The Year 2016 - Death Notices [Full]

Deaths 2015-2016

ARMITAGE. On 2 October 2015, Ruth Margaret (Currie) MA (1947 Natural Sciences) After graduating, Ruth worked as Laboratory Assistant at Maconochie Brothers. She married Brian Armitage in 1953 and had four daughters. Ruth was a friend of the University of Leicester Botanic Garden and a local U3A member.

BEAUCHAMP. On 23 November 2014, Susan Janet (Elliot) MA (1969 Modern and Medieval Languages) Sue came to Girton from Hornchurch Grammar School to study French and German, and gained a First. After leaving Cambridge she qualified as an accountant with the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, winning the Institute’s gold medal in her final examinations. She met her husband Tony while they were students in Cambridge, and her choice of profession enabled her to pursue a successful career in local government despite recurrent house moves occasioned by her husband’s Civil Service job.

Sue worked in financial management at Norfolk, Essex and Warwickshire County Councils. She was Director of Finance at Derby City Council when it became a unitary authority, and subsequently County Finance Manager for Kent. Her last job before she retired was Executive Director for Finance, Information Systems and Property, and Deputy Chief Executive, at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

She served on the Council of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy and actively promoted its role in developing best-practice standards both nationally and internationally. She led a working group that produced a bestpractice model for financial management in public services, which gained the Sir Harry Page Merit Award in 2004.

Her language studies at Girton, with frequent bike rides to and from the city centre, produced enduring passions for literature and for leisure cycling in continental Europe. She was a keen and knowledgeable gardener. She is survived by her husband Tony, children Christopher and Rose, and grandchildren Natty and Artie.

up research positions at the University of Cologne and the University of Alberta. Her work was interrupted by periods of illness, which she bore with grace and fortitude.

Recovering her health, Vicki returned to her studies in later years, thanks to the kind assistance of the Biology Department at the University of Victoria and, in particular, Dr Geraldine Allan. Her recent work led to the publication of well-received papers and invitations to international conferences.

Vicki loved caring for and teaching children, including nieces and nephews. She also enjoyed opera, theatre, Dixieland jazz and walks on the Canadian prairies, at her home on Vancouver Island, or wherever she might be. A devoted member of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Victoria, she was sustained by her Christian faith throughout her life.

Written by members of her family.

BERGIN. On 7 January 2016, Pierrette Marguerite (Wack) MA (1938 Modern and Medieval Languages) Pierrette attended St Paul’s Girls’ School, before reading Italian and German at Girton. In 1939, she was awarded a College Scholarship and the Fanny Metcalfe Prize. After graduating, Pierrette became Assistant Principal of the Board of Trade Clothing Department and then a Temporary Administration Officer. In 1953 she married John Alexander Bergin.

BEVAN. On 16 January 2016, Frances Doreen (James) MA (1939 Natural Sciences) Having obtained a scholarship, Frances, the first in her family to go to university, went up to Girton at a time when only 2% of students were women. She obtained a First, but her dream of becoming a medical doctor fell victim to the impact of the Second World War.

Written by her husband, Tony Beauchamp.

BERGBUSH. On 27 January 2016, Victoria Louise PhD (1960 Development and Genetic Studies) Born in Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada in 1936, the fourth in a family of nine children, Vicki came to Girton in 1961 to study Developmental Genetics with Professor John Thoday. Before that, she had taken her BA and MA (in Physiological Genetics) with great distinction and high honours at the University of Saskatchewan, and undertaken related research at the University of Minnesota.

On her return from Cambridge, she was appointed to an Assistant Professorship at McGill University. She taught and pursued research there for a number of years, before taking

She married Frederick William Bevan, a schoolmaster, in 1941.

Her elder daughter, Jennifer, was born in 1945, and the younger, Angela, in 1950. She combined the duties of a wife and mother with a career in teaching. The whole of her life was dedicated to caring, teaching and learning. She taught Science in a variety of schools and ended her career as Lecturer in Biological Sciences at the South Devon College of Arts and Technology, Torquay and as a Part-time Lecturer for the Open University. She obtained a Diploma in Education from Exeter University in 1969.

In retirement, amongst many other interests, Frances volunteered for Age Concern and the Samaritans; she also practised bee-keeping, dog-breeding, croquet and bridge.

She is survived by her daughters, two grandsons (all with first degrees, some with second and third degrees); shortly before her death she was able to celebrate the first birthday of her great-granddaughter.

Written by her daughter, Angela Malderez.

BHANDARA. On 9 December 2015, Aazar Wali MPhil (2007 Technology Policy) As a child, Aazar displayed distinctive qualities. He was of a very mild nature and, initially, he was a little shy of going to school. However, he was from the start a brilliant student, ultimately breaking some scholastic records.

It is the desire and ambition of most bright children in our country to compete for the Civil Service of Pakistan, which provides prestige, a reasonably comfortable life and secure employment. However, his uncle advised Aazar that he was meant for much better and higher things in life. This proved to be true: Aazar went on to hold senior executive positions in, among other bodies, the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme.

For Aazar, the sky was the limit. However, God took him away too soon. When he was in the USA in 2013, it was discovered that he was suffering from a cancerous brain tumour. He battled for his life for about two years with courage and composure. Unfortunately, however, Aazar died in the prime of life at the age of 38 years. He left behind a seven-year-old son and a widow.

Written by his maternal Aunt, Bushra Bokhari, who brought Aazar up after the death of his mother in 1999.

BISHOP. On 27 October 2013. David Charles MA (1982 Law) After graduating, David attended the College of Law in Guildford where he received his final solicitor’s qualification.

In 1986, he worked as an articled clerk at Ivens & Morton in his hometown of Kidderminster, before becoming a practising solicitor. In early retirement, David became a private property landlord.

BOEHM. Gay (Haselden) BA (1956 Economics) Gay attended Cheltenham Ladies’ College before coming to Girton. After graduating, she was an assistant in the Market Research Department of Gallahers Tobacco. In 1960 Gay married Klaus Hugo Boehm; the marriage was later dissolved.

CHADWICK. On 12 June 2015, Jane Esther BA (1935 Modern and Medieval Languages) Esther Chadwick was born on 13 December 1915 in Madras, India, the only child of Sir David and Lady Jane Chadwick. On returning from India, the family lived in Sevenoaks. During the war a stray German bomb demolished their house; fortunately no-one was at home.

After Benenden School and Girton College, Esther worked at the BBC (1941–1945) and attended the inaugural UNESCO Conference in 1946. Combining her love of languages and foreign travel she joined the World Health Organisation in Geneva on its formation in 1948, first as a Translator and then as Assistant Editor of the Division of Editorial and Reference Services (1949–1964) and, finally, as Editor (1965–1971).

Esther retired to East Sussex from where she made frequent visits to the Continent, especially to her chalet at Ovronnaz in the Valais Canton, where she welcomed family and friends and became a well-loved honorary villager.

Much of Esther’s life was devoted to undeclared acts of kindness. She had a voracious curiosity about the world, political and cultural, and was a loyal supporter of many causes. Esther was deeply humane and compassionate, but also had a gentle, dry and at times wickedly mischievous sense of humour. She opened her house to people from all walks of life and was a wonderful cook and hostess.

She lived life to the full and leaves a legacy of loving kindness to so many.

Written by her cousin, Peter Chadwick.

CHATTERJEE. On 18 April 2016, Ratnavali MA (1949 English) Ratna was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata), India where she completed a BA in English Honours at Loreto College. Like her father, Ashoke Chatterjee (Caius 1921), she chose to study at Cambridge, going up to Girton in 1949 to read English Literature. Later, she would vividly recall happy days at Cambridge despite post-war restrictions and, in particular, her friends, tutors, and her involvement in various student societies. Her graduation in 1951 was followed by a Postgraduate Certificate in Education at the University of London’s Institute of Education in 1952.

Returning to Calcutta, she taught English at Loreto College from 1959 till 1988. She was the longest-serving Head of Department and specialised in teaching the history of English literature. She is credited with the introduction of the tutorial system at Loreto College; as Aditi Das Gupta (Clare 1979) notes in Change and Continuity: English Studies in Loreto College 1912–2012 (Kolkata: Loreto College, 2015): ‘It is possible that Miss Ratna Chatterjee’s appreciation of her own experience of tutorials at Cambridge led her to underscore its value to students of literature. She regarded the tutorial as the core of the teaching and learning process, even going so far as to rate its importance above that of the work carried out in the classroom.’

Her formidable knowledge, acerbic wit and store of literary anecdotes were renowned during her tenure at Loreto College. Many of her students kept in touch with her over the years; they, like her family, mourn her passing.

Written by her nieces, Aditi Chatterji and Anuradha Chatterji.

CORBET-SINGLETON. On 1 November 2016, Mildred Rose (Prissian) BA (1948 English) Mildred was half Russian and half French. She was accepted for both Somerville College, Oxford and Girton College, but was given a scholarship by Cambridge.

The circumstances of her marriage to John were unusual.

They were both very young, and it was believed to be the first time two undergraduates had married. The wedding service, in 1950, was conducted by the Chaplain of Clare College, which supported the marriage; Girton threatened to send her home but later relented. John and Mildred went on to enjoy a very happy first year of married life at Cambridge. Mildred died after sixty-five years of marriage to John. She was mother to Jane and grandmother to Harry and Freddie.

Her death leaves a huge gap in their lives.

In the early years of her marriage, Mildred did a great deal of private tutoring and found it very rewarding.

Later Mildred worked very hard to edit a poetry magazine, Agenda, which promoted many of the works of prominent and important poets and was supported by the Arts Council.

A great deal of Mildred’s life was devoted to interests in Chelsea, as she and John became Mayor and Mayoress of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea during his service as a Councillor and Chairman of various local bodies. Mildred also travelled a great deal in support of John’s career in shipping and international trade. Visits were made to Australia, New Zealand, the Far East, South Africa, Middle East and, extensively, Western Europe. As a result of all this, Mildred had a huge number of friends. Mildred enjoyed so much in life and her enthusiasm was infectious and rewarding to all she knew.

Written by her husband, John Corbet-Singleton CBE.

CUMING. In October 2015, Jennifer (Rothwell) MA (1956 English) Jen’s flamboyant personality matched her red hair and loud but beautifully modulated voice that served Verdi and Shakespeare equally well. Her gifts found an outlet in her teaching career. Her generosity of spirit and disdain for convention never dimmed to the end. She leaves three daughters.

DEAVES. On 25 May 2015, Lindsey Elizabeth (Turner) BA (1968 Natural Sciences; 1970 Computer Science) Lindsey came up to Girton from Channing School, Highgate, having turned down an exhibition at Oxford. She read Natural Sciences and in 1971 became one of the first Computer Science graduates. While at Cambridge she sang with CUMS, and was involved in CICCU, through which she met her future husband, David (Christ’s 1969, Maths). They were married shortly after he graduated in 1972.

After graduation, she worked briefly in computer programming, in both consultancy and for local authorities.

With the birth of her three children (1974-1977), she gave up a promising career to be a full-time mother. She maintained her interest in music and also was always keen to take up new challenges; these included helping set up a playgroup, and becoming a well-respected grower of succulent plants among the (predominantly male) international plant community.

Lindsey was very good with words, and edited her church magazine for some years, as well as doing part-time work producing abstracts for the Leatherhead Food Research Association. She also did voluntary checking of Bible scripts in various languages for Wycliffe Bible Translators, right up until a few months before her death.

Lindsey was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer in August 2006; she maintained her strong Christian faith to the end. She leaves her father Ivan (Pembroke, 1938), husband David, children Mary, Peter (completing his training at Ridley Hall for the Anglican Ministry) and Tim, and five grandchildren.

Written by her husband, David Deaves (Christ’s 1969).

DICKINSON. On 3 September 2015, Jean Marjorie (Storey) MA (1949 History) Jean was one of the first girls to get to Cambridge from Walsall Grammar School. She shone as one of the greatest University actresses of our era, directed by such talents as Peter Wood, John Barton and Peter Hall. Her performance as Saint Joan, opposite Julian Slade’s Dauphin, was memorable, as was her Antigone. She ignored the ‘no acting’ warning of her Director of Studies – Mrs Lindsay would become one of her most fervent admirers – and acted in the ADC and the Marlowe Society. After Cambridge she toured with the Oxford and Cambridge Players, and at one time considered making the stage her career. After working for Cambridge University Press she taught English History at the University of Turku, in Finland, for three years. Returning to England, she trained as an ESL teacher.

In 1963 she married the Reverend Hugh Dickinson, who would later become Dean of Salisbury Cathedral. Wherever she was, in vicarages, chaplaincies or the Deanery, Jean would use her TEFL experience to establish neighbourhood English schemes for Asian and other immigrant women. She also became a highly skilled Marriage Guidance Counsellor, and in her fifties trained as a drama therapist. She continued her therapeutic, counselling and supervision work until her retirement. Wherever she was, her warmth, hospitality and humour endeared her to everyone, and her outspoken Yorkshire directness was often a breath of fresh air in settings she sometimes likened to a Trollope novel. Sadly, Jean was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s ten years ago but gained enormous pleasure from being shown photographs of her Girton days.

EDMONDS. On 12 June 2015, Margaret Anne (Hassell) MA (1953 Natural Sciences; 1955 Economics)

She is survived by her husband and their children, Tess and Ben.

Merriell graduated with a First and worked in Cambridge until 1953, when she married a fellow student, Sam Edwards.

The family moved to Birmingham and Cheshire, returning to Cambridge in 1972 when Sam, by then an internationally recognised physicist, took a post at the Cavendish Laboratory. Merriell was a talented amateur botanist. She is survived by her four children, eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Written by her friend, Margaret Owen (Baron 1950).

DRUKKER. On December 2015, Margaret Louise (Ungar) MA (1938 Mathematics) In 1938, Margaret received the Turle Scholarship at Girton; while studying at the College, she was a member of CUSC, CU Jewish Society, Labour Club and the Archimedeans. After graduating, she took a Ministry of Supply course in Labour Management at Liverpool University. In 1941 she was appointed Assistant Labour Officer at the Ministry of Supply, then Technical Assistant in 1943. In 1946, she became the Scientific Officer in the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and was a member of the Fire Officer Committee for the Joint Fire Research Organisation.

Margaret married Cyril Mark Drukker on 12 November 1946, and had three children, Mark (1947), Judith (1949) and Sarah (1950). After raising the family, she returned to education as a postgraduate student at London University (1955) and completed her Certificate of Education. She then taught Mathematics at various schools until 1973, when she became a Maths Tutor at Stanmore Sixth Form College.

Margaret retired from this post in 1981 and moved from Middlesex to London, becoming a part-time Maths Lecturer at Kilburn Polytechnic and at Colindale and Harrow College.

In her spare time, Margaret volunteered for the Harrow Talking Newspaper and enjoyed bookbinding. She was also a member of the Mathematical Association’s London branch.

DUPARC. On 7 October 2015, Kathleen May (Wood) MA (1939 Modern and Medieval Languages) During the war, Kathleen became a Linguist for the Foreign Office. In 1945, she became an Assistant for the Periodicals Department of the British Council, and in 1946 she was a PA for the Supervisors of the Colonial Service Course at the University of Oxford. Kathleen then worked at the Bodleian, purchasing foreign books and periodicals. She married in 1958 but her husband died shortly afterwards.

Margaret was President of CU Women’s Blues Committee, Captain of CU Tennis team and played for the University Squash team. She married Derek Edmonds in 1954 and had three children. Margaret had a successful career in education, working as teacher, lecturer and Head of Department, and retiring as Personnel Manager at Weald College. She enjoyed travel, walking, music, theatre and ballroom dancing.

EDWARDS. In February 2016, Merriell Elizabeth Marion (Bland) MA (1944 Mathematics)

Written by her daughter, Margery Barnard.

GARNER. Eileen Valerie (Clague) BA (1932 Natural Sciences) While at Girton, Eileen was awarded a Clothworkers’ Scholarship (1932–35) and received the Rosalind, Lady Carlisle Scholarship in 1935. She was an active member of the University swimming team, serving as Captain in 1934 and 1935. Eileen was also musically talented, and played violin with CUMS and the College orchestra.

After graduation, Eileen taught Physics and Chemistry at Kidderminster High School until 1938. During the war, she started her career as a Research Chemist at ICI (Alkali) Ltd; she was also an Air Raid Warden until 1942. Eileen then married Philip James Garner and had two children, a son, Christopher Rupert, in 1942, and a daughter, Caroline, in 1944. She returned to work in 1947 as a Research Chemist for Shell and then, in 1952, for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. She retired in 1966. From 1947, Eileen was a member of the Institute of Physics and she was also a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry from 1959 to 1977.

During her career she published several papers on crystal structure and X-ray diffraction, as well as phase and equilibrium pressure studies. Eileen also enjoyed her interests in music, gardening and swimming. She died aged 103.

GRABOWSKI. On 28 August 2007, Kathyrn Cecil PhD (1980 Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic) Kathryn had previously studied at the University of Pennsylvania before coming to Girton College as a Research Student.

GRANT. In 2015, Audrey Grant (Whitham) MA (1944 Natural Sciences) Audrey started her teaching career as a Chemistry mistress at the Cambridgeshire County High School, then served as Demonstrator Assistant at Glasgow University and later as a Mathematics mistress; she retired as Head of the Mathematics Department at Godolphin and Latymer School.

She married Peter John Grant (Sidney Sussex) in 1947 and had a son. She found Girton a friendly and happy place, and stayed in touch with university friends.

invited to become Headmistress of that school and was on the governing body of a local state school. She was a guide at Westminster Abbey, which she loved. She went to concerts at the Wigmore Hall, and created lovely tapestry, much of which graces our various homes.

Of course, the main excitement of her married years was supporting Ian as Lord Mayor of Westminster – a marvellous and amazing year, she said, with so many and varied engagements.

Written by her family.

HAMBLEY. On 6 February 2015, Elizabeth Audrey (Gorham) MA (1961 Natural Sciences) Elizabeth married Edmund Cadbury Hambley (Trinity) in 1964 and had four children; Elizabeth, Emma, Edmund (Emmanuel) and Tamsin (Emmanuel). She worked for the Cambridge University Department of Genetics as a Research Assistant before raising her family. She returned to work in 1974, as Company Director for the family’s civil engineering consultancy. Elizabeth enjoyed science, literature and music.

HARLEY. On 25 March 2016, Susan Elizabeth (Evans) MA (1947 History) Susan met her inspiring history teacher, Miss Lewis, at her local high school. And so began her love of history which she maintained all her life and shared with her husband.

In 1946, she won a History scholarship to Girton, but was too young to go up immediately, so took the opportunity to go to Persia to teach young children. She came to Girton in 1947 and was therefore among the first groups of females to be awarded a full Cambridge University degree at the end of their studies.

After acquiring a qualification in shorthand and typing, she started work with the Hansard Society. After two years she changed jobs and joined the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company; she was in charge of Personnel. In 1956, she moved with the company to Egypt to look after the staff there. ‘For 80% of the time,’ Susan later recalled, ‘one is dreadfully bored. For the other 20% one is very frightened.’ English staff were put under house arrest by Egyptian soldiers, and ever after Susan had an affinity with hostages.

In 1961 perhaps the most important event in her life took place. She was invited to join the committee of the local Conservatives, and there she met a councillor called Ian Harley. They were married by our father, a retired teacher who went on to be ordained. Susan and Ian had a loving partnership lasting 54 years, and had two children, Penelope and Robert.

Susan had resigned her job with Shell on getting married, but domestic life was not for her. She spread her wings and got a job teaching History at a nearby school. Later she was

HEPTONSTALL. On 23 November 2015, Cora Arline Mary (Smith) MA (1943 Economics) Cora was a member of CUMS and the Methodist Society and was in Jesus College’s Madrigals Group. She had a career in journalism and was later Head of Scripture Teaching and Latin at the Perse Girls’ School. Cora married Cyril Heptonstall in 1954 and had three children. In 2004 she was awarded an MBE for services to the community in Howden. Cora enjoyed art, gardening and helping with the Girl Guides.

HOFMANN. On 16 March 2015, Jennifer Mary MA (1965 Classics) Jennifer went to Putney High School before coming to Girton, where she was awarded the Jane Agnes Chessar Scholarship. After graduating, she studied for a Diploma in Archive Administration at University College London.

HOOD. On 7 February 2016, Rachel Eveline (Simmons) MA (1949 Classics) Born in Beaconsfield in 1931, Rachel grew up in an outwardlooking family which was joined by refugees in wartime.

Following three happy years in College where, like so many, she made lifelong friends, she worked as Secretary to J B Priestley and as Personal Assistant to R W David at Cambridge University Press. In 1957 she married Sinclair Hood, a Greek archaeologist who was then Director of the British School in Athens. Her presence as Director’s wife with a young family was fondly remembered by students of the time; her energy, intelligence and diplomatic skills were important assets too. From 1962, back home in Great Milton, she played an active part in her local community, involving herself in teaching literacy whilst raising the children (Martin, Mary and Dictynna) and planting a garden remarkable for its collection of trees. In 1978 she gained a distinction in her Further Education Teachers’ Certificate and proved herself an able area organiser in Adult Literacy in Thame. She was a founder member of the Oxford Region Girtonians. Her fine collection of Piet de Jong’s caricatures of those he had worked with – published as Faces of

Archaeology in Greece (1998) – is testimony to both her involvement in the subject and her interest in individuals.

Always lively, even when struck down by Parkinson’s, she possessed an enviable ability to show interest in others and their ploys. The grand piano she presented to College serves to keep her memory alive.

Written by Dorothy Thompson (Fellow; Walbank 1958).

HORRELL. On 18 November 2015, Margaret (Roddam) MA (1955 Natural Sciences) South East Cornwall, indeed all of Cornwall, has lost a very significant person in the recent death of Margaret Horrell.

Margaret came to Cornwall when she married Michael, a farmer at Upton Cross. They had met at Cambridge where Margaret read for a Science degree. She was not from a farming background, but said, only a few years ago, that she fell in love with Cornwall and loved her life there. She was the mother of three children who all went to Callington School and on to academic success. Margaret supported Michael when he found a way round the milk quotas by producing Yarg cheese, a business enterprise that went on to great success and put the area on the national map for cheese production.

However, it was in her public service that Margaret made her greatest contribution to the region. Her family always came first, but once her children had grown up, she threw herself into public affairs. She was elected as the Liberal Democrat County Councillor for St Cleer in 1989 and served, with great effect, for eight years, becoming Vice-Chairman of the Education Committee. She was a member of the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Health Authority and Primary Care Trust and she also served on the Devon and Cornwall Economic Development Board (Prosper). She was Deputy Lieutenant of Cornwall and was awarded an MBE in 1997. Few people can have done so much or served Cornwall more faithfully than Margaret Horrell.

Margaret was a woman of high intelligence with a good sense of humour and a sharp mind. Charming and lively to talk to, but not afraid to challenge and to respond vigorously if she disagreed, she was ready to listen to reasoned arguments and to keep controversy to a minimum. She sang for many years in the East Cornwall Bach Choir and was an active supporter of Liskeard Decorative and Fine Arts Society where, in recent years, she helped Michael to arrange and run several delightful tours, both in this country and overseas.

She and Michael retired only a few years ago and it was with great sadness that her many friends learnt of the severe illness which she fought for five years before her death.

Written by her husband, Michael Horrell.

HULL. In March 2016, Jennifer Christine (Mee) BA (1957 Zoology) Jenny was born in Birkenhead in 1938, elder daughter of John Mee, a teacher, and Frances.

She was educated at a local Junior School and Birkenhead High School before going up to Girton in 1957 to read Natural Sciences (Zoology, Geology and Physiology) Part I and then Zoology Part II. After a year of teacher training at Hughes Hall, she took up a post as Biology Teacher at Ashford School (Kent) in 1961. She met Roger Hull, also studying Natural Sciences, at the Girton Ball in 1957 and married him in 1962. In 1963, Roger was seconded to Makerere College, Uganda to teach Agricultural Botany, and Jenny lectured and demonstrated in Zoology.

On their return to the UK, their first child was born in 1963, followed by two others and then twins! Jenny was a devoted mother and gave up teaching to bring up the children, firstly in Cambridge and then in Norwich. When the children had reached a suitable age she took up supply teaching, mainly in infant and primary schools; she said that she had taught every age from 4 to 24!

On Roger’s retirement they travelled the world, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, enjoying natural history, scenery and culture. In 2013, Jenny was diagnosed with Myelodysplasia Syndrome (bone marrow cancer) which curtailed their travels. She died peacefully at home, surrounded by her five children and nine grandchildren. She is remembered for her happy disposition (her smile), her strict but fair discipline and her friendship to people from many countries.

Written by her husband, Roger Hull.

ISAAC. On 13 July 2015, Anne Barbara (Miller) MA (1955 English) Barbara read English at Girton, an ex-pupil of her ‘first heroine’, Marina Sharf (1937), later known as Mother Thekla. In 1960 Barbara met the South African archaeologist, Glynn Isaac. Having acquired a postgraduate diploma from the Institute of Archaeology in London, she married him in Kenya in 1962, where Glynn was consolidating L S B Leakey’s hominid finds at Olorgesailie. Thereafter, until Glynn’s death in 1985, Barbara was an omnicompetent partner – as a research assistant, editor, field camp manager, and scientific illustrator. Ceri, born in Kenya in 1964, and Gwyneira, born in England in 1966, were steeped in that remarkable period of archaeological research within the Great Rift Valley of Kenya and Tanzania, when their parents excavated sites dating 1–2 mya and researched the behavioural evolution of hominids.

Barbara outlived Glynn by almost thirty years. She found finishing his last major work, Plio-Pleistocene Archaeology at Koobi Fora Kenya (1996), a tragic challenge, which in time she fully answered. From 1986 she worked at the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, first in the photographic archives, retiring in 2001 as an assistant director. At Harvard she earned great respect for her work of returning sacred objects to their rightful Native American owners. In 2014, an elder of the Hopi tribe, hearing of her cancer, gave Barbara an eagle feather, ‘from one warrior to another’. It is buried with her in her woodland grave near Oxford – from which one can see the Vale of the White Horse.

JACKSON. On 21 May 2015, Marion Teresa (Strudwick) MA (1978 Classics)

A great traveller, Barbara led groups for Harvard to the Republics of Georgia and Azerbaijan, India, Morocco, Kenya, Gabon, Cameroon and the Central African Republic. Girton benefited from her initiative and organization of College trips to India (2005) and Sri Lanka (2006). Very ill, she managed short trips, two to Cambridge – one when she introduced her cherished granddaughter, Penelope, to Hermione Grammatike, and the other to give a paper at the centenary of the Archaeology and Anthropology Tripos in February 2015.

In 1943, Claris won an exhibition to study at Girton.

According to her Director of Studies, Claris had an excellent literary style and was active in religious, political and social studies. She was elected ‘Senior Student’ (President of JCR) for 1945-46. Claris enjoyed reminiscing about her time in Cambridge and life in Girton during the war. She had particularly happy memories of her last year when her brother, Oliver, returned to his studies in Cambridge after the war.

Those who knew Barbara would not be surprised by her unremitting attention to detail in all things at all times.

Ceri and Gwyneira, devoted daughters, were with her as much as possible following the diagnosis of cancer. In those hard months of uncertain recovery, Barbara typed out her and Glynn’s prolific correspondence as well as some of Glynn’s with his late beloved twin, the historian Rhys Isaac. Her annotated photos will surely facilitate publication. On common anthropological ground, she rigorously followed Gwyneira’s papers, and co-authored one in 2015 on the demographics of collecting.

The introduction to Barbara’s compilation of Glynn’s papers, The Archaeology of Human Origins (1989) ends thus: ‘The beauty and most poignant quality of culture is that, once recorded, a man’s output is not lost with him; it does not lose its value.... Glynn would have been the first to admit that he could not have completed so much without Barbara beside him. The coherent arrangement and editing of these papers is her effort. In them his vigour lives on.’ Now in her turn, in her own right, Barbara lives on.

Barbara as a poet is not yet known. Her daughters are giving to the College Archives the poems she thought worth keeping. They tell of a scholar, an archaeologist, a lover, a mother and a friend, a woman who lived and died in all manner of things well.

Written by her friend, Mary Dyson (1958).

Marion came to Girton following in her mother’s footsteps (Elizabeth Stemson, 1930). She received diplomas from the Royal Society of Arts and Harlow Technical College, before becoming Administration Assistant for Mobil Oil. Marion married Timothy John (Magdalene) in 1981 and had three daughters. She enjoyed gardening and voluntary work.

JAYNE. In 2016, Claris Freeman MA (1943 History)

After Cambridge, Claris moved back to London and undertook a Diploma of Social Science at the London School of Economics, which became a stepping-stone for her subsequent career in social work. Her first job was with Middlesex County Council. Following this she joined the Home Office working for the Inspectorate of Child Care, during which time she spent several years based in Manchester and then in Nottingham. In the mid 1960s Claris spent a year working in Uganda with Save the Children Fund helping to set up the Ugandan Children’s Service. This was undoubtedly a very significant experience for her and she regaled us with stories of life in Entebbe when she returned home. In the early 1970s, Claris worked for the newly formed Social Work Service in the Department of Health and Social Security where she was responsible for one of the three London Regions. In 1988, Claris was awarded an OBE for her work in the Inspectorate. Former colleagues knew her as a private person with a great sense of humour. However, she was held in high regard for her skill and professionalism, and she did not suffer fools gladly.

After her retirement, Claris volunteered at the head office of Reach – a charity that matched professionals, especially those recently retired, with charities that would benefit from their skills. Outside work Claris enjoyed travelling throughout the world, frequently visiting friends in India, New Zealand, South Africa and the US. Claris also enjoyed listening to music, making annual trips to the Aldeburgh Festival, almost since its inception, as well as enjoying opera, often at the Coliseum.

Family and friends were an important element of Claris’s life.

She would take Elizabeth and David, her niece and nephew, to museums or galleries when they were children, and occasionally arrange holidays with them. Claris was particularly close to a group of friends she made at Girton.

The summer of 1998 was a particular highlight for the group, when the University of Cambridge finally allowed female

students who had completed courses prior to 1948 to officially graduate and be awarded full degrees.

Although a child of the manse, Claris became increasingly attracted to the Church of England while at Cambridge and was confirmed. Once the family moved to Orpington in the 1940s Claris became a regular member of the St Martin of Tours congregation in Chelsfield, Kent.

Written by her niece, Elizabeth Jayne.

JUKES. On 24 October 2015, Marjory Matheson Russell (Reid) MA (1952 Natural Sciences) Marjory carried on her medical studies at St Mary’s Hospital, London where she received her MB, BChir and Diploma in Anaesthesia. She worked as an anaesthetist at many hospitals.

Marjory married Dr Michael Gordon Martin Jukes in 1959 and had two daughters and one son.

KEATLEY. On 1 June 2015, Prudence Eve (Burgess) MA (1950 English) Eve, who had a distinguished career as the first Press Secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury, came up to Girton from Wycombe Abbey to read English under the exacting supervision of Muriel Bradbrook.

After graduating, she joined the BBC first as ‘Eve’ with ‘Uncle Mac’ on Children’s Hour, and then as a producer and writer on the BBC World Service where she met and married The Guardian’s diplomatic correspondent and broadcaster, Patrick Keatley.

These were the ‘winds of change’ years, when African leaders were struggling for freedom and independence, and the Keatley’s family home in Wimbledon became a first stop for politicians, writers and intellectuals coming to London to discuss with the UK government how to shape their future through dialogue and diplomacy rather than the gun. Eve, ever elegant and gracious, managed brilliantly to manage the demands of a young family with constant hospitality to a flurry of African leaders such as Julius Nyerere, Kenneth Kaunda, and Nelson Mandela.

When Eve joined Lambeth Palace she became, as the Church Times obituary described her, ’the diplomatic interpreter par excellence’. She was the first port of call when Terry Waite, the Archbishop’s envoy, was kidnapped, for during his five-year captivity it was Eve who had to use all her formidable skills in parrying persistent questions from the worldwide media over negotiations for his release. She was also a JP in Wimbledon and later a Trustee of the Sandford St Martin Trust, which promotes excellence in religious broadcasting. Always impeccably dressed, a witty and delightful hostess, she was a keen gardener even in her last months when she was so frail.

Written by her friend, Margaret Owen (Baron 1950).

KNOWLES. On 13 April 2016, Barbara Helen MA PhD (1979 Biochemistry) Dr Barbara Knowles, who died aged 55, was awarded her MBE in the 2014 New Year’s Honours List for Services to Science Communication and the Environment. Most recently she combined her role as a senior science adviser to the Royal Society of Biology with enthusiastically promoting voluntary and charitable projects for meadow ecology, sustainable rural development and traditional agriculture in the Eastern Carpathians in Transylvania. This work included submissions to the European Parliament to highlight the value of vulnerable flower-rich mountain meadows and the threat they are under from EU farming policies and globalisation. Barbara was also one of the founding members of the Natural Capital Initiative, a body that aims to bring scientists and policy makers together to promote sustainable management of the natural world based on sound scientific principles.

Her diagnosis with motor neurone disease in 2008, and the progressive loss of her mobility and speech, in no way reduced Barbara’s drive and determination to promote her ideas on sustainable development, and she inspired many others to become involved in diverse projects, including haymaking festivals, wild flower conservancy and local cheese production. In 2011, she hosted Prince Charles on a visit to Transylvania to learn about haymaking.

Born in Purley, Surrey, Barbara attended Croydon High School, and then studied Biochemistry at Girton, remaining there to gain her PhD; she was elected MCR President from 1984 to 1985. Her post-doctoral research into the workings of biological insecticides followed at Clare Hall, Cambridge, before she moved into the field of public science policy at the Natural Environment Research Council and the Office of Science and Technology.

Written by her brother, Frank Knowles.

LAMBRINUDI. On 31 March 2015, Menda (1950 English) After graduating, Menda worked at an interior design magazine for five years. In 1958, she decided to change her career as she was particularly interested in how the human mind works, and studied for a Diploma in Social Science and Administration at the London School of Economics. Menda then went to Queen’s University in Belfast for a year to study for a Certificate in Psychiatric Studies, so she could become a social worker. Once qualified, Menda worked in the Psychiatric Unit at St George’s Hospital until 1965, moving on to Guy’s Hospital in 1969 and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in 1977. Menda worked most of her life as a social worker, counsellor and psychiatrist. Unfortunately, she became blind in later life and was very sad to give up her work, painting and everything she loved.

LEGGATT. On 7 April 2016, Ursula Norah BA (1931 Modern and Medieval Languages) Ursula was a pupil at Putney High School before coming to Girton to read French and Spanish. After graduating in 1934, she was employed in the Cable Department of Frigorifico Anglo (Union of Cold Storage Company) in Buenos Aires. Ursula worked here until the war broke out and in 1941 decided to leave and go home, along with her co-workers and without their managers’ approval.

From 1942 to 46, she worked as a Radar Operator for the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), based in Liverpool. Marjorie was a supporter of Girton, and was a friend of the Garden and Library. She died aged 103.

LLOYD-THOMAS. Ruth Margery (Bower) MA MB CHIR (1943 Natural Sciences) Ruth met her husband, Dr H G L Lloyd-Thomas, while studying in Cambridge; they had one son. She completed her medical training at King’s College Hospital and worked for the NHS as a GP, Trainee Anaesthetist and a Principal in GP. In 1968, she became a Civil Service Medical Officer, then a Senior Medical Officer. In later years Ruth returned to the NHS as a Consultant Physician.

LOCK BROWN. On 3 March 2015, Enid (Boler) MA (1938 Classics) After completing her degree in 1941, Enid’s first war post was Assistant Principal of the Board of Trade, Industrial Supplies Department. In 1945, she became an Administration Officer in the Industries of Manufacturing, Engineering Department, then in 1946 Temporary Principal. In 1950, Enid was appointed Administration Assistant for the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women. She married Cyril A Lock Brown in 1952 in Kensington, London. In 1954, Enid worked part-time for the Fawcett Society and Fawcett Library, the UK’s leading charity for women’s equality and rights at home, at work and in public life. Returning to Cambridge in 1970, she became the Assistant to the Bursar at King’s College.

LOCKER. On 16 November 2014, Margaret Nancy (Strain) MA (1941 Mathematics) Margaret was a Higgins Scholar and received the G E Mather Jackson Prize and Meyer Prize. She studied for a Teacher’s Diploma at the Maria Grey Training College.

She then taught at Manning School, Nottingham and at the College of Technology, Birmingham. Margaret married John William Locker in 1962.

LONGLAND. On 5 August 2015, Penelope Elizabeth Sara (Minnitt) BA (1975 Archaeology and Anthropology; 1977 Land Economy) Penny was born in Honiara, British Solomon Islands, daughter of Robert and Peggy Minnitt, who had met and married in 1943 in a Japanese prisoner of war camp for civilians in Hong Kong. Penny’s older brother, Michael, and her sister, Joanna, were also born abroad. In 1957 the family returned to the UK, moving often but finally coming to a halt in 1972, in Sutton, Surrey. Perhaps Penny’s strong love of travel and of ‘improving’ houses came from such restless beginnings.

She was at Girton from 1975 to 1978, and obtained a BA (Hons) in Archaeology/Anthropology/Land Economy. She met her husband, Steven Longland, through the Cambridge University Gliding Club where she learnt to fly.

She was Club Secretary from 1993 to 1998, and an instructor. She loved gliding, gardening, music, pottery, art, reading and Australia.

By job description she was a Company Secretary. She worked, amongst others, for Sinclair Research, Segal Quince Wicksteed (associated with the concept of science parks) and Plextek, a research consultancy. She had a gift for seeing into the organisational heart of things, and could set them up and make them work efficiently without upsetting anyone; the latter is an attribute that says a lot about her.

In 2001 she was diagnosed with cancer. She fought it with bravery and considerable grace, but in 2015 the battle was finally lost. Kind, thoughtful and intelligent, she is greatly missed by all who knew her.

Written by her husband, Steven Longland.

LOXLEY. On 12 January 2016, Olwen Joy (Roberts) MA (1948 Natural Sciences) Olwen married G E B Loxley (Corpus Christi) in 1954. She received her PhD in Parasitology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases and a PGCE from King’s College, London. After post-doctoral research and bringing up her family, she worked part-time. She became Senior Lecturer at Nottingham College of Education and then Principal Lecturer at the University of Westminster.

Olwen was involved in many charities and organisations.

MACAULAY. On 28 June 2015, Marjorie Blanch MA (1934 English) While studying, Marjorie, always known as Joie, was a member of Cambridge University Youth Hostel Association and the University Musical Society as well as the University play/production reading group; she enjoyed walking with the Youth Hostels Association and acted in College plays.

After graduating, she went to Cambridge Teaching College in 1938. Joie’s first teaching job was in 1939, as a Classics and Assistant English Mistress for Tunbridge Wells County School for Girls; from there on she took on many other teaching roles with the Girls’ Public Day School Trust until 1954, when she became Head of the English Department at South Hampstead High School. After retiring in 1977, she worked part-time as an Open University Tutor for a Third Level Drama Course until 1983.

Joie regularly stayed in touch with her Girton friends and was interested in portrait painting, life studies, drama and singing.

MACLAREN. In April 2016, Nora Kathleen (Malvin) MA (1941 Classics) Nora, always known as Nonny, was born in Forest Gate, London, but soon moved to Westcliff on Sea where she went to school. Originally she wanted to study French and Latin, but eventually settled for Classics, in which she remained deeply interested for the rest of her life. In her third year she decided that she should do more for the war effort than fire watching, so was accepted by the War Office for a cramming course in Japanese at Bedford College, where she met her future husband Kenneth (Clare 1940). The Japanese course led to a posting to Bletchley Park where she translated Japanese decrypts.

After marriage to Kenneth she returned to Girton to complete her degree. They subsequently moved to Bristol where Kenneth lectured in Classics at the University. They had three children – two daughters and a son. Nonny was widowed in 1958 and took up teaching which, along with gardening, became a lifelong interest. After retiring she became a resident at Braziers Park School of Integrative Social Research where she gardened extensively and taught English to the foreign student helpers right up until the date of her death.

Written by her daughter, Helen Hopper.

MACLEOD. On 29 June 2015, Rosemary Frances (Thompson) BA MB BCHIR (1945 Natural Sciences) Rosemary spent her early years in Palestine followed by a spell in Barnes, London, then Pangbourne where she attended the Abbey School, Reading. She came to Girton, following in the footsteps of her mother, Mrs Theodora Thompson (Norman-Neruda 1919), with her younger sister, Mrs Margaret Schmidt (Thompson 1963), succeeding her.

After studying at Girton, Rosemary undertook her clinical medicine training at St Thomas’ Hospital, London. She was registered with the General Medical Council as a Medical Practitioner in August 1951. She was Obstetric House Surgeon then House Physician at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital from 1951 to 1952, and subsequently House Physician at Southend Hospital in 1953.

She met and married John MacLeod (St John’s) while they were both trainee GPs in Plymouth. From Devon they moved to Bicester where John joined a practice as a partner and Rosemary ran baby and family-planning clinics. She herself gave birth to four children.

In later years, she played a major part in an MRC trial concerning blood-pressure-lowering agents which proved a great medical milestone. This trial brought evidence-based medicine to the forefront of practice and was arguably the first demonstration of a very powerful tool, the randomised controlled trial.

In Bicester where Rosemary lived for 60 years, she was an active member of the church and community. Her many varied interests included gardening, classical music and history. She provided a warm welcome to any visitors. Above all she was a much loved mother and grandmother – the centre of a happy family home. One son, Alex, carried on the medical tradition and became a Consultant Ophthalmologist.

Written by her daughter, Katherine Shuttlewood.

MARCHESE. On 20 June 2015, Simon James MA (1983 Natural Sciences; 1985 Computer Science) Simon was elected Girton JCR President in 1985. He was in the CU Athletics team and received University Colours. After graduating, he moved to South London and became a Systems Engineer for IBM, then Senior IT Specialist.

MASON. On 17 November 2015, Mary Evelyn (Davidson) MA (1933 Mathematics) At Girton, Mary was the JCR Treasurer in 1936 and received her Diploma in Education from Birmingham University in 1937. She married Peter Mason in August 1939, shortly before the outbreak of World War II. They had three daughters, Prue, Rachel and Linny.

Mary taught Mathematics part-time at Macclesfield High School (1937–39), Cheltenham Ladies’ College (1940), Charlton Park Convent School, Cheltenham (1941–41), Aldenham School (1950–61), Manchester High School for Girls (1962–69) and Manchester Grammar School (1969– 70). In 1970, she was appointed as a Tutor in Maths at Salford University’s Engineering Department. Mary was also a member of many institutes and organisations: Manchester City Magistrates (1963–76), Courts Committee (1972–76), Park Field Probation Hostel, William House Hostel for Ex-prisoners and Crown Point Estate. She was also Chairman of the Manchester Association of Cambridge University Women and actively raised money for RNLI and NSPCC. Mary moved back to Cambridge in 1976 after her marriage was dissolved, and became an active member of the community; she also worked as a Senior Maths Tutor at St Andrew’s Private Tutorial Centre. She was known to be a feisty, strong-minded and intellectual woman, who was family-orientated, being able to relate to the younger generation with her brilliant sense of humour. Mary was very musical and loved gardening and long walks. She was also a regular church-goer, and a member of the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Ladies who Learn group. She also contributed to Volume II of the Girton Register. Mary leaves behind her three daughters, nine grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren.

MASON. On 17 December 2015, Mary Rankine MA (1942 Economics; 1946 Geography) Before her career in social services, Mary worked as a nursery teacher. She later became a Director of Social Services, then Assistant Inspector for the Ministry of National Insurance and afterwards Non-Executive Director of NHS Trust Community Heath Care, Manchester. Mary was a Liberal Party candidate for Bowdon Urban District Council and was appointed Justice of the Peace. She enjoyed dancing, sailing and philosophy.

MAUNSELL. On 4 August 2015, Susan Pamela (Smith) MA (1961 Classics) Susan was born in Nottingham and educated at Nottingham Girls’ High School before coming up to Girton as a Scholar to read Classics. After she graduated, Susan joined the Civil Service, where she spent her entire career. Her early years were spent mainly in the Departments of Health and Social Security, and from 1976 to 1981 she served as Assistant Secretary with responsibility for industrial relations and manpower control. She progressed to Regional Controller for London West (1981–82), then for London South (1982– 85), and from 1989 was Under-Secretary in the Department of Social Security. Continuing in policy posts, she became Under-Secretary, Policy Division A, in the DHSS (1989–92), Director of the Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration (1993–2001), Policy Co-Ordinator for the Competition Commission (2002–05), and finally served as the Commission’s Inquiry Secretary (2007). She was a member of the Civil Service Appeal Board from 1993 to 2005.

Susan had many interests and many friends with whom she shared her love of travel, languages, entertaining, cooking, wines, theatre and books. She was also a keen horse-rider and a great cat-lover. She had a strong sense of community, supported many charities at home and abroad, and served on several committees, serving as Chair of Bromley Age Concern from 1998 to 2001. She and Angela Conyers (Williams) got great enjoyment from a cottage in Northern France that they had jointly owned for almost thirty years.

She will be remembered by many for her friendship and generosity.

Written by her friend Angela Conyers (Williams 1961), with contributions from Dorothy Thompson (Fellow; Walbank 1958).

MCLAUGHLIN. On 13 August 2015, Daphne Mary (Ford) MA (1946 History) Daphne worked as a shorthand typist for the Foreign Office before coming to Girton. After graduating, she was employed in many legal offices in London and Toronto. She then worked as a teacher. Daphne is survived by her daughter, Angela.

MOORE. In November 2015, Mary Kathleen MA (1966 Natural Sciences) Mary became a Research Assistant for the Mycology Department, Institute of Dermatology, in 1969, and Lecturer in Medical Mycology in 1974. She received her PhD from London University in 1987. Mary then worked at St Thomas’s Hospital, retiring in 2005.

MORRELL. On 27 September 2015, Gillian Helena (Timms) MA (1967 Classics) Gill came up to Girton as Senior Classical Scholar and in 1969 was President of the Girton Classical Society. Her love for the Classics was equalled by her passion for teaching. After Girton she taught Classics at St Paul’s Girls’ School and later at Forest School where she was first a House Mistress, then Head of Classics. She continued to teach even after retirement and successfully taught Latin, in a part-time role, at the flagship Mossbourne Community Academy in Hackney under Sir Michael Wilshaw,who was Headmaster at the time.

She moved, after retirement, to Great Bardfield in Essex, and became very active and respected in that community.

She was Churchwarden at St Mary the Virgin, a fourteenth-century church in Great Bardfield, where she led a successful campaign to raise funds for the church roof as well as continuing to teach New Testament Greek to ordinands of the Chelmsford diocese. She galvanised the Local History Society into applying and obtaining Blue Plaques for the village; these are now on display and are a permanent testament to her efforts.

Gill never lost her faith throughout her illness, and her love of others and concern for their welfare remained until the day she died.

‘It was beautiful/ as long as it lasted/ the journey of my life’ (Rabindranath Tagore).

Her husband, Chris, and her children, Helen and Jeremy, survive her.

Written by her friend, Ros Battersby (Green 1967).

MURPHY. Pamela Laura (Holroyd) BA (1948 Modern and Medieval Languages; 1950 Economics) When Pamela, known as Pam, came to Girton she read French and Dutch in Part I and then changed to Economics for Part II. After graduating, her first job was as an abstractor with the Printing, Packaging and Allied Trades Research Association. On 29 August 1953 she married Dr Bernard Murphy, a GP; they moved to North London and had six children (three of whom are now doctors). Pam worked as a Medical Secretary in her husband’s practice and at the weekend they both ran eye-clinics. Later in life, she moved to Dublin where her eldest and youngest children live. She kept in close contact with a group of fellow students from Girton: they remained friends since meeting at their College interviews and would regularly meet up for lunch. Pam was also interested in very fine embroidery, creating decorative pillows and other textiles for doll houses.

NORRIS. On 26 June 2014, Joan Ruth MA (1939 Natural Sciences) While at Girton, Joan played hockey for the University.

After graduating, she became a Patents Officer for ICI’s Plastics Division. In 1965, she qualified as a patent agent and was elected Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents. She was an active member of her community and served on various committees.

OERTEL. On 1 February 2015, Anne Clayton (Ibbotson) MA (1941 Modern and Medieval Languages) Anne received a Hockey Blue in 1943, while reading French and German. She gained a Teaching Diploma from the Institute of Education, London, in 1945, going on to teach Modern Languages and then Mathematics (after receiving her Postgraduate Diploma in Mathematics) at various schools. She married Paul Oertel in 1953.

OGILVIE. On 23 December 2015, Joan Mary (Howard) MA (1936 Classics) In 1929, Joan was awarded a foundation scholarship to King Edward’s High School for Girls, Birmingham and in 1936 she matriculated in Classics at Girton, where she formed many lifelong friendships. After graduating in 1939, she trained as an almoner and initially worked in hospitals in Birmingham. She became a tutor at the Institute of Almoners until 1948, when she was appointed Head Almoner for Buckinghamshire County Council.

In 1953, Joan married Kenneth, a minister, whom she had met at Cambridge. They moved to Aberdeenshire where Alastair and Malcolm were born, before moving to Fife, where Ian was born. Whilst raising the family, Joan served on National Guild committees and was a marriage guidance counsellor, as well as tending a vegetable garden and producing 250 lbs of jams each year.

In 1968, the family moved to Edinburgh. Joan returned to work as Senior Medical Social Worker at the Eastern General Hospital and was soon promoted to Principal Medical Social Worker for the Edinburgh Northern Hospital Group, a post she held until retiring in 1980.

After she and Kenneth separated in 1978, Joan moved to Balerno. She served on the congregational board and was an elder of the Parish Church. She was Secretary of The Friends of Malleny, a tutor in adult literacy and librarian for the Edinburgh Council for Alcoholism. She enjoyed attending concerts and galleries, developing her garden, travelling and meeting family and friends. She took great delight in her sons and her six granddaughters.

Written by her son, Ian Ogilvie.

PARR. On 30 June 2015, Christine Martha (Marsden) MA (1951 Natural Sciences)

RICHARDSON. On 26 November 2015, Gillian Miles (Jones) MA (1961 English)

Christine was involved in the Cambridge University Women’s Rowing Club and Student Christian Movement. After her time in Cambridge she went on to receive a Biochemistry MSc from the University of London. Christine married Brian in 1958 (she was later widowed) and had two children, Elizabeth (1979, Veterinary Medicine) and Christopher. She worked as a Biochemistry Demonstrator at St Thomas’ Hospital Medical School, then as a Biology teacher, and later as Deputy Head, at Merchant Taylors’ Schools.

Gillian married Michael Richardson, former Director of the Institute of Continuing Education, in 1965 and had two daughters. She worked in publishing for a year, before having a career in teaching and was a member of the Cambridge City Council from 1996 to 2000. Gillian stayed in touch with her group of close Girton friends.

PHILLIPS. On 27 March 2015, Naomi (Calvert) MA (1944 Mathematics) While at Girton, Naomi belonged to the Conservative Association and the Scottish Country Dancing Club. She married Norman Moon Phillips in 1951 and had four children, Hilary, Gwen (1963 Medical Sciences), Rosemary and Marion.

Naomi worked as a Mathematics teacher from 1965 to 1986.

She enjoyed gardening, theatre, natural history and walking.

RAYDEN. On 30 September 2015, Jeanne Mary MA (1951 Geography) Jeanne was born in Rugby; her father was an electrical engineer, her mother a teacher.

She excelled at school, gaining a scholarship to Rugby Girls’ High School when very young and went on, via a State Scholarship, to read Geography at Girton – at a time of frugality and ration books, and before the theory of plate tectonics had made the idea of continental drift intellectually respectable.

Slightly to her surprise, she joined the Inland Revenue, becoming an Inspector of Taxes in several areas of the Midlands. Here she found a career which combined her ability to grasp complex legislation, her meticulous attention to detail, and her shrewd observation and understanding of the foibles of human nature. She was a quiet, rather private person of great integrity and determinedly independent, always willing to put others first – something shown most clearly when, after retirement, she was for fifteen years a fulltime carer for her ageing mother.

RICHARDSON. On 7 November 2015, Hilary Hamilton MA (1948 Archaeology and Anthropology) For over thirty years Hilary taught and supervised undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Department of Archaeology at University College, Dublin, her main subject area being Irish Art and Archaeology of the Early Christian period. Her research and lectures on manuscript illustration, metalwork decoration and stone carving on Irish high crosses brought her increasingly into contact with scholars and artists in mainland Europe, the eastern Mediterranean, Egypt, Syria, Armenia, Georgia and Ethiopia.

Even in her 83rd year she was exploring Christian iconography in tenth-century churches in Svaneti in the northern Caucasus.

She was an accomplished artist herself – she had been a draughtsman at Michael O’Kelly’s 1960s Newgrange dig – and today her drawings of the 5000-year-old ceremonial flint macehead discovered in Knowth, Co. Meath, can be seen at the National Museum of Ireland and Royal Irish Academy.

Written by her niece, Clare Lewis.

RIDE. On 21 April 2016, Phyllis Marjorie MA (1945 History) Phyllis was the only daughter of Herbert and Daisy Ride. She was at Bletchley Park during World War II, working in Hut 4 translating German intercepted messages; the nature of her involvement was not revealed until many years later.

Undergirding everything was an undemonstrative Christian faith that found its expression mostly within the United Reformed Church congregation in Rugby, and especially in Jeanne’s work with children and missions. She was a good listener with a lovely sense of humour which endeared her to all she met; she wrote pantomimes for local groups, as well as clever poetic parodies.

After the war Phyllis returned to education at Girton and subsequently began a career in the Civil Service. She trained under Sylvia Watson at Hertfordshire County Council and then moved to Norfolk in the 1950s where she became Head of Children’s Services and Deputy Director of Social Services.

Jeanne was a person with wide cultural interests in history, geography and music, and she travelled widely. A major tenyear project in her retirement was the sorting and classifying of the Capron family papers at Southwick Hall.

Phyllis took great pleasure travelling in Europe and further afield. She also visited Australia to meet with family. Nearer to home she loved sailing off Blakeney Point with her friend Kathleen Clogstone.

Written by her younger brother, Alan Rayden.

Phyllis took the opportunity to retire at 50 and pursued her many interests, including travel, music, local history, gardening and wildlife. She took up playing the clarinet and was a founder member of the Pulham Village Orchestra and co-organised Baroque weekends. She was a founder member of Bergh Apton Local History Group and honorary life member.

She spent her last days listening to music she loved, with familiar faces around her.

ROBERTSON. On 21 April 2016, Carol Mary (Burwood) MA (1981 English) Carol was a wonderful and very beautiful wife and mother. She had everlasting love for my dad, as well as for all her dear friends. She wore her signature red coat and make-up with the wide adoring smile that was unique to her. Carol had a passion for English literature and told me all the stories of her time in College. No-one ever could replace her as a wife, or as my mum.

All God’s creatures used to sit at her feet, and all God’s birds used to sing for her, as they could see the beauty of her gentle spirit. She was like no other person – an angel inside and out. Carol’s love for the Lord was so strong; noone could take her faith away from her. She never complained throughout her illness and smiled always.

Carol adored words and was always telling me ones I had never heard before. She had a brilliant sense of humour; she was someone you could always laugh with. All the children she taught English to loved her – just like she was their mum, too. It was an honour to have known her, and to have her in our blood for ever.

SANDLE. On 26 December 2014, Marjorie BA (1946 Modern and Medieval Languages; 1948 Economics) Before coming to Girton, Marjorie did wartime service with the Foreign Office from 1943 to 1946. She read French and German, later changing to Economics for Part II. After graduating, she worked for Powell Duffryn Technical Services until 1953. She then joined the Internal Committee on Christian Literacy for Africa in 1956, the International Missionary Council in 1958, and the World Council of Churches in 1961. In 1969 and 1970, Marjorie published translations of The Haven of the Masses by Christian Lalive d’Epinay and Nominal Christianity by Justus Freytag and Kenji Ozaki. Later in life she cared for her mother in Eastbourne. Marjorie kept in touch with Girton friends by letter. She is survived by her sister, Patricia.

SEAL. On 10 January 2015, Cynthia Ida Austin (Leach) MA (1949 Natural Sciences) Cynthia came to Girton in 1949 having spent her childhood in London and as an evacuee in Devizes and Newbury. She met Michael Seal (Corpus Christi) at Cambridge and they married in 1954 at St Bene’t’s Church.

Cynthia and Michael had a very happy marriage until Michael’s death in 2010. They lived in Cambridge, the USA and the Netherlands before retiring to Reading in 1999.

Cynthia and Michael leave five children and six grandchildren.

After leaving Girton, Cynthia taught, and worked at the Cavendish Laboratory before devoting her time to raising her family. Later she played a key role in setting up the British School in Amsterdam. Her youngest child was the first pupil enrolled there, and the school is still thriving with approximately 700 pupils.

Written by her daughter, Bethany-Joy.

ROCHER. In 2014, Margaret Charlotte (Martell) MA (1948 History; 1950 Archaeology and Anthropology) Charlotte qualified as a teacher and later became a Head Teacher. In 1967, she was appointed Careers Advisor at Leeds University. She married in 1955 but was, sadly, widowed a year later; she had one child, Richard Philip.

Charlotte was a member of the National Trust, English Heritage, the Royal Horticultural Society, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the University of the Third Age. She also enjoyed history, gardening, music, art, reading, walking and her voluntary work.

Cynthia loved singing and was a member of various choirs including the Amsterdam Toonkunstkoor, which performed with conductors such as Bernard Haitink and Colin Davis, and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra. She was very creative and made many colourful crocheted blankets and embroideries.

Cynthia was very generous with her time, thoughtful and helpful. She helped foreigners settle in Amsterdam, and was active in the British Society and American Women’s Club. She was a fair person, treating people equally, regardless of their background, intellect or position in life.

We are left with a feeling of her support, humour and strength. Memories of her laughter, smile and generosity of spirit will never fade.

Written by her children.

SLOMAN. On 11 September 2014, Margaret Barbara (Pilkington-Rogers) BA (1944 Classics) On graduating, Barbara joined the Treasury as an Assistant Principal in 1947, at a time when ex-servicemen were given priority recruitment and when very few women reached the higher reaches of the Civil Service. Barbara served the Treasury at the centre of government for eighteen years. She moved to the Department of Education on promotion to Assistant Secretary in 1965; in 1970 she moved to the Civil Service Department, where she gained promotion to UnderSecretary in 1975. It was the continuation of a highly distinguished career leading to her appointment as Principal of the Civil Service College in 1977. The Times saw her appointment as a ‘harbinger of change’, and three years later stated that the ‘resurgence of the Civil Service College was due to her influence and leadership as Principal’.

Barbara retired from what had become the Management and Personnel Office in 1984.

Barbara married Peter Sloman in 1950 and enjoyed 53 years of very happy marriage, before Peter passed away in 2003.

Barbara is survived by her twins, Rosemary and Andrew. She is remembered as ‘the best mother in the world’ and is greatly missed by her children, her friends, neighbours and work colleagues alike.

Written by her daughter, Rosemary Sloman.

ST GEORGE BOND. On 19 April 2016, D’Este MA (1959 Modern and Medieval Languages) After reading French and Spanish, D’Este had a career in journalism working for Vogue, Queen and the Times Educational Supplement. She later went freelance, working as a travel writer for the Daily Telegraph, Assistant Editor for Everyweek Educational Press Ltd, PR Consultant for Clark Nelson Ltd, and art critic and reporter for the London Evening News. D’Este is survived by her brother.

STRUTHERS. On 28 April 2016, Joyce (McMurran) MA (1945 Modern and Medieval Languages) Joyce entered Girton from Ashby de la Zouch Girls’ Grammar School in 1945, with a scholarship in Latin and French. Given her working class background in Newcastle upon Tyne, this was a considerable achievement. There were some then who did not readily welcome those supported from public funds, but Joyce easily made friends with others, and those friendships lasted all her life.

Joyce chose to read French and German, her particular talent lying in linguistics rather than literature, and after graduation she worked as a teaching assistant in Paris for a year, perfecting her French. A teaching post at St Swithun’s School, Winchester followed, but after three years she married and moved to Uganda with her husband, a civil engineer then in the Overseas Civil Service. As well as starting a family, she took the opportunity to develop other skills (secretarial, award-winning acting and general teaching). Twilight of empire and independence brought return to England, after ten happy years.

Joyce was drawn towards left-of-centre politics and electoral reform. When the SDP failed, she became a Relate Counsellor and was active in local health, being appointed to the Bedfordshire Health Authority. She was elected as local Chair; a spell as national Chair of Community Health Councils for England and Wales followed until abolition. She later became Vice-President of the Bedfordshire Care Support for those with learning disabilities and local Chair of Relate.

Joyce continued with an active interest in theatre and music, serving for fifteen years as Honorary Local Representative (HLR) for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABSRM) in Bedford. She was deeply saddened when her son, a much respected local GP, succumbed to depression and took his own life. Her husband, Malcolm survives her after 63 years supporting a very active and fulfilled life of service to the community.

Written by her husband, Malcolm Struthers.

STUDHOLME. On 9 March 2016, Katrine Madge (Clements) MA MB BCHIR (1949 Natural Sciences) Kitty Clements – later Kit Studholme – was a GP and psychotherapist. Part of a generation of outstanding women at Girton in the late 1940s, she won a scholarship to study Natural Sciences and was the first of her family to go to university. Kitty completed her medical training in London hospitals, before setting up in practice as a lone GP in South Wales in the 1960s. She cut a glamorous and unusual figure in the tiny mining village of Trinant where, working through five pregnancies, she organised life around her children (even occasionally taking surgeries with one or other of us in a carry-cot under the couch in her consulting room).

In the early 1970s she joined a large GP practice in the army town of Aldershot, and was for some years the main breadwinner in our family. At 60, she was working as a GP in Faringdon, Oxfordshire. She had always been interested in psychotherapy, and lost no time in retraining, in the early 1990s, for her second career, which she practised at home in Abingdon, finally stopping work aged 75.

The most ordinary and at the same time most extraordinary of people, Kit set high standards in everything she undertook.

Her interest in and encouragement of others never flagged, even at times when her own life was painful and difficult. In her last years, as she became increasingly immobile, she lived always in anticipation of visitors. Her mental strength was such that only those very close to her were aware of the advance of dementia; to outsiders she remained as sharp as she had always been, almost to the very end of her life.

She is missed by her surviving children, Caroline, Margaret, Matthew and Will, and by her ten grandchildren.

Written by her daughter, Margaret Studholme.

TALLANTYRE. On 28 April 2016, Patricia Margaret (Martin) BA MB BCHIR (1961 Natural Science) Pat enjoyed hockey and chess while studying. After graduating, she studied for her MB BChir in Medicine at St Thomas’s Hospital. Pat had a successful career as a GP and was a member of various professional bodies, including the British Medical Association, the General Medical Council and the Medical Defence Union. She married Robert in 1970 and had two children, Helen and Martin. Pat enjoyed birdwatching, gardening, reading, walking and entertaining. She was a member of the Ladies’ Circle.

TEMPLE. On 12 February 2016, Judith Mary (Start) BA (1940 Geography) Judith enjoyed the independence, new friends and broadening horizons that Girton gave her. She received her Women’s Housing Managers Certification in 1945 and later worked as Head of Social Studies (1959–66) and then Deputy Head (1967–88) at Farringtons School. Judith married David G Temple in 1946 and had three children.

THORNE. In 2013, Marjorie (Pipes) MA (1928 History) After graduating, Marjorie worked from 1932 to 1933 as an Assistant Organiser at Derbyshire Rural Community Council.

She went on to become a History Mistress at Shirebrook Secondary School; during this appointment she attended Clapham and Streatham Hill Training College and completed her Cambridge Teaching Diploma in 1939. Marjorie was then appointed Senior History Mistress at Slough High School for Girls, serving until 1942. During the war, she became a part-time History Mistress for the Bromley Technical School for Girls. In 1942, she married Percy C L Thorne and had a son, Robert, in 1944. Marjorie liked to describe her profession as ‘teacher and housewife’. In 1964, she was appointed Head of Department of History at Tonbridge Grammar School for Girls. She retired in 1973.

Marjorie commented that her ‘Cambridge education, although not markedly successful, enabled me to achieve the things that have given me most satisfaction in my life’.

She became an Honorary Life Member of the United Nations Association, and was a member of Amnesty International Poetry Society, the Georgian Group and the Campaign to Protect Rural England. Marjorie also enjoyed reading and the company of friends, and was a leader of her church group.

She died aged 104.

TURNER. Margaret Elspeth Mellard (Hawkes) BA (1937 Mathematics) Margaret was a Turle Scholar at Girton and was awarded a Blue for swimming in 1939–40. Her first job was as Technical Assistant for Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd. In 1944, however, she started her teaching career, following in her father’s footsteps. Her first position was a temporary teaching post at Copthall County School; this ran until July 1944. She then worked as Assistant Mistress at King Edward VI Handsworth School for Girls. She married John Burne Turner in 1953.

TYNDALL. On 20 July 2015, Mary (Blench) MA (1936 History) Mary hugely enjoyed her time at Girton, where she read History from 1936 to 1939. On her first Sunday in College, at a tea party given by fellow-historian Elizabeth Tyndall, she met Elizabeth’s brother, John, and they married in September 1939. For many years after the war, Mary combined parttime teaching and librarianship with family commitments and supporting John (as was then expected) in his job, and it was some time before the opportunity arose for her to pursue her own career. She had long been interested in the unexpected difficulties, often assumed to be laziness, encountered by some children in learning to read and spell.

In the 1970s new methods of identification and of teaching such children were at an early stage of development, and Mary became a leading pioneer of the new approach. Her combination of academic rigour, exhaustive research and patient teaching skills made her a huge success both as a lecturer and practitioner and did much both to establish dyslexia as a genuine disability and to disseminate successful teaching methods to overcome it. She retired aged 75, to make up, she said, for her late start. In her later years she often reminisced about Girton, which she felt had given her the intellectual confidence to forge a career which she had so much enjoyed, and for which she remained grateful to the end of her long life.

Written by her daughter, Sue Smith (Tyndall 1961).

WEST. On 25 December 2014, Eileen Louise (Yardley) MA (1947 Geography) Born in 1928, Eileen grew up in Gloucester and gained a scholarship to Thornbury Grammar School in 1939. In 1944, the family moved to Birmingham, and Eileen transferred to King’s Norton Grammar School where she became Head Girl and was awarded a Birmingham Major Scholarship to Girton. Here she was Deputy Chapel Warden,

Deputy Senior Student, a member of the Student Christian Movement and Pastorate Mission. She also played in hockey and tennis teams In 1950, Eileen met Henry West (St Catharine’s). She had already accepted a teaching post at Downe House School, near Newbury. Henry had been appointed to the Colonial Service, but had to complete a course at the School of Military Survey, also near Newbury, before proceeding to Uganda. By the close of 1950 they had agreed to marry.

Henry left by sea for Uganda in April 1951, and Eileen followed by air, in June 1952. They were married in Entebbe, Uganda.

Eileen spent twelve years in Uganda, learning Luganda and Swahili, moving house too frequently, and flying home to give birth to two daughters. By 1964 ‘Ugandanisation’ had affected Henry’s position as Commissioner of Lands and Surveys. The family set off to drive 6000 kilometres to Cape Town, and from there sailed to Southhampton. Henry continued his research into the land-tenure problems he had encountered in Uganda and became a Lecturer and Fellow of Wolfson College.

Eileen’s time was spent running the home, rearing two daughters, caring for elderly parents, teaching at St Mary’s School and Long Road Sixth Form College, running St James’s Youth Group and chairing the Executive Committee of the newly established Focus Christian Institute.

By 1981 Eileen’s health was weakening but a regime of drug therapy and surgery at Papworth Hospital kept her reasonably active for thirty years. Family became more and more the focus of Eileen’s restricted activities. She also started playing bridge and for five years was Secretary of the local bridge club. After 59 years of happy marriage, Henry died in 2011. Eileen died peacefully on Christmas Day 2014 aged 86.

Written by her daughter, Hilary May (West 1977).

WOODS. On 11 November 2015, Lynda Jane (Lewis) MA (1983 Classics; 1985 Theology and Religious Studies) At Girton Lynda received the Rima Alamuddin Prize in 1986. She obtained a PGCE from St Mary’s College, Twickenham and later worked as Principal Teacher for Pupil Support at Kilsyth Academy. She married Johnathon Woods in 1995 and had two children. Lynda was very active, enjoyed hill-walking, and won prizes for running.

WRAY. Jenefer Gwendolen Anne (Riley) MA (1964 Natural Sciences) Jenny received a Half Blue for lacrosse, enjoyed choral singing and tennis and was a member of the Cambridge University Conservative Association. She also organised the Girton Ball in her third year. Jenny held executive appointments with Control Data UK, IBM and Rothmans before embarking in the 1980s on a career in recruitment. In 2003 she started her own head-hunting business, Jenny Riley & Associates.

She was three times a parliamentary candidate for Wood Green, a member of two large local authorities and an officer of the Institute of Directors. Her publications included Successful Recruitment in a Week (Hodder & Stoughton, 1999).

Jenny married Terence Malcolm Wray in 1976; together they set up in 1984 a computer systems consultancy and computer sales firm, JR Business Services. Jenny also found time to be a member of the BCS (the Chartered Institute for IT), Honorary Secretary of the Conservative Computer Forum, Deputy Chair of North Thames Gas Consumers’ Council, and a Governor of Queen Charlotte’s Hospital for Women.