College Record 2019

THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE 

COLLEGE 

RECORD 2019

THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE 

Visitor 

The Archbishop of York 

Provost 

Madden, Paul Anthony, MA Oxf, DPhil Sus, 

FRS, FRSE 

Fellows 

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

Robbins, Peter Alistair, BM BCh, MA DPhil 

Oxf 

Hyman, John, BPhil, MA 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 

DPhil Oxf 

Kringelbach, Morten Lindtner, BSc MSc 

Copenhagen, DPhil Oxf 

Norbury, Christopher John, MA Oxf, PhD 

Lond 

Sarooshi, Dan, LLB NSW, LLM PhD Lond, 

MA Oxf 

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 École Centrale Paris, MA Oxf, 

PhD Paris VI 

Timms, Andrew, MPhil PhD Brist, MA Camb 

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 DPhil 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 School of Economics, MA Southern 

California, PhD INSEAD 

Yassin, Ghassan, BSc MSc PhD Keele 

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 

Hunt, Katherine Emily, MRes PhD Birkbeck, 

MA Oxf 

Hollings, Christopher David, MMath PhD York 

Kelly, Steven BSc Dub, DPhil Oxf, ARIAM 

Gault, Joseph Federick, MSc Imp, PhD 

Institut Pasteur & École Polytechnique 

Metcalf, Christopher Michael Simon, MA Edin, 

MPhil DPhil Oxf 

Whidden, Seth Adam, BA Union College, AM 

PhD Brown, MA Ohio State 

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 

Mȕller, Carolin Anne, Dip Ulm, PhD Nott 

Kets, Willemien, BSc MSc Nijmegen, PhD 

Tilburg 

Bown, Alexander Sebastian Fothergill, BA 

Oxf, PhD Geneva 

Mitchell, Dianne Marie, BA Smith College, 

PhD Pennsylvania 

Stacey, Jessica Anne, BA MA PhD KCL 

Chomicki, Gullaume, BSc Manc, PhD 

Munich 

Waights Hickman, Natalia, BA DPhil Oxf 

Prout, David, MA Oxf, PhD Lond 

Kasberger, Bernhard, BSc Vienna University 

of Economics and Business, PhD Vienna 

Robertson, Alexander William, MPhys Durh, 

DPhil Oxf 

Savage, Barbara D, BA Virginia, JD 

Georgetown, PhD Yale 

Smith, Michael Ambrose Crawford, BA 

College of William and Mary, MA PhD 

Princeton 

Turner, Jonathan, BA MSt BCL MPhil DPhil 

Oxf, LLB Birbeck 

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 Hon Sir John de Winter, BA Oxf 

Lever, Sir Paul, KCMG, MA Oxf, Hon LLD 

Birm 

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 Hebrew 

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 

Abbott, Anthony John, MA Oxf 

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Barrons, Sir Richard Lawson, KCB, CBE, 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 

Sloboda, John Anthony, OBE, MA Oxf, PhD 

Lond, FBA, FBPsS 

Wills, Clair, MA DPhil Oxf 

Emeritus Fellows 

McGuinness, Bernard Francis, BPhil MA 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 

Full-time Lecturers 

Peters, Christine, MA DPhil Oxf 

Sorgiovanni, Benjamin, BA Curtin, MA 

Melbourne 

Chaplain 

Price, The Revd Katherine, BA Sheff, MA 

MSt Oxf 

Laming Junior Fellow 

Bardazzi, Adele, BA RHUL, DPhil Oxf 

Randall-MacIver Student in Archaeology 

Olabarria, Leire, Lic Deusto, DPhil Oxf 

CONTENTS 

From the Provost 6 

Reports and College Activities 8 

Senior Tutor’s Report 8 

News from the Fellows 12 

Academic Distinctions 24 

A year in the Library 34 

A year in the Archive 37 

A year in the Chapel 38 

A year in the Choir 41 

A year in the MCR 43 

A year in the JCR 46 

Clubs and Societies 47 

Athletic Distinctions 54 

Old Members’ Activities 56 

Director of Development’s Report 56 

From the President of The Queen’s Colllege Association 58 

Gaudies 60 

650th Anniversary Trust Fund Awards 74 

Appointments and Distinctions 74 

Publications 78 

Articles 80 

Helping stroke survivors on their road to recovery 80 

‘The proper stuff of fiction’: British Modernism and the Translation of Russian Culture 82 

To Bodley and back: the College’s medieval deeds 84 

Obituaries 90 

Prof T P Dolan 91 

Prof A M Honoré 91 

Mr F C M Jones 92 

His Hon Michael Mander 93 

Sir Fergus Millar 94 

Prof T K Rabb 95 

Mr A B Walden 97 

Benefactions 98 

Retirement speech for the Provost 108 

Information 112 



From the Provost 

FROM THE PROVOST 

Prof Paul Madden FRS FRSE 

The past year has been notable for a number of significant 

achievements on the academic front. The undergraduates 

managed a record number of first-class degrees – 38, which 

is higher by one than two years ago when, you may recall, 

we were fifth in the Norrington Table. Accompanying these 

achievements were a large number of University Prizes, 

awarded for the best performance in particular papers. Among 

the graduate students there were excellent results too; for 

example, all students taking the Bachelor of Civil Law were 

awarded distinctions. The Fellows have not been left behind, 

with a number of substantial monographs and papers being 

published. John Blair’s Building Anglo-Saxon Britain was 

shortlisted for the 2019 Wolfson History Prize. Another notable 

distinction was the election of Plant Scientist Jane Langdale 

CBE as a Foreign Member of the US National Academy 

of Sciences - to be recognised in this way is a remarkable 

accolade. 

A particular source of satisfaction is that this year eight of 

our early-career research Fellows have secured excellent 

academic appointments at institutions like the Universities of 

Colorado and Durham or to University Lectureships in Oxford 

attached to Fellowships at Balliol, Worcester and Queen’s. As 

readers will be aware, we have been progressively increasing 

the number of these positions we offer each year. They play a 

particularly important role as a bridge to an academic position 

from graduate study in the humanities, where other types of 

postdoctoral opportunity are relatively scarce, and amongst 

this year’s successes are appointments in English, Archaeology, 

and Classics. Although it is sad to see these talented young 

people leaving the College, it is pleasing to be able to flag 

a significant role for the College in helping to refresh “the 

Academy”. We have been making appointments too, to Tutorial 

Fellowships in Philosophy, Applied Mathematics, Biology and 

Materials Science. The first two of these are to replace Fellows 

who have resigned to go elsewhere (John Hyman and Yves 

Capdeboscq) but the latter were to build up to having two 

tutors in the subject, which is desirable for several reasons. 

Another distinctive role which a College can play is to 

promote interdisciplinary studies, based upon the symbiotic 

relationships between Fellows in different Faculties, and this year we have created or, at least, 

consolidated two such activities. One is the research Centre for Manuscripts and Texts Cultures, 

which ties together a number of Fellows interested in translation and interpretation of writings 

in ancient languages. The second is the Translation Exchange which brings together expertise 

in literary translation and outreach within the College, University, city, and country to develop 

a broad programme of translation-related activities for students, schools, and the public with 

the objective of helping to support language-learning amongst young people in particular. More 

details of both activities can be found on the College’s web pages. 

Alongside all these academic achievements, we can again celebrate a vigorous programme of 

other student-led activities: a very successful Ball, with about 1200 attendees; good sporting 

engagement and success, especially in rowing; a very successful itinerary of Choir events; 

other EMS events, notably a musical in the gardens, and a substantial involvement of College 

members in theatrical performances around Oxford and at the Edinburgh Fringe. A highlight has 

been the engagement of College members in the Aldabra Project to remove plastic from the 

beaches of this atoll in the Seychelles – a project which was initiated and coordinated by our 

Fellow in Biology, Lindsay Turnbull, and graduate student April Burt and involved several other 

graduate students. 

In the corresponding Note last year I drew attention to the closure of the Florey Building and 

the consequences for the allocation of students to different parts of the College. We acquired 

a new building adjacent to the Cardo (Iffley Road) building which holds 13 undergraduates and 

rented a block of apartments close to the station which now holds most of the housed graduates. 

The first-year students have been moved into Main College and the Carrodus Quad (QLQ). For 

the most part, this necessary reorganisation has worked well; having the first-years in Main 

College has increased the vitality of the place and the graduates have appreciated the quality 

of their accommodation. There are negatives though. As an immediate consequence of the 

transition, there is one year of students who will have a much-reduced chance of ever being on 

the main site. Furthermore, the relatively large distance between the graduate accommodation 

and the College seems to have diminished the activity of the MCR. It is to be hoped then that a 

substantial amount of accommodation close to the College can be acquired as soon as possible. 

The Florey Building itself has now been listed at the 2* level and, if this is sustained, it will 

significantly limit the College’s options for its future development. For the immediate future, work 

has just begun to re-roof the Chapel and Hall – another substantial project. 

As you will be aware, I am now stepping down as Provost to hand over to my successor Claire 

Craig. It is very pleasing to be able to finish on the high note which I hope I have highlighted 

above - which shows that the College continues to make a vigorous and distinctive contribution 

to academic life and to the activities and futures of its members. I am very grateful for the notes 

of appreciation I have had from Old Members and members of the College and to all of them for 

their contributions to 11 very happy years for myself and Alison. 

Prof Paul Madden FRS FRSE 

From the Provost 



Reports and College Activities 

SENIOR TUTOR’S REPORT 

The largest decision made by the College this year was to 

enlarge the Fellowship with two new Tutorial Fellowships: 

one in Materials Science and the other in Biological Sciences 

(Bioinfomatics). We also decided to appoint a new Career 

Development Fellow in Macroeconomics. Appointments were 

well underway by the time of writing and will be announced in 

next year’s report. 

the author of Your Spirits Walk Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion (2008) and an expert 

on twentieth-century African American History and the history of American religious and social 

reform movements. Her Harmsworth Lecture was entitled ‘War, Race and Anti-Imperialism in 

Merze Tate’s International Thought’. 

We also welcomed a new Career Development Fellow in Law, in succession to Dr Ciara 

Kennefick, who was elected Student in Law at Christ Church, Oxford. Our new Career 

Development Fellow is Dr Jonathan Turner, who is an expert in legal and political philosophy. 

Adele Bardazzi is our new Laming Fellow. She works on loss and mourning in Italian lyric poetry. 

Her Fellowship will be used to study the Sardinian poet Antonella Anedda and to continue her 

work with the University’s Research Network on Gender and Authority. 


Nicholas Owen 

Each year, the College elects at least one fully-funded Junior 

Research Fellow. In 2018-19, there were two such elections. 

In Economics, we were pleased to appoint Dr Bernhard 

Kasberger, from the University of Vienna. Dr Kasberger 

works on multi-unit auctions from an industrial organization 

perspective. His aim is to improve the understanding of 

existing auction formats, to improve explanations of how 

people behave at auctions, and to design better auctions. Our 

new Hamilton Junior Research Fellow in French is Dr Michael 

(‘Macs’) Smith. Dr Smith comes from Princeton University, 

where he wrote a doctoral thesis on noise in Paris, and 

how various illicit practices (graffiti, parkour, protest, rioting) 

interrupt the efficient transmission of messages, goods, and 

bodies through urban space. While at Queen’s he will be 

studying contemporary French theatre, media systems, and 

relationships of ‘connection’. 

We were also able to offer Extraordinary Junior Research 

Fellowships to two more scholars. Dr Anna Seigal comes from 

Berkeley, where she completed a doctorate in Mathematics. 

She is an expert in multilinear algebra and uses tensors and 

algebraic tools to understand statistical models and to develop 

algorithms to analyse biological data. Dr Poorna Mysoor joins 

the College as Extraordinary Junior Research Fellow in Law. 

She works on how the structure of tangible property can 

be transposed to copyright to achieve a balance between 

ownership and user rights. While at Queen’s she will pursue an 

historical and comparative analysis of property and copyright 

law in various common law jurisdictions. 

Our Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History 

for 2018-19 was Professor Barbara Savage, the Geraldine R. 

Segal Professor of American Social Thought in the Department 

of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is 

As well as the retirement of the Provost, Professor Paul Madden, the year saw the departure of 

Dr Yves Capdeboscq, Official Fellow and Praelector in Mathematics, who left the College for a 

professorship at Paris Diderot University. Dr Alexander Bown, Career Development Fellow in 

Ancient Philosophy, took up a Tutorial Fellowship at Balliol College, Oxford. Our Junior Research 

Fellow in Philosophy, Dr Natalia Waights Hickman, moved to a Tutorial Fellowship at Worcester 

College, Oxford. Dr Dianne Mitchell, Junior Research Fellow in English was appointed to a 

position at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr Waights Hickman and Dr Mitchell had 

also served throughout the year on the Governing Body, the result of an initiative to widen 

the participation of early career academics in College governance. Dr Leire Olabarria, Randall 

MacIver Student, left the College for a post at the University of Birmingham, as - coincidentally - 

did Dr Guillaume Chomicki, our Glasstone Research Fellow in Plant Sciences. 

The Translation Exchange, the College’s newly created outreach and research centre on literary 

translation, had a very successful first year. It organised a series of workshops in which student 

ambassadors went out to local schools to promote translation as an inspiring and aspirationraising 

activity. The Translation Exchange’s directors Dr Charlotte Ryland and Dr Jennifer Higgins, 

organised an event on ‘Creative Translation in the Classroom’. 

The Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures, under the direction of Dr Dirk Meyer, is already 

achieving international visibility in its field. It has organised lunchtime colloquia and termly 

workshops, and has participated in four international conferences. Its plans for a regular Open 

Access journal, Manuscript and Text Cultures, are well advanced. 

In the 2018-19 undergraduate admissions exercise, the number of direct first-choice applications 

to the College increased by 14%, compared to an overall increase of 9% across the University. 

We were a participant in the link College scheme, working especially in state schools within our 

link areas of Cumbria, Lancashire, Lewisham, and Sutton. Our Outreach Officer was the lead 

partner in the delivery of 43 events, working with 4,500 students attending 98 schools. Around 

3,500 young people came to one of the year’s Open Days, an increase of more than 1,000 

visitors. The College also set up an online initiative in partnership with The Access Platform. It 

allows our undergraduates to help young people from all backgrounds to connect with the 

University, by providing them with personalised support and advice. The College has also started 

a five-year programme to subsidise the travel costs of undergraduates who live 125 miles or 

more from Queen’s. We will also be participating in the Oxford Opportunity bridging programme. 




In 2018-19, the College admitted 78 graduate students, 43 of them taking research degrees, and 

35 taught courses. Around a third of those admitted were in receipt of funding from the College 

in the form of scholarships and exhibitions, much of it from the newly established Waverley Fund. 

In 2018-19, the College came seventh out of 30 Colleges in the Norrington Table, one of the 

highest placings it has achieved in recent years. There were 38 Firsts, 40 upper seconds; and six 

lower seconds or below. Members of the College were also very successful in winning academic 

prizes, which are listed elsewhere in the Record. 

Dr Lindsay Turnbull, Tutor in Biological Sciences, received a Divisional Teaching Award. Professor 

Roger Pearson was awarded the R. Gapper prize for his Unacknowledged Legislators: The 

Poet as Lawgiver in Post-Revolutionary France which explores the theory and practice of 

French poetry from 1750 through to the end of the Romantic Period. Professor Jane Langdale 

was elected as a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. Dr Amy Orben, 

Dr Nicholas Owen, and Dr Andrew Schuman were each nominated as outstanding tutor in 

the student-led University teaching awards. Professor John Blair’s Building Anglo-Saxon 

England was one of six books to be shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, which is awarded 

annually to the best history book written for a non-specialist audience. 

In the College Office, the Academic Administrator, Mrs Joyce Millar, retired, and Dr Sarah 

McHugh joined us as the new Academic Administrator. Dr Leen van Broeck left the Office for 

a position in the Medical Sciences Division and Ms Orock Nsoatabe left the College work for 

the Office for Students. Ms Katharine Wiggell joined the College as the new Schools Liaison, 

Outreach, and Recruitment Officer. Ms Betty Yang Cavanagh was appointed as Admissions and 

Graduate Administrator. 

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NEWS FROM THE FELLOWSHIP 

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

Rebecca Beasley (English) 

Pete Dobson 

(Engineering – emeritus) 

This year most of my research time has been taken up 

by seeing publications into production. I’m delighted that 

Russomania: Russian Culture and the Creation of British 

Modernism is now in press, after a long gestation. It’s been 

particularly serendipitous to work on it at Queen’s, which 

counts William Morfill as a former Member of Common Room. 

Morfill’s lectures on Slavonic literature in 1870, 1873, and 

1883 began the academic study of Russian in Britain, and his 

appointment as Reader in Russian and the Other Slavonic 

Languages in 1889 marked the establishment of the country’s 

first permanent university teaching post in the subject. (Morfill 

left his library to Queen’s and deposited at the Taylorian 

it formed the basis of the University’s Slavonic collection.) 

Articles on Ezra Pound, ‘non-translation’, and the progressive 

education movement in the United States are also forthcoming 

later this year. Most recently, I have been writing a lecture 

about Yeats and his response to the Russian revolutions, 

just delivered at the Yeats Summer School in Sligo. In the 

coming year, I’ll be beginning two new projects: an edition of 

Wyndham Lewis’s Men Without Art for the Oxford University 

Press Lewis edition, and a book on the popularisation and 

institutionalization of modernist culture - across all the arts - in 

Britain. 

I continue with many of the roles outlined in last year’s 

entry. One of my companies, Oxford NanoSystems has 

secured new funding and has moved from Harwell to a 

larger manufacturing facility in Abingdon where it is making 

coatings to improve heat exchangers used in heat pumps 

and battery/electronics cooling. My company Oxford Safety 

Solutions that makes smart floor coatings that indicate if they 

are wet and slippery has secured some interim funding and 

I am making test samples for future customers. I am taking 

on the role of Chairman and advisor for several spin-off and 

start-up companies in the Oxford area. My research, based 

mainly at UCL, is going well, with additional funding secured 

and papers and patents being generated in two main areas: 

nanoparticle synthesis and infectious disease detection. I am 

also continuing my role as visiting professor at King’s College 

London, especially to create a new Engineering Department. 

Annette Fayet 

(Biological Sciences) 

Jennifer Guest (Japanese) 

This year I was lucky enough to do two field research 

expeditions, completing the data collection for research 

projects started at the beginning of my Fellowship. I spent 

August 2018 studying the homing behaviour of nocturnal 

seabirds on Awashima Island in Japan, funded by a one-month 

visiting Fellowship from the Japanese Society for the Promotion 

of Science, in collaboration with researchers from the 

universities of Nagoya and Hokkaido. I am now completing the 

second and final part of this project on Skomer Island, Wales, 

in August 2019. I also spent two months on remote islands 

in the Seychelles, investigating the declines of poorly-studied 

tropicbirds. Several publications from these projects are under 

way, and I presented some of the results at two conferences, in 

Birmingham and La Reunion Island. 

I had the pleasure to talk about “The mysterious adventures 

of puffins at sea” as a speaker at the ATOM Science Festival 

in Abingdon in March. In June I was invited to teach on a 

National Audubon Society course in Maine (US), which was an 

opportunity to meet colleagues and start new collaborations. 

As an associated editor for the Journal of Animal Ecology, I 

helped put together a special issue on biologging (the use of 

miniature technology to study the behaviour and ecology of 

animals). 

This year I was more involved with College teaching, and it was 

a pleasure to spend time teaching the first- and second-year 

biology students, and to supervise a third-year biologist for his 

interesting research project tracking down the ancestor of our 

feral pigeons, the wild rock dove. I am also delighted to have 

had my Fellowship extended and to have the opportunity to 

continue working at Queen’s for another year. 

In the past year my research has focused on a medieval 

Japanese poetry anthology, the Wakan rōeishū or ‘Japaneseand 

Chinese-style Chanting Collection’, which arranges 

various kinds of Chinese and Japanese poetry together by 

topic as a handbook for composition and performance. This 

anthology was widely used as a literary primer and gave rise 

to a lively and often surprising culture of medieval lectures and 

commentaries, many of which still survive in fragmentary form 

- I’m interested in what this tradition reveals about how early 

Japanese readers imagined their own written language and its 

close connections to classical Chinese. In May, I co-published 

a volume on translation and East Asia, for which I considered 





Christopher Hollings 

(History of Mathematics) 

the reception of the multiple scripts and kinds of poetic 

language in this anthology against the backdrop of translation 

studies. I’ve also enjoyed using passages from this work - and 

images of some of its intricately decorated manuscripts - in 

undergraduate teaching, as a kind of starting point for 

conversations about poetry and performance. 

Another highlight of the past year was giving a talk in April 

on ‘Colours, Clothing and the Seasons in the Tale of Genji’ in 

connection with an exhibition on Japanese traditional textiles 

and dyeing practices at Japan House, London - it was an 

interesting chance to learn more about the materiality of fabric 

described in medieval sources, and the audience came up with 

some great questions. 

My main research activity during the past year has been the 

completion of a book on the political and mathematical aspects 

of the International Congress of Mathematicians that took 

place in Oslo in 1936. This book, written in collaboration with 

Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze (University of Agder, Norway), will 

be published by the American Mathematical Society later this 

year. 

A new research project that has emerged in recent months 

is one concerning the historiography of ancient mathematics 

– in particular, the writings of Thomas Eric Peet (1882-1934), 

Egyptologist and one-time Fellow of Queen’s. This work 

was inspired by the unexpected discovery of some of Peet’s 

correspondence between the pages of several books in 

the College’s Peet Library. Although these investigations, 

pursued in collaboration with Richard Parkinson (Professor of 

Egyptology), are still in their early stages, they have already 

revealed Peet’s strongly ‘anti-presentist’ stance on the study of 

ancient mathematics. 

In Hilary Term 2019, I held an Ashmolean Faculty Fellowship, 

funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which enabled 

me to work in the Ashmolean Museum one day a week, 

developing new teaching around objects in the museum’s 

collections. I hope to be able to offer this teaching (on ancient 

mathematics) for the first time next year. During the past year, 

I have delivered seminars in Oxford, York, and Paris, and 

have given two talks for general audiences: one to the Oxford 

Mathematical Institute’s Mirzakhani Society, and another at the 

Weston Library, as part of a Bodleian ‘Library Late’ event. 

Morten Kringelbach 

(Psychology) 

One of the highlights this year was our research on sleep which 

was published in Nature Communications. In many ways sleep 

remains a scientific mystery, despite taking up about a third 

of our lives. The current understanding hinges inseparably on 

our ability to categorise, and derive patterns from, brain activity. 

This is turn started in the 1930s when it became possible for 

the first time to record scalp potentials during sleep using 

electroencephalography (EEG). This led to the first attempts 

at describing sleep as a consequence of different brain states. 

The current consensus reduces human sleep to four stages 

of rapid-eye movement (REM) and non-REM configurations of 

brain activity, based on measurements in a few EEG electrodes 

of frequency- and amplitude patterns, many of which were 

already described in the original studies of the 1930s. In spite 

of great advances in modern techniques for recording brain 

activity, tradition has kept our view of brain activity during sleep 

unnecessarily narrow. 

We used functional magnetic resonance imaging recordings to 

discover more about the complex choreography of sleep and 

the whole-brain activity underlying the conventional stages of 

human sleep. Whereas the definitions of the traditional sleep 

stages routinely rely on expert human observers inspecting 

traces of EEG and identifying patterns of amplitude and 

frequency, we instead used a completely data-driven analysis 

of fMRI data to reveal recurring states of unique configurations 

of interactions between brain regions and transitions between 

these, not unlike the choreographies used to describe music 

and dance. 

When comparing these data-driven fMRI states with the 

conventional EEG sleep stages, the findings show how a 

higher-resolution picture of brain activity portrays human 

sleep as vastly more complex than what traditional accounts 

have suggested. Rather than being reduced to a matter 

of overall changes in EEG frequencies, we show how the 

difference between wakefulness and sleep is reflected in 

large-scale reorganization of brain networks. The boundary 

between wakefulness and sleep, the loss of awareness that 

we experience every night, has challenged the conventional 

sleep staging for decades, and the data-driven results confirm 

that the current definitions are inconsistent. A result that could 

change the way we understand sleep and not at least the way 

we approach disorders of sleep, such as insomnia. 





Sleep is not just a topic of scientific puzzlement; it represents 

a vital need for healthy functioning. We still lack a consistent 

understanding of what happens in the brain when sleep suffers, 

in conditions such as insomnia but also in psychiatry where 

sleep disruption is ubiquitously present. It is our hope that a 

more complete and data-driven representation of whole-brain 

network changes during sleep can assist in the development of 

better models of the role of sleep in such disorders. 

I also gave the keynote speech ‘The good life’ at the Dutch 

Society for Neuropsychology in Amsterdam in October 2018. 

This year my research has continued to focus on how celltypes 

are patterned within leaves. Most of the research is 

carried out under the umbrella of the C4 Rice project (www. 

c4rice.com), a multinational project that is now in its tenth year. 

Funding for the current phase is due to end in December 2019 

and so much of this year has been spent writing applications 

to fund the next phase. Details of recent publications can be 

found at www.langdalelab.com. 

The book offers editions of seventeen previously un-published 

Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets, dating to ca. 2000 BC and 

containing works of Sumerian religious poetry. Sumerian poetry 

is among the world’s oldest extant literature, and the present 

volume brings to light several important works that were 

previously unknown to scholarship. Most texts edited here can 

be described as works of religious literature: they are songs 

composed in praise of various gods of the Mesopotamian 

pantheon and were usually performed in temple cults. The 

new poems published in the present volume include: a song 

in praise of the little-known goddess Sud, who was the local 

deity of Shuruppak, one of the most ancient, antediluvian cities 

according to Mesopotamian mythology; a full manuscript of 

a song describing the cult statue of the protective goddess 

Lamma-saga in the ‘Sacred City’ temple complex at Girsu; 

a previously unknown hymn about the creator-god Enki (the 

Mesopotamian counterpart to Prometheus); and further texts 

that shed light on the interaction between cult, scholarship, 

and scribal culture in Mesopotamia in the early second 

millennium BC. 


Jane Langdale 

(Plant Sciences) 

Christopher Metcalf 

(Classical Languages and 

Literature) 

I continue to teach a 16-lecture module on Plant 

Developmental Genetics and Evolution for third-year 

undergraduates on the Biological Sciences course, and have 

been starting to think about how the course contents can be 

integrated into the new Biology course that starts for the 2019 

entry. I gave seminars at two conferences in the US and one 

in France, and gave the Reinhold von Sengbusch Lecture at 

the annual meeting of the German Society for Plant Sciences. 

In April, I was amazed and absolutely delighted to be elected 

a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences 

– I started my plant biology research in the US many years 

ago and I continue to enjoy being part of the dynamic and 

collegiate community of like-minded researchers that work in 

the field. 

This academic year has seen the publication of my book 

Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection Volume 1: 

Literary Sources on Old Babylonian Religion (Eisenbrauns / 

Penn State University Press, 2019). In essence this book has 

formed the main project of my post-doctoral work as Junior 

Research Fellow of Wolfson College (2013-16), and then as 

Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Queen’s (since 2016); I’m very 

grateful to both institutions for having supported my research. 

Christopher O’Callaghan 

(Medicine) 

My research spans both basic scientific investigation and 

clinical research and some examples from our recent 

publications reflect this. We have developed a new and robust 

method for the assembly of very long lengths of DNA and 

this has widespread application in life science research. In 

the clinical arena we have contributed to the evidence base 

required to determine whether certain acutely ill medical 

patients do or do not need to stay in hospital. I enjoyed 

collaborating with a Spanish colleague to produce a Spanish 

version of some research software that I wrote some years ago. 

The Deanship is a five-year post and this was the final year of 

my five-year term as Dean. As an Old Member of the College, it 

has been a great privilege to serve the College as Dean. I have 

now been asked to take on various University roles, including 

that of Chief Examiner in Medicine and REF co-ordinator 

for clinical departments. The REF (Research Excellence 

Framework) is the national research assessment exercise that 

is used to determine core research funding for universities. 




Richard Parkinson 

(Egyptology) 

David Prout 

(Professorial Fellow) 

As well as the regular courses, teaching this year has included 

developing two new courses for our Egyptology BA and MPhil 

students, and research on a planned commentary on The Tale 

of Sinuhe has resumed in preparation for a sabbatical year. As 

part of this, a new audio with Barbara Ewing on a companion 

poem, The Dialogue of a Man and his Soul, has been released 

(http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/talking-soul-dialogue-about-life-anddeath). 

I acted as consultant for the British Museum touring exhibition 

‘Desire, love, identity exploring LGBTQ histories’ based on 

my research, which has been displayed at the Ashmolean 

Museum (September–December 2018, with a web trail: https:// 

oxfordstories.ox.ac.uk/torch); the National Justice Museum, 

Nottingham (December 2018–March 2019); Bolton Library 

& Museum Service (March–May 2019); and the Norwich 

Millennium Library (June–August 2019). Director James Ivory 

kindly lent a copy of the shooting script of his Maurice (1987) 

for the Ashmolean exhibition; during Michaelmas Term 2018 he 

was in Oxford for a week as TORCH visiting professor and was 

hosted by the College. As well as a showing of Autobiography 

of a Princess (1975) at the Oxford Curzon with a Q&A, there 

was an ‘In Conversation’ at the Sheldonian (www.podcasts. 

ox.ac.uk/tales-love-and-history-james-ivory-conversation). 

In Hilary Term 2019 there was a special exhibition on 

Egyptology at Queen’s in the Upper Library (www.queens. 

ox.ac.uk/ancient-egyptian-queens), featuring some papers 

relating to the history of Ancient Egyptian mathematics recently 

discovered by Christopher Hollings; these have since been 

transferred to the Egyptological archive in the Griffith Institute. 

The display of the College’s collection of Egyptian antiquities 

in the Peet library was re-installed in Hilary Term 2019, and 

a full catalogue of this by Dr Ann-Katrin Gill (Univ) and Barns 

Student Jordan Miller is now available online (www.queens. 

ox.ac.uk/special-collections). In February, the counter-tenor 

Anthony Roth Costanzo visited the Egyptology collections, 

while in the UK to sing the title role at ENO’s Akhenaten; an 

item from the display has also featured in ‘Gut Culture’ a Radio 

4 Documentary (www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004sjn). 

I was appointed non-Executive Director for Radioactive Waste 

Management Ltd, a government wholly-owned company 

charged with building the underground disposal facility for 

radioactive waste. 

Jim Reed 

(German - emeritus) 

Peter Robbins (Physiology) 

Alexander Robertson 

(Materials) 

At the point of retiring in 2004, I published an edition of 

Thomas Mann’s shorter fiction, text, and commentary volumes, 

in the Frankfurt Complete Works. The following decade was 

mainly spent working on the German Enlightenment, a short 

book in German (Munich 2009) and a longer English account 

(Chicago 2015). Over those ten years I co-directed an annual 

international summer course in Weimar on aspects of the Age 

of Goethe. 

Since then I’ve been writing a study of the creative process in 

literature, Genesis: The Making of Literary Works from Homer 

to Celan. This is now virtually finished. I continue as one of the 

general editors of Mann’s Works, most recently engaged in 

checking the commentary volume on the later fiction. 

I still do some teaching and enjoy it as much as ever. 

Over the past year, my research has principally been 

concerned with treatable traits for respiratory disease. A 

treatable trait is a measurable characteristic of an individual, 

within either a population or a group of patients with 

heterogeneous disease, that provides information used to 

direct therapeutic intervention. Blood pressure is a classic 

example of a treatable trait. Diagnostics, provided they alter 

management, are a particular form of treatable trait. The 

ability to direct therapy using multiple treatable traits forms 

the basis of personalised or precision medicine. The core 

concept of my research is that respired gas exchange has 

an information content (almost entirely untapped by current 

medical measurements), from which valuable treatable traits 

can be captured by use of novel technology that I have been 

developing over the last ~ ten years. During the past year, I 

published a brief review of emerging technologies in this 

area (Measuring lung function in airways diseases: current 

and emerging techniques N Petousi, NP Talbot, I Pavord, PA 

Robbins - Thorax, 2019 (https://thorax.bmj.com/content/ 

early/2019/04/29/thoraxjnl-2018-212441.abstract). 

I started at Queen’s as an Extraordinary Junior Research Fellow 

in the summer of 2018, having then recently joined Oxford as 

a Royal Society University Research Fellow. This gave me the 

funding and seniority to start my own independent research 

group. Over the past year and a bit I have recruited and trained 

two excellent PhD students - Chen Gong and Shengda Pu - 





Ritchie Robertson 

(German) 

Christopher Rowland 

(Theology – emeritus) 

who are now getting stuck in to the meat of their research 

projects. We are working to understand the nanoscale 

processes that occur at battery electrodes while they undergo 

charging and discharging, using a powerful type of microscope 

called a transmission electron microscope, capable of atomic 

level imaging. To fund this research, I have been furiously 

writing grant proposals, including working with partners in 

Korea on an international collaboration proposal. 

In 2018 I paid two visits to the University of Freiburg. The 

first was to speak at a conference on the reception of Ariosto 

in German-speaking countries. My paper, which deals with 

nineteenth-century Swiss readers of Ariosto, will be published 

in the conference volume, Ariost in Deutschland, as ‘Ariost 

aus Schweizer Sicht: Keller, Meyer, Burckhardt, Spitteler, 

Widmann’. On my second visit, under the Erasmus exchange 

programme, I taught two four-hour seminars on Kafka. I have 

recently published the following articles: ‘Competition and 

democracy in Burckhardt and Nietzsche’, in Herman Siemens 

and James Pearson (ed.), Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche’s 

Philosophy (London: Bloomsbury, 2019), pp. 73-88; ‘Alfred 

Döblin as pacifist and chauvinist: Die drei Sprünge des 

Wang-lun and wartime propaganda’, in Andreas Kramer and 

Ritchie Robertson (eds.), Pacifist and Anti-Militarist Writing in 

German, 1892-1928: From Bertha von Suttner to Erich Maria 

Remarque (Munich: Iudicium, 2019), pp. 199-210; ‘”Wir sind 

so klug, und dennoch spukt’s in Tegel”. The Enlightenment and 

the paranormal’, KulturPoetik, 19 (2019), 29-44. My book A 

New History of the Enlightenment is scheduled for publication 

by Penguin in March 2020. 

I was awarded the Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies 2018 

by the British Academy (presented September 2018) and 

the degree of Doctor of Divinity honoris causa by Liverpool 

Hope University in January 2019. I have published Blake and 

the Bible, London (Yale University Press, 2010); with Zoë 

Bennett, In a Glass Darkly: The Bible, Reflection and Everyday 

Life, London (SCM, 2016); Radical Prophet: The Mystics, 

Subversives and Visionaries who Strove for Heaven on 

Earth (London: I. B. Tauris, 2017). 

Dan Sarooshi (Law) 

Jess Stacey (French) 

I was appointed as a Queen’s Counsel in 2018 by the 

Lord Chancellor at a ceremony in Westminster Hall. I have 

published: ‘Federalism Strikes Back: Brexit and the Potential 

Decline of the One-Voice Doctrine in International Law?’, 

American Society of International Law Proceedings (2019); Coauthor 

with R. Volterra, ‘The Resolution of Investment Disputes 

by Arbitration: Risks Facing Host States’, Butterworths Journal 

of International Banking and Financial Law 33 (1) (2018), 12. 

I have delivered the following lectures: ‘Federalism Strikes 

Back: Brexit and the potential decline of the One-Voice 

Doctrine in International Law?’, at the American Society of 

International Law Annual Conference on 28 March 2019 and 

‘International Law in Domestic Courts: the view from Europe’, 

University of Beijing, China, 14 December 2018. I chaired and 

participated in the Panel Session ‘Multilateral Instruments in 

International Taxation’ as part of a joint University of Oxford 

(Said Business School) / British Academy Conference 

‘International tax cooperation: The challenges and opportunities 

of multilateralism’ on 10 December 2018. I delivered a 

series of five Hague Academy of International Law lectures 

on the topic “The Immunities of States and International 

Organizations in National Courts” from 23-27 July 2018. The 

Hague Academy of International Law, which was created in 

1923, is the world’s leading centre for high-level education and 

publication in both public and private international law. 

This was my second year of five as a Career Development 

Fellow in French at Queen’s, and the first in which I’ve had 

the opportunity to teach the Early Modern French paper in 

its entirety to some of our fabulous second-year students. It 

has been a stimulating year of teaching in general, with all of 

our students working together on a project to translate the 

children’s musical Ariol, and our second-years teaming up with 

students from St. Anne’s and Lady Margaret Hall for a Frenchlanguage 

role play set in Paris, 1889. My research days have 

been primarily focused on completing revisions to my book on 

representations of catastrophe in eighteenth century France, 

which I hope will be wrapped up by the end of the summer. I 

have also been putting the final touches on an article, in press 

at the Journal for Postcolonial Writing, analysing two artistic 

responses to an “inevitable catastrophe that did not take place” 

- the non-eruption of Guadeloupe’s volcano La Soufrière in 

1976. One is the 1986 novel Soufrières, by Guadeloupian writer 

Daniel Maximin, and the other is a little-known documentary 





Robert Taylor (Physics) 

by Werner Herzog, La Soufrière (available on YouTube and well 

worth a watch!). I have my first term of sabbatical coming up 

in the autumn and will be spending it in the Rare Books Library 

at McGill University, Montreal, where I am looking forward to 

cracking on with some new research thanks to a Raymond 

Klibansky grant. 

I have published the following articles: Photonic molecules 

defined by SU-8 photoresist strips on a photonic crystal 

waveguide Stephen. A. Lennon, Frederic. S. F. Brossard, 

Luke P. Nuttall, Jiang Wu, Jonathan Griffiths, and Robert 

A. Taylor Optics Express, 26, 32332, (2018). DOI: https:// 

doi.org/10.1364/OE.26.032332; Mitigating the photocurrent 

persistence of single ZnO nanowires for low noise 

photodetection applications J-Ph. Girard, L. Giraudet, S. 

Kostcheev, B. Bercu, T.J. Puchtler, R.A. Taylor, and C. 

Couteau Nanotechnology, 29 505207, (2018). DOI: https:// 

doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/aae417; Light controlled optical 

Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in a single quantum ring 

Heedae Kim, Seongho Parka, Rin Okuyama, Kwangseuk 

Kyhm, Mikio Eto, Robert A. Taylor, Gilles Nogues, Le Si Dang, 

Marek Potemski, Koochul Je, Jongsu Kim, Jihoon Kyhm, 

and Jindong Song Nano Letters, 18, 6188-6194, (2018). 

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b02131. 

Ghassan Yassin 

(Astrophysics) 

I was invited by the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for 

Astrophysics to spend three weeks at the observatory to work 

on the development of a new concept of a dual polarization 

receiver for their Submillimetre Array (SMA) which is a 6-m dish 

telescope locate at the Mauna Kea in Hawaii. A prototype will 

be developed and tested on the telescope by an Oxford DPhil 

student. I have spent one month of my sabbaticals this year at 

NARIT (National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand) in 

Chiang Mai to help them develop their infrastructure in radioastronomy. 

This is in the frame of collaboration between the 

UK and Thailand, work that is supported by the “Newton” fund 

set-up by the two countries to support knowledge transfer in 

astronomy instrumentation. 


Seth Whidden (French) 

This year began with the publication, in September, of my 

biography of Arthur Rimbaud. I have also been continuing 

my work on Baudelaire’s prose poetry; while I was able to 

squeeze in a conference presentation in November, my writing 

picked up speed considerably during my sabbatical leave, in 

the summer term. The luxury of additional time for reading 

also led to a number of other projects: a pair of translations 

and some critical editions of important works of modern 

French literature that I will be coediting with colleagues over 

the next few years. With my Tutor for Undergraduates hat on, 

I have found it rewarding to see fully the College’s sustained 

and comprehensive commitment to our students’ success and 

welfare. 




ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS (* denotes distinction) 

DPhil: 

Charles Baynham (Atomic and Laser Physics) 

Gemma L. Benevento (Environmental Research) 

Lynton A. Boshoff (Classical Languages and Literature) 

Miles O. Caddick (Partial Differential Equations) 

Marina Charquero Ballester (Psychiatry) 

Dinh Cao Huan Do (Inorganic Chemistry) 

Yiwen Fang (Inorganic Chemistry) 

Sarah F. Gouldesbrough (Classical Languages and Literature) 

Jonathan M. Hazlehurst (Medical Sciences) 

Leila R. Hill (Inorganic Chemistry) 

Ellya L. Kawecki (Partial Differential Equations) 

Loretta Kilroe (Oriental Studies) 

Fang Xin Li (Materials) 

Lu Liu (Mathematics) 

Stephen Mansfield (Synthesis for Biology and Medicine) 

Adam P. McBride (Archaeology) 

Catherine G. Sloan (History) 

Ross A. Speer (Politics) 

Gail L. Stott (Environmental Research) 

Matthew M.L. Tompkins (Experimental Psychology) 

Maxime Tortora (Physical and Theoretical Chemistry) 

Tabea R. Tscherpel (Partial Differential Equations) 

Wenshuo Xu (Materials) 

BCL: 

Joseph H. Johnson* 

Ramganesh Lakshman* 

MPhil: 

Evangelos Kitsakis (Law) 

MSt: 

Elisa Cozzi* (English) 

Joseph A. Dax (Medieval History) 

Matthew R. Hines (Modern Languages) 

Frederick M. E. Morgan* (English) 

Louis A. C. Nicholson-Pallet (Late Antique and Byzantine Studies) 

Leslie Z.W. Theseira (Music) 

MSc: 

Ming-Han Chung (Financial Economics) 

John Glance (Financial Economics) 

Nicolas Schwyn* (Financial Economics) 

Miaoge Zhang (Financial Economics) 

BM: 

Mark J. Giza* 

Alexander R. C. Pavitt 

Shona E. Robertson 

Daniel Simpson 

Isabella Watts* 

PGCE: 

Christopher M. Harrison 

Priya Jindal 

Susannah Raymond-Barker 


MLitt: 

William C. Kroeger III (English Language and Literature) 




FINAL PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS 

Biological Sciences 

English and Modern Languages 

First Class 

First Class 

Pandora Dewan 

Lucy Mordaunt (French) 

Matthew McLoughlin 

William J. Smith 

Second Class Division One 

Experimental Psychology 

Samuel G. Caygill 

First Class 

Laurence A. S. Cummins 

Phoebe R. Evans 

Rebecca Sims 

History and Modern Languages 

First Class 

Eleanor D. Burton (French) 

History and Politics 

First Class 

Jake Davies 

Elizabeth M.A. Kent 

Mathematics and Computer Science 

First Class 

Yordan Yordanov 

Mathematics and Statistics 


Mu He 


Cell and Systems Biology 

Second Class Division Two 

Julia I. Phillips 

Chemistry 

First Class 

Agamemnon E. Crumpton 

Ana T. Fernandez 

Maxwell G. Greenwood 

Phoebe L. Groves 


Bethan K. Farnsworth 

Literae Humaniores 

First Class 

Thomas A. Apthorp 

Hong S. B. Theng 

English Language and Literature 

First Class 

Eleanor Winn 

Fine Art 

First Class 

Adam Story 

History 

First Class 

Lottie Landra 


Rachel Anderson-Deas 

Isabel M. H. Barber 

Anisha Faruk 

Francesca K. MacDougall 

History and Economics 


Tomoki Yamamoto 

History and English 


Tal M. Rosenbaum 

Jurisprudence 

First Class 

Youcef Boussabaine 

Dana Y.Q. Lee 


Ciara A. Moran 

George Penny 


Andrej Lalovic 

Materials Science 

First Class 

Henry He 

Steven Kench 

Ruinan Zhou 


Henry Hodgson 

Mathematics 

First Class 

Michael T. Cui 

Medical Sciences 

First Class 

Declan Pang 


Triya A. Chakravorty 

Joseph D. Cutteridge 

Harriet Sexton 

Anna J. Sharp 

Modern Languages 

First Class 

Anastasia M. Putt (Spanish and Russian) 

Isabella Salkeld (Spanish and Russian) 

Bennett J. Sanderson (French and Spanish) 


Elicia Begg (Spanish and Portuguese) 

Isabella R.C. Grive (French and Spanish) 

Imogen Howarth (German and Italian) 

Amy R. Layton (French and Spanish) 

Adam T. Rhaiti (French and German) 

Matilda S. Thatcher (French and Italian) 




Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry 

Second Class, Division One 

Isabelle Hughes 

Samih Inceer 

Music 

First Class 

Patricia E. Drummond 

Maya M. A. Saxena 

Oriental Studies 


Eloise McAllister (Chinese) 

Philosophy, Politics and Economics 


Dina Alborno 

Leonard A. M. Cheval-De Baynast De 

Septfontaines 

Robert S. Jaeckle 

Alexander Prior-Wandesforde 

Physics 

First Class 

Daniel Z. Haxell 

Marten Waldmann 

Ian Yang 

Third Class 

Cameron A. Waters 

Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics 

Second Class, Division One 

Cheuk Ling Charmaine Leung 

Xinyuan Xing 

Preliminary Examinations 

Biological Sciences 

Siobhan L. Bridson 

James Hawke 

Daniel Stoller 

Biomedical Sciences 

Qassi Gaba* 

Jessica S. Zhang* 

Chemistry 

Jonathan J. Kyd* 

James M. McGhee* 

Henry Patteson* 

Daisy A. Southern 

David Vahey 

English Language and Literature 

James R. Murphy* 

Alice M.W.Y. Wong 

Experimental Psychology 

Xiaotong Ding 

Hannah E. Gray 

Jemima F. Greenhalgh 

Fine Art 

Zoe Harding 

Rowan Ireland 

History 

Harriet Bates 

Isobel L. Cox* 

Julia Duddy 

Isabelle L. Gibbons 

Emily J.E. Jones 

William D. Parry 

Ada F. Taggart 

History and Politics 

Hannah Brock 

Angharad Kellett 


FIRST PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS 

First B.M. 

Elfreda Baker 

Zuzanna Borawska 

Rebecca S. Howitt* 

Maaedah Khan 

Honour Moderations 

Literae Humaniores 

First Class 

Joost W.P.M. Botman 

Gareth J. Smith 


Rory E.C. Booth 

Moderations 

Law 

Noel Y.Z. Low 

Oliver K. Reinius 

Alison Y.Z.C. Tan 

Xiaojian Zhou 

English and Modern Languages 

Catherine R. Jackson (Spanish) 

Violet Mermelstein (Spanish) 

Samuel H.L. Millward (Spanish) 

European and Middle Eastern Languages 

Annabel J. Vago (French and Arabic) 

Materials Science 

Louis Makower* 

Mariella Papapavlou 

Adam A. Suttle 




Mathematics 

Louisa K. Cullen 

Ruiting Jiang* 

Yiran Shi 

Zachary R.A. Walker* 

Callum A. Wardle* 

Mathematics and Philosophy 

Michael Mortimer* 

Philosophy, Politics and Economics 

Ethan M. Adams 

Julia Hussain 

William T.K. McCathie 

Thomas H. Noe III 

Man Siu Pun* 

Jonathan I. Sheinman* 

Asisa Singh 

Hugo Till* 

Modern Languages 

Elizabeth Cowdrey (French and Russian) 

Genevieve M.A. Jeffcoate (French and 

German) 

Jacob Sternberg (Spanish and German) 

Filip M. Szymaniak (French and German) 

Lionel A.B. Whitby (French and Russian) 

Philosophy and Modern Languages 

Jack Franco 

Physics 

Cristiano F. Da Cruz 

Xihan Deng* 

Jinwoo Kim* 

Kornel Ksiezak 

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry 

Jack Badley 

Jack Broadbent 

Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics 

Emily B. Elstub 

Music 

Thomas Dilley 

Rachel J.F. Howe 

Tamsin E. Sandford Smith* 

Oriental Studies 

Julia M. Follan (Japanese)* 

Patrick J. Gwillim-Thomas (Japanese) 

Katya Yan (Chinese) 

Corrections to 2018 College Record: the 

College apologises to Grace Beaney Colverd, 

who should have been listed with a distinction 

for the Final Honour School of Physics and 

Philosophy, and also to Paul Hosle, who 

should have been listed with a distinction 

for Moderations in Literae Humaniores and 

Oriental Studies. 


The College Archivist, Michael Riordan, and two of the first cohort of women (Jane Bailey Bain and 

Judith Bufton) at the ‘40 years in 40 objects’ display for the 40th anniversary of the admission to 

women in March 2019


UNIVERSITY PRIZES 

Armourers and Brasiers’ Company/ TATA Steel Prize for Best Team Design Project: 

Dylan J. Murray (joint winner) 

Arteaga Prize for the Best Performance in Final Honour School of Spanish: 

Bennett Sanderson 

Department of Chemistry awards for best performance in Chemistry Part II Examinations: 

Yi Xiao (joint first prize) 

Department of Statistics Prize for the best performance in the Honour School of 

Mathematics and Statistics Part B: Matthew Goh 

Dolores Oria Merino Prize in Written Spanish for the Best Performance in Spanish Prose 

(Paper I): Bennett Sanderson 

Gibbs Prize for performance in Japanese Preliminary Examinations: Julia Follan 

Gibbs Book Prize for performance in the Chemistry Part IB Examinations: Chuyan Tang 

Gibbs Prize for performance in the MPhys examinations: Daniel Z. Haxell 

Gibbs Prize for performance in the Preliminary Examination in Biomedical Sciences: 

Phoebe J. Homer 

Gibbs Prize for best performance in the Physics papers in Part B of the the Honour School 

of Physics and Philosophy: Mingwei Ma 

Gibbs Prize for Highest Average Mark in History Joint Schools: Elizabeth M.A. Kent 

Gibbs Prize for Thesis in Latin Language and Literature: Hong S.B. Theng 

Gibbs Prize Proxime Accessit: Dana Y.Q. Lee 

Gibbs Prize Proxime Accessit (Overall Honour School): Bennett Sanderson 

Iverson Prize Proxime Accessit in Psychological Studies for the best performance in 

Psychology papers at Part I: Alvin W.M. Tan 

Littleton Chambers Prize in Labour Law: Youcef Boussabaine 

Ramón Silva Memorial Prize for the Best Performance in Spanish Orals: Bennett Sanderson 

Sir Peter Morris Prize in Surgery for receiving the top score in the Surgical examination and 

clinical assessments at the end of the fourth year: Olivia Brandon 

Southern Field Studies Book Prize for demonstrating the greatest aptitude for Zoological 

field studies in the Final Honour School of Biological Sciences: William J. Smith 

Turbutt Prize for performance in 2nd year Practical Organic Chemistry examinations: 

Calvin A. Wilson 

3 Verulam Buildings Prize in Commercial Law: Dana Y.Q. Lee 

3 Verulam Buildings Prize for Legal Concepts in Financial Law: Ramganesh Lakshman 

5 Stone Building Prize for Trusts: Dana Y.Q. Lee 

COLLEGE PRIZES 

Alan Webster Prize: William Cashmore (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics) 

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

(English Language and Literature), Jacob G. Alston (Jurisprudence), Stephanie E. Budenberg 

(Materials Science), April J. Burt (Environmental Research), Andreas Heilmann (Inorganic Chemistry), 

Beinn S.S.A. Khulusi (Medical Sciences), Anna McKie (Biomedical Sciences), Christopher M. 

Magazzeni (Materials), Tal M. Rosenbaum (History and English), Sophia Y.W. Wee (Fine Art), Jack M. 

Wilson (Medical Sciences), Thomas A.C. Zilhardt (Inorganic Chemistry) 

Britton Prize: Matilda S. Thatcher (Modern Languages - French and Italian) 

Cecil King Prize: Jay D. Staker (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics) 

Ives Prize: Isabelle Hughes (Biochemistry) 

The Jack Wooding Prize: Zuzanna Borawska (Medical Sciences) 

J.A. Scott Prize: Daniel Z. Haxell (Physics), Elizabeth M.A. Kent (History and Politics), 

Hong S.B. Theng (Literae Humaniores) 

Mander Law Prize: Youcef Boussabaine (Jurisprudence), Dana Y.Q. Lee (Jurisprudence) 

Temple Prize: Haoyu Ye (Mathematics), Xiaoyan Zhao (Mathematics) 

Palmer Prize: Florence Darwen (History and Modern Languages) 

Palmer Prize Proxime Accessit: Francesca Duke (French and Linguistics) 


Correction to 2018 College Record: the College apologises to Grace Beaney Colverd, who should 

have been listed as the recipient of the John Thresher Prize for an MPhys Project in Particle and 

Nuclear Physics. 




A YEAR IN THE LIBRARY 

This year the Library has returned to a more traditional focus on 

books and information after the last six years of building-related 

developments. One final piece of building news however, is that 

the Library received an Oxford Preservation Trust Award at the 

end of 2018, bringing our collection of architectural awards for 

the New Library to three. 

School groups have visited the Library throughout the academic year. These visits are co-ordinated 

by the Schools Liaison, Outreach and Recruitment Officer and student helpers often guide groups. 

The two big Open Days, which took place in late June 2019, attracted approximately 2,000 

prospective students, the majority of whom visited the Library. In tandem with the regular school 

visits, prospective student visits totalled around 3,900 people during the last year. On the outreach 

front, we have also been engaged in the North West Science Residential programme during the 

Easter Vacation and with the OxLibris project. The OxLibris project gives sixth-form pupils at local 

state schools the chance to use college library resources to support their current studies, while 

also helping them to build up experience in researching, referencing, and writing in preparation for 

university. 


Amanda Saville 

Librarian 

The Long Vacation of 2018 enabled us to get back to some 

book-based projects: we undertook a full inventory of the 

working collections and a complete clean of all the volumes 

in the Upper Library. In addition, we received and integrated 

into the Library a large donation of material relating to Cumbria, 

which includes over 100 historic items. This collection was the 

gift of Old Member Dr Douglas Bridgewater (1955) and we are 

delighted to be able to house a collection so closely linked to the 

College’s historical roots. The books have all been catalogued, 

thanks to a donation from Dr Bridgewater, and they are now 

available for loan or consultation. We have plans to mount an 

exhibition featuring illustrated items from the collection in the 

near future. 

We held two major exhibitions in the Upper and New Libraries 

during the year. The first was entitled Ancient Egyptian At 

Queen’s and was curated by Professor Richard Parkinson, the 

current Professor of Egyptology, and Jordan Miller, the Barns 

Student in Egyptology. Its theme was the history of Egyptology 

in the College, from Professor Peet to the present day. The 

exhibition opened at the beginning of February and there was an 

accompanying talk by Clare Lewis (UCL), who looked at the role 

of three key figures in this area of scholarship at Queen’s. Clare’s 

talk is available through the Oxford University Podcast pages, 

see http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/libcast-queens-college. 

The second exhibition, Literary Matter in Early Modern England, 

was jointly curated by Dr Katherine Hunt, Career Development 

Fellow in English, and Dr Dianne Mitchell, former Junior 

Research Fellow in English. It opened in early June and explored 

the themes of the material lives of literary texts from the sixteenth 

and seventeenth centuries. The lecture for the opening event of 

that exhibition is also available online (see link above). In addition, 

we have regularly changed our book of the month display, 

highlighting individual items from the special collections. 

2018-19 has been a fruitful year for the cataloguing team. Dominic Hewett, our new library 

assistant, completed his full cataloguing training during Michaelmas Term. Dominic, Sarah Arkle, our 

Technical Services Librarian, and Paul Ivanovic, our erstwhile Rare Books Cataloguer, have together 

added 1,714 records to the Oxford-wide online catalogue for new acquisitions and donations to 

the circulating collection and 318 records for material in the Vault. In addition to the monograph 

cataloguing, the team completed the work to catalogue our backlog of pamphlet material, which is 

a great achievement. 

We continue to take steps to care for our historic collections. We have started a dust-monitoring 

programme in the Upper Library and thoroughly cleaned the Upper Library rugs to eradicate an 

outbreak of carpet moths. The Oxford Conservation Consortium has coordinated the manufacture 

of boxes and book shoes for items from the Vault and undertaken the repair of several volumes 

from the Select Collection. 

We have added to our holdings on Digital Bodleian by digitising the Library’s collection of 20 original 

drawings by Nicholas Hawksmoor for proposed developments of the College in the eighteenth 

century; see https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/. 

We were delighted to receive three individual donations to the Antiquarian Collections: copies of 

the Wittgenstein Blue and Brown books from Professor John Hyman, a book from the Library of 




Thomas Barlow from Mr Michael Archer, and a copy of the 1717 edition of Mathematical Tables by 

Edmond Halley and others from Mr and Mrs Steve Gooderham. We were also thrilled to be able to 

identify a previously unknown book from the Library of John Donne, which had recently come to 

light in the collection, thanks to the efforts of Dr Will Poole of New College. 

We continue to have a steady stream of readers of the Antiquarian Collections. We gave 263 

scholars access to 546 items from the special collections. Most of these were individual scholars 

but we also held a number of classes and themed visits. In addition to the assistance given to 

visiting scholars in person, we also carried out 76 bibliographic enquiries on the special collections. 

A YEAR IN THE ARCHIVE 

Following the move of the Archive into the New Library in 2017 

and the return, after nearly 90 years, of the medieval deeds 

from the Bodleian to College (for more on which, see my article 

later in this volume), two long-wished-for projects are now 

possible. Much of 2018-19 was spent in preparation for these. 


We hosted a number of visits to the Library from interested groups and individuals including the 

film director James Ivory, the Friends of the Botanic Gardens, the Abingdon Historical Society, 

delegates from the Biennial Oxford-Cambridge Library Conference, and several groups of 

Egyptologists from an academic conference being held in Oxford. We also had an extremely busy 

day at Oxford Open Doors in September 2018 when 550 people visited all three floors of the 

Library. 

Old Members of the College are always welcome to visit the Library and/or to view the exhibition 

in both the New and Upper Libraries. We ask you to advise the Old Members’ office in advance of 

your visit and during Trinity Term, we ask you to be particularly mindful of the students revising for 

examinations. If possible, please time your visit over lunchtime, when the Library is quieter. 

By the time you read this, I will have retired, so this is my last piece for the College Record. I wish 

the Library and the Library team every success for the future, which, now we have our amazing 

new facilities, I am sure will be very bright indeed. 

Michael Riordan 

Archivist 

The first is the conservation and rehousing of the deeds. 

Though in good condition, they remain in the same envelopes 

and boxes in which they were sent to the Bodleian in 1930, 

and these need to be replaced to ensure their ongoing 

preservation. Over the course of the year Jessica Hyslop, a 

conservator at the Oxford Conservation Consortium, has 

been surveying the whole collection (which constitutes about 

3,000 items) to judge which deeds need repairing and how 

they should be stored. Three different sizes of envelopes and 

two different sizes of box will be used and each deed will 

be housed according to its size and condition. Work on the 

project will begin in Michaelmas 2019 and we hope will be 

completed within two years. 

The second project will take much longer, probably a decade. 

The Archive ‘catalogue’ actually consists of four different 

catalogues, one of which dates back to 1930, and none of 

which meet modern professional standards. In order to bring 

the catalogue in line with the appropriate standards it will be 

necessary to recatalogue the entire collection. To make this 

momentous task possible, the College will be hiring a part-time 

Assistant Archivist, doubling the amount of staff time in the 

Archive. 

Alongside these preparations, the normal run of tasks 

continued, including exhibitions of the medieval deeds and 

on the history of women in Queen’s for the 40th anniversary 

celebrations. 30 researchers visited the College during 

the year to study items from the Archive and I answered a 

further 149 enquiries, including some relating to the EMS’s 

premiere of Vaughan-Williams’s Oxford Elegy, smoke pollution 

in seventeenth-century London, and an early twentieth 

century Queensman who went on to play for Wolverhampton 

Wanderers. 




A YEAR IN THE CHAPEL 

The Revd Katherine Price 

Chaplain 

The College is a community at once ancient and transient; it 

is both the stability of nearly seven centuries and the annual 

excitement of Freshers on their first day. I’ve been more than 

usually aware of that this year, as I officially become ‘the older 

generation’ in my own family: my son Austin was born in 

May (during an Evensong for the Choral Open Day, though 

fortunately I was not there at the time!). I had some trepidation 

over telling the College that its first female Chaplain was about 

to become its first Chaplain to need maternity cover. Thankfully 

this was entirely misplaced, and I’m grateful to my colleagues, 

who have shown not just support but delight. You’ll hear below 

from the interim Chaplain, who happens to be my husband, so 

a joint effort both in College and on the home front! 

The Chapel is a place for the College to commemorate what 

matters in its past for the sake of the current generation. 

2018-2019 has been a year of anniversaries. The first female 

undergraduates joined the College 40 years ago, and I was 

privileged to meet some of that first cohort of 1979, as well as 

women who have been part of the College over the past four 

decades, at a commemorative Evensong and dinner in March 

2019. 

A lesser anniversary was marked in October 2018: the 500th 

anniversary of the oldest stained glass in the Chapel, moved in 

the eighteenth century from the old antechapel. A little obscure 

perhaps, but any excuse for a party – or in this case, a Mass of 

the Virgin celebrated according to the pre-Reformation Use of 

Sarum, featuring music from around 1518. This was organised 

along with Dr Matthew Cheung Salisbury of Worcester College 

and our own Professor Owen Rees as part of a study day with 

the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society. With over an hour 

of sung and spoken Latin to contend with, all while performing 

complex choreography with various props, I did wonder what I 

had let us all in for. But the day was well received, and I think I 

may have the distinction of being the only person in history to 

have celebrated the Sarum rite while pregnant! 

As at the time of writing, the big anniversary for the Chapel 

itself is yet to come: November 2019 marks 300 years of 

the ‘new’ Chapel. It has been fascinating for me to hear 

from Old Members their stories of life in the Chapel, often 

The Revd Laurence Price 

interim Chaplain 

ahead of its time in worship and in the welcoming of different 

denominations. A full write-up of the commemorative events 

will appear in next year’s Record. But the story of the Chapel 

continues with each generation. This year saw the first Freshers 

arrive to live on the main site, making it easier for them to 

engage with College life, and the College also approved a new 

post of student Chapel Clerk (filled in 2018/19 by Matt Hines, 

graduate student in German, and Joseph Botman, Classics & 

Oriental Studies). By the time you read this, work will also be 

well underway on re-roofing the building. 

I look forward to being back in my stall in Michaelmas, 

alongside Laurence, to welcome a new Provost and all the new 

members of our community. 

Trinity Term is a term of contradictions in Oxford: on a long 

summer evening, the sun on the golden stonework gives a 

beguiling sense of timelessness. But we shouldn’t be fooled. 

Every inch of the College is preparing for radical change. 

Examinations, departures, new arrivals: the gold is that of a 

chrysalis, not an ingot. 

Change came to the Chapel in many ways this Trinity Term, 

from the very first week. Suddenly the priest’s part at Evensong 

was being sung by a tenor rather a soprano. I’m grateful to 

everyone in College who has welcomed me and put up with 

my inevitable moments of confusion. It’s been an amazing 

privilege to be part of the Chapel community: I last sang with 

Queen’s choir 16 years ago, and their sound is as rich and 

glorious as ever. 

A couple of weeks into term, another more personal change 

occurred. Austin Thomas Price arrived on 11 May, and life 

became rather busier for Katherine and for me. I’m very 

grateful to the Revd Peter Southwell and the Revd Susan 

Bridge, the assistant Chaplain of New College, for stepping in 

to take some of the Chapel services on that complicated but 

joyful weekend. And I hope the Chapel enjoyed the first sermon 

I’ve ever written sitting in a maternity ward with a baby on my 

knee. Rumours that the offspring will be given his own mini 

cassock and the title Chaplain Minimus are wholly unfounded. 

I notice, however, that the medieval College statutes originally 

provided for up to 13 Chaplains, so there’s plenty of room on 

the bench for a little one! 





Meanwhile the round of services continued, from the quiet devotion of daily morning prayer to 

the stately opulence of the University Sermon, attended by proctors and bedells carrying silver 

staves. We were also delighted to welcome three visiting preachers this term: Rose Hudson- 

Wilkin, the Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons; Esther Brazil, an alumna of the 

College, as well as the choir, who will be training for ordination from this September; and lastly 

the distinguished Cambridge theologian, Professor Janet Soskice. Outside Chapel, the Temple 

Society continued its wide-ranging discussions of issues from consumerism to the limits of 

philosophy. 

The Chapel has a unique spiritual role. Visitors come in just to look at the glorious Baroque 

interior or hear the sublime choral music - but then stay, perhaps touched by something 

inexpressible. But at the heart of chapel life is the community of Queen’s itself - undergraduates, 

graduates, staff, Fellows, and Old Members. The timeless stream of song, prayer, and worship 

has always been at the heart of the College, binding past and future together. 

And yet timelessness is not stagnation. John Henry Newman, the nineteenth century Vicar of the 

University Church and Cardinal, said “to be perfect is to have changed much”. I sensed this more 

strongly than ever at our service of farewell to this year’s leavers on Thursday of Eighth Week. 

Visitors, undergraduates, even Provosts come and go. And yet with all those changing faces 

the life of the College and the Chapel continues, balancing change and eternity. It’s a dancing 

equilibrium: and it might even be an image of the life of God. 

A YEAR IN THE CHAPEL CHOIR 

Professor O. L. Rees 

Organist 

Organist Prof. Owen Rees; Acting Organist (Hilary Term) 

Prof. Edward Higginbottom; Senior Organ Scholar 

Laurence John; Junior Organ Scholar Tom Dilley; Maurice 

Pearton Choral Scholar and recipient of the Hilde Pearton 

Vocal Training Olivia Hugh-Jones; Librarians Sarah 

Mattinson, Jake Sternberg 

The highlight of the choir’s concert performances this year 

came on the centenary of the Armistice, Sunday 11 September, 

when – to a packed Sheldonian Theatre – the choir joined forces 

with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra to perform Brahms’s 

Requiem. The choir rose magnificently to the challenges of this 

monumentally powerful work, and (in the first half of the concert) 

gave a poetic performance of Vaughan Williams’s An Oxford 

Elegy, in which we were honoured to be joined by Old Member 

Rowan Atkinson as the narrator. 


During Hilary Term the choir was under the experienced direction 

of Prof. Edward Higginbottom, recently retired from New College, 

who – in addition to the regular choral service commitment 

of the choir – conducted a performance of music from the 

French Baroque (an area in which he is a leading specialist), 

accompanied by the period ensemble Instruments of Time and 

Truth. 

The choir’s popular Music for a Summer’s Evening concert, 

towards the end of Trinity Term, featured Jonathan Dove’s 

wonderful choral song-cycle The Passing of the Year, in which we 

were joined by the renowned pianist and director of the Oxford 

Lieder Festival, Sholto Kynoch. It was rewarding to collaborate 

with Sholto twice during the year: in October 2018 the choir 

performed works of Portuguese Renaissance polyphony as part 

of the Lieder Festival, in the College Chapel. The extraordinary 

variety of repertory which the choir tackles also included John 

Taverner’s grandest work, the Missa Gloria tibi trinitas, performed 

in concert in September as part of the Martin Randall Travel 

festival ‘The Divine Office’, in Oxford. Our recording of the same 

work was released in 2019, and attracted glowing reviews, 

which gratifyingly referred to the student singers as rising to 

the standard of the professional singers in Contrapunctus, with 

whom the disc was recorded. 




A busy and varied summer included a CD recording of Christmas repertory for BBC Music 

Magazine (which will be featured as their cover disc of the December issue), a tour to Portugal (with 

appearances – to capacity audiences – in cathedrals and major churches in Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, 

and Coimbra), singing at King’s Cross Station for the Harry Potter ‘Back to Hogwarts’ festivities on 1 

September, and filming the Boar’s Head Carol for a BBC2 Christmas special. 

A YEAR IN THE MCR 

Thomas Zillhardt 

MCR President 

President Thomas Zillhardt; Vice-President Hamza 

Alawiye; Victualler Christopher Magazzeni 

As Oxford evolves into a more comprehensive and global 

university, the role of colleges changes. Undergraduates 

receive tutorials from external professors and have classes 

in their respective departments as much as postgraduates 

count on the progress of their research groups or the renown 

of their course to enlighten their career prospects. Apart from 

admissions, the provision of pastoral support, study spaces, 

and affordable accommodation have become increasingly 

crucial incentives for colleges to attract brilliant students and 

researchers. This is particularly true at postgraduate level 

and this year, for the first time, the DPhil, MBA, and Masters 

students of the College represented a third of the total student 

body. The College performs well in its provision for support, 

conference funding, and social activities. Although the Middle 

Common Room was affected by the move of first-year 

graduate accommodation from St Aldate’s to Venneit Close 

near the train station, we acknowledge how the College has 

been able to respond to this situation in a manner that allowed 

rent costs to be kept at reasonable levels. 


The Choir on tour in September in Braga Cathedral, Portugal, after singing for Mass 

Despite the accommodation situation, and our failure to 

provide a mean of transport to events like other distant 

colleges such as Wolfson, we successfully ignited the passions 

of incoming Freshers for the College as they were immediately 

filled with a sense of belonging to the community. For the 

first time in years we witnessed record highs of participation 

at our Freshers’ Week, which was revamped with a number 

of innovations. We started with mandatory workshops on 

Consent, LGBTQ+ and BAME in one session of three hours 

interspersed with a relaxing Tea & Cakes moment in the Old 

Taberdars’ Room, and we received tremendous support from 

the Vice-Presidents of the Oxford University Student Union. A 

Hall Welcome Event highlighted the start of the year and was 

followed in term by a new series of events more inclusive and 

welcoming to partners and families, such as movie pizza nights, 

cake evenings, and walks to Port Meadow. All those Freshers’ 

events were facilitated by our Social Secretary Dominic Hugh 

Spencer Jolly who rightfully reminded us how important it is 

to have a strongly bonded community in College. He received 




unparalleled assistance from the two entertainment representatives, Caitlin Dermody and our new 

President Nadia Haworth. Nadia has proven her dedication to our community by being actively 

involved in the committee for two terms. 

Taking over from the great work achieved by my predecessor Charlie Troup, whose new 

American adventure at another collegiate university will undoubtedly not surpass his time here 

at Queen’s, I inherited fantastic projects, such as the Tutoring Scheme. To that we added the 

Upgrade Program, the Revision of the Constitution, the MCR Extension Plan, and so many 

more initiatives for the benefit of our members. This would not have been possible without 

the support of the MCR Vice-President Hamza Alawiye and the MCR Victualler Christopher 

Massimo Magazzeni. Unlike most years where this position of Vice-President is mostly aimed 

at providing a fast response in unexpected circumstances whereby the president is unavailable 

or runs for re-election (yes, this too is an unexpected case!), this year I was fortunate to receive 

Hamza’s support while being away on synchrotron experiments or with the Aldabra Clean-Up 

Project. Chris was equally an exceptional asset going above and beyond his position as food 

representative by being part of the Social Team and taking a key role in the projects along the 

year. He also oversaw the switch to an online booking system for events and Monday Guest- 

Nights, while maintaining the concept of a priority pass. 

For the first time in the College’s history, the Rainbow Flag was flown for the entirety of the 

LGBT History Month last February, thanks to a push from the MCR led by our perseverant and 

vivacious LGBTQA+ Representative Elliot Howard-Spink. With the collaboration of the Equalities 

Officer, he proposed that the usual one-week duration be extended by three additional weeks 

to show College’s support for LGBTQA+ issues and to be in line with other institutions in Oxford, 

including other colleges, the Town Hall, the Bodleian Libraries, the University, and the museums. 

We are very proud of the support of the Governing Body on this enterprise. Bill Kroeger, who 

served for the second year as OUSU representative, made the link between us, the VPs, and 

the Oxford Community to ensure we could receive assistance and advice on all these projects. 

This strong team of welfare representatives was led by ex-President Timothy Westwood who 

sacrificed time in the last year of his DPhil to help set up the Peer-Supporter program. 

The first cohort of Waverley Scholars have joined us this year, representing a variety of subjects 

and research interests. This year they were selected on an individual basis from the pool of 

exceptional offer-holders who were lacking funding. From next year onwards, the scholarships 

will be advertised on the College website, allowing prospective applicants to apply directly for this 

scholarship. Thanks to generous donations like this, Queen’s is now one of the largest providers 

of graduate studentships in Oxford, allowing us to form clusters which will help shine the 

spotlight on the exceptional work and expertise of Queen’s researchers and their groups. In the 

future, it is expected that they work hand in hand with the SCR Liaison Officer to offer revamped 

Queen’s College Symposiums. Alberto Corrado, who is staying on in this Office, has organised 

very diverse sets of talks, from “let there be light” to “failure in jet engines”. We hope that the JCR 

Liaison Officer will create stronger bonds between the three common rooms, in part by inviting 

the undergraduates to these talks. Asad Chaudary has started this work by reviving the Tutoring 

Scheme, which enables DPhil students to provide additional tutorials to undergraduates. 

Archna Shah is retiring from the Office of Treasurer after two years of dedicated service. She 

helped oversee the Upgrade Program which used saved funds and compensation received from 

various projects to invest in new equipment for the common room. In particular, the community 

needed a replacement for the Charlie Troup Coffee Machine, and so was born the Aurora, an 

industrial-class machine capable of outputting up to 80 cups an hour. This was particularly 

popular with third- and fourth-year DPhil researchers and humanities students who spend long 

hours in the libraries, and with fourth-year undergraduates who would ordinarily prefer the JCR. 

Rowers were among the first users of the coffee machine, after long hours of early morning 

training we could invariably find them by the machine at 9 am, just after breakfast. Perhaps 

higher doses of caffeine helped them perform admirably this year. They did not take blades home, 

but W1 went up two positions, M1 three, and M2 qualified for division IV in Summer VIII’s. The 

success of our Sports representative Simon Nadal is such that he was able to make the MCR 

soccer team an official College club. 

The Aldabra Clean-up Project certainly was a highlight of the MCR. April Burt, the project leader, 

spent most of the first year of her PhD on this environmental initiative. She led a dedicated team 

that worked hard to obtain sponsorships to enable the project to go ahead. In the last moments 

leading to the expedition, a number of large donations made it possible, in particular the £55k 

SeyCATT grant that was awarded just a few days before the departure and which brought the 

funding 20% past the target. This is one of the most successful student-led environmental 

fundraising enterprises in Oxford, and the team is really proud to announce that 25 metric tonnes 

of marine debris were collected and brought back to Mahé where it is being processed and 

recycled. It also had an important regional impact, starting a number of clean-up projects on the 

inner islands and laying the foundations for a larger second clean-up on Aldabra. 

Our collaboration with the Governing Body and the Fellows was fruitful this year. We completed 

a number of projects with them, most important of which was the major 2019 Revision of the 

MCR Constitution. The document, setting out the basis of our community, had not been revised 

in almost 20 years and both the MCR and the Governing Body often passed amendments that 

led to significant contradictions. The ad-hoc Committee on the Constitutional Revision, assisted 

by the Tutor for Graduates, proposed a document which was approved by the Governing Body 

of Trinity of Eighth Week, although it is to be noted that a section on associate memberships 

was temporarily removed until further discussions. We are very grateful for the assistance of the 

Provost Prof Paul Madden, in his last year in office and we wish him and Alison all the best for 

their future. The new MCR Committee took some time to form but renewed interest in working 

on the Committee led to a full team ready to work with the incoming Provost. With several 

projects to be completed and all three heads of Common Room identifying as women for the first 

time in the history of the College, the coming academic year is very promising. 





A YEAR IN THE JCR 

Ebrubaoghene 

Abel-Unokan 

JCR President 

President Ebrubaoghene Abel-Unokan; Vice Presidents 

Marte Van der Graaf and Isabelle Gibbons 

The 2018-19 academic year has been another excellent one 

for members of the Queen’s College JCR. Much of it has been 

spent in anticipation of the 678th anniversary Commemoration 

Ball, taking place on 29 June 2019, and organised by a team 

led by JCR members Benjamin Egan and Philippa Monk. 

The year began with the successful welcome of the new cohort 

of Freshers by the JCR Executive Committee, with a particular 

emphasis on the improved integration of Home students and 

their EU and International counterparts. This, coupled with 

the relocation of first-year students from the Florey and Cardo 

Buildings into the Main College site, helped more than ever to 

ease the transition of the Freshers into life at Queen’s. 

The members of the JCR Executive Committee strove 

throughout the year to make life at Queen’s for all students as 

enjoyable as possible. Highlights included the Christmas and 

Trinity end of term events, organised by Social Secretaries Ellie 

Macleod and Anna Migone, and the Mental Health Awareness 

Week in Michaelmas Term, organised by Welfare Reps Beinn 

Khulusi and Sophia Wee. 

The JCR is also grateful to Dawn Grimshaw and the Hall staff 

for the various dinners prepared throughout the year, such as 

the delightful Halfway Hall for second-year students, and the 

Freshers’ and Finalists’ Formal dinners, as well as the many 

club and society dinners. 

STUDENT CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 

1341 SOCIET Y 

President: Zachary Tait 

It has been another successful year for the 1341 Society, with a Trinity Term Garden Party 

and two Hall Luncheons taking place. The Society exists to raise funds for Queen’s students, 

especially for extracurricular endeavours, and this year we have continued to support several 

valuable College funds. We have been able to continue supporting the Book Grant Fund to 

allow students to purchase their own copies of academic books, and the Sports Subscriptions 

Fund to contribute to the cost of playing university-level sports. Additionally, as there was a 

Commemoration Ball this year, we have been able to contribute to the Ball for All Fund, which 

supports those for whom a ball ticket might be a prohibitive cost. 

We were delighted to meet so many friends and family of current Queen’s students at our 

lunches and garden party; we are very grateful that so many were able to attend. Both of 

our lunches this year were preceded by drinks in the Upper Library, by the kind permission 

of our librarians. We were also able to enjoy some musical entertainment, including from the 

wonderful Oxford Gargoyles and current Queen’s student, Calypso Hetherington. After the 

Hilary Luncheon, we enjoyed a short skit from the Oxford Imps, an improvised comedy troupe. 

As ever, none of the events that the 1341 Society organises would be possible without the 

support and hard work of Dawn and all the catering staff. We are also very grateful to the 

Provost and Mrs Madden for attending our lunches and supporting us throughout the year. 

I am very thankful to Joseph Botman (Secretary), Tom Neuberger (Treasurer), and Luke 

Concollato (Vice President) for their diligent work and enthusiasm. I have now handed over my 

role to Thea Beadle, who already has some very exciting plans for the year ahead. 

BADMINTON 

Women’s Captain: Sarah Whelan, Men’s Captain: Matthew Goh 


The year saw a return to form for the various Queen’s sports 

clubs, with special attention paid to the men’s football teams 

- the 2nd XI, who got through to the quarterfinals of the Cup, 

and the men’s 1st XI, who made it to the semi-finals of the 

Hassan’s Cup, only to be narrowly defeated in extra time. 

The President would like to thank members of the Taberdars’ 

Room, the JCR Vice-Presidents Marte van der Graaf and 

Isabelle Gibbons, the Executive Committee, and the Senior 

Members of the College for their ongoing support of the JCR. 

The Queen’s College Badminton Club returned to East Oxford Games Hall in 2018 for another 

year of social and training sessions. Boosted by strong interest from first-year students, 

the weekly sessions on Wednesday evenings continued to flourish with some impressive 

turnouts and provided mid-week relief from our term-time routine. The wide variety of playing 

styles on display, from power players to tacticians and drop shot artists, invariably made for 

entertaining games and rallies. It was particularly heartening to see involvement from players 

across the entire spectrum of skill and experience levels, demonstrating and promoting the 

sport’s penchant for truly being enjoyable and accessible to all. Given the enthusiasm and 

commitment of numerous regular new faces, there is little doubt that the badminton community 

will continue to thrive next year. 




Hilary Term brought another round of Cuppers, in which the men’s team began their 

tournament with an encouraging victory against a resilient Worcester. Although Queen’s were 

made to fight hard, the team survived some nervous moments for a series of close wins, two 

of which came by the minimal two-point margin. Ultimately, thanks to imposing play from Max 

Greenwood and Jiang Ruiting, along with excellent performances from Cameron Brooks and 

Ma Ruizhen, Queen’s swept all four doubles rubbers to earn a quarter-final berth. 

Alas, the next fixture proved to be the end of the journey and we were eliminated for the 

second consecutive year by an irresistible Exeter that fielded two players from the University 

team. Nevertheless, Queen’s can take heart from our efforts in pushing the defending 

champions to a 4-2 score line, splitting the four doubles matches courtesy of one win each 

from the pairings of Max Greenwood / Samih Inceer and Matthew Goh / Jiang Ruiting. Thus, 

we ended our campaign in good spirits despite the defeat, with the knowledge that in every 

rubber across both rounds we had a realistic chance of a win. 

BOAT CLUB 

Hilary Term was focused on continuing the steep learning curve of the previous term and 

building a fast boat for Torpids. This was successful and in Torpids the first boat went up one 

over all, and didn’t go down on any one day – for the first time since 2006. 

Inspired by the success in Torpids, the women’s side was eager to do even better in Summer 

VIIIs. There was a lot of competition for seats in the first boat and after a training camp before 

term, the first boat gained valuable racing experience at the Pembroke Regatta in Cambridge. 

In VIIIs the first boat had their most successful campaign since 2005 and gained two bumps. 

The second boat came in level over all. 

In summary, the club had a very successful year. The men’s side continued the trend of recent 

years and bumped up. The women’s side had their most successful campaign in recent years 

and has discovered a new hunger for success. It is exciting to see what next year will bring. 

Lastly a big thank you goes to everyone who helped make this season a success and 

congratulations to Zuzanna Borawska for winning the Jack Wooding Memorial Award for the 

best novice rower. 


Women’s Captain: Stephanie Budenberg, Men’s Captain: Jack Wilson, President: Andreas 

Heilmann 

THE EDGAR LOBEL SOCIETY 

The men’s side started off with a good number of returners in Michaelmas and recruited a 

number of new members. The first boat spent a lot of time on perfecting the basics of the 

rowing stroke and thereby laying a solid foundation for the rest of the season. The term 

culminated in racing at the Wallingford Head, where the crew proved to be of a similar standard 

to other Oxford crews. The new athletes enjoyed learning how to row and raced in both the 

Nephthys and Christ Church Regattas. 

President: Joseph Botman 

The Edgar Lobel Society, named after one of the College’s most famous former Classics 

dons, organises weekly practice sessions for the composition of Greek and Latin verse. Over 

the course of this year, we’ve translated small excerpts from various English poets, such as 

Tennyson, into either language, both preparing our own work and writing collaboratively. 

Hilary Term saw the return of some very experienced oarsmen to the squad, creating healthy 

competition for seats. The first boat benefited hugely from this competition and improved 

very quickly. This showed at the Bedford Head, where the crew not only beat the club record 

of recent years by a solid margin but also placed very competitively in the overall ranking. In 

Torpids the first boat was bumped by an extraordinarily strong Brasenose boat on the first day, 

but secured four bumps in the remaining three days, bumping into Division Two. The second 

boat qualified third fastest in rowing on, gained three bumps, and was bumped once in their 

Torpids campaign. 

In Trinity Term the squad was reinforced by returners from University teams. At a very intense 

but enjoyable training camp before term, rigorous seat racing was conducted, for what would 

become a very fast first boat indeed. At the Pembroke Regatta in Cambridge, the crew 

gained some racing experience before Summer VIIIs. In VIIIs the first boat gained three bumps, 

narrowly missing out on blades after a ‘three-way bump’ situation. The second boat gained 

three bumps and returned to fixed divisions. The third boat went up two places over all. 

The women’s side started the season with very few returning members and managed to recruit 

many new athletes. The new members picked up the technique quickly and raced in the 

Nephthys and Christ Church Regattas, where they made it to the quarter finals. A boat also 

raced at the Wallingford Head and the crew gained a lot of experience. 

THE EGLESFIELD MUSICAL SOCIETY 

President: Laurence John 

The Eglesfield Musical Society began the academic year with the first of two joint concerts with 

Lincoln Sinfonia, a new orchestra based at Lincoln College. We were joined by the orchestra 

again in November for a performance of Handel’s Messiah, featuring a stellar line up of soloists 

from both London and closer to home; second-year music student at Queen’s, Steph Franklin, 

was the alto soloist. Both these concerts drew large audiences, and we hope that our link with 

the Lincoln Sinfonia will continue next year. 

The Wednesday organ recital series (possibly the longest running lunchtime recital series 

in the country) continues to be extremely popular, with support from both a large body 

of ‘regulars’ and visitors alike. Highlights this year have included a recital given by Richard 

Gowers, sometime organ scholar of King’s College, Cambridge, who performed Harmonies 

by the avant-garde composer György Ligeti (which concluded with him turning the organ 

off); welcoming back Rory Moules, who, after spending a year as Graduate Organ scholar at 

Queen’s, is now Director of Chapel Music at Corpus Christi College; and a visit from Gerard 

Gillen – an Old Member of the College, who was organ scholar here in the 1960s. 




Saturday lunchtime recitals have attracted a more modest following; we have been treated to 

performances by a range of performers from both Oxford and further afield, including several 

with close links to the College. The annual garden musical, Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, 

took place in the new location of the Fellows’ Garden and was a great success thanks to a 

very able cast and crew. 

FILMS FOR EUROPE SOCIETY 

President: Jack Franco 

‘Europe is lost. She doesn’t know where she’s going, and neither do we. Films For Europe is 

making a start on finding out where we came from, and how culture is a common canvas that 

covers the entire continent. From classics to anything else, we’ll try to be a pantheon of culture 

for the modern age.’ 

And so we set out on our ambitious and slightly pretentious mission to provide the College and 

the wider Oxford community with a reliable handbook to our common history! As we all might 

accept, we are in a time of crisis - and the least we can do as an academic community that 

believes itself to be principled and thoughtful is look for a way to get out of it. As such, every 

Tuesday since Hilary Term, students from Queen’s have chosen classic European films, starting 

with cult youth classic, La Haine. Drawing an audience of over 50 people, this was a promising 

start. We traversed Europe’s history of innovation, from Italian neorealism with Rome, Open 

City to the French New Wave of Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le Fou. We had just enough time 

to stop by the lesser known, and more controversial films of the post-war continent, with both 

Pedro Almodóvar’s Bad Education and Costa Gavras’ political thriller Z making the cut. Some 

films were hit and miss, others pure joys to watch - after all, that itself is the joy: watching 

a jumble sale of films with tens of complete strangers to come out with an ever-so-slightlybroadened 

horizon. 

With Films For Europe, we were conscious of the social impact cultural education can and 

should have. As such, we were delighted to host a panel discussion entitled Europe’s story, its 

narrative. A Storm Blowing from Paradise brought together former Greek Finance Minister and 

eminent economist Yanis Varoufakis, climate change and Guardian journalist George Monbiot, 

and Professor Karma Nabulsi to see where ‘Europe’ come from, and how we can reinvent it. 

Surely one of the College’s best-attended and high-profile student events, this set the bar for 

how students should engage with their culture, and how College can and should stimulate a 

responsive and creative student body. 

We partnered up with Oxford Polish Society to show the beautiful Parisian-Polish noir Cold War, 

drawing huge crowds to the Shulman Auditorium. For next year we hope to become a larger 

presence in such cultural societies and put Queen’s on the map as the internationalist College! 

We capped off the year with German-American Paris, Texas - a personal favourite for some - 

as we trained our sights on a broader programme for the next year. For sure, we hope to be 

back more organised, more inventive, and making a difference to College life. Rome wasn’t 

built in a day, but now the Library is even creating a foreign language DVD collection, we can at 

least say we’ve had an impact, however small. 

QCAFC 

Captain: Eddie Tolmie 

QCAFC began the season optimistically, but soon were dragged into a relegation dogfight 

that saw them go into the Christmas vac already out of Cuppers and without a league victory. 

Despite this, signs of promise were shown in a resounding victory over Univ in the Hassan’s 

Cup. Hilary Term heralded a change of fortunes, and the team played with a renewed flair and 

vigour that saw the second team get to the quarter finals of Reserves Cuppers, and the firsts 

bound from victory to victory in a Hassan’s Cup run, reaching the semi-finals before crashing 

out to a 94th-minute winner in a game Queen’s very much dominated. 

A crucial 3-2 win over rivals Teddy Hall set up one of the greatest escapes in sporting history, 

as QCAFC recorded a string of four straight victories, including formidable 7-0 and 15-0 wins 

over Christchurch and Balliol respectively in the last week of term to avoid relegation and 

end up coming fourth, which would have seemed unthinkable a month before. Two strong 

performances on football tour in Cambridge saw the team triumph 1-0 over a previously 

unbeaten Corpus Christi side and very nearly prevail over Cambridge Cuppers finalists 

Pembroke. If the form and liquid football that was shown across these final games can be 

emulated next season, the future is bright for football at Queen’s. The club would like to thank 

outgoing members Adam Rhaiti, Leonard de Baynast-Cheval, Henry Hodgson, Matthew 

McLoughlin, Dan Haxell, and Danny Simpson for their dedication over the years. 

Medical Society 

President: Molly Nichols 

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

and teaching pre-clinical and clinical medicine, as well as biomedical sciences. At the annual 

QCMS dinner during Michaelmas Term we welcomed our guest speaker, Old Member David 

Oliver, a lead columnist for the British Medical Journal, who holds the esteemed role of Vice 

President of the Royal College of Physicians. He shared his experiences of medicine as an 

award-winning consultant geriatrician and described several obstacles faced by the NHS as it 

celebrates its 70th anniversary. In Hilary Term the society hosted a talk by veterinary surgeon 

turned historian and biographer Paul Watkins to honour Britain’s oldest doctor Bill Frankland 

(Queen’s, 1930). 

Mr Watkins is the author of Dr Frankland’s biography From Hell Island to Hay Fever - The Life 

of Dr Bill Frankland, which recounts the remarkable life of the 106-year-old doctor. I would 

like to thank our speakers for making these events so interesting and enjoyable. I am also 

incredibly grateful for the continuous support provided by the committee members, Zachary 

Tait and Pierre Garrido. We look forward to another year of exciting events from our newly 

elected committee, Sahara Pandit, Esme Weeks, and Zahra Choudhury, who will be taking 

over as president, vice president, and treasurer respectively. 





QCRFC 

Captain: Wilf Sandwell 

QCRFC is a proudly minimally athletic club, instead making up with occasional amounts of real 

heart and a lot of fun. Last season had been disappointing, coming second bottom of Oxford 

and so the goal was simple: come third bottom. Our Fresher intake was small but was to have 

a big effect. Our debut was against recently relegated Pembroke, who we knew would be 

tough opponents and proved to be so for the first quarter. But then Queen’s started to play 

well. Findlay Thompson as an actual nine was a revelation, speedster Jack Broadbent excelled 

on the wing, and Filip Szymaniak began what would be such a solid season at centre. In the 

end we left too much to do, losing 37-24 but winning the second half well. Unfortunately, such 

form could not be maintained. Turnout for subsequent weeks was low, and despite a spirited 

effort at Oriel, dominated more by friends of Queen’s members than our own students, we 

came to our last match of term without a victory. However, it was as if it was meant to be, as 

we came up against our arch-rivals St Hilda’s to set up a play-off for the worst team in Oxford. 

Hilda’s came out in force, spending their whole budget on taxis to get a full team down. But 

Queen’s did not disappoint. Captained admirably in my absence by Sam Caygill, the boys saw 

out a tight game to win 34-29 and once again secure second-bottom spot. 

With Cuppers over, one would think the season done. But we had some surprises left. Mixed 

Touch Cuppers was a great success and great praise should go to Tilly Thatcher, Greta 

Thompson, and Jess Martin for being the first girls to pull on the QCRFC shirt and hopefully 

blazing a trail for next season. But our greatest success came on the sevens pitch. Having 

never progressed beyond the group stage, there was little expectation and typically Henry 

Patterson and Eddie Tolmie had to be called up from hockey and football respectively…and 

were excellent. The combination of class from Mark Giza, departing after six years, and Dan 

Stoller was irresistible and despite only having six players, we found ourselves beating first 

division New. Our form continued as we put Magdalen to the sword and despite playing two 

games in a row, the energy of Jack Wilson (who had a fantastic tournament and was unlucky 

to be the only player not to score) was enough that we only lost to Wad-Trin by two points. 

For the first time Queen’s made the final stage and even made it to the semis where we 

came across an unnecessary combination of Benet’s and Keble, favourites to win the whole 

competition. A miserable day undermined the pace and skill we gained through Louis Pincott’s 

and Findlay Thompson’s addition to the side, and simply did not allow the flair we so desired 

to play. We went down by two points, in the end beaten by a very good and undeniably bigger 

team who went on to win the final by 10, allowing us to claim a moral second place quite 

beyond what anyone could have expected, and to end the season on an absolute high. 


Somewhat disappointed again, we vowed the second half of the season would be better. 

It began on a cold, miserable day in January and we had a point to prove following a 

disappointing defeat in November. It is a match that will go down as a QCRFC great, one 

highpoint of occasional heart. For the first time we were able to unleash Dan Stoller who 

carved twice through the Merton/Mansfield defence. But some old- timers also stood 

out: Ebruba Abel-Unokan quite literally carried a man into touch, to which Cai Richards 

unforgettably let loose “yeah - taking out the trash!!!”, the likes of Tom Swift and Jack Wilson 

were again relentless, and Sam Caygill put in yet another thumping hit before, although only 

just, slotting the final kick of the game to win the match 19-18. Snow and numbers, for once 

not just on our side, caused two cancellations before a defeat to the Brookes 3 XV - best never 

mentioned again. This left again our final match against none other than St Hilda’s, only this 

time with a chance to come third, not second last. Queen’s rose to the occasion, with new 

players like Louis Makower and James Hawke shining but the man of the match by far was 

Adam Rhaiti on his debut, just for the other team. Despite his annoyingly relentless energy, 

Queen’s won 34-24 and the season’s target had been achieved. 

Cuppers was next and we were drawn against first division Hertford, always to be a tough ask, 

especially with Sam Caygill dislocating his shoulder in the warm-up while showing off how far 

he could pass a ball. Despite this we gave a valiant effort, even winning the second half when 

numbers were reduced to 10s. We were then drawn in the bowl against Christchurch, another 

toughey but we were determined to cause an upset. A classic Caygill dummy-and-go to score 

gave us hope, but Christchurch’s size soon showed. A dislocated finger for Sam Caygill, a 

broken finger for Ben Egan, a concussion for me took their toll, and even mighty Kaspar 

Klemm’s powerful game was ended by a particularly nasty broken nose. In the end, we were 

out-muscled but we took the last laugh with a filthy try born of interplay from nearly the entire 

team before Tom Swift dotted down. 

Whatever on-pitch success there may have been, QCRFC is founded much more upon the 

character of its members. Special credit should go to all those who took part in the team Town 

and Gown 10k, to Beinn Khulusi for representing Movember for the College and securing their 

approval for us to wear the badge on our kit next year, and to the several members training 

to become Good Lad Workshop facilitators. Finally thank you and goodbye to our leavers: 

Matthew McLoughlin, occasional admittedly but always loved; James Eggington, always late 

and never forgotten; Hamish Smeaton, always a rock in the scrum and a joy to have around; 

Tom Neuberger, who despite appalling fitness always shone at six; and finally Mark Giza, simply 

a legend of the club who will be missed after his six years at the club. Thank you also to Sam 

Caygill for his very capable vice-Captaincy this year and Captaincy last year, who, despite 

technically leaving, I get the impression still has a few matches left. Well done to all on a 

fantastic season and onwards to next year. 

Tennis 

Captain: Rohan Rao 

This term was very promising for Queen’s. We entered teams into the College league and 

Cuppers, playing one match in each. While the results may not have been what we wanted 

with two losses, there was a lot of enthusiasm in participation, mostly coming from the firstyears. 

The tennis sessions run on Tuesdays enjoyed record attendance with an average of nine 

people attending every week, justifying the purchase of a new tennis racket by the College. 

Most of the attendance at these sessions was also from first- and second-years so it’s likely 

that next year’s participation will be more than adequate given the rising interest in the sport. 




ATHLETIC DISTINCTIONS 

Blues 

Anna Sharp Athletics 

Half-Blues 

Shakira Mahadeva 

Anna Sharp Cross-country 

Cecilia Hoegfeldt 

Henry Patteson Hockey 

Isabella Salkeld 

Johann Perera Hockey 

Diptarko Chowdury 

Zara Everitt Netball 

Tal Rosenbaum Powerlifting 

Declan Pang Swimming 

Jinlin Chen Volleyball 

Louise James Volleyball 

Athletics 

Handball 

Lacrosse 

Powerlifting 



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DEVELOPMENT AND OLD MEMBER 

RELATIONS REPORT 

Old Members’ Activities 

Justin B. Jacobs 

Director of Development 

In February 2019 I joined Queen’s as the Director of 

Development, and over the past six months I have been 

focused on getting to know the College – its students, Fellows, 

staff, and Old Members – and its day-to-day and term-time 

rhythms. Despite having spent some time as an undergraduate 

visiting student at New, and more recently in the development 

offices at Mansfield and Magdalen, I hadn’t ever had the 

privilege to come into Queen’s and experience up close the 

beautiful spaces, treasures, and architectural gems that help 

distinguish it from its Oxford peers. What a wonderful place! 

Arriving during the 2018-19 academic year has meant getting 

to know the College during a period of transition and historical 

change in its leadership, as the College and its Old Members 

said goodbye to the retiring Provost, Professor Paul Madden, 

and prepared to welcome the incoming Provost, Dr Claire 

Craig. The thanks and goodwill shown by Old Members to Paul 

and Alison at events held over the year in Oxford, London, New 

York, Toronto, Seattle, and Los Angeles have been heartening 

to see and serve as a testament to their long-running efforts to 

keep the College and its Old Members in closer contact with 

each other. 

Many of these events have involved the time and efforts of my 

colleagues in the Old Members’ Office, and it’s been equally 

helpful getting to know the College from their perspective 

as well. Over the past year Jen Stedman, Henry Cosh, and 

Mirijam Marx have worked hard to help our Old Members stay 

connected to Queen’s - and although we have since had to 

say goodbye and good luck to Henry (March) and Mirijam (July) 

- the addition of Kate Graham (May) fills me with a continued 

sense of confidence that our team will help Old Members feel 

both welcome and integral to the life of the College. 

Campaign). Over the years, this overall target has been raised as successive milestones have 

been met and by the end of this past year the total will have exceeded £3 billion. This campaign 

has therefore put Oxford squarely on the fundraising map, so to speak, and its success has 

mirrored the University’s rise to the very top of the international rankings. 

Our own efforts during this time period have certainly contributed to the above totals; our 

total funds raised during this period have been in excess of £35 million, which has, of course, 

included capital project highlights such as the Shulman Auditorium and the New Library; critical 

endowments in posts and graduate studentships brought about through the Waverley Fund and 

other named gifts; and the ongoing support of our students via regular gifts and legacies, to 

name but a few examples. 

Fundraising at Queen’s during 2018-19 finds overall support for the College remains strong with 

our overall new funds raised figure of £3,083,823 sitting just below our funds received total of 

£3,390,075, which included £650,364 in income received from bequests. Over the course of the 

year the Governing Body has elected a new Eglesfield Benefactor (in recognition of lifetime giving 

in excess of £100,000) and six Philippa Benefactors (in recognition of lifetime giving in excess of 

£10,000). We are grateful for all the support received over the past year and the College takes 

special pride in being able to bestow these Benefactorships on those whose giving has merited 

such special recognition. 

It is always worth remembering, however, that these numbers are only the means to a much 

greater and important end: they represent more opportunities for our students to take full 

advantage of their time here in College or, in some cases, even being able to take the opportunity 

to come up and study here at all; the endowment of research Fellowships and graduate 

studentships, whose holders will continue to push the boundaries of knowledge in a variety of 

exciting and critical areas in the years to come; and, of course, support for the physical space in 

which so much of this life-changing activity takes place. 

Thank you again for choosing to support this wonderful place. 


Before looking at the fundraising picture at Queen’s over the 

past academic year, I wanted to take a moment and zoom 

out a bit as 2018-19 was also notable for being the final year 

of the Oxford Thinking campaign. Launched in 2008, this was 

the collegiate University’s first joint fundraising campaign and 

initially had a collective goal of raising £1.25 billion (or 25% 

more than Cambridge raised as part of their 800th Anniversary 




FROM THE PRESIDENT 

Paul Newton 

President of The Queen’s 

College Association 

It is once again a pleasure to report on the Old Members’ 

Association activities over the course of the year. These 

events have a reassuring regularity about them. Younger 

Old Members who matriculated in 2008 were able to attend 

the Ten Years Later Lunch while more mature Old Members 

who matriculated in 1948/1958/1968 were able to attend the 

Jubilee Matriculation Lunch. The former were no doubt able 

to reflect on how much younger police officers look these day, 

while the latter probably use the Archbishop of Canterbury as 

their point of reference. I know I do. 

This year marked the 40th anniversary of the admission of 

women to Queen’s. A celebratory dinner was held in College 

and was attended by 125 Old Members. The occasion 

provided the opportunity to view the exhibits from “40 years 

in 40 objects” digital display in the Magrath Room and the 

“Shining a Light” portraits in the cloisters. 

Other events included the ever-popular Boar’s Head Gaudy in 

December and the Needle & Thread Gaudy in January. These 

black-tie dinners, along with the Old Members’ Annual dinner, 

involve the Loving Cup ceremony of In memoriam absentium, 

in salutem praesentium (in memory of those absent, to the 

health of those present) thereby re-enforcing the shared 

privilege and friendship of studying at Queen’s. In addition to 

these formal dinners, there were several less formal events 

culminating in the College Garden Party in July. More than 

15 separate Old Members’ events brought more than 1,500 

people together. Excluding guests and taking into account 

some double counting of some Old Members attending 

more than one event, this represented a healthy participation 

percentage. 

“Firstly, it is appropriate that the drinks are being hosted at the Royal Society. Paul has been a 

Fellow here for nearly 20 years, however, as befits a Provost of Queen’s, he has not been content 

with just one Royal Society, he is also a Fellow of the similarly prestigious Royal Society of 

Edinburgh. Likewise, at Queen’s, Paul has not been content with just being an esteemed Fellow 

in Chemistry for more than 20 years, he has also been Head of the College for the past 11 years. 

At the University level, Paul has brought credit and prestige to the College with a number of 

senior appointments, such as the Chair of the Conference of Oxford Colleges and as 

Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University itself. 

There have been many notable achievements while Paul has been Provost, not only do we have 

the new Shulman auditorium and underground Library, but we also have the new kitchens and 

dining room, enhancing the nourishment of mind and body taking place at Queen’s today. In 

summary, Paul has made the Queen’s College experience, that we all remember, even better, if 

that were possible. 

Thank you, Paul, and of course Alison, who somehow magically and seamlessly restored the 

Provost’s Garden to its former glory after the library extension, for all you have done for Queen’s 

over more than 30 years.” 

The departure of one Provost naturally means the arrival of another. At this year’s Old Members’ 

Dinner, it was a pleasure to welcome Dr Claire Craig, CBE, as the first female Provost in the 

College’s 678-year history. Claire is also a Fellow of the Royal Society and recently held the post 

of its Chief Science Policy Officer which is just one small part of her long and varied career. I am 

sure that we all, look forward to getting to know Claire better over the coming years. 

Finally, and on behalf of us all, I wish to thank the College’s Old Members’ Office for its unstinting 

support in managing these events and its relationships with Old Members. 


The high numbers were no doubt boosted by events to say 

farewell to Paul Madden, our retiring Provost. His contribution 

to the College has been recorded elsewhere, but at the 

Provost’s Farewell Reception at the Royal Society, I reflected 

on some aspects of his 11-year Provostship as per the 

following extracts from my introductory speech: 




GAUDIES - FUTURE INVITATIONS 

Boar’s Head 

Needle and Thread 

Year Matriculation years 


2020 1986/1987 

2020 2004/2005 

2021 1998/1999 

2021 1976/1977 

2022 1988/1989 

2022 2006/2007 

2023 2000/2001 

2023 1978/1979 

2024 1990/1991 

2024 2008/2009 

Jubilee Matriculation Gaudy Lunch 

Old Members’ Dinner 


12 September 2020 All welcome. 

2020 1970/1960/1950 

2021 1971/1961/1951 

2022 1972/1962/1952 

2023 1973/1963/1953 

2024 1974/1964/1954 

650 TH ANNIVERSARY TRUST FUND 

AWARD REPORTS 

Annis Easton - travelling around the Aegean to trace the ancient route of Persian 

commanders c.500 BC 

‘I have written at such length of the Samians, because the three greatest works of all the Greeks 

were engineered by them’ (Hdt. 3.60.1). 

It was with this quotation in mind that I approached the archaeological sites of Samos island. 

Herodotus may have been writing in the fifth century BC, but it would be hard to deny that 

his words still ring true. My first visit was to Eupalinos’ Tunnel. Even without Herodotus’ slight 

exaggeration, (he claims it to be seven stades [=1295m]), this 1036m-long aqueduct running 

through Mount Kastro would be an incredible feat of engineering had it been built last year. But 

it was only as I descended into the underpass, that the true nature of this achievement became 

apparent. Over two and a half millennia ago, Eupalinos of Megara had been employed by the 

tyrant Polycrates to find a solution to the city’s water shortage. This he achieved, not by any 

conventional means, but by utilising slaves to dig through each side of the mountain, using only 

picks, hammers, and chisels. It was still possible to trace every stroke with my fingers, and I 

could not help but feel incredible pity for the men employed to carry this out, working in dark, lifethreatening 

conditions. The immense human sacrifice made to bring prosperity to an island such 

as Samos is something not always apparent from the ancient accounts. 

My next stop was the Sanctuary of Hera, the site of the renowned Rhoecus temple. ‘The greatest 

of all the temples of which we know’, claims Herodotus (3.60.2), and having studied the Heraion 

earlier this year, I knew that there was much more to the site than this. If there is one thing that 

has been confirmed on this trip, however, it is the futility of trying to conceive and appreciate an 

archaeological site from site-plans, or even photos alone. By walking around the sanctuary, the 

interaction between the numerous temples, treasuries, and votive offerings (now mostly in ruins) 

became apparent, and instead of a series of disparate objects studied separately, it was possible 

to conceive this sacred space as a whole. I could begin to imagine what the Heraion would have 

been like at its peak, full to the brim with glittering votive offerings and lavishly decorated temples. 


I next visited the archaeological museum in Samos town, coming ever closer to a true 

understanding of the sanctuary’s original impact. Every room was packed with hundreds of 

finds, from a surprisingly diverse range of origins, extending across the many centuries of the 

site’s history. One case contained hundreds of griffin protomes (a type of adornment that takes 

the form of the head and upper torso of either a human or an animal) from tripods, which the 

museum suggested had not been melted down due to a belief in their spirituality, supposed 

power to avert evil influences or bad luck. Another displayed a series of simple wooden boats, a 

meagre offering to the goddess Hera only preserved by the marshy conditions of the sanctuary. 

I felt a sense of awe not only for the artefacts which we have, but also at the sheer quantity of 

objects that we must be missing. 




Travelling on to visit the island of Rhodes, I was most interested in visiting the Sanctuary of 

Athena Lindia. While the history of this sanctuary stretches back to the Archaic period, it was 

only in the third century BC that it assumed its impressive scale. As with the Heraion, although I 

was well acquainted with its ground-plan and history, I could never have fully gauged the impact 

of the site until I walked up the same monumental staircase that the sanctuary’s visitors would 

have ascended some two millennia ago. It must have had the effect of making the individual 

worshipper feel very small, not only in relation to the supremacy of the gods, but also to the 

achievements of the Rhodian aristocracy. 

My visit to Delos brought me closer to a very different side of the Hellenistic world: the 

convergence of multicultural trading communities. The island is almost devoid of water, and it 

seems a near paradox that its lack of fertility, dissuading later communities from superimposing 

the settlement, has left us with such a ripe supply of archaeological evidence. What was perhaps 

most remarkable about Delos, however, was the proximity in which the different communities 

lived and interacted. Greek inscriptions are juxtaposed with Latin, and dedications by Greeks, 

Egyptians, and Italians compete with and answer to one another. This confluence of cultures 

accords well with its mythology (e.g. Aen. 3.72-98): Delos aimlessly wandered until Poseidon 

chained it to the spot in the centre of the Cyclades. The winds reached 30 miles per hour on the 

day of my visit; it was almost as if, thousands of years later, the island was desperate to break 

free. 

“Αἰσχύλον Εὐϕορίωνος Ἀθηναι̑ον τόδε κεύθει 

μνη̑μα καταϕθίμενον πυροϕόροιο Γέλας· 

ἀλκὴν δ’ εὐδόκιμον Μαραθώνιον ἄλσος ἂν εἴποι 

καὶ βαθυχαιτήεις Μη̑δος ἐπιστάμενος.” 

“In Gela, rich in wheat, he died, and lies beneath this stone: 

Aeschylus the Athenian, son of Euphorion. 

His valour, tried and proved, the mead of Marathon can tell, 

The long‐haired Persian also, who knows it all too well.” (trans. Sommerstein) 


Just as significant as the objects and places I had read about, were those that I stumbled across, 

and perhaps would not have otherwise realised their existence. In the archaeological museum 

on Mykonos, for example, stood a 1.4m pithos from the seventh century BC. It was the detail 

on this vase that was most remarkable: a series of easily recognisable scenes from the sack of 

Troy, roughly contemporary with Homer’s Iliad. And yet the painter of this vase did not choose 

to highlight the heroic battle-scenes nor noble exploits of warriors, but the pitiful slaughter of 

Trojan women and children; Astyanax ruthlessly torn from his mother’s arms. Homer is often the 

focus of our studies regarding the Trojan War, but objects such as these remind us that his epics 

existed amongst a range of versions and perspectives. 

A pithos with one of the earliest depictions of the Trojan War 

A coin from the Numismatic Museum 

It would be easy to study Classics without leaving the classroom or lecture theatre, but if this trip 

has stressed one thing over and over again, it is the importance of getting out and seeing these 

places for ourselves. A page of a book can be forgotten in a day, whereas the experiences of the 

last few weeks will remain with me for life. 

Henry Lewis - travelling around the Aegean to trace the ancient route of Persian 


The marks left upon modern civilisation by the Persian Wars of 490-479 BC are unquestionable. 

Edward Said would go so far as to include Aeschylus’ Persians, a dramatic rendering of 

the Battle of Salamis, as one of the earliest examples of his influential ‘Orientalism’, whose 

delineation of East and West is one still very much at work today and of high importance. Telling 

too is the epitaph Aeschylus had on his grave. No mention is made of his successes as a Tragic 

poet. Instead, one reads: 

Such was the effect of the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC. It is this battle which this summer, with 

the generous help of our award, Annis Easton, Wilfred Sandwell, and I traced over two weeks 

across Greece. Our goal was to follow the route the Persians took to reach Athens, noting along 

the way sites of relevance to our studies of the early Greek world from Herodotus’ Histories. Our 

route was as follows: Rhodes, Samos, Mykonos, Delos, Tinos, Naxos, Athens, Carystos, Eretria, 

and finally Marathon. 

To select favourite moments from the expedition is no easy task. Yet I have narrowed my 

highlights to these select experiences. Witnessing Delos, an island with 30 inhabitants all of 

whom work on the island which itself is one archaeological site, recaptured a moment from my 

childhood, when in 2009 I stood before the very same terrace of lions which we saw in 2019. It 

was on Mykonos too, that we were in for a surprise, as we discovered a pithos with one of the 

earliest depictions we have of the Trojan War, with figures appearing in detail in a wooden horse 

(pictured). Secondly, the drive Wilf and I took around Naxos, seeing four sites in one day 




determined to make this mistake work, and at no extra cost we managed to visit the island and 

incorporate it into our itinerary. 

The generosity of our College’s Old Members has made such a trip possible and words cannot 

aptly express how grateful we are for being given the opportunity to study and experience one of 

our greatest passions for two weeks. 

Wilfred Sandwell – travelling around the Aegean to trace the ancient route of Persian 



The aim of our trip was to trace the route of the Persian generals, Datis and Artaphernes, to the 

momentous battle of Marathon, subjecting most Greek islands on the way. Annis, Henry, and I 

wished to contextualise our studies by travelling through, observing the landscape, and visiting 

the monuments of a land touched by so much history, not just in the period of the Persian 

expeditions, but through hundreds of years of Greek and Roman culture, much of which we had 

studied over our three years. 

Sunset on Naxos 

which included three colossal kouroi (male figures), an ancient temple, and a deserted Hellenistic 

watchtower. With the help of the grant we were able to have the freedom to drive on the winding 

mountainous paths of the island through cloud and sunshine, ending the day with a spectacular 

view of the sunset. In Athens, we had the pleasure of visiting the Numismatic Museum with one 

of the greatest and most beautiful coin collections I have ever seen, contained in one building. 

Why we cannot make the coins of today so beautiful is a question I am still asking myself now 

(see photograph). Towards the end of the trip, we discovered a wonderfully mysterious site, the 

Cave of Pan, secluded amidst the greenery of a hillside. The cave contained Neolithic finds since 

excavated. And with the caverns all to ourselves, we delved deeper and deeper into the dark, so 

far that I expected to find the god himself. Though this did not happen, we hope Pan appreciates 

the offerings we left behind of shells and berries. The Tunnel of Eupalinus in Samos, a sixth 

century BC tunnel built through a mountain, was a fantastic experienced we all shared. Only a 

year before we had discussed this engineering wonder in tutorials at Trinity College. 

To experience Greece in this fashion has been incredibly beneficial to our studies and 

appreciation of the ancient world. It is difficult to express the feeling one has when, after studying 

and reading about an ancient site from the seclusion of a library, you then see it with your very 

own eyes. It encapsulates why we study this subject and reminds one that the Ancient Greek 

world is not just to be read about from the literature and scholarship, but to be experienced 

through its material culture in a country so proud of its heritage. The expedition was a series of 

feeling this again and again. Finally, in terms of world experience, we learnt not only the valuable 

skills of planning, organisation, and communication, but also how to be flexible and adjust one’s 

plans. Tinos was not an intended destination, but after getting on the wrong ferry, we were 

Starting in Rhodes immediately proved our expectations would be met as we saw the site of 

the famous Colossus of Rhodes, one of the seven ancient wonders, whose feet, now marked 

by two dolphin statues, spanned the entrance to the port. Seeing this gave a whole new level 

of appreciation for a bronze statue the size of the Statue of Liberty, built 2,300 years ago. We 

then travelled from Rhodes town to Lindos, the ancient capital of the island. Remaining firm 

in our moralistic rejection of taking a donkey, we trekked through the heat to the picturesque 

Acropolis, still well-preserved and offering stunning views of the local coastline. I felt there an easy 

understanding of their choice of location – here was where I’d choose to be if I were a god. 

We continued to Samos, a vital site in the Archaic period which ended with the Persian invasions, 

and once again its scale impressed and surprised. Samos also fascinated us for its wealth of not 

just local but foreign artefacts. In the Samos Archaeological Museum, two lions, one confirming 

Sparta as an artistic nation and one of trade with Egypt, provided a fantastic comparison among 

copious Mesopotamian-inspired griffin cauldron handles and a Hittite horse chest-plate. 

After Samos we travelled to Mykonos in order to see Delos, the birthplace of Apollo and 

made fixed in its location by one of his arrows. The site was visited by many Greek and 

more international travellers for several centuries. Hence it was a place to show off and the 

archaeological remains were incredible and vast, a highlight for all us being the row of Naxian 

lions, reflecting the island’s power in the Archaic period. More surprising was that Mykonos itself 

would provide my personal highlight of the trip: in a museum cleverly cohabited by ancient and 

modern Greek art was the ‘Mykonos pythos’, and on it the earliest known depiction of the Trojan 

War. 

After a small delay by getting on the wrong ferry and hence a detour to the island of Tinos, 

famous for its Church and the practice of climbing to it from the port on your knees, we arrived in 

Naxos. The island was littered with ancient sites, my favourite being a 16m long kouros (a kouros 

is an ancient Greek statue of a young man, standing and often naked). It would have been 




much like the one in Samos, but revealingly had been left in the rock. It shows how statues were 

carved out of the rock, then removed and transported, a process which had at some point been 

abandoned in this case. One felt Naxos was an example of Greece having too great a wealth of 

history and not enough money to properly cherish it. 

We then continued to the mainland section of the visit. First was Athens, a place too full of 

ancient locations for us to ever to do it justice. It was my first visit since joining Oxford, and sitting 

in the old theatre, the birth-place of all drama and where I realised so many of the heroes of my 

subject had sat, I felt a wholly different and humbling appreciation for the site to that which I had 

felt as a young sixth-former. The Acropolis itself was still beautiful, especially the Erectheion’s 

Caryatids, which are columns formed from statues of six women. At the same time, one could 

not escape some guilt that, as with so much in the Acropolis museum, one was either missing or 

in plaster-cast form marked with ‘(BM)’, denoting its current location in the British Museum. 

Our limited time allowed two speedy stops at the Numismatic Museum and the Cycladic art 

exhibit. The first had an overwhelming selection of coins which I loved examining the iconography 

of – why do we choose to depict a monarch today, when Aegina choose a turtle, Athens an owl, 

and Acragas a crab and eagle? The Cycladic art museum was breath-taking, with there being a 

new resurgence due to the period’s resonance in modern art. Many of the exhibits would feel at 

home in a Modern art exhibit and indeed the guest exhibition was the influence of Cycladic art, 

some 5,000 years old, on Picasso. 

lives has allowed me to understand their fears, their sense of identity, their art, their domestic 

lives, their celebrations, their pride, and their sense of their own culture and history. It is a land so 

saturated with memory that I feel privileged to have seen it and yet still hope to return to in order 

to dig deeper, also with the hope that more may be seen as more is uncovered, more presented 

to its deserved glory, and more can be returned to its home, where its absence in Greece’s fabric 

is so felt. 

Hannah Brock - travelling to Palestine to attend a Human Rights internship with Go 

Palestine 

This summer I spent three days in Jordan, five weeks in the West Bank, and two weeks in Israel. 

The experience was to satisfy my own curiosity about the region which I had first developed 

when I was 13, having met a group of Palestinian musicians who inspired me with their stories. 

The five weeks I spent in the West Bank began with one week in Hebron where I stayed with a 

host family and participated in a Human Rights course with the Go Palestine organisation. The 

course and the city itself were a thorough introduction to the structurally unjust system existent in 

the West Bank. A system carried out by the Israeli military occupation which denies Palestinians 

the same basic rights of access to water, roads, healthcare, and education - to name a few - 

which are provided to both citizens of Israel as well as citizens of illegal Israeli settlements in the 

West Bank. 


We then drove to the site of Marathon, where the Persian expedition ended with a defeat, 

although importantly, and often forgotten, still successful in its aim, having conquered most of 

the Aegean. The Greek pride was still evident in the large trophy, thought to have held a statue 

of Nike on top and the large public tomb mound. Here I was reminded of a story in Herodotus, 

where Croesus, rich enough to warrant a figure of speech even now, asks the wise man Solon 

who is the most fortunate man in the world. Solon answers ‘Telon’, a man with good sons, 

adequate means, and who died furthering his city by single-handedly turning a battle in their 

favour, earning him the honour of a state burial on the battle-site itself. Such was the honour this 

tomb would have held in ancient times. 

Finally, we travelled to Eretria, the final conquest of the Persians. Here what was perhaps most 

remarkable was what wasn’t there. There was a brilliantly preserved fifth and fourth century city, 

in which one could walk through houses and truly experience what a Hellenistic town might 

have felt like. What was lacking were any remains in the town of Archaic Eretria, having been 

utterly demolished, all the male citizens were killed, while women and children were deported to 

Arderikka in Susiana, Persia. It was a stark reminder of the realities of ancient warfare and what 

those at Marathon were fighting for. 

The month following my week in Hebron, I moved to live in Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, 

which according to UN reports is the most tear-gassed place in the world. There, I volunteered 

at a nearby conflict-resolution centre called Wi’am which was involved in work such as female 

economic empowerment workshops, conflict resolution within communities, as well as work 

with tourists. My role at the centre focused on helping with the women’s workshops, editing 

grant proposals, and hosting daily international visitors by giving them an introductory talk on the 

Israeli-Palestinian conflict and then hosting discussions afterwards. 

While I was there, I came up with the idea of setting up a listening service for Bethlehem 

University, closely modelled on Oxford’s own Nightline organisation. Initially, the university was 

uninterested in supporting us but after a survey we conducted caught their attention, they have 

now begun to show serious interest in backing the project. We are on track to begin training for 

the volunteers in January and hope to have the line set up by the end of this academic year or 

the beginning of the next. This was probably the most valuable experience of the trip as it was a 

project which had a profound sense of purpose. Working with Palestinian students and shaping 

a listening service around their needs culturally and as a community allowed me to get a much 

deeper understanding of the local situation and its effects on the community. 

For me it was the perfect end to the trip, a location that on the one hand dazzled with what 

remained and yet equally posed a potent reminder of the cost and danger the ancient world, 

despite the beauty and wisdom that still marvels, still posed. It was a trip I think none of us will 

forget that achieved everything we hoped for in fleshing out our understanding of what we have 

studied. Moreover though, I feel it gave me a deeper and more general understanding of that 

different time and the people within it. Seeing the land where they lived and what remains of their 

Having spent five weeks in Palestine, I was curious to also get a grasp of the Israeli perspective 

and so I moved to Haifa and volunteered at Sindyanna for two weeks. Sindyanna is a femaleled 

non-profit organisation which hires mostly Arab women to work alongside Jewish men and 

women producing fair-trade, organic olive oil, soap, and various other products sold by Amnesty 

and other organisations. There, I served as their social media officer and wrote an article for their 

website about the history of one of their organic groves. 




The two months I spent in the West Bank and Israel were of immense benefit to my growth as a 

person. It constantly provoked me to contemplate my own civic duty, the international community, 

as well as human nature itself. Being placed in an extreme environment also taught me on a 

personal level how to deal with distressing situations whilst getting on with the work in front of 

me. I am very grateful to have received support from The Queen’s College 650th Anniversary 

Trust Fund. 

Henry Gray – training for rowing in the Oxford University Heavyweight Boat Race 

In the 2018/19 academic year I came back to Oxford in September to trial for the Oxford 

University Boat Club, specifically the men’s “heavyweight” crew. I had rowed before university 

at a small provincial club and in my first year at Queen’s I rowed for QCBC. I was quite good on 

the physical tests but we never had the high quality of technical coaching necessary to compete 

in an elite program like OUBC. After a year of QCBC I realised that I needed to challenge myself 

further, so I decided I would trial for the OUBC. Realistically I expected to be well off the mark but 

thought it would provide motivation for a more serious attempt the following year. 

Quite surprisingly I made the cut for the squad. This involved a lot of physical performance 

testing, inducing bouts of vomiting and plenty of blood samples being taken. My life was 

completely transformed. I would get up at 6:04 am every day, measure my resting heart rate, 

eat a small first breakfast, and cycle from Cardo to Iffley gym to do 60-90 mins of exercise on 

the rowing machines. Around 7:50 am, after stretching and cooling down, I would cycle back 

to Cardo, shower, pick up my bag prepared the night before, and head to College for my main 

breakfast (a double full English: two of everything the hall serves in the morning). I would eat 

this as quickly as possible to make my 9 am Chemistry lecture. Once lectures were done at 11 

am I sprinted back to College to get an hour of work done. I would stop and pack up so as to 

be first in the queue for lunch. Lunch opens at 12:30 pm and the minibus leaves for Wallingford 

for afternoon rowing at 1 pm. This gives 30 minutes to eat almost 2,000 calories for lunch and 

cycle back to the Iffley sports centre. This made for a nerve-wracking lunchbreak each day. Next 

was the 40-minute drive to Wallingford for the afternoon row - this is often your only real social 

interaction of the day so I have many fond memories of good chats here. On other days knowing 

you are being driven to a session that will affect your final selection makes it a very long and quiet 

journey. The afternoon row is normally 1.5 hours on the water and once boats are put away and 

you’re showered and the rush hour traffic back into Oxford is negotiated you can hope to be 

back at Iffley for 5 pm. I would normally have to put my tutorials between 5 and 7 pm as there 

wasn’t really another space in the day. I would get off the bus and sprint across the city by bike 

to a tutorial and sit there trying to get some learning in amidst another 1,000 calories in the form 

of a post-session snack. Finally, once this was done there would be some free time. I would 

cook dinner and try to enjoy the cooking time without getting too agitated. I would typically eat 

in my room and work there until 10 pm when I would go to bed before repeating an identical day 

tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that etc etc… Monday was a day off training so 

meant a good 11 am – 10 pm in the library to ensure I could keep on top of the workload. The 

weekends often involved hideously early mornings so that we could travel to Caversham (the GB 

rowing centre) and race against one another for places in the boats. 

I rowed for the squad for the first four months of the seven-month campaign until I was told I 

was not picked for the winter training camp in France, missing by one space which came down 

to fine margins. I was asked to continue training over the single week of winter break that the 

athletes are given and to re-join the squad and continue to compete for a seat in the Boat Races. 

However, given I was already ahead of some of the others on the physical side but was failing on 

the technical side, and I would not be going on the training camp, this margin would only widen. 

I felt that I would not have a realistic prospect of making a seat and couldn’t justify the time 

investment during the busiest academic term of my degree. 

Therefore, I stepped down to be a reserve for the squad. I watched the races from Hammersmith 

Bridge and had mixed feelings watching the men lose both races. 

Simple highlights are days where I trained in the blue boat (the same physical boat that raced the 

boat race) sat in front of Felix Drinkall, GB u23 world champion - this is undoubtedly the highestlevel 

rowing I’ve ever done. I was in great shape with a resting HR below 50 and was producing 

the fastest times I’ve ever managed on the erg. The sense of satisfaction of balancing one of 

the most challenging undergraduate degrees amicably alongside almost 40 hours of rowing a 

week gave a constant feeling of raw efficiency that was quite addictive and hard to describe - it’s 

something that isn’t really accessible unless you are under those kinds of pressures. 

I cannot really put into words how I have benefited from this experience. It’s always been a dream 

to potentially row for Oxford and throughout this season I got to experience the challenges 

of being a full-time student and full-time athlete, which has completely changed my outlook 

on sport and health. Being a member of the squad has shown me there’s more to achieve in 

life than just attending university and then getting a desk job; people have the potential to do 

exceptional things if they are willing to put in the time and make the sacrifices. 

The benefit to others is probably most visible in the engagement with rowing at Queen’s. There is 

typically a very large divide between college rowing and the university squads and for a college 

which is not renowned for rowing (like Queen’s) it is very tough to bridge this divide. Having a 

college member compete in the squad brings back a lot of insight into the College team and a 

lot of new competition which hopefully inspires and encourages everyone to keep improving at 

the sport. The Boat Club had a very successful year and many members rowed because of the 

improved quality of the crew whereas they might not have otherwise since we often lack a critical 

mass. Many people have been encouraged to trial in the 2019/20 academic year as a result. 

Louise James - representing the University in the Women’s Blues Volleyball team 

The 650th Anniversary Trust Fund subsidised the costs involved in playing as part of the Women’s 

Blues Volleyball team, including subscription membership and accommodation for tournaments. 

The volleyball team has travelled to various locations – such as Essex, Bournemouth, and Bristol – 

for BUCS league games, and stayed overnight in Norwich for the Volleyball England Student Cup 

tournament where we placed 6th in the country. We also won against Cambridge University at 

the Varsity match. Beyond playing volleyball, I have thoroughly enjoyed being a member of this 

team in having team-bonding sessions and meeting people outside of College whom I wouldn’t 

have met otherwise, including those from different years and courses. 




Not only are important skills gained from participating in team sports such as volleyball, including 

team work and communication, sport is also important for physical and mental wellbeing. This 

is particularly relevant with the large workload that comes with studying at university; the time 

spent training and competing gave a necessary break from studying. Highlights from the season 

include the Home Varsity match, with chanting, banners, and supporters, as well as the Student 

Cup tournament where the Men’s Blues team was also competing. My parents also came to 

Oxford and watched the Varsity match, and thoroughly enjoyed the atmosphere. In general, the 

main highlight is having the opportunity to represent the university through competitive sport and 

promoting the University through its sporting achievements. 

Josiah McNeil - researching and filming a wrestling documentary 

With thanks to the generosity of the 650th Anniversary Fund, I was able to attend The World 

Association of Professional Wrestling’s Lion Heart Memorial Show in Attleborough on 29 June 

2019. Despite being a long-time fan and follower of professional wrestling, this was the first time 

I was able to afford to visit the harder-to-reach locations of the independent British wrestling 

scene. I originally planned to attend to record some footage for a documentary on the lives of 

independent British wrestlers and their process of early career character development with direct 

comparison to the highly televised production of WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment). Despite 

recording some footage with the assistance of my camerawomen, since applying for the funding 

my work has evolved into a writing project. The experience of visiting a memorial-based wrestling 

show has been an invaluable insight into collective mourning and the performance of masculinity 

which will aid greatly my studies in Fine Art as I continue to write a book that addresses the 

exhaustion and fatigue of grassroots spaces, centred around a delusional hallucination involving 

an Oscars In Memoriam sequence for a wrestler-aspiring-actor, some of which will likely feature 

in the College’s annual art exhibition this year and / or The Ruskin School of Arts’ Degree Show 

2020 - stay tuned! Particularly memorable parts of the trip were being able to meet wrestling 

veteran Ricky Knight, who I had been in contact with before, and being able to conduct a 

brief interview about his company, its ties to local community halls and grassroots spaces, his 

reflections on the performance of masculinity across wrestling, and the ritualistic role of memorial 

services within wrestling arenas. 

Jamie Murphy – putting on a play at the Michael Pilch Studio 

The generous grant that we received allowed us to put on a production of Duncan Macmillan’s 

Every Brilliant Thing at the Michael Pilch Studio Theatre in Trinity Term. Almost all of the members 

of the team were Queen’s students - Director: Jamie Murphy, Producer: Jack Franco, Lighting 

and Sound Designer: Violet Mermelstein, Marketing Manager: Immy Wilkinson, Production 

Manager: Jem Greenhalgh. Together, along with our sole actor Harry (Balliol) and Marketing 

Assistant Laura (St Anne’s), we were able to do justice to Macmillan’s devastating, hilarious, and 

beautiful play. Cherwell called the production ‘outstanding’, writing that it struck ‘a staggering 

balance between serious and joyful’. It’s truly a wonderful play and being able to work on it with 

such a talented team was a privilege. I can only speak for myself in saying that the project was 

one of the most enjoyable that I have ever undertaken. The small size of the team (seven, 

including our one actor!) meant that we bonded as friends in a way that is relatively rare for such 

projects. I am very grateful that we have continued to work together since, with five members of 

the team taking up senior positions in our much larger production team for Brecht’s The Life of 

Galileo in Michaelmas Term 2019. In short, I gained close friends, as well as collaborators, from 

the project. The production was not only artistically and socially satisfying, but also enabled us to 

pursue issues that we believe in. Given the themes of the show (which include suicide, trauma, 

and depression), we felt it was vitally important to do more than just pay lip-service to those 

issues. We therefore donated £350 of the show’s profits to Oxfordshire Mind, and worked with 

the organisation to host an event before Friday night’s show, which over 50 people attended. 

Without the grant, we might well not have had the financial freedom to make that donation. 

Audiences were overwhelmingly positive about the production and the process of putting the 

show on was a joy. 

Eleanor Whiteside – making a music video and single for 

the Oxford Belles (acapella) group 

With this grant, I was able to aid in the funding towards the 

Oxford Belles’ latest music video and single, That’s My Girl!. It 

was a truly fantastic experience to be involved with, not only 

by personally observing the process of planning, making, 

directing and producing a high-quality music video, but also by 

performing such a positive piece, arranged and choreographed 

by our very own musical director. Our premise for the video 

was to extol our thanks to those women throughout our 

lives who have inspired us, ranging from mothers and sisters to activists, celebrities, and the 

wonderful Michelle Obama. I chose to feature my English teacher from when I was 12, to thank 

her for validating my voice as much as those of my male peers. Her advocacy for me has 

impacted how I treat others throughout my life. Therefore, the video was a wonderful opportunity 

to express my gratitude, through a quote I constructed to reflect her influence on me: ‘By 

validating the voices of young girls, we validate the voices of the future.’ In the video we chose to 

feature beautiful areas of Oxford, as well as other female students. Not only do I feel that I have 

personally benefitted from this video through the experience and enjoyment of taking part, but 




we have truly expressed a strong empowering message to others who have viewed and received 

the video incredibly well. We are currently at nearly 20,000 views on Facebook, and 4500 views 

on YouTube, and the numbers are still rising! 

Here are the links to our Spotify single, and our YouTube video: 

https://open.spotify.com/track/38bMTQEwR7fQI6mNDAGg7p https://youtu.be/MoWhsDcJY_c. 

The whole process has been so rewarding for all involved; I am very proud of our project, and feel 

it reflects well upon the ethos of Queen’s, especially when it has aligned with the 40th anniversary 

of women studying at the College. 

Elizabeth Whitney – setting up a podcast series interviewing DPhil students about their 

specialist subjects 

I was delighted to be awarded £130 from the 650th Anniversary Trust Fund to put towards 

setting up a podcast with a fellow broadcasting enthusiast and Pembroke student, Mack Willett. 

With the money from the Fund, we were able to buy a microphone to record interviews and put 

the remaining budget towards hosting the podcast online for listeners. We would not have been 

able to do our project without this funding, so we are incredibly grateful for the generous support 

we received. Our podcast is called Tell Me What You Know and we have been interviewing DPhil 

students in Oxford about the areas in which they specialise. It started out as a chance for us to 

ask our burning questions about particular fields, but once we started interviewing, we realised 

it was also a brilliant way for the undergraduate and graduate communities to connect. There 

is so much incredible, world-changing research going on in Oxford of which many students – 

ourselves included – are completely unaware. Hopefully, Tell Me What You Know will help raise 

awareness of some of this work among the undergraduate body. 

Creating the podcast has been a thoroughly rewarding experience on two levels. It has been 

fascinating to learn more about the topics we’ve discussed so far. We have had conversations 

about the concept of privacy and how it can be defended, why more students should be 

studying medieval history, and the intricacies of conducting psychological experiments, with 

many more interesting episodes lined up. Secondly, as someone who’s interested in pursuing a 

career in broadcasting, the process of organising and preparing for interviews, and editing and 

producing each episode has been a very useful insight. 

We have also had wonderful feedback from our DPhil interviewees who have all said that having 

to talk about their ideas and communicate them in an accessible way for an audience with little 

prior knowledge of the subject was an important experience, and good practice for upcoming 

vivas. Some interviewees spoke more generally about their experience as graduate students 

and the process of doing a DPhil, which we think will be a particularly valuable insight for 

undergraduates who are considering further study. 

You can listen to Tell Me What You Know here: 

iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tell-me-what-you-know/id1481261818 

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/31DGojUqoYXUB15UhT05oI?si=fa2rwt1ISCa1YRjMBOBs0g 



APPOINTMENTS AND AWARDS 

1953 

Victor Hoffbrand 

Received Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Society for 

Haematology; received an Honorary DSc from University College, London. 

1972 

Keith Raffel 

Appointed Lecturer at Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; appointed Resident 

Scholar at Mather House (both at Harvard University). 

1973 

Martin Riley 

Elected Master of the Worshipful Company of Distillers. 


1963 

Tariq Hyder 

In January 2019 he was appointed as a security expert in the Islamic University’s Centre for 

Peace, Reconciliation and Reconstruction Studies’ government programme towards religious 

harmony and countering extremism in schools, madrassas, universities and in civic society in 

general. 

1974 

Dominic Byrne 

Appointed parish priest at St Theodore of Canterbury RC Church, Hampton-upon-Thames. 

1974 

1965 

Ian Barker 

Appointed Governor at Central Lancaster High School. 

Grant Gibbons 

Awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list for services to Bermuda. 

1975 

Andy Connell 

Elected as Chairman of Eden District Council. 

Tony Cass 

Appointed Professor of Chemistry and Director of The Agilent Measurement Suite, Imperial 

College. 

1968 

Julian Jacobson 

Appointed Guest Professor at Xiamen University, China and Professor at Royal Birmingham 

Conservatoire. 

1976 

George Newhouse 

Appointed Professor of the Practice of Political Science, Department of Political Science, 

University of Southern California. 

1970 

John Michaelson 

Correction to College Record 2018 entry: appointed Hon Group Captain, 601 RAuxAF; 

appointed MStJ Order of St John of Jerusalem; appointed Trustee, Royal Air Force Central Fund. 

1977 

Ivor Timmis 

Appointed Professor at Leeds Beckett University. 

1972 

1978 

Tony Hunter 

Tony is now in his sixth year as Chief Executive of the Social Care Institute for Excellence, a 

leading social care improvement agency helping the planning and delivery of better care and 

support arrangements through innovative work across sectors and at national, regional, and local 

levels. 

Rupert Earl 

Appointed Chair of the Spinal Injuries Association. 

1979 

David Hamill 

Appointed Chair of the Board of Act for Kids; appointed Chair of the Board of the Queensland 

Bulk Water Supply Authority. 



1980 


Gareth Denyer 

Appointed Professor of Biochemical Education, University of Sydney. 

1990 

Keith Hatton 

is a Principal Software Engineer at Elsevier. 

1995 

Chia-Mien Tan 

Appointed Assistant Secretary-General, Singapore Baseball and Softball Association. 

1996 

Dominic Crossley 

Since May 2018, has been practicing as a barrister from Enterprise Chambers in Leeds. 

2001 

Angela Chung 

Appointed a member of the Royal Society of Medicine; appointed as course organiser for Royal 

Society of Medicine Annual GP Update. 

2002 

Sanjib Bhakta 

Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Biochemistry and Assistant Dean (Internationalisation 

and Partnership), Birkbeck, University of London, Honorary Faculty Member of UCL Institute 

of Child Health and UCL School of Pharmacy Cipla Distinguished Fellow in Pharmaceutical 

Sciences. 

2002 

Dan Inman 

Appointed as the next Residentiary Canon Chancellor at Chichester Cathedral. 

2003 

Jane Green 

Appointed as Professor of Political Science and British Politics, Professional Fellow, and Director 

of the Gwilym Gibbon Centre for Public Policy, Nuffield College. 


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Boddington, Christopher (1960) 

Iris Murdoch’s People A to Z (Anchovy Hill Press, 2018) 

Drysdall, Denis (1955) 

Andrea Alciato: the Law and the Emblems, Emblematica, Essays in Word and Image 2 (2019), 

1-25 

Coghlan, Nick (1973) 

Collapse of a Country: A Diplomat’s Memoir of South Sudan 

(McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017) 

Connell, Andy (1965) 

There’ll Always Be Appleby - Appleby Gypsy Horse Fair: History, Mythology, Evaluation 

(Cumberland & Westmorland A & AS Extra Series XLIV, 2019); 

Edward Short, MP (1912-2012): from Westmorland Village to Westminster Village, Transactions 

of the Cumberland & Westmorland A & AS, 3.19 (2019), pp. 251-268 

Connell, Tim (1968) 

Canning House (the Luso-Hispanic Brazilian Council): The History (2018) 

O’Brien, Conor (2010) 

Empire, Ethnic Election, and Exegesis in the Opus Caroli (Libri Carolini), Studies in Church History 

54 (Cambridge, 2018), 96-108. 

Oldland, John (1961) 

The English Woollen Industry, c.1200-c.1560 (Routledge, 2019) 

Reuben, Anthony (1992) 

Statistical: Ten Easy Ways To Avoid Being Misled By Numbers (Constable, 2019) 

Singer, Alan (1972) 

Understanding Left and Right: An Illustrated Guide to the Political Divide (Nova Science Pub Inc, 

2018) 

Tompkins, Matt (2011) 

The Spectacle of Illusion: Magic, The Paranormal & the Complicity of the Mind (Thames & 

Hudson Ltd, 2019) 

Vaiou, Maria (1994) Diplomacy in the Early Islamic World: A Tenth-Century Treatise on 

Arab-Byzantine Relations (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2nd edition, 2018) 

Zamoyski, Adam (1967) 

Napoleon, The Man Behind the Myth (Collins, 2018) 


Frankland, Bill (1930) 

From Hell Island to Hay Fever - The Life of Dr Bill Frankland by Paul Watkins (Brown Dog Books, 

2018) 

George, Richard (1987) 

Eponymous (I.M. Peter Reading), HQ: The Haiku Quarterly 45, (2015); Berryman and Alvarez: two 

beards, Orbis Quarterly International 178, (2017); Classics and the counterculture, Fortean Times 

356.55, (2017) 

Grinyer, Claire (1983) 

She’s Mine (Aria/Head of Zeus, 2019) 

Hodgkinson, Anna (2003) 

Technology and Urbanism in Late Bronze Age Egypt (Oxford Studies in Egyptian Archeology 1, 

Oxford University Press, 2017) 



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Helping stroke survivors on their road to recovery 

Dr Paolo Tammaro, Fellow in Pharmacology 

Researching how blood vessels work and what goes wrong 

in disease: towards the development of new medicines for 

cardiovascular diseases 

Stroke and microvascular damage 

Much of our current work (funded by the British Heart Foundation) concerns stroke. A stroke 

is a medical emergency that happens when a blood clot blocks a blood vessel in the brain. 

This means that the brain no longer receives enough oxygen and nutrients to provide it with 

energy, and therefore gets damaged. Doctors can remove the clot, either with an enzyme or 

mechanically. However, even after the clot has been removed, the blood may not flow into the 

capillaries again (this is termed the ‘no-reflow’ problem). In this case, the tissue continues to 

suffer from a lack of energy and nerve cells are damaged. This is a major clinical problem, as it 

can dramatically affect the patient’s recovery from stroke. 

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My team studies the mechanisms that control the diameter 

of small arteries (and capillaries). In the body, the diameter of 

small blood vessels is tightly controlled to direct blood to and 

within the tissues and organs, to provide oxygen and nutrients. 

A thin layer of muscle cells that line the wall of blood vessels 

enables control of vessel diameter. The lab aims to uncover the 

complex physiological mechanisms that enable constriction 

and dilation of blood vessels and to identify what goes wrong 

in cardiovascular disease, which represents the predominant 

cause of morbidity and mortality in the adult population. We are 

especially interested in proteins known as ‘ion channels’, which 

are found in the muscle cells that line blood vessels and can 

constitute important therapeutic targets in the development of 

new treatments. 

Dr Paolo Tammaro 

and team 

What is an ion channel? 

Virtually all vital functions like the beating of the heart, the 

activity in the brain, the function of blood vessels, and muscle 

contractions are triggered by tiny electrical currents that occur 

through the surface (membrane) of each cell. Responsible for 

these currents are ion channels, proteins that form microscopic 

gated pores that selectively allow charged ions to move in and 

out of the cell; the electrical impulses they generate initiate 

the vast array of events indispensable for life, such as those 

mentioned above. 

A class of ion channels that are found in blood vessels are 

those that allow chloride ions to move across the membrane. 

When the channel is open, chloride “currents” are activated 

and the blood vessel contracts; when the channel is closed, 

the current is suppressed and the blood vessel is relaxed. In 

this way, the blood can be directed to various parts of the body 

depending on the need. 

Thus, it is important that we understand why the ‘no-reflow’ happens and how it could be 

prevented. We know that small contractile cells called pericytes constrict capillaries and cause 

no-reflow, but why they contract so persistently during stroke is not fully understood. We have 

now identified an ion (chloride) channel in pericytes that is especially important for controlling the 

contraction of these cells. We are striving to learn in detail how this ion channel controls capillary 

diameter in stroke and we wish to develop new ion channel-interacting drugs, which could 

keep capillaries open following stroke. To achieve these aims, the lab takes a multidisciplinary 

approach involving studies at the level of molecules, cells, tissues, and the whole organism, using 

a combination of experimental and theoretical methodologies. 

Generating novel systems for testing new drugs 

We not only investigate the channels that are normally found in blood vessels, but we have 

also engineered blood vessels that harbour channels normally found in other organisms. For 

example, we have been able to utilise a channel typical of unicellular green algae, where they 

control movement in response to light; we have inserted the gene for this channel into blood 



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vessels. This approach (known as optogenetics) has allowed 

us to control blood vessel diameter by exposure to blue light. 

This strategy constitutes an important new experimental tool 

because we can trigger blood vessel contraction with light 

(in this way reproducing a disease condition) and then test 

new medicines that could help relieve this simulated disease 

state. This work was recognised as the “Scientific innovation” 

paper of 2019 by the British Journal of Pharmacology. We also 

anticipate that microbial channels that cause vessel relaxation 

might in the future be used as therapeutic agents per se. 

work first appeared in book form. In the last third of the nineteenth century Russian literature 

began to be read and discussed even more intensively. This was due to three factors. First, there 

was a steep rise in the number of translations published; second, the first popular surveys of 

Russian literary history were published, including Morfill’s Slavonic Literature (1883). The third 

and probably the most important factor was the arrival of Russian émigrés who were effective 

translators, interpreters, and promoters of their literature. The most influential were associated 

with the populist revolutionaries, the Chaikovsky Circle, who used literature, particularly recent 

prose fiction, as a major weapon in their propaganda armoury. In lectures, essays, books, and 

their English-language periodical, Free Russia, they interpreted Russian literature for their British 

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There is no doubt that there are many exciting avenues for 

vascular research and the development of novel therapeutic 

interventions are on the horizon. 

‘The proper stuff of fiction’: British Modernism and the 

Translation of Russian Culture Dr Rebecca Beasley, Fellow 

in English 

When William Morfill, Oxford’s Professor of Russian and the 

Other Slavonic Languages, died on 11 November 1909, he left 

his approximately 4500-volume library to Queen’s, where he 

was a member of the Common Room. The Morfill Collection 

became the basis of the Taylorian’s Slavonic library. It also bore 

testimony to the birth of Slavonic studies, not only in Oxford 

but in Britain: the Readership in Russian and Other Slavonic 

Languages, to which Morfill had been appointed in 1889, was 

the first permanent university post in a Slavonic subject. 

My main research project over the last few years has been 

a study of the impact of Russian culture on British literature 

in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, focusing 

in particular on the translation and dissemination of Russian 

literature. I’ve been especially interested in the way translators 

and critics constructed a variety of images of Russia, and 

the way these imaginative constructions were deployed to 

further cultural and political agendas. When the Crimean 

War broke out in 1853, a few months after Morfill began 

his undergraduate studies at Oriel, it generated a national 

fascination with Russia, Britain’s new enemy. Though Russian 

literature had been translated sporadically since 1793, it was 

not until the mid-nineteenth century that a British canon of 

Russian literature began to take form. It was during these 

years that Mikhail Lermontov and Ivan Turgenev were both 

translated into English for the first time, and Nikolay Gogol’s 

Free Russia, 1.2 (September 1890), pp. 

1-2. Shelfmark Per. 244155 d.13, The 

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. 

J. W. Mackail, Russia’s Gift to the 

World (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 

1915), cover. Shelfmark ll.e.599/8, The 

Queen’s College Library. 

‘Lectures on Russia by Felix 

Volkhovsky’ (advertisement), 

London School of Economics 

Archives. 

readers as a series of commentaries on the tsarist oppression of the Russian people. They were 

highly successful, partly because they collaborated with British intellectuals who had close ties to 

the establishment and government - Constance Garnett, the most prolific translator of Russian 

literature in the period, was taught Russian by these revolutionary émigrés, and they wrote 

introductions to her first translations. But, once translated, Russian literature became available 

for use by British propagandists too: during the First World War the War Propaganda Bureau 

worked to dismantle the populist émigrés’ campaign against the Tsar, deploying the writings of 

Dostoevsky and his symbolist followers to shore up support for Britain’s military alliance with the 

Russian State. 

These vicissitudes were reflected in the role Russia played in British literary politics too. The 

current, dominant account of early twentieth-century British literature - that is, the movement 

we call modernism - privileges a Francophile genealogy, whereby modernist poetry derives 

from French symbolism, and the modernist novel traces its ancestry through Henry James to 

nineteenth-century French realism, particularly the novels of Gustave Flaubert. But the turn-ofthe 

century debate about the future of writing in Britain was a triangular debate, a debate not 

only between French and English models, but between French, English and Russian models. 

The Francophile modernists associated Russian literature, especially the Tolstoyan novel, with 



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an uncritical immersion in ‘life’ at the expense of a mastery of 

style, and while individual works might be admired, Russian 

literature as a whole was represented as a dangerous model. 

The success of Francophile modernism elevated a particular 

canon of modernist writers - Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot, Ford 

Madox Ford, James Joyce - and marginalised some of the 

most important writers of the period. John Cournos, John 

Gould Fletcher, D. H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, Katherine 

Mansfield, John Middleton Murry, Dorothy Richardson, George 

Bernard Shaw, and Virginia Woolf all sought to establish a new, 

engaged literature, based in part on Russian examples. Not 

all of these writers have remained marginalised of course, but 

even those writers who have become most central to current 

literary studies, such as Woolf, might be said to be read and 

evaluated through Francophile modernism’s literary values - 

above all, the value of style. Russian literature taught these 

writers a different lesson. Apart from Cournos, these writers 

were all reading Russian literature in translation (via English, 

German and French), and they were critically aware that they 

did not have direct access to the author’s style: ‘we have 

judged a whole literature stripped of its style’, Woolf wrote. 

But that knowledge proved to be liberating: released from 

focusing on style, on fine writing, these writers reconceived 

what literature was. What Russian literature taught, to quote 

Woolf again, was that ‘“The proper stuff of fiction” does not 

exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, 

every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; 

no perception comes amiss’. 

Russomania: Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism, 

1881-1922 will be published by Oxford University Press in March. 

To Bodley and Back: The College’s Medieval Deeds 

Michael Riordan, College Archivist 

Being a medieval foundation, it is not surprising that the 

College Archives should have a few medieval documents. 

In fact it has rather more than that: there are about 2,500 

medieval deeds and a little over 500 medieval rolls. Only a 

few of these relate directly to the College itself, most instead 

derive from the estates that the College was bequeathed or 

purchased. This explains why many of the documents are 

older than the College itself, as they were acquired as part of 

the estates whose history they witness. A large part of them 

came to the College in 1347 when Edward III made the College 

the perpetual Warden of God’s House in Southampton, or when Edward IV granted Pamber 

Priory and its estates (also in Hampshire) to God’s House, and therefore indirectly to the College, 

in 1462. This collection, which today comprises 53 boxes stored on nine metres of shelving, 

requires considerable resources, not only to store it, but also to ensure that the deeds are 

carefully preserved for posterity, and that they can be safely be used by scholars and others. This 

was something that was clearly worrying the College a century ago. 

In 1928 the College formed a Muniment Committee to consider what should be done with the 

College Archive. The following year they took the advice of Noel Denholm-Young, an eminent 

medieval historian who was a research fellow at Magdalen, and who had recently calendared the 

medieval deeds at Christ Church. Denholm-Young advised that the Queen’s deeds should be 

calendared in the same way as those at Christ Church and from May 1929 he was employed – at 

a rate of £1 a day! – to prepare a calendar. By September he had worked through 1,700 of the 

deeds and hoped to finish early in 1930. 

By May 1930 the work was done and the University Typewriting Office was preparing several 

copies of the calendar. Denholm-Young now turned his mind to the more modern (i.e. post- 

1500) records. Over the next year he worked on a calendar of these, though one with briefer 

descriptions of the documents. He was assisted on this by Miss EM Snodgrass, who had taken a 

3rd in Modern History from Somerville in 1930. It is not clear how the work was divided between 

them except that Miss Snodgrass seems to have put in more hours than Denholm-Young. 

The entries in the post-1500 calendar were shorter than those in the medieval one because 

Denholm-Young was in no doubt that these were much less valuable than the medieval 

documents. He had two pieces of advice for the Bursar. He noted that ‘there appear to be a 

number of miscellaneous nineteenth century account books which might be discarded, but they 

hardly come within the province of an archivist.’ More radically, he suggested that ‘a big step 

towards cleaning up the muniment room could be made by destroying those expired leases & 

counterparts of leases of which copies exist in the lease books’. This had apparently recently 

been done by St. John’s on his advice. Queen’s, however, decided not to burn the leases as 

Denholm-Young suggested, but instead to offer them to a dealer in case, as the Bursar put 

it, ‘possibly some Americans or others might care to have them.’ He was right; the College sold 

them for £15 and they were acquired by an American who ultimately gave them to the University 

of Kansas. 

Denholm-Young was giving this, somewhat cavalier, advice because the College was worried 

about the storage of its records. At this time the older documents, including all the medieval 

records were in the Muniment Room (which was over the passageway between the Hall and 

Chapel), but there were also records stored in the Bursary, the Bell Tower and in the wine 

cellar. The College’s solution to this was to create a new Muniment Room in the basement of 

Front Quad 1 where all the post-1500 records would be moved, creating a single, unified store. 

This continued in use (albeit with a room in Drawda Hall being added in the 1970s when the 

Muniment Room became too full for new records) until 2017 when the Archive was moved to the 

New Library. 

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But the College’s plan, almost certainly on Denholm-Young’s advice, for the medieval material 

was more radical. In May 1930, just as Denholm-Young had finished the calendar for the 

medieval deeds, the College was in correspondence with HE Craster, Keeper of Western 

Manuscripts at the Bodleian, and on 2 June Bodley’s Librarian signed a memorandum of 

agreement by which the medieval deeds would be deposited in the Bodleian. This was not just in 

order to free up space in College, but was also done in the belief that the deeds would be much 

more accessible to scholars at the Bodleian than they would be in Queen’s. The agreement 

stated that ‘the documents shall be treated with the same care and on exactly the same footing 

as Bodleian documents, except that all applications to borrow them shall be referred to the 

College for decision.’ 

And, indeed, the deeds have proved of interest to a range of researchers. In his first report to the 

College in 1929, Denholm-Young saw two principal uses for the collection. First, he thought they 

would be of use to the local historian and though he found that ‘there is surprisingly little North 

country material of the fourteenth century or earlier’ (despite the College’s longstanding links to 

Cumberland and Westmoreland, it has never owned much property there), he observed that the 

‘Hampshire and Dorsetshire documents form a closely articulated series by which many of the 

dark places of county history, and especially the history of Southampton, might be considerably 

illumined.’ 

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Grant by Robert de Eglesfield of his estate of Renwick to the College, 1347. 

The College’s coat of arms is based on his personal seal. 

Top: Grant of Henry de Port, c.1120-30, founding Sherborne Priory. This is probably the oldest document in the Archive. 

Bottom: Grant by Queen Philippa of 20 marks to the College, 1347. 

In his correspondence with Craster, the Bursar had noted that ‘the deeds will be arranged and 

protected in the same way as the Christ Church deeds’ and that this would be done at a cost of 

£37 which the College would pay. This must refer to the series of envelopes and boxes in which 

the deeds were placed (and remain in today) which are identical to those housing the Christ 

Church deeds which were also deposited in Bodley. The majority of the deeds were placed in 

small envelopes which were part cardboard and part textile, while the larger deeds or those with 

large seals were placed in small cardboard boxes with cotton wool to protect the seals. They 

were all then placed in larger boxes 27x40cm and 14cm deep. This system made good sense 

physically, with the envelopes in one sequence and the small boxes in another, but because 

the deeds were numbered sequentially it was not always entirely clear in which sequence any 

particular deed might be, which caused some difficulty for Bodleian staff trying to find deeds for 

readers. 

He was certainly right. They have proved to be of great interest to local historians across the 

country (including those in Cumbria), though as perhaps half of them relate to Hampshire, 

Denholm-Young’s prediction has proved correct. Even as I write this there are two members of 

a Hampshire local history society looking at Denholm-Young’s calendar of the medieval deeds 

in order to understand better how the topography of their village has developed. Perhaps the 

crowning glory of the College’s contribution to Hampshire history was the publication by John 

Kaye, for many years the College’s Law tutor, in two volumes of the Southampton Records 

Series of the God’s House Cartulary. A cartulary is a volume in which an institution made copies 

of its most important legal documents. In one volume Kaye published a transcript of the Cartulary, 

and in the second he teased out from this the history of each tenement in Southampton owned 

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The deeds are also particularly useful to the historians of Oxford. They were used extensively 

by the great historian of medieval Oxford, HE Salter, in his Survey of Oxford which traces the 

history of the tenements of Oxford in a similar way to that done for Southampton by Kaye. There 

are also several hundred deeds that relate directly to the College’s own history. These include 

the Foundation Deed of 1341, which is Edward III’s licence to Robert de Eglesfield to found 

the College and in which the initial E of Edwardus should have been illuminated but wasn’t 

(presumably nobody paid for it!). The deed of 1347 in which Edward confirms to the College the 

Wardenship of God’s House does, however, have a beautifully illustrated initial letter, which may 

be a portrait of Queen Philippa. The king was issuing the deed at Philippa’s request because 

many earlier records had been destroyed when the French invaded Southampton! 

Primarily this was because with the New Library we now not only have sufficient space to store 

them, but also proper environmentally controlled conditions. In the Feinberg Room we also have 

a suitable space in which researchers can study them. But there are other reasons too. Even in 

1930 when Denholm-Young was creating a division in 1500 and seeing the medieval deeds as 

inherently valuable and of interest to scholars, while the modern deeds less so and little more 

than administrative documents useful only to the Bursar, this was already an old-fashioned view. 

It resulted in an arbitrary break around the year 1500 with two completely different cataloguing 

systems; today we would undoubtedly create just one system with categories for each estate 

so that, for example, all the records relating to Monk Sherborne, from the twelfth century to the 

twenty-first century, would be in one series and, similarly, all those for Oxford in another. 

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Denholm-Young also thought that the deeds would be of ‘use to the general historian … as a 

corpus to which he could refer for evidence on particular points of social or manorial history’. In 

other words, by having such a large collection of deeds it would be possible to see trends over 

time and to compare and contrast practices across different parts of the country. John Kaye, 

whose speciality as an academic lawyer was the land law, used them in just this way. In his 2009 

book on Medieval English Conveyances he states that ‘the idea of writing a book which would 

draw attention to conveyancing transactions in general came to me when I gave a course of 

lectures on the subject’. Though it was necessary in the book to cite deeds which had already 

been published, the ‘lectures were based exclusively on unpublished deeds in the archives’ of 

the College. 

The earliest documents rarely included dates and so it can be very difficult to determine exactly 

how old they are. Denholm-Young correctly noted that ‘there are numerous well-preserved 

charters of the twelfth century’ and thought that there were ‘one or two that are possibly of the 

eleventh, but though this is possible it doesn’t seem likely. It is probable that the oldest document 

in the collection is a grant of Henry de Port by which he founds the priory at Monk Sherborne. 

Denholm-Young dates it in his calendar as c.1120-30. He follows HE Salter who had used 

internal evidence to determine that the deed must be later than 1086 and earlier than 1166 and 

therefore plumps for c.1120-30 as being halfway between the two dates. It could be eleventh 

century. 

Having brought the deeds back to College we can now move forward with two projects. Over 

the next two years conservators from the Oxford Conservation Consortium (of which Queen’s 

is a longstanding member) will clean and, where necessary, repair the deeds and rolls and then 

replace the envelopes and boxes, now almost a century old, with new envelopes and boxes 

made from acid-free paper and cardboard. This will keep them safely preserved and robust 

enough to be read and studied for another century or more to come. 

We will also begin, in 2020, a longer, ten-year project to recatalogue the whole Archive to 

modern international, professional standards. This is only possible because the medieval deeds 

have been reunited with their later counterparts. They will be united intellectually in the catalogue, 

making it easier to understand the complete history of each estate and its relationship with the 

College. And they will be united physically so that researchers investigating those histories will no 

longer have to leave the College and walk up Catte Street to the Bodleian when their researches 

take them earlier than 1500. 

An extended version of this article can be found in Michaelmas Term’s Insight magazine, which is published by 

the Queen’s College Library and can be found on the College website. 

The deeds had gone to Bodley in 1930 and remained there for nearly 90 years. In 2017 the 

College completed the New Library and the post-1500 records were moved from FQ1 and 

Drawda Hall into the new state-of-the-art ‘Vault’. A decision was taken to return the medieval 

deeds to College and in the summer of 2018 they were driven the short journey from the 

Bodleian’s Weston Library to the College and into the Vault, to be reunited with the rest of the 

Archive for the first time in almost a century. 

It was undoubtedly the right thing to do to deposit the deeds in Bodley in 1930; the College did 

not have proper storage facilities for them (the FQ cellar where the modern deeds were placed 

proved to be very damp) and nor could the College provide proper facilities for the researchers 

who benefited from access to them. The College is therefore extremely grateful to the Bodleian 

and its staff who have cared for our records for so long. But it was also the right thing to do to 

bring them home in 2018. 

Grant by Thomas de Keresleye, late C13th. He grants not just land to his son, Roger, but also, shockingly, a serf, Simon 

Bithebroc, and his family. 



OBITUARIES 

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. 

Obituaries 

We record with regret the deaths of the following Old Members: 

1932 Mr D Evans 

1933 Mr P Ruangskul 

1935 Mr F C M Jones 

1943 Prof D K Fieldhouse FBA 

Mr P L Peckham 

1944 Mr J R Dixon 

1945 Dr G H Freeman 

1946 Dr B W M Macartney 

1947 The Honorable A W Gillespie PC 

OC DLitt 

1948 Mr J C Johnston 

Mr J E Morris 

Mr W Schwarz 

1949 Mr D A Dodds 

Mr F Holme 

Mr A W Holmes 

1950 Prof J G Widdicombe 

1951 Mr R G Sanderson 

Mr J E Cousin 

Mr F R Dixon 

Dr M W Stringfellow 

1952 Dr H J Burnett 

Mr K E Lowther 

1953 Mr A A Ayida 

1954 Mr A B Walden 

1955 Mr V T J Arkell 

Prof T K Rabb 

Mr K Yamamoto 

Honorary Fellow 

Honorary Fellow 

1956 Mr A Daniels 

Mr J P Howard 

1957 His Hon Michael Mander 

1958 Mr G B Astbury 

Mr A H Waller 

1959 Mr B R Coulson 

Mr E S Ronhovde 

1960 Prof D M Armstrong 

Prof J G Merrills 

1964 Prof P T Smith 

Prof R D Fine 

1967 Prof T P Dolan 

1970 Mr C P R Tompsett 

1971 Mr M C Turner 

1973 Mr D J Batt 

1975 Mr J M Whatnall 

1976 Mr B R Gillies 

Prof C P Morley 

1979 Dr J L Rowlandson 

1980 Ms J C Dillon 

1984 Dr J M C Gray 

1987 Mr S J Ali 

1996 Ms J C Dillon 

Miss R J Bayman 

Prof A M Honoré 

Sir Fergus Millar 

TERRY DOLAN 

Known affectionately as the ‘word guy’, Professor Terence 

(Terry) Dolan was an Irish lexicographer best-known for his 

Dictionary of Hiberno-English and a scholarly account of the 

English language as it is spoken in Ireland. Poet and critic Tom 

Paulin described the latter as ‘a living resource which connects 

us with the spoken language and the printed language’. Dolan 

always carried a notebook in which he wrote down new words 

and phrases he heard on his travels. 

Born in London, Dolan had a humble upbringing and 

attended Gunnersbury Grammar School in northwest London. 

Nicknamed ‘the professor’ by his father while still a child, he later began his academic studies at 

the University of Sheffield before coming to Queen’s as a Hastings Senior Scholar in 1967. He 

moved to work in University College Dublin (UCD) in 1970. At UCD he was professor of Old and 

Middle English and was well-liked by his students, delivering his lectures with wit, wisdom, and 

warmth. His friend and colleague of more than 40 years, UCD Professor Alan Fletcher, said 

‘he sparkled and crackled with energy; he was an amazing speaker and orator.’ Dolan also 

spoke regularly at Literary Society meetings at St Columba’s College, Rathfarnham where he 

is remembered for his ‘humorous lightness of touch in discussing language and literature that 

belied the deep scholarship on which that knowledge rested.’ 

In 2008 Dolan had a severe stroke and spent most of that year recovering in hospital. In 2010 

he spoke publicly about the impact of his stroke and became an advocate for better stroke 

awareness. He later received an Irish Heart Foundation award for this work. 

He is survived by his brother, James; his sister-in-law, Faith; his nephew, Luke; and his close 

friend, Mary Reilly. 

TONY HONORÉ 

A titan of the Oxford Law Faculty, Tony Honoré taught Oxford 

students for a record-breaking 70 years (from 1948 to 2017). 

As Regius Professor of Civil Law, based at All Souls College, 

he was best-known for his research into Roman law and its 

institutional history, on which he published seven books across 

50 years. He was also a major figure in the development of 

South African private law but alongside these specialities, 

Honoré also had a wide-ranging mastery of English law, as 

demonstrated in the encyclopaedic work Causation in the Law 

(1959, 2nd ed. 1985). 

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Born in Hampstead in 1921, Honoré was then brought up in South Africa from the age of six. 

After studying briefly at the University of Cape Town, he volunteered to join the Allied war effort. 

He was subsequently grievously injured in the battle of El Alamein in 1942 and came near death 

twice during surgery. Shrapnel and a whole bullet remained in his body for the rest of his life and 

left him with some mobility problems and severe loss of hearing in one ear. 

After the war he came to New College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and stayed on for the BCL, 

winning the Vinerian Scholarship for best overall performance. Queen’s outbid Nottingham 

to offer him a teaching post and here he met philosopher Tony Woozley and the pair put on a 

now-famous class called ‘Philosophy and Legal Concepts’. H.L.A. Hart came to give a talk and 

this paved the way for future collaborations, including the aforementioned Causation in the Law 

which they co-authored. 

In 1964 Honoré moved to New College where he continued to drive the Oxford Law Faculty 

onwards and upwards in his role as University Reader in Roman-Dutch Law and then Regius 

Professor. After retiring from the latter, he became Acting Warden of All Souls and took steps to 

change the balance of the College in favour of more full-time scholars.Alongside his reforms at All 

Souls, Honoré took an active interest in the politics of his adopted homeland South Africa. He 

publicly advocated the plan for a Constitutional Court that was subsequently taken up by Nelson 

Mandela and which has played a large, and mostly constructive, role in recent history. 

His life in London, with visits to theatres and museums, was interrupted by the second world 

war, during which he spent time in army training camps and then in North Africa and Italy with 

the Royal Artillery. His poor eyesight (he was already wearing glasses in photographs taken in his 

pram) did not impair his ability to calculate the range and bearing for the guns. His family were 

surprised that the army did not make use of his fluent French and German, but Francis was good 

at keeping a low profile. He asked us not to mention his war record at his funeral but we did, 

because we are proud of his achievements. 

After demob, he tried teaching languages, but his poor sight and increasing deafness made 

this difficult and finally Francis settled happily in the LCC, at first as a clerical officer, then rising 

through the ranks in the chief engineer’s department, and later transferring to its successor 

organisation, the GLC, from where he retired in 1981.Colleagues testified to his efficiency and 

hard work and, once discovered, his sense of humour, unceasing interest in politics and love of 

London.His hobbies were travel in Europe, where he visited friends, Mensa, “lethal” Scrabble and 

volunteering at Oxfam. He would bombard his MP with letters, and family and friends all over the 

world will miss his letters and telephone calls, and, more recently, emails. He was a Guardian 

reader to the end, in very large print on his computer. He is survived by four nieces, Helen, Ruth, 

Catherine and me, and a nephew, Richard; and by three great-nieces and seven great-nephews. 

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An Oxford colleague wrote ‘Although a giant in his field, Tony’s most striking quality was his 

humility...he retained always the most profound intellectual curiosity.’ He was made an Honorary 

Fellow of the College in 2010 and has a scholarship for the BCL / MJur named in his honour. He 

is survived by his wife Deborah. 

FRANCIS JONES 

My uncle Francis Jones, who has died aged 102, was a 

Londoner through and through. His last job was with the 

Greater London council, in the refuse disposal department, 

where he helped to decide on the destination of all of the 

capital’s rubbish and how to get it there. 

He wrote a strong letter to Margaret Thatcher before she 

abolished the GLC in 1986, because most boroughs did not 

have adequate disposal sites or transport. She went ahead 

anyway – and there are now about 100 waste authorities 

in London. Francis was also an expert on the buses, tubes 

and railway systems of London Transport and it was often easier to ask him than to consult a 

timetable. 

He was born in Finchley, north-west London, the eldest of three children of Christopher Jones, 

who worked for the London county council, and his wife, Kathleen (nee Robinson), and went to 

Clifton college in Bristol, then Queen’s College, Oxford, where he studied modern languages. 

MICHAEL MANDER 

Richard Harold Mander (1936 – 2019) grew up in Cumbria. He 

was educated at Workington Grammar School and, after a 

National Service commission in the Royal Artillery, it was hardly 

surprising that he arrived at Queen’s in October 1957. He and 

I were exact contemporaries, reading law together under John 

Kaye and Tony Honoré, often at joint tutorials. Michael was a 

serious and hardworking student and the College recognised 

this by awarding him a Rigge exhibition. 

After Oxford he first trained as a solicitor, qualifying in 1963, 

but before too long he decided to change course and to try 

his luck at the Bar. He joined the Inner Temple as a student and was called in 1972. His judicial 

cases began in the early eighties when he began to sit as an Assistant Recorder and as a Deputy 

Chairman of the Agricultural Lands Tribunal. In 1985 he was appointed a Circuit Judge and 

from 1989 to 2001 he was the Resident Judge at Shrewsbury Crown Court. Michael always 

recognised his debt to the College. He was a member of the Taberdars’ Society and sponsored 

a desk in the New Library. But though originally a Cumbrian he came to love his new county. In 

2000 he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Shropshire and in his final Who’s Who entry, he 

records his recreations as ‘life under the Wrekin’ and ‘Shropshire life’. 

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FERGUS MILLAR 

In 1977 the historian Fergus Millar, who has died aged 84, 

published a massive book, The Emperor in the Roman World, 

that got to grips in an entirely original way with the institutional 

character of the empire and the role of its head of state. Based 

in large part on an encyclopedic knowledge of Roman law, 

Millar’s analysis showed in detail how a great empire actually 

functioned, with effective leadership and multifarious modes of 

communication. Its assertion that “the emperor was what the 

emperor did”, presaged in a 1965 article, Emperors at Work, 

prompted considerable controversy in the world of ancient 

history. One reviewer, Keith Hopkins, objected that the emperor 

was also how he was thought about, imagined, represented, worshipped and so on. Mary Beard, 

a Cambridge graduate student at the time, recalled how a head-to-head debate between the 

two both energised the subject and demonstrated how such differences of view could coexist in 

a friendly manner. 

The Crowd in Rome in the Late Republic (1998) argued that the democratic and particularly the 

electoral processes of the second and first centuries BC were much more critical and effective 

than had traditionally been thought. It stimulated discussion, as also did lectures delivered at the 

University of California, Berkeley (2002-03), published as A Greek Roman Empire: Power and 

Belief Under Theodosius II, 408-450 (2006). Here Millar combined the codification of Roman 

law and the acts of the Church councils in the fifth century into a compelling and entirely original 

account of the character and the functioning of the later eastern empire, a century after its formal 

separation from the west. 

Millar’s work transformed the study of ancient history. For him, Rome’s empire was a vast and 

complex world, ultimately stretching from Newcastle upon Tyne to the Euphrates, with shifting 

borders, both defensible and permeable, and a rich tapestry of social and linguistic variety. He 

dissected that world through the racy scenarios of small-town politics and daily life in north Africa 

and Greece. He depicted the mosaic of Jewish internal struggles and rebellions against Rome in 

first- and second-century Judaea that culminated in the reduction of Jerusalem to the status of 

a Roman colony and the renaming of the province as “Syria Palaestina”. Through detailed study 

of a series of massive inscriptional monuments, he portrayed the grandeur and self-importance 

of a local family of civic benefactors in Asia Minor with crucial links to the centre of empire. The 

seeds of his distinctive, multicultural approach to Roman imperial society can be found in an 

early publication of 1969, one of a number of articles in which a handful of historians including 

Peter Brown examined the evidence for the survival of local languages and cultures in the Roman 

empire. Millar focused on Syria and this theme was to burgeon into another book, The Roman 

Near East, 31 BC-AD 337 (1993), based on lectures delivered in Harvard in 1987. 

Although this book, like all Millar’s publications, was rooted in constant reading and research in 

libraries, his understanding of the variety of the late Roman and early Christian landscape in Syria 

and Jordan had been transformed by a tour of major ancient sites including Palmyra, Petra and 

Jerash (the Greco-Roman Gerasa), a few years before the Harvard lectures. He was fortunate to 

have done this before it became impossible. His work on Jewish history was also informed by 

frequent contact with Israeli scholars and visits to archaeological excavations in the field. 

Born in Edinburgh, Fergus was the son of JSL Millar, a solicitor, and his wife, Jean (nee Taylor). 

After attending Edinburgh academy and Loretto school, and national service (which he mostly 

spent learning Russian, with great pleasure), he studied ancient history and philosophy at Trinity 

College, Oxford (1955-58). A prize fellowship at All Souls College enabled him to undertake his 

doctorate on the historian Cassius Dio. He then became fellow and tutor at Queen’s College 

(where I was one his first students); professor at University College London (1976-84); and 

professor at Oxford (1984-2002). He served as president of the Society for the Promotion of 

Roman Studies and chairman of the council of the British School at Rome. He was elected fellow 

of the British Academy in 1976 and knighted in 2010. 

During his time at Oxford he took pride and pleasure in creating a real community of 

postgraduate students (in both Roman and Greek history), by organising seminars, hosting 

coffee sessions and taking a genuine and constructive interest in their diverse subjects of 

study. Though he did not shy away from intellectual controversy, intellectual differences and 

disagreements were never obstacles to friendship or collegial relations. Nonetheless, he became 

increasingly disenchanted with bureaucratic overload in the universities, encroachments on 

academic autonomy and reductions in financial support for long-term research programmes. 

These views were often expressed in irascible letters (even to friends and close colleagues) and 

one Oxford vice-chancellor remarked that he felt his day had not started properly unless his 

mailbag contained at least one grumpy letter from him. But the regard in which he was held by 

classicists and historians never wavered. 

In 1959 he married Susanna Friedmann, an academic psychologist. She survives him, as do his 

children, Sarah, Andrew and Jonathan, and seven grandchildren. 

Alan Bowman, Literae Humaniores (1962) – originally published in The Guardian 

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TED RABB 

Theodore K. Rabb, known as Ted to his friends and colleagues 

(“I’ve always thought of Theodore as a bit pompous”), was 

born in Teplice-Sanov, Czechoslovakia and died on 7 January, 

aged 81. He and his parents were able to flee to England in 

1939. Ted attended Clifton College before taking his BA in 

history in 1958 at Queen’s College, Oxford. The following year, 

he married Tamar Janowsky, with whom he had three children, 

and took his graduate degrees at Princeton (MA, 1960, PhD, 

1961). He then ran the cursus honorum of academic posts 

at Ivy League universities before he joined Princeton’s history 

department in 1967, where he remained for 40 years, until 

his retirement in 2007. He published many scholarly articles and books such as Enterprise and 

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Empire (1967), The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe (1975) and Renaissance Lives 

(1993). He brought multifaceted (economic, literary, cultural and sociological) analyses to bear on 

various aspects of European Early Modern history. In 1970, with fellow historian Richard Rotberg, 

he founded the influential Journal of Interdisciplinary History that enshrined and propagated 

his approach. Old age did not diminish his intellectual powers. In his 70s, he and John Julius 

Norwich planned Venice Gateway, a museum to introduce visitors to the history of the city of 

Venice. The comune had granted them the use of a palazzo on the Mercati di Rialto, and before 

their deaths, they were engaged in exploring ways of raising funds. 

A brilliant essayist, Ted perfected the art of the review. I first became acquainted with his work 

through his contributions to the Times Literary Supplement in the early 1990s and, in 1998, I 

approached him to work his magic on the first of the multi-volumed (if somewhat dry and highly 

specialised) Harvey Miller recreation in print of the seventeenth century Roman collection of 9,000 

drawings and prints, the Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. With his broad-gauged vision, 

his learned and beautifully polished prose, he brought to life a world, a collector and a collection 

that held Europe in thrall for two generations. Thus began a 20-year association with The Art 

Newspaper to which he contributed more than 60 articles, including his last, which he filed the 

day before he died. 

He was an unapologetic lover of European high culture and in every instance he wrote with 

authority, concision and style, never putting a foot wrong. He wrote with equal facility on 

Netherlandish, Dutch, Spanish, German and, above all, Italian art of the Renaissance, especially 

the great Venetians, and the Baroque. On his own admission he was no Francophile. His 

contributions were invaluable. Our professional engagement grew into a friendship; my wife 

and I would meet Ted and Tamar on their twice- or thrice-annual trips to London. Ted’s 

correspondence was as sophisticated and charming as his conversation. His emails ranged 

with ease and precision over topics as diverse as gnosticism (“If it wasn’t followed up, what’s 

the use of it?”), the after-lives of deposed rulers (“Napoleon would at least have been interesting 

company; Napoleon III not”), Janissaries, the nature of a Golden Age (“It was never entirely about 

wealth”), contemporary art (“I have a feeling that, when the pendulum swings, people are going 

to wonder what was wrong with us”), the Spurs (his football team, Tottenham Hotspur), his 

passion for opera (as a schoolboy he queued for a ticket to hear Callas, whom he met afterwards 

at the stage door) and cemeteries (Staglieno, Genoa, was his favourite). 

He could be playful, ranking artists and musicians into Premier (Titian, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven) 

and Championship (Giulio Romano, Parmigianino, Guido, Schubert and Brahms) Leagues (he 

would not allow me to advance Poussin out of the First Division; “I cannot warm up to the man”), 

and discussions of Sleeping Giants (why some artists drop from view and return many years later, 

such as Barocci, Vermeer) and Desert Island Discs (given his love of opera, I was surprised he 

chose Beethoven; “his powers of invention are inexhaustible”). 

BRIAN WALDEN 

A former labour MP who became a household name as 

a brilliant and forensic TV interviewer, Brian Walden was 

described by former Today programme presenter John 

Humphreys as ‘the greatest political interviewer of all time’. 

Born in the slum area of West Bromich in 1932, Walden was 

the only child of working-class parents. He won an open 

scholarship to the College to study history. 

In 1957 he was elected President of the Oxford Union, once 

entering the Union with a bandaged head and claiming he had 

been attacked by a right-wing gang. It soon emerged that he 

had fallen down the stairs. He went on to complete a postgraduate course at Nuffield College, 

before becoming a university lecturer. 

At the 1964 general election, he was elected MP for the now abolished parliamentary 

constituency Birmingham All Saints. He went on to represent Birmingham Ladywood on 

behalf of Labour until 1977 when Walden became a full-time journalist and broadcaster, quickly 

developing a reputation as a robust and incisive interviewer of the big names in politics. 

Walden’s amiable style frequently lulled his subjects into a false sense of security. There were 

many memorable exchanges with the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. In his biography he 

mentioned that he had been a speechwriter for her and she once described him as her favourite 

interviewer. However, the shine wore off when he quoted claims from her opponents that she 

was ‘off her trolley’; she was furious and never spoke to him again. 

He won many broadcasting awards for his handling of current affairs, including the BAFTA 

Richard Dimbleby Award for television and the accolade of ITV personality of the year (1991). As 

a broadcaster he was a substantial enough figure to have his own Spitting Image puppet and to 

appear as himself in Rik Mayall’s series, The New Statesman. 

A childhood illness that confined him to bed led to him becoming a voracious reader. Usually 

happier in his own company than in social settings, this passion remained with him throughout 

life. In later life, when asked who or what was the greatest love of his life, he replied ‘Books.’ 

He is survived by his wife, Hazel, and four sons. 

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He was appalled by the decline of academic standards over the past 30 years on both sides of 

the Atlantic—and by Brexit and Trump. Yet he said, “I’m an idealist who always hopes the world’s 

great institutions will actually seek the public good rather than the interest of those in power”. 

Words for us to live by. 

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The College thanks many of its Old Members for gifts and legacies. Thanks are due to the 

following members of the Taberdars’ Society who have made bequests to College: 

Mr Mike Baverstock (1957) 

Mr Roger Broad (1951) 

Lt Col Brian Freake (1942) 

Hon Alastair Gillespie (1947) 

Mr Charles Henn (1949) & Mrs Ann Henn 

Mr Anthony Petty (1948) 

The College is also grateful to those who made donations in the academic year 2018-19: 

Eglesfield Benefactors 

Mr Paul Newton (1975) 

Dr Mel Stephens (1976) 

Mr Chris Eskdale (1987) 

Philippa Benefactors 

Mr Mike Woodhouse CVO (1948) 

Mr Reg Higginson (1949) 

Prof Roger Pain (1949) 

Mr John Palmer CB (1949) 

Mr Andrew Joanes (1952) 

Lord Lennie Hoffmann (1954) 

Revd Canon Hugh Wybrew (1955) 

Mr Tim Evans CBE (1956) 

Prof. Charles Michel (1956) 

Mr Barry Saunders (1956) 

Mr Martin Bowley QC (1957) 

Mr David Wilkinson (1957) 

Mr Mike Hawley (1959) 

Dr Ray Bowden (1960) 

Mr Gordon Dilworth (1960) 

Mr Martin Dillon (1961) 

Mr Ron Glaister (1961) 

Prof Stephen Scott (1961) 

Mr Dave Brownlee (1962) 

Mr Andrew Parsons (1962) 

Mr Michael Roberts (1962) 

Prof Peter Bell (1963) 

Mr David Piggott (1966) 

Mr Gordon Prince (1944) 

Prof Philip Smith (1964) 

Dr Sydney Smith (1947) 

Prof Charles Daniels (1963) & Ms Zhenhua Zhai 

Mrs Julia Eskdale (1987) 

Dr Carl Storm 

The Waverley Fund 

Mr Raymond Kelly III (1963) 

Mr Clive Landa MBE (1963) 

Mr William Marsterson (1963) 

District Judge Chris Beale (1964) 

Dr Juan Mason (1967) 

Mr Paul Clark (1968) 

Mr Alan Mitchell (1968) 

Dr Howard Rosenberg (1968) 

Mr David Seymour CB (1969) 

Mr Alan Taylor (1971) 

Mr Richard Geldard (1972) 

Mr Tom Ward (1973) 

Mr Robin Wilkinson (1973) 

Mr Philip Middleton (1974) 

Mr Jack Giraudo (1975) 

Mr Stuart White (1975) 

Mr Fred Arnold (1976) 

Mr Gerry Hackett (1977) 

Mr Steve Crown (1980) 

Mr John Ford (1980) 

Mr John Smith (1980) 

Mr Joseph Archie (1982) 

Mr Jacky Wong (1986) 

Mrs Sia Marshall (1990) 

Mr Cameron Marshall (1991) 

Mr John Hull (1994) 

Mrs Anna Hull (1995) 

Mr Karl Lehmann (1939) 

Mr Brian Thompson (1942) 

Prof Geoffrey Wilson (1942) 

Maj George Brown (1943) 

Mr Bill Alexander (1944) 

Mr Ray Ogden (1944) 

Mr Jack Cadogan (1947) 

Dr John Mould (1947) 

Mr Timothy Mould (1978) 

Prof Roger Savory (1947) 

Mr Graham Lewis (1948) 

Mr David Thornber (1948) 

Mr Peter Lynam (1949) & Mrs Pauline Lynam 

Mrs Christine Mason (In memory of 

Bill Mason (1949)) 

Dr Duncan Thomas (1949) 

Mr David Karp (1950) 

Mr Harold Searle (1950) 

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Mr Stan Whitehead (1950) 

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Dr Ian Hall (1956) 

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Prof David Catchpole (1957) 

Mr Ian Chisholm (1957) 

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Dr John Hopton (1957) 

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Prof David Weir (1957) 

Dr Robert Blackburn (1958) 

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Mrs Claire O’Shaughnessy (1992) 

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Ms Bridget Jackson (1996) 

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Mr David Smallbone (1996) 

Dr Jonathan Smith (1996) 

Mrs Rachel Taylor (1996) 

Mr James Bowling (1997) 

Dr Will Goundry (1997) & 

Dr Abigail Stevenson (2002) 

Mr Endaf Kerfoot (1997) 

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Mr Gareth Powell (1997) 

Prof Nick Reed (1997) 

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We are grateful to receive support from the following people within the College: 

Dr Charles Crowther 

Dr Ludovic Phalippou 

Prof John Baines 

Professor Sir John Ball 

Dr Joe Gault & Dr Marianne Rolph 

Prof Peter Mackridge 

Dr Justin Jacobs 

Benefactions 

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The College thanks the following friends for their support: 

Benefactions 

Mrs Daphne Badcock 

Dr Douglas Burrill 

Mr Ian Burt 

Mrs Joan Busby 

Mrs Rosemary Clark 

Ms Kim Crosbie 

Ms Stephanie DeGroote 

Dr A Dempsey 

Mrs Julie Dixon & Mr Francis Dixon 

Dr Robert Field 

Mrs Judith Filkin Hunt 

Mr David Finfrock 

Mr David French 

Mr Jeffrey Jackson 

Ms Susan Mayne 

Mr Norikazu Ohtori 

Mrs Jennifer Pickvance 

Mr Abul Rahman 

Most Revd Peter Riola 

Mrs Barbara Sears 

Ms Jennifer Sharp Warthan 

Mrs Rachel Shearer 

Mr Roy Thorne 

Mr John Twinning 

Ms Magda Vorstermans 

Mr Eric Wooding 

The Following people gave in memory of Mr Charles Sutherland who died in October 2018: 

Mr Nicholas Trickey 

Ms Holly Shreeve 

Mr Malcolm Sutherland 

Mr John Samuels 

N P Roberts 

Mrs M G Rodda 

Mrs Yvonne Bassett 

Mrs C Davies 

Mr M De Leon 

Mr Derrick Holmes 

Mrs S Collier 

Mr Bruce Fenn 

Mrs G Brice 

The following organisations have supported the College directly, or through matched 

giving schemes with Old Members: 

Coca-Cola Foundation 

Seychelles Diaspora 

Piper Jaffray 

Patricia Industries Inc. 

British Birds Charitable Trust 

Amazon UK 

Noble Caledonia Charitable Trust 

Oxford Rotary Club 

DJANDCO Limited 

Ponant 

Chelmsford Mildmay Rotary Club 

YourCause LLC 

Schroder Charity Trust 

The Waverley Fund 

Utilita Energy 

EV Bullen 


Retirement Speech 

RETIREMENT SPEECH FOR PAUL MADDEN 

(PROVOST 2008-2019) 

The following is a slightly edited version of a speech given by the Bursar on the occasion of the 

Founder’s Day Gaudy 2019. 

Most of you will be delighted to learn (or to be reminded) that there is a rule at Queen’s: there 

shall be no after-dinner speeches. Unfortunately, there is also a very well-established tradition of 

breaking rules. It is unsurprising, therefore, that I have been asked to dispense with propriety and 

say a few words about Paul Madden as we approach his retirement from the Provostship. I shall 

try to describe what it has been like to work with Paul during his Provostship, and to reflect very 

briefly on his period in office. 

Mention of these Yorkshireman traits reminds me to give you something of a taste of what it was 

like to work with Paul, particularly in the early years of his Provostship. We once found ourselves 

in Los Angeles, raising money for the College. Due to some hiccup Paul – with absolutely 

characteristic luck – had found himself accommodated in the best hotel in LA, courtesy of a 

very generous Old Member. But this hotel was right on the beach in Santa Monica, which is a 

substantial distance from the downtown locations where all Paul’s engagements were booked. 

Another Old Member, on learning of this situation, immediately stepped in and volunteered to 

arrange a limousine service to ferry Paul around the metropolis. I said that there was no need for 

this: he could just take a cab. The Old Member replied (and I quote this verbatim): “no Provost 

of Queen’s should endure the indignity of a city taxi!” And I stood there for a moment thinking: 

blimey, this Provost is from Bradford. He already thinks a taxi is an outrageous luxury! He only 

uses the phone in an emergency! 


But I would like first of all to say something not about the Provost, but instead about the person 

who the staff typically call “Mrs P”: Alison Madden. I am sure we all would wish to recognise 

the charisma and energy that Alison has brought to the College. She has given an enormous 

amount of time and enthusiasm to the place and has done so largely unasked and often 

unacknowledged. Now is an appropriate moment for us to thank her. 

I shall move now from the Provost’s wife to the Provost’s wife’s husband (to quote an old joke). 

The job of Provost is one of stewardship (or superintendence, as it rather enigmatically says in 

the Statutes): you look after the place, you try not to break it, and with a bit of luck you hand it 

to your successor in a better state than you inherited it. Sometimes it probably feels as though 

you are doing all of those things while the Governing Body is doing its best to defeat you on all 

counts. 

Paul has borne these responsibilities since 2008, and I have worked with him closely in those 

11 years. Despite the burdens of office that he has carried, he has been an extraordinarily 

relaxed and genial colleague. At the same time, it is hard to imagine someone who cares 

more profoundly and intelligently about this College. Hard to imagine someone, indeed, who 

understands it so well. 

From the very first days of his Provostship, it was abundantly apparent that he was exactly 

what much of the Old Membership of the College imagined of a Provost. At the time, Paul was 

liable to confess that he was a northern chemist who had no love of public speaking. For many 

Queensmen and women, that only made him seem all the more authentic. He was exactly what 

they remembered of the College, and any avoidance of glamour only made him more plausible 

and likeable. Indeed, if I were asked to summarise Paul’s strengths as Provost, I would draw 

attention to this down-to-earth common sense and his utter lack of pomposity. This is a Provost 

who, I recently discovered, has open on his laptop, in meetings, the current scores from the 

cricket County Championship. I cannot imagine another Head of House doing that. I can imagine 

other Heads of House surreptitiously writing their blogs, or rewriting their Wikipedia entries; still 

more of them would simply be admiring their reflections in their screens. Paul, in contrast, is just 

checking the Yorkshire bowling figures. 

Turning to more serious matters, on an occasion such as tonight it is appropriate to consider 

the entire period of a Provostship. The last ten years have in many ways been a decade of 

unrelenting pressure, challenge, and difficulty for the College. Earlier today I looked back through 

Paul’s letters to Old Members as published in the College Newsletter, and it is impossible not to 

be struck by the continuity of concerns, and indeed by the emergence of his distinctive voice as 

Provost. 

To summarise (and in a nutshell): Paul took on the Provostship at a time of mounting financial 

crisis; the College’s endowment was endangered. These were desperate times. A College 

committee to look for possible economies was even formed (and naturally it did not last long). 




This was not the easiest baptism for a Provost. In those days Paul had to locate himself between 

a Senior Tutor and an Estates Bursar who might (affectionately) be described as the irresistible 

force and the immovable object. 

We should remember that at that time the pressures were acute: despite the crash, College had 

bold ambitions to continue to improve its buildings and facilities. A demanding and expensive 

rebuilding of the kitchens was already planned; a lecture theatre was designed and subsequently 

built; and many other improvements were made over the time of Paul’s Provostship — some, we 

should note, entailing considerable disruption to those living on site (not least Paul and Alison). 

The climax of this programme was of course the construction of the new Library, which caused 

enormous disruption to the Madden family, and which was borne with enormous fortitude. 

Paul presided over these projects with considerable interest and great involvement. His familiarity 

with the College and all of its workings developed into a regard for the College’s staff which I 

suspect has never been equalled by any Provost in the College’s history. He has been a tireless 

advocate for the domestic staff in particular and has taken an interest in their jobs, their welfare, 

and their lives to an unrivalled extent. They will miss him as keenly as anyone else. 

The financial crisis led, of course, to austerity, and many of Paul’s letters reflected his growing 

interest in the finances of higher education. We forget that it is not so long ago that funding for 

the humanities was in an acute crisis; tuition fees trebled and some pressure was thus relieved. 

But solutions breed problems, and this particular solution only redoubled concerns about access 

and elitism, which have gathered considerable momentum in the intervening years. In all of this, 

which I know concerned him greatly, Paul was keen that the changes in the financial model 

did not lead to education being merely a consumer good. He wanted it to be seen as a broad 

activity: he was as keen to see undergraduates on the stage or the sports field as he was to 

observe them swotting up in the Library. He was convinced that endangered subjects should be 

supported; keen too that a degree not be seen as merely the unlocking of a lucrative career. In 

all of this, in other words, he was absolutely committed to the College’s academic values and 

its academic independence. He has particularly supported young Fellows and postgraduate 

students, and done a great deal to promote the wider activities of the Fellowship – notably the 

culture of dining and conversation. He has also attempted, in increasingly difficult circumstances, 

to ensure that the substantial academic offices of the College remain in the hands of tutorial 

Fellows. And if that sounds conservative, then we should recall that his leadership has brought 

many striking innovations: ‘away days’ for the Governing Body (unthinkable not so long ago); 

the development of a vacation conference business; full colour print in the College Record; four 

courses rather than five at Gaudies. This is radical stuff! 

and magic I would like to be able to report that we are also Head of the River and top of the 

Norrington Table, and that the Florey Building has been sold and will soon re-open as Trump 

Oxford; we would then be an ecstatic College, never mind a happy one. But even a Provost’s 

powers are not supernatural. And it is traditional to hand some challenges on to one’s successor! 

Of course, keeping the College a happy place requires one to fight for it in many less happy 

places. Paul has been very fully involved with the wider University (including stints on Council 

and as a Pro-Vice-Chancellor) and involved in the Conference of Colleges, which he chaired 

latterly. You only have to go to the meetings of the Conference of Colleges to start to understand 

just how distinctive Paul’s Provostship has been: Paul is one of a vanishingly small number of 

heads of college now to have substantial prior experience of academic life at the coal-face in 

a collegiate university. Queen’s has earned a notable dividend from this: Paul has spoken for 

Queen’s in sensible and informed tones of which the College can and should rightly be proud. 

It is ultimately this intense immersion in all aspects of the College that I think best characterises 

Paul’s time in office. He thrives on detail and takes great pleasure in flattening inaccurate 

generalisations in meetings. His knowledge of the enormous complexity of College is 

unsurpassed. When we remember Paul I suspect we will think of someone who was woven from 

the very cloth of the Fellowship. He hands the College, the happy College, on to his successor 

in great shape: a renewed focus on academic performance, a relatively young and ambitious 

Fellowship, and a financially powerful entity that is well-positioned for the undoubted turbulence 

that lies ahead. We owe him an immense debt of gratitude. 

Dr Andrew Timms 20 July 2019 


Over the duration of his Provostship I noticed that all of these traits came to be expressed in a 

coherent philosophy. Indeed, I think it became a doctrine. I once heard Paul refer to it as that of 

the “happy college”. In other words, Paul wanted a college that was not just a place filled with 

happy people, but a place that actually made the people within it happy, and caused them to 

develop in rounded and healthy ways. And it is remarkable to look around the College and see 

the extent to which that has been achieved. Feedback from graduating students very often 

confirms just what a wonderful and broad experience the College has provided; departing staff 

speak of the special atmosphere (magic is the word often used). On the theme of happiness 



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