Commemorating Somervillians

Somerville’s Commemoration 2021

In the Somerville Commemoration, we remember our alumni who have died during the previous year. The occasion underlines the relationship between the College and its members, one founded on the values, ideals and history we share as a community. The Commemoration usually takes the form of a Service in Chapel but due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Service was replaced this year with an online video Commemoration on May 29th, featuring an address from the Principal and music from the Choir. The list of those commemorated appears below. You can watch the service again and read a Commemoration booklet of obituaries on our website by scanning the attached QR code. In 2022 we hope to return to a live Service in the College Chapel on Saturday 11 June and all Somervillians will be welcome to attend. We particularly invite close family members and Somervillian friends of those who are to be commemorated.

If you know of any Somervillians who have died recently but are not listed here, please contact Liz Cooke (elizabeth.cooke@some.ox.ac.uk).

2021 commemoration online

FELLOWS

Fiona Caldicott née Soesan (1960 St Hilda’s; Principal of Somerville 19962010) on 15 February 2021, Aged 80 Mary Jane Hands (Bursar 1960-63; Fellow and Treasurer, 1963-1995; Emeritus Fellow 1995) on 13 December 2020, Aged 92 Jane Kister (1963; Fellow 1971-78), Mathematics, on 1st December 2019, Aged 75 Theresa Joyce Stewart née Raisman (1948; Honorary Fellow), Mathematics, on 11 November 2020, Aged 90 Shirley Vivian Brittain Williams (1948; Honorary Fellow), PPE, on 12 April 2021, Aged 90

ALUMNI

Sonia Primrose Anderson (1962, History) on 8 September 2020, Aged 76 Geraldine Jasmine Ashworth (1973, Physiology) on 4 February 2020, Aged 75 Gillian Margaret Batty née Lipsham (1964, Physiology) on 2 January 2021, Aged 75 Julie Gabrielle Beadle née Molloy (1982, Jurisprudence) on 26 August 2020, Aged 56 Rosalind Irene Bearcroft née Chamberlain (1946, Physiology) on 18 January 2020, Aged 93 Catherine (Kate) Belsey née Prigg (1959, English) on 14 February 2021, Aged 80 Cecily Mary Eleanor Bennett née Hastings (1942, Mod Langs) on 25 September 2020, Aged 96 Vivienne Blackburn (1949, Mod Langs) on 31 March 2020, Aged 89 Gabrielle (Gaby) Eve Charing (1962, PPE) on 24 May 2020, Aged 76 Valerie Sylvia Diamand née Armstrong (1956, Chemistry) on 2 May 2020, Aged 82 Ann Cunnington Diamond née Geale (1950, Chemistry) on 29 August 2020, Aged 89 Audrey Gladys Donnithorne (1945, PPE) on 9 June 2020, Aged 97 Clare Margaret Cruice Eaglestone née Goodall (1953, History) on 6 August 2020, Aged 85 Josephine Eckhard (1946, History) on 21 January 2021, Aged 93 Judith Gray (1970, History) on 3 June 2020, Aged 68 Daphne May Green née Fenner (1954, Mathematics) on 14 November 2020, Aged 84 Gladys Brett Green née Brett-Harris (1946, Mod Langs) on 6 January 2021, Aged 93 Jane Greenall-Scott née Greenall (1987, PPE) on 13 December 2020, Aged 52 Rhiannon Berresford Griffiths (1995, Music/English) in May 2020, Aged 42 Ann Mary Margaret Hales Tooke née Petre (1944, PPE) on 6 November 2020, Aged 94 Ruth Mary Katharine How (1947, Physics) on 29 June 2020, Aged 91 Gabrielle (Gay) Mary Jones née McGrath (1968, Mathematics) on 17 June 2020, Aged 70 Angur Baba Joshi (1957, B.Litt Social Studies) on 20 June 2020, Aged 87 Carol Ann Mariotti née Ashton (1958, History) on 23 February 2021, Aged 82 Jane Helen Victoria Mellanby (1956, Phys.Sci) on 8 February, Aged 82 Margaret Middleton née Rider (1960, Mathematics) on 12 July 2020, Aged 79 Elly Miller née Horovitz (1946, PPE) on 8 August 2020, Aged 92 Katherine Mary Nichols née Lambert (1968, PPE) on 3 September 2020, Aged 70 Olga Olver née Robb (1942, Mod Langs) on 7 December 2019, Aged 95 Sheila May Porter (1951, Lit.Hum.) 1 August 2020, Aged 88 Clare Robertson (JRF, 1982-5, History of Art) on 20 June 2020, Aged 63 Lorna Miranda Shea (1953, English) on 14 February 2021, Aged 85 Gillian Anne Simmill née Evans (1954, English) on 28 September 2019, Aged 84 Lydia Margaret Speller née Agnew (1975, DPhil Theology) on 9 February 2021, Aged 66 Nancy Stratten née Coward (1954, Botany) on 29 June 2020, Aged 84 Alison Jean Sutherland (1951, Chemistry) on 10 March 2020, Aged 87 Dorothy Twiss née Casson (1940, Lit. Hum. ) on 1 July 2019, Aged 97 Diana Caroline (Carol) Uhlenbroek née Barnsley (1951, Chemistry) on 26 October 2020, Aged 87 Ann Elizabeth Wardle née Taylor (1969, Dip. Statistics) in about June 2020, Aged 72 Valerie Margaret Warner (1965, History) on 10 October 2020, Aged 74 Michael Jonathan Wyman (History) on 3 January 2021, Aged 40