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The College would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce photographs:Dr David Beckingham pp. 16, 17, 20, 50, 79, 80, 82, 84, 102, 103, 104, 106, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 115, 116, 117, 154, 166; Dr Ajit Bhalla p. 56; Charlotte Binstead p. 87; Sophie Blackburn p. 95; Professor Sir Tom Blundell pp. 36, 37; Chris Crowe p. 89; Professor Dame Sandra Dawson p. 65; Judith Ewing p. 42; Dr Richard Flower p. 39; Laura Goldberg p. 114; Wendy Hedley p. 54; John Iles p. 25; Ruth Jackson p. 97; Sam White p. 68; © National Portrait Gallery p. 35; Viresh Patel p. 98; Dr C S Patil pp. 27, 28; Caroline Penn p. 10; Private collection p. 33; Geoff Robinson p. 85; Sidney Sussex College pp. 14, 23, 77, 147; Daryl Skinner p. 101; Dr David Skinner p. 18; Pamela Jane Smith p. 8; Zoe Swenson-Wright front cover and pp. 3, 47, 60, 72, 122, 152; Stewart Tiley pp. 73, 74; Thomas Tunstall-Allcock p. 91; Revd Dr Peter Waddell p. 66; Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill pp. 6, 9.

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Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

The Church in College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Library Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Muniment Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Garden Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Pebbles, the College Cat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Student Life

La Serenissima comes to Sidney: The May Ball 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Larkum Reading Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Report of the JCR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Report of the MCR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Reflections on My Experience as a Fox International Fellow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

College Travel Awards and Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

College Sports Clubs and Societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Officers of the Students’ Union 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

The Register

Appointments, Awards and Destinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

College Library: books received 2009–10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Births, Marriages and Other Occasional Offices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

The College 2010–11

The College 2010–11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Contents

Master’s News

From the Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

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‘Lucy, Brightness of Our Sphere’: Lucy Harington’s Portrait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

William M W Mong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

College Music and the Chapel Choir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

The Sidney Carol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

100 Not Out: the Centenary of the Confrat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

The Guild of St George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

The Pavate Fellowship Programme 2000–10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

A History to Live Up to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Wyndham Lewis in Madrid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Fellows’ Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

College News

Examination Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Admissions and Schools Liaison 2009–10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Graduate Tutors’ Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Benefactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Alumni News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

The Thornely Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Sidney Sussex Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Sidney Club of Geneva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

New Biomedical and Environmental Seminar Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

New Fellows 2009–10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Departing Fellows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Visiting Fellows 2009–10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Honorary Fellows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66


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From the Master To be elected Master of a College with four, rich centuries of history behind it, and 25 predecessors, is at once an immense honour and not a little daunting. Over the course of a year, I have begun to learn just how strong and rewarding Sidney’s tradition is, and how beneath its outward surface of unostentatious friendliness lie not-so-hidden depths of talent and inspiration. This emerges clearly from Dick Humphreys’ splendid new history of the College, rich with handsome illustrations and delightful anecdotes. In recognition, the author has been elected to a Fellow Commonership.

The main pleasure of this year for me and my wife Jo has been getting to know the many people who make up the College. The Fellowship, no small group at just over 70, combines enormous distinction with the human warmth which gives such a strong sense of community. Honours and achievements have flowed in throughout the year, and in great variety: Alan Dashwood was appointed a Queen’s Counsel; Professor Rosamond McKitterick awarded the international Heineken Prize for History for her work on the Carolingians, and in addition winning a major European grant from HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) for a project on ‘Cultural Memory and the Resources of the Past’, which will bring two doctoral students to the College; Professor Dame Ann Dowling announced as Panel Chair for Physical Sciences, Engineering and Mathematics for the Research Excellence Framework. Notable publica-tions include Christopher Page’s glowingly reviewed The Christian West and its Singers: the First Thousand Years, Lindsay Greer’s Nucleation in Condensed Matter, and Tim Blanning’s The Romantic Revolution, while Rebecca Kilner’s paper on communication between mother canaries and their chicks was the cover story of Science and was reported in the national press. Christopher Parish had a complex in Papworth Hospital named after him. The fellowship is not only distinguished, but dedicated to the welfare of our students: few more so than the Revd Dr Peter Waddell, whose promotion to the post of Pastoral Dean reflects his tireless contribution to the pastoral welfare of the entire commu-nity. On the personal front, we congratulate Thurstan Shaw, Honorary Fellow and distinguished African archaeologist, on celebrating his 96th birthday, Chris Doran on the birth of his daughter Emilia, and Jillaine Seymour on the birth of her son Zach. With much regret, we mark the passing of two Emeritus Fellows, Jeffery Switzer, our former Estates Bursar, and Professor Harry Whittington, whose work on the Burgess Shale led to a breakthrough in Palaeontology.

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College to hear about my project in Herculaneum. We have met old members further afield, too: in the USA, where East Coast alumni gathered at dinners in New York and New Haven (Yale), and in Switzerland where the Sidney Club of Geneva assembled on the shores of Lake Geneva at Coppet, again to hear about Herculaneum.

One vital group of supporters of the College is the 1596 Foundation, now comprising just short of a hundred old members and other friends of the College who have been particularly generous in their donations. Jo and I have

Jo and I have also much enjoyed getting to know the student body, in the numerous and diverse contexts in which they have displayed their tal-ents. The Choir, under David Skinner’s inspired direction, has transformed the Chapel into one of Cambridge’s princi-pal musical venues: whether there in the Chapel, from the balcony of the Master’s Lodge on May Day, or at College feasts, or touring Italy (includ-ing our old home, the British School at Rome), they have given endless pleas-ure. Student subject societies flourish, none more so than the Confraternitas Historica, which celebrated its cente-

nary, to hear brilliant speeches from Asa Briggs and Derek Beales. On the sports field, the rugby team has had a successful season, conscripting the new Master by creating a Wallace-Hadrill Shield for the annual match against our sister col-lege in Oxford, St John’s. The Boat Club, under Lisa Meegan’s leadership, has generated exceptional levels of enthusiasm and participation. Then there have been numerous good-humoured social occasions, including a Haunted Hall (for which I appeared as Cromwell’s Executioner), culminating in the spectacular May Ball. The transformation of Hall Court into a Venetian lagoon (and conse-quently the Master’s Lodge into a Doge’s Palace) justly attracted the attention of the main national papers, and won applause for the considerable engineering feat it represented. Sidney students have a strong sense of fun; but this sits closely together with their talents, whether academic, as engineers or histori-ans, or musical or sporting.

The College extends beyond the present generation of students. It has been a pleasure to get to know many of our alumni, both from distant matricula-tion years, like the early 1950s, when the ability to scale the College walls was essential for social life, or from more recent years, when surprisingly many married couples have met within the College walls. The Sidney Sussex Society has been active in assembling old members, this year at Penshurst Place as the guests of our generous and attentive Visitor, Viscount De L’Isle and his wife; in London at the Arts Club for a book launch of the new College history; and in

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food of the highest quality. For the third year in succession his team is to be congratulated on winning the Cambridge Colleges Culinary Competition. The Master’s Lodge sees a good deal of the College’s hospitality, and the Hall staff has been unfailingly efficient and good-humoured. The Hall porters, mainte-nance staff and cleaning staff (we owe an especial debt to our housekeeper, Jane Smith) have given constant support (few missions have proved so challenging as hanging an oil painting two by three metres in a space only two metres wide). Above all, our Porters represent the College’s welcoming shop window: Sam White and his staff strike an admirable balance between friendliness to all comers, and firmness with miscreants. I owe especial thanks to my PA, Alex Hall, who arrived at Christmas in succession to Kay Fieldhouse, and swiftly got on top of guiding the Master’s faltering steps: this Annual too shows her distinctive touch.

To run a college takes a team, and Sidney benefits from the talents and energies of its Principal Officers: I would have been lost without the support of the Bursar, Nick Allen, the Senior Tutor, Max Beber, and the Vice-Master, Chris Page.

Finally, a word of thanks to my predecessors, Professor Dame Sandra Dawson and Professor Sir Gabriel Horn. With Henry and Prill, they have been endlessly supportive to me in my new role: it is deeply reassuring to have the guidance of such past Masters. In their times, they transformed the College, adding to the distinction of its Fellowship, raising funds for new buildings and activities, adding to its sense of pride while maintaining its sense of friend-liness. I follow in their footsteps simultaneously awed and inspired by their example.

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met a large number of them at the two annual feasts. Between them, they are responsible for many of those things that give the College its edge, whether on the academic side, in supporting Fellowships, bursaries and student sup-port that ensures that the College is fully accessible to those from all financial backgrounds, or in supporting new buildings, or assets like furniture, silver plate, or musical instruments. Their support makes all the difference, and will be the more important in the uncertain financial climate which the education sector faces. It is with particular sadness that we record the passing of 1596 Foundation Member Dr William Mong, Honorary Fellow and benefactor, who in addition to financing the Mong Building recently endowed a scholarship for Chinese students from Tsinghua University to study in Cambridge.

The College also is lucky to have a superb staff. Keith Willox, now Domus Bursar, and his staff cope with endless problems with good humour, few so maddening as the boiler in the Master’s Lodge. Our catering and conferencing division does an extraordinary job, in terms both of quality and quantity, cater-ing for one event after another in quick succession (up to four weddings over a single weekend), and yet, under Stephen Mather’s brilliant guidance, producing

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‘Lucy, Brightness of Our Sphere’

Lucy Harington’s portrait■■A remarkable portrait of a remarkable woman has been newly hung in the foyer of the Master’s Lodge. Lucy Harington (1581–1627), the daughter of Sir John Harington, first Baron of Exton (one of the executors of Lady Frances Sidney’s will, and benefactor of the College), was an influential patron of the arts. Highly educated at home in the tradition of other female intellectuals like Queen Elizabeth, she was married at the age of 13 to the third Earl of Bedford, and used her wealth, influence and position as a courtier to Elizabeth I and James I to collect art and to promote literature of all kinds. The Anglo-Italian scholar John Florio dedicated his Worlde of Wordes (1598), the first Italian-English dictionary published in England, as well as his translation of Montaigne’s Essays (1603) to Lucy. Besides Florio, many other men of letters regarded her as ‘Patronesse of learning and the Muses’, including Michael Drayton, John Donne, Samuel Daniel and Ben Jonson. Jonson wrote several poems to the woman he called ‘Lucy, brightness of our sphere’. A kinswoman of the Sidney family, she was a natural focus of literary interest, and Jonson could say in her praise (perhaps the finest a poet can bestow), ‘rare poems ask rare friends’. Her most famous literary association was with John Donne, who named his daughter after her. He wrote several poems in her honour, and there is a good possibility that one of his most celebrated poems (the Holy Sonnet ‘Death, be not proud’) was actually written by her. Several books in the Muniment Room were Donne’s gifts to her. She may have fallen out with Donne over religion – she was a Calvinist and he an Anglo-Catholic. Her portrait speaks of this inclination: her gown is rich and yet subtle and severe; her contemplative pose in a study with books suggests her education and the Protestant tradition of high literacy. The curious black cord around her left wrist, attached to her wedding ring, may be a mourning token, although for whom is not clear. This large and very striking picture, by an unknown artist, is dated c. 1620, when Lucy was about 40 years old.

The picture was identified by Gillian Metcalfe, who was researching pictures for Richard Humphreys’ recently published history of the College. Through her good offices, Gurr John’s, who were looking after it for the owners, were able to negotiate the loan, and Lucy Harington, who is even more distinguished a patron than her kinswoman our Foundress, can now be seen through the glass in the front door of the Lodge.Dr Claire Preston, fellow in english

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steward, took him round the cellars. William was delighted by that experience, but even more delighted to receive a bottle of 1875 liqueur brandy that Barry had selected for him.

I have no doubt that the highest point of that visit for William was meet-ing the Queen. Her Majesty had agreed to unveil the foundation stone of the Mong Building while she attended our Quatercentenary celebrations. I placed William on the Queen’s immediate right at lunch in Hall. He was a bit nervous beforehand and was quite convinced the Queen would not speak to him. She did and they chatted away with the greatest of ease and animation. The Queen asked him where his children had been educated. When she learned it had been in the United States she asked him why he had not sent them ‘here’. She con-tinued, ‘You really must send your grandchildren here.’ William floated. From that time onwards he took the Queen’s remarks as a royal order that must be followed.

William returned in 1999 for the official opening of his building. His pleas-ure on seeing the building was hugely enhanced when he saw the Mong crest ‘flying’ over it. The whole experience was capped by the opening ceremony con-ducted by the Duke of Edinburgh, who was in high spirits and clearly enjoyed the occasion.

Between these visits by William to Sidney, I visited him in Hong Kong, but was at a loss as to what gift to take him. I spoke about this problem to my wife, Prill, who is an animal illustrator. She reminded me that William’s favourite breed of dog was the Sharpei. She painted a Sharpei for him and he positively glowed with pleasure when I gave him the painting.

The Mong Building at Sidney, William’s portrait in the hall of the building and, more recently, the establishment of studentships at Sidney for students from Tsinghua University give William Mong a lasting presence in the College and the University. All this may have been a tiny, though highly valued part of William’s life; but it is a great part of the life of Sidney. Gabriel Horn

William M. W. Mong 7 november 1927–20 July 2010

William Mong was a highly successful businessman and a generous philanthro-pist. He was particularly interested in supporting education, social welfare and health care in Hong Kong and mainland China. In Hong Kong, the Chinese University was a particular beneficiary of his munificence, especially the medi-cal school, the Dean of which was my former student Arthur Li. He introduced me to William Mong, who offered to meet the full £1.5 million we at Sidney estimated would be the cost of putting up a general-purpose building in the College. The College Council required me to obtain a written commitment from him and I went to Hong Kong with a very splendid document for us both to sign. He was quite upset by all this. He said there was no need for anything in writing – ours was a gentlemen’s agreement and he would not fail to meet it. In the end he did sign. However, as I look back on the affair I realise that William was indeed a man of his word and a man of great integrity. His verbal commitment was his bond.

When he first visited Sidney in 1996, William told me that his dearest wish was to establish links between Tsinghua University, Beijing and Cambridge. This

wish was later realized when he donated funds to establish a number of student-ships at Sidney that will allow students from Tsinghua to study in Cambridge. At the wider level, the initial discussions we had about links between the universities has come to fruition in the form of joint projects between the two.

On that visit to Sidney, one of the high points within the College for William was dining with Fellows on Friday night. Before dinner Barry Nisbet, the wine

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and an 1805 Clementi, which is situated in the Audit Room. The Steinway was featured in the College Concert on 1 June 2010, which was a fitting celebration of Sidney music. Performers included the Chapel Choir, the professional early music ensemble Alamire, Cambridge Baroque, and Ben Atkinson inaugurating the new Steinway with his exceptional performance of Chopin’s Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52. Also featured was ‘Oculi omnium’ by our former Organ Scholar Jamal Sutton, a sumptuous seven-part Salve Regina by Christopher Page, and works by the American composer Eric Whitacre, who will be our Visiting Fellow and Composer in Residence from October 2010.

The Choir continues to go from strength to strength, and now ranks among the top mixed-voice choirs in Oxbridge. There was a very large turn over this year and we welcomed 11 Sidney members to our ranks, including eight choral scholars (Emma Boulding, Verity Bramson, Kitty Norman, Ruth Shannon, Pippa Vega, Rosemary Dilnot, James Cormack and Yates Norton), two choral exhibitioners (Anna Isaac and Victoria Bullard-Smith) and Dan Smith, our new Junior Organ Scholar; new exhibitioners from other colleges included Eleanor Cramer (Clare), Camilla Wehmeyer (Murray Edwards), Patrick Flanagan (Homerton), and Joachim Cassel (Robinson).

College Music and the Chapel ChoirThis has been my fourth year at Sidney (and second as the Osborn Director of Music) and yet again I am astonished by the great musical talent that our relatively small college can produce. It just gets better every year, and there seems to be no sign of slowing down. The Music Society continues to be led expertly by Henry Scarlett and Ben Atkinson (respectively, our Senior Choral Scholar and Senior Organ Scholar; both of whom, incidentally, will be direct-ing and composing for the Cambridge Footlights in the new academic year). The first major event was a Remembrance Day concert in November, featuring some beautiful music by Brahms, Fauré, Byrd and Purcell, as well as poignant readings by Sidney members. The College was then treated to a regular series of concerts, including a Late Night Lieder Series in Michaelmas and Lent, and a concert in Easter Term with the vocal finalists of the Nigel Brown Prize. For these, unfortunately, our Chapel piano was showing its age, so it was with great delight that later in Easter Term we took delivery of a Steinway full concert grand (Model D), the gift of one of our new 1596 Foundation members, John Beale. We were also fortunate to receive two historical ‘square‘ pianos from Simon Lloyd (1950): an 1826 Broadwood, which is now in the New Parlour,

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Westminster Abbey, where the choir sang the College Grace ‘Oculi omnium’ in front of the elaborate Elizabethan tomb of Lady Frances Sidney in St Paul’s Chapel (next to the Henry VII chapel).

We made a short trip to Spain during the Easter break, where we sang to a large and appreciative audience in Caravaca de la Cruz on the evening of 20 March, and Holy Mass on the following morning in the Sanctisima y Vera Cruz Basilica to some 3,000 pilgrims; we finished with a concert the same evening in Murcia, hosted by the Spanish choir Ars Musica, whom we welcomed to Sidney in August. The highlight of the year was certainly our epic tour of Italy (26 June–10 July). The first part concentrated around Genoa and the Cinque Terre, and we sang in exceptionally beautiful (and packed) churches in Savignone, Levanto and Riomaggiore. Our hosts in Pontremoli were the Italian choir Il Convitto Armonico, who treated us to accommodation in the 12th-century castle and a boat trip from La Spezia to Portovenere (a place popular with 19th-century English poets); here the choir sang on the rock cliffs leading to the sea where Lord Byron often swam. We look forward to welcoming Il Convitto to Sidney in 2011. We then made our way to Florence, where we performed a late evening concert in the Cortile dell’Ammannati in the Palazzo Pitti. Our final five days were spent in Rome, where we sang three concerts organised by the Master: Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza (the chapel of the palace of the University of Rome), the Romanesque church in Vescovio (with stunning 13th-century fres-cos), and the auditorium in the British School at Rome, which was followed by a lavish reception in the courtyard.

The good times cannot roll on for ever, and we were sad to say goodbye to many long-standing members of the Choir. We wish the very best to Eve Ridgeway (Murray Edwards), Georgie Baker, Rachel Dilworth, Kathryn Harris (St John’s), Sarah Latto, Elizabeth Nixon (Clare), Thomas Athorne (Caius), Paul Kilbey, Joe Bunker (Jesus) and Duncan Hewitt. But all things musical would be impossible without the help and support of my friends and colleagues in the Fellowship, especially the Master, Vice-Master and Bursar, and the regular attendees at services and concerts. I am particularly grateful to the Pastoral Dean who has been a great supporter, and who has always tempered some of the Director of Music’s wilder plans for the present and future. We have, I believe, one of the finest musical teams possible in a Cambridge college and I am grateful to all for another successful year.Dr David skinner, Osborn Director of Music

The year started with the release of our fourth CD ‘A Christmas Carol’, comprising a selection of Victorian carols interspersed with readings from Charles Dickens by our former Master, Professor Sir Gabriel Horn. The CD was released worldwide for the 2009 Christmas market and early indications are that it is becoming a great seasonal success. Chapel services have also been augmented to include a third choral service each week in the form of Latin Vespers, which has proved very popular in Cambridge, attracting a large con-gregation. The service is entirely in Latin, including the readings, which are offered by members of the Fellowship, and highlights some of the treasures of early and late Renaissance music. Cathedral visits this year included Ely and

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The Sidney Carol Each year it comes round again: The aching chill, The ashen sky,The sunset bleeding through the fen,The freezing of our warm good will, The sense that things must die.Each year it comes round again.

As every year, the shepherds squat On bleaching grass Around the fold.Not asking if their life is whatWas always meant to come to pass Or why good things grow cold,As every year, the shepherds squat.

Sure as the stars at evening rise, There are three kings Who year by yearCome seeking what will make them wise:The new life which the winter brings, And which will now appearSure as the stars at evening rise.

In this bleak world what hope of joy? The ordeal of birth Has flecked with bloodA slight girl and her tiny boy.They hear the song of peace on earth And trust in human good:In this bleak world a hope of joy.

The year runs on and there is change: Not peace but war, My path is lost.And yet the power of time is strange.The winter child comes as before, Like snowdrops in the frost.The year runs on and there is change.

Once more, a choir of angels sings, As moonlight glows Within the ice.The shepherds join them, and the kings. Let us, too, join them, while it snows, To greet the new-born Christ. Once more, a choir of angels sings.Clive Wilmer


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100 Not Out: The Centenary of the ConfratIn 2010 the Confraternitas Historica attained its centenary. The celebrations are recorded elsewhere in the Annual (see pages 105–9). What follows is a brief account of the society’s history.

The first Cambridge College Historical Society was Trinity’s, founded by Lord Acton when he was Regius Professor of Modern History in 1896, and other colleges soon followed his example. But the Confrat is now unique among the College Historical Societies in either of the old universities in that, once founded in 1910, it has existed continuously ever since, whereas even Trinity’s has suffered periods of abeyance.

The centenary naturally directs attention back to the foundation and early years of the society. The trigger was the College’s decision to appoint a Lecturer in History in 1909, Jack Reynolds of Trinity, and make him a Fellow in 1910. This was an important period in the rise of History as a respectable subject of study. Cambridge was dominated by Mathematics, but the main arts tripos had long been Classics. Now History was taking precedence. The universities were becoming more concerned with the training of a secular elite than with their main traditional function, the provision of clergy for the Church of England. To accommodate more students and Fellows, Sidney had built Cloister Court (then called New Court) in 1890. It was evidently desirable also to broaden the range of subjects the Fellows professed. But the colleges in general, and Sidney in particular, responded only rather slowly, partly because of the restrictions imposed by their statutes.

Once Sidney had taken the plunge by appointing Reynolds, his story illus-trates the powerful impact that could be made, especially in that period of all-male education, by one young bachelor don, clever, handsome, charming – ‘beautiful’ according to his obituary in the Annual – passionately dedicated to his subject and his students. Reynolds ‘regarded the Classical Tripos as virtually dead, a matter requiring the gift of taking pains – a state of things not likely to improve without important reforms’. Far from being anti-religious, however, Reynolds was a devout and enthusiastic High Churchman, anxious to pro-mote more elaborate and colourful ritual in the church of his day. He had won the Lightfoot Scholarship for research on the Nonjurors, those who would not take the oath of allegiance to William III after the Revolution of 1688 and so lost their benefices, fellowships and scholarships. Reynolds scorned the entire establishment, complacent and wealthy, of the eighteenth-century Church of

England and did not think he could bear to be an Anglican clergyman in one of the typical parishes of Edwardian England. But he was a passionate sup-porter of the movement within the Sidney Fellowship to change the College from a colourless community tainted by memories of Cromwell into a High Church College with a spectacular new Chapel, the building of which he followed with delight. He at once became a close friend of another recently elected new Fellow of similar views, Tom Knox-Shaw.

The records show a group of Sidney students meeting in 1909 to propose the formation of a his-tory society and coming to the conclusion that they needed the support of dons. Reynolds was obviously delighted to preside over the formation of this soci-ety, avowedly devoted to ‘papers, debates and ban-quets’. Several of the Fellows in other subjects took part early on, including Knox-Shaw and R. H. D. Mayall, the Bursar. Reynolds, ritualist as he was, endowed the Society with an elaborate Latin initiation cer-emony heavily dependent on the University’s matriculation. The foundation document also provided for a sizeable committee, each officer boasting a Latin name. The society was officially secret, though its doings were clearly pretty well known. It met three or four times in each of the two main terms, generally in Reynolds’s rooms, to hear papers, and held an annual banquet. The First World War brought such meetings to an end, but the University itself almost ceased to function: hence the hiatus of 1914–19 is not counted as a break in the continuity of the society.

Reynolds was killed in the war, but the pattern he had established was fol-lowed closely from 1919 for roughly the next half-century, and his inspiration lived on through Knox-Shaw and the Mayall family. Meetings usually took place in Fellows’ rooms: E. J. Passant’s between the wars, David Thomson’s but more especially Otto Smail’s for the post-war decades. The great majority of papers were given by undergraduate members – a system that gave the society another claim to uniqueness. Down to the 1960s lengthy minutes were written, giving full accounts of the papers read, the dinners and the rather tiresome business meetings. Striking accounts survive of meetings addressed by outsiders such as Dorothy L. Sayers in 1937 and G. M. Trevelyan in 1940, the latter written up

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The Guild of St George[Editor’s note: In Sheffield on 14 November 2009, Clive Wilmer was appointed Master of the Guild of St George.]

The Guild was established by John Ruskin in 1878. It had been operating experimentally as St George’s Company for about six years before that. In its origins, it was a frankly utopian body. Ruskin made it clear in the series of open letters he called Fors Clavigera that its aim was the ambitious one of making England a happier place in which to live. In practice, the Guild was always rather more modest. Ruskin targeted three main areas of English life in need of support and improvement: art education, craft work and rural economy. Ruskin hoped to encourage the understanding and valuation of good art, to encourage craftsmanship as against mass production, and to revive what we should now call sustainable agriculture and horticulture. He was, in effect, attempting to resist the pressures of industrial capitalism.

by Asa Briggs. There was no breach of continuity during the Second World War, when Asa acted for several years as Magister (secretary) while commuting to top-secret work at Bletchley Park.

Under the aegis of Otto, the society flourished again after 1945. Those who took part remember Otto’s standard question at the end of each undergraduate paper, ‘What are your sources?’ During the 1960s, however, as in all aspects of University life, there were difficult moments. Some objected to belonging to a secret society with arcane rituals. The Latin formulae and names began to fall into disuse. The coming of co-residence in 1975 infused the society with new life, and several female Principes or Principessae (the society had much trouble with these feminine Latin forms) made their mark: the first was Catherine Bond in 1982.

The story between c. 1980 and the present is chequered. The keeping of minutes ceased; the only records now are the signatures of those attending the meetings. There were years when attendances were low, but there were also lively periods. The nature of the proceedings shifted: papers are now usually given by visiting dons rather than by students. To many members of earlier generations this is much to be regretted, and it certainly marks a fundamental change in the nature of the society. But the new method reflects new conditions in the University and the Faculty. In the days of Reynolds and Passant there was one History Fellow, and student contact with dons was more or less con-fined to supervisions occurring weekly. There was no place in the curriculum for extended research-based essays. Now the University runs classes, requires a mini-dissertation to be written in the first year and offers the opportunity to present a longer dissertation as part of Part II, which, as part of the examina-tion, is not easily treated as a paper to be given to the society. The College’s Fellows too run classes or seminars at which students make presentations.

So the Confrat now wears a rather different guise. But the support of dons remains strong, and the attendance of undergraduates has never been higher. The Confrat continues to play a notable role in don-student relations, in the social life of students and in stimulating their historical interests. Old members continue to show remarkable loyalty to the society: over a hundred came to the centenary dinner on 1 May. It is hardly possible to cavil at the state of a society whose officers mounted such a celebration, together with a most impressive programme of papers, while the Princeps and four others achieved Firsts in Part II of the Historical Tripos, the best result in the College’s history.Professor Derek Beales

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Today the Guild is a charitable Education Trust, which tries to put Ruskin’s hopes and ideas into practice. Its purpose is not, as Ruskin would have agreed, to pursue specifically Ruskinian or antiquarian projects. It aims to work in the spirit of Ruskin’s Company, but to pursue those values in contemporary ways. It works through a number of properties. It has an art collection, built up by Ruskin and supplemented since, in the Millennium Galleries, Sheffield. It owns land in the Wyre Forest, near Bewdley, which it administers in an environmentally friendly manner. It owns a number of houses in the Arts and Crafts style in the Hertfordshire village of Westmill; these are let at affordable rents and maintained as buildings of quality. It also provides scholarships and awards across a range of subjects close to Ruskin’s heart. It recently funded the very successful Campaign for Drawing, and it has provided the finance for a nine-year cycle of Triennial Exhibitions in the Millennium Galleries, which have Ruskin at the heart of them but extend his concerns into the present cen-tury. The first of these exhibitions – Can Art Save Us?, on Ruskin and sustain-ability – was on show earlier this year. The Guild is also, at present, supporting work on the regeneration of old orchards and hay meadows in the Wyre Forest area, and it has helped to build an architecturally striking study centre on its land, the Ruskin Studio.

In view of Ruskin’s contributions to economic debate, the Guild recently held the first of a series of Economic Symposia in London. Introduced by Frank Field MP, it was held at the Art Workers’ Guild in Bloomsbury, on 6 February 2010. It considered the current economic crisis in the light of Ruskin’s book, Unto This Last (1862). It was addressed by the new Master, by an academic economist, a journalist from the Financial Times and others.

The Guild is run by the Master, a Board of Directors and a stipendiary Secretary. The Companions gather once a year for their AGM, which includes an annual lecture. This year’s lecture, by Dr Stuart Eagles, will explore Ruskin’s influence on Tolstoy, this being Tolstoy’s centenary year.Clive Wilmer, fellow in english

The Pavate Fellowship Programme 2000–10In this anniversary year we can look back with satisfaction on the first ten years of the Pavate fellowship programme and the close and happy relationship between the College and Karnatak University at Dharwad to which it has led.

The year opened with the Editor’s annual visit for the selection committee in October, this time accompanied by Dr Stefan Halper, from the Centre of International Studies. His Pavate Memorial Lecture on the implications of the rise of China for India and the United States was followed by a lively discus-sion. In January, Professor Lindsay Greer visited Karnatak University and gave lectures to the Physics Department and the Academic Staff College. He also visited the Hindu and Jain temples at the Badami Caves and the complex at Pattadkal under the expert guidance of Professor Korrisettar.

The climax of the year came in May when the Master hosted a visit by the Vice-Chancellor of Karnatak University, Professor Saidapur, the Registrar, Professor Hinchigeri, and the current coordinator of the programme and Director of the Law School, Dr Patil. In a crowded three days our visitors were able to widen their contacts within the University by visits to the Departments

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of Material Sciences, Zoology and Biochemistry, as well as the Centre of International Studies, Judge Business School and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), the three that already host fellows under the programme.

As readers of recent Annuals will recall, the Pavate Foundation was the brainchild of Sharad Javali, a senior advocate in India’s Supreme Court and the maternal grandson of Dr D. C. Pavate, who had been a Junior Wrangler at Sidney in the 1920s. In establishing the trust on the centenary of Dr Pavate’s birth, Sharad Javali’s vision was to give young Indian scholars exposure to Cambridge and an opportunity to undertake a project that would help them to make a contribution to India’s development on their return.

A brief survey of past holders of the Fellowship shows how well his vision has been fulfilled.

Over the past two decades India has faced more than its fair share of terrorist challenges, so it is not surprising that our first and sixth fellows addressed this problem. Arnab Goswami, the founder of TIMES NOW, the premier English language TV news channel, published his research in a book – Combatting Terrorism: the Legal Challenge – that was much debated in the Indian parlia-ment during the drafting of the country’s new anti-terror law. By contrast, in 2006 Dr Ali Raza Moosvi, now Associate Professor of Geography at Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, submitted a monograph entitled The Terrorist and the Market, in which he traced the origins of terrorism to feelings of alienation among the most marginalised groups in society. He has recently been seconded to a new university at Gulbarga in north-east Karnataka, one of 15 that the government established in 2009 to introduce higher educa-tion to some of the less-developed regions of the country.

Professor sir tom Blundell with Dr Patil and Professors saidapur and Hinchigeri in the Department of Biochemistry

Three fellows – Dr Manjari Katju, now a Reader in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hyderabad; Syeda Afshana also now a Reader in the Media Department at the University of Kashmir in Srinigar; and Tabasum Firdous, also from Srinigar – had to learn to juggle their academic and maternal responsibilities. Manjari has nonetheless published two books on aspects of Hindu Nationalism and Indian liberalism, while Syeda writes a weekly column in the English language daily Greater Kashmir, and has pub-lished three books, a collection of poems, a volume of essays on Kashmir and another on women’s issues, Eve’s Daughter (2010).

Two Fellows (the fifth and eighth) are practising lawyers who also put their time to excellent use. Madhu Mehra, Executive Director of Partners for Law in Development, researched the growing use of culture to limit gender equality in South Asia. She examined legal approaches that legitimised limita-tions to women’s equality and approaches to overcome them, work that led directly to her organisation’s active cooperation with the UN. In September 2010 she hosted a conference for grass roots activists that was attended by the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women. Jayna Kothari practises as an advocate in the Karnataka High Court. In Cambridge she worked on the impact of international legal conventions on disability law and practise in India. Her research paper has been recently published and she now acts as an advisor to Indian industry on issues relating to employment and disability, and to the Government of India on amendments to the National Trust Act to bring it into conformity with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

In 2007–8, after an infusion of additional resources into the Trust from the Government of Karnatak, two more Fellowships were added. These are held at Judge Business School and DAMTP. The three Judge fellows were Dr Anita Basalingappa of the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad, Shubha Patvardhan and Dr Suren Sista, both from the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore. Anita was promoted to Associate Professor on her return and has continued the work on customer retail management that she started in Cambridge; Shubha went straight from Sidney to the PhD programme at the Smeal College of Business at Penn State, while Suren combined work on sports marketing with a major contribution to the College cricket team.

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at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, is an expert on discrete wavelet analysis used to unravel rainfall patterns in the Indian monsoon; and Dr Sudha Shenoy, a lecturer in the Department of Physics at Kuvempu University in Karnataka, joined the department in September to work with Adrian Kent and Barry Groisman, who jointly direct studies in Mathematics for the College.

Meanwhile the original CIS Fellowship has continued to attract a wide vari-ety of talent. Dr Girish Kumar of Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala was the first political economist to win the award. In Cambridge he worked on the impact of the WTO dispute settlement mechanism on India and on his return was appointed Chairman of the Centre for Trade, Development and Governance at his university. Since then he has won two further prestigious scholarships, first to work at the Indian Law Institute attached to the Supreme Court in Delhi and more recently a Jean Monnet Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence. Rupakjyoti Borah, a PhD candidate at JNU in Delhi, writes regularly for the Indian and Australian Press on the politics of India’s north east, and worked in Cambridge on India’s relations with Australia during the Cold War. In July he was appointed to a Senior Lectureship at Manipal University in Karnataka. Finally, with the eyes of the world on Afghanistan, we were extremely fortunate to attract an expert on the area, Dr Arpita Roy, a Fellow of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata and the author of two books on the country. In Cambridge she researched alter-native theories of human security and their relevance to South Asia.

The programme has been greatly strengthened by its expansion. Sidney now has a Pavate Fellow as a senior member of the College in residence throughout the year, and as – more by luck than design – the tenure of their fellowships has tended to overlap, the Fellow in residence has been able to welcome his or her successor and show them the ropes. The College has been exceptionally fortunate in attracting high-quality Fellows who have greatly enriched our com-munity. We are confident that they will continue to do so as the partnership enters its second decade.Professor James Mayall

A History to Live Up to

Sidney Sussex – A History■■ , by Richard HumphreysThis remarkable and handsome book, magnificently illustrated, duly relates the big stories in the College’s past. We all know what those stories are, and they are well told, as they should be. Cromwell and his head are here. But the real achievement of this new College history, and the one that I believe commends it without reserve to all Sidney men and women, lies elsewhere. With remark-able dedication and persistence, Dick Humphreys has collected what might be called the small change of Sidney’s Fellows and students since 1596. As is often the case with hoards of copper coin, the total sum, once reckoned up, proves to be much greater than one might expect. Using novels, early photographs, portraits, college artefacts, newspaper reports, and a great wealth of other material, Humphreys achieves a sheer accu-mulation of anecdotal and contex-tual detail that makes a much richer fund of Sidney history than anyone might suppose, at least if the tale of the College has been dominated for them hitherto by Oliver Cromwell in the seventeenth century and some scientists in the twentieth, with not much in between. The College’s golden age in the first half of the seventeenth century, when Sidney was in many ways the college in Cambridge, is superbly evoked here, so too the doldrums of the eighteenth, when a Cambridge man could record in his memoirs, without shame, that he spent the long vacation (now called ‘Research Period’) ‘shooting, fishing and visiting’. The result is surprising, fascinating and full of detail that one would never imagine to be recoverable from oblivion. If you want to know where some of the first building materials for the College in the 1590s were unloaded at wharves on the Cam, then hauled down to Sidney Street, this is where you will find the answer.


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It was quite an experience to watch Dick at work on this book. Installed in an eyrie at the top of a College staircase, with a fine view of the twentieth- century gargoyles on the Chapel, showing former Fellows and members of staff, he worked at a desk strewn with papers and prints, the walls papered with images of Sidney in various periods of its history, and with portraits of College worthies. Dick rattled through his schedule of work in the most professional way, day by day, assembling an immense thesaurus of Sidney memories and a proliferating network of connections between Sidney and the wider cultural life of the British Isles, and beyond, since the late sixteenth century. The deposits are here, in layers rich and deep. Amidst a lively text that manages to be about dons but never becomes donnish itself (somewhat in contrast to the style of the book’s worthy but superannuated predecessor, by Scott-Giles) there are many wonderful curios and anecdotes. I especially admired the narrative of our seven-teenth century murder complete with an Assizes sermon, the photograph of the original Tudor roof of the hall, the image (which Dick discovered by accident) of Chapel Court taken by none other than Fox-Talbot himself from a window in what is now Sainsbury’s, and the thinly-disguised account of a meeting with a gout-ridden Chafy in the Master’s Lodge, taken from an otherwise forgotten Sidney novel, Caleb Stukeley. Even the University Library catalogue has not heard of that one. The many colour illustrations that accompany the text are of outstanding quality, as one might expect from an author who passed years at the Tate; the College silver, for example, has never looked more opulent than it does here, nor have the various portraits in Cambridge and elsewhere ever seemed more rich and detailed. Sample the images of Lucy Harington’s por-trait, for example, or the picture of a seated Roger Lestrange. In these and other cases, each page is superbly well designed to show text and image to the best advantage. Sidney now has a history to live up to in more senses than one.Dr Christopher Page

Wyndham Lewis in Madrid[Editor’s note: Following his completion of the College history, we asked Richard Humphreys to write about the exhibition he mounted in Madrid in spring 2010.]

My enthusiasm for the art of Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957) began as a teen-ager when I saw some of his typically hard-edged, semi-abstract Vorticist paint-ings. Vorticism was a short-lived movement in British art around 1914 and is probably best known for the typography and aggressive polemics of its journal Blast, only two issues of which appeared. The movement, led by Lewis, and including among its painters and writers Edward Wadsworth, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Ezra Pound, was dedicated to a Futurist-inspired revolution in British art and culture emphasising technical innova-tion and a celebration of modernity. It was effectively destroyed by the Great War.

When I came to Sidney in 1972 I saw the recently published catalogue of Lewis’s paintings by Walter Michel in Heffers and in 1974 the huge Vorticism exhibition at the Hayward Gallery curated by Richard Cork. That confirmed my interest in the art. Of course, Lewis was also a prolific writer – a very controversial one – and my interest in that part of his work was inspired by attending a brilliant lecture by the poet and English don at Caius, J. H. Prynne, on Lewis’s strange Vorticist play Enemy of the Stars.

When I went to study for an MA in Art History at the Courtauld Institute in 1975 I knew what my topic would be – an analy-sis of Lewis’s little-known paintings of the 1930s. Although I began a PhD on Lewis in 1977 I got a job at the Tate Gallery in 1981 and never completed the research. Real life as a curator, head of department

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and so on took over until I retired a few years ago, mainly in order to write a history of Sidney.

I had tried hard to get the Tate to mount a major exhibition of Lewis’s art as there hadn’t been a major exhibition in London since 1956. This never hap-pened. Lewis was little known except as a Vorticist and as a superb portrait painter of famous figures such as Edith Sitwell and T. S. Eliot, and perhaps even more so as a disagreeable loner and satirist who was a Fascist sympathiser in the 1920s and 1930s before he realised in 1937 how badly wrong he had been in his understanding of Hitler. So, his politics and aggressive attitude towards much of the British arts establishment – famously towards the Bloomsbury Group – undermined his reputation. While I was able, with the Lewis expert Paul Edwards, to stage an exhibition of his portraits at the National Portrait Gallery a couple of years ago, no one really wanted to stage a full retrospective of his art. Much of the art, furthermore, is often complex and small in scale as Lewis generally favoured pencil, pen and watercolour as media.

My dream of a major exhibition, however, was realised through an entirely unexpected connection: the curator of the Fundación Juan March in Madrid, Manuel Fontan del Junco, who had seen the NPG show and was already inter-ested in Lewis. He had no localised grievance against Lewis and doesn’t think exhibitions need be based on admiration for an artist’s character or political views. Lewis was a very complex thinker and Manuel, a polyglot trained in phi-losophy as well as art, simply found him fascinating as well as one of Europe’s finest modern artists. What London couldn’t conceive or countenance was perfectly possible in Spain. The show included every aspect of Lewis’s work, including cases full of his books and magazines, and was accompanied by an astonishingly large and comprehensive catalogue, a Spanish facsimile transla-tion of Blast, and an edition of Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens, for which Lewis had made some of his most remarkable early drawings. The Spanish press was impressed and the show was given wide coverage and well attended. The moral of my account may be that if you have an idea your neighbours have no interest in, try another country.richard Humphreys

Fellows’ Research

Professor Sir Tom Blundell FRS, ■■FMedSci (Fellow, 1995–)‘On the architecture of living organisms and the beauty of the complex molecular assemblies that mediate everything we do.’

It is not surprising that we find beauty in our partner’s smile, in our children’s voices, in the trees and flowers around us, and in the colours of butterflies and birds. All these have no doubt been selec-tively advantageous in the evolution of man, many of them in ancestors before we arrived on this planet. It is perhaps more surprising that we can find beauty in detailed molecular and cellular architec-tures, which we have been able to glimpse only in the past 60 years. But of course they are also subject to the same physical and chemical principles from which evolu-tion selects. Indeed, their structures lead to those of all living organisms that are visible through our eyes.

It is this beauty that drives my science and has also framed many hypoth-eses that have proved particularly productive in the past nearly 50 years since I first walked into a university laboratory at Oxford.

I blame it on my grandfather. He left school at 15, and was a self-taught artist and musician. He failed to thrive as a watercolour landscape artist, and became a commercial artist, creating the wonderful designs of ties, dressing gowns and other silk garments in the first half of the last century. He compen-sated by taking me drawing and painting every weekend in the 1950s; I drew and painted every church and house around the South Downs, the bridges over the River Adur and the harbour at Shoreham. Not surprisingly I ended up doing A-level art – that is until the Deputy Head of my grammar school arrived to say I would not be sitting the exam the following week as it would undermine my chances of getting a state and open scholarship. Although I was angry at the time, I think he was probably right.

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But just imagine my surprise and thrill when in 1962 I first went to do a project in the crystallography laboratory in Oxford and found Dorothy Hodgkin across the corridor working on vitamin B12 and insulin – incredibly beautiful and complex molecules, as wonderful as anything I had painted earlier, recently emerged or just emerging from their electron density like a butterfly from a chrysalis. I was seduced and later in 1964 joined the lab to learn the trade, just as Dorothy won the Nobel Prize. I moved later to work on insulin for the next few years, a daunting task that Dorothy had started in 1934 and we solved in 1969.

It turned out that insulin had a complex symmetry that comprised six pro-tein units arranged around two zinc atoms – reminding me of the rose window at Chartres Cathedral– but that of course had 12 apostles rather than six mol-ecules. I also realised that just as artists played with symmetry – distorting it seductively – so did Nature. This is a theme I have returned to many times since, for example when we saw that HIV carried a pair of scissors – the HIV protease – to cut out its virulent proteins from the inactive precursor. These molecular scissors remained two-fold symmetrical while their distant molecu-lar relative, renin, which controls our blood pressure and for which I had been designing candidate drugs, did not. This idea led to the speedy identification of new drug molecules – originally derived to control blood pressure – to inhibit the maturation of HIV and so eventually to keep AIDS patients alive.

So what is it that I do? I use X-rays rather than light to study the complex molecular assemblies in the cell. I have worked on growth factors and their

cell receptors that transmit signals around the body: nerve growth factor, fibroblast

growth factor and hepatocyte growth factor, which control cell growth, metastasis and many other events. When they go wrong we often get cancer and so they are also drug targets. I have worked on the

the threefold symmetry of the insulin hexamer – the form used in the treatment of diabetes

architecture and organisation of cell signalling pathways that transmit the sig-nals inside the cell – these are also targets for therapeutic intervention as they become uncontrolled in many diseases. More recently we have been working on the pathways of DNA double-strand break repair, those that depend on a sister chromatid, known as homologous recombination, and those that just pull the broken ends together – known as non-homologous end joining. These repair our DNA as it is constantly broken; in every cell cycle it is estimated that there are around 50 double strand breaks and so we would never survive with-out the repair kit. But surprisingly they are also targets for new medicines, as tumour cells repair their DNA broken by chemotherapy or radiotherapy using the same system.

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All of these systems have three things in common. First, they are transient – like cherry blossom – and therefore beautiful. Second, they are hugely complex, involving the coming together of different assemblies that move the play on, like actors in a compelling drama. And third, they are enormously difficult to study, quite elusive and challenging to see for long enough to understand them. But we can if we are patient, careful and skilled. It is about having physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, chemists, molecular, cell and structural biologists, and of course medics, working together. We have that in Cambridge. But we do not always focus. Of the nearly 500 papers I have co-authored, just 30 or so, mainly published in Nature, are where the real excitement has been and where progress has been made.

But complexity not only needs beautiful hypotheses, it also requires ways of encapsulating ideas in mathematics and computer programs. About 30 years ago my experimental colleagues thought I was speculating too much. My response was to write everything down as computer programs that others could use to test what I had to say. These were initially used in academic labs – one of our programs has been cited nearly 4,000 times in other papers – but in 1985 I was offered the possibility of making them available to the fast-growing pharmaceutical industry. I did so on condition that academics could have them free. Since then our software – mostly named after musical themes – has been widely used in making new medicines in the industry and sold for hundreds of millions of dollars, bringing revenue back to the lab and to many of our group.

But increasingly I began to wonder whether I could provide new ‘plat-form technologies’ for making medicines. In the late 1980s I formed my first, mainly computer based company – Biofabrika. This came to a sharp halt when I was recruited by the government to run a research council. The Permanent Secretaries in the Department of Education and Science and in the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food decided I was a ‘Marxist entrepreneur’ and banned me from politics and private enterprise. When I escaped from govern-ment to come to Cambridge in 1996, I worked with a former student, Harren Jhoti, and a Cambridge chemist, Chris Abell, to form another company, Astex Therapeutics. We now have around 80 PhDs on the Science Park, have received around $300 million investment, and have five cancer drugs in clinical trial, all designed using our new ideas.

Maybe beauty is not just in the eye of the beholder.

Dr Richard Flower (Fellow, 2007–)■■Sometime around AD 360, a package arrived on the desk of Florentius, the Emperor’s magister officiorum, one of the most important administrative positions in the later Roman Empire. Inside the pack-age lay a bundle of texts addressed to the Emperor Constantius II and purporting to be the work of a Sardinian bishop with the somewhat surprising name of Lucifer. What was most striking about this correspond-ence, however, was its content: rather than mundane requests for favours, replete with fawning flattery of Constantius, these were bitter diatribes, accusing the Emperor of being a new Nero, a new Ahab, a new Judas, a persecuting monster in league with the Antichrist. Florentius was, understandably, perturbed. He wrote to Lucifer asking whether these words were really his. A defiant reply came back: yes, they were, and the bishop stood ready to die for his faith.

Of course, Christianity had a long history of conflict with the Roman im perial authorities, dating all the way back to Pontius Pilate. Unlike many of his pred-ecessors, however, Constantius II (ruled 337–61) was himself a Christian, the sole surviving son of the first Christian emperor, Constantine I (ruled 306–37). Lucifer’s anger towards Constantius was not that of a Christian lambasting a pagan, but rather the result of the bitter religious divides within the fourth-century Church. The bishop was, in fact, languishing in exile in Upper Egypt, having been sent there by Constantius because he refused to endorse the new imperial definition of the Christian faith, instead choosing to remain stead-fastly loyal to the statement of orthodoxy agreed at the Council of Nicaea in 325 (and now known as the Nicene Creed). Lucifer was not alone in either his situation or the manner of his response. There exist similarly wrathful writings against Constantius by two other exiles: Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers in France, and Athanasius, the hugely influential Bishop of Alexandria in Egypt. Their liter-ary attacks marked a new development within both imperial and ecclesiastical rhetoric, as these three bishops sought to find a new language to condemn an emperor not because he wasn’t a Christian, but because he was the wrong type of Christian.

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Part of my research involves revealing the role of polemical literature in the presentation and assessment of imperial power. The most famous Roman example of political invective is probably Cicero’s Philippics, in which he painted a lurid portrait of Mark Antony as a corrupt, libidinous and violent thug. As might be expected, there are few surviving literary attacks that were directed against living emperors, with most having been written only after the rulers were safely dead. The polemics against Constantius II are particularly important, since they are the earliest texts of their type after Cicero, who wrote 400 years earlier. Such works have often been dismissed as ‘mere abuse’, the result of embittered individuals blowing off steam and making a few other people laugh at their targets, but without any serious political purpose. I argue, however, that they played a key role in establishing imperial legitimacy and illegitimacy. Panegyrical speeches, in which emperors were praised as model leaders, used to be disregarded as ‘empty rhetoric’. Recently, however, they have been rehabilitated as part of the vast array of ceremonies and public spectacles through which audiences endorsed later Roman emperors as fig-ures of supreme authority, due to their resemblance to a stated imperial ideal. Invectives were constructed using the same themes and tropes, such as mili-tary prowess and domestic virtue, but replaced praise with abuse, switching the portrayal as though in a photographic negative. It is therefore my view that invectives should be assigned a similar political role to panegyrics, presenting rulers as the polar opposites of the virtuous characters that appeared in pan-egyrics and so removing their authority to rule by turning them into paradigms of tyranny.

My research on the polemical texts concerning Constantius II also explores how they can illuminate our understanding of the changes that took place in the Roman Empire during the fourth century. After the conversion of Emperor Constantine I in 312, the position of Christianity in society underwent a trans-formation, moving from a sporadically persecuted minority sect to a wealthy and influential institutional religion. The fourth century has therefore been described as ‘the wavering century’, a time when significant religious change was taking place, but neither its direction nor its outcome was obvious to con-temporaries. My interests lie primarily in explaining how individuals and groups tried to negotiate these shifts in order to sustain and even bolster their positions within society during a period of uncertainty. Certainly, the ‘Christianisation’ of empire was not clear or swift. Traditional ways of describing emperors still retained their currency. Good rulers continued to be compared to Augustus

and Trajan, while those who fell from favour were still compared to notorious tyrants, such as Caligula or Domitian.

The advent of imperial support for Christianity did not automatically render these classical references invalid, but it did introduce new possibili-ties. So, when Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea and self-appointed biographer of the Emperor Constantine, wished to praise his imperial subject, he compared him both to Alexander the Great, who swept through the Persian empire in a phenomenal campaign of military conquest, and also to Moses, who parted the Red Sea and so defeated Pharaoh through the support of God. In contrast, Lucifer, Hilary and Athanasius, writing 20 years after Eusebius, made their texts unambiguously Christian, without making reference to any famous char-acters, good or bad, from Greek and Roman history or mythology. When they attacked Constantius II, their figures for comparison, such as Saul, Jezebel and Pontius Pilate, were drawn mostly from the Old and New Testaments, not from the pages of Homer or Virgil, Herodotus or Livy. The few Roman emperors, such as Nero and Maximian, who did make it into their works were chosen not because they were widely seen as ‘bad’ rulers, but specifically because they had persecuted Christians. These texts, therefore, looked back to a resolutely Christian history, giving classical references no space at all. Moreover, in doing so, they also allowed these three exiled bishops to present themselves as imita-tors of the revered prophets, apostles and martyrs who had famously opposed these earlier irreligious villains. As such, the readers of these texts were invited to see their authors as the latest in a long series of righteous and oppressed servants of God, thus aiding these bishops in their battle to define orthodoxy, a battle that they ultimately won.

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Examination Performance 2010Sidney’s Tripos performance in 2010 improved considerably in both the arts and the sciences in comparison to 2009, and our undergraduates must be warmly congratulated on this achievement.

A total of 345 undergraduates sat University examinations in May and June. There was a most welcome rebound in the proportion of Firsts, from 48 (15% of those classed) last year to 68 (21%) in 2010. Special mention must be made of those who were awarded University Prizes. A total of seven students – more than double the 2009 figure – achieved this distinction in 2010, in subjects as diverse as Chemical Engineering, Geography, Law, Medicine and Modern and Medieval Languages.

Our Firsts and Upper Seconds combined have also risen, as a result of a 3% improvement in the arts (now 82% against 83% for the University as a whole), with the sciences steady at 60% (University 62%).

For the first time, the College has included an individual measure of ‘value-added’ in our analysis of examination results, to acknowledge and celebrate successful academic endeavour across the whole spectrum of Tripos outcomes. Value-added for this purpose is defined as either a class change, or a move of more than 10% in a student’s ranking within a markbook ordered by aver-age across all papers. This measure shows a significant positive balance, with 46 Sidney students (nearly one in five of those in their second or later years) achieving positive value-added.

Additional cheer is provided by the observation that next year’s finalists, especially in the arts, have truly risen to the academic challenge, with their Baxter Table ranking lifted from 19th to 12th out of 24: they enter their final year with justified pride, and with the potential and self-confidence to do even better. There were a number of stellar performances by last year’s freshers, notably in History of Art, Politics, Psychology, Sociology and Medicine, in each of which a Sidney student came top of their subject for the University as a whole. Together with the rising standard set by their immediate predecessors, this augurs well for the year ahead.

Among the larger arts subjects, Economics, English and History have per-formed at or above the University average over 2008–10, in their percentage of

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typical offer of A*AA will help us to differentiate between the many very well qualified applicants we receive. It also allows us to make more offers than we have places available, so that the final outcome rests on a candidate’s perform-ance in public examinations.

The administrative side of the admissions process ran very smoothly this year, thanks to excellent support from our Admissions and Schools Liaison Officer, Rachel Hilditch. Rachel was assisted by a recent Sidney graduate, Livvy Hanks, who worked with us from October to December. We wish her well in her new job teaching English in Slovakia. As usual, a team of student helpers was on hand during the interviews to welcome candidates and look after them during their time in College. The students staffed a welcome desk at the front gate, gave directions to applicants and their parents, talked to candidates in the waiting rooms, and met those staying overnight for an evening meal. Several applicants, both successful and unsuccessful, contacted us later to thank our students for the warm welcome they provided.

Throughout the year we have supported the recruitment process with a wide range of outreach and widening participation activities. This year we vis-ited nearly 50 schools and colleges in all areas of the country. In addition to general talks about Cambridge, Sidney Sussex, and how to apply, we also pro-vided more specific help for applicants in the form of personal statement and interview workshops. Many schools prefer to arrange a visit for their students to see the College for themselves, and we have hosted nearly 40 such visits this year, including many overnight stays.

In September we organised our first sixth-form study day for Modern and Medieval Languages. This was intended to showcase the College’s many lan-guage teaching staff, and improve recruitment to a subject that is becoming less popular in schools. The study day included talks about the Cambridge degree course, information about applying, a taster lecture on linguistics, and language teaching sessions in French, German, Spanish, Italian and Russian. The course was well received by the 40 attendees, and led to an increase in applications for both MML and the new Linguistics degree.

Sidney students have given their usual enthusiastic support to our entire admissions programme, and many school teachers and open day visitors have commented that our students are an excellent advertisement for the College. Certainly their commitment and willingness to participate in outreach events is the envy of many admissions colleagues in the University. Four students deserve particular thanks this year: Charlotte Binstead, for organising a team

both Firsts, and of Firsts and Upper Seconds combined. Additionally, on a one-year basis Geography and MML outperform the University average in Firsts, and Law in Firsts and Upper Seconds combined. Among the larger science sub-jects, Engineering outperforms the University in the percentage of Firsts (32% to the University’s 27%); Medicine outperforms the University in terms of Firsts and Upper Seconds combined (82% to the University’s 62%).

The College’s overall Baxter ranking for 2010 rose from 22nd to 18th out of 25 colleges, and the Independent‘s Tompkins Table saw Sidney’s position improve from 22nd to 18th (out of 29). The results for 2010 represent a most welcome return to form, but significant further improvement is possible. Our work continues to ensure that all our students aspire to achieve the best of which they are capable and are given the best opportunities to do so: anchoring Sidney consistently in the top half of college rankings will be the natural corollary of the fulfilment of the College’s educational ambition and its strategy to achieve it.Max Beber, senior Tutor

Admissions and Schools Liaison 2009–10For the admissions team, the year started in August 2009 with the publication of school examination results. Happily, most of our applicants were successful in meeting their offers, and we were able to confirm 106 places for October. Our first-year intake included six international students, and three from the European Union. Of the students educated in the UK, 50% were from the state sector – a lower figure than usual for Sidney. In the last decade the College has maintained an excellent record of widening access to Cambridge, and we remain firmly committed to this principle. At the same time, we select the most academically able applicants without discrimination of any kind, and this inevitably leads to small fluctuations in the composition of our intake.

In the autumn we received 503 applications for undergraduate places in the next admissions round, and made 112 offers, including six for deferred entry. Our offer holders were evenly split in terms of gender and arts/science balance, and 55% of UK students were state-educated. It was interesting to see a large increase in offers made to students from the European Union: ten offers were made to students from countries including France, Germany, Finland, Poland and Romania. We also made eight offers to international students.

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of helpers for the interview period; Bryan Ghosh, who hosted numerous visits in the Lent term and Easter vacation; Alyona Levitin, for arranging students to help with three weeks of visits and open days in summer; and Iain Blackwell, who organised the annual Access Bus trip, which this year visited Lancashire.

Overall this has been a successful and enjoyable year for the admissions team, in which we have developed stronger links with schools and expanded our out-reach programme. We look forward to a similarly busy schedule next year, while remembering that none of this would be possible without the continued support of Sidney fellows, students and staff, to whom we are immensely grateful.

Graduate Tutors’ ReportSidney’s graduate community continues to go from strength to strength. In the context of rising graduate student numbers across the University as a whole, the College continues to develop ways of managing this growth while maintain-ing the friendly, informal and supportive relationships between members that are rightly treasured by all. Both the Graduate Tutors and the MCR Committee have sought to extend the ways in which graduates and Fellows can interact on a social and intellectual level. In the Michaelmas term a graduate seminar series was re-established, providing a relaxed and informal opportunity for stu-dents to present the results of their latest research to an audience of specialists and non-specialists alike. Interaction with undergraduates and Fellows in par-ticular subject groupings is also being encouraged, via the efforts of Directors of Studies and long-established College subject societies that provide lectures, seminars and debates on topical research issues. A workshop discussion on awards and grants available within the College, University and beyond was also held this term, and proved of interest not only to existing graduates but also to undergraduates contemplating further study.

Sidney is fortunate to be able to support graduate study directly by offer-ing annually a range of research studentships and bursaries. In October 2009 we welcomed two new PhD students: Robin Mills was awarded the Howard Research Studentship to work on ‘The origins and development of natural his-tories of religion from Hobbes to the Scottish Enlightenment’, and Geraldo Vidigal Neto was awarded an Evan Lewis-Thomas Studentship to work on ‘An informal hierarchy of treaties? The multi-level regulation of international trade’. Both are making excellent progress. In addition we are pleased to note the continuing progress of Guido Rossi (PhD Law) supported by an Evan Lewis-


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Thomas Bursary and Jonathan Patterson (PhD French), who is returning to us after a year of teaching and research in France. Jonathan holds a Gledhill Research Studentship. For the coming year we look forward to welcoming a further crop of outstanding students. Ingrid Rembold has been awarded an Osborn Research Studentship in Medieval History, and Anna Guinot Aguado begins work in Pathology supported by a Sidney Sussex Research Studentship. We continue to be able to support Law via the Evan Lewis-Thomas Fund and will welcome Aaron Littman (MPhil Criminology) and Fernando Lusa Bordin (PhD Law). Our links with Judge Business School remain close and we are delighted to be able to support two of our new MBA students: Savita Nair has been awarded a Joyce Coutu Scholarship and Maral Alexandrian the first Hanadi Jabado Bursary. Finally, the Fox Fellowship scheme continues to offer a wonderful opportunity for graduates to spend up to one year at Yale University, as part of an exchange that sees Sidney welcoming students from Yale in return. This year we will greet Teresa Bejan (Political Science) and Justin Du Rivage (History), while James Cameron and Charlie Laderman will each spend a year in Yale undertaking research for PhDs in History. The College is very grateful to all the benefactors who make such awards possible.

Graduate study is an intellectual challenge for all. For some it can also, at times, be lonely and frustrating – if ultimately hugely rewarding. Organising a wide range of social activities that complement those provided by the MCR is a key part of the pastoral role of the Graduate Tutors. The twice-termly graduate suppers remain extremely popular as a way of fostering closer links between graduate students and the Fellowship. The same is true for the annual barbecue and wine tasting held in the Easter term. This year we introduced a new social occasion that proved very successful: the first of what will become a bi-annual dinner for supervisors. Held in the Lent term, this was a chance for PhD stu-dents to invite their supervisors to dinner in Hall, allowing them to experience the excellence of College catering and receive our thanks for all their hard work for our research students.

The MCR continues to provide a vital role in enhancing the graduate expe-rience at Sidney. As tutors we rely heavily on their interest, energy and support. We would like to take this opportunity to thank retiring members of the MCR Committee, particularly Emma Gatti and Raphael Assier who as President and Treasurer respectively have given sterling service. When pursuing advanced study it can be difficult to balance the additional demands on time that these positions require and we are grateful for the willingness of those who serve. In

this context we are delighted to welcome Chris Crowe and Ellie Kim as our new MCR President and Treasurer. Finally, it is important to note that the admission and support of our diverse body of graduate students makes many demands upon a wide range of College staff. We are very grateful for their con-tinued support, in particular to Suzannah Horner, who continues to organise the Graduate Office with enthusiasm, attention to detail and good humour.

BenefactionsIn 2009, Cambridge University and its colleges reached a collective target of £1 billion two years before the official close of the 800th Anniversary Campaign, making Cambridge the first non-American university to achieve such an ambi-tious goal. Sidney Sussex has been, from the start, an important part of this success, and has raised nearly £9 million towards its own 800th Anniversary target of £10 million by 2012. Building on this success, Sidney is now rebuild-ing and expanding its Development Office and will shortly launch a ‘20/20 Campaign’ that aims to raise £20 million by 2020 for teaching and education, College buildings, and student support and activities.

The past year has been a busy one for the 1596 Foundation, the College society that recognises and honours major benefactors and creates a very spe-cial bond between Sidney and its most generous supporters. This year, the Master, Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, welcomed nine new members to the Foundation: John Beale, Chun-Chi Chou and Mrs Wang Mei-Wen Chou, Adam Glinsman (2002), Hanadi Jabado (1995), Christopher Lucas (1959), Norman Shepherd (1949), Mike Styles (1970) and Professor Herman Waldmann FRS (1963). With the support of several Foundation members, the Master also inau-gurated a new 1596 Foundation Fellowship Fund for teaching in key academic subjects. From 2011, UK government funding for higher education, already reduced dramatically under the last government, will fall a further 25%, putting at risk the Cambridge system of supervisions, with its intense and close con-tact between students and research-active teachers. The 1596 Foundation Fellowship Fund has been created to protect this precious feature of the College system. Thanks to members of the 1596 Foundation, nearly £150,000 has already been raised to save teaching posts at risk. We are particularly grate-ful to Fiona and Peter Espenhahn (1962), Dr Chris Dobson and the Ann D Foundation, Professor Tony French (1939), Alan Lancashire (1945), Andrew Sheard (1975) and Professor Michael Scott Morton (2004).


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Sidney is greatly indebted to Prakash Melwani (1977) for his generous con-tribution for buildings and student rooms, and to members of the Nasr family for their very substantial donation. We are also delighted to announce the estab-lishment of four important new funds. The William John Basing Fund has been created by Malcolm Basing (1976) and his wife Sally in memory of Malcolm’s father; it will support the teaching and practice of psychology. Hanadi Jabado has set up the Hanadi Jabado Fund at Sidney to assist Lebanese women study-ing business. Adam Glinsman has established the Adam Glinsman Award to support graduate students from emerging economies dedicated to improving conditions in the developing world. Michael Young (1990) has established the Jean Young Law Bursary and Prize in memory of his mother. Once again, we are grateful to Mike Styles for his continued generous support of the Mike Styles Bursaries, now in their seventh year.

Under the direction of the Director of Music, Dr David Skinner, Sidney is rapidly becoming one of the leading musical colleges in Cambridge. We are very grateful to 1596 Foundation member John Beale for his gift of a magnificent Steinway grand piano, which now has pride of place in the Chapel. Simon Lloyd (1950) has very kindly donated two historic pianos: an 1805 Clementi square piano and an 1827 Broadwood square. Both are now used regularly for chamber music.

We are grateful to Sidney members who have supported Sidney Sussex through their wills this year, and remember particularly Professor Ronald

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Haithwaite Martin (1937), Dr Martin John Gascoigne Lee (1960) and John Jeremy Hyde-Smith (1955).

Finally, we thank all who have supported the Annual Fund, Thornely Fund, Cambridge in America Annual Fund or any Sidney project, and all who have contributed anonymously. Your gifts have made an important contribution and are deeply appreciated.Zoe swenson-wright, Membership and development officer

Alumni NewsCongratulations to:

John Bagnall (1963, English), who has retired as Librarian of the University of Dundee after 21 years in post, has been made Librarian Emeritus by the University Senate.

Professor John Birks (1963, Natural Sciences), who was awarded the Fridtjof Nansen Medal by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters in 2003, elected an Honorary Fellow of the Botanical Society of Scotland in 2004, awarded the President’s Prize of the Botanical Society of the British Isles in 2005, was a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford in 2007, and was elected an Honorary Fellowship at University College London in 2009.

Stephen Davies (1975, Medical Sciences), MA MB BChir, MRCP, FRCR who will take up office as President of the British Institute of Radiology for a two-year term of office in September 2010.

Chris Grayling MP, Conservative (1981, History), who has been appointed Minister of State in the Department for Work and Pensions in the new coali-tion government.

Andrew Henderson (1950, Medical Sciences), Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow, Cardiff University, was appointed OBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list ‘for services to cardiology in Wales’.

Brian Lenihan, Jnr (1981, Law) was appointed Minister for Finance in the Irish Government on 7 May 2008.

David Lidington MP (1975, History) has been appointed a Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in the new coalition government.


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Brian Luker (1955, Mathematics) and Mary Brook (Homerton) celebrated the anniversary of their wedding 50 years ago in Wells Cathedral on 15 August 2010. The best man was Donald Luker (1956, Natural Sciences), the usher Jim Leckie (1955, Law) and the bridegroom’s father was Philip Luker (1925, Mathematics). The anniversary was marked later by a family lunch attended by Chris Luker (1982, Engineering), Hilary Black, née Luker (St Andrews) and Caroline George, née Luker (1988, Engineering), their partners and four grandsons.

Tim Minchin (1992, History; Fellow, 1995–8) has been promoted to a Chair in North American history at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, and has also been elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Vivian Robinson (1963, Law), who held the post of Treasurer of the Inner Temple in 2009.

Kevin Rourke (1996, Medical Sciences) was commissioned Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander to date 16 Oct 2009 in the Royal Naval Reserve (gazetted 22 March 2010), and was made a Fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS) on 8 July 2010.

Judge Antonio Trindade of Brazil (1972, History), formerly President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, who has been appointed a Judge of the International Court of Justice.

We have also learned of several new books and articles by members of the College:

David Bennett (1962, History) has written two books that are currently in pro-duction: Firefighters of Cambridge is being published by Amberley Publishing (UK) and Northern Exposures, A Canadian Perspective on Occupational Health and Environment by Baywood (US).

Guy Lawson (1988, LLM) is a freelance writer in the US. His story on Osama Bin Laden featured on the cover of the February UK edition of Rolling Stone magazine.

Andrew Rawnsley (1980, History) caused great discomfort to 10 Downing Street with the publication in February 2010 of The End of the Party: The Rise and Fall of New Labour.

The Thornely SocietyThe main events of the Thornely Society in 2009–10 were, as in previous years, the Annual Dinner and the Annual Lecture.

For the first time, the Annual Dinner was held at the beginning of the Michaelmas Term, on 17 October 2009. This change (from the previous prac-tice of having the dinner during the Easter vacation) seems to have been popu-lar, since there was a large attendance. The Society was particularly happy that Sidney’s new Master and Mrs Wallace-Hadrill were among those present, and we were grateful to the Master for his words of welcome and of encouragement to the Society.

Our hosts for the Annual General Meeting and the Annual Lecture, which took place on Tuesday, 16 March 2010, were Lovells LLP. The Society expresses warm appreciation to Lovells for their generous hospitality, and to our serial benefactor, John Young, who masterminded the arrangements for us. The lec-turer was Her Honour Judge Katharine Marshall (1977, Natural Sciences/Law). Katharine was appointed to the circuit bench in 2008, after six years as a dis-trict judge. Her lecture on a controversial topic, ‘The Children Act is working’, was informed by her long experience as a family law practitioner and judge. The lecture combined strong analysis and refutation of criticisms of the Act with humane understanding of the predicaments families get themselves into, and gentle humour, qualities that help explain the distinguished place Katharine has come to occupy in this field of law. It provoked a lively question and answer session, in which the Sidney students present played a gratifyingly active part.

The Thornely Bursaries Fund is now able to provide one or two bursaries of £1,000 for law students each year. In addition, the Jean Young Bursary has recently been established by Michael Young (1990), in memory of his late mother. The College is deeply grateful to the Young family for their generosity. A future goal for the Thornely Society is to help finance more general teaching support for students of Law, for example, in the shape of vacation study grants. Professor alan dashwood, emeritus Fellow in law


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Sidney Sussex SocietyThe main autumn event for the year was our visit to Penshurst Place on 12 September 2009. This was very popular and was attended by 75 members and their guests. We were entertained at this beautiful house, with its strong con-nections to the College, by the Visitor and his wife, Lord and Lady De L’Isle. We had the opportunity to tour the house and gardens in delightful summer weather.

The annual Christmas Party was one of the most successful ever. More than 130 alumni, Fellows and their guests attended the event in a new location at the Arts Club in Mayfair, combining it with the launch of Sidney Sussex: A History by Richard Humphreys (1972). This impressive work has sold very well. Copies can be ordered through the Development Office and purchased directly from the Porters’ Lodge.

The Society arranged a dinner in College on 24 April 2010 to welcome the new Master, who spoke to us beforehand about the archaeological work at

Richard Humphreys signing copies of Sidney Sussex: A History at the society’s christmas party, 2009

Herculaneum in which he has been involved. The event was a great success and was attended by 91 alumni, Fellows and their guests.

On 5 June 2010 the Society arranged a trip to Ely, as a follow-on to the Cromwell day in Huntingdon the year before. After lunch at the Maltings there were tours of Cromwell’s house, which has recently been restored, and the monastic buildings in the City. The event was attended by 26 members and their guests.

The annual MA Graduands’ dinner was held in College on 15 May 2010 and attended by 72 matriculands from 2003. The Society once again played host at the annual BA Graduands’ garden party, which was held in College on 22 June 2010 to welcome new members.

The Society committee, which is responsible for organising these events, met in College on 10 October 2009, 13 February and 22 June 2010.

Forthcoming events for your diaries:Christmas Party in London 6 December 2010 Arts dinner in College 5 February 2011 Spring Dinner 8 April 2011 MA Graduands’ dinner in College 14 May 2011 BA Graduands’ garden party in College 21 June 2011Visit to Duxford Imperial War Museum 8 October 2011ian B. M. stephen, chairman

Sidney Club of GenevaThe Sidney Club of Geneva has continued to prosper and expand with three new members (Duncan Alexander, Trevor Gazard and Christopher Bennett).

On 19 June the Club held its annual dinner and talk at the Hotel du Lac, Coppet. Distinguished guests included the Master of Sidney and Mrs Wallace-Hadrill, and Professor and Mrs Giorgio Margaritondo of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). The Master gave an excellent talk on Herculaneum, the Roman city (Pompeii’s little sister) destroyed by the erup-tion of Vesuvius in AD 79. Its exceptional preservation provides an incompara-ble window into the Roman world. In danger of disintegration, it was rescued by the conservation project set up in 2001 by the Packard Humanities Institute in collaboration with the Archaeological Superintendency of Pompeii and the British School in Rome.


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As a follow-up to this talk, members of the Sidney Club and their guests will be visiting the Herculaneum and Pompeii archaeological sites in September. The trip will also include wine tasting on the slopes of Mt Vesuvius.

In the past, the Club has organised a number of visits to Swiss educa-tional and political institutions, including a guided tour of the Swiss Federal Parliament and visits to the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology in Lausanne and Zurich. In future, the Club hopes to organise a visit to a Swiss cultural institution. A trip is also planned to the Grand-Saint-Bernard region with its many tourist attractions, such as a hospice for the legendary St Bernard dogs, the Pass (Napoleon passed through it) and the Bourg St Pierre.

As usual the year will end with a Christmas dinner. Any current or past members of College who would like to join the Club

and find out more about it are encouraged to contact the President, Dr Ajit Bhalla, [email protected] or Professors Lindsay Greer ([email protected]) and James Mayall ([email protected]). dr ajit Bhalla, President

The Master addressing the annual dinner of the sidney club of geneva

New Biomedical and Environmental Seminar Series Oxbridge colleges think of themselves as communities of education and research that transcend boundaries of academic departments. In practice, however, disciplinary boundaries define many of our day-to-day teaching and research activities. Nonetheless, colleges are well placed to provide opportuni-ties for interdisciplinary discussion about topics of broad interest. Two seminar series, which exemplify the potential of this approach, were inaugurated last year at Sidney Sussex, focusing on the human body and on the environment, respectively.

The Sidney Biomedical Seminars originally arose from a desire to improve the learning experience of our undergraduate students in Medical and Veterinary Sciences. Unlike most other universities in the UK, the Cambridge medical course maintains a marked distinction between the pre-clinical undergraduate years, which focus on foundational basic sciences, such as Biochemistry and Pharmacology, and the subsequent years of postgraduate clinical study. While rigorous scientific preparation is one of the strengths of the Cambridge sylla-bus, the pre-clinical subjects can appear to lack a human connection or clini-cal relevance, in the experience of some undergraduate students. Therefore, members of the Sidney Sussex Medical and Veterinary Society (SSMVS) had for some time been discussing the benefits of starting a seminar series that would highlight the links between non-clinical sciences and clinical challenges. Such seminars would, it was hoped, provide a forum of scientific exchange between pre-clinical and clinical students and Fellows in Biomedical Sciences. Moreover, they might draw on the expertise of students and fellows who are not directly involved in medical studies but pursue related non-clinical subjects, such as Chemistry, basic Biology, Bioengineering, or the Humanities. These discussions received further impetus from the broader debate in College about improving academic performance, and by the appointment of Dr Mark Gurnell as Director of Studies for our postgraduate students in Clinical Medicine.

The Biomedical Seminar Series was inaugurated at the start of the 2009 Michaelmas Term, under the auspices of SSMVS. Three sessions have been held so far. Each time, one presentation was given by a fellow in Medical Sciences, and one or more shorter presentations by students. Student topics included a clinical case presentation illustrating the first steps in developing


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biomarkers for an inflammatory disease (by Brian Fang, MSc student in Medical Science), and the fascination and technical challenges of plastic and reconstruc-tive surgery (by Jonathan Yu, postgraduate medical student). There was also an opportunity for several third-year undergraduate students to present their research projects (Sugashini Murugesu, Developmental Biology; Eleanor Hind, Neuroscience; Sid Lawrence, Pharmacology). Senior members spoke on the use of gene therapy to correct inborn errors in metabolism leading to brain disease (Dr Tim Cox, Professor of Medicine), the relationships between inflammatory joint diseases and diseases affecting blood vessels (Dr Frances Hall, Lecturer in Rheumatology), and the study of homeostasis, the dynamic balance of produc-tion and destruction of body constituents, as applied to the immune system (Dr Robert Busch, Senior Research Fellow). The range of topics covered repre-sented only a small fraction of the depth and breadth of biomedical expertise at Sidney. At the same time, it illustrates how closely preclinical and clinical specialties intertwine in current biomedical research.

The Environmental Lecture Series was organised by Dr Tomislav Friscic, with support from the Environmental Committee, under the auspices of the Wilson Society, Sidney’s Natural Sciences society. It was conceived from the

outset as an interdisciplinary forum, open to students and lecturers from all subjects. Its purpose is to highlight how different scientific disciplines and the humanities approach environmental issues, and what each contributes to our understanding of the environment and our ability to manage it. This academic agenda complements the practical efforts of many at Sidney to improve the College’s environmental awareness, energy efficiency and the environmental sustainability of its operations.

The Lecture Series was inaugurated in Michaelmas 2009 by Dr Michael Ramage, Fellow and Lecturer in Architecture, who illustrated with beautiful slides his work on the use of thin tile domes, inspired by long-standing Spanish building traditions, in contemporary buildings. His presentation provided excellent examples of how structural design and creativity can jointly produce buildings that are both environmentally friendly and lovely to behold.

Next, Robert Busch discussed the scientific underpinnings and implications of Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis – the idea that the biosphere uses mechanisms akin to those used in the human body to maintain the physical conditions on earth within a range conducive to life, and the evidence that these sys-tems are now being stretched to capacity by human population growth and industrial development. During Lent Term, Professor John Pyle, an atmos-pheric researcher at the Department of Chemistry, Director of the Centre for Atmospheric Science and a Fellow of St Catherine’s College, offered a spir-ited defence of the overwhelming scientific consensus on the magnitude and importance of global warming, as formulated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. A slide showing how the frigid temperatures of this year’s winter and spring in Europe and parts of Russia were counterbalanced by a continued warming trend in the rest of the world did much to reconcile the sensory experience of our shivering bodies with our understanding of global climate change.

The first year’s experience in both seminar series has been overwhelmingly positive. The subject societies that hosted them were enthusiastic and sup-portive. The turnout was respectable and discussion was lively and thoughtful on each occasion. Both series were advertised to all students and fellows of the College, but might have been more successful in attracting truly interdiscipli-nary audiences: the Biomedical Seminars were mostly attended by preclini-cal medical and veterinary students and fellows, with a smattering of NatScis, whereas the turnout for the Environmental Lectures was mostly from within the Wilson Society membership. Over time, a wider audience may be attracted


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by improvements in scheduling, selection of speakers, publicity, and social arrangements for these events. In any case, the seminars were felt by all partici-pants to be engaging, stimulating and successful. It is envisaged that both will continue in future years, further enriching the intellectual life of the College. We hope to attract greater involvement from the wider Sidney community, and beyond, in subsequent years – both as listeners and as presenters.dr Tomislav FrisciĆ, Fellow in natural sciencesdr Robert Busch, Fellow in Medical and Veterinary science

New Fellows 2009–10Dr David Doupé was admitted in October 2009 as the John and Delia Agar Research Fellow in Natural Sciences. A graduate in Zoology from Clare College, Cambridge, his PhD on ‘The Regulation of Normal Epithelial Progenitor Cells’ was completed in 2009. He plans to extend his research in quantitative cell fate in mouse epithelia to an alternative model system in which it will be more read-ily possible to connect cell fate to underlying mechanisms. Dr Doupé is based at the Hutchison-MRC Research Centre on the Addenbrooke’s Hospital site.

Dr David Beckingham was also admitted in October 2009, having been elected as Austin Robinson Research Fellow in Arts and Humanities. His BA, MPhil and PhD were all obtained at Cambridge. His thesis was entitled ‘The Geographies of Drunkenness in Nineteenth-Century Liverpool’ and his current research continues this theme, examining the geographies of moral regulation in the context of drunkenness in the nineteenth century. It assesses the spatial impacts of policing and licensing as technologies of government, and weighs the historical construction of drunkenness against recent changes in the licens-ing system.

The third new Fellow to join Sidney in October 2009 was Dr Paul White, who directs studies as part of the Modern and Medieval Languages team. Dr White gained his BA, MPhil and PhD at Clare College, Cambridge. His thesis was entitled ‘Responses to Ovid’s Heroides in Sixteenth-Century France’, and focused on Neo-Latin commentaries, French translations and imita-tions of work by Neo-Latin and French authors. It has since been published as Renaissance Postscripts: Responding to Ovid’s Heroides in Sixteenth-Century France (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2009), and he is also co-edi-tor, with Philip Ford, of Masculinities in Sixteenth-Century France (2006). He


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is writing a monograph on the Latin commentary editions of the Paris-based printer and scholar Josse Bade (Jodocus Badius Ascensius), and is working on a project on the uses of metaphor in early modern French philosophical texts.

The John and Delia Agar Research Fellow for 2010–13, Dr Thomas Harvey, took up his Fellowship on 1 July 2010. Dr Harvey’s BSc in Geology and Biology and his MSc in Palaeobiology were obtained from the University of Bristol; he then moved on to Selwyn College, Cambridge where he took his PhD with a thesis entitled ‘Organic-Walled Microfossils from the Early Cambrian of Canada’. Dr Harvey’s principal research interests are in the evolution of life across the Proterozoic-Phanerozoic transition. His work reveals the fine-scale anatomy preserved in exceptional fossils, and explores the implications for animal phylogeny, macroevolution, and macroecology. He is based at the Department of Earth Sciences where he is continuing to work with his doctoral supervisor, Dr Nick Butterfield.

Dr Edward Wilson-Lee was appointed as Fellow in English with effect from 1 August 2010. He obtained his BA in English from University College London, and moved to Columbia University for his MA, also in English. He completed his PhD at Cambridge in 2008, with a thesis entitled ‘Sidney’s Arcadia and the Early Modern Reader, 1586–1660’. Dr Wilson-Lee has been at Sidney since 2008 when he joined us as Affiliated Lecturer and Director of Studies in English, and has also been an Affiliated Lecturer at the University’s Department of English since January 2009.

Departing FellowsWe bade farewell to three Fellows as the academic year 2009–10 drew to a close. Dr Myles Lavan, who joined Sidney in October 2008 as a junior research fellow, has taken up a new position in the School of Classics at the University of St Andrews. Dr Tae-Kyun Kim reached the end of his three-year tenure as junior research fellow in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and moves to London for his next appointment as a lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College. Also departing as his non-sti-pendiary lectureship drew to a close was Mr Colin Britton, formerly Domestic Bursar and Steward at Sidney from 2002. We send our warmest wishes for the future to all three.

Visiting Fellows 2009–10The Visiting Fellow for Michaelmas Term 2009, Professor Renato Pasta, took his PhD at Princeton University, following a BA from the University of Milan and a DEA from the EHESS, Paris. A Professor in the Department of Historical and Geographical Studies at the University of Florence, he has published exten-sively on the history of political and scientific culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the history of learned institutions and the history of lit-erature in Ancien Régime Europe. During his stay in Cambridge, Professor Pasta investigated British-Italian relations in the eighteenth century, with spe-cial attention to the book trade and travelling.

Professor Eugenia Kumacheva, Visiting Fellow during Easter Term 2010, obtained her MSc from the Institute of Chemical Technology in St Petersburg and her PhD in ‘The Physical Chemistry of Polymers’ from the Russian Academy of Science. On obtaining her doctorate, she joined the Department of Chemistry at Moscow State University. Currently Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto, she leads the polymers, interfaces and materials science group. Her research interests cover polymers at sur-faces and interfaces, advanced polymer materials, convection in polymeric and polymerisable fluids, morphology of multi-component polymer systems, and polymers and microfluidics. In 2009 Professor Kumacheva was one of the recipients of the L’Oreal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science.

Professor Todd C. Hufnagel also joined us as a Visiting Fellow for Easter Term. He took his PhD from Stanford University in 1995 and also has an MS in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford and a BS from Michigan Technological University. He won the Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising in 2005. Professor Hufnagel is pres-ently Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Three of our Visiting Fellows during the Lent and Easter Terms were appointed as a consequence of their election as Visiting Professors of Strategy, Marketing and Innovation at Judge Business School. Professor Christine Moorman joined us for the Lent Term 2010. She has a PhD and MBA from the University of Pittsburgh and gained her BS at the Northern Kentucky University. Professor Moorman is currently T. Austin Finch, Sr Professor of Business Administration at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, NC, having been previ-ously Professor of Marketing at the Fuqua School of Business (1999–2005)


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and Associate Professor of Marketing at the School of Business, University of Wisconsin (1995–99). Her research interests include market learning, organi-sational and individual manager use of marketing information, marketing strategy innovation, marketing strategy alliances, individual consumer use of health and nutrition information and public policy implications.

Professor Pam Tolbert has a PhD and an MA in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She presently has a Chair in the Department of Organizational Behavior at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University. Her principal areas of teaching and research are organisation and theory, interorganisational/environment relations, profes-sions and occupations, and stratification and organisations.

Professor Amnon Rapoport was our Judge Visiting Fellow during Easter Term 2010. He took his MA and PhD in Quantitative Psychology at the University of North Carolina, having obtained a BA in Psychology and Philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Professor Rapoport is currently Distinguished Professor of Management and Marketing at the University of California Riverside and also Eller Professor of Management and Organizations at the University of Arizona; in addition he is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Marketing at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Professor Rapoport’s specialisms include interactive decision-making (conflict and coop-eration in the dyad, two-person bargaining, adaptive learning, coalition forma-tion, social dilemmas) and individual decision-making (static, sequential and multistage decision behaviour). He also teaches applied decision-making for MBA students and statistics for Psychology and Business Administration.

Honorary FellowsTaking communion from Archbishop Desmond Tutu at a Eucharist in the Cathedral was a highlight of the visit of Professor Dame Sandra Dawson (Master, 1999–2009) and Henry Dawson (Fellow Commoner) to Cape Town in April 2010. After the service, our Honorary Fellow retired to a coffee shop over the road where conversation and laughter filled the air. He sent all good wishes to everyone at ‘his’ Cambridge college.

Peter Riddell (1966, History; Honorary Fellow, 2005) has recently left the Times, where he was assistant editor and political columnist, to concentrate on his freelance writing and speaking and his work for the Institute for Government. He has recently been appointed to the Privy Council (see page 123).


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Staff This year we lost a number of key members of staff but are fortunate in having recruited very able people to replace them. Kay Fieldhouse, the Master’s PA, who was with us for three years, retired on 18 December 2009 and will be missed by us all. We were very fortunate to recruit Alex Hall as the new Master’s PA; Alex joined us from the National Stud on 14 December 2009.

Stephen Pavey, the Payroll and Pensions Manager from 17 June 2006 to 30 November 2009, left Sidney to restart his IT consultancy and Lorraine Edwards, who had been very ably supporting Stephen as a temporary member of staff since April 2009, was appointed Payroll and Pensions Officer on 4 January 2010.

Last year’s excellent performance in the Kitchen has continued. The Stewards Cup was regained by Sidney. Nigel Tumber won a gold medal, best in class and best in show; Derek Pledger a gold medal; Brian Girdlestone a silver and best in class; and Ashley Irvine a gold medal for under 21s, best in class. Brian Girdlestone and Phillip Crouch went to compete at Olympia in February and won silver and best hygiene awards. In March Stephen Mather took the Cambridge University culinary team to Blackpool to compete in the national competition against teams from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. The team won one class and came fourth overall.

The front of house staff also did us proud, picking up three silver medals for Norbert Raffai, Aimee Weilding and Ritesh Rebello. We congratulate them all.

There have also been changes in the Hall and kitchen: Solly Cham, Senior Hall Manager, who had been with us for four years, left to take up a managerial position at D’Arry’s Wine Bar, which, being a Sidney haunt, means we can still keep in touch. We are very pleased to welcome a new chef de partie, Paul Thadiyan George, who took up his post in March.

During the last year, we have received the very sad news of the deaths of three long-serving and much-missed members of staff. Baldomero Manzano, Assistant Hall Manager (Mero to eve-ryone who knew him), died in September 2009. Mero, who had been at Sidney for 22 years, looked after Fellows, students and staff alike, gave 100% commitment and was always ready to have a chat. Mero Manzano

Mero had very strong family bonds with his wife Ann and the light of his life – his daughter Natalie. However, this family might never have been. Ann recalls that one day in 1970, while standing at the bus stop outside the Arts Cinema, Mero asked her out; he struck Ann as cheerful and funny so she agreed to see him again. On reflection she thought he was too cheerful and too funny and so probably not serious, so Ann did not keep the date. It was only some weeks after when she saw him again that she learned, to her shame, that Mero had indeed been deeply serious – so serious he had bought a new suit especially for the occasion and had waited for more than an hour for Ann to show. Still, love was triumphant and the rest, as we say, is history. Mero was a man of many parts and will be sorely missed.

Jean Reddy, former College sub-librarian during the 1970s and 1980s, died in Addenbrooke’s Hospital on 8 November 2009, aged 79. A truly remarkable lady, her life took many contrasting turns. Born in the northwest of England, she had an illustrious career as a top-class soprano, having trained at the Royal Manchester College of Music during the 1950s. Dramatically, she gave up life on the opera stage at the height of her career to join an enclosed order of nuns in Hereford, following a farewell concert performance in January 1960 at the Palace Theatre in Nelson, Lancashire before an audience of over 800. Having left the convent after several years, she worked for a time in the library of the Archaeology and Anthropology Faculty in Cambridge, where she met and became a close friend of the Prince of Wales. At Sidney, she is remembered for her great kindness to the students who passed through the library. She made a point of memorising the names and faces of first-year undergraduates from the matriculation photograph, so that she was able to welcome them by name on their very first visit to the library, and thereafter was always a generous source of support and advice, and even an occasional cup of tea.

Ted Barrett, maintenance engineer at Sidney from 1950 to 1993, passed away peacefully on 22 August 2010 at the age of 82 in Cottenham Court Nursing Home. His daughter, Sandra Stops, has provided the following memories of Ted: ‘He worked at Sidney for 43 years and retired in 1993. My brother Paul and I have many happy memories of coming into College with him. He was immor-talised as a gargoyle on retirement and this is now on the Chapel tower. We still have the plaster cast made for the gargoyle mould. Dad saw Sidney through many moments in the College history, including being asked to be present for the burial of Cromwell’s head, at midnight somewhere... in College... but we do not know where that was. He was very discreet in all matters. Doing battle


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with the BBC during filming, dealing with numerous students and of course the usual boiler and water problems that you would expect – the list is endless. Paul has recently worked with the Master and Fellows on the production of Richard Humphreys’ Sidney history, which was published last year. Dad had a copy of the book and was immensely proud to have been mentioned in it. He loved his time at Sidney. Dad was an amazing father, quiet and unassuming. He was proud of his family and loved his wife, Heather, dearly. He also had three grandchildren: Natalie and Christopher Stops and Mark Barrett.’

There have been a number of changes in housekeeping. Annette Secker, who has been at College since October 1990 and has carried out administrative duties for some years, was officially promoted to Accommodation Housekeeping Assistant in November 2009. Brenda Law and Sue Harrison both left College in November 2009 due to ill health after 10 and 11 years service, respectively. We wish them both well.

The Porters’ Lodge, the hub of Sidney life, has a new lady porter, Victoria Sealy, who started at Sidney on 15 March 2010. Victoria works at Sidney from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and then works at Robinson College in the afternoons. We know which is the better of the two Colleges but Victoria will not be drawn.

We have a new member in the IT Department, Anthony Frost, who started at Sidney in November 2009 as Electronic Information Officer. Anthony’s main

role is to develop and maintain an efficient, dynamic and content-rich website.

In July 2010 Patricia Lloyd retired after giving 37 years’ continuous service to the College. Introduced to Sidney by a friend, Pat was interviewed by the then Housekeeper and by the Bursar, Roger Andrew, for a bed-making position. After spending years working on cold staircases with no heating Roger Andrew suggested Pat might find it warmer working in the Hall looking after students, Fellows and staff, which Pat gratefully accepted. During her time at Sidney Pat had seen four Masters, three Bursars – the current Bursar, Nick Allen, was a third-year undergraduate when Pat first arrived – thousands of students, numerous catering managers and butlers. Pat always had the same dedi-cated, friendly, bubbly, welcoming manner that made her so popular. She was always fully committed to her Victoria sealy

duties, while also enjoying a laugh and joke as well as the occasional chorus of ‘Shall we dance?’, which is now sung throughout the catering department.

When Dr Edward Wilson-Lee’s wedding party was staying at Sidney in the summer of 2008, Pat was incredibly kind and welcoming to his wife’s grand-mother, who was (at 91) on her first trip ever outside continental North America. The grandmother was delighted to discover that great English delicacy, fried bread (which she still insists on calling ‘fried toast’), and, after hearing this, Pat made sure that she received several slices of it each morning for breakfast during her stay (rather than the usual one-slice portion). Congratulations to Pat on her retirement – she will be missed by all at the College but never forgotten.

Buildings As reported last year, the summer of 2009 was very busy. Cloister Court was renovated and brought up to twenty-first century standards. No major work had been done on the building since the 1960s, so it required new fire alarms, water supply, wiring, kitchens and bathrooms. It was one of the largest projects we have undertaken in one summer. We decided to do it in such a short space of time to minimise the disruption, with the risk that some rooms would not be ready when students returned. Luckily the project came in on time. Cloister Court rooms are now some of the most popular for our students and bed and breakfast guests. At the same time A and F staircases were upgraded with improved fire precautions and new kitchens. Earlier in the year we had purchased 6a St Eligius Street, the old coach house of Herne Lodge. During the summer we renovated Herne Lodge and integrated the two buildings, creating 13 good rooms, a living room and large communal kitchen. Herne Lodge is located behind the Chemistry Department, so is convenient for post-graduates at Judge Business School, in Engineering or Chemistry.

The final project of last year was the work on the King Street gate. When Jim O’Brien, the back gate porter, retired we knew it would be difficult to find anyone who could manage the car parking as well as he did, so we decided on an automated solution. The gate was repaired and can now be activated by a zapper, a mobile phone that has been registered by the College, and College members with a University card: the latter opens the gate sufficiently to let a bicycle pass, but not a car. The alteration has reduced the number of cars in the King Street car park by nearly 50% and has improved security for the JCR bar.


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The 2010 summer works programme felt relatively light compared to last year. New bathrooms and kitchens have been installed in Y and Z staircases. At the same time all the doors were upgraded to provide improved fire protection. Now 90% of our student rooms will have bathrooms and kitchens that comply with the latest environmental standards, although some of us will miss the old coal lockers. In addition, we have been able to return to our programme of rou-tine decoration. The inside of the houses in Portugal Street have been decorated and external decoration has been done on Hobson Court, Garden Court, the Chapel, Cromwell Court and the hostel in Elizabeth Way.

In last year’s Annual, it was reported that the College planned to create new student accommodation in properties adjacent to the College, currently rented out as office accommodation. This is essential, as we need to replace the 44 rooms in Portugal Street rented from St John’s on a lease that expires in 2018. The first property to be converted will be 8/9 Jesus Lane, next door to the Pitt Club and currently rented to the University’s International Office, which will vacate it in December. The building will be converted into 14 new student rooms, many of which have excellent views over our gardens, at an estimated cost of £1.2 million. We hope these rooms will be available for October 2011.

Many members of the College will regret the loss of Galloway & Porter. However, the College plans to reconfigure the building with retail space on the ground floor and basement, and the upper floors retained for College use, including six student rooms and a new Combination Room for graduate stu-dents. The latter has been designed so that it can be easily converted to student rooms, if a new student facility is created within the College. There will be direct access to the South Court terrace from the refurbished building. The cost is estimated to be £0.7 million and we hope the work will be completed in the early summer of 2011.

The old MCR in Chapel Court will become a seminar/meeting room. This will release space in Sussex House to create a new gym to replace the old black hole in the basement of the Mong Building. The gym will have an aerobics room, weights room and shower facilities. We decided to build the gym in the summer of 2010, before VAT increases, and operate for a year with one seminar room fewer.

Looking further ahead, we hope to get vacant possession of Sidney House in 2011. Sidney House is on the corner of Sussex Street and Sidney Street, over the Britannia Building Society. The plan is to convert the building into 28 student rooms, at an estimated cost of £2 million. The College is seeking dona-tions for this project, but we have brought building plans forward, rather than

wait for funding, as the task of finding additional accommodation has become urgent. Sidney House will bring a greater proportion of our students to the main College site, which has benefits for both students and the management of the property. All the new buildings will have generous communal space, includ-ing kitchens, so that some of the benefits of being in a hostel will be retained. It will be a busy few years.nick allen, Bursar

The Church in CollegeI write this on the eve of the first Chapel wedding of the summer. It is late and quiet now; the Chapel sits ready for the guests who will crowd in tomor-row. The flowers are there, the orders of service are stacked neatly in a box, the sermon notes rest on the lectern. A few days ago the alumni of the early 1950s gathered for Holy Communion; shortly before that the building had been packed for our service of graduation, which followed swiftly on the heels of the emotionally charged final Evensong of the academic year. Throughout the year there has been our regular run of services: the quiet, contemplative Eucharist on a Sunday morning; the glories of Choral Evensong on Fridays and Sundays; the wonderful retrieval of Vespers sung in Latin on a Wednesday (of which more below) and of course the daily round of prayers. And there have been the special occasions when the College has gathered to celebrate or to mourn – to welcome the new Master to his first service; to lift the roof at the Christmas carol serv-ice; to mourn and commend our dead to God. Yes, like any parish church this is a busy building ... the quiet tonight is deceptive, the calm before the storm.

And yet Chapels must also be quiet places. As the former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard Holloway, once wrote, ‘I’m not too worried if some of our churches are empty, as long as they are open. Some of our churches do their thing best when they are left alone with God.’ Our founders were wise when they built this great space at the heart of the College, a place where, among all the drama and pressure and hurry of Cambridge, people could sit alone and remember who they are, and why they are here. As the priest here, the best thing I can report is that people still do that: that the Chapel is still a place that is rested in, pondered in, prayed in.

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longest serving chaplain in the British Army – Patton Taylor, who just happens also to be Professor of Old Testament Studies at Union Theological College, Belfast. It was wonderful to welcome back a former chaplain, Canon Michael Wadsworth, who preached just a few weeks before his daughter Rachel was married here – in the Chapel she played in as an infant. The lawyers among us were fascinated to hear the reflections of the Revd Matthew Bradbury, who was until recently District Crown Prosecutor for Cambridge as well as a parish priest. And we were delighted to welcome Canon Robin Dickensen all the way from Week St Mary in Cornwall. Members may remember that Week St Mary is one of the very few remaining College livings; I was privileged to visit and preach there at the annual Revel service in September, and it is great that this relationship is being built up again. I renew my appeal to alumni for any stories and memories of College involvement with its livings: I hope to produce an article about this for next year’s Annual.

No review of the year in Chapel would be complete without a tribute to our musicians. It has been another splendid year for the Choir led by Dr David Skinner and our two Organ Scholars, Ben Atkinson and Dan Smith. Visitors are regularly stunned by the sheer beauty of the sound that pours forth every week. This year, special mention has to go to the ‘new’ (for which read very,

very old – our Franciscan predecessors on this site probably sang something very similar) service of Choral Vespers sung in Latin every Wednesday, com-plete with readings from the Vulgate Bible. It is a fair bet that Cromwell would not approve, but this service has clearly struck a chord in College and through-out wider Cambridge; the past really has come alive here, and it is beautiful.

So thanks are due to our musicians, and also to all who work so hard to let Chapel be what it is: the team of wardens led by Dasha Dakhno-Cogger and Alison Gilroy; the readers and those who coach them; Derek Cowling, who acts as Verger; Claire Couzins, who valiantly struggles with the photocopier and Chapel diary, and Eros Trento, our tireless cleaner. Our debt to them all is immense. Come and see what they do for us. Revd dr Peter waddell, Pastoral dean

Library ReportThere have been various comings and goings in the Library this year. To provide space for new stock, several hundred items were withdrawn. Often the fate of old textbooks is quite brutal, and will be glossed over here to avoid upsetting the squeamish. Some do find new leases of life, sold to second-hand dealers, or given away to charities, students or passersby. Some even find their way to the Muniment Room and posterity. These lucky few consist of those written

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by College members, or choice items, a first edition of Darwin’s Variation of Plants and Animals under Domestication (1868), say, or Dirac’s Principles of Quantum Mechanics (1930). Copies of these important and fairly valuable items (each worth £1,000–2,000) were discovered idling away unremarked on the shelves during weeding.

Conversely, several hundred books are bought or given each year. One par-ticular donation sticks in my mind, partly because I struggled through the snowy wastes of Hertfordshire to collect it. This was the Millennium edi-tion of the Domesday Book, a facsimile on thick paper simulating the origi-nal vellum, bound in tooled leather and wooden boards. It came from George Maris of Takeley, who bought it to support his genealogical researches. During the course of these he noted that some of his forebears had married in Sidney Chapel, and, now in his nineties and unfortunately getting a little frail, this discovery prompted his gift. It will prove a valuable resource for those studying medieval history, and has already featured in an exhibition.

Beyond books, several new contraptions were installed to support study: a new photocopier, a water cooler, an interactive whiteboard, a plastic brain, and, most successfully, a comb-binder.

The Library has welcomed many visitors this year. Last September we opened to the public as part of Open Cambridge, providing exhibits on Sidney scientists. A hundred people wandered in over two days (I could have sworn one of them was David Willetts). We were also immortalised in film, as the backdrop to a short piece directed by an ex-student, Kieran Chadha.

I’ve been supported this year by Alison Beaumont and Samantha Bailey. Sam moved to a full-time post at St John’s in May, after two years at Sidney, and we wish her every success. Alison was keen to try her hand at cataloguing and has

The Millennium edition of the domesday Book

taken on the extra hours. Further advice comes from the Library Committee: the Senior Tutor, the Archivist, Dr Dickers, Dr Fulda, Dr Roberts, Dr Stargardt, and particularly the student representatives, Patrick Bradley, Abigail Schultz, Emma Gatti and Chris Crowe. All this help means I can pursue professional opportunities such as organising conferences, providing training on rare books cataloguing in Edinburgh, Manchester and London, and interviewing for a new librarian at Homerton. stewart Tiley, librarian

Muniment RoomAfter the disruption of the previous year the Muniment Room has begun to resume a more ordered appearance. By means of reorganisation of classes of archives it has been possible to make better use of the limited space available.

In 2009–10 there were 102 external readers consulting a total of 171 items. In addition, the Archivist answered 938 e-mail enquiries relating to material in the Muniment Room. The large number of e-mails reflects the final stages of work on Richard Humphreys’ new history of the College.

As part of the condition audit, begun last year, the Conservation Consortium cleaned, consolidated and furbished approximately 145 volumes. In all those cases where early twentieth century repair leather is suffering from red rot, it has been decided that the extremely friable and acidic leather should be replaced, so as to make the books safe to handle. Work continued through-out the year on the technically complex task of conserving MR.42, the eight-eenth century accounts of the College. Once again, thanks are due to Melvin Jefferson, Elizabeth Bradshaw and Edward Cheese of the Consortium for their excellent work on College material.

The Michaelmas Term exhibitions were put in place in time for the Cambridge Open Libraries Trail on 11 and 12 September 2009, part of the 800th Anniversary celebrations, on the theme of Cambridge’s contribution to science. In the main exhibition case was a display, entitled ‘Libri Mathematici’, of scien-tific books from the library of the 2nd Lord Harington. The display case in front of the Library staircase housed a selection of items relating to Sidney scientists and the College laboratory. The Lent Term exhibition, ‘The Transmission of Texts’, focused on early translations of Aristotle and Henry Bell’s translation of Luther’s Tischreden, which was published by William Dugard (matric. 1622).


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In the Easter Term the centenary of the Confraternitas Historica was marked by an exhibition of memorabilia from the archives of the Confrat., including the ‘Sacred Scroll’, early minute books and menu cards, as well as works by Sidney historians, most notably James Passant and David Thomson.

In February Sidney’s unique complete copy of the York Pica of 1509–10 was taken back to York for an exhibition at Grays Court, marking the quincente-nary of printing in York. It was a pleasure to see Bernard Barr (matric. 1955), formerly York Minster librarian, among those attending the celebrations on 18 February.

Recent Fellows’ publications are now housed in a handsome mid-nineteenth-century mahogany bookcase in the New Parlour. The Conservation Consortium has made perspex stands to facilitate the display of both monographs and off-prints. Thanks are due to the Master, Fellows and members of the College who presented books and articles to the Muniment Room. Particular mention must be made of the Master’s Rome’s Cultural Revolution and the Vice-Master’s The Christian West and its Singers: The First Thousand Years. Professor Beales presented a copy of View of Trianon’s Hungary, by A. B. Yolland (1874–1957), who was instrumental in promoting Anglo-Hungarian cultural ties, as well as introducing football to Hungary. The publication of Richard Humphreys’ his-tory prompted John Sennett (matric. 1953) to donate a rare recording of the 1956 Inter-University Jazz Competition, which was won by Cambridge, with Dick Heckstall-Smith (matric. 1953) on tenor saxophone.

Several recent publications incorporate biographical information supplied by the Archivist. These include Professor Edward Royle’s A Church Scandal in Victorian Pickering (York, 2010), which recounts the circumstances sur-rounding the suspension of the Revd George Cockburn (adm. 1826), and Theodore Mallinson: A Schoolmaster in his Time, ed. Simon Appleton, Michael Hammerson and Roger Savage (London, 2010).

The Archivist published a discussion of the iconography of Sidney Sussex MS.37 in Signs and Symbols, ed. John Cherry and Ann Payne (Donington, 2009).

In November 2009 the College acquired the Cambridge photograph album of Douglas George Rouquette (matric. 1910), later a lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps, who was killed in action in 1917. The photographs record his life as a rugby, hockey and tennis player, an actor in amateur theatricals of the Cromwells, as well as the 1912 production of Œdipus Tyrannus, and President of the Union. Of particular interest are the May Ball photographs taken in

Top: douglas Rouquette (1910), second left, after a production of the cromwells.Below: The college Hockey Team, 1912–13. Rouquette is second from right in the back row. The editor’s uncle, J B Mayall (1910) was the goalkeeper (middle row, second from right) and his father, R c Mayall (1912) is seated front right.


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Market Hill, and the views of a houseboat in May Week, showing Rouquette with his future wife.

The most recent acquisition, purchased in June 2010, is an autograph album compiled by an early twentieth century member of the Chafy family, which includes correspondence addressed to Dr William Chafy, Master 1813–43, from the Duke of Gloucester, Peel, Palmerston, and the geologist Adam Sedgwick, who wrote asking for permission to take the Oxford geologist William Buckland, whose father and grandfather had been at Sidney, through the Master’s Garden and to show him the portrait of Cromwell.nicholas Rogers, archivist

Garden NotesIt’s been a very busy and varied year so far for us in the garden, what with a cold, long winter, a lavish May Ball and an extremely dry summer. The winter was pretty grim with the land locked tight in a prolonged frost that seemed to last the whole season. The wisteria bloomed fairy lights for the first time and the arrival of the snow was confirmed with triangular signs saying, ‘SLIPPERY SURFACE’. This all made for a late spring but it was nonetheless colourful. The deep blue pansies in the Master’s garden contrasted well with the yellow cottage tulips Mrs John T. Sheepers. The Master’s straight borders were planted out with violas and forget-me-nots, keeping the yellow and blue theme going throughout. The chill of the spring extended the display of daffodils, narcissi and chinadoxa, which are a delight under the tree canopies.

A big job every other April is the pruning of the Magnolia grandiflora in Hall Court. Because it is over nine metres high, the good people of the health and safety executive advise that we use an elevation platform to do the job. We did try this two years ago but unfortunately one member of staff nearly got wiped out by a bus and another contracted a hernia trying to lug the thing in so we had to revert to an old-fashioned ladder. Never mind, I filled out the obligatory risk assessment form so my chances of falling from the top were eliminated. The Magnolia is also a place where all the feral pigeons of Cambridge converge for their regional defecation competition. They blessed me with enough good luck tokens to back them heavily in the nationals.

From the tail end of winter a small knot of students can be seen out in the garden pacing, measuring and gesticulating. These can always be picked out as

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members of the May Ball committee. I don’t attend May Balls myself. I have done in the past but the problem was that I could never ‘sign off ’. A member of the ball would come to me on the night and ask if I was enjoying the party then step back with an expectant glint in his eye. I would then whimper while pointing at a broken flower head, sink to my knees, drop forward on to my face and start beating the turf with my fists and feet. Therefore, to spare the bewil-dered party-goers wrapping me in parcel tape and throwing me on the skip, I keep well away.

Heads of departments attend a couple of May Ball committee meetings where all concerns and fears are melted away with words like, ‘We’ll look into that’, ‘We’re looking into that’, and ‘We’ve looked into that but we’ll look into it again’. This year I couldn’t explain my irrational feelings of dread when all they were going to do was scatter fairground attractions over the Fellows’ and Master’s gardens, flood the two front courts with an inordinate tonnage of water and consume the equivalent quantity in alcohol. This they did and party-goers were treated to one of the most spectacular May Balls ever, where punts passed majestically through the courts in floodlit Venetian splendour.

One of the main concerns at the committee meetings was how on earth they were going to get rid of such a vast quantity of water (the alcohol wasn’t a con-sideration). However, they’d looked into it and the dismantling of Venice was carried out with military precision. Only three basic commands were needed: 1. ’Woohw!’ 2. ’WOOHW!’ and 3. ‘Oh, Christ, IT’S GONNA GO!’ Early arrivals at work were treated to the sight of the Domus Bursar, clipboard tucked under his arm, sprinting like David Hasselhoff in front of a mini tsunami cascading down Sidney Street.

Once the party had eventually been cleared away the real damage to the garden could begin. Cue: one blackbird on the court lawns. Yes… ‘Chafer Grub III, They’re Back. And This Time It’s Personal’. I think I’ve said all I can about the Head Gardener’s nemesis in previous College Annuals: I will just add that this year they were helped by the fact that we have had one of the driest sum-mers on record. By July all of the College lawns were parched to a dusty yellow. We give the trees and shrubs priority irrigation so the lawns really suffer in this alluvial soil.

The bedding schemes in the courts look particularly good this year with a blue and white theme in Chapel Court made up of Cosmos sonata white, Nicotiana malibu blue, Cineraria silver dust and Salvia Victoria blue. Hall Court has a soft pink pastelly feel punctuated with the tropical-looking Ricinus carmenciter pink. The disappointing thing is that one’s attention immediately falls to the blackbird’s shock and awe tactics. The pattern seems to be that they move on to their mulberry dessert at the end of July, so we patch up the lawns then.

Well, that’s it for another year. I’m off to urge the Bursar to advertise for a rain dancer. If we hold the interviews on the Court lawns we might kill two birds with one stone…Trevor Rees, Head gardener


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Pebbles, the College CatPebbles came to Sidney in 1998 when he was about six months old. He had been the pet of the children of Professor James Simpson, then Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature and a fellow of Girton, and he was offered to Dr Preston at a garden party (such is the English Faculty) because the Sidney college cat, Stella, had recently died and Pebbles was tearing up the Simpsons’ furniture. Pebbles, as all aficionados of the Flintstones will know, is the name of Fred and Wilma’s baby girl, and Pebbles was so named because the Simpsons thought he was female. When Pebbles arrived in Sidney in August 1998, ‘she’ was taken to the vet to be neutered. Half an hour after leaving the vet’s, the Revd Dr Ellen Clark-King, the Chaplain and Keeper of the College Cat, received a bemused phone call from the vet, who said, ‘Were you aware that this cat is a bloke?’ Friends of Pebbles since that time have speculated that gender confu-sion and reassignment may have played a role in Pebbles’ aggressive and some-what testy personality. Pebbles, aka ‘Mr Pebbles’, or ‘Sir Pebbles’, or even ‘Your

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Majesty’, lived for the first 15 months in the Chaplain’s flat in Blundell Court; later, when Ellen resigned her Fellowship and left Cambridge, Pebbles moved in with Dr Preston in X3, where a cat-flap in the outer door still remains. When Professor Jones took that room, Pebbles remained until his death this spring in X staircase under the guidance of Dr Baxendale, a couple of floors above.

Pebbles had a great many adventures, most of them violent. Although fierce, he was a slightly built animal, and was no match for a series of bigger and badder cats who came roaming in the College gardens over the years. Pebbles shed a great deal of blood in defence of Sidney. His curiously ‘tasty’ gait – who can forget his odd but endearing way of flapping his hind legs out on either side? – was probably the result of an injury, although this was never firmly established. Besides tangling with opponents and boxing far above his weight, he was once seen falling off a second storey windowsill, and was on another occasion hit by a cyclist in King Street. He once wandered down into the Sainsbury’s loading bays out of boredom – he was well known to be discontented in the vacations when very few people were around to be tormented – and was caught by a well-meaning member of the public who delivered him to the Cats’ Protection League. He was eventually traced, after some weeks, to a household in Foxton where he had been given shelter. Until fairly recently he had his own website on Facebook (‘Dr Pebbles for President of the World’) through which he dispensed his inimitable brand of sarcasm and disparagement to various admirers who posted fawning messages to him. His photo on the site showed him wearing, most appropriately, a shiny gold crown. RIP Pebbles, Tasty Geezer and Defensor Sidnei.dr claire Preston


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La Serenissima comes to Sidney: The May Ball, 2010Our theme this year, ‘La Serenissima’, looked on paper an unwise and bizarre choice for landlocked Sidney, but the committee saw it as a vehicle for a much older dream. A project headed by Rob Weatherup and Adam Lawrance-Owen brought the glorious waterways of Venice to the front courts of Sidney Sussex. Over the course of the year Adam and Rob designed, calculated and negoti-ated the difficult path to bring the Grand Canal to Sidney. Project Nig-el, as it was so fondly known by all the committee, was without a doubt a labour of love; during the week leading up to the ball the committee, with the generous aid of other Sidney Students, constructed the liner, moved countless sandbags, secured everything in place and carried the seven punts from the river as well as managing their normal May Ball tasks. The completed canal was used to ferry guests by punt from Hall to Chapel Court while a magnificent fountain enter-tained onlookers. Yet the ball offered many other delights for those without sea legs; Chipmunk headlined with Goldie Lookin Chain to support, Cambridge

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Above: Punting in Hall Court. Opposite: larkum prize winners imogen Goodman and sam stone (see page 86)

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bar steward, a suggestion that did not go down well with the student body at first. However, Javier has proved to be a welcome addition to the Sidney com-munity and his excellent taste in music has brightened up many a dark exam term evening.

Participation in SSCSU has remained high this year. In the elections at the end of Lent term all the major positions were contested. The positions of Admissions and Academic Welfare Officer attracted four contenders and College Council Representative also saw two people apply for each place. In light of the popularity of SSCSU positions, the electoral procedure was updated. We intro-duced a secure online voting system, which dramatically improved participa-tion in elections, and we also altered the procedure for the election of College Council Representatives, so that they are no longer elected by a separate ballot. The student representatives on College Council now have trustee status as the

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AV provided a spectacular lightshow, a 50-metre helter skelter offered guests a bird’s-eye view of the ball before a speedy descent. As ever, an opulent array of food from hog roast to gnocchi, and drinks from all-night champagne to Miller ’s gin bar fed and watered guests until dawn. At 5.30 a.m. guests gathered for tea, coffee, freshly cooked bacon rolls and a photo to document their survival. denver sheridanPresident, May Ball Committee

Larkum Reading CompetitionThe annual Larkum Reading Competition, founded in memory of Dorothy Larkum by her husband the late bursar Charles Larkum, took place on 21 October 2009 and was hosted by the Master in the Audit Room. The panel of judges, made up of the Master, Dr Chris Page (Vice Master, Reader and Fellow in English) and Dr Emma Gilby (Lecturer and Fellow in French), was joined by a special guest judge, acclaimed novelist and Sidney graduate Rupert Thomson (1973). A dozen student entrants were invited, in the first round, to read a text of their choice as well as a Shakespeare sonnet of their own selection. Five final-ists were then asked to read Thomas Hardy’s poem ‘Old Furniture’. Imogen Goodman (English, 2008) was awarded the first prize and Sam Stone (History, 2008) was named as runner-up. dr edward Wilson-lee, director of studies for english

Report of the JCRSummarising the achievements of SSCSU in 500 words has proved to be very dif-ficult, despite this year being significantly less eventful than last; luckily, we man-aged to avoid a repeat of the Norovirus episode when swine flu turned out to be more tabloid monster than epidemic and much of the work of SSCSU has been focused on building on the improvements made in recent years, especially those instigated by Lydia Green. We have still had a busy year, however – renegotiating the operating rules for the JCR bar, coming to a new three-year rent agreement and updating SSCSU’s electoral procedures occupying much of my and Lydia’s time.

Perhaps the biggest issue that SSCSU and students at Sidney had to face in 2009–10 were the changes to the way in which the JCR bar operates. The bar committee now includes senior members of College and we also employ a

Members of the ssCsu Committee. l–R back row: Rin ushiyama, Angus McKnight, Charlotte Binstead, Patrick Bradley, steph Ray, simon Gibbons, dasha dakhno-Cogger, lydia Green, Abi schultz, sugar Murugesu. l–R front row: sallie Godwin, Kirsty Bell, Rosalie tostevin


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The intense pace of life at Cambridge is always difficult to cope with, and happily the MCR continued to provide constant social support during the year as the work level escalated. A graduate versus undergraduate paintballing trip was hugely successful, and one that we hope to repeat next year. A plenitude of formal swaps helped the graduates to experience other colleges (and com-pare other colleges’ efforts to beat Sidney’s amazing food). A Whisky Wine and Cigars night was trialled in Lent term, and sold out, prompting a repeat in Easter term, as another opportunity to meet fellow graduates interested in the finer things in life. House parties and barbecues were the mainstay of the Lent term, as students took advantage of the time before exams to experience Cambridge in its brief sunny spell. The winter months brought in a rare and beautiful layer of snow covering Cambridge, which brought an abrupt halt to any work, and ushered in a weekend of snowball fights both in College, and against our arch-rivals, the St John’s snowballers.

The MCR also fared well in sporting endeavours this year, with several mem-bers of the graduate community contributing to the success of the Boat Club in both the Lent and May bumps. Sidney is home to several blue and half-blue members of the University teams, and a well received squash tournament was held in College. Of course, the favourite sport for the summer months tends to be the more sedate game of croquet, and this year’s garden party played host to an incredible display of determination, with opposing teams battling it out for

College moves towards applying for charity status. This means that Council has become much more transparent and the workings of College more open to students, as the student representatives on Council now have access to some information that was previously listed as reserved business.

Admissions work at Sidney continues to be one of SSCSU’s strengths, despite our having had five different Admissions Officers since Lent 2009. The rather hectic interview period in December ran very smoothly thanks to the dedication of the student volunteers, and many of the candidates thanked us for simply being there to chat to. Unfortunately we were only able to run one access bus this year, which visited schools in Staffordshire in early July.

Despite a very successful year, there is still work to be done over the summer – my key tasks are updating the constitution and beginning work on improving access to Sidney’s excellent hardship provision.

Finally, I would like to thank everyone who has given their time to SSCSU this year – your efforts are always much appreciated. I would also like to thank the Master, the Bursar Nick Allen, Dr Richard Flower, Jackie Boyle, the Chaplain and the College Nurse for all the help and support they have given me this year.Charlotte BinsteadssCsu President 2009–10

Report of the MCRAnother successful year for the MCR started with a typically busy Freshers week for the incoming graduates. A ghost expedition, a whistle-stop tour of the local pubs, and various theatre trips punctuated by city tours and punting trips made sure that the new students got to grips with Cambridge life and settled in as soon as possible. The explosive start to the year culminated in a hugely memorable Britpop-themed party that was very well attended and showcased the very best in outdated and hilarious fashion sense. Freshers week also estab-lished the graduate spirit that was set to continue throughout the year. The MCR always has a rich variety of graduates from all over the world, and this year was no exception. The gradual renovation of the MCR has helped to bring graduates together to chat and exchange ideas, either over coffee and cake at the fortnightly MCR brunch, organised by the Welfare Officer, or over a tense World Cup match. the MCR Garden Party


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From an academic perspective, I firmly believe that this past year could not have been better spent. Fox Fellows are granted the same access to Yale’s resources as are regular students, which allowed me to spend time working with rare documents held by the Manuscripts and Archives department as well as the library system’s comprehensive literature collection. Fellows are also eligible to audit any course or seminar that may be of interest to them, often bypassing tough application procedures that apply to Yale stu-dents. In my case, this allowed me to attend Yale’s famous Studies in Grand Strategies class, taught by leading scholars and former State Department employees, and featuring visiting speakers of the calibre of General David Petraeus, recently appointed commander of US forces in Afghanistan. Needless to say, as a diplomatic histo-rian, I found attending this course a fascinating, once-in-a-lifetime experience.

One remarkable aspect of the Fox Fellowship programme is the freedom and flexibility granted to participants to shape their own experience to maximise the opportunities provided to them. The Fellowship allowed me to be based in the United States to carry out extensive archival research, an incredible oppor-tunity for a historian studying American foreign policy. During the course of the year I visited three presidential libraries in three different states, as well as spending time at the National Archives in Washington DC, gathering hundreds of primary documents that will form the core of my PhD thesis. I was also able to attend the largest conference of the year for historians of American foreign relations, a deeply beneficial as well as enjoyable trip.

Aside from the many academic benefits of the past year, the chance to study at Yale was enjoyable and worthwhile from a personal perspective. The Fellowship is efficiently organised, placing Fellows in pleasant shared apart-ments close to the beautiful Yale campus which, while architecturally designed to echo Oxford and Cambridge, has a personality and energy that is entirely unique. As a further nod to our own universities, Yale has a residential college system that fellows are invited to join by becoming affiliates of Pierson College. With less emphasis on the scholarly than on the social, the college affiliations

hours to claim the coveted Garden Party Champions title. The party was the highlight of the year, with live musicians, a mind magician, a chocolate foun-tain, strawberries and cream and, of course, a lot of Pimms. For many graduates this was the last social event before they departed to follow different careers, and we took this opportunity to wish them the best in their future endeavours.

The May Ball was hugely successful, and many members of the MCR helped to contribute to its lasting legacy. The canal built in College was a huge feat of engineering, and the story made its way into several national newspapers, showing how booksmart skills can be used for spectacular event organisation and not just passing exams.

The end of Lent term saw the election of the new MCR committee, with Ellie Kim and Chris Crowe duly elected as Treasurer and President, respec-tively. The new committee has pledged to improve the graduate accommoda-tion procedure for continuing graduates, and has organised a college-affiliated house that is currently being offered to second- and third-year students. This was previously perceived as one of the main graduate issues. We are using this as a pilot scheme, and will aim to expand next year if it proves successful.

I have thoroughly enjoyed being involved in the MCR committee, as a Social Secretary, and in my current presidential role. It’s a pleasure and a privi-lege to get to know so many fantastic graduates, and I must extend my support to the previous MCR committee, our administrative guardian angel Suzannah Horner, and the fantastic graduate tutors Iain Black and Julius Ross, whose graduate suppers are always fully-booked and hugely anticipated.Chris CroweMCR President

Reflections on My Experience as a Fox International FellowThe Fox International Fellowship invites postgraduate students from 11 of the world’s leading universities to spend one or two semesters at Yale University, with full access to all its extensive resources, and I was fortunate enough to be selected to represent Sidney. Spending the past year as a Fox Fellow was an unforgettable experience, of immeasurable benefit to my current research and to my future career prospects.

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College Travel Awards and Reports2010 Awards■■

Each year, the College is in the fortunate position of being able to support its junior members through the distribution of a large number of travel awards. These grants enable our students to visit different lands, experience different cultures and apply their learning and skills beyond what they could otherwise afford: for this, they and the College are extremely grateful to the many ben-efactors who have built up the Travel Award Fund over successive generations.

Demand for the travel awards is high, and each year the tutors face the unenviable task of choosing the successful candidates from a large number of worthy applicants. In the Easter Term 2010, College travel awards were granted to the following Sidney students:

Gérard Boulton Travel AwardsVictoria Sedgwick Economics (2007) GreeceBenjamin Watts Economics (2008) France

College Travel AwardsCharlotte Binstead History (2008) EuropeElla Delany Law (2006) IndiaElizabeth Farmer English (2007) PortugalAyodele Fajuyigbe Engineering (2007) New ZealandElizabeth Ing-Simmons Natural Sciences (2008) Europe

L A Hamlyn Travel AwardRoger Clarke Geography (2008) Rwanda

Hentsch Travel AwardGeorge Roberts History (2009) Switzerland

Parry Dutton Travel ScholarshipAnna Churchlow Natural Sciences (2007) USADaria Dakhno-Cogger History (2007) USALara Kerrison Architecture (2008) USASam Kirsop Geography (2008) USA

provided an easy way of meeting Yale students as well as more practical benefits such as dining halls and gym facilities.

I could not write about the Fox Fellowship without at least a brief mention of the personal contribution that Mr and Mrs Fox still make to the programme they established more than 20 years ago. With invitations to football games, dinners, their home in upstate Connecticut, and various other events, Joe and Alison Fox make the Fox Fellowship into far more than just another exchange programme. I certainly returned to the UK feeling that I had been a part of a truly special experience, one that will remain with me for years to come. thomas tunstall-Allcock

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and works of art that I had read about last year. Seeing the majesty of the Catholic Church in Spain has helped put into perspective its extraordinary wealth and power, which will come in useful this year as I study the Counter Reformation in more depth.’

Sophie Blackburn (Geography, 2006; Parry Dutton Travel Scholarship) always fostered a passion to visit New York City and enjoyed six fully-packed days in the ‘city that never sleeps’. ‘There is a postgraduate course run by the LSE that I was planning to apply to for next academic year, which includes a year spent at the University of Columbia in New York City. I was very keen to visit the city to gain a feel of what it would be like to spend the year there, and to visit the univer-sity itself to have a look around in person. The money donated to me by the Parry Dutton Fund was invaluable in offering me this opportunity.’

Anthony Brewer (Natural Sciences, 2007; College Travel Award) spent 30 days camper-vanning around Europe. ‘The city I enjoyed the most was Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia. The beautiful old town made a great day out exploring, and the nightlife was lively. All of the Baltic States were remarkably beautiful with excellent old town centres in the capitals and surrounding cities. There are many more great places we visited; driving past the Eiffel Tower and round the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, walking through the completely restored areas of Warsaw, avoiding reindeer on the road in Lapland seem at least worth mentioning.’

Daniel Gorton (Engineering, 2007; College Travel Award) spent a stimulating time in Bulgaria. ‘Sofia is an amazing capital: Roman remains, buildings from the Ottoman period, fantastic Bulgarian Orthodox churches, and communist showpieces are all there. The centre of the city is very small; Bulgaria is only a country of 7.5 million people and the city has a population of 1.4 million. The city of Plovdiv consists of a small, old centre, surrounded by communist-era skyscrapers. The architecture in the centre was like nothing I have ever seen before. Many of the buildings dated from the Bulgarian National Revival period, when the country was trying to shrug off five centuries of Ottoman rule.’

Greg Mellers Natural Sciences (2008) USAEmily Manoloupulos Natural Sciences (2008) USA Rebecca Singer Natural Sciences (2008) USAGreg Styger Geography (2008) USAJoel Winton History (2008) USA

Ratcliffe Travel AwardsAlexandre Campsie History (2008) UKSallie Godwin English (2007) ItalyAbigail Schultz Social Anthropology (2008) India

Mark Wainwright Memorial AwardAndrew Creamer Clinical Medicine (2006) USA

Wilkinson Travel AwardViresh Patel Architecture (2008) India

Helen Bailey (Theology, 2007; Parry Dutton Travel Scholarship) visited the stimulating surroundings of the Yale Divinity School in New Haven. ‘The two lit-urgy courses provide a helpful foundation for my own research, which is exploring the relationship between linguistics and liturgy – the power codes within liturgy, such as speech-acts, and the role of memory and linguistics in relation to liturgy. The library is well stocked in books and articles on this (it is possible to take up to 200 books out from the library in one go, and for three months) and Teresa Berger, who teaches the two liturgy courses, has given me invaluable advice. In all it was an experience hugely beneficial both to my further theological education and my experience of breadth of ministry and the Anglican Communion, which will only serve to enrich what I may bring in my own ministry once ordained.’

Georgie Baker (History, 2007; Otto Smail Travel Award) enjoyed the high summer heat of Spain, visiting Madrid, Salamanca and other locations. ‘I spent four days in Salamanca, exploring the winding streets, continually amazed at the beauty of the city – which has earned the name La Ciudad Dorada (the golden city) due to the warm glow the sandstone buildings create. Salamanca University is the same age as Cambridge, and they too were celebrating 800 years, with banners around the city and various events going on. I had a fantas-tic time in Spain, improved my spoken Spanish and enjoyed seeing the places


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unbelievable undergraduate career. I regard this summer jaunt as the holiday of my lifetime, and my great thanks go to the College and the grant committee for allowing me this opportunity.’

Lara Kerrison (Architecture, 2007; Parry Dutton Travel Scholarship) explored the architecture of Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. ‘Portland is at the forefront of sustainable building design and urban planning. The “Rose City” has met with particular success in its storm-water management and public transportation strategies and is a leader in historic preservation and the creative regeneration of existing buildings. I visited the city at the end of July to study some of these green architectural solutions. One of the first projects I visited was the Brewery Blocks scheme in the City’s Pearl District. Perhaps the most impressive member of the Brewery Block development was the Gerding Theatre, built within the shell of the Pearl District’s historic Armory. The thea-tre includes attractive beds of reeds and bamboo plants along the exterior wall as part of the storm-water management system, as well as a raised black granite channel through which the captured rainwater flows, stepping down over mini-ature waterfalls. I was able to take a day trip to Seattle, not so much as research for my dissertation as to see some of the city’s many examples of excellent con-temporary design. One of the most impressive of these was the central branch of the Seattle Public Library, designed by Rem Koolhaas.’

Anna Markland (Economics, 2007; College Travel Award) explored Amsterdam, Brussels, Berlin, Athens and Istanbul (even managing to set foot in the Asian continent) for two weeks in September. ‘When we arrived in Berlin, I hadn’t been prepared for how modern the city was. Much of the centre had been destroyed during the Second World War, although many buildings have been brilliantly restored. Checkpoint Charlie had been one of the few places where people could move between East and West Berlin, and the general thoughts and experiences of the people who had lived during this time have been catalogued. There were some incredible escape stories (often involving tunnels dug by dedi-cated students, or ingenious inventions that allowed people to go across unde-tected) and I particularly liked how the East Berlin soldiers were portrayed as being normal people who had been forced into awful circumstances. Genuinely an incredible experience.’

Sam Harrison (Engineering, 2007; Wilkinson Travel Award) spent a month driving in a camper-van (christened ‘Ernest’) on a route that included Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France. ‘We had our breath taken away time and time again as we drove through the spectacular scenery, each vista seemingly grander than the last; swimming in the Geirangerfjord was particularly impressive. Another highlight of the fjords was visiting an arm of the Jostedalsbreen, the largest ice sheet in mainland Europe, and swimming in the glacial lake at its foot – by far the short-est swim of the trip. We drove nearly 6,500 miles and got on very well for the duration, despite sleeping conditions that clearly hadn’t been designed for four people over six foot. All in all it was a brilliant trip.’

Richard Hughes (Geography, 2006; Parry Dutton Travel Scholarship) explored New York City and Niagara Falls. ‘Having studied New York and North America in many of my undergraduate Geography papers, it was a long-held dream to visit and explore the region. The trip offered me many opportunities to see the geography I had studied in action. New York contains within it a multitude of geographies, and my vacation allowed me to embrace and consider many of these. The trip was both intellectually and recreationally rewarding and made a perfect reward for the stress of my finals. My thanks go to the College, the Parry-Dutton Scholarship Fund and also to the Chorley Geography Scholarship Fund for enabling me to have this fantastic experience.’

Ruth Jackson (Theology 2006; Parry Dutton Travel Scholarship) enjoyed an ambitious two-week visit to the United States, taking in Los Angeles and San Diego, California, Las Vegas, Nevada and the Grand Canyon in Arizona. ‘In LA, and in contrast to the other cities I’d visited, I decided that this place was more perhaps about the experiences and the people than the landscape and the architecture. I was lifted by the friendliness and swing of LA culture; its energy, volume and mutability. Being endowed with a Sidney travel grant, and, as such, with the ability to make this trip, marked the perfect end to an


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Dean Reilly (Mathematics, 2007; Mark Wainwright Memorial Award) spent two weeks visiting Prague, Bratislava and Budapest. ‘Prague was a beautiful city, full of stunning and interesting buildings all within walking distance. On our first day exploring the city we visited the famous astronomical clock. Urban legend states that the original clock maker was blinded after making it to ensure that no other country could have anything as grand. We also visited the Jewish cemetery, where Franz Kafka is buried, and crossed Charles Bridge. What was most striking about my trip around Eastern Europe was how easy it was to forget about the cities’ recent histories when wandering around and how quickly they were becoming westernised. While I have travelled abroad before, my experience has been very limited. This trip to Eastern Europe is my first experience of the truly foreign, where I couldn’t completely guarantee being able to rely on English and where there were distinct customs not found in England. I loved having this opportunity to explore other cultures and now wish to travel further and wider.’

Natasha Scott (Engineering, 2007; Ratcliffe Travel Award) explored Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece, a journey which took her from the Asia border and down to the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. In Greece her days were filled with walks round all the ancient sites. ‘Being an EU student meant that every single site was free – we must have saved about £30 each on what we would have had to pay otherwise. The walk uphill to the Acropolis was definitely worth it, as the views were good and the ancient columns were, well, old. Better views of the city could be found on Lycabettus Hill, a much taller peak with a steep zigzag climb. We attacked this reasonably early on and found the views would have been spectacular were it not for the haze, but were still pretty amazing. After walking to the peaks of a further three hills, we had to put on the dreaded rucksacks and head home. Although two weeks of walking around three dif-ferent countries was extremely tiring, this incredible trip has made us want to venture out again next year, and hopefully for longer.’

Victoria Sedgwick (Economics, 2007; Gérard Boulton Travel Award) stayed in Biarritz, France, for a week in June with five friends, enjoying the local coast and sights. ‘During the evenings, one of the larger beaches played host to the casetas music festival. This was reached by descending numerous steep steps, to be greeted by the sight of coloured tents hosting diverse music as well as international food stalls. We also encountered a very eco-friendly drinks policy:

Viresh Patel (Architecture, 2008; Parry Dutton Travel Scholarship) explored the architectural offerings of Los Angeles, California – a city, in Viresh’s words, ‘built for cars’. Away from the traffic, in hills just off Hollywood, is the Getty Center, designed by Richard Meier. ‘The centre was origi-nally designed to be constructed from white marble, but it was contested by local resi-dents who claimed the glare from its location on top of the hill would be offensively bright. It was then changed to a slightly beige tex-tured travertine from Italy. Referred to as a modern acropolis, this slight change does not affect its reputation as a gleaming architec-tural beacon on the hilltop. On sunny days (i.e – every day), it can be seen, standing proud from all around. The travel grant opened up opportunities I would not have otherwise had. Experiencing architecture in the flesh surpassed any visual experiences obtained from pho-tographs and diagrams. To read about architectural works is one thing, to visit them and experience for yourself is another.’

Stephanie Ray (Geography, 2007; Gérard Boulton Travel Award) discovered Euskal Herria, the Basque country, part of a unique cultural region of seven provinces spread over south western France and north eastern Spain, divided by the Pyrénées mountain range. ‘The Fêtes de Bayonne are one of the most prominent expressions of Basque culture, customs and traditions, where for four days, the city holds a spectacular range of events celebrating Basque and city traditions and history and a fiesta spirit. Spectacles of Basque dances, bull fighting and numerous parades and accompanying Basque chants provided an extremely vibrant and welcoming ambiance. From running with cows in a Bayonne arena to being invited to taste traditional Basque dishes and take part in a family gathering in the family farmhouse, passed down through seven generations, I have been given an incredible insight into the diversity and rich-ness of just a tiny part of Euskal Herria, where there is still much more to be explored.’


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College Sports Clubs and Societies

The Allen Society (Sidney Sussex Mathematics Society)■■The Sidney Sussex Mathematics Society has had a major change this year: we have now become a SSCSU-affiliated society and have changed our name to the Allen Society – in honour of one of Sidney’s most famous mathemati-cians, Sir Roy Allen, whose many successes included introducing mathematics to economics.

Maths at Sidney has also seen a major change this year: with Dr Scott Chapman leaving to bigger and better things, Dr Berry Groisman has taken up the position of Applied Director of Studies. He also kindly agreed to give a talk in Michaelmas about quantum computing, which was fantastic, and a

great way for us all to get to know each other.

We also had a very successful yearly dinner, held in the Old Library in February. It was preceded by a talk given by Dr Thomas Forster, which was extremely interesting and I would like to thank Dr Forster for this once again. The dinner, as ever, was great and in the future I would like to see this opportunity opened up to allow alumni to attend. To

this end I established an e-mail account ([email protected]) that hopefully over the next few years will enable people to access information on upcoming events.

At the dinner, we voted in our new President. With Nim Sukumar and Mike Grayling the only candidates, the vote was going to be quite close and in fact it ended with a draw – leaving us with Nim and Mike as joint Presidents for 2010–11. They have already organised their first event, the annual Mathmo-Nat Sci garden party, which went perfectly (albeit without the paddling pool, which had a hole in it) and I wish them every success over the rest of their term as Presidents. daryl skinnerPresident

official festival cups had to be purchased and drinks were served in these, mini-mising waste from disposable cups and doubling up as a souvenir. We ate very well on local food: the market provided delicious fresh ingredients as well as a chance to practise speaking French, and we took it in turns to prepare meals, all eaten on the balcony where the beautiful sunsets could be appreciated.’

Mary Seller (Geography, 2006; Ratcliffe Travel Award) travelled to the South of France, in and around the Côte d’Azur. ‘I was interested to observe that town planning for the region seemed to focus on making the area a key point for European connections and transport. The whole region is linked in the commu-nauté urbaine of Nice-Côte d’Azur, which includes Nice and over 20 surround-ing towns and coastal areas. The huge tourism industry of Côte d’Azur has generated many modern changes in this city and the other towns in the region I visited, with significant urban expansion and provision for tourists apparent. For example in many places I visited the aim for “culture tourists” was apparent in the number of festivals, art galleries and newer outdoor art spaces, and in the increasing expansion of large pedestrian zones through urban areas.’

Hannah Taylor (Natural Sciences, 2007; College Travel Award) made a whirl-wind trip around Europe, taking in the sights of France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Austria. ‘During our two-day stay in Prague we visited Prague Castle and St Vitus’ Cathedral within the castle; the Lennon wall – a graffiti wall on the edge of the city dedicated to John Lennon and decorated with Beatles lyrics; walked across the famous Charles Bridge; and visited the Jewish quarter. In Vienna we visited the town hall, or Rathaus, the Austrian parliament building, and the museum quarter of the city. Later on the first day we visited Schindler’s factory, famous as during the Second World War Oskar Schindler went out of his way to prevent the many Austrian Jews he employed being deported to extermi-nation camps. The entire journey was a very worthwhile experience that I feel has broadened my horizons and given me a taste of many European cultures, and I wouldn’t pass up an opportunity to go on a similar trip again.’


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impressive seven novice crews recruited. Encouragingly there was also quality as well as quantity, with the top men’s and women’s novice boats finishing 14th and 9th respectively in Novice Fairbairns. There were also strong per-formances from the senior squads with M1 and W1 finishing 12th and 6th respectively in the senior competition.

This was a good start to the year and gave a strong platform to build on for Lent Bumps. There were several impressive performances, with W1 finishing up two and M2 ending up three. However, M1 stole the show by becoming the first men’s 1st Lent VIII to win their oars in 15 years. Soon after, W1 performed very well at the Women’s Eights Head of the River race on the tideway. They finished 113th overall and third of the Cambridge colleges competing.

The Easter vacation also saw four Sidney rowers in action representing the University. Lisa Meegan and Nora Staack rowed for the women’s lightweights, Carys Rowlands rowed in the women’s Blue boat and Tim Scholtes was a member of the men’s lightweight spare four. Unfortunately the results did not go their way but they all did themselves proud and it is great to see Sidney rowers competing at University level again.

The climax of the Cambridge rowing year is May bumps, at the end of Easter term. Again Sidney’s top boats put in a good showing with M1 and W1

Badminton■■This year Sidney badminton has held club sessions weekly with any member of College welcome to attend. It has continued to encourage students of all standards to come and enjoy playing badminton, and places an emphasis on the enjoyment of all members.

The team has performed solidly in the league this year. A mid-table finish in Division 5 of the University-wide league in Michaelmas term was followed up by a strong campaign for promotion in the Lent league, with the team even-tually finishing third. We thus missed out on the second place spot, which would have sealed promotion by the smallest of margins, having won the same number of matches, as well as the same number of games as the team that finished second, and only losing out on the head-to-head record between the two teams.

Next year, Sidney should be looking to build on these performances, hope-fully by challenging for promotion once again.Peter Chandler, Captain

Boat Club■■It has been another successful year season for SSBC. The achievements of pre-vious years have been built on and there have been encouraging results at all levels of the club.

Michaelmas as ever brought a new intake of Sidney students and another recruitment drive for the boat club. This year was another success with an

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Christian Union■■The Christian Union in Sidney exists as part of the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union (CICCU). We are a non-denominational group of Christians aiming to make Jesus Christ known to students in Sidney and the student body around Cambridge. We believe that God so loved the world that he sent his only son, Jesus Christ, that we may not perish for the wrong we have done, but have eternal life. By dying on the Cross in our place, Jesus has freed us from the punishment we deserve and brought forgiveness. Further to this, Jesus has conquered death through his resurrection and will one day return to judge the world as King.

We believe this message is relevant to all and as a Christian Union, we want people to know that Jesus offers a living and current relationship with anyone who asks.

The group meets weekly for a time of prayer, Bible study, fellowship and evangelistic training. We aim to encourage each other in proclaiming the good news about Jesus, while growing in our knowledge and faith in God as individuals.

This year the CU has met in small numbers. However, towards the end of the year, we have seen an increase in attendance. Despite the small numbers earlier in the year, we really saw God work in our Mission week, where CICCU put on a series of central talks for students in Cambridge. A series of College events and meals were also organised.

As a group we are very excited about the prospect of welcoming new Freshers to Cambridge next year, and have a series of events planned to help them settle in, make new friends and find a church in Cambridge. In addition, we are keen to welcome current students of Sidney to our group, who wish to know more about Jesus. Over the course of the next year, we will continue to put on events as we seek to be active in and around College.

Anyone wishing to know more about the Christian Union or its beliefs should contact Tom Hindmarch ([email protected]).tom Hindmarch

Confraternitas Historica: a truly memorable year■■The year 2009–10 marked the centenary year of the Confraternitas Historica, the oldest, continuously maintained historical society of either Cambridge or Oxford. In recognition of this special year a particular effort was made to attract pre-eminent speakers to the Confrat, both from Cambridge itself and

finishing the week up three places. Both were unlucky not to have gone one better. W2 were the star performers, though, winning their oars with fine per-formances throughout the week. This was an excellent way to continue W2’s brilliant upward progress through the bumps charts in recent years.

Unusually, the May bumps did not signal the end of the rowing year for all Sidney rowers as a contingent of rowers will be heading to Philadelphia to com-pete in the Independence Day Regatta there. It proved to be a great experience for all those attending and a fantastic way to round off the year’s rowing.

This year has been heartening because of the way the quality at the top of the club has improved while maintaining a large membership. Many thanks to everyone who has assisted the club over the past year; much of the recent suc-cess is due to the hard work of the club’s supporters.

Finally, if anyone would like more information about the club or regular updates on our progress please look at our website, www.ssbc.org.uk.sam HarrisonssBC Captain of Boats 2010–11

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Cambridge undergraduates studying the historical Tripos are able to progress through their three years without encountering Wrigley’s seminal work, it was unsurprisingly a very well attended speech, both from students within Sidney and from the wider body of history undergraduates. This good start to 2010 con-tinued with the highly enjoyable Annual Dinner in late January, which brought together the current Sidney undergraduates, Fellows and invited guests. All attendees were treated to a most entertaining and amusing after-dinner address by Chris Clark, a moment that will undoubtedly live long in the memory of those present.

Our second address of Lent term was given by the Oxford (Balliol) Fellow Lyndal Roper. Due to a scheduling clash with our second year halfway hall dinner, it was decided to hold the event jointly with Gonville and Caius, and so for the first time the Confrat dined and received the address at Caius, where Professor Roper spoke about ‘The stout doctor: Martin Luther’s body and biog-raphy’. It was an extremely interesting talk that saw vigorous discussion after-wards and worked well as a model of inter-collegiate cooperation.

The Confrat centenary lecture series was brought to a rousing close by a speech given in March by the Professor of International Relations at St Anthony’s College, Oxford, Avi Shlaim. After an enjoyable formal hall, Professor Shlaim presented a paper entitled ‘The history and historiography of the Arab-Israeli conflict’. Perhaps predictably, given its subject matter, it was the best attended Confrat paper in recent memory, so much so that people had to be turned away from the Knox Shaw room. Professor Shlaim’s paper was most informative and followed by an extended and vigorous – yet still intellectual – debate that lasted to what must be a record time of past 11pm. It was a fitting and gratifying way to end the centenary year.

Before turning to the celebratory centenary dinner it is important to say a few words of thanks to those who have assisted the Confrat throughout the year. First, to all the members of the 2009–10 committee, without whom the organisation and advertising of the society’s talks would have been a much more fraught affair; and second, to the Fellows of Sidney who have aided the Confrat throughout the year. Indeed, although the Confrat is a student-run society, without the assistance (and contacts) of the College’s academics it could not continue to prosper. In particular, my special thanks must go to Dr Bernhard Fulda and Dr David Beckingham who have been pillars of support to the Confrat and who, in a myriad of ways, made the success of the centenary year possible.

institutions around the United Kingdom – we hoped our centenary lecture series would match the planned festivities of the May 2010 centenary dinner.

Our year began, most fittingly, with an address by the new Master of Sidney Sussex, Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, entitled ‘Herculaneum: science and sense to the rescue of an ancient site’. It was a most entertaining speech that saw a packed Mong Hall eager to hear the new Master speak for the first time at Sidney and draw upon his experience as Director of the British School at Rome.

Unfortunately, owing to speaker illness, Sidney had to wait some time to build on this memorable start, for there was only one further talk in Michaelmas term, a speech given by a visiting Fellow to Sidney, Renato Pasta. He spoke on the subject of ‘Bookselling and booksellers as cultural intermediaries’, a well received talk that led to lively discussion on its comparative and transnational implications.

Lent Term kicked off with a highly anticipated talk given by the renowned economic and demographic historian Tony Wrigley, who spoke on the subject of the ‘Industrial revolution: opening Pandora’s box’. Given that almost no

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unlikely any present will make it to the bicentenary dinner, all can cherish the memories of a fantastically enjoyable evening that showed that the underpin-ning spirit of the Confrat continues. nick Oldham Princeps 2009–10

Cricket■■After years of underperforming in Cuppers the new Sidney captain, Rishin Patel, was keen to lift the curse. With a strong squad on offer, optimism was high. However, the Cuppers curse re-surfaced with vengeance, with the team strug-gling to put in match-winning performances in both halves of any game. While many of the bowlers grabbed three-fers on the Cuppers trail, the real high-lights came in the batting department. Suren Sista hit a wonderful 50 against Churchill, and propelled the team to 122, despite a ‘hospitalising’ blow to the head. Chris Teskey found form against Jesus with a timely 57, again forming the backbone to a potentially winning total. Unfortunately, the stresses of exam term took their toll, and we were one bowler short of finishing the job. The team prematurely crashed out of Cuppers yet again.

The Confrat lecture series ended during Lent term but most definitely the finale of the year was the centenary dinner, held on 1 May 2010. A much antici-pated event, organised almost singlehandedly by Professor Derek Beales, the evening was an overwhelming success, repaying many times over the energy expended in making it happen. The evening began with a presentation of mate-rials from the Confrat archive, put together by Sidney’s archivist Nicholas Rogers. This enjoyable start was followed by pre-dinner drinks and the main event itself, the dinner – five courses chosen by Professor Beales and, as ever, lovingly created by the excellent Sidney catering team. It was a most enjoyable evening, bringing together Confrat members old and new, who were able to reflect – over wine, port and claret – on the changes, and continuities, to the Confrat since its foundation under J. W. Reynolds. The evening was capped off with a series of after-dinner addresses, those given by Professor Beales and Lord Asa Briggs, the main speaker, being especially memorable. Indeed, all felt themselves privileged to be able to hear Lord Briggs – the oldest member attending the dinner – speak so eloquently about the Confrat and his vital role in maintaining its existence during the Second World War. Although it seems

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and the bowling of Agate and Phelps provided enough support to wrap up a comfortable win in the end.

Liam Agate just pipped V. J. Ahluwalia and Patel to become the season’s strike bowler, and we look forward to more of the same next year. The star bats-man, and most valued player was undisputedly Chris Teskey, with immaculate keeping throughout, and shrewdness in judging the pitch and bowling that we could all learn from.

The 2010 cricket season was the benefit season for many of the College’s cricketers. We wish all those leaving the best of luck in the future. The enthu-siasm and knowledge of Parmesh Gajjar will be sorely missed after four years at the College. The miserly swing bowling of V. J. Ahluwalia will no doubt prove irreplaceable. Seb Walsh ends his tenure as the team veteran, but his ginger fielding and keeping will stay in our memories for many years yet. Finally, the supposedly legendary banter of Rupert Wingate-Saul will also be missed, although he has an heir to his throne in Tom Davenport. We hope that the incoming cohort of Freshers will be able to replace those leaving, in numbers if not in stature, as we try again to lift the Cupper’s curse next year. Rishin PatelCaptain

After the interim for exams, we entered a round of friendly fixtures, keen to chalk up a resounding win. In the game against Granta, the hunger was vis-ible as the opposition was reduced to 97–9, with V. J. Ahluwalia collapsing in elation after bagging a seven-wicket haul. The last wicket stand took Granta to a respectable but under-par 166. However, no partnerships were built, and despite another valiant effort from Chris Teskey, we fell short of the target. Our last game against King’s College was the last-chance saloon for the team to live up to its talent. Having opted to bat first on a soft green top, Suren Sista and Liam Agate batted positively against some accurate opening bowl-ing. However, both were soon back in the hutch, bringing together Rishin Patel and Tom Davenport. Having been a steady performer throughout the season, Tom looked positive, but was run out by a length attempting a certain 2. This brought Matt Fox to the crease, where he put on 80 with Rishin. This partner-ship formed the backbone of the total of 135, with Matt finishing on 34, and Rishin on 32. So we entered our final session of the season facing a King’s side with a strong top four capable of spoiling the party. However, the swing bowling of Sista and Ahluwalia proved testing, with Sista picking up a wicket almost immediately. By the end of their spells the top four were back in the pavilion,

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Hockey ■■Sidney hockey entered the 2009–10 season with high expectations of a return to the second flight, having been relegated the previous year. With an influx of new players, confidence was high. Sadly, the stresses of term life often took their toll on numbers. The third division also proved a touch too strong, with a 4–2 loss to Clare and a Harry Savell hat-trick in a 7–4 defeat to Christ’s prov-ing highlights in the pre-Christmas run. Relegation to the basement league followed. Despite a lack of training post-Christmas, the team really started to gel. Ellie Graves proved a stern left back, and combined with Nick Taylor and lynchpin Ross Baker to shore up the defence – and far fewer goals were leaked. Sadly, with no super-striker, goals were generally hard to come by, leading to many a narrow defeat. An epic 4–4 draw against St Catherine’s second XI was the climax for the entire season, with Harry Savell bagging another two goals.

This year’s most valued player was tight run, with Harry Savell just pip-ping Ross Baker to the award. We can only hope that rowing commitments do not steal him away from us in the future. The most improved player was Nick Taylor, who has become a rock at the back, and a master of winning one-on-ones.

Ross Baker becomes next year’s commander-in-chief, and I wish him all the best in turning around the fortunes of the club. After three happy years with the club, we wave goodbye to Naomi Harris and wish her all the best in the future. Sadly, the Sidney veteran Seb Walsh also leaves the fold; his ‘air ’ goals and barely legal hustling will be especially missed.Rishin PatelCaptain

Mixed Lacrosse■■Sidney Sussex is proud to boast a multi-talented and enthusiastic mixed lacrosse team. Our range of levels of experience is testament to the fact that at Sidney, College sports are organised to be all-inclusive and also that lacrosse can be picked up remarkably quickly. The inter-college mixed lacrosse league lays out the rules for the college teams in their weekly 30-minute matches. Teams comprise a maximum of 10 people with a balance of male and female players. A goal-scoring opportunity is opened up when one team passes the ball three times between their players’ sticks without dropping it. The team may then roll or shoot the ball between two goal posts to earn the point. No player is allowed to hold the ball in his/her stick for longer than five seconds.

Football Club■■The beginning of this season held a glittering promise for Sidney’s football club. For one, the sheer amount of interest in the sport of football at Sidney meant that I was able to reinstate a second team this year. Despite a shaky start to the beginning of the season, both teams soon got into a winning habit and Michaelmas ran out with both teams in good positions in both league and cup competitions.

The start of Lent term was even more exciting for the first team. One sunny day in February was the perfect stage for the epic bout with division one title contenders, Long Road. A hard-fought victory saw Sidney proceed to the quar-terfinals of the Cuppers competition.

However, it would seem that such a good run was never destined to last. Some very aggressive challenges in the next game led to some quite important players picking up injuries, some of which were serious enough to warrant exclusion for the rest of the season. Carrying such casualties and the descent of truly awful weather on Cambridge caused many of our matches to be post-poned. In fact the Sidney first team finished the season with a few matches uncontested, leading to a huge loss of vital points. This is an especially bitter pill for the captain to swallow, as the completion of the matches could have led to a completely different version of this article.

However, there are a few positives for next season. The most important is that the club has managed to retain a lot of the core players from this season.

All new additions to the teams will only serve to further strengthen the squad. Also the second team finished the season in pole position assuring that the team can look forward to playing their football in a more advanced divi-sion next year.

Outside the structured season timetable, the team was involved in a variety of five-a-side competitions. The most notable was the second instalment of the College five-a-side testimonial tournament. The event was well attended by members of the College. Among those in attendance was the Master. It was an exciting event and one that will hopefully continue for many more years.Ayodele fajuyigbeCaptain 2009–10


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Rugby Union■■SSCRUFC came into this season after coming bottom of the bottom division last year and suffering a humiliating thrashing at the hands of Homerton in last year’s Cuppers shield first round. We also went into a group containing two sides that had been relegated from division two, including Homerton, which turned out to be our first game. Our Fresher intake didn’t look so hot either – a 6ft 7in back who looked like he would snap in the first tackle, a ‘plump’ hooker who didn’t look like he could run more than 50 metres without getting cramp, a smallish lad from the north who spent most his time daydreaming and a flanker who had the sort of temperament to get sent off in the first minute of every game. So we were rightly optimistic about our chances.

However, as it would turn out, the combination of youth and age in the team would produce some of the best rugby this club has seen in recent his-tory, scoring over 240 points (not including walkovers that technically counted as 50–0 wins). We beat Homerton in that first game 17–5 with two tries from Shaun ‘Chunky Monkey’ Cook. Impressive league form continued as we beat Churchill 22–10 at home (Max Stechman 10) but we couldn’t string sufficient wins together to gain the second promotion spot and our fate was sealed in the

Consequently, lacrosse is a fast-paced and exciting game that is far more exhila-rating than a lonesome jog along the Cam on a Sunday afternoon.

At our Freshers’ Fair the lacrosse stand has been mistaken for a number of curious alternatives such as fishing, cross-country running (an understand-able confusion for any French-speakers), a form of violent combat and perhaps more imaginatively, quidditch. Mixed lacrosse is in fact a non-contact sport but one that demands a certain degree of aggressive determination and is most definitely not for the faint-hearted. This year, the Big Sidney mixed lacrosse team purchased new kit, helping us to look both more professional and more ominous to our opposition. We have been successful in securing our position in the second division for next season and in the Cuppers tournament we were unfortunate to miss out narrowly on qualifying for the quarterfinals. One of our greatest successes this year has been the marked increase in support for lacrosse, shown by the number of people who have become involved in matches and helped us put out larger teams. I would like to thank everyone who has represented Sidney, whether they played one game as a novice, or almost every game and might now call themselves a ‘pro’. laura GoldbergCaptain


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In total we have had an incredible season, given the size of our College and I have to give huge thanks for the leavers who have given everything to the club over the last three or four years and set up the platform for me and the future Captain. Special mention must go to all those leaving, especially Alex Bescoby (President 2008–9) and James Thrower (President 2009–10) who have set up the Dashwood Cup and Wallace-Hadrill Shield respectively and provided inspiration for every player on the pitch. A special mention should go to James Shearman who ends his long stint of eight years at the club and thanks to Rupert Harrison (Captain 2008–9), George Sykes, Zedekiah Akanga, Paddy Hunt, Max Stechman, Dan Sargeant (and even Alex Torrance and Will Randle) for their commitment and service to the club. Although you will all be missed greatly, I relish the opportunity of playing you at next year’s Dashwood Cup. I also have the pleasure to introduce Shaun Cook as next year’s Captain, Charlie Greenway and Jack Snoddy as Vice-Captains, Danny McEvoy and Alex Ronaldson as Social Secretaries and myself as the new President. Ayo Fajuyigbe is this year’s player of the season. I am sure next year will be as successful as this year if not better. It has been a pleasure to serve as Captain of the SSCRUFC. freddie ironCaptain ssCRufC 2009–10

last home league match that term where we narrowly lost to Emma, the even-tual group winners, late into the game 17–14.

The most impressive win of the term came in the first annual Wallace-Hadrill Shield match organised and set up by James Thrower, to whom the club owes a huge amount of gratitude. SSRFC played its sister college St John’s, Oxford in a tense and wet affair where SSRFC triumphed 14–12 with tries from George Sykes and Shaun Cook, St John’s missing its crucial conversion. We look forward to travelling to Oxford next year to retain our title.

Lent term saw SSCRUFC’s impressive run of form continue as we easily dispatched Caius and Christ’s to be unbeaten in the league. More impressively we won our first international match against Yale 2nd XV 32–7 with five dif-ferent players making scores (Iron, Fajuyigbe, Bescoby, Cook, Snoddy). To add to our silverware, SSRFC won the prestigious Dashwood Cup for the very first time thrashing the Old Boys 46–19, a sweet victory with Ayo Fajuyigbe named man of the match. A glorious season also saw Sidney get to the Cuppers Shield final against Magdalene, newly promoted into division 1. Unfortunately despite playing exciting rugby we were overpowered by their driving maul time and despite the crowd chants of ‘boring, boring rugby’ lost 36–13.

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win over Fitz/Girton. Despite having some obvious flair players, the team was well matched and tries were spread evenly throughout the team. The usual pitfalls of college rugby were largely avoided this year, with good discipline in communication, keeping the line and fantastic support play. Captains Rici Marshall (Sidney) and Kate Bayford (Jesus) led from the front and, despite the cold weather that plagued most sports at the beginning of Lent term, ensured enough games were played to secure a place in the final. A convincing victory in the final against joint team Caius/Queens’ saw Team Jesney crowned very deserving league champions.Rici MarshallCaptain

Sporting Distinctions 2009–10■■Once light blue had been chosen as the colour of Cambridge’s boat club, other university sport clubs followed suit; by the 1860s, the presidents of the rowing, cricket and athletics clubs began overseeing the awards of blues (B) and later half blues (HB) to members of smaller clubs involved in Varsity matches. Today, blues and half blues awards recognise sporting distinction at University level, and in 2009–10 12 Sidney students (up from 10 two years ago, and 11 in 2008–9) achieved this distinction.

Sport Student’s Name Subject and Year of StudyAthletics Wagner, Thomas (HB) Engineering Part IbFencing Kovacs, Eszter (HB) Geography (PhD)Hockey Leerkotte, Bastiaan J (HB) Biology (PhD)Ice Hockey Buddle, Andrew L (HB) LLMKarate Sukumar, Nimalesh (HB) Mathematics Part IbRowing (Women) Rowlands, Carys A (B) Law Part IIRowing (LW) (Women) Meegan, Lisa M (HB) Engineering Part IIbRugby (Women) Marshall, Erica (B) Chem. Engineering Part IIaRowing (Women) Staack, Nora S (HB) Engineering (PhD)Rugby League Hunt, Patrick J (B) Management StudiesRugby League Shearman, James W (B) Chemistry (PhD)Rugby League Wingate-Saul, Rupert W (HB) Man. Engineering Part II

Squash Club■■‘Squash – that’s not exercise, it’s flagellation.’ Sir Noel Coward

Squash at Sidney in 2009–10 was truly a year of two halves. The cold winter saw limited success for both the first and second teams. The former avoided rel-egation by a single point, while the latter lost every game and finished bottom of their league. Meanwhile, an administrative mishap ensured our women’s team was not allowed to play in the leagues. The outlook was bleak.

However, as we moved closer to summer, both teams bloomed to success. A series of remarkable wins, including an exceptionally hard series of matches against Trinity I, saw the first team finish second in the league. The second team similarly found a run of form, allowing them too to finish second. These places ensured that both teams were promoted from their respective leagues, a testament to the hard work every team member put into the club.

Cuppers success was limited, a disappointing loss to Clare I seeing a Sidney exit in the second round. The promotion of two teams in one term must be commended, however, and ensures that an exciting Michaelmas awaits all who play next year. Furthermore, the introduction of the first Sidney squash tourna-ment was a great success, Som Saran winning eventually on points difference.

I would like to thank everyone who played this year. Special thanks go to Som Saran, Matthew Fox and Steph Ray, who all leave us this year after three years of devoted effort to the team. We wish them all the best.Greg stygerCaptain 2009–10

Women’s Rugby■■For the season 2009–10, Sidney Sussex Women’s Rugby Club merged with Jesus Women’s Rugby Club to form ‘Team Jesney’. Team Jesney has had unprec-edented success throughout the year, remaining unbeaten in all matches and winning the final to be crowned league champions.

The women’s rugby college league plays sevens rugby in weekly matches. The season began with a heavy recruitment drive and necessary training as few girls have played rugby before, and a new rule limiting each team to having only two university players on the pitch at any time, meant it was necessary to bring in new players.

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Officers of the Students’ Union 2010Please note that this entry lists those who took office during Lent or Easter Term 2010. Elections are held during Michaelmas term when new officers will be elected to a number of these offices and elected posts.

SSCSU/JCR PresidentCharlotte Binstead

Junior TreasurerJames Rickenbach

MCR PresidentChris Crowe

MCR TreasurerEllie Kim

JCR Vice President Christine Yallup

Social Welfare OfficerKim Allen

Academic Welfare officerAbigail Schultz

Student Admissions Officer Alyona Levitin

Publicity OfficerNatalie Richardson

Freshers’ RepresentativeCharlotte Wabe

Entertainments OfficerGreg Styger

Bar Secretary Dan Penman

Facilities and Sponsorship OfficerTom Loughran

LBGT Officer Greg Mellers

College Council RepsDasha Dakhno-Cogger Abigail Schultz

JCR Women’s OfficerNatalie Smith

JCR International OfficerAlessandria Goh

JCR Green Officer Chris Page

JCR Computer Officer (co-opted)Cheng Xie

JCR Year Book EditorChris Capey

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Social OfficersSteve Casey, Rob Weatherup

Women’s and Welfare OfficerEmma Gatti

External OfficerKim Wagenaar

Green OfficerEszter Kovacs

SecretaryChris Crowe

Film OfficerJim Ross

Computer Officer Geraldo Vidigal Neto

Other elected Posts

Bar Staff Manager Sean Cook

Bar Finance Manager Lois Overvoorde

Assistant Bar Finance Manager Chris Page

Bar Committee Assistant James Seel

SidNews EditorsIain Blackwell, Roger Clarke

El Sid Editor Ben Phelps

Gym OfficerAndrew Creamer, John Lawrence

entertainments RepsAdam JowettEmel KayihanKate SnowLucy Musselwhite

ChairmanMr Max Beber

Senior TreasurerMr Nick Allen

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Appointments, Awards and DestinationsDAWSON, Professor Dame Sandra (Master 1998, Fellow 2009) appointed a

non-executive director of the Financial Services Authority.LONGLEY, Dr John (Fellow, 1993) awarded the 2010 American Society of

Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Turbomachinery Committee Prize for the Best Paper for Turbines. The paper was on ‘Controlling Tip Leakage Flow over a Shrouded Turbine Rotor using an Air-Curtain’, authors E M Curtis, J D Denton, J P Longley and B Rosic.

MACHTANS, Dr Karolin (Lektorin, 2005) appointed to a lectureship at California Polytechnic, Berkeley.

McKITTERICK, Professor Rosamond (Fellow, 2007) awarded the Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for History for her research, which has fundamentally changed how we view the Carolingians and the interplay of politics, reli-gion and scholarship in their time. She has also been elected to a Scaliger Fellowship at Leiden University for 2010–11.

NISBET, Professor Barry (Fellow, 1982) awarded the degree of LittD in the University of Cambridge.

PARISH, Mr Christopher (Fellow, 1968) has had a complex named in his honour at Papworth Hospital, where he was a pioneering heart surgeon.

PURSHOUSE, Dr Michael (Fellow Commoner, 2004) elected a Fellow of The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.

RIDDELL, The Rt Hon. Peter (Honorary Fellow, 2004) appointed to the Privy Council, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Senior Fellow to the Institute of Government, and awarded one of the first three British Academy President’s Medals.

WALLACE-HADRILL, Professor Andrew (Master, 2009) appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and Professor of Roman Studies in the Faculty of Classics; elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

WADDELL, Revd Dr Peter (Chaplain, Fellow 2005) appointed Pastoral Dean of Sidney Sussex College.

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seeking employment:BERRYMAN, Katie MCHURCHLOW, Anna R

Clinical medical course at the teaching hospital shown:BRADLEY, Patrick, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.MCKNIGHT, Angus, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.PRINGLE, Jennifer L, Imperial College London.TAN, Linette SH, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.

Clinical veterinary medicine in Cambridge:CARTER, Caroline S

graduate work in Cambridge:ROSS, Donald I, MPhil Development Studies, University of Cambridge.

College Library: books received 2009–10We are grateful for the following new books donated by the authors:Neil Andrews Contracts and English Dispute Resolution Dr Peter Collier (editor) Anamnesia: Private and Public Memory in Modern

French CultureRichard Humphreys Sidney Sussex: A HistoryProf. Rosamond McKitterick (editor) Ego Trouble: Authors and their Identities

in the Early Middle AgesScott Newton The Global Economy; Profits of PeaceTim Padfield Copyright for Archivists and Records ManagersDr Christopher Page The Christian West and its SingersPaul Star (contributor) New Oxford History of New ZealandMichael Styles The Putney Debates [DVD]Keith Walls John Bromyard on Church and State

And also for the following new books given by Fellows, students, alumni and other friends:Dr Ian Baxendale Strategic Applications of Named Reactions in Organic Synthesis

(Laszlo Kurti, Babara Czako)

Destinations■■

leaving Cambridge in 2010

AHLUWALIA, Uddamjit: currently looking for a Masters course.BELL, Kirsty J: Accelerated LPC course at BPP Holborn, then training contract

with Slaughter and May law firm.BUDDLE, Andrew: associate lawyer, Bennett Jones LLP in Alberta, Canada.BURTON, Matthew T: PhD in Law at the University of Birmingham.CHAPMAN, Jenny A: graduate position in Scotland with Doosan Babcock

Engineering.DAKHNO-COGGER, Daria: temporary work and travel, and plans to apply for

PGCE starting in 2011.DILWORTH, Rachel D: graduate education.DORNSCHEIDT, Henrik: employment at Gleiss Lutz as research assistant in

Berlin and finishing German PhD.FARMER, Elizabeth J: MA in Romantic Literature and Culture at Leeds

University.FITZSIMONS, Emma J: City Law School in London, to pursue BVC course.GILL, James E C: KPMG Professional Services in Birmingham.HASHMI, Zeeshan: consultancy, security.HAWKESFORD, Chris R: leisure industry – professional skipper. HIRST, Katherine: graduate education.HOGBEN, Andrew: graduate scheme with BP Chemicals.MARKLAND, Anna: working in consulting with Ernst & Young.MATTHEWS, Christos A: August 2010–February 2011: LPC (solicitors’ course)

at BPP Law School; March 2012: training contract at the law firm Hogan Lovells.

MEEGAN, Lisa M: gap year travelling in Australia and New Zealand before commencing employment in September 2011 with Arup engineering con-sultancy as a graduate bridge engineer.

PAYTON, Joseph W: BP Automotive Engineering.RANDLE, William E: pilot with the UK Royal Air Force.REISS, Jennifer W: completing US law degree.SEDGWICK, Victoria J: Economics MSc at University College London.VANLEENHOVE, Cedric: working as a lawyer in Brussels with Eubelius: three-

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Aphra Benn (Janet Todd); Decency and Disorder (Ben Wilson); Cambridge College Ghosts (Geoff Yeates)

Morohunkeji Kola-Balogun Blackstone’s Civil Practice 2010; The Law of Human Rights (Richard Clayton and Hugh Tomlins); The Winning Brief (Bryan A Garner); Arbitration of International Business Disputes (William W. Park)

Mr George Maris Millennium edition of the Domesday BookProfessor Rosamund McKitterick Bede: The Reckoning of Time, (trans. by

Faith Wallis); Institutions of Divine and Secular Learning, On the Soul (Cassiodorus); The Oration to the Saints, The Greek and Latin Accounts of the Discovery of the Cross, The Edict of Constantine to Pope Silvester (Constantine and Christendom); Donatist Martyr Stories: the Church in Conflict in Roman North Africa; Hilary of Poitiers: Conflicts of Conscience and Law in the Fourth-century Church; Against the Donatists (Optatus); Personal and Political Poems (Venantius Fortunatus)

Emma Mustich The Oxford History of the French Revolution, 2nd ed. (William Doyle); Chronicles, vol. 1 (Bob Dylan); Fowler’s Modern English Usage, 3rd ed.; Pocket Oxford Hachette French Dictionary; How Britain is Governed, 2nd ed. (J Harvey); The Popes of Avignon (Edwin Mullins); Dreams From My Father (Barack Obama); Roget’s Thesaurus, 150th Anniversary ed.; Politics and War in the Three Stuart Kingdoms (David Scott); (10) Stuart England (ed. Blair Worden)

Dr Claire Preston Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century (Clarence J Glacken); The Cousins’ War: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America (Kevin Phillips); Literature and Money (Cedric Watts)

Prof. Tim Blanning The State in Early Modern France (James B Collins); The Terror in the French Revolution, (Hugh Gough); The Origins of the First World War (William Mulligan); (4) Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks)

Rosemary Chorley in memory of Prof. Richard Chorley Atmosphere, Weather and Climate (eds. Roger G Barry and Richard J Chorley, 9th ed.)

Dr Richard Flower The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization (eds. Graham Shipley et al.)

Dr Heinz Fuchs God’s Playground: A History of Poland (Norman Davies)Lai Ling Goh Hidden in Plain Sight: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam

(Zainab Salbi and Laurie Becklund)Richard Humphreys British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory

(ed. David Armitage); The English Civil War (Martyn Bennett); Cambridge illuminations (eds. Paul Binski and Stella Panayotova); The Invention That Changed the World (Robert Buderi); Dinosaur Hunters (Deborah Cadbury); Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (Susanna Clarke); Cambridge Companion to Puritanism (ed. John Coffey and Paul C H Lim); The Language of God (Francis Collins); Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-century Physics (Mauro Dardo); Bess of Hardwick (David N Durant); Belinda (Maria Edgeworth); Harrington (Maria Edgeworth); Oral and Literate Culture in England 1500–1700 (Adam Fox); Mary, Queen of Scots (Antonia Fraser); Victorians and the Prehistoric (Michael Freeman); Heraldry (Stephen Friar); Cambridge (Martin Garrett); The Longman Companion to Britain in the Eighteenth Century, 1688–1820 (Jeremy Gregory and John Stevenson); Cambridge Ghost Book (Robert Halliday and Alan Murdie); Cambridgeshire Strange but True (Robert Halliday); English Civil War Archaeology (Peter Harrington); Curious Life of Robert Hooke (Lisa Jardine); From Newton to Hawking (eds. Kevin C Knox and Richard Noakes); The Boy King (Diarmaid MacCulloch); In the Beginning (Alister McGrath); Power and Glory (Adam Nicolson); Hogarth’s Harlot (Ronald Paulson); OS Explorer 226: Ely AND Newmarket; Consuming Splendour (Linda Levy Peck); The Abbeys and Priories of Medieval England (Colin Platt); Quacks (Roy Porter); The English Civil Wars (Diane Purkiss); Satire and Sentiment, 1660–1830 (Claude Rawson); The World of Christopher Marlowe (David Riggs); Engima (Hugh Sebag-Montefiore); Dragons of the Air (H G Seeley); Illustrated Book of Heraldry (Stephen Slater); Origins of Freemasonry (David Stevenson); Secret Life of


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Matthew Findlay (2000) and Joanne Bailey were married in the Chapel on 10 July 2010 by the Chaplain.

Nicholas Chapman (1997) and Helen Jones (1999) were married in the Chapel on 31 July 2010 by the Chaplain.

Andrew Conlan (2002) and Lore Lippman received a Roman Catholic blessing in the Chapel on 7 August 2010 after civil marriage. Fr Andrew Monaghan officiated.

Marcus Pinto (1996) and Amanda Biggs were married in the Chapel on 28 August 2010 by the Chaplain.

Brendan Cronin (2005) and Victoria Hickman were married in the Chapel on 10 September 2010 by the Chaplain.

Meng Li (2010) and Robert Phipps were married in the Chapel on 18 September 2010 by the Chaplain.

Funerals■■Baldomero Manzano (Fellows’ Butler) was cremated after a funeral service in

the Chapel on 23 September 2010. The Chaplain officiated.Jeffery Francis Switzer (1944; Fellow, 1957) was buried after a funeral service in

the Chapel on 3 March 2010. The Chaplain officiated.Harry Blackmore Whittington (Fellow, 1966) was cremated after a funeral serv-

ice at Trumpington Parish Church. The Revd Andrew Chrich officiated and the Chaplain preached.

Births, Marriages and Other Occasional Offices

Births■■To:Hilary (née Whitman, 1996) and Padraig Byrne (1997) a son, Sean Og William,

born on 12 February 2010 in Sydney, Australia.Nat (2000) and Mary-Ann (Clare, 1997) Johnson, a son, David Randell, born

on 12 February 2010.Robin McPherson (Gardener) and Ashley Hardingham (Bedder) a son, Logan,

born on 14 March 2010.Chris (Fellow, 2000) and Helen Doran a daughter, Emilia, born on 9 April

2010.Jillaine Seymour (Fellow, 2003) and Tim Gingell a son, Zachary, born on 1 May

2010.Gillian Handyside (1984) a daughter, Jenny Sophia, born on 7 May 2010.Vincennes, France.Nicola (née Mullany, 1990) and Andrew Wood (1987), a daughter, Anna Cécile

Frances, born on 2 February 2010.

BaptismsArchie Thomas Douglas Humphrey, son to Tessa and Matthew Humphrey, was

baptised in the Chapel on 9 January 2010 by the Revd David Grundy.Nathaniel James Bray, son to Christine and Donald (2009) Bray, was baptised

in the Chapel on 17 April 2010 by the Chaplain.Edward Joseph Jackson, son to Erica Jackson and Steve Powter, was baptised in

the Chapel on 8 May 2010 by the Chaplain.

Marriages■■Rachel Wadsworth and Rod Brench were married in the Chapel on 19 December

2009 by Canon Michael Wadsworth (Chaplain, 1979–81).Will Crafton (2006) and Erin Paul were married in the Chapel on 16 March

2010 by the Chaplain.William Cook (2005) and Lorna Gordon were married in the Chapel on 27

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CROFTON, Sir John Wenman, 1930, KBE, FRCP, MA, MB and BChir, MD; born 27 March 1912; ed. Tonbridge School; read Natural Sciences.

This obituary draws on that by James Friend published in the Guardian.

Sir John Crofton was a pioneering world leader in respiratory medicine for more than 60 years and was at the forefront of the modern treatment of tuberculosis, smoking control and medical educa-tion. Born in Dublin, the son of a doctor, he gradu-ated from Cambridge in 1933. In the same year, along with M. S. Cumming, he made the first ascent of a difficult rock climbing route on Garbh Choire of Beinn a’ Bhuird in the Cairngorms, still known as the Cumming-Crofton Route.

From Cambridge he went to St Thomas’ Hospital before serving as a Lieutenant-Colonel with the Royal Army Medical Corps in France, Egypt, Greece, Eritrea, Malta and Germany during the Second World War. In 1947 he worked at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, partly in the tuberculosis unit, where he was in charge of the early trials of the antibiotic streptomycin. Previously the only available treatment for TB was prolonged rest, fresh air and good food, plus occasional surgery, a regime of very limited effectiveness. After a spell at post-graduate medical school at the Hammersmith Hospital, he was appointed as Professor of Respiratory Diseases and Tuberculosis at Edinburgh University. He stayed in Edinburgh for the rest of his professional life, later becoming Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and then Vice-Principal.

As James Friend, one of his colleagues in Edinburgh wrote, when he arrived there ‘the treatment of TB was in a desperate state. There were huge waiting lists for hospital admission, many deaths and the correct use of the new drugs PAS and isoniazid in relation to streptomycin was unclear. TB physicians were suspicious of the new agents, and also of an outsider from the south seeking to make changes. But within a year or so John had revolutionised the situation … and with the support and enthusiasm of his colleagues, the Edinburgh model of multiple drug treatment was developed,’ eventually being adopted worldwide with spectacular results.

During his time in Edinburgh his research and public health interests broad-ened, particularly towards the prevention of disease by reducing smoking. He was a founder of ASH-UK (Action on Smoking and Health) and in 1973 of ASH

ObituariesBEANSE, John Derek, 1966, MA; born 5 January 1947; ed. Sir George Monoux Grammar School, Walthamstow; read Modern and Medieval Languages.

Apart from his time at Cambridge and Goldsmith’s College, London, where he trained to be a teacher, John Beanse lived all his life in the Chingford area. During his teaching career he taught in comprehensive schools in Redbridge and Hertfordshire. He joined the Liberal Party in 1974 and for the rest of his life was active in local politics, becoming Chairman of the Chingford and Woodford Green Liberal Democrats and twice (2001 and 2005) contesting the parliamentary seat won by Iain Duncan Smith. He was more successful at the local than the national level; in 2006 he led the team that took three seats from the Conservatives in the Council elections for the Highams Park and Hale End ward of Waltham Forest. As a Councillor, John took a keen interest in health issues and among other responsibilities served as the Vice Chair of the Health, Adults and Older People Overview and Scrutiny sub-committee. He was a pas-sionate Europhile, a gifted amateur pianist and in his spare time enjoyed travel and walking holidays. Described by Geoff Seeff, one of his Liberal Democrat colleagues, as ‘one of the rocks on which this party is built’, John died suddenly after a short illness on 6 October 2008.

BIRTLES, David Edward, 2003, MPhys (Oxford); born 1980; ed. King Edward VII Grammar School, Sheffield; read Mathematics.

We are grateful to David’s father Keith for this obituary.Friends and members of the College were deeply saddened to learn of the

death of David Birtles on 3 June 2009. He had a brilliant, if all too brief, career in Physics and Mathematics. In 1999 David won an Exhibition to Queen’s College Oxford, and was subsequently awarded a first class Masters degree in Physics. He came to Sidney in 2003 to read Part III Mathematics and was very proud of his distinction in the Tripos, awarded in 2004. At the time of his death he had just completed four years at Queen Mary, University of London where he was studying for a PhD in String Theory.


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EVANS, John David Gemmill, 1960 (Queens’ College), Fellow 1964–78, MA, PhD; born 27 August 1942; ed. St Edward’s School, Oxford; read Classics

This obituary by Professor John Gorman was orig-inally published on the Queen’s University, Belfast website. We are grateful to his widow Rosemary Evans for permission to reproduce it here.

After many months in and out of hospital, Emeritus Professor David Evans died of cancer in the Royal Victoria Hospital on 27 September 2009 with his wife Rosemary at his side. Born in London on 27 August 1942, he was educated at St Edward’s School, Oxford, from where he won an Open Scholarship in Classics to Queens’ College, Cambridge. First class honours in both parts of the Classical Tripos followed, and after a year of advanced research as a Craven Student he became a Research Fellow and, after only one further year, an official Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. With BA, MA and PhD all from Cambridge, he moved from his exacting scholarship in Classics to study the history of philosophy and to engage in current debates in interna-tional analytical philosophy, his distinction leading to appointment in 1972–73 as Visiting Professor in the Philosophy Department at Duke University, USA.

From Sidney Sussex he came in 1978 to the Chair of Logic and Metaphysics at Queen’s University and continued to prove his academic distinction with well over 100 articles and reviews in addition to his two sole authored books on Aristotle and three edited books, one on moral philosophy and two on the phi-losophy of education, a corpus of meritorious work early recognised by election to Membership of the Royal Irish Academy in 1983. He effortlessly contributed to Queens’ administration as Head of the Philosophy Department, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and Director of the School of Philosophical and Anthropological Studies, during one period all at the same time. His energy and consistently positive attitude meant that he was always on call for University affairs and nationally, being very active in, among many others, the committees of the Royal Irish Academy and the UK National Committee for Philosophy (later British Philosophical Association), the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education’s Philosophy benchmarking group, and chairing the UK Funding Council for Higher Education Research Assessment Exercise 2001 Philosophy Panel.

Scotland, whose first director was his wife Eileen. He had a talent for inspir-ing enthusiasm and loyalty among those who worked with him in the many fields he investigated. During a long career he took many fruitful public health initiatives and had an impressive list of achievements to his name, including a distinguished presidency of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 50 years as a council member of Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland and prominent roles in the Britain-Nepal Medical Trust and the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. He was knighted in 1977. Sir John Crofton died aged 97 on 3 November 2009 and is survived by his wife Eileen, their five children and 11 grandchildren.

ESPENHAHN, Edward William, 1934, BA; born 8 June 1916; ed. South Lodge Enfield, Aldenham School; read Natural Sciences.

We are grateful to Edward’s son Peter Espenhahn (1596 Foundation member) for this obituary.

Edward William Espenhahn died on 3 September 2009, aged 93. He was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1916. With his parents, he went to the US before coming to school in England. He retained his Australian citizenship until the end and liked to visit Australia regularly if not frequently.

He read Chemistry at Cambridge, starting a three-generation connection with Sidney Sussex College, continued by his two sons and two of his granddaughters. He later further studied chemistry at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin.

During the Second World War, he was in the Army, being evacuated from Dunkirk. Back in England, he joined the Intelligence Corps and became a photo interpreter.

After the war he put his knowledge of chemistry to use in the tanning industry. In the late 1950s and early 60s he worked for a few years promoting inward investment into the State of Victoria. Then, after a few years as manag-ing director of a cable manufacturer on Tyneside, he took a job with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in Zambia. This was followed by posts for UNIDO and the World Bank in Kenya and, for a couple of years until retirement, in Vienna.

He was a keen sportsman, including cricket and hockey for Sidney and then club cricket. He continued to play golf until late in life.

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was established from parts of ICI in the early 1990s he continued his career with the new organisation. He travelled worldwide, latterly particularly in the United States, managing mainly export businesses.

He married Ann Gwendolen Stroud at Saltwood in Kent in 1964, and they had one son, Christopher, born in 1966 in Sweden, where they lived for two years. He was a microbiologist and died tragically in 1994 at the age of 27.

Charles maintained closer links with Sidney in later life, and both he and Ann were elected members of the 1596 Foundation in 2004. In retirement Charles was a regular visitor to Madingley Hall where he attended residential short courses on historical subjects, which he greatly enjoyed. He also became an enthusiastic social golfer.

Charles Ewart died on 27 December 2009.

GASKELL, Joseph Clifford, 1936, MA; born 23 March 1919; ed. St Joseph’s College, Blackpool; read Mechanical Sciences.

We are grateful to Cliff ’s daughter Dr Fiona Rushworth for the information on which this obitu-ary is based.

Joseph was always known as Cliff, to distinguish him from his father, Chief Engineer at Pilkington Brothers Glass Works in St Helens, who was also called Joseph. At the age of nine he was sent as a boarder to school in Blackpool where he was a prod-uct of the Christian Brothers’ education, under which he excelled, passing into Cambridge at the age of 16, although he did not come up to Sidney for another two years. He spoke fondly of his time in Cambridge and kept in touch with the College and the Catholic chaplaincy.

His first jobs were near Huddersfield – including one with David Brown Engineering. During the war he worked in a reserved occupation (his daughter believes it had to do with aeroplane engines) and was a member of the local Home Guard – which he claimed was every bit as inefficient as Dad’s Army made out.

In the late 1940s he moved to Manesty Machines at Speke in Liverpool where he remained until he retired at the age of 62, first as Works Manager and then as a Director and finally Area Manager for Manesty and two other

Yet he was most famed for his position as an international philosophy states-man: apart from hundreds of invited lectures given in dozens of countries, he was for over 20 years a member of the Steering Committee of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP, the worldwide UNESCO-associated body that organises philosophy olympiads and world congresses), and was at the time of his death Président, Commission de Politique Générale of that Federation. He acted on many occasions in support of philosophy departments at risk, succeeding yet again only months ago. Travelling so widely, travel was not needed to broaden his mind, which was already (having mastered so many languages and so many trains of thought) broad enough; rather, he broadened the minds of those he travelled to with great learning, deep philosophical under-standing, social conviviality and charming conversation.

EWART, Charles Douglas Stirling, 1956, MA, 1596 Foundation Member 2004; born 13 November 1937; ed. Berkhamsted School; read History.

Charles left this obituary with his solicitor before his death.Charles Ewart was born at Turriff near Aberdeen into a Scottish family

with an unusually wide spectrum of talents. Among his notable kinsmen was the celebrated Sergeant (later Ensign) Charles Ewart of the Scots Greys who in personal combat captured the Eagle Standard of Napoleon’s 45th Regiment of Infantry (‘The Invincibles’) at Waterloo in 1815. One uncle (David S. Ewart ARSA) trained at Glasgow School of Art and became a distinguished portrait painter and a naval officer in the Second World War. He became ADC to the Admiral of the Fleet (Lord Cunningham), whose portrait he painted. Another uncle (George Brown) was a professional footballer, who later became a Glasgow headmaster: he played for Rangers FC and captained Scotland.

At an early age Charles moved to England with his parents, who both spent careers in education there. His undergraduate years at Sidney – where he had been awarded an Open Exhibition – were a notable period for historical studies at the College. David Thomson was Master, Otto Smail was Charles’ principal supervisor and Derek Beales was a Fellow. Charles himself won a College History Prize in 1958 and was Pontifex Maximus of the Confraternitas Historica in 1958–59.

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On the outbreak of war he joined the Royal Fusiliers, and after Sandhurst was commissioned and posted to a reconnaissance regiment. In 1943 he was in action in Tunisia and was subsequently asked to take on legal duties in Egypt, defending soldiers on Court Martial. In March 1944 he sailed for Italy and was posted to Cassino, where the Allied advance was holed up for many months. It was there that he was awarded the Military Cross after the patrol he was com-manding came under heavy fire. Throughout the operation ‘he showed excep-tional coolness and courage under fire’ and was able to lead his section to safety.

He was 32 when he left the army as a Major to resume his life as a solicitor in Horsham. He met his wife Kathleen before the war but it was not until 1950 that they married, Kathleen having had a child four years earlier by a previous marriage. In 1949 he had been taken on as a partner in a practice in Bodmin, Cornwall, which he eventually took over. As a solicitor he was heavily involved with the farming community, becoming Secretary to the North Cornwall Hunt Point-to-Point Committee, founder and President of the Bodmin Rotary Club, a Mason and eventually County Coroner.

By the time he retired in 1980 he had moved to Constantine Bay where he was a prominent member of Trevose Golf and Country Club. Both he and Kathleen played regularly until her death in 1996. Thereafter his main interest was his step-daughter, who had emigrated to Canada, and his grandchildren and latterly his great-grandchildren.

His legacy is detailed in his autobiography, Ordinary but Honest, which his daughter organised soon after his 90th birthday, in which he writes fondly of his life as a Sidney undergraduate. He died, with dignity, on 15 March 2010.

HUGGINS, Sir Alan Armstrong, 1939, MA; born 15 May 1921; ed. Radley College; read Law.

The information in this obituary is drawn from those that appeared in the Times and Daily Telegraph.

Sir Alan Huggins was one of the last of the United Kingdom’s career colonial judges. He made his name in Hong Kong, where for more than 40 years he practised and moulded the law, playing an important role in giving the former British colony a solid legal structure that underpinned its economic success. As Vice-President of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal, Sir Alan did much to help the colony prepare for a smooth

companies in Rochdale and Halifax. In 1950 he married his wife Edith. They both disliked the name, so he always called her Freddie.

After he retired they moved to Tattenhall and he became, at first reluctantly, an enthusiastic member of the local Probus club, including a stint as President. He had not previously been a joiner and affectionately referred to this associa-tion for professional and business men as ‘poor retired old beggars unfit for service’. In retirement he took great pleasure in his grandchildren, helping with their homework, picking them up from school and generally giving them a good time. He was an enthusiastic birdwatcher and he and his daughter spent many happy hours at Martinmere (much to Freddie’s relief, as it meant she did not have to).

The Church also played an important part in his life. He was a regular at St Plegmund’s in Tattenhall and will be missed by his many friends in the congre-gation. Cliff Gaskell died on 12 November 2009 and is survived by his daughter and three grandchildren.

HARVEY, John Alan Fordyce, 1932, BA, MC; born 6 August 1914; ed. Fettes College; read History.

We are grateful to John’s daughter Wendy Hindle for the information on which this obituary is based.

John Harvey was born in Calcutta into a family with a long association with Indian administration going back to the days of the East India Company. His father worked for the Eastern Bengal Railway and he stayed in India until he was six, when he was sent to England for his schooling.

As his parents were in India he was looked after by his aunt during the school holidays. He was keen on all sports and developed quite a liking for boxing, an interest he kept up all his life. During his school days he rarely visited India, although his now wid-ower father came on occasional brief visits to England. Most of the time he was either at school or with his aunt in Tunbridge Wells.

Despite claiming not to be very intelligent he passed the Cambridge entrance exam and read History and Law at Sidney. Sport was always very important to him. He played rugby until he was 34 but cricket and golf were his main sports. After Cambridge he joined a solicitors’ firm in Horsham as an articled clerk and qualified just before the Second World War.


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JONES, Denis Mason, 1936, MA; born 19 March 1918; ed. Scarborough College; read Architectural Studies.

This obituary is drawn from one that appeared in the Yorkshire Post, which was based on a piece by his son Mark Mason-Jones.

Denis Mason Jones was born in Linton, near Wetherby, the younger son of a local architect, ‘Billy’ Jones and his wife Bertha. He left school at 16 to work as a bricklayer for a Tadcaster builder who was converting a barn in Linton into the Jones’ family home. In 1939, after graduating from Cambridge, he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers and saw service in North Africa during the Second World War. In 1943, while clearing mines on a Commando Raid, he was blown up by a mine, and after a day’s march to the nearest medical help, was in and out of hospital for the next 18 months. He then became an instructor, ‘showing chaps how not to lift a mine’.

After the war he completed his professional training, being awarded an Honours Diploma of the Architectural Association in London, and then an ICI postgraduate scholarship to study in Zurich. He next joined a London part-nership where he did the large-scale drawings for the re-design of Parliament Square, which was approved by the House of Commons. Eventually, with his elder brother Kenneth, he joined the practice in Leeds that had been established in 1918 by their father and John Stocks. The practice grew strongly with com-missions for university halls of residence, schools, industrial buildings, housing and competitions. Denis won a press-sponsored competition for the develop-ment of London’s South Bank after the 1951 Festival of Britain.

In 1966 he was elected President of the West Yorkshire Society of Architects, a post once held by his father. Amongst his many activities, he was also involved with the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, the Civic Trust, the Yorkshire Heraldry Society and the Leeds Club. In retirement he combined three life-long interests – old buildings, map-making and heraldry, designing a series of full-colour pic-torial maps featuring the historic buildings of different localities. His drawings of Sidney appeared regularly in College publications, including the Annual (see page 92).

Denis was an affable, kind and humorous man with a compulsion to record, in words and sketches, the impressions and incidents of his life. He put them

transition to Chinese sovereignty, and his influence continued after the 1997 handover.

He was called to the Bar by Lincoln’s Inn in 1947 and took up his first appointment as a resident magistrate in Uganda in 1951. In 1953 Huggins transferred to Hong Kong as a stipendiary magistrate, became a district judge in 1958, and was appointed a puisne judge in 1961. He was promoted to the Court of Appeal in 1976 and sat as Vice-President from 1980 to 1987. He was knighted in 1980. From 1997 to 2003 he was a non-permanent member of the Court of Final Appeal for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region after the return of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China.

Sir Alan was a forthright commentator on legal procedure. ‘Good advocacy’, he maintained, ‘always requires that a case be cut down to its essentials, and the judges have a duty to prevent a waste of time on non-essentials.’ Mr Justice Robert Ribeiro, a current permanent member of Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal, has paid tribute in these terms: ‘Sir Alan was truly committed to the very best values of the judiciary. He was always anxious that the decision he was called upon to deliver was, to the best of his ability, justice according to the law. He never stinted on the effort required to dig down to the foundations of the case before him.’

In addition to his judicial duties, Sir Alan was chairman of the Advisory Committee on Legal Education 1972–87 and honorary lecturer at Hong Kong University 1979–87. After retiring to Devon, he sat from time to time as President of the Court of Appeal of Brunei and was a Justice of Appeal of the Falkland Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, Gibraltar, St Helena, the British Indian Ocean Territory and Bermuda.

He was a man of deep religious convictions, an honorary life governor of the British and Foreign Bible Society, honorary life member of the American Bible Society, President of the YMCA (HK) and diocesan reader of the diocese of Hong Kong and Macau. He had a love of pantomime and amateur dramatics, appearing in many roles, including the front end of the pantomime cow in Jack and the Beanstalk, while his second wife, Elizabeth, played the ‘udder end’, and for years he would delight local children and lawyers alike by appearing as the clown at the Cathedral Michaelmas Fair.

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for Sandhurst and winning his oar in Sidney’s rugger boat. In retirement he devoted himself to restoring an acre of neglected garden to beauty.

Gerry Mitchell had many friends, in both his village community, to which he was devoted, and further afield. He was an active and indispensi-ble member of his Parish Church, St Peter’s in Newdigate, Surrey. Among other duties, he served at different times as Churchwarden, PCC member, Planned Giving Officer and Parish Office Manager. He was also active outside the church, working for over 10 years as membership secretary and for 12 as treasurer of the local branch of the British Legion. As chair of the Welfare Committee Gerry worked tirelessly in providing members in need with help and advice on ways to access financial support. Beyond the village, to which he devoted so much of his energy, Gerry also engaged in voluntary work for the Masons and was a member of Probus and the local Victim Support Group. He died on 10 January 2010 and is survived by his wife of 51 years, Gina, his two children and four grandchildren.

MOBBS, Michael John, 1965, BA; born 7 October 1946; ed. Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe; read Modern and Medieval Languages.

This obituary is based on the eulogy delivered by Michael’s brother, Peter, at his funeral.

Mike was born in St Mary’s Hospital Paddington, the first son of John Mobbs, an architectural draughtsman, and his wife Joan who worked as a shop assistant in Boots the Chemist. They lived in a rented flat in Bayswater and Mike travelled to his primary school in Notting Hill by bus. Weekends were taken up with playing cricket with friends, sailing a wooden boat with his father in Kensington Gardens and watching the steam trains with him at Paddington. His memories of that time reflect a happy life within a family rejoicing survival of the war.

In 1954 the family moved to a council house in Averley in Essex, with woodland at the end of the road and beyond that gravel pits and clear water. It

into a collection of nearly 100 meticulously kept scrapbooks – an enthusiasm he inherited from his father – which he began during his wartime service in Africa. He died in Leeds on 8 January 2010 and is survived by his wife, four children, nine grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.

MARSTON, Eric Charles Ranshaw, 1935, MA; born 2 March 1917; ed. Blundell’s School; read History.

We are grateful to Eric’s daughter, Penny Lewin, for this obituary.

While Eric was at Sidney he particularly enjoyed the sporting opportunities, including cross-country, tennis, squash and hockey.

After graduating, Eric taught at Mostyn House School on the Wirral. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he joined the Navy, receiving an MBE for his services.

Eric taught at University College School, Junior Branch, from 1946 until his retirement in 1979. He taught Latin, History, English and Maths, among other subjects. He was also heavily involved in the sports activities, including refereeing rugby at both the junior and senior levels.

Eric married Hazel Carr in 1950 and they lived in Golders Green (so he could walk to school over Hampstead Heath every day) until 1979 when they moved to Poole in Dorset on his retirement. This was a return to the home town of his birth. His interests ranged from rugby and racquet sports, through to ballet at Covent Garden, classical music and jazz. He was attending Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra concerts until a couple of months before his death. Eric was an active member of St Peter’s Church, Parkstone.

He leaves his wife Hazel, four children, five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

MITCHELL, Gerald Bernard, 1945, MA; born 25 July 1927; ed. Rossall School; read Mechanical Sciences.

We are grateful to Mrs Gina Mitchell for the information on which this obituary is based.

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with enthusiasm for computing, great algorithmic insight, deep theoretical understanding and a knack at solving logical puzzles enabled him to develop several approaches to analysing data of great generality that were incorporated not only in the statistical package GenStat® that he helped develop but eventu-ally in all its major rivals. In 1972, he co-authored a paper showing how several standard statistical models could be regarded as special cases of a general class, GLMs or generalised linear models. GLMs are now a ubiquitous approach to data analysis in the physical and social sciences.

His first job was at the National Vegetable Research Station (NVRS) near Wellesbourne, Warwickshire, where he was appointed head of statistics in 1950 and developed approaches to analysing data that were to make him famous as an authority on statistical computing. His theory of general balance showed how the statistical technique of Analysis of Variance could be applied to data collected from a wide class of complex experimental designs using a single gen-eral algorithm, and was thus an important unifying advance. In 1968 he took over as head of statistics at the agricultural research station of Rothamsted and bought the house in Redbourn where he was to live for the rest of his life. On reaching 60 John Nelder retired, but his statistical output continued undimin-ished and for the next 25 years his striking tall and bearded figure was a familiar sight at Harpenden Station waiting to board the train to London, where he had an honorary appointment at Imperial College. Among many scientific honours, John Nelder was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1981, won the Royal Statistical Society’s Guy medal in silver and gold, and served as president of the Royal Statistical Society, 1985–6.

John was a great lover of music and a brilliant amateur pianist. His annual musical matinees at Cumberland Cottage were a highlight of the social calen-dar for many of his and Mary’s friends. Despite ill health, his enthusiasm for music, statistics and bird watching continued to the end.

PARKINSON, Robert Henry, 1954, MA; born 16 April 1935; ed. Lancaster Royal Grammar School; read History.

We are grateful to Mrs Sheila Parkinson for the information contained in this obituary.

Robert Parkinson was born and raised in Fleetwood, Lancashire. He failed the medical examination for National Service because of ear trouble but won an Exhibition to study History at Sidney. Although he was re-elected to his Exhibition in 1956, much of his time was devoted to golf and he obtained a blue

was in this environment that Mike developed his life-long passion for nature. In 1954 the family moved to the first house they had owned in Great Kimble, Buckinghamshire and it was here, in the village school, that Mike began to develop as a model pupil. In 1957 he transferred to Royal Grammar School at Wycombe where surprisingly for someone with so gentle a nature he enjoyed playing rugby and particularly tackling. He wrote poetry at school and played chess with his friends before winning an Exhibition to Sidney to read Modern Languages.

After graduating he obtained a post at the Midland Bank in 1969. In later life, however, he always said that the best thing he ever did was to retire. It gave him time to pursue his love of chess, nature and to spend more time with Brenda, whom he had married in 1969, friends and family. He was a member of Butterfly Conservation and completed butterfly counts for his area that formed part of the data for the Butterfly Atlas of the Millennium. He had other inter-ests; he played golf regularly at the Hazlemere Golf Club, played the guitar by ear and composed short pieces of music of his own, took a number of Open University courses and was an active member of the Belgium Study circle. He died on 18 June 2009.

NELDER, John Ashworth, 1942, MA, DSc, FRS; born 8 October 1924; ed. Blundell’s School; read Mathematics.

We are grateful to John’s son Jan for the infor-mation on which this obituary is based.

John Nelder was born near Dulverton on the edge of Exmoor where his father, grandfather and great-grandfather had all been hotel-keepers at the Carnarvon Arms. Boyhood explorations of the nearby Exe and Barle rivers were the start of a life-long love of nature and, in particular, ornithology, through which he met his future wife, Mary. Indeed, they were two of the three persons first to spot a Siberian thrush in Britain.

John’s Cambridge career was interrupted by war service as a navigator for the RAF. He returned to Sidney after the war and graduated in 1948, before taking the Diploma in Statistics. He quickly emerged as a leading member of that generation of statisticians who started their career as the age of electronic computing was getting under way. A keen interest in analysing data, combined


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and was not then going to fight against them. In 1956, when many Spanish and Portuguese Jews had to flee Egypt following the Suez crisis, he was heav-ily involved in their support and integration into the community. He was also instrumental in setting up the Wembley Sephardi Synagogue.

In 1971 Roddy Romain became a stipendiary magistrate, a position in which he gained a reputation for courtesy and fairness. He was particularly lenient in sentencing those in possession of small amounts of cannabis, and the London magazine Time Out ranked his Marylebone Magistrates’ Court as top of the list from this point of view.

He retired in 1983 and spent his time playing golf, walking on Hampstead Heath or relaxing in his club, the Garrick. He died on 11 September 2009. He was predeceased by his wife Miriam in 1991 and is survived by a daughter and a son.

RUSTON, Right Revd John Harry Gerald, 1949, MA OGS; born 1 October 1929; ed. Berkhampsted School; read Classics.

We are grateful to John’s sister, Mrs Gillian Jones, for this obituary.John Ruston was born in Hornchurch, the son of Alfred Ruston, a solicitor,

and his wife Constance. He followed his elder brother Anthony (1939) to Sidney where he had a distinguished career as an undergraduate Classicist, being elected twice to a Major Scholarship and winning the Tripos Prize in 1951.

After Cambridge he studied at Ely Theological College, was made Deacon in 1954 and ordained into the priesthood in 1955 when he joined the Oratory of the Good Shepherd. He was Assistant Curate at St Andrews, Leicester 1956–7 and Tutor at Cuddesdon College, Oxford 1957–61.

The majority of his ministry, however, was to be spent in South Africa. In 1962 he became first an Assistant Priest and then Principal of Saint Francis College Sekhukhuneland in the Transvaal, where he stayed for eight years. In 1968 he was made Canon of Pretoria and in 1970 Sub-Dean of the Diocese. In 1976 he moved to Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State and became Archdeacon, Warden of the Community of Saint Michael and All Angels and Chaplain of Saint Michael’s School. In 1983 he was consecrated Bishop and became Suffragan Bishop of Pretoria, where he worked closely with Archbishop Tutu (Honorary Fellow, 1999) and had a ringside seat during the final years of the apartheid regime (see also Annual, 2008, p. 46).

His final post was in St Helena in the South Atlantic, where he was made Bishop in 1991 and where he was much involved with the granting of full

for representing the University in the team led by Ted Dexter. After Cambridge he began life as a journalist, with a spell in Fleet Street working for Fishing News, an appropriate post for the son of a steam trawler owner. In 1959 he joined the Manchester Evening Chronicle as their Manchester City correspondent. He travelled with the team and ghosted articles for City captain Ken Barnes, and for Denis Law.

When the paper closed in 1963 he joined the Blackburn Evening Telegraph and, then, in 1973, moved to the Bolton Evening News as a sub editor. He later became deputy sports editor and then sports editor, a position that brought new challenges but left him more desk-bound. He took early retirement in 1988.

Parky, as he was affectionately known, will be remembered for his enjoy-ment of life, his sense of humour and wit, his skill with words and his generos-ity, kindness and warm heartedness to all. He died in Wythenshawe Hospital after a short illness on 16 February 2010 and is survived by his wife Sheila.

ROMAIN, Roderick Jessel Anidjar, 1935, MA; born 2 December 1916; ed. Malvern College; read Law.

The information below is drawn from the obituary that appeared in the Times.

Roderick Romain was the younger son of criminal solicitor Anton Romain. By the time he graduated from Cambridge in 1938 he knew that war was imminent, so he joined the Honorable Artillery Company. He was called to the bar in 1939 but appeared in court only four times before being commissioned into the 27th Field Regiment Royal Artillery. He was a member of the British Expeditionary Force in Belgium and northern France and was rescued after the retreat to the coast near Dunkirk by the paddle steamer Sandown Castle.

From April 1942 until the end of the war he served with the Eighth Army, assigned to the Judge Advocate General’s department, prosecuting and defend-ing in several serious cases, despite his relative lack of experience. After the war he conducted two war crime trials as Judge Advocate in Germany before resuming his career at the Bar in London and then joining his father’s firm of solicitors. In 1947 he was approached by Jews from what was then Palestine who wanted to recruit Jewish former British soldiers to fight to create a Jewish state. He declined, stating that he had fought for King and country for six years


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and the aircraft carrier Illustrious, but soon he fell seriously ill of pleurisy and had to be invalided out of the Navy. In 1944 he came to Sidney, sponsored by the Royal Navy, to read Estate Management. He got Firsts and a Scholarship and then spent virtually all his subsequent career in the University and the College. He became a University Lecturer in 1954 and a Fellow of Sidney in 1957.

So the Navy’s misfortune in losing a fine officer became Cambridge’s great good fortune. At Sidney he was a College Lecturer, a Director of Studies, Estates Bursar for 10 years, a Tutor for 15 years and Vice-Master. As a Tutor he cared well for his pupils and encouraged them. They particularly remember his friendship and the wonderful Sunday lunches that Sheila gave them at their home in Long Road.

British citizenship to Saint Helenians. In 1999 he retired to Cape Town, where he was kept busy in local supply duties, including 10 months in the town of Ceves in the Northern Cape to enable the resident priest to travel to the UK for study leave.

Illness brought John back to England in 2003. He lived with his sister in Sevenoaks while undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, before moving for the last six years of his life to the College of Saint Barnabas, Lingfield, where he enjoyed care and friendship and walks in the surrounding countryside.

SHADFORTH, Marcus William, 1933, MA, BSc, FRPharmS; born 11 November 1915; ed. Brentwood School; read Natural Sciences.

We are grateful to Marcus’s son, Richard Shadforth, for this obituary.

After graduating from Cambridge, Marcus stud-ied at the School of Pharmacy in the University of London. He married Sylvia Moon in August 1940, the start of a long and happy partnership. During the Second World War, he was engaged as a chemist and bacteriologist, conducting research into food products in support of the war effort. He was a founder member of the Society of Dairy Technology.

Later, as Director of Shadforth Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., the company started by his father, he held the business together when it was badly affected by the blitz in East London. After the war, as Managing Director, he led the successful expansion and development of the business up to his retirement in 1982. After retirement, he settled in New Zealand.

He was an active member of the Masonic fraternity and a Freeman of the City of London. He was also a devoted family man, father of four, grandfather of eight and great-grandfather of four. He died on 24 March 2010.

SWITZER, Jeffery Francis Quarry, 1944, MA; born 15 April 1926; ed. Portora Royal School; read Estate Management.

We are grateful to Jeffery’s wife Sheila and to Donald Green (Fellow, 1966) for this obituary.

Jeffery had intended to be a naval man. In 1942, after leaving school, he went to the Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth where he received out-standing reports. He then served as a midshipman in the battle cruiser Renown

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to University College Swansea to study metallurgy. The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths awarded him a scholarship to study for his PhD. He cycled between Swansea and Cambridge regularly. He often said that his days at Cambridge were among the hap-piest of his life.

He joined International Alloys (Intal) in 1939, the beginning of 33 years’ service with them. During the Second World War he was in a reserved occupation, Intal being involved with producing the aluminium alloys needed for the Rolls Royce Merlin engines fitted to fighter and bomber aircraft.

In 1947 he became Technical Manager at the factory in Minworth, Birmingham. Soon after that he went to Egypt to assist in the recovery of large quantities of aluminium alloys from scrapped aircraft. He was in charge of the technical aspects of a large operation involving more than 4,000 people and four factories.

He then invested all his talents in technical achievement and invention for Intal, both in Birmingham and Aylesbury, and in the welfare of the men in the factories. From Branch Manager at Minworth, he became Works Director in Aylesbury, and later Technical Director, always fighting for his beliefs until the day he retired in 1973. His achievements included pioneering the Intal Swarf Dryer, which is still manufactured under licence and sold around the world.

He developed a belt of trees between the Aylesbury factory and adjacent housing. After retirement he took a year’s course in arboriculture at Merrist Wood College – the oldest student at 60. He ran a small tree nursery for a while, and then devoted himself to his large garden, which became his kingdom.

His care and passion for people began at Cambridge when he visited Germany before the war. While there, he posted money to Jewish scientists and engineers to help them escape from Hitler. He later befriended many Jewish refugees in the Birmingham area, some of whom found work in Intal.

He married Kathleen King in 1942 and they had four children. Gordon’s life was always colourful, his personality, too. We all remember his laugh, which was so infectious. He was a good and loving husband and father, and the perfect grandpa to his seven grandchildren, who have all achieved amazing heights in different ways. He read and kept up to date on the latest technical, scientific and medical advances until the very end. He was born on a Good

In 1616 Sidney, using the Blundell bequest, bought Clee Farm on the coast of Lincolnshire. About 250 years later the railway came and the resort of Cleethorpes was built on our property. The College became landlord of a great leasehold estate but by the 1960s the ground rents were producing a poor, and in real terms a declining, income for the College. It was Jeffery who, as the young Estates Bursar, grasped this problem. He persuaded the Governing Body to sell the freeholds and invest the proceeds on the stock market. Within 10 years the College’s income had tripled and its capital had appreciated so much that it could embark on a major building programme. The College will con-tinue to benefit from Jeffery’s good work, of which this is but one example.

In the University Jeffery was Chairman of the Faculty Board of Land Economy for five years, a member of the Council of the Senate for nine years, and a member of the Financial Board for 10. With Jack Linnet he established the Cambridge Society. As an expert in Town Planning he prepared the University’s response to the Cambridge Development Plan. In 1961 he was seconded by the University to the Colonial Office for a year to serve as planning adviser to the Governor of Malta, and 27 years later he was invited by the government of Malta to return to help them again with planning, which he did. He was an Honorary Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and a gold medallist of the RICS.

Jeffery gave generously of his time to many organisations. For example, he was a governor of several schools. He was a member of the Area Health Authority and he was appointed by the Minister of Health to the Board of Governors of Addenbrooke’s Hospital. He did much good work for the National Trust. He was a Freeman of the City of London. Jeffery’s professional life was characterised by his friendly nature and direct manner, and by the prodigious amount of good work that he did for the College, the University and the world at large.

Jeffery died on 20 February 2010. He is survived by his wife, Sheila, whom he married in the College chapel on graduating in 1947, by his daughter, Caroline, and by six grandchildren.

THOMAS, Gordon James, 1935, PhD, BSc (Swansea, 1933); born 5 April 1912; ed. Swansea Secondary School; read Metallurgy.

We are grateful to Gordon’s daughter, Jill Tait, for this obituary.Gordon was born in Swansea, the son of a plumber on the Great Western

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mobile field hospital when the Japanese army invaded at the end of 1941. They became separated and were reunited in India before travelling to China where Harry taught at Ginling Women’s College in Chengdu in Sichuan Province and worked on the geology of the Himalayan foothills. In 1945 Harry returned to the University of Birmingham to lecture in geology.

During his Yale fellowship Harry had visited the US National Museum in Washington, DC, where he was introduced to silicified fossils by G. Arthur Cooper. Silica, which replaces the original shell during fossilisation, is a mineral with the same composition as glass. Thus silicified fossils can be extracted from limestone by dissolving them in acid rather then digging them out. Harry spent three months in Washington in 1947 studying trilobites preserved in this way. When he was offered a post at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology in 1949, his fascination with American fossils and his strong links through Dorothy no doubt influenced his decision to move to the United States. During 17 years at Harvard, Harry became the international authority on trilobites, working on a variety of forms from different parts of the world, particularly Virginia, Newfoundland and Wales. He also documented their transformation from tiny larva to adult, each stage of the moulting process (trilobites, like other arthropods, shed their outer skeleton as they grow) fossilised in superb silicified detail.

Harry’s move to Cambridge coincided with the start of the most exciting phase of his research. That year, 1966, he was invited by the Geological Survey of Canada to lead a new investigation of the Cambrian fossils of the Burgess Shale in British Columbia, which is more than 500 million years old. This famous locality, originally discovered in 1909, is unusual in fossilising soft-bodied ani-mals in addition to the shells that provide the normal record of ancient marine life. Harry and Dorothy spent two field seasons quarrying the Burgess Shale with Geological Survey parties, and he devoted more than 20 years to research-ing the fossils that tell the story of the Cambrian Explosion, when life in the oceans diversified dramatically and all the major animal body plans evolved.

The Burgess Shale project became one of the most celebrated palaeonto-logical endeavours of the second half of the twentieth century. Harry described the results in his book, The Burgess Shale (1985), but it was Stephen Jay Gould’s best seller Wonderful Life, published in 1989, which generated sig-nificant popular interest in the project. Gould, who was Harry’s successor at Harvard, explained how Harry was the ideal person to spearhead the Burgess Shale research, with his experience working on trilobites and his genius in

Friday, and died on a Good Friday, 2 April 2010 – a few days short of his 98th birthday.

He is survived by Kathleen his wife, three children, seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren, with one more due in August 2010. The genes of Gordon go forward.

WHITTINGTON, Harry Blackmore FRS (Woodwardian Professor of Geology and Fellow of Sidney), BSc, MA, PhD, DSc, AM; born 24 March 1916; ed. Handsworth Grammar School, Birmingham; read Geology at the University of Birmingham.

Derek E. G. Briggs (1972), former Research Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, writes:

Harry Whittington came to Cambridge in 1966 to succeed Oliver Bulman, also a Fellow of Sidney, as Woodwardian Professor of Geology. Following his retirement in 1983 he continued to be active in research and college life for many years. He died on 20 June, 2010 at the age of 94. Harry was a world-renowned palaeontologist and the recipient of many honours, but at the same time a remarkably modest man who shunned the limelight. It was typical of him, for example, to specify that there should be no memorial service to celebrate his achievements.

Harry was born and educated in Birmingham and was proud of his ori-gins. It amused him that his Birmingham degrees apparently did not ‘count’ in Cambridge, where he required an MA under Statute B.III.6 to vote in the University Senate. In 1938, on completing his PhD on the geology of the Berwyn Hills in north Wales, Harry went to the Peabody Museum at Yale University on a Commonwealth Fellowship. There he started to focus on trilo-bites, fossils that are critical to understanding nearly 300 million years of the history of life in the oceans during the Palaeozoic Era. Apart from launching his research career, Harry’s sojourn at Yale was important as the place where he met his wife, the botanist Dorothy Arnold. Harry and Dorothy were devoted companions for nearly 57 years, and she developed a keen eye for fossils while accompanying him on fieldwork.

When Harry’s Commonwealth Fellowship ended in 1940 he and Dorothy went to Burma (Myanmar), where they both worked as missionaires, teach-ing at Judson College in Rangoon. They were forced to flee northward with a


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Christian, Harry was very self-sufficient and when Dorothy’s health failed, he looked after her at their Trumpington home, where he particularly enjoyed the garden, for a number of years before her death in 1997.

Harry was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1971, and received many other honours, notably the Paleontological Society Medal (1983), the Lapworth Medal of the Palaeontological Association (2000), the Geological Association of Canada Medal (2000), the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London (2001) and the Emperor of Japan’s International Prize for Biology (2001). With the last, which was presented to him by Emperor Akihito, Harry received a silver vase bearing the imperial crest, which he presented to Sidney on the occa-sion of his 90th birthday. It is a fitting testament to one who was an exceptional scientist, friend and mentor.

We have also heard of the deaths of:BAINBRIDGE, R H (1946)BENSON, C E (1947)BOWEN, K W J (1947)CLEMMOW, P C (Fellow, 1952)DANIEL, H T (1977)FRANKS, E C (1958)GODFREY, C W (1949)HOLDCROFT, J E (1964)ISAACS, D (1982)LLOYD, W Z (1934)MEYER, H L (1957)MOULDING, G V R (1950)SCOTT, J L (1960)VERSCHUEREN, S J (2003)WHIFFEN, W T (1947)WILKINSON, J M (1959)WILSON, C W G (1945)WISE, T F (1942)

three-dimensional visualisation, a critical skill in reconstructing flattened fos-sils. Wonderful Life ensured that Harry’s scientific achievements became much more widely appreciated and a number of the remarkable Cambrian animals that he investigated, like Opabinia and Anomalocaris, are almost as well known to the public as some of the familiar dinosaurs.

Harry was Head of the Department of Geology until 1980 when it merged with the departments of Mineralogy and Petrology, and Geodesy and Geophysics, to form the Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences. He was Vice-Master of Sidney Sussex from 1979 to 1981. Harry and Dorothy were very kind and hos-pitable, generously welcoming students, friends and colleagues to their homes over the years. They had no children, but Harry maintained an almost pater-nal interest in many of his students, myself included, enjoying news of them and their families long after they completed their graduate studies. He was a capable cook and liked cigars and good red wines. When he retired from the Woodwardian Chair in 1983 he continued to walk to the Downing Site every day to work in the Sedgwick Museum. Focusing once more on trilobites, he published some 50 additional scientific papers, the last in 2009. A practising


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Pastoral Dean The Revd Peter Waddell, PhD [email protected]

Bursar Nick Allen, MA [email protected] and Bursary Assistant: 338882 [email protected]

Development Director Bill Abraham, BA [email protected]

Tutors Brian Billups, PhDErika Eiser, PhD (Rehovot)Richard Flower, PhDMichael Ramage, MArchDavid G Skinner, DPhil (Oxon)Tutorial Assistant: 338844 [email protected]

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MathematicsJulius Ross, PhD Medical and Veterinary SciencesFrances Hall, DPhil (Oxon) Antony Jackson, PhD

Modern and Medieval Languages Natasha Franklin, MAEmma Gilby, PhD Maria Noriega-Sanchez, PhD (Sheffield and Valencia)

Music David Skinner, DPhil (Oxon)

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

Politics, Psychology and SociologyMette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, PhD (EUI)Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov, PhD (Stanford)

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

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StewardRon Horgan, DPhil (Oxon) [email protected]

Wine Steward Barry Nisbet, PhD (Edinburgh) LittD

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Keeper of the Muniments Christopher Parish, MA, FRCS, FPPHM, FSAJames Mayall, MA, FBA

Note: All telephone numbers, if called from outside the Cambridge area, must be prefixed by (0)1223.

College Lecturers■■

Architecture Michael Ramage, MArch

Economics Massimo Beber, MPhilMichael Pollitt, DPhil (Oxon) Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering Abir Al-Tabbaa, PhDAndrew Flewitt, PhDJohn Longley, PhDMichelle Oyen, PhD

EnglishChristopher Page, DPhil (York)Claire Preston, PhD

GeographyJanice Stargardt, DLett (Paris)

HistoryEugenio Biagini, PhDBernhard Fulda, PhDPhilip Wood, DPhil (Oxon)

Directors of Studies■■

Subject All Parts of Tripos Directors of unless otherwise Studies indicatedAnglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Dr Rosalind Love*Archaeology and Anthropology (Archaeology) Dr Janice StargardtArchaeology and Part IIA and IIB Anthropology (Social Anthropology) Dr Barbara Bodenhorn*Architecture Mr Michael RamageAsian and Middle Eastern Studies Dr Brigitte Steger*Chemical Engineering Dr Sarah Rough*Classics Prelims, Parts IA and IB Dr Richard FlowerClassics Part II Dr Rosanna Omitowoju*Computer Science Dr Chris Hadley*Economics Parts I and IIA Professor Monojit ChatterjiEconomics Part IIB Dr Michael Pollitt



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Engineering Part IA Dr Andrew FlewittEngineering Part IB Dr John LongleyEngineering Part IIA Dr Michelle OyenEngineering Part IIB Dr Abir Al-TabbaaEnglish Dr Edward Wilson-LeeGeography Parts IA and II Dr Iain BlackGeography Part IB Dr Janice StargardtHistory Prelims and Part I Dr Bernhard FuldaHistory Part II Dr Philip WoodHistory of Art Dr Frank Salmon*Land Economy Dr Paul McHughLaw Parts IA and IB Miss Eva Nanopoulos Part II Professor Alan DashwoodManagement Studies Part II Dr Michael PollittManufacturing Engineering Part I Dr Michelle OyenManufacturing Engineering Part II Dr Abir Al-TabbaaMathematics (Applied) Dr Berry Groisman*Mathematics (Pure) Dr Julius RossMedicine Part IA Dr Antony JacksonMedicine Part IB Dr Paul FlynnMedicine Part II Dr Robert BuschMedicine Clinical Studies Dr Mark Gurnell*Modern & Medieval Parts IA+IB Dr Maria Noriega- Languages SanchezModern & Medieval Languages Year Abroad and Part II Dr Paul WhiteModern & Medieval Languages Erasmus Mrs Natasha FranklinMusic Dr David SkinnerNatural Sciences Part IA (Physical) Dr Ian BaxendaleNatural Sciences Part IA (Biological) Dr Veronica Bennett*Natural Sciences Part IB (Physical) Dr Christopher Doran Dr Tomislav FriscicNatural Sciences Part IB (Biological) Dr Veronica Bennett*Natural Sciences Part II (Physical) Dr Christopher Doran Dr Tomislav Friscic

Natural Sciences Part II (Biological) Dr Veronica Bennett*Natural Sciences Parts IB, II and III (HPS) Dr Natalie Kaoukji*Natural Sciences Part III (Physical) Dr Ian Baxendale Dr Christopher Doran Dr Tomislav FriscicNatural Sciences Part III (Biological) Dr Veronica Bennett*Philosophy Mr Nathan Wildman*Politics, Psychology and Sociology Professor James MayallTheological and Religious Studies Revd Dr Peter WaddellVeterinary Medicine Dr Colin Roberts

NB: an asterisk after the name denotes an external Director of Studies.

THE FELLOWS■■

elected

1955 Professor Derek Beales, LittD PhD FBA, Emeritus Professor of Modern History

1962 Dr Paul Scott, PhD, former University Lecturer in Physics1965 Professor Tim Blanning, LittD PhD FBA, Emeritus Professor of

Modern European History1966 Mr Donald Green, MA, former University Lecturer in Engineering1968 Mr Christopher Parish, MA MB ChB FRCS FFPHM FSA, former

Postgraduate Dean and Consultant Cardio-thoracic Surgeon, Addenbrooke’s Hospital and Papworth Hospital

1972 Dr Roderick Woods, DPhil (Oxon), former University Lecturer in Physiology

1973 Dr Peter Collier, PhD (London), former University Senior Lecturer in French

1973 Professor Alan Hughes, MA, Margaret Thatcher Professor of Enterprise Studies, Judge Business School and Director of the Centre for Business Research

1976 Professor Keith Glover, PhD (MIT) FRS FREng, Professor of Engineering

1979 Professor Dame Ann Dowling, DBE PhD ScD FRS FREng, Professor of Engineering and Head of the Department of Engineering



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1999 Dr Andrew Flewitt, PhD, Reader in Engineering2000 Dr Ian Baxendale, PhD (Leics), Royal Society Wolfson Fellow in

Organic Chemistry2000 Dr Christopher Doran, PhD, PPARC/RSE Enterprise Fellow in

Physics 2000 Mr Massimo Beber, MPhil, Senior Tutor and Fellow in Economics 2001 Mrs Natasha Franklin, MA, Senior Language Teaching Officer in

Slavonic Studies2002 Dr Janice Stargardt, DLett (Paris), PACSEA Professorial Research

Fellow in Geography2002 Professor Richard Penty, PhD, Professor of Photonics (Engineering)2002 Dr Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov, PhD (Stanford), University Lecturer in

Social Anthropology2003 Dr Jillaine Seymour, LLB (Queensland) DPhil (Oxon), John Thornely

Fellow in Law 2003 Dr Frances Hall, DPhil (Oxon) FRCP, ARC Rheumatology Lecturer

and Hon. Consultant Rheumatologist at the University of Cambridge Clinical School of Medicine

2004 Professor Christopher Hill, DPhil (Oxon) FBA, Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations

2004 Dr Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, PhD (European University Institute), University Lecturer in International Relations

2005 Dr Rebecca Kilner, PhD, Royal Society University Research Fellow in Zoology and University Reader in Biology

2005 Revd Dr Peter Waddell, PhD, Pastoral Dean, Fellow in Theology2005 Mr Clive Wilmer, MA, Fellow in English2005 Dr Colin Roberts, PhD (Open University) FRCVS, Affiliated Lecturer

in Equine Medicine, Department of Veterinary Medicine2005 Dr Paul Flynn, PhD MRCP MRCPI, Consultant Physician, Acute and

Metabolic Medicine, at Addenbrooke’s Hospital2006 Dr Emma Gilby, PhD, University Lecturer in Modern and Medieval

Languages 2006 Dr Robert Busch, PhD (London), arc Senior Research Fellowship2007 Dr Michelle Oyen, PhD (Minnesota, USA), University Lecturer and

Fellow in Bio-Engineering2007 Professor Rosamond McKitterick, LittD MA PhD, Professor of

Medieval History

1980 Professor William Jones, PhD (Wales), Professor of Chemistry and Head of the Department of Chemistry

1982 Professor Barry Nisbet, LittD PhD (Edinburgh), Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages (German)

1982 Professor Ronald Horgan, PhD, Professor of Mathematics1984 Dr Paul McHugh, PhD, Reader in Law1984 Professor A Lindsay Greer, PhD, Professor of Materials Science, Head

of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy and Chair of the Faculty Board of Engineering

1985 Dr Christopher Page, DPhil (York), Reader in Medieval Music and Literature

1990 Professor Timothy M Cox, MD FRCP FMedSci, Professor of Medicine

1990 Dr Claire Preston, DPhil (Oxon), Fellow in English Literature 1992 Professor Sir Gabriel Horn, ScD MD (Birmingham) Hon ScD

(Birmingham, Bristol) FRS, former Master, Chair of the Cambridge University Government Policy Programme, Emeritus Professor of Zoology and Senior Scientist, Animal Behaviour

1992 Dr Antony Jackson, PhD, University Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry 1993 Dr John Longley, PhD, University Senior Lecturer in Engineering1994 Dr Helen Castor, PhD, Fellow in Medieval History 1994 Dr Michael Pollitt, DPhil (Oxon), Reader in Business Economics1995 Professor Alan Dashwood, MA, CBE, QC, Emeritus Professor of

European Law 1995 Professor Sir Tom Blundell, DPhil (Oxon) FRS FMedSci, Director of

Research and Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry1997 Dr Abir Al-Tabbaa, PhD, University Reader in Geotechnical

Engineering1997 Professor Sir John Walker, DPhil (Oxon) Hon DSc (Oxon) FRS

FMedSci, Professor of Molecular Bioenergetics and Director of MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit

1998 Professor James Mayall, MA FBA, Emeritus Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations

1998 Professor Dame Sandra Dawson, DBE MA FCGI FIPH Hon DSc (Keele), former Master, KPMG Professor of Management, Judge Business School and Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge


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2010 Dr Mariá Noriega-Sánchez, PhD, University Language Teaching Officer in Spanish, Fellow in Modern and Medieval Languages

2010 Mr Bill Abraham, BA, Development Director

Honorary Fellows■■

elected

1968 Lord (Asa) Briggs, Hon. LittD (East Anglia) Hon. DSc (Florida Presbyterian), Hon. LLD (York, Canada) FBA, formerly Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, and Chancellor of the Open University

1977 Rt Hon. Lord (David) Owen, MA MB BChir PC CH, former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs; Chancellor of Liverpool University

1977 Lord (Jack) Lewis, ScD (London) Hon. ScDD (Rennes, Open University, East Anglia, Nottingham, Bath) FRS, Commander Cross, Polish Order of Merit, Fellow 1970–77, former Warden of Robinson College, Cambridge; Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry

1981 Sir Michael Stoker, CBE FRCP FRS FRSE, formerly President of Clare Hall

1981 Sir Terence Beckett, BSc (London) Hon.DSc (Cranfield, Heriot-Watt) Hon. DSc (Lond) Hon. DTech. (Brunel) KBE FREng FIMechE DL, former Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry

1991 The Hon. Sir Patrick Neville Garland, MA LLM, formerly Judge of the High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division

1991 Lord (David) Stevens, MA, Chairman, United News and Media plc1994 Professor Charles Thurstan Shaw, PhD DipEd (London) Hon.

DSc (Nigeria, Ibadan) CBE FRAI FSA FBA, formerly Professor of Archaeology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

1994 Mr David Gwilym Morris Roberts, MA CBE FREng FICE FIMechE Hon. FIWEM, Past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers and former Chairman of Acer Group Ltd

1995 Dr Ramon Barton Jenkins, MA MD, former Chairman of the Department of Neurology, Washington Hospital Center and Attending Neurologist at the Children’s Hospital, Washington DC, USA

1996 Professor Arthur Kwok Cheung Li, MA BChir MD FRCS FRCS (E) FRACS FACS Hon. FPCS, Foundation Professor of Surgery and Chairman of Surgical Services at the Chinese University of Hong Kong

2007 Dr Brian Billups, MSc (Birmingham) PhD (University College, London), University Lecturer in Pharmacology

2007 Dr Richard Flower, PhD MPhil BA, Junior Research Fellow in Classics

2007 Dr Iain Black, PhD BA (Sheffield), Fellow in Geography2007 Dr Marko Cvitas, Dipl.Ing (Zagreb) PhD (Durham), Ramon Jenkins

Fellow in Chemistry2007 Dr Bernhard Fulda, PhD, Dean and Fellow in History2007 Dr David Skinner, DPhil (Oxon) MMus (Edinburgh) BA (California

State University, USA), Director of Music2007 Dr Kirsten Dickers, PhD, Admissions Director2007 Dr Julius Ross, PhD (Imperial College, London), Knox Shaw Fellow

and Taylor Lecturer in Mathematics2008 Mr Nick Allen, MA, Senior Bursar2008 Dr Erika Eiser, PhD (Weizmann Institute), University Lecturer in

Chemical Engineering and Fellow in Natural Sciences 2008 Dr Clare Blaukopf, PhD, John and Delia Agar Research Fellow in

Science and Engineering2008 Mr Michael Ramage, MArch (Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

USA), University Lecturer in Architecture2008 Professor Michael Lamb, PhD (Yale) MPhil MS MA (Johns Hopkins,

USA) BA (Durban), Professor of Psychology in the Social Sciences2008 Professor Martin Kilduff, PhD (Cornell University), Diageo Professor of

Management Studies at Judge Business School2008 Dr Eugenio Biagini, PhD (University of Pisa), University Reader and

Fellow in Modern British and European History2008 Dr Tomislav Friscic, PhD (University of Iowa), Fellow in Chemistry2009 Mr David Doupé, MA, John and Delia Agar Research Fellow2009 Dr David Beckingham, PhD, Austin Robinson Research Fellow2009 Dr Paul White, PhD, University Research Associate in Early Modern

French Philosophy 2010 Mrs Joanna Craigwood, MPhil, Austin Robinson Research Fellow2010 Dr Thomas Harvey, PhD, John and Delia Agar Research Fellow in

Natural Sciences2010 Dr Philip Wood, DPhil (Oxon), Osborn Fellow in Early Medieval

History and Culture2010 Dr Edward Wilson-Lee, PhD, Fellow in English


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Visiting Fellows 2010–11■■

Professor Christine Moorman Lent 2010Dr Arpita Basu Roy Lent 2010 (Pavate)Professor Todd C. Hufnagel Easter 2010Professor Eugenia Kumacheva Easter 2010Professor Amnon Rapoport Easter 2010Professor Pam Tolbert Easter 2010Mr Suren Sista Easter 2010 (Pavate)Mr Eric Whitacre Michaelmas 2010Dr Sudha Shenoy Michaelmas 2010 (Pavate) Professor Hélène Merlin-Kajman Lent 2011Dr Michael Hochedlinger Easter 2011

and the Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong; Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

1999 The Most Reverend Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu, MTh (London), Hon. DD, Emeritus Archbishop of Cape Town

2000 Mr John Philip Madden, MA, theatre, film and television director2003 Baroness (Barbara) Young of Old Scone, MA DipHSM, Chief Executive

of the Environment Agency2003 Professor Anthony John Badger, MA PhD (Hull) Hon. DLitt (Hull),

Paul Mellon Professor of American History, University of Cambridge; Master of Clare College, University of Cambridge

2004 Sir Ravinder Nath Maini, MB BChir FRCP FRCP(E) FmedSci, Emeritus Professor of Rheumatology at Imperial College, London

2005 Dr Alison Brown, MA SM PhD, President and CEO, NAVSYS Corporation

2005 The Rt Hon. Sir William Gage, MA, formerly Lord Justice, Court of Appeal

2005 Rt Hon. Mr Peter John Robert Riddell, MA, Senior Fellow of the Institute for Government

2007 Lord Karan Bilimoria of Chelsea, CBE, FCA, DL, MA2007 Major General John Drewienkiewicz, CB CMG MA, Consultant, Peace

Support Operations2008 Professor Herman Waldmann, ScD (Hons) PhD MRCPath MRCP FRS,

Head of Department of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology

Fellow Commoners■■

elected

1977 Mr Christopher Greek Stoneman, MA

1993 Dr Stewart Reid Lang, PhD 1999 Ms Priscilla Barrett, BA

(Cape Town)2000 Dr Graham John Davies, PhD 2000 Dr Hagen Schulze, PhD

(Munich)2001 Mr Joseph C Fox, BA

2003 Dr Richard Chisnall, PhD2003 Mrs Kyoko Gledhill2004 Dr Michael Purshouse, PhD 2006 Mr David Purchase, MA 2008 Mr Henry Dawson, MA2009 Mr John Osborn, MA2009 Dr George Reid, PhD2009 Mr Richard Humphreys, MA

1596 Foundation Members■■

elected

2000 Dr Alan Diamond Hon. DBA MCSI

2000 Mrs Sheila Diamond2000 Mr Hugh Easterling2000 Professor Anthony French2000 Mr Rex Harbour2000 Dr Stewart Lang2000 Mr Gwilym Roberts CBE

FREng2000 Mrs Elizabeth Young2000 Mr John Young2000 Pfizer Global Research and

Development2001 Mr James McNeill QC2001 Mrs Jill Campbell2001 Dr Simon Campbell CBE FRS

FMedSci2001 Mrs Kyoko Gledhill2001 Mr Peter Ellis2002 Dr Dennis Hui

2002 Mr Gilbert Rodway QC2002 Mr John Thornely2002 Dr Julia Thornely2002 Mrs Patricia Wills2002 Mr Richard Phillips QC2002 Dr David Fyfe2002 Mr Malcolm Gammie CBE

QC2002 Mr Peter Espenhahn2002 Dr Gerald Avison2003 Mrs Patricia Begg 2003 Mr David Purchase2004 Dr Chris Dobson2004 Mr Matthew Bullock 2004 Mrs Ann Ewart2004 Professor Michael Scott

Morton2005 Mrs Mary Scott Morton2005 Ms Taryn Edwards2005 Mr José Alvarez Stelling


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2008 Mr Jackson Deans2009 Mr Iain Oldcorn2009 Dr Christopher Hoare2009 Mr Mike Styles2009 Mr Peter Andrews2009 Mr Lawrance Heller2009 Mr Antony Watson QC2009 Mr Keith Nicholson 2009 Mr Christopher Khoo2009 Mr Clive Nicholls QC

2009 Dr Martin Scott2009 Mrs Hanadi Jabado-

Carruthers2009 The Nasr Family2009 Mr Christopher Lucas2009 Mr Norman Shepherd2009 Professor Herman Waldmann2009 Mr Donald Luker2010 Mr John Beale2010 Mr Adam Glinsman

Anglo Saxon, Norse and CelticDunshea, Philip M

Applied Mathematics and Theoretical PhysicsAssier, RaphaelCasey, Stephen

ArchaeologyBellifemine Sanchez-Chopitea,

VivianaSemple, MirandaTaylor, Sean P

ArchitectureBill, Nicholas A

Asian and Middle Eastern StudiesTheocharous, Myrto

AstronomyCrowe, Chris M

BiochemistryLe Guillou, IanLee, SeminLongo, Michael A

Biological AnthropologyNikita, Efthymia

Biological SciencesNg, David C-H

Biological Sciences at the Sanger CentreLi, Meng

BiotechnologyLapsley, Marta

Cambridge Centre for Brain RepairChoi, Minee

Members of the College 2010–11■■

doctoral students

2005 Mr Prakash Melwani2005 Mr Richard North2005 Mr John Rushton2005 Mr John Gibbon2005 Mr Gareth Jones2005 Mr Geoffrey Darby2005 Mr David de Saxe2005 Mr Ken-Yu Chou2005 Ms Sherry Coutu2006 Mr Peter Lipscomb OBE2006 Mr Richard Hartley QC2006 Mr John Osborn2006 Dr David Bieber2006 Mr Roger Siddle2006 Ms Anne Farlow2006 Mrs Wang Mei-Wen Chou2006 Mr John Collis

2006 Mr Andrew Sheard2006 The Lord Stevens of Ludgate2006 Mrs Ann Dobson2006 Mr Mark Rawlinson2006 Mr Alan Lancashire2007 Mr Nick Gray2007 Mrs Penny Price-Larkum2007 Mr Malcolm Basing2007 Mr Charles Sherwood2007 Mr Gordon Chilton2007 Mr Michael Blake2007 Mr Edward Chandler 2007 Mr Anthony Morris 2007 Mr Chun-Chi Chou2008 Dr Leslie Illing2008 Mr John Brock2008 Dr David Ives

new 1596 Foundation members christopher lucas, adam glinsman and John Beale



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Chemical EngineeringLee, Chern LMauritz, JakobRoss, James G

Chemistry Baumann, MarcusShearman, James W

ClassicsGershon, Yehudah N

CriminologyMera, Alejandra

DivinityBryson, James

Earth SciencesDay, Elizabeth AMott, Richard W

EconomicsBrutscher, Philipp-Bastian

EducationPerkins, Rosie L (part-time)Xenofontos, Constantinos

Engineering Coates, David JIngram, James N (part-time)Jeon, Inkyu Ng, Ee SinPayne, Simon DPino, Juan MReilly, Aidan

Staack, Nora SWeatherup, Robert SWon, KangheeWu, Yue

European Bioinformatics InstituteGehlenborg, Nils

Experimental PsychologyLawrance-Owen, Adam

GeographyGatti, EmmaKovacs, EszterSpampinato, Letizia Sumnall, Catherine P

History Cameron, James J JKadura, JohannesMills, Robin Peterson, William JPhillips, JennaRedman, Lydia CTunstall Allcock, ThomasWalsh, Sebastian J

History of ArtKorczynski, Stephanie

LawCharters, Claire W NRossi, GuidoStrik, Philip F J SVaruhas, Jason N EVidigal Neto, Geraldo D C

Management Studies (Judge Business School)Cappellaro, GiuliaMarkou, Andreas

Materials Science and MetallurgyAveson, JohnBarrett, ClarkJames, Matthew P WQiu, Jing

Medicine Smith, Nicholas J CTajsic, Tamara

Modern and Medieval LanguagesAssinder, Semele J ALeone, AnnePatterson, Jonathan H CSundkvist, Luis A

MRC Brain Sciences UnitWhiting, Caroline M

MRC Dunn Human Nutrition UnitDivakaruni, AjitLeerkotte, Baastian JPryde, Kenneth RUrbanowicz, Adam S

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biologydu Plessis, David J P

NeurologyPengas, George

OncologyCowen, Mark A

PathologyHarman, Laura E RMacRae, Elizabeth J (part-time)

PhilosophyCameron, Christina F

Physics Blundell, Jamie RBrewer, AnthonyKim, Joung-YounKumar, AbhishekMcNeil, RobertSkottowe, HughSon, Seok-KyunThomson, Nicholas

Physiology, Development and NeuroscienceBaez Mendoza, Raymundo

Plant SciencesLi, ZhengRudge, Timothy J

Politics and International Studies (POLIS) Agensky, Jonathan CAndrews, Anthony IHayes, ThomasLaderman, CharlesLewis, OliverLaitio, Noora (part-time)



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Puri, Samir (part-time)Woods, Andrew

Social Anthropology Avramopoulou, EiriniKvedaravicius, Mantas

Ringel, Felix

SociologyArndt, Corinna

doctoral (Probationary)

Applied Maths & Theoretical PhysicsHewitt, Duncan

Land EconomyWagenaar, Kim

Modern & Medieval LanguagesHilpert, Stephan (part-time)

Molecular Biology at European Bioinformatics InstituteParks, Sarah (Lent 2011 start)

Social & Developmental PsychologySim, Megan

other courses

Clinical MedicineAting’a, AngelaBrand, DouglasCreamer, AndrewFielding, JosephineHowe, DavidKiln, KateMason, SarahSt John-Green, CeliaWhite, LauraWightman, Ruth

EducationMacGabhann, Eoin (PGCE)

Veterinary MedicineCoombe-Jones, ClaireSwiestowska, Jessica

other courses

Clinical MedicineBradley, PatrickHind, Eleanor

Lawrence, JohnMcKnight, AngusMurugesu, SughashiniTan, Linette

Continuing Graduate Students 2010–11■■

New Graduate Students 2010–11■■

Development StudiesRoss, Donald

Mathematics (MAST)Skinner, Daryl

Social Anthropological ResearchHeywood, Pier

Veterinary MedicineCarter, CarolineMansell, Rhiannon

doctoral (Probationary/cPgs)

BiochemistryBilto, Iman

(Easter 2011 start)Kamran, Muhammad

(Easter 2011 start)

Biological Science at MRC MBUWalpole, Thomas

Chemical EngineeringChen, Dongping

(Lent 2011 start)Menz, William

CriminologyEshel, Abigail

(Easter 2011 start)

EngineeringGallieri, MarcoKeränen, Krista

Musa, Raihan (Lent 2011 start)

HistoryLally, JagjeetRembold, IngridRogachevsky, NeilScholten, DesiréeWard, Graeme

Legal StudiesLusa Bordin, Fernando

Mathematical AnalysisCivin, Damon

PathologyGuinot Aguado, Anna

PharmacologyHuang Cao, Zhen FangLaohasinnarong,

Sasiwan (Lent 2011 start)

Ohene-Agyei, Thelama

PhysicsRichardson, Carly

Public Health and Primary CareBarnes, Daniel

Physiology, Development and NeuroscienceDavidson, GabrielleGraham, Sarah

Other Courses

Advanced Computer ScienceGiannaros, Paul

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African StudiesGersten, Jonathan

ArchaeologyAllen, Joanne

Asian and Middle Eastern StudiesSilverstein, Eli

Biological Science (PDN)Naylor, Huw

Bioscience EnterpriseFreedman, Michael

Business Administration (MBA)Alexandrian, MaralChen, YaoCushman, SimonaFamutimi, EmilyFarid, MohammadNair, SavitaRoos, Breena

ChemistryStegmueller, Andreas

CriminologyKoning, AnnekeLittman, Aaron

Conservation LeadershipSibanda, Mxolisi

Development StudiesButhpitiya, VindhyaCantwell, LouisaMillington, Graham

EducationConnor, MatthewDowling, SimonMartin, JackTurner, RuthWesterman, RichardWhitefield, Colin

Engineering for Sustainable DevelopmentKrammer, PhilipRichards Ovalle, Juan

EgyptologyAccetta, Kelly

Environmental PolicyVan Valden, Blake

HistoryHunter, CatherineRostad, Samuel

ISMMYan, Chuang

International Relations Baumgaertel, MoritzLefèvre, Raphaël

Law (LLM)El-Haj, AliGiddens, LauraRodgers, NiamhTait, Elisabeth

Mathematics (MAST)Graw, ChristopherHouston, NicholasMoreau, JérémieQureshi, AhmadSchmitt, Simon

Medieval HistoryNixey, Louise

Medical ScienceAnnamalai, Anand

Kumar

Music (MMus)Haneman, Jeremy

MusicologyDokter, Rachel

PhysicsAsil, DemetDavies, Gary

Social and Developmental PsychologyBloom, IvankaChaturvedi, Tanvi

Cherson, MollieKrpan, DarioPerry, BenjaminRampat, Smita

Translational Medicine and TherapeuticsChang, Hsinyu

ACCETTA, Kelly, University of VirginiaALEXANDRIAN, Maral, American University of BeirutALLEN, Joanne, Glasgow UniversityANNAMALAI, Anand Kumar, Royal College of PhysiciansASIL, Demet, Middle East Technical UniversityBARNES, Daniel, University of LeicesterBAUMGAERTEL, Moritz, Utrecht UniversityBILTO, Iman, Syrian Arab Republic University of AleppoBLOOM, Ivanka, Utrecht UniversityBUTHPITIYA, Vindhya, University of St AndrewsCANTWELL, Louisa, University of OxfordCHANG, Hsinyu, Imperial CollegeCHATURVEDI, Tanvi, Delhi UniversityCHEN, Dongping, Imperial CollegeCHEN, Yao, University of PennsylvaniaCHERSON, Mollie, Ursinus CollegeCIVIN, Damon, University of PretoriaCONNOR, Matthew, University of MaineCUSHMAN, Simona, University of VirginiaDAVIDSON, Gabrielle, University College LondonDAVIES, Gary, University of NottinghamDOKTER, Rachel, McGill UniversityDOWLING, Simon, University of East AngliaEL-HAJ, Ali, University College LondonESHEL, Abigail, King’s College LondonFAMUTIMI, Emily, Harvard UniversityFARID, Mohammad, Lahore University of Management SciencesFREEDMAN, Michael, University of Pittsburgh

Graduate Students – Most Recent Institution■■


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GALLIERI, Marco, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, ItalyGERSTEN, Jonathan, University of FloridaGIANNAROS, Paul, University of YorkGIDDENS, Laura, University of AucklandGRAHAM, Sarah, University of AucklandGRAW, Christopher, Ruhr-Universität BochumGUINOT AGUADO, Anna, Université Pierre et Marie CurieHANEMAN, Jeremy, University of SydneyHOUSTON, Nicholas, Imperial College LondonHUANG CAO, Zhen Fang, University of ChicagoHUNTER, Catherine, Durham UniversityKAMRAN, Muhammad, University of KarachiKERÄNEN, Krista, Helia University of Applied SciencesKONING, Anneke, Utrecht UniversityKRAMMER, Philip, Hamburg University of Applied SciencesKRPAN, Dario, Webster University, ViennaLALLY, Jagjeet, London School of EconomicsLAOHASINNARONG, Sasiwan, University of EdinburghLEFÈVRE, Raphael, Institut d’Etudes PolitiquesLITTMAN, Aaron, Yale UniversityLUSA BORDIN, Fernando, New York UniversityMARTIN, Jack, Reading UniversityMENZ, William, University of Adelaide MILLINGTON, Graham, School of Oriental and African StudiesMOREAU, Jérémie, Ecole Centrale de ParisMUSA, Raihan, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia NAIR, Savita, University of VirginiaNAYLOR, Huw, University of CambridgeNIXEY, Louise, University of CambridgeOHENE-AGYEI, Thelma, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and

TechnologyPERRY, Benjamin, University of KentQURESHI, Ahmad, Lahore University of Management SciencesRAMPAT, Smita, University of WaterlooREMBOLD, Ingrid, University of OxfordRICHARDS OVALLE, Juan, Universidad Católica de ChileRICHARDSON, Carly, Imperial College London

RODGERS, Niamh, National University of IrelandROGACHEVSKY, Neil, Georgetown UniversityROOS, Breena, Boston UniversityROSTAD, Samuel, University of MontanaSCHMITT, Simon, Jacobs UniversitySCHOLTEN, Desirée, Utrecht UniversitySIBANDA, Mxolisi, University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg SILVERSTEIN, Eli, Cornell UniversitySTEGMUELLER, Andreas, University of FrankfurtTAIT, Elisabeth, Trinity College DublinTAO, Yuan, University of ManchesterTURNER, Ruth, University of CambridgeVAN VELDEN, Blake, University of AucklandWALPOLE, Thomas, Liverpool John Moores UniversityWARD, Graeme, University of GlasgowWARD, Matthew, University of OxfordWESTERMAN, Richard, Royal Holloway, University of LondonWHITEFIELD, Colin, University of CambridgeYAN, Chuang, Tsinghua University


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Graduate Awards, Studentships and Bursaries 2010–11■■

Each year, the College is in the fortunate position of being able to support its Graduate Students through the distribution of various awards and bursaries. The College is extremely grateful to the benefactors who have contributed to the establishment of these grants over successive generations.

Competition for the awards is high, and each year the Graduate Tutors face the unenviable task of choosing the successful candidates from a large number of worthy applicants. In the Easter Term 2010, awards were granted to the fol-lowing students.

new award holders 2010–11Evan Lewis-Thomas Littman, Aaron MPhil Criminology

Bursary Lusa Bordin, Fernando PhD Law

Hanadi Jabado Bursary Alexandrian, Maral MBA

Joyce Coutu Scholarship Nair, Savita MBA

Osborn Research Rembold, Ingrid History Studentship

Sidney Sussex Research Guinot Aguado, Anna Pathology Studentship

Fox Fellowship Bejan, Teresa Political Science(incoming from Yale) Du Rivage, Justin History(outbound from Sidney) Cameron, James History Laderman, Charles History (previously at St Catherine’s)

current award holdersEvan Lewis-Thomas Vidigal Neto, Geraldo PhD Law Studentship (2009–10)

Evan Lewis-Thomas Rossi, Guido PhD Law Bursary (2009–10)

Gledhill Research Patterson, Jonathan PhD French Studentship (2008–9)

Howard Studentship Mills, Robin History (2009–10)

First year

Archaeology and AnthropologyHarrison, Kate JMcAuliffe, Stephanie McLaren, Jordan

ArchitectureMills, Lydia Singler, Sofia AYoung, Oliver

ClassicsHoyt, Magdalen Macklon, LaurensOon, Isabel Pulsford, Emily

Computer ScienceSanduleac, Ovidiu-Dan Smith, Thomas C

EconomicsAlleck, Amit Gao, Derek Y H Iliffe, Emily Patel, Maya Shaw, Catherine MWalsh, Conor

EngineeringAtkins, Caroline LFaulkner, Natasha RHopkins, John M

Linford, Edward G DNodzynski, Wojciech Ross, James Sheldon, JamesToyn, Jeremy Mvon Rudno, Markus Waller, Jonathan Worrall, Daniel E

EnglishJones, Ami, NMichell, Harry Souter, Anna, LWilliamson, Rory Hunter, Catriona M R

GeographyCohen-Lask, Noami Deslandes, Laura GLevy, Hannah Matthias, James Tompkins, Isabelle

HistoryBardsley, ThomasBrookes, Thomas ZEstdale, Katherine JHillsdon, Thomas Landa, Adam Singer, Jonathan Smith, Jonathan Songi, Matt Voignac, Joseph

Undergraduate Students 2010–11 ■■



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Land EconomyRubin, Katie Yung, Janet P Q

LawBarr, David J MDuru, Kristy NFerguson, Amy LPhillips, Nicole Sangani, Krishma Veale, George Zong, William W

MathematicsBootland, Niall JLiu, FangzhouOh, Seong Joon Pirrie, AndrewSeddon, Thomas HWard, Alexander E

MedicineCope, Rosanne M ADavies, David LGhareeb, Ali Gregory, Rosalind K MKamenou, IsabelleLee, Elaine CEMusiol, Szymon KShaw, Caroline Yazdanian, Bijan

Modern and Medieval LanguagesArbuthnot, Mollie Downes, Emily RMartin, Toby Pillinger, Octavia Walker, Jonathan M

Natural SciencesBaxter, Luke Brookes, Ellen Collett, Catherine HDaley, Rosemary AHayward, Andrew Houston, Alexander Huang, Ruoxi Kasoar, Timothy AKernick, Nicolas Matthews, Peter McCarthy, Amy Perez-Storey, Richard Robinson, Sarah-Louise Stephenson, Anthony P

PhilosophyChatterjee, Ophelia KElliott, Alexander

Politics, Psychology and SociologyAlcock, Nicola CDuffield, Olivia CHore, Rosalind

TheologyKhan, Bilal HKurtinyte, Saule Taylor, Hannah R

Veterinary MedicineFellows, Virginia AFranklin, Philippe Sinclair, RachelWood, Matthew J

Theology (Westcott House)Griffiths, Christopher R (BA)Brunt, Alison (BTh)Lee, Franklin OY (BTh)

MITRamachandran, Arathi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Materials Science & Metallurgy)

second year

Archaeology and AnthropologyMcEvoy, Daniel RMusselwhite, Lucy A

Asian and Middle Eastern StudiesDuncalfe, Laura

ArchitectureBailey, Sebastian

Chemical EngineeringXu, Ke

ClassicsDilnot, Rosemary Isaac, Anna (4yr) Westripp, Simon J

Computer ScienceChen, Dolly Killough, Michael

EconomicsAnkers, Toby Bassi, Kanika Kayihan, Emel Khong, Anthony Lewin, Thomas Manafi, Navid Shen, Jieni Snow, Kate

EngineeringAustin, Mark Ayache, Philippe CChia, Charmaine Ginger, John Melzer, Andrew Neat, Thomas ERedman-White, Aneurin JRonaldson, Alexander D TSavell, Harry Smyth, Andrew M

EnglishDocherty, Francesca Green, RosePage, Chris Snoddy, Jack Vickerstaff, Fiona J

GeographyAgate, Liam Alderton, Hannah RBates, Jennifer Edwardes Jones, Mark WMarshall, James S J McGlade, Roseanne E S Owen, Frances G C



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HistoryBerry, Heather Gebbett, Matthew Parton, Emily HRoberts, George Tapley, Natalie KWhitehall, Kenton Wilson, James D

History of ArtBullard-Smith, Victoria Norton, Yates

Land EconomyBrown, George TGreenway, Charles E

LawCrothall, Amy Englander, Henry TGraves, Elli Kola-Balogun, Morohunkeji (Keji) McCusker, Theo Muirhead, Aimee

MathematicsBettany, Tom RClark, Caroline J Jowett, Adam OReid, James AWollmann, Jan

MedicineChen, Ning LClubb, Rhea KParker, Bethan

Patel, Ronak SScannell, Jack Street, Anna NVega, Philippa AWong, Francesca F

Modern and Medieval LanguagesBoulding, Emma CCormack, James R WHardman, James Shepherd, Alice Wright, Nicola B

MusicBramson, S Verity M Shannon, Ruth Smith, Daniel

Natural SciencesGould, Oliver Griffiths, Matthew J SHands, Melissa JJamie, Gabriel AMalek, Raihazah Marks, Isobel HMecklenburg, Milan B A Miller, Harry AMogull, D Gustav Overvoorde, Lois M Reinert, Julia Screeton, Matthew Seel, James Smith, Hannah Staines, Alison Taylor, Nicholas Xie, Cheng

PhilosophyCook, Shaun JLevitin, Alyona

Politics, Psychology and SociologyMair, Luned Nicholson, Krista A Smith, Natalie Takenaka, Kaori

Theology and Religious StudiesChrysostomou, Stefan (BA 2yr)Laundon, Timothy (BTh) Love, Joel (BA 2yr) Wabe, Charlotte Watson, Julie (BTh)

Veterinary MedicineBertrand, Katherine Gray, Katherine

third year

Anglo-Saxon, Norse and CelticBinstead, Charlotte E

Archaeology and AnthropologySchultz, Abigail LThorowgood, Cottia R

ArchitectureKerrison, Lara MPatel, Viresh V

Chemical EngineeringGoh, Alessandria Y YLee, Su LynRickenbach, James ATong, HaoyangWills, Adam P

EconomicsAnderson, Gareth RHighcock, Rebecca EHowlin, PhilipJenkins-Murray, SeanPatel, Rishin KWatts, Benjamin

EngineeringBaker, RossBird, Hugh JBokor, Tamas GHunter, Andrew JJarvis, Caroline LLei, Yutian (MIT)Phelps, Benedict R LPilkington, Andrew JWagner, Thomas

EnglishBlackwell, Iain MChristie, Michael RGoodman, Imogen EHornsey, MichaelWu, Charlotte

GeographyClarke, Roger DDrummond, Poppy AGoldberg, Laura



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Kirsop, Samuel MRichardson, NatalieSommerfeld, Mark J GStyger, Greg WJ

HistoryAllen, Kimberley LAl-Rehani, LukeCampsie, Alexandre MDay, HelenaDinwoodie, JaneHindmarsh, Elizabeth SPenman, Daniel JSweetland, Lucy EWinton, Joel

History of ArtDavenport, Thomas J MDi Mambro, Rebecca A

Land EconomyIron, Frederick Loughran, ThomasZender, Stephanie J

LawAli, SairaBarford, AllaGerard, ChristopherSpink, Serena MWild, Rebecca E

MathematicsBonnebaigt, Rachael HDupre, Matthew G HGrayling, Michael JHung, Cheuk Man

Leonard, Jason SMcClintock, Sean WRafferty, Simon ASukumar, Nimalesh

MedicineCoysh, ThomasGilbert, James AGoradia, Harshita KHindmarch, Thomas JJemade, Chibuzo EJovic, Thomas HLang, Sarah-JaneMcNeill, Mhairi CTee, Sui Poh

Modern and Medieval LanguagesArora, Harshil (Abroad)Bajorek, Tommy (Abroad)Johnson, James F (Abroad)Mayhew, Nicholas (Abroad)Williams, Emma R (Abroad)

MusicAtkinson, Benjamin RScarlett, Henry C

Natural SciencesBanks, Elliot JCCatherwood, Natalie EGibbons, Simon L JHone, Thomas VIng-Simmons, Elizabeth G LMagan, Shahir AManolopoulos, EmilyMellers, Gregory JNichols, Andrew

Scholtes, TimothySinger, Rebecca GTeskey, Christopher JWeldon, Dominic AYallup, Christine D

PhilosophyCounsell, JamesHaldane, DominicPitt-Rashid, Josef JRose, Alexander D

Politics, Psychology and SociologyUshiyama, Rin

Theology and Religious StudiesKirby, Emma ELyons, Charles

Veterinary MedicineHare, Cassia H ZMaw, Hazel H*Tallon, Rose E†

Fourth year

Asian and Middle Eastern StudiesWatkinson, Amelia R

Chemical EngineeringMarshall, EricaNg, Xian W

EngineeringChandler, PeterFajuyigbe, AyodeleGorton, Daniel M AGuo, XiaochenHarrison, Samuel JJones, Gwyn WParker, Bethany RScott, Natasha EWoodfield, Daniel J

Management StudiesAkanga, ZedekiahHarrison, Rupert F MWhite, Joseph M

Modern and Medieval LanguagesGosby, Elin S Hall, Theresa M Melliss, Jonathan A Smith, Emma K Tayenjam, Jessica Warry, Sarah J

Natural SciencesBrewer, Anthony RChang, Hui CKalotay, DanielTostevin, Rosalie

* Modern and Medieval Languages IA 2010–11

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Examination Results 2010■■(*Distinction mMerit)

Archaeological and Anthropological TriposPart IClass IMcEvoy, Daniel R

Class II (Div.1)Musselwhite, Lucy A

Part IIASocial AnthropologyClass II (Div.1)Schultz, Abigail Thorowgood, Cottia

Part IIBArchaeologyClass II (Div.1)Sanders, Teresa B

Part IIBSocial AnthropologyClass IDunne, Emily FHeywood, Paolo P*

Class II (Div.1)Farrugia, Maud

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies TriposPart IAClass II (Div.1)Duncalfe, Laura

Architecture TriposPart IAClass II (Div.2)Bailey, Sebastian

Part IBClass II (Div.1)Kerrison, Lara MPatel, Viresh

Part IIClass II (Div.1)Tan, Samantha Y FWilliams, Katherine A

Class IIIBrown, Aidan J

Chemical Engineering TriposPart IClass IGoh, AlessandriaRickenbach, JamesTong, Haoyang

Class II (Div.1)Wills, Adam

Class II (Div.2)Lee, Su Lyn

Part IIAClass INg, Xian W

Class II (Div.1)Marshall, Erica

Part IIBClass IHope, Katherine

Class II (Div.2)Hawkesford,

Christopher R

Classical TriposPart IAClass IDilnot, RosemaryWestripp, Simon J

Part IIClass II (Div.1)Akanga, ZedekiahHarris, Naomi L

Class II (Div.2)Thrower, James E

Computer Science TriposPart IAClass II (Div.1)Killough, Michael J

Class II (Div.2)Chen, Dolly

Part IIClass II (Div.2)Wheeler, Mark A

Economics TriposPart IClass IKhong, AnthonySnow, Kate

Class II (Div.1)Ankers, TobyManafi, NavidShen, Jieni

Class II (Div.2)Bassi, KanikaKayihan, Emel Lewin, Thomas

Part IIAClass IAnderson, GarethPatel, Rishin

Class II (Div.1)Highcock, Rebecca EWatts, Benjamin

Class II (Div.2)Howlin, PhilipJenkins-Murray, Sean

Part IIBClass IHarrison,

Rupert F M

Markland, AnnaSedgwick, Victoria J

Class II (Div.1)Ogali, Ugoji USaran, SomWong, Wang F

Class IIIBhagani, Nishil

Engineering TriposPart IAClass IChia, CharmaineMelzer, Andrew PSmyth, Andrew MXu, Xuke

Class II (Div.1)Ginger, JohnNeat, Thomas E

Class II (Div.2)Austin, MarkRedman-White,

Aneurin JRonaldson, Alexander

D T

Class IIIAyache, Philippe CSavell, Harry

Part IBClass IBird, Hugh J

Lei, Yutian

Class II (Div.1)Baker, RossBokor, Tamas GPhelps, Benedict

Class II (Div.2)Hunter, Andrew JJarvis, Caroline LPilkington, Andrew JWagner, Thomas

Part IIAClass IChandler, Peter Gorton, Daniel M AHarrison, Samuel JJones, Gwyn W

Class II (Div.1)Fajuyigbe, AyodeleScott, Natasha EWoodfield, Daniel

Class II (Div.2)Guo, XiochenParker, Bethany

Class IIIAhluwalia, Uddamjit

Part IIBSuccessfulAhluwalia, VarunjayMeegan, Lisa M*Payton, Joseph W*



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Randle, William Em

Selvakumaran, Sakthym

Sykes, George Em

Taylor, Andrew J*Thorn, David C AWaddingham, Robertm

Wood, Sarah Fm

English TriposPart IClass II (Div.1)Blackwell, Iain MChristie, Michael RGoodman, Imogen EHornsey, Michael Wu, Charlotte

Part IIClass IFarmer, Elizabeth J

Class II (Div.1)Alexander, Michael JGodwin, SallieGreen, LydiaMunday, Sarah HSargeant, Daniel M

Geographical TriposPart IAClass IAgate, Liam

Class II (Div.1)Bates, Jennifer

Edwardes-Jones, Mark W

Marshall, James S JOwen, Frances G CSmout-McGlade,

Roseanne E

Class II (Div.2)Alderton, Hannah R

Part IBClass IClarke, RogerKirsop, Samuel M

Class II (Div.1)Drummond, Poppy AGoldberg, LauraRichardson, NatalieSommerfeld, Mark

Class II (Div.2)Styger, Greg

Part IIClass ITuson, Emily R*White, Joseph M

Class II (Div.1)Fox, Matthew J WRay, Stéphanie

Class II (Div.2)Gilroy, Alison M

History of Art TriposPart IClass INorton, Yates*

Class II (Div.1)Bullard-Smith, Victoria

Part IIAClass IDi Mambro, Rebecca

Class II (Div.1)Davenport, Thomas

J M

Historical TriposPart IClass II (Div.1)Allen, Kimberley LAl-Rehani, LukeBinstead, Charlotte ECampsie, Alexandre MDay, HelenaDinwoodie, JaneHindmarsh,

Elizabeth SPenman, DanielSweetland, Lucy

Declared to have Deserved HonoursWinton, Joel J

Part IIClass IBlackbenz, BenjaminGill, James E COldham, Nicholas APeal, Robert C M*Visana, Vikram

Class II (Div.1)Baker, GeorginaDakhno-Cogger, DariaGarsin, DanielMustich, EmmaSheridan, DenverSnell, Charley

Declared to have Deserved HonoursCooper, Richard L

Land Economy TriposPart IAClass II (Div.2)Brown, George TGreenway, Charles E

Part IBIron, FrederickLoughran, ThomasZender, Stephanie

Part IIClass II (Div.1)Capey, Christopher HRoss, Donald IStechman,

Maximilian H

Class II (Div.2)Mitchell, Joseph

Law TriposPart IAClass II (Div.1)Englander, Henry TGraves, ElliMuirhead, Aimee

Class II (Div.2)Crothall, AmyKola-Balogun,

Morohunkeji (Keji)McCusker, Theo

Part IBClass II (Div.1)Ali, SairaBarford, AllaGerard, ChristopherSpink, SerenaWild, Rebecca E

Part IIClass IAtkinson, Sarah K

Class II (Div.1)Bell, Kirsty JBernard, HeidiDelany, Ella JMatthews, Christos AMehta, AnupRowlands, Carys AStone, Samuel

Class II (Div.2)Fitzsimons, Emma J

Law Double-MaitriseSuccessful (with Honours)Denis, Daphnée M A

Management Studies TriposClass IHunt, Patrick J

Class II (Div.1)Bescoby, AlexCarter, Caroline SMarsh, Michael RTan, Linette S H

Manufacturing EngineeringSuccessfulWingate-Saul, Rupert

Wm

Mathematical TriposPart IAClass II (Div.2)Clark, Caroline JJowett, Adam O

Class IIIBettany, Tom RReid, James A


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Part IBClass II (Div.1)Bonnebaight,

Rachael HDupre, Matthew G HGrayling, Michael JHung, Cheuk ManMcClintock, Sean WRafferty, Simon ASukumar, Nimalesh

Class II (Div.2)Leonard, Jason S

Part IIClass II (Div.1)Ang, JeremySkinner, Daryl A

Class II (Div.2)Hu, WeizhiReilly, Dean A

OrdinaryGhosh, Bryan

Part IIISuccessfulCoulon, JeremyGajjar, Parmeshm

Hewitt, Duncan R*

Medical and Veterinary Sciences TriposPart IAClass IChen, Ning LParker, Bethan

Class II (undivided)Bertrand, KatherineClubb, Rhea KGray, KatherinePatel, Ronak SScannell, JackStreet, Anna NVega, Philippa AWong, Francesca FYeung, Keith S K

Part IBClass ICoysh, ThomasGilbert, JamesMcNeill, Mhairi C

Class II (Div.1)Goradia, Harshita KHare, Cassia H ZJovic, Thomas HLang, Sarah-JaneMaw, Hazel HTallon, RoseTee, Sui Poh

Class II (Div.2)Hindmarch, Thomas JJemade, Chibuzo

Modern and Medieval Languages TriposPart IAFrenchClass II (Div.1)Boulding, Emma CHardman, James

Class II (Div.2)Wright, Nicola B

GermanClass II (Div.1)Cormack, James R W

Class II (Div.2)Pringle, Jennifer L

ItalianClass II (Div.1)Cormack, James R W

RussianClass IShepherd, Alice

Class II (Div.1)Hardman, James

Class II (Div.2)Wright, Nicola B

SpanishClass IShepherd, Alice

Class II (Div.1)Boulding, Emma CPringle, Jennifer L

Part IBClass IMayhew, Nicholas*Williams, Emma R

Class II (Div.1)Arora, HarshilJohnson, James F

Class II (Div.2)Bajorek, Tommy

Part IIClass IDilworth, Rachel D

Class II (Div.1)Bourne, Alexander J RBull, Alexandra SHarris, Sophie MWhitelock, Emily A

Music TriposPart IAClass II (Div.1)Shannon, RuthSmith, Daniel

Class II (Div.2)Bramson, Sarah

(Verity) M

Part IBClass II (Div.1)Atkinson, Benjamin RScarlett, Henry C

Part IIClass II (Div.1)Latto, Sarah L

Natural Sciences Tripos Part IAClass IMecklenburg,

Milan B AMogull, David (Gustav)Reinert, Julia

Class II (Undivided)Gould, OliverGriffiths, Matthew J SHands, Melissa JJamie, Gabriel AMalek, RaihazahMarks, Isobel HMiller, Harry AOvervoorde, Lois MScreeton, MatthewSeel, JamesSmith, HannahStaines, AlisonTaylor, NicholasXie, Cheng

Part IBClass IBanks, ElliotGibbons, Simon L J

Class II (Div.1)Hone, Thomas VIng-Simmons,

Elizabeth G LMagan, Shahir AMellers, Gregory JNicholls, Andrew Scholtes, TimothySinger, Rebecca GTeskey, Christopher JYallup, Christine D

Class II (Div.2)Catherwood, Natalie EManolopoulos, EmilyWeldon, Dominic A

Part IIClass IChang, Hui CChurchlow, Anna RMurugesu,

Sughashini

Class II (Div.1)Badrulhisham,

FakhirahBradley, PatrickBrewer, Anthony RHind, Eleanor CLawrence, John E G


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MacLachlan, Lewis J GMansell, Rhiannon STaylor, Hannah LTostevin, RosalieWilson, Rebecca K

Class II (Div.2)Berryman, Katie MBlamey, Rebecca JKalotay, Daniel McKnight, AngusMair, Henrietta W HWeston, Robyn S

Class IIISmith, Robert J H

Part IIIClass IAbrams, Andrew SChapman, Jenny AHogben, Andrew J

Oriental Studies TriposPart IIClass II (Div.2)Hashmi, Zeeshan

Philosophy TriposPart IAClass II (Div.1)Cook, Shaun JLevitin, Alyona

Part IBClass II (Div.1)Counsell, JamesHaldane, DominicPitt-Rashid, Josef J

Part IIHirst, KatherineWild, Morgan A

Politics, Psychology and Sociology TriposPart IClass ISmith, Natalie*

Class II (Div.1)Mair, LunedNicholson, Krista ATakenaka, Kaori

Part IIAClass II (Div.1)Ushiyama, Rin

Declared to have Deserved HonoursEvans, Alexander W

Theology and Religious Studies TriposPart IClass II (Div.1)Wabe, Charlotte

AllowanceNorman, Kitty

Part IIAClass II (Div.1)Chrysostomou, StefanLove, Joel AKirby, Emma ELyons, Charles

Part IIBBarnes, SophieEdwards, Elizabeth PSadler, Brooke

Preliminary Examinations

Classical Tripos Part IASuccessfulIsaac, Anna

Historical TriposPart ISuccessfulBerry, HeatherGebbett, MatthewParton, Emily HRoberts, GeorgeTapley, Natalie KWhitehall, KentonWilson, James D

Examinations Not Leading to a First Degree

LawLL.M ExaminationClass IBuddle, Andrew L

Class II (Div.1)Burton, Matthew TCondon, Ronan RDornscheidt, HenrikMulligan, Gabriella LO’Connell, Grace MReiss, Jennifer WVanleenhove, CedricWong, Brendan Y B

MathematicsPart IIISuccessfulHalacheva, IvaVardy, Jessica J

Medical SciencesFinal MB Examination Part I (Pathology)SuccessfulAtinga, Angela A MBrand, Douglas H*Howe, DavidKiln, Kate ESt.John-Green, Celia

Final MB ExaminationPart II (Obstetrics and Gynaecology)SuccessfulAtinga, Angela A MBrand, Douglas HHowe, DavidKiln, Kate ESt.John-Green, Celia

Final MB ExaminationPart III (Clinical Examination)SuccessfulEwing, Judith CHendley, Victoria HOng, Lay PingSingh, ManpreetSpiers, Laura RYu, Jonathan T S

Theological and Religious StudiesFirst Examination Bachelor of TheologySuccessfulLaundon, Timothy JWatson, Julie A

Second ExaminationClass ISearle, Anthony M

Class II (Div.1)Patten, Ruth J

Final Veterinary ExaminationParts I and IISuccessfulCoombe-Jones, C Em

Swiestowska, Jessica

Final Veterinary ExaminationPart IIISuccessfulStevenson, Emma NTorrance, Alexander

College Examinations in EnglishSuccessfulDocherty, FrancescaGreen, RosePage, ChrisSnoddy, JackVickerstaff, Fiona J

Other CoursesThe following students came to Sidney on an Erasmus Exchange Programme in 2009–10:Benedetti, Cinzia

Italy Fonseca, Alexandre J

PortugalPugliese, Emanuela M

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Scholarships and Prizes 2009–10■■

elected to a scholarship for one year

NAMED SCHOLARSHIP

Paul Micklethwaite McEvoy, Daniel R Archaeology and Anthropology

Thomas Ireland Goh, Alessandria Chemical Engineering Ng, Xian W Chemical Engineering Rickenbach, James Chemical Engineering Tong, Haoyang Chemical EngineeringArthur Beattie Dilnot, Rosemary Classics Westripp, Simon J ClassicsPeter Blundell Anderson, Gareth Economics Harrison, Rupert F M Economics Khong, Anthony Economics Patel, Rishin Economics Snow, Kate EconomicsThomas Ireland Bird, Hugh J Engineering Chandler, Peter Engineering Chia, Charmaine Engineering Gorton, Daniel M A Engineering Harrison, Samuel J Engineering Jones, Gwyn W Engineering Lei, Yutian* Engineering Melzer, Andrew P Engineering Smyth, Andrew M Engineering Xu, Xuke EngineeringDownham Yeomans Agate, Liam Geography Clarke, Roger Geography Kirsop, Samuel M Geography White, Joseph M GeographyCharles Whitaker Roberts, George History Whitehall, Kenton HistoryPaul Micklethwaite Di Mambro, Rebecca History of Art Norton, Yates History of ArtHoward Agg Chen, Ning L Medical and

Veterinary Sciences

Coysh, Thomas Medical and Veterinary Sciences

Gilbert, James Medical and Veterinary Sciences

McNeill, Mhairi C Medical and Veterinary Sciences

Parker, Bethan Medical and Veterinary Sciences

Arthur Sells Mayhew, Nicholas* Modern and Medieval Languages

Shepherd, Alice Modern and Medieval Languages

Williams, Emma R* Modern and Medieval Languages

Samuel Taylor Banks, Elliot Natural Sciences Chang, Hui C Natural Sciences Gibbons, Simon L J Natural Sciences Mecklenburg, Milan B A Natural Sciences Mogull, David (Gustav) Natural Sciences Reinert, Julia Natural SciencesJames Johnson Smith, Natalie Politics, Psychology

and Sociology

* Elected for the academic year 2011–12 because the student will be pursuing year abroad studies.

awarded the title of scholar

Peter Blundell Markland, Anna Economics Sedgwick, Victoria J EconomicsThomas Ireland Hope, Katy Chemical Engineering Meegan, Lisa M Engineering Payton, Joseph W Engineering Taylor, Andrew J EngineeringWilliam Barcroft Farmer, Elizabeth J EnglishDownham Yeomans Tuson, Emily R GeographyCharles Whittaker Blackbenz, Benjamin History Gill, James E C History Oldham, Nicholas A History


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Peal, Robert C M History Visana, Vikram HistoryLeonard Coling Atkinson, Sarah K Law Buddle, Andrew L Master of LawJohn Freestone Hunt, Patrick J Management StudiesWilliam Pochin Hewitt, Duncan R MathematicsHoward Agg Murugesu, Sughashini Medical and

Veterinary SciencesArthur Sells Dilworth, Rachel D Modern and Medieval

LanguagesSamuel Taylor Abrams, Andrew S Natural Sciences Chapman, Jenny A Natural Sciences Churchlow, Anna R Natural Sciences Hogben, Andrew J Natural SciencesPaul Micklethwaite Dunne, Emily F Social Anthropology Heywood, Paolo P Social Anthropology

college Prizes

NAMED PRIzE

Richard Akinjide Atkinson, Sarah K LawRonald Bentham-Green Farmer, Elizabeth J English Heywood, Paolo P Social AnthropologyJulian Blake Weatherup, Robert Engineering (Phd)Richard Chorley Tuson, Emily R GeographyGraham, Day, Bellerby Dilworth, Rachel D Modern and Medieval

LanguagesDiamond-Larkum Dakhno-Cogger, Daria History Dinwoodie, Jane History Munday, Sarah H EnglishReginald Hackforth Westripp, Simon J ClassicsJacks Mogull, David (Gustav) Natural Sciences Banks, Elliot Natural Sciences Gibbons, Simon L J Natural Sciences Churchlow*, Anna R Natural Sciences Hogben, Andrew J Natural SciencesMichael Lyndon-Stanford Buddle, Andrew L Master of Law

Prakash Melwani Khong, Anthony Economics Patel, Rishin Economics Sedgwick, Victoria J EconomicsAnne Peachey Roberts, George History Kelvin Pollard Bird, Hugh J Engineering Meegan, Lisa M EngineeringSwindells McNeill, Mhairi C Medical and

Veterinary SciencesVensi Thawani Skinner, Daryl A MathematicsDudley Wilson Mayhew, Nicholas Modern and Medieval

Languages

DOCTORAL (PROBATIONARY/CPGS)

ArchaeologyTaylor, Sean P

ArchitectureBill, Nicholas A

BiochemistryLe Guillou, Ian

Biological Science at MRC Dunn Human Nutrition UnitLeerkotte, Baastian J

Chemical EngineeringRoss, James G

ChemistryVestli, Kristian

EngineeringPino, Juan M

HistoryCameron, James J JMills, RobinRedman, Lydia C

Legal StudiesVidigal Neto, Geraldo de C

Management StudiesCappellaro, Giulia

Materials ScienceAveson, John WJames, Matthew P W

Modern GreekAssinder, Semele J A

Matriculations 2009–10■■

graduates (by department)


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PathologyHarman, Laura E R MacRae, Elizabeth J (part-time)

PhysicsKumar, Abhishek

Physiology, Development and NeuroscienceBaez Mendoza, Raymundo

Plant SciencesLi, ZhengRudge, Timothy J

SociologyArndt, Corinna

OTHER COURSES

Biological ScienceHunt, Jessica R

Bioscience EnterpriseGari, Hamid H

Business Administration (MBA)Banerjee, ArpanKubik, Carlos ILim, TerenceLin, StephanieMiyamoto, KaiheiRafiq, Farazeh

CriminologyChan, Irina Y LPonce Terrazas, Christian O

Development StudiesLevien, Daniel SWagenaar, Kim

Economics Snajdr, Jaroslav

EducationMEdCook, Paul SKavanagh, Rosaleen

MPhilMcDougall, Gwen ESimila, Megan C

EngineeringMavrogordatos, Themistoklis T

Engineering for Sustainable DevelopmentTuccillo, Julian I

English StudiesCoughlin, Stephen

Geographical ResearchBottomley, Edward-John

HistoryLloyd-Jones, NaomiMcNeill, Thomas H

History of Art and ArchitectureBoyd, Rachel E W

Human Evolutionary StudiesGuillon, Myrtille

Industrial Systems, Manufacturing and ManagementKumagangue, IvannLee, Heng Kai

International Relations MStBray, Donald Kidwai, Mohammad F U R Malik, Sadia Pastrana, Quintin J VSchroeder, Paul ASklar, David

MPhilAkiner, Ata ADessors, ElodieTwist, Helen

Law (LLM)Buddle, Andrew Burton, Matthew TCondon, Ronan RDornscheidt, HenrikMulligan, Gabriella LO’Connell, Grace MReiss, Jennifer W

Vanleenhove, CedricWong, Brendan Y B

ManagementVysny, Tomas

Mathematics (CASM)Halacheva, IvaVardy, Jessica J

Medical ScienceCastro Dopico, XaquinCotter, Paul E

MusicologyHaywood, Alixandra N

Real Estate FinanceOwen, Frederick

Screen Media and CulturesHilpert, Stephan

Social and Developmental PsychologySim, Megan P Y

Social Anthropological AnalysisLee, Mei-Chun



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ALCOCK, Nicola C, The Highfield School, HighfieldALLEK, Amit, College du Saint Esprit, MauritiusARBUTHNOT, Mollie, Ysgol Gyfun Bro Morgannwg, BarryATKINS, Caroline, King Edward VI Five Ways School, BirminghamBARDSLEY, Thomas, Saffron Walden County High School, Saffron WaldenBARR, David J M, Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, LincolnshireBAXTER, Luke, Alleyn’s School, DulwichBOOTLAND, Niall J, John Leggott College, ScunthorpeBROOKES, Ellen, Howell’s School, LlandaffBROOKES, Thomas Z, Magdalen College School, OxfordCHATTERJEE, Ophelia K, City of London School for Girls, LondonCOHEN-LASK, Noami, Newstead Wood School for Girls, LondonCOLLETT, Catherine H, Sheffield High School for Girls, SheffieldCOPE, Rosanne M A, Royal Grammar School, LondonDALEY, Rosemary A, St Hilda’s C of E High School, LiverpoolDAVIES, David L, Ashton Sixth Form College, LondonDESLANDES, Laura G, Manchester High School for Girls, ManchesterDOWNES, Emily R, Our Lady’s School, AbingdonDUFFIELD, Olivia C, Tanglin Trust School, SingaporeDURU, Kristy N, St Michael’s Catholic Grammar School, LondonELLIOTT, Alexander, Christ’s Hospital, West SussexESTDALE, Katherine J, Park House School, NewburyFAULKNER, Natasha R, Oldham Sixth Form College, OldhamFELLOWS, Virginia A, Norwich High School for Girls, NorwichFRANKLIN, Philippe, Eltham College, LondonGAO, Derek Y H, Bedford School, BedfordGHAREEB, Ali, St Michael’s College, EnniskillenGREGORY, Rosalind K M, Brockenhurst College, BrockenhurstHARRISON, Kate J, Wakefield Girls’ High School, WakefieldHAYWARD, Andrew, Tonbridge School, TonbridgeHILLSDON, Thomas, Ermysted’s Grammar School, SkiptonHOPKINS, John M, Birkdale School, SheffieldHORE, Rosalind, Oxford High School, OxfordHOUSTON, Alexander, Bristol Grammar School, BristolHOYT, Magdalen, North Berwick High School, North Berwick

Undergraduate Students – Most Recent Institution■■ HUANG, Ruoxi, The Stephen Perse College, CambridgeHUNTER, Catriona M R, The Lady Eleanor Holles School, HamptonILIFFE, Emily, The Tiffin Girls’ School, Kingston upon ThamesJONES, Ami N, Chinese International School, Hong KongKAMENOU, Isabelle, Kykkos A* Unified Lyceum, CyprusKASOAR, Timothy A, Wilson’s School, WallingtonKHAN, Bilal H, Queen Elizabeth’s School, LondonKURTINYTE, Saule, Westminster Kingsway College, LondonLANDA, Adam, Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School, BorehamwoodLEE, Elaine C E, International School Brunei, BruneiLEVY, Hannah, J F S School, HarrowLINFORD, Edward G D, Warwick School, WarwickLIU, Fangzhou, Raffles Junior College, SingaporeMACKLON, Laurens, Christelijk Gymnasium, The NetherlandsMARTIN, Toby, West Bridgeford School, NottinghamMATTHEWS, Peter, St Anselm’s Catholic School, CanterburyMATTHIAS, James, Highgate School, LondonMCAULIFFE, Stephanie, Christ the King Sixth Form College, LondonMCCARTHY, Amy, The Downs School, ComptonMCLAREN, Jordan, The High School of Dundee, DundeeMICHELL, Harry, City of London School, LondonMILLS, Lydia, City and Guilds of London Art School, LondonMUSIOL, Szymon K, I LO im. M. Kopernika w Katowicach, PolandNODZYNSKI, Wojciech, Ursulines Secondary School, PolandOH, Seong Joon, Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies, KoreaOON, Isabel, Rugby School, RugbyPATEL, Maya, The Henrietta Barnett School, LondonPEREZ-STOREY, Richard, Magdalen College School, OxfordPHILLIPS, Nicole, The Henrietta Barnett School, LondonPILLINGER, Octavia, Guildford High School, GuildfordPIRRIE, Andrew, Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, LondonPULSFORD, Emily, Kendrick School, ReadingROBINSON, Sarah-Louise, Coleraine High School, ColeraineROSS, James, Sir John Deane’s College, NorthwichRUBIN, Katie, North London Collegiate School, LondonSANDULEAC, Ovidiu-Dan, Colegiul National Ion Luca Caragiale, RomaniaSANGANI, Krishma, St Helen’s School, Northwood


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SEDDON, Thomas H, Rivington & Blackrod High School, BoltonSHAW, Caroline, Simon Langton School for Boys, CanterburySHAW, Catherine M, St Paul’s Girls’ School, LondonSHELDON, James, Old Swinford Hospital, Stourbridge SINCLAIR, Rachel, Caludon Castle Business & Enterprise School, CoventrySINGER, Jonathan, St Paul’s School, LondonSINGLER, Sofia A, Jyvaskylan Lyseon Lukio, FinlandSMITH, Jonathan, Eltham College, LondonSMITH, Thomas C, Lawrence Sheriff School, RugbySONGI, Matt, Central Sussex College, SussexSOUTER, Anna L, Oxford High School, OxfordSTEPHENSON, Anthony P, Pate’s Grammar School, CheltenhamTAYLOR, Hannah R, St Mary Redcliffe & Temple School, BristolTOMPKINS, Isabelle, Wycombe Abbey School, High WycombeTOYN, Jeremy M, Thomas Alleyne’s High School, UttoxeterVEALE, George, Watford Grammar School for Boys, WatfordVOIGNAC, Joseph M, Ecole Maimonides Rambam, FranceVON RUDNO, Markus, Gymnasium Raubling, GermanyWALLER, Jonathan, Esher College, SurreyWALSH, Conor, Luton Sixth Form College, LutonWARD, Alexander E, Queen Mary’s College, BasingstokeWILLIAMSON, Rory, George Watson’s College, EdinburghWOOD, Matthew J, Prince Henry’s High School, EveshamWORRALL, Daniel E, The Perse School, CambridgeYAZDANIAN, Bijan, Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, AltrinchamYOUNG, Oliver, Sutton Grammar School for Boys, SuttonYUNG, Janet P Q, Wycombe Abbey School, High WycombeZONG, William W, Forest School, London

*In absence

PhD

200924 OctoberKuo, Ting-Kuei Lau, Fat Kit

28 November Crafton, William AKarki, Shyam Wilton, Donna Zych, Berkeley J

2010 20 February Archer, Diane C M

27 March Coull, John D Mitchell, Sharon J

24 April Larner, Carrie J B

15 May Archer, Neil Contreras, Patricio A

17 July *Ding, Zhao Gerdau de Borja, AnaGweon, Hyun SoonHughes, Kirsty Liska, Martin Walton, Neil S

MA

2009 24 October*Matthews, Andrew R28 November *Bown, Richard T

2010 23 January *Frank, Nikolai V

20 February *Coull, John D Kemlo, Gabriel H *Soulsby, Nicholas A

15 MayAdamczyk, David MAnders, Natasha FArmstrong, Michael

P MBaishnab, Debbie ABarker, Edward MBendel, PeterBennett, Craig T*Bergzoll, Catherine LBetts, Jill FBlundell, Jamie RBooth, Nicola JBroughton, NidaBroughton, Richard N*Bull, Kristina JCollister, Kathryn VConacher, Angus PConacher, Emma V

Cook, Robert PCousins-Jenvey, BengtDavies, Robert*Durrant, Rachael AEdwards, Susan V MEvans, Helen S*Godbold, ErinHancock, Laura CHartley, Kate HHawkins, JennyHewitt, Rachel A*Hill, StephanieHolland, Rachel VIdris, Talib D T*Jiang, XiaosuJohnson, Mark A*Johnson, Victoria LJohnstone, Victoria NJones, Elizabeth PKnight, Michelle M*Lalor, Kay LLangley, Helen JLarman, Annabel M DLimbrick, Rachel H*Lloyd, VictoriaMcBride, Paula EMacLeod, FloraMcNeill, Malcolm L SMassie, Alexander HMay, Victoria*Neaum, David ANeville, Craig J*Newman, Clare HNorbury, Claire L*O’Brien, John W E

Degrees Conferred■■



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Odell, Helen LPartington, Emma*Passfield, Benjamin RPayne, Gareth DPears, Richard GPells, IsminiPerry, Joanne RRiley, Neil ARoberts, Jane E HRobson, David ARowley, Lee A*Saw, Tabitha*Secretan, Thomas S FSouthall, AnnaSturgess, Louis*Tan, Stephanie H L*Thorne, Jennifer CVakharia, Vejay N*Walker Churchman,

GeorgiaWallace, Sarah CWatson, Louise EWatts, Emily RWeaver, JamesWedderburn,

Catherine JWhite, Marie-Anne EWhyntie, TomWillett, ChristopherWilliams, Alexander

R F CYoung, Heather MZealey, Mark

17 July*Borrill, Aidan J Kundnani, Arun

*Parker, Catherine E *Ross, John T L White, Peter

LLM

2010 25 June

*Buddle, Andrew LeonBurton, Matthew TCondon, Ronan RDornscheidt, Henrik Mulligan, Gabriella LO’Connell, Grace MReiss, Jennifer W Vanleenhove, CedricWong, Brendan Y B

MPhil

2009 24 OctoberCullen, Jane Depledge, Duncan MKraicheva, Irina A*Peterson, William J*Sidhu, Harpreet S

28 NovemberAgensky, Jonathan CBlanc-Lapierre, Pascale

M C Iyer, Rajeshwari Mahadi, Yazid Marsh, Oliver J Minns, George A Shi, Xiaowen Shi, Yichuan

Walker, James W P*West, Gary

2010 23 JanuaryMueller, Juerg M Oldroyd, Jessica A

27 March*Capehart, John BDalton, Matthew N

15 MayBerg, Christofer C TGuest, Rupert G CRanganathan, Vinay

17 JulyBoyd, Rachel E W Carlson, Jesper O ECharlwood, Catherine JCoughlin, StephenDaube, Marc P K Day, Sarah Gari, Hamid H Levien, Daniel S Sim, Megan P Y Wagenaar, Kim

MEng/BA

2010 25 June Ahluwalia, Varunjay Hawkesford,

Christopher R Hope, Katy Meegan, Lisa M Payton, Joseph W

Randle, William ESelvakumaran,

Sivasakthy Sykes, George E Taylor, Andrew J Thorn, David C AWaddingham, Robert Wingate-Saul,

Rupert W Wood, Sarah F

MBA

2010 15 May Ahuja, Ashwin *Anderson, Andre GColarulli, KathrynLee, Erik Maslowski, Marina*Xing, David

17 JulyVeerapen, Jayen P

MEd

2009 24 OctoberWright, Jennifer J 2010 24 April Booth, Tristan D

MSci/BA

2010 25 June Abrams, Andrew SChapman, Jenny AHogben, Andrew J

MB

2009 28 NovemberHolland, Rachel V 2010 20 February*Conacher, Angus P

15 May Silva, Adikarige H D

Vet MB

2010 25 June Stevenson, Emma N Torrance, Alexander

BA

2009 24 October Bramhall, Gemma MSedgwick, Abigail

28 November Hart, Samuel A

2010 25 June Alexander, Michael JAng, Jeremy Atkinson, Sarah KBadrulhisham,

Fakhirah Baker, Georgina Barnes, Sophie Bell, Kirsty J Bernard, Heidi Berryman, Katie MBescoby, Alex *Bhagani, Nishil Blamey, Rebecca J Bourne, Alexander J RBradley, Patrick Brown, Aidan J Bull, Alexandra S Capey, Christopher HCarter, Caroline S Churchlow, Anna R*Cooper, Richard LCoulon, Jeremy Dakhno-Cogger, Daria Delany, Ella J Dilworth, Rachel DDunne, Emily F Edwards, Elizabeth PFarmer, Elizabeth JFarrugia, Maud Fitzsimons, Emma JFox, Matthew J WGajjar, Parmesh Garsin, Daniel Ghosh, Bryan Gill, James E C



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Gilroy, Alison M Godwin, Sallie Green, Lydia Harris, Naomi L Harris, Sophie M Hashmi, Zeeshan Hewitt, Duncan RHeywood, Pier P Hind, Eleanor C Hirst, Katherine Hu, Weizhi Hunt, Patrick J Latto, Sarah L Lawrence, John E GMcKnight, Angus MacLachlan, Lewis G JMair, Henrietta W HMansell, Rhiannon SMarkland, Anna Marsh, Michael RMatthews, Christos AMehta, Anup

Mitchell, Joe Munday, Sarah H Murugesu, Sughashini Mustich, Emma Ogali, Ugoji U Oldham, Nicholas APeal, Robert C M Pringle, Jennifer L Ray, Stéphanie Ross, Donald I Rowlands, Carys ASadler, Brooke Sanders, Teresa B Saran, Som Sargeant, Daniel MSedgwick, Victoria JSheridan, Denver Snell, Charley Stone, Samuel Tan, Linette S H Tan, Samantha Y FTaylor, Hannah L

Thrower, James E Tuson, Emily R Visana, Vikram Weston, Robyn S Wheeler, Mark A Whitelock, Emily AWild, Morgan A Williams, Katherine AWilson, Rebecca KWong, Wang F

17 July *Blackbenz, BenjaminDenis, Daphnée M A*Nakagawa, Makoto

BTh

2010 25 June *Patten, Ruth J

17 JulySearle, Anthony M

Notices■■

dates of Full term, 2010–11

Michaelmas 2010 begins 5 October ends 3 DecemberLent 2011 begins 18 January ends 18 MarchEaster 2011 begins 26 April ends 17 June

sidney reunions

The arrangements for the next three years are as follows:

Dates of Reunions Year of matriculation of those to be invited25 June 2011 1989–1990–199124 September 2011 1980–1981–198230 June 2012 1961–1962, 1964, 1950 and older29 September 2012 2001–2002–200329 June 2013 1983–1984–198528 September 2013 1974–1975–1976June 2014 1967–1968–1969–1970September 2014 1977–1978–1979

dates of congregations 2010–11

Ordinary congregations for the award of degrees will be held as follows, at 2.00pm on Saturdays unless otherwise stated:

Michaelmas 2010 Lent 2011 Easter 2011 Long Vacation23 October 22 January* 30 April (11am) 23 July (11am)27 November 19 February 14 May (11am) 26 March (11am)

*graduation in absence only

It is expected that Sidney students will graduate at the Congregation on Friday, 1 July. Members of the College who wish to proceed to degrees at General Admission only should contact the Senior Tutor’s PA, Mrs Maria Booth: tele-phone 01223 338847, or email [email protected]. At this Congregation, only the following degrees may be taken: LLM, MEng, MMAth, MSci, VetMB, MusB, BA, BEd and BTh. For all other Congregations, please contact the Praelector’s



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Assistant, Ms Suzannah Horner: telephone 01223 338810, or email [email protected], at least one month in advance.

dining rights of alumniAll members of Sidney Sussex, who hold the degree of Master of Arts or another graduate qualification (including PhD, MPhil, MBA, Med, LLM, PGCE) taken while in residence at the College are entitled to dine free of charge at High Table three times a year during Full Term in each academic year (although not on Fridays). Wednesday and Sundays are particularly recommended. These dining rights start three years after members have obtained their Bachelor’s degree. For catering reasons, we ask that you give at least 48 hours’ notice of dining. Permission to bring a guest, which is encouraged, should be sought in advance from the Steward (email [email protected]). A charge will be made for the guest. To make arrangements to dine and to check there will be a High Table on the day you wish to dine please contact the Porters’ Lodge: telephone 01223 338800 or email [email protected].

A College Guest Room may be booked if available, but not for more than three nights. Contact the Porters’ Lodge: telephone 01223 338800 or email [email protected].


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