The Journal
IN MEMORIAM
70
I begin this year’s ‘In Memoriam’ with a note of two members of the College Assistant Staff, who will be known to a number of Fitzwilliam alumni: Mr John Eisold, a Porter for many years and eventually Head Porter, and a University Constable, who died on 20 October 2019; and Mrs Audrey Cann, Hall Supervisor for a number of years, who died on 27 September 2020 at the age of 88. We have lost three Life Fellows, and fifty-six members of the College. As always I am grateful to those family members and colleagues who have contributed material to make it possible to compile the obituaries I have written. This will be the last contribution I shall make under this heading for the Journal. Although the task always makes the closing weeks of the year hectic, it has provided me with a unique insight into the membership of the College over nearly a quarter of a century. I am only saddened by the realisation that we often only know about the range of achievements of our members when it is no longer possible to congratulate them in person. David Thompson
LIFE FELLOWS PROFESSOR JOHN MORTON COLES, FBA, FSA (1955) John Coles was born on 25 March 1930 and was educated at the University of Toronto. In 1955 he came to Fitzwilliam to read for the Diploma in Prehistoric Archaeology, which he gained in 1957. After three years as a Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology at Edinburgh, during which time he secured a PhD, he was appointed an Assistant Lecturer in the Cambridge Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology in 1960, and Lecturer in 1965. He became a Fellow at Fitzwilliam in the same year. His subsequent career in the University was rapid, being appointed Reader in 1976 and Professor in 1980, retiring in 1986, when he became a Life Fellow. He was also Director of Studies for the Prince of Wales, when Charles was reading Archaeology and Anthropology, since Trinity did not have a Fellow in the subject. John was awarded an ScD in 1978, and became a Fellow of the British Academy in the same year; he had been a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries from 1963, and served as Vice-President, 1982-86. Author of several standard texts in field archaeology, he specialised in wetlands, especially the Somerset Levels, which was one reason why in retirement he moved to Devon.
For this fifteen-year project he was awarded ‘the British Archaeological Awards’ Country Life Award for the best project by a professional or mixed professional/voluntary team or unit’ in 1988. On the award in 1995 of the British Academy Grahame Clark Medal, he described it as ‘bronze, large and heavy – not to be worn, more like a door stop’. In 1998 he endowed a Travel Bursary at Fitzwilliam for either an undergraduate or graduate student, who needed support in travelling abroad during his or her course. He died on 14 October 2020.
DR GUY GIBSON POOLEY Guy Pooley was born in Bedford in 1944, but the family moved to Nottingham ten years later where he did his secondary education, prior to winning a scholarship to Peterhouse in 1964. His introduction to Cambridge was the winter of 1962-63, with its biting winds and frozen Lent Term. Having secured a double first in Natural Sciences, Guy went on to do research in astrophysics under Sir Martin Ryle. From 1966 he published over 250 research papers, and developed a network of international collaborations (including the USA, Poland, South Korea). For several decades he was central to the operation of the radio telescopes at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory at Lord’s Bridge. Guy became a Fellow of Fitzwilliam in 1973, retiring in
