St Edmund Hall Magazine 2013-14

Magazine ST EDMUND HALL

2013-2014

ST EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE • 2013-14

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EDITOR: Dr Brian Gasser (1975) With thanks to Gillian Powell and Claire Hooper magazine.editor@seh.ox.ac.uk

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Vol. XVIII No. 5 ST EDMUND HALL MAGAZINE October 2014 SECTION 1: THE COLLEGE LIST 2013-2014..................................................1 SECTION 2: REPORTS ON THE YEAR...........................................................10 From the Principal.............................................................................................11 From the Senior Common Room......................................................................18 SCR Obituaries.............................................................................................32 New Fellowship Arrivals................................................................................41 From the Senior & Finance Bursar....................................................................45 From the Home Bursar......................................................................................47 From the Library Fellow....................................................................................49 From the Archive Fellow....................................................................................54 From the Chaplain ...........................................................................................55 From the Director of Music...............................................................................57 From the Director of Studies for Visiting Students ...........................................59 From the Schools Liaison Officer ......................................................................59 From the President of the Junior Common Room.............................................62 From The President of the Middle Common Room.......................................... 63 Student Clubs and Societies............................................................................... 66 SECTION 3: THE YEAR GONE BY..................................................................76 Awards and Prizes..............................................................................................77 Another High-Flyer...........................................................................................80 Masterclass Fund ..............................................................................................81 Artweeks 2014................................................................................................... 82 Hall Photography..............................................................................................83 Hall Writing......................................................................................................84 Blue Jerusalem by Madeleine Saidenberg........................................................87 Collaborative Ballad for Valentine’s Day by the Hall Writers’ Forum................88 Geddes Lecture 2014 and Student Journalism Prizes.......................................... 91 Fitzwilliam College............................................................................................93 News From the Friends of the SEH Boat Club..................................................93 Bumps Supper Speech....................................................................................... 96 Charity Row......................................................................................................97 Teddy Hall Ball 2014.........................................................................................98 The 1963 Gaudy...............................................................................................98 College Silver...................................................................................................104 High Sheriff leaves Tights in Cynthia’s Bedroom..............................................104 Some Reflections from Professor Basil Kouvaritakis.........................................105

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Steve Roberts on Stepping Down.....................................................................107 Degree Days....................................................................................................108 New Hall Video...............................................................................................109 SECTION 4: FROM THE COLLEGE OFFICE RECORDS...........................110 Student Numbers............................................................................................111 New Students 2013-2014................................................................................111 Undergraduate Admissions Exercise 2013........................................................117 Visiting Students 2013-2014...........................................................................117 College Awards and Prizes................................................................................118 University Awards and Prizes...........................................................................123 College Graduate Awards and Prizes ..............................................................124 University Graduate Awards and Prizes ...........................................................125 External Awards...............................................................................................126 Degree Results 2013-2014...............................................................................126 Degree Day Dates 2014-2015......................................................................... 132 SECTION 5: DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE........133 From the Director of Development..................................................................134 Donors to the Hall..........................................................................................137 The Floreat Aula Society..................................................................................148 SECTION 6: ARTICLES AND REVIEWS........................................................150 World War I and members of St Edmund Hall by the Pricipal............................. 151 Edmund: the forgotten saint by Michael Cansdale.............................................164 Bruce Mitchell by Kevin Crossley-Holland.......................................................170 Sir David Yardley’s tennis by Mike Mingos........................................................173 Balancing the botanical and the artistic: Ewan Anderson’s tree drawing................176 Aularian sculptor: Rodney Munday ’s recent work ...............................................178 Making movies and music in LA: Jack Turner.....................................................180 Aularian Publications.......................................................................................182 SECTION 7: FROM THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION.................184 The President’s Report ....................................................................................185 Executive Committee 2014 .............................................................................187 Minutes of the 83rd Annual General Meeting.................................................188 Financial accounts for the year ended 31 May 2014.........................................190 The London Dinner 2014...............................................................................192 SECTION 8: AULARIAN NEWS......................................................................198 De Fortunis Aularium ......................................................................................199 Ave Atque Vale..................................................................................................204 Obituaries........................................................................................................206

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ST EDMUND HALL 2013 – 2014 Visitor The Rt Hon the Lord Patten of Barnes, CH, PC, MA, DCL Principal Keith Gull, CBE (BSc PhD DSc (Hon) Lond), FRS, FMedSci Professor of Molecular Microbiology Fellows Venables, Robert, MA (LLM Lond) QC Fellow by Special Election Blamey, Stephen Richard, BPhil, MA, DPhil Fellow by Special Election in Philosophy Briggs, Adrian, BCL, MA Barrister, Sir Richard Gozney Fellow in Law, Professor of Private International Law, and Tutor in Law Kouvaritakis, Basil, MA (BSc, MSc, PhD Manc) Professor of Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering, and Tutor for Undergraduates Ferguson, Stuart John, MA, DPhil University Reader in Biochemistry, Professor of Biochemistry, W R Miller Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry, Vice-Principal and Senior Tutor Cronk, Nicholas Ernest, MA, DPhil Professor of French Literature, Professorial Fellow; Director of the Voltaire Foundation Newlyn, Lucy Ann, MA, DPhil A C Cooper Fellow, Professor of English, and Tutor in English Language and Literature Martin, Rose Mary Anne, MA, DPhil (BSc Newc) Professor of Abnormal Psychology, Tutor in Psychology, and Director of Studies for Visiting Students Naughton, James Duncan, MA (PhD Camb) Fellow by Special Election in Modern Languages (Czech)* Priestland, David Rutherford, MA, DPhil Tutor in Modern History Whittaker, Robert James, MA (BSc Hull; MSc, PhD Wales) Professor of Biogeography, Tutor in Geography, and Dean Kahn, Andrew Steven, MA, DPhil (BA Amherst; MA Harvard) Professor of Russian Literature and Tutor in Modern Languages (Russian) Manolopoulos, David Eusthatios, MA (BA, PhD Camb) Professor of Theoretical Chemistry and Tutor in Chemistry 2

Podsiadlowski, Philipp, MA (PhD MIT) Professor of Physics and Tutor in Physics Zavatsky, Amy Beth, MA, DPhil (BSc Pennsylvania) University Reader and Tutor in Engineering Science Matthews, Paul McMahan, OBE, MA, DPhil (MD Stanford) FRCPC, FRCP, FMedSci Professor of Neurology, Fellow by Special Election Mountford, Philip, MA, DPhil (BSc CNAA) CChem, FRSC Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Tutor in Chemistry Davidson, Nicholas Sinclair, MA (MA Camb) Tutor in Modern History, and Archive Fellow Barclay, Joseph Gurney, MA Fellow by Special Election Paxman, Jeremy Dickson (MA Camb) Fellow by Special Election Johnson, Paul Robert Vellacott, MA (MB ChB Edin; MD Leic), FRCS, FRCS Ed, FRCS in Ped Surg Professor of Paediatric Surgery and Fellow by Special Election Achinstein, Sharon, MA (AB Harvard; PhD Princeton) Professor of Renaissance Literature, Tutor in English, and Tutor for Graduates Tsomocos, Dimitrios, MA (MA, MPhil, PhD Yale) University Reader in Financial Economics, Fellow by Special Election Johansen-Berg, Heidi, BA, MSc, DPhil Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Senior Research Fellow Roberts, Steven George, MA (BA, PhD Camb) Professor of Materials, John Harris Memorial Fellow, Tutor in Materials Science Tseng, Jeffrey, MA (BS CalTech; MA, PhD Johns Hopkins) Tutor in Physics, and Chapel Overseeing Fellow Wilkins, Robert James, MA, DPhil American Fellow and Tutor in Physiology, Tutor for Admissions Nabulsi, Karma, MA, DPhil Tutor in Politics Williams, Christopher Wesley Charles, MA, DPhil Professor of French Literature and Tutor in Modern Languages (French) Parkin, Ernest Johnstone, MA (MA Virginia; PhD Rensselaer) Home Bursar Riordan, Oliver Maxim, MA (MA, PhD Camb) Professor of Mathematics and Tutor in Mathematics Yueh, Linda Yi-Chuang, MA, DPhil (BA Yale; MPP Harvard; JD NYU) Fellow by Special Election in Economics Yates, Jonathan Robert, MA, DPhil (MSci Camb) Tutor in Materials, and Pictures & Chattels Fellow 3

Dupret, David, (MSc, PhD Bordeaux) Fellow by Special Election Kavanagh, Aileen Frances, MA DPhil (BCL, MA NUI, Magister Legum Europae Hanover; Dipl Vienna) Reader in Law and Tutor in Law Thompson, Ian Patrick, (BSc, PhD Essex) Fellow by Special Election Loenarz, Christoph, DPhil (Dipl Chem Tuebingen) Fellow by Special Election Walker, Richard, BA (MSc Leeds; PhD Camb) Royal Society University Research Fellow, University Lecturer, Oxburgh Fellow and Tutor in Earth Sciences Stagg, Charlotte Jane, DPhil (BSc, MB ChB Bristol) Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Junior Research Fellow Edwards, Claire Margaret, (BSc, PhD Sheff) Fellow by Special Election in Surgery (Bone Oncology) Gaiger, Jason Matthew, (MA St And; MA, PhD Essex) Fellow by Special Election in Contemporary Art History & Theory Sykes, Katharine, MA, DPhil (MA York) John Cowdrey Junior Research Fellow in History Costa, Charles Simon Arthur, MA, MPhil (BSSc Birm) Senior & Finance Bursar Schlinzig, Marie Isabel, MSt, DPhil (BA Viadrina) Fellow by Special Election (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) McCartney, David, BM BCh Fellow by Special Election Gluenz, Eva, (MSc Bern; PhD Lond) Fellow by Special Election Wild, Lorraine, MA, DPhil Fellow by Special Election Aarnio, Outi Marketta, DPhil (Lic Abo Akademi) Fellow by Special Election Stambach, Amy Elizabeth, (MA, PhD Chicago) Fellow by Special Election Palmer, Laura, (BA Colorado State) Fellow by Special Election, and Director of Development Willden, Richard Henry James, (MEng, PhD Imp) Tutor in Engineering Benson, Roger Bernard James, (BA, PhD Camb; MSc Imp) Tutor in Earth Sciences Lozano-Perez, Sergio, DPhil, Dipl (PGCE, Dipl Seville) Kelley Senior Research Fellow in Materials for Hostile Environments 4

Yi, Xiaoou, (BE Huazhong; MSc Stockholm) CCFE Junior Research Fellow in Materials for Fusion Power Reactors Clark, Gordon Leslie, MA, DSc (B Econ, MA Monash; PhD McMaster) Professorial Fellow, Director, Smith School of Enterprise & the Environment Taylor, Jenny Cameron, BA, DPhil Fellow by Special Election Rothwell, Peter Malcolm, MA (MB ChB, MD, PhD Edin), FMedSci Action Research Professor of Clinical Neurology, Professorial Fellow Nuttall, Jennifer Anne, BA, MSt, DPhil (MA East Ang) Fellow by Special Election and College Lecturer in English Goldberg, Leslie Ann, (BA Rice; PhD Edin) Senior Research Fellow Daley, Allison Christine, (BSc Queen’s, Canada; MSc Western Ontario; PhD Uppsala) Junior Research Fellow in Earth Sciences Hopkinson, Richard James, MChem, DPhil William R Miller Junior Research Fellow in Molecular Aspects of Biology Miller, Robin Feuer, (BA Swarthmore; MA, PhD Colombia) Visiting Fellow Nguyen, Luc Le, (BSc Vietnam National; PhD Rutgers) Tutor in Mathematics Quintana-Domeque, Climent, (MA, PhD Princeton) Tutor in Economics Wolter, James Lewis, (BS Michigan; MA, MPhil, PhD Yale) Fellow by Special Election Pavord, Ian Douglas, (MB BS Lond; DM Nott) Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Professorial Fellow Bruce, Peter George, (BSc, PhD Aberdeen), FRS Wolfson Professor of Materials, Professorial Fellow Bishara, Dina, (BA Massachusetts at Amherst; PhD George Washington) Jarvis Doctorow Junior Research Fellow in the Politics and International Relations of the Middle East Dee, Michael, DPhil (BSc Wellington) Junior Research Fellow Karastergiou, Aris, (PhD Bonn) Senior Research Fellow in Astrophysics Karos, Dominik, (PhD Maastrict) Fellow by Special Election in Economics Lakhal-Littleton, Samira, DPhil (BSc UCL) Junior Research Fellow Rossi Carvalho, Mariana, (MSc Sao Paulo; PhD Berlin) Junior Research Fellow *deceased 5

Honorary Fellows Oxburgh, Ernest Ronald, The Rt Hon The Lord Oxburgh, KBE, MA (PhD Princeton), FRS Browne-Wilkinson, Nicolas Christopher Henry, The Rt Hon The Lord Browne-Wilkinson, PC, BA Harris, Roy, MA, DPhil (PhD Lond), FRSA Tindle, David, MA, RA Daniel, Sir John Sagar, Kt, OC, MA (D ès-Sc. Paris) Smethurst, Richard Good, MA Cox, John, MA Miller, William Robert, CBE, MA Kolve, Verdel Amos, MA, DPhil (BA Wisconsin) Cooksey, Sir David James Scott, GBE, MA (DSc (Hon) UCL; DSc (Hon) S’ton), FMedSci Rose, General Sir (Hugh) Michael, KCB, CBE, QGM, MA Gosling, Justin Cyril Bertrand, BPhil, MA Nazir-Ali, Rt Revd Michael James, MLitt (BA Karachi; MLitt Camb; PhD NSW) Jones, Terence Graham Parry, MA Roberts, Gareth, MA Crossley-Holland, Kevin John William, MA (DLitt (Hon) Anglia Ruskin; DLitt (Hon)Worcs), FRSL Graham, Andrew Winston Mawdsley, MA Edwards, Steven Lloyd, OBE, BA Morris, Sir Derek James, Kt, MA, DPhil (DSc Cran; DCL East Ang; LLD Dublin) Doctorow, Jarvis, BA Bowen, David Keith, MA, DPhil, FRS, FEng Byatt, Sir Ian Charles Rayner, Kt, MA, DPhil Morsberger, Philip Burgess, MA Burnton, the Rt Hon Sir Stanley Jeffrey, PC, MA Mingos, David Michael Patrick, MA (BSc Manc; DPhil Sus) FRS, CChem, FRSC Josipovici, Gabriel David, BA, FRSL, FBA Macdonald, Kenneth Donald John, Lord Macdonald of River Glaven, BA, QC Starmer, Sir Keir Rodney, KCB, BCL, QC Shortridge, Sir Jon Deacon, KCB, MA (MSc Edin) Lee, Stewart Graham, BA Khurshid, Salman, BCL St Edmund Fellows Laing, Ian Michael, MA Smith, Sir Martin Gregory, Kt, MA (MBA Stanford) Cansdale, Michael John, MA Stanton, Paul John, MA, BCL 6

Asbrey, William Peter, BA* Pocock, Francis John, MA, DPhil Armitage, Christopher Mead, MA (MA Western Ontario; PhD Duke) *deceased Emeritus Fellows Yardley, Sir David Charles Miller, Kt, MA, DPhil (LLD Birm), FRSA* Hackney, Jeffrey, BCL, MA Donaldson, Iain Malcolm Lane, MA (BSc, MB ChB Edin), MRCP (Lond) Hirsch, Sir Peter Bernhard, Kt, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Camb), FRS Rossotti, Francis Joseph Charles, BSc, MA, DPhil, CChem, FRSC Segar, Kenneth Henry, MA, DPhil Child, Mark Sheard, MA (MA, PhD Camb), FRS Taylor, Ann Gaynor, BM BCh, MA Worden, Alastair Blair, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Camb), FBA Williams, William Stanley Cossom, MA (PhD Lond) Scargill, David Ian, MA, DPhil, JP Farthing, Stephen, MA (MA Royal College of Art), RA Phelps, Christopher Edwin, MA, DPhil Dean of Degrees Dunbabin, John Paul Delacour, MA Stone, Nicholas James, MA, DPhil Reed, George Michael, MA, DPhil (BSc, MS, PhD Auburn) Knight, John Beverley, (BA Natal; MA Camb) MA Crampton, Richard John, MA (BA Dub; PhD Lond; Dr Hon Causa Sofia) Wells, Christopher Jon, MA Wyatt, Derrick Arthur, MA (LL B, MA Camb; JD Chicago), QC Pettifor, David Godfrey, CBE, MA (PhD Camb; BSc Witwatersrand), FRS Borthwick, Alistair George Liam, MA, DSc (BEng, PhD Liv) Collins, Peter Jack, MA, DPhil Phillips, David George, MA, DPhil, FAcSS, FRHistS Brasier, Martin David, MA (BSc, PhD Lond) Palmer, Nigel Fenton, MA, DPhil, (Hon DPhil Bern), FBA Slater, Martin Daniel Edward, MA, MPhil Jenkyns, Hugh Crawford, MA (BSc S’ton; MA Camb; PhD Leic) * deceased Lecturers Allen, Roger William, DPhil (BA, BMus Liv) Music Al-Mossawa, Hussein Medical Sciences Ashbourn, Joanna Maria Antonia, MA (MA Camb; PhD Lond) Physics Baines, Jennifer Christine Ann, MA, DPhil Modern Languages (Russian) 7

Black, John Joseph Merrington, (MB BS Lond), FRCS, FIMC (Edin), FFAEM Anatomy Bukhari, Nuzhat, MSt, DPhil (BA Warw) English Chad, Benjamin Michael John, (MSc Wollongong) Mathematics Conde, Juan-Carlos, MA (BA, PhD Madrid) Modern Languages (Spanish) Frank, Svenja, (BA Eichstätt; MA Freiburg) Lektorin Gant, Andrew John, (MA Camb; MMus, PhD Lond) Music Gundle, Roger, MA, BM BCh, DPhil (MA Camb), FRCS Eng, FRCS Orth Medicine Hewitson, Kirsty Sarah, MChem, DPhil Biochemistry Ingham, Stuart, BA Politics (Political Theory) King, Peter John, BPhil, DPhil Philosophy Kolasinski, James BA Medical Sciences Laidlaw, Michael, DPhil (MA Camb) Inorganic Chemistry Langdell, Sebastian, MSt English Leger, Marie, (Lience Stendhal Grenoble) Modern Languages (French) Littleton, Suellen Marie, (BSc California; MBA Lond) Management Lloyd, Alexandra Louise, BA, MSt, DPhil, PGCE German MacFaul, Thomas, DPhil (BA Camb) English (Renaissance Literature) Mileson, Stephen, MSt, DPhil (BA Warw) History Nicholls, Rebecca, DPhil (MSci Camb) Earth Sciences and Materials Noe, Debrah Pozsonyi, (BS, PhD Ohio State) Finance Robinson, Stuart, MA, DPhil Earth Sciences Salas, Irene, (MA EHESS; MA Paris IV; Maitrise Licence Paris III) French Shine, Brian, (MB ChB, MD Birmingham; MSc Birkbeck), MRCPath, FRCPath

Biomedical Sciences Styles, Elizabeth Anne, DPhil, PGCE (BSc Oxford Polytechnic) Psychology Thompson, Maximilian, BA, MPhil Politics (International Relations) Vaysman, Margarita, MPhil (PhD Perm) Modern Languages (Russian) Wadham, Alastair Jake, DPhil (BA, MPhil Camb) Modern Languages (French) Waters, David John, MA, DPhil (MA Camb) Earth Sciences Wilk, James, MA, DPhil, FCybS Philosophy Williams, Renée, MA French Wright, Katherine, MBiochem Biochemistry Chaplain Donaldson, Revd Will, (MA Camb) Librarian Trepat-Martin, Blanca, (BA Barcelona; Dip Exe)

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College Secretary & Registrar Hunter, Ceri, BA, DPhil (BA Camb; MA Wales) Director of Development Palmer, Laura, (BA Colorado State) Director of Music Watson, Christopher, (BA Exe) Head Porter Knight, Lionel Decanal Staff Springer, David, MEng (BEng Cape Town) Gartrell, Amber, (BA, MA Warw) Murdock, Adrian, (BSc Curtin) Etmannski, Tamara, (BA, BSc Calgary) Feyertag, Joseph, MSc (BA York)

Junior Dean Cover Dean Sub-Dean (NSE) Sub-Dean (WRM) Sub-Dean (Isis)

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SECTION 2:

REPORTS ON THE YEAR

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FROM THE PRINCIPAL The mixed portfolio of teaching, learning and research is “core business” for the Hall.

Much of the rhythm of this place rightly focuses around the teaching and learning of undergraduates and so it will continue. However, the Hall sits firmly amongst the group of Oxford colleges that are home to both undergraduates and graduates. The Junior and Middle Common Rooms are flourishing at Teddy Hall – more of that later. This year, however, I first want to comment on what has been happening in regard to the Hall’s commitment to research and, in particular, the careers of Oxford’s world-class researchers.

Research is an intrinsic part of a Tutorial Fellow’s academic activity. It creates new knowledge, interprets old knowledge, and informs tutorial teaching and curriculum development. Research is an embedded activity throughout the Hall. We are fortunate to have a growing number of Professorial Fellows, Senior Research Fellows and Junior Research Fellows (JRFs) associated with our Fellowship. These bring academic distinction and strengthen the teaching disciplines in which we specialise. The JRF continues to be an extremely important form of Fellowship for the young academic. In the Stipendiary JRF form the Oxford college or department funds the full costs – salary, living costs and research allowance.

The Hall is able, through the generosity of two distinguished Aularians, William R Miller and Jarvis Doctorow, to have two such Stipendiary JRFs associated with the Fellowship. This year we welcomed Dr Richard Hopkinson as William R Miller JRF in Molecular Aspects of Biology, and Dr Dina Bishara, Jarvis Doctorow JRF in the Politics and International Relations of the Middle East.

We need more such appointments.

In the other form of JRF (Non-Stipendiary JRFs) the salary costs are covered mainly by an external funding agency. The Hall then offers a named association with our Fellowship, with the marginal costs provided by the generosity of a donor to the Hall. This form of named JRF has benefit to the funding agency in that it provides integration of their post-holder with the wider Oxford academic community. The Hall benefits in diverse ways through having bright people at the start of their careers associated with its intellectual milieu and student life.

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opportunities to engage with the broader intellectual life and disciplines within Oxford. Again, our ambition is to seek donors to support more of these in the Hall.

In his context we welcome the funding of a new JRF – the Johnson & Johnson Innovation Non-Stipendiary JRF in Neuroscience Related to Medicine. Oxford’s research activity is superb and we recognise the increasing number of young research academics in Oxford who have obtained a prestigious international or national fellowship. This year we established a competitive round of JRF appointments aimed at such young academics. We made three appointments: Drs Michael Dee, Samira Lakhal-Littleton and Mariana Rossi Carvalho. These individuals have been awarded Fellowships by, respectively, the Leverhulme Trust, the British Heart Foundation, and the German Research Foundation.

We hope to make more such appointments as funds become available via the fundraising Campaign for the Hall. These appointments are truly symbiotic, they deepen the expertise in our disciplines to the benefit of our JCR and MCR students and in turn the Hall assists the early career of these talented future academic leaders.

We have also been able to welcome more senior new Fellows to the Hall during the year: Ian Pavord, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Peter Bruce, Wolfson Professor of Materials, Dr James Wolter, Fellow by Special Election in Financial Econometrics, Dr Aris Karastergiou, Senior Research Fellow in Astrophysics and Dr Allison Daley, Lecturer in Animal Diversity. Academics come from all over the world to Oxford for research sabbaticals and it was a great pleasure during this year to host two Visiting Fellows, Professor Robin Feuer Miller and Professor Jeff Almond.

During this last year, in a series of meetings and discussions, plans have been developed for academic and mentoring events that interconnect across the JCR/MCR/SCR membership. The Research Fellows at the Hall are leading this activity in combination with the students. I expect to report very positive outcomes over the years ahead.

Increasingly, Oxford is adopting the post of Career Development Fellow in addition to the long-established JRF post. Many funding agencies and universities have recognised that academics often now spend the initial part of their career with a research focus and only later take on the full integration of 12

this role with teaching and administration. These forms of Career Development Fellowship (CDF) positions allow engagement with the full spectrum of an academic’s role in a managed and mentored way and are highly sought after.

In this context the Hall has raised funds for a Career Development Fellow in Economics in concert with the Department of Economics and it was a pleasure to welcome Dr Dominik Karos in this role which strengthens our economics teaching. In that context we also welcomed Dr Climent Quintana-Domeque as the William R Miller Fellow in Economics. Likewise, Mathematics teaching has been bolstered by Dr Luc Nguyen, as the Tutorial Fellow in Mathematics.

Research is a central part of an academic’s role and I have run a research group since my first academic appointment immediately after my PhD. One observes, however, that an unfortunate imbalance has permeated UK academic life over the past 20 years with a tendency to emphasise the kudos of research versus the “burden” of teaching. Oxford is not immune from this divisive influence. Many, including myself, have had, and will maintain, an individual commitment to excellence and quality in both areas. Interestingly, one finds that the very best researchers are often also the best teachers. In 2009 I chaired a review and wrote the report for the Academy for Medical Sciences on the need for maintenance of teaching quality in UK Universities. Its findings could be applied to any discipline in any university. This year a meeting was held to review progress on the theme of the report: ‘Redressing the balance – the status and valuation of teaching in academic careers’. www.acmedsci.ac.uk/policy/policy-projects/redressing-the-balance-the-statusand-valuation-of-teaching-in-academic-careers/ Academic life is changing. The career of an Oxford academic in 2014 is very different from for those who taught students in the Hall even 15 years ago at the end of the last century! We must have the ability to attract and retain the very best tutors and support them at all points in their research careers. However, we will insist upon excellence at all times in the quality of teaching that our students receive and deserve. To that end there is a growing need to emphasise the commitment that Oxford makes to personalised education at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

Having focussed so far on the Fellowship and on research, let me turn to the students. Applications to the Hall for undergraduate study are more competitive than ever. However, we face a continuing process of explanation, advice and 13

guidance to potential applicants. Oxford has focussed a huge amount on encouraging applications from schools with little record of sending students here and from all backgrounds.

The Hall has revolutionised its own Schools and Access Programme over the past three years with input from many tutors and leadership from the Tutor for Admissions, Dr Robert Wilkins. We established a Schools Liaison Officer for the first time in 2012, and in this role Claire Hogben and the Hall have led 74 outreach events and participated in 19 events across Oxford this last academic year. Claire has met over 3000 students from more than 150 individual schools and colleges, of which 85% were state sector. The Hall has three College Open Days operating in July and September, along with summer residential workshops in two subjects for gifted and talented students from target schools.

Placed alongside a termly Teachers’ Newsletter, school visits and a cohort of committed student ambassadors, this is a firmly established and coordinated Hall programme. I myself taught forty students for a day this summer on the UNIQ Summer School for Biomedicine entry. We thank the many Aularians who have supported such ventures. Some have facilitated events at schools local to them.

Although much of the above activity focuses on target schools it should be understood that we will offer advice to all applicants regardless of their educational background. I spend a significant amount of personal time offering advice to prospective students from a variety of educational backgrounds. I have two simple observations. Parents should not take it for granted that their children’s schools (even some of the most famous in the UK!) are offering sound advice on the current Oxford entry system. Second, learning about the process, and about what Oxford offers (and doesn’t!) is best started early – very many years before an application is made. Indeed this last point is one of the most significant challenges Oxford and the Hall face. We need to inform, attract, and communicate better with gifted and talented students at least 5 years before they make the application. Aularians are great advocates for the educational opportunities Oxford and the Hall can offer. I am always pleased to hear from Aularians with connections, insights, advice and support on such critical issues.

In the JCR we have seen some superb academic performances over this year and recently in Finals thirty students obtained First Class Honours – and three names will be added to the Luddington Board this year for the magnificent achievement of getting a First and a Blue whilst at the Hall.

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The MCR continues to go from strength to strength. Through the generosity of friends, charities and Aularians we are increasing the scholarships available to bring talented young men and women to the Hall as graduate students.

We have nearly 200 graduate students and 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of our MCR. We aim to get as many MCR members back in the forthcoming year as possible, with a big celebration event on Saturday 27 June 2015.

I thank the many Aularians who support our present and future students via donations, legacy pledges and gifts to the Hall. Support for both undergraduates and graduate students through bursaries and scholarships is a central theme of our current fundraising. Building our independence and capacity to assist all students lies at the heart of a long-term strategy for the Hall. Not only do we fund bursaries and scholarships but hardship funds are increasingly an issue.

Some of our students have found that support from family and sponsors is suddenly affected by death or redundancy. The Hall steps in in such cases to assist a talented student to complete their degree. Flexible funds such as these have a major impact.

Hall students continue to impress with non-academic activities and this year we have seen an amazing series of performances in music, drama, art, writing and sport. The Choir and music have flourished under the direction of Chris Watson our Director of Music. Once again, the choir are singing in Pontigny Abbey this summer. Drama, writing, and art are on a high.

As would be expected, sport continues to play a key part in the life of the Hall and in 2013-2014 thirty Hall students won Blues and represented the University in over twenty sports ranging from association football, hockey and modern pentathlon to badminton, fencing and karate. Teddy Hall teams won many trophies including both Men’s and Women’s hockey teams winning their respective first divisions and the Hall women winning netball Cuppers. Sadly, the men’s rugby team were beaten finalists in rugby Cuppers with the last kick of the match. A great evening though – huge support from Aularians, students and friends and lots of ‘Hall Spirit’! Also, I might add that it took the efforts of a combined team from two colleges (St John’s and St Anne’s) to beat us!

I continue to applaud another theme of Teddy Hall student life – the generosity of students who find time in term and vacations to make a personal commitment 15

to charitable and citizenship work. Both JCR and MCR students volunteer time and expertise and raise funds for a bewilderingly diverse set of charities including those local to Oxford as well as national and international charities.

This has been, as always, a transition year for the Fellowship. Stuart Ferguson, Professor of Biochemistry, made an extraordinary contribution to the Hall by combining the roles of Senior Tutor and Vice-Principal. He continues as VicePrincipal in the forthcoming year but will be able to hand over the role of Senior Tutor to Dr Robert Wilkins. A number of Fellows left the Hall to continue their careers elsewhere. Professor Sharon Achinstein, Tutor in English, moved back to the USA to a prestigious chair at Johns Hopkins University. Dr Amy Stambach, Fellow by Special Election in Education, moved to an endowed chair at the University of Madison, Wisconsin. Professor Steve Roberts (Tutor in Materials Science) took up a research post held between Oxford and Culham, but continues his association with the Hall as a Senior Research Fellow. Dr Reem Abou el-Fadl, Doctorow JRF, moved to Durham University; Dr Katherine Sykes, Cowdrey JRF, is a now stipendiary lecturer in History at Oriel College; and Dr Philip Pogge von Strandmann, Earth Sciences JRF, moved to a Senior Lecturership at University College London.

Having been our Academic Administrator for a number of years, Dr Ceri Hunter left to do a PGCE in English at Oxford. Our Chaplain, the Revd Kris Kramer, moved back to the USA with his family and we welcomed the arrival of Will Donaldson as the new Chaplain. Will has, in very short order, become a central part of our community. This year also saw the retirement of two significant figures in the Hall’s Fellowship. Professor Basil Kouvaritakis as Tutor in Engineering and Dr Ernest Parkin who has been our Home Bursar for many years and this year, amongst the many things in a Bursar’s life, orchestrated the Hall’s starring role as the site for filming of episodes of “Lewis” and “Endeavour”.

We were saddened by the loss of three major figures associated with the Hall.

Jim Naughton, Fellow by Special Election in Modern Languages (Czech), died in February 2014. Jim was the major figure in the teaching of Czech in Oxford and will be sadly missed. Professor Sir David Yardley, Emeritus Fellow (former Tutor in Law 1953-74), died in June 2014. David was a major figure in UK public life, acting as a local government ombudsman and the Chairman of the Commission for Local Administration in England (1982 to 1994).

William Asbrey, St Edmund Fellow, died in March. William was elected to a 16

St Edmund Fellowship in recognition of his generosity and support of the Hall and its students over very many years. He came up to the Hall in 1949 to read Jurisprudence (Law) and was a noted figure in Kettering and Northamptonshire where he practised throughout his life as a solicitor.

This year, again, saw many successful lectures and events at the Hall. Amongst these were a notable Inaugural Oxford Chinese Economy Programme (OXCEP) Distinguished Speaker Lecture, 17 October 2013, delivered by Professor Richard Easterlin, Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association. This was hosted by Emeritus Fellow, Professor John Knight and facilitated by the generosity of Dr Frank Hwang and OXCEP. This year’s Geddes Lecture, 14 March 2014, was given by Evan Davis on “Adversarial Journalism: Seeing it from Both Sides” and was a landmark in the series, and is still available on the web! The Geddes Lecture continues to be a highlight of the Hall’s year and we thank the trustees, Graham Mather, Christopher Wilson and Sandra Barwick for their support of this venture and the Geddes Prizes. This year Professor Wes Williams (Tutor in Modern Languages) kindly worked with the trustees and external advisors to choose the talented young Oxford journalists who were awarded Geddes Prizes. Unfortunately, Sir David Yardley’s funeral led to the postponement of the Emden Lecture by Professor Peter Mandler. A new date has been set for 25 November 2014 and we will welcome Aularians and friends to the Hall at that time.

In essence the Hall works as a collection of collaborating and interacting individuals within the three common rooms. At times generic themes emerge and international connectivity in the academic world is one of these. The Hall welcomes Fellows, students and staff from across the world but a noticeable trend is that China grows in influence in the Hall as it does in the world. As the UK’s connections with China’s universities become more tractable we are formalising some of these links. This year we signed a memorandum of agreement with Sichuan University on the occasion of an extended visit by the President of that University, Professor Xie Heping. Our intention is to increase the opportunities for St Edmund Hall Fellows and students in the different regions of China.

Other interactions are being planned that have the potential to assist the Hall and its students in innovative ways. Many Fellows have excellent, long-standing individual research connections with Chinese academics. We are also building on John Knight and Linda Yueh’s expertise and reputations in the economics 17

and development of China. Through the OXCEP programme we are making many connections in this area. I am always pleased to hear from alumni with connections and experience in China. Teaching, learning and research are embedded in all such discussions and as such reflect, as I said at the beginning, the “core business” of this place.

Keith Gull FROM THE SENIOR COMMON ROOM Christopher Mead Armitage St Edmund Fellow. In the autumn of 2013, Manchester University Press published Literary and Visual Ralegh, edited by Christopher Armitage. The volume contains essays by scholars from four countries on Sir Walter Ralegh’s poetry, prose, and appearances in portraits, statuary, and movies.

Joseph Barclay Fellow by Special Election. As prefigured in last year’s Magazine, at a ceremony in Aylesbury in April 2014 Joe Barclay was declared into office as High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire for one year. He is greatly enjoying his new responsibilities in what appears to be a very vibrant and active county.

An account of Joe’s highly successful charity cycle ride will be found in section 3 of the Magazine.

Alistair Borthwick Emeritus Fellow. In June 2013, Alistair was awarded 25 million euros from Science Foundation Ireland to support a Centre for Marine Renewable Energy (MaRIE). In October 2013, he moved from University College Cork to take up the Chair in Applied Hydrodynamics at the University of Edinburgh. He married Gillian on the summer solstice, 21 June 2014, and they are living in a house inhabited by the ghosts of Fleeming Jenkin (first professor of Engineering at Edinburgh and father of Frewen Jenkin, the first professor of Engineering at Oxford) and Robert Louis Stevenson (who was booted off the Engineering course at Edinburgh in a Basilian manner by Fleeming Jenkin but was invited back to the house to act in plays!)

Martin Brasier Emeritus Fellow. Martin, who is the University’s Professor of Palaeobiology, was awarded the prestigious 2014 Lyell Medal by the Geological Society of London for the contribution made by his substantial body of research aimed at increasing and expanding our understanding of big transitions in the fossil record.

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Martin Brasier (front row, second on the right) and other award winners at The Geological Society of London. The group includes Aularian Dr Edward Rose, who received the Society’s Sue Tyler Friedman Medal (photo courtesy of Martin Brasier)

Adrian Briggs Barrister, Sir Richard Gozney Fellow in Law, Professor of Private International Law and Tutor in Law. Adrian Briggs was on sabbatical leave for the year. The first term was spent hiding away from distraction in Singapore so as to get started on writing Private International Law in English Courts; the second term was spent hiding away (rather less successfully) in College while the project was brought to the point of completion, or abandonment.

Whichever it is, the finished article will be flying off the shelves in the autumn.

The next project was working on the Sixth Edition of Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments, which is due to appear next year, even heavier than it was before (such is life). Of course, all this will look rather sick if Scotland leaves the United Kingdom or the United Kingdom leaves Europe, but one does what one can.

Adrian will also be spending part of September 2014 teaching at the University of Yangon, the law school which is to have new life breathed into it courtesy of the University of Oxford. This appears likely to involve giving some classes in jurisprudence, which just goes to show that even the best-planned academic life can deliver the occasional shock.

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Sir Stanley Burnton Honorary Fellow. Sir Stanley Burnton retired as a judge of the Court of Appeal in October 2012, but is still able to sit as a judge of the Court until he reaches the age of 75 and does so from time to time. He also acts as an arbitrator. He remains a member of the Board of Trustees of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and of its Finance and Audit Committee. He is a member of the advisory council of the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law. He also continues to be chairman of the British and Irish Legal Information Institute. After becoming a trustee of the Slynn Foundation (a charity which works with senior judges and justice institutions around the world to improve justice systems and the Rule of Law), in February 2014 Sir Stanley visited Belgrade on the Foundation’s behalf in order to assess the possibilities of a project to promote the Rule of Law and Human Rights in Serbia. He has been appointed to the Tribunals Panel of the Financial Reporting Council.

Sir Stanley has been appointed a governor of University College School in London.

He is chairing a working-party of Justice to deliver a report on ‘Delivering Justice in an Age of Austerity’. He has recently been appointed chairman of the British Friends of the Jerusalem Academy for Music and Dance, and continues as Master of the Music of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple.

Sir Ian Byatt Honorary Fellow. Sir Ian Byatt has become a member of a new ‘Public Interest Committee’ of Baker Tilly Audit LLP. The remit is to ensure that its audits meet the standards set (but without, in his view, sufficient articulation or clarity) by the Financial Reporting Council. Sir Ian regards this as not so much a shift from gamekeeper to poacher, as from public regulator to regulated self-regulator. He will report progress next year. He continued to act as Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Chapter of Birmingham Cathedral, working to understand and ease the financial constraints of seeming past financial laxity and of inadequate endowments. Sir Ian is glad to report good progress on the current budget and the opening-up of fundraising opportunities on the capital budget. Meanwhile he continued to oppose the proposed £4.2 billion tunnel under London to deal with heavy rain at the expense of Thames Water’s customers, including those living in Oxford. He believes that the scheme would involve pouring concrete to the benefit of the company’s private equity investors and is environmentally clumsy, missing the opportunities that are opening up for much more environmentally-sensitive solutions.

Peter Collins Emeritus Fellow. Peter Collins’ University Seminar has been holding a year-long celebration to mark the opening of Oxford’s new 20

mathematical palace in the Woodstock Road and also his inauguration of the Seminar in the (then new) Mathematical Institute in St Giles’ in the ‘60s. He continues with conservation work as Chairman of the British arm of the chief non-governmental pan-European heritage organisation, Europa Nostra, which has involved lobbying Brussels to make cultural heritage a major consideration in formulating new European policies. He has presented European Union/ Europa Nostra awards to organisations making outstanding contributions to heritage in Britain, this year including the magnificently restored Abbotsford of Walter Scott and the grand and beautiful improvements for travellers at London’s King’s Cross Station. Locally, his leadership of the Vale of White Horse’s Campaign to Protect Rural England has required challenging Government proposals which would result in unsustainable building that would despoil the countryside, in particular the Green Belt and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. However, the University has now found him out, and this has resulted in his giving a Wine Tasting at the Alumni Weekend each September and, this year, leading a group of old members to Tuscany to enjoy the Sangiovese vineyards and pleasures of Chianti, Brunello di Montalcino, and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, whilst visiting Siena and San Gimignano.

John Cox Honorary Fellow. For John Cox the highlight of the year was undoubtedly the First World War commemorative weekend, which he devised with Douglas Boyd for Garsington Opera and presented at its new home on the Getty estate at Wormsley. Spread over two days and entitled “Peace in Our Time”, this consisted on the Saturday of Beethoven’s opera Fidelio, in Cox’s production, preceded by a discussion of the eponymous theme, led by James Naughtie, with Professor Margaret Macmillan, Miranda Carter, and Jeremy Paxman. On the Sunday, a rich bill of fare consisted of a Twenty-Twenty cricket match between the England’s Women’s XI and a Lady Taverners XI; tours of the amazing Getty Library; garden tours; and a master class for young Garsington singers conducted by Ann Murray. There followed a late afternoon recital by ’cellist Steven Isserlis (Beethoven and Frank Bridge), with readings by Sam West of recently-discovered war poetry by Siegfried Sassoon. The climax of this commemoration was a symphony concert in the evening, performing Beethoven’s Overture and incidental music to Goethe’s play Egmont, Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw, and Beethoven’s Ninth (The Choral) Symphony. And yes (John reports) – there was a dinner interval!

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Kevin Crossley-Holland Honorary Fellow. Kevin Crossley-Holland has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Worcester.

At the 2014 Oxford Literary Festival, he talked in the Sheldonian Theatre with the legendary Jan Morris, told stories with Ben Okri and Joanna Harris, and appeared as Merlin in the Great Hall at Christ Church (see photograph). Kevin also travelled south to take part in the inaugural Oxford-Gibraltar Literary Festival. In Cambridge, he gave a poetry reading with Rowan Williams, judged Not a previously unknown photo of Edmund the creative writing prize at Pembroke of Abingdon, but Kevin Crossley-Holland at Christ Church as Merlin (photo copyright College, took part in a public dialogue Cambridge Jones for The Story Museum) with the folklorist Jack Zipes, and at Homerton College gave the annual Philippa Pearce lecture. With the help of children from London primary schools, Kevin wrote the poem wrapped around the base of the Norwegian Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square. He has honoured a full range of commitments as President of the School Library Association, and is relieved to be able to report that the insertion of a stent at Papworth Hospital last November has proved successful.

(Kevin’s reminiscences of working with Dr Bruce Mitchell appear in section 6 of the Magazine.)

Allison Daley Junior Research Fellow. Allison Daley arrived in Oxford in late September 2013 to take up her Junior Research Fellowship in Zoology. She was immediately thrown into the teaching of dissection laboratories for first-year Biology undergraduates, along with preparing labs, lectures, and tutorials on early fossils for the second-year ‘Evolution’ course. After the flurry of teaching had passed, Allie visited the Peabody Museum in New Haven, USA to continue research on extraordinary 490-million-year-old fossils from Morocco. In Spring 2014 she also travelled to Warsaw, Poland for fieldwork in the Holy Cross Mountains and to examine some of the oldest soft-bodied arthropod fossils known. She hosted several volunteers and students in the OU Museum of Natural History, involving them in research on the trilobite collections. Allie 22

co-authored a paper published in Nature Communications in May 2014 entitled “Sophisticated Digestive Systems in Early Arthropods”, a collaborative work bringing together evidence from many lines of fossil evidence. Her research also featured in an episode of ‘Palaeocast’, a palaeontology podcast (www.palaeocast. com/episode-31-anomalocaridids). (Allison’s biographical details are included in the information about new members of the SCR later in this section of the Magazine.)

Sir John Daniel Honorary Fellow. Sir John Daniel was named Officer of the Order of Canada in the Governor-General’s New Year’s Honours List and received the insignia at a ceremony in Government House, Ottawa on 12 September 2013. He continues to speak widely on MOOCs and online learning and has published A Guide to Quality in Post-Traditional Online Higher Education in English and Chinese.

Stuart Ferguson University Reader in Biochemistry, Professor of Biochemistry, William R Miller Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry. Having taken on (for one year only) being both Senior Tutor and Vice-Principal, Stuart Ferguson had a busy year in Oxford. He managed to attend a research conference in Istanbul and a Gordon Conference in Newport, Rhode Island.

Leslie Goldberg Senior Research Fellow. Leslie Goldberg enjoyed her first year in Oxford. In March 2014 she started a new five-year ERC project on “Mapping the Complexity of Counting”, which aims to provide mathematical insights allowing us to understand the intrinsic complexity of computational counting problems. The newly-formed project team has been delighted to host some excellent research collaborators from Wisconsin, China, and New York.

Their early results were presented this year in Vancouver at the IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity and are due to feature at the Random-Approx Conference in Barcelona.

Justin Gosling Honorary Fellow. This year Justin Gosling has finally decided to stop teaching - no doubt to the benefit of future generations, he thinks. He had a paper published in a collection from the Sorbonne called La Mesure Du Savoir: Etudes sur le Théétète de Platon. This is tempting him to return to writing.

Andrew Kahn Professor of Russian Literature and Tutor in Modern Languages (Russian). Thanks to a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, Andrew Kahn was able to devote this year to a large book on the great twentieth-century poet Osip Mandelstam, concentrating on this amazing writer’s engagement with 23

Soviet experience at every level and of different types – political, historical, artistic, and personal. While away for much of the year, Andrew also ran one of the new network of Enlightenment correspondences at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) (www.torch.ox.ac.uk/enlightenmentcorr). The events brought together several dozen Oxford scholars, including postgraduates, from different parts of the Enlightenment map. In that connection he landed funding for a pilot digital version of correspondence of Catherine the Great, a fascinating body of writing. He is producing an anthology of two hundred of Catherine the Great’s letters for OUP and is now correcting proofs of a new anthology of Tolstoy’s later fiction (for the Oxford World’s Classics series, due out in January 2015). This nevertheless left time for some enjoyable visits to Yale, St Andrews, and Columbia – with Helsinki and St Petersburg on the horizon.

News from Russia and the Crimea reminds Andrew of a glorious holiday spent in a decommissioned Pioneer Camp just after perestroika in precisely those parts of the Kerch Peninsula that have now been annexed. Who wrote those famous lines about the end of history?

John Knight Emeritus Fellow. John Knight is Academic Director of the Oxford Chinese Economy Programme (OXCEP), set up in 2013 by Dr Frank Hwang.

OXCEP has a Memorandum of Understanding with the Hall, and its activities are based in the Hall. This academic year these included a Distinguished Speaker lecture, given by Professor Richard Easterlin (University of Southern California), who is famous for posing and elucidating ‘the Easterlin paradox’. His subject was ‘Growth, transition and life satisfaction: China, Eastern Europe and the World’.

In August 2014 John directed a two-week OXCEP course entitled ‘Economics and Public Policy’ for academics from Sichuan University. Of the twelve course lecturers, five are Fellows of the Hall (John Knight, Martin Slater, Sir Ian Byatt, Dominik Karos, and Climent Quintano-Domeque). John continued in his occasional visiting professorship at the China Institute for Income Distribution, Beijing; and in his Leverhulme emeritus fellowship. He gave lectures or seminars at the LSE, Nottingham University, and Peking University (where he represented OXCEP at the inaugural meeting of the International Consortium for China Studies). He was all set to give the keynote address at an international conference in Fudan University, but instead languished for a week in a Chinese hospital!

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research is made possible by his access to national sample surveys through longterm membership of the China Household Income Project (CHIP).

Basil Kouvaritakis Professor of Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering.

Completing his final year before retirement, Basil Kouvaritakis has contributed some reflections on his time at the Hall (see section 3 of the Magazine).

Stewart Lee Honorary Fellow. In the last twelve months Stewart Lee has fronted Antoine Prum’s documentary on European free improvised music, Taking the Dog for a Walk, has performed as the narrator of John Cage’s Indeterminacy on the Usurp Chance national tour, has completed a third series of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle for BBC2, and has dragged his stand-up act round the UK and Ireland as usual. Stewart counts himself lucky enough to have visited the Hall again for Lucy Newlyn’s Writers’ Forum evening of folk ballads with guests in the shape of two giants of English traditional music, Shirley Collins and Dave Arthur.

David Manolopoulos Professor of Chemistry and Tutor in Chemistry. During the year David Manolopoulos has given talks about his research in Lausanne, Telluride, Oxford, Kobe, Kanazawa, London, Rome, and Menton. The Telluride meeting was especially enjoyable as it was organised by two former members of his research group (Tom Markland, now an Assistant Professor in Stanford; and Scott Habershon, now an Assistant Professor in Warwick) and many of his other former research group members were there. Telluride is a beautiful village high up in the Colorado Rockies and it is a great place for a research group reunion!

Paul Matthews Professor of Neurology, Fellow by Special Election. This last year has been a busy and rewarding one for Paul Matthews. After almost nine years in a post split between GlaxoSmithKline and Imperial College, he left to become full-time Head of the Division of Brain Sciences at Imperial in March 2014. During the full year he travelled to many interesting places for academic collaborations: the USA, Canada, Europe (of course), but also Singapore, South Korea, and China on more than one occasion. Work for the UK Biobank, for whom Paul co-ordinates an imaging working-group, led to a grant from the MRC and Wellcome for £36 million that is enabling imaging of 100,000 people across the UK for the prospective epidemiological study. This was followed by success in jointly establishing (with academics across eight major centres) the UK Dementias Platform (UKDP) to integrate population-based dementia research 25

across the country. In three steps (the most recent being a major capital research infrastructure bid that will establish a national imaging network for dementia research that Paul chairs), the UKPD consortium has raised almost £52 million in new money for dementia research! Outside of these management challenges, Paul has also been pursuing his sub-speciality interest, which addresses the way in which the brain’s immune protective cells may cause progressive late life damage. In July 2014 he was made the first holder of the Edmund J and Lily Safra Chair in Translational Neuroscience and Therapeutics for these studies.

Paul was also elected a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in April 2014: this will enable him to contribute more to ensuring the continued strength of academic medicine in the UK. Paul comments: “For the record, next year I will be celebrating my 40th year of association with the Hall since coming up as an (incredibly naïve) undergraduate in 1974! The Hall has been an important part of my life. As I reflect periodically on what I have been able to do, I appreciate anew how much my tutors, friends, and so many others in the Hall have contributed.”

Lucy Newlyn A C Cooper Fellow, Professor of English, and Tutor in English Language and Literature. Most of Lucy Newlyn’s time – when not teaching or examining – was spent in organising Hall Writers’ events and contributing to the Writers’ Forum: some absorbing collaborations emerged and she was delighted by the quality of the associated workshops. Following the publication of her book William and Dorothy Wordsworth: All in Each Other by OUP, Lucy gave a number of interviews and talks on the radio, online, and at literary festivals. She found it very rewarding to know that the book is reaching a wider audience. The ‘Ways with Words’ festivals at Keswick and Dartington were particularly enjoyable; it was also nice for her to see some familiar faces when she spoke at the Oxford Literary Festival in Spring 2014. She was honoured to give a talk alongside Pamela Woof at Grasmere, and very glad to be able to contribute actively to some of the Wordsworth Trust’s outreach work with patients suffering from dementia. Lucy is thrilled that Enitharmon Press will be publishing her second collection of poetry, Earth’s Almanac, early in 2015.

She has until the autumn of 2014 to put the finishing touches to it, so (what with that and continuing editorial work on Edward Thomas) she enjoyed a busy Summer Vacation!

Debrah Noe College Lecturer in Finance. Debbie is serving as a school governor at Oxford High School. The school is a member of the Girls’ Day 26

School Trust (the largest single educator of girls in the UK as well as the UK’s largest educational charity).

Jennifer Nuttall Fellow by Special Election, College Lecturer in English. Jenni Nuttall completed an article on the fifteenth-century poet Thomas Hoccleve for OUP’s Oxford Handbooks Online resource and an article on medieval English responses to a particular form of French lyric complainte. This summer saw her making a trip to Reykjavik to give a paper on the form of Hoccleve’s balades at the New Chaucer Society Congress. Jenni has also started blogging and tweeting about her research on Middle English poetics (www.stylisticienne.com and @ Stylisticienne).

Nigel Palmer Emeritus Fellow. Nigel Palmer received an honorary doctorate of philosophy from the University of Bern, Switzerland in December 2013.

David Priestland Tutor in Modern History. David Priestland gave several talks on his book, Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power, including one at the Think Literary Festival in Goa. He is currently working on a new project on the history of neoliberalism.

Climent Quintana-Domeque William R Miller Fellow in Economics and Tutor in Economics. In his first academic year at the Hall (which he found to be intense and stimulating), Climent Quintana-Domeque has been tutoring ‘Economics of Developing Countries’ for Visiting Students, reviewing ‘Quantitative Economics’ with finalists, and teaching ‘Quantitative Economics’ to second years. For the Department of Economics, Climent has been teaching graduate ‘Microeconomic Analysis’ for the MSc in Economics for Development and a module on ‘Households and Development’ for the MPhil in Economics.

On the research side he has been working on four different projects. With a graduate student at the Universitat d’Alacante, Climent has been analysing the effects on the health of newborns when mothers are exposed to terrorism during the prenatal period. He presented the preliminary results of this research at the conference “Effects of Early Interventions on Child Health and Education” at the University of Surrey and in several research seminars at different universities (including Bristol, Lancaster, and Goteborg). The second project involves collaborating with a co-author at the University of Toronto to study the effects of the provision of localised public goods on property tax compliance.

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Norms and Compliance” in Nuremberg, as well as at the meetings of the Royal Economic Society in Manchester and at the Centre for the Study of African Economies Conference 2014 in Oxford. With co-authors from Columbia University and the University of Surrey, he has continued working on the analysis of bi-dimensional matching patterns in the marriage market, presenting the latest findings at the LSE Centre for Economic Performance Seminar. Finally, together with a former student who is now a researcher at IPECE in Brazil, Climent finished the revision of a paper entitled “Early-Life Environment and Adult Stature in Brazil: An Analysis for Cohorts Born between 1950 and 1980”. This has been accepted for publication in Economics and Human Biology.

(Climent’s biographical details are included in the information about new members of the SCR later in this section of the Magazine.)

Steven Roberts Professor of Materials, John Harris Memorial Fellow, Tutor in Materials Science Having resigned his tutorial fellowship during the course of the year in order to concentrate on his research at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Steve Roberts has contributed some reflections on his longstanding association with the Hall (see section 3 of the Magazine).

Peter Rothwell Action Research Professor of Clinical Neurology, Professorial Fellow The OU Stroke Prevention Research Unit, which Peter founded in 2000, was awarded the prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher Education in March 2014.

Ian Scargill Emeritus Fellow. Ian and Mary Scargill celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary on 8 August 2014. Ian is still involved in conservation work in Oxford, chairing the Oxford Green Belt Network which seeks to protect Oxford’s Green Belt surroundings from the philistines. Having retired as a Trustee of the Oxford Preservation Trust under their age limit (he will be 80 next March), he has been made a Vice-President of the Trust – a grand title carrying no responsibilities.

Elizabeth Styles College Lecturer in Psychology. Liz Styles completed her tenth and final year as non-stipendiary Lecturer in Psychology for the Hall and now plans to pursue her interest in Archaeology. Having just taken the Undergraduate Certificate in Archaeology at Oxford’s Department for Continuing Education, she will be progressing to the Diploma course there in October 2014. Liz’s chapter ‘Attention’ was published this year in D Groom (ed.), Introduction to Cognitive Psychology: Process and Disorders.

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Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds College Lecturer in Politics. Nick ThomasSymonds’ new biography Nye: The Political Life of Aneurin Bevan is due to appear at the end of October 2014.

Dimitrios Tsomocos Fellow by Special Election, University Reader in Financial Economics. As well as co-authoring eight articles published or accepted for publication during the year, Dimitrios Tsomocos contributed to a piece entitled “Making Macroprudential Regulation Operational” which appeared in July 2014 on the prestigious website VoxEu.org. Dimitrios also gave eleven invited talks and seminars at venues in the UK and overseas, as diverse as Washington (International Monetary Fund), the Sorbonne in Paris (XXIII European Workshop on General Equilibrium Theory), Istanbul (XXXV Bosphorus Workshop on Economic Design), Beijing (People’s Bank of China, and the University of International Business and Economics), and Shanghai (2014 University of Science and Technology of China Shanghai Financial Summit).

Robert Venables Fellow by Special Election. Robert Venables (the Hall’s most senior Fellow) was Tutor in Jurisprudence in the 1970s and resigned in 1980 to take up full-time practice at the Revenue Bar in London, where he remains. He took silk ten years later. He was elected Chairman of the Revenue Bar Association in 2001 and is a Master of the Bench of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. As an adjunct to his practice at the Bar, Robert lectures extensively and has written scores of books on technical legal topics (far more than he would ever have written if he had remained an Oxford don, he reflects).

In Robert’s experience, the Revenue Bar is the most academic part of the Bar. His work is largely advisory and he finds that conducting a Consultation is very similar to conducting an Oxford seminar – the only difference being that, since they are paying rather more for his services, those attending are rather more attentive! Robert’s range of clients is amazing, from entrepreneurs (his favourite) to celebrities, from nobility to politicians (not quite his favourite), and from FTSE 100 companies to charities (he is currently advising an Oxford college). On those occasions when he is in court, Robert has found the Oxford tutorial system to be the best possible preparation for thinking on one’s feet –or rather, pretending to, because nothing succeeds better in advocacy than preparation, preparation, and preparation. One main drawback of an advisory practice, however, is that confidentiality owed to clients prevents the barrister from discussing it publically.

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Richard Walker Royal Society University Research Fellow, University Lecturer, Oxburgh Fellow and Tutor in Earth Sciences. Richard’s research life over the past year has been a busy one. He is involved in two consortia looking at active faults and earthquake hazard across central Asia; this has entailed field visits to China, Kazakhstan, and Vietnam. In eastern Kazakhstan he attended a conference on the monitoring of nuclear tests and their consequences: the conference was held in the town of Kurchatov, a fascinating place which was closed for much of its history and appeared on no maps! Richard also started a project funded by the Leverhulme Trust to examine records of past climate change in the deserts of Iran, and its effect on the ancient civilisations of the region.

James Wilk College Lecturer in Philosophy. In addition to his philosophy tutoring at the Hall and for other Oxford colleges, James Wilk has had a very busy and productive year, pursuing his philosophical and scientific research (in psychology and cybernetics). He delivered an invited address, Icarus: Disembodied knowledge, bureaucratic thinking, and the hopeful return to reality – on the subject of Max Weber, Michael Oakeshott, and the perils of contemporary rationalism in the internet age – to an audience of 700 academics, business leaders, and senior public servants at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland in August 2013. Around the same time, he published an invited chapter, “The Pageantry of the Mind”, in Elämän Filosofi, edited by Frank Martela, Lauri Järvilehto, Peter Kenttä, and Jaakko Korhonen, an international Festschrift in honour of Professor Esa Saarinen, one of Scandinavia’s most eminent academic philosophers. His chapter was based in large part on research he carried out while a Visiting Fellow in Psychiatry in the DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry at Cornell University’s Weill Medical College during his sabbatical from Oxford in 2009-10. In December 2013, James successfully completed an intensive seven-year assignment in the field of global public health at the New York Academy of Medicine (where he continues to serve as a Fellow of the Academy and Senior Advisor to the President). In 2014, James was appointed Visiting Lecturer in Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, where he has been teaching on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology programme for the past couple of years.

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in treating some of the most emotionally disturbed, personality disordered, and traumatized children and adolescents in the country. James has also been completing an ambitious philosophical treatise, which he expects will be ready for publication by the end of 2014 or early 2015.

Robert Wilkins American Fellow and Tutor in Physiology, Tutor for Admissions. Robert Wilkins’ second book for OUP, Basic Science for Core Medical Training and the MRCP, which he co-edited with Dr Neil Herring, will be published in January 2015.

Derrick Wyatt Emeritus Fellow. Derrick’s latest year of retirement has been marked by memorable walks with his wife Joan on the South-West Coast Path and the South Downs Way, with the coast walk between Trebarwith Strand and Port Isaac (‘Port Wenn’ to fans of the Doc Martin TV series) being one of the best. There were also flurries of academic and professional activity. In his role as “Visiting Professor” at Oxford, he gave a course of lectures in Hilary Term 2014 on the EU’s internal market, for graduate students taking the BCL or MJuris degrees; Derrick also offered tutorials on the same subject-matter in Trinity Term. In his role as a practising QC, he represented the National Iranian Tanker Company at a hearing before the EU’s General Court, arguing that the asset freeze imposed upon the Company by the EU for its alleged support for Iranian nuclear proliferation activities was unproven and unjustified. The General Court agreed, and quashed the asset freeze in its recent judgment. Derrick attended the 12th Jean Monnet Seminar on EU Law at the Inter-University Centre at Dubrovnik in April 2014. The event was organised, as in previous years, by the University of Zagreb, and sponsored by the European Commission. Derrick gave two lectures on the Cross-Border Provision of Legal Services in the EU, and joined academic outings to some of the excellent seafood restaurants for which Dubrovnik is renowned. With the Government’s review of the balance of powers between the EU and the UK well under way, Derrick was asked by the Foreign Office to submit evidence on the role of national parliaments in EU decision-making, as well as on the issue of EU enlargement. The evidence will be published later in the year along with the Government’s reports on these issues.

Finally, Derrick accepted an invitation from the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration to serve on its panel of international arbitrators for a period of three years. Since there are numerous other arbitrators on the panel, he thinks that the risk of nomination in an actual dispute is fairly low.

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SCR OBITUARIES DR JAMES DUNCAN (‘JIM’) NAUGHTON Fellow by Special Election, and University Lecturer in Czech and Slovak James Naughton was born in Edinburgh on 20 May 1950 into a medical family. He attended George Watson’s College in the city between the ages of five and seventeen, and remembered his childhood as being a happy one. Jim’s interest in Czechoslovakia (as it then was) is thought to have been stirred early when, as a schoolboy, he accompanied his father to a medical conference in Prague: so began his lifelong interest in the Czech and Dr Jim Naughton Slovak languages, literature, and culture. Jim (photo courtesy of Naughton family) went up to Churchill College in the University of Cambridge to read Russian and Czech; he was awarded first-class honours in the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos.

Patrick Miles, a contemporary, has recalled that the Cambridge days saw Jim involved – always with an ironical semi-detachment – in the student activism of the time and amusing his fellow undergraduates by mimicking (the gift of the linguist) his tutors. He recalled that Jim’s Scottishness was never far below the surface, with a deep and informed affection for Scottish literature, and a passion for converting cloddish Southern palates to a wee dram of a single malt.

Patrick further recounts how Jim would suddenly cock his head, open his eyes very wide, lean slightly back, put his arms with the index finger of each hand touching, and, with a smile, interject the definitive statement in his inimitable burr and with a final, punctuating challenge –‘mmm?’ The interrogative always put the subject in an interesting perspective. Jim’s presence helped prevent everyone from taking themselves totally seriously.

Jim’s doctoral thesis, also at Cambridge, was on the reception in nineteenthcentury England of Czech literature and of the Czech literary revival. He wrote in the Abstract of the thesis: ‘In the light of the material discussed an attempt is made to analyse the signal failure of these isolated endeavours (in some cases pursued with great dedication) to arouse a significant response from a largely 32

indifferent English public. It might well be added [in 1978] that, in spite of more recent writing on a larger scale, the situation as regards knowledge of Czech literature in England has not changed fundamentally.’ It was towards the end of this period that Jim met his future wife, Shu-Ching. Soon after their marriage they left Cambridge, when Jim took up a lectureship in the University of Lancaster’s Department of Central and South East European Studies working with the renowned Professor Zbynek Zeman.

In 1982, the Atkinson Report recommended the reorganisation of UK universities’ Slavonic departments and this led to Jim and Professor Zeman transferring to the University of Oxford (and subsequently to the Hall), together with the rich Comenius Library. Jim set up shop at 47 Wellington Square, carrying the banner for Czech and Slovak studies across the University and holding it aloft for the next thirty-two years. ‘Carrying the banner’ is easily, glibly said, but it is worth recalling what carrying a single-lecturer subject entails.

“Whose turn is it to be examiner for Czech and Slovak this year?” – “Why, Jim Naughton’s”. (Just like last year and the year before that.) “And who will handle the Czech and Slovak Orals this Easter?” (Three guesses.) “And which of the established post-holders will represent Czech at the Open Day this year – mmm?”

And so on, for every enquiry, for every statutory and representational duty, for every flicker of anxiety over the welfare of a small subject-area in choppy seas.

It was in 1987 that Jim was elected a Fellow of St Edmund Hall, joining a thriving group of scholars devoted to the study of Eastern Europe. Gradually his sharp, logical mind and a strong sense of integrity started to make their mark on the College. But it was with the coming of a computer to the Senior Common Room that it became apparent that Jim had a considerable skill and interest in the new technology. He soon became IT Fellow and oversaw our IT support team.

Perhaps it was Jim’s analytic mind and sensitivity to language which enabled him to communicate both with IT experts and academic colleagues (there were those who felt far from secure in this domain). At informal dinners he could show himself the forerunner of the iPhone generation, bounding to the nearest computer so that the conversation could continue in an informed way. He was always keen to learn new skills, whether just for interest or for our work, such as mastering the minutiae of PowerPoint protocols for lectures and conference posters. Over the years, Jim showed his eclecticism further in serving on a variety of College committees, the IT, Domestic, General Purposes & Bursarial, and 33

Garden Committees, and succeeding in bringing a fresh perspective to each. He was very good at seeing the heart of an issue and working out a sensible course of action. He had firm principles, stood up for what he believed in, and was not afraid to speak out for what he thought was right.

Jim had a rare ability to talk to anyone, whether at High Table or in the Snug, and probably did not realise how much this was appreciated by his interlocutors: he wore his learning lightly. Away from College, Jim also enjoyed travelling, especially by train and on foot, an interest he shared with his son Alexander.

He often spoke of the holidays he enjoyed so much with Shu-Ching and Alex, whether they were in Switzerland, Cornwall, or, most recently, on the Isle of Wight.

Alongside the seriousness with which he approached his academic work, Jim was a convivial companion and any number of fond recollections which people have shared could be quoted – of having a pint and a sustained grumble with Jim. But at a time when, even in the Humanities, ‘the burden of teaching’ was often presented as some lowering evil, to be escaped or ‘bought out’ at every turn – Jim had a different take on things. Of course, he knew the full weight of that burden. He wrote his books, and did his translations, in spite of it. He also played a major role in the work of the wider Modern Languages Faculty, serving as secretary and then Chairman of the Board of Examiners for the Final Honour School, and as Chairman of the Faculty Board.

As Nigel Palmer observed in his address at Jim’s funeral, Jim was only in his late teens when the Russian army occupied Czechoslovakia in August 1968.

He went on to say that the subject Jim chose for his studies was one that was marked out by social upheavals, underscored by the tragedy of unfulfilled social and political ambitions. 1989, when Jim was already a Fellow of the Hall, was the year of the Velvet Revolution, a major landmark in the crumbling of the Soviet Bloc. The dissolution of Czechoslovakia and the foundation of the Czech Republic and Slovakia followed in 1993. Here too, Jim had divided loyalties: he published his handbook Colloquial Czech in 1987, during his first years in Oxford, third edition 2011; and in 1997 he published his handbook Colloquial Slovak, a course book for learning the language of the new republic in the East. He knew that language learning lies at the centre of the outreach which is essential to bring about cultural understanding. The individual languages of the countries in the former Soviet Bloc play a part in the necessary tension 34

between independence and interdependence through which mutual respect and friendship are maintained. Jim’s contribution here, in designing course books for beginners, was fundamental. It was accompanied by the parallel enterprise of translating Czech and Slovak literature into English for a wider audience.

The texts he chose were not established classics, nor were they works that foregrounded the horrors of the Soviet world in the manner of Solzhenitsyn, such as might have appealed to a simplified western view of the world behind the Iron Curtain. Jim’s translations were placed within the broader enterprise of situating Eastern and Central European literature in the modern world. He even edited a book called the Traveller’s Literary Companion to Eastern and Central Europe in 1995. Some of the material he translated, notably Miroslav Holub’s The Jingle Bell Principle in 1992, is tinged by that ironical distance and eccentric sense of humour which were so apparent in Jim himself. By taking a perspective on the little facets of human activity, by promoting the gentle, critical, sardonic rather than the apocalyptic, Jim Naughton mediated between Eastern Central Europe (lands that occupied a key position in the twentieth-century) and the English-language world.

The loss to scholarship is clear. But the loss to teaching is also daunting, as witnessed by many. From a close colleague, Vanda Packet: “For Jim, his students, current and past, were always of the utmost importance, and he cared about them, their wellbeing and their future, more than any other teacher I have ever met (and I grew up, and lived my life, among teachers)”. From Alexander Woell, now professor at Greifswald University, who stood in for Jim for nearly two years when he was Chairman of Faculty: “His students loved him, and he defended them against all evils. [I saw it happen, and there are] so many who will remember him with gratitude for years and years to come.” Finally, and appropriately, from a present Czech Finalist: “He was such a lovely man… .

It’s a huge, huge loss… . He was one of the best.”

Jim Naughton was highly respected and greatly liked by his colleagues and many friends, both in St Edmund Hall and in Modern Languages. He will be sadly missed. Jim died on 9 February 2014 from a coronary arrest following an earlier stroke. He leaves his wife, Shu-Ching, his son Alexander, and his two sisters, Anne and Jane, to whom we offer our deepest condolences.

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With acknowledgement to Alex Naughton for biographical information; to Professor Nigel F Palmer, Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, for his review of Jim’s scholarship; and to Dr Michael Nicholson, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, for his recollections.

PROFESSOR SIR DAVID YARDLEY The Hall was greatly saddened by the death of its most senior Emeritus Fellow.

Sir David Charles Miller Yardley died on 3 June 2014 in hospital in Oxford following a short illness, the day before what would have been his 85 th birthday, having suffered the pain and inconvenience of arthritis for the previous three or so years. He became a Fellow in 1953 to teach Law and was one of the eleven Fellows who, along with Principal Kelly, were named in the Hall’s 1957 Charter as the members of its first Governing Body.

That remarkable fellowship also included Reggie Alton, John Cowdrey, Richard Fargher, Graham Sir David Yardley (photo from Hall records) Midgley, and Bruce Mitchell.

Born in 1929, David carried out his National Service in the Education Branch of the RAF and went on to take an LLB degree at the University of Birmingham.

In 1951 he came to Oxford, matriculating through Lincoln College and being awarded a DPhil in 1953; he was admitted MA the following year. David was called to the Bar in 1952 (Gray’s Inn).

David’s distinguished academic career began with his Fellowship at the Hall, which he held from 1953 until 1974 (afterwards becoming an Emeritus Fellow). From Oxford he went back to the University of Birmingham, where he held the Barber Chair of Law for four years until 1978. His inaugural lecture was entitled Modern Constitutional Developments: Some Reflections. The University subsequently awarded him an LLD (1983). David was lured back to Oxford, this time to the then Oxford Polytechnic, where he was Head of the Department of Law, Politics and Economics from 1978 to 1980. David’s final substantive academic appointment was to the Rank Foundation Chair of Law at the University of Buckingham (1980-82), though he was made an 36

Honorary Professor there in 1994 and was also a Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes University from 1995 until 2001. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1991.

David published extensively, largely in the areas of his specialities, Constitutional and Administrative Law, but also on English Law more generally and the operation of the courts. As early as 1963 he was pondering on The Future of the Law, and in a co-authored work published in 1982, Protection of Liberty.

These interests in Constitutional and Administrative Law, underpinned by widely recognised good sense and sound judgement, took David into extensive public service. In addition to stints as Chairman of Rent Assessment Committees, Rent Tribunals, and National Insurance Local Tribunals (1963-72, 1995-99), David was Chairman of the Commission for Local Administration in England (19821994); Complaints Commissioner for what started out as the Financial Services Authority (1994-2001); a member of the Examining Board and Awards Panel for the Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation (1994-2006); and Independent Complaints Reviewer for the Lottery Forum (2005-06). Locally but no less importantly, David served as Chairman of the Oxford Preservation Trust from 1989 to 2009, when at the age of 80 he felt that it was time for a new incumbent to take over. He was made a Vice-President of the Trust the following year.

The announcement of David’s death prompted tributes from a number of former pupils of “Doc Yardley”. Aularians contacting the Hall said that “he was a kind and indulgent tutor to me” and that “although I was far from being his most outstanding pupil, he always treated me with great kindness”. According to a 1962 matriculand, “the good doctor was always quite pleased he was not surrounded by Blues – in those days not easy to achieve at the Hall, where sport excelled”. One pupil remembered “his very sensible calm way of delivering lectures and tutorials”, and another asserted that “tutes with him with a glass of sherry were positively picnics to look forward to…”.

The Magazine offers its condolences to David’s widow, Patsy, and family in their loss.

At the time of the Magazine going to press, a memorial service is being planned for Sir David Yardley on Friday 14 November 2014 at 2.30pm in the University Church, with a reception to be held in College afterwards. A fuller appreciation of his life and work will appear in the 2014-15 edition.

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Excellent Proctor Among his many other distinctions, David Yardley was the first Proctor elected by the Hall in its own right. He served as Senior Proctor in 1965-66, beginning the succession of Hall elections which has continued with Justin Gosling (Senior Proctor 1977-78), Martin Slater (Senior Proctor 2000-01), and Amy Zavatsky (Junior Proctor 2011-12). Chris Wells held the newerfangled office of Assessor in 1988-89. The present Editor was fortunate to have several entertaining conversations with David about his Proctorship. David was particularly fond of recounting how an overseas student turned up in the office one day, evidently believing that his Oxford experience would not be complete without being ‘proctored’. Alas, his self-reported misdemeanour was too trivial to merit a formal penalty. Not wanting to disappoint the young man, David recalled solemnly telling him that he should consider himself admonished; and the putative miscreant went away happy.

BFG An article by Professor Mike Mingos on Sir David Yardley’s tennis appears in section 6 of the Magazine.

WILLIAM PETER ASBREY (1949) The following is from the address given during William Asbrey’s funeral service.

Bill was a particular man, in his own way special, singular, very singular.

That is my judgement, which l accept may not be an accurate one. But those words for me make some sense of his life which for many of us who knew him would admit that we knew him only in part.

He lived all his life on Northampton Road, the home that his parents had built and it is the sight of him, letter in hand, dog on lead walking up and down that road, that we remember. His father worked for the electricity board, his mother was a teacher. His mother was certainly Old Kettering; William Timpson was her uncle.

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He went up the hill to school, Kettering Grammar School, where he was throughout the Second World War. Known there for his witty and affable conversation, which at some stage in his life got lost somewhere.

In a 6th Form of sixteen with a head, A. F. Scott, who aimed high, eight went up to Oxbridge, probably a record. He won a state scholarship and went up to St Edmund Hall initially to read History but finally reading Law. This was followed by National Service in the RAF. Hopeless at sport – he lacked coordination – he became a non-playing member of Oxford University Cricket Club. His love of cricket and St Edmund Hall remained thereafter a significant part of his life. Very significant. He returned home and was articled to Lamb and Holmes.

After passing the Solicitors’ Final Exam he worked for John Nash for two years before setting up his own plate in 1969. He practised up until last year. His practice consisted of conveyancing, legacies, and as commissioner for oaths.

Limited in the extreme but busy, precise, and conscientious.

Particular, because he didn’t want to pay VAT, he would only take on clients that he could walk to and avoid postage.

And particular in taking and failing his driving test twelve times: he was not coordinated, as I have said. His secretary recorded in her diary, “March 4th 1969.

WPA’s driving test, these were very stressful times and caused him a lot of angst.

In the end he just gave up.” The stress for his secretary reduced exponentially.

A particular man, who was looked after by just three secretaries: Sue Robinson, Jill Coe, and finally Yvonne Hawthorn (who with Tony cared for him and about him, in the last year of his life).

A particular man, who was probably happiest at St Edmund Hall. He supported it for most of his life with considerable financial support, despite being upset by an incorrect £75 invoice for dinner which could have been disastrously ‘expensive’ for the college. He was made a St Edmund Fellow in 2005.

A particular man, who knew everything you didn’t need to know about cricket and who would reputedly walk to Northampton to see a match.

A particular man, who only enjoyed the RCP Eucharist, worried about the pews and sat and kneeled and prayed apart from other worshippers.

A particular man, who enjoyed politics, a Conservative County Councillor who worried about Cameron, who went to pick up a book on working-class Tories and expected it to be a slim volume.

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A particular man, who had a TV but could not work out how to use it and yet lived and breathed on the stock market, who accumulated wealth not to spend it, but rather because it clearly marked him out as a successful, a very successful, investor. A man who tried to explain the stock market to four-year-old Emma, “nothing could be simpler.”

A particular man, who did not believe in waste. An apple dropping from a tree was a disaster, as was unnecessary expense; and stamps were in that class.

He was not a mean man, rather someone who accumulated so he could leave it to the place where he was happiest. Particular because he had no need of the trappings of wealth.

A particular man, who loved his first secretary’s dog so much that he had his own, then another, then another and another, the first named after Penny, Nick’s sister, then her children. A man who died just a few days after the death of his last dog, for dogs were part of his life. And perhaps he realised there would be no others.

A particular man, who as far as we know never fell in love.

Was he lonely? Probably not, although he lived alone.

Was he passionate or enthusiastic or obsessed? At least one of those, but only for cricket and the stock market, probably not for politics.

And certainly for St Edmund Hall.

Do I, as a human being, feel sad that Bill’s life was so particular, so confined?

Yes, I think I am... is that how you might feel too?

He was a particular man. Special, Singular, very Singular.

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NEW FELLOWSHIP ARRIVALS IN THE SCR During the year the SCR was pleased to welcome: Dina Bishara, Jarvis Doctorow Junior Research Fellow in the Politics and International Relations of the Middle East Peter Bruce, Wolfson Professor of Materials, Professorial Fellow Allison Daley, Junior Research Fellow in Zoology Michael Dee, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow (Junior Research Fellow) Richard Hopkinson, William R Miller Junior Research Fellow in Molecular Aspects of Biology Aris Karastergiou, Senior Research Fellow in Astrophysics Dominik Karos, Career Development Fellow in Economics Samira Lakhal-Littleton, BHF Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellow (Junior Research Fellow) Luc Nguyen, Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics Ian Pavord, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Professorial Fellow Climent Quintana-Domeque, William R Miller Fellow in Economics and Tutor in Economics Mariana Rossi Carvalho, German Research Foundation Fellow (Junior Research Fellow) James Wolter, University Lecturer in Financial Econometrics, Fellow by Special Election Background information about some of these new colleagues is given below.

Dina Bishara received her PhD in Political Science from the George Washington University in 2013 and her BA in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She was a Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2005-2007) and a Research Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (2013). Her research interests include authoritarianism, labour movements, social

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and protest movements, and state-society relations in authoritarian regimes.

Dina’s research has been funded by the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, the Institute for Middle East Studies at the George Washington University, and the Project on Middle East Political Science. Her work has been published in The Arab Spring in Egypt: Revolution and Beyond and Middle East Law and Governance.

Allison Daley completed her bachelor’s degree in Biology and Geological Sciences at Queen’s University in Canada, then went on to receive an MSc in Palaeontology from the University of Western Ontario and in 2010 a PhD from Uppsala University. She then spent two years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Natural History Museum, London before moving to Oxford in September 2013. In addition to being a Junior Research Fellow at the Hall, Allie jointly holds the positions of Departmental Lecturer in Dr Allison Daley (photo supplied

by Dr Daley) Animal Diversity in the Department of Zoology and Research Fellow in the OU Museum of Natural History. Her research examines the early evolution of arthropods using 500-million-year-old fossils.

Michael Dee joined the Hall in January 2014.

He is a scientist at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, whose research is aimed at improving the performance of radiocarbon dating primarily through the application of Bayesian statistical modelling. The ultimate objective of Mike’s work is to establish more precise time-frames for important sociological developments in the past. He studied Chemistry for his undergraduate degree in his home city Dr Michael Dee (photo supplied of Wellington, New Zealand, but for his DPhil

by Dr Dee) at Oxford (2006-2009) chose to specialise in the application of radiocarbon dating to archaeology. Mike’s doctoral and postdoctoral projects have concentrated on the history of Ancient Egypt, but his broader research has addressed a variety of historical and archaeological questions.

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to investigate the potential coincidence of the 4.2ka climatic event and the decline of Old Kingdom Egypt.

Dominik Karos joined the Hall in October 2013 as a Career Development Fellow in Economics. He specialises in game theory and microeconomic theory. He finished his first degree in Mathematics in 2010 at Saarland University, Germany. During the last two years of his studies Dominik worked as a consultant for financial risk management in Luxembourg, helping to clean up what was left after the financial crises. This experience provided his main motivation to start Dr Dominik Karos (photo a doctorate in Economics in 2010 at Maastricht supplied by Dr Karos) University. While conducting research for his thesis (dealing with the formation of coalitions in economic contexts, depending on agents’ interests, potential synergies, or legal requirements), Dominik was employed as teaching assistant by the Chair of Economic Theory at Saarland University. From here, he obtained the funding to carry out a research visit to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2012. He obtained his PhD in 2013, a few days before arriving in Oxford.

Dominik’s current research considers strategic coalition formation, the role of social networks for the outcome of riots, and, more recently, the analysis and implications of irrational behaviour to game theory.

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Ian D Pavord is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Physician at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust. He was a Consultant Physician from 1995 and Honorary Professor of Medicine from 2005 to 2013 at the Institute for Lung Health, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester. He is an NIHR Senior Investigator.

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diseases and played a lead role in the development of three of the most promising new treatments. Ian is co-editor of Thorax and is joint Chief Medical Officer of Asthma UK. He is the author of more than 280 publications, including six in the New England Journal of Medicine and eleven in The Lancet. He gave the Cournand Lecture at the 2004 European Respiratory Society meeting, the second UK-based researcher to have been given this honour.

Climent Quintana-Domeque graduated from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona in 2002. Prior to coming to Oxford, where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, he completed his PhD in Economics at Princeton University and was Associate Professor of Economics at Universitat d’Alacant. His research focuses on economic development, health economics, and family economics. Climent’s work has been published Dr Climent Quintana-Domeque in several journals, including the Journal of (photo from Hall records) Political Economy, the Economic Journal, the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, and Economics and Human Biology.

Mariana Rossi Carvalho took her undergraduate degree in Physics at the University of San Paulo, Brazil. Towards the end of the course she became increasingly interested in computational simulations of materials and molecules – an interdisciplinary field which joins physics and chemistry. Her MSc project, also at the University of San Paulo, was about electronic transport properties of doped carbon nanotubes. Mariana successfully completed this degree in 2008, then Dr Mariana Rossi Carvalho (photo moved to Berlin to study for a doctorate at the supplied by Dr Rossi Carvalho) Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society.

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the structure of medium-size polypeptides from first principles methods. For her PhD thesis, completed at the end of 2011, Mariana was awarded the Max Planck Society’s Otto Hahn Prize: this enabled her to stay abroad for two years and start an independent group in a Max Planck Institute in Germany. In autumn 2013 Mariana became a post-doctoral researcher in the group headed

by Professor David Manolopoulos in the Department of Chemistry at Oxford, and at the beginning of 2014 she was appointed as a Junior Research Fellow at the Hall. Her current research involves the development and improvement of methods to describe the quantum picture of nuclei which can be coupled to electronic structure methods in dynamical simulations. The inclusion of these effects makes the computer simulations even more accurate, reliable, and predictive for a wide range of materials.

FROM THE SENIOR & FINANCE BURSAR I am pleased to report that the Hall continues to make good financial progress.

The Magazine’s copy deadline means that the 2013-14 accounts are still three months away from being completed. The 2012-13 accounts, completed during the year, are available on the College website.

During summer 2014, we are embarking on two modest projects at our main Queen’s Lane site. Firstly, we are glassing-in the area between the Senior Common Room and the Wolfson Hall, and building a permanent stone ramp adjacent to the steps; this will create an additional interior space, as well as providing an elegant, permanent ramp for wheelchair access and kitchen trollies taking food to the Old Dining Hall and Old Library. Secondly, we are in the final stages of obtaining permission to add an inner set of glass doors to the Chapel, so that visitors can see inside while we maintain the building’s security.

Gone are the old, draughty inner doors covered in cheap blue baize! The longplanned rebuilding of the Head Gardener’s area in the St-Peter-in-the-East churchyard has unfortunately been delayed while we wait for the Synod to alter a law so that permission may be granted for such works to take place on what is a disused burial ground.

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After last year’s rent freeze for student accommodation, I am happy to say that the Hall is no longer the most expensive college in Oxford – either for student rooms or meals. While we cannot afford the subsidies that richer colleges can offer, it is nice that we are more competitive than we used to be.

Alumni might remember that last year I mentioned that the Hall was looking at possibilities for enlarging our Isis building on the Iffley Road. Well, the initial feasibility study has been completed, and the College has identified the option it wishes to pursue. Raising donation money for the equity portion of this project will be a major part of the Campaign, and a debt element will also be required. We are starting to work on both!

Each year, the Hall makes a case for assistance from the College Contributions Committee, which provides modest grants to poorer colleges, financed by a ‘tax’ on richer colleges. Following last year’s generous award of £396,000 for a comprehensive refurbishment of 26 Norham Gardens (also known as Brockhues House), we judged it best to make only a very modest request this year. Accordingly, we have been awarded £50,000 to assist with the cost of running the Development Office.

The Investment Sub-Committee continues to oversee the management of the Hall’s endowment on behalf of the Finance Committee, and the Remuneration Committee continues to advise the Governing Body on Fellows’ stipends and allowances.

As alumni will realise, the outlook for Higher Education funding is uncertain, and the Hall is only slightly better off as a result of the £9,000 undergraduate fee regime. And despite the progress we continue to make, our endowment remains significantly smaller than the recommended minimum for a college of our size. This makes the Campaign critical to ensuring the Hall’s long-term sustainability. The Principal, the Director of Development and I are continually reassured by the generosity of Aularians – whether financially or as advocates and advisers – and we look forward to meeting many more of you in the coming months and discussing the ways in which you might be able to help.

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FROM THE HOME BURSAR This was a very successful year at the Hall. The active and committed cohort of students was a pleasure to work with. We made great strides in improving student rooms, and amenities like student kitchens. It is a healthy sign – we are investing in the future of the Hall.

Many people have remarked on the expansion of wireless connectivity.

As technology evolves, students do more of their writing and research online.

Growth in smartphones and tablets means that their hunger for connectivity has vastly increased, and we have rolled out more data access points of higher capacity to meet the demand. The next big project will be the conversion of the University-wide telephone system from the current system to a VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol), so that the telephone signal will travel down the computer wiring rather than the telephone wires. This will require increases in data cabling and new handsets across the College.

We have continued with a concerted effort to upgrade student rooms and common areas at the main site and the six other properties. The roofing membranes were replaced on our two tallest buildings, Kelly and Emden. The north aspect of the Besse roof was replaced, and the woodwork was repaired and repainted.

Many improvements have related to energy conservation, like work on the heating plant, hot water system, and electrical lighting. After 35 years, the Beaumont water heater that supplies over half the Queen’s Lane site was replaced. A new control system was installed at the main site to give improved controllability and reliability. A programme of replacing lights with more energyefficient ones continues. The refurbishment of kitchens on the landings of the Kelly and Emden blocks resulted in twelve modern, high-specification student facilities with increased usefulness and safety.

This year we extensively refurbished some of the less public areas like the furniture store and the plant room to give better storage facilities. In addition, we completed a major refurbishment at the Boathouse which greatly improved the club facilities and storage with internal reorganisation of the upper level and a single-storey extension.

An upgrade to the fire alarm system continues, along with a comprehensive programme of improvements to the fire doors. As always, safety is of paramount 47

importance. A concerted effort to identify and manage asbestos at all sites continues, and great strides have been made this year. Window locks in Kelly and Emden, which restricted the opening to comply with legislation, are in the process of being replaced with a creative storage solution. The benefits are two-fold: improved ventilation and safety.

Work continued throughout the year at our external properties, where significant improvements were made in the accommodation areas, including new bedroom furniture, bathroom refurbishments, kitchen refurbishments and new carpets.

The garden at Crick Road benefited from extensive improvements.

Thanks to the support of the College Contributions Committee, we have launched a feasibility study to discover how best to refurbish our building at 26 Norham Gardens, currently used for postgraduate accommodation. That report is due at summer’s end.

Teddy Hall’s most valuable resource is its people, and the employees of the Hall continue to do credit to the College. With a staff of our size, there are inevitably arrivals and departures every year. This year we welcomed Philippa Machin, Kate Townsend and Gail Williams to the Development Office. Claire Hogben and Adele Curness joined the College Office. Will Donaldson was appointed Chaplain. Naomi Gormely and Stuart Clarke joined the Kitchen. Arik Janicki (NSE) and Bradley Millar joined Maintenance, and Alex Grant became Warden at NSE. We welcomed Milena Sadjak as a scout, Kenneth Beechers as a Porter, Shaun Pitt in the Buttery, and Rosemary Cameron as Accommodation Officer.

Sadly, we bid farewell to Anna Fowler and Emma Bowler in Development, as well as Matt Bell and Ceri Hunter in the College Office. Alejandra Palau (Servery), Rebecca Shorter (Archivist) and Rachel Cable (Bursars’ P.A.) left the College.

In addition, Geoff Nudds (NSE), Gary Golder (Porter), Robin Masters (NSE), Alistair Scott (Chef) and Sue Heath (Isis) all retired this year.

On a brighter note, Marta Andrzejak had a baby boy this year, and Melanie Brickell is currently on maternity leave.

We continue to invest heavily in staff training. The focus ranges from IT skills to health and safety. This has many aspects, from food handling to fire safety, and more than fifty employees have benefited.

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Naturally much remains to be done. At the end of my final year at the Hall, I believe the College can look forward to further improvement. Priorities remain the development of our staff, improvement of our buildings, and the enhancement of services. Both for financial and ecological reasons we need to emphasise energy conservation, and take advantage of emerging technology.

However, the enduring strengths of the Hall remain constant: a strong sense of community and an unwavering commitment to education.

Ernest Parkin FROM THE LIBRARY FELLOW This has been my second year as Library Fellow, and it has been a pleasure to continue working together with the Librarian, Blanca Martin, and her assistant, Caroline Legg, who returned after her maternity leave in September 2013.

This has been a positive and rewarding year for our undergraduate library. The Librarian is to be congratulated on the wide range of programmes she is keeping in place, including the major stock check that was undertaken, the launching of a new weeding project, the conservation programme for the Old Library, and the development of more sophisticated records of student usage.

The cataloguing projects which I commented on last year are proceeding apace, with regard both to books authored by Fellows and Aularians, and to the older collection in the Old Library. Last year it was possible for the first time to provide proper electronic catalogue entries for all items in the Fellows’ Library, which contains books written or edited by Fellows of the College and is housed on open shelves in the Library tower, whereas over the past twelve months we have been able to move on to the Aularian Collection, which contains the publications of old members. About 460 items in this collection have now been catalogued.

In the past these books were only to be found in the card-index catalogue, but now they should all be visible on SOLO, the University’s online catalogue, which can be accessed anywhere in the world (solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk). In parallel to this we have been able to employ Dr Paul Nash, an expert antiquarian cataloguer, to continue his work in providing online entries for SOLO for the books in the College’s historical collection in the Old Library. Paul is especially known in Oxford for his work at the hand-printing workshop of the Story Museum (Bodleian Library). The catalogue of the early books, which has been commenced with those from before 1800, is now coming towards the end of its first year, and already a number of interesting and unusual items have come to 49

The Hall Library (photo by John Cairns)

light (including some strips of medieval manuscript used as strengthening in a seventeenth-century French bookbinding). The great merit of this cataloguing project is that it makes it possible to record historical information relating to College history that are preserved in the books, while at the same time making the College’s library holdings visible to scholars outside the University.

Donations continue to be extremely important for underpinning the Library’s activities. Both cataloguing projects have been funded by generous gifts from old members, and we shall be looking for the means to continue the Old Library project beyond the academic year 2014-2015. The undergraduate Library also received many gifts of texts from Fellows, tutors, alumni and student members, and special mention must be made to a significant and very generous donation of books from one of our third-year English finalists. In the last two years, Samuel Burton has donated ninety-six books, mostly brand new copies, to the English section of the Library. The Library is grateful to the following Fellows and Tutors: Lucy Newlyn, Amy Zavatsky, Jennifer Baines and Liz Styles. It also thanks past and present members: Malcolm Trevor, John Walters, Christopher Ward, Wilson Cheung, and Michael Rundle for their donations. Mention must also be made of the number of textbooks donated anonymously by students.

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LIBRARY DONATIONS 2013-2014 Over the year the College Library was the beneficiary of many gifts for the Aularian Collection, which are listed below.

ALLEN, Geoffrey Holiday on Cythera: Jeu de Fête à Cythère, Opus 53 Suite for Two Pianos : Volume 1 The Keys Press 2011 Holiday on Cythera: Jeu de Fête à Cythère Suite for Two Pianos : Volume 2 The Keys Press 2011 Holiday on Cythera: Jeu de Fête à Cythère Suite for Two Pianos : Volume 3 The Keys Press 2011 Piano Sonata No. 14, Opus 77 The Keys Press 2011 Piano Sonata No. 15, Opus 80 The Keys Press 2012 Sonata for Oboe and Harp, Opus 79 The Keys Press 2013 Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp, Opus 78 The Keys Press 2012 The Hour of Magic : Five Songs to Poems of WH Davies, Opus 81 The Keys Press 2013 ALLEN, Geoffrey et al The Iridiscent Flute : Australian Music for Flute and Piano Audio CD Stone Records Ltd 2014 The Red of a Woman’s Heart : Australian Art Songs Audio CD Stone Records Ltd 2014

BARNES, John Sports and the Law in Canada Butterworth 1996 3rd edition Translation into Japanese by Shuji Nishimura Chapter 4, Kanazawa Law Review, Vol 55 No 1 (2012) Chapter 5, Kanazawa Law Review, Vol 56 No 1 (2013) BROADBRIDGE, David W Treading the Dance : Danish Medieval Ballads Men Dansen den går : Danske folkeviser Hovedland Publishers 2011 BROWN, Roger L Thomas Vowler Short : Bishop of St Asaph 1846-1870 Tair Eglwys Press 2014 BROWN, Wallace ‘Wallace Brown: A Bibliography 19591999’ Acadiensis Vol 32 No 2 (2003) CRAMPTON, Richard J (contributor) ‘The Balkans, 1914-1918’ In: Strachan, Hew (ed) The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War Oxford University Press 2014 2nd edition COURSIER, Charlotte Elizabeth Essays Oxford University Philosophy Faculty 2014 51

COWAN MONTAGUE, Jude The Groodoyals of Terre Rouge Dark Windows Press 2013

KNIGHT, John B ‘China’s developmental state’ Selected Papers of Beijing Forum 2012

ERWIN, Chris [as Gregory RANDALL] Snow on the Pea Soup and Other Anecdotes AuthorHouse UK Ltd 2013

‘Economic causes and cures of social instability in China’ China & World Economy Vol 22 (2014)

GORDON, Keith Residence: The Definition in Practice 2013-14 Claritax Books 2013 2nd edition

KNIGHT, John B, and Fu, Xiaolan ‘Editorial introduction’ China & World Economy Vol 22 (2014)

Tax Chamber Hearings: A User’s Guide Claritax Books 2014 3rd edition

KNIGHT, John B, Quheng, Deng, and Shi, Li ‘The evolution of the migrant labor market in China, 2002-2007’ From: Li Shi, Hiroshi Sato, and Terry Sicular (eds) Rising Inequality in China : Challenges to a Harmonious Society Cambridge University Press 2013

GOSLING, Justin Héraclite et la Réfutation de Théétète (Théétète, 179C-183C) Librairie Philosophique J Vrin 2013 HAWKINS, John Walter Fred : The Collected Letters and Speeches of Colonel Frederick Gustavus Burnaby Volume 1: 1842-1878 Helion & Company Limited 2013 JACKSON, Laurence ‘Trailblazers’ Wickland Westcott & Manchester Business School 2009

KNIGHT, John B, Sicular, Terry, and Ximing, Yue ‘Educational inequality in China : the intergenerational dimension’ From: Li Shi, Hiroshi Sato, and Terry Sicular (eds) Rising Inequality in China : Challenges to a Harmonious Society Cambridge University Press 2013

JAFFEY, Michael Launching the New Enlightenment : The Reaffirmation of the Social Contract CreateSpace 2014

MANN, Chris Home From Home : New and Selected Poems Echoing Green Press 2010

KELLY, J N D Oxford Dictionary of Popes Translation into Korean by Byun, Yoo-Chan Benedict Press 2014 2nd edition 52

MESHOULAM, Yair Christine K¸hn (1953-2011) Lebenswelten : Installationen des Zeitenwandels Karl-Heinz Pantke 2013 NEWLYN, Lucy William & Dorothy Wordsworth : All in Each Other Oxford University Press 2013 OGURA, Michiko Words and Expressions of Emotion in Medieval English Peter Lang GmbH 2013 PEVERETT, Robin [as Robin PORECKY] A Pathless Land Austin & Macauley Publishers Ltd 2009 Fool’s Island Austin & Macauley Publishers Ltd 2011 Come Into My Arms Austin & Macauley Publishers Ltd 2012

STYLES, Elizabeth (contributor) ‘Attention’ In: Groome, David (ed) An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology Psychology Press 2014 3rd edition THICK, Malcolm (contributor) ‘To what extent did people eat vegetables in the early eighteenth century?’

Petits Propos Culinaires Vol 100 (2014) TYTLER, Graeme ‘Physiognomy in Anne Brontë’s fiction’ Brontë Studies Vol 37 No 3 (2012) ‘Physiognomy and identity in Villette’ Brontë Studies Vol 38 No 1 (2013) WOODS, Gordon T ‘Mendeleev, the man and his matrix: Dmitri Mendeleev, aspects of his life and work: was he a somewhat fortunate man?’

Found Chem Vol 12 (2010)

The Devil’s Field Austin & Macauley Publishers Ltd 2013 SHIPTON, Alyn Nilsson : The Life of a Singer-Songwriter Oxford University Press 2013 SOTIROVICH, William Vasilio Grotius Universe : Divine Law and a Quest for Harmony CreateSpace 2013 2nd edition SPRAGUE, Elmer ‘Hume, causation and agency’ The European Legacy Vol 18 No 4 (2013)

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FROM THE ARCHIVE FELLOW To our great regret, Rebecca Shorter left Oxford in September 2013 to take up a full-time position in Gloucester. Rebecca was the Hall’s first professional archivist, and her achievements were remarkable given the short time that she was with us. Fellows, staff, students, old members, and visitors benefited from her professionalism and cheerful co-operation, and enjoyed her frequent contributions to College events and publications. Behind the scenes, too, she made a huge difference: she initiated the first proper catalogue of the Archive, building on the invaluable inventory compiled some years ago by Mr David Smith; she began the process of re-arranging the collection to make better use of the limited space available; she checked all the records for possible damage and decay, and boxed many of them, including our large collection of photographs, for better protection and conservation. She also secured a number of significant new accessions, and dealt effectively with the regular flow of requests for information from within the College and from outside. The Hall owes her a great debt.

We hope to have a new archivist in post by the autumn of 2014. Since Rebecca’s departure, the Archive Fellow has taken on the Archivist’s responsibilities.

New accessions have continued to arrive. One donation of particular interest this year is the large selection of Professor William Hume-Rothery’s papers, given by his daughter Mrs Jennifer Moss. Professor Hume-Rothery, FRS, was the University’s first Isaac Wolfson Professor of Metallurgy, and a Fellow of the Hall from 1958 to his death in 1968. His papers include not only some fascinating records of his research and his many awards, but also his wonderful fishing diaries. A further donation from the Archive’s good friend Mr Jack Wheeler (1950) included a fine set of photographs, both framed and unframed, among them two of the Revd Graham Midgley’s dog Fred, and one of Principal Kelly’s Jaguar being hoisted on to a boat at Newhaven in 1957. Through the good offices of Gill Powell, the Principal’s PA, we were also able to acquire from Mrs Jan Deakin, the daughter of Mr Norman Dawson (1924), three beautifully preserved team photographs of the Hall’s Rugby XV from 1925-6, 1926-7, and 1927-8. Mr Dawson played for the Hall as a forward in all four of his undergraduate years, and was awarded his colours in Hilary 1926. He also edited this Magazine in 1926 and 1927.

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professional historians and researchers, and from genealogists, some of them speculative, others impressively well-informed. Many of these enquiries lead to new friendships with individuals who have not previously had any relationship with the College. It was a special pleasure for example in June to meet a descendent of the Revd Robert Thomlinson, DD, who graduated from the Hall in 1689 and was appointed Vice-Principal in 1692. It was Dr Thomlinson’s generosity in the 1740s that enabled Principal Shaw to complete the rebuilding of the western end of the north range in the Front Quad.

Items from the Archive have been exhibited on two occasions this year. On 22 November 2013, as part of the national ‘Explore your Archive’ campaign, we opened the Archive as a whole to the public. Rebecca Shorter was able to return to Oxford on that day to give a well-attended talk about the Hall in the Second World War; she also arranged a small exhibition to accompany her talk, which included several letters from Aularians to the Principal reporting their experiences between 1939 and 1945. The event attracted a good deal of wider publicity. Rebecca and the Archive Fellow were interviewed by the Oxford Mail; a useful contact was established with the Oxford Heritage Trust; and several Aularians took advantage of the event to return to Oxford and to participate in the discussions. And on 18 May 2014, Dr Yates included the processional cross in an exhibition in the Old Library to mark the start of Artweeks.

Current projects include the digitization of the Hall Magazine using the complete set of issues now held in the Archive; this has been made possible by generous funding from of the SEH Association, for which we are very grateful. We are also planning to construct additional shelving in the room behind the Vestry to create further space for new accessions.

Nicholas Davidson FROM THE CHAPLAIN I have greatly enjoyed being welcomed into the College community this year, and have felt very supported by staff and students alike. This support has been expressed from all quarters of the Hall, but I could particularly mention the Chapel Overseeing Fellow, the Director of Music, the Organ Scholars, the Development and Alumni Relations Office, the Maintenance and Housekeeping teams and the Bursary. My sincere thanks! My role is part-time, so the other half of my week is spent at St Aldates, Oxford, as their Director of Pastoral Care.

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With Sunday congregations of over a thousand people, I am kept busy at both ends of my working life!

The chapel has continued to have an important liturgical and communal role in the life of the Hall in a number of ways: obviously on Sundays, continuing the long tradition of Choral Anglican Evensong (well serviced by a committed and able choir), which is open to and inclusive of people of all faiths and none, providing a place of reflection on the meaning and purpose of life, and the sort of values and beliefs that help enrich our human society. It also provides a focus for us as a College at times of corporate grief or celebration (funerals, weddings and christenings) for past and present members of the College, and at major festivals like St Edmund Feast, Christmas and Remembrance Sunday. It also serves the wider College community of parents, families, and always has good numbers of parents and alumni attending our evensongs prior to Parents’ and Reunion dinners.

Alongside the College Nurse I have worked as Co-Senior Welfare Officer and offered pastoral support to staff and students alike. Both staff and students are under understandable and heavy pressures, and I have tried to be available to listen, to sympathize, to counsel and to offer support. Glynis Perry and I are well resourced and supported by the University Student Counselling and Welfare Service, and I am pleased to act as Secretary for the College and Welfare Committee.

I have also had an opportunity to network for the Hall more widely across the University by attending termly meetings of all the Chaplains (Anglican, other Christian denominations, and other world faiths). These are useful for building relationships and sharing wisdom. We also have had a number of joint services with other colleges during the year, sometimes all together at the University Church, and sometimes with our link colleges in Oxford (University College) and Cambridge (Fitzwilliam College). The Choir also helps promote the College more widely through performances and tours in cathedral cities in the UK and Europe. I am joining the Choir on tour in France again this September: we will be based at Pontigny Abbey (the burial place of St Edmund) and a big highlight will be singing in the Cathedral at Reims, which is an outstanding example of European Gothic architecture (where kings of France have been crowned).

Today it is major tourism destination, receiving about one million visitors annually. What a privilege!

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FROM THE DIRECTOR OF MUSIC Following the renovation of the music room and the purchase of a new piano soon after I arrived two years ago, this year we bought a digital mixing desk, five good speakers and a couple of guitar amps – the room and equipment are now in constant use. The current JCR Arts Reps have been very helpful, and we now have a regular series of open mic nights, which have shown that the Hall has quite a few excellent guitarists and song-writers amongst the students. We even persuaded the rugby and netball teams to perform at the talent night in Hilary Term 2014, and there were over twenty acts for the judges to choose from.

The lunchtime concerts (which are usually held on the Tuesdays of the even weeks of term unless the Old Dining Hall is booked for another event) have been well received. We have even had a few visiting artists, including a choral scholar from Magdalen and a local professional piano trio, but most performers have come from within SEH. Starting in Michaelmas 2014 we will be adding a termly evening concert which will showcase the best of the term’s lunchtime recitals and give the College instrumental scholars something more formal to work towards.

In addition to the new piano in the music room, the new Bechstein upright in the Old Dining Hall has been very well received, and this year we also bought a new Hoffmann upright for the postgraduate building in Norham Gardens.

The Chapel Choir has had an excellent year, and after two years with a part-time Director of Music a good routine has been established. It can be tricky when a group has two conductors, but I am very lucky to have a fine organ scholar in John Clark-Maxwell, and he and I share the directing of the Choir, planning the music and rehearsal schedule a term in advance. It is always a pleasure to come back to chapel after a couple of weeks away and hear how much good work has been done in my absence. I am also happy to be able to report that regular attendance is now consistent, which in a group that is predominantly voluntary is pleasing.

We were sad to lose Fr Kris, who has moved back to the US, but have been extremely fortunate with the appointment of the Revd Will Donaldson as our new chaplain. It is hard to imagine a more delightful and supportive chaplain, and I know his presence in the College community as a whole has been of real benefit.

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In addition to our annual joint service with Fitzwilliam, Cambridge, which this year saw us visiting them and singing in their lovely modern chapel (see section 3 of the Magazine), we have also established two regular joint services with University College. This year we welcomed them to our chapel for Evensong and then walked across the High for dinner in their hall, and we also joined with them in the University Church on Ash Wednesday for a service of Holy Communion. Whilst it is obviously important to maintain our regular services in College, it is also very good for the Choir to meet occasionally with other groups of singers, particularly as this gives us the chance to tackle works that would otherwise be a little big.

As last year, this year’s tour to Pontigny Abbey could not have been organised without the help of Paddy Carpenter, whose daughter Lucie is an undergraduate at the Hall. Paddy tirelessly negotiated and arranged with the people who run the Abbey for us to spend five days in residence there, further helping to cement the link between the place Edmund knew as a young man and the church where his body lies. Next year we are planning a trip to Poland, but we aim to return to Pontigny in 2016 and I am hoping that we will be joined by some of the other institutions in the UK who are also named after St Edmund.

As the Chapel Choir has increased in size and quality, the organ in chapel has become more of an issue. It was built in 1980 and was not designed to accompany a choir. Most of the sound it makes is trapped upstairs in the chamber in which it is built and while it is ideal for practising Bach, when the Choir are singing it is not really able to provide suitable support. Given the great cost any thought of a replacement has to be seen as a long-term plan, but I am delighted that the College has found the funds to commission a four-stop continuo organ from the builder Robin Jennings, similar to the one he built for Trinity College, Cambridge. It will live by the side of the altar and will allow us to explore much of the repertoire that was being written around the time the chapel was being built. The verse anthems of Tomkins and Gibbons will give more solo opportunities for the choral scholars, and the larger-scale works of Purcell and Blow will enable us to involve string players. The organ should be with us by November 2014.

Christopher Watson The Hall gratefully acknowledges the continuing support received from and through Sir Martin Smith for its musical activities.

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FROM THE DIRECTOR OF STUDIES FOR VISITING STUDENTS The Visiting Student Programme at St Edmund Hall had another very successful year. The most popular subjects for majors were Psychology (7), Maths (5), Philosophy (4), Comparative Literature (4), Biochemistry (3) and English (3).

For minors, besides the same subjects taken as majors, Film and History of Art were popular. Our visitors came primarily from the most able and adventurous students of prestigious universities (e.g. Duke, Cornell, Brown) and colleges (e.g. Amherst, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Pomona) in the United States.

The Visiting Students took full part in the social, musical and sporting life of the College as well as activities organised by our two graduate Visiting Student Advisors, Seint Lwin and David Robinson, to help them integrate them into the College and understand the British way of life. This year, in particular, the Junior Common Room and the visiting students integrated very well.

As in previous years, the Thanksgiving Dinner in the Old Dining Hall was one of the highlights of the social calendar. In addition to the Visiting Students, the dinner was attended by the Principal, the Director of Studies for Visiting Students, and the Bursar, as well as many of the College tutors. The Chef and his team provided the traditional Thanksgiving meal with their usual aplomb; and our Gardener, Susan Kasper, decorated the Old Dining Hall with artistic flair. Many of the Visiting Students mentioned how much they appreciated the dinner when they were missing their families; for most it was the first time they had been away from home for Thanksgiving.

Maryanne Martin The names of the Hall’s Visiting Students for 2013-14 are published in section 4 of the Magazine.

FROM THE SCHOOLS LIAISON OFFICER The St Edmund Hall admissions office is perpetually busy. Our Admissions Administrator, Jen Gibbard, works year-round handling applications for undergraduate, postgraduate and visiting student courses, whilst as Schools Liaison Officer, I lead the Hall’s ever expanding access and outreach programme.

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The wonder of it all: students from Perins School, Hampshire visiting the Hall (photo by John Cairns)

threefold. First, Widening Participation, or encouraging more young people to consider University study as an option for them when they reach eighteen.

Second, Widening Access, which involves encouraging applications to Oxford from currently under-represented groups. Thirdly, Student Recruitment, both for Oxford and for the Hall. From a College perspective, a big part of our work is making sure that applicants and schools know and remember the name ‘Teddy Hall’. Our secluded location can be both a blessing and a challenge – we are not a college that you are likely to just stumble across on an Open Day! Under the University’s regional links programme, St Edmund Hall has principal responsibility for working with schools and colleges of all types in Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Leicester, Leicestershire, Peterborough, Portsmouth, Rutland, and Southampton. Each term we host school groups from these regions who visit the Hall for an introduction to life at Oxford and a chance to meet students and tutors. I also travel to schools and colleges to give presentations and workshops to students, teachers and parents, and attend HE fairs and UCAS conventions.

Our team of 16 volunteer Student Ambassadors also run tours during the halfterm and Easter holidays for family groups. In 2013-2014, the Hall has met around 3500 prospective applicants from over 150 schools and colleges. This 60

number represents virtually all schools and colleges in these areas with candidates capable of making a competitive application to Oxford.

In July 2014 our two undergraduate Open Days proved extremely popular, with more experienced colleagues informing me that they were the busiest in recent memory! We estimate that around 1000 prospective applicants, accompanied by their parents, siblings and/or teachers visited the Hall for a tour of College, a chance to ask questions, and a chance to meet the College tutors from their subject. Our 20 undergraduate helpers were run off their feet giving tours, with one even losing her voice after chatting with too many applicants. We were particularly pleased to meet several Aularians visiting the Hall with their children and grandchildren. After the Open Days, a group of 22 prospective applicants stayed overnight at the Hall for our annual Residential Workshops, which this year were focussed on Modern Languages and Medicine. Students enjoyed a day of sample lectures and admissions advice from our tutors, students, and staff.

To top off a busy year, 2013-2014 has also seen the introduction of a new, completely re-written college prospectus and the launch of our first professional admissions video – available to watch now on our YouTube channel.* Several sections of the College website have also been re-written and updated, and our new bookmarks have proved popular with parties from visiting schools! We have also established a termly Teachers’ e-Newsletter, to maintain contact with all of our linked schools and colleges.

The success of these programmes can be hard to define, as working with students at age 13 and 14 means that these students will not appear in our application statistics for a further five years. However, initial analyses have been very encouraging. After the events run with Year 12 (17 year- old) groups in 2012-2013, one third of these schools and colleges subsequently sent at least one direct applicant to the College in October 2013. Almost all the schools and colleges with whom we worked in 2012-2013 have requested and attended a repeat of their event in 2013-2014. We hope to meet many of them for a third time next year!

After our events we regularly seek formal feedback from participants, and this has been particularly encouraging. A recent Year 8 visitor wrote after her visit, “I never realised how achievable going to Oxford University could be.” The feedback that we receive regularly makes particular mention of our volunteer 61

Student Ambassadors. A parent of a Year 11 student recently wrote that their Ambassador had been “an informative, informal and lively guide” who had helped them to feel that Oxford University is “approachable and welcoming.”

For me, the biggest sign of success is meeting students who come to the College for their second or third visit, after initially hearing me speak at their school.

St Edmund Hall has hugely increased its commitment to outreach and access initiatives over the last two years, and will continue to invest in these activities in the future.

Claire Hogben *see section 3 of the Magazine FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE JUNIOR COMMON ROOM Teddy Hall has once again had a successful cultural and sporting year. For all those at the College, or who are affiliated to the Hall, it comes as no surprise that students have once again achieved so much more than simply academic excellence.

As always students at the Hall have done some really great and inspiring work for charity, including raising money for important causes. A team of three students took part in this year’s Oxford RAG’s ‘Jailbreak’, succeeding in getting to the Orkneys. In Michaelmas 2013, all the St Edmund Hall Clinical Medics were involved in the Tingewick pantomime which contributed to the £23,000 raised by the Tingewick firm, which supported the Oxford Homeless Medical Fund and Against Malaria Foundation. Excitingly, two of our 4th Years were part of the Tingewick Firm and so helped to organise this year’s fundraising efforts aiming to raise over £25,000. For more information the link to the website is www.tingewick.org.

On the JCR front it has again been a great year for students. The JCR has successfully negotiated student input into the College’s Development Committee through a new sub-committee which will have JCR representation as well as representatives from the Development Office. This will allow feedback from students on important decisions made concerning the Hall’s future, as well as allowing the main Committee to call on the JCR president to provide student opinions at meetings. We have also successfully created and implemented an initiative known as the Student Challenge Fund. This provides a new scholarship, of varying amounts up to £5,000, that is open to academically 62

excellent members of the JCR or MCR who are progressing to study for higher degrees whilst remaining at the Hall. It is hoped that this initiative will ensure we keep hold of our best and brightest students taking up DPhils and Masters.

Most excitingly of all, the College has agreed to fund an annual ‘non-academic achievements’ dinner, which is designed to recognise students’ sporting, musical, and theatrical achievements on behalf of the Hall. Finally, there are plans in the offing and a budget being allocated to revamp the JCR and surrounding areas: this will be a much-needed improvement to the central hub of undergraduate social life.

The College has been busy with activity as usual. Our Welfare team continue to run regular, and fantastically successful, ‘Anti 5th Week Blues’ programmes each term which have included mountains of free food, themed breakfasts and dinners, as well as the brilliant performances of our pianists during meal times.

Members of the JCR have been continuing the lunchtime concerts in the Old Dining Hall that were started last year and these remain hugely popular. This year’s ‘Teddy Hall’s Got Talent’ saw a huge range of performances, from large groups of sports teams (encouraged by a top sports team prize of £100 behind the bar), to brilliant soloists. Whilst the quality varied, one thing shared by all acts was a real enthusiasm.

On the sports front, our football team came top of the Premiership division, having been unbeaten in over a year. Our mixed lacrosse team won Cuppers, as did our netball women. The Rugby Club made it to a third successive Cuppers final but narrowly lost to a combined St Anne’s/ St John’s team.

In summary, once again the Hall has been a busy place, with plenty of things going on. Despite all this activity the bar seems to be regularly full, the graveyard remains carpeted with students taking a break from the library to soak up some sun, and Summer Eights had the boathouse packed to the rafters. Floreat Aula!

Sebastian Siersted FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE MIDDLE COMMON ROOM This academic year got off to a good start for the MCR, and the new committee worked hard to welcome the 125 new graduate students in traditional Teddy Hall style. Over the course of Freshers’ Week, the usual events – a drinks reception and buffet dinner at Norham, a potluck dinner and a pizza party – were added 63

to with a themed pub “crawl” evening, and historical tours of the College.

Sadly, the Great British weather forced us to postpone the planned afternoon of pirate punting, a slight change to the normal programme petitioned for by our Treasurer, Joseph Feyertag.

After last year’s committee’s work to get student representation on Academic Committee, the first order of business this year was to create a dedicated committee position to take on this responsibility, and to take over the organisation of the termly Graduate Seminars from the Stewarding team. It is hoped that a programme of annual academic events will eventually gradually be added to this remit. Ambroise Joffrin was elected as the man for the job, and he has spent time working closely with the Tutor for Graduates on implementing such a programme, as well as organising bi-termly French conversation evenings over wine and cheese. Alongside this development, four new Pontigny Scholarships have been created. The award holders will be expected to encourage joint common room academic ventures, and I am looking forward to seeing what activities develop for graduate students at Teddy Hall as a result of these two incentives.

Over the course of the year, the Stewarding and Welfare Teams continued to provide a whole host of different activities. The traditional termly wine tasting, which we are lucky enough to be able to hold in the Old Library, sold out within just a couple of minutes in Michaelmas, prompting the Stewards (Harry Clifford, Kristy Evers, and Dean James) to add a termly whisky tasting to the term card.

The popular Friday cake morning was given a competitive makeover by Gareth Evans and Rachel Paterson, and reinvented as the Teddy Hall MCR Bake Off. The pattern of someone volunteering to bake on Friday mornings remained the same, only at the end of each term, teddy-themed bakeware was offered as a prize to the baker whose prowess was esteemed most deserving by our judge, former JCR President Margery Infield.

In fact, if there has been a flavour in the MCR this year, it has certainly been baked goods, with the (now traditional) cake and cocktails party in Hilary Term and the termly welfare afternoon tea continuing to be amongst our most popular events. But in addition to this, we have managed to find a solution to the age-old question of how to get biscuits in the MCR with the provision of a “Biccy Bank”, which operates as a sort of biscuit honesty box. The supply of biscuits – which are lovingly stocked by the Welfare Assistant, Jessica Davidson 64

– in the MCR every day has made it more comfortable – and more tempting – than ever to spend the afternoon in the warm and cosy MCR. Things have been getting more comfy up at NSE too, as this year’s NSE Rep, James Illingworth, made it his mission to give the common room a more “common-roomy feel”. This was partly achieved by the arrival of the much-anticipated pool table, which the VP, David Severson, worked tirelessly to procure.

The MCR’s own football team continued to do well in the league during Michaelmas, winning two games and drawing one. Although sadly, the poor weather in Hilary meant the team was only able to play three of the six planned games, preventing the team from promotion, these games were all victories for the Teddy Hall team. The MCR also continues to feature strongly in the Boat Club, with both this year’s captains being members of the MCR. The year was brought to a close with the annual Trinity Dinner, at which the traditional serious and not-so-serious MCR photos are also taken. As well as the usual thanks and speeches, and the distribution of tankards to the committee members, this year we were treated to the first Teddy Hall Rap, ‘Teddies in Paris’ – so named as a tribute our beloved teddy bear mascot who was kidnapped and taken to Paris earlier this year (I am pleased to report, he has since returned) – performed by Kristy Evers, outgoing steward, and Nicholas Gordon, the incoming vice-president. A highly entertaining montage of some of the highs and lows experienced by the MCR! Throughout the year, I have been delighted with how well the committee has worked together as a team. More than one member of our team has been new to the Hall this year, and we have also had the benefit of the advice of more seasoned Aularians – which include former President, David Springer, who was invaluable as our IT Officer this year. It has truly been a pleasure to work with such a dedicated and flexible group of people, who have helped make my job a whole lot easier, too!

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STUDENT CLUBS AND SOCIETIES The year 2013-2014 was a busy one, as usual, for the Hall’s student clubs and societies active across the spectrum, from sports to volunteering. The Senior Treasurer of Amalgamated Clubs, Dr Jeff Tseng, writes: Amalgamated Clubs is the main source of financial support for the Hall’s teams and societies for equipment, kit, pitch rental, team coaching, fees, insurance, and other expenses. While a large proportion of Clubs funding supports sports teams, it also funds a wide range of other activities, such as JCR and MCR Zumba and yoga classes, Freshers’ Week, common-room furnishings, music, drama, and individual art exhibits and cultural events. It has always been a privilege, as the Clubs Senior Treasurer, to see the many creative things Hall members get up to outside their academic work, and especially to find ways to celebrate their successes. Amalgamated Clubs, therefore, usually sits in the background, but this is as it should be – it is there to help foster our junior members’ fuller development during their time at the Hall.

After all, these are the fruits of their talents and hard work!

Sports clubs with both Men’s and Women’s teams active during the year included Rugby, Football, Rowing, Hockey and Tennis; others included Mixed Lacrosse, Netball, Cricket, Darts, Dodgeball, Badminton, and Basketball. In the area of cultural, social, and volunteering organisations, there were the Alternative Choir, the Chapel Choir, the Christian Union, the Music Society, the John Oldham Society, and Teach Green.

Reports on some of the clubs’ and societies’ activities are published below.

SPORTS CLUBS Men’s Hockey The Teddy Hall team has continued to show its prowess as one of the best hockey teams in Oxford after arguably the best season in its history. The team won both leagues and qualified for the Varsity match against Cambridge’s top college (Jesus). We were knocked out in the second round of Men’s Cuppers by a Worcester team containing several Blues players and narrowly lost a 5-6 nail-biter in the Mixed Cuppers quarter-final to the eventual winners (who sailed through the tournament). In the coming year we intend to build on our success by qualifying for Varsity again and rightfully bringing home some silverware from the Cuppers competitions.

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Mixed Lacrosse The Teddy Hall Mixed Lacrosse team has been extremely successful in the last few years, and this achievement continued in 2013-2014. Across the College we have one full Blue and four Half-Blues for both women’s and mixed lacrosse.

Lucy Andrew, in particular, has excelled over the last two years, gaining a full Blue in both 2013 and 2014. This, as well as a huge enthusiasm for sport, boosted our results during 2014. Almost all matches in Michaelmas and Hilary Terms were unfortunately called off because of the awful weather conditions, so Cuppers in Trinity Term was one of the first occasions for Teddy Hall to make an appearance. Our team consisted of four seasoned players and over ten beginners. Despite the shortage of experience we were triumphant and are now Mixed Lacrosse Cuppers champions! After narrowly defeating Wadham in the semi-finals we went on to meet New College in the final on 10 May 2014. This was a great performance, especially as we beat a team that consisted entirely of university-level players. Overall, the Hall’s Mixed Lacrosse team had a very good year and demonstrated that this is a particularly good sport for bringing together students from all years and backgrounds of skills level. The enthusiasm and liveliness of the team really helped us through the year to our winning finish!

Lucy Langley (Captain)

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Women’s Netball The Hall’s Women’s Netball team won Cuppers this year, beating 2013 champions Keble in the finals held on 3 May 2014 at the Community Centre Arena, Marston.

Men’s Rowing Putting the disappointment of cancelled Torpids behind them, the squad kicked off their preparations for the Summer Eights campaign with a six-day training camp based in Mantova, Italy, with coach Geordie Macleod. After arriving back in Oxford in Trinity Term, the squad took possession of their new eight, named The Worthington in recognition of the generosity of Stuart Worthington (1982). The boat was officially christened by Women’s Captain, Gemma Prata.

The Men’s Ist Crew powering along in Eights Week (photo from Friends of the SEH Boat Club)

In Trinity Term 2014 Summer Eights, the Men’s First Eight succeeded in holding its place in the rankings, maintaining top division status, and denying old rivals Keble their blades in the process. The Second Eight ended up three places down, having entered the competition with very little water time under their belts. With more experience and better luck, things could have gone a lot better for the crew: many of the rowers showed strong progression during the term and most are set to continue rowing in the Men’s squad next year. The Men’s Third Crew achieved blades by making a bump every day. In doing this, they progressed the boat up six places in the rankings (having over-bumped on the Thursday) and earned a Bumps Supper from the Hall.

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The above is based on material provided by the Men’s Captain, Graham Baird.

A report on the re-opening of the refurbished Boat House during Eights Week and the text of the speech written by the Principal for the Bumps Supper are included in section 3 of the Magazine, together with a report from the Friends of the SEH Boat Club and an account of the charity Oxford-London row attempt which took place in July 2014.

Women’s Rowing The Women’s squad held a very successful training camp in Sabaudia, Italy, during which they made steady improvements in technique and fitness (building on the fitness gained during Hilary Term 2014 thanks to Harriet Keane’s erg programme). Sadly, after arrival back in Oxford a couple of star rowers were lost to University Examinations and injury. In the first week of Trinity Term, five of the Women’s Second Eight members had never been in a boat, and the other three only a handful of times since Michaelmas! Under the guidance of Mariann Novak, a huge amount of work went into the task of producing a racing crew by 5th Week. As Eights Week arrived, the Women’s First Eight also included several rowers who were novices at racing. The crew were coached by Harriet Keane and Victoria Stulgis. During the competition, the First Eight came close to bumping St John’s on the Friday and ultimately succeeded in out-pacing a determined Pembroke on the Saturday, holding on to their 3rd place in Division I. The Second Eight, who started at 12 in Division IV, were unfortunately bumped on the first day by Balliol W2, the next day by St Catherine’s W2, and on the Friday by Regent’s Park. However, the crew managed to avoid spoons and by keeping their nerve held off an extremely close attempt at bumping by St Anne’s W2 on the last day.

The above is based on material provided by the Women’s Captain, Gemma Prata.

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Oscar Vallance scoring a try in the first half of the final (photo by John Cairns). Oscar obtained a Distinction in his MSc in Contemporary India degree.

typical pack strength, was enough to keep the Hall undefeated throughout the first term.

The team returned in January galvanised by at least three trips to the gym. Team spirit was greatly aided by the return of Fraser Heathcote and Oscar Vallance, two men awarded Blues at Twickenham. With Will Darby heading the forwards and crash ball centre Jack Calvert leading the backs, the early defeat to a strong New College side proved a shock. However, this defeat spurred the team to dedicate itself to more training. With increased discipline and a more cohesive team, the Hall was determined to win the next League as well.

Queen’s College reacted in fear and pulled out, leaving a double bye to the quarter final against old rivals Keble. However, the further strengthened Hall pack proved far too much for Keble, and the Hall won, scoring over 30 unanswered points. This left a much more testing semi-final to face against Catz, a team with international experience in their side. With early tries flying in for the Hall, all seemed well – the final seemed there for the taking. But coming into the final minutes of the second half, a late surge by Catz left it all to play for. A penultimate-minute blood substitution for veteran Will Darby added a further degree of panic. In a testament to Hall spirit, the pack surged forward in a last scrum, paving the way for victory through yet another Heathcote try.

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The final was nigh. Then to everyone’s dismay, the heavy rainfall over Hilary set the final against St John’s/ St Anne’s back till 1st Week of Trinity.

Trinity Term found a wholly refreshed team, with the exciting prospect of Ali Adams-Cairns making his debut for the side in the final. Several training sessions were held in 0th Week, with all present astounded by the fitness of several front row members. The build-up to the final was a tense affair.

From the start of the match the Hall appeared strong. Despite an early substitution for injured Will Darby, the team held together well and were heartened by a try late in the first half through an electric run by Vallance.

The second half saw complacency punished through a John’s try. However, the team rallied and were rewarded by a try from Adams-Cairns. The last ten minutes were a gritty mess of hard tackles and reluctant runs as both teams felt the weight of the intense game. Crushingly, John’s managed to cross the line in the last play and took the match 14-12. The mood was initially desolate, yet ultimately the team was proud of what was in fact a brave performance. To lose at the last hurdle was a grave shame, but the team achieved a huge amount throughout the year.

The benchmark for next year has been set and this year SEHRFC once again reminded Oxford why we have been, and why we continue to be, the only true force throughout the ages in College Rugby. It has been a privilege to Captain a team that has within it characters who are responsible for making this club what it is today.

Sebastian Siersted (Captain) and Angus Maudslay (Social Secretary) CULTURAL, SOCIAL, AND VOLUNTEERING Chapel Choir The Choir began the year with a tour in France, staying at an old wine mansion in the town of Roujan in the Languedoc region. There we were able to relax by the pool or enjoy local food and wines in between rehearsals. We made a recording in the local church, where we also gave a concert which was very positively received. From there, we went on to Lyon, where we sang during mass and gave a concert at Eglise St-Pothin; and finally to Pontigny Abbey, singing at the tomb of St Edmund.

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In Michaelmas Term 2013, we welcomed the new chaplain, Will Donaldson, and held special services for the St Edmund Feast, for Remembrance Sunday, and for Advent, as well as singing at Carols in the Quad. At the end of term, we went for a cathedral weekend at Worcester Cathedral, where we sang for evensong; we also sang carols in Worcester city centre to raise money for Christian Aid. In Hilary Term, we had a number of joint services: with University College, a university collegiate service at the University Church, and at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. These were much enjoyed, particularly the university collegiate service which, having a much larger choir than we are used to, allowed us to explore some more epic repertoire including Stainer’s I saw the Lord. At the end of term, we sang at St Aldate’s as part of their Lent series of services of ancient prayer.

In Trinity Term, we had fewer special services and so were able to take on some more ambitious repertoire, including Faure’s In paradisum and Beati Quorum Via by Stanford. We finished the year singing Finzi’s God is gone up at the Leavers’ Service.

John Clark-Maxwell, Organ Scholar 2014-2015 A report of the Choir’s visit to Fitzwilliam College appears in section 3 of the Magazine.

During the Choir’s summer 2013 tour of France, Priscilla Santhosham (2011, Organ Scholar 2013-2014) conducted Bruckner’s Ave Maria and Palestrina’s Nativitas Tua at the concert in Roujan. The Palestrina was also performed during the mass in Lyon and the Bruckner in the concert after the mass. The Bruckner was used as a motet during the mass in Pontigny Abbey. Writing about the tour, Priscilla recalled: “I immensely enjoyed the trip to France over the Summer Vac. It provided the Choir with an opportunity to rehearse and sing together over a short space of time, resulting in a clear difference in the quality of singing towards the end of the trip. Socially, it was a great trip involving wine tasting, an early-morning cycle ride to a monastery in Caux, and relaxing by the pool at La Maison Verte when we were not rehearsing. My highlight of the trip was conducting Bruckner’s Ave Maria in Pontingy Abbey near the shrine of St Edmund. The building had a fantastic acoustic which created an eight-second delay, thus making a beautiful piece of music sound wonderful.”

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Another member of the Choir, Jonathan Cockerill (2010), reflected: “I suppose it is difficult to describe the experience of singing abroad with the Choir. The usual good humour and family feeling were in abundance. At times it was as though we had simply taken the jolly, familial atmosphere of the College bar after chapel and cast it adrift in the middle of an old French wine-maker’s house, replacing pints of Bass with glasses of the sublime local wine. Laughter and beautiful musical harmony bounced off the walls of La Maison Verte in Roujan, as did the ever-present sound of heated table-tennis games and frantic splashing from the pool. The feeling of singing together was as delightful and communicative as it ever is in the Chapel at Teddy Hall. The sheer joy of music making and the simple intimacy of profound musical moments shared are things that you can always feel when the Chapel Choir comes together to sing. These feelings proved to be particularly poignant when we sang beneath the shrine of St Edmund – as though we had brought with us a little wisp of the Hall spirit and shown it to the Saint as the glorious strains of Bruckner and Byrd soared through the tremendous white canopy of Pontigny Abbey.”

John Oldham Society The year 2013-2014 has been exciting for the drama community of Teddy Hall: while the John Oldham Society itself did not put on its own production, a small number of students took part in a huge number of projects. Isabella Olgivie-Smith acted as a choreographer for The Producers (Oxford’s most expensive student show to date) and Noel Coward’s Semi-Monde, as well as Assistant Producer for a sell-out production of Alan Bennett’s The History Boys and Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle, all at the Oxford Playhouse.

Isabella was also Choreographer and Co-Director of Parade (Keble O’Reilly, ’14), and recently choreographed the OUDS National Tour of Ben Johnson’s The Alchemist and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night for the International OUDS tour to Japan. Chris Pike was in Camilla Rees’ The Death of Maria (Burton Taylor, ’13); Ellen Page directed a successful production of Steven Berkoff’s Kvetch (Burton Taylor, ’14); Emma D’Arcy was in The Caucasian Chalk Circle and took part in rehearsed readings of Duncan Macmillan’s Lungs and an all-female rendition of Twelve Angry Men, as well as currently working on the amazing project ‘Act for Change’. She and Thomas Bailey were part of a group that performed a devised piece, Fear, in Hilary Term 2014. They also took GRIMM, an adaptation of the Grimm Tales, to the Edinburgh Fringe this summer.

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The John Oldham Society is looking forward to the year 2014-2015, when it will support a number of exciting projects, including The Pillowman at the Oxford Playhouse and Steven Berkoff’s Darling, You Were Marvellous!

Ellen Page The Act for Change group, which also includes Roxana Willis, is heading for India for a series of events in September 2014. A report on this will feature in next year’s Magazine. Act for Change, a project bringing mental health awareness to India, organised an event in the Hall on 14 July 2014 entitled ‘A Night with Mental Health’. Participants listened to three guest speakers in the Old Dining Hall talking about mental health issues; following an Indian meal in the graveyard, there was a Forum Theatre performance about how to help those suffering from depression.

Music Society Last year was one of continual accomplishment for the Music Society. Foremost in its achievements were a series of splendidly well-received lunchtime concerts, which have showcased a range of ensembles and performers from both within the Hall and beyond. In this year’s twelve concerts, we have seen singers performing Baroque countertenor and twentieth-century soprano music, Brahms’ cello sonata, experimental works for piano by John Cage and Patrick Nunn, solo piano works by Liszt, Grieg, Chopin, Satie, and Gershwin, along with a delightful concert of solo and duet works for piano and guitar held in the Chapel. We were treated to a recital of Brahms’ Piano Trio in B Major by the Radcliffe Piano Trio, and the Neoclassical Ensemble returned for their second concert, a complete performance of Philip Glass’s Songs from Liquid Days.

Through whatever part they have played, through whichever note they have sounded in contribution to the concerto of Hall musical talent, all participants in our events this past year have contributed to a significant and expanding facet of College life.

In the coming terms, the Music Society starts a termly series of evening concerts, where we hope the emphasis will be on chamber and solo works.

For more relaxed performance, there is ever a termly series of Open Mic nights and the perennial “Teddy Hall’s Got Talent”, which this year saw a particularly high level of participation from all corners of the Hall’s student body, including soloists, bands, and sports teams. A recent addition to this more informal event 74

schedule is the ‘jam café’, which gives an opportunity for all musicians and singers to come together and compose/improvise freely, organised by the JCR Arts and Culture representatives.

Teddy Hall Music Society looks to the future with anticipation of another year of musical activity around the College, and with plans already being set in motion, the coming months are, as I write, being orchestrated into a new symphony of successes.

Keyron Hickman-Lewis Teach Green Teach Green is a student-run project led by Teddy Hall’s James Ball. It is in its second year of activity and is about to begin its third. The aim of the project is to teach young children in Oxford about aspects of social and environmental sustainability that are not covered by the school curriculum, work that is especially Teach Green’s James Ball in the Emden Room (photo important given that proposed supplied by Esther Rathbone) changes mean that environmental education may not even be a compulsory part of the syllabus in future. Teach Green’s volunteers go into local primary schools once a week to give hour-long lessons on environmental issues – topics ranging from recycling to global warming to energy production in food miles – in order to raise awareness of issues that are affecting future generations.

This year, volunteers taught a range of lessons to pupils in Years 5 and 6 at Cutteslowe Primary School in Summertown. It was fantastic to see the children question and take on board complicated information that is quite difficult to simplify for that age group! We explained complex processes through games, videos, experiments, and discussion. Lessons were planned out beforehand, giving our volunteers valuable skills in preparation as well as teaching experience in the classroom: each lesson was given by two to four volunteers, who taught classes of between 30 and 15 children. The lessons were very well received and we hope the project will continue to grow.

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SECTION 3:

THE YEAR GONE BY

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AWARDS AND PRIZES In addition to congratulating current SCR members on the distinctions reported elsewhere in this edition (Sir John Daniel for being appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada, Kevin Crossley-Holland and Nicholas Palmer for receiving honorary doctorates, Martin Brasier for being awarded the Lyell Medal by the Geological Society of London), the Magazine is pleased to record that the work, academic and otherwise, of current students has been recognised during the year.

Warm congratulations are offered to all of them as well. The full list of Hall and University student awards is given in section 4 of the Magazine. Some of the students’ achievements are described in more detail below.

Third-year Fine Art student Camilla Metcalf became the second recipient of the annual Aularian Prize funded by the SEH Association, for her outstanding voluntary work, organising an art course for a local charity which helps people with mental health difficulties. Isabel Ogilvie-Smith, a first-year English undergraduate, was awarded the George Barner Prize for Contribution to Theatre. Isabel is not only a keen producer, choreographer, and director but she encourages fellow Hall students to become more involved in drama. This year’s Simon and Arpi Simonian Prize for Excellence in Leadership went to third-year Margery Infield.

The Hall awarded three Richard Fargher Bursaries this year, for study and travel abroad intended to improve students’ linguistic skill. Third-year Engineer Taariq Ismail went to the International Language Institute in Cairo to attend a course in Advanced Modern Standard Arabic; third-year English student Matilda Munro went to the Goethe-Institut in Berlin for a month-long intensive German language course, followed by some research in Germany for her final-year dissertation; and Edward Sasada, in the second year of his Modern Languages course in Russian, is being supported in his Year Abroad activities by having extended time in Moscow during 2014-2015.

Philip Geddes Memorial Prizes, one of which is open to undergraduate student journalists throughout the University, went to Nick Mutch (Christ Church) and the Hall’s Lauren Collee. Lauren planned to spend her prize on making a documentary about the local residents of Woy Woy, the town in Australia where Spike Milligan’s parents lived. The Clive Taylor Award for sports journalism was awarded to Jesus College’s Gruffudd Owen, who edited the sports section of the Cherwell student newspaper in Hilary Term 2014. The winners of the 77

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Much-coveted Richard Luddington Prizes, which recognise students who gain both a First and one or more Blues, went to Lucy Andrew (Earth Sciences and lacrosse), Abigail Pidgen (Earth Sciences and hockey), and James Roberts (Physics and rugby fives, mixed lacrosse). Lucy Andrew also won the Department of Earth Sciences’ Shell Prize for final-year students, while James Roberts was awarded two Gibbs Prizes by the University (for his BA Practical Work and for his Group Project contribution).

Multiple Earth Sciences awards went to a Hall student: third-year Guy Paxman received the AWE Prize in Geophysics, a BP Prize, and the Burdett Coutts Prize; Guy also received the Hall’s own Michael Pike Fund award and a Tony Doyle Award. Finalists Thomas Hearing and Rebecca Morgan added to the achievements of candidates in this School by winning the Palaeontological Association Prize and the Schlumberger Prize respectively.

Final-year Engineering undergraduates Rose Michael and Andi Tao achieved notable success in the Department of Engineering Science’s Trinity Term 2014 undergraduate project exhibition. Rose won The BP Award for the best Chemical Engineering or Energy-related Exhibit, while Andi won The Mirada Medical Best Image Processing and Vision Award. Elsewhere in Engineering, the University awarded Gibbs Prizes to Binxin Ru (Best Performance in the Preliminary Examination in Engineering Science) and Amar Hodzic (jointly awarded for the Best Part B Group Project in Engineering Science). Nicholas Pattinson was recognised as proxime accessit for the Gibbs Prize for Best Performance in the Final Honour School of Engineering Science (Parts A and B combined).

Materials Science finalist Owen Silk was awarded the Armourers and Brasiers’ Company Medal and Prize for the best Part II project, while first-year Takashi Lawson was awarded the Johnson Matthey Prize for the best overall performance in the Preliminary Examination in Materials Science.

The Ashmolean’s 2014 Vivien Leigh Prize for a two-dimensional work of art on paper, went to Alexandra Pullen, final-year Fine Art undergraduate. Alexandra’s work entitled The Death of Tin Tin has joined the Museum’s collection.

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Navin Ramakrishna was awarded a Gibbs Prize for the best overall performance in the Final Honour School of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry 2014.

Among Physicists, in addition to James Roberts mentioned above, Timothy Seah received a Gibbs Prize for his Group Project work. Law finalist Benjamin Ong received both the Slaughter & May Prize in Legal History and the Wonker Prize for Tort Law. Claude Massart Prizes for the best performance in French Literature went to first-year students Naomi Alexandra Pullen’s prize-winning drawing ‘The Death of Tin Tin’ (image supplied by Alexandra Pullen) Polonsky (French and Russian) and Nadia Bovy (French), significant successes in view of the large number of candidates in the University’s First Public Examination in Modern Languages.

Harry Lighton, second-year English undergraduate, achieved a remarkable result in the 2014 Oxford Film Fund Competition, when his short film Three Speech won no fewer than four awards: best picture, best cinematography, best direction, and best original composition. Four other Hall students were involved in the production, and Professor Lucy Newlyn (Fellow and Tutor in English) made a cameo appearance in the film by playing the part of a therapist.

Rosamund Lakin, who completed her Fine Art degree in Trinity Term 2014, was selected for Platform 2014, giving her a two-week residency at Modern Art Oxford to show two video installations, First Opinion and All of the People, Some of the Time. Platform is an initiative designed to support new artistic talent in the South East region: the annual event offers gallery visitors the chance to see the work of three outstanding graduate artists (from Oxford Brookes University, OU’s Ruskin School of Drawing, and Reading University).

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In its annual Young Stress Analyst Competition 2013, the British Society for Strain Measurement awarded first prize to DPhil student Rodolfo Fleury. The title of Rodolfo’s winning presentation was “The influence of Ni-based singlecrystal super-alloy on fretting fatigue of Ni-based polycrystalline super-alloy at high temperature”. Rodolfo came to the Hall in 2012 and his research in the Department of Engineering Science aims to understand the phenomenon of fretting fatigue in gas turbines.

And in a first for the Hall and the whole Kristof Willerton tumbling country, at the 29th Federation Internationale (photo supplied by Kristof Willerton) de Gymnastique Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships held in Sofia in November 2013, third-year Biochemist Kristof Willerton became world champion in the individual finals in tumbling.

Kristof also qualified for the team finals, where he helped Great Britain to win the bronze medal. …AND ANOTHER HIGH-FLYER When the Hall acquired St Peter-in-the-East (for use as the Library) and its churchyard, the arrangement included the grave of the celebrated Oxford aeronaut, James Sadler (1753-1828). The gravestone, which is maintained by the Royal Aeronautical Society, is just to the left of the path leading to the church/library door. Sadler was the first English aeronaut, making his inaugural hotair balloon flight in 1784 from Merton Fields in Oxford (when he travelled some four miles in half an hour – better than can often be Sadler’s gravestone in the churchyard of St Peter-in-theEast (photo from Hall records)

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achieved by car on the Ring Road nowadays). He went on to make fifty flights and became a famous figure for a number of years, before losing the public’s interest and dying in comparative poverty.

July 2014 saw the anniversary of Sadler’s popular aeronautical contribution to the 1814 Grand Jubilee events celebrating the Hanoverian accession to the throne, and his resting-place within the Hall’s grounds attracted some media attention. Linda Serch produced a piece for BBC News, South called “James Sadler: The Oxford Balloon Man History Forgot” (available on the web at http:// www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-28094742). A biography was also published by Richard O Smith earlier in the year entitled The Man With His Head in the Clouds: James Sadler, The First Englishman to Fly. MASTERCLASS FUND The Masterclass Fund provides talented students with advanced coaching in extra-curricular activities and, since its launch, has supported over 150 students to receive tuition in music, sports, and other areas.

In this financial year, the Hall supported 35 students in areas ranging from singing, lightweight rowing and creative writing to real tennis, film-making and ballet.

Xander winning the 100m breaststroke at Varsity, in an Oxford and Varsity record time of 1.03.3 (photo supplied by Xander Alari-Williams)

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Xander Alari-Williams (2012, Mathematical Sciences), who received funding for his personal swimming coaching says, “The Masterclass award has been a huge help over the past year, allowing me to train with and race for the Oxford Blues swimming team to my full potential. The money received has reduced the financial burden of the sport and allowed me to take on extra training sessions. With all this extra support, I am now a key part of the squad and men’s vice-captain.”

Sally Smith, Deputy Director of Development ARTWEEKS 2014 The Hall’s Artweeks exhibition was held in the Pontigny Room from Monday 19 May to Saturday 24 May 2014 and was kicked off with a special Evensong on Sunday 18 May with Dr Jonathan Yates (Pictures & Chattels Fellow) speaking on the topic of ‘What is religious art and what purpose does it serve?’

The Hall’s Artweeks 2014 exhibition (photo from Hall records)

The exhibition consisted of nearly 80 items from 40 exhibitors, displaying work produced by the JCR, MCR, SCR, staff (past and present), old members and their families, Fellows (past and present) and their families. Ten current students entered the show including Melanie Gurney, a Fine Art finalist, who projected her film work on to the window of the Pontigny Room during Tuesday evening.

The winning photographs from the Hall Life Photography Competition were also on display.

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The exhibition attracted over 300 visitors, including current students from the Hall, local art enthusiasts, and tourists from the UK and abroad. We received many complimentary remarks in the comments book, by visitors from all over the world, including Nicaragua, Kuwait, and Chile.

Sally Smith, Deputy Director of Development HALL PHOTOGRAPHY The Hall Life Photography Competition 2013 was judged at the end of Michaelmas Term by alumnus Shaun Watling (1979, Modern Languages), Lori Qin (JCR Arts Rep), Matt Jacobs (MCR Arts Rep) and Dianne Gull (wife of the Principal). Entries were submitted in three categories and the winners were:

Alexander King’s award-winning entry ‘So Many Stairs’ (photo from Hall records)

Hall Spaces 1st place Alexander King, for ‘So Many Stairs’ (also won Best of Show award) 2nd place Iuliana Teodorescu, for ‘Head of the River’ 3rd place Katre Leino, for ‘Old Library’.

Hall Life All three awards went to Rachael Cross for ‘English Student’ (1st), ‘Trinity Artwork’ (2nd), and ‘Love and Gravestones’ (3rd).

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New Perspectives 1st place Rose Michael, for ‘Between the Bookshelves’ 2nd place Iuliana Teodorescu, for ‘Where the Kingdom Ends’ 3rd place Ben Whiteley, for ‘Concrete Lines’ All the entries were published on the Hall’s Flickr site (go to www.flickr. com/stedmundhall) and the winners’ photographs were displayed at the 2014 St Edmund Hall Artweeks Exhibition (see above).

HALL WRITING This has been one of the most creative years I can remember in my time at the Hall. Membership of our online Writers’ Forum has expanded to 345, and posts have more than quadrupled since January, standing at 9,000 as this goes to press. Senior and junior members have regularly attended writing workshops on Wednesday afternoons. Significant creative collaborations have begun to emerge between old members and academic staff. The Forum has published its first collection of poems. And, in addition, we have had a sequence of outstandingly well-attended and rewarding events.

The hub of creativity is the Wednesday Workshop. Held weekly in my room, it attracts a group of committed writers – mostly poets – from all three of the College’s common rooms, plus a number of returning old members, such as Tom Clucas, Tom Moyser, Harry Tuffs and Charlotte Geater. (Our method is informal: people arrive with a piece of writing they want to share; we circulate photocopies; the writers read their work; we discuss it.) Undergraduate contributions have been outstanding, as have those of several Visiting Students.

(One of these, Madeleine Saidenberg, won the Graham Midgley Prize and had her winning poem published in the Oxford Magazine – see below). Recently the group has been reinforced by three philosophers – Justin Gosling, Peter King and Leo Mercer – who have introduced valuable new perspectives and approaches.

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hothouse. We have been very fortunate to have the distinguished Romanian poet Carmen Bugan (Associate Member) sharing material for a forthcoming collection about her father’s imprisonment under Ceauşescu; and work from the South African poet and Aularian, Chris Mann, and we have also been blessed by having a number of talented musicians and artists in our midst. This has enabled some delightful synergies among the sister arts. For instance, musician Stuart Estell has written a longform poem – a modern version of Pilgrim’s Progress – which will be illustrated by the poet, musician and print-maker, Jude Cowan Montague; Jude has produced a collection of poems which will be formatted by philosopher and poet, Peter King; Peter has produced a series of experimental ‘cut-up’ poems about Jazz, which will be illustrated by Jude; and I have written a long historical ballad about a Cornish shipwreck, which Stuart Estell is setting to music.

The Forum’s membership is large, and a great many people – Aularians or otherwise – are reading the material in the public section. Here, we have had a remarkable range of fascinating discussions – about memory, neuroscience, poetry’s role in witnessing history, the function of interdisciplinary study, and much else. But the main business of the Forum is to produce and comment on new writing. Our most popular activities are the ‘Challenges’, which require members to submit work in a given form. Since November 2013 we have tried our hands at carols, elegies, manifestos, ballads, than-bauks, riddles, sestinas, haiku, pantoums, proverbs, ottava rima, and rictameters. It is delightful to watch how quickly the activity on the Forum increases as these challenges take place. In addition to the usual suspects, Tony Brignull is a regular participant, as are Darrell Barnes, Tom Clucas, Tom Moyser, Carol Atherton, Brian Smith, Natasha Walker, Mike Spilberg, and David Braund. We usually submit the entries to a poll, which adds an element of excitement, and the winner of each challenge occasionally receives a small prize, in addition to the glory. (A number of collaborative pieces have also emerged out of this ferment of activity – one of these, a ballad for Valentine’s day, came together stanza by stanza over the course of 24 hours, and is a lovely demonstration of community spirit: see below).

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Seamus Heaney at a reading round the well. On 11 November, a large number of students and staff gathered for a moving Remembrance event in the Old Dining Hall, where we heard a wide range of poems and songs on the theme of war through the ages. And in May, we had a truly magnificent evening of ballads and folk music, with contributions from all sections of the community.

The legendary folk singer Shirley Collins (mother of Polly Marshall) was with us for the evening, and gave an unforgettable talk. It was on this occasion that we launched our first Hall Writers publication: a book of ballads dedicated to Shirley Collins. We hope there will be many more publications to come.

Any Aularian is welcome to register with the Forum; and we are keen to foster collaborations between old members and undergraduates. Preparations are now underway for a Hall Writers’ Day on 6 November 2014, to commemorate the First World War. Please get in touch with me if you would like to be involved (lucy.newlyn@seh.ox.ac.uk).

Lucy Newlyn AC Cooper Fellow and Tutor in English Language and Literature

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Blue Jerusalem

by Madeleine Saidenberg Sometimes the passing of tall khaki men Becomes the shadow of a wide-brimmed hat; A fly-buzz, blue Jerusalem.

Can you miss a place you’ve never been?

I imagine she lies, doomed and jeweled, Inset in the great wide gold, foolValued: only colour, and the blood Dropped for her like pomegranate seeds.

My heartbeat footprint, all in ancient time Wrenched forth by ropes, a sunken chest.

And since it pulls me still, I still stand by If I could strive and see, I might believe.

To home, to Mecca, manna of the years, Who brings forth love from loam and hate from stars.

Even Greeks learned not to tread this turf Athena steered Odysseus to see.

Wine-dark, my tongue has run away with me.

This love is not my love; I too have been Passed over.

There but for the grace – I should not say, I do not stand among the Cypress trees, I shall not see her stowed beneath the stars: My ancient cradle rocked between the print Of two huge knucklebones of a terrible fist.

The Graham Midgley Memorial Prize Poem 2014

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The Hall Writers’ Forum: Collaborative Ballad for Valentine’s Day In honour of Shirley Collins, and dedicated to the memory of Pete Seeger It was a lover and his lad, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o’er the brown field site did pad, In the winter, the icicles like splinters When roads do flood, hey rub a dub dub; Street sweepers rule the waves.

A dark grim ballad they sang that night, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey-nonny-no In the back of a derelict building site In the winter gloom, the February gloom When no one was about to turf them out And the grey mud glistened in the cold moonlight.

They took a burger each and coke With a hey, and a ho, and some fries to go And a packet of cheap fags to smoke, And they climbed the wall, burgers and all, Onto the damaged land, hand in hand, And the fog of their breath like a cloak.

They’d found a squat within the town With some walls and a roof and a pipe with a drip.

Through the pipe oozed some mould and the leaks dribbled down, They’d escaped from the wind, and the stars and the stares.

But the notices came, and the risk was too great So they came to this site, so bleak and so brown.

And the burgers soon cooled and the lovers lay sprawled And in the moonlight began to orate: “Not a rose nor a card, glass earrings? Not a shard, Nor a gleam, nor a sparkle, one more bloody debacle Cupid’s Day? Farcical, you don’t think my art is cool And don’t tell me that I’ve put on weight!”

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As he lay in the dark a-yawning He heard the sirens loud For he’d robbed a shop in the morning And all for the sake of his valentine (With a hey and a ho, we’ve a way to go) He’d be nicked as the day was dawning.

“I found you the cell-phone you wanted,” he said, “And I set the ring-tone, our only pretty ring-tone” But the sirens were loud in his head, For he’d stolen the phone and forgotten the card (With a hey and a ho: he’d still some way to go…)

And now he wished he was dead.

Came multi-national owners of the site, With a no, no, and off you go, This land is prime and, yes, our right To evict you, benefit cheats! So Move your spliffs and lager larks, We’re building flats for oligarchs.

And the flats were up, and the site was down, With a heigh, ho, and an oh god no, With a fine design, at minimal cost, And insulation to keep out the frost, But the lovers and the burgers were lost, And the rain rained rain like the tears of a clown.

It was a lover and his lad (With a way to go, through the hail and the snow) Not a tree to be seen, not a home to be had In the worsening winters, the icicles like splinters When roads do flood (hey, mud and more mud):Rich oligarchs make the waves.

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The season’s turned to autumn now With the brown and the gold and the very, very old Our lovers reach their final hour And we bury them by the old church tower With a red, red rose and a green, green briar And thus they take their bow.

Published in Hall Writers: Ballads and Divers Verses 2014

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GEDDES LECTURE 2014 AND STUDENT JOURNALISM PRIZES The Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture for 2014 was given by BBC Today programme presenter and former Economics Editor Evan Davis, in the Examination Schools on 14 March. His subject was ‘Adversarial journalism: seeing it from both sides’. As was to be expected, Evan’s lecture was well received and prompted a lively questions session afterwards. (At the time of the Magazine going to press, the lecture was available as a podcast online on the St Edmund Hall YouTube channel.)

As reported under Awards and Prizes above, the lecture was preceded by a reception in the Principal’s Lodgings.

Applications for the Geddes Memorial Prizes and the Clive Taylor Prize in Sports Journalism were submitted by students from the Hall and across the University.

They were considered by a panel chaired by Professor Wes Williams, Tutor in Modern Languages (French), who writes: “As this was my first year as Geddes Fellow, and thus Chair of the judging panel, I was both alarmed and re-assured by the quality and range of the work

Pictured (left to right) are: Celia Haddon, Christopher Wilson (Geddes Trustee), Gruffudd Owen (winner of the Clive Taylor Award for Sports Journalism 2014), the Principal, Lauren Collee (SEH Geddes Prize winner 2014), Peter Cardwell (Geddes judge), Nick Mutch (Geddes Prize winner 2014), Graham Mather (Chair of the Geddes Trustees), and Evan Davis

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submitted. The more seasoned judges (Graham Mather, Chair of the Geddes Trustees; Peter Cardwell, from Ulster TV; and Professor John Kelly, St John’s College) agreed that this was indeed an excellent year. Six candidates were shortlisted and interviewed, and two of the three winners gave the proceedings an antipodean feel: the open-competition Geddes Prize was awarded to Nick Mutch, a New Zealander studying History at Christ Church, and the Geddes Prize for an SEH student was awarded to Lauren Collee, an Australian studying English and Modern Languages. The Clive Taylor Prize went to Gruffudd Owen, a Linguist at Jesus College. The three others shortlisted were: Siobhan Fenton, commended as a runner-up to the Geddes prize-winner; Max Long; and Oliver Troen.

“Mr Mutch submitted a number of impressive interviews with figures such as Jeremy Paxman, Noam Chomsky, Alan Moore and Rowan Williams, as well as a finely-judged feature on living through the earthquake in his home city of Christchurch, which had been taken up by the national press. Ms Collee proposes to explore an insular and little-known Australian artistic community which perpetuates the legacy of its one-time member, Spike Milligan. Mr Owen’s stimulating articles ranged in style from match reports to longer critical analyses of issues both national and international in scope; he is planning an internship with a national paper in London.

“The Prize is, in short, in fine fettle, and we look forward to both sustaining and developing the work of the Geddes Trust in association with the Hall next year.”

The Hall is delighted that a new prize is to be made available in 2015. Thanks to the generosity of Celia Haddon, there will be an award recognising outstanding foreign affairs student journalism. This is being established in memory of Celia’s late husband, foreign correspondent Ronnie Payne.

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FITZWILLIAM COLLEGE In Hilary Term 2014 the Hall’s relations with its sister college at Cambridge, Fitzwilliam, were strengthened by a visit made there by the Chapel Choir for a joint service (see the Director of Music’s report in section 2 of the Magazine).

The chapel choirs of Teddy Hall and Fitzwilliam College together in Cambridge (photo supplied by Chris Watson)

As part of the pairing of our Oxbridge colleges, there is a long-standing reciprocal arrangement for each to provide, when possible, some accommodation and meals if Fellows are visiting each other’s Universities.

NEWS FROM THE FRIENDS OF THE SEH BOAT CLUB Our planned programme of investing in new equipment saw us take delivery of a Filippi F24 eight for the men which was named The Worthington at a little ceremony in April 2014, in recognition of the very generous support given to us by Stuart Worthington. We also bought 8 Concept 2 ergs, bringing the total number to 11, which is probably more than any other college can boast.

On Thursday of Eights Week, the Principal, Keith Gull, officially re-opened the refurbished boathouse, an event which was toasted with excellent English sparkling wine, kindly provided by our sponsor, Danebury Vineyards. The College had initiated work on the boathouse, which included the building of a garage for the coaching launches, as its contribution towards the Boat Club’s 93

150th Anniversary in 2011. The Friends also made a substantial contribution, so that, what with up-to-date boats and training equipment housed in a much more convenient gym area in the boathouse itself, Teddy Hall can now boast the best equipped boathouse on the Isis - as envious glances from other colleges testify.

An account of the Boat Club’s activities is provided by the Captains elsewhere in the Magazine. These activities are financed in great measure by the Friends and to all of those who have been so generous in so many ways, I extend my thanks. Funding remains a challenge (rowing does not get any cheaper), and we are working on a long-term programme with the College Development Office, to increase the Friends’ Fund significantly over the next four years.

On the administrative side, we approved a new constitution for the Friends in May this year: although this now conforms to the Charity Commission’s requirement that we be independent, we have been careful to emphasise our close and harmonious connection with the College by appointing the Boat Club’s Senior Member, Simon Costa, to sit on the Management Committee.

The current trustees of the Friends now have the opportunity to seek others to join them and this search is currently under way. The Management Committee is also being reshaped.

The Principal declares the refurbished Boathouse open (photo from Hall records)

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Training on the new rowing machines (photo from Hall records)

After more than twenty years’ involvement with the Friends and with Teddy Hall rowing, I am standing down as Chairman of the Friends’ Management Committee and will be succeeded by Sam Griffiths. I have offered to act as advisor to the Captains of Boats and am flattered that this offer has been enthusiastically received.

I have also undertaken to continue to organise the Friends’ Annual Dinner, which is always a most enjoyable event; and on 20 March next year, I join some Teddy Hall rowing friends to help organise the 1965 Jubilee Bump Supper to celebrate the magnificent achievements of the Boat Club in 1965. We will welcome all those who have ever rowed for the Hall, and we hope this event will inspire today’s men and women.

Richard Fishlock Chairman of the Management Committee Friends of St Edmund Hall Boat Club

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BUMPS SUPPER A Bumps Supper was held on Sunday 22 June 2014 at the Folly Bridge Brasserie to celebrate the success of the Men’s III Crew in Eights Week. To his regret, the Principal was unable to attend; so the following speech was delivered on his behalf by Simon Costa, Senior Member of SEHBC. “Dianne and I are sorry not to be with you tonight to celebrate this hugely impressive achievement. A great success – particularly the OverBumps!

Great athletes often have attributes such as natural talent, fitness, total commitment to training…! Certainly one member of this crew – this dedicated band of brothers – confessed to me that in this case Natural Talent was the main – if not the only – ingredient in this success! Pure Teddy Hall.

Rowing has long been a backbone of the Hall and this looks as if it should become one of the iconic crews of the Hall. “2014 Mens III”. Therefore I want to congratulate all and particularly the crew and am proud to give this bumps supper!

However, I also have a challenge. If this is to be remembered as one of the iconic crews of the Hall then it needs to go down in the archives as such. So, we need a description of the members. I was looking at the Hall Magazine for the early 1920s periods and noticed that in this period each boat had its crew individually described by the Captain of Boats. Some of the descriptions are rather flattering but some seem to be rather more ‘interesting’ with the passage of history.

Here are some descriptions: 1921-22 7. J. J. G WALKINGTON. 10st.4 HIS ROWING WAS ALWAYS VERY LIKE A DOG TUGGING AT A ROPE – ON ALL 4 PAWS PLANTED FIRMLY ON SOMETHING, AND A GRIM DETERMINATION WRITTEN ALL OVER HIM. 1922-23 Bow. J. W. BLAIR 12st. COMATOSE TO A DEGREE, BUT WHEN AWAKE SHOWED SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT. 6. C. LUMMIS 12st.7 HIS WEIGHT WAS CERTAINLY A THING TO BE RECKONED WITH, BUT IT PROVED TOO MUCH FOR HIM. Str. W. R. M. CHAPLAIN 12st. THE LESS SAID THE BETTER. 96

1925 Cox. H. W. PALMER 8st. HIS CHIEF QUALIFICATION WAS HIS WEIGHT. HE LACKED DECISIONS AND WAS NEVER EQUAL TO AN EMERGENCY. My challenge is – can the Captain of Boats write to me and describe the individual members of this 2014 iconic Men’s III in similar terms so that I can celebrate them in the Magazine and so that others can do so in 100 years’ time!

Have a great night.”

CHARITY ROW Men’s Captain Graham Baird organised a special row in aid of Oxfordshire-based Restore, a charity which supports people with mental health issues and promotes education to recognise the symptoms of potential illnesses. On Wednesday 30 July 2014 a group of twelve Hall students attempted to row the Thames from Oxford to London in a single day – a distance of over 120km and involving the navigation of thirty locks.

The feat was achieved by a Wadham crew in 1932, covering the distance in 16 hours. Over the years, various college boat clubs have tried to beat this performance; but it is thought that none has managed to match Wadham’s time.

The Hall challenge began from the boathouse at 4:26am, about an hour before sunrise. The aim was to get at least as far as Teddington lock and so outdo the Lincoln crew who attempted the journey last year and reached Maidenhead. The Hall crew were concerned about the safety aspect of going beyond Teddington on to the Tideway, by then tired and in approaching darkness. The choice of a Wednesday rather than a weekend for the journey was canny: there would be less delay from other river users competing to get through the locks (the Environment Agency had agreed to give the Hall boat preferential treatment).

Alas, the Wadham record remains intact. The Hall attempt ended at Maidenhead (100km) after seventeen hours on the water. This, however, was a remarkable achievement in itself. Graham wrote afterwards that, “the event far exceeded our expectations. The support we received, especially from the Friends of SEHBC, was overwhelming and we significantly surpassed our fundraising target. Additionally, with our appearance in the local paper and a BBC radio 97

The Hall’s charity rowers (picture supplied by Friends of the SEH Boat Club)

interview, we generated valuable publicity both for the charity and indeed the Boat Club. On top of this, everyone involved in the day thoroughly enjoyed themselves, and plans are already forming to repeat next year, bigger and better!”

The charity row raised just over £1,400 for Restore.

TEDDY HALL BALL 2014 Saturday 3 May 2014 saw the Hall undergo a South American makeover for this year’s Ball, on the theme The Road to Rio. The Ball Committee promised current student and alumni party-goers that the six-piece headline act, The Other Tribe (“euphoric techno, tribal drumming, and catchy melodies”), would have them dancing “in a frenzy of feathers and face paint.” The second headline act were the Artful Dodger (“UK Garage legend”) and other entertainment included a Brazilian band, a samba dance troupe and carnival games. Refreshments also had a South American flavour, with street vendors offering warm doughnuts and ice cream, while tropical cocktails were served in a Copacabana-style bar.

The Ball President was Guillaume Lefevre (2010).

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or to have entered the Front Quad of Teddy Hall, it is not reasonable to expect them to remember the words of Love Divine, All Loves Excelling in the absence of sufficient hymn books in the Chapel: the various guesses at what the words of verses 2 and 3 might be would do justice to a compiler of post-prandial anecdotes and rugby songs in the bar.

Evensong, conducted by the Rev. Stephen Coulson (1979), member of a long line of distinguished Aularians, was the first event of the Golden Gaudy attended by 27 Aularians on Saturday 21 September 2013 to mark the half century that had elapsed since their Matriculation. A reception was held in the Front Quad, close enough to the Old Dining Hall not to present too many difficulties to those who had enjoyed too much champagne.

Long before the event, donations had been collected towards the purchase of an item of silver as a gift to the College. A pair of candlesticks, appropriately manufactured in 1963, had been purchased and these were set up before dinner on the High Table; however, the first arrangement – in the centre of the table, surrounded by flowers and with a framed “certificate” listing those Aularians who had donated – produced the effect of entering a chapel of rest prior to a funeral. This was not quite what was intended.

It is not unreasonable to imagine that the nature of the gift was unknown to the majority of those present. But what was quite unreasonable was for the Development Office to have trawled through the College archives to extract mugshots of all those Aularians present which were made when they first came up: these pictures from the rogues’ gallery were placed at each guest’s place.

David Cox presented the Principal with the candlesticks, which the Principal then lit, one candle to represent the enduring nature of the Hall, the other to represent the untiring commitment of Aularians.

A specially composed Grace was sung by the Choir before the company sat down to a magnificent feast: rarely can the Old Dining Hall have seen such a menu.

The Principal, in proposing the Floreat Aula toast, noted the many achievements which the Hall currently boasts and also drew attention to the many challenges it faces, not the least of which are financial.

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by Richard Hunt, accompanied by the Choir while Peter Driscoll played the wonderful new Bechstein piano, but quite what music he was playing no-one could determine. This did not matter: by this stage in the proceedings, the guests would have applauded anything that moved.

The festivities continued in the bar until the small hours. Some of those present even made it down to breakfast the next morning.

Darrell Barnes (1963) At the time of the Magazine going to press, Richard Hunt’s podcast about the Gaudy (including the presentation of the candlesticks and Bob Mardling singing the 1963 Song), was available on the St Edmund Hall YouTube channel.

A Response to the Floreat Aula Toast given by Darrell Barnes, President of the St Edmund Hall Association, on the occasion of the Golden Gaudy held at St Edmund Hall on Saturday, 21 September 2013 to celebrate Matriculation fifty years before.

Principal1: our thanks, delight, we’ve dined so well in Hall tonight, with polished silver, candles bright, the wine and port flowed free.

On either side these tables sit BA, MA, DipEd, BLitt, DipSocAnthrop, DPhil - to wit: the men of ’63.

Life was very different then: The Beatles2 and Beyond Our Ken3; Uncle Mac4 in Number Ten; RAF’s Lightning fighter; Europe: ah! de Gaulle5 said “Non!” “Right - we’ll boycott champignons; let fog cut off the continent: that’ll teach the blighter!”

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fights with Mods and Rockers7; Britain’s empire on the wane; Beeching8 cut the railway train; industry went down the drain; frequent strikes by dockers.

That all changed when we got in; now a new world could begin.

“Come, dear boy, and have a gin, and tell me all your troubles9.”

Social graces barely mastered, save for that teetotal b------, in next to no time we were plastered: Cyril’s10 shorts were doubles.

Fellows - we came to adore ‘em we treated with respect, decorum; we never spoke about the Forum11 (at least, not to their faces).

Kelly, Cowdrey12, Dean13 (and Fred), Reggie14, Mitchell15: now all dead, yet some dwell stonily o’erhead16.

They put us through our paces.

The Buttery17 and Mrs. B18; that leaning false acacia tree19; wisteria on staircase 3 (that’ll do for starters).

Cadena Tearooms20 in the Corn; lectures where our gowns were worn; gardener Crabbe21 - step on his lawn, he’d have your guts for garters.

Life was not entirely sport; we gave some time to serious thought.

Tutorials were tense and fraught: “your essay is the worst I’ve ever read.” We’d blush and stammer.

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is barely worth a single .22” Oh well - goodbye First.

Though interests varied, we were mates.

Drama, music, some read Greats, excelled at rugby, Summer Eights and cricket in the Parks.

The Trout at Godstow; St Giles’ Fair; Christ Church Meadow; Magdalen where madrigals were sung by their Academical Clerks on May Day morn; Collections too which sorted wheat from chaff; and who remembers now the Orient loo23 which stood behind the Chapel?

The dread Examination Schools where papers made us look like fools; once finished - champagne! break the rules! carnation in your lapel.

The clock’s moved on; the candle’s burned; now half a century has turned since first we came and quickly learned to stand upright and tall.

So when we take that final test, St Peter: just ignore the rest, the men of ’63 are best!24 such men of Teddy Hall!

Notes Professor Keith Gull.

The Beatles were formed in Liverpool in 1960: they flourished between 1963 and 1970.

3 Beyond Our Ken was a radio comedy programme which ran between 1958 and 1964.

4 Uncle Mac was the affectionate name given to Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who resigned from office on 18 October 1963; this may possibly have been the day before we matriculated, though there is no evidence of a connection between these two momentous events.

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President Charles de Gaulle vetoed Britain’s application to join the European Economic Community in 1963.

6 The English section of the M4 motorway was not finally completed until 22 December 1971 although smaller stretches were in operation before that e.g. the Maidenhead bypass opened in 1961. The M40 motorway was constructed between 1967 and 1974.

7 Members of two British youth subcultures of the early to mid- 1960s who would often engage in fights. Mod culture centred around fashion and music and the vehicle of choice was a scooter; Rockers preferred rock and roll, and rode motorbikes.

8 Dr. Richard Beeching, who held a PhD in Physics and had been appointed to the main board of ICI at the age of 43, was made Chairman of the British Railways Board in March 1961. He proposed a reduction of the railway route network in his 1963 report, The Reshaping of British Railways, which proved controversial.

9 Principal John Kelly spoke with a slight lisp and was held in much affection by students, who privately referred to him as “Prinny”.

10 Cyril Anslow was Principal Kelly’s scout and butler.

11 The Forum was a music, gig, low-dive flea-pit which stood on the site of the Wolfson Hall, Kelly and Emden blocks.

12 Revd. John Cowdrey (1926-2009), Chaplain and Tutor in Modern History.

13 Revd. Graham Midgley (1923-99), Dean and Tutor in English (his golden Labrador was Fred).

14 Reginald Alton (1919-2003), Bursar, Vice-Principal and Tutor in English.

15 Bruce Mitchell (1920-2010), Tutor in English.

16 A reference to the grotesques around the tower of St Peter-in-the-East, now the college library; that of Midgley (with his dog, Fred) is on the East front; those of Kelly and Alton are on the South front.

17 What is now the College bar was then known as the Buttery: it served as a bar in the evening and served sandwiches and snacks at lunchtime.

18 The Buttery was ruled by Mrs. Bucket, affectionately known as Mrs B. She took no prisoners.

19 A false acacia tree, Robinia pseudoacacia (also known as the Black Locust), grew in the corner of the Front Quad outside Staircase VI. The wood is extremely hard, resistant to rot and durable, qualities evident in all Aularians, but especially those of 1963.

20 A popular tearoom café in the Cornmarket (then colloquially known as the “Corn”).

21 Tom Crabbe was noted for his taciturn nature and ferocity towards any student who might trespass on his domain.

22 A reference to the disappointment that might have been expressed by H G (“Roger”) Barnes, Tutor in German. Barnes was one of the early voices to express alarm about the rise of Nazism in the 1930s, though this fact was not generally known to us students.

23 What might best be described as a latrine on the site where the Senior Common Room now stands; as far as is known, there is no connection between the uses to which this plot of land has been put.

24 This is true!

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COLLEGE SILVER In addition to the pair of silver candlesticks presented to the Hall during the 1963 Gaudy (see above), a commemorative bowl was presented in June 2014 by Mrs Shanti Anand, widow of Aularian Dr Nitya Anand.

Nitya came up in 1962 after graduating from the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. He took the Diploma in Agricultural Economics and later went on to complete a DPhil. During his career, Nitya held important posts in the Ministry for Overseas Development.

Inscribed bowl presented by Mrs Shanti Anand to commemorate the late Dr Nitya Anand (matric. 1962) (photo by Lee Atherton)

The words inscribed on the bowl commissioned by Mrs Anand commemorate and celebrate her husband’s achievements at the Hall.

HIGH SHERIFF LEAVES TIGHTS IN CYNTHIA’S BEDROOM As reported in section 2 of the Magazine, Joe Barclay (Fellow by Special Election) became High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in April 2014. The main responsibility in this role is the support of Law and Order in the County (police, courts, coroners, probation, prisons, etc). However, in modern times it has extended to involvement in the charitable sector. Below, Joe describes one of his exploits for charity.

Many people asked how many miles I covered over the five days of my shrieval bicycle ride in May 2014. I do not have a precise figure as distance was not the main objective. The purpose of the exercise was to criss-cross the County (Chesham, Marlow, High Wycombe, Princes Risborough, Aylesbury, Winslow, Milton Keynes) over five days and visit small charities that are being funded by the Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Community Foundations. In all I called in on twelve charities. These had been well chosen by the Foundations to showcase a small selection from the wide variety of organisations that they fund.

They included a youth activity centre, a community-run village shop, a bicycle repair workshop for young people who were struggling at school, a metal work and carpentry shop for lonely men, a local museum, a food bank, old people’s luncheon clubs, and an arts centre.

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I was reasonably lucky with the weather, with rain on only one of my days on the road. The last day finished with a wonderful party at Chicheley Hall, a magnificent Grade One building. The Milton Keynes Community Foundation kindly agreed to combine the end of ride celebration with their annual donor “thank you” party. I have to say it was a huge relief to arrive in one piece after dodging all the potholes and juggernauts of Buckinghamshire. I rode up the Chicheley drive in my full shrieval kit (including somewhat awkwardly my sword) to a great welcome.

I am extremely grateful to everyone who supported me. Some 147 people sponsored the venture, and, with gift aid and matching funding, over £26,000 was raised for our two Community Foundations. This total far exceeded my initial hopes.

Cynthia, by the way, is a north Buckinghamshire farmer’s wife who very kindly let me change in her spare bedroom. Somewhat to her embarrassment (and mine) I left my shrieval tights behind.

Joe Barclay SOME REFLECTIONS FROM PROFESSOR BASIL KOUVARITAKIS It is truly amazing how time whizzes by when you are enjoying yourself. Along those lines, I must say I am surprised and shocked to find myself retiring at the end of September 2014 – when I was only appointed a few years back (1 January 1981, to be precise). It has been truly a wonderful experience, one that I could not improve upon even if I were allowed an ‘action replay’. True, this eulogy includes my experiences at the Department of Engineering Science, which were equally as good in that I found myself surrounded by wonderful, engaged and committed colleagues. However, the Hall has played a major part in making my working life such a satisfying pleasure. There have been difficulties of course and surely there will be plenty more to come in future years, but the Hall is big enough to withstand these with confidence: it is the sum total of us that defines what the College is, and this gives sufficient guarantees that transients will be weathered.

I do not wish to go on along these lines. You surely get my drift. But it would be wrong of me not to mention one thing, and that is that I have been greatly touched by the love and affection with which I have been surrounded from existing students as well as from those of years past. All I will say is that I cared 105

passionately about all of you at the time when you were studying Engineering at the Hall (between 1981 and 2014) and I wish you all (including the ones before those years) the very best.

You will no doubt be pleased to hear that the Hall has taken the correct decision to replace me. I am calling it correct because we are thriving in Engineering – that is a plain fact for all to see. This year, for example, we got three Firsts in the fourth and final year, while no fewer than six of our current third-year students were given a provisional First. Happily, a worthy successor for me has already been found and has indeed been appointed. He is Paul Goulart who, over and above his excellent academic record (mostly in Predictive Control, of course!), has the making of a good College tutor. No doubt over the coming years many of you will have the opportunity to meet Paul and welcome him to the Hall.

Perhaps the first occasion when that happens will be the Joe Todd Dinner next year. I wrote in the Hall Magazine last year that the crop of applicants in Trinity 2013 for the Todd Awards was impressive and that awards were made to six students. These awards were for a variety of projects, mostly of a humanitarian nature. Some award-holders participated in the Mongol Rally in a clappedout Nissan Micra to raise money for the Macmillan Cancer Support. There was another that called for living and working alongside recovering addicts in Madrid. Two involved teaching mathematics and sciences to young Palestinian refugees in Beirut and to schools in Northern Pakistan offering education as a step towards resolving problems of extremism and violence. All these projects were completed successfully and we were given the opportunity, at this year’s Joe Todd Dinner held early in March 2014, to listen to presentations (including a show of photographs on an overhead projector) on the students’ work and adventures. The dinner itself was well attended, and was very enjoyable.

It was preceded by a meeting to decide on the future of the Joe Todd Fund.

I am pleased to report that the decision was taken to carry on with the awards and dinners, but that these should happen every year (rather than biennially) to maintain the momentum. It was also decided to include in the committee that decides on the awards two more Aularian engineers from more recent years (say, the last fifteen to twenty years) with the view to receiving fresh ideas as to possible directions. Two volunteers have been identified: Jessica Leitch (2002) and Ahmed Hameed (2006). We are looking forward to their input.

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I shall miss the Hall a great deal, but I will not keep myself away from it for long.

In between my visits to my beautiful house on the south coast of Crete, I am hoping to be a frequent visitor to the Hall – not least to partake in the culinary pleasures provided by our wonderful Chef, John. Who knows? My colleagues may find for me some useful way in which I can help College in my retirement.

Basil Kouvaritakis STEVE ROBERTS ON STEPPING DOWN FROM HIS TUTORIAL FELLOWSHIP IN MATERIALS SCIENCE I had the somewhat odd pleasure this year of being able to spring on my colleagues: “by the way, I’ve resigned”, and watching their reactions. As of the beginning of 2014, I am no longer a Tutorial Fellow. The reason behind this is that my activities within the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) have grown massively over the past five years: the Oxford research group in ‘materials for fusion and fission power’ now numbers over 50 researchers. CCFE offered me a bigger role in developing their own in-house Materials research; but there are just not enough hours in the week to do everything, and so with much regret I’ve had to relinquish my college teaching role.

My association with the Hall goes back to my time as a postdoctoral researcher under Sir Peter Hirsch, when sometime in the late 1980s John Hunt asked me to take on some teaching for the Hall. I became a University Lecturer and Fellow at St Cross College in 1992, and was then a College Lecturer in Materials at SEH. When John retired, I was very pleased to be successful in gaining the post at the Hall as University Lecturer/Tutorial Fellow in 2003.

It has been a great pleasure selecting and teaching what is now quite a few generations of SEH Materials students; watching each year’s freshers gradually – and then rapidly in the Part 2 year – turn into real scientists, and following their careers afterwards. Many remain friends.

Materials at the Hall will, I am sure, go on to yet greater success under the leadership of Jonathan Yates. I was pleased and honoured to be elected to a Senior Research Fellowship, and I hope to be around the Hall for many years to come.

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Newly-minted graduates and their guests in the Front Quad after the 26 July 2014 degree ceremony (photo by Lee Atherton)

DEGREE DAYS In the academic year 2013-2014 the Hall followed the recently-established practice of presenting smaller numbers of candidates at some degree ceremonies during the year in order to be able to participate in larger college-based ceremonies late in July and September. This is in keeping with the University’s revised Degree Day arrangements designed to make it easier for students to take their degrees closer to the time of receiving their results. The late-July ceremonies accommodate many candidates for first degrees (who can therefore graduate largely in year-groups if they wish), while the late-September ceremonies particularly assist taught-course postgraduates whose examinations are completed later than Trinity Term.

The Degree Day held on 26 July 2014 saw just over 100 Hall undergraduates taking their degrees in person: Bachelors of Arts, Undergraduate Masters (i.e. first degrees in science subjects, such as the Master of Engineering and Master of Mathematics, which are completed over four years rather than three), and Bachelors of Fine Arts. Two research degrees were also conferred. After the ceremony in the Sheldonian Theatre, some 420 new graduates and their guests were entertained to a champagne reception and lunch at the Hall. Because of the large numbers, the meal was served in three locations; the Principal gave speeches in all three (the Wolfson Hall, the Doctorow Hall, and a marquee erected outside the JCR).

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Over 40 more Aularians put their names down for the Degree Day on 20 September 2014, including some 27 to be admitted to the MA and other postgraduate degrees.

The names of Aularians who were given Leave to Supplicate during 2013-2014 are published in section 4 of the Magazine.

Information from the College Office about Degree Day dates and booking arrangements for ceremonies in 2014-2015 is included in section 4 of the Magazine. See also the Hall website at www.seh.ox.ac.uk/current-students/degree-ceremonies.

NEW HALL VIDEO The Hall’s first-ever professionally-made video, What have you learnt at Teddy Hall?, was shown at the Open Days in July 2014 and was then made available online. Produced by Angel Sharp Media, the video offers a quick introduction to the Hall through some of its undergraduates, postgraduates, and tutors.

Volunteers were filmed in May 2014 (along with the MCR’s four-foot-high teddy bear mascot). The aim of the video is to publicise the Hall to potential new students in a way that distinguishes it from other Oxford colleges. Initial reaction to the video going online was encouraging.

The video can be watched on the Hall’s YouTube Channel (www.youtube. com/stedmundhall).

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FROM THE COLLEGE OFFICE RECORDS STUDENT NUMBERS In residence at the start of Trinity Term 2014 were 427 undergraduates, 261 postgraduates, and 35 Visiting Students.

NEW STUDENTS 2013-2014 Undergraduates and Postgraduates The Michaelmas Term 2013 Matriculation Photograph is included at the end of this Magazine.

Afsahi, Alexander Rostin Yale University Alun-Jones, Edward Eton College Angus, Stephanie Karen Whittier College Aslanyan, Vahagn Yerevan State University, Armenia Aspinall, Paigan Jade Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School Astudillo Estevez, Pablo Andres Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito Atcheson, Erwan Queen’s University of Belfast Attwood, Martin George University College London Azar, Ghady Antoine Queen’s University, Canada Bailey, Rose-Anna Elizabeth Newport High School Ball, Thomas Marlborough College Barker, Tobias Faubert Wadham College, University of Oxford Bass, Oliver John William Tonbridge School Belsey, Wilfred Leonard Greenhead College Benayoun, Emma Liane McGill University Benson, Edward Patrick St Paul’s School Berro Pizzarossa, Lucia Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo Bhadra, Gaurav Saint Xavier’s College, Calcutta Bhushan, Bhasker Exeter College, University of Oxford Biggin, Crystal University of Leicester Bliss, Carly May Hertford College, University of Oxford Bovy, Nadia Mary Louise Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School Brace, Laura Ainsworth Georgetown University Breeze, Andrew Richard Queen Mary’s College Brod, Florian Johann Wolfang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt Brown, William George Godalming College Browne, Cormac Daniel Worcester College, University of Oxford Burek, Lea Marie University of Queensland 111

Burgin, Maximilian Royal Grammar School Guildford Canning, Catherine St Aloysius College Carlill, Oliver John David Dollar Academy Carson, Matthew Robert Portora Royal School Carter, Megan Rose Invicta Grammar School Celati, Marta Bianca Maria Universita degli Studi, Pisa Chairetis, Spyridon University of Bath Chappell, Emma Louise University of Southampton Chen, Li-Kung University College London Chilundika, Natasha University of Zambia Chiong, Charleen Ning Homerton College, University of Cambridge Chow, Kunz Gresham’s School Clare, Daniel George King Edward VII and Queen Mary School Clark, Ruari Hinchingbrooke School Clarke, Josephine Valerie South Wilts Grammar School Clarke-Williams, Charles James Dorchester Thomas Hardye School Clayton, Emma Hall Cross Academy Connolly, Jonathan Paul Balcarras School Cowles, Katherine Grace Swan Bishop’s Stortford High School Cox, Joshua Robert University of Southampton Crickmore, Connor Scott Rickmansworth School Crossley, Eleanor Frances St Benedict’s Catholic High School Das, Sudakshina Sikkim-Manipal University Davidson, Jessica Ann Courtauld Institute of Art Davies, Adam Christopher St Joseph’s School Davies, Rachel Radyr Comprehensive School Dean, Thomas Harry Lord Wandsworth College Dent, Luke William Spearman Hampton School Dial, Alexander Craig John Trinity School Dickson-Tetteh, Leslie Eton College Diffey, Matthew Westminster School Dinning, William John Birkbeck College Dorling, Jack University of Sheffield Dunne, Josceline Peter Symonds College Durkin, William John Ardingly College Elliott, James Francis Gavagan Royal Grammar School Ellis, Hannah Theodora University of Exeter Estevez Cores, Javier Ignacio Instituto de Educación Rosais 2 Evers, Kristy Jennifer Utrecht University 112

Favre-Gilly, Louise Alice Jeanne St Paul’s Girls’ School Feck, Lauren Theresa University of California, Berkeley Ford, James Alan Sproston University of Wales, Cardiff Foxwell, Jonathan Andrew Clare College, University of Cambridge Freeman, Jaimie Lee Kingston Grammar School Friedrichs, Charlotte Maria Johanna Universitat Bayreuth Gaertner, Juliana School of Oriental and African Studies Garner, Henry Milo Crosbie Imperial College, London Gaul, Lewis Howard Peter Symonds College Gentil Jr., Fernando Bunker Georgetown University Gewirtz, Julian Baird Harvard University Gill, Pavinder Kaur Coventry University Goddard, Rosalind Jean Elisabeth King Edward VI School Goldblatt, Daniel Woolf University of St Andrews Goncharov, Konstantin Monkton Combe School Gonzalez Santana, Judit Maria Canterbury Senior School Gordon, Nicholas Ross Ison Harvard University Graham, Peter James Victoria College Gray, Emily Malvern College Green, Ross University of Edinburgh Greenwood, Matthew Peter Queen Mary’s Grammar School Grylls, George Dacre de Courcy Westminster School Guo, Wenji University of Illinois at Chicago Hafeez, Naima Lahore University of Management Sciences Hancock, Susana Paton Kellogg College, University of Oxford Hansen, Andreas London School of Economics Harman, Alice Rose Godolphin and Latymer School Harris, Abigail Lucy Selwyn College, University of Cambridge Harris, Saturnino Edwin East Norfolk Sixth Form College Hart, Edward Berkhamsted Collegiate School Hartmann-Boyce, Jamie Oxford Brookes University Harwood, Elizabeth Louise University of Exeter Henrich, Julia Friederice University of Leiden Hill, Arthur James Gwynne Canford School Hirose, Nami King’s College London Hoelzer, Hendrik The British International School, Shanghai Hollis, James Alexander City University Horton, Iona Mary Wycombe Abbey School Howard, Victoria University of Birmingham 113

Huggan, Amelia Lilian Mary Erskine School Illingworth, James Richard St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford Iqbal, Aashique Ahmed Jawaharlal Nehru University Jacobs, Matthew Philip Columbia University Jaffe, Alice Rosalyn South Hampstead High School Jahun, Aminu Suleiman Bayero University Jani, Jaydip Latymer School Joffrin, Ambroise Serguei Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon Johnson, William Edward Wilson’s School Jones, Isobel Jesper Edgbaston High School Kane, Khalid Ibnou Walid University College London Karhu, Todd Nugent University of Maastricht Kelly, Mark Tiffin School King, James Anthony The Burgate School Klinpikuln, Lara Grace University of Exeter Kolb, Anna-Lena University of Munich Lamont, Bethany Rose University of the Arts Lawson, Takashi Burnham Grammar School Lean, Amelia Anne Lara Loreto College Lewis, Dylan Peter Royal Grammar School Guildford Li, Pinrui University College London Lin, Jennifer University of Southern California Lindsay-Perez, Alexandra Cristina Badminton School Liu, Xinlei Hangzhou Foreign Language School Lock, George Jonathan Ashby Grammar School Logan, John Patrick Friends’ School Lovegrove, Hannah Louise Oxford Brookes University Lucas, Hugo Darius Sinnig Westminster School Lumley, Phoebe Beth St Albans High School Lundy, Steven Jarrett University of Pennsylvania MacDonald, Nicola Lynn University of Stellenbosch Mackay, Max University of Durham Madin, Olivia Sisley Rose Jesus College, University of Oxford Makin, Laura Magdalene College, University of Cambridge Manley, Grace Frances St Paul’s Catholic School Mavrokefalos, Christos University of Patras McGarry, Brynne Pennsylvania State University Midgley, Alexander James Oakwood Park Grammar School Miller, Jennifer Lesley University of Glasgow 114

Minney, Eleanor Chelsea College of Art and Design Mizdrak, Anja St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford Mo, Stephanie Puy Lam Imperial College, London Mohamed, Naseemah Yaasameen Harvard University Moor, Mariette Rosalie Kingston University Morgan, Zara Loreto Grammar School Mostipan, Ilona Damira University College London Mowinckel, Joachim Emmanuel Columbia University Murdoch, Angus Maximilian Sherborne School Musayev, Olga Eldarovna Yale University Nam, Joseph Jungwoo State University of New York at Albany Nathan, Joseph James Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School Nelson-Addy, Lesley University of Edinburgh O Brien, Susanna Latymer School O’Connor, Eoin Patrick Worth School Ogilvie-Smith, Isabel Beatrice Cheltenham Ladies’ College Orkney, Andrew Christopher Myles Alton College Orlowska, Pola Izabella ISLO Ingmar Bergman Palmer, Griff The Downs School Parker-Hay, Katherine Ruth Goldsmiths College Payne, Olivia Ellen St Mary’s High School Peng, Yung-Kang National Taiwan University Pereira, Rafael Henrique Moraes Universidade Estadual de Campinas Peruniak, Blair Geoffrey McMaster University Pilley, Steven Edward City of London Freemen’s School Pinkoski, Nathan John Green Templeton College, University of Oxford Polonsky, Naomi Carmel Perse School for Girls Pretty, Thomas Michael Kimberley School Price, Pernia North London Collegiate School Price, Sophie-Marie Hanley Castle High School Qiu, Jieqiong University of Southampton Rahim, Zamira Old Palace School Rana, Omar Wallington County Grammar School Rathbone, Esther May Tile Hill Wood School Reilly, Louise Catherine Bishops Stortford College Reitman, Hillary Syracuse University Ren, Xiaomei University of Southampton Reyes Sanchez, Jose Adan Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Reza, Alexandra Catherine Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge 115

Roberts, Lucy Emma King Edward VI College Robinson, Katherine Rose Withington Girls School Rombach, Ines University of Leicester Ru, Binxin River Valley High School Ryan, Jeanne Marie St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford Sabaratnam, Keshalini Imperial College London Saddler, Emily Alexandra University of Durham Sayers, James Martin University of Sussex Schuller, Marion Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München Shahnavaz, Lara Naz Enka School Shen, Sili City of London Freemen’s School Small, Alison Elinor University of Southampton Spencer-Hope, Miranda University of Kent Steele, Angus Dominic Richard Bournville College of Arts Stephens, Natalie Jo Whittome Haberdashers Aske’s Girls School Sulaman-Butt, Khushna Darwen Aldridge Community Academy Swallow, Alistair Michael King’s College School Wimbledon Sweere, Tim University of Utrecht Tackley, George William Cardiff University Tan, Qingxin Haberdashers’ Monmouth Girls School Tan, Shaun Elijah Anglo-Chinese Junior College Tang, Minzhe Jinan Foreign Language School Tay, Darius Kang-Rui Singapore Management University Tham, Chui-Joe The Alice Smith School Thompson, Eleanor Anne Fleet Brighton and Hove High School Thompson, Hester Mabel Cardinal Newman College Tsung, Tsun Hin Navin Hong Kong University Graduate Association College Vaillant, Julien Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse Valli, Jessica Cranfield University Wakaf, Zeinab International University for Science and Technology Warden, Connor John Bradford Grammar School Whittall, Joseph Hampton School Wijesinghe, Sakunthala University of Warwick Williamson, Sam Jonathan University of Southampton Wiseman, Katherine Elizabeth University of Birmingham Wolniewicz, Andrzej Stefan Pembroke College, University of Oxford Wong, Mabel Tung Yuet St Swithun’s School Wratten, Samuel Mossbourne Community Academy 116

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River Valley High School American University, Washington DC Beaconsfield High School Merchiston Castle School

UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS EXERCISE 2013 The Undergraduate Admissions exercise in 2013 (for entry in 2014 and after) saw a total of 673 applications received at St Edmund Hall. Of those applicants, more than 300 were invited for interview. These interviews were conducted in person in Oxford, with the exception of a small number of international applicants who were interviewed via Skype.

Following the conclusion of December 2013’s interview period, the Hall made a total of 127 offers of undergraduate places for entry in academic year 2014-15.

In addition, three deferred offers were made for places in 2015-16. The Hall also ‘exported’ a small number of applicants for offers of places at other colleges.

VISITING STUDENTS 2013-2014 Ayoob, Ashley Marie Bunzel, Jordan Lewis Chen, Victoria Feldman, Jeffrey Louis Garg, Anisha Gomez Gutierrez, Alberto Gregg, Emily Ruth Hoylman, Emily Kay Kang, Namyi Kim, Minjae Kropinski, Kerri Lynn Li, Shelly Liao, Zi Wei Alice Liu, Andong Annie Lo, Shun Siu Zabrina Loving, Dana Olivia Mahoney, Claire Stasia Miao, Sizhuang Mollura, Kelsey Danielle

Villanova University Vassar College Wellesley College Amherst College Case Western Reserve University University of Salamanca Emory University Lawrence University Amherst College Swarthmore College Villanova University Duke University Wellesley College Wellesley College Hong Kong Baptist University New York University College of the Holy Cross Wellesley College Cornell University 117

Moshkelani, Shireen Murray, Ellen Marie Myint, Peco Oo, Poe Power, Elizabeth Randi Prather, Lucy Amalia Puri, Sanjana Ramaswamy, Lipika Ramos, Nicolas Revah Masliah, Betty Rogers, Angel Saidenberg, Madeleine Rose Shaffar-Roggeveen, Chase Slancarova, Jana Smith, Trevor Don Strickland, Katherine Clark Thompson, Dana Marie Varghese, Arpita Elizabeth Vivian, Alexander William Wang, Ran Wang, Xiu Victoria Yim, Thomas C

Brown University University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Haverford College Wellesley College St Michael’s College Smith College Wellesley College Bryn-Mawr College Cornell University Brandeis University Howard University Davidson College Brown University Masaryk University Pomona College Washington and Lee University Whitman College Duke University Fordham University Duke University Wellesley College Brown University

COLLEGE AWARDS AND PRIZES College Scholars Lucy E Andrew Thomas H L Bailey Jake M Bowerbank Samuel J Burton Gregory L Carton Nicholas Chen Fang Yew Rachael E Cross Michelle Degli Esposti William E Hak Samuel T Henderson David E Hewitt James M O Heywood 118

Mircea-Dan Hirlea David J Z Holt Taariq Ismail Jasdeep Kalsi Bo G M Klackenberg Qi Liu Alvaro Martin Alhambra Alexandra C McIntyre Camilla V L Metcalf Jack N Moran Rebecca L Morgan Kristina K Murkett

Muhammad S Nabeebaccus Giles E H Neal Benjamin J Ong Xu Pang Nicholas M Pattinson Guy J G Paxman Alexandra C Pullen Navin B Ramakrishna Stephen M Robinson Emily A Russell

David G Taylor Marsha P G Teo Martin Tweedie John C Waite Simon J Ward-Jones Christopher H Williamson Liang J Wong Jiehan B Xie Robyn L Zorab

College Organ Scholars Priscilla B. Santhosham College Choral Scholars Josceline Dunne Richard A. F. Holtham Anna Jackson James A. King Samuel T. Lovell Grant McWalter Rose A. Michael Zhendan Qin Daniel Thompson College Exhibitioners Xander Alari-Williams Sheng Wei Ang Thomas J Archer Anna N Bartol-Bibb John T Calvert Lucie A R Carpenter Emily J Carson Aleksandar Cvetkovic John W D Darby Joshua M R Goldenberg Fraser J A Heathcote

Thomas A Hughes Sung Jae Kim Patrick Kratschmer Guillaume D Lefevre David A Long Rhiannon M Main Alberto Merchante Gonzalez Rose A Michael Anastasia W M Miller Mark A Mindel Callum Munday 119

Abigail Pidgen Martin J Platais Emily L Pritchett Edward C Sasada Patrick J Sugden Lara W O Tandy

Tsz Chung Tong Thomas G Waksman Charlotte Waterman William E S Webb Benjamin L Whisker Sarah Wooley

George Barner Prize for Contribution to Theatre Isabel B. Ogilvie-Smith Bendhem Fine Art Bursary Melanie E. Gurney Rosamund M. Lakin Alkistis Mavrokefalou Francis P.D. Meadows Cochrane Scholars Joseph E.A. McKay Zara Morgan David J. Cox Prize for Geography Sarah Wooley David J. Cox Bursary Jack P. Culpin Fiona M.A. Roberts Richard Fargher Bursaries Taariq Ismail Matilda A.S. Munro Edward C. Sasada Philip Geddes Memorial Prize Lauren L.A. Collee

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Graham Hamilton Travel Awards Edward H.R. Argles Bo G.M. Klackenberg Stanley Pinsent Katherine R. Robinson Stephen M. Robinson Thomas G. Waksman Instrumental Award Naomi C. Polonsky Eve G.D. Smith Paula Zamorano Osorio Richard Luddington Prize Lucy E. Andrew Abigail Pidgen James W. Roberts Graham Midgley Memorial Prize for Poetry Madeleine R. Saidenberg Ogilvie-Thompson Prize Jack N. Moran Ogilvie-Thompson Prize proxime accessit Isobel J. Jones Peel Awards For the Professional Practice Programme in Fine Art Joseph Mackay Zoe Dunn Eleanor Pryor For Fine Art Joseph Mackay Mark Mindel 121

For Mathematics & Philosophy Jack Calvert Joshua Goldenberg Michael Pike Fund Award Guy J.G. Paxman Muriel Radford Memorial Prize Pola I. Orlowska Simon and Arpi Simonian Prize for Excellence in Leadership Margery Infield Special College Prize Henry Steel Teach First Bursary Lucy Budden Robert Martin Tony Doyle Award Jake M. Bowerbank Guy J.G. Paxman John C. Waite Christopher H. Williamson A total of 60 students received the means-tested Oxford Opportunity Bursary.

The College components of these bursaries were supported by: Aularian Mr Tony Best in honour of his parents Mr and Mrs Ron Best; and Mrs Dorothy Pooley, Mrs Lucy Webber and Mrs Frances Georgel in memory of their father, Aularian Mr Philip Saul (1953).

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UNIVERSITY AWARDS AND PRIZES Armourers and Brasiers’ Company Medal and Prize for Best Part II Project Owen Silk AWE Prize in Geophysics Guy J.G. Paxman BP Prize Guy J.G. Paxman Burdett Coutts Prize Guy J.G. Paxman Claude Massart Prize for French Literature Nadia M.L. Bovy Naomi C. Polonsky Gibbs Prize Amar Hodzic (Engineering Science: Best Part B Project) Nicholas M. Pattinson (Engineering Science: FHS – proxime accessit) Binxin Ru (Engineering Science: Prelims) Alexandra C. Pullen (Fine Art) James Roberts (Physics: BA Practical) James Roberts (Physics: Group Project) Timothy Seah (Physics: Group Project) Navin Ramakrishna (Biochemistry) Hobson Mann Lovell Prize Alice C. Quayle Johnson Matthey Prize for best overall performance in Prelims Takashi Lawson Palaeontological Association Prize Thomas W. Hearing 123

Schlumberger Prize Rebecca L. Morgan Shell Prize Lucy E. Andrew Slaughter and May Prize in Legal History Benjamin J. Ong Vivien Leigh Prize Alexandra C. Pullen Wronker Prize for Tort Law Benjamin J. Ong Missed in 2012-13 – Ramón Silva Memorial Prize – Jessica S. Vincent COLLEGE GRADUATE AWARDS AND PRIZES Mrs Brown Bursary Charlotte M.C. Clancy Katherine J. Har Claire H. Palmer Tudor C. Popescu Tamas Szekely Maximillian Thompson Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Fellowship Matthew P. Jacobs E.P.A Cephalosporin Scholarship Bhaskar Bhushan William R Miller Postgraduate Award Zahra Shah

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Routledge Scholarship Laura A. Brace Graduate Writing-up Bursary Ruth K. Brown Henry E. W. Cottee-Jones Amber C.H. Gartrell Ying Wang UNIVERSITY GRADUATE AWARDS AND PRIZES Clarendon-St Edmund Hall Graduate Scholarship with support from the Brockhues Scholarship and Justin Gosling Graduate Bursary Crystal Biggin Marta B.M. Celati Nicholas R.I.Gordon Wenji Guo Olga Musayev Yung-Kang Peng Dulverton Scholarship Vahagn Aslanyan Felix Scholarship Aashique A. Iqbal Louis-Dreyfus Weidenfield Scholarship Lucia Berro Pizzarossa Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Scholarship Khalid I.W. Kane Rhodes Scholarship Natasha Chilundika Gabrielle Emanuel Julian B. Gewirtz Naseem Y. Mohamed

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Vicky Noon Educational Foundation Scholarship Naima Hafeez EXTERNAL AWARDS British Society for Strain Measurement Young Stress Analyst Prize 2013 Rodolfo M.N. Fleury China Scholarship Council Jieqiong Qiu Xiaomei Ren Hoping Foundation Scholarship Hind Eideh Kellett Fellowship, Colombia University Matthew P. Jacobs We wish also to recognise the achievement of the further 125 new graduate students who attracted funding from departments, faculties, research councils and other external bodies.

DEGREE RESULTS 2013-2014 Candidates who have agreed to their names being published Final Honour Schools 2014 Biochemistry Class I: Class II i

Navin B. Ramakrisha, Henry C. Wilkinson James A. Ferguson, Daniel T. O’Brien, Bronte A. Paice, Jessica Teal

Cell and Systems Biology Class I Patrick Kratschmer Class II i Rachael E. Cross, Henry J. Richardson Banks Chemistry Class I Class II i 126

Gregory L. Carton, Anastasia W.M. Miller Lucy A. Budden, Gareth A.W. Elliott

Earth Sciences Class I

Class II i

Lucy E. Andrew, Rebecca L. Morgan, Abigail Pidgen Steffan R.M. Danino, Thomas W. Hearing, Richard A.F. Holtham, Kyrre O. Johansen, Charlotte A. McKeever, Michael G. Nairn, Rebecca E. Paisley, Matthew Saker-Clark

Economics & Management Class I Marsha Poh Gek Teo Class II i Haaris Ahmed, Sheng Wei Ang, Michael J. Cary, Xu Pang, Nicholas D. Reynolds Engineering Science Class I Class II i Class III

Rose A. Michael, Stephen M. Robinson Phillip Dafinone, Mohammed A. Daggash, Joseph P. Hayden, Saleem Lubbad, Andi Tao Shaozhang Pan

Engineering, Economics, & Management Class I Mircea-Dan Hirlea English Language & Literature Class II i Samuel J. Burton, Efraim R. Carlebach, Aleksandar Cvetkovic, Yasmin O.A. Disney, Kristina K. Murkett, Thomas J.K. Wood English & Modern Languages Class II i Pelia Werth Experimental Psychology Class I Alexandra C. McIntyre Class II ii Robert J. Pryde Fine Art Class I Class II i Class II ii

Rosamund M. Lakin, Alexandra C. Pullen, Charlotte Waterman Melanie E. Gurney, Alkistis Mavrokefalou Francis P.D. Meadows 127

Geography Class I Class II i History Class II i History & Politics Class II i Jurisprudence Class I Class II i

Hannah G. Dickinson, Callum Munday Hector G.W. Bagley, Anna E. Robinson Joseph J. Edwards, Andrew J. Preece, Nicholas W.C. Surry, Lara W.O. Tandy Samuel Zhong Jie Cheam Rosamund J. Baker, Benjamin J. Ong Helen F. Foster, Albena G. Ilieva, Simon J. Jennings, Aliza M.B. Mirza, Samuel B. Parkinson, Michael S. Rundle

Law with Law Studies in Europe Class II i Arpita Ashok Materials Science Class I Class II i Mathematics Class I Class II i Class II ii

Thomas J. Archer, Martin Tweedie Owen B.W. Silk, Lance Junbyung Yang Simon J. Ward-Jones Kevin D. Minors, Stanley Pinsent, Arandeep S. Uppal, Miles K. Watkiss Zhendan Qin

Mathematics & Philosophy Class II i Grant McWalter Medical Sciences Class II i Modern Languages Class II i 128

Juliet R. Meara, Edward C. Mole, Sheena Patel, Richard D. Sale Frank E.A. Collings, Anna Jackson, Amy F. Whetstone, Alexander J.N. Labrom

Music Class I Class II i

Mary V. Tyler Andrew C. Meredith, John N.A. Simpson

Philosophy Politics & Economics Class II i Nicholas Lippolis, Evan Tze-Hoong Lum, Christopher S. Pike, Lucy E.A. Stuchfield Physics Class I Class II i

David E. Hewitt, Alvaro Martin Alhambra, James W. Roberts, Tsz Chung Tong James G.C. Ball, Matthew R.T. Donora, Ben Fletcher, Duncan Littlejohns, Timothy J. Hoay-Chi Seah

Psychology with Philosophy Class II i Louis Geary, Guillaume D. Lefevre Higher Degrees Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) Anthropology: Clinical Lab Sciences: Clinical Medicine: Education: Engineering Science: English Language & Literature: History: Materials Science: Mathematics: Medieval & Modern Languages: Physics: Population Health: Systems Biology:

Amy K. McLennan, Alejandro Reig Santilli Wenchao Gu David L.V. Bauer, Esther F. Davis, Luke D. Jones, Michela Simoni Andrew B. Ragatz Tamara R. Etmannski, Mohd. Hanniffah Mohd. Rizda, Hao Wang Sebastian J. Langdell Andrew G. Fleming Andrew D. Norton Thomas S. Hosking, Mark Wilkinson Johannes M. Depnering Michael R. Sprague Elizabeth M. Radin Tamas Szekely

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Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Economics: General Linguistics & Comparative Philology:

Antonin De Laever, Scott D. Edmonds, Jacek M. Witkowski Hannah R. VanSyckel

Bachelor of Medicine (BM BCh) Holly E. Harris Oliver J. Wright Master of Science (MSc) Applied Statistics: Chun-Hang Tang (Distinction) Biodiversity, Conservation & Management:

Benjamin Barca (Distinction),

James Curtis Hayward (Distinction), Kathleen E. Griffiths (Distinction), Philip D. Lamb, Andrew C. Martin Clinical Embryology: Dhruti L.A.Babariya (Distinction), Biswanath Ghosh Dastidar (Distinction), Ankita A. Upadhye Comparative & International Education:

Melissa A. Henry, Sophie E. Hollows Contemporary India: Oscar R. Vallance (Distinction) Educational Studies: Kentaro Ikeda Endovascular Neurosurgery: Yew Poh Ng Environmental Change & Management:

Asfara Ahmed Financial Economics: Lea Marie Burek, Nicola L. MacDonald (Distinction) Integrated Immunology: Henry M.C. Garner, Aminu S. Jahun, Stephanie Puy Lam Mo Mathematical & Computational Finance:

Ghady A. Azar, Ruoyu Wu Mathematics & the Foundation of Computer Science:

Benjamin M. Stemper Materials Science: Natasha E. Hjerrild, Park Maneepairoj Nature, Society & Environmental Policy:

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Oncology: Physics: Political Theory Research: Radiation Biology:

Andrew R.G. Worrall Wei-Hsin Chen Hind Eideh Fiona F. Cahill

Master of Studies (MSt) English:

Emma L. Chappell, Jennifer L. Miller (Distinction), Priyanka Soni English Language: Kristy J. Evers Film Aesthetics: Emma L. Benayoun General Linguistics & Comparative Philology:

Hannah T. Ellis Global & Imperial History: Julian B. Gewirtz (Distinction) History of Art & Visual Culture: Matthew P. Jacobs, Bethany R. Lamont Modern British & European History: Jessica A. Davidson (Distinction) Modern Languages: Lauren T. Feck, James R. Illingworth (Distinction), Olivia S.R. Madin Modern South Asian Studies: Sakunthala Wijesinghe Master of Business Administration (MBA) Niru Singh Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) Darius Kang-Rui Tay Magister Juris (MJuris) Lucia Berro Pizzarossa Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) English: Lara G. Klinpikuln, Hannah L. Lovegrove, Lesley Nelson-Addy, Emily A. Saddler History: James A.S. Ford Modern Languages: Victoria Howard Physics: Miranda Spencer-Hope Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) Diplomatic Studies: Nami Hirose

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DEGREE DAY DATES 2014-2015 Information about the procedure for signing up to a degree ceremony can be found on the College website www.seh.ox.ac.uk/current-students/degreeceremonies. Dates of degree ceremonies in 2014-15 will be published on this site as and when they are confirmed.

Taught course students who are due to finish their degrees in the 2014-15 academic year will be invited by the Degree Conferrals Office in Michaelmas Term of their final year to attend the ceremony date relevant to their degree.

Research students will be invited to book a ceremony date once they have been granted Leave to Supplicate.

Historic graduands (pre-2015) or those wishing to have their MAs in person at a ceremony will need to request that their name is put on a ‘holding list’ (waiting list) for a ceremony date, and will be contacted should a place become available.

Further information detailing the booking process for historic graduands is also available from the College website.

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SECTION 5:

DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE

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FROM THE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT The last year has been an exciting time for the Development and Alumni Relations Office (DARO), with a whole host of alumni events at home and abroad and a continued focus on fundraising with the Campaign for St Edmund Hall.

It has been great to see so many Aularians continuing to stay in touch with the Hall: this year we hosted 25 events around the world with over 2,300 Aularians attending. One highlight was our participation in the first ever University of Oxford Asia Alumni Weekend with a dinner in Hong Kong featuring guest speaker Linda Yueh, SEH Fellow by Special Election in Economics and Chief Business Correspondent for the BBC. Also, the 29th Annual New York Dinner was a huge success with Linda Yueh taking part in a lively debate at the Asia Alumni Weekend (photo by Keith Gull) a record turnout as we honoured William R Miller for his life-long support of the Hall. Closer to home, our new business networking series Teddy Talks continue to be a huge success, with outstanding Aularian speakers such as Sir Keir Starmer KCB QC, former Director of Public Prosecutions, and Richard Glynn, CEO of Ladbrokes.

Following a year of planning and putting systems in place to prepare for increased fundraising activity, we continue in the quiet phase of the Campaign with a goal to raise ÂŁ25m over the next five years. In November we successfully moved to a new database, DARS (Development and Alumni Relations System). We re-launched the alumni directory Aularian Connect over the summer: this will allow you to search and connect with other alumni on the database and also get alumni news and campaign updates. We have increased our staff and our team now includes two Senior Development Officers, Gail Williams who is based in the Oxford Office, and Christine Sachs in New York. This means that we have dramatically increased our activity and are now able to get out 134

Teddy Talks II: (pictured left to right) Tim Elliot, Richard Glynn, Keith Gull, Laura Palmer and Simon Costa (photo from Hall records)

and meet even more alumni and spread the news about the Campaign. Last year we were delighted that Gareth Roberts (1971, Geology) agreed to chair the Campaign and since that time we have been building a Campaign Cabinet comprised of dedicated volunteers. We are currently focusing on endowing a second fellowship in Law and an Earth Sciences Fellowship which may also be eligible for matched funding from the University.

This is also the second year for the Board of Hall Benefactors (BHB) which was formed to recognise alumni and friends who make a donation of £25,000 and above in support of the Campaign. Donors receive a host of benefits including an invitation to the Charter Dinner (with partner). The following Aularians have generously given at this level in support of the Campaign: Chris Armitage (1950) Andrew Banks (1976) Philip Broadley (1980) Ian Durrans (1977) Bob Gaffey (1975)

John Hawkins (1970) Peter Johnson (1965) William R Miller (1949) Gareth Roberts (1971) Edward Penley Abraham Cephalosporin Fund and one anonymous donor.

Ongoing fundraising continues and this year we raised a total of £714,068 in philanthropic funds. The 2013 telethon was very successful, raising £224,000, and support from Aularians continues to be very strong through one-off 135

donations and pledges spread over the next four years. Thanks to all of you who spoke to our student callers and gave so generously to the Hall. The leadership element of the Annual Fund, in its third year, also continues to be successful and we extend our thanks to those who rose to this challenge: Peter Carpenter (1942) John Hogan (1948) Ewell Murphy (1948) Denys Moylan (1951) Robin French (1951) Denis McCarthy (1952) Robin Peverett (1954) John Dellar (1955) John Reis (1958) John Curry (1959) John Adey (1960) Rodger Hayward Smith (1962) Bob Clarke (1963) Jeremy Fox (1964) Alan Brunskill (1964) Ian Gillings (1965) Cameron Brown (1966) Chris Harrison (1967) David Hexter (1967) David Blezard (1968) Clive Bailey (1968) Richard Balfour (1971) George Bull (1972) Brendan Kelly (1973) David Copeland (1973) Raymond Hui (1974) Bob Gaffey (1975)

Peter Watson (1975) Jeffrey Keey (1976) David Harding (1977) Rajeev Shah (1977) Mark Adlestone (1978) Robert Pay (1978) Paul Meadows (1978) James Catmur (1979) Gary Lawrence (1980) Jai Pathak (1981) Nigel Purse (1982) Paul McWilliam (1982) Stuart Worthington (1982) Chris Giles (1984) Andrew Rolfe (1985) Paul Billyard (1986) Geoffrey Chatas (1986) Clio Tomazos (1990) Bernard Teo (1994) Jamie Grimston (1997) Tino Wendisch (2004) John Davidson Ray Husbands Ian Murray Anthony Tomazos Richard Tonks

Once again I have been overwhelmed by the generosity and support of Aularians and have greatly enjoyed getting out and meeting many of you whilst on the Campaign trail. Please don’t hesitate to stop in (Staircase VI, top of the stairs) and say hello if you are in the College.

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DONORS TO THE HALL FROM 1 AUGUST 2013 TO 31 JULY 2014 The Principal, Fellows and students are all extremely grateful for the support of the 1,285 alumni, parents of students, and Friends of the Hall who have donated in the last year and whose names are recorded on the following pages.

We record by matriculation date the names of all who have made a donation during this period. (*denotes deceased) 1935 George Barner* 1939 Robbie Bishop 1941 Norman Hillier-Fry 1942 Peter Carpenter John Townsend 1943 John Dixon Fred Nicholls Alan Pickett 1945 Norman Barr Tony Knight Victor Parry 1946 David Dunsmore Michael Halliwell John Pike 1947 Guido Castro David Chewter Michael Harrison

1948 Jarvis Doctorow Kit Hill John Hogan* Ewell Murphy Martin Paterson Roy Tracey 1949 Gordon Allford Alan Garnett Arnold Grayson Colin Hadley Gerald Insley Noel McManus William R Miller Stan Pierce Robert Southan William Thorpe 1950 John Elliott Noel Harvey Graham Heddle Raymond Lee David Pollard Ralph Simmons John Thornton Ray Waddington Jack Wheeler Michael Williams

1951 John Akroyd Derek Bloom Robin French Andrew Johnston Kenneth Lund Denys Moylan David Shenton Bill Sotirovich Dudley Wood 1952 Peter Brown Ian Byatt John Claxton Philip Currah Michael Darling* David Fitzwilliam-Lay Peter Maxwell Denis McCarthy Bruce Nixon Neville Teller Brian Venner David White 1953 John Arthure Ken Bulgin Ernie Fox Ian Jackson Alan Johnson Christopher Jones David Picksley John Read

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1953 (cont’d) Bob Rednall Dick Turner Brian Wakefield Eric Windsor 1954 Chris Benjamin Douglas Botting Wallace Brown Jeremy Cleverley Ian Conolly Michael Duffy Michael Hopkinson Keith Hounslow Brian Howes Norman Isaacs Tony Laughton Ian Morin Michael Palmer Robin Peverett John Phillips Brian Shepherd Keith Suddaby Charles Taylor David Thomas Raymond Thornton Ronald Truman John West 1955 Hubert Beaumont John Billington Tony Cooper John Cotton John Dellar Lawton Fage Roger Farrand David Frayne Michael Hilt Del Kolve Michael Martin Brian Masters Alan Mathieson Mike Neal Trevor Nicholson John Roberts

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1955 (cont’d) Bill Weston Richard Williams 1956 Brian Amor Martyn Bird Michael Cansdale Maresq Child John Dunbabin Bob Emery Fred Farrell John French Peter Garvey David Glynne-Jones David Henderson Michael Hickey Basil Kingstone Chris Machen Jim Markwick Tony McGinn David Mussell John Pinnick Martin Reynolds David Short Nevill Swanson Paul Tempest George Wiley 1957 Michael Archer Ted Aves Robin Blackburn David Bolton Blake Bromley Martin Clifford Hugh Denman Duncan Dormor Anthony Drayton Tony Ford Bob Gilbert John Harrison Dennis Jesson Charles Marriott Ted Mellish Geoff Mihell Colin Nichols

1957 (cont’d) David Parfitt Peter Reynolds Mike Somers Alastair Stewart Peter Wilson 1958 Chris Alborough Jim Amos Peter Bentley Bob Bishop John Davie Peter Davies Jim Dening Michael Duck Geoff Fox Tony Goddard John Haydon Peter Kite Richard Linforth Michael Pelham John Phillips Tony Phillips Philip Rabbetts John Reis Frans Ten Bos 1959 Ian Alexander Keith Bowen Richard Brake John Chapman D.C. Coleman John Collingwood Kevin Crossley-Holland John Curry Frank di Rienzo Tony Doyle Matthew Joy Graham Kentfield Simon Laurence Richard McCullagh Joe McPartlin* Mike Oakley John Rayner Mike Saltmarsh

1959 (cont’d) Michael Voisey Stewart Walduck Roy Walmsley John Walters 1960 John Adey Nicolas Alldrit Chris Atkinson David Baines Terence Bell David Bolton Adam Butcher Tim Cannon Robert Clark Terence Coghlin Jeremy Cook Keith Dillon Mike Elmitt Ian Evans Brian Forster Jeff Goddard Peter Hayes Kenneth S Heard John Heath David Henderson Robin Hogg John Langridge John Law Chris Long Yann Lovelock BEM David Mash Roger Plumb George Ritchie Julian Rogers Patric Sankey-Barker George Smith Roger Sparrow John Thorogood Andrew Tod Guy Warner 1961 Paul Allen Bill Bauer Robin Bratchley

1961 (cont’d) David Brown Martin Buckley Barrie England Richard Goddard Mike Grocott Rex Harrison Geoff Hunt Malcolm Inglis Ronnie Lamb Nick Lloyd Michael Lynch George Marsh Jonathan Martin David McCammon Peter Newell Anthony Rentoul Andrew Rix David Scharer Sir Martin Smith via the Martin Smith Foundation John Sutherns David Timms Timothy Torrington Chris Tromans Stephen White 1962 Roger Begy David Buckingham James Burnett-Hitchcock Rex Chapman Norman Cowling Jeff Creek Geoffrey Davis Arthur Davis Jim de Rennes Sean Duncan Bill Gulland Handley Hammond Ant Hawkes Rodger Hayward Smith Jeff Hill Arwyn Hughes Neil Jackson Tim Jones Eric Lavin

1962 (cont’d) Alan McNamee Richard Meeres Roger Miller Dunbar Moodie Sean Morris Andrew Norman Jim North Roland Oliver Nigel Pegram Richard Phillippo Hugh Thomas John Williams 1963 Darrell Barnes David Baxter Bob Broughton Colin Bullett Nicholas Bulmer Anthony Burns-Cox Bob Clarke David Cox John Crawshaw Geoff Day Simon Downie Chris Erwin Michael Foxon Michael Harrison Frederick Holroyd Douglas Morton Richard Oliver Terry Palmer Michael Sherratt Clive Sneddon John Taylor Nigel Thorp Roger Truelove 1964 Mick Boylett Alan Brunskill Steve Copley Peter Day Robert Dolman Jeremy Fox Bill Hartley

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1964 (cont’d) Derek Hawkins Peter Hodson Chris Howe John Hughes Mike Kerford-Byrnes Timothy Machin David Meredith Derek Morris Robert Norcliffe James Pitt Michael Powis David Rumbelow Jake Scott Stephen Sherbourne Hugh Simpson David Tearle Geoffery Turner John Watson 1965 Paul Badman Joe Barclay Tommy Bedford John Dennis Paul Fickling Stephen Garrett Ian Gillings Antony Gribbon Derek Harrison Clive Hartshorn Gavin Hitchcock Ken Hobbs Nicholas Jarrold Peter Johnson Ron McDonald Andrew Morgan Thomas Mulvey Billett Potter David Powell Michael Randall John Rea David Reed John Sayer John Shneerson Philip Spray Chas Stansfield Bill Walker

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1966 David Alder Cam Brown Paul Brown Roger Brown Bernie Collins Peter Dixon Nicholas Fane Peter Griffiths Frank Hanbidge David Hansom Ian Hewitt Christopher Hird Ted Hodgson Peter Jenkins John Kilbee Paul Maison Jon Shortridge John Spellar Michael Stone Geoffrey Summers George Syrpis Michael Warren 1967 Steve Allchin Charles Bryant John Child Jr Robert Davis Nigel Derrett Robert Grey Chris Harrison Colin Hawksworth David Hexter Roger Kenworthy Shepard Krech III Ethan Lipsig John Mabbett Peter Masson Simon Maxwell Peter Mitchell Jim Mosley John Orton David Postles Philip Robinson Mark Spencer Ellis Rob Weinberg

1967 (cont’d) Keith Walmsley Peter Wilson Georges Zbyszewski 1968 Clive Bailey John Berryman David Blezard Phil Emmott Brian Griffiths David Howitt Steven Hurst Laurence Jackson Philip James Alan Jones Stuart Kenner Marcus Lobb John Penfield Michael Pike Mike Roberts Graham Salter Jeremy Salter Nigel Shrive Martin Slater Michael Spilberg Ian Stuart Graham Taylor* David Theobald 1969 John Babb David Boyd Ian Busby Roger Callan Gordon Cranmer John Graley Leonard Gibeon Stephen Groom David Jones Peter Jones Clive Kerridge Roy Marsh Nicholas McGuinn David Monkcom Paul Parker Andrew Race

1969 (cont’d) Dereck Roberts Michael Shipster Tim Stibbs Edward Wheeler Jamie Whelan 1970 Stephen Bedford Andrew Bethell John Clarkson Andrew Craston Lloyd Curtis Peter Harper John Hawkins Simon Hewson Lindsay Kaye John Kendall Chris Lewis Peter Malin Nigel McCrea Richard Miller Paul Moran David Morgan Richard Ormerod Colin Richmond-Watson Michael Rohan Geoffrey Sambrook Geoff Smith Chris Sutton-Mattocks Bill Travers Bob Wilson 1971 David Audsley Richard Balfour Peter Balmer George Bishop Lawrence Cummings Torstein Godeseth Malcolm Hawthorne Craig Laird Dave Leggett Peter Lever Bob McGrath Jonathan Ormond Gareth Roberts

1971 (cont’d) Douglas Robertson Stephen Rosefield Steve Russell Greg Salter John Sloan Nicholas Staite Justin Stead 1972 George Bull John Calvert Richard Catmur Steve Chandler Anthony Deakin Andrew Green Peter Kokelaar Jonathan Lowe* Andrew Lowenthal Howard Mason Ross Monro Paul Mounsey Mark Mulford Andrew Riley David Rosen Jack Smith Alan Smith Rob Stephenson Stephen Taylor Malcolm Watson Martin Winter 1973 Colin Ashby Christopher Bamber Robert Cawthorne Geoff Chamberlain William Cooke David Copeland James Dallas Robert Godden Roger Golland David Holmes Stephen Hutchinson Nick Jones Anthony Jordan Brendan Kelly

1973 (cont’d) Dave Knight Nigel Laing Mark Mandel Ian Midgley Kit Moorhouse Mark Patterson Nic Peeling Jens Tholstrup Mike Wood Simon Yiend 1974 Keith Albans Phil Budden Raoul Cerratti Jeff Drew Thomas du Boulay Robert Eggar Surrey Garland Andrew Gosling Andrew Hargreaves Charles Hind Raymond Hui Stephen Hutchinson Doug Imeson Paul Matthews David Neuhaus John Ormiston Andy Patterson Clive Penwarden Phil Phillips Tim Robinson Dick Sands Kim Swain Peter Tudor Graham Wareing 1975 Robert Adair Nicholas Bromley Andrew Cordell Milan Cvetkovic Bob Gaffey Keith Geeslin Paul Ince Andrew Johnston

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1975 (cont’d) Alan Kerr Graham Ketley John Mackinnon Ian McIsaac Robin Osterley Treepon Riebroicharoen Roger Rosewell Ces Shaw Nigel Smith Robert Stichbury Peter Watson David Way 1976 Kern Alexander Bill Baker Robert Birch John Collingwood Andrew Cooper Hora den Dulk Brian Denton Chris Elston Richard Finch Anson Jack Jeff Keey Chris Latimer Trevor Payne Jonathan Pearce Malcolm Pheby Jonathan Reynolds Jamie Robertson Martin Saunders Keith Scott Paul Sutton Ian Taylor Stephen Tetley Richard Thomson Peter Trowles Matthew Wald Trevor Worsfold 1977 David Blakey Charles Blount Andrew Brown Ian Doherty

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1977 (cont’d) Ian Durrans Oliver Grundy Nick Hamilton David Harding Chris Horner Roger Keeley Iain Maidment David McKenna Greg McLeen Nick Plater Richard Posgate Peter Rogers Charles Russell Mark Schneider Rajeev Shah Steve Vivian Tony Watkinson 1978 Mark Adlestone via Beaverbrooks The Jewellers Phillip Bladen Ian Coleman Richard Collins Reynaud de la Bat Smit Simon Double Mark Harrison Simon Heilbron Tim Hill Ian Hutchinson Lloyd Illingworth Simon Johnson Andy McCabe Paul Meadows Gideon Nissen Robert Pay Gary Stratmann Richard Taylor Brian Worsfold David Wright 1979 James Catmur Kit Cooke David Cox Elizabeth Flood

1979 (cont’d) Richard Grainger Valerie Grundy John Hodgson Alan Holbrook Paul Littlechild Ian Lupson Ian McEwen Caroline Morgan Justus O’Brien Timothy Padley Rob Quain Michael Robinson Mark Silinsky Paul Skokowski Duncan Talbert Robert Vollum Bridget Walker Dick Ward David West Tony Willis Christopher Wilson 1980 John Ayton Tom Bartlett Nick Caddick William Carver Stephen Chevis Diana Chitty Jonathan Davies Timothy Edmonds Anthony Farrand Jonathan Hofstetter Simon Kelly Gary Lawrence Jonathan Leakey John Madgwick Hugo Minney Tim Mottishaw James Newman John O’Connell Ashley Pigott David Preston Simon Ramage Nick Senechal Richard Smyth

1980 (cont’d) Neil Stevenson John Thurston Christina Tracey Jon Varey Faith Wainwright Peter Walton 1981 Tom Bayne Fiona Bick Alasdair Blain Andrew Burns Mark Campbell Robert Davidson Sandy Findlay Keith and Ann HarrisonBroninski Richard Lambert Gillian Leach Jim McAleer Paul McCarthy Sallie Nicholas Richard Oliver Tim Parkinson Jai Pathak Michael Sherring David Stokes Paul Stowers Mark Walters 1982 David Aeron-Thomas Warren Cabral Tom Christopherson Anna Cochrane Catherine Dale Simon Ffitch Susan Graham Nick Gretton Mark Haftke Mark Hartshorne David Heaps Richard Kent Sally McNish Paul McWilliam Gareth Penny

1982 (cont’d) Nigel Purse Marco Rimini Kevin Sealy Liz Streeter Harry Travers Sarah Vickers Simon White Stuart Worthington 1983 Rod Clarke Stephanie Clifford Chris Coleman Tim Fallowfield Siân Henderson Mike Iddon Max Irwin Jo Kent Bashir Khan Webster O’Brien Andrew Marshall Phil Moody Christine Muskett Denis Mustafa Kevan Rees John Sharples Max Welby Michael Young 1984 Dan Abnett Ian Billing John Bloomer Steve Crummett Alison Fallowfield Steve Geelan Chris Giles Tom Learner Tesula Mohindra John Risman Anthony Rossiter Helena Sellars Alistair Sharp Andrew Steane Harvey Wheaton Paul Williams

1985 Andy Ashelford Betsy Bell Deborah Booth Valerie Callender Christopher Cole Kevin Cooper Neil Crabb Sarah Good Martin Gorrod Jon Gulley Fiona Houston Catherine Mackay Nicholas Peacock Andrew Rolfe Pernille Rudlin Clive Sentance Will Shaw Tanya Spilsbury Justin Symonds Anne Ulrich Alison Voyce Jo Willis-Bund Richard Wright 1986 Mark Bedser Mary Betley Paul Billyard Jim Charles Geoffrey Chatas Simon Costa David Denholm Gavin Flook Walter Fraser Claire Harrison Andrew Harrison Stephen Haslehurst Neil Jacob Patrick Jennings Emma Kennedy Stewart Lee Jonathan Lindsay Iain Mackie Paolo Mauro Sally McKone Christina McMenamin

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1986 (cont’d) Neil Midgley John Myhill Phil Richards Catherine Ysrael-Gomez 1987 Dan Bayley Charles Elvin Richard Evans Helen Fox Kevin Holder Kevin Johnson Vivek Katariya Alison Lonsdale Andrew Martindale Lisa Mullen Zahid Nawaz Peter O’Connell Mark Sedwill Paul Thwaite Philip Waldner David Waring 1988 Lucia Bly James Brace Sundeep Dhillon Abi Draper Leon Ferera Jonathan Ferguson James Ferguson Christopher Garrison Heather Hodgkinson Duncan Holden Jon Kunac-Tabinor Richard Luckraft Peter Matthews Jan Milligan Iftikhar Riaz James Rudd David Stewart Mark Wilson 1989 Tom Argles Ronan Breen

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1989 (cont’d) Kate Carpenter Jamie Cattell Alex Hutchinson Andrew La Trobe Duncan Parkinson Ruth Roberts Edward Rose Chris Sawyer Chris Vigars 1990 Kathryn Asplin Emma Barnett Paul Brady Hew Bruce-Gardyne Kees Elmes Stephan Engel David Gauke Hans Georgeson Victoria Griffiths-Fisher Graham Hinton Edward Hobart Adrian Jones David Jordan Kevin Knibbs Andrew Landon-Green Peter Lee Stephen Noone Gill Pottinger Mark Roberts Simon Schooling Ed Shelton Jeff Staiman Craig Vickery Benjamin Walker Natasha Walker Andrew Williams Su Qing Zhang 1991 Christopher and Natasha Ashton Carol Atherton Duncan Barker Andy Barker Peter Benbow

1991 (cont’d) Simon Brown Julian Cater Andy Fielding Alex Fishlock Janine Gough Anneli Howard Nicholas Lane Andrew Lappin Luke Powell Georgia Redpath Lucy Williams 1992 Sarah Byrne Adam Cole Matt Doran Steven Fisher Lucy Heaven Ruth Jeffery Royan Lam Jane Mann Nicholas Price Claire Pugh Gareth Scholey David Taylor Geraint Thomas Louisa Warfield 1993 Howard Cazin Stuart Estell Melissa Gallagher Liz Gibbons Nick Gradel Ian Hunter Tim Jackson Kieren Johnson Rob Mansley Clare McKeon Lucy Newlove James Owens Amelia Pan Richard Tufft Damian Yap

1994 Ruben Bach Jonathan Buckmaster Radu Calinescu David Hambler Thomas Holland Choon Wai Hui Richard Jackson Naoum Kaytchev Ed Knight Adam Liston Gareth McKeever Caroline Mitchelson Michael Morley James Mushin Harry Oliver Kostas Papadopoulos James Parkin Eva Peel and Tom Peel via the Charles Peel Charitable Trust Piers Prichard Jones Jeremy Robst Bernard Teo Ian Valvona 1995 James Brown Raph Cohn Robert Dryburgh Uli Gassner Chet Lad Mary Laurents Hugh Miller Amanda Minty Sarah O’Neill Stuart Robinson Chris Ruse Liz Russell Nigel Sudell Martin Thorneycroft Justin Waine 1996 Claire Burton Edward Davies Tommy Doyle

1996 (cont’d) Benjamin Grout John Houghton Tom Long Neil McGibbon Henry Mullin Richard O’Donoghue David Phillips Heidi Sawtell Zachary Segal Zoe Stopford Roman Streitberger Maya Strbac Alistair White 1997 David Barker Tyler Bohm Nathaniel Copsey Christopher Eden Monica Gorman Jamie Grimston James Hagan Christopher Jose Peter Ralph Markus Schrenk Ben Smith Matthew Welby 1998 Kayode Akindele James Bendall Edward Carder Alan Dunford Jessica Flugge Rob Harrold Nick Hirst Catherine Hitchcock Tim Johnson Clare Murray Alina Sarantis Katy Sharp Jessica Tamarin Lisa Whelan Ben Wilkinson Lucy Wilson

1999 Olly Belcher Mark Bolton-Maggs Lucy Cope Caroline Court Jonathan Crawshaw Oliver Deacon Steffen Deutschenbauer Joseph Harvey Pippa Hill Catherine Knowles Zoe Noonan Alex Prideaux Thomas Watkins Lisa Watkinson Andrew Westbrook Mark Wilson 2000 Rohan Brown Steven Chambers Rahul Chopra Miles Clapham Anna Crabtree Kieron Galliard Laurence Hargrave Malcolm Lee Mark Little Hannah Norbury Mark Potter Richard Povey 2001 Simon Barrett Fiona Hammett Charles Hotham Katie Hutton Clem Hutton-Mills Charlotte Lamb Nat Lim Malte Nuhn Richard Perrott Nick Renshaw Patrick Schneider-Sikorsky Gamal Seetal Aden Turna Will Young

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2002 Julian Baker Tony Brignull Jackie Colburn Oenone Crossley-Holland Charlotte Dove Henry Fagg Cassandra Hogan Ryan Kohli Leon Marshall Paul Myatt Sam Offer Kate Pavia Zadok Prescott Ashley Smith Laura Squire 2003 Ashwin Anand Nicolai Boserup Sumi Ejiri Christina Flint Matthew Greenhalgh Joe Hacker Christopher Jarrett Frances Jenkins Heather Mack Nick Montgomery Marietta Papadatou-Pastou Oliver Rees-Jones Fiona Robinson Brian Umana Amy Webb Tom Worth Osamu Yamagata Tatiana Zervos 2004 Tom Braithwaite Jared Campbell Robert Danay John Edwards Sarah Filby Si Yu Fung Noam Gur Charlie Hadjiev Stephanie Hardy

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2004 (cont’d) Martin Heimburger Catriona Henderson Andrew Keech Nadeem Khan Émilie Lagacé Michelle Manzi Claire Mcquerry Fiona Moss James Robinson Teddy To Lindsay Turner Tino Wendisch 2005 David Aitken Will Brownscombe Grace Buchanan Yushuang Hao Tom Harris Will Herbert Long Jiang Kunsang Lama Lucinda O’Connor Ed Reynolds Rich Reynolds 2006 Jennifer Ayers Matthias Beckmann Leon Chen Alasdair Chesney Tom Clucas Chris Derry Grace Haley Matthew Hoffarth Sam Juthani Robert Pearce Nick Race Nicholas Schmitz Aqsa Shakoor Douglas Sole Xu Song Mike Yang Sandamali Zbyszewski

2007 Paul Archer Andrew Batley Courtney Brown Eoghan Cusack Christopher Davies George Field James Furnival Philip Georgiadis Nils Gustafsson Evan Innis Hongyu Jiang Ka Lee Sarah Mullen Charlotte Seymour Yogendra Sharma 2008 Ruyue Dai Mark Godden Katie Hill Yuki Hiro Sophie Horton Gurnam Johal Gavin O’Leary Joanne Pearce Henry Steel Haoyang Sun 2009 Romain Benvenuto Jihoon Lee Mohd Ridza Mohd Haniffah Xiao Tan 2010 Jacobus Burger William Hancock-Cerutti Filip Van Innis Jacqueline Thomas 2011 Marie Petrovicka 61 anonymous donors

Parent Donors Christine Bleasdale Adrian Buckley John P Davidson III and Shirley A Schaeffer Graham Davenport Roger Dudley Lisa Blatch & Francis Eames Mr Flowers Ray Husbands Ian Kelly Jeremy Lester Robert Robinson Jaktar Singh Mr Whiting 1 anonymous donor

Friends of the Hall William Broadbent Toby Farrand, in memory of John Farrand (1951) Fenella Cubbon Harvey Kass Patricia A Kemp, in memory of Robin Kemp (1958) Mollie Mitchell, in memory of Bruce Mitchell (1952) Ian Murray Doris Sykes, widow of Peter Sykes (1942) Richard Thayer Gwendoline Titcombe, widow of Alan Titcombe (1956)

Meyer & Merle Berger Family Foundation OxFizz 2 anonymous donors

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The Floreat Aula Society Members of the Floreat Aula Society have pledged to remember the Hall in their wills. If you would like to join the Society by including the Hall in your will, please contact the Development and Alumni Relations Office and you will be put in touch with Mr John Dunbabin (Emeritus Fellow), who runs the Society.

The next biennial dinner, to which all the Society’s members and their guests are invited, will take place on Friday 27 March 2015 and invitations will be sent to members in due course. Current members of the Floreat Aula Society are listed below.

John Akroyd John Allchurch Brian Amor Prof Christopher Amor Jonathan Aptaker Prof Christopher Armitage David Ashworth Colin Atkinson Brian Austin John Ayers Paul Badman FCA Hilary Baker Andrew Banks Andrew Barker John Barker Darrell Barnes Prof John Barnes Martin Bates Olive Baxter John Bean Stuart Beaty Olly Belcher Colin Benbow Tony Best Bill Best Philip Bevan-Thomas John Billington Stuart Bilsland Dr Robert Bishop Robert Bishop Alasdair Blain Derek Bloom David Bolton Mark Booker

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The Revd Canon Dr Michael Bourdeaux Hilary Bourne-Jones Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor Dr Doreen Boyce Bob Breese The Rev Canon Paul Brett Alan Brimble Ian Brimecome Cameron Brown Geoffrey Brown Peter Brown Peter W. Brown George Bull James Burnett-Hitchcock Ivor Burt Michael Cansdale Robert Cawthorne Dr Raoul Cerratti Steve Chandler Tom Christopherson Bob Clark David Clarke Robert Clarke Gloria Clutton-Williams Jeanette Cockshoot Andrew Cordell Simon Costa John Cotton David J. Cox John Cox John Crawshaw Kevin Crossley-Holland Dr Brian Cudmore

John Cunningham Andrew Curtis Alex Davids Revd Canon Hilary Davidson Arthur Davis Desmond Day OBE John Dellar Yves Desgouttes Frank di Rienzo Jarvis Doctorow Stewart Douglas-Mann John Ducker John Dunbabin David Dunsmore Gill Evans Roger Farrand Charles Fisher David Fitzwilliam-Lay Andrew Foot John French Robin French Alan Garnett Brian Gibson David Giles John Gill Dr David Gillett Dr Paul Glover Harold Goldsworthy Michael Goodman-Smith Justin Gosling Paul Goulding QC Alistair Graham Maureen Haile

Graeme Hall Ronald Hall David Harding Christopher Harmer John Harrison Rex Harrison Dr John Hawkins Dr Malcolm Hawthorne Prof Ian Heggie David Henderson David Hexter Charles Hind Richard Hope Michael Hopkinson TD Keith Hounslow Robert Houston Norman Isaacs Peter Janson-Smith Allan Jay MBE David Johnson Christopher Jones Derek Jones Luke Jones Prof Andrew Kahn Dr Steve King Roy Kings Bob Knowles Tony Laughton Revd Canon Raymond Lee Paul Lewis John Long Richard Luddington Kenneth Lund QC James Lyle Chris Manby James Markwick Charles Marriott Peter Masson Robert Mathews Doug McCallum George McNaught Peter Mercer Jeremy Mew Geoff Mihell William R. Miller CBE Prof Michael Mingos Mollie Mitchell

Judy Mitford-Barberton Dr Geoff Mortimer Charles Murray David Nelson Rodney Offer Sheila Owen-Smith Andrew Page Kenneth Palk James Parkin Martin Paterson Robert Pay Nigel Pegram The Revd Edward Phillips John Phillips Dr Peter Phizackerley David Picksley John Pike CBE John Pinnick Dr Francis Pocock Christopher Pope Philip Rabbetts Laura Radley Bob Rednall Anthony Rentoul His Hon Judge Martin Reynolds Peter Reynolds Archdeacon Raymond Roberts CB Charles Robinson Michael Robson Parry Rogers CBE General Sir Michael Rose KCB CBE DSO QGM Edmund Roskell Dr Francis Rossotti Dr Jack Rowell OBE Ian Rushton Ian Sandles Michael Senter OBE Ruth Shaw Stewart Shepley Michael Simmie Revd Alan Simmonds Howard Slack Martin Slater Martin Smith

Peter Smith Patrick Snell MC Emerson Snelling Michael Somers OBE His Honour Judge Southan Dr Frank Spooner Tim Statham Alastair Stewart QC David Summers OBE Nevill Swanson Revd Philip Swindells Richard Taylor Paul Tempest Stephen Tetley David Thompson Dr John Thurston Gwen Titcombe Noel Tonkin Roy Tracey Carol Tricks Alan Vasa TD Dr John C. Voigt Prof John Walmsley Dr Arthur Warr James Webster The Revd Canon Hugh Wilcox Dr John Wilkinson Dr Bill Williams Dr John Williams FRCGP Geoffrey Williams Keith Wiseman Russell Withington Dudley Wood CBE Gordon Woods FRSC Stuart Worthington Patsy Yardley Bill Yeowart

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ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

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WORLD WAR I AND MEMBERS OF ST EDMUND HALL – A ROLL OF SERVICE AND THE WAR MEMORIAL PANEL It seems fitting in this particular year of reflection and remembrance to record for current readers of this Magazine published in 2014 some information on the Members of the Hall recorded in the Roll of Service and some background to the War Memorial in the Hall Chapel.

Volume 1, Number 2 of the St Edmund Hall Magazine was published in December 1921. It covered the period 1920-21 and records the placing in the Ante-Chapel of “two panels, commemorating the members of the Hall who laid down their lives in the war.” The article describes the panels as being designed

by Mr Harold Rogers to fit in with the original panelling and executed in English oak. The names of those commemorated are inscribed on the upper panel in the order of the respective years in which the deaths occurred.

On St Edmund’s Day, 16 November, at 3.00pm in the afternoon, a special service was held in the Chapel and the previous Principal, the Bishop of Carlisle, dedicated the panels. The article in the Magazine records that: “the Bishop gave an address in the course of which he said: The World War I memorial in the Hall Chapel

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The occasion requires few words. It is not possible to compute in any way either the loss or suffering which the war has entailed, nor is it possible to estimate correctly the magnificence of the achievements of those soldiers whom we are commemorating. What they did must be left to be written large in the history of the world. If a man looks into his own heart and reads there what has been learnt since the Armistice, he will know how much he and the nation have still to learn. We are here out of simple motives of love and reverence to do honour to the men for whom all who knew them had such great affection; and you have a right to expect that I who knew and loved so many of them should try to describe what manner of men they were.”

Later in the article the Bishop, speaking as the former Principal, asked the members present to “perpetuate the high traditions of this place which all who belong to it love dearly. It is like no other society in the University.”

The Oxford University Roll of Service was published at around the same time as the commemoration of the St Edmund Hall War Memorial. It is now available on the Web and contains “the names, fourteen thousand five hundred and sixtyone in number, of those members of the University who served in the Military and Naval forces of the Crown during the War.” Below we reprint from that Roll of Service the names of all Members of the Hall contained therein.

The Principal St Edmund Hall 1918 Ager, W. E. (Oct. 17, 1914). JLt. and Wiltshire Regt. (Capt.). France and Belgium.

1912 Ainscow,* H. M., M.A. (Mar. 23, 1915). Lt. 5th Lancashire Fusiliers (Capt.). France. (Prisoner of war, 1916-18.)

1901 Allen, Rev. M. Y., M.A. (Sept. 12, 1918). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class).

1910 Andrews,* W. E., M.A. (1914). 42nd Lt. 5th Bn. I.D.F. India.

1912 Ashenden,* N. E., M.A. (July 1, 1915). Lt. F/4th Res. Bde., R.F.A. France.

1911 Atkins,* W. V. (May 29, 1915). Lt. 3rd Manchester Regt., attd. 2/35th Sikhs, Indian Army. Mesopotamia, 1916-18; Persia, 1918-19.

1912 Baker,* L. D., B.A. (Aug. 1914). Lt., Acting Capt., 5th R. Dublin Fusiliers, attd. R.A.F. France, 1916-19.

1919 Barnes-Lawrence, H. A. (Apr. 18, 1917). Cadet R.A.F. 152

1919 Barrett, H. B. (Nov. 20, 1915). Lt. 25th Batt., R.F.A. Salonika, France.

Barrow, L. A. H. (Aug. 1914). J2nd Lt. 10th, attd. 9th, R. Sussex Regt. France.

Killed in action in the Battle of the Somme on Sept. 1, 1916.

1908 Bateman,* Rev. G. H., B.A. (July 3, 1917). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class). France.

1911 Beatty,* T. R. (Aug. 4, 1914). Lt. R.N., H.M.S. Onslaught. White Sea, 1914; North Sea, 1914-18; Atlantic, 1918.

1919 Beddow, F. M. (Nov. 30, 1915). C.M.S. 1/28th London Regt. (Artists’ Rifles). France. D.C.M. 1904 Berlyn, Rev. B. H. A. F. (Oct. 2, 1915). 2nd Lt. 4th R. Irish Rifles.

(Invalided.)

1907 Bevan, P. J., B.A. (Dec. 30, 1914). Lt. 6th, attd. 1st, K.R.R.C. France.

Killed in action in Mar. 1915.

1903 Bickerdike, Rev. K. C., M.A. (1916). Jand Lt. R. Berkshire Regt., attd.

7th Wiltshire Regt. France. M.C. Feb. 15, 1919.

1918 Bird, D. H. (Dec. 1914). JLt. R. Fusiliers.

1911 Blaxland,* A. B., B.A. (Serving Aug. 4, 1914). Capt. and Adjt. 16th Rajputs, Indian Army. France, 1915; S. Persia, 1917-19.

1876 Blucke, Rev. R. S. K., M.A. (Feb. 19, 1916). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class). D. 2 Aug. 1919.

1914 Bluett, A. F. (Dec. 17, 1915). Lt. 2nd D.C.L.I. (Capt.). Egypt, 1916; Salonika, 1916-18; Caucasus, 1918-19.

1919 Bluett, R. J. (Jan. i, 1918). Cadet, R.G.A., No. 2 O.C.B. 2nd Lt. (on demobilization).

1907 Bott, G., B.A. (Sept. 2, 1914). J2nd Lt. 6th, attd. 3rd, Rifle Brigade. France, 1915, 1916, 1917. Killed in action near Loos on Feb. 9, 1917.

1915 Boultbee, J., B.A. (July 1917). fcnd Lt. 2nd R. Berkshire Regt. France.

1910 Brear, G. W. W. (July 1, 1915). Capt. R.A.S.C. France. D. France, 1917.

1908 Browne-Wilkinson, Rev. A. R., M.A. (Jan. 1, 1918). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class). France. D. France, 1918.

1919 Browne-Wilkinson, C. V. (Sept. 9, 1916). Pte., Acting Lce.-Cpl., 9th Sherwood Foresters (Cpl.). Italy, 1917-18; France, 1918.

1919 Buckle, F. J. (July 16, 1916). Leading Aircraftsman R.A.F. 153

1894 Burkitt, Rev. C. E., M.A. (Jan. 30, 1917). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class).

1919 Burnett, F. (Dec. 2, 1914). JCapt. R.E. (Signals). France and Germany.

M.C., Oct. 19, 1917; Bar, Sept. 16, 1918.

1892 Calver, Rev. S. C., M.A. (July 14, 1915). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class). D. 2 Aug. 1917.

1919 Carlson, P. A. (1917). Sergt. Medical Dept., 328th M.G. Bn., U.S. Army.

France.

1919 Cavalier, F. B. (Mar. 1915). Lt. Bedfordshire Yeomanry. France, 1916-19.

1919 Chapman, A. E. (Sept. 10, 1914). Pte. 2/4th Oxf. 2 Bucks. Lt. Infty.

1891 Chappell, Rev. W. H., M.A. (Serving Aug. 4, 1914). Chaplain R.N. H.M.S. Argyll, H.M.S. Defiance.

1905 Chevallier, J. F. E., B.A. (July 28, 1916). Lt. Interpreter, Special Lists.

1915 Christie, A. F. G., B.A. (Jan. 1916). Lt. 3rd Queen’s (R. W. Surrey Regt.).

1919 Clark, J. D. (Sept. 20, 1917). Sergt. and Cadet U.S. Infantry. France, 1918-19.

1904 Coad, Rev. W. S., M.A. (Feb. n, 1916). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class).

1918 Cole, C. (Aug. 14, 1916). Lce.-Cpl. 36th Training Res. Bn. (Discharged disabled, Mar. 12, 1918.)

1916 Cole, H. (Jan. 16, 1916). Pte. ist (Garr.) Bn. Worcestershire Regt.

1911 Cole,* W., M.A. (Jan. 27, 1916). 2nd Lt. Unattached List, T.F., Oundle School O.T.C. 1908 Coles, Rev. L. H., M.A. (Serving Aug. 4, 1914). Maj. Res. of Officers.

Chaplain R.N., H.M.S. Isis. North Sea. 1915 Connell, R. F. (Jan. 4, 1916). 2nd Lt. 5th K.R.R.C., attd. R.A.F. (Lt.).

France, 1917, 1918.

1910 Cook,* H. M. (Sept. 1914). 4Lt. 5th R. Berkshire Regt. Lt. 12th Bn. M.G.C. France. D. France. Killed in action at Dernancourt, near Albert, on Aug. 9, 1918.

1919 Cooper, G. P. (Sept. 14, 1914). Lt., Acting Capt., i2th E. Surrey Regt.

Belgium, Italy, France, Germany.

1904 Crabbe, Rev. H. M., M.A. (Aug. 8, 1916). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class), attd. 17th and 18th Lancashire Fusiliers. France and Belgium.

154

1904 Dallas, Rev. W. L. S., M.A. (Aug. 1915). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class), attd. 5th King’s (Liverpool Regt.). France and Belgium. Killed in action at Pommern Castle, near Ypres, on Sept. 20, 1917.

1899 Davies, D. G. W., B.A. (Oct. 26, 1914). JLt., Acting Capt. and Adjt., 8th Divl. Ammn. Col., R.F.A. France, 1916-19.

1912 Day,* H. J. T., M.A. (Sept. 14, 1914). Capt. 10th Welsh Regt. Capt.

General List. Staff-Captain G.H.Q., France. France and Belgium. D. France, 1918.

1919 Denduyts, N. E. (Dec. 1915). JLt. R.A.S.C. (M.T.). France, Belgium, Cape Colony, E. Africa, Egypt.

1919 Dewar, W. G. F. (May 2, 1917). J2nd Lt. 8th Rifle Brigade. France, 1917-18.

1919 Downes, R. M. (Aug. 13, 1914). JCapt. 1st Lancashire Fusiliers. Egypt, 1915; France, 1916-17. M.C., June 18, 1917; Bar, Nov. 26, 1917.

1919 Duer, E. L. (1917). J2nd Lt. F.A., U.S. Army.

1908 Edwards,* Rev. R., M.A. (Apr. 1917). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class), attd. 2/1 5th London Regt. (Civil Service Rifles). Belgium and France.

1907 Emden, A. B., M.A. (Nov. 29, 1915). A.B. R.N.V.R., H.M.S. Parker (P.O.). Grand Fleet, 1916-19.

1919 Espley, T. H., B.A. (Aug. 4, 1914). JLt. 1/4th Shropshire L.I. France and Belgium.

1914 Evans, A. J. (Dec. 22, 1914). Capt. 10th S. Wales Borderers. France. Killed in action at Lealvilliers on July 2, 1918.

1902 Field, Rev. C. T. F., B.A. (Aug. 1914). Chaplain R.N. 1912 Foster,* R. S., B.A. (Sept. 2, 1914). JLt. 3rd Shropshire L.I., attd. (as Q.-M.) King’s African Rifles. 1917-18. D. E. Africa, 1919. France, 1915, 1916; E. Africa.

1919 Freeman, P. T. (Nov. 24, 1915). Capt. R.E. (T.F.). M.B.E. (Mil.).

1898 Fyffe, Rev. J. E., M.A. (July 5, 1918). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class).

1919 Gabriel, H. S. (1917). 1st Lt. 316th Infantry, U.S. Army.

1919 Gallop, M. W. (Sept. 2, 1914). JLt. R.F.A., attd. 35th Squadron, R.A.F. France and Belgium.

1912 Gardner, G. C., M.A. (Dec. 30, 1915). Lt. 4th The Buffs (E. Kent Regt.), attd. No. 1 Eastern Command Travelling Musketry School.

155

1909 Gare, J. H., B.A. (Sept. 21, 1916). Sergt. 1/28th London Regt. (Artists’ Rifles). France. Killed in action at Cambrai on Dec. 30, 1917.

1919 Garland, H. G. (Aug. 27, 1917). 1st Lt. 61st Infantry, U.S. Army. France.

1919 Garrett, C. E. (Aug. 5, 1915). Paymaster Sub-Lt. R.N.R. 1891 Goddard, Rev. G. H. G., B.A. (July 21, 1916). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class), attd. 4th Wiltshire Regt.

1919 Godwin, E. T. H. (Sept. 22, 1914). Lt. 8th R. Sussex Regt. Maj. M.G.C. France, 1915-16. M.C., Nov. 4, 1915. D. France, 1915; 2 Mar. 1919.

1919 Goldberg, L. W. (Sept. 1917). R.O.T.C., Yale University, U.S.A., until June, 1918. Pte. 3rd R. W. Kent Regt.

1910 Goodbarne-Chatterton, A. H., B.A. (Aug. 14, 1915). Lt. R.F.A. (T.F.), attd. H.Q. 2 1 5th Bde., R.F.A. Mesopotamia. Died at Baghdad on July 21, 1917, of illness contracted on active service.

1893 Gough, Rev. W. R., M.A. (May 24, 1916). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class).

1911 Gould, Rev. T. C. P., M.A. (Jan. 1, 1918). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class), attd. 1/5th Loyal N. Lancashire Regt. France and Belgium.

1902 Gower, H. D. Pte. 2 1st Sherwood Foresters.

1894 Gray, R., M.A. (Oct. 29, 1914). Capt. 1/5th E. Surrey Regt., attd. Gen. Knox’s Mission (Lt.-Col. while attd. 6th Loyal N. Lancashire Regt., 1917-18).

India, 1914; Mesopotamia, 1916; Persia and Caucasia, 1918; Siberia, 1919.

M.C., Jan, 1919. Order of St. Anne. D. Mesopotamia, 1917.

1918 Green, F. L. (1914). Lt. Worcestershire Regt.

1903 Green, Rev. G., M.A. (Serving Aug. 4, 1914). Chaplain (2nd Class) A.I.F. 1917 Greenidge, J. T. W. (Dec. 27, 1917). 2nd Lt. R.G.A. 1919 Grieve, M. D. (Feb. 7, 1917). 2nd Lt. 3rd Lincolnshire Regt. France.

(Prisoner of war at Stralsund, May-Dec. 1918.)

1910 Griffiths, D. P. S. (Mar. 3, 1915). Lt. 2nd Brecknockshire Bn., S. Wales Borderers. (Invalided, Oct. 29, 1918.)

1907 Griffiths, Rev. J. M. T., M.A. (July 5, 1918). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class).

1910 Griggs,* H. E. (Aug. 25, 1914). Capt. 8th Essex Regt. France. Killed in action on Oct. 5, 1915.

156

1917 Grinter, J. H. D. (June 6, 1918). 2nd Lt. Grenadier Guards (S.R.).

1897 Gull, C. B., M.A. (Mar. 1915). Capt. and Adjt. R.G.A. Capt. Tank Corps.

Belgium and France.

1891 Gunson, Rev. H. E., M.A. (Mar. 15, 1915). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class). Died in Ireland on Aug. 23, 1918.

1909 Hadenfeldt,* R. A., M.A. (Mar. 1916). Sergt. 7th (I.L. Coy.) Middlesex Regt. France and Belgium.

1914 Hall,* R. J. (1914). R. Fusiliers.

1905 Handover, Rev. S. J., M.A. (Oct. 1915). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class), attd. Hospital Ship Goorkha.

1913 Hart, L. W. (Sept. 9, 1914). JLt. 2/12th London Regt. (The Rangers), attd. Indian Army (Capt.). France, Belgium, N.W. Frontier, India.

1911 Harvey,* E. L., B.A. (May 6, 1916). JLt. 3rd The Buffs (E. Kent Regt.).

France, 1916-17 ; N.W. Frontier, India, 1918.

1910 Hawkins,* R. H., M.A. (Oct. 3, 1914). Capt. 3rd S. Staffordshire Regt.

Lt., Hon. Capt., S.E. Area Flying Instructors’ School, R.A.F. France, 1915; Salonika, 1915-17; Egypt, 1917.

1888 Hawtrey, G. H. C., M.A. (Oct. 6, 1914). JSub-Lt. R.N.D., R.N.V.R. Lt. 7th Worcestershire Regt. and Labour Corps (Staff-Lt. G.H.Q. Staff). France.

1902 Heath, Rev. R. A. D., M.A. (Mar. 9, 1915). Pte. R.A.M.C. (Cpl.). France and Belgium.

1915 Hedges, D. H. (Jan. 9, 1917). JLt. R.A.S.C. (M.T.). Mesopotamia, Persia, S. Russia.

1919 Herbert, T. D. C. (Apr. 17, 1915). Lce.-Sergt. 10th Welsh Guards (C.Q.M.S.). Belgium, France.

1905 Hodson, Rev. R. L., M.A. (Sept. 6, 1918). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class).

1919 Horwood, H.J. (Feb. 15,1917). 2ndLt. 6th Leicestershire Regt. France.

1910 Houlston, E. C., B.A. (July 27, 1915). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class).

Drowned on May 4, 1917.

1919 Howard, S. A., B.A. (Serving Aug. 4, 1914). Capt. R.E. (S.R.). France, Aug. 1914-15.

1897 Hubble, Rev. H. O. (June 1, 1918). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class).

157

1919 Hustwayte, H. L. (Jan. 31, 1915). Pte. 66th Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C. France, 1915; Balkans, 1915-19.

1909 Irving,* H. C., B.A. (Mar. 3, 1917). Lt. R.F.A. France.

1914 James, B. L. (Aug. 1915). 2nd Lt. 4th The Buffs (E. Kent Regt.), attd.

Loyal N. Lancashire Regt. France. Died on Nov. 25, 1916, of wounds received in action near Dernancourt.

1919 Janes, A. R. (Nov. 20, 1914). Pte. 55th Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C. France, 1916; Salonika, 1917; Palestine, 1917; France, 1918. J R.A.S.C. Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine.

1919 Jefferson, P. T. (May 5, 1915).Lt. D. Palestine, 1918.

1915 Jenkins, J. L. (Jan. 26, 1916). A.B. R.N., H.M.S. Royal Sovereign.

1919 Johnson, B. C. W. (Aug. 23, 1915). JLt. M.G.C. France, Belgium, Germany.

1919 Johnson, J. (June 20, 1918). Pte. 4th D.C.L.I. 1910 Johnston, Rev. G. F., B.A. (Oct. 14, 1915). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class).

1909 Karn,* J. C. (Serving Aug. 4, 1914). Capt. 3rd R. Welch Fusiliers. D. 2 Mar. 1919.

1903 Knight Adkin, Rev. W. K., B.A. (Serving Aug. 4, 1914). Chaplain R.N., H.M.S. Revenge. Mediterranean Fleet, Atlantic Fleet. O.B.E. (Mil.).

1906 Lace, R. D., B.A. (Aug. 6, 1915). Lt. 3rd The Black Watch. Capt. Labour Corps. France. D. France, 1917.

1914 Lambeth,* W. E. (Nov. 24, 1914). Lt. 3rd Queen’s (R. W. Surrey Regt.)

France, 1918.

1905 Lancaster, Rev. C. H., M.A. (Apr. 8, 1918). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class).

1913 Lane, H. G. (Aug. 1914). JCapt. 62nd Bn. M.G.C. France, Germany.

M.C., Feb. 15, 1919.

1919 Law, H. R. McK. (Mar. 29, 1915). Lt. 1st (Garr.) Bn. Gordon Highlanders.

France, Belgium, 1915-16; India, 1917-19.

1918 Laxon, F. (Sept. 12, 1914). JLt. 8th R. Scots. France, Belgium.

1912 Leslie,* L. F. E. (Serving Aug. 4, 1914). Lt. King’s African Rifles. German E. Africa, 1916-17. Killed in action at Luwuka on Aug. 20, 1917.

1919 Lickes, H.G. (Jan. 14, 1915). JLt. nth Oxf. 2 Bucks. Lt.Infty. Salonika, France, Germany.

158

1919 Livesey, H. (Nov. 1915). Lt. 4th S. Lancashire Regt. France. (Discharged on account of ill health caused by wounds, Feb. 1919.)

1918 Lowe, D., B.A. (Jan. 10, 1915). Pte. 17th King’s (Liverpool Regt.). France, 1915-16. (Discharged on account of wounds, Aug. 1916.)

1918 Lowe, G. (Aug. 1914). JLt. R.F.A. France.

1918 McGowan, F., B.A. (July 22, 1915). Lt. W. Riding Regt. Lt. M.G.C. France, 1916-17.

1913 Mackintosh, A. C. (July 7, 1915). Lt. 6th Devonshire Regt.

1913 Maiden,* S. J. F. (Oct. 4, 1915). Lt. The Buffs (E. Kent Regt.), attd. O.C.B. 1919 Markley,G.H.(Sept.17,1917). Sergt. 3 9th Infantry, U.S. Army. France.

1920 Martin, W. R. (May 26, 1916). Lt. 5th R. Irish Rifles (S.R.). France.

1904 Mathias, Rev. H.S., M.A.(Oct.4,1918). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class).

1904 Mathias, L. S. (Oct. 5, 1915). Capt. 3rd Leinster Regt.

1914 Maund, A. E., B.A. (Apr. 1917). Lt. Labour Corps, i/c No. 318 (H.S.) Works Coy. 1912 Meredith,* W. M., M.A. (Dec. 24, 1915). Lt. 10th E. Yorkshire Regt.

Capt. General List. Staff-Captain.

1920 Millen, Rev. E. L. (Oct. 31, 1916). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class), attd. R.A.F. Palestine and Egypt, 1917-19.

1861 Milner, Rev. W. H. (Serving Aug. 4, 1914). Chaplain (1st Class), attd. 1st Life Guards (Retired). Distinguished Service Award.

1920 Mohan, T. G. (Dec. 1916). Cpl. 1st Wiltshire Regt. Belgium and France.

1903 Molyneux, Rev. E. G., M.A. (May 2, 1917). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class). Acting Asst. Chaplain-General, No. 4 Area. France and Belgium, 1917-19.

1886 Monckton, Rev. R. G., M.A. (Mar. 28, 1916). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class).

1919 Moore, G.T. (May 29, 1916). Lt. R.G.A. France and Belgium, 1917.

1907 Mortimer, Rev. E. C., M.A. (Sept. 29, 1916). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class), attd. 18th Bde., R.M.A. (S.C.F.). Egypt, Palestine, Syria.

1903 Noble, P. W. H. Tpr. King Edward’s Horse.

1903 North, G. R. (Nov. 26, 1914). Lt. 8th Queen’s (R. W. Surrey Regt.).

Capt. Labour Corps.

1919 O’Connor, G. J. (Aug. 14, 1914). Lt. Gloucestershire Regt. Belgium, 159

1915-16; France, 1918.

1887 O’Donovan, Rev. R. H., B.A. (Serving Aug. 4, 1914). Chaplain R.N. 1919 Palmer, H. (Sept. 4, 1914). Lt. 2/7th Lancashire Fusiliers. France, Belgium.

M.M. (Prisoner of war in Germany.)

1919 Parsons, D. J. (Aug. 16, 1915). 2nd Lt. 3rd S. Wales Borderers. France, 1918-19.

1912 Partridge,* A. J., B.A. (July 8, 1915). 2nd Lt. 8th, attd. 5th, R. Berkshire Regt. France. Killed in action at Ovillers on July 3, 1916.

1890 Peacock, Rev. C. A., M.A. (July 1, 1916). Chaplain to the Forces (1st Class). Asst. Chaplain-General. C.B.E. (Mil.).

1919 Porter, J. F. A. (Apr. 1918). 2nd Lt. 5th Devonshire Regt. France, 1918-19.

1909 Priestley, E. C., M.A. (Aug. 26, 1914). Lt. 8th Essex Regt. Capt. and Adjt.

Indian Army, attd. 67th Punjabis. India.

1913 Proctor, A. H. (Dec. 1915). 2nd Lt. 1/5th King’s (Liverpool Regt.). Egypt, 1915-18; France and Belgium, 1918-19. M.C., Feb. 1, 1919.

1887 Proctor, Rev. F. O., M.A. (Apr. 23, 1917). Chaplain to the Forces (3rd Class).

1904 Ramsay, Rev. R. E., M.A. (May 23, 1916). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class).

1918 Ransom, H.B. (Dec. 1914). Lt. 3rd Wiltshire Regt. France. (Invalided.)

Died on Oct. 30, 1918.

1918 Raven, J. W. (Jan. 1915). 2nd Lt. 10th Border Regt. France.

1919 Ray, F. E. (June 15, 1918). Pte. R. W. Kent Regt. (Cpl.).

1918 Reardon, W. J. R. (Mobilized Aug. 1914). Capt. 4th R. Irish Regt.

(Invalided.)

1920 Reddick, P. G. (July 21, 1915). Rfln. 16th K.R.R.C. France, 1916.

1912 Rees,* A. P. C. (Aug. 21, 1914). Capt. R. Welch Fusiliers. Gallipoli, 191516; Mesopotamia, 1916.

1897 Reid, Rev. E., M.A. (June 1915). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class). France and Belgium, 1916-17.

1914 Robathan, F. N., B.A. (Dec. 22, 1914). Lt. Army Cyclist Corps, attd.

1/6th Norfolk Regt. (Capt.). France, 1916.

Robertson, H. C. (Nov. 18, 1914). Lt. 3rd Seaforth Highlanders (Capt.). France, 160

1915-19. M.C., Mar. 8, 1919.

1909 Tennant,* J. S., B.A. (Dec. 1, 1914). 2nd Lt. 2/5th W. Yorkshire Regt.

(Invalided.) Capt. and Adjt. ?th Vol. Bn. W. Yorkshire Regt.

1909 Thomas, Rev. M. W., B.A. (Nov. 20, 1917). Senior Chaplain to the Forces. France.

1899 Thorne, Rev. H. W., M.A. (May 4, 1917). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class).

1911 Todd, C. F., B.A. (Nov. 1, 1916). Pte. 28th London Regt. (Artists’ Rifles).

(Invalided.)

1912 Trevor, C. H. J., M.A. (Feb. 10, 1916). Lt. R.G.A. (S.R.).

1919 Vickers, H. H. (Sept. 17, 1915). JLt. 9th Leicestershire Regt. Belgium and France.

1908 Walker, C. D., B.A. (Dec. 23, 1914). Capt. 13th, afterwards 51st Manchester Regt. France, 1915, 1918-19; Salonika, 1915-18; Germany, 1919.

D. Salonika, 1918.

1919 Walkington, J. J. G. (Aug. 5, 1914). JLt. 6th Lincolnshire Regt. (Capt. and Adjt.). France.

1919 Wallace, D. J. (Dec. 13, 1917). 2nd Lt. l00th Aero Squadron, U.S. Army.

France.

1904 Wand, Rev. J. W. C., M.A. (July 27, 1915). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class). Instructor, 2nd Army College, Cologne. Gallipoli, 1915; France, 191518; Germany, 1919. Egypt.

1912 Warner, L. C., B.A. (Sept. 16, 1915). Gnr. ‘ K ‘ A.A. Batt., R.G.A. France, 1918-19.

1910 Warner, W. R., M.A. (Jan. 8, 1916). 2nd Lt. Army Cyclist Corps, attd.

1/23rd London Regt.

1914 Waters, H. B. (Nov. 27, 1914). Lt. R.E. (Signals).

1914 Watson, K. C. F. (July 24, 1915). Lt. 3rd S. Lancashire Regt., attd. 2/7th R. Warwickshire Regt. France and Belgium. M.C., Jan. 1, 1918. Killed in action near Robecq on Apr. 12, 1918.

1919 Welford, P. G. (Nov. 1915). Pte. R. Fusiliers.

1918 West, H. (Aug. 4, 1914). 42nd Lt. R.F.A. Lt. 1st Bn. Tank Corps (Capt.).

France and Belgium, 1914-17. (Invalided on account of wounds, 1918.)

1919 White, R. B. (Jan. 8, 1915). Lce.-Cpl. Q.O. Oxfordshire Hussars. France, Belgium.

161

1913 Williams, C., M.A. (Aug. 25, 1915). Lt., Acting Capt., 4th (Res.) The Buffs (E. Kent Regt.), attd. R.A.F. 1919 Williams, E. S. (Nov. 1, 1915). Lt. 4th The Buffs (E. Kent Regt.). France.

1920 Williams, T. E. (June 1, 1915). Driver ‘ B ‘ Batt., H.A.C. Egypt, Palestine, Syria, 1916-19.

1917 Willoughby, J. F. (1918). Cadet No. 6 O.C.B. Died on Oct. 29, 1918, of illness contracted on active service.

1919 Winston, C. K. (Aug. 1, 1917). Cpl. 1 9th Engineers, U.S. Army. France.

1919 Wood, F. J. (May 21, 1918). Flight Cadet R.A.F. 1914 Wood, J. B.,B.A. (July 1, 1918). Lce.-Cpl. 1st (Garr.) Bn. Worcestershire Regt.

1910 Worster,* Rev. P. W., M.A. (Nov. 1917). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class). Malta, 1918-19; Russia, 1919.

1914 Yelverton, Rev. E. E., B.D. (June 7, 1918). Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class), attd. Dragoon Bde., Cavalry Div., Rhine Army. France and Belgium, 1918-19; Germany, from 1919. O.B.E. (Mil.).

Notes added: 1. Died Goodbarne-Chatterton, A.H.; Gunson, Rev. H.E.; Houlston, E.C.; James, B.L.; Ransom, H.B.; Willoughby, J.F. – ALL ARE ON THE HONOUR ROLL IN THE CHAPEL 2. Killed Barrow, L.A.H.; Bevan, P.J.; Bott, G.; Cook, H.M.; Dallas, Rev. W.L.S.; Evans, A.J.; Gare, J.H.; Griggs, H.E.; Leslie, L.F.E.; Partridge, A.J.; Watson, K.C.F. – WITH THE EXCEPTION OF BARROW, L.A.H., ALL ARE ON THE HONOUR ROLL IN THE CHAPEL 3. Names on Honour Roll in Chapel but not listed on the Service Roll – Spencer, G.W.S.; Robinson, L.H.F.; Shaw, W.B.; Salmon, G.H. 4. The Roll of Service states that the details which have been collected about members of the University are given, so far as possible, in the following order: Date of Matriculation.

Name, Degree, and Distinctions gained before the War. Date of commencement of Service (in brackets). Rank, Unit, and, in brackets, highest acting rank.

Fields of Foreign Service.

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Distinctions gained during the War. (The dates given are those of the Gazettes.)

Mentions in Dispatches.

The following symbols have been employed : * to denote membership of the University Contingent of the Officers’ Training Corps prior to 1915.

J to denote Service in the ranks before Commission.

D. to denote mentions in Dispatches.

D. “to denote mentions by the Secretary of State for valuable service in connexion with the War. The names of some who, after having been accepted for admission to a College, lost their lives in the War before being actually matriculated, have been included in the Roll.

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EDMUND: THE FORGOTTEN SAINT Edmund and Roger. Two friends, with seemingly parallel lives . . .

It could be the basis for a novel.

Both men come to teaching posts in Oxford, having previously studied at Paris, first as undergraduates and later in extended postgraduate studies.

As their reputations grow they are ‘head-hunted’ and lured away from the University. A dynamic tycoon has just taken over as head of a leading Academy, and has ambitious plans for a new site and new thinking. He chooses Edmund as his Financial Director and Roger as Director of Studies.

Over the next ten years both men are actively involved in this major project.

Then, to his surprise, Edmund is chosen to take a major role in national and international politics. Despite his age and natural reluctance for high office he accepts, and spends the next seven years as the British head of a major multinational charity.

En route to a meeting with the President of the International Board in Italy he is taken ill in France, and dies a few days later. He is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and honours are heaped upon him.

What of Edmund’s old colleague? Still in the cloistered calm of the Academy, where he has been for nearly twenty years, Roger will play a major part in ensuring that his old friend is not forgotten, and that Edmund’s place in history is secure.

So much for the modern novel.

In historical reality the two men are, of course, Edmund of Abingdon and his long-standing friend and colleague Roger of Salisbury.

There is no record of the exact date of birth of either man, though we do know that Edmund died on 16 November 1240, and Roger just over six years later, on 21 December 1247.

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taught on the site of what is now St Edmund Hall, next to the Church of St Peter-in-the-East; a contemporary lease indicates that Roger had a ‘tenement’ in The High!

As so often happens, and still does today, Edmund and Roger had ‘networked’ with leading scholars both in Paris and Oxford. In 1222 one of their old colleagues, Bishop Richard Poore, invited Edmund to be Treasurer of Salisbury Cathedral. Shortly afterwards Roger joined as Theologus, in charge of what was their important teaching ministry. It was only two years previously that Richard had laid the foundation stone of the new cathedral there, and he needed men he could trust to play leading roles in his cathedral chapter.

In addition to his heavy workload in the cathedral, and a busy parish in Wiltshire, he was commanded to “preach the Crusade” – a combination of exhortation and fundraising for the papal initiative in the Holy Land. His national reputation grew, and in September 1233, aged probably 58, on the Pope’s personal intervention, Edmund was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury. On 2 April 1234 he was consecrated Archbishop, but even before his consecration he had been immediately involved in complex affairs of state. In those days an Archbishop was more like a Prime Minister in Britain today. After great success in early days – averting civil war, and giving strong guidance to the young King Henry III – he found it increasingly frustrating to hold a position that did not really suit his scholarly and self-effacing temperament.

On his visit to the Pope in the autumn of 1240 he stayed at the Cistercian Abbey of Pontigny. The chronicler Matthew Paris has the text of a brilliant sermon that Edmund preached there. In quite a short compass he weaves three points – the seven words of Christ from the Cross, the seven gifts of the Spirit, and the seven deadly sins – all linked Matthew Paris sketch of Edmund’s consecration as Archbishop (photo by kind permission of The British Library: BM Royal MS 14c vii, fo. 122r)

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with the seven strings of King David’s harp.

The sermon is full of widespread biblical references, Old Testament and New. A masterpiece.

Image of Edmund in the Sugar Chantry (St Edmund Chapel), Wells Cathedral (photo by kind permission of the Dean and Chapter of Wells Cathedral)

However, Edmund was taken ill there, and decided to return to England. In fact he only got as far as Soisy, and on 16 November 1240, four days short of what was probably his 66th birthday, he died there. Huge crowds followed the funeral procession, with many claims of miraculous healing, but eventually they got his body back to Pontigny, where it is buried.

The steps leading towards canonisation in the 13 century were complex and protracted, as now. In fact the Vatican’s rules have changed little over the last 800 years. Put simply, to qualify for ‘sainthood’ there must be proof, beyond doubt and after rigorous enquiry, both of holiness of life and of the attribution of miracles after death. Today the minimum number of miracles is two, and it was the approval last year of the second miracle attributed to John Paul II that cleared the way for his canonisation, along with that of previous Pope John XXIII, in April 2014. th

Letters attesting to Edmund’s holy life were sent to the Pope by various institutions and individuals, including the University of Oxford, the Chapter of Salisbury Cathedral, and Jocelin, the Bishop in Wells, who had known Edmund for thirty years and had been the senior Bishop at his consecration as Archbishop.

On 17 July 1244 the Archbishop of Armagh and the Dean of Paris began the formal investigation and questioning of witnesses, at Pontigny. Subsequent enquiry was entrusted to a committee of three Cardinals and four other senior clergy, but eventually, on 11 January 1247, a Papal bull was issued, commanding the bishops of the universal church to celebrate St Edmund’s Feast annually on 16 November, the day of his death, and offering “an indulgence of a year and forty days to those who, being confessed and truly penitent, visited his tomb on that day.”

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It has been said that had it not been for the cult of St Thomas Becket, Edmund could have become England’s most popular saint. “Thomas was revered for the manner of his dying; Edmund for the manner of his living.”

But what of Roger meanwhile? The records show that he continued to be busy in the life of Salisbury Cathedral, and by 1227 he had been appointed Precentor, responsible for music and the services, a post he still held in 1240 when Edmund died. Finally his preferment came through; and in 1244 he took over as Bishop of Bath and Wells.

So much for well-documented facts about both men. However there are clues to what I suggest may well have been Roger’s significant role in ensuring Edmund’s place in history.

1. Roger was instrumental in petitioning the Pope for Edmund’s canonisation.

In the Tresors of the French cathedral of Sens is a copy of the letter which was sent by the Bishop and Chapter of Salisbury to the Pope in 1241.

As a senior member of the Cathedral Chapter, and long-standing friend of Edmund, Roger would certainly have been involved in compiling the letter, which contains reference to Edmund’s time in Oxford.

2. He could well have been the writer of a ‘Life of Edmund’, compiling stories and reports about his holiness of life.

In the Library of St John’s College, Cambridge is the manuscript of a Life of Edmund, which clearly comes from Salisbury, and must have been written before news of the canonisation reached England. Again there is indication of personal knowledge of Edmund, and scholarly jargon which suggests the hand of a University Master. Roger would be a prime candidate out of the Canons at Salisbury.

And he would have had the time and opportunity to do this task.

In 1242 he was appointed Bishop of the newly combined diocese of Bath and Wells. But the Canons at Wells lodged legal objection to his appointment and he had to wait for two years before finally winning the Appeal and taking his post at Wells. With two years of what was in effect ‘gardening leave’ at Salisbury, what better than to pull together stories about his old friend, again as part of the plan to promote the petition to the Pope for Edmund’s canonisation?

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3. When finally established as Bishop of Bath and Wells he took immediate steps, as soon as news came through of Edmund’s canonisation, to set up an altar in a prominent position in the Cathedral to honour his old friend.

It is this altar that first aroused my curiosity about Edmund and Roger.

When I came to live in Wells I trained to be a volunteer guide in Wells Cathedral. I was surprised to learn that the beautiful chantry chapel on the south side of the Nave has an altar dedicated to St Edmund.

Further research in the cathedral archives indicated that in the 1260s, and perhaps earlier, there had been just four altars at the East end of the Nave, one dedicated to Christ, one to the Virgin Mary, one to the cathedral’s patron saint, St Andrew, and the fourth to Edmund. Exalted company indeed!

However it is clear that the ‘cult’ of Edmund in Wells had started almost immediately after his canonisation. Roger had died in December 1247, but just over a year later his successor William had undertaken what would have been an arduous winter journey from Wells to Edmund’s tomb at Pontigny. The documents at Sens Cathedral include a copy of the letter that Bishop William wrote, at Pontigny (apud Pontignax), on 18 February 1249, commending pilgrims to the site, and promising 40 days indulgence for those who undertook the journey.

Also preserved is another letter from Bishop William dated 27 December 1250, again urging pilgrimage to Pontigny and once more offering to pilgrims 40 days indulgence.

Edmund’s canonisation was announced on 11 January 1247. Within two years Roger’s successor, Bishop William, had led a pilgrimage from Wells to the tomb of the Saint in Pontigny. It is surely not too fanciful to conclude that in those last few months before his death Roger put in place the ultimate tribute to his old colleague: an altar, alongside those dedicated to Christ, The Virgin Mary and St Andrew, where it still is today.

The words of two of Edmund’s prayers have been used by the composer Jonathan Dove, and recently recorded by the Choir of Wells Cathedral under the direction of the Organist Matthew Owens (Hyperion CDA67768).

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1. Into thy hands, O Lord and Father, we commend our souls and bodies, our parents and our homes, friends and kindred. Into thy hands, O Lord and Father, we commend our benefactors and brethren departed. Into thy hands, O Lord and Father, we commend all thy people faithfully believing, and all who need thy pity and protection. Enlighten us with thy holy grace and suffer us never more to be separated from thee.

2. Lord Jesus Christ, mercifully grant to me that the rest of my pilgrimage may be directed according to thy will, that the rest of my life may be completed in thee, and my soul may deserve to enjoy thee who art eternal life for ever.

Footnote: I am particularly indebted to the Librarians of Wells and Salisbury Cathedrals, to Professor Hugh Lawrence’s definitive book on St Edmund (OUP, 1960), and also to the advice and notes of the late John Cowdrey, former Chaplain and Fellow of the Hall.

Michael Cansdale St Edmund Fellow

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BRUCE MITCHELL Kevin Crossley-Holland (Honorary Fellow), well-known poet, translator from Anglo-Saxon, and current President of the School Library Association, recalls his student days at Teddy Hall and pays tribute to the lasting influence of his tutor, Dr Bruce Mitchell.

The enchanting little green quadrangle of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, is the embodiment of intimacy. Flaking limestone walls, grey with secrets and memory; loops Dr Bruce Mitchell of wisteria; window-boxes; and a generous well, as (photo from Hall records) often as not decorated with empty beer glasses around the coping… .

Irrespective of their different disciplines, Hall students all know one another.

They drink together and eat together, and are aware they are part of a privileged team – a sense underpinned in my time (1959-62) by sporting supremacy.

The teacher who not only influenced me but changed my life was nothing if not a team man. He seldom passed anyone in the quad without banter and if one of his students was anxious or depressed, his instinct was to cheer him up.

Many of his bon mots became legendary, such as his invitation to latecomers: “Come in and cast a gloom over proceedings!”

I had never encountered anyone or anything like this before: the robust jocularity, the sense that we were all in this together. And this, in my first year, very largely consisted of reading the Aeneid in Latin, studying Paradise Lost, and learning Anglo-Saxon. I was rightly apprehensive.

Enter Bruce... Bruce Mitchell was a cheerful, church-going, hockey-playing Australian from Melbourne, then in his late thirties. He was the author of A Guide to Old English (the book that later replaced Sweet’s famous Anglo-Saxon Primer) and University Lecturer in English Language. Language was indeed Bruce’s abiding passion, and he always but always rose at 4.44am to pursue it while suitors such as I had scarcely fallen asleep. It is delightful to report that his patient and loyal wife, Mollie, has this year endowed St Edmund Hall with a graduate scholarship in Bruce’s name.

When I failed my Anglo-Saxon Prelims – the only one of seven English students to do so – Bruce, down-to-earth and practical as always, set about ensuring that 170

I passed the re-sit and would not be expelled or, as Oxford so courteously puts it, ‘sent down’.

Bruce devised a three-part strategy. First, a thoroughly uncomfortable meeting with the assembled Fellows, ending with the Principal’s velvet threat: “We’d be thorry to loothe you, Mithter Crothley-Holland.” I slunk out, feeling I was in danger of letting down the team. Second, Bruce invited me to play weekly squash and tennis, and to drink dry sherry with him. Third, he gave me extra coaching. Thus we entered into an unspoken contract.

Fate goes ever as it must! I was sitting in a stationary punt on the River Cherwell, fortified by a pork pie, listening to my father’s music on the transistor radio and studying Sweet’s Anglo-Saxon Primer, when a swan came floating towards me. After turning up its beak at the pie, it flew into a rage when it heard the music and saw the grammar. Aware of Leda’s fate, I tried to jump on to the bank, wrecked my right knee, and spent a week in the children’s ward of the Radcliffe - the only one in which there was a spare bed – “there Aelfric and Old English verbs to con”, as a samizdat verse later had it. “The victim of a music-hating swan.”

But during those painful days so long before hydroscopic surgery, something wonderful happened. The glorious pulse and music of Anglo-Saxon poetry, sometimes gruff, sometimes lyrical, invaded my nervous system. And there and then, while around me little children slept, I began to translate a few of the charming metaphorical riddles.

Well, I re-sat my Prelims immediately after coming out of hospital, and very soon after hearing that I had passed (just), I asked Bruce to look over my draft translations. Then I embarked on some of the larger poems, and Bruce and I began to work in tandem. After I had come down from Oxford, I sent him more drafts, and went to stay with him and Mollie in Summertown so that we could work through them line by line. After this, Bruce wrote introductions to each poem: “Please be absolutely frank with your comments,” he wrote to this twenty-two year old. “It’s quite useless if we pull punches.” And in another letter (written as ever in blue ink and littered with exclamation marks), “I swear to keep out all unnecessary philosophy, archaeology, and all other-ologies. And in fact, that ‘unnecessary’ could probably be crossed out.”

Bruce was the best teacher I have ever had or will have. His enthusiasm was radiant. And he made it his business to understand me, and to egg me on.

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He was my bridge between Oxford and beyond, and he put me in touch with J. R. R. Tolkien.

“I know nothing of the translator,” begins the Macmillan reader’s report on our proposal for our first collaboration The Battle of Maldon and other Old English Poems, “but I do know Bruce Mitchell, who is a fine, humane scholar...”.

Kevin Crossley-Holland This article was originally published in Teaching English, the magazine of the National Association for the Teaching of English.

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SIR DAVID YARDLEY’S TENNIS The report of the death of Sir David Yardley appears in section 2 of the Magazine.

Here, former Principal and now Honorary Fellow Professor Mike Mingos writes about the long enjoyment which his friend derived from playing tennis. Mike took part in a memorial match on 19 June 2014.

I have had little success in documenting the origins of David Yardley’s interest and passion in tennis despite talking to those who played tennis with him for many years and his family. Therefore, I have had to follow a Sherlock Holmes’ deductive approach from his playing style and the character of his shots. His use of one-handed backhand shots, the absence of a vicious top-spin on the forehand, the judicious use of drop shots and the length of his shorts place him in the Rosewall–Hoad era and at that cusp of the sport becoming fully professional. David definitely fell in the category of gifted gentleman amateur and resembled Rosewall more closely than Hoad. He could be best described as a very crafty touch player, for whom placement of the shot was more telling than the speed with which the ball was hit.

David was able to bring to the Oxford University Lawn Tennis Club, which uses grass courts in the Parks between April and October, his considerable organisational and political skills. David’s passion for the game could not be satiated by the Saturday afternoon formal club events and so he set about collecting together a group of like-minded individuals who play tennis on Monday and Friday afternoons. In those pre-email days David would successfully corral and cajole others by telephone and personal visits. A record of future games would be meticulously kept in neat pencil scribbling in David’s diary. He successfully introduced new members and organised them for decades and was still very much in charge into his eighties. The group continues to this day and many of the present members have expressed to me their thanks to David for introducing them to the group.

On retiring as Tennis Organiser, Bill Snyder formulated the following set of rules for his successor and presented a framed copy to David: Tennis Rules & Regulations 1. Rain is prohibited!

2. The assessment of when it is actually raining is entirely that of the Organiser.

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3. Wives and husbands of players will note that long weekends take place from Tuesdays to Thursdays.

4. Players will arrive promptly at 2.00 (unless your name is Trevor Lea).

5. Players will wear all white as the Organiser only owns white tennis outfits.

6. The selection of who plays with who is determined by the Organiser who is obligated to choose the strongest player as his partner. In the case of mixed doubles he will naturally choose the best-looking female as his partner.

7. A warm-up is essential and shall last no longer than four minutes. If the weather is very chilly such warm-up time will be reduced to two minutes.

8. During the warm-up one should endeavour to keep the ball as far away from the opponent as possible.

9. The Organiser is permitted to toss for serve and is guaranteed to win 90% of the time.

10. During play any ball hit directly to the Organiser shall be returned with good effect. Any other ball is the responsibility of the Organiser’s partner.

11. The decision on whether a ball is out or in is entirely that of the Organiser.

The position of exactly where the ball lands is immaterial.

12. During change over, discussions are allowed but only whilst players are moving. Stopping to chat is discouraged.

13. During such discussion should someone suggest that Andy Murray is a fine tennis player that person shall be banned from play for six weeks.

14. Grunting during play is only allowed by players who hold a valid American passport.

15. Should a cell phone go off during play the owner of said phone is to be taken to a suitable place and summarily executed.

16. Players with minor injuries are welcome. Otherwise it would be impossible to find four players on any given day.

17. Play can be temporarily suspended for players to check blood pressure, take medication or attend to other medical matters.

18. When the Organiser decides to turn over organisation to someone else it is recommended that taking a six week holiday would be a good idea.

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decided to take them under its sporting umbrella. David was so successful in his negotiations with the Registrar that current members of the club gained free membership for the following five years.

I imagine him sitting in the umpire chair high above the Parks on a sunny summer’s day and smiling at the successful continuation of his traditions – thank you David from all of us.

Mike Mingos Bill Snyder is thanked for the Rules and Regulations.

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BALANCING THE BOTANICAL AND THE ARTISTIC: EWAN ANDERSON’S TREE DRAWING One might have thought that an academic specialising in the hectic geopolitics of the Middle East would be some distance from having an interest in drawing the tranquil magnificence of trees – but Aularian Ewan Anderson has won international recognition for his artistry.

Born in Kent, Ewan served in the Royal Navy and then came up to the Hall in 1959 to read Geography. He was also a keen cricketer, playing for OU Cricket Club at first-class level. After graduating, he worked as a school teacher and went on to obtain a lectureship in Geography at Durham University. Ewan was appointed Professor of Geopolitics in the University’s Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in 1979 and held this chair until his retirement in 2001. He has published extensively on subjects such as the geography and geopolitics of the Middle East (with special interest in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan); global geopolitical flashpoints; policymaking associated with strategic mineral and water resources; and economic power in a changing international system.

In fact his lifetime interest in trees and drawing is not unrelated to Ewan’s academic career. Trained as a geographer in the days before extensive electronic aids, he needed to learn how to produce charts, maps and models by hand and eye. Some of his research projects involved trees in the Middle East, as when in Oman he measured dewfall as a water source for Prosopis.sp (mesquite, a perennial woody plant whose growth needs to be controlled in arid regions). Today, Ewan still carries out fieldwork in support of his art: he reports that he draws exclusively outdoors.

Since retirement, Ewan has had more time to devote to drawing. In order to work on his technique he received training at the Glasgow School of Art. He is thought by the Royal Horticultural Society to be the only artist in Britain currently drawing and painting trees as complete entities. Although he predominantly 176

Professor Ewan Anderson (photo from Hall records)

draws in pencil, Ewan also works in pastels, water colours, and oils. In his own words, in his pictures he is “trying to balance the botanical and the artistic.” He hopes, “to encapsulate the spirit, character and gesture of the trees.”

Magnolia Tree (photo from Hall records, reproduced by kind permission of Professor Anderson)

Ewan was commissioned by The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to draw twelve heritage trees to help celebrate the Year of the Tree in 2013. His talent is also in demand for drawings of memorial trees: he is Resident Artist for the Woodland Burial Trust in Durham, and his work has been exhibited at the National Memorial Arboretum near Lichfield, Staffordshire.

In recent years Ewan’s work has been seen at the Royal Horticultural Society, Wisley (an exhibition called “The Spirit of Trees”), the River and Rowing Museum, Henley on Thames (“Trees of the Waterside”), Ohio, USA (“Trees of Yellow Springs”), and in May 2014 at Durham Cathedral (“The Inspiration of Trees”). Ewan is also a contributor to Artweeks in Oxford.

Further exhibitions of Ewan’s work are lined up, including two in September 2014: in the Saxon church at Seaham (one of the twenty oldest churches extant in the country) and at the WWT, Washington. He also plans to visit Teddy Hall in September to draw the College trees: it is hoped that prints of the resulting work will be made available for sale to Aularians to raise money for the Hall.

More information about Ewan’s work is available on his website at www.treedrawings.co.uk, where examples of his drawings can also be seen.

BFG Material used in this article is mainly from Professor Anderson’s website referred to above and information displayed in the Galilee Chapel of Durham Cathedral during his May 2014 exhibition.

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AULARIAN SCULPTOR: RODNEY MUNDAY ’S RECENT WORK Rodney Munday (1967) read English at the Hall and has been a professional sculptor since the early 1990s. He created the bronze statue of St Edmund which now sits permanently studying near the Library in St Peter-in-the-East churchyard (see the front cover of this Magazine).

In April 2014, Rodney’s important new life-sized sculptures were unveiled at Chichester and Worthing Hospitals. The Gift was commissioned for the Western Sussex Hospitals Trust and is designed to promote and celebrate organ donation. In his speech at the unveiling ceremony, Rodney included the following thoughts: “It has been an immense privilege to have been commissioned to produce this sculpture. Angela Fisher and her committee are the most caring of people and in working with them I have felt their care extend to me. Their commitment to the cause of organ donation has been an inspiration, and their ideas, their input and their co-operation have been of huge value from the very start, when they suggested a sculpture that would convey the idea of a gift. As my own ideas developed, although I believe that the gift should be seen as potentially passing either way between the two figures, I felt that the figure of the woman had adopted a pose suggestive of that relating to receiving the sacrament during the Eucharist, and it struck me that the words from that service – “though we are many, we are one body” – might be seen as singularly appropriate with regard to organ donation, and I have placed them on one side of the block.

On the other side are John Donne’s words, taken from a devotional work he wrote when very ill, and which emphasise the importance of the relationship and interdependence of humanity – “no man is an island entire of itself”. If such implications within this work encourage anyone to join the organ donation register it will have been a success. To that extent, perhaps it already has, since I have now signed up to the register myself. So many of us have never done so simply because we have not Rodney Munday’s sculpture been put in a situation that has induced us to ‘The Gift’, unveiled in April 2014 think about it. (photo supplied by Rodney Munday) 178

Beyond that, the committee has stressed the importance of producing something that might in some way be a comfort to those who suffer the distress or anxiety that can go hand in hand with a hospital situation. The importance of that need was further brought home to me by Richard Corke’s informative and thoughtprovoking book The Healing Presence of Art which was generously given to me by a friend with whom I had discussed this commission. The book places hospital art from the Renaissance to the present day in a historical context, looking at the way it has served different needs over time, yet with an overriding and atemporal significance suggested in the title.”

The sculptor reports that there was a touching episode while he was installing one of his hospital works. A lady who was looking at it intently was asked what she felt. The lady replied that it was “a beautiful distraction”. She explained what she meant by this was that she had just been diagnosed with cancer.

Rodney has recently completed another public commission, this time for a large external wall relief of the celebrated naturalist and explorer Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913). The work will be placed on the theatre in the town where Wallace attended the Grammar School, Hertford, and is due to be unveiled in October 2014. Describing his preparation for this sculpture, Rodney writes: “I read Wallace’s autobiography (My Life) and his Malay Archipelago, which deals with the period when he had his ideas on the survival of the fittest. As with my preparatory work for St Edmund, I became fascinated by the personality of the man, which is necessary if you are going to move beyond a simple (and boring!) portrait. I was also fascinated by the fact that he and Darwin had such a similar revelation independently of each other. Scientific and philosophical ideas do not come out of a vacuum, and I felt that, symbolically, I could show how an idea ripe for its time is ‘plucked out of the air’ by those particularly gifted people we tend to refer to as geniuses. Since Wallace was particularly interested in birds of paradise whilst in the archipelago, I felt that the bird could stand for a representation of the ideas he was grasping. At the same time, it gave me the opportunity to produce a design in which he and the bird produced interrelated forms, creating rhymes and rhythms analogous to those to be found in poetry.”

More information about Rodney Munday’s work can be found on his website at www.rodneymunday-sculptor.co.uk BFG

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MAKING MOVIES AND MUSIC IN LA: JACK TURNER Jack Turner was at the Hall in 2003-2006 reading Experimental Psychology. He was married in the Chapel in 2008 but then lost touch for a while until renewing his contact with the Hall this year to announce the completion of the successful film Ten Year Plan and his lead role in another work in progress, The Moleskin Diary, written and directed

by Zach Brown. The soundtrack for the new film will be put together by Jack’s band, Cable Car. Jack Turner

Below, Jack tells Communications Officer Claire Hooper about his career since leaving Oxford.

What did you do straight after graduating?

After graduating I worked for Google in London for two years, and then transferred to the San Francisco and Mountain View offices, where I worked for another three years. It was an awesome experience, similar to Oxford in many ways – just a lot of really cool, good people who were fun to be around, and were excellent at their jobs.

And how did you get into acting/music-making?

Kind of separately, and almost randomly. I actually got into acting when I was living in San Francisco. I would take a bus to work every day, and go past this huge picture of this beautiful woman from the 40s or 50s. The picture was captivating, and I found out it was a picture of the founder of an acting school, the Shelton Studios. I guess I took it quite literally as a sign I should give acting a go, and I started taking night classes while I was working at my day job. I took classes most night for nearly two years. Then I quit my day job, and moved to LA. When I did, I met the Cable Car guys when I moved into a great apartment complex in Hollywood. I went for a drink with one of the guys, Nate, and he said he was a musician. I was so sceptical, because a lot of people in music and acting talk a bog game. I was very, very wrong – he played me some of his music, and I was blown away. I picked up one of his guitars back at his apartment, and we all started jamming. Very quickly we realized the level of synergy we had as a band was really rare. So we released an EP, Ride, which had good success 180

on itunes etc, and placed songs on a couple of TV shows. We’re in the middle of recording another EP now, with a fabulous mixer/producer, Rob Heskin.

Did you do any acting/music while you were at Oxford?

No, for a couple of reasons! At that point, I would have focussed on music probably, but I didn’t have any time. It was just too busy with the workload, and also with playing volleyball for the University. Sometimes I’d get down to the piano in the music room at Teddy Hall, but that was rare. Guitar at that point was a struggle – not only did I not have the time to play, but I wasn’t good enough to enjoy it when I did!

As for acting, I hadn’t done any in secondary school or college. I thought about trying it once or twice at Oxford, but honestly I think I was too scared. If I were to do it again, I’d definitely try to involve myself more in Oxford’s arts scene.

What’s been your favourite acting role to date, and why?

I just played Myles in Ten Year Plan, and I really loved playing him for a few reasons. In a lot of ways we’re similar, but there are some interesting differences I could sink my teeth into. Myles is pretty desperate and over the top at times, and super neurotic, but he’s really just trying to do his best all the time, even when it goes horribly wrong – something that happens to me from time to time… .

Aside from the character, I really just loved the story, and what it says socially.

Firstly, it’s a really fun, entertaining story with terrific writing. Secondly, it’s a romantic comedy about a gay relationship, but the fact it’s a gay relationship isn’t a source of conflict in the movie. I think society needs to show people that story – where people have moved past gay relationships being the issue, and we just have a movie about human relationships.

Why did you want to be involved in The Moleskin Diary?

It’s just such a great script, and a wonderful character, Adrian. It’s one of the best scripts I’ve read since being in Hollywood. Also, I know Zach Brown, the writer/director, very well, and his vision for the movie is superb. All the characters have a great arc, and the story has a fabulous twist. The conflicts are so rich, and also Adrian is a highly functioning drug addict with a pretty crazy past. It’s funny, actors always want to play psychopaths and drug addicts, we never want to play anything normal!

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AULARIAN PUBLICATIONS The list of works generously donated to the Hall Library during the year is given in section 2 of the Magazine. The following Aularian publications have been drawn particularly to our attention.

Fred, by Dr John Hawkins (1970) (A précis of the review in the Guards’ Magazine of: Fred, the collected letters and speeches of Colonel Frederick Gustavus Burnaby in two volumes, edited and introduced by Dr John Hawkins.)

Some readers will be familiar with Tissot’s portrait in the National Portrait Gallery of Colonel Frederick Burnaby of the Royal Horse Guards. Rumoured to be the strongest man in the British army (he could carry a small horse under each arm!), he was not only a renowned athlete, pugilist and swordsman, indifferent to danger, but also a talented linguist and author of two best-sellers that are still rarely out of print: a legend and polymath by any measure.

John Hawkins’ collection, in two chubby volumes, includes a biography which, as it unfolds, is the stuff of Boys Own Paper: the first solo cross channel flight in a hot air balloon; an early bicyclist; and a fist fight at a shooting party when his family’s reputation is impugned.

Burnaby spent much time in Spain and many of his amusing letters were published in The Times and his pocket periodical, Vanity Fair, founded with his chum Tommy Bowles. These entertaining pieces, exhaustively reproduced, are a snapshot of the times, if a trifle politically incorrect.

It was in 1875 that Burnaby joined the many other well-to-do British and Russian officers in the Great Game, attempting to influence the politics of Central Asia. Slipping into St Petersburg, thence to undertake his great ride to Khiva, Burnaby was able to report evidence of the Russian advance southwards towards India. A Ride to Khiva, Burnaby’s masterpiece, is still in print and is recommended reading. Another snippet: Burnaby brought back from Khiva seeds of giant melons which were successfully grown for the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society.

Hawkins brings the biographical detail in volume one to a close with details of Burnaby’s part in the Russo-Turkish war of 1877/8. Having met up with an 182

old friend, Valentine Baker (cashiered following an incident with a young lady on the railway train between Woking and Esher), we see Burnaby, in bowler and pea jacket advising Baker’s Ottoman troops in the famous retreat from Rhodope. Fred met his end as he would have wanted, with a spear through the throat during the abortive expeditionary force to rescue Gordon in Khartoum.

For entertainment value I am bound to say that the biographical section lies a close second to the remaining 600 pages which are an irresistible collection of letters, speeches and other relevant writings about this remarkable character.

This rigorous examination of the life of Fred Burnaby is not a coffee table set, yet there is a tingle in every word. A glance at his bookshelf will readily identify the ardent cavalryman; these two volumes would be its centrepiece.

Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor, ret’d Bursar Launching the New Enlightenment, by Michael Jaffey (1950) In Launching the New Enlightenment: The Re-affirmation of the Social Contract Michael Jaffey expands on work which he began more than forty years ago.

He addresses no less a subject than how we can reverse the decline of Western society. The author believes that there is a ‘grave societal malfunction’, but he argues passionately that it is not too late to remedy this and identifies the necessary economic and political streams of action.

BFG Robert Atherton (1861-1930): Clergyman-Poet, by Anthony McCarthy (1975) (Anthony introduces his book, which is being published by Kirkby Local History Archive.)

Robert Atherton was a ploughboy, who taught himself Greek, Hebrew, and Latin in order to enrol at theological college. He became a rector in Bedfordshire in just five years – quite a feat in itself. However, he was a blunt Northerner and lost his rectorship in 1904 following a Consistory Citation. He then became an itinerant poet. His output was prolific and varied: songs, ballads, sonnets, pamphlets, etc. He waged a one-man war against the Church of England… and lost. Egregiously. However, Atherton is now known as ‘The Kirkby Poet’.

Kirkby is near Liverpool and is my home town.

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FROM THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION

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FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION I was elected President of the St Edmund Hall Association at the AGM in January 2014, thus succeeding my illustrious (and now relieved) predecessor Darrell Barnes. As Immediate Past President, Darrell continues to serve on the Executive Committee of the SEHA as well as continuing his duties with the Friends of the Boat Club; we thank him for all that he has done and continues to do.

His innovation of addressing the Hall’s matriculands has indeed become a tradition. The Association seeks to catch ’em early and catch ’em young!!! It is an interesting fact that, as those of us of a certain age become ever more stricken in years, the Aularian population becomes ever younger – 38% of Aularians are under 40 and 55% are under 50. We have therefore run, fortunately successfully, a recruitment campaign to enlist new Committee members from the two most recent Aularian decades, which has drastically reduced the average age of your Committee.

We awarded the second Aularian Prize to Camilla Metcalf (2010, Fine Art) whose compelling account of her work with a mental health charity drew a very clear majority of votes.

The Teddy Talks series continued in May with a well-attended (despite a Tube strike) Networking Breakfast addressed by the former Director of Public Prosecutions, Sir Keir Starmer (1985, BCL). Our thanks to Leon Ferera (1988, French and German), Partner at Jones Day, for hosting the event.

Mention was made last year of the Hall Archive and of the electronic distribution of this Magazine. These two, apparently disparate, items are now linked; funds released from the Association’s subsidy of the Magazine’s distribution costs have been ‘diverted’ to fund the Hall Archivist’s post for the next three years. We continue also to support the costs of the production of the Magazine.

A major item on the horizon is, of course, the Campaign for the Hall. This is currently in its quiet phase as reported in The Aularian newsletter (Issue 21) in the spring/summer of 2014; we were able to introduce the Campaign to Aularians at a very pleasant drinks event held in June at the Truscott Arms in Maida Vale, a pub with Aularian connections thanks to the Chair of the Campaign, my old friend, contemporary and fellow Yorkshireman Gareth Roberts (1971, Geology).

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with many fellow Aularians, serve with me on the Development Committee, on the Campaign Cabinet, or in the various working groups which are seeking to assist with the Campaign.

The SEHA also assists with judging the Masterclass Fund, an inspirational showcase for the multifarious non-academic talents of the student population, from classical and cinematic piano to ballroom dancing via the more traditional Hall pursuits of rowing and rugby.

Your Association is in good heart and in a strong financial position. We look to the future with confidence.

Floreat Aula!

Lawrence Cummings (1971, Modern Languages)

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THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE – JANUARY 2014 President

Lawrence Cummings MA (1971)

Principal

Professor Keith Gull CBE BSc PhD DSc Lond, FRS, FMedSci

Immediate Past President

Darrell M.P. Barnes MA (1963)

Honorary Vice-President

Justin C.B. Gosling BPhil MA

Honorary Vice-President

R. (Bob) J.L. Breese MA (1949)

Honorary Secretary

Richard A.H. Finch MA (1976)

Honorary Treasurer

Ian W. Durrans BA (1977)

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Paul R. Lewis MA CEng (1955) Darrell M.P. Barnes MA (1963)

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Sir Jon Shortridge KCB MA MSc (1966) Lawrence Cummings MA (1971)

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Richard A.H. Finch MA (1976) Richard S. Luddington MA MPhil (1978) Russell Withington MA MIET MIRSE MInstP (1979)

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Dr David J. Jordan MA PhD (1990)

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Catherine L. Cooper BA (1995) Olly M. Donnelly BA MSc (1999) Polly J. Cowan BA (2002)

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J. David Waring MA (1987) Charlotte Cooper BA, AKC, MSt (2011) Sebastian Siersted (2012)

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION MINUTES OF THE 83rd ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 21 JANUARY 2014 The 83rd Annual General Meeting of the Association was held in Princess Alexandra Hall of the Royal Over-Seas League, Over-Seas House, Park Place, St James’s Street, London, SW1A 1LR on Tuesday, 21 January 2014 at 6.15 p.m., Darrell Barnes presiding.

Over 50 members were present.

1. Minutes. The Minutes of the 82nd Meeting, held on 15 January 2013, copies being available, were confirmed and signed in the Minute Book by the President. There were no matters arising.

2. President’s Report. Darrell Barnes confirmed that the Association was in good heart.

3. Principal’s Report. Professor Keith Gull said that he would make his report at the Dinner.

4. Honorary Secretary’s Report. There were no major items.

5. Honorary Treasurer’s Report. Ian Durrans presented the audited accounts; he said that the finances were in a healthy position. There were no questions and the accounts were adopted.

6. Election of President 2014-17. Lawrence Cummings had been nominated by the Executive Committee. As there were no other candidates, Lawrence Cummings was declared elected amid applause from the meeting.

7. Elections: The following, who had been nominated by the Executive Committee, were elected unanimously: Up to 1964

Darrell M.P. Barnes

Elected for three years

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Lawrence Cummings

Re-elected for three years

Sir Jon Shortridge

Elected for two years

1975 – 84

Richard S. Luddington

Re-elected for three years

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Cathy L. Cooper

Re-elected for three years

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8. Appointment of Honorary Auditor. Lindsay Page was unanimously re-appointed.

9. Date of Next Meeting. Tuesday, 20 January 2015 at the Royal Over-Seas League at 6.15 p.m.

10. There being no further business, the President closed the Meeting at 6.25 p.m.

R.A.H. FINCH, Hon. Secretary

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2014

INCOME Subscriptions Bank interest

EXPENDITURE Magazine production, postage & mailing Committee expenses

Income less expenses Grants: St Edmund Hall Association Principal’s Fund Aularian Prize Archivist

Surplus transferred to General Fund

Year ended Year ended 31 May 2014 31 May 2013 £ £ 12,940 13,305 25 48 ______ ______ 12,965 13,353

(4,500) (9,800) (60) (58) ______ ______ (4,560) (9,858) 8,405

3,495

(1,000) (1,000) (300) (300) (4,000) ______ ______ 3,105 2,195

These accounts will be submitted for the approval of the members at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting on 20 January 2015.

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ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION BALANCE SHEET 31 MAY 2014

ASSETS

31 May 2014 31 May 2013 £ £

Debtors Charities Deposit Fund Bank balances

Less: Creditors

4,240 5,700 5,700 25,828 22,210 ______ ______ 35,768 27,910

(12,985) (8,232) ______ ______ 22,783 19,678

REPRESENTED BY ACCUMULATED FUNDS General Fund at start of year Surplus from Income Account

Aularian Register Fund

L Cummings (President) I W Durrans (Honorary Treasurer)

17,934 15,739 3,105 2,195 ______ ______ 21,039 17,934 1,744 1,744 ______ ______ 22,783 19,678 ______ ______

I have examined the books and vouchers of the Association for the year ended 31 May 2014. In my opinion the above Balance Sheet and annexed Income and Expenditure Account give respectively a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Association at 31 May 2014 and the surplus of income over expenditure for the year ended on that date.

62 Clifton Hill St. John’s Wood London NW8 0JT

LD Page Honorary Auditor 31 July 2014

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The 73rd LONDON DINNER OF THE ST EDMUND HALL ASSOCIATION 21 January 2014 If the President, Darrell Barnes, had not been demob happy, he would have asked the Annual General Meeting to approve a modification to the SEHA constitution – but he was, so he did not. At least he obtained approval that his successor for the next three years should be Lawrence Cummings (1971), a motion that was approved nem con and greeted with applause. Minutes of the AGM will be submitted to the next meeting for approval.

Holding the London Dinner on Tuesday of first week of Hilary Term, which is now the usual date, continues to be a popular choice, being sufficiently removed from Christmas and New Year festivities and also near enough to the first payday of the year for guests to be able to afford the very reasonable price of £58: to dine in the West End at this price, including a half-bottle of wine, is probably unmatchable.

Before dinner, the President noted that the Hall’s former Chaplain, the Revd Kris Kramer, had been called by the Almighty to serve Him upon another shore and in a greater light viz. Florida, but he was pleased to introduce the Hall’s new Chaplain, the Revd Will Donaldson, who proceeded to say Grace.

After dessert, last year’s musical offering to accompany Bruce Mitchell’s port was repeated, though on a more delicate instrument: a glockenspiel, played by Keyron Hickman-Lewis, JCR Vice-President and a most talented musician.

Charlotte Cooper, MCR President, carried the decanter of port into the room without spilling a drop, and both she and Keyron were warmly applauded for their efforts.

After the President had explained to newer Aularians who Bruce Mitchell was and why his memory was revered (among other talents, he had taught many of his English students to speak Anglo-Saxon – which comes across as a series of primitive grunts and squeaks, interrupted by the occasional cough, a level of communication beyond which few Aularians appear to have made much progress), Sebastian Siersted, JCR President, spoke briefly about current student experience and achievement at the Hall and how well Hall Spirit was thriving among today’s student body. He then proposed a toast to the memory of Bruce 192

Mitchell, which was drunk with grateful thanks. Before Seb left the scene, the President told the guests that he was also this year’s rugby captain and that we wished him and his squad every success, a sentiment that was echoed with loud applause.

In welcoming the guests, the President noted with pleasure the attendance of many members of the Senior Common Room, a fact which he ascribed to the opportunity the dinner afforded to Fellows to escape their tutorial cares for an evening. He then welcomed the Guest of Honour, the Principal, and expressed the relief of all for his successful recovery from an unpleasant illness, though in any contest between microbes and so eminent a microbiologist as Keith Gull the outcome could never have been in doubt, as myriads of microbial widows and orphans could testify.

Grateful thanks were extended with applause to Richard Finch, the Association’s Honorary Manciple, for his tireless efforts, patience and good humour in yet again organising another well-attended dinner.

The President had to sound a sad but proud note. George Barner, who had matriculated at the Hall in 1935, had died on 10 September, just three months short of his 105th birthday and just too late to be recorded in the Hall Magazine.

He had been a regular supporter of the New York Dinner and a great supporter of all things Aularian: the George Barner Prize for Contribution to Theatre was one example of that. The President said that guests might recall a notice appearing on the Hall website in 2011 in which the Principal was shown handing George a Resolution of Appreciation at the New York Dinner, an appreciation of his longevity and wonderful support for Teddy Hall: if Aularians could match his length of days and achievements, they would have lived good lives indeed.

The President remarked that he had had a telephone call from David Yardley, thanking him for the invitation to this dinner but expressing regret that he would not be able to attend: his health was not sufficiently robust to allow him to withstand the journey from Oxford and back. But he wished Aularians well and let slip the news that on 30 July he and Patsy would be celebrating their Diamond Wedding. [It is a matter of great sorrow that David Yardley died in June 2014, just before his 85th birthday – he will be greatly missed].

The President mentioned the success of the Teddy Talks and urged everyone to attend future talks if they possibly could. He also took that opportunity to thank 193

Laura Palmer and her team in the Development & Alumni Relations Office for all their support and welcomed to their first London Dinner Kate Townsend, Alumni Relations Officer, and Philippa Machin, Development Administrator.

The Hall Writers’ Forum, established by Lucy Newlyn in February 2013, was going from strength to strength and was an unusual example of student, staff and alumni collaboration. A gathering around the well in the Front Quad in October to remember Seamus Heaney, former Professor of Poetry, had been very moving, not least because of the recitation of a poem written by Aularian Chris Mann in English, Afrikaans, Xhosa and Zulu; the President remarked that the last time he had heard Zulu in the Front Quad was when the more feral members of the Rugby Club were celebrating yet another victory and were exhorting all those who cared to listen (as well as those who did not) to render one of their opponents prostrate and immobile.

The Aularian Prize of £300 (given for a personal project which demonstrates exceptional volunteering commitment for the benefit of others and which lies outside established college or university pursuits) had been awarded for the first time in Trinity term and the President looked forward to a greater number of applications in future.

Turning to alumnal activities, the President told the company that he had been implored by wild horses on bended knee to say something nice about the Aularian Golfing Society – which he did, and wished them well for their forthcoming inter-collegiate golf tournament on 21 March.

The President noted that the Friends of the Boat Club had been granted charitable status by the Charity Commission, one of only three such boat club supporters groups in the two universities of Oxford and Cambridge to have achieved this, the others being Jesus College Cambridge Boat Club Trust and Lincoln College Boat Club Society (shouts of “who?” were heard from the assembled company). The President took that opportunity to thank Richard Fishlock, who would be standing down as Chairman of the Friends of the Boat Club Management Committee, for all his hard work and commitment, thanks which were accompanied by loud applause.

In concluding his address, the President noted how important it was in financial circles for institutions to maintain their credit at a Triple A status; although the Hall might not be among the wealthiest of colleges, there was no doubt about 194

its Triple A status which resided in excellence in Academic, Artistic and Athletic performance. He exhorted all those present to pledge themselves to support the Hall by proposing the college toast, Floreat Aula.

Testing the bounds of their patience for a few moments more, the President told the guests that his term of office had now come to an end. He had greatly enjoyed his time and noted that in addition to having had the opportunity to meet so many members of the Junior and Middle Common Rooms, who were intelligent and witty and amusing – and impossible and obstreperous, it had also been his pleasure to meet so many Aularians, who were similarly intelligent and witty and amusing – and impossible and obstreperous.

The President welcomed and introduced his successor, Lawrence Cummings, who in turn welcomed the Principal, who presented the President with an engraved silver wine-bottle coaster and silver-mounted cork in thanks for his efforts over the past three years.

The Principal spoke of the many developments which were taking place at the Hall and of the many achievements of Hall students. In particular he emphasised the use of “and” rather than “but”, expressing the wish, frequently realised, that a young man or woman was a diligent student AND a good sportsman, for example; the days of Hall students being no good at study BUT a first class rugby player were long gone.

The Principal mentioned the financial challenges facing the College, and spoke briefly of the forthcoming Development Campaign which would seek to raise a substantial endowment for the College, thus placing it on a much more secure footing.

The Principal concluded his remarks by saying that the Hall was in good heart; he was thanked for his contribution by the newly-elected President, sentiments echoed with loud applause.

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Mr J.C. Markwick Judge Martin Reynolds Mr J.E. Aves Mr R.L.S. Fishlock Mr J.W. Harrison Mr M.J. Rowan Mr J.H. Phillips Mr J.A. Collingwood Mr J.F. Adey Mr C.J.G. Atkinson Dr F.J. Pocock (St Edmund Fellow) Mr G.C. Warner Mr R.G. Harrison Mr M.G. Hornsby Mr G. Marsh Mr A.M. Rentoul Mr R.K. Smith Mr M.J. Hamilton Mr Darrell Barnes (President, SEH Association) Mr D.R. Clarke Mr C.G. Erwin Mr R.G. Hunt Mr R.A.S. Offer Mr M.S. Simmie Mr D.A. Ashworth Mr J.H. Bunney Dr M.J. Clarke Mr R.W. Beckham Mr S.R. Garrett Mr R.T. Baker Mr D.A. Hopkins Mr J.R. Kilbee Mr P.G.A. Montgomery Sir Jon Shortridge (Honorary Fellow) Sir Jeremy Cooke Mr P.V. Robinson Mr G.D. Salter Mr D.J. Tabraham-Palmer Dr R.M. Weinberg Mr M.G. Heal Dr D.J. Hughes Mr I. Stuart Mr R.T. Ward Mr P.E. Ramell Sir Richard Gozney

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The following Aularians attended the Dinner: The following other Fellows and Hall representatives also attended: Mr John Dunbabin (Emeritus Fellow) Professor Stuart Ferguson (Vice-Principal and Senior Tutor) Dr Richard Hopkinson Professor Paul Matthews Mrs Laura Palmer (Director of Development) Dr Ernest Parkin (Home Bursar) Dr Fiorangelo Salvatorelli (former Fellow) Mr Martin Slater (Emeritus Fellow) Dr Dimitrios Tsomocos (Fellow by Special Election) Professor Robert Whittaker (Dean) Mr Chris Wells (Emeritus Fellow) Dr Bill Williams (Emeritus Fellow) The Revd Will Donaldson (Chaplain) Ms Kate Townsend (Alumni Relations Officer) Ms Philippa Machin (Development Administrator) Darrell Barnes

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Dr Derek Rushworth’s youngest daughter died of multiple sclerosis in 2005. He now has two daughters, two granddaughters and three great-granddaughters. His family evidently doesn’t go in for male progeny. He still represents Admissions Year 1939 – that is, himself!

He is still the oldest member!

Andrew Foot’s wife, Lorna (née Bloy, sister of an Aularian, the late Canon Philip Bloy) has died. They were married in St Peter-in-theEast, 1 August 1951, and had their reception in SEH quadrangle. As they walked from the church to the Hall, a crowd of French visitors cried, “Vive le mariage!” – and it did for over 61 years.

Following a long period of hospitalisation, David Dunsmore is living back at his home in Holditch, near Chard, and would very much like to regain contact with the family and friends to whom he was unable to write last Christmas.

Dr Brian Wicker is now a great-grandfather. He was awarded an Hon. DLitt by Leicester University for his work in the Midlands.

Brian Gibson is a member of the American Management Association.

David Sephton runs a company producing software on DVD for teaching and learning 50 languages – used all over Europe in universities, colleges, schools & companies. He creates smartphone apps to help people with language problems when they travel abroad: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Japanese, and Chinese. www.2clix.net Allan Jay MBE is pleased to share that the International Fencing Federation (FIE) celebrated its centenary in November 2013 by the creation of the FIE Hall of Fame – and he was elected to membership and attended its gala black tie Dinner in the Grand Palais, Paris.

John Cox’s opera Oscar (see Magazine 2012-13, p.151) was included on the shortlist of nominations for world best new opera in last season’s International Opera Awards. The laurels went elsewhere, but John was delighted to be nominated.

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W David H Sellar was appointed Lord Lyon King of Arms in Scotland in 2008. He was appointed an MVO in the 2014 New Year’s Honours list.

Brian Fyfield-Shayler was awarded the BEM for services to the community in Tavistock, Devon in the 2014 New Year’s Honours list.

Dr Edward Rose was awarded the Geological Society of London’s Sue Tyler Friedman Medal 2014 for excellence in research into the history of geology, having published extensively on the military applications of geology.

Professor Malvern Van Wyk Smith was awarded the Gold Medal of the English Academy of South Africa, 2 March 2013, for distinguished service to English over a lifetime.

Sir John Daniel, Honorary Fellow, was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in the New Year’s Honours list published by the Governor-General.

Frank Robinson published a small e-novel on Kindle A Phoenix and a Rainbow under the name Francis Napier (his middle name). When a man’s marriage crashes can he rise from the ashes...?

Professor David Hicks is delighted to announce that his daughter, Emma Pearce, has presented his wife, Maxine, and him with their second grandchild, named Calum David Pearce.

Nigel Pegram’s wife, the celebrated ballet dancer and actress April Olrich Pegram, died in April 2014.

Douglas Morton was appointed Chevalier de Mérite Agricole for services to the French wine industry in 2012.

After nearly 57 years of ordained ministry Revd Canon Terence Palmer finally retired in March from charge of St Teilo’s, Newport due to a sudden and profound hearing loss, but is now enjoying life and regularly contributing to the Church Times ‘Out of the Question’ column.

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the Judicial Appointments Commission and approved by the Lord Chancellor for appointment as an Employment Judge. He also published six articles on ‘Governance’ and continues to serve as parttime Senior Counsel to Christies’ (the art people).

Ces Shaw and his wife Sandy celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary on 19 August 2013. They met in the Hall on 4 July 1976 when Sandy was on a summer programme with Florida State Law School and Ces was still at the Hall. They are delighted to announce that their daughter Rebecca Shaw got married in the Hall in August 2013 before the main reception in Ireland.

Dr Brian Gasser stood down as Clerk to the Proctors on 31 October 2013, then worked in a part-time advisory capacity in the Proctors’ Office for a further three months. Now officially retired, he still lives in the Oxford area and has been trying to keep out of mischief by taking on odd jobs around the colleges.

Gordon Alchin married his Slovak girlfriend, Gabika, in November 2013, and they continue to live in Banska Bystrica.

1981 Mark Hall was promoted to CEO of HSBC in Spain where he has been living since 2001 with his wife Ana and their 3 children – Alex 19, Andrea 17, and Marcos 9.

Jude Cowan Montague was awarded a Gwen May RE Student Prize by the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers to support her development in the art of printmaking; this also gave Jude the opportunity to exhibit her work.

Julia Wills’ first book for children, Fleeced, was published by Templar in January 2014. A comic novel for the eight- to twelve-year-old reader, it imagines what happened after Jason and the Argonauts stole the Golden Fleece, leaving a furious bald ram behind.

Dr Amelia Fletcher, former Chief Economist in the Office of Fair Trading, was awarded an OBE for services to competition and consumer economics.

Dr Vibha Joshi is pleased to share the news of the publication of her book A Matter of Belief: Christian Conversion and Healing in North-East India by Berghahn Books (New York and Oxford) in October 2012.

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Mark Lauder is now in his fourth year as Headmaster of Ashville College, an HMC Boarding and Day School in Harrogate. He went back to training to take to the water in Henley in March 2014 to celebrate 20 years since winning the lightweight boat race – and back on the diet!

Richard Bratby married Dr Annette Louise Rubery on 13 September 2012. The civil wedding was held at Erasmus Darwin House, Lichfield, Staffordshire, followed by a service of blessing in the Lady Chapel of Lichfield Cathedral.

Steven Melford is delighted to announce the birth of his third little one – Eve Scarlett Lara Melford on 6 September 2012. She joins Amelie and Jack, who are 5 and 3 respectively. After 10 years at Clear, his previous start-up business, Steven left to start another. It is called The Forge and is a specialist market research and insight business. You can find details at www.thisistheforge.com.

Jenny Lewis’s new collection Taking Mesopotamia was released in March 2014. This work was inspired by her search for her lost father (who served with the South Wales Borderers in the Mesopotamia campaign during World War One). Jenny read from her book at the 2014 Oxford Literary Festival.

Marietta Papadatou-Pastou was married on 31 August 2013 in Marathias, Fokida, Greece to Alexis Arvanitis – a social psychologist.

Alexis is not an alumnus of the Hall, but his supervisor, Dr Alexandra Hatzi is an alumna of Oxford University, Department of Experimental Psychology and she was supervised by Dr Miles Houston. Marietta published the three following papers in 2012-13: PapadatouPastou, M., Miskowiak, K., J. Mark G. Williams, Harmer C.J., Reinecke, A. (2012), ‘Acute antidepressant drug administration and autobiographical memory recall: an fMRI study,’ in Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 20(5), 364-372; Papadatou-Pastou, M., Martin, M., & Munafò, M.R. (2013), ‘Measuring hand preference: a comparison among different response formats using a selected sample,’

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Rachel Harris was awarded in the Production category of Broadcast Hot Shots 2013, the annual pick of the TV industry’s rising stars under 30.

Sandra Modh married Mr Mathias Djawa from Indonesia on 21 September 2013.

Tara Batista published an article entitled ‘Network Meta-Analysis for Complex Social Interventions: Problems & Potential’ in the Journal for the Society of Social Work & Research in December 2013. She graduated from Columbia University School of Social Work with a PhD in Social Enterprise Administration in May 2014.

Lauren Davis married John Dicks on 26 April 2014. The couple, who both practise law in the USA, met in Oxford during their time as Visiting Students at the Hall.

Lucy Durrans, who won the prize for the best Part II Talk in the 2013 Final Honour School of Materials Science, has been admitted to membership of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers.

Harriet Rix was awarded the 2014 Godfrey Goodwin Prize in the annual Ancient & Modern Award competition run by HALI, Cornucopia, and the three major London auction houses for scholars aged under 25 and over 60 researching in the textile arts. Harriet planned to use her prize to support a trip following in the footsteps of the 17th Century traveller Francis Vernon, who made his way across the Ottoman Empire around 1676.

Jack Stanton was awarded the prestigious 2013 New Sensations Prize for emerging artists. This award was launched six years ago by the Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4 to support imaginative and talented young artists.

Rosanna Reed had her work on show at Modern Art Oxford in Michaelmas Term 2013, as part of the annual Platform exhibition showcasing young artistic talent from the South East.

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AVE ATQUE VALE We record with sadness the passing of fellow Aularians, and salute them.

1930s George Brenneman Barner BA, 10 September 2013, aged 104, Maine. 1935, Jurisprudence* John Wickham King BA, 16 January 2014, aged 96, Worcestershire. 1935, Jurisprudence* 1940s John Albert Baker BA, 6 November 2013, aged 84, London. 1949, English Keith Graham Coulthard BA, Dip, 7 January 2014, aged 87, North Yorkshire.

1945, Geography and Education Philip Spencer Haffenden BA, 8 June 2014, aged 88, East Sussex. 1943, History John James Hogan BA, 6 December 2013, aged 89, Cheshire. 1948, Theology Terence Peter Kelly BA, 24 September 2013, aged 83, London. 1949, PPE Leon Brink Knoll DPhil, 26 April 2014, aged 90, Western Cape, South Africa.

1946, Engineering Science Peter Raoul Sykes BA, October 2013, aged 90, Norfolk. 1941, Modern Languages Latimer Laurence Tuke MA, 15 July 2014, aged 86, Northamptonshire. 1945, RAF Short Course William Alfred Leslie Vincent DPhil, 15 January 2014, aged 102, Bristol.

1940 History* 1950s Michael Baldwin BA, February 2014, aged 84, Kent. 1950, English* Douglas Leslie Bartles-Smith BA, 5 June 2013, aged 77, Shropshire. 1958, Modern History Tony Edwyn Birks-Hay BA, 25 April 2014, aged 76, Somerset. 1958, Geography* Roger Carter BA, 2014, aged 80, West Midlands. 1954, Jurisprudence Ronald Cecil Macleod Cooper MA, 26 July 2014, aged 83. 1951, Modern History* Jonathan Francis Hewitt, 12 May 2014, aged 74, Madrid. 1958, Geography* Derek John Hockridge Dip, August 2013, aged 79, Dorset. 1956, Education 204

Geoffrey Keith Johnston BA, Dip, December 2013, aged 80, Gloucestershire.

1953, English Peter Richard Jones BA, 5 November 2013, aged 85, Hampshire. 1951, Jurisprudence Joseph James McPartlin BA, Dip, 24 October 2013, aged 75, Oxfordshire.

1959, Geography Roger Patrick O’Brien BA, 2013, aged 73, North Yorkshire. 1958, English Andrew Herbert Stroud, 25 January 2014, aged 73, Surrey. 1959, PPE Michael Henry Puzey Webb BA, October 2013, aged 80, Kent. 1954, Modern Languages & Linguistics 1960s Charles Bryan Freeman FRCP, MA, BM BCh, March 2014, aged 71, London.

1960, Physiology and Clinical Medicine John Melville Haworth BA, 7 October 2013, aged 72, Bexley. 1963, Physics Lawrence John Moonan BPhil, 2013, aged 75, Stirlingshire. 1969, Philosophy Thomas Jack Picton BA, 19 February 2014, aged 68, Lancashire. 1964, Geography* Sir David John Rowlands KCB, CB, BA, 11 May 2014, aged 66, Essex. 1965, Philosophy 1970s Edward Jonathan Lowe DPhil, 5 January 2014, aged 63, County Durham.

1972, Philosophy Charles Dillon “Dusty” Miller MLitt, February 2014, aged 76, South Yorkshire. 1975, Modern History. (President of the MCR 1976-77) *obituaries of these Aularians are published below.

SCR MEMBERS James Duncan “Jim” Naughton, MA (PhD Camb), 9 February 2014, aged 63, Oxfordshire. Fellow by Special Election in Modern Languages (Czech) William Peter Asbrey BA, 3 March 2014, aged 85, Northamptonshire. 1949, Jurisprudence. St Edmund Fellow Professor Sir David Charles Miller Yardley, Kt, MA, DPhil (LLD Birm), 3 June 2014, aged 84, Oxfordshire. Emeritus Fellow 205

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OBITUARIES GEORGE BRENNEMAN BARNER (1935) George Barner died on 10 September 2013, aged 104. He is survived by his children (Barry, Pamela, Dean, Christian, and Kim), his wife Barbara and step-son Bryant having pre-deceased him. The following autobiographical note was written at the time of George’s 100th birthday and is reproduced by kind permission of his family.

A Short Summary of the Life of George Barner on his “100th” George Barner was born on 20 December, 1908 in Webster City, Iowa, the second of four children in our family. His father, an attorney, wanted his children to follow him in his profession and, except for George’s older brother who became a physician, they all complied. George finished high school in Webster City and went on to Harvard College by way of a short time at Grinnell College in Iowa. He had two main interests in life - the theatre and tennis and avidly pursued both of them. In high school he was selected to play the part of the shah in a musical called The Garden of the Shah and the part of Adam in a play entitled Adam and Eva by an English writer. As for tennis he played more or less regularly from the age of ten until he reached the age of ninety.

After winning the city tournament he was able to represent his high school in the Iowa state tournament at Ames.

Again at Harvard College he continued his interest in both tennis and the theatre.

For a while it was his good fortune to room with two very talented students - Harold Adamson who later became one of the most successful writers in his field. His work is still sung throughout the world today. His other roommate, Bernard Hanighan, led the college orchestra and wrote the music for a number of musicals that were produced at Harvard. He did the music and Adamson the lyrics and George wrote the book for a production called Wrong Again that succeeded rather well. They had the assistance of two well-known actors at their rehearsals - Fred Allen and Libby Holman. They were all members of the Harvard Dramatic Club and worked on many of its productions.

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His other interest, tennis, took him to Vermont in the summer. The boys at Camp Passumpsic on Lake Fairlee were often the sons of well-known families, many in the professional theatre. One was the son of the playwright Myron Fagan who visited the camp with his wife Minna Gombell, the lead in his new play in New York called The Little Spitfire. She went on to make many successful motion pictures. The following summer he was scheduled for the same job again and the stepfather of one of the boys known as Tex Lucas called George to see if he could look after the boy both before and after the session at the camp in order for him to get away to Hollywood and a second try to get into motion pictures. This was the little-known Clark Gable who was just closing his lead in a New York play. He had been once rejected by Hollywood, apparently on account of his projecting ears. George looked after Tex along with his other work. George observed that a letter arrived for the boy regularly every week addressed to “Dear Son” which was the only part that George read but it was obvious that Clark was trying to play the part of a good father.

His law school life went on for some years because the country was in a deep depression and most people were out of work. After college George attended Harvard Law School for two years and moved to Boston University to finish and become a member of the Boston Bar. The year was 1934 when the son of a close friend of his father, a Rhodes Scholar at Harvard who had studied at Queen’s in Oxford, had recently returned and fired George’s interest in studying at Oxford. This was a new life and according to the George the best years of his life in gaining lifelong friends and knowing men like A.B. Emden and J.N.D. Kelly at the Hall and his tutor, Mr Tyler (later Sir Thomas Tyler), at Balliol.

His partner in his tutorial was a Rhodes Scholar named Daniel Boorstin who later became a Pulitzer Prize winner.

On his return to the States to look after family affairs George observed that most people seemed to be out of work and had almost given up seeking jobs.

George believed that it was probably his Oxford background that produced a job for him on Wall Street with a law firm named Campbell, Harding, Goodwin and Danforth. He was employed to help the trial attorney, Ralph Ketcham, in a suit against an investment firm that had been in trial for many months.

George was given the services of an office and secretary but very low wages.

Two years later the case was still being tried piecemeal and one million dollars was recovered during his employment and was still in process after he returned to New England to work for himself.

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He was side-tracked for two years in Manchester, New Hampshire working for an insurance company and preparing cases for trial. He had married just before leaving New York and was starting a family and finally returned to the Boston area and purchased his first home in the City of Melrose. Shortly afterward he ran for the office of Alderman and was successful in serving two terms. By that time he was associated with a group of seven attorneys in Boston and he practised there for about twenty years at which time he moved his office to Melrose with another attorney named Edwin Lundquist and the firm name was Barner and Lundquist.

His marriage in New York had been to Vivianne Wentworth Eldridge of Portsmouth, New Hampshire and they had three children, Barry, Pamela and Dean. Vivianne died in 1953 as the result of an accident and in 1962 he married again to Barbara Bryant who was divorced and the mother of two small children, Bryant and Nancy Kimberly Thayer. Two years later they had one son, Christian Long Barner, who has become a very successful attorney and George had the honour of sponsoring him at his admission to the Maine Bar. In 1969 George was able to retire from his firm, which continued to function for some years, and moved to Florida into a house that he had arranged to be constructed adjacent to a sea wall where he and his wife had a boat that they used in the ocean. However, Barbara was not happy with Florida and after six years they returned to New England and owned various homes in Maine. Finally both Barbara and George moved into a very pleasant retirement home which had been in existence for almost twenty years. The management scheduled a celebration of the first man there to reach the age of one hundred, though a few women had previously achieved that questionable distinction.

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that year saw the first of almost a quarter of a century of autumn visits to Maine, initially with my parents and always the highlight of our year. George’s affection for the Hall remained undimmed, epitomised by his loyalty to the New York Dinner and his readiness not just to reminisce but actively to encourage current Hall activities through his founding of the George Barner Prize for Contribution to Theatre. George’s positive attitude and open-mindedness, even at great age, were inspirational, as was his capacity for friendship.

JOHN WICKHAM KING (1935) John King died on 16 January 2014 shortly before his 97th birthday. Born in Hagley, near Stourbridge, Worcestershire, and educated at Shrewsbury School, John came up to the Hall in 1935 to read Jurisprudence. He rowed in the Hall’s 3rd boat and was also a member of the Essay Society and the Diogenes Club.

After graduating, he became an articled clerk to the Clerk of the Peace for Bedfordshire. John joined the Bedfordshire Yeomanry just before World War II. His military career included service with the British Expeditionary Force in France and Germany (he was evacuated from Dunkirk) and, following the award of a commission, he served with Army Intelligence in India and Burma.

After the war, John was posted to British Military Government in the Ruhr, assisting with the restoration of the German courts.

On demobilisation, John returned to Bedfordshire to complete his articles and married Leslie Faulkner (St Hilda’s) in 1949. He joined the family firm and practised as a solicitor until 1987.

Following his retirement, John and Leslie moved to Ledbury, Herefordshire, where he continued to pursue his active interest in researching local history.

John is survived by a son, Peter, a daughter, Jane Fellows, and two grandchildren.

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REVD CANON DR WILLIAM ALFRED LESLIE VINCENT (1940) Leslie Vincent died on 15 January 2014, aged 102. The following appreciation of Leslie’s life was written by his daughter Felicity to celebrate his 100th birthday and is reproduced by kind permission.

Leslie was born on 22 December 1911 in Newport, Monmouthshire, the second but only surviving son of William and Jessie Vincent. His first years were spent in his mother’s family home which, because they were hauliers, had stables and horses. His father was a builder and decorator.

He learned to play the piano and organ, and sang in the choir at St Woolos’ Cathedral. He attended Newport High School where he was a nippy rugger forward, and went on to read History at Bristol University, where music also played an important part in his life.

Leslie’s first teaching job was in Chelmsford and he was ordained priest in Chelmsford Cathedral on Trinity Sunday 1940.

He went on to be a member of staff at St Edward’s School in Oxford, and as a member of St Edmund Hall began his BLitt thesis on the grammar schools.

This was published in 1950 as The State and School Education 1640-1660 and was acclaimed in the New Statesman by Hugh Trevor-Roper as a perfect model for such a study.

In 1944 he married the 21-year-old Mary Price, daughter of a churchwarden at St Woolos, Newport and shortly after became chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford (in which capacity it was necessary to sing well) and headmaster of Christ Church Cathedral Choir School.

After six years at Christ Church, Leslie spent twelve years in Chester as chaplain and lecturer in divinity at Chester Training College, embarking upon further research on the early grammar schools.

In 1964 he moved on to be Vice-Principal of the College of St Matthias, Fishponds, Bristol and finished his doctoral thesis (published as The Grammar Schools, 1660-1714). He received his Oxford doctorate in 1968. Before leaving Bristol he was made honorary canon of Bristol Cathedral.

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of special meaning to him. He and Mary worked hard with a group of friends to found the Wimborne branch of NADFAS. Meanwhile he was interested in alternative medicine and the benefits of acupuncture, and grappled with selfquestioning about his own religious faith.

In 1992 he and Mary moved to Wimborne, where she died in the Victoria Hospital after only three months in their new home.

At eighty Leslie learned to be self-sufficient. Always keen on walking, the steep staircase in his house and walking around Wimborne by the river helped to maintain his fitness. He has now [2011] lived at Stoneleigh for three years, still gaining exercise from the stairs up to his room. The high point of his week was going to the communion service at the Minster and his religious selfquestioning was resolved in a return to the simple religious faith with which he grew up.

Felicity Vincent Black MICHAEL BALDWIN (1950) Full disclosure: I have been indebted since 1953 to fellow undergraduate Michael Baldwin because his introducing me to his visiting Canadian cousin, Pauline Brooks, resulted in my emigrating to Canada and marrying her.

A Kentish man, Michael Baldwin was born in Gravesend in 1930, grew up in Meopham, and was locally educated. After national service in the army, he entered St Edmund Hall on an Open Scholarship in 1950. He wrote about his county in The River and the Downs: Kent’s Unsung Corner (1984), and Writing in Kent since 1900 for the Kent Literary Festival in 1986. Two periods in his life are fancifully and humorously depicted in Granddad with Snails, which deals with boyhood escapades, and In Step with a Goat, which deals with his time in the Territorial Army, especially marching and gunnery while serving in the Coastal Artillery Regiment of the Thames and Medway Estuary. He kept an eye on Kent in the County Cricket Championship. His literary subjects are not confined to his beloved Kent, however.

Michael Baldwin was a remarkably productive and versatile writer, capable of adopting a wide range of personae, some of them even nastier than Alex in Burgess’s Clockwork Orange. Baldwin’s first collection of poems, The Silent Mirror, was published by Fortune Press in 1951 while he was an undergraduate.

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Seven more collections followed, notably Death on a Live Wire and On Stepping from a Sixth-Storey Window (1962), which became a Christmas Choice of The Poetry Book Society; Buried God in 1973; and King Horn: Poems written at Montolieu in old Languedoc 1969-1981. He had moved to that area of France to recuperate from serious illness, and he became steeped in its stormy history, local inhabitants, flora and fauna. His poetry was described by Ted Hughes, future Poet Laureate, in The Listener: “Language radiant and unalterable, clean and alive at every point... a sort of heightened dialect, more immediately human and communicative than the stuff we are used to meeting in verse... a whole man is speaking his natural language.” King Horn received the Cholmondeley award for poetry in 1984, the year in which he was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Vigorous language and imagination also inform his two collections of short stories and his twelve novels. In Holofernes (1989) the flight of an intelligence agent is hijacked to Libya where he discovers a plan to attack Israel. The Gamecock (1980) is a fictional treatment of the Duke of Wellington’s campaign to drive Napoleon’s army out of Spain, as is The First Mrs Wordsworth (1996) about Wordsworth’s liaison with Annette Vallon in revolutionary France; the Sunday Times review declared “Baldwin’s sense of period and landscape cannot be faulted.” Dark Lady (1998) is about Emilia Lanier, née Bassano, who according to A. L. Rowse was the dark lady of Shakespeare’s sonnets. In Baldwin’s imaginative treatment, with the aid of black magic she takes revenge on the odious Lord Hunsdon and other prominent men of the Elizabethan era who committed violent physical abuse on her and frustrated her literary ambitions.

In the undergraduate John Oldham Society, he co-produced Auden and Isherwood’s Ascent of F6, produced Ben Jonson’s Epicoene or the Silent Woman, and wrote two plays, Satyrasis and Who Is My Enemy. He later wrote for radio, film, and stage. His verse play All American Bust was performed at the Royal Court Theatre, and his Thames TV series “Writer’s Workshop” won a Rediffusion Prize.

Before concentrating full-time on writing, he was Principal Lecturer at Roehampton Institute and Head of English and Drama at Whitelands College, Putney. He was a dedicated teacher of young people, in person and through his books, The Way to Write Poetry; Poetry Without Tears; The Way to Write Short Stories, and Drawing the Line: The How-to-Draw Book and anthologies 212

he edited such as Poems by Children 1950-1961. He was a judge at the Daily Mirror/ W.H. Smith Young Writers’ Competition and active in the Arvon Foundation, a series of residential courses in creative writing which he helped to found and develop in conjunction with Ted Hughes.

He wrote a substantial essay on “Ted Hughes and Shamanism”, but as his friend for over 30 years he discreetly declined to write about Hughes’ controversial personal life. At the 1999 Memorial Service for Hughes in Westminster Abbey, attended by Prince Charles and the Queen Mother, Baldwin and Seamus Heaney were the two poets chosen to read poems by Hughes.

His generosity was widespread. One semester he taught a modern poetry course for a visiting group of undergraduates from the University of North Carolina but expended much of his salary by bringing in poets such as Pam Ayres and Alan Brownjohn as guest speakers and by taking the students to lunch. In the summers when I returned with UNC students on a Shakespeare course he regularly invited me to dine at the Athenaeum.

He was twice married. His first wife, Jean (née Bruce) died in 2013. He is survived by their sons Matthew and Adam and four grandchildren, and by his second wife Gillian (née Beale) and their son Joel.

Michael Jesse Baldwin, writer and teacher, born 1 May 1930, died 3 February 2014.

Christopher Mead Armitage (1950) In memory of Michael Baldwin In the autumn of 2013, and the autumn of Michael’s life, I tried to make a rendezvous to see him and talk with him. Although we had spoken often on the phone in recent years, we had not met for some time. We were both old men, and not very mobile, but we agreed we could each take a taxi, I from my home in Greenhithe, Kent, he from his home in Bromley, only-just Kent, and meet at some hostelry half way between.

We would discuss times past, when he often sat in my room on the front quad and write or read while I went off on some frivolous diversion like a lecture or a tutorial; or when he and I and our respective girlfriends punted on the Cherwell in our evening clothes in the small hours of the morning after the Summer Ball; 213

or years later when with lavish hospitality he entertained my wife and me in the Athenaeum Club.

We never met that autumn or that winter. Twice we agreed a rendezvous. Twice he phoned me a week later, with typical polite apologies. He was not well enough to come. Within a few months he died.

Particularly I wanted to meet with him because I had been re-reading that marvellous book of his, The River and the Downs: Kent’s Unsung Corner. I had moved in 1991 from Surrey into that very same part of the world between the river and the downs where Michael had spent his boyhood and his early years.

The book is a triumph, written with great scholarship and wit in prose which only a poet could write. On first reading it I knew nothing of Kent’s unsung corner, whereas Michael knew it intimately. Now in 2013 the position was reversed. I knew these places in detail – Greenhithe, Swanscome, Gravesend and Meopham – and Michael had moved away long since. I wanted to talk to him about the changes which made his book cruelly out-of-date, the closure of great industries like boat-building, chalk extraction, cement-making and paper-making, and the tentacle grasping reach of concrete and brick along the northern shore, grabbing the green banks and the white chalk dene-holes from Erith to the Isles of Grain and Sheppey. Our meeting was not to be.

Michael was someone who achieved much, always kind and generous and friendly, and he will be greatly missed by me, his family, his fellow students, his fellow poets and his beloved Teddy Hall.

John C D Holmes (1950) Ave atque vale noble Maker The poet Alan Brownjohn’s obituary of Michael in The Guardian showed great insight of Michael’s character as a giver in his “teaching others to write while battling to produce his own work” that “never involved any sense of conflict, or even resentment about the time it consumed.” Alan, a Merton man of the early 50’s, never knew Michael at Oxford, but gradually came under his influence when he met him as a fellow course tutor with the Arvon Foundation where Michael was an inspiring force. Alan told me recently that getting to know Michael and the friendship and encouragement as a writer he received from him constituted something nonpareil in his life.

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All of which sums up Michael’s influence and friendship at the Hall through the years 1950-1955: in that half-decade he was the leading presence of our MAKERS Society (founded by Geoffrey Grigson in the Twenties); having taken his degree in ’53 and chosen for a possible DPhil to revalue the 19th Century diplomat cum poet/dramatist Henry Taylor, he did not retreat from the Hall’s daily round but drove us on Diaghilev-style to astonish him with our poems and stories. His final throw of the dice at the Hall was his direction of Ben Jonson’s mordant and ever-playful Epicoene, or the Silent Woman (1954).

For many a London winter Hall dinner (he only said “No, alas” this year at the last minute) it was a great pleasure to be with him and enjoy the company of our Hall friends.

Antony Harding (1952) TONY EDWYN BIRKS (1958) St Edmund Hall (Geography) 1958-61. Died in France 25 April 2014. Tony was a portrait painter (see Aularian, Spring 2002 for his portrait of Dr Ian Scargill), and a portrait sculptor since his graduation from the UCL Slade School (commissions included Lord Tonypandy – George Thomas, Speaker of House of Commons – and last year Sir Jonathan Miller, Professor T Meaden and S Schotten). Tony was also the author of twelve influential books, chiefly on design and studio ceramics. He leaves a wife and two sons.

Leslie Birks-Hay RONALD CECIL MACLEOD COOPER, CB (1951) Ron Cooper (1951, Modern History) died on Saturday, 26 July 2014. He was an exhibitioner of the Hall and after graduating in 1954 he entered the Civil Service where he had a distinguished career.

By a strange fluke I actually met Ron nearly two years before we went up, as the CO of a War Office Selection Board discovered that we both had places at the Hall and introduced us. It was a pleasure to meet this very nice man and to learn that we should be working together in the History School.

Ron was born and had his initial schooling in Newcastle on Tyne, where he developed a love for music and played the viola in chamber groups. Later the family moved to Edinburgh, where Ron attended the Academy before leaving for his National Service, where he was commissioned in the Education Corps.

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At the Hall we spent three years under the tutelage of Jack McManners and George Ramsey. It so happened that we also chose the same special subject for our Finals, British Foreign Policy from 1898 to 1907, where our tutor at was M.R.D. Foot. I later discovered that he had had a distinguished war record and had worked with the SOE, of which he later wrote a history.

Ron’s first Civil Service posting was to the Ministry of Supply. His early jobs were concerned with the financial control of the development of aircraft and equipment for the Air Ministry: very necessary, as almost all these projects seemed to exceed their initial estimated costs. After the break-up of the Ministry of Supply, Ron’s career continued in the part that became the Ministry of Aviation.

From 1962, he spent five years on secondment to the European [space] Launcher Development Organisation in Paris. During this time he developed a quite serious interest in the wines of Burgundy, and was created an honorary member of the Chevalier de Tostevin – an excellent excuse for tastings!

Back in London, and by then an Under Secretary, Ron headed the Companies division of the Department of Trade. This was beginning the long overdue process of modernising company law. Ron was involved in developing proposals on insider dealing and directors’ duties. The UK had joined the EU and became involved in negotiations on numerous law directives.

After Ron was promoted to Deputy Secretary, he became Principal Personnel and Finance Officer of the new Department of Trade and Industry. He had to advise on the organisational consequences of the merger, including the sensitive matter of the sharing of roles between the two joint Permanent Secretaries!

Ron started the process of putting personnel management and training on a more professional basis, instead of the older more paternalistic approach.

His colleagues at the time recall that Ron was admirably fitted for this job.

A sympathetic man, he dealt with the personal problems of individuals with understanding and judgement. Ron’s staff and colleagues knew that he valued them and in return they trusted and respected him.

He was also involved in the reforms of that period, to give more responsibility and accountability to the big executive operations of government and he developed this in his final job as a Deputy Secretary in the Department of Transport, where he was responsible among other things for driver testing, and the Vehicle Inspection and Driver Licensing Agencies.

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Ron was not one to sit back in his retirement. He lived in Chalfont St Peter, where he became treasurer of the PCC, and was heavily involved in a major fundraising campaign for repairs to the parish church. He also did the valuable job of serving as an advice worker in the Citizens’ Advice Bureau.

In 2002 Ron and Christine moved to Great Missenden, where he again took a very active role in the life of the Church. Underpinned by his firm Christian faith, he helped with various aspects of parish work. A member of the clergy team described how his wisdom was valued and his insight into the pastoral side of the church’s work: he would, for example, quietly alert the clergy to situations where people might be in need of more help.

Ron suffered from diabetes and showed great fortitude in dealing with it, never allowing the condition to affect his work. Towards the end of his life however it had a serious effect on his mobility; this must have been terribly irksome for him, although he never complained.

A handsome man, Ron enjoyed his golf, his holidays in Pembrokeshire, and his family life and, although having a fairly serious demeanour, he would readily break into a characteristic gurgly chuckle when amused. He was one of the best sort of Teddy Hall men, spending his life quietly and most ably dedicated to working for his family, community and country. He is survived by Christine, his son Alexis, and daughters Susan and Lorraine.

Desmond Day (1951) JONATHAN HEWITT (1958) Died 12 May 2014 in Madrid.

Jonathan Hewitt came up to the Hall in 1958 to read Geography. He was a charming and likeable Hall undergraduate. He was also a promising oarsman, having learned to row at Westminster School. He was the son of the late Sir John Hewitt and of Lady Hewitt. She has outlived him. At Teddy Hall, he made the Hall First VIII as a freshman, and had the satisfying experience of going Head of the River in the first Hall crew to achieve that feat in Summer Eights. This was a remarkable achievement, as many of the 1959 crew went on to win Henley events and gain international caps. Sadly, Jonathan is the third member of that crew to have died.

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Jonathan opted to go down after the summer of 1959 and to start a career. Later, he very much regretted that decision; but in spite of John Kelly and several of his friends trying to persuade him otherwise, Jonathan had made up his mind, and off he went into the world of business and a new life. He managed to row in several Leander crews, and very much enjoyed that Club; but his heart remained in SEHBC. Throughout his life Jonathan was a free spirit. He worked in a number of businesses, but was at his Jonathan Hewitt best as an entrepreneur. He was multi-lingual, and a total European. He and his first wife Georgina, were married in the mid-1970s, living in Venice, then Monaco.

In 1981 he married his second wife, Carmen Fernandez Morodo. They had two delightful children, Jonnie and Alessandra. They lived on the outskirts of Madrid in a stunning house with the most beautiful garden. In the final stage of his career he became a diplomat with the British Embassy in Madrid, from which he retired at the compulsory age. This did not suit him, and he successfully challenged the age ruling.

Jonathan was a brilliant raconteur, a good friend, and a life-long supporter of the Friends of the Boat Club. He held a strong view on almost any subject, and was never afraid to give his opinion. In spite of his brief stay in Oxford, he was a true Hall man and full to the brim of Hall spirit. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him.

RIP Jonathan.

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Richard Fishlock (1957)

HANSEL BEECHEY-NEWMAN (1954) Hansel’s death on 3 June 2013 was reported in last year’s edition of the Hall Magazine. The following obituary, written by his son Tim, is an amended version of what originally appeared in the magazine of the Leander Club.

Hansel Beechey-Newman began rowing at Magdalen College School in 1946 where, in spite of being relatively light, he eventually earned a position in the First Eight. Rowing was not a major sport at the school and thus in order to do more of it than was offered, Hansel and some other boys formed the Sculloars Boat Club, which privately funded attendance at regattas to which the school was not sending crews, and rowed to the Isis Tavern at Iffley Lock on a Sunday.

He passed on his Sculloars BC tie to one of his sons shortly before his death – surely a rare item indeed!

In 1952 Hansel began his National Service, which he served with the Royal Air Force. In 1953 he was stationed in Winnipeg, Canada: he lost no time in joining the local rowing club, and his crew won the Junior Lightweight Fours at the North-West International Regatta that year.

He went up to St Edmund Hall in 1954 to read Geography. Here he joined the Boat Club and soon made the First Eight. Although not Captain at this time he immediately pressed to implement some of the training and discipline he had learnt in the RAF, and in Torpids the following term the Teddy Hall First Eight won their blades by getting a bump on each of the five days over which the event was run at that time. According to Hansel’s blade, the average weight of this crew was a mere 71kgs.

Hansel was elected Captain of SEHBC in 1955 and continued to work to improve rowing at the College. According to one of the letters received by the family from a fellow member of the First Eight: “he organised and set up the Rowing Club to become the most successful of all the Oxford Colleges at the time. He brought with him a sound rowing ethic, some of which stemmed from his time in the RAF, and pushed us through new training regimes which bore results on the Isis, Henley and other pot hunting regattas.” An interesting recollection of another member of SEHBC at that time is that, in times of bad weather when training sessions for other sports such as rugby were cancelled, under the rowing section of the notice board, headed ‘Rowing – an all-weather sport’, there were no such cancellations.

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Hansel’s leadership pushed SEH on to greater things and in 1958 the College won the Ladies Plate – the last Oxford College to do so. In 1959 the College went Head in Summer Bumps, which position it held for a further four years out of the following six.

Whilst at Oxford, he met a pretty nurse called Anne, whom he married in 1958.

They were together for 54 years until her death in 2012, and had three sons.

After Oxford Hansel went into management consultancy based in London, but after two or three years of this he opted for a better life by moving with his young family to Falmouth in Cornwall, where he became a jeweller, gemmologist, and valuer.

It was not long before he became involved with the local rowing club – Greenbank – who at this time raced in Flash Boats (fixed seat wide hulled boats for four oarsmen). Whether it was because these boats were not what he was used to, or whether it was because Greenbank’s First Four were unassailable at the time in their category, Hansel persuaded them that if they moved to sliding seat rowing they would be able to widen their competition, and to this end he bought them an old four from the local Police force. From this time onwards Greenbank competed on the wider WEARA circuit and in spite of tougher competition the Senior Men’s Four continued their previous success, winning the WEARA championships eleven times between 1978 and 2000.

Hansel was also behind the Club’s appearance at Henley Royal Regatta in the early 70’s – the first Cornish Club to do so – and was Treasurer of WEARA from 1978 to 1985.

Hansel’s exploits at Oxford did not earn him automatic membership of Leander Club, for which it would have been necessary to finish in one of the first three boats. However, in 1982 he was elected a member for his services to rowing.

Hansel and his wife moved to France in 2004, returning to Falmouth in 2011.

Although by then suffering from Parkinson’s, he made a final pilgrimage to HRR in 2012, meeting up with old friends from the RAF and St Edmund Hall BC. The family would like to thank the many of his SEH friends who sent letters of condolence, several of which credited him with having first interested them in the sport.

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THOMAS JOHN (‘JACK’) PICTON (1964) Jack Picton came up to the Hall in 1964 as an Abbott Scholar to read Geography.

He grew up in Preston, where his father was Vicar of St George’s Church, and attended Preston Grammar School. There he distinguished himself in athletics, received the Queen’s Scout Award and the Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award.

While at the Hall he cycled between Oxford and Preston at the beginning and end of each term, so it is no surprise that he won a Blue in cycling. He also rowed in the Hall First Eight, which was Head of the River at that time. But Jack was much more than a sportsman: as his tutorial partner for four terms I can vouch for his seriousness as a geographer. With northern bluntness and a touch of humour we would criticise one another’s essays. We also worked together in the Herbertson Society, the University Geographical Society, of which we were Presidents in successive terms. Jack’s sense of humour included a taste for practical jokes which revealed itself on a field trip when he contrived to strand some of us on the balconies of our rooms in an Ardennes hotel.

Jack was a true geographer who loved adventurous travel. After graduating in 1967 he set off to Nepal as a VSO volunteer. There he met Narayana, librarian at the British Council in Kathmandu, whom he married in 1969 in Preston.

Jack’s subsequent industrial and marketing career took them to many countries, particularly in the Middle East, where three of their four children were born – in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. He would often return to Nepal with Narayana, visiting her family and also disappearing on treks, often accompanied only by a porter. On one occasion he took Thomas and Richard, his two sons, to climb one of the lesser (still 20,000 feet!) Himalayan peaks.

In later years Jack returned to his native Lancashire, using his experience to advise those wanting to engage in business in the Middle East. He and Narayana lived in Burnley in a former cotton-mill owner’s house which could accommodate the growing Picton clan. They would also gather at Hobkinground, their Lake District home in Broughton Mills. Jack’s love of physical challenges continued in his sixties, encouraging him to complete his first triathlon at 61 (with Sarah and Rebecca, his daughters) and a Big Battlefield Bike Ride for Help for Heroes in 2010. He and Narayana walked the Pennine Way in 2012, battling strong winds and rain.

Jack’s traditional Christian upbringing left him with a faith and values which remained a cornerstone, and were strengthened by his marriage to Narayana.

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Wherever they lived they would find a place for Christian worship, even if covertly in the British Embassy while in Saudi Arabia. In Burnley, Jack sang in the choir at St Matthew’s Church; and in the Anglican diocese he became a member of the cathedral chapter and helped his Bishop with the planning cathedral affairs. He also served as a magistrate. Throughout his 68 years Jack lived life abundantly: he will be sorely missed by his family and friends, his church and community.

Tony Lemon (1964)

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