Lincoln College Record 2017-18

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Contents From the Editor 1 Rector’s report 2

The Fellowship 4 The Senior Common Room 8 Fellows’ research and teaching news 11 Undergraduate Freshers 23 Graduate Freshers 24 Matriculands 26 Undergraduate examination results 28 Graduate examination results 29 Scholarships and exhibitions 32 Special awards 34 Undergraduate prizes 35 Graduate prizes 36 JCR and MCR Officers; Sports Captains 37

The Lincoln Year Senior Tutor’s report 38 Access and outreach 41 Bursar’s report 44 Librarian’s report 46 Archivist’s report 48 Chaplain and Student Welfare Coordinator's report 50 Domestic Operations Manager’s report 52 Staff list 54 Development & alumni relations 56 Honour roll of donors 59 Giving circles 66 Murray Society honour roll 67 Alumni perspectives Governing Body Alumni Representative's report 68 Finance Committee Alumni Members’ report 70 Alumni representation on College committees 72 Regional alumni groups 73 Deaths 74 Obituaries 75 Cover image: The College crest on the Chapel ceiling

by David Fisher

Editorial

From the Editor Among many sources of good fortune, I am lucky that my room affords me an unrivalled view of Lincoln as it goes about its daily routines. From my perch above the Lodge on staircase one, I have a frontrow seat on the ebbs and flows of college life, from the early-bird rowing outings to the night-owlers intent on revelry or an imminent deadline. Any publication would struggle to capture the vibrancy of this human traffic, but the Record comes closest to capturing a sense of Lincoln’s rich diversity, and I hope that you enjoy learning more about the College’s recent rhythms in the following pages.

As ever, there is much to report, and I would like to thank all the contributors for providing accounts of their wide-ranging activities during 2017-18. I am also deeply grateful to Julia Uwins, Lincoln’s Alumni and College Communications Officer, for once again bringing editorial order and energy to this annual review of the Lincoln year. She epitomises the quiet dedication which drives the College onwards in its daily rounds, and long may it resonate through all the common rooms, staff, and alumni. n Perry Gauci VHH Green Fellow in History

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Rector’s report The history of any educational institution is written not just in its buildings and records, but in the lives of those who serve it – in their work, their interactions and friendships, and their contributions to what the institution seeks to achieve. At the end of this year, we mourn the deaths of two outstanding servants of the College, our former Bursar Tim Knowles and our thirty-sixth Rector, Sir Maurice Shock – there are full notices of both elsewhere in the Record.

Tim Knowles, who had read history as an undergraduate at the College, was our first professional, full-time Bursar and did a huge amount to transform both the day-to-day running of our finances and the management of the endowment that allows us to fulfil our educational objectives. A man of great kindness and goodness, he helped many of our staff and students, as well as Fellows, negotiate the increasing complexity of the modern financial world. He was greatly respected 2.LINCOLN

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by Bursars in other colleges and played a prominent part in their relations with the University. He is greatly missed by his friends and admirers; our deepest sympathies go to his wife, Cathy, and the family in their loss.

Maurice Shock succeeded Vivian Green as Rector in 1987. He had been ViceChancellor of Leicester University and knew Oxford and its workings well, having previously been Fellow and Praelector in Politics at University College and its Estates Bursar for 15 years. His considerable experience of university and Oxford made him a formidable advocate of the college life. He saw the value of fundraising at the collegiate level, and at Lincoln he established the first dedicated Development Office in any college. This was an important step for the College that facilitated the completion of the Bear Lane and High Street projects; these have brought great benefits to the graduates who live there and have made it possible for them to enjoy and to contribute so much to the life of the College. When he retired in 1994, he went on living in Oxford and stayed in touch with the College until a few years ago when illhealth prevented him from coming in.

His well-attended funeral – conducted by our Chaplain – was held at Balliol, his

undergraduate college, and there was a reception after it in the Grove at Lincoln, where his family and friends were able to continue the celebration of his long life and many achievements.

Few people have had as long a continuous association with the College as Simon Gardner, our Fellow in Law who has just retired after 40 years of teaching and research. He has been tutor to hundreds of undergraduates and graduates; his dedication to teaching and his influence on generations of students are formidable, as has been his service to the College, in recent times as Secretary to Governing Body and as Sub-Rector. He has retained his interest in the development of his students and in his own constantly evolving understanding of the law through the decades. His wide range of intellectual interests and distinctive sense of humour – he has an ability to laugh with and at the world – have helped him to keep his enthusiasm for the task in hand fresh and original.

Among the highlights of the year in the Fellowship might be mentioned the award of a Philip Leverhulme Prize to our Mathematics Fellow, Dominic Vella, and the appointment of Cristina Dondi, our Oakeshott Senior Research Fellow

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in the Humanities, to be a Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia – an award given to Italian citizens who have enriched the country’s reputation abroad and promoted its relations with other nations. The Academy of Medical Sciences elected Jordan Raff, César Milstein Professor of Molecular Cancer Biology, to a Fellowship and at the same time honoured our former Fellow, Claudio Cuello, with the same award.

The College itself honoured our Emeritus Fellow and former Fellow in History, Susan Brigden, by unveiling her portrait (painted by Keith Breeden), which now hangs above the High Table in the Hall.

All these people, along with our staff, Fellows, students, and Old Members make the College what it is. They may not have permanent memorials of brick or stone within Lincoln, but their influence is, as George Eliot put it in the ending of Middlemarch (a novel not unconnected to the College), ‘incalculably diffusive’. It is a constant surprise and pleasure at Gaudies and Year Dinners, at gatherings of Old Members for our various societies – Lincoln, Rotherham, Berrow, and so on – to discover how interested they are in the College’s life and work. This is also the case when we meet Old Members away from Oxford; this year in the US, on the

West (Los Angeles and San Francisco) and the East coasts (New York and Washington), and in Switzerland. Our friends and supporters give generously of their time and expertise, while also renewing their association with it. Such support, along with the generosity of our many donors around the world, helps us in ensuring the College’s success and its future.

Our buildings, however, play a major part in helping us to carry out our educational mission; they provide the physical space to create that essential sense of community that underpins our academic work. This summer the first part of the project to refurbish the Chapel has been completed; everything above ground level has been cleaned, repainted or gilded, repaired, and renewed. The glorious East window disappeared for a few months – for a time, a neighbouring college was suspected but, when it was reinstalled, it was remembered that it had been sent to York for cleaning and repair by the Glaziers’ Trust there. In the summer of 2019 it will be the turn of the woodwork (screen, panelling, stalls) to be cleaned and refurbished, and welcome attention will be paid to the lighting and heating. Significant as all this work is, it is relatively minor in

its scope and complexity to the building works that are about to begin in the Mitre and in the NatWest building. The complete refurbishment of the Mitre and the installation of over 50 en-suite bathrooms are likely to take two years; the transformation of the High Street building, with a restaurant on the ground floor and commercial accommodation above, will take around a year. The considerable burden of all this work has fallen on our Bursar, Alex Spain, who has taken it on uncomplainingly amid the complications of the USS (Universities Superannuation Scheme) pensions crisis and the slender joys of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).

It was when Tim Knowles was Bursar that the College bought the NatWest building, nearly completing our ownership of the whole block bounded by Bear Lane and the High Street, Alfred Street and King Edward Street, an area whose development Maurice Shock did so much to advance. The life of buildings depends, as always, on individuals.

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The Fellowship 2017–18 VISITOR The Bishop of Lincoln, The Right Reverend Christopher Lowson RECTOR Woudhuysen, Henry, MA DPhil Oxf, FBA FSA FELLOWS Brewitt-Taylor, Samuel, BA MSt DPhil Oxf Darby Fellow and Tutor in History Carvalho, Pedro, BSc Coimbra, PhD Porto EP Abraham Professor of Cell Biology Coldea, Radu, BA Babes Bolyai, DPhil Oxf Professor and Tutor in Physics Dullens, Roel, MSc PhD Utrecht Professor and 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 Enchelmaier, Stefan, LLM Edin, MA Oxf, Dr iur Bonn, habil Munich Professor and Tutor in Jurisprudence Freeman, Matthew, MA Oxf, PhD Lond, FMedSci, FRS Professor of Pathology Gardner, Simon, BCL MA Oxf Hanbury Fellow and Professor and Tutor in Jurisprudence, Sub-Rector and Secretary to the Governing Body Gauci, Perry, MA DPhil Oxf V H H Green Fellow and Tutor in History Harrison, Susan, MA Oxf Development Director Havelková, Barbara, MSt DPhil Oxf, Mgr Prague, LLM Saarbrucken Shaw Foundation Fellow and Tutor in Law Hills, David, MA DSc Oxf, PhD Trent Polytechnic,

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CEng, FIMechE Professor and Tutor in Engineering Science, Fellow for Alumni Relations İşsever, Çiğdem, PhD Dipl Dortmund Walter Stern Fellow, Professor and Tutor in Physics, Fellow for Schools Liaison Kvasnicka, Jan, BA Charles, MPhil Camb Career Development Fellow in Economics LaPorte, Jody, BA Harvard, MA PhD Berkeley Gonticas Fellow and Tutor in Politics and International Relations, Director of Studies in PPE Long, Stephen, BSc R’dg, PhD Leeds Newton Abraham Visiting Professor in Medical, Biological and Chemical Sciences McCann, Daniel, BA MA PhD Belf Simon and June Li Fellow and Tutor in English Literature McCullough, Peter, BA California, MA Oxf, PhD Princeton Sohmer Fellow and Professor and Tutor in English Literature, Fellow Archivist Michael, Timothy, BA NYU, MA PhD Harvard Tutor in English Literature, Senior Dean Moore, Matthew, MA MSc DPhil Oxf Darby Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics Nye, Edward, BA Leic, MA Leeds, MA DPhil Oxf ELF Fellow and Tutor in French, Welfare Dean Omlor, Daniela, MA Oxf, MA ULB, PhD St And Tutor in Spanish Parakhonyak, Aleksei, BSc Nizhny Novgorod, MSc Mosc, PhD EUR Amelia Ogunlesi Fellow and Tutor in Economics Prescott-Couch, Alexander, BA Columbia, PhD Harvard Tutor in Philosophy Proudfoot, Nicholas, BSc Lond, MA Oxf, PhD Camb, FRS Brownlee-Abraham Professor of Molecular Biology Radisoglou, Alexis, MA MPhil PhD Columbia, MA Oxf Montgomery-DAAD Fellow and Tutor in German Studies 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

Spain, Alexander, BBS Dub, MA Oxf, MBA Pennsylvania Bursar Stamatopoulou, Maria, BA Athens, MSt DPhil Oxf Tutor in Classical Archaeology and Art Stavrinou, Paul, BEng South Bank, PhD UCL Tutor in Engineering Science Vakonakis, Ioannis (John), BSc Crete, MA Oxf, PhD Texas A&M Tutor in Biochemistry Vaux, David, BM BCh MA DPhil Oxf, FRMS Nuffield Research Fellow in Pathology and Professor and Tutor in Medicine Vella, Dominic, MA MMath PhD Camb Professor and Tutor in Mathematics Wang, Qian, BSc Nanjing, PhD Princeton Tutor in Mathematics Willis, Michael, BSc Lond, MA Oxf, PhD Camb, CChem, FRSC GlaxoSmithKline Fellow and Professor and Tutor in Chemistry Wooding, Lucy, MA DPhil Oxf, FRHistS Langford Fellow and Tutor in History SUPERNUMERARY FELLOWS Atkins, Peter, MA Oxf, PhD Leic, FRSC Barclay, Neil, BA DPhil Oxf Bird, Richard, MA Camb, MA Oxf, PhD Lond Brigden, Susan, BA Manc, MA Oxf, PhD Camb, FBA Brownlee, George, MA PhD Camb, MA Oxf, FMedSci, FRS Child, Graham, MA Oxf Cook, Peter Richard, MA DPhil Oxf Edwards, David, MA DPhil Oxf Gill, Stephen, BPhil MA Oxf, PhD Edin Jelley, Nicholas, MA DPhil Oxf Kenning, David, MA Oxf, PhD Camb, CEng, MIMechE Norbury, John, BSc Queensland, MA Oxf, PhD Camb Payne, Frank, MA PhD Camb, MA Oxf Shorter, John, MA Oxf + Waldmann, Herman, MB BChir MA PhD Hon DSc Camb, MA Oxf, FMedSci, FRCP, FRCPath, FRS Wilson, Nigel, MA Oxf, FBA

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RESEARCH FELLOWS Abu Shah, Enas, BSc PhD Technion Israel IT George and Susan Brownlee Junior Research Fellow in Biomedical Sciences Acuto, Oreste, Dott Rome, Dipl Liceo Scientifico Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Pathology Bafadhel, Mona, MB ChB Birm, PhD Leic, MRCP Kemp Postdoctoral Fellow in Medical Sciences Ceccherini, Irene, MA PhD Florence Dilts Research Fellow Chambers, Stephan, BA Hull, MLitt Oxf Senior Research Fellow in Business Studies Dondi, Cristina, Laurea Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan, PhD Lond Oakeshott Senior Research Fellow in the Humanities Geremia, Alessandra, MD Rome, DPhil Oxf George and Susan Brownlee Junior Research Fellow in Biomedical Sciences Grieve, Adam, BSc PhD UCL Jones and Anson Junior Research Fellow in the Biosciences Hassan, Andrew, BSc Lond, BM BCh DPhil Oxf, FRCP T O Ogunlesi Senior Research Fellow in Medical Sciences and Professor of Medical Oncology Joyce, Dominic, MA DPhil Oxf, FRS Senior Research Fellow in Mathematics and Professor of Mathematics Moncada Pazos, Angela, BS PhD Oviedo BTG Junior Research Fellow in Biomedical Sciences Morabito, Fabio, BA MA Pavia, PhD KCL Lord Crewe Junior Research Fellow in Music Proudfoot, Evan, BA Michigan, MPhil Oxf Shuffrey Junior Research Fellow in Architectural History Saumarez Smith, Otto, BA Warw, MPhil PhD Camb Shuffrey Junior Research Fellow in Architectural History Stevens, Margaret, MA MSc MPhil DPhil Oxf Senior Research Fellow and Professor in Economics Thomas, Joshua, MA MSt DPhil Oxf Lavery-Shuffrey Early Career Fellow in Roman Art and Archaeology Trentacoste, Angela, BA Virginia, MSc PhD Sheff Hardie Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities + now deceased

CHAPLAIN Marshall, Melanie, MA Camb, MA Toronto, MA MSt DPhil Oxf ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Moor, Patrice, James Watson Artist in Residence HONORARY FELLOWS Adye, Sir John, KCMG, MA Oxf Anderson, Sir Eric, KT, MA MLitt Oxf, MA St And, FRSE Ball, Sir Christopher, MA Oxf, FRSA Black, Julia, MA DPhil Oxf, FBA Boardman, Sir John, MA Camb, MA Oxf, FBA, FSA Bowers, John, QC, BCL MA Oxf 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, FCA Cohen, (Johnson) David, CBE, MB BS Lond, MA Oxf, FRCGP, Hon GSM, LRCP, MRCS Cook, Stephanie, MBE, BA Camb, BM BCh Oxf, Hon DM Bath Cornwell, David (John le Carré), MA Hon DLitt 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 DSc DPhil Oxf, CBiol, CChem, FIBiol, FRCP, FRS, FRSC Eddington, Sir Roderick, BEng MEngSc Hon DLaws Western Australia, DPhil Oxf Fitt, Alistair, MA MSc DPhil Oxf 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, ACA Hardie, Richard, MA Oxf, FCA Henderson, (Patrick) David, CMG, MA Oxf Hildebrand, Philipp, BA Toronto, MA IHEID, DPhil Oxf Kornicki, Peter, MA MSc DPhil DLitt Oxf, FBA

Lloyd, The Rt Hon Sir Timothy, MA Oxf Longmore, Sir Andrew, The Rt Hon Lord Justice Longmore, MA Oxf Lucas, Sir Colin, MA DPhil Oxf, FRHistS Miller, Sir Peter, MA Oxf, DSc City Lond + Richards, Sir Rex, MA DSc DPhil Oxf, FRS, Hon FBA, Hon FRAM, Hon FRCP, FRIC, FRSC Rogers, Robert, the Rt Hon Lord Lisvane, KCB, DL, MA Oxf Shaw, (Lucy) Nicola, CBE, BA Oxf, MSc MIT Shock, Sir Maurice, Kt, MA Oxf, Hon LLD Leic, Hon FRCP + Sloane, Hugh, BSc Brist, MPhil Oxf Watson, James, Hon KBE, BS Chicago, PhD Indiana, ForMemRS Yeo, The Rt Revd (Christopher) Richard, OSB, MA Oxf, JCD Pontifical Gregorian Rome FLEMING FELLOWS Cuthbert, Bill Kennedy, MA DPhil Oxf Li, Simon K.C., MS Columbia, MA Oxf Li, Theresa June, BA Toronto, MA Penn The Marquise de Amodio 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 Gancz, Gordon, BM BCh MA Oxf Goodman, Zmira, MA MLitt Oxf Greenwood, Regan, MA Oxf, MSc PhD Manc Mitchell, Peter, MA Oxf Myers, Peter Briggs, DPhil Oxf Poole, Elman, DPhil Oxf Sewards-Shaw, Kenneth, MA Oxf Shepherd, Lynn, BA DPhil Oxf Sohmer, Stephen, MA Boston, DPhil Oxf Stewart, Daniel, BLitt Oxf Tucker, Audrey, MB MS Lond, FRCR, FSR van Diest, Patricia, MA Oxf THE FELLOWSHIP

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Front row: Susan Harrison, Alex Spain, Daniela Omlor, Simon Gardner, Henry Woudhuysen, Lucy Wooding, Max Thorneycroft, Melanie Marshall, Fabio Morabito Second row: Çiğdem İşsever, Louise Durning, David Hills, Stefan Enchelmaier, Jan Kvasnicka, Perry Gauci, Jody LaPorte, Barbara Havelkova Third row: David Vaux, Radu Coldea, Alexander Prescott-Couch, Paul Stavrinou, Daniel McCann, Michael Willis, Alexei Parakhonyak, Roel Dullens, Roland (Bert) Smith

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Fourth row: Adam Grieve, Timothy Michael, Alexis Radisoglou, Steve Long, Joshua Thomas, Nigel Emptage Back row: Otto Saumarez Smith, Sam Brewitt-Taylor, Matthew Freeman, Edward Nye

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Sub-Rector and Secretary to Governing Body.

Two cherished lecturers, Dr Ursel Kiehne (Mathematics) and Dr Guy Peskett (Physics) also retired – with over 60 years of service between them. Professor Gardner has since been elected to a Supernumerary Fellowship, and Drs Kiehne and Peskett have been made life members of the SCR. So we do not say ‘Farewell’, but rather, ‘We’ll never let you go.’

Senior Common Room life in 2017-18 flourished in Lincoln’s long-cherished way. Record numbers attended the Christmas dinner – so many in fact that the traditional fire could not be lit, but it was a small price to pay for this annual celebration

of collegiality among senior members. Life, however jolly, of course comes with changes, not least in the annual round of welcomes and farewells. It was with great sadness, but with even greater pride, that in 2018 we marked the retirement of three tutors who have shaped the teaching, common life, and governance of Lincoln for decades. Hanbury Fellow in Law Professor Simon Gardner retired exactly 40 years after joining the College, during which time he not only nurtured generations of Lincoln lawyers, but also chaired his Faculty, and commanded reverence and awe as an oracle on the College’s procedures and by-laws in Governing Body, not least in recent years as

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Fixed-term Fellows are one of the glories of Lincoln, thanks to generous support from the many individuals and foundations who make these visiting and career development posts possible. Professor Steve Long, the year’s

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Newton Abraham Visiting Professor, was, in the best tradition of predecessors in the post, a dedicated member of the Common Room. Also vibrant additions to our intellectual and social life together were four Career Development Fellows whose time with us seemed far too short and who will be deeply missed: Dr Irene Cecherini (Dilts Research Fellow, held in conjunction with the Bodleian’s LyellBodleian Fellowship in Manuscript Studies), Dr Angela Moncado Pazos (BTG Junior Research Fellow in Biomedical Sciences), Dr Evan Proudfoot (Shuffrey Junior Research Fellow in Architectural History), and Dr Otto Saumarez Smith (Junior Research Fellow in Architectural History).

joined Lincoln from prestigious post-doctoral appointments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago. He took his first degree from Columbia University (BA, Philosophy and History), after which he was a DAAD Visiting Student at Humboldt Universität (Berlin), before proceeding to Harvard for his PhD (Philosophy, 2015). Alex specialises in philosophy of science, political philosophy, and post-Kantian philosophy. Also joining the PPE team, as Career Development Fellow in Economics, was Dr Jan Kvasnicka, a Cambridge PhD who teaches the core macroeconomics papers, and whose research focuses on fiscal policy, heterogeneous agents models, and computational methods.

But reinforcements have, as always, arrived to lift our spirits. One of the College’s largest undergraduate schools, PPE, has had a large intake of new Fellows. Dr Jody LaPorte was appointed Gonticas Fellow in Politics and International Relations. No stranger to Oxford, Dr LaPorte was formerly a Departmental Lecturer in the Blavatnik School of Government and in the Department of Politics and International Relations. With degrees from Yale (BA in Russian and East European Studies) and Berkeley (MA, PhD in Political Science), her research investigates politics and policy in non-democratic regimes, with a focus on post-Soviet Eurasia. The other ‘P’ in Lincoln PPE now has as its senior member Dr Alexander Prescott-Couch, Fellow in Philosophy. Alex

Two arts and humanities Career Development Fellows have also joined the College. Dr Angela Trentacoste has become the new Hardie Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities; she is also a Research Associate in the School of Archaeology. Her work on animal husbandry in the Roman Empire is part of a European Research Council project on zooarchaeology and mobility in the western Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to Late Antiquity.

Dr Trentacoste was formerly part of the Oxford Roman Economy Project in the Classics department, and she holds degrees from the University of Virginia (BA Archaeology) and the University of Sheffield (MSc, PhD Environmental Archaeology). The new Lord Crewe Junior Research Fellow in Music is the musicologist and

cultural historian Dr Fabio Morabito, whose research focuses on musical life in the age of the European Revolutions, particularly in Paris and Vienna. He read music at the University of Pavia and at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar before pursuing his PhD at King’s College London; before joining us at Lincoln he held a Teaching Fellowship in Musicology at Durham. Fabio is also an accomplished string player and vocalist, and his energy and talent have already enriched the great tradition of musical life at Lincoln. n Professor Peter McCullough Sohmer Fellow and Professor in English; Fellow Archivist; Steward of the Common Room.

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Fellows’ research and teaching news Peter Atkins (Chemistry) published the 11th edition of his Physical Chemistry text in January and several translations are under way. In March he published a book for a general audience, Conjuring the universe: the origins of the laws of nature, in which he argues that the laws emerge from a mixture of indolence, anarchy, and ignorance. He presented it at the Oxford Literary Festival and the Hay Festival.

Richard Bird (Computer Science) ‘I am currently finishing Algorithm Design with Haskell, to be published next year

by Cambridge University Press. This is intended to be a companion volume to Thinking Functionally with Haskell, published by CUP in 2015. Both books are intended to show the advantages of programming in a purely functional language, the main one being that one can reason mathematically about the functions involved in an algorithm in order to discover more efficient implementations of these functions.’

Sam Brewitt-Taylor (History) ‘On the research front, my year’s highlight was the appearance of my first book, Christian Radicalism in the Church of England and the Invention of the British Sixties, 1957-1970, published by OUP. This argues, not only that the Church of England had a ‘Sixties’, but also that it had an early and influential one, which shaped quite a few wider moral changes that followed later in the decade, not least by rethinking the concept of ‘secularisation’. Since this project is now winding down, I spent my sabbatical in Trinity term laying the foundations for my (now slightly revised) next project, which will be about changing ideologies of modernity in 1950s and 1960s Britain. I was able to test-drive some of these ideas at the 2018 European Social Science and History conference in Belfast, and I have written an initial article on the subject for Contemporary British History.’

Susan Brigden (History) ‘The good things about my year have been: travels

in Tamil Nadu and the West coast of America; being sequestered at home writing articles of rebarbative pedantry; a long summer of reading, as judge of the Baillie Gifford prize; attendance at Cristina Dondi’s triumphant conference in Venice; and visiting the archives in Florence and the City of London.’

Radu Coldea (Physics) ‘Over the past academic year my research has focused on using neutron scattering techniques in strong applied magnetic fields to reveal collective quantum effects in the dynamical properties of magnets with a three-dimensional geometrically-frustrated lattice. I have given invited talks on this and related research at several conferences and workshops: at the University of Waterloo, Canada, in San Francisco and Davis, California, in Bad Honnef, Germany, and at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China. I look forward to new research opportunities that will be opened by a new €2.5 million Advanced Grant from the European Research Council that I have been awarded this year to explore emergent properties of quantum materials in the presence of strong electron correlations in new classes of frustrated quantum magnets and in topological magnetic materials.’

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Cristina Dondi (History) ‘Most of the year was spent in the preparation of the large exhibition which finally opened on 1 September 2018: ‘Printing Revolution 1450-1500. Fifty Years that Changed Europe’ (Venice, Correr Museum and Marciana Library, 1 September 2018 – 7 January 2019). This is the largest event ever mounted on the printing revolution and its social and economic impact on the development of the early modern European society: it has been designed to bring the latest research and technology to the widest public in the most effective way.

We also created a rather appealing video which in eight minutes explains our project and introduces the exhibition (http://15cbooktrade.ox.ac.uk/video/).

It sports a very special voice over by Jon Snow, and a testimonial from the Rector.

In December I was conferred the honour of ‘Cavaliere’ of the Order of ‘Stella d’Italia’ (OSI) by His Excellency The Ambassador of Italy Pasquale Terracciano on behalf of the President of Italy, in recognition of my research and its impact on Italian cultural heritage. The national and international media have been following our project very closely, and articles have appeared in the Italian national paper, Il Corriere della Sera, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial 12 . L I N C O L N

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Times, and Il Sole 24 Ore. During the summer the Vice-Chancellor conferred on me the title of Professor of Early European Book Heritage, an important recognition of our work by the University. The College Library is becoming an internationally recognised icon for knowledge and innovation in the humanities.

Project members gave presentations at conferences and seminars in Cambridge, Paris, London, Frankfurt, Zurich, Rome, Greifswald, Padua, as well as in Oxford and at the Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School. In September our end of project conference took place in the Ducal Palace of Venice: 50 speakers from Italy, the UK, the US, Germany, Lithuania, France, Spain, and the Netherlands. To date, the Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) Database, which I created, includes over 40,000 records of incunabula outlining the history of their movements and former owners, contributed by 390 European and American libraries and created by over 150 editors. More detailed information on the Project’s activities can be found at http://15cbooktrade.ox.ac.uk.

Roel Dullens (Chemistry) ‘After my sabbatical leave during the previous academic year, I have been back to teaching all the physical chemistry tutorials for

the Lincoln Chemistry undergraduates.

In terms of research, we have continued to work on the structure and dynamics of colloidal materials. This resulted in publications on the behaviour grain boundaries in two-dimensional colloidal crystals (Physical Review X, 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018) and on the synthesis of superparamagnetic nickel colloidal nanocrystal clusters that show both antibacterial activity and the ability to bind both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, as well as bacterial spores (Nature Nanotechnology, 2018). We also published articles on a range of other topics, including diffusion, synchronisation, and binary colloidal materials. Finally, I have given a number of invited lectures, including a talk at the Batsheva de Rothschild Seminar on New Horizons in Optical Trapping in Neve Ilan, Israel.’

Nigel Emptage (Biomedical Sciences) ‘I can barely believe that a year has passed since I last sat at a desk to generate a few words for the Lincoln Record. I suppose this reflects well on the busy year just passed. Again travel has featured a great deal, with invitations to speak at meetings in far-flung places. The invitations arrived hot on the heels of one publication in particular (Padamsey et al., Neuron, 2017),

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where we describe a new role for the lysosome in neurones. Recently, the journal informed me that the paper reached the ‘top 10 most cited’ for 2017. So what of my travels… three moments feature large in my memory.

As a speaker at the Federation of European Neuroscience meeting (FENS) I got to live a particular dream of mine and sport a headset radio microphone and ‘perform live’ in an auditorium with a capacity audience of around 3,500. This would have been terrifying were it not for the fact that once the spotlight was upon me I simply could not see a thing (my, those things are bright) and so I pressed on, oblivious as to whether anyone actually remained for the lecture.

Next came Kobe; this was the location of the annual Japanese Society for Neuroscience meeting where I was giving a special lecture. The meeting is attended by most of Japan’s neuroscience community and so 6,000 scientists descended upon the city. Hugely exciting, and a fabulous opportunity to meet with some extremely talented people, but my prominent moment number two took the form of Typhoon Jebi. It gave me quite a start when my mobile phone was taken over in the wee small hours, with the word EMERGENCY prominent on

the grey screen. ‘Comfort’ came from the hotel reception desk: ‘don’t worry sir, the building is designed to withstand high winds… although do be prepared for the building to sway’. Goodness, swaying is not a feature of building design I had ever given much thought to, but sure enough on the 27th floor it swayed!

Moment number three takes me to where I am sitting now, Hong Kong, gazing across the very beautiful Victoria harbour. I have been fortunate enough to be asked to deliver this year’s Pharmaron Prize lecture.

The enormous gold plaque I have received will take some careful packing and a robust nail to hang it once back in Oxford, but the experience has been fabulous.

So what of the rest of the year: as ever Lincoln’s medical and biomedical students remain a delight to teach and their finals marks continue to be extremely satisfying, with one of our Biomedicine cohort securing a prize for her outstanding performance. Next year’s students have plenty to live up to, but I am very much inclined to believe that nothing begets success like success.’

Stefan Enchelmaier (Law) ‘Between October and March, I continued in my post as Assessor. As it turned out,

Michaelmas and Trinity would be even busier than my first term had been, especially Michaelmas. I was a member, ex officio or by choice, of around 60 boards, committees, working groups, panels, and so forth. I sat on bodies as elevated as Council and as humble as the Car Parking Working Group (which I also chaired). In this way, I gained a panoramic view of virtually every area of the University’s activities. A good deal of my time was spent at the desk, dealing with the ca. 1,200 examination cases. As I was the first lawyer in the post for years, and as I had found some aspects of the decision process to be (to put no finer a point on it) worthy and capable of improvement, during my last two months I wrote a manual for future Assessors.

Following the end of my term in the office of Assessor, the College and the Social Sciences Division granted me sabbatical leave in Trinity term 2018. During that time, I prepared an article, ‘The Magical Mystery of Words: “Direct Effect” and All That’, which will be published in the Yearbook of European Law. I also wrote two commissioned pieces for Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law – ‘Stranded: “European” Ltds post-Brexit’, and ‘Exit from Brexit: would quitter’s remorse count under Article 50 TEU?’ These unexpected

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commissions show the growing concern among business and financial lawyers about the likely repercussions of Brexit. In May, the European Parliament’s Internal Market Committee asked me for a report under (my) title of Legal Aspects of the Free Movement of Goods – Legislation of the 7th & 8th European Parliament. In it, I analyse the recent secondary legislation (Regulations and Directives) regarding this cornerstone of the EU’s Internal Market, with particular attention to any gaps, and suggestions whether and how these ought to be filled. I also continued my work as an articles editor of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies.

I fulfilled an array of speaking arrangements in connection with my research. In July I received an invitation to participate in a round table organised by the Department for Exiting the European Union, held in the Cabinet Office, to consider the White Paper on the Withdrawal Agreement Bill.

I raised a number of legal points, and the minister appeared acceptably knowledgeable for a politician. I also visited the European Parliament in Brussels to participate in a discussion on ‘The Role of Experts in Advising the Legislature’ (Michael Gove enjoying widespread name-recognition on the continent), and to give an oral summary, followed by a discussion, of my report for 14 . L I N C O L N

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the Internal Market Committee. In June, I spoke about ‘Freedom of Establishment for Legal Persons after Brexit’ at the EFTA (European Free Trade Association) Court’s Spring Conference in Luxembourg. The EFTA Court’s main task is to adjudicate on the EEA (European Economic Area) Agreement, which is often referred to as the ‘Norwegian model’. I also travelled to Scandinavia to speak at the Universities of Lund, Copenhagen, and Oslo. I received valuable feedback and had all manner of interesting conversations with colleagues, judges, and officials on Brexit-related topics.’

Simon Gardiner (Law) ‘By the time you read this, I shall have retired! It has been an exciting year, punctuated by lots of ‘last evers’ – lectures, tutorials, Governing Body meetings, and so on. Clearing my office has been amazing: re-encountering the strata of forgotten experience from all these years. I gave another guest lecture at Exeter University, this time on the connection between easements and the Dior/St Laurent ‘A-line’ look of the 1950s; this may or may not go into print as an article. We’ve had some wonderful tutorial discussions about why humans should seek to have and express autonomy so emphatically by way of ‘stuff ’ (property), balanced by a brilliant

class on some serious law (rectification under the Land Registration Act) given by my expert colleague Amy Goymour from our Cambridge sister college. Schools Dinner this year was a fantastic (Chef at his finest) Scottish-themed, and mostly Scottish-sourced, affair – preceded by a ceilidh for all three years, as my goodbye to them. Other farewell events have happened already, and more are yet to come – I hope to have seen many of you at these. As I head off, I am wondering whether there might be room in our house to build a model railway, recreating the old branch from the main Aberdeen line to St Andrews, on the Fife coast (I fear not).

All the best then, everyone! Especially those of you who were my students. I have to say, you’ve been great. Thank you so much for all the fun!’

Perry Gauci (History) ‘The last year has proved a very busy one, largely on account of my duties as vice-chair of the History Faculty. This post has enabled me to experience the sheer range of the faculty’s activities, marshalled by a seeminglyendless number of committees. This work impressed on me the importance of maintaining an effective college-faculty partnership, especially at a time when History is undergoing major changes,

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especially curriculum reform. Amid this hurry, I was fortunate that the College history group remained its lively and successful self in 2017-18, and a highlight was the History Fellowship Club in January, when it was a pleasure to find so many Old Members with such a range of active historical interests. I am sure that many of these OMs will be pleased to learn that the festschrift for Paul Langford (which I am co-editing with Elaine Chalus) has gone into full production, and will appear as Revisiting the Polite and Commercial People in April 2019.’

Adam Grieve (Medical Sciences) ‘This has been a productive year, both in terms of publications and funding. At the Dunn School, I have been working on intercellular signalling, and its regulation by an important, evolutionarily conserved family of genes, called the rhomboid-like clan. This year, in collaboration with others in the Freeman lab, we published a paper on one of these rhomboid-like genes, called iRhom2, in the journal eLife. iRhom2 regulates a protease, called TACE, which functions to cut and release an inflammatory factor called TNF. Importantly, the excess release of TNF occurs in inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis. We found that the amount of iRhom2 in cells is controlled by a protein called FRMD8 – and that

without FRMD8, there is a dampened inflammatory response. Together with Matthew Freeman, I also successfully wrote for a three-year BBSRC project grant on the rhomboids and their regulation of other types of cell-cell signalling. With this new funding, I am concentrating on publishing another paper on the rhomboids. At College, I have continued to enjoy my role as a student advisor and catching up with other Fellows at lunches and dinners.

Looking forward to the coming year, I am excited about a new journal club initiative that is being set up by Enas Abu Shah, where some of the Fellows will discuss scientific papers and further interact with the students at Lincoln.’

David Hills (Engineering) ‘Every academic year is different with variable contributions to the College and University aspects of our work. At the moment my emphasis has moved away from Lincoln to research work, with a big grant derived from a mixture of RollsRoyce plc and EPSRC funding, for the next five years. This will enable me to build a new apparatus to test out all the theoretical work I have been doing to analyse frictional contacts and the damage frictional slip causes. The immediate application is to parts of a gas turbine, but is more general in its applicability.’

Çiğdem Işsever (Physics) ‘The past academic year was filled with teaching and research and passed by much too quickly. On the college side, I have been a member of the Nominations Committee for a year and continued to serve as a Schools Liaison Fellow. I organised and participated in the Lincoln Physics Study Days in June 2017 where we prepared taster physics lectures, tutorial sessions, and mock interviews for potential undergraduate students. I also presented the subject of Particle Physics to students of the St Brendan’s Sixth Form school in Bristol in September, when I received valuable feedback from the students that I will take into account for future presentations of this kind.

Also on the outreach front, I successfully completed my Minecraft outreach project that was funded by the Science and Technology Facility Council (STFC) Small Public Engagement Award and you can download the Minecraft map with the ATLAS detector and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at this link: https:// atlascraft.web.cern.ch/. It was released to the public on the 13 December 2017 and featured on different internet platforms including the Microsoft News Centre UK webpage: https://news.microsoft. com/en-gb/2017/12/13/uk-pupils-

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recreate-cern-lab-and-large-hadroncollider-in-minecraft/. I need to find ways to advertise it more widely in the social media platforms, but the map has been downloaded 230 times to date.

With regard to my research activities, I was able to secure a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant from the European Union (€2.4 million for five years) that will start in June 2019. This was clearly a highlight for me and such joyful news to receive. The ERC grant will allow me to significantly enhance my research on the origins of how elementary particles acquire mass with the ATLAS detector by studying protonproton collisions that create two Higgs bosons at the same time. The characteristics of these two Higgs collision events are uniquely sensitive to the mass generation mechanism in nature. My associateship with the Institute of Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) in Durham was extended for another year to work on the theoretical studies in the context of the two Higgs production processes at the LHC. Another part of my research focusses on the search for Dark Matter in collision events where one Higgs boson is created in association with another quark or photon.

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85% of the matter in the universe, but we do not know what it is. My research is trying to shed light onto this important question. Migle Stankaityte (2017), a Lincoln graduate student who is supported by the John and Pat Cuckney Scholarship, is working with me on this analysis.’

Daniel McCann (English) ‘This year has been a fruitful one, as my monograph, Soul Health: Therapeutic Reading in Late Medieval England, has been published alongside an article in a new and exciting volume on the medieval lyric, and a co-edited volume of essays on fear in medicine from the Middle Ages to the modern period. It has also been a year of very flattering publicity: on the back of those publications I have been invited to give keynote talks in Sussex, Austria, Belfast, Denmark, and Hong Kong.

Moreover, I have been asked to contribute six entries to the new multi-volume Chaucer Encyclopedia – a humbling commission to a very prestigious publication. Yet, as ever with academic life, past research is always prologue: I am now beginning the initial research for my new projects. One is an article on the fascinating Latin prose style of early medieval womb-healing charms and their echos in later medieval texts,

and the other is a larger project on the topic of mental health in the Middle Ages.

More practically, teaching remains both a privilege and a challenge. This was a banner year for English at Lincoln with an impressive number of first class honours results, and a coveted Gibbs prize for my dissertation student. Such results attest to the power of hard work and resilience in the face of adversity. Looking forward, my colleagues and I will soon welcome a large undergraduate cohort, and will be busy helping these new minds master the discipline of the English language and its literatures. Much to do, but I do it gladly.’

Peter McCullough (English) ‘It was an honour to receive a British Academy Senior Research Fellowship for the academic year 2017-18, which allowed me to research and write full-time for 12 months. I used that precious time to immerse myself finally in the writing of my biography of the Elizabethan and Jacobean scholar and bishop, Lancelot Andrewes.

Work on the early part of the life was slow-going, and required months-worth of new research; it added to my already huge debt of gratitude to the unsung heroes of county record offices and archives across England. I was delighted to keep my hand in with College offices, though: the Fellow Archivist’s job is a joy with Lindsay

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McCormack’s peerless expertise as our College Archivist; as Garden Master I had to say a sad farewell to Kyle Rix, but our appointment committee welcomed the great talent and enthusiasm brought

by Aimee Irving-Bell as our new Head Gardener; and the honour of being Steward of Common Room continued with no small thanks to the dedication of Chef Richard Malloy, Butler Tony Daley, and Domestic Operations Manager Michele McCartney. It was also a pleasure to participate in our vital admissions exercise in December, and to see the English school flourish throughout the year under Timothy Michael’s leadership. My teaching was covered by the appointment of Ben Higgins (DPhil), whose expertise, enthusiasm, and all-round wisdom as a tutor and scholar were matchless.’

Fabio Morabito (Music) ‘I joined Lincoln in September 2017 as the Lord Crewe Junior Research Fellow in Music, and I have thoroughly enjoyed my first year in this new post. I have started working on my monograph on musicians’ lifewriting and the origins of celebrity culture. The early nineteenth century saw the first, large-scale surge of musicians’ autobiographies. Even when no such texts were published, personal papers were often meticulously prearranged with

a biography in mind. For instance, the composer Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842) compiled no less than four catalogues of his works, as well as endless lists of what he had been up to month by month. This level of detail stands in striking contrast with the traces left by any professional musician of the previous century. The Cherubini we know is the result of a new culture of self-documentation; preparing one’s life for public consumption. My book will explore how such strategies of self-curatorship continue to shape the way we see and listen to music celebrities today. I have presented preliminary results of this work at conferences in Oxford, Huddersfield, Givet (France), Lucca, Benevento, Toronto, and Montreal. In other research news, I have submitted two articles about the idea of interpretation of instrumental music, particularly string quartets in 1820s Paris. This research is based on a thrilling archival find I made back in 2012. I discovered a group of sources that one would not expect to be available after nearly 200 years: a library of sheet music parts containing a wealth of handwritten annotations that the owners added while rehearsing for their concerts.

Although fragmentary, these traces open new, fascinating avenues to explore the perspectives of performers and their creative input into a musical event.’

Matthew Moore (Mathematics) ‘It has been my first full year at Lincoln having started in Hilary term 2017, so it has been a busy but rewarding year teaching several of the applied mathematics courses for the first- and second-year Mathematicians and the two mathematics papers for the first-year Physicists. Lincoln has an excellent array of students and tutorials are always very enjoyable experiences (I hope!).

It has been a successful year on the research side as well. I have been working with colleagues in the Mathematical Institute on the dynamics of droplet impact and the resulting behaviour of splash jets, leading to two publications in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, with one particularly pleasing as it compares simplified theoretical predictions to comprehensive numerical simulations, with favourable results. I will be speaking about this work in the upcoming 12th European Fluid Mechanics Conference in September in Vienna.

I have also been in collaboration - through Lincoln - with David Hills and his group in the Engineering department, where I have been helping with some complex mathematical methodologies in analysing contact problems in industry: think turbine blades in casing. Our work has been fruitful, with several publications in the

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International Journal of Solids and Structures and the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids.’

Aleksei Parakhonyak (Economics) ‘This was my third year at Lincoln. In College, I taught Microeconomics Prelims, Core Microeconomics, and the Game Theory option, while in the Department I lectured on General Equilibrium as a part of the MPhil Microeconomics curriculum. I continued working on research projects on network goods with Nick Vikander from the University of Copenhagen, and on Shopping Malls with Maria Titova from the University of San-Diego, and in both cases papers were accepted for publication.

I also started on a couple of new projects.

My project on consumer search and repeated purchases with Andrew Rhodes from the Toulouse School of Economics is focused on developing a theoretical framework of markets with repeat purchases: from groceries to utilities and insurance. This framework addresses many policy questions: should automatic contract renewal be allowed, should firms be allowed to contact their old customers, etc.

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levels of conflict and cooperation makes cooperative outcomes more stable. We show that this informally stated conjecture can be wrong if players employ proportional punishments for deviations. This implies that in international relations a conflict between two countries can escalate fully, following a sequence of small deviations (say, cyber attacks, trade tariffs, expelling diplomats, and ultimately a war) and small, ‘proportional’ responses. Such escalation could be avoided if political players were not bound by proportionality doctrine and could employ grim punishments for small deviations.’

Dr Alexis Radisoglou (Modern Languages) ‘This was my second year as Fellow and Tutor in German here at Lincoln: I enjoyed it at least as much as the first. I have continued to teach modern German literature and translation classes for the College and beyond, and I also served as a dissertation supervisor and the co-convenor of a Masters seminar in Comparative Literature at faculty level. In the summer of 2018, I participated in the University’s outreach programme UNIQ as a subject tutor for Modern Languages.

Besides teaching, I have been able to develop further a larger research project titled ‘Globe and Planet in Contemporary Aesthetics’. Within this context, and in

addition to advancing work on a book manuscript, I recently finished an article on the work of the Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán, in which I critically examine the concept of ‘planetarity’. I also presented parts of my research at various conferences in the United Kingdom and abroad, and I was invited to give a guest lecture in New York at the 20th anniversary of Columbia University’s Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, of which I am an alumnus. Here at Lincoln, I delivered a talk about ‘Aesthetics and Politics’ to members of the Chartered Institute for Linguists, who came to visit the College for a weekend event in April.’

Bert Smith (Classical Archaeology) ‘Beside the usual teaching and examining, I ran a research seminar with Stephan Faust on Art and Power, 400 BC – AD 300, gave public lectures in Birmingham, Boston, Çannakale, New York, and Tübingen, and led a season of research and excavation at Aphrodisias in SW Turkey in July and August. The Aphrodisias team included several Lincoln graduate students (Blagovesta Atanassova (2017), Peter Thompson (2017), Hugh Jeffery (2015)) and two Lincoln colleagues ( Joshua Thomas and Angela Trentecosta). I won a three-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to research a project titled ‘The Greek East under Rome: A visual history’. My

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publications included a paper on the ‘The long lives of Roman statues’ that appeared in Sculpture in Roman Asia Minor, and a short book Antinous: boy made god to accompany an exhibition at the Ashmolean (September 2018 to February 2019) on the remarkable archaeology of Antinous, Hadrian’s favourite.’

Maria Stamatopoulou (Classical Archaeology) ‘2017-2018 was a sabbatical year therefore I concentrated on research, excavation, and on the supervision of doctoral students.

In the autumn I completed editing the Archaeological Reports for 2015-2016, a journal published by the Society of Hellenic Studies and the British School at Athens. I also gave a number of invited papers in Greece (University of Crete, University of Thessaloniki, University of Thessaly) and Rome (Sapienza) on the archaeology of Thessaly (archaic pottery, painting, burial practices of Thessaly, the archaic sanctuaries of Thessaly).

Four months were spent in excavations.

I am involved as co-director in two projects: at the sanctuary of Poseidon and Amphitrite at Kionia on the Cycladic island of Tenos; and in the excavations organised by the Department

of Antiquities of the Cyclades. The Sanctuary at Kionia began its life in the Hellenistic period, and we have revealed part of its main water supply system and numerous decrees of the 2nd century BC. These decrees confer honours to visitors or dignitaries of other communities, thereby demonstrating the sanctuary’s wide network of connections. The second project is in Thessaly, at the site Kastro Velikas, on Mt Ossa. As there is clear evidence of pre-Roman habitation at the site, we are trying to establish whether this was the site of ancient Meliboia, an important ancient Magnesian city which produced high-quality wine and issued its own coinage in the Classical period.

A number of book chapters and articles appeared this year, the most important being an article on ancient Demetrias (modern Volos) in the volume Boreioelladika, summarising our knowledge of this cosmopolitan Hellenistic harbour, the seat of Macedonian power in Thessaly, and a paper on the eschatological beliefs of the Thessalians (‘From Alcestis to Archidike’). Numerous papers were accepted for publication: these discuss the iconography of painted tombstones from Demetrias, bronze metal vessels from Phthiotic Thebes, and classical pottery from Pharsalos. I also made a good start on my monograph on the archaeology of Archaic Thessaly.’

Besides digging, I am continuing my research and archival work in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, locating and studying finds from old investigations in Thessaly. Since 2015 I have been working on two boxes of antiquities that contained artefacts from numerous sites. I focus on the finds from two major sanctuaries, Enodia at Pherai and Athena Polias at Phthiotic Thebes.

The finds show considerable investment by the respective communities during the 7th-5th centuries BC, that is at the time of the formation and expansion of poleis in the region.

Joshua Thomas (Classical Archaeology) ‘I had a wonderful second year as LaveryShuffrey Early Career Fellow in Roman Art and Archaeology at Lincoln. In what was a busy year of teaching, I particularly enjoyed discussing and debating the finer aspects of ancient material and visual culture with our excellent cohort of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History undergraduates, and was pleased to deliver my first series of lectures, on Greek and Roman painting. On the research side, my article on a remarkable statue group depicting the Cyclops will be published in Istanbuler Mitteilungen later this year, and

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I have been fortunate enough to present research papers in Oxford, London, and Boston over the past 12 months. My summer vacation was again spent in Aphrodisias, a Greek city in south-west Turkey, where I am contributing two chapters towards a forthcoming volume on an extraordinary public complex known in antiquity as the ‘Place of Palms’. Work also continues on my first monograph, which I am looking forward to reshaping during my upcoming term of sabbatical leave.’

Angela Trentacoste (Classical Archaeology) ‘I joined Lincoln in October 2017 as the Hardie Post-doctoral Fellow in the Humanities, and have very much enjoyed my first year with the College. My research while with Lincoln has focused on the ZooMWest ERC project, which is investigating the relationship between political connectivity, animal mobility, and agricultural production over the Roman period. Roman conquest and incorporation into the Empire brought about significant changes to the productive landscape of Western Europe, including increases in agricultural output and the appearance of new larger ‘breeds’ of livestock. We are investigating whether an increase in animal mobility was needed to create and sustain these new larger animals. Amid a busy year I was able to find time over the summer for 20 . L I N C O L N

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archaeological fieldwork in Puglia and at the Villa Poppaea at Oplontis. However, the highlight of the season was two weeks working with SCR colleagues Bert Smith and Josh Thomas at the stunning site of Aphrodisias in Turkey. I have continued to teach students about animal remains in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and have been involved with the Ashmolean’s forthcoming ‘Last Supper in Pompeii’ (2019-2020) exhibit, which examines the role of food and drink in Roman society. In the coming year I look forward to co-teaching a new Masters seminar on the bioarchaeology of classical civilisations.’

John Vakonakis (Biochemistry) ‘This was a great year for Biochemistry students. First, congratulations to our recent graduates, Rachel, Fiona, and James (all 2014), for their strong research results that received two distinctions in the department.

Emma and Helen, our third year students, also performed very well in their Part I examinations and are now looking forward to research in their laboratories of choice.

Special note should also be given to Gabriel (2017) for distinguishing himself in the first public examination. These results underscore their efforts in a very competitive subject and make me proud to be their tutor. Congratulations once more!

Research in my group on the parasite Plasmodium falciparum, which is responsible for over 90% of deaths by malaria (especially in sub-Saharan Africa), yielded some interesting fruits this year.

Our results suggest that a protein of the malaria parasite, named ‘PfHsp70-x’, may be necessary for the parasite to withstand the increased body temperature of feverish patients. We used genetic engineering methods to create malaria parasites lacking the PfHsp70-x protein, and showed that these parasites died in greater numbers when subjected to simulated fever episodes, compared to parasites retaining this protein.

PfHsp70-x is a ‘chaperone’ enzyme whose function is to help other proteins in the parasite perform their function; thus, we believe that removing PfHsp70-x makes the parasites broadly ‘sick’ and more susceptible to fever or drugs. We are now working to identify chemical molecules that block the function of PfHsp70-x in normal parasites to see if these molecules could be used as new anti-malarial drugs.’

David Vaux (Medical Sciences) ‘This year has again been one of fascinating, if somewhat unexpected, progress in several areas. In particular, we have seen the convergence of studies on the selective gateway between the citadel of the nucleus and the hinterland that is the cytoplasm,

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and the apparently unrelated lipid droplet formation implicated in severe muscular atrophy diseases. In both cases, spontaneous hydrogel formation plays a crucial role, and it has been the result of the combined efforts of two excellent Lincoln graduate students that have revealed this connection. Alongside this, they have developed new gene-edited cells to study this behaviour at the level of single cells for the first time. Our research interest in the mechanisms underlying the loss of brain cells in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease has continued, reinforced by new translational funding from a valuable collaboration with a drug company to prepare for the next stage of development. Most excitingly, we have established that some of the novel compounds that we had already identified in a separate screen can also protect vulnerable immune cells in the brain from death by excessive ingestion. This offers a potential new avenue for therapeutic efforts against these chronic and inexorable diseases.’

Michael Willis (Chemistry) ‘My group’s research in the general area of synthetic organic chemistry continues to move forward. In particular, this year we published a key piece of work for us on a simple catalytic method for sulfonamide

synthesis. These types of molecules are popular motifs in pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals, and we anticipate that our method should make an impact in these areas. A group celebration was also enjoyed in June, for the graduation of the 40th DPhil student from the group.’

Nigel Wilson (Classics) ‘This year has not been much different from last. I usually give a short course of lectures in Hilary term, and this year was asked in addition to act as assessor for Masters courses. In March I spent two days in Berlin at what it is now fashionable to call a workshop.

This was a gathering of about a dozen academics, half of them classicists, the other half experts in Middle High German (not a language I claim to know at all). I was the only Englishman present, but there was one other representative from Oxford.

The object was to compare notes about the puzzles faced by editors of texts. I have made two subsequent visits to Germany; the first to Wuerzburg for the by now traditional ‘Summer School’ on ancient philosophy (in fact it takes place in spring or autumn), where my job is to explain how the texts have been transmitted to us; the second to Freiburg for my annual ‘Blockseminar’. In September I spent a week in Paris at the quinquennial congress on Greek palaeography. Apart from

academic interests I continue to frequent the (real) tennis court.’

Lucy Wooding (History) ‘My second year at Lincoln was even busier than my first but I enjoyed it just as much. I taught for the first time the refurbished mid-Tudor special subject which is now called ‘The Trial of the Tudor State, 1540-1560’ and I took over as convenor of the joint degree in History and English, which involved helping to draft a new paper for next year’s second-years on fifteenth-century religious writing. I also took on some new responsibilities regarding the early modern postgraduates, which meant that I heard more about their research, on everything from the history of childbirth and churching in Denmark to seventeenthcentury political portraiture and the role of office-holders in Elizabethan drama.

I continued working on my book, Tudor England, and I also completed an article on attitudes to vernacular Scripture in the first half of the sixteenth-century and the production of the Great Bible of 1539.’

Henry Woudhuysen (English) ‘During the course of the last year, I spoke at two conferences: at Birmingham on Alexander Pope’s manuscripts and his library; and at Newcastle on Thomas Nashe’s early twentieth-century editor, R.B. McKerrow.’

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Undergraduate Freshers 2017–18 Ticiana Alencar - History and Politics Christopher Annous - Philosophy, Politics and Economics Lucie Ayliffe-Daly - Medicine Katie Baxter - Modern Languages (German & Italian) Alexia Benchimol - Jurisprudence Divya Bhatoolal - Jurisprudence Alice Blinkhorn - Modern Languages (French & Spanish) Jude Bright-Davies - Mathematics Caitlin Brooker-Davis - Chemistry Maryn Brown - Chemistry Christopher Bullimore - Mathematics James Burns - History Hiu Yi Nicole Chow - Jurisprudence Dominic Cronie - Physics Emma Daniel - History and Modern Languages (French) Angel Delgado Garcia – Legal Studies (Diploma) Lucia Dennewill - Philosophy, Politics and Economics Jake Diprose - Chemistry Jintong Du - History Michael Dunn - Mathematics David Elliott - History Agnes Fanning - Modern Languages (Spanish & Portuguese) Luke Fonseca - Engineering Science Madeleine Forster - History Kirsten Grant - English Language and Literature Rudabeh Gray - English Language and Literature Bertram Green - English Language and Literature Juliet Gurassa - Modern Languages (German & Italian) Sabela Guy - Modern Languages (French & Portuguese)

Rebecca Hartley - History and Politics Samuel Haslam - Mathematics Mia Hermann - Modern Languages (French & Italian) Lea Hugo - Philosophy, Politics and Economics Aled Jenkins - Mathematics Julia Johnstone - Medicine Imogen King - English Language and Literature Julia Kotowska - Medicine Emma Lalande - Biomedical Sciences Benjamin Lane - Physics Oscar Lemmens - Engineering Science Tereza Malacova - Philosophy, Politics and Economics Ruairi Matheson-Kiernan - Classical Archaeology and Ancient History Conor Mellon - History and Modern Languages (German) Samuel Mendis - Engineering Science Abigail Merchant - Philosophy, Politics and Economics Denise Miebach - Classical Archaeology and Ancient History Kaja Molinska - Jurisprudence (with Law in Europe) William Moore - Chemistry Mira Motani - Jurisprudence Elmira Mustafajeva - Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Penina Myerson - Classical Archaeology and Ancient History Harry Nuttall - Medicine Hannah O’Byrne - Biomedical Sciences Tomaz O’Donoghue - History Emily Osborne - History

Hannah Overington - History Julia Pamilih - Philosophy, Politics and Economics Oliver Parker - Philosophy, Politics and Economics William Parkinson - Music Bruce Parris - Physics Maryann Pierse - English Language and Literature Ben Plimley - Mathematics and Statistics Louis Rabinowitz - English Language and Literature Dafydd Math Roberts - Music Charles Rogers - English Language and Literature Nicholas Royle - English Language and Literature Harriet Ruck - Engineering Science Tasmin Sarkany - Physics Rosie Scordoulis - Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Frederick Shere - Philosophy, Politics and Economics Natalia Slomczykowski - Jurisprudence Lucy Staves - Jurisprudence Gabriel Stephenson - Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Gayatri Tadikamalla - Medicine Harriet Taylor - Medicine Tasha Heyer Turner - Jurisprudence Alice Vaughan-Williams - Mathematics Jack Virgin - Mathematics Adam Walker - Chemistry Xiangsheng Wang - Physics Emily Watson - Physics Eleanor Weale - Ancient and Modern History Charles Wilkening - Modern Languages (French & Spanish) Edward Williams - Philosophy, Politics and Economics Rosie Williamson - History Alexandra Willis - Chemistry Hannah Wilson - Classical Archaeology and Ancient History Hannah Wu - English Language and Literature Candy Yuan - Music Qifei Zou - English Language and Literature

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Graduate Freshers 2017–18 Emokiniovo Akpughe – Master of Public Policy (MPP) Kerim Alyot – Classical Archaeology (MPhil) Blagovesta Atanassova – Classical Archaeology (DPhil) Oliver Bamford – Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing (MSc) Alexander Bampton – Neuroscience (MSc) Adrien Bastian – Magister Juris (MJur) Caroline Bedard – British and European History 1500-present (MSt) Sofie Behluli – English (DPhil) Valentina Beitenger – Global Governance and Diplomacy (MSc) David Bell – Classical Archaeology (MPhil) Robert Bognar – International Relations (DPhil) Patrick Boyle – Gas Turbine Aerodynamics (EPSRC CDT) Richard Brearton – Condensed Matter Physics (DPhil) Silvia Butti – Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science (MSc) Zhenyu Cai – Materials (DPhil) Giordana Campagna – Law (MPhil) Maximilian Camphausen – Magister Juris (MJur) Megan Carter – Materials (DPhil) James Cash – Postgraduate Certificate in Education (Physics) (PGCE) Athena Cavounidis – Clinical Medicine (DPhil) Jenny Censin – Clinical Medicine (DPhil) Anan (Emily) Chai – Economics for Development (MSc) Tai Chaiamarit – Biochemistry (OU/TSRI) (DPhil) Jonathan Chan – Law (DPhil)

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Thomas Chandler – Mathematics (DPhil) Thomas Clark – English (650-1550) (MSt) Zoe Clark – Engineering Science (DPhil) Isabella Collins – Musculoskeletal Sciences (DPhil) Laurence Cook – Particle Physics (DPhil) Fuaad Coovadia – Development Studies (MPhil) Benedict Corbett – Master of Business Administration (MBA) Maria Beatriz Correia Santos – Philosophy (BPhil) Balkis Dohni – Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (DPhil) James Dowsett – History (DPhil) Lydia Drabkin-Reiter – Philosophy (BPhil) Efosa (Trevor) Edobor – Master of Public Policy (MPP) Taylor Evensen – US History (MSt) Holly Fathi – World Literatures in English (MSt) Jack Fawdon – Materials (DPhil) Carla Fernández Rico – Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (DPhil) Nadine Fragniere – Water Science, Policy and Management (MSc) James Freeman – International Relations (MPhil) James Gale – Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) Sofia Garré – History of Art and Visual Culture (MSt) Isaac Ghinai – Global Health Science (MSc) Holly Gibbons – Postgraduate Certificate in Education (Mathematics) (PGCE) Thomas Greenwood – Classical Archaeology (MSt) Jacob Gross – Mathematics (DPhil) Yu Guan – Law and Finance (MSc) Sara Hadzic – Law and Finance (MSc) Christian Hagen – Law and Finance (MSc)

Katherine Halcrow – Classical Archaeology (DPhil) Johanna Hettinga – Synthetic Biology (EPSRC & BBSRC CDT) – Engineering Cornelia Heuberger – Molecular Cell Biology in Health and Disease (DPhil) Eva Hoffmann – Master of Business Administration (MBA) Shahnaz Hoque – Science and Technology of Fusion Energy (EPSRC CDT) Joseph Hutchinson – Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Sebastiaan Kemner – Music (Performance) Daniel Kling – Master of Business Administration (MBA) Rebecca Knowles – Global Health Science (MSc) Tharanut Koonyotying – Postgraduate Certificate (Diplomatic Studies) (PGCert) Erica Camille Lau – Financial Economics (MSc) Nicholas Leah – British and European History 1500-present (MPhil) Ham I Lee – Psychiatry (DPhil) Peter Lewinski – Law and Finance (MSc) Beisi Li – International Health & Tropical Medicine (MSc) Lu Li Jovanoska – Molecular Cell Biology in Health and Disease (DPhil) Tomos Lloyd-Jones – Medieval Studies (MSt) Charles Long – British and European History 1500-present (MSt) Lauren Malm – English (1700-1830) (MSt) Anthony Malone – Criminology and Criminal Justice (MSc) Alejandro Maniewicz Wins – Magister Juris (MJur)

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Luca Marino – Engineering Science (DPhil) Christopher Marlow – Egyptology (MPhil) Joanna Mason – Modern Languages (MSt) Lwandlekazi Mazule – Master of Business Administration (MBA) Brandon McDonald – Classical Archaeology (DPhil) Victoria McGowan – Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) Eleanor McKay – Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPhil) Heather McTaggart – British and European History 1500-present (MPhil) Jessica Milligan – Economics (DPhil) Sean Moore – Criminology and Criminal Justice (MSc) Re’Em Moskovitz – Biochemistry (OU/TSRI) (DPhil) Eleanor Mulholland – Law and Finance (MSc) Kyle Mulligan – Master of Business Administration (MBA) Tony Murphy – English Local History (DPhil) Benjamin Musachio – Modern Languages (Russian) (MPhil) Saul Musker – Global Governance and Diplomacy (MSc) Lea Nussbaum – Infection, Immunology and Translational Medicine (DPhil) Junior Tatenda Nyamuda – Master of Business Administration (MBA) Gwen O’Driscoll – Pharmacology (MSc) Catherine Parkinson – Postgraduate Certificate in Education (Mathematics) (PGCE) Nupur Patel – Modern Languages (MSt) Chen Peled – Migration Studies (MSc) Victoria Pelletier – Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Anja Perse – History of Art (DPhil) Juliane Peter – Radiation Biology (MSc) Caspar Pfrunder – British and European History 1500-present (MPhil) Matthew Pierri – Social Science of the Internet (MSc) Nefeli Eleni Piree Iliou – Classical Archaeology (DPhil) Cassandra Popham – Psychological Research (MSc) Evgeniia Prokhorova – Molecular Cell Biology in Health and Disease (DPhil) Lior Pytowski – Molecular Cell Biology in Health and Disease (DPhil) Karolina Rachwol – Modern Languages (MSt) Edward Roberts – Materials (DPhil) Emily Russell – Postgraduate Certificate in Education (History) (PGCE) Howard Ryland – Psychiatry (DPhil) Xanita Saayman – Molecular Cell Biology in Health and Disease (DPhil) Sophia Salmore – Global Governance and Diplomacy (MSc) Arne Scheu – Biochemistry (DPhil) Arabella Simpkin – Pharmacology (DPhil) Lewis Smith – Synthesis for Biology and Medicine (EPSRC CDT) Edward Smyth – Criminology and Criminal Justice (MSc) Fabian Soltermann – Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (DPhil) Natalya Speirs – English (1700-1830) (MSt) Migle Stankaityte – Particle Physics (DPhil) Thomas Steinacker – Molecular Cell Biology in Health and Disease (DPhil)

William Stone – History of Art and Visual Culture (MSt) Nina Sulkowski – Molecular Cell Biology in Health and Disease (DPhil) Ashley Taylor – Music (Musicology) (MSt) Peter Thompson – Classical Archaeology (MSt) Gabor Toth – Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing (MSc) Che Chun Tsui – Biochemistry (OU/TSRI) (DPhil) Nikita Turck – Master of Business Administration (MBA) Joshua Wabwire – Law (DPhil) Lukas Wagner – Law and Finance (MSc) Alexander Walker – Molecular Cell Biology in Health and Disease (DPhil) Irene Wang – History of Art and Visual Culture (MSt) Natasha Warby – Classical Archaeology (MSt) Christa Grace Watkins – Criminology and Criminal Justice (MSc) Christopher Williams – Global Health Science (MSc) Smadar Yaniv – Master of Public Policy (MPP) Eirian Yem – English (DPhil) Ryo Yokoe – Global Health Science (MSc) Andrew Zanelli – English (1550-1700) (MSt)

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Tenth row (l to r): Rosie Williamson, Lu Li Jovanoska, Emma Daniel, Migle Stankaityte, Tasmin Sarkany, Emily Osborne, Jintong Du, Natasha Warby, Blagovesta Atanassova, Irene Wang, Lydia Drabkin-Reiter, Valentina Beitenger, Qifei Zou, Hatty Ruck, Julia Johnstone, Ellie Weale, Caroline Bedard, Emily Watson, Sophia Salmore

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Ninth row (l to r) Alice Blinkhorn, Simon Mustafajev, Nina Sulkowski, Mira Motani, Alexia Benchimol, Caitlin BrookerDavis, Harriet Taylor, Nupur Patel, Lwandlekazi Mazule, Maryn Brown, Johanna Hettinga, Juliane Peter, Edobor Efosa Trevor, Smadar Yaniv, Sofia Garre, Catherine Parkinson, Taylor Evensen, Sofie Behluli

COLLEGE RECORD 2017–18

Eighth row (l to r) Penina Myerson, Kirsten Grant, Silvia Butti, Rebecca Knowles, Lauren Malm, Candy Qian Wen Yuan, Shahnaz Hoque, Emma Lalande, Hannah Overington, Alice VaughanWilliams, Gayatri Tadikamalla, Abigail Merchant, Maddy Forster, Julia Kotowska, Thomas Clark, Natalia Slomczykowski, Lucy Staves, Gwen O’Driscoll, Holly Fathi

Seventh row (l to r) Nadine Fragniere, Hannah Wilson, Mia Hermann, Ticiana Alencar, Juliet Gurassa, Agnes Fanning, Carla Fernandez Rico, Balkis Dohni, Maria Beatriz Correia Santos, Patrick Boyle, Eva Hoffmann, Julia Pamilih, Lea Clara Hugo, Yu Guan, Beisi Li, Daniel Kling, Peter Lewinski, James Gale

Sixth row (l to r): Denise Miebach, Gemma Laurence, Hannah Wu, Rudabeh Gray, Lucie Ayliffe-Daly, Divya Bhatoolal, Hiu Yi Nicole Chow, Sarah Hadzic, Chen Peled, Eleanor Mulholland, Tatenda Nyamuda, Anya Perse, Victoria McGowan, Erica Lau, Victoria Pelletier, Xanita Saayman, Kaja Molinska, Evgeniia Prokhorova, Athena Cavounidis

Fourth row (l to r): Christian Hagen, Frederick Shere, Tereza Malacova, Christopher Annous, Lucia Dennewill, Heather McTaggart, Ashley Taylor, Alejandro Manievvicz Wins, Imogen King, Rosie Scordoulis, Dafydd Math Roberts, James Dowsett, Christopher Marlow, Nikita Turck, Lukas Wagner, Adrien Bastian, Lior Pytowski, Ryo Yokoe, Edward Smyth

Third row (l to r): Nicholas Leah, Fabian Soltermann, Samuel Haslam, Alexander Bampton, Fuaad Coovadia, Saul Musker, Lewis Smith, Andrew Zanelli, Ruairi Matheson-Kiernan, Tomaz O’Donoghue, Zhenyu Cai, Benjamin Lane, Nicholas Royle, Alexander Walker, Anthony Malone, Kyle Mulligan, Kerim Alyot, Xiangsheng Wang

Second row (l to r): Arne Scheu, Samuel Mendis, Aled Jenkins, Christopher Bullimore, Maximilian Camphausen, Oliver Parker, Edward Williams, Benjamin Musachio, Gabor Toth, Harry Nuttall, Benedict Corbett, Charles Rogers, Oscar Lemmens, Sebastiaan Kemner, Jack Virgin, Luke Fonseca, Jude Bright-Davies, Charles Wilkening, Adam Walker, Edward Roberts

Front row (l to r): Sabela Guy, Anan Emily Chai, Gabriel Stephenson, Jack Fawdon, Thomas Steinacker, Kate Allan, David Elliott, Jake Diprose, Bruce Parris, Katherine Halcrow, Caspar Pfrunder, William Stone, Ben Plimley, Conor Mellon, Jenny Censin, Alex Tsui, Tharanut Koonyotying, Robert Bognar, Tomos Lloyd-Jones, Maryann Pierse

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can be ordered by visiting www.gsimagebank.co.uk/lincoln/t/lincoln2018.

These photographs have been reproduced by kind permission of Gillman & Soame photographers and Fifth row (l to r): Natalya Speirs, Lea Nussbaum, Rebecca Hartley, Katie Baxter, Louis Rabinowitz, William Parkinson, William Moore, Jacob Gross, Emokiniovo Akpughe, Angel Delgado, Michael Dunn, Isaac Ghinai, Oliver Bamford, Hannah O’Byrne, Bertram Green, Alexandra Willis, James Burns, Dominic Cronie

Editorial Members

Scholarships and exhibitions 2017–18 This list includes all those who held scholarships and exhibitions awarded by Lincoln College during the academic year 2017-18.

It does not include awards granted to students by the University or any other body external to the College.

UNDERGRADUATES SCHOLARSHIPS Gluckstein Scholarship Elizabeth Hardy Lord Crewe Scholarships Rachel Cartwright Helen Collins George Darroch Nicola Ede Aaliya Gilbert Nicholas Leach Helen Norman Angelos Vakalis Isobel van Celsing Alexander Williams Enoch Yiu

Old Members’ Scholarships Darcy Allen Daniel Bingham Daniel Escott Ben Steward Rebecca Vaughan Peter Atkins Scholarships Jessica Fleming Nicoleta Lazar Jonathan Yong

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Scholarships Miranda Bell-Davies William Biggs Hugo Birtle Ignacio Correa Samuel East Emma Findlater John Fitzgerald George Hunter Simon Li Sam McPhail Gregory Morton Elizabeth Robbins Illingworth Maxime Saxena Casper Siu Andrew Styles Sang Bin Yoon Stephen Gill Scholarship Amelia Gabriel EXHIBITIONS Grimshaw Exhibitions Owen Brooks Lewis Devonald Ben Gale Joseph Hopper Nicholas Linfoot Ross Moncrieff

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Mark Pattison Exhibitions Jacqui Hopkins Tara Kilcoyne Isobel Lossoff Florence Sanders-White Madeleine Williamson-Sarll Ana Yovtcheva Munro Exhibition Finn Salter

Stafford Exhibitions Lilian Hartman Matthew Lai Noah Turner Stewart Exhibitions Christopher Pegrum Joshua Wrigley

Old Members’ Exhibition Anisha Bahl Martin Gazi

Tatham Exhibition Marcus Ashby Mark Bogod Thomas Goldsworthy Oliver Matovu

Oldfield Exhibition Olivia Bennett Shanuk Mediwaka

CHAPEL Bay Hardie Choral Scholarship Harriet Taylor

Sidgwick Exhibitions Anisha Bahl Thomas Bailey Nicholas Fan William Fox Martin Gazi Alex Koziell Pipe Joseph Ray Eusebiu Sutu Benjamin Wood

Bob Blake Choral Scholarship Elaine Wong Hollingsworth (Senior) Organ Scholarship Arthur Vickery Joan Protheroe Choral Scholarship Sebastiaan Kemner

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Langford Choral Scholarship Francesca Bell-Davies

Drucker Bursary Lukas Wagner

Valerie Blake Choral Scholarship William Moore

Wesley Choral Scholarship Emily Hazrati

EPA Scholarships Lucy Armstrong Lewis Arthurton Mustafa Aydogan Li Lu Jovanowska Giulia Pilla Sheng Pong Evgeniia Prokhorova Lior Pytowski Callum Tromans-Coia

GRADUATES

Friedmann Music Prize Michael Gach

Van Linge (Junior) Organ Scholarship William Parkinson

17 Museum Road Award Silvia Butti Berrow Foundation Scholarships Nora Bardelli Adrien Bastian Sophie Behluli Nicolas Christen Nadine Fragniere Solmeng-Jonas Hirschi Tiziana Imstepf Lucie Kaempfer Alejandro Maniewicz Wins Matthias Roesti Berrow Foundation Lord Florey Scholarship Lucius Caviola Martin Kahn Fabian Soltermann

Jermyn Brooks Scholarship in the Humanities Joanna Mason Oxford-John and Pat Cuckney Studentship in Physics Franziska Kirschner Migle Stankaityte

Kenneth Sewards-Shaw Scholarship Sophia Salmore

Franziska Kirschner Hans-Jochen Kockert Thomas Rawlinson

Kingsgate Graduate Accommodation Bursary Alexander Bampton Nupur Patel

Lord Crewe Graduate Scholarship Thomas Clark

AHRC- Shuffrey Studentship Andrew Doll Hugh Jeffery

Norman Heatley Scholarship Cristina Dumitru Newton-Abraham Scholarship Kerstin Lippl Menasseh Ben Israel Room Award Chen Peled AHRC-Polonsky Studentship Beatriz Correia Santos

Clarendon-Elman PooleScholarship Anan (Emily) Chai

Clarendon-Polonsky Studentship Benjamin Musachio

Clarendon-Keith Murray Scholarship Michael Nickland Jasha Trompf

Polonsky Foundation Grant Glenn Cahilly-Bretzin Mayaan Ravid Senior Scholarships Glenn Cahilly-Bretzin Charles Dale

AHRC-Sloane-Robinson Foundation Graduate Scholarships Charles Dale Heather Mann Michael Nixon Nefeli Piree Iliou Paul Stephens ESRC–Sloane Robinson Foundation Graduate Scholarships James Freeman Sara Holttinen Jessica Milligan Katherine Stapleton Clarendon-Sloane-Robinson Foundation Graduate Scholarships Konogan Beaufay Sudheesh Ramapurath Chemmencheri Supperstone Law Scholarship James Gale

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Editorial Members

Special awards 2017–18 This list includes all those who held non-academic awards granted by Lincoln College during the academic year 2017-18. It does not include awards made in previous years or given to students by the University or any other body external to the College.

College Travel Grant Katie Collis Jacqueline Gray Elizabeth Keech James Le Cornu Emily Watson Clifford and Mary Angell Award Heidi de Sousa Agnes Fanning Ben Gale Martin Gazi Sabela Guy Enoch Yiu Modern Linguists Travel Grants Ben Gale Kenneth Sears Travel Award Owen Brooks Jintong Du Rebecca Hartley Gemma O’Sullivan Vivian Green Student Assistance Awards David Bell Mark Bogod Sylvia Butti Sudheesh Ramapurath Chemmencheri Fuaad Coovadia Michael Gach

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Emily Hazrati Max Jamilly Kurun Kumar Dominic Kurzeja Nicholas Leah Waqas Mirza Helen Norman Harry Nuttall Gemma O'Sullivan Nupur Patel Christopher Pegrum Matthew Pierri Xanita Saayman Kate Shore Nina Sulkowski Ashley Taylor Gabrielle Thomas Ezziddin Al-Haj Yonis 2027 Medical Award Alice Knapton Bearley Bursary One bursary awarded Blackstaffe Bursary One bursary awarded Crewe Bursaries 30 bursaries awarded

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Cuthbert Bursaries 16 bursaries awarded Felicity Brown Award Rebecca Durkin Henrey Bursary One bursary awarded Kingsgate Bursary Four bursaries awarded Miles Morland Foundation Award Emokiniovo Akpughe Abiodun Awosusi Efosa (Trevor) Edobor Ousmane Kodio Tatenda Nyamuda Joshua Wabwire Millerchip Bursary One bursary awarded Simon Featherstone Bursary One bursary awarded Richard Finn Award One bursary awarded

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Prizes 2017–18 UNDERGRADUATES College prize for undergraduates who achieved a First in their respective FHS examinations Cell and Systems Biology Helen Collins Chemistry (MChem) Nicola Ede Jonathan Yong Sang Bin Yoon Classical Archaeology and Ancient History Greg Morton Engineering Science (MEng) Isabel von Celsing

Mathematics (MMath) Engineering Science William Biggs Oscar Lemmens John Fitzgerald Thomas Peak English Language and Literature Maxime Saxena Charles Rogers Qifei Zou Medical Sciences (Pre-clinical) Frances Bell-Davies History Katie Collis David Elliott Emily Osborne Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry (MBiochem) Mathematics Rachel Cartwright Samuel Haslam Aled Jenkins Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Alice Vaughan-Williams Alexander Williams Jack Virgin Physics (MPhys) Nicholas Leach Rebecca Vaughan

English Language and Literature Amelia Gabriel College prize for undergraduates who Ruby Gilding achieved a Distinction in the Prelims Victoria Higgins Ella Langley Chemistry Betty Yang Jake Diprose

William Moore History Alexandra Willis Hugo Birtle Samuel East Classical Archaeology and Ancient History George Hunter Ruairi Matheson-Kiernan Elizabeth Robbins Illingworth Hannah Wilson Nina Lindsay

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Gabriel Stephenson Philosophy, Politics and Economics Christopher Annous Julia Pamilih Edward Williams Physics Dominic Cronie Benjamin Lane Bruce Parris Tasmin Sarkany Emily Watson

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Other College prizes

GRADUATES

Drummond Prize Betty Yang (English)

College prize for graduates who achieved a Distinction in their respective examinations

Kenneth Sears History Prize Hugo Birtle Farai Sevenzo Stansbie Prize Jonathan Yong (Chemistry) Trappes Exhibition (in recognition of a University prize) Jonathan Bell (Chemistry) Anan (Emily) Chai (Economics for Development) Helen Collins (Biomedical Sciences) Jessica Fleming (Chemistry) Samuel Haslam (Mathematics) Alejandeo Maniewicz Wins (Master Juris) Rebecca Vaughan (Physics) Adam Walker (Chemistry) Betty Yang (English) Enoch Yiu (Mathematics) Jonathan Yong (Chemistry)

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Magister Juris (MJur) Alejandro Maniewicz Wins Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Sara Holttinen (Economics) Susan Virginia (Ginny) Wheeler (Classical Archaeology) Master of Science (MSc) Alexander Bampton (Neuroscience) Silvia Butti (Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science) Anan (Emily) Chai (Economics for Development)

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Isaac Ghinai (Global Health Science) Saul Musker (Global Governance and Diplomacy) Chu Ming Ng (Mathematical Finance) Gwen O’Driscoll (Pharmacology) Juliane Peter (Radiation Biology) Gabor Toth (Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing) Master of Studies (MSt) Thomas Clark (English (650-1550)) Taylor Evensen (British and European History 1500-present) Nupur Patel (Modern Languages (French)) Kate Shore (British and European History 1500-present) William Stone (History of Art and Visual Culture) Ashley Taylor (Music (Musicology)) Andrew Zanelli (English (1550-1700))

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JCR & MCR Officers 2017–18 JCR Committee Tim Mallinson President Joseph Hopper Vice-President Lavanya Chowdhury Treasurer Penina Myerson Secretary Sophie Davies and Noah Turner Welfare Officers Gemma O’Sullivan Access Officer Emma Wells Academic Affairs Officer Eve Dore Entertainment Chair

Sports Captains 2017–18

MCR Committee Glenn Cahilly-Bretzin President

Badminton Anisha Bahl

Holly Hathrell Treasurer; Deputy President Alice Smith Secretary Lewis Arthurton and Matthew Veal Welfare Officers Shazeaa Ishmael Social Secretary

Cricket Ed Abbott Football 1st XI Ed Abbott Football 2nd XI Tim Mallinson Football – MCR William Nathan

Football – Women’s Julia Pamilih Alex Willis Hockey Owen Brooks Lacrosse Victoria HowardSmith Netball Ella Brown

Rowing – Men’s Olly Featherstone

Tennis Victoria HowardSmith

Rowing – Women’s Aurelia Sauerbrei Rugby Daniel Wagner

Volleyball Anisha Bahl Georgina MacRae

Squash George Darroch Table Tennis Frank Wang SPORTS CAPTAINS

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Senior Tutor’s Undergraduate studies report

In Michaelmas 2017, we admitted 89 new undergraduate students, bringing our total number to 304. It is noteworthy that, this year, women were in the majority, accounting for just over 60% of our undergraduate matriculands.

Dr Louise Durning Senior Tutor and Tutor for Graduates

The Turl Street Arts Festival... opened in style with the Mozart Requiem and provided a wealth of literary, musical, and theatrical events...

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COLLEGE RECORD 2017–18

Following on from the disappointment of last year, it was pleasing to see an improvement in our collective performance in Finals, with no fewer than 27 Firsts awarded. Particularly notable among these were the five Firsts in English, six across History and History and Politics, and the top First in Cell and Systems Biology.

We also congratulate our three Gibbs Prize winners. The record of achievement in Prelims, and in the second and third year examinations taken by scientists, augurs well for the future. A total of 73 undergraduates were awarded College Scholarships or Exhibitions this year in recognition and encouragement of their potential, and all were entertained by their tutors at the annual Scholars’ Dinner in Hilary term.

Nevertheless, we are not complacent.

Over the course of this academic year

the Governing Body has been discussing and developing strategies for improving academic performance. This has resulted in, on the one hand, a revision of the College’s academic support and discipline procedures, and, on the other, the identification of a series of activities designed to foster academic ambition within the undergraduate body. As an example of the latter we would note the establishment of a Journal Club for the students in various branches of the medical sciences. Run by our Junior Research Fellows in Biosciences, the Club engages undergraduates in reading and critiquing new research publication and presenting their findings to their peers. Other initiatives have included graduate student mentoring of undergraduate Physicists and PPEists, and special introductory sessions in Freshers’ week for many subjects, such as a museum immersion session for CAAH and a meeting intriguingly titled ‘How to argue (mathematically)’. This year also saw a significant restructuring of PPE with the arrival of three new Fellows: Dr PrescottCouch in Philosophy, Dr LaPorte in Politics, and Dr Kvasnicka, who joins Dr Parakhonyak in the Economics team.

Dr LaPorte, our Gonticas Fellow, also holds the position of Director of Studies in PPE, a new role in the College and one which will strengthen the strategic development

and academic oversight of this particularly complex undergraduate course.

JCR members still find time to exercise their many talents. A highlight of the year was the Michaelmas term musical (now established as an annual event). The 1950s musical Salad Days was played to packed houses over four nights in the Oakeshott Room. The Turl Street Arts Festival in Hilary term, directed this year from Lincoln, opened in style with the Mozart Requiem and provided a wealth of literary, musical, and theatrical events over the following two weeks. The JCR year closed in style with another very successful edition of VacProj, now expanded from two to three weeks. This welcome expansion is testament to the energy and commitment of the Lincoln JCR, and to that of the many Old Members whose continuing support is so central to its success.

Graduate studies The College admitted 132 new graduate students in October 2017, drawn from a wide range of arts and sciences and hailing from all five continents. Thanks to the great generosity of Old Members and friends of the College, 30 of these new

students received scholarship support from the College, with a total of 53 students across all years receiving such financial support.

Many of these awards have been offered in partnership with other funding sources administered by the University, allowing us to leverage a full-funding package for the recipient.

These funds come most frequently from the University’s own Clarendon Fund (supported from Oxford University Press), from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), or from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). In 2017-18, 16 Lincoln students were being supported by such co-funded awards. The names of the scholarship holders and their awards may be seen on pp.32-3. Recorded among these are the first recipients of a new award – the Kingsgate Accommodation Bursary for Masters’ students. These awards guarantee the cost of accommodation at Lincoln for an academic year, bringing security and peace of mind to those who rely on their own means for their day-to-day living costs.

We note with pride the successes of our MCR members in examinations and

in the defence of their DPhil theses.

Individual results are listed on a separate page in the Record, but we may note here that no fewer than 19 of our Masters degree students received the award of Distinction from their examiners, more than 30% of the cohort.

The legendary vitality of the MCR continues unabated and remains the envy of Oxford. Highlights from the packed termcards of this last year include the termly Emily Carr parties, the annual charities auction, the Lord Florey talks, and the Conversazione. Following the great success of the Lincoln Leads programme in 2017, the MCR Academic Committee decided to make this an annual event and put together another equally memorable edition for 2018.

Each Thursday night in Hilary panels of three speakers – a Fellow, an Old Member, and a current MCR member – debated weighty topics ranging across such diverse questions as the nature of historical truth, the long-term legacy of Brexit, the limits of free speech, and the future of technology.

The MCR continued its focus on equality and diversity matters. The flagship event was the formation of the University’s first all-college E&D forum, conceived SENIOR TUTOR’S REPORT

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The MCR continued its focus on equality and diversity matters. The flagship event was the formation of the University’s first all-college E&D forum... and spearheaded by Matt Pierri (2016) and Mayaan Ravid (2014). This event brought together delegates from every MCR in Oxford, with advocates and staff from departments and from central services, with the aim of raising awareness and identifying practical approaches to implementing change in everyday life.

The close connection between the JCR and the MCR that is such a distinctive feature of Lincoln was made evident across a wide range of activities – whether making music, competing on the river, organising the Ball, or attending talks and discussions. It was marked this year with the inauguration of a new event – the annual MCR-JCR Dinner – a particularly fitting ways for Lincolnites to celebrate their sense of community. n Dr Louise Durning Senior Tutor and Tutor for Graduates 40 . L I N C O L N

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Access and outreach

of aspiration delivered by the voices of students local to the area; even, in the case of one large sixth-form college, by the voices of two of its own alumni.

Our Schools Liaison Officers, assisted by their team of enthusiastic undergraduate student ambassadors, have had another successful year. This year there have been two incumbents in the role of Schools Liaison Officer - sadly, we said farewell to Claire White at the end of Hilary term, following her appointment to a senior position at another university, but were delighted to welcome Katie Osmon as her successor. Katie joined us in August and immediately set about organising a week-long ‘Roadshow’ to Lincolnshire schools, together with three of our undergraduates from the county.

The programme was a great success and all were agreed on how powerful it was for the schools we visited to hear the message

We continued our programme of individual school visits alongside our commitment to the multi-college Pathways Programme under the directorship of our own Claire White.

Formerly co-funded by the Sutton Trust, the Pathways Programme is now entirely funded by the colleges. New developments this year included a very successful ‘Women in Science’ day, a collaboration between five colleges that brought to Oxford over 200 young women from state schools across London, Nottinghamshire, the West Midlands, and County Durham.

New developments this year included a very successful ‘Women in Science’ day, a collaboration between five colleges that brought to Oxford over 200 young women...

In the course of the year we have been active in developing a new programme of engagement with schools in the North East, aided by Lord Crewe’s Charity. In May, the Rector and Senior Tutor, together with representatives of the Charity, and a number of teachers from local schools, met in Durham to begin devising a strategy for future action. This work will continue back in Oxford with representatives of other colleges that have outreach missions in the North East, in order to best pool our talents and networks.

This year also saw a remarkable expansion of the Target Oxbridge programme.

Target Oxbridge was founded by Lincoln alumna Naomi Kellman (2008) to inspire and support students of Black African and Black Caribbean heritage to make successful applications to Oxford or Cambridge. Lincoln sponsored five new places on the scheme, and many other colleges in Oxford and Cambridge offered similar pledges. We were delighted to learn that one of the Target Oxbridge alumni has secured a place at Lincoln for Michaelmas 2018.

The success of our outreach work owes a great deal to the tireless work of our JCR volunteers. With great generosity of spirit they devote considerable time throughout the year to meeting with young people, encouraging them to set their sights on Oxford, and, by their down-to-earth good humour and friendliness, dispelling those myths and stereotypes that can often act as a barrier to participation. They are tremendous role models for the school pupils we work with on our open days, schools visits, and study days, and are the best possible ambassadors for the College. n Dr Louise Durning Senior Tutor and Tutor for Graduates

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Schools and Colleges engaged during 2017-18: In Lincolnshire: The Boston Grammar School Boston High School Bourne Grammar School The Deepings School Franklin College Gainsborough Academy John Leggott Sixth Form College Oasis Academy Immingham The Priory Academy LSST Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar Alford The Queen Elizabeth’s High School, Gainsborough

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Vale Academy William Farr C of E Comprehensive School In the West of England: Beechen Cliff School Bradley Stoke Community School Churchill Academy Colston’s Girls’ School Colston’s School Hayesfield Girls School North Bristol Post 16 Centre Ralph Allen School The Red Maids’ School

Redland Green St Bede’s Catholic College St Brendan’s Sixth Form College Weston College In the North East of England: Durham Jonhston School Marden High School, North Shields Northumberland CoE Academy Trust Ponteland Academy Trust, Newcastle St Hild’s School, Hartlepool The Venerable Bede Academy, Sunderland

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Bursar's report

Alex Spain Bursar

Over the last year, the Bursar’s Office has been focused on our role supporting the College’s core objectives of tuition and research, and on the execution of the major initiatives we commenced in the previous year.

Fellows and students To sustain our position as a college in the world’s leading University, it is important that we can continue to recruit and retain the best Fellows in each of their respective 44 .

disciplines. While the College and the University’s reputation, as well as the College’s position as a self-governing body attract the best, an important element is the provision of practical support so that Fellows have the resources they require and can focus on their tuition and research. Thanks to the generosity of alumni we are able to financially support Fellowships. The College also provides resources to enable Fellows to be able to afford to live in Oxford.

The generosity of alumni continues to support students through the provision of bursaries and financial aid for those students who encounter financial hardship as a result of unexpected circumstances.

This year we have been able to increase such awards, particularly to graduates who, in many cases, cannot benefit from government loans.

Endowment At the beginning of the year we appointed Partners Capital to manage the securities portion of our endowment with a focus on investment for the long term. We also adopted a new investment policy with the goal of achieving a return of 4% above inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index. As we draw 3% from the endowment annually, this return will allow

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us to keep the endowment constant, after adjusting for inflation and before taking account of any new donations. We aim to have 70% of equity market risk in our portfolio.

Our investments are now allocated in line with targets set out in this policy.

We reduced our previous allocation to equity and increased our allocation to credit (including, for example, loans to companies) where we can achieve a satisfactory return with less risk. At 31 July 2018 our allocation was as follows: Allocation of Endowment and other Investments* (£m) Inflation-Linked Cash Absolute Return Credit 5.5 0.8 Private Equity 3.3 16.6 2.6

Property

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Equities *Excludes Lincoln 2027 Fund

In our property portfolio, we had the triennial valuation this year. We did sell a property in Marlow but overall we expect our property portfolio to remain stable.

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Buildings The College aims to have its endowment primarily focused on the support of Fellows and students and to have its buildings financed from other sources such as donations restricted for this purpose and long-term borrowings.

We have made good progress in the planning for our core project: the renovation of the student accommodation in the Mitre and on Turl Street. Contractors will commence work in the autumn of 2018 once planning permission is finalised.

Through this renovation we will be able to provide accommodation which will meet current standards and will improve access and safety for students. We expect the project to take two years to complete.

In common with many banks on the high streets of Britain, in February NatWest exited its Grade Two listed building on the High Street, across the road from the Mitre. We have commenced a renovation of the building. We intend to have a restaurant on the ground floor and residential accommodation on the upper floors. We consider the building to be a commercial investment and any profits from the development will be used to service the debt incurred to fund the Mitre development.

In the core of the College on Turl Street, the renovation of the Chapel continues.

The East windows have returned and over the summer the Chapel ceiling was restored with gilt (replacing gold paint).

The three layers of scaffolding inside the Chapel provided a superb and unusual opportunity to have a close view of the painted windows and the intricately carved woodwork in the upper regions of the Chapel. Restoration of the wood-carvings and layering of the gilt require a rare expertise and patience.

We will continue works on the Chapel in the summer of 2019. In due course we also intend to renovate the Beckington Room and the rooms above it, comprising

the lodgings of former Rectors. We are fortunate to have many fine historic buildings in the College. Maintenance of historical buildings is, however, expensive.

The College has undertaken an external review of the maintenance likely to be required over the next decade and is making financial provision for this.

While there are many challenges for the higher education sector, the College is in a sound financial position, thanks to its endowment. We look forward to the coming year with optimism.

Alex Spain Bursar

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Librarian’s report

Lucy Matheson Librarian

In September we welcomed back Dr Sarah Cusk, our Antiquarian Cataloguer, and in November our Library team was completed when we were joined

by Marina Sotiriou, our new Assistant Librarian. Before she came to Lincoln, Marina had worked at Royal Berkshire Hospital Library, Belfast Metropolitan College libraries, the Library of 21st Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities 46 . L I N C O L N

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in Corfu, Greece, and the Library of Visual and Applied Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is wonderful to have the Library fully-staffed and to be able to offer a full service to our readers and researchers.

As someone new to both the libraries of Oxford and to the University, Marina has had a vast amount of training this year: from the four months of rigorous instruction in order to be allowed to catalogue items on the Oxford library management system, to various kinds of courses on health and safety, copyright, supporting disabled readers, minute-taking, enquiry skills, conservation, the History of the Book, and more. Changes outside the Library have an impact on the work inside it and so staff have attended briefing sessions on the new General Data Protection Regulation; the new reader interface of SOLO, the Oxford University libraries’ catalogue; CANVAS, the proposed replacement for WebLearn, the University’s virtual learning environment, and the Oxford Reading Lists Online initiative which will interconnect with it; Open Access publication, the Oxford Research Archive and compliance with the Research Excellence Framework; initial ideas of creating a union catalogue of all the University’s many types of collections and how to ensure the digital data we

create will be available in the future. Sarah’s professional training has included courses in Italian palaeography and cataloguing with non-Roman scripts. Lucy attended sessions on creating a digital edition, in order to experience the different elements of a digitisation project, and the London Palaeography Summer School to learn more about manuscripts.

We have represented the Library at various conferences: Sarah at the meetings of the Consortium of European Research Libraries in Amsterdam, Venice, and the British Library; the Historic Libraries Forum at Lambeth Palace; the 15c Booktrade conference in Venice; and the Rare Books and Special Collections Group of CILIP (the Library and Information Association) in Cambridge; and Lucy at the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) boot camp in Oxford, the Bodleian’s Manuscripts Round Table, and the CORES Symposium – 'Between cherishing damage and cleaning up the mess: Restorers, collection managers, and researchers on conservation and restoration' in Bruges. Sarah also took part in the ERASMUS scheme, spending a week at the Special Collections department of the University of Barcelona Library adding records of some of their incunabula to the Medieval Evidence in Incunabula database.

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Unlocking the Senior Library Animals in the Library

Sarah and Matthew Haley (2000; Head of Books at Bonham’s) used their different perspectives on rare books and their owners to give a masterclass in book collecting, initially at Bonham’s in London as part of the Rare Books London festival in June, with a repeat performance at Lincoln in November 2017. Among the treasures Sarah has uncovered this year as she catalogues the Senior Library is a rare complete copy of the first book printed in Arabic using moveable type: the Salat al-Sawa‘i bi-Hasab Taqs Kanisat al-Iskandariyah (‘Prayers of the Hours According to the Liturgy of the Church of Alexandria’) printed in Fano (Italy) in 1514. According to scholars, the book was published at the expense of Pope Julius II (1443-1513) and intended for distribution among Christians of the Middle East.

She has also welcomed researchers from various institutions to the Senior Library

and answered a wide range of enquiries, investigating topics including Armenian bibles, eighteenth-century booksellers’ catalogues, Margaret Cavendish’s gift of her own works to college libraries, and sixteenth-century editions of Aristotle.

This year’s Huntington Fellow, Jonathan Reinhardt (from Cornell University), spent several weeks in the Senior Library looking at the Nicholas Collection and the Marshall pamphlets.

We have continued to open up the Senior Library every term with our series ‘Unlocking the Senior Library’ and we hope we have piqued the interest of the College members who have made their way through the oak door with sessions on: the Senior Library from 1450-1750; Animals in the Library (a session that ranged from pest control to the different animal skins used in the production of books and illustrations in our books); and incunabula from the 1518 donation of Edmund Audley, Bishop of Salisbury.

For the first time, the Librarian ran a research skills session for the dissertation class for third year English students, as well as the session to prepare second year historians for their thesis. Over the Long Vacation, the Upper Library books and shelves have been thoroughly cleaned,

which we hope will render use of the collections more pleasant for both readers and staff. The biannual survey in Hilary term has led to extensive book purchasing, as we seek to provide the materials our students really need, and the Physics, Law, and PPE sections have been refreshed. We have benefitted hugely from the generosity of this year’s Assessor, Lincoln Law Fellow Stefan Enchaelmaier, who has shared his Oxford University Press book fund with the Library. n Lucy Matheson Librarian

The Library is grateful to the following current and past members who have donated works which they have written or edited, or are about an alumnus.

Peter Atkins

Harold Luntz

Jill Cecil

Peter McCullough

Stamatios Chondrogiannis

John Mellor

Geoffrey Clarke John Coutts Anne Davis Stephen Dyson Tom Headrick

Anthony Payne Michael Steiner Roland Trope James Wakeley The Late Andrew Watson

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Archivist’s report

Lindsay McCormack Archivist

When current events make it seem as though the arc of the political universe is bending away from progress, it is very reassuring to be allowed the long view of history that archival work provides.

Preserving the present when the future appears uncertain is also helpful in ensuring that the raw materials for research will be available to our successors in College and the wider community. It has been a truly exciting year in the Archive, with new accessions, Lincoln Unlocked events, and new legislation at the fore.

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Our collections have been significantly augmented through donations this year.

In March, we were delighted to take in the literary archive of Gavin Selerie (1968).

This collection reflects the breadth of his interests as an author, poet, and literary critic. The papers includes his research and drafts of Le Fanu’s Ghost (2006) and Hariot Double (2016) amongst his other works, alongside his series of eleven Riverside Interviews with poets, including Allen Ginsberg and Tom McGrath. We anticipate taking in the rest of his archive on completion of his current book.

As we mark the centenary of the end of the Great War, it was particularly timely to receive two collections of members who served. Frederick R. Harris, buttery staff, joined the Royal Flying Corps; photographs of him in uniform in Front Quad make a poignant link between College and the war.

The papers of Lieutenant Douglas Herbert Washington Humfrey (1907) include copy photographs of him in the trenches before he was killed in France in 1915.

A portrait miniature of Nathaniel, Lord Crewe, has made a delightful extension to our art collections. The miniature dates sometime from 1665 to 1671, which fits with his time either as Sub-Rector or Rector of the College. I am grateful to the

many individuals who donated material to enrich the Archive over the last year.

The cataloguing of our collections remains a priority. I am delighted to have the able assistance of volunteer John Jeffs (2015), and I record my thanks for his patient work on the series of building records; these are essential for the current renovation work in College. The Archive also hosted a student from the Liverpool University Centre for Archival Studies undertaking a cataloguing placement towards his Master’s degree. I continue cataloguing the papers of Denis Hills (1932), revealing new gems in spite of his tricky handwriting.

The product of cataloguing is access. The Archive was well-used for research over the last year, with over 170 remote enquires and 36 research visits, covering diverse topics such as Edward Thomas, the misericords in Chapel, Iffley village properties, Lord Florey, and medieval deed seals.

The Oxford Conservation Consortium continues to provide invaluable conservation work and advice for our historic collections.

The early College accounts beginning in 1456 have been the focus of their treatments as part of a larger project to conserve Lincoln’s core administrative records since the College’s foundation.

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Two halves of the indenture relating to St Anne's Chantry, 1442-4

MS/HIL/E/1/3/1: Sketch of Luzira prison by Denis Hills

Gavin Selerie (left) with Prof. McCullough, Fellow Archivist (right)

The Lincoln Unlocked initiative provided a showcase for research in our collections. Professor Robert Swanson (Birmingham) shared the fruits of his work on medieval urban parishes in Trinity term’s Unlocked lecture with the title ‘Accounting for souls in preReformation Oxford: Lincoln College, All Saints, and St Michael at the North Gate’. Dr Peter Forsaith (Oxford Brookes) gave this year’s Wesley Lecture on 22 May on ‘Re-imagining John Wesley’. The accompanying exhibitions featured Lincoln items, with the latter bringing together portraits of John Wesley alongside some more eccentric media (tiles, sweatshirts, musical scores) for displaying his iconic image.

Following his extensive research on episcopal Visitors of Oxford colleges for his 2017 Lincoln Unlocked lecture, Dr Andrew Foster has joined the Lincoln Unlocked study centre as a Visiting Researcher for the next three years. I look forward to working with Dr Foster as his research reveals new information about our College and its connections further afield.

management, and I had the privilege of working with the College departments as they developed their record retention schedules to support compliance. Effective records management not only helps to keep people’s data safe and supports the good governance of the College, but also has the wonderful benefit of ensuring the Archive receives the records that will become the treasures of the future.

Colleagues elsewhere view this as a particularly challenging time to be an archivist, but if data is the new oil, my professional life is very rich indeed. n

Many people have been attributed with the dictum: ‘data is the new oil’. The new GDPR regulations implemented in May have certainly attuned the public to the value of data, and I was involved in the College task force ensuring GDPR implementation. Good data handling practices involve good records

Lindsay McCormack Archivist

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Chaplain and Student Welfare Coordinator's report Strange, perhaps, to speak of what the Chapel is ‘meant to be’. We seem to have little time these days for the Aristotelian idea of final causes. It can seem oppressive - not to mention ignorant - to suggest that meaning or identity might be things that are given. Given by whom? God is as dead as the author. If our lives have purpose, then that is something we make, not something we discover.

Rev. Dr. Melanie Marshall Chaplain and Student Welfare Coordinator

Our beautiful Chapel is under renovation. The ceilings, woodwork, windows, and everything else are being carefully restored. Our aim is not to make them better. It is hard to imagine how our delightful seventeenth-century preservation could be improved. On the contrary, our aim is for the Chapel to be more fully itself. We are forming it again into what it was always meant to be, so that its beauty may shine out all the more brightly, giving glory to God. 50 . L I N C O L N

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Well, Chapel is there to make space for unfashionable ideas. And, like unfashionable architecture, with the right gloss they may just turn out to have something in them after all. The Bible, the Saints, and the First World War feel remote from the experience of many students. Thanks to some skilled preachers, they came alive this year, their strangeness recast as a gift as well as a puzzle.

Our Hilary sermon-series on the arts culminated in a visit from the acclaimed poet and priest Malcolm Guite. He turned John’s well-worn words on the incarnation - ‘In the beginning was the Word’ - into a startling manifesto for what the best

poetry can, and must, be: at once both fully embodied, and eternally truthful.

A different perspective on eternity came in Trinity term with our science series, when astrophysicist and priest Berkeley Zych addressed us on theories of time and the nature of God. Coming back down to earth, speakers offered perspectives on the growth of scientific thinking and on medicine and psychology which challenged our assumptions about the ‘point’ of a human life. What if people did not have to be productive, or useful, or attractive, or competitive, or comfortable, in order to be valuable? Might that change the way we live? We have pursued these questions further in our lunchtime discussions on medical ethics. The undergraduates manifested a philosophical sophistication and a profound humanity that would shame most published authors in the field.

In particular, our conversations returned again and again to the question of formation, of how we become a person who makes this choice rather than that one. It was clear to us that crises do not determine who we are, but rather reveal it. One of the great rewards of my pastoral role is to listen when someone is faced by a major decision. There is no more worthwhile work than to help

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someone draw out hidden misgivings, fears, assumptions. To help them get past the clamour of people’s expectations and delusions (their own included), and hear themselves. Of course, that assumes an authentic self is there to be heard. When someone uncovers that self, however surprising the discovery, they find peace.

The process of formation is like a flower opening. It is too slow to see at a glance.

I have been just long enough in the job now for changes to become visible. The students who arrived three years ago as gauche and nervous adolescents are leaving as splendid men and women, upright and capable and brave. Tentative choral scholars have blossomed into confident and easy singers, their voices lovelier with every passing term, delighting congregations and audiences in Canterbury and Malta this year, as well adorning Sunday evenings in Chapel.

First-year historian Tom O’Donoghue (2017) received the sacrament of confirmation, crowning a year of preparation and growth, both spiritual and intellectual. The Chapel Wardens have sprung to life, developing ideas and making innovations, pioneering Chapel away-days to Westminster Abbey and Marwell Zoo, baking, shopping, tidying, welcoming. One of them even produced a baby, shortly to

be baptised in Chapel. There has been nothing strenuous in any of this. We have simply been ourselves, together, being slowly formed. And none of us is the same person we were a year ago.

Ornithologist Professor Andy Gosler came to preach one evening in May, and played us the unforgettable sound of a nightingale’s song. The beauty of the music upstaged even our choir. And yet he told us that as he was recording that glorious melody, dozens of people walked past with no interest. Many of them had headphones on. It’s a good image for Chapel life.

Something beautiful and transformational is happening there all the time. But only

some people are listening. It is a fine ambition to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Oxford teaches all of us that.

But there also other joys, rich joys, that we cannot demand or aim for. They come to us unsought, and unbidden. We can only wait, and then receive them, unexpectedly, as sheer gift. One of those gifts is our realest self. That self is always being offered to us afresh, no matter what our age or the state of our gilding. It is always under renovation: its hidden beauty slowly uncovered, the more to glorify God. n Rev. Dr. Melanie Marshall Chaplain and Student Welfare Coordinator

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Domestic Operations Manager’s report In 2018, over the course of two days, just under 5,000 people visited the College main site and almost 2,000 people visited the Library. The ‘awe’ factor was experienced by our visitors (and observed by our staff ) time and time again.

Michele McCartney Domestic Operations Manager

I have realised that when you spend much of your time at Lincoln College, either as a student or a member of staff, the awe of working in such a beautiful setting can become diminished, and the beautiful surroundings become somewhat taken for granted. However, I was recently reminded of what it’s like to see Lincoln with fresh eyes. Oxford Open Doors, which is organised by Oxford Preservation Trust in partnership with 52 .

Oxford University, was held in early September 2018 and Lincoln was once again a participant. Although some parts of the College are open to visitors most afternoons, Oxford Open Doors is an opportunity to showcase parts of the College that the public would not normally see, such as our medieval dining hall and our magnificent library. In 2018, over the course of two days, just under 5,000 people visited the College main

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site and almost 2,000 people visited the Library. The ‘awe’ factor was experienced by our visitors (and observed by our staff ) time and time again. Many comments about the perfection of the setting and the beauty of the Library were made to staff members, or overheard in passing. The visitor experience was enhanced further by our fantastic staff, who gave their time and knowledge to bring the setting to life.

Open Doors would not have been possible without the efforts of Lodge Manager Joe Tripkovic and his team of porters, and other staff such as Katie Ali (Hall Supervisor), Lucy Matheson (Librarian), and Marina Sotiriou (Assistant Librarian).

Open Doors takes a significant amount of organisation, as does so much of what domestic staff do on a daily basis. Each domestic department has its own jigsaw puzzle in which the pieces regularly shift and change shape. For example, in the maintenance area preparation for major building projects, as well as both planned and reactive maintenance work, has taken place during the past year. Alongside the major projects referenced in the Bursar’s report, the Clerk of Works and his maintenance team have replaced four of the kitchens in the Museum Road houses and one in Bear Lane. External areas at Bear Lane have also been redecorated.

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The bedrooms and common areas in staircase 13 have been fully refurbished, much to the delight of the undergraduate freshers currently occupying those rooms. Two Fellows’ flats have also been redecorated and refurnished. In addition, boilers have been installed, carpets have been replaced, two extraction systems have been rerouted, and what seems like (and probably is) hundreds of sinks and toilets have been unblocked. Much of this work can only be undertaken during vacation periods, and of course as soon as a plan is put together other challenges arise that need to be somehow slotted into the puzzle. And then another ten toilets need unblocking. Julian Mitchell, our Clerk of Works, has become a master planner and scheduler.

Bullivant, Marlena Ciszek, Lucy Tarrant) need to be especially mindful of this. For example, the upcoming works on the Mitre buildings (and the closure of the whole complex) made this summer’s conference schedule more challenging due to the loss of bedrooms and meeting space. With a little creativity our Conference & Events Manager managed to reformat some of the pieces of his puzzle and even fit in a new summer school group from the State University of New York at Geneseo. In order to do so he had to work closely with the Accommodation Manager as she was organising student residence for the Long Vacation.

Gardens are another area where puzzle pieces are constantly shifting. Generally this is due to that great uncontrollable factor, the British weather. A long cold winter and a summer heatwave easily put the best laid plans to rest. On any given day our new Head Gardener Aimee Irving-Bell and her team generally have more than one contingency plan in place.

In fact, I think the Conference and Events Manager is the master puzzler. Throughout the course of the year, when liaising with Fellows, students, alumni, and commercial guests he has to think constantly about how a proposed or planned event will affect catering, Deep Hall, housekeeping, the Lodge, accommodation, and maintenance.

Or, conversely, how a change of situation in one or more of those departments will affect an event. It is amazing how many knock-on effects one little change can have.

Each departmental puzzle then links into other departmental puzzles. Both myself and the Domestic Bursary staff (Luke

The planned closure of the Mitre building has obviously also had a significant impact on our current student accommodation.

For the next two years second-year students will be housed in the Bear Lane complex, and for graduates we have leased 54 brand new rooms in a new development on Queen Street (Carfax Quarter). This has significantly changed the formation of the Accommodation Manager’s jigsaw puzzle! In addition to representatives from the JCR and MCR, she has had to work closely with housekeeping and the Lodge Manager (and they have had to work with their individual teams of staff ) to ensure that everything happens as seamlessly as possible when the students arrive back for the start of the new academic year.

At this very minute, at this point in time, the departmental puzzles are all assembled; there are no missing pieces, and they all fit together seamlessly. Soon, for one reason or another, one of the pieces will change shape. n Michele McCartney Domestic Operations Manager

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Staff list 2017–18 Buttery Tony Daly Butler Michal Paech Assistant Butler Andre Nascimento de Lira Third Butler Justyna Banasiak Buttery Assistant Ligia Duarte Buttery Assistant Fida Hussain Buttery Assistant Greg Majewski Buttery Assistant Dillon McNally Morris Buttery Assistant Piotr Pusz Buttery Assistant Liam Slatford Buttery Assistant Dining Hall Katie Ali Hall Supervisor Adeel Ali Buttery Assistant – Waiter Susanne Evans Buttery Assistant

– Waitress Elza Lipińska Buttery Assistant – Waitress Soma Singh Buttery Assistant – Waitress Ann Suraj Buttery Assistant – Waitress Dining Hall Leavers 2017-18 Elva Dos Reis Buttery Assistant – Waitress Shakeela Ghulam Buttery Assistant

– Waitress Deep Hall Simon Faulkner Marion Cox

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Gardens Aimee Irving-Bell Peter Burchell Thomas Coombes

Head Gardener Quad Person Apprentice Gardener

Gardens Leavers 2017-18 Kyle Rix Head Gardener Housekeeping Lynn Archer Korrise Ireson Dalton Vanessa Lonergon Susan Nicholls Olabisi Agoro Pablo Jr Alcantara Zeca Borges Da Silva Jacqueline Bryan Kelly Cunningham Ilona Dombóvári Abdullah El-Kirate Teodor-Bogdon Ene Merita Fernandes Bridget Hannon Corinne Ireson Donna Ireson Mary Louth Simon Massey Monica Moreira Sarah Morris Katarzyna Nazarewicz Timothy Newbold Durvalina Pereira

Housekeeper Head Scout Head Scout Head Scout Scout Scout Scout Scout Scout Scout Scout Scout Scout Scout Scout Scout Scout Scout Scout Scout Scout Scout Scout

Domingas Pereira Da Silva Joshua Singh Zdzislaw Skonieczny Deborah Thomas Wanda Wiktor

Scout Scout Scout Scout Scout

Housekeeping Leavers 2017-18 Raluca-Marina Breb Adina Costica Paulino Freitas Magdalena Gil Artur Katarzyńki Joanna Selmosa

Scout Scout Scout Scout Scout Scout

Kitchen Richard Malloy Head Chef Patrick Jeremy Senior Sous Chef Paul Butterfield Second Chef Dan Howells Third Chef Eliterio dos Santos Cruz Chef de Partie Joaquim De Jesus Antunes Kitchen Porter Pedro Gonzaga Kitchen Porter Christopher Ray Kitchen Porter Andres Crespo Apprentice Chef Hollyanne Dudley Apprentice Chef

Kitchen Leavers 2017-18 Ruth Grant Chef de Partie Daniel Dollin Kitchen Porter Lodge Joe Tripkovic Lodge Manager Rohan Ramdeen Assistant Lodge Manager Phillip Andrews Lodge Porter Susan Burden Lodge Porter Ben Crouch Lodge Porter

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Cristiano Da Silva Martin Guildea Simon Justice Ben Akeh-Osu Peter Koyio Brian Shimmings Kevin White

Lodge Porter Lodge Porter Lodge Porter Night Porter Night Porter Night Porter Night Porter

Domestic Bursary Michele McCartney Domestic Operations Manager Lucy Tarrant Accommodation Manager Luke Bullivant Conference & Events Manager Marlena Ciszèk Domestic Bursary Assistant

Lodge Leavers 2017-18 Richard Neave Oluwatosin Taiwo Aje

Lodge Porter Night Porter

Domestic Bursary Leavers 2017-18 Natasha Hawkins Domestic Bursary Assistant

Maintenance Julian Mitchell Clerk of Works Trevor Allen Electrician David Gee Electrician David Nicholls Multi-skilled Maintenance David Harker Painter, Decorator, and

Multi-skilled Maintenance Paul Green Carpenter Robert Williams Plumbing & Heating Engineer Accounts Celia Harker Accountant Susan Williams Accounts Office Manager Patricia Cripps Accounts Assistant Julie Hodges Accounts Assistant Claire Riseley Accounts Assistant Bursary Alex Spain Lisa Crowder Rachel King Nina Thompson Shaun Todd

Bursar Bursar’s Secretary Bursar’s Secretary HR Manager HR Administrator

College Office Louise Durning Senior Tutor Lisa Stokes King Academic Administrator (Temporary) Carmella Elan-Gaston Graduate Officer /

Administrative Assistant Richard Little Admissions Officer Jemma Underdown Academic Administrator Katie Osmon Schools Liaison Officer College Office Leavers 2017-18 Claire White Schools Liaison Officer Rector’s Office Sally Lacey IT Mike White Peter Good

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Development Office Susan Harrison Director of Development

and Alumni Relations Jane Mitchell Deputy Director of Development Ioanna Tsakiropoulou Development Officer Susan Davison Development and Events Administrator Julia Uwins Alumni and College

Communications Officer Development Office Leavers 2017-18 Rachel Boswell Development Officer Library Lucy Matheson Marina Sotiriou Sarah Cusk

Librarian Assistant Librarian Antiquarian Cataloguer

Library Leavers 2017-18 Fiona Piddock

Librarian

Archive Lindsay McCormack

Archivist

College Nurse Victoria Mills

Nurse

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Governing Body Alumni Representative’s report

Max Thorneycroft (1969)

...the single most important thing which has struck me in my first year in this role is the absolute dedication of the Fellows to the teaching of the students in their charge.

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As I write, it is one year since I began to try to fill the enormous shoes left by Richard Hardie (1967), when he retired after six very successful years as the Alumni Representative on the College’s Governing Body. It is also exactly 50 years since I sat the Oxford Entrance Examination. Little in my subsequent life has given me more pleasure than learning that I had passed that test. In fact, Lincoln then tried to avoid taking me by sending me down the High to interview for a scholarship at Magdalen. I managed to thwart their plans by spectacularly failing the interview in a manner which leaves intellectual scars to this day. So Lincoln, thankfully, it was to be. (I like to think that Magdalen’s loss was Lincoln’s gain.) My time at Lincoln was a truly life-changing experience and without it my later career would have taken a very different course. So it gives me great pleasure to be asked in a very small way to assist the College in providing a similar experience to the current generation of students.

I have had a number of roles in the College since I graduated (not counting getting married in the Chapel in 1978) but attending meetings of the Governing Body has given me a much greater insight into how the College functions than I had before. In particular, it has highlighted

the importance, in an organisation which exists primarily to function as an academic institution, of the Fellows having both the power and the responsibility to take decisions about the running of the College and thus all being closely involved in doing so in practice.

There are many demands on the time of the Fellows and their primary skills and interests no doubt quite rightly lie in teaching and research. So it might be thought that they should delegate many decisions to a smaller group, perhaps one including non-academics. However, my conclusion, certainly so far, has been that the current model is superior.

That is not to say of course that the Governing Body does not need members with non-academic professional expertise.

The Governing Body in my experience is fortunate to have that to a very high degree.

For example, in the last year the College has faced a number of challenges in the financing and project management of its developments in the NatWest building and the Mitre. In my view these have been met in a very professional manner under the leadership of the Bursar. Similarly, the College’s vital efforts to increase its endowment (without which it would not be able to continue with the tutorial

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model) are very well handled under the leadership of its Development Director. In that context, as in others, it is interesting to note that the Fellows are aware of the need to take into account the views of donors (including alumni of the College) regarding the affairs of the College.

I have also been impressed by the seriousness with which the Fellows take their duties as trustees of College, such as the duty to avoid conflicts between their personal interests and the interests of the College. In this regard they were fortunate to have available the advice and wise counsel of the now sadly retired Simon Gardner. He has left a valuable legacy in the form of a number of papers on this issue on which the Governing Body will be able to rely for many years to come.

Another insight gained by attending Governing Body meetings is the enormous diversity of the Fellowship of the College.

It is truly an international institution and I believe that 16 nationalities are represented in the Fellowship. This diversity makes a very wide range of ideas, talent, and differing perspectives available to the Governing Body and I sincerely hope that changes in the UK political climate do not hamper the ability of the College to continue to recruit staff from all over the world.

One of the most important issues which the Governing Body dealt with last year was a perceived need to increase the intellectual ambitions of the undergraduate body – to aim high rather than settling for a standard which can be comfortably achieved. I was impressed by the way in which the Fellows speedily grasped the need to deal with this issue and the steps they have taken to improve the situation, without unduly changing the relaxed and friendly atmosphere which is one of the College’s most attractive and highly regarded characteristics.

To finish on a positive note, I would like to say that perhaps the single most important thing which has struck me in my first year in this role is the absolute dedication of the Fellows to the teaching of the students in their charge. This is best illustrated by the remark made by Dr Susan Brigden to her successor Dr Lucy Wooding which appeared in the recent edition of Imprint: teaching at Lincoln is a ‘sacred trust’.

For a number of reasons that attitude is essential if Oxford (and thus Lincoln) is to be able to continue to provide an academic experience which is unrivalled anywhere in the world. n Max Thorneycroft (1969) GOVERNING BODY ALUMNI REPRESENTATIVE

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Finance Committee Alumni Members’ report Christopher Fitzgerald and I have been the alumni members of the Finance Committee virtually since its inception.

It has been a huge pleasure to serve on this committee, which may beg the question as to why, or if, it has been ‘successful’. I do not have a definitive answer, merely a number of short observations. It seems to me that the ingredients of Lincoln’s success are clearly defined objectives and a concrete understanding of accountability and representation.

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It is likely that all committees claim these attributes but not all endorse them, as we do. All relevant information to aid decisionmaking is made available to our meetings.

This facilitates sensible discussion and recommendation formulation. There is little need and no evidence of ‘back channel’ consensus-building, or at least none of which I am aware. A further strength of the Finance Committee, I feel, is recognition of the crucial distinction between consensus decision-making and consensus decisions.

The latter take time, too much time. The former allows for majority decisions, lively debate, and punctual meetings. Consensus

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decision-making relies upon confident Chairpersons, with whom we have been blessed, and memberships’ recognition that, sometimes, their view will be a minority one. Consensus decisionmaking rather than consensus decisions is the most effective way to organise a committee. In fact, quite a lot of the Finance Committee’s recommendations to the Governing Body have not been unanimous. The recommendation to appoint Partners Capital comes to mind.

Yet due process has been scrupulously observed. Recommendations to Governing Body are not weaker for lack of unanimity. These features make for attractive, lively debate. An area, though, where there has always been unanimity amongst the Finance Committee is the structure of the College’s balance sheet: I attach a simplified version (right).

The introduction of sizable, fixed-rate, long-term financing is the major change over the past two years. The terms of our loan seem reasonable, advantageous even. However, we would not have recommended the leverage, whatever the terms, had our Bursar not demonstrated confident, detailed analysis of how the loan can and will in all likelihood be amortised. We think of the loan as funding future income.

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LINCOLN COLLEGE: BALANCE SHEET

Assets

NatWest Building Dame Louise Johnstone Building Mitre Buiding Present Value (PV) of Student Fees PV Other income Endowment c. £122.4 million (which generates c £3.3 mil annually)

Liabilities

£30 million long-term debt

PV Student Body Costs PV Governing Body & Admin Costs Governing Body £2.9 mil annually

}

7.1 million, annually

of which: Financial Assets: £65.5 million Property Rental Assets: £53.4 million Cash: £3.5 million Land & Historic Buildings:

£100 million, say

It is noteworthy that income from the endowment covers the College’s annual academic and support running costs. This is notwithstanding substantial and overdue increases in academic stipends.

Two years ago, I estimated that an endowment of some £260 million in present-day-values would enable financial self-sufficiency in most practical uses of the term. This total still seems reasonable. If the costs of running the College are around £7m annually and we draw 3% then the Endowment can meet this cost when it

NET WORTH £156.5 million

grows to £233m. If we achieve our target return on our investments of 4% above inflation (and assuming new donations offset the amount drawn each year) it would take a little over 15 years for the Endowment to grow to £233m in presentday values and be able to fund these costs from the annual drawdown.

Our balance sheet and our understanding of it is important because it provides the best analysis of the relationship between our current, necessarily restricted, resources and Lincoln’s future ‘permanent income’.

A further strength of the Finance Committee, I feel, is recognition of the crucial distinction between consensus decision-making and consensus decisions. The latter take time, too much time. The former allows for majority decisions, lively debate, and punctual meetings.

And our permanent income is rising, thanks to sensible financial planning, adherence to the 3% ‘golden rule’ annuity, and the fathomless generosity of Lincoln’s alumni and friends.

Lincoln’s Finance Committee is a Fox, not a Hedgehog. It doesn’t know one big thing. The College has on-going statutory and academic obligations, which must be attended to and financed. The range of practical problems and responsibilities that fall within the Finance Committee’s remit are surprisingly diverse and always handled with the highest standards of professionalism and competence. n Hugh Sloane (1977) FINANCE

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Alumni representation on College committees 2017–18 Alumni Members of the Development Committee Mr Simon K C Li 1966 Mr Richard W J Hardie (Chair) 1967 Mr Adebayo O Ogunlesi 1972 Mr Spencer C Fleischer 1976 Mr Richard E Titherington 1981 Ms Jane S Jenkins 1982 Dr Lynn B Shepherd 1982 Mr Simon J Gluckstein 1986 Mr Philip Dragoumis 1990 Mr Matthew G R Vaight 1993 Miss Charlotte A Swing 2000 Mr Alexander J Baker 2003 Members of the Rector’s Council Professor John R Salter Mr Timothy M Hearley Mr Jeremy Taylor Mr Christopher FitzGerald Mr Ian F R Much Mr Michael Noakes Mr Simon K C Li Mr David A C Reid Scott Sir David C Clementi

1953 1961 1961 1963 1963 1964 1966 1966 1967

Mr Richard W J Hardie Mr Alan B Gibbins Professor Douglas F McWilliams Mr Peter C Mitchell Mr Max Thorneycroft Mr David C Watt Mr Nitin J Madhvani Mr Adebayo O Ogunlesi Mr Michael E S Zilkha Sir Roderick I Eddington Mr Adrian C P Goddard Mr Thomas R Plant Mr Mark D Seligman Mr Spencer C Fleischer Mr Keith S Roberts Mr Robert M Pickering Mr Hugh P Sloane Dr Anthony Cocker Mr Stephen J Cooke Dr Bill K Cuthbert Mr David Graham Dr Nicola R Greenwood Ms Madeleine M C Parker Professor Henry R Woudhuysen Ms Susan R Harrison Ms Alison Hartley Mr Christopher J Millerchip Mr Richard E Titherington Mr Nigel Hankin Ms Jane S Jenkins Dr Lynn B Shepherd Mr Andrew J M Spokes Mr Darren L Marshall Mr Constantine Gonticas Mr Simon J Gluckstein Miss Su-Shan Tan Mr Paul E Hilsley Mr Sew-Tong Jat Dr Philipp M Hildebrand

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1967 1968 1969 1969 1969 1969 1970 1972 1972 1974 1974 1974 1974 1976 1976 1977 1977 1978 1978 1978 1978 1979 1979 1979 1980 1980 1981 1981 1982 1982 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1986 1987 1988 1990

Dr Sabine J Jaccaud 1991 Mr Matthew G R Vaight 1993 Miss Charlotte A Swing 2000 Mr Alexander J Baker 2003 Mr Watt Boone 2003 The Rt Revd Bishop Christopher Lowson (Visitor) Emeritus Members of the Rector’s Council Mr Kenneth E Sewards-Shaw 1949 Sir Peter N Miller + 1950 Mr Jermyn P Brooks 1958 Mr Detmar A Hackman 1958 Mr Peter A Davis 1960 Mr Clive Mather 1966 Mr Nicholas D Morrill 1977 Alumni Representative on Governing Body Mr Max Thorneycroft 1969 Alumni Representatives on Finance Committee Mr Christopher FitzGerald Mr Hugh Sloane

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Members of the Remuneration Committee Professor Peter Cook Professor Keith Gull Ms Sheona Wood 1981 Dr Jan C H W Palmowski 1991 Dr Wendy L Piatt 1992 President of the Lincoln Society 2017-18 Dr Susan Brigden President of the Murray Society 2017-18 Professor Stephen Gill President of the Crewe Society 2017-18 Mr Nigel Wilson

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Regional alumni groups United Kingdom Bristol Cambridge

Edinburgh

Oxford North America Boston Chicago Denver Los Angeles New York, NY Philadelphia San Diego

Kate Redshaw (1987) Sabine Jaccaud (1991), Daniel Watts (1991) Helen Wright (1988), Sarah Aitken (1989) Linxin Li (2010)

Arabella Simpkin (2000) Marc Weinberg (1996) David George (2014) Shawn Landres (1996) Darren Marshall (1984) David Sorensen (1978) Diana Steel (1985)

San Francisco Cecilia Ng (2011) Seattle, Washington Michael Barnes (2005),

Shawn Anderson (2008) Washington, DC Chelsea Souza (2012) Montreal Jordan-Nicolas Matte (2016) Toronto Simon Clements (1986) Vancouver Susie Benes (2009) Europe Amsterdam Berlin Brussels Dublin Paris Switzerland

Jerome Ellepola (1995) Marina Kolesnichenko (2006) Julie Baleriaux (2012) Kathryn Segesser (2008) Alison Culliford (1986) John Rolley (1979), Ramin Gohari (2010)

Asia Hong Kong Mumbai New Delhi

Natalie Hui (1996) Dhruv Lakra (2007) Gopal Jain (1989)

Australasia Melbourne Sydney

Jillian Williams (2012) Matthew Cunningham (2002)

Please contact Jane Mitchell (jane.mitchell@ lincoln.ox.ac.uk) if you are interested in starting a regional group in your area.

Tour of the Getty Villa in Los Angeles

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Deaths

The following alumni and friends of Lincoln College died between 1 August 2017 and 31 July 2018.

If you would like further information or advice on submitting an obituary, please contact the Development Office.

Sir Maurice Shock (Rector 1987-94) – died 7 July 2018 Mr Peter D J Campbell (1934) – died 11 January 2018 Mr Bernard Selton (1938) – died 26 December 2017 Dr Walter J Warrell Bowring M C (1938) – died 5 August 2017 Dr Anthony F Childs (1939) – died 28 December 2017 Mr Anthony Johnson (1944) – died 23 November 2017 Mr Donald MacKay (1945) – died 14 February 2018 Mr John R Wilson (1945) – died 9 September 2017 Lieutenant-Colonel Edward I Wirgman (1945) – died 19 October 2017 The Revd Bryan E P Blyth (1946) – died 14 February 2018 Professor Clifford H Lawrence (1946) – died 13 January 2018 Mr Henry R Douglas (1947) – died 23 March 2018 Dr Peter B Myers (1947) – died 17 February 2018 Professor Andrew G Watson (1947) – died 15 September 2017

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Mr Ian L Aitken (1948) – died 21 February 2018 Dr John P Leaver (1948) – died July 2018 Mr Peter Lewis (1948) – died 26 August 2017 Sir Peter N Miller (1950) – died 1 February 2018 Dr John A L Sturrock (1951) – died 14 August 2017 Mr Colin M Fenning (1953) – died 12 March 2018 The Revd Canon Jack Higham (1953) – died 21 June 2018 Mr George B Morris (1953) – died 19 March 2018 Mr John C Edwards (1954) – died 20 September 2017 The Revd Dr Colin Morris (1954) – died 20 May 2018 Mr Alan N White (1954) – died 7 December 2017 Mr Alan M Pearson (1956) – died 1 January 2018 Mr Jim E A Glendinning (1958) – died 1 May 2018 Mr Nicholas H Chamberlen (1959) – died 6 May 2018

Mr Michael Ivory (1959) – died 6 June 2018 Mr Kevin B Lavery (1959) – died 22 October 2017 Mr David I Senton (1959) – died 1 May 2018 Mr Michael G M Watkins (1959) – died January 2018 Mr John N Sunderland (1960) – died 16 January 2018 Mr D A Seldon (1961) – died 1 March 2018 Dr Thomas G Waldman (1961) – died 1 July 2018 Mr Mark P Andreae (1962) – died 27 January 2018 Dr Robert Maybury (1962) – died 17 September 2017 Mr Michael I Grierson (1963) – died 12 July 2018 Mr Peter J Witchell (1964) – died 21 September 2017 Mr Peter J Court (1969) – died 31 October 2017 Mr Charles S Cahill (1970) – died 23 April 2018 Mr Timothy M Knowles (1979) – died 11 November 2017

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Tim Knowles (1979; Bursar 2000-15) Tim Knowles came up to Lincoln from Stamford School in Michaelmas 1979. His tutors immediately recognised his intellectual powers and promise.

‘First class work and ability’, wrote Paul Langford, presciently. A scholar of the College, Tim duly took a splendid First. He began doctoral research on Ducal Burgundy and might easily have become an academic historian. Thinking about history, reading history was his abiding pleasure, and his friends imagined that he would write a book, in time. He remained a historian at heart, and his was always the historian’s cast of mind: judicious, quizzical, sometimes cynical, balancing various interpretations, searching for cause and motive, understanding the vagaries of human behaviour, seeing the play of diurnal breezes, taking a long view.

Leaving Oxford, Tim went into the City and became a successful fund manager, working first for Saudi International Bank – hence his life-long interest in the Middle East – then Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and finally Robert Fleming. In 2000, when the Governing Body determined to appoint a professional Bursar, Tim applied. He had an old loyalty to the College. There he had made life-long friendships, and there, above all, he had met another young historian, Cathy Potter. Romance bloomed as he helped her to write an essay on the Ottoman Turks. They married in 1986, and had three children, Christopher, Ben, and Rebecca. Rebecca, too, came to study at Lincoln.

It is doubtful whether any Bursar in Lincoln’s long history oversaw so dramatic an evolution in the College’s fortunes as Tim did during the 15 years of

his tenure. The value of the endowment quadrupled under his vigilant stewardship, reaching £100 million for the first time. This growth and the stability it brought to the College’s affairs were assured in a period of global economic malaise. At the same time funds were found for a remarkable series of property acquisitions and for programmes of building and refurbishment which transformed the College’s estate: the EPA Science Centre and restoration of Museum Road accommodation, the Turl Tavern development, the Dame Louise Johnson graduate building, the Berrow Foundation Building, the purchase of the NatWest building on the High Street and the renovation of the Alfred Street buildings, the refurbishment of Lincoln House and Staircase 15, and of the Chapel and Library. Farmland was purchased.

Si monumentum requiris. All this was achieved without any drawdown from endowment funds. Tim persuaded the Fellows to adopt strict fiscal disciplines which allowed the endowment to grow. Trust in his stewardship encouraged alumni and benefactors to make the ever-more generous donations which made possible not only the building programme but also investment in the College’s scholarly and communal purposes. As a consequence of Tim’s careful stewardship Lincoln now enjoys new stability and freedom.

establish the 2027 Trust. He welcomed the different perspective and wisdom of alumni representatives on Finance Committee and Governing Body and acted as secretary of the new Remuneration Committee. He negotiated on behalf of the College with the Charity Commissioners, with the University, and with other trusts. In time, Tim became the Bursar other colleges summoned when they needed to appoint Bursars of their own, so widely was he respected within the University.

In the College, with its ancient system of collective responsibility, nothing is decided or achieved individually, but in a spirit of collegiality, and care for the wider College community. Fellows must be persuaded by rigour of argument. Tim Knowles’s deeply pondered advice and acute explanations of arcane financial matters, his awesome good sense, his probity, his imaginative vision won the respect and trust of the Fellows and helped them to take binding decisions. Committed to the aim of eventual financial self-sufficiency for the College, he found ways to

For much of Tim’s time as Bursar the College’s domestic operations were directly within his purview and responsibility, and the staff – many of whom had known him since he was an undergraduate – looked to and reported to him. He greatly valued their dedication and loyalty. His concern was not only for the whole College but for the welfare of individuals, and he would offer practical help. When Tim asked ‘How are you?’ he really wanted to know, and people did tell him. Even in the press of College business, he found time to help smaller charities and trusts, including the Vacation

Tim’s concern for the academic purposes of the College and its integrity as a scholarly community was at the heart of all he did as Bursar. His own experience made personal his understanding of the tutorial system and the wider life of the College, including its sporting and social life. Acutely aware of the financial burdens of many students, he was determined to keep costs down and to provide assistance to those facing particular difficulties; he took great care in managing hardship funds and devising bursary schemes. Although decisions were corporate, he was left to the lonely task of their implementation. The light would burn late in his study; mountains of papers were taken home; there were sleepless nights. His seeming resilience and imperturbability came at great personal cost.

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Project, and many others which he never named. He enjoyed days out with the Vacation Project and punting with students studying at Lincoln with the Keio Summer School. Even at the end of a very difficult year, he could report, ‘Still, it has been fun’.

Beyond all this dedication and achievement, his friends and colleagues will remember his slow smile, the shout of laughter, his capacity for amusement, his occasional grumpiness, his gift for friendship, his kindness and deep sympathy which came from his faith and his sense of human frailty (not least his own), his humility, his great fidelity. How blessed we were to know him.

Susan Brigden (Supernumerary Fellow)

Sir Maurice Shock (Rector 1987-94) Sir Maurice Shock, who died on 7 July 2018 at the age of 92, was one of the outstanding University leaders of his generation, serving, between 1977 and 1994, as ViceChancellor of the University of Leicester, Chairman of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, and finally Rector of Lincoln College Oxford.

Shock was born in Birmingham in 1926 and attended King Edward’s School, where he was head boy. His military service from 1945 to 1948 was spent in the Intelligence Corps – a time which he described as being passed mainly playing games and reading; though some who worked with him subsequently felt that there was – and may have continued to be – rather more to it than that. He proceeded to Balliol College where he read, and achieved a First in, Politics, Philosophy and Economics. In 1947 he married Dorothy, whom he had met in 1944 at a sixth

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form conference organised by Shock himself.

There followed a period of research at St Antony’s College and temporary posts at Christ Church and at Trinity College. It was presumably during this period that he was one of the team of assistants to Sir Winston Churchill in the writing of his monumental histories.

Shock’s first substantive appointment came in 1956 as Fellow and Praelector (Tutor) in Politics at University College, Oxford, where he was also Estates Bursar for 15 years. He was responsible for the transformation of the appearance of the College, overseeing the creation of a number of new buildings, as well as rationalising the College’s property holdings and reinvesting successfully.

He demonstrated similar interests and skills subsequently both at Leicester University and at Lincoln College, where a number of building developments are attributable to his vision and drive.

His contribution to Oxford was not confined to his college. He made his name on the University stage as a member of the Franks Commission of enquiry into the administrative structure of the University, and was one of the youngest people to serve on the University’s governing Hebdomadal Council. He had a long association with the Oxford Union, for which he was Senior Treasurer for 18 years, a role which reinforced his standing at the heart of the University during a turbulent period in student affairs.

When Shock came to Leicester as Vice-Chancellor in 1977, it had been a fully independent university for only 20 years. This proved to be the end of the period of rapid post-war expansion in provincial universities; and as the University celebrated the

25th anniversary of its charter in 1981-2, he also faced the challenge of leading it through the funding reductions imposed on the HE sector by the first Thatcher administration. This he did with typical sang froid, sympathy for the position of those affected, and a determination to achieve the minimum savings with the least possible damage to academic productivity and morale.

There were some important scientific achievements during his stewardship – not least the discovery of DNA fingerprinting by Alec Jeffreys in 1984; and a distinctive feature of his time at Leicester was his nurturing of the nascent Medical School. The original Medical School building was appropriately renamed the Maurice Shock Building following his retirement; and his continuing interest in medicine and the health economy were further reflected in his subsequent membership of General Medical Council; his chairmanship of the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust; membership of the Health Board of the RAND Corporation; and an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians.

From 1985 to 1987 he was Chairman of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals (predecessor of the present Universities UK), where his diplomatic skills and mastery of what would now be called networking were invaluable in defending the sector during difficult times.

Returning to Oxford in 1987 as Rector of Lincoln, Shock continued his keen interest in the development of the institutions to which he belonged. He is credited with recognising, some time before other Oxford and Cambridge colleges, that active professional fundraising would be essential for the College’s future development. He established its first Development Office, and with the proceeds of a

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campaign was able to complete the redevelopment of the College’s commercial properties in the High Street and Bear Lane – giving Lincoln an academic presence on the south side of the High. His affection for his adopted college was apparent.

It was said of Shock that he always seemed to have ‘serene and instantaneous comprehension’ of the most complicated issues, and he was well known for being far-sighted. In his dealings with others – whether they were pupils at Oxford, University colleagues, or fellow members of national organisations – Shock was always civilised, companionable, and entertaining.

For colleagues, it was impossible to come away from a meeting with him (even on difficult topics) without feeling encouraged.

Even in institutions where intelligence is the common currency, Shock was recognised as having a formidable intelligence, combined with a talent for inspiring loyalty. If at first there seemed to be an element of mandarin detachment about him, this did not survive closer acquaintance. He was warmly remembered both for the breadth of his analysis of the topic under discussion in the weekly tutorial, and for his establishment of lasting friendships with his pupils; while colleagues remember him also for the relaxed, calm, kind, and efficient way in which he dealt with business and personal matters of all kinds.

Anthony Childs (1939) Tony Childs was born in London in April 1921.

He grew up in Southampton and was educated at Taunton School where he developed a love of chemistry. He went on to study the subject at Lincoln College, gaining a DPhil in 1946.

After leaving Oxford, Tony spent two years lecturing at the Royal Military College of Science in Shrivenham, before moving to the Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment at Porton Down in Salisbury, where he became Head of the Chemistry department. During this time he met Monica, ‘Mick’ to her friends. The couple were married in 1952 and their two children, Paula and Robin, were born in 1953 and 1955. In 1956, the family moved from Salisbury to Kinver in Staffordshire.

Tony spent the next 25 years as a research manager for Albright and Wilson in Oldbury. He left in 1981 aged 60, but worked for another ten years as an independent research consultant. He maintained an interest in chemistry after retiring, and was a Life Member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Society of Chemical Industry.

He leaves a son and three daughters.

In 1988 Tony and Mick moved into a bungalow in Kinver, and also bought a villa in Spain where they regularly holidayed over the next 20 years. Mick sadly passed away in September 2013 and, by a strange coincidence, Tony suffered a spontaneous hip fracture the same day. Aged 92, he underwent a hip replacement operation and spent several months recovering in hospital and respite care. It was typical of his independent spirit that he preferred to carry on living at home and managing for himself.

Nigel Siesage (1971)

Paula Martin (daughter) and Robin Childs (son)

The death of Dorothy in 1998 after over 50 successful years of marriage was a considerable blow. In his later years he had the comfort of a new close personal relationship with Helen Callaway, but this friendship was brought to an abrupt end by her premature death.

Anthony Johnson (1944) Anthony was born in Hampstead Garden Suburb on 10 November 1926. The family owned a cottage outside Basingstoke, where they lived during the war. Anthony went by train to Peter Symonds School. He always said he did not do well at school.

However, he had the opportunity to be interviewed in Oxford for a six-month short course, enabling him to return on demobilisation. He joined the navy and trained in radar, but did not see active service. He attended the first Edinburgh Festival when his ship was berthed in the Firth of Forth.

On his 21st birthday, 1947, he was looking for digs in Oxford. The ages of students at that time were diverse.

He read Law at Lincoln but, on graduation, was not sure he wanted to become a lawyer! During his student years Anthony attended lectures by Kenneth Clark and canvassed in Sussex with Jeremy Thorpe.

His first job was as a trainee manager with Harrods.

However, the Law won and, with the help of a friend, Anthony had articles with a firm in Manchester Square, doing lowly jobs to help pay his way. On qualifying in 1956, he joined a firm in Camberley but was soon asked by friends to go up to London and join them at Beachcrofts in Bedford Square. He felt he had a vocation to be a solicitor, and one of his very elderly clients even looked on him as a son. However, his best moment came with the smallpox enquiry around 1980. The firm acted for St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, where a couple, who were visiting, contracted the disease and died. Anthony did not employ a barrister, and thus the legal medical department at Beachcrofts was born.

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adviser to Cherry Trees, and as a school governor until he was 80! He loved going back to Lincoln for Gaudies. He had married Tessa in 1959. They shared a love of Gilbert & Sullivan. With their son and daughter they lived for 34 years on top of the hill in Guildford.

In the large garden there was an asparagus bed and vicious games of croquet took place. Hours were spent every August cutting the yew hedge by hand.

In due course, the children having married, there were four grandchildren and, in June 2017, a greatgrandchild, Alfie, was born. He was a great joy for Anthony. Parkinson’s finally took its toll. He died on 23 November 2017, having just celebrated his 91st birthday with visits from all the family.

Tessa Johnson (wife)

John Radford Wilson (1945) John Radford Wilson was born in 1927 and was educated at St Albans School. He completed a university short course in science at Lincoln College at the same time as training in the army. In 1946 he was commissioned in the Royal Artillery and sent to post-war Germany.

After Germany, he was able to complete his studies in chemistry at Lincoln due to obtaining a postwar education funding scheme. He gained a Blue, running in the University relay team, and became a life-long member of the Achilles club. He paced Roger Bannister at the Iffley Road Stadium when he was training for his four-minute mile. Lincoln won the Athletics Cuppers during his time.

He also played rugby for the Greyhounds at Oxford and for Richmond on the wing. He went on several tours with the University, including the first post-war

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Oxford and Cambridge Easter tour to the South of France in 1946. Having learned to sail in the army, he also participated in university sailing.

In his last year at Oxford he met his wife of over 60 years, Pat, who was training to be an occupational therapist at Dorset House. After leaving Oxford, he took a job with ICI in Manchester, where he made his lifelong career in marketing, and settled in Cheshire.

He chaired the Manchester Junior Chamber of Commerce and later became a director of the British Institute of Management, ran the Institute of Export, and chaired several committees producing influential business papers, including setting standards for languages at work. He wrote two books on exporting and importing, one of which has been translated into 27 languages. A copy can be found in the Lincoln College Library.

Bryan Edward Perceval Blyth (1946) Born in Weymouth, Bryan was son of the local Rector. He was raised in rural Wiltshire, and educated at King’s, Taunton.

These formed major strands of Bryan’s character. He loved the Dorset coast and rural life, and had an early vocation for the priesthood.

Bryan served in the Signals from 1940, and then followed his father by going up to Lincoln College to read Theology in 1946. They were both Founder’s Kin, but never proclaimed it. In 1947, while at Oxford, he married Catherine, the great love of his life. His postgraduate training was at Wells Theological College, from where he was ordained deacon in Chester Cathedral and priest at Timperley.

After John left ICI, he and Pat moved to London, where he was made a Freeman of the City. He became a small business consultant to the Prince’s Trust and was a trustee of the Clerkenwell Green Association, which helps young people to build a career in creative arts and crafts.

The bare facts of his life do not do him justice. He was a wonderful husband, father, priest, and pastor to his people. He loved youth work and took the Youth Club from Weymouth on a 50-mile, five-day ‘pilgrimage’ to Salisbury for the 700th anniversary of the Cathedral dedication.

John was delighted when one of his grandsons, having achieved a place at Oxford to study for his DPhil, chose Lincoln as his college. An ancestor, John Radford, was a Rector of Lincoln, and so it continued a family connection.

He was a practical man who could make items out of wood (like a sledge), fix wiring, mend things, cut grass with a scythe, and design and build a garden. He was also a caller of country dances, a photographer, wrote poetry, and had a good ear for music. He sang the services beautifully and frequently regaled the washing up with ‘Hark the Herald Angels’!

He celebrated his 90th birthday at the end of this summer, where amongst others, friends from his Lincoln days joined him. John was forever grateful for his Oxford education, and the friendships it brought, and supported Lincoln throughout his life.

Sue Kalderon (daughter)

Bryan worked in Bournemouth, Weymouth, and Essex, where he eventually became a full-time teacher. On retirement at 65 he went back to his roots, becoming resident priest in a small rural village.

Everything Bryan did was done with love, humour,

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and enthusiasm. He finally retired to a place in Hampshire with childhood holiday memories (always regretting it wasn’t Dorset)!

He is survived by his beloved wife, two daughters, five grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren. He remains deeply loved and sorely missed.

Janet Blyth (daughter)

Clifford Hugh Lawrence (1946) Hugh Lawrence, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, was a gifted teacher who inspired a number of students to take up medieval studies. He introduced the Oxford tutorial system to Bedford College and helped build up a successful department of distinguished historians.

Hugh was born in 1921 and went to the Stationer’s School in Hornsey, where a gifted classics master imbued him with a love of classics that was to stay with him all his life.

He volunteered for the army and was sent to West Africa to collect troops to fight in Burma, where he served for the duration of the war, rising to the rank of major.

On demobilising, Hugh knocked on the door of Lincoln College and asked to read Greats. As all the places for that were taken he was offered a place to read History. And so, by chance, he embarked on a career as an historian. He was awarded a First in 1948.

After a short spell as an archivist he was appointed lecturer at Bedford College. Here he met and married Helen, the love of his life, and they had 52 happy

years together. Hugh went on to become Head of Department and held a chair in Medieval History.

He played a pivotal role in the successful merger of Bedford College and Royal Holloway. Through a Lincoln College friend, Henry Douglas (1947), he served as a member of the Press Council.

Hugh’s interest in religion dominated his academic output. He regarded himself as a historian of the church. His DPhil on St Edmund of Abingdon was followed by books including The English Church and the Papacy, Medieval Monasticism, The Friars, and translations of The Letters of Adam Marsh. He also contributed to numerous books and periodicals including the History of Oxford. Medieval Monasticism was a great success; it sold widely, was translated into many languages, and put on university and theological college reading lists.

One of his students has commented that Hugh ‘will be remembered as a fine teacher who put generations of students in his debt. We are all the poorer for his passing’.

Hugh is greatly missed by his six children and nine grandchildren.

At Oxford he wrote a lot of poetry, much of it published in The Lincoln Imp, Isis, and various slim volumes. He also played chess for the University and for the county of Oxfordshire, and he met his wife Elizabeth (LMH) in a class on the French Revolution.

After Oxford, Henry worked on the Liverpool Daily Post, becoming leader writer and assistant editor. In 1969, he moved to London as part of the editorial team which launched the Murdoch Sun. He was leader writer and columnist: Larry Lamb (editor of the Sun) wrote of his ‘elegant, cultured prose’. To the end he was a stickler for good writing and correct grammar. Later he became Legal Manager of the News of the World.

He was President and later a Fellow of the Institute of Journalists, served on the Press Council and the Newspaper Press Fund, and was a founder of the Media Society.

Elizabeth died in 2012, and two of their five children died in 2014. Henry was sustained in these losses by his strong Catholic faith. He died on 23 March 2018 in his sleep, aged 93, very unexpectedly, the day after going out for a very good lunch with his daughter and son.

Jane Douglas (daughter)

Clare Hatcher (daughter)

Henry Russell Douglas (1947) Henry Douglas was born in 1925 in Bishopbriggs and remained a proud Scot all his life, wearing his kilt at every opportunity.

He joined the navy in 1943 and (although he was very tall) served in submarines, which he loved. In 1947 he went up to Lincoln (where his friend Hugh Lawrence already was) to read History.

Tomasz Jan Legowski (1947) Born on 8 March 1920 in Kowalewo, a little town north of Torun in Poland, Jan grew up together with two brothers and three sisters. His father was a successful merchant, his mother a warm and loving person.

With A-Levels in his pocket, Jan entered the military pilot school in Deblin, Poland, in 1938. In 1939, the OBITUARIES

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Second World War broke out and Jan had to escape via Romania, a Greek cargo ship to Malta, and then to Lyon in France. Here, in February 1940, Flight Lieutenant Robinson from the Voluntary Reserve of the Royal Air Force (RAF) recruited Jan and his pals to join the RAF. During the flight trainings which took place at several locations in Great Britain, Jan learned the handling of the Defiant, Hurricane, and Spitfire. After completion of the training in 1942, he joined the 316 ‘City of Warsaw’ Polish squadron. The flights to the continent started. On 4 May 1943, Jan was escorting an American Flying Fortress when his aircraft was shot down by a Messerschmitt test pilot over Antwerp. His parachute luckily opened and saved his life. A twoyear imprisonment in Stalag Luft III in Zagan near Berlin (also known from the so-called ‘Great Escape’ of March 1944) followed. The camp was liberated by Soviet forces in January 1945 and the prisoners could escape, heading west into freedom.

Back in England, he did not find it easy to settle again.

By good fortune, Jan met with Keith Murray, the Rector of Lincoln, who was impressed by the courage of the Polish RAF pilots. Jan was accepted by the College, where he successfully completed his forestry studies as an entomologist. He started his professional career in the Ministry of Agriculture in Cambridge. In 1947, he married his first wife Phyllis Hunter and soon his daughters Nina (1955) and Jane (1957) enriched his life. Sadly, this marriage did not last and in 1969 a new phase of life started in Basle, Switzerland, where he took on a position as a marketing engineer for Eastern Europe in the agrochemical division of Sandoz (Novartis). In 1972, he married Marina Koellreuter and another two daughters, Janina (1973) and Sabina (1977) were born. Poland, England, and Switzerland three souls now within him!

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After his retirement, Jan took great pleasure in painting, playing tennis, skiing and hiking in the mountains, gardening, reading, and writing. He also helped collecting funds for the people in need in his Polish hometown, where he was declared an honorary citizen.

After a rich and adventurous life, our dear Jan has passed away in his home village close to Basle, Switzerland, in 2011. His motto: ‘I have been so lucky!’

The Legowski family

Peter Briggs Myers (1947) Peter Briggs Myers, a physicist, and a co-owner and developer of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a widely used personalitytype assessment, died peacefully on 17 February 2018.

Peter was the son of Clarence Gates Myers and Isabel Briggs Myers. Isabel and her mother, Katharine Cook Briggs, created the MBTI instrument as a practical application of the personality-type theory of Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, beginning their work in the 1940s. When Isabel Myers died in 1980, she left the copyright to the MBTI to Peter and his then wife Katharine Downing Myers. Peter and Katharine spent the next several decades ensuring the scientific rigour and overseeing the continued development of the assessment, along with the publisher CPP, Inc. Today the MBTI instrument has been taken by millions of people around the world to help them better understand themselves and others, and is in use by 88 of the Fortune 100 companies. The instrument has been translated into more than 25 languages and its use overseas has grown rapidly in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand.

Peter and Katharine helped to fund the Center for Applications of Psychological Type (CAPT), a nonprofit organisation started by Isabel Myers and Mary McCaulley, and it continues to provide research and training in the use of the MBTI. They also established the non-profit Myers & Briggs Foundation that funds research on Type and its application.

Peter was born on 24 April, 1926 in Washington, D.C. He enrolled in George Washington University before enrolling in a Navy programme for engineers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He later entered Lincoln College as a Rhodes Scholar in September 1947, earning his doctorate in nuclear physics from Oxford in 1950.

His time in Oxford made a lasting impression, and he remained in contact with Lincoln, becoming a Murray Fellow in 1998. Rector Henry Woudhuysen said in a letter to the family that Peter’s eminence in his scientific research career, his involvement in and affection for Lincoln College, as well as his generosity to it, led Lincoln to elect him to a Murray Fellowship.

This was a new type of award for the College and Peter was one of the three founding members of the Fellowship.

Peter married Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Monk on 28 July 1948, and began work as a physicist on transistors and semiconductor devices in the Switching Research Department of the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey. The couple later moved to southern California where Peter was employed by Magnavox Research Laboratories for more than ten years, working on radio and satellite navigation. They divorced in 1971.

Peter soon married Katharine Downing Heisler, his high school sweetheart, and in 1973 moved to the Washington, D.C. area to head a research group. He

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then joined the National Academy of Sciences, where he served as Director of the Board on Radioactive Waste Management. In that capacity, he was responsible for the management and long-term storage of nuclear waste from commercial and defence activities until his retirement in the 1990s.

An avid sailor, Peter grew up sailing on Lake George in upstate New York, and in recent years sailed the Chesapeake on his beloved wooden ketch, ‘Sea Cloud’.

He once rescued Albert Einstein on Saranac Lake in Massachusetts. Peter had taken a canoe out on the lake when the water became choppy and he noticed a small sailboat with a single sailor who was desperately trying to lower the sail. When the man turned around, he realised to his delight it was his hero Albert Einstein.

Peter paddled both of them to shore, after which Einstein invited him back to their cottage to dry out and have a cup of tea. Einstein turned out to know Peter’s grandfather, the physicist Lyman J. Briggs.

Peter contributed generously to multiple charities throughout his life and has left a large bequest to Lincoln College.

He leaves behind a son and two daughters, as well as three stepchildren, five grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. His niece and nephew also survive him. He is also survived by his partner, Jane ‘Emma’ Mannes.

Kathleen Hughes (niece)

Ian Aitken (1948) Ian Aitken was born 19 September 1927 in Airdrie, Scotland, before the family moved to London and he was sent to King Alfred School, Hamstead. He was called up for national service in the Fleet Air Arm and was stationed near Abingdon, Oxfordshire.

He began his study of economics at Regent Street Polytechnic, but found they largely ignored the conclusions of Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes.

During his navy service he had developed a liking for nearby Oxford. So, ‘one day, I put on my best uniform and tramped round banging on college doors until I found one that would have me.’ And the tutor to whom Lincoln College entrusted him for his course in Philosophy, Politics and Economics was happy to teach him Keynes.

Ian’s commitment to Labour was firmly established, but not yet his commitment to journalism. His first employment in 1951 was as a factory inspector; his second as an officer of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions. It was when the left-wing weekly Tribune hired him in 1953 as an industrial reporter that the pattern of his life was decided.

He was then hired as an industrial writer by the Express, before becoming a foreign correspondent in Paris, New York, and Washington. He was in Algeria during the struggle for independence and in Cuba when it fell to Fidel Castro. Back in London, Ian became the Express’s political editor. His byline appeared on a famous series of stories about the 1963 Profumo scandal; he broke the news that John Profumo had offered his resignation.

In 1964 he heard of a likely vacancy on the Guardian’s political staff and applied for the job. That a journalist should be ready to give up the No 1 job on the buccaneering Express to become No 2 (on lower pay) at the staider Guardian occasioned amazement in Fleet Street. But it was his natural home. Though the paper for which he now wrote was so different, Westminster remained familiar territory and his working practice remained much the same. New recruits who arrived

expecting to find journalists hunting out politicians soon learned that with Ian, it was often the other way round.

Politicians, even senior ministers, would night after night be anxiously seeking him out.

Though his own political affiliations were never in doubt, he was trusted and confided in by many senior Tories. He earned the respect of Margaret Thatcher’s loyal deputy William Whitelaw to such an extent that Whitelaw asked him to be his biographer. Splendid! Splendid!, co-written with Mark Garnett, was published in 2002.

Ian remained his newspaper’s titular No 2 for almost a decade, before becoming political editor in 1975. The turbulence in the Labour party after its 1979 defeat made the last decade of his time as political editor stressful.

When he reached 60 in 1987, Ian switched to the role of columnist and, when he reached 65, he became a columnist and contributing editor for the New Statesman. He finally settled back into his old billet, Tribune, in 1998, where he wrote a fortnightly piece until 2014.

Ian died on 21 February 2018 at the age of 90. His wife, Catherine, predeceased him. He is survived by his daughters, Susie and Jane, and four grandchildren.

Adapted from The Guardian (22 February 2018)

John Philip Leaver (1948) John Leaver was born in London in 1927 and educated at St Alban’s Grammar School. He went up to Oxford in 1948 and gained a BA in Chemistry in 1951, followed by a DPhil in Soil Sciences in 1955. He married Margaret, a teacher, in 1951.

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During his long career as a Research Chemist with Laporte Industries, John was rapidly promoted from experimental work on peroxides to management roles in Luton, then Widnes. He moved to Brussels to coordinate international research in the field of peroxides and their environmental and agricultural applications for Laporte and Solvay, principally at laboratories in Brussels, Munich, and Widnes. This increasingly involved collaboration with universities and research institutes worldwide. His projects included work on disinfection, seed germination, straw delignification, and rice cultivation trials in Nigeria, Japan, the Philippines, and USA, and new uranium extraction applications in South Africa and Australia.

Whilst in Oxford, John played rugby for the College and he stayed in lifelong contact with friends from Lincoln, particularly his two friends with whom he shared a staircase when he started. He was an active member and Treasurer of the Crewe Society for many years, assisting in the organisation of the annual talks and dinners around the country. He pursued interests in art, history, and music, playing the flute in local orchestras in the UK and Belgium.

His beloved wife of 63 years, Margaret, died in 2015.

In spite of many health setbacks, John remained active, read widely, and continued to attend opera courses and concerts.

John was an inspiration to his family. His daughter and grandchild went on to study Biochemistry, two granddaughters studied at Oxford; one even at Lincoln College. He is greatly missed by his five children, 11 grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren.

John’s children: Anne, Clare, Cathy, and Richard

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Sir Peter Miller (1950) Sir Peter Miller, who has died aged 87, was a reforming chairman of Lloyd’s insurance market during one of its most troubled eras.

He first joined Lloyd’s committee in 1977 and deployed his training as a barrister to lead the team that piloted the 1982 Lloyd’s Act, which followed the recommendations of the Fisher Report to create a more democratic ruling council and address conflicts of interest in the ownership of member firms.

When Miller succeeded Sir Peter Green in the chair in January 1984, Lloyd’s was besieged by allegations of scandal. Inquiries were in hand into the underwriting businesses of Alexander Howden and PCW, in which millions were alleged to have been siphoned off by insiders, and Green himself was under criticism for bringing insufficient vigour to the cleaning of the stable.

Having taken charge when, as he put it, ‘Lloyd’s had let the City down [and] the honest men were shattered by what a small number of miscreants had done’, over his three years in the chair Miller left the market’s morale, as well as its rule-book, in notably better health. His personal reputation was unstained by the failings that had to be addressed during his tenure, but it was inevitable that he would leave unfinished business for his successors over the following decade.

Among the achievements of Miller’s tenure were a favourable negotiation with the Inland Revenue over the treatment of underwriting liabilities, and a settlement of Names’ losses in the PCW case. More positively, he presided over the opening of the market’s bold new building in Lime Street, designed

by Richard Rogers.

Peter North Miller was born on 28 September 1930.

He was educated at Rugby, where he played in the First XV and was captain of running; he did National Service in the Intelligence Corps before going up to Lincoln College, and winning a Blue for crosscountry. In 1953, while studying for his bar exams, he joined Thos R Miller. He was called to the Bar in 1954.

Having entered the partnership in 1960, he was senior partner from 1971 to 1996, but relinquished the firm’s executive chairmanship during the years when he was fully engaged in Lloyd’s affairs.

He was also a member of the Baltic Exchange, a vice president of the British Insurance Brokers Association, chairman of Lloyd’s Tercentenary Foundation and one of HM’s lieutenants for the City of London. He was knighted in 1988.

He married first, in 1955, Katharine Milner; secondly, in 1979, ‘Leni’ Boon Lian Gowans; and thirdly, in 1991, Jane Herbertson, who survives him with their son, and two sons and a daughter of the first marriage.

Adapted from The Telegraph (26 February 2018)

Edward Salmon (1952) Edward (Ted) Salmon went up to Lincoln to read Law in 1952, after completing National Service. He formed lifelong friendships while at Lincoln and engaged in many activities, particularly in the arts and music. A highlight was acting in, and arranging a plain song accompaniment to, a production of Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot, directed by Paul Mitchell (1952) and featuring a young Maggie Smith.

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After graduating, he joined BP, based for much of his time in London, but with extended postings to Hamburg in the 60s and to Greece from 1974 to 1979. Soon after returning to the UK he was appointed Head of Human Resources, a position he held until his retirement in 1989.

Retirement for Ted was more of a second chapter in a busy working life, and gave him the freedom to pursue his passion for community-based activities and programmes benefiting those less fortunate in society. For seven years he brought his HR experience to the Prince’s Youth Business Trust, working to find mentors for young entrepreneurs who were struggling to access start-up financing.

He was also very active in fundraising and other support programmes for organisations helping the homeless.

From the mid-1990s, he concentrated on Dulwich Helpine (now Link Age Southwark), a charity he set up in 1993 in connection with two churches, to provide support for lonely and neglected older people in Southwark.

Ted worked tirelessly for the charity, initially as Chair of the Trustees and subsequently as Honorary President. Link Age Southwark is now celebrating its 25th anniversary, has 420 volunteers, and helps over 600 people in the local community.

He maintained a close connection to Lincoln, attending alumni events regularly. His contemporaries remember him as a little formal and reserved in those early days. Those who knew him in later life remember his warmth and care for others, expressed through his social work in particular, as he and his wife of 50 years, Jennifer, touched the lives of so many in their community.

Although Ted was diagnosed with Prostate cancer and Parkinson’s disease soon after his 70th birthday, he continued to pursue his passion for the arts and community activities until just a few months before his death in July 2017. He is survived by Jennifer, two sons, Neil and Hugh, and five grandchildren.

Neil followed him to Lincoln in 1988 and his granddaughter Maia matriculated in 2018.

Neil Salmon (1988, son)

Jack Higham (1953) Residentiary Canon (emeritus) of Peterborough Cathedral, died on 27 June 2018, aged 85, of a sudden unexpected heart attack after climbing Beinn a’ Choin, near Loch Lomond. He was born 5 May 1933 in Bolton, Lancashire, the younger son of a trade union leader. He attended Rotherham Grammar School, and completed National Service in the British army in Hong Kong. He won an open scholarship to Lincoln College, Oxford where he took degrees in modern languages and theology.

He attended Queens College, Birmingham, for his theological training. After ordination in the Church of England, he won a fellowship to study at Union Seminary in New York, where he attained a Master of Sacred Theology degree (summa cum laude). Whilst assisting part time at Grace Episcopal Church in New Jersey, he met his wife, Patricia, a graduate of Wellesley College, who became Professor of Social Work and Social Care at Nottingham Trent University.

After completing a curacy at St Mary’s, Handsworth, Sheffield, he became Vicar of St James, Woodhouse, Sheffield, and then vicar of St Barnabas Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania. In 1978, he became Rector of Stoke Bruerne, Grafton Regis, Shutlanger, and

Alderton in Northamptonshire, and later Rural Dean.

In 1983 he was appointed Residentiary Canon of Peterborough Cathedral, where he founded a Theological Society and established a Cathedral visitor’s centre. He retired in 2003 to Nottingham where he began a new life of activities, teaching adult education courses on art, architecture, and church history, and taking services on Sundays at parishes which had no vicar. He was a keen walker and had climbed all the Munros in Scotland, and many of the Corbetts.

He remained fit and active to the last. His family, parishioners, students, and friends remember his dedication, thoughtfulness, and humanity with love and admiration. He leaves Pat, his sons Hugh and Tim, and two grandchildren, Amy and Lucy.

Hugh Higham (son)

John Edwards (1954) John Colin Edwards, born 27 August 1936 in Penzance, died peacefully at home in Truro on 20 September 2017. He is survived by his loving wife of 50 years, Paulette Edwards, and his children, Rebecca Loto and Gavin Edwards.

Being born with spina bifida did not damper John’s competitive sporting spirit. He played rugby for Clifton College and Oxford University, later obtaining 28 caps for Jamaica. He also acted as the Chairman for the Jamaica Rugby Football Union from 1970 to 1973.

He enjoyed playing squash for Clifton, Cornwall, and was the Jamaica Open Champion nine times. His love for swimming began when he was a boy at the Battery Rocks in Penzance, and he was later asked OBITUARIES

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to join the Jamaican squad for the Commonwealth Games. Back in colder waters, he swam daily from Gyllyngvase Beach in Falmouth, Cornwall. He enjoyed cricket playing in the Jamaican League and, later in life, golf; his lowest handicap being ten. He founded the Truro Table Tennis Club for senior golf members, which met for 15 years.

He received schooling at Butcombe and Oakley, before moving to Clifton College from 1950 to 1954, and read Law at Lincoln College from 1954 to 1957.

As a fairly average scholar, he was astonished and flattered to have Robert Goff (subsequently Baron Goff of Chieveley and a Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary) as his tutor in his first year.

Qualifying as a solicitor in 1960, he first worked in Truro until heading for the warmer climate of Jamaica in 1962, becoming a partner the year after he arrived.

After the birth of his two children, the family returned to Truro where he worked as a solicitor from 1974 until 1996. In addition, he carried out a unique set of judicial appointments as Chairman of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal (1980-2009), Deputy Coroner of Cornwall (1975-2000), and Deputy District Judge of the South West Division (1985-2000).

Rebecca Loto (daughter)

Alan Neville White (1954) Alan White was educated, 194252, at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Barnet, where he was Head of Broughton House, School Librarian, and won his First XV Colours.

He began his National Service (1952-54) with basic training with the Royal Artillery, but was transferred

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to Cambridge University to be taught Russian and trained as a translator (when hostilities with the Soviet Union were expected). He finished his service with the Intelligence Corps at Maresfield.

He had already won a place to read PPE (unfortunately not his first choice) at Lincoln College. He found politics, political economics, and practical economics of interest, but was not interested in philosophy and theoretical economics. He eventually got a third-class degree.

Alan had spent an increasing amount of time in non-academic activities, many linked to the Oxford dramatic world, including acting as Treasurer for the Oxford University Dramatic Society’s summer production of 1954. This brought him into regular contact with the Manager of Westminster Bank’s Oxford branch, and led to him seeking a job with the Bank when he left Oxford in 1957.

He initially worked at the Bank’s Brompton Square branch, from September 1957 to February 1959, and then, because of the economics in his degree, he was transferred to Westminster’s Economic Intelligence Department at the Bank’s Head Office at Lothbury in the City. By February 1969 he had already become a member of the small corporate planning team charged with the task of establishing the character of the proposed new Bank. This led him through a succession of corporate planning roles at group, bank, and divisional level within NatWest. By 1989-90 he was involved in various projects to reduce staff numbers. His dissatisfaction with his ability, and the management’s willingness to control the spreading Treasury/Investment Banking operations of the Corporate Banking Division, led to his decision to take early retirement on the advantageous terms already negotiated for those losing their jobs. He therefore retired from the Bank in February 1991.

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Thereafter he devoted much of his time to supporting his wife, Christine, in her riding activities and particularly her long-distance and endurance rides across much of Southern England. He also undertook various public roles, including serving as Chairman of the Board of Conservators, to assist the management and conservation of Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, where he and his wife now lived.

He married his wife, Christine Anne Yorke, on 5 July 1988 and they had three children: Margaret, Helen, and Neville. Christine predeceased him in July 2015. He had four grandchildren.

Neville White (son)

Alan Pearson (1956) Alan Pearson was born in January 1937 in Stockport, Cheshire.

In 1947, he was awarded a Foundation Scholarship to Manchester Grammar School, and later won an Open Scholarship in Natural Sciences at Lincoln College. Prior to coming up in October 1956 he completed two years’ National Service in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers where he learnt how to get on with men from all kinds of backgrounds.

He enjoyed his time at Oxford, and alongside his studies played lacrosse for the University second team and hockey for the College. During his summer vacations he acted as a walks leader for the Countrywide Holidays Association, in the Lake District, North Wales, and Scotland, where in July 1958 he met his future wife, Angela.

Following the completion of a PGCE he was appointed to a post teaching chemistry at Sevenoaks School in

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Kent, where he also coached hockey and joined the CCF as an officer. After six years in Kent he moved nearer to the mountains, to a post at Strathallan School, Perthshire, where he spent the remaining 30 years of his career, moving from an assistant teacher to Head of Department, Housemaster, and eventually, Director of Studies (Science). In this capacity he was responsible for designing the timetable, without the aid of a computer, for a school of over 500 pupils.

In retirement, Alan and Angela moved south to Addingham in the Yorkshire Dales where they became involved in many local activities and travelled widely. Alan continued to pursue his hobby of cryptic crosswords, competing on several occasions in the Times crossword competition, and he regularly appeared at the local bridge club. Having been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in September 2012, he moved into a nursing home in January 2017 and died peacefully on 1 January 2018.

Angela Pearson (wife)

Michael Ivory (1959) Michael Jonathan Ely Ivory, who died in July, aged 78, was brought up in Hythe and Folkestone, from where, on a clear day, you can see France. The world beyond beckoned.

He won a place at Sir Roger Manwood’s Grammar School, Sandwich, and at Lincoln College as a Trappes Scholar to read Modern Languages. He soon acquired a motor scooter to explore the area round Oxford, and rode all the way to Italy during the summer vacation. In 1961 he worked as an assistant teacher at Bochum, then a grimy industrial city; while there, he sneaked into East Berlin.

Mike first embarked on a career in Town and Country Planning, a difficult path for someone with an ‘irrelevant’ degree, commencing with Hertfordshire County Council. A slight change of direction led him to take a Diploma in Landscape Design at the University of Newcastle on Tyne. He then became a Countryside Planner with East Sussex County Council.

It was congenial, involving much driving around attractive Wealden and Downland landscapes; the photograph was taken under Balcombe Viaduct, a monument on his beat.

From 1975, for about 20 years, he taught Landscape Design at South Bank Polytechnic and then Cheltenham School of Art, with a sabbatical in 1985 at the University of Montreal.

Mike did more than his full-time job. He collected and dealt with historic Ordnance Survey maps and wrote guidebooks for Michelin, the AA, Berlitz, National Geographic, Fodor’s, and others, covering such diverse places as Hungary, Germany, France, Spain, Canada, Australia, and, in particular, Czechoslovakia; he wrote many guides to Prague, on which he was an expert.

Detailed knowledge and long experience of teaching were an ideal combination for post-retirement work as a guide for one of the cultural tour companies.

Fluent in the language, long before the fall of the Iron Curtain, Mike developed a love for Czechoslovakia and its people; he was Events Coordinator for the British Czech and Slovak Association.

He married a colleague, Isobel Catchpole, in 1973 who died in 1975. He is survived by his stepchildren, Penny, Tom, and Charlie, and his Slovak partner of 30 years, Alexandra Bolla.

Henry Law (1959)

Kevin Lavery (1959) Kevin was the fourth of five children and was born on 6 December 1939 at Chingford, Essex. His father was a bank manager and both his mother and father were of Irish descent.

After studying at a grammar school in London where he excelled at Classics, he obtained a place at Lincoln to read Greats. On arrival at the College he took up rowing, although he had had no previous experience of the sport. Typically, he applied himself with great determination and became President of the College Boat Club when the First Boat reached their highest position ever on the river.

During his time at College he had contemplated studying medicine but eventually opted for accountancy, and on graduation joined Arthur Andersen. After qualification he moved to Andersen Consulting, which subsequently became Accenture, where he rapidly became a partner and remained with them until his retirement. During his career he travelled widely with spells in Greece and Turkey, and subsequently took on managing partner positions in Scandinavia and Spain. This gave him the opportunity to develop his considerable gift for languages. He acquired some Turkish and Modern Greek, was competent in Danish and Swedish, and fluent in Spanish and French.

He was a wonderful teacher and coach, and would take infinite pains to explain complex concepts to those less experienced or intellectually gifted than himself. For this reason he was eminently suited to the role of consultant and it also explains why he was held in such respect and admiration by the younger generation. His unassuming manner disguised the OBITUARIES

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depth of his knowledge and interest in so many varied subjects.

At university he developed an intense enthusiasm for music and this stayed with him for the rest of his life.

He was involved with many musical groups and, in the words of one conductor, ‘whenever I think of him I immediately visualise the way his face and whole being would light up the moment he started talking about music’. His particular passion was the music of Bach and he latterly became heavily involved with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra. They believe that their recording label would not exist today but for his generous administrative support and prudent financial supervision.

His affection for Lincoln was life-long and he supported the College in a number of ways. He was a member of the College Development Committee and the Rector’s Council, and was instrumental in helping to fund two new posts in Classical Archaeology. The first was in Greek Archaeology and, more recently, a second was established in Roman Archaeology. In many ways the College became almost part of his extended family.

He never married but was intensely family-minded and was extremely popular with his many nephews and nieces because he took such an interest in all their activities and studies. Above all he was a kind, thoughtful, and generous person who will be sorely missed by all his friends and family.

Michael Lavery (1953, brother)

Michael Geoffrey Merrick Watkins (1959) Michael was born on 17 August 1940. His parents were school teachers in Sherborne, Dorset, and his father, Geoffrey, had been at Lincoln (1926) and

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read Modern Languages. After attending Merchant Taylors’ School, Northwood, Michael arrived at Lincoln in 1959 to study law. However, after just one academic year and having represented the College in swimming, Michael decided that Law was not for him and left Oxford for London, where he started a career as a shipbroker.

He had a successful career in the shipping industry in various guises for the subsequent four decades and, even after retirement, continued his close affiliation as an examiner for the Chartered Institute of Shipbroking.

A voracious reader all his life, Michael also had a natural flair for languages. At one stage he professed passable competence in French, German, Greek, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. Of these, Swedish was very much primus inter pares, being the native tongue of his wife, Suzanne, whom he married in 1962 and with whom he had one daughter and one son.

A passion for ornithology led to a consuming and enjoyable post-retirement writing career. Starting with The Eponym Dictionary of Birds, which lists some 4,000 eponymous names covering 10,000 genera, species, and subspecies of birds, Michael co-authored a total of six specialist nature dictionaries with another in pre-publication. The College Library has copies of his books.

Michael died in January 2018 after losing the battle with cancer. His natural modesty, intellect, irreverent humour, and personality are much missed by all.

Charles Watkins (1977, brother) and Nicholas Watkins (1988, son)

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John Sunderland (1960) John was born in Shepperton, Middlesex, in 1942, and grew up in nearby Weybridge. An exhibitioner at Bradfield College, he went on to win an open scholarship to read Modern History at Lincoln. After Oxford, John completed a two-year postgraduate diploma in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute, London.

He taught at Walthamstow College of Art before returning to the Courtauld in 1966, where Anthony Blunt, then Director, made him Witt Librarian – a post John held until his retirement in 2002. He specialised in eighteenth-century British Art, teaching and publishing on it throughout his career. His books include: Constable (Phaidon, 1971, 2nd edition 1981 – still in print); Painting in Britain 1525-1975 (Phaidon, 1976); and John Hamilton Mortimer: His Life and Works (Walpole Society, 1988). He oversaw the Witt’s relocation to Somerset House in 1989 and the publication of two editions of the Checklist of Painters represented in the Witt Library (1978 and 1994).

An early convert to digital technology, John helped steer the Courtauld into the computer age. With colleagues, he created the pioneering Witt Library Computer Index (1981-1996), which gave database access to art works from the British and American schools. He was Managing Editor of the journal CHArt (Computers and the History of Art).

John was a gifted watercolourist. His landscapes and domestic scenes capture much of the elegance and integrity he displayed in life. He ran the London Marathon in 1983, and played tennis into his 40s. In retirement, he completed a degree in Archaeology at Birkbeck College, London; later, he served as Warden and Treasurer at St Cuthbert’s Church, West Hampstead.

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John died of cancer in January 2018 at the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead. He is survived by his wife Clare, children Mary, Tom, and David, and grandchildren Amy and Harriet.

John Mortell (1994)

Mark Andreae (1962) Mark died in January 2018, aged 74. He was educated at Eton and got a Third in Modern History, together with a Half Blue for boxing. Throughout his youth, he was an outstanding all-round athlete, perhaps the finest boxer in the post-war period at Eton, where he was never beaten in the ring. He also captained the Association Football Team and shone at cricket and the Eton Wall Game. He was elected to Pop at Eton and to the Bullingdon Club at Oxford.

With the prospect of a career in farming on the family holdings, he did a further year at Shuttleworth Agricultural College and then worked on a local estate under the aegis of Strutt & Parker, where he took a job in 1968 in their Salisbury Farming Department.

In the 1970s Mark took over the family estate, which he ran until his death. He also chaired a farming offshoot of Kleinwort Benson for a time before it was sold, and then built up a significant farm agency business, which continues to this day.

In later life, country pursuits remained a lifelong passion for him. A keen shot and generous host on his own shoot, he was also a fanatical foxhunter, notably with the Beaufort Hunt and also with his local pack, where he served as Master of Fox Hounds

for ten years, following his grandfather’s example.

Yachting was another important interest and he was a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron.

Locally, he was active on behalf of the Conservative Party, serving as a District Councillor for Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council, and as Chairman for the local Conservative Association.

Mark leaves behind five children and his second wife Effie. His distinctive characteristic was his unfailing good cheer and a sharp wit to go with it.

Peter Andreae (brother)

Robert Maybury (1962) Bob, as he was known, was born in Birmingham in 1943 and was educated at King’s Norton Grammar School for Boys, where he excelled at physics and mathematics. He gained an Open Exhibition and went up to Lincoln College in 1962 to read Physics under Dr John Owen, graduating in 1965. Nuclear physics had always been a passion and he continued on as a research student to gain his Doctorate of Philosophy in 1971. He enjoyed life at Lincoln, played chess for the College, and made many valued friends with whom he continued to keep in touch.

Following Lincoln College, he worked for the Rutherford Laboratory, during which time he worked at CERN in Geneva. Unfortunately, he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and eventually had to retire in 1995, moving back to Birmingham to be nearer to his family. Throughout a long decline in mobility he fought hard and with great determination to maintain his independence and

to pursue his various interests as far as he was able. He finally had to move to a nursing home in June 2013 and sadly died in September 2017.

Kate Clark (sister)

Michael Ian (Mike) Grierson (1963) Mike Grierson was born in Sunderland on 6 August 1944. He moved with his family to Blackburn in 1951 and he remained in East Lancashire for the rest of his life. He was at school at Sedbergh, where he played cricket and rugby to a high standard and excelled as a track athlete.

Mike went up to Lincoln in 1963, initially to read Modern Languages, but he quickly changed to Jurisprudence. While at Lincoln he continued to play a lot of sport, particularly cricket (appearing regularly for the Authentics) and rugby, playing on the wing for the College team. Mike was also very active socially. He indulged his liking for beer both in Deep Hall and the Turl Tavern, and in Deep Hall he became very keen on pub games such as cribbage and shove-ha’penny!

Shortly after leaving Lincoln in 1966, Mike joined Cobbets, a legal firm in Manchester, where he became a partner and legal adviser to many breweries in the Manchester area, as well as acting for the Brewers’ Society. One of his areas of expertise was employment law and he put this skill to good use when successfully acting as legal adviser to the Messenger Newspaper Group (headed by Eddy Shah) in their dispute with the print unions. This was a very high-profile case in the early to mid-1980s.

Mike continued his successful law career until retiring in 2007. In retirement, he became secretary of the SECTION

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northern British branch of the Ordre des Coteaux de Champagne, the Champagne Society based in Reims.

juggled her family and her practice with enthusiasm and dedication.

An unbroken thread throughout Mike’s life was his love of cricket. His career as a fast bowler was unfortunately curtailed by injury but he continued to play club cricket for some years and was a member of the MCC for over 50 years. For the last 20 years of his life he hardly missed a Test Match at Lords. From 1999 onwards, he enjoyed several trips abroad with his wife watching the England Test team.

Her love of cycling re-emerged in Bristol, taking long rides with family, even during her illness. She has always been nippy on a bike, even up Oxford’s Headington Hill, but sensibly swapped her classic ladies’ model with its giant wicker basket for a Falcon Black Diamond. She cycled to home visits, claiming, with her usual humour, that it was good for patients to see their doctor turning up ‘gasping for breath’.

Mike was a very sociable man, and, when he died on 12 July 2018, he left behind many friends from Lincoln and elsewhere, as well as a devoted wife, Janet.

Sarah had a deep sense of family. She carried her strong connections to parents and siblings into her

James Kirsop (1963, friend)

Sarah Ganly (1980) A talented and caring GP, Sarah read Medicine at Girton, Cambridge, and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where her flair for friendship and sense of fun had a lasting impact on those who knew her. Hard-working and serious about her studies, Sarah had many interests, loved music, read voraciously, was a keen rower, and a brilliant raconteur. She was also very kind and fair, and her thoughtful but no-nonsense advice helped many through the tumults of College life.

After qualification and several house-jobs in London and further afield, she decided that her future lay in General Practice. She was a much-appreciated GP, down-to-earth but at the same time very engaged with her patients, many of whom had complex mental health problems. Becoming a full GP partner in 1990 just as she was expecting her first child, Sarah

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own family with Jonathan. Keeping hold of memories and treasured possessions, with her talent for storytelling and memory for detail, she kept these histories alive with vitality. She took immense pleasure in her children, Sam, Rachael, Katherine, and Helena, loved meeting family and friends, and retained her sense of fun throughout her life.

We feel lucky to have known Sarah and treasure our memories of her humour, strength, and generosity of spirit.

Sarah Bray, Angela Jones (1980), Julie Parkes (1979), Yvonneke Roe, Peter Mayes (1976)

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

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