Clare Association Annual 2015-16 by Clare College

CLARE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL 2015 - 16

THE CLARE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL 2015 - 2016

CONTENTS

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EDITORIAL........................................................................................................................ 3 COLLEGE NEWS.............................................................................................................. 4 NEW FELLOWS................................................................................................................ 5 COLLEGE PRIZES................................................................................................. 7 CHAPEL & CHOIR NEWS.................................................................................. 11 STAFF NEWS....................................................................................................... 14 MASTER & FELLOWS An informal listing........................................................ 15 BENEFACTIONS & GIFTS.................................................................................. 18 ACCESS & OUTREACH..................................................................................... 22 THE CLARE ASSOCIATION............................................................................... 26 Report from the Alumni Council The Lady Clare Fund “OLD CLARE” NEWS......................................................................................... 29 OBITUARIES........................................................................................................ 34 NOTICES............................................................................................................... 92

Send contributions for the next Annual to alumni@clare.cam.ac.uk or to The Development Office, Clare College, Cambridge, CB2 1TL

ILLUSTRATIONS (all coloured)

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Illus 1a Snow falling in Old Court....................................................................................49 1b Snow on the Bridge..............................................................................................49 1c Sunset over Old Court..........................................................................................49 Illus 2a A winter evening in Old Court.............................................................................50 2b Snowdrops along the Avenue...............................................................................50 2c View of the Bridge through branches...................................................................50 Illus 3a Flowers along the Avenue.....................................................................................51 3b The Avenue...........................................................................................................51 3c Flowers in Memorial Court..................................................................................51 Illus 4a Flowers along the Avenue.....................................................................................52 4b People walking along the Avenue.........................................................................52 4c Clare Bridge..........................................................................................................52 Illus 5a Flowers along the Avenue.....................................................................................53 5b The gate leading to the Fellows’ Garden..............................................................53 5c Close up of Daffodils............................................................................................53 Illus 6a Bunting for Gala Day...........................................................................................54 6b Students walking past the Forbes Mellon Library................................................54 6c Close up of the gate artwork by the Fellows’ Garden..........................................54 Illus 7a Our banana tree bearing fruit................................................................................55 7b Tree outside entrance to Memorial Court.............................................................55 7c The Latin inscription above the Memorial Court entrance..................................55 Illus 8a The Scholars’ Garden...........................................................................................56 8b The Avenue in summer.........................................................................................56 8c A punt gliding under Clare Bridge.......................................................................56 Illus 9a Berries by a lamp along the Avenue.....................................................................57 9b New succulent plants grown in King’s alongside Clare’s southern face..............57 9c View of Clare from King’s college.......................................................................57 Illus 10a View of the western face of College from the Avenue.........................................58 10b Bushes along the Avenue......................................................................................58 10c Autumn coloured tree in the Fellows’ Garden......................................................58 Illus 11a Rainbow over Old Court......................................................................................59 11b Sunset as seen from a window in the southern face of Clare...............................59 11c The Scholars’ Garden...........................................................................................59 Illus 12a Dark winter sky taken from Clare Bridge............................................................60 12b Ice on the DNA sculpture in Memorial Court......................................................60 12c Frozen cobweb in the grass..................................................................................61 Acknowledgements: Photographs by Hannah Sharples, Development Associate (Communications) Outside cover image by Peter Knewstubb, Clare Fellow and former Editor of the Annual.

EDITORIAL This year marks a change in the production of The Association Annual, the responsibility for which has been taken over by the Development Office. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Peter Knewstubb (1950) for his excellent work on this publication over the last twenty years. His dedication, interest and hard work have really left their mark on the Annual. We are sorry to see him step down as editor but we hope that he enjoys the extra time that this decision affords him. We have kept the established order, beginning with College News and College Prizes before moving on to a report from the Chapel and Choir. News about College Staff follows next, including a physical triumph in the form of our Conference Assistant running the marathon. An updated list of the Master and Fellows is included, along with reports on Benefactions and Gifts, Access and Outreach, the Alumni Council, and The Lady Clare Fund. The selection of photographs this year has been chosen to showcase each month of the year, in order to give a visual insight into ‘Clare through the Seasons’. Finally, the Annual ends with ‘Old Clare’ News and the obituaries that have been sent to us during the year. This will most likely be the last Annual in its current format as we intend to restructure it for the next academic year, alongside the College Annual Report which shares much of its content with this publication. If readers have strong views on certain aspects of the Annual, we would welcome comments. These can be emailed to alumni@clare.cam.ac.uk. Hannah Sharples Development Associate (Communications)

COLLEGE NEWS In January 2016, the College was delighted to welcome the Chancellor of the University, Baron Sainsbury of Turville, to Clare. Lord Sainsbury came in his capacity as Visitor to meet members of the College community, and it was his first official visit since becoming Chancellor of the University in 2011. The office of Visitor is an historic one and now largely ceremonial. The Visitor’s role is outlined in the College statutes, which state that the Visitor has the power ‘…to correct, and if appropriate, punish any irregularity in the Master or Fellows.’ As the Master Lord Grabiner QC noted in his speech, we are pleased that he did not deem it necessary to exercise this power! Once again Clare received the Gold Award for the work that the College does for Green Impact. Clare also received more awards than any other College or Faculty Department in the University, winning 2 out of the 3 Special Awards.

NEW FELLOWS Since the last edition of this Annual, we have welcomed 4 new Fellows to Clare, and a short introduction to each of them is included below: Dr Matthew Kenzie read Physics for his undergraduate degree at Durham. He then did his PhD at Imperial, which for the most part was at CERN. He worked on the discovery and subsequent properties of the Higgs boson in its decay to two photons using the CMS experiment. After his PhD Matthew worked as a fellow at CERN for two and half years before moving to Clare and Cambridge, where he is a particle Physicist and Research Fellow for the LHCb Experiment at CERN. He is currently working with the LHCb collaboration with a particular focus on the matter-antimatter asymmetry problem. He studies the context of matter-antimatter asymmetry using observations of charge-parityviolation in heavy B mesons decays. To this end his main research topic is measurement of the CKM angle gamma. Dr Matthew Dunstan completed his undergraduate degree in Chemistry at the University of Sydney and moved to Cambridge in 2011 to begin a PhD at the Department of Chemistry. His research is mainly focussed on the rational design of novel materials for energy and environmental applications. This ranges from work with materials for use in fuel cells and carbon capture to his current project which focusses on new methods to efficiently screen large databases for new ionic conducting materials.

Mr Lorenzo Maniscalco has been appointed as a College Lecturer in Law, he supervises the Land Law and Equity papers for the Law Tripos and is the Director of Studies for Clare’s LLM students. Lorenzo joined the University of Cambridge as a doctoral student in 2014 after completing an LLB and LLM at University College London. He is currently finishing his PhD on ‘The Concept of Equity in Early-Modern European Legal Scholarship’, an AHRC-funded project tracing the origin and development of the modern legal concept of equity among sixteenth and early seventeenth-century jurists around Europe. Aside from his work in European legal history, Lorenzo is also interested in modern property law, with a particular focus on land law and the law of trusts. The Very Rev’d Peter Judd DL retired to Cambridge after being Dean of Chelmsford for sixteen years. He was chaplain of Clare from 1976-1981 and acting dean and Fellow in 1981. Peter also acted as dean for Clare after Greg Seach’s retirement and before our current dean Jamie Hawkey was appointed. Now he has been elected as a Bye-Fellow of the College.

AWARDS AND PRIZES 2016 Clare College (i) SCHOLARSHIPS: Honorary Foundation Scholarships for one year:

[1st in second year (and/or third year, if four-year course) PLUS at least a 2.1 in previous year]

A. Araya-Williams, J. Atherton, H. Ayton, A. R. Brown, C. K. Calver, C. L. C. Chan, J. Cowie, O. Dutton, L. G. Evans, S. X. Gatsionis, E. Hegarty, C. S. Hooper, A. J. Horne, S. Ingledew, M. J. I, K. Jami, C. M. Johansen, C. I. Johnston, G. Kimble, A. King, C. H. D. Kong, D. Kristek, J. Landman, G. Lennox, R. Liu, D. Massey, A. McDonald, L. Nart, J. F. Newman, A. Peel, B. S. Plowden, R. M. Polding, L. F. Popplewell, A. G. Rakowski, J. Riley, L. Rogers, T. A. Rossberg, J. R. Shah, M. J. Sliney, E. Smith, J. K. Spence, S. H. K. Swan, L. Tate, A. Veerappan, E. J. Warner, L. Wills, S. Wang, M. Z. L. Wong Scholarships for one year: [1st at end of first year]

S. Berdugo, G. Bliard, E. A. Burbridge, T. Compton, R. J. L. Fairhead, C. Garrod, A. D. Gurr, H. Hao, T. Hession, H. Ibrahim-Hashi, L. Ji, A. A. Lakhani, C. E. Macaulay, W. R. Mateer, R. A. Mohammed, A. J. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill, H. L. Perkin, E. Rechter, I. C. Rudd, T. Sadiq, G. Sandle, E. Sbaraini, S. R. Smithies, G. N. Sparrow, G. Stoimenova, J. I. Surkes, J. W. J. Teo, A. Waquet, B. R. Williams, E. S. Yang Exhibitions for one year:

[1st in second year (and/or third year, if four-year course) PLUS less than 2.1 in previous year]

E. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hare

Honorary Scholarships:

[Outstanding performance in final year]

M. L. Airlie, E. C. Alsema, K. Davis, J. A. Farr, B. S. Greaves, A. Gunawan, L. J. Harris, E. R. Holmes, A. Kawawa-Beaudan, I. Lawton, T. P. Lowe, I. Mellor, C. L. Parker, M. C. Richards, E. Simmons, B. Swain, F. J. K. Vincent, E. Walsh, G. Williams

(ii) PRIZES: £100 for a first – otherwise held over Christopher McCann Prize for Economics [Best in Part I] Paine Prize for Economics [Best in Part IIA] Davies Prize for Economics [Best in Part IIB] Prust Prize for History [1st year; DoS nomination] Allan Prize for History [Best in Part II] William Senior Prize for Law [Best in Part II] Milon Banerji Law Prize [Best in Part IA or IB] Mallinson Prize for Modern Languages [Best in Part II] Royalton Kisch Prize for Music [Best in Part II]

J. W. J. Teo Not Awarded Not Awarded E. Sbaraini K. Davis A. Kawawa-Beaudan R. Liu E. Simmons J. Sandelson

Chibnall Prize for Biochemistry [Best in Part II or III] Harry Paten Prize for Mathematics

I. Williams S. (Mike) Wang

Philippa Holmes Memorial Prize

C. J. Daffern

Amiya Banerji Prize for Mathematics

W. R. Mateer

David Hartley Prize for Computer Science

I. R. Dunn

Perret Prize in Arch & Anth or AMES

Not Awarded

William Butler Prize for Medical Sciences

tbc

Murgoci Prize for Physics [Best graduand] Horne Prizes for Physical Sciences Maths, Computer Science, Physics, Life Science, HPS, Earth Sciences etc, NOT Engineering] for undergraduates, or M Phil students gaining a distinction or equivalent

E. Silvester M. T. Battison, J. C. Bird, M. Butler, C. S. Hall, R.A.R.Elliott, J. Kirklin, J. L. V. Koepsell, E. O’Hare, P. K. C. Leung, P. Linnegan, R. Polding, A. G. Rakowski, B. Swain, W.Thom

[Best Part II Mathematician going on to Part III] [Best dissertation in Geography]

[Best result in Part IA or Part IB]

[Best result in any Part of the Computer Science Tripos] [Top first in any Part of A&A or AMES]

[Any Part: for an intending medical student]

Pressed Steel Prizes for Engineering [including EIST, Chem Eng, Man Eng]* For undergraduates, or M Phil students gaining a distinction or equivalent

Year 4 R. J. Andrews, J. Emborg, A. Gunawan, E. J. Philips, D. Saunders Year 3 A. Araya-Williams, J. Atherton, H. Ayton, A. J. Horne, D. Kristek, A. McDonald, L. Tate Year 2 A. R. Brown, M.J.L.K. Jami, Year 1 H. Ibrahim-Hashi, L. Ji, C. E. Macauley, B. R. Williams Bauckham Prize in Theology and Religious Studies

L. J. Harris

W. P. Stephens Prize for Theology and Religious Studies [Best in Part I] Stephens Prize for Theology and Religious Studies

H. R. Fytche

[top 1st in any part]

[Best in Part IIB]

G. Williams

Robins Prize(s) [going on to do research no other named prize] tbc Lester Brough Prize for contributions to the music L. F. Popplewell of the College [Nominated by the Director of Studies] Gordon Wright Prize for Medicine A. Sahni [Best performance in Preparing for Patients]

Lady Clare Precious Pearl Prize

[Awarded to the student gaining the best mark in a dissertation in the humanities or social sciences]

C. L. Parker

-oOoCollege Prizes of ÂŁ100 [1st or equivalent in examination; no named prize for exam results] First years S. Berdugo, G. Bliard, E. A. Burbridge, T. Compton, R. J. L. Fairhead, C. Garrod, A. D. Gurr, H. Hao, T. Hession, A. A. Lakhani, R. A. Mohammed, A. J. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill, H. L. Perkin, E. Rechter, I. C. Rudd, T. Sadiq, G. Sandle, S. R. Smithies, G. N. Sparrow, G. Stoimenova, J. I Surkes, A. Waquet, E. S. Yang Second Years C. K. Calver, J. Cowie, O. Dutton, L. G. Evans, S. X. Gatsionis, E. Hegarty, C. S. Hooper, S. Ingledew, C. M. Johansen, I. C. Johnston, A. King, J. Landman, G. Lennox, D. Massey, L. Nart, J. F. Newman, A. Peel, B. S. Plowden, J. Riley, L. Rogers, T. A. Rossberg, J. R. Shah, E. Smith, J. K. Spence, S. H. K. Swan, A. Veerappan, E. J. Warner, L Wills, M. Z. L. Wong

Third years M. L. Abegglen, M. L. Airlie, E. C. Alsema, C. L. C. Chan, G. S. Forrest, B. S. Greaves, E. R. Holmes, L. Holm-Mercer, G. Kimbell, C. H. D. Kong, I. Lawton, T. Lloyd-Jones, T. P Lowe, M. A. Lucey, I. Mellor, S. C. Monson, M. C. Richards, M. J. Sliney, F. J. K. Vincent, E. Walsh Fourth years J. A. Farr, M. Ryan, Y. Teng -oOoOther: J. R. Austin for gaining a distinction in his Final MB Examination Part III Clinical K. Biddle for gaining a distinction in her Final MB Examination Part III Clinical C. Callan for gaining a distinction in her Final M.B Examination Part I Pathology J. R. Green for gaining a distinction in her Final Veterinary Part II Examinations Greene Medals: Pietatis Causa Honoris Causa

[Dean/Chapel nomination] [Senior Tutor nomination for General Learning]

J. Osborne J. Sandelson

(Non-Tripos Prizes) Richard Gooder Literary Prize

F. De Falbe

John Northam Arts Prize

L. F. Popplewell

Duncan Robinson Art Prize

E. G. Chapman

[for general contribution to Literature in the College] [for general contribution to any aspect of literary or artistic endeavour in the College] [for general contribution to any aspect of practical or visual art in the College]

Other University Prizes R. Liu The Clifford Chance C.J. Hamson Prize for the Law of Contract The Clive Parry Prize for International Law

CHAPEL CHOIR Michaelmas 2015 began with a retreat to the beautiful parish church of Great Gransden, Cambridgeshire. The history between Clare and the village dates back to 1346, when Lady Elizabeth de Clare endowed the advowson for the church to the College. Singing together for the first time with twelve new members, the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge performed their first evensong of the academic year and enjoyed the chance to get to know one other before the start of a busy term. John Rutter, Honorary Fellow and former Director of Music at Clare, celebrated his 70th birthday in September 2015. Of course, no birthday is complete without singing and the Choir featured in not one, but two surprise birthday concerts. An octet from the Choir performed at a ‘Birthday Celebration with John Suchet’ at the Bristol Old Vic in August. Closer to home, a concert was given at West Road Concert Hall, followed by a choral evensong in Chapel, both of which featured Clare Choir alumni.

The Choir’s Christmas activities began with an invitation to appear on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune, followed by two performances of Handel’s Messiah in Union Chapel, London, and in the Chapel of St John’s College with soloists Elin Manahan Thomas, Christopher Ainslie, Nicholas Mulroy and Alexander Ashworth. The touring season began with visits to Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and Wales, with a quick stop-off and informal performance at the Elgar Birthplace Museum. The Choir then embarked on their fourth consecutive Christmas tour to the United States – possibly their busiest tour to date – with five concerts in five different states in as many days. The tour ended with a drinks reception at the Yale Club, New York organised by the Clare Development Office, at which the Choir members talked with and sang to alumni of the College. The Choir is particularly grateful to all the alumni who helped to host Choir members during their stay in the USA. On returning to the UK, the Choir gave their annual 11

performance at the St John’s Smith Square Christmas Festival. The tour repertoire mostly consisted of music for Epiphany in preparation for recording sessions of a new album in All Hallow’s Church, London and Tonbridge School, Kent. Mater ora filium: Music for Epiphany was released in December 2016, and is the seventh recording in the on-going series of Music for the Church Year on the Harmonia Mundi USA label.

It was a privilege to be asked to sing at the Holocaust Memorial Day event at London’s Guildhall, which was broadcast live on BBC Two. In the same week, the choir made frequent trips to London to prepare for the premiere of Alexander Raskatov’s Green Mass with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the Royal Festival Hall, conducted by Vladmir Jurowski. The Choir looks forward to working with Jurowski and the LPO again in April 2017 for a performance of Mahler’s 8th Symphony. March 2015 saw the release of Haec Dies: Music for Easter; the disc received much critical acclaim with BBC Music Magazine praising the Choir for having ‘carved a highly distinctive niche for itself amid the Oxbridge scramble’ and The Guardian commending Clare’s ‘gold standard for mixed collegiate choirs’. Following the Easter term, the Choir prepared a programme of 40-part repertoire, which was performed at the 40th anniversary of the Spitalfields Summer Festival and at the Cambridge Summer Festival. Various alumni returned to bolster the Choir’s numbers for works such as Tallis’ Spem in alium, Striggio’s Ecce beatam lucem and Swayne’s The Silent Land, featuring Raphael Wallfisch on ’cello. Earlier in the year, the Choir had performed Spem in alium alongside Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem in Oxford with the Choir of Queen’s College. In June, the Choir recorded their latest disc, Missa Pange Lingua: Music for Corpus Christi including Finzi’s Lo, the Full Final Sacrifice, recorded in Norwich Cathedral and Josquin’s mass setting Missa Pange Lingua, recorded in the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral. 12

Two settings of O Sacrum Convivium by French composers, Villette and Messiaen, also feature on the disc, and were performed by the Choir in Notre Dame Cathedral alongside La Maîtrise Notre Dame de Paris during a tour to Paris in the same month. September 2016 brought about the long-awaited tour to South-East Asia, with stops in Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Penang, and Kuala Lumpur. Highlights included a performance of Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore with the orchestra of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory and the Malaysian premieres of Fauré’s Requiem and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms under our Director of Music, Graham Ross. The tour concluded with a performance of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, complete with synthesised cannon shots. The three-week tour allowed the Choir to explore the cities, to take part in workshops at local schools, and to engage with Cambridge alumni. 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and the start of the Clare Reformation Project. The project sees the Choir perform a Bach Cantata every Sunday this Lent Term, and is followed by concerts in St John Smith’s Square and Southend-on-Sea in March 2017. Audio recordings of each Sunday service will be available at www.clarecollegechoir.com/webcasts. Rachel Haworth, Choir Administrator Catherine Clark, Senior Choral Scholar Alex Porteous, Senior Choral Scholar January 2017

STAFF NEWS 2016 was the year that three long serving members of staff left the College. Lynda Hoppett retired from the Conference Department after working for Clare for over ten years, and Shelley Spaxman left the Tutorial office in December after ten years of extremely efficient administrative work. Richard Bicknell, who had worked in the Maintenance Department, Support Services and Porters, retired after an incredible 30 years of service at Clare. Other staff members who left in 2016 are Sam Ludford (Support Services), Rob Allen (Catering), Alessandro Pennisi (Catering), and Andrew Brewer (Maintenance). We wish them all the best in their new ventures. Our Conference Administrator Hetty Cliss ran the marathon in April in memory of her friend Aaron Mayers, who took his own life in October 2014. She was raising money for Mind, a charity that provides support and services to people struggling with their mental health, an area in which cuts in funding have left big gaps. Hetty managed to considerably exceed her target of ÂŁ1,750, raising ÂŁ3,401.25 overall through sponsorship and fundraising events including a quiz night and a races night.

Asked how she found the marathon, Hetty said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Strangely, I really enjoyed the experience of running the Marathon on the day. I had put in a lot of hours training in the 6 months previous, which was hard going to keep motivated, but worth it on the day when I managed to run the entire distance without stopping. My time was 4 hours 15 minutes and 37 seconds. I had wanted to get under 4 hours but started 14

quite far back in the beginning and found it hard to keep overtaking people (that’s one thing people don’t tell you about the marathon is how crowded it is for the runners!) The support on the day was great and definitely kept me going.”

MASTER & FELLOWS As at 4 October 2016, by year of election, showing higher doctorates, external honours, and Fellowships of the British Academy & the Royal Society only. Where appropriate, dates of previous election to the Fellowship are indicated in square brackets. Master

1976 1979 1980 1981 1982 1985 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991

2014 The Rt Hon the Lord Grabiner QC Fellows 1954 1955 1958 1960 1961 1962 1964 1965 1966 1970 1971 1972

Prof. Richard West ScD FRS Prof. Timothy Smiley FBA Dr Gordon Wright MD Prof. Volker Heine FRS Dr Michael Bown Mr Colin Turpin Dr Kenneth Riley Dr Roger Tapp Dr Peter Knewstubb Prof. Nigel Weiss ScD FRS Dr Robert Blackburn Dr Roger Schofield FBA [1962] Mr John Newton [1961] Prof. Alison Sinclair Prof. Donald Lynden-Bell CBE FRS [1960] Dr Richard Gooder 1973 Prof. Andrew Holmes ScD FRS

Dr William Foster Mrs Elizabeth Freeman Dr Terence Moore Prof. Anthony Snodgrass FBA Prof. Jams Woodhouse Mr Timothy Brown Prof. Peter Leadlay Prof. Simon Franklin FBA Dr Fred Parker Prof. Paul Cartledge Mr Aylmer Johnson Prof. Rosalind O’Hanlon Prof. Alan Lucas Prof. David Howarth Dr David Hartley Prof. Andrew Thomason Prof. Dominic Scott Dr Nigel Woodcock Prof. Lawrence Paulson Dr Adrian Travis Prof. Gillian Brown CBE LittD Dr Jonathan Goodman Prof. Michael Lapidge LittD FBA Dr Paul Edwards

1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2012

Prof. Richard Phillips Dr Helen Thompson Prof. Neil Andrews Mr Duncan Robinson CBE DL [1974] Prof. Catherine Clarke Prof. Neil Greenham Dr Rachael Harris Prof. Bill Harris FRS Dr Marta Lahr [1992] Dr Patricia Fara Prof. Michiel Sprik Dr Douglas Hedley Prof. Anna Philpott Dr Tamara Follini Dr Wendy Pullan Dr Celia Duff Dr Paul Bristowe Dr Hubertus Jahn Prof. Timothy Lewens Dr Nicola Holdstock Prof. Marina Frolova-Walker FBA Prof. Robert Glen Prof. Lorraine Tyler Prof. Nicola Clayton FRS Prof. Gordon Ogilvie Dr Melvyn Weeks The Rev’d Roger Greeves Dr Richard Dyball ScD Prof. Jeremiah Ostriker Mr Donald Hearn Professor Howard Griffiths Dr John Gibson Dr Andrea Manica Prof. Anthony Badger Dr Maciej Dunajski Dr Hendrick van Veen Dr Charles Weiss Dr John Guy Dr Elizabeth Foyster

Dr Toby Wilkinson Dr Philip Jones Dr Jaqueline Tasioulas Prof. William Byrne Dr Sian Lazar Dr Helena Sanson Dr Flavio Toxvaerd Mr Stephen Jolly Prof. David Swensen Prof. Roel Sterckx FBA Dr Fiona Edmonds Dr Dorothy Thompson FBA Dr Ioannis Lestas Dr Robert Semple Dr Rodrigo Cacho Prof. Andrew Preston Prof. Henry Gates Jr Dr Andrew Friend Prof. Andrew Balmford FRS Prof. Paul Fletcher Dr Josip Glaurdic Dr Colin Russell Dr Anne Stillman Prof. Philip Allmendinger Dr Nathan Crilly Dr Philip Faulkner Prof. David Hodell Dr Kirsty Hughes Dr Julian Huppert Prof. Jaideep Prabhu Dr Kirsty McDougall Dr Andrew Carter Mr Graham Ross Prof. John Robertson Dr Ruth Watson Ms Jocelyn Wyburd Ms Francisca Malarée Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti Prof. Ottoline Leyser CBE FRS Dr Andrew Ferguson Dr Martin Smith

2013 2014 2015 2016

Dr Adria de Gispert Dr Timothy Chesters Dr Jason Carroll Dr Jonathan Fawcett Mr Clemens Matthiesen Dr Hester Vaizey Mr Paul Warren Dr Alyson Tapp Dr Clive Turner Dr Lucy Colwell Dr Simon Buczacki Dr Heike Alysia Dr Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido Mr Rowan Leary Mr Benjamin Slingo Mr Thomas Schindler Prof. Jorge Vinuales Dr David Chambers The Rev’d Dr James Hawkey Dr David Labonte Dr Matthew Kenzie Dr Matthew Dunstan Mr Lorenzo Maniscalco The Very Rev’d Peter Judd DL

1998 The Rt Hon the Lord Wilson of Dinton GCB His Excellency Fernando Cardoso LLD 2001 Dr John Rutter CBE DMus 2002 Sir Tim Hunt FRS 2004 Prof. Dame Frances Kirwan DBE FRS 2006 Mr Peter Ackroyd CBE Mr Matthew Parris Prof. Jonathan Spence CMG 2012 Sir Mark Walport FRS Prof. Sir David Cannadine LittD 2015 2016

Prof. Susan Alcock The Very Rev’d Vivienne Faull Dr Kwame Anthony Appiah Sir Malcolm Grant CBD LLD [1991] The Rt Hon the Lord Mair CBE

FRS

Elizabeth De Clare Fellows 2008 2014 2016

Honorary Fellows 1967 Prof. James Watson KBE ScD FRS

1980 Sir David Attenborough OM CH 1987 1989 1990 1992

FBA

CVO CBE FRS

The Rt Rev’d Mark Santer Sir Walter Bodmer FRS Sir Roger Norrington CBE Sir Nicholas Barrington KCMG CVO

1994 Sir John Boyd KCMG The Rt Rev’d and Rt Hon the Lord Williams of Oystermouth PC DD FBA 1997 Sir Andrew Wiles FRS

Mr Randolph Lerner Dr Alan Gillespie CBE Mr Ian Riley Mr John Spiers Mr Denis Burrell CBE DL

BENEFACTIONS AND GIFTS Development

Clare’s Development Office has two main functions: alumni relations, and fundraising. We are very fortunate to have such supportive alumni and friends, and we are in touch with over 8,500 addressable alumni of Clare, who are based in some 95 countries worldwide. The generosity of our supporters ensures that teaching staff, Fellows and above all our students benefit from the highest quality of education and resources available. Old Court

As we move into 2017, the long-awaited refurbishment of Old Court moves one step closer. In February 2017, we began consultation with Heritage England, who are now advising us on the best way to take our plans forward. We are aiming to fully refurbish the buildings, conserving their fabric for future generations. At the same time, we will bring the present antiquated bathroom facilities into the 21st Century by ensuring that bathrooms are provided on every staircase. We will be installing step-free access to the public rooms in the North Range, enabling individuals with impaired mobility to readily access the Hall, SCR and Fellows’ Library. Last year we reported that we intended to create a new space overlooking the river at the end of the North Passage (adjacent to the Master’s Garden). This new room will be used as a café, which will take pressure off the currently overcrowded buttery – and it will be a stunning space, with spectacular views over the river Cam.

The proposed works will cost a total of circa £36 million, of which we need to find £25 million from donations. We are delighted to report a very significant donation of £5million (plus gift aid) 18

from alumnus Andy Currie (1974) and his wife Dawn. Thanks to this generous gift, and to all the other donations we have gratefully received, our fundraising campaign for Old Court is now beginning to make traction at all levels. Supporting Education and Learning

We continue to receive significant and generous support for many other areas of College; bursaries and hardship funds for our students, studentships for our postgraduates, funds to support access and outreach, and funding for our world-class teaching. Annual Fund

Our annual telephone campaign ran for three weeks in the 2016 Easter vacation. It raised well in excess of £400,000 from some 500 individuals – a record-breaking result for Clare, which proves that a great deal can be achieved when large numbers of individuals give relatively modest donations. Stewardship

In 2015-16, around 1,700 individuals and 25 organisations made a financial contribution to Clare College. Unless anonymity is requested, their names are listed in our annual List of Donors. We have different stewardship levels for those donating at £10,000 (Benefactor), £25,000 (1326 Circle), and £100,000 (Master’s Circle), and there are different events for each of these categories of donor. In addition, our most significant benefactors are eligible for election to Elizabeth de Clare Fellowships, and our legacy donors are recognised with the annual Samuel Blythe luncheon. We also spend a good deal of time reporting to donors on the use of their funds.

Alumni Relations & Events

In addition to our annual publications (Clare News, the Annual Report, and the Association Annual) we send our monthly e-newsletter to all alumni for whom we have an email address.

Every year group has a Year Group Representative, or YGR for short. Many of our YGRs have been very active in writing to their year groups, collecting news, and informing their year on what’s going on in College. Each September, the YGRs meet together in College for the Alumni Council meeting, which forms the representative forum for alumni to advise on the College’s alumni and development program. In 2015-16 we held over 40 events for our alumni and supporters. Our regular stewardship events to thank our donors include the Master’s Circle dinner, the Benefactors’ dinner (moved from January to September, which has proved a more convivial time of the year), and the Samuel Blythe Society luncheon in May. We also held a drinks party for our supporters at the Oxford and Cambridge Club in May 2016.

We held reunions for the classes of 1972, 1973, 1982 and 1983, plus alumni dinners for the classes of 1966-69 and 1976-79. Dr Gordon Wright was delighted that some 150 of his former students were able to attend a dinner for Vets and Medics, held in October 2015. Our annual Gala Day, held in late June, continues to attract almost 400 individuals and families to Clare for an informal day of talks, tours, and other activities. Outside Cambridge, we continue to hold a wide variety of events internationally. In 2015-16, we held events, or otherwise visited alumni, in New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Singapore, and Hong Kong. We hold frequent events in London and elsewhere in the UK. In March, the City talk was given by Dr David Chambers on the 20

subject “Keynes the Investor”. We hold informal drinks in a different London pub each term, and an annual golf match against an Oxford college is now becoming a regular feature. Professor Tony Badger hosted a well-attended dinner in Leeds, and last summer a number of Clare alumni were on hand to see the Men’s VIII racing at Henley Royal Regatta. Thanks

The College is most grateful to all its donors, volunteers, members of Alumni Council, members of its Campaign Board, and indeed anyone who has assisted our development programme in any way. It is thanks to the generosity of our supporters and volunteers that we are able to do what we do to support the College’s future. Samuel Venn Deputy Development Director

ACCESS AND OUTREACH Clare College is committed to encouraging applications from currently under-represented groups and to raising educational aspirations of state-school students from Key Stage 2 (Primary) to Key Stage 5 (Sixth Form). Our Schools Liaison Programme continues to successfully work with four Local Education Authorities in the UK, as per the university’s Area Link Scheme, which sees state school students from Coventry, Warwickshire, and the London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Hackney visit Clare on a regular basis, as well as being visited by one or both of our School Liaison Officers at their school. Schools Liaison Team

From October 2015, the Schools Liaison team has consisted of Ben Leitch, a former postgraduate student of Clare, who oversees the schools’ programme in Coventry, Warwickshire and Tower Hamlets, and Rachel Ayres, former University of Kent student, who focuses her attention on schools in Hackney as well as general admissions.

The team works through the Tutorial Office, and Clare College continues to boast one of the largest outreach schemes in both Oxford and Cambridge. Dr William Foster (Fellow in Zoology) has continued to oversee the programme in his role as Tutor for Access and Outreach. Schools Liaison Programme

We continue to raise the aspirations of young people across the borough and to open their minds up to the possibilities that university can offer. We are also committed to ensuring that young people are best equipped to apply to university by offering advice and further developing projects designed to extend students’ academic experiences beyond their studies at school. 22

The College hosted around 2,500 students throughout the academic year 2015-16 and, further to this, has interacted with over 2,700 students in their schools, during assemblies, workshops or Higher Education Fairs. Highlights of a very full programme included:-

• Hackney Maths Residential (formerly STEM Residential), for Year 12 students, ran successfully for another year with 6 schools in the Borough participating in a 4-day summer school where they learnt about applying to Cambridge and undertook a research project with Clare PhD students. • Our second residential of the year for Year 10 students took place in September with 15 schools from all our Link Areas staying in Clare over 4 days to experience a whole range of activities at Clare and the surrounding museums in Cambridge. • The Interview Preparation Day, which has become an annual event at Clare College, saw 75 students from our Link Areas who have applied to Cambridge attend a day event aimed at preparing them for upcoming interviews at Cambridge. Students observed a mock interview and had small group supervisions with our very active cohort of PhD students. • This year, we visited a record number of 23 schools on the Coventry/Warwickshire Access Tour in less than 5 days along with our super team of 6 undergraduate helpers, (Josie Newman, Robin Polding, Caroline Camm, Isaac Dunn, Christie Morrallee and Anna Jennings), who gave up a week of their Easter break to accompany us. The week was a complete success. • Clare welcomed a group of twenty Year 9 students from St Paul’s Way Trust School and Bishop Challoner Girls’ School in Tower Hamlets and their parents in the Easter Holidays. The residential was designed to inspire children to aim high and learn more about the university as well as encourage parents to support their child in making competitive applications to top universities like Cambridge. 23

â&#x20AC;˘ For the past two years, the Sports Camp, generously funded by alumnus Andy Walters, has not taken place. In July 2016, the residential was rebranded the Plus Residential+ and 24 high-achieving Year 11 students from all around Coventry and Warwickshire were selected to take part in the summer school. The students learnt to row on the River Cam at Clare Boat Club and took part in a research project with postgraduate students, one in Neuroscience and the other in Literature. Improvements to Coventry and Warwickshire Relations HE+ COVENTRY

Besides launching the new Plus Residential+ for Year 11 students in Coventry and Warwickshire, Clare has been committed to strengthening relationships with schools in the two regions. As part of this new strategy to expand and strengthen the work that we undertake in Coventry and Warwickshire, last year we sought out new collaborations and projects, one of which is HE+. HE+ is a collaborative project being piloted by the University of Cambridge and its Colleges, working together with groups of state schools and colleges in fourteen regions of the UK for a year-long programme. Since 2010, over 10,000 Year 12 students in over 80 schools and colleges have participated in the initiative.

HE+ encourages and prepares academically high-achieving state school students from Coventry to make competitive applications to top universities, including Cambridge. This includes academic extension classes, subject masterclasses, university information / application sessions, and visits to Cambridge. The HE+ project is unique in that it encourages schools and colleges to collaborate to form regional consortia and to engage their very best students in a sustained year-long programme. In Coventry, Finham Park School agreed to act as the hub school that hosted the regional consortia for 10 schools in the city. The launch 24

took place in September 2015, with a follow-up session in January. The group visited Cambridge on two separate days in June, one Arts/ Humanities Day and one Sciences Day. The students were treated to lectures from Dr Jackie Tasioulas, Dr Ruth Watson, Dr Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido and various postgraduate students. YOUNG WARWICK SCHOLARS

Clare already has a fantastic relationship with primary schools in Tower Hamlets and Hackney, but due to the distance between Warwickshire and Cambridge, many of our Coventry and Warwickshire Primary Schools miss out on the chance to experience the university. Clare has teamed up with Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s High School for Girls in Warwick to produce a programme for high-achieving Year 6 students from primary schools around Warwick. These students will attend super-curricular classes at Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s High throughout the year and their attendance on the scheme will be awarded with a visit to Cambridge in the summer term.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ALUMNI COUNCIL FOR 2015-16 In accordance with the constitution of the Alumni Council, this is the Council’s twelfth annual report to members of the College. Council met on Saturday 24 September 2016. This year, both of Council’s committees (Annual Fund Committee and Alumni Engagement Committee) met earlier on the same day. Before the Council meeting proper, there were a number of presentations and workshops:

Dr Jackie Tasioulas gave a presentation on her roles in College: firstly as Financial Tutor (a role she has performed for some 10 years, and which she was about to relinquish), and secondly, her impending appointment as Senior Tutor. A number of important points on the tutorial system and on financial arrangements for students were covered. Ben Leitch, the Schools Liaison Co-Ordinator, then updated members of the Council on the College’s Access and Outreach programme, including a number of new initiatives that are being implemented. Dr Charlie Weiss, the Praelector, then gave a lively presentation on graduation ceremonies in Cambridge. Following the presentations, a number of topics were discussed in informal working groups: Old Court plans, Communications strategy, Fund raising abroad, improved communication with and between YGRs, and ideas about class gifts. The formal Council meeting then followed, at which some 35 Year Group Representatives were present, along with senior College Officers and members of the Development Office.

It was confirmed that Peter Knewstubb was retiring as editor of the Clare Association Annual. The Council’s sincere thanks were extended to Dr Knewstubb for his sterling work on the Annual over some twenty editions. Fran Malarée, Development Director, gave the Council an update on fundraising, including plans for Old Court and 26

on how we might structure our new Campaign. Georgie Plunkett, Annual Fund Associate, gave a presentation on the Annual Fund, which had had a record year.

Council discussed, and then agreed, on a change to the election procedure for Alumnus of the Year. It is hoped that the changed procedure will result in more nominations for the accolade of Alumnus of the Year. As ever, the College is most grateful to all members of Alumni Council for their valuable input and assistance. David Hartley Secretary of the Alumni Council, September 2016

THE LADY CLARE FUND

ANNUAL REPORT for 2016 (year ending 30 September 2016) The Lady Clare Fund, Clare College, Trinity Lane, Cambridge, CB2Â 1TL, is registered with the Charity Commission (No. 226613). It was constituted in 1934 by the Clare Association, an Association comprising past members of Clare College, by Deed of Trust. Administration: The Fund is managed and administered by a Council, consisting of the Master, four Fellows of Clare College elected by the Governing Body of Clare College, and up to four members appointed by the Clare Association. During the year the Council comprised: A. S. Lord Grabiner QC, Master of Clare, Chairman Governing Body of Clare Mr C. C. Turpin, Hon. Secretary Prof A. S. Sinclair Dr K. F. Riley Dr R. M. Harris 27

Clare Association Ms E. Marksteiner Dr G. H. Wright Ms C. E. Jenkins Mr D. P. Hearn, Hon Treasurer The Master is Chairman ex officio. The Council elects from among its members the Treasurer and either one Secretary or two Joint Secretaries. It may appoint between two and four trustees, in whose names any property or investments of the Fund are vested. Objects: The Charity was set up to give financial help to beneficiaries who are in need and who are either former members of the College or their dependants. The help may be in the form of grants or loans, and may be to relieve immediate distress or on a continuing basis. The Fund may also help with the education or advancement in life of such people.

Applications are solicited through the Clare Association Annual which is sent to those former members of the College for whom an address is known.

Activities during the year: Grants totalling £12,870 were made in the year to former members of the College. No loans were made during the year. Finances: The Fund has equity investments valued at £265,966 at 30 September 2016, generating income of £8,611. During the year an unrealised gain of £28,552 was incurred on the investments. The net deficit of £4,028 resulted in total funds available of £338,991.

“OLD CLARE” NEWS 1934 [Laurence] Aylmer Haldine - date of death 03/09/2016; he read History. 1935 [John] Richard Roper - date of death 26/08/2016; he read Modern Languages. 1936 John K Davenport - date of death 29/02/2016; he read Medicine. [Richard] Norman Ticehurst - date of death 12/03/2016; he read Natural Sciences. 1938 Victor Ménage - date of death 11/06/2015; he read Classics. 1941 Michael Pierson - date of death 05/11/2016; he read Mechanical Sciences. Thomas B Scott - date of death 16/05/2016; he read Medicine. Peter Sole - date of death 20/10/2016; he read Natural Sciences. 1942 Alan Buttanshaw - date of death 26/08/2015. Malcolm Lea-Wilson - date of death unknown; he did a RAF Short Course. Ken Russell - date of death 10/04/2016; he read Chemistry. Alan B Walker - date of death approx. 2015; he read Mathematics. Frank Williamson - date of death unknown; he read Natural Sciences.

1943 Year Group Representative: Mr John Appleton Kenneth Chandler - date of death 18/12/2015. Richard A Williams - date of death 13/08/2016; he read Medicine. 1944 Peter Burhouse - date of death 30/01/2016; he read Mechanical Sciences. Bill [William] Canham - date of death unknown; he read Mechanical Sciences. John D Hawkins - date of death 12/08/2016; he read Natural Sciences. Ian McWhinney - date of death unknown; he read Medicine. M Swiney - date of death 30/09/2016; he did a Military Short Course. 1945 Peter B Edgley - date of death 17/10/2016; he read Classics. Russel Simmons - date of death 27/02/2016; he read Modern & Medieval Languages. Donald Wilkey - date of death 03/03/2016; he read Modern & Medieval Languages. 1946 Christopher [Henry] Bywater - date of death approx. Spring 2016; he read Natural Sciences. 1947 Duncan [Martin] Poore - date of death 22/03/2016; he read Botany. Alec Strachan - date of death approx. July 2016; he read Chemistry. 1949 [John] Michael Edes - date of death 09/04/2016; he read History. George P Robertson - date of death approx. 2015; he read Classics & Ancient History. William Streeten - date of death 23/12/2015; he read Mechanical Sciences. 30

1950 Year Group Representative: Professor Alan Gillett OBE DSc [John] Geoff Cowap - date of death unknown; he read Law. Alan G Hughes - date of death 05/05/2016; he read Modern & Medieval Languages. Trevor G Nash - date of death 16/08/2016; he read Theology. 1951 Year Group Representatives: Dr George Knox and Mr Robert K Jackson FRCS

David Keith Adams - date of death approx. March 2016; he read History. [William] Bill Fennel Armitage - date of death 20/09/2015; he read Agriculture. [Charles] Denis Boak - date of death approx. July 2015; he read Modern Languages. [Richard] Dick Le MaĂŽtre - date of death 23/05/2016; he read Mechanical Sciences. [Derek] John Mulvaney - date of death 21/09/2016; he read Archaeology. [John] David Rosenberg - date of death unknown; he read English. 1952 Year Group Representative: Dr John Owen MBE Charles Connell - date of death unknown. David Cregan - date of death unknown; he read English. Christopher Mullineux - date of death approx. 2016; he read Mathematics. Brian Worthy - date of death unknown; he read History. 1953 Year Group Representative: Mr David Kirkman [Samuel Gordon] Ian Hamilton - date of death 10/11/2016; he read Medicine. Jock Mackinnon - date of death 18/07/2016; he read History. [Myles] Peter Ogilvie - date of death approx. September 2016; he read Mechanical Sciences. 31

[John] Peter Visman - date of death 01/06/2016; he read Chemical Engineering. 1954 Year Group Representative: Mr Michael Woods [Walter] Murray Grindrod - date of death unknown; he read Mechanical Sciences. 1955 Year Group Representative: Mr Michael Sullivan David Brierley - date of death 31/08/2016; he read English. Jan Deutsch - date of death 19/05/2016; he read History. Brian Marshall - date of death 28/12/2015; he read Natural Sciences. F W Billy Normington - date of death approx. 2016; he read Natural Sciences. 1956 Year Group Representative: Mr Stephen Jakobi OBE Michael Hartley - date of death 19/03/2016; he read Geography. Alan Hurd - date of death unknown; he read English. Michael Jones - date of death 15/10/2016; he read Medicine. Philip R M Williams - date of death approx. November 2016; he read English. 1957 Year Group Representative: Dr Roger White Alan Flint - date of death unknown; he read Law. Jolyon Harris - date of death 06/04/2015; he read Law. 1959 Year Group Representative: Mr Brian Hughes John B Lightstone - date of death unknown; he read Natural Sciences. 1960 Year Group Representative: Mr John Biggs Brian Cox - date of death 06/10/2016; he read Mathematics. Charles Deacon - date of death unknown; he read Economics.

1961 Year Group Representatives: Mr Robert Wootton and Professor Hugh Macmillan

Peter J Cooch - date of death 01/05/2015; he read History. Neville Moar - date of death 01/06/2016; he read Quaternary Botany. David Pearce - date of death unknown; he read Natural Sciences. 1963 Year Group Representative: Mr John Clare Tony Ashton - date of death 10/04/2016; he read Natural Sciences. David K Mano - date of death 16/09/2016; he read English. 1964 Year Group Representative: Colonel Colin Heggie Raymond Mumford - date of death 14/10/2015; he read Natural Sciences. 1965 Year Group Representative: The Revd. Roger Stokes Chris Warren - date of death 03/08/2014; he read Economics. 1967 Year Group Representative: Mr John Speed YĂźksel Inan - date of death approx. 2015; he read International Law. 1993 Year Group Representatives: Miss Melanie Gerlis and Ms Sally Hotchkin Diana Galletly - date of death 2014; she read Engineering. 1996 Year Group Representative: Mrs Mythili Orton David Squires - date of death 03/12/2015. Donors: W Bagley Sheena Booth Jacques-Michel Grossen S Randall

OBITUARIES DAVID KEITH ADAMS

David was born in Essex but grew up on the Worcestershire/Gloucestershire border in the shadow of Bredon Hill, where his father ran a successful horticultural business specialising in tomato production. Childhood memories were of roaming the Hill, watching aerial dog fights and collecting trophies from crashed planes during the war. David’s eldest son, Giles, recalled in his funeral tribute that his father ‘was a classic grammar school boy who benefitted from a good education and inspiring teachers at Tewkesbury Grammar, who pushed him and rejoiced in his success in gaining a scholarship to Cambridge’ to study history. David never enjoyed good health – in 1946 he was sent to Brussels to eat meat to try to build strength – and despite being in the Air Training Corps at school he was not accepted for National Service. He long felt the omission of a generational experience and having been accepted for admission to Clare in 1951 on the assumption he would serve, had to fill that time. He spent an academic year teaching, in a position really designed for university level linguists, at a lycee in Rennes in Brittany.

David enjoyed Cambridge life to the full. He was a natural storyteller and would regale family with tales of exploits involving climbing over walls and through windows into College after hours, and on one particular occasion attending a party in a suit of armour ‘borrowed’ from the College. For these, or possibly other unspecified, reasons he was required to live out of College for much of his second year. 34

On graduation David was set to pursue the study of medieval history and applied for a Henry Fellowship to Yale. The year he spent in the US was formative and generated an abiding passion for America. The greatest impact was not that of his Yale studies but rather the transcontinental road trip he made in the summer months of 1955. The physical landscape made a huge impression and created a belief in the importance of experiencing that in order to fully appreciate the continent. It was also this first trip to the US, aboard the Queen Mary, that developed Davidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s love of both travel in general and in particular travelling by sea. While his profession was to facilitate considerable opportunities for travel, it was in retirement that he was able to indulge in cruises around the world.

Despite his enduring affection for Cambridge, on his return to the UK David was admitted to Oxford University for his doctoral studies, Max Beloff being one of the few people in the country at that time equipped to supervise a PhD on foreign policy during the first administration of President Franklin Roosevelt. In 1957, David was appointed as Assistant Lecturer in History at the recently established University College of North Staffordshire. Here he was able to develop his interest in the study of the United States, initially as a programme, and from 1965, in what had by then become the University of Keele, as the Department of American Studies. He was Head of Department from its inception until 1993 and remained Professor of American Studies from 1972 until his retirement in 1997. His own scholarship remained focussed around FDR and twentieth century US foreign policy. He continued to write and publish in retirement. Reminiscences shared since his death emphasise Davidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s considerable personal charm, wit and generosity. He employed these qualities to good effect professionally, perhaps most notably around the establishment at Keele in 1969 of the David Bruce Centre for American Studies. He was director from that date until 1996 and steered its development into a handsomely endowed institution 35

that became a nationally and internationally recognised centre for research on the United States.

In a tribute read at David’s funeral, former departmental colleague Dr Robert Garson remembered that David was a natural leader with strong opinions. ‘His strong opinions emanated from the fact that he cared. He cared about justice and fairness. He cared about honesty.’ But he also ‘cared about his colleagues, the discipline of American Studies and the university for which he worked for forty years…David commanded universal respect, whether one agreed or disagreed with him. That respect hinged on his energy and dedication, his refusal to budge from honestly held views, and the force with which he defended those views.’ In addition to founding American Studies at Keele, David worked to develop the study of the United States more widely. In the 1970s his contact with the US embassy in London lead to him conducting lecture tours for the US Information Service. These took him to countries as diverse as Iran, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal and the Soviet Union. David also spent most of his life as a campaigner for closer links between Britain and North America. He served as Chair of British American Canadian Associates and of the Canada UK Colloquia. His endeavours earned him the award of an OBE for ‘Services to North American Studies in the United Kingdom’ in 1997, and in 2000 he was recognised by Keele University with an Hon DLitt.

Whilst at home in universities and embassies around the world, David was a countryman at heart. He loved Keele and its setting, and championed it and the surrounding area at every opportunity. Most of his years at Keele were spent living on the extensive campus. During the 1960s David married and the family grew to include Giles and his brothers Roderick and Tom. By the late 1970s the marriage had foundered and he found himself a single parent. David was devoted to his sons and delighted by the addition to the family of four grandchildren in later years. In 1992 he married again and only four 36

years ago did he and Sarah leave campus to move the mile to Keele village. He became increasingly physically frail and it was following a fall at home in March 2016 that David was admitted to hospital, where he died peacefully four days later.

Dr Garson concluded his tribute: ‘At the end of the day, American Studies at Keele was synonymous with the man. So thank you, David, for making that difference – a difference to your subject, a difference to your university, and a difference to your family’. WILLIAM FENNELL ARMITAGE

Bill Armitage died on 20th September 2015 at the age of 84 after a long illness. After Marlborough and National Service in the Royal Corps of Signals he came to Clare in 1951 to read Agriculture, which eventually led to a most unusual career path. His roots were in Sheffield where the family had owned a steel firm Brown Baileys. His father left the firm in his middle years and took orders in the Church of England.

After working on various farms to gain experience, Bill took on the management of Sedgeford Hall estate and its farm. In 1962 he married Anne, known as Pin, and she was introduced to Norfolk at a dance at the Hall. They both excelled in dancing and Bill was enthusiastic about Trad Jazz. They settled in West Hall farm and two children, Amanda and Tim, duly arrived. It was a lovely family home for all of them, and around them was everything you could hope to find, not just the ubiquitous stark Norfolk arable farm. Close to the house, the land was suitable for chickens, a donkey and a pony, a house cow producing milk and a large bowl of cream for the kitchen, the necessary bull and resultant calf, a beef herd and later sheep, and occasionally helping a neighbour needing grazing for a horse. Two 37

Tamworth pigs were part of the menagerie. On a small plot, long stalk wheat was grown for making corn dollies. This turned out to be a thriving business including exports.

At the same time Bill contributed significantly to the community. He was, for alternate years, Chairman of Sedgeford Parish Council, and for many years he was the local representative on Docking Rural District Council (the then seat of Local Government), a Trustee of the Seddgeford Fuel Charity and a member of the Lands Tribunal, while Pin was involved with the Sedgeford WI and the local hospice. Bill was also Church Warden and Treasurer of St Mary’s Church.

In the early 70s, Bill and Pin were looking for a different spiritual home. They found it in a Quaker Meeting, and in due course joined King’s Lynn Meeting, where Bill remained and gave great service. At about this time he and Pin attended a course on Transcendental Meditation, and meditation continued to be a part of their lives ever since. It would now not be breaking confidence to mention he was for many years a Samaritan in King’s Lynn. Although they had a lot going on, Bill and Pin decided to look to the future and the likelihood of retirement some years ahead, and so they bought Washpit Cottage. But in 1984, a shorter time than they expected, Bill had to leave the farm and the family home at West Hall Farm. It was at a time when the careers of a number of local farm managers were at risk.

After such an idyll, at 53 some would have lapsed into apathy, but Bill decided not to retire. Instead, he went to on study computers at Lynn technical College, where his fellow pupils were teenagers! This enabled him to be in charge of crafts for the charity Jo Homan’s Boys’ Clubs who provide for orphans in Tamil Nardu South India and Sri Lanka. He and Pin visited India and were fascinated by the culture. However, he came to the decision after a time that this work was not for him. A new opportunity arose when the Heacham medical practice 38

were looking for a new manager. He had both extensive managerial experience and his newly acquired computer skills which, at that time, were just beginning to come into use in general practice. He was appointed, and so began a very productive and interesting period. As well as general management, and the introduction of computer systems, he oversaw the construction for 3 surgeries along the borders of The Wash.

After a time there was a new managerial challenge in the form of a scheme introduced by the government called ‘Fund Holding’ and Bill’s main remit switched to this. The Heacham practice would contract with Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn and other providers for the provision of services, which was a complex challenge but greatly advantageous to patients registered at Heacham. Fund holding was subsequently abolished.

Eventually complete retirement did come, but it did not last for long. He undertook to be treasurer of SHARP, the annual archeological dig on the Anglo Saxon settlement only ¼ mile from his home. One particularly interesting find was a large hoard of gold coins inside a cow’s long bone. Then Bill was asked to head up the Trustees of the Norfolk and Waveney Area Quakers, who are responsible for supporting 10 local Quaker Meetings, to administer their ethical investments and to find socially creative uses for their property funds.

He developed an academic interest which he greatly enjoyed in the form of The Gnostics, a wide spread early Christian group which did not find favour with the main stream, who proceeded to persecute and eliminate them. We would only know about this because one of their main persecutors, one Bishop Irinaeus, left a record of his atrocities. The Norfolk Quakers were fascinated when Bill talked to various groups. Like the Gnostics, the early Quakers had suffered over 3 centuries ago. Many were imprisoned for their beliefs and actions 39

For Pin, a striking memory of Bill and her is their gift for friendship. At West Hall Farm the entire village were asked for Christmas morning mulled wine. Often individuals felt their thoughtful friendship and warm hospitality and there was always a cheerful greeting.

Bill and Pin practised an exemplary practical, ecological, organic and sustainable life style: solar hot water and electricity, and organic gardening which produced imaginative vegetables as well as staples. Their children have followed this example. Whilst facing up to the challenge of his illness, Bill chose to use these principles and his healthy life style approach. This may well have extended his remaining useful life. He and Pin continued to welcome family and friends during his last illness. ANTHONY FRANCIS ASHTON

Anthony Francis Ashton was born on 4 November 1945 to Veronica and Frank Ashton in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, UK. Along with his three younger brothers Jeremy, Christopher, and Nicholas, he grew up in Berkshire, England and graduated from Clare College at Cambridge University with a MA degree in Natural Sciences and a PhD in Chemical Engineering. He was the Welsh National 3000 Meter Steeplechase Record Holder and traveled to the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in 1970 to run the 5000 meters. Tonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s career in IT Consulting brought him to the States in 1976 and after meeting his wife Kathy in Phoenix, AZ, his work with Scicon and Gulf Oil brought them to Texas and California where he later had a 25-year-long career with Oracle Corporation, retiring as VP of Global Risk Management in 2014. Tony and Kathyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s children Jonathan, Thomas, and Helen were born in 1984, 1986, and 1988 respectively. Tony was heavily involved in the Bay Area youth soccer leagues; a faithful member of the Lutheran Church of Our Savior congregation in Cupertino, California; and 40

an active committee member of Palo Alto Hills Golf and Country Club. He was a loving father, husband, and friend, and a truly selfless example for everyone that knew him. His death on 10 April 2016 from heart complications was untimely. He is survived by his wife Kathy; children Jonathan, Thomas, and Helen; daughter-in-laws Aki Uchida and Chelsea Ashton; grandchildren Mari and Kenji; brothers Jeremy and Chris; and many nephews, nieces, and friends across the globe. DR CHRISTOPHER BYWATER

Chris Bywater came up to Clare from Oundle School in 1946. He used to tell the tale of his entrance interview with the Master, Sir Henry Thirkill, when he was applying to read Economic Entomology. “That’s a strange course,” the Master replied: “I’ll give you a place if you read Medicine.” Thus Chris’s Medical career began.

Chris played a key role during a very successful era of the Clare Boat Club which had been Head of the Mays twice during the war years. On arrival at Clare he won the University Freshman’s sculls and also the Clayton Pairs with Ralph Worsnop before becoming Captain of Clare Boat Club in 1947. During his first year, whilst racing at Bedford Regatta, the Clare crew had spotted a talented oarsman stroking the Oundle School IV. Chris and others encouraged him to apply to Clare. This turned out to be David Jennens, the celebrated stroke of the Blue Boat, possibly the most successful Clare oarsman ever, and a lifelong supporter and coach of Clare and CUBC, who came up in 1947. With David Jennens at stroke and captained by Chris at seven, the Clare 1st VIII made 4 Bumps in the Mays in 1948. They then went on 41

to go Head of the River in 1949. The Lady Margaret May Boat that year included four members of the Blue Boat and were undoubtedly faster, but never had the chance to catch Clare as they were starting half way down the First Division. In order to avoid the possibility of losing to Lady Maggie in the Ladies Plate at Henley, it was decided that the Head of the River crew would enter the Grand which is the elite event for VIIIs! They lost in the first round by 1½ lengths to a very good Thames Rowing Club crew which included Olympic oarsman, Tom Christie, rowing at six.

In small boats (with Jennens and Bywater on board) Clare were unbeatable and in 1948/9 won the Light IVs and, at Henley, the Visitors (David Jennens, Peter Moore, Bob Jose, Chris Bywater). The 1949/50 crew (David Jennens, Push Pulman, Mike O’Brien, Chris Bywater) again won the Light IVs and at Henley lost by a canvas in the semi-finals of the Stewards Challenge Cup (for elite IVs) to Hellerup Roklub Denmark who went on to beat Leander by 2 lengths in the final. The Clare 1950 crew (by then known as “The Four”) were invited to represent Leander in the Stewards in 1951 only to lose in the final to Thames Rowing Club.

Chris’s priorities whilst at Cambridge were skewed rather more to the Cam than the dissecting room, but with understanding tutors such as Dr Gordon Wright, he managed to stay in residence at Clare for 5 years whilst he reeled in all his Medical qualifying examinations. After the fourth year, in order to help his studying, he was banned from rowing, so he coached instead! Chris went on to Westminster Medical School in 1951 where he met up again with Tom Christie who had rowed in the 1948 London Olympic VIII and at that time was a Junior Anaesthetist. They formed a very successful pair and in 1952 at Henley won the Silver Goblets (for elite pair oared boats) breaking the course record, having beaten Clare Alumnae Pulman and O’Brien (now rowing for London Rowing Club) in an earlier heat. Meanwhile David Jennens was stroking Leander to victory in the Grand. 42

Bywater and Christie missed out on selection for the Helsinki Olympics to the Oxford pair, Callender and Davidge, when they rowed into the booms during the final trial when leading by 3 lengths. Chris did not win a Blue but was a Trial Cap in 1948 and 1949.

After National Service, Chris went into General Practice in Lingfield in Surrey. He enjoyed his medical career and was a familiar sight doing his rounds when home visits were more common and expected. The local GPs ran the Casualty department at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead on a rota basis and also had GP beds there. He practiced from his home and his wife Elizabeth took the calls. Chris was remembered in the East Grinstead Courier: “I remember Dr Bywater as a very helpful and positive man who had a wonderful sense of humour. When he saw the funny side of something he would crease double and the tears would roll down his cheeks.” After retirement, Chris was a Trustee of the Handicapped Anglers Trust which is a charity which puts boats, capable of taking wheelchair users, on Lakes and Reservoirs for trout fishing, bird watching or just for the fun of it. Fly fishing was one of his passions and he had been happily and successfully fishing for trout on the last day of his life. On catching a salmon on the Tay he was heard to exclaim, “That was as good as winning the Goblets.” He also enjoyed supporting the equestrian members of the family. His daughter Lucy became Open European Eventing Champion in 1996.

Chris was very proud that both his sons became Captain of Boats at their respective Cambridge Colleges, but sadly neither were at Clare! He was a loyal and generous supporter of Clare Boat Club and regularly attended reunion events and he will be missed by the College community.

PETER JOHN COOCH

Peter John Cooch was born 21 March 1943 and came up to Clare from Uppingham in 1961 to read History. He died of cancer 17 May 2015, bearing his long final illness with all the stoicism, optimism and good humour that his many friends in Clare will remember from his undergraduate days.

Peter’s natural analytical mind and his excellent writing skills made him a natural historian who was not at all fazed by having to read a weekly essay to the redoubtable Professor Geoffrey Elton. He sailed through to a strong 2:1 without ever raising too much of a sweat: he was all too easily tempted by the prospect of a coffee in the Whim or a pint in the Granta. With his sense of humour and gift for friendship he played a full part in the social life of the College, and participated in a number of sports where he would be the first to admit that his enthusiasm was not perhaps matched by his ability.

On graduating from Cambridge, Peter studied the law and was articled to Becke Phipps in his native Northampton where he qualified in 1969. He was to practise with that firm with great distinction, through a succession of mergers until he retired from what had become Hewitsons in 2008. He became a partner in 1974, specialising in commercial property, on which he became an acknowledged expert. He always held the respect and affection of his peers and his staff as witnessed by his appointment as President of the Northamptonshire Law Society in 1997. Peter was a man of many facets and enthusiasms. Prime among these was his home and his family. His beautiful home in Great Brington was a by-word in Northampton for hospitality and gracious living. He was a renowned expert on wine and under the tutelage of his wife, Jenny, became an enthusiastic gardener; their garden was always a highlight of the village’s annual open garden festival.

He loved his cricket, and as a member of MCC would never miss the Lord’s Test, where he would sit with Wisden in hand posing 44

abstruse questions to his guests before entertaining them to one of his wife’s fabled picnics. He was a life-long and well-loved member of Northamptonshire County Golf Club, of which he was elected Captain. Sadly his final illness precluded him from ever taking up this position, but he was a respected and effective Captain of the Old Uppinghamian Golf Society.

He was a keen walker, skier, cyclist and tennis player to the end. He was a voracious reader. Indeed I suspect that he read a lot more history after leaving Cambridge than he did while there. The upshot was a man of wide general knowledge who was a much sought after member of any pub-quiz team. He had an encyclopaedic knowledge of railways and if you wanted to know where a line ran before Dr Beeching’s depredations, Peter was your man. He is much missed by his family and wide circle of friends for his humour, humanity, probity and zest for life.

He married his wife Jenny in 1972. She sadly predeceased him in 2012, but he is survived by his two adored daughters, Melissa and JoJo, and four grandchildren. DAVID APPLETON QUARTUS CREGAN

David Appleton Quartus Cregan passed away 7 September 2015. He was a skilled and original dramatist who forsook the teaching profession to join the “second wave” of new writers at the Royal Court Theatre in the mid-1960s. He later formed an association with the Orange Tree in Richmond upon Thames, south-west London, where the director Sam Walters produced fifteen of his plays (eight of them premieres) over 30 years from 1975 to 2005; Cregan had joined the Royal Court studio in 1964. David’s first play, ‘Miniatures’ (1965), about the rough and tumble of life in a comprehensive school from the teachers’ perspective, was given a Sunday night performance (“without decor”) with a gala cast 45

including Jane Birkin, Lindsay Anderson as a disciplinarian deputy campaigning for the wearing of gowns, Devine as the headteacher and Nicol Williamson as a deranged music teacher. In 1969, Michael Bogdanov’s production of ‘A Comedy of the Changing Years’ opened the Theatre Upstairs in the Court’s attic; the cast included Jonathan Lynn, co creator of the BBC’s Yes Minister.

David wrote his first play, ‘Jason and the Golden Fleece’ (three minutes long), at prep school, aged 10, before progressing to The Leys. After two years of national service in the RAF (1952-54), he went up to Clare College, Cambridge, where he read English and joined The Footlights. David never stopped writing, even in later years when he was blighted by Parkinson’s disease. “I’m pregnant again,” he’d declare, as he set to work. He wrote several community plays, six pantomimes for the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, 10 television plays or series and 15 radio plays. He is survived by Ailsa, and their four children - Tim, Alexis, Ben and Rebecca - and six grandchildren. JOHN MICHAEL EDES

John Michael Edes, always known as Michael, died after a long illness on 9th April 2016 aged 85. He came up to Clare, his father Noel’s old college, in October 1949 as a Scholar to read History. His parents had met in the late 1920s in Shanghai, then an international city, where his father was an army officer with the Shanghai Relief Force and his American mother was working as a journalist. Michael was sent to Blundells School in Devon where he showed considerable academic ability. His headmaster in a reference wrote that he “was the most talented schoolboy I have taught in 25 years of schoolmastering – and an athlete too”. He excelled at rugby and cricket and was Head of School. He went on to Clare after national service in Egypt. At Cambridge, apart from his academic studies, he 46

continued to play cricket for the College and occasionally for the university and became a member of the Hawks Club, whose tie he wore frequently on sporting occasions in later life. He also helped to organise at least one May Ball. A Clare contemporary wrote to his wife on hearing of his death: “He was the outstanding man of our year at Clare and I count myself fortunate to have known him. He was such a vibrant person blessed with a magnetic and generous personality, his strong sense of humour always evident. As young men we could talk of anything under the sun and in a group no one was more stimulating. I can hear him now chuckling when he told me of his first interview with Thirkill, Master of Clare. T apparently told him to get his games sorted out first before worrying about work. Those indeed were the days…!”

After Cambridge Michael was awarded a Mellon scholarship (open to two Clare graduates each year) to study for two years at Yale, where he did an MA in Political Science. There were also generous funds to travel widely in the United States, and he was able to visit his mother’s family in Oklahoma. He was due to stay on and do a PhD at Yale but his father’s sudden death meant that he had to return home hastily in 1954 to take care of his mother and sister’s affairs. After making the necessary arrangements for them he joined the Foreign Office and was sent to the MECAS language school near Beirut to learn Arabic. A posting to Dubai followed – then a very remote and undeveloped place unlike now.

A more exciting early posting was to the Embassy in Rome which coincided with the Olympic Games in 1960 and a state visit to Italy by the Queen. His time in Rome was undoubtedly the highlight of his early diplomatic career. He then had an introduction to arms control negotiations in Geneva from 1962-65. This soon became his favourite specialisation, which he returned to towards the end of his career in Stockholm and Vienna. He became known as a skilful and tough negotiator with the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries during the late Cold War era. 47

Michaelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first ambassadorial appointment was to the newly established Yemen Arab Republic in 1971 and involved supervising the building of the British Embassy itself and his own residence in Sanaa. He married Angela Mermagen in 1978. They had two sons, Richard and William, and shortly before his death a granddaughter Cecily.

In 1980 Michael was appointed Ambassador to Libya at a turbulent time in relations between the two countries. Shortly after arriving Angela, along with all families and most embassy staff, was evacuated from Tripoli. Michael and three others were inside the embassy building when it was attacked by an organised mob one evening that summer. Had the attack been successful Michael might well have been killed before his elder sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birth a few weeks later. He was awarded the CMG during his posting in Libya. Retiring in 1990, Michael continued to live at his London home and enjoy his membership of the Athenaeum. He was a devoted father and hardly missed a football or cricket match that his sons played in during the next decade, driving all over southern England in the process. He was in his element discussing tactics with the boys and socialising with parents and staff over match teas.

Though his last years were clouded by illness he remained cheerful and unfailingly polite â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a diplomat to his fingertips. He will be greatly missed by his family and friends.

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DIANA ARCHER GALLETLY

Diana Archer Galletly died 17 December 2014 after a short illness. Born in Liverpool 31 August 1974, to a large measure she inherited the talents of both her parents; her father Gerard was Professor of Applied Mechanics at Liverpool University and her mother Marjorie was a professional linguist working for the Belgian airline Sabena. At Birkenhead High School (then part of the Girls’ Day School Trust) she excelled in both sciences and languages, winning prizes from the British Physics Olympiad and the Liverpool Mathematical Society. She also played the violin to a high standard, becoming leader of the Merseyside Youth Orchestra and touring Europe with them.

In 1993 Diana came up to Clare to read Engineering. Graduating MEng with distinction, she migrated to Churchill for her PhD which was in the modelling of bistable structures—material so formed that it can be flipped repeatedly between two stable conformations. During this time she gave influential presentations at international conferences and published a number of papers, some in collaboration with her father, whose own most important work concerned modelling of the catastrophic failure of materials similarly forced from a stable shape, including water towers, bridges and cooling towers. At one stage, Diana’s rooms were festooned with strange multi-coloured pipe-cleaner models designed to illustrate the various axes of motion relevant to such problems. Fluent in French from an early age, she broadened her perspective during these years by spending time at the École des Mines in Paris and with the French Atomic Energy Commission at Saclay. At university, Diana was among the first to use the infrastructure of computer networks, then rapidly expanding, for social purposes, contributing to a wide variety of groups and organisations ranging from the purely frivolous to serious political and religious discussion groups, and in the process building a wide 61

circle of friends and contacts around the world.

While still awaiting the award of her doctorate, Diana became the Research and Development Manager for RolaTube Technology, a small company formed to investigate and exploit the many commercial applications of bistable and other composite layups, which enable (for instance) long tubular structures to be rolled up into compact cylinders. Here she oversaw the sharing of research between RolaTube and Cambridge University and helped to develop software packages for the design and optimisation of this exciting and promising new technology. Returning to the Engineering Department as a post-doctoral research associate, she was given a special remit for the development of teaching and learning methods in co-operation with Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A year as a lecturer in technology at Oxford Brookes University followed before she came back to take up the offer of an administrative post at Churchill, and to a new involvement as a member of the congregation at Little St Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Church, to which she contributed in many ways, serving on the parochial council, singing in the choir, holding photographic exhibitions and designing a new website. In these years she concentrated increasingly on her multifarious creative abilities including music, writing and the visual arts (though she would give no quarter to anyone who might dare suggest that engineers as a class were devoid of creativity or imagination). From earliest childhood Diana had enjoyed holiday travel with her parents to the Mediterranean, particularly the French and Ligurian Rivieras to which they were repeatedly enticed back thanks to her motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fluency in the languages and her fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s apparently insatiable appetite for seafood. Finally discovering the perfect fusion of these cultures in the island of Corsica, in 2009 she determined to make it her home and bought an apartment in Calvi. Rapidly developing an enthusiasm for all things Corsican, she began to grapple with the largely-undocumented subtleties of the Corsican 62

language (woe betide anyone who in her hearing tried to dismiss it as a mere Italian dialect, or even worse, a French patois!) She became an enthusiast for the island’s distinctive style of choral polyphony and a fervent supporter of SC Bastia—one of two Corsican football teams to play in the French Ligue Un—while still remaining loyal to her Merseyside roots and Liverpool Football Club. Unknown to most people outside the island, Bastia had suffered a similar tragedy to Hillsborough in 1992, when a hastily-erected stand at their Furiani stadium collapsed killing 18 spectators and injuring well over two thousand. This shared experience of grief led her to become a roving ambassador between the clubs, representing both Liverpool at Furiani and Bastia at Anfield, by laying wreaths at their respective commemorations, while she applied her engineering expertise to a reinvestigation of the mechanical failure.

Profoundly generous and fiercely loyal in her friendships, Diana was a keen observer of the world, and unimpeded by conventional wisdom when it stood contrary to her own experience, which she continually sought to broaden. At the end of 2013 she was grievously stricken by the death of her father, and as his sole executor (her mother having died four years earlier) she had to spend much of 2014 back in the UK dealing with his estate, though she made sure to be in Corsica for some key football matches and for the Rencontres Polyphoniques in September, which had become an immovable feast in her calendar. Later that autumn she was taken ill in Cambridge and admitted to Addenbrooke’s where despite weeks of devoted care she declined and finally slipped away shortly before Christmas. At her Requiem Mass in Little St Mary’s the choir, augmented by many of her friends, sang some of her favourite English music as well as a psalm in Corsican. Her last wish was honoured when the Mayor of Calvi granted her the privilege (rarely accorded to those not of Corsican birth or descent) of burial at the hilltop shrine of Notre Dame de la Serra, overlooking the town and the bay of Calvi (where according to tradition Columbus learned to sail and Nelson 63

lost his eye), and where a few months earlier, in the open air among the pines, she had experienced what she described as the best concert of her life. Diana is survived by her daughter Loïs.

[WALTER] MURRAY GRINDROD

[Walter] Murray Grindrod entered Clare in 1954 from Hilton College in South Africa, where he had been named ‘Dux’. He read Mechanical sciences. He was a superb golf player and was selected for the University team in his first term. He went on to become secretary in his second year and captained the University side in 1957, the secretary that year being Ted Dexter. Together he and Ted led the team and they remained lifelong friends.

Murray left in 1957 and returned to South Africa to join the family firm, African Coasters, a small coastal shipping company. He also continued to succeed at golf, winning the South African Amateur Championship and being selected for the international side to play in the Eisenhower Cup in the United States. On returning I remember him saying to me that he had met a charming American graduate whose golf was in a different league. “His name was Jack and his surname a variation on Nicholas,” he told me. How right he was! In due course he became Managing Director of his family shipping company and was determined to expand it. He cooperated with Jim Sherwood of Sea Containers and joined both that Board as well as that of the Orient Express Group when it was bought. He served as Chairman of the Board of Hilton College and guided it through a very difficult stage in its history. He was also on numerous other boards serving both businesses and charities.

By the time he retired from his family company he had built it into a massive public company, now called the Grindrod Group, the 64

largest international shipping and freight management company in Southern Africa. He was regarded as one of the top businessmen in the country and was awarded a university honorary doctorate.

Murray died in May 2015 after a long battle with cancer. He leaves a widow and four children, two girls and two boys. AYLMER HALDANE

Aylmer Haldane was born on 3rd October 1916 to May Neville Haldane at Taplow in Buckinghamshire, England and died 3rd September 2016 just one month before his 100th birthday. He passed away peacefully, sitting in his favourite chair with Radio New Zealand Concert playing in his headphones.

Aylmer never knew his father, Acting Lieutenant Colonel Laurence Aylmer Haldane of the Northamptonshire Regiment, as he was killed on 2nd April 2016 during World War 1 and is buried near Arras in northern France. His mother remarried to a professor of medicine, Duncan Scott, who took her off to the University of Saskatchewan in central Canada, so Aylmer was brought up by his aunt Diana and her husband Amyot Mitchell, a naval officer. His primary education was at various prep schools, of which one in Bristol he remembered fondly for its vegetable garden from which the kids were able to help themselves. Before he went up to Clare College in 1934 to study History, Aylmer went on a cycling tour of Germany and Austria. He remembered that when he was staying in Vienna, he visited the Vienna Woods and had rather too much Riesling. Cycling back into the city he seemed to come across an exceptional number of houses bearing â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Beethoven lived hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; plaques. 65

While at Cambridge University he belonged to the Officers Training Corps and in 1936, during a university vacation, he was invited by his uncle Sir Philip Mitchell to visit him in Uganda of which he was the Governor. Thus began Aylmer’s affair with Africa.

In 1938, having received an MA in History from Cambridge, he joined the Colonial Service. His first posting was to Bukoba in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) on the shores of Lake Victoria. Back in his student days Aylmer had played the French Horn, and had even biked across from Cambridge to Hereford to play it in the Three Choirs Festival, but eventually the African life meant that he just listened to records. While up at Cambridge Aylmer had met Rachel Pooley, who was quite unlike him by being horsey, doggy and sporty, but obviously he found her very attractive as they married on 25th March 1940 after she had made her way out from England to Tanganyika by boat with her Dalmatian dog Desmond, via a sister in Bermuda, friends in the States and another sister in South Africa. They stayed together for 59 years until Rachel died in 1999. Aylmer and Rachel moved to Nairobi in 1941 for his military call up, where he joined the King’s African Rifles. After training he was meant to report to Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll, but when Dad arrived he found the Earl had been murdered in Kenya’s infamously decadent Happy Valley. The lurid events surrounding this murder were made into the 1987 film White Mischief.

For a short while Aylmer was posted to Mogadishu, in what had been Italian Somaliland, as part of a force to hold the territory after the Italians’ retreat. There wasn’t a lot to do there, so he was relieved when the Tanganyika administration found that it was short of officers and he was sent back there in 1942.

Near the end of 1945 Rachel became pregnant. After journeying to England for the birth of their son, Warner, they returned to Africa where Aylmer was based at Ngara. Here, he filled the roles of central 66

& local government. Luckily local crime was fairly basic and the locals were not too worried about going to prison. They called it ‘Kingi George’s hotelli’, because they got regular meals and were frequently let out to do work around the place.

In 1961, Aylmer was a Provincial Commissionery and was responsible for administering an area slightly less than two-thirds of the size of the North Island. On their last tour of duty before independence in December, the Duke of Edinburgh arrived in Tabora for the celebrations.

Towards the end, Aylmer had a number of encounters with the future President Julius Nyerere, with whom he got on well. On one occasion they were both stranded on a derailed train, so Aylmer invited Nyerere to come and have dinner in the PC’s special coach. As they were still stuck the following morning, Nyerere came back for breakfast. Aylmer retired with a golden hand-shake at the ripe old age of 45, having worked in Tanganyika for just over 20 years, and returned to England with Rachel to settle in Somerset at a village called Staple Fitzpaine, near Taunton. Here, he got involved in Civil Defence, Freedom from Hunger, Scouts and even, despite being a lapsed Anglican, the parish Treasurer with responsibility for the upkeep of the local mediaeval church. Aylmer and his son shared an interest in geology and archaeology, and he became the paid Secretary of the Somerset Archaeological & Natural History Society based at Taunton Castle, which conducted some excavations and geophysical surveys.

In 1999, Aylmer and Rachel decided that they needed to downsize from their half-acre property in the country and move into town. Wanting to be closer to their son, they arrived in New Zealand in April 1999 and settled in Whakatane, where Rachel died less than a year later. Aylmer adapted well to life in New Zealand and explored the geology of the area, including the rock layer at Woodside Creek which records the results of the meteor impact that wiped out the 67

dinosaurs. He also managed to get to the Cape Kidnappers gannet colony, jet boat down the Whanganui River and even get to the top of Rangitoto.

Due to failing eyesight, caused by macular degeneration, and a few falls, Aylmer decided that the time had come to move into a rest home and did so in April 2013. Aylmer, and to a slightly lesser extent Rachel, were very keen on doing crosswords, and this habit stayed with him until a couple of years ago when his sight deteriorated to the point where he couldn’t see to fill them in. Another favourite pastime was walking the dog which, when they returned to England, was often accompanied by a good pub lunch. Another hobby of his was collecting butterflies and the considerable collection he amassed is now housed in the Booth Museum of Natural History in Brighton.

As his eyesight deteriorated further he had to give up reading his favourite magazine ‘New Scientist’ and his entertainment centred on the talking books provided by the Blind Foundation, and the TV and the radio – mostly RNZ National and Concert, though he did enjoy the bizarre aspects of the talkback channel RadioLive. He faded gently and died peacefully, but still retained his interest in life and his sense of humour. Aylmer is survived by his son Warner Haldane.

JOLYON HARRIS

Jolyon Harris passed away peacefully at his Swardeston home earlier this month, aged 78. He had been linked to tennis in Norfolk across seven decades as a player, administrator and trustee as well as being a nationally-respected chartered surveyor. Born at Holverston, Bergh Apton, near Norwich, on the family’s farm in October 1936, Jolyon Heaton Harris went to Rugby and later 68

read land management at Clare College, Cambridge, after his two years’ National Service from 1954 in the Royal Artillery in Cyprus.

During his time at Cambridge, Jolyon represented and captained Cambridge University Tennis, gaining a blue in 1960. He represented Norfolk men for the first time at the Winter County Championships in 1957 and continued to represent Norfolk’s men until 1970, captaining the team between 1965 and 1970.

In 1972, the Norfolk farmer’s son was instrumental in the relaunch of the Norwich Christmas Show and Sale at Harford Bridge, one of the highlights of the farming calendar. It became an immediate success - attracting prime cattle and buyers from across the country, incidentally competing for the EDP Silver Salver for the supreme champion. As Jolyon stood down from representative tennis playing, he became Norfolk LTA honorary secretary in 1970, holding the post until 1980. He was also a member of the joint finance committee of the Wimbledon Championships from 1978 to 1984 and served on the Tennis Europe Men’s and Team Championships committee from 1990 to 2006. A Norfolk LTA spokesman said: “The foregoing list of achievement and duties undertaken perhaps only shines a small light onto the nature of this remarkable individual. “He had a huge passion for the sport of tennis and for his home county of Norfolk. He was always there to offer help and support, and everything was done in a respectful and good-mannered way. He will be deeply missed.”

MICHAEL HARTLEY

Michael attended Clare College after Giggleswick school. He was an extremely talented all round sportsman, having been in the school cricket 1st XI from the age of 13, winning the Gym and Swimming competitions and of course a revered rugby centre. He played briefly for Wasps after Varsity before returning home to play for Fylde, Lancashire and England trials before injury and longstanding knee problems forced early retirement at just 25.

Michael built a successful business in St Annes-on Sea with a factory making and selling soft drink dispenser machines employing over 100 people during the ‘60’s, 70’s and 80’s until his retirement. He was a lifelong keen golfer, playing nearly 50 years at Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Club, at best a 4 handicap we believe. Survived by his wife of 58 years Anne, his two sons Steven and Gary, and his six grandchildren and four step-grandchildren. JOHN HAWKINS

John was born on the 18th May 1925 in Durban, South Africa, but came back to the UK aged one. He enjoyed a Quaker education, completed at Bootham School, York. As a Conscientious Objector he was briefly directed to land work when he left school in 1943, but in 1944 he was allowed to take up an exhibition to Clare College to study Natural Sciences. At Cambridge he was able to develop his passion for music, initially kindled by learning the flute at school, and he joined the chapel choir. He met his wife Pamela (née Hume) at Cambridge and they were married in 1948. They set up home in Welwyn Garden City, where John worked in research at Roche Products. Later he went to Barts Medical College 70

as a Demonstrator in biochemistry. He studied for his doctorate on the kitchen table, as an external student of London University. In 1957 the family went to the USA where he enjoyed a year of postdoctoral study at Indiana University.

John was an active member of the Biochemical Society. His research focused on immunology and genetics. He published a successful undergraduate textbook entitled Gene Structure and Expression (Cambridge University Press), now in its third edition. With time he became more interested in teaching than research, and this became his area of responsibility at Barts.

Perhaps inspired by travels in the USA, John and Pamela had life-long pleasure in walking and travel, at home and abroad. Annual holidays, under canvas and generally involving mountain walking, continued until they were in their late 70â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Along with an interest in mountain flowers, John also enjoyed gardening, especially vegetable growing. John was a lifelong Quaker and was active in Quaker business, both locally and nationally. Soon after retiring John started work as a volunteer in the archives of the Central Library at Friends House, London. His intellectual curiosity was intrigued by documents he was dealing with and his research interests moved to social history, including his grandparentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; missionary work in China, the lives of various interesting Quakers, and some local Quaker history.

He leaves his wife Pamela, his daughter Ruth, retired and engaged in community based sustainability projects in Merton, his son Peter (Clare 1973-77) who has spent most of his adult life in Africa managing water and sanitation projects, four grandchildren and two great grandsons.

ALAN HURD

This year the death was announced of Alan Hurd, an alumnus of the College who, during his time at Cambridge (1957-1960), played cricket with distinction both for the University and in the County Championship for the Essex County Cricket Club.

Alan had a distinguished cricket career during his time as a Clare undergraduate, during which he thrice obtained his blue as well as playing for Essex in the long vacations and twice achieving the even higher honour of selection for the Gentlemen in their annual match against the Players at Lord’s. He had shown enormous promise at school, taking well over 200 wickets with his off breaks in his four years in the Chigwell first XI, including 64 in 1955 at a cost of under 8 runs each, when he was the school’s key player in one of its best ever seasons, in which it won eight of its ten matches.

In his three years at Cambridge he took over 150 wickets for the University, mostly against near full strength opposition from the County Championship, despite doing the bulk of his bowling on the Fenner’s pitch on which batsmen loved to bat and bowlers often toiled in vain. He made his mark in his three Varsity matches at Lord’s, particularly in 1958 when he took seven wickets, running through the Oxford middle order batsmen very cheaply just when they were threatening a large first innings lead, to set up what was to be Cambridge’s last victory against Oxford until 1972. Three of his scalps were with the aid of his Clare contemporary, Chris Howland, the wicket keeper who himself had a hand in the fall of six Oxford batsmen. In the following long vacation he began his career for Essex with a blaze of glory, with a match winning ten wicket haul against Kent, and went on to top the county’s bowling averages for the season. In 1960, his final year at Cambridge, his bowling helped the University to beat three of the first class counties, a feat it has not matched since. Apart from his bowling, his batting and fielding 72

also achieved notoriety, but rather in the manner of Eddie the Eagle’s alpine sporting exploits or the poetry of William McGonagall. This was a common failing among spin bowlers in the past and one that would be regarded as an endearing eccentricity, as long as they produced the goods in their principal role.

After graduating, he pursued a career in teaching until his retirement in 1997, combining the roles of Head of English and cricket coach at Sevenoaks School where, as well as being highly popular and respected, he nurtured the embryonic talents of Jonathan Bate and Neil Powell in the field of literature and those of future England Test cricketers Chris Tavaré and Paul Downton. The long school summer holidays allowed him to continue playing cricket at club level for Sevenoaks Vine and in 1961 he was in the Club Cricket Conference team that inflicted on the Ashes winning Australian touring side its only defeat in over 30 fixtures outside of the Test Series. His chief contribution to this victory was taking the wicket of the Australian captain, Richie Benaud. Alan’s life was a full and active one, and the news of his passing is sad both for those who knew him personally and for those who knew of him by reputation. RICHARD BRUCE CARLYLE LE MAITRE

Richard, better known to many as ‘Dick’, was born in Worthing Sussex in 1931, and died in Somerset West near Cape Town on May 23rd 2016. He always loved the sea, especially in stormy weather, but never enjoyed swimming in cold water. He had one sister Stella, who lived in the area all her life. Due to the 1940 fear of invasion the family moved to relatives near Epsom, in time to enjoy the blitz on London, and he had vivid memories of bombers and fighters passing overhead on the Downs, and collecting shrapnel with a cousin after their passing. His parents then returned to Worthing and he later 73

attended Lancing College, doing army service before going up to Clare in 1951 to study Engineering.

Graduating in 1954, Dick joined the Development department of Hayward Tyler, working among other projects on new systems involving heavy water and others for Atomic Energy developments at Harwell. In the same year he married Anne, a graduate of Girton, whose knowledge of engineering he insisted on improving, mainly on a 1929 Morris car, in which she learnt to drive, he saying cheerfully that if she could drive that she could drive anything. They had two sons, David and Timothy, and in 1957 the family moved to South Africa, where he joined the Research Department of AECI (African Explosives and Chemicals) at Modderfontein near Johannesburg, developing ideas and methods of improving the manufacture and safety of explosives – a touchy matter. Then he became Engineer of the Nitric Acid plant, obtaining his Certificate of Competency, Mechanical Engineering, and later moved to their Consulting Engineers Department.

In 1963 another move, to the Western Cape as Manager/Engineer of the fishing factories at Hout Bay near Cape Town. He always liked to get to know the people on the factory floor, and had great respect for their knowledge of the machines they operated, and also the crews of the fishing trawlers, going out to see how the boats worked in often difficult weather off the Cape of Storms (Francis Drake’s description) as well as building a sailing dinghy. Throughout his working life he wanted to improve the efficiency and safety of both equipment and its operators, often in small ways that showed concern. Then in 1955 he agreed to move to Luderitz in Namibia, to a large factory owned by the same company, handling Rock Lobster and anchovy, where a boiler explosion at the town’s power installation had caused problems – the municipal water supply came from sea water (distilled by electricity) and there was some difficulty there. In fact for a while he also stood in as town engineer until a replacement could be found. There was good fishing to be had in the large bay, 74

although the icy sea made for chilly winds and fog, and the dinghy was only usable when wind and sea were not too dangerous. His sons were able to stay at their school in Cape Town, and got used to flying up for the holidays in 5- or 7- seater planes – which allowed for interesting low flying if not meals on board. The landing strip could not be used by larger craft like Viscounts, due to the sand problems on ground and in the air – Luderitz being on the edge of the Namib Desert.

At the same time he began looking into the company’s offshore mining of diamonds – (further south, at the mouth of the Orange River, De Beers were working on the dunes and offshore). The recovery methods seemed to him highly inefficient, and eventually he came up with a method that the directors took to De Beers, whose Research engineers worked with Dick, producing a system that was patented, and put to work on the boats. At the same time he became safety officer for the local diamond setup, which allowed him entry to otherwise closed areas, and he was fascinated by the wealth of what are called ‘semi-precious’ stones – in fact making a lapidary bench so that he could cut and polish agates and other material as a hobby.

He had been working for some time out of the Cape Town office as well as acting engineer for Luderitz, and he went to Japan to look into prawn and fish farming: working with a Japanese IT expert temporarily on a project in Cape Town, who helped him learn the basics of the Japanese language, and in return Dick checked his reports on the installation of a system. His advice was invaluable, and Dick was even invited to spend a weekend in Tokyo with the family. However, nothing came of the project as local resistance and politics prevented its implementation. From 1975-78 Dick helped develop a hydroponic system for growing in plastic tunnels, to produce crops in normally off-season periods. Various methods and set-ups were implemented, and early tomatoes proved a real possibility. This was near Somerset West, east of Cape Town, and in 1979 he returned to AECI’s local factory, as 75

engineer in their plastics section, where he remained until retirement in 1996, although he stayed on for 3 years supervising construction and set-up of his design for a machine that could produce in one pass a heavy-weight laminated material suitable for tarpaulins and other tough applications. In the 90’s he became aware of the growing dissatisfaction among the operators and technicians: top management seemingly was not. Dick tried to explain why a pension scheme was important, and withdrawing from it unwise. A subsided car scheme was introduced, based on salary levels, which brought things to a head when the CEO arrived in a Jaguar. On a hot afternoon a quiet blocking with workers’ empty cars of all exits from the management parking area trapped a lot of people in their air-conditioned office block. Dick was somewhat amused – the technical staff were not affected – occupying an ancient building on site. After many changes AECI eventually closed the dynamite side first, then sold their plastics division, which was much reduced already, and many jobs disappeared. Quotation from the technical Manager on Dick’s work at Vynide:

‘Dick is seen by his peers as an expert in many fields and acts as a consultant to both the Technical and Production Departments, and has been responsible for the registration of eight patents. Due to the intense local and overseas competition in the fields in which Vynide operates, Dick has not been encouraged to publish or lecture on his achievements.’

Throughout his life he was always happy solving problems and puzzles. He started on locks at an early age, opening a Yale lock to the horrified astonishment of family finding him in the house when he should have been waiting on the doorstep. He accumulated a large collection of puzzles, wood, metal and plastic (loved Rubik’s products) and books of mathematical and logical problems (Martin Gardner especially), and made up crosswords for fun in the company magazine too. 76

Another interest arose from finding a large cowry among rocks on a seaside holiday. Conchology led to collecting many South African shells: learning that deep-sea trawlers often find shells in the trawl, he persuaded the crews to save them, sold the prettier stuff for them, and passed on material to an expert at the South African Museum, so that his name is found on 2 new species. He loved the beauty and amazing design of shells.

Having come to a real faith and belief in the Bible during university days, and rejecting evolution theory because of its contradiction of basic science – such as the 2nd law of thermodynamics – he had a great interest in the numerics of the Bible – every letter in its 2 languages representing a number also, and forming amazing arithmetical patterns. He often shared this subject, and found young people enjoyed talks on the science found in the Bible and explaining why as a scientist he trusted it. He read widely, enjoying extracts from the top science journals supplied by his son David, who has a science PhD and works for the Council for Scientific Research on ecological and environmental matters. The arrival of computer design programs delighted Dick – no more laborious pencil drawing on huge sheets of paper, just press a few buttons and hey presto! Nuts and bolts pop up where needed and pretty colours too. And when ideas ran out for a while there were all sorts of games to be surreptitiously played. He insisted on his wife learning too, so she could type his reports neatly – he stuck with two fingers to the bitter end. He was a loving but firm father, enjoyed playing tennis with the family, and fishing expeditions that sometimes yielded the odd expensive meal. He lived long enough to enjoy two greatgrandsons playing with Lego: after many weekend stays he knew his grandchildren well. His grand-daughter Frances now works in computer design, and his grandson Nicholas studies genetics. He had always enjoyed sports, squash, fives, billiards, rowing, and fencing. One of the results of moving to Somerset West was taking up serious croquet – the geometry of the game appealed – and he won several 77

S.A.Doubles titles as well as one Singles: with young Reg Bamford (who won the British title) a computerised system of handicapping was evolved, that could take into account many factors, somewhat of an improvement of the old way â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which depended on who had watched which games and how the win was assessed. JOCK ALEXANDER MACKINNON

Jock Alexander Mackinnon died at his home in East Jindabyne, New South Wales on 18 July 2016 aged 87. He came to Clare 1953-1955 to attain his History Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, having gained a degree in History from the University of Sydney. He returned to a teaching post at Cranbrook School in Sydney, after which he came back to England with a view to expanding his knowledge of secondary education. He taught for a short period at a large comprehensive school before moving on to a post at Shrewsbury School and later returning to Cranbrook.

He was appointed Headmaster of the Illawarra Grammar School at Wollongong and is credited with raising a school with problems to become a much respected institution. He was later appointed as Head of Pulteney Grammar School in Adelaide where he again distinguished himself. Jock made it a rule that he would move on after ten years, which he did despite pleadings that he should continue in office from governors and parents at both schools.

At the age of fifty-five Jock was surprised and honoured to be asked by the Bishop of Canberra to become Head of a new Anglican school to be opened in the city. He had the fascinating and ultimately rewarding task of creating a school from scratch - buildings, staff and all. This is Radford College, now a highly regarded co-educational school with some 1600 pupils, having started with 240 in 1984. Jock accepted the post on the understanding that he would remain as Head for five years - long enough to see the school established. Far from retiring and enjoying a peaceful life at his home in the 78

Snowy Mountains, Jock trained as a guide at the recently opened new parliament house in Canberra. He loved the work and, obliged as a civil servant to retire at 65, he continued as a guide working for a private company.

During this period of semi-retirement he was still active in education. He was Chair of the Board at Canberra Grammar Girls School and later was Chair of the Government committee which allocated grants to the independent schools in the Australian Capital Territory. He was also very involved in Anglicare, and in particular helped establish a food kitchen which he attended every Monday to serve meals to those in need. In 2005 Jock received an Order of Australia Medal for his services to Education and for his Volunteer work in the community.

In his schools he was considered to be a wise, guiding disciplinarian. One of his staff described him as ‘benign but tough’, and his older son writes, “Dad was a gentle soul. He had a great sense of duty and obligation to get things right for the benefit of others.” His younger son writes, “When I was about to start my own teaching career, Dad said, out of the thousands of things he could have said in the way of guidance, there was only one bit of advice he was going to give me. I braced myself for what I thought was about to come. Get your lesson preparation done? Keep on top of your marking? Familiarise yourself thoroughly with the curriculum? No, it was simply this: like your students. Show them on a daily basis that you like them. Even when you’re telling them off, make it clear that you are doing so because you like them too much to see them failing themselves. And if on occasions you are confronted with a student you can’t like, then pretend!” Jock Mackinnon is survived by his wife, Liz, and their four children.

NEVILLE TAYLOR MOAR

Neville Taylor Moar, one of a select group of New Zealand scientists who gained their doctorates in Britain in the years following World War II, died at the age of 89 on the 1st June, 2016, at Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand. Neville was employed as a botanist in the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research from 1947 until his retirement in 1987 but was supported by the New Zealand Government during 4 years advanced study at Clare College 1961-1964. There he successfully completed a dissertation on the glacial and late-glacial vegetation history of south-west Scotland and the Orkneys in the Department of Botany with Professor Richard West as advisor.

Nevilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time at Cambridge was extraordinarily valuable for his development as a scientist as New Zealand at that time was isolated, sea voyages to Britain taking weeks and even plane travel up to a week. He met and worked with students and specialists from all over the world, attended conferences, travelled widely in Britain and Europe and benefited from advanced techniques and thought in his scienctific area. On returning home, he pioneered studies on the vegetation, glacial and climate history of New Zealand, becoming the undisputed leader in this field. Pollen analysis being his main research tool, he also became involved in research on behalf of the New Zealand honey industry, providing the research analyses which permit the classification of honey types.

After his retirement in 1987, Neville continued on as a very active research associate and valued member of the palaeoecology laboratory at the successor scientific organisation, Landcare Research. Neville had a long standing interest in pollen morphology and, after many years of careful work, mostly during his retirement, he completed a comprehensive atlas of New Zealand pollen grains which has remained the key identification reference work. He also produced a 80

stream of scientific papers and mentored staff and students over his nearly 30 years of retirement, and was working on a new publication right up until the week before his death. Neville was also a keen amateur historian and completed a history of Lincoln (founded in 1862 by James Edward FitzGerald – also a Cambridge graduate), his home since 1964. Neville is survived by his wife Maria, son Andrew and daughter Joanne. (Matt McGlone, Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand)

PETER RINTOUL

Peter Rintoul was born almost a hundred years ago in the west end of Glasgow, the city which he would serve all his days except for the war years. Peter’s father was an accountant with his own firm. His son was educated at Loretto and proceeded to Cambridge University where as a privileged young man he could enjoy life with a sports car he named The Bloody Bullet. Many decades later a collector of classic cars purchased it and made contact with its delighted first owner.

Peter entered the railways working for the LMS – the London, Midland and Scottish Railway whose livery and coaches many of us still remember. Inevitably therefore when he volunteered for the army at the outbreak of the Second World War he was drafted into the Royal Engineers. Like many war heroes Peter was not one for speaking of his war service. For him perhaps his finest hour was getting going at the war’s close the first train to leave Hamburg for Hanover.

Peter returned to Glasgow as company secretary of R and J Dick. When the firm was bought over he moved to the Scottish Industrial Estates, a remarkable post war government agency which built factories on estates, as at Strathleven, for light industries. Peter was in charge of the lettings. 81

The head of the SIE was that remarkable Glaswegian Lord Bilsland of the family firm of bakers. One of his public offices was President of the Society of Friends of Glasgow Cathedral. Peter’s father had been an elder in the Cathedral and Peter became a member of the congregation in 1933 so that when he left the Cathedral to join the Abbey congregation he was the father of the session. Lord Bilsland had appointed Tom Fergus as secretary of the Friends. When he became session clerk Lord Bilsland nominated Peter as secretary. So much for enlightened despotism. Peter was to serve as secretary for thirty-three years. Peter had married Pat Bowie. There were three daughters, Francis, Nicola and Susan. Pat suffered from poor health and after her early death Peter married Jean Reid, herself a widow living in his elder’s district. Despite forebodings in some quarters it was to prove a loving relationship and one that brought much happiness to both parties. To the end Jean was a devoted wife visiting Peter every day at Flanders House.

The SIE was merged with the Scottish Development Agency. When Peter retired from the Agency with an MBE it was said that he left what in some ways was a snake-pit without an enemy. But Peter, as Alan Campbell at the Cathedral noted, was always welcoming; and as Sir John Arbuthnott has written, Peter was gentle and kindly. But then he reflected the words of the French writer Albert Camus: ‘Don’t walk behind; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.’

As with all of us Peter had his setbacks and met adversity. However, the years of retirement were possibly his most fulfilling. Through marriage to Jean he had a second family through her children Alan and the late Pamela and when they married he became Uncle Peter to their children. And he had the Society of Friends in his bellowed Cathedral which with his guidance innovated winter lectures, an annual outing, the occasional morals and ethics lecture, and recitals, 82

all of which continue as his legacy - as does the Cathedral precinct which the Society inaugurated.

In the past two years Peter was resident in Flanders House where he was greatly loved. The highlight of his stay was surely when he was escorted to the memorial service in the Cathedral to commemorate the start of World War One. Peter was forward looking, a loving husband to Pat and Jean, and a loving father and friend. He died peacefully in his sleep. JOHN (RICHARD) ROPER

Born on the 3rd July 1916 in Westmorland (Cumbria) and educated at Sedbergh, Richardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talent for languages earned him a place at Cambridge in 1935 to read Modern Languages. He was an enthusiastic and distinguished member of the Clare rowing team before the war. The eights won the North of England Head of the River Race (established in 1935) in both 1936 and 1937, and also saw victories at the Clare 1 May Boat Race and the Ladies Challenge Plate at Henley Royal Regatta in 1937. Richard was a member of the prestigious Leander Rowing Club. After graduating, he spent time with the Colonial Service in the British Gold Coast (Ghana), served in the Fleet Air Arm and, subsequently, joined the British Council. He was posted to South America and met his future wife, Doreen, in Uruguay. The couple eventually decided to return to the UK, where Richard pursued a career in insurance and they raised a family. On retirement, Richard was able to spend more time on various activities, such as watercolour painting and his involvement with the local PROBUS group. He enjoyed a pint of real ale and a stimulating chat in any genial pub! Though sadly widowed after 66 years of married life, Richard remained a fit, active and well-loved member of his local community in Lancashire. Early July saw joyful 100-year birthday celebrations but, sadly, his health rapidly declined in the 83

ensuing weeks until he slipped away peacefully at home, with family by his side, on the 26th August 2016.

Richard will be remembered as a devoted family man with an ever sharp intellect and wicked sense of humour. He is survived, and sorely missed, by his three children and two grandchildren. KENNETH EDWIN RUSSELL

On Sunday 10 April 2016, Ken Russell died at home in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Cherished husband of Esther (nee Fenton) for 60 years. Father of Celia, Judy (m. Rick Pim) and Andrew Russell (m. Judith Kallick Russell). Granddad of Peter Andersen, Joshua Kallick Russell and Sarah Kallick Russell. Mourned by his sister, Muriel Robey, in England. Fondly remembered by many relatives in Britain and the USA.

Born in Barnwell, England, Professor Russell attended the Laxton School in Oundle. At 13, he attained the unusual distinction of gaining the School Certificate with credit in every subject. He graduated from Clare College, Cambridge (M.A. Ph.D. ‘48), completing graduate research on the kinetics of the cationic polymerization of isobutylene under the supervision of R.G.W. Norrish, recipient of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Professor Russell’s interest in polymer chemistry arose through wartime work on butyl rubber. He was appointed assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University (1948-50), assistant lecturer at Manchester (1950-52) and fellow at Princeton (1952-54). In 1954, Professor Russell came to Queen’s, where, for more than 60 years, he was a valued colleague, mentor and friend to faculty, staff and students. Retiring from his position of Professor Emeritus of Chemistry officially in 1990, his research publications in polymer science span 55 years, from 1947 to 2002. In 2014, the Department of Chemistry honoured him by establishing the Russell Lectureship. The inaugural lecture took place 84

Friday 15 April 2016. A celebration of life was held on April 16, at the University Club at Queen’s University, Kingston. SHANE ADRIAN SAUNDERS

Shane Adrian Saunders died in November 2014 at the age of 59, after a 40 year struggle with diabetes, and its multiple complications. From an early age Shane had a gift for mathematics and he won a place at Colchester Royal Grammar School when only 10 years old. His progress through his school years was rapid, and by the time he was 17 Shane possessed sufficiently high A level grades to qualify for admission to Cambridge a year earlier than was usual. At that time Shane didn’t know how the college system worked, nor anything about the individual colleges, and so as an old Clare man, I offered to take him over to Cambridge to show him around. Not surprisingly our first stop was the Memorial Court carpark, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Shane entered Clare in 1973 and enjoyed his three years there to the full; he played in goal for one of the College soccer teams, he joined the Boat Club, and in any remaining spare time, he discovered an interest in bellringing, learning the art from Roger Kendrick at Trumpington Church.

After graduation in 1976 Shane’s first job was with British Aerospace at their Hatfield factory, where he joined the team developing the computer technology vital to the problems of aircraft design. After a few years at British Aerospace, Shane went to work for GEC before moving on to Rank Xerox, with whom he remained for the next 25 years. While in Hatfield Shane had the opportunity to become involved in the Hertfordshire bellringing scene, becoming the Ringing Master at Hatfield Parish Church and ultimately general secretary of the Hertford County Association of Change-Ringers, a post he held for over 20 years. 85

After marrying his wife Anne in 1983, they moved to Welwyn Garden City, where their two children were born. Shane was a devoted family man who spent as much time as possible with his children; they have happy memories of their father reading to them at bed time, going for bike rides, playing games of all sorts, and always offering good advice. Sadly, as the children grew older, so did the complications from Shaneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s diabetes worsen, and it became progressively more difficult for him to participate in his familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more physical activities. However Shane was still able to take part in bellringing and after the family moved to Peterborough in 2002, he was able to join the cathedral bellringing team, becoming Ringing Master until his health would no longer allow him to continue. Although hindered by illness in later life, Shane always made the best of what he had. He was independent and determined to the end of his life, and remained brave and optimistic no matter what life threw at him. He never complained, or made a fuss, and was content for his family to enjoy their lives to the full, even if he could not always take part. Shane was a man of wide general knowledge, with a gentle disposition and a ready smile, who fought the dreadful complications of his illness with quiet courage, and who will be greatly missed by his family and all who knew him. DR ALEC STRACHAN

Dr Alec Strachan passed away peacefully at the age of 87 years on the 28th July 2016. Despite having multiple sclerosis for the last 52 years, he led an active life.

Alec was born in Darlington on the 30th April 1929 and studied at Clare College from 1947 - 1950, as his father James Strachan had done before him. He went on to study for a PhD at the University of Rochester in the USA, meeting his wife 86

on board the boat coming back to the UK. Alec then became a Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at Loughborough University, and was awarded an honorary doctorate of science from them in 1992 for his work at the university and within the local community.

Although his degree and career were in science, Alec had a keen appreciation for poetry that was born during his time at Clare College, and he particularly enjoyed those by AA Milne such as Teddy Bear and some of the well-known nonsense poems such as The Owl and the Pussycat, but not to the exclusion of more serious poetry, for example The Stareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nest by My Window by W B Yeats, which has war as its theme.

During his time at Clare, Alec achieved excellent grades (firsts in his first and second year, and a 2.i in his final examinations) and was a very active member of the Cong soc., the lively student society of Emmanuel Congregational Church. Alec went on all three annual Cong soc. trips to the Lake District, which included a lot of hiking and staying in youth hostels, and which caused him to fall in love with the area. He was very active in politics and local government, and became mayor of Loughborough, Leicestershire from 1968-1969 and Chairman of Leicestershire County Council in 1990. He was also very involved with charitable work, particularly Amnesty International and a range of charities helping disabled people. He was Chair of the governors for two schools, Roseberry Junior School and Ashmount School, a school for pupils with special educational needs, and was keen to ensure that everyone had access to good education. His wife, Ivy Strachan, is still resident in Loughborough in the family home.

JOHN PETER VISMAN

John Peter Visman, always known as Peter, was born in Eindhoven, Holland on 5th June 1934.

Peter came to England in 1938, when his father Jean Visman, a Dutch Engineer, was sent to manage the Philips factory in Blackburn, Lancashire. The family lived there throughout WW2, later moving to Scotland as his father was appointed Manager of the Philips factory near Glasgow. Peter quickly picked up English at primary school in Blackburn. He then went on the Earnseat Prep School in Arnside, which he enjoyed, and from where he gained an Open Exhibition to Fettes in 1947. Fettes proved an austere school in those days, and despite playing the trumpet in the school orchestra, being a member of the choir and of a team that won a Shooting Cup, as well as Editor of ‘The Fettesian’ and a Flight Sergeant in the CCF RAF Section, he always said that his most cherished Fettes memory was the sense of release when he was offered a place at Clare. After the rigours of Fettes, life at Clare introduced Peter to a whole new way of thinking and living – and a taste for curry! His time there (reading Chemical Engineering 1953-1957) remained one of the highlights of his life. He learned to fly with the University Air Squadron, and devoted a great deal of time to rowing, becoming Captain of Clare Boat Club in his final year. Two oars, from the May Boat 1954 and Lent Boat 1955, accompanied him during many house moves. (They remain in pride of place in his final home in Sandgate, on the Kent coast).

Leaving Clare (with Tripos 2.1 in Chemical Engineering) Peter joined Shell Chemicals at Shell Haven as a Trainee Technologist. There, his love of boats took the form of building an Enterprise dinghy which he sailed with friends. He moved the boat to Lake Bala when he was transferred to the Shell Chemical Plant at Carrington, near Manchester, as a Plant Manager of Ethylene Plants (1961-67). There 88

he met Penny Mosedale, they married in 1963 and their children were born: Miles in 1964 and Emma in 1967.

In 1968 Peter was posted to Shell Chemicals (Australia), near Sydney, where the family spent two very happy years. Then followed two challenging, yet fascinating, years as Head of Operations at Shell & BP in The Sudan (1972-74) where the boat of choice was a small Arab dhow which the family used for snorkelling in the Red Sea.

Deciding not to take up Shell’s offer of a posting to Iran, Peter joined Fisons Agrochemicals in Cambridge (1974-81). During this time he had a Pandora sailing boat that he kept on the Debden Estuary near Ipswich. Company restructuring meant that Peter left Fisons and became a consultant for several oil and chemical companies – with stints in Mauritania, Algeria, Sri Lanka and Copenhagen (where his work brought him into contact with two Clare contemporaries: Denis Dunstone and Robin Colquhoun).

Peter joined Foster Wheeler at their Reading office in 1988 and whilst living in nearby Henley-on-Thames he had several postings abroad. The longest of these was 18 months in Thailand, where he joined the Royal Varuna Yacht Club and regularly raced in a Hobbie catamaran. Whilst living in Henley, Peter was taken as a guest to Leander Club. After casually recounting his Clare Boat Club days he was promptly invited to become a member – qualifying as a ‘Distinguished Oarsman’ – and he relished wearing their iconic pink tie and socks! Officially retiring from Foster Wheeler in 1996, Peter continued with some occasional consultancy work for them in Qatar.

Full retirement came in 2002 when he and Penny moved to a house in Sandgate that overlooks The Channel. For the first few years there Peter did voluntary work for the National Coastwatch Institution, becoming an accredited Watchkeeper, as well as Treasurer. Although so many people, in their words of sympathy after his death, described Peter as a true English gentleman, he retained his Dutch passport, and love of Holland, throughout his life. Peter died 89

of a sudden heart attack on 1st June 2016. He is survived by Penny; Miles and his wife Janni; Emma and her husband Bill, and grandsons Jan Willem Gray and Louis Gray who knew him as Opa (Dutch grandfather). DONALD WILKEY

Donald Wilkey died on 3 March 2016 aged 89. He was born in Bristol and educated at Bristol Grammar School. In 1944, whilst still at school, he volunteered for RAF service as aircrew and was placed on the volunteer reserve, but was not called up. In 1945, he won an exhibition to Clare to read modern languages having taught himself Spanish, an extraordinary feat since he had never visited Spain nor had access to Spanish speaking teachers.

After graduating in 1948 he was called up for his national service by the RAF and commissioned into the Education Branch. He served at RAF Watchet and then, after signing on for a further 5 years, was posted to Germany. Here his duties included teaching languages and acting as an interpreter to British and Belgian Staff Officers.

In 1955 he returned to Cambridge to study for a Certificate in Education and in 1956 was appointed to teach French and Spanish at Harrow County School for Boys where he spent most of the rest of his career. He won the respect of pupils from all backgrounds and abilities together with the friendship of his colleagues and helped the school to regularly achieve significant numbers of Oxbridge awards and places. He was joint leader of a thriving RAF section of the CCF and also organised a very successful Sixth Form Society to which he invited many distinguished guests to speak. Due to reorganisation, he transferred to Lowlands Sixth Form College in 1975 as Head of Spanish but took early retirement in 1980.

He continued to act as an examiner in French GCSE and ESOL for the University of Cambridge board well into his 80s as well as 90

generously giving up his time to tutor many children preparing for exams, whenever requested. His love of history led him to undertake a Diploma in Archaeology at the University of London during which he enjoyed taking part in excavations including that at Southwark Cathedral.

His love of learning and clarity of thought, particularly relating to the use of language, remained until the last few weeks of his life. He leaves his wife of 65 years, Doreen, 2 children and 5 grandchildren.

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Please detach this form neatly and return it to the Development Office, Clare College, FREEPOST CB422, Cambridge, CB2 1BR This form extracts directly relevant items from a larger (A4) form, also available from the Development Office. The Development Office are always happy to advise on any aspect of donating to Clare.