhibitionfrom Rossall School. He read classics and law and played for the first XV. From 1937 to1939 and again from 1946 to 1952 he worked for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company inBaghdad and Abadan. The interruption was caused by war service in the Royal IndianArmy Service Corps, on the Burma front in 1943 and in India and Assam. From 1952until 1963 he was secretary of the Cameroons Development Corporation. In 1964 Lt. Col.Wood was administration officer at the Royal Society of Chemistry, a post he held untilhis retirement in 1980. He is survived by his wife Bridget.

WRIGHT, Edward (Ted) Barlow (1947) died on 28 March 2005 aged 81.

Ted Wright, born 1923 in Kettering, was at Wellingborough School until 1940, when hewent to work at Grassmoor Colliery, Chesterfield. From 1941 to 1942 he studied for theexternal London Intermediate B.Sc. as a mining engineering student at ChesterfieldTechnical College. At the end of 1942 he volunteered for military service and in 1943 wascommissioned in the Northamptonshire Regiment. Seconded to the 4th Somerset LightInfantry in 1944, he was injured by an anti-tank shell during the Rhine crossing. After sixmonths at the military hospital for head injuries in Oxford he opted for a desk job andbecame adjutant at 270 POW camp, Luton, with the rank of captain. Wright came up toJesus on a war department grant and read natural sciences with part II in botany. He tookfour years because he spent most of his second term back in hospital. After graduatinghe spent his time in the Scientific Civil Service, the Department of Scientific andIndustrial Research (DSIR) and thence Harold Wilson’s Ministry of Technology(Mintech) in Millbank Tower. For eight years from 1950 he was personal assistant to thedirector of the food investigation organisation of the DSIR and was then responsible forallocation of money and manpower resources to a wide range of DSIR (and subsequentlyMintech) research laboratories, setting up the Ministry of Technology, running theQueen’s Award for Technology Office and serving on the Committee of Awards toInventors. In 1964 when Frank Cousins was appointed Minister of Technology, TedWright was a prime mover in the exhausting business of reorganising the scientificpieces of DSIR into the new Mintech. He spent half the day in each, writing to himselfwith one hat on and replying wearing another. He progressed steadily up the promotionladder and became assistant secretary and, for a time, head of Research Establishments,Management Division. He retired in 1983 and returned from his flat in Bloomsbury to


live in the house his parents had built in the kitchen garden of the one where he had beenborn. He became chairman of the Kettering Book Society and vice-chairman of the CivicSociety until 2000 when he was appointed life honorary vice-president.

A Short but Memorable Life

Robert Rollason (1950) writes of an old friend: the late David McCUTCHION, who came up,also in 1950, to read modern languages under Freddie Brittain and Trevor Jones, died in1972 when he was only 41. In his short life he achieved more than many of us in our threescore years and ten, and his scholarship is still very much alive today.

At Cambridge he was a keen member of the Tagore Society and after graduating went out toCalcutta where he worked for most of the rest of his life, eventually as a reader incomparative literature at Jadavpur University. During his two decades in India, David mademajor – and pioneering – contributions to the study of both temples and scroll paintings.The monumental Brick temples of Bengal (Princeton, 1983) used his writings and hundreds ofthe 10,000 temple photographs he had taken. In the preface to this book his great friend the film director Satyajit Ray wrote of ‘David’s adventures’ in collecting this mass oforiginal material, ‘for adventures they truly were, comic and tragic by turns, triumphant and despondent in equal measures.’ In spite of the hazards, David’s expertly shottransparencies and prints have a serene quality; the collection is now housed in the Victoriaand Albert Museum.

The other original strand of David’s scholarship was his work in the field of ‘Indian writingin English’, now fashionable in many western universities. His 1961 publication The novel assastra on the writer Raja Rao was a critical landmark and led to his 1969 collection Indianwriting in English which helped to open up this new subject of study, until then all but ignoredin Europe and the USA. After the success of such writers as Salman Rushdie, Vikram Sethand Anita Desai, this subject has risen to prominence both in universities and among thereading public. David’s work is still in print and is regularly cited, most recently in 2004 ina new study of Rao by Letizia Alterno, a young Italian academic at Manchester University.

David came back to England as a visiting lecturer in the School of African and Asian Studiesat Sussex University for the year 1970–1 and was due to return to the UK again in 1972 tocomplete his book on Indian temple architecture and another on Bengal terracottas. He alsohad in mind a study of ‘pata’ painting and ‘patua’ scrolls, but sadly none was completed byhim. Briefly back in Calcutta, he suffered a virulent attack of polio and died shortlyafterwards, to the consternation of his family and many friends in England and India.

Besides David’s major work on temples, his study of scroll painting was also completed afterhis death, in this case by Professor Shurid Bhownick of Midnapore University who publishedit in 1999. In 1972 a volume of tributes, David McCutchion Shraddhanjali, appeared in India and,shortly after, David was posthumously awarded the Tagore Prize for literature. Those whoknew him will be pleased to hear that this Jesus graduate is still remembered on the sub-continent and in Europe. David McCutchion made his mark: as The Times concluded in itsobituary in February 1972, ‘he did more for Anglo-Indian friendship than a government oran ideology can undo’ and this good effect continues today.

Corrections to 2004 Obituaries

ISARD, John Oliver (1940) was 81 when he died, not 79. He was a member of the RoyalSociety of Arts, not of Literature.

TAUNT, Derek Roy (1936) was born on 16 November 1917, not as stated.

The editor apologises for these errors.


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