College Record 2018

THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE 

COLLEGE 

RECORD 2018

THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE 

Visitor 

The Archbishop of York 

Provost 

Madden, Paul Anthony, MA Oxf, DPhil Sus, FRS, FRSE 

Official Fellows and Professorial Fellows 

Blair, William John, MA DPhil Oxf, FBA, FSA 

Robbins, Peter Alistair, BM BCh MA DPhil Oxf 

Hyman, John, MA BPhil DPhil Oxf 

Nickerson, Richard Bruce, BSc Edin, MA DPhil Oxf 

Davis, John Harry, MA DPhil Oxf 

Taylor, Robert Anthony, MA DPhil Oxf 

Langdale, Jane Alison, CBE, BSc Bath, MA Oxf, PhD Lond, FRS 

Mellor, Elizabeth Jane Claire, BSc Manc, MA Oxf, PhD R’dg 

Owen, Nicholas James, MA DPhil Oxf 

Ball, Sir John Macleod, MA Camb, MA Oxf, DPhil Sus, 

FRS, FRSE 

Rees, Owen Lewis, MA PhD Camb, MA Oxf, ARCO 

Bamforth, Nicholas Charles, BCL MA Oxf 

O’Reilly, Keyna Anne Quenby, MA DPhil Oxf 

Louth, Charles Bede, BA PhD Camb, MA Oxf 

Norbury, Christopher John, MA Oxf, PhD Lond 

Doye, Jonathan Peter Kelway, BA PhD Camb 

Buckley, Mark James, MA DPhil Oxf 

Aldridge, Simon, MA DPhil Oxf 

Capdeboscq, Yves Célio Romain, MA Dipl Camb, MSc Éc. 

Cent. Paris, MA Oxf, PhD Paris 

Timms, Andrew, MA Camb, MPhil PhD Brist 

Meyer, Dirk, MA PhD Leiden 

Papazoglou, Panagiotis, BS Crete, MA PhD Columbia, 

MA Oxf, habil Paris-Sud 

Lonsdale, Laura Rosemary, MA Oxf, PhD Birm 

Beasley, Rebecca Lucy, MA Berkeley, MA PhD Camb, MA Oxf 

Crowther, Charles Vollgraff, MA Camb, MA Cincinnati, 

MA Oxf, PhD Lond 

O’Callaghan, Christopher Anthony, BM BCh MA DPhil DM 

Oxf, FRCP Lond 

Robertson, Ritchie Neil Ninian, MA Edin, MA DPhil Oxf, 

PhD Camb, FBA 

Phalippou, Ludovic Laurent André, BA Toulouse SE, 

MA SoCal, PhD INSEAD 

Gardner, Anthony Marshall, BA LLB MA Melbourne, PhD NSW 

Tammaro, Paolo, Laurea Genoa, PhD Bath 

Guest, Jennifer Lindsay, BA Yale, MA MPhil PhD Columbia, 

MA Waseda 

Turnbull, Lindsay Ann, BA Camb, PhD Lond 

Parkinson, Richard Bruce, BA DPhil Oxf 

Metcalf, Christopher Michael Simon, MA Edin, MPhil DPhil Oxf 

Whidden, Seth Adam, BA Union College, MA Ohio State, 

AM PhD Brown 

West, Elliott, BA Texas, PhD Colorado 

Kets, Willemien, BSc MSc Nijmegen, PhD Tilburg 

Prout, David, MA Oxf, PhD Lond 

Senior Research Fellows 

Kringelbach, Morten Lindtner, BSc MSc Copenhagen, DPhil Oxf 

Sarooshi, Dan, LLB NSW, LLM PhD Lond, MA Oxf 

Yassin, Ghassan, BSc MSc PhD Keele 

Kelly, Steven, BSc Dub, DPhil Oxf, ARIAM 

Hollings, Christopher David, MMath PhD York 

Junior Research Fellows and Career Development Fellows 

Kennefick, Ciara, BCL Cork, BCL MPhil DPhil Oxf 

Hunt, Katherine Emily, MRes PhD Birkbeck, MA Oxf 

Rubin-Detlev, Kelsey, BA DPhil Oxf, MA New York 

Gault, Joseph Frederick, MSc Imp, PhD Institut Pasteur 

& École Polytechnique 

Renema, Jelmer Jan, BSc PhD Leiden 

Fayet, Annette, MSc ESPCI Paris, MSc DPhil Oxf 

Wisnom, Laura Selena, BA DPhil Oxf 

Yeung, Hamish Hei-Man, MSci PhD Camb 

Bellini, Emilio, BA MSc Trento, PhD Padova 

Müller, Carolin Anne, Dip Ulm, PhD Nott 

Bown, Alexander Sebastian Fothergill, BA Oxf, PhD Geneva 

Mitchell, Dianne Marie, BA Smith College, PhD Pennsylvania 

Stacey, Jessica Anne, BA MA PhD KCL 

Chomicki, Guillaume, BSc Manc, PhD Munich 

Waights Hickman, Natalia, BA DPhil Oxf 

Laming Junior Fellows 

Conquer, Grace Beatrice Rey, BA MSt Oxf 

Sainsbury, Daisy, MA MSt Oxf 

Hartley, Julia Caterina, BA MSt Oxf 

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Randall-MacIver Student in Archaeology 

Olabarria, Leire, Lic Deusto, DPhil Oxf 

Honorary Fellows 

Hoffmann, Leonard Hubert, the Rt Hon Lord Hoffmann of 

Chedworth, Kt, PC, BA Cape Town, BCL MA Oxf 

Tucker, Sir Richard Howard, MA Oxf 

Morgan, Kenneth Owen, Lord Morgan of Aberdyfi, MA DPhil 

DLitt Oxf, FBA, FRHistS 

McColl, Sir Colin Hugh Verel, KCMG, MA Oxf 

Millar, Sir Fergus Graham Burtholme, MA DPhil DLitt Oxf, FBA 

Berners-Lee, Sir Timothy John, OM, KBE, MA Oxf, FRS 

Kelly, the Rt Hon Ruth Maria, PC, BA Oxf, MSc Lond 

Atkinson, Rowan Sebastian, BSc Newc, MSc Oxf 

Bowman, Alan Keir, MA Oxf, MA PhD Toronto, FBA 

Gillen, the Rt Hon Sir John de Winter, BA Oxf 

Lever, Sir Paul, KCMG, MA Oxf 

Phillips, Caryl, BA Oxf, FRSL 

Stern, Nicholas Herbert, Lord Stern of Brentford, Kt, MA 

Camb, DPhil Oxf, FBA 

Hill, Hugh Allen Oliver, BSc PhD Belf, MA DSc Oxf, FRS 

Reed, Terence James, MA Oxf, FBA 

Low, Colin MacKenzie, Lord Low of Dalston, CBE, BA Oxf 

Beecroft, Paul Adrian Barlow, MA Oxf, FInstP 

Budd, Sir Alan Peter, GBE, BSc Lond, MA DPhil Oxf, 

PhD Camb 

Bogdanor, Vernon Bernard, CBE, MA Oxf, FBA 

Morris, Colin, MA Oxf, FBA, FRHistS 

Eisenberg, David Samuel, AB Harvard, DPhil Oxf 

Carwardine, Richard John, MA DPhil Oxf, FBA, FLSW, 

FRHistS 

Honoré, Anthony Maurice, QC, MA DCL Oxf, FBA 

Hacker, Peter Michael Stephan, MA DPhil Oxf 

Margalit, Avishai, BA MA PhD Jerusalem 

Laskey, Ronald Alfred, CBE, MA DPhil Oxf, FMedSci, FRS 

Frankland, Alfred William, BM BCh DM Oxf, FRCP 

Christensen, Clayton Magleby, BA Brigham Young, MBA DBA 

Harvard, MPhil Oxf 

Barrons, Sir Richard Lawson, KCB, CBE, MA Oxf 

Abbott, Anthony John, MA Oxf 

Griffith Williams, the Hon Sir John, MA Oxf 

Turner, the Hon Sir Mark George, MA Oxf 

Donnelly, Sir Joseph Brian, CMG, KBE, MA Oxf 

Watt, James Chi Yau, MA Oxf 

Booker, Cory, BA Oxf, BA MA Stanford, JD Yale 

Garcetti, Eric, BA MA Columbia, MA Oxf, PhD LSE 

James, Ioan Mackenzie, MA DPhil Oxf, FRS 

Emeritus Fellows 

McGuinness, Bernard Francis, MA BPhil Oxf 

Kaye, John Marsh, BCL MA Oxf 

Acheson, Richard Morrin, BSc MA DPhil Oxf 

Dimsdale, Nicholas Hampden, MA Camb, MA Oxf 

Foster, Michael Antony, MA DPhil Oxf 

Neumann, Peter Michael, OBE, MA DPhil DSc Oxf 

Edwards, Christopher Martin, MA DPhil Oxf 

Rutherford, John David, MA DPhil Oxf 

Baines, John Robert, MA DPhil Oxf, FBA 

Pearson, Roger Anthony George, MA DPhil Oxf, FBA 

Bowie, Angus Morton, MA PhD Camb, MA DPhil Oxf 

McLeod, Peter Duncan, MA PhD Camb, MA DPhil Oxf 

Gautrey, Michael Sidney, MA Oxf 

Salmon, Graeme Laurence, BSc Tasmania, MA DPhil Oxf 

Harries, Phillip Tudor, MA DPhil Oxf 

Rowland, The Revd Christopher, MA PhD Camb, MA DPhil Oxf 

Supernumerary Fellows 

Maclean, Ian Walter Fitzroy, MA DPhil Oxf, FBA, FRHistS 

Constantine, David John, MA DPhil Oxf 

Dobson, Peter James, OBE, BSc PhD S’ton, MA Oxf 

Irving-Bell, Linda, MA DPhil Oxf 

Chaplain 

Price, The Revd Katherine Ann Magdalene, MA MSt Oxf, 

BA Sheff 

Full-time Lecturers 

Peters, Christine, MA DPhil Oxf 

Sorgiovanni, Benjamin, BA Curtin, MA Melbourne 

College Record 2018 | The Queen’s College 3

CONTENTS 

6 From the Provost 

8 Reports and College Activities 

58 Old Members’ Activities 

86 Articles 

94 Obituaries 

104 Benefactions 

110 Information 


FROM THE PROVOST 

From the Provost 

A ‘Note from the Provost’ is an innovation in the Record – 

one of a number of changes you will have noticed. It gives 

me the opportunity to sincerely thank the previous editor, 

who has stood down after producing this wonderfully detailed 

account of the College’s activities for the past three decades. 

A survey of these volumes gives a fascinating insight into 

what has changed and what has not. 

Prof Paul Madden FRS FRSE 

This year began on a high note, with the celebrations 

surrounding the opening of the very successful Library 

extension and its recognition through various awards. We were 

also very pleased with the 2017 undergraduate examination 

results, recognised through a very high place in the Norrington 

Table. Despite a record number of firsts (32 from 93 students 

sitting Finals), and a very substantial haul of University prizes, 

we dropped back somewhat disappointingly this year - though 

we remained in the top two thirds of the colleges. 

Apart from the improvement in the Library facilities per se, 

the completion of the extension has released a substantial 

amount of space around the College, such as the Peet Library, 

the Archive store, and the rare book store, whose contents 

are now incorporated in the extension. One of the sustained 

activities of the year has been to inform and develop a 

masterplan for how this space can best be used to address 

a number of issues the College has been facing on the main 

site, such as the lack of storage space, disabled access to 

more of the College (including the JCR), whether a cafeteria 

can be introduced, and to see if improved accommodation 

for the Porters can be provided (the Lodge is now staffed 

on a 24/7 basis). It will take some time to deliver all these 

improvements but progress is being made in going from a 

wish-list to a practical scheme and changes are already being 

made this year. 

Early in the year the College took the decision to close the 

Florey Building from the beginning of this academic year due 

to the rapidly deteriorating condition of many of the rooms. 

The plans for a major refurbishment were completed some 

time ago but, in the final analysis, the projected cost of 

carrying it out was judged prohibitive. This caused a major 

re-evaluation of the type of building we require going into the 


future - students will increasingly expect more than a small 

room, no catering, Hall of Residence style of accommodation. 

The Florey Building can be adapted, at a cost, to produce 

a solution which looks viable over a reasonable time frame 

(say, 30 years) but the College wished to pause to take an 

informed view of the options. 

Closing the building, which has housed 78 first-years in 

recent times, whilst maintaining our commitment to offer 

accommodation to all undergraduates for all years, and to 

incoming graduate students, has involved a major reshuffle. 

The first-years will come into the Main College and Carrodus 

Quad (QLQ), and second- and third-years will take up places 

in Main College, the Cardo Building (Iffley Road) and in St. 

Aldate’s House – largely a graduate site previously. We have 

acquired and renovated a new building adjacent to Cardo 

and also rented a large block of flats to take the displaced 

graduates. Clearly the disruption to the anticipated pattern 

is not ideal, especially for students about to begin their 

second year. One beneficial consequence of having the 

first-years in College is that it should help to revitalise dining 

in the evening; also, a day-long cafeteria service will be 

launched, a development which followed from the masterplan 

considerations above. 

From the Provost 

Another matter which has demanded a substantial amount of 

time from the Fellowship during the course of 2017-18 has 

been the choice of my successor – in which, thankfully, I have 

played no part whatsoever. I can report, informally, that the 

Fellows seem to be unanimously pleased by their pre-election 

of Dr Claire Craig CBE, Chief Science Policy Officer at the 

Royal Society. Dr Craig will take up her post on 2 August 2019. 


Reports and College Activities 

SENIOR TUTOR’S REPORT 

Eight new Fellows joined the College this year. Our new Fellow 

and Praelector in Economics, replacing Dr Yuval Heller who left 

the College for an academic position in Tel Aviv, is Dr Willemien 

Kets. Dr Kets is a specialist in microeconomic theory and game 

theory, and comes to Queen’s from the Kellogg School of 

Management at Northwestern University. She works on how 

to incorporate culture into economic models. 

Nicholas Owen 

Our Harmsworth Professor of American History for 2017-18 

was Professor Elliott West from the University of Arkansas, 

best known for his prize-winning books and articles on the 

social and environmental history of the American West. 

We also welcomed two new Career Development Fellows: 

Dr Jessica Stacey in French and Dr Alexander Bown in 

Ancient Philosophy. Dr Stacey comes from King’s College 

London where she has been working on narratives of 

catastrophe in eighteenth-century France. Dr Bown specialises 

in Hellenistic logic, epistemology, and ontology. At Queen’s, 

he will investigate the views of various Hellenistic schools on 

signs, evidence, validity, and proof. 

Each year, the College elects a fully-funded Junior Research 

Fellow. In 2017-18 the election was in English, and we were 

pleased to appoint Dr Dianne Mitchell, from the University of 

Pennsylvania, where she wrote a doctoral dissertation about 

poetic correspondence in Renaissance England. At Queen’s, 

she will be working on a new book project, entitled Paper 

Intimacies, which will argue for the importance of ‘letter-poems’ 

to the history of early modern lyric. 

In 2017-18 we were also joined by a second Junior Research 

Fellow, Dr Natalia Waights Hickman. Dr Waights Hickman is a 

philosopher with interests in epistemology, the philosophy of 

language, and the philosophy of mind. Her research focuses 

on linguistic knowledge and ‘practical’ knowledge-how, and 

certain philosophical peculiarities they exhibit. 

We were also able to offer Extraordinary Junior Research 

Fellowships to two exceptional scholars in the sciences. 

Dr Guillaume Chomicki is a plant scientist recently awarded a 

Glasstone Research Fellowship, who works on the evolution, 


specialisation and breakdown of symbioses between ants and 

plants. Dr Alexander Robertson is a Royal Society University 

Research Fellow in the Department of Materials, who uses 

transmission electron microscopy to study the nanoscale 

behaviour of materials, such as those in rechargeable batteries 

and hydrogen fuel cells. 

At the end of the year, the College said farewell to two of its 

Fellows. Professor Sir John Ball retired from the Sedleian Chair 

in Mathematics. After 30 years at Queen’s, Professor John 

Hyman left the College to take up the Grote Professorship of 

Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College, London. 

Professor Hyman was recently awarded a major European 

Research Council Advanced Grant for research on ‘The Roots 

of Responsibility: Metaphysics, Humanity, and Society’. 

The grant will help to support the work of two post-doctoral 

Fellows at Queen’s. 


Among academic honours, Professor Sir John Ball received 

the King Faisal Prize in Mathematics, and Professor Jane 

Langdale was awarded a C.B.E. for services to Plant Sciences. 

Professor Simon Aldridge was the winner of the Royal Society 

of Chemistry’s Frankland Award. 

This year, the College also established two new research 

centres. The Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures, under 

the direction of Dr Dirk Meyer, brings together academic 

specialists and students working on material aspects of 

writing and text production, including inscriptions, as well as 

transmission and the interface between the oral and the written, 

across pre-modern literate societies in the ancient Near East, 

the Mediterranean (Greece and Rome), ancient East and South 

Asia, and medieval Europe. 

The Centre for Outreach through Translation, directed by 

Dr Charlotte Ryland and Dr Jennifer Higgins, is a programme 

to consolidate and extending the College’s relationships 

with Modern Poetry in Translation, the Oxford-Weidenfeld 

Translation Prize, and Oxford Translation Day. It brings together 

the College’s experts in literary translation and teachers and 

students from local schools, with the aim of raising awareness 

and enthusiasm for translation and literature in other languages. 

Among the many academic events organised in College 

were conferences on ‘Literary Form After Matter, 1500-1700’, 

organised by Dr Dianne Mitchell and Dr Katherine Hunt; 



a conference organised by the College’s Egyptologists on 

‘Invisible Archaeologies: Hidden Aspects of Daily life in Ancient 

Egypt and Nubia’; a conference on the moral philosophy of Iris 

Murdoch, organised by Dr Ben Sorgiovanni; and a colloquium 

organised by Mr Anthony Simon (Old Member) on the UK’s 

departure from the European Union. 

In the 2017-18 undergraduate admissions exercise, the 

number of direct first-choice applications to the College 

increased by 9%, slightly higher than the increase across 

the University. The College has substantially developed its 

outreach programme to schools. Around 2,500 potential 

applicants visited the College on its Open Days and around 

a further 3,000 have been in contact with the College 

through the Schools Liaison, Outreach and Recruitment 

Officer, Orock Nsoatabe. Much of this work has focused on 

the College’s link regions: Lancashire (including Blackpool 

and Blackburn with Darwen), Cumbria, Lewisham and 

Sutton. Queen’s also organised a successful Easter Scientific 

residential programme for 22 school students. The College 

also supported a Cumbrian Roadshow by our student 

ambassadors, in which they toured state schools across 

the region speaking to school audiences about university in 

general, and Oxford and Queen’s in particular. 

In 2017-18, the College came 19th out of 30 Colleges in 

the Norrington Table, a drop from fifth place the previous 

year. There were 32 Firsts, 55 upper seconds, and six lower 

seconds or below. Members of the College were successful 

in winning numerous academic prizes, which are listed 

elsewhere in the Record. 

The College was pleased to accept a donation from an Old 

Member, Ms Catherine Palmer, to support a prize for French 

Translation. The Palmer Prize for 2017-18 was awarded to 

Ms Kanak Shah. A donation also enabled the College to 

establish the Chandrasekhar Prize in Physics, awarded to 

the undergraduate achieving the highest overall mark in Part 

B of the Final Honour School. It was awarded this year to Mr. 

Daniel Haxell. 

78 graduate students were admitted to the College in 2017-18, 

16 of them benefitting from the College’s financial support. 

The College is pursuing a strategy of admitting ‘clusters’ of 

graduate students in related subject areas and associating 

itself with several of the University’s doctoral student training 


programmes, in Mathematics, Plant Sciences and Theoretical 

Chemistry. The College was fortunate to be able to launch the 

Waverley Fund Scholarships this year, which will shortly enable 

it to dedicate a further £150,000 a year to the support of 

graduate scholarships. 

In the College Office, Mrs Yvonne Benton (Admissions and 

Graduate Secretary) left for a position at the Said Business 

School. Dr Leen van Broeck joined the Office as Admissions 

and Graduate Administrator. 




NEWS FROM THE FELLOWS 

Full lists of Fellows’ publications can be found on their profile pages on the College’s website. 

John Baines 

Egyptology – emeritus 

In 2017–18 I completed my service as British Academy Vice- 

President for Schools and Institutes, an absorbing task that 

took me to a number of countries. These important institutions 

do a very impressive job of enabling and supporting research 

in the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and East Africa. In 

April–May I gave a set of visiting lectures at Peking University 

(still called that, not Beijing), where Egyptology is beginning to 

become established. As a comparatist, I find it most valuable 

to visit major Early Bronze Age sites in China and to talk about 

interpreting early states, where Chinese colleagues now see 

important parallels with ancient Egyptian institutions. Another 

fascinating visit was to the Università l’Orientale in Naples, the 

oldest institution in Europe for the study of Asian languages, 

founded in 1732 by a Jesuit returning from China. It’s excellent 

that Egyptology and the archaeology of North-East Africa also 

flourish there. In late 2017, the AHRC project I headed with 

Alice Stevenson (UCL) ‘Artefacts of Excavation’, which traces 

the distribution of objects from Egypt across the globe from 

1880 to 1980, finished. Its website is based in Oxford, while a 

synthesizing monograph by Alice will appear shortly. 

Becky Beasley 

English 

This year I have mainly been finishing my book, Russomania: 

Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism, which 

will be published by Oxford University Press next year. At the 

same time, I’ve written a couple of short publications building 

on my earlier work on Ezra Pound and visual art and at Easter 

I spent an enjoyable month in the United States working on 

an article that may develop into a future project on education 

and poetry. The article focuses on the famous Black Mountain 

College in North Carolina, a progressive college founded 

by John Rice, who serendipitously turns out to have been a 

Rhodes Scholar at Queen’s from 1911-1914, a fact not lost on 

our former Harmsworth Professor, Alan Brinkley, who gave a 

biography of Rice - the only copy in Oxford - to Queen’s Library. 

An alternative (or adjacent) future project may relate to my 

new collaboration with 2 Willow Road, the beautiful modernist 

National Trust house in Hampstead designed in 1931 by 

Ernö Goldfinger for his family. A doctoral student working on 

‘The Modernist Home’, supervised by me and Willow Road’s 

curators, will be beginning at Queen’s in October. 


John Blair 

Modern History 

In 2018, Professor John Blair published Building Anglo-Saxon 

England, a radical rethinking of the Anglo-Saxon world. The 

book draws on the latest archaeological discoveries to present 

a reappraisal of the Anglo-Saxon built environment and its 

inhabitants. In the book, he explains the origins of towns, 

manor houses, and castles in a completely new way, and 

sheds new light on the important functions of buildings and 

settlements in shaping people’s lives during the age of the 

Venerable Bede and King Alfred. Building Anglo-Saxon England 

demonstrates how hundreds of recent excavations enable 

us to grasp for the first time how regionally diverse the built 

environment of the Anglo-Saxons truly was. 


Yves Capdeboscq 

Mathematics 

After teaching Applied Mathematics to Queen’s 

undergraduates, and Elliptic Partial Differential Equations to the 

new cohort of graduate students (many of them from Queen’s) 

joining the “Centre for Doctoral Training in PDE: Analysis and 

Applications” during Michaelmas, I went on sabbatical leave for 

Hilary and Trinity. My first destination was DTU Copenhagen. 

There I delivered a series of lectures on my (first) book Lectures 

on Elliptic Methods for Hybrid Inverse Problems written in 

collaboration with my former student Giovanni Alberti (from St 

Peter’s, nobody is perfect), and published in early January. My 

next destination was Paris, where I stayed the remainder of my 

sabbatical. I was visiting Sorbonne Université – a newly created 

university, which is the union of Paris 4 (La Sorbonne) and 

Paris 6 (Jussieu). During my time there I finished several articles 

on a variety of topics, from the conductive properties of lean 

vs. fat minced meat to general stability results regarding the 

collective behaviour of multi-species cell biology models – such 

results allow, for example to decide a priori whether model 

enrichments will or will not result in qualitative change for the 

solution of these models. 

Mathematicians like counter-examples, and weather-resistant 

theories. Yet we would like to provide a helping hand to 

scientists keen to obtain some rigorous assessment of 

methods known to fail occasionally, but good enough most 

of the time. The answer to this question is quite elusive. 

Pin-pointing what thread we can hold onto to survive a 

randomisation process is the question I have been studying 

with my French colleagues. 



Pete Dobson 

Engineering – emeritus 

I was appointed to be a Specialist Adviser for the Parliamentary 

Science and Technology Committee for its inquiry into 

Quantum Technologies. I am currently Chair of the Industrial 

Advisory Board in Physics at the University of Bristol. I am 

Visiting Professor at UCL (Chemical Engineering) and at King’s 

College London (Physics and Engineering). I am also Chair of 

the Steering Committee of The Facility for the Environmental 

Nanoscience Analysis at Birmingham University. I have 

published several papers, including one on the potential 

environmental risks from nanomedicines and the adequacy of 

the current guideline on environmental risk assessment. I have 

had a patent granted for ‘Wet Surface Indicator’ and others are 

currently at the application stage. 

Annette Fayet 

Biological Sciences 

This year, Annette Fayet was awarded a grant from the National 

Geographic to support her research on the decline of puffin 

populations in Europe. As part of this project, she spent two 

months doing fieldwork on remote islands in Wales, Norway 

and Iceland. In collaboration with Queen’s Biology Tutor Lindsay 

Turnbull, Annette also launched a new research project on the 

feeding ecology of tropical seabirds, for which she was the 

first to use the new Queen’s crowdfunding platform to raise 

funds. After her successful campaign she spent five weeks on 

the remote coral atoll Aldabra in the Indian Ocean, studying 

declining tropicbirds. In spring she was nominated Sky Ocean 

Rescue Scholar, as an ambassador for the programme, which 

aims to raise awareness of the threats our oceans are facing 

and help tackle marine plastic pollution. Annette also received a 

visiting fellowship from the Japanese Society for the Promotion 

of Science and spent August working with collaborators 

at Hokkaido University. She recently joined the Journal of 

Animal Ecology as Associate Editor. In terms of outreach, she 

particularly enjoyed taking part in the Oxford Curiosity Carnival, 

sharing stories about her puffin research in a cosy yurt on the 

roof of the Ashmolean. 


Jennifer Guest 

Japanese 

In the past academic year I was lucky enough to have two 

terms of sabbatical leave, and have worked on several 

overlapping projects, including a collaborative project on 

translation and East Asia; a book manuscript on literary 

education in medieval Japan; and a study of medieval 

Japanese commentaries that teach students to interpret 

excerpts from Chinese and Japanese poetry. In September 

2017, I co-hosted a workshop on translation and translators 

in East Asia (held partly at Queen’s), which took a broad 

interdisciplinary look at some of the issues involved in 

translation between Chinese, Japanese and Korean as well as 

from those languages into European languages, with an eye to 

comparing cultures of translation within East Asia and exploring 

their interrelationships. With colleagues in Chinese and Korean 

studies, I completed a joint volume on this topic; my own 

sections tried to consider how premodern Japanese strategies 

for reading and adapting Chinese poetry (in which a single 

discrete ‘translation’ is often hard to identify) can challenge our 

assumptions about translation and the connections between 

languages. In the spring I was able to spend a happy and 

productive two months in Tokyo, hosted by Waseda University, 

where I also led a workshop on “Translation, Adaptation, 

Kundoku: Thinking about Translation and East Asia”, attended 

reading groups on medieval poetry, and gathered sources 

on premodern educational texts. I’m enjoying bringing some 

new material back into my teaching, particularly a new set of 

tutorials and seminars on classical Japanese poetry. 


Late 2017 and early 2018 saw the culmination of a long-term 

project to study the mathematical manuscripts of Ada Lovelace, 

carried out in collaboration with Ursula Martin (Oxford) and 

Adrian Rice (Randolph-Macon College, VA, USA). Aside from 

the digitisation of these materials, which went online in 2016, we 

have now published two academic papers, along with a short 

book aimed at a general readership (Ada Lovelace: The Making 

of a Computer Scientist, Bodleian Library Publishing, 2018). 

Christopher Hollings 

History of Mathematics 

Besides the work on Lovelace, I have continued to pursue my 

main interests in both the development of abstract algebra 

and in Soviet mathematics. In connection with the former, I 

published a long paper on early axiomatic definitions of the 

mathematical notion of a group. Moreover, both of these 

strands are united in a book that came out at the end of 2017, 

Wagner’s Theory of Generalised Heaps (Springer), which 



features a collection of translations of writings of a Russian 

mathematician, compiled in collaboration with Mark V. Lawson 

(Heriot-Watt). 

I have given presentations on my work at conferences in San 

Diego, Manchester, and Chengdu (China), and was also invited 

to deliver a lecture on Cold War scientific communication to the 

STEM Society at Oxford High School. 

The focus of my research remains strongly on elucidating both 

hedonia (pleasure) and eudaimonia (the life well-lived), and 

how they are affected in health and disease; in particular I am 

seeking to elucidate the role of anhedonia (the lack of pleasure) 

in neuropsychiatric disorders. 

Morten Kringelbach 

Psychology 

Over time, the research has become more and more 

computational in nature, as we are now able to create wholebrain 

computational models of brain dynamics in health and 

disease. These models can be systematically investigated, 

allowing us to move beyond the mere correlations and 

blobology usually arising from neuroimaging to being able to 

establish causal relationship between brain networks. In time 

this approach could potentially lead to novel interventions for 

rebalancing neuropsychiatric disorders. 

One of the highlights of last year was to work with Queen’s 

College students to arrange a set of well-received events and 

symposia in honour of the late Oliver Sacks. We celebrated 

his life and much-loved books; exploring topics including rare 

neurological disorders, migraine, music, chemistry, botany, 

and evolution. Sacks led many lives, from an early upbringing 

in London, via a traumatic stay at a rural boarding school, to 

Queen’s College where he studied medicine from 1956-58. 

He completed his internships in England before moving in 

1960 to California in the US where he did his residency at the 

University of California, Los Angeles. Here, he was able to 

embrace the Californian way of life; befriending the poet Thom 

Gunn, beating a Californian weight-lifting record, riding more 

than 100,000 miles on his motorcycle, and briefly becoming a 

physician to the Hells Angels. In 1965, a serious drug addiction 

eventually brought about a move to New York City where he 

was able to kick his habit and start seeing the patients who 

inhabit his extraordinary books. For the rest of his life, the 

patients remained as central to his life as his daily swims and 

piano playing. In 1989, Sacks wrote that “I would like it to be 


thought that I had listened carefully to what patients and others 

have told me, that I’ve tried to imagine what it was like for 

them, and that I tried to convey this. And, to use a biblical term, 

bore witness.” 

In 2017, I gave two keynote lectures at the Brain Prize Meeting 

2017 in Hindsgavl, Denmark: “Pleasure networks in the brain” 

and “Rewarding Neuroscience”. 


This year, Professor Jane Langdale has been made CBE for 

Services to Plant Science, as well as receiving a D.Sc. (h.c.) 

from the University of Bath. She was CSIRO Sir Frederick 

McMaster Trust Visiting Fellow and visited Australia for two 

weeks, giving science seminars at CSIRO/ANU Canberra and 

UWA Perth, a public lecture in Canberra, and career training 

sessions for young researchers in both Canberra and Perth. 

Jane Langdale 

Plant Sciences 

She has contributed to the public understanding of science 

at the Henley Café Scientifique: ‘Plant Sciences for the 21st 

Century’; and at the Botanical Society of Scotland/Edinburgh 

Science Festival: ‘C4 Rice: An Agricultural Apollo Challenge’. 

She has co-authored a number of research papers, the details 

of which can be found on her website profile. 

Laura Lonsdale 

Spanish 

For the last few years I have been working on literary 

multilingualism, or the ways in which writers employ more than 

one language in fiction. My monograph, Multilingualism and 

Modernity: Barbarisms in Spanish and American Literature 

came out with Palgrave Macmillan in late 2017. Both my 

research interests and my role as director of schools liaison 

and outreach for the faculty of Modern Languages have 

dovetailed with a major AHRC-funded project, Creative 

Multilingualism, for which I am an associate researcher on the 

World Literatures strand. Our work for this project has included 

two conferences, one at SOAS and one in Oxford, and a 

series of workshops on multilingual poetry for Year 10 pupils 

at inner city London schools. These workshops are designed 

to encourage positive and creative attitudes to languages, 

both those spoken at home and those studied at school, and 

have so far proved very inspiring (to us!). In addition, I have 

co-edited The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies, and 

am currently working on a translation of Ana María Matute’s 

Primera memoria for Penguin. 



Charlie Louth 

German 

The past year was heavily burdened with various administrative 

duties in the Faculty, which is why (among other reasons!) I was 

delighted to be awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship 

for the year 2018-19 to work on a project with the working title 

‘What happens when we read a poem?’. This will allow me to 

finish my book on the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, which 

has been on hold for some time. Otherwise, I gave a lecture 

at the Literary Translation Seminar in Boston in March, and a 

paper on Rilke at the Rilke Society’s conference in Bremen in 

September. Two essays on Rilke will be out soon: one on his use 

of antiquity, and one on his late poems in German and French 

about gongs. A collection of essays I am co-editing with Patrick 

McGuinness on ‘Gravity and Grace’, in which I have written an 

essay on Philippe Jaccottet, was sent off to the publisher in July. 

My review-essay of Michael Hofmann’s latest Kafka translations 

appeared in Translation and Literature in the spring. I’m now 

looking forward to a year’s peace and concentration, by which 

time I shall no doubt be keen to get back to teaching again. 

Christopher Metcalf 

Classical Languages 

and Literature 

In the past year, I have completed a project that has occupied me 

since 2013: an edition of seventeen unpublished Sumerian literary 

texts in the Schøyen Collection, Norway. The texts (clay tablets 

inscribed with cuneiform signs) date to ca. 2000 BC, and belong 

to the oldest corpus of literature from the ancient world. Many 

of them contain poems that were previously unknown, and thus 

shed light on several new aspects of Sumerian mythology. As my 

manuscript is now with the publisher, I hope to be able to provide 

further details of the book in next year’s report. My other main 

research interest is the wider diffusion of Sumerian (and other Near 

Eastern) literatures in the ancient world, especially to early Greece. 

Last summer, my former doctoral supervisor Dr Adrian Kelly (Balliol) 

and I gathered the leading scholars in this field at a conference in 

Oxford, at which we discussed the current state of knowledge and 

the many challenges in reconstructing the intercultural transmission 

of texts and ideas. We have since been given a contract by 

Cambridge University Press to publish the proceedings of the 

conference, and Dr Kelly and I are now engaged in editing our 

colleagues’ contributions. An impression of this comparative work 

can be gained in my recent article ‘Horn and Ivory: Dreams as 

Portents in Ancient Mesopotamia and Beyond’, in E.J. Hamori and 

J. Stökl (eds), Perchance to Dream: Dream Divination in the Bible 

and the Ancient Near East. (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 

2018, 9-26), which is freely available online (https://www.sbl-site. 

org/publications/Books_ANEmonographs.aspx). 


Chris O’Callaghan 

Medicine 

I continue to combine research, teaching, and clinical work - 

a mix that brings great variety. Within the College, I have 

been Dean for a number of years and it is always interesting 

to compare the experiences of current junior members with 

those of my own cohort at Queen’s in the 1980s. Much has 

changed and much has not. Beyond the College, I am Chief 

Examiner for Medicine and amongst other administrative roles, 

I am overseeing the University’s submission to the Research 

Evaluation Framework (REF) for the clinical departments—the 

REF determines the core state funding that the University 

receives. The 4th edition of one of my textbooks, The Renal 

System at a Glance, was Highly Commended in the 2017 

BMA Book Awards and the book has now been translated 

into various languages including Spanish, Chinese, Russian, 

and Indonesian. In my clinical work, I continue to do general 

medicine and am on the ‘on-take’ consultant rota for general 

medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital. 


My research group published, in the EMBO Journal, the first 

report of ‘transcriptional interference’ within a human gene—a 

process whereby a regulatory circuit within a gene keeps the 

gene poised for rapid activation when needed. In a related 

study, we also reported evidence that cells can detect changes 

in their metabolism, which alter levels of precursors for DNA 

production. This can happen when a disease process in the 

cell triggers metabolic changes, for example, with viral infection, 

a shift towards the development of a cancer or a metabolic 

stress. When this occurs, the cell changes its surface to flag 

itself up to the immune system for destruction. In collaboration 

with a Spanish colleague, we published a Spanish version of 

software that I developed to facilitate randomisation in clinical 

trials. There is a full list of my publications at https://www.ccmp. 

ox.ac.uk/publications-3 . I am particularly grateful for the wise 

and generous support of a distinguished Old Member who is 

funding a scholarship for an excellent DPhil student to work in 

my group on inflammatory processes. 



Nicholas Owen 

Politics 

This year, I have been finishing the manuscript of a book 

provisionally entitled Other People’s Struggles: Outsiders in 

Social Movements. It is about why ‘outsiders’ participate in 

social movements from which they do not obviously stand to 

benefit. Why and when is their participation welcome to those 

who do stand to benefit, and why and when is it not? The book 

is turning out to be as much a ‘theory’ book as a ‘political history’ 

book, but has also produced some new historical research on 

the British anti-colonial movement, the women’s suffrage and 

women’s liberation movements, and the British Labour Party. 

I have also given papers on these subjects at conferences in 

Oxford and Paris. I also spoke about democracy and imperialism at 

a conference at Nuffield College, Oxford, in honour of my doctoral 

supervisor, John Darwin. Summaries of these papers and other 

research work are on my research website: www.paper-darts.com. 

Richard Parkinson 

Egyptology 

Teaching this year has including new courses for our Egyptology 

MSt and MPhil students, together with my colleague Professor 

Elizabeth Frood (Old Member), who is back full time after sepsis 

(we both took part in a University ‘Disability narratives’ project: 

https://www.diversityprojects.ox.ac.uk/dn). My research on a 

planned commentary on The Tale of Sinuhe has been on hold, 

but a recording of a full recital by actress Barbara Ewing is now on 

Oxford podcasts, and there is also a British Museum video about 

this part of the project (links in british.museumblog.org/giving-avoice-to-ancient-egyptian-poetry). 

In Michaelmas Term 2017, I 

gave an invited lecture in Madrid for a seminar on ‘Material and 

experimental aspects of writing in Ancient Egypt’. Over the year, 

Oxford Egyptology has had an exchange programme with the 

Sorbonne to explore our different practices in teaching Egyptian 

texts; as part of this I gave a lecture on performing Egyptian poetry 

in Paris, and 10 students and four staff from the Sorbonne visited 

Oxford for a week, starting with a welcome reception in Queen’s. 

The new College library now includes a display of Ancient 

Egyptian artefacts from the College’s collection, chosen and 

installed with the help of Dr Ann-Katrin Gill. Over the past 

year I have also acted as consultant for the British Museum’s 

temporary exhibition ‘Desire, love, identity exploring LGBTQ 

histories’ based on my research (May to October 2017 with 

over 165,000 visitors); there have been several related lectures, 

blogposts and workshops on related issues (‘LGBT History 

Month’: https://blog.royalhistsoc.org/2018/02/28/lgbt-history- 


Roger Pearson 

French – emeritus 

month/; ‘A Personal View: Yourcenar, Piranesi and Egypt’: 

http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/taylorian/tag/richard-parkinson/). 

A permanent audio-trail of the British Museum was launched at 

London Pride 2018, and a larger version of the exhibition will 

come to the Ashmolean Museum in Michaelmas Term 2018. 

It is now two years since I retired from my post as Fellow in 

French, and I have been enjoying the extra time that this has 

allowed for research (as well as travelling, gardening, and idling). 

I am continuing with my long-term project on ‘The Poet as 

Lawgiver’ in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature 

and currently working on a study of the verse and prose poetry 

of Charles Baudelaire (1821-67). This study is intended as 

the first of several sequels (remaining years permitting!) to my 

recent book entitled Unacknowledged Legislators: The Poet as 

Lawgiver in Post-Revolutionary France: Chateaubriand-Staël- 

Lamartine-Hugo-Vigny (Oxford University Press, 2016). For this, 

I recently received the R. Gapper Book Prize, which is awarded 

annually by the Society for French Studies to the best book 

published in the field of French studies by a scholar based in an 

institution of higher education in the United Kingdom or Ireland. 

Since I was fortunate enough to win the prize previously for 

Mallarmé and Circumstance: The Translation of Silence (Oxford 

University Press, 2004), this makes me the only person to have 

won it twice outright – prompting a former graduate student of 

mine to comment that I was well on the way to becoming the 

Meryl Streep of French studies. This may be an exaggeration. 

As to Mallarmé – still my ‘main man’ – my chapter entitled 

‘Mallarmé and Poetry: Stitching the Random’ appeared recently 

in Christopher Prendergast (ed.), A History of Modern French 

Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century 

(Princeton University Press, 2017), pp. 495-513. 


Ludovic Phalippou 

Finance 

Ludovic has self-published a book called Private Equity 

Laid Bare, which is one of a kind. Although it is primarily a 

textbook that covers the private equity elective that he has 

been teaching at Oxford for seven years, it is written more 

like a novel. The main character ‘Alice’ is a fund manager 

investing the money of Mad and Hatter in Leveraged Buyout 

transactions of companies located all over Wonderland. 

The accompanying website (pelaidbare.com) is also full 

of resources in that space. During this year, Ludovic has 

continued to publish his research in the best academic 

journals, has routinely appeared in the media (seven times in 



The Financial Times), has delivered many keynote addresses 

all over the world, and most importantly he qualified for the 

world championship of amateur road cyclists and did alright 

on the big day. 

David was awarded a CB for services to transport in the New 

Year Honours 2018. 

David Prout 

Professorial Fellow 

Owen Rees 

Music 

My research on Iberian Renaissance music and Tudor 

music this year involved both academic publications and 

performances. I completed a book on one of the most famous 

works of the period, the six-voice Requiem by Tomás Luis 

de Victoria, to be issued by Cambridge University Press 

early in 2019, and a study of the motets of Victoria’s nearcontemporary 

Francisco Guerrero, published in Revista 

de Musicología. I also belong to the research team for the 

international project ‘The Anatomy of Iberian Polyphonic Music’, 

which is studying the distinguishing characteristics of Iberian 

repertory c. 1500. As a choral director I led choral workshops 

on early Portuguese music at an annual international festival 

in Évora, and conducted my own ensemble Contrapunctus 

in a concert (at Queen’s) of music by Morales, Guerrero, and 

Victoria, forming part of the ensemble’s work as Vocal Consort 

in Residence at the Faculty of Music; this performance formed 

part of a research project supported by the University’s John 

Fell Fund, which will culminate in a CD recording of the 

same repertory. Contrapunctus also appeared in the Laus 

Polyphoniae Festival in Antwerp, presenting music (from our 

CD Virgin and Child) edited from the Baldwin Partbooks held at 

Christ Church. As a joint project involving Contrapunctus and 

Queen’s Choir, I directed a concert (again at Queen’s) of music 

by John Taverner, the centrepiece being the Missa Gloria tibi 

trinitas, and recorded this music in July 2018 for a CD to be 

released in 2019. 


Peter Robbins 

Physiology 

Peter has continued his work on two rather different areas of 

biology. The first relates to the role of iron in biology and medicine, 

and the major achievement for the year was the completion of a 

clinical trial of intravenous iron in chronic obstructive pulmonary 

disease. The results from this are currently being analysed and 

written up. The second area concerns new technologies to 

examine lung function with much greater sensitivity than has 

hitherto been possible. The core technology was published this 

year (https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00745.2017). This 

work is funded from the Respiratory theme (which Prof Robbins 

co-leads with Prof Pavord) of the National Institute for Health 

Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). 

Prof Robbins has won additional grant support for the work this 

year from industry (GSK) and from the Engineering and Physical 

Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). 


Ritchie Robertson 

German 

From October 2016 to June 2018 I was a senior research fellow 

at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, a research institute in Göttingen 

specialising in the study of the Enlightenment. There I worked 

on a study of the Enlightenment that was commissioned by 

Penguin Books, and which I submitted to the publisher in April 

2018. Recent publications include ‘Why don’t school-leavers 

want to do Modern Languages degrees?’ in Kurt Almqvist 

and Isabella Thomas (eds.), Sapere Aude: The Future of the 

Humanities in British Universities (Stockholm: Axel and Margaret 

Ax:son Johnson Foundation, 2017), pp. 89-98 and ‘Style’ and 

‘Kafka’s reading’, in Carolin Duttlinger (ed.), Franz Kafka in Context 

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 62-9, 82-90. 

Dan Sarooshi 

Law 

Dan was appointed a Queen’s Counsel (QC) by the Lord 

Chancellor at a ceremony in Westminster Hall in February 2018 

in recognition of his advocacy in international and domestic 

courts and tribunals. His notable recent cases have included 

the Brexit case in the Supreme Court for lead claimant Gina 

Millar; representing the UK in Naftogaz v. United Kingdom in 

the European Court of Human Rights; and the Taurus v. SOMO 

case in the Supreme Court on international and commercial law. 

In 2018, he also co-authored an article with R. Volterra entitled 

“The resolution of investment disputes by arbitration: risks facing 

host States”, Butterworths Journal of International Banking and 

Financial Law 33 (1) (2018) 12; and has been working hard to 

complete work on the classic text Oppenheim’s International 

Law (10th ed., in preparation), which he is co-editing with Sir 

Christopher Greenwood. 



Robert Taylor 

Physics 

Robert has been busy working on two projects this year, one 

related to InGaN quantum dots and the other to photonic 

crystal cavities. He has received a £90,000 grant from Innovate 

UK to work on developing software with a company called 

Quantopticon entitled “Simulation Software for Modelling 

Quantum Light Sources”, which runs until mid-2019. He 

lectured to over 200 year 11 students on the physics of 

cold gases as part of a physics outreach programme at the 

Clarendon Laboratory, where he made ice cream with liquid 

nitrogen. He presented two papers as an invited speaker at the 

conferences “Physics of Light-Matter Coupling in Nanostructures” 

in Chengdu, China and “The International Conference on 

Nanostructures and Nanodevices” in Yokohama, Japan. He has 

published 12 papers in international journals, listed online. 

Natalia Waights Hickman 

Philosophy 

I joined Queen’s as Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy in 

October 2017. In February 2018, my article ‘Knowing in the 

“Executive Way”: Knowing How, Rules, Methods, 

Principles and Criteria’ was published in Philosophy and 

Phenomenological Research, and in the last academic year 

I’ve given a number of invited and peer-reviewed research 

presentations in the UK and mainland Europe, including the 

BARSEA Epistemology conference in Cambridge, and the first 

international Social Epistemology Network conference, in Oslo. 

I am currently organising a conference on Linguistic Meaning to 

take place at Queen’s in spring 2019, in collaboration with the 

University of Oslo’s Conceptual Engineering project; I am also 

co-organising a workshop on Knowledge-How at the University 

of Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU), also to take place next spring. 

Seth Whidden 

French 

Now at the end of my second year as Praelector of French, the 

learning curve that I discovered upon my arrival has levelled 

off considerably. I’m fortunate to share the work of teaching 

the 33 Queen’s undergraduates reading French with our 

Career Development Fellow Jessica Stacey, Lectrice Amelha 

Timoner, and language instructor Renée Williams. In the Faculty 

I continue to lecture on nineteenth-century poetry and this year I 

inherited the lectures on versification for first-year students, who 

responded with applause at the end of each lecture (drowning 

out any notes of dissatisfaction). 

In addition to publishing articles in scholarly journals in Italy and 

France, I completed a biography of Arthur Rimbaud, which 


was published by Reaktion Books in August. The challenge of 

disseminating scholarship to a wider audience than the typical 

readership of scholarly articles was one that I enjoyed; I found 

myself thinking about my intended readers (and thus my own 

writing style) much more than I usually do, and if the advance 

reviews are any indication it seems to have paid off. I’ve since 

turned my attention to Baudelaire’s prose poems, which I teach 

quite regularly as well. For Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 

the journal I edit, I’ve begun work on a special issue on the 

1871 Paris Commune, to appear in time for its sesquicentennial. 

It promises to be a landmark publication, bringing the widest 

range of perspectives and disciplines to bear on the world of 

French studies as it reconsiders this watershed moment. 


Finally, I look forward to assuming the duties of Tutor for 

Undergraduates at the start of Michaelmas Term 2018. 

Ghassan Yassin 

Astrophysics 

Dr Boon Kok Tan, previously my PhD student and now a 

Post-Doctoral Research Associate in my group, has won 

€ 2.0 m from the European Research Council to develop a 

new device called “superconducting parametric amplifier” 

for THz astronomical detectors and quantum computing 

readout. There were 1341 applications and only 170 (12.7%) 

were selected. My group is helping the newly established 

Thai astronomy centre (NARIT) to develop their infrastructure 

in radio-astronomy. I will therefore spend two months of my 

sabbatical in Chang Mai early next year, to help them in the 

construction of a 40 m dish radio-telescope. 

Hamish Hei-Man Yeung 

Chemistry 

This year, I have continued to make regular trips to the UK’s 

national synchrotron, Diamond Light Source, to investigate the 

structures and formation of materials for batteries, gas sensing, 

and electronics. I’ve enjoyed extremely fruitful collaborations 

with scientists there as well as at NIMS and RIKEN in Japan. 

New work has been published in Chem Comm and Accounts 

of Chemical Research. I received a Public Engagement with 

Research award for a project with the Museum of Natural 

History, which shows how the crystal structures of minerals 

in their collection have inspired the creation of some of the 

materials that I research. It’s called “Flexible, Functional 

Frameworks” and it’s very hands-on and designed with all 

ages in mind– watch out for it at events around Oxford in the 

near future! 



ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS (* denotes distinction) 

DPhil: 

MSt: 

Jacob H. L. Burda (Philosophy) 

Friederike E. Ach* (Modern Languages – German) 

Samuel F. Derbyshire (Archaeology) 

Joanna R. J. Barnes (English 650-1550) 

Sebastian Greve (Philosophy) 

Pak Ka Chan (Traditional China) 

Niccolo Guerrini (Materials) 

Jamie A. Hamilton (British and European History 1500-present) 

Elizabeth Chi-Fang Huang (Clinical Medicine) 

Guy D. Jackson* (Late Antique and Byzantine Studies) 

Md Saiful Islam (Organic Chemistry) 

Luca Mazzocchi* (Modern Languages – Italian) 

Alexander G. Mortimore (Medieval and Modern Languages) Rory Moules (Music (Musicology)) 

Kathy L. Murphy (Experimental Psychology) 

Marina Scholtz (World Literatures in English) 

Jaroslaw Nowak (Systems Approaches to Biomedical Science) Angharad R. Thomas* (Music (Musicology)) 

Magdalena Nowak (Neuroscience) 

Shengqi Zhu (Traditional China) 

Holly A. Roy (Surgical Sciences) 

Ayesha Sengupta (Pharmacology) 

MSc: 

Shevket Halil Shevket (Biochemistry) 

Chi Cheng (Theoretical and Computational Chemistry) 

Craig Smith (Mathematics) 

Hemani Chhabra (Theoretical and Computational Chemistry) 

Hai Jie Tan (Materials) 

Irina Espejo Morales (Mathematical and Theoretical Physics) 

Michaela A. C. Vollmer (Mathematics) 

Edward A. Kerr (Financial Economics) 

Huong Thi Lang Vu (Clinical Medicine) 

Suvajit Majumder* (Mathematical and Theoretical Physics) 

Michael S. Walsh (English) 

Vincent P. Schott (Financial Economics) 

Eve M. Worth (History) 

Raghav Sehgal (Financial Economics) 

Guangyu Xi (Partial Differential Equations) 

Keer Zhuo (Financial Economics) 

Ai Yuan (Oriental Studies) 

BCL: 

Myron Nai Rong Phua* 

MFA: 

Theodoros Bargiotas* 

MFA: 

Yuxuan Chen 

Brittney Titus* 

BM: 

Thomas R. Bradley 

Molly E. Gilmartin 

Rosemary F. L. Roberts 

PGCE: 

Anna C. Balaguer (Modern Languages) 

Farhia Elmi (History) 

Samuel Moorby (Physics) 

Benjamin White (Mathematics) 

MPhil: 

Max D. Lawton* (Modern Languages – French and Russian) 

Simon D. Pfeiffer* (International Relations) 

Chui-Joe Tham* (Traditional East Asia) 

Charles A. G. Troup* (British and European History 1500 to present) 


FINAL PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS 

Ancient and Modern History 

First Class 

Raphael Marshall 


First Class 

Thomas D. Lewin 

Victoria Rees 

Lucy R. Williams 

Second Class Division One 

Brittany C. Maxted 

English Language and Literature 

First Class 

Michael J. Crowder 

Elizabeth C. Hoyle 

Anna Packman 

English & Modern Languages 

First Class 

Alexander J. Hartley (German) 


Rosa J. L. Chrystie-Lowe (German) 

Jurisprudence 

First Class 

Joseph H. Johnson 

Ramganesh Lakshman 


Charles R. Avery 

Daniel J. Lea 

Materials Science 


Nils Behling 

Yebin Zhang 

Biochemistry 

First Class 

Bethia E. Jones 


Sam C. Hibbs 

Chemistry 

Experimental Psychology 


Isabel Law 

Fine Art 


Marisa Crane 

Second Class Division Two 

Gwang Hoon Lee 

Mathematics 

First Class 

Bryn Davies 

Jordan J. Docking 

First Class 

Omer Ginat 

Christopher J. Turner 

Qien Chen 

History 


Andreas Heilmann 

First Class 

Kristiana Grigoriadis 

Benjamin S. Owen 

Holly R. R. Marsh 

Carlos Prado 

Alexandra N. Wilson 

Lauren Smith 

Finlay Stewart 


Alexandra Taylor 


Hollie G. Garwood 

Thomas Wells 

Harry W. Doherty 

Gisella Omole 


Alexander D. H. Smith 

Phoebe A. Boulton 

Classics 


Aleksandra Ruczynska 

Classics & Oriental Studies 

First Class 

Eleanor Home 

Laura Holden 

Hannah Reynolds 

History and English 


Joseph Peden 

History and Politics 


Patrick L. Hannam 

Medical Sciences 


Charlotte H. Harrison 

Michael Jenks 

Lydia Parker 


Moheez R. Hussain 



Modern Languages 

Music 

Ze Yan Lai 


First Class 

Matthew R. Hines (French and 

German) 

Emily I. Venn (French) 


Isabella Boscawen (Spanish) 

Alexander Christian (German and 

Portuguese) 

Alexis Galanis (French and Spanish) 

Robert Leroni (French and Spanish) 

Abbie Main (French and Spanish) 

Lila Mehta (Spanish and Modern 

Greek) 


Robert Holbrook 

Elizabeth M. Nurse 

Dominique L. C. Simpson 

Oriental Studies 

First Class 

Edmund W. Bithell (Chinese) 


Nathalie Lahiri (Egyptology and ANES) 

Natalie F. O. Y. Liu 

Joe C. MacKenzie 

Physics 

First Class 

Ray Yeo 


Joseph G. Welford 

Katy Welsh 

Physics & Philosophy 

Philosophy and Modern Languages 

First Class 

Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry 

First Class 

First Class 

Chloe St. George (Spanish) 

Grace Beaney Colverd 

Bethia E. Jones 


Sam C. Hibbs 

Philosophy, Politics & Economics 


Henry Bettley 

Guy Ferguson 

Leila Y. A. Hassan 

Psychology, Philosophy & 

Linguistics 


Kai Xuan Ong 


Margarita L. B. C. Medina 

FIRST PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS 

First BM 

Zahra N. Choudhury 

Beinn S. S. Khulusi 

Esme M. Weeks 

Jack M. Wilson 

Honour Moderations 

Classics 

First Class 

Annis Easton 


Henry Lewis 

Wilfred Sandwell 

Moderations 

Law 

Jacob G. Alston 

Rebecca J. Brimble 

Benjamin O. Egan 

Megan K. Howells 

Joshua W. Forshaw 


Preliminary Examinations 


Louise Cooke 

Ashleigh Parsons 

Megan J. Thornley 

Sarah E. Whelan 

Chemistry 

Henry Gray 

Harry G. Mark 

Imogen A. Ramskill 

Calvin A. Wilson* 

Yi Xiao* 

History 

Sean T. Eke 

Laura C. Gill 

Tilly A. F. Guthrie 

Philippa Monk* 

Serena K. Parekh 

Laetitia Pilgrim 

Elizabeth A. E. Whitney 

History and Modern Languages 

Florence Darwen (French) 

Isabella H. Massam* (Italian) 

Modern Languages and Linguistics 

Francesca Duke (French) 

Eleanor R. MacLeod (Spanish) 

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry 

Keith I. Yardley 

Music 

Stephanie K. R. Franklin* 

Laurence John 

Sarah E. Mattinson* 

James R. Tomlinson 


English Language and Literature 

Ebrubaoghene Abel-unokan 

Isaac Troughton* 

History and Politics 

Nicolai R. Haekkerup 

Matthew Suter 

Oriental Studies 

Lauren J. Burke (Chinese) 

Eleanor Collard* (Chinese) 

Hugo C. A. Cook (Egyptology & ANES) 

English and Modern Languages 

Materials Science 

Mary O. Oboh* (Chinese) 

Rachel Kevern (French) 

William J. Connolly 

Eve P. G. Mason (German) 

Jessica J. Q. Wen* 

Philosophy, Politics and Economics 

Alexander Chalk 

European and Middle Eastern 

Languages 

Anna L. Griffin (Spanish and Arabic) 

Mathematics 

Angelika Ando 

Thomas Judge 

Harry Croasdale 

Kaspar G. W. Klemm 

Louis Pincott 

Krit Patarapak* 

Bulut Taylor* 

Experimental Psychology 

Xiaoyan Zhao 

Jessica Martin 

Ella F. Peake* 

Miri Yasuda 

Mathematics and Philosophy 

Sam I. Lachmann 

Physics 

Maurice Gedney 

Gongqi Li* 

Mingyu Liu* 

Fine Art 

Olivia J. A. Allen 

Sophia Y. W. Wee 

Modern Languages 

Jake A. Duxbury (Spanish) 

Anna K. J. Lancaster (French) 

Adarsh P. Raghuram 

Rohan S. Rao* 

Anna Migone (French) 

Marte F. E. Van der graaf (German) 

Psychology, Philosophy and 

Linguistics 

Alvin W. M. Tan* 



UNIVERSITY PRIZES 

ABinBev Prize for outstanding performance in the Chemistry Part 1A examinations: Chuyan Tang 

Armourers and Brasiers’ Co. /Rolls Royce Prize for outstanding overall performance in Prelims: Jessica Wen (joint winner) 

Armourers and Brasiers’ Prize for Year 2 Business Plan team presentation: Dylan Murray 

Armourers and Brasiers’ Prize for best second year Materials Selection Poster: Johann Perera, Cai Richards, Greta Thompson 

Best dissertation prize in the 2018 cohort for MPhil Modern British & European History: Charles Troup 

Bruker UK third place in Prelims: Yi Xiao 

Comparative Philology Prize in Classics & Oriental Studies Mods: Paul Hosle 

Department of Materials Team Design Project Prize: Henry He (joint winner) 

Department of Statistics Prize for performance in the Honour School of Mathematics and Statistics Part A: Matthew Goh 

Faculty Commendation for one of the most outstanding performances among First Class Degrees in the Final Honour 

School of English and Modern Languages: Alexander Hartley 

Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse Composition: Joost Botman 

Gibbs Prize for Best Performance in Final Honour School in Joint Schools with Modern Languages: Alexander Hartley 

Gibbs Prize for Joint School with History: Raphael Marshall 

Gibbs Prize for best overall performance in Part I: Ruinan Zhou 

Inorganic Chemistry Thesis Prize: Andreas Heilmann (joint first) 

The John Thresher Prize for an MPhys Project in Particle and Nuclear Physics: Grace Beaney Colverd 

Outstanding Performance in Inorganic Chemistry: Ana Fernandez 

Planethood Foundation Prize in International Criminal Law and Law Faculty Prize in International Commercial Arbitration in 

the BCL examinations: Myron Phua 

Turbutt Prize in Practical Organic Chemistry: Karandip Saini 

5 Stone Building Prize for Trusts; 3 Verulam Buildings Prize in Commercial Law; White & Case Prize in Comparative Private 

Law in Final Honours School in Law: Ramganesh Lakshman 


COLLEGE PRIZES 

Benefactors’ Prizes (for non-academic service to the College): 

Ebruba Abel-Unokan (English Language and Literature) 

Hamza A. Alawiye (Partial Differential Equations) 

Edwin S. Audland (Italian and Spanish) 

Alexander H. Cui (Biochemistry) 

Robert S. Jaeckle (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) 

Elizabeth M. A. Kent (History and Politics) 

Ross I. R. Lawrence (French and Linguistics) 

Alex Prior-Wandesforde (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) 

Maya M. A. Saxena (Music) 

Archna R. Shah (Structural Policy) 

Gemma C. Smale (French), Alexander D. H. Smith (Chemistry) 

Bolus Prize: Paul Hosle (Classics with Oriental Studies) 

Ives Prize: Elizabeth M. Nurse (Music), Kai X. Ong (Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics) 

The Jack Wooding Prize (for greatest contribution to the Boat Club by a first-year undergraduate): Maurice Gedney (Physics) 

Markheim Prize: Matthew R. Hines (French and German) 

J.A. Scott Prize: Thomas D. Lewin (Biological Sciences), Alexander J. Hartley (English and German) 

Cecil King Prize: Thomas J.A. Neuberger (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) 

Britton Prize (for greatest contribution to College sport): Grace Beaney-Colverd (Physics and Philosophy) 

Chandrasekhar Prize: Daniel Z. Haxell (Physics) 

Mander Law Prize: Joseph H. Johnson, Ramganesh Lakshman 

Many Prize in English: Kanak Shah 




FROM THE BURSAR 

Andrew Timms 

The College’s investment assets performed well in 2017-18: 

we saw decent gains on our equity investments, and some 

overall gains on our property holdings too (although the 

underlying picture was rather variable). We were particularly 

fortunate to finalise and complete the sale of a portion of land 

outside Southampton, which will enable a large local housing 

development to go ahead. This delivered a windfall of some 

£10 million to the College, and is a project on which several of 

my predecessors have worked (such is the pace of the UK’s 

planning system). 

I describe this as a windfall, but it might be more accurate to 

look at it as a long-term investment return. (In this particular 

case the ‘term’ is over 600 years!) Increasingly, significant and 

interesting returns from agricultural investments are flowing to 

the College in the form of rents from secondary commercial 

activities and gains from sales of land for residential 

development. This has helped to increase the returns from 

agricultural investments at a time when land values have 

begun to fall. These falls are not entirely surprising: there is a 

great deal of uncertainty about how the industry will react to 

any departure from the European Union’s system of subsidies. 

The College, as a (very) experienced investor in agriculture, is 

watching this with great interest, to put it mildly. 

So the future, as ever, looks uncertain. There are many who 

would point out that equity markets are, by a whole host of 

‘normal’ measures, perhaps due for a significant correction. 

And the outlook for commercial property, which is the other 

asset class in which the College has a significant interest, is 

also somewhat muted. Prime high-street retail property has 

enjoyed substantial gains in capital values in the past decade, 

but there is now a lot of resistance to rent rises, and a more 

general worry – which extends to all of the asset classes in 

which the College has interests – about how markets will 

react to any normalisation of monetary policy after nearly 

a decade of special measures. Adding to these clouds on 

the horizon is the outlook for the key sources of College 

operating income: as I write, there are rumours that tuition 

fees may be cut for UK students. 


Of course, it is always easy to be pessimistic. Bursars may, 

indeed, be rather more prone to this trait than other Fellows. 

However, I think it is reasonable to plan for what may be 

stormy weather ahead. The College has been careful to 

note that the endowment may be in some sense overvalued, 

but the very good performance of our investments over 

the past decade has nevertheless recently enabled us to 

decide to create new Fellowships in Materials Science and 

Biology. We have also benefitted considerably from the 

great generosity of the Old Membership, which has added 

substantial sums to our endowment and funded continuing 

and new activity, notably graduate scholarships, which is 

outlined elsewhere in this Record. We have reconsidered 

some of our capital plans (notably in respect of the Florey 

Building, about which I suspect you will hear rather more 

next year), and have commissioned a ‘masterplan’ to 

reassess the use of space in the main College. This is 

part of a drive to deliver improvements in the teaching and 

residential facilities available to students and Fellows, but it 

is also partly motivated by the need to decide what to do 

with the substantial amount of basement space freed up by 

the construction of the extension to the Library – not a bad 

problem to have! 




A YEAR IN THE LIBRARY 

Amanda Saville 

Librarian 

Last summer was dominated by the move of the Library 

collections. During July and part of August our first task was to 

move half the working collection back into the Lower Library 

from the New Library, where they had been stored while the 

Lower Library was refurbished. We then moved the reserve 

circulating collection from the old basement into its new 

location behind the new reading room. Thirdly, we moved the 

Peet collections into their new home in the Waverley Room in 

the New Library. Finally, the biggest and most complex part of 

the puzzle was to move the Manuscripts, Select Books, and 

tunnel collections into the Vault behind the Feinberg Room 

– some 90,000 rare items. There were moments of anxiety 

during the process, but everything fitted with room to spare. 

Overall, we moved 130,000 items from five locations around 

College into the New and Lower Libraries. 

The move of the book collections was complemented by the 

installation of two permanent displays in the Library. 

The Egyptology display case, which forms the eastern wall 

of the new Peet Library, was filled with items donated by the 

Peet family and objects from the Mason collection of Egyptian 

artefacts which is now housed in the Ashmolean Museum. 

Objects on display include a limestone stela from the late 

Middle Kingdom (1794-1648 BC) and a Travertine canopic jar 

of Princess Tasheretenaset from the reign of Amasis (570-526 

BC). The star of the case is the Queen’s Papyrus (found in 

one of our manuscripts cupboards in 1997), which dates from 

the regnal year of King Taharqua (670 BC) and is a narrative 

about a law case in a rare form of the hieratic script known as 

abnormal hieratic. 

The second case, which forms the balustrade at the end of the 

Lower Library overlooking the stairs down to the New Library, 

holds finds from the archaeological dig that took place in early 

2015, before construction began on the New Library. The 

case was installed with the assistance of Oxford Archaeology 

who wrote the captions and selected the objects. The overall 

display contains artefacts from both before and after the 

foundation of the College in 1341. Finds on display range from 

the rim of a late Saxon cooking pot, through discarded book 

clasps to a bone cosmetic implement combining a toothpick 


or nail-cleaner and an ear scoop. There are also many objects 

associated with eating, drinking, and smoking. 

We celebrated the completion of the New Library with several 

opening events including a celebration day for benefactors 

in September, and in Michaelmas Term, a College opening, 

with Honorary Fellow Rowan Atkinson officially opening the 

Library. Finally, we held a thank you party for all those involved 

in the design and construction of the new building. We 

were delighted that in May the New Library won two awards 

at The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Regional 

Awards 2018: the RIBA South Award and the RIBA South 

Conservation Award. 


School groups have visited the Library throughout the 

academic year. These visits are co-ordinated by the Schools 

Liaison Officer and student helpers often guide groups. The 

two big Open Days, which took place in late June 2018, 

attracted 2,400 prospective students, the majority of whom 

visited the Library. In tandem with the regular school visits, 

prospective student visits totalled around 3,677 people during 

the last year. We also hosted several visits to the Library 

building from other interested groups, including the Committee 

of College Librarians, the Furniture History Society, the Thames 

Valley Ancient Egypt Society, a group from the U3A, the 

College Spouses Group, and the Bodleian Conservation staff. 

Old Members of the College are always welcome to visit the 

Library and look at the exhibition in both the New and Upper 

Libraries. If possible, we ask you to advise the Old Members’ 

Office of your visit in advance and, during Trinity Term, we 

ask you to be particularly mindful of the students revising for 

examinations and, if possible, time your visit over lunchtime, 

when the Library is quieter. 

Once the summer book moves of 2017 were complete, 

we were able to concentrate more on other areas. On 

the collections front we have continued to catalogue new 

acquisitions as well as to work on retrospective cataloguing 

projects. We added 588 records to the Oxford-wide on-line 

catalogue for new acquisitions and donations to the circulating 

collection and 638 retrospective records, of which 204 were 

records for nineteenth century material in the Vault. This work 

has benefitted from Sarah Arkle, our new Technical Services 

Librarian, completing her cataloguing training and starting to 

tackle some of the backlogs. 



We continue to take steps to care for our historic collections 

and the Oxford Conservation Consortium has coordinated the 

manufacture of a number boxes and book shoes for items in the 

Manuscripts and Select Book collections. During the summer of 

2018, a group of conservation students overseen by members 

of the Consortium cleaned all the books in the Upper Library, a 

task that had last been carried out in 2014. 

The College Library now has a presence on Digital.Bodleian, 

the University’s digital library. We have digitised and mounted 

three medieval manuscripts that had once been in the Library 

of King Henry VIII, as well as Miles Coverdale’s Goostly psalmes 

and spirituall songes, the sole surviving copy of a work 

published nearly five hundred years ago. See https://digital. 

bodleian.ox.ac.uk. 

We held two exhibitions across the Upper and New Libraries 

during the year. The first, Opening the Frontiers: Modern Poetry 

in Translation in the Sixties and Since, was jointly curated by 

Tessa Shaw and the Modern Poetry in Translation team, 

including David and Helen Constantine. The current exhibition, 

which opened in Trinity Term, was curated by graduate student 

and part-time library assistant Sarah Gouldesbrough and is 

called Images of Epic: Representations of Homer and his Works 

from the Archive to the Comic Book. Both exhibitions were 

launched by well-attended talks and receptions in the Shulman 

Auditorium. In addition, we have regularly changed our book of 

the month display highlighting individual items from the special 

collections. 

In addition to in-house exhibitions, we lent Airopaedia by 

Thomas Baldwin (1786) to the Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne for 

their exhibition entitled At Altitude and The Discovery of Witches 

by Matthew Hopkins (1647) to the Ashmolean Museum for their 

exhibition Spellbound: Thinking Magically, Past and Present. 

Since the opening of our special collections reading room in 

the New Library last August, we have had a steady stream of 

readers of our antiquarian collections, all of whom appreciated 

the new space immensely. We gave 299 people access to 

525 items from the special collections. Most of these were 

individual scholars but we also hosted several classes and 

themed visits, including a display for the 1341 Society lunch 

early in January. In addition to the assistance given to visiting 

scholars in person, we also carried out 62 bibliographic 

enquiries on the special collections. 


Robin Hobbs, our Library Assistant since March 2015, left the 

College at the end of August to undertake a PhD and work as 

a professional librarian, having completed his distance learning 

library qualification while in post. Robin has been a great member 

of the team and he will be immensely missed in the Library 

and the wider College community. We are pleased to welcome 

Dominic Hewett who joined us at the end of September. 




A YEAR IN THE CHAPEL 

The Revd Katherine Price 

Chaplain 

It’s been a full year in the chapel, and not least for me 

personally, as my first complete academic year in post. I’ve 

spent much of the year being asked “how are you finding it?” 

My reply is always, “I have the best job in the world!” In many 

ways what I have here here is the opportunity to be a parish 

priest in the old sense: being present in a community made up 

of believers and non-believers and those who aren’t quite sure, 

sharing its joys and its challenges, making visible in its midst 

the beauty of holiness, and all without having to worry about 

the Church Roof Fund! So I want to thank the College for living 

up to its friendly reputation and making me feel so immediately 

at home. The chapel here is dominated by the painting of the 

Ascension, when Jesus left his community of disciples to start 

the work of building the church on Earth. I’ve found at Queen’s 

the same spirit, or what in Christian terms we’d call a charism, 

or gift: that of trusting and equipping the community and its 

members to get on with what they are good at. I have found 

my ministry here both supported and set free. 

First and foremost, I am here to pray for the College. I like to 

think that paid off straight away, with last year’s Norrington 

Table results! But day to day, that means rejoicing with those 

who rejoice and mourning with those who mourn. The last 

year has seen several weddings, and probably the first time 

‘Let’s Go Fly a Kite’ has been sung from the organ loft! The 

chapel was also full for two memorials. In November, an organ 

recital was held in memory of the late James Dalton, who as 

Fellow Organist from 1957 to 1995 commissioned the chapel’s 

famous Frobenius organ. In March we hosted a memorial 

service for the diplomat Sir James Craig, Old Member and 

Honorary Fellow (Classics & Oriental Studies, 1942). It was 

an honour to officiate at this service and to hear recollections 

of this remarkable man, including his own ‘parting shot’ on 

leaving his posting in Dubai, read by Matthew Parris. It’s a 

privilege for the College to host these significant events for Old 

Members and their families, and a tribute to the teamwork of 

staff in all departments. 

Attendance at regular services has been buoyant – with many 

thanks to our new Choir Manager Cate Hall for her help with 

publicity. Through the generosity of chapelgoers we raised 

£2000 from collections, most of which this year will be going 


to local homelessness charities. However, members of the 

public often make up a larger proportion of the congregation 

than members of the College. There are even greater pressures 

on students now than in my undergraduate days (which I like 

to think are not so long ago!) but that makes it all the more 

important we have the chapel as a space for stillness and a 

visible counterbalance to a results-driven culture. Many thanks 

go to the Chapel Team for their commitment, and especially 

to Brian Theng (undergraduate scholar in Classics) as Senior 

Sacristan and Guillaume Matthews (DPhil in Materials Science) 

as Captain of the Bells. The College has approved the creation 

of a new role of Chapel Clerk from Michaelmas Term, which 

will be an opportunity for two junior members to take on more 

responsibility and to help engage the student body with the life 

of the chapel. 


One priority for me has been to diversify the termcard, and to 

invite more preachers from outside Oxford. A highlight of the 

past year was the Remembrance Sunday sermon from the 

Revd Dr Rachel Mann, Manchester-based priest and poet, 

who is also a trans woman, and has recently published a 

book on the Great War and memory: Fierce Imaginings. The 

University Sermon for Trinity Sunday was preached by the 

Revd Dr Andrew Davison from Cambridge, whose 

sermon on the Unity of the Triune God will be published in 

the Church Times later in the year. The chapel also gave two 

student preachers the (slightly daunting!) opportunity to preach 

at Sunday evensong. One a member of the MCR and one a 

theology student on placement, both rose marvellously to the 

occasion. We have also now established as a termly event a 

choral mass in conjunction with the Catholic Chaplaincy, giving 

Roman Catholic members of the College the opportunity to 

participate in worship led by the College Choir. 

Personally for me this has been an extraordinary year, and I 

feel I’ve learned as much and faced as many new experiences 

as any fresher. Unlike my predecessor, who was a former 

member of the choir, it has been a challenge for me to lead 

choral services of this standard – even without the extra 

adrenalin rush of Rowan Atkinson showing up to Evensong 

before the All Saints’ Gaudy! I have often needed to rely on 

the professionalism and patience of Owen Rees and the choir. 

Much of this year has been trial and error, with some new 

initiatives falling on stony ground and others starting to bear 

fruit. Here in the Chaplain’s room, with the portrait of William 

Temple (fellow 1904-1910; Archbishop of Canterbury 1942- 



1944) over the fireplace, and on the back of the door a 

coat-hanger bearing the name of former Chaplain David 

Jenkins (Bishop of Durham 1984-1994) I am very much aware 

that I am serving a community which extends in space and 

time beyond these walls. That is not only a responsibility but 

enormously sustaining. With your support, both practically and 

in prayer, I look forward to welcoming the next generation of 

Queen’s men and women into this community. 


A YEAR IN THE CHAPEL CHOIR 

Organist Prof Owen Rees; Graduate Organ Scholar Rory 

Moules; Junior Organ Scholar Laurence John; Maurice 

Pearton Choral Scholar and recipient of the Hilde Pearton 

Vocal Training Elizabeth Nurse; Hildburg Williams Lieder 

Scholar Robert Holbrook; Choir Manager Cate Hall; 

Librarians Patricia Drummond, Olivia Hugh-Jones 


Professor O. L. Rees 

Organist 

A tour to California in April 2018, performance in a Spanish 

early-music festival in December 2017, and continuing 

success in terms of CD recordings were some of the high 

points of this academic year for the choir. The Californian 

tour included performances in San Francisco, Los Angeles, 

and San Diego. The opening event was a joint concert with 

Stanford Chamber Chorale in the imposing Memorial Church 

of Stanford University, and while in San Francisco the choir 

sang at two events as part of the Alumni Weekend organised 

by the University’s North American Office. We also presented a 

concert at Grace Cathedral and sang for the Sunday services 

there. In Los Angeles our first performance was in the beautiful 

gardens of Getty House, the residence of the Mayor of Los 

Angeles, as part of an alumni event (for Queen’s and Wadham) 

kindly hosted by the Mayor, who was at Queen’s while holding 

a Rhodes Scholarship. Our performances in the San Diego 

area were at St James by-the-Sea in La Jolla and All Souls’, 

Point Loma, and the tour concluded with a service at St John’s 

Cathedral, LA, and a concert at St James in the City, LA. The tour 

was made possible through the generous support of numerous 

donors. Our other appearance abroad during the academic 

year was at the Festival de Música Antigua de Úbeda y Baeza 

in northern Andalusia, Spain, where we presented a programme 

of music from Mexico dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth 

centuries. This concert was broadcast on Spanish National Radio. 

Performances in the UK during the year included a gala 

concert in the Sheldonian Theatre with the Oxford Philharmonic 

Orchestra, a recital in Iffley Church on the theme of 

Remembrance (generously supported by the Bishopsdown Trust), 

the closing concert of the London Contemporary Church Music 

Festival, and a recital in the concert series at Holy Trinity Church, 

Bramley, at the kind invitation of Stuart White. The choir also sang 

Bach’s motet Singet dem Herrn at the commemorative recital for 

James Dalton in chapel. Special services included the annual visit 



to one of the College Livings, this year St Mary’s, Sulhamstead, 

and Eucharist at Westminster Abbey in August. 

The choir’s latest CD recording on the Signum Classics label, 

The House of the Mind, reached No. 1 in the Specialist Classical 

Chart. The recording features music by Herbert Howells (who 

was an Honorary Fellow of Queen’s) and by composers who 

influenced him, and particular works reflecting his influence. In 

July the choir undertook one of its most musically ambitious 

recording projects to date: music by the Tudor composer 

John Taverner, including his monumental Missa Gloria tibi 

trinitas, performed by the choir and members of the ensemble 

Contrapunctus, and aiming to evoke the imposing performing 

forces of the largest Tudor choirs such as the Chapel Royal, and 

the dramatic effect of alternating solo and fully-scored sections in 

the music of Taverner. The disc will be released next February. 


A YEAR IN THE MCR 

Charles Troup 

MCR President 

President Charles Troup; Vice-President/Treasurer 

Archna Shah; Victualler Guillaume Matthews; 

Secretary Andrew Holland 

The ‘undergraduate experience’ at Oxford sees students born 

into a college affiliation that envelops them quickly and can be 

famously consuming. Postgraduates tend to develop more 

numerous loci of affection and allegiance. As a result, MCRs 

can sometimes feel like they are battling against powerful foes 

for the attention of their members: departments and labs; 

seminars and research groups; partners and children. 

If a consequence of this is a lower density of fanatical collegehoody-wearers 

amongst the graduate community at Queen’s, 

it does mean that its interests are especially plural and, when 

assembled, its conversation especially wide-ranging. 


Such occasions have been facilitated throughout the year 

by Hamza Alawiye, Ed Bithell, and Max Lawton, the MCR’s 

dedicated team of Social Secretaries. Once the frenetic pace 

of Freshers’ Week eased into the more regular rhythms of 

term time, they put on a range of events designed to meet 

the broad interests of graduates, their partners and families 

included. Alongside parties and pub trips, the MCR has 

organised board games, film nights, and book clubs. Sports 

Rep Friedi Ach oversaw more strenuous diversions, and 

Secretary and seasoned socialite Drew Holland kept a watchful 

eye over proceedings. Victualler Guillaume Matthews presided 

over the ever-popular Monday guest dinners, also pioneering a 

successful ‘dining fund’ to defray their cost for members where 

appropriate. Thomas Zillhardt, joining the MCR Committee in 

the newly-created role of First-Year Rep, brought a touch of 

Gallic urbanity to the social calendar with cheese nights, wine 

tasting, and homemade crêpes. 

Throughout Michaelmas, Queen’s Lane was used as a filming 

location for the sequel to Mamma Mia!, which gave students 

something more glamorous to peer at out of the MCR’s eastfacing 

window than Teddy Hall’s accommodation block. The 

film company’s generous compensation for this disruption 

swelled the MCR coffers, which have been expertly managed 

this year by Treasurer Archna Shah. Plans to reinvest this in the 

common room are already being formulated. 



As Christmas approached, Charities and Environment Officer 

James Isbister brought members together to bring food and 

drinks to Oxford’s rough-sleepers: a valuable initiative that 

encouraged students to engage with the city’s homelessness 

problem. Bill Kroeger as Student Union Rep likewise promoted 

awareness of issues affecting the wider student body. The 

MCR’s digital presence has also been refined and extended 

thanks to the work of IT Officer Dan Navarro. 

Hilary saw the launch of the Queen’s Women’s Network, a 

new initiative to help mark four decades since the admission 

of women to the College in 2019. The MCR was represented 

during the formulation and launch of this project by Women’s 

Rep Alicia Smith, whose popular weekly breakfasts and 

brunches brought together women from the MCR and 

JCR throughout the year. Joe Tham as Welfare Rep, Luca 

Mazzocchi as LGBTQ Rep, and Satoshi Wilson Tanaka as 

Black and Minority Ethnic Students’ Officer likewise worked to 

ensure that everyone in the MCR has felt welcome, included, 

and supported. 

So too was the Queen’s Aldabra Clean-Up Project launched 

under the auspices of Fellow Dr Lindsay Turnbull and DPhil 

student April Burt. This important venture will culminate in 

an expedition to clean up and research the tonnes of plastic 

waste washed up on the shores of the remote Seychellois 

atoll, and counts amongst its core team four dedicated 

Queen’s postgraduates. 

Liaison with the SCR and JCR this year has been managed by 

Alexis Fogelman and Sachintha Dias Mudalige. The Queen’s 

College Symposium series has continued to bring MCR and 

SCR members together twice a term to discuss research in an 

informal and non-specialist setting, with topics ranging from 

diesel motors to As You Like It. Greater mutual association with 

the JCR has been facilitated through the graduate teaching 

scheme, now in its second year, which funds postgraduate-led 

study skills and revision sessions for undergraduate members. 

In Trinity, a strong contingent of graduates rowed in both Men 

and Women’s boats for Summer Eights, with Avi Mayorcas, 

Andre Hector, and Tristan Giron serving as Men’s Captain, 

Men’s Vice-Captain, and Captain of Coxes respectively. The 

highlight of the term was, however, the annual Summer 

Dinner. As ever, this was a fitting occasion to celebrate the 

year, especially for those whose time at Queen’s came to an 


end. As befits an international community such as ours, this 

year’s graduating cohort move on to an impressive range of 

engagements within and beyond universities, joining a network 

of Old Members with representatives on every continent. It is 

hoped that they will always come back to visit the MCR when 

the opportunity arises – the glamorousness of the view from 

the east-facing window notwithstanding. 




A YEAR IN THE JCR 

Elizabeth Kent 

JCR Vice President 

President Robert Jäckle; Vice Presidents Elizabeth Kent, 

Marte Van der Graaf 

The academic year 2017-18 was a busy one for the JCR. The 

year began with the successful welcoming of the new Freshers 

by the Executive Committee with more non-drinking events 

than ever before and a strong emphasis on integration and 

inclusivity. These festivities were replicated in 5th Week, to 

combat the infamous 5th-Week Blues, with the Welfare Reps 

(Greta Thompson and Wilf Sandwell) organising a wonderfully 

diverse range of events from self-defence classes and biscuitdecorating 

to the customary Jazz Night in the Beer Cellar. 

Throughout the year, the work of the JCR Executive was 

diligently undertaken by the elected representatives. Among 

them, Social Secretary Ed Audland organised several very 

successful events in conjunction with the MCR. The Christmas 

end of term event and summer BBQ were particularly 

memorable highlights. 

Alongside these celebrations, the second-years enjoyed a 

wonderful Halfway Hall, prepared by Dawn and the Hall staff, 

celebrating “surviving” the first half of their respective degrees. 

The entire College was also able to appreciate the fantastic 

organisational efforts of the Scottish members of the JCR with 

a Burns’ Night dinner and Ceilidh. 

The year also saw a change to the makeup and organisation of 

the Executive Committee. The equalities team was extended 

to include a Transgender Rep and Socioeconomic Rep, and 

along a theme of extending inclusivity, a motion was also 

passed to prohibit executive members from belonging to 

private dining societies. 

In Trinity Term, the closure of the Florey Building and the 

purchase of the James Street accommodation brought 

significant changes to the JCR Room Ballot and saw more 

undergraduates than ever housed in the previously MCRmajority 

St Aldate’s House. The implementation of these 

changes was efficiently undertaken by the Vice-President 

Elizabeth Kent. 


The Vice-President would like to thank members of the 

Taberdars’ Room, JCR President Robert Jäckle, the 

representatives of the Executive Committee, and Senior 

Members of the College for their support this year. 




STUDENT CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 

1341 SOCIET Y 

President: Alex Taylor 

This year, the 1341 society began with its annual garden party, which we were lucky enough to 

hold in glorious sunshine in the Nun’s and Fellows’ Gardens at the beginning of June. Families 

enjoyed live jazz from one of the University’s jazz quartets, a tasty selection of tea, cakes and 

Pimm’s, and croquet in Front Quad. It was lovely to see so many faces, some familiar and 

some new. This was followed by the Michaelmas and Hilary luncheons, where families were 

able to enjoy drinks in the Upper Library before a delicious lunch prepared by College. We were 

also joined by fabulous Oxford jazz a capella group, the Oxford Gargoyles, who serenaded 

guests with their witty arrangements. The 1341 society would like to thank all those who 

have helped organise these events and attended them, as it has allowed us to make valuable 

donations to the book grant fund and explore new avenues, such as subsidising JCR Sport 

subscriptions and the Ball For All fund. We would also like to wish the new team, Zak, Luke, 

Tom and Joseph the best with the coming year and we are excited to see how the 1341 can 

expand and work even closer with both the JCR and MCR. 

REGINAE 

President: Sasha Wilson 

This year has been very exciting for Reginae, the all-female network at Queen’s. Founded 

in 1993, Reginae was created as a counterpoint to the male dining society, Eaglets. In 

Michaelmas term 2017, after almost 25 years of Reginae, we welcomed an additional senior 

member (Mrs Alison Madden) and hosted our final dinner in the traditional format. 

The rest of the year was spent developing a new Reginae society. In Hilary term 2018, we 

made the important decision to become a society which is open to all self-identifying women of 

Queen’s, both past and present. This decision is particularly important as 2019 marks 40 years 

since the first admission of women to Queen’s. We hope that through this new society women 

in different stages of their lives can offer support to one another on the opportunities and the 

challenges confronting women today. I would like to thank Professor Jane Mellor (Professor in 

Biochemistry and Senior Member of Reginae) for her continual support during this process, as 

well as Lila Mehta and Isabella Boscawen (Vice-Presidents 2017-18) for their advice. 

At the end of Trinity term 2018, the new Reginae society hosted an inauguration ‘Summer 

Cocktails Event’ in the Fellows’ Garden. It was a wonderful summer’s evening with over 30 

staff and students in attendance. It was lovely to see such a diverse group of women at this 

event. Reginae also held its first Annual General Meeting in which Harriet Sexton and Molly 

Nichols were elected as President and Vice-President for 2018-19. 


I am extremely excited to see what the future holds for the Reginae society. Reginae is particularly 

looking forward to creating links between current Queen’s women and Old Members by working 

alongside the Queen’s Women’s Network. It has been a pleasure being President and I am 

extremely proud of the changes that have been made to Reginae this year. 


THE EGLESFIELD MUSICAL SOCIETY 

President: Maya Saxena 

The Eglesfield Musical Society has had another fantastic year as an integral part of College life, 

with plenty of involvement from members of the JCR and MCR. The highlight of the year was 

the musical Company, performed in the College Garden, which sold out and saw many Queen’s 

students taking part as part of the cast, crew, and band. We were lucky that the weather held up 

so we could perform outside every night; each performance had a lovely atmosphere and brought 

together the Queen’s community. This year also saw the start of a new tradition with the inaugural 

EMS Music Festival, which took place in Hilary term during the week of ‘the Beast from the East’; 

our concerts and recitals provided entertainment as well as some respite from the cold weather and 

snow. The termly concerts featuring our three main ensembles (Orchestra, Chorus and a cappella) 

and soloists have been a great success and provided wonderful performance opportunities for 

everyone to get involved, whether they were a seasoned performer or not. 



Particular highlights of these concerts were the collaboration between Orchestra, Chorus and a 

cappella in the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves by Verdi, the orchestra’s performance of Beethoven’s 

Coriolan Overture, Chorus’ rendition of Elgar’s The Shower, and a cappella’s interpretation of 

Dancing in the Moonlight by Toploader. In this 40th anniversary year of the Saturday recitals at 

Queen’s, we have continued to be lucky enough to host performances on Wednesdays and 

Saturdays from musicians across the University, as well as from all over the UK, the Nordic 

countries, Russia, the Republic of Ireland, and the USA. 

On the social side, the jazz nights have provided great opportunities to bring people together, 

and the EMS is now fostering and supporting a truly thriving jazz scene at Queen’s. The welcome 

drinks at the start of the year and the annual EMS dinner were well-attended by members of the 

society, and it has been particularly wonderful to see so many Freshers getting involved. I am 

sure that they and the rest of next year’s committee will do a fantastic job and take the society 

from strength to strength. 


THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE SYMPOSIUM (QCS) 

Alexis Fogelman 

The Queen’s College Symposium is a bi-termly event intended to bring together the College’s 

academic community. Each event takes the form of two talks, one given by an MCR speaker, the 

other by an SCR speaker, where they both present their research in an accessible way for half an hour 

each—a presentation followed by 10 minutes of Q&A. This year, talks ranged from “Medieval recluses 

and prayer as time travel” (Alicia Smith, MCR) to “How to feed your genes” (Steven Kelly, SCR), 


Exceptionally, there was a third QCS this term on Tuesday 5 December. Lindsay Turnbull (SCR 

Biology Tutor) and April Burt (MCR graduate student in biology) co-presented about an opportunity 

to join an exciting Queen’s-led expedition to Aldabra, a pristine coral Atoll in the Indian Ocean. 

Working in conjunction with the Seychelles Islands Foundation, they want to remove a lot of the 

accumulated marine litter from the beaches, and raise awareness of plastic pollution generally. 

In January, the two talks were closely related since they both concerned the Enlightenment. 

Ritchie Robertson (SCR, Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature) talked about 

“Six Common Mistakes about the Enlightenment”. He outlined six widely held beliefs about the 

Enlightenment which are all are either misleading or plain wrong, culminating in the mistaken idea 

that the Enlightenment led to the French Revolution. This general introduction was followed by 

Audrey Borowksi’s (MCR) talk about “Gottfried Leibniz as social and epistemological projector”. 

Further details about QCS, and last year’s talks, can be found on the College website: 

https://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/qcs 

MEDICAL SOCIETY 

President: Charlotte Harrison 

The Queen’s College Medical Society brings together students and tutors within Queen’s studying 

and teaching pre-clinical and clinical medicine and biomedical sciences, enabling integration within 

the College. This year, at the annual QCMS dinner and talk in Michaelmas term, we welcomed 

guest speaker Brigadier Kevin Beaton OBE QHP, who shared his experiences of medicine in 

conflict in Afghanistan and in crisis in the West African Ebola outbreak. The members of QCMS also 

enjoyed a curry night in Hilary. We’re anticipating another entertaining and interesting year with the 

newly elected committee: Molly Nichols, Zak Tait and Pierre Garrido. 

BADMINTON 

Men’s captain: Max Greenwood; Women’s captain: Isabelle Hughes 

Returning from the break, Queen’s ventured out to the East Oxford Games Hall for another year of 

badminton. With a location benefiting those in the Florey and Cardo buildings in particular, turn-out 

was encouragingly high for social sessions which took place on Wednesday evenings, with lots of 

new faces from the first-years, international students, and from Wycliffe Hall. The social sessions 

were varied and enjoyable all year round, even under the eerie glow of the old sports hall lights. 



Cuppers began much later than usual this year, with matches kicking off late in Hilary term. 

The first match provided Queen’s with little trouble, besides a wasted trip to Iffley, as our 

opponents decided not to appear: we recorded our first victory of the year by default. 

Exuding confidence after a deserved clean sheet from our previous outing, we arrived at our 

second-round match to face actual opponents. Unfortunately, we found ourselves against a 

rather more prepared Exeter team on this occasion, boasting at least one international standard 

player. The team, made up of Tobias Freidling, Max Greenwood, Ram Lankshman, and Krit 

Pataparak, fell to a 5-1 defeat after a plucky performance, with Freidling and Greenwood 

earning a hard-earned victory in one of their doubles games from a 16-20 losing position. 

TENNIS 

Captain: Max Greenwood 

Queen’s tennis was looking good early in the year despite the loss of a few big hitters in the 

summer: a huge number of sign-ups and a couple of entertaining social sessions in October 

saw us underway. After a hiatus through Hilary, tennis picked up again in Trinity. 

Having reached the late stages of Cuppers regularly in recent years, hopes were high for a 

similar run this time round. Alas, Queen’s fell in the first round to a strong Worcester side, 

clearly missing our University-standard players from previous years. Luke Concollato, Ross 

Lawrence, Jack Wilson, and Max Greenwood all stepped up, but after four doubles matches 

we found ourselves without a victory to our name. The league provided us with three matches 

against Osler House, Merton 2s and Teddy Hall 2s, which resulted in two victories and a loss 

respectively with Rohan Rao, Leo de Baynast-Cheval, Marte van der Graaf, Luke Concollato, 

Jack Wilson, and Max Greenwood all involved. With any luck we will see more first-years keen 

to play next year, and potentially some more competitive participation of graduate students, 

which was lacking this year. 

Having our own outlet to play tennis at any time remains one of my favourite parts of Queen’s 

sport; thank you to Martin Edwards for maintaining the courts so well. It was great to have so 

many requests to borrow rackets during Trinity; although an attempt to organise regular social 

sessions during exam term was difficult to maintain, it was nice to see people of all abilities 

making use of the facilities that not all colleges boast. 

LACROSSE 

Captain: Shakira Mahadeva 

It’s been a really enjoyable year captaining the Queen’s lacrosse club. While the team may have 

been slightly smaller this year, we’ve seen great commitment from all members and our play as 

a team has improved significantly, building to a particularly successful Trinity term. Cuppers was 

definitely the highlight where we got through to the quarter-final stage with a 4-1 victory against 

a strong side from Keble. Although sadly we very narrowly lost out to Hertford in the next round, 

the final score 3-2 to them, reaching the quarter-finals was an incredible achievement and a 

testament to our improvement this year. In particular, great work was seen from Mirjam Schilling 


who, despite being new to the sport, was fearless in attack, and, of course, Vicky Rees whose skill 

and experience were invaluable to the team. Overall a very successful year for Queen’s lacrosse! 

NETBALL 

Captain: Gemma Smale 

This past year has been highly successful for QCNC. Whilst entering division one was 

a daunting prospect, the team held their own and rose to seventh place at the end of 

Michaelmas term and finished a very respectable sixth place at the end of the league. 

The standard of the league was extremely high, but we really gelled as a team and produced 

some fantastic results. We also put up a good fight in the mixed Cuppers league at the end of 

Trinity term. We had a strong turn-out, great team spirit, and we managed to win two games 

and draw two games. 


Whilst the team has been relatively small this year, there has been a core group of women who 

have turned up and played their hearts out every week. Elizabeth Hoyle, Olivia Hugh-Jones, 

Harriette Drew, Holly Marsh, Grace Colverd, and Vicky Rees have shown great commitment not 

just this year but over their whole time at Queen’s. Special mention should also be made to our 

most dedicated fresher, Jess Martin, who is a fast, consistent WA/ WD and who is a great asset 

to the team. Next year’s captaincy has been awarded to Olivia Hugh-Jones who has been so 

enthusiastic about college netball over the last three years and who will undoubtedly lead the 

team towards more victories and success. 



BOAT CLUB 

Men’s Captain: Avi Mayorcas; Women’s Captain: Rebecca Sims 

The men’s side began the year strong with a solid core of returners boosted by a number of 

eager newcomers. The senior squad made good progress over the term, aiming towards racing 

Wallingford 5km Head, where they placed 16th in their category. The new athletes raced at both 

Nephthys regatta, where they reached the quarter final, and Christchurch regatta where they 

made it through two rounds. 

For the women’s side Michaelmas term began with few returning rowers, meaning all the more 

emphasis was put on novice recruitment. The seniors spent a lot of time training in a 4+ which 

provided a great opportunity to focus on technical improvement, and also to compete in Autumn 

4s regatta. New rowers from Wycliffe, the MCR, and JCR formed a promising novice squad, 

producing a boat that reached the final day of Christchurch regatta: a great achievement! 

Hilary saw both the men’s and women’s novices join their respective senior squads, allowing the 

men to field two boats during the term and the women to train consistently in a fast improving eight. 

Unfortunately, Torpids was not promising for either side. The men’s second boat fought hard in their 

attempt to qualify but were unsuccessful, the women’s boat were only able to race one day due to 

the extreme weather conditions and the men’s first boat could only race on two. However, M1 were 

successful in bumping at both opportunities, providing a good platform for the eights campaign. 

With the advent of long evening and summer skies, the Club’s numbers swelled in Trinity, with the 

addition of a men’s third boat and a women’s second boat, a feat not achieved in many years at 

Queen’s. Both new boats began training to race at summer Eights with the help of the senior squads. 

Meanwhile, the men’s and women’s senior boats continued their training towards the summer. 

The men’s first and second boats went away to race Bedford regatta, challenging some stiff 

competition from local schools and Cambridge crews. The men’s first boat went out to the finalist 

crew from Emmanuel College. Upon their return, and with Eights around the corner, training 

continued in earnest, with some intra-club racing to prepare all the crews. Over summer Eights 

the first boat did very well, holding their place in division two and the third boat managed to secure 

a bump on the Brasenose Rugby boat on the final day. However, it was the men’s second boat 

who really shone, managing three bumps in four days and truly dominating in their division. 

As for the women’s side, the disappointment from Torpids provided great motivation and a lot of 

improvement was seen in the build up to Eights. All the year’s training came to fruition in the form of 

strong performances, with W1 rowing over three of the four days. The second boat rowed on with 

a very competitive time and had some confident row overs throughout Eights. Hopefully this will be 

a turning point for involvement in the women’s side, and next year will be an exciting time for the club. 

Overall a brilliant year for the men’s side, enjoyable racing and some good results. Special mention 

should go to our new coxes, Beinn Khulusi and Pip Monk, who despite only taking up the sport 

in Trinity steered their respective crews to very successful Eights campaigns. Finally, we would like 

to announce Maurice Gedney as this year’s recipient of the Jack Wooding award for extraordinary 

contribution to the life of the club. We are excited for what next year has to bring. 


QCRFC 

Captain: Sam Caygill 

Unfortunately, as my spell as captain for QCRFC draws to a close I am unable to (honestly) write 

a glowing report of unbridled success through the season. This season can be described, at 

best, as mixed. From the highs of a convincing win against Magdalen in our first game of the 

season, building hope of promotion glory; to the lows of an early Cuppers knock-out to LMH on 

cold and rainy Saturday morning. 


We began the season in division three after the successes of my predecessor saw us being 

promoted the season before. With me sustaining an injury in the first match, and my vicecaptain 

Wilf Sandwell and star playmaker Louis Pincott putting University rugby above College, 

the triumphs of the first match quickly turned to tribulations in the coming weeks. Throughout 

Michaelmas term we struggled to field a full 15, despite the commitment of a handful of players 

week in week out. This, coupled with facing teams that took the questionable decision to partake 

in midweek training, meant we suffered losses in nearly every game during Michaelmas. As a 

team we came to terms with the fact that the quality of play in division three went against our 

club ethos, and so we welcomed the mid-season relegation. 

We entered Hilary term proudly back in our comfort zone of division four, and this term saw the 

return of many key players. With the opportunity to play teams of a similar standard and attitude 

to the game, and the promise of some socials mid-term, attendance to games increased and 

we started seeing 15 men, sometimes even more arriving every Saturday to play. Tries were 

scored, balls were kicked, and some crunching tackles were made, which meant by the end of 

our league games for this season we finished a respectable third in division four, narrowly missing 

out on promotion. 

We received a tough draw in Cuppers seeing us play an LMH team riddled with University Blues 

and 2s players. Despite being able to recruit our very own Blue, Sam Moorby, who helped carry 

the team, we were beaten by a substantial number of tries. Although Cuppers glory had not been 

ours this year it did allow us to concentrate our attention on the very important social aspect of 

the club. Our annual rugby dinner held in College saw a greater attendance than any one of the 

fixtures organised this year, and was a great success. It was a lovely opportunity to have players 

of all ages together, and have many discussions on the year of rugby that had just passed. 

The year was rounded off with the presentation of colours to those players I believe have been 

the greatest asset to the club both on the pitch and off it, and whose performance has stood out. 

These players were: Louis Pincott, Andrew Jones, Kaspar Klemm, and Diptarko Chowdhury. 

I would like to take the opportunity to wish the incoming captain Wilf Sandwell the best of luck in 

the next season. 



ATHLETIC DISTINCTIONS 

Blues 

Half-Blues 

Rosa J. Chrystie-Lowe (Modern Pentathlon) 

Benjamin White (fencing) 

Agamemnon E. Crumpton (Lightweight Rowing) 

Mark J. Giza (Rugby League) 

Samuel Moorby (Rugby) 

Alexander R.C. Pavitt (Lightweight Rowing) 

Anna J. Sharp (Athletics) 


Old Members’ Activities 

DEVELOPMENT AND OLD MEMBER 

RELATIONS REPORT 

Topped and tailed by the Old Members’ Dinner at its beginning 

and the Benefactors’ Dinner at its end, 2017/18 has been 

another busy and rewarding year in the Old Members’ Office. 

The College has received gifts in excess of £6 million from 

962 Old Members and Friends as part of its Access All 

Areas development plan that supports Queen’s students and 

academics at all stages of their careers. We are grateful to you 

all for supporting College so generously and thoughtfully. 

Anna Thorne 

Director of Development 

This year the College received its largest ever lifetime gift of £3.6 

million to endow The Waverley Fund. Historically, we have only 

been able to offer a few fully-funded graduate scholarships 

to our 80 graduate students each year. The Fund addresses 

this by encouraging financial support from Research Councils, 

University Departments, Industry, and other charities. On a 

partial year’s income (£114,000), we have leveraged a further 

£257,000 to meet the full fees and living costs of five students 

throughout their studies. We have also been able to bid for 

significant funding from the European Policies Research Centre 

(EPRC) to support a cohort of 10 Chemistry students at Queen’s 

over five years from 2019. This is a momentous development for 

College, supporting our Fellows’ research as well as attracting 

the best students internationally and we are hugely grateful to 

our benefactors, who have chosen to remain anonymous. 

Additionally, we are grateful that next year The John P Clay 

Scholarship in Manuscript and Text Cultures, funded by the JJC 

Foundation, and the Ewald Scholarship, funded by Fred Arnold 

(1976), will support a DPhil in Sanskrit related studies and four 

BCL/MJur students respectively. The Hawley Fund endowed by 

Mike Hawley (1959) will provide funding for student internships 

and other projects designed to help Junior Members identify 

the right career path. This is a completely new area of funding, 

gratefully received, and will be in much demand. 

Governing Body recognised the generous lifetime contributions 

of 17 new Philippa Benefactors and two new Eglesfield 

Benefactor during the year. The Queen’s Society continued 

to grow with 47 new members bringing the total of those 

supporting College with a regular gift to 493 and total income 

for the year to £181,000. The sun shone brightly as we 


thanked those members of the Society who were able to join 

us in the Provost’s Garden at June’s Garden Party. 

The College received legacies to a value of £1.5m this year, 

and our sincere thanks go to the late Sydney Smith (1947), 

the late Zhenhua Zhai, wife of Charles Daniels (1963), and the 

late Harvey MacGregor (1948) for their generous bequests. 

Legacies form some 40% of the value of gifts to College 

overall and these commitments are greatly appreciated by the 

Fellowship. The Taberdars’ Society recognises all who leave a 

legacy to College (currently 182 members) and meets annually 

for lunch. This year, celebrating the Society’s tenth anniversary, 

everyone enjoyed hearing from the talented Oxford Gargoyles, 

an a capella group featuring many Queen’s students. 


The College also entered the digital age, trialling a crowdfunding 

platform that enabled our students to showcase personal 

projects to their family and friends and our staff and Old 

Members. The choir’s trip to San Francisco, research on 

seabirds, a student-led access visit to Cumbria, and a marine 

debris collection are just a few examples of projects made 

possible thanks to support from 236 generous individuals. 

Among all our fund-raising activity there are some things we 

have not done, quite deliberately. Unlike most Colleges, there 

has been no telethon this year or last, nor have we asked our 

most recent graduates to make a gift to College. This has 

meant that our participation rate has fallen below that of other 

colleges, but it represents those Old Members who are actively 

choosing to support the College at the right time in their lives, 

and we are focusing on growing support from this group. 

A very full calendar included 29 events across the year, 

primarily in Oxford, but also in London, San Francisco, Los 

Angeles, New York, Rome, and Sydney. We began the year 

with the opening of the New Library and the Old Members’ 

Dinner on 16 September. The former was an opportunity for us 

to thank those who had enabled this outstanding new building 

to be created, and to share it with them; the latter provided 

the opportunity for our Old Members to have a first look at the 

excellent facilities. We are grateful to Rowan Atkinson CBE 

(1975) who formally opened the New Library shortly thereafter. 

Our newly christened Jubilee Gaudy successfully celebrated 

50th, 60th and 70th matriculation anniversaries this year; the 

event coincides with the matriculation of our new intake each 



October and is a joyful occasion. Excited to return after just 

a few years away, 150 Old Members and their guests joined 

us at the MA and ‘Ten Years Later’ lunches. Another 50 Old 

Members joined our first Young Alumni drinks in London, with 

enthusiastic requests to repeat this opportunity to meet up. 

A group of Old Members from across the decades has been 

working hard to create a celebration of co-education in 2019. 

Wendy Burt, Alison Sanders, Jane Welsh and Judith Bufton 

(all 1979) Jacqueline Rolf, Catherine Palmer and Janet Hayes 

(all 1981), Sarah McMahon (1982), Anna Howard (1995) 

Elizabeth Pilkington (2000), and Lauriane Anderson Mair (2007) 

all deserve thanks for the hard work they are putting in to 

planning these events. Thanks especially to Catherine Palmer 

who hosted the well-attended London launch of the Queen’s 

Women’s Network at Joseph’s Westbourne Grove store on 

International Women’s Day 2018. 

Old Members play a vital part in supporting College by hosting 

events like this and we are especially grateful to Tim Connell 

(1968) for hosting the City of London Reception at Stationers’ 

Hall for a second time. We would be deeply grateful to hear 

from others who might be able to volunteer or help us secure 

venues for events in London and elsewhere. 

This year the choir were able to join us in California for Oxford’s 

Global Alumni Reunion. They sang beautifully at several events 

around the state, notably at the University’s Gala in the Ferry 

Building, San Francisco and at the home of Old Member and 

Mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti (1993) and First Lady Amy 

Elaine Wakeland (Wadham, 1993). The former event suffered 

from horrendous weather, but the show went on. As if to 

compensate, the sun shone brightly in the Mayor’s garden for a 

moving performance by the choir that followed fascinating talks 

from both Eric and Amy. Sincere thanks to our hosts and, as 

ever, to Bruce McLucas (1967) for supporting this event and to 

Jennifer Clay and an anonymous donor for their support in the 

events that followed in New York. 

Our thanks are also due to Development Committee members 

Desmond Cecil (1961), Paul Newton (1975), Rachel Lawson 

(1984), John Turner (1984), John Hull (1994), Anna Hull (1995), 

and Maude Blake-Sanders (2009) for their generous gifts of 

time, talent, and funds. Each of them participates widely in 

College life and Governing Body is grateful for their advice on a 

wide variety of issues. 


I am writing this on my last day as Development Director. 

It has been a short but sweet three years, your average 

undergraduate stint, but without the vacations. I know you 

will all continue to receive the best of attention from Henry 

Cosh, Jen Stedman, and Mirijam Marx in the Old Members’ 

Office, a wonderful team for whom nothing is too much trouble. 

They deserve your thanks and mine for enabling such a 

broad range of activities. This summer’s superbly handled 

activity around GDPR and email consents could not have 

been achieved in this short time frame without Mirijam’s 

excellent technical skills and a great team effort. If you are 

one of the few yet to reply, please return the enclosed 

card to the Old Members’ Office as soon as possible. 


Finally, thank you all again for your outstanding support this 

year. In addition to its academic excellence, the College is built 

on benefaction, community, and kindness; your contributions 

on these fronts are always appreciated and it has been a huge 

pleasure working with you. 


FROM THE PRESIDENT 


Paul Newton 

President of The Queen’s 

College Association 

It has been another full and action-packed year for the Old 

Members’ Association with events spanning the globe and Old 

Members getting together in places as far afield as Sydney 

and San Francisco; places that, I venture, did not exist when 

College Old Members first met up to reminisce about their 

Oxford days. Only in the relatively recent past could such 

journeys have been contemplated between term times, even 

with Oxford’s generously long vacations. Continuing this 

international theme, the sounds of College are rarely far away, 

even apparently when flying Sri Lanka Air, where it has been 

possible recently to listen to The Queen’s College Choir as part 

of the airlines’ official play list. Furthermore, on a visit to the 

west coast of America in April of this year, the choir performed 

in front of an audience in excess of 1,500 people at Stanford 

University - further validation, if any were needed, of the choir’s 

quality and reputation. 

Travel and the world generally have obviously changed greatly 

since 1341 and we are now all increasingly conscious of the 

duty to preserve and protect the planet. In this regard, the Old 

Members’ 650th Anniversary Trust awarded a grant to the 

Oxford Aldabra Project which was officially launched at the 

Royal Society in May. This is a mammoth undertaking involving 

current College members to remove accumulated plastic 

debris from the Aldabra Atoll World Heritage Site in the southwest 

Indian Ocean. 

Old Members’ events continue to evolve to cater for our 

community’s changing demographics and interests. The 50th 

Anniversary Lunch has seamlessly morphed into the Jubilee 

Matriculation Gaudy Lunch to celebrate 50th, 60th and 70th 

anniversaries. There is now a Young Alumni Society to serve 

the College’s millennials and the Queen’s Women’s Network 

launched on the eve of International Women’s Day 2018 in 

Oxford, with 50 attendees, and on the day itself in London, 

with 100 attendees. This Network will provide professional and 

social networking opportunities for current female members of 

College and female Old Members. It will help everyone, within 

and across the generations, to celebrate success, promote 

equality and inclusion and champion change. 


Many of the Old Members’ events over the year have been 

mentioned elsewhere in the College Record. This year’s Old 

Members’ Dinner was, however, the Provost’s last, a mere 10 

years since we were welcoming him to his post. Fittingly, there 

will be a special Garden Party next summer which will provide 

an opportunity to say a proper goodbye and to thank him for 

the magnificent job he has done during his term in office. 

May I take this opportunity to urge as many people as possible 

to attend this event to make it a most memorable occasion 

for him. I would also like to thank the Old Members’ Office 

on behalf of all of us for its unstinting support, efficiency and 

enthusiasm in organising events and keeping up contacts with 

Old Members. It is, as always, highly valued and appreciated. 



GAUDIES - FUTURE INVITATIONS 


Boar’s Head 

Year Matriculation years 

2019 1996/1997 

2020 1986/1987 

2021 1998/1999 

Needle and Thread 

Year Matriculation years 

2019 1974/1975 

2020 2004/2005 

2021 1976/1977 

Jubilee Matriculation 

Gaudy Lunch 

Year 

Matriculation years 

2019 1949/1959/1969 

2020 1950/1960/1970 

2022 1988/1989 

2022 2006/2007 

2021 1951/1961/1971 

2023 2000/2001 

2023 1978/1979 

2022 1952/1962/1972 

2023 1953/1963/1973 

Old Members’ Dinner 

21 September 2019 (tickets on sale from 1 July 2019) All welcome. 


650 TH ANNIVERSARY TRUST FUND 

AWARD REPORTS 

Agamemnon Crumpton - training for rowing in the Oxford University 

Lightweight Rowing Club 

Thank you so much to the 650th Anniversary Trust Fund for the grant to help me with the costs 

of rowing training so that I could represent Oxford in the Oxford University Lightweight Rowing 

Club (OULRC). 


There have been two big rowing highlights this year, one was becoming one of the OULRC eight 

to row against Cambridge. This was due to take place at Henley but river conditions were so 

dangerous it was changed to Dorney lakes at Eton. Although we didn’t beat Cambridge, it was 

a hard-fought battle and a close race in the snow and wind. For competing in the varsity race, I 

received a half-blue. 

Later in the year, our lightweight eight represented Oxford at the British Universities and Colleges 

Sport (BUCS) championship, in the lightweight 8+ and 2- categories, where we achieved the 

silver medal and 5th place. The achievement of medalling at BUCS allowed us to become the 

first squad to be awarded full blues. This was both fantastic for us to compete at this level and 

good for the club and University to achieve a great result. 

This experience has allowed me to help coach the College rowing team from the boat. Queen’s 

has stayed level in the College Eights after last year’s blades campaign (of which I was part) 

which meant we were much higher in the rankings. I have encouraged first-years from College to 

try out for OULRC next year. I have benefitted in confidence and fitness and I’m, without doubt, 

fitter than I have ever been in my life. 

Jake Duxbury - taking part in the Blues Ivy League Football Tour to the US 

From 26 March to 5 April, I attended the Blues Football Tour to the East Coast of America, where 

we played four matches against Ivy League colleges, specifically Harvard, Yale, Princeton and 

Columbia. During our travels, we were fortunate enough to have tours of all the colleges, as well 

as to go sightseeing in Boston and New York City. The grant kindly awarded to me by the 650th 

Anniversary Trust Fund Committee covered the bulk of my costs. 

The tour was of great personal benefit - it was my first trip to the US and I thoroughly enjoyed 

the experience of a different culture. Time in Boston and New York allowed me to take in sights 

first-hand that I had only ever seen before on television screens and postcards. The football itself 

was a difficult learning experience - we came up against sides with a great wealth of facilities at 

their disposal, and their students made the most of these. For the first time this season, we were 

pitted against sides who were both fitter and stronger than us, as well as being very technically 

gifted. In spite of this apparent mis-match, we performed admirably and succumbed to two 

narrow losses in our opening matches (2-1 and 2-0 to Harvard and Yale respectively). Our third 



match was undoubtedly our most successful, where we drew 1-1 with a Princeton side that, 

like the other Ivy League colleges, recruits talented footballers from across the world to play in 

their side. This match was also a big personal triumph, as I came off the bench to score the late 

equaliser for the Blues. 

Our final match was the toughest by a distance - Columbia were not only the best side that any 

of us will probably ever play, but we were hugely hampered by the itinerary, which saw us play 

fewer than 24 hours after the Princeton game, and immediately after a three-hour coach journey 

to New York City. These trying circumstances were nearly impossible to overcome, and we lost 

6-0 to an exceptional team. Despite our disappointment at not being able to register a win in 

the US, we all felt that the on-pitch outcomes were secondary; it was a privilege to have been 

welcomed into and competed against such revered institutions. The tour gave me some great 

footballing lessons and has hopefully put me in a position to challenge for a greater role within 

the Blues squad for the forthcoming season. My sincerest thanks go to all the Old Members and 

those in the Old Members’ Office whose hard work and generosity went into providing me with 

this grant. 

Stephanie Franklin - choir tour to China 

I am very grateful to the 650th Anniversary Trust Fund for its generous financial support of my 

participation in Schola Cantorum of Oxford’s choir tour to China this summer. The money given 

by the fund was used to boost our choir’s fundraising effort, and without the fund’s contribution, 

this tour would not have been financially viable. As Chair of Schola and tour manager of the 

China tour, I am thrilled to report back that our tour not only ran very smoothly, but also that each 

member of the choir has brought back wonderful experiences with them. Our performances 

were extremely well-received by our audiences, and each member of the choir thoroughly 

enjoyed themselves and was very grateful for the opportunity to travel somewhere so far afield 

from Oxford. 

On our tour we went to two Chinese cities: Beijing and Lanzhou. The idea for our tour to China 

came into being after Schola was invited to be a demonstration choir at the China International 

Choral Festival (CICF), a festival that is hosted in Beijing and takes place every second year. 

This year, 308 different choirs, comprising an amassed total of over 15,000 singers, participated 

in the festival, and the 20 singers from Schola were the sole representatives of Great Britain. 

Our participation in the festival as a demonstration choir meant that we were invited to sing at 

the opening ceremony, which was held in the stadium built for basketball in the 2008 Olympics, 

and broadcast on Chinese television. We also performed solo recitals in prestigious venues like 

the Beijing Concert Hall, and lead two choral direction workshops run by our conductor, Steven 

Grahl. The CICF provided us with a local tour guide, who also acted as our translator, and he 

showed us Beijing’s most important sights, such as Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, 

Yoyogi Park, the Pearl Market, the Bird’s Nest and Water Cube at the 2008 Olympic Park, 

and much more! We also had the chance to visit the Great Wall. 

We were invited by the Yellow River Choral Festival to sing in Lanzhou, a newly revitalised 

industrial city in Northwest China that was earlier a major link on the Northern Silk Road. Lanzhou 


is not a regular stop on tourist routes through China, and had we not been invited to sing at the 

choral festival, we wouldn’t have thought to go there. However, it was fascinating for us to visit 

Lanzhou because it was so different from Beijing, and it broadened our experiences of China as 

a country and brought into perspective just how geographically and culturally diverse China is. 

Alexander Hartley - a performance tour of his play at the Edinburgh Fringe and other venues 


When you are sitting Finals, it can be hard to imagine that much of a life beyond them exists, 

which is why it was a jolt when I realised—waking up, my head (I’ll admit) ringing, on 3 June, 

the day after my last exam—that I suddenly had two weeks to write Doom’s day. In all, the thrill 

and pressure of writing and producing a national theatre tour was a welcome corrective to any 

looming post-Finals ‘drift’. It was a chance to make experimental work, to learn from the talents 

and generosity of my collaborators, and to take the temperature of international fringe theatre in 

its spiritual home, the church halls and lecture theatres of Edinburgh. 

Laura Day and I conceived Doom’s day in the autumn of last year as a major project for our 

theatre collective, The Wax House. A story had caught our attention: a ‘doomsday prepper’ 

in New Jersey had, via a series of flukes, ended up donating his million-dollar bunker’s stock 

of food and supplies to the Puerto Rican hurricane relief effort. What’s more, this man, Joseph 

Badame, was an all-American eccentric, a novelist manqué with a dense output of online-access 

‘novels’ to his name. A pretty good story, and we had an idea of how we wanted to tell it. 

We reached out to Joseph for more than a dozen hours of interviews, which—transcribed, read 

out, recontextualised, and sometimes simply replayed onstage—formed the basis of our play. 

In this we were developing the work we had done with audio storytelling (in our ‘live radio play’ 

last autumn) and with verbatim, documentary theatre (in Columns, Edinburgh Fringe 2017). 

Doom’s day, imaginatively and technically our most ambitious piece to date, was supported by 

Oxford University Drama Society (OUDS) and the Vice-Chancellor; we were, then, representing 

Oxford as we toured to Cambridge, London, and the Buxton and Edinburgh Fringes. It’s rare 

that such a formally experimental play has been afforded that honour. It was particularly pleasing 

when critics, such as The Scotsman’s Rory Ford, appreciated the playful nonlinearity with which 

we handled the plot. I am very proud, too, that we also broke new ground for the OUDS National 

Tour by offering our work in Relaxed Performances and seeking out wheelchair-accessible 

venues in Buxton, Cambridge, and Edinburgh. 

Good reviews are gratifying but what really matters is what you learn. You learn from the people 

you’re working with, from their ideas and instincts. You learn about your own weaknesses and 

how to mitigate them. You learn about your strengths and how to put them to use bringing out 

others’ best work. You learn from watching the theatre other companies are making. You learn 

from accepting and understanding criticism of your own work. The lessons I learnt on this huge 

project will work their way into my theatrical practice and also into my life. Everyone deserves this 

kind of chance—but student Edinburgh tours remain prohibitively expensive for participants. I am 

privileged that, for a second year, the Fund opened this door for me. It is a privilege I will try to 

bear in mind. 


Olivia Hugh-Jones - performing at the Edinburgh Fringe with the Oxford Gargoyles 


I am extremely grateful to those Old Members who contribute to the 650th Anniversary Trust 

Fund, without which the Oxford Gargoyles would not have been able to take our show to the 

Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year. 

The Oxford Gargoyles are a vocal jazz group of 12 students, two of whom are students at Queen’s. 

With a rich 20-year history, we worked hard all year to live up to our reputation for exciting, 

innovative and, of course, black-tie-donning performances, with the aim of performing a run of 

15 shows at the Fringe. This involved singing in regular public concerts, private gigs, flashmobs, 

recording an LP, and filming two live videos — all to prepare us for the Fringe’s critical audiences. 

Thankfully, audiences and critics alike were full of praise: the Scottish Review wrote “Their superb 

voices, style and impeccable delivery and harmonies were exquisite.” Audience members were 

invited to tweet us their thoughts of the show, or to leave a brief review on our Fringe page: 

“Ridiculously talented bunch of musicians”; “An incredible performance with the most beautiful 

collection of music - made me laugh, cry and wish that it never ended! Everyone should see this”; 

“The best they have ever been.” To read these comments made it worth the sweat and tears that 

every Gargoyle poured into the group and the show. 

These reviews helped to create hype around our show, inviting greater audiences every day. Our 

advertising strategies could therefore have a far greater reach - a fantastic prospect as the Trust 

Fund award funded all of our advertising. This is what ensured our sell-out show. The thrill of 

performing to a completely full, very appreciative audience is a feeling I will never forget. 

Another highlight for me was performing with microphones. The contemporary a cappella scene 

has been using mics for some time now, and in an attempt to modernise we decided to do so 

too. As you engineer the sound, you have to consider not only the balance, different effects, but 

you also have to employ a completely different singing style and technique. It proved difficult at 

first, but was a truly fascinating and rewarding experience once we mastered it. 

As the Fringe drew to a close, another era of Gargoyles came to an end and we had to say a sad 

goodbye to several members of the group. It was especially difficult as it has been an incredibly 

creative and productive year, aided significantly by the 650th Anniversary Trust Fund. 

Bethia Jones - travelling to Africa to work with children 

as part of Education Partnerships Africa 

The money provided by the 650th Anniversary Trust Fund was used to fund my travel to Uganda 

as a project worker for the charity Education Partnerships Africa (EPAfrica). I would like to thank 

the College for helping to enable my participation in this project. 

As part of a three-person team I stayed at Rwantsinga High School (RHS) in the Mbarara district 

of western Uganda, for 10 weeks, and managed a budget of just under £4,000, working closely 

with the administration to invest the money in the school. I am extremely proud of the changes 


we were able to bring to the school. I believe that we were able to make real improvements to 

the quality of education the school is able to provide. It was also an incredible experience for 

me personally, as I was able to develop my skills managing budgets, dealing with contractors, 

overseeing concurrent projects, and building relationships with stakeholders in our partner school. 

By being in the country, we were able to commit time to organising and managing projects. We 

worked closely with the school to ensure that the money would help achieve their priorities, 

would go as far as possible, and was invested in the best interest of the students. 


10 weeks in such a different environment is impossible to sum up, but I have attempted to 

summarise some of the more striking impressions and experiences. 

My two project partners and I lived in the school community for 10 weeks. We stayed with 

the Archdeacon of the surrounding diocese, and his two daughters. They were incredibly kind 

and generous hosts, and it was fantastic to share our different life experiences. It was also a 

fascinating experience to be part of the school community. We had meals in the staffroom most 

days, and we were able to have very frank discussions with the teachers, learn a lot about their 

lives, and share our own experiences coming from the UK. 

We were also able to get to know many of the students who are very hard-working and 

ambitious, despite their relatively poor backgrounds. Hearing the aspirations of the students 

reminded me of my own experiences in secondary school and was a constant reminder of why 

we were doing what we were doing. 

Lots of little things took some getting used to, such as handwashing clothes. Several of the female 

teachers came to us after four weeks, to show us how to wash properly. They were very concerned 

because they thought we had not been washing at all! There were also some issues that I struggled 

with. First, the disparity between the affluence of the town where the charity had its headquarters 

and the relative poverty of the village was quite hard to come to terms with. Also, in school, we 

observed some instances of corporal punishment, which was hard to watch and to react to. 

We were also able to take a week off and travel around Uganda. This was, of course, an incredible 

experience. However, it also brought home to me just how little of a culture you experience as a 

tourist, how little you interact with communities and the people, and was in direct contrast to the 

rest of the 10 weeks spent in school. 

Elizabeth Nurse - attending a music course in Austria 

I received a grant from the 650th Anniversary Trust Fund to attend a course in Attergau, near 

Vienna in Austria. My plans did not work out, however, and I was not able to attend this course. 

The course I had hoped to join – the International Orchestra Institute Attergau (IOIA) – was 

designed for students aged 16-23 to gain insight into the traditions of orchestral playing as 

preserved by the Vienna Philharmonic, a course which would have contributed to my training to 

be a professional violinist and performing scholar. I was attracted to IOIA because I am interested 

in Historically Informed Performance (HIP) and in localised playing traditions, knowledge which 

informs our contemporary performances. 



As I was not able to pursue the specific opportunity for which I applied for the grant, I looked for 

an alternative way to put the money to good use. I therefore attended a conference in Oxford – 

Perspectives on Historically Informed Practices in Music. The field of 19th Century HIP was new 

to me, and the conference was hugely inspiring, providing a comprehensive education on some 

of the many aspects involved in performing 19th Century music. 

The fields of HIP and Performance Studies in musicology are practice-led; many of the 

conference delegates were, or have been, professionally performing musicians and so exemplify 

the term ‘performing scholar’, a title to which I aspire. Presentations and discussions were 

focused on the practical implications of research findings: how should we investigate this music, 

the composers and performers, and the environments in which it was played, and what impact 

will our findings have on our performances? Many papers included live musical demonstrations, 

and some sessions were dedicated lecture-recitals. 

There were many fascinating papers presented. These ranged in subject matter from 

presentations, for example, on specific viola studies and their insight into viola pedagogy, to the 

relative merits of various orchestrations of Gustav Mahler songs and what these can tell us about 

what it means to be ‘historically informed’. 

The first evening featured an informal concert experimenting with concert etiquette as well as 

playing techniques; drinks were served to audience members, who surrounded the performers 

almost ‘in the round’, with some sat on cushions very close to the performers as if we might 

have been in a domestic environment. One session the following day was set aside to analyse 

the effects of this concert set-up and to have an open discussion of the effects of certain stylistic 

choices on the listeners. 

The conference atmosphere was characterised by friendly and excited discussion about many 

elements of 19th Century performance practice, often moving well beyond the confines of the 

papers or keynote speeches presented. Discussing ideas in a more informal setting at the 

Conference Dinner was a real highlight. Even as someone just starting my professional career, 

those to whom I spoke appreciated my ideas, perspective, and experience. As a recent graduate 

in Music and a violinist still in training, my experience was relevant in establishing what ‘The 

Academy’ teaches and what they believe to be the status quo for performing this music. To 

become a part of this community of performers and scholars was a pleasure and privilege. 

I attended the conference to hear about recent performance practice findings in order to apply 

them to my own playing. I came away inspired to uncover 19th Century violin repertoire from 

a different perspective. In practice this will mean experimenting in applying specific playing 

techniques and styles as discussed; I also intend to undertake research more specifically into 

English violin repertory and techniques from the long 19th Century. Observing lecture-recitals in 

particular gave me confidence that I would be able to develop some of my own research within 

this format. Additionally, following Christina Bashford’s keynote about Concert History and the 

social aspect of performances, I expressed interest in taking part in a ‘re-enactment’ of a concert, 

using the Oxford Town Hall as a venue. 


Quin O’Sullivan - adaptive skiing training 

The 650th Trust Fund grant facilitated me learning to sit ski. This is an adaptive method of skiing 

for those who cannot stand to ski, including wheelchair-users like me. Skiing is one of the few 

sports where para-athletes compete on the same stage as able-bodied athletes but is also one 

of the hardest to learn. During term time, I drove to Hemel Hempstead snow dome to have 

lessons with Disability Snowsport UK instructors, with the eventual goal of being able to race in 

a sit ski; this winter I’m going out to the Alps for my first real race, after more than 15 hours of 

basic tuition and many more spent training. Learning to sit ski is similar to learning to ski standing, 

except more frustrating, with, believe it or not, even more falling on your face in the snow! 

Living in Oxford can be expensive, before you introduce paying for skiing lessons, and without 

this grant I would only have been able to have one or two lessons. As anyone who’s learnt a 

language or instrument will tell you, putting in the hours really counts. 


When I became sick, not being able to ski was the one thing I really started to resent; my legs 

don’t work, and using a wheelchair isn’t something that bothers me, but watching people get out 

on the mountain and ski when I couldn’t was infuriating. Now, I’m finally ready to get back on a 

real mountainside this season, and go back to speeding past my family and friends, ready to wait 

at the bottom with a nice steaming hot tea for the slowcoaches to catch up… 

Getting back into skiing has not only enriched my life, but improved my physical and emotional 

health; staying active as a wheelchair-user is practically a full-time job! It’s also given me even 

more of an incentive to get involved with adaptive sport in general, and Oxford University Sport 

has just announced that wheelchair basketball will feature on the line-up of sports available this 

year; for the first time, there’s an accessible sport available in the city, so watch this space! 

Kai Xuan Ong - training with England Touch Scholars Training Squad (Rugby) 

The grant from the 650th Anniversary Trust Fund allowed me to join the training programme for England 

Scholars – a national touch rugby development pathway for university students. I was (with two other 

Oxford students) selected from the University Touch Series, the national touch rugby tournament for 

universities, to train under national coaches and players. The England Scholars programme aims at 

developing young players so that they can eventually become national players. With the grant, I was 

able to pay for training kit and for travel to weekend training sessions, as well as fees for Welbeck 

training camp. This is a three-day training camp where all England High Performance players train 

together and where final national squads for the European Touch Championships are selected. 

In the training programme, what I found most exciting was the fact that we got to play against 

the England national teams. We served as good competition for the older age groups (e.g. 

women’s 35s), pushing them to work harder against younger players, and learned a lot from 

the younger age groups (e.g. women’s open, women’s 27s). Playing against such good teams 

demonstrated where we needed to be if we wanted to play internationally, but also showed us 

that we were already on the way to being able to play at that level. As England has been the top 

European country in touch rugby (and proceeded to win the European Touch Championships 

this July), the expertise that I’ve received from this training programme is invaluable. 



I learned a lot not just as a player, but also as a coach. I coach the Oxford University Touch 

Rugby Team, and was able to bring back some of the drills and fitness programmes from the 

national training pathways to the University team. I can only coach as much as I know, and all the 

new moves and strategies that I picked up from the England coaches allowed me to teach the 

University team higher-level plays. The new insight from England training probably contributed to 

our huge 13-1 victory in our first ever Touch Varsity against Cambridge this year. 

Alexander Pavitt - training for rowing in the Oxford University Lightweight Rowing Club 

I would like to express my thanks to the trustees of the 650th Anniversary Trust Fund for 

awarding me a grant this year for Lightweight Rowing. In doing so, I became part of the first 

squad to win a Full Blue for Lightweight Rowing and qualified to represent GB Universities at the 

European University Championships this summer. 

Our medal-winning British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) performance in the lightweight 

4- pre-qualified the boat to represent the GB Universities at this summer’s European University 

Championships for the second year running, this time in Coimbra, Portugal. 

We trained hard over the summer, lapping up the beautiful weather and crew consistency, 

supplementing regular water sessions with a daily 45km cycle to Wallingford and back for extra 

cardio. Team spirit and camaraderie were high. 

The first challenge of the summer was Henley, where we pre-qualified for the Visitors’ Challenge 

Cup. Distressingly, due to a ‘minor’ mishap the week before the regatta (we had an altercation 

with a tree while practising starts) we put our boat, Smooth Operator, out of action for the 

regatta. Fortunately, our open weight brethren loaned us one of their Tideway-going Empachers, 

designed for a crew of average weight 100kg. At a measly 75kg, we were swallowed up and the 

boat sat several feet off the water and thus our Henley experience was short-lived. 

One more week of focussed training in the Smooth Operator, returned from the magicians at 

Hudson, and we were off to Portugal, newly-clad in GB Universities kit. 

Coimbra is a beautiful city with an ancient university sitting pride of place atop a hill that 

overlooks the city. However, our enjoyment of the event was somewhat affected by the shocking 

lack of organisation. Our heat was moved from the Monday (as previously published) to the 

Tuesday, with the final being on the Wednesday, at 24 hours’ notice. 

With the final much sooner than expected and the four of us far from race-weight, critical diet 

and strategy changes had to be made, as we’d have to limit food intake post-heat in order to 

make weight for the following morning. As the weather looked fairly consistent between the 

two days, we used the heat as a trial run for the final; it didn’t look like lanes would make much 

of a difference. We decided to race the first 500m, settle to 30 for the middle 1000m and then 

practice our sprint for the line taking the pressure and rate back up for the last 500m, ensuring 

we qualified but minimising fatigue. The race went exactly to plan. 


On finals day, we woke up slightly heavier than we had been the previous day, each of us with 

1.7kg to lose before the weigh-in. Through the long season we had had many weigh-ins and we 

weren’t fazed by this obstacle. 

After an hour or so of re-hydrating and eating breakfast we boated for the final. There wasn’t much 

wind, about 5mph with no gusts blowing in a straight headwind down the course. Just as predicted, 

lanes wouldn’t matter. The first 100m were a complete blur. It wasn’t our best start, but it also wasn’t 

our worst. However, we all knew that races aren’t won or lost in the first 10 strokes. It therefore 

didn’t faze us too much when we went through the 250m mark in last place. We were just finding 

our rhythm and our high race speed, the middle 1000 was where we would hopefully bring it back. 


The next 500m was all about rhythm, I was in the bow steering and calling distances, Iain was 

in the 2-seat making strategy calls, Jonny was in the 3-seat laying down power, and Sooraj was 

keeping the rate at 40 in the stroke seat. We had hit a lot of buoys during training over the past 

few days and hit one in the heat. Catching one today would be catastrophic, an entire season 

working towards this over. However, we were working as a unit, the boat felt light and was only 

increasing in speed. This made it easy to stay alert and we kept a straight course. As the other 

crews began to fade from their fast starts our vast amount of cardio training paid off and through 

the 1000m we had moved into second place. 

Through the 1000m Iain called for a huge push to get us into the lead. It worked. We knew we 

had to go. We didn’t want to get caught in the race for medals at the end. We needed clear 

water over the rest of the field. Going into that last 500m in the lead the finish could not come 

soon enough. We were on the absolute limit. I remember thinking ‘now would be a really bad 

time to hit a buoy’. We knew the Hungarians would be coming. However, they had left their sprint 

too late. 100m to go. Inside the red buoys. We were just holding on. Then the buzzer went. We 

all looked round and it took a fraction of a second for it to settle in. We had done it. We had won 

the European University Championships. 

Georgina Ramsay - putting on a play at the Burton Taylor Studio 

In Week Seven of Trinity Term, I staged a production of Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls (Who 

Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf) at the Burton Taylor Studio. Although I had 

experience as an actor, this production marked my debut as both a director and a producer. I 

am immensely grateful for the £150 from the 650th Anniversary Trust Fund, which completely 

covered the cost of print marketing. Consequently, it only seemed fitting that the College 

provided the backdrop to our promotional material. 

For Colored Girls is better described as a ‘choreopoem’ than a play and it was, in fact, its writer 

and director, Ntozake Shange, who first coined the term for a piece of dramatic work such as this 

that combines poetry, music, dance, and song. The play itself has long been one of my favourites 

and while in the sixth form I was inspired by Justina Kehinde, a then-undergraduate at the 

University of Cambridge, who staged the same play herself as a student. In a fortuitous full-circle 

moment I was able to meet her when she visited Oxford, two weeks before opening night, and 

she was not only thoroughly supportive of the project but offered some great pearls of wisdom. 



Theatre has the power to bring people together and this play was no exception. I hoped by 

putting on this play, it would provide an opportunity for students to nurture and showcase 

their creative talents, irrespective of their past experience. This meant that many members of 

the production crew, me included, were stepping out of their comfort zones with this venture. 

The cast also had varying levels of experience – from seasoned actors who were accustomed 

to the stage to some who had never acted before. As a director, it was satisfying to see 

the actors lean on each other for support in rehearsals and ultimately, I think this made their 

performances more authentic. 

The production itself is certainly not a conventional one - it is original in its structure, as it 

consists of twenty poems that interconnect stories about the lives of seven black women; in 

its costume as the seven main characters are identified only by the colours of their clothing; 

and in its narrative, as it focuses solely on the lives of seven black women through a series of 

interconnected monologues. For me, it was a privilege to witness not only the journey that the 

production took but also the journey made by the cast members themselves, both individually 

and as an ensemble – from initial nerves in auditions, hesitation about creating a convincing 

American accent to watching them immerse themselves in the world they successfully created 

on stage. I hope it was as rewarding for them as it was for me. 

This play also made history as the first ensemble cast on an Oxford stage consisting of all 

black women, the significance of which was not lost on me. We were fortunate to receive 

enough funding to ensure that we did not have to take out any loans. So, upon learning that the 

production had made a profit of £928.57, it was important to me to invest it in worthwhile causes. 

With this in mind, the profits were divided equally between the newly-formed Black, Asian and 

Minority Ethnic (BAME) Drama Society, which will ensure the world of drama in Oxford is as 

inclusive as possible, and Onyx, a magazine run by Oxford students which seeks to amplify the 

creative work of African and Caribbean voices. 

The journey towards this production was certainly challenging at times but rewarding nonetheless, 

both on a personal and professional level. Having been so heavily involved in the production 

I found I needed to learn new skills unexpectedly, such as sound design and now have a 

newfound interest in the technical side of theatre. We managed to sell out four out of five nights, 

receiving rave reviews, and it was so satisfying to know that the audience enjoyed watching it 

as much as we enjoyed making it. I am grateful for the experience and especially to the 650th 

Anniversary Trust Fund for their generosity. 

Anna Sharp - cross country training camp before representing Oxford 

in the varsity match 

The generous grant from the 650th Anniversary Trust Fund funded a 10-day warm-weather 

training camp in Monte Gordo, Portugal, with the Oxford University Athletics Club over the 

Easter vacation. Around this time of the year, athletes flock to Monte Gordo to make use of 

the high-performance centre there, plus the warmer weather! With a large athletics stadium, 

state-of-the-art gym and indoor warm-up area, plus forested trails and a beautiful sandy beach, 

it was the perfect location for 10 days of quality training. It was so helpful to have the time, 


facilities, and coaching expertise to focus on important training factors that easily get missed 

at Oxford in a busy term time, factors such as strength work, conditioning, recovery work, 

soft tissue therapy, nutrition, race psychology, sleep - the list goes on. This annual training 

trip therefore plays a crucial part in our preparation for Varsity every year, taking place just a 

month before the big day. The trip clearly paid off as the club nailed another 4-0 victory against 

Cambridge in May, winning the Men’s and Women’s Blues and Seconds competitions. Just as 

importantly (if not more) the team really gelled and became close, engendering a supportive 

atmosphere to which we can partially attribute our Varsity and BUCS success. OUAC has a 

real family atmosphere, which makes training a pleasure. 


On an individual level, I felt I gained a lot from the trip and was delighted to achieve 

new personal bests in both the 2km Steeplechase and 800m at Varsity (6.59 and 2.15 

respectively), achieving the award for the most improved athlete in the process. My time in 

the former event now places me second on the Oxford all-time list. I was also pleased to 

achieve a top eight finish in the BUCS final in May, and to clinch a surprise silver at the U23 

England Championships in June. Some of my personal highlights of the trip included a 6am 

sea swim to watch the sun rise, group tempo runs around the sandy forest trails, and of 

course the ‘all you can eat’ buffet in the hotel (they definitely didn’t make a profit on us)! 

My team-mates benefitted considerably from the camp as well, with a constant stream of 

personal bests throughout the season - one of the girls even gained her first England vest 

over 5km shortly after. 

In conclusion, the training camp was a fundamental part of my preparation for the summer 

track season, and I’m really grateful for the funding that enabled me to go. From here, I hope 

to have a strong winter’s cross-country season, then target qualifying for my first Senior British 

Championships in summer 2019. The jump from Junior to Senior competition is tough, but I’m 

looking forward to giving it a shot. I’m also excited to be captaining the Oxford Women’s Blues 

team in 2019; here’s hoping for a third consecutive 4-0 Oxford victory! 

Daniel Simpson - taking part in the Blues Ivy League Football Tour to the US 

During the Easter vacation this year, I was lucky enough to take part in the Oxford University 

Blues Football Tour to the east coast of the USA, having been a member of the Blues squad for 

the 2017/18 season. I’m now in my last year of my medicine degree, having played university 

football for four of those years; it took a lot of rainy training sessions and grim away matches with 

the third and second XIs before I finally got my chance with the Blues last season, and so I was 

very excited at the prospect of such a prestigious tour. 

It was a huge opportunity, but unfortunately also an expensive one. The flights alone cost roughly 

£500, and whilst we were able to stay with our opponents for free in some cases I also spent 

approximately another £400 on food, accommodation and internal travel while we were there. 

This was a big ask given that I spend 49 weeks a year in Oxford studying medicine with very little 

time for a job on the side, so the £400 grant from the 650th Anniversary Trust Fund Committee 

was invaluable – in fact, it was the difference between me going on tour or staying at home, and 

so I am immensely grateful. 



While I was there I played in matches against Harvard, Yale and Princeton, all amazing 

universities with very talented football teams. We were given tours of their sports facilities before 

each match, and every time I was reminded just how seriously they take their football; their 

scouting system, their gym facilities and the packed training schedules all combined to make for 

some great tests of our footballing ability. I was playing against some of the best footballers I’ve 

ever faced, and so 2-1 and 2-0 losses, to Harvard and Yale respectively, didn’t seem like bad 

results at all. We followed this up with a 1-1 draw against Princeton in which we were unlucky not 

to get a winner, which made for a great end to my tour before I flew back to the UK. 

It wasn’t entirely about football of course, and I enjoyed so many other great experiences while 

we were out there. New York is a jaw-dropping city and I have honestly never seen anything 

like it, to the point where I felt like I had to cram every possible tourist experience into the two 

and a half days we spent there. The periods I spent at Harvard, Yale and Princeton were equally 

interesting, and not just because of the campus tours – it was the students I met and the 

conversations I had with them that I found so interesting, making me seriously consider a brief 

period in the US if my career ever allows it in the future. It was such a brilliant place to visit and it 

made me so proud to have gone as a footballer representing my University and my College, so 

again I would just like to say a massive thank you to the 650th Anniversary Trust Fund for making 

it possible. 


APPOINTMENTS AND AWARDS 


1953 

Victor Hoffbrand was awarded the Wallace H. Coulter Award for Lifetime Achievement in 

Hematology from the American Society of Hematology. He is the second recipient from the 

UK. Earlier in the year, he received the Bin Khalifa International Thalassaemia Federation 

Award for innovative significant clinical or scientific contribution in the field of Thalassemia / 

Hemoglobinopathies. He also received the President’s Medal for 2018 from the Royal College 

of Physicians. 

Brian McGuinness was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy by the Leopold-Franzens 

Universitaet Innsbruck. 

1957 

Michael Arundel was granted permission to officiate as a priest in the Church of England. 

Geoff Keating was awarded the British Empire Medal in the New Year Honours list for his service 

to music education and in particular as ‘Founder and Conductor of the Solway Sinfonia for 

service to music and charity in Dumfries and Galloway.’ 

1963 

John Griffith Williams was appointed Judicial Commissioner. 

Tariq Hyder, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, represented Pakistan’s National Defence College at 

the EU Consortium Conference on Nonproliferation and Disarmament in Brussels. In January 

2018, he chaired the opening session of the Foreign Office’s international seminar on Strategic 

Export Controls in Islamabad. In April, he presented a paper on Naval Strategy in the Indian 

Ocean at a conference organised by the University of Lahore. Over the summer he has written 

a series of articles, for Gulf News Dubai and The Nation Lahore, on Pakistan’s peaceful uses of 

nuclear energy, on questioning who wants a unified Korea, Pakistan’s politics vis à vis the recent 

elections, and the advent of Imran Khan (Keble) as Prime Minister. 

1966 

John Gillen was appointed Judicial Commissioner. 

1967 

Philip Schlesinger was invited to take up a Robert Schuman Fellowship at the European 

University Institute in Florence in March-June 2018. He was elected as first foreign Socio de 

Honor of La Asociacíon Española de Investigacíon de la Comunicacíon in June 2018. He 

concluded 14 years of non-executive advice to Ofcom (The UK Communications Regulator) in 

May 2018. 


1968 

David Hudson is now an Archbishop of Canterbury nominated Governor of the Court of 

the Whitgift Foundation and Chair of its Governance and External Relations committee. 

The foundation oversees three independent Schools - Whitgift, Trinity, and Old Palace. 

Julian Jacobson was appointed International Senior Arts Advisory Consultant, Xia Jing Shan 

Arts and Culture Foundation, Taiwan. 


John Sloboda was awarded an OBE in the 2018 New Year’s Honours List for services to 

psychology and music. 

1970 

John Michaelson was made Hon Group Captain John Michaelson MStJ RAuxAF. 

1975 

John Barker was appointed the Rector of the Parish of Buxted and Hadlow Down in the Diocese 

of Chichester. 

1977 

Mark Evans was awarded EdD by the Open University for ‘Through the glass darkly: an analysis of 

the monitoring process used in the Public-Private Partnerships in Abu Dhabi government schools’. 

1978 

Mike Fenn was appointed Visiting Lecturer, CASS Business School, City University of London. 

1979 

Paul Henson was appointed as a Governor of St John’s School Northwood. 

Jane Welsh is an Investment Committee member for AJR, a Governor at Wray Common Primary 

School, and Project Manager (and founder member) of the Diversity Project. 

1980 

Cathryn Edwards was appointed President Elect - Chair of the Trustee Board, Rowcroft Hospice. 

1983 

Sophie Jackson was promoted to Professor of Chemical and Molecular Biology. 

1985 

Patrick Ardagh-Walter has returned to France with his husband to establish a retreat centre, 

fostering wellbeing through the Alexander Technique, yoga, MDH Breathing Coordination, 

Five-Elements Qi Kung, and other modalities: www.la-scellerie.com. 

Duncan Rudkin was appointed Director of the College of General Dentistry. 



1986 

Andrew Mitchell (CMG) was appointed HM Trade Commissioner for Europe, Government 

Department of International Trade. 

1987 

Colin Cook was elected The Lord Mayor of Oxford. 

1990 

Alex Antscherl was appointed Editorial Director of Enid Blyton Entertainment (part of Hachette 

UK) in 2016. 

1993 

Matt Keen was appointed a Trustee of The Pioneer Club in St Albans and a Governor of St 

Albans High School for Girls. 

1994 

Hayaatun Sillem was appointed CEO of the Royal Academy of Engineering. 

1996 

Vera Chok was appointed a Board Member for Tête à Tête (the world’s largest community 

for new opera), made an Ambassador for Fearless Futures (a female-led social justice training 

organisation, and made an Ambassador for Apple and Pears, which gives primary school 

children and their families opportunities to discover self-expression and confidence and 

community. 

1998 

Premila Webster, Director of Public Health Education and Training, Nuffield Department of 

Population Health, was appointed MBE for services to public health. 

1999 

Guy Cuthbertson gave the 2018 British Academy’s Chatterton Lecture on Poetry. 

2000 

Claire Hodgskiss was appointed as the Assistant Director of School Relations for the Royal 

National Children’s SpringBoard Foundation. 

Caroline Potter was elected to the North Hinksey Parish Council in 2015 and made Vice-chair in 

2016. 

2004 

Jake Bush was awarded Rising Star of the Year at TARGETjobs National Graduate Recruitment 

Awards. 


2006 

Thomas Whyte, Corporal was appointed MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honour’s list. 

2011 

Abda Mahmood was appointed coordinator for Pint of Science for London School of Hygiene 

and Tropical Medicine. 



PUBLICATIONS 


Adsetts, Sir Norman (1952) 

A Man of Sheffield: The Adsetts Story (Sheffield: RMC Media, 2017) 

Atkinson, The Revd Mike (1953) 

Credibility and obedience: Memories of the Sheffield Industrial Mission, Theology 

118.2 (2015), 92-97 

Bengtsson, Bengt (1970) 

Understanding Population Genetics (Hoboken: Wiley, 2017), with T. Säll 

Burden, Adrian (1993) 

Start to Exit: How to maximize the value in your start-up (Coventry: Novaro Publishing, 2017). 

More details: www.starttoexit.biz 

Cecil, Desmond (1961) 

A Violin by Antonio Stradivari 1724 (2017). Available from www.abebooks.co.uk or from the 

author (desmondcecil1@gmail.com) 

Connell, Tim (1968) 

The Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers in D Reid (ed.) The Lord Mayor’s Show: 800 Years 

1215 – 2015 (London: Third Millennium Publishing, 2015). Language Learning by Different 

Means: Formal and Informal Learning in M H Kelly (ed.) Languages after Brexit: How the UK 

Speaks to the World (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Get Smart About Scandals: Past 

Lessons for Future Finance. (London: Z/Yen Group, 2018), with R McDowell 

Dolan, Terence (1967) 

Dictionary of Hiberno-English - The Irish Use of English (Dublin: Gill and MacMillan, 1998, 1999, 

2004, 2006, 2012, 2013) 

Ellis, Brian (1953) 

The Metaphysicis of Scientifc Realism (Durham: Acumen, 2009) Social Humanism (New York, 

London: Routledge, 2012) Labor’s Historic Mission (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly 

Publishing, 2015) Social Demand (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2016) 

Rationalism: A Critique of Pure Theory (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2017) 

Grayson, Richard (1992) 

Dublin’s Great Wars: The First World War, the Easter Rising and the Irish Revolution 

(Cambridge: CUP, 2018) 

Haksar, Vinit (1956) 

Gandhi and Liberalism: Satyagraha and the Conquest of Evil (London, New York, Delhi: 

Routledge, 2018) 


Harrisson, Jac (1970) 

Haleakala Ranch: Celebrating the 125th Anniversary (Honolulu: Barbara Pope, 2014). Winner of 

the Historic Hawaii Foundation’s Interpretive Media Award. Maui’s Cowboys in the Clouds: The 

Old Time Paniolo of Haleakala Ranch In Their Own Words (Honolulu: Barbara Pope, 2017) 

Hoxby, Blair (1989) 

What Was Tragedy? Theory and the Early Modern Canon (Oxford: OUP, 2015) Milton in the Long 

Restoration (Oxford: OUP, 2016), editor with Ann Baynes Coiro. 


Merrills, Andy (1993) 

Roman Geographies of the Nile: From the Late Republic to the Early Empire (Cambridge: CUP, 

2017) 

Merrills, John (1960) 

International Dispute Settlement, 6th edn. (Cambridge: CUP, 2017) 

Meyric Hughes, Hetty (1989) 

Paris: Poetry of Place (London: Eland, 2014) 

Milbank, John (1971) 

The Politics of Virtue (London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), with Adrian Pabst 

O’Brien, Conor (2010) 

Kings and Kingship in the Writings of Bede, English Historical Review, 132 (2017), 1473-98. 

Hwaetberht, Sicgfrith and the Reforming of Wearmouth and Jarrow, Early Medieval Europe, 25 

(2017), 301-19 

Pearson, Tom (2002) 

Diamond-tipped: Conservation at the Engineering Building, University of Leicester (Leicester: 

University of Leicester, 2017) 

Saliba, Evarist (1965) 

From Russia with Love, The Sunday Times Malta, 27 February 2018 

Skinner, John (1977) 

Tokolosi (Dartford: Xlibris, 2017) 

Tam, Henry (1978) 

Communitarianism, Sociology of, in James D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia 

of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edn, Vol 4 (Oxford: Elsevier, 2015), 311-316. 

Time to Save Democracy: how to govern in the age of anti-politics (Bristol: Policy Press, 2018). 

What Should Citizens Believe: exploring the issues of truth, reason and society, (Sheffield: Citizen 

Network, 2018) 



Walker, Michael (1967) 

Early Evolution of Human Memory - Great Apes, Tool-making, and Cognition (Basingstoke: 

Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), with Héctor M. Manrique 

Wolff, Robert (1955) 

Seven Secret Powers of Love: Ninth Graders’ Dream Primer for Smoke-Free Thriving Lives 

(Clayton: Bookway International Services, 2017), by Humbler Acts (nom de plume for Robert 

Elliot Wolff) 

Woolfson, Jonathan (1984) 

Galenic Utopias: English Medical Students at Padua and the English Humanist Context, 

1520s-1550s, in Daniela Marrone, Linda Luxon, Gaetano Thiene (eds.), English Students of 

Medicine at the University of Padua during the Renaissance (Padua: Padua University Press, 2016) 


ARTICLES 

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WOMEN IN QUEEN’S BEFORE 1979 

In October 1979, Queen’s admitted its first female 

undergraduates. This was, of course, a key moment in the 

College’s history that fundamentally changed Queen’s forever. 

But there were women who were associated – not members, 

but associated – with the College before 1979. This article will 

explore who some of these women were. 

Michael Riordan 

Archivist 

The first clue is in the name – Queen’s. As (I hope!) everyone 

reading this knows, Queen’s was founded by Robert de 

Eglesfield, chaplain to Queen Philippa of Hainault, and 

he named the College – in the Foundation Deed it is aule 

scholarium regine de Oxon (Hall of the Queen’s Scholars of 

Oxford) – in her honour. Oddly, in the statutes he stated that he 

had given to her the ‘perpetual advowson’ of the College. What 

this means is not clear. An advowson was the legal right to be 

able to present a priest to a cure of souls, which would imply 

that this gave the Queen the right to appoint the Provost, but in 

fact Eglesfield had explicitly given the right to elect the Provost 

to the Fellows. Nor was the Queen the Visitor, which was to be 

the Archbishop of York. Over time, the Queen’s position has 

morphed into the role of Patroness, though nowhere is this 

ever defined. 

Nevertheless, over the centuries several Queens have acted 

as powerful friends or benefactors to the College. Philippa 

herself was responsible for persuading her husband, Edward 

III, to make the College the Perpetual Warden of God’s House 

in Southampton. This provided the College with an income 

that made it more comfortable than most of the other medieval 

colleges (though nowhere near as wealthy as Merton or New 

College!) and arguably allowed Queen’s to survive its earliest 

years. Moreover, when the College found that it could collect 

very few of the rents from Hampshire thanks to the pillaging of 

the French (these were the early years of the Hundred Years’ 

War), the King issued a deed freeing the College from paying 

taxation on these estates. Again, the deed cited that it had 

been done at Philippa’s request, and included a portrait of her 

in the initial letter. 


Several of Philippa’s successors also provided assistance to 

the College. Elizabeth of York (wife of Henry VII) assisted the 

College in its long battle with Eton College over the Monk 

Sherborne estate (see the 2012 Record for more on this) and 

Catherine Parr (the sixth and final wife of Henry VIII) ensured 

that Provost Denysson received a favourable hearing when 

several of the Fellows made serious complaints against him 

(see the 2016 Record). Henrietta Maria (wife of Charles I) 

followed Philippa in persuading her husband to grant the 

College gifts in Hampshire, in this case six advowsons, all 

achieved through the most beautiful deed in the College’s 

Archive. The following century, when the building of Front 

Quad ground to a halt thanks to a lack of funds, Caroline of 

Brandenburg-Ansbach (wife of George II) gave £1,000 and 

promised another £1,000 which never materialised but which 

was, nevertheless, enough to see her immortalised in Sir Henry 

Cheere’s statute above the cupola. Her successor, Charlotte 

of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, also gave £1,000 in 1779 for the 

rebuilding of Front Quad after a disastrous fire, but had to 

settle for a portrait in which she holds a plan of the Quad. 

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But, of course, one did not have to be royal to be a benefactor. 

Eglesfield had expected the Provosts of the College to seek 

the patronage of the Queen, but some Provosts wisely 

decided that it would profit the College more to set their sights 

somewhat lower. None did this more successfully than Joseph 

Smith, Provost from 1730 to 1756, who befriended Lady 

Elizabeth Hastings, daughter of the Earl of Huntingdon. Lady 

Betty, as she has always been known, was a pious lady who 

wanted to support the sons of clergy and those who would 

carry out missionary work in India and elsewhere. Smith was 

prominent in persuading her to spread her bounty less narrowly 

and at her death she left Queen’s the manor of Wheldale in 

Yorkshire (it is now almost totally subsumed into the town of 

Castleford) to support men from the north of England who 

would study in the College before becoming clergymen. Thus, 

the Hastings scholarships were born. 

Not all benefactresses were as grand as Lady Betty or Queens 

Caroline and Charlotte. A surprising number of women gave 

silver to the College. A seventeenth century list includes a 

gilt bowl and cover given by the Countess of Leicester and a 

great gilt goblet given by one Mrs Jenkinson of Colebrock. The 

circumstances of these donations are now lost and the fact 

that they are not recorded on our current lists of plate suggest 

that they were amongst the items given to Charles I during 


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the Civil War to be melted down to provide coin for his armies. 

But some silver from female donors, mostly given in memory 

of their husbands or fathers do survive, such as a pair of silver 

tumblers given in 1896 by Maria Farebrother in memory of her 

father Thomas, a former commoner of the College, or a whole 

plethora of plate given by Lucy Hunt in memory of her husband 

AS Hunt, a Fellow of Queen’s from 1896 to 1934 who found 

fame as one of the discoverers of the Oxyryhnchus Papyri. 

The concept of female benefactresses is perhaps not too 

surprising, but many people may not be aware that there had 

been women living in the heart of Queen’s for centuries before 

1979. Until the reforms of the mid-Victorian period Queen’s, 

like all Oxford colleges, was a community of clergymen, and 

until the Reformation in the mid-sixteenth century no priest 

was allowed to marry. Even after this no Fellow was allowed to 

marry while retaining his Fellowship until almost the twentieth 

century, but from the Reformation one member of College – 

the Provost – was allowed to marry. 

So far as we know the first Provost to be married while in office 

was Barnaby Potter, who married Elizabeth Northcote in 1615, 

a year before the Fellows elected him Provost. However, his 

seven children were all born and baptised in his Devonshire 

living of Dean Prior, which suggests that he did not bring his 

family with him to Queen’s. But he did have one family member 

at Queen’s, for when Potter resigned the Provostship in 1626 

he was succeeded by his nephew Christopher, who soon 

thereafter married Elizabeth Sunnybanke. Their three children, 

unlike their cousins, were born in Queen’s, so it seems likely 

that the whole family were living in the Provost’s Lodgings at 

the heart of Front Quad (now, of course, the Old Lodgings). 

This became quite normal and we know of many later 

examples, perhaps most memorably Mary, the wife of Thomas 

Fothergill (Provost 1767-96), who always walked a few feet 

behind him on their morning constitutionals, earning them the 

nickname Orpheus and Eurydice. 

Certainly by the nineteenth century it was regarded as 

necessary that there was someone in the Lodgings to act as 

a cross between housekeeper and hostess and when the 

Provost was unmarried relatives often stepped in, such as Miss 

Eva Lefroy, niece of J.R. Magrath who ran the Lodgings after 

his wife’s death, and then the sister of J.W. Jones who played 

a vital role in keeping the conversation going when students 

were ‘entertained’ by the famously taciturn Provost. 


One other category must be mentioned – what we would 

now call staff, but for centuries were referred to as servants. 

Eglesfield’s statutes of 1341 mention, apart from the Queen, 

just one woman: the College’s washerwoman. And the only 

thing that concerned Eglesfield about her was to ensure that 

on no account was she to enter any of the Fellows or students 

rooms, thus preserving everyone’s moral reputation. (In many 

colleges the washerwoman was not even allowed beyond 

the main gate.) For centuries she remained the sole female 

servant. What we would now call scouts – from the nineteenth 

century to the middle of the twentieth they were generally 

called bedmakers – were at that time invariably male and 

acted almost as the students’ valets; Lunt, Charles Ryder’s 

scout in Brideshead Revisited, gives a good idea of the role. It 

seems, from looking at the Wages’ Books, that it was during 

the Second World War while many of the bedmakers were on 

active service, that the College started employing women in 

large numbers. 

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There have therefore been, perhaps, a surprisingly large 

number of women associated with the College, some actually 

living and working in the College. But the principal function of 

Queen’s has always been education and it was not until 1979 

– not quite forty years ago – that women were able, finally, to 

take a full part in the life of the College. 


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Prof Jane Langdale CBE FRS 

FEEDING THE WORLD: 

REVOLUTIONARY RICE 

Three billion people -- nearly half the world’s population -- 

depend on rice for survival. In Asia it is a lifeline, providing up 

to 70% of a person’s daily calorie intake in some countries. 

Although there are 140 million rice farmers in Asia, even now, 

local supply is often not enough to meet demand. And the 

world’s population is growing: the number of people dependent 

on a rice-producing hectare of land in Asia in 2050 will be a 

50% increase on the figure for 2010. (If all economies reached 

the same level as the most developed, then production would 

need to increase by 175%.) 

What if rice could be adjusted genetically so that first, it has 

far greater yield; second, it uses less water; third, it needs a 

lot less fertiliser; and fourth, it has higher resilience to climate 

change? It would transform world agriculture. 

‘All’ you need to do to revolutionise rice in this way is to 

change the way it photosynthesizes – specifically to switch 

it to use the kind of photosynthesis employed by corn and 

sugarcane. Importantly, that switch has been made in plants 

60 independent times by evolution, so there is a precedent. 

In 2008, the International Rice Research Institute in the 

Philippines, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 

gathered together a consortium of 12 labs worldwide to start 

work on developing revolutionary rice. Since 2015, the BMGF 

funded ‘C4 Rice Project’ has been led by Jane Langdale CBE 

FRS, a Professorial Fellow at Queen’s and a Professor in the 

Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford. 

The overall efficiency with which crops convert sunlight into 

yield is basically determined by a combination of the amount 

of solar energy (there’s plenty of this), the efficiency of light 

interception (how well the plant harvests the energy), the 

conversion efficiency (how well the energy is used to make 

sugars and starch), and the partitioning efficiency (how 

good the plant is at directing the sugars to the edible part). 

Through decades of conventional crop breeding programmes, 

interception and partitioning efficiencies have been increased 

to near the theoretical maximum. But conversion efficiency in 

most crops has remained low, and this is essentially because 

photosynthesis in most plants is inefficient. 


Photosynthetic inefficiency arises because a protein called 

RuBisCO, the most abundant protein on the planet, can 

interact with both carbon dioxide and oxygen. Reactions with 

carbon dioxide are good – kick starting the process of sugar 

formation, but reactions with oxygen produce something that 

is toxic to the plant. In these situations, energy that would 

otherwise be used to make more sugars has to be used to 

de-toxify the poison. Langdale’s approach to this problem is to 

examine the clever workaround employed by plants that have 

evolved a much higher photosynthetic efficiency, and see how 

this can be used in lower efficiency plants like rice. 

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Most photosynthesis (called “C3“) is low-grade, poisoning 

its own process by reacting with oxygen instead of carbon 

dioxide when environmental conditions are hot and dry. 

However, some plants, such as corn and sugar cane, have a 

workaround. They separate the photosynthetic process into 

two adjoining cells – restricting RuBisCO to just one of the 

cells. The outer cell creates a special four-carbon compound 

(“C4“) that is delivered to the oxygen-protected inner cell which 

contains RuBisCO. In the inner cell, carbon dioxide is released 

from the C4 compound, enabling drastically more efficient 

photosynthesis to take place because carbon dioxide is at a 

much higher concentration than oxygen. 

Rice is a C3 plant. If it can be converted to use C4 

photosynthesis, it is predicted that yield would increase 

by 50 % while using half the water and needing far less 

fertiliser. If the project proves successful, it could lead to 

similar radical improvement for other inefficient crops, such as 

wheat. Previously an impossible dream, technology has now 

developed to a point where it becomes a viable proposal to 

turn C3 plants into C4 plants. But this is still an agricultural 

‘Apollo’ project. Langdale’s research suggests that the changes 

needed in rice – to separate photosynthesis into two adjoining 

cells - may require more than 20 genes to be engineered. 

Engineering is scheduled to begin in 2019 with the expectation 

that the breeding of fiercely efficient C4 rice could be complete 

by 2039. Decades of research are thus needed – but they 

could provide centuries in which less land yields more food, 

leaving more of the planet to nature. 

This is the kind of endeavour that can only be accomplished 

with highly focussed multi-generation science and the backing 

of funding organisations that have a long-term vision. 


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Dr Naomi Wynter-Vincent 

Dr Wynter-Vincent’s book, 

Wilfred Bion and Literary 

Criticism, will be published 

by Routledge in 2019. 

ONE HUNDRED YEARS ON: 

WILFRED BION AT THE BATTLE 

OF AMIENS 

The psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion (Queen’s, 1919; b. 1897; 

d. 1979) came up to Oxford only a few months after 

demobilisation from the Tank Corps, in which he served 

between 1916 and 1919. Earlier this year, I visited the College 

to shoot a short documentary film for the opening session of 

the 2018 Bion Congress in Brazil, and chose to focus on Bion’s 

experience at the Battle of Amiens, on the 8th August 1918, of 

which he later wrote (in The Long Week-End): 

Oh yes, I died – on August 8th, 1918. 

Bion, of course, did not die at the battle, but one incident on that 

day stands out from the many scenes of death and carnage that 

he witnessed during the First World War. Huddling in a shell-hole 

alongside a young tank gunner called George Kitching (whom 

Bion later calls ‘Sweeting’), Bion becomes aware that Kitching 

has been hit, his chest ripped open and exposed. Here is Bion’s 

fullest account of the event, written in the third person some 

forty years later, published in his War Memoirs: 

Bion was aware that Sweeting was trying to talk to him. 

Above the sound of the barrage it was impossible to hear 

any ordinary speech. Bending his ear as close as he could 

to Sweeting’s moving lips, he heard him say, ‘Why can’t 

I cough, why can’t I cough, sir? What’s the matter, sir? 

Something has happened.’ 

Bion turned round and looked at Sweeting’s side, and 

there he saw gusts of steam coming from where his left 

side should be. A shell splinter had torn out the left wall of 

his chest. There was no lung left there. Leaning back in the 

shell-hole, Bion began to vomit unrestrainedly, helplessly. 

Then, somewhat recovered, he saw the boy’s lips moving 

again. His face was deadly pale and beaded with sweat. 

Bion bent his head so that his ear came as near as 

possible to Sweeting’s mouth. 

‘Mother, Mother, write to my mother, sir, won’t you? You’ll 

remember her address, sir, won’t you? 22 Kimberly 

Avenue, Halifax. Write to my mother –22 Kimberly Road, 

Halifax. Mother, Mother, Mother, Mother.’ 


‘Oh, for Christ’s sake shut up’, shouted Bion, revolted and 

terrified. [...] 

He fell limply into Bion’s arms, now no longer attempting to 

press himself into the hole. His face, ghastly white, turned 

up to the sky. The fog swirled as thickly as ever around 

them. Every moment they seemed to be bathed in showers 

of bright sparks of red-hot steel from the bursting shells. 

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Never have I known a bombardment like this, never, 

never–Mother, Mother, Mother–never have I known a 

bombardment like this, he thought. I wish he would shut 

up, I wish he would die. Why can’t he die? Surely he can’t 

go on living with a great hole torn in his side like that. 

Bion writes about the death of George Kitching on no fewer 

than four occasions, each version subtly differing from each 

other, but with key elements unchanged. The above account 

hints at why this death – among so many others that Bion 

witnessed – is so personally devastating. Bion was by no 

means a cruel or unfeeling person – we have ample evidence 

of his kindness and warmth in the letters that his wife, 

Francesca Bion, published after his death – and yet he reacts 

to the pathetic entreaties of a dying man with impatience, even 

scorn. Later on he would describe the way that he emerged 

from the war as a kind of ‘shell’: decorated for what he 

considered only accidental bravery, yet hollow at heart. 

Bion’s war writings form a vitally important complement to his 

theoretical work. Historically important documents, they also 

contextualise and exemplify the inexplicit but pervasive figure of 

trauma in Bion’s theoretical work: his theory of thinking evokes 

the way that unbearable experiences challenge thinking to its 

limits. They also remind us of the strangeness of a world in 

which battle-scarred young men took up their places at Oxford 

alongside those who had narrowly avoided the draft. 


OBITUARIES 

Obituaries 

We record with regret the deaths of the following Old Members: 

1936 His Hon H K Wang 

1942 Capt A D Barlow 

Sir James Craig GCMG 

Mr B Freake 

Prof F M L Thompson 

1943 Prof R F Christian 

Mr W Etherington 

Mr S T L Harbottle 

1944 Mr C G T Prince 

1945 Prof J B Brown 

Prof C W K Mundle 

1955 Mr D B G Barraclough 

Dr J R Muir 

1956 Mr S R Bosworth 

1957 Mr M G D Baverstock 

Dr M G Fitzgerald 

Prof D C Greer 

1958 Mr J McK Gibbs MBE 

Mr M A Hird 

1959 Prof J C Mason 

Mr P E Smith 

Mr J Toothill 

1946 Mr F H Brittenden 

1947 Prof M G Gelder 

1948 Mr P V Bainbridge 

The Revd I M Lowery 

Mr K B Potten 

Professor Sir David Smith FRS 

Prof A T Tolley 

1949 Prof M H Butterfield 

The Revd W H O Mason 

1950 Mr P M Morrison 

Mr M R Richards 

Dr R G P Voss 

1951 Mr A S Close CBE 

Mr F R Dixon 

Prof R C Pugh 

Mr J E Cousin 

1952 Mr B McDermott 

1954 Prof Sir James Ball 

Mr J E Hargreaves 

1960 Prof P M Beckett 

Mr A J Carey 

1961 Mr D J Convery 

Mr M M Moodie 

1963 Dr P A T Christopher 

1964 The Revd J B Elliott 

Mr A M Hughes 

1965 Mr G C A Palmer 

1966 Mr C W J Hill 

Mr D R Piggott 

1967 Mr J M Morrison 

1970 Mr D J Batt 

1972 Mr R de Q Willott 

1973 Mr P M Reilly 

1978 Mr A C Savory 

1992 Mrs P J Koller 

The news of the deaths of Old Members comes to the notice of the College through a variety 

of channels. The College is unable to verify all these reports and there may be some omissions 

and occasional inaccuracies. 


James Ball was a formidable academic whose work 

transformed the methods by which governments decide 

how much tax and interest their citizens should pay. He also 

developed one of the first computerised econometric models 

to predict how the British economy would respond to a given 

set of measures. This model provided the data that formed 

the basis of the forecasts that began to feature in The Sunday 

Times business news section three times a year from 1966 

until the 1990s. 

Obituaries 

James Ball 

Born in 1933, Ball came from a modest family background. 

His parents were unmarried and his mother died when he 

was 14 months old. Ball was then fostered since his father 

preferred to spend his time growing lavender in the south 

of France. After being educated at St Marylebone grammar 

school, he undertook national service in the RAF before arriving 

at Queen’s as a Styring Scholar to read PPE in 1954. Ball 

obtained a first and a half-blue for chess. 

His first job was as a research officer at the Oxford University 

Institute of Statistics. He then moved to the Wharton business 

school at the University of Pennsylvania, where he wrote An 

Econometric Model of the United Kingdom in 1961. By then he 

had become a lecturer at the University of Manchester, where 

he remained until he moved to London Business School (LBS). 

His econometric model effectively put LBS on the map since 

it enabled one to change the level of government expenditure 

and see what the impact would be on output, inflation, balance 

of payments, exports, and imports in a way that hadn’t been 

possible before. As professor of economics there, he also 

ensured that the economic forecasts were digested by a much 

wider audience than just economists by feeding the information 

to business journalists. 

When Ball left LBS in 1984, he had a knighthood for services 

to management education. He took various directorships, as 

well as positions on government committees. Most notably, 

he was appointed chairman of Legal and General Group. Ball 

impressed his colleagues from day one with his assiduous 

attention to detail. 

Ball had five children with his first wife, three of whom 

predeceased him. He later remarried, after his first marriage 

was dissolved. 


Obituaries 

Inspired as a young man by Tolstoy’s War and Peace, 

Reginald Christian went on to become an academic who wrote 

extensively on Tolstoy. As an airman, his wartime encounters 

with Russian allies fighting the Nazis also contributed to his 

interest in the Russian language. 

Reginald Christian 

His studies at Queen’s were interrupted by his war service 

in the RAF and when he returned to Oxford, he transferred 

from Classics to Russian. He also became secretary of the 

Addison Society, the College’s debating club. He graduated 

with a first in 1949 and joined the Foreign Office. He was 

appointed attaché at the British embassy in Moscow, where 

his duties involved translating the Russian newspapers. His 

path to academia began after a speculative application to the 

University of Liverpool in 1950. 

Christian moved to Birmingham in 1955 to set up the 

university’s Russian department. He then moved to St 

Andrew’s in 1966, when he was again invited to set up their 

Russian department. He travelled extensively in the post-war 

Soviet Union, including to Tolstoy’s estate of Yasnaya Polyana, 

south of Mosow. Over his career, Christian wrote a series of 

celebrated books on Russian language and literature, including 

Russian Syntax with F.M. Borras, Tolstoy’s War and Peace: A 

Study, and comprehensive editions of the author’s letters and 

diaries. In retirement, Christian wrote Alexis Aladin: The Tragedy 

of Exile, the story of a Russian soldier and politician who 

sought refuge in Britain in the early 20th Century. 

He is survived by his wife, two children, and a grandson. 

‘Language is the great love of my life. I would die for grammar, 

for the subjunctive. I love etymology, the history of language, 

comparative language. It is the greatest achievement of 

mankind.’ 

Albert James 

Macqueen Craig 

Once described as a ‘pyrotechnic linguist’, James Craig’s love 

of language was clear throughout his career, during which he 

was regarded as the foremost Arabist of his time. He not only 

spoke fluent classical Arabic, but mastered Arabic dialects in 

ways that amazed and delighted his hosts when he was British 

Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. 


The son of a miner, he was not your average public school 

British diplomat. Craig had won a scholarship to the Liverpool 

Institute High School for Boys where a succession of 

inspirational teachers recognised and nurtured his natural 

abilities. He then won an exhibition to Queen’s where – in 

between a hiatus serving in the Army – he read Classics before 

switching to Arabic and Persian. He had wanted to study 

Chinese but was told the choice was Russian or Arabic, he 

chose the latter because it was more ‘exotic’. He graduated 

with a first in 1947. 

Obituaries 

Following a year’s postgraduate study at Magdalen College, 

Craig became a lecturer in Arabic at Durham University. After a 

year, he took a sabbatical at Cairo University. In 1955, he was 

approached to be senior instructor at the Middle East Centre 

for Arabic Studies, then Britain’s ‘spy school’ in Lebanon 

whose history he later published. 

Following a suggestion to join the Foreign Office, Craig took 

the exam and formally joined in 1956, returning to London in 

1958 to work on the Sudan Desk, without any formal training. 

He developed a reputation for being prepared to speak 

truth unto power but nevertheless demonstrated the finest 

diplomatic skills when dealing with hijackers, first in managing 

the response to a Palestinian hijack of a British Airways plane 

in 1974, which earned him a permanent role in hijack response. 

Craig developed a close affinity with the Arabic world, 

smoothing relations with Saudi Arabia following the broadcast 

of the ITV drama-documentary Death of a Princess, which 

nearly severed diplomatic and trade relations with the UK. 

He was as fearless in settling local disputes as he was adept 

in averting international crises. 

Craig was appointed CMG in 1975, KCMG in 1981, and 

GCMG in 1984. He was appointed to the Order of St John 

in 1985. He became Visiting Professor of Arabic at Oxford 

and he was an Honorary Fellow of both St Antony’s College 

and Queen’s. He was also President of the British Society 

for Middle East Studies. 

He married Margaret Hutchinson in 1952, and had four children; 

she died in 2001 and Craig subsequently married Bernadette 

Hartley Lane, who survives him along with his four children. 


Obituaries 

Michael Gelder 

Michael Gelder was at the vanguard of a new generation of 

psychiatrists who sought better solutions and brought them 

into the mainstream. He founded the psychiatry department 

at Oxford in 1969 and ran it until his retirement in 1996. 

Gelder had resisted his parents’ desire for him to join the 

family business and instead studied science at night school 

before winning a scholarship to Queen’s. He graduated with 

a first in physiology. He later studied at University College 

Hospital London, and did his national service in Germany as 

a medical officer. He trained as a psychiatrist at the Maudsley 

Hospital in south London and won the Gaskell Gold Medal 

and Prize, one of the foremost academic distinctions in 

clinical psychiatry, in 1962. 

Gelder’s work was pioneering in the field of anxiety disorders. 

Instead of the prevailing use of addictive drugs and often 

ineffective psychotherapies, Gelder developed clinical 

desensitisation methods as part of an approach known 

as behaviour therapy, or more commonly today known as 

cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT). These treatments have 

been shown to provide far better long-term outcomes than 

antidepressant medication for those with conditions such as 

agoraphobia, Social Anxiety Disorder, and Post-traumatic 

Stress Disorder. They have benefitted huge numbers of 

people world-wide. 

Gelder quickly gained a reputation as someone who was 

prepared to carry out highly original and clinically important 

research across disciplinary boundaries. In addition, he 

possessed remarkable organisational skills, which he used 

tirelessly and selflessly to build a thriving and world-leading 

Department of Psychiatry. His openness to new approaches 

and strong belief in the value of combining experimental and 

clinical science allowed him to make the case through rigorous 

trials that behavioural treatments were effective. He was thus 

able to overcome sceptics and gain acceptance in the costconscious 

NHS. 

His Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, first published in 1983 and 

co-authored with Dennis Gath and Richard Mayou, became 

a standard reference work. He had a clarity of expression 

and encyclopaedic knowledge that made him an inspirational 

teacher. He was formal in manner and neither retirement not 

declining health stopped him wearing suits. 


As a grandfather, he set up a WhatsApp group called 

‘Grandpa’s Grapevine’ so he could communicate with his 

grandchildren. They survive him along with his wife Mandy, 

and their three children. When one of his daughters became 

engaged to an Italian, Gelder learned his future son-in-law’s 

native tongue in time to deliver a bilingual speech at the wedding. 

He was a devoted family man and always relished a challenge. 

Obituaries 

Keith was born in Johannesburg in 1934. He gained his Natal 

Law Certificate and won the Connor Memorial Prize for Best 

Candidate Attorney in 1955. After completing his Law degree 

at the University of Natal in 1957, he was elected a 1958 Natal 

Rhodes Scholar. 

Keith Robert McCall 

Keith arrived in England in 1958 a little older than most of 

his colleagues, many of whom were national servicemen. He 

quickly settled into life at Queen’s. Besides his legal studies, 

he was involved in a wide range of activities. He rowed, swam, 

and played rugby and water polo; all for the College. He was a 

member of the Eaglets and Chairman of The Queen’s Bench. 

He was active outside the College as a keen supporter of 

Rhodes House and the Raleigh Club. He had a large group 

of Rhodes Scholar friends. In the vacations he enjoyed the 

hospitality offered by the Friends of Rhodes House, and his 

frequent visits to London dining at the Inner Temple gave him 

many legal friends. 

Keith achieved his MA and MLitt in Roman Law in 1962 and 

so much enjoyed his four years at Oxford that he was very 

tempted to stay. He thrived in the cosmopolitan atmosphere 

of Oxford compared to the stifling Apartheid system of his 

South Africa. It was a big decision for him, especially joining 

a legal framework that he could not wholly support. However, 

his loyalty to his single mother forced his decision to return. 

For ever after it did leave him wondering ‘what if?’ He made 

many nostalgic return visits and he kept up many friendships in 

England and with Rhodes Scholars in the USA. 

With Keith’s warm personality and skills, he progressed rapidly 

in the Natal legal world. He specialised in labour law and was a 

long-time member of Lawyers for Human Rights. He became 

an Advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa, a Senior 

Counsel in 1977, an Acting Judge in 1981, and, with the 

ending of Apartheid, a Judge of the Labour Appeal Court (Natal 


Division) from 1992 to 1996. Keith worked far into his retirement, 

often called upon to join committees and make judgements. 

Obituaries 

Keith contributed hugely to the Durban community chairing 

various educational bodies and was a member of the Rhodes 

Scholarship Selection Committee. He was a long-term 

President of the Durban Rowing Club; a Branch Chairman of 

the Progressive Party; a member of St Elizabeth’s Anglican 

Church, Westville; and enjoyed fishing, gardening, music, 

and the theatre - he had acted a lot in school productions and 

confided he might have joined that profession. 

In 1966, Keith married Wendy Evans of the Evans family from 

the Orange Free State. She was a graduate herself from the 

University of Natal and a wonderfully supportive fun wife. 

They have two daughters and a son and five grandchildren. 

Keith died peacefully at his home in Westville on June 6 2016. 

Many will mourn a good and generous man. 

Tom Aubrey & Peter Fieldhouse 

David Smith 

An inspiring biology teacher’s field trips first led to an interest 

in the subject that would see David Smith become an expert 

in the biology of symbiosis, the long-term interaction and 

co-operation between two species. In addition to more than 

30 years at the cutting edge of research, Smith also relished 

the challenges brought by taking on the leadership of the 

University of Edinburgh, when a different type of symbiosis 

was needed to balance the needs of academics, students, 

staff, and funders. 

Born in south Wales in 1930, he was sent to board at Colston’s 

School, Bristol during the war before his parents settled in 

northwest London and he moved to St Paul’s School. 

Smith came up to Queen’s in 1948 as Browne Scholar to read 

Botany. He showed great promise and obtained the only firstclass 

honours degree of his year. Postgraduate work followed, 

in Sweden and then back at Queen’s, before he undertook 

National Service in Germany and then in the Intelligence 

Corps. Afterwards, he returned to his research, undertaking 

fellowships at both Queen’s and the University of California, 

before becoming a lecturer at the Department of Agricultural 

Science at Oxford. 


After his knighthood in 1986, he arrived in Edinburgh as principal 

of the University. This role presented many opportunities for 

Smith’s measured and respectful approach to shine since the 

University Grants Council had imposed a financial penalty on 

the University, which made for a difficult period in its history, 

especially when coupled with significant changes to universities 

nationwide from the Thatcher administration. 

Obituaries 

Smith was not only an eminent botanist, but also a leading 

educationalist and his commitment to creating an atmosphere 

that enabled all to fulfil their potential, earned him the respect 

of all. In particular, he was a great believer in the symbolism of 

the degree ceremony and his lively orations about the higher 

purpose of university education made these events memorable 

and meaningful in equal measure. 

After leaving Edinburgh in 1994, Smith moved back to Oxford 

as President of Wolfson College, where he remained until 2000. 

He was awarded the Gold Medal for Botany of the Linnean 

Society and served as its President from 2000 to 2003. He 

was also made an Honorary Fellow of both Queen’s and 

Wadham College. In retirement, he returned to Edinburgh with 

his wife, where he enjoyed all types of music and gardening. 

He is survived by his wife, three children, and five grandchildren. 

Francis Michael 

Longstreth Thompson 

Remembered for his joviality and generosity of spirit, he 

brought together qualities all too rarely combined in academic 

life: he was very clever and he was very nice. Known as 

Michael, but publishing under his initials FMLT, Thompson 

was one of the last of the generation of academics who never 

had to actually apply for a job. His positions at UCL, first a 

lecturer in history and then a reader in economic history, were 

both conferred on him, as was his professorship at Bedford 

College and directorship of the Institute of Historical Research. 

His distinction as a historian was such that he is the only 

individual to date to serve as President of the Royal Historical 

Society, the Economic History Society, and the British 

Agricultural History Society. 

Born in 1925, Thompson came to Queen’s to study history, 

both before and after his war service with the Indian artillery. 

At College, he shared rooms with the future historian of the 

United States, Jack Pole. After completing his studies at 

Queen’s, he moved to Merton as a research student. Here, he 


was supervised by the emerging figure of Asa Briggs, whom 

Thompson admired for opening up new avenues of social history. 

Obituaries 

After Oxford, Thompson moved to London and was appointed 

to the staff of UCL: until his retirement he worked entirely in the 

colleges of UCL. His first book, English Landed Society in the 

Nineteenth Century (1963) opened up the subject that he was 

to shape and make his own across the whole of his career: 

the history of the land. A prolific, as well as influential historian, 

his publications total some 52 works. 

A much-loved and admired historian, teacher, and mentor, 

Thompson never limited himself to agricultural or economic 

history. Instead, he wrote generally about the nature of English 

Society. Thompson delivered the Ford Lectures in English 

History in Oxford in 1994, published as Gentrification and the 

Enterprise Culture: Britain 1780-1980. He was elected a Fellow 

of the British Academy in 1979 and appointed CBE in 1992. 

He was also made an Honorary Fellow of the College. 

He is survived by his wife, their two sons, and a daughter. 


BENEFACTIONS 

Benefactions 

The College thanks many of its Old Members for gifts and legacies. Thanks are due to the 

following who have made bequests to the College: 

A. Cadoux 

H.J. Elcock 

H. McGregor 

A.J.A. Petty 

A. Prust 

S. Smith 

G.D. Woodcock 

Z. Zhai 

The College is also grateful to those who made donations in the academic year 2017-18: 

R.M. Acheson 

A.C. Ball 

P.R. Blanshard 

O.G. Burns 

C.J. Adams 

G.W.J. Ball 

R. Bollington 

C.P. Burrill 

A. Adams 

J.M. Ball 

A. Bosworth 

D. Burrill 

E.J.L. Adlard 

T.J. Barker 

N.S. Boulton 

P. Burroughs 

K.R. Aggarwal 

A.W. Barlow 

A.R. Bowden 

P.J. Burton 

L.N. Agius 

J.M. Barr 

D.W. Bowen 

K.A. Butler 

D.M.G. Ainsworth 

E. Barraclough 

N.D. Bowen 

M.P. Byfield 

G.A. Aldridge 

R.L. Barrons 

P.H. Bowers 

J. Cadogan 

G.C. Aldridge 

C.P. Bassett 

M.R. Bowley 

C. Cairns 

S.J.Z. Ali 

R. Batstone 

J.A. Bowling 

J.A. Calder 

D.E. Allanson 

J.A. Battilana 

M.J.B. Bowman 

G.L. Camp 

M.D. Allen 

C.M. Beale 

A.W. Boyd 

A.C. Campbell 

D. Ally 

G.S. Beard 

M.A. Boyd 

B.W.C. Campbell 

J. Alston 

C. Bearne 

J.M. Bradford 

A.N. Carpenter 

W.B. Amos 

D.M. Beaton 

A.J. Brenner 

F.M.M. Carter 

C.R.A. Anderson 

A.J. Beatson 

A.V. Bridges 

D.R. Catchpole 

S.J. Anderson 

P.E. Beaven 

R.D. Bridgewater 

D.H. Cecil 

L.Z.M.E. Anderson Mair 

N.C. Beecroft 

R.E.S. Brimelow 

U. Chakrabarti 

D.S. Andrew 

J.W. Bell 

F.H. Brittenden 

C.W.H. Champion 

A.L. Antscherl 

T.W. Bell 

M.J. Brod 

B.S. Chandrasekhar 

G. Appleby-Thomas 

R.M. Bell 

S.J. Brooke 

J.S. Chapper 

J.P. Archie 

P.C. Bell 

G.G. Brown 

R.L.C. Charles 

J.M. Armson 

P.J. Bennett 

J.K. Brown 

J.I. Chisholm 

F. Arnold 

P.J. Bennett 

I.A. Brown 

C. Chisholm 

H.J. Arnold 

J.M. Benson 

D.A. Brownlee 

R.F. Christian 

M. Arundel 

S.E.J. Berman 

M.J. Brunson 

J.S. Christie 

M.W. Atkinson 

C.J. Bertram 

D.B. Bryan 

M.R. Christmas 

R.H. Atkinson 

J.G. Betts 

J.N. Buckley 

A.P. Clake 

M.H. Atkinson 

P.A. Beveridge 

S. Buckley 

W.J. Clappison 

W.G. Audland 

G.C. Biddlecombe 

A.P. Budd 

J.D. Clare 

J.A. Bainbridge 

J.A.H. Bigham 

J.E. Bufton 

T.D. Claremont 

J.R. Baines 

M.D. Birch 

K. Burke 

D.R. Clarke 

F.E. Baker 

A.I. Bird 

A. Burke 

J.H.G. Clarke 

R. Baker 

M.C.F. Blake-Sanders 

W.A. Burkinshaw 

R.A. Clarke 


P.A. Clarkson 

T.C. Deamer 

M.C. Farrow 

D.J. Gordon 

A.D. Clayton 

C.M. Défossé 

A. Fayet 

J.F. Gordon 

J.L. Clegg 

J.K.C. Denerley 

J.P. Feather 

W.R.F. Goundry 

J.C. Clement 

S.A. Cockle 

M.R. Codd 

J.R. Coggins 

A.G. Denny 

N.H. Dick-Cleland 

J.M. Dickinson 

N.R. Diffey 

R.S. Feinberg 

M.G.P. Fenn 

T.A. Feridun 

S.E. Ferraro 

L.M. Goward 

M.S. Gray 

T.J. Grayson 

B.L. Green 

Benefactions 

B.A. Cole 

V.R. Digilio 

J.G. Fife 

M.J. Green 

R.E. Coleman 

M.L.G. Dillon 

C.J. Finch 

C.J. Green 

P.G. Coleman 

C.G. Dilworth 

C. Findlay 

C.J. Greenwood 

B.M. Collins 

J.E. Dobbyn 

H.K. Fisher 

N.P.J. Greer 

M.J. Collop 

D.A. Dodds 

J.E.J. Fisher 

J.R. Gregory 

M.A. Colman 

M. Donkin 

J.H.G. Foley 

H.U. Grevsmühl 

A.N. Connell 

J.B. Donnelly 

J.E. Ford 

F.O. Grew 

T.J. Connell 

M.G. Dougal 

R.S. Fowler 

C.S. Grinyer 

Y. Constance 

I.R. Dougherty 

S.J. Fraser 

L.A. Gronich 

M.W. Cooper 

G.G. Dow 

T.C. Frears 

N. Grose 

C.B. Corrin 

J.P.K. Doye 

D.R. Freeman 

M.S.A. Grubb 

H.J. Corroon 

J.M.F. Drake 

K.E.M. French 

G.P. Hackett 

M.G. Corry 

P.C. Driscoll 

D.J. French 

R.A. Hague 

H.R. Cosh 

C.L. Durrans 

C.A. Frieze 

P.J. Haigh 

J.A. Cossins 

J.E.P. Ealing 

K.R. Furber 

J.P. Hallam 

T.N. Coulson 

C. Eaton 

R.C.C. Fynes 

M.R. Hallard 

B.M. Craig 

M.J. Eddowes 

J.M.F. Gagan 

E.F. Halpern 

P.A. Cramb 

L.A. Eddowes 

P.R. Gannon 

P.A. Hamilton 

R.M.I. Craston 

D.S. Eisenberg 

B.P. Gardner 

J.C. Hancock 

B.H. Craythorn 

P.N. Elliott 

J. Gault 

P.M. Handford 

R.W. Cristin 

R.A. Elliott-Taylor 

H.S. Geary 

J.C. Hargreaves 

R.R. Crocker 

N. Ellis 

J.R. Geldard 

J.E. Hargreaves 

M.J. Cronshaw 

R.A. Ellison 

M.G. Gelder 

J.R. Hargreaves 

P.L. Crouzet 

M.T.J. Elvidge 

J. Gibbons 

G. Harri 

S.A. Crown 

R.A. Emerson 

W.F. Gilges 

J.B. Harris 

C.V. Crowther 

I.C. English 

G.T.M. Gillen 

A. Harriss 

J.N. Crowther 

S.G. English 

J.R. Gilpin 

M. Hart 

J.P. Croxall 

M.R. Entwistle 

R.J. Glaister 

W.N.d.H.C. Hart 

H. Cunningham 

P.A. Epstein 

J.G. Glasspool 

O.R. Haslam 

J. Cuthbert 

G.C. Evans 

C.P. Goddard 

P. Hastings 

A. Davies 

M.C. Evans 

K.L.B. Goddard 

K.G. Hatton 

R.A. Davies 

S.J. Evans 

P. Godsland 

M.P. Hawkins 

G. Davis 

T.M. Evans 

W. Golant 

M.J. Hawley 

A.K. Dawson 

P.M. Evans 

R. Goldberg 

J. Hayes 

D. Dawson 

N.G. Everatt 

L.a.G. Goldberg and 

R.N. Haythornthwaite 

P.A. Dawson 

K.A. Fagandini 

Elcombe 

M.A. Hayward 

C. Day 

L.A. Fantin 

D.M. Goodall 

N.J. Hazel 

N.M. de Bussy 

P.J. Farrar 

W.S. Gooden 

J. Hazel 


J.M. Hazlehurst 

K.J. Jaitner 

W.M. Leslie 

S.J. McMahon 

G. Heathcote 

A.G. James 

J.A. Levett 

T.J.R. Mead 

P.S. Helliwell 

M.W. Janis 

J.R. Levick 

C. Meaden 

Benefactions 

E.L. Henderson 

P. Henry 

T.S. Heppell 

P. Hickson 

G.W. Jason 

N.P.H. Jefferies 

K.R. Jennings 

A.P. Johnson 

J.M. Lewis 

G. Lewis 

R.J. Liddle 

K.M. Lintern 

B.E. Messenger 

H. Meyric Hughes 

C.C. Michel 

S.R. Miller 

S.J. Higgins 

A.I. Jones 

A.B. Lloyd 

A.R. Milner 

S.C. Hilton 

R.W. Jones 

R.R. Lobb 

E.O. Mirzoeff 

C.J. Hodgskiss 

S.M. Jones 

M.J. Lodge 

A. Mitchell 

B.I. Hoffbrand 

M.A. Kangas 

A. Lopez 

S.A. Mohamed 

A.V. Hoffbrand 

D.H. Karp 

S. Loughe 

R.C.B. Mole 

L.H. Hoffmann 

W.J. Kay 

C.M. Low 

A.J. Moody 

A.B. Hogg 

J.D. Kaye 

R.J.L. Lowman 

P.C.L. Moore 

B.J. Holdsworth 

J.G. Keeble 

T.E. Lowther 

M.W. Moore 

R.G. Holdsworth 

K.M. Keen 

D.N. Luck 

J.P. Morewood 

L. Holland 

P.H. Kelly 

J.R. Luke 

J.D. Morgan 

D.P.C. Holme 

R.J. Kelly 

J.F.W. Lundqvist 

J.R. Muir 

R. Hoose 

C.A. Kelly 

C.P. Lynam 

H.L. Munn 

R.A. Hopkins 

J.E. Kelly 

D.M. Lynn 

O.R. Musgrave 

J.D. Hopton 

E. Kenney-Herbert 

J.H. Macdonald 

R. Myatt 

T. Horrocks 

A.W. Kennis 

J.G. Macdonald 

D.M. Myers 

A.D.J. Horsler 

R.S. Kent 

P.A. Madden 

M.F. Neale 

H.J. Houldsworth 

E.L. Kerfoot 

C.A.S. Makropoulos 

J. Nettleship 

D.L. Howard 

W. Kets 

M.H. Mander 

G.B. Newhouse 

C.L. Huang 

A.B. King 

D.R. Marsh 

J.C. Newman 

D. Hudson 

I.A. King 

D.W. Marsh 

P.M. Newton 

R.D. Hughes 

A.P. Kingshott 

G.P. Marsh 

H. Niederhoff 

C.W. Hughes 

J.M. Kitteridge 

P. Marsh 

C.J. Norbury 

N.H. Hughes 

J.E. Klempster 

C.J. Marshall 

R.J. Nosowski 

A. Hull 

D.S. Knox 

I.P. Marson 

O. Nsoatabe 

J.R.M. Humm 

A. Koller 

W.A.J. Marsterson 

M.D. O’Donovan 

J.Z. Hunter 

N. Kroepfl 

K.T. Maslin 

F.R. Ogden 

G.F.P. Hunting 

S.J. Kucera 

J.C. Mason 

P.C. Oliver 

M.J. Hurst 

C.M. Lamond 

C. Mason 

J. Ormerod 

C.T. Hutchinson 

C.H.A. Landa 

D. Mattinson 

M.E. Osborne 

K.S. Irving 

K.A. Langmack 

A. Mayson 

M.J. Osborne 

T. Islam 

O.N. Larsen 

S. McCollum 

A.C. O’Shaughnessy 

S.E. Jackson 

R.A. Laskey 

A. McDermott 

N.J. Owen 

J.A. Jackson 

M.J. Lawrence 

C.J. McIntyre 

R.A. Owen 

J.R. Jackson 

R.J. Lawson 

M.J.M. McIntyre 

N. Pabari 

B.H. Jackson 

R.C. Lawson 

C. McKie 

R.H. Pain 

W.L. Jackson-Houlston 

R.A. Lee 

J.P. McLeod 

D. Palfreyman 

J.K. Jacques 

P.A. Legon 

B.B. McLucas 

G.C.A. Palmer 


J. Palmer 

K. Raffel 

S.L. Sack 

J.H.F. Simson 

C.J. Palmer 

A. Rahman 

I.C. Sallis 

O.H. Simula 

I.J.H. Parker 

S.S. Rahman 

V.E.S. Salomonsen 

M. Sintonen 

W.E. Parry 

J. Parsloe 

A.J. Parsons 

T. Patel 

J.O. Ranger 

D.J. Ratcliffe 

A.P. Ratcliffe 

B.A. Rattray 

B.J. Salter-Duke 

C. Sánchez Cañizares 

A.B. Sancton 

A. Sanders 

J.H. Skinner 

R.M. Slater 

S.M. Slowe 

D.J. Smallbone 

Benefactions 

E. Patel 

A.L. Readel Snell 

P.T.E. Sanderson 

G.J. Smethurst 

R.L. Patton 

K. Redman 

L.W. Saperstein 

J.D. Smith 

M.A. Paul 

P.D. Reed 

D. Satterthwaite 

J.C.C. Smith 

M.D. Pearce 

N.J. Reed 

B.M. Saunders 

J.D.G. Smith 

T.J. Pearson 

T. Reil 

A. Saville 

C.E. Smith 

J.B.M. Peat 

J. Renard 

B.M. Savory 

P.T. Smith 

B.A. Pedder 

D. Richardson 

R.M. Savory 

J. Smyth 

M.L. Penrice 

P.E.H. Richardson 

V.H. Saward 

R.F. Sommers 

D.K. Pepper 

G.M. Riddell 

M.G. Sayer 

J.R. Sorabji 

J.A.A. Percy 

M. Riley 

S.J. Schamp 

T. South 

J.M. Perez 

M.S. Riley 

P.R. Schlesinger 

A.T. South 

M.J. Perret 

T. Riley 

A. Schreiber 

H.J. Sowerby 

R.J. Perry 

C.J. Ringrose 

P.E. Schur 

P.A.S. Spencer 

M. Pery-Knox-Gore 

P. Riola 

S.W.M. Scott 

B.T. Sproat 

G.W. Peters 

P.F. Rivett 

S.A. Scott 

D.B. Stacey 

G.S. Petros 

G.H. Rix 

J.L. Scott-Dalgleish 

T.J. Stadnik 

L. Phalippou 

J.E. Rix 

J.S. Screen 

J.E.H. Startin 

J.E. Pheasant 

J.A.G. Roberts 

R. Seah 

S.F. Stebbings 

R.P. Pike 

P.G. Roberts 

A.J. Seely 

J. Stedman 

H.E. Pirnie 

D.G. Roberts 

D. Seymour 

J.C. Steele 

J. Place 

M.J. Roberts 

T.L. Shaw 

M.L. Stephens 

M.R. Pollard 

R.H. Roberts 

C.R.H. Shaw 

K.M. Stephens 

M.L. Porter 

N.C. Robertson 

J.R.E. Shaw 

C.J. Stephenson 

C.J. Porton 

G.E. Robinson 

T.J.B. Shaw 

R.E. Stewart 

J.W. Poulter 

S.G. Robinson 

T. Shaw 

M.W. Stickings 

G.D. Powell 

A.P. Robinson 

D.J. Shepherd 

G. Stone 

A. Preston 

S.M. Robinson 

C.J. Shepperd 

T. Stone 

D.R. Price 

N.H. Rogers 

E.M. Shercliff 

C.B. Storm 

J.R. Price 

P. Rogerson 

B.S. Sheret 

J.C. Straker 

S.A.S. Pridgeon 

J.M. Rolf 

A.N. Sherwell 

D. Stubbins 

R.J. Prince 

H.E. Rosenberg 

A.E.M. Shorter 

B.T. Stubley 

A.M.H. Prosser 

C.J. Rowden 

P.C. Sidwell 

P.H. Sugden 

D. Prout 

A.F. Rowlands 

A. Silver 

L. Sulejmanovic 

P.J. Prynn 

D. Rutherford 

J.A. Simkins 

R. Sunderland 

T.U.W. Pütter 

M.D. Ryan 

H.J. Simmons 

A.P. Sutton 

A.J. Quaintance 

H. Sabih 

G.K. Simmons 

G.J. Sutton 

T.K. Rabb 

E. Sacau-Ferreira 

E.C.F. Simpson 

I.M. Swanson 


D. Swift 

C.J. Tibbs 

C. Watt 

M.N. Williamson 

G.C. Talford 

R.W. Tims 

J. Watts 

S.S. Wilson 

A.W. Tang 

I.G. Tompkins 

T.F. Webber 

A.G. Wilson 

Benefactions 

P.A. Tasker 

N.J. Taylor 

E.M. Taylor 

L. Taylor 

D.A. Townsend 

N.J. Tranah 

D.A. Traynor 

G.M. Trevelyan 

P.N. Webster 

J.P. Webster 

D.T.H. Weir 

J.V. Wellings 

R.A. Wilson 

J.D. Windass 

A.S. Winnett 

S.E. Witt 

J.R.C. Taylor 

L.A. Turnbull 

A.R. Weston 

H.Y. Wong 

T.J.L. Taylor 

A. Turner 

A. Weyman 

T. Wong 

S.C. Taylor 

J. Turner 

S.W. Whitaker 

P. Wood 

J.M. Theaker 

A.R. Turton 

S.G. White 

R.M. Woodhouse 

D.P. Thomas 

J. Twinning 

D.J. Whittington 

E. Wooding 

J.S. Thomas 

A.A. Umapathy 

E. Widnall 

C.J. Woolf 

S.G. Thomas 

F.J. van Bolhuis 

E.B. Wiggham 

J.I. Woolf 

E. Thompson 

L. Van Broeck 

J.D. Wilcock 

S.P. Woolley 

M. Thompson 

F.H. Venables 

G.J. Wilcox 

J.B. Wordsworth 

P.G. Thompson 

H.P.R. Von der Osten 

D.T. Wilkinson 

C.W. Wright 

P.M.V. Thompson 

M. Votruba 

M.R. Wilkinson 

H.R. Wright 

T.G. Thompson-Starkey 

P.R. Wadsworth 

A. Willey 

P.B. Wyatt 

P. Thomson 

E.R. Walker 

G.J. Williams 

A.I.J. Wyatt 

R. Thorn 

R.J. Walker 

M.O. Williams 

H.M. Wybrew 

D. Thornber 

N.J. Walton 

P.E.O. Williams 

N.J. Young 

A. Thorne 

T.R. Ward 

P.A. Williams 

G.C. Thornton 

I.J. Warren 

R.D. Williamson 

The College is grateful to the following Old Members who supported its Crowdfunding projects: 

M.H. Atkinson 

R. Baker 

R.L.C. Charles 

W.J. Kay 

P.A.S. Spencer 

J.M. Barr 

J.P. Croxall 

A. Lopez 

C.J. Stephenson 

A.W. Boyd 

T.C. Deamer 

D.W. Marsh 

P.R. Wadsworth 

R.E.S. Brimelow 

H.J. Houldsworth 

M.J.M. McIntyre 

P.E.O. Williams 

M.J. Brod 

D.L. Howard 

A.J. Quaintance 

K.A. Butler 

G.W. Jason 

M.J. Roberts 

G.L. Camp 

A.P. Johnson 

C.J. Rowden 

F.M.M. Carter 

R.W. Jones 

A. Schreiber 

Organisations that have supported the College: 

Amazon UK 

British High Commission 

Goldman Sachs & Co 

Piper Jaffray 

Amersham Bird 

Watching Club 

Aspect Capital Limited 

Bank of America 

Chevron Humankind 

Coca-Cola Foundation 

DJANDCO Limited 

EV Bullen 

Matching Gift Program 

JJC Foundation 

Microsoft 

Noble Caledonia 

Charitable Trust 

Seychelles Diaspora 

The Wolfson Foundation 

Ward Family Fund 


INFOR MATION 

Information 

VISITING THE COLLEGE 

Old Members are welcome to visit at any time, except during the Christmas closure period. Please 

present yourself at the Lodge with an item of ID (preferably your University alumni card) so that the 

Porter on duty can check your name against the list of Old Members. Advance notice, particularly 

if you’d like to visit the Library, is preferable although not essential, but if you are planning to bring 

a group (other than your immediate family) you will need to arrange this in advance. The Old 

Members’ Office can assist you with your visit: call 01865 279214 or email oldmembers@queens. 

ox.ac.uk. If you require level access, please telephone the Lodge on 01865 279120. 

DEGREE CEREMONIES 

MAs can only be taken by BA graduates 21 terms after their matriculation date. Old Members can 

either attend a University degree ceremony or receive an MA in absentia. To take your MA in person 

or in absentia, please email college.office@queens.ox.ac.uk. 

TR ANSCRIPTS AND CERTIFICATES 

If you require proof of your exam results, or a transcript of your qualifications for a job application 

or continuing education purposes, please contact Thomas Mussett in the College Office on 

01865 279166 or college.office@queens.ox.ac.uk. 

If you need a copy of your certificate, then all the information can be found at the University’s 

Student Records and Degree Conferrals Office: www.ox.ac.uk/students/graduation/certificates. 

For those who matriculated after 2007, transcripts/proof of degree documents can be ordered 

online: www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/product-catalogue/degree-conferrals. 

UPDATING YOUR DETAILS 

If you have moved or changed your contact details, please complete the online update form: 

www.queens.ox.ac.uk/update-my-details or email oldmembers@queens.ox.ac.uk. If you would like 

your news to go into the next edition of the Record, the deadline for entries is 1 September 2019. 

BED AND BREAKFAST 

The College is pleased to be able to offer bed and breakfast accommodation to Old Members at a 

reduced rate. You can take advantage of the reduced rate when you use the promotional code, which 

is available from the Old Members’ Office: call 01865 279214 or email oldmembers@queens.ox.ac.uk. 

A number of en suite student bedrooms will be available over the Easter and summer vacations. 

Rooms are clean, comfortable, and serviced daily. While not equipped to a four-star hotel standard, 

they are provided with towels, toiletries, tea and coffee making facilities, and free internet access. 

To book your room(s), please visit www.queens.ox.ac.uk/bed-breakfast. 


The Queen’s College 

High Street 

Oxford 

OX1 4AW 

www.queens.ox.ac.uk 

news@queens.ox.ac.uk 

Edited by Emily Downing and Michael Riordan 

Designed by Franks and Franks 

Cover image and College photography by David Fisher

College Record 2018

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