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CONTENTS Editor’s Note From the Master A. WRITINGS AND TALKS A Tribute to David Buckingham – Ken Siddle Malcolm Lyons Remembered – Ian Pattinson ‘This Was My Life’: A Conversation With Nick Firman – Loraine Gelsthorpe and Nick McBride ‘A Small College Man’: George Gabriel Stokes and Pembroke College, Cambridge – Jayne Ringrose Art Gifts to the Pembroke Shahnameh Centre – Firuza Abdullaeva-Melville The Cartoonist and the Demon-King: How the Shahnameh Became Wartime Propaganda – Archie Williams Commemoration of Benefactors (1): Laurence Booth – Lizzy Ennion-Smith Dame Ivy Compton Burnett Prize for Creative Writing B. COLLEGE NEWS Reappointment of the Master New Fellows Fellows’ News Gifts to the College The Dean’s Report Development Office Report The Valence Mary (1997) Endowment Fund College Clubs and Societies C. THE COLLEGE RECORD The Master and Fellows 2020–2021 College Officers 2021–2022 Matriculation 2020–2021 Annual Examinations, First Class Results 2021 College Awards Graduate Scholarships and Awards Higher Degrees Conferred D. THE PEMBROKE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY Members’ News Annual General Meetings of the Society Local Contacts Rules of the Society Presidents of the Society E. DEATHS AND OBITUARIES List of Deaths Obituaries F. MEMBERS’ CORNER Dhòmnaill Choir – Rory MacLeod
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