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Members 4 The Fellowship The Senior Common Room 8 Fellows’ research and teaching news 11 Undergraduate Freshers 21 Graduate Freshers 22 Matriculands 24 26 Undergraduate examination results Graduate examination results 28 31 Scholarships and exhibitions Special awards 33 Undergraduate prizes 34 Graduate prizes 35 The Lincoln Year Senior Tutor’s report Librarian’s report Archivist’s report Access and outreach Bursar’s report Development & alumni relations Honour roll of donors Murray Society honour roll Domestic Bursar’s report Staff list Lincoln College Chapel JCR and MCR Officers Sports Colours and Captains Alumni perspectives Governing Body Alumni Representative’s report Finance Committee Alumni Members’ report Alumni representation on committees Deaths Obituaries

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Editorial

From the Editor Welcome to the 2014 edition of The Lincoln Record. I must admit that as I pulled my chair up in front of the screen to write this, my seventh ‘From the Editor’, I did so with no small amount of anxiety about how to spin the annual themes of continuity and change yet again, and that without repetition of previous outings, or spoiling the far more interesting and witty contributions that lie in store in the following pages. So I thought that I might draw inspiration from earlier back issues. But it was hardly the encouragement I needed to find that for many years my august predecessor, Prof S Gill, sent the Record out to the faithful without any editorial preamble – a modesty that I admire, and that chimes rather with the advice I often find myself giving to my English students about their essays: ‘Just get to the point!’ So (with apologies to Nicholas Parsons) if I want to avoid repetition, let me try deviation, without hesitation.

One interesting achievement in this year of so many things new, but not otherwise recorded in the ensuing reports, is the important attention paid to something that is precious and old: the remarkable survivals of early seventeenth-century wall paintings in rooms in Chapel Quad. The Turl Street range of what is now Chapel Quad was built in a burst of confidence, financial and architectural, at the end of the first decade of the 1600’s; it was left to the generosity of our then Visitor, Bishop of Lincoln John Williams (he who reigns over high table) to complete the unfinished new quad with the east range in the sixteenteens, and of course, the Chapel in the 1620s. The best rooms in these new buildings were highly sought after by Fellows and better-off undergraduates who, as was the custom in all colleges, added decoration to them at their own expense. The polychromatic paintings – some across entire walls, others as decorative frames for mantelpieces – have in places been preserved behind the later decorative efforts of Georgians who preferred elegant panelling to old-fashioned paintings. College was fortunate to have, and is grateful for, the outstanding efforts of the specialist firm Perry-Lithgow Partnership, conservators of wall paintings and polychrome

decoration based in nearby Kingham, who carried out a detailed assessment of all the surviving paintings, and advised on stabilising maintenance and lighttouch conservation, all done over the Long Vacation. The fine example above – a resplendent cockerel, probably a fragment of a larger allegorical emblem – is now in fine feather, and even under the appropriately watchful care of the Chaplain and Welfare Officer in Staircase 5. So – true to form – we meet again the inevitable, but always reassuring Lincoln theme of preserving what is precious from our past for the benefit of those in future. n Professor Peter McCullough FROM THE EDITOR

Rector’s report

H.R. Woudhuysen Rector

Oxford’s motto has never exactly been ‘out with the old, in with the new’, and for various historical reasons – the size of its site, the small number of its Fellows and undergraduates, its comparative poverty for many centuries – Lincoln might appear to be the epitome of a college untouched by and even oblivious to change. The College grew slowly and the Fellows who welcomed Queen 2.LINCOLN

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Elizabeth I to Oxford in 1566 (if, regrettably, the Queen did not stay here, the young Philip Sidney actually did) would have noticed little obvious change when three centuries or so later Mark Pattison at last achieved his heart’s desire and was elected Rector. Chapel Quad had been constructed and there was a building to house undergraduates in The Grove, but the structures and the organisation of College life were largely unchanged. A closer examination would have revealed that a room had been set aside, so that the Fellows could talk, drink, and play cards in private and with a fire and a chimney rather than under the watchful eyes of the undergraduates in the smoky Hall. This was the first Senior Common Room in Oxford; set up in 1662, it was used for three centuries. The College was also the first in Oxford to establish a Middle Common Room for graduate students – a development particularly associated with Howard Florey – and the first to elect someone Jewish to its fellowship when, in 1882, Samuel Alexander joined Lincoln, where he taught Philosophy for just over a decade before moving to a Chair at Manchester and eventually being made a member of the Order of Merit. Elsewhere in the Record, there are accounts of the progress that has been

made with the cataloguing of the Senior Library and the appointment of a new Archivist and of the arrivals and the departures of Fellows. Mention should also be made of the happy collaboration between the Junior and Middle Common Rooms, which did much to improve Lincoln’s already generous contribution to its members who play University sport at the highest levels. In the larger theatre of the world that is known as the Turl Street Colleges (mysteriously including Brasenose, which, as far as we know, is firmly placed in Radcliffe Square), changes are also under way. Next year (2014-15) we welcome a new Rector of Exeter, as well as in 2015-16 new Principals of both Jesus and of Brasenose colleges. This last appointment, made during the course of this year, at our near and dear neighbour College will be of particular interest, since the next Principal of BNC will be John Bowers QC, who came up to Lincoln to read Law in 1974. Long-term observers of the happy rivalry between Lincoln and BNC may well view this appointment with some interest. The Turl is also the setting for All Saints, now our beautiful Library. In addition to that church and St Michael’s at the Northgate, Lincoln has long and

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ancient associations with a number of livings – the relationship with Combe in Oxfordshire dates back to 1483. Our Chaplain has worked very effectively to revive and encourage links with the livings, inviting their priests to preach in Chapel and to stay for dinner. These new relationships were further strengthened by the College’s involvement in the appointment of a new Rector of St Michael’s, Waddington, Lincolnshire, and by our presence at her institution during the summer. We look forward to putting these old relationships upon a new footing. An opportunity to do this with one of our most distinguished former members arose during the summer when the Nobel Laureate Jean-Marie Lehn was the College’s guest during Encaenia. Professor Lehn, an expert in supramolecular chemistry, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University and showed himself to be as enthusiastic about music and local dishes from the Covered Market as he is about his own academic subject. A dinner in his honour in the Beckington Room (attended by, among others, the Vice-Chancellor) had to be broken up at the end of a splendid day, with distinguished chemists and biochemists continuing to debate and argue in the Turl, long past their usual bedtimes.

Colleges are places of perpetual renewal: the Fellows and the staff grow older, but the undergraduates and graduates are constantly in the process of becoming young again...

There will be much more about new buildings in next year’s Record, but some mention ought to be made here of the opening of the Dame Louise Johnson Building by Sir Richard Gardner. On the corner of Little Clarendon Street and Walton Street, it provides accommodation, kitchens, and common living areas for graduates, as well as easy access to the different delights of Jericho and the science area. The building is named after a former Chair of the EPA Trustees and the Professor of Molecular Biophysics at Oxford. As well as celebrating Dame Louise Johnson’s achievements, the opening provided an opportunity to recount the tale – it never fails to excite and move the hearers – of Lincoln’s historic connexion with the development of penicillin. We are, as ever, grateful to the EPA Trustees for their generous support of the College.

The same should be said of our alumni who have been as welcoming in the New World as in Singapore, Hong Kong, South Africa, Australia, Geneva, and, even more exotically, Edinburgh. A bare list, such as this, of countries and places visited, dinners and receptions attended, old members and their families met and new friends made, can give no sense of the warmth our alumni feel towards Lincoln. Colleges are places of perpetual renewal: the Fellows and the staff grow older, but the undergraduates and graduates are constantly in the process of becoming young again, as one year succeeds another. Today’s Freshers soon – all too soon – become our alumni. They return for Year Dinners, Gaudies, the Murray Day, and other annual events; one of the many pleasures of those occasions is seeing how even the members of the most aged groups soon slip back into their younger selves and their earlier relations with each other. They present a pleasing paradox: youth in age, united by their warm affection for their contemporaries and for the College which originally brought them together. Just as Lincoln is renewed annually by the arrival and presence of its new students, so the return of its alumni refreshes them and the College. n H.R. Woudhuysen Rector RECTOR’S REPORT

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The Fellowship 2013-14 VISITOR The Bishop of Lincoln, The Right Reverend Christopher Lowson RECTOR Woudhuysen, Henry, MA DPhil Oxf, FBA FELLOWS Barclay, Neil, BA DPhil Oxf E P Abraham Professor of Chemical Pathology Brigden, Susan, BA Manc, MA Oxf, PhD Camb Langford Fellow, Reader and Tutor in History and Fellow for Alumni Relations Buxton, Rachel, BA Adelaide, MSt DPhil Oxf, MBA Oxf Brookes Domestic Bursar Coldea, Radu, BA Babes Bolyai, DPhil Oxf Tutor in Physics Cook, Peter, MA DPhil Oxf E P Abraham Professor of Cell Biology de Vries, Catherine, MA Amsterdam, DPhil VU Amsterdam, Professor and Tutor in Comparative European Politics Dullens, Roel, MSc PhD Utrecht Tutor in Chemistry Durning, Louise, MA Oxf, MA St And, PhD Essex Senior Tutor Emptage, Nigel, BSc East Ang, MA Oxf, PhD Camb Nufﬁeld Research Fellow, Professor and Tutor in Physiology and Pharmacology, and Senior Dean Enchelmaier, Stefan, LLM Edin, MA Oxf, Dr iur Bonn, habil Munich Professor and Tutor in Jurisprudence Fabre, Cécile, BA Paris, MA York, DPhil Oxf, FBA Professor and Tutor in Philosophy Freeman, Matthew, MA Oxf, PhD Lond, FRS Professor of Pathology

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Gardner, Simon, BCL MA Oxf Hanbury Fellow, Professor and Tutor in Jurisprudence Gauci, Perry, MA DPhil Oxf V H H Green Fellow, Tutor in History Gur, Noam, LLB Jerusalem, BCL MPhil DPhil Oxf Shaw Foundation Fellow and Tutor in Law Harris, Alana, BA/LLB Melbourne, MDiv Melbourne College of Divinity, MA MSt DPhil Oxf Darby Fellow and Tutor in History Harrison, Susan, MA Oxf Development Director Hills, David, MA DSc Oxf, PhD Trent Polytechnic, CEng, FIMechE Professor and Tutor in Engineering Science and Sub-Rector Jelley, Nick, MA DPhil Oxf Professor and Tutor in Physics Knowles, Tim, MA Oxf Bursar Lorenczik, Christian, PGDip Warw, MPhil Camb, PhD Munich, Career Development Fellow and Tutor in Economics McCullough, Peter, BA California, MA Oxf, PhD Princeton Sohmer Fellow, Professor and Tutor in English Literature Michael, Timothy, BA NYU, MA PhD Harvard Tutor in English Literature Miller, Christopher, BA Swarthmore, PhD Penn Newton-Abraham Visiting Professor in Medical, Biological, and Chemical Sciences Nye, Edward, BA Leic, MA Leeds, MA DPhil Oxf ELF Fellow and Tutor in French Olliaro, Piero, MD PhD Pavia, habil Grenoble Newton-Abraham Visiting Professor in Medical, Biological and Chemical Sciences Payne, Frank, MA PhD Camb, MA Oxf Tutor in Engineering Science Proudfoot, Nicholas, BSc Lond, MA Oxf, PhD Camb, FRS Brownlee-Abraham Professor of Molecular Biology Raff, Jordan, BSc Bristol, PhD Imp César Milstein Professor of Molecular Cancer Biology Smith, Roland (Bert), MA MPhil DPhil Oxf, FBA

Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art, Fellow Librarian and Archivist Stamatopoulou, Maria, BA Athens, MSt DPhil Oxf Tutor in Classical Archaeology and Art Stevens, Margaret, MA MSc MPhil DPhil Oxf Professor and Tutor in Economics Trinh, Philippe, BMath MSc Carleton, DPhil Oxf, Darby Fellow in Applied Mathematics Vakonakis, Ioannis (John), BSc Crete, MA Oxf, PhD Texas A&M Tutor in Biochemistry Vaux, David, BM BCh MA DPhil Oxf Nufﬁeld Research Fellow in Pathology, Professor and Tutor in Medicine Vella, Dominic, MA MMath PhD Camb Tutor in Mathematics Wang, Qian, BSc Nanjing, PhD Princeton Tutorial Fellow in Pure Mathematics Wasihun, Betiel, MA PhD Heidelberg Montgomery–DAAD Fellow and Tutor in German Studies Williams, Mark, MA MPhil DPhil Oxf Simon and June Li Fellow in the Humanities, Darby Fellow and Tutor in English Willis, Michael, BSc Lond, MA Oxf, PhD Camb, FRSC, CChem GlaxoSmithKline Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry SUPERNUMERARY FELLOWS Atkins, Peter, MA Oxf, PhD Leic, FRSC Bird, Richard, MA Camb, MA Oxf, PhD Lond Brownlee, George, MA PhD Camb, MA Oxf, FMedSci, FRS, Child, Graham, MA Oxf Edwards, David, MA DPhil Oxf Gill, Stephen, BPhil MA Oxf, PhD Edin Goldey, David, BA Cornell, MA DPhil Oxf † Kenning, David, MA Oxf, PhD Camb, CEng, MIMechE Norbury, John, BSc Queensland, MA Oxf, PhD Camb

Members Shorter, John, MA Oxf Waldmann, Herman, MB BChir MA PhD Hon DSc Camb, MA Oxf, FMedSci, FRCP, FRCPath, FRS Wilson, Nigel, MA Oxf, FBA RESEARCH FELLOWS Acuto, Oreste, Dott Rome, Dipl Liceo Scientifico Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Pathology Chambers, Stephan, BA Hull, MLitt Oxf Senior Research Fellow in Business Studies Dondi, Cristina, Laurea Milan Catt, PhD Lond Oakeshott Senior Research Fellow in the Humanities Greenﬁeld, Susan, the Baroness Greenﬁeld, CBE, MA DPhil Oxf, FRCP(Hon) and Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Pharmacology Hassan, Andrew, BSc Lond, BM BCh DPhil Oxf, FRCP T O Ogunlesi Senior Research Fellow in Medical Sciences and Professor of Medical Oncology Holmes, Christopher, BSc Brighton, MSc Brun, PhD Lond Senior Research Fellow in Statistical Genomics and Professor of Statistics Joyce, Dominic, MA DPhil Oxf, FRS Senior Research Fellow in Mathematics and Professor of Mathematics Parpulov, Georgi, MA PhD Chicago, MA Sofia Dilts-Lyell Senior Research Fellow in Greek Palaeography Starza Smith, Daniel, BA MA PhD UCL British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow and Oakeshott Junior Research Fellow in English Literature Te Velthuis, Arend, BA Saxion University of Applied Science, BA MA PhD Leiden Kemp Postdoctoral Fellow in Medical Sciences Thakkar, Mark, BA DPhil Oxf, MA MSc Lond, Hardie Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities CHAPLAIN Dunn, Nicholas (Jack), BA (Hons) Durh, MSt DPhil Oxf

HONORARY FELLOWS Anderson, Sir Eric KT, MA MLitt Oxf, MA St And, FRSE Ball, Sir Christopher, MA Oxf Boardman, Sir John, MA Camb, MA Oxf, FBA, FSA Cameron, The Rt Revd Gregory Kenneth, MA Camb, MA Oxf, MPhil LLM Wales, Dipl Pastoral Studies St Michael and All Angels College Llandaff Clementi, Sir David, MBA Harvard, MA Oxf Cohen, David, CBE, MB BS Lond, MA Oxf, LRCP, MRCS, FRCGP, GSM (Hon) Cook, Stephanie, MBE, BA Camb, BM BCh Oxf Cornwell, David (John le Carré), BA Oxf Craig, David Brownrigg, the Lord Craig of Radley, GCB, OBE, MA Oxf Donoughue, Bernard, The Rt Hon Lord Donoughue of Ashton, DL, MA DPhil Oxf, FRHistS, FRSA Dwek, Raymond, BSc MSc Manc, MA DPhil Oxf DSc, CBiol, CChem, FIBiol, Hon FRCP, FRS, FRSC Eddington, Sir Roderick, BEng MEngSc Hons DLaws Western Australia, DPhil Oxf Goff, Robert, the Rt Hon Lord Goff of Chieveley, PC, DCL Oxf, FBA Gowans, Sir James, CBE, MB BS Lond, MA DPhil Oxf, FRCP, FRS Greene, Mark, MD PhD Manitoba, FRCP Hampton, Sir Philip, MBA INSEAD, MA Oxf Harris, Sir Henry, BA MB BS Sydney, MA DM DPhil Oxf, FRCP, FRCPath, FRS † Henderson, David, CMG, MA Oxf Hildebrand, Philipp, BA Toronto, DPhil Oxf Klein, Lawrence, BA California, MA Oxf, PhD MIT † Kornicki, Peter, BA MSc DPhil DLitt Oxf, FBA Langford, Paul, MA DPhil Oxf, FRHistS, FBA Lloyd, The Rt Hon Sir Timothy Andrew Wigram, MA Oxf Longmore, The Rt Hon Sir Andrew Centlivres, The Rt Hon Lord Justice Longmore, MA Oxf Lucas, Sir Colin, MA DPhil Oxf, FRHistS

Miller, Sir Peter, MA Oxf, DSc City Richards, Sir Rex, MA DSc DPhil Oxf, FRS, Hon FBA, Hon FRAM, Hon FRCP, FRIC, FRSC Rogers, Sir Robert, MA Oxf Shock, Sir Maurice, MA Oxf Sloane, Hugh, BSc Brist, MPhil Oxf Thomas, The Rt Hon Sir Swinton Barclay, MA Oxf Watson, James, Hon KBE, BS Chicago, PhD Indiana Yeo, The Rt Revd (Christopher) Richard, OSB, MA Oxf, JCD Pontifical Gregorian Rome FLEMING FELLOWS The Marquise de Amodio Li, Simon K.C., MS Columbia, MA Oxf Li, Theresa June, BA Toronto, MA Pennsylvania Polonsky, Leonard, CBE, BA NYU, PhD Paris Shaw, Harold, MA Oxf Taylor, Jeremy, MA Oxf Zilkha, Michael, MA Oxf MURRAY FELLOWS Dilts, Mervin, MA PhD Indiana Goodman, Zmira, MA MLitt Oxf Greenwood, Regan, MA Oxf, MSc PhD Manc Mitchell, Peter, MA Oxf Myers, Peter, DPhil Oxf Sewards-Shaw, Kenneth, MA Oxf Sohmer, Stephen, MA Boston, DPhil Oxf Tucker, Audrey, MB MS Lond, FSR, FRCR van Diest, Patricia, MA Oxf Woodfield, Denis, BA Harvard, DPhil Oxf † † now deceased

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Front row: Christian Lorenczik, Cristina Dondi, Edward Nye, Susan Brigden, Henry Woudhuysen, Susan Harrison, Nick Jelley, Maria Stamatopoulou, Jordan Raff.

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Second row: Angela Moncada Pazos, Louise Durning, Tim Knowles, Mark Williams, Philippe Trinh, Rachel Buxton, Peter McCullough, Piero Olliaro, CĂŠcile Fabre, Betiel Wasihun.

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Third row: Qian Wang, Perry Gauci, Timothy Michael, David Vaux, Arend te Velthuis, Ioannis (John) Vakonakis.

Back row: Dominic Vella, Radu Coldea, Daniel Starza Smith, Roel Dullens, Nigel Emptage, Georgi Parpulov. THE FELLOWSHIP

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The Senior Common Room 2013-14 The happy proliferation in recent years of fixed-term post-doctoral research fellowships also means that there is a sad proliferation of good-byes each year. Dr Mark Thakkar (Hardie Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities) saw the completion of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources during his tenure at Lincoln and is now Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Philosophy Department at St Andrews. The Kemp Post-Doctoral Fellow in Sciences, Dr Arend te Velthuis continues his research in the Dunn School of Pathology. Dr Noam Gur, our Shaw Foundation Fellow in Law, has taken up a lectureship at Queen Mary, University of London. The Dilts-Lyell Fellow in Palaeography, Georgi Parpulov, hopes to use his expertise curatorially in a major research library. All four of these early career fellows were stalwarts of the SCR, and will be terribly missed; but we take pride in the great things they have gone on to do. Retirement after decades of service to the College and University has seen the translation of three much-loved colleagues to the distinguished ranks of Supernumerary Fellows: Professor Nick Jelley (Tutorial Fellow, Physics), Professor Peter Cook (Professorial Fellow, Cell Biology), and Professor Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, CBE (Senior Research Fellow, Pharmacology). All three have

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left indelible marks on Lincoln, the University, and the wider world, and we very much hope that, in what will no doubt be productive retirements, we will still have the great pleasure of their presence among us. Some departures are so unexpected as to feel like robberies. One such was the resignation of Professor Cécile Fabre (Philosophy). But it would be selfish to begrudge either Cécile or All Souls’ their mutual good fortune in her becoming a Senior Research Fellow there. Author of several prize-winning books, a rigorous and wise member of Governing Body, and an inspiring tutor, Cécile contributed great things to Lincoln, and all are sad to see her go. Sadness of another, deeper, kind came with the news in August of the death of Dr David Goldey, who will be remembered with the greatest fondness by the generations of Lincoln students, Fellows, and staff who had the honour to know him over the years since his appointment as Fellow in Politics in 1964. A formal obituary can be found on page 86. But under the more local heading of ‘Senior Common Room’, it would be remiss for me not to expand on just how much David added to the SCR during his fifty-plus years with us. As a new Fellow in the 1990s it was a personal comfort to me to know that I wasn’t the first American to have blazed a trail to the Lincoln Fellowship – that having already been managed with aplomb by David, the larger-thanlife Brooklyner (who, incidentally, maintained his New York address and never missed going home for an election). My 1997 cohort of four other new Fellows looked up to David with

affectionate awe: in Governing Body he was the august keeper (entirely in his head) of every statute and every by-law; in Common Room he was always full of good sense and very good humour; and as Sub-Rector his painstakingly fair, but mind-numbingly complicated, voting procedure for Rectorial elections (unique to David and Lincoln, I think) was legendary (as were the epic piles of French newspapers in his room in Chapel Quad). After the funeral service, a gathering of friends, family, and colleagues was held, appropriately, in Lincoln’s Hall. David’s former pupil (and some years later, long-time Lincoln colleague in PPE), Professor Michael Rosen, offered a tribute full of priceless memories about David as a scholar, tutor, and friend. True to David’s spirit he concluded them by saying, ‘Even as I say this I hear the most uninhibited laugh in Oxford echoing across the Hall.’ Long may that echo ring. But the beauty of a College is the changelessness that only change can bring, and election to a whole range of visiting, fixed-term, and Official Fellowships were made in 201314 that continue that process of refreshment and invigoration. Dr Cristina Dondi took her oath as the Oakeshott Senior Research Fellow in the Humanities; Cristina is in fact a returning Former Fellow, having earlier held at Lincoln the distinguished Lyell Fellowship in Bibliography. Dr Angela Moncada Pazos migrated from Cambridge (and before that, Spain) to take up the BTG Junior Research Fellowship in Biomedical Sciences, with a research base in the Dunn School. And Dr Daniel Starza Smith, an

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expert on early modern English manuscript culture, was elected to an Oakeshott Junior Research Fellowship, held in conjunction with a British Academy post-doctoral research fellowship in the Faculty of English.

held posts at Oxford (Wadham), the Max-Planck Institute, and the University of York. In the Oxford syllabus, his teaching includes company and corporate insolvency law, European Union law, Roman law, and contract law.

from Harvard. Dr Michael joined Lincoln after three years as a member of the highly distinguished Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago, and a year as a tenure-track assistant professor at Loyola University Maryland.

A distinguished succession of Newton Abraham Visiting Professors also joined us in 2013-14:

Dr Timothy Michael is Fellow and Tutor in English Literature, covering the teaching of English and American literature from 1760 to the present. Like his predecessors in this post, Professor Stephen Gill and Dr Ben Brice, Dr Michael’s research focusses on British Romanticism. His particular interests are philosophy, aesthetics, and the history of literary criticism and theory. He holds an undergraduate degree from New York University, and a Ph.D.

Finally, on the domestic front, 2014 has seen the redecoration of the Mary Lasker and Montgomery Rooms. These adjoining spaces over the Buttery, used for both SCR lunch and a range of student dinners in the evenings, had been updated and reconfigured as part of the major 2000 Kitchen Project, but left minimally decorated. Use over the years made clear the need not only for a lick of paint, but also an improvement to the very ‘live’ acoustic that makes conversation difficult when

Professor Chris Miller (October – May), and Professor Piero Olliaro (from June). Professor Miller is an internationally known authority in the field of ion channel studies and Professor of Biochemistry and HHMI Investigator at Brandeis University in Massachusetts. Professor Olliaro is the Leader of Intervention and Implementation Research at the UNICEF/UNDP/WB/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, Geneva, and will hold his Visiting Professorship at the Centre for Tropical Medicine within the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine. Two Official Tutorial Fellows with permanent joint appointments in their respective faculties also joined us, filling crucial gaps in large Lincoln subjects. Professor Stefan Enchelmaier was elected as Fellow and Tutor in Jurisprudence, joining the Law team headed by Professor Simon Gardner and in succession to Professor Christopher McCrudden. Stefan holds degrees in law, philosophy, and Latin from Cologne, Hamburg, and Edinburgh. His doctoral thesis from the University of Bonn was on European competition law, and his habilitation from Munich was a thesis on Anglo-German personal property law. He has

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...the fine folding wooden shutters for the windows crafted by our own talented joiner Paul Green. crowded. Working with furniture designer Luke Hughes (who was already in train consulting on the new Garden Building), the Steward, assisted by the Domestic Bursar, Senior Tutor, Dr Catherine de Vries (PPE), Butler, and Clerk of Works, introduced a scheme to improve the rooms’ usefulness and attractiveness. Wool carpets to a design by artist Kate Blee were commissioned from the London firm of Christopher Farr and set into the central spaces of the fine oak floors. These provide the rooms’ keynote of contemporary design (to contrast with the more traditional idiom used in other SCR spaces), and dramatically improve the acoustic. A far more efficient serving cabinet, with much-needed storage space, was added to the Montgomery Room for lunch service. Privacy for evening dinners has been improved with the fine folding wooden shutters for the windows crafted by our own talented joiner, Paul Green. And the whole is now furnished with Luke Hughes’ contemporaryclassic oak tables and chairs (some of which had to enter from Brasenose Lane in a rather unconventional way, see picture right). Over the coming year we will continue to experiment with the best ways to configure the furniture, and to improve the acoustic with trials (on loan) of different works of art for the walls. So far, the before, during, and after pictures (right) suggest a good start. n

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Fellows’ research and teaching news Peter Atkins (Chemistry) ‘I have published a few more books this year, among them the 10th edition of Physical Chemistry (first ed. 1978), the 6th edition of Chemical Principles, and two new little volumes for the general public; one is What is chemistry? and the other is Physical Chemistry, A Very Short Introduction (in that series for OUP). Until recently I was in charge of the Talk Dinners at the Athenaeum. I have been doing the usual stint of invited lectures around the world, including one on chemical warfare and another on absolutely nothing, and contributed to the World Humanist Congress.’

Neil Barclay (Pathology) ‘I continue to study families of proteins at the surface of blood cells that are important in regulating the immune system that protects us against infection and cancer, but sometimes breaks down to give autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis. One feature of these types of proteins present on white blood cells is that there are many with similar functions and there is evidence that they are evolving in response to pathogens (viruses, bacteria, and parasites). A major focus of the current research is to understand at the molecular level the interaction between viruses and some of these proteins. A major change in medical research over the last 30 years has been the enormous range of reagents that can be purchased from specialized reagent companies. We hope to contribute to this and this year we successfully raised funding for a new company called Absolute Antibody. This company utilizes some of the technology developed in making therapeutic

antibodies for the reagent market. The difference between the antibodies made in this company and most others is that they are all made using ‘recombinant DNA’ methods and as such are chemically defined rather than derived from animal cells (hybridomas) or from animals themselves. These reagents are not only more clearly defined but can be modified in different ways to enhance applications.’ Susan Brigden (History) ‘I return from the Huntington Library in California, a scholars’ paradise, where I was not only Langford Fellow but Mary Robertson Visiting Fellow. I also lectured at Fordham University in New York in the spring. I look forward to the new academic year, and count on the enthusiasm of the freshers to sweep me along.’ Graham Child (Law) ‘Judgements of the Court of Justice of the European Union based in Luxemburg are ever more important to business and individuals as more power has gradually been transferred away from the Westminster Parliament to the EU. The manner in which decisions in that Court are arrived at and expressed has been a matter of interest to me throughout my legal career. Recently our own UK Supreme Court (which replaces the House of Lords Judicial Committee as our highest

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national court) has expressed considerable concern over the issue, both in its judgements and in speeches by members of the Court, including one by Lord Mance in Oxford in February 2013. The Oxford Law Faculty (of which I was a member in the period 1995 - 2002 when I was a visiting fellow of Lincoln) recently held an academic workshop on the subject at which I spoke and which was attended by some of the Justices of the Supreme Court. The conclusion was that further discussion was to be much welcomed! I shall be doing what I can to encourage it (and pleased to hear from anyone else interested).’ Radu Coldea (Physics) has had a very productive past year scientifically, having made a breakthrough in the study of a novel class of magnetic materials containing honeycombs of iridium ions connected in a three-dimensional network. In this type of geometry the quantum nature of the electrons through their spin and orbital motion leads to novel and unexpected magnetic behaviour, such as spectacular counter-rotating magnetic spirals that have been revealed through x-ray diffraction experiments performed by Prof. Coldea’s research group using experimental facilities at 12 . L I N C O L N

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the Diamond Synchrotron near Oxford on single crystals as small as 17 microns in diameter. The research on this class of iridium oxide materials, including the discovery of a new crystal structure polytype, has led to a number of papers already published or currently in press in Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters and Physical Review Condensed Matter, and this past academic year Radu has given a keynote and invited lectures at international physics conferences in Grindewald (Switzerland), Boston, Dresden, and Cambridge. Catherine deVries (PPE). ‘2013-2014 was a very fruitful year for me. Not only did I receive the American Political Science Association’s emerging scholar award for my contribution to the field of elections, public opinion and voting behaviour, but I also completed a project funded by the British Academy and Lincoln College’s own Zilkha Trust on the asymmetry in electoral punishment of governments. In this project, which I completed with James Tilley (Jesus) and Sara Hobolt (LSE, former Fellow of Lincoln), we show the differing impact of better and worse economic performance on the vote – voters hold governments more responsible for poor performance than good. The mechanism behind this asymmetry is

that partisanship colours the extent to which individuals blame the government for poor economic conditions. We tested these complex causal relationships by means of survey experiments. In terms of teaching activities, I co-founded the Oxford Q-Step Centre (OQC) in conjunction with the Department of Politics and International Relations and the Department of Sociology. The OQC, initiated with generous funding from the Nuffield Foundation, HEFCE and ESRC, aims to increase the data literacy of our undergraduate students within the PPE and History & Politics (HP) joint schools. OQC will engage in outreach activities such as a summer school, e-learning, and an internship programme focussing on the development of QM skills in a professional or policy context. I am very excited about the official launch of the Centre and its teaching programme during the autumn of 2014. Cristina Dondi ‘I am delighted to be back at Lincoln where I held the Lyell JRF in Early Modern Bibliography (2002-2005). In December 2013 I was awarded a five-year, €2 million European

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Research Council Consolidator Grant for my research project 15cBOOKTRADE: An Evidence-based Assessment and Visualization of the Distribution, Sale, and Reception of Books in the Renaissance. The idea that underpins the project is to use the material evidence from thousands of surviving books, as well as unique documentary evidence, to address four fundamental objectives relating to the introduction of printing in the West which have so far eluded scholarship: (1) book distribution and trade-routes; (2) books’ contemporary market value; (3) transmission and dissemination of their texts; and (4) the circulation and re-use of their illustrations. Finally, the project will experiment with the application of scientific visualization techniques to represent, geographically and chronologically, the movement of 15th century printed books and of the texts they contain. The grant will therefore enable a significant expansion and enhancement of the database Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI), which I created in 2009 while holding a British Academy award. It gathers together marks of ownership, prices, manuscript annotations, binding and decoration styles for thousands of surviving 15th century printed books. For the first time, this makes it possible to track the circulation

of books, their trade routes and later collecting, across Europe and the USA, and throughout the centuries. More information on 15cBOOKTRADE can be found at www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/ research/15cBooktrade/

I am very grateful to Lincoln College for embracing the 15cBOOKTRADE Project and part of its team (Geri della Rocca de Candal and Matilde Malaspina) and look forward to five wonderful years ahead.’ Dr Dondi’s important and fascinating research project will be the subject of a feature-length article in a forthcoming issue of Imprint. Roel Dullens (Chemistry) Dr Dullens continues to give physical chemistry tutorials to all three years of the undergraduate Chemists at Lincoln; in the department he offered lecture courses on ‘Liquids and Solutions’, ‘Applications of

Statistical Mechanics: Imperfect Gases’, and ‘Introduction to the Liquid State’; he was also a Senior Demonstrator in the physical chemistry teaching laboratory. His main research topics include crystallization and grain boundaries in colloidal systems (working with Lincoln DPhil candidate Francois Lavergne), synthesis and characterisation of optical core-shell particles, optical manipulation of colloidpolymer mixtures, network formation in magneto-rheological fluids (with Lincoln DPhil candidate Colin Reynolds), dynamics mode locking in driven colloidal systems (with Lincoln DPhil candidate Michael Juniper), dynamics in binary colloidal fluids, and freezing of colloidal suspensions (in collaboration with Unilever). His co-authored papers have appeared in Journal of Chemical Physics, Nano Letters, and Soft Matter. Stefan Enchelmaier (Law). ‘This was my first year back in Oxford, after an absence of ten years following a first stint of six years at LMH and Wadham. I resumed my teaching of European Union law, and now also teach Roman law, contract law, and company law. As far

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as my research is concerned, I put the finishing touches (or so I hope) to the proofs of my Habilitationsschrift (German professorial thesis). This takes an AngloGerman comparative look at proprietary transactions in intangibles (intellectual property rights; membership rights, such as shares in companies; and claims arising from contracts and torts). I published articles on floating charges in English law, on competition law questions arising from online-distribution of trade-marked goods, and on competition aspects of European patents with uniform effects. I contributed commentaries on three European block exemption regulations (on research and development agreements, specialisation agreements, and distribution agreements) to a commentary on German and European competition law. I gave lectures in England, Norway, and Germany on, respectively, the free movement of goods and services in the European internal market, European and comparative insolvency law, European competition law, the British university system, and comparative legal cultures (England, France, and Germany).’ Cécile Fabre (Philosophy). ‘I was fortunate enough to receive a 12-month mid-career fellowship from the British Academy for 2013-2014. This relieved me of all teaching and administrative duties save for doctoral 14 . L I N C O L N

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supervision and admission interviews, and enabled me to move closer to completing a research monograph on the ethics of the transition from war to peace. The book, which is provisionally entitled Cosmopolitan Peace, addresses issues such as the ethics of suing for peace, the conditions under which a peace settlement is just, whether it is morally appropriate to prosecute and punish war criminals, and whether or not we have moral reasons to remember wars of the distant past. I gave talks on various parts of the project to audiences as diverse as high school students, fellow academics, university students, and members of the armed forces (notably at the US Air Force Academy, the US Naval Postgraduate College, and the Australian Defence Force Academy.) The academic year was capped by a monthlong visiting fellowship at the Australian National University. This entry will be my last for the Lincoln Record, as I shall be leaving the College to take up a post at All Souls. I shall greatly miss both my colleagues and students, whose warmth, kindness and generosity of spirit have made all the difference in the last four years. Simon Gardner (Law). 2013-14 was a year of transition for Lincoln law. Professor Stefan Enchelmaier joined us from the

University of York, as a permanent replacement for Professor Christopher McCrudden. Dr Ryan Goss, who had been Christopher’s temporary replacement, left to take up a post at the Australian National University in Canberra. Dr Noam Gur left the fellowship so generously funded by the Shaw Foundation for a post at Queen Mary University of London, to be succeeded in 2014-15 by Dr Barbara Havelkova, who has held other positions in Oxford. We have also had the unstinting and much enjoyed support as a temporary tutor of Charles Banner (1998), and Tom Worthen (2002) very generously returned once again to help us with admissions. I myself worked a normal year, but ended it by embarking on a year’s leave. My research this year focused predominantly on the subject of land registration. This came about rather accidentally, by way of reaction to work being done by others, itself the result of a flurry of forensic activity in the area, but it has proved absorbing. The problem is the extent to which, when the State register is proclaimed as the sole source of information about title, there can in practice and/or in justice remain space for other sources, reflecting considerations at odds with those informing the register. I am due to attend a conference on the subject in Cambridge in the autumn of 2014.

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Alongside this, I was fortunate, with the generous support of the Michael Zilkha Trust, to be able to support Christina Walton (2004) in her research on the treatment of political issues in the law of charities. This research has now been published: “McGovern v Attorney-General: Constraints on Judicial Assessment of Public Benefit” [2014] Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 317. Christina begins the 2014-15 year by taking up a lectureship in property law at the University of Exeter. And as I begin my leave, I am once again collaborating with Emily MacKenzie (2006) to produce a new edition of our book, An Introduction to Land Law (Hart Publishing). Other alumni in the spotlight have included Camilla Lamont (1991), who will be teaching Land Law tutorials for me in 2014-15; Sheona Wood (1981) and Jane Jenkins (1982), who have very kindly taken on alumni roles in College governance; and Steve Cooke (1978), Kieran Garvey (1979), and Christopher MacFarlane, (History 1994), who, along with Jane, presented a most enjoyable evening event, hosted and led by Chris Coulter (1986) at Morrison & Foerster in London, at which it was a pleasure also to see many other familiar faces.’

Perry Gauci (History). Perry Gauci’s fascination with the development of eighteenth-century London continues. A new project will seek to understand the development and impact of the banking profession, with particular interest in the strategies used by bankers to establish themselves as reputable businessmen and citizens. He has already discovered that modern censures have a long pedigree! Alana Harris (History). Alana launched her recent book, Faith in the Family: A Lived Religious History of English Catholicism, 1945-82 at the Catholic Record Society Conference at Downing College, Cambridge in July. She also has a co-edited volume in press, and has started a new monograph, After Vice: Sin, Sexuality and Confessional Cultures in Twentieth-Century Britain. She has also won funding as a coinvestigator from Notre Dame University’s international Global Collaboration Initiative for a transnational study of Catholic women’s religious orders and the Second Vatican Council. Alana has also been appointed to the new editorial board of the Cambridge journal British Catholic History (formerly Recusant History), and to the steering committee of York University’s Centre for Pilgrimage Studies. She also contributed two articles to 2014 issues of the Catholic weekly, The Tablet.

Nick Jelley (Physics). The solar cooker that Nick Jelley and his colleagues in the engineering department have designed with funding from the Leverhulme Trust for use in the developing world has undergone field trials in August in the Tuscan sun near Pisa. The prototype cooker, which was produced in collaboration with Dytecna Ltd, performed well, boiling water and cooking basmati rice easily. The trials, helped by a grant from the Zilkha Trust, attracted the interest of the local TV channel and a short video was broadcast about the project. Interest in a larger scale cooker for a community kitchen has been expressed by an Indian company and discussions with them are underway. Field trials of a family-sized cooker, supported by a grant from the Science and Technologies Facilities Council, are planned for Africa or India next year. Christian Lorenczik (PPE) ‘My second year at Lincoln allowed me to develop some routine in my teaching as I taught the two macroeconomics courses for the second time. It is an interesting time to be a macroeconomist, and the different development of major economies in the aftermath of the financial crisis offered a great opportunity to illustrate how economic models can help to make sense of

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the events and what challenges economic policy makers face. I also gave lectures and tutorials in Development Economics, which is a very broad subject; a particular highlight of the course were the personal experiences of many students, as citizens of developing countries or aid workers, which greatly enriched the academic discussions. In my research, I continued my work on the role of intellectual property rights in R&D and economic growth. In particular, I studied how emerging countries can design their patent system to facilitate technology absorption while at the same time encourage domestic innovation investments. I described some of the problems involved in Lincoln’s Imprint magazine this year.’ Peter McCullough (English). ‘201314 was another busy research year, most of it revolving around my work as General Editor of The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne. December saw the appearance of the first volume in print, containing the sermons Donne preached at the court of Charles I, and edited by my friend and colleague at QMUL, David Colclough. 16 . L I N C O L N

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One of my own volumes is now in press. In November I teamed up with former St Paul’s Cathedral colleague, the Rev. Canon Mark Oakley, for a rewarding continuing education study day on Donne held at Corpus. In March, thanks to the generosity of the Zilkha Fund, I was able to attend the intellectual smorgasbord that is the annual convention of the Renaissance Society of America (this year in that smorgasbord that is New York), where I presented work on the rewards (and some of the pains) of editing Donne’s sermons. Not short of material, in June I revisited the topic in an excellent day-conference sponsored by the Oxford Centre for the Study of the Book. In May I had the remarkable experience of speaking on the origins of the Church of England at a conference on canon law convened in Agrigento, Sicily. Standards of hospitality were lavish, if exhausting; my paper was recruited for publication very shortly thereafter in (of all unexpected places) Cambridge University Press’s Ecclesiastical Law Journal. My sampling of Continental conferences concluded with presenting another paper on Donne’s sermons at a gathering of medieval and early modern sermon specialists on the shores of Lake Geneva in September. Throughout the year my students kept me happy

and sane. A highlight with the second years was the chance, supported by the Senior Tutor’s Fund, to see English National Opera’s production of Handel’s Rodelinda. Although not exactly a ‘period’ production, it was the entertaining focus for our seminars on the ‘sister arts’ in Georgian England.’ Timothy Michael (English). ‘I have spent much of my first year at Lincoln adjusting to the unique rhythms of College life and finishing a book with the modest title of British Romanticism and the Critique of Political Reason, which will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press next year. This has entailed revising chapters on Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Burke, and Wollstonecraft and adding Godwin to their company. It has been a pleasure working with such an illustrious, and intellectually daring, group of writers over the past few years. I am eager, though, to look at them with new eyes – something that the tutorial system, and the energy of Lincoln students, is marvellously equipped to help me do. Over the past year, I’ve also given talks in Munich, Washington DC, and the Lake District.

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Two of the talks – one on the “high arguments” of Wordsworth and Kant and one on what Coleridge called “philosophical grammar” – have been accepted for publication in the coming year.’ Angela Moncada Pazos (Pathology). ‘2013 was for me the year of migration: from my pre-doctoral laboratory to my postdoctoral stage, from Spain to the UK and, later, from Cambridge to Oxford. In the latter, I have established and immersed myself in the historic universe of the University of Oxford, thanks to Lincoln College. The journey has been drastic but very rewarding. In terms of research, I have moved from studying proteases in cancer to investigating my new favourite protein – a previously absolute stranger that, as my recent research shows, exerts essential functions in the cell and might be involved in obesity. In September 2014 I will present my work at the British Society of Cell Biology Meeting. Bert Smith (Classical Art and Archaeology) held a British Academy/ Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship this year to work on Late Antique Statues

of Aphrodisias. He also directed a twomonth season of research and excavation at Aphrodisias (South West Turkey) in July and August 2014, where most of the research for the Leverhulme project was completed; finished editing (with B. WardPerkins, Trinity) an OUP book titled Last Statues of Antiquity; and finished his own short book, Ancient Theatres in Anatolia. Daniel Starza Smith (English). ‘After three degrees at UCL, two years as a travel journalist at Time Out, and a year each teaching at Reading and UCL, I am now British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow in the English Faculty and Oakeshott Junior Research Fellow at Lincoln. My main achievements this year were publishing an essay collection, Manuscript Miscellanies in Early Modern England (co-edited with Joshua Eckhardt, Ashgate, 2014), and my first monograph John Donne and the Conway Papers (OUP, forthcoming 2014). I also finished translating my Polish grandmother’s gripping and often harrowing memoirs, “Where The Devil Says Goodnight”: Exile to Siberia, 1940–1946, which is being released through Amazon’s

self-publishing division, CreateSpace (with apologies to tax purists). In April, a generous grant from the Zilkha Trust enabled me to travel to the Renaissance Society of America conference in New York, then on to Boston in search of new archival material. I also spent a very happy month this summer in LA as the Lincoln–Huntington Library Exchange Fellow, which has led to many exciting discoveries. Finally, I have become very interested in the ways that writers across periods folded and sealed their letters (a mind-boggling number of ways, it turns out); I am delighted to be collaborating on this project with Jana Dambrogio, head of conservation at MIT.’ Margaret Stevens (PPE) ‘This year, in two terms of sabbatical leave, I have been involved in an exciting project to develop a new introductory economics curriculum for use in universities worldwide. In recent years, and especially since the financial crash, there have been many expressions of discontent by students, economists and policy makers about the current state of economics education, and campaigns for greater pluralism and relevance led by students in thirty countries. In the UK for example, the Post-Crash Economics Society at the University of Manchester has received a great deal of press attention.

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The CORE project (“teaching economics as if the last three decades had happened”), led by Professor Wendy Carlin at UCL and supported by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, is responding to calls for change. An international team of twenty-five economists is developing an open-access e-book which can be used in universities as the basis for an introductory economics course, quite different in format and content from existing courses. The new material is motivated by important contemporary economic questions, and strongly focused on applications and evidence across the world and across economic history. Unlike conventional courses we give a central role to the understanding of institutions and power, integrating political, social, and ethical questions into economic analysis. The trial version of the first 10 (out of 21) units went live in September 2014, and is available to all at: www.core-econ.org.

(For Lincoln economics graduates who are interested, I wrote or co-wrote units 7 to 10.) The course will be running in 2014/15 at several universities including UCL, University of Massachusetts, Azim Premji University Bangalore, University of Cape Town, and Sydney University, and a Spanish translation is planned for universities in Chile and Colombia. I believe that this is an important development for economics and economics teaching, and the beginning of significant change. I hope that, before too long, we will be able to integrate it into the first year courses in PPE and Economics and Management. (Those who studied in the last twenty years know that first year economics in Oxford has been a rather dry experience.) After some years in which Economics as a discipline has systematically separated itself from Philosophy and Politics, we may now be able to reconnect. I hope that this project will contribute to an interesting, stimulating and rewarding economics education for future Oxford students.’ Philippe Trinh (Mathematics). ‘One of the most controversial problems in fluid mechanics is also one of the easiest to explain: classical theory states that on the boundary between a fluid and a solid, the velocity of the fluid must match that

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of the solid. This “no-slip” assumption partly explains why it is impossible to clean your car by driving it quickly. However, the condition is obviously violated in the case of spreading and sliding droplets. The controversy in the physical and mathematical communities relates to how this discrepancy is resolved. In the 2013-2014 year, my colleagues and I finally managed to publish a paper (four years in the making). The experience, from conception to publication, taught me a great deal about what it takes to work in a controversial area of physics and mathematics. Equally enjoyable, though far less painful, was my continued work in topics related to water waves, pattern formation, and the wrinkling of elastic membranes (with Lincoln’s Dominic Vella). Some of my work has recently appeared in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and Physics of Fluids.’ John Vakonakis (Biochemistry) ‘It has been a busy year for both research and teaching. In College I enjoyed my first full year as Tutorial Fellow, lecturing, coordinating Biochemistry teaching, and admitting our “Next Generation” of undergraduate students. It has been an exciting experience and I feel I have learned a lot. It was also very gratifying as all Biochemists this year were awarded

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First-Class degrees; congratulations to Mike, Jack, George, and Caitlin for their hard work! Back in the Department my group continues to make good progress in understanding how molecular “machines” assemble and function inside cells, both in health and disease (Hatzopoulos et al. 2013, Structure 21, 2069-2077 and Oberli et al. 2014, FASEB J, in press). This year’s highlight was our work on the human protein CPAP, which is an essential component of centrioles. Centrioles are microscopic cylindrical structures that assist cell division and, if mis-formed, they are at the root of primary microcephaly, among other syndromes. For some time we have been considering how centrioles are organized in 3D, and we realized that CPAP’s shape (long and thin) and multiple connections to other proteins make it an ideal “strut” that mechanically supports the centriole structure. This work and related projects on centrioles from my group will be presented in the upcoming EMBO Conference in Lisbon at the end of September.’ David Vaux (Medical Sciences) ‘Despite promising last year that we would start a project on something cheerful, I have to report that, on the contrary, this year we

have made substantial progress in studying mechanisms that underlie a range of severe human diseases. In a new collaboration with materials scientists, we have used a novel mass spectrometry method to show that a key pathological change in the aging nucleus results from deliberate local assembly of a new structure, not just from mechanical deformation of the existing organelle; the implication that aging may be a specific programme that can be switched on and off has us all fascinated. The longstanding tradition of inviting Lincoln College medical students into the lab for their third year projects continued, leading this year to a Lincoln student winning the Association of Physicians prize for his study on fingerprints in the DNA of mitochondria in a range of human cancers. And finally, we are very excited that our analysis of the earliest stages of pathology in Alzheimer’s Disease has given rise to a set of patented drug candidates that are able to block the earliest stages of amyloid assembly.’ Dominic Vella (Mathematics). ‘My main focus this year has been on understanding the mathematics of wrinkling, but I have also been involved in a number of very different projects. With colleagues involved in the 2012 BBC documentary “Operation Iceberg”, I developed a mathematical

model that describes a new mechanism for the calving of icebergs while another highlight was our work showing that honeycomb structures (as in a bee hive) can be made extremely stiff by repeating the honeycomb at smaller scales: a “fractal honeycomb”.’ Betiel Wasihun (Modern Languages) ‘“Betrayal” remains central to my research: I have made significant progress on my second monograph on betrayal, ethics and emotions in a crosssection of literary and filmic traditions, and I am pleased to report that the volume of collected essays “Playing False: Representations of Betrayal” was published in October 2013. Some of my research is also scheduled to appear soon in peer-reviewed journals such as Modern Languages Notes and Neohelicon (Springer). Furthermore, I was invited to give a talk at the German Department of Brown University, and gave research papers at the annual symposium of the ACLA in New York, at a conference in Bristol, and at a research seminar in Oxford. I also co-convened a series of interdisciplinary research seminars and co-organised the conference “Conscience and Moral Consciousness” as part of the TORCH “Affections and Ethics Network.”’

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Michael Willis (Chemistry) ‘In October 2013 I took up an EPSRC sponsored Established Researcher Fellowship. This is a five year award, and will allow me to spend a greater proportion of my time on my group’s research projects, focused on developing new catalytic processes for organic synthesis. In the spring I learnt that I had been selected to receive the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2014 “Catalysis in Organic Chemistry Award.”’ Nigel Wilson (Classics) ‘My activities this last year have included my annual visit to Freiburg (im Breisgau) to give what they call a “Kompaktseminar” and participation in a week-long seminar for graduate students in ancient philosophy in Würzburg. I have also completed my edition of Herodotus for the Oxford Classical Texts series and an edition of prefaces to Aldine editions of Greek authors, to appear in the I Tatti series published by Harvard University Press.’ Rector Henry Woudhuysen (English) ‘I have failed to keep to my vow to talk less and to write (and publish) more. In Trinity Term, I gave five lectures as the University’s Lyell Reader in Bibliography under the title ‘“Almost Identical”: Copying Books in England, 1600–1900’. These lectures looked at the history of facsimiles of books and of manuscripts, paying some attention 20 .

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to forgeries and to pastiches. A lecture given at the Beinecke Library at Yale University in New Haven, on moving leaves between different copies of the same edition of a book (a sort of bibliographical adultery or bed-swapping) was related to this series; it suggested that the practice was more common and extensive than is commonly supposed and, rather ungraciously, identified a few examples in Yale’s own collections. At the end of a conference on ‘The Edition as Argument’ at Queen Mary University of London I sought to examine some of the reasons behind the current production of an extraordinary number of scholarly editions from OUP and other publishers; what I proposed tended to contradict at least some of what the speaker had said in the opening lecture. A retreat outside Stellenbosch provided a slightly more exotic setting than the Mile End Road for a lecture on ‘“Resonant near-nonsense”: Reading and Hearing Natural Sounds in King Lear’ at the South African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies’ biennial conference which took as its subject ‘The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages and Renaissance’. Unfortunately, no wild animals came down the nearby mountain to supply the necessary sound effects. Besides continuing to write articles and review for The Times Literary Supplement

and to play a part in producing volumes for the Arden Shakespeare and for the Malone Society, my principal piece of publishing was as co-general editor for the immodestly named The Book: A Global History – the title was a compromise agreed with OUP after much discussion of one kind or another. The book (or The Book) presents revised versions of the essays which made up the first part of The Oxford Companion to the Book (2010) with three new pieces, including an essay on the history of the book in the Caribbean and Bermuda – an area of the world Michael Suarez, S.J. and I had simply and shamefully forgotten to include in the original Companion. Laid end-to-end, the columns of the index to the Companion would be nearly the length of two cricket pitches (a standard unit of measurement in such matters); the index to The Book was considerably shorter, but cost almost as much effort. A preliminary sketch describing ‘Some Women Editors of Shakespeare’ appeared in a Festschrift for Ann Thompson, one of the General Editors of the Arden Shakespeare, and I contributed a foreword for a collection of essays about Manuscript Miscellanies in Early Modern England, edited by Joshua Eckhardt and the College’s British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow Daniel Starza Smith.’

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Undergraduate Freshers 2013-14 Emma Abell – Physics Movin Abeywickrema – Medical Sciences Theodor Anghel – Physics Alexander Astley – Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Jessica Bailes – English Language and Literature Iain Baines – Medical Sciences Oliver Baines – Modern Languages (French and German) Jack Barclay – Modern Languages (French and Spanish) Kyle Bennett – Biochemistry James Bennington – History Julie Boyer – Diploma in Legal Studies Edward Calvert – Modern Languages (French and German) Thomas Carney – English Language and Literature Benedict Carter – Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Scott Challinor – Modern Languages (French and Spanish) Alexandra Chan – Music Thomas Chandler – Mathematics Laura Collins – Biomedical Sciences Matthew Courtis – Engineering Science Francesca Crisante – Modern Languages (German and Italian) Yelizaveta Crofts – Classical Archaeology and Ancient History Lucy Cross – Engineering Science Isabelle Dietz – Visiting Student Programme David Dlaka – Physics Karan Dyal – History David Fairburn – English Language and Literature Rebecca Field – English Language and Literature Lewis Fish – Engineering Science

James Fox – Physics David Freiburg – Visiting Student Programme Ewan French – Engineering Science Kyle Gerstenschlager – Visiting Student Programme David Goswell – Medical Sciences William Graham – Classical Archaeology and Ancient History Samuel Greenbank – Physics Elizabeth Grindell – English Language and Literature Thomas Hainge – Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Clara Halse – Mathematics Niamh Healy – Jurisprudence (with Law Studies in Europe) Anna Herrmann – Jurisprudence (with Law Studies in Europe) Max Hird – Mathematics Joseph Hutchinson – Chemistry William Hyatt – Classical Archaeology and Ancient History Anthonie Jacobson – Mathematics and Statistics Joshua James – English Language and Literature Nia John – Modern Languages (French and Spanish) Yyanis Johnson-Llambias – Mathematics Seren Kell – Biochemistry Joseph Kelly – History Imogen Kempton – Chemistry Katharine Kinchlea – Jurisprudence Victoria Kuhn – Jurisprudence Gabriel Lawson – History Jennifer Lee – Classical Archaeology and Ancient History Lynne Lee – English Language and Literature Edward Lewis – English Language and Literature Yi Denise Lim – Jurisprudence

Hannah Magahy – Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Kassala McGee – Medical Sciences Eleanor McKay – Biomedical Sciences Owen Mears – Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Simon Mousdale – Chemistry Kate Nicholls – Modern Languages (German) Cynthia Otote – Jurisprudence Jonathan Pearson – Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Solene Pelton – Diploma in Legal Studies Ivo Radice – Engineering Science Thomas Rawlinson – Engineering Science Florence Read – English Language and Literature Christopher Robinson – Ancient and Modern History Edward Roe – Physics Alice Russell – Chemistry Anna Russell – Philosophy, Politics, and Economics John Ryan – History and Politics Rachel Sears – Music Charlie Serrano – Chemistry Amelia Shard – Medical Sciences William Sharp – History Neill Shurville – Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Ellen Sowerbutts – Classical Archaeology and Ancient History (matriculated 2011) Juliette Spence – Modern Languages (French) Joseph Stedman-Jones – History Isabella Steel – History Sophie Stevens – History Emily Stubbings – History Hester Styles Vickery – English Language and Literature Kwan Ho Sy – Mathematics Jerome Temme – Jurisprudence Roberta Tilt – Jurisprudence (with Law Studies in Europe) Marcus Turner – History Lucia Turner – Medical Sciences Alice White – History Eleanor Williams – Jurisprudence (with Law Studies in Europe) Mark Williams – Philosophy, Politics, and Economics R E S E AURNCDHE RAGNRDA D T EU AA CT H E I FNRGE SNHEEWR S

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Graduate Freshers 2013-14 Katie Allan – Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) Christelle Alvarez – Oriental Studies (DPhil) Deborah Anderson – Management Studies (DPhil) Ole Andreassen – Philosophy (BPhil) George Artley – Modern British and European History (MSt) Xavier Bach – Comparative Philology & General Linguistics (DPhil) Saskia Baer – Law and Finance (MSc) Kemal Baran – Classical Archaeology (MSt) Jason Bell – English and American Studies (MSt) Eduardo Beltran Ortega – Business Administration (MBA) Jonathan Berman – Law (DPhil) Gunita Bhasin – Economics for Development (MSc) Leandra Bias – Russian & East European Studies (MPhil) Caitlin Black – Master of Science (by Research) in Zoology Chris Booth – Medical Sciences (DPhil) Yavor Bozhilov – Medical Sciences (DPhil) Michael Brand – Organic Chemistry (DPhil) Liz Brower – Economics for Development (MSc) Dan Brown – Economics (DPhil) Cara Bruni – General Linguistics & Comparative Philology (MPhil) Rachel Burns – English (650-1550) (MSt) Henry Burrows – Criminology & Criminal Justice (MSc) Rhoads Cannon – Russian & East European Studies (MSc) Natasia Cantwell – Postgraduate Certificate in Education (Biology) Jennifer Cassidy – International Development (DPhil) Adelie Chevee – International Relations (MPhil)

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Vanessa Chong – Medical Sciences (DPhil) Anna Coninx – Magister Juris (MJur) Crystal Cui – Financial Economics (MSc) Stephen Daly – Law (DPhil) Ritankar Das – Biomedical Engineering (MSc) Gregorio Dias Junior – Medical Sciences (DPhil) Valerie Diederichs – Business Administration (MBA) Jane Dinwoodie – History (DPhil) Timothy Drager – Financial Economics (MSc) Josep Duato-Botam – Pathology (DPhil) Martin Ducker – Systems Approaches in Bio-Medical Science Industrial Doctorate Centre (DPhil) Sarah Earle – Clinical Medicine (DPhil) Thomas Elliott – Atomic & Laser Physics (DPhil) Catherine Ellis – Modern Languages (MSt) Kate Etheridge – Medieval and Modern Languages (DPhil) Holly Everett – Postgraduate Certificate in Education (English) Raden Fathonah – Certificate in Diplomatic Studies Anabelle Gambert-Jouan – History of Art and Visual Culture (MSt) Yakun Gao – Materials (DPhil) Jessica Goodchild – Pathology (DPhil) Annina Graedel – Integrated Immunology (MSc) Simon Gritschacher – Mathematics (DPhil) Elena Gross – Neuroscience (MSc) Fergus Hardy – Postgraduate Certificate in Education (English) Peter Hatfield – Astrophysics (DPhil) Donna Henderson – Genomic Medicine and Statistics (DPhil) Santiago Herce Castanon – Neuroscience (DPhil) Adrien Hitz – Statistics (DPhil)

Kira Hopkins – Classical Archaeology (MSt) Rozalie Horka – Economics (MPhil) Lauren Howson – Medical Sciences (DPhil) Philip Hoyland – Biomedical Engineering (MSc) Herbert Hu – Business Administration (MBA) Samuel Hughes – Philosophy (BPhil) Stylianos Ieremias – Classical Archaeology (MSt) Sarah Irving – Greek and/or Roman History (MSt) Garima Jaju – Development Studies (MPhil) Leonor Jennings – Classical Archaeology (MSt) Ellen Jones – English Language (MSt) Nathan Jospe – Financial Economics (MSc) Nicolaas Kist – Zoology (DPhil) Rebecca Knott – English (1830-1914) (MSt) Marcin Krzemien – Law and Finance (MSc) Rahul Kulka – History of Art and Visual Culture (MSt) Ulrike Kunzel – Pathology (DPhil) Diletta Lauro – International Development (DPhil) Jennifer Lee – Business Administration (MBA) Heyne Lee – Pathology (DPhil) Maxime Lepoutre – Philosophy (BPhil) Eytan Lerba – Business Administration (MBA) Sam Levy – Ancient Philosophy (MSt) Alan Lewis – Physical & Theoretical Chemistry (DPhil) Pei Jin Lim – Medical Sciences (DPhil) Yang Liu – Financial Economics (MSc) Yin Lu – English Language (MSt) Melvyn Lubega – Master of Public Policy (MPP) Kirsten Macfarlane – English (1550-1700) (MSt) Sorina Maciuca – Genomic Medicine and Statistics (DPhil) Elise Maes – Magister Juris (MJur) Davinderpreet Mangat – Pathology (DPhil) Monika Marekova – Magister Juris (MJur)

Members

Charlotte Mazzoni – Master of Public Policy Divyesh Menon – Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) Corey Metzman – Law and Finance (MSc) Beatrice Montedoro – English (DPhil) Alexander Morris – Postgraduate Certificate in Education (English) Alasdair Morrison – Materials (DPhil) Rachel Morrow – Global Governance and Diplomacy (MSc) Yunus Msayib – The Centre for Doctoral Training in Healthcare Innovation (DPhil) Louise Mullen – Postgraduate Certificate in Education (Mathematics) Michael Ndlovu – African Studies (MSc) Scott Newman – World Literatures in English (MSt) Benjamin Nilsson – Infection, Immunology and Translational Medicine (DPhil) Julia Pacitto – International Development (DPhil) Lucy Parker – History (DPhil) Alice Parkin – Classical Archaeology (MSt) Ankira Patel – Economics for Development (MSc) Mark Pavlyukovskyy – Biomedical Sciences: NIHOxford (DPhil) Richard Perez-Storey – Interdisciplinary Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership (DPhil) Richard Purkiss – History (DPhil part-time) Stuart Ramsay – Theology (MPhil) Leah Rand – Public Health (MSt by Research) Ferdinando Randisi – The Life Sciences Interface Doctoral Training Centre (DPhil) Kevin Ray – Radiation Biology (MSc) Mica Redford Schlosser – Modern British and European History (MSt) Olivia Robinson – English Local History (MSc) Vincent Roch – Greek and/or Latin Languages and Literature (MSt) Daniel Rowe – History (DPhil) Maira Seeley – Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (MSc)

Itziar Serna Martin – Pathology (DPhil) Hugo Shakeshaft – Classical Archaeology (MSt) Amanda Sharp – Classical Archaeology (DPhil) Tom Sharrad – Global and Imperial History (MSt) Laura Shell – Classical Archaeology (DPhil) Sarah Sheppard – Modern Languages (MSt) Samuel Silver – Business Administration (MBA) Priyanka Sinha – General Linguistics & Comparative Philology (MSt) Hattie Soper – English (650-1550) (MSt) Boris Sterk – Global Governance and Diplomacy (MSc) Bernadette Stolz – Mathematical Modelling & Scientific Computing (MSc) Tamas Szigeti – Law (DPhil) Ka-Liong Tan – Oncology (DPhil) Joshua Thomas – Classical Archaeology (DPhil) Suphatra Tophaiboonwong – Magister Juris (MJur) Emma Truswell – Master of Public Policy (MPP) Kiira Tuohimaa – Law and Finance (MSc) Zsofia Valyi-Nagy – English Language (MSt) James Wakeley – Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (MPhil) Johannes Walker – Organic Chemistry (DPhil) David Wang – Mathematical and Computational Finance (MSc) Weichao Wang – Applied Statistics (MSc) Sam Weinberg – Economic & Social History (MSc) Caroline Whidden – Global Health Science (MSc) Katy Wright – Music (Musicology) (MSt) Matthias Wyss – Financial Economics (MSc) Ti Xu – Clinical Neurosciences (DPhil)

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Back row (l to r): Pei Jin Lim, Yelizaveta Crofts, Sarah Sheppard, Imogen Kempton, Jennifer Lee, Raden Fathonah, Fung Sai Lee, Yang Liu, Carissa Bruni, Sorina Maciuca, Yakun Gao, Vanessa Chong, Gunita Bhasin, Ankira Patel Kassala McGee, Suphatra Tophaiboonwong

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Ninth row (l to r): Jane Dinwoodie, Anna Russell, Julie Boyer, Garima Jaju, Yi Lim, Niamh Healy, Cynthia Otote, Alice White Seren Kell, Eleanor Williams, Rebecca Field, Monika Marekova, Charlotte Mazzoni, Adelie Chevee, Leandra Bias, Emma Abell, Lauren Howson, Heyne Lee, Lucas Glover

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Eighth row (l to r): Isabella Steel, Josep Duato-Botam, Roberta Tilt, Rachel Morrow, Alexandra Chan, Florence Read, Yichen Cui, Sarah Irving, Zsofia Valyi-Nagy, Anabelle Gambert-Jouan, Karan Dyal, Kwan Sy, Jessica Goodchild, Annina Graedel, Ulrike Kunzel, Elise Maes, Clara Halse, Hester Styles Vickery, Elena Gross, James Fox

Seventh row (l to r): Boris Sterk, Lucy Cross, Holly Everett, Jack Barclay, Isabelle Dietz, Rachel Sears, Lucia Turner, Kate Nicholls, Katharine Kinchlea, Solene Pelton, Anna Herrmann, Benjamin Nilsson, Weichao Wang, Martin Ducker, Priyanka Sinha, Charlie Serrano Rozalie Horka, Natasia Cantwell Juliette Spence

Sixth row (l to r): Jason Bell, James Wakeley, Caroline Whidden, Yin Yin Lu, Kiira Tuohimaa, Lynne Lee, Beatrice Montedoro, Theodor Anghel, William Hyatt Joseph Stedman Jones, James Bennington, Nathan Jospe, Neill Shurville, David Dlaka, Edward Roe, Thomas Rawlinson, Rhoads Cannon, Jessica Bailes, Hannah Magahy, Alexander Astley

Fourth row (l to r): Gabriel Lawson, David Goswell, Timothy Drager, Alexander Morris, Scott Challinor, Anna Coninx, Saskia Baer, Leah Rand, Jerome Temme, Simon Gritschacher, Stylianos Ieremias, Samuel Levy, Mica Schlosser, Thomas Carney, Kyle Bennett, Mark Williams, Jonathan Pearson, Marcus Turner, Victoria Kuhn, Iain Baines

Third row (l to r): Zhuonan Hu, Anthonie Jacobson, David Freiberg, Matthias Wyss, Divyesh Menon, Fergus Hardy, Antonio Dias Junior, Edward Lewis, William Sharp, Ka Liong Tan, Thomas Hainge, Kyle Gerstenschlager, Charles Shakeshaft, Yyanis Johnson-Llambias, Valerie Diederichs, Eytan Lerba, Bernadette Stolz, Adrien Hitz Christopher Robinson

Second row (l to r): Henry Burrows, William Graham, Peter Hatfield, Joshua James, Stephen Daly, John Ryan, Marcin Krzemien, Richard Perez-Storey, Owen Mears, Edward Calvert, Maxime Lepoutre, Samuel Silver, Jonathan Berman, Rahul Kulka, Thomas Sharrad, Vincent Roch, Scott Newman, Tianyou Xu, Oliver Baines, Ivo Radice

Front row (l to r): Kevin Ray, Emily Stubbings, Jose Beltran Ortega, Elizabeth Brower, Philip Hoyland, Sophie Stevens, Joseph Kelly, Katie Allan, Corey Metzman, Elizabeth Grindell, Joseph Hutchinson, Francesca Crisante, Davinderpreet Mangat, Alice Russell, Mustafa Baran, Deborah Anderson Movin Abeywickrema

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This photograph has been reproduced by kind permission of Gillman & Soame photographers and can Fifth row (l to r): Michael Brand, Benedict Carter, Emma Truswell, Amelia Shard, Laura Collins, Lewis Fish, Ewan French, Thomas Chandler, Matthew Courtis, Eleanor McKay, Simon Mousdale, Melvyn Lubega, Nia John, Ferdinando Randisi, Yavor Bozhilov, Catherine Ellis, Max Hird, Joao Tiago Gaspar, Samuel Greenbank

Members

Undergraduate examination results: Trinity term 2014 Biochemistry (MBiochem) Jack Eaton 1 Caitlin Gracie 1 George Hedger 1 Michael Hopkins 1 Cell and Systems Biology Sarah Burd 2:1 Alexander West 2:1 Chemistry (MChem) William Fletcher 1 Emily Howe 1 Eline Kvalheim 2:1 Katie Lewendon 1 Jonathan Maydom 2:1 Alistair Overy 1 Classical Archaeology and Ancient History Lucy Gray 2:1 Michalina Szymanska 2:1 Engineering Science (MEng) Geoffrey Cheng 2:1 Chung-Wei Chiu 2:1 Tomasz Kaminski 2:1 Oliver Roberts 2:2 1 Harold van Schevensteen

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English Language and Literature Rachel Boswell 2:1 Miriam Carter-Fraser 1 Cassie Davies 2:1 Harriet Foxwell 2:1 Shirley Halse 2:1 Natasha Heliotis 2:1 Anna Leszkiewicz 1 James Marriott 1 Jennifer Metcalfe 2:1 Leanora Volpe 2:1 History Henry Baker 1 Monish Kulkarni 2:1 James McKean 1 Kim Palfrey 2:1 James Restall 1 Oliver Smith 2:1 Lauren Turner 2:1 Thomas Vafidis 2:1 Arthur Wakeley 1 History and Modern Languages Rosemary Donnelly (French)

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History and Politics Nathan Akehurst 1

Jurisprudence Hua Chan 1 Rebecca Fox 2:1 Patrick Jones 2:1 Edward Richards 1 Anita Subedi 2:1 Shao Yan Daniel Teh 2:1 Mathematics William Bourne 2:1 Peter Nowell 3 Samir Parvez 2:2 Elizabeth Rendle 2:2 Mathematics and Statistics Stewart Jerrome 1 Mathematics (MMath) Catriona Paul 2:2 Sophie Shawdon 2:1 Haden Spence 1 Samuel Townsend 2:1 Medical Sciences Lutfi Al-Nufoury 1 Thomas Cranshaw 2:1 Henry de Berker 1 Alessandro Francioni 2:1 Maria Mazza 2:1 Michael Shaw 1

Modern Languages Elizabeth Chubb (French & Italian) 1 Catherine Garnett (French & Linguistics) 2:1 Rebecca Grundy (French & German) 2:1 Katrin Hood (French & German) 2:1 Emma Laslett (French) 2:1 Howard McDonald (French) 2:1 Patrick Ray (Spanish) 1 Music James D’Costa 1 Catriona McDermid 1 Philosophy, Politics and Economics Tomas Christmas Kathryn Crane Matthew Dawson Jonathan Dower Anthony Jones Robert Kelly Luke Kirkham Lia Sussman Alexander Turk

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Physics Henry Mallon 2:2 Charlotte Porter 2:1 2:2 Michael Zhang Physics (MPhys) Andrew Bailey 2:1 Nathaniel Davies 1 Amery Gration 2:2 1 Hugh Lindsey Michael Walker 2:1

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Members

Graduate examination results 2013-14 Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) Katie Allan Distinction Divyesh Menon Pass Diploma in Diplomatic Studies Raden Ayu Fathonah Pass Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) Cynthia Aalders (History) Writing religious communities: The spiritual lives and manuscript cultures of English women, 1740-1790 Lorraine Allchin (Genomic Medicine and Statistics) Statistical methods for mapping complex traits Lauriane Angue (Condensed Matter Physics) Single molecule studies of a voltage-gated potassium channel Janina Baumbach (Infection, Immunology and Translational Medicine) Studying centrosome formation and the consequences of centrosome loss in Drosophila melanogaster Amy Baxter (Clinical Medicine) HIV-1 transmission between T cells and macrophages: Consequences for viral pathogenesis Sweta Bhardwaj (Pathology) Interplay between chromatin conformation and transcription in eukaryotes Asgeir Birkisson (Mathematics) Numerical solution of nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations in the continuous framework Emma Bolton (Pharmacology) Effects of endogenous cannabinoids and related substances on electrical activity and contraction in cardiac ventricular muscle

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Jan Botha (Computer Science) Probabilistic modelling of morphologically rich languages Harriet Branford White (Clinical Medicine) Heterogeneity in Ewing sarcoma Annika Bruger (Clinical Medicine) TCR signalling in response to affinity stimulation Sarah Chacko (Biochemistry) Surface attachment behaviour in Rhodobacter Sphaeroides Dr James Chan (Musculoskeletal Sciences) Upregulation of early inflammation to enhance fracture repair Jian Dong (Atomic & Laser Physics) Laser trapping of atoms and cavity quantum electrodynamics in fibre-tip microcavities Magka Despoina (Computing) Foundations and applications of knowledge representation for structured entities Callum Docherty (Condensed Matter Physics) Terahertz spectroscopy of graphene and other twodimensional materials Miguel Garcia Knight (Infection, Immunology and Translational Medicine) T cell responses in Kenyan infants: impact on HIV-1 evolution during infection and an assessment of vaccine-induced memory responses in HIV-exposed uninfected infants Saman Ghannadzadeh (Condensed Matter Physics) Investigating magnetism and superconductivity using high magnetic fields Juliet Gilbert (Anthropology) ‘Destiny is not where you are now’: Fashioning new Pentecostal subjectivities among young women in Calabar, Nigeria

Timothy Green (Materials) Prediction of NMR J-coupling in condensed matter Anne Grijzenhout (Biochemistry) Characterisation of AEBP2: a polycomb repressive complex component Agnes Gwela (Clinical Medicine) Analysis of the immune evasion mechanisms of varicella zoster virus Oliver Harrison (Pathology) The Role of IL-18 in intestinal immune regulation Naoki Ichiryu (Pathology) Essential amino acid depletion by embryonic stem cells as a mechanism of immune privilege Samantha Ivell (Physical and Theoretical Chemistry) Behaviour of uniformly dimpled colloidal particles Ella James (Psychiatry) Exploring the use of Tetris as a post-trauma ‘cognitivevaccine’: From memory consolidation to reconsolidation Michael Juniper (Physical and Theoretical Chemistry) Dynamic of driven colloidal systems in one-dimensional potential energy landscapes Sedigeh Kareemaghay (Oncology) Investigating the role of ADAM10 and ADAM17 in cetuximab resistance in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma Hee Dae Kim (Condensed Matter Physics) Optical spectroscopy of a single GaAs quantum ring Abhisake Kole (Clinical Medicine) The role of type I interferons in regulating intestinal inflammation Anna Kouremenous (Archaeology) Houses and identity in Roman Knossos and Kissamos, Crete: A study in emulative acculturation

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Mathias Kruttli (Economics) Essays on hedge fund illiquidity, return predictability, and time-varying risk exposure Linxin Li (Clinical Medicine) Improving aetiological classification of transient ischaemic attack and ischemic stroke Jerome Ma (Biochemistry) Atomic studies of the dynamics of P-glycoprotein and its ligands Rebecca Maksymowicz (Organic Chemistry) Catalytic asymmetric carbon-carbon bond formation using alkenes as alkylmetal equivalents David Marshall (Biochemistry) Outer membrane proteins in droplet interface bilayers Samuel Marshall (Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics) Sloping convection: an experimental investigation in a baroclinic annulus with topography Javier Martinez (Archaeology) Aqueducts and water supply in the towns of post-Roman Spain (AD 400-1000) Magali Matsumiya (Clinical Medicine) Innate immune responses to tuberculosis vaccines James Meakin (Clinical Medicine) Velocity selective preparations in magnetic resonance imaging Stuart Minson (History) Political culture and urban space in early Tudor London Ashley Napier (Engineering Science) Vision and laser for road based localisation Lionel Nichols (Law) The International Criminal Court and the end of impunity In Kenya Cecilia Piantanida (Modern Languages) Classical lyricism in Italian and North American 20th century poetry Varun Ramraj (Clinical Medicine) Exploiting wholePDB analysis in novel bioinformatics applications Owen Schaefer (Philosophy) Moral enhancement and moral disagreement

Thomas Scott-Smith (International Development) Defining hunger, redefining food: humanitarianism in the twentieth century Rebekah Smith (Particle Physics) Measurement of Kaon and pion contributions to the T2K neutrino beam Benjamin Volk (Mathematics) D-orbifolds and d-bordism Andrea Wang (International Relations) Who makes international law? How the World Health Organization changes the regulation of infectious diseases Marlena Whiting (Archaeology) Travel in late antique levant: a study of networks of communication and travel infrastructure in the 4th-7th centuries James Williams (Clinical Medicine) Characterisation of the HIV-1 reservoir and the potential for viral eradication Shuo Xu (Materials) A study of irradiation damage in iron and Fe-Cr alloys Justina Zaborowska (Pathology) Control of expression of human snRNA genes Master of Business Administration (MBA) Jose Eduardo Beltran Ortega Pass Valerie Diederichs Distinction Zhuonan Hu Distinction Fung Sai Lee Pass Eytan Lerba Pass Samuel Silver Pass Magister Juris (MJur) Anna Coninx Distinction Elise Maes Distinction Monika Marekova Pass

Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Britney Bear (Politics: Comparative Government) Pass Rosemary Jeffreys (Classical Archaeology) Pass Callum Holmes Williams (Economic and Social History) Distinction Daniel Orton (English (Medieval)) Distinction Antoine Thalmann (Economics) Pass Tamas Szigati (Law) Hate parties: Limits on the freedom of extreme political parties Master of Public Policy (MPP) Melvyn Lubega Pass Charlotte Mazzoni Pass Emma Truswell Distinction Steven Wang Pass Master of Science (MSc) Saskia Baer (Law and Finance) Distinction Gunita Bhasin (Economics for Development) Pass Caitlin Black (Zoology (by Research)) Elizabeth Brower (Economics for Development) Pass Henry Burrows (Criminology and Criminal Justice) Pass Rhoads Cannon (Russian and East European Studies) Pass Yichen Cui (Financial Economics) Distinction Ritankar Das (Biomedical Engineering) Pass Timothy Drager (Financial Economics) Pass Dr Luke Foster (Public Health (by Research)) The long term effects and sustainability of supervised exercise therapy in the treatment of intermittent claudication Annina Graedel (Integrated Immunology) Pass Elena Gross (Neuroscience) Distinction Philip Hoyland (Biomedical Engineering) Distinction GRADUATE EXAMâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;RESULTS

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David Jones (Mathematical Finance) Distinction Nathan Jospe (Financial Economics) Distinction Marcin Krzemien (Law and Finance) Distinction Yang Liu (Financial Economics) Pass Linlu Lv (Organic Chemistry (by Research)) Enantiopure Lithuium Amides in Asymmetric Synthesis Pass Corey Metzman (Law and Finance) Distinction Frances Morrow (Global Governance and Diplomacy) Pass Mbongeni Ndlovu (African Studies) Pass Ankira Patel (Economics for Development) Pass Leah Rand (Public Health (by Research)) Kevin Ray (Radiation Biology) Distinction Maira Dyer Seeley (Refugee and Forced Migration Studies) Distinction Boris Sterk (Global Governance and Diplomacy) Pass Bernadette Stolz (Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing) Pass Kiira Tuohimaa (Law and Finance) Distinction Weichao Wang (Applied Statistics) Distinction Bo Wang (Mathematical and Computational Finance) Pass

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Samuel Weinberg (Economic and Social History) Pass Caroline Whidden (Global Health Science) Pass Matthias Wyss (Financial Economics) Distinction Pass Master of Studies (MSt) George Artley (Modern British and European History) Distinction Mustafa Kemal Baran (Classical Archaeology) Pass Rachel Burns English (650-1550) Distinction Catherine Ellis (Modern Languages) Distinction Anabelle Gambert-Jouan (History of Art and Visual Culture) Distinction Kira Hopkins (Classical Archaeology) Distinction Stylianos Ieremias (Classical Archaeology) Pass Sarah Irving (Greek and/or Roman History) Distinction Leonor Jennings (Classical Archaeology) Pass Ellen Jones (English Language) Distinction Rahul Kulka (History of Art and Visual Culture) Pass Samuel Levy (Ancient Philosophy) Pass Yin Yin Lu (English Language) Pass Kirsten Macfarlane (English (1550-1700)) Distinction

Scott Newman (World Literatures in English) Distinction Alice Parkin (Classical Archaeology) Pass Vincent Roch (Greek and/or Latin Languages and Literature) Distinction Mica Schlosser (Modern British and European History) Distinction Charles Shakeshaft (Classical Archaeology) Distinction Thomas Sharrad (Global and Imperial History) Distinction Sarah Sheppard (Modern Languages) Distinction Harriet Soper (English (650-1550)) Distinction Zsofia Valyi-Nagy (English Language) Pass Katy Wright (Music (Musicology)) Pass Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) Natasia Cantwell (Biology) Pass Holly Everett (English) Pass Fergus Hardy (English) Pass Alexander Morris (English) Pass Louise Mullen (Mathematics) Pass

Members

Scholarships and exhibitions 2013-14 This list includes all those who held Scholarships and Exhibitions awarded by Lincoln College during the academic year 2013-14. It does not include awards granted to students by the University or any other body external to the College. GRADUATES Berrow Foundation Scholarships Leandra Bias Anna Coninx Adrian Hitz Beatrice Montedoro Vincent Roch Bernadette Stolz Berrow Foundation Lord Florey Scholarship Michael Brand Clarendon-Keith Murray Scholarship Vanessa Chong Menasseh Ben Israel Room Award Jonathan Berman Polonsky Foundation Grant Duncan Paterson Priyanka Sinha Oded Steinberg Kenneth Sewards-Shaw Scholarship George Artley Jermyn Brooks Scholarship in Humanities Sarah Sheppard

Clarendon-Sloane-Robinson Foundation Graduate Scholarships Deborah Anderson Lauren Howson Amanda Sharp Tianyou Xu Sloane-Robinson Foundation Graduate Scholarships Nicole Apostol Gunita Bhasin Britton Brooks Elizabeth Brower Adam Guy Nanor Karageozian Crewe Graduate Scholarships Skaiste Aleksandraviciute Xavier Bach Giselle Hughes Sarah Irving Eleni Karouzou Tom Sharrad Ioanna Tsakiropoulou James Wakeley Sam Weinberg

Lord Crewe Graduate Scholarships in the Humanities and Social Sciences Stephen Daly Sam Hughes Hugo Shakeshaft Clarendon-Lord Crewe Graduate Scholarship in the Social Sciences Maira Seeley Supperstone Law Scholarship Monika Marekova Hartley Bursary Rebecca Knott Friedmann Music Prize Leonor Jennings Drucker Bursary Rozalie Horka EPA Scholarships Josep Duato-Botam Davinderpreet Mangat Newton-Abraham Scholarships Richard Perez-Storey

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Members

Senior Scholars James Chan Mohit Dalwadi Kelsey Rubin-Detlev Tom Scott-Smith Jerry Zak

UNDERGRADUATES Gluckstein Scholarship Edward Richards Lord Crewe Scholarships Jack Eaton Nathaniel Davies William Fletcher Michael Hopkins Katie Lewendon Thomas Pearce Rangarajan Ramesh Oliver Roberts Haden Spence Harold van Schevensteen Hao Xu Old Members’ Exhibitions Iain Frenkiel Maria Mazza Arthur Wakeley

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Old Members’ Scholarships Catriona McDermid Jennifer Metcalfe Peter Atkins Scholarships Nicholas Oliff Alistair Overy Raj Pandya Stephen Gill Scholarship Anna Leszkiewicz Scholarships Miriam Carter-Fraser Chung-Wei Chiu Samuel Diana Catherine Garnett George Hedger Emily Howe Stewart Jerrome Hugh Lindsey James Marriott Benjamin Spells EXHIBITIONS Grimshaw Exhibitions Henry Baker James McKean Elena Porter Jessica Wells

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Mark Pattison Exhibition Colette Lewis

Mehul Shah Samuel Townsend

Munro Exhibition William Lusmore

Tatham Exhibitions Benjamin Goldstein Charlotte Heffernan Lia Sussman Collis Tahzib Alexander Turk

Oldfield Exhibition Hua Chan Thomas Parkin Sarah Siaw Mark Spiller Shao Yan Daniel Teh Sidgwick Exhibitions Ashley Fisher Hannah Hodson Robert Littlejohns Thomas Lunt Crispin White Stafford Exhibitions Thomas Frost Kurun Kumar Stewart Exhibitions Emma Cholwill Stefan Curtress Fern Lai Alexander Gower

CHAPEL Bay Hardie Choral Scholarship Leonor Jennings Bob Blake Choral Scholarship Crispin White Hollingsworth Organ Scholarship James D’Costa Junior Organ Scholarship Marion Bettsworth Valerie Blake Choral Scholarship Catriona McDermid Wesley Choral Scholarship Anna Russell

Members

Special awards 2013-14 This list includes all those who held non-academic awards granted by Lincoln College during the academic year 2013-14. It does not include awards given to students by the University or any other body external to the College.

College Travel Grants Oliver Baines Edward Calvert Mattia Cattaruzza Shirley Halse Max Kelton James McKean Juliette Spence Sophie Stevens Edmund Wong Felicity Brown Award Jessica Wells Modern Linguists Travel Grants Mitchell Byrne Scott Challinor Max Kelton Colette Lewis Lise Noyau Eleanor Rowbottom Craig Tuffin Oakeshott Award William Lusmore

Vivian Green Student Assistance Awards Alex Astley Marion Bettsworth Caitlin Black Amelia Coe Peter Connell Jamie Cotton Thomas Cranshaw Catherine Edwards Elena Gross Callum Holmes Williams Eline Kvalheim Kristin Lampe Fung Sai Lee Yi Denise Lim Christopher May Nupur Patel Elena Porter Eleanor Rowbottom Daniel Scriven Klara Slater Oliver Smith Francesca Tooze Crispin White Alex Wilson Matthias Wyss

Blackstaffe Bursary One bursary awarded Crewe Bursaries 54 bursaries awarded Cuthbert Bursaries Eight bursaries awarded Henrey Bursary One bursary awarded Kingsgate Bursary One bursary awarded Teach First Bursaries Two bursaries awarded

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Staff Members

Undergraduate prizes 2013-14

Chemistry Joseph Hutchinson

College prize for undergraduates who achieved a first in their respective FHS examinations

Jurisprudence Hua Chan Edward Richards

Engineering Science Lewis Fish Thomas Rawlinson

Biochemistry Jack Eaton Caitlin Gracie George Hedger Michael Hopkins

Mathematics Haden Spence

History James Bennington Karan Dyal Joseph Kelly Alice White

Chemistry William Fletcher Emily Howe Katie Lewendon Alistair Overy

Medical Sciences Lutfi Al-Nufoury Henry de Berker Michael Shaw

Engineering Science Oliver Roberts Harold van Schevensteen English Language and Literature Miriam Carter-Fraser Anna Leszkiewicz James Marriott History Henry Baker James McKean James Restall Arthur Wakeley

Modern Languages Elizabeth Chubb (French and Italian) Patrick Ray (Spanish) Music James Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Costa Catriona McDermid Physics Nathaniel Davies Hugh Lindsey College Prize for Undergraduates who achieved a distinction in Prelims

History and Politics Nathan Akehurst

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Mathematics and Statistics Stewart Jerrome

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Ancient and Modern History Christopher Robinson

Jurisprudence Yi Denise Lim Music Rachel Sears Drummond Prize James McKean Stansbie Prize Michael Hopkins Trappes Exhibition (in recognition of a University prize) Lutfi Al-Nufoury Andrew Bailey Michael Hopkins Emily Howe Henry Mallon James McKean Charlotte Porter Oliver Roberts Michael Shaw

Graduate prizes 2013-14 College Prize for Graduates who achieved a distinction in their respective examinations Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) Katie Allan Magister Juris (MJur) Anna Coninx Elise Maes Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Callum Holmes Williams (Economic and Social History) Daniel Orton (English (Medieval)) Master of Science (MSc) Saskia Baer (Law and Finance) Yichen Cui (Financial Economics) Elena Gross (Neuroscience) Philip Hoyland (Biomedical Engineering) David Jones (Mathematical Finance) Nathan Jospe (Financial Economics) Marcin Krzemien (Law and Finance) Corey Metzman (Law and Finance) Kevin Ray (Radiation Biology) Maira Dyer Seeley (Refugee and Forced Migration Studies) Kiira Tuohimaa (Law and Finance) Weichao Wang (Applied Statistics)

Master of Studies (MSt) George Artley (Modern British and European History) Rachel Burns (English (650-1550)) Catherine Ellis (Modern Languages) Anabelle Gambert-Jouan (History of Art and Visual Culture) Kira Hopkins (Classical Archaeology) Sarah Irving (Greek and/or Roman History) Ellen Jones (English Language) Kirsten Macfarlane (English (1550-1700)) Scott Newman (World Literatures in English) Vincent Roch (Greek and/or Latin Languages and Literature) Mica Schlosser (Modern British and European History) Charles Shakeshaft (Classical Archaeology) Thomas Sharrad (Global and Imperial History) Sarah Sheppard (Modern Languages) Harriet Soper (English (650-1550))

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The Lincoln Year

Senior Tutorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s report

Dr Louise Durning Senior Tutor

Undergraduate studies I am pleased to report that, yet again, the talent and commitment of Lincoln undergraduates was reflected in another top-ten placing in the Norrington Table. Lincoln stands 36 . L I N C O L N

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at 10th this year, with 31 firsts. We note in particular the achievements of our Biochemists and Musicians, all of whom were awarded first class degrees. Nine students were awarded University prizes. We celebrated the successes of all our undergraduates over three days in July when we welcomed graduands, their families, friends, and tutors, to a series of splendid garden parties in the Grove, hosted by the Rector. I report, with pleasure, the creation of a new tutorial fellowship. This summer we elected a fellow and tutor in Spanish, in association with the Faculty of Modern Languages. This is an entirely new post, one which we were able to secure against fierce competition from other Colleges. It will strengthen our provision in Modern Languages and allow us to respond more fully to the changing nature of student demand, Spanish now being the second most popular language choice amongst Modern Languages applicants. We look forward to welcoming Dr Daniela Omlor, who will take up the post for the beginning of the 2014-15 academic year. In 2013 we continued the project, initiated last year, to increase support to our undergraduates, and graduates,

through the creation of Graduate Teaching Assistantships, extending the scheme to Modern Languages and to Mathematics. First year undergraduates meet regularly with a senior graduate student in their subject to work on their essay-writing skills and/or to improve techniques specific to their subjects. The graduate students are remunerated for their work and gain valuable teaching experience that will enhance their CVs. We will continue to build on this scheme in the year to come. As reported in the Record last year, the generosity of alumni has made possible a great step forward in supporting undergraduates from less-privileged backgrounds. The first Cuthbert Bursaries were awarded in 2012-13 and were joined this year by two further endowed bursary schemes â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the Kingsgate and Henrey Bursaries. All of these awards are targeted at those students from the lowest household-income backgrounds whose prior educational experience and/or geographical location indicate a degree of social disadvantage. The Henrey Bursary is reserved for students reading Humanities subjects. I am pleased to report that the College was able to award five bursaries to new

undergraduates starting at Lincoln in 2013, and a further five to students in their second year of study. These bursaries are of enormous value to their recipients, not only in helping them to meet their expenses during term-time and to participate fully in College life, but also by allowing them the freedom to concentrate on their studies during the short vacations. Two further bursary schemes will come onstream in 2014.

type of cost are those faced by finalists in Chemistry and Biochemistry who, because of the extended terms set for these courses, must fund up to 12 weeks of additional accommodation costs.

2013 also saw the introduction of a new kind of bursary, the Blackstaffe Bursary, designed to help less wealthy students whose courses of study oblige them to incur significant additional expenditure. The most common examples of this

Needless to say, Lincoln undergraduates once again demonstrated the diversity of their talents in a broad range of extracurricular activities, both within and outside the College. The 2013-14 Ball Committee staged an imaginative, and

Seventy small grants were made to undergraduates from funds provided by The Lord Crewe Trust, including grants to a number of finalists to enable them to remain in Oxford in the Easter Vacation before Schools.

highly successful, event on the theme of Paradise Lost. The Chapel Choir continued to flourish, opening the year with the release of a new CD, ‘For the Fallen’, and undertaking successful tours to Rome and Durham, the former supported by the Annual Fund, the latter hosted by the Trustees of Lord Crewe’s Charity and the Dean and Chapter of Durham Cathedral. The music society hosted a series of concerts, including a most enjoyable jazz evening in the Chapel, for St Valentine’s Day, and the Turl Street Arts Festival once again provided a showcase for artistic talents in all media. College sportsmen and women continue to put Lincoln on the map both at College and University level. SENIOR TUTOR’S REPORT

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Graduate studies & activities 133 new graduate students joined the MCR in October 2013, representing subjects from across the spectrum of scholarship. This included a largerthan-usual group of one-year Masters students and we congratulate each of them on their achievements, particularly the 36 students who achieved distinction in their examinations. We also congratulate the many DPhil students who defended their theses successfully in the course of this year. Their names and topics are listed on a separate page of the Record. Thirty one of our new students received scholarships from the College to support the, now considerable, expense of undertaking graduate work. Thanks to the continuing generosity of friends and alumni, Lincoln now has the most extensive programme of graduate scholarships and grants of any college in the University. In all, 60 MCR members received substantial support for their studies this year from College scholarships. We continued the development, spearheaded by 38 .

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the Keith Murray Trustees, of making partnerships with Universityadministered funds to leverage fullfunded awards for graduates, covering all fees and living costs for the duration of a student’s course. In 2013 four of the ten Sloane Robinson awards were offered in partnership with the Clarendon Fund and, within the next few years, all will be awarded in partnership with the Clarendon Fund, the AHRC, or the ESRC. The range of scholarly interests represented within the MCR is remarkably wide and there is much enjoyment in the sharing of ideas. Through its Lord Florey talks, the MCR provides opportunities for members to give presentations to their peers on their ongoing research. The termly SCR/MCR after dinner talks – the Conversazione –continued with speakers from both Common Rooms taking the opportunity to discuss their research with a wide audience. Dr Mark Williams opened the series with an intriguing account of the literary and political history of the gods of Irish mythology and was followed by Professor Nick Jelley, in his valedictory year, who gave a fascinating presentation on his project to perfect a solar cooker

for use in developing countries. George Artley (MSt in History, Kenneth Sewards-Shaw Scholar), closed the series with his analysis of the end of witch trials in England. Members of the MCR have participated in a wide variety of activities, cultural, sporting, academic and social. Highlights of the social year included a magical Christmas dinner in Hall, a joint dinner, at the end of Hilary Term, with representatives from Downing College (our sister college in Cambridge), and, of course, the College Ball in Trinity Term. As I write, the final preparations are being made for the completion of the new Middle Common Room in the Berrow Foundation Building, formerly the Garden Building. It has been very exciting to watch the project take shape over the last few years and we look forward to the formal opening later this term. The new Common Room, fully accessible, beautifully panelled and furnished, will provide a spacious and elegant setting for the shared life of our graduate students. n Dr Louise Durning Senior Tutor and Tutor for Graduates

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Librarian’s report

Fiona Piddock Librarian

An exciting new chapter in the Library began in January 2014 with the appointment of Dr Sarah Cusk as Antiquarian Cataloguer. Whilst initially appointed to start cataloguing the different categories of material found in the historic collection (the ‘Senior Library’), it quickly became apparent

that the project needed to be wider than this, and that Sarah’s exciting discoveries should reach a wider audience. An exhibition for Fellows (on the May Chapter Day) of items donated by former Fellows, and an exhibition of treasures of the collection for our students led to the institution of termly ‘Unlocking the Senior Library’ sessions on particular themes for which students could book, including Science & Medicine and Travel & Cartography. To reach interested parties beyond the College walls, Sarah has created a Senior Library section on the College website www.lincoln.ox.ac.uk/Senior-Library, which includes interesting highlights of recently catalogued items www. lincoln.ox.ac.uk/Recently-Catalogued, and a new blog, The Press www. lincolncollegeseniorlibrary.wordpress. com/. It will feature a growing collection of more in-depth articles about items within the collection. There are also plans for online exhibitions, including treasures of the collection, and, in conjunction with the College Archivist, an exhibition concerning John Wesley’s time at Lincoln. In February, we welcomed Rahel Fronda, Hebraica and Judaica Subject

Librarian at the Bodleian Library, as Hebrew books cataloguer. Her work was kindly funded by the John S. Cohen Foundation. She has finished cataloguing ca. 400 books written mostly in Hebrew, but also in HebrewAramaic, Yiddish, Syriac, and Arabic, as well as polylot Hebrew-Greek-Latin works. Rahel has discovered an early Hebrew Bible fragment and six leaves of an early Talmudic fragment that were used as binding waste. Hebrew incunables are quite rare, so identifying previously unknown texts or even fragments of them is exciting. The earliest complete book in the collection is a polyglot Psalter printed in Genoa in 1516, see page 41. Inside mention is even made of one of that city’s most famous sons, Christopher Columbus and his discovery of America. We have also welcomed members of Henley-upon-Thames Decorative and Fine Arts Society (HEDFAS) to clean the Senior Library books. Many of these volunteers have received rigorous training by National Trust conservator Caroline Bendix, and have worked on collections in Stonor Park and at Christ Church. Despite protection during the recent Library refurbishment project, dust and grit inevitably made its way LIBRARY

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Rahel has discovered an early Hebrew Bible fragment and six leaves of an early Talmudic fragment that were used as binding waste. Hebrew incunables are quite rare, so identifying previously unknown texts or even fragments of them is exciting.

Sarah Cusk Antiquarian Cataloguer

onto the books and we are very grateful to these volunteers for their work. Our professional conservators also spent ten days in December continuing the project to fit bookshoes to items which need support to prevent damage. In the Main Library, we have tackled the long list of catalogued items that have been marked â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;missingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; over the past twenty years. Fellows have been asked which of these items should be replaced, or updated, or simply removed from the catalogue. About fifty percent of the missing items are to

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be replaced – a considerable number – and so replacement will be phased over two years. It is gratifying after so much work collating the responses to see the volumes coming in and the collection being renewed. The biennial Library survey was taken in Hilary term. The results showed that, even in this electronic era, students still like to read hard copy books and they would like us to stock more of the books on their reading lists. The main area of complaint identified by the survey, though, was ‘desk-hogging’! So, during Trinity term, when pressure on desk space is at its height, we have introduced some extra temporary tables, and the College has responded by opening up other spaces for quiet study in the evenings and at weekends. We were pleased to complete the final tasks related to the Library material that was moved out of the former ‘Library Corridor’ that, before the redevelopment

of the Garden Building, led all the way from The Grove to the All Saints’ (Library) churchyard. Our rehousing and cataloguing work on those books has lasted for four years and been considerably more complicated than anyone could have anticipated at the outset. Other projects completed this year included adding entries for the modern items in the Oxford Section to the university-wide electronic catalogue (SOLO); and renewing the coverings on the dust wrappers of modern items in the Main Library. This year we have welcomed many visitors into the Library building: special tours were given to a group of librarians from Yangon University (the oldest in Myanmar); a group of Danish architects, studying the conversion of church buildings; and the Bodleian’s volunteer guides. However, the largest event was our participation, for the first time, in the Oxford Open Doors weekend in September 2014, organised by the Oxford Preservation

Trust. Comparison with other similar venues from previous years led us to expect c.600 visitors each day. We were overwhelmed to receive over 2,000 visitors over the two afternoons we were open, and Oxford Preservation Trust reported that we were one of the highlights of the weekend. The most appreciative visitors were local people, who said that they often passed the building but had no idea of the beautiful and impressive interior and of the history of its use as a church and a library. Visitors came from far and wide and it was great to be involved in a countrywide initiative. n Fiona Piddock Librarian

The Library is grateful to the following current members and alumni who have donated works which they have either published or written or which relate to Lincoln College. P.W. Atkins Anthony Fowles Robert Henrey Simon McKie Edward Nye

Kenneth Reid Richard Rose Eric Sidebottom Nigel Wilson

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Report of the archives

Andrew Mussell Archivist

To review the previous year, it has been (along the lines of a sundial motto in a good sense) much like those before it: mostly catching up further with the various backlogs, including about 300 small items received but not accessioned during the decade or so before my appointment, which only came to light recently in the final few unmarked boxes that resurfaced during the move. As always the College owes great thanks to the donors of many items, too many 42 . L I N C O L N

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to name individually, to the archive. A purchase of particular interest is the 1924 group photograph of the Davenant Society, shown right. Not only does it show the lost ark, but it also provides a named photograph of the Revd R. R. Martin (1914), and makes it possible to identify the sitter of a previously unnamed portrait as the Revd A. Carlyle (Exeter 1883). Looking back over the previous 11 years, which I now do as the former archivist, they were highly constructive, particularly of course once the new premises were set up. Although the space is not yet ideal in terms of environmental controls, it is far better in almost every way than what the College had before. Looking now at the former archive and record storage rooms up or down spiral staircases and ladders in various towers and basements Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m impressed that it was ever possible to operate any kind of service from them (or that the move from Turl Street happened with as little drama as it did). The four large collections that arrived during the period â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the papers of Vivian Green, Anthony Goodman, Denis Hills and Donald Whitton â&#x20AC;&#x201C; are of course of permanent importance as archive

collections (or will be once they are all catalogued), but also served the extremely useful temporary purpose, by completely overloading the then archive service, of making it clear that decisive action was needed in respect of the space and facilities required for the continuance of any kind of function at all. The second major issue after space is modern records, mostly in the sense of dealing with the challenge presented by the switchover from paper-based to a computerised and digital record system, which has now well and truly worked its way through to become an important and pressing matter for archives everywhere. I was not able to contribute much to this, as the issue of proper space for the existing collections and archives in traditional media could not be left unresolved, but wish my successor well in addressing it, and all other archive and modern records matters. Finally, I take the opportunity to record my thanks and gratitude to everyone at Lincoln for all the good experiences of the past 11 years, which (for me, at least) were extremely enjoyable. n Andrew Mussell College Archivist

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Access and Outreach Sadly, at the end of this academic year, we bade farewell to our Schools Liaison Officer Ashley Walters (2006) who, in his three years in post, has transformed Lincoln’s outreach strategy. We take this occasion to thank him warmly for his dedication to the College’s work and wish him every success in his new post as Academic Administrator at St Edmund Hall. His final year was a busy one, in the course of which he arranged 35 events, both in Oxford and in our link regions (Lincolnshire, and the West of England). These events are designed to encourage applications to Oxford from all those with the potential to succeed, particularly from students whose schools may have little experience of sending applicants to this University. A list of schools with whom we have engaged this year is given on the following page. The College also hosted a number of participants in the University’s UNIQ summer schools open to Year 12 pupils in UK state schools. 44 . L I N C O L N

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In the near future we hope to develop a further initiative by establishing a network of alumni teachers, particularly those alumni who, through various schemes, have gone on to teach at schools with little other contact with Oxford In a new initiative this year, we launched an Outreach Ambassadors Scheme for our undergraduates. While Lincoln has always benefited from the enthusiastic collaboration of large numbers of JCR members in our outreach work, this new scheme provides an opportunity for some of those students to take on a more substantial role. The ambassadors meet school students coming to College on day or overnight visits but are also encouraged to give a talk at a school in their home community (not necessarily their own school), with support and training from the Schools Liaison Officer. In the near future we hope to develop a further initiative by establishing a network of alumni teachers, particularly those alumni who,

through various schemes, have gone on to teach at schools with little other contact with Oxford. In the coming year we will be reviewing our outreach strategy. Since 2006 Lincoln has shared a Schools Liaison Officer with Exeter College and, while this was a pioneering move in its day, and one copied by other pairs of Colleges, the picture has changed significantly in the last eight years. Many colleges now employ a full-time Schools Liaison Officer and it is the case that Exeter and Lincoln are now alone in sharing a single outreach post-holder across two societies. At the same time, the need for more detailed planning, targeting, and monitoring of outreach work has become more insistent, both to satisfy the University’s agreement with OFFA, and because this is the best way of ensuring that our outreach activities remain effective. This increased administrative work, while necessary, reduces the amount of time available for face-to-face work with school teachers and their pupils and so it would be appropriate now to look to finding a way of employing a full-time outreach officer of our own. n Dr Louise Durning Senior Tutor

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Schools worked with 2013 – 2014

Through the Lincolnshire Access Initiative: Arthur Mellows Village College (Peterborough) Bourne Grammar School (Bourne) Brumby Engineering College (Scunthorpe) Caistor Grammar School (Market Rasen) Franklin College (Grimsby) Frederick Gough School (Scunthorpe) Haven High Technology College (Boston) Huntcliff School (Gainsborough) John Leggott Sixth Form College (Scunthorpe) Kesteven and Sleaford High School (Sleaford) Lincoln Christ’s Hospital School (Lincoln) Lincoln Minster School (Lincoln) Melior Community College (Scunthorpe) New College Stamford (Stamford) North Axholme School (Crowle) Sir Robert Pattinson Academy (Lincoln) South Axholme Community School (Doncaster) Spalding Grammar School (Spalding) Spalding High School (Spalding) St Bede’s Catholic School (Scunthorpe) St Lawrence Academy (Scunthorpe) St Peter and St Paul High School (Lincoln) Stamford High School (Stamford) Stamford School (Stamford) The Banovallum School (Horncastle) The Deepings School (Peterborough) The Priory Academy LSST (Lincoln) The St Lawrence Academy (Scunthorpe) Thomas Deacon Academy (Peterborough) Tolbar Academy (Grimsby) William Farr CofE Comprehensive School (Lincoln) Winterton Comprehensive School (Scunthorpe) The King’s (the Cathedral) School (Peterborough) The Neale-Wade Community College (March)

In the West of England: Abbeywood Community School (Bristol) Beechen Cliff School (Bath) Bradley Stoke Community School (Bristol) Brimsham Green School (Bristol) Brislington Enterprise College (Bristol) Bristol Brunel Academy (Bristol) Chipping Sodbury School (Bristol) Clifton High School (Bristol) Cotham School (Bristol) Downend Comprehensive School (Bristol) Fairfield High School (Bristol) Gordano School (Bristol) Hanham High School (Bristol) John Cabot Academy (Bristol) King’s Oak Academy (Bristol) Mangotsfield School (Bristol) Marlwood School (Bristol) Norton Hill Academy (Radstock) Patchway Community College (Bristol) St Brendan’s Sixth Form College (Bristol) St Katherine’s School (Bristol) Sir Bernard Lovell School (Bristol) St Laurence School (Bradford-on-Avon) The Castle School (Bristol) The Grange School and Sports College (Bristol) The Red Maids School (Bristol) The Ridings Federation Winterbourne International Academy (Bristol) and a further 30 Schools from across the United Kingdom through the Inter-Collegiate Pathways Programme.

Pathways Other Schools: Abraham Moss High School (Manchester) Almondbury High School and Language College (Huddersfield) Archbishop McGrath Catholic School (Bridgend) Babington Community College (Leicester) Bishop Challoner Catholic College (Birmingham) Bryntirion Comprehensive. (Cefn Glas) Buxton School (London) Chellaston Academy (Derby) Chorlton High School (Manchester) Fairfield High School (Bristol) Felpham Community College (Bognor Regis) Fitzalan High School (Leckwith) Gable Hall School (Stanford-le-Hope) Hawthorn High School (Hawthorn) King Charles I Secondary School (Kidderminster) Lavington School (Devizes) North Liverpool Academy (Liverpool) Ossett Academy and Sixth Form College (Ossett) Overton Grange School (Sutton) Prendergast - Ladywell Fields College (London) Reigate School (Reigate) Richard Lander School (Truro) Ryburn Valley High School (Sowerby Bridge) St Paul’s Way Trust School (London) Tarleton High School, A Community Technology College (Preston) The Streetly School (Sutton Coldfield) Walworth Academy (London) Waverley School (Birmingham) Wellington School (Altrincham)

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Bursar’s report The financial year of Oxford University and its colleges runs from August 1st to July 31st. The year 2013-14, taken on its own, was hardly an exceptional one for Lincoln College in terms simply of financial performance. But it was a year in which the College saw the benefit of measures that had been put in place in earlier years, seeing in the most recent period the effect of earlier decisions taken in respect of investment policy and the implementation of rules for spending. The College’s portfolio of real estate and financial investments produced a return of 7.0% in 2013-14, with the stronger returns coming from property. As I say, this performance in itself was not particularly exciting. But it should be seen in the context of a dull environment for investment markets generally. From the perspective of the UK, investor returns from internationally-diversified portfolios were dampened by the strength of sterling 46 . L I N C O L N

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– the pound appreciated by 11% against the US dollar and by 10% against the euro – so this was not a year in which British investors reaped the rewards of a global investment approach. So, for example, the total return from the MSCI global equity index (in £ terms) over the twelve months was just +2.0%; and the benchmark against which the College measures the performance of its financial asset portfolios, which is made up of the returns from various asset classes, returned a negative -0.8%. In this context the combined performance of the two principal fund managers, Lord North Street and Cerno, actually looks quite creditable at +2.6%. Importantly, the return from the investment portfolio as a whole was greater than 3%, this being the percentage of the endowment assets that the College draws each year to fund its activities; and it was higher than all measures of general UK price inflation, even outstripping that idiosyncratic measure of price inflation applied to the expenditure of Oxford colleges, the Van Noorden Index, which in the latest year was +3.6%. The return on the College’s investments has exceeded the sum that the College permits itself to spend on its various activities in ten of the last twelve years. This long-term pattern of good investment

returns and consistent adherence to the “3% spending rule” has contributed to a substantial increase in the value of the College’s pool of endowment assets, from £27.3 million in 2002 to £88.0 million in 2014. (In fact, if we were to use the same definition of “endowment assets” as was used by the Oxford colleges prior to their adoption of the Charities SORP in 2010, Lincoln’s 2014 figure would be just over £93 million.) This rate of growth is faster than that of any other Oxford college over the same period. Of course, there is more behind this endowment growth than simply successful investment and disciplined spending. The third, very important, component is the gathering of donations from friends and alumni of Lincoln by the College’s Development Office. The Development Director and I calculate that since 2002 actual receipts from fundraising (that is, not including pledges and bequests not yet received) amount to £37.1 million, of which £10.8 million has been specifically given to endowment-enhancing projects (e.g. to endow new Fellowships; or to provide endowed funds to support students in financial hardship; or to support student scholarships). Taking into account the net present value of these income streams and of withdrawals to support the College’s activities I calculate that the investment

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return component (real estate and financial assets combined) of the annual rate of endowment growth 2002-14 is just over 10%. While the investment portfolio was generating a healthy (if unspectacular) return in 2013-14, the College’s annual spending was kept within the “3% rule” for the year. What this means is that the difference between nonendowment sources of income (fees and grants received for tuition, and income from domestic operations) and total expenditure (on teaching, research, accommodation, catering, building maintenance and management) is no more than can be covered by a drawdown of 3% or less from the endowment funds. This model of operating deficit and limited drawdown is an appropriate one for a charity like Lincoln College. After all, Lincoln has been given and has accumulated a pool of endowment funds in order that the College can fulfil its charitable objectives, so it is proper that a sum is taken from the endowment each year to that end – but that sum must not be so great that it runs the risk of eroding the capital. In 2013-14 the operating deficit was, at £1.93 million, £42,000 larger than in the previous year. This was primarily a consequence of higher

staff costs across all areas of the College’s activities, and despite lower expenditure on buildings’ maintenance; and more money than ever before was given, from both endowed and non-endowed sources, to students to support their academic and other activities and to provide help in cases of hardship. But in total the deficit was no more than approximately 2.9% of the value of the endowment, averaged over the previous three years, and the “3% rule” was accordingly met. 2013-14 also saw good progress in respect of the College’s physical infrastructure. The refurbishment of Lincoln House and Staircase 15 to provide en-suite, centralheated rooms is now close to completion: this project has been supported by regular donations from alumni to the Annual Fund and has been largely undertaken to a high standard by the College’s in-house maintenance team under the Clerk of Works, Richard Noonan. The Garden Building development has run frustratingly behind schedule but is nearing its end: despite the delays the project will not materially exceed its budget, the cost will be met in full by the generous donations of the Berrow Foundation and the EPA Trust, and Lincoln will acquire splendid new facilities for performances, meetings, lectures and entertaining, and its MCR.

Much is made of the financial and social challenges facing the academic faculties and students in educational institutions at the present time. Lincoln is becoming well placed to meet these challenges. The financial disciplines adopted by the College since roughly the turn of the millennium have put it, now, in a solid if not luxurious position. We have made substantial improvements to the buildings and look to do more. Next year will see the start of work to refurbish the NatWest building on the High; and one day, as funds and imagination permit, we shall begin work to update and transform the College’s rooms in the Mitre. That will be an ambitious and complicated project, but no more than Lincoln needs to keep it as a secure, modern and attractive place of learning. More information about the College’s financial performance in 2013-14 can be found in the Governing Body’s Report, which forms part of the published annual accounts. Lincoln’s accounts can be found on the web-sites of Oxford University www.ox.ac.uk and the Charity Commission www.charitycommission. gov.uk/. (Lincoln’s charity registration number is 1139261). n Tim Knowles Bursar BURSAR’S REPORT

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Development and alumni relations

Susan Harrison Director of Development and Alumni Relations

One of the most satisfying aspects of our work in the Development Office is that we have a privileged view of the impact of fundraising within the College. As we reach the end of the Living Lincoln Campaign, I have been particularly struck by the way in which the support of our alumni and friends enables Lincoln to open doors and create new opportunities 48 . L I N C O L N

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for students, Fellows, alumni, and for the community more widely. That is not to say that this is itself a novelty. Philanthropy has always brought benefits for Lincoln, from the earliest days. It is well known that in 1427 our founder, Bishop Richard Fleming, endowed Lincoln with a sense of purpose, our historic site in central Oxford, but very little cash. Perhaps less well known is the name of Dean John Forest; yet it was largely thanks to a substantial donation from this early benefactor, that the College was given, in 1437, the resources to build a chapel, a library, a dining hall, and a kitchen. It is fitting that his name is recorded in our Service of Commemoration of Benefactors as the College’s co-founder. Earlier this year, the Governing Body supported a proposal to recognise the generosity of our most significant living donors with reference to our former benefactors. We have therefore created a series of ‘recognition’ circles, the names of which will be familiar to many. Among them are the John Forest, Emmelina Carr, and Thomas Marshall Circles; these join our existing Rotherham Circle and Fleming Fellowships in enabling the College to recognise the generosity of its benefactors.

Many of the early benefactions included manuscripts, books, and plate; our second Rector, Beke, left the college twelve silver spoons. However later legacies enabled the College to establish a number of endowed scholarships and exhibitions, all of which are still awarded in the name of the donor. The best known of these historic awards are the Crewe Scholarships, but many other names are represented. One of the cornerstones of the Living Lincoln Campaign was a determination to ensure that the newly increased cost of obtaining a degree should not be a deterrent to applicants here. I am particularly heartened by the way in which our alumni and friends have responded to this renewed need for student support, by creating awards that encourage applications from the most able candidates, undergraduate and graduate, and complement our outreach and access activities. The establishment of a wide range of endowed bursaries for undergraduates – Cuthbert, Kingsgate, Bearley, Blackstaffe, Millerchip, and Henrey, among others, has played a significant role in helping us to achieve this aim. This year, for the first time, some of the recipients of bursary awards enjoyed a dinner with donors, and

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discussed how to ensure that information about the awards available is circulated more widely in schools nationwide. For graduate students too, cost is a significant issue. Our range of scholarships and awards now includes several which cover the full cost of an advanced degree at Oxford: in recent years, the Polonsky Foundation, the Sloane-Robinson Foundation and the Crewe Trust have supported full scholarships, while these foundations and many individual alumni continue to support partial scholarships. The list of awardees on pages 31-33 gives some idea of the generous support now available from Lincoln. The need for greater opportunities extends to the Fellowship, where a number of early career posts have been created, in addition to the new endowments received for Tutorial Fellowships in History, and in Economics. New donations received during the course of the Living Lincoln Campaign have supported JRFs in Music, Biomedicine, and junior Tutorial (Darby) Fellowships in Law and English. These posts, held for between three and five years, give young researchers time to develop their academic careers, while membership of the College provides welcome and congenial social interactions.

For many of our final year students and recent graduates, the greatest challenge is to step onto the career ladder. Our alumni mentoring scheme, supported by an online service established by alumnus Daniel Watts (1999), provides a popular way for alumni to help by offering advice and internships, and opens the way for new careers to be forged. This is an area that we intend to develop further in the years ahead. As others have noted, Lincoln participated in the Open Doors weekend for the first time in 2014. However one of the most satisfying developments for me this year was to see the Senior Library open its doors on a regular basis, to students, Fellows and alumni. This again was made possible through new philanthropy, in this case the generous gifts from the Lauffer Family Foundation and the J S Cohen Foundation which have enabled us to employ antiquarian cataloguers for the first time. (The cataloguers have already uncovered many treasures, but it was particularly apt that the Donorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Book was rediscovered. This is a record of donations of books to the Senior Library covering ca. 1620 to ca.1755.) The cataloguers hold fixed term posts, coterminous with the funding received, and we are seeking further

grants to continue this work, which has already yielded some fascinating insights into the Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collections, and which will make them available to scholars in Oxford and beyond. A reception in the Senior Library for Oxford-based alumni was just one of many events we ran this year. Gaudies and year dinners remain popular, and the Lincoln Society Dinner was also well attended. The events programme always includes a large number of overseas dinners and receptions, and this year was no exception. In addition to events in various cities in North America, Hong Kong, and Singapore, the Rector held a reception for alumni in Cape Town, and he and I ventured to Australia in August where we met alumni in Adelaide, Sydney, and Melbourne. Other special events included a Scottish dinner, this year held in Edinburgh; a reception in London, where the inestimable Professor John Deathridge evaluated Wagner in this anniversary year; and a law networking round-table sponsored by Morrison and Foerster. The Crewe Society met in Lincoln, with the Bishop of Lincoln as a particularly special guest. And the Murray Society held two events this year, with a lunch in College and a spring visit to Parham, the beautiful

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Sussex home of Lady Emma Barnard (1982). So many of these events are made possible through the generosity of alumni, and I would like to thank all of those who have shared their time – and homes – to host fellow Lincoln alumni. Fundraising has continued, of course, as we endeavoured to beat our campaign

target of £27m by the end of July. We sprinted to the finish line, raising £30m overall. In the past year, many pledged donations have been paid-up, and the Annual Fund continued to perform strongly. Overall, more than 21% of all alumni made a donation in the financial year 2013-14. This is a very creditable percentage, and even more so is the fact

Gifts by type The table below provides a breakdown of gifts by type for 2013-14 compared with the previous year. Gift type New pledges New Bequest pledges Donations received (cash) Donations received (legacies)

2012-13

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£5,791,729

£2,898,160

£286,960

£2,073,900

£3,577,251

£6,503,956

£420,059

£1,841,408

Designation of donations The pie chart below shows where new donations (cash and pledges) are to be directed, at the request of the donor where specified, and at the designation of the College where the donation is unrestricted.

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that over the course of the Living Lincoln Campaign, nearly 40% contributed. Our younger alumni have been particularly generous in percentage terms, and the new Lincoln for Life fund, designed for young alumni making modest regular donations, has this year been able to make its first grant – for a recording deck in the new music practice rooms. Life in the Development Office has been relatively uneventful; we were sorry to lose Anna Dearden after only two years (but it was for the sake of love, and to a Lincoln alumnus), and have now welcomed Rachel Gibbs to the post of Development Officer. Jane Mitchell, Bev Cousins, and Susan Davison continue in their posts, and I am profoundly grateful for their hard work and good humour. Once again, I’d like to thank all of our alumni and friends for their support, whether it takes the form of attendance at events, acting as a mentor or volunteer, or, of course, making a donation. Congratulations to everyone for making the Living Lincoln Campaign such a success. n Susan Harrison Director of Development and Alumni Relations

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Honour roll of donors August 2013 to July 2014 The College is grateful for the generosity of the following alumni, friends, parents, corporations, foundations and trusts, who have made gifts, pledges or bequest commitments between 1 August 2013 and 31 July 2014. The following is a list of donors listed alphabetically and by matriculation year. Please do not hesitate to contact the Development Office to inform us of any omissions or errors. The Honour Roll does not purport to list every donor to Lincoln College, but only those who have done so within the dates and parameters outlined above. Note also that donors who have requested that their gift be made anonymously will be listed as ‘anonymous donors’ at the end of each year group. Those wishing to change their status to appear in this list in future should contact the Development Office. 1929 The Marquis John J de Amodio CBE†

His Hon Judge John A Cotton Mr Anthony Johnson Dr Donald A M Mackay

1939 Dr Anthony F Childs

1943 Mr John A Salter

1945 Participation rate 47% Mr Peter Halsall† Mr John R Hooley DL Mr John D Hughes Mr Gerald Lumb Mr Graham Rees Mr Kenneth A E Sears Mr John R Wilson

1944 Dr Humphrey B Calwell †

1946 Participation rate 45% Mr Bob Blake

1941 Mr Maurice H Collins CBE

Mr Michael Lumb Dr Roderick B Macaulay Mr Paul H Matthews Dr Robert Protherough 1947 Participation rate 35% Mr Hugh M Austin† Mr Brian E Basden† Mr Trevor Clayton Mr Frank Gibson OBE Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith† Major Charles F Lepper Dr Roger D Marsh† Dr Peter B Myers 1948 Participation rate 33% Mr Ian L Aitken Mr Graham A G Anderson Mr George W Burnet Dr Anthony J Hampshire The Revd Canon John W Hampton Mr Roger B Hunt The Revd Canon Donald A Johnson† Dr John P Leaver Mr Peter Lewis Mr John Rewcastle MBE Sir Alexander J D Stirling KBE, CMG† Dr Frederick W Wright† 1949 Participation rate 39% Mr David E Chalkley Mr Michael W G Coldham† Mr William G Edwards Mr Christopher J England The Revd Theodore A Harman Mr Michael W Hill Mr John M Hollingsworth† Mr Brian E James Mr John Knights

Mr Nigel A Lindsey-Renton Dr Ian M Lockhart Mr David Martinson Mr Bryan Montgomery† The Revd Athelstan J Morley Mr David J G Sells Mr Simon R Ward 1950 Participation rate 30% Mr Rodney Allen Dr David Cohen CBE Mr Anthony Goodman† Mr Geoff Leach Mr David J Pendred Mr Raymond Perryman Dr Leonard S Polonsky CBE Mr Jeffery L Shaw Mr Stephen A Shell Mr Gerald J Walker MBE Mr Brian Whiting† Mr Christopher D C Willy 1951 Participation rate 33% Mr Mungo Aldridge Mr David D Beattie Mr Robert S Burns Mr Christopher J M Cutcliffe Professor Raymond Freeman Mr Bruce A MacMillan Dr John W Mellor Mr Christopher H G Pearson Mr Richard M Stobart Mr Jeremy J Ware OBE Mr George H Willett 1952 Participation rate 15% Dr Denis Gaydon Mr John A Lawton The Revd Raymond A Moody Mr Bruce H Ramsden Professor Richard T Vann Dr Arthur A Wasserman

1953 Participation rate 24% Dr John Bertalot The Rt Hon Lord Donoughue Mr Colin M Fenning Mr Richard H Finn Mr John S Longden Mr Robert W G Moberly Dr Elman W Poole Mr John N W Preston Dr Alan K Russell Professor John R Salter Dr Roy W Yorke 1954 Participation rate 23% Mr Hamish C Adamson OBE Mr Michael R Blease Mr Manfred Brod Mr Michael J Culham Mr Guy Dickenson Dr Donald Gamble Mr Robert M Greenshields Mr Michael McAvoy Dr Peter Newbould Mr Ronald W Pickering Mr John G Richardson OBE Mr Jeremy C J Waddell Mr Dudley H Wheeler 1955 Participation rate 30% Mr Peter Barratt Dr Barry Dumughn The Revd Mark Everitt Mr Philip J Goddard The Revd Harvey S Griffiths Mr Alan Hancock Dr John V Hatton Mr James B Lawson Mr Howard T Lyle Mr Richard Northern Mr John L Read Mr George G Shutter† Mr Colin D St Johnston DONORS

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Professor J P Sullivan† Mr Dunkin Symes One anonymous donor 1956 Participation rate 38% Mr Thomas W Atkinson Mr Martin Denny Mr Michael A Gerrard Professor Thomas E Headrick Mr Reginald W Hemmings Mr Francis J Lamport Mr Jeremy B D Lawford Mr Michael B Manser Mr Ewen M Moir† Mr Geoffrey Phillips Mr David Rear Professor Elias Saba Mr Robin Sherlock Mr G D Swaine Mr Ieuan J Thomas† Mr Roger Watkins Mr Giles Wontner† One anonymous donor 1957 Participation rate 32% Mr Allan L Bayliss Professor Michael I Bruce Mr Anthony P Chard Mr Philip J Combes Mr Michael B D Cooke Mr Bernard J Crean Mr David Finch OBE Mr Anthony E Fisher Mr John D Halliwell Mr David R Hamer Dr Simon Kenwright Dr Peter L Kolker Mr John M Parish Professor Anthony J Podlecki Mr Geoffrey B Priest Dr Andrew M Pritchard Dr Christopher T Sennett

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Professor Graham J Sharman Mr Harold Shaw Dr John R Simpson Mr T Geoffrey Whittaker Two anonymous donors 1958 Participation rate 40% Mr Jermyn P Brooks Mr Robert Corry Dr William R Dunham Mr Peter Duskin Mr David J East Mr Nicholas P J Fellowes Mr Anthony G Gibson TD Mr C Richard Gregson Mr Detmar A Hackman Mr Robert J E Henrey Mr John W Pack Mr John D Payne Dr Guy D Peskett Mr Timothy H W Piper Mr Jeremy M Robertson Mr Derek W Rogers Mr Malcolm Townsend Mr Jeremy R L G Varcoe CMG Mr Anthony C Werner Mr Graeme A Witts Mr Brian A Yorke† Mr Anthony C Young† One anonymous donor 1959 Participation rate 30% Mr Derek W Blades Mr Stuart Brewer Professor Stephen L Dyson Mr Andrew Garrett Mr John F Hickman Mr David T Johnson Mr Henry S Law Sir Colin R Lucas Professor Malcolm S Mitchell Mr John R Paine

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Mr Colin J Reed Professor Michael Roberts Mr David I Senton Mr Andrew W Sherwood Mr David H Simpson Mr Noel M Stephens Mr James M Tyrrell Mr Michael G M Watkins Professor John W White CMG, FRS 1960 Participation rate 24% Mr Nick Bardswell Mr Tom A Bruce-Jones CBE Professor Robert A Craig Mr John L Cuckney† Mr Peter A Davis Dr Chris Deverell Dr David J Frost Mr Anthony T Glass QC Professor Harold Luntz Mr Graham E Machin Dr Eugene M J Pugatch Mr Richard Smurthwaite Dr Anthony N Stanton Mr Christopher B F Walker 1961 Participation rate 35% Mr Frederick Allen Professor Roger M A Allen Dr Lawrence S Breen Mr Noel J Coghlan Mr Brian J Doyle Mr Thomas C Drucker Mr Peter J Griffiths Professor William M Hartmann Mr Duncan S Lawrie Mr Peter H McKay Mr Jeremy Osborne Mr Charles F Sands Professor Gareth Stedman

Jones Professor Daniel L Stewart Mr Peter J Susman QC Mr Peter B Sutherland Mr Jeremy Taylor Dr Michael S Udal Mr Robin W Veit Dr Thomas G Waldman Mr Michael R Walton The Revd Ronald N Whittingham Mr David J Wightman Mr Jeremy T M Williams One anonymous donor 1962 Participation rate 22% Mr Mark P Andreae Mr Alistair P Asprey OBE, CBE, AG Dr Peter G Bolton Mr David C Case Mr Patrick M O Garbutt The Rt Hon Lord Justice A C Longmore Mr Robert Maclean Dr Christopher E C May Professor David Milner FRS Mr John C Read Mr Peter C Shaw Mr John R Sully Mr David A Tym Mr Douglas O Woods 1963 Participation rate 38% Mr Richard G I Armishaw Mr Peter F Berry Mr Nicholas J Brown Mr Michael W Dawney† Mr John F Feeny Mr Christopher F FitzGerald Dr Lionel K J Glassey Mr Robert J Goundry

Mr Bill Holland Mr Peter A C Jay Sir Brian Keith The Revd Dr Ernest C Lucas Dr Alan Montgomery Mr Ian F R Much Dr Derek J Schafer Mr Martin P Scofield Mr Malcolm G Shaw Mr Michael Slocock Dr John A Tosh Mr David Weston Dr Keith I Wilkinson Mr Martin J Wilson One anonymous donor 1964 Participation rate 18% Mr Neil S Kilgour Mr Peter H Lapping Dr Charles P Lawrence Dr Tony Luxton Mr John F A Newth Mr Michael Noakes Mr Bill Ridsdale Mr Richard Y Roxburgh Mr Peter N Sedgwick Mr Alan B Summerscales Mr Nick Young 1965 Participation rate 40% Dr Geoffrey Allen Professor Peter J Barack Professor Paddy Barwise Mr Stephen R Bennion Mr Graham Binks Mr Keith G Bloomfield Mr James Bracegirdle Mr John T Davey Dr Kevin F Donnelly Dr Peter E B Duncan Mr Ronnie D Fox Mr John A Hall

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Mr John H Hay Mr Philip N Hewitt Mr Colin J Hickey Mr Martin C Hockey Dr Derek G Human The Rt Hon Sir Timothy A W Lloyd Dr Eric L Naylor Mr Dick Newman Mr Michael Onwood† Dr Antony C Shepheard Mr Jonathan G T Thornton Mr Keith Uff One anonymous donor 1966 Participation rate 20% Mr Mike Birch OBE Dr Peter M Blair-Fish Dr Paul Freund Dr Robert C Gurd Mr Christopher D Honer Dr Roger F Kojecky Mr Simon K C Li Mr Christopher J Noblet Mr John A Pickup Mr David A C Reid Scott Mr Rufus Graham Mr Roger E Thompson Mr John N Thompson Mr David A C Walker† Mr Richard J Wilsher One anonymous donor 1967 Participation rate 23% Dr Jolyon Cox Mr Christopher M Farrar Mr David Fernie† Mr Jonathan K Fife Mr Nicholas J Hall Mr Richard W J Hardie Mr Jocelyn R HartlandSwann

Dr Joel J Milner Mr Timothy C Mumford Dr David L Pearce Mr David J Pearl Mr Chelva R Rajah Mr Hugh F Richardson Mr David F Richmond-Coggan 1968 Participation rate 28% Dr David F Badenoch Mr Raymond F Clarke Mr Brian Dance Mr Alexander Duncan Mr Alan B Gibbins Dr Darryl J Gless† Mr Andrew J Gordon Mr Jeremy B Josephs Professor Peter F Kornicki FBA Mr Richard C Perkins Dr Louis Pozo Mr John W Reddish Sir Robert Rogers KCB Mr Frederick Rowley Mr Ian N Spalding Sir Michael A Supperstone QC One anonymous donor 1969 Participation rate 15% Mr Martin G Cope Dr Stephen D Hoath Professor Andrew S Kull Mr Paul D Marshall Professor Douglas F McWilliams Mr Hugh Myles Mr Timothy Saloman QC Mr Michael Shorter Mr Malcolm G Thomas Mr Richard G Wall Mr Robin E J Warne Mr David C Watt Dr Peter C Webb

1970 Participation rate 25% Sir Charles D Burnett Mr Gerald A Costello Mr Nicholas W Crook Mr Mark A Dickinson Mr Andrew C Donoghue Mr David N Drummond Mr Shane F Fane-Hervey Mr Neil Grainger Mr David J Griffiths Mr Keith Henderson Dr Martin D J Kenig Mr Frank R Little Mr John V MacLean Mr Richard Morris Professor David S Painter Mr Andrew J H Pearce Mr Nicholas P Pearson Dr John E Stannard Justice Sir Roderic L J Wood 1971 Participation rate 24% The Venerable David C Bailey Mr Charles Berry Mr Trevor H Caldecott Mr Stephen N Cope Mr Chip Elitzer Mr Alistair J Groom Mr Peter J Harbord His Honour Judge John M Hillen Mr Nicholas L Josephy Mr Robert A Kerr Mr Perry D C N Kitchen Dr Roger H Martin Dr Robert W McGurrin Mr Paul Mitchard QC Mr Allan Perry Mr Peter R Plaut Mr Edward C A Sparrow One anonymous donor

1972 Participation rate 26% Mr Shaun M Brogan MC Mr Arthur R Bullard Mr John A Day Mr Michael R Forrest Mr Paul A Hickman Mr Hilton Lorie Mr Patrick J Moon Professor John M Newsam Mr David J Norris Mr Adebayo O Ogunlesi Mr Anthony A H Palmer Mr Malcolm L Plumridge Dr Jeremy S J Thomas FRCP Mr Graham A Weale Mr Thomas R Young Mr Michael E S Zilkha 1973 Participation rate 22% Professor David M Clark Mr Nigel Curtress Mr Peter A Gerstrom Mr Peter J Green Mr Michael Holland Mr Jonathan S Lauffer Dr Nelson Ong Mr Richard A Sauber Mr William J Senior Mr Dennis N Sharpe Mr John J Shires Mr Martyn L W Straw Dr Graham C Wilson Mr Raphael D Wittenberg Two anonymous donors 1974 Participation rate 22% Mr Alan Ainsworth Dr John F B Cahill Dr John Dain Mr Adrian C P Goddard Mr Andrew L Hamilton Mr Stephen Ilett

Mr Daniel A James Mr Andrew R Murray Dr Bertrand L Nairac Mr Michael W Newsam Mr Graham W Obeney Mr Thomas R Plant Mr Clive T Porter Mr Philip Richards Professor Gary S Rubin Mr Mark D Seligman Mr Michael G Sherry Dr Nick Spoliar Mr Simon W Wills 1975 Participation rate 29% Mr Michael J Atkin Mr Ian A Barr Dr Ian F Cunliffe Air Commodore Robert B Cunningham CBE Mr Robert H Faber OBE Mr Mark Gleave Mr Stephen J Hewitt Mr James A Hindhaugh Mr Donald A Kayum Mr Andrew R F Lenon QC Mr Anthony F Lock Mr Simon P McKie Mr Nigel K Meek, Esq. Mr Robert Reynolds Mr David J Ridgus Mr Robert G Robinson Mr Christopher J Satterthwaite Mr Nigel R Titley Mr Ian C Vale Mr Nung S Wong 1976 Participation rate 35% Mr Graham P Allen Professor Richard Y Ball Dr Michael J Brigg DONORS

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Mr Gerard Brooks Mr Ian Connerty Mr Geoffrey L Cundle Mr Harry M Figov Mr Spencer C Fleischer Mr John Gardner Mr Michael D Hood Dr Franklyn A Howe Mr Ian Hudson Mr Peter S Humphreys Mr Colin E Leaver Dr Peter Lin Mr Jonathan V Luxmoore Dr Peter Millican Mr Jeremy Moody Mr Nicholas Patton Dr Jonathan Pickup Mr Richard H Reynolds Mr Keith S Roberts Mr Craig G Sephton QC Mr Patrick W Thomas Two anonymous donors 1977 Participation rate 29% Mr Richard Ashcroft Mr David P Bowler Mr David S Bridge Professor Peter V Coveney Mr Patrick C Cowie Mr Jonathan P Dagley Mr Martin N M Falkner Mr Sean J Figov Professor Alistair D Fitt Mr Mark A Fox Mr Dylan Hammond Mr Brendan Higgins Mr Nicholas R M Hilliard QC Mr George W Hobica Mr Simon T James His Honour Judge Martin N McKenna Dr Michael J Mineter

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Mr Nicholas D Morrill Dr Jonathan E L Munday Mr Timothy J Parker Mr Hugh P Sloane Mr Richard Wheeler Mr Richard J Wills 1978 Participation rate 30% Dr Paul B Baines Mr Nick Bamfield Mr Martin N Briggs Mr Neil K Clayton Dr Anthony Cocker Mr David Cocker Dr Bill K Cuthbert Mr Hugh M Davies Mr Jim J Durkin Mr Timothy P O Falla Mr Simon A Finney Mr Ian J Forrest Mr Mark M Foulon Mr William F Frewen Mr Paul Galley Mr David Graham Mr David G A Gray Dr David W R Green Mr Peter D Hunter Mr Mark E Jerome Lt-Col Paul M Longley Mr Stephen J Marson Mr Philip M Martineau Mr Nicholas J McCulloch Dr Hugh McIntyre Mr Martin C G Pailthorpe Mr Francis L Pratt Mr Richard J Sadler Dr David R Sorensen Mr Ranjan Sriskandan Mr John L Sunnucks Professor Jeremy J Waldron Dr John L Wriglesworth

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1979 Participation rate 17% Mr Andrew J Barton Mr Michael D Bishop Dr Robert J Breen Mr Graham Brough Mrs Clare A David Mr Paul D Dean Mrs Elaine F Dean Mr Andrew J Evans Mr John M Granger Dr Regan Greenwood Mrs Annabel K Haddock Mr Richard Hands Mr Tim Knowles Mr Richard M McDonald Ms Madeleine M C Parker Mr Iain J M Richmond One anonymous donor 1980 Participation rate 23% Mr Roger J Boulton Mr Richard A Brown Mr Stephen F Craven Mr Shatish D Dasani Mr Michael J Dowden Mr James D S Gordon Ms Helen C Grogan Ms Susan Harrison Ms Alison Hartley Mr Jeremy W Heap Mr Reginald P Heyworth Mrs Christine A JenkinsWhitchurch Dr Angela M Jones Mr Timothy J Livett Mr David J Marsden Mrs Anastasia Parkes Mrs Janice Y Patton Mr Hugh J C Richards Mr Giles J Toogood Mr James E G Walton Dr Jonathan M Williams

1981 Participation rate 21% Mrs Anne E Andrews Mr Stephen M Blinman Dr Monica M Chambers Mr John R Chessher Mrs Katharine M Davidson QC Mr Richard Edwards Mr Peter T Gil Mr Simon J R Halliday Mr Philip Hambleton Mr Alan R A Huse Dr Dinah Jayson Mrs Cathy Knowles Mr Martin McElroy Mr Christopher J Millerchip Mr Christopher R Milton Mrs Victoria J Nye Mr Neville Salkeld Professor Michael V Sofroniew Mr Iain C S Wilcock Mrs Gaynor L Wragg One anonymous donor 1982 Participation rate 23% Dr Craig T Basson Professor Thomas C Berg Mr Jim G Bretell Mr Neil G Clark Mr Andrew Clutterbuck Mr Michael D Davison Mr Timothy D Gebbels Mr Timothy G Hale Mr Nigel Hankin Dr Corinne Hayes Mrs Ella L Hood Mr Timothy R Horn Professor Gordon Jayson Ms Jane S Jenkins Mr Christopher A Jones Dr Paul E Kelly

Mr Neal J Kimberley Mrs Judy Pink Mrs Elizabeth L Purvis Milijasevic Professor Anisur Rahman Mr Stuart S Rolland Ms Deborah Thomas Mr Richard M Williams One anonymous donor 1983 Participation rate 17% Mr Angus R L Bogle Mrs Penelope A Demetriou Mr Robert R Dixon Dr Perry Gauci Dr Kathryn L Gleason Mrs Mary E Harpley Ms Sally A Hatfield QC Mr Neil A Pegrum Mr Andrew J M Spokes Mr Mark D Sutton Mrs Joanna Sutton Dr Ralph D Townsend Dr Valerie Udale Mr Richard I Webb Ms Josephine M Webb 1984 Participation rate 20% Dr Michael R Acton Mrs Frances M K Acton Dr David Barford Ms Susan J Convery Dr Jeremy A Crang Professor David Finkelstein Mr Donald Fleming Ms Nicola A Freshwater Mr Andrew E Gardner Mr Kevin G Goodall Ms Anna L Griffiths Ms Alison J Hague Mr Phillip Halliday Dr Geoffrey Hassall

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Mr Larry W Hunter Mr Julian A C Lewis Mr Darren L Marshall Dr Stephen L Martin Mrs Keltie Mierins Mr Simon C Turner Mrs Sarah C Turner Mrs Irene J Wolstenholme Two anonymous donors

Dr George S Park Mr William P Pulsford Mr Nicholas R Rawlinson Dr Patrick S T Tan Mr Simon J Taylor Mr Paul R Turnbull Mr Richard S B Williams Mr Steffan R Williams Two anonymous donors

1985 Participation rate 16% Ms Kate M Birch Professor Julia M Black Dr Philip M Budden Dr Deborah A Budden Professor Riccardo Cesari Mr James B Codrington Dr Felix J Dux Dr Sharon M Dux-Holland Mr Constantine Gonticas Mr Antony A Harris Miss Nicola E MacNiven Ms Helen Rayner Mrs Alexia S Ring Mr James M Scannell Mr Jeremy J Scarlett Mr Duncan K Scattergood Dr Diana M Steel Mrs Alison G Whale (née Bridger)

1987 Participation rate 16% Mr Martyn P Atkins Ms Vera Broichhagen Mrs Caroline J Chappell Mr David R Gajadharsingh Dr Graham L Giller Mrs Kathryn M Greenberg Mr Paul E Hilsley Mr Paul A Keen Mr Graeme C Kirk Dr Robert V McNamee Mr Simon J Mumford Mrs Regina L Neiman Mr Julian Porter Mrs Heidi Purvis Mr Robert K B Purvis Ms Kate G Redshaw Dr Rosemary H Sweet Dr Luke Thurston Dr Jim D Wicks Mrs Janice E Williams Mrs Gillian E Williams One anonymous donor

1986 Participation rate 19% Ms Heather Campbell Dr Timothy J T Chevassut Mr Simon A Clements Mr Martin R Conway Ms Alison Culliford Mr Will Dove Mr Gerald H Dunn Ms Kristina M Eng Miss Charlotte A Fuller Mrs Christina J Gauci Dr David N J Hall-Matthews

1988 Participation rate 20% Miss Alissa K Bell Ms Sophie E Bridges Mr Jonathan R Claridge Mrs Fiona G Dunford Mr Mark S Ellison Mr Robert N Fielden Mr Christopher J Finnie

Mr Christopher M GormanEvans Ms Dorothy G Graham Mr Ashley Greenbank Mr Patrick W Hawke-Smith Ms Kathryn L Heath Mr Sew-Tong Jat Dr Manish M Latthe Mr Philip J R Pearl Mr Simon C H Pennington Mr Neil O Percival Mr Jeremy C Prime Mrs Sophie C Saunderson Ms Katherine E Smith QC Ms Judi F Sykes Mr Nicholas P M Watkins Mr Daniel N Wood One anonymous donor 1989 Participation rate 21% Mrs Sarah P Aitken Mr Thomas S Begich Mr Charles R Berry Mr Jonathan M Boden Mrs Sophy M Boyle Mr Ivor W Collett Mr Adrian G Gannon Dr David Garnett Mr Timothy M Grace Dr Thomas N Hilliard Miss Donna D Matchett Mr Martin S Musk Mr Michael C Regnier Mr Oliver R P Smith Mr Aidan J W Vine Mr Andrew R Webster Mr Mark A Williams Mrs Gaynor E Worrallo Mr Richard D Worrallo 1990 Participation rate 13% Mr Matthew V Bradby

The Hon Patrick J A Brennan Professor Ian J Dodge Mr Dominic C E Geer Mr Mark A Harrison Dr David M Jollie Mr Michael J Potts Dr William G Prast Mrs Tania Jane Rawlinson Mr James W H Royan Professor Paul K H Tam Mr Mark E Thompson Mr Nicholas Wong 1991 Participation rate 18% Mr Paul Cheng Mr Thomas G Dineen III Mr Neil A Dryden Miss Susanne Ebbinghaus Mr Richard T Gillin Mrs Fiona Hall Dr John R Holmes Dr Sabine J Jaccaud Mrs Louise K Jarvis Miss Camilla R Lamont Mr Sven E Lewis Ms Sharon C Milner-Moore Mr Benjamin Pilling Mrs Jane C Regnier Dr Geofrey P Stapledon Dr Richard G Warner Ms Helen C Wilkinson Two anonymous donors 1992 Participation rate 21% Mr Christopher D Bazley Mr Simon D Crown Mrs Andrea L Finn Mr Adam S Hamdy Mr Nicholas J Harker Mrs Elizabeth S Hurles Dr Matthew E Hurles Mrs Sarah J Hyde

Mrs Jane E Johnson Mr Vinzenz F Jung Mr James P Keeton Mr Henry S Kim Mr Jon P Marsden Mrs Amy J McLellan Dr James J Mountford Mr Martin J Oakhill Mr John C Rux-Burton Mr Edward P Scharfenberg Professor Lionel D A Smith Miss Li Ping Tan Two anonymous donors 1993 Participation rate 17% Mr Tim Andrews Mr James R Bacchus Mr Samuel Beacock Mr Gregory S Chernack Mr Rik M Evans Mr Peter S Jasko Mr Juan J Jimenez Coelho Dr Fenella G Maggs Dr Richard Marwood Mr Vijay K Mistry Mr Bob Newby Mr Stephen H Norris Mr Sacha A J Reeves Mr Alexander J G Seymour Mr Adam Shergold Mr Matthew G R Vaight Mrs Catherine L Wigdor Three anonymous donors 1994 Participation rate 16% Mr Christian M Bailey Ms Vicki Bolton Mr Stephen J Boyle Mr Nicholas M Davies Mr Graham C De’ath Mr James E Denyer Mr Benjamin J Dunbar DONORS

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Mrs Olivia C Gillan-Bower Mrs Hilary R Hutton-Squire Miss Alison Lea Dr Lucy H MacFarlane Mr Christopher A MacFarlane Mr Dominic J Parker Mrs Susie E Reeves Ms Liz M Rinaldi Ms Alexandra K Stephens Mr Simon J Tysoe Dr Stephen J White Two anonymous donors 1995 Participation rate 12% Mrs Rachel Alexander Mrs Zeina Bain Dr Sinclair Bell Dr Leonie Bell Dr Alexander C R Belton Mr Graham D Child Dr Stevan R Emmett Mr Michael Goldby Dr Emma Hayiou Thomas Mr Christopher M Isenberg Mr Gavin A Maggs Dr Benoit Merkt Mrs Melanie Nuttall Dr Seamus P Perry Mr Edwin Thomas Two anonymous donors 1996 Participation rate 12% Mr Ian G Desborough Mr John R G Drummond Mr Liam J Ellison Miss Rhiannon A Evans Mr Edward J Fife Miss Amy R Haley Mr Christopher J Hathaway Dr Thomas H Hidber Mr Jonathan A Kirsop Dr Nicole E Miller

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Miss Ramona J E Pearson Mr Simon J Popplewell Mr Peter Rindfleisch Mr Marc J Weinberg Mrs Jennifer E Weinberg One anonymous donor 1997Participation rate 16% Ms Kimberly A Allen Mr Nicholas I Chalmers Mr Charles W M Clarke Mr James O T Dawson Mrs Melissa V Fife Dr Elizabeth M L Ford Mr William J G Hayter Mr James I G Heath Mrs Phaedra I Herbert Dr Emily C Howard Mr Christopher L Hunwick Mr Richard L Jones Miss Agnes L B Kwek Mrs Helen L Larkin Mr Nicholas A Larsen Mr Alex R Mackay Mrs Emily S M Olsen Dr Eirini Pougounia Mr Michael J F Radford Mr Mark H Williams 1998 Participation rate 14% Mr Kevin S Backhouse Mr Xavier C G Ballester Mrs Fiona E Bell Dr John W R Booth Mr Thomas C Clementi Mrs Anna G CroninNowakowska Dr Thomas B Duncan Mr Christopher W Dunsmore Mr Philip J Gardner Mr Ed Hayes Mr James A Larcombe

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Dr Suzannah R G Lipscomb Mrs Alice E J Muddiman Mr Richard A Owen Miss Rebecca L Pearse Mr Richard D Sage Mr Philip M R Smith Miss Helena Tomas Mr Christopher J Webber One anonymous donor 1999 Participation rate 13% Mr Nicholas Bennett Mr Charles F Caher Mr Nicholas E Day Dr Jan Gruber Mr Edward J Johnson Dr Mark A G Jones Mr Adrian E Lloyd Mr Steven Norton Miss Sinead E Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Sullivan Dr Michael Pearce Mr Matthew R J Radley Mr Richard M C Riley Mr Guy E C Robinson Mr Brian K A Ruddie Mr Rhodri G Thomas Mrs Helen S J Williams Mr Nicholas W Woodfield Two anonymous donors 2000 Participation rate 12% Mrs Lauren V Clabby Moore Mr Jonathan M Cooke Mr Marius Emberland Mr David G E Foster Mrs Rachel E Foster Mr Romney Fox Miss Jane Higgins Mr Gareth D John Mr Jayme M Johnson Miss Kate J Knibbs Mr Robert J Korzinek

Miss Johanna Lim Mr Timothy J Markham Dr Alastair M Pickett Mr Jonathan A Scherbel-Ball Mr Michael C Shaw Mrs Jenny L L Stewart Mrs Natalie J Tolhurst One anonymous donor 2001 Participation rate 8% Mr Gideon L Ashby Dr Natalie A Belsey Mr Tom P N Bryan Miss Monica I Popa Mr Tom Prew Mr Andrew J Stewart Mr Christopher D Sutton Dr Rafal Zakrzewski Three anonymous donors 2002 Participation rate 8% Mrs Rebecca C Brown Dr Benedict C M Burnett Mr David C Chan Mr Anthony W F Curl Mrs Theresa C Davies Mr Thomas D Eyre-Maunsell Mr Peter T L Finding Mrs Maxine Finding Miss Emily M Hobbs Miss Amy Kennedy Mr Nicholas Lane Miss Frances McQuillan Miss Clarissa E Otte Mr Ceri P Stagg Mr William T B Whistler Mrs Mairi F White 2003 Participation rate 9% Mrs Jade K Adams Mr Matthew W Adams Dr Eleanor A L Bagg

Dr Andrew D M Beaumont Mr Ian P Brownhill Mr Edward J Clark Mr Christopher J Cowley Mr Lyle Deitch Miss Lynsey J Duffield Dr Michael R Guentner Miss Anthea A C Jack Mr Richard I MacDonald Mr Andrew Macgilp Dr Marco Nievergelt Mrs Helen M R Roberts Mr Christopher P Tompkinson One anonymous donor 2004 Participation rate 9% Dr Claire A Bellamy Miss Emily Biggs Mrs Katherine E Blackler Miss Dominique S Brady Mr Charles P Burton Miss Isabel H Clark Ms Robin C Cornuelle Mr Klint A Cowan Miss Lorna C Fraser Dr Remo P Gerber Mr Oliver A Munn Ms Robin M Rotman One anonymous donor 2005 Participation rate 13% Mr George H Artley Mr Michael J Barnes Miss Clara E Benn Mr David J Blackburn Miss Hannah E Bowe Ms Willa Brown Miss Abigail T Carpenter Dr Yiu-Loon Chui Miss Jane Elliott-Kelly Ms Samantha Haladner Miss Claire E Hickling

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Mr Peter J E Hood Mrs Laura S Kimpton Dr Ian D Kimpton Mr Joseph E Moore Miss Sophie C Pinn Dr Austen G Saunders Mr Alfie R J Stroud Mr Benjamin R Tansey Mr Martin J Tilbury Miss Sarah A Turp Miss Youyi Zhang One anonymous donor 2006 Participation rate 8% Mr James R Banks Mr William D Bratt Miss Emily L Damesick Miss Elizabeth A Finch Miss Charlotte A Jemmett Miss Rebecca C Lane Dr Xavier-Baptiste Ruedin Mr Jonathan Sheldon Mrs Joanna Sheldon Miss Tamara L L Towbin Mr John M F Turing Mr Jonathan M Turner Miss Zanna J Voysey One anonymous donor 2007 Participation rate 14% Mr Iain Alexander Mr Tibor S Barna Miss Nevin Binkowski Mr Robin M Brejnholt Mr Oliver J Bridge Mr Alistair Brown Mr John J Cranley Mr Edward Cresswell Mr Jonathan B Date Mr Anthony G Geraghty Dr Victoria N Gibbs Mr Ryan A Goss

Mr Mark K Gray Miss Lucinda R Griffiths Miss Elizabeth K Hennah Miss Samantha J Hodson Miss Laura Lao Mr Jakob Mirzabaigian Miss Charlotte Emily Moss Dr Joseph V Raimondo Miss Jennifer Shattock Mr Joseph H Sheldrick Mr Edward Slattery Miss Laura Templeman Ms Anne Throdahl Mr James A Tilney Miss Sarah L Wheeldon Three anonymous donors 2008 Participation rate 8% Mr Peter Beaumont Mr Asgeir Birkisson Mr Thomas Harold Daggett Dr James L Flewellen Miss Monica I Freely Mr Paul James Hasler Miss Parisa Karbassi Miss Naomi P Kellman Miss Kathleen M G Keown Miss Jessica Nangle Mr Stuart W Ramsay Mr Daniel J Savigar Miss Rachel M Stubbs Two anonymous donors 2009 Participation rate 20% Mr Jack Binysh Miss Hannah Booker Mr Rhoads R Cannon Mr James R Close Mr Paul Cruickshank Mr Richard de Vere Miss Otone Doi Miss Florence Driscoll

Mr Guy Edwards Mr Matthew D Edwards Miss Kimberley Gajraj Mr Sveinn F Gunnlaugsson Miss Emma C Hall Mr Alexander R Hammant Mr Gareth B Johnson Mr Edward D Lambert Mr Thomas Lord Miss Kirsten Macfarlane Mr Edward J McDonald Miss Louise A E Mullen Miss Zoe Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Shea Miss Lucy A R Parker Mr Benjamin E Partridge Mr Michael J Price Mr J D Reich Mr Barnaby Roberts Mr Jack W D Sennett Miss Laura Shell Mr Kevin Smith Miss Savitri Tan Mr Timur Tankayev Mr Johannes Walker Miss Lucy Wang Mr Edward Wardle Mr Thomas A H Warrener Mr Robert N Wyllie Miss Ewa Zubek One anonymous donor 2010 Participation rate 21% Mr Ole E Andreassen Mr Daniel Axford Mr Nicholas J Barclay Miss Rachel Bellman Mr William Bowles Mr Michael P Boyce Mr Jack Bradley Miss Ruth V M Burrow Miss Natalie Cargill Mr Joseph Crompton

Mr Andrew Crozier Miss Camilla C A Draycott Mr Dennis T Egger Miss Daisy Fannin Miss Rachel Farnsworth Mr Ramin S Gohari Miss Lucy J Hancock Mr Samuel C P Hughes Miss Leonor Jennings Mr Ashish Kumar Mr Max Lack Miss Kirsty J Lea Miss Aisling J Y Leow Miss Shu-han Luo Mr Joseph Mason Ms Jennifer Nice Mr Morgan Norris-Grey Miss Jamie Pang Mr Abbas Panjwani Miss Ellen Parkes Mr Adam Rachlin Miss Rachel M Savage Miss Amanda E Sharp Miss Emily L Strang Mr Ivan M Suen Mr Harry Tabor Miss Daisy Taylor Mr Alexander L Thomas Mr Bo Wang Miss Rebecca S Watson Mr Jonathan Watson Mr Lewis G Wingfield 2011 Participation rate 8% Miss Sasha Bodero-Smith Mr Niels-Pierre Cambon Miss Lara Ehrenhofer Mr Luke S P Foster Mr Neale C Hutcheson Jr Mr Andrew Jerjian Miss Colleen McKeown Mr Alexandre Mercier-Dalphond

Mr Santiago Muchinik Miss Julia Pacitto Mr Patrick Rielly Dr Andreas Schilling Miss Mica Schlosser Miss Alina Stef Mr William Walker Miss Rhiannon Winter 2012 Participation rate 27% Mr Adam Alcock Miss Shaugh I A Alshafei Mrs Olga Balaeva Mr Keith T Bates Mr David Benford Mr Alexander Chen Mr Mark S Chong Mr Mannu Chowdhury Mr Joshua D Crosley Mr Sean J Darling Mr Sheldon L Edwards Miss Kate S Etheridge Mr Eric A Fay Mr Alistair I Fyfe Mr Nick Gardner Mr Alan W Gray Miss Ai Hamaguchi Miss Kim-Lane Hebert Miss Angela S W Ho Miss Laura K Hulley Miss Lei Jiang Mr David M Jones Mr Christopher J KnealeJones Mr Derek Lam Miss Emma L Lawrance Mr Colin J MacLaughlin Mr Sandeep Mahandru Miss Gabriella C Meade Mr Mbongeni M Ndlovu Mr Tim Yu Pang Mr Matthew J C Parvin DONORS

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Miss Victoria A Pearce Miss Sweta Penemetsa Mr Andrew Penney Mr Ricardo C Pinto Mr Lodewick M J N Prompers Miss Eleanor J L Redburn Mr Florent J Santaniello Miss Martina Schlapbach Miss Nina Schroeder Mr Szu Chi Shen Miss Chelsea E Souza Mr Rabi Sankar Swain Miss Gabrielle Thiboutot Mr Alexander W Thompson Mr Samuel C Tolzmann Miss Laura A Tresch Mr William Upton Miss Bianca Venkata Miss Kai-Riin Veromann Miss Mayuri Vijay Miss Emily J Vogelzang Mr Christopher J Ward Mr Quinlan Windle Mr Lawal I Yusuf 2013 Mr Stuart A C McCreadie Fellows and friends The Marquise de Amodio Mrs Mary E Angell + Professor Neil Barclay Mrs Marian R Barstow Mrs Elizabeth A Basden Professor Steve Berry Mr Alastair Boake Dr Susan E Brigden Mrs Michele Buras-Stubbs Dr Rachel Buxton Mrs Maureen Calwell Professor Philip B Carter Mr Curt Chaloner

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Mrs Pat Cuckney + Ms Susan Davison Professor Mervin Dilts Dr Louise Durning Professor Matthew Freeman Mrs Zmira Goodman Mr and Mrs James Gray Dr Alana Harris Mrs Brenda Hartley Mrs Janet A Hollingsworth Miss Wendy Lawrence Mrs Rosemary Marsh Mr Alan Mitchell and Mrs Susan Mitchell Miss Hanna Nanda Dr John Norbury Mrs Trudy Norris-Grey Mr and Mrs Sean O’Neill Dr Carlotta and Dr Carlos Rotman Miss Rebecca A Schultz Mr Christopher Shawdon and Ms Beverley Buck Mr and Mrs Nick Sperrin Dr Daniel Starza Smith Mrs Hania Stuart-Thompson Dr Aartjan te Velthuis Professor Stewart Truswell Dr John Vakonakis Dr Dominic Vella Mrs Catharine Wells Mr and Mrs Stephen West Dr Michael Willis Professor H R Woudhuysen Three anonymous donors Trusts and Foundations Americans for Oxford American Friends of Lincoln College Anonymous donor BHP Billiton

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Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation British Schools and Universities Foundation Capital Prints CEBR Crewe Trust E P Abraham Trust Expedia Fidelity Foundation Jac Travel The John S Cohen Foundation The Lauffer Family Charitable Trust Mitsui & Co Precious Metals Inc. Morrison and Foerster (UK) LLP Novartis Matching Gift Center Reed Elsevier UK Ltd The Sloane Robinson Foundation The Toto Trust Van Neste Foundation (The) University of Oxford, Chest Office † now deceased

Murray Society honour roll August 2013 to July 2014 The Murray Society was established in the mid-1990s in order to provide official recognition and stewardship for those who have made a bequest to Lincoln College in their wills. The society is named after Keith Murray, who served as both Bursar and Rector of the College, and is credited with pulling Lincoln out of the financial doldrums between 1938 and 1955. The Society holds two annual events for its members and publishes an annual newsletter, The Grove. Those who make bequests of £1m or more may be invited to become Murray Fellows. The College is grateful for the generosity of the following alumni and friends whose bequests were received between 1 August 2013 and 31 July 2014. The following is a list of bequests by matriculation year. Please do not hesitate to contact the Development Office to inform us of any omissions or errors. The Murray Society Honour Roll does not purport to list every bequest made to Lincoln College, but only those received within the dates and parameters outlined above. 1947 Mr Brian E Basden 1949 Mr Bryan Montgomery 1950 Mr Brian Whiting

1958 Mr Anthony C Young Mr Brian A Yorke 1967 Mr David Fernie

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Domestic Bursar’s report

Dr Rachel Buxton Domestic Bursar

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But there is, I think, something to be taken from Yeats’s famous assertion that, “A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught”. Yeats goes on to weigh this articulation of “sweet sounds” against the hard slog of domestic work: “Better go down upon your marrow-bones / And scrub a kitchen pavement […]”. Yet, of course, the axiom enshrined in the poem ‘Adam’s Curse’ is one which holds true for much of what we seek to achieve on the domestic front across the College: “there is no fine thing / Since Adam’s fall but needs much labouring”. There is a certain amount of what we do that College members will be aware of and engage with, but a great deal of the labouring remains unnoticed and unknown – as indeed it should be because, the less you are aware of the “stitching and unstitching”, the better the job we are all doing. The Domestic Bursary office, like all other offices across the College, exists primarily to serve the Lincoln community. Whenever I am undertaking the induction of any new staff member – and we have welcomed several new people to the team this year, of whom

more below – the main thing I seek to impress upon them is that the Domestic Bursary’s raison d’être is to support College members, and that by this we mean current Fellows, students, and staff, as well as our alumni who remain a vital part of the College even after they have completed their degrees and moved on. While we are also a revenueearning department (running the external conferences, dinners, and events that are an important component of the College’s income streams), our priority is our members, and in our interaction with them we are always seeking to improve our operations and our service so that we can meet people’s needs more effectively. Given this, one of the areas we have worked on in the Domestic Bursary over the past few years has been the efficiency of our back-office information management. This has involved the introduction of software systems which have enabled us to replace stand-alone spreadsheets – which bring with them the potential for human error, doublebookings, and duplication of work – with integrated information systems for key domestic operations such as meal bookings, accommodation, and security, and this has proved little short of transformative.

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Over the past 12 months there are two particular areas that we have been focusing on, both of which are necessary to ensure that we remain compliant with external legislative frameworks. The first is our adoption of the online package BusinessSafe as a means of managing our health and safety documentation, such as risk assessments and COSHH sheets. The work of moving everything online for all domestic and administrative departments across the College is now almost complete, for which we can thank both the heads of department and also Laura Burton, who has done much of the work. Laura is also working on the second project, which is our preparation for new Food Standards Authority legislation which comes into force in December 2014. This will require us to document the allergens present in every dish that is served at Lincoln, and to ensure that that information is available, in a consistent and verifiable format, to all diners. This is, as you can imagine, a considerable undertaking which is already placing a significant burden on our catering teams, and I am grateful to them for their hard work on it to date. Laura has been working in the Domestic Bursary at Lincoln for nearly eight years,

and over the course of her career here has undertaken a range of roles, adapting frequently in response to the department’s changing needs. But it is not only her job description that has undergone alteration most years – so too have the colleagues she has been working with. Indeed, since my arrival in 2010 we have had 12 different members of the Domestic Bursary team, some on permanent contracts, and others on temporary and casual contracts to help out on an interim basis. Laura has been the one constant. 2013-14 has in many ways been no different: we will all remember it as a year of change and transition. Lucy Hetherington joined the team in April 2013 as full-time Conference and Events Officer, bringing with her a wealth of experience from her time at the Ethical Property Company. Lucy has been supported in her work by Rebecca Upright, formerly of the Institute of Directors, who started at Lincoln on a 0.5 basis in October 2013, and who manages many of the processes, such as invoicing and internal charging, which underpin this part of our work. One cause of some of the disruption this year was that I was absent from work, for health reasons, for three months in early 2014. I am grateful to the College for its

support in enabling me to have this time off, to Helen Morton, former Treasurer of Somerville, who was appointed as interim Domestic Bursar in my absence and steered a steady course until my return, and to Nadine Hainge who assisted in the office in Trinity term. I am also grateful to the College for supporting the creation of the new fulltime post of Accommodation Manager. Lucy Tarrant – who used to manage Lincoln’s conferences and events before she moved on to a post at the Ashmolean – returned to the team to take up this new role, and it has been terrific to have her back. Her role involves not only dayto-day management of accommodation but also involvement in a host of related areas of work such as fire safety, security, disabled access provision, and utilities and waste management. In addition, she has taken over the running of Lincoln’s bed and breakfast operations. So – it has been a year of stitching and unstitching, but we end it with a strong and stable team in the Domestic Bursary, and we look forward to continuing to serve the College community. n Dr Rachel Buxton Domestic Bursar

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Staff list 2013-14 Buttery Tony Daly Butler Michal Paech Assistant Butler Andre Nascimento de Lira Third Butler Cristiano da Silva Buttery Assistant Mariusz Dondalski Buttery Assistant Ligia Duarte Buttery Assistant Fida Hussain Buttery Assistant Theylor Moretto Buttery Assistant Piotr Pusz Buttery Assistant Buttery Leavers 2013-14 Abel Diaz Buttery Assistant Pal Kovacs Buttery Assistant Leo Norton Buttery Assistant Aneta Sobolewska Buttery Assistant Dining Hall Katie Ali Hall Supervisor Buttery Assistant Adeel Ali Waitress Sabya Ali Susanne Evans Buttery Assistant Shakeela Ghulam Waitress Elza Lipinska Waitress Soma Singh Waitress Waitress Ann Suraj Waitress Marta Wilk Deep Hall Simon Faulkner Manager Bar Assistant Marion Cox Gardens Digby Styles Head Gardener Jamie Legge Assistant Gardener Peter Burchell Quad Person Housekeeping Lynn Archer Housekeeper Dariusz Kabala Head Scout Susan Nicholls Head Scout

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Lynda Deeley Head Scout Justyna Cooper Senior Scout Janet Field Senior Scout Christine Ward Senior Scout Daniel Brown Scout Dawn Dillon Scout Ilona Dombovari Scout Agata Druzynska Scout Abdullah El-Kirate Scout Sarah Morris Scout Timothy Newbold Scout Emmanuel Oyeniyi Scout Durvalina Pereira Scout Helen Pitman Scout Katarzyna Proc Scout Wendy Sherman Scout Joshua Singh Scout Zdzislaw Skonieczny Scout Katarzyna Stanisz Scout Wanda Wiktor Scout Housekeeping leavers 2013-14 Bernadett Farkas Scout Irene Hamilton Scout Sandor Varga Scout Kitchen Richard Malloy Head Chef Patrick Jeremy Senior Sous Chef Second Chef Charles Ramdeen Third Chef Joao Conduto Paul Butterfield Chef de Partie Ryan Laudat Apprentice Chef Eliterio dos Santos Cruz Chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Assistant Joaquim De Jesus Antunes Kitchen Porter Kitchen Porter Daniel Dollin Pedro Gonzaga Kitchen Porter Kitchen leavers 2013-14 Robert Adamik Kitchen Porter Lodge Steve Redding Lodge Manager Rohan Ramdeen Assistant Lodge Manager Ben Akeh-Osu Night Porter

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Phillip Andrews Lodge Porter Lodge Porter Susan Burden Ben Crouch Lodge Porter Peter Koyio Night Porter Abid Mehmood Night Porter James Menzies Lodge Porter Richard Neave Lodge Porter Przemyslaw Rosinski Lodge Porter Brian Shimmings Night Porter Kevin White Night Porter Lodge Leavers 2013-14 Peter Bannister Night Porter Maintenance Richard Noonan Clerk of Works Trevor Allen Electrician Anthony Deeley Electrician Michael Goulding Maintenance Assistant Paul Green Carpenter Stuart Moir Maintenance Chargehand Robert Williams Plumbing & Heating Engineer Accounts Celia Harker Accountant Accounts Office Manager Susan Williams Patricia Cripps Accounts Assistant Accounts leavers 2013-14 Jackie Butterworth Accounts Assistant Accounts Assistant Grainne Folan Accounts Assistant Delia Tenaglia Bursary Tim Knowles Bursar Nina Thompson HR Manager Lisa Crowder Bursar’s Secretary Bursar’s Secretary Rachel King Domestic Bursary Rachel Buxton Domestic Bursar Laura Burton Assistant to the Domestic Bursar Lucy Hetherington Conference and Events Officer Lucy Tarrant Accommodation Manager Rebecca Upright Domestic Bursary Assistant

Domestic Bursary leavers 2013-14 Helen Morton Interim Domestic Bursar Nadine Hainge Domestic Bursary Assistant College Office Louise Durning Senior Tutor Kairen Bradford Academic Administrator (maternity cover) Carmella Elan-Gaston Graduate Officer / Academic Assistant Richard Little Admissions Officer Jemma Underdown Academic Administrator College Office leavers 2013-14 Ashley Walters Schools Liaison Officer Rector’s Office PA to the Rector Sally Lacey IT Mike White IT Manager Peter Good IT Assistant Development Office Susan Harrison Director of Development and Alumni Relations Campaign Officer Jane Mitchell Alumni and Communications Officer Beverley Cousins Susan Davison Development and Events Administrator Rachel Gibbs Development Officer Development Office leavers 2013-14 Anna Dearden Development Officer Library Fiona Piddock Librarian Assistant Librarian Lucy Matheson Antiquarian Cataloguer Sarah Cusk Archive Andrew Mussell Archivist College Nurse Millicent (Midge) Curran Nurse

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Lincoln College Chapel to keep in mind as one considers the past year in the Chapel’s life. Indeed, much of the Chaplain’s work this year has been dedicated to opening the College Chapel doors to more and to different people – especially to people who may not normally darken the door of a College Chapel.

‘Knock, and the door will be opened for you …’ As I sit down to write this reflection on the past year, many in the College are catching their breath after a long weekend which saw Lincoln open its doors for the first time to in excess of 4000 people as part of the Oxford Open Doors weekend. Opening up doors seems a fitting image 64 . L I N C O L N

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The Rev’d. Kate Bottley, the dancing ‘viral vicar’, our first visiting preacher of the Michaelmas term, certainly felt like she should not have been darkening our doors. She checked with the Chaplain a number of times that he had invited the right Bottley. He had, and Kate drew a large congregation to hear about her own experiences of chaplaincy in a further education college. The Rev’d. Vaughan Roberts, from the local parish church St. Ebbe’s, also brought a large Christian Union student contingent into the Chapel, many of whom had never been inside the building before, preferring to find God in less traditional spaces. The Rev’d. George Westhaver, formerly of this parish and now Principal of Pusey House, brought many old friends back to Lincoln Chapel and Professor Fabre, our recently departed Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, attracted

a large crowd for Remembrance Sunday, many of whom were PPE students, also making their first visit. The Rev’d. Sue Lucas, the Chaplain of HMP Highdown, brought a new perspective through our doors on Prisoners’ Sunday in the form of the views and voices of inmates and left all of us much richer for the experience; the annual Advent carol service, the Lincoln College Music Society carol evening and parents’ carol service attracted record numbers of new attendees to the Chapel and helped to raise some much needed funds for the Chapel charity of the term, the Oxford Homeless Pathways. Nevertheless, the highlight of the term was the launch of the choir’s ‘For The Fallen’ CD which followed an atmospheric All Souls service when the names of the lost loved ones of members of our community were recorded and remembered. There was standing room only for this Friday night service, putting paid to the notion that students can only be found in clubs and pubs on Friday nights. Hilary term saw a bench of bishops enter Wesley’s pulpit. Bishop Graeme Knowles, formerly of St. Paul’s Cathedral, brought the conversion of St. Paul alive for us; Bishop Christopher Lowson, the College’s Visitor, made sense of Candlemas for his

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eager followers; while Bishop Stephen Conway had to make do with the limited offering of set readings for the Fourth Sunday Before Lent as his food for thought, but wowed everyone nonetheless, including a large congregation of visitors from numerous Oxford city churches and colleges. The Rev’d. Dr. Joanna Collicutt, of Ripon College Cuddesdon, also attracted a large crowd as she very carefully and expertly unpicked Jesus’s teaching on divorce and adultery, while Sir Joe Pilling, the former Permanent Secretary of the Northern Ireland Office and author of the Church of England’s ‘Pilling Report’ not only preached in the Chapel but delivered the first ever jointly sponsored talk in College by members of Lincoln’s Christian Union and its Lesbian, Gay and Bi-sexual Society. The subject of the talk was reconciling difference in faith and public life in the arena of human sexuality, and a friendly and helpful debate followed. Professor Peter McCullough’s lively readings of Lancelot Andrewes and John Donne’s early seventeenth-century sermons for his Faculty graduate seminar brought students from many colleges into the Chapel’s historically accurate setting in Hilary term. But it was the representatives of all three common rooms and also of the College staff who each preached a brief homily at the final service of the Hilary

term, a service highlighting the liturgy for both Lent and Passiontide, who attracted the biggest congregation of the term and left all who listened to their powerful homilies deeply moved. Attracting large numbers of different people to the Chapel is a healthy goal, but this can never be allowed to overrule what remains as the central purpose of the building which is the worship of the blessed Trinity. Trinity term reminded us of this as members of the choir and the Senior Organ Scholar took their leave of us for a number of the services to concentrate on their examinations, thereby encouraging us to focus on the words of the liturgy, rather than on its music. At the College’s annual joint evensong service with Brasenose, the Bishop of Stepney begged a congregation of Lincoln and visiting Brasenose Fellows and anxious students to recall Bede’s words on the life of man being like a sparrow flying through a mead hall as he encouraged all to look for perspective when facing such challenges as imminent exams. Professor Oliver O’Donovan, the great Christian ethicist, departed somewhat from his brief, which was to preach a sermon of eight minutes, by preaching for twenty-two, but his sermon was nevertheless explosive and had all captivated for its duration. Dr. Paula

Gooder, a Six Preacher of Canterbury Cathedral, lived up to every bit of her reputation and enlivened the SCR dinner conversations after the service with her lively exegesis of the New Testament; while the Very Rev’d. Jeffrey John and Dianna Gwilliams, Deans of St. Albans and Guildford respectively, attracted large numbers of outside visitors, including a number of the College’s tenant farmers to the Chapel. It will not, however, surprise the reader to learn that perhaps the most memorable service of the term was the Leavers’ Service on Trinity Sunday. This included the baptism and confirmation of a member of the Choir by Bishop Graeme Knowles – back by popular demand. There was not a dry eye in the house or a spare pew for that matter and the customary drinks and exchange of gifts after the service were made more celebratory by a glass of fizz to celebrate new beginnings. If this report has not dwelled enough on the prodigious talents of the Organ and Choral Scholars, on the Chapel Choir or on the music in the Chapel, it is because they deserve a report of their own. James D’Costa and Marion Bettsworth, this year’s Senior and Junior Organ Scholars, worked collaboratively CHAPEL AND CHOIR

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Whether home or away – away ranging from Exeter College for the Turl Street Arts Festival, Durham Cathedral for the Easter tour, or Rome and the Vatican City, during the choir’s summer progress – the Organ Scholars, Choral Scholars and choir never allowed their professionalism to slip (except perhaps just once when they attempted to get the Chaplain intoxicated in Deep Hall). All who heard the choir sing and James and Marion play were left in no doubt that the true missional work of Lincoln College Chapel is achieved by the grace of the Holy Spirit, not through the Chaplain, but its inordinately talented musicians.

at all times, sharing the conducting and playing during services. Without any hint of hierarchy or tender egos, they delivered a standout program of inspiring and challenging music, which included works by Ayleward, Bach, Bettsworth, Brahms, Brewer, Bruckner, Busto, Darke, Duruflé, Eccard, Halley, Holst, Howells, Ireland, Mason, Mendelssohn, Monteverdi, Noble, Ord, Palestrina, Purcell, Radcliffe, Rheinberger, Stanford, Tallis, Tavener, Villette, Walmisley, Wesley, Williams and Wood. 66 .

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This report began with an image of opening doors and so it will end with one. Soon after the new Chaplain and Welfare Officer arrived at Lincoln College in August 2013, he asked the Rector as Ordinary of the Chapel, whether it might be possible to open the glass Wesley memorial doors which guard the entrance into the Chapel each day so that it might be used as a space for prayer and quiet reflection at all times. Fortunately the Rector did not object to this, but considered that there might be an insurance implication to such a decision that would need to be explored further with the Bursar. As it happens, there was

not one, but while the Bursar was happy with the new proposed arrangement, he thought that the Chaplain better just check the security implications of this new scheme with the Lodge Manager who, it turned out, was happy with the idea but suggested that the Chaplain might run the idea past the Domestic Bursar in case there might be some unintended consequences for the regular groups which tour the College. Fortunately, the Domestic Bursar could see no problems with the proposal, but suggested that the Chaplain might wish to consult the College’s Clerk of Works about the potential wear and tear on the fabric of the building, ‘just in case’. This enquiry yielded yet another meeting with many of the above College Officers at which it was finally decided that the Chapel would remain open but only until 2 pm each day and that thereafter anyone wishing to enter would be able to obtain a key from the Lodge staff to do so. This story reminds us that change happens in a College such as Lincoln incrementally. The past year has seen us begin to open our doors to all in the Lincoln community and good progress has been made. We still have some way to go. n Rev. Dr. Jack Dunn Chaplain

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JCR and MCR Sports Captains Officers 2013-14 2013-14 JCR Rachel Jeal President Peter Connell Vice President Daniel Scriven Treasurer Elena Porter Secretary Megan Milarski Welfare Officer Rosanna Morgan Entertainment Committee Chair Klara Slater Access and Academic Affairs Officer James Restall Independent Chair and Returning Officer MCR Jono Lain President Natalie Weigum Treasurer Alex Bostrom Secretary Julie Baleriaux and Alex Young Social Secretaries Kate Etheridge, Lucy Hutchinson, Daniel Farquet and Joshua Long Social Representatives Cecilia Heyne Lee and Daniel Regan-Komito Welfare Officers Scott Newman LGBTQ Representative Catherine Ellis First Year Rep Antoine Thalmann Green Rep Claire Simon Food Rep Anne-Claire Michoux Charities Rep Fred Zaumseil Academic Rep Tim Green IT Rep

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Cricket Fergus Morgan Hockey Daniel Scriven Football Alex Wilson 2nd’s football Jamie Cotton Netball Mia Coe & Olivia Lamming Women’s Rowing Lise Noyau Men’s Rowing Robert Littlejohns Rugby Alexander Cockrean Squash Peter Connell Tennis Olivia Lamming

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Lincolnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rugby squad in action

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Governing Body Alumni Representative’s report

Richard Hardie (1967)

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It’s a pleasure to report on another year seen from my vantage point as Alumni Representative to Governing Body. The headlines write themselves: the College’s academic and sporting records continue at a high level; the Living Lincoln campaign has raced to, and passed, its target; the most recent major building project in the College’s site has approached completion; and the engagement of the College with alumni has been felt more keenly than ever. I thought that it would be interesting to describe one important part of the management process that makes this all happen. In the last Record I wrote that I would also be joining the Planning Committee to represent alumni. It’s one of the number of statutory committees which report to the Governing Body, and its particular brief is to look at larger strategic issues as set out in the College’s strategic plan, at governance generally, and at development strategy in particular. Longer-term views on all of these fronts are considered here in principle before they enter the active decision and implementation stages in other standing committees, primarily Finance and Senior Tutor’s Committees, and ultimately Governing

Body. The Planning Committee is chaired by the Rector, and its statutory members are the Sub-Rector, Bursar, Senior Tutor, Domestic Bursar, Development Director, three Tutorial Fellows, and two alumni. Attending the Planning Committee has been an instructive experience and has made a great impression on me. Here are very busy people, including several who give up valuable teaching and research time during the term to think about Lincoln’s longer-term future. The demands on College officers and Fellows alike are more acute than ever, so the burden of office and of committee service has grown for everyone. These are difficult jobs. Since the Planning Committee oversees the College’s development strategy, throughout 2013-14 we have been able to congratulate Susan Harrison and the development team on the final stages of success with the Living Lincoln campaign, which are described so well and in detail in her report. These impressive results have been achieved so much more quickly than I’d dared hope when we launched it in the London Guildhall’s crypt three years ago.

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Lincoln has an outstandingly good development team. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m so grateful to them, to the members of the development campaign committee, and to everyone who worked on the campaign and contributed to its success, whether with their time, their money, or (universally) their goodhumoured enthusiasm. But the work doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop. The Planning Committee is also the place where the Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strategic plans are looked at carefully to see if there is an opportunity for alumni and donors

to help fund them, and how they can be realised with wide alumni support of any kind. So the alumnus body is in the minds of the College at the very point that it recommends to Governing Body plans for the future. However, the alumni are not looked on solely as a source of funds. The Fellows link increasingly with alumni and show them the value of real scholarship and great teaching. Fellows come to alumni events and meet members of the Rotherham Circle to discuss matters of both academic and topical social, political and economic interest. This has been one of

the best innovations in recent years and is much enjoyed by both sides. The College is in good health and in good hands but it and its members (senior and junior) are under constant pressure. The Rector and his colleagues truly value the support of alumni. I feel very lucky to be in a position to help strengthen further this community, dedicated to excellence, with its plans to be able to stand on its own two feet. n Richard Hardie (1967)

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Finance Committee Alumni Members’ report Hugh Sloane (1977) and Christopher FitzGerald (1963) have served as members of the College’s Finance Committee since 2002. Christopher writes:

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After the substantial, at times seemingly frenetic, activity on the property front in the preceding financial year, with all the financial analysis and review that required, the year to the end of July 2014 has been more one of steady progress as well as consolidation and delivery. The Finance Committee, of which Hugh and I are the appointed alumni members, has concentrated on its core tasks of careful management of the College’s financial operations and responsible stewardship of its financial assets. We are happy to report that the disciplines involved in the diligent performance of both these tasks have become so firmly entrenched in the committee’s work that it is not surprising that it has indeed been a year of no surprises. The Bursar reports in detail elsewhere in these pages on the key areas of investment management, fundraising, and operational management. As regards the last, he

refers in particular, as have we in our previous reports, to the ‘3% rule’: namely that the College’s deficit on the income and expenditure account in any financial year should not exceed 3% of the average aggregate value of its ‘endowment assets’ at the end of each of the preceding three years. That rule has served as the key discipline in financial planning and operational management since it was introduced early in our membership of the committee. That was at a time of ever increasing demand on the expenditure side when the closest possible control was needed if risk to the endowment was to be avoided. That close control has been consistently maintained but it never has been, nor should it ever be, treated as so hard and fast that not to keep within the 3% limit should be treated of itself as failure, any more than an outcome below it should be treated of itself as success. Planning is not an exact science and there will always be unexpected challenges and (albeit less often!) unexpected benefits. Indeed there may be very good reasons actually to plan for divergences for particular purposes. The important point is to understand why any unplanned difference has occurred and, where relevant and so far as practicable, to make appropriate adjustments for the future. All that said it is very pleasing to be able to report that not only has the 3% rule been closely adhered to

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ever since it was introduced, but over the last three years the operational deficit has actually come in at an average of 2.9%. The continued growth in the endowment is also a matter of some justified satisfaction. As now defined for accounting purposes, Lincoln’s ‘endowment assets’ currently amount to some £88 million and ‘funds available for the general purposes of the College’, i.e., the total of all its available resources including operational and other reserves as well as endowment assets, now exceed £93 million. The increase in the latter over the previous year of some £6 million is once again attributable to the combination of three key components: return on investments (both financial and real estate), surplus on operational account, and fundraising. Excellent work on the latter two has been complemented by performance on the first, which the Bursar describes as “not particularly exciting” but which, in the markets experienced during the year, was actually entirely creditable. Attention is sometimes drawn to the relative out-performance of much larger educational establishments, such as Yale or Harvard and even Oxbridge colleges bigger than Lincoln. However it is important to remember that much larger pools of assets like theirs allow

those managing them both to take greater risks and to accept greater illiquidity, with consequently greater potential for much higher returns. In fact the return on Lincoln’s financial assets, which has over the last five years comfortably exceeded its benchmarks, has been achieved with materially less volatility than is assumed in those benchmarks.

It is also echoed by another distinctive feature to be observed in the make-up of those assets. This is that, at roughly 50% of the total, the proportion of Lincoln’s endowment assets that is represented by investment in property is high by the standards of other Oxford colleges. The committee’s relatively cautious approach to investment management is, we feel, entirely appropriate to the size of the assets under management. It is also echoed by another distinctive feature to be observed in the make-up of those assets. This is that, at roughly 50% of the total, the proportion of Lincoln’s endowment assets that is represented by investment in

property is high by the standards of other Oxford colleges. We are also content with the committee’s position in this regard, not least because it means that the ‘3% rule’ for operational management is broadly covered over time by the actual income received from property. That in turn makes it possible for the financial assets comprising the rest of the endowment not only to be well diversified but also to be invested without requiring any drawdown to cover operational deficits and therefore exclusively for growth. As regards the general running of its affairs we are very pleased to report once again that meetings of the Finance Committee continue to be carefully planned, well informed with appropriate documentation, and rigorously conducted. We are as fully involved and our views are as fully welcomed and recognised as those of the internal members. And our active involvement could hardly be more encouraged. In short we continue to be confident that the financial affairs of the College are conducted responsibly and professionally and in accordance with sound principles of good governance. n Christopher FitzGerald (1963) FINANCE COMMITTEE REPORT

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Alumni representation on College Committees Alumni Members of the Development Committee 2013-14 Mr Kevin B Lavery 1959 Mr Ian F R Much 1963 Mr Richard W J Hardie (Chair) 1967 Mr Adebayo O Ogunlesi 1972 Mr Mark D Seligman 1974 1976 Mr Spencer C Fleischer Mr Hugh P Sloane 1977 Dr Regan Greenwood 1979 1981 Mr Richard E Titherington Dr Lynn B Shepherd 1982 Mr Simon J Gluckstein 1986 Members of the Rector’s Council 2013-14 1949 Mr Kenneth Sewards-Shaw Professor John R Salter 1953 Mr Martin Copley 1959 1959 Mr Kevin B Lavery Mr Peter A Davis 1960 Mr Timothy M Hearley 1961 Mr Jeremy Taylor 1961 1963 Mr Christopher FitzGerald Mr Ian F R Much 1963 Mr Michael Noakes 1964

Mr Simon Li 1966 Mr Clive Mather 1966 Mr David A C Reid Scott 1966 Mr Richard W J Hardie 1967 Mr Alan B Gibbins 1968 1969 Mr Douglas F McWilliams Mr Peter Mitchell 1969 Mr Max Thorneycroft 1969 Mr David C Watt 1969 Mr Nitin J Madhvani 1970 1972 Mr Adebayo O Ogunlesi Mr Michael Zilkha 1972 Sir Rod Eddington 1974 Mr Adrian C P Goddard 1974 Mr Thomas R Plant 1974 1974 Mr Mark D Seligman Mr Spencer C Fleischer 1976 Mr Keith S Roberts 1976 Mr Nicholas D Morrill 1977 1977 Mr Robert M Pickering Mr Hugh Sloane 1977 Dr Bill K Cuthbert 1978 Mr David Graham 1978 Dr Regan Greenwood 1979 Ms Alison Hartley 1980 Mr Richard E Titherington 1981 1982 Dr Lynn B Shepherd Mr Andrew J M Spokes 1983 Miss Su-Shan Tan 1986 1987 Mr Paul E Hilsley Mr Sew-Tong Jat 1988 Professor Mervin Dilts The Rt Revd Bishop Christopher Lowson (Visitor)

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Emeritus Members of the Rector’s Council Mr Neil Falkner 1948 Sir Peter N Miller 1950 1958 Mr Jermyn P Brooks Mr Detmar A Hackman 1958 Alumni Representative on Governing Body 2013-14 Mr Richard Hardie 1967 Alumni Representatives on Finance Committee 2013-14 Mr Christopher FitzGerald 1963 1977 Mr Hugh Sloane Members of the Remuneration Committee 2013-14 Mr Peter Clarke 1964 Professor Keith Gull Ms Sheona Wood 1981 President of the Lincoln Society 2013-14 Dr Susan Brigden President of the Murray Society 2013-14 Professor Stephen Gill President of the Crewe Society 2013-14 Mr Nigel Wilson

Deaths

The following alumni and friends of Lincoln College died between 1 August 2013 and 31 July 2014. If you would like further information or advice on submitting obituaries, please contact the Development Office. Mr John N Bartlett (1945) – died 8 June 2014

Mr Simon D D Truman (1949) – died 21 November 2013

Dr Andrew E Abelson (1965) – died 18 December 2013

Mr Peter Halsall (1945) – died 9 January 2014

Mr Anthony C Fleischer (1950) – died 9 June 2014

Mr Nick S Dewhirst (1967) – died 1 August 2013

Dr Roger D Marsh (1947) – died 10 March 2014

Mr Jacques Le Goff (1951) – died 1 April 2014

The Hon Sir Richard Ground CBE (1967) – died 29 March 2014

Mr Walter D Wells (1947) – died 30 October 2013

Sir David C M Yardley Kt, FRSA, DPhil (1951) – died 4 June 2014

Dr John A Blair-Fish (1969) – died 4 September 2013

Mr John H Barnicoat MA ARCA (1948) – died 7 September 2013

Mr Ewen M Moir (1956) – died 25 July 2014

Mr Stephen J Evans (1970) – died 14 August 2013

The Revd Canon Donald A. Johnson (1948) – died 25 February 2014

Mr Giles Wontner (1956) – died 1 October 2013

Mr J C Mellor (1973) – died 4 May 2014

Sir Alexander J D Stirling KBE, CMG (1948) – died 16 July 2014

Mr Victor C Earl (1957) – died 16 July 2014

Mr See W Tan (1987) – died 18 March 2014

Dr Frederick W Wright (1948) – died 3 May 2014

Mr Anthony C Young (1958) – died 21 September 2013

Mr Richard A J Asbury (2000) – died 13 November 2013

Dr Paul T W Baxter (1949) – died 3 March 2014

Mr Paddy Heazell (1959) – died 8 September 2013

Mrs Pat Cuckney – died 10 April 2014

Mr Michael W G Coldham (1949) – died 11 July 2014

Mr John W Butcher (1964) – died 1 October 2013

Dr David Goldey – died 25 July 2014

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John Norton Bartlett (1945) An outstanding all-round sportsman at Chichester High School, John Bartlett went up to Lincoln to study law in 1945, but only to leave a year later to do his National Service. In those two years he played cricket for the Army and the Combined Services and ended up as second-in-command of a Junior Leaders Boys Company, which may have given him ideas of teaching. However, teaching was to come later in his life and at 20 he returned to Oxford to play cricket for both the University and Sussex, finally achieving a 3rd class degree, Blues (1946 and 1951), and a place on the 1951 MCC tour of Canada. From 1956-1964 he was a director and company secretary of the Kenya Coffee Company (renamed Kenco) in London. In 1956 he moved to Balcombe, Sussex where he helped to establish East Grinstead Hockey Club and in 1965 bought Brunswick School at Dutton Homestall, Ashurst Wood, Sussex. He soon amalgamated the Prep School with both Stoke House and then Kingsmead School, both formerly in Seaford. As the headmaster/owner he focused on developing sports, marketing, and looking after the property, which was sold in 2011. In his mid-fifties he divorced and left Stoke Brunswick to teach Latin at Hordle House, Milfordon-Sea, Hampshire. He became Master of the Worshipful Company of Innholders in 1988. He is survived by his first wife, Philippa, second wife, Carol, six children, and three stepchildren. Bill Bartlett (son)

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Roger Marsh (1947) Roger, who has died after a short illness, matriculated in 1947, a few weeks before his eighteenth birthday. The Lincoln community that he joined was very different from today’s: all male of course, but also many of the men had done National Service and others had been regular servicemen. However, he made life-long friends and enjoyed taking a full part in student life. Rex Richards was his tutor for a B.A. in Chemistry (1950). After graduation he stayed on to take a DPhil (1954). Sir H.W. Thompson, FRS supervised his work on the far infra-red and they got on well, in spite of Roger’s almost total lack of interest in football.

For relaxation Roger sailed a dinghy and enjoyed family holidays with it in Pembrokeshire and France. In retirement he took up downhill skiing (only giving up when he was 75), enjoyed classes on music appreciation, and researched his family history. He was proud of his two sons and delighted when four grandchildren were born. He always enjoyed returning to Lincoln and knew how lucky he was to have reasonably good health until a few months before his death on 10th March 2014. Mrs Rosemary Marsh (wife)

John Barnicoat (1948)

After leaving Oxford he worked for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority at their metallurgical laboratories at Culcheth near Warrington. Then he spent three years in Birmingham with Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds but returned to the North West in 1960 when he was ‘head hunted’ to work again for UKAEA. He continued to be based in the North West for the rest of his career with UKAEA, and subsequently British Nuclear Fuels Limited, where he took on a range of responsibilities including uranium procurement and head of security for all the BNFL sites from 1983-1991. However, the most stimulating part of his career was as head of political policy and international safeguards when he represented HM Government on several committees in Brussels, Luxembourg, and Vienna and worked with the governments of the USA, France, Germany, and Japan amongst others, to define procedures for the international supervision of large reprocessing plants.

John, born in 1924 and brought up in Cornwall, was educated at King’s College, Taunton. He joined RNVR, aged 19, as a Naval Officer in combined operations taking part in D-Day, Sword Beach. He read Modern History at Lincoln 1948-52, and attended the Ruskin School of Drawing. He studied painting at the Royal College of Art 195255, and became senior tutor at the RCA painting school 1976-80. His first one-man-exhibition was at Colette Allendy Galerie, Paris 1959. John Barnicoat was described in Paul Huxley’s Exhibition Road: Painters at the Royal College of Art (1988) as ‘a gifted painter and highly esteemed teacher and administrator’, and as ‘widely regarded as one of the most thoughtful and influential voices in art education’.

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John was head of Falmouth School of Art 1972-76; principal of Chelsea School of Art 1980-89; and pro-rector of the London Institute 1987-89. He wrote Posters a Concise History (Thames & Hudson, 1972, translated into many languages) and organised and curated exhibitions in the UK and Russia on the art of the poster. From a young boy in Cornwall, during the war and later, he made pen and ink drawings, and was a painter of oils and works on paper using tempera. He showed continuously including with the London Group (1977-95); and one-man-exhibitions at the Taranman Gallery (1977-83); and his work is in both government and private collections. After retirement in 1989, he made several series: drawings and oils of the bridges of London, heads of women, gouache on paper, and figurative pen and wash drawings. His wife Allie is archiving his work in preparation for an exhibition. He leaves two daughters and five grandchildren. Allie Barnicoat (wife)

Canon Donald Arnold Johnson (1948) Donald Johnson I always regarded as my best friend. We met when we shared rooms in 1949-50 at Southfield House – an old manor house which Lincoln College then owned – off the Cowley Road. Although I was a medic and he a budding clergyman, we became friends for life. He was my ‘best man’ when I married Lilian in 1952. He was godfather to my doctor daughter Angela, and I was godfather to his youngest son, Edward. I always admired him as a country parson – keeping sheep, chickens, and having his own sheep dog as well as a Jack Russell. I admired his prolific art work and paintings, and we have several of his pictures hanging in our

house. I also admired his large collection of various varieties of apple, since his retirement growing in large clay pots in his garden at Westbourne. My wife and I attended several art exhibitions that he put on, and also his installation as a Canon of Chichester Cathedral. He was benefactor to the College, within the limits of his means, and was very pleased when the last Rector and his wife invited him and his wife Aileen to stay in College one weekend. Donald was still very proud of his oar from Torpids in 1950. His wife Aileen was a great support when he became very ill a few years ago and nursed him back to health. We were extremely sorry to learn of his death on 26th February 2014, but were glad to be able to attend the funeral service in Westbourne, where he had retired. Choosing a tranquil shady site for his grave in Funtington churchyard where he used to graze his sheep seems an ideal final resting place for him. Vale Donald Fred. W. Wright, MA, DM, FRCP, FRCR (1948), d.2014 (see below)

Frederick Wynn Wright (1948) Fred was born in Blackburn, Lancashire and raised in Birmingham. He studied medicine at Lincoln beginning in 1948, having been in the Army Intelligence Corps after leaving King Edward’s School, Birmingham in 1945. At school he had studied classics, but ‘mugged up’ the necessary sciences for Oxford prelims during military service. At Oxford he did both the pre-clinical courses and the honours school in physiology & biochemistry, taking his a BA in 1951

and BM, BCh in 1954. It was at College lodgings in Southfield House (east Oxford) that he shared a sitting room with Donald Johnson (see previous), who became ‘best man’ in August 1952 when Fred married Lilian. Donald was a theology student – later vicar of Funtington, and Canon of Chichester. Fred had known Lilian since he was a child as his middle name, Wynn, came from her father, his godfather. After qualifying he became HP to Patrick Mallam in February 1955 after which he did a short rotating HS job, followed by accident service, before joining radiology in 1956. There progressively SHO, registrar, senior registrar, and consultant in 1962. In 1958 he passed both parts of the DMRD and the MRCP (London). ‘FWW’ went to Sweden in 1961 for three months to study under Profs. Kjellberg (in Gothenberg) and Lindblom and Lindgren (at the Karolinska and Serafima Sjukhusets in Stockholm). This was then the ‘finishing class’ in radiology for trainees from around the world who were expected to become leaders in their specialty. In 1965 he worked at the Henry Ford hospital (Detroit) for six months and always kept in touch with Professor Bill Eyler there. The transverse axial tomographic apparatus was installed at the Churchill Hospital in 1961. Together with Greenwell, a registrar, Fred presented a paper using this apparatus at a meeting of the faculty of radiologists in Oxford in the autumn of 1964, and a paper in clinical radiology the following year. He was given permission to work up the technique of inclined frontal tomography for the DM degree and in 1971 submitted this to the University. The apparatus allowed the trachea, larger bronchi and hilar and mediastinal nodal masses in cancer patients to be readily visualised. Being largely a pictorial thesis, the images had to be copied OBITUARIES

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using a 35mm camera, which he did himself with the help of the Oxford University Camera Club – a huge task, given that the thesis had to be submitted in triplicate. It was eventually published as The Radiology of Lung and Mediastinal Tumours. He was awarded the DM (Oxon) for diagnosis in 1974 and always thoroughly enjoyed attending the Encaenia garden parties each year.

accurate diagnoses and a considerable saving of time for them and their patients.

He was consultant mainly at the Churchill Hospital (Oxford) for over 30 years, and clinical lecturer in radiology at the University for the same period. He was author of about 150 papers on radiological subjects and wrote a second book published in 2002 by Taylor and Francis, London (Radiology of the Chest and Related Conditions), which included a CD with several thousand images.

Fred was a member of council, Royal College of Radiologists, and member of the BMA radiologists group, and consultants committee, and its chairman for about 14 years. He served on BSI, IEC, and the British Standards Committee for X-ray, CT, and ultrasound safety. In retirement he concentrated on medico-legal work and was still doing this until he became ill in December. He also became involved in organising the Eynsham village hall project and was a very active parish councillor in retirement.

Perhaps his best achievement for local patients was to launch and run an appeal for a CT body scanner in the late seventies. This was run with The Oxford Star newspaper and resulted in FWW becoming something of a sausage eating champion as well as other feats at fund-raising events. In the end over £900,000 was raised and the 8800 CT scanner costing £500,000 was bought in 1981. The remainder was spent on other equipment and the necessary alterations. It was an amazing achievement and enabled Oxford to keep ahead with technology to improve cancer diagnosis. By 1980 much more GP referral work was being done at the Churchill. The emphasis was to try to sort out many problems before patients attended as clinical out patients, thus saving clinical time. The aim of the department was also to regard the ‘request’ as a referral for appropriate investigation in clinical radiology, rather than as a simple radiographic request. This was welcomed by the GPs and resulted in more

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For many years he starred in ‘Tyngwyk’, the clinical students’ Christmas pantomime as ‘His Luminosity’ and for around ten years as ‘His Munificence’. He enjoyed teaching medical students and continued teaching regularly in retirement.

He leaves his wife Lilian, three children and six grandchildren. Angela Salter (daughter)

Paul Baxter (1949) PTW Baxter was born in Leamington Spa in 1925. After attending Warwick School, he went up to Downing College, Cambridge to read English. Taking his degree in two years, he studied anthropology in his third year and then transferred to Oxford to do a BLitt and DPhil in anthropology. His doctoral research was conducted among the Borana of northern Kenya, an Oromo-speaking people. He completed his DPhil in 1954 and almost immediately went to Uganda to do research

among the Kiga. Academic posts at this time were scarce in the UK and Paul took up a position at University College of Ghana. He stayed there until 1960 when he returned to join the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester for a year. Two years at University College Swansea followed, after which he returned to Manchester where he spent the rest of his career contributing hugely to the development of the department and to the intellectual life of the many generations of undergraduate and postgraduate students he had in his care. He conducted fieldwork among the Arssi Oromo of Ethiopia in 1968/69. The paper he published on the position of the Oromo generally in Ethiopia became a rallying point for Oromo nationalists within and outside that country. While supporting Oromo on the grounds of common humanity and justice, Paul was never easy with the iconic status they conferred on him. Paul married Patricia in 1944. She accompanied him on all his field trips, first with their son Timothy (who sadly died in 2005), and then Adam, their second son born in 1964. Paul is survived by Patricia, Adam, four grandchildren and three great grandchildren. He died on March 1st 2014. Hector Blackhurst (PhD student of Paul’s (1969-74))

Rev E.J.R. (John) Bentliff 1949 My brother John Bentliff was born on the 12th August 1930 and died of cancer shortly before his 84th birthday in 2014. His early years were spent first at Great Crosby (then in Lancashire) where our father was a Government Schools Inspector. In the mid-1930s the family moved to Birkenhead and both of us attended Birkenhead School until war was declared in 1939 and our father was moved to London. John and I were moved to grandparents at Chalfont St Peter where we attended a local

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preparatory school as boarders because our grandparents’ house was wrecked by a bomb. In 1941 our parents moved to Tonbridge in Kent where John attended another preparatory school before going to Tonbridge School where he was particularly proficient in maths and science. He also played a piano concerto with the school orchestra and I admired and envied his piano, and organ, playing. His National Service was mostly as a naval officer in a frigate based on Hong Kong and he also worked for British electrical engineering company Metropolitan Vickers. After this he suddenly changed course and became a Protestant Minister after a spell at Mansfield College, Oxford. He married and had sons and grandsons. His widow, and the rest of his family, survives him. D.G.R. Bentliff 1947 (brother)

Simon Douglas Duvergier Truman (1949) Simon loved his time at Lincoln and spoke of his days there with great affection. He was offered a place at the College following a short service as a Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy from around 1944. He then taught for a time at Hawtreys Prep School, before applying for a place at Oxford. He always said that he was only admitted only because of his sporting prowess! During his time at Lincoln, he was to gain his half-blue in tennis and hockey, was a Penguin, and played against Oxford for Beckenham Hockey Club where he surprised his Oxford team-mates by scoring Beckenham’s first two goals and helping the Club to defeat the University side by 4 goals to 3.

Our study walls are covered in pictures of the Lincoln College hockey team which he captained in 1950/51, and the College and Penguins tennis teams. He was also a member of The Travellers, and spoke animatedly about the tour of Holland he undertook with them. What with all the sporting activities, compounded by a serious case of jaundice that floored him just before his Finals, Simon achieved only a third in Geography (much to his chagrin). Simon took some time to find his niche in life after the University, and taught for a while at Dorset House prep school in Sussex. But it was as a super salesman that he was to make his mark touting everything from Fibreglass at Pilkingtons, to Frozen Food at Jo Lyons, and much else in between, finally entering insurance and financial services. Above all, Simon was a devoted family man – handsome, charming and held in affection by his many friends and neighbours. He was an honorary member of Roehampton Club and captained its tennis team in the seventies, continuing to play regularly until well into his 80s and representing the club in golf tournaments. Simon is survived by his wife, Jill, sons Philip and Denovan, daughter Jinny, three grandchildren and five step-grandchildren. Jill Truman (Wife)

Anthony Charles Fleischer (1950) Tony Fleischer was born in South Africa on the 8th of July 1928 on the New Modderfontein gold mine, the younger son of Colonel

Spencer Richard Fleischer, CBE, DSO, MC and Di Wilma Duff. In 1950, with a BA from the University of The Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and after a year at the Royal School of Mines in London, he went up to Lincoln to write a B. Litt. thesis on migrant labor in southern Africa. He was quite an athlete: a competitive gymnast, oarsman and rugby player, he rowed for the Wits first eight, which won all major races in SA in 1949 and was the first Wits crew to compete in the Henley Royal Regatta. His Lincoln first VIII made three bumps in 1951. He played rugby for the Greyhounds, touring in Wales, Cornwall, and in France, where he made the local press with his danse Zoeloe after one of the games. His Oxford thesis led to his first job: recruiting workers for the Transvaal mines as an employee of Wenela, the Transvaal Chamber of Mines’ labor organization, for which he travelled rural Southern Africa for several years. He was later recruited as the general manager of South African Associated Newspapers (SAAN). He ran the business and supported the editors of four newspapers which opposed apartheid. Together with Rand Daily Mail editor Laurence Gander and reporter Benjamin Pogrund, he stood accused for some while in the famous prisons act trial for publishing reports on conditions in prisons. He developed an enduring conviction that a free press matters, and an interest in the business of media, and so he saw early the future of online publishing, a subject which intrigued him and for which he was recently an ardent proponent. After SAAN he was invited back to the mine labor organisation as president. Although he represented an employers’ cartel in a controversial sector, he used that position to move the industry away from many of its historical practices, cajoling both the mining companies and OBITUARIES

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neighbouring governments for better working and living conditions, improved medical care, better pay, fairer treatment of deferred pay, and the rights of migrants to return to work. It was a time of transition in which he was visionary, not only in the treatment of mineworkers, but also in the role of his organisation. His liberal, forward-looking and outspoken views put him in conflict with some of the mining houses and, thwarted by his board, he retired in 1987 to do what he for so many years had wanted - to write full time, in Portugal and in Cape Town. Tony’s abiding interest throughout his life was the written word and his subject the people of Africa. He was consistently optimistic about South Africa, deeply concerned about the fate of its people, particularly the rural poor. First encouraged to write fiction by Rector Keith Murray, he wrote ten novels. His first, The Skin is Deep, was published by Secker and Warburg in 1958 under the penname Hans Hofmeyer. The book was acclaimed in the TLS but banned in South Africa. In 1958 he joined International PEN, and became president of SA PEN in 1960, leading it until he died, inspiring donors and volunteers to identify new writers and create a publishing platform for them, producing eight anthologies of their work. Several writers have since become widely known. He regarded himself as a white African, speaking both Afrikaans and Zulu well. He loved the African land too, preferring wild nature to civilization. He was a very early member (#72) of the Peace Parks Foundation, convinced that the vision of trans-frontier parks could protect nature and encourage political cooperation. Happiest near the sea, or at least by water, he would catch fish anywhere possible. For many years he travelled with a collapsible fly rod, just in case.

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His themes in conversation were often integrity, candour, free expression, free association, the rule of law, and free enterprise: he had a classic liberal outlook – suspicious of institutional power of all kinds and trusting in the individual. Unsurprisingly, he did not care much what society thought. He disdained superficiality, self-promotion, and name-dropping. He relied on his intuitive sense for the warmth, honesty and integrity of individuals he met. He preferred to spend time with people he liked, who were interesting, and who would talk to him straight and give him a good debate. He was passionate about his work, about literature, politics, and the two schools he governed, but often said his supreme achievement was his marriage of 62 years to Lores (Dolores Carlotta Kent de Paiva Rapozo). They had three sons (two followed him to Lincoln), ten grandchildren (who he regarded as clear evidence that each generation is better than the last), and one great-grandson. He expected “to drop” suddenly – but melanoma took him slowly, probably from too much time under the African sun. He was curious, generous, engaged and vocal to the end. Spencer Fleischer (1976) and Kevin Fleischer (1986) (sons)

Gurth Christian Hoyer Millar (1950) Hoyer Millar, who died aged 84, was a Scottish rugby international, Special Forces officer, serial Liberal parliamentary candidate, a director of Sainsbury’s, and chairman of Bonhams auction house. Both his son and daughter attended Lincoln.

A lawyer by training, Hoyer began his business career at BP, where he specialised in property matters. In 1967 he joined J Sainsbury to become one of its first non-family board members and to take charge first of distribution and then of a growing real estate portfolio as the number and size of its supermarkets expanded rapidly under the dynamic chairmanship of John Sainsbury (Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover). Hoyer Millar’s manner was gentle, engaging and imbued with concern for the well-being of others; but his record as a soldier and sportsman spoke of an inner toughness that was also sometimes called upon in business dealings. At the beginning of the Thatcher era, Millar and his colleagues spotted rising consumer enthusiasm for home improvement, and established a joint venture with a Belgian retailer which had already built a domestic DIY chain. The result was Homebase, of which he was the first chairman. Millar seized the underlying social change of DIY as a pastime rather than a chore: “Holidays in Bermuda are at the top end of the leisure market, we are at the bottom,” Hoyer Millar told an interviewer. “Most people can afford to pretty up the house or garden, even if they can’t afford to go away.” Millar was born in Chelsea in 1929 into a family with Perthshire roots. His father, uncle and grandfather had served or were serving as officers in the Black Watch; his Aunt Dame Elizabeth rose to be director of the WRNS; and his cousin Derick, the first Lord Inchyra, was a post-war ambassador to Germany and head of the Diplomatic Service. While his father was fighting with Tito’s partisans in Yugoslavia, Gurth was at Harrow, where he lodged with his housemaster and never knew who paid his fees. As head of school he was host for a day to the most

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famous of old boys, Winston Churchill; he was also captain of cricket for two years, and achieved the rare accolade of “triple blood” — first-team colours in three major sports — in three consecutive years. He won an exhibition to Lincoln to read Law, but was called for National Service and saw action as a lieutenant with Special Forces in what became the Malay Scouts (SAS) Squadron, fighting communist bandits in the jungle while also being called on to box and play cricket for the regular Army in Kuala Lumpur. After completing his service he returned to Oxford with a civilian career in mind — and kept wicket for the University side against Kent and Warwickshire in 1952. He also won Blues for boxing and rugby. He was capped for Scotland in a 26-8 defeat by Ireland at Murrayfield in 1953, and later played for Richmond.

with the SDP, but his instinctive sympathy for the underprivileged drew him into involvement with Oxfam as chairman of its finance committee and even as organiser of its annual toy fair. Through friendship with the dancer and director Christopher Gable, he also became a trustee, fundraiser and avid supporter of Northern Ballet Theatre, recruiting Princess Margaret as its patron. Friends who played for Hoyer Millar’s cricket team against his Oxfordshire home village in later years watched with awe as he stood right up to the stumps to keep wicket for the fastest bowlers. A member of MCC and the Garrick, he also liked to entertain at the Special Forces Club. He married, in 1956, Jane Aldington, daughter of HJ “Aldy” Aldington, a pre-war racing driver. She survives him with their two sons and a daughter.

Called to the Bar by Middle Temple in 1954, Millar completed postgraduate legal studies at the University of Michigan but never practised law, instead taking up a more adventurous opportunity with BP in Canada. When he returned to London he became manager of BP’s “lands and concessions” department — and launched himself into Liberal politics, cheerfully accepting a first defeat in South Kensington in the 1959 general election; he never found a winnable seat.

Adapted from The Telegraph, Tuesday 22nd April 2014. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10780550/ Gurth-Hoyer-Millar-obituary.html

In the business world beyond Sainsbury’s, he was a long-serving non-executive director of the Hudson’s Bay Company. He also served on the boards of P&O and the property group LET, and was a trustee of the Howard de Walden estate in Marylebone. He was chairman of Bonhams, the fine art auctioneers, from 1988 to 1996, and of TJ Hughes, a chain of discount stores, from 1991 to 1996. His support for the Liberal cause waned after the merger

The Annalistes, a group of scholars associated with the journal Annales, broke away from the traditional historians’ fixation on political, constitutional and military history. Inspired, though not defined, by Marxist historicism, they used techniques of historical anthropology to investigate how ordinary men and women of the past experienced life and conceived their world. Le Goff was probably best known for The Birth of Purgatory (1981), in which he

Jacques le Goff (1951) Jacques le Goff, who died in April aged 90, was a veteran of the French Annales, or “New History”, school, and helped to define what was culturally distinctive about the period loosely described as the Middle Ages.

argued that the idea of a “third place” in the afterlife, along with heaven and hell, came into full bloom as a formal Catholic belief and doctrine rather late — in the 12th century. It became the “key component” in the medieval system of ideas (as well as a useful revenue-raiser for the Church), turning people’s earthly existence into a day-to-day spiritual ledger and giving society its meaning. Central to le Goff’s thesis was his attribution of the birth of purgatory to social-historical causes, particularly the rise of the mercantile bourgeoisie. le Goff was born in 1924 in Toulon. His father, a teacher, was a resolute anti-papist, while his mother was a strict Roman Catholic. Lively family debates about religious doctrine, along with a youthful reading of Ivanhoe, convinced Jacques at an early age that he wanted to be a medievalist. His Leftist political views were shaped during the German occupation of France when, to avoid compulsory labour service, he fled to the Alps and served in what he described as a “pseudoresistance”, helping to retrieve medicine and weapons dropped by the Allies. However, he was inoculated against more extreme forms of Leftwing doctrine after the war when he travelled to Prague and witnessed the communist takeover of 1948. In 1950 he qualified as a history teacher and became a teaching assistant in Amiens, but soon gave up and embarked on a one-year’s research studentship at Lincoln. By the end of the decade he had written the first of more than 30 books and was becoming known as a leading member of the Annales School. Le Goff joined the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris in the early Sixties, serving as the director of studies from 1962 and teaching there until the age OBITUARIES

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of 70. In 1972 he succeeded Fernand Braudel as head of the school and editor-in-chief of Annales.

one of a group of friends who made outstanding careers in journalism, mostly in Washington.

Throughout his life le Goff was a fervent proEuropean, a commitment shown in his editorship of a multinational, multi-publisher series ‘The Making of Europe’. In his book The Birth of Europe (2005) he argued that Europe first became a self-conscious entity — both in reality and in representation — during the Middle Ages as a western, Christian zone defined against both Asia and the Eastern Church — with feudalism, transnational trading systems and the growth of towns and universities among the factors contributing to the process. Le Goff won numerous awards and his international standing was reflected in a conference held in his honour at Cambridge in 1994 and in a 2003 exhibition at the National Gallery in Parma entitled “The European Middle Ages of Jacques le Goff”.

He moved to Washington in 1961 to work as administrative assistant to his Oxford friend, U.S. congressman John Brademas (D – Indiana). He returned to journalism in 1963, joining Science, the weekly magazine of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where he became the second journalist on the staff. He later served Science as European correspondent and as news editor. At Science, Walsh covered federal science policy, and wrote about the role of science in American politics, government, and higher education in a period when it was assuming a central role in American life. He was a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto in 1979-80. He retired in 1988.

He married, in 1962, Hanka Dunin, a Polish child psychiatrist, with whom he had a son and a daughter. Adapted from The Telegraph, Monday 14th April 2014. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10763763/ Jacques-le-Goff-obituary.html

John R. Walsh (1951) John R. Walsh, of Bethesda (Maryland), journalist and pioneering science writer, died September 27, 2014 after a lengthy struggle with Parkinson’s disease and lymphoma. The only child of Harry and Grace (Karr) Walsh, he grew up in Bloomfield, New Jersey. After service in the U.S. Army at the end of World War II, he earned a degree from Middlebury College and was elected a Rhodes Scholar in 1950. After studying at Lincoln, Walsh learned his trade as a reporter on the Louisville Times, where he was

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In the 1980s, he developed a keen interest in Africa’s Green Revolution and in the challenges of technology transfer and cross-cultural interaction in sub-Saharan Africa. His 2001 book, Wide Crossing: The West African Rice Development Association in Transition, 1985-2000 described how farmers, scientists and development workers recovered from initial failure to improve dramatically rice cultivation in West Africa. Walsh’s intellectual range, his curiosity, and his low-key warmth made him a gifted interviewer. He could converse with anyone about anything. He loved literature, especially poetry, and the doggerel he composed on special occasions for family and friends was the stuff of legend. He had a gift for friendship and maintained close relationships with friends from almost every phase of his life until death. He enjoyed a

marriage of almost 58 years, marked by remarkable mutual support, with Efthalia Markis Walsh, who survives him. He was a loving, generous and encouraging father for his three children (Andrew Walsh of Glastonbury, Connecticut; Jane Walsh of Bethesda; and Peter Walsh of Cambridge, England) and delighted in his two granddaughters. Efthalia Walsh (Wife)

George Shutter (1955) George Shutter, who died in January after a prolonged and painful illness, was educated at Kingston Grammar School, and after National Service in the Royal Air Force, went up to Lincoln in 1955. He spent most of his working life as a teacher in Cornwall, retiring as head of music at Helston Comprehensive School, where his eccentricities, occasional acerbity, dry sense of humour, and a kindly nature were affectionately remembered by staff and former students. Outside his teaching job, George was well known and appreciated in the musical world of Cornwall. His versatility stretched from cabaret, to writing music for productions at the Minack Theatre, to accompanist and choirmaster, and to playing the organ for services at RNAS Culdrose. His ability and commitment were testified to by the massive attendance at his funeral service. In retirement he became an inveterate traveller to exotic destinations as he followed his interests in ornithology and the natural world. He lived alone in a small bungalow, enveloped in a wild and completely neglected garden. His rooms were choc-a-bloc with musical instruments, books, recording gear, and travel memorabilia. As his health declined, and his speech was limited

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by cancer of the tongue, he kept in touch with his friends by emails that reflected his struggle with increasing pain, but always showing his sense of humour to the last, and often came with some of his latest compositions for keyboard. He was a true original. All who knew him at Lincoln will remember him with respect and affection. John Read (1955) and David Preen (1955)

Ewen Moir (1956) Ewen Moir was born in Kent, an only child of an unhappy marriage. He was sent first to Bickley Park preparatory and then Sutton Valence schools, which became his true home for most of his childhood, and the friendships he made there endured. He was selected for officer training at Eaton Hall officer cadet school, near Chester, after which he was commissioned into the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment and war service was in the ‘Malaya/ Malaysian Emergency’. He contracted hepatitis during this time, and was decommissioned. He went up to Lincoln in 1956, to read History. He was an active undergraduate member of the College, coxing Lincoln boats in Eights and in Torpids, and belonging to a number of College societies, notably the Fleming Society, in which he held every office. He played bridge for the College team and was a prominent member of the JCR. After leaving Oxford, he took up accountancy, practising in Kent and Sussex, although he had several stints abroad, including several years in Nigeria and later several in Houston (the latter he grew to like). His lifetime hobby would be described as walking, whether in Scotland, rural England, the Alps or the Himalayas. He served as the secretary of the

Austrian Alpine club for many years and organised many meets both for the Sussex Wealdmen and with his own circle of friends. His other hobbies were bridge, the arts (music, literature and theatre) and lastly, his gastronomic pleasures. He moved latterly to Charlbury, where he lived after retirement, and finally settled down. He had a lively association with the Oxford and Cambridge Club in London, which in later years became his bridgeplaying base. He greatly loved the Oxfordshire countryside, and notably Great Tew, where a visit was not complete for him without a walk up the hill to the church followed by lunch in the village pub. His other love was Lincoln, where he spent many happy days and hours exchanging conversation with the Development Office staff, Fellows, and any former members of the College whose visits coincided with his own. He was also proud of his family: three children and six grandchildren. His grandchildren in particular were a source of great pleasure, and he loved to take them to the theatre and to places with which he had a strong connection. He will be sadly missed by his family and all his former friends and colleagues. Mike Gerrard (1956)

Ieuan Thomas (1956) It is with great sorrow that I report the untimely death of Ieuan Thomas in an accident in his garden at home in Sunningdale on August 21st. Ieuan went up to Oxford in October 1956 as an exhibitioner from Dulwich College (where he was head boy) and after completing National Service

in the Royal Artillery. He read chemistry under the tutorship of Rex (now Sir Rex) Richards, and gained a second class honours degree. He was a keen sportsman, playing rugby for the freshman Greyhounds and the College cuppers team. He was a prominent member of the MCR (the first in Oxford, which opened in 1959) during the fourth year of the normal chemistry degree course. He came back to Oxford on many occasions including taking his MA in 1981 when Rex Richards was by then the Vice Chancellor, and in 2009 was on the top table in Hall for the 50th anniversary dinner for the MCR. His last visit was to the Rector’s garden party this summer, on the last day of eights week. He married Margaret in 1959 who survives him along with his two daughters Helen and Louise. John Boatman (1956)

Victor Charles Earl (1957) Victor Earl was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School, Northwood and came up to Oxford in 1957 after National Service with an open scholarship to read Classics at Lincoln. National Service was just ending at the time and the student body was an uncomfortable mix of experienced soldiers and students fresh from school. With an oversized intake, accommodation was in extraordinarily short supply and dreadful quality. After two years, changing to PPE (modern Greats) brought extra relevance to an education already well provided with ancient Greek and Golden Age Latin. And he married his wife Freda in 1959 while still an undergraduate. Victor moved to the financial section of The Economist after working for Investment Research in Cambridge. After some years in investment work in the City he was recruited by the GLC as head of research publications. During the abolition OBITUARIES

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he worked with the Staff Association providing support and advice to members, further developing skills from his time as the National Chairman of the Chiropractic Association during its successful campaign for NHS recognition, and later with the Community Health Council in Hertfordshire. A lifelong involvement in politics, shared with Freda, led to his elections as Mayor of Berkhamsted in 2003, followed four years later by Freda – the town’s first husband and wife team. Victor died after a valiant eight year fight against the rare and untreatable neurodegenerative disease Multiple Systems Atrophy. His wife and daughter Catherine were with him. Mrs Freda Earl (wife)

Keith Gilley (1957) Keith Gilley, who has died aged 76, was a Unitarian minister and editor. After a boyhood in Sunderland, where his father was a shipyard welder, he won a place at Lincoln. But first came his National Service in the RAF, during which he learned Russian in a year in order to listen-in on pilots’ transmissions. Keith started out as a teacher, but soon returned to Oxford to train for the ministry at Manchester College (now Harris Manchester College), followed by a Harvard Fulbright scholarship, studying Unitarian Universalism. His first and only ministry was at the lively Golders Green Unitarians from 1967 to 1988. In 1967 he married Judy, a GP, who is now an artist. During his ministry, Keith promoted community and inter-faith relations, an Amnesty group, and debates

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on feminism and abortion law reform. He took part in editing the inclusive hymnal Hymns for Living. He led groups in ‘building your own theology’ and celebrated the first woman to be recognised as a minister in England (in 1904), the Unitarian Gertrude von Petzold, by writing her entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. His congregation gave hospitality to an American Episcopalian female priest so that she could celebrate communion in Britain. Keith encouraged inclusive attitudes towards homosexuality by supporting a gay switchboard and, with Rabbi Lionel Blue, leading gay bereavement groups. He proposed the motion that “the ministry of the denomination be open to all regardless of … sexual orientation” at the 1976 Unitarian Annual Meetings. Long before civil partnerships and the equal marriage debate he conducted ‘gay unions’. He taught religious education (“indoctrinating with liberalism,” one pupil called it) at a local comprehensive school and at Channing School in Highgate, where he is fondly remembered. After 21 years at Golders Green, Keith was for 17 years an outstanding editor of the nonconformist newspaper the Inquirer. He visited innumerable congregations, eventually serving as denominational president and finally honorary member of the General Assembly. A Guardian reader and contributor to the Face to Faith column, in retirement he became editor of Faith and Freedom, a liberal religious journal. A knowledgeable wild-flower lover, he published several volumes of poems, sang Tex Ritter songs, supported Sunderland AFC, and was an adoring grandfather. He is survived by Judy, his son, Wayland, and daughter, Anstey, and five grandchildren.

Adapted from John Midgley, The Guardian Online www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/31/the-revkeith-gilley

Anthony (Tony) Charles Young (1958) Tony was born on the 24th July 1939 in Sevenoaks, Kent. He attended Winchester House Preparatory School until the age of thirteen, and from there he entered Tonbridge School on a scholarship where he studied until the age of nineteen. He came up to Lincoln in 1958 to read Classics. After gaining a BA degree, Tony returned to his old prep school and taught there for several years before taking up a teaching post at Nower Lodge Prep School in Dorking, Surrey, in the late 1960s, becoming headmaster there in the 1970s. In 1990 illness forced him to step down as headmaster, and he took up a teaching post at Chinthurst Prep School in Tadworth where he spent 21 happy years, mostly teaching Classics, before retiring in July 2011 at the age of 72 after 50 years in the teaching profession. Tony was an inspiring and devoted teacher who opened the eyes of countless pupils to the world around them. He took many boys on expeditions to Scotland, Iceland, Norway, Arctic Svalbard, and Alaska, and imbued them with a true sense of adventure. He was an incredibly knowledgeable, tireless, and driven educator who was loved by his pupils. He walked in some of the wildest places on earth, ensuring that his pupils understood the great outdoors and the beauty, history, and depth of landscapes, mountains, and wild places. In late 2012 his health began to fail, and he passed away in September 2013. Mrs Gillian Hortner (sister)

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Martin Copley (1959) Martin Copley was born in London in 1940 and died at home in Perth, Western Australia, on 30 July 2014 after a short illness with an aggressive cancer. What he described as his ‘light-bulb moment’ came at Warrawong Sanctuary outside Adelaide in 1989, when he suddenly realised that so many of Australia’s native animals and birds faced an extinction crisis. He devoted the rest of his life to slowing and reversing this crisis for such endangered species as woylies, bilbies, numbats, and gouldian finches. He was particularly passionate about small mammals, or ‘little critters’ as he called them, and became a good friend of David Attenborough. From small beginnings in 1991 at Karakamia in the Perth hills, where he bought 500 acres and surrounded them with one of Australia’s first feral-proof fences, he built Australian Wildlife Conservancy, launched in 2001, into a nation-wide charity protecting more species than any other non-government organisation in Australia. Perthbased AWC now owns and manages 23 sanctuaries covering over 7.4 million acres (almost 1.5 times the size of Wales). Martin’s work required leadership, fundraising, presentational, deal-making, and business skills, not to mention money, all of which he could bring to the table. Recognition came in 2010, when he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for his services to conservation and the environment, and in 2013, when The Prince of Wales agreed to become the Patron of AWC.

After Stowe, a year in Hamburg learning German, and reading Modern History at Lincoln, Martin qualified as an accountant. He spent 1966 to 1970 working for a stockbroker in Sydney and discovering a love for the wide open spaces of the Outback. Back in England in the 1970’s, he sold Copley’s Bank and used the proceeds, plus a mortgage on his home in Hampshire, to buy the rest of his family out of Western Australia Insurance Company. Both had been founded by his grandfather, who emigrated to Australia from Huddersfield aged just 17. Starting in 1977, Martin moved the now Wimbledon-based business into breakdown cover on household appliances, changed its name to Domestic & General Insurance, and very successfully floated it on the London Stock Exchange in 1988. Hence some capacity to respond to that ‘light-bulb moment’. From 1970 to 1994 Martin visited Australia for a holiday almost every year, moving to Perth permanently in 1994. He subsequently took out Australian, in addition to UK, citizenship. He loved ocean racing and riding in his earlier years and, always, tennis, music, and playing the piano. Charismatic, charming, kind, generous and modest, he attached enormous importance to keeping his extended family together. Latterly this included an annual gathering at the villa he rebuilt in Tuscany, another of his great loves. He was married twice, to Charlotte Macartney in 1966, and Lorraine Pearce in 1989. Valentine Thomas was his constant companion for the last two years of his life. He is survived by two daughters from his first marriage and a son from his second marriage. Robin Thomas (1959)

Dr David Goldey (Fellow 1964, Supernumerary Fellow 2003) David was for forty years an inspiring and wise tutor in politics at Lincoln, and a leading scholar of the politics of France and of Portugal. He combined dedication to his students and to the College with distinguished scholarship, natural authority, capacity for friendship, and sympathy for those in need of help, with an often noisy sense of humour. He was a valued guide for generations of students, for some at least of whom he was the finest teacher they had the fortune ever to encounter, and his was a sure hand helping to steer the College during challenging times. It was during the 1960’s, when Lincoln, the wider University, and higher education as a whole were changing radically and unpredictably, that David became Dean. The College could not have made a better appointment. He played a central role in enabling Lincoln to emerge with its characteristic mix of academic excellence and pastoral care stronger than ever. The grandson of immigrants to New York from Minsk in Belarus, David was passionate

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about the United States as a melting-pot that welcomed and enriched people from many different cultures and countries. He brought that ethos to the College, strongly encouraging students from all backgrounds; and he had the gift of inspiring not only the brilliant and well-organised, but also those for whom life and work were more of a struggle. Like other great teachers David led his students to aim higher, through his faith in them, his enthusiasm, and his own exacting standards. And his humanity towards his charges as individuals extended also to his approach to understanding politics. As recalled by one of his former students: “David had incisive imagination that enabled him to put himself in the shoes of the person or party he was trying to understand, and thus to gain insight and explain what had happened. He did not deal in easy generalisations. He could understand the rulers and the ruled, revolutionaries and reactionaries, rich and poor”. At Nuffield in 1962 David had begun a twenty-year collaboration with his DPhil supervisor Philip Williams, and the two of them were amongst the leading commentators on French politics in this country and internationally. In recognition of his scholarship on French politics and his contribution to French culture David was admitted as a Chevalier into the Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 1998. As a result of his marriage to Patricia, an anthropologist with an interest in the

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lusophone world, David later became a scholar of the politics of Portugal. He was particularly interested (as in France) in party, electoral, and local politics, and published regular journal articles on Portuguese elections. In recognition of this work, in 2004 the President of Portugal awarded David the ‘Grau de Grande Oficial da Ordem do Infante D. Enrique.’ His interest in Portugal was reinforced by the charming house near the coast between Cascais and Sintra that he and Patricia, and their children, Sarah and Dan, renovated and visited regularly. David Baer Goldey, BA (Cornell), 1957; DPhil (Oxon), 1961. Research Fellow in Politics, Nuffield College, 1962-64; Fellow and Tutor in Politics, Lincoln College, and University Lecturer (CUF) in Politics, 1964-2003. Supernumerary Fellow, Lincoln College, 2003-14. Born New York 1936; died Oxford July 2014. Alex Duncan (1968)

Andrew Abelson (1965) Andrew’s mother was a doctor of medicine and his father, a Cambridge graduate, taught at the family home where Andrew was born. From an early age his intelligence was evident enough for his nursery teacher to predict he would become a professor. He excelled at school, passing five A levels, and gained a place at Lincoln aged sixteen. He enjoyed his time at Oxford where he read PPP and learnt to play backgammon. His skill at cards enabled him to live well enough to eat sometimes at the fabled Elizabeth restaurant. Though he left with a second, after a year in the computer industry, he returned to Oxford to study animal physiology.

There he resumed his happy social life. One evening, sheltering under a shop awning, he started chatting to an American. They then enjoyed a drink together enough to meet again. Though his new chum was the most genial person Andrew had ever met, since he thought he was a bit dim, he was surprised to find that he was a Rhodes scholar, and even more surprised when Bill Clinton became President of the United States. Andrew went on to do a PhD in Evolutionary Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. His published work includes studies researched in the Andes and the Pyrenees. His social skills and fluent Spanish only once let him down in Spain when he awoke one night to find himself lying in a police station without his wallet surrounded by anxious officers. They had found him lying unconscious in a street outside a bar. The resultant dent in his skull became for Andrew something of personal scientific interest: he used it to measure how much the hair on his head was receding. Acutely disappointed when ankylosing spondylitis, an illness he suffered from most of his life, spelt the end of his academic career because he was too unfit for field work, Andrew took to playing cards in earnest. Even in the last week of his life he won two bridge competitions. He is remembered with great affection by his family, many friends and neighbours for his wisdom, wit and humour. Mrs Lucy Tomkins (sister)

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Sir Richard Ground (1967) Sir Richard Ground was born on December 17, 1949 in Stamford, England and educated at Oakham School; Lincoln; and the Inns of Court School of Law. He won an open scholarship to Oxford in 1967 and the Violet Vaughan-Morgan University Prize for literature in 1968. He graduated with a BA Hons in English Language and Literature in 1970. Called to the Bar in Gray’s Inn in 1975, he was appointed Queens Counsel (Cayman Islands) in 1987, and elected a Bencher of his Inn in 2011. He began his legal career in private practice at 1 Brick Court, Middle Temple, where he specialized in media law, 1976-83. He left London in 1983 for the Cayman Islands where he served as Crown Counsel. He was HM Attorney General in Cayman from 1987 to 1992. He was then appointed Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Bermuda, serving from 1992 to 1998. His next career move took him to the Turks and Caicos Islands, where he was Chief Justice 1998-2004. Finally, in 2004, he was appointed Chief Justice of Bermuda, retiring in 2012. During his final arraignment session of the Supreme Court, numerous members of Bermuda’s legal profession turned out to bid him farewell. They described him as patient and professional at all times, and praised him for his judicial acumen and intellect. Notably he was applauded for being ‘firm but fair’ at all times. He was awarded the OBE in the New Year’s Honours List 1991 for his services as Attorney General in Cayman, and was made a Knight Bachelor in the Birthday Honours list 2012 for his services to justice in Bermuda.

In other legal appointments, he had begun serving as Justice of the Court of Appeal for Turks and Caicos Islands in 2005, and was appointed to the Court of Appeal in the Cayman Islands in 2012. Effective January 1, 2013 he was appointed to sit on the Bermuda Court of Appeal but his illness overtook him before he could attend his first session. Outside his legal and judicial work, Sir Richard was a keen and talented wildlife photographer and became passionate about the natural world. He published his first book of photographs in Cayman in 1989, Creator’s Glory, and in 2001 a book on the wildlife of the Turks and Caicos Islands. His photographs have been published in numerous magazines such as WildBird, Bermuda Magazine, the Times of the Islands, and The Bermudian. He was also a keen collector of Tudor coins and Bronze Age weaponry – and continued to be fascinated by their stories. In 1986 Sir Richard married Dace McCoy, a Harvardtrained lawyer whom he met in the Cayman Islands where she was the Marine Parks Coordinator responsible for establishing a system of protected marine areas for those islands. She later became the founding Executive Director for the National Trust for the Cayman Islands. Sir Richard retired in 2012 to Derbyshire, an area he had come to know and love during many vacations spent trout fishing in the Derbyshire Wye. Tragically, he contracted brain cancer in May, 2013. Following surgery and medical treatment, he hoped to return to his judicial work, but the cancer was in fact more aggressive than first thought. He was 64 years old when he died. Lady Dace Ground (wife)

Darryl J. Gless (1968) A distinguished career in early modern studies began with Darryl Gless’s three years as a Rhodes Scholar and BPhil postgraduate at Lincoln (1968-71). Returning to the USA, he completed a PhD which was published as ‘Measure for Measure’: The Law and the Convent (Princeton, 1979) and won the Explicator Award. He taught at the University of Virginia and then at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he eventually became Roy C. Moose Distinguished Professor of Renaissance Studies, listing among his further publications in that field Interpretation and Theology in Spenser (Cambridge, 1994). Eminent, effective and humane as an administrator, he served as chair of his department, Senior Associate Dean for arts and humanities, and in many other important posts, both at UNC and nationally. In 1994 President Clinton appointed him to the Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and he was the council’s chair from 1999 to 2002. The diversity of his skills was matched by the depth of his sympathies. Colleagues and friends in the USA and Britain describe him as: ‘a Renaissance figure in the very best sense, embodying a love for learning’; a ‘steadfast advocate’ for the humanities; and ‘a gentle, caring, scholarly man’. Having returned to fulltime scholarship and teaching in 2005, Darryl Gless received the Board of Governors Award for excellence in teaching in 2013. Following his death on 10 June this year after a long illness, many former students have spoken of him with gratitude and affection, and one of them recalled OBITUARIES

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– as British friends will too – ‘his wise counsel, judicious temperament and gentle spirit’. Nick Havely (Emeritus Professor of English & Related Literature, University of York)

Darryl Gless came to Lincoln after a first degree in English at the University of Nebraska; his Rhodes cohort included Bill Clinton and Robert Reich (later Secretary of Labor in the Clinton Administration). He took his PhD at Princeton in 1975. Living with the threat of a rare blood disorder for the last fifteen years of his life never dinted his commitment to his university, students, and family, nor his good humour. He is survived by his wife, Friederike Seeger, and their daughter, Elena, who was born posthumously. The Editor

John Andrew Blair-Fish (1969) John Blair-Fish, son of Christopher (1939) and brother of Peter (1966), graduated in physics and then did research at Edinburgh University leading to a PhD in meteorology. He lived in Edinburgh for the rest of his life, working in computing services at the University until he retired in 2010. He was one of the pioneers of parallel computing, advising both developers and users of new computational techniques. Once in Edinburgh, John discovered the fun of hill running. He completed all the Munros in 1988 and made three attempts on the record number of Lakeland peaks in 24 hours. He often ran in fell races in the Alps and was 10th out of 770 competitors in the first Davos Alpine Marathon in 1986. He also enjoyed cross-country skiing. John gave generously of his time to causes that he believed in. He served on the committee of the Fell Runners Association for nearly twenty years, was a member of the Council of the World Development

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Movement, Secretary of the Vestry of St Columba’s by the Castle, and stood for the Green Party in the seat of Edinburgh South West in the General Election of 2005. His friends remember his lifelong commitment to campaigning on poverty and social justice, wellcrafted bombshells at meetings, enormous doorstep sandwiches, elbows, and sartorial athletic fashion. Alas he died suddenly of undiagnosed heart disease while cycling with friends in the Scottish Borders. He had run well in a 20 mile fell race just 10 days earlier. Peter Blair-Fish (1966) (brother)

Simon Mark Featherstone CMG (1977) Simon had been receiving treatment for cancer, but died quite suddenly while on a family holiday in Cornwall. He attended Whitgift School in Croydon before going up to Oxford in 1977 to study Law. He joined the Foreign Office in 1980 and served for a total of seven years in China over two decades, notably as the political counsellor in Beijing during the Hong Kong handover negotiations. In 1990 he became a first secretary at UKRep Brussels, dealing with environment issues. His first ambassadorship was to Switzerland and Liechtenstein in 2004, and his final post British High Commissioner to Malaysia (until May 2014 when he was forced to leave due to ill health). UK-based jobs included a stint in the Cabinet Office and as head of the External European Union Department. He was also project director for the award-winning British Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo, for which he was awarded a CMG. Simon was passionate about the value of diplomacy and he particularly enjoyed the intellectual challenges inherent in the analysis

and formulation of foreign policy, especially in the context of international negotiations. Simon married Gail (née Salisbury, LMH) in 1981 and they have three grown-up children. He loved travel, skiing, golf, Sudoku – and reading John Le Carré novels (!) – but family life provided him with his deepest joys. Simon saw public service as part of his Christian calling, and he never took himself too seriously. Those who heard Simon’s version of the parrot joke can testify to this! Tributes can be left at http://ourmemoryof.com/ simonfeatherstone/condolences/ Mrs Gail Featherstone (wife)

Richard Douglas Ross (1979) Richard Ross was born in Philadelphia on 25 January 1960 and died in San Francisco on 16 June 2013, aged 53. Richard came up to Lincoln from Merchant Taylor’s School, Northwood, initially to study chemistry. In his first year he rowed in the first eight and seemed the epitome of a conventional student, but in his second year he switched to PPP and his wide range of intellectual and artistic interests became apparent. He served as Lincoln’s Entz Officer, and delighted in introducing others to avant-garde art and music. After graduation Richard travelled widely and worked for several years in computer programming, while also pursuing his own art projects. In the early 1990s he went back to college, studying computer-based art at what is now the University of South Wales. Returning to London, he met and married Fiona, and in 1998 their son Malachi was born. Soon afterwards they chose San Francisco as their ideal

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city and, benefiting from Richard’s dual nationality, they moved there in 1999, where he worked for several digital media companies. In California Richard and Fiona found a wide circle of new friends and welcomed old ones as guests. But in late 2009, out of the blue, Richard was diagnosed with a brain tumour. At first the prognosis was optimistic, but despite the best treatment the tumour – which he dubbed ‘Barry’ – kept returning. Richard faced this with his usual selfdeprecating humour and a great deal of courage. He found solace in the art of Rothko and Turrell. As a lifelong cultural explorer, Richard had both enormous enthusiasm and boundless intellectual curiosity. He had a knack for connecting with people, and connecting them with each other, but was also a rock of support and kindness for friends who had troubles. Though cut short, his was a life extremely well lived. He is survived by his parents Ann and John, his wife Fiona, and his son Malachi. David Thurgate (1979) and David Wilson (1979)

Aram Rudenski (1979) Dr Aram Soli Rudenski was born on 18th October 1956 and died at home, after a long illness, on 31st August 2014. He leaves behind his civil partner David Anthony Kennedy. He was born in London to refugees from Hitler – his mother from Germany, his father from Poland. Aram went to University College School in Hampstead, where he excelled in mathematics and languages. He stayed on at school after A-levels to sit the Cambridge Entrance exams in Mathematics, and was awarded an open scholarship to Clare College. He applied to read Medicine, in his words because he wanted to have a career helping others.

Aram received a triple first from Cambridge, and then in 1979 he moved to Lincoln College to spend three years completing his clinical medical studies. After qualifying, he spent six months as a preregistration house physician in Hastings, and then six months as a house surgeon in Oxford. Aram was then awarded an MRC Training Fellowship to carry out mathematical modelling of type-2 diabetes and was awarded a DPhil by Oxford University, becoming a member of Green College. At this time, the AIDS crisis came to the fore: Aram volunteered on the AIDS helpline, as well as being a trainer for volunteers and a medical advisor for OXAIDS. He obtained a registrar post in Clinical Biochemistry in Oxford, before becoming a senior registrar on the Ipswich Cambridge rotation. He moved to Bradford in 1999 to take up a consultant post, and from there to a job at Hope Hospital, Salford. In his work, he considered his greatest contribution was teaching, which he loved. His research in Oxford demonstrated the importance of insulin deficiency rather than insulin resistance in the progression of type-2 diabetes. He enjoyed an active social life, including a weekly gay ballroom dancing group, classical music, gardening, and walking. In 2009 he met his partner David Kennedy in Hebden Bridge, an area they both loved and explored together, in particular taking walks through Hardcastle Crags. Aram will be missed by many people. To quote a line of the Psalms: Shmor tam ur’eh yashar ki acharit le-ish Shalom – “Mark the man of integrity and behold the upright for the end of such a man is peace.” Provided by David Kennedy n

“I never knew a College besides ours, whereof the members were so perfectly satisfied with one another” JOHN WESLEY (1726)

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