The College Record 2022

THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE 

COLLEGE 

RECORD 2022

THE QUEEN’S COLLEGE 

Visitor 

The Archbishop of York 

Provost 

Craig, Claire Harvey, CBE, MA PhD Camb 

Fellows 

Robbins, Peter Alistair, BM BCh MA 

DPhil Oxf 

Hyman, John, BPhil MA DPhil Oxf 

Nickerson, Richard Bruce, BSc Edin, 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 

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 

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 

Timms, Andrew, MA Camb, MPhil PhD Brist 

Meyer, Dirk, MA PhD Leiden 

Papazoglou, Panagiotis, BS Crete, MA 

PhD Columbia, MA Oxf, habil Paris-Sud 

Lonsdale, Laura Rosemary, MA Oxf, 

PhD Birm 

Beasley, Rebecca Lucy, MA PhD Camb, MA 

DPhil Oxf, MA Berkeley 

Crowther, Charles Vollgraff, MA Camb, 

MA Cincinnati, MA Oxf, PhD Lond 

O’Callaghan, Christopher Anthony, BM BCh 

MA DPhil DM Oxf, FRCP (Lond) 

Phalippou, Ludovic Laurent André, 

BA Toulouse School of Economics, 

MA Southern California, PhD INSEAD 

Gardner, Anthony Marshall, BA LLB MA 

Melbourne, PhD NSW 

Tammaro, Paolo, Laurea Genoa, PhD Bath 

Guest, Jennifer Lindsay, BA Yale, MA MPhil 

PhD Columbia, MA Waseda 

Turnbull, Lindsay Ann, BA Camb, PhD Lond 

Parkinson, Richard Bruce, BA DPhil Oxf 

Hollings, Christopher David, MMath 

PhD York 

Kelly, Steven, BSc Dub, DPhil Oxf, ARIAM 

Metcalf, Christopher Michael Simon, 

MA Edin, MPhil DPhil Oxf 

Whidden, Seth Adam, BA Union College, 

AM PhD Brown, MA Ohio State 

Stacey, Jessica Anne, BA MA PhD KCL 

Prout, David, MA Oxf, PhD Lond 

Kasberger, Bernhard BSc Vienna University 

of Economics and Business, PhD Vienna 

Smith, Michael Ambrose Crawford, 

BA College of William and Mary, 

MA PhD Princeton 

Turner, Jonathan, BA MSt BCL MPhil 

DPhil Oxf, LLB Birkbeck 

Keating, Jonathan Peter, MPhys Oxf, 

PhD Bristol 

Abell, Catharine Emma Jenvey, BA Adelaide, 

PhD Flinders 

Weatherup, Robert Stewart, MEng 

PhD Camb 

Walden, Daniel Kitt Schelly, BA Oberlin, 

MPhil Camb, PhD Harvard 

Kiener, Maximilian, BA Regensburg, BPhil 

DPhil Oxf 

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Ariga, Rina, MBBS Imperial, DPhil Oxf 

Muhammed, Kinan, MBBS Imperial, 

DPhil Oxf 

Marinkov, Viktor Vidinov, BSc Utrecht, 

MSc Barcelona 

Carrillo de la Plata, José Antonio, 

BA PhD Grenada 

O’Brien, Conor, BA Cork, MSt DPhil Oxf 

Rota, Gabriele, BA Padua, MPhil PhD Camb 

Leedham, Simon, BSc MBBS PhD QMUL 

Edwards, Jennifer Jane, BA MA PhD RHUL 

Griffin, Patrick, BA Notre Dame, MA 

Columbia, PhD Northwestern 

Ono-George, Meleisa Patarica, BA MA 

Victoria, PhD Warw 

Honorary Fellows 

Hoffmann, Leonard Hubert, the Rt Hon Lord 

Hoffmann of Chedworth, Kt, PC, BA Cape 

Town, BCL MA Oxf 

Morgan, Kenneth Owen, Lord Morgan of 

Aberdyfi, MA DPhil DLitt Oxf, FBA, FRHistS 

McColl, Sir Colin Hugh Verel, KCMG, MA Oxf 

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, CH, MA Camb, DPhil Oxf, 

FBA, 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 

Eisenberg, David Samuel, AB Harvard, 

DPhil Oxf 

Carwardine, Richard John, MA DPhil Oxf, 

FBA, FLSW, FRHistS 

Hacker, Peter Michael Stephan, MA 

DPhil Oxf 

Margalit, Avishai, BA MA PhD Hebrew 

Laskey, Ronald Alfred, CBE, MA DPhil Oxf, 

FMedSci, FRS 

Barrons, Sir Richard Lawson, KCB, CBE, 

MA Oxf 

Abbott, Anthony John, MA Oxf 

Griffith Williams, the Hon Sir John, 

MA Oxf, KC 

Turner, the Hon Sir Mark George, 

MA Oxf, KC 

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 

Madden, Paul Anthony, MA Oxf, DPhil Sus, 

FRS, FRSE 

Barber, Michael, Kt, BA Oxf 

Frood, Elizabeth, BA MA Auckland, DPhil Oxf 

Gordon-Reed, Annette, BA Dartmouth, 

JD Harvard 

Ramakrishnan, Venkatraman, 

Kt, PhD Ohio, FRS 

Sillem, Hayaatun, CBE, PhD UCL, 

MBiochem Oxf, FIET 

Taylor, Claire, MBE, BA Oxf 

Khan, Asma, PhD KCL 

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Emeritus Fellows 

Kaye, John Marsh, BCL MA Oxf 

Dimsdale, Nicholas Hampden, MA Camb, 

MA Oxf 

Foster, Michael Antony, 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 

Salmon, Graeme Laurence, BSc Tasmania, 

MA DPhil Oxf 

Harries, Phillip Tudor, MA DPhil Oxf 

Rowland, The Revd Christopher, 

MA PhD Camb, MA DPhil Oxf 

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

DPhil Sus, FRS, FRSE 

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

Davis, John Harry, MA DPhil Oxf 

Robertson, Ritchie Neil Ninian, MA Edin, MA 

DPhil Oxf, PhD Camb, FBA 

Browne Research Fellow 

Fayet, Annette, MSc ESPCI Paris, MSC 

DPhil Oxf 

Beecroft Junior Research Fellow 

(in Astrophysics) 

Aurrekoetxea, Josu, BSc Bilbao, MSc Imp, 

PhD KCL 

Laming Junior Fellows 

Arnaldi, Marta, BA Turin, MA Pavia, MSt 

DPhil Oxf 

Full-time Lecturers 

Sienkiewicz, Stefan, BA MSt DPhil Oxf 

Chaplain 

Price, The Revd Katherine Magdalene, MA 

MSt Oxf, BA Sheff 

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 

Jacobs, Justin Baine, BA Tulsa, MPhil 

PhD Camb 


CONTENTS 

From the Provost 6 

Reports and College Activities 9 

Senior Tutor’s Report 9 

News from the Fellowship 13 

Academic Distinctions 25 

From the Bursar 34 

Outreach 37 

Admissions 39 

A year in the Library 40 

A year in the Chapel 43 

A year in the Archive 46 

A year in the Choir 47 

Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures 49 

The Queen’s Translation Exchange 53 

A year in the MCR 58 

A year in the JCR 59 

Student Clubs and Societies 61 

Athletic Distinctions 69 

Old Members’ Activities 70 

Director of Development’s Report 70 

From the President of The Queen’s 

College Association 73 

Queen’s Women’s Network 75 

Gaudies 78 

Appointments and Distinctions 79 

Publications 88 

Articles 93 

Queen’s and the North 93 

The Sedleian Professors of Natural 

Philosophy and Queen’s 97 

A Short History of Nowhere Near 

Everything: reflections on almost 

40 years of changes at Queen’s 100 

Obituaries 103 

Mr J A Bainbridge 104 

Mr A C Ball 105 

Mr D H B Bevan 107 

Fr D A Byrne 109 

Mr E E Chapman 110 

Mr B H Craythorn 111 

The Hon Mr A R Landry 112 

Mr R E M Lawson 114 

Dr J Long 115 

Prof B F McGuinness 116 

The Revd Prof C Morris FBA FRHistS 118 

Mr B Wearing 121 

Dr J Wood 122 

Benefactions 124 

Information 133 


FROM THE PROVOST 

From the Provost 

Credit: David Fisher 

Dr Claire Craig 

Reading about all the activities chronicled in this edition of 

the Record brings home again just how wonderful it was 

to be able to do so much more in person by Trinity Term 

2022, than had been possible for the previous two years. 

Things had begun to improve in Michaelmas Term, when 

we started by welcoming not only the graduate and 

undergraduate Freshers, but also the ‘ReFreshers’: 

students who had worked hard through such variable and 

challenging circumstances; and by saying thank you again 

to all staff who worked or were furloughed during the 

pandemic, for their flexibility and mutual support. 

However, College in-person activity was still constrained. Although we held the 

All Saints’ Gaudy to celebrate academic achievements, sadly we had to cancel 

the Boar’s Head and Needle and Thread Gaudies because they coincided with 

uncertainty about the Omicron COVID-19 variant; and the Provost’s Lecture with 

Nobel Laureate and Honorary Fellow Sir Venki Ramakrishan was held both in-person 

and online. Such hybrid arrangements are one example of the College trying to retain 

some of the advantages of the forced experiments during the worst of the pandemic, 

while enjoying the return of activities as they were before. 

Despite the operational challenges, and as the JCR President said to me partway 

through the year, over time in-person normality became, itself, a little more normal. 

Taking advantage of the new freedoms, the College held a ‘Dining Right’ initiative: 

this was three weeks of imaginative menus, spread over two terms and developed by 

Head Chef Sean Ducie and the Queen’s team, together with leading external chefs, 

blending Queen’s centuries-old gift for hospitality with new and more sustainable 

ways of enjoying food. I wouldn’t have put all the plant-based meals at the very top 

of my personal menu (although some of them were superb and I found a taste for 

pickled walnuts in particular), but experimenting in this way was exactly what we 

should be doing: being disruptive, reflecting, discussing, taking the best and making 

it our own. 

In the Easter Vacation, some of us also enjoyed hospitality with Old Members in 

Edinburgh and in Manchester for the first time in several years. Then, and for the 

first time for most undergraduates, and for many Fellows and staff, we all delighted 

in a full Trinity Term in College. We had end-of-year Schools Dinners; Graduation 

Ceremonies; the Fettiplace Gaudy; the 2022 College Ball with an Alice In Wonderland 

theme lighting up the cupola and importing flocks of flamingos and inflatable 

mushrooms; the Eglesfield Musical Society’s outstanding production of Little Shop 

of Horrors, which means the trees in the Fellows’ Garden will never seem to me quite 


as serene at they once did; Summer Eights on the river; and, of course, much hard 

work and exams, the latter being particularly challenging for some students, who 

had not taken in-person exams for several years. 

We were also able to finally come together across the College communities to 

remember and celebrate the lives and contributions of former Fellows Peter Neumann, 

Morrin Acheson, Brian McGuinness, and Colin Morris (the many that remember 

Martin Edwards may wish to note that the College will honour him some time in 

2024). Meanwhile, the summer saw the departure of Chaplain Katherine Price, to 

become Vicar of Wantage, and the arrival of Alice Watson who is joining Queen’s 

from Kettering. 


As the Senior Tutor reports, Fellows’ achievements during the year reflected the 

College’s strengths in disciplines across the breadth of the humanities, sciences, and 

social sciences. Among those achievements were major prizes, awards, grants, and 

Fellowships, the publications of many books and articles, the launch, by the College’s 

Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures, of a new journal and, at the Weston 

Library in the Bodleian until February 2023, the major new exhibition ‘Tutankhamun: 

Excavating the Archive’ co-curated by Professor Richard B Parkinson. 

Under the leadership of the Tutor for Access and Outreach, the new initiative for 

Queen’s in the North entered its exciting next stage, signing up four schools in the 

College’s historic link areas of Cumbria and Lancashire to work with us and our 

partner, The Access Project (TAP). This means that, in the autumn, each school will 

have a dedicated individual within it, identifying the students with greatest potential 

and working with them and networks of tutors, including Queen’s Old Members and 

students, to support them as they start studying for A-levels. TAP has a great track 

record of working with schools in areas of socio-economic disadvantage, typically 

doubling the numbers of students who get places at top universities. 

Continuing the theme of reaching out to find those who can best benefit from and 

contribute to what Queen’s can offer, at graduate level the College awarded four 

scholarships in the University’s Black Academic Futures programme, continued 

with the Commonwealth Shared Scholarship scheme, and signed up to the new 

University-wide scheme to support eligible Ukrainian graduates. 

With the return of full in-person activities, and a big backlog of delayed events, 

College staff have delivered top quality events and kept operations running despite 

sharing the significant recruitment problems facing Oxford’s hospitality sector. One 

of our Butlers of Common Room, Savvas Savva also found time to organise the 

first Queen’s team to run in the Oxford Town and Gown race for several years, and 

Librarian Matthew Shaw organised a centenary cycle ride with the Historical Society 

to mark 100 years since the route had been undertaken by members of the College. 

A full account appears on the College website. 



Maintaining the College’s wonderful buildings is, of course, a continuous task. With 

the project to refurbish bathrooms in the Front Quad successfully completed, the 

next stage of the “masterplan” to improve the College’s fabric over the next few years 

began. Towards the end of the year staff moved out of offices in Front Quad so that 

work could start on a new Porters’ Lodge and smart and welcoming accessible 

entrance from the High Street. These improvements (replacing what is essentially a 

“lean-to” as the current Lodge) will retain the current entrance and its iconic view of 

the Quad, the Chapel and Hall, as you enter up the steps. 

Finally, and returning to the delights of in-person activity and College as a thriving 

place for enquiry and debate across disciplines and generations, open to people 

and ideas from around the world, the award-winning chef and entrepreneur Dr Asma 

Khan was elected as the latest Honorary Fellow, the arrangements to announce the 

first Queen’s PPE Centenary Visiting Professor were finalised, and the College looked 

forward – among other things – to welcoming back Old Member and inventor of the 

World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, for the 2022 Provost’s Lecture in the autumn. 

The Provost’s Lecture 2021 


Credit: John Cairns 

SENIOR TUTOR’S REPORT 

Prof Seth Whidden 

I closed my remarks last year by stating the College’s 

commitment to as much in-person work as would be 

permitted in 2021/2. Fortunately, we were largely able to 

do just that; all aspects of the College’s teaching and 

research met our demanding expectations of rigor and 

quality, with the online experience of the previous year 

leaving its mark on specific activities to varying degrees. 

The below results speak for themselves: regardless the 

format, the College continues to teach and pursue cuttingedge 

scholarship at the highest levels possible. 

Reports and College Activities 

Just after last year’s College Record went to press, the selection panel completed 

its work for the new Schwarz-Taylor Professorship in German. This post (previously 

called the Taylor chair) is fully endowed, and it continues to be associated with a 

fellowship at the College. The new Schwarz-Taylor Professor, Karen Leeder, is a 

specialist in and prize-winning translator of contemporary German literature, film, 

and culture. Among Professor Leeder’s numerous current projects is a study of 

contemporary German poetry. She was on sabbatical leave during this academic 

year and joined us in October. 

The Harmsworth Visiting Professorship of American History resumed its rotation 

after the pandemic, and we welcomed Patrick Griffin, Madden-Hennebry Family 

Professor at Notre Dame University. Professor Griffin’s scholarship sits at the 

intersection of colonial American and early modern Irish and British history. 

His lecture in November on ‘The unexceptional roots of American exceptionalism: 

America in the age of revolution’ was particularly timely, and his regular presence in 

College was appreciated all year long. The new Harmsworth Professor for 2022/3 is 

Bruce Schulman, the William E. Huntington Professor of History at Boston University. 

Professor Schulman’s research on the history of the modern United States focuses in 

particular on the relationships between politics and broader cultural change. Among 

his current projects are vol. 8 (covering the period 1896–1929) of the Oxford History 

of the United States, a distinguished series (1982–) that includes former Harmsworth 

Professor Peter Mancall among its authors, and of which 3 volumes were awarded 

the Pulitzer Prize for History. We look forward to celebrating the 100 years of the 

Harmsworth professorship this coming June. 

Five new fellows were elected during the 2021/2 academic year. Dennis Egger is 

our new Tutorial Fellow in Economics. A specialist in development, labour, and trade 

economics, Dr Egger uses large scale experiments and administrative data sets to 

pursue empirical research on migration, networks, and spatial linkages between 

economic agents in general equilibrium. His recent work has considered the effects 



of migrant networks on the labour market in Switzerland; general equilibrium effects 

of cash transfers in Kenya; and mask use in Kenya and Uganda. In addition to holding 

his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley and an MSc in Economics 

from LSE, Dennis read PPE as an undergraduate at Oxford. 

Marina Perkins was elected to a Career Development Fellowship in French. 

A specialist in early modern French literature, in particular Michel de Montaigne, 

Dr Perkins has published articles on Corneille, Montaigne, and Leonard Vair. Her 

doctoral studies in Cambridge were funded by a Gates Cambridge scholarship, and 

she holds an MPhil from Cambridge and a BA from Brown. During her fellowship, 

she will be working on speech, authority, and force in the tragedies of Corneille 

and Racine. 

Our new Career Development Fellowship in Philosophy is Andreas Ditter, who 

specializes in metaphysics, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and history 

of logic. Prior to being a Stalnaker Postdoctoral Associate in the Department 

of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT, Dr Ditter received his PhD from New York 

University and a BPhil in Philosophy from Oxford. His primary research explores 

foundational questions about the nature of essence, metaphysical necessity, ground, 

and fundamentality. 

Farsan Ghassim was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship in Politics. 

Dr Ghassim’s research agenda broadly focuses on global governance and 

experimental survey methodology, and he will continue to work on world public 

opinion on global governance during his fellowship, provisionally titled How the 

World Wants to Be Governed. In addition to holding degrees from LSE and Yale and 

a DPhil in International Relations from Oxford, Dr Ghassim was a postdoctoral fellow 

on the Legitimacy in Global Governance (LegGov) project at Lund University, and on 

the Decline and Death of International Organisations (NestIOr) project in Maastricht. 

We also elected Nima Khalighinejad to be an ‘extraordinary’, or non-stipendiary, 

Junior Research Fellow in Psychology. Dr Khalighinejad is a Biotechnology and 

Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Discovery Fellow working on the 

cognitive neuroscience of voluntary action and decision-making for the Wellcome 

Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN). Before earning an MSc in Neuroscience 

and a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL, he studied medicine at Isfahan 

University of Medical Sciences in Isfahan, Iran. 

The College also launched its call for applications to join us as Academic Distinguished 

Visitors for up to an academic year. The first such Distinguished Visitor, James Unwin 

from the University of Illinois at Chicago, will be with us during Hilary and Trinity Terms 

2023, while he works in the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics. Dr Unwin’s 

research concerns theoretical studies of physics beyond the Standard Model, with 

a focus on dark matter. In particular, his research is focused on trying to discern the 


nature of dark matter, and, more generally, to explain the deficiencies of the Standard 

Model of Particle Physics. During his association with the College he will investigate 

the possibility that dark matter might be briefly unstable in the early universe, allowing 

for dark matter to decay in a manner that results in the observed matter-antimatter 

asymmetry (which is needed to understand why observationally there is essentially 

no anti-matter in the Universe); and he will continue to investigate orbital anomalies 

that could be due to a primordial black hole in the outer Solar System. 

The Queen’s College Translation Exchange was part of a successful grant application 

to support a new national translator-in-residence scheme. Each translator will run 

a series of activities in their host institution, enabling members of the university and 

general public to engage collaboratively and critically with the act of translation. The 

translators will also benefit from being part of the wider national network of residents, 

and the project as a whole will support efforts across the UK to decolonise and 

diversify curricula, research and literary translation. The College will host awardwinning 

writer and translator Polly Barton during the coming year. 


These new colleagues will no doubt contribute to the high level of scholarly 

achievement of our current fellows, which included some particularly noteworthy 

accolades this year. Fellow in Chemistry Prof Simon Aldridge was selected to receive 

a Humboldt Research Award, in recognition of his academic record to date. Award 

recipients are invited to carry out research projects of their own choice in cooperation 

with specialist colleagues in Germany. Fellow in Mathematics Professor José Carrillo 

was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Spain, and he 

is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish National Science Agency 

2021–4. Laming Junior Research Fellow Coraline Jortay was awarded this year’s Early 

Career Research prize from the British Association for Chinese Studies for her article 

on ‘Reclaiming Rubbish: Gender, Class, Disability and Feiwu as an Intersectional 

Lens in Xiao Hong’s Market Street and Field of Life and Death’, which appeared in 

the January 2022 issue of the British Journal of Chinese Studies. 

Finally, several of our early career fellows will be moving on to exciting opportunities 

elsewhere: Jessica Stacey (CDF in French) will be spending the next 2 years in Berlin 

on a Marie Curie fellowship, and Anna Seigal (eJRF, Maths) has taken a position as 

an Assistant Professor of Applied Maths at Harvard. 

These and other individual accomplishments are a better measure of the College’s 

academical successes of the past year than league tables. This year’s Norrington 

Table saw us placed 11th, with an overall ‘Norrington Score’ of 77.3% — the College’s 

second highest ever — and (thanks to our even higher score the previous year) a 

3-year average of 78.6%. As it calculates the results of exams sat in Trinity Term 

2021, at the end of a year interrupted by the pandemic, it is a sign of our students’ 

persistence and determination. Only 2 of our 88 finalists received a 2.ii, and none 

received a third: surely that success rate speaks volumes to their resilience and 



the excellent tuition and support they receive from College tutors and staff. Some 

received particularly stellar individual results — one termly report congratulated a 

student for the best tutorial performance the tutor had seen in thirty years — as the 

list of university and College prizes on pages 32–33 shows. 

The algorithm that measures the full breadth and depth of our individual and collective 

successes has yet to be invented. And that’s just fine; we don’t need surveys or 

league tables to see that we’re doing very well indeed. As we look forward to the year 

ahead, we’ll continue to draw on the College’s strengths: the personal warmth of our 

close-knit community, constantly striving for academic excellence and supporting 

one another along the way. 

Governing Body Away Day, June 2022 

Credit: David Olds 


NEWS FROM THE FELLOWSHIP 

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

College’s website. 

Josu Aurrekoetxea (Physics) 

In my first year as Beecroft and extraordinary Junior 

Research Fellow, I have been pioneering the use of 

numerical techniques to explore Einstein’s theory of general 

relativity in regimes where the gravitational force is strong: 

at early times in the universe’s history and near black holes. 

We have computed the observable signatures expected 

from theories that go beyond the current standard model of 

cosmology and aim to explain the exotic forms of matter and energy that we usually 

refer to as “dark”. Our work has set the groundwork for the (very exciting) upcoming 

academic year, when gravitational-wave detectors are restarting after an upgrade 

in sensitivity, and we thus expect to detect many more black hole collisions and 

hopefully, some signals that cannot be explained without the use of new physics, 

going beyond our current understanding of the universe. 


This year I have also had the pleasure to engage in the vibrant College life, teaching 

special and general relativity tutorials to third-year physics students, as well as taking 

part as a panellist in one of the Queen’s College Symposium discussions. 

Rebecca Beasley (English) 

With two terms of research leave, I’ve been able to 

undertake substantial work on two books I began 

last year: a co-edited anthology of modernist art and 

literature by the so-called ‘Whitechapel Boys’ and their 

circle (Whitechapel Moderns: An Anthology of Modernist 

Culture in London’s Jewish East End, forthcoming from 

Edinburgh University Press), and a scholarly edition 

of Wyndham Lewis’s Men Without Art for the Oxford University Press edition of 

Lewis’s writings. I was awarded British Academy funding for the latter project, 

which enabled me to visit the archives of Lewis’s papers held at Buffalo and Cornell 

in the spring. Earlier in the year, I spent some time in the research collections at 

New Zealand’s national museum, Te Papa Tongarewa, where I was looking at 

the papers of influential ornithologists for my long-range project on ornithology in 

modern literature and culture. On my return from research leave in Trinity, I began 

work on two collaborative projects funded by The Oxford Research Centre in the 



Humanities (TORCH). A Knowledge Exchange Fellowship is enabling me to work 

with Menagerie Theatre Company on a project about the theatre critic Huntly Carter 

and his involvement in the workers’ theatre movement, and TORCH Network funding 

is supporting a series of interdisciplinary events about the history and legacy of the 

cultural relationship between Britain and the nations that made up the Soviet Union. 

Both these projects develop research undertaken for my monograph, Russomania 

(OUP, 2020), which was awarded the British Association for Slavonic and East 

European Studies Women’s Forum Prize earlier this year. 


John Blair (History, Emeritus) 

Professor John Blair was awarded a Leverhulme Emeritus 

Fellowship for travel in Germany, Scandinavia, and the 

Low Countries. The purpose of his travel will be to gather 

material for a projected book on medieval regional cultures. 

The book will be about regional identity, buildings, and 

material culture in medieval England. It will question 

whether, in cultural terms, the concept of 'England' necessarily makes sense, and 

will take the different approach of looking at regions in relation to their Continental 

neighbours: east Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and East Anglia as part of a North Sea 

Region; the south as part of a Channel region; the west midlands as part of an 

Atlantic region. 


Jose Carrillo (Mathematics) 

My research in the year 2021-2022 has been marked by 

the launching of most of the topics of my ERC Advanced 

Grant in its second year, some of them postponed due 

to the pandemic. I have hired four new Post-Doctoral 

Research Assistants (PDRAs) to explore novel aspects of 

my research in nonlocal partial differential equations for 

complex particle dynamics such as phase transitions, 

patterns and synchronization. More precisely, we have worked in understanding the 

concentration and properties of local and global minimizers of anisotropic potentials, 

phase transitions in neuroscience models, parameter estimation in collective 

migration models for cell sorting via adhesive forces, concentration phenomena 

in the evolution of aggregation-diffusion models, numerical schemes for collisional 

plasma physics, and non-local approximations of nonlinear diffusions among others. 

The common point of these research topics is the description of the collective motion 

of large ensembles of interacting particles. 


This intensive research period has led to publications of the highest quality in my field 

receiving international attention. This has been recognized by the plenary speaker 

invitation to the International Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics 

(ICIAM-2023) to be held in Tokyo, the most important international event in applied 

mathematics, organized every four years. I have been elected vice president of the 

ESMTB (European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology) and foreign 

member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Spain 2021. I have continued as the 

Head of the Division of the European Academy of Sciences, Section Mathematics. 

I have also done service to the society by participating as the only mathematician 

at the scientific committee of the Spanish Research Agency, the selection of ICREA 

Research Professors in Catalunya and the Discovery Institute Support Grants 2022 

of the NSERC in Canada. 


My dedication to high level teaching has been equally delivered developing a very 

much needed course in Optimal Transportation at the Mathematical Institute. This is 

a popular topic in modern mathematical research with ramifications in mathematical 

analysis, probability theory, computational mathematics, and many applications in 

stochastic analysis, data science, and optimization. The fantastic group of PDRAs of 

my ERC project: Rafael Bailo, David Gomez-Castro, Pierre Roux, and Ruiwen Shu; 

delivered a superb range of applied mathematics tutorials in the College and other 

colleges and supervised several student summer projects, and master thesis at the 

Mathematical Institute. 


Christopher Hollings (History of Mathematics) 

I have been on sabbatical this year, and so I have been able 

to work on a range of research topics. First and foremost 

among them has been my ongoing work with Richard 

Bruce Parkinson on the historiography of ancient Egyptian 

mathematics – on the contrasting attitudes of Egyptologists 

and mathematicians towards the reconstruction of the 

subject, and the uses to which they each put it. One paper 

(about the Egyptologist and one-time Fellow of Queen’s, T. E. Peet) is to appear 

in a volume published by the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of 

Mathematics, and the writing of further papers is underway. 

Work on a long-term editorial project – a volume entitled Beyond the Learned 

Academy: The Practice of Mathematics 1600–1850, co-edited with Philip Beeley 

(Linacre/History Faculty) – has continued and is nearing completion. In addition, 

I have begun work on another edited volume, in collaboration with Mark McCartney 

(University of Ulster), about Oxford’s Sedleian Professors of Natural Philosophy (who 

nowadays are always Fellows of Queen’s). My own contributions to the book as 



author will be an overview of the history of the 400-year-old Chair, as well as chapters 

on the nineteenth-century incumbents. 

Alongside research work, I have organised three small conferences under the 

auspices of the British Society for the History of Mathematics: a regular meeting 

for research students in the history of mathematics, which takes place in Queen’s 

every year, another on the Sedleian Professors, and also a conference in memory 

of Peter M. Neumann. 

In August 2021, I was elected a full member of the Agder Academy of Sciences and 

Letters (Norway). 

Coraline Jortay (Chinese) 

For me, joining Queen’s and its thriving community as 

a Laming Junior Research Fellow in October 2021 was 

undoubtedly the most significant highlight of this past 

academic year. Another was receiving the Early Career 

Researcher Prize from the British Association of Chinese 

Studies for my article “Reclaiming Rubbish: Feiwu at 

the Intersections of Gender, Class, and Disability in Xiao 

Hong’s Market Street and Field of Life and Death,” which was published in January 

2022 in the British Journal of Chinese Studies. 

Most of the year was dedicated to working on my book manuscript, Pronoun Politics: 

Gender as a Linguistic Battleground. The project is developed from my dissertation, 

which received the Marie-Antoinette Van Huele Outstanding Dissertation Award in 

May 2022. It investigates the debates surrounding gender equality that rocked the 

Chinese intellectual and literary scenes after gendered pronouns were introduced 

into modern vernacular Chinese through literary translation in the late 1910s. 

This past year has also been a fruitful one for collaborative projects, with two coedited 

volumes: a special issue of the journal Sextant entitled Precarious Peripheries: 

Gender from the Margins of China, with Jennifer Bond (UCL) and Chang Liu (CUHK 

Shenzhen), as well as an anthology of contemporary Hong Kong literature in French 

translation with Gwennaël Gaffric (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3) at Editions Jentayu. 

Both volumes are forthcoming in September 2022. 


Jon Keating (Mathematics) 

In my research, I have continued to focus on developing the 

theory of random matrices, and on applications to machine 

learning and number theory. My group has obtained a 

number of results concerning the characteristic polynomials 

of random matrices, their extreme value statistics, and their 

connection to Gaussian Multiplicative Chaos. I have written 

several papers on these topics, including a review article. 

With two colleagues, Dr Hung Bui and Dr Alexandra Florea, I achieved a longstanding 

goal by proving the ratios conjecture for L-functions defined over function fields. 


I organised a major international conference in Princeton celebrating 50 years since 

the fields of Random Matrix Theory and Number Theory first found common ground. 

I also gave several lectures at the University of Exeter, in relation to my holding the 

David Rees Distinguished Visiting Fellowship there. 

My teaching was focused on delivering a course in the Mathematical Institute on 

Random Matrix Theory. 

I completed my term as President of the London Mathematical Society, where 

one of the projects I started, a scheme to support A-level Mathematics students 

from disadvantaged backgrounds by providing online tutoring, got off to a most 

encouraging start. 


Charlie Louth (German) 

Since publishing my book on Rilke in 2020 I have mostly 

been working, off and on, on a complete edition of Friedrich 

Hölderlin’s correspondence, including the letters to him, 

in English. As ever it’s taking a lot longer than I’d imagined. 

I’ve now completed the translations and am working on 

the notes; I hope to have it all finished by the end of the 

summer. The volume will include the letters to Hölderlin 

from his lover Susette Gontard translated by David Constantine – a great bonus to 

the volume. I’ve also edited, together with my colleagues Carolin Duttlinger and Kevin 

Hilliard, a festschrift for Ritchie Robertson, who retired from the Schwarz-Taylor Chair 

in German Language and Literature in the summer of 2021 (From the Enlightenment 

to Modernism: Three Centuries of German Literature (2021)). The launch was several 

times delayed by COVID-19 but eventually took place in March 2022. In the last year 

I’ve also published an essay on ‘Celan in English’ which appeared in Paul Celan 

Today: A Companion (2021). Celan will be the subject of my next book. Otherwise 

I am just completing my second year as Tutor for Undergraduates – dealing with 




students who for a wide variety of reasons are having difficulties with their studies. 

It has to be said that there have been quite a few more of those this year than 

last, showing perhaps that the effects of COVID-19 are delayed and unpredictable. 

This job, which has taught me a lot about how the College and the University work, 

would not be possible without the Academic Administrator, Sarah McHugh, who 

fortunately for me and many students is punctilious, full of knowledge, and witty. 

We’re lucky to have her. 

Christopher Metcalf (Literae Humaniores) 

A ‘sabbatical year’, according to the Oxford English 

Dictionary, is in its original sense ‘the seventh year, 

prescribed by the Mosaic law to be observed as a 

“Sabbath” in which the land was to remain untilled’. I am 

now fortunate to look forward to an intermission of this 

kind, and to reflect on the past six years of service at the 

College. The main surprise for me is to realise that my 

research has been helped, rather than hindered, by the broad range of teaching that 

my post requires me to offer. In the past year, a course of tutorials on Sappho led 

me to find an unnoticed translation of a Sapphic verse in Vergil’s Aeneid. This shows 

conclusively that Vergil knew Sappho’s poetry, which is a fact that scholars have 

only recently begun to understand. One reason why the correspondence remained 

unnoticed for so long is that it is very unusual for a single person to teach both of 

these authors—except in the tutorial system that the College continues to uphold. 

I feel honoured that the resulting publication, which is available online and will 

appear in print next year, will make a small contribution to the study of Sappho, 

which is so closely associated with the College, throughout the 20th century, 

thanks to Fellows and Old Members such as Bernard Grenfell, Arthur Hunt, Edgar 

Lobel, and Angus Bowie. In the coming year I plan to begin some fresh projects 

(rather than to leave the land wholly untilled), which are again partly inspired by my 

undergraduate teaching: I look forward to reporting on these next year. 

Dirk Meyer (Chinese) 

In Autumn 2021, my book Documentation and 

Argument in Early China: The Shangshu 尚書 

(Venerated Documents) and the Shu Traditions, was 

published. Berlin: De Gruyter (x, 281 pp.) (ISBN hard 

copy: 9783110708417; ISBN e-book: 9783110708530). For 

the first time this book reveals Shu (Documents) as a genre 

of textual practice that was used creatively by contrasting 

conceptual communities for socio-philosophical ends. It breaks new ground by 


showing, through the analysis of Warring States manuscript texts, how different 

communities rewrote old cultural capital and became political actors through literary 

thought production. 

Later that year, my book Zhushang zhi si: zaoqi Zhongguo de wenben yu yiyi 

shengcheng 竹上之思 : 早期中國的文本與意義生成 , was published. Beijing: Zhonghua 

shuju. This book is a translation of my 2012 monograph Philosophy on Bamboo. 

(ISBN: 9789888758692) 

In May 2022, my book Songs of the Royal Zhou and the Royal Shao: Shi of the Anhui 

University Manuscripts, was published (co-written with Adam C. Schwartz, HKBU). 

Leiden: Brill, 2022. (hardback ISBN: 978-90-04-50823-1; e-book ISBN: 978-90-04- 

51243-6) (xii, 222 pp.). With this book we provide a first complete reading of their 

earliest, Warring States (453–221 BC), iteration as witnessed by the Anhui University 

manuscripts. As a thought experiment, we seek to establish an emic reading of 

these songs, which they contextualise in the larger framework of studies of the Shi 

(Songs) and of meaning production during the Warring States period more broadly. 

The analysis casts light on how the Songs were used by different groups during the 

Warring States period. 


Finally, in May 2022 we launched our new journal, Manuscript and Text Cultures 

(https://mtc-journal.org). It is the official journal of the Centre for Manuscript and Text 

Cultures (CMTC) (https://cmtc.queens.ox.ac.uk). Together with Angus Bowie, I serve 

as the Senior Editor of the journal. 

Kinan Muhammed (Clinical Sciences) 

Over the past year I have received additional research 

funding through partnership with industry and UKRI 

to establish a multi-site clinical trial in dementia. The 

study investigates whether neurocognitive function can 

be accurately measured at home using novel digital 

behavioural measurements and remote EEG. The aim is 

to assess if these measures provide more sensitive end 

outcomes for clinical drug trials in patients with neurodegenerative diseases. I am 

the Chief Investigator for this national study and patient recruitment has now started 

and will run over the next 18 months. 

In addition, I have contributed to publications in The European Medical Journal of 

Innovation and Brain Communications. These works explore the neural mechanisms 

of motivation in Parkinson’s disease and REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder and also 

assesses the use of augmented reality technology to assist clinicians with invasive 

neurological procedures. 



Outside of my ongoing clinical and teaching commitments in Neurology and my 

NIHR funded academic research, I was also appointed as the acting Chief Medical 

Officer for a biotechnology company, the role is to help accelerate clinical research 

trials and drug development for Central Nervous System disorders. 

Annalisa Nicholson (French) 

This year, I was happy to see the publication of my first 

academic articles. One appeared in French Studies and 

analysed the influence of Epicurus and Lucretius on the 

writings of the seventeenth-century French exile and 

self-confessed epicurean, Charles de Saint-Évremond. 

The second came out with Early Modern Women and 

re-examined the suicide of Hortense Mancini in light of 

overlooked manuscripts at the British Library. The broader stakes of this article 

converged around the responsible use of speculative history. 

I have also been working to turn my doctoral thesis on Hortense Mancini and 

French exiles in Restoration London into a monograph. I am currently finalising my 

book proposal, which will pitch an academic book on the influence of the French 

community that surrounded Mancini. Relatedly, following the award of an Amy 

Wygant Research Bursary from the Society for Early Modern French Studies, I am 

working with The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series at Toronto Press to 

publish my transcriptions and translations of Mancini's letters, which will mark the 

first ever edition of her correspondence. 

In addition to these academic outlets, my research on Hortense Mancini has featured 

in American wine magazine, Wine Enthusiast, and in the Swedish history magazine, 

Historiskan. 

Finally, I was delighted to host a workshop on Huguenot history and culture at Oxford 

Town Hall in June 2021, generously funded by The Queen's College, the Society for 

French Studies, and the Society for the Study of French History. 


Conor O’Brien (History) 

This year has been a busy one for me, settling into the 

rhythm of organising History at Queen's for the first time in 

the midst of a year which began with the pandemic looming 

but ended with something like a return to 'normality'. 

Admissions interviews were online for the second year 

running, but both Finals and Prelims were sat in person 


y sub-fusc clad students in Exam Schools, after two years when that had not 

happened. It has, consequently, been a year where both tutors and students have 

had to learn and relearn a lot, but on the whole successfully. Queen's Historians have 

enjoyed the greater freedoms of this year, and the opportunities for socialising across 

year groups provided by our new History Society have been warmly welcomed. 

Amidst a year of much administration and organisation, research has inevitably 

taken a back seat. I have continued to make some slow progress on my book 

(The Rise of Christian Kingship) and have got two smaller publications out: a journal 

article on political thought in early Irish biblical commentaries and a book chapter 

on medieval origin legends. I tried out my medieval tour of Oxford on some students 

on a sunny, busy afternoon in Trinity Term; while not yet perhaps at a professional 

slickness for which I can charge, hopefully this can become an annual event, 

reminding students of rich historical landscape in the middle of which we are all 

lucky enough to work. 



Chris O'Callaghan (Medicine) 

As the pandemic has receded, there has been a 

progressive return to normality over the academic year. 

Perhaps the University clinical departments have been 

slow to return to complete normality because of the 

relationships with the hospitals, which continue to reel from 

the impact of COVID-19. I have obtained grant funding to 

develop our understanding of the molecular mechanisms 

underlying the inflammatory aspects of atherosclerosis and additional funding to 

develop our technology for the assembly of large DNA molecules. A textbook of 

medicine that I have been working on for some years is now in production and will 

be published next year. 


Richard Bruce Parkinson (Egyptology) 

For the centenary of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s 

tomb, I have acted as lead-curator for an exhibition of 

Howard’s Carter’s archive at the Bodleian, ‘Tutankhamun: 

Excavating the Archive’ (14 April 2022 – 5 February 2023). 

This was opened on 12 April by Sherif Kamel, the Egyptian 

Ambassador to the UK, and had over 62,000 visitors in the 

first four months; press has concentrated on our focus on 

the Egyptian team-members. I was editor and lead author for the accompanying 

book, which has also had a German edition. A program of events will run through 

the anniversary itself in November, and in connection with this, I have provided 



the libretto for a song-cycle based on Egyptian long-songs composed by James 

Whitburn for soprano Fatma Said. 

Research has been sustained by working with C. D. Hollings on the historiography 

of Ancient Egyptian mathematics, and a paper will appear in a volume published 

by the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics; this 

research was also featured in a video for the library’s ‘Parchment and Paper’ series 

(www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TUuJ5xpBNk&ab). An article on E. M. Forster, 

Egyptian antiquities and queer museum spaces has been published in the Polish 

Journal of English Studies (http://pjes.edu.pl/issues/7-2-2021/), and an essay on the 

rediscovery of Ancient Egyptian poetry will appear in the exhibition catalogue of the 

British Museum’s celebration of the anniversary of decipherment. My research project 

on The Life of Sinuhe still remains on hold, but short excerpts will be published in 

two articles for colleague’s Festschrifts. 

Peter Robbins (Physiology) 

Much of my time over the year has been spent trying 

to understand the longer-term effects of COVID-19 

pneumonia on the lung. This work was undertaken using 

a new measurement technology that we have developed 

in collaboration with a physical chemistry group in 

Oxford over a period of more than a decade. The work 

on COVID-19 pneumonia has now been submitted for 

publication. Very pleasingly, the whole collaborative team associated with developing 

the measurement technology won this year’s (2022) Royal Society of Chemistry 

Sir George Stokes Horizon Prize. 

Ritchie Robertson (German, Emeritus) 

I retired from the Schwarz-Taylor Chair of German in 

September 2021. Before retirement, on 15 June 2021, 

I gave a valedictory lecture entitled ‘Goethe’s Faust II: The 

Redemption of an Enlightened Despot’, which has now 

appeared in Publications of the English Goethe Society, 

21 (2022), 43-87. Colleagues and friends were kind 

enough to present me with a Festschrift entitled From the 

Enlightenment to Modernism: Three Centuries of German Literature. Essays for 

Ritchie Robertson, edited by Carolin Duttlinger, Kevin Hilliard and Charlie Louth 

(Cambridge: Legenda, 2021), which was handed over at a gathering in the Upper 

Library at Queen’s on 17 March. 


Together with Margit Dirscherl, I organized a conference on ‘The Heritage of 

Humanism and Enlightenment in Exile Literature’. held at St Hugh’s on 24-25 March, 

and on 19-22 April I attended a conference in Munich on the Enlightenment, where 

I gave the keynote address: ‘Zwei neuere Aufklärungskonzepte aus Großbritannien: 

Keith Thomas und David Wootton’. 

I have published a paper, originally given as the keynote at a conference of graduate 

historians: ‘Epilogue: Some Problems in Historical and Literary Periodization’, 

in Lucian George and Jade McGlynn (eds.), Rethinking Period Boundaries (Berlin: 

de Gruyter, 2022), pp. 231-52, and contributed two articles, ‘Johann Wolfgang von 

Goethe’ and ‘Heinrich Heine’, to the fourth edition of the The Oxford Dictionary 

of the Christian Church (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022). I also provided 

the introduction and notes to Allan Blunden’s new translation of Johann Peter 

Eckermann’s Conversations with Goethe, published in June 2022 in the Penguin 

Classics series. 


Christopher Rowland (Theology, Emeritus) 

A collection of published articles and essays was published 

earlier this year: ‘By Immediate Revelation’: the Nature and 

History of Apocalypticism, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022. 


Macs Smith (French) 

The end of last year saw the publication of my first book, 

Paris and the Parasite (MIT Press). Much of this year was 

devoted to articles and talks connected to it. That included 

a foray into medieval Italian literature: I contributed a chapter 

on Dante Alighieri and street art to Dante Alive (Routledge) 

a forthcoming volume examining the poet’s impact on 

popular culture 700 years after his death. In November, I 

took part in the Dante After Hours event at the Ashmolean, giving a lecture and leading 

a stencil art workshop at which visitors could paint their own portrait of Dante. More 

recently, I completed an article on “Parkour Fails,” a genre of YouTube videos centred 

on a French urban extreme sport. I also gave my first public lecture in France in March, 

at the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte (DFK) in Paris. 



My big project this year was teaching-related. Andréa Rosinhas and I created a 

French theatre workshop for our second-year students. They spent the year studying, 

translating, and performing excerpts from Wajdi Mouawad’s Victoires. The workshop 

involved a Zoom masterclass with the Canadian translator, Linda Gaboriau, and 

three days of intensive acting classes with the French director, Emmanuel Besnault. 

It culminated in a short performance in Trinity Term. The beauty of our students’ 

work will stay with me for the rest of my life. 

Robert Taylor (Physics) 

The past year was a strange one given the lockdowns 

and COVID-19. However, I was lucky enough to be able to 

continue my research at a reduced level. I was fortunate 

to be named as a co-investigator on a large grant looking 

at the quantum nature of life from the Moore Foundation in 

the USA with Prof Vlatko Vedral and Dr Tristan Farrow. It is 

also my final year as Head of Condensed Matter Physics 

in Oxford as my five-year term has now come to an end. I am looking forward to 

sabbatical leave next year. I was able to publish nine papers this year in various 

international journals. 


Seth Whidden (French) 

The year began with the publication of my translation 

of Dominique Noguez’s book Les Trois Rimbaud, which 

imagines if, instead of being the year of his death, 1891 

had marked Rimbaud’s resurgence into the world of 

French literature. Fashioning Rimbaud as an elder poet 

worthy of being elected to the Académie française is folly, 

but (as my notes explain) it’s so clever that a reader can’t 

help but smile and revel in the playfulness. My monograph Reading Baudelaire’s 

Le Spleen de Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Prose Poem (OUP) was published 

in June. In it, I ask, simply: in what way are prose poems poetic? In searching for 

an answer, I was struck by how texts’ poetic nature reveals itself visually, on the 

page; in the interaction between paragraphs, not unlike verse stanzas; in poetic 

rhythm discernible in Baudelaire’s poetic prose; in different registers of language, 

including slang. Finally, the end of the year saw the appearance of the first two 

volumes of the six-volume complete works of Marie Krysinska (1857-1908) which 

I’m co-directing: the poetry in these first volumes includes the first free-verse poems 

published in French. 


ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS (* denotes distinction) 

D.Phil 

Audrey M.A.G. Borowski (History) 

Asad H. Chaudhary (Partial Differential Equations) 

Alexis V.E. Fogelman (Philosophy) 

Zilin Gao (Materials) 

Ana S. Gaunt (Music) 

Andre Hector (Astrophysics) 

Mark E.B. Hickling (Biochemistry) 

Max E. Hübner (Mathematics) 

James B. Isbister (Experimental Psychology) 

Panas Kalayanamit (Partial Differential Equations) 

Dominik Kobos (Partial Differential Equations) 

Lukas Koch (Partial Differential Equations) 

Pui Lo (Organic Chemistry) 

Christopher Massimo Magazzeni (Materials) 

Jordan S. Miller (Oriental Studies) 

Vasileios E. Papoulias (Partial Differential Equations) 

Siobhan Rice (Medical Sciences) 

Laurence H.P. Routledge (Astrophysics) 

Donglai Shi (English) 

Dominic H. Spencer Jolly (Materials) 

Tara L. Venkatesan (Experimental Psychology) 

Jakub Vohryzek (Psychiatry) 

Eleri A. Watson (English) 

Alexander H. Wentker (Law) 

Jeremy S.H. Wu (Mathematics) 

Kelvin Yaprianto (Biochemistry) 

Lu Ying (Inorganic Chemistry) 


BCL 

Mahima Balaji 

Samuel J. Grimley* 

Lara M. Ibrahim* 

MJur 

Ruiqi Yu 

M.Phil 

Samuel J.E. Fink (Economics) 

Jun Gao* (Economics) 

Caroline McPhail (Modern Languages) 



Miyo M. Peck-Suzuki* (Politics) 

Joumana Talhouk* (Development Studies) 

M.St 

Leah E. Casey* (English) 

Mariana Gaitán Rojas (English) 

Molly C. Thatcher* (English) 

Uwade Akhere (Greek and/or Latin Languages and Literature) 

Florence E. Darwen* (Modern Languages) 

Katie B. Lawrence (Modern Languages) 

Katerina J. Levinson (Modern Languages) 

Olivia Russell* (Modern Languages) 

M.Sc 

Alessio Marciasini* (Financial Economics) 

Barbara Martinez Licon* (Financial Economics) 

Rachel F. Wibberley (Global Governance and Diplomacy) 

Iliana Griva (Law and Finance) 

Yubo Qu (Law and Finance) 

B.Phil 

Rose L. Brugger 

BM 

Triya A. Chakravorty 

Harriet Sexton 

P.G.C.E 

Mary-Marie N. Chinery-Hesse 

Lucy Cunningham 

Jacob V.W. Gallagher 

Adam P. Salomon 

Raheema Sivardeen 

Diploma in Legal Studies 

Ruben Leander Faehnrich 


FINAL PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS 

Biology 

First Class 

Siobhán L. Bridson 

Second Class, Division One 

James Hawke 

Daniel Stoller 

Cell and Systems Biology 

First Class 

Qassi Gaba 


Bryony R. Davies 

Gracie M. Wilson 

English Language and Literature 

First Class 

Ella Farmer 

Austin J. Haynes 

Experimental Psychology 

First Class 

Alisa Musatova 

Lottie R. Shipp 

Daniel E. Storey 

Fine Art 

First Class 

Rowan Ireland 


Chemistry 

First Class 

Jonathan J. Kyd 

James M. McGhee 

Henry Patteson 

David M. Vahey 

Classics and English 


Naomi C. Cooper 

Classics and Oriental Studies 


Eleanor A. Woods 

English and Modern Languages 

First Class 

Catherine R. Jackson (Spanish) 


Violet Mermelstein 

History 

First Class 

Charlotte G. Forrest 

Max Higdon 

Ying Ying Teo 


Luca E. Barker 

Katie J. Humphreys 

History and Politics 


Sophie Jordan 

Aqsa Lone 

Jurisprudence 

First Class 

Shaurya A. Kothari 


Madeline L. Dearman Hill 

Ivan Miachikov 



Literae Humaniores 


Flora L.S. Brown 

Katherine De Jager 

Elizabeth C.B. Whitehouse 

Eleanor Whiteside 

Materials Science 

First Class 

Louis Makower 

Mariella Papapavlou 


Adam A. Suttle 

Mathematical and Theoretical 

Physics 

Distinction 

Xihan Deng 

Mathematics 

Distinction 

Louisa K. Cullen 

Merit 

Zachary R.A. Walker 

Pass 

Yiran Shi 

Second Class Division Two 

Hongyi Gu 

Ge Song 

Medical Sciences 

First Class 

Bethan L. Storey 


Nafisah Tabassum 

Emily P.B. Thompson 

Second Class, Division Two 

Marcus D. Roberts 

Modern Languages 

First Class 

Lionel A. B. Whitby (French and 

Russian) 


Genevieve A.M. Jeffcoate (French and 

German) 

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry 

First Class 

Jack Broadbent 


Jack M. Badley 

Music 

First Class 

Rhiannon E. Harris 

Charlotte M. Jefferies 

Jacob Sternberg 

Oriental Studies 

First Class 

Julia M. Follan 

Patrick J. Gwillim-Thomas 


Katya Yan 

Philosophy and Modern Languages 

First Class 

Jack Franco 

Philosophy, Politics and Economics 

First Class 

Isaac Hudd 

Joseph S. McGrath 

Alfred E.J. Mowse 



Karan Chandra 

Gee Ren Chee 

Pandora E.G.B. Mackenzie 

Xi Zhe Arthur Sarek Tang 

Physics 

First Class 

Jinwoo Kim 

Jonathan J. Thio 


Cristiano F. Da Cruz 

Kornel Ksiezak 





FIRST PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS 

First BM 

Poppy M. Dorlandt 

Ahmed Hussain 

Grace Jones 

Harry M.N. Orwell 

Honour Moderations 

Literae Humaniores 

Amber D.M. Evans 

Georgina E. Field 

Philip Gentles 

Roisin Quinn 

Moderations 

Law 

Soumia Bouda 

Finlay E. Butler 

Annalise Dodson 

James A. Gallagher 

Bahira Malak 

Charlotte H. Rumney 

Wan Ni N. Tay* 

Ethan J. Teo Yong Qi* 

Preliminary Examinations 

Ancient and Modern History 

William Davis 

Biology 

Elyse L. Airey* 

Mikolaj Marszalkowski* 

Saul Clachar-Briscoe 

Rosemary Cowden 

Zoe M. George 

Anna Kalygina 

Madison Merritt 

Biomedical Sciences 

Shahad Arzouni 

Ellen Laker 

Chemistry 

Frederick W. Simpson* 

Chihiro Kinumaki 

English and Modern Languages 

Eva M. Bailey (French) 

Oisin Byrne (Spanish) 

Holly Milton-Jefferies (French) 

English Language and Literature 

Freddy Conway-Shaw* 

Miriam R. Alsop 

Iris N. Greaney 

Experimental Psychology 

Tony Cowen 

Kylie Li* 

History 

Ailish Gaughan* 

Cameron D. Hutchinson 

Faith W.S. Leong 

Ziden Ramage 

Charles Rowan Hamilton 

Louis Simms 

History and English 

Harry Brook 

Irina-Petra Husti-Radulet 

History and Politics 

Matthew Craik 

Elin Isaac* 


Eve Scollay 

Jasmine Wilkinson 

Materials Science 

Enyala Banks 

Thomas A. Batchelor 

David E. Craven 

Zhuojun Hou 

Emily Weal 

Charlotte J. Wheatley 

Mathematics 

Matthew Buckley 

Minghui Chen 

Daniel J. Kelly* 

Guojie Lin* 

Music 

Sophie Akka 

Rosanna M. Milner 

Luke Mitchell 

Oriental Studies 

Adam P. Ali-Hassan* (Egyptology and 

ANES) 

Theodore Nze* (Japanese) 

Max D.L. Seagger (Chinese) 

Cosmo Siddons (Chinese) 

Philosophy and Modern Languages 

Hannah Davie (French) 

Elizabeth A. Lee (French) 

Ruby E. Turner (French) 


Mathematics and Philosophy 

Ami Chen* 

Mathematics and Statistics 

Kanaya P. Yudewo 

Modern Languages 

Esme W. Buzzard* (French and 

Russian) 

Alexander Coleman (German and 

Czech) 

Antonia G.H. Johnson (French) 

Luke J. Nixon (Spanish and 

Portuguese) 

Rebecca A. Stevens (Spanish) 

Modern Languages and Linguistics 

Anna Vines (German) 

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry 

Harry R.J. Dewhurst 

Harry C. Kyd 

Jonathan W.C. Le* 

Matthew Rogers* 

Samuel Z.C. Toulmin* 

Philosophy, Politics and Economics 

Conor Boyle 

Zoe I. Edwards* 

Matilda Evans 

Corabella Hill 

Isabel M.G. Lee 

Physics 

Henry Coop 

Yunhui Li* 

Shuiwaner Liu 

Yanzuo Yu* 

Psychology, Philosophy and 

Linguistics 

Lucia Chacon Osborne 



UNIVERSITY PRIZES 

Armourers and Brasiers’ Prize 

for best 2nd year Materials 

selection poster: Milo Coombs, 

Jacx K.Y. Chan 

Armourers and Brasiers’ Prize 

for year 2 Business plan team 

presentation: Jacx K.Y. Chan 

Armourers and Brasiers’ Company/ 

TATA Steel Prize for best overall 

performance in Prelims practicals: 

Evie M. Hargreaves (shared prize) 

Armourers and Brasiers’ Company/ 

TATA Steel Prize for best team 

design project: Magnus S.B. 

Lawrence, Wentao Zhang (shared prize) 

Davis Prize for best dissertation in 

Chinese: Juliette Hammer 

Dudbridge Senior Prize for best 

performance in classical Chinese: 

Juliette Hammer 

Departmental Prize for performance 

in Biochemistry Part I Paper 1: 

Seren K. Ford 

Gibbs Prize for Biology: Octavia 

Bathurst 

Gibbs Prize for distinguished 

performance in Englsh Course I: 

Ella Farmer 

Gibbs Prize for best performance in 

English Course II: Austin J. Haynes 

Gibbs Prize for Japanese: Julia Follan 

Gibbs Prize for Japanese: Patrick 

Gwillim-Thomas 

IoM 3 AT Green Prize for best 

Ceramics graduate: Louis Makower 

IoM 3 Prize for best overall 

performance: Louis Makower 

IoM 3 Craven Prize for best Polymers 

graduate: Mariella Papapavlou 

IoM 3 Royal Charter Prize for best 

Materials graduate: Louis Makower 

James McMullen Prize for highest 

First in Japanese: Julia Follan 

Weiskrantz Prize Proxime Accessit 

for best overall performance in 

Psychology papers – Part I: Jasmine 

Nieradzik-Burbeck 

Wronker Prize for excellent 

performance in the Honour School 

of Medical Sciences: Bethan L. 

Storey 


COLLEGE PRIZES 

Blake Prize: Katerina Zagurova (History) 

First Bolus Prize: Frederick Foulston (Literae Humaniores) 

Second Bolus Prize: Joseph J. Wald (Classics and Modern Languages 

(German)), Cyrus Tehranchian (Classics with Oriental Studies) 

Third Bolus Prize: Katherine de Jager (Literae Humaniores) 

Jack Wooding Prize (for greatest contribution to the Boat Club by a firstyear 

undergraduate): Charlotte H. Rumney (Jurisprudence) 

Many Prize: Katie H. Bowen (English Language and Literature) 

Markheim Prize: Elizabeth Cowdrey (Modern Languages (French and Russian)), 

Annabel Vago (European and Middle Eastern Languages (French and Arabic)) 

Palmer Prize: Modern Languages (French and Spanish), Megan M. Williams 

(English and Modern Languages (French)) 






FROM THE BURSAR 

Dr Andrew Timms 

Bursar 

The past year has been marked by a sense of returning 

normality and it has been very pleasing to see the College 

come back to life. That is not to imply that it has been plain 

sailing, however: life has become very much more difficult 

on financial and operational fronts. We have struggled, like 

many other employers, to recruit and retain waiting staff 

and cleaners (scouts), which has made it quite difficult to 

resume the customary level of operations at precisely the 

moment when it was most desirable to do so; and as 

inflation has taken hold we have also experienced a certain 

amount of understandable tension in what is normally a 

very tranquil and happy workforce. The College has responded to this in a number 

of ways. Firstly, we have kept a close eye on remuneration: we reviewed pay several 

times, and brought forward a significant portion of our normal August pay rise for 

all staff; we also increased the salaries of the lowest paid staff so that they now 

receive the so-called Oxford Living Wage – this is a multiple of the Living Wage 

Foundation’s ‘real’ Living Wage (with which we have been an accredited employer 

for several years). And we also paid all staff bonuses in respect of the exceptional 

efforts made to keep the College functioning during the pandemic. Secondly, we 

have embarked upon a consultation on employment terms and conditions with all 

non-academic employees, which will look to replace the current patchwork quilt of 

varying contractual arrangements that have accumulated over time with a modernised 

employment contract, offering more holiday, flexibility, and better benefits in return 

for the harmonisation of working hours and other practices across the College. 

So in some ways the past year has been more demanding than the pandemic 

itself. This has certainly been true of the College’s finances. For example, the 

budgeting process had to be interrupted twice to take account of changing inflation 

expectations, and the general level of pressure on financial decisions has increased 

markedly. Energy costs are a particular concern: they are expected to more than 

double if we compare this year (2022–23) with last year (2021–22), and forecasts 

for next year suggest further significant increases. To put this into context, in more 

normal times the College would have expected to be spending a little under £500k 

on energy in a year; the budget this year is over £900k and forecasts for next year 

have varied wildly, at times reaching numbers well in excess of £1.5 million. This is a 

significant fraction of our core unrestricted educational and operational expenditure 

(which is around £10 million per annum). A notable constraint is that, realistically, 

we cannot expect simply to pass these costs on to students, so the College ends 

up increasing its subsidisation of accommodation. We can absorb this for a year or 

two, but if higher energy costs persist then we will have to reconsider our charges 

more fundamentally. 



New Lodge projections 

Credit: Burd Haward Architects 

Meanwhile progress continues on our long-term programme of works to upgrade 

the facilities in the main College. The main capital project undertaken during the 

year—the refurbishment of the Front Quad east range basement bathrooms—was 

completed under budget (but late); the next major project, the construction of the 

new accessible Lodge, began on site in August 2022 and is currently expected to 

finish in April 2023. The new Lodge will transform very significantly the welcome that 

we can provide to everyone visiting the main site. (Sadly, the current Lodge, which I 

know is fondly remembered by many, no longer meets our needs.) The new Lodge 

will provide more space and also open up a second access from the High Street 

into what is currently the Beer Cellar Yard. This will be a fully level access route into 

the College, providing those with limited mobility a direct and step-free way to get 

into Front Quad. This will be a giant leap forward in our efforts to make the College 

more accessible to those with physical disabilities. 



It all costs money, of course, and that is the main thing that that the Bursar thinks 

about. On this front, it must be said that the College’s endowment has endured 

some quite challenging years. As I have outlined in previous reports, the impact of 

the pandemic on rent collection from commercial properties has been considerable, 

and in 2022 the difficulties experienced by most stock markets have also taken a 

small toll on the College’s wealth. The College is very underweight in the US market 

so we have been shielded to some extent from the deflation of the technology 

market, but most other markets have also seen losses in light of the more febrile 

financial climate (and of course geopolitical events). A bright spot on an otherwise 

bleak horizon has been the College’s agricultural land, where the painstakingly slow 

process of bringing forward farmland for residential development has moved us 

much closer to the point at which we will receive some substantial and long-awaited 

receipts. Indeed, the overall total investment return in 2021–22 was around 3.4%, 

which comprises small losses on commercial properties and equities, offset by a 

significant revaluation of land outside Coventry which we plan to sell for residential 

development in the near future. In more normal times this would be only a modest 

return, but given the wider challenges (and the performance of many benchmarks) 

we feel it was a pretty successful year, and our longstanding policy of diversifying 

equity risk via agricultural land holdings has demonstrated its value. 

View from the New Lodge 

into the Cloisters 

Credit: Grace Finlay 



OUTREACH 

Katharine Wiggell 

Schools Liaison, 

Outreach and 

Recruitment Officer 

What a difference a year makes! You may recall that, in the 

2020/2021 academic year, all of our Outreach work at 

Queen’s unfortunately had to take place online as we were – 

of course – in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, as 

we come to the end of the 2021/2022 academic year, the 

picture, thankfully, couldn’t be more different. While we have 

still delivered some of our outreach programme throughout 

this year in a virtual format, as and when schools have 

requested this approach, we have ultimately refocused our 

attentions on offering engaging in-person outreach sessions 

once more. So, I purchased myself a new railcard and off I 

went, travelling up and down the country to our link areas 

to speak to pupils about the student experience at Oxford! 


There was a period of adjustment as I got used to being back in front of an in-person 

audience, but it was considerably more rewarding to be back in schools rather than 

presenting over Zoom or Teams to a sea of turned off cameras, and the students I 

have worked with this year have been very engaged and enthusiastic. I have also 

had the opportunity to visit parts of our link areas I hadn’t been to previously, and 

have spent time in Accrington, Burnley, Colne, and Rawtenstall visiting schools and 

attending events and fairs in that corner of Lancashire; stayed for a week in Cumbria 

visiting a number of schools in the Lakes; and ventured up to the very North of the 

county to attend a UCAS Fair in Carlisle and visit a school in Brampton. 

Our first in-person visit to Queen’s took place in early September 2021 and it has 

been non-stop since, with multiple school visits taking place each month and 

thousands of students being given the chance to visit Oxford and find out whether 

it could be the university for them. Most of our Outreach work is focused on students 

who are in Year 10 and above – with special attention given to those who are in Year 

12 and therefore most actively considering their university choices. However, we 

have also expanded our efforts this year to support younger pupils as well and have 

been visited by students who are just embarking on their secondary school journey 

and are yet to choose their GCSE options. Our youngest visitors this year were just 

5 years old: a class of students from a primary school based in Cowley came for an 

interactive tour of Queen’s, which involved lots of running around in the gardens and 

telling me all of the fun facts that they had been learning about the history of Oxford! 

They definitely brought a smile to the faces of the undergraduates as they tip-toed 

through the Library, shushing each other. 

Excitingly, this year has involved a lot of collaboration among Outreach colleagues in 

order to increase our reach and support a greater number of prospective applicants. 



We have continued our work as part of Oxford for the North West, working with 

colleagues at St Peter’s, Corpus Christi and Pembroke in order to deliver webinars 

to students from the region, as well as in-person in-reach events for current students 

to help them settle in and find a community here. We’ve also enjoyed supporting 

the work of other fantastic outreach programmes, such as Target Oxbridge and 

Opportunity Oxford, and continued working with our colleagues in Cambridge, 

going on road trips to deliver in-region events in schools and colleges in our shared 

link areas. 

The academic year ended with the return of in-person Open Days – after three long 

years! With that came our first big residential event, with just shy of 100 Year 12 

students and their teachers coming down from state-schools in the North-West and 

staying with us at Queen’s for our Open Days Plus Residential Programme. It was 

wonderful to see these students making the most of their time at Queen’s, taking 

part in taster Tutorial sessions with our Tutors and Lecturers, asking lots of questions 

of our Student Ambassadors, and enjoying the social side of life here too as they 

participated in quizzes and punting trips in the evenings. Many of the students 

reported that they felt much more confident about making an Oxford application 

after the residential and that they recognised that they would be able to find a likeminded 

community here, which is fantastic to hear. We will be keeping our fingers 

crossed for them as they submit their UCAS applications – hopefully we will get to 

see some of them matriculating at Oxford in Michaelmas 2023! 

After over three years, I will be moving on from Queen’s at the start of the new 

academic year to pursue a Masters in Higher Education at Oxford. I’m looking 

forward to carrying out independent research and hope to spend time investigating 

patterns of educational disadvantage in UK coastal schools and how disadvantaged 

students’ rates of progression to highly selective higher education institutions are 

affected by a coastal upbringing. I have very much enjoyed my time at Queen’s and 

have loved working with prospective students and supporting them on their journey 

to their post-18 choices. The best part of this job has to be seeing students who I 

worked with when they were at school successfully navigate the Oxford application 

process and see them now thriving as undergraduates at Queen’s – and representing 

the College as Student Ambassadors on our Outreach programmes too! I am sure 

that Access and Outreach at Queen’s will go from strength to strength and the 

diversity of our future cohorts will continue to improve and represent the very best 

and brightest students from all walks of life here at Oxford. 


Credit: John Cairsns 

ADMISSIONS 

Dr Jennifer Guest 

Tutor for Admissions 

In the context of admissions, we have continued over the 

past year to grapple with direct and indirect effects of the 

pandemic, but with a welcome sense that we are moving 

away from an emergency footing. Students worldwide have 

largely returned to in-person exams, although obstacles to 

accessing testing have remained for some; more broadly, 

this year's cohort of admitted students have overcome 

substantial disruption to their studies over the past few 

years, which makes their successes all the more impressive. 

Admissions interviews took place virtually again in 

December 2021, and will be held online in 2022 for a third time. Although we've 

all become more used to the virtual format, discussions continue in College and 

across the university about its potential pros and cons, how to make sure this new 

format is helping rather than hindering our access goals, and how we can best 

ensure that applicants and offer-holders can gain a realistic sense of college life 

even if through a virtual lens. With Open Day events now held in person again (while 

retaining some extra virtual resources), there’s now a greater variety of ways for 

prospective applicants to learn about the admissions process and their pathway to 

study at Queen’s. 


Modern Languages taster day 




Credit: John Cairsns 

A YEAR IN THE LIBRARY 

Dr Matthew Shaw 

College Librarian 

The year has been marked by a return to the usual patterns 

of activity in the Library, despite the challenges of the Delta 

and Omicron variants – from inductions and tours in 

Michaelmas Term to the packed desks of Sixth and 

Seventh Weeks as junior members prepare for exams. 

While the Library has been able to operate almost as usual 

during the pandemic, we finished Hilary Term with the 

removal of social distancing limits on seating in the New 

Library reading room, and with it the end of special 

measures. We have retained some things, such as a 

popular ‘click and collect’ service outside of the library for 

busy students, intelligent use of Teams video calling and imaging for remote 

researchers, and a better understanding of healthy ventilation and monitoring of air 

quality in the reading rooms: there is now even less of an excuse to fall asleep at 

one’s desk in the fug of an overwarm, under-oxygenated library. 

The collections continue to grow. In part due to the donation of several collections 

resulting from the changeover of some Fellows’ rooms, over 800 volumes have 

been processed and added to the collections by our librarians. These have been 

augmented by increased access to digital books and other online resources, working 

in collaboration with other college libraries and the Bodleian Libraries. Circulation of 

physical books among readers have also returned to pre-pandemic levels. Contributing 

to the social life of the College, a small collection of board games, such as Mysterion, 

can also be borrowed from the New Library, and the Library has investigated and 

augmented its Ukrainian collections (some of which were on display in the Hall during 

the coffee and cake morning in aid of the Red Cross Ukrainian appeal). Existing 

collection items continue to give up their secrets, such as the provenance of a folio of 

Piranesi engravings, or the prior ownership of several rare books by Robert Southey, 

the poet laureate from 1813 to 1843 who, like the College, possesses a strong 

connection to the Lake District. The discovery of an account of a College bicycle ride in 

the Historical Society minute book from 1922 led to the ride’s centennial re-enactment 

in June 2022 by Fellows, staff and Old Members. Sadly, the ferry at Bablock Hythe 

exploited by the earlier cyclists was no longer running. 

Books (and manuscripts) have also been out on display in the Upper Library. 

In Michaelmas Term, the Library celebrated the work and career of Prince Akiki 

Nyabongo: novelist, ethnologist, and Ugandan administrator who studied at Queen’s 

in the 1930s. The exhibition featured on BBC South News, made use of photographs 

provided by Nyabongo’s son, and it included a curatorial tour and discussions for the 

JCR. In Hilary Term, we contributed to the College’s sustainable food initiative, with 

a display on ‘Dining Right’, drawing on the Library’s collection of JCR suggestions 



‘Africa Answers Back’ exhibition 

The ‘Dining Right’ exhibition 


books (seasonable vegetables was one idea from the 1950s) and reaching back 

as far as the fifteenth century, with Edward IV’s manuscript instructions to his 

kitchen: ‘let there be no wast[e]’ (MS 134). Trinity Term explored ‘Cummerland Talk’: 

the dialects of the north west, curated by Library Assistant Dr Felix Taylor, and which 



drew on Dr Douglas Bridgewater’s donation of Cumberland and Westmorland books. 

In collaboration with the Queen’s Translation Exchange and the School’s Liaison 

and Outreach Officer, the exhibition included a translation competition for partner 

schools in the region. Earlier in the year, following a series of ‘show and tells’ and 

seminars in the Library for Dr Jennifer Edwards’s Renaissance Literature course, 

students Katie Bowen, Austin Haynes, Sarah Hutchence, Niamh Ward, and Megan 

Williams curated a fascinating display in the New Library on early modern disease. 

Students on Dr Jessica Stacey’s French course were able to look at our copy of one 

of Moliere’s plays, which was owned, and possibly annotated, by Anne of Austria. 

These exhibitions, and the collections in general, have sparked further discussion. 

For example, as Trinity Term ended, we were able to support Dr Annalisa Nicholson’s 

Huguenot Workshop with an extended ‘hands on’ session with French protestant 

texts, including one volume with rare early woodcuts of Florida. Earlier in the year, 

the Library hosted an online seminar examining textile conservations, looking at 

the work undertaken on our important collection of Henry VIII manuscript bindings. 

The Library and Dr Gabriele Rota, produced a series short videos for the Centre for 

Manuscript and Textual Studies’s YouTube channel exploring the Library, including 

an interview with history fellow, Dr Conor O’Brien on medieval dining practices 

and Professor Richard Parkinson and Dr Christopher Hollings exploring Egyptian 

mathematics in the Peet Library. The latter library also proved popular with a visit in 

March by the nearby New College School’s Year 3 as part of their ‘Greats’ study of 

Egyptian Civilisation; the budding Egyptologists, who were treated to an introduction 

by Professor Richard Parkinson, were also very taken by the set of globes and orrery 

in the Upper Library. The Library also continues to be a popular calling point for 

young people on the school’s outreach programme (as well as for Old Members). 

Expanding access to the collections for scholars, and indeed anyone with an interest 

in them, has continued thanks to donations from Old Members which support the 

conservation, expert imaging, and digital ‘ingest’ skills needed to digitise books 

and manuscripts. Through our collaboration with the Bodleian Libraries, you can 

now view a growing number of the College’s treasures online along with important 

scholarly works, including Thomas Hardy’s Winter Words (MS 420) and Thomas 

Crosfield’s (1602-1663) diary (MS 390), which is full of fascinating insights into early 

modern life in College and beyond. We hope that this body of works will expand 

significantly over the coming years. The Library has also ‘gone viral’ (in a good way) 

several times this year, thanks to Assistant Librarian Sarah Arkle’s savvy use of 

social media. 

Finally, I am pleased to report that the the important role that Tessa Shaw has played 

for many years in the Library was recognised in her title of Deputy Librarian shortly 

before she retired at the end of the year. 


A YEAR IN THE CHAPEL 

Revd Dr Katherine Price 

College Chaplain 

“Our days are like the grass, we flourish like a flower of the 

field. When the wind goes over it, it is gone, and its place 

will know it no more.” Psalm 103 

At the start of Trinity Term 2017, as I was seated in my stall 

in Chapel for the very first time, the preacher gave some 

words of guidance for my new ministry in the College. 

The Ven Martin Gorick, then Archdeacon of Oxford and 

Canon of Christ Church (and now Bishop of Dudley), took 

as his theme three words: contemplative, compassionate, 

and courageous. Not even an Archdeacon could have 

foreseen what the next five years were to bring! Yet as I look back for this, my last 

contribution to the College Record, it is precisely these three values which I see 

brought to the fore by the challenges we have faced and continue to face. 


The 2021/22 academic year started well. Michaelmas saw the Chapel bucking the 

national trend, as numbers in the congregation bounced back to pre-pandemic 

levels. It was a joy to see the Chapel full again for the start of term Welcome Service 

as well as the Carol Service, both 

of which had seen people turned 

away last year when capacity was 

restricted. We had a particularly 

strong Chapel team, with more 

undergraduates getting involved 

in the life of the Chapel, although 

it must be admitted the numbers 

sloped off a bit after they’d earned 

their Christmas Dinner! 

Contemplation in the widest sense 

has been an unexpected fruit 

of lockdown. We seem to have 

discovered a greater appetite for 

simplicity and peace, and a new 

attention to the big questions of 

how we want to live. For the second 

year running, a number of students 

attended confirmation classes. 

Three were confirmed in the Chapel 

in Michaelmas Term, and another 

at the University Church later in 

Katherine with guest preacher Revd Hasna Khatun 

and Chapel Intern Philipa Kalungi 



Confirmations in Michaelmas 2021 

the year. The Temple Soc discussion group, named for former fellow and wartime 

Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple, continues to be enjoyed and valued by 

a growing number of students. We have often run out of seats in the Chaplain’s 

room, though never out of cake! We were delighted to welcome in person Prof Tom 

McLeish, one of our video guest preachers from the previous year, to lead a Temple 

Soc discussion on science and faith. 

The pandemic has also seen greater compassion and concern for issues of social 

justice and environmental sustainability. Last year I reported on our Creation Justice 

2021 programme running through Hilary Term. This year, the theme for Hilary Term 

was Food for Thought, tying in with the College’s Dining Right programme and 

ongoing discussions within the College community about sustainability and inclusivity 

in our catering. I was particularly honoured to welcome fellow chaplains Shaunaka 

Rishi Das and Rabbi Michael Rosenfeld-Schueler, and Islamic scholar Dr Shabbir 

Akhtar, to discuss the role of food in our respective faith traditions. 

Hilary Term was a bittersweet term for me personally, as the College recruited 

my successor as Chaplain, and I in turn announced my appointment as Vicar 


of Wantage. The new College Chaplain is the Revd Alice Watson, a graduate of 

both Cambridge and Oxford, who has just completed her curacy in Kettering. It 

feels affirming that the College has for a second time appointed a female chaplain 

at the end of her curacy: it evidently worked out all right last time! But I am equally 

confident that Alice will bring her own gifts and direction to Chapel life. 

Most of all, these times have called for courage. Although the College may sometimes 

feel like an oasis from the ‘real world’, we find ourselves at the cutting edge of 

the social debates and challenges that will face the generation to come. There 

is no more real and urgent task than building a community which lives well and 

functions together in a changing world. I’ve always sought to make the Chapel a 

place of challenge as well as comfort – even if I haven’t always got that right. Sermon 

highlights this year included the Revd Augustine Tanner-Ihm’s African-American take 

on the Gospel of Luke, entitled “Who’s invited to the cookout?”, and Remembrance 

Sunday with former Northern Ireland politician and conflict expert Lord Alderdice. 


Summer was a valedictory season in more ways than one. As well as an emotional 

farewell service – for departing students and departing Chaplain alike! – the Chapel 

hosted a number of memorials for Honorary and Emeritus Fellows: Dr Morrin 

Acheson (1925-2020) Emeritus Fellow in Chemistry; Dr Peter Neumann (1940-2020) 

Emeritus Fellow in Mathematics; Prof Brian McGuinness (1927-2019) Emeritus Fellow 

in Philosophy; and medieval historian the Revd Prof Colin Morris (1928-2021) Old 

Member and Honorary Fellow. 

The quotation with which I began is most familiar from the funeral service. 

A downbeat note, perhaps, after a largely positive year in the life of the Chapel! I am 

writing this in drought-stricken August (hopefully long forgotten by the time you read 

this) so perhaps I am merely inspired by the yellowing lawn I can see behind my 

vicarage in Wantage. But this year has been for me one of beginnings and endings. 

The transience of the College community can be a surprising strength – I recall some 

of the early changes I made in the Chapel, which I’d never get away with in a parish 

full of people who remember how it’s ‘always been done’! But it also demands a 

particular grace of letting go. 

It has been a joy to see the life of the College and Chapel restored to something 

like its pre-pandemic vitality. I’ve also been humbled by how many students and 

colleagues have taken the time to express their appreciation for my ministry here. 

Now it’s my turn to vacate the Chaplain’s stall once more, and to join the community 

of those whose lives have briefly intersected with that of the College, and then gone 

their separate ways. All that remains is to thank everyone for five amazing years, and 

to assure you of my prayers and blessings for all that is to come. 




A YEAR IN THE ARCHIVE 

Michael Riordan 

College Archivist 

This has been a momentous year in the Archive, as plans 

long delayed by the pandemic finally came to fruition. 

As described in previous Records, we will re-catalogue the 

Archive over the course of a decade. The current catalogue 

is actually four catalogues (medieval deeds, volumes, files, 

and everything else), none of which meets international 

professional standards and all remain paper-based. 

We have – at last! – begun the project, working first on the 

records of the College’s Oxford properties, and on the 

estates given in 1529 by William Fettiplace. They will all be 

arranged and catalogued according to the International 

Standard on Archival Description (General) on specialist archival cataloguing 

software, Epexio, which, as it happens, was created by a former member of the 

College’s Library staff. In due course it will be possible to search the catalogue via 

the College’s website. 

To facilitate the project, the College has created the role of Assistant Archivist. 

We have been lucky to appoint Amy Ebrey who has just finished a doctorate at 

St. John’s on the work of mediaeval Oxford theologians. She is working part-time 

at Queen’s and is studying part-time at University College London to become a 

professional archivist. Amy is answering most of the enquiries that come to the 

Archive about the history of the College, its members and estates, and would be 

very glad to hear from any Old Members. 

We continued to receive such enquiries from the public throughout the pandemic, 

though we had to close the Reading Room to physical visits for a while. It is now 

fully open again, but we’ve found that though professional scholars are visiting 

to look at items from the Archive, we have not yet had the return of recreational 

researchers to investigate their family history, local history, or a myriad of other 

subjects. Consequently, over the course of the year we had just 17 visits by 

researchers to the Reading Room, but a further 162 enquiries by email, telephone 

or (very occasionally!) post. 

Additionally, work continued by the Oxford Conservation Consortium on cleaning, 

repairing and rehousing – in a variety of acid-free envelopes and boxes – the College’s 

collection of 2,500 mediaeval deeds. We also held a pop-up exhibition of items from 

the Archive illustrating the College’s historic connections with the North of England. 

Some of these can be seen in my article on the subject later in this Record. 


A YEAR IN THE CHAPEL CHOIR 

Officers: Organist Prof. Owen Rees; Organ Scholars Isaac 

Adni, Luke Mitchell; Maurice Pearton Choral Scholar and 

recipient of the Hilde Pearton Vocal Training Jake 

Sternberg; Hildburg Williams Lieder Scholar Charlotte 

Jefferies; Librarians Alaw Evans, Rosanna Milner; Choir 

Manager Rachel Wheatley, Colin Danskin 


Professor O L Rees 

Organist 

Returning to (mainly) normal service- and concert-singing 

life was a deeply rewarding experience this year for the 

singers, organists, and myself. Within the Choir’s concert 

calendar, highlights included performances of Monteverdi’s 

Vespers with Instruments of Time and Truth, Jonathan Dove’s The Passing of the 

Year (with the composer at the piano) in the Oxford Lieder Festival, Bach’s St John 

Passion with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, and Handel’s Messiah with the 

Academy of Ancient Music: this last concert was filmed, and has so far attracted 

some 300,000 views on the Choir’s YouTube channel. In Trinity Term we presented 

a concert of music by composers of the Restoration-period Chapel Royal, featuring 

newly edited works by Henry Cooke, a project instigated by Sam Teague – one of 

our lay clerks and a doctoral research student at the College – whose research area 

this is, and who also organised a very successful associated one-day conference 

on Cooke and Restoration music. The Choir also sang for the University’s Encaenia 

ceremony in the Sheldonian Theatre (at which the recipients of honorary degrees 

included Sir Lenny Henry), at which the music included Caroline Shaw’s inspiring 

And the swallow. 

The choir’s concert at the Palacio National De Sintra from their tour to Portugal 



In addition, we were able to return to touring: a concert tour of Portugal in July 

celebrated the 650th anniversary of the Treaty of Tigilde between England and 

Portugal, marking the historic alliance between the countries. As part of these 

celebrations, held in collaboration with the British Embassy in Portugal and the 

Universidade do Minho in Braga, we collaborated with English National Ballet in the 

performance of a new work, Dance in Perpetuity (with music by Charlotte Harding), 

performed by the young dancers from the various ballet schools in Braga. Other 

notable performances on the tour included a joint concert in a packed Oporto 

Cathedral with the Cathedral’s choir. In August the Choir was delighted to present 

the opening concert of the renowned Laus Polyphoniae festival of early music in 

Antwerp, a concert which was broadcast live on radio. The concert (postponed 

for two years because of the pandemic) featured the repertoire from the Choir’s 

CD of music by John Taverner, and was performed (as on the CD) jointly with my 

professional ensemble Contrapunctus, our aim being to evoke the impact in such 

music of the most important Tudor choirs such as that of Cardinal Wolsey and the 

Chapel Royal, emphasising the dramatic contrasts between soloists’ and full-choir 

sections which characterise the music of Taverner and his English contemporaries. 

Live-streaming of Sunday choral services continued this year. Special services 

in College included (in June) the memorial service for Dr Peter Neumann, whose 

passionate interest in the Choir’s work and in College music more generally over 

many years was so warmly appreciated by all the Queen’s musicians who knew 

him. We also sang – as usual – for the University Sermon service on Trinity Sunday 

(and earlier in the year for the University Sermon at All Souls College), and for the 

All Saints and Fettiplace gaudies, although the Boar’s Head gaudy (and the Carols 

from Queen’s concerts either side of it) were cancelled because of concerns about a 

new COVID-19 variant at that time. We were also able once again to make the annual 

visit to sing Evensong in one of the College’s livings, on this occasion St Mary’s, 

Upton Grey, where we received a warm welcome and sang to a very full church. 

Another welcome return this year was our annual August visit to sing services at 

Westminster Abbey, members of the current Choir being (as usual) joined for this 

event by singers from previous years. Service repertoire included pieces by our 

Senior Organ Scholar, Isaac Adni, and by Oxford-based composer Paul Burke, and 

Portuguese early modern repertory to mark the anniversary of Portugal’s restored 

independence in 1640. We welcomed a number of singers interested in choral 

awards to join the Choir for ‘taster’ days, and sang Evensong jointly with the choir 

of Francis Holland School. 

At the end of the academic year we bade farewell to our Chaplain, Katherine Price, 

who supported the Choir staunchly through the period of the pandemic and either 

side of it. We welcome Alice Watson as the new Chaplain. Warm thanks are due to 

all those who have held officerships within the Choir this year, and to our successive 

Choir Managers, Rachel Wheatley, and Colin Danskin. 


CENTRE FOR MANUSCRIPT AND TEXT CULTURES 

Prof Dirk Meyer 

Fellow in Chinese and 

Director of CMTC 

The Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures had another 

productive year. Our termly lectures and colloquia, which 

now run on Zoom and in person, remain popular; we held 

an exciting CMTC festival in Trinity Term in celebration of 

the launch of our open-access journal Manuscript and Text 

Cultures (MTC); and we are going to hold a major 

interdisciplinary conference—online and in person—in 

September this year. 

The board 

Tara Hathaway, our John P. Clay Scholar in Sanskrit, retired 

from the board in Trinity Term to focus on the write-up 

of the DPhil thesis. Tara was replaced by Vittorio Remo 

Danovi, who is currently working on a DPhil in Classics on 

the manuscript tradition of Virgil’s Aeneid. To strengthen 

Sanskrit, which remains a special concern of the Centre, Diwakar Acharaya (All Souls), 

Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics, will join the board in Michaelmas 

Term. The members of Queen’s involved in the organisation of the Centre are John 

Baines (Egyptology), Angus Bowie (Classics), Charles Crowther (Ancient History), 

Christopher Metcalf (Classics), Dirk Meyer (Chinese Philosophy), and Gabriele Rota 

(JRF Classics). Members of the Board steering the Centre also include Christelle 

Alvarez (Brown University: Egyptology), Amin Benaissa (Christ Church: Papyrology), 

Yegor Grebnev (UIC-BNU United International College, Zhuhai: Chinese), Henrike 

Lähnemann (St Edmund Hall: Medieval Languages), Anthony Lappin (Stockholm: 

Medieval Romance literature) Lesley Smith (Harris Manchester College: Medieval 

History), and Selena Wisnom (Leicester: Heritage of the Middle East). 


Lunchtime colloquia 

Our twice-termly lunchtime colloquia with two speakers each are designed to give 

research students and junior academics the opportunity to present their work 

at an academic event outside their usual department, and to receive critical yet 

supportive comments by specialists working on related questions but in different 

fields. The colloquia can relate to any aspect of manuscript and text cultures in 

literate societies. 

Workshops 

Central to our activities are our termly workshops. At these events leading 

scholars in various disciplines present a research paper, followed by long and 

intense discussions. Speakers in the academic year were MT 2021: Alessandro 

Bausi (University of Hamburg, African Studies) ‘Christian Ethiopian and Eritrean 

Manuscript Culture’; HT 2022: Sean Gurd (UT Austin, Classics) ‘Between Comedy 



and Tragedy: Armand Schwerner’s Tablets in the archives’; TT 2022 Filippomaria 

Pontani ‘More Attic than Athens Itself: Writing poetry in Ancient Greek since the 

15th century’. 

CMTC festival in celebration of the launch of the journal, Manuscript and 

Text Cultures 

In celebration of the first three years of the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures 

(CMTC) and the launch of the Centre’s open-access journal with its inaugural 

issue—Monumentalization—the Centre held a CMTC festival in Trinity Term 2022. 

Events included a special issue of the Queen’s College Symposium (26 April); 

the public, formal launch of the journal Manuscript and Text Cultures (Wednesday 

11th May); and ‘Unravelling Manuscript Cultures’, at once a public reading of 

extracts of premodern poetry in translation accompanied by a display of select 

early modern books and premodern manuscripts from different regions and times 

(Thursday 12th May). 

The festival was a huge success and confirmed the importance of the Centre as an 

established institution within the University of Oxford. More than 50 members of the 

Collegiate University from different faculties and departments attended the launch 

of the journal alone, including various Chairs of faculties, members of the senior 

administration of the Humanities Division, as well as Heads of houses. 

The events, launched by a formal address from our Provost, Dr Claire Craig, also 

saw the launch of our new website: https://cmtc.queens.ox.ac.uk. 

International conference 

This year we are holding an international conference, in person and online, on Music 

in Manuscript Cultures (8–9 September). The interdisciplinary event focused on 

the tension between the oral and aural performative elements of music and the 

written element in the material context of its preservation and transmission. See the 

programme at: https://musmss.org. 

The papers from the conference will inform volume 5 of the journal, Manuscript and 

Text Cultures. 

The Journal Manuscript and Text Cultures 

After the publication of our inaugural issue of Manuscript and Text Cultures (MTC), 

the following issues are currently in the making: 

Vol. 2: Navigating the text 

Vol. 3: Poetic Traditions in Manuscript Cultures 

Vol. 4: Writing Orality 

Vol. 5: Music in Manuscript Cultures 

Vol. 6: Provenance 



CMTC festival in Trinity Term 2022 

Manuscript and Text Cultures (MTC) is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal, which 

follows a strict open access policy. The Senior Editors are Angus Bowie and Dirk 

Meyer (both Queen’s), the production editor is Yegor Grebnev, Beijing Normal 

University (Zhuhai), UIC-BNU United International College. Presently, the Advisory 

Board of the journal consists of Daniel Boyarin (Departments of Rhetoric and Near 

Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley), Stefka Georgieva Eriksen (Norwegian Institute for 



Cultural Heritage Research, Oslo), Imre Galambos (Faculty of Asian and Middle 

Eastern Studies and Robinson College, University of Cambridge), Stephen Houston 

(Department of Anthropology, Brown University), Maria Khayutina (Institut für 

Sinologie, Universität München), Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (Department of Anglo-Saxon, 

Norse, and Celtic, and St John's College, University of Cambridge), Petra M. 

Sijpesteijn (Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University), Andréas Stauder, 

École Pratique des Hautes Études-PSL, Paris), Rosalind Thomas (Faculty of Classics 

and Balliol College, University of Oxford). 

CMTC Media channel 

The Centre’s media channel with podcasts, sharing podcasts, recordings of 

outreach talks, and recordings of research talks (colloquia) and workshops remains 

popular. The YouTube channel CMTC Media (https://www.youtube.com/channel/ 

UCNAJFkc6gzBVgseJ_IRrpLw) currently features the following content: 

1. CMTC Podcast Interviews. This is a series of interviews with academics 

and scholars interested, broadly, in premodern material or written cultures. 

The interviews are available on all main podcast streaming platforms 

(e.g., Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify) (https://audioboom.com/ 

channels/5048854). We aim to publish 8 interviews per academic year. 

2. Parchment and Paper. This is a videocast series offering conversations with 

and talks by Fellows of The Queen’s College and friends of the College about 

the treasures of the College Library (manuscripts or early printed books). 

The videocast series is a collaboration between the CMTC and The Queen’s 

College Library. The latest videocast is with Dr Felix Taylor, Library Assistant 

at Queen’s, on the recent display on northern dialects that he curated in the 

Upper Library. Before him, Dr Conor O’Brien, Fellow in Mediaeval History at 

Queen’s, spoke on food and dining in mediaeval England. 

3. CMTC research workshops. This series features the recordings of the onehour 

lectures given by established academics as they present their research 

to an interdisciplinary audience. 

4. CMTC conferences. This series broadcasts the conferences held and 

organised by CMTC. 



THE QUEEN’S TRANSLATION EXCHANGE 

Dr Charlotte Ryland 

Director of The Queen’s 

Translation Exchange 

My personal highlight came on an evening in May, in a busy 

Shulman Auditorium. This event marked the Translation 

Exchange’s return to live in-person events: a performance 

by five stellar Ethiopian poets and their translators, who had 

converged on Oxford from several continents as part of a 

short UK tour (pictured below). As I introduced the 

performers, I was still riding high on the news that had just 

reached me, of the huge numbers participating in our 

Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators. Over 14,000 young 

people, in schools and colleges right across the UK, had 

translated poetry and prose from French, German, Italian, 

Mandarin and Spanish. I shared this news with the audience, 

and their enthusiastic response set the perfect tone for the night of poetry that followed, 

and gave us all hope that together we can seed a lifelong love of languages and 

international culture in a generation of young people. 


Songs we Learn From Trees: Ethiopian Amharic Poetry in Translation event with translator 

Chris Beckett and poets Alemu Tebeje, Kebedech Tekleab, Misrak Terefe, Bedilu Wakjira 



We had held a small in-person workshop in Michaelmas Term – on the German 

poet Nora Gomringer, with her translator Annie Rutherford – but this Ethiopian event 

was our first major live event since the pandemic began, and the buzz in the room 

throughout the performance and drinks reception proved that a return to the stage 

was the right decision. 

We preceded this performance with a translation workshop, too, where university 

students worked together with poets, professional translators, Oxford residents and 

members of the Ethiopian diaspora. The power of translation came to the fore when 

one participant, who had travelled over eighty miles to attend, gave the caveat 

that she was “not a poet” before reading out her translation of the short poem – 

we should manage our expectations, in other words. She went on to read out a 

moving, powerful, creative rendering of the original. Translation makes writers of 

those who would not otherwise write, and this is what we see time and again in our 

schools’ workshops. 

These workshops, by the student Creative Translation Ambassadors that we train 

every autumn, were back in the classroom for the first time since 2019. Selected 

from Oxford’s undergraduate and postgraduate community, 18 Ambassadors codesigned 

and -delivered workshops in six languages in eight local state schools. 

We also began to collate the data from our research project on the impact of these 

workshops, which show that even these relatively short interventions can transform 

a pupil’s view of language-learning: from ‘boring’ to ‘interesting’, from ‘difficult’ to 

‘enjoyable’ and ‘creative’. 

My favourite response of all came from a teacher in Lancashire, who reported that, 

during a Year 8 Spanish lesson using our teaching resources, a 13-year-old student 

had remarked, “This feels important”. That particular lesson involved translating a 

prose extract about migration within South America: our resources routinely bring 

matters of historical, social or political import into the classroom through literature 

in this way, as well as foregrounding youth culture, street art, instapoetry and more. 

The language-learning experience needs to reflect the pupils’ interests – the things 

that are “important” to them – even while their language skills may be relatively limited. 

And our work with creative translation shows that we don’t need to wait until A Level/ 

Highers to introduce authentic, engaging, inclusive culture into the curriculum. 

Inclusion has been central to our work on the Anthea Bell Prize this year, through 

our project on ‘Inclusive Outreach through Translation’ with the MML Faculty and 

several other partners. With support from Oxford Humanities ‘Culture Change Fund’, 

we established a new collaboration with the Institut français and Goethe-Institut in 

London, to develop, test and publish authentic creative translation resources that 

explore equality. These will be tested in schools in autumn 2022, and soon after 

made available to the 1000+ Modern Languages teachers who have registered to 

receive our resources and lesson plans. 


Our virtual book club meetings for adults and young people discussed books from 

Brazil, Turkey, Germany, Cameroon, and Romania, and we published guides for book 

clubs in schools, libraries and homes – encouraging others to bring international 

literature into their reading. We also launched our new ‘Re-Viewing the World’ project, 

which encourages 15-18-year-olds to read and review literature in translation. As well 

as sending selected applicants the books in translation that we recommend, we 

publish their reviews on the College website: supporting the young people to read 

beyond the curriculum and giving them a taste of the kind of literary study that they 

could encounter at university. 


This has truly been a ‘hybrid’ year of in-person and virtual events at the Translation 

Exchange, then, and we will certainly continue in this way. The hugely increased 

reach made possible by our virtual events and our partnerships with teachers and 

schools will sit alongside a renewed focus on bringing together audiences in Oxford 

for transformative, collaborative performances and workshops; always with language, 

translation and international culture at their heart. 

If you would like to find out more about how you can get involved with and support 

our work at the Translation Exchange, we would love to hear from you. Please do 

get in touch. 

www.queens.ox.ac.uk/translation-exchange 

A workshop for primary school pupils in Oxford, run by Translation Exchange student 

ambassadors 





SUSTAINABLE FOOD AT QUEEN’S 

Inspired by the EAT-Lancet commission ‘Food in the 

Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy 

diets from sustainable food systems’, The Lancet 

Commissions, vol. 393, issue 10170, 2 February 2019, 

p. 447-492, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31788- 

4], the College developed Sustainable Food at Queen’s, or 

SFQ: a year-long project dedicated to thinking about every 

aspect of the food system in College. Specifically, we 

Prof Seth Whidden sought to address the commission’s four recommendations 

regarding the sustainability of food in College: the ratio of 

plant-based to meat-based foods purchased and served; the diversity of ‘nutritious 

foods from biodiversity-enhancing food production systems’; focusing more on food 

produced and harvested sustainably; and food waste dramatically reduced. 

An initial organisational meeting was held Hilary Term 2020, with work to pick 

up considerably after the arrival of the new College Chef in Trinity Term 2020. 

The pandemic represented a significant interruption to all aspects of College life, 

including dining. When the group reconvened in Michaelmas Term 2021, the project 

renewed its activities, in two areas: the behind-the-scenes work of four working 

groups, and the outward-facing ‘Dining Right’ programme, in which the College 

partnered with three chefs of international stature. These chefs curated meals in 

collaboration with the College Chef and took part in discussions alongside academic 

specialists. Combining the chefs’ practical knowledge and cutting-edge scholarship, 

the aim of ‘Dining Right’ was to foster greater collaboration and sensitivity to the 

planning, purchasing, preparation, consumption, and waste that are part of the 

College’s food cycle, and to inform the College’s future practices. 

The entire initiative was open to everyone in College: students, staff, and academic 

tutors were all active participants in the College’s working groups, tasting the 

specially curated meals, and participating in the post-meal discussions and the 

day-long symposium on 3 March 2022. 

‘Dining Right’ programme of events 

November 2021: What are we eating? 

Week of 15th November 2021 

Lunch and dinner on Monday 15th, Tuesday 16th, Thursday 18th, Friday 19th: 

menus designed by Asma Khan (Darjeeling Express, London) 


Dining Right after-dinner discussion (Monday 15th November, 8pm, Shulman 

Auditorium). Asma Khan (Darjeeling Express, London), Katherine Denby (Dept of 

Biology, Univ of York), and Sean Ducie (Head Chef, The Queen’s College). Moderated 

by Claire Craig (Provost, The Queen’s College) 

January 2022: What is sustainable? 

Week of 24th January 2022Lunch and dinner on Monday 24th, Wednesday 26th, 

Thursday 27th, Friday 29th: menus designed by Chantelle Nicholson (Apricity, 

London) 

Dining Right after-dinner discussion (Monday 24th January, 8pm, Shulman 

Auditorium). Chantelle Nicholson (Apricity, London), Marco Springmann (Oxford 

Martin Programme on the Future of Food), and Sean Ducie (Head Chef, The Queen’s 

College). Moderated by Claire Craig (Provost, The Queen’s College) 


February 2022: Where does it all go? 

Week of 7th February 2022 

Lunch and dinner on Monday 7th, Tuesday 8th, Thursday 10th Friday 11th: menus 

designed by Douglas McMaster (Silo, London) 

Dining Right after-dinner discussion (Monday 7th February, 8pm, Shulman 

Auditorium). Douglas McMaster (Silo, London), Sarah Bridle (Dept of Physics and 

Astrophysics, Univ of Manchester), and Sean Ducie (Head Chef, The Queen’s 

College). Moderated by Claire Craig (Provost, The Queen’s College) 

Dining Right Symposium: The Future of Food at Queen’s 

Thursday 3 March 2022, Shulman Auditorium 

Attendance was limited to students and staff of The Queen’s College and invited 

guests. Rather than charge for attending or viewing online, attendees were 

encouraged to consider donating to Oxford Food Hub, which rescues surplus food 

and redistributes it to charities and community organisations across Oxfordshire: 

https://oxfordfoodhub.org. Sessions included SFQ working group progress reports 

and discussions with the College Chef and guest chefs about their collaboration, 

and about the working group’s activities more generally. 

Finally, SFQ brought the working groups’ recommendations to the kitchen, the 

Domus Committee, and the Governing Body, with thanks to the kitchen staff for 

their efforts even before this initiative and for approaching the complicated matter 

of the sustainability of the College’s food offer with great thoughtfulness and care. 

Indeed, they had been doing so long before this project was created. 

As a result of this year’s activities, the Governing Body reiterated its commitment to 

moving to a more sustainable approach to food, while maintaining quality and expanding 

the rota of meals to accommodate different cultural traditions and celebrations. 




A YEAR IN THE MCR 

Samuel Fink 

MCR President 

President Samuel Fink; Victualler Samuel Teague 

After two consecutive years of major disruptions to 

academic and social life, 2021/22’s crop of postgraduate 

freshers found themselves integrating into a community 

that many returning students were still rather new to 

themselves. After all, those returning had not had the 

opportunity to enter the Common Room for the duration 

of the preceding year, a year many had largely spent locked 

in their homes. It therefore came as a relief that the MCR’s 

past year was mercifully ordinary. 

Postgraduate life at Queen’s was defined by the same occasions and routines 

as pre-pandemic. Michaelmas, for instance, saw Freshers’ Week, postgraduate 

social events deepening ties with other Colleges, and Hall Parties fostering cross- 

Common-Room connections. With the return of weekly Guest Nights and regular 

exchange dinners, the continuation of the Queen’s College Symposium series, and 

a Common Room in permanent usage – as room to study, a casual social space, 

or venue depending on the time of day – Queen’s postgraduates were able to enjoy 

an undiminished experience of MCR membership. All in all, refreshingly normal. 

Reflecting on the past year, thanks are owed to the members of the MCR Committee, 

whose efforts on behalf of the larger community and good cheer carried us through 

the year, to the College’s Fellows and officers, who made sure to take the MCR’s 

voice into consideration as they steered the College past crises large and small, and 

to the College staff, who did their utmost to make us feel welcome despite facing 

understaffing and changing guidelines. 

I have full confidence that 2022/23’s Committee will build on the foundation that 

2021/22’s return to business-as-usual represents, making Queen’s postgraduates’ 

new academic year extraordinary, and I wish them all the best. 



A YEAR IN THE JCR 

James McGhee 

JCR President 

President James McGhee; 

Vice President Jazzi Nieradzik-Burbeck 

Looking back on the past year in the JCR, I cannot help 

but feel that it has been a year defined by transition; the 

many changing perspectives and impacts of the COVID-19 

pandemic, along with a return to a sense of normality within 

a College community that has been fundamentally altered 

by our collective experiences of the pandemic. 

Michaelmas Term started, however, not with a whimper, 

but with perhaps a rather large bang. After a summer spent devising a multitude of 

contingency scenarios, seeing a Fresher’s week run as before the pandemic felt, 

frankly, surreal. Reflecting back on the term now over a year later, I think it’s easy 

to forget how strange, and for some, deeply anxious, it felt to eat in Hall normally 

together, to socialise with few restrictions, and to take part in that wider, more 

intangible ‘Oxford Experience’. Hence, in planning for the Fresher’s, we tried to 

take this into account and to ensure as many people as possible felt integrated 

within the College community: we increased the number of no alcohol and ‘relaxed’ 

events within the schedule, as well as organising, along with College, a separate 

‘Re-Fresher’s’ timetable for the returning years. Perhaps as an indication of success, 

I remember a second-year remarking to me a few weeks into the term: ‘so this is 

what Queen’s is actually like’. 


The term also saw a number of new and continued initiatives by the JCR committee. 

Alongside the College, we introduced successful proposals to Governing Body to 

introduce halal meat as a dietary option for every meal, as well as ensure the flying of 

the intersex-inclusive progress flag during LGBTQ+ History Month and Pride Month. 

Michaelmas also saw the organisation of Confluence@Queens events by the Minority 

Ethnicities reps, including what is hoped to be an annual formal dinner. Furthermore, 

despite the lack of Beer Cellar, the committee somehow managed to organise more 

social events than we have had in a normal term! 

The end of Michaelmas and the beginning of Hilary were however marked by the 

initial Omicron wave. Despite initial fears, the effect on the life of the College was 

luckily minimal. Perhaps, however, how most people will remember the term is by 

the re-opening of the Beer Cellar (after being asked by various JCR members at 

least daily for the prior term and a half!). Beer Cellar saw not only the return of its 

much-loved bops, but also the return of fifth-week blues as well as a new open mic 

event and quiz night. 



While it was wonderful to finally see a normal Trinity Term again, complete with 

punting, croquet, and college balls, the usual hedonism of the term had little effect 

on the productivity of the committee. The term saw the overwhelmingly successful 

introduction by the Kitchen and JCR of weekend brunch, the conclusion of a yearlong 

review and re-writing of the JCR constitution, and the beginning of a working 

group and proposal to examine the redecoration of the JCR space. 

The JCR would not be able to function and run everything it does without the 

support of members all across the spectrum of the College community – if anything, 

the experience of rebuilding knowledge and experience since the pandemic 

has shown this. Firstly, I would like to thank the entire JCR Committee, but in 

particular, Jazzi Nieradzik-Burbeck, Arthur Carpenter, Roisin Quinn, Nadia Kashoo, 

Chante Price, Olivia Coombs, Eva Bailey for all their work and enthusiasm in 

making change happen within College and the JCR. Secondly, to Dawn Grimshaw 

and the rest of the kitchen team for frankly, at times, going above and beyond 

in accommodating us and working with us. Lastly, to Claire Craig, Marie Bracey, 

Seth Whidden, Charlie Louth, Andrew Timms, and Nick Bamforth for their open 

engagement and working relationship with the JCR over the past year. While the 

pandemic for many of us is no longer a part of our daily experience, the College 

and JCR is the not the same as it was pre and post-pandemic and it will continue to 

evolve through these still turbulent times; I wish all the best to Roisin and the rest of 

the incoming committee for whatever the upcoming year may bring. 



STUDENT CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL CLUB 

Presidents Freddy Foulston and Julian Whitaker 

The QCAFC Men’s 1st XI 2021/22 

season burst into action back in 

October with wins against Somerville, 

Wadham, and Trinity showcasing real 

flair and talent. Our new team, battling 

it out in the 2nd division, was a fusion 

of established club stallions, bullish 

freshers who play above their years, 

and some nifty new recruits from 

St Benet’s and Wycliffe Hall. By an 

arcane rule they were allowed to join 

The Eagles. After the performances 

they put in throughout the season, we 

weren’t complaining. 


A burgeoning lust for Cuppers glory and College-wide recognition spearheaded 

our triumph over top seeded Pembroke (3-1) in the Round of 16. Pete Southwell, 

unofficial club mascot and Queen’s doyen, described this as perhaps the best 

Queen’s game he’s ever seen. Giddy with the validation, we pressed on to the 

Quarter Finals against Teddy Hall. On the touchline, the support for Queen’s was 

loud, unparalleled. The opposition jeered pea-brained insults through a megaphone. 

The air was thick with anticipation. We bestrode the pitch, fuelled by Lucozade sport 

and Giggs’ Peligro featuring Dave blasting out from the nearest Beats Pill. We went 

in with high hopes only to have glory stolen from us by a jammy 1-0 defeat. 



Though the results reveal a mixed bag and bouts of mediocrity among more 

scintillating performances, we won more than we lost and for much of the season 

were formidable. We also took victories against Magdalen and Lincoln, with a 

successful 5 a-side season and a friendly against Brasenose to cap off this term. 

Frustratingly Balliol, who went on to the Cuppers Final, always seemed to narrowly 

have the edge on us (first 7-5 and then 2-1) and we hope to take revenge next year. 

Rivals Teddy Hall should also be quaking in their dreary Queen’s annexe at the 

prospect of facing a bolstered and largely unchanged Queen’s XI next season. 

On the social side, our Michaelmas Santa Dinner, Hilary Black Tie Dinner, and the 

QCAFC Tour furnished ample opportunity to develop strong team chemistry and 

bring together a large number of the Queen’s undergraduate community in honour 

of The Beautiful Game. Football is a game that unites. We look forward to further 

uniting the College after our Cuppers victory next season. Once more will The Blue 

and White Beast rear its blue and white head to breathe blue and white flames over 

the green fields of Oxford. 

BALL COMMITTEE 

President Louis Makower 

On 24 June 2022 Queen’s was transformed into Wonderland for the 2022 

commemoration ball. 1,100 current students, Old Members, and their guests filled 

the College for a night of music, food, drink, entertainment, and 10ft inflatable 

LED mushrooms. 



The Provost’s Garden, dressed up in red and a giant chess board, was the Red 

Queen’s castle. The Beer Cellar was filled with petit fours, cakes, tea and coffee 

for the Mad Hatter’s tea party. The Front Quad facade was lit up with a mapped 

projection of liquid animations of playing cards and chess boards. 

The Hoosiers and Boney M headlined the main stage in Back Quad. “Rasputin” and 

“Goodbye Mr A” were highlights that definitely got the crowd going! The Fellow’s 

Garden was home to the rave tent, with local and student DJs playing dance music 

until 3am. Jager bombs kept everyone going until 5am when the silent disco ended 

and people headed home for some sleep. 

The committee of 14 worked throughout year to put the event on, with the incredible 

help of the College staff. 

CRICKET CLUB 

Captain Ciaran Sandhu 

Trinity Term 2022 welcomed a return to College cricket and we assembled a vibrant 

team of both complete newcomers and seasoned cricketers. We placed 3rd in the 

Fortress T20 league, narrowly missing qualification against familiar rivals Lincoln and 

Keble from last year, as well as new rivals in Teddy Hall and Somerville. Unfortunately, 

our T20 Cuppers run was also cut short in an agonisingly close game against Keble, 

in which we defended a highly respectable total of 202-3 up until the last ball of the 

final over. 

Nevertheless, while 2022 did not produce any silverware, there were several 

individual achievements worth noting. Fred Newbold was the highest wicket taker 

and 50s were hit by Chris Rimmer, Henry Patteson, and Johann Perera. These strong 

performances took place against a backdrop of clinical fielding with the jovial spirit 

of Queen’s sport always present. 



In 2023, QCCC will look to build upon its bowling and batting prowess with a new 

committee, this time led by Harry Kyd. Alongside the usual league format, next year 

also marks the introduction of a new knockout format in the style of ‘The Hundred’ 

that will run in parallel with Cuppers, providing us with another opportunity for a 

much-deserved trophy. 

EGLESFIELD MUSICAL SOCIETY 

President: Jemima Kinley 

As last year’s COVID-19 restrictions brought 

both the musical and wider College life 

to a rather abrupt halt, this year’s EMS 

committee was faced with the difficult task 

of bringing the society back to its lively, busy 

self, with little example to follow. Despite 

this challenge, however, the Eglesfield 

Musical Society’s activity flourished this 

year, with regular rehearsals and recitals 

back in full swing right from the beginning of 

Michaelmas. Special mentions here should 

go to Cormac Diamond, for finding the 

performers who allowed him to compile a 

widely varied and exciting recital series over 

the course of the year, and to Alaw Grug 

Evans, for rehearsing the EMS A Capella 

This year’s committee enjoying the wellearned 

EMS Dinner 

group, whose performances in the Oxmas and Summer concerts were more than 

well received. These concerts also welcomed a substantial number of small group 

and solo performances, ranging from classical, to theatre, to popular styles. 

The variety of music explored by EMS this year largely impacted the growth of 

its publicity and accessibility throughout College, especially thanks to Joe Wald’s 

founding of the society’s new band ‘Offkey’, who subsequently took the spotlight in 

our ‘5th Week Blues’ jazz nights in Hilary and Trinity terms. That these jazz nights, 

and other events such as the annual EMS dinner, and our new termly JCR Tea 

‘Takeovers’ were able to take place, gave the society a buzzing and exciting social 

scene throughout College, alongside its lively musical one. 

Finally, a huge thank you should be given to Isaac Adni, who rose to the significant 

challenge of being Musical Director and Co-producer of the two EMS musicals 

that took place this year subsequent to the COVID-19 cancellation of last year’s. 

Performances of The Last Five Years (Jason Robert Brown) and Little Shop of 

Horrors (Ashman & Menken) in Michaelmas and Trinity, respectively, were a roaring 

success, with multiple evening sell-outs and glowing reviews in the student papers. 


We hope that next year will see a continuation, if not growth, in the busy musical 

life of Queen’s that has been so joyfully revived by both this year’s committee and 

the wider College community, and wish all the best to our President-Elect, Rosanna 

Milner, and to the rest of the committee for the future of Eglesfield Music. 

JUST LOVE HOMELESS OUTREACH 

President Daniel Storey 


Throughout the academic year, Queen’s has served as the hub for our homeless 

outreach activities. Every Friday evening of term, we have met in the JCR to prepare 

sandwiches and then in the Chapel for prayer before our outreaches. In a typical 

week we had two teams, one covering the city centre and the other covering 

St. Giles’, and Little Clarendon Street. 

Through our outreaches we have consistently been able to provide homeless or 

street-linked individuals with food and hot drinks. Our volunteers have also referred 

various people to professional groups for further support. During Michaelmas, we 

collaborated with Turl Street Homeless Action to collect clothes donations at several 

colleges. We handed these out along with Christmas cards and new socks, hats, 

and gloves. 

What I am most proud of are the friendships we have been able to foster with some 

of the people we meet. It is largely beyond us to tackle big problems in the lives of the 

homeless, such as housing, family conflict, mental illness, and addiction. However, by 

talking to them as equals, expressing an interest in them, and offering our consolation 

and spiritual support, we help people to experience dignity and hope. 

Thanks to the dedication of our volunteers, I am confident that we will continue 

to serve Oxford’s homeless community. As I hand over to our new President 

Jed Michael, we may no longer operate from Queen’s, but we are very grateful for 

the College’s support over the past year. 

MEDICAL SOCIETY 

President Bethan Storey 

Queen’s College Medical Society (QCMS) exists to bring together medical students, 

biomedical students, medical graduates, and tutors of the College to share their 

interest in the subject. This was made significantly more challenging in recent 

years by the COVID-19 pandemic, and although the virtual events of last year were 

a resounding success, we were excited to be able to return to in-person events 

this year. 



The highlight of the year was the annual dinner, held during Michaelmas Term 2021, 

which was attended by over 50 members of QCMS. The evening began with a lecture 

from guest speaker Dr John Coates, author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf. 

Dr Coates was formerly a Wall Street trader, subsequently retraining and completing 

a PhD in the physiology of risk taking at the University of Cambridge. This proved to 

be a thoroughly engaging topic, generating much discussion amongst members. 

The lecture was followed by dinner in Hall, where it was a privilege to see so many 

attendees participating in enthusiastic and wide-ranging conversations. 

Additionally, we organised a number of smaller QCMS events across the year. These 

were primarily of a social nature, and most recently included a QCMS football match. 

Events such as these have helped to foster strong support networks between 

medicine and biomedicine students across year groups within the College, and we 

hope that these will stand our members in good stead as they continue through 

their degrees. 

It has been a real pleasure to be President of QCMS this year, and I am grateful for 

the support of my fellow committee members Emily Thompson (Vice-President) 

and Annie Roberts (Treasurer). The future of the Society will be in safe hands 

as the recently elected committee for 2022-23 take up their roles, with Sophie 

Payne, Harry Orwell, Grace Jones, and Oliver Meek elected as President, Co-Vice- 

Presidents and Treasurer respectively. We look forward to seeing how they facilitate 

the continued coming together of QCMS to celebrate our shared interest in medicine 

and biomedicine. 

NETBALL CLUB 

Captain Evelyn Turner 

This year saw the return of the first full year of netball, something that QCNC took 

full advantage of. Michaelmas term saw a strong start to the year as we welcomed 

many new players from the first-year cohort at Queen’s, and after a rocky start losing 

our first Cuppers match against Exeter College, the QCNC became a force to be 

reckoned with, eventually coming middle of a table which included teams made up 

of several blues players and teams that had been together longer and as a result 

had been far more experienced. 

Our most notable competition series came in Hilary when the College debuted 

several new faces with the addition of a B team, which welcomed students such as 

Raheema Sivardeen, Katrina Harrison-Gaze, and Miriam Alsop who had not played 

before but proved that some dedication and hard work can make a difference. 

Also, notably this term we saw the emergence of a solid term that came to dominate 

the second division of Cuppers, ultimately triumphing over teams such as St Anne’s, 

Lady Margaret Hall A, and Christ Church which led to our elevation into division one. 



The final term of Cuppers came to us in a different format, occurring as a tournament 

rather than weekly matches. As well as being the first notable outing of some of our 

newer players, the Trinity tournament also saw the debut of our new club dresses, 

which many of us agree only adds to the experience. While QCNC did miss out 

on appearing in the quarterfinals by a mere one point, we triumphed against three 

teams including Wadham, who we have previously suffered losses to, despite the 

wet conditions. 

This year’s shooting had been especially notable thanks to the dedication and 

teamwork of Zoe George, Ying Wong, Ellen Laker, and making a change from her 

traditional place in defence, Ire Sofela. On the other end of the pitch, we saw great 

efforts put forward by Katie Zagurova and Roisin Quinn. Certainly, the heart of the 

team comes from the centre court, bridging the gaps between both ends through 

great skill and speed displayed by Pandora Mackenzie, Katie Mewawalla, Elin Issac, 

and Eve Scollay. 

The highlight of the year probably came from the netball tour in which our team 

travelled to Cambridge and saw a great victory over Pembroke College, Cambridge 

despite some strong wind and rain. Making a difference was undoubtedly the 

fun and spirit brought by debuting players Marta Rigby and our Social Secretary 

Phoebe Horner. 

Overall, this year had been a great year for netball with our team going from strength 

to strength, and I am very honoured to begin my final year as captain of such a 

wonderful team. The club would like to pay homage to our outgoing members Ying 

Wong, Ella Farmer, and former Captain Pandora Mackenzie, the team will certainly 

not be the same without them and they will be greatly missed both on the court 

and off it. 



QUEEN’S COLLEGE SYMPOSIUM 

President Tristan Johnston-Wood 

The 2021-22 academic year brought another fantastic round of research talks and 

discussions at the Queen’s College Symposium (QCS). QCS is a twice-termly event 

when members from the MCR and SCR give talks on their research or discuss 

a topic in a panel discussion. After the event, a buffet dinner is held in the SCR 

where audience members and speakers alike can continue the interesting intellectual 

discussion. 

This year, we started with research talks from two new SCR fellows: Dr Finaritra 

Raoelijaona (Browne Junior Research Fellow in Biochemistry) and Dr Meleisa Ono- 

George (Brittenden Fellow in History). This was followed by a panel discussion on 

‘How do we determine whether our net impact is positive or negative?’. In Hilary 

term, we heard from Samuel Teague (DPhil Music) and Professor Richard Parkinson 

(Professor of Egyptology). The final two speakers of Hilary term saw Hector Papoulias 

talk about Gauge Theory and Dr Paul Docherty speak on Digital Archaeology. 

To finish off the year, we hosted the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures 

seminars, where Dr Selena Wisnom and Alberto Corrado spoke on Mesopotamia 

and Oenoanda. The final QCS event of the year, and of my position as QCS organiser, 

involved a panel discussion on ‘Does language restrict our ability to understand and 

communicate reality?’, seeing our best attendance numbers to date and excellent 

debate during the event. I very much look forward to next year’s QCS events, hosted 

by Seb Wilkes. 

RUGBY CLUB 

Captain Max Higdon 

With the disruption of the pandemic resulting in no rugby being played the previous 

season and multiple stalwarts leaving over the past two years, the season began 

with much uncertainty. However, a strong Fresher intake bolstered the squad, 

and Michaelmas began with a close loss in a friendly to Lincoln. The first round of 

Cuppers was up next and despite dominating for large parts of the game, Queen’s 

suffered a narrow 12-0 defeat to Oriel. We were left without fixtures for much of the 

remainder of the term with a high-scoring 45-34 defeat to Brasenose the only other 

match. Hilary began with the first win of the season against a strong Worcester side. 

The rest of the term saw significant disruption as multiple winnable games were 

cancelled, while we struggled with numbers in close defeats to Brasenose and Oriel, 

and a rather more convincing defeat to Balliol. 

Trinity began with the Cuppers bowl semi-final against Jesus, a team littered with a 

number of blues and who would go on to lift the trophy. Queen’s put in a tremendous 


performance, eventually falling 22-17 after failing to overcome an early 14-0 deficit. In 

particular Louis Simms was superb at 10, Fred Newbold scored a brilliant individual 

try and rugby newcomer Saul Briscoe put in a man of the match performance in the 

centres. Queen’s then put in positive performances in Mixed touch and 7s Cuppers, 

finishing second in our group in both tournaments before bowing out in the Cup 

quarters and Plate semis respectively. 

All in all, while the team didn’t quite live up to their potential on the pitch, with a 

large number of closely fought games lost, the season was immensely enjoyable. 

Consistently excellent performances were put in by freshers Louis Simms, Dan Kelly, 

Tony Cowen and Will Davis, alongside older hands such as Levi Fraser, Jack Wilson, 

Henry Portwood and Louis Makower. The social side also got back up and running 

after COVID-19 disruption under enthusiastic social secs James Hawke and Harry 

Turner, with their successors Fraser and Portwood looking set to continue this. This 

is the end of my stint with QCRFC, and it has been a pleasure to captain and play for 

this club and I have enjoyed it immensely, it gives me great reassurance that the club 

is set to continue in the same friendly and welcoming spirit under the very capable 

hands of incoming captain Louis Simms and vice-captain Tony Cowen. 


ATHLETIC DISTINCTIONS 

BLUES 

David Craven (Gymnastics) 

Qassi Gaba (Golf) 

Caitlin Gill (Rugby) 

Fred Newbold (Hockey) 

Hannah Sutton (Cricket) 

HALF-BLUES 

Joshua Abioye (American Football) 

Qassi Gaba (Eton Fives) 

Isaac Hudd (Orienteering) 

Tal Jeffrey (American Football) 


Old Members’ Activities 


DEVELOPMENT AND OLD MEMBER 

RELATIONS REPORT 

Dr Justin B. Jacobs 

Director of 

Development & 

Supernumerary Fellow 

The 2021-22 academic year saw the welcome return of Old 

Members to Queen’s for a number of memorable events 

and continued success in fundraising as the College 

launched the second phase of Access All Areas. 

The year began with the traditional Old Members’ Dinner, 

a hosting of the Queen’s Women’s Network for an event 

focused on careers in finance and then continued with 

the celebration of the 50 th anniversary of matriculation for 

Old Members from 1970 and 1971. 

Although we were saddened that the Boar’s Head and 

Needle and Thread Gaudies had to be postponed for 

the second straight year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we were delighted 

that the good times returned in the new year, with the annual Taberdars’ Society 

Lunch taking place as planned and with a private tour of the University’s Botanic 

Gardens included. 

The College also had the opportunity to hold memorials and subject dinners in 

Chemistry and Maths to say a delayed but fond and heartfelt goodbye to two 

of its longest serving and much beloved subject tutors: Morrin Acheson and 

Peter Neumann (Mathematics, 1959). The College was also able to hold its first event 

in London since 2019, and in July welcomed its benefactors back for the annual 

Benefactors’ Dinner, which included a premiere of a Queen’s produced version of 

Old Member Thomas Middleton (1596) and William Rowley’s The Changeling. 

For further highlights and details from the year’s Old Members’ events and relations 

please see the report of the President of the Old Members’ Association on the 

following pages. 

On the fundraising front, Queen’s launched the second phase of Access All Areas, 

our continuing programme of raising funds that are focused on providing for those 

who make the Queen’s community the dynamic, vibrant and enriching home that it is. 

The £25M in gifts Queen's has received to date through Access All Areas has 

enabled us to create a community that is as well positioned as possible to support 

its students and researchers of today, and those of tomorrow. 

In the second phase of Access All Areas the College has re-committed to working 

with Old Members and Friends to enhance its academic excellence – by completing 



The University’s Botanic Garden 

Credit: ©OUImages/Ian Wallman 

the endowment of the John Prestwich Fellowship in History and launching the 

endowment of the Peter Neumann Fellowship in Maths. 

We will also continue working with Old Members and Friends to complete the 

endowment for the unique Centenary Visiting Professorship in PPE, a post that will 

see world-class academic talent working with our PPE students and rotating each 

year between the three subjects and between Queen’s and Univ. 

The second phase will also see us cultivate the seeds sown in phase one by 

enhancing the College’s access and outreach work in the northwest. By partnering 

with The Access Project (TAP) we will be embedding Queen’s and Oxford directly 

into four schools: two in Cumbria and two in Blackburn with Derwen. This is part of 

Governing Body’s commitment to reinvigorate and enhance the College’s historical 

links to the north. This programme launched at the start of academic year 2022-23 

and we are very much looking forward to sharing our progress and impact with our 

Old Members and Friends. 



The second phase of Access All Areas is off to a strong start, despite some brisk 

headwinds from the later stages of the pandemic and then wider geopolitical 

and economic uncertainty. In 2021-22 the College received £2,338,400 from 626 

Old Members and Friends. Included within this total are legacy gifts of £1.25M, 

which is a testament to the important impact the Taberdars’ Society and every 

one of those who have remembered the College in their will continue to have 

on the College’s present and future. In the case of the legacy received from 

The Revd George Vincent (Literae Humaniores, 1904), who passed away in 1971, 

we were heartened to see that his gesture of remembrance to the College was still 

able to be felt more than 50 years later. A legacy gift from Celia Gould, niece of 

Cyril Vysove (Modern Languages, 1942), was received to create and permanently 

endow the Cyril Vysove Scholarship in Modern Languages. This will be awarded to 

an incoming DPhil Modern Language student and the first Vysove Scholar will join 

Queen’s next academic year. 

In addition to these legacy gifts, the following major gifts of note were received by 

the College in the 2021-22 academic year: 

• A joint gift from Dr Ken Fisher (Chemistry, 1955), Dr Bob Feinberg (DPhil 

Organic Chemistry, 1961) and an anonymous Old Member donor to create and 

endow the Acheson-Hill Graduate Scholarship in Chemistry. This scholarship 

has been endowed to commemorate in perpetuity the contributions of longtime 

Chemistry tutors Morrin Acheson and Allen Hill to their students and to 

Queen’s. The first Acheson-Hill Scholar will join Queen’s in academic year 

2023-24. 

• Two anonymous major gifts from Old Members to support the College’s 

partnership with The Access Project in the northwest and an anonymous 

major gift from an Old Member to support the continued endowment of the 

Centenary Visiting Professorship in PPE. 

In 2021-22 Governing Body was also able to recognise key milestones in the amount 

of lifetime support received from individual Old Members and Friends. Governing 

Body was pleased to elect two new Eglesfield Benefactors (in recognition of lifetime 

giving of £100,000 and above) and ten new Philippa Benefactors (in recognition of 

lifetime giving of £10,000 and above). They are grateful and pleased to be able to 

bestow these important Benefactorships on those Old Member and Friends whose 

lifetime giving has merited special recognition.* 

On behalf of Queen’s, I would like to say thank you again to each of our donors for 

the support you have given the College this year. 

*Old Members and Friends interested in their lifetime giving totals can find this out by contacting 

development@queens.ox.ac.uk or by writing to the Old Members’ Office. 


FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE 

OLD MEMBERS’ ASSOCIATION 

Paul Newton 

President of 

The Queen’s College 

Association 

I am writing this report somewhat solemnly following the 

news of the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Like many Old 

Members I can only remember the Queen’s head on 

stamps and bank notes, and singing God save the Queen 

as part of our national anthem. That is not the case for the 

College’s older Old Members which set me thinking about 

Old Member events over time, specifically the Old 

Members’ Dinner – more on that later. 

This year has seen an admirable catch up for a number of 

events following the disruption caused by COVID-19 and its 

derivatives. For example, the 50 th Anniversary Matriculation 

Lunch in October was able to combine the 1970 and 1971 

matriculation years. One way or another, however, COVID-19 continues to disrupt. 

The Ten Years Later Lunch in November, the Boar’s Head Gaudy in December as 

well as the Needle & Thread Gaudy in January had to be postponed. There were 

two events that Old Members would have gladly seen postponed in the sense of 

not being needed. These were the Memorial Services for Dr Morrin Acheson in April 

and Dr Peter Neumann in June. Both occasions were followed by a subject reunion 

dinner for Chemistry and Mathematic students, respectively. With the deaths of 

Professor Allen Hill and Dr Martin Edwards in 2021, the College has, in the space of 

less than two years, lost four of its most long serving and loyal Fellows. Each one 

dedicated more than 50 years of their lives to the College teaching and mentoring 

countless Queen’s men and women over this period. This is also a great loss to the 

Old Member community, but happy and cherished memories will no doubt prevail. 

Chemists will remember Allen’s dry sense of humour and Morrin, who at his 90th 

birthday in Basel reminded attendees “...when the time comes I hope that I will remain 

in your memories for a short while like Lewis Carol’s Alice in Wonderland’s Cheshire 

Cat. The Cat disappeared but the grin remained”. 


Online events continued as a staple of Old Members’ activities with the launch 

of the College’s new access and outreach programme in the northwest with The 

Access Project, a meeting of the Queen’s Women’s Network – focusing on Women 

in Finance – in November and the second annual Provost’s Lecture delivered by new 

Honorary Fellow Dr Venki Ramakrishnan in November. Not quite in the same travel 

league of international meetings in pre-COVID-19 times, physical gatherings occurred 

in Manchester and Edinburgh over two days in early April. The Provost was joined 

by members of the Old Members’ Office and, in Manchester, by the Tutor for Access 

and Outreach, Dr Lindsay Turnbull, to meet with Old Members and provide an update 

on Queen’s . This year’s Taberdars’ Society lunch in May included an afternoon tour 



of the Oxford Botanic Gardens. The London Drinks held in the Royal Academy of 

Engineering included a very lively discussion on the links between Engineering and 

PPE (in recognition of its 100 th anniversary) by new Honorary Fellow Dr Hayaatun 

Sillem (Biochemistry, 1994) its CEO. Full details of these and other Old Members’ 

events can be found on the College’s website. 

Finally, I find it remarkable that, according to the College’s records, the first Old 

Members’ Dinner dates back to 1889. Thereafter, it was to be held each year and 

to be open to all Old Members. At one time, it became so popular it was necessary 

to hold two dinners to meet demand. From discussions with friends from other 

Oxford colleges, I believe that such regular dinners were both unusual and envied. 

The position only seems to have changed as other colleges have introduced Old 

Member dinners as cover for fund raising agendas. This led one College Provost 

to comment that while Queen’s Old Members might not be the wealthiest, they 

are certainly the most loyal. The Development Office probably has an algorithm to 

confirm this assertion. 

My earliest dinner was in 1985 and certainly pre-dates any giving. Quite incredibly 

it included Old Members who had attended Old Members’ dinners in the 1930s 

where, in turn, there were fellow diners who had matriculated as far back as 1874. 

In all likelihood people matriculating in the 1870s would have attended the first Old 

Members’ Dinner of 1889. At a time when we reflect on the death of our late Queen, 

there is a real sense of reaching back into history associated with the Old Members’ 

Dinner. These days we have a very full calendar of Old Member events, but it is this 

dinner with its history and its rich symbolism of sharing our Founder’s Loving Cup 

that stands out as the foremost event for many Old Members. 

Of course, none of the Old Members’ events would be possible without the 

Development Office doing some excellent and inventive work in another difficult 

year. They deserve our thanks. 


QUEEN’S WOMEN’S NETWORK 

Events 

Women in Finance 

On the 28 November 2021, the Queen’s Women’s Network held its first ‘hybrid’ event 

with a live audience in the Shulman Auditorium in the College and live-streaming 

to Old Members around the world. Introduced by the Provost and co-hosted by 

Elizabeth Pilkington (Mathematics, 2000) and Jane Welsh (PPE, 1979) from the 

Queen’s Women’s Network, the panel comprised Rebecca Emerson (Economics, 

1992) and Paola Simpson (Modern History and Modern Languages, 1980). After 

a quick overview of the breadth of the finance industry and the state of diversity 

in it, the panellists shared their career histories and advice around how to get into 

the industry. We had lots of questions from both the live audience and from those 

listening online and the discussions continued over drinks afterwards. 


Going with the Flow 

Going with the Flow is an event for women and men alike and will bring together 

specialists from the worlds of menstruation, infertility and menopause to help clarify 

and discuss how some of these stages in life can have an impact on the workplace 

and what we can do to help those who are affected. 

We were really pleased that Linklaters volunteered to host this event in March 2022 

after a couple of postponements during COVID-19. After this was again frustratingly 

postponed, this time because of a tube strike, they kindly agreed to reschedule yet 

again to the end of September. 

We are very grateful to previous hosts for their generosity: Joseph, RSM and 

Linklaters and are always on the lookout for venues for our events. These take 

place primarily in London at the moment for maximum impact and reach; however, 

we would be keen to provide support for anyone wishing to host and organise a 

Network event in another city. This would usually entail providing a presentation 

space to host around 50-70 people with drinks and nibbles, etc. Please contact us 

via the Old Members' Office if you would be interested to explore this. 

Development 

The staff in the Old Members Office have always been incredibly supportive of the 

QWN and have helped with all the Network events and communications. A key 

point of contact for us has been Jen Stedman who has handed over some of her 

role during her maternity leave. We have been gradually getting to know the other 

members of the team to ensure the continuity of our annual programme. The removal 

of the lockdown has helped this considerably and we have finally been able to meet 



in person. Wendy Burt (Modern History, 1979) and Alison Sanders (PPE, 1979) had 

a very productive meeting with Justin Jacobs, Director of Development, in March to 

discuss ways to improve how we work together and to maximise opportunities to 

support the objectives of both the College and the Network in getting alumni involved. 

Alongside the developing relationship with College, we have also taken the 

opportunity to review the Network’s Terms of Reference to create a more freestanding 

entity, supported by the College. The key purpose of the Network is to provide 

opportunities for Old Members and current students, especially women, to connect 

socially and professionally. The last couple of years have allowed us time to prioritise 

where the Network can make a difference for old members and current students and 

give us a clearer framework for an annual programme. This has helped focus on what 

the Network committee requires to deliver that programme of events and information. 

Support for current students 

One of the objectives of the QWN is to support the development of and improve 

opportunities for current students. This aligns closely with the objectives of the 

College in supporting students to develop their skills and knowledge through work 

placements, internship opportunities and information events about different careers. 

On an individual level, members of the QWN have also been able to provide careers 

support with applications, for example. Understanding the priorities of current 

students is key to achieving this objective and so we have been engaging with 

representatives of the JCR and the MCR throughout the year and will continue to 

rebuild this dialogue and working relationship year on year as the reps change. 

Queen’s Women’s Network – Careers in Finance event; left to right: Jane Welsh (PPE, 1979), 

Paola Simpson (Mod. History & Languages, 1980), Dr Rebecca Emerson (DPhil Economics, 

1992), Elizabeth Pilkington (Maths, 2000) 


Social media 

QWN has established an online presence, for the purpose of facilitating contact 

between Queen’s Members past and present. This includes our groups on 

both LinkedIn and Facebook, where members can connect and share relevant 

information, ideas, events and opportunities. In particular, the LinkedIn group serves 

to provide career insights, advice and support, and shed light on the diversity of 

career pathways taken by Old Members, along with entry-points. We encourage all 

Alumni to join and engage with these groups, to amplify the power of our collective 

networks and provide support for current students in a wide range of sectors. 


The Network has a dedicated email address for further information about ways 

to become involved and for any general enquiries: qwnetworkcontact@gmail.com. 

Farewells 

Last but not least, huge thanks to Judith Bufton (Classics and Modern Languages, 

1979) and Lauriane Anderson Mair (Modern Languages, 2007) who stepped down 

from the Committee in April after five years. Judith and Lauriane were centrally 

involved in creating and launching the Queen’s Women’s Network in 2018 and 

celebrating the 40th anniversary of co-education at Queen’s: they’ll be missed! 


GAUDIES – FUTURE INVITATIONS 


Due to cancellations caused by COVID-19, invitations for the Boar’s Head Gaudy 

and the Needle and Thread Gaudy have been rescheduled as follows: 

Boar’s Head 

Year 

Matric Years 

2023 1998 & 1999 

2024 1988 & 1989 

2025 2000 & 2001 

2026 1990 & 1991 

2027 2002 & 2003 

Needle and Thread 

Year 

Matric Years 

2023 1976 & 1977 

2024 2006 & 2007 

2025 1978 & 1979 

2026 2008 & 2009 

2027 1980 & 1981 

Jubilee Matriculation Gaudy Lunch 

Year Matric Years 

2023 1973/1963/1953 

2024 1974/1964/1954 

2025 1975/1965/1955 

2026 1976/1966/1956 

2027 1977/1967/1957 

Old Members’ Dinner 

Saturday 16 September 2023 All Old Members’ welcome 

650th Anniversary Trust Fund Award Reports 

Due to the pandemic, no awards were made this year. 


NEWS FROM OLD MEMBERS, 

INCLUDING APPOINTMENTS AND AWARDS 

News, including Appointments and Awards 

1951 

John Hazel 

Received a lifetime achievement award for teaching, and a prize of £500 from the 

Classical Assocation. 


1953 

Edward Mirzoeff 

Credited Consultant on the feature documentary Elizabeth: A Portrait in Parts 

(Directed by Roger Michell, 2022) produced to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II's 

Platinum Jubilee. https://www.tatler.com/article/queen-platinum-jubilee-documentaryroger-michell 

1963 

Tariq Hyder 

Continues as Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the National Defence University. In 

March 2022 he was a panellist on a national television discussion of Organisation of 

Islamic Countries Conference held in Islamabad. In May, he was the first speaker, as 

lead negotiator of Pak-India CBMs 2004-7, at the Strategic Vision Institute seminar 

on missile testing protocols and their effectiveness. 

Invited to address forthcoming International Seminar hosted by Strategic Exports 

Controls Division, which he helped establish in the Foreign Office in 2004, and was 

its first Oversight Board expert member for seven years. 

1965 

Andy Connell 

Elected Chairman of Cumbria County Council for 2022-23, the last year of its 

existence. Also elected as a councillor in the the successor shadow unitary authority 

of Westmorland & Furness, and is scheduled to take up the position in April 2023. 

1968 

Tim Connell 

Elected as an Associate Fellow of Canning House (the Luso-Hispanic-Brazilian 

Council) in recognition of a forty-year association. 



1970 

James Fallows 

Featured in the HBO documentary Our Towns. Based on the book of the same name, 

which James co-authored with his wife, Deborah Fallows, it was released for HBO 

TV network in 2021. The film ‘spotlights local initiatives and explores how a sense 

of community and common language of change can help people and towns find a 

different path to the future’. [Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of 

America (Alfred A. Knopf, 2018)] 

1970 

Andy Myers 

Now retired and enjoying life in the Front Range of the Rockies. 



1972 

Richard Geldard 

Appointed Master of the Guild of Scriveners of the City of York. 

1974 

Michael Barber 

Appointed as the seventh Chancellor of the University of Exeter in January 2021. 

Sir Michael has been at the forefront of education and public life for over twenty years 

and is a leading authority on education systems and reform. In addition in April 2022 

he was appointed Chair of Somerset County Cricket Club. 


1977 

Giles Orton 

Appointed Priest in Charge, at St Anne's Church, Derby. 

1978 

Chris Blackburn 

Having in hindsight, somewhat presciently decided to retire as Pro Vice-Chancellor 

and Dean of Oxford Brookes University Business School after 30 years' service, and 

before the pandemic fully took hold in 2020, Chris is now filling at least some of his 

retirement time as an international accreditation panel chair and Business School 

mentor on behalf of the Brussels-based European Foundation for Management 

Development (EFMD). 

1979 

Richard Neal 

Appointed organist of the parish of Paphos, Cyprus. 

1979 

Cath Rees 

Appointed Professor of Microbiology, at the School of Biosciences, University of 

Nottingham, in January 2022. In June 2022 she was appointed to The Advisory 

Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food (ACMSF), an independent scientific 

committee that provides expert advice to government. She is also CSO of PBD 

Biotech Ltd, a University of Nottingham spin-out company, which won the British 

Veterinary Association Innovation Award in 2021 for developing Actiphage, a rapid, 

accurate test for tuberculosis that detects the presence of the live mycobacteria in 

a sample of blood or milk. 



1979 

Chris Ringrose 

Recently undertook his longest (so far) cycling trip … this was intended to be Venice 

to Salzburg but, due to catching COVID-19 mid-way through, ended up being Venice 

to Lindau Island on Lake Constance (with a gap between Lienz and Durnstein during 

his 5 day isolation). The route retraced Richard The Lionheart’s journey back from 

the Crusades in 1192, after being shipwrecked off Venice. 

1982 

Philippa Hird 

Appointed as the next Chair of Manchester University’s Board of Governors. Philippa 

is an independent director and strategy consultant with a particular interest in 

recruitment, remuneration, governance and the delivery of complex change. A Fellow 

of the Royal Society of Arts she is also Chair of the NHS Pay Review Body; Senior 

Independent Director and Remuneration Committee Chair of Ordnance Survey; and 

Deputy Chair and Remuneration Committee Chair of AQA. 

1984 

Guto Harri 

In February 2022 Guto was appointed Downing Street Director of Communications, 

the post of Director of Communications for the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 

1984 

David Oliver 

Elected as the 122nd President of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), London. 

Coming top in a ballot of seven candidates, he took up the post in September 2022 

and will serve a four-year term. David was RCP Clinical Vice President and a trustee 

from 2016 to 2019 and on the RCP's Council from 2014-2019. He is a consultant 

physician in geriatrics and general medicine at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation 

Trust, Reading; a columnist for the British Medical Journal; visiting fellow at the King's 

Fund; visiting professor at City University, London; and trustee of the Nuffield Trust. 

1984 

Tiku Patel 

Joined the board of the Edinburgh-based Tesco Bank, in December 2021, as 

independent non-executive director. He is the Chief Executive of Blue Motor Finance 

and has spent the last 20 years leading financial services businesses at Barclays, 

Experian and the PRA Group. 


1985 

Juan Sepúlveda 

Appointed as Trinity University's (San Antonio, Texas) first President’s Special Adviser 

for Inclusive Excellence. The position is tasked with the administration, management, 

coordination, and implementation of campus-wide programming that promotes 

diversity and fosters inclusion and access for students, employees, alumni, and 

other stakeholders. Juan is also Calgaard Distinguished Professor of Practice in 

Political Science at Trinity. 


1986 

Matthew Christmas 

Appointed as Metropolitan Grand Secretary and Grand Scribe Ezra of the Metropolitan 

Grand Lodge and Grand Chapter of London, as well as Secretary to the London 

Freemasons’ Charity – effectively the Chief Operating Officer for London Freemasonry. 

1987 

John Tien 

Noiminated by President Joe Biden to be United States Deputy Secretary of 

Homeland Security. In June 2021, he was confirmed in a full Senate vote by 60-34 

and was sworn in as Deputy Secretary. 

1989 

Phil Venables 

Appointed to U.S. President Biden's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; 

the Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board of the U.S. National Institute of 

Standards and Technology; the U.S. National Security Agency's Science of Security 

program as Distinguished Expert on cybersecurity. 

1990 

Naomi Canton 

Gave up her position as digital editor at Asia House in London, in 2017, to become 

a journalist for Times of India covering the UK. Her assignments have included 

interviewing then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, at the Treasury and 

attending the G7 in Cornwall in 2021. She has covered England v India cricket 

matches at Lord's; India Prime Minister Narendra Modi and opposition leader 

Rahul Gandhi's UK visits; and provided TV commentary on UK Prime Minister Boris 

Johnson's recent India visit. Her to day-to-day work includes reporting on crime, 

terrorist attacks, UK-India affairs, the Indian diaspora and anything globally significant 

of interest to Indian readers. She began her career as a cub reporter working on the 

British regional press, but has always retained a strong interest in Asia. 




1990 

Bonny Loo 

Appointed Chief Legal Counsel of the Hospital Authority in Hong King, where he 

and his team advise on various legal, regulatory, compliance and risk management 

issues in connection with the operation of public hospitals and clinics. In his spare 

time, he invests in West End and Broadway musicals. He is an Executive Producer 

on the Broadway revival cast recording of The Music Man, starring Hugh Jackman 

and Sutton Foster, and has two shows opening on Broadway in 2023: Back to the 

Future and Little Dancer. 

1991 

John Attwater 

Honoured to have been appointed a Lay Canon of Ely Cathedral in March 2022. He 

is also Principal of The King’s School, Ely. 

1996 

Vera Chok 

Joined the cast of British TV soap Hollyoaks (Lime Pictures/Channel 4) playing new, 

regular character, Honour Chen-Williams. 

Vera’s other acting roles have included performances in theatre, television, radio and 

film. She is also a writer, singer and artist. 


1997 

Adam Watt 

Appointed Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the new Faculty of Humanities, Arts 

and Social Sciences (HASS) at the University of Exeter, with responsibility for the 

Law School, HASS Penryn, the Graduate School of Education, the Departments 

of English & Creative Writing and the Department of Languages, Cultures & Visual 

Studies. He took up the role in August 2022. 


1999 

Antonio Delgado 

Was sworn in as Lieutenant Governor of New York in May 2022. He previously served 

in the U.S. House of Representatives for New York's 19th congressional district, as 

a Democrat. He is the first person of either African-American or Latino descent to 

be elected to Congress from Upstate New York 

2005 

Erasmus Mayr 

Awarded the 2021 German Prize for Philosophy and Social Ethics, in November 

2021, for his outstanding contributions to practical philosophy. The prize is the most 

prestigious award in the field of philosophy in German-speaking countries. He is 

Chair of Practical Philosophy at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Germany. 




2005 

Susana Frazao Pinheiro 

Has been made Commander of the Order of Public Instruction, a Portuguese order 

of civil merit conferred upon deserving individuals for ‘high services rendered to 

education and teaching’. The honour was bestowed in London by President of 

Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. Susana is Head of Healthcare and Life Sciences 

and Associate Professor at University College London. 

2006 

Dusko Bogdanic 

Appointed full Professor of Mathematics at the University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and 

Herzegovina. His research interests include representation theory of finite groups 

and associative algebras, Lie algebras, and cluster categories. 

2007 

Manisha Anantharaman 

Was a commissioner on the Cambridge Sustainability Commission's high-level 

report on Scaling Sustainable Behavior Change, which argues that policymakers 

should focus on the polluter elite to trigger a shift to more sustainable, low-carbon 

behaviours, while providing affordable, low-carbon alternatives to poorer households. 

He was interviewed on BBC World about the report. 

2007 

Rosemary Baker 

Won the 2022 ‘Celtic Media Award for Best Short Form’ and the 2021 ‘Welsh Film 

Prize – Cardiff Mini Film Festival’ for her Channel 4 film Lesbian, which she produced 

and directed. She also achieved critical acclaim for her documentary How to Make 

It on OnlyFans, broadcast on Channel 4 in 2021, which she filmed, produced 

and directed. 

Credit: Maxim Fielder 


2007 

Alfie Enoch 

Appeared in the Emmy and BAFTA nominated TV series Foundation (2021, Skydance 

Television/Latina Pictures) based on the books of Isaac Asimov. 

2009 

Ambar Sayal-Bennett 

Was a winner of the 2021 Royal Society of Sculptors Gilbert Bayes Award. This annual 

prize is open to early-career artists and highlights a small group of outstandingly 

talented sculptors. Ambar is currently an Associate Lecturer in Visual Culture at 

UWE Bristol, and a co-founder of Cypher Billboard, an artist-run public program of 

site-specific billboard artworks and off-site projects based in London. 


2011 

Ashley Francis-Roy 

Highly Commended in February 2022 for Best Documentary Programme at the 

Broadcast Awards for 'Damilola: The Boy Next Door'. In December 2021 he was 

selected for BAFTA Breakthrough UK 2021. Supported by Netflix, Breakthrough 

identifies and champions 'must-watch' creatives from film, games and television. 

2013 

Alba Kapoor 

Awarded a Kennedy Scholarship for postgraduate study at Harvard University. 

She will undertake the Special Student programme at Harvard’s Graduate School 

of Arts and Sciences in the 2022-23 academic year. The Kennedy Scholarships are 

prestigious awards forming part of the UK’s official memorial to President John F. 

Kennedy. The Trust seeks to promote ideals of intellectual endeavour, leadership 

and public service through the Scholars they support. Kennedy alumni have gone 

on to leading positions in a wide range of professional fields, including academia, 

government, journalism, business, and the arts. Alba has recently worked at the 

Runnymede Trust, the UK's leading race equality think tank, managing the policy 

function for the organisation. She delivered large scale pieces of policy research and 

worked to set out Runnymede’s anti-racist agenda. 

2018 

Elisa Cozzi 

Awarded a Carl H. Pforzheimer Jr Research Grant from the Keats-Shelley Association 

of America in support of her research on Romantic-era literature and culture. 


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ARTICLES 


Queen’s and the North 

Michael Riordan, College Archivist 

The College has connections with the North of England 

that go back to our beginnings. Our founder, Robert de 

Eglesfield was presumably from the village of Eaglesfield, 

just outside Cockermouth in what was then Cumberland. 

On 10 February 1341 he issued statutes for his new college 

which stated what the College was to be devoted to the ‘tree of theology’ which 

meant the fellows would all have already taken the BA and MA degrees before 

entering the College and would devote themselves to studying theology. Eglesfield 

also stated that when electing fellows, preference was to be given to men from 

Cumberland and Westmoreland, due to the ‘desolation and illiteracy’ of the region. 

His words, not mine! 

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Preference is an inexact word, and it was put to the test thirty-five years after 

the Foundation. A dispute arose in 1376 between fellows from Cumberland and 

Westmoreland and a group of fellows from the West Country who had migrated from 

Exeter College. The case ended up in the court of Chancery which interpreted the 

statutes in such a way that preference meant that only men from Cumberland and 

A letter by George Fothergill, 

fellow, showing how it took him 

a week to travel back to Oxford 

from a visit to his family in 

Westmoreland. 

The Entrance Book, showing 76 fellows elected 

between 1680 and 1728. All are from Cumberland 

or Westmoreland. 


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Westmoreland could be fellows. The West 

Country men were expelled, and for almost 

500 years, every fellow of Queen’s was a 

native of Cumberland or Westmoreland, 

what became known as the Two Counties. 

By the 16th century a system had developed 

in which, though undergraduates came to 

Queen’s from across the country, talented 

boys from the Two Counties were made 

Taberdars on taking their BA. This gave 

them a small stipend – we might call it a 

scholarship today – which allowed them to 

take their MA and continue studying in the 

College until a fellowship became available. 

A map of the Wheldale estate given to the 

College by Lady Betty Hastings, dated 

1769. Sadly, the once vibrant colours 

have faded over the years. 

The dominance of the Two Counties finally 

came to an end in 1858. Half a millennium 

after Robert de Eglesfield had issued his 

statutes for Queen’s many people were 

questioning whether running the colleges 

of Oxford and Cambridge by rules that had 

been written centuries earlier was sensible. 

In 1850 a Parliamentary Commission started 

investigating college statutes, and the fellows of Queen’s cooperated. They drew 

up a new Ordinance in 1858, rewriting the statutes for the first time in 517 years. 

A section of the Long Roll (main college accounts) for 1418-9 showing (end of first 

paragraph) that College had collected no income due to the devastation of the Scots: in 

abbreviated Latin ‘vastationem scottorum’. 


This stated that fellows were to be elected by open examination, and though the 

first to be elected happened to be from Cumbria, the second was not, and he was 

followed by JR Magrath who hailed from Guernsey, and would later be provost for 53 

years. The monopoly of Cumberland and Westmoreland on the College’s fellowships 

was broken forever. 

Though the Two Counties had a stranglehold on the fellowship, the College as a 

whole developed a wider Northern aspect in the 18th century. In the 1720s Provost 

Joseph Smith persuaded Lady Betty Hastings to make a significant contribution to 

the College. Daughter of the earl of Huntingdon, she was a Northern lady known for 

her evangelical piety and charity. She was keen to establish scholarships that would 

support men from the North of England who would become missionaries, but Smith 

managed to persuade her to instead support men who would merely be ordained. 

So, she gave the College her manor of Wheldale, now subsumed into Castleford, 

which proved to be a lucky bequest when a rich seam of coal was discovered 

beneath the land in the 19th century. 

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The system laid down by Lady Betty for electing her scholars, odd though it seems 

today, reflects her character. She nominated twelve schools (eight from Yorkshire and 

two each from Cumberland and Westmoreland) who, every five years, could send 

their best pupil to the inn at Aberford, near Leeds. There they would be examined 

by a group of clergy who whittled their number down to ten. The Provost and a few 

fellows then examined the remainder and reduced them to eight. These eight best 

pupils then had their names put into a pot and the first five names to be drawn were 

elected Hastings Scholars! Lady Betty observed in her codicil that drawing lots like 

this ‘may be called by some superstitious’ but she preferred to believe it ‘as leaving 

something to Providence’. This system continued until as late as 1861. 

There is one more aspect to the College’s northern connections, and that is in its 

capacity as a landowner. On founding the College, Robert de Eglesfield gave the 

College his estate in Ravenwyk. Now known as Renwick, it is not far from his putative 

birthplace. The residential property in Renwick has been sold, but the College still 

owns a farm in the village and is Lord of the Manor. But owning property at the 

country’s extremities could be dangerous. A small estate in Bowness-on-Solway, 

a little to the north-west of Carlisle had been acquired in 1416, but just three years 

later, the accounts reveal that no income could be collected due to the ‘devastation 

of the Scots’. 

We come full circle with a gift from an Old Member, Percy Wyndham. He had come 

up to Queen’s in 1886 as an Eglesfield Scholar, and it may well be that association 

which led him in 1895, not long after going down, to purchase Moorland Close Farm 

in Eaglesfied, the Cumberland village from which the founder’s family presumably 

originated. In his will of 1947 he left it to the College, giving us another property 

associated with the founder. 


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Thus, the College’s connections with the North of England are still strong, at least 

in its capacity as a landowner. And though the Northern character of College 

membership is not as characteristic as it once was, we are renewing these links 

through the College’s access and outreach programme where we work with schools 

in Cumbria, Lancashire, Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen, to identify talented 

young people and encourage them to come and join us in Oxford. Though we no 

longer identify them by lot! 

Deed of Robert de Eglesfield, by which he gives to the College his estate in Renwick and 

part of the main College site in Oxford. 



The Sedleian Professors of Natural Philosophy 

and Queen’s 

Dr Christopher Hollings, Clifford Norton Senior 

Research Fellow in the History of Mathematics 

The Sedleian Professorship of Natural Philosophy is one of 

Oxford’s oldest Chairs. It was founded in 1619 thanks to 

a bequest to the University from the barrister and Kentish 

landowner Sir William Sedley (c.1558–1618). Like the other professorships that were 

founded around this time (most notably, the Savilian Professorships of Geometry and 

Astronomy), the purpose of the Sedleian Chair was to provide centrally-organized 

lectures in an advanced subject that was not usually covered by college teaching: 

in this case, nature and the physical world. The early statutes required the professor 

to lecture specifically on Aristotle’s Physics. 

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Starting with the first Sedleian Professor, Edward Lapworth (1574–1636), the early 

incumbents of the Chair were all physicians, who devoted the greater part of their 

time to private medical practice, and have left little trace of their teaching activities. 

The notable exception is Thomas Willis (1621–1675). An important figure in the 

development of the understanding of the brain and nervous system, Willis ignored 

the requirement to teach Aristotle, and instead lectured on his own specialism. 

With the turn of the eighteenth century, the Sedleian Chair became more sinecure 

than actively occupied post. The first new professor of that century, James Fayrer 

(c.1655–1719), was even accused of having rigged his election. Some natural 

philosophy was taught by the Savilian Professors during this period, but the 

Sedleians are barely visible in University records. Among them was Joseph Browne 

(1700–1767), who was Provost of Queen’s from 1756. Like the other eighteenthcentury 

Sedleians, however, he had no obvious credentials in natural philosophy. 

The election of the astronomer Thomas Hornsby (1733–1810) to the Sedleian Chair 

in 1782 gave the post its first scientifically active occupant for almost a century. 

Hornsby was a pluralist who also held the Savilian Professorship of Astronomy, 

among other positions. He oversaw the establishment of the Radcliffe Observatory 

in the final decades of the century. 

During the years that sinecurists held the Sedleian Chair, the teaching of natural 

philosophy in Oxford began to take a different turn in the hands of others. James 

Bradley (1692–1762), Hornsby’s predecessor in the astronomy chair, introduced the 

teaching of material from Newton’s Principia Mathematica, and by the beginning of 

the nineteenth century, ‘natural philosophy’ had become a much more Newtonian 

than Aristotelian subject, concerning the mathematical study of the physical universe. 

When Hornsby died in 1810, the duties set out for his successor were to lecture ‘in 


Natural Philosophy as grounded on Mathematical Principles, and particularly in the 

Principia […] of Sir Isaac Newton’. Thus, the Sedleian Chair passed into the hands 

of mathematicians, where it resides to this day. 

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The remainder of the nineteenth century saw just two Sedleian Professors, each 

of whom held the Chair for over 40 years. The first, George Leigh Cooke (1779– 

1853), was an academic clergyman from a traditional mould, who placed greater 



Thomas Willis 

Credit: ODNB 


emphasis on his duties within the church than on his Oxford teaching. His successor, 

Bartholomew Price (1818–1898), on the other hand, was a committed and highly 

regarded teacher of mathematics, who became a prominent personality within the 

University, and, towards the end of his life, Master of Pembroke. 

The tenures of Cooke and Price in the Sedleian Chair straddled a period of reform 

within the University. Questions were being asked about the nature of the teaching 

at the English universities, and the place of scientific disciplines within this. Such 

subjects had little place in college teaching, and were often regarded as irrelevant 

by the traditionalists who saw the training of the clergy as the central purpose 

of the universities. Such high-level scientific instruction as did exist was provided 

centrally by the relevant professors, but their positions had in many cases become 

financially precarious, and their lectures often suffered from lack of attendance, 

owing to a mismatch between the stipulated teaching and the subjects that were 

actually examined. 

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Beginning in the 1850s, a series of government commissions investigated the 

(scientific) teaching provision at Oxford and Cambridge, and the financial situations 

of the colleges, with a view to forcing colleges to subsidize the central professoriate. 

Thus, it was that the Sedleian Chair of Natural Philosophy came to be associated 

permanently with Queen’s: from 1858, the College – apparently willingly – contributed 

a portion of the professor’s stipend. 

Until this point, the various professorships within the University had not been attached 

to particular colleges: they had always been internal appointments, given to people 

who already had college associations. To have moved college upon appointment 

to a chair would have been unthinkable – or even infeasible, in the cases of figures 

such as Hornsby who held more than one such post. But financial contributions to 

stipends created natural connections. Bartholomew Price, while remaining a Fellow 

of Pembroke, was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of Queen’s in 1868. And when 

Augustus Love (1863–1940), Price’s successor as Sedleian Professor, arrived from 

Cambridge in 1899 without any other Oxford association, it was natural for him 

to become a member of Queen’s. The Sedleian Professors have been Fellows of 

Queen’s ever since, complete with associated traditions: since the end of the 1950s, 

it has been the convention that only the Sedleian Professor or the Patroness of the 

College may operate the orrery in the Upper Library. 

In 1945, as part of post-war concern over the state of physics teaching in the UK, it 

was suggested that the Sedleian Chair might be realigned as a post in theoretical 

physics rather than applied mathematics, but the change was never made. 

One modification that was made to the Sedleian statutes around this time, however, 

was the removal of the requirement for the Professor to lecture – thus, what had 

begun as a post for teaching Aristotle completed its transformation into the highprofile 

research position that it is today. 


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Credit: John Pheasant 

A Short History of Nowhere Near Everything: 

reflections on almost 40 years of changes at Queen’s 

Tessa Shaw 

I started work at Queen’s in 1983, four years after women 

were first admitted. There have been interludes – two 

periods of maternity leave, a leave of absence to work 

in Malawi with VSO and a secondment linked to a 

development programme for women across the University. Whichever way you look 

at it though, I have been employed at Queen’s for a long time. The students look 

young– in fact mostly everyone looks young – time to retire. 

There have been seismic changes in the world outside College in the time I have 

been here – from the fall of the Berlin Wall through to the war in Ukraine. The world 

of libraries and information has changed exponentially across the years and I am 

grateful to have been taken along with it during my time at Queen’s, though I draw 

the line at saying what my favourite Excel formula is. 

Queen’s has been constant in many ways, mostly the fabric of the College. The 

quads are much as when I arrived, likewise the Chapel, the Upper Library, the Hall. 

There are three members of the Governing Body who have kept time with me, albeit 

on stellar routes – Professors Blair, Parkinson, and O’Callaghan – the first is now 

retired and the second two I remember as undergraduates. The ebb and flow of 

terms and vacations used to be a gentle constant but is blurred now with the busy 

conference and events business. The College is a 24/7 operation. 

Let’s do some of the numbers 

Six Provosts, six Fellow Librarians, four Librarians, four interregnums between 

Librarians, 500 graduate trainees, Technical Service Librarians, casual library 

assistants, summer project workers and conservators. In the region of 5,500 

undergraduates and postgraduates – thousands of Old Members ~39 Harmsworth 

Professors, three floods, one refurbishment, one fabulous new Library, four new 

rugs, three comfy chairs, two restored globes and two domes and approximately 

54,000 books and periodicals (and a few turns of the Orrery key). 

What has changed? Just about everything. 

In the Feinberg Room in the New Library there is a card catalogue – a register of all 

the holdings that were in the Library. It was the honey pot resource around which 

students used to gather to locate books and periodicals and was key to my early 

working life at Queen’s – now it is a relic of a previous age. Pause for self-reflection. 


I typed catalogue cards on an ancient Hermes (awful inky typewriter ribbon) which 

were then hand fed through metal rods in the wooden drawers so that students 

could flick through them by author or title to find the book they needed. The books 

which were catalogued came almost exclusively from Blackwell’s (now subsumed 

by Waterstones) following a civilised exchange in an office off the Norrington Room 

entirely dedicated to making the life of Oxford college librarians a happier one. 

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Now you can sit plugged into a laptop anywhere in College, in a coffee shop, in the 

world – link to the internet and search all the Oxford Libraries, including Queen’s. 

If the book is in the Bodleian you can recall it to a reading room of your choice or 

opt to have a chapter scanned and delivered to your in-box. Or read the entire text 

online. You can search what seems like an infinite amount of electronic resources, 

some hobbled by legal restrictions, refine search terms and distil still further all in a 

matter of moments. A snapshot of the changes includes firewalls, scams, passwords, 

open access, databases, online reading lists, licensing, multifactor authentication, 

viruses, digital media, GDPR & RFID security to manage the stock. 

Books are still very popular – people do like to possess a book. I order and pay for 

books online, they arrive by courier on a 24hr clock and we can have them on the 

shelves hours after they have been requested much to the relief of the students. 

The tunnels running under Back Quad provided desiccated storage conditions 

on roller racking for the antiquarian collections. The manuscripts stored behind 

the ornately carved cupboard doors in the Upper Library. The Law Library was 

housed at the end of the basement underneath Back Quad, closeted behind a 

balding velvet curtain in a crude attempt at sound proofing. Now there is a custombuilt 

Vault as part of the New Library which provides environmentally controlled 

storage for the archives and special collections. Law Reports and the like are all 

available electronically (until such time as the funding is removed). The Library office 

in retrospect was a truly ghastly working environment certainly compared to the 

wonderful light-filled space we now occupy. 

Access to the Library was through an oak door, the security system relied on 

students being recognised and greeted by a member of the Library staff. The Library 

was locked on a key at 10pm during term time and available for a few hours at the 

weekends. The door is still in use but bolted into place, with an intercom and a 

proximity card reader attached with an alarm bell to summon the porter on duty. 

There are book security panels, CCTV and a loud alarm should you take books out 

illegally. Books can be borrowed on the self-issue machine – no human interaction 

required. Students are required to have their University ID card with them at all 

times – in case they need to prove their identity. 

The wellbeing, welfare, and mental health of students is a constant focus and 

rightly so. There is a whole new vocabulary and meaning around how students are 


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addressed – there are fault lines which need to be observed and understood, the 

demographic of the student body has changed significantly. College departments 

have expanded, students leave with huge debts into an uncertain job market and 

somehow time and human interaction seems to have been taken away. 

As we go into a winter threatened with power outages when we have systems so 

clearly reliant on a constant source of energy – we might be back to peering at books 

in candlelight while wrapped in six jumpers: think of the risk assessment. 

Tessa’s favourite view of the Library, looking through the middle of the Lower 

Library out into the Provost’s Garden 

Credit: Tessa Shaw 


OBITUARIES 

We record with regret the deaths of the following Old Members: 

1938 Mr A Walker 

1943 Dr J G Armstrong 

1944 Mr R O Barlow 

1945 The Revd Prof C Morris 

FBA FRHistS 

Mr A G Nokes 

1947 Mr J Cadogan 

Dr P J Cuff 

Prof R M Savory 

1948 Captain J H Macdonald 

1949 Mr R E H Bullock 

Prof B S Chandrasekhar 

Mr C E N Childs 

Mr E I Jowett 

1950 Mr P M Dunkley 

Mr E K Hawkins 

Mr A C Jouanin 

Mr H T Searle 

Mr H A Vice 

1951 Dr J C Greaves 

1952 Mr B I Cawthra 

Dr P G Dickens 

1953 The Revd M H Atkinson 

Prof R O Owens 

Dr A Richmond 

1954 Mr L R Brown 

1955 Mr W R Ellis 

Dr A R Weston MBE 

1956 Mr E E Chapman 

Mr B H Craythorn 

Dr J S Frost 

Mr G E B Harrison 

Mr E P Lodge 

Mr A D Steel 

Mr B Wearing 

1957 Mr G W Heath 

Mr R A Owen 

1959 Mr J A Bainbridge 

Mr B J Wheatley 

1960 Dr C M Edwards (Emeritus Fellow) 

The Hon Mr A R Landry 

1962 Mr C R Brand 

Mr R E M Lawson 

Mr J M Walker 

1964 Mr R G Moulson 

Mr R V Sansom 

1965 Mr C E Rawlins 

1968 Mr A C Ball 

1969 Mr D H B Bevan 

Mr A D Gleadall 

1972 Mr J Blackburn 

Mr R A Careless 

1973 Mr I Drummond 

Dr J Wood 

1974 Father D A Byrne 

1977 Mr P S C Gray 

1978 Dr P L Walden 

1979 Mr J M Bury 

Mr J Gallimore 

1982 Mr A Osbaldiston 

1986 Mr B B Valeriano 

1988 Dr D K Downing-Orr 

1990 Mr R Watling 

2000 Mr W D Fergusson 

2014 Mr G H Lee 

Honorary Fellows 

Prof B F McGuinness 

The Revd Prof C Morris FBA FRHistS 

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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. 

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JOHN BAINBRIDGE 

Intelligent, witty, adventurous, determined, dynamic, 

small….but perfectly-formed, John Anthony Bainbridge 

was born in Sheffield on 25 April 1940 and led a long, 

active, and interesting life, regarding himself as generally 

very lucky. Lucky to have intelligent and caring parents who 

gave him a lifetime love of learning, books, travel, cinema, 

sport, and the ability to enjoy the company of others and 

make lasting friendships throughout his life. Lucky to meet and marry Diane Storer 

and to enjoy years of happy family life with Di, Joanne, and Bonnie. 

John spent some of his early days in a bread bin under the stairs as protection from 

falling bombs. At the age of 11 he won a scholarship to the academic hothouse of 

King Edward VII Grammar School, where a number of highly qualified sadists kept 

his nose to the grindstone, so much so that he emerged with three distinctions at 

A level, a State Scholarship, and a highly prized Hastings Scholarship to Queen's 

to read Greats. 

A sturdy fullback at school, he progressed to a league and cup-winning team at 

Queen’s, where the Association Football Club won the First Division of the League 

and were finalists in Cuppers in 1960/61. With John as Treasurer in 1961/62, the team 

came second in the League and won Cuppers in a high scoring run of five games, 

with 26 goals for and only two against. The College Record of the year has the 

following notes on the two fullbacks: “Bainbridge – an energetic one-footed player. 

Has been known to head the ball. Barwell, incredibly even shorter than his partner. 

Heads the ball well but suspected of wearing his boots on the wrong feet.” John’s 

enduring nickname amongst his college friends was Ned, after Harry Secombe 

(alias Neddie Seagoon) of the Goon Show who also suffered from duck’s disease 

(short legs). Elected Football Club Captain 1962/63, John inspired others and is 

remembered as a helpful, decent, and outstanding personality. 

John graduated in 1963 and took a teaching post in Bermuda. It was a tough twoyear 

assignment at a private grammar school in the sunshine, with sea, sand… and 

no income tax. The urge for more adventure struck in September 1965 when he 

returned to the UK the wrong way and the long way… taking in the USA & Mexico 

on Greyhound buses, then Japan, Indo-China, India, the Middle East, Egypt, and 

Greece, finally home in March 1966 having had amazing experiences and made 

more lasting friendships. 


Not one to let the grass grow under him, a year later he gained a teaching certificate 

in Oxford and a wife in Sheffield. This was when he got seriously lucky meeting and 

marrying Diane, a theatre sister at the Royal Hospital who shared his taste for travel. 

They moved to Kingston, Ontario, and in the summers took long tours of the USA 

and Mexico. After three years both wanted a return to the UK, to reunite with families 

and friends and to set up home and start a family. Ringstead Crescent in Crosspool 

was where they started and where they stayed. 

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In his career as a teacher in South Yorkshire, John continued to play football, with 

the Ecclesfield and Stocksbridge teachers’ teams and the Old Centralians. In the 

summer, cycling and tennis took over. Family, friendships, and holidays continued to 

enrich his life, with frequent visits to Greece helping to refresh his Lit. Hum. passions. 

After retiring from his post as Head of Lower School at Stocksbridge School, he 

enjoyed walking in the Peak District and was still organising Derbyshire walks with 

his friends in 2021. 

Despite being diagnosed with heart failure in 2013, John refused to slow down or be 

beaten and would attempt to out-run the doctors for the rest of his days. To his last 

day John still owned eight pairs of running shoes and was seen by his neighbours 

in his running kit until a month before he passed away. 

John particularly valued his links with and friends from Queen’s, organising regular 

reunions at Old Members’ Dinners. At the dinner of 2002, the 1962 Cuppers Team 

had a ‘40 years on’ reunion and were invited by the Provost to stand for an ovation. 

I treasure my photo of him passing the Loving Cup to his neighbour with the toast in 

impeccable Latin “In memorium absentium, in salutem praesentium”. 

John died in December 2021. He is survived by his younger brother Ian, daughter 

Bonnie, and grandchildren Ria and Felix. In his eulogy at the funeral, Ian’s closing 

words were those of Catullus for his brother: “ave atque vale”, hail and farewell. 

David Goodall, Chemistry (1959) 

ANDREW BALL 

Andrew Ball (Music, 1968), who died on 10 July 2022 aged 

72 from complications of Parkinson’s, was a distinguished 

pianist, teacher, and administrator who made a significant 

contribution to the performance of new and 20th Century 

music. 

Andrew and I came up to Queen’s in 1968 as the two 

Music undergraduates. I soon realised that here was no ordinary undergraduate: 


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firstly, there was his phenomenal sightreading ability which quickly made him an 

indispensable musical presence in Queen’s as well as in the wider Oxford musical 

community. Many performances at Holywell Music Room and other venues were 

capped by his farewell performance, after Finals, of Haydn’s late C major Sonata in 

which he captured all its grace, structural strength and wit. His Oxford career was 

followed by two years of postgraduate study at the Royal College of Music where 

he was awarded the Hopkinson Silver Medal. 

Making his London debut in 1974, at Wigmore Hall, he went on to have a flourishing 

career as a pianist in the UK and internationally, both as a soloist and as a highly 

regarded duo pianist and accompanist to singers. He became particularly associated 

with the four sonatas of Sir Michael Tippett which he studied with the composer, 

recorded for the BBC, and performed frequently. He recorded for Hyperion the 

complete song cycles of Tippett with the tenor Martyn Hill with whom he also 

gave a memorable, semi-staged performance of Schubert’s Die Winterreise at the 

Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. In the 1980s and 90s Andrew and I had a two-piano duo 

which specialised in the performance of new music; we were sometimes joined by 

the percussionists James Wood and Simon Limbrick for the performance of Bartók’s 

great Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, and this quartet gave a memorable tenconcert 

Arts Council tour in 1985 which included a performance at Holywell Music 

Room, so it felt as if we had come full circle. Later Andrew enjoyed performances 

at the Proms and many of the principal UK festivals, giving the UK premiere of Sofia 

Gubaidulina’s Piano Sonata at Bath in 1987. 

In midlife Andrew discovered a special gift for teaching, and this took up more and 

more of his energies, though he continued performing until Parkinson’s made it 

impossible. Initially a highly successful and popular teacher at the Guildhall School 

of Music and Drama, in 2000 he was appointed Head of Keyboard Studies at the 

Royal College of Music in London. He pursued this energetically and with imagination, 

but by temperament he was not really an administrator and he resigned his position 

in 2005, staying on as Professor of Piano and teaching a large number of students, 

many of whom have gone on to significant careers. Above all he took immense 

pride in Thomas Kelly, whom he had nurtured since his schooldays at the Purcell 

School and who went on to win every prize at the Royal College of Music, capping 

this by becoming the first British finalist for 20 years in the Leeds International Piano 

Competition. 

Andrew had a unique and much cherished presence. A brilliant conversationalist, he 

was witty, kind, and above all displayed a kind of intense musical humanity. Never 

married, he was gifted in friendship and enjoyed his wide social circle even after 

Parkinson’s robbed him of his independence. 

Julian Jacobson (Music, 1968) 


DAVID BEVAN 

David Bevan, who has died aged 70, was an organist, 

composer, and tenor who for 36 years was director of 

music at the Roman Catholic Church of Our Most Holy 

Redeemer and St Thomas More, Chelsea; as a child he 

had been a member of the Bevan Family Choir, sometimes 

known as the von Trapps of the West Country, who toured 

widely until the 1970s. 

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Somewhat self-deprecating by nature, Bevan did not consider himself a particularly 

fine singer, but he was a loud and reliable one. His ability to deliver the big tenor 

entries, such as the opening of the Rex Tremendae in Mozart’s Requiem, meant that 

he received many invitations to sing with professional choirs. 

As a composer his music had two distinct strands. For the church he wrote in the 

style of the 16th century and earlier. His wonderful fauxbourdon arrangement of 

the Magnificat, known as the “octavi toni” setting because it is based on the eighth 

tone in medieval Gregorian chants, has become a staple of the repertoire. Other 

compositions were more of a cross between Hindemith, Messiaen and Stravinsky 

in style, and include sonatas for clarinet, flute, and cello as well as a Requiem Mass 

that was heard at his funeral. 

David Hugh Bevan was born in Wales on February 26 1951, the fourth of 14 children 

of Mollie (née Baldock) and her husband Roger Bevan, who at the time was running a 

small music school in Monmouthshire; a 15th sibling died shortly after birth. David’s 

great-grandfather had been Anglican archdeacon of Ludlow, but his father converted 

to Rome and in 1953 became director of music at Downside School, Somerset. 

The family lived in a rambling 15th-century farmhouse set in two acres, where they 

grew vegetables and kept pigs, geese, goats, sheep, and chicken. After dinner, the 

Bevan siblings often burst into renditions of favourite madrigals; one of them would 

pluck a note out of the air and away they would go. 

As they grew in number, so too did the family choir and most of the siblings 

were members, though not all at the same time. They undertook concert tours 

around Europe, made several television appearances culminating in the 1977 BBC 

documentary Harmony at Parsonage Farm, and performed at St John’s Smith 

Square, London. Being one of the older children, David eventually took over the 

conducting from his father. 

He was head chorister at Westminster Cathedral Choir School, recalling the master 

of music George Malcolm chain-smoking during choir practice. He then studied at 

Downside and went on to read music at Queen’s College, Oxford. 


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In 1973 he won a French government scholarship to study the organ in Paris with 

Gaston Litaize and Jean Langlais, but there were few opportunities to practise and 

he frequently returned to the West Country to use the instrument at Shepton Mallet 

parish church. Not having a car, he walked the two miles from his family home at 

Croscombe, but on one occasion a motorbike came hurtling towards him. He leapt 

over a stone wall and broke his arm, putting an end to his scholarship. 

Meanwhile, he had been appointed assistant master of music at Westminster 

Cathedral under Colin Mawby. When Mawby’s tenure ended in a dispute over musical 

policy, Bevan became acting master of music, directing the music for the funeral 

Mass of Cardinal Heenan in November 1975 and the enthronement of Cardinal Hume 

three months later. 

He was not, however, appointed to the substantive position, which went to Stephen 

Cleobury, and in 1976 he became organist of St Agnes Church in St Paul, Minnesota, 

which has a strong musical tradition. There he developed the custom of using 

Gregorian chant and was director of the local Schubert Club Boys’ Choir, which 

had been founded by a former member of the Vienna Boys’ Choir. 

Returning to the UK in 1979, Bevan found no shortage of invitations to sing, including 

at Westminster Abbey, St Paul’s Cathedral and for the BBC. He found a natural home 

at Holy Redeemer church in Chelsea, with which he had strong family connections. 

During the week he lived and worked in Bath, teaching A-level music at Prior Park 

and King Edward’s schools, and from 1995 to 2000 was director of Bath Baroque 

Chorus. More recently he was teaching at Reed’s School in Cobham, Surrey. 

In 1983 David Bevan married Clare Bowler-Reed, a chorister at Holy Redeemer. The 

marriage was later dissolved, although they remained close. Every Sunday morning 

they loaded their five children into an ageing Citroën, which was prodded into action 

with a long metal bar, and drove from Somerset to Chelsea for an early choir practice 

followed by sung Mass. On the journey he played recordings of Beethoven string 

quartets, explaining the intricacies of the composer’s work to his often car-sick 

children. There was no television in their house. 

Bevan, whose interests included reading, swimming and ecclesiastical architecture, 

retired from church music in about 2017 suffering from Parkinson’s disease. The 

Vatican awarded him the Benemerenti medal for services to the Church, which was 

presented to him two months ago at the Church of St Birinus in Dorchester-on- 

Thames where he attended Mass towards the end of his life. He is survived by his 

children, all of whom also sang in the church choir, including Sophie and Mary, who 

are now pursuing international careers as opera singers. 

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DOMINIC BYRNE 

Dominic Byrne who died on the 6 of December 2021, 

was the Parish Priest of the church of St Theodore of 

Canterbury, in Hampton, London. He will be remembered 

fondly by all who knew him. 

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He studied Law at Queen’s, from 1974 to 1977, but had 

almost decided to go into the priesthood when he was 

a schoolboy. After Queen’s he joined the Civil Service in the Ministry of Overseas 

Development, as it was then known, and it was whilst working as an expat civil 

servant in Malawi and Zambia that he decided to follow that boyhood calling and 

become a Catholic Priest. 

He had a wicked sense of humour: in Malawi a man came from the British Embassy 

to nail up the summer house of the rather grand residence he had been given to 

live in. His grade in the Civil Service did not permit him to have a summer house 

apparently, so it was to be boarded off. Dominic read the rules with a lawyer’s eye; 

he found that he was entitled to have a tool shed, and so he sent the man back to 

the Embassy and put a lot of tools in the summer house instead. That pettiness he 

saw in the Diplomatic Service was part of what made him decide to become a priest. 

He spent seven years in the English College in Rome, then was ordained in his 

parish church in Shropshire. Instead of becoming a parish priest straightaway, 

his knowledge of the law was put to use and he was dispatched to Leuven in Belgium 

to study for a doctorate in Canon Law. This was how he became a fluent speaker 

of Italian and Flemish, in addition to his perfect French. 

It was also how his other great love blossomed. The Italians, the French and Belgians, 

he said, comprise the greatest culinary nations of Europe. He loved, absolutely loved, 

to cook. If you invited him for dinner, he would send a list of required ingredients, and 

then arrive to cook them himself, always producing a memorable feast. Cooking was 

his hobby, and even his personal email was ‘gastrorev’. 

Dominic had friends all over the world, because it was impossible not to like him. 

He kept in touch with a lot of the friends that he made at Queen’s, in the Civil Service 

or in Rome. Every year he visited priest friends in the USA and also met up with his 

old priestly pals from around Europe when they all accompanied their parishioners 

to Lourdes. 

Although he was quite humble, he loved the respect shown to priests by the waiters 

in the restaurants in Lourdes: “Oui, mon père, bien sur mon père.” The waiters knew 

him well, and he knew the restaurants very well. Typically, he would eat one course 

only in each, selecting the best restaurant for a starter, the best for the entrée, and 

yet another for the sweet. 


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Dominic’s faith made him quite stoical. When he was diagnosed with a progressive 

respiratory fibrosis for which there was no cure, he did not let this dent his sense of 

humour nor love of life. He kept on working until his sudden final illness, and even 

during this spoke on the telephone to many of his friends in the last couple of days 

of his life. Knowing him was just great. 

Richard Gregson 

ERNEST CHAPMAN 

My father Ernest Chapman died peacefully at home in the 

early hours of 15 January 2022, a couple of weeks after his 

86th birthday. He spent his last month surrounded by close 

family and friends, enjoying lots of poetry, music, and slow 

strolls at his house on the Yorkshire moors. 

Ernest was born in the winter of 1935 to Astrid and Edward 

Chapman in south west London. Evacuated as a child during the war, he eventually 

went on to perform two years of National Service, before enrolling at Queen’s College 

to study Law. After graduation he joined his father’s law firm, Russell Cooke Potter 

and Chapman, and ran the Old Square office. Ernest started on the traditional path 

of a solicitor in the firm, which had historically handled the affairs of many important 

clients such as Princess Beatrice, daughter of Queen Victoria, and Asquith’s Liberal 

Party. He worked hard to lay the foundations of the firm’s successful commercial 

property and was a director of the firm’s largest real estate client for many years. 

During the 1960’s, Ernest acquired an eclectic collection of young ‘Swinging Sixties’ 

clients, quite by accident. (This all began with the speeding charge of a rather prolific 

guitar player, whom he then went on to manage for almost 50 years.) Ranging from 

photographers, models, hairdressers, musicians, novelists, magazine publishers, 

and literary agents, Ernest was in demand. The work covered every area of law from 

commercial and employment contracts to motoring offences. He was lucky enough 

to travel the world for many decades, making friends everywhere that he went. 

Ernest was married to his first wife, Jane, for 17 years, with whom he shared two 

children, Josephine and Tom. He is survived by his second wife of 40 years Christie, 

and their two children, Fenn and Jennie. In 1985, the pair took a leap from London 

to Yorkshire, where they had purchased a farmhouse on the top of the moors. It was 

Ernest’s dream to be amongst the wildlife and fresh air into his retirement years, 

although it was only the end stages of his Alzheimer’s disease that actually forced 

retirement upon him! He planted hundreds of trees over the years, enjoying the fruits 

of nature which that had brought him and the family. 


Dad loved life. He was incredibly bright, charming, generous, and gentle. He had 

no time for crooks in business, and leaves behind a reputation for being rigorously 

honest and fair in a world renowned for its ego and corrupt values. Music and 

poetry brought him deep joy, and if literature moved him, he didn’t hesitate to buy a 

copy for everyone that he loved. He was thoughtful. A keen walker, he orchestrated 

many walking weekends all over Britain, taking large groups of friends out in the 

elements, always with a worn-out pair of binoculars and some bright pink hiking 

socks. He leaves behind not only a number of close family members, but hundreds 

of friends who have depended on him greatly over the years. We all feel his absence 

with great sadness, and also gratitude to have been in his path at all. After his death, 

I received many correspondences from people, some known and others not, eager 

to explain to me the profound effect he had had on their lives. This has brought great 

comfort, and I write this with a feeling of pride that I got to be his daughter. Rest in 

peace, Dad. Thanks for teaching me to always read the small print. 

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Jennie Chapman 

BARRIE CRAYTHORN 

Barrie Craythorn was born in Brixham on 12 April 1936, 

the only child of Henry and Gertrude Craythorn. He died 

in Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on 24 May 2022 at 

the age of 86. 

At Torquay Boys Grammar School he learnt well his 

French and Spanish, and after National Service went up 

to Queen’s in 1956 to read Modern Languages. A keen member of the College 

Soccer team, he was team secretary at the time of their promotion to the University 

First Division. In fact, he was an active soccer player into mid-life and took a lively 

interest in the game. 

After graduation he joined the British Oxygen Company, serving in a number of roles, 

particularly using his Spanish in supporting clients in South America. 

From 1970 Barrie become increasingly focussed on the benefits of language 

laboratories, then emerging as a means of facilitating the teaching of modern 

languages. He promoted sales at home and latterly overseas and in 1979 started his 

own servicing company, Bellnorgis, to provide a new standard of service for existing 

language laboratories. Barrie continued to serve as Director until his retirement in 

2009. 

Barrie was blessed with a powerful tenor voice, and enjoyed singing in a diverse 

number of choirs. For 40 years Barrie sang with the St Barts Academic Festival 


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Chorus (BAFCO) under the leadership of Prof John Lumley. On BAFCO concert tours, 

Barrie sang to audiences as far afield as Jerusalem, Istanbul, and Prague, whilst also 

performing the classical repertoire at home in the Great Hall of St Bartholomew’s 

Hospital. Barrie is particularly remembered by them as a strong and accurate singer, 

as a popular raconteur and for his invaluable support in the set-up and stowing away 

of the concert gear. 

Barrie also sang for many years on stage with West London Opera (WLO), a group 

based in Ealing and focused on giving opportunity to aspiring young singers. Barrie 

was a vigorous member and represented the chorus on the committee. After the 

closure of WLO Barrie continued his operatic chorus work with Midsummer Opera 

(MSO), singing semi-staged opera at St John’s Church Waterloo. Most recently Barrie 

sang opera-in-concert with Chelsea Opera Group (COG) a distinguished and longstanding 

company performing mainly at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and specialising 

on reviving the less well-known operas. COG welcomed Barrie particularly for his 

enthusiasm and friendliness. He continued concert performances and his voice 

training until the inevitable concert lockdown and isolation resulting from COVID-19. 

Barrie had many good friends. He was an excellent cook and gave convivial dinner 

parties at his home in the Thames-side village of Strand on the Green. The invitations 

were much sought after and the parties invariably lasted long into the small hours. 

He will be remembered as a kindly person with a good sense of humour and with 

some endearing characteristics such as: organising the carols in the local pub; 

weaving at speed through the streets of London in his vintage VW; his annual water 

sport holidays in Thailand. 

Barrie’s funeral at the Mortlake Crematorium on 22 June was warm and full of music 

and included a rousing rendering of the Boar’s Head Carol. Barrie was a generous 

donor to Queen’s: a Philippa Benefactor and Taberdars’ Society member. 

Mike Drake (Chemistry, 1954) 

ALFRED LANDRY 

Alfred R Landry, 85 died on Wednesday 6 October 2021 at 

the Moncton Hospital. Born in Robichaud, he was the son 

of the late Albert and Agnès (Thibodeau) Landry. 

He was born in Robichaud, N.B. in 1936 and graduated 

from Barachois High School. He studied at Assumption 

College in Moncton and received his B.A. degree, summa 

cum laude, from St. Joseph University in 1957. He graduated from the University 

of Ottawa with a B Comm degree in 1958 and studied for two years at the UNB 


Law School. In 1960 he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and then studied Law 

at the University of Oxford for three years, completed a BA Jurispr in 1962 and was 

admitted to the degree of MA in 1966. Judge Landry was called to the Bar in 1964. 

He was senior partner of the law firm Landry & McIntyre and had practiced law for 

21 years when he was appointed to the Bench in 1985. He became a supernumerary 

judge in 2001 and retired from the bench in 2011. On the unanimous recommendation 

of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly Judge Landry was appointed Conflict 

of Interest Commissioner and served as such for two years between September 

2013 and July 2015. 

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He received Honorary Doctorates from St. Thomas University (1973) and from 

Université de Moncton (1977) and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1978. 

Before his appointment to the Bench, he was very active in business and public affairs. 

He had been Mayor of Shediac, Chairman of the Board of Governors of Université 

de Moncton, Chairman of The New Brunswick Liquor Corporation, First Chairman 

of the N.B. Extra Mural Hospital, Chairman of the N.B. Bicentennial Commission, 

Director and Member of the Executive Committee of the New Brunswick Telephone 

Co. Ltd., President of the P.C. Party of N.B., Member of the Board of Directors 

of the Dumont Hospital, President of the Construction Committee of the Dumont 

Hospital, Secretary of the N.B. Union of Towns, Founding Co-president of the N.B. 

Association of Nursing Homes, Vice-president of the Southeastern Tourist Bureau, 

N.B. Representative at the Uniform Law Conference, President of Natgas Ltd., and 

a Founding Director of Villa Providence Shediac Inc. 

In the past, Mr Landry has been a director of Atlantic Region Canadian Council of 

Christians and Jews, a director of the New Brunswick Heart Foundation and Atlantic 

Co-Chairman of the Université de Moncton Fund Raising Campaign. He has been 

a member of the Moncton Rotary Club, the N.B. Barristers' Society, the Moncton 

Barristers' Society, the Association of Insurance Attorneys, the Canadian Judges 

Conference, the NB Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee, the Moncton Board 

of Trade and the Shediac Chamber of Commerce. 

He has served as Secretary of the Shediac Lions Club and was PC candidate for 

the provincial riding of Shediac in 1982. 

Mr Landry was a member of the Ordre des Régents et des Régentes de l'Université 

de Moncton, a Paul Harris Fellow, recipient of the Golden Jubilee Medal and 

Commander, Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem. 

He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Alfreda (nee Léger); two children: Christian 

(Marilène) of Moncton and Chantal (Ronald Soucy) of Clifton Royal, NB; four siblings: 

Merville of Beresford, Bernice Desjardins (Adrien) of Moncton, Murielle Cormier (René) 

of Dieppe and Jean-Guy (Emma) of Grand-Barachois; four sisters-in-law: Imelda 


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Landry of Shediac, Victorine Landry of Shediac, Antoinette Landry of Moncton and 

Florine Landry of Shediac; one grand-daughter, Sarah, as well as many nieces and 

nephews. He was predeceased by five siblings: Thérèse Landry, Clorice, Antoine, 

Gérald and Raymond. 

RUSSELL LAWSON 

Russell Lawson was born in Northern Ireland and educated 

at The Methodist College Belfast. He went up to Oxford, to 

The Queen’s College, to read Law in 1962, a time when it 

was by no means usual for a pupil from an Ulster grammar 

school to achieve Oxbridge admission. 

As an undergraduate, Russell greatly enjoyed being a 

member of The Queen’s College community; he made long-lasting friendships and 

developed an enduring love for the city itself, where, in fact, he was to spend most 

of his life. 

After graduation, Russell moved east, to take a degree in Land Economy at Pembroke 

College Cambridge. It was here that he met Alette Konijnenbelt, who had come 

from The Netherlands to work in Addenbrooke’s Hospital. After their marriage, they 

moved to The Netherlands, to Zeeland, where Russell researched the redistribution 

of land following the 1953 floods, after the completion of the Delta Works. Back in 

England, he worked as a legal adviser to the National Farmers’ Union – a job whose 

lighter moments involved periodically informing the BBC of current concerns in the 

agricultural community so that these could be reflected in episodes of The Archers! 

But Oxford continued to beckon and, when, in the mid-1970s, Russell was offered a 

position at the new Oxford campus of the Ecole des Affaires de Paris, he and Alette, 

three-year-old Drummond and their nine-month old twins, Charles and Anna, moved 

to a house in North Oxford, where they remained for 25 years. In the 1990s, Russell 

became a lecturer in Land Law at De Montfort University, Milton Keynes and later 

at Oxford Brookes University – perhaps the work he enjoyed most, showing himself 

to be an excellent teacher. 

Retirement provided the opportunity to become more involved again with The 

Queen’s College. He attended many of the social occasions offered to him, which 

also made it possible to meet old friends. He was also now able to pursue his love of 

military history, particularly that of Germany and Austria-Hungary – he himself came 

from a military background – and, until, sadly, COVID-19 and ill-health intervened, to 

explore continental Europe. For Russell, an Ulsterman with a proud Scottish heritage, 

was, above all, a European – by inclination, by education and through his marriage. 

He was saddened by Brexit, which he saw as a severance from European culture. 


He spoke fluent Dutch, as well as French and Spanish and could ‘get by’ comfortably 

in German and Italian: visits to European countries were always conducted in the 

appropriate language. 

Russell was a man of principle and probity, with a very clear idea of how things 

should be done and how one should behave. Everyone who knew him will remember 

his perfect manners: when walking beside a lady, for example, he would always 

ensure that he occupied the side next to the road – a throwback to the custom of 

a perhaps more gracious age, which, did, however, often lead to interesting little 

quicksteps on the busy Oxford pavements! 

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Russell is survived by his wife, Alette, children Drummond, Charles and Anna, seven 

grandchildren, and his sister, Judith. 

Dr Roberta Warman 

JOHN LONG 

(Francis) John Long was born in Lichfield on 17 January 

1924. He attended King Edward’s School in Lichfield 

and from there won a scholarship to The Leys School, 

Cambridge. Later in life he was a governor and then 

Chairman of the Governors to The Leys and St Faiths 

Schools. 

He was a scholar at Queen’s College, Oxford where he studied Chemistry and 

gained BA, BSc, MA and PhD degrees. In 1945 he was the first scientist President 

of the Oxford Union. He met his future wife, Elizabeth Dowrick (Somerville College), 

while in Oxford and they were married at the Wesley Memorial Church. They were 

happily married from 1947 until her death in 2004, with three children: one daughter 

and two sons. 

After Oxford, he joined ICI, then spent two years at Princeton University as an 

ECA Fellow, gaining an MSc, and returned to work as a Research Chemist in 

ICI in Billingham, Co. Durham. His love of politics encouraged him to stand as a 

Liberal candidate for The Hartlepools in 1950 but he was unsuccessful and so 

continued working for ICI. In 1955 he moved to ICI Paints Division in Slough, where 

he progressed steadily through the ranks to become a Director. He completed a 

Senior Executive Program in 1966 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 

1969 he moved to ICI Head Office in London as Head of Corporate Research and 

Development and in 1970 moved to Brussels as Director of ICI Europa, to set up 

their new European research facility. 


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In 1977 he left ICI and moved to Windsor, taking up the role of Director of Studies 

for St George's House in Windsor Castle where he combined his deep interests in 

business, politics and religion. He was subsequently Warden of St. George's retiring 

in 1987. He became a Lay Steward for St. George’s Chapel in 1984 and a Lay 

Steward Emeritus from 2012. He was Chairman of Civil Servant Selection Boards 

from 1984 until 1990. The Queen awarded him the Commander of the Victorian 

Order (CVO) in the New Year Honours of 1988. 

John Long was a devoted Methodist and a local preacher for 67 years, only retiring 

from this at the age of 93. He lived in Windsor for 42 years and led an active 

retirement, including being Chairman of the Windsor and Eton Society. 

He was fiercely loyal to the institutions which helped form him: The Leys School, 

Oxford, Princeton, MIT, ICI, St. Georges House, the Liberals, the Methodist Church, 

all of which he supported and gave back much. 

The last year of his life was spent in a care home in Bradford on Avon, close to his 

daughter, Pam. He died on 13 October 2020. 

Stephen Long 

BRIAN MCGUINNESS 

I knew the name of Brian McGuinness already when I was 

an undergraduate in the United States in the mid-1960s 

from his translation, with his colleague and friend David 

Pears, of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. I came to know Brian 

personally in 1969, when we were both teaching at the 

University of Washington in Seattle. Brian, then already 

highly distinguished, was Visiting Professor for the fall 

semester, and I was a one-year lecturer in my first university post. Brian was a 

quintessential Oxford don, in tweed jackets and invariable tie, despite which he 

absolutely fitted into 1960s West Coast America. He gave a seminar on Ryle’s 

Concept of Mind, where I first encountered in person Brian’s brilliance as a 

philosopher and scholar, which continued to instruct, and impress and delight me 

over the next fifty years. I also delighted in his dry sense of humour. Not long after 

the semester had ended, I was a passenger in the car Brian had bought for his time 

in Seattle. Leaving campus, we had to drive through a police checkpoint. Rather 

than stop to argue the toss over his University parking permit which had expired at 

the end of the semester, Brian accelerated through the check point while instructing 

me with mock urgency, “get down, get down”, as if anticipating a hail of bullets from 

the campus police (who were of course armed, this being the USA). 


A few years later I returned to Oxford where I was a Junior Research Fellow and 

thereafter University Lecturer in the Philosophy of Mathematics, and to my delight 

was again a colleague of Brian, though then in the Oxford rather than West Coast 

way. We were both members of Freddie Ayer’s Tuesday Group, and I remember 

meticulously crafted and deeply insightful papers Brian read to the group, including 

“Language and reality in the Tractatus”, and “Philosophy of language and philosophy 

of mind in Wittgenstein”. 

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One of Brian’s very great accomplishments was editing the Vienna Circle Collection, 

25 volumes of writings by members of the Vienna Circle, published over a 31- 

year period, between 1973 and 2004. This massive and invaluable project was 

preceded by Brian’s publication in 1967 of Wittgenstein und der Wiener Kreis from 

Waismann’s notes of dictation by Wittgenstein (for which in 1979 he published an 

English translation with Joachim Schulte). 

In 1981 Brian brought Tscha Hung, the Chinese philosopher who had participated 

in meetings of the Vienna Circle in the early 1930s, to Oxford, and Hung attended 

meetings of the Tuesday Group. I found him an extraordinarily exotic figure, combining 

the Vienna Circle of 50 years earlier with then still very limited western contact with 

China. His presence was indicative of Brian’s knowledge of every aspect of the 

Vienna Circle. Tscha Hung gave Brian his own copy of the Vienna Circle manifesto, 

Wissenschaftlische Weltauffassung: Der Wiener Kreis. Brian kindly allowed me 

to photocopy it, with which he included a note, “God knows how it survived the 

Cultural Revolution”. 

In 1988 Brian published Wittgenstein A Life: Young Ludwig, covering the first 32 of 

Wittgenstein’s 63 years, up to publication of the Tractatus. The event was celebrated 

by a book launch in Blackwell’s at which Colin Haycraft, its publisher, spoke movingly 

and amusingly about this long sought and tremendously valued publication (Brian 

acknowledged Haycraft in the Preface as “an old friend” who had “shown himself 

capable of combining encouragement with infinite patience”). Michael Dummett’s 

review, in The Tablet, speaks of its “richness and psychological depth” and of its 

author as “writing with great understanding and a keen talent for conveying a mood, 

an atmosphere, a cast of mind”, and said that Wittgenstein’s philosophy had been 

deftly integrated into the narrative in such a way as to provide “just enough of an 

account of the philosophy to give the most unprepared reader some sense of what 

is going on, and, for the rest, interspersing the narrative with vivid quotations that 

convey Wittgenstein’s intense preoccupation with philosophical problems”. In that 

same year, Brian left the unique beauty of his Oxford College and moved to the 

unique beauty of Siena, with two years in between at the Netherlands Institute for 

Advanced Study. 

In 1999 Brian invited me to give two lectures on Wittgenstein’s philosophy of 

mathematics in his seminar in Siena. It was a tremendous privilege to speak on that 


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topic in Brian’s seminar, and wonderful to see Brian in his fluently Italian element. 

My wife and I and our young son were accommodated in the magnificent Certosa 

di Pontignano, which felt magical, and Brian and Giovanna were the most wonderful 

of hosts at their lovely villa (also described as an ancient farmhouse) in the Tuscan 

countryside outside Siena. 

I knew Giovanna independently of knowing Brian from when she spent the academic 

year 1978-79 in Oxford after she had just completed her Florence doctorate (with 

distinction). In 2014 Giovanna invited me to give some lectures in her seminar in 

Bologna. At the end of that visit Giovanna took me to see Brian, who was in hospital 

with a broken hip. He was then 87, and suffered from its effects for the remaining 

five years. I want to pay tribute to Giovanna both for her brilliance as a philosophical 

logician and for the kind generosity and patience with which she looked after Brian 

in his years of debility. In those summers Brian came to St Luke’s Hospital in Oxford 

to be near members of his family and to give Giovanna some respite from looking 

after him, and in the first year also for surgery at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital. 

It was sad to see Brian needing to be cared for, but otherwise he was completely 

himself, and it was such a pleasure to be able to go up Headington Hill to visit him, 

and sometimes for him to come to us at home. Conversation with Brian was a 

complete delight, offering panoramas of ideas and events and people, all viewed 

with wry good humour and wit. 

Brian McGuinness was for decades the world’s leading authority on the life of 

Wittgenstein and its relationship with his philosophy. He has left a huge legacy of 

published work which lives on, and he has donated his invaluable archive of the 

research material he gathered to the Brenner Archive at the University of Innsbruck 

(its online catalogue runs to 46 pages), so other scholars can now build on it. What is 

irretrievably lost is the vast network of knowledge and insight that Brian held in mind, 

a resource he generously shared with everyone who asked. He was an enormously 

distinguished colleague and a dear friend. 

Daniel Isaacson 

COLIN MORRIS 

Colin Morris, a former undergraduate and Honorary Fellow 

of the College, died peacefully on 18 September, 2021, 

aged 93. 

Colin was born in Kingston-upon-Hull, the son of Harry and 

Kitty Morris. His father, a commercial traveller, died when 

Colin was 11 and he was then brought up by his mother, 

a tailoress, to whom Colin’s first book is fittingly dedicated. In 1938, at the age of 


nine, he won a scholarship to Hymers College, Hull and in 1944 he was awarded 

a Hastings scholarship at Queen’s where he read Modern History, and where he 

was taught by another distinguished medievalist, John Prestwich. On graduating 

with a first-class degree in 1947, he spent 13 months in the ranks on Army National 

Service, where he learnt a fundamental transferable skill, typing! He had always 

intended to enter the Church and he returned to Queen’s to read for a second BA 

degree in Theology, graduating, again with a first, in 1951. In 1952 he moved to 

Lincoln Theological College, a college in the Liberal Catholic tradition, where he 

was ordained deacon in 1953. Later that year he was elected Fellow in Medieval 

History and Chaplain at Pembroke College, and ordained priest. He remained at 

Pembroke for 16 years during which time he took his place in an outstanding group 

of medievalists, including Richard Hunt, John Prestwich, Beryl Smalley, Richard 

Southern, and Michael Wallace-Haddrill, among many others. Colin’s training in 

both History and Theology undoubtedly contributed to the nuanced sensitivity of 

his research, and it was appropriate that much of his earliest published work was 

focussed on the medieval diocese of Lincoln, and that its theological college could 

in some sense be seen as successor to the twelfth-century cathedral school, as 

significant an intellectual centre as was contemporary Oxford! As chaplain, Colin is 

remembered for his thoughtful and ecumenical ministry, and for promoting outreach, 

such as supporting annual camping trips for borstal boys: in the course of one tent 

inspection a burglar’s kit was slipped into his hand. This became a key element of 

the Morris family tool-kit! 

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In 1956 Colin married Brenda Gale (who has also had a distinguished career, 

as a psychiatrist), his teenage sweetheart, and they lived happily in College with 

their young family (who would occasionally break unannounced into his tutorials!). 

Immediately after serving as Vicegerent of Pembroke during an interregnum, a role 

he fulfilled with characteristic good-natured efficiency (not least at a time of student 

unrest which he navigated with sensitivity and sympathy), he was appointed to the 

Chair of Medieval History at the University of Southampton, a post he held till his 

retirement in 1993. At Southampton, where he was my colleague and friend, he led 

with even-handed and even-tempered judiciousness, supporting and encouraging 

the work of the History Department and medieval colleagues more widely, while 

at the same time continuing with his own extensive research as well as serving 

periodically as Head of Department and Dean of the Arts Faculty at a time of 

considerable pressures, and developing Faculty ties with the University of Hamburg 

where he was a visiting lecturer. 

Colin’s first article, published in 1969, was literally parochial, a study of parishes in 

rural Lincolnshire, his last book, published in 2005, The Sepulchre of Christ and the 

Medieval West: from the Beginning to 1600 examines the function of the Sepulchre 

in medieval Christian, and specifically as developed in Crusading, ideology and 

its reinterpretations in the light of changing political realities. It also reflects Colin’s 

abiding interests both in Crusading history, and that of chivalry and medieval 


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pilgrimage more generally, as well as in medieval art and architecture, particularly 

of France and Italy, which always informed his work, and for which frequent family 

holidays provided much source material. The Sepulchre of Christ is the third of 

Colin’s major and transformative books. The first, The Discovery of the Individual, 

1050 – 1200 (1972) was truly ground-breaking, inspirational, and controversial, for 

it convincingly challenged the Burckhardtian orthodoxy (still often believed!) that it 

was only with the Italian Renaissance that the concept of the individual first emerged 

in the European West. As a reviewer wrote in 1975, ‘every future exploration of this 

subject will have to begin right here’: it still does! The Papal Monarchy: the Western 

Church 1050 – 1250 (1989) is a massive, beautifully written (as were all his works), 

analysis of developments across the Western Church set against the background of 

emerging papal power, and the growing centralization of ecclesiastical authority. The 

book was long in the making, for it deploys an extraordinary range of material, both 

primary and secondary, and makes detailed use of work in an impressive number 

of European languages, in which Colin was fluent (he also published in German, and 

was a frequent reviewer of works written beyond the Anglophone sphere). 

Following his retirement, he continued to live in Southampton. As a lecturer on 

Viking cruises, he was enabled to travel widely including the Baltic, Eastern Europe, 

Scandinavia, and the Mediterranean which enjoyably enriched his post-retirement 

research. This included a series of articles primarily but not exclusively, on the 

crusades, as well as two books, Pilgrimage: the English Experience from Becket 

to Bunyan, an edited volume to which he made a substantial contribution, and 

The Sepulchre of Christ. Between 1998 and 2000 he served as President of the 

Ecclesiastical History Society, and was elected FBA, in 2007. In 2009 he was made 

an Honorary Fellow of the College. 

Almost to the end of his life he remained, what he had always been, a most convivial 

raconteur, with a lively sense of humour. He retained a strong interest both in the 

research of others, and in his own. Though sadly affected by dementia towards 

the end of his life, the last time I saw him we were able to discuss the Cistercians 

in twelfth-century France, and their abbeys, many of which he remembered and 

knew well, and in his very last days he was still trying to articulate new thoughts on 

crusading warfare. 

At his funeral, Colin’s son summed up the principles by which his father lived: ‘Be kind, 

be truthful, be curious’. There is no better testimony to his life and scholarship. 

Brian Golding 


BRIAN WEARING 

Brian Wearing (1935-2021) grew up in Westmorland. He was 

educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Kirkby 

Lonsdale, and, following National Service in the Royal Navy, 

he arrived at Queen's in 1956 with a Thanet Exhibition to 

read History. After Brian’s graduation in 1959, the renowned 

Henry Pelling encouraged him to study American History for 

the BPhil degree, which he obtained in 1961. 

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During his time at Queen’s, Brian played rugby for the College. He was also an 

enthusiastic member of the University Motor Club. He enjoyed all aspects of life at 

Queen’s and was a proud Eaglet. 

In 1961, Brian joined Rolls Royce and was soon engaged in marketing and planning. 

His interest in engines, particularly car engines, was a life's passion. Over the years 

he built and restored numerous Saabs and Lagondas and was still rally driving at 80. 

At heart Brian was a teacher, and he accepted an invitation from the University of 

Canterbury in New Zealand to apply to lecture in American History. He was offered 

the position, and from 1966, Brian was based in Christchurch. For many years, Brian 

was the head to the UC American Studies Department, which was established in 

the 1970s. Its interdisciplinary program covered Literature, Religion, Film, Politics, 

as well as History. He was a patient and caring teacher, and a well organised and 

interesting lecturer. He kept in contact with many former students, taking an interest 

in their careers, and continuing to encourage and advise them. 

Brian's initial research interest was the relationship between the U.S.A. and the 

countries of Latin America. Over the years, this morphed into a study of immigration 

from Latin America, particularly Mexico, into the U.S.A. Among the many American 

universities that Brian visited as a guest professor, the year in Puerto Rico, where 

he lectured in fluent Spanish at the Inter American University at San Germán, was 

particularly memorable. Other rewarding semesters were spent at the University of 

Texas-Austin and the University of California-Los Angeles. 

In retirement Brian became interested in China and learnt Mandarin. He enjoyed 

travelling independently in China and talking with Chinese people. 

Brian is survived by his wife, the elder of his two sons, and eight grandchildren. 

Tas Carryer 


JOHN WOOD 

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“Generous”, “considerate”, “kind”, “reliable”: adjectives 

that came up frequently as we compiled this tribute to our 

friend Dr John Wood, who died in November 2021 – as did 

“accomplished”, “quick-witted”, “curious”, “modest” and 

“mischievous”. 

John was brought up in Greenwich, and at school he was 

good at languages, studying German, Russian, and French, as well as science, 

and his eventual passion, mathematics. He took his Oxford entrance exam at 16, 

matriculating at Queen’s in 1973, then studying for his Masters at Sussex and his 

PhD at Cardiff. He joined Ferranti in Bracknell before moving to GCHQ, where he 

developed a first-class team as well as displaying his love of cryptic puzzles and 

quizzes (John was a contributor to the very popular GCHQ Puzzle Book published 

in 2016). 

John was an adept and enthusiastic problem-solver. He embraced mathematical 

challenges, becoming a respected contributor to Project Euler with its mathematical 

and computer problems that got harder and harder, and he enjoyed undertaking 

research to solve these and other puzzles. He delighted in finding elegant solutions 

to puzzles which were obvious to others only once he had explained them (a true 

mathematician!). He applied that enthusiasm to puzzles of all types, from pub team 

and GCHQ quizzes to the Goodworth Clatford Christmas Quiz, copies of which he 

generously bought and sent to friends to help promote their charitable fundraising: 

he achieved 100% on several occasions, although it was the challenge that appealed 

to John more than the winning, and he enjoyed engaging supportively with the 

compiler on the nuances of the puzzles. He was in the audience several times for 

TV programmes such as QI, Have I got News for You and I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, 

which appealed to his love of facts and his sense of humour. 

John’s passion for mathematics was a constant thread throughout his life, maintaining 

an interest in Dr Peter Neumann’s work to promote mathematics in schools and 

helping his friends’ children who were studying mathematics at university (he was 

very pleased for them in their achievements). 

John’s quiet generosity was apparent in other ways too. He enjoyed spending time 

with friends – day trips from his home in Cheltenham, long weekends exploring 

different places in the UK and abroad, and regular visits to Japan, which he loved – 

and he excelled in finding the best public transport travel options and interesting 

places to visit, particularly cafés, delis, local markets, pubs, and discovering ‘off the 

beaten track’ gems (he never learnt to drive but would habitually walk long distances). 

His family was very important to him, and he loved visiting them: spending time with 

people, being interested in them, and quietly helping when he could were defining 


characteristics of John’s personality. He was a frequent volunteer, from many blood 

donations to helping to organise the annual Cheltenham Beer Festival, visiting local 

beer and cider producers to help transport their contributions; and he was proud to 

have helped at the 2012 London Olympics, operating one of the venue scoreboards. 

Wherever he went, John always dressed in the same way: a T-shirt (or two if it was 

cold), chinos, and walking sandals. He carried a small rucksack that contained a 

copy of The Guardian and a pen (for the cryptic crossword), appropriate refreshments 

for everyone, and whatever unusual gifts he had brought. He had a mischievous 

sense of humour, delighting in puns and wordplay and gently ribbing his friends 

(a bottleneck of Spanish teenagers from Bilbao getting off a train carriage at Oxford 

prompted the memorable “You shouldn’t put all your Basques in one exit”: there were 

many more!). Escapades at Queen’s included participating in a nine-hour marathon 

punt to Islip (alcohol was involved, allegedly), taking up residence on the balcony 

of The Chequers during the (examination-free) Trinity Term of 1975, and excelling at 

bar billiards in the JCR and various public house venues. He had a healthy disregard 

for pomposity, and wasn’t afraid to speak truth to power; but there was always a 

consideration for others, and a willingness to engage and converse with a complete 

lack of edge or vanity. 

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We shall miss his company, his wit, and his kindness. 

Compiled by John’s friends and colleagues, from his school, Queen’s, Ferranti, 

and GCHQ. 



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Mr Martin Dillon (1961) 

Mr Ron Glaister (1961) QS 

Mr David Brownlee (1962) 

Mr Philip Hetherington (1962) 

Professor Peter Bell (1963) 

Mr Clive Landa (1963) 

Mr William Marsterson (1963) 

District Judge Chris Beale (1964) 

Professor Dr Rod Levick (1964) QS 

Professor Lee Saperstein (1964) QS 

Mr John Clement (1965) QS 

Dr Michael Collop (1966) QS 

Dr Juan Mason (1967) QS 

Mr Paul Clark (1968) QS 

Mr Alan Mitchell (1968) QS 

Dr Howard Rosenberg (1968) QS 

Mr David Seymour (1969) QS 

Professor Hugh Arnold (1970) 

Mr Alan Taylor (1971) 

Mr Richard Geldard (1972) QS 

Mr Tom Ward (1973) QS 

Mr Robin Wilkinson (1973) QS 

Mr Philip Middleton (1974) 

Mr Stuart White (1975) QS 

Mr Fred Arnold (1976) 

Mr Mark Neale (1976) QS 

Mr John Betteridge (1977) 

Mr Gerry Hackett (1977) QS 

Dr Chris Ringrose (1979) QS 

Mr John Ford (1980) QS 

Mrs Diana Webster (1980) QS 

Mr Jonathan Webster (1981) QS 

Mr Joseph Archie (1982) 

Mr Alan Leigh (1982) 

Mr Stefan Green (1987) 

Mr Bob Burgess (1987) QS 

Mrs Sia Marshall (1990) QS 

Mr Cameron Marshall (1991) QS 

Mr Jonathan Woolf (1991) QS 

Mr John Hull (1994) QS 

Mrs Anna Hull (1995) QS 

Mr Chris Woolf (1995) QS 

Dr Philippa Tudor 

Benefactions 

Old Members 

Anonymous x 25 

Mr Arthur Walker (1938) 

Mr Graham Lewis (1948) QS 

Mr David Thornber (1948) QS 

Dr Duncan Thomas (1949) QS 

Mr Stan Whitehead (1950) 

Mr John Hazel (1951) QS 

Mr Allan Preston (1951) 

Mr David Duke-Evans (1952) 

Professor Keith Jennings (1952) QS 

Dr Tony Lee (1952) QS 

Mr John Percy (1952) QS 

Mr Geoff Peters (1952) QS 

Mr Jim Ranger (1952) QS 

The Revd Dr Aylward Shorter (1952) 

The Revd Mike Atkinson (1953) QS 

His Excellency Michael Atkinson (1953) QS 

Mr Bill Burkinshaw (1953) QS 

Mr Jim Glasspool (1953) QS 

Professor Victor Hoffbrand (1953) QS 

Mr Eddie Mirzoeff (1953) 

Mr David Bryan (1954) QS 

Mr Donald Clarke (1954) QS 

Mr Mike Drake (1954) QS 

Mr Robin Ellison (1954) QS 

Mr Gerry Hunting (1954) QS 

Mr Don Naylor (1954) QS 

Mr Michael Platt (1954) 

Mr Strachan Heppell (1955) QS 

Dr David Myers (1955) QS 

Mr Tom Frears (1956) QS 

Dr Bill Roberts (1956) QS 


Benefactions 

Dr Brian Sproat (1956) QS 

Mr Christopher Stephenson (1956) QS 

Mr Graham Sutton (1956) QS 

The Revd Canon Michael Arundel 

(1957) QS 

Mr Ian Chisholm (1957) QS 

Mr Colin Hughes (1957) QS 

Professor Laurence King (1957) QS 

Dr Brian Salter-Duke (1957) QS 

Mr Martin Sayer (1957) QS 

Mr Peter Thomson (1957) QS 

Mr Malcolm Dougal (1958) QS 

Mr Gerald Evans (1958) QS 

Dr Michael Gagan (1958) QS 

Mr Nigel Hughes (1958) QS 

Dr John Reid (1958) QS 

Mr Graham Thornton (1958) 

Mr Frank Venables (1958) QS 

Mr Barrie Wiggham (1958) QS 

Mr Michael Allen (1959) QS 

Mr David Beaton (1959) QS 

Mr Michael Brunson (1959) QS 

Mr Philip Burton (1959) QS 

Mr John Foley (1959) QS 

Professor John Gillingham (1959) QS 

Professor David Goodall (1959) QS 

Professor John Matthews (1959) QS 

Mr Ian Parker (1959) QS 

Mr John Rix (1959) QS 

Mr John Seely (1959) QS 

Professor Peter Williams (1959) QS 

Mr Robin Bell (1960) QS 

Mr Christopher Boddington (1960) 

Mr David Foster (1960) QS 

Mr Jim Gilpin (1960) QS 

Mr John Price (1960) 

Mr James Robertson (1960) QS 

Mr Robert Wilson (1960) QS 

Mr Chris Bearne (1961) QS 

Mr Philip Bowers (1961) QS 

Dr Norman Diffey (1961) 

Professor David Eisenberg (1961) 

Lord Colin Low (1961) QS 

Professor Andrew McPherson (1961) QS 

Mr Richard Nosowski (1961) QS 

Mr Godfrey Talford (1961) QS 

The Revd Graham Wilcox (1961) QS 

Professor Nicholas Young (1961) QS 

Professor John Coggins (1962) QS 

Mr Martin Colman (1962) QS 

Dr Steve Higgins (1962) QS 

Sir Paul Lever (1962) QS 

Mr Adrian Milner (1962) QS 

Mr Richard Mole (1962) QS 

Mr Donald Rutherford (1962) QS 

Professor Peter Tasker (1962) QS 

Mr George Trevelyan (1962) QS 

Professor Brad Amos (1963) QS 

Mr Richard Batstone (1963) QS 

Sir Brian Donnelly (1963) QS 

Mr Rod Hague (1963) QS 

Mr Patrick Hastings (1963) QS 

Mr Christopher Higman (1963) 

Mr Charles Lamond (1963) QS 

Professor Ron Laskey (1963) QS 

Professor Alan Lloyd (1963) QS 

Mr Andrew Quaintance (1963) 

Mr Alan Wilson (1963) QS 

Mr Philip Beaven (1964) QS 

Dr Stephen Cockle (1964) 

Mr John Gregory (1964) QS 

Mr David Jeffery (1964) QS 

Mr Robin Leggate (1964) QS 

Mr Paul Legon (1964) QS 

Dr John Lewis (1964) QS 

Dr Gordon Rannie (1964) 

Dr Graham Robinson (1964) 

Mr Ian Sallis (1964) 

Dr Alan Shepherd (1964) QS 

Mr Tony Turton (1964) QS 

Mr Philip Wood (1964) QS 

Mr John Wordsworth (1964) QS 

Mr Andy Connell (1965) QS 

Mr Peter Cramb (1965) QS 

Mr Rodger Digilio (1965) 

Professor John Feather (1965) QS 

Professor Christopher Green (1965) QS 

Mr Peter Hickson (1965) QS 

Lord Roger Liddle (1965) QS 

Mr David Matthews (1965) QS 


Mr Ian Swanson (1965) QS 

Mr David Syrus (1965) QS 

Mr Tony Whelan (1965) 

Sir Stephen Wright (1965) QS 

Mr Alan Beatson (1966) QS 

Dr George Biddlecombe (1966) QS 

Mr Roger Blanshard (1966) QS 

Professor Peter Coleman (1966) QS 

Mr Richard Coleman (1966) QS 

Mr Andrew Horsler (1966) QS 

Mr John Kitteridge (1966) QS 

Dr Paul Schur (1966) QS 

Professor Peter Sugden (1966) QS 

Mr Derek Swift (1966) QS 

Mr Richard Atkinson (1967) QS 

Dr Tony Battilana (1967) 

The Revd John Clegg (1967) 

Mr Chris Davey (1967) 

Mr Richard Messenger (1967) 

Mr David Roberts (1967) QS 

Professor Philip Schlesinger (1967) QS 

Mr Mike Thompson (1967) QS 

Mr Rob Bollington (1968) QS 

Mr Peter Burroughs (1968) QS 

Professor Tim Connell (1968) QS 

Mr John Crowther (1968) QS 

Mr Thomas Earnshaw (1968) QS 

Mr David Hudson (1968) QS 

Mr Colin Markley (1968) 

Mr Steve Robinson (1968) QS 

Professor Andrew Sancton (1968) 

Mr Richard Shaw (1968) QS 

Mr Jon Watts (1968) QS 

Dr John Windass (1968) QS 

Mr Frederik van Bolhuis (1969) 

Mr Neil Boulton (1969) QS 

Mr John Brown (1969) 

Mr Jim Gibson (1969) 

Professor Mark Janis (1969) 

Mr Anthony Prosser (1969) QS 

His Honour Erik Salomonsen (1969) QS 

Mr Chris Shepperd (1969) QS 

The Revd Dr Brian Sheret (1969) 

Mr Alan Sherwell (1969) QS 

Mr Nigel Tranah (1969) QS 

Mr Ian Walton-George (1969) 

Dr Martin Cooper (1970) QS 

Mr Jamie Macdonald (1970) QS 

Mr David Stubbins (1970) QS 

Mr Andy Sutton (1970) QS 

Mr Eric Thompson (1970) QS 

The Revd Canon Peter Wadsworth 

(1970) QS 

Mr Christopher West (1970) QS 

Dr Ephraim Borowski (1971) 

Mr John Clare (1971) QS 

Mr Chris Counsell (1971) QS 

Mr Anthony Denny (1971) QS 

Mr Winston Gooden (1971) QS 

Mr François Gordon (1971) QS 

Dr Ulrich Grevsmühl (1971) QS 

Mr Jonathan Hoffman (1971) 

Professor Christopher Huang (1971) QS 

Dr Michael Hurst (1971) QS 

Mr John Peat (1971) QS 

Mr Anthony Rowlands (1971) QS 

Mr Gary Stubley (1971) 

Mr Derek Townsend (1971) QS 

Dr Stephen Wilson (1971) QS 

Mr Alaric Wyatt (1971) QS 

Mr Nigel Allsop (1972) QS 

Mr David Bowen (1972) 

Mr Lou Fantin (1972) 

Mr Peter Farrar (1972) QS 

Dr Stephen Gilbey (1972) QS 

Mr Peter Haigh (1972) QS 

Mr Will Jackson-Houlston (1972) QS 

Mr John McLeod (1972) QS 

Mr Carlo Morini (1972) 

Mr David Palfreyman (1972) QS 

Mr Andrew Seager (1972) QS 

Dr John Wellings (1972) QS 

Mr Andrew Barlow (1973) 

Mr Phil Beveridge (1973) QS 

Dr Mark Eddowes (1973) QS 

Mr Tony Middleton (1973) QS 

Mr Robert Perry (1973) QS 

Mr Peter Richardson (1973) QS 

Mr Dick Richmond (1973) QS 

Mr Martin Riley (1973) QS 

Benefactions 


Benefactions 

Dr Alan Turner (1973) QS 

Mr Simon English (1974) QS 

Mr Eric Halpern (1974) QS 

Mr Havilland Hart (1974) QS 

Professor Dr Kieran Quinlan (1974) 

Mr Tim Shaw (1974) QS 

The Revd Thomas Stadnik (1974) 

Dr Jeffrey Theaker (1974) QS 

Mr Oliver Burns (1975) QS 

Dr Rhodri Davies (1975) QS 

Mr Ian Dougherty (1975) QS 

Dr Chris Hutchinson (1975) QS 

Mr Martin Moore (1975) QS 

Mr Nevill Rogers (1975) QS 

Professor Peter Clarkson (1976) QS 

Mr John Dixon (1976) 

Dr Nick Hazel (1976) QS 

Mr Raymond Holdsworth (1976) 

Mr George Newhouse (1976) 

Mr Jim Nicholson (1976) 

Dr Martin Osborne (1976) QS 

Mr Brian Stubley (1976) QS 

Dr Christopher Tibbs (1976) QS 

Mr Simon Wells (1976) 

General Sir Richard Barrons (1977) QS 

Mr Paul Bennett (1977) QS 

Dr Michael Cadier (1977) QS 

Mr Mark Evans (1977) QS 

Mr Francis Grew (1977) QS 

Mr Paul Godsland (1977) QS 

Mr Martin Kelly (1977) QS 

Dr Shaun McGee (1977) 

Dr John Morewood (1977) QS 

Mr Michael Penrice (1977) QS 

Professor Matti Sintonen (1977) 

Mr Mike Thompson (1977) QS 

Mr Charlie Anderson (1978) QS 

Mr Steve Anderson (1978) QS 

Mr Nick Beecroft (1978) QS 

Mr Paul Dawson (1978) QS 

Dr Mike Fenn (1978) QS 

Mr John Gibbons (1978) QS 

Mr Peter Hamilton (1978) QS 

Mr Jeremy Jackson (1978) QS 

Mr John Keeble (1978) QS 

Dr Simon Loughe (1978) QS 

Dr Howard Simmons (1978) 

Mr Jervis Smith (1978) QS 

Dr Trevor Barker (1979) QS 

Mr Chris Bertram (1979) QS 

Dr Nicholas Edwards (1979) QS 

Mr Philip Epstein (1979) 

Dr Ron Kelly (1979) QS 

Professor Cath Rees (1979) QS 

Mrs Alison Sanders (1979) QS 

Mr Gary Simmons (1979) QS 

Mr Simon Whitaker (1979) QS 

Dr Louise Goward (1980) QS 

Mrs Carrie Kelly (1980) QS 

Dr Tim Shaw (1980) QS 

Mr Tim Stephenson (1980) QS 

Dr Mark Byfield (1981) QS 

Dr Paul Driscoll (1981) QS 

Ms Janet Hayes (1981) QS 

Mrs Linda Holland (1981) QS 

Mr Donald Pepper (1981) QS 

Professor Marcela Votruba (1981) QS 

Mrs Cathy Driscoll (1982) QS 

Mr Ian English (1982) QS 

Mrs Janet Lewis (1982) QS 

Mr Richard Lewis (1982) QS 

Mr David Lubin (1982) 

Mr Mark Pearce (1982) QS 

Mr David Price (1982) QS 

Mr Tom Webber (1982) QS 

Mr Francis Austin (1983) QS 

Mr Andy Bird (1983) QS 

Mr Andrew Campbell (1983) QS 

Mr Edmund Craston (1983) QS 

Mrs Rose Craston (1983) QS 

Dr Robert Hughes (1983) QS 

Mr Adrian Robinson (1983) 

Dr Neil Tunnicliffe (1983) QS 

Mrs Antonia Adams (1984) QS 

Dr Miles Benson (1984) QS 

Mr Mike Cronshaw (1984) QS 

Professor Phil Evans (1984) QS 

Dr Nigel Greer (1984) 

Mr Richard Hopkins (1984) QS 

Dr Katherine Irving (1984) QS 


Mrs Rachel Lawson (1984) QS 

Mr Robert Lawson (1984) QS 

Professor Gianluigi Oliveri (1984) 

Mrs Liz Patel (1984) QS 

Mr Tiku Patel (1984) QS 

Dr Jan Pullen (1984) QS 

Mr Steve Thomas (1984) QS 

Mr John Turner (1984) QS 

Ms Justine Watt (1984) 

Dr Udayan Chakrabarti (1985) QS 

Mr Steve Evans (1985) QS 

Mr Ed Kemp-Luck (1985) QS 

Dr Philippa Moore (1985) QS 

The Revd Matthew Pollard (1985) QS 

Mr Adrian Ratcliffe (1985) QS 

Mr Martin Riley (1985) QS 

Mr Juan Sepulveda (1985) 

Mrs Julie Smyth (1985) QS 

Ms Janet Cartmell (1986) 

Major Matthew Christmas (1986) QS 

Ms Jude Dobbyn (1986) QS 

Dr Genevieve Fairbrother (1986) 

Mr Steve Jones (1986) QS 

Mr Simon Miller (1986) QS 

Mr Andrew Mitchell (1986) QS 

Dr Richard Newbold (1986) 

Mr Gerald Rix (1986) QS 

Mrs Cathy Sanderson (1986) QS 

Dr Susan Schamp (1986) QS 

Mr Rob Tims (1986) QS 

Mr Charles Adams (1987) 

Dr Philip Apps (1987) 

Mrs Erica Charles (1987) 

Mrs Kate O'Donnell (1987) 

Dr Richard Fynes (1987) QS 

Mrs Vikki Hall (1987) QS 

Mr Mark Highman (1987) QS 

Mrs Sarah Kucera (1987) QS 

Mr Ellis Mathews (1987) 

Dr Dorian McIlroy (1987) 

Dr John Morgan (1987) QS 

Ms Susan Sack (1987) 

Mr Philip Sanderson (1987) QS 

Mrs Rachel Thorn (1987) QS 

Mr Adrian Wright (1987) 

Mr John Bigham (1988) QS 

Dr Andrew Carpenter (1988) 

Mrs Hilary Corroon (1988) QS 

Miss Celestine Eaton (1988) QS 

Mr Tim Grayson (1988) QS 

Dr Jules Hargreaves (1988) QS 

Professor Blair Hoxby (1988) 

Mr Alastair Kennis (1988) QS 

Dr Adrian Tang (1988) QS 

Mrs Ann Marie Dickinson (1989) QS 

Dr Susan Ferraro (1989) QS 

Mr Ben Green (1989) QS 

Mr Jim Kaye (1989) QS 

Ms Hetty Meyric Hughes (1989) QS 

Mr Marc Paul (1989) 

Mr Matthew Perret (1989) QS 

Mr Chris Porton (1989) QS 

Mr Ian Tollett (1989) QS 

Mrs Penny Crouzet (1990) QS 

Mr Jason Hargreaves (1990) QS 

Mr Keith Hatton (1990) QS 

Mrs Morag Mylne (1990) 

Mr Fabio Quaradeghini (1990) QS 

Dr Angela Winnett (1990) QS 

Mr Nik Everatt (1991) QS 

Mr Paul Gannon (1991) QS 

Mrs Kay Goddard (1991) QS 

Ms Jess Matthew (1991) QS 

Dr Christopher Meaden (1991) QS 

Dr Kausikh Nandi (1991) QS 

Mr Adam Potter (1991) QS 

Mr Stephen Robinson (1991) QS 

Dr Vicki Saward (1991) QS 

Dr John Sorabji (1991) QS 

Mr Dev Tanna (1991) QS 

Miss Sarah Witt (1991) QS 

Dr Jason Zimba (1991) QS 

Mr Jonathan Buckley (1992) QS 

Dr Rebecca Emerson (1992) QS 

Professor Mike Hayward (1992) QS 

Mr James Holdsworth (1992) QS 

Mrs Claire O'Shaughnessy (1992) QS 

Dr Nia Taylor (1992) QS 

Dr Tyler Bell (1993) 

Mr Ian Brown (1993) QS 

Benefactions 


Benefactions 

Mr Matt Keen (1993) QS 

Mrs Jenny Kelly (1993) QS 

Mr Matt Lawrence (1993) QS 

Dr Said Mohamed (1993) QS 

Mrs Helen von der Osten (1993) QS 

Mr Neil Pabari (1993) QS 

Mr Peter Sidwell (1993) QS 

Ms Christine Cairns (1994) QS 

Dr Jo Nettleship (1994) QS 

Professor Tim Riley (1994) 

Mrs Clare Stebbing (1994) QS 

Mr Nick Stebbing (1994) QS 

Dr Francis Tang (1994) 

Ms Claire Taylor (1994) QS 

Mr Alistair Willey (1994) QS 

Mr Tim Claremont (1995) QS 

Mr Tim Horrocks (1995) QS 

Mr David Line (1995) QS 

Mr Torsten Reil (1995) QS 

Mr Adam Silver (1995) QS 

Mrs Georgina Simmons (1995) QS 

Mr Jeremy Steele (1995) QS 

Dr Gavin Beard (1996) QS 

Mrs Helen Geary (1996) QS 

Mr Alex Grant (1996) QS 

Dr Helen Munn (1996) QS 

Mr David Smallbone (1996) QS 

Dr Jonathan Smith (1996) QS 

Mrs Rachel Taylor (1996) QS 

Mr James Bowling (1997) QS 

Dr William Goundry (1997) QS 

Mr Will Guest (1997) 

Mr Endaf Kerfoot (1997) QS 

Mr Gareth Powell (1997) QS 

Mrs Linda Renshaw (1997) QS 

Mr James Taylor (1997) QS 

Mr Gonçalo Abecasis (1998) 

Dr Martin Birch (1998) QS 

Miss Marie Farrow (1998) QS 

Mrs Nishi Grose (1998) QS 

Mrs Wendy Hansen (1998) QS 

Mr Matt Henderson (1998) QS 

Mr James Marsden (1998) QS 

Miss Jacqueline Perez (1998) QS 

Dr Graeme Smethurst (1998) 

Mr Charlie Sutters (1998) QS 

Dr Premila Webster (1998) QS 

Mrs Kate Cooper (1999) QS 

Mr Matthieu Edelman (1999) 

Ms Kelly Furber (1999) QS 

Mr Douglas Gordon (1999) QS 

Mr Jim Hancock (1999) QS 

Mr James Levett (1999) QS 

Mr Jim Luke (1999) QS 

Mr Dan Lynn (1999) QS 

Mr Gareth Marsh (1999) QS 

Mr Michael McClelland (1999) QS 

Dr Cecily Burrill (2000) 

Mr Andrew Buchanan (2000) QS 

Mr Rory Clarke (2000) QS 

Ms Cécile Défossé (2000) QS 

Dr Claire Hodgskiss (2000) QS 

Mr David Ainsworth (2001) QS 

Mrs Laura Ainsworth (2001) QS 

Mrs Chrissy Findlay (2001) QS 

Mr Mark Hawkins (2001) QS 

Mr James Klempster (2001) QS 

Mr Nick Kroepfl (2001) QS 

Mr Oliver Leyland (2001) QS 

Miss Alex Mayson (2001) QS 

Dr Matthew Osborne (2001) QS 

Mrs Cassie Smith (2001) QS 

Miss Elinor Taylor (2001) QS 

Mrs Zoe M. Wright (2001) QS 

Mrs Kathryn Aggarwal (2002) QS 

Mr Nikhil Aggarwal (2002) QS 

Mr Matt Allen (2002) QS 

Mrs Fran Baker (2002) QS 

Miss Sarah Berman (2002) QS 

Ms Liz Meehan (2002) QS 

Mrs Anushka E. Osborne (2002) QS 

Mr David Richardson (2002) QS 

Mr James Screen (2002) QS 

Mrs Rhian Screen (2002) QS 

Dr Abigail Stevenson (2002) QS 

Dr Ian Warren (2002) QS 

Mr Christopher Wright (2002) QS 

Ms Ling Zhao (2002) QS 

Dr Jessica Blair (2003) QS 

Ms Sarah Buckley (2003) QS 


Mr Ahmet Feridun (2003) QS 

Mrs Olivia Haslam (2003) QS 

Dr Jon Hazlehurst (2003) QS 

Ms Rebecca Patton (2003) QS 

Dr Enrique Sacau (2003) QS 

Mr Dane Satterthwaite (2003) QS 

Dr Guy Williams (2003) QS 

Ms Claire Harrop (2004) QS 

Ms Kate Newton (2004) QS 

Dr Philippa Roberts (2004) QS 

Dr Tony Thompson-Starkey (2004) 

Mr Daniel Shepherd (2005) QS 

Mr Ho Yi Wong (2005) QS 

Dr Matthew Hart (2006) QS 

Dr Laurence Mann (2006) 

Sergeant Tom Whyte (2006) QS 

Miss Lauriane Anderson Mair (2007) QS 

Dr Caitlin Hartigan (2007) 

Mr Tony Hu (2007) QS 

Mr Matthew Watson (2007) QS 

Mr Andy White (2007) QS 

Mr Nicholas Burns (2008) QS 

Ms Katherine Steiner (2008) QS 

Mrs Maude Tham (2009) 

Dr Vincent Boucher (2010) 

Mr James Dinsdale (2010) QS 

Mr Tom Mead (2010) QS 

Miss Amy Down (2011) QS 

Mr Tom Nichols (2011) QS 

Mr Kenichi Oka (2017) QS 

Benefactions 

Legacy Gifts 

The Revd George Vincent (1904) 

Mr John Boyes-Watson (1942) 

Mr Francis Ogden (1944) 

Mr Eric Wetherell (1945) 

Mr Anthony Gwilliam (1948) 

Mr Alan Daniels (1953) 

Mr Brian Wearing (1956) 

Mr Ian Drummond (1973) 

Father Dominic Byrne (1974) 

Miss Celia Gould 

Mrs Ann Henn 

Mrs Daisy Voss 

Within College 

Anonymous x 1 

Professor John Baines QS 

Professor Sir John Ball QS 

Dr Claire Craig QS 

Dr Charles Crowther QS 

Mr Chris Diacopoulos QS 

Mrs Catherine House QS 

Dr Justin Jacobs QS 

Mrs Sylvia Neumann 

Dr Graeme Salmon 

Friends 

Sir David Beamish 

Mrs Helena Cuthbert QS 

Mr David French QS 

Professor Joshua Getzler QS 

Mrs Jean Littlewood 

Mrs Christine Mason QS 

Mr David Stead 

Mr Eric Wooding QS 


Trusts, foundations and companies 

Information 

Austrian Cultural Forum 

The Elba Foundation 

Independent Schools' Modern Languages Association 

Institut français du Royaume-Uni 

The Italian Cultural Institute 

Late Habibur Rahman, Late Rokeya Khanum and Professor A.H. Shamsur Rahman 

Welfare Trust 

The Margaret Rolfe Charitable Trust 

Piper Jaffray 

Sannox Trust 

The Swire Foundation 

Embassy of Switzerland in the United Kingdom 

Ward Family Fund 

The Waverley Fund 



INFORMATION 

College Record 2023 

Please submit your news and details of any awards or publications for inclusion in 

the 2023 College Record here: https://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/college-record-2023. 

Alternatively, you can send this information by post to the Old Members’ Office in 

College. The deadline for entries is 1 August 2023. 

Information 

You are also invited to submit obituaries of Old Members. Please send these to the 

Old Members’ Office. 

Visiting the College 

If you are an Old Member visiting Oxford you are very welcome to visit Queen’s 

during your stay. 

Enter the College via the main High Street gate and report to the Porters’ Lodge. 

Mention that you are an Old Member wishing to visit and say if this visit has been 

pre-arranged with the Old Members’ Office. The Porters will need to check your 

Old Member credentials, so you can either show your University of Oxford Alumni 

Card (‘My Oxford’ card) or answer a couple of questions so the Porters can locate 

you on their database. 

Do I need to book my visit? 

You do not have to pre-arrange a visit, but we do encourage it, so we can check 

there are no restrictions on the areas you want to see. You can bring friends or 

family with you, including children, but if you are a group of six or more, let us know 

in advance, if you can. 

Generally Old Members are able to walk around the cloisters, quads, gardens, and 

Chapel and Hall, if the spaces are not being used for other purposes. The Lodge 

Porters will advise on which areas are not accessible. 

You will need to let us know in advance if you would like to look around the Library. 

The Library has different visiting times to the main College – as visits can only take 

place when the Library is staffed – and this varies depending on whether you plan 

to visit during term, vacation time, or at a weekend. The Library is also sometimes 

closed for events. Read more about Library access on the Library’s web page. 

When are you open? 

The College is generally open to Old Member visitors most of the year, with the 

exception of the two-week closure period over the Christmas vacation and on 

occasions where there are large events taking place in College, such as the College 


Ball. Visits between 9am-6pm are preferable, and the College is open at weekends 

and on most of the public holidays (except Christmas/New Year). 

Information 

Degree ceremonies 

An MA can be taken by anyone who has completed a BA or BFA, 21 terms after their 

matriculation date. Old Members can either attend a University degree ceremony or 

receive an MA in absentia. To take your MA in person or in absentia, please email 

college.office@queens.ox.ac.uk. 

Transcripts and certificates 

If you matriculated before 2007 and require proof of your exam results, or a transcript 

of your qualifications for a job application or continuing education purposes, please 

contact the College Office on 01865 279166 or college.office@queens.ox.ac.uk. 

If you need a copy of your certificate, or confirmation of your degree if you have 

not attended a ceremony, then all the information on acquiring these can be found 

at the University’s Student Records and Degree Conferrals Office: www.ox.ac.uk/ 

students/graduation/certificates. 

For those who matriculated after 2007, transcripts/proof of degree documents can 

be ordered online: www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/product-catalogue/degreeconferrals. 

Updating your details 

If you have moved or changed your contact details, please complete the online 

update form: https://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/update-details-share-news/ or email 

oldmembers@queens.ox.ac.uk. 

Bed and breakfast 

During Term 

We have two Old Member guestrooms that can be booked during term-time via the 

Lodge or the Old Members’ Office. 

One is a twin room, with en suite in Back Quad; the other is a very basic single 

room, with shared bathroom facilities (NB access is via a steep staircase). The rates 

include breakfast in Hall. 

No payment is required for these rooms when booking, instead you will be invoiced 

the month following your stay for payment via bank transfer, or you can telephone 

the Bursary to pay by credit or debit card. 


During vacation 

College bedrooms are mostly occupied by private function and conference guests, 

including the two Old Member guest rooms. Occasionally student bedrooms (single 

and twin) are available over the Easter and Summer vacations and can be booked 

for bed and breakfast. Old Members are welcome to enquire about room availability, 

but dates are often limited. 

Information 

Email the Old Members Office with your visit dates. If a room is available we will 

confirm the room rate (commercial rate, with a discount applied for Old Members). 

We will then provide a link to complete your booking and payment online. 

All stays are for a maximum of three nights (unless otherwise agreed with the 

Domestic Bursar) and under 18s are not allowed in B&B rooms. 



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