annual gazette

CONTENTS

Editor’s Note 4 From the Master 6

A. WRITINGS AND TALKS

A Tribute to David Buckingham – Ken Siddle 11 Malcolm Lyons Remembered – Ian Pattinson 14 ‘This Was My Life’: A Conversation With Nick Firman – 17 Loraine Gelsthorpe and Nick McBride ‘A Small College Man’: George Gabriel Stokes and Pembroke College, 23 Cambridge – Jayne Ringrose Art Gifts to the Pembroke Shahnameh Centre – 35 Firuza Abdullaeva-Melville The Cartoonist and the Demon-King: How the Shahnameh Became 45 Wartime Propaganda – Archie Williams Commemoration of Benefactors (1): Laurence Booth – 54 Lizzy Ennion-Smith Dame Ivy Compton Burnett Prize for Creative Writing 58

B. COLLEGE NEWS

Reappointment of the Master 65 New Fellows 65 Fellows’ News 71 Gifts to the College 74 The Dean’s Report 76 Development Office Report 79 The Valence Mary (1997) Endowment Fund 85 College Clubs and Societies 86

C. THE COLLEGE RECORD

The Master and Fellows 2020–2021 107 College Officers 2021–2022 113 Matriculation 2020–2021 115 Annual Examinations, First Class Results 2021 117 College Awards 120 Graduate Scholarships and Awards 127 Higher Degrees Conferred 128

D. THE PEMBROKE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY

Members’ News 133 Annual General Meetings of the Society 135 Local Contacts 139 Rules of the Society 141 Presidents of the Society 143

E. DEATHS AND OBITUARIES

List of Deaths 147 Obituaries 149

F. MEMBERS’ CORNER

Dhòmnaill Choir – Rory MacLeod 187