Once a Caian Issue 16

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ISSUE 16 MICHAELMAS 2016 GONVILLE & CAIUS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE

End of an Era in Caius Fundraising... ... and the Start of the Next Casting Poetry on Light: Stephen Hawking

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Dan White

From the Director of Development The Master and the Director of Development take turns to introduce Once a Caian... in alternate years – so, twenty months into this exciting, new, personal challenge, I am writing my first Foreword. Mick Le Moignan (2004) has once again done a magnificent job, starting with a superb tribute to the achievements of Dr Anne Lyon (2001) over the last fifteen years.

I am deeply grateful to Anne for preparing me for this role and for working so closely with me since I took up the reins, to ensure a smooth handover and the continuing success of the Development Campaign. During Anne’s time you have given, or pledged to give, over £100 million to our College. How do I follow that? It is a hugely daunting task, but I relish the challenge and will need the support of the whole Caian community, Fellows, staff, students and all of you benefactors whose loyalty and generosity to our College is wonderfully encouraging.

The College’s need for support is also as great as ever. A further phase of work on the roof of the Waterhouse Building is underway, including refurbishment of ‘T’ staircase, and the conservation of Caius Court has reached the Chapel. We hope the scaffolding will be down in time for us to welcome new and returning students!

We spend almost twice as much as we receive from our students on teaching, housing and feeding them and on providing extra financial support for those who need it. Our oarsmen and women will move into their new boathouse, paid for by predecessors, with renewed determination to retain the Lents headship and regain the Mays. Four new Research Fellows will arrive, at the start of their academic careers, keen to advance the College’s distinguished reputation.

The lifetime gifts we receive are vital to our continuing excellence in education and research, but as the challenges of the 21st century unfold, I believe it is increasingly important for Caians to remember the College in their Wills. The packed lists of ‘Thanks to our Benefactors’ (pages 26-33) show that in the last four years, we received gifts from three Caians who matriculated prior to 1920. These form part of £11m worth of bequests received during Anne’s time in the Development Office.

In our next issue, we plan to tell you more about the most generous legacy of John Chumrow (1948), and those of Patricia Crone (1990) and Jonathan Horsfall-Turner (1964), much-loved Caians who passed away recently. The 243 members of the Edmund Gonville Society, those who have told us that they have included bequests to Caius in their Wills, have pledged a further £43m to the College. I would urge all Caians to follow their example, because our history proves that these gifts can be truly transformational.

James Howell (2009) Director of Development

“Your gift to Caius also counts towards the Dear World ... Yours, Cambridge Campaign”

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Contents

2 End of an Era... – The Retirement of Dr Anne Lyon (2001) 4 ...and Start of the Next – James Howell (2009), Director of Development 6 A Glimmer of Hope – Dr Amy Ludlow (2012) 8 The Importance of Being Authentic – Harry Tharp (1955) & Lars Tharp (1973) 10 Casting Poetry on Light – Relativity by Dr Sarah Howe (2010) 12 Chairman of the Board – David Elstein (1961), Chair of the Development Campaign Board 16 Cambridge’s Treasure House – Tim Knox (2012), Director and Marlay Curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum 18 Open Day 2016 20 Fun or Fury? – Professor Vic Gatrell (1967), on the Art of Political Cartooning 22 Once a Chorister... – by James Howell (2009) 24 Caius366 – January to June 2016 26 Thanks to our Benefactors 34 CaiNotes 36 The Fellows’ Betting Books – Professor Anthony Edwards (1968) Cover photos by Dan White, Dave Gunn, Hayley Madden and Yao Liang. Cartoon by kind permission of Steve Bell

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In one of the first recorded instances of Cambridge’s ducks trying to raise their intellectual horizons, this female mallard attended a lecture in the Bateman Auditorium by Caius graduate student Dannielle Cagliuso (2015) on Sir Andrew Huxley and the design and dissemination of his custom interference microscope.

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very member of the Caius community enriches it. We all benefit from our association with the College and we all contribute to it, in ways great and small. Very few Caians in our long history have made such an extraordinary impact as Dr Anne Lyon (2001), whose 15-year tenure as Director of Development (latterly for Principal Gifts) has boosted the Caius finances by well over £100 million.

Of that sum, £60 million is in lifetime gifts, of which £49 million has already been received and £11 million is firmly pledged.

More than £45 million has been promised as bequests, which are typically 50% greater when ultimately received by the College.

The Fellowship has expressed its gratitude for this remarkable achievement by appointing Anne to be the College’s first female Emeritus Fellow, a richly deserved accolade. A special farewell event is being held to thank Anne for her exceptional service to Caius and to wish her a long and happy retirement.

For Caians based in London, Anne’s departure from the Development Office was marked by a gathering in the State Room in the Speaker’s House at the House of Commons.

Perhaps even more significant than the huge increase in the College’s Endowment is the exponential growth in the number of Caians making regular donations to the College. In 2001, between 2% and 3% of Caians were donors: this annual participation rate has increased every year since then.

Now, at over 26%pa, it is higher than any other Cambridge college.

In the past three years, Caian benefactors have taken Caius to the top of the college league tables for both funds raised and percentage participation. Caius is the only college to have led both tables at once since records began in 2001.

The key to Anne’s remarkable success as a fundraiser lies in the way she has strengthened the involvement and the emotional ties between Caians and the College.

‘People give for a multitude of reasons,’ she says. ‘Some feel they are paying back for benefits they have received; others see it as a sound investment to help the next generation to have the best possible education. But they all say the same thing: that they are enjoying the process much more than they expected and that they and their partners really feel part of the Caius community.’

Anne’s mantra has always been to ‘keep the fun in fundraising!’ She believes that making a charitable gift should not be a burden, but a pleasure and a reason for celebration. She does not want anyone to

give more than they can comfortably afford and she has always insisted that every gift to Caius should be acknowledged promptly and recognised appropriately.

To this end, she introduced a number of events at which the College could express its gratitude to benefactors at various levels.

Her approach is quite distinctive: most fundraisers organize events in order to solicit gifts, whereas Anne’s events are generally held to thank those who have already given.

The May Week Party, first held in 2002, has become one of the highlights of the College calendar. For the first few years, ALL who had made gifts in the previous twelve months were invited, but by 2008 the

Founders, every November, to a Commemoration Feast and Lecture in association with the Service in the Chapel.

As the level of gifts rose, Anne suggested to College Council that donors of more than £500,000 (now £1 million) might be honoured by being installed in the Chapel as Gonville Fellow Benefactors. To date, 18 have been elected to this honour; four more, Dr Harold Carter (1971) and his wife, Ms Tess Silkstone, Dr Jon Denbigh (1961), and Professor John Saunders (1967) will join their ranks in November.

In the first five years of her tenure as Director of Development, Anne masterminded a plan to fund a massive new

numbers had risen to over 600 and a modest minimum gift level had to be applied.

The Court of Benefactors was established in 1998, as part of the College’s 650th Anniversary Appeal, by one of Anne’s predecessors, Julie Deane (1984) to recognise those making more substantial gifts.

Membership of the Court of Benefactors is now awarded to those whose lifetime gifts to Caius total at least £20,000. Founders are appointed in recognition of gifts amounting to more than £250,000. The College has long held an annual service for the Commemoration of Benefactors, in accordance with the wishes of our Second Founder, Bishop William Bateman. It was Anne’s initiative to invite all Members and

accommodation block on land in West Cambridge that had been left to the College in 1498 by Dame Anne Scroop, the last surviving member of the Gonville family. The building included 75 student rooms, all with en suite bathrooms, eight Fellows’ sets and a magnificent Conference Centre, named in honour of Professor Dick Cavonius by his widow, Rita Cavonius (2004).

The conventional way of funding such a major project would have been to apply to large trusts and foundations. By 2001, the demand from nearly every Cambridge and Oxford college was so great that such funds were in short supply. Anne took a radically different approach: putting her trust in the rank and file of the Caius community, she

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...Always a Caian 3 invited all 10,000 or so Caians and friends of the College to rally round and give whatever they could afford, if necessary spreading their gifts over several years. The result was unprecedented: over 2,000 Caians contributed and almost £11 million was raised. As a result of that outpouring of support, all the donors still feel they have a stake in the building, which was named by the Fellowship for the College’s most celebrated living Fellow, Professor Stephen Hawking (1965).

The tribute was appropriate, since Stephen spent many of his earlier years as a Research Fellow with a young family living in the house that previously stood on the site.

one-time supervisor, Neil McKendrick (1958).

(See photos on pages 26/7).

Of all her achievements on behalf of Caius, the one that probably gives Anne the greatest personal pleasure is the Benefactors’ Wall inside the Great Gate, where the names of the College’s greatest benefactors are inscribed, stretching back to our three Founders, Edmund Gonville, William Bateman and John Caius. Their names are literally carved in stone and their generosity will long be remembered – as will the ingenuity, charm and dedication of our first female Emeritus Fellow, who has done so much to ensure the College’s prosperity at the start of this uncertain century.

guests and presents all Members with an officially ‘signed’ (actually thumbprinted) copy of A Brief History of Time.

More recently, Anne has led the campaign to raise £4.5 million for a new Boathouse and graduate accommodation on Ferry Path, to be named Alice Cheng House. Both will be officially opened on the day of this year’s Commemoration Feast.

Anne’s leadership has been essential to the success of the Caius fundraising campaign but she is the first to point out that none of it would have happened without the generosity of Caians far and wide who responded to her appeals. ‘It was a team effort’ she says, ‘from the unwavering support Dan White

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End of an Era...

by Mick Le Moignan (2004)

Indeed, that was where he wrote his bestseller, A Brief History of Time. Stephen was delighted to accept the honour and observed that the S-shaped building, so designed to comply with preservation orders on three ancient trees, represented ‘S for Stephen!’

Stephen is an enthusiastic supporter of Anne’s approach to fundraising; when she asked him to lend his name to another initiative, he agreed at once. The Stephen Hawking Circle was set up to fill a gap in the scale of donor recognition, at £50,000.

Benefactors (and their partners) who reach that level of total lifetime gifts are invited to an intimate dinner party at which Stephen speaks about his work and his allegiance to Caius. He is photographed with each of the

of the three Masters I was fortunate enough to serve under, Neil, Christopher and Alan, the three Senior Bursars, Barry, Julia and David, the Fellows and staff of the College, particularly those in the Development Office, and our wonderful student callers on the Telephone Campaign, forging new links with older Caians and breathing new life into our community.’

She is delighted that her highest level of donor recognition, the Edmund Gonville Guild, now has its first member. For donors whose lifetime munificence to Caius exceeds £2.5 million, the College commissions a portrait to hang on the Library staircase. The first such portrait, of Douglas Myers (1958) now hangs beside that of his great friend and

Left: Dr Anne Lyon (2001) retires as Director of Development for Principal Gifts on 30 September 2016 to become the College’s first female Emeritus Fellow.

Above: The Great Gate showing the Benefactors’ Wall and the memorial on the floor to Francis Crick (1950).

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hen James Howell was interviewed for the position of Deputy Director of Development in 2009, he left the panel in little doubt that he was the man for the job. Given the two most recent issues of Once a Caian... to peruse, he opened Issue 8 at the Contents page, looked at a photograph and exclaimed “That’s my father!”

In fact, both issues contained photos of Bill Howell DFC (1945), prime mover of the fancy dress ‘Foot-the-Ball’ contest between 15 Gentlemen of Caius and 15 Sportsmen of Oxford, played on Parker’s Piece in 1947,

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before succeeding her as Fellow and Director of Development in 2015.

James is immensely grateful for the ‘fantastic start’ that Anne has given him but he does not plan to rest on her laurels. His first aim is consolidation of the current level of benefaction and the second is ‘continuous and uninterrupted growth’.

He sees gifts made to the College as investments, ‘not just in the future, but in the best – we want to have the best students, wherever they may be found, the best teachers and the best facilities. It’s not enough to get by, relying on the government’s funding formula for what a ‘standard’ university education should cost.

before a huge audience of townsfolk. Bill, who also illustrated the posters for the event, read Architecture at Caius and ran a successful practice in London, before being appointed to the Chair in Cambridge and admitted as a Fellow of the College in 1973.

Sadly, he was killed in a motor accident just fourteen months later, when James was still at school.

Loyalty and enthusiasm for the College are prime requirements for the Development team and James has Caius in his blood. The grandson of Charles Howell (1913), some of his earliest memories are of the legendary firework displays in the gardens at Finella.

He was Anne Lyon’s Deputy for six years

The College currently receives half of that £9,000 a year, but we need to spend much more, to achieve the educational standard we’re aiming at, so we have to find the funds – and we have a limited constituency to draw on.’

The University recently launched its ‘Dear World... Yours, Cambridge’ Appeal to raise £2 billion for the University and Colleges of Cambridge. Each college was asked to declare its fundraising target for the campaign.

Rather than identifying a few specific projects, Caius has set itself the ambitious goal of doubling its Endowment over 10-15 years, so that all the College’s regular activities will be covered by interest from the

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...Always a Caian 5 Endowment and it will no longer depend, as it does today, on income from annual benefactions for current expenditure.

It is a massive challenge, but James is not daunted by it: ‘Throughout our history, Caius has constantly set itself huge goals, sometimes to the cost of our Endowment.

150 years ago, the Fellowship decided to invest in vastly improved student accommodation, so they knocked down the Perse and Legge buildings and replaced them with the Waterhouse Building.

‘It happened again with St Michael’s Court, Harvey Court, the acquisition of the Cockerell Building and its refurbishment as the College Library and most recently the

a covenant with the College to ensure that this does not happen.

‘When Anne started at Caius, there were fewer than a hundred Development professionals in the University: now there are over 320 full-time staff! As I see it, Phase One was where the first approaches were made to alumni who had never been asked to contribute. Caians embraced this concept with great generosity.

‘As we start Phase Two, there are very few Caians who are unaware of the College’s fundraising needs. Personally, I’m genuinely thrilled to be a donor to this College – and fortunately, most donors feel exactly the same way. We accept our collective responsibility as

but I’m also interested in the number of Caians that I know are going to give this year, next year and the year after. The Bursar’s job is to balance the books this year and to ensure that our historical reserves are properly invested for the future. My role is to take a longer view, the cornerstone of which is the lifelong relationship Caians have with their College.

‘My pledge to all our benefactors, Caians, parents and friends of the College, is to keep you informed about what we do with your money, to keep you up to date about what’s happening here and to invite you to continue your involvement with the College as an active member of the Caius community.

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Left: James Howell (2009), Fellow and Director of Development.

Above: James’ father, Professor Bill Howell (1945), on the left of a group of ‘Eight Gentlemen of Caius’ and ‘Eight Scholars of Kings’ who had a rowing race in Edwardian costume in May Week 1946.

(See Once a Caian... Issue 8 for the full story.)

Right: Bill Howell, the University’s Professor of Architecture, was a fine draughtsman. As well as organising both the rowing races and the Foot-the-Ball contests of 1946 and 1947, he drew period-style cartoons for the posters advertising the events.

Stephen Hawking Building. We never quite know what the next challenge will be – but we know there will be one! The global financial crisis of 2008 was a severe shock to many educational institutions and Brexit is likely to pose at least a comparable threat.

‘For the first 600 years of its existence, the College was built on benefaction. Then, from 1945 to the 1990s, education was largely paid for by the government. Now the onus is on students to pay for it themselves through Student Loans, and the prospect of a life-long debt burden can only be a disincentive to a potential student of modest background. The alternative is for us, many of whom enjoyed a free education, to establish

a community to secure the future of our College, in which we all have a stake.’

James wants all Caians to accept that giving to the College is a lifetime commitment. The amount we give each year will vary according to our circumstances: mortgages, school fees and so on may reduce our annual benefactions, but we should try to give something every year. There will also be times when funds are more readily available and we can do more. He envisages the 10-year club in the lists of benefactors becoming 20- and 30-year clubs in due course.

‘I know I’ll always have the Bursar on my shoulder, asking how much cash I’ve got in,

‘There are many ways of doing this – through the website, our publications, in phone calls with students on the Telephone Campaign, attending concerts if the Choir goes on tour, meeting the Master and Fellows when they’re travelling overseas and, above all, by coming back to the College – we’re always delighted to meet Caians wandering around the Courts, reminiscing on return visits.

‘I’m enormously grateful to Anne for everything she has done for me personally – and to the Master and Fellows for entrusting me with this great responsibility.

It’s not just a job, but a lifetime relationship for me as well.’

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by Mick Le Moignan (2004) Jacqueline Bilton, Pageworks © University of Cambridge

here are two theories about prisons: one is that they should be as unpleasant as possible, to deter inmates from re-offending; the other is that they should teach prisoners the error of their ways, so they can be rehabilitated as useful citizens.

These approaches have both failed to achieve the desired results, possibly because they both rely on an underlying, paternalistic, ‘them and us’ mentality. Now, a young Tapp Fellow at Caius who is a College Lecturer in Law and a colleague from St John’s have launched Learning Together, an exciting and innovative programme that takes a very different approach: it mixes those who are being punished by the criminal justice system with those who are learning to administer it. Both groups emerge from the experience with a fresh appreciation of their common humanity.

Dr Amy Ludlow (2012) and Dr Ruth Armstrong developed a course plan inspired by the Cambridge system of teaching and learning, which combines lectures with small, guided discussion groups. The Governor of HM Prison Grendon, Dr Jamie Bennett, who read Law at Robinson College, encouraged them to run the first course there, attended by ten prisoners and ten current Cambridge students of criminology.

All the participants had the same workload, spread over ten weekly workshop sessions of two hours, covering distinct but interrelated criminological topics. A study sheet of preparatory reading was provided for each week. The sessions began with a 20-minute, interactive lecture, then students would divide to form four groups of five, each with a volunteer facilitator, usually a Ph.D student or post-doctoral researcher, and a trained Learning Together mentor.

They were required to participate respectfully and in accordance with the Learning Together aspirations: ‘taking turns to talk, listening to others when they speak, questioning others’ views in an enquiring manner and coming to each class ready to learn from the opinions and experiences of everyone in the room.’

Facilitators kept a note of study group participation and each student received a short report at the end of the course, detailing contribution, development, achievements and potential. They also wrote a 1,500-word essay, drawing on their own experience and only the course materials provided in lectures and supervision handouts. The essay title for the first course was: ‘How could one aspect of the criminal justice system be made more legitimate?

Discuss in light of your knowledge and experiences gained from Learning Together.’

Dr Ruth Armstrong (left) and Dr Amy Ludlow (2012) with the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, who presented them with the University’s PER Award for Public Engagement with Research in 2016.

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...Always a Caian 7 Essays were graded as Distinction, Merit, Pass, Marginal and Not Yet. Successful candidates received certificates at a graduation ceremony at HMP Grendon, attended by friends, family and other support (such as offender supervisors). The work of one student from the prison was of such a high standard that Amy and Ruth are now employing him as a research assistant, even though he is still serving his sentence.

The feedback from both prison and university participants was hugely positive: many felt the course had transformed their views, not only of the criminal justice system, but of their fellow human beings.

This is clearly an idea with the potential to spread across the world and make a real difference to many people’s lives, on both sides of the criminal justice divide.

Already, a second course has been held at HMP Grendon and another at HMP Pentonville with the University of Westminster. Next year, Cambridge will run three Learning Together courses, on criminology, English and philosophy/ theology. Unavoidably, as the project takes

off, the bureaucracy also grows: so Amy and Ruth have set up the Learning Together Network to guide negotiations between many more UK universities and prisons, in cooperation with the Prisoners’ Education Trust.

They are travelling to Australia and Mexico in late summer 2016 to open discussions with universities and penal authorities in those countries. In Cambridge, the Vice-Chancellor recently presented them with the Public Engagement with Research (PER) award.

After school in Lincolnshire, Amy read Law at Trinity. She says she expected to become a barrister, but surprised herself by getting a First. She went to Brussels for a Master’s degree in EU Law and came back to Trinity to do a Ph.D on prison privatisation.

This led to her spending eighteen months in Birmingham Prison – she hopes and believes she may be the only Caius Fellow to have done that!

‘I love teaching at Caius,’ she says. ‘It’s an enormous privilege. The kids are brilliant! And what I love about Learning Together is that I

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The PER Award that Amy and Ruth won for their innovative education programme Learning Together, in which university students and prisoners take a ten-week course of study together.

Jacqueline Bilton, Pageworks © University of Cambridge

Excerpt from an unsolicited response from Adam, a prisoner at HMP Grendon who took part in the second Learning Together course in 2016: ‘We share ideas, forge friendships, challenge each other, all on an equal basis.

Yes, we are learning about Criminology – but we are also learning to think, to question, to listen, to challenge perceptions and believe in ourselves. My own experience has been amazing. I had my fears about the course – will I be judged? Am I up to it socially? Can I really learn with Cambridge students without looking stupid? But the learning environment has been inclusive and enabling, with Mentors from Grendon and Cambridge guiding us. My confidence has soared and I come out of each session buzzing with new knowledge, new friendships and knowing that I’ve contributed way more than I thought I could. The acceptance and trust extended to us by the Cambridge group is a precious and crucial element: it feels like society, just a small bit of it, reaching through the gates to include us, saying “the world hasn’t written you off just yet”. I’m starting to believe it.’

get to take these students – who are going to do amazing things in the world – into prison! One of the most profound and important realisations they have is learning that evil and harm sit alongside and within goodness and love and potential.

‘Our responses to criminal justice are predicated on this idea that we can clearly delineate the bad people from the good. We take students into prison and they look at the people there and think “That could have been me!” And they realise we have much more in common than divides us.

‘What it sparks in them is that it’s impossible to remain neutral in the face of that: when you encounter policies that keep us separate, you can’t stomach them any more. It’s a call to arms! So now, with my students, when we talk about offenders and prisoners, they’ve walked in their shoes.

“Actually, these people have got faces now, they’re my friends: they’re Gareth and they’re Dean and they’re Zaheer.” That’s what you’re talking about. And I think that’s the sort of knowledge that goes on to shape the world.’

Dr Amy Ludlow (2012)

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Lars Tharp (1973), a popular ceramics specialist on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow for the past thirty years, is a third generation Caian. This summer, he and his father, Harry Tharp (1955) came back to Cambridge together for the first time since Lars received his MA. For both of them, the visit was rich in memories.

Harry and Lars Tharp look at their entries in various volumes of the College’s Biographical History.

The Importance of Authenticity

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arry Tharp remembered being driven down Trinity Street, on the way from the family home in Leicester to the east coast for summer holidays. They passed a large building that he thought ‘looked rather like a large railway station’. His mother said ‘that’s where your Daddy went’ and he gathered she’d like him to do the same.

H W Tharp (1919) won an Exhibition but then served for two years in the Royal Artillery in France till the end of the war, when he could resume his life and come up to Caius. A mathematician, remembered by his son as ‘a wizard with a slide rule’, he had skills that were invaluable in calculating trajectories and targets for shells, but found conventional Maths rather dull after his wartime experiences. He enjoyed music and singing at Caius and worked for a year in London after graduating but then his own

father’s illness called him back to Leicester to take over the family business. He ran the Leicester Bach Choir for many years and met his wife through their joint interest in Gilbert & Sullivan. He also played oboe and cor anglais in the LSO (Leicester Symphony Orchestra), in which his grandson, Lars, later followed suit.

Harry Tharp junior was four when he started school in September 1939, just old enough to remember hearing Chamberlain’s chilling declaration of war on the wireless.

He had a gift for languages, doing ‘A’ levels in French, German and Latin before National Service in the Royal Navy, where he earned another ‘A’ level in Russian and qualified as a translator.

He remembers his final supervision at Caius with the Senior Tutor and DoS in German, E K ‘Francis’ Bennett (1914), who asked what plans Harry had for the future.

He admitted he’d had a couple of interviews

that didn’t seem to be leading anywhere.

‘Don’t your people have a family business?’ asked Bennett. ‘Yes, but it’s only a laundry’, replied Harry, who had been teased about ‘Chinese laundries’ at school.

‘Bennett jumped out of his chair, wagged his finger at me and said “Don’t you realise what a good business a laundry is?” He changed my mind completely and I went home. Father was very pleased that I’d joined him and I have no regrets about it.’

Harry did make one important journey before settling down to work: he visited the 1958 World Exhibition in Brussels, then hitchhiked north through Germany to Copenhagen. At a shooting gallery in Tivoli Gardens, he spotted a strikingly beautiful Danish girl and struck up a conversation with her. They got engaged in 1959, married the next year and are still happily together, 56 years later.

Anne-Marie turned out to be a divorcee

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...Always a Caian 9 with a young son, Lars. Harry adopted him as his own son, with the willing consent of the biological father, who had other children, and Lars came to England on his sixth birthday in March 1960. Harry built up the family business and sold it when he was 55, leaving himself comfortably off, with enough time and energy to serve for fifteen years on the Leicester magistrates’ bench.

He helped to manage the local probation service, continued a lifelong interest in the Rotary Club and comes back to Cambridge once a year for Caius Club dinners or Annual Gatherings.

Lars is eternally grateful for the way he was ‘welcomed with open arms by the Tharp family’. He feels that nurture probably played a larger part than nature in his upbringing – although, perhaps coincidentally, his maternal grandfather was a Bronze Age specialist and Keeper of Prehistoric Antiquities at Denmark’s National Museum. Music was and is enormously important to Lars, thanks in part to starting to play his British grandmother’s excellent cello at the age of eight.

He came up to Cambridge to read Archaeology and Anthropology and signed up for the Cambridge University Musical Society (CUMS) at the Freshers’ Fair. When his performance of the Brahms Cello Sonata at the audition won him the top fresher’s cello spot in the CUMS orchestra, he found his pigeon-hole stuffed with invitations to play. He did 18 concerts (plus rehearsals) in his first term and precious little Arch. & Anth. His supervisor noticed ‘the dark shadow on my shoulder’ and realised the cello was winning the battle with prehistory.

The biggest thrill of his Cambridge musical career was playing the Bach B Minor Mass with CUMS at the Aldeburgh Festival with Peter Pears as the soloist. ‘Bach’s final Dona nobis pacem is one of the most lifeaffirming prayers in all music: it’s almost desperate in its yearning for peace. It rises and rises and rises ever upwards until it disappears into eternity!’

Like his father, Lars has a specially vivid memory of one exchange at Caius: for him, it was the matriculation speech given by the Master, Joseph Needham (1918): ‘An important part of your Cambridge education will be the conversations you have in Hall with students from other disciplines.’ said the towering figure in his surprisingly reedy voice, which Lars can still imitate today.

‘I took Needham at his word,’ he said, ‘and he attracted a huge cohort of students of Chinese to the College.’ Lars credits this influence with paving the way for his profound interest in ‘the national culture of China and the plain, powerful forms of Song dynasty ceramics.’

Lars Tharp at his BA degree ceremony.

In his second year, Lars cut back on his musical commitments to run the Archaeological Field Society, but ultimately found ‘I’d lost some of my original enchantment with Archaeology and I don’t regret it, now... As a palaeolithic archaeologist, you do realise that we humans are mayflies in time! Life’s too short to have a narrow beam. What I learned from archaeology was that I had a good visual memory and a facility for identifying bones, etc. And it was clear that I wasn’t going to get one of the three annually advertised jobs in archaeology!’

Chance and his then-girlfriend’s (now wife’s) father led him to Sotheby’s, the auction house, where Julian Thompson, Head of the Chinese Department, gave him a golden opportunity to develop a high level of knowledge and expertise: ‘I got to handle more material than I could ever have handled in a museum – both treasures and rubbish!’ The treasures, even when recollected in tranquility, can Harry Tharp at his MA degree ceremony.

always inspire Lars to rapturous eloquence: ‘A thousand years vanish when you look at a Song pot: it’s as fresh as when it came out of the kiln.’

After a successful decade at Sotheby’s, he joined the Antiques Roadshow, where he could combine his technical skills with his genuine love of humanity: ‘One encounter in a sports hall in Torquay was a sort of epiphany. There was a long queue and the director told us to go down looking for an instant ‘recordable’, as usual. I saw a lady carrying what looked like a couple of very modest British crockery bowls. I wondered why on earth she’d brought them in! Then I noticed that one of the bowls was actually fused inside the other. I thought they might have been kiln wasters, – those complete disasters potters often find when they open the doors of the kiln.’

Lars asked her the traditional Antiques Roadshow questions: ‘What have you got there?’ and ‘How did you come by them?’

She told him her husband had served in the Royal Navy and landed at Hiroshima – where he went ashore and just picked them out of the rubble where they had been fused together in the nuclear conflagration. ‘Well, those objects almost transformed before my eyes! I thought: “There’s a lesson for you, Lars: never just assume, let people tell you their story.” Because authenticity really is important: how an object looks never matters as much as what it is – and where it comes from.’

This is a theme that is very important to him: ‘What’s the nature of perception? How do we see things? There’s a two-way process between the observer and the object. If you look at a bone, it’s just a bone.

If you look at a bone and are told it’s Thomas Beckett’s fingerbone, that’s completely different. Something happens in your brain, something that drives all areas of collecting. Conversely, if you buy what you think is a Picasso and you find out it’s a fake, some of the gilding wears off.’

In Lady Windermere’s Fan, Oscar Wilde’s character, Lord Darlington, defines a cynic as ‘someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing’. This may be a clue to the enduring appeal of the Antiques Roadshow: the people who bring their treasures to the show are not cynics: they know the value they themselves set on their objects; they think they want to know the price. Perhaps the question they are actually asking is whether their object is real. Either way, Lars Tharp can be trusted to break the news to them gently and considerately: ‘Knowing whether something is authentic is strangely important to us. The origins of this uniquely human need must surely lie deep in the Palaeolithic.’

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Last year, Dr Sarah Howe (2010) completed her Research Fellowship at Caius and published her first full collection of poetry, Loop of Jade, which won the TS Eliot Prize and the Sunday Times/Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award. Inspired by the interaction of science and humanities at Caius, Sarah wrote a sonnet, Relativity, which she dedicated to Professor Stephen Hawking (1965). Stephen recorded the poem for National Poetry Day in October 2015 and it was broadcast on the Today programme on Radio 4.

Sarah wrote about the experience in The Paris Review. The following is a slightly abridged version of that essay.

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t’s not a new idea for poets and scientists to talk to one another.

During a visit to Florence in 1638, the young John Milton sought out Galileo Galilei. By then a blind old man, Galileo was living under house arrest, confined by the Inquisition for asserting that the Earth revolved around the sun. Years later, old and blind himself, Milton would pay homage – in his epic poem about the origins of our universe, Paradise Lost – to the great astronomer, who makes a cameo appearance with his telescope pointed at the sun’s dark spots.

At Caius, in stray hours between thinking about Milton or Donne, I finished my first book of poems. Fifty years ago, Stephen Hawking arrived fresh from his Ph.D. (as I did) to take up a Research Fellowship, then never left. I found traces of lunchtime conversations with scientist friends creeping into my notebooks, even into poems. When I was asked to write a poem on light for National Poetry Day, I first thought paradoxically of its absence: the black holes whose mysteries Stephen has spent his career working to unfold.

When I dedicated the poem to Stephen, he asked to meet. Pulling my chair closer to

his, I read him the first draft of Relativity, accompanied by the soft, periodic beeps of his speech computer. I told him how I’d tried to re-create some of the excitement and awe at the cosmos I had felt on reading A Brief History of Time in my early teens; how I first pulled a worn copy off the shelf in my local public library. Later, I got hold of his book on audiocassette and let it wash over me, half understanding, in the dark of my childhood bedroom, with the Walkman gears whirring under the covers. I had painted the ceiling black one summer, then spent days up a ladder stippling it with stars.

Watching up close the painstaking process of cheek twitches and scrolling word

menus by which Stephen communicates – it took him a quarter of an hour to type a single sentence, which then boomed from the speaker into the quiet room – filled me with a sense of the preciousness of language.

Even as he offered to read my poem for National Poetry Day, he was self-deprecating about the synthesized voice he says he now thinks in: it is not very musical.

To the contrary, I tried to reassure him, it has a rhythm and harmonics all of its own.

I’d tried to hear it in my mind as I wrote and rewrote my lines. It was originally designed for a telephone directory, he added, with what I imagined was a chuckle. We’d shared a joke earlier about the strings of random words that flash up on his screen whenever the cheek sensor picks up stray movements, when he’s eating, say, or the sensor is set too high: he should publish a volume of experimental poems.

Science relies on metaphor – traditionally the poet’s tool – to describe and communicate itself. My scientific colleagues would come up with analogies for their students, to explain complex ideas or phenomena we can’t see. They were conscious of how these metaphors can mislead, making the known and the unknown

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seem more alike than they really are.

I wanted to explore that tension in Relativity, whose title points to Einstein’s celebrated theory of 1915, a hundred years old this year. For me, Relativity also suggests the relationship between two things in a comparison – the ligature of the word like, which chimes through my poem – whose interplay enables us to think.

That the imaginative terrain of poets and physicists might overlap is nowhere clearer than in the thought experiments Einstein devised. They make use of vivid props drawn from everyday life – trains, clocks, elevators – to lead us through the previously unthinkable. In one, he imagined chasing a beam of light, a flight of imagination that led eventually to special relativity. Another involves a moving train and two observers (one onboard, the other on the platform) who see the same flash of light. Einstein’s paradox is only solvable by realising that time moves more slowly for the person on the speeding train.

My poem’s two-line stanzas are the train tracks of Einstein’s imagined scene: parallel lines that will impossibly meet in the blackhole singularity his theories predict, where time stops and space ceases to make sense.

Black holes are a powerful symbol of what we don’t understand about the universe – terrifying and thrilling.

Relativity is a sonnet, a form I started to think of as a sort of black hole exerting its own gravitational pull, compressing an everywhere into its little room. Yet my sonnet starts with light not as it exists in the large-scale world of gravity but at the subatomic level of quantum physics. It is the grail of contemporary physicists to make these two irreconcilable theories speak to one another.

The first part of Relativity recounts the experiment that shows light leads a double life. A light beam is shone through parallel

slits: the photons behave like particles when observed passing through the aperture, but by the time they hit the screen opposite they’re acting as waves, creating a striped pattern of dark and bright bands – just like the stanzas of my poem. The wave-particle duality is the notion that quantum objects behave like waves until you try to locate them, when that behaviour disappears.

Physicists now believe that and Heisenberg’s famous uncertainty principle are both manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon.

Many poets more recent than Milton have turned to science for inspiration: Lavinia Greenlaw, Gwyneth Lewis, Jorie Graham, Jeremy Prynne (1962), to name a few. While writing Relativity, I found myself haunted by a line – ‘Our eyes adjust to the dark’ – in Tracy K Smith’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, Life on Mars. In My God, It’s Full of Stars, she imagines the Hubble Telescope’s ‘oracle-eye’ illuminating ‘the edge of all there is.’ Might not our eyes adjust to the dark?

Her phrase echoes at the end of my poem, where it resurfaced as a question, a hypothetical – deferred, yet hopeful. After all, both Galileo and Milton in their blindness came to rely on other sorts of eyes.

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nyone lucky enough to have attended any of the delightful May Week Parties at Caius over the past eight years will be familiar with the finely honed, avuncular and somewhat headmasterly addresses given by David Elstein (1961) as Chairman of the College’s Development Campaign Board (DCB).

David usually begins with some popular sporting allusion, such as comparing the England football team’s parlous performance with that of the Caius First VIII. He goes on to congratulate the College on its successes over the past year, celebrating in particular the fundraising achievements of the Development Office, and then segués smoothly into the sense of obligation that every Caian must feel, he surmises, for the privilege of having attended the College.

David believes strongly that all who have benefited from their time at Caius have ‘a debt of honour’ to repay by supporting the next generation of students, at whatever level they can afford.

He is both generous with his praise and uncompromising in his expectations: ‘could do better’ follows closely on the heels of a pat on the back. It is a technique he has polished over many years in the bearpit of the British film and television industry: he is well known for having adopted the same stern approach to the BBC and its licence fee as he applies to Caius and its benefactors.

David was the perfect choice to succeed the affable and extremely distinguished Lord Christopher Tugendhat (1957), the inaugural Chair of the DCB, who controlled meetings with a steely forefinger in a velvet glove.

David was at Caius with Christopher’s brother, Michael Tugendhat (1963) and pays tribute to his predecessor as ‘a Chairman that everyone could respect and respond to, the ideal person to attract people of similar status to the DCB.’ A consummate politician and one of the UK’s first European Commissioners, Christopher could spot a financial opportunity for Caius at 500 paces and he could close off any discussion he considered unfruitful by slightly raising an eyebrow. David has similar gifts of alertness and impatience: neither man suffers fools gladly – or at all, so it is fortunate there are none such on the Campaign Board.

The predecessor to the DCB, the Alumni Appeal Group, started when Neil McKendrick (1958), David’s Director of Studies, became Master in 1996. The Senior Bursar, Robin Porteous (1987) drew in a group of alumni to form an advisory committee. David was one of the original members: ‘I’d been a pupil of Neil’s and was very pleased when he became Master and more than happy to see what I could do. Until Anne Lyon was appointed as Development

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...Always a Caian 13 Director, it was a fairly unorganised process without clear objectives and without the ability to deliver very much. The group was divided into what I regarded as Young Turks and traditionalists, with the Young Turks keen to dive straight into the College’s finances and how it spent its money, in a sort of Finance Director manqué role, and the traditionalists asking “How can we help and in what way?”

‘That resolved itself: as Barry Hedley (1964) became Senior Bursar and as Anne got her teeth into the fundraising, it quickly became clear what our objectives were and how to deliver them. In other words, the DCB does not interfere in the running of the College. Like all Caians, we have access to the College accounts and we can read and discuss and, particularly under David Secher as Senior Bursar, it’s become more and more transparent in terms of where the money goes.

‘The more you know about the College’s revenue sources and expenditure, the more you understand how dramatically far short the revenues from student fees and the university fall. At first you question the expenditures and you realise that they are effectively irreducible, if you’re going to have a meaningful university experience and a meaningful college offer.

‘Basically, you’ve got to have a narrative that is self-sustaining: if the College was spending a million pounds a year on high quality wine, you’d have a hard job raising any donations! You’ve got to be able to demonstrate to donors that the College is efficiently run, that its accounts are available and transparent, its expenditures are necessary and properly balanced, and that the shortfall is not something you can just shrug away, but something you have to deal with. Only then can you, with a clear conscience, go to anyone and say: “This is the situation: this is what it costs to run the College; this is what we have available in university fees and student fees; and this is the gap. We have to fill the gap.”

‘Obviously, there are two ways to fill the gap: one is with income from the Endowment as it currently stands and the other is with gifts from donors, who may be alumni, parents or well-wishers. Prudent management of an Endowment means you can’t take whatever you like from it as income: you invest the Endowment to best effect (and fortunately there are a number of Caians who are proficient in the investment arts on the Investment Committee) but the income fluctuates from year to year and we have followed a formula developed by Yale University to ensure that we do not raid the

Endowment at the expense of future generations.

‘So our first objective each year has been to plug the cash gap – that will be £2-3 million – and everything that we raise above that, we inject into the Endowment, so as to grow it. The sobering truth is that the current level of the Endowment, about £160 million, is probably half of what it ideally needs to be.

At £350 million, we would have enough income to fund all of our objectives, in terms of studentships, scholarships, fellowships, research, support for a wide range of activities which are central to college life and an annual amount for maintenance and replacement of the fabric. Now, that £350 million is a longrange target, 10-15 years, but it is the target.

‘Our aspiration is to be fully selfsustaining. We don’t expect to have to be fully self-sustaining, but an aspiration to have that capacity is a proper and honourable one.

It’s not a declaration of UDI, but we want to know that, come what may, we can deliver the quality of education in its broadest sense, not only in terms of academic discipline but also the life of the college, at its optimum, to the full quota of undergraduates and postgraduates that we can accommodate, irrespective of the vicissitudes of government support. That is the DCB’s long-range objective.’

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...David is a hard man to interrupt when he is in full flow on a subject about which he cares so passionately. His colleagues on the DCB, past and present, are all either Fellows, Caians or parents of Caians who have a strong association with the College, who have themselves made generous contributions and are willing and able to identify others who might also become significant donors. They include judges, hedge fund managers, media stars and prominent business executives. Typically, they are prominent in public life with good contacts in the financial community.

The 30 members of the DCB meet formally twice a year but they keep in touch on a regular basis, latterly with Anne Lyon (2001) and now with James Howell (2009), her successor as Development Director, feeding information, contacts and suggestions into the fundraising mix.

Generally, DCB members do not request gifts themselves, but they are happy to alert the Development Office to any potential donors they come across.

David’s own story began in the final year of the Second World War, in the unfortunate town immortalized by John Betjeman with the line ‘Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough!’ In the first example of David’s impeccable timing, within a month the family moved to West Hampstead, a quarter of a mile from the well known direct grant school, Haberdashers’ Aske’s, which David and his two elder brothers attended on scholarships.

By the time he reached the Sixth Form, he had been marked out as the top English student in his year – but then came the serendipitous arrival at the school of two outstanding History teachers, Ian Lister, who had studied at Christ’s College with Neil McKendrick and later became a Professor and Head of the Department of Education at York University, and Robert Irvine Smith. David enjoyed the sense of fresh excitement they brought to their history classes and recalls Lister getting them to read The First Four Georges, by the legendary History don and later Master of Christ’s, J H Plumb, who was Neil McKendrick’s mentor: ‘The immediacy and raciness of Plumb’s approach to History, which I later enjoyed at first hand, enthused me enough to be part of a process which Lister and Irvine Smith introduced, which was to submit their best chaps for the Scholarship process at Cambridge in their fourth term in the Sixth.

So you did a whole year of studying your three subjects – in my case, French, English, History, and then in your fourth term, you spent all your time on History.’

David wasn’t able to spend quite all of his time on History because of a small

David Elstein enjoying a joke at the 2015 May Week Party

problem involving Classics: in those days, a gentleman’s education was considered incomplete without Latin or Greek and he had studied neither at Haberdashers’. Oxford still demanded Latin ‘O’ level, luckily Cambridge had dropped the requirement in that very year – but Caius still included a classics paper in the exam. So in that fourth term, he ‘learned enough Greek to stagger through the paper without collapsing in a heap!’ By the time of the exam, he knew ‘most of the nouns, none of the adjectives and only a handful of verbs.’ One of his answers read: ‘the something, something Lacedaemonians did something to the something, something Hellenes.’ It must have been clear nevertheless that this candidate was no ordinary 16-year-old schoolboy and a young Iain Macpherson (1958), who interviewed him, was just the man to spot such potential: ‘He was great!’ David remembers, ‘He had a twinkle in his eyes the whole time. I can’t remember what foolish things I said, probably many, and he never winced once, just smiled benignly.’

It was his first visit to Cambridge and the start of a golden age for Caius historians. He had breakfast in Hall with Quentin Skinner (1959) later the Regius Professor of History, Norman Stone (1959) and John Barnes

(1958), all destined to become legends in the study and teaching of History. David recalls it as ‘a kind of out-of-body experience; what is this place?’

He hadn’t chosen Caius; Ian Lister, the history teacher, had chosen it for him ‘because of Neil. And of course, Neil built a relationship with Lister and his successors, and for the next thirty years, the top history student at Haberdashers’ would turn up at Caius and get his Scholarship, you know, people like Mark Damazer (1974), loads of them would pass through that portal – I was merely the first or the second to do so.’

It may surprise current Caius students to learn that, having been awarded his Scholarship, David simply left school, without ever taking his ‘A’ levels. The imprimatur of the Scholarship was sufficient for matriculation and he spent the next few months working in Soho 3 tax office, where he met ‘members of the garment trade and the oldest trade’. He came up to Caius still two months short of his seventeenth birthday feeling ‘a bit out of my depth – but I squeaked a First in Prelims’, after which Neil McKendrick gave him ‘a good going-over’.

This persuaded him to work ‘quite hard’ in his second year and he got ‘a good First’.

In his final year, he allowed himself to be distracted by organising a revolt against the

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...Always a Caian 15 ‘Gonville Gargoyles’, a group of public school hearties who ran the JCR. ‘It was a very bitter fight: bread rolls were thrown in Hall! But I organized a petition and a vote and they were voted out. Very satisfying. My Finals were not great, but that year the History Department decided to award 21 Firsts and mine was the 21st!’

In that final year, he had applied for a number of post-University positions and the one that interested him most was a Research Scholarship at St Anthony’s College, Oxford, to do a D.Phil on the replacement of British power by American power in Palestine between 1944 and 1947. He was offered the Fellowship but could not take it up because his intended supervisor was elected ViceChancellor of East Anglia University and there was no one else at Oxford with the necessary knowledge.

‘I then looked around at my other offers, because I’d gone to a lot of interviews – there was a shortage of graduates in those days.’ He had been offered a traineeship at the Ford Motor Company, who only offered two such positions a year, another at Unilever, who offered four a year, and the sole graduate traineeship at The Guardian.

‘And as I was mulling over which of these I wanted to do, one of my friends at Caius was looking at a letter on my mantelpiece and said “Why don’t you go to the BBC?” So I said “Well, they turned me down!” and he said “Have you actually read the letter?” I said I’d read the first paragraph: it says “Dear Mr Elstein, as you know, you were always below the minimum age requirement for a General Traineeship at the BBC, so we are unable to offer you one.” And he said “Well, read the second paragraph!” It said “However, we would like to offer you a post as if you were a General Trainee, although the minimum age is 21.” I just hadn’t twigged that – so I joined the BBC, which seemed the nearest thing to staying on at university.’

The BBC still wanted him to take a year out, so they sent him to Birmingham University, to a new centre run by Richard Hoggart and Stuart Hall, where he wrote a thesis on the concept of public service broadcasting. ‘It was a fruitful year, because I’m still as engaged in the debates about public broadcasting, fifty years on, as I was then.’

He worked in various areas of BBC Radio and Television, such as the weekly current affairs show, Panorama, and started to make programmes. He devised a new programme called People in Conflict and directed and produced the pilot, but ‘when it was commissioned, the BBC in its wisdom decided to advertise for a producer of the series – and wouldn’t interview me because I was too young! I even had to take my name off the credits of the pilot.’ He decided to

leave and joined Thames Television as a director on This Week, which he later edited for four years. He also made modern history documentaries on a wide range of subjects for Thames, including one on the end of British rule in Palestine, so his intended thesis was finally broadcast, as part of a series called The Day Before Yesterday – ‘so my degree was not entirely wasted!’

David’s list of TV credits is considerably longer than the space available here. One that he remembers with particular pride, as the culmination of a long, personal campaign, is Concealed Enemies, a four-part docudrama about Alger Hiss, a prominent liberal who was accused and convicted of being a Soviet spy during the McCarthy witch-hunts. A co-production between Channel Four and PBS, it won the 1984 Emmy for Outstanding Miniseries.

In 1987, David returned to Thames as Director of Programmes, in which capacity he was ‘de facto scheduler of ITV weekdays for six years’. Four years as Head of Programming at B-Sky-B followed, then another four years as the initial CEO of Channel Five, which was valued at £1 billion by the time he left in 2001. Over the next decade, he took up Visiting Professorships at Oxford and other universities and chaired a range of media companies including Virgin Media.

He also led the Broadcasting Policy Group in 2004-6, which produced recommendations for a re-structuring of the BBC, suggesting that ‘it should be run by a unitary board of execs and non-execs, should be subject to external regulation by Ofcom, its production department should be spun off as an independent entity and that it should have a contestable public service fund as a long-term replacement for the licence fee.’ He notes with satisfaction that some of those plans are at last beginning to be put into effect! He applied for vacancies for Director-General and Chairman of the BBC, but he was not appointed and not particularly surprised: ‘As a long-standing critic of the licence fee, I’m not the most popular person at the BBC!’ Since 2010, he has closed off all his commercial, non-executive directorships to

work entirely on creative projects in film and television, including Ida, a Polish film which won both Oscar and BAFTA in 2015 as Best Foreign Language Film, and Countdown to War, a two-hour audio-drama that he wrote and produced, telling the fascinating story of the 37 days of intense diplomatic intrigue from the assassination in Sarajevo to the start of the First World War. The work ethic that got him into Cambridge at the age of 16 has clearly not dulled in the interim.

David is a little surprised to find himself so passionately engaged with Caius, more than half a century after going down. When he left, he says: ‘I had less than shining memories: it was at times misogynistic, snobbish and elitist. I had no engagement for 25 years after I left. But once the DCB was established, I reflected that I had benefited hugely from my time here – and at the time, I had no idea that I was being subsidised by past benefactors. It registered with me that we all had a debt of honour. Hopefully, most of us can fulfil it – and some of us are in a position to fulfil it substantially.

‘I can understand people who don’t look back on their years at Caius with great affection, but I do think even they must know they were privileged to have access to such an education, whether they took advantage of it or not. I certainly feel that, for all my reservations, I have a duty to the College and I try to fulfil it. Caius today is a far more egalitarian, more open and more humane place than it was in the 1960s.’

David has kindly offered to send a CD of his audio-drama, Countdown to War, to any Caian who would like a copy.

Please email your current postal address to development@cai.cam.ac.uk

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im Knox (2012) has the best of two quite different worlds, as a Fellow of Caius and the Director and Marlay Curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum.

A graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art, he spent ten years with the National Trust, first as Architectural Historian and then as its Head Curator, before a further eight years as Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum in London. (Attentive Caius historians will remember that it was Soane who drew up the original designs for what is now the College’s Colyton Hall.)

Tim was not a Cambridge graduate, but Professor Sir Alan Fersht (1962) was the first of several Masters to invite him to dine when he was first appointed. Tim knew that the Museum’s Founder and several of his predecessors as Director had been attached to other colleges and he felt it would be good to build new bridges: ‘Caius was not only the first to invite me but the friendliest and most welcoming – and it seemed so completely, unrelentingly Cambridge and collegiate!’

He was elected to a Professorial Fellowship, so he has no teaching duties and does not need a room in College, as he is more than comfortably accommodated in Grove Lodge, the Director’s residence to the South of the Museum – but he plays his part at Caius by attending as many events as he can and by serving on the Works &

Accommodation Committee and the Portraits & Memorials Committee.

He is keenly aware of the Caius tradition of excellence in science and medicine and its impressive list of Nobel Prizes, but he likes the idea of ‘alloying this tendency with the arts and humanities. It’s one of the strengths of the Oxford and Cambridge system that you can sit down at lunch or dinner with a mathematician or an astronomer, or a medic – and that’s part of the value of these associations.’

Two Caius Fellows made hugely significant contributions to the Fitzwilliam in recent times: Professor Philip Grierson (1929) was Honorary Keeper of Coins and Medals at the Museum and, when he died in 2006, left it his collection of 20,000 medieval coins, as well as his archive and library. Philip’s friend and pupil, Dr Mark Blackburn (1981) continued this tradition as Keeper of Coins and Medals, holding that position for 20 years until his untimely death in 2011.

Between them, as Tim says, ‘Philip and Mark put Cambridge on the map, in terms of numismatics.’

The Fitzwilliam Museum, which celebrates its bicentenary this year, is one of eight museums owned and run by Cambridge University and (after King’s College Chapel) the second most popular tourist attraction in East Anglia, with nearly half a million visitors a year. In 1816, Richard, seventh Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion, left his extraordinary

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Above: Some of the collection of 20,000 medieval coins left to the Fitzwillliam Museum by Philip Grierson in 2006 Left: Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden from Livre des proprietes des choses by Jean Corbechon, Master of the Mazarine Hours, Paris, 1414.

collections of Old Master paintings and prints, medieval illuminated manuscripts, rare books and autograph music by great composers to the University of Cambridge ‘to further learning’, together with £100,000 to pay for a building to house them. Fitzwilliam had a long-standing love affair (and three children) with a beautiful French dancer and spent much of his life in Paris. He bought many of the priceless paintings when the collection of the duc d’Orleans was dispersed in 1798.

The magnificent building was not started until 1837, the year of Queen Victoria’s accession, and opened to the public over ten years later, but since then it has attracted bequests of some very significant collections, including Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Chinese and Korean artefacts, Impressionist and postImpressionist paintings and some remarkable 20th century works. Tim says ‘the Founder’s collection is still the core of the Museum, but the later acquisitions are a real tribute to the tradition of philanthropy in Cambridge. As a University museum – we are an exact counterpart to the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford – we have a very special responsibility for teaching and research.’

Tim extends a warm welcome to any Caian visitors to Cambridge who may like to spend some time at the Museum in its bicentenary year. His advice is not to focus on any particular field, but simply to ‘plunge in and be prepared to be surprised!’

Above: Sir William Nicholson’s painting: The Gate of Honour under Snow (1924) is reproduced by kind permission of his grandson, Mr Desmond Banks.

Left: Gold stater of Alexander the Great (obverse) with head of Athena wearing a crested Corinthian helmet.

Photography of artworks and coins ©The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Cambridge’s

House of Treasures An exhibition on COLOUR – the Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts is at the Fitzwilliam Museum until 30 December 2016.

Entry is free.

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Open All photos: Lucy Ward

The College is always open to Caians, but on it is open to all and there are Fellows, studen questions. It is an ideal opportunity for Caian daughters, grandchildren, nephews, nieces or introduce to the College. They can be sure of

T

he ways in which students choose their universities are changing. Fifty or sixty years ago, applicants knew little about the college to which they applied. The choice, as David Elstein (1961) describes on page 12, was usually a consequence of an ongoing relationship between individual schoolteachers and Directors of Studies (DoS).

It is easy to criticise that system as ‘the old boys’ network’ perpetuating privilege, but there were good reasons for it: the teacher had usually spent several years observing the student’s abilities, potential and willingness to work. Their view was then independently tested, first in an Entrance or Scholarship Exam and then (as today) in two or three interviews at the college, both general and subject-specific.

Nowadays, there are many more universities and much fiercer competition among them to secure the best students.

Oxbridge retains a considerable advantage, but it is often portrayed and perceived as elitist, particularly by its competitors.

Potential applicants can ‘check out’ a wide

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n Day

2016 Caius Admissions Open Days next year will be held on 6 and 7 July 2017.

but on our two Open Days in high summer, students and staff on hand to answer r Caians of any age to bring along sons, ces or anyone else they would like to ure of receiving a warm Caius welcome. range of universities via websites and social media before making the selection for their UCAS form. Most universities encourage school pupils to visit before making up their minds, often on specially arranged Open Days.

The ‘old school’ view is to question whether Cambridge really needs to promote itself in this way, but the applicants clearly like to have some first-hand experience on which to base their choices. Consequently, the advice and intervention of a teacher is now less significant than the warmth of the welcome students receive on a personal visit.

Typically, they meet current undergraduates and their potential DoS and are able to develop a much clearer picture of how they might enjoy this or that college or university.

By common consent, the Caius Open Days of 2016 were the best and brightest yet.

Rather than assuming that visitors would know where Caius is, we announced our location with an unmissable, blue banner across Trinity Street, another adorning the statues of the Founders, high on the Great Gate, and ‘feather flags’ outside the Gate, the Porters’ Lodge and Harvey Court, for the

benefit of the colour-blind or simply studious.

Central to the process were a cohort of current undergraduates, all in Caius t-shirts emblazoned with the Gate of Honour, who welcomed 800-900 young visitors each day, conducted tours of the Old Courts, the College Library, Harvey Court and the Stephen Hawking Building and answered innumerable questions about life at Caius.

After the event, some of the undergraduates reflected that describing their own life at Caius to potential applicants had helped them to realise afresh how lucky they are to be here.

The Admissions Tutor, Dr Paul Wingfield, was delighted with the turnout. Tutorial Office Manager, Yvonne Holmes, praised the students as ‘the most dedicated group we’ve ever had’ and paid warm tribute to her colleagues, Wendy Fox, the Accommodation Officer, Tom Norwood, Schools Liaison Officer, Lucy Ward, Communications Officer and Holli Driver, Tutorial & Admissions Secretary, for working tirelessly to make the two Open Days such a success.

The star turn was undoubtedly the Caius

tricycle, specially renovated and painted for the occasion. Inter-college rivalry is never far from the surface in Cambridge and the tricycle, which students used to hand out promotional flyers, was spotted in action outside several other colleges and as far afield as the Downing site, luring prospective applicants to come to Caius.

Those who did were not disappointed: the first 500 each day received a Caiusbranded tote bag containing vital accessories, such as a Caius water-bottle, notepad, biro, pencil, page-flags and informative postcards on different aspects of Caius. Nobody was left in any doubt as to which college they were visiting!

For more serious matters, DoS were on hand to offer advice and there were thought-provoking lectures, such as the one given by Dr Victoria Bateman (1998), ‘Is Brexit Breaking Britain?’ Parents were entertained separately and offered a buffet lunch and tea, tours of College accommodation and advice on the financial challenges of sending their offspring to what we firmly believe is the best college at the finest university in the world.

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picture may be worth a thousand words, but the most powerful cartoons can be even more expressive, savage indictments that could never be so vividly conveyed in any number of words.

Lady Fersht, the Master’s wife, has set up a Partners’ Group, to encourage Fellows’ nearest and dearest to join in the life of the College. For a recent meeting, she asked Professor Vic Gatrell (1967) to give a short talk about the history of political cartoons – thereby ensuring both a large attendance and a thoroughly entertaining evening.

Vic is an authority on the golden age of cartooning, from 1770 to about 1830, and he draws interesting comparisons between those times and our own, when Private Eye and Spitting Image have made pillorying public figures acceptable again. Neil McKendrick (1958) reviewed City of Laughter, Vic’s magnificent book on the subject, in the fifth issue of Once a Caian...

For all its humour, Vic says, ‘cartooning is not a pleasant pursuit. It uses caricature, satire and ribaldry offensively and aggressively, saying “Cut the hypocrisy!”

Polite society in the eighteenth century, as today, deplored it. A good cartoonist needs to have a fair amount of anger and hatred and a strong sense of irony.’

Those portrayed are not willing subjects, but victims; we do not laugh with them but at them. Princes and Prime Ministers and their consorts are ruthlessly ridiculed: cartoons are great levellers. Sebastian Kruger’s ‘unbearably cruel’ portrayal of Prince Charles and Steve Bell’s condom-headed David Cameron are precisely in the tradition of James Gillray’s Prince Regent and William Pitt.

Vic sees cartooning as a particularly British art form: American Presidents are never treated so brutally in their own press.

When Scarfe portrayed Harold Macmillan naked, simpering lasciviously in Christine Keeler’s famous chair, it was, he thinks, the first time a Prime Minister had been lampooned in the nude.

Cartoons are a fascinating record of national life, accepted as a succinct, derogatory commentary even by those portrayed, who often ask cartoonists for the originals. Their popularity speaks volumes about free speech and the British sense of humour.

The art of the political cartoon

James Gillray’s depiction of William Pitt and his mistress, Lady Buckinghamshire, is captioned: A SPHERE, projecting against a PLANE. Definitions from Euclid.

A SPHERE is a Figure bounded by a Convex surface; it is the most perfect of all forms; its Properties are generated from its Centre; and it possesses a larger Area than any other Figure.

A PLANE is a perfectly even and regular surface; it is the most Simple of all Figures; it has neither the Properties of Length or of Breadth; and when applied ever so closely to a SPHERE, can only touch its superfices, without being able to enter it.

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Cartoons on this page (clockwise from top left): Gerald Scarfe’s disturbing fusion of Harold Macmillan and Christine Keeler (used by kind permission of Gerald Scarfe).

Steve Bell’s homage to Gillray’s famous Plum Pudding cartoon.

Gillray’s evocation of William Pitt as a Fungus on a Dunghill (with distinctly regal connections).

Steve Bell’s succinct portrayal of Theresa May booting out her hapless predecessor.

Bell’s depiction of Blair and Bush as one-eyed Cyclopes.

(Steve Bell’s cartoons used by his kind permission.)

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Yao Liang

Once a Chorister...

by James Howell (2009)

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Clockwise from top left: Geoffrey Webber (1989) conducts Caius Choristers from eight decades; Geoffrey welcomes the returning Choristers; James Leach (2013) the Peter Walker Organ Scholar, with Martin Neary (1958); Caius Choristers, past and present, are photographed by Yao Liang from Geoffrey Webber’s window overlooking Caius Court.

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Yao Liang

Rongrong Wu

eing a Caius Chorister is very like being a Caian: a commitment made in early adult life becomes a fundamental and formative experience. In time, it generates emotions and associations that last a whole lifetime – and have a much more significant effect than one ever imagined.

Clearly, the Precentors who lead the Choir feel very much the same sort of loyalty and affection: in the past 120 years, four legendary Precentors have each stayed in post for at least two decades and all have had a huge influence on the development and future careers of the young singers and musicians in their care.

2016 is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Charles Wood (1889), third son of a large family from Armagh. Charles attended the local Cathedral Choir School, before becoming one of the first students at the Royal College of Music. He moved to Cambridge, first at Selwyn College, then in 1889 he came to Caius as Organ Scholar and was elected a Fellow in 1894. He directed the College’s music until his death in 1926.

The following 90 years of the Choir’s history was dominated by his three illustrious successors: Paddy Hadley (1938), Peter Tranchell (1960) and Geoffrey Webber (1989), who became Precentor exactly 100 years after Charles Wood joined Caius.

Geoffrey has taken the Choir to new levels of excellence and international acclaim. After 27 years, he is closing on Charles Wood’s record and we hope he will eclipse it by many years!

Geoffrey and a number of former Choir members have long wanted to bring together Caius Choir alumni from all surviving generations and Wood’s sesquicentenary seemed to provide the perfect excuse. With the help of Caius Choir Administrator, Claire Wheeler, an informal committee was set up, including Joanna Burton (1992), her husband, Richard Hill (1990), Richard Northcott (2005), Laura RobsonBrown (1993), Celia Cobb (1997) and Rachel De Minckwitz (2006). Having inherited Choir lists from two of his predecessors, Geoffrey asked the College’s Development Office to contact more than 450 Caians and Choir Volunteers to invite them to an inaugural event.

On 19 June 2016, more than 100 past members of the Choir joined the current Choir for tea in

Gonville Court, where they were welcomed

by Geoffrey, Joanna Burton and former ViceChancellor, Sir Alec Broers (1960), who formally launched the Caius Choir Alumni association. The honour of being the oldest present went to Francis Rutter (1945).

Francis, Christopher Bishop (1953) and Martin Neary (1958) all sang under Paddy Hadley.

After tea, all the guests were invited to join the current Choir for a brief rehearsal for Evensong. Most of them went, leaving only a few partners and children to finish the sandwiches. At the service, a congregation of around 30 of us, mostly family and friends, sitting to the east of the choir stalls, were privileged to hear the combined voices of eight decades of choristers raise the roof. As they sang Peter Tranchell’s anthem Fortunare nos – we did indeed feel fortunate.

Geoffrey had designed the service to include music composed or arranged by all four Precentors. The concluding Voluntary was composed by Thomas Hewitt Jones (2003), the first Wilfrid Holland Organ Scholar, and played by Martin Neary (1958), another former Organ Scholar.

Our Choristers have a much larger role in College life than simply providing the musical accompaniment to worship in Chapel.

Through its concerts, recordings and broadcasts, the Choir is a wonderful advertisement for the College all around the world. The pleasure of attending Annual Gatherings and College Feasts is greatly enhanced by their brilliantly inventive musical interludes, always culminating in the rousing crescendo of Carmen Caianum, in which we offer our heart-felt acclamation to our Founders. Their role as ambassadors is perfectly illustrated by the way they mix with older Caians and guests before and after these feasts. Many have noted their impressive ability to hoover up any leftover port or claret; a privilege begrudged by nobody, since by that time they have all well and truly sung for their supper!

While the aims of the new Association are primarily social and musical, it is hoped that any surplus funds raised from subscriptions will help to support choral scholarships or to provide exciting musical opportunities for future generations of young Caius Choristers.

If you would like to join the CCA Association, please visit www.cai.cam.ac.uk/alumni/choirsubscription Alec Broers (1960), Vice-Chancellor of the University from 1996 to 2003 and a former Caius Chorister, addresses the gathering.

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Dave Gunn

Anyone who has made a New Year’s resolution to keep a daily diary and abandoned it before January was out of short trousers will feel nothing but awe and admiration for Caius Communications Officer, Lucy Ward, who embarked on the monumental challenge of producing a photo-story celebrating some aspect of College life on every single day of the current Leap Year.

Caius366 Dave Gunn

12 FEBRUARY Three candles and three equally sparkling Caians at the BA Dinner in Hall, to which first, second and third year graduate students are invited. The Master, Professor Sir Alan Fersht (1962) took this happy shot from High Table. On the left is Fulvio Zaccagna (2015), a medic doing a PhD in neuroradiology, in the centre is Anna Osnato (2013), who is studying for her PhD at the Stem Cell Institute, and on the right is Dr Naor Ben-Yehoyada (2012), a Research Fellow in anthropology.

Martin Bond

3 FEBRUARY Caius students and staff watched this morning as UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, in a scarlet gown, made his way to the Senate House to receive an honorary doctorate in law at the end of his nine years in office. This award, the University’s highest accolade, recognised his humanitarian work, his support for women’s rights and his contribution to the pursuit of global peace. The ceremony was followed by a reception inside the Cockerell Building, which houses Caius' magnificent libraries and provides the backdrop to Dave Gunn’s bird’s eye-view photograph, taken from the tower of Great St Mary’s.

Alan Fersht

27 JANUARY Google Earth’s 360° mobile cameras have explored and recorded Street Views worldwide.

Google’s Special Collections project now offers an online glimpse inside some of the world’s most spectacular buildings, including the Taj Mahal and the White House. Featured in the Cambridge Special Collection are the Caius Hall, Library and Chapel. Our IT Officer, Dave Gunn, caught both the virtual Library and the real thing in one image.

14 FEBRUARY For a College at the very centre of Cambridge, Caius is paradoxically tucked away: hidden in plain sight.

Well, no longer: the city's magical e-Luminate Festival shone multicoloured lights on Caius – and the College positively glowed in response. This psychedelic shot, taken

by Cambridge Diary photographer Martin Bond, from the tower of Great St Mary’s, shows light streaming from within the Great Gate. Inside, the memorial to Francis Crick (1950), joint discoverer of the structure of DNA, is brightly illuminated. The statues of Gonville, Bateman and Caius are also brushed with gold.

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ucy is keen to demystify Caius, to open the gates and show the world what we do. Day by day, she and her contributors capture many aspects of College life, from students in supervisions (or letting their hair down) to Google Earth filming our historic buildings, from a duck that came to a lecture to our loyal College staff keeping the cogwheels of Caius running smoothly.

Here is a selection of the images and stories from the first six months of the 366 project: we’ll feature more in our next issue. This is Caius – freely available to anyone to enjoy via the College website, which has the latest news on all the achievements of the Caius community.

The website also offers an easy way to make a one-off gift to the College or set up a regular monthly donation: www.cai.cam.ac.uk.

21 MARCH Our team of friendly student callers are getting together for the annual Telephone Campaign. They call Caians, parents and friends of the College, to raise funds for the whole spectrum of college activities, including bursaries, building restoration, Research Fellowships, the Library, Choir and College sports. The Telephone Campaigns bring together Caians of different generations and have generated £4.75 million over the past ten years.

No prizes for spotting the Master and Director of Development in the photo.

Timothy Venkatesan

Alan Fersht

Alan Fersht

13 MARCH A pair of pied wagtails can often be seen bouncing cheerily around Caius Court. The Master, a keen bird photographer, captured this one in front of Professor Stephen Hawking’s room for the 73rd in our Caius366 daily photo series.

18 MAY The small group supervision system so essential to a Cambridge education still lies at the heart of College life. With exams a week away, Professor John Mollon (1995), President of Caius and DoS in Psychological and Behavioural Sciences, works through a mock paper with second-year medics in his College room. Timothy Venkatesan photographed (l to r) Rachel Elwood, Sophie Trotter and Asanish Kalyanasundaram (all 2014).

Alan Fersht

Lucy Ward

24 MAY The College courts look serene, but a great deal of work goes on behind the scenes. The fortnightly Heads of Department meeting at Caius brings together representatives from the Tutorial Office, Bursary, Porters’ Lodge, Housekeeping, HR, Catering, Library, Archive, IT and Development Office. Here, Matt Mee (front left), the Head of IT, explains how audio visual displays will be used to help potential applicants and their parents to learn more about Caius at the Open Days (30 June/1 July). The meeting is chaired by the Senior Bursar, Dr David Secher (1973).

1 JUNE Lady Fersht, the Master’s wife, set up the Caius Partners' Group, to make sure Fellows’ partners feel welcome and involved in the life of the College. They held a coffee morning to say goodbye to Rachel Gray, who is leaving Cambridge. Rachel, the widow of former Master, Peter Gray (1945), is between Marilyn Fersht and Sandra Secher, the Senior Bursar’s wife.

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Thank You! Gonville & Caius College Development Campaign Benefactors The Master and Fellows express their warmest thanks to all Caians, Parents and Friends of the College who have generously made donations since 1 July 2012. Your gifts are greatly appreciated as they help to maintain the College’s excellence for future generations.

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James Howell (2009) Director of Development

1946 (42.11%) Dr D A P Burton Dr W J Colbeck * Mr D V Drury Dr J R Edwards † Professor J T Fitzsimons Mr G R Kerpner † Mr H C Parr His Honour Judge Vos †

1947 (19.05%) Mr F N Goode † Mr J M S Keen † Mr R J Sellick † Mr A C Struvé

1948 (54.55%)

In the last four years,

37% of Caians made gifts to the College.

How does your year compare?

1901 Mr G H Davy *

1905 Mr W G Emmett *

1919 Dr W E B Lloyd *

1934 Professor R A Shooter *

1935 The Rt Hon the Lord Carr of Hadley * Maj Gen I H Lyall Grant Dr J Perrin *

1936 (33.33%) Dr P M M Pritchard

1938 (37.50%) Mr R L Bickerdike * Mr R E Prettejohn * Mr P H Schurr

1939 (60.00%) Canon R S C Baily Mr H A H Binney Dr J P Clayton *† Mr C H de Boer * Mr J P Phillips

1940 (42.86%) Dr J E Blundell Mr R F Crocombe † Mr A A Dibben * Dr R F Payne † Dr D N Seaton † Mr F P S Strickland *

1941 (33.33%) Mr D M C Ainscow * Mr J B Frost * Mr H C Hart †

Mr C S Kirkham * Mr J W Sleap *

Dr P C W Anderson † Dr A R Baker * Mr A C Barrington Brown * Mr D G Blackledge Mr P J Bunker Mr E J Chumrow * Mr D P Crease * Mr D E Creasy * Mr T Garrett † Mr L J Harfield † Mr R C Harris Professor J F Mowbray † Dr M R K Plaxton Mr J B Pond * Professor T A Preston * Canon A Pyburn * Dr R S Wardle *

1942 (57.89%) Mr K V Arrowsmith † Mr D E C Callow † Mr A A Green * Professor A Hewish Dr G A Jones † Dr R H B Protheroe † Professor E M Shooter Mr J M Sword * Mr M A H Walford * Mr F T Westwood * Dr A R H Worssam *

1943 (41.67%) Professor J A Balint Dr R Barnes Wg Cdr D H T Dimock Dr W M Gibson † Professor P Gray * Professor R Harrop Mr A G H House Dr C Kingsley † Dr P W Thompson * Dr W R Walsh*

1944 (40.74%) Dr J Gibson * Mr P G Hebbert Mr D J Hyam † Dr H K Litherland * Dr J L Milligan * Mr C D Neame * Mr N T Roderick * Mr W T D Shaddick Mr M R Steele-Bodger Mr D J Storey * Mr J A Wells-Cole *

1945 (31.82%) Dr G P R Bielstein Professor C N L Brooke * Mr R K Hayward *

1949 (48.89%) The Hon H S Arbuthnott Mr A G Beaumont † The Rt Hon Lord Chorley * Mr K J A Crampton Mr R D Emerson Dr J H Gervis * Mr J J H Haines Mr M J Harrap † Mr E C Hewitt † Mr D H Jones * Mr J C Kilner † Mr C E C Long Mr A M Morgan Mr J Norris † Mr K J Orrell Mr W R Packer Mr I G Richardson Mr A W Riley † Sir John Robson * Dr J D Swale Dr D A Thomas Mr J F Walker

1950 (50.00%) Mr D R Brewin Mr M Buckley Sharp Mr J G Carpenter † Mr R G Dunn † Mr G H Eaton Hart Mr W J Gowing † Dr A C Halliwell Professor J C Higgins Dr O W Hill Dr M I Lander † Professor N L Lawrie Mr G S Lowth Mr D L H Nash Dr S W B Newsom Mr A G C Paish Mr D S Paravicini

Mr J A Potts † Mr G D C Preston Dr A J Shaw Mr D A Skitt Mr D B Swift *† Mr S P Thompson † Canon Dr S H Trapnell Mr W A J Treneman Mr L F Walker † The Revd P Wright † Mr P L Young *

James Howell

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We should all give to Caius every year

Mr F R McManus Mr D E Rae *† Dr F C Rutter † Dr J C S Turner

1951 (59.09%) Dr R A Aiken * Mr L C Bricusse Mr G H Buck † Dr A J Cameron † Mr P R Castle Mr S H Cooke Mr R N Dean The Revd N S Dixon † Mr R B Gauntlett † Dr J E Godrich Dr N J C Grant The Revd P T Hancock † Canon A R Heawood † Mr J P M Horner † Mr G S Jones * Professor L L Jones † Professor P T Kirstein Mr M H Lemon Mr I Maclean † Mr E R Maile † Mr P T Marshall Mr P S E Mettyear † Mr J K Moodie † Mr J J Moorby Mr B H Phillips Mr O J Price Mr S Price Dr R S O Rees Mr M A C Saker * Mr D M Sickelmore * The Revd T J Surtees † Mr J E Sussams † Mr A R Tapp † Mr S R Taylor † Mr P E Walsh † Mr C H Walton † Mr P Zentner †

1952 (56.67%) Dr A R Adamson † Mr J S Bailey Professor J E Banatvala † Mr G D Baxter Lt Gen Sir Peter Beale Dr M Brett Mr D Bullard-Smith † Mr C J Dakin † Mr H J A Dugan Dr A J Earl * Mr C B d’A Fearn Mr G Garrett † Dr T W Gibson † Mr E S Harborne Mr J A G Hartley † Sq Ldr J N Hereford Mr D B Hill † Mr E J Hoblyn Mr W H Ingram * Professor G W Kirby * The Revd D K Maybury * Dr C W McCutchen † Lord Morris of Aberavon Mr P J Murphy † Dr M J O’Shea Mr S L Parsonson † Mr P S Pendered Dr M J Ramsden † Professor M V Riley

Neil McKendrick congratulates Douglas Myers.

Mr J K Rowlands * Dr N Sankarayya Mr J de F Somervell † Mr R P Wilding † Mr C D Willis

1953 (57.33%) Mr S F S Balfour-Browne Mr D W Barnes Mr I S Barter Professor R J Berry Mr C S Bishop Mr K C A Blasdale Mr J M Bruce Mr J Y Cartmell Mr T Copley * Mr C H Couchman Mr P H Coward Dr P M B Crookes † Dr D Denis-Smith Mr P R Dolby The Revd H O Faulkner † Professor C du V Florey Mr G H Gandy † Mr B V Godden † Dr P R Goldsworthy * Mr H J Goodhart Mr C G Heywood Mr M A Hossick Mr C B Johnson Dr D H Keeling † Professor J G T Kelsey Dr A G Kennedy-Young Mr M G MacD Kidson * Mr J E R Lart † Dr R A Lewin Mr R Lomax Dr D M Marsh † Dr H Matine-Daftary Dr M J Orrell † Mr D H O Owen Mr E C O Owen Mr T I Rand Mr J P Seymour Mr P T Stevens Mr J A Whitehead *

Professor J S Wigglesworth * Mr P E Winter

1954 (56.79%) Professor M P Alpers Mr D R Amlot Mr J Anton-Smith † Dr J K Bamford Professor J H J Bancroft Mr D G Batterham Mr D W Bouette Mr D J Boyd Professor C B Bucknall † Dr R J Cockerill † Mr G Constantine Mr D I Cook † Dr R A F Cox Mr P H C Eyers Mr D R Fairbairn Professor J Fletcher † Professor J Friend Dr A E Gent † Professor N J Gross Mr M J Harding * Dr M Hayward Professor R J Heald Mr J D Heap Mr J D Hindmarsh Mr R A Hockey Mr R J Horton * Mr R W J Hubank † Mr A G Hutheesing Mr J S Kirkham Mr R W Marshall Mr R W Montgomery † Col G W A Napier Mr D J Nobbs *† Mr J O’Hea Mr B C Price Mr R M Reeve † Sir Gilbert Roberts † Mr T W J Ruane Dr J M S Schofield Mr R J Silk Mr M H Spence Mr D Stanley

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1955 (47.37%) Mr C F Barham † Mr M W Barrett Mr J A Brooks Dr J H Brunton † Mr A R Campbell † Dr M Cannon † Mr D J Clayson Professor P D Clothier †

Mr G J A Household Professor A J Kirby Mr J D Lindholm Dr R G Lord Mr P A Mackie Mr B J McConnell † Dr H E McGlashan Canon P B Morgan † Dr B E Mulhall Mr P A R Niven * Mr B M Nonhebel Professor G Norris Mr T R R O’Conor Professor L L Pasinetti

Mr M F Neale Mr A W Newman-Sanders Dr M J Nicklin * Mr T Painter Mr R D Perry † Mr G R Phillipson Mr A P Pool The Rt Hon Sir Mark Potter Dr R Presley Mr H J H Pugh Mr P W Sampson † Dr G W Spence Canon Andrew Stokes Dr J R R Stott

The Revd D G Sharp Mr G S H Smeed Mr D K Thorpe * Mr J E Trice Professor P J Tyrer Dr I G Van Breda Mr F J De W Waller Dr A G Weeds Mr J T Winpenny Dr M D Wood Mr P J Worboys

Mr R W Minter Sir Douglas Myers Mr T S Nelson Dr C S A Ng Mr E A Pollard Mr G D Pratten † Mr F C J Radcliffe Dr G R Rowlands Mr M P Ruffle † Sir Colin Shepherd Dr F D Skidmore Mr A Stadlen Sir Keith Stuart Mr A J Taunton

1960 (55.77%)

Neil Kirkham

At the unveiling of Douglas Myers’ portrait (l to r): Marilyn Fersht, James Howell, Laura Myers, Jessice Kimmel, Campbell Myers, Neil McKendrick, Alan Fersht, Anne Lyon, Douglas Myers, John Mollon, James Fox, Melvina McKendrick and David Cobley, who painted the portrait.

Mr A A R Cobbold † Dr C K Connolly † Professor K G Davey † Mr M Duerden Dr R A Durance † Professor R E W Halliwell The Rt Hon the Lord Higgins Professor J J Jonas Dr T G Jones The Rt Hon Sir Paul Kennedy Mr M E Lees † Dr L Lyons Mr J R S McDonald * Mr J J Moyle † Dr P J Noble Dr J P A Page Mr C H Prince Lt Col C B Pritchett Mr A R Prowse * Mr A B Richards Dr A P Rubin Professor L S Sealy Mr J A B Taylor Mr J D Taylor † Mr H W Tharp † Mr G Wassell † Dr P J Watkins † Mr O S Wheatley

1956 (55.84%) Professor D Bailin Canon M E Bartlett * Mr C P L Braham Mr J A Cecil-Williams † Mr G B Cobbold Dr R Cockel Dr J P Cullen Professor G H Elder † Mr J K Ferguson Mr M J L Foad Professor J A R Friend Mr R Gibson Dr H N C Gunther Mr M L Holman

Mr A J Peck Mr J A Pooles Mr J J C Procter † Mr J V Rawson Mr C J D Robinson † Professor D K Robinson Mr I Samuels Mr I L Smith Mr R R W Stewart Mr D F Sutton Mr A A Umur Mr H de V Welchman Dr R D Wildbore † Mr J P Woods Dr D L Wynn-Williams †

1957 (51.46%) Mr A B Adarkar Mr W E Alexander Dr I D Ansell † Dr N D Barnes Mr D H Beevers Mr J C Boocock Dr T R G Carter Dr J P Charlesworth † The Revd D Clarke Mr M L Davies † Dr T W Davies † Mr E J Dickens Dr A N Ganner Professor A F Garvie † Mr J D Henes † The Very Revd Dr M J Higgins † Mr A S Holmes Mr J D Howell Jones Professor F C Inglis † Mr A J Kemp Mr J L Leonard Mr T F Mathias Dr R T Mathieson † Professor A J McClean Dr B J McGreevy Mr C B Melluish Mr D Moller

Professor J N Tarn † Mr O N Tubbs † The Rt Hon Lord Tugendhat † Mr A S Turner Mr C B Turner The Revd Prof G Wainwright Dr D G D Wight Mr R Willcocks Maj Gen E G Willmott Professor G R Woodman

1958 (53.13%) Mr C Andrews Professor R P Bartlett Mr J E Bates Mr N B Blake Dr J F A Blowers Mr T J Brack † Mr J P B Bryce Mr J D G Cashin † Professor A R Crofts Mr M E Drummond * Mr K Edgerley Mr D H M Foster Sir David Frost * Mr A W Fuller The Rt Hon Lord Geddes Mr D T Goldby Mr W P N Graham Professor F W Heatley † Mr D M Henderson † Professor J O Hunter † Mr N A Jackson Mr J G Jellett Mr J R Kelly † Dr G N W Kerrigan † Dr P E King-Smith Dr A J Knell Dr R P Knill-Jones Mr E A B Knowles Mr R D Martin † Mr T W McCallum Mr C P McKay † Dr D R Michell

Professor B J Thorne Mr F J W van Silver Mr J B R Vartan The Revd J L Watson Mr A Wells *

1959 (48.54%) Mr C J C Bailey Professor D S Brée Mr J A Brewer Mr J A Brooks Dr D E Brundish † Mr J L Cookson Dr W D Davison * Dr A G Dewey Mr M J Dodd Mr T H W Dodwell Mr J E Drake † Mr B Drewitt † The Revd T C Duff † Mr W Eden * The Rt Revd D R J Evans † Professor J E Fegan Mr G A Geen † Dr J A Gibson † Mr T A J Goodfellow *† Mr D N C Haines Mr P M Hill Mr A E H Hornig Mr M J D Keatinge † Dr C J Ludman Mr H J A McDougall Mr N G McGowan Mr R G McNeer Mr C J Methven † Mr M M Minogue Dr C T Morley His Honour Judge Mott Mr P Neuburg Mr A F Oliver Professor G S Panayi Mr B M Pearce-Higgins Dr G P Ridsdill Smith Mr J H Riley

Mr J G Barham † Mr B C Biggs † Mr A J M Bone Dr A D Brewer The Rt Hon Lord Broers Dr D I Brotherton Mr J Burr Dr G M Clarke † The Revd J E Cotter * His Hon P R Cowell † Mr J M Cullen Dr P Donnai Mr D J Ellis Dr C H Gallimore † Mr N Gray Mr R C F Gray Dr D F Hardy Dr R Harmsen Mr J J Hill Professor F Jellett Dr R M Keating † Dr P M Keir Mr A Kenney Dr J A Lord † Professor J S Mainstone * Dr P Martin † Mr M B Maunsell † Dr H F Merrick † Dr E L Morris Mr J A Nicholson Dr C H R Niven Mr M O’Neil Mr W J Partridge Mr P Paul Professor A E Pegg Mr A C Porter Dr J D Powell-Jackson Dr A T Ractliffe † Mr P G Ransley Dr R A Reid Mr D J Risk Mr C W M Rossetti Dr B M Shaffer The Revd P Smith Dr F H Stewart Mr R P R Tilley * Mr H J M Tompkins Dr M T R B Turnbull Professor P S Walker Mr G C Watt Mr A A West Mr D H Wilson † Professor F A H Wilson Mr N J Winkfield Mr R D S Wylie † Dr G R Youngs Dr A M Zalin †

Professor R J Nicholls † Mr J Owens Dr R M Pearson Mr C H Pemberton † Sir Marcus Setchell Mr D E P Shapland Mr D Shepherd Mr D C W Stonley Dr R I A Swann Mr J Temple Dr I G Thwaites * Mr R E G Titterington Mr V D West † Mr P N Wood Mr R J Wrenn

1962 (55.10%) Mr M S Ahamed Dr J S Beale † Mr D J Bell Dr C R de la P Beresford † Mr J P Braga Mr P S L Brice † Mr R A C Bye Mr J R Campbell Dr D Carr † Mr P D Coopman † Mr T S Cox Col M W H Day † Mr N E Drew Mr W R Edwards Mr M Emmott † Professor Sir Alan Fersht Mr J R A Fleming Mr H M Gibbs Mr T M Glaser Dr C A Hammant Mr A D Harris † Mr D Hjort † Professor A R Hunter † Mr P A C Jennings † Mr J W Jones Dr D M Keith-Lucas Professor J M Kosterlitz † Mr F J Lucas † Dr P J Mansfield Mr A R Martin Mr J R Matheson * Mr W J McCann Prof Sir Andrew McMichael † Dr C D S Moss The Revd Dr P C Owen Mr T K Pool Mr G A Shindler Dr R N F Simpson † Mr R Smalley † Mr M J Starks Mr R B R Stephens Mr A M Stewart Mr J D Sword † Mr W J G Travers Mr F R G Trew † Mr M G Wade Mr D R F Walker † Mr D W B Ward Mr G J Weaver Mr H N Whitfield Mr R G Williams Mr R G Wilson †

1963 (46.96%) 1961 (44.44%) Mr C E Ackroyd Mr A D Bell Professor Sir Michael Berridge Mr M Billcliff Professor R S Bird Mr A C G Cunningham Dr M D Dampier Mr J O Davies Dr J Davies-Humphreys Dr J S Denbigh † Mr R J Dibley Mr D K Elstein Mr J A G Fiddes Mr M J W Gage Dr J M Gertner † Mr M D Harbinson Mr P Haskey Mr E C Hunt Mr R T Jump *† Dr A B Loach Professor R Mansfield Mr R G McMillan * Professor P B Mogford Dr R M Moor Mr A G Munro

Dr P J Adams † Dr T G Blaney † Dr B H J Briggs Mr P J Brown Dr C R A Clarke Mr E F Cochrane Mr R M Coombes † Professor A W Cuthbert Dr J R Dowdle Professor M T C Fang Dr S Field Dr H P M Fromageot Mr J E J Goad Mr A J Grants Mr P M G B Grimaldi Mr N K Halliday Mr C F D Hart * Dr M A Hopkinson † Mr J L Hungerford Dr R H Jago † Mr N T Jones Dr D H Kelly * Dr P Kemp Mr B L Kerr * Mr M S Kerr † Dr R Kinns

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Dr V F Larcher Dr R W F Le Page Mr D A Lockhart Mr J W L Lonie Miss C D Macleod Mr J d’A Maycock Dr C W Mitchell * Mr V L Murphy * Dr J R Parker † Mr M J Pitcher Mr J M Pulman Dr J S Rainbird Mr P A Rooke † Mr I H K Scott Professor T G Scott Mr P F T Sewell Mr C T Skinner Dr J B A Strange Professor D J Taylor † Sir Quentin Thomas Mr P H Veal † Mr D J Walker Dr R F Walker Mr A V Waller Mr J D Wertheim Dr J R C West † Dr M J Weston Mr A N Wilson

1964 (43.93%) Mr P Ashton Mr D P H Burgess † Mr J E Chisholm Dr H Connor Professor R A Cottis Dr N C Cropper Mr H L S Dibley Mr R A Dixon Mr N R Fieldman Dr P G Frost Mr J S Gillespie Mr A K Glenny Mr G A Gray † Dr R J Greenwood † Professor N D F Grindley † Professor J D H Hall † Mr M J Hall * Professor K O Hawkins Mr B D Hedley Professor Sir John Holman Mr J Horsfall Turner * Mr P T Inskip Dr S L Ishemo Mr A Kirby † Dr R K Knight Dr T Laub † Professor S H P Maddrell Professor J M Malcomson Dr H M Mather Mr S J Mawer Professor D V Morgan Mr J R Morley Mr R Murray Mr A K Nigam † Mr J H Poole Dr W T Prince Dr D L Randles Dr C N E Ruscoe † Mr J F Sell Dr N M Suess * Dr R Tannenbaum Mr A N Taylor Mr K S Thapa Mr R A Wallington Dr T B Wallington Dr F J M Walters Mr R C Wells †

1965 (45.31%) Dr P J E Aldred Dr J E J Altham † Professor L G Arnold † Professor B C Barker Mr A C Butler Mr D E Butler Mr R A Charles The Rt Hon Lord Justice Clarke Dr C M Colley † Mr G B Cooper Mr H J Elliot * Mr J H Finnigan Dr A J S Folwell Mr A J Habgood Mr B Harries * Mr J Harris Dr D A Hattersley The Revd P Haworth †

His Hon R C Holman † Mr R P Hopford Mr I V Jackson Dr R G Jezzard † Mr K E Jones Professor A S KanyaForstner Mr J R H Kitching Dr H J Klass The Hon Dr J F Lehman † Dr M J Maguire Dr P J Marriott Dr W P M Mayles Mr J J McCrea His Hon Judge Morris Mr T Mullett † Mr A R Myers Dr J W New Dr P B Oelrichs * Mr A H Orton Mr C F Pinney Dr C A Powell Professor C V Reeves Dr J G Robson Mr R N Rowe Mr A C Scott Dr R D Sharpe Dr D J Sloan Dr O R W Sutherland Mr M L Thomas Mr T Thomas * Mr D S Thompson Mr I D K Thompson † Professor J S Tobias Dr R E Warren Mr H Weatherburn Mr I R Whitehead Mr A T Williams Mr C H Wilson Mr D V Wilson Lt Col J R Wood

Mr A C Debenham Mr G J Edgeley Dr M C Frazer Mr R L Fry Mr B J Glicksman Mr P E Gore Mr T Hashimoto Mr D G Hayes Dr W Y-C Hung Mr M D Hutchinson Mr J R Jones Mr N G H Kermode The Hon Lord Kingarth Mr R G Lane Mr R J Lasko Mr D I Last † Dr I D Lindsay † Mr D H Lister Mr R J Longman Dr G S May Mr T W Morton Dr E A Nakielny Mr W M O Nelson Mr A M Peck Professor N P Quinn Mr S D Reynolds Mr P Routley Mr M S Rowe

Mr J I McGuire Dr J Meyrick Thomas Mr E J Nightingale Mr J A Norton † Dr I D A Peacock * Mr M E Perry Dr T G Powell Mr S Read Professor P G Reasbeck Professor J F Roberts Mr E Robinson Mr P S Shaerf Mr P J E Smith Mr V Sobotka Dr B Teague Dr M McD Twohig Dr G S Walford Mr C Walker Dr D P Walker † Mr P E Wallace Dr P R Willicombe Dr P Wilson

1969 (44.66%) Dr S C Bamber † Dr M Bentley Dr A D Blainey Mr S E Bowkett

Mr P B Vos † Mr A J Waters Mr C R J Westendarp Dr N H Wheale † Professor D R Widdess Mr C J Wilkes Mr D A Wilson † Mr P J G Wright †

1970 (44.04%) Mr R B Andreas Mr J Aughton † Mr D N S Beevers Mr D Brennan Mr R Butler Dr D D Clark-Lowes Mr G J H Cliff † Mr R P Cliff † Mr D Colquhoun † Mr J Edmunds Professor P J Evans Mr L P Foulds † Professor J G H Fulbrook Dr D R Glover Mr O A B Green Mr J D Gwinnell † Dr G L Harding Mr J M Harland

Mr M S Arthur Mr H A Becket Mr R N Beynon Mr S Brearley † Dr M C Buck Dr H H J Carter Mr A Charlton Mr J A K Clark Dr R C A Collinson Mr P D M Dunlop Mr J A Duval Professor A M Emond Mr J-L M Evans Dr T J Gibbs Dr S H Gibson Mr L J Hambly Professor D M Hausman Mr N R Holliday Professor D J Jeffrey Professor B Jones Dr P Kinns † Dr G Levine Dr J M Levitt Dr P T W Lyle Dr P G Mattos † Mr R I Morgan † Mr L N Moss Mr N D Peace †

1966 (45.00%) Mr M J Barker Mr J D Battye Mr M Bicknell Dr D S Bishop † Mr S A Blair Professor D L Carr-Locke Mr P Chapman Dr C I Coleman † Dr K R Daniels † Dr T K Day Mr C R Deacon † Mr D P Dearden † Mr P S Elliston † Mr J R Escott † Mr W P Gretton Mr M Hamid Mr D R Harrison † Dr L E Haseler † Mr R E Hickman Mr R Holden Dr R W Howes Professor R C Hunt Dr W E Kenyon Professor S L Lightman Dr W J Lockley Mr G G Luffrum Mr D C Lunn Dr A A Mawby Professor P M Meara Mr P V Morris Dr D J Munday Dr K T Parker Mr S Poster † Dr H E R Preston Mr J N B Sinclair Dr R L Stone Mr J A Strachan † Mr N E Suess Mr D Swinson † Dr A M Turner Mr J F Wardle Mr W J Watts Mr D F White Mr S M Whitehead † Mr J M Williams †

1967 (41.84%) Mr N J Burton Dr R J Collins Mr R F Cooke Mr C F Corcoran Mr P G Cottrell Mr G C Dalton Dr W Day

Eric and Elaine Shooter, who were admitted as Gonville Fellow Benefactors by the Master at their home in California on 29 April 2016, with their daughter, Annette, son-in-law, Dennis, grand-daughters, Stephanie and Michelle, Anne Lyon, Alan Fersht and James Howell.

Professor J B Saunders Mr H J A Scott Mr G T Slater Mr P R Watson Mr C A Williams The Revd Dr J D Yule †

1968 (48.96%) Dr M J Adams † Mr P M Barker Dr F G T Bridgham Mr A C Cosker † Mr J P Dalton Mr J C Esam † Mr C Fletcher Mr J M Fordham Mr S M Fox Mr R J Furber Mr D P Garrick † Dr E M Gartner Professor P W Gatrell Mr D S Glass Professor C D Goodwin Dr G W Hills Dr P W Ind The Revd Fr A Keefe Mr D J Laird Dr N J Lewis * Professor R J A Little Dr D H O Lloyd † Dr R C H Lyle Mr B A Mace Mr S M Mason

Mr A C Brown Dr R M Buchdahl Mr M S Cowell † Dr M K Davies Mr S H Dunkley Dr M W Eaton † Professor D J Ellar Mr R J Field † Dr J P Fry Dr C J Hardwick † Professor A D Harries Mr D J Heathcote Mr J S Hodgson † Mr D R Hulbert Mr T J F Hunt Mr S B Joseph Mr A Keir † Mr R L Kottritsch Dr I R Lacy † Mr C J Lloyd Mr S J Lodder Mr R G McGowan Dr D W McMorland Dr T J Meredith Dr T F Packer * Mr A N Papathomas Dr C M Pegrum Dr D B Peterson Mr P J M Redfern Mr N R Sallnow-Smith Mr I Taylor Mr A P Thompson-Smith Mr B A H Todd

Mr N A J Harper † Mr D P W Harvey Mr J W Hodgson Professor J A S Howell Mr G P Jones Mr S D Joseph Mr C A Jourdan Mr N R Kinnear Mr M J Langley Professor M Levitt Mr R T Lewis Professor J MacDonald Mr B S Missenden † Dr S Mohindra Mr A J Neale Mr J C Needes Mr C G Penny Professor D J Reynolds Mr W R Roberts Dr I N Robins Mr J S Robinson Mr B Z Sacks Dr R D S Sanderson † Mr D C Smith Dr S A Sullivan Dr S W Turner Mr N F C Walker Mr I R Watson Professor R W Whatmore † Professor G Zanker

1971 (39.09%) Dr J P Arm

Professor D I W Phillips Dr M B Powell Dr A J Reid Professor P Robinson Mr P J Robinson Mr A Schubert Dr J H Smith Mr T W Squire Dr P T Such Mr P A Thimont Mr A H M Thompson † Dr S Vogt † Mr S V Wolfensohn Mr S Young *

1972 (40.34%) Mr M H Armour Mr A B S Ball † Mr D R Barrett Mr J P Bates † Dr D N Bennett-Jones † Mr S M B Blasdale † Mr N P Bull Mr S N Bunzl Mr I J Buswell Professor J R Chapman Mr C G Davies Mr P A England Mr J E Erike Mr P J Farmer † Mr C Finden-Browne † Mr B B W Glass Mr R H Gleed †

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Dr C G Nevill Dr S P Olliff Dr G Parker Professor T J Pedley Mr J F Points Mr A W M Reicher Dr A F Sears Dr W A Smith Mr C P Stoate Mr J Sunderland † Mr H B Trust Mr D G Vanstone Mr R A Wallace Mr S J Waters Mr G A Whitworth Dr J B Wirth

1974 (39.84%) Dr D F J Appleton Professor A J Blake † Mr R Z Brooke The Revd Dr V J Chatterjie Professor C Cooper Dr L H Cope Dr N H Croft † Mr M D Damazer Professor J H Davies Dr M A de Belder

Dr D K Summers Dr A M Vali Mr D K B Walker † Mr L J Walker Mr S T Weeks Dr R M Witcomb

1975 (35.83%) Mr E J Atherton Dr R Baker-Glenn Dr C J Bartley Mr P S Belsman Mr H R Chalkley Mr S Collins Mr A E Cooke-Yarborough Mr T J Craddock Mr J M Davies Dr M J Franklin Mr N R Gamble Mr M H Graham Dr A J W Gray * Dr D G B Hamilton Professor J F Hancock Professor R Hanka Mr D A Hare Mr R L Hubbleday Mr R F Hughes Mr D M Mabb

Mr H N Neal Dr R P Owens † Professor A Pagliuca Dr R Purwar Dr K W Radcliffe Mr I M Radford † Mr P J Radford Professor T A Ring † Dr G S Sachs Dr L F M Scinto Mr M J Simon Dr P Waddams Dr P A Watson † Mr D J White † Dr A N Williams Mr M J Wilson Mr L M Wiseman Mr R C Woodgate * Professor E W Wright

Mr D J Cox Dr G S Cross Dr J S Daniel Cllr R J Davis † Mr P H Ehrlich The Hon Dr R H Emslie † Mr A G J Filion Dr M J Fitchett Mr S D Flack Mr M W Friend Dr K F Gradwell Dr G C T Griffiths Professor J Herbert Dr J R E Herdman Dr A C J Hutchesson † Mr R A Larkman Mr S H Le Fevre Dr C Ma Dr O D Mansoor Mr A J Matthews Dr P B Medcalf Dr S J Morris Dr D Myers † Mr D C S Oosthuizen Mr R B Peatman Mr J S Price Professor S Robinson Dr R H Sawyer

1978 (38.26%)

James Howell

Eric and Elaine were highly amused to be presented with Caius teddy bears as mementoes of the happy occasion.

Mr R E W Thompson Dr A F Weinstein Canon Dr J A Williams

1973 (39.17%) Dr A P Allen Dr S M Allen Mr P R Beverley Professor J V Bickford-Smith Mr A B Brentnall Professor R H S Carpenter Dr S N Challah Mr J P Cockett Professor P Collins Mr S P Crooks † Mr M G Daw † Dr P G Duke Mr P C English Mr A G Fleming Mr R Fox Dr C T Goh Mr F R Grimshaw Dr J A Harvey Mr J R Hazelton Mr D J R Hill Mr G N Hill Dr R J Hopkins Mr F How Dr W F Hutchinson *† Mr D A Irvine Mr M H Irwing Mr W A Jutsum Mr K F C Marshall † Mr J S Morgan Mr J S Nangle

Mr J R Delve Professor A G Dewhurst † Dr E J Dickinson Mr C J Edwards Professor L D Engle Mr J C Evans Mr R J Evans Dr M G J Gannon Mr T D Gardam Professor J Gascoigne † Mr C D Gilliat Mr P A Goodman † Dr P J Guider † Mr S J Hampson Dr M C Harrop Mr P G Hearne Dr W N Hubbard Mr D G W Ingram Mr N Kirtley Mr W S H Laidlaw Mr C H R Lane Mr R I K Little Mr P Logan † Mr R O MacInnes-Manby Mr G Markham † Dr C H Mason Mr P B Mayes Mr J G A McClean Professor D Reddy † Mr N J Roberts Dr J J Rochford Dr D S Secher Mr A H Silverman Mr C L Spencer Mr W C Strawhorne

Mr L G D Marr Mr D Marsden Dr R G Mayne † Mr K M McGivern Mr K S Miller † Mr G Monk Professor A J Morgan The Revd M W Neale † Dr C C P Nnochiri Dr H C Rayner † Mr D J G Reilly Mr P J Roberts Professor J P K Seville Mr G R Sherwood † Dr F A Simion Canon I D Tarrant Dr J M Thompson † Professor M J Uren Dr P K H Walton Mr B J Warne † Mr R S Wheelhouse Mr J R Wood Sir William Young

1976 (38.46%) Mr G Abrams Mr D Barham Mr J J J Bates † Mr C A K Benn Mr S J Birchall Mr N G Blanshard † Mr N S K Booker Mr L G Brew † Dr H M Christley Dr M P Clarke

Mr P L Simon Dr S G W Smith Dr J A Spencer * Mr P C Tagari Dr E V J Tanner Mr S Thomson † Mr J P Treasure Mr J S Turner The Rt Hon N K A S Vaz Professor O H Warnock Mr A Widdowson † Mr R C Zambuni

1977 (32.52%) Mr P J Ainsworth Mr J H M Barrow Mr S T Bax Mr R Y Brown Dr M S D Callaghan Mr J D Carroll Dr P N Cooper Dr S W Cornford Dr D Eilon Professor K J Friston Mr A L Gibb Mr A M Hanning Mr K F Haviland Mr P C Headland Mr N J Hepworth Mr R M House † Professor G H Jackson Mr B J Kettle Mr K A Mathieson Mr K H McKellar † Dr P H M McWhinney

Mr R W Lander Dr M E Lowth Mr C L Marsh Mr A D Maybury Mr D L Melvin Mr T J Morris Mr S Moss Mrs A S Noble Dr R A A O’Conor Mr T Parlett Dr J G Reggler Professor C T Reid † Ms C Reitter Ms A M Roads Dr C M Rogers Mr E J Ruane Dr K C Saw Professor P C Taylor Mr N A Venables Professor E S Ward

Mr H M Baker Mr J C Barber Dr T G Blease † Dr G R Blue Mr M D Brown † Mr D S Bulley Mr B J Carlin Mr C J Carter † Mr J M Charlton-Jones Mr S A Corns Mr M J Cosans Dr A J Davidson Dr A P Delamothe Dr P G Dommett † Dr J Edwards † Dr J A Ellerton Mr R C S Evans Mr R J Evans † Mr P G S Evitt Mr T J Fellig Mr P N Gibson Mr A D Halls Mr N P Hyde Dr C N Johnson † Mr D P Kirby † Mr R A Lister † Dr D R May Dr J B Murphy Mr C C Nicol Mr A J Noble Mr T D Owen † Mr R J Pidgeon Mr M H Pottinger † Mr M A Prior Dr B A Raynaud Mr P J Reeder Mr M H Schuster The Revd A G Thom † Mr P A F Thomas Dr D Townsend † Dr W M Wong Mr D W Wood † Mr P A Woo-Ming

1979 (34.44%) Dr R Aggarwal Dr M G Archer Mr T C Bandy † Dr R M Berman Mr N C Birch Mr A J Birkbeck Mr W Calleya-Cortis Dr P J Carter Mr P A Cowlett Mr W D Crorkin Dr A P Day Mr N H Denton Mr N G Dodd Mrs C E Elliott Mr J Erskine † Professor T J Evans Dr J R Flowers Mr S R Fox Mr P C Gandy Ms C A Goldie Dr A R Grant Mr J B Greenbury Dr M de la R Gunton Mr N C I Harding Mr R P Hayes † Mr T E J Hems † Ms C F Henson Dr A D Horton Ms C J Jenkins Professor P W M Johnson † Mr P J Keeble

1980 (25.00%) Mr A M Ballheimer Dr N P Bates † Dr L E Bates † Mr C R Brunold Dr C E Collins Mr A W Dixon Dr S L Grassie † Mr P L Haviland Mr T L Hirsch Dr E M L Holmes Professor J M Holmes Dr J M Jarosz Mr E F Lewins Mr S J Lowth Dr J Marsh Professor J R Montgomery † Mr A N Norwood † Dr N P O’Rourke Dr J N Pines Mr J H Pitman Mr R N Porteous † Lord Rockley of Lytchett Heath Ms J S Saunders † Mr J M E Silman Mrs M S Silman Professor M Sorensen Dr A F Tarbuck Professor J A Todd † Mr R L Tray Dr C Turfus †

1981 (36.36%) Mrs J S Adams Mr A J L Burford Dr M A S Chapman Dr W H Chong Mr G A H Clark Mr S Cox Dr D J Danziger Mr J M Davey † Mr N D J Denton Dr M Desai Mr D P S Dickinson Mr J L Ellacott Mr R Ford † Mr P G Harris Mr A W Hawkswell Mr W S Hobhouse † Mr C L M Horner Mr R H M Horner Mr P C N Irven Mr B D Jacobs Professor T E Keymer Mr P W Langslow Ms F J C Lunn Mr P J Maddock Dr M Mishra Mrs P L Naccarato * Mr T G Naccarato Dr A P G Newman-Sanders Dr O P Nicholson Mr G Nnochiri Ms C L Plazzotta Mr G A Rachman Mrs B J Ridhiwani Dr R M Roope Mrs D C Saunders Mr T Saunders Dr A Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg Professor F R Shupp Mr G J W Spickernell Dr J L d’E Steiner Mrs P C Stratford Dr D M Talbott

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Mr K J Taylor Mr C J Teale Ms L J Teasdale † Ms A M Tully † Mr C J R Van de Velde Professor C R Walton Mr R A Warne Dr E A Warren Ms S Williams

Dr C P Spencer The Revd C H Stebbing Mr R B Swede Mr C H Umur † Ms H E White Mr P G Wilkins Dr K M Wood Dr S F J Wright †

1984 (33.08%) 1982 (36.51%) Dr A K Baird Mr D Baker † Mr J D Biggart † Dr C D Blair Dr H M Brindley Dr N C Campbell Mrs T M Campbell Dr M Clark Mr P A Cooper Mrs N Cross Dr M C Crundwell Mr G A Czartoryski Dr P A Fox† Mr D A B Fuggle Dr I R Hardie Dr R M Hardie Mr J E M Haynes Mrs J Irvine Mrs C H Kenyon Mr M J Kochman Mr P Loughborough Mr J S Mair Ms E F Mandelstam Mr D J Mills Professor M Moriarty Dr J N Nicholls Mr J G T O’Conor Mr D H O’Driscoll Mrs R E Penfound Mr R J Powell Professor S A T Redfern Dr C E Redfern Ms M K Reece † Professor D Reynaud Professor A Roberts Mr J P Scopes Mr A A Shah Mrs A J Sheat Mr M R Smith Ms O M Stewart Mrs E I C Strasburger † Dr J G Tang Dr P S Watson Dr M E C Watson Professor M J Weait †

1983 (32.41%) Dr R F Balfour † Dr D B Bethell Dr J E Birnie Mrs K R M Castelino Professor S-L Chew Professor J P L Ching Mr H M Cobbold † Dr S A J Crighton † Mr J Dempsey Dr A Dhiman Dr N D Downing Mr A L Evans † Mr M J Evans Mr T M Fancourt Mr P E J Fellows † Mr H E Gillespie Dr W P Goddard † Professor D R Griffin Mr W A C Hayward † Mr J St J Hemming Mr D M Hodgson Mr R M James Mr S J Kingston Mr J F S Learmonth Mrs H M L Lee Mr J B K Lough Mr A J McCleary Ms H J Moody Mr R H Moore Mr R M Payn † Mr J A Plumley Mr A B Porteous Professor A G Remensnyder Mr K C Rialas Mr G Robinson Mrs S D Robinson Mrs N Sandler Mr C J Shaw-Smith Mr H C Shields

Dr H T T Andrews † Mr A E Bailey Mr D Bailey Mr R A Brooks † Mr G C R Budden † Dr S E Chua Professor H W Clark Mrs N J Cobbold † Dr A R Duncan † Professor T G Q Eisen Dr A S Gardner Mr D J Goulandris Mr J W Graham Dr N J Hamilton Dr M Harries Dr J C Harron Mr L J Hunter † Mr M A Lamming Dr J R B Leventhorpe † Mr G C Maddock † Dr K W Man Mr A D H Marshall † Mr H C S McLean Mr S Midgen Ms A J Millar Mr E P O’Sullivan Mr I Paine † Mr A D Parr The Hon Justice A I Philippides Mr J R Pollock † Mrs J Ramakrishnan Ms A H Richards Dr K S Sandhu Dato’ R R Sethu Dr R A Shahani Mrs K S Slesinger Dr M R Temple-Raston Prof W A Van Caenegem Mr M L Vincent Professor C Wildberg Mrs K L Wilson Dr H E Woodley Dr S H A Zaidi

1985 (34.97%) HE Mr N M Baker † Mr W I Barter Ms C E R Bartram Dr I M Bell † Mrs J C Cassabois Mr A H Davison Dr J P de Kock Dr E M Dennison Mr M C S Edwards Mr J M Elstein † Mr K J Fitch Mrs E F Ford † Mr J D Harry † Professor J B Hartle † Ms P Hayward Mr P G J S Helson † Dr S A Hopkisson Mr J A Howard-Sneyd Mr J M Irvine Dr C H Jessop Ms N Kabir Dr L J Kelly Mr C L P Kennedy Mr A J Landes Mr W P L Lawes Mrs C F Lister Mrs N M Lloyd Ms D M Martin Mrs S Metherell Dr G K Miflin Ms J M Minty Dr J J N Nabarro The Revd N C Papadopulos Mr K D Parikh Professor E S Paykel Dr R J Penney Mr C R Penty Ms S L Porter Dr D S J Rampersad Professor I D W Samuel Mr R A Sayeed Miss J A Scrine †

Dr A M Shaw Dr P M Slade † Dr G P Smith Mrs E M Smuts Dr C C Stevens Mr W D L M Vereker Mr M J J Veselý Mr I R Ward Mrs J S Wilcox Mrs A K Wilson Ms I U M Wilson Ms J M Wilson Mr R C Wilson Dr I B Y Wong Dr E F Worthington

1986 (26.67%) Dr A S Arora Ms C B A Blackman Professor K Brown Mr A J F Cox Professor J A Davies† Mrs J P Durling Professor R L Fulton Brown Dr K Green Mr R J Harker Mr T Hibbert Professor J M Huntley Mr N J Iles Dr H V Kettle Dr J C Knight Dr M Knight Mr B D Konopka Ms A Kupschus Professor J C Laidlaw † Mr R Y-H Leung Dr A P Lock Ms J R Marsh Dr D L L Parry Mr S K A Pentland Mr H T Price Mr C H Pritchard Dr R M Rao Mr H J Rycroft Dr J E Sale Mr T S Sanderson Mr J P Saunders† Professor A J Schofield † Dr R G Shearmur Mr J W Stuart Mrs E D Stuart Dr C J Taylor Dr A J Tomlinson Dr M H Wagstaff Mr S A Wajed Professor J Whaley Mr T H Whittlestone Mr R C Wiltshire Mr J P Young Mr C Zapf

1987 (34.78%) Mr J P Barabino Mr J R Bird Mr O R M Bolitho Dr K L Bradshaw Mr N A Campbell Mr R Chau Mr N R Chippington † Mrs H J Courtauld Mr A J Coveney † Mr M J Curran Dr L T Day Mrs J L Dendle-Jones Dr H L Dewing Dr K E H Dewing Dr M D Esler Dr A J Forrester Dr G M Grant † Dr P E Grieder Mr J W M Hak Ms C M Harper † Mr S L Jagger Dr M Karim Ms M L Kinsler Dr P Kumar Mr D M Lambert Mr W E Lee Mr S P Leo Mr C A Levy Mrs M M J Lewis Dr J O Lindsay Ms E A C Lock Mr A W Lockhart Ms P A Nagle Mr D C Padfield Mr T J Parsonson

Mr J Porteous Mr S L Rea Dr W P Ridsdill Smith Dr J L Roche Ms J M Rowe Dr M Shahmanesh Mr D W Shores Mr A B Silas Mr B R Tarlton Mr J M L Williams Mr A N E Yates

1988 (34.67%) Dr P Agarwal Dr M Arthur Professor N R Asherie Ms T N Ayliffe Mr R S P Banerji Dr I M Billington Dr M Bisping Mr H A Briggs † Mr J C Brown † Dr A-L Brown Mr N J Buxton Ms H J Carter Ms C Stewart † Mrs M E Chapple † Dr S R De Dr G B Doxey Mr B D Dyer Mr N D Evans Dr N L Fersht Dr E N Herbert Mr L D Hicks Ms A E Hitchings Ms R C Homan Dr A D Hossack † Dr A P S Kirkham Mr F F C J Lacasse Mr F P Little Ms V H Lomax Dr M C Mirow Dr A N R Nedderman † Dr D Niedrée-Sorg Mr S P T O’Connor Mr S J Parker Mr M B Pritchett Mr S Shah Mr W A Shapard Dr R M Sheard Mrs R J Sheard Dr R C Silcock Mr A D Silcock Mr A J Smith Mr R D Smith Mrs A J L Smith The Revd J S Sudharman Ms T W Y Tang Dr R M Tarzi Ms F R Tattersall Mrs L Umur † Mr A G Veitch Miss C Whitaker Ms J B W Wong Dr F J L Wuytack

Dr S L Rahman Haley Dr A J Rice Mr N J C Robinson † Mrs C Romans Mr S C Ruparell † Mr A M P Russell † Professor Y Sakamoto Mrs D T Slade Dr N Smeulders Mr J A Sowerby Dr K M Strahan Dr K K C Tan Mr A S Uppal Ms S Vassilikioti Mrs E H Wadsley Mrs T E Warren † Dr S C Zeeman

1990 (33.71%) Mr M C Batt Dr T P Bonnert Mrs E C Browne Professor A M Buckle Mr C H P Carl Mr M H Chalfen Mr C S Chambers Dr S-Y Chan

Mr T Moody-Stuart † Mr G O’Brien Mr S T Oestmann Ms M E J Pack Dr C A Palin Dr J M Parberry Mr R Rajagopal Dr S J Rogers Dr K P Sainsbury Dr S Sarkar Miss S Satchithananthan Mr P C Sheppard Mr L Shorter † Dr J Sinha Mr J F Skinner Professor M C Smith Professor S A R Stevens Dr M H M Syn Mr C Synnott Dr J C Wadsley Dr G D Wills Mr K L Wong

1991 (32.32%) Mr M W Adams Ms J C Austin-Olsen Dr R D Baird †

A well-attended Caius gathering at Eden Hall in Singapore, the Residence of the British High Commissioner, on 21 April 2016. In the front row (l to r) James Howell, Marilyn Fersht, Christopher Pook, Alan Fersht, Anne and Richard Lyon, Charles Ng and Michael Syn, who generously arranged the event.

1989 (27.98%) Dr L C Andreae Mr S P Barnett Dr C E Bebb Professor M J Brown † Dr E A Cross † Dr S Francis Mr G R Glaves † Dr C D Green Dr A J Hart Mr S M S A Hossain Dr P M Irving Mr N C Jacklin † Mrs L Jacklin † Mr G W Jones † Mr T E Keim Mr J P Kennedy Mr J J-H Kim Dr V A Kinsler Mr J R Kirkwood † Dr H H Lee Dr S Lee Mr T Lim Dr R B Loewenthal Mrs L C Logan † Mr I M Mafuve Mr R M M McConnachie Mr P J Moore Ms J H Myers † Mr H T Parker Dr K J Patel

Ms V N M Chan Dr L C Chappell Mrs Z M Clark Dr A A Clayton Mrs J F Clement Mr I J Clubb Mr P E Day Mr S G P de Heinrich Mr A A Dillon Dr D S Game Mrs C L Guest Mr A W P Guy Mr J D Hall Mr R J E Hall Dr C C Hayhurst Mr A D Hedley Mr I D Henderson † Dr A D Henderson † Mr R D Hill Mr M B Job Mr H R Jones Mr D H Kim Dr S H O F Korbei † Mr S A Kydd Mr G C Li Ms A Y C Lim Dr M B J Lubienski Mr J S Marozzi † Miss M L Mejia

Dr A A Baker Dr P Bentley Mr C S Bleehen Mr D H B Burgess Mrs C J Burgess Mr C R Butler Mr A M J Cannon Mr D D Chandra † Dr N-M Chau Mrs B Choi Miss C M Cutler Dr P A Dalby Dr C Davies Mr T R C Deacon Dr A H Deakin Mrs C R Dennison Dr S Dorman Dr A Dunford Ms V J Exelby Dr C S J Fang † Dr S C Francis † Mr I D Griffiths Mr A Heckmann Mr N W Hills Dr A J Hodge † Mr A R Horsley Dr N I Horwitz Mr W G Irving Dr J P Kaiser †

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...Always a Caian 31 Professor F E Karet Professor K-T Khaw Mrs R R Kmentt Dr H J Lee Mr I J Long Mr D F Michie Dr H R Mills Mrs L P Parberry Mr D R Paterson Mrs C J Richards Dr D A Rippon Ms I A Robertson Miss V A Ross Dr A F Routh Mr A Smeulders Mr J A Spence Mr J G C Taylor Ms G A Usher Mr M J Wakefield Mr C S Wale Mr S J Wright

1992 (27.16%) Dr M R Al-Qaisi Ms E H Auger Mrs S P Baird † Mr A J Barber

Mrs K Wiese Mr C M Wilson Mr L K Yim

1993 (28.25%) Dr H Ashrafian Mrs F C Bravery Dr A C G Breeze † Ms A J Brownhill Dr C Byrne Mr P M Ceely † Mrs A C T Chambers Mr P I Condron Dr E A Congdon Mrs J L Crowther Mr B M Davidson Dr R J Davies Mr O S Dunn Mr P A Edwards Mr M R England Dr A S Everington Dr I R Fisher Dr F A Gallagher Dr A Gallagher Mr A Gambhir Mrs N J Gibbons Mr C E G Hogbin †

Dr D J Crease Dr D J Cutter Mr N Q S De Souza Mr D R M Edwards Dr T C Fardon † Mr S T Folwell Dr E H Folwell Dr J A Fraser Mr S S Gill Mrs C E Grainger Mr R S Greenwood Mr R J M Haynes† Mrs E Haynes† Dr P M Heck Ms C E Kell Mr A P Khawaja Mrs R A Lyon Dr D C O Massey Mr R R Mehta Mr J R Niblett Mrs C L Petevinos Mr J P Petevinos Mr P A J Phillips Professor S G A Pitel Mrs R L Quarry Mr P D Reel Mr P H Rutkowski Dr M J P Selby Mr L R Smallman Dr P J Sowerby Stein Dr M Staples Professor M A Stein Dr K-S Tan Dr R R Turner Mr M A Wood Dr B D Zalin Dr Q J Zhang

1995 (24.15%)

Ms S F C Bravard Mr P N R Bravery Mr N W Burkitt Ms J R M Burton Mr N R Campbell Mr C R G Catton Mr P E Clifton Mr W T Diffey Dr A A G Driskill-Smith Dr I Forde Dr E M Garrett Mr T A Gould Mr R A H Grantham Mrs F M Haines Ms K A Harrison Mr O Herbert Dr S L Herbert Ms J Z Z Hu Mr J Kihara Professor C Kress Mr W Li Mr J Lui † Mr T P Mirfin Dr C R Murray Mr M R Neal Mr R L Nicholls Dr K M Park Mr R A A Qureshi Dr M S Sagoo Mr J D Saunders Mr D P Somers Mrs R C Stevens † Mrs D E B Summers Mr R Tarling Mr R O Vinall Mrs J M Walledge

1994 (26.16%)

Mr B J H af Forselles Dr K J af Forselles Mr C Aitken Professor M C Baddeley Mr M E Brelen Mr J S D Buckley Mr D F J-C Chang Ms S S-Y Cheung Mr C Chew Ms H Y-Y Chung Dr E Cota-Segura Mr J A Crawford Mrs E B Del Brio Dr K J Dickers Mrs J A S Ford † Dr Z B McC Fritz Dr K F Fulton Dr M R Gökmen Dr S J Hamill Dr E A Harron-Ponsonby Mr A J G Harrop † Mr J R Harvey Dr N J Hillier Ms L H Howarth Dr A E Jenkins Dr A L Jones Ms M C Katbamna-Mackey Ms J Kinns Mrs R F T Lynn Ms K M Marsh Mrs J K Matten Canon Prof J D McDonald Dr M A Miller † Dr D N Miller † Mr D E Miller † Mrs C H Mirfin Dr T J Nancoo Dr K M O’Shaughnessy Mr S M Pilgrim Dr B G Rock Ms T J Sheridan † Dr A C B Smith Mr M J Soper Mr S S Thapa Dr G Titmus Mrs S A Whitehouse Dr C H Williams-Gray Mr N J Woodmansey Mr E G Woods Mr S S Zeki

Mr M N Ali Professor G I Barenblatt† Dr R A Barnes Ms I-M Bendixson Professor D M Bethea Dr W E Booij Mrs C H S Catton Dr L Christopoulou†

Mr S T Bashow Mrs R S Baxter Mrs S E Birshan Miss A L Bradbury Miss C E Callaghan Mr K W-C Chan

Ms S J Holland Dr R C Holt Dr A Kalhoro Dr G A J Kelly Mr C S Klotz Dr S B Massara Dr A B Massara Mr T P Moss Mr M R Nogales Mrs A J M Novak Professor A D Oliver Dr A J Penrose Mr R B K Phillips † Dr J F Reynolds † Mrs L Robson Brown † Dr R Roy Mr C A Royle Professor A P Simester Mr D R Stoneham Dr T Walther Mrs K Westphely Ms S T Willcox Mr R J Williams Dr F A Woodhead Mr T J A Worden Mrs A J Worden

1996 (22.35%)

Maj J S Cousen Mrs L N E Curtis Mr J R F Dalton Mr G D Earl Mrs J H J Gilbert † Professor D A Giussani Mr I R Herd Dr S J Lakin Dr O A R Mahroo Miss F A Mitchell Professor J D Mollon Mrs L V Norton Mr J J A Perks Ms J N K Phillips Dr S Rajapaksa Mr A J T Ray Mr J K Rea Ms V C Reeve Mr P S Rhodes Mr J R Robinson Mr D Scannell Mr D C Shaw † Mr C M Stafford Mr C C Stafford Mr A H Staines Mr P M Steen Mr D J Tait † Ms E-L Toh Mr B T Waine Mr M-H Wong Mr C G Wright † Mr K F Wyre † Mr W R Younger

1997 (21.39%) Mr J E Abdo, Jr Dr U Adam Ms A Ahmad Zaharudin Mr A J Bower † Mr J D Bustard Mrs C Chu Mrs R V Clubb Ms R F Cowan Mr A J D Craft Mr I Dorrington Mrs J R Earl Mrs P G Eatwell Dr E J Fardon † Dr P J Fernandes Dr S P Fitzgerald Mr J Frieda Dr J P Grainger Dr D M Guttmann † Dr A E Helmy Professor C E Holt † Mr L T L Lewis Mr A W J Lodge Mr G D Maassen Ms E A Martin Ms V E McMaw Dr A L Mendoza Ms H M E Nakielny Dr S Nestler-Parr Ms L E North Miss R N Page † Miss R Patel Ms E D Sarma Dr G A M Smith Mr S J Stretton Mr B Sulaiman Dr R Swift Dr K S Tang Mr A Thakkar Mr T J Uglow

1998 (17.55%) Mr I Ali Ms H M Barnard † Mr D M Blake Mr A J Bryant Dr A P Y-Y Cheong Mr D W Cleverly Mr F W Dassori Mr B N Deacon Dr P J Dilks Mr J S Drewnicki Mr J A Etherington † Mrs L E Etherington † Dr S E Forwood Mr D G Hardy Mr H M Heuzenroeder The Revd Dr J M Holmes Mr A R Hood Ms K Lam Mr M H Matthewson Ms E Milstein Mr H R F Nimmo-Smith †

Mr A J Pask Mr I T Pearson Mr P S Roberts Professor R P L Scazzieri Dr O Schon Dr D P Smith Ms S C Thomas Mr R A Wood Mrs J C Wood Mr D J F Yates † Mr J K L Yau

Mr A K T Smith Miss C E Smith Mr H F St Aubyn Mrs K E Symons Mr J A P Thimont Dr M Tosic Dr G S Vassiliou Mr E W J Wallace Dr D W A Wilson Dr H Zimmermann

1999 (27.98%)

Dr M G Adam Mr P J Ambrogi Mrs E S Austin Mr D S Bedi Mr B Bednarz Miss A F Butler Mr J J Cassidy † Dr J W Chan Dr C J Chu Mr E H C Corn Dr M G Dracos Mr N A Eves Dr S M Fairbanks Mrs A C Finch Dr T J Gardiner Dr C F K Ghidini Miss E Goulder Mr C M J Hadley Miss L D Hannant Mr G A Herd Dr D P C Heyman Mr D Hinton Mr O A Homsy Mr A J P House Dr A-C M L Huys Mr A S Kadar Mr A J Kirtley Mr D G A Lano Dr M J Lewis Dr P A Lyon † Mr M Margrett Mr A S Massey Dr A C McKnight Mr R J G Mendis Mrs J C Mendis Professor R J Miller Mr D T Morgan Miss S E Mrowicki Mr G R F Murphy Mr H M I Mussa Mr J Z W Pearson Dr R C Peatman Mr A L Pegg Dr R A Reid-Edwards Dr C L Riley Miss A E C Rogers Mr C G Scott Mr K K Shah Mrs J M Shah Dr S J Sprague Mr S S-W Tan Mr M R P Thompson Miss F A M Treanor Dr C C Ward Dr R A Weerakkody Dr H W Woodward

2001 (29.74%) Mr P J Aldis Mr I Anane Dr A Bednarski Mr R F T Beentje † Miss C M M Bell Mr D T Bell † Mr P Berg Dr C L Broughton † Mrs J E Busuttil † Ms J W-M Chan Mr J A Cliffe † Mr J D Coley Ms H B Deixler Miss L M Devlin Mr G T E Draper Mr A Fiascaris Ms S Gnanalingam Mr M A Halliwell Mrs F C Harding Mr A P Holden Mr R H J Holden Mr B Holzhauer Ms J M James Dr L Jin Mr A F Kadar Dr C M Lamb Mr M W Laycock † Mr N O Midgley Mr J W Moller Associate Professor M Monjerezi Dr C Parrish Mr G M T Pasinetti Mr M A Pinna † Miss S J Reynolds Mr A M Ribbans Dr J D Stainsby Professor T Straessle Mr J H T Tan Mrs K L Tuncer Dr G L Walmsley Mr H-S Wong Mr A R R Wood* Mr P J Wood Mr M I Wright Dr P D Wright † Ms Y Yamamoto Mr C D F Zrenner

2000 (26.70%) Mr R D Bamford Dr M J Borowicz Mr J F Campbell Mrs R A Cliffe † Mr M T Coates Mr S G Dale Dr A D Deeks Miss J L Dickey Mr T P Finch Mr E D H Floyd Mr C Galfard Mr M J Harris Dr W J E Hoppitt Mrs J M Howley Dr N S Hughes Mr J M Hunt Ms C A Hunt Mr G P F King Mrs V King Miss M Lada Mr F Y Lai Dr R Lööf Miss C N Lund Dr I B Malone Dr H J Marcus Mr A T Massouras Dr A R Molina Dr A G P Naish-Guzmán Major D N Naumann Mr H S Panesar Mr D D Parry † Mr O F G Phillips Dr C J Rayson Mr C E Rice Mr M O Salvén

2002 (35.23%) Mr C D Aylard Mrs E R Best Mr E Z Blake Ms S E Blake Mr A M Boreland Dr J T G Brown Mrs S J Brown Dr N D F Campbell Miss H M Cooke Miss C F Dale Mrs J H Dixon Miss A L Donohoe Mr J-M Edmundson Dr J D Flint Mrs P E Fox Mrs K M Frost Mr A P W Gale Mrs J H Gilbert Mrs J L Gladstone Prof E A Gonzalez Ocantos Mr S D Gosling Mr N J Greenwood Ms G L Haddock Ms K A Hill Dr A C Ho Mr O J Humphries Mr T R Jacks

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Ms E L Jaffray Ms S A Jamall Mrs H C C Jones-Fenleigh Ms H Katsonga-Woodward Miss H D Kinghorn Dr M J Kleinz Mrs M F Komori-Glatz Mr T H Land Mr R Mathur Ms E J McGovern Mr P S Millaire Mr C J W Mitchell Mrs H C Murray Mr C T K Myers Dr G E C Osborne Dr A Patel Dr A Plekhanov Mr S Queen Mr R E Reynolds Professor D J Riches Mr A S J Rothwell Mr D A Russell Dr R E Shelton Mr A Singh Dr N Sinha Mr D W L Stacey Dr S Ueno Ms L L Watkins Mr A J Whyte Mr C J Wickins Miss R E Willis Ms N Zaidman Mr H T Zeng

2003 (28.50%) Mr R B Allen Mr J E Anthony Mr T A Battaglia Mr A R M Bird Mr C G Brooks Dr E A L Chamberlain Ms S K Chapman Miss V J Collins Dr T E Cope Mr A L Eardley Dr T L Edwards Miss C O N Evans Miss E M Foster Mr T H French Miss R E Gilman Mr J P S Golunski Mr T W J Gray Mr J K Halliday Dr R J Harris Mr M P N Harwood Miss A V Henderson Mr T S Hewitt Jones Dr M S Holt Mr R Holt Mr D C Horley Mr J J Kearney Mr T N Lambert Mr J P Langford Dr A R Langley Mr J A Leasure Miss J S Lee Miss Z W Liu Miss J Lucas Mr C A J Manning Dr D J McKeon Mr K N Millar Mr M J Minichiello Miss M-T I Rembert Ms C O Roberts Miss V K C Scopes Mrs J K Scott Miss N N Shah Miss Z L Smeaton Miss M Solera-Deuchar Dr A E Stevenson Mr J L Todd Dr V C Turner Dr R C Wagner Mr D A Walker Mrs J A Walker Miss K A Ward Mr C S Whittleston Mrs S S Wood Professor Z Yang Dr C Zygouri

2004 (23.53%) Ms A L F Alphandary Mr S R F Ashton Mr M G Austin Mrs A J Blake Dr S Bracegirdle

Mr S D Carter Mrs H L Carter Mrs R C E Cavonius Ms H E Cheetham-Joshi Dr T M-K Cheng Dr A Clare Mr C W J Coomber Mrs R Darley Dr A V L Davis Mr B C G Faulkner Miss L C B Fletcher Mr R J Gardner Mr R Hamlin Miss J L Impey Mr N E Jedrey Dr H G Jedrey Mr M S Knight Miss N J M-Y Koo Mr M J Le Moignan Ms C L Lee Ms C M C Lloyd-Griffiths Miss E F Maughan Ms G C McFarland Mr P E Myerson Ms Z Owen Mr A J S Sharp Mrs L R Sidey Mr G B H Silkstone Carter Mr B Silver Mr D J Supperstone Mr A W Swan Mr G Z-F Tan Ms E M Tester Dr C J Thompson Mrs E S L Thompson Dr I van Damme Mr H P Vann Dr C T Wakelam

2005 (22.28%) Ms P D Ashton Dr C Baloglu Mr D P Chandrasekharan Miss D H Chen Dr G C Clarke Dr J M Coulson Mr D G Curington Miss E M Fialho Miss J M Fogarty Dr E Y M G Fung Miss K V Gray Miss J Hajri Dr P Hakim Mr J S B Hickling Mr K Huang Dr H Hufnagel Mr J McB Hunter † Mr G Jaggi Mr M T Jobson Mr E D Karstadt Miss A F Kinghorn Miss K Kudryavtseva Mr T Y T Lau Dr E Lewington-Gower Dr A H Malem Mr P D McIntyre Mr H T Miall Mrs E F Miall Dr T J Murphy Mr D M Normoyle Mrs F R O’Neill Mr L J Panter Mr J L J Reicher Dr R G Scurr Mr T-N Truemper Mr J F Wallis Mr J H Willmoth Mr C Yu Mr K J Zammit-Maempel Dr J A Zeitler

2006 (21.86%) Mr D T Ballantyne Mr C D Campbell Miss T F M Champion Miss N Chang Miss Y T T Chau Mr H Z Choudrey Mrs J A Collins Mr R D Cox Mr B E N Crowne Mr L De Kretser Mr P C Demetriou Mr R N Dover Mr M A Espin Rojo Mr C González Lopez Mr R J Granby

Mrs T D Heuzenroeder Mr I Hoo Miss B G Johnson Mr V Kana Miss N Kim Miss Y N E Lai Mr S Matsis Dr O Music Mr E P Peace Mr J R Poole Miss C Qin Mr R K Raja Rayan Mr W L Redfern Mr E C D Rice Miss S I Robinson Miss H K Rutherford Mr W J Sellors Mr S S Shah Mr G P Smeaton Miss S K Stewart Mr E P Thanisch Mr Y Y Wang Mr J Z Weng Mr H L H Wong Miss T R Young

2007 (25.00%) Miss M B Abbas Dr M Agathocleous Mr P Y Bao Mr H Bhatt Dr K J Boulden Dr E J Brambley Miss L E Butterfield Mr H Y Chen Mr S J A Coldicutt Dr J P A Coleman Miss N R Di Luzio Mr D W Du Mr J P Edwards Miss A E Eisen Mr A D Felton Mr M E Fletcher Mr P G Khamar Dr F P M Langevin Mrs J F Lewis Dr A B McCallum Miss S Mezroui Mr G E G Moon Mr D T Nguyen Dr H R M Parkes Miss S K A Parkinson Mr T J Pfister Dr S X Pfister Mr I A Rahman Miss S Ramakrishnan Miss C A Reynolds Mr D G R Self Dr H L Slack Dr B D Sloan Dr H Svoboda Mr M H Taylor Mrs R E Tennyson Taylor Miss S I Thebe Miss J F Touschek Miss R I Tun Mr V Vetrivel Mr P F F Walker Mr O J Willis Mr Z W Yee

2008 (26.89%) Mr N V Bhatt Ms L Bich-Carrière Miss L C Borkett-Jones Dr J M Bosten Mr O T Burkinshaw Mr C-W Cheung Mrs S A Cox Mr J E Goodwin Dr M A Hayoun Miss N Khan Ameli Mr K R Lu Dr A W Martinelli Miss K J McQuillian Dr S J Methven Miss J Miao Mr D G W O’Brien Mr J M Oxley Miss A H W Pang Miss L C Parker Mrs K E Pawlett Miss E C Robertson Mr J P Rogers Mrs Ryder Mr Y Shan Dr M C Stoddard

Mr A J Teare Mr I Y Wang Dr A P T Wilson Miss S R Wilson-Haffenden Mr X Xu

2009 onwards Mrs C J C Bailey Mr G M Beck Mr J D Bernstock Mr F A Blair Dr M J Booth Mr L W Bowles Mr C Budjan Dr D J P Burns Mr Y Y C Chan Tan Sri Dr J Cheah Miss X Chen Dr A Cheng Miss H R Crawford Mr E D Cronan Mr A D B Decas Ms J E Dick Mr C P Egan Mrs L K Evans Mr C A Gowers Mrs A W S Haines

Mr & Mrs D A W Alexander Mr & Mrs S V Ali Dr & Mrs K Al-Janabi Mr & Mrs G I Andrew Mr & Mrs D F Andrews Mrs & Mr L Anilal Mrs W ap Rees * Professor E J Archer *† Mr & Mrs M R Armond Ms W K Arnold Mr & Mrs R H Ashenden Mr & Mrs J Aspinall Mr J M Aste & Dr K S Beizai Mr & Mrs T M F Au Mr & Mrs A V Avery Mr & Mrs K Azizi Dr S & Dr S Azmat Mr & Mrs J O Bailey Mrs J Baker Mr & Mrs A M Bali Mr & Mrs N J Balmer Mr & Mrs R W Bardsley Mr H Barkemeyer & Mrs L A Johnson Mr H S Barlow Mr & Mrs S S Barter Mr & Mrs H R Bartlett

Mr S Brookes Mr & Mrs R C P Brookhouse Mr & Mrs A Brown Mrs S Brown Mr & Mrs R C Brown Mr R Brown Mr & Mrs N W Bruce-Jones Mr & Mrs J Budjan Mr & Mrs M C Burgess Mr & Mrs D Burrell Mrs S Butler Mr & Mrs J W Butler † Mr & Mrs R J M Butler Mr & Mrs B C Byrne Mr & Mrs P B Campbell Mr I W Carson & Ms S L Hargreaves Mr & Mrs P Carson Mr G Casale & Mrs K Miskolczy Dr H S Casey Sir Geoffrey Cass Mr & Mrs D M Cassidy Mr M J Cassidy Mr & Mrs M Cator Mr & Mrs A J Catton Mr & Mrs D I Chambers Mr & Mrs N F Champion

A gathering of Caians at the Union Club of New York City on 24 October 2015.

Mr J H Hill † Mr J R Howell Mr P Jareonsettasin Mr S D Kemp Mr T Koops Mr P Kumar Dr J A Latimer Miss J Li Dr K-C Lin Dr I L Lopez Franco Mr C A Lovejoy Mr J M B Mak Mr C J McKeon Miss A C Newton Miss C Nielsen Mr D M O’Shea Mr M C Owen Miss A P C Romana Mrs L W S Sallnow-Smith Mr J M Schnitzer Mrs E S Shooter Dr C E Sogot Mr R Sondarajan Mr A D Stacey-Chapman Mr J P J Taylor Mr W D Tennent Mr J W Warner Mr D Zikelic

Parents & Friends Professor J V Acrivos Mr & Mrs P Aflalo Mr & Mrs R A Agass Mr K Aherne Mr & Mrs J Aibara Mr A M Aldridge

Mr & Mrs C Bates Mrs J H Bates Mr & Mrs A Baucutt Dr & Mrs J G B Baxter Dr A S Bendall Mr & Mrs M Bennett Mr & Mrs M A Bennett Mr J Bentley Mr & Mrs B Bergman Mr A K N Bernhardt & Ms A P Brogan Mr J J Bernstein Mrs L M Bernstein Mr C R & Dr P M Berry Mr & Mrs A R Best Mr & Mrs S M Bhate Mr R L Biava Mr & Mrs T Bick Mr & Mrs L P Bielby † Mr & Mrs C P Bignall Dr K G & Dr H J Bilyard Mr & Mrs S K Binning Mr & Mrs T N Birch Dr A & Dr A B Biswas Dr R M J & Ms L A Bohmer Mr & Mrs K Bolton Mr M E H Booker Dr & Mrs J J C Boreham Mr H J & Dr S E Borkett-Jones Mr & Mrs S H Bostock Mr & Mrs I G Bradley Mr A C W Brandler Mrs J A Bridgen Mr B J Bridgen Mr & Mrs G Britton Mrs N S Brooker

Mr & Mrs A C F Chan Dr & Mrs M D Chard Mrs R A Chegwin Mr & Mrs L Chen Ms S J Chenevix-Trench Mr R T C Chenevix-Trench Dr C Cheng Mr & Mrs D N Chesterfield Mr T L & Dr M N Chew Mr & Mrs A P Chick Mr K Ching Mr W S Chong Mr & Mrs Z M Choudrey Dr K M Choy Mr & Mrs T J E Church Mr & Mrs I P Clarke Mr & Mrs N Cockerton Mr & Mrs P Coleman Mr & Mrs M P Collar Mr & Mrs C Constantinou Mr & Mrs P Cookson Dr S J Cooper Mrs C A Copley Mr & Mrs D W Copley Mr & Mrs A Corsini Ms D A Crangle Mr D Crawford Mr & Mrs M W Crawford Mr & Mrs J Crewdson Mr & Mrs R N Crook Mr & Mrs S J Crossman Mr & Mrs S J Croucher Dr & Mrs T G Cunningham Mr & Mrs I J Curington Mr & Mrs P F Daniel Mr & Mrs M J Daniels

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Mr P Evans † Mr & Mrs P J Everett Mrs V S R Falconer Mr & Mrs J H Fallas Mr & Ms J F Fanshawe Mr & Mrs M J C Faulkner † Mr & Mrs M Fawcett Mr & Mrs B M Feldman Mr C Ferris & Dr A E Walker Lady Fersht Dr Y Fessas Mr & Mrs R B Filer Mrs C L Fitzgerald Mr & Mrs H D Fletcher † Mr & Mrs T Fletcher Mr & Mrs L G F Fort Dr & Mrs D Frame Mrs D Freeborn Mr & Mrs C G Freeman Mr G Frenzel Mrs I Frenzel Mrs J Gibbons Mr & Mrs M J Gibson Mr C J & Dr C Glasson Mr & Mrs J I Goddard Mr & Mrs N Gordon Mr & Mrs A Gottschalk Dr P W Gower & Dr I Lewington Mr & Mrs P J Graham Mr & Mrs D J Grainger Mr & Mrs D R Graney Ms E Gray

Mr & Mrs A P R Gray Mrs M W Gray Mr & Mrs D M Gray Mr & Mrs S Green Capt & Mrs P J Griffiths Mr & Mrs I T Griffiths † Professor P J Grubb Mr & Mrs L J Haas Mr & Mrs G Hackett Mr & Mrs K S Hairettin Mr & Mrs T Hajee-Adam Mr & Mrs A M Hall Mr & Mrs K Hall Mr T & Dr H Halls Mr & Mrs M S Handley Mrs R A Hanson Mr & Mrs H Hardoon Mr M Haroche & Prof A Crémieux Mr & Mrs J K Harrison Mr & Mrs A J Hartley Tan Sri T Hashim Ms A L A Hawkins Dr & Mrs M Hawton Mr & Mrs Hutchings-Hay Mr & Mrs R Heinsohn Ms P Hickox Dame Rosalyn Higgins

Mrs P M Hill Mr & Mrs Y P Ho Mr N C Holloway & Mrs I N Terrisson Mr J D Home Dr R C J Horns & Dr L Y Chak Mrs Y R Horsfall Turner Mrs A E Howe Ms L Howell Mr A M Howes Dr M K Hsin Mr & Ms S Hu Mrs P M Hudson Miss S J Hullis Mrs J A B Hulm † Mr & Mrs P E Hussey Mrs C E Jackson-Brown Dr & Mrs T Jareonsettasin Mr M I Jeffreson & Ms J M Thomas Dr & Mrs D Jeffreys Mr & Mrs R Jeffs Mr C H Jones & Ms E L Davies Mr R F E & Dr V Jones Mr M D Jones Mrs K Jones Mr & Mrs N D Judd Mr & Mrs G Kampjut Mr & Mrs K Kankam Mr & Mrs E Kay Mr & Mrs T Keating Ms J N Keirnan

Mrs A Kelly Mr & Mrs P Kemp Mr R Kenrick Mr J A Kerr & Ms C Smeaton Professor I Kershaw Mr & Mrs M P Khosla Ms Y Kim Mr P J King Mrs M Kirkham Mr M Koblas Mr & Mrs N Kochan Ms C E Kouris Ms S A Kozmin Mrs M Kruger Dr A & Dr U Kumar Professor & Mrs B G Kunciw Ms E M Lacovara Mr M J T Lam Mr & Mrs D W Land Mr & Mrs S Langhorn Mr & Mrs G R Langridge Mr & Mrs C D Last Mr & Mrs K W Lau To’ Puan Lau-Gunn Chit Wha Mr & Mrs P D Law Mr & Mrs T M Lawrence Professor I & Dr S Lazanu

Mr & Mrs S D Leibowitz Mr A M Leitch & Ms M E Strowbridge Mr & Mrs H Lennard Mr & Mrs M Lentrodt Mr & Mrs J R Leonard Mr & Mrs A W Leslie † Dr J L Lesniarek Mr & Mrs J M Lester † The Hon Dr and Mrs CY Leung Mr & Mrs L R Lever Mr & Mrs P J Lewis Mr & Mrs W M Lewis Mr S Lewis Sir David Li Mr & Mrs X Liao Mr & Mrs A Lilienfeld Mr & Mrs M A Lindsay Mr S N M Lindsey Dr T Littlewood & Dr K Hughes Mr & Mrs M C F Lock Mr & Mrs J R Lodge Mr A M P Lodha Mr & Mrs P H Loh Mr & Mrs C J Lonergan Mrs P A Low * Mr & Mrs A S Lowenthal Dr X Shan & Ms Q Lu Mr & Mrs P D Lucas Dr Y L K Lui Mr D K S Lum & Ms M M W Chua Professor D Luscombe

Mr & Mrs P G Lydford Mr L C L Ma Mr N I P MacKinnon Mr D F Macpherson * Mr & Mrs J K Madden Mr & Mrs P J Magee Mrs J M Malcolm Dr & Mrs H Malem † Dr K S & Dr V Manjunath Prasad Mr A Maquieira Mr & Mrs M M Marashli Mr & Mrs P C Marshall Mr & Mrs J M Martyn Mrs & Mr J Mason Mr W P & Dr J O Mason Mr & Mrs C McAleese Mr & Ms A McAvinue Dr L R McClelland & Dr J A E Scott Mr & Mrs R A McCorkell Mr & Mrs C G McCoy Mr & Mrs A T Mckie Mr J Mergen & Mrs L M Durbin Mr & Mrs P D Midgley Mr & Mrs J P Miller Mr & Mrs J Miller Mr & Mrs J E Mills Mr D J Mills Mr & Mrs K Mitani Mr & Mrs R J Mitson Mr & Mrs F E Molina Mrs A C Møller Mr A J & Dr A M Moorby Mr J E Moore Mr & Mrs J Morgan Mr & Mrs D J Moseley Professor & Mrs J T Mottram Mr & Mrs P J Muir Mr & Mrs C J Murray Mr & Mrs G I Murrell Mr S Nackvi Mr & Mrs T Neal Mr & Mrs A T R Nell Professor P E Nelson † Mr & Mrs P F Newman Professor C R J C Newton Ms I Newton Mr A M L Ngiam Mr & Mrs V X Nguyen Mr & Mrs R Nicholls Mrs A Nnochiri Mr & Mrs R W Northcott Ms T D Oakley Mr P J O’Brien & Mrs S M Nicholl Mr & Mrs X Odolant Mr & Mrs E P Oldfield Dr C Ortiz Dueñas Mr & Mrs P Osprey Professor L Pace & Mrs E Piemonte Mr & Mrs L Palayret Mr A Palmer & Mrs M Raisman Mr & Mrs S G Panter † Mr & Mrs A Parker Mr B R Parkinson & Ms A I Laffeaty Dr R Parmeshwar & Dr K Shrestha Mr & Mrs A Parr Mr & Mrs D A Parry † Miss E H Parton Mr & Mrs S Patange Mr & Mrs N Patani Mr & Mrs V A Patel Mr K G Patel † Mr & Mrs G D Patterson Mr & Mrs J H Pattinson Mr & Mrs R B Payne Mrs E A Peace Dr D L & Dr E M Pearce Mr & Mrs S D Pearson Mr & Mrs G S Pedersen Ms B Pfeffer Mr & Mrs R D Phillips Mr & Mrs G E Picken Mrs K E Plumley Mr & Mrs C J Pope Mr & Mrs S Potter Mr & Mrs N E Potts Ms J T Preston Mr & Mrs S Purcell Mr & Mrs K Purohit

Mr E Quintana † Mr & Mrs K P Quirk Mr J G S Willis & Ms P A Radley Mr & Mrs B M Radomirescu Mr & Mrs D H Ratnaweera Mr & Mrs S M Reed Mr & Mrs A J Reizenstein Mr & Mrs M P Reynolds Professor & Mrs J Rhodes Mr G D Ribbans Mr & Mrs J C Richardson Mr & Mrs M Richardt The Rt Hon Viscount Ridley Mr & Mrs A E Riley Mr & Mrs D E Ring Mr & Mrs S Roberts Dr P M Robertson & Dr J A Edge Mr & Mrs T J Robinson Mr & Mrs J P Roebuck Mr & Mrs C H Roffey Mr & Mrs D I Rose Mr & Mrs A C Rowland Dr & Mrs S M Russell † Mr & Mrs R G Rutter Mr & Mrs P M Sagar Mr & Mrs M Salt Mr & Mrs K A Sandford Mr & Mrs M J Sanford Mr I Sanpera Trigueros & Ms M D Iglesias Monrava Mr & Mrs M D Saunders † Mr M Savage & Ms K M Fletcher Mr & Mrs M Schnitzer Mr & Mrs A S Schorah Dr & Mrs A J V Schurr † Mr & Mrs G Scott Mr T Scott Mr B Scragg Mr & Mrs T J Scrase Mr & Mrs D A Scullion Mr & Mrs A Scully Mr & Mrs M D Seago Dr & Mrs E S Searle Mr & Mrs P S S Sethi Mrs N Shah Mrs & Mrs M S Shaw Ms G Shepherd Dr & Mrs J V Shepherd Mr & Mrs J D Sherlock-Mold Mr M Shevlane Dr X Shi & Mrs Y Yang Mr & Mrs J C Shotton Mr & Mrs D P Siegler Ms T Silkstone Mr & Mrs R Sills Mr S K Sim & Mme N H Tan Mr & Mrs C H Simpson Mr & Mrs I E Simpson Mr & Mrs S Singh Mr M S H Situmorang & Mrs S T I Samosir Mr & Mrs T S Sivaguru Mrs M M D Slipper Mr & Mrs J R M Smith Mr & Mrs G Sohoni Mr P J Sparkes & Ms S A Richmond Mr G T Spera & Professor J C Ginsburg Mr & Mrs M Spiller Mrs J L Stanford Mr & Mrs G Stark Mr & Mrs G Stewart Mr & Mrs J R Stuart Mr & Mrs R Sturgeon Mrs K Suess Mr & Mrs C Suggitt Mr P Sun Mr & Mrs R J Sweeney Mr & Mrs P R Swinn Mr R Tait Dr & Mrs B Tan Mme J Tao Mr & Mrs A G Tatton Mr V Telesca & Mrs P Del Rosso Mr & Mrs P Tennent Dato’ C Q Teo Mr & Mrs H Thakrar Mr & Mrs T Thebe Mrs E T Thimont † Mr B Thompson & Mrs N Rucker Mr J E Thompson†

Dr A Thrush & Dr H Bradley Ms C Y-C Ting Mrs B A Toller * Mr & Mrs G Tosic Mr & Mrs I K Treacy Mr & Mrs P Treanor Mr & Mrs B P Uprety Mr & Mrs M S Uwais Mr & Mrs M J Van Dam Mr & Mrs N A M Van Der Ploeg Mr & Mrs S Varathanatham Mr & Mrs A G Vaswani Mr & Mrs P M Village Ms C J Vorderman Mr & Mrs T R Wakefield Mrs A J Walker Mr H Wang & Dr Z Huang Dr G & Dr K Warner Mr & Mrs A J Weaver Mr & Mrs A S Wells Mr & Mrs P Wells Mr R Westmuckett & Ms C E Martin Mrs P V M Westwood * Ms J E White Mr & Mrs N Y White Mr & Mrs T C J White Dr A Wilkins Mr & Mrs M B Wilkinson Mr & Mrs P Wilkinson Mrs A S Willman Mr & Mrs W R Wilson Mr & Mrs K Withnall Mr & Mrs W K W Wong Mr & Mrs M Wood Mr & Mrs M P Wooder Mr & Mrs P M Woodward Mr & Mrs M Woodward Dr A R & Dr H A Wordley † Mr & Mrs D Wright Mr J Xiong & Ms H Zhou Professor Q Xu & Dr Y Hu Mr & Mrs Y Yamamoto Ms E S G Yates Mr B T Yefet & Mrs A E Arovo Mr M Yerolemou Ms L Yerolemou Ms A Yonemura Mr S P Young Dr & Mrs X-F Yuan Mr K Yuen Dr R M Zelenka Mr G J Zhang & Ms S H Xiong Dr & Dr S A Zia Mr S M Zinser

Corporations, Trusts & Foundations Agouron Institute Amgen Apax Partners LLP Apple Ball Corporation Bandar Raya Developments Berhad Bank of America Barclays Bank BP International Ltd BT Foundation Caius Club Caius Lodge Deutsche Bank Educational Testing Service General Electric Goldman Sachs & Co Google History Today Linklaters LLP MBNA International Bank † Michael Miliffe Memorial Scholarship Fund Mondrian Investment Partners Ltd Permodalan Nasional Berhad RBS Redington Sanford C. Bernstein Limited Sir Simon Milton Foundation Symantec The Boeing Company The Royal College of Organists Tun Suffian Foundation UBS YTL Power Generation Berhad

Bold represents Membership of the Court of Benefactors. The current qualification for full membership of the Court of Benefactors is lifetime gifts to the College of £20,000.

Percentage figures in brackets show the percentage participation of the Matriculation Year

† member of the Ten Year Club

We also wish to thank those donors who prefer to remain anonymous

* deceased

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Traffic Calming The 92nd image of the Caius366 series took a glimpse into the future: As it is increasingly difficult for Caius students and Fellows to find their way across Senate House Passage through speeding cyclists, uncompromising runners and tourists distracted by the Gate of Honour, plans are in hand to make the area safer for all involved. Proposals include replacing the cobbles with tarmac to allow full use of the pavement, installing a traffic-calming island at the Trinity Street exit and placing speed bumps at strategic points.

Traffic lights at either end will advise cyclists when it is safe to proceed.

The consultation process is yet to be completed but our image shows how the 21st century Senate House Passage might look. ‘Everybody is in a hurry these days,’ said spokesman Avril Prost, of traffic management consultants In-Utile. ‘It’s a fact of modern life. But we think our plan is both practical and environmentally sensitive. We are particularly pleased with the concept of the traffic-calming island, which we believe greatly improves the visual amenities of the area, as well as introducing some much-needed greenery, which in turn plays its part in the carbon cycle.’

The Master of Caius, Professor Sir Alan Fersht, has welcomed the initiative: ‘After many near misses, I have taken to wearing a reflective high-visibility gown whenever I cross Senate House Passage,’ he reports. ‘These measures can’t come soon enough. Ideally the College would welcome a full, anti-clockwise, one-way system around the entire Old Courts site, possibly with a toll barrier on Trinity Street to deter recreational cyclists and members of less safety-conscious colleges.

A small moat to create a clear division with Trinity Hall wouldn’t go amiss either.’

Numerate readers will already have worked out that the 92nd day of a Leap Year is April the First.

Yao Liang

A Caius Table A welcome guest at High Table this summer was Dr Kathy Sole from South Africa, who brought news of her Caian father and the gift of a small table, beautifully carved by her Caian grandfather as the College crest. Professor Yao Liang (1963) was very pleased to accept the table on behalf of the College. Kathy said that what always shines through her parents’ stories about Caius is how much they enjoyed their time here.

Her maternal grandfather, Dr Victor Palmer (1917), finished school in Durban and came to Caius to read Medicine – but delayed his studies to fly as a wartime pilot in the RFC. After graduation, he became a specialist eye surgeon at St Thomas’ Hospital, only going back to South Africa in about 1932. When WW2 started, he volunteered again and served with the SA Medical Corps in Egypt before setting up a private eye practice in Durban after the war. As well as woodcarving, Victor was a keen wildlife photographer.

Kathy’s father, Dr Mike Sole (1959) was also raised in South Africa and came to Caius as a married Research Student in Physics, to be supervised by Philip Bowden (1926). Mike still tells the story of how bemused he was by British etiquette when he attended a grand, black-tie dinner in the Master’s Lodge, hosted by Sir Nevill Mott (1930): ‘I remember picking up a small bunch of grapes, like a good South African, and then looking around to see the more distinguished tackling individual grapes with a knife and fork! At a suitable moment in time Lady Mott shepherded her lady guests away for some musical entertainment on the clavichord, which she played. Meanwhile, the men repaired to the smoking room with goblets of brandy, later to be rejoined by the ladies.

At this stage everyone was enjoying the evening greatly, but again, at some unannounced but predetermined moment, unknown to us but seemingly known to the others present, it was time to depart!’

Mike was planning to bring the table to Caius himself, but two recent knee replacements have limited his mobility. He and his wife, Liz, now hope to come back in 2017. They are wondering whether English dining rituals have changed...

The Senior Treasurer of CBC, Dr Jimmy Altham (1965) writes...

Melissa Wilson (2011) won the Elite sculls at Women’s Henley this year and then was in the crew that won the Princess Grace Challenge Cup for quad sculls at Henley Royal Regatta. Alison Mowbray (1993) had previously won both these events, before winning her Silver Medal at the Athens Olympics. Melissa is the first woman to win at Henley after first learning to row at Caius.

Chris Down

Star Sculler

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A Silver Amnesty The Keeper of the College Silver, Dr Michael Wood (1959) is fond of a cautionary tale about an undergraduate society dinner in College, after which it was discovered that a piece of silver cutlery was missing. The Senior Tutor summoned the head of the society and told him the College strongly disapproved of such souvenir hunting. He asked him to tell all the members that no further action would be taken if the item were returned anonymously to the Fellows’ Butler. A week later, the Senior Tutor asked the Butler if there had been any developments. The Butler expressed satisfaction that he had already received three pieces of cutlery!

Michael was reminded of this story when he received a package containing a silver fork, with a note apologising for ‘youthful exuberance’. He was delighted to have the fork back, as it was part of a set given to the College in 1833 by Fitzjames Watt (1828), to mark his graduation. He would like to thank the person who returned it, but has no address!

Michael wonders if there are many other ‘souvenirs’ languishing in Caians’ drawers, which ought to be returned to the College for safekeeping. He realises the silver tale is probably apocryphal but would be very pleased if it came true! He is therefore offering an amnesty to anyone who might care to send him any other items of College silver that have gone astray.

No names, no packdrill!

James Howell

R.I.P. Obituaries appear in our sister publication, The Caian, but we note with sadness the recent passing of three much-loved and longstanding Fellows of the College: (left to right) Professor Sir Sam Edwards (1945), Professor Christopher Brooke (1945) and Mr Derek Ingram (1974).

Photos: Dan White

Russ on the Canvas Anyone brave or rude enough to remark that our Head Porter is “no oil painting” can now be proved technically incorrect. Louise RileySmith spent two years painting portraits of the Head Porters of Cambridge colleges and she chose this splendid picture of our very own Russell Holmes, looking suave, debonair and sporting a Caius umbrella, to adorn the poster advertising her exhibition.

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Yao Liang

On 3 August 2016, the President, Professor John Mollon (1996) bet Professor Anthony Edwards that the next President of the USA will be neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump. The stake was the traditional bottle of port and the sporting wager was recorded in the Betting Book by the junior Fellow present, Dr Gareth Conduit (2011), himself a regular participant in this ancient college tradition.

T

he Fellows of Caius are the custodians of an unbroken sequence of Betting Books in a continuing tradition that started in 1789. In that year on 10 March they celebrated ‘The memorable Day on which the Parliament was opened by Commission after the King’s Recovery’ – George III’s release from his first bout of madness.

Such books are not uncommon in the older Colleges. In Cambridge, Caius claims second place to Emmanuel. They are an integral part of the life of the Senior Combination Room and record not only bets, but other excuses for presenting wine to the Room, such as the receipt of honours by Fellows, the celebration of victories in wartime, the advent of peace or even matrimony (once Fellows were permitted to marry: on 25 June 1797 ‘Mr Hepworth promises to give to the room one bottle of Port for each vacancy by marriage among the Fellows senior to himself’). And of course bad behaviour in the Combination Room, such as smoking after dinner before the presiding Fellow had given leave, or removing a newspaper or journal without the

President’s permission, is fined in potable currency.

But it is the bets themselves which provide most of the entertainment and the richest source of interest. Traditionally they take place during dessert in the Combination Room after dinner, normally to be settled on a similar occasion later. There were some twenty-five Fellows at the end of the eighteenth century, although only a minority will have been resident in College. All being bachelors, the Combination Room was the focal point of their society.

An example of the commonest format for a bet is: ‘Mr Grierson bets Mr Bennett that the expression “Runcible hat” does not occur in the works of Edward Lear. 20 Oct 1943 R.A.Fisher DR. Lost by Mr Grierson: C.O.B. (R.)’ Here Philip Grierson (1929) asserts that the expression ‘Runcible hat’ does not occur in the works of Edward Lear, which E K ‘Francis’ Bennett (1914) disputes. Since the assertion proved to be false, Bennett won the bet and Grierson had to ‘present wine to the Room’, in the conventional phrase.

Nowadays, this involves a round paid for by

the loser, unless a different payment is agreed. Following the date is the signature of the junior Fellow present, who recorded the bet in the book as the ‘DR’ or Deputy Registrary. At some later date, unrecorded, the bet was settled in Bennett’s favour as noted by C O Brink (1954) who was appointed Registrary in 1957 and later became Kennedy Professor of Latin. Philip Grierson became Professor of Medieval Numismatics and R A Fisher had just become Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics; E K Bennett, a linguist, was Senior Tutor.

In the case of presentations, sometimes the event is declared, as in ‘Mr Fox presents two bottles of hock to the room, on his farewell to the College; Sept 17, 1944’, and sometimes not: ‘Sir Charles Sherrington presents wine Sept 18, 1944’. Sherrington (1915), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1932, was an Honorary Fellow, thus confirming that Honorary Fellows have the same standing as Fellows in the Combination Room.

Fines for behaviour were most commonly for smoking at dessert without permission.

All fines are for ‘acts of inadvertence’: ‘Professor Fisher is fined for an act of

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In May 1964, Charles Goodhart (1937) asserted that he might be at the centre of the universe and nobody could prove it otherwise. John Barnes (1957) disputed this but was later recorded as having lost the bet by a young cosmologist who joined Caius the following year, S W Hawking (1965), who later became something of an authority on the universe.

A large amount of wine was presented to celebrate Lord Nelson’s victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Horatio Nelson’s father, Edmund Nelson (1741) was a Caian and so were two of Edmund’s cousins. One of them, also named Edmund Nelson (1743) was Junior Fellow from 1750 to 1753. In Volume II of the Biographical History, John Venn (1853) incorrectly ascribed that Fellowship to Lord Nelson’s father. Christopher Brooke (1945) pointed out in his History of Gonville & Caius College that the older Edmund Nelson would have been ineligible for a Fellowship by virtue of his marriage in 1749.

The Fellows’ Betting Books inadvertence. P.A.S.Hadley 22 Jan 44. Paid 7/7/44.’ Fisher was a pipe-smoker, and no doubt having filled his pipe he was on autopilot and forgot to ask the presiding Fellow for permission to light it.

Another finable offence is removing a newspaper or journal from the Room, but whom to fine? D B R Banham (1858) was much irritated by the removal of Punch: ‘Whoever has Punch is fined, Nov.13th 1862, Nov.28th, March 20th, 1863’ but it is likely his remonstrance went unrewarded. Not so Wm Hey Crosthwaite (1859), who on 17 November 1863 complained ‘Whoever has the Quarterly is fined. Found in the Master’s Lodge.’ There is no record of the fine being paid by the Master, Edwin Guest (1819), but sometimes the miscreant pays: ‘Whoever has Crockford’s Directory is fined. Joseph Needham, Pres. 3rd Jan.1960 8½ p.m. Fine paid by the Dean in Madeira 7 Jan 1960’.

Bets sometimes involve competing future events. ‘Professor Wood bets Mr Stratton that a new planet outside Neptune will be discovered before women get the suffrage, Jan 13.1909. Lost by Professor Wood, & Paid.’

Bets might be either ‘paid’ or ‘posted’, meaning stored in the cellar to be drunk

later. But many more are still outstanding.

Or bets might be in terms only known to the participants. ‘Dr McNair bets Mr Deas that X will be Y within 5 years. 14 June 1928.

Lost by Dr McNair & paid 22 Feb 1942’. The suspicion is that such bets were about marriage. But then ‘Mr Griffith bets Prof.

Stratton that x will not be x+y within 10 years. 30th April 1934.’

A presiding Fellow might fine himself: ‘Three members of the high table, including the acting President, were fined by the acting President for dining without giving notice.

V.G.Chapman, R. 15 October 1937. Pd. 15 Oct. V.G.Chapman.’ There is also an instance of the Master being fined for an act of inadvertence, but it is not clear how this can happen unless it was another case of selffining.

In the past, bets were sometimes not with odds of 1:1. ‘Mr Ferrier bets Mr Frere 5 dozen of wine to two dozen that Mr Pitt is not Minister of this country for five successive years and at the end of five years.

December 30th, 1791. Lost by Mr Ferrier and paid’. Between the World Wars there were many bets about sporting events, mainly county and test cricket, but also rugby, tennis

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and fives, and of course rowing. Often contests between Fellows in tennis or fives were the subject of bets.

Of course it is easy to give an impression of frivolity when selecting bets to quote, but there are also a fair number of differences of academic opinion about scientific or literary matters. ‘Dr Zeeman bets Dr Waddington that the series [a mathematical expression is given] is divergent. 24 Feb 58. Lost by Dr Waddington.

Paid 3 Jul. 58.’ ‘Mr Bennett bets Mr Gomme that Shakespeare wrote a sonnet of which the first line is “The expense of spirit in a waste of shame”. 18.5.58. Lost by Mr Gomme’.

And so the bets and the fines and the celebrations roll on, term after term, year after year, century after century, recording the events in the life of a small continuing community that would otherwise be lost as the corporate memory fades. Long may it be so.

Acknowledgment Further details of colleges’ Betting Books can be found in the article by Dr Mark Buck (Fellow 1977- 82) in The Caian (1 October 1981 to 30 September 1982), on which parts of this account are based.

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EVENTS AND REUNIONS FOR 2016/17 Development Campaign Board Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 27 September Michaelmas Full Term begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 4 October Caius Club London Dinner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 7 October Caius Foundation Board Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 21 October New York Reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 21 October Patrons of the Caius Foundation Dinner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 21 October Official Opening of the New Boathouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sunday 20 November Commemoration of Benefactors Lecture, Service & Feast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sunday 20 November First Christmas Carol Service (6pm) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wednesday 30 November Second Christmas Carol Service (4.30pm) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 1 December Michaelmas Full Term ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 2 December Caius Choir Alumni Christmas event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 2 December Varsity Rugby Match . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 8 December Lent Full Term begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 17 January Development Campaign Board Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 23 February Second Year Parents’ Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 16 & Friday 17 March Lent Full Term ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 17 March Telephone Campaign begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 18 March MAs’ Dinner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 24 March Annual Gathering (1987, 1988 & 1989) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 8 April Inter-Collegiate Alumni Golf Tournament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 20 April Easter Full Term begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 25 April Stephen Hawking Circle Dinner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 13 May Easter Full Term ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friday 16 June May Week Party for Benefactors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 17 June Caius Club May Bumps Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 17 June Graduation Lunch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 29 June Annual Gathering (1978, 1979 & 1980) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 4 July Admissions Open Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thursday 6 July & Friday 7 July Choir Tour to Malaysia and Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . August /September Annual Gathering (up to & including 1964) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saturday 16 September Michaelmas Full Term begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tuesday 3 October Commemoration of Benefactors Lecture, Service & Feast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sunday 19 November

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