ISSUE 14 MICHAELMAS 2014 GONVILLE & CAIUS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE

That Was The Life That Was

Delivering George

You Can’t Unburn The Toast”

A Master Remembered

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EVENTS AND REUNIONS FOR 2014/15Development Campaign Board Meeting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 2 OctoberCaius Club London Dinner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 3 OctoberMichaelmas Full Term begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 7 OctoberCaius Foundation Board Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wednesday 5 NovemberNew York Reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wednesday 5 NovemberPatrons of the Caius Foundation Dinner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wednesday 5 NovemberCommemoration of Benefactors Lecture,Service & Feast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sunday 16 NovemberFirst Christmas Carol Service (6pm) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wednesday 3 DecemberSecond Christmas Carol Service (4.30pm) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 4 DecemberMichaelmas Full Term ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 5 DecemberVarsity Rugby Match. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 11 DecemberLent Full Term begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 13 JanuaryDevelopment Campaign Board Meeting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 26 FebruarySecond Year Parents’ Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 12 & Friday 13 MarchLent Full Term ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 13 MarchTelephone Campaign begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 14 March MAs’ Dinner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 20 MarchAnnual Gathering (1972, 1973 & 1974) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 27 March Hong Kong Reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Monday 13 AprilHong Kong Dinner for Members ofthe Court of Benefactors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Monday 13 April Singapore Reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 16 AprilEaster Full Term begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 21 AprilStephen Hawking Circle“50 Years a Fellow” Celebration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 30 MayEaster Full Term ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 12 JuneMay Week Party for Benefactors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 13 JuneCaius Club May Bumps Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 13 JuneGraduation Lunch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 25 JuneAnnual Gathering (up to & including 1963) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 30 June Admissions Open Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 2 & Friday 3 JulyAnnual Gathering (2001, 2002 & 2003) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 19 September Michaelmas Full Term begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 6 OctoberCommemoration of Benefactors Lecture,Service & Feast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sunday 15 November

ContentsAlan Fersht

1...Always a Caian

2 That Was The Life That Was – David Frost (1958) – remembered by NeilMcKendrick (1958)

4 Delivering George – interview with Sir Marcus Setchell (1961)

6 Balancing the Budget – Dr David Secher (1973), Senior Bursar

8 Ladies Bountiful – Alice Cheng (2013) – a new name on the Benefactors’ Wall

10 “You Can’t Unburn the Toast!” – Professor Dino Giussani (1996)

12 “Nobel Prize... Nobel Prize...” – Professor Michael Levitt (1970)

14 Shell Shock – Charles Myers (1891) by Professor John Mollon (1996)

16 A Master Remembered – interview with Judith Chadwick & Joanna Batterham

18 Benefactors’ Day 2014 – The May Week Party

20 Extensions of a Verdant Heart – by Dr Jimmy Altham (1965)

22 CaiWorld – Funding the Joseph Needham Lectureship

24 Thanks to our Benefactors

32 CaiNotes

36 A Trio for Rio? – by James Howell (2009)

Cover photos, clockwise from bottom right: Alan Fersht,Yao Liang, Tom Challis, Alan Fersht,AP/Press Association Images, UNESCO

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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”Plutarch

From the Director of Development

Our College enjoys celebrating the landmarks in its life. Every year, in late November,

as required by our First Founder, Edmund Gonville, we remember all those whose

benefactions have been essential to ensure the continued success of Caius down

the centuries – and every year, the list grows longer. As I write, we are passing a

milestone that not even our sharp-eyed mathematicians have drawn to my attention.

Gonville obtained Letters Patent for his Hall on 28 January 1348, so on Michaelmas

Eve, 28 September 2014, the College’s age is 666 years and eight months. Two-thirds

of a millennium is an awe-inspiring period of time, but as we embark on our next

third of a millennium, Caius is in great spirits, with good reason to be highly

optimistic about the future.

The second half of the twentieth century was a unique period in the College’s history,

when government funding provided a major part of our running costs. Today, like

other educational institutions in Britain, Caius is having to cope with a potentially

catastrophic drop in government support. Instead of weakening us, it has made us

stronger, because it has forced us to remember that membership of the Caian

community is for life. Roots put down and friendships made here are being rekindled

while sharing in the intellectual community of the College and renewing our

commitment to ensure that future generations of Caians will benefit from the same

unique opportunities.

More than 25% of Caians now make donations to the College every year. This is the

College’s life-blood. Last year, Caius was the top Cambridge College, both in terms of

the number of you who gave and the total funds donated. This loyalty and generosity

sustains us through all the vagaries of changing government policies and the

rollercoaster of the world economy. We cannot thank you enough for believing in the

work of the College and supporting our appeals for teaching, buildings, bursaries and

research, thereby helping to maintain Caius’ outstanding achievements in education

and research.

On a personal note, after more than thirteen years as Director of Development, I shall

be relinquishing that full-time role from the end of this year, but will continue on a

part-time basis to do everything in my power to ensure that the endowment, on

which Caius increasingly depends, will go on growing each year. The College has

invited me to continue to direct its major gifts fundraising. Therefore, I am delighted

to say, I look forward to staying closely in touch with you. Floreat Collegium!

Dr Anne Lyon (2001)

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Lida Kindersley of the Kindersley-Cardozo Workshop,with Dr Anne Lyon and Christopher Cheng,supervising as Alice Cheng’s grandsonOliver makes the first cut in the stonethat will bear Alice’s name on theBenefactors’ Wall.

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in 1977. Described by many as the mostmomentous interview ever seen ontelevision, it was a personal triumph for Frostand was seen by 45 million viewers. Tooutbid NBC for the chance to submit Nixonto up to six hours of questioning, Frost hadto raise much of the $600,000 himself. Hewas later told that the LWT shares he soldto part-finance the Nixon deal would havebrought him £37 million when they werefinally sold. His reaction was “I would stillhave preferred to do the interview”. Hispreference was very understandable. Notonly did he die worth an alleged £200million, but his career was also hugelyenhanced by Nixon’s electrifying publicadmission of guilt in the Watergate affair.The subsequent Frost/Nixon film and theFrost/Nixon play would alone have madehim a rich man. They also made him one ofthe most famous men in the world. His hugegamble had paid off in every possible way.

His memorial service very properly paidtribute to the originality that marked somuch of his career. The tribute from DavidCameron perhaps best summed up itsrevolutionary and multifaceted trajectory:“He was involved in so many different

So perhaps the most perceptive tributecited on his memorial service sheet came fromLord Birt, who wrote: “When you look at thepeople whom David interviewed, there neverhas been, never will be, I suspect, anybody whowill have his span… Anybody who wants tounderstand the second half of the twentiethcentury is going to have to look at David’sinterviews.”

As an historian, I found this a mostpersuasive assessment because I suspect thatthe Frost archive will be accorded thesignificance and importance of one of thegreat eyewitness chronicles of the pastcentury. Given that his record will bepresented in a visual form, future historianswill be able to see and hear the subjects theyare studying, rather than simply read whatthey wrote or what contemporaries wroteabout them. As we slip deeper and deeperinto the digital age, Frost’s archive willassume a unique importance – unique for itsspan and unique for the stature of its subjectsand all the more compelling because of itsvivid visual impact. I find it a pleasing irony tothink that, in a college of so manydistinguished historians, the historical sourcemost quoted in the future might come to bethat of Sir David Frost.

What he had achieved in his lifetime fullyjustified the eloquently simple tribute thatmade his three sons most proud. It was thesingle word – LEGEND. The evidential recordhe has bequeathed to the future will morethan justify the equally simple but so muchrarer tribute of the memorial stone laid in hishonour in the presence of His Royal Highness,the Prince of Wales, in Poets’ Corner inWestminster Abbey.

He is only the second broadcaster to haveachieved that signal honour.

For all his fame he remained a most loyalCaian. Just as he was never too busy, as anundergraduate, to find time to be anenthusiastic and effective goalkeeper for theCaius football team, so at the height of hisfame he was never too busy to appear as avery effective and enthusiastic speaker on ourbehalf. As Master I found him a wonderfullyvaluable resource. He never refused a requestfor help from me, whether it was to give aspeech, support a cause or provide anintroduction. His presence was always adelight. With his seemingly endless flow ofwell-polished anecdotes about the great andthe good, he was certainly, by some margin,the most entertaining guest we ever had inthe Master’s Lodge.

As I listened to the many heartfelt tributesat his Memorial Service, I marvelled once againat David’s ability to attract and keep so manytrue friends and admirers, and felt veryfortunate to count myself among them.

love her?”, or the more obviously provocativequestion to Enoch Powell, asking whether hewould appoint a black secretary.

The range of his interviewing was quiteastonishing.

Who else would have access to both IdiAmin and Colonel Gaddafi, to both RobertMaxwell and Emil Savundra, to both HilaryClinton and Margaret Thatcher, to both BobbyKennedy and his assassin Sirhan Sirhan? Whoelse could persuade Bill Clinton and Tony Blairto be interviewed together, as well asseparately? Who else would have access toBilly Graham and the Pope, to Prince Charlesand the deposed Shah of Persia, to Liberaceand Nelson Mandela, to Mohammed Ali,George Best and Elizabeth Taylor, to BingCrosby and Bob Hope, to Yoko Ono and all theBeatles, severally and together? Very fewcelebrities of any consequence escaped hisattention.

Of greater importance, no one can denythe quality of the lengthy political interviewshe conducted from the 1970s onwards. Noone else could claim to have interviewed eightsuccessive British prime ministers and sevensuccessive American presidents. Very fewpoliticians of any standing escaped his net.

s I sat in a packed WestminsterAbbey amongst thousands ofthe great and the good whohad come to pay their lastrespects at the memorial

service for Sir David Frost (1958), I cast mymind back to the young man who hadarrived in Caius on the same day as me inOctober 1958, and reflected on thesignificance of what he had achieved in hisremarkable career.

On his arrival at Caius his sole claim tofame was that he had rejected the offer ofprofessional terms to become a goalkeeperfor Nottingham Forest. The otherwise ratheranonymous young grammar school boycame from a very sheltered and modestclerical home life. Amongst other constraints,his family life involved going to church threetimes every Sunday, not reading Sundaynewspapers, forgoing alcohol, not eating inrestaurants and not travelling abroad. It wasso sheltered that his first night in Caius wasthe first night he had spent away from home.

One could scarcely imagine a greaterchange in life style than that enjoyed by themature Frost, and yet the change in fameand fortune occurred with breathtakingspeed.

At the age of 23 he exploded onto thenation’s consciousness with the spectacularsuccess of That Was The Week That Was. By his

Frost’s attempt at impartiality betweenthe parties can hardly have helped: “there isthe choice for the electorate. On the onehand Lord Home, on the other Mr HaroldWilson. Dull Alec versus Smart Alec”. Withan election looming, it was decided that theshow should be axed.

TW3’s final programme ended with amemorable triumph. It coincided withKennedy’s assassination and, to theaccompaniment of Millicent Martin’shaunting lament, Frost delivered what wasdescribed as “a brilliant funeral oration onthe death of the President”. So brilliant andso memorable was this final programmethat Senator Hubert Humphrey called forthe script to be entered into theCongressional Record.

Ironically, as British television tried tosilence him, American television embracedhim. His life as an international star waslaunched.

The Frost Report, The Frost Programme,Frost over England, Frost on Sunday, Breakfastwith Frost, Frost over America, Frost overCanada, Frost over Australia, Frost over NewZealand, Frost on Friday, Frost on Thursday, theDavid Frost Revue, the David Frost Show, Frostover the World – these and many others keptthe Frost name alive and the Frost coffers full.

The other great highlight of his career wasunquestionably the Richard Nixon interview

mid-twenties he was commuting to NewYork three times a week on Concorde.

TW3, as it came to be known, openedwith a budget of £3,000 and rapidlyattracted an audience of 12 million.It became the most popular, the mostun-missable and the most influentialprogramme on the BBC. It set the tone andoften the subject matter for each week’spolitical debates. More importantly, itchanged the face of British television satire,and, in many people’s view, marked awatershed in British society. Its high-spiritedand unforgiving mockery signalled the endof the deference that the broadcastingmedia had previously shown to the BritishEstablishment.

It delighted in sending up the Church,the Monarchy and the Powers that Were.The mockery so delighted its huge audiencethat acute anxiety (at times verging onpanic) began to spread in high places.Making fun of the Pope provoked anger;making fun of MPs who had not spoken inthe House for fifteen years provoked alarm;making fun of Prime Ministers provokedaction. So when David Frost, disguised asDisraeli, delivered a powerful politicalspeech predicting that Sir Alec DouglasHome would prove to be a disaster for theConservative party and, indeed, for thenation, the BBC decided to act.

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That Was The LifeThat Was by Neil McKendrick (1958)

revolutions. The revolution in British satire,the revolution in the commercialisation oftelevision in the UK, the revolution ofBreakfast TV, and then also revolutionisingwhat political interviews really meant.”Others stressed his remarkable talents as anauthor, a producer, columnist andentrepreneur. He was a television entertainer,interviewer and tycoon all rolled into one.

His versatility was legendary. His masteryof all genres of television was unrivalled. Hecould effortlessly switch from what JoanBakewell called his “really, really serious work”to what he himself called his hobby – morethan 1000 episodes of Through the Keyhole –which has left a record of the homes and thepossessions of over 2000 celebrities.

But, for all his versatility, his mostimportant legacy will surely be his interviews.

Those who think that his interviews weretoo soft-edged should watch his publicevisceration of the odious Dr Emil Savundra, ornote Sir John Major’s description of beinginterviewed by Frost as “like lying backrelaxing in a warm bath and suddenly realisingthat an icy shower lurked immediatelyoverhead”. There are many examples of theunexpected icy shower being turned on, suchas the friendly enquiry to Idi Amin, “MrPresident, you often say that God speaks toyou, what does He sound like?”, or theinnocent enquiry to President Clinton “Did you

Sir David Frost (1958) – still a hint of the goalkeeper in the young TV presenter

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perform their sketch, but Cleese refused.Marcus is afraid Andrew never forgave him!

Tennis has always been a passion: he wasa member of the Caius First Tennis team, stillplays regularly as a member of Wimbledonand was President of the United HospitalsTennis Club. This is one of many presidenciesand charitable activities: he says he’s “notvery good at saying no!” Hence, in part, thepresent interview…

He went to Barts Medical School for histhree years of clinical training – simplybecause the Barts Tennis team came on tourto Cambridge every year and they seemeddecent chaps: “Career training wasunstructured in those days, so I had a lookat obstetrics, found pregnancy and humanreproduction fascinating and that was it.”

By 1969, the long years of study wereover and he took a twelve month posting inJamaica: “I was seeking adventure, but notadventurous enough to go to India or Africa!Well, it was a complete eye-opener: ThirdWorld medicine, very sick people, who werealso very poor – crisis healthcare. And whenI came back, at the first interview, I wasasked ‘Well, what have you gained in theCaribbean, apart from a suntan?’ and afterone other question, I was politely told Ihadn’t got the job.”

Soon after the Caribbean trip, whileworking in Oxford, he met Sarah, a youngdoctor from St George’s, who was working inthe same department. They married in 1973,and in 1975 he became a Consultant at Bartsat 31, living a happy family life in NorthLondon, producing four children and agrowing number of grandchildren. But thetrue measure of his success lies in the livesof the many thousand of mothers andchildren that he helped at a crucial time.

Conscious of his own good fortune, hehas always tried to do his share of charitablework, organizing a number of “Hikes forHope”, to the Middle East, Morocco, Keralaand Kenya, which raised substantial sums forWellbeing for Women and Prostate UK. Thehikers ranged from a Scottish duchess to acheckout girl from Waitrose and they all“mucked in” – quite literally, on occasions!

In retirement, Marcus is still vigorouslyinvolved in another good cause, as Chairmanof the Friends of the Great Hall and Archiveat St Batholomew’s Hospital. The Hall is aGrade 1 Listed Georgian masterpiecedesigned by James Gibbs, with a grandstaircase magnificently adorned withpaintings by William Hogarth. It is also aliving monument to centuries of freehealthcare for the poor, provided byphilanthropic donations, the precursor ofthe NHS.

Plans for the restoration andmodernisation of this historic building hadbeen approved, but now a cancer caring trust

has applied to erect an “ultramodern milky glass-clad building with brightlycoloured illuminated glass panels” on one side. Marcus sympathises with theaims of the cancer trust, but the building could easily be relocated twenty yardsaway, and he is heading a formidable force of campaigning Londoners opposed tothe “outrageous philistinism” of the threatened development.

“I’m devoted to the NHS!” said Marcus. “In many cases, patients receivebetter care, with lesswaiting and morechoice than in thepast, and for a lotof clinical conditions,the NHS is whereI’d want to be.”When Barts closedtheir Obstetrics andGynaecology Unit in1985, he argued thatthere would be nomore true Cockneys,if the only birthcentre within thesound of Bow Bellswere to close!Then he moved toHomerton E9, “thereal East End” andstarted one of thefirst NHS-fundedIVF units at Barts,because of his“strongly held beliefthat IVF was not justfor the rich!”

He’s not surewhich of hisactivities caughtthe attention of theRoyal Household,but in 1990, onthe retirement ofSir George Pinker,he was offeredand accepted thehonorary positionof Surgeon-Gynaecologist to HMthe Queen. In thatcapacity, he lookedafter the Royalfamily and their stafffor 25 years.

He was notcalled upon whenPrincesses Beatriceand Eugenie were born, as the Duchess of York already had a gynaecologist, also aCaian, Tony Kenney (1960). Marcus delivered the two children of the Duchess ofWessex, Lady Louise Windsor (the first royal birth at an NHS hospital) and James,Viscount Severn, and, on 23 July 2013, attended Catherine, Duchess ofCambridge for the birth of Prince George, at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington.

Almost every newspaper in the land carried the photograph of the gold easeloutside Buckingham Palace, announcing the birth, and Marcus was bemused tofind himself suddenly a celebrity and the centre of a storm of media interest.A year on, the storm has abated a little, but in that one year, he had a RubyWedding and a 70th birthday, delivered an heir to the throne, was knighted byPrince William and retired. Life will never be quite the same!

oyal births can be hazardous –and they can have far-reachingconsequences for allconcerned. In November 1817,Princess Charlotte of Wales,

21 years old and next in line to the throneafter her grandfather, George III, and herfather, George IV, gave birth to her first andonly child.

The boy was stillborn. Charlotte alsodied, later that night. There was widespreadgrief; it was whispered that the tragedy mayhave been averted if the Royal accoucheur,Sir Richard Croft, had used forceps. Threemonths later, Sir Richard shot himself.George III’s fourth son, Edward, Duke of Kent,was persuaded to marry a first cousin,produced an heir to the throne and died soonafterwards. 20 years later, on the day whenCharlotte would have succeeded, her cousin,Princess Victoria, became Queen.

The former Surgeon-Gynaecologist to theRoyal Household, Sir Marcus Setchell (1961),who delivered the probable future KingGeorge VII in July 2013, tells this story as acautionary tale. Sir Marcus retired from theposition on 1 January 2014, therebyremoving himself from any kind of firing line.

It was not the career path he sought orexpected, when he came up to Caius as a shy17-year-old, from Felsted School, to readMedicine. Born in Cambridge during WorldWar Two, most of Marcus’ relations were inagriculture. He might have followed suit, butfor a twist of fate: aged 13, he went intoAddenbrookes Hospital to have his tonsilsremoved and promptly developed

ten of us working on each corpse, twostudents to a limb. The smell of formalin!I was seventeen, I’d never seen a dead bodybefore. But we worked meticulously, with theaid of a guidebook – Cunningham’s Anatomy.There was a lot of rote learning: we knewthere were twelve branches of this or thatnerve, but identifying them was impossible.It’s now realised there are better ways tolearn anatomy!”

Marcus has happier memories of drinkingbeer at the Eagle and unfeasibly largeschooners of sherry at the Berni Inn. In hissecond year, he had digs in Bene’t Street,handy for labs and lectures but fearfully cold:he recalls finding the hot water bottle in hisbed full of ice! So Harvey Court, where helived in his third year, felt luxurious andmodern: every room had a washbasin!

The third year offered some new half-subjects, like Experimental Psychology andThe Psychology of Perception. At the time,he thought them “interesting but notbeneficial”. Later, when he had a professionalreputation for “understanding women”, hewondered if this may have originated in thestudy of psychology.

While he still maintains he was naturallyshy, he liked to participate and enjoyedperforming. He was a keen member of theCaius Amateur Dramatic Club, who put onPirandello and a Restoration comedy. Heeven tried to audition for the Footlights, in acomedy sketch with Andrew Makin (1960)when John Cleese was in charge. Sadly,Marcus was a few minutes late. He andAndrew offered to wait to the end to

appendicitis. It was not spotted soon enoughand he spent six weeks in hospital,recovering. There, he was “gripped by therituals of hospital, the ward rounds, theinterplay of personalities”.

Joining Felsted mid-year, after thisenforced absence, he found the class was inits second year. He worked hard to catch up.He was “conscientious, but not perpetuallybound to my books!” He took his ‘O’ levelsat fourteen and ‘A’ levels at sixteen. Hestudied science but loved drama. Pubertycame late, so he played female parts in theschool plays. At his Ruby weddinganniversary, last year, his son produced aphoto from those days and amused theguests by revealing that the elegant figure inthe glamorous, long dress was not hismother, but his father!

He remembers life at Caius in his firstyear as “primitive”:

“I shared a room in Tree Court. Thebedder brought a jug of hot water in themorning. If you wanted a shower, you had tocross the court. After sailing througheverything at school, I suddenly foundacademic work quite tough. I’d gone frombeing a big fish in a small sea, to a small fishin a big sea. So I worked quite hard and hungaround the bright people! I’ll never forgetour first essay in Physiology. We had to“Discuss Claude Bernard’s concept of LeMilieu Intérieure”. None of us had a clue!But it had the desired effect: it sent us to thelibrary, to do some research.

“I remember spending hours and hours inthe dissecting room, in that first year, about

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Sir Marcus enjoying the company of his twin grandchildren.

Sir Marcus (Surgeon-Gynaecologist 1990-2014) with his predecessors,Sir John Peel (1961-73) and Sir George Pinker (1973-90).

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The official notice, signed by Sir Marcus Setchell, onthe easel outside Buckingham Palace, announcingthe birth of Prince George of Cambridge.

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Europe.” David paid generous tribute toseveral Caius researchers for identifying anddeveloping such opportunities, but modestlyplayed down his own central role in leadingthat process throughout the University. Hisinterest in this area grew out of experienceswith his own research – and the story isworth telling from the beginning.

Born and brought up in the Lake District,the son of an Austrian refugee from theNazis and a Cumbrian teacher, David wentto Cockermouth Grammar School anddreamed of studying Chemistry atCambridge. To give him a better chance ofachieving that ambition, his parents senthim to a Quaker boarding school in Readingto do his ‘A’ levels. He was the first memberof the family to attend university and histwo younger brothers followed suit.

In his first year as an undergraduate atChurchill College, he studied Chemistry,Physics and Maths, as well as a new CellBiology course, devised by Tom ap Rees(1964), a Caius Fellow who was tragicallykilled in a bicycle accident. “Thanks to thewonderful Natural Sciences tripos, I wasable to do that without even taking ‘O’ levelBiology!” David recalls. He rememberssitting next to Anne Lyon in Chemistrylectures: “Well, who wouldn’t? There wereonly about half a dozen women studentswith 200 men!” Another lecture had an evenmore dramatic effect on him – one given toa packed audience at the Chemical Societyin Lensfield Road, by Francis Crick (1949),Nobel Laureate (with James Watson) fordiscovering the structure of DNA:

“During that lecture, it occurred to methat I’d been doing Chemistry since the ageof seven, and we’d only got up to thenineteenth century! Francis Crick explainedthe whole of Molecular Biology in an hourand concluded the lecture with: ‘This recentresearch result is published in the scientificjournal, Nature, published TOMORROW!’Well, that lecture changed my life: I didAdvanced Chemistry with Biochemistry inmy second year and changed completely toBiochemistry for Part II – and I got a 2:2 atthe end of the second year and a First at theend of the third year, just like (NobelLaureate) Fred Sanger.

“The First came as a big surprise! I neverregarded myself as other than a 2:2 student.I was planning to go into industry and I hada place on the Unilever ManagementDevelopment Scheme, but my supervisorfor Part II asked if I wanted to stay on for aPhD and luckily for me, César Milstein hada space on his team, so I took it and foundmyself working in the same lab as FrancisCrick!”

By the final year of his PhD, David knewhe wanted to stay on to do post-doctoralresearch, but he didn’t win one of the few

company that is a market leader in thisfield, and in 2005, he became CEO of N8,a consortium of research-intensiveuniversities in the North of England.

David feels a deep affection for Caius,so when the opportunity to become SeniorBursar came in 2012, he couldn’t resist it.Two years on, he’s pleased to have set upcloser consultations with the studentsabout financial decisions that affect them,such as setting fair rents for theiraccommodation, and he’s still looking outfor that “Reggie Bullen moment”. His mostimportant initiative to date has been theacquisition of a substantial housing site inEast Cambridge, where he plans to buildtwelve new family homes. The new Close orCourt represents a seven-figure namingopportunity for a major College benefactor:according to the City Council’s bye-laws, itcannot be named after a living person, butcould carry a family name, perhapscommemorating a loved one.

David is keenly aware that theEndowment has existed, in part, since thetime of John Caius’ legacy: “The incomefrom it plays an important role in enablingus to look after the students and the fabricof the College. As much of the burden forfinancing Higher Education passes fromGovernment to the students, we need thatincome more and more, if we’re going tocontinue recruiting the best and brighteststudents, irrespective of their family means.

“The Endowment also supports ourteaching and research. As the Fellowshiphas grown, demands on the Endowmenthave increased. If we want to make surefuture generations of Caians continue toenjoy the same benefits we once enjoyed,we need to grow that Endowment – not aneasy task, in such turbulent times!

“One of the biggest changes I’ve seen,in my forty years as a Fellow, has occurredsince the Millennium – namely the growthin importance of fundraising, to secureadditional income for the College. Legaciesformed the basis of our historicalEndowment, but lifetime donations haverisen, over the past fifteen years, from lessthan £250,000pa to over £5 million a yearfor the past two years, thanks to thegenerosity of Caians and friends and theprofessional expertise of the DevelopmentOffice under Anne Lyon.”

The College is fortunate to have itsfinancial future in the hands of someonewho combines considerable commercialacumen and experience with suchwholehearted devotion and loyalty to thecause. A Caian to the core, Davidunderstands what the College means, notonly to the Fellowship, but to the manyalumni, parents and friends who care aboutit and want to help it flourish.

college-funded Research Fellowships.Instead, he accepted an award from theSalters’ Company, one of the old liveryguilds that had always supported Chemistry.He felt Caius had been the most welcomingof the colleges, inviting him to reapply, oncehe had completed his PhD, so he came to beinterviewed by the College Council in 1973,when Joseph Needham was Master andJimmy Altham the Registrary. He remembersJeremy Prynne asking him a difficultquestion, but Needham intervened andanswered on his behalf!

Having the Salters’ Company fellowship,he was able to decline the stipend fromCaius, no doubt gladdening the heart of theSenior Bursar of the time. He was “so keento get started” that he joined the College atEaster 1974. Age-old rules defining thematriculation year as 1973 for those whojoin the College at any time between theMichaelmas (29 September) of 1973 and1974 mean that he belongs, in fact to the1973 cohort, rather than 1974, as he hasthought for the past forty years!

In the summer of 1975, David andSandra celebrated their engagement andwedding at Caius with legendary partiesattended by no less than five NobelLaureates or Laureates-to-be. Childrenarrived but neither of them chose to followin David’s footsteps: Rachel went to DurhamUniversity and is now an events organizerand project manager; Ben read English at StCatherine’s College, Oxford, and is the ArtsEditor of The Daily Telegraph.

David was still deeply involved with hisresearch and found it difficult to spend thetime he wanted on it, with his teachingobligations and all the usual demands of ayoung family. But it all bore fruit in April1980, when he published his “mostsignificant research paper” in Nature,announcing the creation of a new molecule,a monoclonal antibody, using a techniqueinvented by César Milstein in 1975, forwhich Milstein would share the Nobel Prizefor Physiology or Medicine in 1984.

David’s breakthrough allowed largequantities of interferon to be produced forthe first time, for use in clinical trials of newdrugs. He realised the product hadenormous potential for commercialdevelopment and was disappointed to findthe University had no established supportmechanism to enable scientists like himselfto bring their discoveries to fruition andreap the rewards they deserved. Typically, heset about organising all this himself. To hissurprise, the complex task of transferringnew knowledge from the lab to themarketplace ultimately displaced his ownresearch and became the main focus of hiswork for the next 20 or 30 years. In 2002,he co-founded Praxis, the not-for-profit

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Senior Bursar has to bestrong enough to say no,adventurous enough to sayyes and wise enough toknow which to say when.

Dr David Secher (1973), Senior Bursar atCaius since August 2012, recently observedwith some pride: “I’m as mean with theCollege’s money, as I am with my own!”His wife, Sandra, added: “and he’s as meanas sin with that!” – which is probably betternews for the College than for Sandra. Butminimizing expenditure is only one part ofthe Bursar’s responsibility: the other part ismanaging – and increasing – the College’sEndowment, from which 3-4% a year isdrawn to support current expenditure. Thisincludes an effective contribution averagingabout £4,500 pa to the costs of eachstudent.

In pride of place in David’s office is afine portrait of his much-admiredpredecessor, Air Vice-Marshal Reggie Bullen(Senior Bursar 1975-87), a deliberatereminder from David to himself thatparsimony alone is not enough to winplaudits from the College. Vision andoriginality are also required. It was Bullenwho came up with the inspired idea oftransforming the dingy passageway ofunpopular student rooms in Rose Crescentinto the most fashionable run of designerboutiques in Cambridge – resulting in awelcome, multi-million pound boost to theCaius Endowment.

David says he’s still waiting for his“Reggie Bullen moment” but is quietlyconfident that it will occur. He certainly hasan outstanding record in the field ofmaximizing academic assets: as CambridgeUniversity’s first Director of ResearchServices (2001-2005), he pioneered what isnow known as Technology Transfer –maximizing the profitability and benefitsthat can be drawn from the mass ofintellectual property created byresearchers. For many years, thispotentially transformativesource of revenue wasneglected and a missedopportunity for manyuniversities, but in the1990s, David forgedcloser links betweenacademics and industryand encouraged a muchcleverer exploitation ofthe many valuable innovations anddiscoveries generated by researchers.

As he wrote in the Spring 2007 issue ofOnce a Caian... “Cambridge is seen as amodel for the commercialization ofacademic research and the cluster of hi-technology companies around the Universityis widely seen as the most successful in

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An accountof the pastand presentactivities ofDr David Secher‘a Caian tothe core’

Dr David Secher, SeniorBursar, with a portrait of hiseminent predecessor AirVice-Marshal Reggie Bullen,holding the symbol of hisoffice, the College Seal ofJohn Caius. David’s ownsymbol of fiscal prudenceis an elderly cash register heacquired in a secondhandshop many years ago.

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Shanghai, she moved to Hong Kong at theage of 19, but retains a great affection forher native city. A full-time housewife andmother until she was 40, she then foundedthe Taching Petroleum Company Limited,wisely naming it after the Taching Oilfield,one of the economic success stories of MaoZedong’s China. Almost 40 years on, Alice isstill the CEO and Managing Director.

By 1978, the Taching Company wassuccessful enough for Alice to return toShanghai and start work on the first 25-storey structure in that city, the YandangBuilding. When DengXiaoping visited andasked if any majorconstruction projectswere taking place, shewas pleased to be ableto give him a positiveanswer. She sold theapartments in thebuilding to overseasChinese, at the verystart of the real estateboom in China. Shetook great pleasure indemonstrating the benefits of capitalism toher colleagues in Shanghai, proving that sheonly needed an office and a telephone tomake a great deal of money!

Next, seeing the potential of theemerging IT industry, she negotiated with theSwedish company Ericsson to open twofactories in Nanjing and Beijing, in 1990 and1994, for which she was decorated by theKing of Sweden. Almost everything Alicetouches seems to turn to gold – and it’s noaccident, but the result of her acute analysisof commercial potential.

Her generosity to Caius is one of manybenefactions in the areas of education,healthcare and culture, which include abuilding named after her at Hong Kong’s CityUniversity and an exquisite Qing famille roseenameled peach vase of the Yongzhengperiod (1723-1735), which she bought atSotheby’s in 2002 for US$5.4 million andpresented to the Shanghai Museum.

In person, Alice is down-to-earth,charming, vivacious – and highly observant.She enjoyed her May Week in Cambridgeimmensely, mixing with other donors at theBenefactors’ Day Party in College, joining thecrowds at Caius Meadow to cheer on theCollege’s boats and dancing the night awayat the May Ball. Her joie de vivre was a timelyreminder of how lucky we are to share inthese annual festivities – and how lucky weare to have the name of Alice Cheng on ourBenefactors’ Wall, so that future generationswill remember this gracious lady who choseto share her wealth, to benefit manyhundreds of young people whom she willnever meet.

For an institution that wasexclusively male for its first631 years, Caius has beenremarkably fortunate in itsfemale benefactors.

The Benefactors’ Wall, just inside theGreat Gate, records the munificence ofElizabeth Clere, who paid for the east side ofGonville Court, of Dame Anne Scroop, lastsurviving member of the Gonville family, whobequeathed precious acres of farmland inWest Cambridge in 1500, where Harvey Courtand the Stephen Hawking Building nowstand, and Joyce Frankland, who consoledherself in the tragic loss of her own son byfunding the education of others, so sheshould have “sons in perpetuity”.

Closer to our own time, the Wallcommemorates Lady Berkeley, wife of SirComyns, Rita Cavonius (2004), who donatedthe magnificent Cavonius Centre in theHawking Building, Shirley Bailey (2009), AnnHaines (2009) and now Alice Cheng (2013),whose name will be remembered withgratitude for many years, for her gift of£1 million to re-build the graduateaccommodation at 28 Ferry Path, behindthe Caius Boathouse. In recognition of her

Hawking (1965), who visited every section ofthe Ball and showed quite extraordinarypatience and good nature, in allowing himselfto be the subject of “selfies” with an apparentlyendless succession of young revelers. Thedelight of those who captured their own briefmoment with the great man was a joy tobehold – and Alice Cheng’s party enjoyed theexperience as much as everyone else.

From the moment of her arrival at Caius,Alice bubbled with infectious enthusiasm andset a cracking pace for her youngercompanions. First, she inspected her name,carved with just thirty others on thecommemorative Wall inside the refurbishedGreat Gate. She was amazed to learn that thenames go right back, through the College’s666-year history, to its original foundation byEdmund Gonville in 1348; she said seeing hername on the Wall was “one of the highlights ofher life” and she hoped that, one day, thenames of her children would also be carved instone there.

Alice has always carved out her own pathin life, achieving great success in manydifferent fields, and she has always followedthe Chinese custom of using her own goodfortune to improve the lives of others. Born in

generosity, the six new flats for graduatestudents with partners will be named AliceCheng House.

Alice has known and loved Cambridge fora long time: she came here first as a student,to learn English. Her husband, Graham Cheng,a geologist, went to the Perse School, herfather-in-law, Dr CK Cheng, was a Fellow ofKing’s College and a Lecturer in Archaeologyand her son, Christopher, has memories ofbeing taken to the river as a small child, towatch the Bumps.

Alice came into close contact with Caiuswhen she sponsored Janice Hu (1992), toread economics here. Dr Iain Macpherson(1958) was Janice’s supervisor and Dr JimmyAltham (1965) was her tutor. Alice knewJanice’s father and grandmother very welland wanted to help the family. She has fondmemories of attending a Caius May Ball inthe 1990s and decided to make that dreamcome true all over again, by bringing a partyof five from Hong Kong to attend both theMay Week Party for Benefactors and the2014 Caius May Ball.

The theme of the Ball was “A BriefHistory of Time” and the star guest was theCollege’s own cosmologist, Professor Stephen

Dr Alice Cheng seated with the Master for Dinner at the Caius May Ball.

Dr Alice Cheng’s party with Professor Stephen Hawking at the Caius May Ball.

A new name on the Benefactors Wall by Mick Le Moignan (2004)Jam

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Outside 28 Ferry Path, which will be converted tosix flats for graduate students with partners.It will be named Alice Cheng House. (l-r): Architect,Julian Bland, Dr Xiang Yang Li, Dr Jimmy Altham,Dr Alice Cheng, Christopher Cheng, Dr Anne Lyon,graduate student, Roeland Verhallen (2011).

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Dr Alice Cheng with her son, Christopher Cheng, outside the Caius Boathouse in February 2014.

Roeland Verhallen

Dr Anne Lyon, Dr Alice Cheng and James Howell in front of the Benefactors’ Wall.

Left: Alice’s grandson, Oliver Cheng, making the first cut in the stone to bear hername on the Benefactors’ Wall.

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ver a timespan approaching halfa millennium, this College hasmade an extraordinarycontribution to our

understanding of how thehuman body works. This tradition

continues in the 21st century.In the 16th century, it was John Caius

(1529) who brought the new science ofanatomy to Britain from Italy. A century or solater, William Harvey (1628) discovered thedirection of the circulation of the blood. Inthe middle of the 20th century, Francis Crick(1949) and James Watson unraveled thestructure of DNA.

Today, many people question the end-of-life care we provide for the aged and dying,which seems to produce little benefit for thepatients at an unconscionable cost. Now, aCaian scientist suggests that a comparativelymodest investment in healthcare for unborn

This is a short-term adaptive defence:if prolonged, it can cause adverseconsequences, becoming maladaptive.Constricting blood vessels in peripheralcirculations in a prolonged manner canrestrict nutrients and decrease growth andincrease the load against which thedeveloping heart pumps. The fetal heart,being made of muscle, responds byincreasing its mass, leading to thicker cardiacand aortic walls – hallmarks of heart diseaseeven before birth.

Chronic hypoxia promotes the excessivegeneration of “free radicals” (chemicals withan unpaired electron, which are thereforeunstable and reactive), accelerating thenormal ageing process. Although free radicalsare vital for cell-to-cell communication, weneed to control and limit their activity. Ourbodies produce natural antioxidants – andantioxidant supplementation can help somedisease states in adults. Could antioxidanttherapy have protective effects in early life?

Dino’s research programmes have usedsuch techniques successfully in animalmodels and they are currently designingclinical trials for humans, “bringing theresearch from the lab bench to the hospitalbedside.” It is not a panacea: in normalpregnancies, where free radicals andantioxidants are already in balance, thetherapy can have adverse effects. As Dinoputs it: “Everything in moderation, includingmoderation!”

Medicine, from treatment to prevention. Wecan apply preventive medicine at the earlieststage of life, halting the onset of disease at itsvery origin, right back in the womb!”

Sadly, this will be little comfort to thoseof us who have already embarked on life’swinding pathway: “You can’t unburn thetoast!” is how Dino puts it. But you can makea better job of the next slice – and give futuregenerations a better chance for improvedcardiovascular health.

The most common adverse condition incomplicated pregnancy is chronic fetalhypoxia, which Dino’s group has been workingon. This is where a fetus has less oxygen thanit needs to develop normally. An adulthyperventilates when deprived of oxygen butan unborn child cannot. It can only prioritisewhere the oxygenated blood goes, sendingless to peripheral circulations such as those inthe limbs, while maintaining perfusion tomore essential areas, such as the brain.

“You Can’t Unburnthe Toast!”

1958 College Lecturer,Professor Dino Giussani,is researching new waysof preventing later-lifecardiac disease throughtreatment of theunborn child.

by Mick Le Moignan (2004)

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Professor Dino Giussani (1996) with his wife, Kristin, his son, Lucca and his daughter, Gabriella.

babies would provide a much better return, inboth extra years and quality of life, not onlyfor the next generation but also forgenerations to come.

Professor Dino Giussani (1996), holder ofthe 1958 College Lectureship, is principallyinterested in heart disease, “the greatestkiller” worldwide. One in three people will dieof cardio-vascular disease, more in the UK,even more in the USA.We know what causesit – an interaction between our genes andtraditional lifestyle factors, such as smoking,obesity or a sedentary life. We’ve known forover half a century that these elementsincrease the risk. But what if the odds werestacked against us much earlier, before wewere born?

Our immediate environment has thegreatest impact upon us early on: thisdiminishes progressively as we get older.We are at our most malleable and vulnerablein early life and during antenataldevelopment. So a challenge to the fetus,perhaps lasting a few hours, may beequivalent to one lasting a few years in laterlife. But there are two sides to this coin: inscience, as in life, every problem is also anopportunity. The greater vulnerability of thefetus early on also provides a greater chanceto correct any harm.

This understanding has given rise to awhole new field, known as the DevelopmentalProgramming of Heart Disease, which Dinosays: “has revolutionized the philosophy of

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Early results are encouraging.Excitingly, it may also be possible totreat babies after birth with specialantioxidants, to repair anycardiovascular damage as soon aspossible.

The search for a substantialnumber of pregnancies undergoingchronic hypoxia took the researchteam to Bolivia, where the highaltitude of a city like La Paz(4,000m above sea level) providesa natural model of lowoxygenation at a populationallevel. Sure enough, babiesfrom La Paz were muchsmaller than those in thesister city of Santa Cruz(400m.) Interestingly, it nowseems likely that pregnantmothers from the Aymaraindigenous people, who have lived inthe Bolivian highlands for 2,000 years, havedeveloped a mechanism to counter thiseffect, despite being highly impoverished:“the Aymara placenta has more antioxidantenzymes than the placentae from Europeannewcomers.” Dino refers to this as: “theAndean curse on the Conquistadors”!

There is a synchronicity in this for Dino,who was born in Bolivia. His Milanesegrandfather, married to an English woman,took Dino’s father as a child and the famousBianchi bicycles from the UK to SouthAmerica and settled in Bolivia. On hismother’s side, he is descended from an oldSpanish family, deeply involved in Bolivianpolitics. When Dino, the fourth of fivechildren, was 13, his father moved the familyback to Britain to complete their education.So Dino attended Rutlish School inWimbledon and took a B.Sc in Physiologyand a PhD in Fetal Physiology at UniversityCollege London, before postdoctoralfellowships in Santiago, Chile and CornellUniversity in upstate New York.

A Cambridge Lectureship in Physiologyled to an appointment as one of theDirectors of Studies in Medicine at Caius. Hewas attracted to the College, he says, notonly because of its groundbreaking traditionin Medicine, but because he would be part ofa team with Richard Le Page (1963), DavidEllar (1968), Roger Carpenter (1973) and JoeHerbert (1976).

“The College played a huge role inhelping me become established within theUniversity” he says, “As a newcomer, it wasexactly what I needed. I used to work in thelab until seven and go to dine at High Table,nearly every night. Neil McKendrick (1958),who had just become Master, IainMacpherson (1958), John Casey (1964),James Fitzsimons (1946), Peter Bayley(1971), Jeremy Prynne (1962), Vic Gatrell

(1967) and Yao Liang (1963) were veryaccommodating, in helping me towiden my social circle. And, ofcourse, the process is cyclical,so it becomes your role (quitequickly!) to welcome the new,younger Fellows and help themto settle in.”

Dino doesn’t go to High Tablequite so often at present: he andhis wife, Kristin, a formerphysiotherapist at Addenbrookes,now with a private practice inNewmarket, have two youngchildren, Lucca (8) and Gabriella(6). Since 2011, Dino has beenProfessor of DevelopmentalCardiovascular Physiology& Medicine, but he stillsupervises almost 30 newCaius medics each year andhe’s deeply grateful to theCollege for the support it hasgiven him.If, as seems highly likely, his

research ultimately contributes toextending the lives of millions of people asyet unborn, Dino will have left a formidablelegacy. A little perversely, as a scientist, heis almost more excited by anotherpossibility: in experiments with laboratoryrats and mice, where it is possible to followgenerational changes much more rapidlythan in humans, Dino’s group have mostrecently discovered that individuals whichwere hypoxic in utero can pass onto theiroffspring beneficial as well as detrimentalcardiovascular traits despite normalpregnancy.

This is a much faster process than onemight expect: genetic changes are supposedto be much more gradual. It suggests that itmay be possible to “switch” genes on or off,without altering the basic genetic code,expanding the understanding of Crick andWatson. If so, there may be interestingimplications for the new science ofEpigenetics:

“What we’re stumbling onto with ourdiscovery of intergenerational inheritance ofheart disease and protection against it inmammals is a mechanism that might helpto explain Natural Selection – almostmarrying physiology with evolution. Wenever dreamed our research would havesuch far-reaching consequences, helping notonly to improve the health of our childrenbut also their children.”

Dino is too much of a scientist tospeculate further, but it’s clear that nothingwould give him greater pleasure thanadding to the Caius roll-call of game-changing revelations about how life-formsadapt, to improve their chances of healthand survival.

Professor Dino Giussani is Professor ofCardiovascular Physiology & Medicine atthe Department of PhysiologyDevelopment & Neuroscience at theUniversity of Cambridge, ProfessorialFellow,1958 College Lecturer and Directorof Studies in Medicine at Gonville & CaiusCollege, a Lister Institute Fellow and a RoyalSociety Wolfson Research Merit AwardHolder. He is supported by the British HeartFoundation, The Biotechnology andBiological Sciences Research Council andthe Isaac Newton Trust.

Plate XII from William Hunter’s obstetricatlas, Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulisIllustrata (The Anatomy of the HumanGravid Uterus Explained by Figures),Birmingham, John Baskerville, 1774. Theopened abdomen exposes the fetus* of awoman near term, with the placenta praeviafrom which she bled to death blocking thebirth canal.

“Fetus” is preferred, derivedfrom the Latin feteo(I breed), rather than foeteo(I make an offensive smell).Dino considers the variantspelling, foetus, “gratuitouslyunkind to the unborn child”!

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o be admitted to Caius is ametaphorical feather in thecap. To win one of the fourResearch Fellowships awardedeach year is the equivalent of

a whole head-dress of feathers.On assuming the Mastership in 2012,

Sir Alan Fersht (1962) declared that anyreduction in the number of Research Fellowsfrom the current quota of four per yearwould be “over my dead body!” Fortunately,this has not yet proved necessary.

Many of the stars of the Caius firmamenthave spent some time as Research Fellowshere, including fourteen of the 30 mostsenior members of the current Fellowship.The three most recent Caian Nobel Laureates(out of the current total of thirteen) all firstcame to the College as Research Fellows.Joseph Stiglitz (1965) won the Nobel Prize inEconomics in 2001, Roger Tsien (1977) wonin Chemistry in 2008 and Michael Levitt(1970) won the same Prize just last year.

Relatively few Research Fellows areinvited to stay at Caius on a permanent basisbut completion of such a Fellowship almostguarantees a prestigious position elsewhere.Academic life may be more competitive thanever, but ability seems to find its way to thesurface: thanks, in part, to the gentlysearching examination that is High Table,Fellows have an uncanny knack of spottingan exceptional intellect, even if it ploughs itsfurrow in a foreign field.

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stage. He now wishes he had devoted moreenergy to playing sports and meetingpeople, “but at the time I felt what I wasdoing was the most important thing in theworld!” Francis Crick (1949) once invitedhim to a Feast at Churchill and created animpression on young Michael by collectinghim in a Lotus Elite. He remembers a thinlady in a little black dress asking him whathe did in his spare time: “I wash nappies!”he said, at which the lady turned on her heeland left him for more promising company.

He first met Alan Fersht more than 40years ago, when they were both working onhow molecules function. They have alwaysbeen strong supporters of each other, whileapproaching the subject from differentangles. Michael developed computationalbiology, while Alan was one of the co-founders of protein engineering. Tongue-in-cheek, Michael says of Alan: “For anexperimentalist, he’s really good with acomputer!”

In 1977, Michael left Cambridge andwent to California, to take up a second post-doctoral appointment with Francis Crick.An appointment as Professor of ChemicalPhysics at the Weizmann Institute of Sciencein Israel followed, then in 1987, he joinedStanford University as Professor ofStructural Biology and has been based therefor the past 27 years. Happily, he says, “Theydon’t require my physical presence there allthe time!” so he is able to divide his timebetween his family (three sons and “almostsix” grandchildren) in Israel and the USA, andfrequent visits to Britain and other scientificconferences.

The Nobel Prize has certainly made adifference to his life, but maybe not in theways he expected. Making so many publicappearances, he now wears Savile Row suitsand ironed shirts instead of t-shirts. He stillthinks a lot about his work and finds it hasbecome more enjoyable. He’s not such a“workaholic” as when he was younger andhas developed a passion for hiking and sea-kayaking. His advice to keen youngresearchers is “Take a break!” – believing thatmay be better for the mind than trying tocudgel it into submission.

The most delightful experience thatresulted from his award was an invitation toa big American Football match at Stanford:“I didn’t know anything about it – I had tolook up the rules on the internet!”Nevertheless, he enjoyed the match and wassurprised to see himself on enormousscreens, all around the ground, at half-time,cheering on Stanford, with his grandson onhis shoulders, while the announcerintroduced him. The crowd of 50,000responded with a rising chant: ‘Nobel Prize!...Nobel Prize!... Nobel Prize!” Now, that’ssomething that never happens in the lab!

Born and brought up in South Africa,Michael came to London when he wassixteen and stayed with his uncle and aunt,who were both scientists. He rememberswatching a tv series that started on 4January 1964, presented by John Kendrew,who had won the 1962 Nobel Prize (withMax Perutz). It presented the modern viewof Biology and young Michael “got a thingabout doing Physics related to biologicalsystems.” This “thing” turned out to be hislife’s work.

On finishing school, he went to King’sCollege, London, to read Physics, but thendecided he wanted to come to Cambridge todo a PhD under Kendrew’s supervision. Hewas accepted for this on the condition thathe spent a year in Israel first, where he notonly worked on small molecules but met hiswife, Rina, an artist and biologist, andreturned with a baby on the way.

A year later, he applied for a ResearchFellowship and received offers both fromPeterhouse, his first Cambridge College, andfrom Caius. The Caius offer was all of £50higher and funds were tight, with Rina andbaby Daniel (now 45) to look after, so thechoice was easy. Caius further endeareditself to him by lending him a thousandpounds as an unsecured down payment loanon a house at Cherry Hinton.

As he recalls, “I was much less sociablethan I am now” but always felt very gratefulto the College for helping him out at a vital

One of the most likeable characteristicsof the Caius community is that Fellows aregenerous in their recognition of eachothers’ success. When Professor MichaelLevitt’s Nobel Prize was announced, theMaster immediately proposed him for anHonorary Fellowship and the GeneralMeeting swiftly agreed.

Michael’s Prize was awarded (jointlywith Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel),“for the development of multiscale modelsfor complex chemical systems". The workinvolves accurately predicting whatmolecules will be formed as a result ofchemical reactions. The breakthrough thethree scientists achieved, starting in the1970s, was to use computers to combineboth classical and quantum mechanics todetermine the courses of such reactions.Unusually, rather than recognizing a singlesignificant discovery, in this case, thePrize was awarded for initiating a wholenew field.

Michael came back to Caius in July2014, to stay with the Master, Sir AlanFersht (1962), an old friend and colleague,and to accept his Honorary Fellowship. Hedescribes himself self-deprecatingly as a“geek” but appears to be quite the opposite– outgoing, engaging, lively and curious. Thevisit was an opportunity to reflect on histime in Cambridge and the significance ofhis Research Fellowship at Caius in the lightof his subsequent career.

TProfessor Michael Levitt (1970) with his wife, Rina, and grandson, Barak, at the Stanford Football Stadium, where he received an unexpected tribute.

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Research FellowshipsProfessor John Saunders (1967), from Australia, is generously endowing a ResearchFellowship in perpetuity. Since four new four-year Fellowships are awarded each year,fifteen out of sixteen are still to be secured. The Development Director hopes otherbenefactors will decide to follow John’s admirable example!

Michael Levitt with Alan Fersht.

Commemoration Lecture 2015Professor Michael Levitt has kindly agreed to deliver next year's CommemorationLecture on Sunday 15 November 2015, to which Members of the Court of Benefactorswill be invited.

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for the sensory and perceptual research inwhich he specialised. So it is remarkable thatMyers, now aged 41, was reluctant to remainin Cambridge after the declaration of war in1914. Nor was he held back by theanthropological insights into human conflictthat he must have gained in Sarawak.

He offered his services to the War Office,but was told that they were not acceptingdoctors over 40. He next tried the Order ofSt John of Jerusalem, and then the Red Cross,but they had many more applications thanposts available (success, it was hinted to him,depended on social influence alone). But thenMyers learnt – from the Barts journal – thatthe Duchess of Westminster had taken out acomplete hospital unit to France, staffed bydoctors and nurses trained at Barts. TheDuchess (formerly Constance EdwinaCornwallis-West) was married to one of therichest men in the pre-war world. Theirwedding in 1901 was attended by the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador and a cohort ofprinces, dukes and counts. Now, in October1914, the Duchess personally proceeded toFrance with hospital kit that filled a dozenrailway cars.

Hoping to exploit old contacts from Barts,Myers travelled in mufti to Paris, using theFolkestone to Dieppe service – a route opento civilian travellers in October 1914. Hesecured an interview with the Duchess. Inthose early days of the war, she too was in abuyers’ market. She promised ‘to do what shecould’. Three days later Myers was offered a

post. Crucial perhaps was the influence ofMatron, who was an acquaintance of his fromyounger days at Barts. Though without amilitary commission, he ordered a‘nondescript khaki uniform’ from a Parisiantailor.

It took the Duchess some time to find afitting site for her hospital, but soon herpersistence and her connections allowed herto secure the Casino at Le Touquet. Myers wasappointed Registrar. The staff were lodged atthe Hôtel des Anglais and were madehonorary members of the golf club. Myers –a Cambridge academic with little clinicalexperience – confined himself initially to hisduties as Registrar, developing a cross-referenced card index that was admired byvisiting dignitaries from the Army MedicalService.

Soon, however, casualties began to reachthe Duchess’s hospital from the front. Myers,still at this stage the sensory psychologist,entered into a clinical investigation of twoconditions increasingly apparent among theflow of patients: trench foot and shell shock.

Swelling and numbness of the feet afterexposure to cold and wet was a maladyknown to nineteenth-century army surgeons,but the hideous conditions of the Great Warbrought an epidemic of ‘trench foot’. Myers’characteristic contribution was to use themethods of sensory psychology to measuresensibility in the affected limbs. Prominent inhis thinking would have been the famousexperiment by Head and Rivers, carried out inSt. John’s a decade earlier, in which Riversplotted the recovery of sensibility in Head'sarm following deliberate section of cutaneousnerves. Trench foot brought a similar patternof results: ‘epicritic’ sensibility (sensitivity tolight touch; discrimination of double toucheswith compass points; discrimination oftemperature differences) was completely lostand was the last to recover, whereas‘protopathic’ sensibility to pain was last to belost and first to return.

But it was in November 1914 that Myerssaw for the first time a case of ‘shell shock’;and the following February he became thefirst to use this term in print – in a paperpublished in The Lancet and now seen asseminal in the literature on war neuroses.All three patients in this first paper had beenclose to exploding shells (and thus to violentchanges in pressure). Case 1, a private aged20, was crossing open land between trencheswhen he became entangled in barbed wireand several shells burst around him. One infront ‘blew his haversack clean away’ and onebehind gave him a shock ‘like a punch on thehead, without any pain after it’.

Strangely, none of these patients showedserious impairment of hearing, but Myersfound that their visual fields were constrictedand their visual acuity much reduced. All three

showed losses of taste and smell. Thus Case 2could not identify a strong solution of salt(reporting only that ‘it feels like petrol does onthe hand’) and he failed to smell peppermint,ether, iodine tincture or carbolic acid. In Cases2 and 3 and in many subsequent patients,Myers also observed amnesia, especially forevents following the trauma but sometimesmore complete. Other patients exhibitedspasmodic movements or had been renderedmute. All were emotionally disturbed.

Myers judged that his shell-shock patientswere neither malingering nor physiologicallyinjured. The symptoms were ‘functional’, theresult of strictly psychological trauma. Hispatients, he suggested, resembled those thatin the civilian clinic of his day would havebeen labelled ‘hysteric’. In some cases, thepatients would fit the modern diagnosis ofPost-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Myers’ view of shell shock was notuniversally accepted in the wartime literature.His opponents held that the symptoms arosefrom ‘minute cerebral haemorrhages’ or otherblast damage not externally visible. Withoutmodern brain scans and at a century’s reach,it is difficult to judge. The anosmia seen inthe first three cases might well suggestshearing of the olfactory nerve across thebony cribiform plate of the skull. But Myerspointed to his success in curing some of hispatients by light hypnosis, especially if hecould ensure that they recovered theirrepressed memories of the trauma.

In March 1915, now Temporary Major,Myers left the Duchess’s hospital and wasgiven a wider brief to supervise the treatmentof psychological illness in the British army.Soon he was a Lieutenant-Colonel, enjoying

The Caius graduation photo of 1895 shows Charles Myers (1891) on the far right of the second row from thefront and Antarctic explorer, Dr Edward Wilson (1891) on the far left of the same row.

of subscribers shows that most of the moneycame from ‘Anonymous’ and much of thebalance from Myers’ family and his in-laws,the Seligmans. In fact, Myers had himself paidfor his grand laboratory, using part of hisinheritance from his father. The Universitywere happy to appoint him Director.

His fine new laboratory was well equipped

At the beginning ofAugust 1914, Charles Myers(1891) travelled back toCambridge from his customaryclimbing holiday in Switzerland.

Passing through Paris, he found a city inturmoil, with queues outside the banks. At theGare du Nord, the conductor of the restaurantcar on the Calais train refused admission topassengers unable to settle their luncheonbills in gold or silver. Myers arrived safelyhome – to his substantial house in Shelford,to his room in Caius, and to his newly-builtPsychological Laboratory on the Downing Site.But he did not settle.

The son of a wealthy merchant, Myershad graduated in Natural Sciences and hadthen gone to Barts to qualify in medicine.In 1898, he had joined the celebratedCambridge anthropological expedition to theTorres Straits and to Sarawak. His especialrole was to record indigenous music and totest sensory perception. Still in the possessionof the College is a curious brass box, finelyinlaid with silver, that Myers brought backfrom Sarawak: its inscription makes playfulallusion to the Kayans, one of the peoples ofSarawak, who had only recently given uptheir head-hunting traditions after a peacebrokered by the British administrator(see Once a Caian, 2008).

In 1907, now University Lecturer inExperimental Psychology, Myers set aboutraising funds for a laboratory to house hisinfant discipline. A surviving hand-written list

Above: The mature Charles Myers (1891) and theextraordinary scene in the Gaming Room at theLe Touquet Casino, converted to a field hospital inWorld War I by the Duchess of Westminster. Notethe carefully wrapped chandeliers.

Below: Myers published his radical contention that“Shell Shock” was a genuine medical condition inThe Lancet.

the title ‘Specialist in Nerve Shock’. One of hisroles was to appear at courts martial and heprobably saved many men from execution.His position was not an easy one: on the onehand, most army officers regarded ‘shell shock’as an excuse for cowardice, and on the other,neurologists saw Myers as intruding on theirdomain.

The same year, Myers was elected to theRoyal Society, in recognition of his pre-warwork. In 1916-17, however, he sufferedsetbacks. The Army refused him permission topublish a general survey of shell shock; and hisrole on the northern front was given to theneurologist Gordon Holmes, Myers beingconfined to the southern front. Later in 1917he returned to Britain.

Both Myers and the Duchess ofWestminster were themselves among themany whose lives were changed irrevocably bythe Great War. In 1919 Caius gave Myers theFellowship that he had probably long hopedfor. Yet he no longer had the heart foracademic experimental psychology.Wanting toapply psychological knowledge to practicalproblems of the larger world, he founded theNational Institute for Industrial Psychology,becoming its first Director.

And the Duchess of Westminster? Shedivorced the Duke in 1919 and shortlyafterwards married James Lewes of the RoyalFlying Corps. According to contemporarynewspaper accounts, Captain Lewes had beenshot down during the war and had been takento the Duchess’s hospital torecover. At this wedding,held in Lyndhurst RegistryOffice, a maid wasthe only witness.

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died, in 1982, she moved back in with Judy,on the outskirts of Cambridge, where theylive today.

Chadwick’s actions suggest a moresociable man than his usual reputation. Hetook a keen interest in College sports,according to his daughters: “If there was arugger match on, or rowing, he and Mumwould always go.” He started theMatriculation Dinner, at which all fresherswould be wined and dined by the Collegeand the Master would tell them about DrCaius. He encouraged and extended theAnnual Gatherings, going out of his way towelcome returning Caians.

1958 saw a grand QuatercentenaryCelebration of the refounding of the Collegeby John Caius – but later, piqued by Council’srefusal to approve his nomination of HerbertTunnicliffe (1917) and Henry Deas (1921) tocontinue as tutors, Chadwick shockedCambridge and his colleagues by resigningthe Mastership.

Professor Christopher Brooke (1945), inhis History of Gonville & Caius College, tellsof going to say goodbye to Chadwick, in1956, when he took up a Chair elsewhere:

“’Well, that’s a relief!’, said Chadwick –then his face was suffused with the charmingsmile which it wore when he really wished toshow the face of friendship, and which wasthe nearest to an apology he could normallymuster. For thus he was, a brilliant scientist,a devout lover of Liverpool and Caius, warmbeneath a cool, remote exterior, surpassinglygauche.”

Joanna and Judy still feel the last twowords are deeply unfair. Christopher wassorry to hear he had given offence: 50+ yearson, he still appreciates Chadwick’s manypersonal kindnesses to him.

The brief account of Chadwick’s life inthe College’s Biographical History (VolumeVII, pp. 485-502) is gentler but does refer tohis “somewhat gloomy exterior and thenatural reserve,” commenting: “His scepticalcanny north country air was only droppedwith those whose attitudes he foundsympathetic.”

At this distance, as memory slips intohistory, it is hard to be sure of the truth. TheBiographical History is on safer ground, laterin the piece, when it observes: “A commonfault of academic societies is extremeparochialism”!

Chadwick’s scientific eminence and therole he played in the war effort, howevertragic the consequences, must surely beweighed in the balance. He dedicated adecade of his life to fulfilling what he saw ashis duty to Caius. And having one of thegreat scientists of the century as Mastercertainly helped to establish the Caiustradition of outstanding research thatcontinues to this day.

one could have taken her for anything else!”Chadwick did his duty, the Manhattan

Project succeeded and he was rewarded witha knighthood in January 1945, but theappalling devastation in Hiroshima andNagasaki destroyed any personal pleasurehe might have taken in that honour. Henever stopped agonizing over theconsequences of his actions and needed pills

to sleep, for the rest of his life. AsJudy recalls: “Father was absolutelyworn-out, at the end of the War.Then Chubby Stratton (1901), thePresident of Caius, came toLiverpool to offer him theMastership. He thought he owedsomething to Caius – it had playedan important part in his life – so heaccepted.”

Joanna remembers her father as aterrible worrier: “Before he gave alecture, he was unbearable! But thelecture itself was wonderful, out ofthis world.” He worried whether he hadbeen right to accept the Mastership. Hesteeped himself in the writings of JohnCaius and John Venn, perhaps hoping to

steer the post-war College down a moreaustere, traditional path, but the youngerFellows wanted more of a say – and theyorganised the so-called “Peasants’ Revolt” atthe 1950 election for the College Council.

In their first year in the Lodge, thetwins made friends with many of theundergraduates, went punting, playedtennis and generally enjoyed the noveltyof their position – less so in later years,because the undergraduates kept gettingyounger! The Master’s Lodge was much

less comfortable than it is today:“It wasn’t a real home. We had

one end, our parents had the otherand upstairs was guest rooms.Mum said she wouldn’t live in ahouse without central heating, sothey installed it, but Mrs Cameron(the wife of the previous Master)said it was unhealthy!”

Judy took various secretarialjobs in London, then settled at theBell School of Languages for thefinal 26 years of her career, retiringas Registrar “just as they were goingover to computers!” Joanna stayed inthe Lodge while working as apersonal secretary at PapworthHospital and married a banker, HughBatterham, at Caius in 1966, eightyears after her father’s resignation asMaster. Lionel Rumbelow, the CollegeButler, organised a splendid weddinglunch and Joanna is still pleased thatshe insisted on having a photographwith her father, at the Gate of Honour,before he gave her away. When Hugh

he Mastership of Sir JamesChadwick (1919), the NobelPrize-winning physicist wholed the College from 1948 to1958, is slipping from living

memory into history. No Caian under the ageof 74 can have any personal recollection ofthe Chadwick years.

Two people for whom the memory ofthose years still burns bright are Chadwick’stwin daughters, Judith and Joanna, who werejust 21 when they moved into the Master’sLodge. They came back for the May WeekParty for Benefactors in June 2014, observedthe many changes in the style and fabric ofthe College and charmed everyone they met.They clearly inherited their father’s powers ofobservation.

For a decade, Judy and Joanna were theonly young women allowed to live within theconfines of the College. They had a keensense of who was who and what washappening. In retrospect, they feel thesacrifices their father made for Caius andwhat he achieved on its behalf were neverfully appreciated. His legendary shyness wasoften mistaken for aloofness:

“But he was a lot more fun than peoplegive him credit for! When he had friendsround, they’d have a wonderful time. He andour mother were very close to Lord McNair(1906) and his wife – and he had a lot of

the Hendersons’ daughters and with Britishgirls from Roedean School, also evacuees,who were studying at the same boardingschool, but it was a traumatic upheaval.Joanna contracted TB, missed her mother andfelt dreadfully homesick, but there was nochoice: they had to get on with it:

“By the time Mum and Dad came over, in1943, we were regular little Canadians – wespoke and thought like Canadians! The Wardidn’t affect us, over there; we weren’tconscious of it. They didn’t know whatrationing was.”

The visit was more than a family reunion:Chadwick’s research into the possibility ofcreating nuclear fission, by acceleratingparticles in a cyclotron, had convinced himthat a nuclear bomb was not only possible,but inevitable. Despite huge personal doubts,he wrote the final draft of the Maud Report,which persuaded Roosevelt to commit hugeAmerican investments to develop such aweapon, through the Manhattan Project.

Chadwick was appointed to lead theBritish team in that venture, so the familymoved, first to Los Alamos, New Mexico, thento Washington DC. Chadwick established asurprising rapport with the American leader,General Groves. All this was top-secret. Judyrecalls her mother saying: “Nobody’ssupposed to know we’re English!” The twinslaughed: “She was so typically English, no-

non-academic friends, as well. He wascompletely different with his friends fromthe lab, or from Liverpool.”

Chadwick was a Lancashire boy, from afamily of modest means. The great physicist,Ernest Rutherford, spotted his scientificability at Manchester University and senthim to Germany to study with Hans Geiger.So he was interned at the start of the FirstWorld War. He told his daughters he was“paraded in front of jeering crowds.” Whenpeace returned, Rutherford moved toCambridge to become Director of theCavendish Laboratory and Chadwick came ashis deputy.

He enrolled as a postgraduate at Caiusand in 1921, as soon as he completed hisPhD, accepted a Fellowship. In 1925, hemarried Aileen Stewart-Brown, the daughterof a Liverpool stockbroker. The twins wereborn in Bentley Road, Cambridge, two yearslater. His research culminated in thediscovery of the neutron, in 1932, the sameyear and in the same lab that Cockcroft andWalton first “split the atom”. In 1935, hemoved to Liverpool to become Professor ofPhysics and received his Nobel Prize.

In 1940, the twins were evacuated toCanada, to stay with their father’s friend,George Henderson, Professor of Physics atDalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.They were not alone: they made friends with

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Left: Sir James Chadwick (1919) as his daughtersremember him.

Above: A reunion at Caius in 2014 (l-r): ProfessorChristopher Brooke (1945), Miss Judith Chadwick,Dr Anne Lyon (2001), Mrs Joanna Batterham,Mr Michael Prichard (1950) and Mick Le Moignan (2004).

Sir James with General Groves: “Nobody’ssupposed to know we’re English!

Judith with an unknown cat.

Joanna and her father on her wedding dayin the Gate of Honour.

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The May Week PartyBenefactors’ Day 2014

The Master’s traditional address to Benefactors.

David Elstein (1961)explained why he prefers

deeds to words.

Club during the recent successful BoathouseAppeal. He thanked Alice Cheng (2013) fromChina and John Saunders (1967) fromAustralia, not only for their donations, but fortravelling so far to join the party. Other Caianspresent had come from the USA, China,Australia, Japan, Singapore, Spain, Germanyand France.

The Chair of the Development CampaignBoard, David Elstein (1961) noted that Caiuswas the only Cambridge College to have raisedover £5 million per year in donations for twoyears in a row. Furthermore, the £700,000raised by the two-week Telephone Campaignwas more than twice the amount raised by anyother Oxbridge college and “surpassesanything ever achieved in any similarcampaign by any UK higher educationestablishment!”

David acknowledged other generous giftsand pledged bequests: “I have always said onthese occasions that it is deeds, not words,that matter, so I am delighted to report thatone of your number has taken that literally,and bequeathed the deeds of his house inHampstead to the College in his will: thelargest bequest in modern Caius history. So ourgreat thanks to John Chumrow (1948), for hisbenefaction and also for being with us today.”

He also thanked Dr Anne Lyon (2001),Director of Development: “In her dozen years,she has raised over £80 million in giftsreceived and pledges made. The funds raisedand the income from the growing Caiusendowment provide 50% of the cost ofrunning the College.”

After tea, many of the guests hurried tothe river, to cheer on the Caius First Women’sVIII as they bumped up to second place in theMay Bumps and the First Men’s VIII as theyretained the Headship of the River for thefourth year in succession.

May Weeks, these days, may lack theinsouciant irresponsibility of our salad days,but they are, nevertheless, great fun and all themore enjoyable for their new sense of purposeand achievement. A true celebration ofeverything Caius represents.

he May Weeks of our memoriestake place in brilliant sunshine.Relief at finishing exams andregaining a measure of freedomis fundamental to that pervasive

sense of wellbeing. The river features stronglyin these memories, punting, cherries from themarket, yes, a judicious or even injudiciousamount of alcohol, by way of celebration. Anda triumph or two for the Caius Boat Clubalways adds to the occasion.

These days, older Caians celebratesomething else as well. We meet on the finalSaturday of May Week to confirm ourcommitment to a quiet revolution that isrevitalising the College’s finances and ensuringthat the educational excellence of Caius willcontinue long into an otherwise uncertainfuture.

Over 25% of Caians now make regularmonthly or annual donations to the College.We do not do this out of nostalgia, nor from adesire to perpetuate the warm glow ofadolescent May Weeks into our dotage, butbecause we believe our College transformsyoung lives and makes the world a wiser place.

Naturally, donors give according to theirmeans, but most give a sum that is notinsignificant to their own situation. It is not atoken gesture but a statement of belief in anideal – an investment in the College’s future.Many are motivated, not only by gratitude forthe past, but by an altruistic desire to helpgifted young members of the next generationto realise their dreams.

For the May Week Party, the Collegeinvites as many benefactors and spouses asthe courts will accommodate. This year, 550guests enjoyed drinks in Tree Court, lunch inGonville Court, musical entertainments in theChapel and the Bateman Auditorium, tours ofthe Library and the Archive and tea in theMaster’s Garden.

After lunch, the Master, Sir Alan Fersht(1962) welcomed everyone and thanked themfor their support for the College, makingspecial mention of Martin Wade (1962) for thekey role he had played as President of the Boat

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the Fellows at first turnedthe proposal down. We had madethe elementary mistake of notcoupling it with any idea of what should takethe conifers’ place.

The Dean and I exchanged somepreliminary ideas about having a planting ofshaped box, but the breakthrough camewhen we learned that one of our ResearchFellows, Sarah Howe (2010), had a chapter inher dissertation about Tudor gardens. Sarahsupplied an appealing sketch for a design,mainly of box, and this won over theFellowship. For the detailed implementationof her ideas, we used the garden designer,Anthony Messent. The new scheme is now inplace, but box grows slowly, so it will be afew years before its full effect is manifest.There are Fellows who regret the removal ofthe conifers, but I am confident that in duecourse Sarah’s design will prove its worthand win general admiration. We owe hermuch gratitude.

Changes have also taken place on theWest Road site. A new planting scheme wasneeded for the site of 5 West Road, when theStephen Hawking Building was put up. Wethought Philip Brett was perfectly competentto provide a design, but the planning officialsinsisted that the College go to the expenseof employing a well-known professionalfrom outside the College.

at the Boat Club Dinner by anycrew that wins a Headship.

Another recent innovationwas the establishment ofa small allotment sitein the gardens ofHarvey Road, to betended by the graduatestudents there.

The GardensCommittee starts eachmeeting by walkinground a part of theCollege gardens.This always results inwarm appreciation of our gardeners, whowork very hard and to excellent effect. TheCommittee initiates changes from time totime, but the credit for the beauty of thegardens must mainly go to the staff, underthe leadership of Philip Brett. In tribute toour gardening staff, I quote from thedesigner, Russell Page: “Green fingers arethe extensions of a verdant heart.”

I had a happy time on the GardensCommittee, but have now completed myterm. The Committee is in safe hands,under the watchful chairmanship ofJames Fitzsimons (1946).

The refurbishment ofHarvey Court required therelocation of the gardeners’ store.The College took the opportunity tobuild a new compound in the SW corner ofthe garden there. The new building there istucked away, and there is no general accessto it, so it is little known, which is a pity,as it is an attractive structure with a shingleroof. After this compound was established,I had an exciting message from FellowDr Liz Harper (1983). She asked whether wemight permit her and her son Tristan toestablish a bee hive there. The Committeeand Philip Brett were happy for this to goahead, and some us have had the privilegeof being presented with a pot of deliciousCaius honey.

There is a sequel to this that cameabout through my being Senior Treasurer ofthe Boat Club. I learned that Justin Howard-Sneyd (1985), who had been in the men’sVIII that won the first Mays Headship ofmodern times, in 1987, has his own vineyardin SW France, called Domaine of the Bee.His best wine is called ‘Les Genoux’, and helikes to seal the cork with beeswax. We havejust been able to provide him with a smallquantity, so in the next vintage the Caiusbees will seal the bees’ knees! The wineitself has been highly praised, by HughJohnson among other experts, and is drunk

have sometimes seenvisitors to the Collegeexperiencing a kind of epiphanywhen they enter the Old Courts fromthe bustle and crowds of Trinity

Street and King’s Parade. They see our trees, shrubs, lawns and

flowers complementing our historicbuildings, and are instantly convinced, asthey whip out their cameras, that this is howa College Court should be. Buildings andplants enhance one another, and the firstrole of the gardens is to contribute to abeautiful ensemble. A court with no plantswould be too austere, however distinguishedthe architecture.

Our gardens are also for use andrecreation. May Balls, the Benefactors’ Dayparty, and Graduation Day would bediminished if held on a mere expanse ofpaving stones. Students relax on the lawns

on the West Road site, and the MrsCameron’s Day Nursery is all the

better because the children canplay outside, but the ultimate

justification is thatgardens are essential tocivilised life.Horticulture predatesfarming, and allcivilisations across the

globe have cherished

his planting proposals, ask a few questions,and approve them! The Committee has,however, found ways of having its owninput. When I joined it, the beds along theWest side of Tree Court largely consisted ofannual bedding plants, with a strip of grassbetween them and the path. We decidedthis was a fussy arrangement, and abolishedthe strips of grass to make wider beds,which were then planted with perennials –to Philip’s design. Bulbs are planted to makea Spring display before the perennials comeinto flower. The result goes much betterwith the trees in Tree Court.

The next step was to realise that theAtlantic Blue Cedar in Tree Court wasbecoming too big for its position, andthreatened to damage the foundations ofthe Chapel Apse. Also, the birch had neverbeen a good specimen. These were felled,giving the Court a more open feel, andbenefiting the splendid walnut.

When I became Chairman, I and othersgradually became unhappy with the plantingon either side of the Gate of Honour. Thisconsisted of a selection of conifers. Theywere outgrowing their space, and did notrespond well to cuttingback. The Committeeproposed to theGeneral Meeting thatthey be removed, but

traditions of gardening. There is alsoBiblical support for the primacy ofgardens: When God created Adamand Eve, he did not place them in woodland,nor on a savannah or a steppe; paradise wasa garden. ‘Paradise’ comes from a Persianword meaning ‘enclosure’ – perhaps like aCollege court.

I first became a member of the GardensCommittee when Neil McKendrick (1958)was Chairman. Early in my term of service,the Head Gardener, Charles Stuart, left. Wehad to decide what to do about replacinghim, and agreed to make Philip Brett, whowas already on the staff, Acting HeadGardener, to see if he was ready for theposition permanently.

Philip quickly showed he was more thanequal to the challenge, and he wasconfirmed as Head Gardener. This hasproved one of the best decisions I have beeninvolved in at Caius. Philip is not only veryknowledgeable about plants, and skilful inselecting and arranging them to make thebest effect, but he is also an excellentmanager of his staff and his budgetarymanagement is exemplary. Since he tookover, the gardens, including those of themany outlying College properties, are betterlooked after, at a lower cost.

Philip has made most aspects of theCommittee’s work easy. We usually look at

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Philip Brett, Head Gardener.Dean Pammenter. Michael Ford.Kevin Cooke. Chris Ford. Peter Brown in front of Harvey Court.

by Dr JimmyAltham (1965)

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and Tom Challis.

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CaiWorld

For all our Nobel Prize winners, celebrated inthis and other issues of Once a Caian…, historymay judge another Fellow and Master to bethe outstanding visionary of the twentiethcentury.

Joseph Needham (1918), (aka Li Yuese)whose extraordinary life and work were sovividly described by Neil McKendrick (1958) inour ninth issue (Spring 2009), set himself thetask of bridging the gaps between Arts andScience, East and West, Capitalism andCommunism, Christianity and Taoism.Needham realised, half a century sooner thananyone else, the need for the West to begin tounderstand and embrace the knowledge,wisdom and culture of China. He was arguablyahead of the Chinese themselves, in re-evaluating their astonishing scientific andcultural heritage.

In 1943, when the rest of the world wasfocused on quelling fascism, Needhamcontrived to have himself sent by the BritishGovernment on a one-man diplomatic missionto China, ostensibly to try and work out waysof helping Chinese universities to survive theJapanese occupation. Naturally, he completedhis original brief, but he also set to work on aprivate quest, using all the methodical skills hehad developed as a distinguished biochemist.He sought to prove his outlandish contentionthat almost all of the scientific andtechnological inventions and discoveriesclaimed by European civilization had alreadybeen developed and used in China, sometimesseveral centuries earlier!

Over the next half-century, Needhamwould produce volume after volume of hisencyclopedic Science and Civilisation in China,as ultimately incontrovertible proof of hisamazing thesis. In his obituary, in 1995, TheIndependent described it as “the greatest workof scholarship by one person since Aristotle”.

In China, Needham’s fame continues togrow. He is seen as the exceptional scholarwho first opened the eyes of the West toChina’s achievements. It was therefore in Chinathat the Master and Director of Developmentbegan their own quest for funding to endow aJoseph Needham Lectureship at Caius, tocommemorate this uniquely far-sighted Caianand Master.

There is already a well-established Caiannetwork in Hong Kong. Caians and friends ofthe College there look forward to hearing thelatest news from Cambridge during the regular,annual visits by the Master and the Director ofDevelopment. On 24 March 2014, the ChiefExecutive of the Hong Kong AdministrativeRegion, CY Leung, and his wife, Regina,

generously hosted a magnificent dinner atGovernment House. The proceeds from thesale of tickets for this event and an auctionheld on the same evening will go towards theJoseph Needham Lectureship. Arrangementswere made by a local committee of Caians,Nick (1969) and Lora (2012) Sallnow-Smith,Ray Leung (1986) and Julia Ford (1995).

CY and Regina Leung have a closeconnection with Caius: in June 2014, theycame to the College to celebrate thegraduation of their daughter, Chung Yan(2011), who has just completed a degree inEconomics.

In Shanghai, on 28 March 2014, MichaelHumphries (1972) and Guang Li (1990)generously hosted a cocktail reception andsplendid dinner for the Master, Director ofDevelopment and other guests at No.1,Waitanyuan, the grand, historic home of theformer British Consulate in Shanghai.

American Caians also admire and respectJoseph Needham’s unique contribution toworld peace and understanding. The CaiusFoundation is keen to gather support for theappeal to fund the Lectureship. On 9 June2014, Professor Peter Walker (1960) and hiswife, Wuliang, invited Simon Winchester totheir spectacular apartment in New York, tospeak to Caians and friends about his popularbiography of Needham, The Man Who LovedChina (UK title: Bomb, Book & Compass).

Peter writes that the talk “not onlyrevealed Needham’s monumental academicachievements, but brought him to life as acomplex personality, with many singularqualities and passions. By the end of theevening, it was impossible not to have beeninfluenced, impressed, and touched by hisbiographer’s eloquent account of the life ofJoseph Needham.”

All contributors to the Joseph NeedhamCollege Lectureship will be invited by theCollege to an event to mark its establishment.Further details from the Development Office.

Commemorating a Great CaianThe Joseph Needham Lectureship

Caians and friends of the College gather on the grand staircase of No.1, Waitanyuan in Shanghai, after aReception to welcome the Master and the Director of Development.

A magnificent dinner for Caians and friends, hosted by CY and Regina Leung at Government House,Hong Kong, on 24 March 2014.

The Leung family with Dr Anne Lyon on the lawn of Tree Court after the General Admission ceremony in June 2014.

Right: JosephNeedham (1918) asa young biochemist.

Below: JosephNeedham’s portraitby James Wood inthe Caius Hall.

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The Development Campaign Board meeting, February 2014 (l-r) Back row: AlanFersht, Ruth Scurr, Christopher Clarke, Martin Wade, John Mollon, James Fox,Chris Hogbin, Sam Laidlaw, Stephen Zinser, James Howell, Keith Stuart, Yao Liang.Front row: David Secher, Andrew Reicher, David Hulbert, David Elstein (Chairman)Anne Lyon, Humphrey Cobbold, Simon Bax.

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The Master and Fellows express their warmest thanks to all Caians, Parents and Friends of the College who have generouslymade donations since 1 July 2010. Your gifts are greatly appreciated as they help to maintain the College’s excellence forfuture generations.

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1929

Dr R F Jarrett *

1936

Mr J D L Drower *Dr P M M PritchardSir Peter Thornton † *

1938

Mr R L BickerdikeDr M H Clement † *Mr R E Prettejohn *Mr M M A RamsayMr P H Schurr †

1939

The Revd Canon R S C BailyMr H A H BinneyDr J P Clayton †Mr C H de Boer *Professor A E FlattMr J P Phillips

1940

Dr C M AttwoodDr J E BlundellMr R F Crocombe †Dr R F Payne †Dr D N Seaton †Mr F P S Strickland

1941

Mr D M C AinscowMr F H Butler *Mr J B FrostMr H C Hart †Dr J M S McCoy *

1942

Mr K V Arrowsmith †Mr D E C CallowMr A A Green

Professor A HewishDr G A Jones †Dr K M McNicol † *Dr R H B ProtheroeMr C Ravenhill *Mr M A H Walford

Dr A R H Worssam † *

1943

Professor J A Balint †Dr R BarnesWg Cdr D H T DimockDr W M Gibson †Professor R HarropMr G E Heald *Mr A G H House

Mr C H KelleyDr C Kingsley †Dr P W ThompsonDr W R Walsh

1944

Dr E A CooperMr P G HebbertMr D J Hyam †Dr H K Litherland *Dr J L MilliganMr N T Roderick *Mr W T D ShaddickMr R C Shepherd *Mr M R Steele-BodgerMr D J Storey † *

1945

Professor C N L Brooke

Mr K HansenMr R K HaywardMr F R McManusMr D E Rae †

Dr F C Rutter †Dr J C S Turner

1946

Dr D A P BurtonMr G G Campbell *Dr W J Colbeck *Mr D V DruryDr J R Edwards †Professor J T FitzsimonsMr G R Kerpner †Mr H C ParrDr R F Sellers *The Revd P A Tubbs †His Honour Judge Vos †

1947

Mr F N Goode †Mr J M S Keen †Mr D L Low *Mr R J SellickMr A C StruvéDr P C W Anderson †Lord Ashley of Stoke *Dr A R Baker † *Mr D G BlackledgeMr P J BunkerMr E J Chumrow

Mr D P CreaseMr D E Creasy *Mr E V A EscoffeyMr T GarrettMr L J Harfield †Mr R C HarrisProfessor J F Mowbray †Dr M R K PlaxtonMr J B Pond † *The Revd Canon A Pyburn † *Mr P R Shires *Dr R S Wardle

1949

The Hon H S ArbuthnottMr A G Beaumont †Mr E R BraithwaiteThe Rt Hon the Lord Chorley

Dr J T CookeMr K J A CramptonMr R D EmersonDr J H GervisMr J J H Haines

Mr M J Harrap †Mr E C Hewitt †Mr D H JonesMr J H KelseyMr J C Kilner †Mr C E C LongMr J Norris †Mr P T M NottMr K J OrrellMr W R Packer

Mr I G RichardsonMr A W Riley †Sir John RobsonDr J D SwaleMr D J SwordDr D A ThomasMr J F Walker

1950

Mr G A Ash

Dr A E Ashcroft *Mr D R BrewinMr M Buckley SharpMr J G Carpenter †Mr R G Dunn †Mr G H Eaton HartMr W J Gowing †Dr A C HalliwellProfessor J C HigginsDr O W Hill

Dr M I LanderMr G S LowthThe Revd Canon J MayburyMr D L H NashDr S W B NewsomMr A G C PaishMr D S ParaviciniMr J A Potts †Mr G D C Preston †Dr A J ShawMr D A SkittMr D B Swift

Mr J S H TaylorMr S P Thompson †Mr W A J TrenemanMr L F Walker †The Revd P Wright †Mr P L Young †

1951

Dr R A Aiken *Professor E BreitenbergerMr J R Brooke *Mr G H Buck †Dr A J Cameron †Mr P R CastleMr J M CochraneMr S H CookeMr A T G CooperMr R N DeanThe Revd N S Dixon †Dr V C FaberMr R B Gauntlett †Dr F B Gibberd *Dr J E GodrichDr N J C GrantThe Revd P T Hancock †Canon A R Heawood †Mr R M HillMr J P M Horner †Mr G S Jones *Professor L L Jones †Professor P T KirsteinMr M H LemonMr I Maclean †Mr E R Maile †Mr P T MarshallMr P S E Mettyear †Mr J K Moodie †Mr J J MoorbyMr B H PhillipsMr O J PriceMr S PriceDr R S O ReesMr M A C SakerMr D M SickelmoreMr W A StephensThe Revd T J SurteesMr J E Sussams †Mr A R Tapp †Mr S R TaylorMr P E Walsh †Mr C H Walton †Professor M J Whelan

Mr P Zentner †

1952

Dr A R Adamson †Mr J S BaileyProfessor J E Banatvala †Mr G D BaxterLt Gen Sir Peter BealeDr M BrettMr D Bullard-Smith †Mr C J DakinMr H J A DuganMr C B d’A Fearn

Mr G Garrett †Dr T W Gibson †Mr E S Harborne

Mr J A G Hartley †

Sq Ldr J N HerefordMr D B Hill †Mr E J HoblynMr A D E Howell *Mr G M B Hudson *Dr F A MacMillanDr C W McCutchen †Lord Morris of Aberavon

Mr P J Murphy †Sir Graeme OdgersMr S L Parsonson †Dr M J Ramsden †Professor M V Riley

Mr J K RowlandsDr N SankarayyaMr J de F Somervell †Mr R P Wilding

1953

Dr N A AtallaMr A J Bacon *Mr S F S Balfour-BrowneMr D W BarnesMr I S BarterMr P F Bates *Mr K C A BlasdaleProfessor A BrockMr J M BruceMr T CopleyMr C H CouchmanMr P H CowardDr P M B Crookes †Dr D Denis-SmithDr A H Dinwoodie † *Mr P R DolbyProfessor S A Durrani

The Revd H O Faulkner †Professor C du V FloreyMr G H Gandy †Mr B V Godden †

Mr H J Goodhart

Mr C G HeywoodMr M A HossickMr C B JohnsonDr D H Keeling †Professor J G T KelseyDr A G Kennedy-YoungMr J E R Lart †Dr R A LewinMr R LomaxDr D M MarshDr H Matine-DaftaryDr M J Orrell †Mr D H O OwenMr E C O OwenProfessor B PorterMr T I RandMr J P SeymourMr I P SharpMr P T Stevens

Professor B O WestMr J A WhiteheadProfessor J S WigglesworthMr P E WinterProf Sir Christopher Zeeman

1954

Professor M P AlpersMr D R Amlot

Mr J Anton-Smith †Dr J K BamfordProfessor J H J BancroftMr D G BatterhamMr D W BouetteMr D J BoydProfessor C B Bucknall †Dr R J Cockerill †Mr D I Cook †Dr J M G Davis *Dr J R Eames

Mr P H C EyersMr D R FairbairnProfessor J Fletcher †Professor J FriendDr A E Gent †Professor N J Gross

Mr M J Harding *Dr M HaywardProfessor R J Heald OBEMr J D Heap

Mr J D HindmarshMr R A Hockey †Mr R J Horton

Mr R W J Hubank †Mr A G HutheesingWg Cdr C J HyattMr J S Kirkham

Dr K A Macdonald-Smith *Mr R W Montgomery †Col G W A NapierMr D J Nobbs †Mr J O’Hea

Mr B C PriceMr R M Reeve †Sir Gilbert Roberts †Dr J M S SchofieldMr M H SpenceMr D Stanley

Mr M H W Storey † *Mr K TaskentMr P E Thomas

1955

Mr C F Barham †Mr M W BarrettMr J A BrooksDr J H BruntonMr A R Campbell †Dr M Cannon †Professor P D Clothier †

Mr B M NonhebelMr T R R O’ConorProfessor L L PasinettiMr A J PeckMr J A PoolesMr J J C Procter †Mr J V RawsonMr J M RiceMr C Ridsdill SmithMr C J D Robinson †Professor D K RobinsonMr I Samuels

Mr I L Smith

Mr N M B ProwseMr H J H PughMr P W SampsonDr G W SpenceDr J R R StottProfessor J N Tarn †Mr O N Tubbs †The Rt Hon Lord

Tugendhat †Mr C B TurnerThe Revd Prof G WainwrightDr D G D WightMr R Willcocks

Lord Simon of Highbury

Dr F D Skidmore

Mr A StadlenSir Keith Stuart

Mr A J Taunton

Professor B J ThorneMr F J W van SilverThe Revd J L Watson

1959

Mr C J C Bailey

Dr D J BealeMr J A BrewerMr J A Brooks

Dr D E BrundishMr J H D BurnsMr J L CooksonDr W D Davison *Dr A G Dewey

Mr M J DoddMr T H W DodwellMr J E Drake †Mr B DrewittThe Revd T C DuffMr W Eden *The Rt Revd D R J EvansProfessor J E FeganMr G A Geen †Dr J A Gibson †Mr T A J Goodfellow †Mr D N C HainesMr P M HillMr A E H HornigMr H S JohnsonMr M J D KeatingeDr C J LudmanMr G U E MbanefoMr H J A McDougallMr R G McNeerMr C J Methven †Mr M M MinogueDr C T MorleyHis Honour Judge MottMr P NeuburgMr M H O’BrianMr A F OliverProfessor G S PanayiMr B MacL Pearce HigginsMr R O QuibellDr G P Ridsdill Smith

Mr J H RileyMr J M Roberts-Jones *The Revd D G SharpProfessor Q R D SkinnerMr G S H Smeed

Mr D K ThorpeMr J E TriceProfessor P J TyrerDr I G Van BredaMr F J De W WallerDr A G Weeds

Mr J T WinpennyDr M D Wood

Mr P J Worboys

1960

Mr J G Barham †Mr B C BiggsMr A J MacL BoneDr A D BrewerThe Rt Hon the Lord BroersDr D I BrothertonDr G M ClarkeMr M G Collett *His Honour Judge CowellMr D H CrossfieldDr P DonnaiMr D J EllisProfessor R J B FrewerDr C H Gallimore †Mr N GrayMr R C F GrayDr D F HardyDr R HarmsenMr J J HillProfessor F JellettDr R M KeatingDr P M Keir

Mr A KenneyDr J A LordProfessor J S Mainstone *Dr P MartinMr M B Maunsell †Dr H F Merrick †Dr E L MorrisMr G R NiblettMr J A Nicholson

Dr C H R NivenMr M O’NeilMr W J PartridgeMr P PaulProfessor A E PeggMr A C PorterDr J D Powell-JacksonThe Revd Professor R K PriceDr A T Ractliffe †Mr P G RansleyDr R A ReidMr D J RiskMr C W M RossettiDr B M Shaffer

The Revd P SmithMr R P R TilleyMr H J M Tompkins

Dr M T R B TurnbullProfessor P S Walker

Mr A A WestMr D H Wilson †Professor F A H WilsonMr N J WinkfieldMr R D S Wylie

Dr G R Youngs †Dr A M Zalin

1961

Mr C E Ackroyd

Professor G G Balint-KurtiMr A D BellProfessor Sir Michael BerridgeProfessor R S BirdProfessor G A ChewMr A C G CunninghamDr M D DampierMr J O DaviesDr J Davies-HumphreysDr J S DenbighMr D K Elstein

Mr J A G FiddesMr M J W GageDr J M GertnerMr M D Harbinson

Mr P HaskeyMr E C HuntMr R T Jump †Dr A B LoachProfessor R MansfieldMr R G McMillan *Professor P B MogfordDr R M MoorMr A G MunroProfessor R J Nicholls †Mr J OwensDr R M PearsonMr C H Pemberton †Sir M E Setchell

Mr D E P ShaplandDr R I A SwannMr J TempleDr I G ThwaitesMr R E G TitteringtonMr V D WestDr N E WilliamsMr P N WoodMr R J Wrenn

1962

Mr M S AhamedDr J S Beale †Mr D J Bell

Dr C R de la P BeresfordMr J P BragaMr P S L BriceMr R A C ByeMr J R CampbellDr D Carr †Mr P D Coopman †Mr T S CoxCol M W H DayMr N E DrewMr W R EdwardsMr M EmmottProfessor Sir Alan Fersht

Mr J R A FlemingMr H M GibbsMr T M GlaserDr C A HammantMr A D Harris †Mr D Hjort †Professor A R HunterMr P A C JenningsMr J W JonesDr D M Keith-LucasMr J W D Knight *Professor J M Kosterlitz †

Mr F J Lucas †Dr P J MansfieldMr A R MartinMr J R Matheson *Prof Sir Andrew McMichaelDr C D S MossThe Revd Dr P C OwenMr T K PoolMr N RedwayMr G A Shindler

Dr R N F Simpson †Mr R Smalley †Dr P J W SmithMr M J StarksMr R B R StephensMr A M StewartMr J D Sword †Mr W J G TraversMr F R G Trew †Mr M G Wade

Mr D R F Walker †Mr D W B WardMr G J WeaverMr H N Whitfield †Mr R G Williams

Mr R G Wilson

1963

Dr P J Adams †Dr A J BarnesMr P N BelshawDr T G Blaney †Dr B H J BriggsDr C R A ClarkeMr R M CoombesProfessor A W CuthbertMr M H DeardenDr J R DowdleProfessor M T C FangDr H P M FromageotMr J E J GoadMr A J GrantsMr P M G B Grimaldi

Mr N K HallidayMr C F D HartDr M A HopkinsonDr R H Jago †Mr N T JonesDr D H KellyDr P KempMr B L Kerr †Mr M S Kerr †Dr V F LarcherDr R W F Le PageMr D A LockhartMr J W L LonieMiss C D MacleodMr W S MetcalfDr C W MitchellMr V L Murphy *Mr D B Newlove

Dr J R Parker †Mr M J PitcherMr J M PulmanDr J S RainbirdMr P A RookeMr I H K ScottProfessor T G ScottMr P F T SewellMr C T SkinnerDr J Striesow

Professor D J Taylor †Sir Quentin ThomasThe Hon Mr Justice

TugendhatMr P H Veal †Mr D J Walker

Dr R F WalkerDr J R C WestDr M J WestonMr A N Wilson

1964

Consul General N AdaliMr P AshtonMr D P H Burgess †Mr J E ChisholmDr H ConnorDr N C CropperMr H L S DibleyMr R A DixonDr P G FrostMr R D GallieMr J S GillespieMr A K GlennyMr G A Gray †Dr R J Greenwood †

Mr A A R Cobbold †Dr C K Connolly †Professor K G DaveyDr R A Durance †Mr J M H GlucksteinDr F R GreenleesMr R Hall *Professor R E W HalliwellThe Rt Hon the Lord HigginsMr C B C JohnsonProfessor J J JonasDr T G JonesThe Rt Hon Sir Paul Kennedy

Gonville & Caius College Development Campaign Benefactors

Thank You!

Dr A WrightMr C M Yates

1958

Mr C AndrewsProfessor R P BartlettMr J E BatesMr N B BlakeDr J F A BlowersMr T J Brack †Mr J P B BryceMr J D G Cashin †Professor A R CroftsDr J M Davies †Mr J A DixonMr K EdgerleyMr D H M FosterSir David Frost *The Rt Hon the Lord GeddesMr D T GoldbyMr W P N Graham

Dr M T HardyProfessor F W HeatleyMr D M HendersonMr J A HoneyboneProfessor J O Hunter

Mr N A JacksonMr J R Kelly

Dr G N W Kerrigan †Dr P E King-SmithDr A J KnellDr R P Knill-JonesMr E A B KnowlesMr R D Martin †Mr C P McKay †Dr D R MichellSir Douglas Myers

Mr T S NelsonDr C S A Ng

Mr R H Pedler *Mr E A PollardMr G D Pratten †Mr F C J RadcliffeDr G R RowlandsMr M P Ruffle †Sir Colin Shepherd

Mr A H Kidd

Mr M E Lees †Dr L LyonsMr J R S McDonaldMr J J MoyleDr P J Noble

Professor N D OpdykeDr J P A PageMr C H PrinceLt Col C B PritchettMr A R ProwseMr A B Richards

Dr A P RubinProfessor L S SealyMr J A B TaylorMr J D Taylor †Mr H W Tharp †Dr R B WaltonMr G Wassell †Dr P J Watkins †

1956

Professor D BailinCanon M E BartlettMr J A Cecil-Williams

Mr G B CobboldDr R CockelDr J P Cullen

Professor J S Edwards *Mr J A L EidinowProfessor G H Elder †Mr J K FergusonMr M J L FoadProfessor J A R FriendMr R GibsonMr M L HolmanMr G J A HouseholdProfessor A J KirbyHis Honour Judge Levy

Mr J D LindholmDr R G LordMr P A MackieMr B J McConnell †Dr H E McGlashanThe Revd Canon P B MorganDr B E Mulhall

Mr R R W StewartMr D F SuttonMr J R S TappMr A A Umur

Mr H de V Welchman

Dr R D WildboreDr D L Wynn-Williams †

1957

Mr A B AdarkarMr W E AlexanderDr I D Ansell †Dr N D BarnesMr D H Beevers

Mr T BunnDr T R G CarterDr J P Charlesworth †The Reverend David ClarkMr M L Davies †Dr T W Davies †Mr E J Dickens

Professor A F Garvie †Mr J D Henes †The Very Revd Dr M J HigginsMr A S HolmesMr J D Howell JonesProfessor F C Inglis †Mr A J KempMr J L LeonardMr T F MathiasDr R T Mathieson †Professor A J McCleanDr B J McGreevyMr C B MelluishMr D MollerMr M F Neale

Mr A W Newman-SandersDr M J NicklinMr T PainterMr R D Perry †Professor J E Phillips *Mr G R PhillipsonMr A P PoolThe Rt Hon Sir Mark Potter

Dr R PresleyMr N R B Prowse

Recognitionof BenefactorsCaius makes formal recognition ofits Benefactors in accordance withthe level of total gifts made to theCollege in an individual’s lifetime.Accurate records are kept and nogift is forgotten. Members of theCourt of Benefactors, who areinvited to attend the annual Feastfor the Commemoration ofBenefactors in November, havemade lifetime gifts of at least£20,000.

From time to time, theserecognition levels need to beadjusted. The College’sDevelopment Committee hasdecided that, in future, the namesof donors will be added to theBenefactors’ Wall in recognitionof lifetime gifts amounting to£1.5 million, instead of the present£1 million. For the benefit ofanyone who may be consideringmaking such a gift to the Collegein the next few months (and,needless to say, Dr Anne Lyonwould be delighted to hear fromthem!), the increase will not takeplace until 1 July 2015.

From the same date, FounderMembers of the Court ofBenefactors, who can be identifiedat College events by theirdistinctive blue and gold gowns,will be appointed once their totallifetime gifts (including firmpledges) have exceeded £250,000.Donors who reach the currentlifetime level of £100,000 before1 July 2015 will become Foundersand retain that privilege for life –on the time-honoured principle:“Once a Founder, Always aFounder...”

Donors who have madelifetime gifts of at least £50,000become Members of the StephenHawking Circle. Next year, Stephenwill complete his (first!) fifty yearsas a Fellow of Caius and ALL theMembers of his Circle and theirspouses will be invited to a veryspecial event in College. Membersare advised to save the date –SATURDAY 30 MAY 2015 – for anunforgettable celebration.

Professor Stephen Hawking (1965)

26 Once a Caian... 27...Always a Caian

Professor N D F Grindley †Professor J D H Hall †Mr M J HallProfessor K O HawkinsMr B D Hedley

Professor Sir John HolmanMr J Horsfall Turner †Mr P T InskipDr S L IshemoMr A KirbyDr R K KnightDr T LaubProfessor S H P Maddrell

Professor J M MalcomsonDr H M MatherMr S J MawerDr L E M MilesProfessor D V MorganMr G L MorleyMr R MurrayMr A K NigamDr B V Payne *Mr J H PooleDr W T PrinceDr D L RandlesProfessor N Y RivierDr C N E Ruscoe †Mr J F SellDr N M Suess *Dr R TannenbaumMr K S ThapaMr R A WallingtonDr T B WallingtonDr F J M WaltersMr R C Wells

1965

Dr J E J Altham †Professor L G Arnold †Professor B C BarkerMr J M BuchananMr A C Butler

Mr D E ButlerMr R A CharlesThe Rt Hon Lord Justice

Clarke

Dr C M Colley †Mr G B CooperMr H J Elliot *Mr J H FinniganDr A J S FolwellDr N GaneMr A J Habgood

Mr J HarrisDr D A HattersleyThe Revd P HaworthHis Honour Judge Holman †Mr R P HopfordMr I V JacksonDr R G Jezzard †Mr K E JonesProfessor A S Kanya-ForstnerMr J R H KitchingDr H J KlassThe Hon Dr J F Lehman †Dr M J MaguireDr P J Marriott

Mr S R MarshMr J J McCreaHis Honour Judge MorrisMr T MullettDr P B Oelrichs *Mr A H OrtonMr C F PinneyDr C A PowellProfessor C V ReevesDr J G RobsonMr R N RoweDr R D SharpeProfessor J D Skinner *Mr M L ThomasMr T ThomasMr I D K ThompsonDr R E WarrenMr H WeatherburnMr I R WhiteheadMr C H WilsonMr D V WilsonLt Col J R Wood

1966

Mr M J BarkerMr J D Battye

Dr D S Bishop †Mr S A BlairDr J P CalvertProfessor D L Carr-Locke

Mr P ChapmanDr C I Coleman †Mr S J CookDr K R Daniels †Dr T K DayMr C R Deacon †Mr D P Dearden †Mr P S Elliston †Mr J R Escott †Mr W P GrettonMr M Hamid OBEMr D R Harrison †Dr L E Haseler †Mr R E HickmanMr N C HircockMr R HoldenDr R W HowesProfessor R C HuntDr R Jackson *Dr W E KenyonProfessor S L LightmanDr W J LockleyMr G G LuffrumDr P I MatonDr A A MawbyProfessor P M MearaDr D J MundayMr S Poster †Dr H E R PrestonMr J N B SinclairDr R L StoneMr J A StrachanMr D Swinson †Mr P C TurnerMr J F WardleCanon B WatchornMr W J WattsMr D F White

Mr S M Whitehead †Mr J M WilliamsThe Revd R J Wyber

1967

Mr G W BainesMr N J BurtonDr R J CollinsMr G C DaltonDr W DayMr A C DebenhamMr G J EdgeleyDr M C FrazerMr P E GoreMr T HashimotoMr D G HayesProfessor R G Holloway

Dr W Y-C HungMr N G H KermodeThe Hon Lord KingarthMr R G LaneMr R J LaskoMr D I Last †Dr I D LindsayMr D H ListerMr R J LongmanDr G S MayMr T W Morton

Dr E A NakielnyMr W M O NelsonMr A M Peck

Dr A J PindorProfessor N P QuinnMr S D ReynoldsMr P RoutleyMr M S RoweProfessor J B Saunders

Mr H J A ScottMr G T SlaterMr P R WatsonMr C A WilliamsThe Revd Dr J D Yule †

1968

Dr M J Adams †Mr P E BarnesDr F G T BridghamMr A C Cosker †Mr J P DaltonMr J C EsamMr C FletcherMr J M Fordham

Mr R J FurberMr J E J GalvinMr D P Garrick †Dr E M GartnerProfessor P W GatrellMr D S GlassProfessor C D Goodwin

Dr G W Hills

Dr P W IndThe Revd Fr A KeefeMr D J Laird

Dr N J LewisProfessor R J A LittleDr D H O LloydDr R C H LyleMr B A MaceMr S M MasonMr J I McGuireDr J Meyrick ThomasMr E J NightingaleMr J NortonDr I D A Peacock *Mr M E PerryDr T G PowellMr S ReadProfessor P G ReasbeckProfessor J F RobertsMr P S ShaerfMr P J E SmithDr B TeagueDr M McD TwohigDr G S WalfordDr D P WalkerMr P E WallaceDr P R WillicombeDr P Wilson

1969

Dr S C BamberDr M BentleyDr A D BlaineyMr S E BowkettMr A C BrownMr M S Cowell †Mr S H DunkleyDr M W Eaton †Professor D J EllarMr R J Field †Dr J P FryDr C J HardwickProfessor A D HarriesMr J S Hodgson †Mr M J HughesMr D R Hulbert

Mr T J F HuntMr S B JosephMr A Keir †Mr R L KottritschDr I R Lacy †Mr C J LloydMr S J LodderMr R G McGowan

Dr D W McMorlandDr T J MeredithMr A N Papathomas

Dr C M PegrumMr P J M Redfern

Mr N R Sallnow-Smith

Mr I Taylor

Mr A P Thompson-SmithMr B A H ToddMr P B Vos †Mr A J WatersMr C R J WestendarpDr N H WhealeProfessor D R WiddessMr C J WilkesMr D A Wilson †Mr P J G Wright

1970

Mr J Aughton †Dr M E BoxerMr D BrennanDr C W BrownMr R ButlerDr D D Clark-LowesMr G J H Cliff †Mr R P Cliff †Mr D Colquhoun †Mr J EdmundsProfessor P J EvansMr M P ForresterMr L P Foulds †Professor J G H FulbrookDr D R GloverMr O A B GreenMr J D Gwinnell †Dr G L HardingMr N A J HarperMr D P W HarveyMr J W HodgsonProfessor J A S HowellMr G P Jones

Mr S D JosephMr C A JourdanMr N R KinnearMr M J LangleyProfessor M LevittProfessor J MacDonaldMr B S Missenden †Dr S MohindraMr A J NealeMr J C NeedesMr C G PennyProfessor D J ReynoldsMr W R RobertsDr I N RobinsMr J S RobinsonMr B Z SacksDr R D S Sanderson †Mr B M ShackladyMr D C SmithDr S A Sullivan †Dr S W TurnerMr N F C WalkerMr I R WatsonProfessor R W Whatmore †Professor G Zanker

1971

Dr J P ArmMr M S ArthurMr H A BecketMr R N BeynonMr S Brearley

Dr H H J Carter

Mr J A K ClarkDr R C A CollinsonMr P D M Dunlop †Mr J A Duval

Mr J-L M Evans

Dr T J GibbsDr S H GibsonProfessor M A GravesonProfessor D M HausmanMr N R HollidayProfessor B JonesProfessor M J KellyDr P KinnsDr N P LearyDr P T W LyleDr P G Mattos †Mr R I Morgan †Mr L N MossMr N D Peace †Professor D I W PhillipsDr M B PowellDr A J ReidProfessor P RobinsonMr P J RobinsonMr A SchubertDr J H SmithMr T W SquireDr P T SuchMr P A ThimontMr A H M Thompson †Dr S VogtMr S V Wolfensohn

1972

Mr M H Armour

Mr A B S Ball †Mr D R Barrett

Mr J P Bates †Dr D N Bennett-Jones †Mr S M B Blasdale †Mr N P BullMr S N Bunzl

Mr I J BuswellProfessor J R ChapmanMr J G CooperMr C G Davies

Mr P A EnglandMr J E ErikeMr P J Farmer †Mr C Finden-Browne †Mr B B W Glass

Mr R H Gleed †Mr I E GoodwinMr P G Hadley

Mr R S Handley †Dr R A HarradMr P K C HumphreysMr A M Hunter JohnstonDr W L IrvingMr J K JolliffeProfessor S M KanburMr P B Kerr-Dineen

Mr D E LambMr M J Lane

Mr C J MarleyDr D R MasonMr E F MersonMr J R MoorDr B H MorrisMr D J Nicholls

Mr R E PerryMr M D RobertsMr S J Roberts

Dr P H RoblinMr J ScopesMr P R SeymourProfessor A T H SmithDr T D Swift †Professor N C T TappMr P J TaylorThe Revd Dr R G Thomas †Mr R E W ThompsonDr A F WeinsteinCanon Dr J A Williams

1973

Dr A P AllenDr S M AllenMr P R BeverleyProfessor J V Bickford-SmithMr N P CardenProfessor R H S CarpenterDr S N ChallahMr J P CockettProfessor P CollinsMr S P CrooksMr M G DawDr P G DukeMr P C English

Mr R FoxMr G M GillDr C T GohMr F R GrimshawDr J A HarveyMr D J R HillDr R J HopkinsDr W F Hutchinson †Mr D A IrvineMr M H IrwingMr K F C MarshallMr J S MorganMr J S NangleDr C G NevillDr S P OlliffDr G ParkerProfessor T J PedleyMr J F PointsMr A W M Reicher

Dr A F SearsMr C P Stoate

Mr J Sunderland †Mr H B Trust

Mr R A WallaceMr S J WatersDr J B Wirth

1974

Mr J E AkersDr D F J AppletonProfessor A J Blake †Dr M J BlebyDr C W G BoysMr R Z BrookeProfessor C CooperDr L H CopeMr P J Craig-McQuaideDr N H Croft †Mr M D DamazerProfessor J H DaviesDr M A de BelderMr J R DelveDr A G Dewhurst †Dr E J DickinsonMr C J EdwardsProfessor L D EngleDr R D EvansMr R J EvansDr M G J GannonMr T D GardamProfessor J GascoigneMr P A Goodman †Dr P J Guider †Dr M C HarropDr W N HubbardMr W S H Laidlaw †Mr C H R LaneMr R I K LittleMr P Logan †Mr R O MacInnes-ManbyMr G Markham †Dr C H Mason

Mr P B MayesProfessor D ReddyMr N J RobertsDr J J RochfordDr D S SecherMr A H SilvermanMr C L SpencerDr D K SummersMr G K M ThompsonMr G S TurnerMr C Vigrass †Mr D K B Walker †Mr L J WalkerMr S T WeeksMr F WeighillDr R M Witcomb

1975

Mr E J AthertonMr S L Barter

Dr C J BartleyMr C J A Beattie

Mr P S Belsman

Mr D A L BurnMr A J CampbellMr H R ChalkleyMr S CollinsMr A E Cooke-YarboroughMr J M Davies

Mr C J F EdwardsDr M J FranklinMr N R GambleMr A J GottliebMr M H GrahamProfessor J F HancockProfessor R HankaMr D A HareProfessor K HashimotoMr R F HughesMr D M Mabb

Mr L G D Marr

Mr D MarsdenDr R G Mayne †Mr K M McGivernMr K S Miller †Mr G MonkProfessor A J MorganThe Revd M W Neale †Dr C C P NnochiriDr H C Rayner †Mr D J G ReillyMr P J RobertsProfessor I C RuxtonProfessor J P K SevilleMr G R SherwoodDr F A SimionCanon I D TarrantDr J M ThompsonProfessor M J UrenDr P K H WaltonMr B J Warne †Mr R S WheelhouseMr J R WoodSir William Young

1976

Mr G AbramsMr J J J Bates †Mr C A K BennMr S J BirchallDr H D L BirleyMr N G Blanshard †Mr N S K Booker

Mr L G BrewDr M P ClarkeMr D J CoxDr G S CrossCllr R J Davis †Mr P H EhrlichThe Hon Dr R H EmslieProfessor M FaureDr M J FitchettMr M W Friend

Dr K F GradwellDr F G GurryProfessor J HerbertDr J R E HerdmanDr A C J HutchessonMr R A LarkmanMr S H Le FevreDr C J LueckDr C Ma

Dr O D MansoorMr A J MatthewsDr P B MedcalfDr S J Morris

Mr D A Mruck

Dr D Myers †Mr D C S Oosthuizen

Mr J S PriceMr S J Roith

Mr P L Simon

Dr S G W SmithDr J A Spencer

Mr P C TagariDr E V J TannerMr S ThomsonMr J P TreasureThe Rt Hon N K A S Vaz

Professor O H WarnockMr A WiddowsonMr R C Zambuni

1977

Mr P J AinsworthMr P D BakerMr J H M BarrowMr S T Bax

Mr R Y BrownDr M S D CallaghanMr J D CarrollDr P N CooperDr S W CornfordDr D EilonDr K J FristonMr A L GibbMr A M HanningMr K F Haviland

Mr N J HepworthMr G C HeywoodMr R M House †Dr M S Irani

Professor G H JacksonMr B J KettleMr K A MathiesonMr R D McBainMr K H McKellar †Dr P H M McWhinneyDr L S MillsMr H N Neal

Dr R P Owens †Professor A PagliucaDr R PurwarDr K W RadcliffeMr I M Radford †Mr P J RadfordProfessor T A Ring †Dr G S SachsMr A J SalmonDr L F M ScintoMr C SiderisMr M J SimonDr P WaddamsDr P A Watson †Mr D J WhiteDr A N WilliamsMr M J WilsonMr L M WisemanMr R C Woodgate †Professor E W Wright

1978

Mr H M Baker

Mr J C BarberThe Revd Dr A B BartlettDr T G Blease †Dr G R Blue †Mr M D Brown †Mr D S BulleyMr B J CarlinMr C J Carter †Mr S A CornsDr A J DavidsonDr A P DelamotheDr P G Dommett †Mr E G DowDr J Edwards †Mr R C S Evans

Mr R J Evans †Mr P G S EvittMr T J Fellig

Mr P N Gibson

Mr A B Grabowski

Mr A D HallsDr C N Johnson †Mr D P Kirby †Mr R A Lister †Dr D R MayMr A J MorganDr J B MurphyMr A J NobleMr T D OwenMr C S PorterMr M H Pottinger

Mr M A Prior †Dr B A RaynaudMr P J ReederMr M H SchusterThe Revd A G Thom †Dr D TownsendDr W M WongMr D W Wood †Mr P A Woo-Ming

1979

Dr R AggarwalMr T C BandyMr N C Birch

Mr A J BirkbeckDr G M BlairMr G T P Brennan

Mr W Calleya-CortisDr P J CarterMr W D CrorkinMr M H DavenportDr A P DayMr N H DentonMr N G DoddDr J S DreweryMrs C E ElliottMr J ErskineProfessor T J EvansDr J R FlowersMr S R FoxMr P C GandyMs C A GoldieDr A R GrantMr J B GreenburyDr M de la R GuntonProfessor E Hagelberg

Mr N C I HardingMr R P Hayes †Mr T E J Hems †Ms C F HensonDr A W HerbertDr A D HortonMs C J JenkinsProfessor P W M JohnsonMr S C LambertMr R W LanderDr M E Lowth

Mr C L MarshMr A D MayburyMr D L Melvin

Mrs A S NobleDr R A A O’ConorMr T ParlettMrs A E PorterDr J G RegglerProfessor C T Reid †Ms C ReitterMs A M RoadsDr K C SawDr J SträsslerProfessor P C TaylorMr N A VenablesProfessor E S Ward

1980

Dr N P BatesDr L E BatesMr C R BrunoldMrs J R BurryDr C E CollinsDr L S E G DavenportMr A W DixonThe Revd Dr P H DonaldDr S L GrassieMs C G HarrisMr P L HavilandMr T L HirschDr E M L HolmesProfessor J M HolmesDr J M JaroszMr E F LewinsMr S J Lowth

Dr J MarshMr N P McBrideSir Simon Milton *Professor J R Montgomery †Mr A N Norwood †Dr J N PinesMr J H Pitman

Mr J P PonsonbyMr R N PorteousMs J S SaundersMrs M S SilmanMr J M E SilmanProfessor M SorensenDr A F TarbuckProfessor J A Todd †

Dr M ClarkMr P A CooperMrs N CrossDr M C CrundwellMr G A CzartoryskiMr P L Dandiker *Dr P A FoxDr R M HardieDr I R HardieMr P D HickmanMrs J IrvineMrs C H KenyonMr M J KochmanMr P LoughboroughMr J S MairMs E F MandelstamMr D J MillsProfessor M MoriartyDr J N Nicholls

Mr J G T O’ConorMr D H O’DriscollMrs R E PenfoundMr R J PowellMs M K ReeceProfessor D ReynaudMr A A Shah

Mrs A J SheatMs O M StewartMrs E I C Strasburger

Dr J G TangProfessor M J Weait †

1983

Dr M D AllwoodDr R F BalfourDr D B BethellDr J E BirnieMrs K R M CastelinoProfessor S-L ChewProfessor J P L ChingMr G-H Chua

Mr H M Cobbold †Dr S A J Crighton †Mr J DempseyDr A DhimanDr N D DowningMr A L Evans †Mr M J EvansMr T M FancourtMr P E J Fellows †Ms B G GibsonMr H E GillespieDr W P Goddard †Professor D R GriffinMr W A C Hayward

Mr J St J HemmingMr D M HodgsonMr R M JamesMr S J KingstonMr J F S Learmonth

Mr R L TrayDr C TurfusDr G J Warren

1981

Mrs J S AdamsMrs A M Barry †Mr A J L Burford

Dr M A S ChapmanDr W H Chong

Mr G A H ClarkMr S CoxDr D J Danziger

Mr J M DaveyMr N D J DentonMr D P S DickinsonMr J L EllacottMr N J Farr

Mr R FordMr P G HarrisMr W S Hobhouse †Mr R H M HornerMr C L M HornerMr P C N IrvenMr B D JacobsMr A W R JamesProfessor T E KeymerMr P W Langslow

Ms F J C LunnMr P J MaddockDr J W McAllisterDr A P G Newman-SandersDr O P NicholsonMr G NnochiriMs C L PlazzottaMr G A RachmanMr M W Richards

Mrs B J RidhiwaniDr R M RoopeMr T Saunders †Mrs D C Saunders †Professor F R ShuppDr J L d’E SteinerMrs P C StratfordDr D M TalbottMr K J Taylor †Mr C J TealeMs L J TeasdaleMr C J R Van de VeldeProfessor C R WaltonMr R A Warne

Dr E A Warren

Ms S Williams

1982

Dr A K BairdMr D BakerMr J D Biggart †Dr C D BlairDr H M Brindley

Yao Liang

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Mrs H M L LeeMr C Loong

Mr J B K LoughMr A J McClearyMs H J MoodyMr R H MooreMr R M Payn †Mr A B PorteousProfessor A G RemensnyderMr K C RialasMrs S D RobinsonMr A Rzym

Mrs N SandlerMr C J Shaw-SmithMr H C ShieldsDr C P SpencerThe Revd C H StebbingMr A G StrowbridgeMr R B SwedeMiss A TopleyMr C H Umur

Ms D K WadiaMs H E WhiteMr P G WilkinsDr K M WoodDr S F J Wright †

1984

Dr H T T Andrews †Dr L P BennettMs S J BradyMr J A Brodie-SmithMr R A Brooks †Mr G C R Budden †Dr S E Chua

Mrs N J Cobbold †Dr A R DuncanProfessor T G Q EisenMr A GageDr A S GardnerMr J W Graham

Dr M HarriesDr J C HarronMr L J HunterDr S IpMr M A LammingDr J R B LeventhorpeMr G C Maddock

Dr K W ManMr A D H Marshall †Mr H C S McLeanMr S MidgenMs A J MillarMr E P O’SullivanMr I Paine †The Hon Justice A I PhilippidesMr J R PollockMrs J RamakrishnanMs A H RichardsDr K S SandhuDato’ R R SethuDr R A ShahaniMrs K S SlesingerMr T C TenchProf W A Van CaenegemMr M L VincentMr A J WaltersDr T C M WeiProfessor C WildbergMrs K L WilsonDr H E WoodleyDr S H A Zaidi

1985

Dr S K ArmstrongHE Mr N M Baker †Ms C E R BartramMr G K BeggerowDr I M BellMrs J C CassaboisMr A H DavisonDr J P de KockDr E M DennisonMr M C S EdwardsMr J M Elstein †Mr K J FitchMrs E F Ford †Mr J D Harry †Professor J B Hartle †Ms P HaywardMr P G J S Helson †Dr S A HopkissonMr J A Howard-SneydMr J M IrvineDr C H JessopMs N KabirDr L J Kelly

Mr C L P Kennedy †Mr A J Landes

Mrs N M LloydMrs S MetherellDr G K MiflinDr J J N Nabarro

The Revd N C PapadopulosMr K D ParikhProfessor E S PaykelDr R J PenneyMr C R PentyMr J W PitmanMs S L PorterMr M H PowerDr D S J RampersadDr J M SargaisonMr R A SayeedMiss J A Scrine †Mr A P SeckelDr A M Shaw

Dr P M SladeDr G P SmithMrs E M SmutsMr W D L M Vereker

Dr M J J VeselýMr I R WardMrs J S WilcoxMrs A K Wilson

Ms I U M WilsonMr R C Wilson

Dr E F Worthington

1986

Dr L M AllcockMr H J H ArbuthnottMs R ArisDr A S AroraMs C B A BlackmanMr A J F CoxDr H V DaveyProfessor J A Davies †Professor R L FultonDr K GreenMr R J HarkerMr T HibbertDr M P HoranProfessor J M HuntleyMr N J IlesDr M KnightDr J C KnightMr B D KonopkaMs A KupschusProfessor J C LaidlawMr R Y-H Leung

Dr A P LockMs J R MarshDr D L L ParryThe Hon Justice Melissa

PerryMr H T PriceMr C H PritchardDr R M RaoDr P RhodesMr H J RycroftDr J E SaleMr T S SandersonMr J P Saunders †Professor A J Schofield †Dr R G ShearmurMr C D SheldonMrs E D StuartMr J W StuartDr C J TaylorMs A J TomlinsonDr M H WagstaffDr A J WatersProfessor J WhaleyMr T H WhittlestoneMr R C WiltshireMr J P Young

1987

Dr G R AlexanderMr J P Barabino

Mr J R BirdMr O R M Bolitho

Dr K L BradshawMr N R Chippington †Dr E N CooperMrs H J CourtauldMr A J CoveneyDr L T DayMrs J L Dendle-JonesDr H L DewingDr K E H DewingDr M D EslerDr A J Forrester

Dr G M Grant †Mr J W M Hak Q.C.Ms C M HarperMr S L Jagger

Dr M KarimProfessor R M KeightleyMs M L KinslerDr P KumarMr D M LambertMr W E LeeMr C A Levy

Mrs M M J Lewis

Dr J O LindsayMs E A C LockMr A W Lockhart

Mrs U U MahatmeMrs R R N MillerMr D C PadfieldMr J Porteous

Mr S L ReaMr F C RedpathDr W P Ridsdill SmithMs J M RoweDr M ShahmaneshMr D W ShoresMr A B SilasMr J M L WilliamsMr A N E Yates

1988

Dr P Agarwal

Dr M ArthurProfessor N R Asherie †Mr R S P BanerjiDr I M Billington

Mr H A Briggs †Mr J C Brown †Dr A-L BrownMr N J BuxtonMs C StewartMrs M E ChappleVicomte R H P G de RosièreDr G B DoxeyMr B D DyerMr A J EmussMr N D EvansDr N L FershtDr W K P HackenbergMs S K HailsMr E T HalversonDr E N HerbertMr L D HicksMs A E HitchingsMs R C HomanDr A D Hossack †Dr A P S KirkhamMr F F C J LacasseMr F P LittleMs V H LomaxDr I H MagederaDr M C Mirow †Dr A N R Nedderman †Dr D Niedrée-SorgMrs K J PahlMr S J ParkerMr W A ShapardMrs R J SheardDr R M SheardMrs A J L SmithMr A J SmithMr R D SmithThe Revd J S SudharmanDr R M TarziMs F R TattersallMr M E H TippingMrs L Umur

Mr A G VeitchMr A E Wellenreiter

Ms J B W WongDr F J L Wuytack

1989

Dr L C AndreaeDr C E BebbProfessor M J Brown †Dr J T ChalcraftDr E A Cross †Dr S FrancisMr P E GilmanMr G R Glaves †Dr C D GreenMr S M GurneyDr A J HartMr S M S A HossainDr P M IrvingMr N C Jacklin †Mrs L Jacklin †

Mr G W Jones †Mr T E KeimMr J P KennedyDr V A KinslerMr J R Kirkwood †Mr T LimDr R B LoewenthalMrs L C LoganMr I M MafuveMr B J McGrathMr P J MooreMs J H Myers †Mr H T ParkerDr K J PatelDr S L Rahman HaleyDr A J RiceMr N J C Robinson †Mrs C RomansMr S C Ruparell †Mr A M P Russell †Professor Y SakamotoMrs D T SladeDr N SmeuldersMr J A SowerbyDr K K C TanMs S Vassilikioti

Dr A D Henderson †Mr R D HillMr M B JobMr H R JonesDr P A Key

Dr S H O F KorbeiMr S A KyddMr G C Li

Ms A Y C LimMr M C LongDr M B J LubienskiMr J S MarozziMiss M L MejiaMr T Moody-Stuart †Mr G O’BrienMr S T OestmannMs M E J PackDr C A PalinDr J M ParberryMr R RajagopalDr S J RogersDr K P SainsburyMiss S SatchithananthanMr P C SheppardMr L ShorterDr J Sinha

Dr A H DeakinMrs C R DennisonDr S DormanDr A DunfordDr C S J FangDr S C FrancisMs L R GemmillMr I D GriffithsMr A HeckmannMr N W HillsDr A J Hodge †Mr A R HorsleyDr N I HorwitzMr W G IrvingDr J P Kaiser †Professor F E KaretMr J R KayeProfessor K-T KhawMrs R R KmenttDr H J LeeMr I J LongMr D F MichieDr H R MillsDr C A PalmerMrs L P ParberryMr D R Paterson

Mr W T DiffeyDr A A G Driskill-SmithDr R S DunneDr I FordeDr E M GarrettMr T A GouldMr R A H GranthamMs L K GreevesDr F M HainesMs K A HarrisonDr S L HerbertMr O HerbertMs J Z Z Hu

Mr J KiharaProfessor C KressMr W Li

Mr J Lui †Mr T P MirfinDr C R MurrayMr R L NichollsMrs J A O’HaraDr K M ParkMrs P L PowerDr A J PowerDr A J PrendergastMr R A A Qureshi

Professor M GaldieroDr A GallagherDr F A GallagherMr A GambhirMrs N J GibbonsMr C E G Hogbin

Ms S J HollandDr R C HoltMr E J How *Dr A KalhoroDr G A J KellyMr C S KlotzMr M R Nogales

Mrs A J M NovakProfessor A D OliverDr A J PenroseMr R B K PhillipsDr J F ReynoldsMrs L Robson BrownMr C A RoyleProfessor A P SimesterMr D R StonehamDr T WaltherMrs K WestphelyMiss S T WillcoxMr R J Williams

Mrs E H WadsleyMrs T E Warren †Ms G A Wilson

1990

Dr S A S Al-YahyaeeMr M C BattDr T P BonnertDr A M BuckleMr C H P CarlMr M H Chalfen

Dr S-Y ChanMs V N M ChanDr L C ChappellMrs Z M ClarkDr A A ClaytonMrs J F ClementMr I J ClubbMr P E DayMr S G P de HeinrichMr A A DillonDr D S GameMrs C L GuestMr A W P GuyMr R J E HallDr C C HayhurstMr A D HedleyMr I D Henderson †

Mr J F SkinnerProfessor M C SmithMr G E L SpanierProfessor S A R StevensDr M H M Syn

Mr C SynnottDr J C WadsleyDr G D WillsMr K L Wong

1991

Mr M W AdamsMs J C Austin-OlsenDr R D Baird †Dr A A BakerDr P BentleyMr C S BleehenMrs M S BowdenMr D H B BurgessMrs C J BurgessMr C R ButlerMr A M J CannonMr D D Chandra †Mrs B ChoiMr N C CockrellDr P A DalbyDr C DaviesMr T R C Deacon

Dr A ReichmuthMrs C J RichardsDr D A RipponMs I A RobertsonMiss V A RossDr A F RouthMs P N ShahMr A SmeuldersMr J A SpenceMr J G C TaylorMs G A UsherMr M J WakefieldMr C S WaleMr S J WrightSister H M Wynne *

1992

Dr M R Al-QaisiMs E H AugerMrs S P Baird †Mr A J BarberMs S F C BravardMr P N R BraveryMr N W BurkittMs J R M BurtonMr N R CampbellMr C R G CattonMr P E Clifton

Mr J D SaundersMr H E SerjeantsonMr D P SomersMrs R C Stevens †Mrs D E B SummersMr R TarlingDr S R J TaylorMaj D M Thomas *Dr D I ThomsonMr G S J VeyseyMrs J M WalledgeMrs K WieseMr C M WilsonMr L K Yim

1993

Mr A S BasarMr M T BiddulphMrs F C BraveryDr A C G Breeze †Ms A J BrownhillDr C ByrneMr P M Ceely †Mr P I CondronDr E A CongdonDr E C CorbettMrs J L CrowtherMr B M DavidsonDr R J DaviesMr O S DunnMr P A EdwardsMr M R EnglandDr A S EveringtonDr I R Fisher

Dr F A WoodheadMrs A J Worden

Mr T J A Worden

1994

Mr J H AndersonMr A ArthurProfessor G I Barenblatt †Dr R A BarnesMs R D BarrettMs I-M BendixsonProfessor D M BetheaMrs S A BiddulphDr S A BoardDr W E BooijMrs C H S CattonDr L ChristopoulouDr D J CreaseMr N Q S De SouzaMs V K E DietzelDr T C Fardon †Dr E H FolwellMr S T FolwellDr J A FraserMr S S Gill

Mrs C E GraingerMr R S GreenwoodMrs E Haynes †Mr R J M Haynes †Ms C E KellMr A P KhawajaMrs R A LyonMr R R MehtaMs C E Paradise

Mr J P PetevinosMrs C L PetevinosDr S G A PitelMrs R L QuarryMr P D ReelMr P H RutkowskiDr M J P Selby

Mr L R SmallmanDr P J Sowerby SteinDr M StaplesProfessor M A SteinDr K-S TanDr R R TurnerMr M A WoodDr B D Zalin

1995

Mr B J H af ForsellesDr K J af ForsellesDr M C BaddeleyMr M E BrelenMr J S D BuckleyMr D F J-C ChangMr C ChewMr C-H ChimDr A C Cooke

Mrs S A WhitehouseDr C H Williams-GrayMr E G WoodsMr S S Zeki

1996

Ms E J BarlowMr S T BashowMrs R S BaxterMrs S E BirshanMiss A L BradburyMiss C E CallaghanMr K W-C ChanMajor J S CousenMrs L N E CurtisMr J R F DaltonDr M C DaveyMr G D EarlMrs J H J Gilbert †Professor D A GiussaniMr I R HerdDr S J LakinMiss F A MitchellProfessor J D Mollon

Mrs L V NortonDr I D PlumbDr S RajapaksaMr A J T RayMr J K ReaMs V C ReeveMr P S Rhodes †Mr J R RobinsonMr D ScannellMr D C ShawMr C M StaffordMr C C StaffordMr A H StainesMr R L SummersMr D J Tait †Ms E-L TohMr B T WaineMr C G Wright †Mr K F Wyre †Mr W R Younger

1997

Dr U AdamMs A Ahmad ZaharudinMr G H ArrowsmithMr A J Bower †Mrs C ChuMrs R V ClubbMr A J D CraftDr K O DarrowMr I Dorrington

Mrs J R EarlMrs P G EatwellDr E J Fardon †Dr P J FernandesDr T M FinkDr S P FitzgeraldMr J FriedaDr J P GraingerDr D M Guttmann †Dr A E HelmyProfessor C E Holt †Mr L T L Lewis

Mr A W J LodgeMr G D MaassenMs E A MartinMs V E McMawDr A L MendozaMs H M E NakielnyDr S Nestler-ParrMiss R N PageMiss R PatelMr H D PimMs E D SarmaDr D R Secker-WalkerDr G A M SmithDr J H Steele IIMr S J StrettonMr B SulaimanDr R SwiftDr K S TangMr A ThakkarMr T J UglowMr E Zambon

1998

Mr I K AliMiss E H BarkerMs H M Barnard †Mr D M BlakeMr A J BryantMiss S K-V ChanDr A P Y-Y Cheong

Mr D W CleverlyMiss C E CooksonMr F W DassoriMr B N DeaconDr P J DilksMr J S DrewnickiMiss L E EadenMrs L E EtheringtonMr J A EtheringtonMr T S B FletcherDr S E ForwoodMr L M FranklinMr D G HardyDr A N HarmanMr H M Heuzenroeder

Revd Dr J M HolmesDr C Lo NeroMr M H MatthewsonDr K J MetcalfMs E MilsteinMr H R F Nimmo-SmithMr A J PaskMr I T PearsonMr P S RobertsProfessor R P L ScazzieriDr O SchonDr T ShettyDr D P SmithDr H I TaylorDr P B M ThomasMs S C ThomasDr D B WhitefieldMr R A WoodMr D J F Yates †Mr J K L Yau

1999

Mr P J AldisMr M N AshleyMr M BaroniMr R F T Beentje †Miss C M M BellMr D T Bell

Miss C C BeresfordMr P BergDr C L BroughtonMrs J E BusuttilMs J W-M ChanMr J A CliffeMr J D ColeyMr A M CombesMs H B DeixlerMiss L M DevlinMr G T E DraperMr A FiascarisMs S Gnanalingam

Mrs F C HardingMr A P HoldenMr R H J HoldenMr B HolzhauerMs J M JamesDr L JinMr A F KadarDr C M LambMr M W LaycockMr I MaluzaMr J W MollerDr C ParrishMr M A PinnaDr J S ReesMiss S J ReynoldsMr A M RibbansMr A C SinclairDr J D StainsbyProfessor T StraessleMr J H T TanMrs K L TuncerMs A P WalkerDr G L WalmsleyMr H-S WongMr A R R WoodMr M I WrightDr P D Wright †Ms Y Yamamoto

2000

Professor J M AllwoodMr R D BamfordDr M J BorowiczMr J F CampbellMrs R A CliffeMr M T CoatesMr S G DaleMiss J L DickeyMr T P FinchMr E D H FloydMr M J Harris

Dr W J E HoppittMrs J M HowleyMr J M HuntMs C A HuntMrs V KingMr G P F KingMiss M LadaMr F Y LaiMiss C N LundDr V P MadeiraDr I B MaloneMr A T MassourasDr A R MolinaDr A G P Naish-GuzmánMajor D N NaumannMr H S PanesarMr D D Parry †Mr O F G PhillipsDr C J RaysonMr C E RiceMr M O SalvénMr A K T SmithMiss C E SmithMrs K E SymonsMiss S TandonMr J A P Thimont

Dr M TosicDr G S VassiliouMiss C H VigrassDr D W A WilsonDr H Zimmermann

2001

Dr S AbeysiriDr M G AdamMiss R L AveryMr D S BediMr B BednarzMiss A F ButlerMr J J CassidyDr J W ChanDr C J ChuMiss E S CollinsMr E H C CornMs J L CremerDr M G DracosDr S M FairbanksMrs A C FinchDr C F K GhidiniMr C M J HadleyMiss L D HannantMs Y HeMr G A HerdDr D P C HeymanMr D HintonMr O A HomsyMr A J P HouseMr A S KadarDr M J LewisDr P A Lyon †Professor P MandlerMiss J J-W MantleMr M MargrettMr A S MasseyDr A C McKnightMrs J C MendisMr R J G MendisProfessor R J MillerMr D T MorganMiss S E MrowickiMr G R F MurphyMr H M I MussaMr J Z W PearsonMr A L PeggDr R A Reid-EdwardsMiss A E C RogersMr C G ScottMrs J M ShahMr K K ShahDr S J SpragueMr S S-W TanMiss F A M TreanorMrs S J VanheganDr C C WardDr R A Weerakkody

2002

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2003

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2004

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2005

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2006

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2007

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Mr & Mrs R von Eisenhart RotheMs C J VordermanMr & Mrs T R WakefieldMrs A J Walker

Bold represents Membership of the Court of Benefactors. The current qualification for full membership of the Court of Benefactors is lifetime gifts to the College of £20,000.

† member of the Ten Year Club * deceased

We also wish to thank those donors who prefer to remain anonymous

Dr & Mrs J D WalkerMr H Wang & Dr Z HuangDr & Dr G WarnerMr & Mrs A J WeaverMr & Mrs M J WellbeloveMr & Mrs A S WellsMr & Mrs P WellsMr C C Wen

Puan Sri C C Y WenMr & Mrs R A WestonMs J E WhiteMr & Mrs T C J WhiteMr & Mrs N Y White Mr & Mrs I G WhyteMr & Mrs M B WilkinsonMr & Mrs P WilkinsonMrs A S WillmanMr & Mrs W R Wilson †Mr & Mrs K WithnallMr B Y P WongMr & Mrs W K W WongMr & Mrs M P WooderMr & Mrs M WoodwardMr & Mrs P M WoodwardDr A R & Dr H A Wordley †Mr J Xiong & Ms H ZhouProfessor Q Xu & Dr Y HuMr & Mrs Y YamamotoMs E S G Yates

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Mrs H E M Young

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Corporate Donors

AccentureAgouron InstituteApax Partners LLPBandar Raya Developments

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MBNA International Bank *Michael Miliffe Memorial

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The Caius Foundation Board meeting in New York, November 2013 (l-r):Peter Walker, Anne Lyon, John Lehman (President), Alan Fersht, James Hill,Francis Vendrell, Eva Strasburger.

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The article in last year’s Once a Caian… (Issue 13, p.20) on the parts played by Caians in thedevelopment of Genetics prompted some reflections from Professor Sam Berry (1953), probablythe oldest survivor of Genetics Part II, which he studied under RA Fisher (1909) in 1955-6.Sam Berry writes... Henry Bennett (1950) was my supervisor for the first term of my Part II,but disappeared to Australia at Christmas 1955. (I tell people he got engaged to the daughterof the High Commissioner for Australia, and was given the Adelaide Chair the next day. I suspectthis is apocryphal, but it is a good story.) Henry tried to get me to Adelaide some years laterfor Andrewartha’s Zoology Chair, but I wasn’t tempted enough.

Fisher’s lectures were given jointly to Part II Geneticists and Part III Mathematicians.We were told we would not understand them – if this was still happening 2 or 3 years later,perhaps Anthony Edwards (1968) did – but we were advised that our attendance would bea mark of respect for the Professor.

In those palmy days of the mid ’50s, there was not enough Genetics about (or at least,not in the Cambridge Department) to teach a whole year’s worth, so “gentlemen were requiredto chose another cognate subject.” Most people opted for cytogenetics with HaroldWhitehouse; I did embryology in Zoology.

I had to leave Cambridge before Fisher discovered I couldn't do calculus. The lastconversation I had with him was when he asked me what I was proposing to do after Cambridgeand I replied a PhD at UCL. He grunted, “I don't think much of your choice.” End of conversation.

JBS Haldane was Head of the UCL Department at the time and Lionel Penrose had Fisher’sold Chair. After my PhD and a post-doc at UC (mainly spent catching rats living on radioactivesand in Kerala), I moved to the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine for 14 years, where I wasthe first Lecturer in Genetics at any of the London Medical Schools. There had been geneticistspreviously, but they were always appointed for other reasons – such as statistics or paediatrics.After that, I went back to UC – first as joint-head of Genetics, then to Zoology with Av Mitchison.

Despite teaching in a Medical School – or perhaps because I needed an excuse to escape as often as possible from London – myresearch studies became largely ecological, investigating genetical processes in natural populations. This led me to catch mice insomewhat esoteric places, including Enewetak Atoll (which was used as a nuclear bomb testing site by the US), Hawaii and theAntarctic, together with many Scottish islands.

I was led into all this by Bernard Kettlewell (1926), a GP who developed from a keen amateur entomologist into a professional, andcarried out classical experiments on melanism in the Peppered Moth. I went with him to work on non-industrial melanism in theShetland Islands, and was seduced by genetics outside the laboratory or clinic. For better or worse, I spent the rest of my working lifeas an ecological geneticist.

Kettlewell was a co-lepidopterist in Caius with Cyril Clarke (1926), who went on to become President of the Royal College ofPhysicians and is noted for devising the method to prevent human “rhesus disease”, coincidentally an interest of Fisher’s. Well into hisdistinguished medical career, Clarke returned to his early passion for butterflies when he teamed up with Philip Sheppard, the Professorof Genetics in Liverpool (where Clarke was Professor of Medicine). He claimed that his ideas about rhesus incompatibility came fromhis studies on mimicry and super-genes in Swallow Butterflies.

All this is very trivial (except for me) – but it all started in Caius.

Gentlemen Geneticists

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It was a very particular kind of terror. The four of ushad never met. We had been thrown together by thenever-explained choices of an omnipotent UniversityChallenge producer, and before we even began tothink about dealing with Jeremy Paxman we had towork out whether we would come to blows or optfor solidarity rooted in a mutual sense ofvulnerability. We opted for the latter course and thenicest thing about the entire adventure was that webecame friends.

We had one desultory pre-match conference call where you could smell the nerves. Lars was the jolliest – possiblybecause he privately knew that he could cope with the upmarket picture questions. Our elaborate game plan was to pretendthat we were enjoying it, not get cross with one another and remember to hit the buzzer when you knew an answer.

Armed with this sophisticated strategy we arrived for the first recording in Manchester – against Christ Church’s glitzyteam. To our mild amazement we each knew different things, a key to success, and accumulated points rather rapidly. Wewere, however, unable to buzz when asked by an incredulous Paxman how to spell ‘woollen’. Whenever we got an answerwrong we covered our tracks by proclaiming ‘of course’ when Paxman read out the answer. This he regarded with contempt.

We returned the following week for the semi-final intoxicated by the facts that we had avoided total failure, would nothave to hide and Caius was not to be disgraced. Indeed for much of the semi-final we were struck dumb – in part by theshirt of Lancaster University’s captain – some tropical concoction. We woke up just about in time.

The final against Emmanuel seemed to have been won quite quickly. Again, each of us was able to contributesomething. The chickens having been counted – we went quiet again. But a late spurt secured victory. We asked if there wasa trophy. Paxman retorted with a snort you could hear in Caius Court.

Mark Damazer (1974), Master of St Peter’s College, Oxford

New ChallengeIn the first round of the new series of University Challenge, in August 2014, the Caius student team gave a very impressiveperformance, defeating St Anne’s College, Oxford, by a margin of 305 points to 105.

Challenge Met!

Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser (1986), Dr Helen Castor (1986), QuizmasterJeremy Paxman, Mark Damazer (1974) and Lars Tharp (1973).

In 2009 a party of 280 Caians attended the Varsity Match, and fiveyears on we’d like to see if we can do the same. We have managed tosecure a package which includes a match ticket, a 2 course hot buffetin a private room with ½ bottle of wine per head and tea and coffeefor £92.00 per head.

If you would like to join us at the 133rd Varsity Match, please completethe form that can be found at www.cai.cam.ac.uk/varsitymatch andreturn it to the Development Office along with your payment.

Left: Sam Alderson (2011) walking out to represent Cambridge at the 2013 Varsity Match. We hope thathe’ll make the squad again this year.

Sam Berry.

Rat catching in Kerala.

Thursday, December 11th • Kick Off 14:30

Dipping SauceIngredients:

25ml sesame oil

1 or 2 chillis, finely chopped

35g ginger

1 lemon grass, finely chopped

3 lime leaves

2 cloves garlic, crushed

125ml dark soy sauce

100ml light soy sauce

1 tsp sugar

Method:

Heat the sesame oil in a pan andfry the garlic, chilli, ginger, lemongrass and lime leavesfor one minute.

Then add thedark and light soysauces and thesugar, cool andput in individualdishes.

By special request from guests who attended the Caius Benefactors’ Feast in November 2013, here is Tony Smith’s recipe for the fish course.The dipping sauce is not optional!

Baked Sea-Bass in Banana Leaves

For the Sea BassIngredients:

35ml sesame oil

3 chillis finely chopped

3 sticks lemon grass roughlychopped

80g ginger roughly chopped

4 cloves garlic, crushed

8 lime leaves, roughly chopped

15g coriander

8 x 200g sea bass fillets

2 banana leaves

Method:

Preheat the oven to 200°C, heatthe sesame oil in a pan and frythe chillis, garlic, ginger andlemon grass.

Add lime leaves and let the mixturestand for a couple of minutes. Thenput it in a food processor with thecoriander and chop finely. Spreadthe paste on each fillet and wrap itin the banana leaf like a parcel.

Bake for 10-15 minutes and serve.

Executive ChefTony Smith

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This year, the organisers of the 83rd Tour de France, havingbelatedly realised that Cambridge is the capital of thecycling universe, started Stage 3 here. Our photograph,taken by the Master, Professor Sir Alan Fersht (1962), showsthe peloton streaming past Chateauneuf de Caius.

The Tour de France 2014

Jeremy Prynne (1962), CaiusLibrarian from 1969 to2006, sent in this brieftribute to George Bolton,the Library’s principalconservator of books formany years. It seemsappropriate to publish it inJeremy’s “own fair hand”.

Below: The photographerphotographed by JamesHowell (2009).

At a meeting of the Sherrington Society at Caius in the Easter Term of 2014, Professor Lord (Martin) Rees, the Astronomer Royal, past President of the Royal Societyand past Master of Trinity, engaged in a lively exchange with his old friend, Professor Stephen Hawking (1965) about the existence of multiple universes.

The Sherrington Society at Caius

In Memoriam,George Bolton

Overheard from a cyclist, riding the wrong way downPortugal Place, on being reproached by a pedestrian:“This is Cambridge – we do as we like!”

Arguing with an Engineer is like wrestling with a pig:after two hours, you realise the pig is enjoying it!

Anon

Afterthoughts...

Alan Fersht

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Hannah Snellgrove (2009) learned to sailat the Salterns Sailing Club in Lymington, andprogressed to competing on a National andInternational level in a Laser Radial as amember of the RYA National Youth Squad.She has been a member of the British SailingTeam since 2009, campaigning a Laser Radial– the women’s single-handed Olympic classof boat. Hannah was forced to take two yearsout from sailing when she contracted theEpstein Barr Virus and M.E. at the age of 16.This also affected her schooling, but notenough to stop her gaining a place at Caius.Taking a Gap Year to recover from her illness,she returned to sailing and had considerablesuccess in the International summer eventsof 2009 culminating in her selection for theSkandia Team GBR Olympic Training Group.

She completed her first year at Caius inJune 2010 and then deferred for a year inorder to train for and participate in the trialsfor a place in the British Team for the LondonOlympics. With only one spot for eachcountry in each class of boat, she narrowlymissed out on a place for the London Games,but returned to Cambridge even moredetermined to make the team next time. Thefirst competition she has to win is with herown team-mates, saying: “I could be secondbest in the World, but if the World numberone is British, I won’t go to the Games”.

In the summer of 2012 Hannah becamethe first female ever to become the BritishLaser Radial Champion. Given the amountof time she was expected to dedicate toher sailing, one might think her academicwork would suffer, but Hannah gained aFirst class degree and won the John ReekieMemorial Prize for the best geologydissertation in the year.

Since leaving Caius last year, she hasbeen training and competing full time, withthe aim of representing Team GB in Rio 2016.She came 9th in the Laser Radial Women’sEuropean Championships 2013, won Bronzeat Copa Brasil de Vela in Rio de Janeiro andcame 8th at the Hyères ISAF World Cup

Event. She says “the ultimate goal is tobring an Olympic medal home from Rio2016 and, looking beyond, to do the same inTokyo 2020”.

Melissa Wilson (2011) was a noviceoarswoman when she arrived at Caius, but bythe Lents she had shown such promise thatshe had already made it into the Caius firstboat. After further success in the Mays at theend of her first year, Melissa decided to trialfor the University squad and by January 2013she was in the Blue Boat which went on towin the gold medal at the British Universitiesand College Sports Head the followingmonth. Melissa won her first Blue whenthe Newton Women’s Boat Race tookplace at Eton Dorney, her second atHenley last year and is hoping to beback in the Blue Boat when theWomen’s Boat Race moves to theTideway for the first time on April11th 2015. Each morning until then,she will catch the 5.55 am train fromCambridge to Ely, for one of thetwelve training sessions of the week,seven on the water, three on ergometersand two weight training.

Last October Melissastroked the Blue Boat to aBronze Medal at the nationalchampionships, behind the two Great Britaincrews, after which she decided to trial forthe national squad. She was selected torepresent her country at the Under-23World Championships in Varese, Italy, thisJuly, where she won a Silver Medal aftera narrow defeat by the USA. Hermission is now to break into the seniorsquad which will assemble at theRedgrave-Pinsent Rowing Lake atCaversham in September 2015 tobegin its build-up to the Olympics.“There are already two settled GBcrews” says Melissa, “but if I can buildon the experience I have gained withthe Under-23’s, who knows…?”

Hayley Simmonds (2012) is a graduatestudent who moved to Caius fromNewnham to do a PhD in Chemistry. As anundergraduate she was a successful rower,stroking the University’s Blondie crewagainst Oxford at Henley in 2009, but inthe following year she gave up the river forthe road, and took up cycling. This yearalone, Hayley has won nine BritishUniversities and College Sports (BUCS)Championship medals (8 gold and 1 silver)and was awarded a second full Blue for herpart in securing a Varsity win forCambridge.

Hayley is now building towards a careeras a professional cyclist when she finishesher PhD in 2016. Over the summer she hasbeen road racing with the Velosport-PastaMontegrappa team, and made a guestappearance in the Tour de Bretagne Fémininfor Pearl Izumi Sports Tour International,but she is probably best known as a timetrialist. She has won two national titles,over 10 and 50 miles and came second inthe 25 mile event behind cycling legend,Dame Sarah Storey. Her personal best timeof 20.28 minutes for 10 miles works out atan average speed of 29.58 mph, and over10 or 25 miles she is the fourth fastestBritish woman ever.

Getting to the Olympics in 2016 isher goal, but she admits it won’t be easy.Having taken up the sport late, she’s noton a National Lottery funded trainingprogramme, so she says “I’ll just have toget a major result that they can’t ignore”.She would need to do this in aninternational time trial or at the BritishChampionships, securing a place in theBritish Team for the World Championshipsand then possibly Rio.

Melissa, Hannah and Hayley were allrecipients of Bell Wade awards, a fundestablished to support students at Caiuswho are pursuing excellence in bothscholarship and sport. To train at this level,while at the same time keeping up withtheir studies, requires immense dedicationand commitment, often financial. All threeyoung women were keen to acknowledgethe support they had received from theCollege and to thank Martin Wade andDavid Bell (both 1962) for their generosityand vision in endowing the Bell Wade fund,that does so much to enable elite sportsmen and women to study at Caius.

by James Howell (2009)

Left: Melissa Wilson (2011) third from left, on theSilver Medal podium at the Under 23 WorldChampionships in Varese, Italy.

Above left: Hannah Snellgrove (2009) on her wayto becoming Laser Radial National Champion inJuly 2012.

Readers of Once a Caian… will bewell aware of the fantasticachievements of Caius oarsmenand women over the last 20 years,and will share our excitement atthe prospect of getting a newBoathouse for the Caius Boat Club.Many of our top sporting stars go onto represent the University, butthree young Caians have shown thatthey can perform on the nationaland international stage and haverealistic chances of representingGreat Britain at the Olympics inRio de Janeiro in 2016.

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