Oriel College Record 2018 by Oriel College Development Office

Oriel college record

2018

front cover An Oriel angel from the College barge

oRiel college Record

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CONTENTS

COLLEGE RECORD

The Provost, Fellows, Lecturers Provost’s Notes From the New Provost Treasurer’s Notes Chaplain’s Notes Marriages and Baptisms Preachers at Evensong Development Director’s Notes The Provost's Court The Raleigh Society The 1326 Society Tortoise Blades Donors to Oriel During the Year Alumni Survey Junior Common Room Middle Common Room New Members 2017–2018 Academic Record 2017–2018 Degrees and Examination Results Awards and Prizes Graduate Scholarships Sports Achievements College Library Outreach

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CLUBS, SOCIETIES AND ACTIVITIES

Chapel Choir Oriel Garden Play Oriel Commemoration Ball College Sports The Tortoise Club The Oriel Society Oriel Alumni and Alumnae Golf

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FEATURES 107

Commemoration of Benefactors: Sermon preached by Dr Teresa Bejan 108 Edmund Fellowes, Oriel and the English Musical Renaissance 112 The Don who Embodies Oxford: A Tribute to Jeremy Catto 118 Eugene Lee-Hamilton Prize 2018 122 Book Review: Rob Petre and John Stevenson, A Provost’s War 124

NEWS AND EVENTS Honours and Awards Fellows’ News Orielenses’ News Obituaries Other Deaths notified since September 2017 Diary Notes

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VISITOR HM The Queen

PROVOST

† Moira Paul Wallace, OBE, MA (MA Cantab.; AM Harvard)

FELLOWS Andrew Timothy Boothroyd, MA (MA, PhD Cantab.); Professor of Physics, Rhodes Fellow and Tutor in Physics John Michael Spivey, MA, DPhil (MA Cantab.); University Lecturer in Computation, Misys and Andersen Fellow and Tutor in Computer Science Annette Marianne Volfing, MA, DPhil, FBA; Professor in Medieval German Studies, Knight Fellow and Tutor in Modern Languages (German) David Michael Hodgson, MA (BSc Bath; PhD Southampton); Professor of Chemistry, Todd Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry, Vice-Provost Lynne Suzanne Cox, MA (MA, PhD Cantab.); University Lecturer in Biochemistry, George Moody Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry Teresa Jean Morgan, MA (MA, PhD Cantab.); William and Nancy Turpin Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History †Brian Lee Leftow, MA (MA, MPhil, PhD Yale); Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion Oliver Edward Edmund Pooley, BPhil, MA, DPhil; Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy Bruno Gabriel Felix Currie, MA, DPhil; Monro Fellow and Tutor in Classics John Edgar Huber, MA (MA, PhD Cantab.); T.I. Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Science, Tutor for Graduates (from MT15) Richard William Scholar, MA, MSt, D Phil; Fellow and Tutor in Modern Languages (French)

Edward Wilfrid Stephenson, MA (MA Cantab.), FCT; Treasurer Yadvinder Singh Malhi (MA Cantab.; PhD Reading), FRS; Professor of Ecosystem Science, Jackson Senior Research Fellow in Biodiversity and Conservation Kristine Krug, MA, DPhil; Senior Research Fellow and Tutor in Biomedical Sciences Ian James Forrest, MA, DPhil (MA, MPhil Glasgow); Catto Fellow and Tutor in History, Fellow Librarian Christopher Charles Bowdler, MA, MPhil, DPhil (BA Cantab.); MacPherson Fellow and Tutor in Economics Juliane Kerkhecker, MA (Staatsexamen Tübingen); Fellow by Special Election and Tutor in Classics, Senior Tutor Michael Peter Devereux, MA (MSc London School of Economics; PhD London); Professorial Fellow in Business Taxation Christopher Peter Conlon, MA (MB, BS, MD London), FRCP; Professor of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Fellow and Director of Clinical Medical Studies Lucinda Anne Ferguson, MA, BCL, PGDip LATHE (LLM Queen’s University, Canada); Fellow and Tutor in Law John Hamish Armour, BA, BCL (LLM Yale; BVC London); Hogan Lovells Professor of Law and Finance Julia Carolin Mannherz (MA London; PhD, Cantab.); Rhodes Fellow and Tutor in History Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra, MA (MPhil, PhD Cantab.); Professor of Metaphysics,

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Víctor Acedo Matellán

Julien Devriendt

Colin Prestige Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy Lars Fugger, MA (MD, PhD, DMedSc Copenhagen); Mary Machin Fellow and Professor of Neuroimmunology Ian Robert Horrocks, MA (MSc, PhD Manchester), FRS; Professorial Fellow in Computer Science Nicholas Eyre, MA, DPhil; Jackson Senior Research Fellow in Energy † Kevin Joseph Maloy, MA (BSc, PhD Glasgow); Fellow and Tutor in Medicine Sandra Robertson, MA (BA Edinburgh); Professorial Fellow in Finance, Chief Investment Officer, Oxford University Endowment Management William Dalton Wood, MA (MA, PhD Chicago); George Moody Fellow and Tutor in Theology Kobi Kremnitzer, BA (MSc, PhD Tel Aviv); Fellow and Tutor in Pure Mathematics Mungo Wilson, BA (MSc LSE; PhD Harvard); Non-Tutorial Fellow in Economics Kathryn Jean Murphy, DPhil (MA Glasgow); Fellow and Tutor in English Literature James Frank Sparks, MA (PhD Cantab.); Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics Sean Bernard Power, MA (BA, MA Dunelm); Director of Development Lyndal Anne Roper, MA (BA Melbourne; PhD London), FRHistS; Regius Professor of History

Andrew Wells

Robert Wainwright

Paul Wayne Yowell, MA, BCL, MPhil, DPhil; Benn Fellow and Tutor in Jurisprudence Justin Porter Coon, MA (BS Clemson; PhD Bristol); Emmott Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Science Hindy Najman, MA (BA Yeshiva; MA, PhD Harvard); Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture Luca Castagnoli, MA (BA Bologna; PhD Cantab.); Stavros Niarchos Foundation Fellow in Ancient Greek Philosophy Teresa Mia Bejan, MA (BA Chicago; MPhil Cantab., PhD Yale); Fellow and Tutor in Political Theory Maike Bublitz, MA (Dipl Biol Dr. rer. Nat. Braunschweig); Ron Bancroft Fellow in Biochemistry Patrick Emmet Farrell, MA (BSc National University of Ireland; PhD Imperial); Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics Víctor Acedo Matellán, MA (BA Valladolid; BA, MA, PhD Barcelona); Fellow and Tutor in Spanish and Linguistics Julien Devriendt, MA (MA, PhD Paris XI Orsay); Fellow and Tutor in Physics Andrew Wells, MA (MA, PhD, CASM Cantab.); Fellow and Tutor in Physics Robert James David Wainwright, MA, MSt, DPhil (BA Dunelm); Chaplain (from HT18)

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ADAM DE BROME FELLOW John Albert, MA RALEIGH FELLOW Charles A. Potter (LLB Detroit) ISOBEL LAING POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES Lisa Heather, DPhil (BSc Surrey) JACKSON SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW IN LAND USE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE Jed Kaplan (BA Dartmouth Coll., PhD Lund) RESEARCH FELLOW AND DIRECTOR OF MUSIC David Nicholas Maw, MA, DPhil, FRCO HAYWARD JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOWS Luis Alberto Baena Lopez (BSc, PhD Madrid) Jerome Sallet (BSc Marseilles, MSc Toulouse, PhD Lyon) FRANK JACKSON JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOW IN THE ENVIRONMENT Philipp Grunewald (MSc, PhD Imperial, Dipl Eng Wedel) CAREER DEVELOPMENT FELLOW IN HISTORY Maya Corry BA, DPhil (MA Courtauld) GLASSTONE RESEARCH FELLOW IN MATHEMATICS Robert Van Gorder (BSc, MS, PhD UCF) JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOW IN TOPICAL ECOLOGY Immaculada Oliveras Menor (BSc, PhD Barcelona)

SUPERNUMERARY RESEARCH FELLOWS Eric Beinhocker, Executive Director, Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School † Bernardo Cuenca Grau (PhD Valencia) DEANS † Alexis Brown, MA (BA Wisconsin Madison) Serenhedd James, MSt, DPhil (BA Dunelm); FRHistS Carrie Ryan, MPhil (BA, Sewanee) Holly Sadler, BA (from HT18) Alexander Von Klemperer, MSc (MB, ChB University of Cape Town) GRADUATE TEACHING AND RESEARCH SCHOLARS Lucy Auton, MMath: Mathematics Amy Hughes, MPhys: Physics Artem Kzaznatcheev (BSc McGill): Computer Science Nicholas Lennings (BA, LLB Macquarie; LLM Harvard): Law (until HT18) Thomas McConnell (BA Exeter), MSt: Classics Pacharaporn Phanomvan na Ayudhya: History Elizabeth Phillips, MMathCompSci: Computer Science † leaving Oriel at the end of the 2017–2018 academic year

EMERITUS FELLOWS William Edward Parry, MA, DPhil; former Tutor in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics James Frank Offen, MA, FRICS; former Estates Bursar Brig. Michael James Fowler Stephens, MA (MA Cantab.), CEng, MICE; former Bursar

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Richard Granville Swinburne, MA, BPhil, DipTheol, FBA; former Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion David William Maskell, MA, DPhil; former Tutor in Modern Languages (French) Robert Anthony Beddard, MA, DPhil, FRHistS (BA London; MA Cantab.); former Sir Zelman Cowen Fellow and Tutor in Modern History Robert Jeremy Adam Inch Catto, MA, DPhil; formerly Rhodes Fellow and Tutor in Modern History Keith Owen Hawkins, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Cantab.; LLB Birmingham); former University Professor in Law and Society and Tutor in Law Graham Francis Vincent-Smith, MA, DPhil; former Philip and Pauline Harris Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics George Gordon MacPherson, MA, BM, DPhil; former Reader in Experimental Pathology, Turnbull Fellow and Tutor in Medicine, Senior Tutor and Tutor for Graduates Lauchlan Glenn Black, MA, DPhil (BA Cape Town); former Tutor in English Literature, Senior Tutor Richard Henry Stefan Tur, MA (LLB Dundee); former Fellow and Tutor in Jurisprudence Mark François Edward Philp, MA, MPhil, DPhil (BA Bradford; MSc Leeds); former Fellow and Tutor in Politics David Owain Maurice Charles, BPhil, MA, DPhil; former Colin Prestige Fellow and Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy Revd John Barton, MA, DPhil, DLitt (Hon. DrTheol Bonn), FBA; former Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture

Douglas Kinnear Hamilton, MA, DPhil; former Emmott Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Science Pedro Gil Ferreira, MA (Lic Lisbon; PhD London); former Fellow and Tutor in Physics

HONORARY FELLOWS Thomas Henry Bull Symons, CC OOnt, MA, LLD, FRSC (BA Toronto; DU Ottawa; DLitt Columbia) The Rt Hon. The Lord Harris of Peckham (Philip Charles) Professor Sir Michael Eliot Howard, CH, OM, CBE, MC, MA, DLitt, FBA, FRHistS; former Regius Professor of Modern History Sir Bryan Hubert Nicholson, KB, GBE, MA, FRSA Professor Thomas Noel Mitchell, MA, MRIA (MA Dublin, National University of Ireland; PhD Cornell); former Provost, Trinity College, Dublin Lady Pauline Harris, DBE, DL Lee Seng Tee, FBA Professor Eric Foner, MA (BA, PhD Columbia University); former Harmsworth Professor of American History Professor Sir John Huxtable Elliott, MA, FBA (BA, MA, PhD Cantab.); former Regius Professor of Modern History Professor Charles Brian Handy, MA The Hon. Sir Michael Wright, MA The Rt Hon. Baron Murphy of Torfaen (Paul), MA, KCMCO, KSG, PC John Hegarty (MA, PhD National University of Ireland), FInstP, MRIA; former Provost, Trinity College Dublin Anthony Peter de Hoghton Collett, MA; former Secretary to the Development Trust The Rt Hon. Lord Morgan of Aberdyfi (Kenneth Owen), MA, DPhil, DLitt, FBA, FRHistS Sir David Geoffrey Manning, GCMG, KCVO, MA James Mellon, MA

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Professor Sir John Stuart Vickers, MA, MPhil, DPhil, FBA; Warden of All Souls College Professor David Hearnshaw Barlow, MA, BSc, MD, MRCP, FRCOG, FMedSci; former Nuffield Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology; former Dean, Glasgow School of Medicine Professor Robert Fox, MA, DPhil, FRHistS; former Professor of the History of Science Sir Albert Aynsley-Green, DPhil, FRCP, FRCPE, FRCPH, FMedSci Jonathan Barnes, MA, FBA The Hon. James Farley, QC, BA (BA Western Ontario; LLB Toronto) Professor Colin Peter Mayer, CBE, MA, MPhil, DPhil; former Dean, Saïd Business School Sir Crispin Henry Lamart Davis, BA Professor Robert John Weston Evans, MA, DPhil, FBA; former Regius Professor of History Professor Patrick John Prendergast (BA, BAI, PhD, ScD, FTCD, MRIA; Provost, Trinity College Dublin), FTCD MRIA; Provost, Trinity College Dublin Robert McHenry, MA, DPhil; former Tutor in Psychology Sir Michael McWilliam, KCMG, MA, BLitt Sir Derek James Morris, MA, DPhil (DSc Cran.; DCL UEA; LLD NUI); former Provost Thomas Colm Kelleher, MA, FCA Jonathan Stewart Lane, OBE, MA, FRICS Philip Strone Macpherson, MA (MBA INSEAD) Professor Julia Alison Noble, OBE, MA, DPhil, FREng; former TI Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Science; Technikos Professor of Biomedical Engineering John Albert, MA; Adam de Brome Fellow Robin Harland, MA; former Adam de Brome Fellow

Sir Paul Preston, KB, CBE, MA, DPhil, FBA, FRHistS; Príncipe de Asturias Professor, London School of Economics Professor Peter Biller, MA, DPhil, FRHistS, FBA Professor Sarah Coakley (MA, PhD Cantab); former Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge; former Tutor in Theology

LECTURERS Katrina Maria Kohl (BA, PhD London); Fellow of Jesus College; Lecturer in German Clive Newton, QC, MA, BCL; Lecturer in Jurisprudence Julie Alexandria Evelyn Curtis, MA, DPhil; Fellow of Wolfson College; Lecturer in Russian Mark Whittow, MA, DPhil, Fellow of Corpus Christi College; Lecturer in History (died 23 December 2017) Giuseppe Antonio Stellardi, MA (DottFil, DipPerfFil Pavia; DEA, Dr Univ. Sorbonne); Lecturer in Italian Simon Andrew Skinner, MA, MPhil, DPhil, FRHistS; Fellow of Balliol College; Lecturer in History David Nicholas Maw, MA, DPhil, FRCO; Lecturer in Music Elinor Payne (MA, MPhil, PhD Cantab., PG Diploma SOAS); Fellow of St Hilda’s College; Lecturer in Linguistics Marion Elizabeth Turner, MA, DPhil (MA York); Fellow of Jesus College; Lecturer in English Richard Tyrrell Coggins, MA, DPhil; Lecturer in Politics Andrew William Kenneth Farlow, MPhil (MA Cantab.); Lecturer in Economics Nicholas Jackson Brett Green, MA, DPhil; Lecturer in Chemistry

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Sarah Elizabeth Lilian Bennett, MSt, DPhil (BA York); Lecturer in English Hugh Robert Collins Rice, MA, MLitt (MA Sussex); Lecturer in Music Pamela Virginia Lear (BSc, PhD London); Lecturer in Medicine Andrew Adam (BA Bowdoin; MDiv, STM Yale; PhD Duke); Lecturer in Theology Shona Murphy (BTech Bradford; MSc, PhD Essex); Lecturer in Biochemistry Steven James Kaye, BA, MPhil, DPhil; Lecturer in English Language Victor Lee, DPhil (BSc, MPhil Hong Kong); Lecturer in Chemistry Rebecca Springer (BA Yale; MPhil Cantab.); Lecturer in History George Howard Wadhams, MBiochem, DPhil; Lecturer in Biochemistry Krzysztof Brzeziński (BA, MSc Warsaw; PhD Manchester); Lecturer in Economics Andrew Goodwin, MA, DPhil (PhD Syd.; PhD Cantab.), FRSC; Lecturer in Chemistry Kirstin Gwyer, BA, MSt, DPhil; Lecturer in German Andria Pancrazi (MA Paris Diderot); Lecturer in French Maya Corry, BA, DPhil (MA Courtauld); Lecturer in History Tomasz Czepiel, DPhil (BMus Lancaster); Lecturer in Music Mohamady El-Gaby, MBiochem (MSc UCL; PhD Cantab.); Lecturer in Medicine Stefano Gogioso, MA, DPhil (MA, MASt Cantab.; BSc, MSc Genova); Lecturer in Computer Science Douglas Kinnear Hamilton, MA, DPhil; Lecturer in Engineering Science Matthew Peter Mills, MA, BCL (LLM London); Lecturer in Law Thomas Moller-Nielsen, MSt, DPhil (BSc Bristol); Lecturer in Philosophy Hannah Bailey, DPhil (MA York, BA Mount Holyoke College); Lecturer in English

Arjen Felke Bakker (PhD, MA Catholic University of Leuven; MA Amsterdam); Lecturer in Theology Stefanie Burkert-Burrows, MSt (Staatexamen Eichstätt; PGCE Manc Met); Lecturer in German Suzanne Chiodo, LLM, JD, MA; Lecturer in Law Panagiotis Doudonis, MPhil, MJur (LLB Athens); Lecturer in Law Alexander Blake Ewing, DPhil (BA Colorado; MSc LSE); Lecturer in Politics Simone Falco, DPhil; Lecturer in Engineering Science Vittoria Fallanca, MSt (BA Cantab.); Lecturer in French Tristan Emil Franklinos, MPhil, DPhil (MA St Andrews); Lecturer in Classical Language and Literature Alexander James Homer, MMath; Lecturer in Mathematics Aarti Jagannath, MSc, DPhil; Lecturer in Medicine Mark de Kreij (BA, MA, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen; PhD Ruprecht-Karls Universität, Heidelberg); Lecturer in Classical Language and Literature Francesco Manzini (PhD UCL); Lecturer in French Kathryn Rees, BA, MSt, DPhil; Lecturer in French Miriam Schwarz (BA MA Freie Universität Berlin); Lecturer in German Matthew Tranter, BA (PhD Imperial College); Lecturer in Medicine Juliane Zachauber, MA, DPhil; Lecturer in Ancient History NEW SENIOR MEMBER JOINING ORIEL IN MICHAELMAS TERM 2018 Nicholas Gaskill (BA Birmingham-Southern College; MA, PhD North Carolina); Fellow and Tutor in American Literature

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PROVOST’S NOTES

very year, the writing of these notes is a great reminder of the wonderful variety of College life and the College’s achievements. This year the process is intensified by my own farewells, and reminiscences with colleagues and friends about the times we have shared together and the things that the College has achieved. I have said before that Oriel is proof that a college can excel at many things. This year has been no exception. The College is in good shape financially, thriving academically, making great strides in access, and maintaining its prowess in sport, music and having a good time. In Finals, this year’s undergraduates achieved thirty-four Firsts, the second highest total in Oriel’s history. Overall, the College is twelfth in the Norrington Table. The Firsts and a healthy clutch of university prizes were achieved across many subjects, but particular congratulations go to English, where alone or in joint schools there were six Firsts out of a possible eight, and to Biochemistry, where all three finalists were awarded Firsts. Twenty-two Oriel students have completed their DPhils and thirty-nine their Masters, twelve of them with Distinctions. Oriel Talks have continued to gather pace and our graduate students are gaining recognition for their academic work. Our Fellows continue to thrive and be recognised for their research and teaching. To take only a few examples, this year Yadvinder Malhi was awarded the Royal Geographical Society Patron’s Medal, in recognition of his world-leading research on tropical ecosystems. In May, at a ceremony in the Escorial, Honorary Fellow Sir John Elliott was presented with the first ever Premio Órdenes Españolas Award for his outstanding achievements in the field of Hispanic History and Culture. Closer to home, in the University teaching awards, Kathryn Murphy was one of the winners of the Outstanding Tutor Award and Ian Horrocks won a Most Acclaimed Lecturer award. Four new Fellows have joined the College: Julien Devriendt and Andrew Wells, both Physicists who came to us from other posts in Oxford; Víctor Acedo-Matellán joined us from Cambridge, to the new post of Tutorial Fellow in Linguistics and Spanish; and Rob Wainwright, formerly Assistant Curate of Burford, joined us in January as our new Chaplain. This summer Nick Gaskill, previously at Rutgers, becomes our first Fellow in American Literature. Three of our Fellows depart to new roles. After fifteen years Brian Leftow returns to the United States to become William P. Alston Chair for the Philosophy of Religion at Rutgers. Tutor in Medicine Kevin Maloy returns to Glasgow, his alma mater, to a chair in Immunology. Computer Scientist Bernardo Cuenca Grau leaves us to become a Tutorial Fellow at Keble. David Meara has returned to his busy retirement, having generously stepped in to cover the gap in Michaelmas before our new Chaplain was recruited.

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Former Libarian Marjory Szurko held an ‘Edible Exhibition’ of Reformation Recipes in November

After fifteen years at Oriel, College Librarian Marjory Szurko has left to take up a part-time post at St Stephen’s House. This will allow her more time for research on historic recipes and how to recreate them in the modern era, a topic familiar to Oriel from her many wonderful ‘Edible Exhibitions’. Hannah Robertson, from The British Museum, succeeds her as College Librarian. The College has elected two new Honorary Fellows. Professor Sarah Coakley was the College’s first-ever female Fellow in 1991, then Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity at Harvard, and then Norris-Hulse Professor in Divinity at Cambridge. Orielensis Professor Pete Biller (1963) is Professor of Medieval History at York and has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2012. We are delighted to re-affirm the connections of these distinguished academics with Oriel in this way. Each year in these Notes, it falls to the Provost to remember those who have passed away during the year. It is enormously sad that this year the list includes dear friend of the College Mark Whittow, who died barely a month after the announcement that he would become the College’s next Provost. Mark had a long-standing connection with Oriel, with a Junior Research Fellowship here at the beginning of his career and many years as a College Lecturer alongside his Fellowship at Corpus. The many public tributes to Mark in the wake of this tragic news spoke powerfully of his extraordinary character, energy and dedication to his students, and the thoughts of the whole College community are with his wife, Helen, and their children. A conference in memory of Mark is to take place in the autumn, and regrettably it will not be our only memorial event. For in the depths of this summer’s vacation came the very sad news of Jeremy Catto’s passing. A History Fellow at Oriel for thirty-six years, Jeremy served also as Vice Provost, Senior Dean, Steward of the Common Room and Editor of the Oriel Record. The College owes him a particular debt for his editorship of the Oriel College History, published in 2013. An influential and much-loved figure for generations of students, Jeremy will be greatly missed. In this sad list I also include Emeritus Fellow Derek Gray, distinguished surgeon and Fellow in Medicine; Sir Francis Ferris (1952), who served as a High Court Judge and

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was elected as an Honorary Fellow in 2000; and Sir John Ford (1939), a distinguished diplomat and former British High Commissioner to Canada. We send our condolences to the families of all Orielenses who have passed away this year. Getting to know the College’s alumni community, with their extraordinarily diverse interests, has been a major part of my role as Provost. This year Sean Power, David and I travelled to the US to catch up with Orielenses on east and west coasts, and on each occasion it was enormous fun to bring together different generations of alumni, reconnect old friendships and make new introductions. Thanks are due to all those who helped us organise events, and special gratitude to Zane Dalal (1983) for hosting our Los Angeles gathering in his beautiful home in Bel Air. We have seen increasing attendances at College events both in Oxford and London, particularly among younger Orielenses and those with young families, which is heartening to see. The sight of a gaggle of children having their faces painted at the summer garden party while their parents lolled on the grass of Second Quad is a memory I shall treasure. The tradition of staying connected to the College has deep roots at Oriel and we all owe a great debt of gratitude to those who over the years have fostered this relationship through service on the Oriel Society Committee. It has been a pleasure to work with this group in its modern day incarnation, and I am particularly grateful to Geoff Austin, its President, for his devotion and service to the College. The happy and noisy throng of Orielenses packing out the RAF club on a May evening for a sell-out London Dinner, and superb after-dinner speeches by Geoff and Air Vice Marshall Mike Wigston will stay in my memory as a lovely closing event to this element of my work as Provost. This is a good moment to thank the many other alumni who assist the College through their service on committees, by sharing their time and expertise with College staff or with our students, and the many Orielenses who support the College financially. This year the College reached its £25 million fundraising target for the second phase of the 2026 Campaign. This is a wonderful achievement, and I would like to thank all of the alumni and friends who contributed over the course of the campaign. Congratulations to Sean Power and all members of the Development team past and present who have worked so hard to achieve this goal, and to the Treasurer for his careful stewardship of our increasingly healthy endowment. The money raised from donations makes a huge difference to all aspect of College life – helping us maintain and improve our buildings and facilities, strengthening research and teaching, providing extra support to help students in hardship, funding travel grants, and helping the College to reach out to those young people who have the talent to study here but who could easily think that Oxford was not a possibility for them. The last of these issues – access – is a high priority for the University, and one in

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Oriel fielded the largest team in the Oxford Town and Gown 10k for the third year running

which I have personally been heavily involved as Chair of the University Admissions Committee. There is progress on access across the University, and in Oriel we are fortunate to have a number of donors who have funded the development of some very effective access initiatives. Total applications to Oriel have grown markedly in response to our increased outreach, and the applicant mix is becoming more diverse. This feeds through to whom we admit. Over the last three years Oriel has had the fifth-highest proportion of state school students of any Oxford college, and in 2017 twice as many students from deprived neighbourhoods won places at Oriel as in 2013. Many current undergraduates give up their own time to participate in access work. But this is just one of the many College activities that our students sustain. Sport naturally continues to thrive, with rowing pre-eminent. At Torpids, the Women retained their Headship, and the Men bumped Pembroke on the final day to make it a Double Headship. This despite dreadful conditions: snow knocked out two days of racing and it was only thanks to a massive (Oriel-led!) effort to clear the towpath that the last dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s racing could take place at all. The things we will do to beat Pembroke! Oriel has done well in many other sports, as you will see from the reports elsewhere in this edition of the Oriel Record, but I should mention here Orielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thirdin-a row achievement of largest team in the Oxford Town and Gown 10k run in May. My role in this is limited to sponsoring the T-shirts and handing out chocolate at the finishing line, but my husband, David, has been one of the runners each of the last five years and organises the Oriel team with Andrew Boothroyd. We both hope that it becomes a tradition for many Oriel staff, students and alumni to enjoy in the future. Our students have benefited from the presence of another world-class Visiting Musician this year â&#x20AC;&#x201C; guitarist Craig Ogden, who gave two masterclasses, a Holywell

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concert and several Sunday afternoon recitals in Chapel. The marvellous Champagne Concerts – the inspiration of my predecessor – continue in good health. The Choir released a new CD, Lumen de lumine, just before Christmas. Music, and particularly the Choir, has been such a big part of my life at Oriel that I decided to commission a Nunc Dimittis as a thank-you gift to the Choir. Composed by Judith Bingham, it is a companion piece to the Magnificat she wrote for Oriel in 2015, and had its first performance at the Candlemas service. Candlemas has been celebrated at Oriel for centuries and we maintain this tradition. But as we become a more international and diverse college, our list of feast days expands. This year we initiated a new tradition, with a special dinner to celebrate Chinese New Year. This was a wonderful occasion: the Chef produced a beautiful and appropriate menu; we had Grace in Mandarin; and a number of our students gave short talks about how New Year is celebrated in their culture. This is just one example of many wonderful meals and events that are put on throughout the year and which bring so much pleasure to those who attend. They reached a worthy culmination in this year’s fantastic Commemoration Ball, a stunning evening of great food, wonderful music and entertainment, and a spectacular light show projected onto the walls of Front Quad. Congratulations to Ball President Lena Scheneidewind and her committee, and to all our staff, on producing such a wellorganised and memorable event. So at the end of another busy year for the College, and also the end of my five years as Provost, there are many people I need to thank. Our wonderful students, ably represented this year by JCR President Sebastien Santhiapillai and MCR President Alexander Pateman. Our alumni for their interest and support. All the College staff, academic and non-academic, whose professionalism and teamwork underpin all the College’s greatest successes. And many colleagues across the University whom I have got to know through the wider role of a Head of House. There are a few people I want to single out particularly in this final year of my term. First, it has been my privilege to work with three wonderful Vice Provosts: Andrew Boothroyd, Annette Volfing and David Hodgson. Senior Fellows commit a great deal of time and thought to this role, and both the College and I owe them enormous thanks. Second, I want to thank Rebecca Bricklebank, my Personal Assistant, who combines organisational genius with a heart of gold, and Katie Brown, the College’s Communications Officer, who has transformed our website and social media, and made our ducklings famous. Above all, I want to thank David for his constant support and good humour, and his willingness to make space in our lives for the demands of this role.

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Both David and I, and I expect all those who work in the College, feel enormously privileged to be part of such a historic institution which has for so long been dedicated to education. We have made many friends here and above all have really relished the chance to get to know the students as they go through these amazing years when their minds and characters are developing so fast, and they are testing out what they think and what they want to do in the world. It will be no surprise then that the theme of young people is at the heart of what I am going to do next, as I go off to write a book about youth policy and what we can learn from the many social changes and policy experiments of the last twenty years, a subject that has interested me since my time in government. Though we wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be staying in Oxford, we wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be forgetting Oriel. David and I will always take great interest in news of the College and applaud its future achievements. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pleasure to be handing over to Neil Mendoza, a loyal Orielensis, who brings many talents to the role. We both wish Neil and Amelia much happiness for their time at Oriel, and wish the College much continued success in the future. Floreat Oriel! Moira Wallace

The newly hatched Oriel ducklings

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FROM THE NEW PROVOST

t is an honour to have been elected Provost of Oriel. It is a homecoming for me, as I matriculated here exactly forty years ago. Under Moira Wallace’s stewardship Oriel has flourished. Our academic performance over the last few years has been exemplary, undergraduate and graduate degree programmes are thriving, the College’s prowess in sport is legendary, and in music, theatre and the arts Oriel is as distinctive as ever. Since my appointment Moira has been so helpful in giving me her time and valuable insight. My wife, Amelia, and I are both very grateful to her and her husband, David. I write this during the summer vac, as Provost-elect. By the time you read this I will have been in post for a Neil Mendoza few months and will already be in the midst of what I imagine will be a busy first term. To take just two exciting events. Oriel, under the direction of Professor Lynne Cox (George Moody Fellow in Biochemistry) is hosting a four-day conference in September for the British Society on Ageing. Later, in October, I am delighted to be able to help host the launch of the Centre for the Study of the Bible in the Humanities. This ambitious idea and plan to create and base this centre at Oriel is the vision of Professor Hindy Najman (Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture). Both of these events demonstrate that Oriel is at the centre of research, thought and intellectual endeavour. Since being elected in April 2018 I have had the opportunity to visit the College regularly and to meet the exceptional people from our Governing Body, many of our Honorary Fellows, our academic staff, the dedicated administrative staff, some of Oriel’s current JCR and MCR students, and many alumni. I have learned a great deal about how this place works. I have seen how so many people at Oriel and in its wider community selflessly serve the College and provide it with their energy, expertise and guidance. Oddly, there has also been no shortage of opinion!

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I have been able to use the time to journey outside the College walls and spent time with the Chancellor of the University and other Heads of House. I was fortunate to have a particularly memorable lunch earlier this year with Jeremy Catto at his club. We talked of old times and he suggested a few items for my to-do list â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I shall miss him greatly. I am, of course, conscious that the Fellows of the College had originally elected Mark Whittow as Provost. I am, therefore, doubly aware of the solemn role and duty I am taking on after his tragic death last December. I do not want to pre-empt any themes or plans that the Governing Body may develop over the coming years. But, to understand what Oriel is one can perhaps turn to the purposes outlined in Orielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charitable objects. This college, this charity, exists to teach, to promote research, as well as to protect and enhance the Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heritage and culture in the widest sense. These three objects can be simply expressed but take collegiate and communal effort to achieve at the highest level. Your college, rightly, fiercely protects its autonomy to pursue that path in the way that it feels best. I am committed to helping the Governing Body, College and all Orielenses pursue these noble aims. Floreat Oriel! Neil Mendoza

Neil Mendoza at his first Candlemas Gaudy at Oriel in 1978

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TREASURER’S NOTES

n a very busy year of both triumphs and tragedy I must start by thanking all the College staff for their resilience, good humour and dedication. The long game that I have referred to in previous Notes has continued in a number of areas. In December we finally submitted our planning application for the project most know now as the Brewhouse but which I shall in the future call the East Range Project, as this better describes the scope of what we intend to do. At the south end we have already refurbished the Chapel and re-routed the heating. Proceeding north, we intend to refurbish Staircase 4, the Hall, Staircase 7, and Staircase 8 (the Robinson Building in Second Quad). A new building behind the College kitchen will provide space for a new kitchen, with a flexible courtyard space providing a café linked to the Coffee Bar, and above this a new dining room and servery at the same level as the Hall. Planning permission was granted in May and we now move into the funding and delivery stage of a project that has been in discussion since I arrived at Oriel in 2005. At the moment we expect some work to start in the summer of 2019 but the major redevelopment, which will begin with the demolition of the kitchen, will commence in the summer of 2020. Other developments that are currently under way include the refurbishing of 3 Magpie Lane to provide additional guest accommodation for academic visitors, Orielenses and students’ guests. Completion is due by the end of 2018. Also this summer the Goldie Building at Rectory Road is being modernised, and work is progressing on the Provost’s Lodgings. In 2017 the College adopted a long-term goal of providing all our graduate students with the option to live in our own accommodation, as we have done for undergraduates since James Mellon Hall opened in 2000. We therefore returned to look at the possibility of a development at Bartlemas close to the Sports Ground. Our architects have developed an excellent proposal for the site of the former nursery school which strikes the right balance between economic and social viability whilst protecting the important historic hamlet. A planning application will be submitted in the autumn. Our non-property investments have continued to perform well. The Investment Advisory Committee concluded a five-yearly review and have commenced the process of selection of the fund managers for the next five years. I am very grateful to the Orielenses and other expert advisers who serve on this and other college committees. During the year Tim Budden of the Grosvenor Group stood down from the Audit Committee and I thank him in particular for his support and good counsel over many years. At the end of August Kevin Melbourne, our Domestic Bursar for ten years, left the College. Great progress was made during his tenure in all our domestic services, including substantial growth in our conference and hospitality business. I would

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like to thank Kevin for his dedication to the College and contribution to delivering services to students, senior members, Orielenses and visitors alike. Earlier in the year we also lost Joy (née Castleton) and Jurie Ferreira, our Conferences and Lodge Managers respectively. They contributed a great deal to many aspects of the College during their time with us and we wish them well in their new positions at The Other Place. Having taken a sabbatical from coaching this year, I can’t make my usual comment on the performance of the Third Eight. However, it was a rare pleasure to hear that this year many colleges hoped to see Oriel deny Keble the Headship! Alas Keble’s ‘rent-a-crew’ proved too strong, so we look forward to revenge next year! Floreat Oriel! Wilf Stephenson Treasurer

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CHAPLAIN’S NOTES

his has been a year of change for Oriel Chapel. Last summer the Revd Dr Robert Tobin finished seven years as College Chaplain and moved to London to take up a new ministry as Vicar of Balham in the Diocese of Southwark. The Venerable David Meara (1967) returned to College having previously covered the Chaplain’s sabbatical to serve as Acting Chaplain in Michaelmas Term. We are grateful to David for the genuine care he invested in the community and the support he offered to the College’s welfare team. I was elected to the Fellowship in November and took up my post on New Year’s Day, having served my title in the Cotswold market town of Burford. My first contact with Oriel, several years ago now, was coming here for tutorials in medieval theology with Bill Wood. I am now teaching the Early Modern Christianity (1500–1648) paper and I am looking forward to getting to know the strong community of theologians here. There is no shortage of students willing to try their hand preaching homilies in Chapel. There is a high level of engagement with the ideas we read and listen to each week. In Trinity Term we held a series of discussion groups on the subject of a Christian worldview, charting ideas from creation through to discipleship. Visitors to Chapel in my first months here have frequently remarked on the quality of music. The Chapel Choir has given me a warm welcome and it is wonderful to lead sung worship with them three times every week. Dr David Maw, the Director of Music, has ensured an excellent standard and range, and has organised a series of music recitals which has included both our Organ Scholars, Johnson Lau and Will McDonald, and our Visiting Musician, Craig Ogden, who has delighted us by accompanying the Choir on the guitar at Evensong. We have also appreciated Judith Bingham’s Oriel Nunc Dimittis commissioned by the Provost. The Commemoration of Benefactors sermon in Michaelmas Term was delivered by Dr Teresa Bejan (Fellow in Politics) on the Puritan lawyer and polemicist William Prynne, who graduated from Oriel in 1621. On All Souls Day David Meara read the Chantry List along with the names of deceased loved ones of current members of College. In early November Professor Robert Beckford delivered the John Collins Lecture, speaking on the provocative title ‘Is God a White Racist?’. One of the highlights of the year at Evensong has been a series of sermons by Professor Brian Leftow on different Christian doctrines: Original Sin, the End of the World, and Atonement. These have generated lively discussion among Fellows and students alike. We are indebted to Professor Leftow for his generous donation of fifty Bibles for use in Chapel and we are sorry to see him leave us to take up a new post in the United States. Hilary Term was, for me, a learning curve as I familiarised myself with the workings of the Chapel. I am grateful to the Sacristan and Chapel Assistant, Emily Essex, and to

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the committed team of Bible Clerks who so reliably ensured that everything carried on seamlessly. The transition has given the Chapel Team an opportunity to review the patterns of services and social functions and to try new ideas, taking Mark 4: 30–32 as our inspiration. It is interesting to notice an appetite for traditional forms of worship among our student body. Our ‘Fresh Expression’, initiated by the Bible Clerks, is a weekly service of Holy Communion according to the Book of Common Prayer. This has increased attendance by more than 100 per cent – based on two or three to begin with! Sung Compline by candlelight has also been greatly valued, departing in silence to rest, or to the Chaplain’s room for hot chocolate and conversation into the night. Two occasions in Hilary Term mark especially the College’s dedication to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The first is the Feast of Candlemas on 2 February, celebrating the Presentation of Christ in the Temple. We were pleased to have a visiting preacher all the way from Cambridge, Massachusetts: Brother James Koester, who is Superior of the Society of St John the Evangelist (founded at Cowley in 1866). The second occasion is the University Sermon, held annually at Oriel for the Annunciation, at which the preacher was the Revd Canon Mark Oakley, Chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral, who spoke about annunciations in his own life. The other major celebration of the term was Oriel’s Double Headship in Torpids. The Chapel Team got involved, with a robed procession to the river for the Blessing of the Boats, invoking the Prophet Jonah’s encounter with a great fish and St Peter’s walking on the water. Trinity Term raced by, with exams and mounting preparations for the Commemoration Ball. On Ascension Day the Choir sang from the Tower not long after pupils from New College School joined the congregation of St Mary the Virgin to beat the parish bounds. Several tour groups were bemused to see the Provost, the Chaplain and the Junior Dean loitering with intent in Magpie Lane in gowns and with a stepladder. The Chaplain and Choir of Keble College invited us to join them to celebrate Corpus Christi, our joint choirs producing a marvellous noise unto the Lord. The term came to an end with the Chapel Garden Party and Leavers’ Service, when we said goodbye to our long-serving Head Bible Clerk, Tobias Thornes, to both our Organ Scholars and to several members of the Choir. The farewells were not complete until after the Choir Tour to Munich, where the Choir sang at the University, St Benno, and St Ursula, as well as at Basilica Niederalteich, Petruskirche and Freising Cathedral. ‘Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it.’ Our thanks and prayers for the Oriel community continue. Floreat Oriel! Revd Dr Robert Wainwright Chaplain

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MARRIAGES AND BAPTISMS On 12 May 2018, in the College Chapel, Joy Castleton was married to Jurie Ferreira, with the Former Chaplain, Revd Dr Robert Tobin, officiating. On 12 May 2018, in the College Chapel, Lana Ferreira received Holy Baptism at the hands of the Former Chaplain, Revd Dr Robert Tobin. On 14 July 2018, in the College Chapel, Arabella John received Holy Baptism at the hands of the Chaplain. On 22 September 2018, in the College Chapel, Jennifer Leggett was married to Oliver Moore (2007), with the Chaplain officiating.

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PREACHERS AT EVENSONG

Michaelmas Term 2017 8 October The Acting Chaplain, In Search of Atlantis 15 October Mr Robert Cumming, God be in mine eyes and in my looking 22 October Dr Teresa Bejan, William Prynne, Polemical and Pure (Commemoration of Benefactors) 29 October Professor Brian Leftow, Original Sin 5 November Mr Martin Wainwright, A Passion for Humanity 12 November Revd Dr Laura Biron-Scott, In silence evermore… 19 November Ms Jayne Ozanne, Promises are for life, not just for Christmas 26 November College Carol Service Hilary Term 2018 14 January 21 January 28 January 4 February 11 February 18 February 25 February 4 March

The Chaplain, Our Man on the Inside Professor Anna Sapir Abulafia, Holocaust Memorial Day Professor Brian Leftow, The End of the World Revd Beth Allison-Glenny, He Commands and They Obey Revd Rachel Gibson, A Light Shining in a Dark Place Revd Canon Dr Peter Groves, You who Kill the Prophets Revd Mark Stafford, A Better Country Revd Canon Mark Oakley, University Sermon for the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary (Lady Day)

Trinity Term 2018 22 April 29 April 6 May 13 May 20 May 27 May 3 June 10 June

The Chaplain, Harry, England and St George! Revd Jonathan Fletcher, Arise, Shine; For Thy Light is Come Professor Brian Leftow, Atonement Revd Dr Patrick Gilday, The Word of God Unleashed Revd Jonathan Sedgwick, The Spirit Will Lead you into All Truth Revd Dr Liz Hoare, The Trinity and Me Revd Fiona Gibson, Oops! I Did It Again The Chaplain, Leavers’ Service

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DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR’S NOTES

he past year has seen another successful twelve months for Orielenses and for Oriel, as we closed Phase Two of the 2026 Campaign, raising £25 million over the past five years, and realising the original £45 million target that was set back in 2003. This is some nine years ahead of schedule! There is still so much to do within Oriel, and we are now in the throes of planning the next stage of Oriel’s development, as we approach our 700th anniversary in 2026. A huge thank you to all of those who have supported the College over the past year and to all my colleagues within Oriel, particularly in the Development Office, who work so hard to help the College grow and flourish. This year just over £1.4 million has been raised by the College in new gifts and pledges, including £280,000 in legacy gifts. Of this, £17,600 has been given for the College Environment, £210,000 for Student Support, £203,000 for Teaching and Research, and £1,300,000 received as unrestricted gifts. 882 individuals donated to the College this year. Major donations have proved essential to the success of fundraising efforts this year. A total of sixteen organisations or individuals have made gifts of £10,000 or more between 1 August 2017 and 31 July 2018. Those who donate £20,000 or more to the College over their lifetime are admitted to the membership of the Raleigh Society; those who give over £100,000 are admitted to the Provost’s Court. There are currently 173 members of the Raleigh Society. Legacies continue to provide an important source of funds for Oriel. All those who formally pledge a legacy to the College are invited to join the Adam de Brome Society, and we currently have 283 known pledges. This year almost £230,000 has been received by the College in legacy gifts. In 2012 the 1326 Society was established to encourage regular giving to the College. Full Members give £1,326 a year, Young Members give £132.60 a year. Membership for this year stands at 154. This past year has been one of looking to the future for Oriel, particularly as we prepare to welcome our next Provost, Neil Mendoza, and plan for Oriel’s future, up to 2026 and beyond. We are all incredibly grateful for the help and support we have received over the past year. Floreat Oriel! Sean Power Director of Development

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DONORS TO ORIEL

THE PROVOST’S COURT

The Provost’s Court recognises those who have made the substantial contribution of £100,000 or more to the College over the years. These donors have shown an outstanding level of commitment to the College, and are invited to an annual meeting with the Provost to hear about and discuss the College’s future plans. Mr R.G.N. Nabarro Mr D.F.J. Paterson Mr J.R. Shannon Mr J.H. Cook Mr D.M.C. Steen Mr R. Stainer Mr K. Jones The Very Revd Professor Sir Ian R. Torrance Mr T.C. Kelleher

1963 1963 1964 1965 1965 1967 1971 1974 1975

Mr J. Mellon Mr A. Stafford-Deitsch Mr T.B. Bull Mr R.R. Warburton MBE Mr J.P. Boden Mr D.N. Lyon Dr M.G.A. Machin Sir John Elliott Mr K. Sharer Six anonymous donors

1975 1975 1977 1977 1980 1980 1984 1990

THE RALEIGH SOCIETY

Oriel’s Raleigh Society is open to all supporters of the College with cumulative giving of £20,000 or more. It aims to enable a more direct and constructive engagement between the College’s major donors and the Fellows and to provide a better forum for matters of mutual interest. Mr A.K. Shepherd Dr D.J. Reid Mr M.B. Gilpin Dr R.M. Whittington Mr P.E. Hustwitt Mr A.B. Champniss Professor T.H.B. Symons Sir Michael McWilliam Mr B. Marson-Smith Sir Bryan Nicholson GBE Mr A.T. Jennings Sir Michael Wright

1945 1948 1949 1949 1950 1951 1951 1952 1952 1952 1953 1953

Dr A.A. Campbell Mr P.D. Evans Mr M. Harvey Dr N.J. Smith Mr M.A. Ager Mr J.M. Wilson Sir John Baker Mr K.A. McKinlay Mr G.B. Tanner Mr A.J. Wiggins Mr G.C. Bonar Mr W.T. Carnegie

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Mr C.S. McDonald Mr P. Mortimer Mr G.F. Naylor Mr G.B. Spilman Dr The Hon. A.H. Todd Mr M.L. Gordon OBE Mr G.R.G. Graham Mr D.F. Hutt Sir Stephen Oliver QC The Revd William Hill Brown III Mr R.G. Edge Dr J.S. Deech Mr I. Hardcastle Mr N. Lindsay-Fynn Sir Roger Sands The Hon. J. Farley QC Professor R.G.H. Robertson Mr R.H. Winter Dr M.P. Martineau Mr R.G.N. Nabarro Mr D.F.J. Paterson Dr J.E. Waddell Mr M.A. Kirkham N.W.L. Maclean of Pennycross CMG Mr J.R. Shannon Sir David Arculus Mr R.M. Bancroft Mr B.H. Colman Mr J.H. Cook Mr M.C.C. Goolden Mr B.M. Leary Mr D.M.C. Steen Mr D.M. Tapley Dr D.W. Costain The Revd William Eakins Sir Crispin Davis Mr N.G. Juckes Mr B.W.J. Kingston Mr P. Poloniecki Mr R. Stainer Mr P.D. Stephenson Mr P.J. Freeman Mr V.L Sankey

1957 1957 1957 1958 1958 1959 1959 1959 1959 1960 1960 1961 1961 1961 1961 1962 1962 1962 1963 1963 1963 1963 1964 1964 1964 1965 1965 1965 1965 1965 1965 1965 1965 1966 1966 1967 1967 1967 1967 1967 1967 1968 1968

Mr H.D. Bryant The Hon. Sir Vivian Ramsey Mr D. Kennett Mr D.P.J. Robey Mr N.M.M. Stevens Mr C.G. Thring Mr A.S. Crawford Mr N.M. Davey Mr K. Jones Mr T.M. Seymour Mr K.J. Smith Mr R.A. Werner Mr S. Canning Dr C.G. Clarke CBE DL Mr W.P. Davy Mr S.J.N. Heale Mr R.G.G. Osborne Mr C.M. Reilly Mr M.J. Stanton Dr A.R. Warren Mr B.N. Dickie Mr G.L. Duncan Mr S.J.R. Philpott The Very Revd Professor Sir Ian R. Torrance Mr J.S. Varley Mr A. Williams Mr E. Cameron Watt Mr S.D.R. Chick Mr T.C. Kelleher Mr A.J.D. Leasor Mr J. Mellon Dr N. Parkhouse Mr A.P. Sellors Mr A. Stafford-Deitsch Mr J.G.M. Webster Mr J.M. Bray Mr T.B. Bull Mr D.P. Kanak Mr O.A.C. Quick Mr P.L. Stobart Mr R.R. Warburton MBE Mr M. E. Bentley

1969 1969 1970 1970 1970 1970 1971 1971 1971 1971 1971 1971 1972 1972 1972 1972 1972 1972 1972 1972 1973 1973 1974 1974 1974 1974 1975 1975 1975 1975 1975 1975 1975 1975 1975 1976 1977 1977 1977 1977 1977 1978

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Mr N.F.J. Mendoza Mr C.A.L. Skinner Mr N.S. Bramwell Mr D.H. Carr Mr R.M. Johnson The Revd J.M. Warnaby Mr J.P. Boden Professor S. Bramwell Mr D.N. Lyon Mr A.D.G. McMillan Dr D.G. Robinson Mr W.M. Treasure Mr P.N.A. Ward Mr G.A. Chipchase Mr M.M. Cresswell-Turner Mr D.M. Richardson Mr M.A. Rosen Mr R.E. White Mr D.M. Brooks Mr M.C. Bye Mr J.C. Dho Mr J.C. Durant Mr A.T. Jones Mr R.C. MacDonald Dr F.D. Schubert Mr J.W. Sharman Mr P.H. Sheng Mr G.N. Austin Mr D.A. Lush Mr M.W.M.R. MacPhee Mr C. Samek QC Mr N.J.R. Badman

1978 1978 1979 1979 1979 1979 1980 1980 1980 1980 1980 1980 1980 1981 1981 1981 1981 1981 1982 1982 1982 1982 1982 1982 1982 1982 1982 1983 1983 1983 1983 1984

Mr R.A. De Basto Mr G.D. Eckersley Mr S. Grigg Dr M.G.A. Machin Mr C.J. Williams Mr P.S. Doherty Mr R.J. Evans Ms D.L. Smith Mr J.M.D. Thomson Dr A. Borer Mr P.S.J. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donoghue Miss T.J. Quinn Mr B.P. Wisden Mr P.D.N. Kennedy Mr P.J.C. Warren Mr T.H. Coates Miss S. Low-Kamdani Mr R.M. Carson Miss C.V. Toogood Mr D. Tsang Mr H. Tung Mr C.N. Chan Mr T.B.J. Anderson Mr A.D. Whittaker Mr J.M.L. Leong Mr J.J. Bozzino Dr J. Pfaudler Mr M. Khuram Lord P.C. Harris of Peckham Sir Derek Morris Mr C.H.S. Payne One anonymous donor

1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 1985 1985 1985 1985 1986 1986 1986 1986 1988 1988 1989 1989 1990 1991 1991 1991 1992 1993 1994 1996 1997 1997 2002

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THE 1326 SOCIETY The 1326 Society was founded to recognise, with gratitude, all those who make a generous annual gift to the College, thereby helping to support our three key areas of need: student financial support, teaching and research, and restoration and refurbishment of our College buildings. Full membership is open to all those who give £1,326 or more per year. Those within fifteen years of matriculation qualify for young membership with an annual gift of £132.60 per year. Full Members Mr A.C. Morrison † Mr P.E. Hustwitt Mr A.P.D.H. Collett † Sir Michael McWilliam † Mr M.J.L. Armstrong † Dr A.A. Campbell † Mr P.D. Evans † Dr P.C.H. Mitchell Sir John Baker † Mr P. Mortimer † Mr G.F. Naylor † The Hon. J.D. Brookes Sir Stephen Oliver QC † The Revd W. Hill Brown, III Dr J.S. Deech † Dr P.G. Mole † Mr R.M. Bancroft † Mr J.H. Cook † Mr M.C.C. Goolden † Mr D.M.C. Steen † Mr R.A. Wood † Dr D.W. Costain The Revd W. Eakins † Mr P.K. Jenkins † Professor G.K. Wilson † The Hon. Sir Vivian Ramsey † Mr C.G. Thring † Mr D.A. Cox Mr S. Canning † Mr N.J. Coulson Mr C.C.A. Crouch † Mr S.J.N. Heale Mr R.G.G. Osborne †

1948 1950 1952 1952 1954 1954 1954 1955 1956 1957 1957 1959 1959 1960 1961 1963 1965 1965 1965 1965 1965 1966 1966 1966 1967 1969 1970 1971 1972 1972 1972 1972 1972

Mr B.N. Dickie † Dr D.R. Gross † Mr J.R.B. McBeath † The Very Revd Professor Sir Iain R. Torrance Mr A. Williams † Mr G.D. Harris † Mr J. Mellon Dr N. Parkhouse † Mr A.P. Sellors Mr A. Stafford-Deitsch Mr J.M. Bray † Dr W.P. Ledward † Mr P.R. Romans † Sir Parry Hughes-Morgan † Mr N.F.J. Mendoza † Mr M.D.J. Prior Mr C.A.L. Skinner † Mr C.H.A. Wilson Mr J.P. Clift † Mr N.P. Evans Mr R.M. Johnson † Mr J.S. McIntyre Mr S. MacKinnon, OBE † Mr R.J. McLeod Mr R.I.S. Meyer † Mr J.B. Sunley Mr G.P. Tyler † Mr P.N.A. Ward † Mr M.M. Cresswell-Turner Dr H.R.G. Gibbon † Mr J.C. Dho † Mr J.C. Durant †

1973 1973 1973 1974 1974 1975 1975 1975 1975 1975 1976 1976 1977 1978 1978 1978 1978 1978 1979 1979 1979 1980 1980 1980 1980 1980 1980 1980 1981 1981 1982 1982

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THE 1326 SOCIETY Mr N.C. O’Brien Mr D.R.M. Redfern † Mr G.N. Austin † Mr M.H. Carnegie Mr A.J. House Mr D.A. Lush † Mr M.W.M.R. MacPhee † Mr G.D. Eckersley Mr E.A.N. Fergusson † Mr N.L. Webber Mr C.J. Williams Mr H.L. Taylor † Mr J.M.D. Thomson † Mr P.S.J. O’Donoghue † Miss T.J. Quinn † Mr J.J. Whitting QC † Ms R. Lawson † Mr M.T.D. Gilpin Mr A. Radford † Mr T.H. Coates † Mr K.S. Ghata-Aura Mr R.J. Hirst Mr N. Lovell † Mrs S.V. Gill Mr A.R.J. Halstead Mr C.A. Rowley † Mr P.M. Dixon Mr G.W. Pennock Miss C.V. Toogood † Mr H. Tung † Mr C.N. Chan Miss T.A. Scott QC Mr G.A. Chapman QC † Mr S. Cottrell † Mr A.D. Whittaker † Mr W.E. Breeze † Mr C.P.A. Humphreys Mr J.A. Redfern Mr R. MacPhee Mr M.F. Westcott † Mr C. Schmiedel †

continued 1982 1982 1983 1983 1983 1983 1983 1984 1984 1984 1984 1985 1985 1986 1986 1986 1987 1988 1988 1989 1989 1989 1989 1990 1990 1990 1991 1991 1991 1991 1992 1992 1994 1994 1994 995 1995 1995 1999 1999 2001

Mrs H. Nicholson Mr K. Sharer Ms M. Wallace † Mr H.C. Yates Young Members Mr T.J. Akin † Mr A.E. Laverty † Mr D. McCloskey † Mr E. Ohashi Dr M.G. Dalivalle Mr G.E. Jacques † Miss C.E. La Malfa Miss M. Nodale † Miss K.J. Spicer Mr J.D. Wright † Mr R.J. Ejsmond-Frey † Mr F.T. Hardee † Mr A.L. Nish † Mr M.C. Quinn † Ms Y. Sun † Miss C.L. Vasilescu Mr A.S.D. Wright † Dr F.C.P. Leach Dr D. Lehmkuhl Dr T.L. McKee † Miss H. Rowling † Miss C.E. Rutter Mr T.F. Webb Mr J. Wigley Dr D.R. Woods Dr J.W. Klingelhoefer Ms C.C. Savundra McKenzie † Miss R.F.R. Clarke Mr A.S.J. Leadill Mr M. Price † Mr W. Sheldon † Mr F.D.R. Keating † Mr S. Peet † Mr P. Schautschick Mr S. Flynn

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Mr H. Khodabakhsh Mr K.A. Lodhia Ms K. Sayers Mr J.G. Craven Miss E. Limer

2009 2009 2009 2010 2010

Dr J.A. Dunnmon Mr M. Antonov Miss J. Wang Mr J.M. Power

2011 2012 2012 2014

TORTOISE BLADES The Blades scheme was launched by the Tortoise Club in spring 2016 as part of a campaign to raise £20,000 a year in sponsorship for the Oriel College Boat Club. Tortoises with a regular annual commitment of £100 or more are invited to become Blades. Mr J.M.D. Hughes Sir Michael Wright The Revd M.E.J. Garnett Dr M.H. Griffiths Mr J.A. Parkes Dr R.J. Lee Mr T.V. Higgins OBE Mr M.R.F. Taylor Mr D.F.J. Paterson Mr D.G. Shove Professor D.R. Stokes Mr M.C.C. Goolden Mr A.R.J. Hall Mr D.M.C. Steen Mr M.J.T. Chamberlayne Mr N.G. Juckes Mr A.H.M. Kelsey Mr M.C.J. Paterson Mr R. Stainer Mr P.D. Stephenson Mr M.P. Richmond-Coggan Mr J.E. Bolt Mr P.J.S. Grove Mr A.P.B. Dawson Mr T. Shepheard-Walwyn Mr N.M.M. Stevens Mr C.G. Thring Mr N.M. Davey Mr C.M. Reilly Mr D.M. Griffiths Dr D.R. Gross

1950 1953 1955 1958 1958 1959 1960 1962 1963 1964 1964 1965 1965 1965 1967 1967 1967 1967 1967 1967 1968 1969 1969 1970 1970 1970 1970 1971 1972 1973 1973

Mr J.R.B. McBeath Mr P.S.T. Wright Mr D.R.H. Beak Mr J.S. Macfarlane Mr M.R.J. Tyndall Major G.R.N. Holland Mr P.J. Macdonald Dr T.E.J. Hems Mr G.N. Austin Mr S.J. Dawes Mr E.N. Gilmartin Mr C. Samek QC Dr M.G.A. Machin Mr J.M. Snell Mr V.J. Warner Mr A.D. Ward Dr R.A. Hull Ms R. Lawson Mr C.H.E. Bell Mr R.J. Hirst Mr J.P. Hodges Miss C.V. Toogood Mr T.B.J. Anderson Dr F.F.A. Lepetit Mr W.E. Breeze Dr K.D. Nawrotzki Mrs E.J. Watkins Miss W.E. Armstrong Mr P.W. Dunbar Dr A.J. Robbie Mr T. Senior

1973 1973 1974 1974 1977 1979 1981 1982 1983 1983 1983 1983 1984 1984 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1989 1991 1993 1993 1995 1995 1997 1998 1998 1998 1998

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TORTOISE BLADES Dr V. Vijayakumar Mr L.T. Finch Dr O.M. Williams Mr T.J. Akin Mr D. McCloskey Mrs S.V. Kiefer Mr J.D. Wright Dr S. McAleese Dr R.F.D. Sykes Mr B.R. Mansfield Miss K.R. Chandler Mr D. Huebler Ms C.C. Savundra McKenzie Mr M. Price Mr W. Sheldon Mr J.C. Wadsworth

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Mr S. Peet Mr G. Chapman Miss B. Fryer Dr C.L. Knight Dr M.C.G. Lau Mr C. Pontin Mr C. Arnold Mr H. Bigland Miss E. Burdett Miss A. Carter Mr S. Boljevic Mr E. Carroll Mr S.J.T. Salt Mr R.W.J. Boswall One anonymous donor

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DONORS TO ORIEL DURING THE YEAR Oriel is most grateful to all those who have donated to the College during the year, whether by single gift or regular donation. Gifts received after 31 July 2018 will be recorded in the next Oriel Record. Every effort has been made to ensure that this list is accurate; please contact us if you believe there has been an omission. 1942 Mr A.E. Wood* 1944 Mr D.S. Dearlove † 1945 Mr A.K. Shepherd † Mr D.B. Vernon † 1946 Dr E.M.P. Brett † 1947 Mr T.S. Acton † The Revd Prebendary A.T. Budgett †

1948 Dr W.N. Brown † Mr B. George* † Mr D.B. Hassell † Mr A.C. Morrison † Dr E.A. Mortis † 1949 Mr P.W. Rumble † Dr R.M. Whittington † 1950 Mr J.A. Blackwell † Mr B.R. Escott Cox QC † Mr J.M.D. Hughes † Mr M.L. Nyman † Mr D.A. Symington †

1951 Mr R.J. Chitty † Mr J.M. Davenport † The Revd M.C. Gowdey † Professor C.B. Handy † Mr M.C. Hanson † Mr G.H. Pickles † 1952 Mr C.J.F. Arnander † Mr A.P.D.H. Collett † Dr W. Cummings † Sir Francis Ferris* † Mr W.P. Kirkman † Sir Michael McWilliam † Professor H.S. Micklem †

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1953 Mr J. Humphreys † Mr A.K. Illig † Mr J.R.L. Wells † Mr D. Wilson † Sir Michael Wright † 1954 Mr M.J.L. Armstrong † Dr A.A. Campbell † Mr P.D. Evans † The Revd C.N. Lovell † Mr M.J. Minton † Mr W.J. Singleton † Mr G.F. Skinner † Dr N.J. Smith † Mr H.R. Wilkinson † One anonymous donor 1955 Mr M.A. Ager † Mr A.R. Blazey † Mr C.J. Bright † Dr T.J. Fowler The Revd M.E.J. Garnett † The Revd M.P. Hirons † Mr D.J. McKie † Dr J.W. Rutter † Mr A.D.J. Turner † 1956 Mr J.T.G. Andrew † Sir John Baker † Mr P.B. Bell † Mr D.R. Curits † Mr S.W. Fremantle † Mr F.D. Harvey † Mr H.L. Isaac Mr A.F. Sherlock † Dr P.W. Trown Mr A.J. Wiggins † One anonymous donor

1957 Mr G.C. Bonar † Mr W.T. Carnegie † Mr J.B. Hamilton † Mr G.R.H. Kitson Mr C.S. McDonald † Mr P. Mortimer † Mr G.F. Naylor † Mr J.C. Oxley Mr R.S.G. Sides † Professor M.J. Underhill † Mr P.A. Walton † 1958 Dr R.L. Bailey † Mr W. Bellingham † Mr J.R.J. Bourne † Dr P.E. Brown Mr D.H.M. Dalrymple † Mr J.B. Green Dr M.H. Griffiths Professor Dr R.W. Hanning † Mr M.F. Irvine † Mr C.J. Lewis † Mr D.T. Miller Mr H. Mitchell † Mr J.A. Parkes † Mr H.P. Powell † Professor W.F. Ryan † Mr E.P. Smith Dr The Hon. A.H. Todd † The Revd J.R.G. Watson Mr D.N. Whitwam 1959 Mr C.K.S.J. Bird Mr A.J.C. Britton Dr K. Bromley † Mr M.L. Gordon OBE † Professor E.J. Hall † Mr D.F. Hutt † Mr M.B. Jones † Dr R.J. Lee †

Mr S.P. Marsh † Dr C.O. Newton † Sir Stephen Oliver QC † Mr C.H. Virgo † Mr R.A.S. Whitfield † 1960 Mr G.F. Broom † The Revd W. Hill Brown III † Judge D.M.A. Bryant † Mr R.E.H. Coles † Mr R.G. Edge † The Revd D.J. Ellington † Dr C.J.V. Fox † Mr E.J. Hammond The Revd A.J. Heagerty † Mr T.V. Higgins OBE Mr J.A. Perry † Mr R. Rainbow † Mr J.H. Robinson † Mr W.N. Harrell Smith IV † Canon P.J. Stephens † Mr J.C.G. Strachan † 1961 Mr P. R. Daniels † Dr J.S. Deech † Dr H.N. Farrer Mr I. Hardcastle † Dr R.T. Hughes Professor R.J. Jacoby † Mr D.H. Johnson † Mr C.N.D. Maitland † Sir Roger Sands † Mr J.E. Scott Mr J.B. Whitty † 1962 Mr J.P.B. Armstrong † Dr J.M. Beck † Mr D. Bromwich † Mr S.J. Dickinson Mr F.E.K. Mercer †

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Mr P.J. Nicholson † Dr D.R. Page Mr M.R.F. Taylor Mr P.G. Walford Mr R.H. Winter † 1963 Mr D.S.I. Elliot † Professor E. Foner Professor D.L. Hanley Mr R.D. Horne Mr A.D. McClintock Mr R.M. Matheson Dr N.D.N. Measor † Dr P.G. Mole † Mr D.F.J. Paterson Dr A.J.H. Summers Dr J.E. Waddell † One anonymous donor 1964 Mr G.W. Bradnum † Mr R.A. Campbell † Mr T. Green † Dr J. Houston † Dr C.J. McMillan Mr R.E.I. Newton † Dr D. O’Day † Mr W. Ransome Mr J.S. Rigge Mr J.R. Shannon † Mr P.G.L. Shave † Mr D.G. Shove † Professor D.R. Stokes Dr M.S.J. Wells Dr D.C. Wilkinson † One anonymous donor 1965 Mr C.J. Arney † Mr R.M. Bancroft † Mr B.H. Belfield † Professor R.G. Bevan †

Mr G.A. Browning Esq † Mr D.I.R. Bruce † Mr B.H. Colman † Mr J.H. Cook † Mr R.E. Davies † Mr J.P. Ellis † Mr N. Forrest † Mr M.C.C. Goolden † Mr A.R.J. Hall Mr B.M. Leary † Professor D.D.W. McCalla † Dr J.J. Morrissey Mr R.A. Newsom † Mr D.G. Shirreff Mr J.D. Short † Mr D.M.C. Steen † Dr I.J. Tickle † Mr R.A. Wood † 1966 Mr J.C.P. Amos † Mr D.J. Browning † Dr D.W. Costain Mr C.J. Darrall † The Revd Canon J. de Wit The Revd W. Eakins † Dr R.G. Edwards † Mr P.K. Jenkins † Mr D.S. Macpherson † The Revd Canon D.G. Meara † Mr F.E. Nicholson † Mr J.C. Odling-Smee Esq, CMG † Mr N.P.W. Park † Mr D.J. Reburn † Mr P.W. Thomas † Mr M.T. Tobert † Mr R.D. Williams † Mr M.T. Wright † Dr C.J. Young †

1967 Mr R.J. Allen Mr P.W. Burgess † Mr M.J.T. Chamberlayne † Mr M.C. Davison † Mr J.R. Frank Mr P.J. Hopley † Mr N.G. Juckes † Professor P. Magdalino Mr R.J. Mitchell The Revd Canon J.L. Morgan Mr P.J. Mulqueen † Mr M.C.J. Paterson Mr C.C. Payton † Mr R. Stainer † Mr P.D. Stephenson The Revd R.E. Stillwell † Mr C.G. Treasure † Dr A.R. Turner-Smith Professor G.K. Wilson † One anonymous donor 1968 Mr A.P. Brown Mr J.W. Cockshott † Mr D. Collison † Mr P. Drew † Mr E.J. Ellwood † Mr P.R. Forrester Lieutenant Colonel M.J.D. Forster † Mr D. Marshall Mr M.P. Richmond-Coggan † 1969 Professor N.N. Barclay Mr M. Blades † Mr J.E. Bolt Mr V.G.B. Cushing † Mr P.J.S. Grove † Mr J.R. Lippincott † Professor A. O’Neill † Professor G.D.E. Philip †

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Mr C.W. Phillips † Dr P.L. Polakoff The Hon. Sir Vivian Ramsey † Mr J.M.L. Scott † Mr J.H. Stilwell Dr I.A. Stuart † Mr S.N. Wood † One anonymous donor 1970 Mr B.H. Allen † Mr J. Baylis Dr J.B. Campbell † Mr J.D. Crawley* † Mr A.P.B. Dawson † Mr S. Guffogg † Mr S.N. Hicks Mr S. Maine † Mr P.E. Mason † Dr C.O. Record † Mr D.P.J. Robey † Mr S.R. Schwartz † Mr T. Shepheard-Walwyn Mr N.M.M. Stevens † Mr A.L. Sutch † Mr C.G. Thring † Mr D.G. Youdan One anonymous donor 1971 Mr L. Abbie † Dr M.R. Attwood † Mr N.M. Davey The Hon. M.P.F. Grant † Mr K. Jones Mr M.L. Kahn Mr D.N. Martin † Mr G.E. Morris † Mr R.H.M. Poole † Mr S.J. Raddats Mr M.H. Rosenbaum † Mr K.J. Smith † Mr C.J.G. Sykes †

1972 Mr R.E. Boden † Mr S. Canning † Mr C.P.T. Cantlay † Mr N.J. Coulson Mr C.C.A. Crouch † Mr R.D. Dalglish † Mr G.S. Hoyle † Mr B. Hurst † Mr R.H. Kidner † Mr R.G.G. Osborne † Mr O.J. Parker † Mr C.M. Reilly † Mr R.C. Robinson † Mr G.K. Stanley † Mr V.P. Stothard Mr A.M. Tunkel † 1973 Mr J.A. Brewer † Mr A.M. Conn † Mr B.N. Dickie † Mr G.L. Duncan † Mr A.L.R. Fincham † Mr P.W. Furnivall † Mr D.M. Griffiths † Dr D.R. Gross † Vice-Admiral M.D. Haskins Mr J.R.B. McBeath † Mr C.O. Richards † Dr I.A. Robinson † Mr F.S. Treasure † Mr P.S.T. Wright 1974 Mr D.R.H. Beak Mr E.B. Black † Mr W.G. Harer † Mr P. Johnson Mr P.H. Lowe † Mr J.S. Macfarlane † Mr P.G. Mann † Dr P.L. Mitchell

Mr S.S.C. Morrill † Mr M.G. Paget † Mr T.P.T. Soanes † Dr N.P. Sykes † The Very Revd Professor Sir Iain R. Torrance † Mr H.C.G. Underwood † Mr A. Williams † Mr D.A. Woodward † 1975 Mr B.M. A’Beckett Terrell † Mr D.J. Allcock † Dr P.J. Bowman † Mr D.S. Brodie † Mr N.D.V. Burgess Mr E. Cameron Watt † Mr J. Cocker † Mr R.W. Crump † Mr D.A. Ford Mr M. Harman Mr G.D. Harris † Mr M.J. Howard † Mr C. Kelleher † Mr J.L. Kenny † Mr C. Lane † Dr M. Mantle Dr N. Parkhouse † Mr A.P. Sellors Mr B.I.L. Thomas Mr J.G.M. Webster † 1976 Mr J.R. Baillie † Mr C.H. Birch Mr N.C.S. Brawn † Mr J.M. Bray † Mr D.A.B. Buggé Dr D.R. Dean Mr J.O. Espinoza Ferrey Mr A. Ghosh † Mr M.A. Green † Mr E.L. Hoare †

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Dr W.P. Ledward † Mr S.A. Madge Mr R.B. Manley † Mr S. Murphy Mr N.A. Rogers † Lord Rufus Isaacs † Dr S.J. Tulloch † Mr B.D.B. Williamson † Mr N.W. Witt † 1977 Mr T.C.M. Barry † Mr T.B. Bull Dr B. Collett Mr R.E. Dean † Mr S. Dubyl † Mr P.J. Head † Mr S. Kirkby † Dr R.D. Lonsdale Mr D.A.J. Marais † Mr P.R. Romans † Dr J.P. Rozier † Mr P.M. Weaver 1978 Mr F.A. Binggeli † Mr J.C. Forsyth † Sir Parry Hughes-Morgan † Mr H.A. Kaye Professor M. Makris † Mr N.F.J. Mendoza † Mr M.D.J. Prior Mr C.A.L. Skinner † Mr H.R.A. Spowers † Mr J.R. Welch Mr G.P. Williams † Mr C.H.A. Wilson Mr C.P.R. Wray † 1979 Mr D.A. Brierley † Dr N. Emerton † Mr N.P. Evans

Mr K.R. Gaba Mr D.D. Goodgame † Major G.R.N. Holland † Mr P. Jenkins † Mr R.M. Johnson † Mr P.M. Keyte Dr G.F. Place † Mr D.J. Salvesen † Mr C.J. Toole † Mr C.L. Torrero † Mr J.D. Wilson † One anonymous donor

Mr S.A.R. Hatfield Mr P.D. Hughes † Mr R. Katz Mr P.J. Macdonald Dr J.S.K. Phipps Dr M.J. Rawlinson † Mr M.A. Rosen Mr C.A.M. Shackle Mr D.B. Walker † Mr J.R. Ware † Mr A.S. Watson † Dr J.F. Wilde †

1980 Mr J.Q.N. Abel † Mr N.J.P. Bond † Dr M.D. Flannery Mr D. Freedman Mr S. MacKinnon, OBE † Mr P.W. McGrath † Mr J.S. McIntyre Mr R.I.S. Meyer † Mr I.E. Mitchell † Mr A.A. Monk † Mr N.R.R. Oulton † Mr R.M. Parrish † Dr R.W. Prevost III † Dr D.G. Robinson † Mr J.B. Sunley Mr G.P. Tyler † Mr P.N.A. Ward † Mr P.C. Whitehead † Mr R.M.B. Wilton † Mr C.C. Wright †

1982 Mr R. Barash † Mr M.W. Bean Mr D.M. Brooks † Mr J.C. Dho † Mr J.C. Durant † Dr T.E.J. Hems Professor H.C.W. Laurence † Dr L.C. Morland † Mr N.C. O’Brien Mr D.R.M. Redfern † Mr M.T. Simpson QC † Mr B.E. Whelan One anonymous donor

1981 Mr B.S.J. Ball † Mr F. Braunrot † Mr M.M. CresswellTurner Dr H.R.G. Gibbon † Mr J.P. Godfrey † Mr S.H. Hammad †

1983 Mr G.N. Austin † Mr A.J. Britt † Mr M.H. Carnegie Mr S.J. Dawes † Mr R.L. Ensor Mr W.C. Fredericks † Mr M.A. Gabbott † Mr E.N. Gilmartin Mr P.A. Glynn Mr A.J. House Mr D.A. Lush † Professor S.A. McGrath Mr M.W.M.R. MacPhee † Mr T.R. O’Kelly †

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Mr J.M. Picton † Mr S.P. Ramchandani Mr C. Samek QC † Dr T.J. Vellacott † Mr P.J. Ward † One anonymous donor 1984 Mr N.J.R. Badman † Mr J.S. Das † Mr G.D. Eckersley Mr E.A.N. Fergusson † Dr J.R. Flynn † Mr S.J. Ford Mr R.A. Hilton † Mr H.W. Lipman Dr M.G.A. Machin Mr R.A. Northen † Mr M.H. Redfern † Mr J.M. Snell Mr V.J. Warner † Mr N.L. Webber One anonymous donor 1985 Mrs L.R. Ashley-Timms Mr H.W. Evans † Mr A.D. Green † Mr M.J.R. Hill Mr G.A. Livingston † Mr T.W. Monfries † Mr S. Palasingam † Mr D. Redhouse † Mr P. Schulz Mr H.L. Taylor † Mr J.M.D. Thomson † Mr A.D. Ward † One anonymous donor 1986 Mr P.J. Church † Mr J.P. Dale † Ms L.J. Dosanjh

Mr B.W. Dreyer † Dr L.A. Fearfield † Dr R.A. Hull † Dr R.M.S. Locklin † Dr G.S. Meyer † Mr P.S.J. O’Donoghue † Miss T.J. Quinn † The Revd Miss P.M. Sargent † Mr A.M. Waldbaum † Mr J.J. Whitting QC † Mr G.J. Willmott 1987 Professor I.K. Boxall † Mrs N. Crawley † Mr P.A. Fields Mr M. Hennessy † Professor J.M.G. Higgins † Mr T.J. Knight † Ms C.M. Kuchenbauer Ms R. Lawson † Mr M.R. McDowall Mr J.F. Mitchell † 1988 Mr C.H.E. Bell Mr G.N. Berridge † Mr G.C. Biazini Mr C.A. Brand † Mr A.M. Brown † Miss P.F.C. De Carolis † Mrs E.C. Fitzpatrick Mr M.T.D. Gilpin Mr G.L. Iliffe † Mr P.D.N. Kennedy † Mr H.T.M. Mulhall † Mr A. Radford † Mr P.D.G. Riviere † Mrs R.S. Starkie † Mr P.J.C. Warren † Mr P.G.X. Wuensche †

1989 Dr T.M. Berg † Mr T.H. Coates † Mr P.A. Dundon Mrs C.S.J. Evans † Mr R.J. Hirst Mr J.P. Hodges † Mr R.A. Laughton † Mr N. Lovell † Mr J.D. Murray † Mrs G.E. Needham † Mr E.J. Rayner † 1990 Ms R.A. Cairns † Mr N.S. Cameron † Mrs E.J. Cox † Dr C.V.S. Edwards † Mrs S.V. Gill Mr A.S. Golledge † Mr A.R.J. Halstead Mr D.J. Hannan † Mrs L. McCoy Mrs G.M.O. McGovern Mr C.A. Rowley † Dr R.A. Saldanha † Mr D.R.C. Sanders † Ms S.K. Stutt † Dr D.F. Talbot-Ponsonby † Mr P.D. Vaughan-Smith 1991 Mr J.D. Cook Mr P.M. Dixon Mr E.A.D. Haddon † Dr G.W. Maloney Mr D. Mustafa Mr G.W. Pennock Mr P.H. Robinson † Miss C.V. Toogood † Mr H. Tung † Mr D.N. Waller Dr M.J. Wilson

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1992 Mr C.N. Chan Dr C.E. Donnellan Mr D.J. Emery † Mr D.K. Fahy Dr I.G. Hagan † Miss T.A. Scott QC Dr V.A. Snell Mrs E.J. Tregenza † 1993 Mr D.E. Bates † Mrs A.J. Bosman † Dr D.L. Brower † Mr D.E. Buist Mr G.P. Cross † Mr J.P. Dawson † Mrs M.K. Derry Mr S.O.S. Duffett † Mr A.J. Dunbar † Mr K. Foroughi † Dr S.M. Kingston † Ms S.H. Kundu † Dr F.F.A. Lepetit † Mrs F.J. Massey Mr A.W. Mears Mr W.P. Talbot-Ponsonby † Mr E.J. Tate † Mr T.R.D. Wagstaff Mr M.L. White † Dr L.M.T. Withington † 1994 Mr G.A. Chapman QC † Mr S. Cottrell † Mrs P.J. Herbert † Mr A.E.C. McGregor † Mr A.T. Rycroft † Dr A.M. Upton Baron B.H. von Michel † Mr R.G.H. Webber Mr A.D. Whittaker †

1995 Mr W.E. Breeze † Ms C.M. Christie † Miss R. Clark † Mr M.C. Cook † Mr T.T.A. Cox † Dr M.R. Gisborne † Mr C.P.A. Humphreys Mr M.A. Image † Dr K.D. Nawrotzki Mr C.D. Pirie Mr S.R.A. Smith Mr M.R. Wareham † 1996 Miss E.F. Ashwell † Mr J. Bell † Dr L.M. Campbell Dr E.L. Conran † Mrs S.R. Haywood Mr J.M.L. Leong Mr C.D. Mowat † Mr C.J. Nelson † Mrs Y. Qiao † Mrs E.V. Seaton Miss S.M. Thuraisingam † 1997 Dr L.A. Bates Mr J.J. Bozzino † Ms C.J. Huckett Mr N.A. King † Dr A.C. Rose Dr K.E.A. Saunders † Mr J.C. Tetley † Dr K.E. Vincent Mrs E.J. Watkins † 1998 Mr S.J.H. Albert Mr G.R.B. Anderson Miss W.E. Armstrong

Mr A.A.R. Black † Miss R. Blunt † Mr M.F. Bonham † Mr J.A. Braid † Miss K. Donnelly Mr B.M. Proctor † Dr A.J. Robbie † Dr J. Salac Dr V. Vijayakumar Mr T.A. Walker 1999 Mrs A.W. Anderson † Mr G.R. Butcher † Mr C.F. Chapman † Mr B.B. Cosgrave † Ms A.L. Cowell † Mr J.P. Delahunty † Mr R.A.R. Farr † Mrs E.K. Goodridge † Mr D.E. Lloyd † Miss L. McNaught † Mr M.J. Robertson Mr O. Taylor † Mr M.F. Westcott † 2000 Mr L.T. Finch † Miss C.E. Fisher † Ms C.M. Geraedts-Espey † Mr P.W. Hope Mr T. Lawless † Mr M.R. Marshall † Mr K. O’Connor † Mr T.P. Pearson † Mr G.O.F. Pepys † Mr C. Reeve † Dr A.A. Reid † Mr M.J. Roddy † Mr N. Sladdin † Dr I.J. Taylor † Ms L.E. Timms † Dr P.P. Wyatt † One anonymous donor

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2001 Mr M.A.N. Boullé Dr J.W. Fisher † Mr R.J.M. Gibbons † Mr S. Gohill † Mr S.J. Goulden Dr S.R. Jones Mr T. Lloyd-Evans † Miss C.C. McDaid Miss C.E. Parry † Dr J.W.V. Philbin † Mr C. Schmiedel † Dr O.M. Williams † 2002 Mr T.J. Akin † Mr T.D. Barke † Dr C.M. Brennan Ms G.A.A. Coghlan † Miss L.A. Lamb Mr D.R. Lappage † Mr A.E. Laverty † Mr D. McCloskey † Dr S.C. Mossman † Mrs L.N.K. Murphy † Mr E. Ohashi Mr N. Pilsbury † Mrs H.C.L. Radcliffe † Mr J.M. Walley 2003 Mr D.J. Bishop † Dr L.F. Brown † Dr M.G. Dalivalle Mr A.P. Graham † Mr G.E. Jacques † Mr S.S. Ketteringham † Mrs S.V. Kiefer Miss C.E. La Malfa Mrs L.S. Nair † Miss M. Nodale † Ms H.A. Race Miss K.J. Spicer

Mr R.J. Verber † Mr J.D. Wright † 2004 Dr C.R. Alpass Mr R.J. Ejsmond-Frey † Mr F.T. Hardee † Dr H.J. Hogben Mr T. Huzarski † Mr P. Nassiri † Mr A.L. Nish † Mr M.C. Quinn † Ms Y. Sun † Dr R.F.D. Sykes Mr A.S.D. Wright † 2005 Dr J.H. Felce † Mrs S.L. Felce † Ms A.M. Love Miss L.E.L. McCourt Dr T.L. McKee † Mr P.J. McNally Mr G.S. Maude † Mr R.J.S. Pilgrim Miss V.E. Rolfe Miss H. Rowling † Mr J. Wigley Dr D.R. Woods Mrs E.J. Woolard † 2006 Mr C.M. Birt † Miss K.R. Chandler Mr C.R. Davies Ms E.L. Doherty † Mr D. Huebler † Miss A.C. Millar † Mr O.D.J. Roberts Ms C.C. Savundra McKenzie † Ms H. Suttle

2007 Miss R.F.R. Clarke Miss C. Close-Smith Mrs P.E. Mannion † Mr D.J. McLean Dr A.S. Jones Mr A.S.J. Leadill Mr M. Price † Mr W. Sheldon † Mr J.C. Wadsworth Mr C.J. Young 2008 Dr M.N. Anahtar Mr B.H. Carmichael Mr S.G. Dijkstra Dr P.M. Gemmell Miss T.E. Halban Mr G. Hobbs Mr F.D.R. Keating † Mr S. Peet † Mr J.J.S. Pilgrim Miss E. Reid Mr J.G. Rennison Mr P. Schautschick 2009 Mr G. Chapman Mr S. Flynn Mr M.B. Gale Mr S.T. Horan Mr B.R. Mansfield Mr R. Matthews Ms K. Sayers 2010 Mr J.G. Craven Mr R. Fleck Miss B. Fryer Miss E.J. Harker Miss E.A. Howard Dr C.L. Knight Dr M.C.G. Lau

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Dr F.C.P. Leach Miss E. Limer Mr P.G. Penzo † Mr C. Pontin Mr G.A. Whittaker

Dr J.A. Dunnmon Miss E. Smith 2012 Mr M. Antonov Miss E. Burdett Miss A. Carter Mr T. King

2011 Mr C. Arnold Mr S.T. Banner Mr H. Bigland Mr D.C. Branford

2013 Ms K. Hong

2014 Mr S. Boljevic Mr J.C.J. Humphris Mr J.M. Power 2015 Mr E. Carroll Mr S.J.T. Salt 2016 Mr R.W.J. Boswall

The following are Fellows, Emeriti, Friends, Companies, Trusts and Foundations that have made donations. Professor J.H. Armour † Mr A. Beal-Forbes Mrs J. Bell Professor D.J. Butt † Mrs E. Cairncross Professor C.P. Conlon † Ms A. Glover Mrs R. Graves Mrs J. Kerkhecker † Mrs Y. Kolomoets Miss C.N. Love Sir Derek Morris † Mrs H. Nicholson Mr S. Power †

Mrs L. Rawcliffe † Professor H.M. Robinson † Mr H. Rudden Professor H. Scott Mrs A. Stainsby Professor M.J. Tonjes † Professor M. Topf Mr R.J. Turnill † Mr S.C. Turpin Ms M. Wallace † Mrs S.L. Wentz Professor E. Winstanley † Four anonymous donors

Against Breast Cancer Americans for Oxford Bank of America Merrill Lynch Charities Aid Foundation Deutsche Bank Jackson Foundation Microsoft Stainer and Bell Stavros Niarchos Foundation Worldstrides International LLC * Deceased † Donors who have given for five years or more

Oriel is always grateful to those who decide to remember the College in their wills. We remember with particular gratitude those from whom legacies were received during the year. Dr A.A. Jefferson Mr W. Mason Mr E.A. Vallis

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Oriel would like to acknowledge those who have supported the College in other ways over the past year. This includes – but is not limited to – contributions to publications such as Oriel News, hosting or speaking at an event, and offering career advice to current students and recent leavers. We would also like to thank those who given gifts of artwork and books to the College.

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ALUMNI SURVEY

In 2017 the Development Office conducted a survey of all Orielenses. A tremendous response was received from over 33 per cent of alumni, in 56 different countries. The age of respondents was consistent across most of the spectrum, and we would like to thank all those who took the time to provide feedback. Here we provide a brief summary of the findings, and how the College has listened to enhance and improve its relationship with as many Orielenses as possible.

ORIEL AND YOU – WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT ORIEL

YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH ORIEL It is clear from the responses that Orielenses are very loyal to Oriel and feel positive about their time at College – almost 90 per cent had a positive experience at Oriel. Many Orielenses wish to stay in contact with Oriel in order to keep in touch with contemporaries and to reconnect with memories of their student days but give less priority to engaging with current students or current academic content. However, 2,500 offers of help or support were received across eleven topics from just over 50 per cent of respondents, indicating that there is significant potential for alumni to enrich the alumni relations programme generally, as well as College life for current students.

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Oriel Society feedback While 73 per cent of alumni are aware of the Oriel Society, 12 per cent of alumni feel that the Oriel Society ‘provides a useful body to represent my interests’ and 20 per cent of alumni think that the Oriel Society ‘is relevant to my relationship with Oriel’. Event feedback Almost 60 per cent of all respondents have attended at least one alumni event organised by College. The most popular events include Gaudies and other dinners in College. Key reasons for attending an Oriel event included the desire to re-visit the College and reconnect with other Orielenses, or to hear interesting speakers.

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Communications feedback Overall, respondents like to receive emails, and alumni prefer to be sent information rather than having actively to search for it. Oriel News and The Record are enjoyed by many Orielenses. The survey found that 62 per cent of respondents use social-media platforms, with Facebook being the most popular. However, only 20 per cent of respondents indicated that they liked social media as a channel for College to communicate with them. OUR RESPONSE TO YOUR FEEDBACK Alongside the set questions, the opportunity to make comments brought a number of themes to the fore. As a response to those, Oriel plans to do the following: Dining rights In line with many other colleges in Oxford and Cambridge, Oriel would like to offer dining rights to its former students from Hilary Term 2019. More details on how you can book a place at High Table will follow. Alumni facilities in College The College is planning to create three new guest rooms, which will be available to alumni to book. The rooms will be available from January 2019; more details on how to book will follow. Oxford Alumni Card We would like to ensure that Orielenses are able to gain access to the University and College with ease. We wish to encourage you all to apply for an Oxford Alumni Card, which is free of charge and can be obtained at: https://www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/oxford-alumni-card (you will need your alumni number, 8-xxxxxxxx). Only those who have an Alumni Card will be able to book dinner and/or guest rooms in College from Hilary Term 2019. Graduation and MA graduations For those wishing to graduate with their MA, finding a possible date has become more problematic in recent years owing to the limited space at graduation ceremonies. The College plans to address this by having an annual ceremony in College for those eligible to take their MA who wish to do so. More details on this will follow. Events Even with the current portfolio of events, the results suggest that a greater variety of events would encourage different groups of alumni to attend. We would like to broaden the portfolio of events to encompass the needs of all constituencies that make up the alumni population â&#x20AC;&#x201C; from new graduates to families to those more mature in years. All events are under regular review. The Oriel Society The Oriel Society Committee is discussing with the College its reconstitution as an Oriel Alumni Committee, with appropriate terms of reference to ensure that the views of alumni are represented. Events and other alumni activities are designed to be as appealing to as many Oriel constituencies as possible.

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JUNIOR COMMON ROOM

ith an eclectic collection of individual talents and an unparalleled community spirit, the JCR has never failed to amaze. The past year has proved no exception. Each and every student has shone in their fields, providing plenty of opportunities for us to celebrate our collective achievements. Huge thanks must go to the JCR Committee, who gave their time and effort to help foster the sense of community which Oriel so dearly cherishes. Their commitment has led to a myriad of enjoyable events and some welcome progress. Highlights include the International and Charity Formal Halls, the RAG Casino Night, Halfway Hall, the refurbishment of the JCR – which will continue this summer – and the flying of the Rainbow Flag from the college flagpole throughout February. Even more inspiring has been the dedication of students who have gone out of their way to provide for the JCR through their voluntary efforts. The extravaganza that was the Chinese New Year Formal Hall has established itself as a tradition to rival the always anticipated Christmas Formal. On the theme of ‘new traditions’, the great success of this year’s edition of the Women’s Dinner has cemented it as a greatly welcomed fixture in the Oriel calendar. Moving on to other pursuits, I am pleased to report that Oriel has once again demonstrated brilliance in the arts. As well as contributing to the vibrant university music and drama scenes, Oriel students produced some great work closer to home. The Oriel College Ensemble performed its inaugural concert, while the Chapel Choir released its well-received Christmas album, Lumen de Lumine. Front Quad laughed along to the Oriel Garden Play, which this year infused restoration comedy with small elements of cult film The Room in an outdoor adaptation of Farquhar’s The Beaux’ Strategem. Meanwhile, students have been kept in the loop throughout the year by The Poor Print, which was especially noteworthy this year for the consistent quality of the poetry it featured. If these achievements had not already made the artistic talents of the JCR obvious, then one needed only to wander into the bar – as more students did by the day – and marvel at the spectacular ‘open source’ artwork that now adorns the sliding doors. As ever, the JCR saw some of its best moments of bonding on the sports fields. There are too many noteworthy stories to recount them all here; full details of our athletic endeavours can be found later in the Record. Particular highlights, though, deserve a second mention. Where else to start but the river? Here Oriel rowed to a remarkable Double Headship in Torpids – only the second achievement of the feat in Oxford history, the first having also been claimed by Oriel in 2006. Both the football

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The 2018 Women’s Dinner was a great success

team and the burgeoning netball team made magical runs to the semi-finals in the Hassan’s Cup and Cuppers, respectively. The netballers also managed to retain Division 1 status, despite tough opposition. The young Pool Club has established itself as the team to watch in years to come, having already earned promotion with an ‘Invincible’ campaign in the league. Remembering these incredible achievements and many more, it is hard not to look back on the year with a smile. I know the year felt special to many, particularly as it was capped off by an extraordinary Commemoration Ball – courtesy of the dedicated and professional Ball Committee, who worked tirelessly throughout the year to deliver an unforgettable evening. I’m sure we will forge more great memories together over the upcoming year, and I hope that we continue to achieve great things in the name of Oriel. Sebastien Santhiapillai JCR President 2017 – 2018

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MIDDLE COMMON ROOM

very year the Oriel College Middle Common Room goes from strength to strength, and this year has proven to be no different, with ninety-four new graduate students and forty fourth-year undergraduates joining in October 2017. Engagement with MCR life has been high, with many committee positions filled by new members who have brought a wealth of experience from many different places and backgrounds. The social calendar has been incredibly busy this year, thanks to the hard work of the Social Secretaries, Roxana Shafiee, Mattia Sisti and Cristóbal Pérez Barra, and the Social Team. This year MCR members went on nine exchange dinners and several wine and cheese evenings with other Oxford colleges. The sixth annual exchange with our sister college Trinity College, Dublin, was a great success, with the Trinity Scholars attending our Hilary Guest Night and fifteen Oriel MCR members attending the Trinity Scholars’ Ball. For the first time in many years the MCR had an exchange with our sister college at The Other Place, Clare College, Cambridge, a relationship I hope will continue moving forward. Thanks to the efforts of the Bar Manager, Alice Correia Morton, and the volunteer student staff, the MCR bar has continued to be a focal point of MCR life, with a greatly expanded selection of wines. Dessert in the MCR after Sunday Formal Hall and exchange dinners has been as popular as ever, thanks to the expert selection of Abigail Saks, the Dessert Representative, with approximately 200 kg of cheese consumed over the course of three terms by the ravenous MCR. The MCR coffee machine has been kept running and newspapers stocked by the tireless Connor Thompson, who became the inaugural holder of the position of MCR Manager. Wednesday Afternoon Tea has continued to be an MCR institution, carefully overseen by the Welfare Secretaries, Francesca Satchwell and Tobias Thornes, and the Welfare Team, along with weekly yoga sessions in the Harris Seminar Room. A number of internationally focused events, including a celebration of Chinese New Year, were organised by the International Representatives, bringing together the diverse community we have here at Oriel. Oriel Talks have continued into their third year, with fantastic talks given by members of the SCR and MCR followed by a chance to discuss further the topics and ideas over dinner. I would like to thank Farbod Akhlaghi-Ghaffarokh and Cristóbal Pérez Barra for their hard work in organising the talks, and all the speakers for their time and for being so engaging. The MCR has been active on the sports field this year, with more than twenty members involved with the College Boat Club, including nine individuals in the Torpids Double Headship M1 and W1 crews.

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The MCR punting scheme has continued to be hugely popular, with MCR members enjoying this quintessential Oxford pastime free of charge. The barbeque at JMH (maintained by Pawel Puczkarski, the JMH Representative) has been in frequent use for much of Trinity term, and many MCR members have become involved with the highly competitive croquet scene. This year Oriel became the only college to win the Oxford Student Switch-Off campaign twice, thanks to the efforts of Sujay Natson, Environment Representative, and Tobias Thornes. The campaign aims to increase student awareness of environmental issues, such as energy saving and recycling; Oriel has shown itself to be leading the charge in making Oxford a greener place. I would like to thank all the committee for their time and effort in making the MCR such a wonderful place; in particular, I would like to thank the Vice Presidents, Holly Sadler and Jung Kian Ng, and the Treasurers, Chloe Ingersent and Maximilian Bayliss. Next year will present new opportunities for the MCR, and I am confident that the incoming President, Farbod Akhlaghi-Ghaffarokh, will take the MCR to even greater heights as it continues to be the best MCR in Oxford. Alexander Pateman MCR President 2017 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2018

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NEW MEMBERS 2017–2018

FOR HIGHER DEGREES ABBAS, Syed MSc Computer Science AHMED, Daniele MSc Computer Science AKHLAGHI-GHAFFAROKH, DPhil Philosophy Farbod ALLEN-PETRIE, John DPhil English Local History (PT) ANAM, Samiha MSc Organic Chemistry ARIAS CUELLAR, Mirian MSc Law and Finance ARORA, Srishti DPhil Biochemistry BARMA, Salma PGCE History BATHURST, Benjamin MBA Business Administration BAYLISS, Maximillian MSt British and European History 1500 to present BECK, Matthew MBA Business Administration BENNETT, Stefanos MSc Statistical Science BLANK, Ryan MSt Theology BOWERS, Megan MSt Creative Writing CERNIS, Emma DPhil Biomedical and Clinical Sciences CHEN, Jun DPhil Materials CHEN, Honglie DPhil Engineering Science CHIODO, Suzanne DPhil Law COBO, Maria DPhil Paediatrics COURTNEY, Hugh EMBA Executive Master of Business Administration DASH, Swaraj DPhil Computer Science DAUDEL, Kamelia MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance DAY, Holly MSt British and European History (1500 to present)

National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (Pakistan) Università di Pisa (Italy) University of Reading Oriel Queen Mary College, London Universidad Doctor José Matías Delgado (El Salvador) University of Delhi (India) Oriel University of Bristol University of Durham Brigham Young University (USA) University of Cambridge University of Cambridge King Alfred’s College, Winchester Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Central South University (China) Oriel York University (Canada) University of Glasgow Saïd Business School University of Cambridge Telecom ParisTech (France) University of Exeter

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DE VIDO, Angelica DPhil English University of Cambridge DEAN, Jessica MSt Ancient Philosophy University of Pennsylvania (USA) DONATI, Sandro MSc Criminology and Universita degli Studi Criminal Justice (Cesare Alfieri) Firenze (Italy) EIZMENDI LARRINAGA, MSc Economics for George Washington Axel Development University (USA) ERIKSSON, Fredrik MSc Environmental Change Dartmouth College (USA) and Management FELIX, Ciara DPhil Engineering Science University of Hull FLETCHER, Charles DPhil Materials Imperial College London FORD, Brandon DPhil BBSRC Inter Bio DTP University of Sheffield GALLAHER, Daniel MSt Late Antique and University of St Andrews Byzantine Studies GAO, Hongmin DPhil Atomic and Laser Physics University of Cambridge GOEL, Rishi MSc Integrated Immunology University of Michigan (USA) GOLDSACK, Alexander DPhil Particle Physics University of Lancaster GONZALEZ NEGRON, MBA Business Administration Oriel Andrea GOYENS, Florentin DPhil Mathematics Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) HANDLEY, Tiffany MBA Business Administration Saïd Business School HE, Wanru MSc Economics for Renmin University of China Development HEIGHTON, Oliver MSc Law and Finance London School of Economics and Political Science HONG, Katherine B Phil Philosophy Oriel HOSIE, Duncan MSt US History London School of Economics and Political Science HOWARD, Hannah MSt British and European University of Warwick History (1500 to present) HUGHES, Rian DPhil Theoretical Physics University of Cambridge KANG, Wenbin DPhil Engineering Science Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) KANTOR, Noam MSc Mathematics Emory University (USA) LAHORGUE, Katherine MSc Maths and Foundations Harvard University (USA) of Computer Science LAVELLE, Sarah MSc Sociology Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) LEE, Amy DPhil Theology Regent’s Park College LI, Wei MSc Statistical Science University of Glasgow LISSENDEN, Grace MSt Greek and/or Latin University of Bristol Languages and Literature

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LO, Tien-Chun MPhil Philosophical Theology MARCEL, Claire MSc Criminology and Criminal Justice MARTIN, Roberto MPhil Economics MCCORMICK, Ciar MSt Ancient Philosophy MCLOUGHLIN, Dominic DPhil Astrophysics MISRA, Neil MSc Modern South Asian Studies MORINAKA, Yoko MPhil Economics NABILLA, Sasza DPhil Materials NATSON, Sujay MSc Environmental Change and Management NAZIF, Enis MSc Statistical Science NG, Jung MSc Environmental Change and Management NÍ CHROIDHEÁIN, Aoife MSt Modern Languages OLIVER, Sophy CDT Environmental Research (NERC DTP) ORTUZAR, Pablo DPhil Politics OWEN, Morfudd MSt Creative Writing PATEL, Dhairya BCL Civil Law PEREZ BARRA, Cristobal DPhil English RAKHEJA, Saloni MSc Financial Economics RI, Rannya DPhil Obstetrics and Gynaecology SAKS, Abigail MSt English (1830– 1914) SATCHWELL, Francesca 2nd BM Clinical Medicine SHABOUN, Asmaa MSc International Health and Tropical Medicine SHARMA, Jaya 2nd BM Clinical Medicine SMITH, Jemma PGCE Chemistry SPEIGHT, Samuel DPhil Computer Science STRACHAN, Aysha MSt Modern Languages TAPIA, Francisco MPP Public Policy

National Taiwan University (Taiwan) King’s College London University of Bristol Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) Pembroke College, Oxford University of Cambridge Kobe University (Japan) National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan) Brown University (USA) The University of Warwick University of Southern California (USA) University College Dublin (Ireland) University of Southampton Universidad de Chile (Chile) University of Warwick University of Buckingham Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (Chile) Shri Ram College of Commerce (India) Imperial College London Hamilton College (USA) Oriel Zagazig University (Egypt) Oriel Oriel Carnegie Mellon University (USA) King’s College London Universidad de Chile (Chile)

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THEKKADATH, Guillaume DPhil Atomic and Laser Physics THOMSON, Eleanor CDT Environmental Research (NERC DTP) THOMSON, Connor DPhil Organic Chemistry THORNBUSH, Mary PGCE Geography TING, Gloria MSt Music (Musicology) TOLSON, Richard MSt Modern Languages TURNBULL, Rory MSt Theology WAKEFIELD, Robert MSt English (650 – 1550) WALES, Christopher MSc Financial Economics WHITE, Georgia MSt English (1700– 1830) WILD, Conor CDT Systems Approaches to Biomed Sc (EPSRC and MRC CDT) WILLIAMS, Matthew 2nd BM Clinical Medicine WILLIAMSON, Thomas MSc Economics for Development WILSON, Hannah DPhil Musculoskeletal Sciences WONG, Natalie MBA Business Administration ZENG, Sikun MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance ZHAI, Wentao MSt Greek and/or Latin Languages and Literature ZHANG, Yupeng MSc Law and Finance ZHU, Xi MSt Bible Interpretation FOR FIRST DEGREES ABHISHETTY, Manoj Engineering Science AGBOLADE, Esther Philosophy, Politics and Economics ANGERER, English and French Michael Lysander AYDIN, Yunus Computer Science BAMFORD, John Michael Mathematics BATCHELOR, Emma Jayne Law BHARUCHA, Natasha English Language and Literature

University of Ottawa (Canada) Oriel University of St Andrews Oriel King's College London University of Durham Oriel University of Leeds Harvard University (USA) University of Melbourne (Australia) University of Cambridge

Oriel University of Sydney (Australia) Trinity College McGill University (Canada) Imperial College London Middlebury College (USA) Shandong University of Political Science and Law (China) University College London

Eltham College, London Kingsdale Foundation School, London Cambridge International School Uskudar American Academy (Istanbul) Bilborough College, Nottingham Worcester Sixth Form College Bundesgymnasium und Bundesrealgymnasium Klosterneuburg (Austria)

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BLOWERS, Biochemistry Jack Edward Austin (Molecular and Cellular) BOURNE, Alice Elizabeth Law BOWLER, Megan Louisa Classics CABRAL, Guy Law CAWOOD, Aaron English Language and Literature CHEN, Yingtong Mathematics CHIA QI EN, Vanessa Law CLUER, Max Philosophy, Politics and Economics CORAM, Aryan Richard Philosophy, Politics and Economics COTTELL, Joshua Music DAVIES, Daniel Engineering Science School DEAK, Alexander Theology and Religion DEERING, Lara Elizabeth English Language and Literature DOLINSKA, Olha Elizabeth Biomedical Sciences DOODY, Max Medicine DRAKELEY, Joseph Ross Physics EIRA, Alexandre Physics and Philosophy EL-SHERIF, Ansaam Medicine ERNST, Jan Ole Physics and Philosophy EVANS, Isabella Classics with Oriental Studies EVANS, Benedict Philosophy, Politics and Economics FEARON, Sophia Philosophy, Politics and Economics FRASER, Orlando Engineering Science FRASER, Joel Andrew English and French

Nottingham High School Kenilworth School Guildford High School Shrewsbury School Woodkirk Academy (formerly Woodkirk High), Wakefield Hwa Chong Institution (Singapore) Raffles Junior College (Singapore) University College School, Hampstead Eton College Pate’s Grammar School, Cheltenham Hagley Catholic High Eton College Dean Close School, Cheltenham King’s College School, Wimbledon Birkdale School, Sheffield Aldridge School, Walsall Escola Secoundaria Vergilio Ferreira (Portugal) High Storrs School, Sheffield Stiftung Private Kant- Schulen Ggmbh/Berlin International School (Germany) Francis Holland School, London Bishop Wordsworth’s Grammar School, Salisbury Westminster School Wells Cathedral School Rushcliffe School, Nottingham

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FRASER, Simone History FRIGAARD, Mathematics and Hal Ian Allridge Computer Science GOMEZ GOMEZ DE Philosophy, Politics and Economics LA TORRE, Mar HALL, Daniel Theology and Religion HAMMERTON, Peter Philosophy and Theology HAYASHI, Sakura Music HEGARTY MORRISH, History Patrick HILL, Lauren Music HINDS, Rosa French HOBSON, James William Computer Science and Philosophy HUANG, Jiale Physics JACKSON, Alex Chemistry JACOBS, Chloe English Language and Literature JOHN, Leasha Tanith Medicine KAMINSKI, Aleksander Physics KEELING, Joshua Biomedical Sciences KING, Joshua David Mathematics LEE, George Ancient and Modern History LEONG, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Michael Vuang Chuen LETMAN, Maria German Immaculata Alice Mariella LEWIS, Evie Rose Chase History LIU, Fanxi Classics II and English LOCI, Lubomir Chemistry MACGREGOR, Cora Isobel Classics and English MADDEN, Samuel Chemistry MAGEE, Natalie History MCGRATH, Brendan Philosophy, Politics and Economics MEHAN, Prateek Y Engineering Science MOCKUS, Gustas Computer Science MOTYKA, Szymon Philosophy, Politics and Economics

John Leggott Sixth Form College, Scunthorpe Glenuga International High School, Adelaide (Australia) Holland Park School Dr Challoner’s Grammar School, Amersham The Judd School, Tonbridge Vienna International School (Austria) Highgate Wood School, London John Masefield High School The Cherwell School, Oxford Abbey Grange Church of England Academy, Leeds Hampton School, London Loreto College, Manchester The Langley Academy, Slough Cirencester College Kennet School, Thatcham Alleyn’s School, Dulwich Barton Peveril College Crossley Heath School, Halifax Winchester College St Mary’s School, Ascot The Bulmershe School, Reading Henrietta Barnett School, Hampstead St Augustine’s Catholic High School, Redditch Wimbledon High School Hall Cross Academy, Doncaster Aston Academy Sevenoaks School Manchester Grammar School Vilnius Lyceum (Lithuania) The Skinners’ School, Tunbridge Wells

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MUNDY, George Biochemistry (Molecular and Cellular) NAVIDI, Emily Engineering Science NG, Kei To Odessa Law NORRIS, Chemistry Simon Christopher NUGENT, Biochemistry (Molecular Charlotte Elizabeth and Cellular) O’DONOVAN, Matthew History and Politics PARMAR, Lily Harish French and Spanish PARR, Christopher Classics PATSALUYONAK, Sergei History and German PHILPOTT, Computer Science and Philosophy Daniel Benjamin RAHMAN, Mahdiyah Uzma History ROBINSON, Erin Medicine ROBINSON-KRONROD, Geoffrey Aaron Spanish and Linguistics SAER, Thomas Classics SEAWARD, Annabelle Marie Computer Science SHAH, Akshat Physics SHARMA, Natasha Priya Biochemistry (Molecular and Cellular) SHREEVE-MCGIFFEN, Law Maximillian Charles SLAKAITIS, Gabrielius Computer Science

Hampton School, London Glenthorne High School, London German Swiss International School (Hong Kong) The Gordon Schools, Huntly St Mary’s School, Ascot The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial RC School, London Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Girls, Elstree The Blue Coat School, Liverpool Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School, Aylesbury Merchant Taylors’ School, Northwood Bancroft’s School, London Bournemouth School for Girls Tilden Preparatory School (USA) Winchester College King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls, Birmingham Delhi Private School (Dubai) Notting Hill and Ealing High School Bayside Comprehensive School (Gibraltar) Wollaston School

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SMITH, Thomasina Classics II Petroc College, Devon STANLEY-CUNNING, Philosophy and Theology Magdalen College School, Joel Nathanael Oxford SUDARSHAN, Bhuvana Biochemistry (Molecular and Nottingham Girls High Cellular) School SYKES, Horatio History and Economics Winchester College Maximillian James THOMAS, Maya Nerissa History International School Hilversum Alberdingtk Thijm (Netherlands) VUKOVIC, Jelena Medicine Peter Symonds College, Winchester WAJID, Abdul Physics Barking Abbey School, London WANG, Ruiyi Mathematics Handan No. 1 Middle School (China) WARNER, Albert Mathematics Pate’s Grammar School WEI, Zijian History The Coopers’ Company and Coborn School, Upminster WHITEHEAD, Chloe Louise English Language and Literature Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School, Crewe WILSON, Katie Louise French and German Emmanuel College, Gateshead ZHONG, Fengyu Engineering Science Concord College, Shrewsbury

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ACADEMIC RECORD 2017–2018 DEGREES AND EXAMINATION RESULTS DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY AINSUA MARTINEZ, Sandra (Organic Chemistry): ‘Oxidative radical cyclisations for the synthesis of lactones’ BHOJWANI, Kris (Science and Technology of Fusion Energy ): ‘A low temperature ageing and irradiation study of 14YWT nanostructured ferritic alloys (NFAs) for nuclear fusion applications’ BONIFACIO, James Joseph (Theoretical Physics): ‘Aspects of massive spin-2 effective field theories’ CASSIDY, Rachel (Economics): ‘Essays in development economics’ CHANG, Heuishilja (Geography and the Environment): ‘The resilience of shrinking communities in rural Japan’ EAGER, Max (Ancient History ): ‘Seneca’s influence with Nero’ EWING, Alexander Blake (Politics): ‘Ideology, language and the politics of time’ FEGHEH-HASSANPOUR, Younes (Organic Chemistry): ‘Total synthesis of (-)-6,7-dideoxysqualestatin H5 by carbonyl ylide cycloaddition and cross-electrophile coupling’ FERNANDEZ RODRIGUEZ, Patricia (Organic Chemistry): ‘Streamlined synthesis of taxol analogues’ HARNAU, Jonas (Economics): ‘Age-period-cohort models’ HOEHN, Kenneth Bradley (Genomic Medicine and Statistics): ‘Evolutionary models of antibody lineages’ JEW, Luke Robert Parviz (Astrophysics): ‘Measurements of diffuse galactic emission at 5 GHz with C-BASS’ JONES, Mary Elizabeth (Musculoskeletal Sciences): ‘Epidemiology of long-term health outcomes and the response of knee cartilige to bowling biomechanics in elite cricketers’ KLIMENKA, Filip (Economics): ‘Econometric methods for implementing decision functions’ KROEGER, Benjamin Robert (Chromosome and Developmental Biology): ‘The genetic regulation and subcellular dynamics of secretory and endolysosomal organelles in Drosophila secondary cells’ LANDEIRO, Filipa Isabel Trigo (Public Health): ‘The cost of social isolation in older people in the English and Portuguese National Health Services’ MARLATTE, Read Ward (Theology ): ‘The setting and early effective-history of Paul’s Temple metaphors’ MYERSON, Simon Leo (Mathematics): ‘Systems of forms in many variables’ SALGADO MONTEJO, Alejandro (Experimental Psychology): ‘Exploring the mechanisms that underlie the crossmodal correspondences between shapes and tastes: Assessing the role of aesthetics, anthropomorphism, emotional valence, and embodied cognition’ WANG, Shanshan (Materials): ‘Synthesis and characterization of monolayer molybdenum disulphide’

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BACHELOR OF CIVIL LAW PATEL, Dhairya

Pass

BACHELOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN PHILOSOPHY YEAR 2 CASSER, Laurenz COLLIER, Matthew

Distinction Pass

EXECUTIVE MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (YEAR 2) (MT START) PARK, Richard

Pass

MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY FIRST YEAR EXAMINATION IN ECONOMICS SPILIOTIS-SAQUET, Jean-Christophe

Pass

MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY IN ECONOMICS HEITZIG, Christopher WU, Le

Pass Pass

MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY IN GREEK AND/OR ROMAN HISTORY CORREIA MORTON, Alice

Pass

MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY IN JEWISH STUDIES IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD OLIVEIRA, Felipe Pass MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY IN LATE ANTIQUE AND BYZANTINE STUDIES GALLAHER, Daniel

Distinction

MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY IN THEOLOGY STELL, Elizabeth TSIMIKALIS, Peter

Distinction Distinction

MASTER OF PUBLIC POLICY ZHENG, Junlyu

Pass

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE DONATI, Sandro MARCEL, Claire

Pass Pass

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MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ECONOMICS FOR DEVELOPMENT WILLIAMSON, Thomas EIZMENDI LARRINAGA, Axel HE, Wanru

Distinction Pass Pass

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN FINANCIAL ECONOMICS RAKHEJA, Saloni WALES, Christopher

Pass Pass

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN LAW AND FINANCE HEIGHTON, Oliver ZHANG, Yupeng ARIAS CUELLAR, Mirian

Distinction Distinction Pass

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL FINANCE DAUDEL, Kamelia ZENG, Sikun

Pass Pass

MASTER OF STUDIES IN BRITISH AND EUROPEAN HISTORY, FROM 1500 TO THE PRESENT DAY, Holly Distinction HOWARD, Hannah Distinction BAYLISS, Maximillian Pass MASTER OF STUDIES IN ENGLISH WAKEFIELD, Robert WHITE, Georgia

Pass Pass

MASTER OF STUDIES IN GREEK AND/OR LATIN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE LISSENDEN, Grace ZHAI, Wentao

Pass Pass

MASTER OF STUDIES IN MODERN LANGUAGES STRACHAN, Aysha TOLSON, Richard NÍ CHROIDHEÁIN, Aoife

Distinction Distinction Pass

MASTER OF STUDIES IN MUSIC (MUSICOLOGY) TING, Gloria

Distinction

MASTER OF STUDIES IN THEOLOGY TURNBULL, Rory BLANK, Ryan TANT, William

Distinction Pass Pass

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MASTER OF STUDIES IN US HISTORY HOSIE, Duncan

Pass

POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN EDUCATION BARMA, Salma

Pass

DIPLOMA IN LEGAL STUDIES DAMIA ROSAL, Jaume

Distinction

FIRST EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF MEDICINE (PART I) DOODY, Max VUKOVIC, Jelena

Pass Pass

FIRST EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF MEDICINE (PART II) Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;BYRNE, Katherine SHORTEN, Cariad WILSON, Joseph YOUNG, Rebecca

Pass Pass Pass Pass

HONOUR MODERATIONS IN CLASSICS BALL, Caroline ANSTEY, Charlotte

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY (PART IA) ALLEN, Dominic HUANG, Pinjie KING, Alexandra MITCHELL, Jessica WALDRON, Adam ZHANG, Guige

Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

HONOUR SCHOOL OF ANCIENT AND MODERN HISTORY LEYLAND, Marie

HONOUR SCHOOL OF CELL AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY (PART II) BYTHELL, Anna GUILD, Shannon SCHWIENING, Max

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY (PART IB) LAMONT, Louis MASSINGBERD-MUNDY, Felicity

Honours Pass Honours Pass

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY (PART II) DALE-EVANS, Alister MACFARLANE, Katherine SCHNEIDEWIND, Lena

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANCIENT HISTORY HADJIGEORGIOU, Leda

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE (PART A) RADOI, Andrei-Alexandru SEAMAN, Graeme STANCIU, Andreea

Pass Pass Pass

HONOUR SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE (PART B) ILIE, Catalin-Andrei POUGET, Hadrien VALEANU, Alexandru PACE, Ben

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE (PART C) VASILE, Daniel HEMPENSTALL, Ryan

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY (PART A) CAMARASU, Teofil

Pass

HONOUR SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE (PART B) AU, Chun Ngai POTTER, Jennifer SCHNYDER, Enzia CHRISTIE, Edward HUTCHINSON, Joshua PICKERING, William

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE (PART C) CONSTANTIN, Ruxandra - Maria HALL, Edward LAU, Ho Kwong MACAULAY, Alexander QIU, Muyi WOOLLEY, Matthew

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF ENGLISH AND MODERN LANGUAGES CLARKE, Isabella CRESPI DE VALLDAURA, Sofia

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE COURSE 1 GOLDSBROUGH, Helen POLLARD, Madeleine TINSLAY, Jade WINN, Mary MANSELL, Phoebe STEYN, Sophie

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF HISTORY CLEMENTS, Max HANCOCK, Annabel LATIF, Dena HOMER, Phoebe KLAPTOCZ, Anna LEA, Aidan ROBSON, Georgia

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND MODERN LANGUAGES BURAKOWSKI, Kryssa

HONOUR SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND POLITICS OLIVER-WATTS, Edwin PURTILL-COXALL, Saoirse

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF JURISPRUDENCE ANG, Hui CHIU, Ho PEARSON, Lisa SOMERVILLE, James

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF LITERAE HUMANIORES PATEL, Shriya FOSTER, Sarah HULL, Matthew FOUNTAIN, George

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS (PART A) SAVAGE, Rhiannon SHI, Yuyang

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS (PART B) HALL, Joshua LUO, Di

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS (PART C) ELLIS, Meredith FLETCHER, Daniel

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE (PART A) FAREBROTHER, Joseph

Pass

HONOUR SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE (PART B) POOLE, Anthony

HONOUR SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE (PART C) HOLT, Alexander

HONOUR SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS AND PHILOSOPHY (PART B) GOTH, Aidan

HONOUR SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS (PART B) STRACHAN, Daniel ZHANG, Yechuan

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES LAURENSON-SCHAFER, Hannah ROTHWELL, Eve TAYLOR, Elena MCGIVERN, Euan XU, Daniel

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES WOOD, Katherine WRIGHT, Sarah FECHNER, Jessica MOLL, Christina PRICE, Adam WAWRZONKOWSKA, Anna

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY (PART I) DICKERSON, Joshua MELLOR, Lucy

Honours Pass Honours Pass

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY (PART II) BRADLEY, Samuel NIKOV, Georgi TOWNLEY, Anna

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF MUSIC KORDA, Josephine WAYGOOD, Alexander MCDONALD, William

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY FLEISCHER, Catherine PEPPIATT, John ROWAN, Hugh

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, AND ECONOMICS TIRMIZI, Syed BURNEY-Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;DOWD, Rohin KIM, Seyeob MOJUMDAR, Amrita MONAGHAN, Eoin

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF PHYSICS (PART A) BATE, James BONNEY, Lara FELLINGHAM, Lucy SUN, Minghao WRIGHT, Lucy

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF PHYSICS (PART B) LOO, Allen RAWLINGS, Wesley YOUSIF, Mason LIU, Anna SHIELDS, Edward

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF PHYSICS (PART C) ZAJICEK, Zachary BEVAN, Simon BISHOP, Jem KANARI-NAISH, Lydia

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF PHYSICS AND PHILOSOPHY (PART A) BINKLE, Max

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF PHYSICS AND PHILOSOPHY (PART C) DAI, Xi

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY AND RELIGION HIGGINS, Fergus WOOD, Max

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HONOUR SCHOOLS OF CELL AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY/NEUROSCIENCE (PART I) ISELIN, Louisa Pass PANEVA, Sofija Pass SECOND EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF MEDICINE (YEAR 2) JONES, Rose Pass KAILAYAPILLAI, Chenduraan Pass VAUGHAN BURLEIGH, Sebastian Pass SECOND EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF MEDICINE (YEAR 3) KITCHEN, Lucy Pass MURPHY, Louis Pass WELLS, Adrian Pass

AWARDS AND PRIZES UNIVERSITY AWARDS AND PRIZES All Souls Prize for Public International Law DLS Prize (Overall Best Performance) FHS Chemistry 3rd Year Inorganic Chemistry Practical Prize FHS Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Part II Research Project Prize David Gibbs Prize Proxime accessit Hoare Prize for Best Overall Performance in Computer Science George Webb Medley Prize for Best Overall Performance 2nd De Paravicini Prize for Honour Moderations in Classics Palantir Prize

Hui Ang Jaume Damia Rosal Felicity Massingberd-Mundy George Nikov (joint second prize) Isabella Clarke Catalin-Andrei Ilie Thomas Williamson Caroline Ball Andreea Stanciu (joint winner)

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GResearch Group Project Prize Andrei-Alexandru Radoi (joint winner) Physical Chemistry Part II Thesis Prize Alister Dale-Evans (runner up) Gibbs Prize for Practical Work in Part A of the Honour Max Binkle School of Physics and Philosophy Gibbs Prize for Mathematics and Philosophy Aidan Goth Gibbs Dissertation Prize (Mathematics) Daniel Fletcher Gibbs Prize for Biochemistry Georgi Nikov Gibbs Prize for Classics Leda Hadjigeorgiou Gibbs Prize for Engineering Science Edward Christie Gibbs Prize for English Language and Literature Michael Angerer Gibbs Prize for Philosophy Catherine Fleischer Gibbs Prize for Politics Syed Tirmizi Gibbs Prize for Theology and Religion Catherine Fleischer COLLEGE AWARDS AND PRIZES Sir Derek Morris Prize in Economics H. Basil Robinson Prize Hammick Progress in Chemistry Prize Audrey London Travelling Scholarship John Sanders Scholarship in Physics Shannon Prize in Modern History Instrumental Award Eugene Lee-Hamilton Prize

Amrita Mojumdar Santoshi Eoin Monaghan Alister Dale-Evans Louise Edge Eleanor Harris Lara Bonney (existing Scholar) Alexandre Eira (new Scholar) Henry Shalders Sakura Hayashi Dominic Leonard (Christ Church) Shimali de Silva (Peterhouse, Cambridge)

GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS Thomas F. Torrance Graduate Scholarship in Theology Sir Walter Raleigh Scholarship Oriel Graduate Scholarships

Jenny Rallens Sujay Natson (outgoing) Dominic McLoughlin Hans Decker Holly Sadler Justine Ellis

SPORTS ACHIEVEMENTS BLUES Alexander Agureev Gabriela Arias Cuellar Luke Baines Mar Gomez Gomez de la Torre Andrea Gonzalez Negron Joshua Keeling Dominic McLoughlin Gladys Ngetich Matthew Noble Erin Robinson

Rugby Fencing Men’s Gymnastics (Captain) Women’s Basketball Women’s Volleyball Hockey Swimming Athletics Powerlifting Women’s Football

HALF BLUES Benjamin Bathurst Morgan Baynham-Williams Anna Bythell Alexander Goldsack Leasha John Sarah Jones Felicity Massingberd-Mundy Tacita McCoy-Parkhill William Pickering

Rowing Rowing Women's Ice Hockey Archery Badminton Triathlon Women’s Ice Hockey Women’s Ice Hockey Powerlifting

Enzia Schnyder Jaya Rani Sharma Christopher Wales Hannah Wilson Lucy Wright

Ultimate Athletics Rowing Water Polo Water Polo

OTHER UNIVERSITY-LEVEL SPORT Dominic Allen Benedict Evans Angus Forbes Joshua Hall George Lee Maria Letman Dominic McLoughlin Eoin Monaghan Cariad Shorten Surabhi Shukla James Somerville

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COLLEGE SPORT Charles Fletcher

Elis White Memorial Trophy (for most improved rower)

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COLLEGE LIBRARY

his year has been one of change for the Oriel Library. In December 2017 we said goodbye to our Librarian of over fifteen years, Marjory Szurko. Marjory’s contribution to the Library and the many students, academics and staff who pass through it cannot be underestimated. Her knowledge of the collections and her ‘Edible Exhibitions’ will be very much missed. The Library now has an entirely new team, which is settling in to life at Oriel. Hannah Robertson joined us as Librarian in January 2018, Ikhlas Osman as Assistant Librarian (from September 2017) and Chantal van den Berg as Library Assistant (from April 2018). Together they have a lot of exciting new ideas to help the Library celebrate its unique historic legacy and location, as well as moving forward in providing a modern, reader-focused experience. We look forward to getting to know our readers past, present and future. As always, the Library is grateful for the support of those who have generously donated books in the past year. Please get in touch if we have missed you during this changeover period. Hannah Robertson Librarian

BOOKS PRESENTED TO THE LIBRARY ORIELENSIA ELLIOTT, J.H., Scots and Catalans (London 2018). Presented by the author. IBBERSON, J., Autonomous Reason (Kelowna 2017). Presented by the author. Donations of books and photographs to join the main Library and Archive collections were also gratefully received from Mrs S. Browne, Dr Jeremy Catto, Peter Collett, Brian Escott Cox QC, Nigel Forrest, Christina Kraus, Professor Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra, Dr William Wood and many others who wish to remain anonymous, including several of our graduating students. Special thanks are due to Professor J.C. Barnes for his gift of a large portion of his prolific back catalogue, which will hugely benefit those studying Italian for years to come, and to to Mrs Jane Grove Annesley for her annual gift of money to buy a book in memory of her brother, David Quentin Holder (1966– 9).

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OUTREACH

fter a year in post as the College’s Outreach Officer, it is exciting to look back on what has been done to make Oriel (and Oxford) a more diverse and welcoming place. Oriel has been involved in some 150 Outreach events during the 2017–18 academic year. I have had the pleasure of welcoming school groups to Oriel from a wide variety of backgrounds and age groups: our youngest visitors this year were 10- and 11-year-olds in their final year at primary school. I have also enjoyed working within our link areas (designated by the University’s Outreach Link Region scheme) of Kensington and Chelsea, Richmond, Dudley, Walsall, Wolverhampton and Worcestershire in the West Midlands, visiting schools to speak to young people, their teachers and their parents about what an Oxford education can offer. I am ably assisted in Oxford by a team of undergraduate student ambassadors, many of whom have themselves benefited from similar visits and schemes. Outreach is not about offering an ‘easy option’ for students who are from schools or backgrounds that are under-represented at Oxford. My aim as an Outreach Officer is to introduce talented young people from such backgrounds to possibilities that may have previously seemed unrealistic or unsuitable. In schools where there is no culture of aspiration, where few students move away from home for higher education, or where most students do not have university-educated families, it is not surprising that Oxford is not on the agenda for even the brightest of students. Much of the interaction I have with students at Outreach events begins with breaking down myths and stereotypes, and giving an insight into what it might be like to live somewhere like Oriel. Oriel’s core Outreach programme is aimed at state school students aged 10–18. We endeavour to maintain contact with as many schools as possible in our link local authorities, where the overwhelming majority of state schools are also non-selective. Ours is not a ‘one size fits all’ policy when it comes to working with these schools, and I encourage teachers to help build a relationship with Oriel that is successful for them. The only cost for schools is travel to Oxford if a group is visiting Oriel: all activities and even meals in Hall are offered free of charge. I regularly organise visits for sixth formers, and visit schools to deliver personal statement, interview and admissions test workshops, as well as supporting teachers handling Oxbridge applications. For schools with little or no institutional experience of sending students to Oxford this can be a huge confidence boost for all involved. One of the teachers I worked with this year described her school (a comprehensive in Walsall) as ‘incredibly lucky to have the support of Oriel as a link college’. Oriel also regularly collaborates with regional organisations (such as local councils) and Cambridge colleges in its link areas, and represents Oxford at large scale events such as UCAS fairs. I constantly evaluate the impact of my work and use a tracking database (HEAT), which

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will eventually enable us to analyse the destinations of students who have been involved with our Outreach programme. In addition to the regionally focused Outreach events we also run our flagship Study Day programme of five one-night residential courses for Year 12 students. These are subjectfocused, high-impact overnight visits and they are typically highly oversubscribed. The success of the inaugural Study Day programme (under my predecessor, Emma Bausch) was visible at the first two events in April 2018, at which I was assisted by current first-year undergraduates who had themselves attended the first Study Days in 2016. The College is immensely grateful for the generous support of the Orielensis who funded the Study Day programme in full, meaning that accommodation, activities, food and individual travel expenses are provided free of charge to attendees. Oriel is currently performing well against the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Outreach targets: we have a higher ratio of state to independent students than the Oxford average, and are well above the targeted thresholds for admitting students from the most deprived 20 per cent of UK postcodes. There is, however, much more to be done, and current levels of success cannot be maintained passively. Keep an eye out for the #AccessOriel hashtag on Twitter and further updates in college and alumni publications to see how Oriel plans to reach even further in 2018 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 19 and beyond! India Collins-Davies Outreach Officer

The College hosted five successful Year 12 Study Days this year

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CHAPEL CHOIR

he year has been one of firsts for the Chapel Choir: its first London concert; its first performance with a guitar; its first performance of a newly composed piece. The Choir’s concert in the Temple Church was part of the Brandenburg Choral Festival in November. It was joined by the soprano Roselyne Martel-Bonnal, who sang solos by Bonnal, Vierne, Rachmaninoff and Mozart and joined the Choir in Mozart’s Laudate Dominum. Mozart’s music, and his celebrated Ave Verum in particular, were a focus of the concert; but its principal purpose was to launch the Choir’s CD. The boxes of CDs taken up to London were satisfyingly lighter on the return journey. In Hilary Term, Oriel’s Distinguished Visiting Musician, guitarist Craig Ogden, generously extended his activities to include a pre-Evensong recital and to work with the Choir during Evensong itself. He accompanied William Byrd’s Second Service and

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verse anthem Teach me, O Lord to great effect. So successful was the experiment that it was repeated in Trinity Term, this time with an added guitar part to Gibbons’s Short Service and a new anthem, setting the words of the ancient Compline hymn Lucis creator, in which the guitar played an obbligato supplement to the Choir’s more usual organ accompaniment. An arrangement of Vivaldi’s Concerto in D minor for guitar and organ served for the voluntary. Craig Ogden’s willingness to broaden his role and become involved in the College’s musical activities made his residency a particularly successful one, and we hope to cultivate further the partnership with him. Moira Wallace has been an ardent supporter of the Chapel Choir throughout her Provostship, and to mark this permanently she commissioned a setting of the Nunc Dimittis from Judith Bingham, a companion piece to the Magnificat setting written for the Choir two years ago. Based on the same medieval Marian chant as its precursor, the Nunc Dimittis strikes a more contemplative note, casting the borrowed material in a warmer and more intimate tonal light. The piece was premiered at the Candlemas Evensong; the first complete performance of the Oriel Service took place in Seventh Week of Trinity Term, with the composer in attendance. It is destined to be an enduring addition to the Choir’s repertoire and has already been taken up by other groups beyond Oriel. These exceptional events of the year were, of course, embedded in the usual weekly round of Evensong, Eucharist and Compline. Highlights of the liturgical performances included Wesley’s Blessed be the God and Father, with Phoebe Mansell as soloist, Wood’s lambent Expectans expectavi, a joint service with the choir of Ardingly College (directed by Orielensis Richard Stafford) featuring music by Stanford (the Evening Service in G major and Beati quorum via), Britten’s Missa brevis and the premiere of the Nunc Dimittis by Organ Scholar Johnson Lau, a work drawing its inspiration widely from the Anglican repertory. Pre-Evensong recitals in Hilary Term featured the Senior Organ Scholar William McDonald on horn (music by Strauss and Vinter) and Cantoris tenor Chris Hill on flute (music by Bach and Ibert). Recitals in Trinity Term featured the organ, with the Organ Scholar Johnson Lau giving a programme of Bach, Gigout, Brahms and Elgar, and John Oxlade (Director of Music of Mansfield College) playing a programme of Baroque music culminating aptly for Trinity Sunday in Bach’s tripartite Fugue in E-flat major. The Choir’s tour to Munich during Tenth Week of Trinity Term was a busy one, with performances on all six days. Soon after arrival, the Choir took a solo spot in the Collegium Muwicum’s end-of-year concert in the University’s Aula magna, joining forces for the finale performance of Bernstein’s Make our garden grow (Candide), in which our own Albert McIntosh took the title role. The final philosophical note (‘Any questions?’) was

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posed by Josh Cottell. Thereafter, the concerts were in St Benno, Munich, the Basilica Niederalteich, the Petruskirche Neu-Ulm and St Ursula, Munich, with a programme featuring music drawn mostly from the service lists across the year. A central plank was formed by Aracdelt’s madrigal Quand’io penso al martire followed by Lassus’s parody Mass on it, a juxtaposition only really possible in concert setting. On the final day we sang Mass at Freising Cathedral. The tour is as much a social as a musical occasion, and the highlight from this perspective was a visit to the Hofbräuhaus. Tancredi, our genial guide, imparted a detailed appreciation of the brewing process, together with a realistic assessment of the contribution of beer to the propagation of the species. Beer (or ‘liquid bread’, as our hosts liked to deem it) and its Bavarian companion, the sausage, formed the culinary focus of the tour; after almost a week of them, some of the party were reluctant to leave. Lastminute excitement afforded by a wandering tenor, a wrong train and a discharged mobile phone signalled that the moment for departure had indeed arrived. Thanks go to Eleanor Juckes, without whose administrative acumen and severely taxed patience few of the Choir’s activities could take place, and for organising the Munich tour to Madalene Smith (on the domestic front), Lukas Beck (St Anne’s – on the artistic front), and Marcel Stolz (on the brewery front). The end of the year was the occasion to say farewell to a number of Chapel Choir members: Phoebe Mansell, Felicity Massingberd-Mundy, Alice Correia Morton and Salma Barma from the sopranos; Gloria Ting from the altos; Matthew Woolley from the tenors; and Matthew Hull and Alexander Waygood from the basses. They would form a rather fine choir on their own, so we are very sorry to see them go. And it is all change in the organ loft, as both William McDonald and Johnson Lau have come to the end of their studies. We rely enormously on our Organ Scholars and are very grateful to William and Johnson for all they have done through their playing, conducting, singing and composing, and in numerous other ways. We wish all our departing members well in their future lives and careers, hoping that their time with Oriel Choir will inspire them to further musical endeavours. We also express our gratitude to Moira Wallace for her five years of support and encouragement and wish her the best of good fortune for the future. David Maw Director of Music

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ORIEL GARDEN PLAY

n keeping with a long tradition of theatre at Oriel, there was once again a play performed in Front Quad, on the Hall steps. For three nights in Eighth Week of Trinity Term a company of Oriel students – members of both the JCR and MCR – put on a production of George Farquhar’s The Beaux’ Stratagem. The choice of play ran contrary to the recent trend of Shakespearean comedies, but nonetheless proved a great success. The play tells the tale of two young men, the Beaux, who leave London parading as lord and footman in an effort to marry into money in the country. Deception, a swordfight and much hilarity ensue as the Beaux interact with the locals of Lichfield. The idyllic setting of Front Quad was brought to life with colourful period costume and live music from a string quartet, including a rendition of an eighteenth-century song about a trifle. The play was produced by 5Eleven Entertainment, a student production company founded by Angus Forbes and Sebastien Santhiapillai in 2017, and backed by The Oriel Lions – the drama funding body of the College. Twenty-five per cent of the profits of the production were donated to Oxford Hub, a local charity dedicated to tackling a range of social issues, with the remainder held back for future Oriel productions. Angus Forbes

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CAST Thomas Aimwell Francis Archer Mrs Sullen Dorinda Scrub Gipsy Lady Bountiful Boniface Cherry Gibbet Hounslow Bagshot Countrywoman Squire Sullen Sir Charles Freeman Count Bellair Tapster/Foigard

Mateo Garcia-Novelli Josh Cottell Caroline Ball Louie Iselin Tom Saer Eleanor Juckes Sophia Smout Alexander Walls Chloe Jacobs Amanda Higgin Joe Gardiner Huw Davies Anna Chirniciuc Aryan Coram Ryan Blank Jack Blowers Angus Forbes

CREW Director/Producer Assistant Directors Costumes, Hair and Make-up Stage Manager/Tech Marketing Art Photography Music Conductor Musicians

Angus Forbes Eleanor Juckes and Anna Chirniciuc Louise Edge and Fran Hearing Michael Angerer Harriet Wilton Frankie Satchwell Lukas Beckerhinn Alexander Walls and Christopher Hill Soo Yi Yun John Bamford Francis Judd Marcel Stolz Michael Angerer Madalene Smith Kieran Lamb Matthew Gibson

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ORIEL COMMEMORATION BALL

n 22 June the College opened its doors to 1,100 guests for the Oriel Commemoration Ball 2018. The committee had transformed the College into a Ludibrium – a world full of toys and games, in which guests could rekindle their inner child. Highlights included a helter-skelter reaching above the rooftops of Oriel, a light show transforming Hall into an ever-changing wonder world, and the DJ Sigma playing a sensational set at 2am. The quads all had their own theme. Front Quad was ‘The Playground’, with the helter-skelter the centrepiece. Second Quad was ‘The Chessboard’ Main Stage, with life-size chess pieces and a chequered dance floor. Third Quad was named ‘Dolls’ House’, with the centrepiece being an illuminated, decorated dolls’ house building. Drinks flowed all night in bars such as the Video Game bar, which was run by Masthia, and the Queen of Hearts bar, which included a cheeseboard and wine. Food seemed unlimited and included popular food stalls such as Vietnamese baguettes, White Rabbit pizza, Churros, Mac and Cheese, G and D’s ice cream and breakfast served from 3am. Plenty of entertainment was on offer all night. Besides the main act, Sigma, various big bands played in the beginning of the night, inviting guests to swing along. These were followed by a ceilidh and cover bands. A variety of acoustic acts played in Third Quad all night, for people who preferred to sit down and rest. At 2am the crowd danced to Sigma’s fantastic set, followed by an extremely well-attended silent disco from 3am. Non-musical entertainment was structured around toys and games, as the theme suggests. Besides the helter-skelter, which was in great demand all night, a board game café and indoor ball pit kept guests entertained until the early morning. In addition, guests could choose to make friendship bracelets or origami in between being entertained by the magician or the Oxford Imps, an improvisational comedy troupe. In case your hair did not survive all the fun, the Barbie and Ken room provided guests with hairdressers. When it was time to relax, guests could take a break in the ‘Hide and Shish’ tent. Oriel Street was converted into the ‘Breaks and Bladders’ area, which had more food, a smoking area and additional bathrooms to avoid any queues throughout the night. The Ball Committee was extremely proud of their success, with a very large and happy survivors’ group left at 6am the following morning. A video summarising the night can be watched on the Oriel Commemoration Ball Facebook page. Lena Schneidewind President, Oriel Commemoration Ball Committee 2018

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COLLEGE SPORTS

CRICKET

Oriel has always excelled at the more nuanced sides of the game, with our strengths traditionally being our enthusiasm and our chat. Admittedly this has not always been accompanied by success on the field. The 2018 side, however, did not get the memo. Alongside our usual joie de vivre we managed to produce some remarkable team performances and win more games than any side in the hefty annals of recent memory. Our first game set a good tone for the season. While the result was not the one we had wanted, our first innings total of 102 – achieved thanks to a brilliant recovery knock from MCR recruit Sam Speight – compared favourably to the scores to which we had been accustomed in the previous season. Pushing the match to a thrilling last-over finish gave us the belief that we could seriously compete this year, and helped forge the team morale which would go on to prove pivotal in determining our fortunes. Unfortunately, absences marred the next couple of games, taking our league record to a disappointing 0-2, and ensuring that our Cuppers run would once again be best described as brief. Defeat in the first round of Cuppers, against a St Hugh’s side fielding two Blues, proved to be a low point for our season. Not even an insane direct-hit from the boundary courtesy of Australian overseas player Tom Williamson was enough to spare us from a humiliating 130-run defeat. We would have been forgiven then for postponing our hopes and dreams for yet another season. However, the Oriel spirit endured. Our determination combined with the returns of talisman Josh Keeling and former skipper Aidan Chivers – from injury and international duty respectively – rejuvenated the side for the latter portion of the season. This turnaround was epitomised by our first victory of the season, which came in a league game against the St Hugh’s side which had trounced us just a couple of weeks earlier. It was with an unfamiliar confidence then that we approached our road stretch against St Anne’s and Magdalen. This self-belief survived defeat at the hands of a quality St Anne’s side, as our chase of a steep 163 almost bore fruit – with the side succumbing to a mere seven-run defeat. The fact that we were disappointed with an effort of 156 filled the more experienced members of the squad with a great sense of pride at how far we had come. This was nothing, though, compared to the euphoria that followed victory at Magdalen. The team faced another steep chase of 153, limited thanks to some clutch bowling from Dhairya Patel and an outstanding one-handed de Villiers catch on the boundary from Aryan Coram. Our response was surely the most professional chase in Division 3 history. Pinch hitting at the top of the order from Aryan Coram and Prateek Y Mehan put pressure on the opposition, before a 131-run partnership between Josh Keeling and myself took us home at a canter, sealing a remarkable victory inside sixteen overs.

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All of this culminated in us playing our final game of the season, against LMH at Fortress Barty, still retaining a slim chance of a historic promotion. The day was a great occasion for the players and our many adoring fans, thanks in no small part to a spectacular BBQ and drinks spread owed to the funding of the JCR and the committed efforts of Junior Dean Serenhedd James. The team was keen to rise to the occasion and produce a big performance. Opting to bat first, our start proved disastrous as we lost three wickets within the first three overs. The crowd was temporarily subdued and we were staring down the barrel of a hugely disappointing end to the season. Oriel, though, once again showed what we were made of, and we rallied in some style to post a massive 182 for 6 in our 20 overs. The immensity of the chase and some inspired fielding from our boys meant that the opposition could only muster 55 all out in response, delighting the fans as we cruised to a 127-run victory. Results elsewhere meant that we fell agonisingly short of promotion, finishing with 80 points when 82 would have been enough to secure Division 2 cricket next year. But the efforts of the team cannot be questioned, and it has been a pleasure to lead them this year. The dedication of so many boys who can now proudly call themselves cricketers after stepping up to aid the core of the team has been nothing short of inspiring. With only one leaver and a host of incoming players on their way, things can only get better from here. The team will, I’m sure, have their sights set firmly on promotion next year, and we’re already excited for another summer of fun in the sun ahead. The team will be capably captained next year by star all-rounder Josh Keeling, with the rest of the leadership group comprising of Tom Williamson as Vice-Captain, Aryan Coram as Social Secretary, and Prateek Y Mehan as Director of Cricket. Floreat Oriel! Sebastien Santhiapillai, Captain

FOOTBALL

The 2018–18 season looked as if it was going to be a successful one for Oriel Football. With most of the previous years’ key players staying on, and a host of talented Freshers coming in, it looked very promising. The season started with the second annual Preseason Countdown Cup match against St John’s, when Oriel showed moments of brilliance and was unlucky to lose to a very strong side, which itself was looking to do the Cuppers and Premier Division double. The season got off to a slow start, unfortunately. Silly mistakes and a lack of composure meant that points were dropped against teams that Oriel dominated for the full ninety minutes. In terms of the football being played, Oriel was at times streaks

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ahead of the opposition, but it was a lack of concentration or a period of poor play that would allow teams back into the game or to get ahead. This meant that Oriel started the season near the bottom of the Division 3 table. Yet in Fourth Week Oriel played its first Cuppers match against Keble, a team that was looking to win Division 1. Oriel had not won a football Cuppers match in over a decade, and were sitting near the bottom of Division 3. The match started with high intensity, with Oriel dominating the play and the possession. The game was tight, but with half an hour to go Oriel scored. The next half hour saw Oriel sitting back in the trenches trying to survive the Keble onslaught. With a few very close calls, Oriel managed to hold on for a famous win, and progressed through to the second round of Cuppers. The next round was to be played against St Hilda’s, a team that was in the same division as Oriel. Yet, once again a lull in Oriel’s play allowed St Hilda’s to obtain an unassailable lead, meaning that Oriel were dumped out of Cuppers.

Oriel College Football squad after the Hassan Cup semi-final

However, the 2017–2018 season was the inaugural year of the Hassan Cup (named after the famous Kebab van), whereby any team that was knocked out of the first two rounds of Cuppers would be entered into the Hassan Cup. Oriel faced the Trinity team in the second round of the Hassan Cup (after getting a bye in the first round) and ran out 5–3 winners. Next, Oriel faced Somerville in the Quarter Finals, a team that was in a fight for promotion in the Division above Oriel. It was a hard-fought game at a very boggy Barty, but again Oriel showed what they could do and ran out 3–1 winners, after being in control from the start. This set up a Hassan Cup semi-final against St John’s after their shock exit from Cuppers. It was a huge event for Oriel: the JCR agreed to spend £75 on smoke grenades and ‘cans for the fans’, more than sixty Oriel members turned up to

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support the team, and College put on a special football-themed post-match lunch. It was an incredibly close game, with St John’s grabbing an early goal and Oriel pushing for an equaliser for almost the entire match; but in the dying moments St John’s scored two quick-fire goals that killed off Oriel. It was a great day for Oriel, but unfortunately St John’s were just that bit better and managed to get the win. The League campaign had unfortunately proven to be less successful, with Oriel dropping points in key matches. One minor highlight was beating Brasenose to prevent them from being promoted in the penultimate game of the season. The dropped points meant that Oriel finished sixth in Division 3. The team looks strong going into next season and, despite losing several Finalists, the First- and Second-Year contingent are strong enough to keep Oriel FC moving forward, with the aim of gaining promotion next season. Michael Beer, Captain

ICE HOCKEY

Alternative Ice Hockey, or Alts as it is better known, is a university-wide society that enables people from a range of skating abilities, from zero to hero, to try out ice hockey. Oriel enthusiasm and attendance has been strong since the revival of an Oriel team in 2015. Several people from different years joined the committee in 2018/2019, including: Fanxi Liu as Treasurer; Alexandre Eira and Felicity Mundy as joint Music Reps; and Joshua Hall as Health and Safety Officer. This year I was particularly impressed by the fantastic

Oriel B team come 2nd in Alts Cuppers

Women's Ice Hockey Blues, Varsity Match 2018

Cuppers outcomes for both Oriel teams. Newcomer team The Bladerunners skated their way out of the group stages, coming up against a fantastic team in the quarter finals who unfortunately scraped a win, placing The Bladerunners eighth in the competition. Deviously named Oriel B team blasted their way to the final against Magdalen. It was a hard-fought match, with goals being scored on both sides, resulting in the match going to penalties. However, it was not meant to be. After a tense penalty shootout, with honourable mentions going to Aidan Goth for an incredible goal and Francis Judd for some amazing saves, Oriel B team was placed second in the tournament – although, as the underdogs, the team was the crowd favourite. With two strong teams going into next year, and the prospect of some fresh Freshers’ blood, I am confident that it will be an Oriel win in 2019. Colours were awarded to Alexandre Eira, Michael Leong, and Brandon Ford at the annual Oriel Sports Dinner, for their wonderful commitment and improvement over the year. I am very grateful for the chance to have captained such a lovely and accepting group of people and could not be happier to be passing on the captaincy to Alexandre Eira, who I know will do a great job in his new role. This year several Orielites have also become active in ice hockey teams at university level. Joshua Hall has been the shining new recruit for the Vikings, the university second team, playing brilliantly throughout the season and in a winning Varsity match against the Cambridge development squad. An amazing amount of Oriel representation has been seen in the university women’s Blues team, with Felicity Mundy, Tacita McCoyParkhill, and myself having played with the team this season. Despite a Varsity loss, brought on by the efforts of one exceptional player on the Cambridge side, all were awarded Half Blues. This is a remarkable achievement considering that most of us had never played ice hockey before arriving in Oxford in 2015. Ice hockey is a strange sport to tell your parents you have picked up while you have been away at university, especially coming from a background where my mother took me ice skating once as a child and swiftly vowed never to do it again. I hope that future Orielites may be able to enjoy the same opportunities that I have had, and am looking forward to Oriel domination of both Alts and university-level ice hockey next year. Anna Bythell, Captain

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LACROSSE

It has been an excellent year for Lacrosse at Oriel, with many Freshers joining the team having never played before. Together with my Vice-Captain, Lukas Beckerhinn, we organised training sessions for every Sunday after brunch and often also a mid-week practice. In these practices we focused on increasing the accuracy of our passing and shooting as well as learning how to check (knock the ball from a rival player’s net). The standard of play increased dramatically in a short period of time. We mastered many of the drills in time for our first test: Cuppers. Comfortably winning our first game of Cuppers against Hertford was a testament to how far we had come. In our second match we suffered a narrow defeat to Jesus College. However, being the first couple of matches we had ever played as a team, we were very pleased with our performance on the whole. Bhuvana Sudarshan, George Mundy and Joel Fraser were particularly outstanding during the tournament. In Trinity Term, ahead of Day Cuppers, we had training sessions three times a week, with one of the three being primarily focused on fitness. Scoring four goals in the first half of the match, we were looking strong and using tactics we had practised throughout the year. Unfortunately, with most of our energy exhausted in the first half, and an unexpected rule banning checking from the tournament, defending became very difficult in the second half, resulting in a loss and our exit from the tournament. Although the day did not go as well as we had hoped it would, we used finishing early as an opportunity for a team bonding trip to G & D’s Ice Cream, where we declared Akshat Shah as Player of the Match. With all the team together, it presented a good time to reflect on the past year and to celebrate our achievements and progress. Aside from Cuppers we played a number of friendly matches against other colleges. In one impromptu match we were drafted in at University Parks to help a depleted St Anne’s against New College, who were a formidable team. Although we were unsuccessful in this encounter, we learned a lot from the match experience. Most recently, we secured a confident win against St Catherine’s College. We used the opportunity to practise new set plays we had devised during practice sessions, and were pleased with how smoothly they were executed. In addition, with checking being allowed for the match, we were able to see our defence strategies working well in play and were very glad to end the year on a high. We are proud that the Oriel Lacrosse team, once again, served to bring different years at Oriel together and quickly developed a team spirit. The team’s identity was furthered by the arrival of our new kit, which boosted confidence and pride in all our players. We managed to keep the attitude light-hearted and fun but nonetheless succeeded in making a lot of progress. With a number of our players having recently joined the university-level lacrosse

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training sessions with the intention of joining the teams, I have great confidence in next year’s team. We also hope that the social side of things will be developed further in the coming year and make Oriel Lacrosse even more of a community. It was an absolute pleasure to lead such a dedicated team. Throughout the year, team spirits were high, whether we were playing in -3°C or 30°C. I look forward to seeing what next year brings, with Chloe Whitehead and George Mundy taking over as joint captains. Priyanka Nankani, Captain

MEN'S ROWING

In 2018 the Torpids Headship came home; the years of pain were over. After missing Pembroke on Wednesday, we thought we had thrown it away. The snow and ice cancelled the next two days and put Saturday in doubt, but towpath shovelling by massed Orielenses kept hopes alive. We had overlap outside the boathouse and with the College cheering us on, we made impact and the dreaming was over. The men had joined the women for our second Double Headship. Michaelmas Term Early recruitment at the start of Michaelmas went well, with the Boat Club barbecue and taster sessions being expertly executed and well-attended. At Wyndhams a strong alumni boat thoroughly beat an ad hoc M1; and the London Tortoise Dinner commemorated the 2017 Women’s Torpids Headship, providing another opportunity for current rowers to meet with alumni, and for both to renew and strengthen their dedication to the club. On the Isis, two crews performed well at Christ Church Regatta and the club entered another two novice crews and a senior crew at Nephyths; all showed promise. At external regattas M1 won the Academicals category at the Upper Thames Autumn Head and came second in IM2 at Wallingford Head. M1 and M2 competed at the Fairbairn Cup in Cambridge: M1 took home the shields as the fastest college crew, while M2 made a good showing before deciding to put in some bumps practice with the bank. Hilary Term After a rigorous winter training programme we came back for training camp fighting-fit. A generous donation from Anthony Whittaker paid for two top-of-the-range oarlocks and a weekend trip to Dorney Lake, where we did our seat racing. Quintin Head was the first Torpids test – we did well, coming twelfth; later in term we organised matched races with Oxford Lightweights and the University of Bristol’s 1st VIII, winning both. We put forward crews for all of the Isis Winter League fixtures, which would later form our M2,

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M3 and M4: they raced a step above, with M2 beating a number of other colleges’ M1s, M3 beating M2s, and M4 beating M3s. Torpids brought a mixture of emotions. The hype around M1 was substantial; M4 just missed qualification, despite being of a very respectable standard. M1 missed the bump on Wednesday, while M3 went up two, and M2 bumped Balliol with ease. M2 and M3 were robbed of further racing by heavy snowfall but the commitment of all members came to the fore when the whole club (including some spirited alumni) headed down to the river to clear the towpath, to allow M1 a chance at regaining the Headship on the final day. Missing the bump on the first day and then having to wait for two days, not sure if we would get another shot, aged me about five years. On Saturday we made contact with Pembroke right at the end of Boat House Island, having just missed them on the Univ corner; they ran away across the river, but Sophia (with some sage advice from stroke Achim Harzheim) chased them down and finished the job. It meant a lot to take back the Headship, which had been a long time coming; but to achieve the Double Torpids Headship was magnificent. Almost the whole College turned up in the freezing weather and carried both coxes back to Oriel on the hull of our victory boat, to champagne and the Torpids Dinner, and the burning of the boat in Front Quad in the snow. Trinity Term In Trinity a number of Orielenses joined the squad from their respective university programmes. M2 represented Oriel at Bedford Regatta with style, dispatching Warwick University before losing to Emmanuel in the Open competition. In College Eights they beat Pembroke (Cambridge) and rowed through the same Emmanuel crew in the last 100 metres, while in the final they held Keble M1 for most of the course. Summer Eights came around soon enough. M4 had a fun week, bumping Lincoln and Corpus M3 and rowing over on the Friday, before being bumped by St Antony’s M3. M3 rowed over twice but were then bumped by St Antony’s M2. On Wednesday St Anne’s M1 were so slow that Oriel M2 did not have the opportunity to catch Corpus M1 before they bumped St Anne’s.

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Nevertheless, M2 dispatched St Anne’s on the Thursday and caught Pembroke M2 on the Friday to take back M2 Headship, but were robbed of a place in Division 2 by Brasenose M1’s being caught by Corpus well before Donnington Bridge. Blades in Summer Eights is always a tough goal because of the role of luck, but the crew worked very hard to climb up the divisions and will continue to do so. Oriel M2 was out hunting M1s. On Wednesday M1 pulled away from Pembroke with ease, bumped Christ Church on Thursday, and on Friday front-ended the race. On Saturday, however, Keble simply had the personnel to maintain the distance. After shaking hands we returned to College for dinner with heads held high; but every crew wanted more. Blades aren’t the goal, even headships aren’t enough; dominance is the Oriel way. Every crew must race a cut above its competition: our purpose is to assert Oriel’s greatness. There are many people to thank, and too little space to list them all. They include Jamie Wallis, my Vice-Captain, and Zachary Zajicek, whose work and support was invaluable. Stevan Boljevic was the ninth oarsman in the Torpids Headship crew and is taking the Tortoise Club to new heights. A number of senior members of College, including Philipp Grünewald, have given a huge amount of advice and support to help things run smoothly. Rowan Arthur, our coach, displayed a level of dedication that surpassed any contractual obligation. Lara Bonney, the Women’s Captain, is a legend in her own time. W1’s Torpids campaign was the greatest display of Oriel spirit I have seen or even heard of. Magdalen’s women’s squad in 2017 was in the same position, of few returners and holding headship. They went down a whole division; Oriel didn’t fall a single bungline. That implacable determination is what makes Oriel great. My successor, Alex Deak, has a great vision for the club, and I wish him every success. Robert Boswall, Captain

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CREWS 1st VIII (2nd Division 1) Robert Boswall, Francesca Satchwell, Achim Harzheim, Chris Wales, Benjamin Bathurst/ Hal Frigaard, Philipp Grunewald, Iain McGurgan, Zachary Zajicek, Angus Forbes 2nd VIII (1st Division 3) Alexander Deak, Sophia Fearon, Simon Bevan, Jan Ernst, Hal Frigaard, Marcel Stolz, Thomas Williamson, Patrick Hegarty-Morrish, Albert Mcintosh 3rd VIII (6th Divison 6) Jamie Wallis, Alex Jackson, Maximillian Shreeve-McGiffen, Charles Fletcher, Daniel Hall, Lukas Beckerhinn, Aleksander Kaminski, Enis Nazif, Fredrik Eriksson 4th VIII (5th Division 7) Rowan Arthur, Prateek Mehan, Michael Angerer, Jung Kian Ng, Joshua King, Nikolay Erofeev, Huw Davies, Daniel Strachan, Louis Lamont 1st Torpid (Head of the River) Robert Boswall, Sophia Fearon, Achim Harzheim, Louis Lamont, Hal Frigaard, Zachary Zajicek, Philipp Grunewald, Jan Ernst, Simon Bevan 2nd Torpid (3rd Division 4) Jamie Wallis, Alex Jackson, Alexander Deak, Dan Strachan, Marcel Stolz, Thomas Williamson, Patrick Hegarty-Morrish, Maximillian Shreeve-McGiffen, Albert McIntosh 3rd Torpid (11th Division 6) Lukas Beckerhinn, Albert McIntosh, Joel Stanley-Cunning, Robert Underwood, Charles Fletcher, Daniel Hall, Aleksander Kaminski, Enis Nazif, Jack Blowers 4th Torpid Prateek Mehan, Fredrik Eriksson, Euan McGiven, Michael Angerer, Josh Hutchinson, Hugh Rowam, Joshua King, Nikolay Erojeev, Jung Kian Ng

Showing off the new stash at Mixed Cuppers!

NETBALL

2017/18 has been a fantastic year for Oriel Netball. It has been very much a team effort, with three captains, self-appointed stash organisers and the social secretary all playing their roles to make this year (maybe) our most successful in Oriel Netball history! Continuing our tactic from last year, even if we didn’t win as many matches as we would have liked, we made sure to always turn up, whether we had two in a team or ten. And it worked, as yet again we managed not to get demoted, continuing with teams in Divisions 1 and 2. We started off the year with the lovely Phoebe as captain – she handled all the horrible admin and managed to make sure we all got to matches on time, as well as keeping us motivated with her sunny, positive attitude! This year’s Freshers also made their mark on Oriel netball, with Evie L. as the best goalkeeper in the business, Mar’s star shooting, Olha’s stash-organising skills and Alice’s motivation, oxloves and all her help captaining the team. Momentum grew for Oriel Netball throughout the year. Even though we started off sometimes with only two or three people at training, the growing stash opportunities and the chance to feature in the most exclusive Instagram page out there attracted netballers by the dozen, and our final turnout for Mixed Cuppers (we had three teams!) was impressive by anybody’s standards. We justified our position in the league by coming third (in our group) at Women’s Cuppers and Oriel A coming third overall in the mixed competition! Thanks for this year’s success is also owed to Hannah, whose shooting skills and skort organisation brought much happiness to the team, and Evie R.’s netball wisdom and positivity during matches – her motivational encouragement continued even when we were some points behind the other team, making sure that even if we didn’t win the match, we enjoyed the process and had fun! The guys have also played their part in Oriel Netball’s success, with a particular thank you to Seb and Dom, whose racing, leaping and jumping around the court always brings us a great match and, more often than not, a win! Netball’s own social secretaries Georgia and Alice spiced up the social side of netball with brunch, karaoke, an awards night and *funky* kit Saturday, invaluable for boosting the morale of the team.

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It is a pleasure to be part of Oriel Netball. Although we don’t take things too seriously, we do like to win and this year we really got the chance to play our best and see the effort and commitment pay off. We may not win every game, but we always enjoy ourselves and keep smiling throughout. I am sure I can say this on behalf of myself and my fellow captains Phoebe and Alice: thank you to everyone who has turned up to training, matches and Cuppers, and who has made Oriel Netball fun and happy to be a part of. It will be amazing to see the progression and success of the team next year! Lucy Fellingham, Co-Captain

POOL

Oriel College Pool Club was established in 2016 as a way of making pool more popular in Oriel; it is now one of the most popular sporting teams in the College. We have become renowned across the university for our unique approach to playing – garish, bright pink jumpers and bucket hats accompany an unequivocal devotion to ‘flair shots on the black’. Regularly one can come to the bar and see the likes of Rohin Burney-O’Dowd displaying extraordinary levels of gymnastic ability as he pots the black. Our human pyramids and upside-down shots are the envy of other pool teams. Whilst we are regulars in the ‘social pool’ scene, we also made a mark in the University Pool League, going the season unbeaten and finishing as champions of Division 2, earning ourselves promotion to the upper echelons of college pool. Victories against Brasenose, New, Queen’s and Lincoln set up a final day match up against the St Catz second team to determine who would win the league. The lead changed hands several times throughout the evening, but in a final push, Dan Strachan and Wesley Rawlings gave Oriel a slender lead going in to the final frame. It was left to myself to close the tie – and a risky ‘double’ on the black paid off and we were crowned champions. Pool Cuppers brought yet more success across a variety of competitions, with Oriel having one of the largest representations across all colleges. We had almost twenty players across the singles, doubles, team and mixed doubles competitions. In the team competition we won four out of our five league games, only missing out on progression to the knockout rounds due to some obscure scoring system. Wesley Rawlings carried the Oriel flag all the way to the quarter finals of the singles competition, whilst Oriel College Pool Club Eoin Monaghan and Heather Burke bowed out at the

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semi-final stage of the mixed doubles. A number of Freshers made their competitive debuts in Cuppers. Overall, then, our record for the year reads: 11 matches, 10 wins and 1 defeat (losing only to the eventual Cuppers winners!), which is an excellent scorecard for a comparatively new club. Our success this year as a team culminated in the Pool Team earning a spot at the prestigious Oriel Sports Dinner, when our achievements were recognised throughout the College. Wesley Rawlings was awarded the first-ever Pool Colours, for his exploits both with Oriel and with the University First Team. Every day in College the pool table is busy with new faces and old hands, and the sport will no doubt only go from strength to strength in Oriel, starting next year under the guidance of new captain, Francis Judd. Eoin Monaghan, Captain

RUGBY

Michaelmas Term began with a promising turnout at the first training sessions and games. Coupled with new kit provided by our sponsors, MOB Kitchen, we looked like a quality outfit. However, a series of injuries, and university rugby commitments meant that numbers dropped, and the loss of key players was evident. Despite many close games, including those against Brasenose and Magdalen who are now in Division 3, at the start of each term we seemed to struggle to get the final result to go our way. Unfortunately our only league victories this year came in the form of forfeits, leaving us second from bottom in Division 4 at the end of both Michaelmas and Hilary. In Cuppers we had a little more luck, reaching the Bowl semi-final, before an early red card made it 14 vs 15 for 77 minutes, and fatigue meant that we conceded two tries in the final minutes to lose 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5, having trailed by only five points for most of that game. Despite results not going our way, Oriel boasts a number of strong individual players who will be continuing to play next year, including Tom Williamson and Tim Stuart, who both represented Oriel in the Colleges XV, and Sasha Agureev, who played in the OURFC

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Greyhounds’ Varsity Match, with both teams beating their Cambridge counterparts. We also had a large intake of Freshers, several of them new to the game, who have developed as players a lot this year, and are fast becoming key to Oriel Rugby. They need look no further for inspiration than unsung hero of Oriel Rugby Francis Judd, who had not played before last year, and made the unusual, but highly successful, transition from wing to front row this year. Francis is testament to Oriel’s ability to develop players, and has become a stalwart of the front row. Some players will be sorely missed next year, including second row Aidan Lea (another who hadn’t played before joining Oriel), and fly-half/second row Max Wood, but I am sure that the remaining core of quality players will make up the foundations of a strong team for the next couple of years, and am sad to be leaving at what looks to be a turning point in Oriel’s rugby fortunes. Colours this year were awarded to Tom Williamson, Bertie Warner, Horatio Sykes and Gustas Mockus, who will all return next year and have shown excellent commitment to Oriel Rugby, backed up with quality on the pitch. The class of these players shone through in a difficult group for 7s Cuppers, which saw Oriel lose narrowly to the XVs Cuppers champions Teddy Hall in the opening game, and beat Division 2 side Christ Church. However, a tricky group including Keble and Teddy Hall meant that Oriel finished third in our group, so unfortunately did not progress to the knockout stages of the tournament. I am sad to be leaving, but pleased to leave Oriel Rugby under the expert guidance of back row/fly-half/centre Sasha Agureev as captain, former flanker (now spectator) Will Pickering as Chairman, Bertie Warner as VC, and Korfball player Michael Beer as Social Secretary. I am sure that they will guide the club in the right direction, and avenge the defeats of this year. James Somerville, Captain

SQUASH AND VOLLEYBALL

Unfortunately the Squash fixtures this year were extremely poorly arranged by the university, so our year consisted mainly of training sessions and one draw against one of the university development squads. Volleyball was fortunately slightly better organised, with a joint Oriel-Pembroke team making the quarter finals. Joshua Hutchinson, Captain, Squash and Volleyball

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TENNIS

This year, the Oriel Tennis Team had a rocky start, partially due to the departure of all members from the previous year’s team. Nonetheless, through social media and word of mouth we managed to gather enough interested and talented new members to field a team in early Trinity Term, just days before the season started. We entered both the intercollegiate League and Cuppers, a knockout tournament. Fortune was not with us in Cuppers, where we were eliminated in the first round by a strong St Catherine’s team. Without much preparation and under very wet conditions, we had a slow start. The large number of unforced errors and inconsistent serves cost us dearly. The opponents were able to snatch the early sets very quickly and it was hard to recover from that position. Nonetheless, Gustas and Jon fought back valiantly later in the match, breaking their opponents’ service game in a gruelling contest involving nine deuces, which lasted for about fifteen minutes. A day after this loss, a team of four redeemed us in the first match in the League against Balliol, under much improved weather conditions, by winning nine sets out of twelve. The same four players participated in all the rest of the League matches. Overall, the results in the League were much more positive. We won two out of four matches in Division 5 and our victories were as spectacular as the losses. One player worthy of special mention is Eric Zhong, who demonstrated outstanding skills as well as athleticism. Eric single-handedly denied our opponents a landslide victory in the third match in the League. Looking on to next year, I am pleased that at least half of this year’s team will return, as this puts us in a better position compared to this year. We will strive to recruit players from the beginning of Michaelmas and keep the team active throughout the year. Last but certainly not least, I would like to use this space to thank last year’s captain Rohin Burney-O’Dowd for passing on the captaincy to me, Oriel College Sports Fund for generous financial support and, most importantly, everyone who made time to participate in practices and matches despite the academic intensity of Trinity Term. They all contributed to a great season of tennis, and I am sure that our team will continue to improve and have greater success next year. Hongmin Gao, Captain

WOMEN’S ROWING

Michaelmas Term With many of the extraordinary women who gained Oriel Torpids Headship last year having left, the squad started Michaelmas a little low on numbers. But we did what Oriel rowers do best and decided to make the most of what we had. We recruited a bumper crop

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of eighteen novices alongside new coaches Benjamin Reeves and Morgan Bolding, who began to teach them to row. Some of the novices also quickly began training with the returners to allow us to get an eight out. As term progressed we invited University College to Wallingford to do some joint training. The afternoon was very productive with the crews evenly matched, but it also brought us much to work on. The next event in the calendar was Wyndham’s. With few alumni able to attend, we instead decided to race two eights composed of a mix of senior and novice girls, which was enjoyed by all. The novices now understood what racing is all about and were ready for Christ Church. While they lost both races, they remained positive and a good team bond formed. As the end of term drew near, the senior women raced at both Wallingford Head and the Fairbairn Cup in Cambridge. The results showed just how much further we had to go to be in with a chance of retaining the Headship. So we set to work… Hilary Term The year started for W1 in Noughth Week, as we returned to Wallingford to get in the miles. Sadly, bad conditions limited the amount of water time we could get. However, we had learned from Michaelmas that land training was just as important and hit this hard to build up more fitness and strength. As term began, W2 returned to a red flag Isis, so followed W1’s lead, putting in the miles on the ergs. W2 were led by Amanda Higgin in the stroke seat and Huw Davies as their cox, and were quickly becoming a tightly knit team. As the river levels at Wallingford dropped, W1 started getting in the miles, while doing technical training on the Isis owing to having no minibus driver. We invited Univ back to Wallingford and over the course of two 1500-metre pieces proved we were the better crew. Term then flew by, and as girls returned from injury, the boat began to come together. However, it wasn’t without a hiccup, as another injury meant that we were not able to row in our crew the week before Torpids. However, these women certainly were not going to let a final bump in the road get in their way. As Torpids week began, nerves were very high. This was the first-ever bumps campaign for over half of W1 and they would be starting on bung line one. Snow and poor visibility threatened to cancel the week’s racing and I don’t think anyone – including

New commemorative chalkings were placed in Front Quad to celebrate recent rowing achievements

ourselves – could have predicted what happened next. W2 got bumped and then bumped on day one and W1 achieved what many thought impossible and rowed over, despite Wadham gaining an overlap in the gut. With the next two days of racing cancelled because of poor conditions, W1 went into the Saturday with confidence, knowing what they needed to do. This time they did not let Wadham get anywhere near them and they retained the Torpids Headship for the first time in Oriel Women’s history. When M1 also bumped to Head of the River, we knew we had secured the Double Headship for the second time in Torpids history and had done Oriel proud. Trinity Term We began Trinity with a strong squad. Despite losing a few people (including myself) to exams, we gained back university rower Renee Koolschijn (Bow seat of the Blue boat 2018), a few other experienced rowers, and James Armitage as coach. This meant that we had nine women competing for seats in W1, a minibus driver, and W2 able to train at Wallingford: an exciting turn of events compared to the start of the year. With the return of James, W1 and W2 went back to basics, working on technical rowing on the water and fitness on the ergs. Choosing not to enter any external regattas and instead put in the hard miles at Wallingford, improvements quickly came. With another round of novice recruitment and coaching from the fantastic team of Alex Deak, Jan Ole Ernst and Hal Frigaard, W3 began to form nicely, with half the crew having rowed before. As ever, Eights came upon us far quicker than anyone expected. But with the technical advances James had brought to the squad and the strength these women had built up throughout the year, they were ready to tear up the Isis. W2 and W3 fought hard and made their mark on the Isis, despite some mixed results. W2 finally bumped Hertford, after their avoidance tactic of crashing into the bank last year didn’t hold out this year. Although W2 finished the week on a net movement of down one, nobody could beat the spirit of ‘Huw’s Crew’. W3 achieved a

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fantastic row over, despite a vicious charge from Pembroke on the Saturday, and many of the new members have expressed their eagerness to return to rowing in the coming year. W1’s Eights Week was by all measures a huge success. They achieved net upwards movement of three – statistically the most successful crew of all Oriel’s boats. It was tough starting out as the sandwich boat, and the only day they didn’t bump was due to boats in front bumping out. As soon as they cemented their place in Division 1, they bumped up each day to victory. I would like to thank my co-captain of the Boat Club, Robert Boswall, and the OCBC committee this year for their hard work, but mostly I’d like to thank the entire Women’s Squad for their efforts this year. It hasn’t been an easy year by any means, but it has been a year in which the Women’s Squad proved their strengths and that they deserve their place at the top as one of the most successful college crews. I’m delighted to be handing over to Edward Shields next year, and wish him every success in the role. Lara Bonney, Captain CREWS 1st Torpid (Head of the River) Edward Shields, Lara Bonney, Sally Foster, Charlotte Nugent, Aysha Strachan, Emily Navidi, Eleanor Thomson, Grace Lissenden, Eleanor Juckes 2nd Torpid (10th Division 3) Huw Davies, Amanda Higgin, Lauren Hill, Katherine MacFarlane, Simone Fraser, Ruiyi Wang, Maya Thomas, Fanxi Liu, Justine Ellis; Aisuluu Bakchieva, Sofija Paneva 1st VIII (11th Division 1) +3 Guy Cabral, Charlotte Anstey, Maya Thomas, Charlotte Nugent, Renee Koolschijn, Emily Navidi, Aysha Strachan, Deborah Potter, Eleanor Juckes 2nd VIII (6th Division 4) -1 Huw Davies, Amanda Higgin, Simone Fraser, Sofija Paneva, Lauren Hill, Aisuluu Bakchieva, Justine Ellis, Fanxi Liu, Saskia Tavares De Wand 3rd VIII (10th Division 5) Max McGiffen, Stephanie Hodgetts, Francesca Hearing, Juliet Butcher, Alexandra King, Alice Bourne, Aoife Ni Chroidheain, Evie Lewis, Hannah Howard

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THE TORTOISE CLUB

he Tortoise Club exists with two primary purposes at its heart: the recognition and celebration of outstanding Oriel Oarsmanship and the financial support of the Oriel College Boat Club. Any rower who achieved Tortoise Status in their time at the College is automatically entitled to membership of the club, including those previously members of the Blessed Virgins. The Club Council works to achieve the club’s fundraising aims alongside organising club events and acting as a point of call for Boat Club Captains seeking advice. It is fitting that in a year that saw the OCBC deliver memorable performances on the river, the Tortoise Club also put in a strong showing on the water. 2018 saw the Tortoise Club take to the river in external racing for the first time in a long time, taking on the rest of the world at the Men’s Eights Head on the Tideway. While 170th place marked the only time any of the crew had lost to Teddy Hall, we managed to beat enough college first boats to feel sufficiently smug. Next year we might try and do a practice session before the race. Elsewhere there were resounding victories, in match racing at Wyndhams and at the Oriel Regatta, against a Pembroke men’s alumni crew. Pembroke have said that they want to bring a women’s eight next year – get in touch if you want to race against them. While the Tortoise Club is happy to facilitate dusting off old lycra and moving boats slower than we used to, its primary goal is to recognise outstanding oarsmanship at Oriel and to support the OCBC financially. This year we welcomed a bumper crop of new Tortoises, who put on some fantastic performances which you can read about in full detail in the Captains’ reports. Boat burnings are always a pleasure to witness, and the crews this year delivered a fifth successive year of Headships at Oriel. Financial support for the OCBC has continued to grow, with Blades scheme funding exceeding our £20,000 target. We ask members for a small annual donation of £100+ per year to serve as the foundation for future triumphs on the river. To date one in six Tortoises has answered the call, and without your support we would not be talking about the potential for Triple Headship 2019. Although £20,000 was no mean feat, we can continue to do better and now turn our focus to refreshing the Oriel fleet, which beyond the First Eights lags behind the competition. If we turned one in six into one in four, we would be able to fully renew the fleet every five years. The club hosts two primary events for its members over the year: the London Club Dinner in November and the Henley Luncheon at HRR in July. The London Dinner serves as the Tortoise Club AGM, and we invite the current student first boats to create the intergenerational connection so unique to Oriel Rowing. Attendance at the Henley event doubled in 2018, and despite the record-breaking heat we managed to deliver chilled Pimms throughout. A special thank you goes to OCBC’s Lara Bonney and Philipp Grünewald for raiding the College Bar’s ice machine and facilitating the event.

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Should the Captains’ reports stir a desire in your heart to support the OCBC, please do not hesitate to reach out to me at tortoise-president@orielrowing.org or to the Club directly at captains@orielrowing.org. I have yet to see a crew return for a reunion Boat Club Dinner and fail to have a fantastic time. Beyond financial support, the Club Council always wants to hear from Tortoises interested in getting more closely involved in the operation of the OCBC and those looking to return to the river. Floreat Oriel! Stevan Boljevic (2014) President

THE ORIEL SOCIETY

ver the last academic year there has been the usual plethora of events for Orielenses. The alumni dinner in Hall on 15 September 2017, themed this time around music at Oriel, particularly the Oriel Choir, was again a sellout. There was a wonderful ‘scratch’ Choral Evensong service sung by current and former members of the Choir and led by former Organ Scholars. The evening will no doubt be remembered by those who attended as a significant cultural upgrade on the September 2016 event focused on rowing at Oriel, at which the singing was of a very different nature. In October 2017 there was a sell-out Champagne Concert in the Senior Library by the Pelléas Ensemble, a prize-winning flute, viola and harp trio, attended by eighty-nine Orielenses and guests, of whom forty-seven were current students. In November, forty or so Orielenses attended the ‘Decade Drinks: The Noughties’ at The Counting House Pub in London EC3, the imprecision in numbers, as last year, being perhaps accounted for by the location and the evident enthusiasm of all concerned to be welcomed into the Oriel Society and alumni network.

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In January 2018 the Provost hosted events for alumni in Boston, New York and Washington, and in February we had the second Returners’ Dinner, a new event to replace the Finalists’ Dinners of previous years. Diligent readers of these reports will recall that Oriel Society Presidents would appear at the old events to urge on Finalists with the traditional speech perfected by my predecessor, John Albert, along the lines of: ‘Finals are awful, but they don’t much matter in the great scheme of things’. This was evidently a high-risk approach and it is probably just as well that the event is now held well after Finals. In February, Oriel rowing alumni were treated to a vintage Torpids, in which the women’s 1st VIII rowed over Head on the only two days on which racing was allowed, given snowy conditions on the Isis, and the men joined them on the Saturday having bumped Pembroke outside their boathouse. They were aided, no doubt, by their new boat, the Jonathan CloseBrooks, funded by donations and named after the Captain of Oriel’s first Head crew of the modern era in 1966. No doubt to their relief, the men were thus no longer reliant on the women for a full Bump Supper, and the first Double Headship since 2006 was celebrated with the usual feasting and boat-burning. Later in February at the ‘Decade Drinks: The Nineties’ event at the ever-reliable Counting House Pub there was the usual imprecision over numbers, but we understand that at least fifty alumni were present. At a notch above it culturally perhaps, the May Champagne Concert in the Senior Library was again a sell-out, with an appearance by the celebrated Halcyon Quartet. On 14 May we had the London Alumni Dinner at the RAF Club and an excellent speech on the RAF in its centenary year from Orielensis Air Vice-Marshal Michael Wigston CBE (1986). The event was again a sell-out, with 106 Orielenses and guests attending, and AVM Wigston’s speech gave us all due notice of the magnificent fly past of a hundred planes over central London on 10 July – we are most grateful to him. The Garden Party on 26 May saw 131 Orielenses and their families enjoying champagne, strawberries and cream on the lawn in Second Quad, with face-painting and live music. The traditional stroll down to the river to see Oriel row over Head was marred somewhat by the fact that the Oriel men’s 1st VIII could not quite catch Keble, and the women’s crew were not close enough to their Headship to come to their rescue, as they had at Torpids in 2016, but no doubt normal service will be resumed next year. Lack of space prevents me describing the many and varied other events open to Orielenses during the year, but these included golf days and many other events associated with donor groups such as the Adam de Brome, 1326 and Raleigh Societies. In my note last year I drew the attention of Orielenses to the survey of the College’s alumni then being carried out, particularly as it related to the Oriel Society. The Oriel Society was established to bring Orielenses together in a spirit of fun and fellowship. It was

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ahead of its time as an alumni relations organisation, and originally undergraduates paid a termly subscription to become members on graduation. In recent years all alumni of the College have been considered to be members of the Society and included in events and initiatives organised by the Oriel Society Committee. Indeed, my predecessor John Albert and I have made a point of appearing at many Leavers’ dinners to remind all alumni that they are members… However, as you will have seen from the survey (half of the cost of which was paid for by the Oriel Society!), we have a problem of nomenclature. Concerned that the word ‘Society’ was putting off alumni who assumed that they were not members, we have tried downplaying the use of the Oriel Society name at recent events in the belief that it would encourage more Orielenses, particularly from recent matriculation years, to attend. The fact that the last four Oxford and London ‘alumni’ dinners, together with events such as the Garden Party, have been fully subscribed, leads us to believe that our concern is not misplaced. The survey also adds some helpful factual data to the view that Orielenses regard themselves as alumni of the College rather than members of the Oriel Society, and are largely unaware of the Committee’s role in alumni relations. The role of the Committee has also changed in recent years. In line with other colleges, Oriel has developed a professional alumni and development function over the past twenty years or so. As a result, the planning and organising of events for Orielenses has been increasingly carried out by the Development Office, with input from the Committee. The Committee members are therefore no longer the principal organisers of events, but rather see themselves as adding value to existing events, for example by finding venues and speakers, as well as conduits through which the wider Oriel community can communicate with the College. The Committee believes that its role is to represent the interests of all alumni, and that making this clearer would remove much confusion as to the role of the Oriel Society, and allow the College’s alumni relations to be more effectively organised.

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The Committee has therefore been discussing with the College the basis on which it would reconstitute itself as the Oriel Alumni Committee, with appropriate terms of reference. This â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;rebrandingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; would better describe the function the Committee now effectively carries out: helping the College to realise its goals through building up the community of Orielenses across the generations. The Oriel Society would continue to exist as a legal entity with its own funds, and the Committee would continue to fulfil its function as the Oriel Society Committee. These plans for the Committee, and the other initiatives arising from the survey, mark a step change for alumni relations at Oriel, but equally are evolutionary in nature. Most importantly, they will allow the College to respond to the needs of the wider Oriel community more effectively. The Committee would be very grateful for any views on them from Orielenses on the email address below. My thanks to the Oriel Society Committee members and to the Development Office for their continued help and support. Floreat Oriel! Geoffrey Austin (1983) President THE ORIEL SOCIETY COMMITTEE Geoffrey Austin (President) Hugh Bryant (Secretary) John Clive Mackintosh of Halifax (Treasurer) Michael Kenworthy-Browne Jonathan Brewer John Slade Vincent Warner Laura Dosanjh Claire Toogood Sarah Kiefer Daniel McLean Sophie Ross Teresa Morgan (Fellow)

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his yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intercollegiate alumni/ae golf competition was held in April, as usual at Frilford Heath Golf Club, over the Red and the Blue courses. Fortunately the thoroughly cold and wet weather of the first months of 2018 had ended just in time to allow the event to take place on a mild, rain-free day. The going underfoot was still damp and soft, so the courses played long, but to be out in comparatively pleasant conditions after a long spell in which many golf courses had been closed altogether for weeks at a time was a joy. The organisers had assembled 150 competitors drawn from nineteen colleges, from golf clubs all over the country. University College narrowly edged Christ Church for the overall win. Oriel placed a very creditable seventh, well clear of Magdalen in eighth place. We fielded nine players, led home by Richard Evans on the Red with a magnificent six points from his handicap of ten, just one shot behind the best gross score of the day on that course. He was well supported by Mike Howard, Patrick Hole, Steven Wood, John Scott and David Shannon in the six whose scores counted in the competition. Richard Gordon, Stephen Drury and Richard Matthews completed our team. After a convivial and extended lunch several of us stayed on to play extra holes with team-mates or with playing partners from other college teams. In the evening Corpus Christi laid on a splendid reception, choral music and dinner to accompany the presentation of prizes. All in all it was a great day. It was good to welcome a couple of fresh faces to the Oriel team, and we hope to continue to attract new interest in our future golf events. Steven Wood (1969)

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WILLIAM PRYNNE: POLEMICAL AND PURE Sermon preached at the Commemoration of Benefactors Service on Sunday 22 October 2017 by Dr Teresa Bejan

n 1667 the up-and-coming Oxford Antiquarian Anthony Wood made his way to the Tower of London. Wood’s visit, at least, was voluntary. He came to consult the archives carrying a letter from the Provost of Oriel College, Robert Say. The current Keeper of the Records was an alumnus of the College. In his chronicle of Oxford notables, Athenae Oxonienses (1691–2), Wood would later record how this ageing Orielensis, clad in a ‘black taffaty-cloak, edg’d with black lace at the bottom … received him with old fashion compliments, such as were used in the raigne of King James I … glad that such a young man as he was (for so he called him) should have inclinations towards venerable antiquity.’1 After the archives, the elder took the younger scholar for a walk amidst the ruins of the City of London, still smoking from the Great Fire the year before. This calamity our Orielensis knew to be the work of ‘Foreigners’ and ‘Papists’, the ‘design of Jesuits and Romanists against the [English] Church and Religion’ – that is, another ‘Popish plot’, like every other calamity in his own life had been, and those in the life of the Nation in the tumultuous decades before. Who was this ageing antiquarian and conspiracy theorist, mouldering among the smoldering ruins of Restoration London? None other than William Prynne, born in 1600, died in 1669, two years after the meeting with Wood, the scourge of kings, the bane of bishops, and a (figurative) firebrand himself, at least in a former life. How did a man twice convicted by Star Chamber for sedition, mortified and mutilated by Charles I, find himself installed once more in the Tower by a Stuart – only this time not a prisoner, but an honoured officer of the restored regime?

The problem with Prynne for us, as for his contemporaries, is that we know the type, at least we think we do. There he stands, the paradigmatic seventeenth-century Puritan – the black robes, the ruff, the glare. And underneath the surface, the boiling sea of righteous fury against the endemic pollution and sins of his age. A Puritan, as H.L. Mencken tells us, is someone dominated by the ‘fear that someone, somewhere may be happy’.’2 And Prynne made his name – and sealed his fate – as the most vociferous (and voluminous) critic of the Theatre. His Histrio-mastix or ‘The Player’s Scourge’ ran to over a thousand pages. Although, as his best (and only) modern biographer, William Lamont, reminds us, he was just as committed to extirpating the venal sins of duelling, taverns, long hair, and the drinking of healths.3 Moreover, as a London lawyer (rather than a godly minister), Prynne never met an authority he would not cite, sacred or secular, if it would help him win an argument.

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Histrio-mastix alone boasted ‘55 Synods and Councils … 71 Fathers and Christian writers … above 150 foraigne and domestique Protestant and Popish authors … 40 heathen philosophers, historians, poets … and our own English statutes, magistrates, Universities, Writers, and Preachers’ in addition to its ‘sundry texts from Scripture’. 4 His exhaustive – and exhausting – marginalia earned him the nickname ‘Marginal Prynne’. But as his critics noted, the same authorities would often appear in his works in support of contradictory arguments. Prynne could never quite decide, for example, who the true Papists at Runnymede had been. John Aubrey attests: ‘He was a learned man, of immense reading, but is much blamed for his unfaithfull quotations.’5 In his pamphlets – over two hundred altogether, with titles like ‘The Antipathie’ and ‘A Polemical Dissertation’ – we find a virtuoso practitioner of what one might call ‘the politics of purity’. It’s a tradition alive and well today – one might even say resurgent, at least on university campuses. And Oriel’s very own Will Prynne pioneered it. Then as now, its adherents – secure (or so it seems) in the knowledge of their own righteousness – campaign against the forces of darkness, seeking vengeance against anyone suspected of collaboration… or complicity. In Prynne’s case it was the Catholic menace. Today, it is ever-amorphous categories like ‘Hate’. But here, too, we must be careful. To be a Puritan in Prynne’s sense was not to be a prig or a prude. No less a libertine than Samuel Pepys was scandalised by Prynne’s sniggering at the slanderous sex lives of English nuns at the dinner table. No, to be a Puritan in this sense is to burn bright with an inner flame for justice, and then to know (first and foremost) exactly who its enemies are. For they are your enemies, too, and agents of Antichrist – whether they know it or not. One must fight against them with any and every weapon at one’s disposal, and purify, pereat mundus. Prynne’s chosen weapon was, of course, the pen, and for his trouble he was twice tried and twice convicted for sedition – first in 1633, for his ill-timed suggestion that all womanactors were whores, just as Charles’s (Catholic) Queen, Henrietta Maria, was rehearsing a court masque. Prynne was fined, imprisoned in the Tower, and lost the tips of his ears as well as his Oxford degrees. But even in prison, this practitioner of the politics of purity continued to write against the outworks of Antichrist, in this case the jure divino authority claimed by bishops, above all the current Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud. In 1637 Prynne was once again found guilty. He would later describe in gruesome detail how the executioner botched the further removal of his ears, slit his nose and branded each cheek with an ‘S.L.’ for seditious libeler. But to polemical Prynne the brands stood for ‘Stigma of Laud’. He knew who his enemies were. And so the brewing revolution found its figurehead and martyr – when he was recalled from his Channel Islands exile by the Long Parliament, thousands thronged to

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see Prynne’s triumphant return to London, while the published tales of his suffering focused popular rage. The ‘root and branch’ petition presented to Parliament in 1640 carried more than fifteen thousand signatures. Archbishop Laud would himself be tried for treason and executed in 1645, with the abolition of bishops from the Church of England the following year.

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We think we know him. But Prynne was paradoxical from the start. Wood, our Oxford antiquarian, would describe him as ‘zealous and bigoted’, a man who ‘busily concerned himself in all affairs’, and ‘the most inveterate enemy [to] Bishops that ever appeared on our horizon’. 6 And yet, despite church politics more befitting a graduate of Cambridge, William Prynne was an Orielensis, arriving in Oriel from Bath at the age of sixteen. One can imagine that a College that could produce a Cardinal Allen just over half a century before might prove a slightly uncomfortable fit,7 and that such an experience might well encourage a young man of puritan sympathies into full-blown radical reaction. It happens to the best of us. In any event, it was at Oriel that Prynne discovered and nursed his guiding grudge against Laud, that upstart Arminian over at St John’s, a grudge Prynne would prosecute with a vengeance to the bitter end. In his propagandistic account of the Archbishop’s trial, published in 1646 as Canterburie’s Doome, Prynne would own his doctoring of the official record openly. No need for shame in pursuit of a just cause – especially after Prynne’s attempt to humiliate the Archbishop while he lived by publishing his secret diary had backfired so spectacularly, rendering Laud sympathetic to even his staunchest Parliamentarian critics. Classic Prynne, one might say, overstepping the mark. Wood drew the lesson that one should ‘take heed … of being partial, lest others light Candles from your torch, and thereby in the end, you lend a helping hand for the cutting of your own throat’. 8 But might one also say the same of Prynne’s contemporaries, who time and again mistook his measure, foolish enough to think that they could harness his polemical pen to their own ends? Mistaking Prynne for a republican, Parliament paid him to propagandise for the Commons, only to see him take sides with no less a royalist than Robert Filmer on the priority of Lords and Crown. Others mistook Prynne for a tolerationist, and discovered too late that concern for the liberty of his own conscience did not extend to other dissenters. Laud dispatched, Prynne saw a Popish plot behind the Army sectarians’ calls for religious liberty. He opposed Baptists, Quakers, the freemen’s franchise, Levellers like Lilburne and the agitators at Putney (not to mention unlicensed printing), as alike all agents of Antichrist. Such men, he insisted, should be imprisoned as enemies of religious unity, oblivious to the fact that he would soon re-join them there himself.

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Elected to Parliament in 1648, Prynne opposed the trial and execution of the King and was expelled and arrested himself in Pride’s Purge. For his opposition to Cromwell and the Army, he was once again imprisoned, this time for three years without trial. The hero and martyr of the Revolution rode out the Interregnum as a prisoner and public enemy of the Commonwealth. It was as such, of course, that Prynne found favour with Charles II, who restored him to the Tower after the Restoration, only this time in a position, as Prynne put it, more ‘suitable to my Genius’, in which he produced his most lasting contribution, for historians anyway: the Calendar of Parliamentary Writs and Records.

So what are we to make of Prynne today, so polemical, so pure? Let us not mistake him – or his modern-day inheritors – for a partisan of liberty or equality, let alone as a lover of mankind. One might more accurately describe him – and them – as a contemporary critic did: as anthropo-mastix, the scourge of men. One’s wishful thinking obscures the contours of the righteous mind at one’s own peril. Instead, let us recognise in his ‘paradoxical’ career the logical consequence of the politics of purity. Time and again the puritan will attach herself to whichever Power-that-happens-to-be she thinks most apt to punish her enemies. When the Powers-that-be fail to meet expectations and fall victim to purifying zeal, in turn, have they anyone but themselves to blame? For his own part, Prynne maintained that his commitment to godly monarchy as the cornerstone of English identity remained consistent to the last; if he had turned on the first King Charles, it was only insofar as he was soft on Laud and Popery. Prynne stayed loyal to the second, had he not? Still, a more critical observer might note that the future revolutionary generation of 1688 ‘lit their Candles from Prynne’s torch’, igniting a ‘Popish Plot’ hysteria that would ultimately cut the Stuart line for good. In any case: let us beware the politics of purity, and leave Prynne where we found him: in the Tower, as he put it, ‘almost choked with the dust of neglected records (interred in their own rubbish for sundry years)’. 9 1 Quoted in William Lamont, ‘William Prynne (1600–1699)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004). 2 H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (New York: Knopf, 1949), p. 624. 3 William Lamont, Marginal Prynne (London: Routledge, 1963). 4 William Prynne, Histrio-Mastix (London, 1633). 5 John Aubrey, Aubrey’s Brief Lives, ed. O.L. Dick (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1957), p. 250. 6 Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, vol. I (London, 1691), pp. 496–7, 539, 804. 7 See Mr Power’s Benefactors’ Sermon, Michaelmas 2013. 8 Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, p. 497. 9 Prynne to Harbottle Grimston, quoted in Lamont, Marginal Prynne, p. 206.

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EDMUND FELLOWES, ORIEL AND THE ENGLISH MUSICAL RENAISSANCE Text of a talk delivered by Dr David Maw as part of the alumni weekend in College on 16 September 2017

nyone who has sung in a church choir with any pretentions to tackling a wide range of the Anglican repertory will have encountered the name of Edmund Fellowes. He was the first to edit much of the Tudor and Jacobean church repertory as well as the entire repertory of the English madrigal. Despite changes in editorial fashion, his editions remain widely in use today, notable still for their clarity, consistency and fundamental musicality. He was also a historian of music, undertaking primary research in manuscript sources and writing books on English Cathedral Music from Edward VI to Edward VII, and monograph studies of Gibbons and of Byrd. Some of his discoveries remain accepted parts of English music history or have pointed later historians in the right direction. It was he, for example, who identified Oxford as the birthplace of Orlando Gibbons and found the will of John Wilbye, revising the understanding of that composer’s life and work. But Fellowes was a man of his age, which is to say a man of many parts; and to restrict him simply to musical achievements is to deny him his enthusiasm for lawn tennis, his activities as a churchman, his knowledge of heraldry and genealogy, his numerous friendships with the great and the good, and much else besides. His autobiography, modestly entitled Memoirs of an Amateur Musician (1946), clearly puts music at the forefront of his activities but is detailed on all of his other activities too. The word amateur should be understood there in its best sense of someone who does something for the love of it. There was nothing amateurish in the worst sense about his musical activities. A professional career as a violinist could have been his had he wanted it, and the work that he undertook in the name of musical scholarship was professional in its seriousness and lasting accomplishment. Fellowes was born on 11 November 1870 in what was then 78 Cambridge Terrace, Paddington. He showed musical inclinations at an early age. He started the piano at his fifth birthday and the violin at his sixth, giving up the piano then so as not to be distracted. He made rapid progress and gave his first public appearance at the age of nine, playing a Mozart sonata and some smaller pieces. Before he was seven and a half he was taken to meet the great virtuoso Joseph Joachim, sitting next to him at lunch. He demonstrated his perfect pitch and after lunch played a couple of short pieces with Joachim accompanying at the piano. Joachim was renowned for not accepting pupils, but as a result of this meeting he offered to take Fellowes on. The offer was given serious attention but declined so as not, in Fellowes’s own words, to ‘leave the conventional lines

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of an English boy’s education’. The conventional lines of an English boy’s education took him subsequently to Winchester College and then to Oxford. After finishing his studies he entered the Church, taking ordination as deacon in 1894 and as priest in 1895. He held a curacy in Wandsworth before his appointment as Precentor of Bristol Cathedral in 1897. In 1900 he was recommended for his only other appointment, as a Minor Canon of St George’s Chapel, Windsor, which position he held until his death on 21 December 1951. He was put in charge of the choir briefly from 1924 to 1927, following the death of Sir Walter Parratt, but otherwise his activities continued undisturbed. Windsor was the base from which he undertook the work for which he was to become well known. Fellowes and Oriel In the present context, one of Fellowes’s most significant accomplishments was that of being an Orielensis. He came up to Oriel in 1889 and spent four years at the college, first of all reading for a pass in Moderations and then a bachelor degree in Theology. He finished his studies with the one-year postgraduate Bachelor of Music degree, though he did not complete the examinations for that until the summer of 1896. We can get an idea of the milieu in which he grew up from a comment he overheard at that time: ‘… my uncle Charles heard that I was contemplating taking the Mus.Bac. degree at Oxford. He remarked to a friend: “What are the universities coming to? I hear that now they actually give degrees in music.”’ In his autobiography Fellowes devoted a full chapter to his time at Oxford. His priorities at this time can be gleaned from the fact that of the chapter’s seventeen pages, only one addresses his academic studies; and he records his mediocre attainment, attributable in part, he thinks, to bad advice as to the appropriate course of study. ‘I was placed in the fourth class. I think I was perhaps lucky to get away with this, for I really did little reading.’ His overall assessment was that: ‘From an academic point of view Oxford

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was a failure, but this was more than compensated by the valuable and varied experiences which came my way.’ He seems to have been far from downhearted at this lack of academic success. It was perhaps the only real lack of success that he encountered in his life. He confesses that ‘looking back at it after this distance of time I cannot find that my career has been much hampered through my not having secured a better degree’. Indeed, his time at Oxford was amply compensated by activity in other directions, which he recounts over the following sixteen pages under the headings Music, Lawn Tennis, Rowing and Genealogy. Oriel was strongly connected to the second and third of these. He was in the lawn tennis six throughout his time at the College and captain in his last year. He tried out rowing only at the end of his second year, but with some success, and was encouraged to take it up seriously. He summarised his activities in the two sports: ‘In modern conditions I fancy it would be impossible to row in the eight and also play lawn tennis for the college; and it may be a unique experience that I captained both the eight and the lawn tennis six in the same year, 1893.’ However, when it came to music, he stated: Oriel was in no sense a musical college. The chapel services were of the simplest character … There was then no organ scholar. I used very often to cut the Sunday evening service and attend evensong at Christ Church instead; evensong at Magdalen unluckily clashed with dinner-time at Oriel. I was constantly ‘hauled’ for this by my tutor, but in course of time he took a sensible line about it. His musical life was made outside the college. He was a member of the Choral and Philharmonic Society through all four years of his studies. He took part in the choir conducted by Dr Mee to provide illustrations for Professor Stainer’s lectures. This would have been one of his earliest encounters with some of the historical music with which he would later be associated. Above all, it was chamber music that claimed his time. He was a member of the University Musical Club and the University Musical Union. He attended their regular meetings, frequently playing in them. He participated in Eights Week concerts at Queen’s, Merton and Exeter Colleges. ‘And there was hardly a college at which I did not play at least once at smoking concerts.’ He undertook a tour with the ‘Magdalen Vagabonds’. He had a party trick for lighter occasions, where he whistled and hummed simultaneously in two-part harmony, for example Tallis’s Canon. He claims never to have succeeded quite in performing the canon from the Minuet of Haydn’s String Quartet in D minor: ‘It was an ugly noise, but less so when I first found out how to do this trick with a treble voice. I once met a girl in New York who could produce three notes simultaneously; but she could not do more than one common chord.’

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Oriel was not in Fellowes’s day the rowing power-house it has subsequently become. Fellowes was a non-smoker; and in his rowing days Dr Mee teased him about it, challenging him to smoke a cigar the day that Oriel was Head of the River. That would be forty years later, and after Mee’s death; but his daughter remembered the pact and sent Fellowes ‘a huge cigar tied with Oriel ribbons’. By that time, Fellowes related, he had a son to smoke it for him. Oriel was to return to his life at the height of his renown. He was invited to become President of the Oriel Society in 1936, though he had to decline owing to the difficulty of his attending the meetings. Any bad memories of his poor performance in Schools were clearly long forgotten by 1937, when Provost Sir David Ross wrote to inform him that he had been elected an Honorary Fellow. Two years later, the University awarded him the Doctorate of Music honoris causa; and it was to the Oriel SCR that he and his party repaired after the ceremony. Fellowes and the English musical renaissance Fellowes’s life fell squarely within what music historians have called the English Musical Renaissance, and his life’s work was to play an important part in that movement. Put briefly, English music had up until the end of the seventeenth century pursued a highly successful evolution. It flourished during the Middle Ages and took the limelight in the earlier fifteenth century. It succeeded in maintaining an identity and vitality through the upheavals of Reformation, emerging, in fact, into a golden age of achievement that lasted to the death of Purcell in 1695. It is from this starting base of artistic attainment and recognition that the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries seem like a period of decline. It is not that England was lacking in musical vitality then; though the art was not widely held in high esteem during the Victorian era. What the period lacked was an identifying musical voice. In the eighteenth century it was the music of Handel and the Italian Baroque style that dominated insular composition; in the nineteenth it was the music of Mendelssohn that composers imitated. There were not home-grown masters of the stature of Browne, Taverner, Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Purcell. In the closing decades of Victoria’s reign, the idea of reviving the country’s musical fortunes gathered support and momentum; and this is what is reckoned to be a renaissance in English music. It touched not only musical composition – with the arrival of figures like Parry, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Walton, Britten – but institutions and cultural life too. Ernest Walker and a number of historians following him have dated the English Musical Renaissance to 7 September 1880, the first performance of Hubert Parry’s cantata Prometheus Unbound at the Gloucester Three Choirs Festival. Crude as

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such a judgement inevitably is, it is symbolically useful and it finds Edmund Fellowes coming towards the end of his tenth year. I have already alluded to his conventional Victorian background and upbringing. Yet despite the outward conventionality of his life and career, there was an independence of outlook and opinion that put him ahead of his milieu, and it is to these qualities that his contribution to musical progress can be attributed. A very practical sort of renaissance was intended by an initiative in which Fellowes was involved early in his career. In 1897, at the end of his first year in Bristol, he and Percy Buck (then organist of Wells Cathedral) instigated a movement to look into the quality of music used in cathedral services, motivated by a dissatisfaction with the current state. This movement garnered the support of several eminent musicians and began work that would lead to the creation of the Church Music Society and later to the foundation of the Royal School of Church Music, and with these to a raising of standards not just in cathedrals but in parish churches as well. The possibility of progress in the form of renaissance arises from recognition of a lost period of excellence. Important to the English musical renaissance was a growing awareness of the past of forgotten masterworks – the lost golden age. It is here that Fellowes fitted in. For he was a central figure in the rediscovery of this past, singlehandedly reviving the repertory of the English madrigal; and making substantial inroads into the church music of the day. He occupies a distinguished place in the chapter entitled ‘The Tudor Revival’ in Frank Howes’s account of the English musical renaissance. Bristol was important in setting Fellowes on this path. Howes draws attention to his membership of the Bristol Madrigal Society, a distinguished organisation founded in 1837. He learned about the genre there; but he also, and perhaps more importantly, learned that he did not think contemporary ideas of the genre adequate. ‘I became a member on my first arrival in Bristol. It was at these meetings that I first perceived how the rhythmic and other characteristic features of Tudor music were misunderstood.’ One of the distinctive features of his editions was his attempt to bring out the character of Tudor rhythm, its liberties with regular metre. At the beginning of the Gibbons Short Service, for example, the triple-time metre is offset by accents, by changes to compound duple time and by contraction into a two-beat bar. What Fellowes aimed to bring out was the degree to which Tudor music was rhythmically unlike the music of his day. His complete edition of The English Madrigal School ultimately ran to thirty-six volumes and was finished in 1924. Although the tensions that led to the outbreak of war in 1914 initially scuppered some of the publication plans for this work, it ultimately paved the way for the change in musical taste that would grant Fellowes’s work its true significance. There was a much bigger audience for the English madrigal in the post-war world than there had

been before it. Fellowes found the times now in tune with him, and his significant contribution to English musical culture was rewarded with the Companion of Honour in 1944. Fellowes was a figure of the musical renaissance. He promoted higher standards in church music and enabled the rediscovery of the golden age of English musical composition. If Oriel cannot claim any real influence on the English Musical Renaissance, it can, through Fellowes, own a significant connection to it. Moreover, it is symptomatic of the work that Fellowes accomplished that one can no longer truthfully say that ‘Oriel [is] in no sense a musical college’. The Dream of Gerontius I have left to last one musical accomplishment of Fellowes that does relate to his attachment to Oriel. In 1865 he was no longer resident in Oriel, having taken up his curacy in Wandsworth; but he was still registered through the college for the Bachelor of Music degree. One of the requirements was the composition of a choral piece; and this brings us to The Dream of Gerontius, John Henry Newman’s poem of 1865, which as everyone knows was turned into an oratorio by Edward Elgar in 1900. What few know is that Edmund Fellowes got there first. Admittedly, he set much less of the poem than Elgar, mostly bits of it that Elgar himself did not set; and his setting was a great deal less ambitious than that of the older composer. But Newman’s poem was the text he drew on for his Bachelor of Music composition exercise, which he completed in the summer of 1895. He set the Hymn of the Third Choir of Angelicals for five-voice chorus, soloists and string orchestra. His setting falls into four movements: an opening chorus (Praise to the holiest), a solo for soprano (The angels as beseemingly), an unaccompanied quartet (But to the younger race) and a closing fugal chorus (Praise to the holies), replete with inversion, augmentation and stretto of its theme. The work reveals a competent handling of musical craft in a style that suggests the influence of Mendelssohn. It was evidently worthy of the Bachelor of Music degree. Here then is perhaps the first performance of this work. The work was performed by members of the Chapel Choir accompanied by the author on the piano.

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THE DON WHO EMBODIES OXFORD A tribute to Jeremy Catto, the legendary tutor by Sir Alan Duncan, first published in The Spectator in June 2006

ir John Betjeman gripped the sword and, with great gusto, sliced through the marzipan towers of Battersea power station. The party, nearly thirty years ago, was for the launch of ‘Temples of Power’, Glyn Boyd Harte’s delicious compendium of unusual industrial paintings. Such memorable occasions are not so unusual in the life of Jeremy Catto. He is the quintessential Oxford don – his portrait by Boyd Harte shows him in black tie and plimsolls, with his left foot shooting out of the frame. I can’t detect Jeremy anywhere in his friend Alan Hollinghurst’s novels, but if one were to devour C.P. Snow, Goodbye Mr Chips and Porterhouse Blue, there is a smattering of Catto in each. This month the cruel dictates of age will force him to retire from Oriel College. Oxford undergraduates, past and present, want to storm the Bodleian to prevent it. With university lecturers having so recently threatened to strike (‘Not so much red brick as breeze block’, some might say) and with even Oxbridge becoming more uniform and systematised, the example of Jeremy Catto is a powerful antidote to the modern transformation of our universities. Some dons become pundits and take to television; others forsake collegiate life and bicycle home every evening to North Oxford. Jeremy Catto, in contrast, is the focal point of college life and has devoted everything to the pastoral care of his charges. Rather like Fagin to the Artful Dodger, a tutorial might end with ‘Now shut up and drink your gin’. ‘Cousin Donald’ was Governor of the Bank of England and a scion of Morgan Grenfell. Jeremy, on the other hand, enjoyed no such riches. His father had for a time managed a rubber plantation in Malaya, and his schooling in Northumberland, where he befriended the young Bryan Ferry, took him by sheer merit to Balliol. His contemporaries included Chris Patten, now Oxford’s Chancellor, whose time in the Cabinet prompted many a Cattoesque quip about the lack of spine around the Great Lady. Anyone wanting to read medieval history will naturally gravitate to Oriel. The subject comes alive in Catto’s tutorials and no undergraduate emerges from three years there unappreciative of what it means to know how to think. The first two volumes of the mammoth History of the University of Oxford bear his name, and his lasting friendship with the late Hugh Trevor-Roper saw a powerful, sometimes hilarious axis in the incessant scheming of university politics. Jeremy embodies the best virtues of the best teacher. He delights in quoting Harold Macmillan, who said, ‘All Oxford need teach you is to know when someone is talking rot’. His approach is one of profound intellectual rigour combined with a broader appreciation

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of society, conversation and personality. ‘The best bankers are historians, not economists. They know how to think strategically.’ Thus has Jeremy Catto always been a constant influence in other parts of university life. As a senior officer of the Oxford Union for thirty years he has steered countless ambitious students to greater things. ‘Well, Alan. I’ve pointed out to William Hague here that Pitt was already prime minister by 21.’ ‘Thank you – and bugger Pitt.’ Those who enjoyed drinking claret and hearing a weekly paper from one of their number would be invited to join the Canning. It was entirely natural that it would continue in Jeremy’s rooms late into the evening, rarely without some former student, now a figure of great influence somewhere, phoning for a chat above the din. His network of friends is unbeatable, both for its variety and for its affectionate loyalty. One such is Sir David Manning, our man in Washington, a former pupil whose career Jeremy has followed with growing delight. ‘I’ve stayed in every embassy he’s ever been posted to. I like it when my pupils run the world.’ Twenty years ago, on a flight to Singapore to visit another, he caused consternation by changing into his pyjamas. ‘But it’s bedtime…’ Never censorious of anyone’s politics, he takes pleasure in everyone’s success. Where so many of the Left will sneeringly put down a youngster whose politics they don’t share, such an attitude is unthinkable to Catto. ‘Now, I hope you’re never rude across the Chamber to that nice Paul Murphy.’ A Labour MP he may be, but no one may insult an Oriel man. There are limits to his talents. He can’t sing, and if ‘donnish’ can mean ‘erratic’, then it accurately describes his driving. Only through Jeremy can one make a new friend while suppressing giggles in chapel during his rendition of ‘O God, our help in ages past’. Be he at high table, in the Garrick or in the Greek taverna in Summertown, he is a master of conversation. ‘Remember – all white wine is non-alcoholic.’ His private language is like a passport to humour for all who now adopt it. ‘Ah! You wicked old thing. What deep gigglette and shriekino.’ If there are no more dons like Jeremy Catto, where are our universities heading? The insatiable thirst for firsts risks narrowing the purpose and benefits of a university education. Too many professors and tutors look on extracurricular activity with undisguised scorn. But a university education should be the most potent of all civilising experiences. Library slaves who know little else of the world will not make their best contribution to its improvement. University life is not just a knowledge machine: it should build characters and confident opinions. If any university, especially Oxford, intends to draw on the financial generosity of its alumni, it will need to pay careful attention to what they think of the institution they

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once attended. Oriel’s successful endowments over the last few years are in no small part down to the admiration donors have for Catto. Jeremy Catto embodies the true idea of a university. His retirement marks the end of one of the most constant influences in Oxford life. It should also mark the start of some serious questioning about what an Oxford education – or one at any university – should entail. His many admirers are a worldly bunch. When they gather in College to honour him at the end of June, I would not like to be the Dean who has to contain their unrestrained cheers for this don of all dons. Sir Alan Duncan MP was president of the Oxford Union. This article was written when he was Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry; he is now Minister of State for Europe and the Americas at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The article is reproduced by kind permission of Sir Alan and of the Spectator.

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EUGENE LEE-HAMILTON PRIZE 2018

he prize was founded by the late Mrs Eliza Ann Lee-Hamilton by bequest in 1943, in memory of Eugene James Lee-Hamilton (1864), who died in 1907, in order to encourage the composition of the Petrarchan sonnet in Oxford and Cambridge. In 2018 the judges awarded two prizes; the two winning entries are printed here. THE FISHER OF HAM COMMON Jacobite Amen glass, England 1740â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 50 (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) The sunlight was different now, it swayed In bright vertical stalks. He knew the sound, The wet sound of the world closing round Him. When the last of the light had played On the tangled edges of the marshlands He knew that dark moved softly like a sigh He knew the sorry truth of it would tie Satin knots around his heavy hands. Every certainty becomes unbearable With time; the wind would always comb His hair back, the moon would be like milk In the water, again again, terrible terrible. He knew he would again move quietly home, Under sky like a darkness shovelled into silk. Dominic Leonard Christ Church, Oxford

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STELLA TO HER VIOLENT LOVER Oh, every woman loves a shoed-in face, a hammered-scalp, a spanner-through-the-gut. So, when you sighed me to your side to glut my wealth of misplaced pain in lurid aceof-spades rooms, salvation lisped my name. Because I loved you, still I think I do love-dead perfection, goddess-worship, you. I love lacunae, intrigue, venus-fame. But, travelling to you under spangled sky last night the vaulted black wept goddess-tears That soaked me so my bones let flow a thirst for motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s milk, and family crypts, and I by old embracing headstones lost all fears, and fears, Love, bound me to you like a curse. Shimali de Silva Peterhouse, Cambridge

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BOOK REVIEW

edited by rob petre and john stevenson Oriel College 2018

A P R OVO ST ’ S WA R

A Provost’s War: The Great War Correspondence of Lancelot Ridley Phelps

A PROVOST’S WAR THE GREAT WAR CORRESPONDENCE OF LANCELOT RIDLEY PHELPS

ccording to his obituary notice in the Oriel Record, ‘It is hardly too much to say that for generation after generation of Oriel men Phelps was the college’. The Revd. Lancelot Ridley Phelps (1853–1936), scholar, fellow and Provost of Oriel College from 1914 to 1929, became a person of legendary status in Oriel’s history. His portrait, which hangs in the Senior Common Room, shows a high-domed forehead with penetrating eyes and a bushy white beard. He holds in his hand one of the many thousands of letters he received in a correspondence probably unrivalled by any other Oxford institution. His obituary noted, ‘he did not scribble notes, he wrote letters, in the style of the epistolary age’, and concluded that ‘what Phelps achieved is most of all bound up with his friendships and his influence in the lives of other people’. He had the misfortune of becoming Provost just as the Great War broke out, and saw the college community rapidly dwindle as undergraduates, fellows and staff signed up for active service. But because of his remarkable gift for friendship and his genuine concern for his undergraduates, even after they had gone down, he was able to rise to the challenge, and became mentor, friend and tangible link to the civilised world for many men serving and struggling at the Front. In commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the end of the Great War, the College has published this slim but stylish volume entitled A Provost’s War, a collection of letters to Phelps from his correspondents, soliciting advice, reporting on their situation, and giving or seeking information about contemporaries. In particular the volume gives a voice to those who did not return, and to their grieving parents, who often wrote touchingly about the affection in which Phelps was held and the loyalty he inspired. To read these letters is to be reminded that we are listening to the echo of a different age, in which a gung-ho patriotism combined with a terrible sadness and sense of immense loss. One letter from a clergyman whose son had been killed on Easter Day 1916, ended his letter to Phelps: ‘Sursum corda and on resolutely with the war. But there is a void and tears.’ A Provost's War cover Q2.indd 1

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The book has been sensitively edited by Rob Petre and John Stevenson, with an introduction and footnotes, copious archival photographs, illustrations of parts of the often beautifully handwritten letters, and a Roll of Honour at the end. Congratulations too to the project editor Johanna Stephenson and the designer Ray Watkins for such an attractive production. My only minor cavil is that the book’s subtitle, ‘The Great War Correspondence of Lancelot Ridley Phelps’, is misleading, as Phelps’s own letters are entirely absent. Sadly, almost none survive, and so his formidable presence hovers unseen, but keenly felt in the words and sentiments of those who wrote to him. Phelps’s engagement with those who left the College to go to war took its toll. His obituary makes clear how much he suffered during the war years, and the scars never completely healed. This fine book reminds subsequent generations of the terrible cost of that conflict, and of the sterling qualities of the man whose lot it was to lead Oriel during those years. The Venerable David Meara (1966), Archdeacon Emeritus of London

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HONOURS AND AWARDS

Professor Michael Devereux, Fellow and Professor of Business Taxation, was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) in January 2018. He only the thirtieth recipient of such an award in the ninety-year history of the institute. In April 2018 Professor Devereux was also awarded the Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship by the International Institute of Public Finance and CESifo. Professor Sir John Elliott, Honorary Fellow and former Regius Professor of Modern History, received the first ever Premio Órdenes Españolas Award at a ceremony in Madrid on the 25 May. The Award, worth €60,000, is an annual prize open to distinguished historians from around the world whose research is related to Hispanic civilisation. The Spanish Orders of Chivalry of Santiago, Calatrava, Alcántara and Montesa recognised Sir John for his outstanding achievements in the field of Hispanic history and culture. Dr Eric Foner (1963), Honorary Fellow, has been elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. Dr Foner is the DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. Professor Yadvinder Malhi, Jackson Senior Research Fellow in Biodiversity and Conservation, was awarded the Royal Geographical Society’s Patron’s Medal, one of the highest honours of its kind, in recognition of his world-leading research into the impact of climate change on tropical ecosystems. The Very Reverend Professor Iain Torrance (1974) has been awarded a knighthood for services to Higher Education and Theology in the Queen’s 2018 New Year’s Honours List. Professor Torrance is a minister of the Church of Scotland, Pro-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen, President Emeritus of Princeton Theological Seminary and a former moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

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Teresa Bejan received a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for work on a new book on Early Modern ideas and practices of equality. Andrew Boothroyd has been awarded a research grant worth around £1.2m to purchase a new design of furnace, the first of its type in the UK. The equipment will be used to grow single crystals for fundamental research on electronic quantum phenomena, as well as studies aimed at exploring advanced materials that feature technologically desirable characteristics, such as enhanced electrical, magnetic and superconducting properties. Nicholas Eyre was appointed as the Director of the new UK Centre for Research on Energy Demand. Lucinda Ferguson has co-edited a book, Philosophical Foundations of Children’s and Family Law, with Elizabeth Brake, which was published by Oxford University Press in March 2018. Lisa Heather was awarded a British Heart Foundation Intermediate Fellowship to investigate the heart in Type 2 diabetes. Teresa Morgan has been awarded a three-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to write a book about the evolution of Christian faith in its first five centuries. In the past year New Testament Studies, The Journal for the Study of the New Testament and Religious Studies have published symposia on her last book, Roman Faith and Christian Faith (Oxford University Press 2015), with contributions from classicists, philosophers, scholars of Judaism and the Bible. In autumn 2018 Professor Morgan takes up a fouryear appointment as the McDonald Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Candler School of Theology, Emory University. In 2018–19 she will deliver keynote lectures at the American Association of Ancient Historians, the Australasian Classical Society and the Ecclesiastical History Society, and the Bainton Lecture at Yale University. Annette Volfing has published a book, The Daughter Zion Allegory in Medieval German Religious Writing; she also co-edited and contributed a chapter to Punishment and Penitential Practices in Medieval German Writing, with Dr Sarah Bowden of King’s College London. Paul Yowell published two books in 2018. The first, published by Hart Publishing, is Constitutional Rights and Constitutional Design: Moral and Empirical Reasoning in Judicial Review. The second, co-authored with Grégoire Webber, Richard Ekins, Maris Köpcke,

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Bradley W. Miller and Francisco J. Urbina and published by Cambridge University Press, is Legislated Rights: Securing Human Rights through Legislation. OXFORD UNIVERSITY STUDENT UNION AWARDS Two Oriel Fellows won Oxford University Student Union Awards this year. Kathryn Murphy won in the ‘Outstanding Tutor’ category and Ian Horrocks in the ‘Most Eminent Lecturer’ category. Classics Fellow Juliane Kerkhecker and Chaplain and Fellow Rob Wainwright were also nominated.

ORIELENSES’ NEWS Robert Macauley (1989) reports that after fifteen years at the University of Vermont he has been appointed to the Cambia Health Foundation Endowed Chair in Pediatric Palliative Care at Oregon Health and Science University. His first book (Ethics in Palliative Care: A Complete Guide) was recently published by Oxford University Press. He and his wife have four children (aged from seven to fifteen) and live in Portland, Oregon. Jacob Warn (2013) writes: Since graduating from Oriel in 2016 I have been coordinating a refugee education project on Europe’s border with Turkey. Comprising a High School and Youth Centre for refugee children fleeing war and persecution, we set up our non-profit scheme to build spaces of safety and learning. We’re looking for partnerships and financial support to continue our work with vulnerable communities into 2019. Email me directly at jacob@actionforeducation.co.uk or visit www.actionforeducation.co.uk. PUBLICATIONS Calum Chace (1978) has just released his third non-fiction book on Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence and the Two Singularities, which explores current developments in AI and its future, as well as presenting the economic and technological singularity in depth. Vernon Sankey (1968) has just published his book The Stairway to Happiness. It is a combination of philosophy, cognitive psychology and spirituality, and represents many years of leading, coaching and mentoring people in all walks of life.

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OBITUARIES

ARTHUR DAVID ANDREWS (1955)

David Andrews came up to Oriel from Wallington County Grammar School in 1955 to read Astrophysics. The first in his family to win a scholarship to Oxford, he knew early on that his interest in the universe was not just a hobby and spent a lot of his spare time looking at the stars as a young schoolboy. While studying at Oriel he found many of his contemporaries were also interested in the stars. David won the Johnson Memorial Prize and completed his degree in 1957. After leaving Oriel, David took up a post in Aarhus Royal Observatory where he met his future wife, Mette Søgaard, who worked with the astronomers keeping records of all the observations in the night sky. Following a three-year stay in Denmark, David and Mette left for Northern Ireland where he accepted a post at Armagh Observatory. He spent the next thirty years as Editor-in-Chief to the Irish Astronomical Journal and broadened his academic achievements by gaining a PhD at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1979. There were frequent trips to La Silla Observatory, Chile, and to Las Campanas for Orion photometry. Many more field trips followed: to Sierra Nevada in Spain observing the Pleiades, and also visiting the Pic du Midi Observatory in the Pyrenees to observe ‘cool stars’ with several colleagues from all around the world. Mention should be made of his discovery of the minor planet no. 1727 (which was named after his wife, Mette) while director of Boyden Observatory, South Africa, in 1965. This may have been his proudest moment in a very long and illustrious career. David’s other passion in life was music; he was a gifted pianist and cellist. He played cello with the Armagh Philharmonic Orchestra and had many musical friends who often played duets with him. David spent the latter part of his life painting, influenced by Picasso, Matisse, Monet and Turner, and often visited the Louvre where he got much of his inspiration. His love of the stunning Yorkshire landscape and even more beautiful Peak District became his escape from it all. With his electric bicycle he became known in the village of Dore as a keen cyclist after his retirement in 1998. A restless soul, his lust for life never diminished even up to his last remaining days. David died suddenly in April 2018. He will be dearly missed. Adapted from a tribute by his daughter Nina

VANESSA BAILEY (1985)

Vanessa Bailey was born on 29 December 1966. Prior to attending Oriel College she was educated at Oakham, where she was Head Girl. In 1985 Vanessa was part of the first intake of women into Oriel, where she read Modern Languages. She was a popular undergraduate

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who enjoyed all that Oriel and Oxford had to offer, particularly beyond its obvious academic attractions. Her entrepreneurial and networking skills were first demonstrated while at Oriel when she established a party services business serving the Oxford Ball and party circuit. Upon graduating in 1989 Vanessa went to Japan and taught English to executives from Honda; during this time she also learned to speak Japanese fluently. While in Tokyo Vanessa was introduced to the owner of Russell Reynolds, the executive recruitment firm, and she worked for them initially in Tokyo, then in London and then New York. In 1999 she established her own firm, Cressida Partners, where she became known as one of the top private equity and family office recruitment professionals in the United States. Throughout her career Vanessa represented a broad array of top-tier private equity firms and maintained a concentrated portfolio of long-standing clients as both recruiter and adviser. Vanessa was briefly married to Galen, with whom she remained firm friends. Her pastimes included millinery – she became a certified milliner – and she surprised all who knew her by taking up marathon running at around the age of thirty, completing marathons in almost every state in the USA in aid of dog rescue charities. In fact dogs were very close to her heart, and her rescue dogs Sunny, Nikki and more recently Henry brought her much happiness. Vanessa enjoyed many adventures travelling through Europe and further afield with her friends, and walking the 80 miles around the Isle of Wight was a typical trip, full of fun and laughter. She also spent time visiting her parents, David and Anne, who survive her, as well as her extended family in Spain, where she had recently bought a property so that she could start reducing her work commitments and enjoy more time with them. On one of her trips in 2010 Vanessa attended a memorable reunion for an informal 25th anniversary celebration at Boodle’s in London with some thirty of her contemporaries who matriculated with her at Oriel in 1985. Vanessa’s last trip to Europe was to Spain in 2016, for her parents’ golden wedding anniversary, which she had arranged for them. Vanessa was always very self-reliant and endured a two-year fight against bone marrow cancer. This she battled stoically with none of her close family and friends really knowing the extent of her illness. Vanessa died in New York on 16 August 2017. James Thomson (1985) and Tina Jackson (née Cox) (1985)

MICHAEL (JOHN) BATESON (1969)

John Bateson came up to Oriel in 1969 to read Modern Languages; he went on to become a long-time teacher at Marlborough College, from 1973 to 1997. At Marlborough he taught German and was the first Head of the subject. One of his remarkable achievements was the organisation of Advanced Level exchanges in which pupils were allocated to individual schools around Germany, where they stayed for a whole term so that they had total immersion in the language and culture. This involved John in much travelling, but brought contacts that enabled him to teach in two German schools at Salem and Birklehof. His chief activities, though, were musical. He possessed a fine alto voice and was a most accomplished keyboard player. These skills he

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used to the full, whether it was founding the May Day Madrigals at Marlborough College, accompanying young pupils, or directing the Chamber Choir. He also played a sporting role, refereeing football and coaching tennis. John had to take very early retirement on medical grounds. But this did not prevent him from playing a very active part in many activities around Marlborough. At the Tourist Information Centre he was one of a trio who had between them over a century of experience in the town. This they used to give wonderful service to the many enquirers who visited, and it allowed John to use his language skills, often to tourists’ surprise. Beyond the town John gave notable service to the Appeals Panel of the Swindon Education Authority. Even when his sight deteriorated John spent many hours mastering the documents that this work necessitated. Although he did not travel in recent years, he maintained overseas contact through an internet advisory service via Bulgaria. He also kept in touch with many of his former pupils, one of whom wrote: ‘I have hundreds of pages of correspondence, a wonderful chronicle of both our lives’. John’s sudden and untimely death means a huge loss to his many friends from Marlborough College, the town, and to former pupils far and wide. Christopher Joseph (Marlborough News)

JOHN BARRETT (1959)

John Barrett was of a very friendly, civil and companionable disposition. He attended King’s School, Worcester, and read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oriel. After graduating, John went to work for the National Commercial Bank and later International Computers, and then worked in Czechoslovakia. It was in Prague that he met Ann and they married. Ann had to leave her job so they moved to work in Switzerland for two years. They returned to London before John took up a post at Limerick University. John finished his career with the Imperial War Museum, London. On retiring, he and his wife took a brave and adventurous step by deciding to settle in Belfast. It transpired that he loved it there. He could not get enough of hiking with Ann on the traffic-free roads bounded by drystone walls, reminiscent of the Yorkshire Dales. He had always been agile and energetic. Further afield, they visited an astonishing variety of countries, including the whole of the Indian Subcontinent and the rest of Asia, Australasia, the Middle East, North America and Northern and Southern Europe, to a level unknown to their friends. Rene Descartes said that ‘Travelling is almost like talking with men of other centuries’, with which John would have agreed. He had a sharp, incisive mind, which remained throughout his life. That is manifest in his outshining his friends at Scrabble and his acute interest in Classics, History and Politics, and the different cultures of the countries they had visited. The warmth of his friends’ eulogies at his funeral in January 2018 is testimony to his remarkable nature and qualities. In the words of Dante Alighieri, ‘if thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of Heaven’; John had a fulfilled life. To conclude with a quotation from Cicero cited in an eulogy at John’s funeral, ‘The life given us by Nature is short but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal’. Adapted from a tribute by his Oriel friend John Culpan (1959)

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DUNCAN BEARDMORE-GRAY (1945)

Duncan Beardmore-Gray was born in Calcutta in 1927. His father had gone to India before the First World War to pursue a career as a stockbroker and stayed there until 1945. Duncan left the country as a very small child, and his mother subsequently divided her time between looking after him, as a school boarder in the UK, and her husband in India. He attended Stubbington House Prep School and won an Oppidan Scholarship to Eton in 1939. He was later to become a good sailor and a low handicap golfer. He was Keeper of Fives in 1945 and opened the bowling for Eton against Harrow in the same year. Duncan matriculated at Oriel in 1945 with the intention of reading Modern Languages. Shortly after the commencement of his studies he was called up for National Service and spent two years in the Royal Navy before returning to Oriel in 1948, when he switched to PPE. Duncan married Rani Blood in 1950 shortly after coming down from Oxford. Their happy marriage was to last for more than sixty-seven years and resulted in seven children, twenty-two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Duncan attended agricultural college in Cirencester prior to spending most of the 1950s running Ambarrow, a dairy farm in Berkshire. He subsequently qualified as a chartered accountant at Peat Marwick, which took him into the management of two businesses in the 1960s, one a group of newsagents and the other a wallpaper company. After finishing with the latter in 1968, he was invited by Alan Barber, then Headmaster of Ludgrove Prep School in Wokingham, to join the staff. He went on to spend twenty-four fulfilling years at Ludgrove teaching Latin, English and French, coaching Fives, producing plays and managing Under-10 cricket and football teams. He had an inimitable style in the classroom and promoted intellectual curiosity among all his pupils. He could provide challenge to the more academically able boys, but he took a particular interest in those who struggled to read because of dyslexia, a condition that was poorly understood at the time. Much time and effort were devoted to helping these children. After retiring in 1992, Duncan and Rani moved to Wark in Northumberland where for ten years they lived close to relatives of Raniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. During that time they completed an Open University degree together and Duncan was able to pursue his hobbies of cooking, vegetable gardening, crosswords and tapestry. He embroidered memorable artefacts for all of his children and grandchildren and the stitching in some of these is remarkably meticulous. In 2002 they moved to Chichester to be closer to the family. He remained active and healthy there and continued vegetable growing in an allotment, as well as pursuing his other hobbies. Despite being diagnosed with cancer in 2016, he was able to continue to live comfortably at home until less than three weeks before he died peacefully in a local nursing home in February 2018. Duncan was a tall, imposing figure with a loud and infectious laugh. He expected high standards from those around him and could be quite fierce in his prime, but at the same time he gave huge encouragement to a great many. He was happiest when in the company of Rani and the rest of the family. There were many memorable occasions for him to enjoy as the years went by, including their 90th birthday party in 2017. Written by his Son Tom

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Alec was born in New Malden, Surrey, in 1925. From a workingclass family, he was awarded a full scholarship to read Chemistry at Oriel. He came up in 1943 and was the first individual from his family to attend university. Alec attributed all his future successes, professional and personal, to the oncein-a-lifetime opportunity he was afforded to attend Oriel. He became a lifelong supporter of the College, a generous benefactor and a proud member of the Alumni Association. Alec graduated with a BSc and joined Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), with which he had an exciting and successful career spanning thirty-four years. He worked as an industrial chemist in research and development, then later in sales and technical support as a manager. His career with ICI took him all over the world and complemented his love of foreign travel. In 1952 Alec married Elsa Kathryn Clerk. Born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Kathy had moved to the UK in 1949 and also worked for ICI. They lived in Welwyn Garden City near the ICI plant, later moving to nearby Harpenden, where they raised their two sons, David and Ian. In 1979 they fulfilled a lifelong dream to live in the Lake District: they bought a seventeenth-century farm property in Loweswater, Cumbria as their retirement home. After a couple of years of ‘retirement’ (fishing and fell walking), Alec was thrust into a second career when the Loweswater community persuaded him to accept the position of Clerk of the Parish Council. This soon led to Alec standing for election to Allerdale District Council, on which he served for twelve years. He also served twelve years as a member of the Lake District Special Planning Board (now the Lake District National Park Authority), first as the Allerdale representative and then as a Westminister appointee. He ended this second career serving as Vice Chairman of the Lake District Special Planning Board. He was also a longstanding and active member of the Loweswater Farmers’ Discussion Group, the Country Land Owners’ Association and the Farmers’ Club in London. Alec and Kathy pursued their love of the outdoors, as well as their passion for foreign travel, opera, fine dining and fine wines throughout their fifty-seven years of marriage. Kathy passed away in 2009 and a few years later Alec sold the farm and moved to a retirement flat in Cockermouth. However, he continued to travel and to be active in the community, as well as to attend as much opera as possible. He attended fifteen live Ring Cycles in his lifetime! Alec died on December 22, 2017 as a result of injuries sustained in a road accident two days earlier. The funeral was on 8 January 2018 at St Bartholomew’s Church, Loweswater, where his remains were laid to rest with his beloved Kathy, surrounded by the majestic fells of the Buttermere valley that they loved so much. Alec generously made Oriel the major beneficiary of his estate and it is hoped that his legacy will provide scholarships to assist students from low-income backgrounds to read Chemistry at Oriel. Written by Alec’s son Ian

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DR JEREMY CATTO (EMERITUS FELLOW)

Jeremy Catto, the Oxford medieval historian, who has died aged seventy-nine, helped to mould some of the country’s leading High Tory politicians and writers, among them William Hague, Alan Duncan and Niall Ferguson; he wrote or edited a range of scholarly works, including the OUP’s volume on the later medieval history of Oxford University (2006), and the history of his long-time base, Oriel College (2013), as well as learned articles on Aquinas, Wycliffe and others. But he was no dry-as-dust medievalist toiling in the archives over minor clerics and bureaucrats in fifteenth-century England. He inhabited a hinterland linking Oxford to the wider world, ranging from high politics and intelligence to the media and modern, even pop, art. Born on 27 July 1939 into a north-eastern branch of the distinguished banking family – a portrait of ‘Cousin Stephen’ of Morgan Grenfell, the Governor of the Bank of England who shepherded it through nationalisation in 1946, hung on his walls in Oxford – Robert Jeremy Adam Inch Catto was educated at Newcastle Royal Grammar before going up to Balliol College to read Modern History. Balliol then was the heartbeat of politically correct left-of-centre Oxford. Jeremy was a rough contemporary of Chris Patten, who was also yet to start his own political odyssey from Left to Right. Keenly observant through thick-rimmed spectacles, Jeremy had the historian’s recognition that hierarchy existed in all groups, regardless of ideological claims. The contradictions of socialist enthusiasm soon hit home. Early support for CND did not survive one freezing march to Aldermaston clutching the pole supporting the banner at the head of the procession. Fingers numb, Catto watched enviously as a bubblecar drew up to distribute warming drinks from a flask to the unilateralist great-and-good (J.B. Priestley, Michael Foot et al.) but with none to spare for their freezing anonymous fellow-travellers. Returning to his Tyneside roots to lecture at Durham University, Catto sought out company beyond the fusty medievalists. A chance encounter in a Newcastle bar with the future founder of Roxy Music led to a lifelong friendship with Bryan Ferry. Jeremy divined the dandy in the working-class lad and fostered his interest in art, taking him to Italy and encouraging him to adopt the ‘neo-romantic’ sartorial style that suited him. For decades after his return to Oxford, the celebration of History Finals for Catto’s undergraduates at Oriel would climax with the discovery of their, now Tory, tutor’s collection of 45s from the 1960s – to the dismay of the theologian living below. Catto’s election to a fellowship at Oriel in 1969 – a post he held until his retirement in 2006 – brought him to the college that had helped shape John Henry Newman. Catto, too, converted to Roman Catholicism, an aesthetic as well as a theological decision. Unlike many historians of heresy, his sympathies in preparing his doctoral thesis came to lie with the orthodox opponents of Balliol’s most famous heresiarch fellow, John Wycliffe. His conservative outlook was fostered by renewed contact with Hugh Trevor-Roper, already resident in Oriel as Regius Professor of Modern History when Catto returned to

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Oxford. They were kindred spirits, enjoying the game of academic attrition with the faculty’s Marxists and modernists over posts and promotions. But they also shared an interest in the wider world beyond the donnish trenches. Trevor-Roper’s own intelligence background made travel to the Eastern bloc impractical, but he awaited reports from Catto on his doings there – as Catto would a generation later from his own scouts behind the Iron Curtain or in Central Asia. A visit to Czechoslovakia in 1968 was interrupted by the arrival of Warsaw Pact forces in the early hours of 21 August. Reporting the Red Army’s presence, his alarmed host, whose brother Catto had helped bring to Durham during the Prague Spring, was reassured by Catto’s response: ‘There’s still time for breakfast, I assume.’ Western weakness abroad and economic decline at home did not dampen his growing enthusiasm for capitalism, and his latent speculative genes were awakened as Britain went further into an economic nosedive in the mid-1970s. As the stock market hit rock bottom he put all his savings into shares, reckoning that if capitalism was to collapse they would be worthless anyway, and if not then a nest-egg could only flourish. Over coming decades, as senior librarian of the Oxford Union Society and later senior member of the Canning Club, Catto was a talent-spotter for the Conservative cause, which was finding enthusiasts among undergraduates who came to maturity under Wilson, Heath and Callaghan and were turning Thatcherite. Alan Duncan and then William Hague were among the young Conservatives whose promotion he took to heart – and who repaid his support with lifelong friendship. But it was not only British Thatcherites who found support. The future postCommunist Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski was another protégé, despite his unusual combination, in Poland in the age of Pope John Paul II, of militant anti-communism with militant atheism. In the run-up to the 1987 general election the Financial Times published Catto’s nuanced support for the Conservative Party under the heading ‘Tory, Tory, Hallelujah’. He admitted he might not always vote Conservative, before adding a twist in the tail for Tory ‘wets’: ‘But I will always vote for Mrs Thatcher.’ In the decade after 1989 he took up the cause of Bosnian Muslims, as a co-signatory of an appeal for intervention by what he was amused to read was called ‘the Oriel Group’ by the German media. Despite being a Fellow (and at various times Vice Provost and Senior Dean) of Oxford’s last (until 1985) all-male college, he also took up the cause of women, if only to oppose attempts to foist Bill Clinton, in the aftermath of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, on the university as Chancellor (a contest won in 2003 by his old friend Chris Patten). And contrary to homophobic sneering from left-wing dons, Catto was not a snobbish benefactor of floppy-haired public schoolboys, as one sour rival tried to prove with flawed statistical tables; he encouraged women students and colleagues. Moreover, contrary to myth, he and his fellow bachelor historian, Robert Beddard, were far more welcoming to educational and social outsiders than many of their self-consciously progressive colleagues. History at Oriel was not the preserve of Old Etonians and cherubs from minor public schools (though it never entirely lacked them). Catto was adept at drawing in young people,

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for example holding a late-night impromptu reading with undergraduates (not all of them historians) of the Lysistrata of Aristophanes. He would offer a glass of pink gin or sherry at the start of tutorials (though latterly no longer for 10.30 starts) because he understood that making a tutorial a convivial conversation was a way to get the more tongue-tied students to open up and feel at ease with complex subjects – and even enjoy a joke. His strong support of the college boat club was another sign of his belief in a broad education. He had a natural emollience, which enabled him to defuse situations, and a mischievous spirit. On one occasion a famously bibulous don staggered into his room in an exuberant state and Catto calmly responded: ‘You’re parched. Let me get you a drink.’ His conversational ease made him a favourite ‘walker’ for Princess Margaret on her annual visits to mutual Oxford friends. The Princess could not be left alone, and Catto’s shared taste in whisky and gossip, if fewer cigarettes, meant that he could keep the royal presence in good humour single-handedly. But it was as perennial Steward of Oriel’s high table that he played out the role, abandoned by other dons going home to watch soccer on television with their partners, of the loyal College man who hosted people from the big wide world; some he had sent there after graduation, others he gathered in. Heads of the Secret Service, other spooks or ambassadors to Washington as well as Chechen warlords and even born-again Christian ex-cons (Jonathan Aitken) graced Oriel’s guest-nights. Towards the end of his life Catto celebrated Oriel’s place at the centre of Oxford intellectual life by editing Oriel: A History. Reviewing the book in the Spectator, A.N. Wilson praised a ‘stupendous volume’ and remarked that the essays Catto had contributed himself were some of the most erudite. That year the college announced that the Fellowship in Medieval History would be renamed the Catto Fellowship. There were some who took for granted Jeremy Catto’s smooth running of much of Oriel life and yet failed to register that he had so many influential friends and contacts in the wider world. Once that had been the average Oxford don’s milieu, and it remained Catto’s sphere in an active retirement. His passing marks the end of an epoch in academic life. Reproduced with permission from the Daily Telegraph

JOHN CLIBBORN (1960)

I first met John Clibborn at the Athenaeum Club, where he was reading Pliny in the original. He showed me round. A comment that the Club’s library reminded me of my college’s SCR library led us to work out that we were both Orielenses, as well as veterans of Government Service. Despite several decades in age between us, these connections helped establish an enduring friendship. Throughout the time I knew him, John demonstrated exemplary generosity of spirit, a fearsome but lightly worn intellect and faultless politesse. He was a man of whom it is justified to use the cliché ‘a gentleman and a scholar’. And he was a gentleman spy. John worked for the Secret Intelligence Service for nearly half of the organisation’s entire existence, continuing his association long after

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formal retirement age. It is the Service’s loss that he was not to become Chief (‘C’). But the importance of his contributions did not go unrecognised, on both sides of the pond. Unusually for a Brit, he was presented the CIA’s Seal Medallion when leaving his post as Head of Station in Washington. Back home, he was appointed CMG in 1997. In 1941 John Donovan Nelson Dalla Rosa Clibborn was born, in Oxford, to a British diplomat father and a mother of noble Italian descent. Educated at Downside, Somerset, he won both State and University scholarships to study Literae Humaniores at Oriel College. He matriculated aged just seventeen and went on to achieve a Congratulatory First. John’s other distinctions while at College included award of the Craven Scholarship and a short rustication for being found with a young woman in his room: those were different days. On leaving Oxford, and after a short interval during which he travelled and taught, John joined MI6. That was in 1966. More importantly, two years later he married Juliet Pagden after an ardent pursuit. The couple enjoyed forty-nine years of married life and had three children, Imogen, Benedict and Araminta. Life as a spy took John and his family to Nicosia, Bonn, Brussels and Washington. Tours of duty at home included running African affairs for MI6 during the 1980s. In later years he was to sit on the board of directors. Ever energetic, retirement was not for John. After technically leaving the Service, he continued to work as what might be called an ‘outplacement officer’ by corporate types. His role, at which he excelled, was to ease younger colleagues’ transitions to the private sector on their retirement, resignation or removal from service. It was in this capacity that many young officers first met John. He strove not to let any of them down, tirelessly tapping up his impressive network of contacts across industries and continents. He was almost seventy when he finally severed the cord with MI6, after which he endeavoured to provide a similar service from a desk in a private office. Many former officers have John to thank for launching their private sector careers and all speak of him with immense fondness. His death in December 2017 was an irreplaceable loss to the Service diaspora, to Orielenses everywhere and to many others whose lives he touched with such sincerity. Since then, John has doubtless been toasted at dinner tables across the world, fittingly for a man who took great pleasure in convivial conversation, good food and fine wine. A personal tribute by Julian Fisher (1989) incorporating details provided by John’s wife

JULIAN CRAWLEY (1970)

Julian Crawley was the eldest of three sons. He was born in Bagshot, Surrey, in 1951. Thanks to his father’s career as a Ministry of Defence rocket engineer, he first emigrated to Australia at the age of four and then to the Netherlands aged seven. On returning to the UK, Julian attended King’s School, Peterborough – then a boys-only boarding grammar school – where he excelled particularly at the sciences, rowing and rugby, representing the school at both sports. Julian arrived at Oriel in October 1970 to read Geology and quickly joined the College Boat Club and the

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University Geology Society, two activities that would define his time at Oxford. He was in his element tapping rocks or surveying mountains on field trips, and thrived in the often pouring rain and driving gales, especially when sleeping under canvas. Julian trialled for the Oxford University Rugby Club and Boat Club: having been selected for the University 2nd XV for their first match, he withdrew to row for Isis, the University 2nd VIII, in Dan Topolski’s first Oxford crew. Returning to the College VIII for the 1971 Summer Eights, Oriel finished third on the river. In his second year he rowed for the 1st Torpid, which bumped Balliol to go Head – a position the College held for some twenty-five years thereafter, and for the 1st VIII in the summer, which again finished third. In his final year, with Julian playing in the back row of the scrum, Oriel reached the final of Rugby Cuppers, losing to a St Edmund Hall XV that contained most of the University team, while Oriel retained the Headship of Torpids and finished second on the river in Summer Eights. The ‘Crew of ’72’, who in December 1971 completed the row from Oxford to London in three days and reached the semi-final of the Ladies’ Plate at Henley Royal Regatta, always remained very close to Julian’s heart. In 1997, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of rowing Head of Torpids, Julian organised the first crew reunion, an event that has been staged every year since. When a member of the crew died, Julian was instrumental in fundraising for a new boat for the College 1st VIII, named the Crew of ’72. On leaving Oxford in 1973 Julian moved to London to work for consulting engineers Ove Arup & Partners, and shared a flat in Chalk Farm with Oxford friends, among whom was Julie Bass. Within two years they were married and honeymooning on the boat to South Africa, en route to Julian’s new position as a geologist in the goldmines. They returned to the UK in 1977: Julian obtained his MSc in Geology from Durham University and henceforth embarked on a lifelong career as a geotechnical engineer, specialising in foundation construction. This career would include high-profile projects in Honduras, San Francisco and Kuala Lumpur among other exotic locations, and in the UK, such as the Channel Tunnel and London’s Jubilee Line extension. The many tributes paid by his work colleagues repeated the same message: that Julian was a deeply respected engineer, not only admired for his fair dealing and persistence in seeing a job through, but also for his generosity of time and encouragement for new appointees in a tough profession. Julian’s life was full of activity, unaccustomed as he was to sitting still. A loving and sociable husband, father and grandfather, he also made time for his passions of travel, sport and civic duty in his beloved village of Sherborne St John. Following his diagnosis of prostate cancer in 2010, Julian lived with admirable positivity, candidness and no less adventurousness, approaching every challenge with a serenity that was inspirational to those around him. Julian is survived by Julie, sons Sam and Thom, daughter-in-law Jacqui, granddaughters Emeline and Margot, and their treasured campervan. From an obituary drafted by his son Thom, with assistance from Oriel alumni Clifford Thring, Gareth Morris and Philip Hawkins

SIR JOHN FORD (1939)

John Ford was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1922. He was educated at the College of St Michael and All Angels, Tenbury, and Sedbergh School before being called up in 1941, serving with the Royal Artillery and ending up in Java with the rank of Major. He was

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awarded the Military Cross for his part in the attack on Kervenheim in 1945, which was described in the Royal Artillery Commemoration Book 1939–45 and in Norm Scarfe’s history of the 3rd Infantry Division, Assault Division. Ford used to joke that from the taxpayer’s point of view it must have been one of the most expensively earned medals in gunner history, since so many shells were fired. John Ford joined the Foreign (later HM Diplomatic) Service in 1947, and proved an innovative manager. As Head of the Establishment Department in the mid-1960s he made the Foreign Office the first department in Whitehall to go over to computers for its pay and allowances, thanks to the cooperation of GCHQ; and he implemented the Plowden Committee’s recommendation to merge the Foreign Office and the Commonwealth Relations Office into a single Diplomatic Service. As Counsellor (Commercial) in Rome and later as Director-General of British Trade Development in the USA he took a leading part in the re-orientation of the governmental export services from a reactive bureaucracy to a proactive market-oriented partner to British exporters. As Ambassador to Indonesia he secured himself a special position in this country of puppet-show-loving people by introducing them to the traditional British Punch and Judy, performing in private and on TV. His Punch and Judy set is now on display in the Wayang Musuem in Jakarta. He travelled widely throughout Indonesia and was even allowed to visit the penal colony of Buru, and thus opened the way for the British Government to supply educational books to political prisoners. As British High Commissioner in Ottawa during the constitutional crisis of 1980/81, Ford personally suspected that Prime Minster Trudeau was angling for confrontation between the Canadian Federal and British parliaments, which he could exploit to make Canada fully independent from Britain without considering the views of the Canadian provinces. Trudeau’s proposals were opposed by eight of the ten Provinces, and Ford on his own initiative lobbied behind the scenes against the proposal, as he was convinced that British backbenchers would insist on fair play between the Federal Government and Provinces. In February 1981 Ford’s activities became public knowledge and he became a political figure in Canada. Eventually Trudeau was forced to compromise, and the final constitutional package that came to the British Parliament had the support of nine provinces and caused no great difficulty in Westminster. After his retirement Ford devoted himself to charitable activities using his international experience and insight and ability to inspire and encourage others. He became the first Lay Administrator of Guildford Cathedral and set up a proper administrative organisation. He served on the Council of Voluntary Services Overseas; as Chairman of Voluntary and Christian Service (the Charity that started Help the Aged and Action Aid), he co-founded and became the first chairman of Harvest Help, which financed and organised agricultural development for the BaTonga people displaced from the floor of the Zambesi Valley by the Kariba Dam; as a Trustee of World in Need (WIN) he took a lead part in the co-founding of ACET (Aids Care Education and Training) and became its first chairman; as a Trustee of WIN he also helped found Opportunity International, which

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channels money to the poorest of the poor in the Third World, and served on the Board of its American partner in Chicago. Throughout his life Ford was a practising Christian and read the Bible daily. Frustrated by the disinterest of the Anglican Archbishops in backing ACET from the outset and making the Christian Response to AIDS a main theme of the 1988 Lambeth Conference, Ford wrote ‘Honest to Christ’ and nailed it on the door of Lambeth Palace in a vain attempt to persuade that conference to give Aids the attention it deserved. The refusal of the Establishments of Christendom to face up to the implications of modern science and technology added to Ford’s frustration. He published The Answer is the Christ of AD 2000 in 1995 and A Child’s Introduction to Christianity for AD 2000 in 1996, in the hope of persuading the priesthood to use the Bimillennial to take a fresh look at the Christian Faith in the modern world. In 1956 Ford married Emaline Burnette, a Virginian, who died in 1989. Their two daughters survive, and Ford’s declining years were greatly brightened by his devotion to them and his six grandchildren. Taken from an obituary by his daughter Joan and also from The Times

BEN GEORGE (1948)

Ben George was born in Wolverhampton in 1927, the son of a transport and coal merchant. He attended the local Grammar School, after which he joined the Field Security Service of the Intelligence Corps for his National Service. Happily, this took him to Arnoldstein in Austria, where he honed his German language skills enough to pass the Oxford entry exam; he was the first person in his family to go to university. At Oriel he read German and French, for which he had a natural gift, developing a love of German that he maintained all his life. Even in old age he could still read Middle High German and explain the medieval sound shift, though amusingly he always spoke German with an Austrian accent. Unsure what career path to follow after Oriel, he took the advice of his tutor Arthur Crow and went into law, serving articles in Birmingham before becoming a partner in Tedstone George and Tedstone in Wolverhampton, where he worked until retirement in 1992. During his law career he became President of the Wolverhampton Law Society and was a founder of the Bilston Citizen’s Advice Bureau, as well as initiating free legal advice for local people in Wolverhampton. Ben always remembered fondly his time at Oriel, where he had played football for the College and rowed in the 3rd boat. He was present when the library caught fire and described how the students formed a human chain to rescue the books, including some very old tomes. From his perspective the most pressing damage done was to his jacket and his eyebrows, both of which were singed. After graduating, Ben maintained lifelong friendships with fellow students and enjoyed attending College dinners. As well as his legal and linguistic interests, Ben was a keen cricketer, footballer, gardener, caravaner, freemason, church warden and genealogist. After his retirement he

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often said that he did not know how he had ever had time to work. His life was certainly a rich tapestry of interests and achievements. In his later years he started to write his life story, beginning with his time in Austria, which – along with his Oriel years – were formative and laid the foundations for his long and accomplished life. Even at ninety his memory was astonishingly good and he could still remember his school Latin, as well as his party-piece recitation of Albert and the Lion. To those who knew him Ben was a consummate gentleman with a keen sense of humour. He died after a long illness in November 2017, peacefully at home, and will be greatly missed by all who knew him. His funeral attracted a very large congregation, attended by friends from the many circles in which he moved. He is survived by wife Pam, his three children and their spouses, six grandchildren and one great-grandson. Written by his daughter Flic Abrahams

SIR FRANCIS FERRIS (1952)

Francis Ferris came up to Oriel from Bryanston School in 1952, after military service in the Royal Artillery, as an exhibitioner to read history under Billy Pantin. He was already an experienced oarsman, and quickly found place in the Oriel 1st Torpid, and then the VIII. He was very successful, winning blades in both Torpids and Eights that summer, and in 1954 he was elected Captain of Boats, where he did his best to overcome the disadvantage presented by my presence in the 1st VIII with him. Francis’s roots were always firmly planted in the Thames Valley, living there as he did all his life. Born in High Wycombe, only a few doors away from Sheila, the lady who subsequently became his wife (a circumstance that has some bearing on later events), after Oxford he was determined to go to the Bar – as hazardous a career then as now. He was called to the Bar by Lincoln’s Inn, and Francis, who always seemed prepared to take the more difficult course, chose practice in the Chancery Division. In those days this was an even more speculative choice as work was seriously hampered by the repressive attitudes of the then Chancery judges – and I well remember Francis gloomily making a modest sustenance at the Land Registry, extracting titles for the princely sum of two guineas a time. Notwithstanding that, his love for Sheila, a constant since childhood, remained unabated, and they were married in 1957 in High Wycombe Church. Their love and devotion for each other and for Andrew, Christopher, Caroline and Jeremy, and their grandchildren over the last sixty years, have been a model for us all. Francis’s love of and interest in the Thames Valley remained unabated. After National Service he became an enthusiastic Territorial Army officer in the Royal Bucks & Berks Yeomanry, obtaining his majority and rising to the command of his battery. His love of the river led him to membership of Marlow Rowing Club, where he became Captain, subsequently Chairman, and finally President. He was to be seen regularly umpiring races at regattas up and down the river. The Club paid tribute to him in the form of a boat named after him, which he duly christened in champagne! He was elected a member of Leander Club, where his and Sheila’s generous hospitality towards friends and family made annual visits to Henley Regatta particularly attractive, if doubtless onerous to them both.

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Francis’s natural talent and determination soon overcame the difficulties of the profession, and gradually life in the Chancery Division improved as the more repressive judges passed on; he developed a large and successful practice from his chambers at 13 Old Square. As a junior he was appointed standing counsel to the Director-General of Fair Trading and was elected to the Bar Council, and subsequently to the Senate of the Inns of Court and the Bar. He took Silk in 1980, and spread his wings with many expeditions to work in Hong Kong, coming home with a wide variety of oriental collectables – most of which still adorn his house at Shiplake. He was duly elected a Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn in 1987. Francis was appointed to the High Court by Lord Chancellor Mackay in the summer of 1990 – as it happens, so was I, and in the same week. We both went to Buckingham Palace on the same day to receive our knighthoods – having to leave our wives in the courtyard! The cousinly relationship between our respective wives provoked an enquiring comment from the Queen, and some sardonic remarks by Marcel Berlins in the Guardian. During his time as a Judge of the High Court Francis was elected an Honorary Fellow of Oriel in 2000 – an honour that I know he greatly treasured. To complete the parallels, we both also retired in the spring of 2003, within a week of each other. Francis retreated to Shiplake to devote himself to his garden, his begonias and his family – supported, as always, by Sheila and the children. His life was dogged in recent years by ill-health, but he was a very brave man, remarkably stoical, and never ever complained. His was a good life, full of honour, of achievement and success, of which his family and his many friends may be justly proud. Sir Michael Wright (1953)

ERIC GLOVER (1953)

Eric Glover was born in Liverpool in June 1935. After attending Liverpool Institute Grammar School he won an open scholarship to Oriel in 1953, where he achieved a First in Classical Mods and Greats. I first met Eric when, as a Fresher in 1955, I was lured away from the welcoming party in the JCR and persuaded to join the Boat Club. One term as a member in what I think was the 4th VIII was enough to convince me that rowing was not for me. Eric, however, excelled, rowing at number five and becoming Captain in 1956. He had happy memories of his time at Oxford, keeping in touch with Oriel and promoting its interests. He was elected to the Oriel Society committee and attended many of its functions and trips. Many will remember the moving visit he organised to the First World War battlefields around Ypres and the many graves and memorials – and in particular the grave of Oriel’s VC, Thomas Riversdale Colyer-Fergusson. His first employment was with Shell International, which posted him to Borneo. He took up rugby but unfortunately broke his leg. The plates and screws inserted by way of repair were to be a lifelong difficulty for him. Time off was spent in Hong Kong and there he met his wife, Adele. They were married in Borneo in 1960 before moving to Uganda, where the first of their three sons was born. It was here that he suffered from polio, which affected his left leg. The worst effects were to be felt years later, gradually restricting his sporting pursuits, although he continued to be very actively involved.

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After their return to England Eric joined the Chartered Institute of Bankers and worked there until his retirement in 1995. I was working in banking and was aware of his progress, although I did not make myself known to him. For many years he had responsibility for arranging the Instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s international summer schools. These were held all over the world, usually in an academic setting, and he enjoyed many working trips abroad. He was appointed Secretary of the Institute in 1981 and oversaw growth in its membership and the implementation of improved professional standards; in recognition he was made an Honorary Fellow of Sheffield Hallam University in 1992. But retirement from the Institute was not the end of Ericâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s City life. He worked as an expert witness for educational and banking issues, and served on the British Accreditation Council, setting standards in Further and Higher Education. I am writing this note because thirty years ago, when moving house, I found that the Glovers were to be our next-door neighbours. Eric had not changed. He had given up squash and tennis but was an active swimmer and golfer, and spent many hours working in his garden, right up to the end of his life. He was a very friendly and hospitable neighbour, keeping me up to date on College gossip, and we often travelled to Oxford together for the Oriel Society weekends. He was also a formidable debater and a star performer in a local debating group. I never came off best in discussions with him; he had forthright views on several topics on which we disagreed. His unexpected death on 6 August 2017 was a great loss, but it was peaceful, and Adele was at his side. A personal tribute by his Oriel friend Laurie Clegg (1955)

PROFESSOR DEREK GRAY (EMERITUS FELLOW)

Derek Gray was born in 1950. In 1989 he became a Fellow of Oriel, where he taught gross anatomy to first-year medical students, as well as introducing computer-driven projections of dissectible anatomy, comparing that with radiological images. He was one of the outstanding young people I have had the pleasure to work with and it is so sad that his academic surgical career, although not his research career, was brought to an untimely end by his Parkinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disease. He was an original thinker, as illustrated by his development of a theory for the biological role of the major histocompatibility complex molecules. He also introduced a computerised timetabling system for Medical School teaching, which gave students the opportunity to feed back their opinion of their last teaching session. To this he added the concept of notional credits for teaching so that it was possible to reward those teachers who delivered excellence. In the mid-1970s he did some very innovative experimental research projects with pancreatic islets in the rodent but he was desperately interested in trying to isolate islets from the human pancreas, which had not been achieved at that date other than in very crude proportions. After nearly a year at work he was successful in producing an exceptionally pure isolation of human pancreatic islets. A few years later the first human islet transplant was performed at Oxford. The techniques he had developed were rapidly

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adapted by the other few units in the world working on human pancreatic islet transplantation. Derek leaves behind two sons, James and Robert. His wife, Annie, who was an enormous support to him, sadly died of pancreatic cancer some years ago. Taken from a tribute by Sir Peter J. Morris

CHRISTOPHER HALL (1960)

Christopher Hall was educated at Wellington College and in 1960 won an open Exhibition to Oriel, where he read History. He was brought up in Camberley, a place surrounded by the military, with the Staff College and RMA Sandhurst across the road from where he lived. Thus it was in some ways no surprise that he was sent to Wellington, it being the local public school, although Christopher was the last person to be engaged in military activities – or interests. However, the ethos of the Iron Duke may well have inspired his interest in History, which was to remain with him always. On leaving Oriel he took articles with a firm of solicitors. It was not that he then had a keen interest in the Law, it was more that he could enjoy the intellectual challenge of working with a system that governed society and its relationships with the individual. He had a social conscience – and therefore no attraction to the heady world of business and corporate profit. Having qualified, he joined a Fleet Street ‘Boutique’ firm of solicitors that specialised in aviation law: this he enjoyed, as he got on well with the two partners and was free, under their tutelage, to explore an area of Law unknown to many. Unfortunately the firm broke up, and he followed one partner into a large London firm, but this was not to his taste, it being too commercial and competitive. Thus when he received his family inheritance he took time out to travel the world, overland to Australia via Nepal in the first year and on to South America, via the Galapagos, in the second. On his return he could find no opening in the Law that attracted him. Eventually he took up a part-time post with the National Union of Students, advising on grants and benefits. This finally led to a role in the Judiciary, with the Social Security Appeal Commissioners, who relied on reports by Christopher and his colleagues to issue their decisions. He was so well thought of by his colleagues and the Commissioners that, on reaching retirement age, he was re-engaged as a consultant and continued working parttime until prevented by his final illness. This post in the judiciary gave him long-lasting satisfaction, providing a useful service to society to match his intellectual abilities. It had taken some time for him to find his niche but, once found, it was much valued. While being a very private person, Christopher maintained many longstanding friendships. He was kind, generous and considerate, with good conversation: no heated debate, just civilised commentary with quiet humour on life and literature and, naturally, the finer points of wine and cuisine. His mind was constantly engaged in visiting new areas or refreshing the old: he would mix degree course work at Birkbeck College, which even involved exhausting field trips, with the sensitive appreciation of music. His well-attended funeral service in April 2014 in London, truly reflected the essence of Christopher’s spirit: Handel’s Water Music, Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Hymn by Vaughan

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Williams and readings of the Good Samaritan and Dr Johnson. He is much missed by family and friends and will be long remembered with great fondness. From an obituary by his friend Christian Fitzhugh

CECIL (BILL) HODGES (1940)

Cecil (Bill) Hodges, educated at Winchester College, won a scholarship in 1940 to Oriel College to read Classics. After Classical Mods, where he achieved a First, he was called up. He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1942 and landed in Normandy on D-Day; he later served in Holland and Germany. He was one of the first British officers to enter Belsen and his letters home, full of the horror of that place, are now held in the Imperial War Museum. Demobbed as a Captain in 1945, Bill joined the Civil Service and began a successful career in the Treasury from 1947. His most interesting job was as Treasury Adviser to the UK Mission to the UN in New York from 1961 to 1963. He was loaned to the Department of Economic Affairs between 1966 and 1968, and then went to the Cabinet Office from 1972 until 1974. He was appointed CBE for his work in the Treasury. On retirement Bill moved to the Cotswolds with his partner, Bernard Finn – their dinner parties were renowned throughout the area. Bill and Bernard took advantage of new legislation to form a Civil Partnership in 2005. Increasing infirmity persuaded them to return to London. Despite deafness and deteriorating eyesight, Bill maintained his sense of humour. Having been known as Cecil but always wanting to be Bill, he waited until the death of his mother aged 101 before he changed his name. Oriel is extremely grateful to Bill for generously giving to the College in his will. He died in 2016 aged 95. Taken from The Trusty Servant, the Old Wykehamists magazine

BEN LEONG (2005)

Ben Leong will be remembered as a lively intellect, gifted communicator and muchloved friend. Originally from Yorkshire, Ben read Classics at Oriel, where his gregarious nature put him at the centre of College life. After university Ben worked in Malaysia (where his father’s family originated) in education, before returning to London and embarking on a successful career in Public Relations. Ben’s first job in the sector was at Hotwire, a global communications agency where he specialised in Financial Technology. This led to him being recruited by a client, World Remit, joining as their Head of Communications. In this role for a major disrupter to the remittances market, Ben was committed to trying to break the cosy near-monopoly of such firms as Western Union, which are notorious for charging extortionate fees. As part of this campaign Ben was a key part of World Remit, showcasing how migrants make sacrifices to improve their own lives and those they support financially. After two years running media campaigns from Sydney to Kampala and many other places in between, Ben moved to Milltown Partners, a global advisory firm. There he was engaged in solving complex communications, public policy and reputation challenges for firms such as Facebook. Ben took his own life in 2017. Among the many tributes to him has been that of his former tutor Bruno Currie, who said: ‘He was the academic star of his year, with an obvious

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passion and a seriousness for the subject that are not commonly found in students (even at Oxford)’. Yet despite the assiduousness that made Ben a Scholar, he was by no means unafraid of having a good time. What I remember most of Ben both at Oriel and later was how he was great company. Conversations with Ben were always eclectic and over the years became so layered with jokes and call-backs that they were practically a verbal lasagne. And though he loved that mental freewheeling with friends, it would not be exclusive – depending on audience, he would happily change tack so that each group interaction was like joining your own temporary cult. This aptitude was no doubt why he was so successful in the field of communications. It is remarkable that all the stories and reminiscences of Ben, no matter what quarter they come from, chime with the same essence of his character. He would craft the medium and the method, but his message was always the same. I was on holiday with Ben in the week before his suicide and he spoke to me about his depression. He had always been remarkably open with friends about his difficulties, something I know to have helped a lot of people to face their own issues. Unfortunately, I do not think I grasped the severity of what he was facing or knew what to do, short of listening. It is in the hope of providing practical help to others in his situation that his friends and I have been raising money for Mind, the Mental Health Charity. If you would like to donate, the link is www.justgiving.com/fundraising/benjaminleong. Ben is survived by his parents Tommy and Susan, brother and sister-in-law Nathan and Kylie, and his fiancée, Ellie. Matt Lacey (2005)

OLIVER MONTGOMERY (1941)

Oliver Montgomery was born in London in 1922. He was awarded a scholarship to Harrow and thence an Exhibition to Oriel. The war prevented him going up immediately to Oxford, and in August 1941 he enlisted in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps. After eight months in the ranks he was granted an Emergency Commission and served in the 7th Battalion in Italy and France, and after the war in Palestine. In January 1947 he was demobilised and went up to Oriel to read PPE, but did not complete his degree. In 1949 he re-joined the Kings Royal Rifle Corps and in 1952 transferred to the newly formed 23rd King’s African Rifles (23 KAR), based in Nanyuki, Kenya, at the start of the Emergency. Oliver retired from the Army in 1954 and later that year joined the Colonial Office and worked in East Africa in the Treasury and Revenue departments. He subsequently had a number of clerical jobs in Britain and Australia, in banks and the Post Office, before retiring in 1987. Settled in Croydon, he led a very reclusive life but enjoyed keeping fit by walking and swimming. He remained mentally active by taking numerous A-levels. He boasted nearperfect eyesight, having never looked at a television or computer screen. Oliver Montgomery married, in 1948, Penelope (Pella) Watkins, who predeceased him in 1993; he is survived by their daughter and their two sons. David, their younger son, retired from the Army in the rank of brigadier in 2000, having commanded the 7th Armoured Brigade, the Desert Rats. Adapted from the Daily Telegraph (© Telegraph Media Group Limited 2016)

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ANTHONY ROE (1948)

Anthony Roe was born in 1929 and grew up in North London. He was the youngest of four children. All his life he was involved, as were all his family, with the Liberal Jewish Synagogue. As a small boy he went to the Religion School but when the war came the gap in his religious education was covered by correspondence classes. He was confirmed in April 1946. He was a boarder at Harrow School and eventually head of his house. He won a scholarship to Oriel where he read Chemistry, for which he was awarded a First. He coxed the College 1st VIII. He then continued his studies and was eventually awarded a doctorate. Consequently, he was already twenty-five when he did his National Service, joining the Intelligence Corps where he met Maureen, a Wren Officer working in Naval Intelligence. They married in 1958. His first (and according to his son Adam only) full-time job, starting in 1959, was as an Organic Chemist at Smith, Kline & French, where he rose through the ranks. When he retired in 1986 he was Director of Chemistry. While at Smith Kline he worked with Jim Black, who became Sir James Black, the Nobel Laureate involved in the discovery and development of the anti-ulcer blockbuster medicine Tagamet. After retirement Anthony and Maureen travelled extensively. He became more active in the Synagogue and wider Jewish community. He enjoyed involving himself in local community work as well as Oriel College events, which he never wanted to miss despite having severe hearing difficulties. He terrorised any organisation that did not have adequate facilities for the hard of hearing, and in this context it is rumoured he threatened to remove Oriel from his Will if they did not install a loop! Anthony had a great interest in people and wanted to know everyone better. He was a great family man and he greatly missed Maureen, who died some years before him. His outlook, as will be remembered by all who knew him, was ‘be active, love each other, love living, love doing and then be more active’. Adapted from a eulogy by his son Adam

VIJAY K. SHAH (1969)

My brother Vijay K. Shah loved his years at Oriel College. After completing his BA in Political Science at Stanford University, California, he applied to Oxford for graduate studies. He was travelling at the time and did not receive his acceptance letter. Just before the academic year began he got a letter from Oriel advising him what to bring to College, including a teapot. On further investigation, and much to his delight, he discovered that he had been accepted for a BPhil at Oriel. There he studied politics. Upon completion, he was accepted for a DPhil on communist parties in India, and was honoured to have Sir Penderel Moon (former administrator in India and writer) as his advisor. Midway, Vijay changed course to work with his father in India in the textile industry. Subsequently he returned to the US and worked in communications and fundraising for public institutions including The Wilderness Society, Audubon Society and The Smithsonian Institution. He hoped upon retirement to complete his doctorate at Oxford, but sadly he fell ill and died on 16 June 2017. Devi Shah (Vijay’s sister)

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NICOL SMITH (1950)

Nicol Smith was born in Plymouth in 1930. After school in Bournemouth he came up to Oriel in 1950 to read Law. He subsequently qualified as a solicitor and worked at Poole District Council. He married in 1956 and with his wife and two children moved in 1966 to Bradford-on-Avon, where he got a job with Wiltshire County Council as the Secretary Solicitor for the county, a position he held until his retirement in 1991. A keen rower, Nicol was a long-term member of the Bradford-on-Avon Rowing Club until he developed Alzheimer’s disease. Being an Orielensis was a source of immense pride and pleasure to him. His Torpids oar hung in his house and he was happiest when talking to his rowing colleagues when he met them in the Stewards’ enclosure at Henley Regatta, resplendent in his Oriel blazer. He continued to row until he was nearly eighty. A life well lived. Adapted from the Wiltshire Gazette and Herald

DR MARK WHITTOW (PROVOST DESIGNATE)

A distinguished scholar of Byzantine history, Mark Whittow always believed that past events had to be studied as much through landscapes and physical objects as through texts – of which few survived – at his desk. And so it was that he found himself in Sicily measuring the outside of a castle built on a ‘good defensive site’, or in other words hundreds of feet above a perilous drop. He fell, turned a couple of somersaults, but was halted by a ledge. It was a near thing. Suffering from shock, Whittow took to his bed for twenty-four hours and was woken only when fire suddenly surrounded the isolated farmhouse in which he was staying. With typical gusto, he was soon pouring buckets of water on the flames as it was a case of all hands – literally – to the pump. Around Oxford he was an instantly recognisable figure: always in a suit – usually tweed, often in a bow tie, usually with a hat. He seemed like a character from an older, more distant world, which included his role as senior member of the student Conservative Association. At his installation as Proctor, he insisted on using the real fur hood rather than the synthetic version preferred by most, on the grounds that it was the only time he was likely to be asked to wear ermine. Despite giving the appearance of a Bertie Wooster, it was agreed that he possessed all the pragmatism of a Jeeves, usually able to secure funding or extract a new post as lecturer. With his sharp mind – every apparently diverging line of thought led to a pithy conclusion – he was also a passionate advocate of the most avant-garde historical ideas, especially global history. In his efforts to uncover the reach of the Byzantines, he roved across continents and centuries and was dubbed the ‘global medievalist’. In one conversation he might have

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covered subjects from the Romans and Arabs before the rise of Islam, to the influence of mothers in China, or local, regional and long-distance trade in the medieval economy. The French writer Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie once divided historians into truffle hunters and parachutists. Truffle hunters dig around for buried treasure, often ignoring the wider picture; parachutists view the whole landscape from a great height. Colleagues agreed that Whittow was both – able to survey the Middle Ages in one sweep or use an ancient silver coin or picture to illuminate his points. In 1996 he wrote The Making of Orthodox Byzantium 600–1025, which argued that the Byzantine empire, spanning territories from Armenia to southern Italy, was a multi-ethnic power rather than a continuation of Roman empire. His favourite cry was: ‘And have you read…’ In the 1990s he ran digs across Jordan and Turkey, where he spent almost six years surveying castles. On one Turkish dig he was visited by an official deputation convinced that he had dug up a golden phallus. Needless to say, it was nonsense. Once the officials had searched the dig house and seen the extraordinary care the team was taking over a few unglazed potsherds, good relations were restored. A fierce promoter of younger scholars, he had a habit of writing to junior academics abroad – usually unknown to him personally – to commend them on their first book, much to their amazement. His theatrical abilities as a lecturer were infamous. ‘Where most can only give shy am-dram, with Mark you had the full RSC’, one colleague said. His quirky turns of phrase – ‘Whittowisms’ – were collected by his students. ‘St Fluffwater the Obscure’ was used for many a lesser-known saint, while he often dated committee minutes with ‘the Feast day of St Ambrosius’ or similar – the more obscure the better. Mark Whittow was born in 1957 in Cambridge to John Whittow, an accountant, and his wife, Joan. He went to King’s College School until his father died when he was ten, and thereafter on a scholarship to Lord Wandsworth College in Hampshire. After reading history at Trinity College, Oxford, he taught himself Greek and did a PhD in Byzantine History. Posts as a lecturer followed at Oxford and King’s College, London; most recently he was college lecturer in Medieval History at St John’s College, Oxford. He was Senior Proctor of the University in 2016–17, which he handled with skill, despite his outspoken tastes and opinions. He had been elected to take the post of Provost of Oriel in September 2018. He met his wife, Helen – later a barrister and deputy high court judge – when she was finishing a degree in Oriental Languages at Oxford in 1982. They travelled frequently together. On one occasion Whittow, who had a very good head for heights, persuaded Helen, who did not, to climb up to another ruined castle in Turkey. The sandstone outcrop on which it was built was so eroded that they had to climb the cliff next door and cross a saddle no more than a foot wide. Whittow pranced across like a mountain goat, but Helen had to sit with legs dangling over a 200-ft drop each side and wriggle over. When she collapsed into a bush on the far side, she thought she was hallucinating and could smell gin. It took a moment to realise that she was sitting in a juniper bush. The pair were married at St Bartholomew the Great in Smithfield, London, in 1987 and had three children: George, Mary and Flossy. One is still at school and the other two have just graduated. An excellent cook, bon viveur and lover of good conversation – elements he believed were essential to a good undergraduate education – he gave legendary drinks

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parties in College and at his house in Holywell Street. But they were famous not because of the drinks or grilled mackerel, but because he had the capacity to bring together the most unlikely people: the least distinguished undergraduates mixing with the most remarkable scholars; Trotskyites discussing history with the highest of High Tories; and visitors from all of the world speaking every manner of language. In between, he published innumerable articles and monographs. He was working on his next two books when he died. However, his ideas had been well disseminated through his teaching. It was said that over the years many students chose courses explicitly because Whittow taught them. His tutorials, accompanied by strong coffee (never Nescafé), hot milk, sticky iced buns and, occasionally, snuff – were always, in his words, ‘a hoot’. Mark Whittow was born on 24 August 1957. He died in a road accident on 23 December 2017, aged sixty. © The Times, 26 January 2018

PETER WOOD (1957)

Peter Wood was born in Jeresey in 1938 and went to Christ’s Hospital School, from where he won an Exhibition to Oriel in 1957 to read Natural Sciences. On graduating from Oriel in 1960 he first joined the Research Department of Shell, but subsequently left to study Business Management at the Harvard Business School between 1964 and 1966. The bulk of his career thereafter was devoted to work in the United States, for the most part in New York. He was a member of the international management consulting firm McKinsey & Company between 1966 and 1981, becoming a partner from 1971. He moved to the New Yorkbased investment banking sector in 1981, first with Kidder, Peabody & Co. and from 1986 with J.P. Morgan, as a Managing Director. He retired from investment banking in 1996 but held positions on a number of boards in the United States thereafter. Peter and his wife JoAnn (née Chatelain) lived in a beautiful house in Greenwich Village, where their walls were full of stunning works of art. Shortly after Peter’s retirement from full-time employment they left New York and bought and refurbished a house on the shores of Lake Squam in New Hampshire. They had by then acquired a considerable collection of contemporary paintings and sculpture, largely of American origin, but also including some notable British works. They became active members of the community around Lake Squam. Peter, who had long been a keen skier, was able there also to indulge his lifelong fascination with mountains, regularly exploring the local terrain. He was active throughout his life in charitable endeavours on behalf of Christ’s Hospital as well as Oriel. He and his wife were warm and outgoing hosts to their friends and relatives – a category they defined with loose and kind-hearted generosity – whether in New York or New Hampshire. Peter always retained his affection and concern for those he had known as a boy, whether in Jersey or the UK as a whole, as well of course for his many North American friends. They in turn have followed his decline in health over the last few years with sympathetic engagement and gratitude for the care taken by his wife JoAnn, who survives him. Peter died in November 2017. Andrew Wood, Peter’s brother

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OTHER DEATHS NOTIFIED SINCE SEPTEMBER 2017 BYWORTH, The Revd Christopher Henry Briault (1958)

31 August 2017

CORCOS, Mr David Frederick (1949)

5 June 2018

CLARK, Mr Michael John (1958)

8 November 2017

HARGREAVES, Mr John Kenneth (1966)

6 November 2017

JAMES, Mr William Jeremy Layard (1958)

7 January 2018

JEFFERSON, Mr Anthony Andrew (1940) OLIVER, Mr David Walker (1953) RICHARDS, Mr Peter Anthony (1956)

6 April 2018

RILEY, Mr Patrick George (1974) TOMLINSON, Mr John (1961) WOOD, Mr Anthony Eland (1942)

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DATES OF FULL TERM Michaelmas 2018 Hilary 2019 Trinity 2019

Sunday 7 October – Saturday 1 December Sunday 13 January – Saturday 9 March Sunday 28 April – Saturday 22 June

GAUDIES

From time to time we review our Gaudy scheduling, so please visit the Oriel website for the latest schedule. Please note that invitations are always sent three months in advance to those eligible to attend. There may be limited spaces available for those who have missed out to join an upcoming Gaudy (with priorities given to adjacent years). Over the next two years Gaudies will be held for the following years of matriculation: 2019 2008 – 2009 1972 – 1975 2010 – 2011

2020 1953 – 1959 1990 – 1992 1993 – 1995

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 2018

THURSDAY 6 DECEMBER Varsity Rugby Match Oxford and Cambridge rugby match held at Twickenham Stadium.

2019

SATURDAY 9 FEBRUARY Returners’ Dinner A dinner for Orielenses who graduated in 2018. FRIDAY 22 FEBRUARY Manchester Dinner A dinner for Orielenses in Manchester. FRIDAY 15 MARCH 2008 – 2009 Gaudy Black tie dinner in Hall preceded by drinks in the Large SCR.

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SATURDAY 16 MARCH Adam de Brome Lunch and Lecture Annual lunch in College for members of the Adam de Brome Society and guests. FRIDAY 22 MARCH – SUNDAY 24 MARCH Tokyo Alumni Weekend Open to all Orielenses and their guests, an alumni weekend in Tokyo hosted by the University of Oxford. FRIDAY 10 MAY Champagne Concert Performance and champagne interlude in the Senior Library, with optional pre-concert supper. SATURDAY 25 MAY Raleigh Society Garden Party Annual garden party for members of the Raleigh Society (by invitation). Oriel Alumni Garden Party Garden party for all alumni to celebrate the last day of Summer Eights. SATURDAY 29 JUNE 1972 – 1975 Gaudy Black tie dinner in Hall preceded by drinks in the Large SCR. SATURDAY 20 JULY Provost's Lunch Lunch for those who matriculated up to and inclusive of 1954. FRIDAY 13 – SUNDAY 15 SEPTEMBER Oxford Alumni Weekend Open to all Orielenses and guests, University-wide events over the weekend with the Oriel Society Annual Dinner in College on Friday and lunch available on Saturday. If you wish to receive further details or to book for any of these events, please visit the event pages of the Alumni website (www.alumni.oriel.ox.ac.uk/events/). For queries, contact events@oriel.ox.ac.uk. Please note that for all events in College we have an induction loop permanently installed in Hall.

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NOTES

ORIEL RECORD

The Editor of the Oriel College Record is Dr Douglas Hamilton, Oriel College, and he wishes to record his gratitude to the College Development Office for invaluable help. The Editor will be glad to receive news of Orielenses of all generations. In addition, all Orielenses and other interested persons are warmly invited to submit items and articles with a view to publication in future editions, whether about the College or about the past or present activities of its members. The Editor is grateful to Peter Collett for compiling the Obituaries. Reminiscences or short notes for inclusion in the obituaries in future issues of the Record may be sent to him at the College Development Office (development.office@oriel.ox.ac.uk).

CHANGES OF ADDRESS

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Edited by Dr Douglas Hamilton Designed by Raymonde Watkins Printed by Lavenham Press

CORRIGENDA The editor apologises for the following errors and omissions in the 2017 edition of the Oriel Record: SPORTS ACHIEVEMENTS

Matthew Noble was awarded a full Blue, rather than a half Blue, in Powerlifting. AWARDS AND PRIZES

Katherine Hong was awarded the Gibbs Prize in Philosophy for the best overall performance in a Philosophy paper in the FHS of Literae Humaniores, and a Gibbs Prize in Classics for her performance in Course II in the FHS of Literae Humaniores. DEGREES AND EXAMINATION RESULTS

Honour School of Chemistry George Sackman

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Honour School of Modern Languages Christy Calloway-Gale

Honour School of Politics, Philosophy and Economics Stevan Boljevic

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Honour School of History and Economics George Graves

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