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Contents Editor’s Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Professor Sir Gabriel Horn, 1927–2012 .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Alumni and Development

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Master’s News From the Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Features Fellows’ Research: Dr David Beckingham and Dr Chris Doran .. . . . . . . . . . . ‘Four Legs Good’: Equine Welfare at the London Olympics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sidney’s War in the Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ‘Almost a New Building’: the Centenary of the New College Chapel .. . . Harry Whittington and Sidney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tim Blanning at 70 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sidney Greats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Year in Chapel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Library Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Muniment Room Report .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garden Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Student Life 15 21 24 29 32 36 38

College News Examination Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Admissions and Schools Liaison .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graduate Tutors’ Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Fellows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Visiting Fellows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . International Programmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Staff News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . College Buildings Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Music and Chapel Choir Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Fundraising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1596 Foundation .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alumni Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sidney Sussex Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sidney Club of Geneva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thornely Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alumni News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alumni Benefits, including Dining Privileges .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Report of the MCR .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Report of the JCR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May Ball 2012 .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Larkum Reading Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Continuing the Research of Professor Fred Shotton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . College Sports Clubs and Societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . College Travel Awards and Reports .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Officers of the Students’ Union 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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The Register Appointments, Awards and Destinations .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Births, Marriages and Other Occasional Offices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

The College 2012–13 The College 2012–13 .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

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editor’s Preface

Editor’s Preface When I broke with tradition and wrote an editor’s preface to the 2009 Annual I did not think that I would need to do so again so soon. But I do, sadly twice over. In bidding farewell to Sandra Dawson as our Master I wrote that Sidney had been very fortunate in recent years in its choice of Masters. Our former and greatly loved Master, Professor Sir Gabriel Horn, died suddenly on 2 August. His funeral, held in the Chapel on 8 August, was a wonderful and moving celebration of his life and featured music and verse composed and performed by members of his talented family, as well as Al Jolson’s rendering of There’s a Rainbow ’round my Shoulder, and Prill Barrett’s reading of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116, ‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments.’ His son Andrew read part of Gabriel’s own poem, Never Far Away, which is reproduced on page 7 and Professor Tim Cox has kindly transformed the marvellous and heartfelt eulogy into the obituary that appears on pages 143–9. Gabriel himself is also a contributor to this Annual. One of the last services he performed for the College was vividly to recall the life and work of Harry Whittington at the dinner held to honour Harry’s memory in May. A version of the speech, edited by Gabriel himself, will be found on pages 32–5. Everyone at or involved with Sidney will miss Gabriel hugely; he loved the College deeply and it loved him. My second sad farewell is to our current Master, Professor Andrew WallaceHadrill, who as he explains in his own valedictory introduction to this volume, is to step down at the end of the coming academic year. I know that I speak for the Fellowship, for the members of the 1596 Foundation and for the student body when I say how much his commitment to the College has been appreciated. Anyone who was present at the graduation dinner for those who matriculated in 2009 will know the deep respect and affection in which they hold both the Master and Jo, and the genuine appreciation of their interest in the students’ activities, and the way in which they were made to feel welcome, not merely by the College, but in the Lodge as well. Many in the Sidney community who have learned of the Master’s decision to resign have remarked with regret but with understanding that Sidney’s loss is Herculaneum’s gain. At the risk of abusing my editorial licence I would like to say personally that Andrew brought to Sidney two invaluable gifts. The first was a major scholarly reputation in a field where we lacked front line expertise.

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The team behind the College Annual: the Master’s Personal Assistant, Alex Hall, and Annual editor, Professor James Mayall (photo by Trevor Rees)

I should be careful what I say here: I am reminded of the response that my erstwhile colleague, Ernest Gellner, once gave to an over-serious enquirer who asked what exactly was his field? ‘I am not a donkey,’ Ernest replied, ‘I do not have a field!’ This is relevant to the Master’s second, and for me even more important gift, namely his infectious enthusiasm for his subject and its wider and contemporary relevance. He also has an admirable ability to communicate this enthusiasm – the hallmark of a real scholar – not only to his peers, who would have shared it anyway, but also to the rest of us. For those like me who

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 were introduced to the classics, as Noel Coward famously said of pig-sticking, ‘in quite the wrong way’, and therefore gave up at the first opportunity, this was a really exciting experience. From the moment I heard his presentation on his work at Herculaneum to the Sidney Club of Geneva I was hooked. Like other Sidney alumni and 1596 members in that group I was fortunate to be guided round the site itself when we visited the Bay of Naples later that summer. The Master’s deep involvement in the exploration and conservation of the site at Herculaneum, which from now on will command the bulk of his time, was a further asset for his College. As many alumni have remarked, he was a great ambassador for Sidney, always ready to put himself out not only to welcome visitors to the Lodge but also to welcome members of the Sidney community to Herculaneum, where he would show them round and enthusiastically share with them his huge knowledge of the architecture and social structure of ancient Rome. Perhaps because we are living at a time of great collective anxiety, and are often visited with premonitions of decline, there has been a recent revival of popular interest in the classical roots of our own civilisation. When a popular interest develops, scholarly interest is never far behind. Much the same could perhaps be said if the order is reversed. Either way, we owe the Master a special debt of gratitude that, through securing the funding for a new university lectureship in Classics, which will be held at Sidney, the College will be well placed to play its part in this renaissance. That he has a major part to play in the promotion of classical studies more generally at a time when higher education faces major funding and other challenges is attested to by his appointment to the Council of the British Academy. Our regret at his departure can be somewhat softened, therefore, by the knowledge that the subject is in capable hands, that he will have a major role within the Faculty and will continue, like his predecessors, to be a Fellow of the College and to play a full part in College life. Finally, may I say what a pleasure it has been to work on the Annual with the Master’s Personal Assistant, Alex Hall, and under his own friendly and expert guidance. I shall miss the impromptu editorial meetings with which the three of us were prone to end the working week.

Professor Sir gabriel Horn, master 1992–99

Professor Sir Gabriel Horn, Master 1992–99 9 December 1927–2 August 2012

■■ From Never Far Away by Gabriel Horn Though I am lost in thought devising ways To plumb the secrets of the living brain And seek to understand the nature of The marks that past perceptions have engraved, The marks that are the paths that lead to you As once you were and even as you are – Those I love the most. In my thoughts you are Never far away. Never far away And when I no longer am In mortal or in spiritual form, The man that once I was, husband, father, Friend, Should you then think of me, Then in your thoughts I’ll live And not be far away.

James Mayall

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master’s news

Master’s News

From the Master It is now three years since Jo and I arrived in College from Rome, on a night of driving rain, having spent a long day in Fiumicino airport arguing with officialdom about the paperwork for our cat, Tosca. Exhausting though the journey was, we were met with a warm welcome by the Bursar and Vice Master, who had waited for us until midnight with a bottle of champagne on ice. Warm welcomes are the hallmark of Sidney. A few weeks later, we were to welcome our first batch of Freshers and their families (no cats in this case, though). The miracle of handling a hundred new arrivals via one of the smallest car parks in Cambridge was made possible by the swarm of second-year helpers, who saw them to their rooms and recruited them at once to their new families, their College parents (not to speak of grandparents, brothers and sisters, cousins and in no time, husbands and wives). After three years, most of these new arrivals have now graduated and it is hard not to feel, since we too are in a sense ‘going down’, that we have graduated with them. I at least am delighted that, even if my term of office is effectively complete, I shall be ‘going on to research’, as a Director of Research in the Faculty of Classics. Above all, I expect to be spending more time in Italy, as the plans for a new museum at Herculaneum begin to take shape and as a long series of publications awaits attention. Jo and I take away many happy memories: of entertaining students in batches and struggling to learn names (Jo with unfailing success); of being entertained, whether in the Haunted Hall when as Cromwell’s Executioner I finally revealed the Head (or at least an implausible facsimile), or by the Porcupines, of numerous social events with Fellows, alumni and members of the 1596 Foundation, in Sidney, at Penshurst Place, in Westminster Abbey, even on site in Herculaneum. May Balls, too, have provided memorable high spots, arranged with uncanny (if wholly coincidental) appropriateness to welcome us from Italy by turning Hall Court into a lagoon and the Master’s Lodge into a Doge’s Palace, and to bid us farewell with a Mexican Day of the Dead, suspending two great death masks, his and hers, from the balcony of the Lodge. A special word of appreciation is owed to the choir. Over the past three years, David Skinner has, by his combination of energetic enthusiasm and exacting musicianship, turned our choir into one of the best in Cambridge. Hearing them perform, whether in Chapel, especially at the beautiful Latin Vespers on Wednesdays, or on special occasions in Hall and elsewhere, has

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 been one of the greatest privileges and joys of the past three years. Attracting Eric Whitacre as our Composer in Residence has been an especial bonus: he was awarded a Grammy for his CD of choral music, Light and Gold. The choir not only gives pleasure and sets standards of excellence, but attracts funding, whether for music or the College in general. Sidney is famous for its friendliness; my message has always been that friendliness is compatible with high academic ambition and achievement. I am glad to report that our undergraduates have maintained the improvement in Tripos results that has characterised the previous two years: the proportion of those achieving Firsts has grown consistently, and in an ever-fiercer job market, demonstrable achievement becomes all the more important. I hope that the next few years will see this improvement continuing; that is a priority for the Senior Tutor, Admissions Director and all Directors of Studies, and for their efforts I offer thanks and congratulations. Before taking leave myself, I should add words of thanks and appreciation to others who are moving on. Peter Waddell, as our Pastoral Dean, has been a mainstay of the College community, his vigorous support extending far beyond the Chapel-goers and theologians. We wish him, Lisa and their family much happiness in their new home on the south coast as Peter becomes Dean of Chapel of the University of Winchester. Iain Black, who has made a notable contribution as Graduate Tutor, stimulating interdisciplinary seminars and social events for the postgraduate community, as well as serving as Secretary to Council and Governing Body, takes his talents to the Senior Tutorship of Clare Hall. Ian Baxendale, whose outstanding teaching was recognised by a Faculty teaching award, leaves us for a new Chair in Synthetic Chemistry at Durham. Eva Nanopoulos, who has made an impact both as Director of Studies in Law and as a tutor, leaves us for a Fellowship in Law at King’s. Finally, Martin Kilduff takes his skills in the study of networking to a Chair in Organisational Behaviour at University College London. All will be missed, and to all we wish a happy and successful future. There are a batch of awards and recognitions of merit to celebrate too. Professor Sir John Walker, our Nobel Laureate, continues to be recognised for his transformation of our understanding of mitochondria, with the award of the Copley Medal, the Royal Society’s highest honour. Richard Penty has been elected a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering for his contributions to photonic devices and systems. Paul McHugh has been promoted to a Chair in Land Economy. Erika Eiser has been promoted to a Readership in Physics.

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The Master, Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 Michael Ramage has been promoted to a Senior Lectureship in Architecture and is a winner of the Wienerberger Brick Award. Among our former Fellows, we are delighted to report the appointment of Richard Flower, for four years our Research Fellow, to a Lectureship in Ancient History and Classics at the University of Exeter. Claire Spottiswoode , another former Research Fellow, now a fellow of Magdalene College, was awarded a L’Oréal-UNESCO Fellowship for Women. Among our Honorary Fellows, Peter Riddell has been appointed a CBE, and among our 1596 Foundation members, Alan Diamond has been appointed an OBE. To all of these, our warmest felicitations. Among other highlights of the year has been the celebration of Tim Blanning’s seventieth birthday, marked by the presentation of a portrait: after almost 50 years of unbroken membership of the College, Tim represents an element of what is now called ‘living history’. Other septuagenarians to celebrate are Tom Blundell and Alan Dashwood. An old and almost forgotten historical link, which has now been happily revived, is that with Boughton House, in which our first Master, James Montagu, was born, as were the numerous members of the Montagu family who attended Sidney in its early years. Boughton passed to the Dukes of Buccleuch and the present Duke, Richard, has opened the doors of hospitality to Jo and me, to the choir and to the Sidney Sussex Society. As we say goodbye, we also welcome new arrivals. In particular, we welcome Paul Brice as our new Chaplain; he was previously Rector of Coleman’s Hatch and Hartfield Churches in East Sussex, before which he served as University Chaplain in West London, in which role he was responsible for pastoral support at Imperial College London, the Royal College of Art and the Royal College of Music. And there are two new Honorary Fellows to welcome, the first in four years. John Osborn is already well known in College for his outstandingly generous support, especially for the Osborn Fellowship in Early Medieval History and Culture and the Osborn Directorship of Music. As a Fellow Commoner, he has attended loyally at many College occasions. As a judge on the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Judge Antônio Cançado Trindade holds perhaps the highest position that can be conferred on an international lawyer. He studied at Sidney for both his LLM in International Law and his PhD, submitting, as he reminded us at a recent dinner, what may be the longest doctoral dissertation to have been submitted in Cambridge. Both our honorands bring honour to their College. Among the many whom I should thank, I owe an especial gratitude to Alex Hall, who has been unflinchingly loyal as PA, and ensured that the Master’s

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master’s news Office is not only efficient but welcoming. I would finally like to put on record my gratitude to the Fellowship, and in particular to Richard Penty, who as Vice Master has had an undoubtedly challenging year. I wish him well over the coming year as Acting Master during my leave of absence, and to Rosamond McKitterick as Acting Vice Master in the search for my successor. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

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features

Features

Fellows’ Research ■■ Dr David Beckingham (Fellow, 2009–) Problem drinking: a historical geographical perspective From binge drinking to minimum pricing, alcohol and its consumption seldom seem far from the news. Policy innovations and interventions are often greeted with suspicion, reported as if drinking and drunkenness have been a kind of constant in British culture. My research examines how and in what ways the drinker and the act of consuming alcohol have been understood as problems to be regulated. It involves showing how understandings of problem behaviours have changed over time. But as a historical geographer I am particularly keen to trace how and why the diagnosis and regulation of these problems has varied within and between places, and what effects this has had on communities and individuals who have become subjects of regulation. In Victorian Britain, impulses to regulate drinking and drunkenness were often linked to perceived problems of public order, to street violence, say, or prostitution in public houses. Police statistics, which were becoming more systematic, revealed stark regional trends (see map overleaf). The legal definitions of drunkenness were subject to change, although critics did note the influence of local cultures of policing and recording drunkenness. As a result, comparisons over time and between places were open to misinterpretation, but statistics and maps produced an interesting geography of shame. Northern towns such as Liverpool, the focus of my PhD, were widely reported as having a problem. It was not easy to dismiss out of hand such statistics, however flawed. The explanation that Liverpool policed drunkenness more seriously than other towns raised questions about how and why drunkenness had become such an issue in the city; and why, by extension, that same problem was not perceived or prioritised elsewhere. The growth of the temperance movement offers an important insight into the framing of problem drinking. The term ‘movement’ is somewhat inaccurate. There was a spectrum ranging from those who abstained from spirits,

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Map showing regional distribution of drunkenness, 1899 Source: Rowntree, J. and Sherwell, A. (1899). The Temperance Problem and Social Reform. London: Hodder and Stoughton

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features for example, to those who campaigned for the prohibition of the sale of all alcohol. I am particularly interested in campaigners who managed to translate a concern about the individual and familial impacts of alcohol into a political debate about regulation on behalf of society. Britain did not seriously entertain national prohibition but the licensing system became a parliamentary battleground for competing economic, social and moral ideologies. Debates weighed the rightful limits of government against the responsibilities of citizens, yet there was little consensus on how best to regulate the sale and consumption of alcohol. Temperance reformers targeted local licensing committees, campaigning for a reduction in the number of licensed premises. Here, too, we can detect a geographical method: maps highlighted clusters of drink outlets, which, the reformers felt, stimulated excessive indulgence. More proactive licensing benches made the reform of pub layouts a condition of license renewal, doing away with the snob screens and snugs that apparently enabled unseemly characters to drink in relative privacy, free from the scrutiny of staff, fellow customers and police inspectors. Such reforms targeted particular kinds of drinking spaces and problem drinkers, not necessarily alcohol consumption as such. The final part of my research focuses on legal and medical constructions of problem drinking, through the operation of the Inebriates Act of 1898. Although not the first legislation to address the problem of those who drank too much, too often, the Act gave the courts powers to refer to reformatories people charged with drink-related offences four or more times in a 12-month period. Critics noted that this emphasis on a familiar kind of public drunkard left virtually untouched those who did their drinking away from the eyes of the police. Its operation was partial in other ways. The Act was permissive, and some councils chose not to provide suitable accommodation, restricting the courts in those areas to fines or short-term prison sentences. The legislation was undermined by doubts about the efficacy and exigency of reformatory sentences, which could be up to three years in length. But the processes of institutionalisation raised interesting questions (which I am beginning to explore) about the relationship of inebriety to insanity. It seems that the medical community was particularly critical of the way in which potential inmates were selected by the courts rather than through a medical assessment of their fitness for treatment. The Inebriates Act was largely a dead letter by the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. Consumption of alcohol and the number of arrests for drunkenness

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 fell sharply during wartime, as the government’s Central Control Board imposed tougher licensing restrictions. It seems Britain’s relationship with alcohol was also undergoing something of a transition, which the war served only to reinforce. Consumption had peaked in the 1870s, and would not reach such heights again for over a century. And this, I think, is one of the most valuable contributions of historical geographical research: popular discourse might have it that we have always been a nation of boozers; but what and where we drink have been subject to quite dramatic changes, with important governmental consequences. According to a 2010 Health Select Committee report, as a proportion of money spent on alcohol, for example, pub sales fell 12 per cent between 1998 and 2007, while supermarket sales rose by 18 per cent in the same period. From a Victorian perspective, drinking in the home points to a new governmental challenge because it cannot be regulated through licensing in the same way as in pubs. Victorian philosophical objections to the regulation of private behaviours do have parallels today, but objections to government interference with individual freedoms are challenged by the estimated £21bn annual cost of alcohol-related harm. As scholars such as James Nicholls of Alcohol Research UK have noted, with its controversial 40 pence minimum unit price, the government’s recent 2012 Alcohol Strategy may mark an important statement of intent. In his foreword, the Prime Minister relates pricing to a familiar public order problem, ‘the scourge of violence caused by binge drinking’. In Scotland, the SNP government has long presented minimum pricing as part of its health strategy. The debate on pricing will continue, but such differences highlight how social, legal and medical ideas help shape understandings of problem drinks, drinkers, drinking and drunkenness. I hope my research demonstrates how the relationship between these ideas is liable to shift, in time and space, with important consequences for what and whom is being regulated.

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From Quantum Fields to Battlefield 3 ■■ Dr Chris Doran (Fellow, 2000–) A Sidney Fellow’s role in the biggest entertainment battle of 2011 [Editor’s Note: Dr Chris Doran first arrived at Sidney in 1986 as an undergraduate. He returned in 2000 to take over as Director of Studies in Physics. In 2006 his career took off in a new direction when he founded the Cambridge spin-out company Geomerics.]

Geomerics was created with the goal of finding commercial applications for research carried out in the Physics and Engineering Departments, and pooled the resources of four academics. After creating various prototypes the team at Geomerics settled on graphics for computer games as the most interesting and dynamic area on which to focus. They created a product called Enlighten, which computes lighting in real-time on games consoles. This is a difficult problem, because in the real world light bounces around many times on its journey from the source to your eye. Modelling these interactions on a games console is extremely challenging as you have very limited resources at your disposal and the updates need to be extremely fast so there is no noticeable lag in a game. Finding ways to attack this problem required insights from maths, physics and computer graphics. Geomerics was the first company to figure out how to compute full, global illumination in real time and started licensing this technology to game developers in 2009. A number of games have now appeared using Enlighten technology, but the first and most exciting was Battlefield 3, developed by Electronic Art’s DICE studio in Sweden. In 2009 EA appointed a new CEO who had to get to grips with a serious problem. EA was no longer the top games publisher, having ceded that position to Activision and its all-conquering Call of Duty franchise. EA’s response was dramatic. It decided to take the next Battlefield title, Battlefield 3, away from its route as a popular PC-based online shooter, and put it on consoles. Furthermore, it planned to release the game within days of the next Call of Duty title, Modern Warfare 3, and match Activision’s marketing spend dollar for dollar. For Battlefield 3 that meant a marketing spend alone of $100 million.

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‘Four Legs Good’: Equine Welfare at the London Olympics [Editor’s note: Colin Roberts, College Fellow in Medical and Veterinary Science, is a specialist in equine health. He spent much of his summer looking after the horses competing in the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London.]

The pressure was now firmly on DICE, and Geomerics, to deliver a title that would stand out graphically against the best in the business. For a young company this was make-or-break. The game was not due for release until October 2011, but the marketing campaign started the preceding April, with ads placed during half-time in the FA Cup Final. Seeing their technology shown in front of millions of people, with a soundtrack by Jay-Z, was quite an experience for all concerned at Geomerics. As the marketing ramped up, so did the war of words between EA and Activision, leading to some bitter exchanges and one lawsuit. At stake was the prize of being the best-selling Christmas title across the world. With sales of a major blockbuster typically exceeding 15 million units, at £40 per unit, you can understand why companies fight hard to get the number one position. Analysts were predicting that one company would lose badly in this battle, claiming there was only room for one title to succeed. So how did this all play out in the end? The analysts were wrong, and both Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3 became massive global hits with sales over 15 million. Battlefield 3 became the fastest selling game in EA’s history, won dozens of awards (including a BAFTA for best game) and six months later was still in the top five. The acrimony died down, at least temporarily, and the lawsuit was settled out of court. Geomerics is now working on over 20 titles worldwide, including EA’s Medal of Honour, due for release in October 2012, just days after the next Call of Duty title hits the shelves. Dr Doran continues to divide his time between running Geomerics and encouraging students to study more and spend less time playing computer games.

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Last summer, London became the first city to host three modern Olympic Games with a festival of sport that captivated the nation as the British team finished third in the medal table, the country’s best placing since the first London Games in 1908 and their second-best result ever. The equestrian events – dressage, jumping and eventing – took place in Greenwich Park in southeast London where the arena sat on the Greenwich Meridian at the bottom of the hill from the Royal Observatory. Since the site was quite undulating and in order to preserve the historic parkland, all the structures, including the arena, warm-up areas and stables, had to be built on hundreds of supports, each individually set so that the surfaces were absolutely level. All of the earlier controversies about the siting of the equestrian Games in Greenwich were forgotten when competition began in the magnificent arena with its dramatic city backdrop. I was honoured to be asked by the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI), the governing body for equestrian sport, to lead the Equine Doping Control Team for the Olympics and for the Paralympics three weeks later. Horses competing in FEI-regulated disciplines must be free during competition of over 1,100 prohibited drugs that may modify performance and, more importantly, affect the horse’s welfare. At the Olympics I worked with Dr Peter Kallings, a veterinarian from Sweden, and we were assisted by a multinational team of 13 skilled technicians, including my wife, Cora. The technicians collected horses for testing, accompanied them at all times on the journey to the Equine Doping Control Unit (EDCU), and then played a major role in the testing procedure. The EDCU was completely separate from the Veterinary Clinic and access to it was strictly limited. Other than the testing team, the horses being tested and their handlers, few visitors were allowed access. Under a strictly defined protocol, urine samples were taken from the horses when possible and, difficult as this may sound, we obtained urine from 90 per cent of the horses tested. After urine was obtained, or after a wait of one hour if none was forthcoming, a blood sample was taken. The samples were securely packed in front of a

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Colin Roberts and his wife, Cora, waiting in the holding area by the main arena before taking a horse for testing

witness representing the horse’s rider and every evening samples were sent by courier to a laboratory near Newmarket for analysis. At the Olympics it is obligatory to test all individual medal winners and a member of each medal-winning team. In addition, the fourth-placed individual horse and a member of the fourth-placed team were sampled so that in the event of a positive test among the medallists a newly promoted horse would also have been tested. Random testing was also widely conducted and in Greenwich the horses were selected for this using a random number generator, a process that was observed by an independent steward. Finally, a small number of targeted tests were performed. The first equestrian competition was eventing, with its combination of dressage, cross-country and jumping. The picturesque cross-country course was described to me by Britain’s Mary King as not too big but full of twists and turns that made it difficult to complete without time faults. It provided some of the most spectacular images of the entire Games with horses appearing to jump into space outlined against the dramatic docklands backdrop. After intense competition, both team and individual gold medals went to Germany, with Michael Jung winning individual honours.

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features Next the specialist dressage and jumping got underway. Britain had never won an Olympic medal in dressage prior to Greenwich but they went in as favourites and the home supporters were not disappointed when, after taking team gold, Charlotte Dujardin and Laura Bechtolsheimer claimed the gold and bronze individual medals respectively. Meanwhile, the team jumping went to a jump-off in which Britain defeated the Netherlands to take gold for the first time since 1952. In a similarly close individual competition, Steve Guerdat of Switzerland took the gold medal on Nino des Buissonnets, a single fault ahead of Gerco Schroder of the Netherlands with the appropriately named London, and Ireland’s Cian O’Connor on Blue Loyd, with Schroder emerging victorious in a jump-off for silver and bronze. My other role in the Games was to join forces with Dr Gerit Matthesen from Germany to form the so-called thermography team. Gerit and I have worked together in international jumping competitions for the past three seasons, earning the nickname ‘the Thermo Twins’. Our task was to examine the Jumping horses for any increased sensitivity of the lower limbs. Horses with hypersensitive limbs are likely to jump higher to avoid pain to the affected area and, on horse welfare grounds and to ensure fair play, such animals are disqualified from competition. Although hypersensitivity may be deliberately induced, it can easily arise due to a naturally occurring injury and the disqualification of a horse in no way implies an accusation of malpractice. Testing for hypersensitivity involves thermal imaging to measure skin temperature and a clinical examination of the horses’ legs. At the Olympics, all of the Jumping horses were examined prior to each competition, on one occasion necessitating a six-hour continuous session in which we examined 86 horses consecutively. Sadly, one of the Canadian team horses was found to be hypersensitive and was disqualified. Three weeks after the Olympics, we were back in Greenwich for the Paralympic dressage in which Great Britain led the medal table from Germany. On this occasion my veterinary colleague was Dermot Forde of Ireland and seven of the Olympic technicians rejoined us. The Paralympics was a moving experience; it was humbling to see some of the riders overcoming severe degrees of disability to ride beautiful dressage tests on horses that were, at times, far from easy rides. Shortly after both the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the FEI announced that there were no positive tests from any horses, a very satisfactory result – especially considering the number of positives at the previous two Olympics – that marked the perfect conclusion to a wonderful sporting event.

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Sidney’s War in the Air On a late December evening in 1940, the Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Arthur Harris, stood on the rooftop of a Whitehall building as the East End of London was set ablaze by a heavy German raid. Having gazed at the incredible scene for a few moments, Harris turned to a colleague and said, ‘They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.’ Never was a pledge more eagerly fulfilled than Harris’s avenging words. He went on to take charge of Bomber Command and in that role masterminded the RAF’s offensive against Germany. His bombing strategy played a key part in weakening the Third Reich, though it came at a tremendous cost to Britain, with almost half of all Bomber Command’s airmen dying in the struggle. The controversial personality and career of Harris were illuminated in a magisterial biography written in 2001 by Air Commodore Henry Probert, who read history at Sidney Sussex before joining the RAF, later becoming head of the Air Historical Branch and the RAF’s Director of Education. On Probert’s death in 2008, the Daily Telegraph described him as ‘one of the most eminent authorities on the history of the RAF, a perfectionist in his detailed research and a scholarly, articulate and gentle man’. Born in December 1926, Henry Probert was just too young to have served in the Second World War, and indeed he did not graduate until 1948. But his devotion to RAF history must have been partly inspired by his recognition of the significant contribution made to the air war by members of the College. For at almost every level of the RAF and aviation during the conflict, the work of men from Sidney was vital. They flew as airmen in theatres all over Europe and Asia, many serving in Harris’s own Bomber Command. On the ground, Sidney men could also be found as researchers, administrators and technicians, reflecting the fine College tradition of pre-eminence in science and engineering. The Sidney airmen who took to the skies throughout the war were among the bravest of the brave, several of them winning official recognition for their valour. Typical of their breed was Denzil Biggane, a pilot with Bomber Command. Born in India, the son of a police inspector, Biggane read Maths at Sidney before joining 44 Squadron. It was during a mine-laying operation in the North Sea in December 1941 that Biggane won the Distinguished Flying Cross. Flying a two-engined Hampden, never the most robust of planes, Biggane encountered appalling weather and a barrage of enemy fire during the operation. According

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features to his medal citation, however, ‘defying the barrage, Pilot Officer Biggane continued on his course, and although his aircraft received a direct hit on one of the wings, he skilfully accomplished his task’. Tragically, he was not so lucky in late 1942 when, flying a Lancaster bomber on a further mission over Germany, he was shot down and killed. The same heroic spirit shone through the endeavours of Thomas Hughes, who joined the RAF as a Spitfire pilot. Fully living up to the daring reputation of fighter crews, Hughes was involved in a remarkable series of adventures in the Mediterranean theatre from late 1942. On one occasion, Tom Hughes sitting astride his Spitfire, the engine of his Spitfire failed and he Malta, 1943 had to crash land in the Tunisian desert. Characteristically, he was flying again two days later. On another occasion, after the Allies had seized Sicily in July 1943 and captured a horde of German aircraft, Hughes took off in a Messerschmitt 109 to examine its capability. During the flight, however, he suffered engine failure and had to bail out, landing in a vineyard, where he enjoyed the hospitality of some local Italians after convincing them that he was not a German. His good fortune could not last. During the assault on Monte Cassino, in which he flew his Spitfire as a dive bomber, he was shot down by anti-aircraft fire and suffered severe burns to his legs. Held as a prisoner-of-war, he was taken to a German hospital where other patients were being used as guinea pigs for drug testing. Hughes escaped from the hospital, only to be recaptured and placed in solitary confinement. Finally, six months before the end of the war, he was released back to Britain as part of a prisoner exchange. He went on to read Mechanical Sciences at Sidney, graduating in 1948, and then pursued a successful career in electronic engineering. Other Sidney air heroes include the maths graduate Frederick Chase, who flew Mosquitos with 264 Squadron and became a Wing Commander, a holder of the Distinguished Flying Cross and an ‘ace’, having shot down five German planes by the end of 1944. Another DFC winner and Sidney graduate was John

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 Taylor of 601 Squadron, who was awarded the medal for his role in the Italian air campaign of 1943. ‘He has at all times displayed the greatest keenness to engage the enemy and has destroyed 11 enemy aircraft,’ read his citation. Sadly, Taylor gave his life during that campaign, but the ethos of self-sacrifice was powerful in that generation. By my estimate, 22 College members died in action for the RAF during the Second World War, fighting in a wide variety of theatres. Two graduates, Richard Allen and Illtyd Carson, were killed in the crucial attacks by British bombers on the German invasion fleet that was built up in the Channel ports in the late summer of 1940. The destructive impact of such missions helped to deter the Germans from mounting Operation Sealion, the code-name for the invasion. Two other Sidney men were killed in India, and several on maritime patrols over the North Sea. By far the greatest proportion, almost half, died on Bomber Command missions to Germany, again reflecting the terrible risks of the strategic air offensive. Several of the Sidney men who avoided such a fate rose to high positions in the RAF, none more so than Air Vice Marshal Edward Addison, who was appointed by Harris in November 1943 to take charge of the crucial 100 Bomber Support Group. This highly specialised unit was set up to undermine enemy radar and communications systems, as well as to destroy night fighters, a job that it performed successfully under Addison’s leadership. A veteran of the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, Addison had gone up to Sidney in 1919 and soon after graduating was re-commissioned in the RAF. He did not finally retire from the RAF until 1955, finishing his air career as the Senior Staff Officer at Flying Training Command. Other distinguished air officers from Sidney include Sir Robert Thompson, a Wing Commander during the victorious campaign in Burma, and Laurence Burgess, a science graduate who became Commander of 210 Squadron in 1944, operating maritime patrols. Perhaps the most interesting of all was Robert Sadler, who by 1944 had risen to take charge of the Binbrook RAF station in Lincolnshire, then home of the famous 617 ‘Dambusters’ Squadron. Sadler had joined the RAF in 1930; his first job was ferrying the Commander-in-Chief, Sir John Steel, around Britain in a Hawker Hart biplane, in which the rear cockpit had been converted into a desk for Steel to do his paperwork. Sadler also flew both fighters and bombers during the war, as well as working on strategic plans at the Air Ministry, but his real passion was always for art, and once he retired from the RAF in 1955 he was able to pursue this interest fully, becoming one of the country’s most distinguished painters. At the time of his death in 2001, he had sold over 2,000

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features paintings, and another 1,000 are now held in trust by his son. Most of these Sidney airmen, like Sadler, learned their craft in the Cambridge University Air Squadron (CUAS), which was founded in 1925 and was the oldest of the university squadrons. During the war, no fewer than 120 Sidney students were trained there. Based at Duxford in the 1930s, at the start of the war CUAS had to move to the Cambridge airport run by the renowned aeronautical firm of Marshalls when Duxford became an operational airfield. Another CUAS member was the brilliant statistician John Nelder, who went up to Sidney to read Air Vice Marshal Edward Addison mathematics while he was undergoing his service training. In a post-war interview, Nelder highlighted one example of the disruption caused by the war: ‘There was not a lot of food. The local café had a few cakes and buns for sale but unless you were there at 10.30 in the morning you had no chance of getting any of them. Thus to have a lecture at ten meant that you did not get any that day. We survived and put up with it.’ Using his mathematical skills, Nelder became a navigator in a heavy bomber air crew, a job he enjoyed despite the appalling dangers. ‘I found navigation very interesting. You took sextant measurements on the stars and moon, you took radio directions and did your best to join these up and find your position.’ It was not just in the skies that Sidney made a contribution. On the ground, the cause of the RAF was also served by men like Ben Lockspeiser, the son of a diamond merchant. Lockspeiser won an open scholarship to Sidney to read natural sciences in 1912, and then served in the army during the First World War. After demobilisation, he put his scientific abilities to use at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough, the leading air research facility, where he pioneered a host of innovations that were to prove invaluable during the Second World War; they included chemical methods for de-icing wings, the development of wind tunnels, the prevention of metal fatigue and improvements to oxygen supply systems. Having been made head of the RAF’s air defence department in 1936, Lockspeiser moved to the Ministry of Aircraft Production in 1940 to take charge of scientific research. Among his many

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 further achievements was the creation of the spotlight altimeter used by the Lancaster bomber crews during the Dambuster raids to judge their height over the water. Knighted in 1946, he carried on as a brilliant scientific administrator after the war, becoming an honorary fellow of Sidney in 1953 and the first president of CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research) in 1955. Another innovative scientist assisting in the air war was the Lancastrian John Ratcliffe, who went up to Sidney in 1921 and worked during the war at the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) on the develSir Ben Lockspeiser opment of radar equipment, including its use in guiding anti-aircraft guns to targets. Equally important was the work of Philip Dee, who was also based at TRE. Dee read Natural Sciences at Sidney in the mid-1920s, obtaining a first and becoming a Fellow of the College. As one of the government’s senior research scientists in the war, he developed a number of new techniques that vastly improved the performance of the RAF, including H2S, an airborne ground scanning system that enabled bomber navigators to identify enemy targets. Undoubtedly the most unorthodox contribution to the air war by a Sidney graduate came from John Collins, an Anglican clergyman who won a scholarship to Sidney and, after his ordination in 1928, served for a time as chaplain at the College. But during the latter part of the war, Collins was the padre at Bomber Command’s headquarters in High Wycombe, where he clashed frequently with Harris over the air strategy. The two men remained friends despite their fundamental differences in outlook, but Collins’ detestation of the mass destruction of Germany later led him to help found the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the late 1950s. Collins may have disliked Harris’s methods, but his right to speak out had been won partly by the sacrifices of the men in the RAF. The values of freedom could have been obliterated without such heroism. And our College played its own inspiring role in the ultimate victory. Leo McKinstry (History, 1982)

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‘Almost a New Building’: the Centenary of the New College Chapel The College Annual of 1912, appearing during the Long Vacation, recorded: ‘The new part of the Chapel has now been built, and the structure of the old part, which was begun after the end of the Easter Term, is complete. The whole building is to be ready for use in October. But the oak panelling and stalls cannot be finished and fixed for some time.’ The builders clearly adhered to this tight schedule. A Sidney correspondent of the Cambridge Review reported on 24 October 1912: ‘The large extension to our College chapel has made it almost a new building. It was used for the first time on the first Sunday of term, for the Service of the Holy Communion.’ The old Chapel dated back only to 1776. It had replaced the then dilapidated original Chapel built when the College was founded in the 1590s. It was a small building in the classical style, whose architect was James Essex, who had earlier had a hand in remodelling the Hall and the (Old) Library. Small though this Chapel was, it seems to have taken six years to complete. We have just one picture of it.

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The New Chapel (1924) after the completion of the panelling

The role of the Chapel in Sidney, as in all the old colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, changed greatly during the nineteenth century. From the time of the Reformation of the sixteenth century until then, the universities of England were in principle open only to members of the Church of England, and nearly all fellows of colleges were ordained clergymen of that Church. But the Universities Tests Act of 1871, which is still in force and is still appended to the College Statutes, severed the link between membership and fellowships of colleges on the one hand and the Church of England on the other. The Act, however, also required the old colleges to continue to hold services of Morning and Evening Prayer as prescribed by the Anglican Prayer Book. This they could hardly do without having a chapel and an Anglican Chaplain. Some of those elected fellows under the new dispensation had hopes of revivifying Anglican belief and worship in this freer atmosphere. No change was achievable in College during the later years of the Mastership of Robert Phelps (1843–90), who was also the Bursar. But when he died in 1890 the most pressing need was for new accommodation, which was met by the building of Cloister Court. In 1896 the College asked the architect of that building, J. L. Pearson, to design a new Chapel for Sidney. His impressive plans envisaged a free-standing Chapel in Cloister Court. But the money required to carry out this project could not be raised.

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features The idea of building a new Chapel was revived by a generation of Fellows in the mid-1900s, principally G. A. Weekes (1894), A. H. McNeile (1897), Thomas Knox-Shaw (1909) and J. W. Reynolds (1909). They prudently proposed, rather than a totally new building, the enlargement of the existing Chapel. They were all High Churchmen and evidently intended also to make the rebuilt Chapel appropriate for Anglo-Catholic worship. The Governing Body agreed to the proposal in 1911, and a loan was taken out with the approval of the Board of Agriculture. (In the end, three-quarters of the cost was defrayed by individual Fellows.) An architect was found who was prepared to work on this basis; Thomas Henry Lyon, a member of Corpus, a friend of Knox-Shaw and his colleagues, sharing their High Church zeal. He was also a close friend of a Sidney man, W. E. Lutyens, brother of the great architect. Another friend, L. A. Powys, told the story of the building in the Architectural Review (1924): ‘Lyon had been asked what could be done with the old chapel, an ill-proportioned, square building, with a flat ceiling, low and overpowering. He improved the proportion of the whole building by curving the ceiling, at the same time preserving the old roof at its original height. By pulling down useless outhouses on the east end he more than doubled its length. The ceiling of the new portion was raised considerably above that of the old.’ The point at which the new building begins is marked by the steps in the floor where the choir stalls begin. Lyon became Director of Design in the Cambridge Faculty of Architecture in 1920. His book, Real Architecture (1932), is a passionate defence of eighteenth-century classical buildings. He designed relatively few buildings himself, including Garden Court. It was the initially somewhat unattractive commission to enlarge Sidney’s Chapel that enabled him to create what, when completed after the First World War, came to be recognised as a remarkable, indeed unique, building. In 2003 it received its highest accolade: Simon Jenkins, in England’s Thousand Best Churches, declared it his ‘favourite Chapel in the whole of Cambridge’, ‘neo-Baroque and utterly beautiful’. Derek Beales

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Harry Whittington and Sidney [Editor’s note: On 21 May 2012 the Vice Master hosted a dinner to celebrate the life of Harry Blackmore Whittington (Fellow, 1966). A speech recalling Harry’s life was given by our former Master, the late Professor Sir Gabriel Horn, of which a shortened version is reproduced here. After welcoming members of Harry’s family – David Shipton, Harry’s nephew, together with David’s two children, Andrew and Rachel, and Mrs Pam Newall, Harry’s niece – Professor Horn continued:]

Harry did not wish to have a memorial service. But I don’t think he would have forbidden us from celebrating his life. He was born on 24 March 1916. Like many good things, he was, so to say, made in Birmingham. Although we never met as children he and I lived near each other, separated by one kilometre and 11 years. And we both went to the same school, Westminster – not to the school near the Houses of Parliament but to Westminster Road State School, Handsworth, Birmingham. Harry went on to Handsworth Grammar School and then to the University of Birmingham. Initially he studied Geography but switched to Geology – to the great good fortune of the earth sciences. He was only 20 when he took his first degree; and by the time he was 22 he had been awarded his doctorate for the work he did on the ancient rocks of the Berwyn Hills of North Wales. There he began to study fossil trilobites – an extinct group of marine-living invertebrates with jointed limbs, very distantly related to crabs and lobsters. In 1938, Harry was awarded a Commonwealth Fellowship to work at Yale University. There he had three love affairs: his preexisting love affair with the trilobites; with the American way of life; and with Dorothy Arnold, whom he married in 1940 and to whom he remained devoted throughout their long lives together. His deep religious convictions and his commitment to his work helped to sustain him in the very difficult years that followed Dorothy’s death in 1997. The Commonwealth Fellowship came to an end in 1940. Its terms were that he must return home or to a part of the British Empire. The choice was not an easy one to make. The UK was at war with Germany and Harry was a conscientious objector. So he took up a post in Burma, at the University of Rangoon. This was something of an idyllic time for Harry and Dorothy and during that time, in December 1941, they acquired a Burmese silver tea service, to which, despite the turbulent years that followed, they managed to hold on and which has been gifted to the College by Harry’s family.

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The teapot from the Burmese silver tea service presented to the College by the Whittington family

In that month Japan declared war against the Allies. The Japanese army advanced rapidly into Burma and within about six weeks had occupied Rangoon. Harry and Dorothy had to move fast to keep ahead of the Japanese army and after many traumatic experiences they ended up, in 1943, in Setchuan province in China where Harry taught geology at Ginling Women’s College. Let me wind the clock forward 60 years. In 2001, almost 60 years after the Japanese invasion of Burma, Harry was awarded the Japan Societies’ International Prize for Biology. Despite his natural misgivings he was finally persuaded to accept and at the ceremony the Emperor of Japan gave him a gift. It was a silver jug, which Harry gave to the College. When the war was over Harry returned to Birmingham and to a University Lectureship in Geology, but Harvard beckoned and he eventually became the Professor of Geology there. Thankfully for us he was called home – not to Birmingham but to Cambridge – and in l966 he became the Woodwardian Professor of Geology, probably one of the oldest and most prestigious Professorships in Geology in the world. Harry’s predecessor in the Chair was Oliver Bulman. The two of them had two things in common: they were the first

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features non-Cambridge graduates to hold that post and they were both Fellows of Sidney. Harry was admitted to his Fellowship in 1966 at the same time as Donald Green. In those days Fellows admitted at the same time were doomed to sit next to each other whenever they dined in College. If they didn’t like each other, but dined regularly, they were at risk of developing high blood pressure, apoplexy and, at the very least, severe indigestion. But Harry and Donald enjoyed each other’s company, so the arrangement worked well. By 1966 Harry had begun his great work on the fossils of the Burgess Shale in Canada and over the following few years he, his colleagues and students described an astonishing array of animals that lived over 500 million years ago and became extinct about 300 million years later, yet evolved into thousands of species. Harry continued to contribute to that work for most of the remaining years of his life. Through that work he and his students changed the way we think about the origin of animal diversity. Harry has given generously to the College. One of his gifts was to support its archival work. This was a gift in keeping with his research, which concerned the history of animal life; his gift was to support work concerned with the history of the College. He also made a generous bequest to Sidney that we intend to use for Harry Whittington bursaries for students reading Natural Sciences. In spite of his fame, Harry remained a modest, kindly, generous man. He was greatly loved in the College and that affection was reciprocated. His link with the College continued to the end of his life, for during his last illness the physician who cared for him in Addenbrooke’s Hospital was Dr Paul Flynn, who is a Fellow of Sidney. Every Christmas Sidney has a lunch for Fellows and staff. Three years ago I sat next to Harry and we reminisced about our school. I asked him if he remembered Miss Batson, who was the teacher of the reception class in the infant’s section of the school. ‘Miss Batson,’ said Harry, ‘Miss Batson, I remember her. She used to teach us the letters of the alphabet; A is for “a”, B is for “ba”.’ We both laughed. In the 88 years that elapsed between the time of that Christmas lunch and the time that Harry sat in that schoolroom listening to Miss Batson, he had made a remarkable journey, across the world and through millions of years of time. And, while on that journey, he never lost his humility, a fact that makes that great man even greater. Miss Batson taught Harry the alphabet; Harry taught us about the evolution of life. Gabriel Horn

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Tim Blanning at 70 On 21 April 2012 Tim Blanning celebrated his seventieth birthday. He has been a resident member of Sidney since 1960 and a Fellow since 1965, serving long stints as Tutor and as Director of Studies in History. In 1990 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, and in 1992 appointed to a personal Chair in the Cambridge Faculty of History. He is an outstanding lecturer, as recognised by the University’s award to him of a Pilkington Teaching Prize. His 12 books on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European history have contributed to a remarkably wide range of fields, including the history of the Church, the history of war, the history of culture and the history of music. The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture (2002), about the ‘public sphere’, was declared the best book to have been published in the field in that year in any language. He has recently become well known as a broadcaster. Many generations of Sidney students recall with gratitude and pleasure his forceful, entertaining and constructive supervisions. He can be relied on to enliven lectures and discussions with unexpected, controversial views, wittily

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features expressed. Hence it was no surprise that more than a hundred of his Sidney historian colleagues and pupils responded generously to an appeal circulated by Derek Beales (1950), requesting donations to defray the cost of a portrait drawing of Tim, to be presented to the College. The chosen artist is Alastair Adams, President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. The portrait was duly presented, to warm applause, at a party graciously hosted by the Master and Jo Wallace-Hadrill in the Lodge on Tim’s birthday, attended by nearly half of the donors, Tim’s wife Nicky and their daughter Lucy. Their son Tom was engaged The portrait of Tim Blanning by Alastair Adams in another activity dear to Tim, playing football – in Istanbul. The Master, Derek and Tim made speeches, and the Princeps of the Confraternitas Historica, Kenton Whitehall, proposed Tim’s health. Derek suggested that the clock, prominent in the portrait, referred to Tim’s exceptional efficiency in the management of his time. The artist, however, disclaimed this interpretation, explaining that he put in the clock simply because it was there behind and above Tim when the drawing was being done. Tim, in reply, declared that the two best decisions he had ever made had been to marry Nicky and to apply to Sidney. He thanked the donors for their generosity, and particularly the Master for his ready hospitality. After the party, which was greatly enjoyed, the portrait was hung on the wall of the staircase up to the Old Library. As promised, the surplus from the donations has been passed to the fund that assists research by Sidney student historians. The enthusiasm shown at the presentation party, together with the generosity of the donors, testify to the admiration and affection that Tim inspires. Derek Beales

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Sidney Greats In the Lent Term 2012, Dr Edward Wilson-Lee and I launched what we hope will become a Sidney institution: a series of lectures known as the Sidney Greats. The idea is a simple one. Every two weeks, on a mid-week evening just before dinner, the College hosts a lecture on a world-famous text or body of ideas or corpus of art. The lectures are open to all members of College – undergraduates, graduates, staff and Fellows. Some of the lecturers are Fellows, the rest are distinguished visitors – and the latter are paid a modest honorarium. After each lecture, the audience is invited to join the lecturer in Hall for a dinner at the College’s expense, the idea being to continue the discussion socially outside the lecture room. As a trial run, Dr Wilson-Lee and I arranged a set of five lectures, two of which we gave ourselves. We began with Professor Adrian Poole, Professor of English and Fellow of Trinity, lecturing on the Iliad of Homer. Dr Wilson-Lee went on to talk on the Bible and I followed with Dante’s Divine Comedy. Dr Patricia Fara, Senior Tutor of Clare and a distinguished historian of science, spoke on Newton’s Principia Mathematica, and we concluded with Dr Tim Lewens, also a Fellow of Clare and Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Science, on Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. With the support of the Senior Tutor and the Bursar, we are now planning a new series for Michaelmas 2012 and Lent 2013 – four lectures a term, eight in all. We shall begin in October with Robin Kirkpatrick, Professor of Italian and Fellow of Robinson College, who will speak on Shakespeare and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and we shall go on to hear our own Dr Philip Wood on the Qur’an and the Senior Tutor Max Beber on two works by John Maynard Keynes. It has from the start been a principle of the series that we encourage the lecturers, where possible, to speak a little outside their comfort zone. That is not invariably the case, but it explains why Professor Kirkpatrick, for example, is speaking on Shakespeare rather than on Dante. This is part of the original conception. For academics to speak on subjects they do not teach is to go some way towards encouraging, however minimally, the notion of a common culture available to all. That may be one of the reasons why the lectures have, it seems, been popular. Before the first series began, Dr Wilson-Lee offered 40 tickets per lecture to

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features the student body and within 24 hours of our advertisement all had been taken up. It would seem that we are meeting a real need among our students. It is not just the abstract notion of a wider culture behind our specialised studies: the series also affirms the idea of the College as an intellectual community, and it has been especially good to see not only students but also members of staff taking advantage of this offering. The proportion of graduate students has also been encouraging and a fair number of Fellows have joined us too. We have high hopes of the series continuing as it has begun and even running for a long time to come. Clive Wilmer The expectation that a Cambridge undergraduate, reading for any Tripos, should have a reading acquaintance with the foundational texts of western thought has slowly ebbed away over the last few decades, partly due to changes to school syllabi and to social attitudes regarding intellectual accomplishment. While there may be reasons to rejoice at the death of this expectation – its choice of texts and its ideologies often resting on unexamined or unjustified assumptions, and its encouragement of anxious pretences at learning rather than learning itself – it has nevertheless left students unprepared: unprepared for courses that require general knowledge uncatered for by increasingly cluttered and specialised disciplines; unprepared for a society that expects from them intellectual accomplishments it has long since ceased to provide; and (most importantly) without the preparation they should be given to understand and appreciate to the fullest degree the lives they will go on to live. We see this as an opportunity. In establishing a series of lectures on great texts and ideas, aimed at the full spectrum of Sidney students, we have the opportunity to introduce generations of students to marvels of literary and intellectual creation, to re-examine our motives for selecting a few among the many treasures to put on display, to reinvigorate the climate of intellectual discussion between students of different disciplines and between Fellows and students, and to give Sidney students an advantage in a confusing and competitive world. We believe that this may also help Sidney to compete for the most intellectually ambitious students, providing extra stimulation and value in an age of increasing educational costs. Edward Wilson-Lee

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Examination Performance Altogether, 335 Sidney undergraduates took University examinations (including Tripos and unclassed Preliminary Examinations in Classics and History). Four modern linguists spent the past year abroad, one of them supported by the EU’s Erasmus student exchange scheme. Additionally, six first-year English students – the only undergraduates without a University examination – sat a progress test organised by their Director of Studies and marked to Tripos standard. Tripos results have traditionally been discussed in terms of inter-collegiate rankings such as the Baxter Tables (only circulated internally) and the Tompkins Tables (published by the Independent). Both these rankings consist of normalised weighted averages of scores assigned to different Tripos classes (five points for a First, three for an Upper Second, etc.). Over time, however, shifts in class distribution (notably the increase in Firsts and Upper Seconds, which now account for nearly four in five of all undergraduate results) have reduced the statistical significance of these unofficial college league tables: overall, Sidney’s students crossed the 2012 finishing line much after last year’s fashion – in the thick of the Tripos peloton, ranking 17th (from 16th in 2011) out of 25 colleges. There is, as ever, much to celebrate: our Firsts rose for the third consecutive year (from 48 in 2009 to 76 last June: this is 23 per cent of all undergraduates, strongly up from 15 per cent in 2009 and now in line with the University’s average). Among the larger subjects, strong performances were recorded again in Natural Sciences, ranked eighth; in Modern and Medieval Languages, ranked second; and in Politics, Psychology and Sociology. Promising performances were produced by individual cohorts in other subjects, notably Economics and English (in each case, three Firsts out of six students in their second year), and again in Politics, Psychology and Sociology (three Firsts out of six students in their first year). Moreover, our continuing undergraduate cohorts both ranked higher in last June’s examination than the College as a whole, a good starting point both in terms of the self-confidence of individual students facing the next year’s challenges, and as an element in shaping the aspirations of next October’s freshers. Max Beber, Senior Tutor

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Admissions and Schools Liaison This has been a busy year for the Admissions team. In addition to the usual management of the admissions process, we increased our outreach programme to schools, revamped our website and organised the College’s first ever summer school. When examination results were published last summer, we were pleased to see that the majority of students met their conditional offers. We therefore welcomed 106 new undergraduates to the College in October, including students from Germany, Austria, Bahrain, Malaysia, Hong Kong and New Zealand. This year’s admissions round began in October and ran very smoothly, thanks to the excellent support of Rachel Hilditch in the Admissions Office. From October to December, Rachel was assisted by Stéphanie Ray, a recent Geography graduate. This was the first year in which applicants faced the prospect of £9,000 per annum tuition fees, and it was encouraging to note that applications to both Cambridge and Sidney Sussex rose by around two per cent, in contrast to the experience in Higher Education overall. One notable – and somewhat worrying – trend was in the balance of arts and science applications. There was an increase in candidates for Medicine, Sciences, Maths and Engineering, while some arts and humanities subjects such as History, Geography and Modern Languages saw a decline in applicants. It seems that students facing the prospect of significant debt when they graduate are opting to study subjects they perceive as making them more employable. It is therefore important that we do more at Cambridge to promote the benefits of indepth study for its own sake, as well as emphasising the excellent job prospects offered by all our degree courses. Overall, Sidney received 462 applications and was able to offer 126 places. Women made up 52 per cent of our offer holders, and 48 per cent of places were in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Of those educated in the UK, 66 per cent were from the state sector, which bodes well for our achievement of the University’s OFFA milestone of 61–63 per cent when results are confirmed in the summer. Sidney’s strong commitment to widening participation was reflected in our offer statistics: six students were from areas with significantly lower progression to higher education than the national average, and four were eligible for the government’s National Scholarship Programme, which provides tuition fee support to students from the poorest backgrounds.

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Sixth formers get a taste of student life at Sidney’s first summer school

For many years Sidney Sussex has run a busy outreach programme, including visits to schools, residential events in College, open days and taster events. This year was no exception, and we continued to make contact with new schools, while still maintaining longstanding links with others. This has brought substantial benefits, and many applications come from schools and students who have had direct contact with us through our outreach activities. In addition, this year we redesigned the admissions web pages to make them more user-friendly and increase their appeal to secondary school students. In particular we have revamped every subject page, adding photos and profiles of current and former students. We also added a panoramic virtual tour and a short film to the website. The film, which shows current students explaining why they chose the College, was filmed and produced by Olivia Humphreys, a former Sidney English student who now works as a freelance filmmaker. The undergraduate students showed their usual strong support for our access programme and we were always able to find volunteers to welcome candidates during interviews, give guided tours on open days and meet school groups. Particular thanks are due to the SSCSU Access Officer, Emily Iliffe, for her hard work throughout the year and for producing a new Alternative

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 Prospectus. With the help of Charlotte Howell, Emily also organised a trip to Lancashire schools where students talked about the University and their own experiences of applying and studying. As I write, we have just finished our first ever summer school, organised jointly with Christ’s College. Overall 43 students took part, and 24 were hosted at Sidney. They were all high-achieving state school students at the end of their first year of sixth form, who were taking Maths, Physics and Further Maths at A level. Over four days the group took part in a variety of academic sessions, including an electrical engineering lecture and laboratory class, a maths examples class, a laser practical and mechanics examples class and a lecture on the Higgs boson. They also received advice on applications and interviews and heard about the many career opportunities open to scientists, mathematicians and engineers. We are grateful to the Sidney Fellows in Engineering and Mathematics who put so much into organising the academic sessions, and also to the graduate students who helped out with labs and examples classes, social activities and overnight supervision. The summer school was very successful, and received excellent feedback from the participants. Students said they had learned more about their subjects and how they are taught at Cambridge, and several who had not been planning to apply to Cambridge were persuaded by the course. Many said that their perception of Cambridge had changed for the better. Most commonly, participants now felt that Cambridge was ‘down to earth’, ‘not posh’ and that they could see themselves fitting in. A number also appreciated the chance to meet other sixth formers with similar academic interests. This emphasises the need for this sort of outreach activity – changing students’ perceptions is vital if we are to attract the brightest and best to the University, and evidence shows that summer schools are one of the best ways of achieving this. We are therefore very grateful to Dr Simon and Mrs Jill Campbell, and the Donald Green Fund for Engineering, for the generous funding that supported the course. We are planning to repeat and expand the science and engineering summer school next year and would like to be able to offer a similar opportunity to students in the arts and social sciences. Our outreach programme would not be the success it is without the help and support of Sidney’s students, Fellows and College staff, and thanks are due to everyone who has been involved throughout the year. Kirsten Dickers Admissions Director

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Graduate Tutors’ Report Sidney’s graduate community continues to go from strength to strength. For the first time in the College’s history more graduate students matriculated in 2011 than undergraduates. This startling fact reflects broader changes in the University as a whole, particularly the growth in numbers on one-year Master’s courses in many subjects. It is pleasing to report that Sidney has managed to cope well with this growth as it continues to admit graduates from a wide range of countries and diverse fields of study and approach. In all this the College remains firmly committed to the belief that a mixing of disciplines in a collegiate environment can provide everyone involved with something extra: learning from others in different subject areas, and addressing questions and discussing approaches with those outside any one specialism, are hallmarks of research and scholarship in the College at every level. Although graduate student numbers across the University are healthy, funding for advanced study and research is ever more scarce and competitive. In this context the College continues to take an active role in supporting students. During the past year Thelma Ohene-Agyei (PhD Pharmacology) has continued to make excellent progress as the first recipient of an Adam Glinsman Award, established to support students engaged in research or study on topics that will directly benefit the life of emerging economies. From October 2012 we look forward to welcoming Dorothea Floris, who has been awarded a Howard Research Studentship to support doctoral research in Medical Science. Maintaining our close links with Judge Business School, Sarah Takaki has been awarded a Joyce Coutu Bursary and Vanina El-Khoury receives a Hanadi Jabado Bursary. Both are studying for an MBA. The Evan Lewis-Thomas Fund continues to support the graduate study of Law and Stephen Bailey and Horatio Waller, both studying for the LLM degree, have been awarded bursaries. Richard Hanstock also receives an award as he begins an MPhil in Criminology. In addition to such awards for formal courses of study, the College also participates in schemes that allow academic visits and exchanges between Sidney and universities overseas. The Fox Fellowship Scheme has been running for many years, offering our students the chance to spend time at Yale University, while providing a base for Yale students to come to Cambridge. This year we will welcome Scott Stephenson (Law), while Alice Kelly (English) and Jamie Miller (History) will be in Yale. The College is especially grateful to all the benefactors who make such awards possible.

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 This year the MCR took occupancy of a brand-new facility as the result of the conversion of the old Galloway & Porter building on Sidney Street. This has provided a much-enhanced series of communal social spaces, kitchen facilities and study areas, together with additional rooms, enabling a number of graduates to live on site. At a time when the pressure on College space is increasing, it is particularly pleasing to note the commitment shown by Sidney to providing upgraded facilities and accommodation for graduates in the heart of the College. As tutors we would like to thank Jim Ross, MCR past-President, for all his hard work and commitment in developing MCR-related activities over the year, ably supported by Stephen Casey as Treasurer. As Jim and Stephen step down, we would like to welcome Will Menz and Lou Cantwell, respectively the new MCR President and Treasurer, who have now taken up their offices and are already making an impact. Finally, this will be the last report from both the current Graduate Tutors. Dr Iain Black has served the College as Graduate Tutor for four years, overseeing major reform in the management of the Graduate Office with tremendous good nature. He leaves to take up the position of Senior Tutor at Clare Hall. Dr Rebecca Kilner, meanwhile, will be going on leave of absence to spend more time on her research. We conclude, as ever, by thanking all College staff, particularly the Graduate Tutors’ PA Suzannah Horner; their support is indispensable to tutors and students alike. Dr Iain Black and Dr Rebecca Kilner, Graduate Tutors

New Fellows ■■ Dr Berry Groisman Berry was elected to a Bye Fellowship at the beginning of the 2011–12 academic year, and subsequently to the Knox Shaw Fellowship and Taylor Lectureship in Class A for five years, replacing Dr Julius Ross in his role as College Teaching Officer in Mathematics. Berry gained his MSc (on the study of granular magnetic materials) from the School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, where he remained for his PhD in Theoretical Physics with a thesis entitled Nonlocality and Quantum Communication. Berry

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college news has directed studies for Applied Mathematics and supervised extensively for the College for the last three years. He lectures and examines for DAMTP and is attached to the University’s Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations.

■■ Dr Malak Olamaie Malak is the College’s new John and Delia Agar Research Fellow in Science and Engineering and joined the Fellowship on 1 September 2012. Her specialist subject area is Astrophysics and Cosmology, in which capacity she is based at the Cavendish Laboratory Astrophysics Group under the supervision of Dr Keith Grainge. She has an MSc in Applied Physics from the University of Tehran, an MSci in Physics with Theoretical Astrophysics from the University of Nottingham, and has recently completed her PhD, entitled Bayesian Analysis of Clusters of Galaxies.

■■ Dr Tom Simpson Tom joined the College as its new Research Fellow in the Arts and Humanities on 1 September 2012. His BA and MPhil in Philosophy were both gained at Corpus Christi College, where he was a Foundation Scholar. Between studying for these qualifications, Tom served as an officer in the Royal Marine Commandos, winning the sword of honour during training, and saw active service in Northern Ireland, Afghanistan and Iraq. He returned to academia in 2007 and applied his experiences of warfare in an academic context in his 2011 paper Robots, Trust and War for the journal Philosophy and Technology. Tom’s wife, Martha, is currently studying for her BTh at Sidney.

■■ Revd Paul Brice Paul took up his appointment as Sidney’s new Chaplain on 1 September 2012. Paul’s early career was spent in computing, following a BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Bath. Having been called to the Church, he studied for his BTh at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and was then appointed Chaplain to

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 Imperial College London. More recently, he was National Advisor for Higher Education in the Archbishop’s Council, and for the last ten years was Rector of St Mary the Virgin, Hartfield.

■■ Professor Monojit Chatterji Professor Chatterji’s first appointment at Sidney was as College Teaching Associate and Director of Studies in Economics in October 2010, accompanied by a Visiting Fellowship for the 2010–11 academic year. He was then elected a Bye Fellow for the year commencing July 2011, and now takes on a full Fellowship and will continue to direct studies. His research interests include human resources and personnel (notably trade unions, contracts, training policy and education); international development (globalisation and growth); and political economy, particularly in respect of South Asia. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Sydney, California, Vassar, Purdue, Oregon, ITAM in Mexico and the Indian Statistical Institute.

■■ Dr Paulina Sliwa Paulina was appointed a Fellow and College Lecturer in Philosophy on 5 October 2012 and has also taken up a University Lectureship in Philosophy from the 2012–13 academic year. Paulina gained an MPhysPhil in Physics and Philosophy from Balliol College, Oxford, where she was a Theobald Scholar and won the Gibbs Prize and Elizabeth Anscombe Thesis Prize. She took her PhD in Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a thesis entitled Epistemic Flaws and Moral Imperfections. Her specialisms are ethics and epistemology, but she also lectures on applied ethics, philosophy of mind and philosophy of physics.

■■ Dr Yannis Galanakis Dr Galanakis will be the College’s new College Lecturer and Fellow in Classical Archaeology when he joins Sidney in January 2013; he has also been appointed to a University Lectureship in Greek Prehistory at the Faculty of Classics, as the appointment is a joint post

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college news that has been generously funded by new 1596 Foundation member Gifford Combs. Yannis gained a BA in History and Archaeology in Athens and an MPhil in Classical Archaeology from Keble College, Oxford. In 2007, Yannis was appointed Sackler Junior Research Fellow at Worcester College and Curator for the Aegean Collections and the Sir Arthur Evans Archive at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. He is spending the second half of 2012 as a Fellow of the Center of Hellenic Studies at Harvard University, prior to moving to Cambridge in early 2013.

Visiting Fellows ■■ Professor Pierre Dubois (Lent 2012) Professor Dubois is Professor of English and Anglo-Saxon Language and Literature at the Université FrançoisRabelais, Tours. A distinguished historian of music and literature in 18th-century England, he gained his BA (Licence), MA (DEA) and PhD at Paris IV-Sorbonne. In addition to his academic roles, Professor Dubois has been Assistant Organist of the historical Clicquot organ (1783) of Souvigny since 1984, and is the Artistic director of the Journées Musicales d’Automne, the baroque music festival at Souvigny.

■■ Professor Jill D. Harries (Easter 2012) Professor Harries is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews, where she has been based since 1976, and was Head of School from 2000–03. She gained her BA, MA and DPhil at Oxford. A specialist in Roman Law and the author of several books, Professor Harries undertook research for her forthcoming Brief History of Roman Law (Blackwells) while at Sidney. She has also been working on Lawyers and Antiquity: the Legal Culture of Early Imperial Rome, which seeks to integrate the (fragmentary) writings of the first- and second-century jurists at Rome with wider Latin literary culture.

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■■ Professor Colin Barr (Easter 2012) Professor Barr came to Sidney as Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Ave Maria University, Florida, and has recently been appointed to a Senior Lectureship in Irish History at the University of Aberdeen. He obtained his BA in History and Irish Studies at Stonehill College, Massachusetts, and his MPhil and PhD at Gonville and Caius. His thesis, entitled Paul Cullen, John Henry Newman and the movement to create a Catholic University in Ireland, 1845–60, was completed under the supervision of Professor Biagini, with whom he worked during his Visiting Fellowship. Their joint project on Catholic-Protestant Relations in the Irish Free State, 1922–1937 combines Professor Biagini’s work on southern Protestants with Profesor Barr’s research on southern Catholics.

■■ Professor G. Neville Greaves (Michaelmas 2012) Professor Greaves is currently Distinguished Research Professor in the Institute of Mathematics and Physics at Aberystwyth University, where he has been based since his appointment as Chair and Head of the Department of Physics in 1996. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Shanghai University and a Distinguished Research Fellow in the Department of Material Science and Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge. He obtained his BSc in Natural Philosophy from the University of St Andrews, and his PhD from the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, followed by the award of an ScD from Cambridge in 2008. This year Professor Greaves has been appointed a Foreign Leading Scholar at Shanghai University. His principal research relates to the physics and chemistry of complex materials, inorganic glasses, glassforming liquids and amorphising solids.

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International Programmes ■■ The Pavate Fellowship programme As usual I travelled to India to participate in the Pavate Selection Committee, which was held this year in Bangalore on 12 December 2011. On the previous evening I also took part in a well-attended meeting of the Oxford and Cambridge Society. Together with Dr Sudhir Krishnaswami, a prominent activist lawyer and husband of Jayna Kothari, Pavate Fellow in 2007–8, we led a lively discussion on Democracy and Civil Society in India and elsewhere, against the background of the intense debates that were then raging about the proposed Jan Lokpal (Ombudsman) Bill that was before the Indian Parliament, the Lok Sabha. At the Selection Committee meeting the next day we elected Sanjay Pulipaka of the Azad Institute of Asian Studies in Kolkata to the fellowship held in the Politics and International Studies Department (POLIS) and Dr Basavaraj Nagoor from the Economics Department at the University of Karnatak, Dharwad to the fellowship held at Judge Business School. At the time the Committee felt unable to appoint a Science fellow, but after re-advertising, the fellowship was awarded to Dr Salundi Basappa of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Bangalore. After the Committee meeting, Maroof Raza, who was one of the leading figures in the creation of the programme a decade ago, gave an excellent Foundation lecture on India’s relations with Pakistan and the government’s anti-terrorism policy. Sanjay Pulipaka’s fellowship ran through the first four months of the year while he researched the place of democracy and human rights within Indian foreign policy with special reference to Myanmar. As his visit coincided with the first cautious opening up of the Myanmar regime and the release from house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi, there were many demands on his expertise and his articles in the Kolkata Telegraph were read with great interest. Dr Nagoor arrived in May to work at Judge on mergers and acquisitions in the tea industry, looking in particular at the implications of Tata’s merger with Tetley. Dr Basappa will arrive in time for the new academic year and will be working under our own Professor Bill Jones, who has just ended his term as head of Cambridge’s Chemistry Department. We welcome news from former Pavate fellows. This year we were interested to hear from Arpita Basu Roy (2009–10), who like Sanjay Pulipaka works

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college news Our first scholar, He (Claudia) Yun made many friends in Sidney and the University and sent us an appreciation of her time at the College: ‘As the first visiting scholar from Tsinghua University to Cambridge University, I was always humbled and greatly benefited by the intellectual traditions and environment in Cambridge University. Much of my time was spent being indulged within the incredible collections of the University Library. Each week, I would attend the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) lectures and classes by top-rated scholars. I also treasured the opportunities to engage and debate with some of the brightest minds inside the IR community [see picture]. This was my first extended stay in England. I am especially grateful for the friendship and help from my many new colleagues and friends, who will forever remain my most precious memories of Cambridge. Since a young girl, I kept a note in my pencil box that read, ‘Cambridge awaits’. Coming from a working-class family, Cambridge was a dream that only came true by the generosity of Dr Mong Man-wai. Though our paths never crossed, I will forever consider myself to be a Cambridge Mong scholar.’ Professor James Mayall

He Yun with HRH the Duke of Edinburgh and Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon at Windsor Castle

at the Azad Institute in Kolkata and like him also publishes regularly in the Kolkata Telegraph in conjunction with Krishnan Srinivasan, the former Indian Foreign Secretary and member of the Pavate Selection Committee. Double congratulations also to Dr Muttu Kalasad (2010–11): first, on the occasion of his marriage in June; and second, on the publication of ‘Fluorescent Quantum Dots’ as a Research Highlight in Nature. Congratulations also to Dr Mariah Vishwanath (2010–11) on his promotion to Associate Professor of Law at Karnatak University Dharwad.

■■ The Mong Scholarship programme We look forward to welcoming Quianpeng Yang, our second Mong Scholar from Tsinghua University, in September. He is a PhD candidate in Thermal Engineering and while at Sidney will be mentored by Dr Ian Wilson, Reader in the Department of Chemical Engineering.

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Staff News The training of our kitchen staff continues to flourish, with all of them building on their NVQ qualifications. The Catering Department won a total of eight medals in the Stewards’ Cup. It has been a busy year in the department with more people coming through the cafeteria due to a busy conference season and an increase in students eating in Hall. Robert Andrews and Amaya Delgardo Adalid, who were members of the casual staff, joined the permanent staff as Catering Supervisors, while Catering Supervisor Lucy Tarrant left following the birth of her baby Amelia last May. We wish her well. Raul Rodriguez, Catering Supervisor, left in August to take up a position at King’s College. We wish him well, too, but know there is no substitute for Sidney! Congratulations to Derya Cakin, Deputy Hall Manager, whose baby Lara was born on 1 July.

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 A Sidney affair: Rachel Thorpe (2006), Conference and Events Co-ordinator, marries Martin Smith (2004) in the Chapel, 14 July 2012. The Pastoral Dean, Peter Waddell, officiated.

Rachel Smith (née Thorpe), a Sidney alumna, joined the Conference Office as Conference and Events Co-ordinator in August 2011 and was married to Martin Smith, also a Sidney ex-student, in Chapel on 14 July 2012. Congratulations to them both. Conference business has grown substantially over the last few years. Congratulations to the Conference Department on a wonderful achievement. Long may it continue. Travis Kiddy, gardener, qualified as an Urban Pest Controller earlier this year. Congratulations to Robin Marshall, gardener, and Ashleigh Hardingham, former housekeeping assistant, on the birth of their baby girl Harleigh on 23 October 2011. Harleigh played a starring role as the baby Jesus in this year’s Staff Carol Concert. There were two leavers in Housekeeping. Housekeeping Assistant Lisa Warne, who had been with us for 11 years, left in December 2011 as did Mandy Jones, who started at College in 2009. We wish them both well. A warm welcome to Malgorzata Liszewska who joined Sidney as a Housekeeping Assistant in May this year. Roylene Plummer, Housekeeping Assistant, celebrated her seventieth birthday by going skiing for the first time – amazing! Yet more baby news from Housekeeping. Dahlia Marquez Moreno, Housekeeping Assistant, had a daughter, Elisa Sophia, on 4 January 2012 and the babies of Housekeeping Assistants Renuka Gurung and Kristina Kryziokiene arrived in September. The Sidney population just keeps on growing.

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college news Sadly College said goodbye to Alison Beaumont, Library Assistant, who left in January 2012. Alison started at Sidney as a Housekeeping Assistant in 2005 and moved to the Library four years later. We have two new members of staff in the Library and warmly welcome Sarah Preston, Library Assistant (Cataloguing), and Kirsten Elliott, General Library Assistant, both of whom joined us in January. Another year goes by in the Porters’ Lodge with the Sidney team of porters dealing with the familiar influx of crisis, drama and problems large and small. One new factor, affecting us all, was the onset of the dreaded, but much needed, building works and restoration that transformed great parts of our beautiful College into a building site during the summer. With this in mind, should we consider an addition to the smart new suits our porters are wearing? Perhaps hard hats should be worn, but in a tasteful shade of navy blue, of course. Colin Maxted, Head Porter, received a brilliant response to the ‘Working Life’ article that was featured in the Guardian in November 2011. Colin also appeared on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. A star is born! Finally, a word from Keith Halls, Maintenance Manager. ‘Maintenance is not a word that most people like to hear. It conjures up a deep primeval fear of the unknown, especially when it is used in conjunction with a building. Oh no, building maintenance, I hear you say – anything but that. If this feels familiar to you, do what numerous Fellows and over 300 students do – live in a building maintained by Sidney’s Maintenance Team. Your fears will disappear as another email is sent to the Maintenance Department. Your cold sweat will become a warm glow and your nervous voice will suddenly exude confidence once more. That stiff double will no longer be needed and can be replaced with a soothing cup of tea. We are all well known for our tea-andtalk sessions. As well as an extremely efficient email system, the Department also receives verbal and handwritten requests – all will eventually be dealt with. Skill sets are applied and mental knowledge of the College delved into. Control systems are adjusted, pumps changed, electrical systems explored, pipe work uncovered and stop cocks found, doubts removed and problems solved. At the end of a busy week we know that Monday will soon come round, unless someone gets called out over the weekend. But we remind ourselves of our department’s motto, which is ‘Die Veneris, nullos tubos post meridiem plumbamus’!’ Diana Stanton, HR Manager

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College Buildings Report We started 2011–12 having completed all last summer’s projects, which is always a relief. The biggest project was the renovation of 30 Sidney Street, the old Galloway & Porter shop. The shop is now restricted to the ground floor and basement. It has been let to Oliver Bonas, ‘the place to go if you celebrate individuality, cherish good design and are inspired by the cool, the quirky and the creative’. The first floor is a new Middle Combination Room, which includes a large lounge, a quiet room, kitchen and bathroom. At last our large number of graduate students has a decent facility. The upper floors provide six new student rooms, currently occupied by graduate students. The other key project was the creation of two new seminar rooms in Chapel Court and four in Jesus Lane. These are a great improvement on the rooms we had in Sussex House and people no longer get lost trying to find them. This summer we appeared to have contractors everywhere, as we had five on site. The scariest project has been the repair work to the iron beams that support South Court. A couple of years ago we discovered that some of these beams at the terrace level of the building were rusting, due to salt and water seeping

Rust revealed in a supporting beam at South Court

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Scaffolding covers South Court during the summer

into the structure. The corrosion of metal frames is a typical problem for buildings of this period. Until we had taken up the terrace and exposed the beams we did not know how serious the decay was. Luckily their condition was bad but not disastrous, so they could be sand blasted and treated. With the installation of damp protection, we should have stopped the decay. This is the sort of project that depresses a Bursar, as we have spent a large amount of money but no one will notice a difference. While the cost is less than we feared, the project caused major disruption. We had to move three Fellows out of their flats, ten Fellows and staff out of their offices and 14 graduate students out of their rooms. The tenants in the shops in Sussex Street suffered from the noise of pneumatic drills and sand blasting and careful co-ordination was required to ensure that Millers Music could go on selling pianos. In addition, we had to empty the Muniment Room and all our archives were shipped to Churchill College for the summer. I am surprised by and grateful for everyone’s patience over this. The other major project is the conversion of the old seminar rooms in Sussex House into nine new student rooms, with three bathrooms and a large eat-in kitchen. This brings the total number of new rooms created in the last

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 three years to 27 and goes a long way to replacing the 44 rooms we lease in Portugal Street, and which we have to return to St John’s by the end of 2018. The next phase is the conversion of offices in Sidney House to student accommodation, but this is being delayed until we have raised the funds to pay for it. One project that alumni might benefit from is the creation of a new Senior Guest Room on C Staircase. When Claire Preston left, we could not decide who should have her room, which is the best in College. Instead, we decided to create a new Senior Guest Room, giving us two in the old part of the College. This will be good for visiting alumni, distinguished guests and honeymoon couples. At the same time we upgraded the bathroom in the other guest room and replaced the old Ascot water heater. Finally, we have redecorated the outside of Cloister Court and repaired the stonework. The result of all this was scaffolding on South Court, Sussex House, Cloister Court and C staircase throughout the summer. It felt as though Sidney was single-handedly keeping the Cambridge scaffolders in business. Nick Allen, Bursar

Music and Chapel Choir Report With a thriving Music Society and Chapel Choir, a newly dedicated music room in Jesus Lane (the Larkum Music Room) and a growing instrument collection, Sidney is rapidly becoming one of most musical colleges in Cambridge. There is much to report for 2011–12, and we begin with a note from George Parris, President of our Music Society. The College Music Society has witnessed a great deal of music making over the year, one of the highlights being the weekly evening recital programme that ran throughout term time. Many recitals were well attended, and the society hopes to continue the tradition in years to come. The final concert of the Lady Frances Singers this year provided spectacular performances of Renaissance music for Pentecost, seamlessly directed by Duncan Hewitt. The consort group remains one of the College’s top ensembles and we look forward to future performances. The College orchestra gave two concerts this year, the first a brilliant rendition of Sibelius’s rousing tone-poem Finlandia and the second accompanying guest soloist Henrietta Hill in Dvorˇák’s Romance for Violin and Orchestra. The College continues to promote the Chapel as one of the finest venues for chamber music in Cambridge, and many other groups have been invited to give concerts.

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college news On St Cecilia’s Day in November, George Parris directed a group of singers and instrumentalists from across the University in Purcell’s Ode to St Cecilia’s Day. In the Lent Term, Sidney’s own Jo Yee Cheung gave a marvellous performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto in G major (K 453) with an orchestra of University music award holders. Senior Organ Scholar, Dan Smith, directed a concert from the harpsichord, which featured him as a soloist playing Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in F minor and his recital with soprano Hannah De Priest was magnificent. Sidney Chapel has also been used a recital venue for the Cambridge Summer Recital Series and for recordings by non-university ensembles. In Easter Term we finalised the design for our new chamber organ, built by the world-famous American firm Taylor and Boody, which promises to be the finest instrument of its type in Oxbridge. It will arrive in April 2013 and sit on the footprint of the current organ console, which itself has been relocated to the organ loft. Our already beautiful Chapel will be significantly adorned by this musical jewel (the decoration of which was generously funded by our own Medieval historian, Professor Rosamond McKitterick). We are very grateful to 1596 Foundation member Peter Espenhahn (1962) whose generous support has enabled the building and installation of the new organ. The Chapel Choir is going from strength to strength and we were delighted to welcome our incoming Choral Scholars, Joe Bourne (Music), Joey Howard (Natural Sciences) and George Parris (Music), while our new Choral Exhibitioners included Hannah De Priest (Homerton), Hetty Gullifer (King’s), Tim Keeler (Clare), Elisabeth Krizek (London) and Joanna Markbrieter (Caius). We also welcomed our new Junior Organ Scholar, Anita Datta (PPS). The full force of the Choir, new and old, completed its most ambitious year yet. Apart from tackling even more diverse and varied repertoire, the Choir travelled all over the globe. In December we were invited to perform in Maria Saal and Tanzenberg in Austria, singing traditional Christmas carols to more than 800 people. In March we were the first Oxbridge choir to sing in Dubai, sponsored by Virgin Atlantic, and organised by one of our former organ scholars, Joanna Marsh (1989), who was instrumental in making the impossible possible. We sang at the Dubai Arts Theatre with our previous Ensemble in Residence, Fretwork, and went on to offer a morning recital for the Oxford and Cambridge Society at the magnificent hotel and racecourse owned by the Ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The Head of Programming of MBC (Middle East Broadcasting Centre) was present at that event, and invited us to appear on MBC Breakfast Television, where we

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performed three slots, plus a live interview, for over 30 million people in the Arabic-speaking world (highlights may be seen on YouTube with a simple search of ‘Sidney’ and ‘Dubai’). Our hosts also treated us to a day in Aquaventure Water Park, followed by ‘dune bashing’ in the desert, camel riding and an Arabic buffet (complete with belly dancing) that went on into the warm desert evening. A most rare and extraordinary experience for all, and we are very grateful to Joanna Marsh for her incredible energy and support. In June the Duke of Buccleuch, Patron of the Sidney Sussex Music Society, opened his Northamptonshire home, Boughton House, for our pre-summer tour rehearsals. In the following month the Choir toured California and – a first for any English liturgical choir – Las Vegas. We sang to packed and appreciative houses in Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, Memorial Chapel at Stanford University, two recitals in Las Vegas (the heat was extraordinary!), Fresno, Carmel-by-the-Sea and finally Santa Barbara, where we were hosted by the Quire of Voyces, directed by Nathan Krietzer. There was both radio and television coverage and rave reviews from local and state newspapers. The Choir proved to be excellent ambassadors for Sidney and Cambridge in general. We are most grateful for use of the Parry Dutton Fund for this tour and the generosity of Ann Mather (1978), who sponsored both the Grace Cathedral event, and the reception following our concert in the Basilica at Carmel Mission. The choir returned refreshed, bronzed and elated. 2012 will be a difficult year to beat. Our latest commercial recording of music by the Jacobean composer, Thomas Weelkes, was recorded at the end of the last academic year. It was released in February 2012 and, when the choir was on tour in California, was met with critical acclaim from both the web and major music review magazines, in particular International Record Review and the BBC Music Magazine. The latter noted Sidney’s ‘... candid alert voices, nigh flawless technically’ and awarded the recording a double five-star rating. The CD was generously supported by Richard Phillips (1966). This was also the year when we had to say goodbye to a large proportion of the Chapel team, nearly half its number, including Verity Bramson (Music), Victoria Bullard-Smith (Archaeology and Anthropology), James Cormack (Modern Languages), Hannah De Priest (Music, Homerton), Rosie Dilnot (Classics), Patrick Flanagan (Music, Homerton), Tim Keeler (Music, Clare), Yates Norton (Art History) and Pippa Vega (Medicine). Special mention must The Sidney Choir performing at a post-concert reception in Santa Barbara, California

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 be made of our outgoing organ scholar, Dan Smith, who performed his duties beyond measure in his very busy final year, taking on a great deal of musical and administrative tasks while acting as Music Director for the Cambridge Footlights Pantomime. We are so grateful for his fine playing dedication and wish him luck in his new position in Lubbock, Texas. There are other tributes in this issue to our Pastoral Dean, Peter Waddell, who leaves us for Winchester University. Not only was he a central figure in College life, but was also a great friend to the Choir and we will miss him dearly. Not only did he write and deliver the best sermons, but he was also instrumental in keeping the ambitions of the Director of Music in check. Peter, we wish you the very best of luck. Any ambitious musical programme in an Oxbridge college can only become a reality with the help and interest of friends and colleagues. I am eternally grateful, as always, to Sidney for its unrivalled support. My personal thanks extend to the Master, Bursar and Senior Tutor. I am also grateful to members of the Music Group for their advice and wisdom. What next? Extraordinary and wonderful things, so please watch this space! David Skinner Osborn Director of Music

The Year in Chapel It is my last ever review of the year in Chapel. Looking back, it is a year full of memories. Writing in the summer, the freshest are those of weddings: of a Chapel packed with a hundred guests of two recent graduates, singing their hearts out to drums, guitars and piano, where a few days before a couple stood alone to renew their vows after many years of marriage. There have been baptisms too: it is has been wonderful to see families come back with the newest additions to a place that obviously holds so much meaning and memory for them. It has been a year of splendid preachers. Professor Christopher Page memorably asked what was the point of his good friend, the Osborn Director of Music Dr David Skinner and – thankfully – offered a compelling account of why music has so long been at the heart of Christian worship. A former Chaplain, Brian Mountford, stirred up controversy in the best possible way with his explorations of ‘Christian Atheism’. A recent graduate, Paul Rose, came back to tell us of his work with Christian Peacemakers International (CHIPS) in Ghana,

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college news where he lives and works farming and building reconciliation in a sharply divided community (Chapel congregations were thrilled to raise funds for his work throughout Michaelmas). And Sidney will not easily forget the visit of Adrian Plass, who made us laugh and cry and think very deeply and laugh still more. It was such a good sermon that the Pastoral Dean’s only complaint was it set the bar impossibly high for his own return to the pulpit the following week. I can’t preach like that. The incumbents of all three of our College parishes have visited us this year. Canon Rob Dickenson is Rector of the Week St Mary circle of parishes in Truro Diocese and came to preach in October, after the Pastoral Dean had visited for the annual Revel service in Week St Mary. The parish church there is currently refurbishing its side-chapel with assistance from the College’s Chafy Fund; the new Chaplain will have the pleasure of attending its dedication shortly. Marion Reynolds visited from Gayton, Cold Higham, Pattishall and Tiffield (Peterborough Diocese) shortly after her appointment, in which the Pastoral Dean was involved. And it was wonderful to host Fr Christopher Hopkins for Evensong and dinner shortly after he retired after many years of service in the College living of Peasmarsh and Beckley. Like all our incumbents, he will always be welcome around the Sidney table. As ever, there are so many people to thank. It would be invidious to single out too many names: there has been no shortage of people cleaning and polishing and moving chairs. But special thanks must go to three people above all. Simon Westripp has been an exemplary Chapel Warden, recruiting many volunteers and making sure Chapel is set and ready to run for every service. Claire Couzins has photocopied, photocopied and photocopied, often at very short notice and with unfailing good grace. Derek Cowling has kept patience as we seem to burn our way through candles at an extraordinary rate, making sure fresh sets appear as if by magic just when we need them. All their hard work is deeply appreciated. Well, I’m off to Winchester to be Dean of Chapel at the University there. I will always love Sidney Chapel, as do so many readers of this Annual. I will certainly come back, and so should you. It is in the good hands of my successor, the Revd Paul Brice, who comes to us from the parish of St Mary, Hartfield and was previously the Church of England’s National Officer for Higher Education and Chaplain at Imperial College London. So it is goodbye from Peter, and good luck to Paul. If he is as happy as I have been here, he will be a very lucky man indeed. Revd Dr Peter Waddell, Pastoral Dean

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Library report While making best use of information technology and facilitating readers’ access to online resources, the Library remains a crucial physical facility for Sidney’s students and Fellows: in fact, the recorded total for issues and renewals was 12,331 this year, even higher than last year’s figure of 11,896. The meteorologically challenged spring of 2012 may of course have contributed to the Library’s popularity: yet shadows visible in this picture prove that the sun did come out occasionally during the Easter Term. Enthusiasm for squash and biscuits, the Richard Powell Library’s customary refreshment break, was undiminished regardless of the weather. Aided and abetted by the Library staff, students regenerated mind and body with this cardboard tower, a challenge to eat a biscuit in the manner of a named character, and a happy few minutes detonating a roll of bubble-wrap. It was suggested that we start a deposit point in the Library for students’ own books that they no longer need, and this facility was used quite vigorously towards the end of June. Forty-one books are awaiting new homes at the time of writing. I should like to acknowledge the help of those who served on the Library Committee at various points during the year: Max Beber, Dr Kirsten Dickers, Dr Bernhard Fulda, Will Menz, Dr Eva Nanopoulos, Jim Ross, Dr Colin Roberts, Nicholas Rogers, Tom Seddon, Dr Janice Stargardt and James Wilson. We were also assisted in our deliberations by Disabled Students’ Officers Chris Page and Alison Madgwick. Amy Crothall coordinated requests for books from law students, to help me assess the right balance of lending and reference stock. Requests and recommendations are always welcome from any member of the College, of course.

Thinking ‘outside the box’. Students add new layers to the middle of a cardboard tower

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college news Various books bought over the years from the shortlists of literary prizes came downstairs to form the ‘Armchair Corner’ near the spiral staircase, with other quality fiction and non-fiction. This has been a year of further changes for the Library, as Alison Beaumont left us in January. Alison had first taken on the duties of the general library assistant, and then responsibility for cataloguing. She was a great help to me when I joined Sidney at the beginning of October 2010. Early in the Lent Term, Kirsten Elliott and Dr Sarah Preston started work. Both already make strong contributions to the running and development of the Library. Kirsten is normally on duty in the mornings, and Sarah in the afternoons. The summer break saw us implementing a migration to the University’s Voyager issuing software, which will bring information on the current availability of our books into the University’s existing Newton and LibrarySearch catalogues, making it easier and simpler for users and staff to find our books in the coming year. Alan Stevens, Librarian

Muniment Room Report Like St John on Patmos, Dante in Verona or Victor Hugo on Guernsey, the Archivist is in exile, not for religious or political reasons but for safety during the building works in South Court. Structural problems, which had manifested themselves as several large cracks in the Muniment Room ceiling, necessitated his moving to a temporary Muniment Room on the top floor of 8–9 Jesus Lane. As soon as it was realised that most of the contents of the Muniment Room would have to be removed for the duration of the building works, the advice of Edward Cheese, of the Cambridge Colleges Conservation Consortium, was sought. He alerted the Archivist to potential problems encountered during other recent temporary removals of Cambridge libraries. With the assistance of two graduate students, Desirée Scholten and Graeme Ward, and also the Archivist’s wife, Charlotte Rogers, 479 boxes of books were packed, each book being wrapped in archival tissue paper and then in bubble wrap. In addition a further 137 large folio volumes, too large for any standard archive box, were wrapped separately. Fragile bindings required special treatment, being strapped

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 to avoid jolting in transit. In the course of emptying the shelves one discovery was made. Pushed to the back of an upper shelf was a small folded chart, published by Metcalfe of Green Street, Cambridge, in 1862, showing the academic dress of the University of Cambridge (Figure 1). Over two days the books were transferred to secure offsite storage. Some of the manuscripts have been transferred to the Manuscripts Room of the University Library, for the convenience of scholars intending to come to Sidney this summer. Many of the classes of muniments stored in the basement were moved to other archive stores in the College. Because of the preparations for the summer move, the Muniment Room was closed to general readers from the end of April, but a few librarians, requiring special items, were admitted after that date. The last visitor was Dr Suzanne Reynolds, the Librarian at Holkham Hall, on 18 May, who found herself surrounded by towers of book boxes. By that date there had been 75 readers in 2011–12, consulting 129 items. Visitors included Professor Susan L’Engle, of Duke University, who is studying the marginal illustrations in Sidney MS 101, and Dr Ilya Dines, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who took the opportunity to consult the Archivist about the dating of items in his forthcoming catalogue of medieval western manuscripts in the Hebrew University. The answering of queries by e-mail has been little interrupted by the upheaval of moving. In 2011–12, 690 enquiries were dealt with. In July the Archivist addressed a party of sixth-form historians from Parkstone Grammar School, examining Cromwell’s life at Sidney and his posthumous reputation in the College and nationally. He also spoke to a National Trust Group from Rugby about the architecture and fittings of the Chapel. The Michaelmas Term exhibition, entitled ‘“A true Protestant at all times”: Samuel Ward, 1572–1643’ brought together 11 items from the rich collection of Ward papers to illustrate the various aspects of his career as theologian, scholar, Master of Sidney, Archdeacon of Taunton and one of the translators of the King James Bible. A four-page handout was produced to accompany the exhibition. In order to provide sufficient room for architectural folios, including a volume of Vitruvius Britannicus, the Lent Term exhibition, ‘Firmitas Utilitas Venustas: Architectural Writers from Vitruvius to Fergusson’, occupied both display cases in the Library. Several books from the Harington collection were included, as was one of the recently conserved volumes of Quarterly Papers on Architecture. To celebrate Professor Blanning’s seventieth birthday a display was mounted for the Easter Term on the subject of ‘Elliston’s Fellows’, that is, the Sidney

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Figure 1 Sidney Pensioner and Fellow Commoner from Costumes of the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, 1862)

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Fellowship during the Mastership of Dr William Elliston (1760–1807). Items included a letter to Elliston from his brother-in-law Thomas Martyn about the purchase of an altarpiece for the Chapel and part of Elliston’s correspondence with the eccentric Robert Luke, who translated Rule Britannia into Greek. Aspects of the life of a Fellow were covered in letters selected from the correspondence between John Hey and his sister Rebecca. The Memorandum Book for College Matters (MR.5) reveals that at the last College meeting he attended, on 1 November 1806, Dr Elliston drew attention to certain deficiencies in the Master’s Lodge, the foremost being ‘the want of a Water Closet in the Lodge’. The Grangerised copy of W. P. Hunt’s Brief Memoir … of the Rev. Edward Pearson includes a plan and elevation of the parsonage at Rempstone, Notts., enabling it to be identified as the work of the Nottingham architect William Stretton. The summer exhibition, which was included in the programme for Open Cambridge 2012, was devoted to ‘Sport at Sidney’. It consisted of books, photographs and memorabilia relating to sport at Sidney from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, including items lent by Susanna Ferrar, the granddaughter of H. T. Ferrar, the geologist on Scott’s first Antarctic expedition. The largest donation received this year was the Asa Briggs Collection of some 250 books and pamphlets relating to Commonwealth history and colonial studies. The cataloguing of these has almost been completed, and the Collection will be housed separately and identified by a special donation label. Several items are otherwise unrepresented in Cambridge, and in a few cases Sidney is the only British public library to possess a copy. In one instance, the only other recorded copy is in the National Diet Library, Tokyo. There is a good body of material relating to India, including a book from the Simla library of Lord Northbrook, Viceroy of India. Additions to the Fellows’ Collection have been received this year from the Master, Miss Barrett, Dr Dubois, Dr Kilduff, Professor Hill, Professor McKitterick, Professor Mayall, Dr Merlin-Kajman, Professor Moggach, Mr Wilmer and Dr Wood. During her time as a Visiting Fellow, Professor Jill Harries of the University of St Andrews presented an interesting edition of the works of Sidonius Apollinaris, published in Paris in 1609 by the French branch of the Plantin Press. Bookplates indicate that it belonged to one of the late eighteenthOpposite: Figure 2 Grand Master Pierre d’Aubusson, frontispiece to Dominique Bouhours, Histoire de Pierre d’Aubusson Grand-Maistre de Rhodes (Paris, 1676)

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 century Earls of Cork and Orrery and afterwards to the polymath John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. John K. Corner gave a volume reproducing the sketches made by his father, Professor J. E. Corner, a former Fellow, during the 1964 Kinabalu expedition. Mr Corner has just completed a biography of his father, which will be published in Singapore. Professor Heinz Fuchs, a frequent donor of bibliographical treasures, presented a facsimile of an early German printed book, a Lutheran hymnal of 1524. Mr David Ives, another generous benefactor to the Muniment Room, presented a rare 1816 edition of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, published in Romsey, for which a new half green goatskin binding with Cockerell marbled paper sides was made by the Conservation Consortium. One of the finest books given to Sidney this year was presented by Michael Halsey on 30 June. It is a first edition, published by Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy in 1676, of the Histoire de Pierre d’Aubusson Grand-Maistre de Rhodes by the Jesuit historian and essayist Dominique Bouhours. The book is aesthetically pleasing, with engravings by Etienne Gantrel (Figure 2), and a contemporary gilt-tooled Jesuit binding, but is also of historiographical importance as a biography of the hero of the 1480 Siege of Rhodes. There are numerous French editions, well into the nineteenth century; it was also translated into English as early as 1679 and, more recently, into Modern Greek in 1996. Professor Mayall has donated two photographs of the Sidney Hockey XI in 1912–13, both including J. B. and R. C. Mayall. One of these will be included in the ‘Sport at Sidney’ exhibition and has been chosen to feature on the Open Cambridge website. A presentation copy of Victor Ratcliffe’s Poems, published in an edition of 100 in 1910, with manuscript corrections by the author, was spotted by the Archivist in David’s and purchased for the Muniment Room. Melvin Jefferson retired from the Cambridge Colleges Conservation Consortium at the end of 2011. One of his last tasks was to complete the binding of MR.62 in a new blind-tooled native-dyed Nigerian goatskin binding. A box was also made for the remains of the old binding, which almost certainly predated the account book. Melvin has been succeeded as Conservation Manager by Edward Cheese, and a new Assistant Conservator, Jo Kay, has been appointed. They have continued the refurbishment programme initiated by Melvin Jefferson. Among items selected for conservation this year was Bishop Montagu’s edition of the works of James I. Following consultation with the College’s Keeper of Pictures, Richard Humphreys, the Archivist asked the Conservation Consortium to address

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college news problems of discolouration affecting a framed miniature of Dr Chafy. The discolouration, caused largely by the acidic wooden mount, was ameliorated by a leeching process over three days, and a new archival mount was provided. A protective phase box was made by Elizabeth Bradshaw for a nineteenth-century boat flag, to ensure protection for the degraded silk elements. The Archivist was invited to deliver the Mark Elvins Lecture for 2012 to the Heraldry Society, and chose as his subject ‘The Lost Heraldic Glass of the London Greyfriars’. He included some discussion of the heraldic elements in the Franciscan glass found at Sidney. He has agreed to publish his paper in The Coat of Arms. Nicholas Rogers, Archivist

Garden Notes First things first. I have to get something off my chest. I have to admit it was me. OK, I didn’t physically do it but I was the man back at HQ stroking my white cat. I’m speaking, of course, of the destruction of the snowmen that stood in Hall Court for a short spell – a very short spell, in fact – during the winter. I had no idea that this act would cause such widespread upset and condemnation. My motives, I can assure you, were garden orientated. We usually let snowmen stand for a couple of days and then spread them out with the surrounding snow to save the grass from turning yellow. This, apparently, was a pretty tenuous excuse for destroying two characters so close to people’s hearts. So, to the person in the Batman outfit who shinned up the flag pole with the ‘Snowmen For Justice!’ banner; to the lady who sprang from C staircase and hurled herself before my wheelbarrow; and especially to the poor Bursar who took a water-boarding while I, shamefully, held out in my bunker, I have taken heed and do apologise. As an act of defiance two more snowmen popped up in the Master’s Garden. These boys looked slightly more menacing with their tricorne hats and cutlasses so we kept well away. This sprinkling of snow was the only moisture the garden was to enjoy for the whole winter. As the season drew to an end, TV and newspaper reports were littered with pictures of water authoritarians sporting high vis and hard

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 hats – essential clothing for times like this – standing next to half-empty reservoirs. They expressed great cause for concern. Drastic measures were needed so a hosepipe ban was enforced. This decision obviously worked because it precipitated what is now known as the wettest drought on record. Barely has a day gone by where it hasn’t rained and nearly every county in the UK has been affected by floods. We are quite lucky here at Sidney in that the garden consists of alluvial soil covering a gravel sub-base so any amount of water drains off very quickly. Apart from the grass and weeds growing around our ears, everywhere is still very green and lush for this time of year and the garden has actually benefited greatly from the wet summer. It was pure luck that I chose bedding plants that are not too affected by wet weather. The bedding dahlias, marigolds and heliotrope planted out in the Master’s Garden are doing really well. Sidney gardeners ready for action: Robin Marshall, Stuart Cross, Trevor Rees, Travis Kiddy

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college news The soft ground was a worry during the May Ball period but this year’s party passed through very smoothly thanks to the committee’s great organising. My appreciation goes to Bethan Parker and the team who worked really hard, placing running board tracks on the boggy areas, so that the garden suffered very little. While the Queen celebrated her Diamond Jubilee I celebrated my silver, clocking up 25 years here at Sidney and I’d like to say thank you to all the gardeners, past and present, who have carried me thus far. Perhaps one hot summer’s day back in the 1990s exemplifies the gardeners’ commitment to a typical day’s work… The May Ball had upped its guy ropes and cleared away but a chap remained, spread out on the tennis court lawn. A now retired gardener, Basil Wagstaff, was naturally concerned because he couldn’t get his grass cut. I told him not to worry; to go off and cut the Fellows’ lawn then by the time he’d finished the chap should be gone. This he did but after re-inspecting the tennis court he came back with a sombre shake of the head. We continued with the same plan: Bas completed the Master’s, Cloister, Hall and Chapel Court lawns but with each check of the tennis court, Basil would return with a familiar shake of the head. I then told Basil to mow right up close to the chap. The noise and vibration of the engine should rouse him and give him the hint that he was in the way. When this plan failed both Basil and I knew that something would have to be done: he’d have to be moved so that Bas could complete the lawn. Besides, we were becoming concerned for the poor fellow. He’d been lying face down and motionless in the beating sun for many hours now and we felt it was high time he tanned his front; so on Basil’s command – ‘You lift him, I’ll groan’ – we managed to roll the chap over to reveal a kind of verdant gingerbread man, which was promptly cut short. Basil’s commitment to his task typifies all the gardeners’ devotion to the College and I’d like to say what a pleasure it has been to work with them over the past 25 years. Oh, the chap? Well, all I can say is that he must have been dragged away in the night because he wasn’t there the next day. Had he have been, then of course we would have been extremely concerned. Prolonged compaction of any lawn can cause it to turn yellow, you know… Trevor Rees, Head Gardener

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Alumni and Development

Fundraising As reported in the 2011 Annual, the College has made a significant investment in the development programme to ensure greater fundraising income, which in turn will help secure the long-term financial future of Sidney. Many of the foundations have now been put in place – the Development and Membership Office now has a complement of four full-time staff, a fully functioning alumni database and agreed fundraising priorities. This investment has seen the first signs of growth in the year 2011–12 both in terms of funds raised and, just as important, number of donors. For the financial year ending 30 June 2012, the development income raised was £1,013,000 (up 51 per cent on the previous year) and the College had 667 donors (up 46 per cent). As you can see from the chart, the College now has more donors than ever before and many of these are now making regular direct debit donations. In 2011–12 more than ten per cent of all Sidney alumni made a donation to the College. While this is a huge improvement on the previous year (just over six per cent), we still want to encourage as many of our alumni and friends as possible to support the College in whatever way they can. The Annual Fund is where we direct all the regular and unrestricted gifts made to the College. It exists to meet the most immediate needs of the College and in 2011–12 it accounted for nearly half of all our development income, raising more than £490,000 (£241,000 in cash and a further £249,000 in future pledged income) towards our core priorities of student support, research and teaching and the overall student experience. One of the reasons for the increase in donor numbers and support for the Annual Fund was the implementation of the College’s first telephone campaign since 2001. Hannah Williamson managed the campaign extremely efficiently and employing current Sidney students proved hugely effective. Our 12 callers spoke to more than 600 alumni during the two-week campaign in March, raising more than £158,000 for the Annual Fund. Mindful that this direct approach would not be to everyone’s taste, we wrote in advance to all those we intended to call giving them the opportunity to opt out, and we were extremely pleased that less than ten per cent chose not to receive a call. The experience of this telephone campaign shows that there is an enormous amount of good will towards the College among our alumni, which bodes well for the future. While we will continue to consolidate and strengthen this strong alumni support base, the most critical aspect of our fundraising programme for the

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coming 12–18 months, and ultimately the long-term future, will be to attract leadership level donations – by which we mean those who make a donation of £5,000 or more in any one year. In the past year 23 donors made a donation at this level to the College – meaning that just three per cent of our donor population accounted for more than 60 per cent of all our development income. With this in mind, it is important to pay tribute to the vision of Professor Sir Gabriel Horn, who was instrumental in establishing the 1596 Foundation. Gabriel believed in the benefit of creating a society of benefactors who together would help the College and be involved with the staff, students and Fellows on a regular and ongoing basis. We now have close to 100 members of the Foundation, having inducted five new members in May. Of course, not everyone is in a position to make a major donation during their lifetime, and for this reason the College has established the Lady Frances Sidney Circle in order to recognise the generosity of those who have pledged a legacy to Sidney in their will. We held the first Lady Frances Sidney Circle event in the Master’s Garden in September. From April 2012, new tax rules apply. The simplified effect is that if you leave ten per cent or more of your

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net estate to charity, the remaining estate is taxed at 36 per cent instead of 40 per cent. Given the importance of major gifts to those of us who work in the philanthropic/charity sector, we were delighted to hear of the Chancellor’s volte-face this summer and confirmation that the government will abandon plans for a cap on income tax relief for charitable donations. The reversal of the March 2012 budget proposal comes in the wake of three months of sustained lobbying from across the charitable sector. While tax incentives may not be the prime motivation for giving, they do impact both the amount and duration of gifts. The proposals threatened to undermine philanthropy and the generosity of many donors. So it is excellent news for education specifically and the entire charitable sector that the government has listened to our arguments. Philanthropic behaviour is to be encouraged, and exempting charitable donations from a cap on income tax relief sends a clear signal to existing and future donors that their generosity is valued, not only by the direct beneficiaries of their gifts, but also by broader civil society. As we start the 2012–13 academic year, I look forward to continuing the good progress that the College is making towards building a sustainable

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As Development Director, my job is mainly concerned with trying to professionalise our fundraising programme and of course encourage more of our alumni and friends to support the College. Nevertheless, the odd gimmick doesn’t do any harm in getting attention – and with that in mind, I made the rather dubious decision to run the 2012 London Marathon dressed as a blue porcupine. I have run a marathon before but never with a running mate strapped to my back, and as I crossed Tower Bridge for the first time (12 miles down, 14 to go) I genuinely questioned my sanity and why on earth I hadn’t asked for aerodynamic advice from Ann Dowling. The 26.2-mile course took me five hours and three minutes to complete but my porky friend stayed the course and I am glad to report that he has most definitely hung up his running spikes. I was delighted by the support I received from Sidney Fellows, staff and alumni and I have even been invited to become an honorary member of the Porcupines. I am not sure how much of this was a sympathy vote, but thank you to all those who supported me and helped us to raise over £4,500 for the Annual Fund.

the long tradition of Sidney geographers. On the night, David gave a hugely enjoyable and thought-provoking talk, examining the regulation of drinking in nineteenth-century Britain, focusing on licensing, the growth of the temperance movement and the relationship between alcoholism and mental health. David’s work is featured on page 15 of the Annual. In May 2012, we welcomed five new members to the Foundation who between them have supported a wide range of projects at Sidney, encompassing the main priorities of the College. Our newest inductees include William Dolben (MML 1983) who has established the William Dolben Bursaries to support undergraduates studying arts and humanities subjects at Sidney. The C. T. So Bursaries have been established to support students from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan studying at Sidney from 2012. Professor Alexander So (Medicine, 1971), who was also a visiting scholar at Sidney last year, joined the Foundation to represent the So family. Professor Rosamond McKitterick, Fellow in History and Keeper of Manuscripts and Archives at Sidney, generously supported both the new chamber organ and the Confrat fund for History. Gifford Combs, an alumnus of

Bill Abraham development programme. We welcome input from our alumni and supporters and hope that many of you will return to Sidney over the course of the year. Thank you to all who support the College; I hope you will continue your support for many years to come. I can assure you that we genuinely appreciate your commitment to Sidney. Bill Abraham, Development Director

1596 Foundation The 1596 Foundation has led the way in supporting the College priorities in the past year. At the November 2011 dinner in College, we welcomed the first ever 1596 Foundation Fellow, Dr David Beckingham. This five-year position has been fully funded by the Foundation and will enable David to develop his research career as well as direct studies and teaching in Geography, continuing

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Members of the 1596 Foundation at the dinner in May to welcome five new members. Front row, on the Master‘s right: Rosamond McKitterick, Brian Moody; on the Master’s left: William Dolben, Alexander So and Gifford Combs

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 Harvard and Queens’ College, Cambridge, has supported both the College and the University by establishing a Lectureship in the Classics Faculty specialising in Greek Prehistory, which will be conjointly held with a Fellowship in Classics at Sidney. Brian Moody (Classics, 1962) was recognised for his continued support of music at Sidney, in particular the gift that enabled the purchase of the Mietke harpsichord, with which guests were entertained after dinner. The event also provided an opportunity for the Master to share the results of last summer’s geophysical survey of the College grounds. The survey showed that few signs of the College’s medieval past remain, so comprehensive was the demolition of the old Grey Friars monastery during the sixteenth century. However, state-of-the-art technology allowed us some tantalising glimpses of the precursors of the Elizabethan College. Special thanks also go to existing 1596 Foundation member Peter Espenhahn (Economics, 1962), whose support not only created the Espenhahn Bursaries but also enabled the College to confirm its installation of a new chamber organ designed by the American builders Taylor & Boody. Dr David Skinner, Sidney’s Director of Music, said, ‘Our new chamber organ will not only be one of the finest historical instruments in Oxbridge but an object of exquisite beauty.’

Alumni Relations We are continuing to improve the way we engage with our alumni and the benefits we can offer to all those who wish to remain connected to Sidney. In addition to the College Annual, all alumni and friends of the College receive Pheon twice a year. The third edition (edition 29) of the new-look Pheon was published in July, with features on Engineering from Dr Andrew Flewitt and two articles from our graduate students. We were pleased to welcome Paddy Lowe (Engineering, 1981) to College last year. Paddy is Technical Director at Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, the team in which Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button compete for the Formula One World Championship – and we were delighted with his contribution to the ‘Rapid Résumé’ section of Pheon. Copies of Pheon from 1994 are available on the Alumni webpages at www. sid.cam.ac.uk. We have updated and tried to simplify the alumni web pages, but one of the ways we are able to connect is through the growing range of social media. Matt

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Alumni Events and Reunions Formerly known as commemorations, alumni reunions are held in June and September each year, with the highlight being a formal dinner in Hall on the Saturday evening. Unfortunately due to space restrictions we are unable to invite partners or guests to dinner, but they are welcome to attend all other reunion events, such as the afternoon tea, tours of College, post-dinner drinks and breakfast. The alumni reunion for matriculands from 1961, 1962, 1950 and earlier took place on 30 June. The weather, which had been wet and windy in the morning, improved as everyone arrived and Sidney alumni, their partners and guests enjoyed their afternoon tea in glorious sunshine in the Master’s Garden. It was a very relaxed and enjoyable event. Once everyone had re-fuelled with tea and scones, Sidney’s Head Porter, Colin Maxted, led a tour of the College and gardens. Everyone then had a chance to change before heading off to the Audit Room in the Master’s Lodge for pre-dinner drinks. Also in attendance on the night were Professor Derek Beales (Emeritus Fellow in History), Donald Green (Emeritus Fellow in Engineering), Professor Dame Sandra Dawson (KPMG Professor of Management and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge), Nick Allen (Bursar), Dr Kirsten Dickers (Fellow in Natural Sciences and Admissions Director) and Bill Abraham (Development Director). After dessert, the Master thanked the Hall and kitchen staff for their efforts, with much applause from those attending. The Master’s after-dinner speech, reminiscing about life in an all-male College in the 1950s and 1960s, was well received. Much argument ensued about the best place to scale the walls of the College once the evening curfew had passed.

Acting Master Professor Richard Penty and his wife Victoria welcomed over 250 alumni and their guests to the College for the weekend of 22–23 September, which also coincided with the University’s Alumni Weekend. On the Saturday, the College hosted a hugely successful Alumni Reunion for those who matriculated in 1974, 1975 and 1976. This of course included

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 the first cohort of women undergraduates in the College and we were delighted to welcome back 23 of the original 25. We also instigated a Decade Reunion Lunch on the Sunday – a more informal gathering than a full reunion dinner and held in its new format for matriculands of 1990–99. It was wonderful to see so many alumni bringing their families to this event, with more than 30 young children running amok in the Master’s Garden. Also in September we saw the return of what we hope will be the first of many informal networking evenings in London, organised by Steve Carter (1996), Lydia Green (2007) and Samantha Corderoy (1992). We would be glad to hear from volunteers who are willing to organise future networking events for Sidney alumni in London.

alumni and development 2013 Saturday 12 January Annual Thornely Society Dinner Saturday 13 February Triennial Engineers’ Dinner Saturday 18 May 1596 Foundation Dinner Saturday 29 June Alumni Reunion and Dinner – Matriculation years 1983, 1984, 1985 Friday 27 September Lady Frances Sidney Circle Afternoon Tea Saturday 28 September Alumni Reunion and Dinner – Matriculation years 2001, 2002, 2003 Sunday 29 September Decade Alumni Reunion Lunch – Matriculation years 1960–69 Saturday 12 October Visit to Bletchley Park

Getting Involved As well as organising events in College, the Development and Membership Office work with the Sidney Sussex Society to organise a programme of events throughout the UK and across the world; regrettably it is only possible for us to visit a limited number of places each year. If you would like to help us by organising an event for alumni in your area or for your year group we would be delighted to hear from you. We would also welcome interest from alumni of all ages who would like to be involved with the Sidney Sussex Society. Whether it is a get-together in your own home, an informal gathering at a local restaurant or a more formal dinner, we can help you make the initial contact with alumni in your area so you can get your event off to a flying start. To discuss organising an alumni event please contact the Development Office, on +44 (0)1223 338881 or alumni@sid.cam.ac.uk.

Future Events A number of events are planned over the coming academic year. All will be held in College unless stated otherwise. 2012 Saturday 10 November 1596 Foundation Dinner Monday 3 December Sidney Alumni Christmas Reception, The Institute for Government, London

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Sidney Sussex Society This year the Society decided to encourage the families of Sidney alumni to attend one of our events every year and a visit to the Imperial War Museum at Duxford was arranged in October 2011. In the morning there were interesting talks from Professor Ann Dowling, Dr Bill Nuttall and Leo McKinstry while events for children were held elsewhere. In the afternoon there were tours of the Museum conducted by enthusiastic guides. Fifty alumni and their guests attended. The Society’s annual Christmas Event was held in the Governor’s Hall at St Thomas’ Hospital in December and was attended by 90 alumni, Fellows and guests. We heard Dick Humphreys talking about Sidney’s links with medicine over past years and Professor Tim Cox on current developments. The Society is grateful to Dr Martin Drage (1989) and Dr John Scoble (1972) for their help in enabling the event to be held in such splendid surroundings. Westminster Abbey was once again packed in April 2012 for Evensong, which was sung by the Sidney Sussex College Choir, followed by the Commemoration of our Foundress, Lady Frances Sidney, whose tomb lies within the Abbey. The Society organised a drinks reception afterwards at the Oxford and Cambridge Club in Pall Mall where we were treated to further performances by the Choir. The event was attended by over 100 alumni, Fellows and their guests.

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Forthcoming Society events include: 2012 Monday 3 December Christmas Reception, Institute for Government, 2 Carlton Gardens, London, SW1Y 5AA 2013 Saturday 12 October

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Ian B. M. Stephen, Chairman

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Sidney alumni at the Society’s day at Duxford, October 2011

The annual BA Graduands’ Garden Party, which is hosted by the Society, was held in College in June. We introduced the new graduates to the Society and the benefits of being a member of the Sidney alumni community. September 2012 will see the return of the after-work drinks event, held in central London. This is organised by Steve Carter (1992), Sam Corderoy (1996) and Lydia Green (2007). The Society would very much like to encourage more of these networking events for Sidney alumni, so if you would like to help with the arrangements, please contact the Alumni Office at alumni@sid.cam.ac.uk. The Society’s visit to Boughton House in Northamptonshire in October, with tours of the house and gardens conducted personally by Richard, Duke of Buccleuch, whose ancestors were among the earliest patrons of the College, will have taken place before the publication of this Annual. A full report will appear on the website and in next year’s Annual. The Society Committee, which is responsible for organising these events, met in College on 22 October 2011, 11 February and 26 June 2012.

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Club events this year included a trip to the Fondation Pierre Gianadda in Martigny (Valais), where an exquisite collection of paintings by Monet was on display, and attendance at a concert by the Symphony Orchestra of Geneva at Victoria Hall in Geneva. The New Year Dinner (held instead of a Christmas dinner) was at the Karishma Indian Restaurant in Divonne-les-Bains in France. A weekend trip to the Aosta Valley (Italy) in May 2012 included visits to Fenis and Issogne castles, the fortress of Bard, the church of St Orsa in Aosta, the first-century BC Roman bridge at St Martin, and a wine-tasting session in Frazione village. The route to Aosta closely follows the route taken by Napoleon Bonaparte three centuries ago. The Club held its annual dinner and talk at the usual venue, the Hotel du Lac, Coppet, on 23 June. Bill Jones, Fellow of the College and Professor of Materials Chemistry, spoke on the role of materials chemistry in drug delivery. The 24 who attended included members from Cambridge (Bill Jones, Lindsay Greer and James and Avril Mayall), Nairobi (Victoria Kay and two friends), Grenoble (Chris Cork) and Zurich (Helen Gyssler). Bill Jones became a member of the Club, while Victoria Kay moved to a new job in Kenya. The Club has launched a campaign to enlist new, young Sidney members. On behalf of the Club, Bill Abraham, the College Development Director, sent out a letter to all the Sidney alumni living in and around the Geneva area. Dr Ajit Bhalla, President

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Thornely Society Despite its relatively small size, Sidney is one of the larger Law colleges of the University. The College has at any time up to 25 undergraduates reading Law, together with a substantial number of postgraduate students reading for higher degrees such as the LLM and PhD. It has an energetic student Law Society for current students, and the Thornely Society, an active society for Sidney law graduates. Law students at Sidney also benefit from a dedicated law library within the College library, and a number of bursaries specifically for law students. The Thornely Society exists to honour the memory of John Thornely by supporting many aspects of law at Sidney, including academic and social events. This provides an opportunity for Sidney alumni who read Law at Cambridge or have since qualified as lawyers to maintain and develop their links with each other and the College. The Thornely Society provides very significant support for law in Sidney, including the John Thornely Fellowship and student bursaries. The eighth Annual John Thornely Lecture was held in April 2012. Our thanks to Albert Levy (Law, 1972) and Ince & Co, who hosted the Annual Lecture, which was preceded by the Society’s Annual General Meeting. The AGM itself was attended by three Law Fellows, five Thornely Society Foundation Members, the Bursar and the Development Director. The members discussed the College’s proposal to change the Thornely Fellowship Fund from endowed in perpetuity to expendable in order to meet the changing nature of the teaching of law at Sidney. Also discussed was a proposal that the Thornely Student Support Fund would look to increase bursary awards to meet the increasingly high cost of education for undergraduate students. Both proposals were passed unanimously. The Annual Lecture was given by Dr Eva Nanopoulos on ’The EU and the UN in the fight against terrorism: allies or enemies?’ In a lecture characterised by topicality and clarity, the speaker argued that the apparent conflict between the obligations of members of the European Union to enforce Security Council ‘terror lists’ and to uphold human rights must, and could, be resolved. The lecture prompted a lively discussion, which continued in the reception that followed. Dr Nanopoulos was a Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Sidney from 2010, supervising Constitutional, International and EU law and lecturing on an LLM course, Contemporary Issues in EU Law. The Thornely Opposite: A winning entry in the SSCSU Photographic Competition, Victoria BullardSmith (2009)

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 Lecture provided an opportunity both to thank Dr Nanopolous and congratulate her on her appointment to a post at King’s College, Cambridge. We would like to encourage all members of the Thornely Society to contribute to the ‘alumni stories’ section of the law web pages on the Sidney website in order to encourage students to apply to read Law at Sidney. If you are currently working in law and would like to contribute a short summary of your career since leaving Sidney, please email us at alumni@sid.cam.ac.uk. The next Annual Dinner of the Thornely Society will be held in College on Saturday 12 January 2013, with the Annual Lecture and AGM likely to be held in London later in the spring. Alan Dashwood CBE QC, Emeritus Professor of European Law Paul McHugh, Professor of Law and Legal History, Department of Land Economy Jillaine Seymour, John Thornely Fellow in Law

Alumni News Congratulations to: Peter Rowland Bush (1964), who has been awarded La Cruz del Oficial de la Orden Española del Mérito Civil by the King of Spain for his ‘commendable contribution in strengthening the cultural ties between our two countries’. The award was presented at a reception given by the Spanish Ambassador and Catalan novelist, Carles Casajuana, during the London Book Fair, to celebrate the role of literary translators. Dr Marc Creus (PhD, 1998), who has been elected a member of the Global Young Academy for the period 2012–16. Dr Creus is currently group leader in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Basel, working in the Laboratory of Molecular Evolution. Professor Norman Greenwood (1948), who has published the first volume of his memoirs, Recollections of a Scientist, covering his boyhood in Australia. Volume 2, which will follow shortly, features his time at Sidney during the 1940s. Hanadi Jabado (1995), who has been appointed Entrepreneur in Residence, Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship, at Cambridge Judge Business School.

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alumni and development Chirag Karia (1984), who has been appointed a QC and who is based in Quadrant Chambers alongside two other Sidney QCs, Simon Kverndal (QC 2002) and Poonam Melwani (QC 2011). Dr Christopher Khoo (1966), who has been appointed High Sheriff designate for the Royal County of Berkshire for 2014. James Laddie (1991), who has been appointed a QC and is based in Matrix Chambers. Professor Anne Page (née Dunan) (1991), who was awarded the Ordre national du Mérite by President Nicolas Sarkozy. This award recognises distinguished civil achievements. Dr Jason N. E. Varuhas (Evan Lewis-Thomas Law Scholar) (PhD 2007), who has been awarded a prestigious Yorke Prize by the Cambridge Faculty of Law for his thesis, ‘Damages for Breaches of Human Rights: A Tort-Based Approach’. The prize has been awarded annually since the 1870s by the Faculty Board of Law for a thesis ‘of exceptional quality, which makes a substantial contribution to its relevant field of legal knowledge’. Andrew Warnock (1989), who has been appointed a QC and is based at 1, Chancery Lane Chambers. Alex Warren (1999), who has co-authored The Battle for the Arab Spring, published by Yale University Press.

Alumni Benefits, including Dining Privileges If you matriculated at Sidney Sussex College, then you are a member for life, and we hope you will continue to keep in touch with us. You are welcome to take advantage of the alumni membership benefits, but do please ensure that we have all your contact details. For all alumni-related questions, please contact the Development Office on +44 (0) 1223 338881 or email us at alumni@ sid.cam.ac.uk.

Alumni Events and Reunions We organise regular events at Sidney and around the country for all our alumni and friends. Working closely with the Sidney Sussex Society – led by our Sidney

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 alumni – we aim to arrange events and reunions for all alumni covering a wide range of interests and geographical locations. Sidney members can arrange to hold receptions and social gatherings in the College gardens, as well as private dinners, parties, weddings and conferences at Sidney. For more information, please contact the Conference and Events Manager on +44 (0) 1223 338850 or email conference@sid.cam.ac.uk. Conference facilities: www.sid.cam.ac.uk/confer/.

Dining Privileges All members of Sidney Sussex College who hold the degree of Master of Arts or another graduate qualification (including PhD, MPhil, MBA, Med, LLM and PGCE) taken while in residence at the College are entitled to dine free of charge (there is a charge for wine) at High Table three times a year during Full Term in each academic year. These dining privileges start three years after members have obtained their Bachelor’s degree. For catering reasons, we ask that you give at least 48 hours’ notice of dining. Permission to bring a guest, which is encouraged, should be sought in advance from the Steward, Professor A Greer (steward@sid. cam.ac.uk). A charge will be made for the guest. To make arrangements to dine and to check there will be a High Table on the day you wish to dine please contact the Porters’ Lodge on +44 (0) 1223 338800 or email porters@sid.cam.ac.uk.

Accommodation The College can accommodate groups overnight out of term time at Alumni/ Members’ rates. For more information please contact the Housekeeping Manager on +44 (0) 1223 338880) or email housekeeper@sid.cam.ac.uk.

Sidney Publications As long as we have your current contact details you should receive copies of the College Annual and Pheon, Sidney’s bi-annual alumni magazine. Electronic copies of all Pheon editions are published on the alumni pages of the Sidney website: http://www.sid.cam.ac.uk/alumni/phnews/

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Sidney Library – The Richard Powell Library Alumni are welcome to use the library by appointment. Please contact the Librarian (email: librarian@sid.cam.ac.uk, or telephone: +44 (0) 1223 338852). Library: http://www.sid.cam.ac.uk/life/lib/index.html

Sidney Sussex College Merchandise Whether you want to purchase one of the books written about Sidney and its people, or purchase Sidney memorabilia such as a tie, cuff links or tableware, please view the merchandise brochure: Merchandise: http://www.sid.cam.ac.uk/alumni/merch/

University of Cambridge Alumni Benefits As well as your Sidney membership privileges, do also remember that as soon as you matriculate at Cambridge, you become a lifetime member of the University. To acknowledge this, the University provides the following services to all alumni: ●● CAMCard: All alumni are entitled to receive the CAMCard, which offers a range of discounts and services from retailers, restaurants, hotels and other suppliers in Cambridge and beyond. A number of services are also available online. ●● Email for life: The University’s alumni email service is provided by Cantab. net, offering full email account services and a permanent home for your email. Whether you’re trying to get your first job, set up business contacts or just stay in touch with old friends, your @cantab.net address is the only one you’ll ever need. ●● LifeLong Learning: The University’s Institute of Continuing Education offers adult learners in Cambridge and beyond the opportunity to study at University level on a part-time basis. University of Cambridge alumni pages: http://www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/

The Sidney Sussex Archive Our archive is normally open by advance appointment. Please contact the Archivist (email: archivist@sid.cam.ac.uk, or telephone: +44 (0) 1223 338824). Archives: http://www.sid.cam.ac.uk/life/archives/

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Report of the MCR The past year has been another successful one for Sidney’s graduate community. It began with a move from the old MCR (in Chapel Court) to a newly renovated space in the old Galloway & Porter building. The new MCR made an excellent focal point for the Freshers’ Week activities, where we hosted several introductory events alongside the events. Students new and old tried their luck at punting and others were brave enough to join the Ghost Tour of the city. The week ended with the tremendously successful Superhero Bop. Throughout the year, the fortnightly MCR Formal Halls saw record attendance, with the Hall booked to capacity for the majority of dinners. Particularly popular were the Casino Formal, when the Knox-Shaw Room was transformed into a miniature Monte Carlo, and the Burns Supper, at which students attempted to master ceilidh dancing. The Graduate Tutors’ Suppers were also very well attended, giving students the opportunity to meet new members of the graduate community as well as College Fellows. Formal swaps at other

Inflatable crazy golf in the Fellows’ Garden: harder than it looks Opposite: Flags greet arrivals at the Sidney May Ball

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 colleges were always fully booked, ensuring Sidney’s reputation as a social and friendly college was maintained. Graduates have been playing an increasingly large role in College life, with more graduate students matriculating than undergraduates in the past academic year. The diverse graduate community was involved in many extra-curricular and sporting activities. Several graduates participated in the Boat Club, with a boat of almost entirely graduates being formed for Lent Bumps. Others chose to raise money for charities by driving to Mongolia. A graduate team also showed enthusiasm for representing Sidney at croquet Cuppers. Towards the end of Lent Term, the hotly contested MCR elections took place, with more than 50 per cent of the graduate student body voting in elections. The new MCR Committee took charge in Easter Term, where the final-term stress was broken up by very successful Sunday brunches and film nights. The academic year concluded with the biggest-yet MCR Garden Party, which almost 200 people attended. Graduates consumed about 15 kg of strawberries, hundreds of cupcakes, and as much Pimms as the MCR Committee could carry. Attendees tried to reach par in inflatable crazy golf (notoriously difficult) and relaxed in the sun to the musical talent of some current and former MCR members. It has been a pleasure serving as Social Secretary and now as President of the MCR Committee. I would like to thank the staff and Fellows of the College who support graduate life at Sidney – Suzannah Horner, Rebecca Kilner and Iain Black. My thanks also go to the past and present MCR Committee for their tremendously hard work coordinating events and activities during the year. William Menz, MCR President 2012–13

Report of the JCR This academic year has again been a very successful one for the Students’ Union and we were very pleased to welcome a new group of freshers to Sidney during a very successful Freshers’ Week. In true Sidney style, they are now busy planning the next one on behalf of SSCSU. This year we have been working hard to increase the visibility and participation in the Students’ Union. We have been working more closely with the MCR so that all students feel represented. Participation in open meetings has increased as we have reduced the frequency to three a term, and we hope to involve the next group of first years from next term. A new website, which will

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One of the winning entries in the SSCSU Photographic Competition, by Katie Hunter (2010)

display the new SSCSU logo, is currently under development, and will make interaction with the Union easier and news more easily accessible . SSCSU has played an important role in the admissions process. Building on last year’s success, the access bus again visited schools in the Manchester area and current students talked to senior school pupils about what life at Cambridge and Sidney is really like in order to dispel myths and widen access. I am delighted that a new alternative prospectus has been produced by many Sidney students and co-ordinated by the Student Admissions Officer. This year’s work for admissions has continued to build on Sidney’s reputation as a friendly and welcoming college and I hope this will continue for many years to come. It has been a busy year for the welfare team with whom I have worked on a number of collaborative projects. We were delighted to play a key role in forming an interview panel to interview candidates for the chaplaincy and we look forward to welcoming the new candidate in October. The welfare team has run a number of successful chill-out events and worked on a one-to-one basis with students, uniting the Sidney community. Refurbishment of the JCR TV room is ongoing and will create a more welcoming environment for Sidney students to relax and socialise. The winning images in the SSCSU photography competition (see above, pages 34, 86 and 129) will be displayed in the refurbished TV room.

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 I have thoroughly enjoyed my first two terms as President and I am very grateful to all the staff, Fellows and students who have helped me and all the SSCSU officers over the year. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has participated in the Students’ Union and wish the leavers best of luck for the future. Ellen Brookes, SSCSU President 2012

May Ball 2012 On Wednesday 20 June, the buildings and gardens of the College once again played host to a May Ball, with this year’s event having a Mexican-inspired ‘Cinco de Mayo’ theme. Over 1,200 guests, comprising students, staff and Fellows from Sidney as well as students from other colleges, attended the ninehour spectacular, which although not officially reviewed in the student press received rave reviews from its guests, upholding Sidney’s reputation as the hidden jewel of the May Week calendar. On entry through the Classical Gate, guests were greeted by a colourful flag installation and a champagne reception – an indication that Sidney’s characteristic blend of fun and sophistication would be present throughout the evening.

student life As they walked through the gardens, guests were met by a vast array of food and drink – from empanadas to churros, cocktails to bubble tea – enjoyed in beautifully decorated surroundings, including a tree filled with brightly lacquered ukuleles and authentic Mexican bunting, or papel picado, strewn high above Cloister Court. The Master’s Lodge, meanwhile, had a series of phenomenal light shows projected on to it, a highlight for many guests. Hall Court was overseen by two looming Mexican sugar skulls hung from the Master’s Lodge, while Chapel Court became the lost city of El Dorado, with gold-themed furniture, and a (chocolate) gold coin or two washed down with a freshly-made margarita from Cleo Rocos and the Tequila Society. The ball also hosted arguably the biggest musical headliner of any event this year as American superstar Kelis took to the main stage for a rousing set featuring her own hits interspersed with covers of acts from Madonna to Nirvana. For many, though, the highlights were some of Sidney’s own up-and-coming musicians, including Jon and Steph, Alistair Cowan and perennial May Ball favourites, Joyshop. Many thought the spectacle of 2010’s Venetian canal could not be topped, but guests on the night could be heard saying that this ball succeeded in doing so. Here’s hoping the 2014 event continues the trend. Jack Scannell, Sidney Sussex May Ball President 2011–12

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Sidney’s annual public reading competition, founded in memory of our late bursar, Charles Larkum, was held this year on 19 October 2011 in the Audit Room of the Master’s Lodge. I was joined in judging the competition by the other English Fellows, Professor Christopher Page and Clive Wilmer, and Dr Janice Stargardt, Fellow in Archaeology and Anthropology. It has also been our practice to invite a special guest judge from outside the College, and this year we were delighted to have the well-loved poet Wendy Cope on the panel. Wendy’s latest collection, Family Values, was published by Faber in 2011. Each of the contestants was asked to read a few stanzas from Edward Fitzgerald’s superlative translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, as well as a piece of their own choosing, in the first round. The judges then selected a shortlist of finalists, who were given only a few minutes to look over Philip Larkin’s poem ‘Wedding Wind’ before reading it out to the assembled audience.

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 After a lengthy conference, the judges awarded chief honours (and a cheque for £95) to Merrilees Harris, a graduate student who is reading for a PhD in English, whose reading of the poems (and of her chosen passage from Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey) was pitch-perfect. Secondary honours were given to Emily Parton (a third-year historian), Jonas Caballero (a graduate student in Middle Eastern Studies), and Ami Jones (a second-year English student). Each of these students received a cheque for £15. Before the contestants and judges retired to the hall to dine together, we were treated to a reading by Wendy Cope. She gave us her own uproarious parody of the Rubáiyát from her celebrated collection Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, which sees the hapless poet Jake Strugnell try to bring the splendour of the Eastern divan to the London suburb of Tulse Hill. Sidney English students were also treated to a session with Wendy Cope on writing and reading poetry the following week. Next year will see a slight change in the arrangements for the Reading Competition. While the event has traditionally been held at the very beginning of the academic year and has provided a welcome opportunity to mingle with new arrivals, we have decided to experiment in the coming year by making the competition part of the Sidney Arts Festival, which is tentatively scheduled for 22 June 2013. We hope to continue our fine run of celebrity judges (who in the past have included Sidney novelist Rupert Thomson and Cambridge novelists Zadie Smith and Rebecca Stott) and, by holding the event at the Arts Festival, give even more Sidney members the chance to enjoy the radio voices of tomorrow in their first flourish. Edward Wilson-Lee, Fellow in English

Continuing the Research of Professor Fred Shotton [Editor’s Note: Our newest Geography PhD student, Sebastian Gibson, plans to extend the extensive and seminal work of Professor Frederick William Shotton (1906–90).]

Shotton was an outstanding Quaternary geologist, a Fellow of the Royal Society and the President of the Geological Society of London 1964–66. He gained a scholarship in 1924 to read Natural Sciences at Sidney and was awarded First-Class Honours in Geology in 1927. After a period at the University of Birmingham, he returned to Cambridge in 1936 as a lecturer in Geology.

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student life Subsequently he was appointed the Sorby Professor of Geology at the University of Sheffield in 1945 and in 1949 the Lapworth Professor of Geology at the University of Birmingham, a post he held until his retirement. Under his tenure the Birmingham department hosted the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1956–74, which later became the British Antarctic Survey, based here in Cambridge, although Shotton turned down the opportunity to return to Cambridge as the Woodwardian Professor of Geology. Professor Shotton was also a distinguished military geologist. He was deployed Sebastian Gibson carrying out as geologist at the General Headquarters of fieldwork in Scotland the British Middle East forces in 1941, where he was responsible for groundwater supplies and all road construction. Back in Britain, he advised on the Allied D-Day landings in Normandy, focusing on beach conditions and the suitability of ground in Normandy for rapid advancement of the war effort. After the war his connection with the military continued and between 1955 and 1970 he served as Geology Advisor to the Ministry of Defence. In 1927, while still an undergraduate, Shotton read a paper to the Geological Society of London on the complexities of Lower Palaeozoic rocks in the Pennines. In the same year he published his first work on the West Midlands, accounting details of the conglomerates east of Coventry. In 1929, he published a number of field sketches and maps of the ‘superficial’ (Quaternary) glacial deposits around Coventry in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. This interest in the ‘superficial’ deposits challenged him for the rest of his academic career. The paper critical to my PhD research is Shotton’s seminal paper of 1953, ‘The Pleistocene deposits of the area between Coventry, Rugby and Leamington and their bearing upon the topographic development of the Midlands’, published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. The paper was an enormous undertaking: exposures of sediments were limited to working quarries only, which meant that Fred Shotton (supported by students, family and friends) had to undertake extensive auger boreholing (hand-held corer) investigations across the entire area. His descriptions of fieldwork have

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Fred Shotton (left) at Waverley Wood Quarry, holding a straight elephant tooth

stood the test of time. Shotton was able to describe clearly depths, locations and sediment logs. No work this extensive and detailed has been conducted in the area since. He established the western limits of the penultimate glaciation, which he termed the Wolstonian, when ice sheets covered Britain extensively 350,000–150,000 years ago from Birmingham across to northern Norfolk. Professor Jim Rose and colleagues at the University of London have challenged his interpretations of the Wolstonian and equated it to the greatest glaciation seen in the British Isles, the earlier Anglian event, dating from around 450,000 years ago. They indirectly correlate the Wolstonian to the Anglian by suggesting, first, that the chalk and mineral content of glacial deposits of Anglian age in East Anglia are significantly similar to glacial deposits in the Wolstonian sequence in the West Midlands. Second, an ancient river containing bunter pebbles in East Anglia is deposited below Anglian-age sediments, which correlate in the West Midlands to the bunter pebble beds below Wolstonian sediments. They conclude that the Wolstonian was merely a later advance of the older and more extensive glaciation. In 1983, Professor Shotton defended his interpretation, in Quaternary Science Reviews, but since the 1980s the complexities of the glacial sediments in the West Midlands around Birmingham and Coventry have been all but forgotten.

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student life Now with my PhD research we can once again directly examine Professor Shotton’s extensive fieldwork. I plan to do this in two ways: first, as a Consortium Member of the British Geological Survey (BGS). The Survey’s Information in Three Dimensions (GSI3D) software uses an archive of over 40,000 borehole record data sets, along with the latest digital elevation models and geology digimaps. GSI3D allows for a 3D map of all the ‘superficial’ deposits in my area to be modelled, correlated and stratigraphically bound. GSI3D is part of a wider BGS project to develop a digital 3D model of the British Isles by 2014 to help academia and industry alike have an accurate understanding of the sediment structures below our feet. GSI3D elegantly shows complex sediment correlations and will allow me to demonstrate whether the West Midlands Quaternary glacial deposits correlate to the older glaciations, as advocated by Professor Rose, or reconfirm Professor Shotton’s earlier interpretations. Second, I agree with Shotton that nothing shows you more about the glacial environment than extensive fieldwork. My techniques are similar to his, but our understanding of the wider climatic influences has increased vastly. For example, we now know the Wolstonian was likely to have been between 250,000 and 180,000 years ago. I will be taking full advantage of the quarries across the area, as well as access to exposures that the construction industry produces as they arise. Developments such as the High Speed 2 railway between London and Birmingham could be hugely beneficial to my research across the area. Subject to funding, geochronological techniques of optical stimulated luminescence (dating of the quartz age in sands) and cosmogenic dating (dating rock exposure age), tools not available to Shotton, will be used to measure the dating and correlation of erosion and deposition of sediment sequences across the area. Sebastian Gibson

College Sports Clubs and Societies ■■ The Allen Society (Mathematics Society) It has been yet another successful year for the Allen Society. In addition to having two outstanding guest speakers, we were also able to host two dining events to go along with their talks and, together with the Natural Scientists, co-hosted an entertaining garden party at the end of the year. For our first talk, we were privileged to welcome Professor Imre Leader of Trinity College as our speaker and guest for the Annual Dinner, which this year

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 took place in Michaelmas Term. His talk was entitled ‘Think of a big number’ and described successful attempts and strategies for winning the simple game of writing down a bigger number than your opponent. In Lent Term we were joined by another great speaker and one of the most renowned contemporary young mathematicians: Professor Ben Green. Famous for his work in number theory and combinatorics, he decided to take us on a fascinating excursion through the contradictoriness of the Banach–Tarsky paradox. This states that it is possible to cut a ball into pieces and reassemble those pieces in such a way that two balls identical to the first one are created without deforming the pieces. At the start of the academic year, a mailing list for the Allen Society was created to which all current mathematicians at Sidney have automatically been added. Of course, we also welcome alumni and would like to keep in touch. If you are interested in attending our events or simply want to know how we are doing, please contact Dr Julius Ross (jar62@cam.ac.uk) or Dr Berry Groisman (bg268@cam.ac.uk) to join the mailing list. We welcome Tom Seddon and Alex Ward as our new joint Presidents, and wish them all the best for the year ahead. Adam Jowett and Jan Wollmann, Presidents

student life downturn. This provoked much lively discussion, which was continued after dinner over glasses of port. Kate Snow, ARES President

■■ Badminton Sidney’s badminton club has now established itself in the College League as a force to be reckoned with. Almost all players of the successful 2011 season stayed, but one of our core players started to play for the Light Blues and so was no longer eligible to play all the College League matches for us. We managed to fill the gap in the team with freshers, and, strengthened in this way, started where last year’s team left us: in Division 3 (of nine). The goal for Michaelmas was to build on the great progress of previous years and gain further promotion. After a series of well-played matches, we finished top of our division and were promoted to Division 2 during Lent Term

■■ Austin Robinson Economics Society (ARES) This year Cambridge has welcomed a number of renowned economists, including Nobel Prize winner Peter Diamond, famous for his work on search and matching theory in the labour market. Professor Diamond gave this year’s Marshall lectures, ‘Time Matters’, discussing a range of topics from theoretical modelling to the current regulatory and debt problems. ARES also had the pleasure of welcoming Professor Yanis Varoufakis, a prominent Greek economist, who gave a very interesting talk on the underlying causes of the current crisis, giving a longer-term view on the recent turbulence. This was followed by an informal dinner with supervisors and students. The last event of the year was the annual dinner, when we had the pleasure of welcoming Professor Christopher Bliss from Oxford. This event brings together all the Sidney economists and supervising Fellows to mark all the hard work put in throughout the year. Professor Bliss gave a fascinating talk, beginning with a brief discussion of the life of Austin Robinson himself, who played a major role in establishing today’s Economics faculty on the Sidgwick site, and moving on to discuss the 1930s depression and the links to the current

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 for the first time in many years. This was quite a challenge for us, and we ended up taking some very narrow and unlucky defeats, but in the end managed to stay in. The only disappointment this year came from the Cuppers competition. Being able to field three University players, we should have been a favourite to win the competition. Unfortunately, this was ignored by the organisers, so that we met Girton, the eventual winners and only other team to field three University players, at a very early stage. Our match against them ended 2–1, 2–1, 3–0 (to Girton); the first two games were particularly close and fantastic to watch, which almost compensated for losing the match overall. In the end, we were the team closest to defeating Girton, and with better seeding we could have made it into the final rounds, which would have reflected Sidney’s current strength much better. The regular training sessions have been well attended and since we began to book three courts instead of two, downtime for players has been kept to a minimum. Sidney also entered a second team in the Open College League in Lent Term, but due to attendance problems they did not play all their games. I want to thank Alex Ward for his efforts as captain of the second team, nonetheless. Finally, I welcome Marcus Parlasca as our new captain, and wish him and the team the best for the year ahead. Jan Wollmann, Captain

student life The men experimented with a squad system, mixing up crews and occasionally inviting the most promising novices up into the squad to receive some rowing master classes. This was accompanied by a fully integrated approach to land training, pioneered by then men’s captain Nick Taylor, which took full advantage of the new Sidney gym in Sussex House. As usual, Michaelmas is the term when we invite new members to the club for novicing and this year we managed to field four men’s and three women’s boats. Unlike most years, we also had quite a large intake of graduate MPhil students.

Lent Lent Term is well known for its poor and unpredictable weather conditions. It was so cold this year that the river froze over for a very long period and many of the lower boats could not get enough water outings before Bumps. Several offCam races were cancelled and as a result the men only raced Pembroke Regatta and Lent Bumps. The women did get a chance to row off-Cam, however, at the Norwich head, where they finished with a respectable 8:40 minutes 2 km. Sidney’s W1 at Plough Reach in the May Bumps

■■ Boat Club Gale force winds, flooding, swans and sheet ice have beleaguered the Cam this year, but rowers, coxes and coaches always seem to find a way to get a good outing in between and make some positive changes. Meanwhile, we have managed to send two rowers up to University-level rowing and there are several promising individuals from our novice intake.

Michaelmas The women’s side welcomed the arrival of a new, much-needed IV+, The St. George, which replaced Cambelles. The boat was named on 26 November 2011 by Stephen and Sarah Riley, who had won naming rights at the auction held during the 2010 Alumni Dinner. Throughout the rest of the term, the women used The St. George continually, to supplement their eights training, which proved a success when it came to the Fairbairns Cup at the end of term.

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■■ The Chorley Society (Geography Society)

Naming the new women’s IV+ (Stephen and Sarah Riley centre)

This year the Chorley Society has gone from strength to strength, hosting several events in which students, Fellows and alumni heard from academics about their latest research and had the opportunity to ask further questions at Formal Hall afterwards. We started the year with a fascinating talk from Dr Fiona McConnell on her research into statehood and the Tibetan government in exile in India. The wide appeal of this talk drew a varied mix of humanities students, giving a geographical perspective on the issue. In our second event of Michaelmas Term, Dr Catherine Sumnall joined us to discuss her PhD, which examined attitudes towards illegitimate births in Austria during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This was a particularly enjoyable event as Catherine studied at Sidney as an undergraduate and as a PhD student, and had helped interview many of the students who were present at the event. Lent Term began with a talk from Sidney PhD student Sebastian Gibson who gave us a greater insight into what is involved in doing a PhD, as well as speaking about the rigours of research in physical geography. His work on

Lent Bumps were particularly gruelling for both sides of the club, including a broken ankle in M1 the week before. Thanks to some excellent subs we all managed a number of very strong but exhausting bumps and row-overs and a bit of snakes and ladders from the men’s side.

Easter By far the best term to row all year, Easter culminates with the greatest set of races rowing has to offer. This year’s May Bumps saw four men’s and three women’s boats take to the water and all lower boats got onto the bumps charts. Despite several major setbacks – including losing a rudder in a race, several senior rowers dropping out from injury and a crew member in W1 having to drop out halfway through Bumps due to illness – all of our boats pulled through and gave performances of which they could be proud. We consistently put out a large number of boats for the size of our College; in our 175th year (the Boat Club was founded in 1837) the club continues to feature as a central part of College life. Special thanks go to all graduating rowers who are moving on to pastures new, and who have contributed their time, dedication and a great many laughs to the club. Daniel Worrall, Captain of the Boats 2012

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The Chorley Society, 2012, with Dr Janice M. Stargardt (centre), Dr David Beckingham (second from left) and Dr Iain Black (second from right)

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 glacial sedimentology broadened the theme of this year’s events to incorporate the more scientific side of geographical study (see p. 111). At the Annual Dinner we were honoured to welcome Professor Richard Dennis, a former Sidney student and a renowned academic in the field of urban historical geography, as our guest speaker. His talk was a fitting end to a busy term, and a great opportunity to invite alumni back to see that geography at Sidney continues to thrive. For our final event of Lent Term we invited former student and Fellow of the College, Professor Derek Gregory, to talk about his latest work. This event drew interest not just from Chorley Society members but from geographers across the University who were privileged to hear and meet such an influential geographer. The year was completed with a Garden Party (although due to the weather the gardens were very much off limits). This was a bitter-sweet event; while it gave us an opportunity to get together and congratulate the finalists on an excellent set of results, we also had to bid farewell to Dr Iain Black who will be moving to Clare Hall in the next academic year. We will certainly miss having him as our Director of Studies but I’m certain he will still be a regular attendee at Chorley Society events in the future. Noami Cohen-Lask, Chorley Society President

■■ Confraternitas Historica In 2011–12, Confrat enjoyed its highest attended lecture series to date and continued to help make History at Sidney a community rather than simply a course of study. Keeping with tradition and starting the programme with a Sidney Fellow, we were delighted to welcome former Director of Studies Dr Helen Castor back to Confrat to talk to us about her book She-Wolves, which examines the lives of five queens who had great influence in England before Elizabeth I. Her talk was particularly apposite given that the Guardian, Times and a lengthy list of other newspapers had recently listed She-Wolves among their ‘books of the year’. Confrat favourite Dr David Beckingham delivered our next talk on ‘Alcohol and the Archive’, complete with a PowerPoint animation demonstrating how it was possible for people to evade the police in pubs in the Victorian age. The Michaelmas Term lectures ended with a panel discussion on ‘What has bound Jewish communities together throughout history, and how has this contributed to ideas of the Jewish nation?’ Dr Philip Wood (Sidney) and

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student life Dr Anna Abulafia (Lucy Cavendish) contributed, drawing on their research in the Medieval period. Dr Adam Sutcliffe (King’s College, London) spoke about Jewish identity during the Enlightenment and Professor David Feldman (Birkbeck, University of London) discussed nineteenth-century ideas of a Jewish homeland. Finally, just before the Christmas vacation, we held the Undergraduate Dissertation Night – a part of the Confrat programme that harks back to a time when all the papers were read by undergraduates. Emily Parton enlightened us about Mesoamerican contributions to cartography by giving an interactive presentation of the beautiful fifteenth- to eighteenth-century maps on which she had been working. Heather Berry delighted us with stories of her summer wanderings around the graveyards of Cambridge for her dissertation on gravestones and the functions of literacy in early modern England. George Roberts analysed the events and rationale behind British relations with Idi Amin and Uganda between 1971 and 1979. After Christmas, Professor Dominic Lieven (LSE) kicked off our Lent Term programme, revisiting his 1983 study of Russia and the origins of the First World War. Professor Lieven entertained us with a number of vignettes from the archive, although perhaps his most memorable revelation was that, as a child, he had gone through his aristocratic, nineteenth-century, Russian greataunt’s papers to discover she had engaged in romantic liaisons with Prince Metternich. Following this was the 102nd Confrat Annual Dinner. Our guest this year was Professor John Robertson (Clare) who gave a highly interesting after-dinner speech. Professor Rosamond McKitterick gave the in-house speech, bringing with her a bundle of sources that illuminated student life in Cambridge over the past 900 years. Two evenings later the society met again as 90 people packed out the Mong

Dr Fulda and the Princeps check the score in Germany v. Italy during Graduation Dinner

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 Hall to listen to Professor Odd Arne Westad (LSE), the world’s leading historian on the global Cold War. The talk he gave to Confrat concentrated on Chinese international relations since 1750. The culmination of the particularly modern feel to the Lent programme was reached with Dr Glen Rangwala (Trinity), a political scientist who placed the Arab Spring in its historical context. Dr Rangwala also raised interesting points about the interaction of political science with history, particularly significant as political scientists, as well as Hosni Mubarak, did not see the revolution in Egypt coming. Although there were no meetings in Easter Term, the Confrat committee was invited to help Professor Tim Blanning celebrate his seventieth birthday with the unveiling of a distinctive portrait of him in the Master’s Lodge. Finally, with the maelstrom of Tripos revision and exams finally over, we gathered for perhaps the most eagerly anticipated Confrat event of the year: the annual Fellows versus students football match at the start of May Week. This was won convincingly by the Fellows, bringing the all-time score to 2–1 in their favour, although it was noted that Dr Fulda’s team contained a distinct lack of historians. The curtain on the Confrat year was then brought down with strawberries and Pimms on a rare sunny May Week evening in Sidney gardens. Kenton Whitehall, Princeps 2011–12

student life only six wickets to play with useful contributions from Agate (14) and Roberts (17) steadied the innings before Reid (33*) and honorary Sidney player for the day, Powell (27), accelerated at the end to give Girton a target of 115 off 20 overs. Wickets fell at regular points throughout the innings with Agate (1–15) and Powell (1–27) providing the early breakthroughs before spin-twins Roberts (2–14) and Teskey (2–20) attempted to slow the run rate in the middle overs. Despite some fantastic fielding, it was always going to be a challenge with just seven in the field and Girton reached their target with two balls remaining, edging off the unlucky Tripathi past the diving Roberts at fly-slip. It was, nonetheless, a fantastic effort to force the match into the final over. Despite the lack of matches, it has been an absolute pleasure to captain Sidney and I wish the new captain, Ameya Tripathi, all the best for next year, while keeping my fingers crossed for some drier weather. Chris Teskey, Captain 2011–12

■■ Darts Following a Sidney victory in the University darts league last year, it was a great shame that no league was formed this year that would allow Sidney’s dartists to retain their crown. Instead, the highlight of the Sidney Darts Club’s

■■ Cricket The wet weather has dominated this cricket season and the large amount of rain during the Cuppers’ qualifying period meant that Sidney was knocked out without playing a game. In fact, no matches were played in our group by any team and it was only poor availability in the week before exams (an extension to the original schedule of matches due to the weather) that saw us exit, disappointingly having to concede one match. Nevertheless, there has been a good spirit among Sidney cricketers, with training sessions well attended. New faces such as Tripathi and Kenny provide some hope for the coming years and together with the likes of Singer and Stephenson must attempt the difficult task of replacing seasoned veterans Agate, Roberts, Reid and Phelps, who will be sorely missed. Just one match was possible, during May Week, in which a Sidney team short on numbers made the long trip north to Girton. Renewing their opening partnership, the hard-hitting Agate and Teskey started quickly before Teskey fell LBW for 10. Stephenson hit a few good shots before finding long-on but with

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 season was two matches against a select team of porters, College staff and Fellows captained by Maurice Flack. The first match took place in Sidney Bar in Lent Term and the students ran out as convincing winners, although there were notable performances from Keith ‘The Party Wizard’ Willox and Suzanne Flack who ran next year’s Darts President Ed Linford extremely close in their singles match-up. After weeks of bragging, the student team finally agreed to a rematch, which took place in Easter Term. In this match Maurice was victorious against Hank ‘The Tank’ Englander, and a strong performance in the doubles by returning Fellow Richard Flower and Colin Roberts was enough to see off Linford and Liam ‘The Tzar’ Agate. However, in the end it was not enough to stop the students running out victorious for a second time and cementing their place as the undisputed Champions of Sidney 2012. It is hoped that these matches will continue in the future and perhaps one day Maurice will lead his team to victory. Liam Agate, Sidney Darts Club President 2010–12

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Sidney footballers: back row (l–r) James Yianni, Connor Toal, Joe Bourne and Pete Kenny; front row (l–r) Josh Brunert, Tom Elliott, Matt Lubel

■■ Football The Sidney Football Team enjoyed a mixed season, which, despite early promise and a healthy influx of fresher talent, resulted in a mid-table finish and semi-final defeat in the Plate competition. The team actually got off to a great start with convincing victories over Trinity, Johns and Trinity Hall IIs, seeing Sidney touted as early title and promotion candidates. However, a series of frustrating 1–0 losses to inferior sides, and the performance of a very strong Caius team, soon dashed hopes of promotion and it will be down to next year’s very talented squad to achieve the promotion they merit. An exciting game saw us knocked out of Cuppers in the first round against Division 1 Selwyn where, despite going 2–0 up in the first five minutes, the side was unable to hang on to cause the upset. In the Plate competition a quarter-final victory against CCCC set up a semi-final match with Corpus, a game we lost on penalties after neither team could break the deadlock after 120 minutes. This year’s Ayodele Fajuyigbe Testimonial Shield was won by the fresher team who beat the thirdyear Spooners in the final. While the Spooners will be disappointed never to have won the title, having previously been beaten in the final and semi-final, the players can at least be content that Sidney football has a bright future ahead with the likes of Player of the Year Matt Lubel and Golden Boot winner Joe Bourne back next year under the captaincy of Matt Songi. Finally, acknowledgement must be given to those players who played their final games for Sidney

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this year. George Roberts (vice-captain), Ross Baker, Toby Ankers, Gwil TudorJones, Tom Allcock and Liam Agate lead the exodus of defensive players from the squad, while we also say goodbye to Sidney II stalwarts Andrew Hunter and Gellért Bokor. Liam Agate, Captain 2011–12

■■ Hockey Outfitted with new dazzlingly orange kit, provided at the end of the previous hockey season, and with an influx of new blood, Sidney hockey began the 2011–12 season optimistically. In Michaelmas Term, the semi-regular training sessions initially had high numbers (followed by inevitable dwindling of both people and sessions towards the latter end of term) and there looked to be some promise of mediocre success for the team. This initial optimism was quickly replaced with an unfortunate air of failure, as Sidney seemed unable to find a win. This is not to say it was all bad, however, as the results often did not really reflect the nature of the matches, which were frequently close-fought affairs with Sidney performing well as a team. What was lacking most fundamentally, though, was the ability to produce goals on demand. This problem was rectified to some extent towards the end of the season with the introduction of a skilled Dutch graduate student, as

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 well as some other notable temporary players to produce a well-deserved 4–2 victory against St John’s College to finish the term on a high (and more importantly, above the bottom of the division). Lent Term’s hockey was undertaken with enthusiasm, although some unfortunate proceedings meant we underperformed and failed to clinch some of the closer matches. Despite the results (and some of the painful score lines) Sidney developed as a team, putting out some solid performances and finding those elusive goals. Alas, there was little success in terms of wins, primarily due to the catastrophic problem of having no goalkeeper on several occasions. The team put up a valiant effort whenever this scenario arose but there is only so much that can be done before the opposition gets a lucky shot on goal. Ross Baker, the previous captain, again proved an invaluable member of the hockey team alongside the skills of the Dutch Laurens duo (who we suspect were attracted by the bright orange shirts), especially the grad who had only a loose affiliation with Sidney. The commitment of several other members of the team (particularly those who turned out for an especially wet training session) was admirable and I thank them for it as it is they who enabled the full turnout of (at least) 11 players for each and every match. The absence of Andrew Hayward, Tom Elliot and Harry Savell from the majority of the games was lamentable, and we missed their respective skills; I hope that next year they may be able to find more time. Altogether an underwhelming year for Sidney hockey, though I look forward to next year’s season with anticipation, as we try to drag Sidney out of the depths of the league. Anthony Stephenson, Captain 2011–12

■■ Ladies’ Netball The past year has seen unprecedented levels of progress and achievement for Sidney Sussex Ladies’ Netball Club (SSLNC). Our team has grown in size and in skill, with regular training sessions led by a member of the University team providing a platform for team development and more advanced technique and strategy. The Club won its division in Michaelmas Term, with a 100 per cent win rate broken only at our final game against Robinson. Lent Term saw the newly promoted club finding its feet within a tougher division, leading to a mid-table finish. SSLNC embarked upon a ten-day USA tour in August. The team and I were extremely excited about this fantastic opportunity to establish links with

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student life American clubs and build up our own skills. I would like to thank Nick Allen and David Graves for their help in enabling the club to secure and make full use of the Parry Dutton fund for this trip. I have thoroughly enjoyed my role as Captain and I hope that the endeavour to strengthen the position of female sport within Sidney has a lasting impact on College life. Women throughout College, at any level, are encouraged to join us; the best things about the team are that we have bonded so well and it is truly a fun experience. I would like to thank all the players for their effort and enthusiasm. I have utmost faith that my successors Aimee Hutchinson and Charlotte Best will lead our club towards further success next year. Kristy Duru, Captain 2011–12

■■ Law Society The past year has been a busy one for the Sidney Sussex Law Society, delivering a fantastic and varied set of events throughout the year. During Michaelmas Term we played host to Judge Peter Murphy who gave a lecture entitled ‘International Criminal Justice: a help or hindrance to international peace and security?’ Judge Murphy spent over a decade at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, so this invaluable first-hand account of international criminal law ensured a captivated audience. In Lent Term, the annual Law Society dinner provided a thoroughly enjoyable evening, while also delighting the taste buds of those who attended. This year’s dinner was kindly sponsored by Hogan Lovells, Clifford Chance and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Representatives from these firms attended the meal to ensure that students left with an improved understanding of life as a lawyer in the City. Winner of The Lawyer’s ‘Partner of the Year’ award for 2011, Mark Rawlinson (1976) was the guest speaker for the event. With amusing anecdotes aplenty, he fondly recounted the highlights of his time spent at Sidney in a highly entertaining talk. Later in the term, Sidney law students had the pleasure of attending a debate between Dr Francesco Messineo from the University of Kent and Dr Marko Milanovic from the University of Nottingham. The discussion was based on the recent judgement of the International Court of Justice on the jurisdictional immunities of the state. The extremely entertaining and lively discussion provided a useful recap of important recent case law in this area. During Easter Term the annual Thornely Society lecture was held at the offices of Ince & Co in London. In an interesting and thought-provoking talk,

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 the guest speaker Dr Eva Nanopolous discussed the validity of the European Court’s ability to scrutinise the competence of freezing orders issued by the United Nations. In May, Michael Young, a Sidney alumnus and partner at Allen & Overy, returned to the College to discuss his international arbitration experience with the law graduates and third years. The Sidney Sussex Law Society has a tradition of holding moots for each year group of the College’s undergraduate lawyers. We are very grateful to Allen & Overy, Hogan Lovells and Henderson Chambers for sponsoring this year’s moots, and supporting them with their attendance and participation. I would like to congratulate last year’s committee on a great series of events and look forward to the remainder of my time as President and to another year of a social and active Law Society. Nicole Phillips, President

■■ Mixed Lacrosse The lacrosse team started the season well, with a number of new faces representing the College at the start of the Michaelmas Term. Jeremy Toyn and Ant Stephenson were quick to get their names on the score sheet, scoring goals against competitive Magdalene and Girton teams to clock up the first two wins. After a narrow 1–0 defeat to Christ’s, the side finished off the term well with a 2–0 win over St John’s to take second place in the league. In Lent Term, the snow and frozen ground meant that only two matches were played. The team beat Magdalene again, but lost to John’s. I would like to thank Ant Stephenson and James Sheldon, who played every match, for their dedication and enthusiasm, having only started playing lacrosse regularly this year. Other regular representatives of the team were Emily Iliffe, Georgie Thompson, David Liao and Georgia Ehrman. I hand the captaincy over to Georgia Ehrman, and wish her all the best next year, to continue improving the side and hopefully gain promotion to division two. Virginia Fellows, Captain 2011–12

■■ RAG Committee This year has been a huge success for the Sidney RAG committee. At the last count, the College had raised just under £8,000 for the ten RAG charities, putting us in second place out of all of the colleges. This has been achieved

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student life through individual efforts, participation in events such as Jailbreak and Blind Date, and events organised within Sidney. One of the most successful of these was the sponsored 24-hour cycle which took place in Michaelmas Term. This event raised over £500 with staff and students taking turns on the exercise bikes, which had been moved to the TV room for the occasion. We have also had two successful music nights with live bands playing to a crowded Sidney bar. With a range of genres from funk to folk there was something for everyone and, as well as making a considerable Ken Whitehall on a RAG ‘raid’ amount for charity, it was a great opportunity to hear the musical talents of Sidney students. One of our more ambitious projects was the Sidney Naked Calendar. Having convinced 12 different societies to strip off we sold over 150 calendars, which can be seen adorning many rooms around College. Our final event of the year was a quiz night held in Hall. The evening brought out the competitive side not just from the students but from staff and Fellows as well. Despite valiant efforts from the Bookwyrms led by Alan Stevens and a Fellows’ Team led by Colin Roberts, in the end a student team of finalists was victorious. Alongside these organised events Sidney students have also been involved in raising money on the streets of Cambridge on weekly ‘raids’. This means grabbing a bucket and often some fancy dress and heading out into town to raise as much money as possible in an hour. From the Poppy Appeal to the NSPCC, Sidney students have raised hundreds of pounds through this simple yet effective method. As one of the smaller colleges, Sidney has punched well above its weight this year and the committee was rewarded with a trophy for the most improved college. This was not only down to the time and effort of the committee but also the enthusiasm and generosity of the whole College who we must thank for singing, cycling and stripping their way to make thousands of pounds for some very deserving charities. Noami Cohen-Lask and Liam Agate

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■■ Rugby Union The rugby season started earlier than usual for SSCRUFC with a two-week tour to the East Coast of America in September. With wins over teams from Columbia and Yale Universities, the 2011–12 season held a lot of promise. Having had a tour to blow away the cobwebs, and a good intake of new players, the Sidney squad started the campaign for promotion strongly with a convincing win over Catz, which included tries from many of the freshers. The team’s success continued with a narrow 12–10 victory over Fitzwilliam. This left Sidney as the only unbeaten team in our league. The following match was the return fixture away to Fitzwilliam and saw the winning streak come to an end as we managed to battle for a draw. It was a tackle in this match that brought John Hopkins’ season to a premature end as he broke his jaw saving an almost certain try. The following two matches saw a string of injuries and two defeats.

student life Despite a narrow victory away at Girton in our final match of term, SSCRUFC fell one point short of promotion. There was still a positive to be taken from Michaelmas Term as SSCRUFC successfully defended the Wallace-Hadrill shield in the annual match played between Sidney and our sister college from Oxford, St John’s. Despite St John’s leading at half time, the Sidney team fought back to win 14–12 and retain the title, which has been held by SSCRUFC since the tournament began. The team will travel to Oxford next season to try and maintain their unbeaten record in the annual fixture. The bad weather early in 2012 meant that rugby was very limited in Lent Term. There were no league matches played and only two Cuppers matches in which Sidney were eventually knocked out by Homerton. This final match of the season was to be the annual fixture between SSCRUFC and the Old Boys, where both teams would fight it out to win the Dashwood Cup. The fixture has been dominated by the Old Boys over the past few years and I’m sad to report that this year was no different. SSCRUFC started brightly and scored first but were unable to hold on to the early lead and eventually the Old Boys came through and won convincingly. In conclusion, it was another season of promise for Sidney but promotion must wait for another year. I must pay special thanks to our leavers this year who have given a lot to the club throughout their time at Sidney and we look forward to seeing many of them return to compete in the Dashwood Cup next year. It also gives me great pleasure to introduce Mark Jamison as next year’s Captain, Josh Brunert as Vice-Captain and Pete Kenny as Social Secretary. After a highly enjoyable season we hope we will experience more success in the coming season and finally win the battle for promotion. Edward Linford, SSCRUFC Captain 2011–12

■■ Stephenson Society (Engineering)

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The Stephenson Society has had yet another successful year of well-attended talks. As has become traditional over the last few years, we started off with a light-hearted pizza evening at Newnham College, where the newest StephSoc members got to meet the rest of the society. The first serious meeting of the academic year was a talk on the Desertec Concept, delivered by a former Cambridge undergraduate, Dr Gerry Wolff. He presented the idea of a pan-European and North African energy grid, aimed at tackling the imminent energy crisis. Second on the list was Peter Erlanger

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student life honoured to have as our guest speaker the technical director of Formula One McLaren, Paddy Lowe. An ex-Sidneyite and an extremely accomplished engineer, Paddy took us through some of his exciting experiences after leaving Sidney and on a semi-technical tour of some of the most influential technological leaps in the racing industry, with an unexpected and interesting deviation into the manufacture of tin cans and ketchup bottles. Organising and attending the Stephenson Society talks this year has been a thoroughly rewarding experience and I wish all the best to the new secretaries of the society, Emma Clement (Newnham) and John Hobbs (Sidney), who I am sure will make a significant contribution to the further success of the society. Daniel Worrall, Secretary, 2011–12

■■ Wilson Society (Natural Sciences)

Left to right: Dr John Longley, Professor Keith Glover and Stephenson Society President Christopher Pyatt

of SKM Australia, who presented a thoroughly interesting and well-received talk on the practicalities and issues surrounding the supply of fresh water to Australians in the region around Adelaide. To round off the term, Robin Stafford Allen, from the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, delivered what was by far the best talk of the entire year on the topic of nuclear fusion reactors, how they work, what we are doing now and the cutting-edge scientific and technological issues surrounding this potentially planet-saving technology. Lent Term would have begun with a talk on the Crossrail project in London; however, to our misfortune that had to be cancelled and the society President, Fellow Commoner Chris Pyatt, stepped in and gave a fascinating and joke-filled lecture on personal rapid transport. This is an exciting new prospect for the world of personal travel (more information can be found on http://www.ultraglobalprt.com/). The two following talks focused on the area of information and electrical engineering with a picture-filled talk on infrared imaging near and far by Richard Hames of Thermoteknix and a highly accessible talk delivered by Sidney PhD student and supervisor, Rob Weatherup, on his research into growing the electrical super-material graphene. With such a showcase of lecturers, the Annual Dinner could not be delivered by anyone short of a modern engineering legend. We were delighted and

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A busy year for Sidney’s Natural Scientists’ society began with a staple of the society calendar: the freshers’ curry. This is always a great ice-breaker (not to mention an introduction to Cambridge curry houses) and this year was no exception. The society’s termly talks covered a diversity of topics this year, with Dr Chris Doran discussing the application of physical and mathematical principles in revolutionising lighting effects in video games, while Professor John Pyle (Department of Chemistry) gave an interesting and topical evaluation of the state of climate change. I was really pleased to see high attendance at both of these talks. An evening of careers advice for Sidney’s NatScis was also

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 successfully repeated and should remain, I feel, a standard event of the Wilson Society calendar. The highlight of the year for me was the Wilson Society Annual Dinner, at which we were honoured to welcome Nobel Prize winner Professor Sir John Walker to discuss his research. His speech was followed by a lavish fourcourse meal (a big thank you to the Hall staff for this) and rounded off, in true Cambridge style, with lots of port and cheese. The final event of the year saw Sidney’s NatScis herald the beginning of May Week and celebrate the end of exams at the Wilson and Allen Societies Garden Party, where our new committee was elected. It has been another successful year for the Wilson Society and I hope it can continue to maintain the enthusiasm of Sidney’s NatScis. There is little extra time in an already packed Wilson Society calendar, but I would like to think that a relaxed evening of inter-year discussion of course options, for which I was unable to conjure sufficient interest, might one day come to fruition. Perhaps this will be achieved by our next President, Cathy Collett, to whom I warmly wish a successful tenure. Finally, I would like to thank my fantastically supportive committee and the Fellows who aided me with contributions of funding or advice throughout the year. Matthew Griffiths, President 2011–12

■■ Women’s Football 2011–12 has been an exciting year for Sidney Women’s football. For the first time, Sidney and Magdalene teams joined forces and the merger resulted in a full squad of highly enthusiastic players. It has been a pleasure to be a part of the Sidney-Magdalene team, which is made up of complete beginners and seasoned veterans, first years and post-graduate students. Early on in Michaelmas Term, training revealed promising talent. Our beginners displayed natural ability and we all improved significantly throughout the season. In particular, Amy Crothall emerged as a formidable goalkeeper, while Hannah Alderton reached her personal goal of not running away from the ball. Helena Fothergill, Becky Timothy and Kaori Takenaka communicated well up front to secure some impressive goals, while Issy Marks and Tash Faulkner led a solid defensive line. The team’s focus and determination were rewarded in three wins against Selwyn-Robinson (5–0), Jesus II (2–0), and Peterhouse (8–0). Only one narrow

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Sidney Women’s Football: back row (l–r) Lydia Mills, Natasha Faulkner, Helena Fothergill, Amy Crothall, Natalie Smith, Fran Docherty, Hannah Alderton; front row (l–r) Roseanne McGlade, Issy Marks, Lois Overvoorde, Kaori Takenaka, Becky Timothy

defeat against Trinity prevented promotion but we believe that this year has laid the foundations for continued success in the future, led next year by new Captain Lydia Mills. We would like to thank Matt Songi, Mikey Grayling and Matt Liu, who gave their time to help us train. Magdalene Captain Sarah Burkill must also be thanked; it was a pleasure to train, play with and be led by her. We hope that the Sidney-Magdalene connection will continue to flourish and wish the team the best of luck. Kaori Takenaka and Issy Marks, co-Captains 2011–12

■■ Sporting Distinctions 2011–12 (HB half blue UC University colours)

Badminton Ice hockey Judo

Alleck, Amit (HB) Geerts, Jaason (HB) Lawrence, John (UC) Racz, Gergely (HB) Rowing (men) Kernick, Nicolas (HB) Rowing (women) Tallon, Rose (Blondie colours) Trampolining Bertrand, Katie (HB)

Economics Part IIa Education MPhil Clinical Medicine Finalist Engineering PhD Natural Sciences Part Ib Clinical Vet. Medicine Year 1 Vet. Medicine Part II

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College Travel Awards and Reports Each year, the College is in the fortunate position of being able to support its junior members through the distribution of a large number of travel awards. These grants enable our students to visit different lands, experience different cultures and apply their learning and skills beyond what they could otherwise afford. For this, they and the College are extremely grateful to the many benefactors who have built up the Travel Award Fund over successive generations. Demand for the travel awards is high, and each year the Tutors face the unenviable task of choosing the successful candidates from a large number of worthy applicants. In the Easter Term 2012, College travel awards were granted to the following Sidney students: Gérard Boulton Travel Awards Kate Harrison Biological Anthropology (2010) Emily Iliffe Economics (2010) College Travel Awards Roseanne Cope Emily Downes Olivia Duffield John Hopkins Stephanie McAuliffe Anthony Stephenson

Medicine (2010) Modern Languages (2010) Politics, Psychology and Sociology (2010) Engineering (2010) Social Anthropology (2010) Natural Sciences (2010)

Morocco Morocco

India Japan Germany Dubrovnik Germany Morocco

L. A. Hamlyn Travel Award James Sheldon Engineering (2010)

Kilimanjaro

Hentsch Travel Award Kenton Whitehall

History (2009)

Geneva

Otto Smail Travel Award Issy Oon Jon Smith Cheng Xie

Classics (2010) History (2010) Natural Sciences (2009)

Europe Europe Germany

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Parry Dutton Travel Scholarship Jazz Austin Architecture (2011) Hannah Levy Geography (2010)

USA USA

Ratcliffe Travel Awards Ellen Brookes Noami Cohen-Lask Laura Deslandes Katie Hunter

Morocco Italy Morocco Morocco

Natural Sciences (2010) Geography (2010) Geography (2010) English (2010)

Mark Wainwright Memorial Award James Rickenbach Chemical Engineering (2008)

Italy

Wilkinson Travel Award Octavia Pillinger

Chile

Modern Languages (2010)

Over the summer of 2011, 24 Sidney students supported by the College’s travel awards once again travelled far and wide, enjoying a variety of experiences, in turn enriching, challenging, unforgettable and occasionally embarrassing. This left the Tutors with the usual invidious task of selecting, out of so many enjoyable tales, a selection fitting (physically as well as in spirit) for the Annual. Rachel Bonnebaigt (Mathematics 2008, College Travel Award) spent three weeks in India, helping out at the Indian Evangelical Mission Outreach Training Institute and in a children’s hostel ‘where we managed to paint the kitchen, dining room and hallway. As well as just putting on a new coat of paint, we were able to do a colourful border in the dining room and hallway, which all the boys and staff seemed to love! There were no ladders, so to do the ceiling, some of the taller people in our group spent the week standing on barrels, painting the ceiling. Each evening, the girls in our group went to the girls’ hostel, where we spent a few hours telling stories, singing songs, doing games and crafts with the girls. The rest of the trip was spent sightseeing in various places around Karnataka and Tamil Nadu states. We first visited Mysore, where we got to ride an elephant. Next, we went to Pondicherry and Chennai, which are on the coast (and very hot!), so at Chennai, we went paddling in the Indian Ocean. It was great to be able to experience India; it is a trip I will never forget.’

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Ellen Brookes (Natural Sciences 2010, College Travel Award) lived for nearly a month on the Pithecia, a boat moored on the Samaria river in Peru’s Amazonian forest (Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve), two days by boat from the nearest town, alongside 30 undergraduate research assistants, three members of staff and many other creatures, including hundreds of mosquitoes, cockroaches and tarantulas. Rising at 7 a.m. to a traditional breakfast of rice, onions and sardines, Ellen and friends tracked primates such as howler, squirrel and tamarin monkeys, hacked their way with machetes across the jungle in at least 38°C and 90 percent humidity – ‘the heat not helped by the wearing of indispensable and very strong mosquito repellent, as well as thick layers of clothing and wellington boots, to protect against the malaria-carrying mosquitoes and other biting creatures. A river dolphin survey was carried out in the afternoon on a boat driven along two 5-km transects, up and down river. After sunset there was the opportunity to carry out night surveys, looking primarily for caiman or amphibians. Caiman over 80 cm were caught and measured, and their species noted. We also investigated their recent diet, in order to try and establish a cause for the recent decline in caiman numbers.’

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student life Sam Harrison (Engineering 2008, Parry Dutton) had a ‘relatively simple’ plan: ‘Fly to the USA, hire a car and see as much as we could in five and a half weeks.’ After Philadelphia, Washington and the Niagara Falls, ‘the huge drive – 1,400 miles from Chicago to Yellowstone with only Mount Rushmore to break it up. ... We saw wolves, grizzly bears, a brown bear and huge numbers of bison.’ After a stay in Salt Lake City, the travellers enjoyed ‘some absolutely stunning national parks in Utah and Arizona. We spent nearly a week travelling between jaw-dropping canyons before arriving back in civilisation, of a sort, in Las Vegas. Great fun but a completely bizarre place and staggeringly ostentatious. Then into California, the last state of the trip. We drove north along the stunning Pacific coast, wine tasting in Sideways country along the way before dashing inland to Yosemite. It was yet another incredible national park on a grand scale. A quick look at the giant Sequoias nearby, which were absolutely magnificent, before heading to San Francisco, our last stop. A few days exploring there before we had to bid an emotional goodbye to the car and fly home. We saw more than I had even dared to imagine. In the end we drove just over 7,000 miles, visited 14 states and only had to sleep in the car for one night. However, I still haven’t plucked up the courage to visit a fast food chain since I’ve been back in the UK!’ Dan McEvoy (Social Anthropology 2009, Parry Dutton) had ‘a scrummer’s holiday’, visiting the USA ‘to study rugby. Rugby union is the fastest-growing team sport in America at this time, and with my third-year dissertation looming large what better time could there be to get to grips with the phenomenon first hand? I contacted the local club (Brooklyn RFC) and expressed my desire to join in their pre-season training. This shifted over the course of my seven weeks’ fieldwork from relatively relaxed sessions at Coney Island beach towards

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 the beginning to intense, physically draining workouts at the Red Hook playing fields – and of course, plenty of barbecue chicken wings and Brooklyn Lager at the team’s bar, P. J. Hanley’s, on the side. Though only with them for a few weeks and without the opportunity to play in any competitive games (although I was proud to represent the side in a pre-season friendly versus King’s Point Merchant Navy Academy), I grew immensely attached to the club during my time with them – gracious hosts quickly became good friends, as team mates so often do.’ Later, Dan welcomed the Sidney rugby team as they arrived for their tour of the United States East Coast in early September. The tour ‘was a simply breathtaking experience. Five days in New York were followed by two in New Haven and seven in Boston and featured wins over Columbia and Yale second teams, a narrow defeat to Yale first team and a spirited but heavy defeat to a technically and physically adept Harvard Business School side. The contacts made while playing against and socialising with these teams are strong, particularly in the case of Yale, for whom our game constituted a return fixture after playing their second team on their tour of the UK the previous year.’ Bethan Parker (Medical and Veterinary Science 2009, Hamlyn) was one of eight volunteers, ‘all friends either from Cambridge or home, who lived together and embraced as much of Ugandan life as possible. Each morning we

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One of the winning entries in the SSCSU Photographic Competition, by Alex Welbourne (2011)

would walk down to market at 7 a.m. and buy the fresh fruit and vegetables for that day, as well as any beans or rice that we needed. It was at market that we learned to barter and I was very glad to have learned some numbers in Luganda for this! We travelled around to most places we visited either by mutatu (like a minibus – drives very, very fast) or boda-bodas (motorbikes – also very fast). The different food, clothes, transport and language were initially a big adjustment, but by the end we felt very comfortable in that culture. At a women’s crafts co-op in Kisenyi, we watched and helped women make beautiful pieces of jewellery from strips of paper – meeting them and hearing their stories was very inspiring.’ Football and netball clubs were a great opportunity to meet the young people in the village, while in a couple of local primary schools Bethan dared to cut grass by hand with a metal blade (returning home very thankful for lawnmowers) and helped the children make skipping ropes and dolls from banana leaves. Bethan also visited a local clinic: ‘Malaria is a huge problem in Uganda. Many people do not use mosquito nets (although health campaigns are slowly changing this) and many cannot afford the drugs needed to treat this parasitic infection. Seeing the conditions of a clinic there compared to the treatment we can get for free in England was very sobering. I would love to return at some point when qualified and do some medical work in that part of the world.’

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Officers of the Students’ Union 2012 Chairman Massimo Beber, MPhil

Co-opted Posts

MCR Committee

Computer Officer Jordan Ryda

Social Officers Kelly Accetta Coral Stoakes Adam Solomon

Access Bus Representatives Charlotte Howell Tom Bardsley

Senior Treasurer Nick Allen, MA

Yearbook Representative George Roberts

The Executive Committee Bar Secretary Tom Smith

Bar Committee

LBGT Officer Sam Lochead

Bar Staff Manager Tim Kasoar

College Council Representative Noami Cohen-Lask

Bar Finance Manager Tom Neat

JCR Women’s Officer Laura Deslandes

Assistant Bar Finance Manager Rosemary Daley

JCR Vice President/External Officer Katie Estdale

JCR International Officer Elaine Lee

Bar Committee Assistant Catherine Collett

Female Social Welfare Officer Katie Hunter

Green Officer Jack Layton

Other Elected Posts

Male Social Welfare Officer Andrew Hayward

Disabled Students’ Officer Alison Madgwick

Academic Welfare Officer Tom Seddon

Entertainments Committee

SSCSU/JCR President Ellen Brookes Junior Treasurer Alex Ward MCR President William Menz MCR Treasurer Lou Cantwell

Student Admissions Officer Emily Iliffe Publicity Officer Emily Pulsford

Mark Jamison David Liao Sasha Nagarajah Becky Timothy

External Officer Rebecca Noorderhaven Women’s and Welfare Officer Kim Wagenaar Green Officer Ingrid Rembold Film Officer Sebastian Gibson Webmaster Laurie Young Gym Officer Chris Crowe Freshers’ Representative Isabel Thompson

Gym Officer Milan Mecklenburg SidNews Editors Andrew Pirrie Issy Oon El Sid Editor Catherine Collett

Freshers’ Representative Poppy Morris

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Appointments, Awards and Destinations BARR, Dr Colin (Visiting Fellow, Easter Term 2012) appointed Senior Lecturer in Irish History at the University of Aberdeen. BAXENDALE, Dr Ian (Fellow, 2000–12) appointed Chair of Synthetic Chemistry at Durham University. Dr Baxendale also received a Corporate Associates Junior Faculty Teaching Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to undergraduate teaching in the Chemistry Department at the University of Cambridge during 2011–12. BLACK, Dr Iain (Fellow, 2007–12) appointed Senior Tutor at Clare Hall, Cambridge with effect from the 2012–13 academic year. BLUNDELL, Professor Sir Tom (Fellow, 1995) appointed Honorary Professor in the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica; awarded two further Honorary Doctorates, in Liverpool and in the University of Chile, Santiago; and made an Honorary Member of the UK Biochemical Society. DAWSON, Professor Dame Sandra (Master 1999, Fellow 2009) appointed a non-executive director of DRS Data & Research Services plc, and Chair of its Remuneration Committee. DORAN, Dr Chris (Fellow, 2000) elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. EISER, Dr Erika (Fellow, 2008) promoted to a Readership in the Department of Physics. FLOWER, Dr Richard (Fellow, 2007–11) appointed to a Lectureship in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. GURNELL, Dr Mark (Bye-Fellow, 2011) promoted to a University Senior Lectureship in the Department of Medicine. KILDUFF, Professor Martin (Fellow, 2008–12) appointed to a Chair in Organisational Behaviour at UCL. McDEVITT, Yvonne (Fellow, 2004–5) awarded a Film Project award by the Irish Arts Council for her next film, ‘HORSE’. MCHUGH, Dr Paul (Fellow, 1984) promoted to a Professorship in the Department of Land Economy. NANOPOULOS, Dr Eva (Bye-Fellow, 2011–12) elected to the Bob Alexander Fellowship in Law at King’s College, Cambridge. PENTY, Professor Richard (Fellow, 2002) elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. The citation reads: ‘Distinguished for his contributions to the development and commercialisation of photonic devices and systems. An excellent academic engineer, consultant and leader, and an effective

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 member of the standards community. His innovative work has led directly to products using photonics technology that have achieved billion dollar markets.’ RAMAGE, Michael (Fellow, 2008), with colleagues Peter Rich (Visiting Fellow, 2013) and John Ochsendorf, received both the special award and the overall prize at the Wienerberger Brick Award (‘Brick 12’), which recognises outstanding examples of modern brick architecture. Michael Ramage was also promoted to a University Senior Lectureship in the Department of Architecture during 2012. RIDDELL, The Rt Hon Peter (Honorary Fellow, 2005) appointed CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2012, for services to journalism and for public service. SPOTTISWOODE, Dr Claire (Fellow, 2005–8) awarded a L’Oréal-UNESCO UK and Ireland Fellowship For Women In Science, to support her research on the genetics of cuckoo egg mimicry. STARGARDT, Dr Janice (Fellow, 2002) appointed a Visiting Professor in Burmese and South East Asian Archaeology at the University of Yangon. THE VISITOR, Viscount De L’Isle, MBE, appointed Lord Lieutenant of Kent from September 2011. WADDELL, Revd Dr Peter (Fellow, 2005–12) appointed Dean of Chapel at the University of Winchester from September 2012. WALLACE-HADRILL, Professor Andrew (Master, 2009) elected to the Council of the British Academy for 2012–13, and awarded the Felicia A. Holton Book Award 2013 by the Archaeological Institute of America for Herculaneum: Past and Future. WALKER, Professor Sir John (Fellow, 1997) awarded the 2012 Copley Medal by the Royal Society, widely regarded as the most prestigious award in British Science and believed to be the world’s oldest scientific prize. John receives the medal for his groundbreaking work in understanding what powers living cells. Professor Walker had previously received the 2011 David Keilin Medal and delivered the Keilin Memorial Lecture in Cambridge in January. WHITACRE, Eric (Visiting Fellow, Michaelmas 2010; Composer in Residence, 2011–) awarded a Grammy for Best Choral Performance for his CD Light and Gold, February 2012.

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Births, Marriages and Other Occasional Offices ■■ Births To: David Doupé (Fellow, 2009) and Kirsty Walker a son, Alexander Henry Walker, born on 22 June 2012. Rachel (née Harrison, 2002) and Christopher Howlett a son, Benjamin Michael, born on 13 May 2011. A brother for Annabel. Jo (Fellow, 2010) and Adrian Craigwood a daughter, Elinor Naia, born on 3 September 2012. Paul White (Fellow, 2009) and Aristea Koukiadaki a son, Alexandros, born on 29 March 2012. Edward Wilson-Lee (Fellow, 2010) and Kelcey Wilson-Lee a son, Gabriel Sebastian, born on 17 October 2012. Philip Wood (Fellow, 2010) and Katherine Schon a daughter, Charlotte, born on 9 June 2012.

■■ Baptisms Jonathan Bray, son to Donald Bray (MPhil in International Relations), was baptised in the Chapel on 17 April 2012 by the Pastoral Dean. Amelia and William Gonzales, twin daughter and son to Ann Mather (Geography, 1978) and Tim Gonzales, were baptised in the Chapel on 16 June 2012 by the Pastoral Dean. Harleigh Marshall [McPherson], son to Robin McPherson (Gardener) and Ashley Hardingham (formerly Housekeeping Assistant), was baptised in the Chapel on 23 June 2012 by the Pastoral Dean.

■■ Marriages James Weaver (Oriental Studies, 2003) and Helen Odell (Oriental Studies, 2003) were married in the Chapel on 7 January 2012 by the Pastoral Dean. Katherine Williams (Medicine, 1999) and Robin McCallum were married in the Chapel on 14 April 2012 by the Pastoral Dean. Kevin Cummings (Law, 1992) and Stephanie Brady were married in the Chapel on 24 June 2012 by the Pastoral Dean.

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 Kathryn Mapely (Economics, 2006) and Andy Hogben (Natural Sciences, 2006) were married in the Chapel on 8 July 2012 by the Pastoral Dean. Martin Smith (Natural Sciences, 2004) and Rachel Thorpe (English, 2006) were married in the Chapel on 14 July 2012 by the Pastoral Dean. Katie Hope (Chemical Engineering, 2006) and John Coull (Engineering, 2001) were married in the Chapel on 14 July 2012 by the Pastoral Dean. Fraser Gillies (Natural Sciences, 2003) and Jo Lowe were married in the Chapel of Queens’ College, Cambridge on 22 September 2012 by the Chaplain.

Obituaries ABRAM, Christopher Charles, 1955, MA; born 4 June 1935; ed. Gresham’s School; read Economics. We are grateful to Christopher’s wife Mary and daughter Caroline on whose eulogy this obituary is based. A man of few words but strong principles, Chris was born into a Norfolk farming family. As a young boy he spent time helping out on the farm and recalled having to ride the carthorse to the forge for shoeing, an experience that put him off horses for life. He also paid his way through University by working on the farm during the long vacation and spending long days from seven in the morning until late in the evening helping to get in the harvest. At both schools he excelled at sport, playing both cricket and hockey for Norfolk. Before coming up to Sidney Chris did his National Service in the Royal Artillery, being promoted to lieutenant by the time he left. At Sidney, his passion for sport continued and he obtained a hockey blue two years running. He also spent a lot of time playing snooker and darts and not focusing too much on his studies. After graduation he joined the Milk Marketing Board where he spent the whole of his career in a variety of roles around the UK and travelling on business in India, China and the Middle East. In later life he took up golf and developed his musical skills, reaching piano grade 8. He was a hands-on grandfather, taking an active interest in his grandchildren’s education, mending their bicycle punctures and fixing things for them. He died on 21 February 2011.

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the register BUTTERWORTH, Stephen Theodore Gregory, 1948, BA, MD, B.Chir; born 6 April 1930; ed. Blundell’s School; read Natural Sciences and Medicine. This obituary is drawn from the eulogy delivered at Stephen’s funeral. Stephen, the son of a novelist who wrote under the name of Peter Blundell, was born in Weston-superMare. According to his younger sister Frances, he was a scholarly, inventive and enquiring boy who loved books, music and science. It was apparently the result of reading Austen Freeman’s novels about the fictional detective Dr John Thorndyke that inspired Stephen to become a pathologist. He pursued this ambition, first by reading medicine at Sidney – where he also coxed the College boat – and then completing his medical training at the London Hospital. After Cambridge he did his National Service, spending three years in Germany as an army medical officer. Stephen’s intellectual curiosity did not mesh readily with the certainties of the military mindset but he enjoyed his medical work, liked Germany and relished travelling, learning to speak German and to ski. In 1958 he took up the post of resident pathologist at the Plymouth General Hospital where he met his future wife Jessie. They were married a year later in 1959. In 1960 they moved to Oxford where Stephen worked for three years in the Radcliffe and Churchill hospitals, and where their daughter Helen was born. He and Jessie were also accepted into the Oxford Philarmonia Choir by David Lumsden, later President of the Royal Academy of Music. Stephen’s next post was in the Sick Children’s Hospital in Edinburgh, where he completed his medical doctorate and where their son Andrew was born in 1964. In 1971 he was appointed consultant pathologist to Sterling and Falkirk and the family moved to an old manse in Perthshire where they were very happy. In Scotland he did a lot of forensic science and indeed uncovered a murder, but the mantle of forensic pathologist did not sit happily on his shoulders – he was never happy as an expert witness in court and the death of any child affected him deeply for a long time after each investigation. In 1975 he obtained the position of toxicologist with Shell Research in Kent and a little later took on the job of Shell’s medical officer as well. Both jobs gave him opportunities for travel in Europe and, best of all, in Japan. When the research unit at Sittingbourne closed he left Shell and worked at Benenden Hospital and at the path lab in Maidstone, where he trained technicians for the cervical cancer

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 screening programme. After retirement he was much in demand as a locum pathology consultant. Music and sailing were Stephen’s passions. In Kent he joined the Cranbrook orchestra with whom he played until the last year of his life; and in the 1980s he realised his dream and bought his yacht, Image, qualifying as a day skipper while Jessie qualified as competent crew. He died at home, surrounded by his family, on 14 October 2011. EVERY-MILLER, Cdr Anthony Thomas Hugh,1959; born 4 July 1940; ed. Dean Close School, Cheltenham and Britannia Royal Naval College; read Mechanical Sciences. We are grateful to Mrs Kristen Every-Miller for the information from which this obituary has been compiled. The son of a railway engineer and an English teacher, Anthony was born in Paso delos Torros, Uruguay. His first school was in Argentina; he then followed his two brothers as a boarder to the Dean Close School in Cheltenham. At 18 years of age he went to the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, before joining the College to read Engineering, although in the event he did not proceed to a degree. Back at sea he served on a number of Royal Navy ships including HMS Centaur and Plover. His parents moved to Kenya in the early 1950s and lived there happily for many years, until they were forced to leave Kenya with the onset of the Mau Mau uprising. They chose to relocate to Australia. Anthony followed, joining the RAN in 1966, where he served on HMAS Stalwart, Derwent and Vampire, as well as on shore at HMAS Watson, Penguin and Cerberus. He married Jeanette at HMAS Watson Naval Chapel in 1970 and they had two children, a son Christopher and daughter Shannon. In 1974 he was posted to be the first foreign electrical engineer officer to be employed at the Naval Weapons Station in Yorktown, Virginia, USA, where torpedos were assembled for the American East Coast Fleet. He and Jeanette spent three happy years in Virginia and enjoyed social visits to the Australian Embassy in Washington. On returning to Australia he was weapons officer on the Australian destroyer escort that accompanied the Queen’s yacht Britannia. As was customary, the senior officers were invited to dine with the Queen and Prince Phillip. On their subsequent visit to Scotland in 2005, Anthony and Jeanette later visited HMY

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the register Britannia in Edinburgh, where Anthony could thoroughly inspect the yacht’s engines and give them his seal of approval. Anthony later became the Spanish liaison officer on the Spanish naval training ship Juan Sebastian de Elcarno in 1988, which visited Australia in the Tall Ships race, as part of the bicentennial celebrations. Jeanette and Anthony later visited Cadiz, Spain, the home port of the Elcano. In 1988 he resigned from the Navy to take up civilian life and spend more time with his family. His interests included computers and advanced technology, history research (at which he excelled) and photography. In 2007–8 Anthony and Jeanette made their last trip through Europe – from the D-Day beaches to some of the countries behind the former Iron Curtain – a region he had not previously been allowed to visit due to his job position. Anthony had ten happy years of retirement before he was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2009. He faced his illness with true courage to the very end, his only thoughts being of the sadness he felt at his having to leave Jeanette and his family. He died on 22 August 2011. FUSSELL, Mark Henry, 1950, MA, Vet. MB, PhD, MRCVS; born 25 November 1959; ed. Blundell’s School; read Natural Sciences and Veterinary Science. This obituary is based on the eulogy written by Mark’s wife Olwen and read by their daughter Alice at his funeral service. Mark Fussell was born in Southampton, the son of a master builder. He came up to Sidney after National Service in the Royal Engineers and after taking Part I as a Natural Scientist switched to veterinary medicine. His wife recalled that he could claim two firsts. He was the first Sidney student to graduate at the newly opened School of Veterinary Medicine – indeed he was selected to undertake the most responsible of the laboratory demonstrations when the Queen opened the School in October 1955 – and he was a founder member of the British Veterinary Poultry Association. He also won the RCVS Fitzwilliam Prize in 1956. Mark met his future wife in 1958 when he was working on his PhD and she was employed in the general office of the Veterinary School. They were married the next year. Mark worked for three large companies in their animal health divisions, travelling widely in the course of his work. He visited Russia several

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 times during the Cold War and travelled all over Europe, the Middle and Far East (advising on the health and welfare of such animas as camels and water buffalo) and the Americas. The family lived in Holland, the USA and for three years in Italy. Mark always said he perfected his driving skills on the streets of Rome! In 1983 they returned to Cambridge and Mark started his own business, Vetmark Services Ltd, while acting also as the European agent of a New Zealand veterinary instrument company. A devoted family man he retired at 70 but decided on one final project – building his own garden from scratch. He loved the woodland garden with its lake and windmill that he developed in Soham, near Ely, with the help of two friends and watching it mature over the last 12 years of his life. He died on 22 December 2011 and is survived by his wife, their three children and eight grandchildren. GUBBINS, Michael Eldred, 1958, BA; born 2 January 1938; ed. Blundell’s School; read Mathematics. We are grateful to Peter Walter, a friend of Michael at Sidney, for this obituary. It was tragic, but in character, that Michael died as a result of an impulsive step into the path of a cyclist when he spied someone across the road with whom he wished to discuss some arrangements for a village event. Judith and Michael had moved to Ampleforth to reduce the calls on their time but Michael was generously well on the way to being fully occupied in the village. Before Sidney, Michael attended Blundell’s School where he was an Exhibitioner in Mathematics. He was one of the last to complete National Service before coming up to Cambridge. During his time at Sidney he showed his great stamina by competing in cross-country races and being secretary to the College cross-country club. His professional working life was spent at the Winfrith Heath nuclear power station in Dorset and coincided to a large degree with the life of the reactor. In his own time he studied and read Russian, eventually becoming sufficiently proficient to translate scientific papers. He showed great leadership in the Scouts, progressing from a parent supporter to an adventurous troop leader. Later, as County Secretary, he turned his initiative and perseverance into procuring and developing a 95-acre derelict farm into a thriving centre for scouting activities, camping and training in Dorset.

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the register In his interest for all humanity Michael was a keen supporter of third-world projects and his sympathy with environmental issues suited his fondness for his bees. He formed a well-matched partnership with his wife Judith and was caring and concerned both for his family and godsons. He was an upright man. He died on 5 October 2010. HAZLEWOOD, Derek Spendlove, 1949, MA; born 14 September 1928; ed. Wyggeston Grammar School; read Classics. We are grateful to his son, Ian, for this obituary. Derek grew up in Leicester and completed two years of National Service as an army radio mechanic stationed at various places throughout England before coming to Sidney to read Classics. As an undergraduate he also took an active part in both the sporting and social scene at the University. On graduating, Derek initially joined Lilley & Skinner in London but on completing his company secretary qualifications moved to Fisons in Loughborough. When Fisons Foods was taken over by Heinz in 1969, Derek moved to Beaconsfield and in 1982 settled in Lewknor, Oxfordshire. Most of his professional career was in food sales and marketing. He retired in 1988. Derek met his wife Kay while still at university and they married in 1954. Apart from his family – they had two daughters, one son and six grandchildren – Derek’s great passions were amateur dramatics, golf, gardening and travelling. He took part in over 30 annual musicals, often taking on major singing and acting roles. Derek was a keen sportsman in his youth, and continued to enjoy his golf throughout his retirement. His garden was his pride and joy, particularly at their house in Lewknor where he created the garden from scratch. He died on 23 December 2011. HOLDSWORTH, Donald Edwin, 1946, MBE, MA; born 29 July 1925; ed. Belle Vue Boys Grammar School, Bradford; read History. We are grateful to Donald’s son, Steve, for the information on which this obituary is based. Donald Edwin Holdsworth (known to friends as Sam) was brought up in a poor Bradford family during the great Depression. He did well at school, where he

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 won a scholarship and after the war obtained a Cambridge first class degree. He volunteered for National Service in the later stages of the war, joining the Royal Artillery on the advice of his careers master Mr Clegg, whose opinion he respected. Having acquired some German at school, he was sent overseas and spent some time serving in Holland. He married Madge Weatherall in 1948 and they had three children, Christine, Shirley and Steven. After a brief period teaching, Donald commenced his long career in the Civil Service, working in the Ministry of Labour, which later became the Department of Employment. He worked away from home, travelling all over Yorkshire for many years and coming home only at weekends. He rose to become a senior manager and never had a day off sick between 1949 and his retirement in 1985. At this point he was awarded an MBE. After the presentation at Buckingham Palace, the Queen asked, ‘And what do you do Mr Holdsworth?’ to which he replied, ‘Unemployment benefit, fraud detection squad, Ma’am.’ The Queen had found out more about him in ten seconds than the family had known in 30 years, as he never spoke about his work at home. There had been speculation that he worked for MI5; and it was no real surprise that he was doing a job that involved scrutinising applications for support from public funds. Monitoring every penny was something he did with an eagle eye. In his later years, he acquired a number of new friends through his liking for music from the big band era of the 1930s, and particularly his membership of the Harry Roy appreciation society. He also followed the fortunes of the Yorkshire and England cricket teams and, during the football season, of Liverpool. He was a champion of war veterans, never missing an opportunity to tell people about the veterans’ badge, which he was very proud to receive. He had an amazing memory for names and dates and enjoyed expressing his political views. Always a traditionalist, he had no time for trendy modern attitudes, and nothing would detach him from the values that he acquired during the austere times of his youth. Retribution, as distinct from revenge, formed an essential aspect of discipline within society; and soft liberal approaches to criminality, or what he regarded as the moral degeneration of society, were abhorrent to him. He died on 5 August 2011, thankfully just before the latest stock market crash and an unprecedented outbreak of lawlessness, looting and public disorder. He leaves a widow, two sisters, three married children, six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

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the register HORN, Professor Sir Gabriel MD ScD FRS FRCP, Master 1992–99, born 9 December 1927; ed. Handsworth Technical School. This obituary is based on the eulogy delivered at the funeral service held in the College Chapel on 8 August by Professor Tim Cox (1962), Fellow of the College and University Professor of Medicine. Gabriel Horn was a great Master of this College. Others will attest to his international reputation as a scientist, head of a major University Department and contributor to UK scientific policy. But since I came to know Gabriel as a friend in this College, and as a fellow doctor, my account will be a personal one. Gabriel Horn achieved the ‘academic dream ticket’: knighted in 2002 for services to neurobiology and the advancement of scientific research, he was the recipient of honorary degrees, awards and prizes, as well as Visiting Professorships here and abroad. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1986 and awarded the Royal Medal in 2001. His extraordinary achievements came from a start in life that speaks more to his strength of purpose, intelligence and personality than the conventional advantages associated in his youth with the older universities. Gabriel was the youngest of four sons of a Birmingham tailor. The family was hard-pressed and Gabriel’s mother had come from humble origins in Whitechapel. When he was a child the family moved to Handsworth, where he attended Westminster Road Junior School (see page 32 in this Annual). His education was disrupted by wartime evacuation and he returned to find the grammar school closed; instead, he attended the technical school in Handsworth where somewhat strangely he developed an enthusiasm for civil engineering. He left school at the age of 15 but an early engineering job proved a disappointment. His father became ill and needed urgent help in the shop. He suggested that a career as a tailor would be a secure one for his dextrous young son, who agreed – but on condition that he could have one day off a week to study. Gabriel studied hard for two years and gained the National Certificate in Mechanical Engineering. During this period he was introduced to biological sciences, thus laying the foundation for the idea that scientific study, and especially medicine, offered a way to improve the well-being of others – including those who lived in poverty he had witnessed on visits to his grandmother in Cavell Street.

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 When he was 17, his father died and he encountered very hard times. Eventually, from night school, he matriculated in chemistry, physics and biology. After early rejections by the Birmingham School of Medicine, he served for two years in the education branch of the RAF and armed with the Higher Schools Certificate, was finally offered a place. As an undergraduate in medicine, Gabriel took part in political debates and other extramural activities. He became President of the Political Society, and inspired by Sir Solly Zuckerman, then Professor of Anatomy, he obtained a scholarship to read for a BSc in ana tomy, during which he undertook his first serious studies of the brain. As a preclinical medical undergraduate, Gabriel met Anne Soper, a zoology student and daughter of the Reverend (later Lord) Donald Soper. Anne’s family was strongly Protestant and left-wing; her attitude and the prevailing climate of political discussion resonated with Gabriel, who was increasingly struck by the cruel effects of poverty on the practice of medicine. Many years later, Gabriel and I discussed the ‘inverse care law’ in which the greater the need and extent of poverty in an area, the less social provision and investment in medical services there appears to be. Anne and Gabriel collaborated on a paper in 1952; she, as a zoologist, bringing insights into his medical neuroscience. They married the day after its publication but, for fear of disapproval, this was kept secret from the Soper family for many years. During that additional BSc year, Gabriel represented Britain in an all-India tour of the Debating Society and initiated his first serious research project (in what we know now as neuroendocrinology). He qualified in medicine in 1955, gaining full registration after house appointments at Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Birmingham & Midland Eye Hospitals. Somehow he continued his research and even published during this period, although by now his daughter Amanda and son Nigel had been born. At the same time the tension between the then pedestrian practice of medicine and the fascination of experimental science played out in his mind. In 1956, on the recommendation of Solly Zuckerman, Gabriel was appointed as Demonstrator in Anatomy in Cambridge – a post that required the teaching of topographical anatomy to medical students but allowed time for research. His earnings were meagre but medicine, the diverting Mistress (an inversion of Chekhov’s relationship to his profession), came to the rescue. To support his young wife and family, Gabriel supervised in Medicine and Anatomy for King’s College – the start of a long association, later cemented by his election to a Fellowship in 1962 – and took occasional locum posts in the outlying villages.

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the register It was many, many years before Gabriel surrendered his status as a Registered Medical Practitioner. When we met, he would often ask challenging questions about the action of drugs and matters related to medical ethics raised by articles in the British Medical Journal, to which he continued to subscribe. His was a manifest commitment to medicine and I was perpetually astonished as to how up-to-date he remained. Formal scientific obituaries have described his research into neurobiology and neuroscience: he was initially interested in consciousness, which involved fields of study somewhere between behavioural science, psychophysics, concrete neuroanatomy and electrophysiology. His particular fascination was the pathways taken for neural impulses induced by stimuli through attended and unattended sensory signals, for example from the retina or the skin surface. With colleagues and collaborators, he devised special techniques for recording impulses in the living brain, using Lord Adrian’s expertise and insights into the workings of the brain through electroencephalography to further this research. After a year with Herbert Jasper at the Montreal Institute of Neurology he collaborated with the mathematician John Griffiths at King’s College in attempts to understand how electrical signals from neurones interconnected by synapses could be functionally integrated. His career was typified by this kind of open-minded approach, with numerous visits and collaborations abroad, including the University of California at Berkeley, Uganda, France and, latterly, Georgia. Apart from family life (two further children, Andrew and Melissa were to arrive), academic research and teaching occupied him almost completely in Cambridge. The 18 years spent in the Department of Anatomy led to successive promotions to Lecturer and Reader before he was appointed to the Chair of Anatomy at the University of Bristol in 1974. It was a good teaching department and Gabriel was able to build up developmental biology and embryology and recruit scientists with an interest in molecular studies, many of whom would later become heads of department at Bristol and other universities. Robert Hinde, a former colleague, persuaded Gabriel to apply for the vacant Chair of Zoology in Cambridge, and he returned to become Head of Department, a post that he held from 1979 to 1994. Gabriel and his colleagues saw to it that the Department of Zoology would expand, diversify and deliver excellent teaching, offering numerous experimental options for Part II. The Department built not only on its individual strengths, but also on collaborative interdisciplinary research – especially in the neurosciences – within other

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 Cambridge departments, such as Physiology and Anatomy. Gabriel’s links with his colleagues in the sub-department of Animal Behaviour at Madingley were not only intellectual, for it was there that he met his future wife, Priscilla Barrett, who was working with Patrick Bateson as a Research Assistant. Gabriel continued his own research, always driven by the belief that understanding the normal function of the brain was essential for developing remedies for nervous diseases, such as dementia, Parkinson’s disease and other relentless conditions, including psychiatric disorders. He used visual imprinting of memory in the chick as a model system to investigate the biological basis of memory; using the young chick, he showed that changes in the transcription of genes within key areas of the forebrain are associated with learning and imprinted memory in a compellingly simple system that he, Sir Patrick Bateson and others developed over many years. Gabriel’s work was truly interdisciplinary and involved wide-ranging techniques of molecular cell biology combined with studies of behaviour, visual perception and other fields of neuroscience. I first met Gabriel when I attended a meeting of the Carphologists in about 1988. This was an extraordinary group and comprised senior doctors at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, emerging heads of Clinical School departments and many ‘serious’ non-clinical scientists within the University, all of whom were united in their interest in driving forward the research aspirations and potential of the emerging School of Clinical Medicine. I sat next to Gabriel at dinner and surmised that he must have been a doctor. I was astonished to find, on returning home, that he was Head of the Department of Zoology. Gabriel and I met again at the time of his election as Master of Sidney in 1992, succeeding Donald Northcote. The election was happily engineered by the then Vice Master, the late Professor Dick Chorley, Professor of Geography. Gabriel and Dick became very good friends, working together brilliantly with Roger Andrew, our longstanding Bursar, and after Roger’s retirement and death, with the late Charles Larkum, both of whom often expressed their enormous admiration for Gabriel and his approach to the College. Gabriel’s period as Master was one of extraordinary investment in the College. Prill and Gabriel worked tirelessly with the Appeal Committee to ensure the success of the 1996 quatercentenary appeal in building up a balanced and distinguished Fellowship. By the time of the 1996 celebrations, £6.5m had been raised, including donations for research fellowships and senior research fellowships in diverse subjects. Gabriel also called upon old friends for other purposes. His former anatomy student from Hong Kong, Professor

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the register Arthur Li (Honorary Fellow), introduced him to Dr Man-wai (William) Mong, whose generous donation enabled the College to extend its facilities for conferences, performances and other social events. It was an extraordinary time of optimism and activity. The Lodge at that time was the focus of much academic entertainment activity – its walls charmingly decorated with numerous drawings and paintings executed by Prill of domestic and wild animals of Europe and abroad. Prill’s South African origins were of great help in ensuring that Dr Desmond Tutu visited the College at the time he received an Honorary Degree, when he accepted the invitation to become an Honorary Fellow. What is perhaps less well known was that, during the appeal, Gabriel’s health took a turn for the worse; he faced his illness very courageously and many were amazed that a man of his energy and youthful appearance had to endure admission to hospital for emergency illnesses, including major surgery and long periods of convalescence. Senior officers in the College, particularly Barry Nisbet as Vice Master and Derek Beales, nobly shared much of the administrative load, particularly in relation to the key public events of the appeal itself. The zenith of these highly enjoyable events was the first visit of a reigning British monarch to Sidney; this was a great achievement for Gabriel, especially in the light of the Cromwellian history of the College. The visit, at which William Mong and others were present, was a huge success – so much so that the Duke of Edinburgh, who attended, was pleased to return to open the Mong Building in 1999. It is difficult to convey the extraordinary interdisciplinary enthusiasm that Gabriel encouraged. Although a scientist, he was a widely read man with an interest in politics, literature and music. Impromptu poetry readings were held and, encouraged by the Fellows in English, Chris Page and Claire Preston, he took up the ’cello and introduced musical evenings and celebrations in the Lodge. As the first Jewish Master of Sidney, Gabriel did not allow religion to get in the way of traditional celebrations: he was a major contributor to Christmas parties for staff and Christmas dinner for Fellows, and an avuncular Father Christmas to their children. His recording, made in retirement, of the entire text of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is, as Professor Nisbet points out, a performance of the best professional standards. Happily there were no factions in the College. Gabriel had as much interest as any in the arts and humanities and those working in these academic fields. From previous experiences, he considered that the idea of a College research centre would be an excellent focus for otherwise disparate endeavours and his

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 suggestion that the ‘post-Soviet states in transition’ would be an important platform for such a centre was eagerly taken up by the late Graham Smith and others in the Geography Department. Gabriel believed in the concept of ‘Universitas’ and invested all his energy in making Sidney a successful academy. My friendship with Gabriel deepened after his retirement when we shared rooms in College. I saw a man of two gears: in our suite of rooms he was writing papers and still driving research through collaboration. In the Department of Zoology, he had previously been involved in a national report on the origins of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) as chairman of the committee that distributed the resources for research into this subject. Later, the Academy of Medical Sciences invited him, through Keith Peters, to chair a steering committee on brain sciences, addiction and drugs, which reported to the Department of Health in 2008. It was typical of him to take on such a project at a relatively senior age. Perhaps one of the most glittering achievements of his post-retirement was his work as Chair of the Cambridge University Government Policy Programme (‘Cugpop’). This arose out of conversations with Professor Alan Hughes in Sidney after the LSE failed to initiate a programme of seminars for Ministers. It was an opportunity that Gabriel seized, assembling a glittering cast of Cambridge academics, including Lord Eatwell, the newly elected Master of Queens’ College; Professor King, Head of the Department of Chemistry, then Master of Downing and later Chief Scientist to the UK government; Professor Bob Hepple, then Master of Clare College; and some of Cambridge’s most distinguished Nobel Prize winners, physicists and astronomers, many of whom were subsequently appointed to senior positions advising government about policy and research. These seminars, which were held in Sidney, continued for 11 years until 2008. They were attended by a rapt audience of Permanent Secretaries and Ministers, and occasionally the Prime Minister. Gabriel planned them meticulously, sought advice extensively – and often rehearsed distinguished speakers, most of whom were wholly unaccustomed to being challenged by the requirement for intensive (if ultimately fruitful) preparation. After retiring as Master, Gabriel continued to take a great interest in Sidney, as well, no doubt, as his other College, King’s, of which he was a Fellow for 50 years. As an Emeritus Fellow he was certainly always ‘there’ for us. He contributed to the Medical and Veterinary Society, encouraging us to maintain academic rigour and enhance the scope of the meetings, as well as control the familiar tendency to bibulousness. This did not, however, prevent a group of us

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the register presenting him with a case of one of his favourite wines, Hermitage (the ‘manliest wine of France’), for his eightieth birthday. Gabriel would frequently be in demand for speeches, not only at meetings of the SSMVS but also at numerous retirement dinners and other celebrations. He was tireless in his preparation, spending, as was said of Winston Churchill, many of his best hours writing spontaneous speeches. As Professor Derek Beales has remarked, while his (understandable) political sympathy was with the Left, he did not let this dominate his judgement; his was a benign and broad-minded influence. It is perhaps no secret that, but for his death a few days before, Gabriel would have hosted an informal luncheon for David Mong and his family – a vivid demonstration of his belief in sustaining friendships and celebrating the relationship between the Mong family and Sidney established over many years. At stray moments in our rooms in College, the conversation would move on to shared interests, especially the chamber and piano music of Leoš Janácˇek, also much admired by Prill. Gabriel was an amateur artist and he had several impressive pictures of his own, as well as Prill’s, on display. I also recall reading together Maud, by Tennyson, his favourite poet. I always thought of him as a kind of doctor, for whom doctoring was to a large extent driven by what he had seen of the hard side of life for people who had had few opportunities for advancement and who were born in the mire of poverty – both in real terms within society and with a poverty of expectation. As time went on, we shared many good and at times, terrifying, experiences. After recovery, Gabriel seemed to want us to be a kind of double act to deal with some of the more pressing social and medical unhappiness around us in the academic community, even within our privileged world. Most of all, Gabriel had great wisdom and humanity; he was warm-hearted and made Sidney and Cambridge very acceptable places for people initially alien to them. Many visitors to the University and to the College were charmed by Gabriel’s informality and warmth, by his belief in the very best things at Cambridge and in the transcendence of the human spirit – this is perhaps why he never quite gave up medicine. Gabriel died on 2 August 2012. IVENS, Philip John, 1944, BA, born 18 April 1926; ed. Blundell’s School; read Mechanical Sciences. We are grateful to John’s son Derek for this obituary. John was the son of a nurseryman and a novelist – he appears in one of his mother’s books as a baby in a pram towards the end of the 1920s. This was in

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 Otford, the village to which he returned and made his home for life. He always liked to learn practical things – indeed by the 1930s, he was designing and building model aircraft. His lifelong fascination with aviation was fuelled by the very real experience of watching the Battle of Britain fought out in the skies above Kent. Later he and a school friend were lucky to escape when a V1 was caught in a balloon cable above the village; it later drifted away and exploded. At Sidney, he lived at one stage in the room above the main entrance on Sidney Street, but his preferred pub was the Anchor in Silver Street and his preferred games rugby union and darts. After graduating he did National Service with the RAF as a mechanic on air-sea rescue launches, serving at Felixstowe, Pembroke Dock, Cromarty and Immingham. His service was extended due to the Berlin airlift and he was demobbed in 1950. An apprenticeship at Perkins Diesel in Peterborough followed and between 1955 and 1965 he worked for CAV Ltd, in Acton. The mid 1950s saw marriage to Annabel, a return to Otford, and a new job in west London with CAV. Business travel overseas was now growing and that meant a chance to fly in as many different types of aircraft as possible. But with three children, more

The Lunaticks, June 1946. Back row, left to right: Bertie Bower, John Ambrose, Lt John Winter, Roger Mortimer, Capt. Percy Brand, Lt Eric Lowe. Front row, left to right: David Hughes, S/Lt Jeff Switzer, Capt. Philip Vine, Lt David Griffiths, Norman Flockhart, Philip Ivens, Clive Middleton

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the register time at home was needed and led to a move to Ford where he stayed until retirement. Being with one of the world’s leading car companies brought interesting opportunities, especially in Detroit and Florida, which almost became second homes for a while. John’s particular interest was cutting exhaust fumes and getting more miles per gallon. In a nation of gas-guzzlers with oil that was still very cheap, he was perhaps ahead of the field and was proud to be asked to deliver papers at several international conferences. He had a lifelong interest in maths, engines and mechanics. His particular passion was the design and construction of unorthodox radio-controlled model aircraft and he had many articles and plans published. John had a long and happy retirement at home in Kent. He died on 1 November 2011 after a long battle with cancer, which he endured with typical resilience. Just a few months before his death, and with the kind help of friends, he was still flying model aircraft with as much enjoyment as when he started the hobby 75 years previously. And he also had a highly technical mathematical paper about aircraft design published on a prestigious website in the USA. He is survived by his wife Annabel, three children and five grandchildren. LEHMBERG, Professor Stanford E., 1954, PhD 1956, LittD 1990; born 21 September 1931. We are grateful to Professor Derek Beales and to Paul Stephenson for this obituary. Stan was born in Kansas and received his BA and MA from the University of Kansas, specialising in history. He won a Fulbright Scholarship to study for a PhD in Tudor history at Cambridge and came to Sidney. While a student, from 1954 to 1956, he was active in College not only as a historian but also as a musician. This was the period just after Mr Hurry had given up his position as Chapel organist and choirmaster, and Stan was one of the students who took over these tasks until the first organ scholar arrived in 1956. He fell in love with King’s College Chapel and its services and became an organ pupil of its formidable director of music, Boris Ord. Stan was one of the first doctoral students of the future Professor Sir Geoffrey Elton. His research topic for the PhD was Sir Thomas Elyot, a Tudor humanist who compiled the first Latin-English dictionary. His thesis was published as a book in 1960, by which time Stan was teaching history at the University

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 of Texas in Austin. There he met and married his wife Phyllis, who shared his love of the Episcopal Church and was to become a notable creator of embroidered vestments and hangings in the tradition of Opus anglicanum. His next research project was a biography of Sir Walter Mildmay, a longserving minister of Queen Elizabeth I and the founder of Emmanuel College (1964). In 1969 he moved to a Chair at the University of Minnesota, where he remained until his retirement. Here he completed his major scholarly achievement, his two-volume study of the later parliaments of Henry VIII: The Reformation Parliament, 1529–1536 (1970) and The Later Parliaments of Henry VIII, 1536–1547 (1977). At Minnesota, Stan was able to satisfy his abiding passion for the Anglican church and its music both as a historian and as a musician. His publications included The Reformation of Cathedrals: Cathedrals in English Society, 1485– 1603 (1989) and Cathedrals under Siege: Cathedrals in English Society, 1600– 1700 (1996). Paul Stephenson, another Sidney historian resident in Minnesota, writes: ‘Stan served for 28 years as the organist and choir director of St Clement’s Episcopal Church in St Paul. There he developed a music programme widely recognised for its excellence, drawing on his Cambridge experience and assisted by his friendship with Sir David Willcocks. Hampton Smith, a parish member who served in the choir for the great majority of Stan’s tenure and wrote a history of St Clement’s Church, said, “Stanford was in many ways the ideal of a parish choir director. His background at Cambridge gave him a strong grounding in the history and traditions of the Anglican church, which he passed on to the choir and the congregation through his music selections and teaching… He fostered an atmosphere of collegiality… with no small assistance from Phyllis.”’ Following his retirement from the University of Minnesota, Stan and Phyllis moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where Stan continued his musical activities and published Churches for the Southwest: The Ecclesiastical Architecture of John Gaw Meem (2005). Stan was a good correspondent and a warm friend. As a professor he inspired in others his love of history. He was learned without being pedantic, ready to serve cheerfully and sensibly as chairman of department, supervisor, examiner and reviewer. The quality of his work was recognised in Britain by Cambridge’s award of the LittD in 1990 and by his election as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1997.

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the register Professor Lehmberg died on 14 June 2012. He is survived by his wife and his son Derek. MARKS, Professor John (1952) OBE, MA, PhD, born 18 June 1934; ed. Kingsbury County Grammar School; read Natural Sciences. This obituary is based on the one that appeared in the Times on 5 April 2012, with additional information supplied by Peter Sanderson (1952). John Marks was born in Marylebone, London, the son of a lorry driver and tailoress. He was the first in his family to go to university, winning a scholarship to Sidney, where he represented the College at cricket (‘He was an excellent off-spin bowler’), football (‘A first-rate mid-field player’) and partnered Peter Sanderson at bridge. After graduating he worked as a research scientist at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston. Marks had a passion for knowledge and teaching, accumulating more than 40 years of teaching experience and adding to his first degree a Cambridge diploma in the history and philosophy of science and a London PhD in nuclear physics. He joined the Polytechnic of North London in 1966. He grew increasingly dissatisfied with the British educational system, however. In the 1980s, he and his colleague Caroline (now Baroness) Cox set up the Educational Research Trust and were consulted about the drafting of the 1988 Conservative Education Reform Act. They also began the Standards in English Schools project, gathering the newly published exam results for every school in every local education authority in the country. Publication of the results – a forerunner of more modern league tables – created a furore, but showed Marks and his colleagues how much standards varied. It made him even more convinced that a good state education should be available to all children, regardless of their background. John Marks also taught and lectured in Sweden, where he had a two-year stint at the Regional University of Örebro, and travelled behind the Iron Curtain, bringing books and guest lecturers to the underground universities organised there by dissidents. His commitment to free inquiry meant that he always brought the books and speakers they had requested, even if he thought they were misguided choices. He became a governor of his old school, and served on the Schools Examination and Assessment Council (1990–93), the National Curriculum

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 Council (1992–3) and the Schools Curriculum and Assessment Authority (1993–7). In 1992 he was appointed Professor of Education at the University of Buckingham and was appointed OBE for services to education in 1994. Marks never did anything by halves, whether it was cross-country running at school or squash. His books include Relativity (1972), Science and the Making of the Modern World (1983) and Fried Snowballs: Communism in Theory and Practice (1990). He also co-authored, with Caroline Cox, This Immoral Trade: Slavery in the 21st Century (2006) and The ‘West’, Islam and Islamism: Is Ideological Islam Compatible with Liberal Democracy? (2006). Marks suffered a stroke in 2008 and struggled to walk again. He died on February 18 2012, and is survived by his wife, Finola, and their three children. ORME, Dr Richard Colin L’Estrange, 1954, MA, MB, BChir, MD; born 6 February 1935; ed. Repton School; read Natural Sciences. We are grateful to Professor Michael Orme for this obituary. Richard came from a Huguenot family with a strong medical background, connections of which he was proud. His father (1922) and both paternal grandparents were in the profession and his grandmother qualified in Ireland at a time when medical schools in England did not accept female students. He was a premature baby and the attending midwife and general practitioner struggled to get him to breathe – an appropriate start, perhaps, for someone who was to go on to specialise in neonatology. From the Cambridge medical school he went on to complete his clinical studies at King’s College Hospital in London, later training in paediatrics at the Middlesex Hospital, where he obtained the Diploma in Child Health. From 1968 to 1973 he was senior registrar in Exeter and Bristol where he developed his interest in neonatology. A Medical Research Council fellowship took him to do research work on respiration of the newborn with Professor June Brady in San Francisco, and to work in the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of California. On his return to the UK in 1973, he was appointed a consultant paediatrician to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and Senior Lecturer in Child Health at the University of Exeter, where he was involved in setting up a neonatal service and premature baby intensive care unit. He is remembered by his

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the register colleagues, patients and their families as a wise, cheerful and hugely committed figure with a gift for communication with young children enhanced by his encyclopaedic knowledge and his ability to quote from A. A. Milne’s stories about Winnie the Pooh. Later in his career there were increasing demands for his expertise in the management and investigation of child maltreatment by parents. He served as a valued member of local and regional committees and chaired enquiries. He also developed an interest in community paediatrics. Richard was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a Founding Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. He examined for the membership of the Royal College of Physicians and also for the Royal Colleges in Scotland and Ireland. His international interests also involved the University of Khartoum, the University of Rennes and the French Club de Pédiatrie Sociale. In retirement he enjoyed gardening, walking and travel; he was a loyal member of his local Anglican church and a school governor. However, his main energies went into becoming a member of Exeter’s famous Red Coat Guides, which he enjoyed immensely. He took particular pleasure in developing and delivering tours of the city for children as well as giving tours in French. He died peacefully in his sleep at the Exeter Hospice on 7 January 2012, after a short illness. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth, their children David and Jenny, and two grandchildren. ORR, Wallace Morrison, 1950, MA, MD, MChir, FRCS; born 8 August 1931; ed. Loretto School; read Natural Sciences. We are grateful to Neil’s widow, Sarah, for this obituary. Neil Orr was born in Neyyoor, South India, where his father was a medical missionary with the London Missionary Society. He was head boy of his school and graduated in medicine from Cambridge, completing his medical training at St Thomas’ hospital in London. Instead of National Service, Neil spent two and a half years from 1958 to 1961 with the British Antarctic Survey at the Hope Bay base on the Antarctic Peninsula. He was base doctor and latterly base leader, and also unofficial vet to the huskies. His MD thesis, ‘Food requirements of men and dogs on Antarctic expeditions’ (1962), was the result of his experience there. He was also awarded the Polar Medal. He continued his surgical training and in 1967 returned to St Thomas’ as senior registrar on the surgical unit. It was here he met and married his wife Sarah, a Nightingale nurse. In 1969 he was appointed a consultant surgeon at

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 the Essex County Hospital in Colchester. He retired in 1996 after first being appointed to the Independent Monitoring Board at HMP Chelmsford, where he was Chairman of the Board for four years. On retirement he pursued his many other interests. He was a volunteer guide at the Hunterian Museum in London, a volunteer gardener at his local hospice, a keen sailor and proud owner of a beautiful classic yawl, a talented watercolourist, frequent traveller and a besotted grandfather to his young grandson. He died on 26 March 2012 and is survived by his wife Sarah and their two daughters. OSBORN, Robin James, 1957, MA; born 23 September 1936; ed. Cheltenham College; read Mechanical Sciences. We are grateful to James Osborn from whose tribute to his father this obituary is drawn. Robin Osborn was born and spent his early life in Oxford. After attending Cheltenham College, where he was head boy, he did his national service with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, spending much of his time in Cyprus. At Cambridge, according to his oldest friend, he had an annoyingly laid-back attitude to everything – whether it was training for the College rowing team or studying for his finals – at both of which, needless to say, he excelled. Afterwards he qualified as a civil engineer. In 1963 he married his wife, Gillian, and they moved to Hong Kong the following year. This was the start of a 34-year love affair with the place and in particular with his job. Starting as a site engineer on the Plover Cove water scheme, he progressed to become chairman of Scott Wilson, the firm of global consulting engineers. Despite all his other interests, such as hill walking, golf and gardening, it was his qualities as an engineer that stood out most. He got on well with everyone and his colleagues in particular valued him as a mentor and as someone who was always prepared to think outside the box. He left his mark on Hong Kong from the New Territories to Kowloon, being responsible for some of the biggest engineering projects ever contemplated and then built. Robin’s retirement was as fulfilling as his career in Hong Kong, and he and Gillian divided their time between their houses in Oxford and Portugal and travelling on various archaeological trips as he pursued his interest in the 2nd

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the register millennium BC – their last trip was in June 2011. His travels took them to Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Jordan, Iran, Syria and Uzbekistan. His one regret was that he was unable to visit ancient Mesopotamia. His son, James, recalled that there were two places where his children would ‘always remember Dad, either standing on the top of an old ruin or mountain in his blue and white check shirt or pottering in his beloved orchard or garden, dead-heading roses, and with Mum shouting “Robin, your lunch is getting cold”.’ In his later years he kept busy, whether it was applying his engineering mind to building work on Pullens Gate or the house in Portugal, or being a keen member of the Pullens Lane Association and dealing with potholes in the road. He also became a trustee of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire. Whether in Portugal or Oxford, he was always happy to see people and he loved entertaining family and friends. Robin died on 14 August 2011 and a thanksgiving service was held at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate on 26 September, attended by over 200 relatives, friends and former colleagues. PITTER, Ian Charles, 1953, MA, MB, BChir; born 28 October 1934; ed. Christ’s Hospital; read Natural Sciences and Medicine. This obituary is based on the eulogy that his colleague Dr Mike Carpenter delivered at his funeral. Ian Pitter was born in Barking in Essex, the son of a schoolmaster and cabinet maker and a seamstress but was evacuated during the war to Wiltshire ‘where he seemed to enjoy a Swallows and Amazons lifestyle’. At school he developed his lifelong interest in church and classical music and was a successful sportsman, winning the Sussex County featherweight boxing championship. During his time at Sidney he took on the organisation of the Chapel choir and sang at the inaugural Edington Festival of Music in 1956. Ian completed his clinical medical studies at St Thomas’ Hospital. While there he developed cancer of the tongue, which required radiotherapy. He was told that this would mean that he would lose his teeth but he designed a protective shield, ensuring that his teeth lasted his lifetime. Following graduation he continued to work at St Thomas’, where he won the obstetrics prize, and later in Swindon. During this time he met his first wife Rosalie, moving to Jersey with her and their two children in the mid-1960s.

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 Later he married his second wife Jill, who had two daughters of her own and with whom he later had a son. General practice in those days was a hard life, working on call 24/7, and very competitive. But his practice flourished in the 1970s and 1980s and Dr Carpenter joined him in 1984. In 1996 they merged to become the Crahamel Medical Practice but Ian felt a larger practice was not for him and he retired in 1998. Ian was a man of diverse skills. He was a natural musician, a keen and talented poet, skier and sailor. He designed and helped to build his two houses in Jersey, Wychwood and Mont Gavey. Theirs was one of the first practices on the island to use computers; Ian built his own computers and wrote his own software. He was a keen student of the stock market and in retirement became an active and initially successful day trader. Ian enjoyed a full retirement until he was struck down with motor neurone disease, becoming more disabled over the last 18 months of his life. As a doctor this must have filled him with dread, but he bore his illness with great stoicism and his final illness was mercifully short. He died on 10 June 2011 and is survived by his wife Jill, his children and stepchildren, and nine grandchildren. ROBSON, John Edward, 1941, born 8 April 1923; ed. Haileybury; read Natural Sciences. This obituary is based on the one that appeared in the Daily Telegraph on 24 January 1912. John Edward Robson was born in London on 8 April 1923. He went up to Sidney in 1941 but left in the summer of 1942 and, after completing a short course at Sandhurst, was commissioned into the 27th Lancers. He was posted to the 12th Lancers and, having joined the regiment in Algiers in October 1943, landed in Naples the following April. On 26 April 1945, Robson, by now a lieutenant, was patrolling in an armoured car near Lendinara, northern Italy, with orders to carry out a reconnaissance on the approaches to the river Adige. He was in close country, there were enemy pockets of resistance everywhere, and he and his troop corporal decided that they must cover the last part on foot. As they got near to the river, their way was barred by a strong German fighting patrol. Robson was short of time because the Engineers were in urgent need of his report. He and his comrade were unsupported and heavily outnumbered. If it came to a confrontation, they stood every chance of being killed or captured

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the register – but they immediately opened fire with their Tommy guns and charged the enemy. In the short, fierce fight that followed, they killed four and made prisoners of another eight. They then went on to the river and, after getting back to the cars, were able to radio the vital information required. Robson was awarded an Immediate MC. The citation noted: ‘This is only one of several occasions when he has shown outstanding qualities of determination and fighting spirit.’ After the war he went to Egypt and to Palestine. He retired from the Army in 1947 and worked for Samuel Osborn & Company, steelmakers and manu facturers of engineering tools, based in Sheffield. He subsequently became managing director of Samuel Osborn Overseas. He retired in 1978 and farmed in Sussex and then in the Ashdown Forest. Robson was an enthusiastic sportsman. He was an expert falconer and also enjoyed stalking in Scotland. By 1955 he had hunted with 19 packs of foxhounds, 19 packs of beagles, 12 packs of otter hounds and various packs of harriers and staghounds. From 1974 to 1986 he was Joint Master of the Old Surrey & Burstow and in 1995, when he hung up his hunting boots, he had ridden 71 horses since the end of the war. In 1998, he published One Man in His Time, a biography of his friend David James, the politician, writer and adventurer. Robson was also the author of A Portrait of Jorrocks Country: The Old Surrey and Burstow Hunt (2001). In 1955 John Robson married Wendy Cox, who pre-deceased him. He died on 9 December 2011 and is survived by his two sons. ROGERS, Arthur Philip Heberden, 1935, BA; born 2 July 1916; ed. St Edward’s School, Oxford; read Economics. We are grateful to Michael Rogers for his eulogy to his father from which this obituary is drawn. Arthur Rogers was the youngest son of the Revd Philip Harold Rogers and Nora Frances, née Heberden. At school he excelled at rowing, an enthusiasm he continued at Sidney, where he stroked the first eight and as Captain of Boats was entitled to occupy AI, allegedly the room used by Oliver Cromwell. After graduating he entered into articles of clerkship first with William Lovatt and then Geoffrey Bostock. He found the work excessively boring and believed himself fortunate to have been rescued from this tedium by the outbreak of the war. He joined the Royal Artillery as a survey officer at Regimental Head Quarters, from where he was posted to Imphal in Assam. In 1942 he joined

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 the newly formed Army Air Corps, where he was one of a group of RA officers flying Auster observation aircraft. It appears that during the war in India and Burma he led a mostly charmed life. On one occasion he ran out of fuel over the jungle, but luckily spotted a clearing where the army engineers were building a new road. He landed successfully and having borrowed some petrol the senior REME officer asked if there was anything else they could do for him. He replied that for take off with a full load of fuel it would be nice if the runway could be extended. The officer replied, ‘No trouble, sir,’ and ordered his men to bulldoze the jungle another 100 yards. All the testimonials from his service days refer to a hardworking, honest and cheerful character, who was adept at getting the best out of the men under his command. After the war he married Vivian Earle Walker, from Montreal, before joining the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company as a commercial assistant in 1949. He died peacefully at Clarkson House Hospice, Jersey, on 3 October 2011. ROLFE, Patrick, 2006, BA; born 12 February 1987; ed. St Benedict’s school, Ealing; read Social and Political Studies. This obituary by Patrick’s sister Ella appeared in the Guardian on Thursday 21 July 2011. My younger brother, Patrick Rolfe, who has died of cancer aged 24, was an activist, environmentalist and a revolutionary in the widest sense. He had just begun a PhD at Leeds University, researching community responses to wind farms – which followed on from his strongly held beliefs in direct action, wide collaboration between communities and political groups, and a more equitable world. As a child, Patrick drew constantly and became a talented cartoonist as his interests in science, politics and philosophy developed. During his teenage years, music helped him express his developing thoughts about injustice and inequality. Venues around Ealing reverberated to the sounds of the Quatermass Experiment and Hands off Cuba, the bands in which he played. His creativity stayed with him as he became more active in first liberal, then socialist politics. Patrick gained respect at the universities he attended for his ability to bring together warring groups and his commitment to peaceful protest. During his last year at Sidney, in 2009, he was involved in the occupation of the University’s Law faculty in protest at the war in Gaza. He spent the summer of that year

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the register camping outside the Vestas wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight, galvanising the workers into a factory occupation to protest at its closure. In 2010 he was one of the ‘Sussex Six’ who were briefly suspended from Sussex University (where he was studying for an MA in environment, development and policy) because, as he put it to me, he was the well-spoken posh kid pushed to the front of the crowd to talk to the riot police during a protest against cuts. He did not intend to be the leader but was appointed spontaneously by others as a result of his intelligent and calm nature. Two months before he died on 10 June 2011, Patrick was still acting as a vital information hub during the 26 March protest against government cuts, blogging from his hospital bed. His wide network of friends fed him their experiences and viewpoints over Twitter during the day. In his short life, Patrick left a mark on many people. His presence will be felt for many years through the writing and ideas he left behind, but memories of his sense of humour will also comfort us. He is survived by his parents Helen and Andy, me and his girlfriend, Lily. In his final week, he told us he wished to be remembered as ‘a person of strong beliefs’. ROWLEY, Edward Nicholas, 1968, MA; born 18 January 1950; ed. Christ’s Hospital, Horsham; read Mathematics. We are grateful to Edward’s wife Barbara for this obituary Ted was born in Harrow, Middlesex. When he left Cambridge in 1971, he had little idea of what to do with his life. A few months later he was offered an opportunity to teach maths for two terms at Broxbourne School, where the head was the father of John Laydon (1967), also at Sidney. He found that he enjoyed teaching enormously and completed his PGCE at Leeds. In 1973, he went to teach at Hedley Walter School, Brentwood, where he quickly gained promotion and then became head of the maths department at Netteswell School, Harlow, in January 1977. He moved to Mark Hall School, Harlow, in 1981 as senior teacher, and then became deputy head. He became head teacher of the John Bramston School, Witham, in Essex in September 1990, leaving in 2007. Ted had always really enjoyed the actual teaching side and was really pleased after leaving Witham to obtain a teaching post in Rome at the New School, teaching GCSE and A level. He was there for nearly four years, becoming ill with cancer in his last few months, and having to come home for treatment. We had already bought a holiday home in another part of Italy when he got the job there, so had already begun to embrace the Italian culture, food and

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 language. He had the most fabulous time during his years at the New School, and had very good success with A-level results in particular. Sport was always very important to Ted, and he continued to play hockey for many years, latterly with Braintree hockey club. His other passions were his allotment, food and wine. Ted Rowley leaves his wife Barbara, whom he met at Cambridge while she was at Homerton, and three children, Isabel, Alice and Nicholas. SCHWARZ-LIEBERMANN, Professor Dr Hans Ingmar Georg Albrecht, 1950, Dr jur (summa cum laude) Tübingen, 1950; born 2 August 1922; ed. Bismarck Gymnasium, Berlin. This obituary is drawn from material published by Olivier Moréteau in the Journal of Civil Law Studies. Hans-Albrecht Schwarz-Liebermann von Wahlen dorf was born in Berlin, the son of a Prussian diplomat, and received an aristocratic education. He was home-schooled in the leading European languages before graduating from the Bismarck Gymnasium. He escaped the Nazi persecutions, and studied Russian and philosophy. Immediately after the Second World War he joined the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and studied law in Tübingen, where he got his doctorate. He did academic work at The Hague Academy of International Law, as a research student at Sidney Sussex and at several law schools in the United States, including the University of Michigan. From 1952 onwards, he worked on European integration projects at the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in close cooperation with Heinrich von Brentano and Walther Hallstein. He was also associated with the work being done on security issues by future Chancellor Kiesinger and Chancellor Ardenauer. He contributed to the drafting of the first European treaties. In 1957, he became NATO’s associate director for political affairs. After having lectured all around the world (1960–61), he was made director of research and university cooperation for the Council of Europe (Strasbourg, 1962–7). Although a man of action, he remained a scholar. In 1968, he was made an associate professor at the University of Nice, and in 1974, he joined the law faculty of Université Jean Moulin in Lyon, where he was made full professor, teaching comparative law and legal philosophy. He left Lyon with the title of Professor Emeritus in 1982. Back in Germany, he resumed his political life in

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the register Hamburg, and also sat on the board of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Law until 1992. He was very active in Germany’s foreign policy all these years, with important missions in the Soviet bloc, while working to convince German students of the necessity of deploying Pershing missiles in West Germany, to oppose the SS-20 missiles deployed in the Warsaw Pact countries and ultimately end the Cold War. He was President of the Robert Schuman Institute for Europe (1984–94) and was made Honorary Director of the Édouard Lambert Institute of Comparative Law (Lyon, 2001). Between the early 1950s and 1990s he published extensively in German, French and English. In 1955, he married Denise Kerdilès, from France, who predeceased him by two years. On 6 August 2011, four days after his 89th birthday, he died peacefully at the home in Rheinbreitbach, near Bonn, to which they had moved in 1989. SMITH, Professor Kenneth Frederick, 1942, MA; born 12 February 1924; ed. Colfe’s Grammar School Greenwich; read Natural Sciences. This obituary is based on the one that appeared in the Guardian on 9 May 2012. Born in Tooting, the son of a draughtsman, Ken won scholarships both to his grammar school and to Sidney. After he completed the Natural Sciences Part 1 exam in 1944, he was recruited by Sir John Cockcroft to the UK-Canadian contribution to the atomic bomb project, located in the reactor laboratories in Chalk River, Ontario. The British scientists who went to North America made a significant contribution to the bombs that brought the war with Japan to an end. After their return to Britain in 1946, they were housed at an airfield camp at Harwell, Oxfordshire, so they could record all they had learned. Cockcroft was in overall charge, and Ken worked under Otto Frisch. The following year Frisch succeeded Cockcroft in his Cambridge post and Ken returned to Sidney to complete his first degree. In 1948 Frisch, keen to broaden the work in atomic and nuclear physics at the Cavendish Laboratories, gave research studentships to Ken and to Ted Bellamy to work jointly on a new line of research, atomic-beam radiofrequency spectroscopy. They eventually built a machine that could provide a sophisticated obstacle race for atoms, so making some spectacular new physics measurements. From 1951, Ken continued his research alone. He went on to lead the atomic beams group at the Cavendish and write the study Molecular

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 Beams (1955). When he finally left Cambridge it was to take over as the founding professor of experimental physics at Sussex University. He gave himself unstintingly to university administrative duties, particularly in the early years. He built an excellent department, and collaborated with the architect Sir Basil Spence in designing the Pevensey 2 physics block. His research group concentrated on fundamental physics laws as revealed in the properties of atoms and the neutron. Following the pioneering work of the Americans James Cronin and Val Logsdon Fitch, and the Russian scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov, Ken’s group started working in 1965 on a programme to measure the electric dipole of the neutron, a programme that, in collaboration with other groups, is still continuing with increasingly precise results. The measurements test the validity of particle physics theories, and the results from Ken’s group have continued to refine the understanding of them. For 15 years after retirement in 1989, Ken continued to make generous and significant contributions to physics research. He also became an expert in computer software, microprocessors and electronics. As the last surviving founder member of the school of mathematical and physical sciences at Sussex, he participated in the 50th anniversary celebrations. Ken met his wife, Verena Spinner, at a party at Cambridge in 1949, and the following year they were married in her home city, Zurich. She survives him, as do his three daughters and a son. He died on 30 March 2012. SMITH, Leslie George, 1970, MA; born 11 February 1959; ed. The Brunts Grammar School, Mansfield; read Natural Sciences. We are grateful to Leslie’s wife Margaret for the tribute by his mother and sister on which this obituary is based. Leslie was born at Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notting hamshire in 1952, the son of Arthur Smith, a shop manager. Music was always important to him. At the age of four, at primary school, he learned to play the recorder and at Brunts Grammar School he began playing the clarinet and joined the school orchestra. He was active in the youth club at St Mary Magdalene’s church in Sutton-in-Ashfield and learned bell ringing there. Following graduation he spent a short period engaged in research but decided after two terms not to continue. He took a temporary post at Mathew Holland School in Selston before doing a PGCE in Cambridge in 1976. He then

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the register went to Ashville College as assistant master in the chemistry department and assistant house tutor in one of the boarding houses. Paying tribute to Leslie on his retirement, his friend and fellow teacher, Richard Horsley, described Ashville at the time they joined as ‘something resembling J. K. Rowling’s Hogwarts, Dickens’ Dotheboys Hall or Ronald Searle’s illustrations of Molesworth’s St Custards’. As the school subsequently sought to modernise and reinvent itself, his role was evidently immense and much appreciated. During his career at Ashfield, Leslie took part in many school activities, including acting in school and staff dramatic and musical productions, designing stage lighting, playing the clarinet and bass clarinet in the school orchestra, and singing tenor in the school choir. He met his wife, Margaret, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and teacher at Harrogate Ladies’ College, at the Harrogate Choral Society. They not only shared a love of music but also of railways. They were enthusiastic volunteers on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, the premier heritage site in the country. Leslie became a signalman and eventually took on the responsibility of training prospective signalmen as signalling inspector. Margaret became a booking clerk and station foreman at Goathland Station, also known to TV watchers as Aidensfield and Hogsmeade. Leslie also worked as a volunteer at the National Railway Museum in York, demonstrating the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway signalling school layout. On the retirement of the head of chemistry at Ashfield, Leslie took on this role, relinquishing it when he became Ashville’s examination officer. His knowledge of the examination system was vast and his colleagues came to rely on him to sort out their problems. When Leslie announced that he was going to take early retirement, a panic ensued to try and find a successor and it took nearly a year to train her, such were the demands of the job. Unfortunately he did not have long to enjoy his retirement, as he died of a heart attack while on duty at Goathland on 30 December 2011. STANSFIELD, William Holdcroft, 1959, MA; born 11 July 1940; ed. Rugby School; read Law. We are grateful to Bill’s brother-in-law, Bryan Lovell, for the eulogy and notes on which this obituary is based. Bill Stansfield was born in Congleton in Cheshire on 11 July 1940, the son of James Warden Stansfield (1924). Like his father before him, Bill spent his life as a

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 lawyer. As a holiday job before coming up to Sidney he worked as a reporter for a local paper and was asked to take up journalism as a career, but he continued with the law and after Cambridge was articled to Cobbets in Manchester. He married Wilma Booker in 1966 and they had two sons and a daughter. He was a solicitor in Market Drayton for a short time and then moved to Warrington, where he became a District Judge. His brother-in-law recalls that ‘Bill was part of an urbane generation of Cambridge undergraduates, rejoicing in wit in the style of Oscar Wilde, and also, in Bill’s case, P. G. Wodehouse... Bill wore his professional advances with characteristic lightness. His was a record of excellent service to the legal profession and hence to the community. First came the years on the Cheshire plain, the accomplished solicitor with a young family... Then came the years in the beauty of the hills, the judge looking out over the beauty of the plain, commanding his dogs above and his courts below... There may be those who fail to combine public distinction with a happy family life, but not Bill. He was a fine brother, husband, father, grandfather, uncle, cousin, fan of Ella Fitzgerald, erstwhile trombonist and friend.’ Bill enjoyed walking and gardening and spent many happy times in the Lake District. He adored his dogs, especially flatcoated retrievers, and was never happier than when he had his family and all seven grandchildren around him. He died on 22 July 2010. STRUTHERS, John Langford, 1949, BA, MB, BChir; born 2 January 1929; ed. Charterhouse; read Natural Sciences and Medicine. This obituary is drawn from material contained in the celebration of John’s life at the Southampton Crematorium on 17 February 2012. John was born in Finchley (the family later moved to Primrose Hill), the son of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn. At school he began to develop his interest in music, especially singing, and also in woodwork. John joined the REME for his National Service hoping not only to learn a trade but also to drive and see the world. But with one lorry between several hundred men he sadly seldom left Catterick, let alone England. He greatly enjoyed his time at Sidney and took up rowing there, going on to finish his medical training at St Bart’s Hospital, where his parents had met. After a series of house jobs he was appointed registrar in the geriatric unit in Southampton, and it was there that he was to meet his own wife Val. After a

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the register short time as an assistant GP in Berkshire, where their daughter Catherine was born, they moved back to a practice in Southampton. Although he didn’t suffer fools gladly, John had what his family described as ‘a caring gene’ – he had a passion for the NHS and for free health care, never taking a private patient in his life. His involvement in the establishment of the medical school was one of the highlights of John’s long and successful medical career. He loved teaching and, as one of his oldest friends remarked, ‘was very good at saying just enough to encourage you to seek the rest of the answer for yourself ’. John had a heart attack in 1988 and retired from general practice. He continued working as a medical officer in the forces and then on tribunals for the NHS, but he always missed his patients and students and the opportunities they gave him to share his knowledge. He was a man of many talents and much knowledge. In the family he was called ‘the oracle’, while someone else is reported as saying, ‘Who needs Google, if you have John Struthers?’ He died on 7 February 2012 and is survived by his wife, Val, their son and three daughters. THOMAS, Maurice, 1944, MA; born 15 April 1926; ed. King Edward VII Grammar School, Coalville; read Natural Sciences. We are grateful to Maurice’s daughter Jill for this obituary. Maurice Thomas was born in Leicestershire, the son of a coalminer. His early academic achievements and those of his siblings were acknowledged by tutors, but the poverty into which the family was born threatened to preclude them from continuing in education. The local press reported this and ultimately the national daily newspapers heard the story. ‘Poverty May Bar Them’ was the headline in the Daily Mirror, and this resulted in offers of support from generous organisations and philanthropists. This generosity enabled him to go to grammar school and subsequently to Sidney to read Physics. In his professional activities Maurice used his background in physics to great effect after joining British Steel. He rapidly contributed to major innovations in its furnace technology. In the 1980s he was numbered among the most brilliant of the engineers in the company. His achievements were recognised when he became its chief engineer. Before his retirement, he travelled widely, advising and guiding many countries on their steel plant technology. However, he never forgot his humble beginnings and was always keen to help others.

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 He spent a long and busy retirement in Yorkshire, where he was very involved with village and church activities. He was very much a ‘people person’ and liked nothing more than debating the meaning of life with young and old alike. He had friends from all walks of life. He was hugely proud of his family. Both his grandchildren were adopted from South America and so it seemed natural for him to become involved in an overseas adoption charity and become its secretary. He enjoyed his life up until the end, never believing that he was ageing and refusing to accept that the village senior citizens’ lunch applied to him. He died on 8 September 2011. Maurice was very special to all who knew him and will be sadly missed. He is survived by his eldest daughter and two grandchildren. WALKER, David Lund, 1941, MA; born 18 September 1922; ed. Bradford Grammar School; read Classics and History. We are grateful to David’s daughter Jane Woolfrey for the material on which this obituary is based. David Walker was born in Bingley, the son of Ralph and Mary Walker. His father worked on the railways as a weigh clerk and later ran a corner shop. Even as a schoolboy he knew that he wanted to teach. He won an Open Exhibition in Classics at Sidney and a county major scholarship and government bursary, without which he might not have been able to take up his place. His undergraduate career was interrupted by war service in the Royal Artillery. He served in North West Europe, arriving in France five days after D-Day. At the end of the war, as a lance bombardier, he was involved in defending German prisoners of war because he was the only person locally who spoke any German at all. There was a particular Canadian judge who was notoriously harsh. His daughter recalls that ‘Dad was really worried that his lack of German might result in a German POW receiving a harsher sentence than was fair’. He returned to Cambridge in 1947, switching to History for Part II of the Tripos before obtaining a Diploma in Education in 1948. The rest of his career was spent, as he had always intended, as a schoolmaster, first at Christ’s College, Brecon (1948–54), then at City of Oxford High School for Boys (1954–66) and finally at Oxford School, after the City High School merged with Southfield.

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the register Apart from teaching classics, in all three schools he was involved in organising cricket and rugby, games of which he was an ardent follower. He was a sociable man and he and his wife Joan, whom he married in 1957, entertained regularly. In 1958 he became a member of the examiners panel of the Oxford Local Board for O-level history, and it must have been here that he met Colin Dexter (the author of the Inspector Morse novels), who was one of a group of colleagues who met regularly in the Friar Bacon pub in North Oxford on a Friday night. David continued to be a member of a ‘gentlemen’s drinking club’, which met at The Harvester in Kidlington, until shortly before his death. He led an active retirement. He and Joan were enthusiastic gardeners and members of the local historical society. They also took up bowls. He played several times a week and ran a couple of teams in the indoor league at City and County during the winter months. The bowls club in Kidlington was a huge support to him after Joan’s death and club members gave him lifts to games and social activities when driving became more difficult for him. He died in Skipton on 23 May 2012 and is survived by his daughters, Jane and Sarah. WARREN, Charles Peter, 1958, MA, MB, BChir (Cantab), FRCP, FRCPC; born 4 October 1940; ed. Sherborne School; read Natural Sciences. This obituary is based on that published by the Winnipeg Free Press on 14 May 2011, and on information received from Peter’s widow, Faye. Peter Warren acquired his medical education in Britain at Cambridge and Guy‘s Hospital, where he received numerous awards for excellence. He came to Winnipeg in 1971 as a specialist in lung disease. He worked at both St Boniface Hospital and the Health Sciences Center, did clinical research and medical teaching, and was a student of the history of medicine. An expert in allergic lung disease, he published numerous papers on the subject and did early work on the risks of grain dust exposure. His peer recognition was symbolised in the form of appointments as vice president and president of the Canadian Thoracic Society. He won many awards for teaching excellence, culminating in being elected Honorary Senior Stick for two years by medical students. He was a professor of medicine and associate dean for undergraduate medical education, running the student teaching programme at the Medical Faculty of the University of Manitoba, and

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 as such supervised a substantial change in the medical curriculum. He was a world-class medical historian, with two degrees in history and numerous papers. This interest extended beyond his retirement as a physician in 2006 and he was president of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine at his death. Peter Warren was a man of sterling personal qualities. He was quiet and unassuming but was very effective at getting things done, both by enlisting others and setting an example himself; he did not expect people to accomplish things that he was unwilling or unable to do. He was a keen golfer and world traveller, and left many friends and admirers in the medical community. He died unexpectedly on 2 May 2011. Peter Warren was predeceased by his parents, Elizabeth Margaret Park and Dr Wilfrid Warren (1929). He was the beloved husband of Faye, dear father of Patrick (Brandy) and Richard, loving and proud Pompa of Mackenzie, Devyn and Aidan, much admired son-in-law of Myrtle Spencer, and adored brother of Ann Roberts (Vaughan) and their children. WILSON, His Honour, Harold, 1951, MA; born 19 September 1931; ed. St Albans School; read History and Law. We are grateful to Diana Silk for supplying the information in this obituary. ‘Harry’ Wilson was the son of an inspector of taxes. At school in St Albans he showed early signs of a sharp intellect, gaining a major scholarship to Sidney. There he developed his gift for acting, taking the lead role in The Changeling in his final year, turned out for the rugby team and spent many weekends with the Air Force Volunteer Reserve. After a brief spell in hospital administration he obtained a pupillage in chambers at 2 Harcourt Buildings. He was called to the bar in 1958 and practised on the Oxford Circuit where he built up a general practice with the emphasis on criminal law and had a reputation as a strong advocate. He began his formal judicial career as deputy chairman of Monmouthshire Quarter Sessions and recorder of the Crown Court. In 1976 he was appointed chairman of industrial tribunals in Birmingham. Five years later he was appointed a circuit judge and became the resident judge and honorary recorder of Coventry. In 1992, he progressed to being the resident judge in Oxford and honorary recorder of the city in 1996. In both Coventry and

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the register Oxford he was the designated family judge, his main interest being in the welfare of children. He helped introduce the practice of Conciliation, Reparation and video linking in the family courts over which he presided and was prominent in implementing the Children Act 1989 in the family courts. In addition, he spent several weeks as president of the transport tribunal and judge in the employment appeal tribunal. A spell in the Supreme Court in Gibraltar covering for leave periods added variety to an already full CV. He became a Bencher at Grays Inn in 1997, and following his retirement in 2000 was invited to sit at the Old Bailey. In 2004 he was made the first Shrieval Remembrancer for Oxfordshire; his duties were to assist and guide the Shrievalty with the ceremonial aspects of the annual swearing-in, the assize sermon and the High Sheriffs’ law lecture. Among his many friends and judicial colleagues he had a reputation as a jovial companion with an infectious chuckle, an encourager of all ambition, a persuasive advocate and a firm leader and manager. In his last years, he suffered increasing health problems but was able to continue to enjoy many of the activities that had filled his life, including a last Sidney reunion dinner with seven of his 1951 contemporaries (one of whom was his brother-in-law). They and their wives had maintained contact with each other over the years and frequently dined together in College. He celebrated his 80th birthday at home with his large family shortly before his final illness. Harry died on 5 November 2011. He is survived by his wife Jill, two sons and a daughter from his first marriage, and a stepson and stepdaughter. One son predeceased him. We have also heard of the deaths of: BARRACLOUGH, M W R (1932) BRADLEY, J R (1948) DAVENPORT, P T (1943) DAVIDSON, P B (1941) EDWARDS, S J (1975) GRIGSBY, J E (1957) HATT, J J (1957) HERD, F C (1933) JARVIS, J R (1963) JENKINS, D (1930)

MACKAY, I L (1938) MCIVER, C (1940) MCNEILE, S S (1946) NEGUS, R M (1953) PARKER, C H J (1962) PAVATE, K (1951) SMITH, K B (1933) TAYLER, D B (1955) WINSER, J F (1937)

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The College 2012–13 Visitor The Right Honourable Philip John Algernon Sidney, Viscount De L’Isle, MBE Master Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, DPhil (Oxon), OBE, FBA On leave until July 2013 aw479@cam.ac.uk Personal Assistant: 330868 ah623@sid.cam.ac.uk Acting Master Richard Penty, PhD, FREng acting-master@sid.cam.ac.uk Personal Assistant: 330868 ah623@cam.ac.uk

Senior Tutor Massimo Beber, MPhil senior.tutor@sid.cam.ac.uk Personal Assistant: 338847 mtb28@cam.ac.uk Tutors for Graduate Students Berry Groisman, PhD gradtutor@sid.cam.ac.uk Jillaine Seymour, DPhil gradtutor@sid.cam.ac.uk Personal Assistant: 338810 amp80@cam.ac.uk Tutors Brian Billups, PhD Erika Eiser, PhD (Rehovot) Michael Ramage, MArch

Acting Vice Master Rosamond McKitterick, LittD, MA, PhD vice-master@sid.cam.ac.uk

David Skinner, DPhil (Oxon) Jane Spencer, PhD Tutorial Assistant: 338844 csc37@cam.ac.uk Admissions Director Kirsten Dickers, PhD admissions.director@sid.cam.ac.uk Admissions Officer, 338872 admissions@sid.cam.ac.uk Dean Robert Busch, PhD dean@sid.cam.ac.uk Chaplain Paul Brice, BSc chaplain@sid.cam.ac.uk

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 Bursar Nick Allen, MA bursar@sid.cam.ac.uk HR and Bursary Assistant: 338882 jdb63@cam.ac.uk Development Director Bill Abraham, BA Development@sid.cam.ac.uk Domus Bursar Keith Willox, 760948 domusbursar@sid.cam.ac.uk Steward Lindsay Greer, PhD steward@sid.cam.ac.uk Wine Steward Barry Nisbet, LittD, PhD (Edinburgh) Praelector Jane Spencer, PhD praelector@sid.cam.ac.uk Secretary: 338810 amp80@cam.ac.uk Keeper of Manuscripts and Archives Rosamond McKitterick, LittD, MA, PhD Keeper of Pictures Richard Humphreys, MA

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the college 2012–13 Keeper of Silver Janice Stargardt, DLett (Paris) College Librarian Fellow: Massimo Beber, MPhil Librarian: Alan Stevens, 338852 librarian@sid.cam.ac.uk Communications Officer David Beckingham, PhD Computer Officer Andrew Flewitt, PhD Editor of the College Annual James Mayall, MA, FBA annual@sid.cam.ac.uk Secretary: 330868 ah623@cam.ac.uk Note: All telephone numbers, if called from outside the Cambridge area, must be prefixed by +44 (0)1223.

■■ College Lecturers Architecture Michael Ramage, MArch Classics Yannis Galanakis, DPhil (Oxon) (from Lent Term 2013) Economics Massimo Beber, MPhil Michael Pollitt, DPhil (Oxon)

Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering Abir Al-Tabbaa, PhD Andrew Flewitt, PhD John Longley, PhD

Modern and Medieval Languages Natasha Franklin, MA (Voronezh) Emma Gilby, PhD Mariá Noriega-Sánchez, PhD (Sheffield and Valencia)

English Edward Wilson-Lee, PhD

Music David Skinner, DPhil (Oxon)

Geography David Beckingham, PhD History Bernhard Fulda, PhD

Natural Sciences Brian Billups, PhD Erika Eiser, PhD (Rehovot) Rebecca Kilner, PhD

Law Jillaine Seymour, DPhil (Oxon) Mathematics Berry Groisman, PhD Medical and Veterinary Sciences Frances Hall, DPhil (Oxon) Antony Jackson, PhD

Philosophy Paulina Sliwa, PhD Politics, Psychology and Sociology Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, PhD (EUI, Florence) Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov, PhD (Stanford)

Note: Further information about the College and its officers may be found on the College’s website: www.sid.cam.ac.uk/people

■■ Directors of Studies Subject All Parts of Tripos unless otherwise indicated Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Archaeology and Part I Anthropology Part IIA+IIB (Archaeology and BioAnthropology)

Directors of Studies (all terms unless otherwise indicated) Dr Love* Dr Woodman* Dr Stargardt Dr Stargardt

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 Part IIA+IIB Dr Ssorin-Chaikov (Soc. Anth.) Dr De Magahlães* Architecture Mr Ramage Asian and Middle Dr Steger* Eastern Studies Chemical Engineering Dr Rough* Classics Parts IA and IB Dr Uhlig Part II Dr Omitowoju* Computer Science Dr Hadley* Economics Parts I and IIA Professor Chatterji Part IIB Dr Pollitt Engineering Part IA Dr Longley Part IB Dr Al-Tabbaa Part IIA Dr Flewitt Part IIB Dr Longley English Dr Wilson-Lee Geography Dr Beckingham History Prelim to Part I Dr Fulda Part I Dr Fulda Part II Professor McKitterick History of Art Dr Marr* Human, Social, Political Science Tripos Dr De Magahlães* Dr Eilstrup-Sangiovanni Professor Mayall Dr Ssorin-Chaikov Dr Stargardt Land Economy Professor McHugh Law Parts IA and IB Mr Mares~ Dr Seymour Part II Mr Mares~ Dr Seymour LLM Dr Seymour Linguistics Mrs Franklin Management Studies Dr Pollitt Manufacturing Part IIA Dr Flewitt Engineering Part IIB Dr Longley

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the college 2012–13 Mathematics Part IA Part IB Part II Part III & MAST Medicine Part IA Part IB Part II Clinical Studies Modern and Medieval Part IA+IB Languages Year Abroad Part II Music Natural Sciences Part IA (Physical) Part IA (Biological) Part IB (Physical) Part IB (Biological) Part II (Physical) Part II (Biological) Part III (Physical) Part III (Biological) Philosophy Politics, Psychology and Sociology Psychological and Behavioural Studies Theological and Religious Studies Veterinary Medicine

Dr Ross Dr Groisman Dr Boucher~ Dr Doran Dr Ross Dr Jackson Dr Flynn Dr Busch Dr Gurnell^ Mrs Franklin Dr White Dr White Dr Skinner Dr Bucar^ Dr Bennett* Dr Bucar^ Dr Doran Dr Bennett* Dr Bucar^ Dr Doran Dr Kilner Dr Bucar^ Dr Doran Dr Kilner Mr Trueman* Dr Eilstrup-Sangiovanni Professor Lamb Professor Mayall Professor Lamb Dr Seach* Dr Roberts

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■■ The Fellows Elected 1955 Professor Derek Beales, LittD PhD FBA, Emeritus Professor of Modern History 1962 Dr Paul Scott, PhD, former University Lecturer in Physics 1965 Professor Tim Blanning, LittD PhD FBA, Emeritus Professor of Modern European History 1966 Mr Donald Green, MA, former University Lecturer in Engineering 1968 Mr Christopher Parish, MA MB ChB FRCS FFPHM FSA, former Postgraduate Dean and Consultant Cardio-thoracic Surgeon, Addenbrooke’s Hospital and Papworth Hospital 1972 Dr Roderick Woods, DPhil (Oxon), former University Lecturer in Physiology 1973 Dr Peter Collier, PhD (London), former University Senior Lecturer in French 1973 Professor Alan Hughes, MA, Margaret Thatcher Professor of Enterprise Studies, Judge Business School and Director, Centre for Business Research 1976 Professor Keith Glover, PhD (MIT) FRS FREng, Professor of Engineering 1979 Professor Dame Ann Dowling, DBE PhD ScD FRS FREng, Professor of Engineering and Head of the Department of Engineering 1980 Professor William Jones, PhD (Wales), Professor of Chemistry 1982 Professor Barry Nisbet, LittD PhD (Edinburgh), Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages (German) 1982 Professor Ronald Horgan, PhD, Professor of Mathematics 1984 Professor Paul McHugh, PhD, Professor of Law and Legal History 1984 Professor A. Lindsay Greer, PhD, Professor of Materials Science, Head, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Chair, Faculty Board of Engineering 1985 Professor Christopher Page, DPhil (York), Professor of Medieval Music and Literature 1990 Professor Timothy M. Cox, MD FRCP FMedSci, Professor of Medicine 1992 Dr Antony Jackson, PhD, University Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry 1993 Dr John Longley, PhD, University Senior Lecturer in Engineering

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the college 2012–13 1994 Dr Helen Castor, PhD, Fellow in Medieval History 1994 Dr Michael Pollitt, DPhil (Oxon), Reader in Business Economics 1995 Professor Alan Dashwood, MA CBE QC, Emeritus Professor of European Law 1995 Professor Sir Tom Blundell, DPhil (Oxon) FRS FMedSci, Director of Research and Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry 1997 Dr Abir Al-Tabbaa, PhD, University Reader in Geotechnical Engineering 1997 Professor Sir John Walker, DPhil (Oxon) Hon DSc (Oxon) FRS FMedSci, Professor of Molecular Bioenergetics, Director of MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit 1998 Professor James Mayall, MA FBA, Emeritus Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations 1998 Professor Dame Sandra Dawson, DBE BA, former Master, KPMG Professor of Management, Judge Business School and Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of Cambridge. 1999 Dr Andrew Flewitt, PhD, Reader in Engineering 2000 Dr Christopher Doran, PhD, PPARC/RSE Enterprise Fellow in Physics 2000 Mr Massimo Beber, MPhil, Senior Tutor and Fellow in Economics 2001 Mrs Natasha Franklin, MA, University Senior Language Teaching Officer in Modern and Medieval Languages 2002 Dr Janice Stargardt, DLett (Paris), Emeritus PACSEA Professorial Research Fellow in Geography 2002 Professor Richard Penty, PhD, FREng, Professor of Photonics (Engineering) 2002 Dr Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov, PhD (Stanford), University Lecturer in Social Anthropology 2003 Dr Jillaine Seymour, LLB (Queensland) DPhil (Oxon), John Thornely Fellow in Law 2003 Dr Frances Hall, DPhil (Oxon) FRCP, ARC Rheumatology Lecturer, Hon Consultant Rheumatologist, University of Cambridge Clinical School of Medicine 2004 Professor Christopher Hill, DPhil (Oxon) FBA, Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations and Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies 2004 Dr Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, PhD (European University Institute), University Lecturer in International Relations

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 2005 Dr Rebecca Kilner, PhD, Royal Society University Research Fellow in Zoology, University Reader in Biology 2005 Mr Clive Wilmer, MA, Emeritus Fellow in English 2005 Dr Colin Roberts, PhD (Open University) FRCVS Fellow in Veterinary Medicine 2005 Dr Paul Flynn, PhD MRCP MRCPI, Consultant Physician, Acute and Metabolic Medicine, Addenbrooke’s Hospital 2006 Dr Emma Gilby, PhD, University Senior Lecturer in Modern and Medieval Languages 2006 Dr Robert Busch, PhD (London), ARC Senior Research Fellow 2007 Professor Rosamond McKitterick, LittD MA PhD, Professor of Medieval History 2007 Dr Brian Billups, MSc (Birmingham) PhD (University College, London), University Lecturer in Pharmacology 2007 Dr Bernard Fulda, PhD, David Thomson Senior Research Fellow in History 2007 Dr David Skinner, DPhil (Oxon) MMus (Edinburgh) BA (California State University, USA), Director of Music 2007 Dr Kirsten Dickers, PhD, Admissions Director, Fellow in Natural Sciences 2007 Dr Julius Ross, PhD (Imperial College, London), Fellow in Mathematics 2008 Mr Nick Allen, MA, Senior Bursar 2008 Dr Erika Eiser, PhD (Weizmann Institute), Reader in Soft Matter Physics and Fellow in Natural Sciences 2008 Mr Michael Ramage, MA, MArch (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), University Senior Lecturer in Architecture 2008 Professor Michael Lamb, PhD (Yale) MPhil MS MA (Johns Hopkins, USA) BA (Durban), Professor of Psychology in the Social Sciences 2008 Professor Eugenio Biagini, PhD (University of Pisa), Professor of Modern British and European History 2009 Dr David Doupé, MA, John and Delia Agar Research Fellow 2009 Dr David Beckingham, PhD, 1596 Foundation Fellow 2010 Dr Joanna Craigwood, PhD, Austin Robinson Research Fellow 2010 Dr Thomas Harvey, PhD, John and Delia Agar Research Fellow 2010 Dr Edward Wilson-Lee, PhD, Fellow in English 2010 Dr Mariá Noriega-Sánchez, PhD, Fellow (and University Language Teaching Officer) in Modern and Medieval Languages

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Mr Bill Abraham, BA, Development Director Dr Anna Uhlig, MA PhD, Research Fellow Dr Lionel Hautier, PhD, Ramon Jenkins Research Fellow Dr Berry Groisman, PhD, Knox Shaw Fellow and Taylor Lecturer in Mathematics Dr Malak Olamaie, MSc MSci, John and Delia Agar Research Fellow Dr Thomas Simpson, PhD, Research Fellow Dr Yannis Galanakis, DPhil (Oxon), University Lecturer in Greek Prehistory and Fellow in Classical Archaeology Revd Paul Brice, BSc, BTh, Chaplain Professor Monojit Chatterji, PhD, Fellow in Economics Dr Paulina Sliwa, MPhys Phil, PhD, Fellow in Philosophy

■■ Honorary Fellows Elected 1968 Lord (Asa) Briggs, Hon. LittD (East Anglia) Hon. DSc (Florida Presbyterian), Hon. LLD (York, Canada) FBA; formerly Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, and Chancellor of the Open University 1977 The Rt Hon. Lord (David) Owen, MA MB BChir PC CH FRCP, formerly Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 1977 Lord (Jack) Lewis, ScD (London) Hon. ScD (Rennes, Open University, East Anglia, Nottingham, Bath) FRS, Commander Cross, Polish Order of Merit, Fellow 1970–77; formerly Warden of Robinson College, Cambridge; Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry 1981 Sir Michael Stoker, CBE FRCP FRS FRSE; formerly President of Clare Hall 1981 Sir Terence Beckett, BSc (London) Hon. DSc (Cranfield, Heriot-Watt) Hon. DSc (Lond) Hon. DTech. (Brunel) KBE FREng FIMechE DL; formerly Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry 1991 The Hon. Sir Patrick Neville Garland, MA LLM; formerly Judge of the High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division 1991 The Lord (David) Stevens of Ludgate, MA

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the college 2012–13 2012 Mr John Osborn, MA; formerly Chief Executive, Alexon Group plc 2012 Judge Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade, LLB LLM PhD, Judge, International Court of Justice

■■ Fellow Commoners Elected 1993 1999 2000 2000 2001 2003 2003 2004 2006 2008 2009 2009 2011 2011

Dr Stewart Reid Lang, PhD Ms Priscilla Barrett, BA (Cape Town) Dr Graham John Davies, PhD Dr Hagen Schulze, PhD (Munich) Mr Joseph C Fox, BA Dr Richard Chisnall, PhD Mrs Kyoko Gledhill Dr Michael Purshouse, PhD Mr David Purchase, MA Mr Henry Dawson, MA Dr George Reid, PhD Mr Richard Humphreys, MA Mrs Josephine Wallace-Hadrill, MA Mr Christopher Pyatt, MA MICE FIHT

■■ Bye Fellows Elected 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011

Dr Kreso Bucar Dr Mark Gurnell Mr Nicholas Rogers Dr Jane Spencer Mr Keith Willox

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■■ Visiting Fellows 2012–13 Mr Sanjay Pulipaka Dr Basavaranj Nagoor Professor Jill D. Harries Professor Colin Barr Professor Neville Greaves Dr Salundi Basappa Mr Anil Kumar Narayanaswamy Professor Steven Uran Professor Peter Rich Dr Mallappa Kamatagi

Lent 2012 (Pavate) Easter 2012 (Pavate) Easter 2012 Easter 2012 Michaelmas 2012 Lent 2013 (Pavate) Lent 2013 (Pavate) Lent 2013 Easter 2013 Easter 2013 (Pavate)

■■ 1596 Foundation Members Elected 2000 Dr Alan Diamond OBE Hon. DBA MCSI 2000 Mrs Sheila Diamond 2000 Mr Hugh Easterling 2000 Professor Anthony French 2000 Mr Rex Harbour 2000 Dr Stewart Lang 2000 Mr Gwilym Roberts CBE FREng 2000 Mrs Elizabeth Young 2000 Mr John Young 2000 Pfizer Global Research and Development 2001 Mr James McNeill QC 2001 Mrs Jill Campbell 2001 Dr Simon Campbell CBE FRS FMedSci 2001 Mrs Kyoko Gledhill 2001 Mr Peter Ellis 2002 Dr Dennis Hui 2002 Mr Gilbert Rodway QC

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2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2003 2003 2004 2004 2004 2004 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005

Mr John Thornely Dr Julia Thornely Mrs Patricia Wills Mr Richard Phillips QC Dr David Fyfe Mr Malcolm Gammie CBE QC Mr Peter Espenhahn Dr Gerald Avison Mrs Patricia Begg Mr David Purchase Dr Chris Dobson Mr Matthew Bullock Mrs Ann Ewart Professor Michael Scott Morton Mrs Mary Scott Morton Mr José Alvarez Stelling Mr Prakash Melwani Mr Richard North Mr John Rushton

2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2008 2008 2008

Mr John Gibbon Mr Gareth Jones Mr Geoffrey Darby Mr David de Saxe Mr Ken-Yu Chou Ms Sherry Coutu Mr Peter Lipscomb OBE Mr Richard Hartley QC Mr John Osborn Dr David Bieber Mr Roger Siddle Ms Anne Farlow Mrs Wang Mei-Wen Chou Mr John Collis Mr Andrew Sheard The Lord Stevens of Ludgate Mrs Ann Dobson Mr Mark Rawlinson Mr Alan Lancashire Mr Nick Gray Mrs Penny Price-Larkum Mr Malcolm Basing Mr Charles Sherwood Mr Gordon Chilton Mr Michael Blake Mr Edward Chandler Mr Anthony Morris Mr Chun-Chi Chou Dr Leslie Illing Mr John Brock Dr David Ives

2008 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2010 2010 2010 2011 2011 2011 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012

Mr Jackson Deans Mr Iain Oldcorn Dr Christopher Hoare Mr Mike Styles Mr Peter Andrews Mr Lawrance Heller Mr Antony Watson QC Mr Keith Nicholson Mr Christopher Khoo Mr Clive Nicholls QC Dr Martin Scott Ms Hanadi Jabado The Nasr Family Mr Christopher Lucas Mr Norman Shepherd Professor Herman Waldmann Mr Donald Luker Mr John Beale Mr Adam Glinsman Mr Murray Clayson Dr Alison Brown Mr Alan Redfern Mr Paul Supramaniam Professor Rosamond McKitterick Mr C. T. So Mr William Dolben Mr Gifford Combs Mr Brian Moody Mr Malcolm Strong

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■■ Members of the College 2012–13 Doctoral Students 2012–13 Anglo Saxon, Norse and Celtic Dunshea, Philip M Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Casey, Stephen Hewitt, Duncan Solomon, Adam

Biological Sciences at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Pryde, Kenneth R Walpole, Thomas Biotechnology Lapsley, Marta Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair Choi, Minee

Archaeology Accetta, Kelly Bellifemine Sanchez-Chopitea, Viviana Taylor, Sean P

Chemical Engineering Chen, Dongping Menz, William Termglinchan, Vivat

Architecture Bill, Nicholas A Vallejo Bermeo, José

Chemistry Baker, Ysobel Stephenson, Godwin (Lent Term 2012 start)

Astronomy Crowe, Chris M Biochemistry Le Guillou, Ian Longo, Michael A Pacitto, Angela Biological Sciences at the European Bioinformatics Institute Parks, Sarah

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Classics Gershon, Yehudah N Criminology Eshel, Abigail Development Studies Rocha, Igor Divinity Bryson, James

Engineering Dawoud, Osama Eroukhmanoff, Nicholas Gallieri, Marco Ingram, James N (part-time) Keränen, Krista Pino, Juan M Racz, Gergely Reilly, Aidan Shapiro, Jenna Weatherup, Robert S Wu, Yue

Tunstall Allcock, Thomas Ward, Graeme Warr, Simone (part-time)

English Harris, Merrilees

Management Studies (Judge Business School) Cappellaro, Giulia Markou, Andreas Norman, Toby

Experimental Psychology Davidson, Gabrielle Lawrance-Owen, Adam O’Connor, Richard Geography Gatti, Emma Gibson, Sebastian Kovacs, Eszter History Cameron, James J J Cantwell, Louisa Lally, Jagjeet Mills, Robin O’Byrne, Darren Phillips, Jenna Redman, Lydia C Rembold, Ingrid Rogachevsky, Neil Scholten, Desirée

Land Economy Wagenaar, Kim Law Kaapanda-Girnus, Mekondjo Lusa Bordin, Fernando Rossi, Guido Vidigal Neto, Geraldo D C

Mathematical Analysis Civin, Damon Jones, Adam Materials Science and Metallurgy Aveson, John Barrett, Clark James, Matthew P W Qiu, Jing Medical Genetics Castro Dopico, Xaquin Medicine Tajsic, Tamara

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Modern and Medieval Languages Assinder, Semele J A Hilpert, Stephan Patterson, Jonathan H C

Physiology, Development and Neuroscience Baez Mendoza, Raymundo Graham, Sarah

MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit Leerkotte, Baastian J

Plant Sciences Li, Zheng Rudge, Timothy J

Nanotechnology Young, Laurence Pathology Guinot Aguado, Anna Harman, Laura E R Oefner, Carolin MacRae, Elizabeth J (part-time) Pharmacology Droubi, Alaa (from Lent Term 2012) Huang Cao, Zhen F Ng, David C-H Ohene-Agyei, Thelma Philosophy Cameron, Christina F Physics Asil, Demet Brewer, Anthony Chang, Hui Huang, Cheng-Kuang Kim, Joung-Youn Kumar, Abhishek McNeil, Robert Richardson, Carly Son, Seok-Kyun Thomson, Nicholas

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Politics and International Studies (POLIS) Agensky, Jonathan C Andrews, Anthony I Bray, Donald Faul, Moira (from Easter Term 2012) Laderman, Charles Laitio, Noora (part-time) Puri, Samir (part-time) Public Health and Primary Care Barnes, Daniel Mgomella, George Suleman Social Anthropology Heywood, Pier Social and Developmental Psychology Balsari-Palsule, Sanna (Easter Term 2012 start) Hanbidge, Laura (Lent Term 2012 start) Krpan, Dario Sim, Megan Zoology De Gasperin Quintero, Ornela Lin, Yangchen

■■ Continuing Graduate Students 2012–13 Doctoral (Probationary) Archaeology Dalton, Matthew Neale Robertson, Calum Education Geerts, Jaason Parker, Andrea Engineering Hirmer, Stephanie (from Lent Term 2013) History Stoakes, Coral Politics and International Studies Petkanas, Zoe Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics Mazur, Przemslaw Social and Developmental Psychology Noorderhaven, Rebecca

Other Courses Chemical Engineering (MSc) Ross, James G

Goradia, Harshita Hind, Eleanor Jemade, Chibuzo Jovic, Thomas Lang, Sarah-Jane Lawrence, John McKnight, Angus Murugesu, Sughashini Tan, Linette Education (MEd) Campbell, Sarah International Relations (MSt) Brown, Jessica Gilfillan, Stacy Hasani, Astrit Jenkins, Lewis Luksa-Soltanovic, Dzuliana Morcom-Harneis, Julien Petrator, Pythagoras Turner, Jane Jewish-Christian Relations (MSt) Black, Joanna Veterinary Medicine Carter, Caroline Hare, Cassia Mansell, Rhiannon Maw, Hazel Tallon, Rose

Clinical Medicine Bradley, Patrick Coysh, Thomas

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■■ New Graduate Students 2012–13 Doctoral (Probationary) Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Bonnebaigt, Rachael Helen Materials Science Ramachandran, Arathi Mathematical Genomics and Medicine Grayling, Michael Natural Science (Astronomy) Gibbons, Simon Llewellyn John

Other Courses Biological Science (MRes) Mellers, Gregory Clinical Medicine Chen, Ning Clubb, Rhea Patel, Ronak Scannell, Jack Street, Anna Wong, Francesca Computational Biology Wollmann, Jan

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■■ Matriculations 2011–12

Criminology Muirhead, Aimee

Graduates (by Department) Doctoral (Probationary/CPGS)

Mathematical Analysis Jones, Adam

Economics Anderson, Gareth Khong, Anthony

Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Solomon, Adam

Nanotechnology Young, Laurence

History Campsie, Alexandre Earles, Charles Graham Wilson, James David

Biological Science (at MRC MBU) Constable, Robert

Pathology Oefner, Carolin Droubi, Alaa (Lent 2012)

Chemical Engineering Termglinchan, Vivat (Lent 2012)

Physics Huang, Cheng-Kuang

Chemistry Baker, Ysobel Stephenson, Godwin (Lent 2012)

Public Health and Primary Care Mgomella, George Suleman

Developmental Studies Rocha, Igor

Social and Developmental Psychology Hanbidge, Laura (Easter 2012)

International Relations Williams, Emma Rachel Part III Mathematics Gould, Oli Mecklenburg, Milan Mogull, Gustav Sociology Ushiyama, Rin Theology and Religious Studies Dilnot, Rosemary Veterinary Medicine Bertrand, Katherine Gray, Katherine

Engineering Eroukhmanoff, Nicolas Racz, Gergely Shapiro, Jenna Geography Gibson, Sebastian Matthew History O’Bryne, Darren Michael Warr, Simone (part-time)

Zoology De Gasperin Quintero, Ornela

Other Courses Applied Mathematics (MAST) Braune, Lucas Von Haehling Braun, Wilhelm Yan, Han Archaeology Huisman, Floor Joke Robertson, Calum Gavin

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 Bioscience Enterprise Ejsmont, Andrzej Mulgrew, Stephen Business Administration (MBA) Anderson, Katherine Block, Carl Gonsalvez, Neil Nivedit Nielsen, Nanna Saito Haagen Taylor, Richard James Van Kirk, Sarah Kathryn Chemistry Madusanka, Adassooriyage Nadeesh Classics Strauss, Simon Botho Eduard Theodor

the college 2012–13 Finance Goldberg, Terence Jonathan Lee, Shi Qin Desmond Savic, Una Sears, Robert Peter Newton Shao, Han

Management Cowan, Alistair David

International Relations (MSt) Brown-Hickson, Jessica Gilfillan, Stacy Hasani, Astrit Jenkings, Lewis Maxwell Luksa-Soltanovic, Dzuliana Morcom-Harneis, Julien Petratos, Pythagoras

Medieval History Tudor Jones, Gwilym

Mathematical Statistics Huang, Kedi Xie, Qingqing

Middle Eastern Studies Caballero, Jonas Modern European History Critchlow, Daniel

Planning, Growth and Regeneration Liu, Peidong Pure Mathematics Stulemeijer, Thierry Mazur, Przemyslaw Social and Developmental Psychology Noorderhaven, Rebecca Maria Technology Policy Ligueros, Sebastian Theology and Religious Studies Wharton, Geoffrey Ronald John

Pharmacology Ding, Ning

Early Modern History Gross, George William Cullen Stoakes, Coral

International Relations (MPhil) Confavreux Zimmerman, Marine Mireille Regine Noble, Natalie Geralyn Petkanas, Zoe Ostermeyer, Christoph

Economics Charalampidis, Nikolaos

Jewish-Christian Relations (MSt) Black, Joanna

■■ Graduate Students coming into residence 2012–13

Education (MEd) Campbell, Sarah

Latin American Studies Stokes, Rosemary

Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Harris, Anthony William

Education (Thematic Route) Geerts, Jason Birdi, Deepika

Law (LLM) Gherbaoui, Tarik Hamilton, Thomas Mercadante, Daniele Nicholson, Rowan Alexander Paterson, Claire Patricia Smrcek, Toni

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Kwok, Man Tak

Engineering for Suitable Development Hirmer, Stephanie Savill, Iain William

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Photonics System Development Wu, Ji

Doctoral

Biological Science at MRC MBU Gustafsson, Nils Sebastian Biological Science at EBI Leonardi, Tommaso

Chemistry Rimas, Zilvinas (Easter 2013) Criminology Trajtenberg, Nicolas Engineering Comandar, Lucian Corneliu Qureshi, Tanvir English Forsyth, Katherine Kelly, Alice

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the college 2012â&#x20AC;&#x201C;13 Zoology Can, Geylani

Economic Research (MPhil) Stockermans, Joseph

Latin American Studies (MPhil) Cadby, Charles

Other Courses

Education (MEd) Sapsford, Julie Thompson, Isabel

Law (LLM) Bailey, Stephen Charette, Kenneth Fynes, Alison Gibbons, Tara Savage, Rebecca Varava, Taras Waller, Horatio Zaloudek, Vaclav

Advanced Chemical Engineering (MPhil) Chan, Chun Wai Ivan Kwon, Yongjun Schulze, Alexander Yu, Yaxin Applied Mathematics (MASt) Barnes, Gwendolyn Xue, Bin Bin Business Administration (MBA) Belt, Brittany El-Khoury, Vanina Sim, Wee Lee Takaki, Sarah Yuan, Jennifer Criminological Research (MPhil) Hanstock, Richard Development Studies (MPhil) Kim, Gang I Early Modern History (MPhil) Czaja, Andrew Economics (MPhil) Lee, Siu Pui Economic and Social History (MPhil) Labelle, Casra

Education (Thematic Route) (MPhil) Luth, Heather English Studies (Criticism) (MPhil) Bartels-Swindells, Aaron Thomas Environmental Design in Architecture (MPhil) Chen, Rongweixin Environmental Design (Option B) (MPhil) Beattie, Stuart European Literature (MPhil) Daillencourt, Louis Finance (MPhil) Broadhurst, Alexander Finance (MFin) Champion De Crespigny, Duncan Ding, Xiao Yan, Jin International Relations (A) (MPhil) Parker, Huw

Management (MPhil) Morgan-Williams, Michael Sun, Qiaoye Zhao, Kaiyun Nuclear Energy (MPhil) Ye, Zhenghua Photonics Systems Development (MRes) Ding, Minsheng Payne, Andrew Political Thought and International History (MPhil) Bungay, Felix Pure Mathematics (MASt) GirĂŁo, Antonio Morrison, Natasha Pacchiano Camacho, Aldo

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the college 2012–13 Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (MPhil) Chan, Ricky

■■ Graduate Students – Most Recent Institution ALMEIDA, Telma, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa ANNUS, Tiina, University of Manchester BAILEY, Stephen Raymond, University of Edinburgh BARNES, Gwendolyn Elizabeth, University of Pretoria BARTELS-SWINDELLS, Aaron Thomas, McGill University BEATTIE, Stuart Graeme, University of Liverpool BELT, Brittany Alexandra, American University, Washington DC BROADHURST, Alexander, University of Warwick BUNGAY, Felix, University of York CADBY, Charles Stephen James, University of Liverpool CAN, Geylani, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey CHAMPION DE CRESPIGNY, Duncan, University of Melbourne CHAN, Chun Wai Ivan, University College London CHAN, Ka Wai Ricky, University of Hong Kong CHARETTE, Kenneth, Pennsylvania State University CHEN, Rongweixin, University of Nottingham COMANDAR, Lucian Corneliu, University College London CZAJA, Andrew, Yale University DAILLENCOURT, Louis, London School of Economics and Political Science DING, Minsheng, University of Liverpool DING, Xiao, University of California EL-KHOURY, Vanina, ENSAPC, France FLORIS, Dorothea, University of Cambridge FORSYTH, Katherine Sarah, University of East Anglia FYNES, Alison, Dublin Trinity College GIBBONS, Tara, National University of Ireland, Galway GIRÃO, Antonio Jose Ferra Gomes de Almeida, Universidade do Porto GUSTAFSSON, Nils Sebastian, University of Birmingham HANSTOCK, Richard Simon, Kaplan Law School HARRIS, Anthony William, University of Reading

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HITCHINGS, Philip Richard, Lancaster University HOCKING, Laird Robert, University of British Columbia HU, Chou-Hui, National Defense Medical Center, Taiwan HUBER, Sabrina Manuela, University of Zurich KANDASAMY, Narayanan, Royal College of Physicians KASER, Muzaffer, University of Cambridge KELLY, Alice, University of Cambridge KIM, Gang I, Seoul National University KUPELYANTS, Hayk, University College London KWOK, Man Tak, Chinese University of Hong Kong KWON, Yongjun, University of Manchester LABELLE, Casra, Harvard University LEE, Siu Pui Edmond, London School of Economics and Political Science LEONARDI, Tommaso, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan LUTH, Heather, University of Kansas MAGACHO, Guilherme Riccioppo, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil MARKSON, Lucy, University of Leicester MILLER, James Magnus, University of Cambridge MORGAN-WILLIAMS, Michael Gwyn, University of York MORRISON, Natasha Naina, University of Durham PACCHIANO CAMACHO, Aldo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology PALTIELI, Guy, Tel Aviv University PANIZZON, Philippe, University of Oxford PARKER, Huw, University of Durham PAYNE, Andrew Timothy, University of Kent QURESHI, Tanvir Shams, Cardiff University RIMAS, Zilvinas, University of Cambridge ROBINSON, William Edward, University of Sheffield SAPSFORD, Julie Claire, University of Warwick SAVAGE, Rebecca Elizabeth, University of Auckland SCHULZE, Alexander, University of Potsdam SHIVKUMAR, Maitreyi, University of Oxford SIM, Wee Lee, Messiah College, Pennsylvania STOCKERMANS, Joseph Michael, University of Cambridge SUN, Qiaoye Selene, Waseda University, Tokyo TAKAKI, Sarah, University of Western Ontario

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THOMPSON, Isabel Christina, University of Oxford TRAJTENBERG, Nicolas, University of Oxford VARAVA, Taras, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine WALLER, Horatio Charles Martin, University of Manchester XUE, Bin Bin, University College London YAN, Jin, University of Hong Kong YE, Zhenghua, University of Manchester YU, Yaxin, University of Edinburgh YUAN, Jennifer Jing, Tulane University, New Orleans ZALOUDEK, Vaclav, Charles University, Prague ZHAO, KAIYUN, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Christopher & Edward Hoare Lawrence, John (Clinical Medicine) Medical Travel Fund Mcknight, Angus (Clinical Medicine) Tan, Linette (Clinical Medicine) Parry Dutton Fund Hind, Eleanor (Clinical Medicine) Murugesu, Sugahshini (Clinical Medicine) Srikantha Kirthisingha Fund Tan, Linette (Clinical Medicine) Tsinghua Scholar Yung, He (Claudia) (2011–12) (Politics and International Studies) Yang, Qianpeng (2012–13) (Chemical Engineering)

■■ Graduate Awards, Studentships and Bursaries 2012–13

Current Award Holders

The College is in the fortunate position of being able to support Graduate Students through various annual awards, bursaries and exchange programmes. The College is extremely grateful to the benefactors who have contributed to the establishment of these grants over successive generations. Each year the Graduate Tutors face the unenviable task of choosing the successful candidates from a large number of worthy applicants. In 2011–12, awards were granted to the following students:

Adam Glinsman Award (2010–11) Evan Lewis-Thomas Studentship (2010–11) Gledhill Research Studentship (2011–12) Osborn Research Studentship (2010–11) Sidney Sussex Research Studentship (2010–11)

New Award Holders 2012–13 Evan Lewis-Thomas Studentship Hanadi Jabado Bursary Howard Research Studentship Joyce Coutu Scholarship Fox Fellowship (incoming from Yale) (outbound from Sidney) Andrew Semkov Travel Award

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Ohene-Agyei, Thelma (Pharmacology) Lusa Bordin, Fernando (Law) Solomon, Adam (Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics) Rembold, Ingrid (History) Guinot Aguado, Anna (Pathology)

Bailey, Stephen (LLM) Hanstock, Richard (MPhil Criminology) Waller, Horatio (LLM) El-Khoury, Vanina (MBA) Floris, Dorothea (Psychiatry) Takaki, Sarah (MBA) Stephenson, Scott (Law) Kelly, Alice (English) Miller, Jamie (History) Bradley, Patrick (Clinical Medicine) Lawrence, John (Clinical Medicine)

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■■ Undergraduate Students 2012–13 FIRST YEAR Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Moss, Amber-Page Archaeology and Anthropology Devine, James Lardy, Camille M Architecture Dela Cruz, Janine D McIlwaine, Sophie C Shipley, Kate M Classics Carreira-Wham, Sofia Jacobs, Charlotte Computer Science Collard, Harry Wong, Kenneth Economics Raj, Bhagya Smith, Alistair D Stevens, Emma Tan, Gabriel L Teale, Matthew A Vasilyev, Vadim Vijayakumaraguru, Varsini

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Engineering Bhushan, Mihir Birch, Peter R Harborne, William Kähm, Walter Lim, Y S Julie Long, Rebecca E Martin, Jennifer E Mason, Jessica Samant, Sidharth Sheehan, Helen M White, Alexander N Zhang, Gracie W English Fulgeanu, Maria-Miruna Haworth, Rachel J Hayes, Aoife Joseph, Grace Wynshaw, Elias B Geography Cooper, George Krol, Nicholas J Woolgar, Izzy Young, Charlotte History Benwell, Daniel Davies, Gabriel Delacave, Emilie S Leibowitz, Benjamin Powers, Christopher

Remillard, Hubert Thompson, Peter Land Economy Ross, Frederick Law Chambers, Kieran Ellis, Henry LaMontagne, Cindy McCormick, Kyle D Tang, Sophie L-T Mathematics Burgess, Christopher Clark, Emma J Duncan, Alexander Li, Jiaming Wang, Daochen Yau, Colman Medicine Foong, Ke Wei French, Jamie P Hawthorne, Rachel Hughes, J Noemi Jordan, Rebecca M Mao, Amy Tarvala, Taiyab White, Heather T Yeoh, Su Ling

Modern and Medieval Languages Dickinson, Grace Flohr, Sophia Kernan, Helena R Randall, Bethany A Turner, Benjamin Music Harrison, Laura K Searle, William Natural Sciences Beech, Jessica Bloomfield, Francis Burns, Charlotte L Carr, Joshua Chapple, Ben Day, Benjamin J Elliott, Liam Hooke, Jonathan R Mak, Tiffany S H Nonnenmacher, Toby S North, Samuel J Ouvarova, Maria Perez-Storey, Charles Pycroft, Emily Reynolds, Amy Stein, Zoe R Thompson, Elinor Weil, Benjamin Philosophy Clarke, Oliver H

Politics, Psychology and Sociology Aiked, Hollie Bodouroglou, Katerina Heath-Brown, Jennifer Kammerlander, Armin Voisey, Sam S Watkins, Jonathan G Theology and Religious Studies Pleydell-Bouverie, Lara C Veterinary Medicine Ashford, Matthew Dyke, Frederick G

SECOND YEAR Archaeology and Anthropology Datta, Anita Fletcher, Grace S Architecture Austin, Jasmine R Brookes, Joshua Bungey, Joe Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Thompson, Georgina Chemical Engineering Lee, Julin MacBean, Laura A Patel, Sajan P

Classics Clifford, Brendan Fothergill, Helena F Norris, Benjamin T Oghene, Hannah Economics Dholakia, Shreya Howell, Charlotte Jamison, Mark Parlasca, Markus Springer, Alexander J White, James Yianni, George Engineering Al-Mashouk, Sami Bathurst, Alexander P Brockie, Samuel G Cole, Thomas A Cooksley, Henry J Fitton, Matthew J Heywood, David Hobbs, John Lim, Jia W Murphy, Stephen L Nagarajah, Sasha Shah, Kalpesh Wynne, Kirsty L English Bowen, Isabelle M Donovan, James W Holland, Jordan M Tripathi, Ameya Vernon, Katie Woods, David J

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Show, De Yang Tan, Jiann Meng Wedge-Roberts, Matthew J Medicine Cumming, Helen Gregory, Rosalind K Jaker, Sams U Jeyabelen, Harishanth Naruka, Vinci Peutherer, Catherine Toal, Connor M Turberfield, Catherine S Yang, Dorothy D Zheng, Xueying Modern and Medieval Languages Folland, Imogen Hreben, Rebecca L Ngah, Safiah Rauchegger, Olivia Timothy, Rebecca Music Bourne, Joseph Cheung, Jo-Yee Parris, George Natural Sciences Barth, Anna Burrows, Laura Harrold, Alexander Houlder, Emma L

the college 2012â&#x20AC;&#x201C;13 Howard, Joseph L Jones, Emma Legg, Kirsten J Liu, Hon W Madgwick, Alison Marshall, Ashleigh Moffatt, Emma Ryda, Jordan Savage, Eleanor Trevelyan, Matthew F Welbourne, Alexander Philosophy Jimenez Cordero, Alejandro B Politics, Psychology and Sociology Andrews, Samantha J Brunert, Joshua Hutchinson, Aimee F Jones Buxton, Angharad Macmillen, Daniel A

THIRD YEAR Archaeology and Anthropology Harrison, Kate J McAuliffe, Stephanie Architecture Singler, Sofia A Young, Oliver Chemical Engineering Collett, Catherine H Classics Hoyt, Magdalen Isaac, Anna Macklon, Laurens Oon, Isabel Pulsford, Emily Computer Science Sanduleac, Ovidiu-Dan Smith, Thomas C

Theology and Religious Studies Gaines, Atalie (BTh) Hambro, Maya Ricketts, Theresa (BTh) Riley, Terri-Leigh

Economics Alleck, Amit Gao, Yun H Iliffe, Emily Patel, Maya Shaw, Catherine M Walsh, Conor

Veterinary Medicine Shiels, Rhonda L Winstanley, Calista

Engineering Atkins, Caroline L Faulkner, Natasha R Hopkins, John M

Linford, Edward G Nodzynski, Wojciech Ross, James Sheldon, James Toyn, Jeremy M von Rudno, Markus (MIT) Waller, Jonathan Worrall, Daniel E English Blanpain, Antoine Goodman, Imogen E Hunter, Catriona M Jones, Ami N Michell, Harry Souter, Anna L Williamson, Rory Geography Cohen-Lask, Noami Deslandes, Laura G Levy, Hannah Matthias, James Tompkins, Isabelle History Bardsley, Thomas Brookes, Thomas Z Estdale, Katherine J Hillsdon, Thomas Landa, Adam Singer, Jonathan Smith, Jonathan Songi, Matt Voignac, Joseph

History of Art Mills, Lydia Land Economy Rubin, Katie Yung, Janet P Law Barr, David J (Paris-Erasmus) Duru, Kristy N Leroy, Kevin (Incoming Poitiers Erasmus) Phillips, Nicole Sangani, Krishma Veale, George Zong, William W Mathematics Bootland, Niall J Liu, Fangzhou Oh, Seong J Seddon, Thomas H Ward, Alexander E Medicine Cope, Rosanne M Davies, David L Ghareeb, Ali Kamenou, Isabelle Lee, Elaine C Musiol, Szymon K Shaw, Caroline Yazdanian, Bijan

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Duffield, Olivia C Hore, Rosalind Theology and Religious Studies Khan, Bilal H Kurtinyte, Saule Norman, Kitty Taylor, Hannah R Williams, Owen (BTh) Veterinary Medicine Fellows, Virginia A Franklin, Philippe Sinclair, Rachel Wood, Matthew J

FOURTH YEAR Anglo Saxon, Norse and Celtic Bullard-Smith, Victoria Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Watkinson, Amelia Chemical Engineering Xu Zhou, Ke Engineering Austin, Mark Ayache, Philippe C Chia, Charmaine Ginger, John Melzer, Andrew

the college 2012–13 Neat, Thomas E Redman-White, Aneurin J Savell, Harry Smyth, Andrew M Management Studies McEvoy, Daniel R Mathematics Gould, Oliver Mecklenburg, Milan B Mogull, Gustav D Modern and Medieval Languages Boulding, Emma C Duncalfe, Laura Hardman, James Shepherd, Alice Wright, Nicola B Natural Sciences Miller, Harry A Overvoorde, Lois M Reinert, Julia Screeton, Matthew Taylor, Nicholas Xie, Cheng

■■ Examination Results 2012 (*Distinction mMerit) Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Tripos Prelim to Part II Class II (Div.1) Bullard-Smith, Victoria Archaeological and Anthropological Tripos Part I Class I Fletcher, Grace Part IIB Class I Musselwhite, Lucy Biological Anthropology Part IIA Class II (Div.1) Harrison, Kate Part IIB Class II (Div.1) Gray, Katherine Social Anthropology Part IIA Class II (Div.1) McAuliffe, Stephanie

Part IIB Class I Smith, Natalie* Class II (Div.1) McEvoy, Daniel Architecture Tripos Part IA Class II (Div.1) Bungey, Joe

Chemical Engineering Tripos Part I Class II (Div.1) Collett, Catherine Part IIA Class I Xu Zhou, Ke

Class II (Div.2) Austin, Jasmine Brookes, Joshua

Part IIB Class I Goh, Alessandria Rickenbach, James Tong, Haoyong

Part IB Class II (Div.1) Young, Oliver

Class II (Div.2) Lee, Su Lyn Wills, Adam

Declared to have Deserved Honours Singler, Sofia

Classical Tripos Part IA Class II (Undivided) Fothergill, Helena Norris, Benjamin

Part II Class III Bailey, Sebastian Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos Part IA Class I Thompson, Georgina

Put in Standing: Oghene, Helena Part IB Class II (Div.1) Oon, Isabel Pulsford, Emily

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 Class II (Div.2) Hoyt, Magdalen Macklon, Laurens Part II Class I Westripp, Simon Class II (Div.1) Dilnot, Rosemary Computer Science Tripos Part IB Class II (Div.2) Sanduleac, Ovidiu-Dan Smith, Thomas Part II Class II (Div.1) Killough, Michael Class III Chen, Dai Economics Tripos Part I Class I Parlasca, Markus White, James Class II (Div.1) Dholakia, Shreya Howell, Charlotte Jamison, Mark Springer, Alexander Yianni, George

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Part IIA Class I Alleck, Amit Gao, Yun Iliffe, Emily Class II (Div.1) Patel, Maya Shaw, Catherine Class II (Div.2) Walsh, Connor Part IIB Class I Khong, Anthony Class II (Div.1) Ankers, Toby Kayihan, Emel Lewin, Thomas Shen, Jieni Snow, Kate Class II (Div.2) Bassi, Kanika Class III Manafi, Navid Engineering Tripos Part IA Class I Brockie, Samuel Murphy, Stephen

the college 2012â&#x20AC;&#x201C;13 Class II (Div.1) Fitton, Matthew Hobbs, John Wynne, Kirsty

Part IIA Class I Chia, Charmaine Melzer, Andrew

Class II (Div.1) Hunter, Catriona Isaac, Anna Michell, Harry

Class II (Div.2) Al-Mashouk, Sami Bathurst, Alexander Cole, Thomas Heywood, David Lim, Jia Nagarajah, Sasha Shah, Kalpesh

Class II (Div.1) Neat, Thomas Savell, Harry Smyth, Andrew

Part II Class II (Div.1) Green, Rose Page, Chris Snoddy, Jack Vickerstaff, Fiona

Class III Cooksley, Henry Part IB Class I Atkins, Caroline von Rudno, Markus Worrall, Daniel Class II (Div.1) Linford, Edward Ross, James Sheldon, James Waller, Jonathan Class II (Div.2) Faulkner, Natasha Hopkins, John Nodzynski, Wojciech Toyn, Jeremy

Class II (Div.2) Austin, Mark Ayache, Philippe Redman-White, Aneurin Class III Ronaldson, Alexander Part IIB Successful Baker, Ross m Bird, Hugh* Bokor, Tamas Hunter, Andrew m Jarvis, Caroline m Lei, Yutian* Phelps, Benjamin m Pilkington, Andrew Wagner, Thomas English Tripos Part I Class I Jones, Ami Souter, Anna Williamson, Rory

Class II (Div.2) Docherty, Francesca Geographical Tripos Part IA Class I Durrant, Jennifer* Jackson, Samuel Class II (Div.1) Bellamy, Laura Ehrmann, Georgia Layton, Jack Lochead, Samuel Part IB Class I Cohen-Lask, Noami Class II (Div.1) Deslandes, Laura Levy, Hannah Matthias, James Tompkins, Isabelle

Part II Class I McGlade, Rosanne Class II (Div.1) Agate, Liam Alderton, Hannah Bates, Jennifer Edwardes Jones, Mark Marshall, James Owen, Frances Weldon, Dominic History of Art Tripos Part IIA Class II (Div.2) Mills, Lydia Part IIB Class I Norton, Yates Historical Tripos Part I Class I Brookes, Thomas Class II (Div.1) Bardsley, Thomas Estdale, Katherine Hillsdon, Thomas Landa, Adam Singer, Jonathan Smith, Jonathan

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 Class II (Div.2) Songi, Matt Voignac, Joseph Part II Class I Roberts, George Wilson, James Class II (Div.1) Berry, Heather Gebbett, Matthew Parton, Emily Tapley, Natalie Whitehall, Kenton Land Economy Tripos Part IA Class II (Div.1) Kenny, Peter Class II (Div.2) Elliott, Tom Part IB Class II (Div.1) Rubin, Katie Yung, Janet Part II Class II (Div.1) Brown, George Greenway, Charles

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Law Tripos Part IA Class II (Div.1) McKnight, Rebecca Todd, Patrick Class II (Div.2) Auster, Rebecca Liao, David Part IB Class II (Div.1) Barr, David Duru, Kristy Phillips, Nicole Veale, George Zong, William Class II (Div.2) Sangani, Krishma Part II Class II (Div.1) Crothall, Amy Englander, Henry Graves, Elli McCusker, Theo Muirhead, Aimee Class II (Div.2) Kola-Balogun, Keji Linguistics Tripos Part I Class I Hurley, David

the college 2012â&#x20AC;&#x201C;13 Part IIA Class I Cormack, James

Class II (Div.2) Liu, Fangzhou Pirrie, Andrew

Declared to have Deserved Honours Turberfield, Catherine

Class II (Div.1) Ngah, Safiah Rauchegger, Olivia

Management Studies Tripos Class II (Div.1) Di Mambro, Rebecca

Part II Class II (Div.1) Jowett, Adam

Part IB Class I Fellows, Virginia

German Class II (Div.1) Timothy, Rebecca

Class II (Div.2) Bettany, Tom Clark, Caroline Reid, James Wollmann, Jan

Class II (Div.1) Cope, Roseanne Davies, David Ghareeb, Ali Kamenou, Isabelle Musiol, Szymon Shaw, Caroline Wood, Matthew

Italian Class II (Div.2) Ngah, Safiah

Manufacturing Engineering Tripos Part IIA Class I Ginger, John Mathematical Tripos Part IA Class II (Div.1) Horder, Stewart Hyman, Daniel Tan, Jiann Meng Wedge-Roberts, Matthew Class II (Div.2) Lambeth, Christopher Lubel, Matthew Show, De Yang Part IB Class I Seddon, Thomas Class II (Div.1) Bootland, Niall Oh, Seong Ward, Alexander

Part III Successful Banks, Elliot* Bonnebaigt, Rachael* Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos Part IA Class I Peutherer, Catherine Yang, Dorothy Class II (Undivided) Cumming, Helen Gregory, Rosalind Jaker, Sams Jeyabelen, Harishanth Naruka, Vinci Shiels, Rhonda Toal, Connor Winstanley, Calista Zheng, Xueying

Class II (Div.2) Franklin, Philippe Lee, Elaine Sinclair, Rachel Yazdanian, Bijan Modern and Medieval Languages Part IA Classical Latin Class I Hreben, Rebecca French Class I Hreben, Rebecca

Portuguese Class I Folland, Imogen Spanish Class I Folland, Imogen Class II (Div.1) Rauchegger, Olivia Timothy, Rebecca Part IB Class I Martin, Toby Walker, Jonathan Class II (Div.1) Arbuthnot, Mollie Downes, Emily Pillinger, Octavia

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 Part II Class I Johnson, James Mayhew, Nicholas* Class II (Div.1) Arora, Harshil Bajorek, Tommy Williams, Emma Music Tripos Part IA Class II (Div.1) Bourne, Joseph Parris, George Class II (Div.2) Cheung, Jo-Yee Part IB Class II (Div.1) Vega, Philippa Part II Class II (Div.1) Bramson, Verity Shannon, Ruth Smith, Daniel Natural Sciences Tripos Part IA Class I Houlder, Emma Legg, Kirsten

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Class II (Undivided) Barth, Anna Burrows, Laura Harrold, Alexander Howard, Joseph Jones, Emma Lee, Julin Liu, Hon MacBean, Laura Madgwick, Alison Marshall, Ashleigh Moffatt, Emma Patel, Sajan Ryda, Jordan Savage, Eleanor Trevelyan, Matthew Welbourne, Alexander Part IB Class I Baxter, Luke Kernick, Nicolas McCarthy, Amy Stephenson, Anthony Class II (Div.1) Daley, Rosemary Huang, Ruoxi Kasoar, Timothy Matthews, Peter Perez-Storey, Richard Class II (Div.2) Brookes, Ellen Hayward, Andrew Houston, Alexander Robinson, Sarah-Louise

the college 2012â&#x20AC;&#x201C;13 Part II Class I Chen, Ning Lynn Cook, Shaun Gould, Oliver Jamie, Gabriel Mecklenburg, Milan Mogull, Gustav Overoorde, Lois Screeton, Matthew Seel, James Taylor, Nicholas Class II (Div.1) Bertrand, Katherine Clubb, Rhea Griffiths, Matthew Malek, Raihazah Marks, Isobel Miller, Harry Parker, Bethan Reinert, Julia Scannell, Jack Smith, Hannah Staines, Alison Street, Anna Xie, Cheng Class II (Div.2) Hands, Melissa Patel, Ronak Wong, Francesca Part III Class I Gibbons, Simon Grayling, Michael

Ing-Simmons, Elizabeth Mellers, Gregory Scholtes, Timothy Class II (Div.1) Magan, Shahir Manolopoulos, Emily Teskey, Christopher Yallup, Christine Philosophy Tripos Part IA Class II (Div.1) Jimenez Cordero, Alejandro Part IB Class II (Div.1) Chatterjee, Ophelia Elliott, Alexander Part II Class II (Div.1) Levitin, Alyona Politics, Psychology and Sociology Tripos Part I Class I Hutchinson, Aimee Jones Buxton, Angharad Macmillen, Daniel

Class II (Div.1) Andrews, Samantha Brunert, Joshua Declared to have Deserved Honours Datta, Anita Part IIA Class I Hore, Rosalind Class II (Div.1) Alcock, Nicola Duffield, Olivia Part IIB Class I Takenaka, Kaori Class II (Div.1) Mair, Luned Nicholson, Krista Theology and Religious Studies Tripos Part I Class II (Div.1) Hambro, Maya Riley, Terri-Leigh Part IIA Class II (Div.1) Khan, Bilal Kurtinyte, Saule

Norman, Kitty Taylor, Hannah Part IIB Class II (Div.1) Wabe, Charlotte Preliminary Examinations Classical Tripos Part IA Successful Clifford, Brendan Historical Tripos Part I Successful Ash, Thomas Best, Charlotte Bloomfield, Jenifer Grayling, Laura Morris, Poppy Thomas, David Examinations Not Leading to a First Degree Law LLM Examination Class I Nicholson, Rowan Class II (Div.1) Gherbaoui, Tarik Hamilton, Thomas

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 Mercadante, Daniele Paterson, Claire Smrcek, Toni Master of Advanced Study in Mathematics Successful Braun, Wilhelm* Braune, Lucas Huang, Kedi Mazur, Przemylsawm Stulemeijer, Thierry* Xie, Qingqing Yan, Han Final MB Examination Part I (Pathology) Successful Bradley, Patrick Hind, Eleanor Lawrence, John McKnight, Angus Murugesu, Sughashini Tan, Linette Final MB Examination Part II (Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology) Successful Bradley, Patrick Hind, Eleanor Lawrence, John McKnight, Angus

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Murugesu, Sughashini Tan, Linette Final MB Examination Part III (Clinical) Successful Creamer, Andrew* Fielding, Josephine* Mason, Sarah White, Laura* Wightman, Ruth* Theological and Religious Studies First Examination Bachelor of Theology Successful Simpson, Martha Williams, Owen Theological and Religious Studies Second Examination Class II (Undivided) Brunt, Alison Lee, Franklin Final Veterinary Examination Parts I and II Successful Carter, Caroline Mansell, Rhiannon

the college 2012–13 Part III Successful Hooker, Holly Leney, Francesca With special merit for Small Animal Studies and Farm Animal Studies College Examinations in English Successful Bowen, Isabelle Donovan, James Holland, Jordan Tripathi, Ameya Vernon, Katie Woods, David The following students were on the Erasmus Exchange Programme in 2011–12: Incoming Petit-Jean, Guillaume (French Lecteur) Outgoing Modern and Medieval Languages: Boulding, Emma

■■ Scholarships and Prizes 2011–12 *Title of Scholar ^Research Scholar

Elected to a Scholarship for one year NAMED SCHOLARSHIP Paul Micklethwaite AMES Arch. and Anth. Thomas Ireland Chemical Engineering Arthur Beattie Classics Peter Blundell Economics Thomas Ireland Engineering William Barcroft English Downham Yeomans Geography Charles Whittaker History

Thompson, Georgina Fletcher, Grace Musslewhite, Lucy* Smith, Natalie* Goh, Alessandria* Rickenbach, James* Tong, Haoyang* Xu Zhou, Xuke Westripp, Simon* Alleck, Amit Gao, Derek Iliffe, Emily Khong, Anthony Parlasca, Markus White, James Atkins, Caroline Bird, Hugh* Brockie, Samuel Chia, Charmaine Lei, Yutian* Melzer, Andrew Murphy, Stephen von Rudno, Markus Worrall, Daniel Jones, Ami Souter, Anna Tripathi, Ameya Williamson, Rory Cohen-Lask, Noami Durrant, Jennifer Jackson, Samuel McGlade, Roseanne* Brookes, Thomas

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sidney sussex COLLEGE annual 2012 Paul Micklethwaite History of Art Arthur Sells Linguistics Leonard Coling LLM Thomas Ireland Man. Engineering William Pochin Mathematics Howard Agg Medicine Veterinary Medicine Arthur Sells MML Samuel Taylor Natural Sciences

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the college 2012â&#x20AC;&#x201C;13 Roberts, George* Wilson, James* Norton, Yates* Hurley, David Cormack, James* Nicholson, Rowan* Ginger, John Banks, Elliot* Bonnebaigt, Rachael^ Seddon, Thomas Chen, Ning Lynn* Peutherer, Catherine Yang, Dorothy Fellows, Virginia Folland, Imogen Hreben, Rebecca Johnson, James* Martin, Toby Mayhew, Nicholas* Walker, Jonathan Baxter, Luke Cook, Shaun* Gibbons, Simon^ Gould, Oliver Grayling, Michael^ Houlder, Emma Ing-Simmons, Elizabeth* Jamie, Gabriel* Kernick, Nicolas Legg, Kirsten McCarthy, Amy Mecklenburg, Milan Mellers, Gregory^ Mogull, Gustav Overvoorde, Lois Scholtes, Timothy* Screeton, Matthew Seel, James* Stephenson, Anthony

James Johnson PPSIS

Taylor, Nicholas Hore, Rosie Hutchinson, Aimee Jones-Buxton, Angharad Macmillen, Daniel Takenaka, Kaori*

College Prizes NAMED PRIZE Ronald Bentham-Green Arch. and Anth. Smith, Natalie History of Art Norton, Yates Reginald Hackforth Classics Westripp, Simon Prakash Melwani Economics Alleck, Amit Khong, Anthony White, James Donald Green Engineering Worrall, Daniel Kelvin Pollard Engineering Bird, Hugh Chia, Charmaine Melzer, Andrew Diamond-Larkum English Souter, Anna History Berry, Heather Parton, Emily Julian Blake Geography Agate, Liam Julian Blake (Tripos) PPSIS Takenaka, Kaori Richard Chorley Geography McGlade, Roseanne Anne Peachey History Wilson, James A. W. Woolf Prize Law Veale, George Michael Lyndon-Stanford LLM Nicholson, Rowan Frank George Manufacturing Ginger, John Engineering The Dr David Ritchie Ives Award Mathematics Seddon, Thomas Dudley Wilson MML Hreben, Rebecca Graham, Day, Bellerby MML Mayhew, Nicholas Martin Jacks Natural Sciences Baxter, Luke Gould, Oliver Grayling, Michael Kernick, Nicolas Legg, Kirsten Norman Swindells Veterinary Medicine Fellows, Virginia

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■■ Undergraduate Students – Most Recent Institution AIKED, Hollie, Boswells School, Chelmsford ASHFORD, Matthew, The Sixth Form College, Farnborough BEECH, Jessica, Cranbrook School BENWELL, Daniel, Harrogate Grammar School BHUSHAN, Mihir, St Paul’s School, London BIRCH, Peter R, North Bristol Post-16 Centre, Cotham BLOOMFIELD, Francis, Colchester Royal Grammar School BODOUROGLOU, Katerina, Geitonas School, Attica, Greece BURGESS, Christopher, Bishop Luffa School, Chichester BURNS, Charlotte L, Heckmondwike Grammar School CARR, Joshua, Pershore High School CARREIRA-WHAM, Sofia, City of London School for Girls CHAMBERS, Kieran, Mill Hill County High School CHAPPLE, Ben, Canford School, Wimborne CLARK, Emma J, Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College, Darlington CLARKE, Oliver H, Sevenoaks School COLLARD, Harry, Radley College, Abingdon COOPER, George, Dr Challoner’s Grammar School, Amersham DAVIES, Gabriel, Varndean College, Brighton DAY, Benjamin J, Nottingham High School DELACAVE, Emilie S T, Norwich School DELA CRUZ, Janine D, St Mark’s Roman Catholic School, Hounslow DEVINE, James, St Michael’s Catholic High School, Watford DICKINSON, Grace, St Leonard’s Roman Catholic School, Durham DUNCAN, Alexander, Aberdeen Grammar School DYKE, Frederick G E, The Royal Grammar School, Guildford ELLIOTT, Liam, William Howard School, Brampton ELLIS, Henry, Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge FLOHR, Sophia, St Mary’s School, Ascot FOONG, Ke Wei, Dunman High School, Singapore FRENCH, Jamie P, Highgate School, London FULGEANU, Maria-Miruna, Saint Sava National College, Bucharest, Romania HARBORNE, William, Winchester College HARRISON, Laura K, St Albans High School for Girls HAWORTH, Rachel J, Bacup & Rawtenstall Grammar School, Rossendale HAWTHORNE, Rachel, Pipers Corner School, High Wycombe

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the college 2012–13 HAYES, Aoife, Mill Hill County High School HEATH-BROWN, Jennifer, Wychwood School, Oxford HOOKE, Jonathan R, Cardinal Newman Sixth Form College, Preston HUGHES, J. Noemi, Exmouth Community College JACOBS, Charlotte, Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Girls, Elstree JORDAN, Rebecca M, Strathearn School, Belfast JOSEPH, Grace, Wycombe Abbey School, High Wycombe KÄHM, Walter, Cambridge Centre for Sixth Form Studies KAMMERLANDER, Armin, Bundeshandelsakademie Woergl, Austria KERNAN, Helena R, Prendergast Hilly Fields College, Brockley KROL, Nicholas, Abingdon School LAMONTAGNE, Cindy, St Martin in the Fields High School for Girls, London LARDY, Camille M H, Institution des Chartreux, Lyon, France LEIBOWITZ, Benjamin, The Latymer School, London LI, Jiaming, Oxford International College of Qingdao, China LIM, Y S Julie, Raffles Junior College, Singapore LONG, Rebecca E, Brighton, Hove & Sussex Sixth Form College MAK, Tiffany S H, Sevenoaks School MAO, Amy, Wyggeston & Queen Elizabeth I College, Leicester MARTIN, Jennifer E, Dr Challoner’s High School for Girls, Amersham MASON, Jessica, Banchory Academy McCORMICK, Kyle D, Belmont Academy, Ayr McILWAINE, Sophie C, Torquay Grammar School for Girls MOORE, Henry, The British School in the Netherlands MOSS, Amber-Page, The Belvedere Academy, Liverpool NEAT, Lucy E, City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College NONNENMACHER, Toby S, Latymer Upper School, London NORTH, Samuel J, Sharnbrook Upper School, Bedford OUVAROVA, Maria, Westminster School PEREZ-STOREY, Charles, Magdalen College School, Oxford PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE, Lara C, Godolphin School, Salisbury POWERS, Christopher, The Blackpool Sixth Form College PYCROFT, Emily, Townley Grammar School for Girls, Bexleyheath RAJ, Bhagya, The Boston Grammar School RANDALL, Bethany A, St Mary’s Convent School, Worcester REMILLARD, Hubert, St Bernard’s Catholic Grammar School, Slough REYNOLDS, Amy, The Grammar School at Leeds ROSS, Frederick, Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School, Elstree

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the college 2012–13

SAMANT, Sidharth, Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet SEARLE, William, Cardiff High School SHEEHAN, Helen M, St Mary’s College, Liverpool SHIPLEY, Kate M, Alleyn’s School, Dulwich SMITH, Alistair D, Westcliff High School for Boys, Westcliff-on-Sea STEIN, Zoe R, The Godolphin & Latymer School, London STEVENS, Emma, King Edward VI High School for Girls, Edgbaston TAN, Gabriel L Z, Taylor’s College Sri Hartamas, Malaysia TANG, Sophie L-T, Sir John Lawes School, Harpenden TARVALA, Taiyab, Stoke Newington School, London TEALE, Matthew A, Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys THOMPSON, Elinor, Nottingham High School for Girls THOMPSON, Peter, Cranleigh School TURNER, Benjamin, Hampton College, Peterborough VASILYEV, Vadim, Caterham School VIJAYAKUMARAGURU, Varsini, The Tiffin Girls’ School, Kingston upon Thames VOISEY, Sam S, Ashfield Comprehensive School, Nottingham WANG, Daochen, The Manchester Grammar School WATKINS, Jonathan G T A, Eton College, Windsor WEIL, Benjamin, Highgate School, London WHITE, Alexander N, The Grammar School at Leeds WHITE, Heather T, Sir John Deane’s College, Northwich WONG, Kenneth, Balerno High School, Edinburgh WOOLGAR, Izzy, Cranbrook School WYNSHAW, Elias, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA YAU, Colman, Dauntsey’s School, Devizes YEOH, Su Ling, The Henrietta Barnett School, London YOUNG, Charlotte, Southend High School for Girls ZHANG, Gracie W, Caterham School Westcott House affiliated students (Theology) GAINES, Atalie (BTh) RICKETTS, Theresa (BTh) MIT exchange student HE, Robin (Mathematics)

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Erasmus exchange student LEROY, Kevin, Université de Poitiers (Law) Erasmus French lecteur BLANPAIN, Antoine, Université de Montpellier

■■ Degrees Conferred * In absence

PhD

2012 28 April *Jadav, Alka Madhukant

2011 22 October *Spampinato, Letizia 26 November Lee, Chern Leing Sumnall, Catherine Patricia 2012 28 April Perkins, Rosie Louise Strik, Philip Frederik Jozef Simon Whiting, Caroline May 19 May Ng, Ee Sin 21 July Assier, Raphael Charles Breen, Rebecca Charters, Claire Winfield Ngamihi du Plessis, David James Philip Homer, Christophe Edouard Vincent Mott, Richard William Ringel, Felix Walsh, Sebastian John

19 May Abedin, Syed Asad Barrow, Christopher John Benbow, William Gerald Bershadski, Andrew Bhadresha, Ruksha *Bott, Adam Brand, Douglas Henry Brighouse, Andrew David Burkitt, Christopher Burton, Jeremy James Byrne, Eve Josephine Capel, Grace Lily Casey, Joseph William Frederick Castor-Perry, Sarah Alys Charbin, Adrian Aymard Clifford, Helen Jennifer *Clough, Alice Christine Colvin, Daniel Tomohiro Cook, Samuel Anthony John Coombe-Jones, Claire Elizabeth

Coutts, Emily Deason, Alis Jones Denison, Carolyn Jane Dilley, Stephen Drukier, Casper Featherstone, Stephanie Freeman, James Robert Knowle *Gershon, Yehudah Nataniel Gilbert, Jonathan Peter Gowing, Laura Catherine Graham, Neil Samuel Nyholm Greenwood, Thomas Peter Grimble, Lucy Naomi Hapeshi, Alexia Hart, Samuel Anderson Haynes, Thomas Anthony Hickmott, David Andrew Hopkins, Matthew John *Howard, Rachel Louise Howe, David James, Michael Insley Jameson, Elizabeth Frances Mary *Kemp, Owen Antony Kiln, Kate Elizabeth Lawrance-Owen, Adam John

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Walker, Amy Louise *Wang, Yangfang Vicky Weatherup, Robert Stewart Wilhelmi, Sandra Charlotte Williams, Claire Bryony Woodruff, Kate *Wright, Helena Louise 21 July * Ating’a, Angela Miriam Achieng’ * Rikardson, Konrad

LLM 2012 29 June Gherbaoui, Tarik Hamilton, Thomas Francis Barton Mercadante, Daniele Nicholson, Rowan Alexander Paterson, Claire Patricia Smrcek, Toni

MPhil 2011 22 October Allen, Joanne *Gersten, Jonathan Koning, Anneke Parks, Sarah Louise Sibanda, Mxolisi

the college 2012–13 Van Velden, Blake David Westerman, Richard Lowell 26 November Accetta, Kelly *Chang, Hsinyu Iris *Littman, Aaron Martin, Jack Leonard *Silverstein, Eli Issac 2012 21 January *Radde, Sören 28 April *Dokter, Rachel Anne 21 July Ejsmont, Andrzej Piotr Goldberg, Terence Jonathan Krammer, Philip Ligueros, Sebastian *Muangpaisan, Weerasak Rostad, Samuel Savic, Una Shao, Han Snajdr, Jaroslav Stoakes, Coral Stokes, Rosemary Strauss, Simon Botho Eduard Theodor Wharton, Geoffrey Ronald John

MMus

MEng/BA

MSci/BA

2011 22 October *Haneman, Jeremy

2011 22 October Gorton, Daniel Mark Andrew

2012 29 June Gibbons, Simon Llewellyn John Grayling, Michael John Ing-Simmons, Elizabeth Georgina Lacey Magan, Shahir Azim Manolopoulos, Emily Mellers, Gregory James Scholtes, Timothy Teskey, Christopher John Yallup, Christine Danielle

MMath 2012 19 May Stevens, Neil 21 July *Mcconnell, Robert

MMath/BA 2012 29 June Banks, Elliot James Carrigan Bonnebaigt, Rachael Helen

MASt 2011 26 November Davies, Gary Bryan *Houston, Nicholas 2012 21 July Braun, Wilhelm *Georgoulis, Emmanuil Huang, Kedi Moreau, Jeremie Xie, Qingqing Yan, Han

2012 29 June Baker, Ross Bird, Hugh James Bokor, Tamás Gellért Goh, Alessandria Hunter, Andrew James Jarvis, Caroline Lucy Lee, Su Lyn Lei, Yutian Phelps, Benedict Pilkington, Andrew James Rickenbach, James Tong, Haoyang Wagner, Thomas Wills, Adam

MEd 2012 21 January Kavanagh, Rose

MBA 2012 21 July *Miyamoto, Kaihei

MB 2012 19 May Brand, Douglas Henry Howe, David Kiln, Kate Elizabeth St John-Green, Celia 21 July Mason, Sarah Christine White, Laura Anderson Wightman, Ruth

VetMB 2012 29 June Hooker, Holly Leigh Leney, Francesca Mary

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BA 2011 22 October Love, Joel Andrew 2012 29 June Agate, Liam Alderton, Hannah Rachel Ankers, Toby Arora, Harshil Bailey, Sebastian Bajorek, Tommy Bassi, Kanika Bates, Jennifer Berry, Heather Bertrand, Katherine Bettany, Tom Richard Bramson, Sarah Verity Miriam Brown, George Thomas Chen, Dai Chen, Ning Lynn Clark, Caroline Jane Clubb, Rhea Kessar Cook, Shaun James Cormack, James Robert Walton Crothall, Amy Dilnot, Rosemary Di Mambro, Rebecca Docherty, Francesca Edwardes Jones, Mark William Englander, Henry Tate Gebbett, Matthew

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Graves, Elli Gray, Katherine Green, Rose Greenway, Charles Edward Griffiths, Matthew James Street Hands, Melissa Jane Jamie, Gabriel Adam Johnson, James Francis Kayihan, Emel Khong, Anthony Killough, Michael Joseph Kola-Balogun, Morohunkeji Levitin, Alyona Lewin, Thomas McCusker, Theo William Mair, Luned Malek, Raihazah Manafi, Navid Marks, Isobel Helen Marshall, James Samuel Joseph Mayhew, Nicholas Muirhead, Aimee Musselwhite, Lucy Ann *Nicholson, Krista Adele Norton, Yates Owen, Frances Gillian Clare Parker, Bethan Parton, Emily Hope Patel, Ronak Sujit

the college 2012–13 Reid, James Alexander Roberts, George Scannell, Jack Seel, James Shannon, Ruth Shen, Jieni Smith, Daniel Smith, Hannah Smith, Natalie Smout-McGlade, Roseanne Elizabeth Snoddy, Jack Snow, Kate Staines, Alison Street, Anna Naomi Takenaka, Kaori Tapley, Natalie Kristina Vega, Philippa Anne Vickerstaff, Fiona Jane Wabe, Charlotte Wehmeyer, Camilla Margaret Maria Weldon, Dominic Anthony Westripp, Simon Jack Whitehall, Kenton Williams, Emma Rachel Wilson, James David Wollmann, Jan Wong, Francesca Fiorella

■■ Notices Dates of Full Term, 2012–13 Michaelmas 2012 Lent 2013 Easter 2013

begins 2 October begins 15 January begins 23 April

ends 30 November ends 15 March ends 14 June

Dates of Congregations 2012–13 Ordinary congregations for the award of degrees will be held as follows, at 2.00pm on Saturdays unless otherwise stated: Michaelmas 2012 20 October (11am) 24 November

Lent 2013 19 January 16 February 23 March (10am)

Easter 2013 27 April (11am) 11 May (10am)

Long Vacation 20 July (10am)

It is expected that Sidney students will graduate at the Congregation on Friday, 28 June. Members of the College who wish to proceed to degrees at General Admission only should contact the Senior Tutor’s PA, Mrs Maria Booth: telephone +44 (0) 1223 338847, or email mtb28@cam.ac.uk. At this Congregation, only the following degrees may be taken: LLM, MEng, MMAth, MSci, VetMB, MusB, BA and BTh. For all other Congregations, please contact the Praelector’s Assistant, Mrs Angela Parr-Burman: telephone +44 (0) 1223 338810, or email amp80@cam. ac.uk, at least one month in advance.

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