The Caian 2023-24

THE CAIAN

THE ANNUAL RECORD OF GONVILL E & CAIUS COLLEGE

CAMBRI D GE

1 Octobe r 2023 – 30 September 2024

Front cover: View of the Cockerell Building (College Library) from Caius Court

THE CAIAN

THE ANNUAL RECORD OF GONVILL E & CAIUS COLLEGE

CAMBRI D GE

1 Octobe r 2023 – 30 September 2024

Edited by Joachim Whaley

Assistant Editor: Declan Boyd

The Editor would like to thank Tabitha Barker, Fiona Colbert, Declan Boyd, Matt McGeehan, Becky Rutter, Lizzy Vogel and Maly Vu for their assistance.

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Preparing for graduation

2023-24

Robed and ready

The Master’s Report 2024

Master and Fellows (1-12)

Pippa Rogerson Master

Conflict of laws, company law

Dr Pippa Rogerson writes:

Reflecting on the activities of the College at the end of another academic year is heartening. That the College remains committed to its mission of education, religion, learning and research is evidenced by this review.

The College’s Education Strategy sets out an overarching ambition of ‘All-round excellence for our students in the provision of education and support to ensure they are equipped to achieve their potential while at Cambridge and to make a positive contribution to the world when they leave’. Our undergraduate students have again done us proud, coming 10th on the old Baxter tables analysis. The figures are no longer publicly available. There is still room for improvement but that is a much better showing than 19th six years ago. The students especially but also the Directors of Studies, supervisors and tutors must be congratulated.

Peter Robinson President, DoS in Comp Sci, Comp technology

Michael Prichard Senior Fellow Legal history and equity

Neil McKendrick

Michael Wood

Modern English social & economic history Mechanical engineering

Improving examination results depend on teamwork, from encouraging the best students to apply, to selecting the students of the highest potential irrespective of background and then providing them with excellent teaching and support throughout the year. The Admissions team are recognised as having the best social media presence of all Cambridge colleges. We recognise that TikTok is where the new generation of applicants find information so that’s where the College must meet them first. Other effective outreach programmes, such as work with Year 11s in the Caius Link Areas, is also important. Something is going well. There were almost 1,200 applicants to the College for 165 places this last year.

James Fitzsimons Medical physiology

Research remains a focus in Caius. This year we welcomed our first group of Postdoctoral Research Associates. PDRAs work on fixed-term postdoctoral research projects across the University. That group number some 4,000. The eight PDRAs at Caius are working on a wide range of research projects and they greatly enrich and enliven our community at lunch and dinner. The termly lecture series which has been combined with the annual lecture in science and ethics commenced in October with Professor Alan Blackwell speaking on ‘Moral Codes: Designing an alternative AI’, followed in January with a lecture by Professor Emma Griffin on ‘Why did Britain industrialise first?’ Other notable achievements include Professor Patrick Chinnery being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, joining Professor Ivan Smith who was elected FRS last year. Professor Christine Holt was appointed a CBE in the King’s Birthday Honours List.

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Jeremy Prynne English poetry

Tony Kirby Bioorganic chemistry

Richard Duncan-Jones Classics

Fellows who joined this year are: Dr Sanne van Neerven, Dr Cristian Larroulet Philippi, Dr François·e Charmaille, Dr Andrew Docker, Dr Ned Crowley, Dr Demetrios Lefas, Professor Richard Nickl and Dr James Hambleton. The following Bye-Fellows also joined: Professor Monojit Chatterji and Dr Eleanor Drage. Dr Gareth Conduit resigned his Fellowship to focus on building the company that he founded to develop his research further, but his teaching continues as he now becomes a Bye-Fellow. The Revd Canon Dr Nicholas Thistlethwaite, sometime Chaplain of the College and Fellow 1986-90, returned to Caius as the Dean’s Vicar in 2018 and he too has become a Bye-Fellow.

We said farewell to: Dr Emily Sandford, Dr Bronwen Everill, Dr Ted Tregear, Dr Jose Siqueira and Professor Lionel Smith. Dr Thomas Biginagwa was here for the year as the Research Bye-Fellow for the Global South and Dr Alix Michaud as French Lectrice.

Very sadly two Fellows died this year: Dr Richard Duncan-Jones and Professor James Fitzsimons. The life of Honorary Fellow Lord (John) Morris of Aberavon was celebrated in Westminster Abbey. Gonville Fellow Benefactor Martin Wade died more recently and is remembered often for his generosity to the Boat Club, especially with a new boat.

The University is undertaking a wholesale review of undergraduate teaching in response to evidence of increasing numbers of intermissions from overwork. The review is due to report in 2024-5 and includes members from Faculties and Departments, from the University Administration, and from Colleges. Both students and academics have been suffering from increasing workloads and the pressures of fitting everything in during Term. Nevertheless, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities are an essential part of what Caius and Cambridge can add to students’ lives post-Cambridge as well as while they are here. The College remains fully committed to offering and encouraging those opportunities. The May Ball was fabulous.

Sporting activities are well represented this year. As an Olympic year the College celebrated the gold medal of Harold Abrahams in the 1924 Games with a toast on the anniversary and the exhibition Blood, sweat and ink: sporting endeavours from Gonville & Caius. Hannah Snellgrove (2009) joined 20 previous Caian Olympians, earning a place on Team GB for the 2024 Games in sailing. Caius has 21 University Blues and Half-Blues including Carys Earl (2021) in the successful women’s Blue Boat. Our contribution to CUBC continues with Lucy Havard (History PhD 2022) being named Women’s President of the Cambridge University Boat Club for 2024-25. There were Caius Blues in men’s and women’s golf and cricket, along with Blues and Half-Blues from hockey to tennis and even rugby fives. Caius Boat Club has had another successful year, particularly with the women’s boats. W1 is Head of River in the Mays and second in Lents. The men have some catching up to do as M1 dropped to third in both Lents and Mays – expect a resurgence from them next year.

College music remains extraordinarily strong. Our excellent Chapel choir has been recording evensongs with the BBC and also a new disc of Mathew Martin’s music. There

has been a wide range of other musical endeavours. For example, the band Quasar with Finlay Gerrard and Sarah O’Callaghan won the battle of the bands in the University, and a place at Cambridge Club Festival. Lola Frisby Williams (2023) won the University’s Concerto Competition for her performance on the clarinet. That prize is a much soughtafter opportunity to perform a concerto with the flagship Cambridge University Orchestra (CUO) and a leading professional conductor as part of the orchestra’s 2024-25 concert season. Eben Eyres (Peter Walker Organ Scholar, Music 2022) was awarded third prize in the senior category of the Northern Ireland International Organ Competition and also won the St John’s competition. My Fair Lady performed by the Gonville and Caius Music Society was a triumph as the May Week show.

Our outreach included setting up the inaugural Caius South London Choral Competition. The final was held at Langley Park Boys School in Beckenham. Three primary and three secondary school choirs were successful in reaching that final after an initial video sift and some workshops. The evening demonstrated an amazing range of talent from Beyoncé to Gibbons. The purpose was to recognise music-making in maintained sector schools in south London, to encourage the singers of the future, and with a fair wind we hope some might eventually apply to Caius choir.

Caians have also excelled in the arts, notably the two Honorary Fellows elected this year. Kwamé Ryan (1989) is a conductor and music director of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and Director of the University of Trinidad and Tobago National Academy for the Performing Arts. Nicola Shindler (1987) is a TV producer and executive: her work includes Last Tango in Halifax and It’s a Sin. Olivia Khattar (2022) went to Edinburgh Fringe Festival with her Cambridge show It’s OK, I still think you’re great. Zebulon Goriely (2021 PhD) won the Best Micro Short Award at the British Film Institute Future Film Festival 2024. Cheryl Frances-Hoad (1998) composed a carol for the King’s Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols in December 2023, following Matthew Martin’s composition in 2022.

The annual alumni events continue with some new additions. There were fascinating discussions at the Caius Open Day for alumni over issues important to the Caius community such as the Higher Education Sector’s strategy in the face of decreasing funding, the future of education in age of AI, admissions, and freedom of expression. The second Caius Family Day saw the Harvey Court Gardens being enjoyed by many Caians and their families. Face-painting was especially popular. The May Week party was a little damp, but spirits were high. Annual Gatherings and the Commemoration of Benefactors were happy occasions. A London event at Reed Smith discussing investment in the life sciences attracted a lively crowd. The Development Director and I visited Hong Kong, Singapore and the US and were welcomed by local alumni with great warmth. The College is so grateful for the many contributions in time, treasure and talent from alumni.

The new property in Rose Crescent is already proving its value. Thirty-one students have been living very happily in the flats above the retail units. MICA Architects have

been engaged to develop an estate master plan for the site and will report to the College in the academic year 2024-25. This is a tremendously exciting project for Caius that will unfold over the next decade or so.

Next year will be my last as Master of Caius. I will have completed seven years, including two overshadowed by Covid. I look forward to a return to academic life full-time. The Fellows have chosen Professor Richard Gilbertson FRS FMedSci FRCP EMBO as the 44th Master of the College. Richard is the Li Ka Shing Chair and Head of Department of Oncology at the University of Cambridge and Director of CRUK Cambridge Centre. His research focuses on understanding the link between disordered development and the multiple different brain tumour types observed in children. He is currently a Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. In more personal news, my first granddaughter arrived in January. Like her mother and aunts, she was christened in the Chapel, continuing the family’s connection with Caius into a third generation. Her father is also a Caian. At the end of September 2024, I ceased my role as Chair of the Colleges’ Committee and handed on to Dame Heather Hancock of St John’s. This last year will be full of farewells to alumni, staff, students and Fellows. I very much hope to see as many Caians past and present as possible.

The Chapel

Revd Dr Cally Hammond writes:

Returning to Caius after a year on sabbatical leave combined shock and relief: shock as the Michaelmas Term hit with its usual tsunamic force, relief because even spending my days in the company of Augustine could pall without some admixture of practical duties.

I spent my year away working on two texts by Augustine, one an early work, a dialogue between himself and his son Adeodatus, entitled The Teacher (de magistro); and the other a work he began around the same time as he wrote his Confessions, but left unfinished until the final years of his life, entitled Teaching Christianity (de doctrina Christiana). They will be published together as a new Loeb Classical Library volume in 2025.

Another project during 2023-2024 was the preparation of a collected volume of my commentaries on the Sunday readings for the Church Times. This too will be published in 2025. Much of what I wrestle with when writing re-emerges in one form or another in Chapel worship, especially on Sunday mornings. Talking of which, brunch has now returned to Caius in the bar/café (thanks to our new Domestic Bursar, Karen Ball), which has been warmly welcomed by our Chapel community.

In the Easter Term, we said goodbye to two chapel clerks, Lauren Harrison-Oakes and Layo Akinola. They were a fantastic support to me and the whole Chapel during their time of service: unfailingly positive, reliable, and patient with my foibles and forgetfulness. For many years now, I have presented departing clerks with a copy of Christopher Brooke’s book, A History of Gonville and Caius College. Eventually the supply of copies ran out: but AbeBooks made it possible for me to amass enough secondhand copies to keep the tradition going for several more years.

Thursday night debate returned in the form of DDD (‘Discussion, Dessert, Drink’), with the following themes:

‘Is religion dangerous?’ (The Dean)

‘Punishment, compensation and forgiveness: how to reconcile a nation’ (Juan Felipe Bonivento)

‘Can you trust the Bible?’ (Oscar Poulson and Luke Mason)

‘Anonymity and the criminal law’ (His Honour Judge Mark Lucraft KC, The Recorder of London)

The Precentor’s report will doubtless include an update on the project to provide the College with a new organ, which is to be installed in 2028. But one project begets more. The chapel lighting, which has not been upgraded for at least fifty years, is falling short of modern requirements (to paraphrase a scene from the film Hot Fuzz, ‘well, there’s On...and Off’). We are designing a modern flexible system, one which does not require mountaineering skills on the part of the maintenance staff (to change lightbulbs). Plans for providing greener and more efficient heating for the Chapel are also unfolding. After that, the Chapel will have to be redecorated throughout, before the new organ is built. Watch this space for further developments.

FROM THE REGISTERS

A solemn requiem was celebrated for the Commemoration of All Souls, 2023.

The Commemoration of Benefactors Sermon 2023 was preached by The Very Revd Mark Bonney, Dean of Ely Cathedral.

A joint Choral Evensong with the Choir of Haileybury School took place in Chapel on 21 November 2023.

Christmas carol services were held on 29 and 30 November 2023.

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2024 was marked by a Prayer and Praise service in Chapel led by the College Christian Union.

A Funeral Service was held in Chapel for David Daisley, long-serving member of the kitchen staff, on 1 February 2024 (see page 104).

Dr Perse’s Sermon 2024 was preached by the Revd Professor Michael Reiss.

A Lent Sequence of readings and music on the theme ‘Love Unknown’ ended the Lent Term Sunday worship on 10 March 2024.

A Service of Prayer & Dedication after Civil Marriage took place for Paul Samuel and India Wright on 13 April 2024.

A Memorial Service for James Fitzsimons was held in the Chapel on 27 April 2024.

BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong, sung by the College Choir, was broadcast live from Pershore Abbey on 25 September 2024.

At a service of Holy Baptism in Chapel, Matilda Alice Myers was christened by Fr Paul Keane of Fisher House on 28 September 2024.

Layo Akinola and Zoë Zhang were baptised and confirmed in the Chapel, and made their first Communion, on 28 April 2024, with Bishop Graeme Knowles presiding and confirming.

The Leavers’ Service for the Stephen Perse Sixth Form took place on the Nativity feast of St John Baptist, 2024.

Holy Matrimony was solemnised between William Playford and Emilie Fitzsimons on 7 September 2024.

Corporate Communion Services, followed by supper, were celebrated on the Eve of St Luke 2023, Shrove Tuesday and Ascension Day 2024.

The record of fieldfares will henceforth lapse, as the Dean has moved from Harlton to Cambridge.

The first swifts were heard over Caius Court on 12 May 2024.

The Dean’s Vicar was The Revd Canon Dr Nicholas Thistlethwaite, sometime Chaplain of the College, Fellow 1986-90 and now Bye-Fellow.

Chapel Clerks were:

Lauren Harrison-Oakes

Layo Akinola

The Choir

(96 - 107)

Matthew Martin, Precentor, writes:

The College Choir continues to go from strength to strength, providing opportunities for students from a variety of backgrounds to sing and make music at the highest level. The many transferable skills the singers learn over their three years will be of great benefit, whatever path they take. The past year has been an important one for consolidating our enviable reputation, culminating in a high-profile recording of Michael Haydn’s Requiem with the Academy of Ancient Music as well as some well-publicised concerts that attracted great interest and a BBC broadcast.

Christopher Scott Tutor for Admissions & Outreach

Michaelmas Term 2023 was preceded by a concert in Pershore Abbey in their ‘Pipedreams’ festival, marking the inauguration of their new Ruffatti organ. We performed works by Elgar, Finzi and Howells – mostly music with Gloucestershire/ Worcestershire connections – to a capacity audience in the cavernous space of the abbey. This was a great way to start the year as we welcomed new members into the choir, including the brilliant Harrison Cole, our new Assistant Organist for the year. As term got underway, we continued to provide music for the three regular weekly chapel services, as well as other special services such as All Souls’ (at which we sang the Requiem by Maurice Duruflé) and the annual Commemoration of Benefactors. We try to host a school choir at least once a term, and this term’s visitors were from Haileybury College in Berkshire. It is always a great pleasure to welcome younger singers to Caius in order to experience a taste of what we offer.

The two Christmas Carol services were well attended (as usual) and the following week saw the choir performing at the Perse Feast and Annual Gathering. Our Christmas concert in Edington Priory (16 December) was conducted by Jeremy Summerly, who was shortly to take over for a term to cover the Precentor’s sabbatical in Lent Term 2024. Jeremy is Director of Studies in Music here at Caius and is no stranger to the group. The choir was extremely grateful for his insight and wisdom during this Lent Term, as well as some entertaining evenings after services.

Jennifer Phillips Domestic Bursar & Operations Director

Highlights from Lent Term included a joint service with the choir of Sidney Sussex College on Ash Wednesday, and our first Caius Choral Outreach Day in South London. Maintained schools in our link areas were given the opportunity to enter a choral competition by submitting a video of any popular song of their choosing. We selected a shortlist from these and those school choirs chosen were invited to Langley Park

Physics

Matthew Martin

Precentor and Director of College Music, DoS in Music

School in Beckenham for the final which was divided into senior and junior categories. It was a great and moving event in a large hall filled with children and their parents, and it helped to forge stronger links with schools in the area through a shared love of music. The College Choir also attended and contributed to the day by singing a few lighter pieces to the children. It was wonderful for them to see the raw enthusiasm of young people with real potential but mostly making do with rather limited resources at school. My thanks go to Gwyneth Hammond (our London Outreach Officer) and judges Jeremy Summerly and Nathan Mercieca (ex-Caius Choir choral scholar) for all their work preparing for this event.

Easter Term was kick-started by a concert in Orford church as part of the Britten-Pears Arts Festival. We sang music by Britten (Hymn to St Cecilia), Howells, Sheppard and Michael Haydn (Missa Sancti Ieronymi). The latter was something of a dry run for our summer recording project. The following week saw the memorial service for Professor James Fitzsimons in Great St Mary’s (27 April) which was a significant event for many in the college. The choir took a leading role in the worship commemorating this great man and sang works by Brahms, Walford Davies and Rutter. It was all hands on deck at the organ as we welcomed Dr Geoffrey Webber (1989) back to accompany the choir and Professor Malcolm Smith to play before the service.

Much of the rest of this term was spent preparing for our summer recording patch: recording two masses by Michael Haydn for a CD release by Linn Records in September 2025. The project took place in St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead, and was by far the biggest we have undertaken in my time here. The playing of the Academy of Ancient Music was exceptional and really informed the way the students responded to this colourful music. The players seemed to be mightily impressed by us too! We were extremely fortunate that the four solo roles were taken by Caians: Julia Doyle (1998), Kate Symonds-Joy (2002), James Robinson (2011), and Malachy Frame (2011).

These two large-scale pieces (Requiem and Missa Sancti Ieronymi) are unjustly neglected works by the younger brother of the more renowned master, Josef. The Requiem is of particular note as it seems likely that it was the prototype for Mozart’s more famous work. The young Mozart and his father certainly attended some early performances of the piece and the similarities between the two works are more than coincidental. This will be the third disc for Linn since my arrival in 2020 and we are fortunate to have a recording contract with such a renowned label. The most recently released second disc in the series (Matthew Martin: Masses, Canticles, Motets) has already received glowing reviews, including a rare double five-star rating in the prestigious BBC Music Magazine

Immediately preceding this mammoth exercise were visits to sing at two of our College livings: Lavenham and Blofield. We sang music by Kenneth Leighton and Philip Moore at an Evensong in Lavenham church to help them celebrate their patronal festival. The audience in Blofield heard a performance (with organ) of the Haydn Requiem, plus

works by Britten, Bruckner, Howells and Holst. The nineteenth century-organ in the church was almost a semitone sharp which kept everyone on their toes, and Harrison Cole did an admirable job of replicating a large ‘Classical’ orchestra.

The final event for this year’s choir was a BBC Radio 3 broadcast of Choral Evensong in Pershore Abbey on 25 September. Leighton’s Second Service and Brahms’ How lovely are thy dwellings (Requiem) were the two main items, with Responses by David Trendell and an anthem by Philip Moore joining the day’s psalmody to make up the hour-long programme. We are always given such a warm welcome by our hosts at Pershore, and I am extremely grateful to the Vicar and Churchwardens for having us.

I could not let the moment pass without mentioning news of the proposed new organ for the chapel (2028). We have signed a contract with Th. Frobenius & Sønner Orgelbyggeri for a new three-manual instrument with 38 stops. This is the result of much hard work by the Organ Working Party, especially Dr Julian Sale, Prof. Malcolm Smith, Revd Canon Dr Nicholas Thistlethwaite and the Precentor. You can find more information here on the choir website: www.gonvilleandcaiuschoir.com/the-newfrobenius-organ.

I must also thank my colleagues for their wonderful support: notably, Claire Wheeler (Chapel and Choir Administrator), Jasmine Habgood (Choir PR Apprentice), and Harrison Cole (Assistant Organist), who keep me on track. My thanks also go to the Revd Dr Cally Hammond (Dean) and Revd Canon Dr Nicholas Thistlethwaite (Dean’s Vicar).

The 2023/24 Caius choir comprised 18 singers: 10 Choral Scholars, 1 Lay Clerk and 7 volunteers. There were 7 sopranos, 4 altos, 3 tenors and 4 basses. The Senior Choral Exhibitioner was Robert Henderson, and the Librarian was Amy Howell.

Those holding named scholarships were as follows:

Assistant Organist – Harrison Cole

Peter Walker Organ Scholar – Eben Eyres

Margaret Chumrow Lay Clerk – Jack Stebbing

Patrick Burgess Choral Scholar – Orlando Oliver

John Chumrow Choral Scholar – Robert Henderson

Peter and Thérèse Helson Choral Scholar - Louis Pettitt

James Pitman Choral Scholar – Butterfly Paterson

Sir Keith Stuart Choral Scholar – Tobias Barnett

John West Choral Scholar – Heidi Homewood

Caius Fund 2022 Choral Scholar – Hannah Brooks-Hughes

The Gonville & Caius Students’ Union

The Junior Combination Room (GCSU)

Isaac Mellis-Glynn, JCR President, writes:

February 2023 saw the election of a GCSU Committee composed primarily of first-year undergraduates, breaking with the convention of second- and third-year undergraduates holding most Committee roles. This brought with it energy, innovation, and new perspectives. The Committee combined fresh thinking with significant diligence and care, which provided a sound platform for the robust representation of undergraduate interests and the delivery of a range of initiatives to support current students.

A strategic focus on enhancing student health and wellbeing led the Committee to implement a Prescription Charge Reimbursement Scheme. This allowed undergraduate students to claim reimbursement for six NHS prescription charges per academic year. Particularly in the context of a cost-of-living crisis, this initiative removed barriers to accessing prescriptions and ensured that students could prioritise their health. I am heartened that the 2024-25 GCSU Committee has continued this scheme, and I hope that it remains a fixture of GCSU activity in the future.

In addition, the Committee launched a number of other initiatives to support student welfare. We worked with the College to ensure that the porters can offer the best support possible to students who are victims of spiking. This work included getting all porters trained to understand the symptoms of spiking, and introducing feedback mechanisms for porter responses to incidents involving students.

As well as this, we introduced GCSU dessert nights and Week 5 pyjama formals, both of which were popular with the student body. We also continued established GCSU wellbeing initiatives, running welfare teas, organising mid-term chocolates, and providing supplementary sexual health products.

The second year of voting for student flag days saw two flags (the Transgender Flag and the National Flag of Ireland) meet the required threshold to be flown by the College. The success of nominated flags at the voting stage was a first. It was brilliant to see this avenue for the expression of student voices embraced by the student body. I am very grateful to all Committee members for the role they played in getting out the vote.

The representation of student opinion at the highest levels of the College remained a key focus of the GCSU Committee. Members were active in the College Council and

a range of College Committee and Sub-Committees. We raised concerns about the policy of the College on a number of issues, and we put forward detailed suggestions for improvement. For example, we were able to clearly communicate student views on the College’s ban on air fryers and effect a partial removal of this ban.

The 2023-24 GCSU Committee were also active in supporting the social side of undergraduate life at Caius. Tia McBurnie (Freshers’ Rep) worked tirelessly to organise and run a sensational Freshers’ Week that was packed with social events where first-year students could get to know each other. Lauren Guye and Zameer Shahpurwala planned fantastic formals and superhalls as Food and Bar Reps. The murder mystery superhall was especially inspired with teams using clues that were revealed throughout the dinner to piece together an answer to the question of ‘Who killed Dr Caius?’ The ENTs team ran several successful BOPs that were well-attended by the undergraduate student body. The Committee also provided students with more opportunities to socialise and unwind at the end of each week through collaborating with the College to implement the Caius Happy Hour which now runs in the Bar every Thursday and Friday.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank those who played significant roles in working with the 2023-24 GCSU Committee. To the Master (Pippa Rogerson), the Senior Tutor (Andrew Spencer), the Senior Bursar (Robert Gardiner), and the Domestic Bursar (Karen Ball), thank you for engaging in constructive dialogues with us on a number of different issues. To all members of the College Council and the various College Committees/SubCommittees that GCSU representatives sit on, thank you for listening to the concerns and suggestions raised by the GCSU and supporting robust discussion on these matters. To all Caius staff, thank you for assisting with the organisation and delivery of a number of GCSU events and initiatives. To the MCR Committee, led by MCR President Tejas Rao, thank you for your willingness to cooperate with the GCSU on a range of issues throughout the year.

My thanks also go to all members of the 2023-24 GCSU Committee who put in many hours of work and much effort as representatives of the student body. It really was a team effort, and I hope that you enjoyed being part of the Committee as much as I did! In particular, I would like to thank Grace Hanley for her leadership and support as VicePresident of the GCSU Committee.

I am very proud of what our Committee achieved in the short space of twelve months and I wish the 2024-25 Committee, led by Oscar Poulson, all the best in their endeavours.

Committee members were:

President – Isaac Mellis-Glynn

Vice-President – Grace Hanley

Treasurer – Caspar Loewe

Secretary – Sam Dernie

Academic Officer – Laura Solomon

Access Officer – Lily Goulder

BME Officer – Asha Kaur Birdi

Class Act Officer – Sophie Porter

Clubs and Societies Officer – Seb Gentile

Disabilities and Mental Health Officer – Poppy Miller

ENTs Team – Finley Brighton, Aidan Jones, Louis Stephen

Food and Bar Reps – Lauren Guye, Zameer Shahpurwala

Freshers’ Rep – Tia McBurnie

Green Officer – Katie Duthie

International Officer – Sofia Cornu

LGBTQ+ Officer – Pip Alpin

Publicity Officer – Owen Hanks

Welfare Officers – Catherine Abercrombie, David Lee, Tia-Renee Mullings

Women’s and Non-Binary Officer – Arpita Chowdhury

Amalgamated Clubs and Societies 2023-24

Allotment Society

The Gonville & Caius Allotment Society meets weekly throughout the year at our plot in Harvey Court Gardens to grow fruits and vegetables. With over 100 members on our mailing list, we provide a place to relax, fun updates on our plants and a welcoming environment to help students destress. We also run a range of social events such as visits to the College orchard, swaps with other allotment societies and celebrations of festivals. This year our socials have also included a pumpkin carving session and a series of wellbeing meetings throughout exam term.

Our gardening-based activities include planting new seeds and weeding, and towards the end of the year we harvest and cook what we have grown. The plants we have grown this year have included potatoes, new thriving blueberry plants, lots of peas, and strawberries again! We have been working hard to raise our beds to protect the soil from run-off and have been battling some persistent weeds. We are also intending to expand to a new bed for planting and have established a good set of fruit bushes in pots!

This year our activities have been somewhat hindered by rain, so planning ahead we will be looking to diversify our meeting times and the range of activities we run throughout the year. We are looking forward to new activities in the coming year: trips to the Botanic Garden, building new structures to deter pests and squirrels, more crafts nights, and more afternoon meetings in Easter Term.

Committee members were:

President: Kim Worrall

Secretary: Yael Dillies

Treasurer: Hazel Harvey

Fellows’ Representative: Dr Chris Scott

The incoming committee for 2024-25:

President: Poppy Miller

Secretary: Hazel Harvey

Treasurer: Maddie Hampson

Fellows’ Representative: Dr Chris Scott

Badminton Society

This has been a lively year for the Badminton Society. We held two sessions per week for nine weeks each term: one with four courts on Fridays from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. and another on Sundays from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. Average attendance was high, especially during Michaelmas Term, with some sessions attracting over 30 people; our estimated average was 21 attendees, so four courts were just about sufficient. Matches were held when necessary and were engaging events, involving a consistent team with regular weekly training sessions. We also held three social sessions throughout the year, with an endof-term social in Michaelmas, a bowling social in Lent (joint with the Squash and Tennis societies) and finally an Easter barbecue social (also joint with Squash and Tennis societies).

In Michaelmas Term, our Open 1 team narrowly avoided relegation, coming fourth out of seven teams. They were far more successful in Lent, although they narrowly missed out on promotion.

Our second open team welcomed two new freshers in Michaelmas, alongside longstanding members of the club. The second team finished right in the middle of Division 6 by the end of term, but the team chemistry and doubles pairings had started to gel. Having missed out on promotion in Michaelmas, the team went into the Lent league with renewed enthusiasm and vigour. Four wins against Homerton’s second team, St Andrew’s School, Emmanuel’s second team and St Catharine’s, and a narrow loss to Christ’s second team, saw our second team finish at the top of Division 6.

Our Open 1 and Women’s 1 teams enjoyed limited success in this year’s Cuppers, primarily because they were drawn against challenging teams for our opening group games, with Open 1 facing the top team of Division 1 (Robinson’s first team) in our opening game but reaching some success with a 2-1 defeat.

Consultations are underway to alter the timings of our sessions next year, as the Friday evening slot clashes with attendance at other events such as Formal Hall. The Sunday slot is ideal, and having two courts makes perfect sense.

Additionally, as Kelsey Kerridge Sports Centre charges £1.20 for day entry, which we currently reimburse team members, it would be optimal if we could pay this charge for all members. Perhaps a venue change would be required, although the available venues, such as the University Sports Centre or the Ley’s School, are not central, and this distance could decrease participation.

Following success with the Open 2 team with promotion, we wish to strengthen our first team in order to push for promotion. We were only a few points off this year. Additionally, we also wish to widen participation of women in badminton next year by forming a women’s team that can compete in the University women’s league.

We also wish to widen participation for the incoming freshers by increasing engagement right from the start. We took a first step this year by funding the freshers’ opening try-out event.

Committee members were:

President: Shangqing Yang

Vice-Presidents: Alexandre Peuch and Sunay Challa

Treasurer: Hassan Himaz

Open 1 Captain: Shangqing Yang

Open 2 Captains: Alexandre Peuch and Rhianna Yung

Board Games Society

The Board Games Society was started in October 2013. Fifteen to 20 Caius students (predominantly from the JCR) attend semi-regularly, with an attendance of between five and seven at each of our weekly meetings, which take place in the Bateman Room or Junior Parlour on Mondays from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. We also hold an all-day board games event at the start and end of each term.

We normally play a shorter game to start with, such as No Thanks or Codenames, then a longer game such as Betrayal at the House on the Hill, Escape from the Aliens in Outer Space, or Root.

We are a casual gaming society that welcomes anyone who wishes to play, regardless of prior board gaming experience, and we strive to ensure that diverse types of board games are played each week to suit all preferences. The Board Games Society currently owns 60 games.

As attendance is typically low during Easter Term, we would like next year to attract more students whose exams are less pressing so that there are enough people to play the bigger games which require four to seven players.

Committee members were:

President: Yael Dillies

Secretary: Tanai Chotanaphuti

Boat Club

Caius Boat Club has been rowing on the Cam since 1827. Our main aims throughout the year are to compete and succeed in the Lent and May Bumps competitions, where each year, after four days of carnage, the rankings are readjusted. Caius boasts one of the most successful boat clubs on the Cam, with our men’s first VIII at third on the river in Lents and Mays and our women’s first VIII at second and Head (first on the river). With

a great community that stretches back through our years of competition and success, strong links to the University teams, and top-of-the-range boat and boathouse facilities, CBC is both a great community of people and a force to be reckoned with on the river. This year saw some tough competition, with the men battling a few very fast crews from our rival clubs, while the women achieved storming success throughout the year. Michaelmas saw the integration of a new set of novices and promising results. QErgs (Queens’ indoor rowing competition) saw NW1 come third and NM1 sixth in the final. CBC had the fastest NW2 team, and NM2 placed a strong seventh in the heat stages. At Emma Sprints, although NM1 suffered bad luck and did not make it further than the quarter finals, NW1 finished in an impressive fourth place. Our other crews were unable to race due to dangerous weather conditions. Clare Novices’ Regatta saw our women race but unfortunately not our men due to technical difficulties, with NW1 making progress and finishing in second overall, while NW2 made it to a strong showing in the semi-finals. The Fairbairn Cup saw the end of the novice season, with NM1 finishing fourth and NM2 10th, beating many first novice boats. NW1 finished fifth and NW2 seventh in each of their categories.

For the senior women Michaelmas was a busy term, starting with the Rob Roy Autumn Head, at which W1 and W2 came respectively fourth and sixth overall among the women’s crews. The crews split off to race in the University Fours, before W1 then came sixth in a very tight top of the field at Cantabrigian Winter Head, with W2 coming fourth in their division. Finally, they raced at Fairbairn’s with both coming in a close sixth in their divisions.

Lents then saw the women first take on Newnham Head, with W1 coming in joint second and W2 and W3 each coming third in their divisions. Pembroke Regatta saw W1 make it all the way to the final in a competitive field, with W2 making it to the semifinals of the regatta. Finally, Lents saw unbridled success for the women’s side, despite the reduced field due to the training term’s weather limiting river access for the lower crews. Both W2 and W1 achieved the highest honour of Bumps, blades, which requires a little luck but a lot of speed, grit and training. W1 bladed up to second in the river, ready for a headship campaign next year.

Mays brought the Radegund Mile as the first race, with W2 and W3 both putting in fast times: W2 came in third in the Division 2 eights behind two W1 crews, and W3 finished second in the Division 3 eights, being beaten only by a W2 eight. Mays saw successful campaigns throughout the boats. W4 saw tough competition with second boats and ended up down two; W3 managed two textbook bumps to make it plus two. W2 was unlucky not to blade and instead made it up three after two crews bumped out in front of them on the third day. Meanwhile, W1 started the week with a blunder, being bumped down by Lady Margaret (St John’s), before overturning this and bumping up twice, brutally and effectively, to gain women’s headship for the first time since 2002 – a very special day!

For the senior men, the year started out well with competitive results in University Fours and the Winter Head, ending in a victory in the most prestigious event of the term, the Fairbairn Cup. The M1 and M2 8+ boats won their category for the third year in a row, putting their time ahead of many M1 crews. Lents saw a tough term, with interrupted training throughout and new crews to bed in. In the Pembroke Regatta, M1 was beaten by the eventual winners, Lady Margaret, in the semi-finals, while M2 raced valiantly in the First Division. This ended with Lents, where, despite courageous rows by all crews, M1 ended up down one over the week, with M2 being placed among strong M1 crews, bumping them down three over the week.

Mays saw the work of the year start to come together, with some serious speed being demonstrated by M1 in a four at the Spring Head-to-Head and the Champions Eights Head. However, due to some seriously tough opposition and some unfortunate mistakes throughout the week, M1 fell down two, finishing at third on the river. M2 similarly showed some great speed, but, after a tough term of some strong racing, finished down one, with an unlucky positioning in the chaotic competition of bumps. They remain one of the highest ranked M2s, continuing to show the depth that the men’s side retain. Meanwhile, M3 demonstrated grit throughout the week, finishing up one.

We also raced on the national stage, with M1 making the journey down to the treacherous tideway conditions for the Eights Head, where we placed strongly, beating many University crews and providing a relatively inexperienced crew with a wonderful experience.

Mention must also go to the triallists that have come through the ranks of CUBC. First and foremost is Carys Anne Earl, who after learning to row with CBC went on to win the Boat Race this year with Cambridge. We also had victory for Margaux Riley and Charley Craig in the Women’s Lightweights and representation by both Lucy Havard and Charlotte Heeley in Blondie and the Spare Fours, respectively. There was strong showing from the men too, with Cameron Mackenzie taking victory in the Spare Pairs race, and Matt Francis and William Wauchope both competing to an extremely high level in the CUBC 3V at the Eights Head. William Wauchope and Cameron Mackenzie are both in a crew hopeful to produce some winning results at Henley in a Prince Albert Cup 4+.

One highlight of this year that must not be overlooked is the multiple training camps that were undertaken. The first was a domestic camp with many crews being integrated between novices and seniors in Cambridge, and the second was the training camp in Portugal. After much planning, fundraising and travelling we had a fruitful week of training and bonding as a club, fighting rivers, blisters and even EasyJet’s 24hour delays. We must continue to thank all those who helped make this possible, both in terms of organisation and in the generosity of the donations.

We are looking forward to another action-packed season next year. The men are looking for revenge in both Lents and Mays, with headship campaigns starting from the get-go, while the women’s side look to retain their hard-won Mays headship and potentially to double up in Lents. We all very much look forward to seeing what Mila Marcheva is able to achieve as our next Captain of Boats. From the beginning of the season, with the novice intake and first boats on the river, it will be an exciting year, and it speaks volumes to the prowess and stability of the club to be in a very real position to be aiming at all four headships in the Bumps races.

Committee members were:

Captain of Boats: Jack Campbell

Women’s Captains: Mila Marcheva and Honora Verdone

Men’s Captains: Toko Avaliani and Aleksandr Bowkis

Junior Treasurer: Will Morris

Secretary: Elizabeth Addis

Men’s Lower Boats Captains: Jamie Maxen and Enrico Mariotti

Women’s Lower Boats Captains: Mia Bentham and Holly Cairns

Captain of Coxes: Katherine Elbro

Training Camp Officer: Olivia Gray

Social Secretaries: Anna Farrow and Chloe Gibson

Men’s Welfare: Johan Kidger

Women’s Welfare: Grace Malyan

Alumni Officer: Natasha Treagust

Publicity Officers: Alex Lapsley and Michelle Crees

Kit Officer: Javier Sánchez-Bonilla

Health and Safety Officer: Georgina Acott

Brooke Society

The Brooke Society is Gonville & Caius College’s History society. Throughout Michaelmas and Lent we invite speakers to discuss their research, current historical debates and areas of interest, as well as hosting spaces for open historical discussion. This year we welcomed Cameron Newham to speak on parish church photography and Dan Knorr to speak on the imperial public of the Qing dynasty.

The Brooke Society brings all the Caius historians together throughout the year, providing an avenue for people to commune and thereby preventing the study of the past from becoming isolating. Aside from our talks and discussions, we host social events such as the annual barbecue and afternoon tea, as well as the Brooke Society Dinner, which is a highlight of the year for those on the History Tripos and brings together students and Fellows to dine in true Caius style with a guest of honour.

Committee members were:

Presidents: Max Swillingham and Charlie Chamberland

Secretaries: Sam Raine Jenkins, Summer Beames and Ibrahim Zamir

Cricket Club

GCCC is the College’s only cricket club, offering undergraduates and postgraduates alike the opportunity of representing the College on the cricket field in Easter Term, as well as offering weekly nets throughout Michaelmas and Lent. We are one of the strongest college cricket clubs at the University, having won the intercollegiate cricket Cuppers most recently in 2023. We play our home games at Gonville & Caius Sports Ground on Barton Road throughout the summer and use the indoor nets at Fenner’s Ground over the winter. Fielding full sides is never an issue for the club as it can be for other colleges: we regularly have 10 to 15 attendees at weekly nets and have used over 20 players this season in matches. We cater to all levels of cricketers and to both men and women, and it is delightful to see players develop over the winter from beginners to cricketers able to represent the College in Cuppers and friendly matches.

Our Cuppers campaign this season was agonising, as both Queens’ and Fitzwilliam beat us by fewer than 10 runs, following our strong 132-run victory against Corpus Christi, in which Samir Sardana scored an unbeaten century. We were also unsuccessful against Sidney Sussex, who beat us by eight wickets, preventing us from progressing to the knockout stage of the competition.

We have played two friendlies against the Artists & Apothecaries and the Racing Club, two touring sides who have both played against Caius since the 1980s. These games are longer-format matches after exams, and while we lost to the Artists & Apothecaries in a declaration game with an inexperienced Caius side, our 35-over match against the Racing Club was abandoned with 4.3 overs to go in our run chase of 254 at 183-7. We hope to play more friendlies before the season is over.

Committee members were:

Captain: Alex Mair

Vice-Captain & President: Rehan Gamage

Feminism & Gender Society

Caius FemGen is the Feminism & Gender Society of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, open to all genders and sexualities. Our events have been very wide-ranging, including discussions, readings, creative activities and drink- and snack-based events. We have also organised collaborative events with other Caius societies – such as our literaturethemed event with the Shed Society in March, ‘Wine, Readings and Readers’ – as well as swaps with other colleges. FemGen provides an inclusive, safe space for Caius students, encouraging open discussion and intra-collegiate bonding across year groups.

Committee members were:

President: Layo Akinola

Secretary: Grace Jones

Treasurer: Katie Bugler

General Committee: Manasa Rajashanker

General Committee: Lina Frias-Evans

Football: Association Football Club

Gonville & Caius Football Club is one of the main sport clubs at the College, with three men’s teams and a women’s and non-binary team, granting access to footballers of all abilities and identities. The club has always emphasised inclusiveness and having fun, and so all the men’s teams, regardless of ability, have always trained together to foster a close-knit and friendly community. We also run many socials throughout the year, which helps club members feel welcomed as part of an adaptable wider community, without feeling pressured to play football every weekend.

In this year’s Cuppers, our men’s first team were knocked out by Sidney Sussex after a strong display taking us to penalties; unfortunately, we fell just short. The men’s second team experienced a similar fate after being knocked out on penalties away at Girton. The men’s third team won the tournament against Fitzwilliam’s men’s third team with a dramatic late winning goal.

The men’s first team finished ninth out of 10 in the Premier League. The men’s second team finished third out of nine in Division 3, while the third finished fifth out of 11 in Division 4.

We look forward to welcoming next year’s new members to the club and to continuing to support our close community, whilst (hopefully) having more success in the cup competitions. We also aim to run a few events to get more people involved in College football and embedded into a welcoming footballing community.

Committee members were:

President: Joshua Monk

Treasurer: Ollie Babcock

Men’s 1 Captain: Ollie Babcock

Men’s 2 Captain: Oscar Coburn

Men’s 3 Captain: Will Morris

Lacrosse Club

Caius/King’s Lacrosse is a mixed-college lacrosse team, currently in Division 2 of the college league. Over the past year there was a focus on bringing new members into the club from all backgrounds and experience levels. Our Captain Fatima achieved this with the help of the new social media account.

This year we were demoted from Division 1 in Michaelmas Term and remained in Division 2 in Lent Term. In Cuppers, we reached the quarterfinals.

Next year we are hoping to get Caius/King’s Lacrosse back to the level which it deserves. We have had good uptake from the earlier years at our introductory sessions and we should be competitive in our fixtures.

Fatima Muman was Captain.

Land Economy Society

This year marks a significant milestone for the Caius Land Economy Society as we received our first official budget, which has enabled us to greatly enhance our support for Land Economy students at Caius, from undergraduates to PhD students. Our efforts have focused on fostering a cohesive and supportive community within Caius, while also leveraging the wider Land Economy network, including our Department and alumni, to provide valuable opportunities and resources.

In November, we hosted a careers advice panel discussion, where older Caius Land Economists could share their career experience and advice to more junior students. This was followed in February by an external careers panel on both corporate and academic career paths relevant to Land Economy students. At this, we hosted professionals representing a range of industries and seniorities to speak to our audience about their career experiences and to share their advice; the event was open to all Land Economy students across the University.

On the academic side, we held a Tripos advice session in June, at which second- and third-year undergraduates shared their advice on paper selection and study methods, with third-year students also sharing their dissertation presentations and giving their advice on writing dissertations. The society also compiled a bank of notes, essay plans, exam scripts and supervisions from older Caius Land Economy students to support the studies of their juniors.

Besides our careers- and studies-focused events, the society has also enjoyed some social gatherings. In March we had our annual Caius Land Economy subject dinner, to which we also invited Land Economy alumni and distinguished academics as guests for the students to network with. After exams we held an informal final get-together of final-year undergraduates with the Caius Land Economy Director of Studies, to reflect on the students’ three years at university.

The feedback about the society from our members has been overwhelmingly positive, highlighting increased connectivity and tangible benefits from our initiatives. Building on this success, we plan to host even more ambitious events in the coming year while maintaining the high quality our students have come to expect. This year’s progress lays a solid foundation for continuing to enrich the academic and professional paths of our members, ensuring the ongoing vitality of the Caius Land Economy Society.

Next year we plan to continue the initiatives we have established this year while further enhancing our community and professional opportunities. We aim to strengthen our alumni network by organising events, such as a special alumni gathering in London. Additionally, given the success of this year’s external careers panel, we intend to expand its reach to include more Land Economy students and attract even more distinguished speakers. Finally, we will renew our efforts to take high quality photos at all our events! By building on these foundations, we seek to provide greater support to our members, ensuring the continued growth and enrichment of our society.

Committee members were:

President: Vanessa Chen

Undergraduate Officers: Simran Chadda and Jasmine Wong

Postgraduate Officer: Hao Zhang

Law Society

The Gonville & Caius Law Society (GCLS), founded in 1872, is a College and subject society responsible for over 60 law students at Caius.

Reading Law at Cambridge can often be isolating, with heavy workloads and many intense deadlines, so GCLS provides a much-needed break from academic pursuits. The society connects Caius Law students from different years with one another, provides an open space to talk, discuss work and especially to give invaluable advice to incoming freshers on how to approach reading, lectures and super-curriculars.

GCLS also prepares students for life after university, giving insights into possible legal career options by organising events such as annual firm dinners, barristers’ talks and legal workshops with free drinks and food included. These events give students a wider perspective on the utility of Law outside of academia in an informative and encouraging atmosphere, in the hope that it will further stimulate their exploration of different areas of law.

This year our dinners with representatives from Magic Circle law firms Slaughter & May and Freshfields offered opportunities for students contemplating a career in commercial law to learn more about the solicitors’ working lives, the firms’ cultures and the solicitor application process. Those who attended heard advice directly from members of a highly competitive firm which receives innumerable applications every year.

In January we welcomed Nabil Khabirpour, a Fellow in Law at Lucy Cavendish who has attended Cambridge, Oxford and Harvard and who founded a pro bono legal clinic, The Law Corner, which has enabled Cambridge students to get involved in pro bono work. Nabil spoke in depth about how a legal case develops in practice, offering a fascinating insight into the practice of law and the vocational realities. The event was in high demand from both Caians and the wider student population.

For our barrister panel in March, ‘Discovering the Commercial Bar with Caius Alumni,’ we invited Sa’ad Hossain KC, a Caius alumnus and barrister at the world-renowned One Essex Court commercial chambers, and Rachel Lane, an incoming pupil at the commercial Brick Court chambers. This event was attended by students from both Caius and other colleges. The two speakers, each at a different point in their career, provided students with enlightening different perspectives on applications to barristers’ chambers and the different journeys possible from that route, helping to demystify and familiarise attendees with life at the commercial bar. The advice the speakers gave on applications will enable Caius students to make an informed decision when choosing whether to apply to barristers’ chambers or solicitors’ firms.

At this year’s McNair Moot Competition, High Court judge and Caius alumnus Sir Timothy Miles Fancourt presided. We are grateful to Sir Timothy for accepting our invitation and to the College for sponsoring the monetary prize for the moot’s winner.

A further highlight this year has been our London firms trip in June, which consisted of a free sponsored breakfast with Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) at their firm building, followed by coffee and lunch with Quinn Emmanuel, then further tea and a snack lunch with Slaughter & May, afternoon tours of the Inns of Court Middle Temple and Inner Temple, and a final tour (and sponsored pub visit) with Quadrant Chambers by alumnus Chris Smith KC. We heard informative talks at each firm and chamber about the deals and cases in which they specialise. This information-packed event was an invaluable opportunity for all Law students to hear about the best ways to approach employment applications. It will also help GCLS to form stronger connections with the firms concerned, which will help our successors organise future events.

It is worth noting that there was no cost to Caius students for this trip. GCLS was able to arrange visits to prestigious firms free or charge and HSF and Slaughter & May each contributed £200 to the total travel costs of return tickets from Cambridge to London. In addition, we were able to get free breakfast, lunch, snacks and drinks, which was another saving for students.

As always, the end of the academic year was celebrated by our Law Subject Dinner, another wonderful opportunity for current students to benefit from meeting, speaking to and learning from alumni. The event included photos in front of the Gate of Honour, pre-prandials in the Lord Colyton Hall, and dinner in Hall for over 50 students and 20 alumni. Notable among the alumni attending were the Right Honourable Sir Geoffrey Vos, the Master of the Rolls, as the guest speaker for the dinner, as well as Mr Justice Fancourt and Chris Smith KC. The dinner was generously sponsored for students by the Director of Studies’ entertainment account and hosted by Caius Law alumni who paid £52 for their tickets.

Next year we hope to build on our success by hosting more fantastic events. These will include a firm workshop with HSF and up to three firm dinners in Michaelmas,

in addition to a freshers’ introduction consisting of personal advice on supervisions, study-methods, reading legal cases, further reading, grades and careers. In Lent we hope to secure another High Court judge for the McNair Moot Competition and more notable figures for our speaker events and barrister panel. HSF have already agreed to host us for another firm trip next Easter Term.

Committee members were:

President: Wiktor Budek

Secretary: Simon Bisotto

Treasurer: Sammy El-Masri

Medical

Society

The Caius Medical Society is a student-run group that comprises Caian medics from across all six years of study. Our society plays a crucial role in enhancing the medical student experience and fostering a powerful sense of community. We host many talks for our current students, aimed at deepening their knowledge of the field and providing advice on how to approach and tackle the course. This year these have included specific sessions aimed at preparing for Part IA and Part IB, choosing options for Part II (during which medics intercalate), as well as a talk on what to expect at clinical school.

Recognising the importance of comprehensive resources, we gather high-scoring essays and well-made notes from Caius medics and share them with all other Caius medics directly via our Moodle page. In the run-up to exams in Easter Term we also host subject revision sessions. We are eager to continue to develop our academic resources to support students through the Tripos.

To foster connections between the year groups, we host social events where students at different stages of their medical education can come together and meet. This year we were able to host our very first inter-MedSoc sports day, bringing together medical students from Caius and St John’s. We plan to expand this event next year and, more broadly, to use music, sport and art as avenues to encourage the extra-curricular involvement of medics. Additionally, we plan to organise extra welfare events with free food and support networks to ensure the mental wellbeing of our members.

Improving access to Medicine in Cambridge is an important part of our activities. We organise engaging talks for prospective medical students, which aim to demystify the application process. We are also looking forward to hosting the third iteration of our annual access event this summer, to provide aspiring medics with firsthand experience of studying at Caius. This year we plan to accommodate around 60 prospective applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds for two back-to-back access days (30 per day) consisting of tours around the accommodation, a number of interactive workshops relating to the various aspects of Medicine at Cambridge and

the application process as well as ensuring time to explore the city and life as a student. We hope this will encourage these students to apply to Cambridge (and to Caius, of course!) to study Medicine.

In 2024-25, we would like to further advance our access and outreach work. Over the summer we will host a series of approximately five talks for prospective applicants, covering aspects of the UCAT (University Clinical Aptitude Test), personal statement and interview, alongside two mock lectures. We also plan to rebuild our website with the aim of providing an online resource for use by prospective applicants. We would also like to use social media as a platform for reaching a larger audience and to demystify life as a student at Cambridge.

Another key mission for next year is to involve more clinical students in charitable projects dedicated to helping with activities such as fundraising events. This will help us to fulfil what we feel is our duty as a medical society to support healthcare both in hospitals and in local community settings. Additionally, we aim to better incorporate our alumni in the Caius Medical Association into events and talks and thereby to encourage further networking between current students and alumni. In summary, as the largest college medical society in Cambridge, we would love to spend the next year continuing to support our members in any way we can.

Committee members were:

President: Tharun Manivannan

Vice President: Karthik Prabhu

Treasurer: Kishore Murugesh

Secretary: David Lee

Academic Officer: Dave Duru

Careers Officer: Ryan Smith

Entertainment Officers: Enrico Mariotti & Anubhav Rathore

Publicity Officer: Ayan Mohamed Jameel

Freshers’ Representative: Rohan Rana

Access Officer: Emie Mettam

Welfare Officers: Ameer Morshed & Sandriya Sundarakumaran

Computing Officer: Tanay Vajramani

Clinical Representative: Krishnan Ajit

Vet Representative: Katie Carter

Music Society

Gonville & Caius Music Society is at the heart of extra-curricular music at Caius and has long been able to provide spaces for both the performance and the enjoyment of music across the College. We are a student-led organisation, receiving a generous annual budget,

and run a variety of events. Termly concerts and other performances, including the weekly recital series, continue to run and are well-attended by College members and others alike.

The highlight of the society’s offering for the 2023-24 academic year was its May Week Show, My Fair Lady, which was staged in the Hall and completely sold out. One Senior Fellow described the production as ‘the best thing I’ve seen at Caius’; another said that it was of ‘West-End standard’. The show received a 4.5-star review from Varsity

The culmination of a year of vast-scale projects, this show followed on from the impressive Lent Term Concert. The GCMS Orchestra performed Elgar’s Cello Concerto (with Caius student Butterfly Paterson as the soloist), and various Fellows joined the Choir to form the chorus for Vivaldi’s Gloria. The weekly recitals series also proved popular and highlighted a variety of instruments and styles.

Looking ahead to next year, we are excited at the prospect of continuing to run regular recitals and concerts as well as putting on another musical or opera. GCMS has raised the standard of its output significantly this year and we are determined to continue providing high-quality music for the College.

Committee members were:

Presidents: Laura Wood and Louis Pettitt

Treasurer: Oliver Merriman

Secretary: Pip Alpin

Natural Sciences Society

All Natural Sciences students at Caius are members of the Natural Sciences Society, giving us a total membership of around 70 students. We represent one of the largest and most diverse subject communities at Caius owing to the breadth of the Natural Sciences course. Our main purpose is to organise social events for NatSci students to enjoy themselves outside their intense schedules and to provide support should anyone need it. The majority of our budget this year went towards our social events. The highlight of our calendar is always the annual NatSci Dinner, which is generously funded by the College and the Fellows in attendance. Our goal this year was to hold social events in each term, at which we succeeded. We hope this will have built a sense of community across the year groups, something we wish to replicate in future years.

Another major step forward this year was inviting postgraduate students to our annual dinner. It was great to see the expansion of our society to include more of the Caius community, and around 100 students attended. Our guest speaker was Professor Sasha Turchyn of the Earth Sciences department. Her speech was very accessible (in previous years the speeches had been too subject-specific) on the importance of self-worth and healthy working. We also held start-of-term social events with pizza in Easter and

Michaelmas, to destress, catch up and meet other students. Additionally, we organised a stash drop, and we held two swaps with St John’s and Christ’s respectively: a bar crawl with Pembroke and a Christmas pub quiz.

In Easter Term, we held our first ever society talk, delivered by Professor Daan Frenkel FMRS and organised with the help of Professor Blumenfeld. The talk, entitled ‘Surely, this has been done long ago…’, discussed examples of problems which are not generally perceived as ‘hot’ and thus assumed to be either already solved or irrelevant, but which actually prove to be surprisingly relevant – just forgotten. We attracted a crowd of between 20 and 30, which we were quite happy with given that we held the talk midway through Easter Term as exams were looming.

Looking ahead, we aim to continue to organise social events and to arrange more talks throughout the year.

Committee members were:

President: Isaac Parker

Vice-President: Ernest Dokudowiec

Treasurer: Nicholas Chan

Secretary: Alexandre Peuch

Publicity Officer: Kate Greenaway

Freshers Representative: Jiwon Kim

Netball Club

This society has around 30 engaged members, with a further 40 members interacting with the society communications group chat. Throughout Michaelmas and Easter, we enter both a ladies’ team and a mixed team into the Cambridge University College Netball Leagues, with both teams playing a full season as well as a Cuppers match. We were delighted that both teams were promoted with effect from Michaelmas 2024. The team usually plays on the Caius sportsground, though we sometimes venture out to other college courts.

An innovation this year was the creation of a Caius Netball Club social media platform. This has helped us advertise the matches and encourage involvement. Additionally, we held a ‘Meet the Team’ social event at the beginning of the year, which introduced the netball-playing freshers to the older years so that they felt more comfortable coming along to the first games.

The society kit bag includes a medical bag, a set of playing bibs, one netball, one pump and two squeeze whistles. Looking ahead, this inventory will likely need updating in the next season. Currently, we are in the process of organising a personalised playing kit. This will be subsidised by what remains of the netball budget, and players will pay for the rest. We understand there will be a new cohort of players who may want this

kit. We hope that we shall maintain a good relationship with our kit provider, and we aim to place another order in Michaelmas.

Nuts & Bolts: Engineering

Gonville & Caius Engineering Society, known as Nuts & Bolts, is dedicated to fostering a passion for Engineering within the College. It serves as a hub for students to engage with both the academic and social areas of the subject, and it organises an annual programme of events designed to connect Engineering students.

Academically, we organise talks which provide valuable insights into innovative research and developments in Engineering. This year we welcomed Professor Malcolm Smith to talk about his career in the engineering industry. Socially, the society facilitates networking through formal swaps between colleges: this year our swaps were organised with Selwyn and St John’s and were followed by networking sessions and discussions of engineering-related topics. An end-of-year engineers’ barbecue was an immense success and was generously funded by the Caius Engineering Trust. Whether through deepening technical knowledge or enhancing social bonds, Nuts & Bolts plays a crucial role in enriching the Engineering experience at Caius.

Looking ahead to 2024-25, we have handed over our roles to Oscar Coburn and Vito Cipponeri, who plan on hosting even better events, including collaborating with Caius Engineering alumni and potentially engineering firms.

Co-Presidents were:

Dhanish Patel and Amanda Kangai.

Rock Climbing Club

Gonville & Caius Rock Climbing Club provides students with an introduction to all things climbing during their time at Caius. The society was founded in 2022 by Chris Micklem, Jamie Carr and Inigo Holman, and, with Ben Boys as Captain in 2023-24, it has grown to 68 members. It is likely, given the growing popularity of the sport worldwide, that the society will grow further and become increasingly active over the next couple of years. The reason for the popularity of climbing is that, unlike other sports, you don’t need to have years of experience to start getting the most out of it. You can turn up to a climbing wall and just give it a go. You don’t even need to do much climbing. You can turn up and chat to people because climbing gyms tend to be a nice social space. Further, climbing offers access to nature and allows you to appreciate the great outdoor spaces that the British Isles and other countries have to offer.

After subsidising gym entries at Rainbow Rocket for entries in the Michaelmas Cuppers, we achieved first place, scoring 731 points with 17 entries, beating Queens’ (second

place with 565 points), St John’s (third place with 456 points) and the rest. In the Lent Cuppers, again after subsidising gym entries at Rainbow Rocket, we came in second place, losing to St John’s.

Our goal for next year is to win both the Michaelmas and the Lent Cuppers. We also hope to be represented more in the Varsity team (there was only one Caius member in 2023-24). We would like to increase the amount of safety gear owned and maintained by the club so that everyone in College has access to safe climbing.

Committee members were:

President: Benjamin Boys

Vice President (MCR): Chris Micklem

Vice-President (JCR) & Treasurer: Inigo Holman

Rugby Union Football Club

With members consisting of both experienced schoolboy rugby players and newcomers to the sport, the Gonville & Caius Rugby Union Football Club trains to a competitive standard, but we ensure that we have fun in the process. Having struggled to field a full team for several matches last academic year, this year we formed a joint team with Downing College, something that all but two other colleges have done in previous years. This has been an enormous success: together, we have a deep squad with plenty of talent, and all of us have really enjoyed training, competing and socialising together.

We compete against other colleges in competitive fixtures throughout the year. There is an ongoing league, in which each team plays every other team, and Cuppers, the all-important knockout tournament. We also host an annual match and dinner with our Old Boys, which is a highlight of the year for past and present players alike.

Although ultimately falling just short of any silverware, our 2023-24 season had no shortage of strong performances and good results. For the first three weekends, we played short, friendly matches against other colleges to determine which of the two leagues each team would play in throughout the season. Despite beating eventual Cuppers champions Jesus in our first match of the year, narrow, scrappy losses in monsoon conditions the following weekend meant that we had to settle for a place in the second division.

We ultimately finished as runners-up in our league. We recorded walkover victories against Robinson and PEST (Peterhouse, Emmanuel, Selwyn and Trinity Hall), where our opponents were too intimidated to field a side. These triumphs were backed up by a fantastic collective performance against Pirton (Pembroke and Girton), avenging our earlier defeat to them in the friendly fixtures at the start of term. We went into Lent Term knowing that our match against the All Greys (comprising all the mature colleges) would decide the league. In truth, neither side could claim to have been at their best in this slightly stilted match, with momentum swinging back and forth. Eventually, and agonisingly, our opposition secured victory by a single point with the final kick of the game.

Our Cuppers campaign began with another walkover victory against the elusive PEST, setting up a quarter-final against last year’s victors, St John’s. Despite having played on the back foot for much of the time, we ended the first half with only a 12-7 deficit and were full of confidence and energy going into the second period. Sadly, St John’s proved too strong for us in the scrum. We failed to properly establish ourselves in the game, and John’s took the win.

This loss meant that we went into a secondary competition, the Bowl, with the other defeated teams from the quarter final. In our Bowl semi-final, we recorded yet another

walkover win, this time against Queens,’ and progressed straight through to the final against Robinson. This ended in a disappointing defeat; our lack of recent playing time due to the multitude of cancelled fixtures showed in a performance which was far from our best of the season. Nevertheless, full credit must go to Robinson for out-playing us on the day.

In 2024-25, we hope to build on the promise that our combined Caius/Downing team showed this year. We are fortunate that the majority of our squad are continuing their studies next year, and with some more consistent, regular matches, we know that we have the potential to challenge the top teams in intercollegiate rugby.

Committee members were:

President: Fozy Ahmed

Captain: Ben Burgess

Vice-Captain: Patrick Meehan

Shadwell Society

The Shadwell Society is the Caius creative arts society. In the past, we functioned as a theatrical funding body, but in recent years we have shifted our focus to film and to hosting social events for Caius creatives.

This year we have proudly supported 10 short films produced by Caius students through our Short Film Grants. We strongly feel that film should be easily accessible for everyone, and this grant has allowed both emerging filmmakers and those trying filmmaking for the first time to showcase their voices and become more involved in the Cambridge creative scene. The grant is either provided as a reimbursement, or as a grant with a six-month condition to provide receipts, ensuring accessibility for all.

We also held a filmmakers’ social in May, allowing Caius filmmakers to connect with and meet other filmmakers across the University, including representatives from the Cambridge University Film Association, Film at Jesus, Cambridge Creatives, and the Watersprite Film Festival. The event consisted of open networking, a talk by Zeb Goriely on how to get into filmmaking in Cambridge, and a Q&A with the team of Bad Habit, one of the films funded by our society. Additionally, we collaborated with the Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club to host a garden party in May Week, highlighting Caius as a hub for creative activity. We are keen to continue expanding our involvement in the College by providing more ways for creatives to meet, connect and create together.

While we successfully accomplished this year’s primary goal of supporting student filmmaking in College, we hope to broaden the society’s focus in the future and to make it the College’s primary creative society, fostering and nurturing extracurricular creative

interests through both funding and events. We will retain the Short Film Fund but seek to run several events throughout the year, showcasing creativity more widely, such as a Creative Show & Tell, which we plan to run in early Michaelmas next year, where Caius students will be able to present projects they are working on outside their studies.

Next year we will extend our committee to support the expanded goals of the society. Besides a President, Secretary and Treasurer, we will have optional positions that can be

filled by members who wish to nurture and champion individual creative disciplines. This could include individual representatives for film, art, poetry, theatre, photography and other media, with the aim that each of these committee members can run their own events and foster their own subcommunities under the Shadwell umbrella. These representatives would also be able to hold other positions on the committee (see this year’s committee structure, for example). We also hope to recruit an Events Officer and Social Media Officer.

This year our GCSU funding amounted to £2,200, and we also received £1,490 that was owed to us from a previous year. We spent all of this money, mainly on the Short Film Fund and on running events. We hope that we shall be able to increase our events budget and to retain the scale of the Short Film Fund, as this is a crucial resource for aspiring student filmmakers. We have considered purchasing our own filmmaking equipment to loan to students wanting to make films, but this would be extremely expensive (a suitable camera, lighting package and sound package would exceed this year’s entire budget). This could be a longer-term goal but has its own risks (such as questions of where to store the equipment between committees and insurance).

Committee members were:

President / Film Representative: Zeb Goriely

Treasurer / Poetry Representative: Dillon Whitehead

Secretary / Theatre Representative: Ruby Iverson

Squash Club

Caius Squash Club offers weekly casual training for everyone from Blues players to complete beginners. Squash is a great sport for improving fitness for people at all levels of activity, as well as developing hand-eye coordination and strategy. Many people take it up for the first time at university, often having previously done another racquet sport. This year we joined forces with Homerton College to provide their players with a wider pool of people to play with, as well as students from Wolfson. This fostered an inclusive, friendly atmosphere and enabled us to enter two teams into the college league for both terms, giving an opportunity to play people at other colleges and to practise more competitive matches.

In conjunction with Homerton, we managed to field two teams in the college league in both Michaelmas and Lent terms. The First Team mostly comprised University players, who finished second in their league in Michaelmas and achieved a promotion to the top league in the second term.

As a new team, the Second Team were entered into the bottom league and were unlucky in that some other colleges also entered strong teams for the first time this year. Nonetheless, some less experienced players took the opportunity to play competitive squash, achieving respectable scores to finish in the middle of the league.

Outside the court, the club has maintained its ties with the other Caius racquet sports, organising the traditional bowling social in Lent Term and the excellent racquets barbecue in Easter Term. As the club continues to expand, our goal remains the same: to cultivate a passion for squash, with high-quality equipment to encourage anyone and everyone in College to take up the sport.

We look forward to continuing to grow and foster an inclusive, welcoming and fun club culture. Increasing membership will hopefully continue to be accompanied by improvements to the equipment available for use by the club and the College as a whole. We shall also ensure that that the club maintains its ties with the other college racquets clubs, as an invaluable way to meet students from across the whole of the University.

Committee members were:

Captain: Samuel Bojarski

Treasurer: Aditya Varshney

Tennis Club

The Tennis Club is a social sports club catering to more than 20 active members throughout the year. We have two teams which have consistently provided successful results. We have also run year-round training sessions open to all Caius students.

As in previous years, we participated in weekly matches with teams from other colleges in both the league and the Cuppers. Our First Team topped division 1 in Michaelmas and Lent, although it was sadly knocked out in the semi-finals of the Cuppers. The Second Team achieved third place in division 4 in Michaelmas and second place in division 4 in Lent but were unfortunately knocked out in the round of 16 in the Cuppers.

We have also held two socials this year in conjunction with the Badminton and Squash societies. Both events were successful. Subject to budgetary constraints, we intend to hold more of these kinds of events in future years.

Committee members were:

Captains: William Morley and Sam Raine Jenkins

Social Secretary: Charlotte Knorzer

Thundercatz (Ultimate Frisbee)

The New Thundercatz Ultimate Frisbee team is the Cambridge University College League team for students of Caius, St Catharine’s, Fitzwilliam, Trinity Hall, Lucy Cavendish and St Edmund’s. We run weekly training sessions and engage in weekly fixtures against other teams in the intercollegiate league. We also participate in Indoor and Outdoor Cuppers in Michaelmas and Easter, respectively. Since ultimate frisbee is

a sport that is commonly started at university, our team strives to include players of any level, with an emphasis on team spirit and fair-mindedness.

With a base of 15 to 20 regular players, including many beginners, our team faced tough competition in the college league, especially since many of our experienced players graduated last year. However, despite relegation to division 2 in Michaelmas, we won promotion back to division 1 in Lent, remaining undefeated barring a narrow loss to the eventual winners of our division.

At the Indoor Cuppers, New Thundercatz won one game in the group stages and narrowly lost another to the eventual winners of the tournament. This still earned us a place in the knockout stage, where we unfortunately lost to the eventual runners-up. However, we maintained our initial seeding, finishing seventh out of 14 teams in what was arguably one of the most competitive events of recent years. At the Outdoor Cuppers we placed third overall: the team won all their games except one which we lost to the eventual champions.

Looking ahead to the 2024-25 season, our aim is to expand the society through further recruitment at freshers’ fairs and to maintain a welcoming environment for all players, new or old. With the majority of our experienced players now representing the University in regional or national competitions, and a number of our newer players moving up to the University development squads, the team’s future looks bright, and we hope that the coming year brings more players keen to get stuck into ultimate frisbee!

Committee members were:

Co-captains: Joshua Lam (Fitzwilliam) and Zaid Mathieson (Fitzwilliam)

Secretary: Victoria Leung (Fitzwilliam)

Treasurer: Adam Sabo (Gonville & Caius)

Social Secretary: Sumei Kinzelbach (Trinity Hall)

Students relaxing at Harvey Court

FINANCE, DEVELOPMENT AND THE CAIUS FOUNDATION

The Senior Bursar’s Report 2023-24

Introduction

Pressures and Opportunities

The provocative title of my introduction is not a statement of political support or condemnation. It is a statement of how I see the factual, financial circumstances of higher education of UK citizens. It has been the backdrop of much of my activity during the year.

All of my Bursar’s reports have identified the failure of the undergraduate regulated fee to keep pace with inflation. It is a principal – no longer the principal – source of income to the College to fund its educational activity. Indirectly, the failure to increase student maintenance loans in line with inflation has eroded the College’s income from student rents that can be charged, or at least recovered without the College’s assistance, as more students fall into financial hardship. Failure to continue NHS bursaries has hit clinical medical students hard.

Nothing in those areas improved this year and it has thrown ever more burden on to the College’s endowment to fill the widening gap between the College’s fees and residential/ catering income and the costs of education and running the College. You can read about the increase in our operating costs later in the report, where I shall also emphasise the income side and opportunities in the endowment.

Much of my time during the last year has been focused on making the best possible return on the endowment. The College’s property portfolio is largely an inherited, ‘accidentally’ allocated portfolio which we work hard to realise opportunities. These have included: completing the sale of joint venture land with residential planning permission at Littlemoor in Dorset; negotiating to sell adjacent land with employment planning permission; entering a conditional contract to sell a small plot at Marsh Dairy, Bincombe for residential development; negotiating a long-term promotion arrangement for land in North Hertfordshire; trying to secure benefits for the College from community infrastructure projects at Poplar Hall Farm and Rectory Farm near Milton; ensuring that Terrington House, our important office block on Hills Road, is maintained to environmental standards for the general good and to attract good tenants in the face of strong competition around Cambridge Station; and, importantly this year, entering into a collaboration agreement with the Imperial War Museum for a joint development at Duxford of an advanced aviation technology business park. These projects require a significant investment of time, as well as property expertise provided by external advisors such as Martyn Chase, whose advice has been hugely important over many years.

We have also continued to pay close attention to getting strong returns from the College’s financial assets. We reviewed our asset managers in 2018-19 and made some changes. We reviewed again in 2023-24 and made further changes in the allocation of funds to discretionary managers. This too is a time-consuming process, and I greatly appreciate the invaluable support in this of alumni of the College, notably Miguel Nogales (1993) and David Melvin (1979), and also Stephen Barter (1975), who sits on both the Investments Committee and the Investments Property Sub-Committee.

We have also sought to exploit other opportunities, in particular following the College’s most significant property purchase in over a century, namely the acquisition of the last part of Rose Crescent which we did not already own and the adjacent properties in Market Hill, our 'Project Agora' as described last year. We have integrated the residential parts of that complex into the operational part of the College’s accommodation portfolio. The majority of the flats were ready in time to house incoming Caius postgraduates in October 2023. In the meantime, we have established strong relationships with the retail tenants of our new properties. We manage the central Cambridge retail estate, which comprises the whole of Rose Crescent, substantial parts of Market Hill and the completing part of the triangle on Trinity Street, as a whole and try to maintain a coherent spread of good retail brands with a mix of national and local independent businesses. The local independents tend to take the smaller units and bring a flair and enthusiasm for the local environment while the nationals take larger units and have a size and solidity of covenant which is more predictable. We believe we now have a high-quality spread among the nearly forty units in the area, which provides both a good and growing income for the College’s endowment and an enjoyable destination for residents and visitors to Cambridge.

Importantly, we have also commenced the master planning for opportunities in relation to the substantial ‘hinterland’ of the newly acquired buildings, i.e. what it is that we can do to use or redevelop them for collegiate purposes, while remodelling and redeveloping the retail areas as well. It will be a very long-term project and very expensive to implement. The task now is identifying the opportunities to provide for facilities for students, Fellows and staff. Separately, the College has commissioned architectural master planning for the redevelopment of Radcliffe Court and a Redevelopment Committee has been constituted to drive the work forward.

The sheer size of the project, not only its physical size and impact of building on the environment but also its finances, is daunting. I have repeatedly said that any other facilities we contemplate beyond student rooms are unlikely to generate meaningful additional income but will be extremely costly. Its success will ultimately depend upon benefaction to enhance and enlarge the facilities and presence of Caius at its Old Courts sites.

This exceptionally challenging project will be a high priority for my successor. I step down from Caius at the end of January 2025 after nearly six and a half mostly very intense years.

The intensity of arriving in a new role was succeeded immediately by nearly two years of a permanently changing landscape in which everyone was blindfold – I refer to Covid. Very shortly after that came the opportunity to purchase the Agora site. The management, investigation, negotiation, financing and completion of that process was enormously time-consuming. The subsequent integration and now the planning project generate constant hard work. None of the work could have been completed without the support of the staff. I am particularly grateful to the members of the finance team, with whom I work most closely, and also to the Domestic Bursar and her heads of department.

‘Do we live within our means?’ was the question posed by the Examiners of Accounts early in my tenure. As in previous years, my answer is: ‘scarcely’. Severe underlying issues within the UK HE Sector and a June-to-June CPI of even 2% has not improved matters. I was compelled to propose another deficit-making budget for 2024-25. Some of that deficit is an odd artefact of accounting rules where we are spending accumulated income recognised as income in previous years, notably from some hitherto little used studentship funds. But it is still financially very concerning that c. 90% of our undergraduate students are on the ever-shrinking regulated fee. To return to my title theme, the government made UK universities dependent on overseas students. Cambridge and Caius do not exploit that route as other HE institutions do. We try to find other ways to mend the finances.

Commentary on the Accounts

Education – Academic fee income – £4.3m (last year: £4.1m)

The major source of academic income is the regulated fee for ‘Home’ undergraduates of £9,250 of which the College retains £4,625. It has been the same level since 2017-18 and CPI inflation means it is worth 76% of its value when it was introduced at £9,000 in 2012. 90% of undergraduates were on the regulated fee. If inflation increases had been applied to the regulated fee, our income would be £0.8m p.a. higher.

Postgraduate income per capita for 2023-24 increased by 7.6% to £5,123 (last year: £4,761). The University has continued to increase postgraduate fees which are unregulated and in fact this element (20%) of our fee income has outpaced inflation. The College, however, has a lower proportion of non-medical postgraduates than other Colleges. 47% of the University’s students are postgraduates but in Caius only 30% are, so the benefit of this inflating fee income source is less than for other colleges.

Education – Academic expenditure - £12.0m (last year: £10.4m)

The educational subsidy for each student is nominally £9,035 (prior year: £7,191) but the requirement to recognise new multi-year studentship awards distorts this figure to some degree. The subsidy for the fewer students receiving the studentships is very significantly higher than the average, which is therefore lower for the majority of students.

The chart shows that the educational deficit continues to widen. This reflects the increased number of awards granted from restricted student funds and the increased cost of student support and additional teaching Fellows and staff (the principal input into education) while the principal sources of academic income remain static or only slowly rise.

Accommodation and catering – Residences, catering and conference income –£7.8m (last year: £6.6m)

The College aims to charge a fair price for student accommodation, striking a balance between the open market value of the accommodation, the costs of providing it and the status of the students as beneficiaries of the charity. In February 2023, we increased rents for the 2023-24 academic year by 8.5% (prior year: 6.0%) softened for poorer students by a rent bursary for Cambridge Bursary Scheme (or equivalent) recipients. However, at the time of the decision general CPI was over 10%. In the acute inflationary period from the start of 2020 to the beginning of 2024, CPI increased by 21% but our headline student and Fellows charges rose by 19.3%. We therefore introduced substantial bursary support to protect poorer students (those on Cambridge Bursaries or equivalent). Despite the increases in costs, we have managed to keep the subsidy to students and members (shown below) to slightly less than the prior year.

Member catering has now recovered to the inflation-adjusted levels experienced before Covid and the kitchen refurbishment. The renewed availability of front of house staff and student preferences led to adjustment to 6-days-a-week formal halls preceded by a cafeteria hall for students.

The conference business continued to recover to its absolute pre-Covid income levels but is still 20% behind in real terms. The year 2024-25 has started very well and the price and volume increases achieved by the new Conference & Events Manager have been excellent. The aim of conference activity remains to attract good quality, high margin business to support the College’s charitable objects. The contribution generated can be considered as equivalent to having additional financial endowment assets of some £20m.

Accommodation and catering – Residences and catering costs – £9.2m (last year: £8.4m)

The pressure on cost generally came from inflation given that the accommodation costs are not particularly sensitive to volumes of income and catering also carries significant overheads so that it is only moderately sensitive to volumes of business. However, there

were some other important factors. Salary increases during the year were significant for those groups of staff who are fundamental to the frontline delivery of these services. The College takes careful note of the Living Wage Foundation’s recommendation for pay. This rose in November 2022 by 10% and again by 10% in 2023. These increases feed through to the college’s annual pay increases.

This chart shows the income trend for residence and catering over several years. The pandemic effect is clear. So too is the inflationary effect on costs of the last two years.

Investment returns - income arising £7.0m (last year £5.5m); gains of £20.1m (£5.7m); £3.9m (£4.2m) drawn for expenditure; investment costs £5.7m (£5.1m)

The draw-down budgeted to finance expenditure was based on a withdrawal of 2.75%. The application of the smoothing ‘Yale Rule’ meant that the effective withdrawal rate budgeted therefore was 2.53% of the value of the endowment at the time the withdrawal calculation was carried out. The actual amount drawn was then reduced under the College’s policy by unrestricted donation income of £2,601k. Accordingly, the actual draw-down was £3,914k, which is c. 1.6% of the brought-forward value of the net endowment and thus exceeds the aim of the financial guiding principles in the Financial Strategy. This in turn addresses the trustees’ obligation to have regard to the obligation to preserve and foster the endowment of the College as a perpetual eleemosynary charity, balancing the needs of current and future generations.

The investment performance of the endowment is more fully narrated under ‘Balance sheet – Endowment value’ below:

Other expenditure and change in USS pension deficit provision – £3.2m (prior year: £5.9m)

The major components are the movements in the USS pension deficit provision which, following finalisation of the latest actuarial valuation, could be released, and investment management costs.

Other general and administrative costs include the time of various Fellows, staff and costs of departmental functions which are not directly related to the education activities or running the catering, residence and conferencing activities of the College, for example, substantial proportions of the Development Office costs.

Donations – £4.2m (last year: £3.6m)

The total fluctuates in particular because of the receipt (or not) of a small number of high value gifts. The participation rate was 16.57% (prior year: 19.75%).

The analysis of donation and legacy cash receipts is shown below. It differs from the figures in the accounts which must accrue legacies which have been notified but not received at the start and end of the year and this list represents those actually received in the year.

Breakdowns by purpose of gift

University Contribution – £0.2m (prior year £0.2m)

Colleges’ contributions to the Colleges’ Fund support poorer colleges to reduce disparity of college wealth. The contribution is based on ‘resource’ i.e. endowment assets per student adjusted for the number of college teaching officers. Colleges with more resources per student contribute more to the fund. The College’s 2023 University contribution was 3.1% of the total contributions into the Colleges’ Fund of which threequarters is paid by Trinity and St John’s. Then come Trinity Hall and Caius, so we are one of the highest payers absolutely but dwarfed by the two largest.

Endowment assets – gross: £287m (prior year £271m); net £271m (prior year £251m)

The total investment return as indicated above in the commentary on the Income & Expenditure Account, combining the financial asset returns of +11.8% and the investment property returns of 1.6%, gave an overall total return of +8.3%. Global markets were benign, but the UK property market generally remained soft, particularly the commercial office market.

The graph shows significant progress towards the objective adopted in 2015 of increasing the endowment to £300m. With inflation, though, the objective was restated to £330m two years ago; it should now probably be stated at £350m, uprated further for inflation.

Operational assets

The estates department maintains a seven-year plan of work which is regularly reviewed. Programme delays by a supplier required the decision to defer the start of the refurbishment of St Michael’s Court staircases A to F until 2024-25 but this has now commenced. After that it will be time to refurbish G and H staircases, St Michael’s Court. Thereafter the College will reach an important point where most major buildings have been recently addressed. At that point buildings currently thought of as new or recently refurbished, for example, the Stephen Hawking Building, will require attention.

A new major feature is the decarbonisation of the College estate. The project started in summer 2023 with environmental improvements to 4 Gresham Road, now called Goodhart House after the donor who has funded the works. We also began planning and professional work on an ambitious scheme for heat pumps in Old Courts. This is an airsource system for a college district heat network. We have been awarded a grant under the government’s Salix scheme for £1.6m to assist with funding this. It will use air-source pumps on the roof of G and H St Michael’s Court and, in time, similar pumps on the ‘Agora’ buildings at Radcliffe Court. (For more details on this project, see pp. 62-5 below)

Final thanks

The Bursary staff work hard to operate, control and report the finances of the College and to enhance the value of the financial and property assets. The operational department staff work tirelessly to make sure that the College operates well for Fellows and students to support the academic mission of the College. I thank them all for their hard work every day.

Abridged accounts for year ended 30th June 2024 Income and

expenditure account

Consolidated Balance Sheet as at 30 June 2024

The Director of Development’s Report 2023-24

Maša Amatt Director of Development

(96 - 107)

Dr Maša Amatt, Director of Development, writes:

It has been a whirlwind of a year, and a welcome reminder of what life was like before the pandemic. Although I might not always have enjoyed the racing pace, I certainly enjoyed the business of a regular year.

But it has not been an easy time. Financial pressures and uncertainties are affecting us all. So, I am doubly grateful, as are we all at Caius, to over 1,700 Caians who have pledged £4.8m (of which £2.7m received) in gifts to the College this year. Thank you; we continue to be humbled by your generosity in support of our undergraduate and postgraduate students, impressive academics, and our historic estate. Caius is indeed the place where brilliant people can do their best work.

Matthew Martin

Precentor and Director of College Music, DoS in Music

It was very special to recognise the generosity of Simon Jagger (1987) with his admission as a Gonville Fellow Benefactor last November at the annual Commemoration of Benefactors service. In his quiet, unassuming way, Simon has steadily supported the College over many years, culminating now in a generously endowed fund for Mathematics, including the newly established Jan Saxl College Lectureship.

Christina Faraday RF: History of Art

Christopher Scott Tutor for Admissions & Outreach

In addition to continuing to raise the funds on which College relies heavily for financial stability, there have been events: we have organised and supported 27 occasions on which Caians gathered to celebrate, re-connect and reminisce. The Master, the President, Professor Zeitler, Dr Maguire, Linda and I travelled to various locations to catch up with Caians in the USA, Asia, Australia and Europe. Our thanks goes out to many Caians and friends around the world for convening the gatherings.

Richard Staley DoS in HPS, Tutor, History of Physics

This year we also launched a new initiative: the Young Alumni Programme (YAP). This spans the first decade after graduation and offers helpful perspectives on careers, support via mentoring, and networking opportunities alongside a chance to socialise with peers. YAP launched in Michaelmas 2023 with an inaugural networking evening that brought together recent graduates with both current students and more established alumni. Over refreshments at the College bar, alumni shared their valuable insights about professional life beyond Cambridge. The network extends across the undergraduate and postgraduate students and alumni, and we are delighted to see it grow through the social Caius Cocktails in London. YAP is an excellent platform to maintain your connection with the Caius community.

Jennifer Phillips Domestic Bursar & Operations Director

RF: Law

The Development team’s work would not be possible without many volunteers. The Development Advisory Group sits at the heart of it all and we are deeply grateful for their excellent advice and support. Their work is augmented by dozens of you who have volunteered your time and expertise over the year, from organising and hosting events to dispensing career advice to current students and/or recent graduates.

It is difficult to pick the favourite moment of the year gone, so I will highlight something that gave me considerable pleasure throughout the whole of 2023-24: the opportunity to be the Senior Treasure for the mighty Caius Boat Club. It was only an interim role, but as a former rower I embraced the opportunity fully and relished working with our wonderful students as they negotiate the running of our largest sports club. Caius Boat Club will be celebrating its bicentenary in 2027, and I look forward to sharing the plans for this with you soon.

In the meantime, there is a lot to do, and it is wonderful that in these endeavours I work with wonderful colleagues in the Development team. Over the past year we said goodbye to Callia Kirkham and Chloe Applin. We welcomed Olivia Fitzsimons and Declan Boyd.

Olivia Fitzsimons is Callia’s successor, and she joined us in September 2024 as the Development Officer. After eight years in Artist Management at a London classical music agency, she made the leap to Development, bringing her relationship-building skills to a new sector. While new to fundraising, she is no stranger to Caius: her mother is the current Master (though Olivia has a brain of her own, you will be pleased to hear), and her husband is a Caian. Having been both christened and married in the College Chapel, her connection to Caius runs deep. To have also attended Caius would be a stretch too far but her appreciation for the College is profound. When not at work, she is chasing after her one-year-old, attending concerts/evensong, walking, or indulging her passion for interiors.

Declan Boyd is Chloe’s successor and his position now officially forms part of the Communications team under headship of Matt McGeehan. Declan will produce Once a Caian…, regular e-newsletters and support the annual Giving Day and telephone fundraising campaigns. He is also Assistant Editor of The Caian. Declan recently completed his undergraduate and MPhil degrees in Classics at St John’s. In his spare time, he writes, directs, dances and performs on stage. Declan’s creative CV is already very long, but membership of the legendary Cambridge Footlights cannot go unmentioned.

Please do visit if you are in Cambridge; you will always be welcomed warmly. The Development team ‘lives’ on P staircase in Tree Court and we look forward to meeting you. You can, of course, always reach us by telephone (01223 339676) or email (development@cai.cam.ac.uk), and find further information on the College website at www.cai.cam.ac.uk/alumni.

Development Advisory Group

William Vereker (1985; Chair)

Chris Aylard (2002)

Mark Damazer (1974)

Sally Dyson (1990)

Veryan Exelby (1991)

David Hulbert (1969)

Paul Kaiser (1991)

Andrew Marsden (2008)

Catherine Lister (1985)

Sarah Watt (1999)

Stephen Zinser (Parent)

Volunteers

Katja Achermann (2019)

John Barabino (1987)

Stephen Barter (1975)

Stephen Brearley (1971)

George Budden (1984)

Marisa Chan (1992)

Vivienne Chan (1990)

Patrick Clifton (1992)

Heather Deixler (1999)

Ian Dorrington (1997)

Nadia elMasry (1989)

John Evans (1978)

Emma Fardon (1997)

Tom Fardon (1994)

Sartaj Gill (1994)

Rufus Grantham (1992)

Neil Harding (1979)

Katie Harrison-Rowe (1992)

Keith Haviland (1977)

Patrick Helson (1985)

James Hill (2009)

Chris Hogbin (1993)

Caesar Loong (1983)

Greg Lyons (1997)

Becket McGrath (1989)

David Melvin (1979)

Arun Nigam (1964)

Miguel Nogales (1993)

Adrian Pegg (2001)

Ravi Rao (1986)

Nick Robinson (1989)

Fay Sandford (2009)

John Saunders (1967)

Dan Shavick (1998)

Amith Shah (1982)

Jonathan Shapiro (1971)

Nihal Sinha (2002)

Lauren Smart (1996)

Clara Spera (2012)

Leon Stephenson (1991)

Frank Stewart (1960)

Nick Suess (1966)

Mike Syn (1990)

David Tait (1996)

Jennifer Tucker (1988)

Jack Waldron (2002)

Peter Walker (1960)

Sophie Watts (2004)

Melissa Wilson (2011)

Alex Worden (1993)

The Caius Foundation Report 2023-24

Eva Strasburger (1982), Secretary, writes:

The Caius Foundation is a tax-exempt educational and charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the US Internal Revenue Code. US taxpayers may give taxdeductible gifts to The Caius Foundation and the Foundation’s Board makes grants within the Foundation’s charitable aims.

President and Directors of the Caius Foundation

President Christopher Hogbin (1993)

Secretary Ian Dorrington (1997) (Co-Treasurer from June 2024)

Treasurer James Hill (2009) (until June 2024)

Sartaj Gill (1994) (Co-Treasurer from June 2024)

Katie Harrison Rowe (1992)

Greg Lyons (1997)

Clara Spera (2012) (Secretary from June 2024)

Professor Peter Walker (1960)

Professor Pippa Rogerson (1986)

Robert Gardiner (2018)

Dr Maša Amatt (2020)

Emeritus President

Emeritus Director

The Honorable Dr John Lehman (1965)

Eva Strasburger (1982)

In 2024 the Caius Foundation disbursed $600,000 in grants to Caius, which was only possible thanks to the generosity of US-based Caians. Over the many years, James Hill has expertly stewarded your generosity and most diligently accounted for every cent as the Treasurer of the Caius Foundation. He has decided to retire from that role this year. James and his wife Pam remain generous and loyal friends of the College. Thank you very much, James!

The Master and Director of Development visited the East and West Coast in December 2023. We are hugely grateful to Nick Robinson (1989) for hosting the New York event at the Soho House. A special thanks is due to Jennifer Tucker (1988), who delivered a stimulating talk on the historical roots of the gun laws and gun ownership in the US. It was wonderful to see a number of ‘new’ Caians at that event, as well as many familiar faces both in New York and San Francisco.

Last time we mentioned that the Board was intent on increasing the number and variety of opportunities for Caians to meet in the US. It was wonderful to see a couple of

excellent events in New York throughout the year. In April we returned to the famously generous hospitality of Peter and Wuliang Walker. They threw open the doors to their New York apartment where Caians gathered to enjoy a talk about living with the Bedouins by Dr Frank Stewart (1960).

It was the turn of Sartaj Gill in September. The Gill family turned out in force to put on a show – a real magic show! They raised the bar by inviting us to Sartaj’s studio, just across the street from the New York Stock Exchange, for an evening of magic expertly prepared and steeped in Caius history. It was in equal measure entertaining and educational.

Please do get in touch with the Development team in the College if you have ideas and suggestions for interesting and fun events in the future. We are particularly interested to hear from Caians outside New York catchment who would be interested in hosting an event in other parts of the US.

Finally, our thanks go to all those who choose to support the Foundation. It is only by your doing so that we can contribute to the continued prosperity of our College.

ARTICLES

The Decarbonisation of Caius

The Old Courts Project

Sustainability, decarbonisation, net zero – these terms have become familiar to most of us over the past decade. Public policy, from central to local government, is dedicated to achieving the aims that experts believe may avert a climate emergency during this century.

Cambridge colleges have also engaged in the discussion. In Caius, an environmental policy was formulated by 2016 and the first committee dedicated to these issues was established in 2017. By May 2022 outline plans developed by Robert Gardiner, Jennifer Phillips, Andrew Gair, and Professors Axel Zeitler and Alex Routh had surveyed the entire Caius estate and examined ways of conserving energy (better insulation, use of new forms of glass) and energy consumption reduction (at that stage, mainly ground source heat pumps).

The huge scale of the operation was clear from the outset, as well as the very substantial cost. A strategy paper in January 2023 envisaged completion of the project as late as 2040, with a reduction of 66% in CO2 emissions from space and water heating, and a total cost of roughly £25 million.

During 2023-24 experiments were being conducted with new glazing in parts of the Old Courts. A generous bequest by James Goodhart (1953), partly dedicated to promoting energy efficiency in Caius, enabled the first systematic conversion of a Caius hostel. The graduate house at 4 Gresham Rd was fitted with secondary glazing and air source heat pumps were installed. So far, the results have been very encouraging and the residents of what is now called Goodhart House fully support the College’s drive to reduce its carbon footprint, whilst continuing to heat their house, provide hot water and ensure quiet operation of the heat pumps. Overall, on this particular property we estimate a projected 40% reduction in energy costs and an 80% reduction in the carbon footprint.

Converting a single hostel is all very well. It could provide a model for other external properties. But what about the Old Courts? Here the planning underwent notable change and acceleration. The use of ground source heat pumps was judged to be unfeasible because sinking boreholes in the Old Courts would not generate the capacity needed, so discussion pivoted towards air source heat pumps and the possibility of finding one location to serve the entire central complex.

The promise of a substantial time-limited government grant called for bold and swift action. What we had in place by the end of the year, with the assistance of Richard Brimfield of Ridge and Partners, was a viable scheme for the decarbonisation of most of the Old Courts site with adequate capacity also to decarbonise all of the other Caius central sites. This is the first such scheme in Cambridge and it may well come to be regarded as a significant model nationally.

The plan envisages a range of works which will create an infrastructure enabling the removal of all gas-fired heating systems in the College’s Old Courts and St Michael’s Court properties, replacing them with an air source heat pump (ASHP) system. The works will initially apply that change to space and water heating (for both radiators and bathrooms) for a significant part of the Grade I and II* Listed Old Courts, and also water heating in Tree Court.

The infrastructure elements (ASHPs, associated plant and primary distribution pipework) are sized to allow the remainder of the Old Courts, St Michael’s Court, and the Cockerell Building to be added to the network, along with water heating in the Aston Webb building. A key to making this possible has been identifying the flat roof of the Murray Easton Building on St Michael’s Court overlooking the Market Square (Staircase G and H) as a favourable location for ASHPs. The heat from these units will be distributed via below-ground pipework, including a crossing below Trinity Street, to the other buildings served.

Although the Murray Easton building occupies a key civic location overlooking the Market Square and is Listed Grade II, it provides the necessary space and opportunity for architectural and acoustic screening that would be impossible amongst the older Grade I and II* Listed buildings of The Old Courts. This is the most significant heritage impact of the whole project. The pumps will be concealed from view by screens designed to blend in with existing Portland stone (Market Hill) and Ketton stone (Rose Crescent corner) facings, and lead cladding on the St Michael’s side. Noise and vibration effects will be mitigated by placing the pumps on specially designed mounts.

The conventional starting point for any decarbonisation project is ‘fabric first’ – reducing heat demand by improving thermal insulation and air sealing. This is an essential precondition if one is to minimise plant sizing and absolute energy use, regardless of source. Our Old Courts project prioritises turning off the gas as the most urgent project outcome, while still including significant fabric improvements and engineering to ensure that continuing fabric work in the future will reap further efficiency gains. This approach is also well-suited to the high heritage status and sensitivity of the listed buildings.

To implement the full extent of technically feasible and heritage-friendly fabric improvements immediately would be highly disruptive and expensive, inevitably resulting in a much slower pace of gas usage reduction. The viability of this approach

has been confirmed through many months of heat metering, temperature monitoring, trial fabric treatments and subjective residents’ feedback, in order to ensure comfort conditions will equal or better those currently achieved. The scheme has won praise and funding from the Government’s Salix Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme, which included significant scrutiny by the Salix technical team, and which resulted in a £1.6 million government grant for the project.

Since the properties involved in this project include Grade I, II* and II, it might be expected that most attention would be paid to the higher-graded or highersignificance assets, particularly those in Tree, Caius and Gonville Courts. However, works relating to the most sensitive Grade I and II* spaces are limited to below ground heating pipes passing through substructure or basement spaces of relatively low significance, or replacement of added radiators.

Of course, this raises the question of the potential archaeological impact of belowground pipework in the Old Courts. To deal with this the College engaged Albion Archaeology to advise on appropriate measures when excavating to lay the new pipes and ducts. In fact, all excavation on this site will be by hand, and all existing paving will be carefully lifted and re-laid on completion, assisted by a full photogrammetric survey of the court surfaces. Similarly, any grass that is disturbed will be replaced. There will be no changes to existing landscapes. The Cambridge Historic Environment Team have approved Albion’s Written Scheme of Investigation, and a thorough geophysical survey of all affected spaces was conducted.

The wider project also includes works above ground in the Grade I and II* buildings: draught-stripping and secondary glazing to some windows, and alterations to radiators and their casings. These more visible elements are all subject to Listed Building Consents, which we have good reason to believe will be granted.

Inevitably, the cost of the scheme increased. But the potential savings that we shall make are also considerable. It has been estimated that we shall reduce our carbon emissions by 310 tonnes p.a., rising to 410 tonnes p.a. with the second phase of the project. Air source heat pumps require electricity, of course, but the cost of running them is significantly lower than the cost of running the old gas boilers, and electricity costs are set to decline in the long term.

A further consideration is that the Tree Court and Gonville Court gas boilers themselves are nearing the end their life and would be extremely expensive to replace. Boilers become less efficient with age, but heat pumps do not. Each unit of electrical energy used by a heat pump delivers an average of three units of energy for space and water heating.

Moving to one centralised heat source and linking that source to the four existing plant rooms will make the separate boilers redundant. The new infrastructure will become

as fundamental to the College’s core operation in the decades to come as building a sewerage network is to any city.

Like all mechanical equipment, the heat pumps will at some point reach the end of their working life, but they can be replaced. By contrast, the below-ground network connecting the entirety of the Old Courts will remain in perpetuity.

The project will change completely the manner in which the Old Courts are heated and supplied with hot water. This represents a change as radical as the shift from fireplaces to direct electric or central heating and it is – so far as can be seen at present – the technology of the future. We believe that it justifies increased withdrawals from the endowment for the project will benefit both the present and future generations.

Editorial note

Work was scheduled to start in the last week of January 2025, which it did. Completion is envisaged for Easter 2026.

The College owes a particular debt of gratitude to Professor Alex Routh, whose vision, expertise and sustained commitment was crucial in the formulation of a strategy for the whole Caius estate.

Tutors Now and Then

Dr Andrew Spencer, Senior Tutor, writes:

A Tutor is a signpost and a human guide for students, to help them access the many and varying ways in which the College and University is there to help its students. Tutors are not inanimate objects, however, that do not move as you whizz past them at breakneck Cambridge speed. Nor are they guides in the sense of a satnav, ChatGTP or Alexa. Instead, they are there to help accompany students through the sometimes Byzantine corridors of Cambridge life and administration. Much of the work of a Tutor is routine: supporting grants, writing references for internship and job applications and checking in with the student at least once a term to find out how they are doing. But Tutors are also like the reserve parachute, to de deployed into action when students find themselves in difficulty – be that academic, pastoral or financial.

In my six years as Senior Tutor at Caius, I have encountered all the many weird and wonderful aspects of human life, things that prove the old adage that life is stranger than fiction, but I know that Senior Tutors past, several of whom remain Fellows of Caius, can tell equally strange tales from their own times in the Senior Tutor’s office, R1, Tree Court.

Professor Whaley, Senior Tutor in the 1990s, and I met recently to reflect on the tutorial system now and at the end of the last century. As ever with Cambridge, there is both a façade of sameness with changes beneath the surface, and also a sense of plus ça change. Issues that grab students’ attention, like the closure of the late-night bar in the 1990s, or which flag to fly from the College flagpole today, may illustrate changing student priorities but also reflect that unchanging and natural suspicion that clever young people have of authority. Offer a Cambridge student a loophole and they will find a way through it, and tell their mates too. One advantage Tutors might have had in the 1990s, though, was the absence of email. Student problems could dissipate in the time it took to receive, stew on and write a reply to a letter of complaint. Nowadays Tutors receive emails at any time of day and night and replies are expected instantaneously, a responsiveness not always reciprocated when requests are sent in the other direction. All Tutors aim to reply, however, to non-urgent inquiries within two working days which seems to satisfy most.

Tutors still meet with their panel of students each term, mostly at the beginning and end, and, just as in the past, some students need chasing to attend. Exeat forms still exist in the

College Regulations but are now more honoured in the breach than in the observance. The fortnightly lunchtime meetings instigated by Professor Whaley still occur, though we spend less time now wrangling over dining requirement remissions and the more routine grants than was the case back then, focusing instead on requests for major financial assistance or discussing matters of College or University policy that affect tutorial provision.

Recruiting Tutors also still requires constant effort and vigilance on the part of the Senior Tutor. The calls on academics’ time grow ever more pressing, and tutoring in College is sadly not recognised as part of the promotion structure for the University. It is, however, the best and most rewarding way to get a sense of belonging to a College. You get to know and understand students, as well as the workings of the College and University, better through tutoring than any almost other activity.

Despite the obstacles, we have made great progress in increasing the number of Tutors in recent years, which means smaller panels, allowing Tutors to get to know individual students, and their needs, better. In the 1990s, the College had eight Tutors, most of whom were men. Even as late as 2019, we had only a dozen Tutors, several of whom were not full Fellows. Now, we have 22 from a strong mix of subjects and backgrounds. This means that tutorial panels are no longer 65 to 80 students, but between 45 and 50. Our aim, in the College’s Education Strategy, is to get them down to no more than 45.

An innovation, and one that reflects the growing number and increasingly complex needs of postgraduate students, is that six of the Tutors deal exclusively with postgraduate students. Their work is coordinated by our Deputy Senior Tutor, another new position, which is held by Dr Rebecca Sugden (Fellow 2018). The overall responsibility for the whole Caius Tutorial system continues to lie with the Senior Tutor, of course. This is now a full-time role: very few Cambridge Senior Tutors are now parttime. Most Senior Tutors remain academically active, but the days when one could combine a University Lectureship with a Senior Tutorship are largely over.

A significant difference, I think, between now and the 1990s is the additional level of support that’s available to students beyond their Tutor. The Porters, of course, have always been a source of advice and possessors of sympathetic ears and they act as an excellent early warning system, able to have a quiet word with a student’s Tutor if they notice a change in behaviour or see something concerning. Many minor problems are thus caught before they develop further while major problems can be identified and addressed promptly. The Education & Tutorial Office now has four permanent members of staff who are also a crucial mine of information for both students and Tutors and, again, solve many problems at source.

In the 1990s the College Nurse dealt mainly with cuts and bruises incurred on the sports fields or through overindulging at one of the Cambridge late night hospitality spots. While Anne Limon Duparcmeur, our College Nurse and Head of Wellbeing,

always enjoys the opportunity to do some hands-on nursing when it arises, much of her work in the Health Centre, and that of her colleague Rachel Winson (our Mental Health & Wellbeing Adviser), revolves around helping students who are encountering difficulties with their mental health.

There is much more awareness of mental health nowadays and students are, I think, much more comfortable about talking about their wellbeing than those of my generation or older. The effects on one’s wellbeing of living your life online, where there is much less opportunity to switch off, are still only just starting to be explored by scientists and social scientists, while the external pressures of a changing and uncertain job market for graduates make an already pressurised Cambridge environment sometimes feel even more so. Cambridge is the best place to be when things are going well academically and socially, but it can be a horrible place to be when they aren’t and the idyllic setting somehow brings that home more keenly, especially when students are carrying the burdens of their own and often their families’ expectations.

The additional effects of the Covid lockdowns, which stripped young people of many of the crucial life milestones that are so important and blew wide open questions of how the University should conduct academic assessments, also placed considerable strain on students and the apparatuses of support that existed around them. The University has reformed its mental health provision recently and there is now much closer coordination between the support offered in Colleges and by the University. Most students only want, or need, the kind of low-level intervention that Tutors and the staff in our Health Centre provide but there is the ability to escalate things further if needed. Much of what the Health Centre provides, however, is focused on prevention rather than treatment. They offer all sorts of wellbeing events that encourage participation, from Yoga to crocheting to the annual fun day in Harvey Court gardens just before exams, which offers students the chance to let off steam.

Tutors still sit at the heart of a system of support that is designed, in the words of our Education Strategy, to ensure that students are equipped to achieve their potential while at Cambridge and to make a positive contribution to the world when they leave. They are part of the essential glue that binds together our community of scholars. Tutors don’t have all the answers themselves, but they can help students when they are in difficulties and, like all the best teachers, help students to find the answers for themselves.

CAIAN NEWS

The Annual Gathering

Caius Club

Catherine Lister, the Chair, writes:

In a move away from our regular autumn venue, the annual Caius Club London dinner in October was held at Mansion House – the magnificent residence of the Lord Mayor of the City of London – invited by Sir Nicholas Lyons, alumnus and friend to the College.  Over 200 people were in attendance, including the Lord Mayor, the Master and our guest speaker, Mark Damazer (1979, and Master of St Peter’s College, Oxford 2010-19). The Lord Mayor joined for pre-prandials, read Grace and gave a short welcome to all the guests. The Master gave us an update from the College, and Mark regaled us with reflections on a life in the BBC and then back into academia (notwithstanding it was in the wrong place!). We then retired for a ‘stirrup cup’, enabling plenty of time to catch up with old friends, and make new ones across the years.

At the end of March, around 50 Club members and their guests gathered for dinner in College, and as ever we were treated to a delicious feast by the excellent kitchen team. Our guest speaker was Caius Fellow and historian Dr Ruth Scurr, who gave a fascinating insight into how she approaches her biographical work, specifically in relation to her recent book about Napoleon.

On Saturday, 15 June 2024, Caians of all ages gathered at Fen Ditton for the annual May Bumps picnic, a cherished tradition where attendees enjoyed lavish spreads and champagne while cheering on their crews. Many arrived straight from the Benefactors’ May Week Party, adding to the festive atmosphere. From our prime vantage point, they witnessed a thrilling moment as Caius Women’s First VIII bumped Jesus College to claim Head of the River. The Master of the College proudly cheered on the crew during their victorious row-past. Many thanks to Head Porter Martin May and the two Caius undergraduates whose efforts ensured the smooth and safe running of the event.

Caius Club committee:

Catherine Lister (Chair)

Lizzie Maughans (Secretary)

Chris Aylard (Treasurer)

Simon Morris

Alexis Sherwood

George Budden

Caius House, Battersea

Delrita Agyapong, Chief Executive Officer, writes

Making the Best of Ourselves & Battersea – A Report on Caius House Activities 2023-24

Caius House, was founded by a group of students and Fellows of Caius in 1887. We are a registered charity, located close to the River Thames, a stone’s throw away from the iconic and newly refurbished Battersea Power Station. We remain committed to supporting young people and their families through educational opportunities, creative arts, and sporting activities, aligning with the original settlement’s mission. We continue to pursue the mission enshrined in the Caius House motto: ‘Making the best of ourselves and Battersea.’

2023-24 has been an extremely busy year for Caius House and we have been able to deliver and present a wealth of opportunities to the young people from the local area. We continue to be a community hub, not just for the work that we do ourselves but also in developing partnerships with other voluntary organisations. This year we have supported and worked with over 24 different groups. This truly enables us to embody the collaborative nature of the Caius House mission.

The Caius House Team

During the summer we hosted two Apple Distinguished Educators for a weeklong ‘Creating Engaging Apps’ programme. The participants designed and created their own apps and had the opportunity to present their ideas to Apple App Store employees at the Apple Head Office. The feedback from the group was very positive and they are all keen to keep on designing apps and taking their coding to another level.

The Creating Engaging Apps programme formed one week of our five-week summer holiday provision, which saw over 60 young people between the ages of 5 and 16 take part.

In celebration of the end of exams season, the Year 11 members of Caius House decided to host a ‘glow in the dark’ roller disco. This was supported by the Jack Petchey Foundation. It was great to be able to welcome numerous Year 11 students and get them involved in the planning, hosting and enjoying! It was a nice way to prepare them for the summer, to show that we are here to support them during their next steps.

We have noticed that young people are experiencing poor mental health and worrying about the future. They often do not know where to turn and what to do, and this has led us to place our focus on positive mental health and assisting the young to develop their own toolbox of strategies to use when they need to. This has been achieved through the development of our youth activities and upskilling of the youth workers. We also have an in-house counsellor on board so that young people can self-refer or be referred by their youth worker to receive a course of counselling. This has proved to be very popular with nearly all appointments attended. The success of the scheme is underlined by the fact that 98% of the clients report a positive change in their life. We are more than just a community space. We are a lifeline for young people, a place where potential is unlocked, and futures are transformed. Every day, we stand at the heart of Battersea, providing essential services, guidance, and unwavering support to those who need it most.

As we look ahead, the demand for our programmes — especially mental health counselling — is rising rapidly. Now, more than ever, young people need a safe space to be heard, supported, and empowered. The pressures they face are immense, but together, we can make sure that no young person has to struggle alone.

This year again, our report showcases the unwavering commitment of Caius House to its mission and the positive impact it continues to make within the Battersea community.

As in previous years, Caius House is glad to be able to share our work in The Caian

Editor’s note: Further information about the history and current activities of Caius House may be found on the charity’s excellent website: www.caiushouse.org.

Honours, Awards and Appointments

Sullivan CD (1971 Natural Sciences: Chemistry). Chris Sullivan was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in January 2024, following work on the archaeology and history of the Forest of Dean and after a senior civil service career.

Weber JN (1973 Medicine). Professor Jonathan Weber was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to Global Medical Science in The King’s Birthday Honours 2024.

Pedley TJ (Fellow 1973-, Mathematics). Professor Tim Pedley was awarded the European Mechanics Society (EUROMECH) Fluid Mechanics Prize 2024 ‘for his seminal and outstanding contributions to fluid mechanics applied to biology and medicine, and for his distinguished service and leadership for the European and international fluid mechanics community’.

Gardam TD (1974 English). Timothy Gardam was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to Journalism and to Education in The King’s New Year Honours 2024.

Secher DS (Fellow 1974-, Natural Sciences: Biology). Professor David Secher received a Lifetime Achievement in Knowledge Exchange award from Knowledge Exchange UK (formerly PraxisAuril), a professional body which he co-founded and of which he is currently the patron, in November 2023.

Lyons NSL (1977 History). Alderman Nicholas Lyons was appointed a Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire for services to the Financial Sector, to the Growth Economy and to Financial Literacy in The King’s Birthday Honours 2024.

Halls AD (1978 English). Andrew Halls was appointed Interim Head of Whitgift School from September 2024.

Reid CT (1979 Law). Professor Colin Reid won an inaugural Legal Pioneer Award from the Law Society of Scotland for his contributions to environmental law, which have been reflected in the development of legislation.

Grassie SL (Unofficial Research Fellow 1980-1984). Dr Stuart Grassie was awarded the 2024 Worth Award presented by Wheel Rail Seminars at the Wheel/Rail Interaction Conference in May. Stuart was recognised for his near 50-year service in the railway industry.

Keymer TE (1981 English). Professor Thomas Keymer was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in July 2024.

Schofield AJ (1986 Natural Sciences). Professor Andrew Schofield (winner of the (Schuldham Plate 1989) was appointed Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow in September 2024, to assume office on 1 October 2025.

Sheldon CD (1986 Law). Sir Clive Sheldon KC was appointed a High Court Judge, assigned to King’s Bench Division from 1 February 2024.

Shindler N (1987 History). Nicola Shindler was nominated for election as an Honorary Fellow of Caius.

Schofield PHG (1988 Geography). Peter Schofield was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) for Public Service in The King’s Birthday Honours 2024.

Blakesley RP (1989 History of Art with MML). Professor Polly Blakesley was selected as the next Master of Pembroke College in June 2024, due to assume office in October 2025.

Jena R (1989 Medicine). Professor Raj Jena was appointed the UK’s first Clinical Professor of AI in Radiotherapy.

Ryan KA (1989 Music). Kwamé Ryan was nominated for election as an Honorary Fellow of Caius.

Khaw K-T (Fellow 1991-, Medicine). Professor Kay-Tee Khaw was named Best Female Scientist in the United Kingdom by research.com in December 2023.

Hannant RL (1993 History). Ruth Hannant was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) for Public Service in The King’s New Year Honours 2024.

Holt CE (Fellow 1997-, Developmental Neurobiology). Professor Christine Holt was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to Neuroscience in The King’s Birthday Honours 2024.

Lockhart WPJ (2003 Music). Dr William Lockhart was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the Environment in The King’s New Year Honours 2024.

Fitzgerald WC (Fellow 2004-, Classics). Professor William Fitzgerald was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in July 2024.

Keyser UF (Fellow 2009-, Natural Sciences: Physics). Dr Ulrich Keyser was awarded the 2023 Sam Edwards Medal and Prize in the Institute of Physics Award for ‘pioneering the study of transport of structured nucleic-acid molecules through nanopores and the quantification of out-of-equilibrium polymer dynamics at the single-molecule level.’

Cheah J (2014 Fellow). Tan Sri Dr Jeffrey Cheah was appointed an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in October 2023 for services to Higher Education, the National Health Service and Philanthropy.

Hickox AJS (2014 Music). Adam Hickox was appointed Principal Conductor of Glyndebourne Sinfonia.

Chinnery P (Fellow 2017-, Medicine). Professor Patrick Chinnery was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2024 in recognition of his work on the role of mitochondria in human disease and developing new treatments for mitochondrial disorders.

Rezk RSMM (Bye-Fellow 2017-2021). Dr Rasha Rezk received a Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellowship as she works to deliver gene-modifying tools in a safer and cheaper way for clinical applications.

Daffern M (Acting Dean and Bye-Fellow 2022-2023). The Revd Dr Megan Daffern was installed as Canon Chancellor of Wells Cathedral in Somerset.

Ball K (Domestic Bursar 2023-). Karen Ball was admitted as a Felow of Caius in April 2024.

Student awards

Zarif A (2018 Medicine). Azmaeen Zarif was awarded the first ever Deepak Jadon Community Impact Prize in June 2024 for his outstanding contribution during his clinical years of study.

Goriely ZY (2021 Computational Linguistics PhD). Zebulon Goriely won the Best Micro Short Award at the British Film Institute Future Film Festival 2024.

Havard L (2022 History PhD). Dr Lucy Havard was named Women’s President of the Cambridge University Boat Club for 2024-25.

Mullings T-R (2022 History and Politics). Tia-Renee Mullings won the Mustapha Matura Award and Mentoring Programme 2023 with her play Little Angela Davis.

Eyres E (2023 Music). Peter Walker Organ Scholar Eben Eyres won the Brian Runnett Organ Competition at the University of Cambridge in February 2024. He was also awarded third prize in the senior category of the Northern Ireland International Organ Competition in August 2024.

Frisby Williams L (2023 Music). Lola Frisby Williams was the joint winner of the University of Cambridge’s annual Concerto Competition in March 2023.

Personal News and Announcements

(This is a new rubric in The Caian: we welcome any personal news that Caians might like to send us.)

Anderson K (1959 Theology). A special celebration took place in Caius Chapel on 7 June 2024 to mark the 60th anniversary of the marriage of the Revd Ken Anderson to Polly. During the service they sang the hymn ‘Praise my soul, the King of heaven,’ which had been sung at their wedding on June 6, 1964. They were joined by Sue Sewell, who was a bridesmaid at their wedding, and her husband Peter (Natural Sciences 1963), who was a Choral scholar at Caius and sang at the original service.

Brown K (1986 English). Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College London, has published a new book, The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400 Year Contest for Power (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2024). The book explores the history of Britain’s relationship with China from the 16th century to the present day. It features some prominent Caians who have played major roles in Anglo-Chinese relations, particularly Thomas Manning, a 19thcentury sinologist who was the first British person on record to meet the Dalai Lama, and Joseph Needham, a 20th-century biochemist who raised the Needham Question – that is, the question of why modern science had developed less in China than in Europe, despite China being far more innovative in its early history.

Frances-Hoad C (1998 Music). Dr Cheryl Frances-Hoad, a professional composer, was commissioned to write for the 2023 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols in King’s College Chapel. The service was introduced in 1918 and first broadcast in 1928, and a new work has been commissioned for it every year since 1983. For the service Cheryl wrote The Cradle, a setting of an English translation by Robert Graves of an anonymous 17th-century Austrian text.

Snellgrove HB (2009 Geology). Hannah Snellgrove represented Great Britain in the sailing competition at her first Olympics, the Paris 2024 Games, becoming the 21st Caian Olympian. Her journey to the Olympics was remarkable in itself, given she deferred a year of her degree to seek a place at the London 2012 Olympics, ultimately unsuccessfully. Her ‘26-year project’ via the ‘scenic route’ concluded with her in 12th place in the Women’s Dinghy race in Marseille.

Eizagirre Barker S (2019 Physics PhD). Simone Eizagirre Barker’s journey into radio began when she and a friend relaunched the Cambridge University Science Magazine BlueSci podcast in 2020. After being interviewed by a science magazine she was invited

to be a one-off guest on a radio show in her native Basque region of Spain. She was next invited to join the editorial team who founded the Department of Physics’ official podcast, People Doing Physics, which she co-hosted from 2021 to 2024. Between 2023 and 2024 Simone has worked as a collaborator for the Faktoria Magazina programme on Euskadi Irratia, the Basque Autonomous Community’s public broadcast radio, researching, writing and delivering 20 live radio segments discussing science and technology.

O’Callaghan SM (2019 Medicine) and Gerrand AF (2021 Physics PhD). Sarah O’Callaghan and Finlay Gerrand, along with the rest of the student band Quasar, won Take It to the Bridge, a ‘battle of the bands’ event organised by the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Music Performance, in March 2024. Quasar plays a unique blend of Hip-Hop and Jazz, and their prize was a set at the Cambridge Club Festival 2024, performing in front of thousands alongside renowned artists such as Chaka Khan, Sister Sledge, Melanie C and Jessie Ware.

Faraday CJ (Fellow 2020-, History of Art). Dr Christina Faraday, a Caius Fellow specialising in the art and architecture of Tudor and Jacobean Britain, is the host of the podcast British Art Matters, launched in 2024. The official podcast of the Berger Prize for excellence in British art history, sponsored by the Walpole Society, it introduces listeners to the shortlisted authors and other researchers working at the forefront of the field, exploring their work but also the people behind the books.

Posner DA (2020 Immunology PhD). David Posner launched a new outreach initiative to increase awareness and accessibility to a joint funding scheme offered to Mexican students attending the University of Cambridge by the Cambridge Trust and Mexico’s National Council of Humanities, Sciences and Technologies (CONAHCYT), the two organisations funding David’s PhD. Although Cambridge offers many studentships annually for Mexicans, he was one of only three recipients of these studentships in his academic year. With financial backing from Cambridge’s Department of Medicine, David’s initiative offers resources which can help academic institutions in Mexico to guide students in applying to Cambridge and for the studentships, a scheme which he hopes has long-term potential.

Sey TLFY (2021 Law) and Gottlieb O (2022 Modern & Medieval Languages). Tirza Sey and Oliver Gottlieb, along with St John’s student Annissa La Touche, led the docuseries Cam Uncut to explore race, class and culture. The series shows the interwoven and diverse experiences of University of Cambridge students, giving the students an opportunity to share their stories. It aims not to expose the ‘wrongs’ of Cambridge, but instead to show how differently people’s experience of day-to-day life at the University can be based on race, class and culture. Other topics considered within the docuseries include the search for academic validation, gender expression and identity, and competitiveness within societies, for example with leadership.

Sulovsky V (Fellow 2021-, History). Dr Vedran Sulovsky, a Caius Fellow researching medieval European history, has published his first book, Making the Roman Empire Holy: Frederick Barbarossa, Saint Charlemagne and the sacrum imperium (Cambridge University Press, 2024). The work ‘offers a new analysis of the key documents, artworks and contemporary scholarship used to celebrate and commemorate the imperial regime, especially in the imperial coronation site and Charlemagne’s mausoleum, the Marienkirche in Aachen.’

Drage E (Bye-Fellow 2023-). Dr Eleanor Drage, a Caius Bye-Fellow researching AI ethics, has published The Planetary Humanism of European Women’s Science Fiction: An Experience of the Impossible (Abingdon: Routledge, 2024). This book reads six science fiction texts written by women writers through the work of six key gender and race scholars: Judith Butler, Rosi Braidotti, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Paul Gilroy and Jack Halberstam. Eleanor has also co-edited the collection Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data, and Intelligent Machines (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), a volume of feminist work on the AI space; and she and Dr Kerry McInerney have coedited The Good Robot: Why Technology Needs Feminism (London: Bloomsbury, 2024), a collection of essays arising from their podcast The Good Robot, which explores how feminism is reshaping the way we think about technology.

Gordon AC (2023 Law PhD). Ariella Gordon took her original musical theatre production, Ctrl+Alt+Deceit, to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2024. The story stemmed from a conversation at a formal dinner during Ariella’s LLM, where a Computer Science PhD student explained how the Dark Web worked, prompting Ariella to explore what would happen if someone who didn’t know how to use the dark web ended up there. In the lockdowns which followed after her return to her native Australia, Ariella began writing the first draft of the script and score. This initial draft script and songs were chosen as one of three finalists in a professional musical theatre writing competition in 2020 with the Australian adjudication panel led by Peter Fitzpatrick and the finalists judged by Stephen Schwartz.

Students revising in the Upper Library

Some Books by or about Fellows and Caians Donated

to the Library 2023-24

The College thanks the authors and donors listed below for their gifts.

Chatterji, M. (Bye-Fellow 2023-) Problem solving in economics: a quantitative approach. Singapore: World Scientific, 2024.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) The glory tree. Champs Hill Records, 2011. Compact disc.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) Even you sing. First hand Records, 2017. Compact disc – two copies.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) Magic lantern tales. Champs Hill Records, 2018. Compact disc – two copies.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) The whole earth dances. Champs Hill Records, 2020. Compact disc.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) There is no rose. Cadenza Music, 2011. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) Magic lantern tales. Cadenza Music, 2015. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) Unto the rainbow. Cadenza Music, 2016. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) Lordings, listen to our lay. Chester Music, 2017. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) Bogodóditse dévo, ráduysia. Chester Music, 2018. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) Last man standing: study score. Chester Music, 2018. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) Last man standing: vocal score. Chester Music, 2018. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) Awake, my soul. Chester Music, 2019. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) Earth puts her colours by. Chester Music, 2019. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) Une charogne. Chester Music, 2019. Music score –two copies.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) Tales of the invisible. Chester Music, 2019. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) Endless forms most beautiful: score and parts. Chester Music, 2019. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) Algernon. Chester Music, 2019. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) Bloom: score and part. Chester Music, 2020. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) Asphodel: vocal score. Chester Music, 2020. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) A reflection. Chester Music, 2020. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) A house of light: the ballad of Eddystone. Chester Music, 2021. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) A house of light: the ballad of Eddystone. Flute part. Chester Music, 2021. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) The Merton fanfare (+ performance scores for three trumpets). Chester Music, 2021. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) As sin is nothing, let it nowhere be. Chester Music, 2022. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) The wrath of Troilus. Chester Music, 2022. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) The wrath of Troilus. Saxophone part. Chester Music, 2022. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) The Merton Service. Chester Music, 2022. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) The Merton Service for upper voices. Chester Music, 2022. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) Psalm 133: the peace of God. Chester Music, 2022. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) Falling up. Chester Music, 2023. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) At the round earth’s imagin’d corners. Chester Music, 2023. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) The jewel beyond price. Chester Music, 2023. Music score.

Frances-Hoad, C. (1998 Music) Toccata. Chester Music, 2023. Music score.

Launaro, A. (Fellow 2013-) (ed.) Roman urbanism in Italy: recent discoveries and new directions. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2024.

Launaro, A. (Fellow 2013-) [and Millett, M.] Interamna Lirenas: a Roman town in central Italy revealed. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2023.

Nickl, R. (Fellow 2023-) [and Giné, E.] Mathematical foundations of infinite-dimensional statistical models. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Nickl, R. (Fellow 2023-) Bayesian non-linear statistical inverse problems. Berlin: EMS Press, 2023.

[Pabst, A.] and Scazzieri, R. (Senior Member 1999-) The constitution of political economy: polity, society and the Commonweal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Papadopulos, N. (1985 History) The infernal world: notes from a rebel angel. Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2023.

Turton, S. (Fellow 2021-) Before the word was queer: sexuality and the English dictionary, 1600-1930. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Young, F. (1999 Philosophy) [contributor of an essay in:] Studi Francescani: trimestrale di vita culturale e religiosa a cura dei Frati Minori d’Italia. (Iuglio-Dícembre 2023, n. 3-4). Firenze: Tipolitografia Pegaso, 2023.

Zanker, G. (1970 Classics PhD) Fate and the hero in Virgil’s Aeneid: stoic world fate and human responsibility. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Deaths

Notifications of Deaths, up to 30 September 2024

ABERCROMBIE, G F (1953) 27 December 2017

ADAMSON, A R (1952) 18 December 2022

ALDERSON, G W (1953) 1 December 2023

ALWYN, N (1957) 16 June 2021

ARONSOHN, S S (1979) 5 October 2023 (see page 109)

BALL, J P A (1992) 29 September 2024

BAMFORD, J K (1954) 8 November 2023

BARNES, A J (1963) 25 June 2021

BECK, H V (1960) 16 December 2021

BEWICK, J M (1962) 21 August 2024

BLAKE, N B (1958) 24 August 2024

BLASDALE, K C A (1953) 28 April 2023

BRAGA, J P (1962) May 2024

BRODRICK, P D (1958) 16 March 2024

BROWN, A M (1960) 10 February 2024 (see page 110)

BROWN, PJ (1963) 29 December 2023 (see page 111)

BUCKNALL, C B (1954) 10 May 2024 (see page 112)

BUNN, T (1957) 21 May 2019

BURTON, D A P (1946) 18 May 2024

BUTTLE, R L (1962) November 2023

CAMPOS, C L (1960) 1 August 2024

CASE, K C J (1942) 18 June 2023

CLEMENT, A (1966) 15 March 2024

COLEMAN, C I (1966) 26 August 2023

CONOLLY, M D (1964) 10 June 2024

CORMACK, J H (1967) 2022

CRETNEY, E J (1944) June 2023

CROOKES, P M B (1953) 5 February 2024 (see page 113)

CROZIER, D G (1947) 26 February 2024

CURTIS, J H D (1961) 4 November 2017

DAWES, H W (1977) 7 February 2024 (see page 98)

DAY, N S (1944) 13 May 2024 (see page 114)

DEE, R J (1954) 2020

DEWEY, J C (1960) 14 December 2014

DIXON, J A (1958) 28 August 2023

DRING, R J (1952) 19 April 2024 (see page 116)

DRYSDALE, I F (1942) 15 January 2018

DUNCAN-JONES, R P (1963) 15 April 2024 (see page 91)

ELENGORN, M D (1963) 7 November 2023

ELLIS, P J N (1961) 7 September 2024

ELLISS, L M (1958) July 2023

EVANS, P J (1970) 23 November 2023

EYERS, P H C (1954) 22 December 2023 (see page 117)

FARRAR, D J (1939) 16 April 2021 (see page 118

FENNELL, R H S (1950) 12 April 2023

FINN, P D (1971) 27 September 2023 (see page 101)

FITZSIMONS, J T (1946) 27 December 2023 (see page 94)

FLETCHER, J (1954) 14 August 2023

FROGLEY, P J (1954) 28 May 2023

FRYER, J D (1941) 24 September 2019

FULLERTON, P S (1961) 30 May 2024

FURBER, W J (1972) 21 August 2024 (see page 119)

GARVIE, A F (1957) 17 September 2024 (see page 122)

GAYWARD, P H (1949) 6 May 2018

GEE, D G (1958) 5 October 2023

GERVIS, G R (1951) 11 January 2024 (see page 124)

GLADITZ, R I C (1989) 10 July 2024

GODDEN, B V (1953) 27 September 2021

GOLDSMITH, J J R (1949) 10 October 2017

GOLDSMITH, J S O (2001) 7 June 2024

GOODE, F N (1947) 13 May 2024

GORMAN, G E (1971) 19 August 2015

GRAHAM, W P N (1958) 17 November 2023

GROOME, B A (1953) 25 November 2023

HANDLEY, P A (1969) 25 June 2023

HARMSEN, R (1960) 23 March 2022

HARWOOD, O H F (1978) 23 December 2023

HENG, A B T (1960) 14 August 2022

HENRY, P (1957) 17 July 2023

HEYWOOD, C G (1953) 14 May 2023

HEYWOOD, P (1940) 21 November 2018

HILL, D B (1952) 4 August 2024

HILL, P M (1959) April 2024

HORTON, T (1961) 29 August 2024 (see page 125)

ISRAEL, W (1985) 18 May 2022

JACKSON, H L E (1992) 5 February 2024

JACKSON, N A (1958) 29 August 2019

JUBB, P (1940) 26 January 2021

KIRWAN, EO (1947) 12 June 2024 (see page 126)

KUNZLE, D M (1954) 1 January 2024 (see page 127)

LAM, M P (1938) 7 August 2020

LEARY, N P (1971) 26 July 2024

LEEMING, R (1966) 23 October 2023 (see page 130)

LISTER, D H (1967) 22 November 2023

MACDONALD, I G (2000) 8 August 2023

MAILE, E R (1951) 13 March 2024 (see page 131)

MARAIS, F J (1952) 18 June 2023

MASCARENHAS, L J (1996) 8 November 2023

MCDOUGALL, K A (1954) 22 August 2016

MCGOWAN, N G (1959) July 2024

MERRY, J M D (1960) 2023

MOAR, A E L (1953) July 2011

MORRELL, P S (1943) 29 October 2023

MOWBRAY, J F (1948) 10 April 2024 (see page 132)

NASH, D L H (1950) 15 February 2024 (see page 133

NEEDLE, J R (1964) 21 April 2024

NONHEBEL, B M (1956) 3 July 2024

NORRIS, G (1956) 26 June 2023

NORTON, J A (1968) 3 October 2023 (see page 134)

NOTT, P T M (1949) 24 April 2024

O’BRYEN, C M (1948) 15 October 2022

ORRELL, K J (1949) 27 May 2024

PACKER, W R (1949) 1 March 2024

PARAVICINI, D S (1950) 12 November 2023

PARFITT, A M (1948) 18 May 2015

PARRY, J P M (1960) 17 February 2023

PHEAR, D N (1943) 27 April 2024 (see page 135)

POOLE, J H (1964) September 2023

POTTS, J A (1950) 2 May 2024

PYBUS, J D (1958) 23 October 2023 (see page 136

RADCLIFFE, D J (1954) 21 February 2023

RAWSON, J V (1956) 21 May 2024 (see page 138)

RUSSELL, J G (1955) 21 July 2024

SACKER, H D (1947) November 2017

SAUNDERS, D S (1951) 21 February 2024 (see page 139)

SHEPHERD, C R (1958) 17 January 2024

SMALLCOMBE, G W (1946) 10 September 2019

STANLEY, D (1954) 3 June 2024 (see page 141)

STEAD, R (1965) 13 June 2023

STRACHAN, J A (1966) 18 December 2023 (see page 143)

STRUVÉ, A C (1947) 27 April 2024

SWALLOW, J C (1978) January 2024

TAYLOR, J C (1956) 6 February 2020

TAYLOR, J S H (1950) 16 July 2023

THARP, H W (1955) 20 November 2023

THOMAS, D G T (1960) 20 March 2024

THOMPSON, S P (1950) 9 December 2023 (see page 143)

THURSZ, A D (1946) 19 September 2017

TRENEMAN, W A J (1950) 17 November 2023

TUBBS, O N (1957) 15 September 2024 (see page 144)

TURNER, J (1953) 7 December 2023 (see page 146)

TURNER, J C S (1945) 21 May 2024

TURNER, M J (1948) 25 September 2022 (see page 147)

UNDERHILL, H W (1948) 23 February 2023

WADE, M G (1962) 15 September 2024

WALKER, L F (1950) 6 September 2023

WALKER, L F (1950) 6 September 2023

WALTERS, F J M (1964) February 2024

WARDLE, K A (1964) August 2024

WATCHORN, B (1966) 27 August 2024 (see page 100)

WHITE, G J (1965) 21 June 2023

WILSON, F A H (1960) 24 April 2022

WINDSOR, G (1954) 20 August 2013

YOUNG, M G (1966) 10 May 2024 (see page 149)

ZIMENT, I (1955) 2016

OBITUARIES

Spring flowers in the Harvey Court garden

Obituaries of Fellows and Staff

DUNCAN-JONES, RICHARD PHARE FBA FSA (Fellow 1963-2024), 15 May 2024

The following is a version of the address given at his funeral by Professor Joachim Whaley FBA

I first met Richard when I joined Caius in January 1986. From the start he was kind and friendly and we found that we had many interests in common. That was the beginning of a conversation that continued over nearly 40 years. And it continued even after he ceased to come into College. The last email I received from him came just a few weeks before he died, an amusing comment on the progress of the Caius Mastership election.

My fondness of him and admiration for him grew steadily. Richard was born into what some might think of as an intellectual aristocracy. He was the fourth generation of his family in Caius; his great-grandfather E S Roberts was a classicist who had been admitted as a student in 1865 and rose to be Master of Caius and Vice-Chancellor of the University; his grandfather had been Dean of Caius; and at least five other family members were at Caius before Richard arrived, including his father Austin DuncanJones, who studied Classics and Moral Sciences. His antecedents in Cambridge went back into the 18th and early 19th centuries in various colleges.

Richard was born in Chichester in 1937 but grew up in Birmingham where his father had been appointed to a lectureship in Philosophy in 1934 and where his mother was also later appointed a lecturer in English. While her husband became Professor of Philosophy, Elsie Duncan-Jones began to make her mark around the time of Richard’s birth as a distinguished literary scholar, translator, playwright, and authority on Andrew Marvell.

Richard was educated at King Edward’s School in Birmingham and then studied Classics at King’s College. In 1963, however, he migrated to Caius as a Research Fellow. In 1967 he became an Official Fellow and Domestic Bursar, then Director of Studies in Classics from 1982 and College Lecturer in Classics from 1984, which he remained until he retired in 2004 and became a Life Fellow.

If this sounds like a smooth progression, it really was far from it. What made it possible was not family background but Richard’s research. He completed his PhD in 1965 and his first

book, The Economy of the Roman Empire, appeared in 1974. Three further books cemented his reputation as a scholar of extraordinary power and range. The last, Power and Privilege in Roman Society, appeared in 2016, and some reviewers in the academic journals hailed it as a masterpiece. The book exemplified Richard’s approach. The starting point was an apparently simple question: to what extent were appointments in the Roman Empire made on merit? Using inscriptions and other evidence, Richard examined the career progression of senators and knights or military commanders, as well as including a fascinating section on ‘The Unprivileged’, which analysed the career progression of slaves. Like all Richard’s previous work, the book relied on the painstaking collection of a mass of disparate evidence employed to shed light on big questions about the Roman Empire.

That was also true of his last article on the Antonine Plague of the late second century, which some argue precipitated the end of the Roman Empire. Based on some 20 years of research, this tested the views of historians from Late Antiquity to the present against contemporary evidence from Rome and the Mediterranean, the Nile valley, the African provinces and Palmyra, as well as climate evidence from Greenland. Richard demonstrated both the regional and social variations of the plague over a period of nearly 30 years.

Long before these late works, Richard had a strong international reputation. In 1971-72 he had been a member of the Princeton Institute of Advanced Study. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1992, and it was a further mark of esteem that his colleagues there elected him to serve as Chair of the Classics Section 1997-2000.

As a teacher in Caius, he was always supportive in his delicate, quiet way. I suspect his students had little idea of the significance of his research or that they understood, as one of them put it to me, ‘the depths of intelligence, culture and human sympathy in him.’

There was indeed so much more to Richard than Roman history. In Who’s Who, he listed wine tasting and European cinema, especially films of the 1920s and 1930s, as his recreations. He might have added his appreciation of a wide range of music, including both classical and jazz, and his extensive reading. When my wife and I visited Julia and Richard for lunch in October 2022, we asked him what he was reading. He replied matter-of-factly: ‘Oh, I’ve been re-reading Gide.’ He meant in French, of course. Many years before that, I was rather startled to hear him say that he used to mow the extensive lawns around the Fulbourn cottage in which he and his wife Julia lived for many years. I certainly didn’t have him down as an energetic gardener! Yet I also remember being equally surprised at the regularity with which he used to drive over to Oxford in the 1990s to attend seminars and visit academic friends there. I learned of his passion for travel from conversations with Julia after Richard’s death.

Ancestry might seem to have played a key role in Richard’s life and career, but it would be more accurate to highlight the role of family. He was devoted to his mother and

supported her lovingly after she was widowed in 1967 and when she returned to live in Cambridge in 1976, she lived in the same Pinehurst building as Julia and Richard until her death aged 93 in 2003. He was extremely fond of and protective of his sister, the Shakespeare scholar and Oxford professor Kathleen Duncan-Jones, who died in Cambridge in 2022. He also took great interest and pride in the achievements of his nieces Emily Wilson, another distinguished classicist, and Bee Wilson, the food writer and historian. He also spoke of the pleasure he experienced in interacting with Bee’s children.

Above all, however, Richard was devoted to his wife Julia for 37 years. He delighted in her success as Senior Keeper of Applied Art at the Fitzwilliam Museum and celebrated her publications on English pottery, Delftware, Italian majolica, and The Art of Time. He was always an enthusiastic plus-one at Fitzwilliam Museum events. In marrying Julia, moreover, he found a kindred spirit with a passion for travel as great as his own.

Richard was an extraordinary man, and I feel privileged to have known him. His dedication, his loyalty, his humility and modesty, his wry sense of humour, and the persistence of his curiosity about people and institutions were a true inspiration. Many people in Caius and the Classics Faculty valued him greatly for those things. Our community is much the poorer for his death.

FITZSIMONS, JAMES THOMAS, FRS (1946 Natural Sciences, Fellow 1961-2023)

27 December 2023

Professor Joe Herbert (Fellow 1976) and Professor Dino Giussani (Fellow 1996) write:

Professor James Fitzsimons, who died on 27 December 2023 aged 95, was a scientific giant, a gentleman, and a charismatic leader; and he played a prominent role at Caius throughout his career.

James was born in Cardiff on 8 July 1928 and raised as an Irish Catholic, as his mother’s parents were Irish immigrants, and his father was born and bred in the west of Ireland. In his childhood, he was already immersed in physiological culture as both his parents were medical doctors: his father was a consultant surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital in London and his mother was an industrial medical officer.

James was educated at St Edmund’s College in Ware and admitted to Caius on 1 October 1946. He gained a First in the Natural Sciences Tripos Part I in 1949 and another First in the Natural Sciences Tripos Part II (Physiology) in 1950. He was a House Surgeon at Leicester General Hospital and a House Physician at Charing Cross Hospital in 1954. After qualifying, he joined the Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine in Farnborough as a National Service doctor. There he researched the effects of G-forces in the newly built centrifuge, and he was the ‘Guinea Pig’ test pilot at its opening ceremony in 1955.

He returned to Cambridge after his National Service, where he pursued two of his great passions: research and teaching. Between 1957 and 1959, he was a PhD scholar at the Physiological Laboratory in Cambridge, sponsored by the MRC. He was appointed a University Demonstrator in Physiology in 1959, a University Lecturer in 1964, a Reader in 1976, and Professor of Medical Physiology in 1990.

Starting as an undergraduate, James won many awards and accolades. He was a Michell Scholar, a Walter Myers Exhibitioner, and he won the Swann Prize for Biology. At Charing Cross Hospital Medical School in London, he was awarded the Huxley Entrance Scholarship, and the Llewellyn Scholarship for best final year student. In Cambridge, he was awarded the Sir Lionel Whitby Medal for the research which led to his MD thesis. In 1988 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1998 the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior conferred its Distinguished Career Award on him.

Caius was James’s centre of gravity from the day he was elected as a Supernumerary Fellow in 1961. He served as College Lecturer in Physiology for 29 years (1964-93) and

as Director of Studies in Medicine for 15 years (1978-93), at a time when there was only one. There are now three pre-clinical as well as three clinical Directors. He was also a Tutor for 8 years (1964-72) and then served as President 1997-2005.

James was adept at creating a warm and welcoming atmosphere for visitors and new Fellows. He was an active supporter of the admission of women to Caius in 1979. He taught and supervised generations of medical students, who invariably thought of him with affection, respect, and admiration. Many stayed in touch and were delighted to come back to College to see him. James was well-known as a single-minded man, who focussed intently on whatever was occupying his attention. When Professor Roger Carpenter (Fellow 1973-2017) suggested the formation of the Caius Medical Association in 1997, James was the natural choice as its first President. His engagement and the esteem in which he was held by colleagues and former students ensured its success and it flourishes to this day.

James’s Irish identity was a defining feature of his life. He learnt Gaelic and after Brexit he reclaimed his heritage by acquiring an Irish passport, which he would proudly show to visitors at his home. His Irishness probably contributed to his overall warmth, kindness, and decency, as well as his natural support for the underdog, for the more vulnerable, for those in trouble and a general, healthy suspicion of those with too much power, especially in Westminster.

In the summer of 1959, he fell in love with the young Aude Irène Jeanne Valluy, a French national whom he met when she briefly came to Cambridge to improve her English. Their marriage in 1961 was the start of a deeply loving relationship and right up until the end of his life, Aude and James were two names that were inseparable. They had three children (Patrick, Alice and Thomas), three grandchildren (Henry, Sophie and Oliver), and four great-grandchildren (Cleo, Lilah, Freddie and Joshua). James loved his family and his home. He told many stories about his children and playing croquet with his grandchildren and great grandchildren. Many of us remember their beautifully decorated house, James’s pride in Aude’s wonderful cooking, the cats and the rose garden, and of course his complete attention to detail when preparing the after-dinner coffee.

Above all, James loved being a researcher and doing scientific experiments. He worked as long as he physically could because he did not see research as work. At James’s

funeral it was heart-warming to hear one of his sons describe how they as children perceived their father at work. When Aude asked: ‘Ou est Papa?’, the children usually replied: ‘Papa est allé jouer au labo’.

What he achieved there was quite extraordinary, and it is no exaggeration to say that he did more than any other scientist to understand the physiological basis of thirst. When James began his scientific research, little was known about this. What was it exactly that drove animals to drink water? It was understood that the kidneys played a significant role in water balance. Ernest B Verney, James’s PhD mentor, had discovered that in response to dehydration, a chemical in our blood known as vasopressin (a hormone), could act on the kidney to make urine more concentrated, thereby retaining water, which helped restore normal hydration. But no one had imagined that another signal from the kidneys would also be responsible for generating the hormone that makes animals thirsty. Angiotensin infused into the brain made animals drink copiously even though they were not water-deprived. This was James’s first great discovery.

His work provided experimental evidence for the idea that various organs release substances that are of decisive importance for the overall functions of the body and the maintenance of homeostasis. These hormonal pathways were not only important in hydration but also in the absolute control of arterial blood pressure. James recognised early on the role that angiotensin might also play in hypertension; today the clinical use of drugs acting as angiotensin-receptor blockers in the treatment of high blood pressure is universal.

In his collaboration with Alan Epstein and Barbara Rolls after 1970, James made a second fundamental breakthrough. He showed that salt intake, like thirst, was also a precisely regulated physiological process which involved angiotensin and coined the concept of sodium appetite or salt hunger. He found that when angiotensin was injected into the hypothalamic areas of the brain in rats, they would drink salty in preference to fresh water. Further, this dramatic effect could last for months, and there was no adaptation to water or salt deprivation, an important concept for understanding mechanisms for survival and how they are orchestrated by the brain. In a comprehensive summary he later published in Physiological Reviews (1998), James brought together all the various aspects of salt and water intake, both essential for survival, in a way that had not been done before, showing how they are regulated by a network of physiological events, in which angiotensin plays a leading role.

During the time when James was doing most of his early scientific experiments, the control of behaviour was the exclusive realm of psychologists. Neuroscientists were preoccupied with how nerve cells functioned, or how we move or feel sensations. James adopted his individual approach that combined both sciences and cut across the traditional divisions between psychology and physiology. He overcame boundaries to get to the core of his research and contribute to human physiology and medicine. He realised that drinking had many contexts, and that dehydration was only one of them.

This important insight started a debate about the relationship between observed behaviour and motivation. James was one of the first to recognise the differences between salt and water appetite and how they were related but distinct. In contrast to the perception of thirst, salt appetite, he emphasised, was driven both by need but also by individual preference, which might not represent physiological requirements. He explained the role of the brain in detecting and controlling the needs of the body, and the mechanisms whereby the brain and the body synchronise to achieve these essential functions for survival. These arguments, which James set out in several reviews and books, had wide implications not only for physiology, neuroscience, and psychology but even for philosophical debates about motivation and decision-making. His work on angiotensin has served as a model for many other discoveries, including the recent interest in the peptide GLP1 and food intake (Wegovy), and made a major contribution to the birth of behavioural neuroscience.

James was a scientific pioneer whose initial observations were so striking that they encouraged others to follow him. His work helped shape research and thought in an inter-disciplinary manner, and his personal style as an investigator was so open and generous that other scientists felt welcome when they initiated related work. Unsurprisingly, his collaborators and students often became his good friends.

The reaction to his death revealed just how many other scientists, including those who could be considered his rivals, greatly admired James and his work. There is little in his articles that would be corrected today in light of more recent findings, which is an extraordinary testimony to a fruitful research career that began nearly 70 years ago. James communicated his deep understanding of the issues he discussed in ways that never misled or went beyond the data. He never presented his views in an autocratic style that suppressed discussion or even controversy. Indeed, his flexibility and openmindedness encouraged the introduction of new ideas by early career researchers, who are of course the lifeblood of science. His life shines alongside those of other truly great Caius scientists.

DAWES, HUGH WILLIAM (Chaplain 197782), 7 February 2024

Jill Sandham, Hugh’s wife, writes:

Hugh Dawes died on 7 February 2024 aged 75 of pneumonia and dementia with Lewy bodies. Born in London, he grew up in Brighton, attending Brighton and Hove Grammar School. He studied History at University College, Oxford as an Exhibitioner. His interest in social history and the lives of ordinary people informed his social conscience, and he saw theology through the lens of history. He was a lifelong member of the Labour Party and in 2002 he stood as a councillor in Dulwich ward.

After ordination to the priesthood and a curacy, he served as Chaplain of Caius from 1977 to 1982, under the Deanship of John Sturdy. Hugh held great respect for Geoffrey Lampe (Regius Professor of Divinity and Fellow 1960-80), a forward thinker in theology and church practice; Geoffrey was a committed ecumenist and supporter of woman’s ministry, and helped Hugh move gently forward to a more honest and radical understanding of faith. Hugh’s ministry at Caius is remembered and valued by many students.

In 1982 Hugh became Chaplain of Emmanuel College, Cambridge when Don Cupitt as Dean was filming the television series Sea of Faith. Don became a major influence and a lifetime friend.

Hugh’s increasing embrace of radical faith drew him to enabling a new generation of free-thinking believers. In 1987 he was appointed to St James’s, Cambridge and as Director of the Focus Christian Institute. He believed strongly in opportunities for a wider theological education among the laity and abhorred the tendency of clergy to talk down to their congregations.

In 1992 Hugh published Freeing the Faith: A Credible Christianity for Today, an essay in liberal understanding, advocating change to set faith free from tyrannical tradition and be relevant to today’s world. He was savagely attacked in the press by traditionalists, who called on him publicly to resign his orders. The Independent carried the story of the ‘atheist priest’.

Hugh braved the storm and proclaimed himself a catholic modernist priest, with no intention of resigning. He was a prophetic voice, often crying in the wilderness. The book was a suicide note for career advancement in the Church of England.

In 2000 Hugh was appointed vicar at St Faith’s, North Dulwich. Gifted in making

eucharistic worship contextual, inspiring and integral to the world outside church, he enabled people to express doubts and ask questions, never giving easy answers. Hugh and Jill, a social worker and member of his congregation, were married in 2004; their marriage was a blessing for them both.

Hugh was an excellent orator, called upon to give lectures in Britain, France, and the United States, where he was headhunted by an American progressive Christian organisation. In 2003 Hugh set up Progressive Christianity Network Britain, which quickly responded to the quest for honest theological talk between laity and clergy without being judged as heretical. In addition to publishing articles in a number of journals, he edited the organisation’s magazine, Progressive Voices

Developing early signs of a Parkinsonism, Hugh continued liturgical ministry in the Guildford Diocese from 2009 to 2018. He participated in eucharistic worship until his death, when he could find few words in any other context.

Hugh was a radical priest and a gentle pastor. He is survived by Jill, her three children, their four grandchildren, his brother and the many whose lives he touched in his quietly brave, ‘faithful to truth’ life.

WATCHORN, BRIAN (Chaplain 1966-74), 27 August 2024

Brian Watchorn, who died aged 85, left a profound impression on Caius, as he did on the other institutions with which he was associated.

Born in Nottingham and educated at Nottingham High School, Brian graduated with a degree in Theology from Emmanuel in 1961. He subsequently trained at Exeter College and Ripon Hall, Oxford and, after his ordination, he was curate of St Peter’s, Bolton-le-Moors in Lancashire, 1963-66. He then returned to Cambridge to take up the position of Chaplain of Caius, which he held from 1966 to 1974.

Not much older than the students he ministered to, Brian soon established himself as a role model and spiritual leader. At the same time, he became the trusted friend of a group of choral scholars who visited him regularly to the end of his life. His profound humility, great learning, lively sense of humour, generous hospitality and interest in the lives of students of all faiths and none stood out from the start and his departure was mourned by many. Even at this early stage, Brian was the epitome of a Cambridge college minister.

Brian became vicar of St George’s, Chesterton, in 1975 and was the incumbent when Rowan Williams was a curate there. In February 1982, however, he was elected a Fellow of Pembroke and became Dean the following September. He served as Dean and Chaplain of Pembroke between 1982 and 2006, and here he came into his own.

He played a significant role in the life of Pembroke and its members and held many additional roles: Director of Studies in Theology, Tutor, Rooms Tutor, a member of the Gardens Committee and sometime Chair, President of PCMS after the death of Sidney Kenderdine in 2002, and carer for Kit Smart, the College cat. As an Emeritus Fellow, he often stood in as Praelector and held the role between 2015 and 2017.

Additionally, he served as a trustee of Pembroke House, the College’s Mission in Walworth, Southwark, and sat on its Executive Committee. He was appointed an Honorary Canon at Ely Cathedral in 1994 and later, rather unusually, a Chapter Canon.

Lord Smith, Master of Pembroke, commented: ‘Brian was one of the gentlest and most caring of people; he not only served as our Dean and Chaplain for 24 years, but he was devoted to Pembroke, and to our Fellows and students. He was devoted, too, to the principles of public service. He was one of a kind. We will miss him sorely.’

Many Caians will share those sentiments and cherish memories of this most saintly of men.

FINN, PAUL DESMOND (1971 as a Tapp Student, PhD and Yorke Prize 1975, Visiting Fellow 2010-11 as Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science), 27 September 2023

The following obituary by Tim Bonyhady appeared in the Australian Financial Review on 24 October 2023

Paul Finn (1946-2023) was one of the stellar figures of Australian law – a person not just of local but also of international consequence who shaped the law in many countries. His impact was immense, both as an academic and judge of the Federal Court.

Few Australians have explored – and transformed – the law in such depth and breadth, ranging across private and public law. Few have had such a sharp and prescient eye for what matters, whether integrity of government, fair dealing in commercial matters or enhancing the scope of native title. Few have been such inspiring teachers.

There are many individuals of great capacity who do good while thinking in more or less conventional fashion. Finn was not one of them. How he thought, wrote and talked was utterly distinctive.

An early mark of his unusual approach to the law came when he was an undergraduate at the University of Queensland in the late 1960s. One summer holiday, he set himself the task of reading all the company and partnership cases in the English Reports, a series of 17th- and 18th-century cases.

He did so not out of antiquarianism but because judges back then ‘enunciated moral and political principles.’ That search for morality was fundamental to Finn’s approach to law, along with his ambition to Australianise our fundamental concepts and institutions.

Finn initially made his mark as one of the world’s great equity lawyers with his 1977 book Fiduciary Obligations, exploring our duty to act in the best interests of others. It is a now cliché that this book is field-defining.

Sarah Worthington, until recently Cambridge’s Downing Professor of the Laws of England, has provided a distinctive measure of how much this book was wanted and needed. While she was studying in Brisbane and Cambridge, she wanted to read Fiduciary Obligations but the book was not in the university libraries. The librarians revealed that it disappeared every year and every year it was replaced.

Yet even as Fiduciary Obligations appeared and disappeared, Finn was making a mark in public law with articles on official misconduct and the liability of public officials – issues that attracted ever more of his attention while a professor at the ANU.

In 1995, the Keating government appointed him to the Federal Court where over 17 years he delivered landmark judgments about trusts, fiduciary duties, directors’ duties, government contracting, the public service, freedom of political communication, the detaining of refugees, native title and much else.

One mark of how Finn treated those who came before him is the comment of an Iranian incarcerated in the Baxter Detention Centre in Port Augusta: ‘It does not matter to me if I win or lose as I sense that the judge is a spiritual man who treated me with such respect that he will do what is right.’

I first encountered Finn in 1979 as a student. I was four years into my degree at the ANU. Many of my law teachers were capable. Some were models of clarity. Finn, who did not so much lecture as declaim, perhaps shaped by the Shakespeare Society he was part of in Cambridge, was the first, and one of just two, who was out of the box. I think I recognised then that Finn had one of the most exceptional, prodigious intelligences I would encounter.

Other students also found him inspirational. Joshua Getzler, now a professor in Oxford, has written of how ‘at all hours of the working day his study door looking over the main faculty staircase would be open, and he could be observed poring over legal texts, study lamp positioned low to illuminate the page, preparing to illuminate the law with his own thoughts and actions.’

So too at the University of Queensland did Gacy Sturgess, who went on to become the NSW cabinet secretary under Nick Greiner. When Sturgess was in Finn’s equity class, Finn devoted part of a lecture to public trust, corruption and conflict of interest. That bore extraordinary fruit a decade later when Sturgess became the architect of ICAC. Richard Ackland has observed: ‘You can see Finn’s presence in one of the essential provisions of the ICAC legislation, Section 8 dealing with what constitutes 'corrupt conduct': any conduct of a public official that ‘constitutes or involves a breach of public trust’.

Finn ran, he kayaked, above all he walked. He walked to think, to sharpen his ideas about the law. He liked company on these walks, but he talked most of the time, preparing to write with an awkward left hand. He needed a fountain pen to think too. His desk was free of a keyboard.

Finn was a joy to be with. Michael Barker, one of Finn’s colleagues at the ANU, who became a fellow Justice of the Federal Court, recalls: ‘Paul was always a wonderful dinner host, an excellent lunch companion, a good person to do a winery crawl with,

and possibly the consummate end-of-the-day, let’s-share-a-scotch-and-yarn-aboutwho-has-done-what-lately friend. We avoided calumny, mostly. Sport figured. Water and forests too. Sicily – especially Cefalu – was often remembered.

‘But if I really wanted to see Finn in vintage action, I would simply ask him, again, where he stood on compulsory voting. (Actually, over the decades I think he became more accepting of the Australian rule.)’

Finn looked up to Sir Anthony Mason, long Chief Justice of Australia’s High Court. Among his contemporaries, he particularly admired the doyen of British property lawyers, Kevin Gray of Cambridge, and Ross Cranston, a fellow Queenslander, who became solicitor-general for England and Wales, then a judge of its High Court, and who is Finn’s biographer. Finn’s pre eminent student is Australia’s next Chief Justice, Stephen Gageler.

Finn sometimes invoked Robert Frost’s line about a road less travelled. That was his life, an extraordinary one in which his brilliance, generosity and moral compass made Australia a better place.

(Further information concerning the life and career of Professor Justic Paul Finn may be found at: www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive/ professor-justice-paul-finn.)

DAISLEY, DAVID, 14 February 1946 –2 December 2023, Kitchen Porter

The President, Professor Peter Robinson, gave the following address at the Service of Thanksgiving for David’s life in the College Chapel on 1 February 2024:

David and I both arrived in Caius at about the same time back in the early 1970s and both stayed ever since, so we obviously both liked the place. I guess we both saw a lot of changes over the following fifty years. The College only admitted women as members in 1979, so it was more like a monastery when David and I first arrived.

David wasn’t actually that keen on change, and he was pleased that some things remained unchanged through the last half-century. One constant in life at Caius has been the excellence of its kitchens, and of course that is where David made his contribution to the College.

David was born in the old Cambridge maternity hospital on Mill Road, where my son was born some 40 years later, and he lived off Mill Road not so far from where I lived for a while. When he was 17, he moved to Gloucestershire and worked on a farm for a few years before returning to Cambridge, taking jobs as a Kitchen Porter at King’s College School and St John’s College, before finally settling at Caius at the age of 27.

He was always a conscientious worker and had a special place as the social hub of the kitchens. Needless to say, he had many stories about his long years at Caius and the people that he had known. Reports of Arsenal’s latest successes were also a constant feature of his conversations.

Some of you may know that the kitchens in Caius were overhauled in the 1960s and it was always a bit of a surprise to me that these ancient facilities still managed to earn fivestar ratings from the City Council’s Environmental Health team. But I shouldn’t have been surprised. David made sure that even the aged kitchens were always spotlessly clean.

When the kitchens were finally rebuilt in 2019 and 2020, they included a special area for David to work his magic keeping things in order, but he actually said that he preferred the challenge of the old arrangements.

David’s life reminds us of the curious community that we enjoy in a Cambridge college. Staff, students and Fellows all work together in their different ways. We all play our parts, just as David played his for over 50 years, and we are all saddened when we lose a part, just as we are sad to lose David.

Colleagues and friends of David also shared some of their memories of a colleague whose warmth and good nature shone.

Lee Howell (Head Chef), a colleague since 2004

David was one of the most kind-hearted people you could ever meet. Such a nice gentle natured man. He was very considerate towards others, very old school like that. Manners and being courteous and kind mattered; I don’t think I heard him say a bad word about anybody.

He would come in at the start of a shift and shake hands with everyone, and he would apologise on the rare occasions he was 30 seconds late. He was very conscientious and always willing to stay another 30 minutes if needed. He was like a machine, a workhorse...

He was quite an encyclopaedia of information. He was obsessed with Baden Powell, the founder of the Scouts movement, and the Boys’ Brigade, and he loved Arsenal.

Peter Allen (Senior Sous Chef), a colleague since 2006

He was incredibly eccentric, but a loveable caring person who couldn’t do enough for you. We were like his family.

If any of the chefs supported a football team, he would buy them their team’s monthly magazine. I am not into football, so he used to buy me a lads’ mag! And for some peculiar reason he thought I was obsessed with tea: every month he bought me Yorkshire Tea. I’ve still got a box of teabags!

He’d also remember everyone’s birthdays. He met my mum and dad once and he would send them birthday cards to their home address!

He was a hypochondriac. Every day he’d come in and say: ‘I look all right, don’t I? I’ve got a colour.’ He’d do a star jump in the potwash room to prove he was well.

Ricardo Soares (Head of Catering), a colleague since 2017

David was one of the kindest people I’ve ever met: very sincere, pure. There didn’t seem to be a bad bone in his body. I think of daily conversations we had usually regarding his health. He’d ask medical advice, and I’d laugh and tell him: 'I’m not a doctor'.

Everyone appreciated him. His dedication rubbed off on quite a lot of people. People looked up to him and his work ethic.

He had one of the hardest jobs in a kitchen. It’s demanding heavy work… From washing plates to scrubbing big pots and pans, taking those across the kitchen, two or

three at a time. Scrubbing floors, making sure everything was clean, emptying massive vats of oil, Bratt pans, big electric cooking pans...

David usually wore a tie. Even when it was extremely hot, he wouldn’t take his tie off. And he always wore a jumper under his Kitchen Porter’s outfit.

He always said working at Caius was what he most enjoyed and he always spoke of belonging to the College. This was his life.

Kyle Astran (Chef), a colleague since 2019

He absolutely loved to be here, loved to come to work and he was upset he had to retire, even though he knew it was time. We all greatly miss him. We talk about him every day. We’re often reminded of David when some songs come on the radio in the kitchen. He’s always going to be with us.

Charlotte Hasler (Head of Human Resources), a colleague since 2019

I provided practical support for David, including in 2019 when I arrived. We didn’t have records for him, so I helped him get a copy of his birth certificate. More recently, he wanted to get his affairs in order, so I supported him with that.

We had quite a lot of communication during lockdown. The College meant a huge amount to him because it was his daily routine. He missed it hugely during Covid, when he was placed on furlough. I had to go to his home to check on him because he didn’t have a landline and would only turn on his mobile to make a call. I taught him how to do his Covid tests.

David’s circumstances changed in 2023, and he needed support to find somewhere to live. We were grateful to the Hundred Houses Society for their work. He was so kind and generous. He brought me a cheque and said: ‘This is for you.’ It was for me to pass on to the College. It was very gratefully received. His message was always that the College had supported him, and he wanted to give back to the College.

Beverley Housden, an old friend writes:

David lived with my husband’s grandparents, Thomas and Ivy Housden, from around 1973 to 1984, in Milton, Cambridge. During that period, he was effectively adopted as a member of the family.

One Christmas they were round at their grandparents’ and David said he would wash up the dishes. He was ages, so they went to see what was happening. It was the days when non-stick coating on saucepans was new. He had scrubbed the pans trying to

get off what he thought was burn marks. In reality, it was the non-stick coating. He had been successful in cleaning that off and the pans were spotless!

Andrew and Nigel remember him as a gentle and kind man, always willing to run errands for anybody who asked him. He stayed in touch, always remembering to send cards for birthdays, wedding anniversaries and Christmas. We are all very fond of him and will miss him.

Tree Court spring flowers

Obituaries of Caians

ARONSOHN, SIMON SERGEI (1979 Law), 5 October 2023

The following obituary by David Aronsohn appeared in The Guardian on 31 October 2023

My brother Simon Aronsohn, who has died aged 62 of a heart attack, began his working life as a solicitor before retraining as a mediator, in which role he helped to resolve disputes between companies.

A flamboyant, kind and generous character who was known for his colourful clothes and accessories, he was also dedicated to the craft of poetry. In his later years he performed his work at several north London venues, including at the Pentameters theatre and the MAP Studio cafe.

In the week of his death, he was about to have a small anthology of his performance poetry published. Given that he had started writing poems as a six-year-old he conceded, with characteristically self-effacing ruefulness, that the emergence of the collection 'had been a long time coming'.

Simon was born to Norman, a businessman with Jewish-Russian parents, and Lotte (née Newman), a doctor who had emigrated from Germany to the UK in 1938. He went to University College school in Hampstead, north London, where he struggled with a stammer until, after receiving regular speech therapy, he was able to win the school reading prize with a poetry recital.

From there he went to Gonville and Caius College, where he gained a Law degree (1982), and on leaving worked for a time as a van driver for Frohweins, a kosher butcher. Qualification as a barrister was followed by retraining as a solicitor, and from 1986 he worked at the Gouldens partnership in London, specialising in town and country planning and conservation.

He left that job in 1992 to work in Russia, setting up a business helping Russians with visa applications, before taking a mediation course at Queen Mary University of London (2011-12) and setting up as a freelance mediator working with businesses.

In 2016-17 he lived in Málaga, Spain, and then Cork in Ireland, performing his poetry in both places before returning to London to care for his parents.

Apart from poetry he also enjoyed his Jewish identity and engaged passionately with the prayers at the west London and Highgate synagogues, occasionally taking part in blessing the congregation and leading family festival ceremonies.

He is survived by two children, Seth and Matilda, from his marriage to Sarah Jarvis, which ended in divorce in 2011, his father, and his siblings, Simone, Alexander and me.

BROWN, ALAN MARTIN, MA PhD LRAM

FRCO (1960 Music), 10 February 2024

The following text is based on information provided by his brother Richard:

Alan Brown was born in Walthamstow, London in 1941. He was educated at Sir George Monoux Grammar School and admitted to Caius as a Major Entrance Scholar in Music in 1960. In 1961 he won the John Stewart of Rannoch Scholarships in Sacred Music. Outstanding results in both Parts of the Music Tripos led to the award of the Schuldham Plate and the William Barclay Squire Prize on his graduation in 1964.

After a year of research towards a PhD as a Tapp Student at Caius, Alan was elected a Research Fellow of Fitzwilliam House and appointed as a University Assistant Lecturer in Music and Fellow of Fitzwilliam the following year. He gained his PhD in 1970. From 1973, he was for 33 years successively Lecturer, and then Reader, in the Music Department of Sheffield University.

At Cambridge, his teachers included David Willcocks, Peter le Huray and Thurston Dart. Alongside his Cambridge studies, he also benefited from the tuition of Avril Dankworth at the Royal Academy of Music.

Even as a student, Alan made his mark as an accomplished pianist, harpsichordist and organist. Later he also excelled as a scholar. He edited the complete keyboard works of William Byrd and a volume of Elizabethan keyboard music for Musica Britannia, for which he also revised a number of others, and two volumes of Latin motets for The Byrd Edition.

Among his compositions are four carols published by OUP, Four Medieval Poems for male voices and keyboard (written for the chorus of Fitzwilliam College), a duo for cello and piano, written for his daughter Rosamund, Anima for Recorder and String Quartet (The

Contemporary Recorder Series, Peacock Press) and a Te Deum for voices and small orchestra, first performed at St Mark’s Church, Broomhill, Sheffield whilst he was their organist.

He also wrote Lines from In Memoriam, a setting for words by Tennison, first performed at Fitzwilliam College by James Bowman (countertenor), John Turner (recorder), Jonathan Price (cello) and Ian Thompson (harpsichord).

Alan died on 10 February 2024 at Sheffield Northern General Hospital after a short illness.

BROWN, PATRICK JOHNSON

(1963 Affiliated Student in Computing), 29 December 2023

His wife Dr Kathryn Brown and his son Jonathan Brown write:

Patrick was born on 14 January 1942 in Leek, Staffordshire and died at home in Reigate on 29 December 2023.

As a child, Patrick suffered badly from asthma and missed a great deal of early schooling. His health improved gradually when his family moved south, first to the New Forest and then to Devon, where he enjoyed his time at a co-ed grammar school in Plympton.

In spite of his early health problems, Patrick’s natural mathematical ability enabled him to win a State Scholarship to Exeter College, Oxford. He joined Caius as an Affiliated Student in 1963 to study for a diploma in Numerical Analysis and Automatic Computing. This was considered the foremost qualification in the field at a time when computers filled rooms and microchips had not yet come into their own.

Patrick was lucky enough to be housed in the recently opened Harvey Court and his time at Caius was also made more enjoyable by the fees which he received for taking undergraduate supervisions! In the early 1960s, £10 represented significant affluence for a recently fledged graduate. He was always pleased to be able return to Caius which represented a happy and productive year of his life.

After Cambridge, he joined the newly formed research department of a London stockbroker and developed his career as a leading financial mathematician at a time when the financial markets were developing financial services. At Datastream and at the Association of International Bond Dealers, and later as a director of the International Securities Markets Association, he played a leading role in developing software first to monitor and then to trade on the bond market.

Patrick’s particular area of expertise was the Eurobond market, and he served on the European Bond Commission for a number of years. He always enjoyed the meetings with other European specialists which this involved, and his book Construction and Calculating Bond Indices (Probus Publishing, 1994) was described as 'A Guide to the EFFAS standardised rules'. He also published An Introduction to the Bond Markets (Wiley, 2006), a useful reference book for anyone working in the bond market. Both books still have five-star ratings on Amazon.

In 1967 he married Kathryn Underhill, and they enjoyed 56 very happy years of married life in Reigate where Patrick played a full part in community life, joining the Golf Club, playing bridge, enjoying walks with friends and contributing to the local U3A maths group. He also acted as treasurer of the local Probus group and of Marriage Guidance, now known as Relate. This was a cause about which he was passionate, for he saw marriage as the bedrock of a stable society, a view he shared with his wife. Their son Jonathan (Christ’s 1995) was born in 1976.

Patrick also shared his wife’s love of travelling and especially her passion for Italy, and they bought a small house in Umbria which they were able to enjoy to the fullest after his retirement. He particularly enjoyed pottering in the olive grove there and in the garden in Reigate. Though his health had begun to fail, he was overjoyed by the arrival of his grandson Max (2022) a cheerful little boy who has inherited many of his grandfather’s expressions and mannerisms, much to the delight of the family.

Patrick was a kind and compassionate man with both great integrity and an engaging sense of humour. His death leaves a huge void in the lives of both his family and many friends. We all miss his endearing smile.

BUCKNALL, CLIVE BRIAN, MA ScD (1954 Natural Sciences), 10 May 2024

His son David writes:

Clive Bucknall was born in Cardiff on 23 February 1936. He was educated at Cardiff High School and Caius, where he read Natural Sciences, specialising in Chemistry.

After graduating in 1957, and completing two years’ National Service in REME, he joined the Research Department of BX Plastics in January 1960. The company made high-impact polystyrene (HIPS) and wanted to understand why the fracture resistance of polystyrene was improved substantially by adding synthetic rubber. After working on the problem for four years, Clive found the answer: the rubber

particles dissipate strain energy by forming crazes (fibrillated cracks) in the surrounding polystyrene matrix. His seminal paper explaining this discovery attracted widespread attention, most notably from Roger Kambour of General Electric, the leading investigator of crazing, and Henno Keskkula of Dow Chemical, the main manufacturer of HIPS, both of whom became firm friends. The subsequent publication of Toughened Plastics by Applied Science Publishers in 1977 established Clive’s global reputation in this discipline, and the book has been translated into several languages.

In 1967, Clive moved to the (postgraduate) College of Aeronautics, now Cranfield University, and continued his work on the fracture resistance of rubber-toughened plastics. In 1972 Cambridge awarded him a PhD on the basis of his published research, which was followed in 1987 by an ScD. During this period, he rose through the Cranfield ranks from Lecturer to Professor and was Head of Department when he retired.

In addition to writing Toughened Plastics, Clive co-authored the textbook Principles of Polymer Engineering in collaboration with N.G. McCrum and C.P. Buckley (Oxford University Press. 1988), which was re-published in a fully updated third edition in 2024.

After retiring in 2001, Clive made two violins, a viola and a cello, under instruction at the Violin Workshop in Cambridge. He also continued his scientific work. In the autumn of 2007, he served as Visiting Professor at the University of Akron, Ohio, where he delivered a series of lectures to graduate students. Until 2020 he continued his membership of the IUPAC Sub-Committee on Structure and Properties of Commercial Polymers Working Party, as leader of a group studying the structure and properties of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (HMWPE), which is used in orthopaedic joint replacement.

He was a loving family man, and is survived by his wife of 59 years, Angela, two sons, Alan and David, and two grandchildren, Bethany and Max.

CROOKES, PETER MILES BAILEY, BA MB BChir (1953 Natural Sciences), 5 February 2024

His son, James, writes:

Peter Crookes was born in Sheffield on 10 April 1935, and he died peacefully on 5 February 2024 aged 88. He came from a long line of doctors and both his father and grandfather had practised in Eckington, near Sheffield. His father died in 1945 from an illness contracted after serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps in North Africa. Peter was so grateful for the education he received at Epsom College with the help of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund.

In 1953 Peter was admitted to read Natural Sciences at Caius, and he completed his clinical training at Westminster Hospital where he met his wife Hazel, who was a trainee nurse. Peter always said that his Cambridge years were among the best years of his life, and he cherished his lifelong friendships with fellow Caians, including Roger Lomax and David Marsh.

Peter will be remembered for his dedication to his patients at the Lombard Street Medical Practice in Newark, Nottinghamshire where he was a GP for over 36 years from 1962. He cared for his patients with true compassion and professionalism. His service to the local community in Newark was also exceptional. In 1978 he was awarded the Special Service Promotion of the St John’s Ambulance Brigade, and he became a Serving Brother and President of the Newark Branch. He was a founding trustee of Newark Community First Aid, and a long-serving warden at Christ Church. When he retired in 1997, he was presented with the Mayor’s Citizens Award for Community Service in Newark.

Peter demonstrated exceptional courage later in life when he became a double amputee. He never complained about his disability, and he remained determined to be as independent as possible, gaining much pleasure from his motor scooter. He was extremely grateful to all those who cared for him.

He was a loving husband to Hazel whom he married in 1960, a devoted father to four children, Anthony, James, Clare and Edward, and grandfather to ten grandchildren and one great-grandchild. He will be sorely missed by his family and friends.

DAY, NORMAN S. (1944 Law), 13 May 2024

His son John Day writes:

Norman was born in Louth, Lincolnshire to William and Hilda Day. He attended primary school in Louth and then the King Edward VI Grammar School. In his final year of sixth form, he was awarded the annual prizes for English and French. He was captain of the school football and cricket teams and won the cup for best all-rounder in academic and sporting activities.

On leaving school in 1944, he attended an RAF University six-month short course which was held at Caius. He read Modern European History and RAF Studies for a course that was intended for potential recruits to Air Crew personnel. Notwithstanding he undertook his National Service in the Navy, although he famously never actually boarded a ship! One day a Royal Navy ship anchored in the Medway estuary, so he and a fellow worker took a rowing boat and rowed around the ship, to the accompaniment of much amusement and ‘Naval language’ from members of the crew!

One month before demobilisation, Norman received a draft on the cruiser HMS Dido to the West Indies, but he decided to leave the Navy as he was keen to go to Cambridge. He was able to spend a few weeks at home while he awaited confirmation of his place at Caius, where he had decided to study Law. He always said he had no idea why he chose this subject!

He was always rightly proud of his achievements at Cambridge. About 20 years ago, on a family trip to Cambridge, he loved seeing Caius again and giving us a guided tour of his old haunts. We all remember him watching the University Boat Race over the years, when he would always put on his old Cambridge tie!

Norman had what he called the ‘privilege’ of meeting Margery during his time in the Navy and their love blossomed over the following months and years while she was at the Birmingham School of Music and he was at Caius and then Law School. They got engaged while Norman was an articled clerk in Louth, but in those days articled clerks received no salary. It wasn’t until he started his job in Grimsby that they were able to marry, which they did on 25 July 1953 in Margery’s home city, Sheffield. They bought their first home in Grimsby, where they lived for three years until moving to Sheffield when Norman obtained a job at a larger firm of solicitors.

After three years in Sheffield, where their son John was born, they moved to the Old Rectory in Branston in 1959 after Norman acquired an established solicitors’ practice in Lincoln. Andrew was born in 1960 and Tim in 1963. Norman retired in 1990, initially continuing as a consultant for the practice. However, after suffering a heart attack in 1991 he decided to retire fully.

Norman was born a Methodist and remained so all his life. Along with Margery, he attended Branston Methodist Church, where he was church steward and Mum was organist and a local preacher. His sense of community and service was not limited to the church. He was a parish councillor in Branston, including a period as Chair, and a Kesteven County Councillor, prior to its absorption into the new Lincolnshire County Council in 1974. He also served as school governor at Branston Primary School, Branston Infants School, North Kesteven Grammar School and Branston Community College, where he was Chair until he retired.

Despite all the meetings he attended over the years, along with his demanding career, this was never at the expense of time with the family, which was always his priority. Both Norman and Margery were great lovers of music, and Norman spent many years as a Director and Secretary of The National Youth Choir of Great Britain. The London Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Youth Choir performed the Benedictus by Karl Jenkins at the start of his Service of Thanksgiving.

His son Andrew studied Law at Sheffield University and was surprised when his Jurisprudence tutor asked him how Norman was. It transpired that Norman, through

his involvement with Amnesty International, had helped get his tutor and his family out of South Africa during the apartheid years.

Norman loved gardening, his greenhouse and anything to do with gardens. When Margery was twice invited to Garden Parties at Buckingham Palace, in recognition of her services to education, he was happy to tag along. He took a small plastic bag with him, just in case he got the chance to take any plant cuttings from the Palace gardens! Thankfully, both visits took place without major incident, although if he had been caught snipping at the plants, he would probably have charmed his way out of trouble!

Norman was devastated at Margery’s unexpected death in November 2018. After a wonderful 65-year marriage, he faced a difficult future. With the support of his family, however, he coped remarkably well. He went into a care home in June 2022 and his Caius plaque was proudly displayed on the wall of his room.

He was a devoted husband, father, father-in-law and grandfather. He will always be remembered for his love of Margery, his family and people in general; his compassion, sense of justice and wonderful sense of humour. He was caring, kind, wise and utterly dependable. We cannot remember anyone, ever, saying a bad word about him. And why would they?

DRING, ROBIN JOHN (1952 Natural Sciences), 19 April 2024

Robin Dring was born in Croydon on 9 February 1932, the son of Dennis William Dring, a portrait painter, and his wife Grace Elizabeth, née Rothwell. He was educated at Marlborough College and was admitted to Caius to read Natural Sciences in 1952 after completing National Service in the Korean War.

His daughter Caroline Holloway commented: ‘He read Natural Sciences and played hockey for the college. He loved his time at Caius and made lifelong friends during his time there’.

He was much loved by his wife Jane, his large family and many friends. He died aged 92 following a fall at home.

EYERS, PATRICK HOWARD CAINES, CMG LVO (1954 Modern Languages),

22 December 2023

His daughter Sophie Wilson writes:

Patrick Eyers and Heidi, his wife of 63 years, died on 22 December 2023 and 3 January 2024, respectively, at home surrounded by their three children and seven grandchildren.

Patrick (born in Bristol, 4 September 1933) was a former British diplomat. The last British ambassador to the German Democratic Republic in 1990, he was an expert in relations between the occupying powers in Germany during the later stages of the Cold War, serving also in West Berlin and Bonn prior to the country’s unification. Patrick also held posts in Dubai, Brussels, Aden, Abidjan, Kinshasa and Amman, as well as in Whitehall.

From the outset, Patrick was determined to carve his own way and never take no for an answer. His school told him that languages were not his thing, so he read French and Swedish at Cambridge. He was told that the Foreign Office was beyond him when he failed his first entrance exams, so he sat them again and came second in his class the following year.

Patrick had a love for travel and a knack for languages. To Swedish and French, he added German, classical Arabic and Lingala (the lingua franca of what was then Zaïre). He was the only diplomat invited to the wedding of the Lady Mayor of Kinshasa, at which he gave the tribute in flawless Lingala. He also had a gift for friendship. He was as close to traders in the souk as he was to King Hussein of Jordan. The latter once closed the international airport so that Patrick and he could race their new cars and determine whose was fastest.

Patrick and Heidi retired to Provence and more recently moved to Bosham on the West Sussex coast. For many years they continued to welcome friends and family from around the world. They will be sadly missed by their children Simon, Sophie and Sam, their daughter- and son-in law Luci and Frazer, and their grandchildren Felix, Oskar, Uffa, Joey, Ralph, Werner and Walder.

FARRAR DAVID JOHN (1939 Mechanical Sciences), 16 April 2021

David Farrar was an engineer who led the Bristol team that developed the Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air missile, which defended Britain’s nuclear deterrent for many years and was widely sold abroad. His main achievements in cost engineering were confidential until 2000. He saved two companies from bankruptcy, achieved cost reductions of over £1 million, and trained engineers in cost engineering.

Born in London, Farrar was the elder son of Donald Frederic Farrar, a ban clerk and former Royal Flying Corps supply pilot, and Mabel Margaret Farrar, née Hadgraft (1896–1985). His brother was the RAF airman and poet James Farrar.

David was educated at Sutton Grammar School for Boys, Surrey, and won three scholarships to study Mechanical Sciences at Caius from 1939. In 1941 he achieved a Distinction in Theory and Structure of Aeronautics and won both the John Bernard Seely Prize and the Archibald Denny Prize in Theory of Structures.

Having been an active member of the University Air Squadron, David expected to join the RAF, but instead he was assigned to the aircraft industry in the Bristol Aeroplane Company, where he specialised initially in structural design. By the age of 25, he had devised new approaches to the design of compression structures and was in charge of the structural design of Britain’s largest landplane, the Bristol Brabazon aircraft.

In 1949, David made in-flight observations of wing buckling in a Bristol Freighter and then did full-power engine cut tests. On the next flight with the chief aerodynamicist and the head of the flight test onboard, the full-power engine cut, which caused the fin and rudder to break, and all aboard were lost. The head of the flight test was the designated head of the new Guided Weapons department, to which position David then succeeded. Contracts having already been let for army and navy anti-aircraft systems, Bristol and Ferranti were teamed to study a longer-range system for the Royal Air Force. The key to the longer-range system was ramjet propulsion, which required extensive flight development. Despite this, the resulting Bloodhound I missile entered service before the other two.

On the formation of the British Aircraft Corporation, Bristol had joined as a junior partner, with all guided weapon work assigned to English Electric, whose guided weapon team had commenced the development of a weapon with second-generation continuouswave radar (CW) guidance. The Bristol GW team was vulnerable, and two attempts to eliminate it were made. A Bloodhound I missile was rapidly modified to CW guidance and intercepted and destroyed the target aircraft. The other contractors had not reached this stage, so the Bristol Bloodhound II was developed for the Royal Air Force, Sweden, and Switzerland. Its advanced features gave it very long service life.

Later, David became Engineering Director, Concorde, at Bristol. Before the first prototype was built, he correctly established the need for a redesign to compensate for

an unrealistically low take-off weight and a high aircraft cost. The latter had not been previously predicted and made airline orders unlikely. The French direction rejected a design for a more realistic weight, so program-slip and cost escalation continued.

When international collaboration commenced on the Space Shuttle design, David became the Director responsible for three British teams designing the payload bay doors, vertical stabiliser, and instrumentation in Rockwell’s winning bid for development. In 1973, he left the aircraft industry to become Engineering Director at Molins Ltd., developing a range of advanced machinery. In 1979, he was appointed Director of the Centre of Engineering Design at Cranfield University, retiring in 1986. He subsequently became Vice-President of the University of the Third Age at Manningham, Australia until 2007, and lectured there on the History of Technology. His last major project was to propose a cost reduction program in the Australian manufacturing industry aimed at preventing the loss of manufacturing to foreign low wage competitors.

David received numerous honours during his long and fruitful career. As early as 1956 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He was appointed OBE for his work on Bloodhound I, and the teams which he led received four Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in exports and technology. He was the first Chairman of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors Guided Weapons Committee, a member of Royal Aeronautical Society Council, and he served on many professional committees. In retirement he gave lectures for the Institution of Engineering Designers, which awarded him an Honorary Fellowship. In 2014, he became Honorary President of the Bloodhound Missile Preservation Group for the world’s first application of control by a digital computer (the Ferranti Argus) in the Bloodhound II Launch Control Post.

FURBER, WILLIAM JAMES,

LVO (1972 English), 21 August 2024

His friend Christopher Edwards (1972 English) writes:

James Furber read English at Caius between 1972 and 1975. After a bruising interview with the Director of Studies (‘I was torn apart’), he appeared not in the least despondent. James possessed the attractive quality described in Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson: he may have been faced with any number of apparently spirit-crushing experiences but ‘cheerfulness was always breaking in’. His application to Caius was of course successful and during his time as an undergraduate he distinguished himself as a witty, affable and inspired bringer-together of socially disparate students. He was tireless in arranging sporting events (mainly football); here no doubt were the seeds for his later shared creation of

a fictional South American football club, Assassins FC de Montevideo, which played in Hyde Park against anyone who turned up. The only rule was that players were not allowed to speak English. Here it was too that James came up with the idea of half-time refreshments that went well beyond the customary meagre slice of orange. James would wander off the pitch and return bearing a silver tray with 11 glasses of fine sherry, which invariably proved more effective than tactical pep talks.

James had rooms in St Michael’s where he offered friends traditional hospitality in the form of tea and crumpets and kept his door open for anyone who wanted to drop by (excluding those brief periods when writing essays on, say, Paradise Lost or conducting discreet cinq-à-sept engagements). He had a gift for friendship and was blessed with a talent to amuse. As Shakespeare (almost) said of Falstaff, he was not only convivial in himself but the cause of conviviality in others.

James’s mother Anne was an educator who saw her role as taking precocious children and making them more precocious. James started at Westminster Under School. His success here was remarkable as he was a sickly child who suffered from very bad asthma, bronchitis, and eczema, was bed-ridden for long periods and almost died when a young boy. James’s younger brother, Alexander, remembers Westminster Under School at that time as a hostile environment inhabited mainly by uncivilised thugs (many of whom went on to become bishops, cabinet ministers and High Court judges); James’s quick wits and special sense of humour earned him great popularity and he ended up as Head Boy. These talents and a developing steely fortitude became increasingly evident as he grew up.

At Caius, James wore his academic duties lightly, but had he followed the turf (one of the few sports he wasn’t interested in) he could have boasted that he timed his run on the inside fence to perfection in Part II of the Tripos. His proposed title for the Long Essay was ‘The Cowboy’, an examination of Zane Grey’s Riders of the Purple Sage as well as novels by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, all featuring tough, cynical, hard-boiled loners who adhered to a strict moral code fit for an outsider and who were irresistible to a certain type of desperate beautiful woman ('a blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window'). To their great credit both Dr Casey and Mr Prynne approved James’s maverick proposal (one wonders what Dr Leavis would have made of this idea). The opening sentence read: 'A Cowboy is someone who looks like a Cowboy'. It earned James a high First. The use of language always fascinated him and one of the last things he was doing before he died during a trip to South Africa was to engage in a lively WhatsApp debate about whether or not the word ‘inspissated’ should ever be allowed to appear in one’s prose after the age of 18. In the same debate, he came quite close to accepting that the phrase ‘What in tarnation’ probably deserved a revival.

After graduation James followed his father Bobby into the law. He joined Farrer and Co, one of the oldest law firms in London (often referred to during Elizabeth II’s reign as ‘the Queen’s solicitors’), where he remained until he retired. An expert in property

law, James held the formal appointment of solicitor to the Duchy of Cornwall and rose to become Senior Partner (2008-2011). His kindness to young, articled clerks and junior lawyers was legendary. He may, in one interview, have asked a candidate the baffling question 'What would you do with the Elgin marbles?’ (the applicant had no answer but got in) but in another case, when a young lawyer was sent to research something in the Probate Registry and was found buying a pair of slippers at Selfridges, James just laughed.

Although law was his profession some would say golf was his main passion (as it was for his father). He was admitted to the Royal & Ancient at St Andrews at the age of 18. He was Captain of Royal St George’s. He was an amusing and erudite contributor to Golf Weekly and had a witty line in self-depreciation when actually playing (he once described one of his dire efforts as 'the shot that dare not speak its name'). He also contributed a fine ghost story to Golf Quarterly and had several more planned. When asked if he might consider writing about a golfing Cowboy, he politely said he would certainly give the idea the attention it deserved. In addition to these golfing pursuits, he was planning a screenplay for a film about his friend Leonard Cheshire’s Second World War career in Bomber Command.

Some held that James’s success as a lawyer was slightly mysterious since, along with the fondness of a true bon viveur for lunch and the pub, he appeared to live mainly on the courses of countless golf clubs here and abroad (including a tour of India representing Cambridge). There was no mystery. He was an excellent lawyer who got up early and was in the office around 7 a.m., in later years often after a workout in Lincoln’s Inn Fields with a former marine as his personal trainer. He would then shut his door and work ferociously until noon and, the hard graft done, leave for lunch, returning later to sign post and do some gentle billing.

Somehow, he also found time to act as a trustee of the Leonard Cheshire Foundation for the disabled, the Arvon Foundation which supports creative writing, Trinity College of Music, Cambridge University Musical Society and the Built Environment Trust, as well as secretary of the Medical College of St Bartholomew’s Hospital Trust and The Art Workers’ Guild Trust. He was a member of the Garrick Club and for some time also of Buck’s. He was the most clubbable man you were ever likely to meet.

In the 1990s James became a lay reader in the Church of England. He was a fine public speaker and in his parish church in Blackheath, his addresses became immensely popular because they were so funny (and brief); he managed subtly to operate at a certain distance from conventional theological principles without ever descending into frivolity.

Finally, it must be recorded that James had something of a mania for institutional regalia, often designing ‘traditional’ tie and sock patterns to go with a sporting group or other association he had just invented. One of his best essays traced the evolution

and social significance of club ties, a biographical footnote recording that he himself was eligible to wear at least 17, though adding, with attractive candour, that he 'also enjoyed the informality of the open necked shirt'.

GARVIE, ALEXANDER FEMISTER, FRSE

(1957 Classics), 17 September 2024

His daughter Margaret Haynes writes:

Alex Garvie was born in Edinburgh in 1934 and educated at George Watson’s College, where he developed a love of Latin and Greek literature. At Edinburgh University, he achieved a First in Classics and was awarded a major scholarship to Caius. Before taking up his place, however, he completed two years of National Service, during which he underwent an intensive course in Modern Greek before serving as an interpreter in Cyprus during the turbulent last days of British authority on the island. This experience fostered a love of Greek and Greek Cypriot culture that remained with him for the rest of his life.

Alex then arrived at Caius in 1957. On his first day, it was solemnly explained to him by an older undergraduate that his room in Caius Court was a key staging point on the route back into College after the gate closed for the night, so that the occupant of the room was required to keep his window open every evening to enable his fellow-students to gain a secure foothold as they scrambled down from the outside wall – Alex made many friends as a result! He completed the Classical Tripos in two years, achieving Firsts in both parts, and embarked on a PhD, researching the dating of Aeschylus’ play The Suppliants under the supervision of the eminent scholar Denys (later Sir Denys) Page.

Alex had numerous happy memories of Caius, such as the morning in June 1958 when the inhabitants of Cambridge awoke to see an Austin Seven mysteriously perched atop the Senate House roof (apparently the perpetrators included some of his friends, though he never divulged their identities); and of Cambridge in general, including lodging in his third year with Mrs Frances Cornford, the granddaughter of Charles Darwin.

In 1960 Alex accepted a job as Assistant Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, converting his PhD research into his first book, Aeschylus’ Supplices: Play and Trilogy. He enjoyed a successful academic career, building an international reputation in the fields of Greek tragedy and epic poetry; he published two heavyweight commentaries on Aeschylus’ plays Choephori (Libation Bearers) and Persians, further commentaries for scholars and undergraduates on Sophocles’ Ajax and Homer’s Odyssey, and two

introductory works on the plays of Aeschylus and Sophocles, as well as numerous articles. He was for six years editor of the Classical Review and acted as secretary and chair of the Classical Association Journals Board.

Alongside his research, Alex was a much-loved lecturer and teacher. He cared deeply for his students, and was always ready to listen, advise and encourage. A gifted storyteller, he held his audiences rapt, and generations of students retain fond memories of his inspirational lectures and of vigorous debates in tutorials.

A capable administrator, Alex led the Glasgow Classics Department as Head from 1991 to 1997, playing a key part in the development of the emerging Classical Civilisation courses which allowed students to read classical texts in translation. In 1995 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in recognition of his achievements as a researcher and his contribution to classical studies in Scotland and in 1998 he was awarded a personal chair in Greek. He retired in 1999, but continued to research and write, and to act as visiting lecturer in the UK and abroad. In 2004, seventeen of his friends and colleagues assembled a collection of essays to mark his seventieth birthday, which was published in 2006 as Dionysalexandros: Essays on Aeschylus and his fellow tragedians in honour of Alexander F. Garvie (ed. D. Cairns and V. Liapis, Classical Press of Wales).

Outside his professional life, Alex was an active member of his local church, an enthusiastic hillwalker and a keen violinist and music-lover. He was a great traveller: with his wife Jane, whom he married in 1966, he visited every continent, realising his childhood dream of exploring both the Arctic and Antarctic in the footsteps of his boyhood heroes. Despite a decline in health and the onset of Alzheimer’s, he maintained many of these activities with great determination until a short hospitalisation just before his 90th birthday led to his spending his final months in a care home. There, he received outstanding care and was visited by numerous friends.

Alex was known for his modesty and his mischievous sense of humour, and friends and former students remember him as 'a great scholar and a man of warmth and humanity' who 'wore his learning lightly'. He was above all a family man, taking enormous pride in the achievements of his two children and his four granddaughters and enjoying many happy family holidays and celebrations in the UK and abroad. He is much missed by his family and by his many friends.

GERVIS, GUY ROSWELL (1951 Architecture), 11

January 2024

His son Adam writes:

The painter Guy Gervis died in France at the age of 92. Guy exhibited widely in Burgundy and beyond. He was admitted as an associate member of La Société des Artistes Français and was awarded a silver medal while a member of La Société Académique ARTSSCIENCES-LETTRES. In 2013 he was awarded the Mayor’s annual Carte Blanche exhibition by the town of Autun. Guy’s pictures hang in homes in France, England, the USA, Canada, and in restaurants across the Morvan.

Guy was born in London on 24 May 1931 and brought up in Tunbridge Wells. His father Harvey Gervis was an orthopaedic surgeon and his mother Sybil a physiotherapist. Guy attended Sherborne School where he developed a love of drawing, painting, and singing.

After his National Service in Malaysia, Guy took up a place at Caius to read architecture in 1951 and after graduating in 1954 he completed his studies at the Architectural Association. A fellow student described Guy as multi-talented as well as a creative architect, a beautiful painter, and guitarist, with a delicious sense of humour. Family and friends fondly remember the wide range of songs Guy sang to a guitar, often outside on summer evenings in a French country garden.

While married to his first wife, Elizabeth Koch, with whom he had three children, Guy carried out architectural research in Brazil and taught Architecture in Ghana.

Later, he consulted on an architectural project in Sierra Leone and worked for the Greater London Council (GLC) before setting up a private practice in London.

In 1972, he married Marga Bosher (née Chirovici). They went on painting expeditions with his aunt Ruth Gervis, a well-known illustrator of children’s books who had taught Guy when she was art mistress at Sherborne School.

In 1993, Guy and Marga retired. They left London and moved to France, where they restored an old farmhouse using the traditional methods of the Morvan region. Guy combined his skills as an architect with his capacity for physical labour, working with Marga and local artisans as the house took shape with a new roof, stronger beams, new doorways, and a restored interior.

On moving to France, Guy changed careers and became a full-time painter for thirty years. He and Marga integrated into a vibrant artistic community that shared work, held exhibitions, and enjoyed celebratory meals. Guy had long been interested in megalithic sites, visiting and painting them in Malta, Andalusia, Bourg-Charente, as well as at Avebury in Wiltshire. As the Celtic site of Bibracte was being excavated at Mont Beuvray, he began to draw the entwined trees of the ancient forests and to paint the Burgundy landscapes.

Guy died in France and he is survived by his wife Marga, his children Adam, Misia, and Heti, his stepchildren and five grandchildren.

HORTON, TREVOR

(1961 Natural Sciences), 29 August 2024

His sister Mrs Elizabeth Claringbull writes: Trevor Horton was born in the West Midlands and educated at Olive Hill County Primary School and King Edward’s Grammar School, Five Ways, Birmingham. He studied Natural Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Crystallography etc) at Caius from 1961 to 1964.

After graduating, he joined Hawker Siddeley Dynamics, but after two years took a job at IBM, where he spent the rest of his working life.

As a student Trevor had a holiday job delivering the post each Christmas, as many students did, but his interest soon marked him out as a valued member of the team. It was there that his childhood hobby of philately developed into a lifelong interest in postmarks.

He was a member of the Postal Mechanisation Study Circle (PMSC) and the Post Mark Society (PMS).

He served on the PMS Committee for many years and in 2000 he authored the invaluable publication IMP – A Collector’s Guide to Royal Mail’s Integrated Processors.

Trevor was loved and is missed by his wife, Lynne, his stepdaughter and her children, who knew him as ‘Grandad Trevor’ and his sister and her children and grandchildren to whom he was ‘Uncle Trevor’.

KIRWAN, ERNEST O’GORMAN (1947 Natural Sciences), 12 June 2024

The following draws on an obituary that appeared in the British Medical Journal:

Ernest (Curly) Kirwan was born in Kolkata, India in 1929, to an Anglo-Irish ophthalmic surgeon father and an American mother. He spent his first six years in India before moving to London in 1935. In 1939 he was evacuated during the Blitz to Portland, Oregon, with his brother. He returned to London in 1944 and then attended Ampleforth College.

He gained a place to study medicine at Caius in 1947 and qualified from the Middlesex Hospital in 1953. After two years of National Service with the Royal Army Medical Corps, he reached the rank of captain. He continued surgical training in Manchester before moving to London. At the age of 37, and now a father, Kirwan became a consultant orthopaedic surgeon and was appointed to the staff of University College Hospital (UCH) and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH).

During his consulting career he was responsible for trauma and general orthopaedics at UCH. He was also the surgeon at the tropical disease hospital and St John’s Hospital for the Clergy. At RNOH he oversaw the back clinic, and he published many papers on lumbar spinal problems. He trained more than eighty registrars, and his teaching took him to Jordan and Iraq, where he set up training programmes. He was also made civilian consultant adviser in orthopaedic surgery to both the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy.

He was on the executive committee of the British Orthopaedic Association, the editorial board of the Journal of Bone, Joint, and Spine Surgery, and President of the Combined Services Orthopaedic Society. He retired from the NHS and clinical surgery at the age of 65 but continued medico-legal work until 72.

In 1962 he married Marie Coakley, an anaesthetist whom he met while travelling. Together they had four children: Robert, Sarah, Edward, and Patrick. Most of all he enjoyed family holidays spent sailing and skiing. He was a keen cook and continued playing bridge and enjoying sport after his retirement. He is survived by Marie, his children, and 10 grandchildren.

KUNZLE, DAVID MARK (1954 Modern Languages), 1 January 2024

The following obituary draws on material published by Legacy Remembers on 3 February 2024.

David Kunzle was an art historian and artist, curator and collector, gymnast and racket man, actor and activist.

David Kunzle was born in 1936, the youngest child of Edward and Aline Kunzle, owners of a family firm whose confectionary and cafés were well-known in the Midlands and beyond. He was educated at West House and Oundle, at Caius (Modern Languages, French and German), the University of Zurich, and the Courtauld Institute in London, where he earned a PhD (1964) in Art History. At the Courtauld, Ernst Gombrich guided him toward a dissertation on ‘The Narrative Broadsheet and Graphic Picture Story from the Beginnings of Printing to 1825’, which laid the groundwork for his seminal three-volume history of the comic strip (1973-2021).

In all, he wrote, edited, and translated 24 volumes, published 150 art-historical essays, and curated a dozen exhibitions that drew upon his fluency in Latin, German, Dutch, Schweizerdeutsch, French, Italian, and Spanish. His work always reflected what he called a ‘soft Marxism’ that powered his concern with artists and workers at the forefront of resistance and revolution, both political and aesthetic, formal and popular, industrial and sexual. His writing ranged over five centuries across Latin America, Europe, and East Asia and with surprising ease among diverse genres: early modern Dutch and Flemish painting, nineteenth-century Swiss, French, German, English, and North American graphics, Victorian and Edwardian clothing and fetishism, twentiethcentury protest posters, Nicaraguan murals, Vietnamese lacquered panels, Chinese Maoist comics, Disney animated ducks, and images in multiple media of Che Guevara as the global figure of a revolutionary Jesus.

One of his earliest publications was The Prestige of Apparatus Gymnastics , which appeared just after he was crowned the British Universities Combined Events Olympic Gymnastics Champion for 1961, a feat he repeated in 1962. Through to the age of 50, he retained his agility on the pommel horse and the rings, performing with other gymnasts from UCLA and USC as the ‘Vaulting Confraternitie of Sainte Barbara’ at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire in Agoura each May/June, 1969-84. This baroque vaulting and tumbling act was based on what he called an ‘imaginative reconstruction from the three surviving 17th-century vaulting manuals’ as well as the faithful reconstruction of a sturdy Late Renaissance pommel horse, on which he gave a virtuoso performance in honour of Marjoyrie at their wedding in 1987.

For both David and Marjoyrie it was a second marriage. David had married Regine, a writer, translator, and dancer, in 1959 when he was a member of the British Universities gymnastics team headed to the first International Student Gymnastics Championship in Moscow. While pursuing his doctorate in London, he was appointed lecturer in art history at the National Gallery, 1962-64. Thereafter, he and Regine went to Canada, where he taught for a year at the University of Toronto, then on to an appointment at the University of California Santa Barbara (1965-73). His first marriage broke down in 1970. In 1973, as the first volume of his history of the comic strip appeared in print (The Early Comic Strip), he was fired by UCSB for publicly protesting against the war in Vietnam. Supported by the American Federation of Teachers, he sued for wrongful dismissal.

While the court case dragged on, he found part-time positions at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles and California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. At Cal Arts he met another teacher, the poet and activist Deena Metzger, who became his partner in art and life for the next five years. She and David, independently, had been collecting American protest posters, some of which they curated for exhibitions in museums in Santiago, Chile in 1972 and in 1973 in Cuba. While in Chile, they had befriended Walter Locke, whose smuggled footage, created with Charles Horman regarding the Allende years and the circumstances leading to the 1973 coup, would become the foundation for a documentary film Chile: With Poems and Guns by the Lucha Film Cooperative.

In 1972 they met the Chilean writer, Ariel Dorfman, one of Allende’s advisors. On a later trip to Paris in 1975, they connected with Dorfman in exile, whose work with Armand Mattelart, Para leer al Pato Donald, was dumped into the sea by the Chilean navy during the Pinochet coup. David translated this as How to Read Donald Duck, initiating a decades-long dispute with Disney concerning copyright, animated capitalism, and imperialist ideology.

In 1977 David won his case against UCSB, but instead of resuming his position at Santa Barbara, he moved to UCLA, whose art history department had quietly been attracting a contingent of Marxist scholars, among them O.K. Werckmeister and Albert Boime. David soon gained tenure there and remained for the next 32 years, teaching primarily nineteenth-century art history and a two-part course on ‘Responses to Imperialism’ in the United States during the Vietnam War, and in the contemporary Americas (Mexico, Cuba, Chile, Nicaragua).

By 1983 Marjoyrie had married and divorced. She had two children, Amy and Daniel, and was managing a public relations consulting business. She and David had first met in London in the early 1960s, but their friendship deepened in 1983 during one of David’s annual visits to England. By 1986 Marjoyrie was living in California with David, who was writing about caricature while contending with critical caricatures of his most recent book, Fashion & Fetishism: Corsets, Tight-Lacing & Other Forms of Body-Sculpture (1982). They married in 1987.

Their horizons expanded, as Marjoyrie trained as a Sivananda Vedanta ‘peace ambassador’ and yoga instructor, while David completed the second volume of his history of the comic strip (The Nineteenth Century, 1990) and became intensely engaged in efforts to document the over 300 social and political murals created in the years following Nicaragua’s 1979 Sandinista Revolution. He was able to document 80% of them, though most were destroyed once the Sandinistas were voted out in 1990. His efforts culminated in The Murals of Revolutionary Nicaragua, 1979-1992 (1995), which expanded his friendships with Cuban and Central American artists and extended his interest in public art to include billboards and graffiti. This in turn led to a unique collection of images of Che Guevara in the Americas and across the oceans. He curated these images for an exhibition at UCLA’s Fowler Museum in 1997 then wrote about them in his Chesucristo: The Fusion in Image and Word of Che Guevara and Jesus Christ (2016).

No longer an active gymnast, David competed often and heartily at tennis and squash. His most challenging workouts, however, involved exquisite acts of coordination while balanced on tall ladders at home, as he installed his own intricate works of geometric art. There were, in addition, mutual forays into skydiving, hang-gliding, parasailing and, on his own, bungee-jumping. Abroad, on putative research trips, he would spend days, sometimes weeks, cycling or hiking.

Work on the third volume of David’s history of the comic strip continued; it was published as Rebirth of the English Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870 in 2021. Other projects also demanded attention: a book on The Soldier in Netherlandish Art, 1550-1672 (2002), another on The Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Töpffer (2007), and editions with translations of the comic strips of Gustave Doré (2015, 2018), Amédée de Noé aka Cham (2019), and Töpffer (2007, 2012). In spare moments, he published essays on the history of dentistry in caricature, U.S. Vietnam Era posters, the lacquer work of Vietnamese artist Tran Huu Chat, the mid-career artistry of George Cruikshank, the corset revival after World War II, Uncle Scrooge’s money bin, dispossession by ducks, and other topics.

Yet he also found time for both theatricality and weeding. From 2000 to 2010, he starred in at least ten plays in theatres around Los Angeles, ranging from Shakespeare productions to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. With Marjoyrie, year upon year, he tended plots of flowers, blackberry bushes, and vegetables at the Ocean View Farms community garden in Mar Vista.

Fully retired after 2009, he also worked to sort his substantial collections that he wished to donate to various institutions: 20,000 posters, to the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (Los Angeles); a vast assemblage of objets d’art, paintings, graphics, and ephemera depicting Che Guevara, to the Wende Museum (Culver City); books and prints on fetishism, to the Kinsey Institute (Indiana University, Bloomington); manuscripts and drawings by Rodolphe Töpffer along with rare Töpffer volumes, to the

Getty Library (Los Angeles); another Töpffer manuscript to the Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire de Genève; a set of late medieval manuscripts on vellum to the UCLA Library; and 12 linear feet of photographs, fashion plates, prints, a complete run of Private Eye, and annotations from his 60 years of research and writing, to the Special Collections Library, UC Riverside.

He is survived by Marjoyrie, her children Amy and Daniel, and her sister Jennie; by his first wife Regine; by his companion Deena; by his nephew Adrian and niece Isabella; by many Dutch and Swiss cousins whom he visited regularly and warmly; and, Renaissance man to the last, by his faithful vaulting horse, Pegasus.

LEEMING, ROGER (1966 Natural Sciences), 30 October 2023

The following text is based on information provided by his wife Julie Leeming:

A proud Yorkshireman, Roger was born in Leeds in 1947 attending schools there prior to being admitted to Caius in 1966, where he gained an honours degree in Natural Sciences (Materials Science). He cherished memories of Caius for the rest of his life.

His career in Pilkington spanned 37 years, and prior to Australia encompassed Research and Development, Production Control, and senior manufacturing roles, Manufacturing Director of Triplex Safety Glass, culminating in a position with responsibility for manufacturing in all of the European automotive products plants, and coordination of manufacturing improvements and cooperation worldwide.

After 26 years with Pilkington in Europe, largely in the automotive glazing area, Roger moved to Australia with his wife Julie in November 1995. He assumed overall responsibility for the Pilkington Australasian operations in June 1997.

Here, Roger became President Building Products Australasia (and a member of the global board) and Country Manager Australasia, having country responsibility for all of the Pilkington operations, with activities in the building products and automotive markets in Australia/New Zealand and overseas, leading the team which significantly enhanced the value of the business, as evidenced by its eventual purchase in 2007. The business had a turnover of around AUD $400 million and employed around 1,800 people. He also sat on the Executive of a number of industry bodies, becoming the National President of the Australian Glass and Glazing Association, and President of the Australian Industry Group in Victoria (and National Vice President). He was a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management.

Roger retired from Pilkington in 2006 and had a portfolio of non-executive directorships/ chairmanships and government panels. He sat on the inaugural National Industry Skills Committee (2006–09), advising Federal and State Ministers on Skills Development, on the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council, and on the Victorian Skills Commission (2009-12). He sat on the board of Holmesglen Institute (of TAFE) (2011-16) and was Chairman of the (Victoria) Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority (2012-16 and an Authority Member from 2006-16), on the Board of Megabus Pty Ltd., chaired panels for the Victorian Training Awards, and mentored St. Michael’s Grammar School for the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation ‘Youth in Philanthropy’ programme. Roger was also Business Adviser/Mentor to two private business owners (of Total Balance and iGlass Pty Ltd.).

Alongside his professional career, Roger loved making theatre. In Birmingham he was the production manager and leading man of an amateur operatic society for over 15 years. His skills spread wide encompassing many opera, drama and musical companies. He shared his acting talent, stage management talent and time and later joined his wife in making magic with the Hummingbirds and their charitable events in Melbourne.

He and Julie were married for over 40 years and friends for over 50 years; together they shared an interest in the the glass industry and musical theatre. In later life, in Australia, they shared golf. Eventually he learned how to beat Julie at golf, but it took a while.

Roger’s fight to live and his smile on his journey of ill-heath was heroic; he always kept his sense of humour especially during his very difficult days. His friends retain a deep respect for a ‘real gentleman’ who always gave of his time, his joy of life, his special humour, and his smile to everyone he met.

MAILE, ERNEST ROBERT (1954 Classics), 13 March 2024

His son Tony Maile writes:

Ernest (Ernie) Maile, who has died aged 92, was born in Tottenham, London in 1931 and brought up in Islington. After being evacuated to Cornwall, at the age of 10 (a year earlier than other boys) he won a scholarship to Christ’s Hospital Boarding School.

In 1949 he joined the Army Educational Corps and spent his National Service teaching literacy, often to personnel many years his senior. He was a natural teacher. In 1951, he gained a place at Caius to read Classics and was awarded his MA in 1958. He thoroughly enjoyed his time at Cambridge and his passion for classics and languages remained with him throughout his life.

After Caius, Ernest thrived in a career in personnel management, working for prestigious companies such as Mars Ltd, Ford, Rank Xerox, and British Leyland. Later he worked in executive recruitment. Outside work, he enjoyed family life, playing rugby for Saracens RFC, and he took part in the first Penguins international rugby tour in 1959. He would always complete the weekly Latin crossword in The Times. He retired in his early 60s.

Despite the challenges life posed, Ernest lived a life defined by love, dedication and a thirst for knowledge, leaving behind a legacy of resilience and unwavering commitment to those he loved.

Ernest was a cherished husband to June, whom he married in 1959. He cared for her full-time in later life, and was also a treasured father to Julian, Jon, Adrian and Tony, an immensely proud grandfather to his 11 grandchildren and great-grandfather to 14, brother to Rita, a loyal son and a dear friend.

MOWBRAY, JAMES FREDERICK, FRCP (1948

Natural Sciences), 10 April 2024

His son Dr Charles Mowbray writes:

Professor James Mowbray died aged 94 after a short illness. James was a physician and immunopathologist during a time of unprecedented advances in organ transplantation, when understanding rejection led to better treatments and much improved outcomes as well as a better understanding of the immunological responses to viral infections.

James was born in Selby in 1930 and educated at Upper Canada College and Merchant Taylors’ School. As an undergraduate at Caius from 1948, he met Sheila, his future wife, before clinical years at St Mary’s where Sheila worked for Sir Alexander Fleming and James was friends with a young runner called Roger Bannister.

As a junior physician, James worked with Stan Peart during early kidney transplants, developing expertise in avoiding organ rejection, noting for example the benefits of prior blood transfusions for suppressing kidney rejection. His special interest led to him being asked to help with the first UK heart transplants, and he became well known worldwide, contributing at conferences with Professor Christian Barnard and other luminaries.

James Mowbray later became interested in post-viral fatigue syndrome, also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) or chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). He realised that many patients had quite particular symptoms suggesting a physical disease process, a view that was not mainstream at the time. He and his colleagues showed that

persistent enteroviral antigen was present far more often than in controls and he did a great deal to support a group of patients written off by many. Perhaps this laid the way for a better understanding and support of patients with Long Covid many years later.

A chance conversation with the obstetrician Professor Richard Beard prompted him to investigate a small minority of women who suffered multiple first trimester miscarriages. He postulated that if blood transfusions protected kidney recipients from rejection, maybe challenging mothers with paternal antigen would stimulate effective humoral immunity and prevent cell-mediated rejection of the foetus. Hundreds of women who had almost given up hope of delivering babies went on to have healthy offspring after his treatment. James later rather rudely claimed: 'I got 1,500 women pregnant!' The way this discovery improved so many lives was evidenced by the 400 families that attended his retirement celebrations in 1995.

James Mowbray liked to say: 'There are two kinds of people: those who need help, and those who are able to provide it.' This seemed a guiding principle and although he became a regular contributor on television and radio, he courted neither publicity nor riches.

After retiring, James continued his lifelong interests in electronics and computers which paralleled, and provided tools for, his medical research. He also spent many happy hours on the golf course and holidaying in Cornwall.

James’s wife of 69 years, Sheila, predeceased him in 2023; he is survived by his three sons, two of whom are doctors.

NASH, DAVID LEONARD HEDDLE

(1950 Modern and Medieval Languages) 15 February 2024

His wife Elizabeth Nash writes:

David Nash, who died just short of his 94th birthday, was the son of the well-known British tenor, Heddle Nash. He lived with his parents in Petts Wood, was educated at Hollingbury Court Preparatory School, Ditchling and Haileybury College, Hertford. He gained a place at Caius in 1950 to study Modern Languages (French and German), achieved a BA in 1953 and subsequently an MA. During his time in Cambridge, he rowed for Caius.

In an attempt to follow in his father’s footsteps, he attained an LRAM at the Royal College of Music but then decided to change course by joining Elizabeth Arden where he was employed for some 30 years as a business manager specialising in Regulatory Affairs.

In 1966 he married Elizabeth, and they lived in Shoreham Village for 57 years. He was churchwarden there for 26 years, sang in the choir and performed in many local amateur Shoreham Players’ productions. Much loved by friends and family, he will be sadly missed by his wife Liz, two children, Richard and Joanna, and six grandchildren.

NORTON, JOHN ADRIAN (1968 History), 3 October 2023

His wife Elisabeth Norton writes:

John Norton was born in Hull in 1950, the son of Stanley Norton, a painting and decorating contractor, and brother of Stephen Norton (1966 Natural Sciences) and of Nicholas. He was educated at the Catholic boys’ Marist College in Hull and gained a place at Caius on an Open Exhibition to study History.

After graduation, John taught English for a year at Uppsala University and then for a year at Stockholm University, where he and I met.

On returning to the UK, John took a Postgraduate Diploma in Personnel Management at the London School of Economics (LSE), which was the prelude to a varied and successful career. After a period in insurance in London, he joined Perkins Engines in Peterborough and then returned to insurance to work in personnel for Provident Mutual in Stevenage, where he became Director of Human Resources.

When Provident Mutual relocated to York, John initially continued to work for them but he subsequently became Human Resources Director and Company Secretary at Stevenage Arts and Leisure Centre. Later in his career, he became a freelancer, working with several organisations including UNICEF and Smile, the charity which helps children and adults in need of cleft care. John was also a governor of the Priory Secondary School in Hitchin.

John’s life was distinguished by kindness and generosity of spirit. He gave freely of his time and made donations to a number of charities. He did much volunteer training work for the Samaritans, including responding to telephone calls from individuals in severe distress.

At Caius, John had played football on the wing for the College first team, and football remained a strong interest all his life. He also maintained a lifelong interest in history. He read and travelled widely, loved classical music and accrued an extensive library.

John will be sadly missed. He enjoyed close and lifelong personal friendships. He was a loving and considerate husband, and a devoted stepfather and step-grandfather to Emilie and Oscar.

PHEAR, DAVID NORMAN (1943 Natural Sciences), 27 April 2024

His daughter Phillipa Knowles writes:

David was born a Caian, beginning life on 19 April 1925 in Grantchester. His parents Hardy and Winifred moved from South Africa in 1911. Hardy Phear was a University Lecturer in electrical engineering and a Fellow of Caius (1912 Mathematics, Fellow 191966), and his mother was a teacher. His godfather was James Chadwick, a future Nobel laureate and Master of Caius. David’s elder brother John (1941) had studied Natural Sciences at Caius, and his younger sister Elizabeth studied Natural Sciences at Newnham.

David won a Scholarship to Winchester College. His initial interest was in Classics, but he later moved to sciences. In 1943 he won a scholarship to study Medicine at Caius, where he enjoyed living in a room looking over King’s Parade. While at Caius he and a group of friends formed an informal society called the ‘Yaks and Crows’. They continued to meet for dinner and, later, lunch each year until they became too frail to travel. This group included some notable Caius graduates: Peter Gray FRS, the future Master of Caius (1943 Natural Sciences, Fellow 1949-53, Master 1988-96); Professor Austin Gresham (1943 Natural Sciences), an eminent pathologist; and Professor Christopher Brooke (1945 History, Fellow 1977-2015), a medieval historian.

David’s time at Caius was interrupted by the Second World War, and around this time he developed tuberculosis and had to spend a year in an isolation hospital. He did the Clinical part of his course at the Middlesex Hospital in London and returned to Cambridge as a junior doctor at Addenbrookes Hospital.

He subsequently worked as a Senior Registrar at the Central Middlesex Hospital, where he met Margaret Woods, an anaesthetist from New Zealand who soon became his wife. Their daughter was born in 1959. The family set off on an adventure to live and work in Adelaide, Australia, where David worked in the University Department of Medicine of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital. There he began his interest in endocrinology, and particularly diabetes, and was actively involved in research. Their second child, Alan, was born in 1961.

In the cold winter of 1963, David returned to England to take up a post as consultant physician in the newly built Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Welwyn Garden City and St Albans City Hospital. He developed a busy and progressive diabetic service in both hospitals. He was always involved in research projects and enjoyed encouraging his junior staff and teaching medical students.

Sadly, his wife Margaret died aged only 44. David later married Rita, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at St Albans City Hospital. They moved to a farmhouse in the countryside and enjoyed keeping Cocker Spaniels.

Throughout his life, David was passionate about gardening, and in his retirement he did a course on horticultural therapy. He set up two therapy gardens, one attached to a day hospital, and another attached to a hospice.

David also enjoyed painting in his retirement. He was always inventive in his art, exploring new techniques and enjoying meeting others and making friends in his various classes.

David lived until soon after his 99th birthday, the oldest surviving member of the Yaks and Crows. He lived independently in his own bungalow with a beautiful garden until a year before he died. He is greatly missed by his two children, three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren in whom he always took a great interest.

PYBUS, JOHN David (1958 Modern and Medieval Languages), 23 October 2023

John Pybus was born in Sydenham, London and educated at Lady Boswell’s School, Sevenoaks and at The Judd School, Tonbridge. He was the son of Harry Wells Pybus, a broker’s clerk of Otford, where John spent his early years.

Before university John did his National Service in the RAF. He did not learn to fly but the RAF did teach him to type, which served him well, though it was the only positive thing he had to say about National Service.

In 1958 he was admitted to read Modern Languages at Caius, where he lived initially on C-staircase. He shared with David Hepworth, in a room close to that of Robert Minter and Ross Wilcock. David Frost shared rooms with a mutual friend. Like almost all the students apart from a wealthy few, John and his friends were very conscious of the need to work; they did not have money to spare, so their leisure time was limited. They were obliged to eat dinner in Hall six days a week, where they ate healthily, if not with great variety, and got to know their fellow undergraduates.

Other regular entertainment was restricted to a couple of ‘halves’ at The Volunteer and the Saturday night dance at the Dorothy Café.

John’s first job was with Cow & Gate in Guildford, where he worked in the export department. He subsequently worked for the Steel Company of Wales, then moved

to the British Standards Institution where he helped administer the Kite Mark. His next move was to Braithwaite Engineering in Bookham where he was PA to the Managing Director. Under John’s influence Braithwaite won the Queen’s Award for Export but then declined owing to competition from plastic replacements for metal (even in the desert). His last job was at the National Small Bore Rifle Association.

After he retired, John engaged in various community activities. The most notable was his Chairmanship of the Guildford Institute. He had long been a member of the ‘Reformists’ who wanted to revive the Institute from its moribund state. Founded in 1834 the Guildford Mechanics Institute was dedicated to providing opportunities for self-improvement through lectures and courses of study. The aim 'to elevate the ordinary mechanic above his fellows' was hugely popular and by 1902 over 1500 people, including 400 women, were among the artisans, clerks, traders, and shop assistants listed as members.

Fifty years later, however, there was no money to maintain the building and only the fusty library and the chess club could claim to offer any ‘intellectual activity’. In the early 1970s new members wanted to change that and John emerged as their leader. He had top-level management experience. He was socially gracious, witty and amusing, someone who handled people (especially difficult ones) very well. He started by addressing the Institute’s precarious finances. Appalled by what he found, he proposed registering the Institute as a charity to stem the haemorrhage of funds through rates and taxes. John became chairman in 1977 and conducted a campaign that persuaded 75% membership to vote in favour of becoming a registered charity in 1978.

His next move was to forge co-operation between the Institute and the University of Surrey. The latter was conspicuous for its style of architecture but detached from the town. Negotiations with Professor Terence Lee, Pro-Vice Chancellor, resulted in the university gaining a space in the town for adult education classes, while partnership with the university opened up new horizons for the Institute.

In 1981 the Guildford Institute of the University of Surrey came into being. John wrote its new constitution, ensuring that the Institute retained its identity as the lesser within the larger body. The old Guildford Institute was finally dissolved in April 1985, and a new Joint Management Committee was established, which still exists today.

Alongside this major task, John remained much as he had been since his student days. He had a passion for dogs, jazz, pubs and pints, and he loved conversations, debates and friendly arguments, and exchanging and discussing essays on topics which he had discussed with friends. He loved long walks with friends and family often between two carefully chosen hostelries. It was not for nothing that he was known to some as Mr Pint.

To the end, he was a charismatic presence and the lynchpin of any social gathering.

RAWSON, JOHN VICTOR (1956 Engineering), 21 May 2024

His son John Rawson writes:

Our father John Rawson died in the early hours of 21 May 2024, aged 88. He had suffered from advancing vascular dementia in his last few years, but thanks to the love and support of our wonderful mother, was able to stay in his own home until relatively recently.

John was brought up on a new council estate in Aspley, Nottingham, the son of a Post Office engineer and of a Boots factory girl who left school at 14. His father died on active service when John was seven, leaving his widow to raise two children with the help of her family. John passed his 11+ and attended High Pavement Grammar School where he became Head of School (1953-54). He was offered a choral scholarship, on the condition he obtained Latin O-Level, then a requirement for the Engineering Tripos. He achieved this qualification by means of a correspondence course in under six months, while doing his National Service between 1954-56. He was commissioned in the Royal Signals, serving in Egypt and Cyprus.

He was admitted to Caius with a £40 p.a. Scholarship in 1956. 'It wasn’t a fortune', he recalled, 'but it allowed me to keep sherry in my rooms!' He would often recall conversing with Harold Abrahams at a couple of College dinners, long before light was shed on Abrahams’s story following the film Chariots of Fire.

On graduating, John married my mother in 1959, whom he had met at the age of 17 at an inter-school dance in Nottingham. She was by then an SRN at Westminster Hospital. He then spent the next 45 years in manufacturing industry, running and designing new production facilities, primarily in printing and glass manufacture. He retired aged 67 following the successful sale of a glass company he had a stake in.

He was not a particularly clubbable man, preferring time with his family and in his garden. He loved rugby football and athletics, and was a life-long fan of Notts County. Since 1975, he and his wife had lived in Clitheroe in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire.

He always remembered his time at Caius and donated regularly to the Caius Choral Scholarship Fund. Growing up, there was always music in our house, John had varied tastes, ranging from classical and jazz through Sinatra to Elvis Presley’s Gospel recordings.

John is survived by our mother, his wife of 64 years, and his three children. He was an adored father-in-law, grandfather of five and had two great-granddaughters.

SAUNDERS, DENNIS SIDNEY (1951 English), 21 February 2024

His daughter Clare Saunders writes: Dennis Saunders was born in Ely on 12 July 1931, the son of a railway wages clerk. He grew up in March, Cambridgeshire and was educated at March Grammar School for Boys. He excelled at English, French and Latin, and his English teacher encouraged him to apply to both Oxford and Cambridge. No one from the family had been to university but Dennis was offered places and scholarships at both.

After school, Dennis did his National Service at Folkestone but was given compassionate leave to return home when his father became ill with a brain tumour. On his father’s death, Dennis took over his job at the railway, before going up to Cambridge in 1951 to read English at Caius.

During the summer of 1951, Dennis met Pamela Engledow, who was on holiday visiting her grandmother in March. Her cousin Jack was Dennis’s tennis partner and introduced them. At that time, Pamela lived in Glasgow, but she and Dennis developed an enduring long-distance romance through letter writing and visits during the holidays.

In his first year, Dennis lived in St Michael’s Court. One night in February 1952, he was part of a group of friends who decided to do something about the heavy morning traffic in Trinity Street which often made them late for breakfast in Hall. Among them was Godfrey Ash, whom Dennis had known at school, and his friend Brian Jesson. Together with several others they crept out of their rooms at 3 a.m. and, while Godfrey kept a lookout, one of them laid a framework of knotted rope on the ground outside the Gate of Humility. Dennis and the others then painted broad white stripes across the road to the gates of St Michael’s Court, and thus a smart new zebra crossing was created on Trinity Street.

During his time at Cambridge, Dennis enjoyed taking part in production of a Shakespeare play in Hall; returning to Cambridge for a visit in the autumn of 2017, he showed his daughter where this had taken place. It was clearly one of his many fond memories of life in the College, as was punting on the Cam and walking to Grantchester along the riverbank.

In his third year, Dennis lived at Springfield in a large room on the ground floor, overlooking the gardens. He often left his window open so that the tenant of one of the upstairs rooms could gain access to the building on his return from late night partying. He revisited Springfield in 2017 and the student in his old room was kind enough to invite him in.

Dennis graduated in June 1954 and joined the staff of his old school, the March Grammar School, as an English teacher. In his spare time, he was a keen member of the Anglian Players, the March and District Operatic Society, the March Art Club, the Town Tennis Club and the March Film Society. After a ten-year romance, he and Pamela were married on 26 August 1961 at St Wendreda’s Church in March.

In 1963, Dennis and Pam, together with his mother, moved to Kennington near Oxford where Dennis had been appointed to a lectureship at the Culham teacher training college. In those days he owned a Lambretta scooter. With his deep love of films and ability to quote lines from his favourites at appropriate moments, he would sing the theme tune to Lawrence of Arabia while driving through the Oxfordshire countryside, Pamela riding pillion.

Their daughter Clare was born in 1964, and the following year the family moved to Woodley, Berkshire, when Dennis was appointed senior lecturer and joint head of the English department at the new Bulmershe teacher training college. Dennis is remembered with great affection by friends from throughout his working life, and one of his colleagues from Bulmershe describes him as 'a stalwart friend and a kind man'.

In 1971, Dennis was appointed Local Authority English Inspector for Schools in Kent, to oversee and advise on the teaching of English across the county, and the family moved to Canterbury. A few years later, Dennis was promoted to the role of Senior Inspector with responsibility for all primary schools across Kent.

Dennis’s chief interest was developing the teaching of reading and encouraging in all children a love of literature. In the 1970s he compiled several anthologies of poetry for children which were published by Evans Brothers (Out of School, Words on the Winds, Strange to Tell, and Hist Whist) and several anthologies on themes such as Colours, Creatures Great and Creatures Small, and Weather. These smaller books were later collected into two larger editions: Full Swing and Fancy Free (republished in the USA as Magic Lights and Streets of Shining Jet).

During this time, Dennis arranged courses to improve the way in which literacy was taught in schools; he invited many well-known authors and poets to speak to teachers, and most of these stayed with Dennis and his family in Canterbury. Seamus Heaney, Leon Garfield, Joan Aitken and Quentin Blake all visited, and Russell Hoban became a good friend who came to stay on several occasions. Hoban’s Ridley Walker includes the family in its acknowledgments, as ideas for the novel were formed while Russ visited Canterbury Cathedral with them.

Dennis was first diagnosed with cancer in 1982 and underwent major surgery. In 2023, the cancer returned, necessitating a further operation. Dennis adjusted to both lifechanging but successful operations with strength and determination.

Not long after his first surgery in 1982, Dennis took up the post of Drama Inspector for Schools and stepped back from his huge workload as Senior Inspector. The arts, and

in particular literature and drama, were his lifelong passions, and the new job gave him the chance to advise schools on the teaching of drama, supervise the design of purpose-built drama studios, and attend school productions around the county.

Dennis was an extremely well liked and highly respected member of the Kent County Council Schools Inspectorate. He was popular with headteachers and staff in the schools he visited. Many of them would phone him at home in the evenings for advice or encouragement. The children also loved the fact that he often wore a tie with a cat or dog print, and colourful socks. He enjoyed being in the classroom observing lessons and talking to children. He took early retirement in 1988, just before the introduction of a new schools inspection regime that did not align with his view of education.

In retirement, Dennis and Pam kept active and busy with voluntary work for a local animal sanctuary in Kent and continued attending plays and classical music concerts in London and Kent. Dennis himself was a talented amateur actor who performed in numerous productions. In 2003, Dennis and Pam moved to Witney, Oxfordshire to be nearer Clare and her family.

Dennis was a warm and sociable man of sharp intelligence and good humour, a great communicator with a love of learning, an interest in other people and ideas, and a huge passion for the arts and literature. His friends remember him as remarkable, erudite and witty, with the kindest of hearts. His creativity and artistic flair remained strong as the years passed, and his sense of humour, the readiness to see the funny – often surreal –side of a situation, was just one of the many attributes for which he was loved.

His greatest love was for his family, and he was devoted to Pamela for over 70 years; they celebrated 62 years of marriage in 2023. A deeply loved and loving man, Dennis is survived by Pamela, his daughter Clare and granddaughter Katharine, and he will be sadly missed by them.

STANLEY, DAVID (1954 Economics), 3 June 2024

John Boyd KC (1954 Economics and Law) writes:

David led a life marked by a keen business sense and a deeply held Jewish faith. He found it easy to make friends and to keep in touch with them over many years.

David was born on 21 March 1934. His early years were spent in Chingford, East London, his father being a hairdresser and his mother a milliner. He described his family life as humble. After attending

Sir George Monoux Grammar School, Walthamstow, where he studied economics amongst other subjects, he applied to both Wadham College, Oxford and to Caius, these being the days when one could apply to both universities simultaneously. Wadham accepted him promptly, but from Caius: silence. National Service in the Essex Regiment then intervened, taking him to Germany, Japan and South Korea. He later remarked that he was grateful to HMG for enabling him to see much of the world at the taxpayer’s expense.

While still doing National Service he received an invitation to take tea with Stanley Dennison, the Caius Senior Tutor, at the Reform Club in Pall Mall (these were obviously more gentlemanly days). Dennison, perhaps hearing of Wadham’s interest, being impressed by David and not wanting a bright one to get away, over tea offered him a place at Caius which David was pleased to accept. The offer was subject to his achieving Latin at O-Level, which he was able to do while in an Army tent on the front line in South Korea. At Caius, where he read Economics, he was a diligent worker and did well academically.

On coming down David joined Lyons Maid Ice Cream as a trainee and shortly afterwards, through a connection, he received an offer from Ted Bates, a major advertising agency in New York. He worked there for two years. This led to the agency offering him a job in London. There he joined Trebor (later Trebor Sharps) as marketing director. This was the beginning of his business career.

A friend of his, who was working in Germany, came across a wine producer who was keen to break into the UK market. Some sample bottles of Liebfraumilch were passed to David who one Friday cold-called the wine buyer of Marks & Spencer. David was a wine-lover but was then unknown in the trade. After a tasting at M&S the following Monday, the buyer placed an order for over one million bottles. This extraordinary coup may be ascribed to David’s marketing skills, his commercial sense and his personal charm. Thereafter, with M&S as a major customer, David’s wine business flourished and he came to supply other big names on the high street. Eventually at the age of 58 he sold out, a wealthy man.

David married Jaqueline Sargent at the West London Synagogue. The marriage was a happy one. They had a daughter, Davina. In 1990 David and Jaqueline settled in Spain where she died some years later. He returned to the UK in 2020. David was a follower of Progressive Judaism and developed an interest in Freemasonry. He was vice-chairman of his synagogue and chairman of his Lodge.

To those who knew him, he was a loyal, generous and warm-hearted friend. His philosophy was that life is for living and that there was nothing that could not be achieved through hard work, perseverance and gumption.

STRACHAN, JAMES ANDREW (1966 Mechanical Sciences), 18 December 2023

His brothers Crispian and Kenneth Strachan write: James was born in Llangollen, North Wales, the oldest of four sons of a papermaker chemist and a female mechanical engineer. After a childhood in Wales, Staffordshire, and Cheshire, he was admitted to Caius in 1966. After he graduated in Civil Engineering (when not lighting amateur drama), he made his adult home in Cambridge for the rest of his life.

He worked as a civil engineer in London, Kent, Zambia, Iraq and Arabia, then changed career to computer coding with Cambridge Online. He was an accomplished photographer, and had lifelong passions for Rover, Morris Minor and MG cars, and for railways – particularly the pre-1922 Midland Railway and South African Railways. He was also a formidable model railway engineer.

He served as a school governor for many years, held office in the Cambridge Conservative Association and was a local councillor. His interests, attested by his bookshelves, ranged from Conservative and Imperial politics to naval gunnery in World War I, much history around the world, and Adam and Eve satirical cartoons from South Africa!

James never married but was a source of entertainment and good advice to a number of godchildren and of course to his nephews and nieces. He leaves two brothers.

THOMPSON, STEWART PHILIP (PHIL) (1950 Natural Sciences), 9 December 2023

His wife Hilary and daughter Sarah Vandôme write:

Phil Thompson was born at Romford, Essex on 23 October 1929, the son of Stewart, an accountant, and Grace, who was from a farming family near Braintree.

By the time Phil was of school age, the family had moved to Brentwood, where he went to Brentwood Prep School and later the Senior School, from which he left with a Higher School Certificate in Maths, Physics and Chemistry.

Following two years of National Service (1948-1950) with the Royal Electrical and

Mechanical Engineers, Phil gained a place at Caius in 1950, where he studied Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Metallurgy.

Phil joined British Insulated Callender’s Cables as a research scientist in 1953, working there until 1957. During this time, he was an active member of the Little Ship Club, a London-based organisation for sailing enthusiasts, where he met Hilary, who had also joined the club after moving to London for work.

In 1957, Phil and Hilary married in Gerrans, Cornwall, Hilary’s birthplace. The same year they moved to Paignton, after Phil found new employment with Standard Telephones and Cables, where he worked until 1968. They moved to Portsmouth when Phil took up an appointment at Portsmouth Polytechnic (later University) as a Senior Lecturer in Materials Science and Materials Engineering. By this time, Hilary and Phil had adopted a daughter, Sarah, in 1965. The family moved to Gosport, across the water from Portsmouth, where Hilary and Phil remained until retirement.

The academic world suited Phil very well, and through it he made numerous friends and connections that he retained long after retirement. His field of teaching also secured him a number of part-time roles working for the Open University in Southampton and other locations.

Phil was a keen sailor all his adult life, owning a succession of small craft and yachts. The first of these was called Morning Star, which he acquired in 1953 and kept at Burnham-on-Crouch. He sailed, often accompanied by a friend (and later Hilary), far and wide along the English east coast, the Thames estuary, to Fastnet, Ireland, and France and the Brittany coast. These long and eventful adventures twice won him the Club’s Mercer Trophy for the longest distance travelled. All this he achieved without the modern technology of GPS, echo sounder, chart plotter or radar.

After retiring and moving to Cornwall in 1988, Phil and Hilary continued to enjoy sailing together. They owned a number of yachts, which they sailed both locally and further afield, to Salcombe, Plymouth, and Dartmouth in Devon, and even to Guernsey.

TUBBS, OSWALD NIGEL, FRCS (1957 Natural Sciences), 15 September 2024

Nigel Tubbs was born in London, the son of Oswald Sydney Tubbs (1926) and Marjorie Betty Wilkins. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and admitted to Caius in 1957 to read Natural Sciences, following in the footsteps both of his father and of his two uncles, Sydney Kingsley Tubbs (1924) and Sydney Raymond Tubbs (1932).

His father was a thoracic surgeon and Nigel followed him into the medical profession. He completed his medical training to be an orthopaedic surgeon at St Barts (his

father’s hospital). After various early positions, he became a consultant surgeon at the Birmingham Accident Hospital, then Senior Clinical Lecturer at Birmingham University as well as consultant surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth and General Hospitals in Birmingham in 1979. The esteem in which he was held by his colleagues nationally was underlined by his appointment as editor of Injury: The British Journal of Accident Surgery in 1983.

One of his many achievements at Birmingham was to have established one of the few NHS sports injuries clinics in the UK, based in the General Hospital. Initially he ran a voluntary, unfunded sports injuries clinic and was an early advocate of arthroscopic surgery, which generated impressive results and soon found numerous emulators.

His engagement in sports medicine might not have been surprising to anyone who knew of his great passion for rowing. He started rowing at Shrewsbury and soon gained recognition in the sport in Cambridge. He won the Colquhoun Sculls in 1958 and rowed in the Goldie Boat in 1959. In the same year he was elected Captain of Caius Boat Club and President of the Amalgamated Clubs.

Adrian Taunton (1959), his friend and eventual successor as Captain of the Caius Boat Club, comments as follows: 'Nigel was always much fitter than any of us, which is why, at just over 11 stone in an era before lightweight rowing, he did so well. He was credited with being a fitness fanatic for much of the rest of his life and we used to hear reports of him executing press-ups and squat jumps in theatre whilst waiting for his next patient!'

As an all-round athlete, he was an excellent swimmer and continued this with his sculling well into middle age. He never fully retired and worked in an advisory and diagnostics capacity for some years after ceasing surgery at the age of 70. With more time on his hands, however, he was able to travel widely with his wife, Sue, making a number of trips to the Galapagos Islands to visit his old friend from Caius, David Balfour (1957). At home, as a keen gardener and with an active interest in the natural world, he learned to cultivate trees from seed, many of which were then planted on the hill behind his house in Wales.

Nigel’s wife, Sue, survives him along with their two children, Lucy and David, his grandson Louis, and his sister Jill. He will be missed by many.

TURNER, JUSTIN (1953 Classics),

7 December 2023

His children Caroline, Mark and Grange write: When someone quoted the old saying 'School days are the happiest days of your life', our father would comment: 'Not for me, but perhaps university days were'. In October 1953 Justin Turner came up to Caius, where his own father Grange (1922) had also studied.

After attending Mill Hill School for his secondary education, he spent two years completing his National Service, so was already twenty by the time he matriculated. At Caius he read Classics, which became a lifelong interest, and arguably his greatest intellectual passion.

Justin loved his time at Cambridge. He made friends with whom he kept in contact for the rest of his life, played bridge frequently and enthusiastically, and occasionally turned out to play on the left wing for the Caius second XI. He also took the opportunity to travel during the long university holidays and went on a quite challenging trip to his beloved Greece one summer, sleeping overnight on the decks of ferries as he sought out the sites of antiquity.

It was during his Cambridge years that he first met our mother, Valerie. She was working at the BBC and accepted his invitation to join him at one of the May Balls. He asked her to marry him a number of times and eventually she agreed! They were married on 3 October 1959, at Valerie’s family church, Christchurch in Hendon. By this time, Justin had qualified as a Chartered Accountant, and he commented later that October was an extremely popular month for accountants to get married: something to do with the tax laws at the time! They might have feared it being a blustery autumnal day, but in fact it was exceptionally and unseasonably warm. For decades later, he would share with the family reports from the Weather Correspondent of The Times, who, whenever there was a hot spell in October, would always refer back to 3 October 1959 as being the record to beat.

Justin’s working life as a Chartered Accountant was focused on auditing, and he developed a specialist interest in the Lloyd’s insurance market. He liked the excitement and sociability of the City, and of working with some of the colourful entrepreneurial characters that it generated. He had a number of senior financial roles and was almost certainly the provider of the quiet, considered voice of reason in board meetings. He was proud of and stimulated by his professional life, and in 2019, aged 86, he received a certificate from the Chartered Accountancy Institute, commemorating his 60 years of uninterrupted membership. Why would you resign from something you were proud of, he reasoned, just because you had retired at the age of 60?

After retiring, he was able to devote time to the other things that stimulated him and enriched his life. He and Valerie travelled widely, including to China (where he was deeply suspicious of the food), but he was probably most comfortable in his beloved Switzerland, with its spectacular mountains and lakes, impressively punctual rail service, and safe cooking.

He was an active member of their local church in St Albans, St Paul’s, and became an enthusiastic scholar of Scripture. He used to bring a copy of the Greek New Testament to church each week, but without the dust jacket, so as not to broadcast his erudition too widely.

He continued to enjoy completing the daily and fiendishly difficult Times weekend crossword puzzles until his last years and even sought out the highly specialist Latin crossword. And he always enjoyed the intellectual and social stimulation that his book club (originally founded by his own father in the 1920s) brought him.

Above all he loved his large family. Justin and Valerie had three children and nine grandchildren, and he was never happier than when he could spend time with them, either individually, or as a large chaotic group. He greatly appreciated keeping abreast of the busy lives of his grandchildren: diary entries for days when he had seen or spoken to one of them were always written in red pen, such was their importance to him. The family were all around to celebrate his 90th birthday with him in June 2023, and his death six months later brought great sadness to us all, but also a recognition of a long and very happy life.

TURNER, MAURICE JOHN

(1948 Natural Sciences), 25 September 2022

His son Steve Turner (1976) writes:

Maurice was born in Bridgwater, Somerset in 1930 and was the only child of Herbert and Frances, who owned and operated an insurance business founded by Herbert’s father. Maurice’s education began at St Margaret’s, Bridgwater and progressed through Queen’s Taunton to Clifton College before he came up to Caius in 1948.

He was only nine at the outbreak of the Second World War. Maurice was moved to tears visualising soldiers marching up and down the Bridgwater High Street. During his first term at Clifton, he was evacuated to a hotel in Bude. These events made a lasting impression on him.

Maurice was a very meek and gentle character, quite submissive and accommodating so it is most surprising that he resisted the pressure from his parents to continue the family insurance business. Instead, Maurice was determined to become a doctor, and what a good doctor he became. He really loved his work, and was thorough, enthusiastic, and dependable.

Cambridge gave him an excellent foundation in medical sciences. From there he went on to train at Barts Teaching Hospital, specialising in Radiology, the interpretation of X-ray images. For a few years he worked at the London Hospital and then became a consultant at the Torbay Hospital for a decade before returning to the London once more. He saw such tremendous technological changes throughout his career.

In the early days at Torquay, he would take a portable X-ray machine to patients’ homes to take X-rays, no doubt scattering X-rays all over the place! However, over the years he was forced to learn how to interpret ultrasound, CT scans, MRIs and generally embrace the digital age. This was a massive learning curve for him. I have always greatly admired the way he embraced all these new imaging methods with such determination and diligence.

During his Clifton years he attended a boys’ Christian camp where he made a commitment to fully embrace the Christian faith. From that moment, this faith became the bedrock of his life and strengthened the love, compassion, and generosity he so warmly extended to all who came to know him. At the boys’ camp he met a close lifelong friend, Alastair Lees (1948). Alastair and Maurice were both on their way up to Caius to study Medicine, so they agreed to share rooms together in Tree Court overlooking King’s Parade. Alastair had a younger sister called Helen, whom Maurice went on to marry in 1956. I was born in 1957 and my two sisters in 1960 and 1963 respectively.

Sadly, when Helen died in 2012, Maurice was at a loss and moved into a care home in Wallington, where he thrived for many years. We think he found it very like being back at boarding school and that he relished being institutionalised!

Sadly, during the Covid lockdown, we had to cancel the planned big celebration for his 90th birthday. Only a remnant ‘bubble’ of the family, bearing banners and waving balloons, were able to shout celebrations to Maurice as he forlornly sat in his wheelchair, imprisoned on the other side of his care home garden gate!

It is with great sadness that we said goodbye to a great man who touched the lives of many with his unassuming manner, generosity, kindness, and professionalism.

YOUNG, MARTIN GEORGE (1966 English), 10 May 2024

The following obituary by Anthony Hayward appeared in The Guardian on 27 May 2024

Martin Young, who has died aged 76, spent much of the 1970s as one of the reporters bringing lighthearted news to the screen in the BBC programme Nationwide. However, his greatest contribution to television journalism came through creating, with its producer, Peter Hill, the series Rough Justice, revealing legal miscarriages.

Young and Hill, who had worked together on reports for Panorama and Newsnight, were told by Tom Sargant, the secretary of the law reform group Justice, that he knew of at least 250 cases of false imprisonment caused by shortcomings in the police and justice system.

When the pair sought to have their programme commissioned by John Gau, the BBC’s head of news and current affairs, they were concerned that he might think this to be ‘trial by television’. Gleefully, Gau responded: 'No, no, this is retrial by television'.

They hit the ground running in 1982 with an investigation titled The Case of the Handful of Hair, about Mervyn ‘Jock’ Russell, convicted in 1977 of fatally stabbing a female art student who was found with a clump of her murderer’s grey hair in her hand.

By proving that it was not Russell’s, which was dark, as well as exposing other weaknesses in the prosecution case, they helped to secure his release from prison in 1983 – five years after a previous appeal had failed. A special programme the following year, Verdict Unsafe, chronicled his first few weeks of freedom following the quashed conviction.

Some of the proven miscarriages took longer to rectify. An appeal followed The Case of the Tortured Teenager (1983), about a mother falsely imprisoned for murdering her 14-year-old son, but it was unsuccessful. She was eventually released in 1989.

Young and Hill worked on the first three series of Rough Justice (1982-85). Audiences of up to 11 million watched, accolades were forthcoming – including Royal Television Society and Broadcasting Press Guild awards – and five people were released from prison.

But the BBC pulled the pair off the series following criticism by the Lord Chief Justice Lord Lane, following a 1985 episode titled The Case of the Perfect Proof, in which the

alleged victim of a burglary admitted that it had not taken place. 'I made it all up', said Anne Fitzpatrick.

Despite the programme leading to Anthony Mycock’s conviction being overturned by three Court of Appeal judges, Lane accused Young and Hill in court of 'outrageous' behaviour and 'investigation by menaces'. Hill told The Guardian: 'Martin and I knew Lane was after us because of our previous work on the programme'.

Despite concerns expressed in both Houses of Parliament about Lane’s forthright comments, the BBC’s managing director, Bill Cotton, hauled Young and Hill into his office, suspended them for three months and banned them from making investigative journalism programmes for two years. He said an internal BBC investigation accepted they had not threatened Fitzpatrick with exposing her as a lesbian, as she claimed, but it still believed 'unjustifiable threats' had been made. 'It ruined Martin’s career – unjustly', said Hill.

Young wrote in his 2015 memoir, Opposable Truths: 'Among our many misjudgements was that we thought we were the free press fighting the establishment, without realising that the BBC was itself very much part of the establishment'. Rough Justice itself carried on until 2007.

Born in Glasgow, Martin was the son of Margaret (née Boyd), a secretary, and George Young, a Glasgow Herald reporter. On leaving Dulwich College in south-east London, he studied English literature at Caius, where he performed with the Marlowe Society, of which he was president, and the Footlights comedy troupe.

After graduation in 1969, Young worked in the city’s Pye electronics factory on a police radio production line and then went to Border Television in Carlisle as a holiday relief researcher. In 1970 he joined its fellow ITV company Tyne Tees in Newcastle as a news reporter on Today at Six and eventually also presented the programme. He crossed the city to become a reporter on the BBC’s Look North in 1971.

On Nationwide in London (1973-78) he relished reporting on offbeat stories such as the Black Angels bikers of Sunderland, lauded locally for their charity work; a new trend for gold bathroom fittings – with film of him in a bath with a golden rubber duck; and a Yorkshire woman who claimed to have encountered the Cottingley fairies in 1917. For a journalist who was a budding actor at university, he was also thrilled about playing King of the Munchkins in the programme’s 1977 Wizard of Oz pantomime, alongside the Labour politician Denis Healey in the title role.

There was no frivolity when he switched to Tonight (1978-79) and, for its first year, Newsnight (1980). His exposés included proof of Ayatollah Khomeini’s forces bombing the Kurds in Iran (where he was briefly thrown into jail), the harm done by video cassette pirates and Peter Sutcliffe’s final murder.

He also made reports for Panorama (1980-85) and Everyman (1986-87) and a threepart series, Hanging Fire: The State of Israel (1981), looking at the conflicts at the heart of Israeli society.

Following the Rough Justice saga, Young was less high-profile and spent two years as presenter of The Education Programme (1987-89). He switched to radio to present the Midday News on LBC Newstalk (with Brian Widlake, 1990-92) and, particularly successfully, Who Goes There? (1995-2002), the BBC Radio 4 panel game about celebrities and historical characters. He was also a media trainer.

In 1971 Young married Susan Fowler. She and their children, Jonathan and Annabel, survive him.

The graduation of the ducks

THE COLLEGE ANNUAL RECORD

2023-24

The College Annual Record 2023–24

The Master and Fellows of the College (As on 30 September 2024)

Master

ROGERSON Philippa Jane MA PhD

Fellows

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ROBINSON Peter ScD (President)

PRICHARD Michael John MA LLB

McKENDRICK Neil MA

WOOD Michael Donald MA PhD CEng

PRYNNE Jeremy Halvard MA

KIRBY Anthony John MA PhD FRS

CASEY John Peter MA PhD

ROBSON John Gair ScD FRS

ALTHAM James Edward John MA PhD

GATRELL Valentine Arthur Charles MA PhD

LE PAGE Richard William Falla MA PhD

LIANG Wei Yao BSc PhD

HOLLOWAY Robin Greville MusD

EDWARDS Anthony William Fairbank ScD LittD FRS

BUTCHER Robert James MA PhD

ABULAFIA David Samuel Harvard LittD CBE FBA

SECHER David Stanley MA PhD [1974] (1980)

HERBERT Joseph MA PhD MB ChB

TANNER Edmund Vincent John MA PhD

JEFFERSON David Adamson MA PhD

PEDLEY Timothy John ScD FRS [1973] (1996)

SMITH Anthony Terry Hanmer LLD [1973] (1990)

WHALEY Joachim LittD FBA

FERSHT Sir Alan Roy MA PhD FRS FMedSci

WRIGHT Dominic Simon MA PhD

SMITH Malcolm Clive MA MPhil PhD FRCO FREng

SUMMERS David Keith MA DPhil

KHAW Kay-Tee MA MSc CBE FMedSci FRCP FFPH

BINSKI Paul MA PhD FBA [1983] (1996)

HARPER Elizabeth Mary MA PhD

1993 BRETT Annabel Sarah MA PhD [1992] (1996)

HOLBURN David Michael MA PhD

BUNYAN Anita MA PhD

1995

1996

1997

VINNICOMBE Glenn MA PhD

O’SHAUGHNESSY Kevin Michael ScD FRCP

EVANS Jonathan Mark MA PhD

MOLLON John Dixon DSc FRS

GIUSSANI Dino Antonio ScD FRCOG

CALARESU Melissa Tay MA PhD

HOLT Christine Elizabeth PhD CBE FRS FRMedSci

1999 SALE Julian Edward MA PhD MRCP

2000 ELLIS John MA PhD

QUEVEDO Fernando BSc PhD

2001 MANDLER Peter MA PhD FBA

OLIVER Alexander Duncan LittD [1993] (2004)

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2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2013

MILLER Robert John MEng DPhil

SMITH Ivan MA DPhil FRS

SCOTT-WARREN Jason Edward MA PhD

SIVASUNDARAM Sujit Pradin MA PhD FBA

FRASER James Alastair MA PhD

HAMMOND Carolyn John-Baptist MA DPhil

MOTT Helen Ruth MA DPhil

HUM Sir Christopher MA KCMG

BOWMAN Deborah Louise MA PhD

SCURR Ruth Ginette MA PhD FRSL

ROUTH Alexander Francis MA MEng PhD

HOUGHTON-WALKER Sarah MA PhD

RICHES David John MA PhD MB BS LRCP MRCS

ZEITLER Jochen Axel PhD

GALLAGHER Ferdia Aidan MA PhD FRCP FRCR

HENDERSON Ian Robert MA PhD

KEYSER Ulrich Felix PhD

McMAHON Laura Claire MA MPhil PhD

BUTTERY Paula Joy MA MPhil PhD

MILES Katherine Louise LLB PhD

LAUNARO Alessandro MA PhD

2015 BOND Andrew David MA PhD

LATIMER John Alexander MA MD FRCOG PGCME

2016 HANDLEY William James MA MSc PhD

2017 CHINNERY Patrick Francis ScD FRS FMedSci FRCP

2018

JONES Timothy Martin MEng PhD

RINGE Emilie PhD

YOTOVA Rumiana Vladimirova MJur LLM (Adv) PhD

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SUGDEN Rebecca Ann MA MPhil PhD

GARDINER Robert Geoffrey MA

GULLIFER Louise MA BCL KC(Hon) FBA

SPENCER Andrew Mark MPhil PhD

AMATT Maša MPhil PhD

MARTIN Matthew Richard MA

FARADAY Christina Juliet MA MPhil PhD

SCOTT Christopher Mark Geddes MA MPhil PhD

ELLEFSON Michelle MA PhD

STALEY Richard Anthony William PhD

SULOVSKY Vedran MA PhD

CHASAPIS TASSINIS Orfeas BM LLM PhD

TURTON Stephen Matthew MA PhD

SIMONCELLI Michele MSc PhD

STEINEBRUNNER Jan Paul MSc DPhil

MAGUIRE Geoffrey William MA MLitt PhD

SÁNCHEZ-RIVERA Rachell MA PhD

SCHULZ Carsten-Andreas MA MPhil DPhil

JOSEPH Michael Peter Ian MSc DPhil

HOSKING David MMathPhys DPhil

BAENA Victoria MA MPhil PhD

VELAZHAHAN Vaithish BS PhD

SMITH Lionel MA LLB LLM DPhil DCL

NIBLAEUS Erik Gunnar MA MPhil PhD

WAN Li BArch MPhil PhD

BASSO Franco Giuseppe Giacinto LAUREA LICENZA

MASSEY Dunecan Charles Osborne MA PhD MRCP

FRITZ Zoë MA PhD FRCP

VERGIS Fotis LLM PhD

CHAMBERS Lila MPhil PhD

IDAHOSA Grace MA DPhil

VAN NEERVEN Sanne MSc PhD

LARROULET PHILIPPI Cristian MA MSc

CHARMAILLE François·e Roland·e Valentin·e MA MPhil

DOCKER Andrew MChem DPhil

CROWLEY Edward MA PhD

LEFAS Demetrios MA MEng PhD

NICKL Richard MA MSc PhD

HAMBLETON James Paul MSc DPhil

VAN WYK DE VRIES Maximillian Samuel BSc PhD

BALL Karen BA MBA

Honorary Fellows

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BROERS OF CAMBRIDGE Lord (Alec Nigel) ScD HonScD FRS FREng

CAVE Terence Christopher MA PhD CBE FBA

CLARKE OF NOTTINGHAM Rt Hon The Lord (Kenneth) LLB CH PC KC

SKINNER Quentin Robert Duthie MA FBA

KENNEDY The Rt Hon Sir Paul Joseph Morrow LLB MA PC KC

POTTER The Rt Hon Sir Mark Howard MA PC KC

TUGENDHAT OF WIDDINGTON Rt Hon The Lord (Christopher Samuel)

MA LLD LittD Kt

LEHMAN Hon John Francis MA PhD

SIMON OF HIGHBURY Rt Hon The Lord (David) MA MBA Kt CBE

STIGLITZ Joseph Eugene MA PhD FRS

ZELLICK Graham John MA PhD LLD CBE KC

BEALE Sir Simon Russell MA CBE

HITCHIN Nigel James MA DPhil FRS

WERNER Wendelin PhD ForMemRS

TURNER OF ECCHINSWELL Rt Hon The Lord (Jonathan Adair) MA HonFRS

EVANS Sir Richard John LittD FBA FRHistS FRSL

MALCOLM Sir Noel MA PhD FBA FRSL

LEVITT Michael PhD FRS

RATCLIFFE Sir Peter MA MD FRS FMedSci

YOUNG Sir William LLB PhD KNZM KC

ELSTEIN David MA

DAMAZER Mark MA CBE

CLARKE The Rt Hon Sir Christopher Simon Courtnay Stephenson MA PC KC

VOS The Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Charles MA PC KC

FAIRBAIRN Dame Carolyn Julie MA MBA DBE

KOSTERLITZ Michael MA DPhil

DEANE Julie MA CBE

LANGAN Christine MA

KNOX Timothy Aidan John BA FSA

HUNTER Tony PhD FRS

McMICHAEL Sir Andrew James MA FRS FMedSci

JAMES Harold MA PhD

REYNOLDS David MA PhD FBA

DIFFIE Whitfield BAS ForMemRS

Emeritus Fellows

2000

2002

2006

PORTEOUS John MA OBE

BLIGH Thomas Percival PhD

PHILLIPSON David Walter LittD FSA FBA

BURROW Colin John MA DPhil FBA

2007

2009

2016

2018

2021

2022

HEDLEY Barry Davis MA MBA

HERD Ian Robert MA

BROWN Morris Jonathan MA MD FRCP

LYON Patricia Anne MA PhD

SMITH Richard John ScD FBA

TROTTER Wilfred David MA PhD FBA

TITMUS Graham BSc PhD

SCHERPE Jens Martin MA MJur PhD

Gonville Fellow Benefactors

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Bye-Fellows

2012

2016

2021

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2024

CAVONIUS Rita Catherine Euerle BA

HAINES Ann Winfield Sterling

BAILEY Shirley Rose

SALLNOW-SMITH Nicholas Robert MA

SALLNOW-SMITH Lora Luke MBA

CHENG Alice Yung Tsung GBS HonDBA

EVANS Richard Christopher Sydney MA

EVANS Lydia MA

CHEAH Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Jeffrey Hon KBE HonAO

LUI Yvonne Lai Kwan BSc PhD

SAUNDERS John Barrington MA MB MD FRACP FRCP

CARTER Hugh Harold John MA MBA MPhil PhD

SILKSTONE Teresa MA PGCE

GRABOWSKI Andrew MA FCA

GRABOWSKA Karen

NOGALES Miguel MA

O’CONNELL Anna

JAGGER Simon Luke MMath FIA

BLUMENFELD Raphael BSc MSc PhD

DIMSON Elroy MCom PhD FRHistS HonFIA HonFSIP

HAWKES Jason MA PhD FSA

MAHADEVEGOWDA Amoghavarsha DPhil

MOORE Russell MA PhD

EMERSON Guy Edward Toh MA MEng PhD

BIGINAGWA Thomas MA PhD

CHATTERJI Monojit MA PhD

DRAGE Eleanor PhD

CONDUIT Gareth John MA MSci PhD

THISTLEWAITE Nicholas John MA PhD FSA

Teaching Associates:

Dr Derek Barns (Physics)

Dr Suzanna Forwood (Neurobiology)

Dr Charlotte Houldcroft (Psychology)

Dr Ryan Ng (Economics)

Dr Arun Pandurangan (Biology)

Ms Katharine Radice (Classics)

Dr Johanna Rees (Medicine)

Dr Susanne Schulze (Physical Chemistry)

Dr Emre Usenmez (Economics)

Postdoctoral Research Associates:

Dr Sam Brooks Manufacturing Cyber-Physical Systems

Dr Robin Burns Plant Evolution and Genomics

Dr Hudson Coates Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Dr Iman Dawood Politics (with Sociology & Religion)

Dr Maria-Eleni Dounavi Neuroimaging

Dr Michael Ishida Engineering (Robotics)

Dr Laraib Niaz Education

Dr Camille Westmont Archaeology (Heritage Studies)

New Fellows, Bye-Fellows, Lectors and Teaching Associates 2022-23

Dr Sanne van Neerven (Research Fellow)

Sanne is a molecular biologist, studying the competition between normal and cancer cells during the earliest stages of colorectal cancer development. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in biomedical sciences at the University of Amsterdam and earned her Master’s degree in Oncology at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. During her PhD at the Amsterdam University Medical Centers, she and her team discovered a completely new mechanism in the intestine, supercompetition , by which cancer cells disadvantage their normal neighbours. She demonstrated that inhibiting this ‘unfair’ competition could prevent cancer initiation, a finding that is currently being explored in a clinical trial. For her PhD work, Sanne has received the International Birnstiel award in 2021, the Women in Science Rising Talent award in 2022, and the Best Thesis award of the Cancer Center Amsterdam in 2023. Currently, Sanne is a Research Associate at the Gurdon Institute where she will continue her work on cell competition. Her ultimate goal is to understand and prevent the onset of hereditary cancers. In her free time, Sanne enjoys cooking, running, cycling, and collecting insects. Sanne joins Caius as a Research Fellow.

Mr Cristian Larroulet Philippi (Research Fellow)

Cristian is currently finishing his PhD in History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge. Previously, he studied Economics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and worked as a developmental economist in Chile and in India, before taking a Masters in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences at the London School of Economics. Cristian has broad interests in the history and philosophy of science, but he has mostly worked on the role of values in science, methods for causal inference, and more recently on the challenges around measurement in the social sciences. His research project is on the possibility of quantitative measurement in the social sciences. He joins Caius as a Research Fellow.

Dr François·e Charmaille (Research Fellow)

Fran studied for their BA at Robinson College, Cambridge before moving to Christ’s College, Cambridge for their MPhil and PhD. They are a medievalist whose research takes place where trans studies meet critical theory along with cultural, intellectual, and scientific history. At this dense intersection, Fran’s work focuses on the ways disciplines of knowledge shaped understandings of gender in medieval Western Europe. They are currently at work on two projects: one on gender’s relation to grammar, the second on gender and climate science. They join Caius as a Research Fellow.

Dr Andrew Docker (Research Fellow)

Andrew read chemistry at Christ Church, Oxford and remained there to obtain his DPhil in Inorganic Chemistry. His research principally concerns Supramolecular Chemistry, exploring the fundamental nature of intermolecular interactions which underpin molecular association processes. Specifically, he is interested in a class of interactions which appear unknown to biological systems and their potential application in molecular recognition, organocatalysis and pharmaceuticals design. Outside of the laboratory Andrew enjoys tennis, squash and badminton. He joins Caius as a Research Fellow.

Dr Edward Crowley (Supernumerary Fellow)

Edward (Ned) is a political and economic sociologist with a special interest in public finance. He completed a PhD in Sociology at New York University, with a thesis on contemporary fiscal politics in the United States, including the sources of conflict in the federal budgeting process and the consequences of fiscal austerity. His current research studies local government decarbonisation efforts across the United Kingdom, especially as to uneven distribution of resources and capacities available for local net zero projects. In other work, he has written on housing policy and the housing justice movement in New York City. Ned joins Caius as College Lecturer in Human, Social and Political Sciences (HSPS).

Dr Demetrios Lefas (Supernumerary Fellow)

Demetrios is an engineer who works on tackling the aeroelastic instabilities that hamper the development of future jet engines. He is a graduate of Gonville & Caius College having completed his MA, MEng and PhD in Engineering at the University of Cambridge. For the past two years, immediately following his PhD, he has been

an EPSRC and Rolls-Royce Research Fellow before recently being awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship to start his own research group. Demetrios conducts research that lies at the interface between aerodynamics and mechanical vibrations, aiming to understand the driving mechanisms behind the aeroelastic instabilities that currently limit jet engine design. This is a critical step towards developing new technology at the pace required for a net-zero carbon transition, while keeping flying accessible to all. Demetrios joins Caius as a Fellow and College Lecturer in Engineering.

Professor Richard Nickl (Supernumerary Fellow)

Richard is a Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. His research concerns high dimensional statistical theory, Bayesian analysis, probability theory and partial differential equations. He is originally from Vienna, Austria, where he completed his studies in Mathematics and Philosophy, as well as his PhD, in 2005. Besides mathematics, Richard’s interests include the music of Mozart and the writings of Thomas Bernhard. He joins Caius as a Fellow and College Lecturer in Mathematics.

Dr James Hambleton (Supernumerary Fellow)

James (Jim) Hambleton grew up in rural Wisconsin, USA and completed three degrees (BCE, MS, and PhD) in Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Between his undergraduate and postgraduate studies, he completed an internship at Barr Engineering Company in Minneapolis. After receiving his PhD in 2010, he joined the University of Newcastle, Australia, first as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and then as a Research Academic. In 2016, he returned to the United States, where he was Assistant Professor and later Louis Berger Junior Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He is joining the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge as Associate Professor in Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. He has broad interests in mechanics, especially in plasticity, and much of his work is dedicated to the emerging area of soil-machine interaction. He is increasingly interested in construction robotics and computerisation/automation in architecture, engineering, and construction. Jim joins Caius as Fellow, College Lecturer and Director of Studies in Engineering.

Dr Maximillian Van Wyk de Vries (Supernumerary Fellow)

Max is an Assistant Professor in Natural Hazards in the departments of Geography and Earth Sciences, and Head of the Cambridge Complex and Multihazard research group (CoMHaz). He works broadly on multihazard, in particular focusing on landslides, volcanoes, cryospheric hazards, and the interactions between these. He has wide ranging research interests, in particular integrating remote sensing, numerical modelling, and fieldwork to understand the interactions between multiple hazards. Max has previously worked as a Senior Research Associate at the University of Oxford understanding landslide risk in Nepal, and earned his PhD from the University of Minnesota (USA) working on glacier change and associated hazards in Patagonia, Ecuador, and the Himalayas. As an undergraduate student at the Universities of Edinburgh (Scotland) and British Columbia (Canada), he discovered close to 100 subglacial volcanoes beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. Max joins Caius as a Fellow and College Lecturer in Geography.

Karen Ball (Supernumerary Fellow)

Karen is the College’s Domestic Bursar and she is responsible for all the non-academic operational teams in the College (Accommodation, Catering, Conferencing, Estates, Housekeeping, IT, Maintenance and Porters). She has been at Caius since March 2023. Karen previously had roles as Operations Director of large academic faculties at the Universities of Sheffield and Exeter. She has also worked in operational and project management roles in Financial Services and Local Government. Karen has a BA (Honours) in Politics from the University of Hull and an MBA from the Open University. When not working Karen enjoys walking, especially the SW Coast Path, theatre, cinema and reading. Karen joins as a Fellow from Easter Term 2024.

Dr Thomas Biginagwa (Bye-Fellow)

Thomas is currently employed at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. He is a historical archaeologist with training in zooarchaeology, the analysis of animal bones from archaeological sites. His PhD from the University of York (2012) examined animal economies practised by local communities in the context of nineteenth-century ivory and slave caravan trade expansion in north-eastern Tanzania. He extended this research topic to the southern caravan route for his postdoctoral research (2013–2016), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. In 2018, Thomas secured a research grant from the National Geographic

Society to examine the cross-cultural influence of Ngoni immigrants from South Africa in their contact with local ethnic groups in southern Tanzania during the nineteenth century. His current research, which brought him to Cambridge, uncovers the ecological footprints of diverse human activities in the Western Serengeti ecosystem over the last 500 years. He aims to inform present and future conservation policies on sustainable use of natural resources in protected areas and project future drivers of human-environmental-ecosystem interactions and biocultural-based sources of resilience. He loves watching football while sipping his red wine! Thomas joins as a Bye-Fellow for Scholars from the Global South.

Professor Monojit Chatterji (Bye-Fellow)

Monojit graduated with First Class Honours from Christ’s. He has taught at leading universities in the UK, the USA, Australia, India and Mexico. His main research interest is on public sector pay and he has served as an appointed Policy Adviser on a number of Public Sector Pay Review Bodies. Currently he is the Economist member of the Police Remuneration Review Body which reports to the Home Secretary. His main teaching interest focuses on introductory economics from a higher standpoint, and he has just published a book on the subject. Monojit joins as a Bye-Fellow and Tutor.

Dr Eleanor Drage (Bye-Fellow)

Eleanor is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. She received her PhD at the Universities of Bologna and Granada in women’s science fiction and critical theory. At Cambridge, she is CO-I on the Desirable Digitalisations project and PI on the Ammagamma project, an AI ethics and regulation project that helps companies respond to the EU AI act. She uses feminist and anti-racist ideas to improve society’s understanding of AI, focusing on high-risk technologies like recruitment and policing tools. She is the co-host of The Good Robot Podcast, where she interviews top scholars and technologists about AI ethics, and is a TikToker for Carole Cadwalladr’s All The Citizens data rights channel. She is the author of An Experience of the Impossible: The Planetary Humanism of European Women’s Science Fiction (Oct 2023), and co-editor of The Good Robot: Feminist Voices on the Future of Technology (Feb 2024) and Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data and Intelligent Machines (Oct 2023). Eleanor joins as a Bye-Fellow and Tutor.

New Visiting Scholars for were:

Professor Andrew Irvine (Michaelmas Term)

Often cited for his work on the twentieth-century Cambridge philosopher Bertrand Russell, Andrew has written about issues in logic and mathematics, about ancient Greek philosophy, and about the origins of the rule of law. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from Sydney University and is a Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus. He has served as vice-chair of the UBC Board of Governors, as head of the Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, and as president of the BC Civil Liberties Association. His academic work has been translated into French, Spanish, Greek and Italian, and his play, Socrates on Trial, has been performed internationally.

Dr Jit Ern Chen 16 February to 13 March 2024

Jeffrey Cheah Scholar in Residence

Gonville & Caius College Court of Benefactors

+ Denotes new Members of the Court of Benefactors

The John Caius Guild

Mrs R C E Cavonius (2004)

Mrs S R Bailey (2009)

Mrs A W S Haines (2009)

Dr A Cheng (2013)

Gonville Fellow Benefactors

Professor J B Saunders (1967)

Mr N R Sallnow-Smith (1969)

Dr H H J Carter (1971)

Mr R C S Evans (1978)

Mr A B Grabowski (1978)

Mr S L Jagger (1987)

Mr M R Nogales (1993)

Mrs R C E Cavonius (2004)

Mrs S R Bailey (2009)

Founders

Mr J D Heap (1954)

The Rt Hon The Lord Tugendhat of Widdington (1957)

Mr J R Kelly (1958)

The Rt Hon The Lord Simon of Highbury (1958)

Sir Keith Stuart (1958)

Mr M B Maunsell (1960)

Professor P S Walker (1960)

Mr C E Ackroyd (1961)

Mr D K Elstein (1961)

Professor Sir Alan Fersht (1962)

Dr R N F Simpson (1962)

Tan Sri Dr J Cheah (2014)

Dr Y L K Lui

Mrs A W S Haines (2009)

Mrs L W S Sallnow-Smith (2012)

Dr A Cheng (2013)

Tan Sri Dr J Cheah (2014)

Mrs L K Evans (2014)

Ms T Silkstone (2016)

Mrs K Grabowska

Dr Y L K Lui

Ms A O’Connell

Mr R G Williams (1962)

Mr J D Wertheim (1963)

Mr D P H Burgess (1964)

Mr A C Butler (1965)

The Rt Hon Sir Christopher Clarke (1965)

The Hon Dr J F Lehman (1965)

Dr P J Marriott (1965)

Mr A M Peck (1967)

Dr G W Hills (1968)

Mr D R Hulbert (1969)

Mr A N Papathomas (1969)

Mr P J M Redfern (1969)

Mr I Taylor (1969)

Mr D R Barrett (1972)

Mr P B Kerr-Dineen (1972)

Mr P C English (1973)

Mr A W M Reicher (1973)

Mr J Sunderland (1973)

Mr W S H Laidlaw (1974)

Mr D M Mabb (1975)

Mr N G Blanshard (1976)

Mr N S K Booker (1976)

Dr S J Morris (1976)

Mr S T Bax (1977)

Mr K F Haviland (1977)

Mr M J Cosans (1978)

Mr N C Birch (1979)

Mr H M Cobbold (1983)

Mr A Rzym (1983)

Mr C H Umur (1983)

Dr S E Chua (1984)

Mrs N J Cobbold (1984)

Mr P G J S Helson (1985)

Mr A J Landes (1985)

Mr W P L Lawes (1985)

Mr W D L M Vereker (1985)

Mr & Mrs R C Wilson (1985)

Mr R Y-H Leung (1986)

Mr J J M Bailey (1987)

Mr J P Barabino (1987)

Mr O R M Bolitho (1987)

Patrons of the Court of Benefactors

Mr A G Beaumont (1949)

Mr M J Harrap (1949)

Mr J O’Hea (1954)

Dr P J Noble (1955)

Mr H de V Welchman (1956)

Mr J A Brooks (1959)

Dr A T Ractliffe (1960)

Professor R J Nicholls (1961)

Mr D J Bell (1962)

Mr G A Shindler (1962)

Mr J D Sword (1962)

Mrs M M J Lewis (1987)

Mr T J Parsonson (1987)

Mrs L Umur (1988)

Mr S G P de Heinrich (1990)

Mr J D Hall (1990)

Dr M H M Syn (1990)

Ms J Z Z Hu (1992)

Mr J D H Arnold (1993)

Mr C E G Hogbin (1993)

Mr P A J Phillips (1994)

Ms S S-Y Cheung (1995)

Mr P S Rhodes (1996)

Mr C T K Myers (2002)

Mr J H Hill (2009)

Mr R T C Chenevix-Trench

Dr C Cheng

The Rt Hon The Lord & Lady Choudrey

Mr L C L Ma

Mr & Mrs J Emberson

Mrs M W Gray

Mrs J C Hagelberg

Mr C C Wen

Mrs H E M Young

Mr S M Zinser

Michael Miliffe Memorial Scholarship Fund Tancred’s Charities

Mr D B Newlove (1963)

Mr D J Walker (1963)

Mr B D Hedley (1964)

Sir Anthony Habgood (1965)

Mr J D Battye (1966)

Mr P S Elliston (1966)

Mr M N Fisher (1966)

Mr P V Morris (1966)

Mr D J Laird (1968)

Mr E Robinson (1968)

Mr P J E Smith (1968)

Mr R G McGowan (1969)

Mr P B Vos (1969)

Mr J S Robinson (1970)

Mr S Brearley (1971)

Mr J A Duval (1971)

Mr S N Bunzl (1972)

Mr P J Farmer (1972)

Mr B B W Glass (1972)

Mr R S Handley (1972)

Mr S J Roberts (1972)

Mr H B Trust (1973)

Mr N R Gamble (1975)

Mr M W Friend (1976)

Mr D C S Oosthuizen (1976)

Dr R H Poddubiuk (1976)

Mr I M Radford (1977)

Professor T A Ring (1977)

Mr P R M Kavanagh (1978)

Dr M E Lowth (1979)

Mr D L Melvin (1979)

Mr N J Tregear (1979)

Mr S R Coxford (1980)

Mr S J Lowth (1980)

Mr J H Pitman (1980)

Mr N J Farr (1981)

Mr P W Langslow (1981)

+ Mr P S Gordon (1982)

Mr W A C Hayward (1983)

Mr C Loong (1983)

Mr J W Graham (1984)

Members

Mr J B Booth (1948)

Mr D C Mayer (1948)

Mr M Buckley Sharp (1950)

Mr W L J Fenley (1951)

Professor M J Whelan (1951)

Professor J E Banatvala (1952)

Professor M V Riley (1952)

Dr D H Keeling (1953)

Mr D R Amlot (1954)

Mr D I Cook (1954)

Professor P Rogerson (1986)

Mr A W Lockhart (1987)

Dr I M Billington (1988)

Professor M J Brown (1989)

Mr N J C Robinson (1989)

Mr S C Ruparell (1989)

Mr A M P Russell (1989)

Ms V N M Chan (1990)

Dr P A Key (1990)

Mr G C Li (1990)

Professor K-T Khaw (1991)

Mr L K Yim (1992)

Mr S S Gill (1994)

+ Dr P A Cunningham (1995)

Mr L T L Lewis (1997)

Ms S Gnanalingam (1999)

Dr P A Lyon (2001)

Mr C D Aylard (2002)

Dr A C Ho (2002)

Dr E F Aylard (2004)

Mrs A F Crampin

Mr J Frieda

Ms M Y Han

Dr & Mrs H Malem

Mr E W S Mok

Dr P Monck Hill

Mr S Nackvi

Mr T C F B Sligo-Young

Mr D H Thomas

Ms A Yonemura

Professor N J Gross (1954)

Mr J S Kirkham (1954)

Sir Gilbert Roberts Bt (1954)

Mr A A R Cobbold (1955)

The Rt Hon Sir Paul Kennedy (1955)

Mr A B Richards (1955)

Dr J P Cullen (1956)

Mr M L Holman (1956)

Mr A A Umur (1956)

Mr E J Dickens (1957)

Professor A J McClean (1957)

Mr M F Neale (1957)

The Rt Hon Sir Mark Potter (1957)

Professor J O Hunter (1958)

Mr R D Martin (1958)

Mr N McKendrick (1958)

Professor C S A Ng (1958)

Dr F D Skidmore (1958)

Mr A J Taunton (1958)

Dr A G Dewey (1959)

Mr B Drewitt (1959)

Mr G S H Smeed (1959)

Dr A G Weeds (1959)

Dr M D Wood (1959)

Dr P M Keir (1960)

Dr P Martin (1960)

Dr B M Shaffer (1960)

Mr H J M Tompkins (1960)

Mr R D S Wylie (1960)

Sir Marcus Setchell (1961)

Dr M P Wasse (1961)

Dr J S Beale (1962)

Mr J R Campbell (1962)

Dr D Carr (1962)

Mr A D Harris (1962)

Professor A R Hunter (1962)

Mr A J C Lodge (1962)

Mr H N Whitfield (1962)

Dr T G Blaney (1963)

Mr P M G B Grimaldi (1963)

Mr N K Halliday (1963)

Professor W Y Liang (1963)

Dr J Striesow (1963)

Dr T Laub (1964)

Mr A K Nigam (1964)

Dr T B Wallington (1964)

Mr I R Woolfe (1964)

Dr J E J Altham (1965)

Professor L G Arnold (1965)

Mr G B Cooper (1965)

Mr J H Finnigan (1965)

Mr K E Jones (1965)

Dr M J Maguire (1965)

Dr P D Rice (1965)

Professor D Birnbacher (1966)

Mr J W Clark-Lowes (1966)

Mr C R Deacon (1966)

Mr D F White (1966)

Dr A Eilon (1967)

Professor R G Holloway (1967)

Mr J R Jones (1967)

Mr T W Morton (1967)

Mr N P Quinn (1967)

The Rt Hon The Lord Goldsmith

PC KC (1968)

Mr M E Perry (1968)

Dr M W Eaton (1969)

Mr R J Field (1969)

Dr C J Hardwick (1969)

Mr M J Hughes (1969)

Mr J M Wilkinson (1969)

Mr D A Wilson (1969)

Mr L P Foulds (1970)

Mr J M Harland (1970)

Mr G P Jones (1970)

Mr B S Missenden (1970)

Mr W R Roberts (1970)

Dr R D S Sanderson (1970)

Dr J P Arm (1971)

Mr M S Arthur (1971)

Mr J-L M Evans (1971)

Mr N D Peace (1971)

Mr R M Richards (1971)

Mr M H Armour (1972)

Mr S M B Blasdale (1972)

Mr C G Davies (1972)

Mr W J Furber (1972)

Mr R H Gleed (1972)

Dr M J F Humphries (1972)

Mr D J Nicholls (1972)

Mr A B Brentnall (1973)

Mr J S Nangle (1973)

Mr C P Stoate (1973)

The Rt Hon the Lord Justice

Vos (1973)

Mr M A Binks (1974)

Mr H J Chase (1974)

Dr C E Covell (1974)

Professor J H Davies (1974)

Mr J C Evans (1974)

Mr P G Hearne (1974)

Professor D S Secher (1974)

Mr C Vigrass (1974)

Mr S T Weeks (1974)

Mr S L Barter (1975)

Mr C J A Beattie (1975)

Mr P S Belsman (1975)

Sir Anthony CookeYarborough Bt (1975)

Mr J M Davies (1975)

Mr L G D Marr (1975)

Mr F N Marshall (1975)

R J Davis (1976)

Dr C Ma (1976)

Mr S J Roith (1976)

The Rt Hon N K A S Vaz (1976)

Professor O H Warnock (1976)

Mr A R D Gowers (1977)

Dr M S Irani (1977)

Mr H N Neal (1977)

Dr R P Owens (1977)

Dr G S Sachs (1977)

Mr M J Wilson (1977)

Mr H M Baker (1978)

Mr C J Carter (1978)

Mr J M Charlton-Jones (1978)

Mr T J Fellig (1978)

Mr P N Gibson (1978)

Dr M G Archer (1979)

Mr G T P Brennan (1979)

Dr P J Carter (1979)

Mr N G Dodd (1979)

Mr S R Fox (1979)

Mr N C I Harding (1979)

Dr K C Saw (1979)

Mr C P Aldren (1980)

Mr A M Ballheimer (1980)

Dr S L Grassie (1980)

Mr R H Hopkin (1980)

Mr A N Norwood (1980)

Mr R L Tray (1980)

Mr A J L Burford (1981)

Dr W H Chong (1981)

Dr D J Danziger (1981)

Mr R H M Horner (1981)

Mr R A Warne (1981)

Dr E A Warren (1981)

Dr J N Nicholls (1982)

The Rt Hon Professor The Lord Roberts of Belgravia (1982)

Mr A A Shah (1982)

Mrs E I C Strasburger (1982)

Mr G-H Chua (1983)

Mr A L Evans (1983)

Mr S A Kirkpatrick (1983)

+ Mr J A Plumley (1983)

Mr R A Brooks (1984)

+ Mr G C R Budden (1984)

Mr G C Maddock (1984)

Mr W I Barter (1985)

Mr A H Davison (1985)

Dr J J N Nabarro (1985)

Ms S L Porter (1985)

Mr T M S Rowan (1985)

Dr G P Smith (1985)

Mr M J J Veselý (1985)

Mr M T Cartmell (1986)

Mr R Chau (1987)

Mr C A Levy (1987)

Mr J Porteous (1987)

Dr T P Bligh (1988)

Mr N D Evans (1988)

Dr O S Khwaja (1988)

Mr M J Rawlins (1988)

Mr A E Wellenreiter (1988)

Mr T E Keim (1989)

Mr J R Kirkwood (1989)

Mr A S Uppal (1989)

Mr M H Chalfen (1990)

Mrs S V Dyson (1990)

Dr A D Henderson (1990)

Mr I D Henderson (1990)

Mr R D Hill (1990)

Dr S H O F Korbei (1990)

Ms A Y C Lim (1990)

Mr G O’Brien (1990)

Mr S T Oestmann (1990)

Professor M C Smith (1990)

Mr H K Suniara (1990)

Mr K L Wong (1990)

Dr J P Kaiser (1991)

Ms J R M Burton (1992)

Mr W Li (1992)

Mr J Lui (1992)

Mr A K A Malde (1992)

Mr R O Vinall (1992)

Dr A S Everington (1993)

Mr & Mrs T J A Worden (1993)

Dr T C Fardon (1994)

Dr M J P Selby (1994)

Professor P Sharma (1994)

Dr S L Dyson (1995)

Mr S S Thapa (1995)

Mr K W-C Chan (1996)

Professor J D Mollon (1996)

Mr D J Tait (1996)

Mr A J Bower (1997)

Mr I Dorrington (1997)

Dr E J Fardon (1997)

Mr R R Gradwell (1997)

Ms R N Page (1997)

Ms E D Sarma (1997)

Mr J N Bateman (1998)

Dr V N Bateman (1998)

Mr H M Heuzenroeder (1998)

Mr D T Bell (1999)

Mr J D Coley (1999)

Associate Members

Dr F C Rutter (1945)

Mr T Garrett (1948)

Mr G D C Preston (1950)

Mr D A Skitt (1950)

Miss L M Devlin (1999)

Mr A Fiascaris (1999)

Mr A M Ribbans (1999)

Dr A C Sinclair (1999)

Dr C D F Zrenner (1999)

Mr J A P Thimont (2000)

Mr O A Homsy (2001)

Mr M J Le Moignan (2004)

Mr J M Hunter (2005)

Mrs T D Heuzenroeder (2006)

Dr S X Pfister (2007)

Dr T J Pfister (2007)

Mr J R Howell (2009)

Mr J F Johnson (2009)

Mr J J L Mok (2016)

Professor J V Acrivos

Professor M Alexiou

Ms N Bell

Mr P E Fletcher

Dr M C Gibberd

Mrs R K Gray

Mrs E A Hogbin

Dr M K Hsin

Ms Y Kim

Mr C K K H Kuok

Mr J M & Mrs E M Lester

Mr D K S Lum & Ms M M W Chua + Mrs K E Plumley

Mr R Sills

Mr D A Smith

Mrs A J Walker

Basil Samuel Charitable Trust

Linklaters LLP

Redington

Sir Simon Milton Foundation

Dr A Brockman (1951)

Mr S H Cooke (1951)

Mr M H Lemon (1951)

Mr P S E Mettyear (1951)

Mr P E Walsh (1951)

Sir Graeme Odgers (1952)

Mr D H O Owen (1953)

Mr E C O Owen (1953)

Mr J Anton-Smith (1954)

Mr D J Boyd (1954)

Dr A E Gent (1954)

Mr R W Montgomery (1954)

Mr K Taskent (1954)

Mr J A Brooks (1955)

Dr M Cannon (1955)

Dr R A Durance (1955)

+ Professor R E W Halliwell (1955)

Dr R Cockel (1956)

Professor G H Elder (1956)

Mr A J Peck (1956)

Mr A B Adarkar (1957)

Dr J P Charlesworth (1957)

Mr M L Davies (1957)

Dr T W Davies (1957)

His Honour Michael Kennedy KC (1957)

Mr C B Melluish (1957)

Mr R D Perry (1957)

Mr O N Tubbs (1957)

+ Dr A Wright (1957)

Mr T J Brack (1958)

Mr A W Fuller (1958)

Mr D M Henderson (1958)

Mr C P McKay (1958)

Mr A D Chilvers (1959)

Mr H R G Conway (1959)

The Revd T C Duff (1959)

Mr C J Methven (1959)

Professor P Tyrer (1959)

His Honour P R Cowell (1960)

Mr J J Hill (1960)

Dr J D Powell-Jackson (1960)

Mr J A G Fiddes (1961)

Mr A G Munro (1961)

Mr D C W Stonley (1961)

Mr J M Bewick (1962)

Mr P D Coopman (1962)

Mr M Emmott (1962)

Dr C A Hammant (1962)

Mr M J Starks (1962)

Mr F R G Trew (1962)

Dr P J Adams (1963)

Mr M S Kerr (1963)

Mr D A Lockhart (1963)

Mr J d’A Maycock (1963)

Mr J M Pulman (1963)

Professor D J Taylor (1963)

Mr G E Churcher (1964)

Dr R J Greenwood (1964)

Mr S J Mawer (1964)

Dr W T Prince (1964)

Mr D E Butler (1965)

Dr I G Kidson (1965)

Mr J R H Kitching (1965)

Mr T Mullett (1965)

Mr R N Rowe (1965)

Dr K R Daniels (1966)

Mr J R Escott (1966)

Mr D R Harrison (1966)

Mr G G Luffrum (1966)

Mr S Poster (1966)

Mr N E Suess (1966)

Mr J F Wardle (1966)

Mr S M Whitehead (1966)

Dr M C Frazer (1967)

Mr R J Lasko (1967) +

Dr I D Lindsay (1967)

Dr D H O Lloyd (1968)

Professor J I McGuire (1968)

Mr I F Peterkin (1968)

Dr T G Powell (1968)

Mr C Walker (1968)

Dr D P Walker (1968)

Mr A C Brown (1969)

Dr M K Davies (1969)

Mr R B Andreas (1970)

Mr G J H Cliff (1970)

Mr R P Cliff (1970)

Professor D J Reynolds (1970)

Mr J A K Clark (1971)

Dr R C A Collinson (1971)

Mr L N Moss (1971)

Mr P A Thimont (1971)

Mr A H M Thompson (1971)

Mr I J Buswell (1972)

Dr D R Mason (1972)

Mr P R Beverley (1973)

Mr S P Crooks (1973)

Mr R Fox (1973)

Professor T J Pedley (1973)

Mr M D Damazer (1974)

Dr A G Dewhurst (1974)

Mr R J Evans (1974)

Dr J S Golob (1974)

Mr A H Silverman (1974)

Mr W C Strawhorne (1974)

The Rt Hon The Lord Turner of Ecchinswell (1974)

+ Mr D A L Burn (1975)

Dr R G Mayne (1975)

Mr D J G Reilly (1975)

Mr P J Roberts (1975)

Mr J J J Bates (1976)

Mr L G Brew (1976)

Dr K F Gradwell (1976)

Dr A C J Hutchesson (1976)

+ Mr I D D Stimpson (1976)

Mr P C Tagari (1976)

Mr S Thomson (1976)

Mr J P Treasure (1976)

Mr R M House (1977)

Mr K A Mathieson (1977)

Mr D J White (1977)

Dr T G Blease (1978)

Dr P G Dommett (1978)

Mr A D Halls (1978)

Mr M H Pottinger (1978)

+ Dr P Venkatesan (1978)

Mr D W Wood (1978)

+ Mr A J Birkbeck (1979)

Mr W D Crokin (1979)

Professor Sir Jonathan Montgomery (1980)

The Rt Hon The Lord Rockley (1980)

Dr C Turfus (1980)

Dr M Mishra (1981)

Mrs M Robinson (1981)

+ Dr R M Roope (1981)

Mrs D C Saunders (1981)

Mr T Saunders (1981)

Mr K J Taylor (1981)

Ms A M Tully (1981)

Mr A R Flitcroft (1982)

Ms E F Mandelstam (1982)

Mrs R E Penfound (1982)

Ms M K Reece (1982)

Mrs K R M Castelino (1983)

The Rt Hon Sir Timothy Fancourt (1983)

Mr P E J Fellows (1983)

Dr S F J Wright (1983)

Dr W P Goddard (1983)

Mr J F S Learmonth (1983)

Mr R H Moore (1983)

+ Mr R M Payn (1983)

Mr A E Bailey (1984)

Dr S Ip (1984)

Dr J R B Leventhorpe (1984)

Mr A D H Marshall (1984)

Mr J R Pollock (1984)

Mr G K Beggerow (1985)

Mr K J Fitch (1985)

Ms P Hayward (1985)

Ms J A Scrine (1985)

Dr A M Shaw (1985)

Dr P M Slade (1985)

Dr I B Y Wong (1985)

Dr E F Worthington (1985)

Ms R Aris (1986)

Mr A J F Cox (1986)

Mr & Mrs J W Stuart (1986)

Dr G M Grant (1987)

Dr G M Gribbin (1987)

Ms C M Harper (1987)

+ Mr L M Mair (1987)

Dr W P Ridsdill Smith (1987)

Dr J Sarma (1987)

Mr H A Briggs (1988)

+ Mr N P Dougherty (1988)

Ms T W Y Tang (1988)

Ms J B W Wong (1988)

Dr F J L Wuytack (1988)

Mr S M S A Hossain (1989)

Mr G W Jones (1989)

Mr J P Kennedy (1989)

Mr T Lim (1989)

+ Mr B J McGrath (1989)

Ms J H Myers (1989)

Dr S L Rahman Haley (1989)

Mr P E Day (1990)

Dr C C Hayhurst (1990)

Mr T Moody-Stuart (1990)

Mr P C Sheppard (1990)

Mr J B Smith (1990)

+ Mrs B Choi (1991)

Dr C S J Fang (1991)

Dr H J Lee (1991)

+ Mr L Stephenson (1991)

Mrs J L Moore (1992)

Dr A C G Breeze (1993)

Mr R B K Phillips (1993)

Dr J F Reynolds (1993)

Mr C Chew (1995)

Ms H Y-Y Chung (1995)

Mrs J A S Ford (1995)

Dr N J Hillier (1995)

Ms M C Katbamna-Mackey (1995)

Ms T J Sheridan (1995)

Mr E G Woods (1995)

Mr G D Earl (1996)

Dr P G Velusami (1996)

Mr K F Wyre (1996)

Miss J M Chrisman (1997)

Mrs J R Earl (1997)

Mr J Frieda (1997)

Dr S Nestler-Parr (1997)

Mr E Zambon (1997)

Ms H M Barnard (1998)

Mr D M Blake (1998)

Dr A P Y-Y Cheong (1998)

Mr J A Etherington (1998)

Mr D J F Yates (1998)

Mr R F T Beentje (1999)

Ms J W-M Chan (1999)

Dr P D Wright (1999)

Mrs S Hodgson (2000)

Ms M Lada (2000)

Mr H S Panesar (2000)

Mr J J Cassidy (2001)

+ Dr M G Dracos (2001)

Dr S J Sprague (2001)

Dr J T G Brown (2002)

Mr Y Gailani (2002)

Dr S Ueno (2002)

Mr J E Anthony (2003)

+ Mr C A J Manning (2003)

+ Dr C Richardt (2004)

+ Dr S A Li (2005)

Mr E Rosenthal (2006)

Mr H Y Chen (2007)

Mr G M Beck (2009)

Dr I L Lopez Franco (2010)

+

Dr D J P Burns (2013)

Mr B A Tompkins (2015)

Ms J Cheng (2017)

Mrs A P Beck

Mr & Mrs M Cator

Mr T L & Dr M N Chew

Mr D M H Chua

Mrs H J Cuthbert

Mr & Mrs D Dunnigan

Mr & Mrs H Elliot

Mr T & Mrs A Fletcher

Mr K G Patel

Mr D P & Mrs S Siegler

Mr & Mrs J P Tunnicliffe

Mr P M & Mrs A H Village

Dato’ S J Wong

Donors 2023-24

The Master and Fellows express their warmest thanks to all Caians, parents and friends of the College who made generous donations between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024. Your gifts are greatly appreciated as they help to secure the College’s excellence for future generations.

+Denotes member of the Ten Years Club

Caians

1942

The late Mr K C J Case

1945

The late Professor C N L Brooke

+The late Dr J C S Turner

1947

The late L L Deakin

1948

The late Mr A C Barrington Brown

The late Mr E J Chumrow

1950

The late Professor K G Denbigh

+Dr M I Lander

+The late Mr D L H Nash

The late Mr D S Paravicini

+The late Mr J A Potts

+The late Mr W A J Treneman

1951

+Mr P R Castle

Mr S H Cooke

Dr J E Godrich

+The late The Revd P T

Hancock

+Mr P E Walsh

+Mr P Zentner

1952

+Professor J E Banatvala

+Mr G D Baxter

+Dr M Brett

+Mr C J Dakin

+Dr T W Gibson

+Mr D B Hill

+Mr P J Murphy

The late Dr M J O’Shea

+Professor M V Riley

+Dr N Sankarayya

+Mr R P Wilding

1953

The late Dr G W Alderson

Mr J M Aucken

+Mr S F S Balfour-Browne

+The late Dr K C A Blasdale

+The late Dr P M B Crookes

+Mr P R Dolby

The late Mr S B Ellacott

+Professor C du V Florey

+Mr G H Gandy

The late Mr H J Goodhart

The late Mr F D Harper-Jones

+Dr D H Keeling

Professor J G T Kelsey

+Mr J E R Lart

+Mr R Lomax

+Mr T I Rand

+Mr J P Seymour

The late Mr P T Stevens

1954

+Mr D R Amlot

+Mr J Anton-Smith

Mr J L Ball

Mr P A Block

+Mr D W Bouette

+Mr D J Boyd

Professor D P Brenton

+The late Professor C B Bucknall

+Mr G Constantine

+Mr D I Cook

+Dr A E Gent

+Professor R J Heald

+Mr R A Hockey

+Mr R W Montgomery

Mr B C Price

+Mr R M Reeve

Sir Gilbert Roberts Bt

Dr J M S Schofield

+Mr M H Spence

+The late Mr D Stanley

1955

The Reverend James Anderson

Mr A L S Brown

+Dr M Cannon

+Mr D J Clayson

+Mr A A R Cobbold

+Dr R A Durance

+Professor R E W Halliwell

Dr T G Jones

Mr J H Mallinson

+Mr J J Moyle

+Mr A B Richards

+Dr A P Rubin

The late Mr J D Taylor

The late Dr R B Walton

1956

Mr G B Cobbold

+Dr R Cockel

Mr J A L Eidinow

+Professor G H Elder

Mr J K Ferguson

+Professor J A R Friend

+Mr R Gibson

+Mr M L Holman

+Professor A J Kirby

+Dr R G Lord

Mr P A Mackie

+Mr B J McConnell

+Canon P B Morgan

+Mr A J Peck

+Mr J A Pooles

The late Mr I Samuels

+Mr R R W Stewart

+Mr J P Woods

+Dr D L Wynn-Williams

1957

+Dr I D Ansell

+Dr N D Barnes

+Dr T R G Carter

+Dr J P Charlesworth

+The Revd D H Clark

+Mr M L Davies

+Dr T W Davies

+Mr E J Dickens

+Dr A N Ganner

+Professor A F Garvie

+Very Revd Dr M J Higgins

+Mr E M Hoare

+Professor F C Inglis

+Mr A J Kemp

The late Mr A J Lambell

+Dr R T Mathieson

+Professor A J McClean

+Mr A W Newman-Sanders

Mr T Painter

+Mr G R Phillipson

+The Rt Hon Sir Mark Potter

+Mr P W Sampson

+The Rt Hon The Lord

Tugendhat of Widdington

Dr A Wright

1958

+Mr C Andrews

Professor R P Bartlett

+Dr J F A Blowers

Mr T J Brack

+Mr J P B Bryce

Mr J D G Cashin

Professor A R Crofts

+The late Mr W P N Graham

+Professor F W Heatley

+Mr D M Henderson

Mr J A Honeybone

Dr P F Hunt

+Dr R P Knill-Jones

Mr R D Martin

+Mr C P McKay

+Dr D R Michell

Dr M G J Neary

Dr J V Oubridge

+Mr G D Pratten

The late Mr J D Pybus

Dr G R Rowlands

+Mr M P Ruffle

+The late Sir Colin Shepherd

Dr F D Skidmore

+Mr A Stadlen

+Mr A J Taunton

+Mr F J W van Silver

1959

Rev K N Bradley

Professor D S Brée

+Dr D E Brundish

Mr H R G Conway

+Dr A G Dewey

+Mr T H W Dodwell

+Mr B Drewitt

+The Revd T C Duff

+The Rt Revd D R J Evans

+Mr G A Geen

+The late Mr P M Hill

+Mr M J D Keatinge

Mr R G McNeer

+Mr C J Methven

+Mr P Neuburg

Mr G S H Smeed

+Professor P Tyrer

Dr I G van Breda

+Mr J T Winpenny

+Dr M D Wood

Mr P J Worboys

1960

Dr N A Bailey

+Mr J G Barham

Mr A J M Bone

Mr R A A Brockington

Mr J M Cullen

Mr T E Dyer

+Mr N Gray

+Dr P M Keir

+Mr A Kenney

Dr M J Lindop

+Dr P Martin

+Mr M B Maunsell

+Dr H F Merrick

Dr E L Morris

+Dr C H R Niven

Mr M O’Neil

+Professor A E Pegg

+Dr J D Powell-Jackson

+Dr A T Ractliffe

+Dr R A Reid

Dr F H Stewart

+Dr M T R B Turnbull

Professor P S Walker

+Mr N J Winkfield

Dr G R Youngs

+Dr A M Zalin

1961

+Mr C E Ackroyd

Professor G G Balint-Kurti

Mr P A Bull

+Dr J Davies-Humphreys

The late Dr J S Denbigh

+Mr D K Elstein

+Mr J A G Fiddes

Mr M J W Gage

+Dr A B Loach

+Professor R Mansfield

+Professor P B Mogford

+Mr A G Munro

+Mr J Owens

Mr C H Pemberton

+Mr D C W Stonley

+Mr V D West

+Mr P N Wood

+Mr R J Wrenn

1962

+Mr D J Bell

+Dr C R de la P Beresford

Mr M D Braham

+The late Mr P S L Brice

+Mr R A C Bye

+Mr J R Campbell

+Dr D Carr

Mr R D Clement

+Mr P D Coopman

+Mr T S Cox

+Col M W H Day

+Mr M Emmott

+The late Mr T M Glaser

+Dr C A Hammant

+Mr D Hjort

Dr J B Hobbs

+Professor A R Hunter

+Mr J W Jones

+Dr D M Keith-Lucas

Professor J M Kosterlitz

Mr F J Lucas

+Mr A R Martin

+Professor Sir Andrew

McMichael

+Dr C D S Moss

+Dr R N F Simpson

+Mr R Smalley

+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 G J Weaver

Mr R G Williams

1963

+Dr P J Adams

Dr B H J Briggs

+Mr P J Brown

+Mr R M Coombes

+Dr J R Dowdle

Mr T R Drake

+Dr S Field

+Mr J E J Goad

+Mr P M G B Grimaldi

Dr P Kemp

+Mr M S Kerr

+Dr R Kinns

+Dr V F Larcher

+Dr R W F Le Page

+Mr D A Lockhart

Mr J W L Lonie

Mr J d’A Maycock

Mr D B Newlove

+Dr J R Parker

Dr J S Rainbird

+Mr P F T Sewell

Dr J B A Strange

+Professor D J Taylor

+Mr P H Veal

Mr D J Walker

Dr M J Weston

1964

+Mr P Ashton

+Mr D P H Burgess

+Mr J E Chisholm

+Dr H Connor

+Mr H L S Dibley

Mr R A Dixon

+Dr P G Frost

Dr H R Glennie

+Professor N D F Grindley

+Professor J D H Hall

Professor K O Hawkins

+Professor Sir John Holman

The Revd Canon R W Hunt

+Mr A Kirby

+Dr R K Knight

Dr H M Mather

+Mr S J Mawer

+Mr J R Morley

+Mr R Murray

+Mr A K Nigam

+Mr J F Sell

+Dr R Tannenbaum

+Mr A N Taylor

Mr K S Thapa

Mr C W Thomson

+Dr T B Wallington

+The late Dr F J M Walters

+Mr R C Wells

1965

+Dr P J E Aldred

Dr J E J Altham

+Professor L G Arnold

+Professor B C Barker

+Mr R A Charles

+The Rt Hon Sir Christopher

Clarke

+Dr C M Colley

Mr G B Cooper

+Mr J Harris

+Dr D A Hattersley

+His Hon Richard Holman

+Mr R P Hopford

+Dr R G Jezzard

+Mr K E Jones

Dr R R Jones

+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

+Dr J W New

Dr K J Routledge

+Mr R N Rowe

Dr D J Sloan

+Mr M L Thomas

+Mr I D K Thompson

+Professor J S Tobias

Mr I R Whitehead

+Mr A T Williams

+Mr D V Wilson

+Lt Col J R Wood

1966

Professor D Birnbacher

Mr D C Bishop

+Dr D S Bishop

+Mr P Chapman

+Dr K R Daniels

+Dr T K Day

+Mr C R Deacon

+Mr D P Dearden

Mr R S Dimmick

+Mr P S Elliston

+Mr D R Harrison

+Dr L E Haseler

+Mr R E Hickman

+Professor R C Hunt

+Dr W E Kenyon

+Mr D C Lunn

Dr P I Maton

+Dr A A Mawby

Professor P M Meara

+Mr P V Morris

+Mr S Poster

The late Dr H E R Preston

Mr R B N Smither

+Dr R L Stone

Mr N E Suess

+Mr D Swinson

+Dr A M Turner

+Mr J F Wardle

+Mr S M Whitehead

+Mr J M Williams

Mr N J Wilson

The Revd R J Wyber

1967

Mr G W Baines

+Mr N J Burton

Mr P G Cottrell

+Mr G C Dalton

Dr W Day

+Mr A C Debenham

+Mr P E Gore

+Dr W Y-C Hung

+Mr N G H Kermode

+Mr R J Lasko

+Mr D I Last

+Dr I D Lindsay

+The late Mr D H Lister

+Mr R J Longman

+Mr W M O Nelson

Mr J S Richardson

+Mr M S Rowe

Mr H J A Scott

+Mr G T Slater

Mr C A Williams

The Revd Dr J D Yule

1968

+Dr M J Adams

+Mr P M Barker

Mr P E Barnes

+Dr F G T Bridgham

+Mr A C Cosker

+Mr J P Dalton

+Mr D P Garrick

Mr D S Glass

Mr M D Hardinge

+Dr P W Ind

The Revd Fr A Keefe

+Professor R J A Little

+Dr D H O Lloyd

Professor J I McGuire

+Dr J Meyrick-Thomas

+The late Mr J A Norton

+Mr M E Perry

+Dr T G Powell

Professor J F Roberts

Mr E Robinson

+Mr P S Shaerf

+Mr P J E Smith

Mr P J Tracy

Dr M McD Twohig

+Dr G S Walford

+Mr C Walker

+Dr D P Walker

1969

Mr L R Baker

+Dr S C Bamber

Dr A B E Benjamin

+Dr A D Blainey

Mr S E Bowkett

+Mr A C Brown

+Mr M S Cowell

+Dr M K Davies

+Mr S H Dunkley

+Dr M W Eaton

+Mr R J Field

+Professor J P Fry

+Dr C J Hardwick

+Professor A D Harries

+Mr J S Hodgson

+Mr T J F Hunt

+Mr S B Joseph

+Mr A Keir

+Dr I R Lacy

+Mr C J Lloyd

+Mr S J Lodder

+Mr R G McGowan

+Dr C M Pegrum

+Dr D B Peterson

Mr P J M Redfern

Mr B A H Todd

+Mr P B Vos

+Mr A J Waters

+Dr N H Wheale

+Professor D R Widdess

+Mr C J Wilkes

Mr D A Wilson

+Mr P J G Wright

1970

+Mr R B Andreas

+Mr J Aughton

+Mr R Butler

+Dr D D Clark-Lowes

+Mr G J H Cliff

+Mr R P Cliff

+Mr L P Foulds

Professor J G H Fulbrook

+Dr D R Glover

+Mr O A B Green

+Mr J D Gwinnell

Mr D P W Harvey

+Professor J A S Howell

+Mr S D Joseph

Mr C A Jourdan

+Mr N R Kinnear

+Mr B S Missenden

+Dr S Mohindra

Mr A J Neale

Mr J C Needes

+Professor D J Reynolds

+Mr J S Robinson

+Mr B Z Sacks

+Dr R D S Sanderson

Mr D C Smith

+Professor R W Whatmore

Professor G Zanker

1971

Dr J P Arm

+Mr M S Arthur

+Mr S Brearley

+Mr J A K Clark

+Mr J A Duval

+Professor A M Emond

+Mr J-L M Evans

+Dr S H Gibson

Mr L J Hambly

+Professor B Jones

Professor M J Kelly

+Dr P Kinns

Dr N P Leary

+Dr G Levine

+Dr P G Mattos

+Mr R I Morgan

+Mr L N Moss

+Mr N D Peace

Mr S R Perry

Mr K R Pippard

+Mr P J Robinson

Mr A Schubert

Mr T W Squire

+Mr P A Thimont

+Mr A H M Thompson

+Mr S V Wolfensohn

The late Mr S Young

1972

Mr M H Armour

+Mr A B S Ball

+Mr J P Bates

+Mr S M B Blasdale

Mr N P Bull

Mr I J Buswell

Mr C G Davies

+Mr P A England

+Mr P J Farmer

+Mr C Finden-Browne

Mr W J Furber

+Mr R H Gleed

+Mr R S Handley

+Professor W L Irving

+Mr J K Jolliffe

Mr P B Kerr-Dineen

+Dr D R Mason

+Mr J R Moor

Mr S J Roberts

+Mr J Scopes

+Dr T D Swift

The Revd Dr R G Thomas

Canon Dr J A Williams

1973

+Dr A P Allen

+Dr S M Allen

Mr N P Carden

+Professor P Collins

+Mr S P Crooks

+Mr M G Daw

+Mr P C English

+Mr A G Fleming

Mr J R Hazelton

+Mr D J R Hill

Dr R J Hopkins

Mr F How

Mr K F C Marshall

+Mr J S Morgan

+Mr J S Nangle

+Professor T J Pedley

+Mr J F Points

+Dr W A Smith

Mr C P Stoate

+Mr J Sunderland

Dr F P Treasure

+Mr H B Trust

Mr D G Vanstone

+Mr G A Whitworth

1974

Mr H J Chase

Revd Dr V J Chatterjie

+Dr L H Cope

+Mr M D Damazer

+Professor J H Davies

+Professor A G Dewhurst

+Dr E J Dickinson

Mr R J Evans

+Mr P A Goodman

+Mr S J Hampson

Mr W S H Laidlaw

+Mr P Logan

+Mr R O MacInnes-Manby

+Mr G Markham

+Dr C H Mason

Professor B Reddy

Mr N J Roberts

+Professor D S Secher

+Mr C L Spencer

The Rt Hon The Lord Turner of Ecchinswell

+Dr A M Vali

+Mr D K B Walker

+Mr S T Weeks

1975

+Dr C J Bartley

Mr D A L Burn

Mr S D Carpenter

Mr H R Chalkley

Mr S Collins

+Sir Anthony CookeYarborough Bt

Mr E A M Ebden

+Dr M J Franklin

+Mr N R Gamble

+Mr M H Graham

Dr N Koehli

+Dr R G Mayne

+Mr K S Miller

+Dr C C P Nnochiri

Dr H C Rayner

+Mr D J G Reilly

Professor J P K Seville

+Mr G R Sherwood

Dr F A Simion

1976

+Mr G Abrams

+Mr J J J Bates

+Mr S J Birchall

+Dr M P Clarke

The Revd Canon B D Clover

+Mr D J Cox

+Mr R J Davis

+The Hon Dr R H Emslie

+Dr M J Fitchett

Mr S D Flack

Dr P D Glennie

+Dr K F Gradwell

+Dr G C T Griffiths

Dr I C Hayes

+Dr A C J Hutchesson

+Mr R A Larkman

+Dr P B Medcalf

Dr S J Morris

Dr D Myers

Mr J S Price

+Dr S G W Smith

+Mr S Thomson

+Mr J P Treasure

The Rt Hon N K A S Vaz

+Mr A Widdowson

1977

+Mr J H M Barrow

+Dr M S D Callaghan

+Dr P N Cooper

+Professor K J Friston

+Mr A L Gibb

+Mr K F Haviland

+Mr R M House

+Dr P H M McWhinney

Dr L S Mills

+Dr R P Owens

+Professor A Pagliuca

+Dr K W Radcliffe

Mr I M Radford

Mr S A Scott

Mr M J Simon

+Dr P A Watson

+Mr D J White

+Mr L M Wiseman

+Professor E W Wright

1978

+Mr J C Barber

The Revd Dr A B Bartlett

+Mr M D Brown

+Mr B J Carlin

+Mr C J Carter

Mr J M Charlton-Jones

+Mr S A Corns

Mr M J Cosans

Mr A D Cromarty

+Dr P G Dommett

+Dr J A Ellerton

Mr J S Evans

+Mr R J Evans

Professor P M Goldbart

Mr A B Grabowski

Dr M Hernandez-Bronchud

+Dr C N Johnson

Mr P R M Kavanagh

+Mr D P Kirby

+Mr R A Lister

+Dr D R May

Mr C C Nicol

+Mr A J Noble

Mr S Preece

+Mr P J Reeder

+Mr M H Schuster

Mr P A F Thomas

+Dr D Townsend

Mr R W Vanstone

Dr P Venkatesan

+Dr W M Wong

+Mr P A Woo-Ming

1979

Mr D J Alexander

+Mr T C Bandy

+Mr A J Birkbeck

Dr P J Carter

Dr I M Cropley

+Mr W D Crorkin

Dr A P Day

+Professor T J Evans

+Mr P C Gandy

Ms C A Goldie

+Dr M de la R Gunton

+Mr N C I Harding

+Mr R P Hayes

+Mr T E J Hems

Ms C J Jenkins

+Mr P J Keeble

Mr D L Melvin

Professor C T Reid

+Ms A M Roads

+Dr C M Rogers

Professor P C Taylor

Professor R P Tuckett

1980

Mr C P Aldren

+Dr L E Bates

+Dr N P Bates

+Mr C R Brunold

+Mr A W Dixon

The Revd Dr P H Donald

+Dr S L Grassie

Mr M J Hardwick

+Dr E M L Holmes

Mr R H Hopkin

+Dr J M Jarosz

Dr J Marsh

+Professor Sir Jonathan Montgomery

+Dr J N Pines

Mr J H Pitman

+Mr R N Porteous

Mr T N B Rochford

+Ms J S Saunders

+Mr J M E Silman

+Professor J A Todd

+Mr R L Tray

Dr G J Warren

1981

Mrs J S Adams

+Dr M A S Chapman

+Mr G A H Clark

Mr S Cox

+Mr J M Davey

+Dr M Desai

+Mr D P S Dickinson

+Mr R Ford

Mr A W Hawkswell

+Mr W S Hobhouse

+Mr R H M Horner

+Mr P C N Irven

+Professor T E Keymer

Ms F J C Lunn

Dr J W McAllister

Dr M Mishra

Mr T G Naccarato

Dr A P G Newman-Sanders

Dr O P Nicholson

+Mr G Nnochiri

Mr J M Owen

+Mr G A Rachman

Mrs B J Ridhiwani

Mrs M Robinson

+Dr R M Roope

+Mrs D C Saunders

+Mr T Saunders

+Dr D M Talbott

Mr K J Taylor

+Ms L J Teasdale

+Ms A M Tully

+Mr C J R Van de Velde

+Ms S Williams

1982

+Dr A K Baird

+Mr D Baker

+Mr J D Biggart

+Dr C D Blair

+Dr M Clark

+Mr P A Cooper

+Mr G A Czartoryski

Professor S M Fitzmaurice

Mr A R Flitcroft

Mr D A B Fuggle

Mr P S Gordon

Mr M Hall

+Dr I R Hardie

+Dr R M Hardie

Mrs C H Kenyon

Mr P Loughborough

Ms E F Mandelstam

+Professor M Moriarty

+Ms N Morris

+Mr R J Powell

The Rt Hon Professor The Lord Roberts of Belgravia

Mr J P Scopes

Mrs A J Sheat

+Ms O M Stewart

+Mrs E I C Strasburger

+Dr J G Tang

Mr J P Taylor

Dr A D Warinton

Professor M J Weait

Mr A M Williams

1983

+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

Dr N D Downing

+Mr A L Evans

+The Hon Sir Timothy Fancourt

+Mr P E J Fellows

+Dr S F J Wright

+Dr W P Goddard

+Mr W A C Hayward

Professor S Islam

+Mr R M James

Mr S A Kirkpatrick

+Mrs H M L Lee

+Mr J B K Lough

+Mr A J McCleary

Mr R H Moore

Dr L S Parker

+Mr R M Payn

+Mr J A Plumley

Mr A B Porteous

Mr K C Rialas

+Mrs S D Robinson

+Mrs N Sandler

+Dr C P Spencer

+The Revd C H Stebbing

Mr A G Strowbridge

+Mr R B Swede

+Mr P G Wilkins

+Dr K M Wood

1984

Dr K M Ardeshna

Mr A E Bailey

Mr D Bailey

+Mr R A Brooks

+Mr G C R Budden

Dr R E Chatwin

+Professor H W Clark

+Mrs N J Cobbold

+Dr A R Duncan

+Professor T G Q Eisen

Mr A S E Johnson

Dr J R B Leventhorpe

+Mr G C Maddock

+Mr A D H Marshall

+Mr J R Pollock

Mrs J Ramakrishnan

+Dr K S Sandhu

+Dr H E Woodley

1985

+HE Mr N M Baker

+Ms C E R Bartram

+Dr I M Bell

Mrs J C Cassabois

+Mr A H Davison

Dr J P de Kock

+Professor E M Dennison

Mr K J Fitch

Mr M J Fletcher

+Mr J D Harry

Ms P Hayward

+Mr P G J S Helson

+Mr J A Howard-Sneyd

+Dr C H Jessop

+Mr C L P Kennedy

Mrs C F Lister

Ms D M Martin

The Very Revd N C Papadopulos

Mr R J C Partridge

+Dr R J Penney

+Mrs S L Porter

Dr D S J Rampersad

Mr A B Ridgeway

Mr R Sayeed

Mr E J Shaw-Smith

+Dr P M Slade

+Mrs E M Smuts

+Dr J A Scrine

Mr P L Ullmann

Mr B M Usselmann

Mr W D L M Vereker

+Dr M J J Veselý

+Mrs J S Wilcox

Mrs A K Wilson

Dr J M Wilson

Mr R C Wilson

Mr N A L Wood

+Dr E F Worthington

1986

Professor K Brown

Mr M T Cartmell

Mr J H F & Mrs A I Cleeve

+Mr A J F Cox

+Professor J A Davies

Dr S D Farrall

Professor R L Fulton Brown

Dr M P Horan

+Professor J M Huntley

Mr M C Jinks

Mr B R Kent

Mrs V K Kent

Dr H V Kettle

+Professor J C Knight

+Professor M Knight

Mr B D Konopka

+Ms A Kupschus

+Professor J C Laidlaw

Dr G H Matthews

+Dr D L L Parry

Professor P Rogerson

+Mr H J Rycroft

+Mr J P Saunders

Professor A J Schofield

+Dr A J Tomlinson

Dr M H Wagstaff

Mr S A Wajed

+Mr J P Young

+Mr C Zapf

1987

+Mr J R Bird

+Mr N R Chippington

+Mr A J Coveney

+Dr L T Day

Dr H L Dewing

Dr K E H Dewing

Mr C P J Flower

Mr J W M Hak

+Dr M Karim

+Dr P Kumar

+Mr D M Lambert

+Dr J O Lindsay

Mr L M Mair

Mr T J Parsonson

+Dr W P Ridsdill Smith

Ms J M Rowe

Dr J Sarma

+Professor M Shahmanesh

+Mr D W Shores

Mr A B Silas

Mr J M L Williams

Dr T J A Winnifrith

1988

Dr K J Brahmbhatt

+Mr H A Briggs

+Mr J C Brown

+Ms C Stewart

+Mrs M E Chapple

Mrs A I Cleeve

Mr N P Dougherty

Mr B D Dyer

Mr N D Evans

Mr E T Halverson

Dr E N Herbert

+Ms A E Hitchings

+Ms R C Homan

+Dr A D Hossack

Dr O S Khwaja

Mr F F C J Lacasse

+Mr F P Little

Dr I H Magedera

+Dr M C Mirow

+Dr A N R Nedderman

Dr D Niedrée-Sorg

Mr A P Parsisson

Mr A D Silcock

Dr R C Silcock

+Mrs A J L Smith

+Mr A J Smith

+Mr R D Smith

+Dr R M Tarzi

+Ms F R Tattersall

Mr M E H Tipping

+Dr F J L Wuytack

1989

Dr C L Abram

+Mr S P Barnett

+Dr C E Bebb

+Professor M J Brown

+Dr E A Cross

+Dr S Francis

+Mr G R Glaves

Mr S M Gurney

+Mr S M S A Hossain

+Professor P M Irving

+Mr G W Jones

+Mr J P Kennedy

Dr H H Lee

Dr S Lee

+Mrs L C Logan

Mr B J McGrath

+Mr P J Moore

+Ms J H Myers

+Dr S L Rahman Haley

+Mr N J C Robinson

+Mrs C Romans

+Mr A M P Russell

Mrs D T Slade

+Dr N Smeulders

+Mr A S Uppal

+Mrs E H Wadsley

+Mrs T E Warren

1990

Mr A Bentham

Mrs C M A Bentham

+Mrs E C Browne

Mrs S C Butcher

+Professor L C Chappell

+Dr A A Clayton

+Mr I J Clubb

+Mr P E Day

Mrs S V Dyson

Professor M K Elahee

+Dr D S Game

Mrs P J Gillett

+Mrs C L Guest

+Mr A W P Guy

+Dr A D Henderson

+Mr I Henderson

+Mr R D Hill

+Mr H R Jones

Dr P A Key KC

+Dr S H O F Korbei

Mr G C Li

Mr J S Marozzi

+Mr T Moody-Stuart KC

Mr G O’Brien

+Mr S T Oestmann

+Dr C A Palin

+Dr J M Parberry

Mrs L J Sanderson

+Dr J Sinha

Professor M C Smith

Mr G E L Spanier

+Professor S A R Stevens

Dr M H M Syn

Mr D S Turnbull

+Dr J C Wadsley

Ms R M Winden

1991

Mr M W Adams

Mr B M Adamson

Dr D G Anderson

+Ms J C Austin-Olsen

+Dr R D Baird

+Dr A A Baker

+Mr C S Bleehen

+Mr A M J Cannon

+Mr D D Chandra

Mrs B Choi

Dr C Davies

+Dr A H Deakin

+Mrs C R Dennison

+Dr S Dorman

+Dr S C Francis

+Mr I D Griffiths

+Dr A J Hodge

Dr M H Jones Chesters

+Professor F E Karet

Professor K-T Khaw

+Mr I J Long

+Mrs L P Parberry

Mr D R Paterson

Dr J E Rickett

Ms I A Robertson

+Miss V A Ross

+Mr A Smeulders

Mr L Stephenson

+Mr J G C Taylor

+Ms G A Usher

Mrs H-M A G C Vesey

+Mr C S Wale

Mr M N Whiteley

Mrs M J Winner

+Mr S J Wright

1992

+Dr M R Al-Qaisi

+Ms E H Auger

Mr D Auterson

Mrs R Auterson

+Mrs S P Baird

Mr J P A Ball

+Ms S F C Bravard

+Mr N W Burkitt

+Ms J R M Burton

Ms M H L Chan

Miss A M Forshaw

+Mr R A H Grantham

+Mrs F M Haines

+Mr O Herbert

+Dr S L Herbert

Ms J Z Z Hu

Mr E M E D Kenny

Dr A C H Krook

Dr R M Lees

+Mr J Lui

+Dr C R Murray

Mrs J A O’Hara

+Dr K M Park

+Dr M S Sagoo

+Mr J D Saunders

Mr P Sinclair

Mrs S L Sinclair

+Mrs R C Stevens

Ms R G Swallow

+Mr R O Vinall

+Mrs J M Walledge

Mrs K Wiese

Mr L K Yim

1993

+Dr A C G Breeze

+Dr C Byrne

Mr C M Calvert

+Mr P M Ceely

Mr P I Condron

Dr E A Congdon

Mrs J L Crowther

+Mr B M Davidson

Mr P A Edwards

+Dr A S Everington

Professor I R Fisher

+Dr A Gallagher

+Dr F A Gallagher

Mr J C Hobson

+Mr C E G Hogbin

Dr A Kalhoro Tunio

Dr A B Massara

Dr S B Massara

+Dr A J Penrose

+Mr R B K Phillips

Mrs A C Pugsley

+Dr J F Reynolds

+Mrs L Robson Brown

+Dr R Roy

Ms S T Willcox

+Dr F A Woodhead

Mrs A Worden

Mr T J A Worden

1994

Mr J H Anderson

Ms I-M Bendixson

Professor D M Bethea

+Dr L Christopoulou

+Dr D J Cutter

+Mr N Q S De Souza

Ms V K E Dietzel

+Mr D R M Edwards

+Professor T C Fardon

Dr J A Fraser

+Mrs C E Grainger

+Dr P M Heck

+Dr A P Khawaja

Mr M R Matthews

+Professor S G A Pitel

+Mr P D Reel

+Dr M J P Selby

Professor P Sharma

Dr P J Sowerby Stein

Professor M A Stein

+Mr M A Wood

1995

+Mr C Aitken

Mr D F J-C Chang

+Mr C Chew

Dr P A Cunningham

Dr S L Dyson

+Mrs J A S Ford

+Dr Z B M Fritz

+Mr J R Harvey

+Dr N J Hillier

+Ms L H Howarth

Ms M C Katbamna-Mackey

Mr B J Marks

+Canon Prof J D McDonald

+Dr D N Miller

+Dr M A Miller

+Professor K M O’Shaughnessy

+Mr S M Pilgrim

+Dr B G Rock

Mrs G Rollins

+Ms T J Sheridan

Mr M J Soper

+Mrs S A Whitehouse

+Dr C H Williams-Gray

Miss M B Williamson

Dr X Yang

1996

Mrs S E Birshan

+Miss A L Bradbury

Ms C E Callaghan

+Mr K W-C Chan

Mr A E S Curran

+Mr G D Earl

Professor J Fitzmaurice

Mrs J H J Gilbert

+Professor D A Giussani

Mr J D Goldsmith

+Mr I R Herd

+Miss F A Mitchell

+Ms J N K Phillips

Dr S Rajapaksa

+Mr A J T Ray

+Ms V C Reeve

Mr P S Rhodes

+Mr J R Robinson

Mr D J Tait

Dr P G Velusami

+Mr B T Waine

Dr S Walke

+Mr K F Wyre

1997

Mrs L J Allen

Mr P J & Mrs L J Allen

+Mr A J Bower

+Mr J D Bustard

Mr P J E Charles

Ms S L Charles

Miss J M Chrisman

+Mrs R V Clubb

+Ms R F Cowan

+Mr I Dorrington

+Mrs J R Earl

+Dr E J Fardon

+Dr S P Fitzgerald

Mr J Frieda

+Dr D M Guttmann

Dr A E Helmy

Dr R Kembleton

Mr G D Maassen

+Dr E A Martin

+Ms V E McMaw

+Dr A L Mendoza

+Dr S Nestler-Parr

+Ms R N Page

Ms E D Sarma

Mr J P A Smith

Dr A C Snaith

+Mr B Sulaiman

+Dr R Swift

Mr J P Turville

1998

+Ms H M Barnard

+Mr D M Blake

+Mr A J Bryant

+Mr D W Cleverly

Mr B N Deacon

+Dr P J Dilks

+Mr J A Etherington

+Dr S E Forwood

Dr C Frances-Hoad

Mr M M Garvie

+The Revd Dr J M Holmes

Mr A R Hood

+Dr A J Pask

+Dr O Schon

+Mrs J C Wood

+Mr R A Wood

+Mr D J F Yates

Dr E P K Yu

1999

+Mr P J Aldis

Mr I Anane

+Mr R F T Beentje

+Miss C M M Bell

+Mr D T Bell

+Dr C L Broughton

+Ms J W-M Chan

+Mr J A Cliffe

+Mr J D Coley

Ms H B Deixler

+Ms L M Devlin

Mr P M Ellison

+Mr A Fiascaris

+Ms S Gnanalingam

+Mr A F Kadar

+Mr C M Lamb

+Mr M W Laycock

+Mr N O Midgley

Mr N E Ransley

Dr J S Rees

Ms A J C Sander

+Dr J D Stainsby

Mrs L N Williams

+Mr P J Wood

+Dr P D Wright

2000

Mr R D Bamford

+Mrs R A Cliffe

+Mr M T Coates

Dr A D Deeks

Miss J L Dickey

Mr E W Elias

+Mr T P Finch

Mrs S Hodgson

+Mrs J M Howley

+Dr N S Hughes

+Mr G P F King

+Mrs V King

+Ms M Lada

Dr R Lööf

+Dr I B Malone

+Dr A G P Naish-Guzmán

+Maj D N Naumann

+Mr H S Panesar

+Dr C J Rayson

Dr J Reynolds

+Mr C E Rice

+Mr M O Salvén

+Mr A K T Smith

Mr H F St Aubyn

+Dr D W A Wilson

2001

Mrs E S Austin

+Mr D S Bedi

Dr D M Bolser

+Mr J J Cassidy

+Dr J W Chan

+Dr C J Chu

Mr E H C Corn

Ms J L Cremer

+Mr H C P Dawe

+Dr M G Dracos

+Mrs A C Finch

Mr D W M Fritz

+Mr C M J Hadley

+Ms L D Hannant

Dr D P C Heyman

Dr A-C M L Huys

+Mr A S Kadar

Mr C Liu

+Dr A Lyon

Mr M Margrett

+Mr A S Massey

+Dr A C McKnight

Mrs J C Mendis

Mr R J G Mendis

+Professor R J Miller

Mr D T Morgan

+Mr H M I Mussa

Miss W F Ng

+Mr A L Pegg

Dr C L Riley

+Ms A E C Rogers

+Mrs J M Shah

+Mr K K Shah

Mr M M Shah

+Dr S J Sprague

Mr S S-W Tan

+Ms F A M Treanor

+Dr C C Ward

Dr H W Woodward

2002

+Mr C D Aylard

Mrs E R Best

+Ms S E Blake

Dr J T G Brown

Mr M L C Caflisch

+Dr N D F Campbell

Miss C F Dale

+Mr J-M Edmundson

+Mrs K M Frost

Mr Y Gailani

+Mrs J H Gilbert

+Mrs J L Gladstone

Mr S D Gosling

Dr A C Ho

Mr O J Humphries

+Mr T R Jacks

+Ms H Katsonga-Woodward

+Miss H D Kinghorn

+Dr M J Kleinz

Dr M F Komori-Glatz

+Mr T H Land

Mr R Mathur

+Mr C T K Myers

+Dr A Plekhanov

+Mr S Queen

+Mr R E Reynolds

Professor D J Riches

+Mr A S J Rothwell

+Mr D A Russell

Mr N A Shah

+Dr S Ueno

Dr J W Waldron

Miss H C Ward

+Dr L L Watkins

Miss R E Willis

2003

Mr R B Allen

+Mr J E Anthony

+Mr A R M Bird

+Ms C O N Brayshaw

Mr C G Brooks

Dr E A L Chamberlain

Ms S K Chapman

+Ms V J Collins

Dr B J Dabby

+Mr A L Eardley

+Mr T H French

+Miss A V Henderson

+Dr M S Holt

Mr R Holt

+Mr D C Horley

Mr D J John

Mr J P Langford

+Dr A R Langley

Mr J A Leasure

Mrs J Lucas Sammons

Mr R A K MacDonald

+Mr C A J Manning

+Dr D J McKeon

+Mr K N Millar

Dr L M Petre-Firth

Dr C D Richter

+Miss V K C Scopes

Miss N N Shah

Ms Z L Smeaton

+Ms M Solera-Deuchar

+Mr T N Sorrel

Mr S Tandon

+Mr J L Todd

+Dr R C Wagner

Mr C S Whittleston

+Mrs S S Wood

2004

+Mr S R F Ashton

Mr M G Austin

+Dr E F Aylard

Ms P J M Brent

Mrs D M Cahill

+Mr G B H Silkstone Carter

+Mrs H L Carter

+Mrs R C E Cavonius

Dr T M-K Cheng

Dr J A Chowdhury

+Dr A Clare

Dr C W J Coomber

+Dr R Darley

+Dr L C B Fletcher

+Ms C L Lee

+Ms C M C Lloyd-Griffiths

+Dr G C McFarland

+Mr P E Myerson

Ms Z Owen

Mr J W G Rees

Dr C Richardt

+Mrs L R Sidey

Dr S M Sivanandan

Dr R Sun

Miss N J M-Y Titmus

Dr J Tsai

+Mr H P Vann

Mr L B Ward

2005

+Ms P D Ashton

Mr B Barrat

Mr R R D Demarchi

Mr M W Evans

+Miss E M Fialho

+Miss J M Fogarty

Miss K V Gray

Mrs K L Greenwood

Mr K F Huang

+Mr J M Hunter

Mr M E Ibrahim

+Mr M T Jobson

Dr E D Karstadt

Dr K Langford

Mr T Y T Lau

+Dr E Lewington-Gower

Miss J H Li

Dr S A Li

Dr A H Malem

Mr A J McIntosh

Dr E M McIntosh

+Dr T J Murphy

Mr D M Normoyle

+Mr L J Panter

Mrs E L Rees

+Mr J L J Reicher

Mr Y P Tan

+Mr J F Wallis

+Professor J A Zeitler

2006

Dr D T Ballantyne

+Dr T F M Champion

Miss Y T T Chau

Miss W K S Cheung

+The Hon H Z Choudrey

Mrs R M de Minckwitz

Mr P C Demetriou

+Mr M A Espin Rojo

+Mr R J Granby

Mr I Hoo

Dr S P P Jones

Mr V Kana

+Mrs N Kim

Miss Y N E Lai

Dr C E S Lewis

Mr S Matsis

Miss T M Nell

+Mr E P Peace

Mrs H C Pepper

Mr J R Poole

+Miss H K Rutherford

+Mr S S Shah

+Dr S K Stewart

Dr E P Thanisch

Mr S Xu

2007

+Mr H Bhatt

Dr J P A Coleman

Mr D W Du

Ms A E Eisen

Dr E Evans

Dr S S Huang

Dr A B McCallum

+Mr D T Nguyen

+Ms S K A Parkinson

+Dr S X Pfister

+Dr T J Pfister

+Miss S Ramakrishnan

+Mr D G R Self

+Dr B D Sloan

Dr V Vetrivel

+Mr O J Willis

Dr S E Winchester

Mr Z W Yee

2008

+Dr J M Bosten

+Mr O T Burkinshaw

+Mrs E C Davison

Dr H G Füchtbauer

Mr J E Goodwin

Mrs J A Goodwin

Dr M A Hayoun

Dr R S Kearney

Mr K R Lu

+Dr A W Martinelli

Mr M Mkandawire

Mr D R Moore

+Mr J M Oxley

Mrs W C Ryder

Dr M C Stoddard

Mr X Xu

2009

Mr G M Beck

Mr L W Bowles

Dr S E Cope

Mr E D Cronan

Mr C A Gowers

+Mr J H Hill

+Mr J R Howell

Mr A W C Lodge

Dr O C Okpala

Miss F G Sandford

Dr C E Sogot

Mr J P J Taylor

Mr P Wangthamrongwit

2010

Mr B D Aldridge

Mrs J H E Bell

Dr C Chen

Ms H R Crawford

Dr T A Ellison

Miss A A Gibson

+Mr S D Kemp

+Dr J A Latimer

Miss C E Oakley

Miss H M Parker

Dr J O Patterson

Miss R Sun

Miss J D Tovey

Miss C M C Wong

Mr L M Woodward

Dr S P Wright

2011

Dr S Aibara

Mr A S Bell

Mr F A Blair

Mr A J C Blythe

Miss L E Cassidy

Mr J A Cobbold

Miss K E Collar

Mr I Manyakin

Dr K M Mathew

Ms Y Qin

Mr J C Robinson

Mr J R Singh

Ms M H C Wilson

Miss H Zhang

2012

Dr M A W Alexander

Dr L K Allen

Dr N H Ben-Yehoyada

Mr A K Christodoulou

Mr Z Guo

Miss M S Leonard

Mr J M B Mak

Dr C Parker

Dr H R Simmonds

Dr B Stark

Mr B R Swan

Dr R I Wakefield

2013

Dr J D Bernstock

Dr L Bibby

Dr D J P Burns

Mr J A Connan

Mr M M Gill

Miss E C Smith

Mr D R Twigg

2014 onwards

Mr C X Chua

Miss A M Kavanagh

Ms C M E Marincich

Mr K Purohit

Mr A Boruta

Miss T E Brian

Mr M Coote

Miss A E M Edwards-Knight

Dr T A Fairclough

Mr M S J Fynn

Mr P W Graney

Parents and Friends

+Mr D F & Mrs A F Andrews

Ms T Arsenault

Mr K & Mrs M Azizi

+Mr A M & Mrs K Bali

Mr E Baltins

Mrs A J Barnett

+Mr S & Mrs S L Barter

+Mrs L M Bernstein

+Mr S M & Mrs A Bhate

Mr R L Biava & Dr E J Clark

Mrs V Blake, in memory of John Rawson (1956)

Mr J Brewster

Mr R L Buckner

+Mr M C & Mrs C M Burgess

+Mr J W & Mrs A Butler

Dr A Caldicott

Mrs D Callaghan

Sir Geoffrey Cass

+Mr D M & Mrs A J Cassidy

+Dr M D & Mrs E A Chard

Ms E Cody Flores

Dr L Cornelissen

+Mr A & Mrs G Corsini

Mr R N & Mrs A J Crook

+Dr T G & Mrs A J

Cunningham

Mr C H Jones & Mrs E L Davies

+Mr D & Mrs C E J Dewhurst

Mrs E M Drewitt

Mrs E C B Dugan

+Mr P Evans

+Mr P J & Mrs S M Everett

+Mr T & Mrs A Fletcher

Miss N J Holloway

Miss E Marwaha

Mr T J Selden

Mr J Thomson

Mr B A Tompkins

Mr V R Tray

Miss E Diamanti

Professor E Dimson

Mr R A F Khan

Dr M Sanguanini

Ms J Cheng

Ms E N Matthews

+Dr D & Mrs H Frame

Mrs A Galea

+Mr N & Mrs V M Gordon

Mr K Gray

Ms E Hamilton

Ms L Hanssler

Mrs E A Hogbin

Mr J Hollerton & Dr J

Hollerton

+Mrs A E Howe

Mr M & Mrs E Howells

Mohammed Islam

+Dr T & Mrs S Jareonsettasin

Mrs A Kelly

Mr T W J Lai & Mrs M F Lai

Leung

Mr S Lamb

+Mr D W Land & Mrs F Land

+Mr K W & Mrs L Lau

Mr G Lawrenson

Mr A & Mrs A Lilienfeld

+Dr H & Mrs V J Malem

+Dr K S & Dr V Manjunath Prasad

Mrs J Mantle

Mr P C & Mrs S M Marshall

+Mr W P & Dr J O Mason

Mrs L Mercer

+Mr J & Mrs E Miller

+Dr P Monck Hill

Mrs H Moore

+Mr J E Moore

Mrs J Morgan

Mrs C Morris

Mr Y Sato

Mr K S Tillmo

Mr N Sushentsev

Dr M Amatt

Miss D J Cairns Haylor

Miss S H Hundeyin

Mr O McGiveron

Mr L Webb

Miss H L Taylor

Mrs K Grabowska

Esther Magedera

Mrs L Naumann

Professor P E Nelson

+Mr P F & Mrs S J Newman

+Ms T D Oakley

Miss E H Parton

+Mr K G Patel

Mr P Paterson

+Mrs E A Peace

Mrs K E Plumley

Mrs E Pokorny

+Mr C J & Mrs P Pope

Patricia Pope

Ms G Power

+Mr D H Ratnaweera & Mrs

R A Nanayakkara

+Mr S M & Mrs L M Reed

Dr G & Mrs D Samra

+Mr A & Mrs C Scully

+Dr J V & Mrs C Y Shepherd

Mrs A Sidhu

Mr R & Dr S Sills

Mr M S H Situmorang & Mrs

S T I Samosir

Mr G T Spera & Professor J C Ginsburg

+Mr M & Mrs L J Spiller

+Mr R & Mrs S E Sturgeon

Mrs K Suess

+Mr P R & Mrs W P Swinn

Mr R Tait

+Mr J E Thompson

Dr A Thrush & Dr H Bradley

Mrs T Waldron

Mr R B & Mrs C M Webb

Dato’ S J Wong

+Mr M & Mrs V Wood

+Mr P M & Mrs J A

Woodward

+Dr A R & Dr H A Wordley

Mr S M Zinser

Corporations, Trusts and Foundations

Barclays Bank

Basil Samuel Charitable Trust

Charles McCutchen Foundation

Google

Highfield Charitable Trust

Labcorp

Sir Simon Milton Foundation

The Andrew Balint

Charitable Trust

The Chumrow Charitable Trust

The Ganton Furze Settlement

Our gratitude also goes to those who wish to remain anonymous.

Members of the Edmund Gonville Society

The Edmund Gonville Society was established to recognise, during their lifetime, those Caians and friends who are leaving a bequest to the College. Members are gifted a special pin to mark their belonging to the Edmund Gonville Society and are invited to the annual Edmund Gonville Society Lunch, as well as to the College May Week Party. Those indicating an especially generous bequest, a pledged value of at least £100,000, are invited to the annual Commemoration Service and Feast.

Mr G Etherington-Wilson (1944)

Dr G P R Bielstein (1945)

Dr F C Rutter (1945)

Mr H G Way (1947)

Mr M J Harrap (1949)

Mr M Buckley Sharp (1950)

Dr M I Lander (1950)

Mr G D C Preston (1950)

Dr J E Godrich (1951)

Mr M H Lemon (1951)

Professor M J Whelan (1951)

Mr P J Murphy (1952)

Mr S F S Balfour-Browne (1953)

Mr C S Bishop (1953)

Mr G H Gandy (1953)

Mr C J Ritchie (1953)

Mr J P Seymour (1953)

Mr D J Boyd (1954)

Mr D I Cook (1954)

Dr R A F Cox (1954)

Dr J R Eames (1954)

Professor N J Gross (1954)

Dr M Hayward (1954)

Mr J D Heap (1954)

Mr D W James (1954)

Mr R M Reeve (1954)

Mr R J Silk (1954)

Professor P D Clothier (1955)

Mr M Duerden (1955)

Dr P J Noble (1955)

Mr J K Ferguson (1956)

Mr M L Holman (1956)

The Reverend Canon Philip Morgan (1956)

Dr D L Wynn-Williams (1956)

Dr J P Charlesworth (1957)

Dr T W Davies (1957)

Dr A N Ganner (1957)

Mr C B Melluish (1957)

The Rt Hon The Lord Tugendhat of Widdington (1957)

Major General E G Willmott (1957)

Mr N B Blake (1958)

Mr T J Brack (1958)

Mr R D Martin (1958)

Mr N McKendrick (1958)

Professor C S A Ng (1958)

Mr M Roberts (1958)

Dr F D Skidmore (1958)

Sir Keith Stuart (1958)

Mr A J Taunton (1958)

Mr J A Brewer (1959)

Mr B Drewitt (1959)

Mr R G McNeer (1959)

Mr C J Methven (1959)

Mr P Neuburg (1959)

Mr J H Riley (1959)

The Revd D G Sharp (1959)

Dr A G Weeds (1959)

Mr P J Worboys (1959)

Mr J G Barham (1960)

Mr D J Ellis (1960)

Professor R J B Frewer (1960)

Dr P M Keir (1960)

Mr A Kenney (1960)

Mr M B Maunsell (1960)

Mr R A McAllister (1960)

Mr P G Ransley (1960)

Mr C W M Rossetti (1960)

Dr F H Stewart (1960)

Professor P S Walker (1960)

Mr R D S Wylie (1960)

Mr C E Ackroyd (1961)

Mr D M Daniels (1961)

Dr J Davies-Humphreys (1961)

Mr P Marchbank (1961)

Mr A G Munro (1961)

Mr C H Pemberton (1961)

Professor D W Phillipson (1961)

Mr D E P Shapland (1961)

Mr V D West (1961)

Dr N E Williams (1961)

Mr D J Bell (1962)

Mr R D Clement (1962)

Mr E A Davidson KC (1962)

Col M W H Day (1962)

Professor Sir Alan Fersht (1962)

Mr D Hjort (1962)

Professor A R Hunter (1962)

Mr J W Jones (1962)

Mr A J C Lodge (1962)

Mr A R Martin (1962)

Dr R N F Simpson (1962)

Mr H N Whitfield (1962)

Dr T G Blaney (1963)

Dr B H J Briggs (1963)

Dr S Field (1963)

Mr P M G B Grimaldi (1963)

Dr R W F Le Page (1963)

Dr M J Weston (1963)

Dr J P Casey (1964)

Mr J E Chisholm (1964)

Mr R A Dixon (1964)

Mr N R Fieldman (1964)

The Revd Canon R W Hunt (1964)

Mr C W Thomson (1964)

Dr T B Wallington (1964)

Dr J E J Altham (1965)

Professor B C Barker (1965)

Mr J H Finnigan (1965)

Mr I V Jackson (1965)

Dr M J Maguire (1965)

Dr C B Mahood (1965)

Mr J J McCrea (1965)

Dr P D Rice (1965)

Mr D S Thompson (1965)

Mr I R Whitehead (1965)

Mr M J Barker (1966)

Mr M Bicknell (1966)

Mr S A Blair (1966)

Mr R Bowman (1966)

Mr C R Deacon (1966)

Mr R Holden (1966)

Professor R C Hunt (1966)

Mr D F White (1966)

The Revd R J Wyber (1966)

Mr C F Corcoran (1967)

Mr P G Cottrell (1967)

Dr M C Frazer (1967)

Mr R L Fry (1967)

Mr D G Hayes (1967)

Professor R G Holloway (1967)

Mr T W Morton (1967)

Mr S D Reynolds (1967)

Professor J B Saunders (1967)

Mr P Shah (1967)

Dr C Shindler (1967)

Mr P M Barker (1968)

Mr P E Barnes (1968)

Mr I M D Barrett (1968)

Mr D F Giddings (1968)

Dr T J Haste (1968)

Mr D J Laird (1968)

Dr J Meyrick Thomas (1968)

Mr E Robinson (1968)

Mr N A Stone (1968)

Mr I R T Brinton (1969)

Dr M W Eaton (1969)

Mr R J Field (1969)

Dr C J Hardwick (1969)

Mr D R Hulbert (1969)

Mr S B Joseph (1969)

Mr C J Lloyd (1969)

Mr F M Pick (1969)

Mr P J M Redfern (1969)

Mr T D Stanley-Clamp (1969)

Mr P B Vos (1969)

Mr J M Wilkinson (1969)

Mr D A Wilson (1969)

Mr J Aughton (1970)

Mr D N S Beevers (1970)

Dr M E Boxer (1970)

Dr D D Clark-Lowes (1970)

Mr A J Neale (1970)

Mr J S Robinson (1970)

Professor M A Horan (1971)

Professor B Jones (1971)

Dr P G W Lapinskas (1971)

Mr I A Murray (1971)

Mr N D Peace (1971) & Mrs

N S Peace

Dr P T Such (1971)

Mr D R Barrett (1972)

Mr S M B Blasdale (1972)

Mr R S Handley (1972)

Mr D W Kusin (1972)

Dr A Lloyd Evans (1972)

Mr J Scopes (1972)

Professor A T H Smith (1972)

Mr P R Beverley (1973)

Mr A B Brentnall (1973)

Mr P C English (1973)

Mr F How (1973)

Mr K S Silvester (1973)

Mr J Sunderland (1973)

Mr H B Trust (1973)

Professor D S H Abulafia (1974)

Professor A J Blake (1974)

The Revd Dr V J Chatterjie (1974)

Dr E J Dickinson (1974)

Mr J C Evans (1974)

Dr R D Evans (1974)

Mr C D Gilliat (1974)

Mr N Kirtley (1974)

Mr H E Roberts (1974)

Professor D S Secher (1974)

Dr R Baker-Glenn (1975)

Professor P Binski (1975)

Mr S Collins (1975)

Mr T J Craddock (1975)

Mr E A M Ebden (1975)

Dr M J Franklin (1975)

Mr D J Huggins (1975)

Mr L G D Marr (1975)

Mr B J Warne (1975)

Mr K R Widdows (1975)

Mr N S K Booker (1976)

Mr L G Brew (1976)

Mr T C Brockington (1976)

Mr D J Cox (1976)

Mr S J Landy (1976)

Mr S H Le Fevre (1976)

Dr S J Morris (1976)

Mr S J Roith (1976)

Mr S Thomson (1976)

Mr J P Treasure (1976)

Professor O H Warnock (1976)

Mr R C Zambuni (1976)

Dr J W Durman (1977)

Mr K S McClintock (1977)

Mr G C Pattie (1977)

Professor T A Ring (1977)

Mr A J Salmon (1977)

Dr L F M Scinto (1977)

Mr S A Scott (1977)

Mr M J Simon (1977)

Mr J C Barber (1978)

Dr J A Ellerton (1978)

Mr R C S Evans (1978)

Mr A D Halls (1978)

Mr D J Harris (1978)

Mr R A Lister (1978)

Mr M C E Bennett-Law (1979)

Mr N C I Harding (1979)

Mr B J Isaacson (1979)

Dr M E Lowth (1979)

Mr D L Melvin (1979)

Dr K C Saw (1979)

Mr J Bond (1980)

Mr C R Crawford Clarke (1980)

Mr A R Dale (1980)

Dr S L Grassie (1980)

Mr P A du P Krikler (1980)

Mr S J Lowth (1980)

Dr J Marsh (1980)

Mr A May (1980)

Dr J N Pines (1980)

Mr J M E Silman (1980)

Mrs M S Silman (1980)

Dr S J Ward (1980)

Mrs J S Adams (1981)

Mr K J Gosling (1981)

Dr R L Kilpatrick (1981)

Mr T Saunders (1981)

Mrs D C Saunders (1981)

Ms A M Tully (1981)

Mr R A Warne (1981)

Dr B A Weskamp (1981)

Mr D Baker (1982)

Dr H M Brindley (1982)

Mrs S C Burns (1982)

Mr A R Flitcroft (1982)

Mr P Loughborough (1982)

Dr J N Nicholls (1982)

Professor J M Percy (1982)

The Rt Hon Professor The Lord Roberts of Belgravia (1982)

Professor M J Weait (1982)

Mr H M Cobbold (1983)

Dr R C Mason (1983)

Mr R M Payn (1983)

Dr J Reid (1983)

Mr C J Shore (1983)

Dr C P Spencer (1983)

Mr R A Brooks (1984)

Mr G C R Budden (1984)

Mrs N J Cobbold (1984)

Mr J J Cuss (1984)

Dr N J Hamilton (1984)

Dr R E G Reid (1984)

Dr T C M Wei (1984)

Mr P G J S Helson (1985)

Mr A J Landes (1985)

Dr A M Shaw (1985)

The Hon Justice M A Perry (1986)

Mr J P Barabino (1987)

Mr L M Mair (1987)

Ms P A Nagle (1987)

Mr T J Parsonson (1987)

Mr J W Scholtz (1987)

Dr T P Bligh (1988)

Ms R C Homan (1988)

Dr A D Hossack (1988)

Dr O S Khwaja (1988)

Mr M J Rawlins (1988)

Mr S Shah (1988)

Mr A E Wellenreiter (1988)

Professor M J Brown (1989)

Mrs L C Logan (1989)

Mr B J McGrath (1989)

Mr A M P Russell (1989)

Mrs Z M Clark (1990)

Mr R D Hill (1990)

Dr P A Key KC (1990)

Mr J B Smith (1990)

Dr C S J Fang (1991)

Ms J R M Burton (1992)

Dr C Byrne (1993)

Dr E A Congdon (1993)

Mrs J L Crowther (1993)

Ms S T Willcox (1993)

Ms V K E Dietzel (1994)

Professor T C Fardon (1994)

Professor S G A Pitel (1994)

Dr M J P Selby (1994)

Dr P Rajan (1995)

Dr K H Adcock (1996)

Maj J S Cousen (1996)

Mr D J Tait (1996)

Dr E J Fardon (1997)

Professor R H Helmholz (2000)

Dr P A Lyon (2001)

Dr A C Ho (2002)

Dr E M McIntosh (2005)

Mr A J McIntosh (2005)

Dr T J Murphy (2005)

Dr B D Sloan (2007)

Dr O R A Chick (2008)

Mrs A W S Haines (2009)

Mrs L K Evans (2014)

Dr M Sanguanini (2016)

Professor J V Acrivos

Mrs E M Drewitt

Lady Fersht

Mrs C M Fletcher

Mrs J G Howell Jones

Mrs G M Kirstein

Miss F A Reader

Mrs A E Rose

Mrs J A Walker

Ms A Yonemura

The College is very grateful to the following Caians and friends from whom legacies were received between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024. Our thanks go to them and their families.

Mr K C J Case (1942)

Professor C N L Brooke (1945)

Mr A C Barrington Brown (1948)

Professor K G Denbigh (1950)

Dr M J O’Shea (1952)

Dr K C A Blasdale (1953)

Mr S B Ellacott (1953)

Mr H J Goodhart (1953)

Mr F D Harper-Jones (1953)

Mr P T Stevens (1953)

Mr J D Taylor (1955)

Dr R B Walton (1955)

Mr I Samuels (1956)

Mr A J Lambell (1957)

Mr J D Pybus (1958)

Dr J S Denbigh (1961)

Mr T M Glaser (1962)

Dr H E R Preston (1966)

Mr S Young (1971)

Ms L L Deakin

College Officers and Staff

(as on 30 September 2024)

President Professor P Robinson MA PhD ScD

Senior Bursar R G Gardiner MA

Development Director M Amatt BA MPhil PhD

Domestic Bursar K Ball BA MBA

Registrary J A Latimer MB BS MA MD MRCOG FRANZCOG

Praelector Rhetoricus

J A Latimer MB BS MA MD MRCOG FRANZCOG

Dean Revd C Hammond MA DPhil

Precentor M R Martin MA

Tutors

Senior Tutor

A M Spencer MPhil PhD

Deputy Senior Tutor (Postgraduates) R A Sugden MA MPhil PhD

Tutor For Admissions and Outreach C Scott MPhil PhD

Tutors For Postgraduate Students

J Fraser MA PhD BM BChir

J M Evans MA PhD

Professor R Staley BA PhD

R A Sugden MA MPhil PhD

Professor M Chatterji MA PhD F Vergis BA LLM PhD

A M Spencer BA MPhil PhD

Tutors for Undergraduates

F G G Basso LAUREA LICENZA E Niblaeus MA MPhil PhD

A M Bunyan BA PhD C Scott BA MPhil PhD

E Drage MA PhD

M Ellefson BA MA PhD

A M Spencer BA MPhil PhD

Professor G Vinnicombe MA PhD

J Hawkes BA MA PhD L Wan BArch MPhil PhD

D Massey MB BChir PhD MRCP A Zeitler StEx PhD

Tutor for Discipline

J Latimer MA MD FRCOG PGCME

Lecturers

and Directors of Studies

Archaeology: J Hawkes BA MA PhD

ASNC: E Niblaeus MA MPhil PhD

Chemical Engineering: A Zeitler StEx PhD

Classics: A Launaro LAUREA PhD

F G G Basso LAUREA LICENZA

Clinical Medicine:

Computer Science:

Economics:

Education:

Engineering:

English:

Foundation Year:

Geography:

History:

J A Latimer MB BS MA MD MRCOG FRANZCOG

Z Fritz MA MB BS PhD

Professor P F Chinnery BMedSci MB BS PhD

FRCP FMedSci FRS

Professor T M Jones MEng PhD

R Moore MA PhD

G Emerson BA MEng PhD

Professor M Chatterji MA PhD

C Lawson MA PhD

Professor M Ellefson BA MA PhD

G Idashosa BA MA PGDHE PhD

D M Holburn MA PhD

A Mahadevegowda BTech DPhil

Professor M C Smith MA MPhil PhD FRCO FREng

Professor G Vinnicombe MA PhD

Professor R J Miller MEng DPhil

J Hambleton BEng MSc PhD

D Lefas MA MEng PhD

D L Bowman MA PhD

S Houghton-Walker MA MPhil PhD

Professor J E Scott-Warren MA MPhil PhD

A M Spencer BA MPhil PhD

M Van Wyk de Vries BSc PhD

Professor S Sivasundaram BA MPhil PhD FBA

FRHistS FRAS

History & Modern Languages:

History & Politics:

A M Spencer BA MPhil PhD

Professor A S Brett MA PhD

M T Calaresu BA MA PhD

M Joseph BA MSc DPhil

A M Bunyan BA PhD

R A Sugden MA MPhil PhD

M T Calaresu BA MA PhD

L McMahon BA MPhil PhD

R M Scurr MA PhD

Professor P Mandler MA PhD FBA

A M Spencer BA MPhil PhD

M T Calaresu BA MA PhD

History and Philosophy of Science: Professor R Staley BA PhD

Human, Social, and Political Sciences: R M Scurr MA PhD

R Sánchez-Rivera MA PhD

C-A Schulz BA MA MPhil DPhil

N Crowley BA MA PhD

Land Economy:

Law:

LLM:

Linguistics:

L Wan BArch MPhil PhD

K L Miles BA LLB LLM PhD

F Vergis BA LLM PhD

Professor L Smith LLB LLM DPhil MA DCL

R V Yotova MJur LLM PhD

F Vergis BA LLM PhD

Professor L Smith LLB LLM DPhil MA DCL

Professor L Gullifer MA BCL KC

R V Yotova MJur LLM PhD

Professor P J Buttery BA MPhil PhD

Mathematics: J M Evans MA PhD

Professor R Nickl MA MSc PhD

Medicine:

H Mott MA DPhil

D Massey MB BChir PhD MRCP

J Fraser MA PhD BM BChir

Professor K O’Shaughnessy MA BM BCh DPhil

DSc FRCP

Professor D A Giussani BSc PhD DSc

J E Sale MA MB BChir PhD MRCP

Professor D J Riches BSc MA PhD MB BS LRCP

MRCS

Professor F A Gallagher BA BM BCh MRCP FRCR

Modern and Medieval Languages: A M Bunyan BA PhD

R A Sugden MA MPhil PhD

G Maguire MA MLitt PhD

Natural Sciences:

D K Summers MA DPhil

Professor J Ellis MA PhD

Professor A Bond BA MA PhD

Professor W Y Liang BSc ARCS PhD

Professor E M Harper MA PhD

Professor D S Wright MA PhD

Professor I R Henderson BA PhD

Professor U F Keyser DIPL-PHYS PhD

Professor R Blumenfeld MSc PhD

Professor E Ringe BA PhD

W Handley MA MSci PhD

Psychological & Behavioural Sciences: Professor J D Mollon BA DPhil DSc FRS

Lectors

French Alix Michaud

German Filiz Yildirim MA

Other Staff

Finance Manager

Penny Gibbs

Endowment Property Manager Alison Stanley BSc MRICS

Master’s PA

Head of Communications

Becky Rutter

Matt McGeehan

Tutorial Office Manager Esme Page

Head of Student Health & Wellbeing Anne Limon Duparcmeur

Head Porter

College Librarian

Archivist

Head of IT

College Housekeeper

Accommodation Manager

Martin May

Mark Statham MA, ALA

James Cox MSc

Matt Mee

Karen Heslop

Wendy Fox

Director of Catering Ricardo Soares

Conference & Events Manager

Head of Maintenance

Estates Manager

Head Gardener

Head Groundsman

Boathouse Manager

HR Manager

Georgina Millar

Tim Lee

Andrew Gair BSc MA

Phil Brett

Mark Ward

Simon Goodbrand

Charlotte Hasler

In addition to those named above, Caius employs over 200 valued members of nonacademic staff. All of them play an important role in ensuring the smooth operation of the College as a place of education and research.

Junior Members and Freshmen 2023

The following were admitted members of the College in the academic year 2023-24:

Undergraduate Students

Acott, Georgina H L

Aggarwal, Shivan

Ahmed, Fozy

Ajit, Krishnan S

Amazigo, Stephanie

Appleton, James

Atkinson, Alex

Bachelez, Valentine

Baker, Holly

Balouka Myers, Raffy

Bartlett, Emily

Bera, Srij

Berg, Vadim I S

Bhardwaj, Chiara

Black, Tabby

Boddington, Jess

Boulil, Kenza

Brennan, Jess

Brennan, Tom

Brewster, Ellen

Cai, Hongfei

Cairns, Holly L

Carter, Katie

Cater, James

Chadda, Simran J

Cheung, Charlotte Y C

Christoforou, Rea N

Clark, Alanah

Connell, Sophie L

Constantinides, Marios

Cooksey, Jamie C

Couchman, Neve R

Cowan, Tom

Cray, Alex

Crewe, Livi

D’Souza, Rhea

Davies, Frederica C

Ding, Frank

Dobrova, Natalie I

Donnachie, Tom Edwards, Saskia

El-Masri, Sammy

Enterkin, Lewis

Espinosa, Marvie L

Eyres, Eben

Fardon, Jamie Field, Eden

Finch, Lucy

Finke, Hannah

Fisher, Eva K

Fishman, Eva

Flores, Citlali

Fobel, Charlotte R

Folgheraiter, Hannah C

Fox, Cameron

Frisby Williams, Lola

Fung, Jemima

Gamage, Rehan R T

Gibbs, Emily R

Gibson, Chloe A

Giess, Theo

Gooding, Amber

Goulev, Lucia

Hampton, Megan A

Hansra, India

Hart, Ruby

Harvey, Hazel

Hayashi, Ray

Hedley, Ieuan

Herron-Isa, Yasmin

Himaz, Hassan

Ho, Sharon S

Hoeflein, Christopher

Hollingdale, Max

Hua, Nicole J R

Isaev, Bogdan

Islam, Zarrah

Iverson, Ruby

Jackson Amy

Jackson Jessel, Georgia

Jain, Sahana

Janaarthanan, Kaushalya

Jempson, David J

Jesudas, Jeshvin

Jones, Melissa S

Kalyana, Aroun

Kedia, Keshav

Kelly, Jack W M

Khawaja, Amina

Kirby, Katya

Kong, Luka

Krishnan, Mithil A

Kugan, Suveththa

Lankester, Poppy

Lee, Philip J

Li, Lucy

Li, Hongwei

Li, Joanna

Lin, Zihan

Lin, Hei In I

Lord, Monty E

MacGregor, Baruch

Mackay, Annabel

Magedera, Esther

Maidment, Theo

Mason, Luke

Mathieson, Haidar M

Mellodey, Anise C

Meng, Fiona

Metayer, Ethan J

Mihai, Luca M

Mittoo, Jacob J

Mohammed, Mohammed

Mohan Raj, Harshika

Monaghan, Katie F

Muman, Fatima

Mumford, Neve

Murray, Calum

Nayyar, Azhar A

Newman-Sanders, Sam

Pandey, Shivansh

Patel, Misha C

Peters, Jack

Poulson, Oscar

Poydovska, Kalina

Prabhu, Aniruddh P

Pradhan, Kaden

Proctor, Amélie

Puttick, Mari

Raghuram, Riya

Rana, Rohan

Rathore, Anubhav

Razi, Aaliyah

Rule, Anoush M

Sarma, Juthika

Scorah Zak, L

Sears, Ben

Sehmi, Rishi

Shakeshaft, Sam

Shankardass, Arianna

Sharma, Agrim

Shipley, Katrina S

Sigee, Oscar J

Singleton, Connor J

Skeen, Peter

Smith, Rachel

Sng, Matthew K E

Snow, Olivia C

Soh, Zack G Y

Song, Thomas

Soottreenart, Pyncha

Sorensen, William

Stares, Alex

Stead, Joe P

Sundarakumaran, Sandriya

Talan, Eren

Thiagarajah, Mithushan

Thomson, Theo

Thoulé, Alex

Toong, Ping Jing J

Uddin, Nasim M

Vivehanantharajah, Thivi

Walsh, Seb J C

Ward, Carys

Research and Postgraduate Students

Abulikemu, Subati

Abyaneh, Pegah

Ahmed, Kifayaat

Alexander, Jack M

Alexii, Raluca-Elena E

Andreotti, Christian N

Bakewell, Eleanor F

Becroft, Samuel J

Birkner, Caroline

Boccacino, Jacqueline M

Bonivento Martinez, Juan Felipe F

Boxall, Adam

Brea, Ivan

Brindley, Leon P

Chan, Jordan

Chen, Qi

Chen, Ziyi

Chowdhury, Ritabrata

Clothier, Georgia

Connolly, Susanna M

Dawid, Adrian P

Day, Cicely F

De Salis Young, James A

Eloi, Joseph O

Emerson, Katelyn J

Emsden, Alice

Gavronski, Samuel

Gordon, Ariella C

Whiteside, Angus

Williams, George

Wills, Maddie

Windle, Charlie

Wong, Jasmine S L

Woods, Matty C G

Wystup, Cezary

Yeh, Kristen E

Yuille, Tamsin

Yung, Rhianna N

Zou, Linda

de Groot, Alice E M

Hanna, Natasha L

Heathcote, Daniel A

Heckel, Kade M

Heeley Charlotte E R

Heraghty, Daniel F

Hirsi, Asma B

Hoblyn, Ashley

Hoffmann, Lex

Hoy, Owen J

Hunt, Andrew C

Inamdar, Ashath Prasen P

Jackson, Matthew L

Janakiraman, Shruti

Jaresova, Julie

Jia, Yuetong

John, Benjamin A

Kapila, Shiv U

Khan, Salman U

Kim, Grace R

Kozhushko, Nikita

Krishna, Meghna

Langezaal, Eric R

Lawrence, Alice C E

Lin, Mingshi

Malik, Maria

Mallik, Varun Vivian V

Marcheva, Mila M

Marques Monteiro, Richard

Marshall, Henry N

Matsunami, Hiromichi

Mbogo, Harrison N

Miskin, Atharva

Moore, Jessica

Morgan, Jon P

Mortimer, Alexander

Mortner, Owen

Moss, Ryan

Moyo, Melody

Mundayur, Neelima R

Mäkiranta, Matias A J

Neame, Rufus

Nguyen, Bao T

Noble, Declan G W

O’Hara, Thomas P

Ong, Shiu Jern J

Penz, Adrian C

Pica Ciamarra, Lorenzo

Pinel Neparidze, Cristina

Prado Sepulveda, Rodolfo Andres A

Purvis, William

Radmard, Puria

Rangiah, Priam I

Sami, Iman

Sangha, Gavinda

Sarwar, Yusuf

Schröder, Nadia A

Shah, Kavya M

Shields, Nicholas L

Thomas, Kirsten R

Triabhall, Adam

Tsioupra, Nicola

Veenstra-Ashmore, Famke P

Vogl, Thomas

Walk, Maxwell A

Wang, Shushan

Watson, Carmen D L

Western, Anna L

Whitehead, Dillon

Woodward, James A

Ye, Fanyu

Zhang, Hao

Zhang, Emily Zhang, Yi

Zhao, Yunyi

Zheng, Yuan

Degrees, Awards and Prizes

Higher Degrees

Cambridge Higher Degrees conferred during the academic year

PhD

Acherman, Katja F

Aflalo, Aure

Agocs, Fruzsina

Barrott, Isobel

Bartlett, Harriet L

Belman, Sophie A R

Cassidy, Megan A

Cohen, Wouter A

Connors, Scott T

Corry, Jessica

Croft, Cameron S

Daly, Leanne M

Dean, Joseph P

Eichberger, Fabian S

Elshina, Elizaveta

Eremina, Aleksandra

Guo, Jikai

Haider, Arshad

Hampstead, Juliet E

Hollanek, Tomasz

Kelleher-Unger, Isaac

Kress, Thomas

Matuszewska, Marta

Murphy, Jane E

Myers, Philip

O’Kelly, Eugenia

Parlett, Hannah M

Psycharis, Matthew J

Riesgo Gonzalez, Victor Rossi Sabrina H

Sagar, Andrew

Said, Tamer H S

Salzmann, Robert

Sartori, Jacopo

Shirvani, Saba

Sorrell, Ethan T

Sushentsev, Nikita

Tilokani, Lisa

Wagner, Emma

Webb, Jamie P

Webber, Katherine M

Wieser, Eric F

Young, Katherine A

Zacharis, Katerina D

LLM

Andreotti, Christian N

Becroft, Samuel J

Bonivento Martinez, Juan Felipe

Connolly, Susanna M

Janakiraman, Shruti

John, Benjamin A

Rangiah, Priam I

Vogl, Thomas

MRes

Aflalo, Aure

Powell, Oliver F J

MPhil

Arcisz, Agnieszka

Arunkumar, Yashasvi

Bakewell, Eleanor F

Brea, Ivan

Brown V, William H

Burr, Georgina

Chao, Jonathan H

Christenson, Stephanie L C

Cicik, Beyza

Clothier, Georgia

Drake, Spencer L

Emerson, Katelyn J

Gerszberg, Addie C

Hammerer, Jacob M

Heraghty, Daniel F

Hoy, Owen J

Huffer, James A

Inamdar, Ashath Prasen P

Jaresova, Julie

Kain, Damni

Keener, Benjamin T

Kim, Grace R

Kons, Ido

Lamorte, Nicholas A

Lawrence, Alice C E

Leach, Anna R

Lott, Lucy M E

Léonard, Anne P

Miskin, Atharva

Moev, Tzvetan I

Mortimer, Alexander

Muchnick, Justin R

Mundayur, Neelima R

Munoz, Yareqzy L

Nanu, Alexandra

Neaverson, John E

Nguyen, Bao T

Oag, Kirsten H

Omowale, Jendayi J N

Ramos Jordán, Katerina I

Rees, Maxim J C

Rowe, Scarlet

Sami, Iman

Sarwar, Yusuf

Scullion, Edward

Shoaib, Karim

Tilokani, Natasha

Träuble, Jakob N

Vare, Thomas H B

Veenstra-Ashmore, Famke P

Westmacott, Lucy C

Whitehead, Mathilda

Xu, Jiayi

Zhang, Emily

Zheng, Yuan

Zimianiti, Eva

MAST

Gladden, Liam N C

Itro, Outhmane

Keyes, Adam W

Penz, Adrian C

Annual Elections and Awards June 2024

Schuldham Plate

Lock Tankard

Catherine Yates Memorial Prize

Harborne (Rowing) Tankard

Len Sealy Fun Scholar

Yaks & Crows

Sir Harold Gillies Prize

Ronald Greaves Bursary

Emma Sclater Prize for Architecture

Dorothy Moyle Needham Prize for Biochemistry

Irving Fritz Prize for Biochemistry

James Arthur Ramsay Prize for Chemistry and Biology

Swann Prize for Biology

Frank Smart Prize for Botany

Vernon English Prize for Classics

Evanthia Sofianou Prize for Economics

Dennison Prize for Economics

Derek G.W. Ingram Prize for Engineering

Sir David L. Salomons Prize for Engineering

Reginald C. Cox Prize for Engineering

Mary Altham Prize for English

Edward Buckland Prize for History

James and Andrew Makin Prize for History

James and Andrew Makin Prize for History

J. Shortman, J. Vincent

J. Campbell, L. Pettitt

E. Carter, A. Chowdhury

M. Riley

L. Akinola, O. Gray

T-R. Mullings

C-A. Earl

Y. Wong

L. Courtauld

L. Harrison-Oakes

H.I. Lin

I. Parker

H. Barber

A. Learmount

L. Merrylees, J. Murphy

T. Song

L. Wu

C. The

M. Lal

E. Gu

A. Chowdhury

K. Duthie

A. Stewart

V. Karadimitris, Z. Zhang & Modern Languages

James and Andrew Makin Prize for History & Politics

Lu Gwei-Djen Prize for the History of Science

Frere-Smith Prize for Law

Sir William McNair Prizes for Law

Sir William McNair Mooting Prize

Emlyn Wade Prize for Law

Barry Hedley Prize for Management Studies

Michael Latham Prize for Mathematics

Simon Jagger Prize for Mathematics

Ryan Prize for Higher Mathematics

Anne Pearson Prize for Medicine

Harold Ackroyd Scholarship for Medicine

Ian Gordon-Smith Prize for Medicine

Tucker Prize for Medicine

Eugene Paykel Prize in Psychiatry

Michell Scholarships for Medicine

J. Shortman

E. Hogg

W. Budek

N. Bryan-Brown

A. Cray, K. Pradhan

B. John

D. Agrawal, B. Fawcett

M. Krishnan

G. Kosmas, S. Beechey

T. Kinowsk i

J. Vincent

D. Duru

H.I. Lin

D. Horsfield

Not awarded.

F. Jamil, R. Smith

Walter Myers Exhibitions for Medicine

Brook Prize for Medicine

Elizabeth Villar-Etscheit Prize

D. Agrawal, T. Chotanaphuti

C. Bredell, B. Clay, T. Sivakanthan, N. Treagust, M. Walton

A. de Groot

Frank Cook Prize for Oriental Studies or Modern E. Paterson

Languages

Frederick John Stopp Prize for Modern Languages E. Cockain

Ian and Marjory McFarlane Prize in French N. Stuart, V. K aradimitris

Compton Wills Prize for Music L. Pettitt

H.L. Perry Prize for Music B. Paterson

Duncan Bruce Memorial Prize for Physics B. Burgess

Cameron Reading Prize 2024 L. Pettitt

Other Awards:

Grabowski Bursaries for Music: Adewusi, Y, Bachelez, V, Duthie, K, Gordon, A, Heathcote, D, Hoy, O, John, B, Marques Monteiro, R, Mundayur, N, Paterson, E, Pemberton, S, Pica Ciamarra, L, Sarwar, Y, Webb, L, Wood, J, Wu, L, Ye, F, Yongphiphatwong, N, Zarif, A

Wilfrid Holland Music Awards: Cort, L, Davies, F, Pettitt, L, Wood, L

Bell-Wade Awards: Beardmore, A, Bonsell, J, Craig, C, Dengler, A, Dickinson, M, Duru, D, Earl, C-A, Emsden, A, Gamage, S R, Gibbs, E, Gottlieb, O, Grab, P, Harrison Oakes, L, Havard, L, Heathcote, D, Heeley, C, Hickey, P, Mair, A, McDonald, R, Murphy, J, Murugaiyan, R, Preston, S, Sardana, S, Smith, R, Taylor, H, Teh, C, von Malaisé, M, Walk, M, Ward, C, Yang, L

Scholarships and Exhibitions

Honorary Senior Scholarships

Elected: [4th Year] O. Coppellotti, L. Harrison-Oakes, V. Karadimitris, A. Varshney

[3rd Year] L. Barbenel, A. Chowdhury, L. Green, J. Grier, P. Hickey, R. Higgins, E. Hogg, M. Palatnik, M. Riley, M. von Malaise, R. Wilberforce

Honorary Senior Exhibitions

Elected: [3rd Year]

Clinical Scholarships

Elected:

Senior Scholarships

Elected:

[3rd Year]

None.

D. Agrawal, R. Arumugam, C. Bosshard, T. Chotanaphuti, T. Cohan Dominguez, F. Jamil, R. Smith, C. Talks, J. Vincent, S. Yang

[3rd year] None.

[2nd year]

Continued: [3rd Year]

[2nd Year]

Senior Exhibitions

Elected:

S. Baker, S. Beechey, R. Brooke, D. Cielsa, L. Cort, C. Francis, O. Khattar, J. Kidger, L. King, A. Learmount, D. Lee, C. Merrylees, T-R. Mullings, J. Murphy, N. Warren

N. Chan, A. El-Bouhy, P. Grab, M. Lal, A. Wajed, P.T. Zeng

H. Atkins, H. Chacksfield, V. Cipponeri, O. Cockburn, E. Cockain, D. Duru, K. Duthie, E. Gu, O. Gunton, D. Horsfield, E. Greensmith, N. Karve, G. Kosmas, A. Liu, J. Maxen, P. Meehan, I. Mellis-Glynn, B. Munton, S. Murali, R. Narayan, O. Oliver, A. Peuch, K. Prabhu, J. Richmond, A. Seiki, J. Thomson

[3rd Year] M. Raouf

[2nd Year] O. Hanks, K. Murugesh

Continued: [2nd Year] None.

Scholarships

Elected:

[1st Year]

J. Appleton, H. Baker, S. Becroft, J.F. Bonivento Marinez, K. Boulil, C. Cheung, S. Connolly, L. Crewe, A. de Groot, E. Field, H. Finke, C. Fobel, L. Goulev, G. Jackson Jessel, S. Janakiraman, D. Jempson, B. John, K. Kedia, M. Krishnan, H. Lin, Z. Lin, E. Magedera, T. Maidment, A. Mellodey, L. Mihai, J. Mittoo,

Continued:

Exhibitions

Elected:

M. Mohammed, N. Mumford, C. Murray, S. Newman-Sanders, D. Noble, K. Poydovska, K. Pradhan, R. Puttick, R. Rana, P. Rangiah, K. Shipley, O. Sigee, T. Song, A. Stares, A. Thoule, S. Walsh, G. Williams, M. Wills, J. Wong, C. Wystup, T. Yuille

[4th Year] K.-R. Choong

[3rd Year] E. Dokudowiec, R. McDonald

[2nd Year] A. Alsayed Ramadan, Z. Blakey, C. Conybeare, L. Guye, A. Jones, W. Morley, B. Paterson, C. Raza, J. Richmond, K. Scarrott, T. Sinclair, L. Stephen

[1st Year] J. Fung, M. Hampton, A. Shankardass, C. Singleton

Choral Scholars

Pip Alpin to read Music

Toby Barnett to read Mathematics

Hannah Brooks-Hughes to read Music

Robert Henderson to read Music

Heidi Homewood to read Medicine

Baruch MacGregor to read Medicine

Oliver Merriman to read Modern and Medieval Languages

Orlando Oliver to read Computer Science

Butterfly Paterson to read Music

Louis Pettitt to read Music

Laura Wood to read Medical Sciences

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