Pembroke College Gazette 2022

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CONTENTS

Editor’s Note 4

From the Master 6

A. WRITINGS AND TALKS

Sermons The Master and Baroness Julia Neuberger 11 Searching for the Foundress John Waldram 17

A Tribute to Kevin Jackson Nicholas Lezard 30

The Fifth Jo Cox Lecture Baroness Syeeda Warsi 32 The Peter Clarke Prize for Scientific Writing 37 Pembroke’s Sculptures and Portraits Simon Learmount 48

B. COLLEGE NEWS

New Fellows 55 Fellows’ News 65 Gifts to the College 67 The Dean’s Report 69 Development Office Report 71

The Valence Mary (1997) Endowment Fund 77 College Clubs and Societies 78

C. THE COLLEGE RECORD

The Master and Fellows 2021 2022 103 College Officers 2022 2023 109 Matriculation 2021 2022 111 Annual Examinations, First Class Results 2022 114 College Awards 117 Graduate Scholarships and Awards 122 Higher Degrees Conferred 123

D. THE PEMBROKE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY

Members’ News 129 Annual General Meetings of the Society 131 Local Cont acts 137 Rules of the Society 139 Presidents of the Society 141

E. DEATHS AND OBITUARIES

List of Deaths 145 Obituaries 147

F. MEMBERS’ CORNER

Poems for Ukraine Richard Berengarten 179

EDITOR’S NOTE

Four more issues of the Gazette after this one will see it celebrate its 100th anniversary and by then (September 2026), Pembroke will have enjoyed at least one full year of a fully developed and functioning Mill Lane site. This issue of the Gazette offers Members a small glimpse of the extremely exciting developments across the road. Photographs of the development mark the divisions between the sections of the Gazette (as they will in future issues until the development is finally complete in all its glory) the first three sections show some of the necessary demolition and clearance work on the Mill Lane site, the fourth shows a couple of photos from the former United Reform Chapel as it is turned into a future Auditorium, while the fifth and the sixth show the inside of 4 Mill Lane as it nears completion and is made ready for use in 2022 23.

As was anticipated in last year’s Gazette, this Christmas saw the departure of Frances Kentish, who has assisted in the preparation of so many issues of the Gazette. Frances’ leaving was marked by a wonderful gathering of Fellows and staff on a somewhat chilly Library Lawn (lingering concerns about Covid-19 preventing our finding a more cosy indoor setting for Frances’ farewell) to say goodbye to a great servant to the College. Disappointment at seeing Frances go was tempered by knowing that she would be replaced by the hugely able and efficient Moira Hassett, and it is Moira that I should thank first for everything she has done in helping produce this year’s Gazette. It has been a truly seamless transition from Frances to Moira, and Moira has made the production of this year’s Gazette a completely efficient and pain-free process. As always, the Master has provided a huge amount of moral and tangible support to ensure that the Gazette is something that Members can always look forward to reading when it comes through the post or arrives on their tablets, and he is owed particular thanks this year both for suggesting that John Waldram’s wonderful piece on Marie de St Pol should be published in the Gazette, and for securing permission from the New Statesman and Nicholas Lezard to republish Nicholas Lezard’s tribute to Kevin Jackson (1974), whose obituary sadly appeared in last year’s Gazette. It is noticeable that this year’s Gazette sees a greater proportion of obituaries supplied by friends and family of the deceased than ever before. We are extremely grateful to all of them for taking the time to share with the rest of us their memories of their loved ones, and record their achievements. This year saw Pembroke take possession of the wonderful painting of Jo Cox that provides the Frontispiece of this year’s Gazette. The unveiling of the painting coincided with the fifth Jo Cox Lecture, the text of which is reproduced in this Gazette.

Thanks are also owed to everyone else who has contributed to this year’s Gazette, in particular: Sally March for taking and supplying the photographs of the Mill Lane development (those photographs that were t aken by Hannah Constantine from the architects Haworth Tompkins are noted as such in the Gazette; all the others were taken by Sally); everyone in the Development Office for contributions to the Development Office report and the Pembroke College Cambridge Society section of the Gazette; Becky Coombs and the Senior Tutor’s brilliant new assistant Dee Kunze for their work on the College Record; Sylvia

Huot and Jayne Ringrose for excellent comments on John Waldram’s piece; James Gardom for his Dean’s Report and for securing permission from Julia Neuberger to reproduce her ‘Refugee Sunday’ sermon in the Gazette; Anna Lapwood and Andrew Morris; Genny Grim; and all the Fellows, students and members of staff who contributed in various ways to this year’s Gazette. Thanks are also owed to Richard Berengarten (1961) for granting permission to publish the striking poems that make up this year’s Members’ Corner.

As we approach the 100th issue of the Gazette, it would be fitting to use the Members’ Corner section of the Gazette to reproduce any memories that Members wish to share of their time at Pembroke those wishing to contribute are encouraged to email Moira at moira.hassett@pem.cam.ac.uk.

N.J.M.

FROM THE MASTER

I finally collapsed into bed from the May Ball at about 2.30 in the morning having had a wonderfully riotous evening sampling the huge variety of food and drink that was on offer, winning a soft toy on the fair stalls, dancing to a swing band, and seeing the College once again humming with life and energy and excitement. It was the first May Ball we’ve been able to have for three years, and the sheer fact of it happening, and of everyone throwing themselves into it, was exhilarating. Our students have had a rather miserable time during the pandemic and its lockdowns. But the fact that this past year (despite the advent of Omicron) has been more or less back to normal has been joyous. Formal Halls have been happening; supervisions have been in person; rowers have been out on the river; our rugby team (now jointly with Girton) has been steadily advancing up the league; the Choir has been singing its heart out; and all the surge of post-exam activity and enjoyment that comes with the start of June has been bubbling into life. Best of all, we have been able to host a series of graduation ceremonies, and for General Admission parents and friends were able to come, and once again to be in the Senate House to witness the occasion, with all the Latin panoply that makes it a very moving moment.

Our Fellows have been doing rather well, too – and you will read further on in the Gazette about some of their successes. Eleven Fellows have received University promotions this summer. Two of our Fellows, Amanda Prorok and Tim Weil, won Pilkington Prizes from the University for the outstanding excellence of their teaching. Our Visiting Scholar Simon Peyton-Jones (who has been revolutionising the teaching of computer science nationwide) was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. And best of all, our Professorial Fellow Clare Grey, Professor of Chemistry and globally leading researcher in battery technology, became a Dame in the same Honours list.

Anyone who has been able to come back to College in recent months will have noticed the steadily growing collection of works of art that grace our courts and walls. Following on from the arrival of the Henry Moore in front of Foundress Court, and of the John Farnham Crescent sculpture beside the Library, we now have a further sculpture, Natural Pearl, standing in Ivy Court, on loan from its creator, Nigel Hall. Its curves and hoops set off rather well the rectangular seventeenth-century walls around it; and the rusty colour of its corten steel echoes the fine brickwork of the buildings.

Most notably, however, we now have a new portrait in Hall. Jo Cox was a student in Pembroke in the mid-1990s, and she was cruelly murdered in 2016. It’s probably fair to say that she had achieved more in a year in Parliament than most MPs achieve in a lifetime. We paid tribute to her, in the immediate aftermath of her tragic death, by collecting funds for a PhD studentship in migration and refugee studies in her name. But we were also determined to commission a portrait of Jo for Hall; and we asked the fine portrait artist Clara Drummond to paint the work. The picture was unveiled in May, and Jo’s sister Kim Leadbeater, the new MP for Batley and Spen, came and did the honours. Jo’s parents, and her husband and two children, were also able to be with us for the occasion, and it

was an impressively moving moment. The portrait is wonderful, a vision in white, and it stands in rather lovely contrast to the dark Victorian paintings around it. Another significant visitor to the College, back in November last year, was Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Over the years I’ve tried to bring interesting speakers in from the outside world, to talk to and with our students and Fellows. Antonio however was rather special. We held a roundtable discussion on “The Ethics of Climate Change”, with the SecretaryGeneral, Lord Rowan Williams (the former Archbishop of Canterbury), Professor Richard Sennett, and two students. The students shone!

In the meantime, the work on our new Mill Lane site, across Trumpington Street from the Porters’ Lodge, has been proceeding apace. We have already been able to take possession from the builders of the completely renovated 4 Mill Lane a teaching, learning, and wellbeing centre with a suite of fine rooms for seminars, discussions, supervisions, meetings, and recitals. By the early summer of next year the whole of the first phase of the development will be complete, including the new auditorium that is emerging from the old United Reformed Church, the exhibition gallery, and the courtyard that will form the first part of the new half of Pembroke. Meanwhile work has also started on the second phase of the work, the creation of the new Ray and Dagmar Dolby Courtyard with a hundred student rooms around it. The old Mill Lane Lecture Block, most of Miller’s Yard, and other buildings have been demolished. (One alumna commented to me that it was a delight to see the Lecture Block coming down ‘Those 9am lectures in Roman Law are now firmly a thing of the past.’) We are aiming for completion of the whole development in the autumn of 2024 or the spring of 2025. The College will have been transformed.

With all the activity that is under way, with the new development enhancing the facilities and opportunities for our students, with the continuing academic standards we are able to achieve, and with the supportive community we try and create, I’m inordinately proud of Pembroke and what we do to foster learning, research and education. One of the things that I always love to hear is that when they do surveys of students across Cambridge and ask, if they weren’t at their present College, which College would they like to have been at, the answer is very frequently Pembroke.

There is however no room at all for complacency. We constantly have to strive to make the sense of community that is so central to Pembroke’s identity ever stronger and better supported. Pembroke has the best gardens in Cambridge. We will soon have the best new facilities and spaces and buildings. But it’s the people that matter. It’s the students sitting in the sun on the lawn revising, or throwing themselves into the glorious romp of May Week activity. It’s the Fellows putting their heart into their teaching. It’s the staff serving the College loyally through the decades. It’s the conversations that spring up, the ideas that form, the knowledge that grows, the wisdom that somehow comes. That’s what makes me particularly proud of Pembroke.

C.R.S.

A . W R I T I N G S A N D TA L K S

Photo by Hannah Const antine and Haworth Tompkins

Sermons

The Master and Baroness Julia Neuberger

The following sermon was delivered by Julia Neuberger in Pembroke College Chapel on 21 November 2021, Refugee Sunday.

Exodus 23:9 And a stranger shalt thou not oppress; for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

I want to tell you a story.

While travelling in Austria in April 1933, William Beveridge, then the Director of the London School of Economics, learned of the Nazi authorities’ decree which dismissed many leading academics from German universities on racial and political grounds. He returned to the UK and set about enlisting the support of prominent academics, scientists and others for an urgent rescue mission. The Academic Assistance Council (AAC – the forerunner of CARA, for whom tonight’s collection is being made) was launched in May 1933. Its founding statement appealed for ‘means to prevent the waste of exceptional abilities exceptionally trained’. The Nobel Prize-winning chemist and physicist Ernest Rutherford was chosen as the first President. A V Hill, another Nobel Prizewinning scientist, and later also Cambridge University MP, became VicePresident. The Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard, who had met Beveridge in Vienna, moved to London and for a while also worked from the AAC offices in the Rooms of the Royal Society, at the top of Burlington House.

The AAC’s founders, supported by the redoubtable Esther (‘Tess’) Simpson, who had been recruited by Szilard, threw themselves into their new task. Between May and August 1933, the AAC raised nearly £10,000 to get its work off the ground around £350,000 in today’s values most of it from UK academics. The AAC was one of four organisations who came together as the ‘Refugee Assistance Fund’ in October 1933 to hold a major fundraising event at the Royal Albert Hall. In his last public speech in Europe before leaving for the USA, Albert Einstein urged his audience to stand up for intellectual and individual freedom: ‘If we want to resist the powers which threaten to suppress intellectual and individual freedom we must keep clearly before us what is at stake, and what we owe to that freedom which our ancestors have won for us after hard struggles. Without such freedom, there would have been no Shakespeare, no Goethe, no Newton, no Faraday, no Pasteur and no Lister… Most people would lead a dull life of slavery… It is only men who are free who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worthwhile.’

By 1936, it was clear that a new, more formal, structure was needed to take over the AAC’s work. Rutherford explained the rationale in an open letter in Science

(Vol 83, No 2155, 17 April 1936): ‘The council hoped that its work might be required for only a temporary period, but is now convinced that there is need for a permanent body to assist scholars who are victims of political and religious persecutions. The devastation of the German universities still continues; not only university teachers of Jewish descent, but many others who are regarded as “politically unreliable” are being prevented from making their contribution to the common cause of scholarship.’

As a result, he announced the creation of a permanent successor, the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL). In a joint letter on the same page, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger and Vladimir Tchernavin paid tribute to the work of the AAC in its three short years: ‘The warm sympathy extended to all who approached the Academic Assistance Council has helped in hundreds of cases … The Academic Assistance Council is coming to an end in its emergency form, but we and our friends will endeavor to make it remain unforgotten. May we hope that the continuation of our scientific work helped in no small measure by its activities will be an expression of our gratitude?’

Between 1933 and 1939, the AAC/SPSL raised £100,000 from donors and universities, the equivalent of some £4 million today, and used it to support individuals, and their families, with grants and advice while they found new posts in universities in the UK or in other safe countries. A number of the AAC’s founders and Council members also personally provided places and/or funds to help individual academics; and the AAC was closely involved in the successful effort to bring the Warburg Institute art library to London in 1933, which had been proscribed by the Nazis, and six of its staff. An article in Nature in 1938 (Vol 142, No 3607, 17 December 1938, p. 1051) set out clearly the underlying philosophy of the AAC/SPSL, based on individuals helping individuals: ‘It [the SPSL] stands for the brotherhood of scientific endeavour, regardless of race and creed and politics: and it stands for it, not by passing pious resolutions or by putting out disguised political propaganda, but by trying to help colleagues in their need.’ And the SPSL didn’t hesitate to take on our own government, when circumstances required it: in 1940, when many German academics were interned by the British authorities as part of a much wider round-up of ‘enemy aliens’, in the wake of Churchill’s famous instruction, ‘Collar the lot’, the SPSL worked with specialist Committees to get them released again.

So why am I telling you this? Well, it affects both Pembroke and my own family. Early in 1933, as soon as he was dismissed from his post, Erwin Rosenthal, my mother’s first cousin, left Germany with his wife and some furniture, thanks to the AAC. Erwin Rosenthal’s library is here at Pembroke, as he was a Fellow here for 30 years. He was a very distinguished Hebraist and Arabist, an expert on mediaeval Arab Jewish philosophy, and he came from Heilbronn in south Germany, where the Rosenthal family ran a small winemaking and wine merchant business, something Jews had been involved in for centuries. The AAC helped him get a part time post at UCL, then a full time post at Manchester, and finally he came here in 1961.

So, who was Erwin Rosenthal? He studied at Heidelberg and Berlin, he became a distinguished young academic in Germany, and in 1933, aged 33, all

that collapsed, as for so many others. Without the AAC CARA’s forerunner he would not have survived as an academic. Practicality was not his strong point, so it’s hard to know what else he would have done. There’s a great family story of him climbing a ladder to remove lightbulbs when moving house, and cutting the flex, and next finding himself on the floor. He really was a serious academic, wildly unpractical but he had the nous to get out right at the beginning, and the good fortune to be helped by the AAC. Nor was he anything but outspoken. In Sybil Oldfield’s book about Hitler’s Black Book, Erwin Rosenthal features on the list of people to be rounded up by the Nazis, should the Germans ever invade the UK.

Erwin loved Pembroke. He made a home here in Cambridge and he lived a great life. He even taught me as a student here. But it’s not only my cousin Erwin with his Pembroke links. CARA’s antecedent, the AAC, also helped my father-inlaw Albert Neuberger, a distinguished biochemist, and loaned him money on several occasions. He spent part of the 1930s at Trinity Cambridge, again a very happy time for him, before spending most of his career post army at the MRC in London, whilst one of his sons Michael, also a Fellow of Trinity, was at the MRC here in Cambridge.

Without the AAC, it’s not clear part of my family would have had the careers they dd or even survived. Erwin’s brother did not. Albert’s step grandmother did not. And many, many others.

So why am I telling you this? Because Pembroke has agreed a new CARA Fellowship, in its old tradition, and because it fits with the highest virtues this college can adhere to. ‘You know the heart of the stranger, because you were strangers in the land of Egypt.’ Not literally. Many of you may have ancestors who go back in the UK for generations. But many of you probably do not, or you know people who do not. We have a long tradition of welcoming people to these shores, with greater or lesser grace at any time, as the present issue of channel boats making their way makes clear. But as a home for people fleeing genuine persecution, we have a pretty good record: this country took more refugees fleeing Nazi Germany and Austria, comparatively, than any other country, largely due to the courage and vision of several diplomats who are barely remembered these days, Robert Smallbones with his temporary visas, Frank Foley, MI6 man in Berlin, Arthur Dowden, vice consul in Frankfurt who drove around in his distinctive white Rolls Royce in 1938 after Kristallnacht delivering food and comfort to petrified Jewish and left wing families and more and more. We have a tradition here. And CARA personifies it.

So why am I telling you all this? Because this college has made a commitment, a commitment that sits with what it did, with the university, in the 1930s and the way it welcomed my utterly Germanic sounding cousin Erwin as Fellow. Because being aware of the plight of refugees is something all faiths remind us to do we know the heart of the stranger. As a family, we have established a charity to help asylum seekers go to university, as they cannot get student loans and they are not allowed to work. Amongst those we have supported are young Afghans, 20 years ago, who spoke no English on arrival but got A Levels and came to Cambridge to read medicine. Amongst those we support now are Pakistani girls, Syrians,

people from the DRC, Sudanese, Palestinians, and Albanians. Some will not be able to stay, but they will be able to take their qualifications with them. You can take everything away from people, but not their knowledge, not their minds, not their creativity.

I think what Pembroke is doing in supporting a CARA fellow is wonderful.I hope too that Cambridge will become a University of Sanctuary, and t ake asylum seeking students who cannot pay the fees. As other universities do. We know the heart of the stranger… and we have to give a welcome, and help, to those we can support.

And if you don’t think that is Biblically based, think of the Book of Ruth. Ruth was not an Israelite. She was a Moabitess. She went to the land of Israel with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband had died. Not easy. Naomi tried to discourage her. When she got there, she gleaned in the field, the poorest of roles, to get food for her mother-in-law. Boaz welcomed her. Eventually they married. She became the great grandmother of King David: a Moabitess, not an Israelite. Boaz and his men and women welcomed Ruth. She did well by them. We too can welcome a CARA Fellow, an asylum-seeking student, a refugee academic. We can help them feel safe. We can give them a chance. But, above all, we can for some, by no means all give them a worthwhile life back, and allow them to serve this country, and bring greatness to us, as a result of us doing the right thing.

© Julia Neuberger, 2021

The following sermon was delivered by the Master, Lord Chris Smith, in the Pembroke College Chapel on the occasion of the Leavers’ Evensong on June 19 2022

As you will all probably recall, Charles Dickens begins A Tale of Two Cities with a prologue about London and Paris in the late eighteenth century: ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us.’

For those of you who are leaving Pembroke this summer and going out to make your way in the world, these words are all too resonant. You do have everything before you. You are equipped with knowledge and learning, with an ability to think, with (I hope) a lot of self-knowledge, with a degree of self-confidence you never dreamed would be possible when you arrived here three or four years ago. In the words of the reading from Proverbs you have wisdom and you have understanding. The world is full of vibrant possibility.

At the same time the world is full of threat and difficulty and darkness. We are reminded every month by heatwaves and droughts and floods and wildfires around the world that we, human beings, are turning nature upside down and unleashing forces of climate change that threaten to overwhelm us. Recent months have seen the dark shadow of war and destruction visited yet again on the centre of Europe.

In country after country populism rides roughshod over democracy. Our societies are becoming ever more divided and disrespectful of difference.

How can we possibly find a way forward in this world not just of clear choices and obvious extremes but a world also of ambiguity and uncertainty, where the best and the worst face us? How can we seek to make a contribution, however modest, to making things better? And what role can faith play in helping us through?

I believe that faith can indeed play a crucial part. And can do so in a number of ways. First, and most importantly, it can teach us about the value of kindness and respect and love. ‘Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.’ Finding a way to welcome and not turn away the stranger. Above all, not engaging in the most appalling piece of public policy-making I’ve seen in years, trying to cart desperate people who have risked everything to try and reach our shores off to Rwanda, or indeed anywhere else that involves abandoning our own international humane responsibilities.

There’s a story about a black man in the Deep South of America, who tried to go into a church to worship God. At the door a burly redneck farmer stopped him and said ‘You can’t come in here. It’s not for the likes of you.’ So the black man went sorrowfully down the steps away from the church. And halfway down God said to him, ‘Why are you so sad, my son?’ ‘Well Lord,’ he said, ‘I wanted to go into the church to worship you and they wouldn’t let me in.’ ‘Don’t worry,’ said God. ‘I’ve been trying to get in there for years and they won’t let me in either.’

A reminder that the injunction in St Matthew is about an inclusive society, yes, but about an inclusive church too. And about having a faith that embraces inclusivity as well.

One of the other things that faith can teach us is courage. The courage of Martin Luther King and John Lewis, who knew that a bunch of thugs with batons and sticks and rifle butts were waiting for them at the other side of the bridge in Selma, and walked towards them. The courage of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who deliberately chose to go back to Germany, knowing what the result would be, that he would almost certainly be interned in a concentration camp and would end up being put to death. He was indeed hanged by the Nazis in 1945. He wrote about a speeding car causing an accident: you don’t just console the victims, you throw yourself in front to try and stop it. I wonder if I would have the courage to do that? I hope I would.

One thing I have learned, through a lifetime in politics and public service. It is that you may have a goal, an ambition to do something for the world, and you may set about addressing it with all the kindness and courage at your disposal. But you’ll never achieve it easily. You will have to make compromises, do deals, settle for half of what you want to do because it’s better than nothing, make a series of small steps because you might end up making a giant leap by doing so. You have to keep the ideal, the goal, in view all the time. But you will inevitably have to struggle getting there. It will however end up being worth the struggling.

So, in all this messy difficult world, with all the gifts that have been given to you and that you have earned, life won’t necessarily be easy. You’ll have to realise that you’ll never achieve everything that you want for the world. You’ll make mistakes. You’ll try to tread a path between the best of times and the worst of times. You’ll embrace the dream and the reality, both. You’ll draw on faith, yes, but with all too human failings.

And in this difficult terrain, what should we strive to do? As Wesley puts it, with startling simplicity, we do:

All the good you can By all the means you can In all the ways you can In all the places you can At all the times you can To all the people you can As long as ever you can.

And perhaps, just perhaps, there may be times as a result when some of our dreams come true.

Searching for the Foundress

John Waldram

The walls of E6A, the pleasant and spacious room in which I spent a sizeable fraction of my working life, are inordinately thick. Its windows overlook Pembroke Street on one side and Old Court on the other, and on both sides they’re slot-like, with deep sills whose sides diverge widely inwards providing a seductive surface on which to sit and cogitate. ‘Certainly,’ I’ve frequently reflected, ‘they built them massive in those days.’

I’ve long known that Pembroke was founded in 1347. But to a scientist like me fourteenth century England felt both distant and dim little more than a blur of three warlike King Edwards plus the date of the Battle of Crécy.

I also knew that we’d been founded by a woman. Recently, for no very obvious reason, a curiosity about Marie de St Pol has been nagging at me. What was she like? And in particular, what on earth had she been trying to achieve? Our official college history proved to be dry and didn’t tell me quite what I wanted to know, so what follows is the product of much inexpert rummaging around in musty textbooks and Wikipedia. It is an attempt, first to immerse myself as best I can in the Foundress’ times, and then to encounter Marie herself from that perspective.

Cambridge

In 1347 the town was tiny: just the familiar central city streets and little else. Its population was about three thousand, roughly half the present day population of Market Ward. (Other places too were minuscule by modern standards. London was confined within its city walls, and its population was about half the present population of Cambridge. The population of the whole of England was about five million, almost entirely dispersed in small villages.)

There were only four colleges, all very small Peterhouse, Clare Hall, Michaelhouse and King’s Hall. But various orders of friars the Carmelites, the Franciscans, and the Dominicans boasted sizeable buildings. There was a closed community of Carmelite monks to the south of the city at St Edmund’s Priory, and a closed community of nuns to the north at St Radegund’s, where Jesus College now stands. There was also an area known as ‘The Jewry’, although the Jews themselves had been expelled from England sixty years earlier by Edward I.

Almost everyone could speak English Middle English, that is, the language of Chaucer. You and I might, with luck, have just about been able to understand talk in the market square if we’d listened very carefully:

‘Thou seist ful sooth,’ quod Roger, ‘by my fey, but “sooth pley, quad pley,” as the Fleming seith; and there fore, Herry Bailley, by thy feith, be thou nat wrooth, er we departen heer, though that my tale be of an hostileer.’

But many people in Cambridge would have been bi or tri lingual. Church services were in Latin, as was university teaching; and Norman-French, which was the normal language of commercial trade, was spoken quite widely.

The black death had been devastating Europe, and just after our foundation it arrived in Cambridge where it lasted for two years There was no effective defence

against it. Sixteen of the forty scholars at King’s Hall died, and the old Danish town north of the river was almost wiped out. In England as a whole about a third of the population died.

The world of ideas

In 1347 all serious thinking took the Christian interpretation of the world as its foundation. But during the 11th century scholars in the monasteries had shown an increasing interest in classical culture, especially the Roman playwrights, poets, orators and historians and the Greek philosopher Aristotle. This led to a flowering of thinking about logic and reasoning, and a little later about the natural world and mathematics. In 1079 Pope Gregory VII set about reforming the cathedral schools so that they would be supplied with better teachers and would cover more advanced subjects. This had the effect of concentrating the most distinguished teachers in particular cities, and enthusiastic students flooded to them from across the continent. It was in that excited atmosphere that the first universities developed. They began as spontaneous self-appointed guilds of either students (as in Bologna in 1088) or teachers (as in Paris in 1150). However, because they were clearly doing a much needed job they were soon formally chartered by the Church and from 1230 quite extraordinarily for the period they were given full autonomy by the Pope.

One consequence of this was that Christian thought itself developed rapidly. For instance, about 1100 Peter Abelard had a huge popular following in Paris, preaching a new and less legalistic theory of Christian salvation that had surprisingly much in common with Luther’s Reformation thinking four hundred years later. By contrast, in 1250 Thomas Aquinas, also in Paris, developed a new rigorous philosophical approach to doctrine which tried to take into account Aristotle’s philosophy. This was later accepted as the orthodox basis of Catholic belief, and has remained so ever since.

In 1209 St Francis in Assisi had become convinced that it was wrong for the most dedicated Christians to be hidden away in monasteries, and had founded an order of friars, poor but educated priests who were to live amongst the people they cared for, existing solely on charity like Jesus’ disciples in the New Testament. Other orders of friars sprang up about the same time. They went into the markets and preached to the poor in their own language. They nursed the sick, heard confessions and in England soon had a considerable popular following.

By 1347, however, the moral authority of the Church hierarchy had fallen to a low ebb. The great princes of the Church had for years been living in ostentatious luxury. Some popes had been spiritually devoted, but others were corrupt; they had moved from Rome to Avignon in France where they were under the thumb of the French king. This decay had its echoes in England. The clergy in the villages were often needy, ill-educated, and not particularly moral. Chaucer’s racy descriptions in his Canterbury Tales of the corrupt shenanigans of the pardoner and summoner, and the worldliness of the prioress and the monk, make it only too obvious what ordinary people felt about some of the religious.

Universities

The University of Oxford had been founded in 1167 by English scholars thrown out of Paris because war had broken out, and that of Cambridge in 1209 by academics escaping the furious town–gown riots in Oxford. Originally there were no colleges and the students paid to live in hostels (such as the one in Garret Hostel Lane). They were primarily the sons of traders, clever teenagers, often extremely poor, who lived riotous lives far more ‘Latin quarter’ than ‘dreaming spires’. The authorities, however, recognised soon enough that they were destined to become the clergy and administrators of the future, and that they desperately needed both discipline and finance. By 1347 six colleges had been founded in Oxford and four in Cambridge to provide such support, as a sort of national investment by powerful figures such as kings and senior bishops.

The pattern of university work had been standardised in the 12th century. Its first two parts were designed not as a study of the Christian world view but as a course in thinking and useful arts that could be applied later to doctrine and other higher studies. The first three years covered Latin grammar, dialectics and rhetoric (the ‘trivium’), and led to the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The next three years covered arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy (the ‘quadrivium’), and led to the degree of Master of Arts. After the quadrivium about half the students would stay on to complete a doctorate and so become qualified teachers by more extended study in one of the higher faculties of Church Law, Medicine or, above all, Theology.

In 1347 what most excited the undergraduates was the dialectics in the trivium the training in how important issues ought to be discussed and analysed. It had gradually come to be based almost entirely on Aristotle’s philosophy, in particular his metaphysics, logic and ethics. Rhetoric – the art of persuasion – was learnt by studying the works of the Roman orator Cicero. The apparently mathematical and scientific quadrivium was often taken less seriously, but was not negligible. It sometimes included sound algebra and geometry imported from the Arab world, and arithmetic had recently been made much easier by adopting Arabic rather than Roman numerals. Astronomers, though still adopting a cosmology of planetary spheres, could calculate quite accurately the movements of the moon and planets which were important in determining the date of Easter, a highly controversial matter.

In the higher degrees, medicine was studied chiefly from Roman texts, but newer Arab medical practice had recently been added by including the works of Vesalius and others. Theology would include individual books of the Bible and writings of the Church Fathers from the first five centuries, as well as more modern theologians all handily summarised in Peter Lombard’s widely used theological textbook, the Sentences of 1160.

There were no university buildings in Cambridge in 1347. Formal ceremonies took place in the churches of Great St Mary’s and St Bene’ts, and teaching in hired houses or in the colleges. It always proceeded through public exposition of some text, the only copy of which the lecturer would read slowly aloud before returning it carefully to the library. The lecturer would expound the text as he went, and then provoke discussion. Students might make a few notes on slates, but essentially

they were expected to remember what they’d been told: time was set aside later in the day for repeating the lectures aloud and memorising them. There were no written end-of-course exams. Instead students had to propound in public and in Latin – some required thesis, then another would attack it, and a third defend it. The courses were demanding, but pass rates were high.

Marie de St Pol

According to the best estimate we have, the Foundress was born in 1304. She was French, the daughter of Guy, Count of St Pol in the Pas-de-Calais. That made her a very grand lady: she was cousin to the Duke of Britt any and greatgranddaughter of Henry III of England.

There was at this time no clear distinction between the nobility of England and the nobility of France. Many of them could claim descent from the Normans, the wild Norsemen who had invaded northern France about 900 AD and taken over the country and adopted its language, before conquering England in 1066. An English Duke or Earl would still have many close relatives in France and probably owned land there; he would be used to nipping across the Channel in a seventyfoot ‘cog’, a descendent of the Viking longship. The great Henry II of England a hundred and fifty years earlier Henry of Anjou had grown up in France, was married to Eleanor of Aquitaine, and in addition to England ruled the whole of France west of the Seine and the Rhone. Much of this French territory had subsequently been lost by King John and Henry III and now the Plantagenet kings of England were determined to wrest it back from their near relatives the Valois kings of France, and were more or less permanently at war with them.

Marriages between aristocrats at this time were always matters of high policy, never of personal preference, and in 1319 The kings of France and England jointly petitioned the Pope to allow Marie to marry Aymer de Valence, the English Earl of Pembroke, on the grounds that the match would help preserve peace between the two countries. (Marie’s father Guy had earlier negotiated with Aymer an important truce in the fighting.)

The petition to the Pope was necessary because Marie and Aymer were both descended from Isabel of Angouleme (who married twice, as the family tree shows). At this time the marriage rules forbade union between a man and a woman more closely related than fourth cousins, unless the Pope gave them dispensation.

Aymer had been an adviser and supporter of both Edward I and Edward II. He personally led Edward II to safety after the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. He mediated between Edward II and the barons, and had for a time been in effect governor of England. He was also extremely wealthy. Marie was his second wife: he had previously been married to a daughter of the Constable of France.

The marriage took place in Paris with great pomp in 1321; Aymer was fifty, ‘tall and of a pallid countenance’, and Marie seventeen. However, almost as soon as Marie arrived as a bride in London her new husband was whisked away, first to help the King against rebellious barons, and then once more as ambassador in France, where he died suddenly of a heart attack in 1324. He left no male heirs, so Marie, as Countess of Pembroke, immediately inherited his many estates. She was just 20.

The status of high-born women

The position of noble women in the fourteenth century was complicated. On the one hand two deeply engrained features of mediaeval Christianity disadvantaged them. First, according to the doctrine of marriage a married couple ‘became one flesh’: from God’s point of view they had become a single individual. All their property was amalgamated and vested in the husband. Secondly there was the pervasive belief that, though sex was blessed as a means of procreation, its pleasures were sinful. Women were viewed by the church as temptresses who might only too easily divert the clergy from their spiritual callings. Monks had long taken vows of celibacy to avoid such distractions, and from about 600 AD onwards the Church began to require it of all priests, though with varied success.

But in other ways a high-born woman could earn considerable respect. There had long been monastic orders for women, frequently run by abbesses from noble families. There were plenty of women saints, and reverence for religious women was reinforced from about 1000 AD by a powerful new cult of the Virgin. Moreover in the 11th century there had blossomed in Provence an extraordinary new secular literature of ‘courtly love’, in which, as in the mythical court of King Arthur, knights were no longer bloodthirsty warriors but chivalrous gentle heroes, and aristocratic women were desirable ideals, celebrated in song and verse by love-lorn troubadours.

A very few high-born women did contrive to get themselves properly educated. Some were taught in convent schools, or they might enter a religious order within which they could have a scholarly career. Others might be instructed by priests or male relatives within the family household. Héloise, who famously had a love affair with the celebrated Peter Abelard, was being taught by him at the time not in the University of Paris but informally in the household of her uncle, who was a scholar and an abbot.

At a more practical level, the high-born wife of a great lord might wield considerable power. She would be expected to manage his household, which might be very large, and some of his estates too, if he had many. She would also deal with his affairs if he were away on campaign. This could apply at the highest level: Eleanor of Acquitaine acted as regent in England while her son Richard I was away at the Crusades.

Most important of all, a high-born lady could inherit from her father or husband, if there were no male descendants. The loss of identity involved in marriage did not apply to widows, and the instinct that inheritance ought to remain within the family if at all possible was strong. Nobody, for instance, doubted that Eleanor should inherit the Dukedom of Acquitaine when her father died without male heirs. And at a lower level, in 14th century England there were a number of widows who, like Marie, had inherited large fortunes and possessed the undoubted right to control them.

The road to foundation: 1324–1347

Marie knew one of these rich widows very well. In 1326 Elizabeth de Clare, who had buried her third husband four years earlier, entert ained ‘her dear friend Marie de St Pol’ with a feast (whose gargantuan menu still survives) at Usk Castle in Monmothshire. Marie was then twenty-two and Elizabeth thirty one. The pictures (one contemporary and one a modern reconstruction) show how young women of their status might have dressed for such an occasion.

At about the same time Marie became embroiled in affairs of state. Her family already had close links with the King of France, Charles IV, and in 1325 she met and got to know the Queen of England who was Charles’ sister Isabella.

The meeting took place in Paris when Isabella was twenty-nine. She was in France to undert ake a diplomatic mission, but consumed by a personal obsession. Edward II, though he had produced five children by Isabella, was homosexual, and his lover Hugh Despenser was powerful, ruthless and generally hated especially by the Queen. And since Despenser had recently forced Marie to surrender substantial lands in Wales bequeathed to her by Aymer, she must have shared Isabella’s loathing.

Soon after this meeting it became clear to Isabella that her husband was forcing her out of court circles, and she teamed up in France with a rebellious English baron, Roger Mortimer, who became her lover. She declared publicly that Edward was henceforth dead to her, and donned widow’s black to emphasise the point. She also planned and delivered a heavyweight ret aliation for her humiliation: in 1326 she and Mortimer invaded England. They landed in Suffolk with an army of mercenaries, passing rapidly through Cambridge on their way to London. Joined by barons hostile to the Despenser régime, they overcame the

King’s forces and compelled him to abdicate in favour of his young son. The deposed Edward II was imprisoned and died in mysterious circumstances a year later. Despenser was gruesomely executed as a traitor, as Isabella looked on. And Marie got her Welsh lands back.

The new king Edward III was only fourteen, and his mother Isabella and Mortimer took over the country as dictatorial regents. This affected Marie closely, since Isabella was determined to marry her young friend off to Mortimer as a means of enlarging his estates. However in 1330, before the marriage could take place, the youthful King, now seventeen, took charge of his realm in a deftly executed coup and executed Mortimer. And although he had been close to his tempestuous mother, he sensibly confined her for the time being in Windsor Castle.

The young Edward III seems to have respected Marie. He immediately sent her (now aged twenty-eight) as an ambassador to the new King of France, Phillip VI, who was Isabella’s cousin; and when she returned two years later, he appointed her as guardian of his infant daughter Joan. He also rewarded ‘my dear kinswoman Marie’ with two estates. One of these was at Temple Newsum, near Leeds, and she seems to have resided there for a while. But she also owned much land near Cambridge.

From this point onwards Marie resisted all further pressure to marry her off, and was now, at long last, free to decide what to do with her life and fortune. Her first moves involved the Poor Clares, nuns of the Franciscan order. She had family links with two women, Blanche of Navarre and Denise of Munchensy, who had been patrons of this order in France. Following their example she now took up an active interest in their English communities, one in Aldgate in London and another in Waterbeach near Cambridge. In 1336 she gave lands to the Waterbeach convent, and three years later built a new abbey for them at Denny; her wealthy friend Elizabeth de Clare chipped in with further handsome benefactions. She also considered instituting a chantry at Westminster and founding a Carthusian monastery, but these ideas came to nothing.

Her thoughts seem then to have turned to founding a new college in Cambridge, and in 1346 she bought ‘the great messuage of Hervey de Stanton’, a house and yards at the corner of what is now Pembroke Street and Trumpington Street. The following year she obt ained a charter from the king for an establishment of thirty scholars to be named ‘The Hall of Valence Mary’, thus commemorating her dead husband as well as herself. She was now forty-two.

Meanwhile Cambridge’s third college, University Hall, which dated from fourteen years earlier, had been struggling financially. The University authorities approached Elizabeth de Clare through her Franciscan confessor and persuaded her to re found it with a massively increased endowment. This was effected in 1346, and its name was changed to ‘Clare Hall’.

The foundation of Pembroke and re-foundation of Clare by the two friends opened an era in which wealthy individuals other than Kings and Bishops began to establish colleges in Cambridge three more were set up during the next few years.

The ideas behind the foundation

It’s possible that Marie was simply a wealthy woman who was trying, in founding the college, to ensure her own security in the afterlife through virtuous charity; and indeed she specified in the college statutes that the Fellows of her new college should pray annually for ‘the salvation of the souls’ of herself, her husband, and her father and mother.

But there are plenty of signs that there was more to it than that. By the standards of the time she seems to have been reasonably well educated, perhaps through contact with Franciscans in her father’s household we know that her mother was a book-lover concerned about the proper education of her children. So it is natural to ask whether she might have been inspired by the earliest stirrings of the Renaissance. Scholars across Europe had started to reassess ancient science and mathematics. In Florence Dante had written his Divine Comedy in Italian the language of the people and Giotto had introduced a startling new humanistic era in painting. We know that she was familiar with debate in the University of Paris. She also had contacts within the Church hierarchy in Avignon at a time when the Florentine poet Petrarch was living there, writing newlyinvented sonnets to his darling Laura. However, these things are exceedingly unlikely to have been Marie’s inspiration. It’s clear that she was a deeply religious woman. She had in her household as confessor a Franciscan friar, John Peverel, and there is much evidence that she greatly admired St Francis. We also know that she used personally a small but exquisite illuminated breviary, now held in the University Library, which was almost certainly made to her order in a Paris workshop. Her coat of arms appears on certain of its pages, where it is associated with a depiction of a saint, often with Marie herself kneeling to receive blessing or instruction. If, as seems likely, these features were included at her request, we notice that the male saints she has chosen St John, St Paul, St Augustine and St Anthony the Desert Father all deeply influenced the substance of Christian belief. She also chose three women saints St Cecilia, St Clare and St Mary Magdalene all determined women who

contrived to avoid marriage and became against the odds effective preachers and establishers of the faith (if we accept, as Marie would have done, the mediaeval account of Mary Magdalene’s life after the resurrection).

In the college statutes which Marie drew up there was a requirement that the higher degrees to be studied in Pembroke should be restricted almost completely to Theology thus excluding students aiming at the lucrative profession of law. It seems likely that the Franciscans with whom both women were in close contact had urged them to give priority to the training of a better educated and more moral cohort of priests to care for the parishes of England, and to counteract the general religious laxity emanating from the papacy. And we know that Pembroke did indeed within a few years develop a reputation for turning out great bishops not to mention future masters of other colleges.

In 1363 Pembroke’s first poet, James son of Nicholas the Dane, lauded her in Latin as ‘mother of the poor, pious protector of the least, and securer of the clergy’s religion’. We know that Elizabeth, with whom Marie must surely have been discussing her plans, had a strong belief in helping the very poor. She gave small allowances to thousands on her own estates, and considered that clever young villeins as well as freemen should be educated. She also paid for numbers of poor scholars from her own estates to go to university. It seems very likely that these were ideals that she shared with Marie.

She certainly intended her college to provide an efficient study environment. As well as equipping her thirty scholars with a master, a treasurer, a librarian and a library she also paid for a manciple, a cook, a barber and a laundress. And she was a disciplinarian: her statutes prescribed fines for drunkenness and strict limits on the size of graduation celebrations, and required that all student debts be paid off in full within two months.

A further indication of her thinking appeared a few years later. About 1360 John Wycliffe, an influential Oxford philosopher and theologian, began to produce writings extremely critical of the corrupt Catholic hierarchy. He believed that authority in the Church ought to lie not with the Pope but with scripture, and that it was ridiculous that Englishmen could not read the Bible in their own tongue. Most of the University of Oxford at first supported him. Not surprisingly, these developments greatly alarmed the hierarchy, and it wasn’t long before the Franciscans too turned against Wycliffe. In Cambridge also there were tensions between the University and the Franciscans, and Marie took two decisions that may well have been partly provoked by the Wycliffe convulsions.

Marie’s original college statutes had instructed the college to be favourable to Franciscans. They also provided for two ‘rectors’, senior figures whose job it would be to guide and control the college, one of whom was to be a Franciscan; and we know that in 1357 her first rectors travelled to Avignon to help sort out various land tenure issues in the papal court. However, about 1360 she revised the statutes so that the college would become self-governing, without rectors, and gave herself new powers to interpret the statutes in case of doubt and to hire and fire Fellows.

Secondly, at this time scholars in Cambridge were expected to attend their local parish church in the case of Pembroke St Botolph’s which placed them

under the pastoral control of the Bishop of Ely. But Marie had decided that she wanted her college to manage its own religious affairs, and in 1366 never afraid of going straight to the top she obtained final permission from the Pope to build a chapel within her college which would be free of diocesan control. It was the first such chapel in Cambridge. Other colleges followed suit, and the principle thus established became vital in later centuries in maintaining the intellectual independence of the university.

These two actions must have involved Marie in some tension of allegiance, for her Franciscan advisors could hardly have approved. Whether or not she had some sympathy with Wycliffe’s arguments, it seems clear she was determined that the Fellows of her college should be free to think and act for themselves subject, of course, to her own over-riding guidance.

After the foundation 1347–1377

Immediately after the foundation of the college the black death caused chaos in the countryside by decimating the working population and Marie, like all landowners, was heavily involved in reorganising her estates. But she was also busy setting up her new college, already popularly known as ‘Pembroke Hall’. She purchased a nearby hostel to increase accommodation and made a start on the building of Old Court. There was much legal work in transferring endowed land to college ownership.

In 1353 she found time to visit the University of Paris, where she hoped to found a further college. But this fell through when debts owed to her by the King of France could not be paid because of the continuing war. On her return she built herself a new residence in Denny beside the Abbey, from which she could better supervise college affairs.

In 1354, now aged fifty, she appointed the first Master of Pembroke of whom we have any record, Robert de Thorpe, a Suffolk priest who had helped her in the building of Denny Abbey.

The left hand picture shows the two surviving sides of the fourteenth century Old Court The part with the four t all windows was the original chapel built by special permission of the Pope (now the Old Library). The college gateway shown on the right is the oldest surviving in Cambridge.

During 1357 and 1358 she was dining frequently in London with the Queen Mother Isabella now released from imprisonment, rehabilitated, and still possessed of enormous wealth. The two of them were organising on behalf of the King negotiations with John II of France, yet another relative of Isabella’s. In 1358, however, Isabella died, aged 63. In 1360 Elizabeth de Clare died, aged 65, leaving her jewellery to Marie.

In 1363 de Thorpe resigned, and was replaced as Master by able and energetic Thomas de Bingham, who had been Proctor of the University. And Marie bought for the college, as a garden, a meadow to the east of Old Court, now part of the orchard and bowling green. From 1364 to 1367 Marie was helping the Duke of Clarence set up a new community of Poor Clares at Bruisyard near Framlingham in Suffolk. In 1369 she added to the college endowment a farm at Burwell as a local source of food. Sometime after 1372 she was again involved by Edward III in a peace mission to Paris, this time to Charles V. In 1374 de Bingham resigned and was replaced as Master by John Tinmew, who had been a Fellow and was prominent in University affairs. She appointed him executor of her will.

And finally, in 1377 the year that Richard II came to the throne Marie died. She was 73, a ripe old age for the period. At her death she left some of her personal belongings and books to the young Queen of France, who was her great niece and other items to the King of France, in spite of the fact that he had just confiscated her remaining French lands. Although she seems never to have taken nun’s orders, she requested to be buried with the Poor Clares within the Abbey at Denny, in a nun’s habit and with minimum expense. Parts of the Abbey still exist, but the exact position of her grave is not known.

Four years earlier the thirty-year-old religious recluse Sister Julian of Norwich had written her extraordinary Revelations of Divine Love. Many at the time had interpreted the black death as a punishment for sin by a terrifying and angry God. But Julian’s Revelations insisted instead on a quite different image, of a God both deeply loving and beneficent, with her insistent urging that ‘all shall be well all manner of things shall be well’. I like to hope that Marie might just have had time to get acquainted with it before she died; I think she might have appreciated it.

We have no contemporary portrait of Marie. But there are in her breviary three illustrations showing her kneeling before various saints: here you can see her with St Cecilia. The breviary was made when she was in her early thirties, probably by the well-known illuminator Mahiet, who may have negotiated with

her. And we notice that he has given her a rounded face, a determined look and a nice head of curly hair.

Postscript

History of course continued on its way, and inevitably I find myself pondering how the Foundress might have felt, had she been looking down and trying to make sense of events a little puzzled perhaps, and mindful of her college’s role in some of them. For instance:

In 1378, immediately after Marie’s death, Wycliffe organised the first complete English translation of the Bible, and many copies were made and circulated. But in 1382 the Church hierarchy declared Wycliffe a heretic and copies of his unauthorised translation were destroyed. His followers, known as Lollards, were persecuted but not eradicated, persisting underground until the coming of the Protestant Church of England a hundred and fifty years later.

In 1381 Wat Tyler, John Ball and Jack Straw led the Peasants’ Revolt against the king’s taxes, and against the feudal system operated by landlords such as Marie. It was the first serious campaign of the underclass for social change in England.

In 1437, ninety years after the foundation, the Master of Pembroke, John Langton, was Chancellor of the University and adviser to the youthful Henry VI who, unlike his father the victor of Agincourt, was peace-loving and keen to be remembered as a saint. Encouraged by Langton and impressed by Pembroke’s dedication to theology and output of bishops, the King doubled the college’s endowment. Having thus successfully satisfied the fund-raising requirement for his own establishment Langton now wearing his University hat encouraged Henry to continue his good works by founding a splendid new college of his own. King’s College came into being in 1441, and Langton drew up its first statutes. The first stone of its marvellous chapel was laid soon thereafter, though the structure was not completed for another hundred years.

In 1517 Luther nailed his celebrated theses to the church door in Wittenberg and reformed churches sprang up across northern Europe. By 1532 Henry VIII had broken with Rome and the Church of England was born. Henry proceeded to dissolve the monasteries, and in 1536 he ejected the Poor Clares from Denny Abbey, almost exactly two hundred years after Marie had installed them there. The Abbey was sold, its nave was demolished and the Foundress’ residence became a farmhouse.

In 1553 Queen Mary came to the throne, determined to restore Catholicism in England. The Master of Pembroke Nicholas Ridley, who under Edward VI had been Bishop of London and a national leader, refused to accept the Catholic doctrine of the Mass, and in 1555 he was tried for heresy and burnt at the stake in Oxford’s Broad Street, with Hugh Latimer, a Fellow of Clare who had been Bishop of Worcester. ‘Be of good comfort, Master Ridley,’ cried Latimer, ‘and play the man! We shall this day light such a candle by God’s grace, in England, as I trust never shall be put out.’ He was right. Three years later Elizabeth I succeeded Mary, the Church of England was Protestant again, and the worst excesses of heretic persecution were over in England at least, though not in Marie’s beloved France.

In 1611 the authorised King James version of the Bible was published, completing the task begun by Wycliffe two hundred and fifty years earlier. The translators went carefully back to the Hebrew, Syriac, Aramaic and Greek originals to determine the meaning of the text. There was a team of 47 scholars, divided into six ‘committees’, one of which (responsible for the first third of the Old Testament) was led by Lancelot Andrewes, Master of Pembroke from 1589 to 1605; two other Fellows of Pembroke were among the 47. Andrewes also had general oversight of the whole project. He was an obvious choice for the task, with a huge reputation, both as a linguist and as an eloquent master of English.

I ought, perhaps, to draw a line at this historical point. But I can’t resist allowing imagination to creep yet further onwards, and picture Marie attempting to make sense (perhaps with a little textual help) of the anthology of the works of fifty Pembroke poets that sits on my shelf. It includes part of the Faery Queen of Edmund Spenser (1552 1599), the Elegy written in a Country Churchyard of Thomas Gray (1716 1771), and more modern works by Ted Hughes (1930 1998) and Clive James (1939 2019). Or even to imagine her puzzling amazed over the human genome itself, first decoded at the Sanger Centre near Cambridge by a team whose leader John Sulston (1942 2018) was briefly my pupil when I was a very young Fellow, in that same room E6A in Old Court from which we set out.

Tribute to Kevin Jackson Nicholas Lezard

The 2021 Gazette contained an obituary for Kevin Jackson (1974), the writer, journalist, broadcaster and film director. The following tribute to Kevin appeared in the New St atesman on 19 May 2021, and is reproduced here by kind permission of Nicholas Lezard and the New St atesman.

My best friend the Moose has died, and it’s as if all the oxygen has been sucked out of the room

Regular readers of this column will know that there is a recurring cast of supporting characters: Ben the Bouncer, Toby-who-is-not-Toby-Young, and the Moose, among others. Well, the Moose will not be recurring any more, because I learned that on Monday 10 May (I am writing on Wednesday 12) he dropped down dead, of a pulmonary embolism. He was 65.

So I am going to have to write about the Moose, because he was my friend; my best friend. There are one or two other contenders for that title, but he was the one I spoke to the most. Once a week, at the very least, for every time I sent off this column (or, Colin, as we always referred to it after a mishearing in the street when I ran into this magazine’s editor), I would, a few minutes later, send him a copy, too. He lived in the wilds of Cambridgeshire, and was entertained by my tales of the giddy metropolitan high life in Brighton, or wherever I happened to be.

His real name was not the Moose; his parents were not called Mr and Mrs Moose. He went officially under the name Kevin Jackson, although the nickname was so ingrained I would not have been surprised to see it on his passport. He even wrote a book for Reaktion’s ‘Animals’ series called, simply, Moose. It’s very good. As was everything he wrote: a life of TE Lawrence; an appreciation of Withnail and I for the BFI Film Classics series; Constellation of Genius, a celebration of everything artistically noteworthy that happened in modernism’s annus mirabilis, 1922 and some 30 or so other works. He was as busy as a bee, and earned about as much, and never achieved the fame he deserved, and he didn’t care.

What he did care about was friendship, for which he had an extraordinary knack. He might have been my best friend, but there were still people who knew him better and for longer than I did, and I first met him in 1982.

The scene: a booze-fuelled afternoon in my Director of Studies’ rooms in Cambridge. I am 19. My DoS and Kevin decide to have a rap battle (rap was a new big thing in those days). I have forgotten every couplet that was extemporised in that session, for the simple reason that this one obliterated the memory of all the rest: Kevin’s saying ‘I don’t want no Lionel Trilling/Putting it up where I’m not willing’. (Oh, and he could turn out occasional verse at the drop of a hat. Even acrostics.) I remember thinking: I want to be friends with this man for the rest of my life, and I was.

We bonded properly a year later, when we both had night-time jobs: we would call each other up in the small hours and speculate moodily on the chances of being murdered by nocturnal criminals. A few years later, he would invite me

round to his flat to watch this brilliant new cartoon show, The Simpsons. (He loved cartoons and comics, and collaborated many times with the excellent cartoonist, Hunt Emerson. Their version of Dante’s Inferno I recommend particularly highly.)

He knew everything, apart from how to work a computer or use a mobile phone. He had an unrivalled fund of anecdote and he could tell a story so well that he would leave you gasping for breath with laughter before it was half-way over. He hated doing his taxes and when his father was suffering from dementia, he said that even wiping his arse was better than writing. He loved his friends and I know he loved me because he said, “I am rather fond of you, old sausage”, which might sound cringeworthy, but is about the highest possible declaration of love that a heterosexual Englishman from a certain background can make to another.

And now he’s gone. There are worse ways to go if you’re the one dying, but for the rest of us it is cruel and horrible. It is as if all the oxygen has been sucked out of the room at once. At the moment I am entering the third day of bereavement no other word will do and the initial shock is receding, but other feelings are taking its place. Forgive me if I do not have a full grasp of them yet. Forgive me, too, for writing about him at all; whenever some minor catastrophe happened to either of us, one or the other would say: ‘Well, that’s next week’s Colin sorted.’

All I can say apart from that is I do not like this country, Bereavement. The food is lousy, your drinks bill is through the roof, the language is an ugly mixture of howls and snivelling, and the verbs only have a past tense, except for the formulation: I’ll never see him again.

And he won’t be reading these words, or any others, by anyone. (Books were to him, said a friend, like fags: 20 a day. A bit of an exaggeration, but not by too much.) There is so much more to say but I am done.

© New St atesman, 2021

‘Culture wars – an attempt to divide’: the fifth Jo Cox Annual

Lecture

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi PC

The following is an edited version of the lecture delivered in the Old Library on 16 May 2022, in memory of Jo Cox MP.

It is a real pleasure and a privilege to be here. Often as Parliament arians, we are asked to come and t alk about issues, and you go to these places because you may like the place that you’re going to, you sometimes go because you like the subject matter you have been asked to speak about, and sometimes you go because you really believe in the person in whose honour or memory you are giving the lecture. But it’s quite rare for all three to come together and so when I was asked to do this lecture, it was very hard for me to say ‘no’.

I first met Jo when she was selected for the 2015 election. As soon as she was selected, she reached out in Jo’s typical way. She was fighting for the seat in Batley & Spen that was next door to the seat that I had fought for in the 2010 election. She called me up and said, ‘I know you are a Conservative and we may have differences in our politics, but there are issues that worry me and issues that worry you too and I’d like us to work together and do an event together.’ I said, ‘Fine, I’m happy with this, let’s organise this’ and so we went ahead and organised an event at the PKWA Centre in Batley and about half an hour before the event was due to st art, I got a phone call. My phone said ‘No 10 switchboard’ and I wondered ‘What’s going on that’s so exciting that I’m getting a phone call from the Prime Minister’s Office?’ So I picked up the phone and the Prime Minister’s Chief of St aff was on the phone, and he said, ‘We need to speak, it’s quite urgent.’ I said, ‘Well, I am just about to go into an event’ and he said, ‘No, no we need to speak urgently about the event you are about to go into’. I said, ‘Go ahead then’ and he said, ‘Well, we have it on authority that you are just about to defect from the Conservative Party.’ I said, ‘Where you have it right is that if there is anyone who can convince me to leave the Conservative Party and join her tribe, it would be Jo. But what I can say to you is that if I were going to defect, I wouldn’t do it in Batley on a Sunday afternoon. So you can tell the Prime Minister to rest easy.’

But that was the way Jo was she had this amazing ability to bring together people from all sorts of different backgrounds to work together. From Burma to Syria, from safe motherhood to anti-slavery work, from poverty to Palestine: she leaves a legacy. And she achieved after 13 months in Parliament what so many do not after a lifetime in politics. And the phrase that overwhelmingly st ands out is ‘More in Common’ and that’s why I chose today’s title ‘Culture wars: an attempt to divide’; something that is in st ark contrast to Jo’s philosophy.

I am sure most of us in this room have both heard the term ‘Culture wars’ first coined some 30 years ago in the United St ates and feel relatively confident about what it means. But the definition I want to give today is that it is a narrative that supports and promotes a very particular interpret ation of a

society’s major political fault lines and it then promotes language, policy and actions to mobilise our fellow citizens accordingly and in doing so it provides simplistic but divisive answers to complex political issues. Now some of you could argue that politics itself is divisive, except I would argue that what enables conflict and disagreement in politics to remain a positive force is the anticipation of change, an accept ance that you too will have a fair opportunity to implement and effect change, the promise through democracy of having a battle of ideas you could be given a chance to govern.

But for this promise to hold, for politics to remain cohesive, the institutions that enable democracy to work must remain trusted and respected: something which sadly we have seen st art to fall victim to culture wars. The storming of the Capitol in the US in January was the most st ark manifest ation of this, where democracy, democratically elected represent atives and democratic institutions were seen as fair game and attempts were made to overturn election results through violence. Thankfully, the UK has not hit this dark phase yet nor had this moment of shame, but sadly where the US goes on in culture wars, the UK often follows.

This is why culture wars aren’t just an ugly political phenomenon: they are deeply dangerous and have the potential to stop and reverse, as we are seeing in the US, our steady journey towards liberal inclusive societies. From women’s rights to reproductive rights, from racial justice to freedom of religion and belief, from LGBTQ rights to other minority rights, culture wars have picked their battles: st atues, history, institutions and wealth connected to the slave trade, Black Lives Matter, t aking the knee, trans rights; we have all seen them play out in the media.

And in the UK, from its early timid manifest ations of framing Britishness in ways that created in groups and those that didn’t matter and belong, to more recent sinister manifest ations of att acks on fundament al institutions like the judiciary: who can forget that appalling front page ‘Enemies of the St ate’? Polling last year showed an increasing awareness of the term ‘culture wars’ in the UK but a disparate underst anding of its local manifest ations. Internationally, in the UK we are just below average when polled on whether we feel that our country is divided by culture wars we are at 32%, far below the three counties that st and ahead of all others South Africa (58%), India (57%) and the US (57%) as places where citizens are most likely to feel that their country is divided by culture wars. Countries across the globe are facing this challenge. However, with South Africa’s history and until Biden the US and India being led by extreme right-wing political parties, their ranking is not a surprise.

Across the world populists are reducing complex political issues to simplistic questions of belonging, and then framing disagreement with their view as illegitimate, often framing themselves as patriots and defenders of the ‘ordinary man’ against a ‘liberal elite’ that is out of touch at best and traitorous at worst. Those forced into the “elite’ camp are often anything but elite for example, black men protesting against police brutality whilst those representing the ‘ordinary man’ Trump or Modi, for example share little in common with the ‘ordinary man’. They use culture war to place on the back burner, even if momentarily and often to political advantage, the need to find economic answers to economic challenges challenges faced both by the Black Lives Matter protestor and the Make America Great Again underprivileged white man. Both sides of the presented divide feel unheard, marginalised and are outraged – an outrage that is fed by the media and politicians for clicks, viewerships and votes.

So economic polarisation plays out through symbolic polarisation, with the economically disadvantaged blaming fellow citizens not those in power, and economic inequality feeding and sustaining the fight for status and equality. And so it plays out. One may not be able to access institutions because of racial injustice but one can support the fight to take down statutes and rename buildings. Another may not be able to access decent housing but he can vote Brexit and feel empowered by taking back control.

Now I accept populism isn’t uniquely responsible for polarisation but what marks it out as unique to other factors is that populism’s key strategy is polarisation. And whilst both right and left wing populists divide citizens into homogeneous groups, where right wing populists become dangerously divisive is when they seek to define who the authentic citizen is the patriot, in contrast to groups that don’t authentically belong often with the effect of triggering

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disharmony, sometimes violence and in extreme cases genocide: the Rohingya community in Burma is a stark example.

The homogenization of groups is something that has preoccupied my political journey – and the war on terror was an early manifestation of a complex issue which in the end became a discussion through the prism of culture wars. Conversations on counter terrorism morphed into headlines on beards and burqas, and necessary national security legislation was drafted in terms that othered with ramifications that we are still living with today. Watching this policy making up close, both with a seat at the table and a seat in the British Muslim community I saw one of the first culture wars playing out, waged against British Muslims. And coupled with a policy of disengagement which has now been in play since 2007, they were the first victims of cancel culture and remain so.

I’ve spent a lifetime of policy-making in this area trying to decouple the easy, lazy, populist answer from a pragmatic, workable solution rooted in our values. Let me give you a topical example. We have over the last 20 years, increased the grounds upon which we can strip our fellow citizens of their citizenship. We started it to deal with an individual case of Abu Hamza and that started us down a slippery slope where we now have a position where citizenship security is not determined by what you do to damage your country but by your heritage. We now have a policy which targets 40% of our ethnic minority communities, many born and raised here, and who have never held any other nationality and known no where else to be home. They are the somewheres that are being told they don’t belong. We now have laws that have created different classes of citizens. We are no longer equal before the law thus destroying a fundamental British value.

So whilst we supposedly fight to preserve tradition, culture and heritage, often symbolic, by waging culture wars we destroy the values that underpin our tradition, our culture and our heritage.In an attempt to other others we damage ourselves. In the US a version of this phenomenon has been described as ‘plutocratic populism’ a position that combines culture wars with economic positions that are actually unfavourable and sometimes even unpopular with the voters that populism seeks to represent but which are eclipsed by the focus on the ‘existential threat’. A UK example may be those that voted Brexit knowing the company they work for may or would relocate and they would thus lose jobs or, more recently, the DUP’s position on Brexit and the current crisis that now engulfs them.

So, ladies and gentlemen, are we doomed or can we row back before we see the fallout we witnessed earlier this year in the US? I believe we can. But it requires a long-term commitment, patience to see it through, and a belief that what makes us a nation is deeper than flags and fanfare. I have argued for many years that national cohesion is as necessary as national security, and needs to be funded and supported as such. I’ve asked for many years for a specific department that unites our four nations and the diverse communities within them: a department for national identity and integration. It’s needed now more than ever.

We can become a country that focuses its energy and resources on building walls, policing boat crossings in the Channel, and allegedly protecting and defending our citizens with rhetorical soundbites or we can prioritise building

bridges between our citizens. A divided country may help win elections but it doesn’t build a nation. What some perceive as changing the fabric of the society as we know it, is often a call, a plea for recognition, seeking social justice, to be included. So let’s include them. We need to find ways that build inclusive nationalism, a common purpose, honest, with a recognition of the good and bad of the past. Not to erase all remnants of the past, not even erasing the celebrated statutes of those whose past isn’t necessarily all to be celebrated: they are still a part of our history and they should remain. But they should remain in an environment that reflects their actions both good and bad.

We need to be less offended at what leaders of the past did wrong and instead be incensed at what is wrong now. We need to stop setting up ‘existential’ threats to our country judges, human rights, the wrong kind of refugees and focus on how we are undermining the very values we are seeking to preserve: democracy, the rule of law, an international rule-based system. We need:

• to find the language that is befitting of leadership

• to not delegitimise grievances there is nothing abstract about not wanting to be shot by police

• to implement a workable process for press regulation: over a decade on from the Leveson Inquiry, its recommendations largely remain ignored

• and, most importantly, to build financially inclusive opportunities we cannot continue to allow a world where some of the richest in the world make the least contributions; we cannot allow billions of revenue around the world to remain untaxed and unaccountable.

We need to find ways to walk in others’ shoes, to create space for conversations like the Jo Cox Foundation does, and take comfort from the fact that even when the state excludes, the excluded want to be a part of state institutions: the state still matters to them, they want to belong, they want to matter. The way successive ‘excluded and disengaged’ Muslim groups and organisations have sought to engage is one such example. Even at its most extreme the perceived legitimacy of the most draconian laws and policies also depend on them commanding public confidence that they respect human rights and are compatible with the requirements of the rule of law.

So, ladies and gentlemen, culture wars in the end are a struggle to define who we are, and who we are is less about symbols and more about values: values of tolerance, equality before the law, respect for human dignity with a commitment to human rights, caring for those less fortunate, a voice for the voiceless and inclusion and space for the marginalised. These are the values that underpinned who Jo was as a Labour Parliamentarian but they are also the values that underpin my political beliefs as a One Nation Tory. It’s why I proudly define myself as someone who is ever vigilant to injustice and ever willing to call it out, indeed to be steadfast in my duty to do so by remaining proudly woke; and despite the attempts to cancel me, I will keep speaking out. Thank you for the opportunity to do so today.

The Peter Clarke Scientific Writing Prize 2022

This year’s prize was shared between two Pembroke PhD students: Jessica Walton (doing a PhD in Physics) and Greta Thompson (doing a PhD in Engineering). The two winning entries are reproduced below.

Improving Solar Energy Harvesting: Can We Really Use Quantum Mechanics to Save the Planet?

Jessica Walton

Saving the planet using quantum mechanics might seem a bizarre or impossible task, yet this is the aim of a whole field of scientific research. Quantum, the science where everything is indivisibly small, has the potential to elevate the power of solar energy harvesting as a tool for tackling the climate crisis. Solar energy is a green energy resource that promises to relieve the dependency on carbon-based energy sources, such as coal and oil. The energy from the sun is vast, abundant, and wildly underutilised. In a single hour, more energy reaches the Earth’s surface than the global population uses in one year.1 And yet, less than 1% of our global energy supply comes from solar energy harvesting.2 Unfortunately, we can’t encompass the world in a giant solar panel for one hour per year and generate enough energy to meet our annual global demand in one go; such a planetary device is unfeasible. Instead, solar energy harvesting uses small solar panels placed in many versatile, yet sunny, environments. Many of us may have spotted a solar farm whilst travelling through the UK, or a roof adorned in domestic size solar panels, and yet these well-known devices contribute surprisingly little to our total energy supply.

Most domestic solar panels are rated at generating 350 W (watts, units of energy per second). If we assume that, on average, the panel can harvest 4 hours of peak sunshine per day, the panel will output 1.4 kWh (kilo watt hour, a thousand watts generated for an hour) per day, or around 500 kWh per year. Globally, we use 160,000 terra-watt hours (TWh) of energy a year, where a TWh denotes a trillion watts used for one hour. Therefore, it would require hundreds of billions of solar panels to make up this energy requirement, which would take up an extraordinary amount of land. Nonetheless, there remain a lot of possibilities of how we could deploy our solar panels without burdening land usage: we could put a solar panel on every roof, create solar farms on the unpopulated areas of the Sahara Desert, or even put solar panels along the edge of every motorway. And yet sadly, these ideas still seem almost an elusive fantasy. So how can we make solar energy harvesting a bigger player in supplying our energy demand?

As with everything, money is the driving factor in the growth of technologies, and the slow implementation of solar energy is related to cost. To accelerate the uptake of solar, we can reduce the upfront cost of installing the panels, as well as maximising the return on investment gained by using panels to generate electricity, and critically, by minimising the time it takes for these two quantities to be equal. In other words, speeding up how long it takes for the solar panel to pay for itself. There are two main ways to make purchasing solar panels more appealing: first, increase the device efficiency, so that you get more electricity

output per panel, and second, increase the device lifetime, so that you have an overall greater return on investment.

A lot of research focusses on increasing the efficiency of silicon solar panels, the most conventional and widely used solar panel material. A silicon solar panel (also called a silicon solar cell) has a limited theoretical maximum efficiency of only 29%,3 with the most efficient silicon solar cell reported at 26.5%. Increasing this efficiency therefore represents a key target in enabling solar energy to achieve its potential as a planet-saving resource. And quantum mechanics might just promise the solution in the form of photon multiplication, explained hereafter.

Why Quantum Mechanics?

Quantum mechanics focuses on the very small particles that make up all matter, and how they interact. Electrons are one such particle; the negatively charged sub-atomic particles that flow around in a circuit to give us electricity. Another are photons; the small wave packets of energy that make up light. Both photons and electrons play crucial roles in solar energy harvesting, where energy from photons is given to electrons to generate electricity.

Photons can carry different energies, proportional to their frequency,4 which comprise the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum. The rainbow of all colours of light visible to the human eye is but a small segment of the EM spectrum. This spectrum ranges from low energies, such as radio and infrared frequencies, which bring you the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show and warm you up in a sunny spot respectively, all the way to higher energies, such as harmful ultraviolet radiation, X Rays, and gamma rays.

Photons and electrons interact within a solar panel. The solar harvesting material, often silicon, has an intrinsic energy gap (known as a band gap) between keeping all the electrons bound in the material, and giving them enough energy to be free to move in a circuit to generate electricity. A photon can transfer the energy it carries to an electron in silicon, and if the photon has donated sufficient energy, the photon-electron interaction frees the electron and generates electricity. So, why is there an efficiency limit on solar energy harvesting within silicon solar cells?

The largest contributor to this efficiency limit (known as the Shockley Queisser limit) is the loss of sunlight energy to heat. If a photon carries any energy beyond that required to ‘free’ the electron, then this excess is dissipated through the solar panel as heat and is lost. The energy of the band gap in silicon is exactly matched by a photon of infrared light. Thus, any photons with higher energy, all colours of the rainbow, UV, and higher lead to the solar panel heating up. In fact, 33% of energy that is absorbed by a solar panel is lost to heat.3

So, how can quantum physics be used to make solar panels more efficient? Such heat losses could be avoided using the quantum mechanical process of photon-multiplication (PM). Within PM solar cells, a high energy photon is split up into two lower energy photons that are closer in energy to the band gap of the harvesting material. These lower energy photons have less excess energy, so therefore lose less energy as heat, and are harvested more efficiently. Rather than one, far too high energy photon being harvested, leading to the loss of energy as

heat and ultimately degrading the solar panel, you benefit from a ‘two-for-one’ offer, getting out two electrons with increased efficiency from the harvesting of two lower energy photons. PM solar cells rely on a quantum mechanical property called singlet fission, a rare and intriguing material property.

Singlet Fission: The Solar Saviour?

Singlet fission is a phenomenon that relies on spin, a purely quantum property that has no equivalent in ‘classical’ physics. However, spin can be thought of as an angular momentum, which is the same momentum you experience when playing on a roundabout as a child. Electrons possess half a unit of spin, s=1/2, which can take two values, up (↑, s=+1/2) or down (↓, s= 1/2). When considering a pair of electrons that interact, there are four possible spin states that arise from combining the two individual spins of the electrons, three so-called triplet states and one singlet state (see below5). Triplets have one unit of spin, S=1, whereas singlets have no spin, S=0. The fact that triplet states and singlet states have different amounts of spin mean they behave differently.

As spin is a momentum, it cannot be created or destroyed, but instead must be conserved. A photon, which does not possess any spin, cannot alter the spin state of an electron when interacting with a material. However, once an electron has been ‘excited’ by a photon (meaning, it has absorbed the energy from the photon it interacted with), it is able to start accessing these different possible spin states through different processes, with singlet fission being one example.

Within a singlet fission material, the energy of the triplet states is almost exactly half the energy of the singlet, I.E., an excited singlet state has the same energy as a pair of triplet states. Thus, a singlet state that has been excited by a photon can

interact with a non-excited singlet state and share its energy with it. By doing so, it is possible to generate a pair of new triplet states whose total spins cancel each other out, conserving both energy and spin angular momentum. In other words, during singlet fission, no energy has been created or lost in this process, making it possible. These two triplet states that have been generated from one initial photon can then be used to emit two photons (using special particles known as ‘triplet emitters’, such as quantum dots) at approximately half the energy of the initial photon. Overall, through interacting with an electron in a singlet fission material, the high energy photon has been ‘split’ into two, half-energy photons. These two half energy photons, in the infrared frequencies, then carry an energy closer to the band gap of the solar panel material, so can be harvested with far reduced heat loss. This whole process of down converting a high energy photon to two lower energy photons for more efficient harvesting is called photon multiplication (because two photons have been generated from one) solar energy harvesting.

This process of utilising singlet fission to do photon multiplication is highly promising. Singlet fission itself is very fast and can generate triplet states with almost 200% yield. By using singlet fission materials, the aim is to create a PM device that can be applied to both pre-existing and new silicon solar panels alike, boosting their efficiency. A pleasant side effect of increasing efficiency by reducing heat loss is that it will also extend the panel’s lifetime due to the reduction of destructive heat. Photon multiplication is also a purely optical process, making it more easily applied to devices. It will almost be like adding a pair of sunglasses to the solar panel; something that can be placed on top, which filters out the harmful rays, but with the benefit of making the useful infrared frequencies ‘brighter’.

The idea of using singlet fission for photon multiplication, first hypothesised back in 1979, is proposed to increase the maximum solar energy harvesting efficiency of silicon to 35%. However, in the last 20 years of research this technology has been slow growing. Materials that can undergo singlet fission are few and far between, and it is important to make sure that the energy of the triplet states they produce is compatible with the band gap of silicon. To accelerate this field of next-generation PM solar cells, current research focusses on better understanding the process of singlet fission, such that it can be implemented more successfully, and finding more potential singlet fission candidate materials. Some candidates are even derived from indigo dye the dye that we use to colour our blue jeans. Perhaps the secret to better solar energy harvesting has been hiding in our closets all this time?

Will it work?

Enough physics. The more important question really is, how much will this help? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2022 report commented on the irony that solar panels aim to help resolve the climate crisis, and yet we are also at risk of losing our ability to use solar radiation as an energy source. Increased pollution levels cause fogs that reduce solar radiation at the Earth’s surface, and increased arid land means more dust that will coat the surface of the

solar panel, which reduces their ability to work. This is a stark reminder that we can’t take solar energy for granted, and we need to expedite our transition to zero carbon sources, in which solar energy harvesting offers to play an instrumental role.

Solar panels are uniquely versatile in their application. While solar energy probably can’t give us all the energy we need, it should be a major component of our energy supply. Solar energy is far more applicable in some contexts, such as ‘off-grid’ vehicles. For instance, when taking your post-apocalyptic campervan for a spin, I think you would far rather have a small solar panel strapped to the roof than a small nuclear-powered generator or a telescopic wind turbine stowed in the trunk. In present times, investing in solar panels is one of the most accessible ways to make your home greener and become closer to self-sufficiency. Which, with the energy-price crisis of 2022, is all the more desirable. So, finding ways to make solar panels even more accessible to the masses is still highly important.

Photon multiplier solar cells have the potential to increase the efficiency of the solar panel to 35%.3 While this may not sound like a lot, but when you consider that researchers in conventional silicon solar panels have focussed on squeezing out the very last possible percent age gains in efficiency, this increase is substantial. Singlet fission and photomultiplication solar cells are not a pipe dream, but are an emerging technology that, I hope, will be commercialised within the next 10 years. By making solar panels more efficient and longer lasting, more people will invest in them, accelerating the roll out of solar harvesting technologies across the globe. In doing so, solar energy harvesting is fulfilling its role as a planet-saving key energy resource. Soon, there will be no greater feeling than enjoying the warmth of sunshine on a sunny day and knowing that, not only has your day gotten brighter, but solar panels around the world are working hard to make future tomorrows brighter too.

References

1 Abedelhak, Ben Jemaa, et al., Estimation of Global Solar Radiation Using Three Simple Methods, Energy Procedia, 42, 406 415, 2013,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2013. 11.041.

2 2019 data | Our World in Data, https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-primaryenergy?stackMode=relative&country=~OWID WRL

3 Rao, A , Friend, R Harnessing singlet exciton fission to break the Shockley Queisser limit. Nat Rev Mater 2, 17063 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/natrevmats.2017.63

4 E = hν, where E is energy, ν is frequency, and h is the Planck constant.

5 The (↑↓ + ↓↑) and (↑↓ ↓↑) are a result of quantum superposition (the co existing of two states at once). If we consider two electrons, A and B, to say that A has ‘up’ spin and B has ‘down’ spin (A = ↑, B = ↓) is not equivalent to the opposite (A = ↓, B = ↑) (it is not symmetric with respect to permutation of electrons).

Go With the Flow: The Role of Liquid Based Batteries in Renewable Energy Storage

Gret a Thompson

As I’m sure you are aware, solid and liquid materials behave differently. Liquids don’t crack and solids don’t flow*. However, a property they do share, when arranged correctly, is their ability to store energy and release it as electricity. This allows both to be used as battery materials. Phone, laptop, and car batteries rely on solid materials for energy but batteries used for storing grid-scale renewable energy may be increasingly based on liquid materials. This is because the demands of a mobile phone battery, or even a car battery, are very different to the demands of energy storage on a national scale. At this level, the ability of a liquid to flow allows them to greatly outperform solids. The aptly named ‘flow battery’, based on liquids, could therefore play a huge role in meeting the world’s renewable energy goals.

To understand this, we must start with electricity the flow of electrons. All materials are made up of atoms, and all atoms are made up of a nucleus surrounded by electrons. There is chemical energy tied up in the bonds between a nucleus and an electron. Breaking this bond releases the chemical energy as electrical energy, by producing a free electron. By channelling these free electrons down a wire, we have produced a flow of electrons electricity. Likewise, if we return electrons to atoms, re-forming the bond between nucleus and electron, we have converted the electrical energy back to chemical energy, once more stored in the material. On discharging, batteries convert chemical energy from materials into electrical energy, and on charging, they take in electrical energy and convert it to chemical energy, ready to be released when required.

Figure 1 Conversion between electrical and chemical energy

More atoms mean more electrons, which in turn means more energy can be released or stored. Therefore, the more atoms packed into a battery, the greater

the energy. Generally, maximising the energy and minimising space taken up by the battery are goals for manufacturers. The bonds between atoms in a solid material are strong, so they tend to be packed in close to each other. The bonds between atoms in liquids are much weaker, meaning there is more free space between them. This means a lot more liquid is required than solid to get the same total energy from a battery. In other words, solids generally have more energy density than liquids.

Figure 2 Same energy, different volume

Space is not something that’s going spare in your mobile phone, and that’s one reason why solid materials, that have a higher energy density, are common in portable goods. In contrast, renewable energy power plants span acres of land. Wind farms leave plenty of space at ground level, and the corner of one field out of ten covered in solar panels won’t be missed. This means that energy density is of much less concern when it comes to batteries for large-scale renewable energy storage making liquid-based batteries much more viable.

Once the issue of space is taken out of the picture, flow batteries have much to recommend their use. Their most impactful property lies in their name the ability of liquids to flow. As mentioned, the bonds between atoms in a solid are strong, whilst the bonds between atoms, or more commonly, molecules (a cluster of strongly bonded atoms) in a liquid are weak. A stream of water from a tap is acted on by gravity, which pulls it down into the sink. When you place open hands under the tap, the water molecules easily redistribute to flow around them. If a piece of metal dropped into your hands, it would sit in your open palms as the atoms are unable to break apart from each other to move around them.

The genius of flow batteries is that rather than having a fixed volume with a fixed energy of solid material, you flow new liquid in continuously. This replaces the liquid that has either released all its energy or cannot store any more, with fresh liquid. Essentially, if you can get more liquid, you can store or release more energy. When you are working with Megawatts produced by a power plant, this

scalability becomes very useful. To understand why flowing liquid is superior to stagnant liquid, or very large pieces of solid, we must delve into the inner workings of a battery.

In a battery, there are two types of material, A and B, which make up the electrodes. The electrons in A exist in a high energy state but can exist in a low energy state in B. Electrons want to exist in the lower energy state, so if given a path, will transfer from A to B. This is like a ball rolling down a hill moving from a high to a low energy state. When we connect A and B using a wire, the electrons from A spontaneously flow through it to get to the lower energy state in B. This flow of electrons gives us electricity in the wire, and we use this electricity to power devices, e.g. a lightbulb, before allowing the electrons to reach B. To make this A to B process successful we also use thin pieces of metal at the base of the electrodes, called current collectors, because metal conducts electrons well. This helps channel the electrons from A into the wires, where they flow as electric current.

We also need a membrane between A & B that blocks the flow of electrons between them. Without the membrane, electrons would flow directly from A to B at the interface of the materials, and not through the wire. Using the membrane prevents this, meaning the only path between the electrodes is via the wires. This ensures we can harness the flow of electrons between them as electricity in the wires. Importantly the membrane does allow through positive molecules. These are created because electrons are being removed from A, leaving positively charged atoms or molecules (see figure 1). Since opposite charges attract, when electrons start building up at B, the positive molecules left in A are attracted over the membrane to B, where they balance the charge, keeping the battery stable. Once all the electrons available have transferred from A to B, the battery cannot release any more energy – the lightbulb goes dark. This is the discharging process finished.

Figure 3. A battery discharging

To recharge the battery, we replace the lightbulb with an electricity source, like a solar panel. This application of electricity pulls the electrons out of B and back along the wire to A. Likewise, the positive molecules in B return across the

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membrane to material A, as the electrons building up in A attract them back. Once all the electrons available from B have been returned to A, the battery is fully charged and unable to store more electricity.

For batteries at a renewable energy power plant, you are dealing with huge amounts of energy, so you would want the largest possible electrodes. This allows you to store as much renewable energy as possible, for release when the grid needs it. This is particularly important with renewable energy because supply does not match demand disco lights are often switched on when there is no sun shining. However, when you make solid electrodes too big, you make the average path that the electrons and positive molecules must travel through to reach the current collector, or a free spot in the opposite electrode, longer. This slows them down and causes their energy to be lost on the way. Making electrodes bigger also leads to cracks that further hinder the motion of electrons and molecules. It can even cause unwanted chemical reactions that damage the battery. This means there is a limiting size of solid electrode, after which, the increase in energy it could theoretically store is counteracted by the problems incurred.

Figure 4 Larger electrodes, longer paths Same key as figure 3

Now let’s replace the space reserved for electrodes A & B in figure 5 with two liquids. We must also add a porous carbon felt material, which is immersed in the liquid. This felt acts as a catalyst, as it offers a site for the removal and release of electrons from the liquid molecules. It is also needed to conduct electrons between the liquids and the current collectors. As described earlier, the liquid easily distributes around this felt.

Figure 5 A & B are liquid materials, in which carbon felt is immersed to help cat alyse the reaction and conduct electrons to the current collectors. Same key as figure 3.

This new liquid based electrode won’t crack as that is not a property of liquids, and the felt is too soft to do so, meaning one problem is solved. The kind of

liquids used in flow batteries also suffer less from unwanted reactions compared to solid battery materials, providing another advantage. However, using a large liquid electrodes to maximise energy would still mean increasing the path length for the electrons and molecules, causing an overall loss in energy. So again, we are stuck with a limiting size of the electrode. The solution offered by flow batteries is to reduce the electrode size so that the path lengths are short again (like in figure 4) but add holes in the top and bottom of both electrodes. We can then pump liquid through the electrodes via these holes continuously. Liquid flows in, energy is released or stored, and when no more energy or storage is available, new liquid flows in to provide more. The cycle continues, pumping new liquid in from tanks of liquids A & B until all the liquid has reacted.

Figure 6. Flow battery. Same key as figure 3. A & B are liquids.

In this setup, the size of your tanks defines how much energy you can store or release in your flow battery. Since no reactions are happening in the tanks (only liquid in contact with the catalysing carbon felt reacts) they are simply storage vessels and can be made to the size desired. The flexibility to scale the amount of energy according to the storage needs of a renewable power plant is valuable, as renewable energy plants themselves come in a range of sizes and therefore generate different amounts of energy. If your renewables storage was based on solid batteries, you would need a hell of a lot of them, because of the limiting size you can make a single solid electrode. It is huge job managing so many batteries and ensuring they all work in harmony to meet the storage needs of the plant. Furthermore, unlike a solid battery, which is sealed off at manufacture, if anything goes wrong with the flow battery, it can be opened up and checked for faults. In addition, if the liquid becomes degraded to the point it is not suitable for use, it can simply be removed from the tanks, purified via chemical reactions, and then returned to the tanks. When a solid electrode has degraded to this point, you cannot get to it without destroying the whole battery, so the whole thing must be thrown away. Although there are research efforts underway to improve the recycling of batteries with solid electrodes, it does not match the current level of battery production, so the piles of spent batteries grow. This is an often

overlooked side-product of the drive to electrification. Using solid electrodes for grid scale renewable energy storage instead of flow batteries would hugely exacerbate this looming issue.

The flow battery reigns triumphant over solid batteries when it comes to storing energy at scale, and also provides advantages in terms of battery lifetime and recyclability. However, since the flow battery has received less research and undergone less commercialisation compared to solid batteries such as lithiumion, their design is not optimised for maximum efficiency. This makes them the more expensive option, despite the clear benefits in performance. Research to further improve flow battery performance, to drive costs down, is required to support their widespread deployment. Another off-putting feature is the common use of vanadium in flow battery liquids, which is toxic and rare. Without the discovery of sustainable alternatives, we risk over-reliance on a single element, as well as environmental issues problems that lithium also incurs. Time will tell if researchers can find solutions to these problems, but despite them, the first flow batteries were integrated into the national grid in 2019. This points to a hopeful future for the technology may the show flow on.

*Technically, solids do show flow behaviour. This Is called ‘creep’ and it occurs on much longer timescales than the flow of liquids.

Pembroke’s Sculptures and Portraits

Simon Learmount

It has been wonderful to see Pembroke gradually return to its bustling, vibrant self over the past 12 months. Students, Fellows and visitors are clearly delighted to re-acquaint themselves with our beautiful gardens and buildings, which have been carefully maintained during the dark days of lockdown and furlough. And no-one can fail to notice the new Mill Lane development now rising and taking shape above and beyond the hoardings that line Trumpington Street opposite the P’Lodge what wonders within await?

But post Covid 19 as we all re discover Pembroke’s beautiful open spaces, there is some discernable unfamiliarity, even surprise. Dotted amongst the familiar green squares you cannot fail to notice the growing collection of sculpture that gently enhances the grounds.

For the first 625 years of College history there was no significant sculpture in Pembroke’s Grounds. This changed in 1969 with the arrival of the sculpture of William Pitt now a familiar but august presence outside of the library. It is cast in bronze, and on closer inspection is a highly classical representation of Pitt, in full Roman attire. Although the sculpture is a grand memorial to an important alumnus of the College, it was not commissioned by, or made for, the College. It was sculpted by the eminent 19th century artist Sir Richard Westmacott in 1819 to sit at the entrance of the National Debt Office in Whitehall which Pitt had famously established to pay down the massive government borrowings that accumulated during various wars and adventures during the 18th century. The National Debt Office was damaged during the Second World War, and so the statue was moved to Hyde Park, where it sat unceremoniously for 20 odd years not on public display but outside a greenhouse at the Ministry of Buildings and Works plant nursery. In 1969 when these greenhouses were extended Pitt was deemed to be persona non grat a and the College was offered the statue on permanent loan, which we gratefully accepted apparently it can remain outside of the Library until such time as the National Debt is repaid.

The College had to wait almost another 50 years before installing another sculpture in the grounds.

This came in 2016 with the installation of Henry Moore’s 1983 work, Figure in a Shelter, that now sits resplendently at the centre of Foundress Court lawn. This magnificent work has come to Pembroke thanks to generous loan from the Henry Moore Foundation and the good offices of Lord Smith, who brokered the arrangement shortly after becoming Master in 2015. It is one of Moore’s later works, but was apparently inspired by his wartime experiences sheltering from air raids in London’s underground stations. Like all artwork it can be interpreted in many ways, but I like to think that the sculpture works extremely well here at Pembroke as it embodies the supportive, embracing, welcoming values of the College. Regardless of the symbolism, it is also, simply, a beautiful addition to the College grounds perfectly complementing the recti-linear façade of Foundress court.

And this first modern sculpture has also been important in inspiring the flurry of other contemporary sculpture arriving in College over the past couple of years. First amongst these was Crescent Figure, generously donated by Alumnus Harry Howard. Harry was inspired to gift this sculpture to us after seeing how well the Henry Moore piece complemented the College. He owned another edition of the work, which was made by the artist John Farnham who for many years was Moore’s assistant. Harry suggested that a new edition be specially made for the College in bronze, with the casting and colouring of the sculpture being overseen by John Farnham in consultation with the College to ensure that it sat well within the beautiful College gardens. Our initial plan was for the piece to be situated on the new Mill Lane College site, but having temporarily installed it here outside the entrance to the Library and at the end of the Avenue it looks so perfect that we have decided this will be its permanent home.

This sculpture was in-turn so wellreceived by the College community that Harry Howard suggested the gift of another modern piece of sculpture, this time a work by Austin Wright entitled ‘Crown of Thorns’. This is interesting as it is a wall-mounted, rather than floor standing work and as it happened the College had an almost perfect place to install it… on an external wall of Foundress Court

facing Tennis Court Road. It was installed in March 2021, and by all accounts is a fantastic addition to the streetscape as well as College. We hope it encourages many future generations of College members to ‘look up’ as they enter through Butler Gate!

The most recent addition to Pembroke’s collection of sculpture was inst alled at the depths of lockdown in 2021. This is the magnificent ‘Natural Pearl’ sculpture by Nigel Hall RA. Nigel has very kindly agreed to loan the College this work that was made in

2017 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 2020. It is a striking piece of sculpture, clearly modern in its form and materials it is made from Corten steel which has a beautiful oxidised patina that sits so well in Ivy Court complementing the early 17th century red brickwork and lead downpipes. Nigel was encouraged to loan the College this sculpture having seen how well the various pieces over the past few years have added to the College grounds and gardens, and we are truly grateful to him.

Over the coming year we expect to add other sculptures and works to the College estate especially within the Mill Lane development. Our Artist in Residence, Alison Turnbull, has already designed and created some beautiful works that will significantly enhance the new development, and we have some early indications that other important sculptures may be loaned or gifted to the College specifically for Mill Lane over the coming years.

Alongside the sculpture, it would be remiss not to mention some of the other artworks that the College has unveiled over the past couple of years, especially some of the import ant and beautiful portraits that the College has added to its collection.

For most of the Pembroke’s long history, the paintings we have commissioned have principally been portraits of our most eminent College Masters who also typically had become Vice Chancellors of the University. We have also received benefactions of portraits of other illustrious alumni, for example William Pitt or Thomas Gray. As a result there are some fantastic examples of portraiture from across the centuries in the College’s collection, and they constitute an important historical record. If you are interested to learn more please do borrow or buy the superb book by my predecessor Bill Grimstone, An Illustrated Cat alogue of Pembroke Portraits, or you can now browse the ArtUK website which has high-quality images of all our college portraits with lots of detail about sitters and artists.

In recent years though we have begun to broaden the collection, both in style and subject. We want to reflect the vibrancy and energy of the College, as well as the diverse range of contributions that members of the College Community have made so our more contemporary portraits tend to look somewhat different from the earlier ones.

I suppose what might be considered the first real modern portrait to be hung in Hall was the picture of Nobel Laureate Sir Roger Sulston, painted by Tom Philips in 2004. This was followed by a pensive portrait of Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, painted by Peter Edwards in 1993 but placed in Hall in 2014. In 2016 the College commissioned the fantastic portrait of clarinettist and Honorary Fellow Emma Johnson by Isabella Watling, which was hung in Hall in 2016 at long last many will say being the first female member of the College to have their portrait painted if you don’t include the Foundress’s image that hangs over High Table. Emma’s portrait sits with another striking modern portrait of Sir Richard Dearlove, again from 2016 and painted by Bryan Organ. It has a secret code embedded in the image… which to my knowledge has still not been solved! These two portraits are hanging in Hall opposite one of our most remarkable contemporary portraits which was unveiled during lockdown in October 2020, of the Barbadian poet, historian and Honorary Fellow Kamau Brathwaite. This was

painted by the Jamaican-born artist and friend of Kamau’s, Errol Lloyd. Finally, and most recently, we were delighted to unveil in June 2022 the beautiful and sensitive portrait of Jo Cox, painted by Clara Drummond which now shines brightly in the centre of Hall.

All of these recent portraits are, like the sculpture, well worth seeing up close and in situ. As we recover from the dark days of lockdown and the College continues to get back to normal, we hope that as many College Members will take the opportunity to come-up and enjoy these wonderful new additions to the College collections.

NEW FELLOWS

Eight new Fellows of the College introduce themselves to the Pembroke College Cambridge Society in their own words:

MARCUS COLLA was admitted to Pembroke in October 2020 as the Mark Kaplanoff Fellow in History. He writes: I wish I had a good story to tell about how and why I became fascinated by the history of Germany and Eastern Europe. After all, it’s hardly an obvious place to land for somebody with Italian heritage who grew up in faraway Australia. The fact of the matter, though, is that I don’t remember. The truth is comprised of many and overlapping micro-stories: chances, contingencies, forked roads, dead ends, starts and stops, each with its own logic. There was travel, of course. And there were friends and inspiring teachers who kept drawing me back to this part of the world. But as I completed my first book earlier this year the product of many years’ work I was struck by the incoherence of my personal journey. But maybe there is an affinity between my own story and the type of history I like to practice. I have always been drawn to the granular, the det ailed, the experiential. I am sceptical of big narratives. To me, they always feel too neat. They look back at the past not as an immense cont ainer of unrealized possibilities, but as an inevit able charge towards something pre-ordained.

In this vein, I began my research in the fields of urban and architectural history in post-1945 East Germany. I was interested in those moments when planning visions ran up against popular resist ance, especially when the proposed demolition of a valuable historic building generated objections and protests. What fascinated me was not the presence or absence of the building as such, so much as the uncertain between-zone, when a decision had been made to demolish an old structure, but the action itself had not yet taken place. In these short, but highly charged periods, people’s traditions and expectations are thrust into the political battlefield. For a fleeting moment, we can catch a glimpse of how past societies see themselves situated in space and in time.

When I came to Cambridge to do an MPhil in Modern European History, I envisaged my time here as an enlightening educational experience abroad. But I was lucky. Some of the very first people I met soon became a tight group of lifelong friends (one of whom, indeed, I married). I revelled in the work, and soon realized that I wanted to continue studying. My supervisor, Chris Clark, was a wonderful source of support (not only a world class historian, but also, as it happens, an Australian!) And so it was that I st ayed on for a PhD, in which I investigated the afterlife of the Prussian st ate in the political and cultural memory of communist East Germany.

After finishing my PhD, I taught for two years at Christ Church, Oxford. As the pandemic hit in March 2020, I had just started to find my feet. These were difficult times. But my own struggles were nothing compared to what the students had to go through. However well they managed to adapt, something fundamental is missing when we are separated by screens.

It was a tremendous thrill and honour when Pembroke elected me as the Mark Kaplanoff Fellow in History in 2021. With my first book out of the way, I have started work on some new projects. It’s an exciting time for me: new projects mean new ideas, new places, new people – in a word, new possibilities. But at the same time, I’ll try not to think too much about the ‘grand narrative’ of where these possibilities might take me. As I have come to learn, life is much more interesting that way.

NICOLÒ CRISAFI was admitted to Pembroke in October 2020 as a Teaching and Research Fellow in Italian. He writes: Writing an autobiographical sketch is always a peculiar exercise for someone who researches and teaches life narratives. In telling the story of a life in retrospect it is inevitable to find patterns and coherence that were invisible at the time of the events.

A number of crossings led me to Pembroke. I crossed the English Channel from Italy, crossed Trumpington Street from my undergraduate college Peterhouse, and crossed the Oxbridge divide from the place of my DPhil in Oxford.

I first came to Cambridge as an undergraduate in English. I wanted to do study literature and I believed that reading English would be the best way to do it. I had been educated in Italy until then and had given little thought to something that now lies at the core of my teaching of Modern Languages now: the fact that Literature is not singular, but that different literatures come with different traditions, tastes, and assumptions. In retrospect, my linguistic and cultural distance from the texts I was studying had its advantages. It compelled me to get closer to them and take nothing for granted in their interpretation, in the Cambridge tradition of close reading and practical criticism.

A series of coincidences led me to my DPhil in Oxford. As a lover of opera, I had bought tickets to watch The Magic Flute, Carmen, and Trist an und Isolde in Berlin. The person I was supposed to travel with had to miss our flight, so I went by myself. Some mishaps caused me to be late, so I had to take up a different seat next to another Italian. After the show, the Italian revealed that she was working at the same institute as Manuele Gragnolati, a scholar of Italian medieval literature at Oxford. I contacted him the following day. That’s how I first met my DPhil co-supervisor (with Elena Lombardi) at Oxford and co-director of the Institute of Cultural Inquiry in Berlin, where I did my postdoc before returning to the UK.

The research undertaken over those years became my first book, which was launched in our Old Library earlier not so long ago, Dante’s Masterplot and Alternative Narratives in the ‘Commedia’ (OUP, 2022). Informed by my interest in narrative theory, the book looks at storytelling in the writings of the foremost Italian poet of the Middle Ages, Dante Alighieri. His masterpiece the Commedia tells the story of Dante’s journey through the Christian afterlife, from the dark wood of sin and down the pit of Hell (Inferno), up the mount of Purgatory (Purgatorio), and to the face-to-face vision of God in Heaven (Paradiso). The

journey is presented as willed and inspired by divine authority, as though every encounter with every soul, every coincidence, every conversation happened for a reason. And yet Dante also more subtly displays a great sensitivity to how events might have gone differently or how we often wish they had gone differently. My book follows the might have beens and alternative possibilities that are often overshadowed by the triumphant narrative arc of Dante’s trajectory to God. It shows how the poem often reminds readers of the fact that a story’s coherence is created in the retrospective act of narration but is invisible to those experiencing life for the first time.

In retrospect, a missed flight, a delay on the way to the opera, a chance encounter put me on the path to joining Pembroke. Now that I am at Pembroke, I research narratives of alternative outcomes that were equally possible, but never happened.

C AT H E R I N E K A M A L w a s a d m i t t e d t o P e m b r o k e in October 2020 as the Stokes Research Fellow in M a t h e m a t i c s . S h e w r i t e s : After graduating from university, I packed my rucksack and travelled to Nepal. Living remotely on a small farm, I learnt the local language and adapted to the local culture. My daily activities include milking and feeding my host family’s cow, picking tea leaves, and collecting wood from the Himalayan jungle. When I started daydreaming about ways to solve complex mathematical equations, I knew it was time to return home and to fulfil the words of one of my inspirational lecturers: ‘You should do a PhD’.

I completed my PhD in fluid dynamics at the University of Bristol. My research focused on the field of singularities. Singularities, the vanishing limit of a scale at a given point in time, occur everywhere: a droplet ‘pinches’ off from the tap, and a cusp shimmers in my morning coffee. Consider, for example, the problem of a long bubble in a vertical capillary tube. Below a critical radius, the bubble appears to be ‘stuck’ instead of rising due to buoyancy. I showed that this phenomenon results from a singularity: the bubble’s interface becomes unstable and pinches to the radius of the tube in infinite time. As a result, less fluid is displaced by the bubble, and thus the bubble appears stuck.

At Queen Mary’s University of London, I completed a PostDoc on the ERC project ‘FLEXNANOFLOW’, which involved modelling graphene in flow. Made from just a few layers of atoms, when mixed with liquids, graphene nanoplatelets are known to generate promising industrial applications, ranging from improved thermal composites to specialised coatings. Suspended in flow, the atomic thickness of each particle creates many theoretical and computational challenges. By combing both simulations and asymptotic theory, I have shown that surface-induced effects such as surface slip have a marked impact on particle dynamics. For example, a pure graphene particle will align indefinitely under large shear rates, whereas a classical ‘no slip’ colloidal particle will tumble.

My current work at Pembroke uses micro-hydrodynamics to study the dynamics of carbon anisotropic particles, such as graphene, in flow. Micro hydrodynamics is the study of the flow properties of small particles, and I use this to see how these microscale features affect the macroscopic behaviour. The theoretical framework of this field is strongly associated with Pembroke’s prodigy George Stokes, who pioneered the governing hydrodynamic equations of the flow field. It is an honour to continue Stokes’s legacy as the Stokes Research Fellow here at Pembroke College.

ROBERT MAYHEW was admitted to the College in October 2020 as the Senior Tutor. He writes: I was born in the Wiltshire village of Colerne. My first encounter with Oxbridge was in the slightly peculiar form of an architecturally undistinguished 1960s cul-de-sac in the village, Grocyn Close. The close was named after William Grocyn, humanist scholar and friend of Erasmus, who hailed from Colerne and went to New College, Oxford. Like Grocyn, I was a bursary and scholarship pupil. In my case, I was one of the many beneficiaries of the assisted places scheme which led me to be educated at King Edward’s School, Bath where I was a regrettably undistinguished pupil and member of De Quincey House. (Only many years later would I discover that Thomas De Quincey had been likewise indifferent to the school.) By the sixth form, however, my abilities had improved somewhat and I surprised the school by getting a place to read geography at Hertford College, Oxford.

Hertford College was and is a fantastic place full of energised scholars and very little pretension. The Oxford geography degree introduced me to most of the themes I have pursued for the past three decades. I recall in particular a historical geography lecture on the transition from feudalism to capitalism where the lecturer, Jack Langton, got lost in the details of later medieval Scandinavian plough types for forty minutes before mopping up the rest of the topic in a mere ten minutes. Not the best lecture technically speaking, I admit, but I was inspired and a career path was chosen. I pursued doctoral studies at St John’s College, Oxford, under the supervision of the aforementioned Jack Langton. My research addressed the attitudes to landscape, nature and the physical environment in the work of Samuel Johnson and would eventually form the basis of my second book Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660 1800 (2004). This work also led to my first brush with Pembroke: I was on the shortlist for the Draper’s Research Fellowship in 1996 and had the pleasure through that experience of meeting Howard Erskine-Hill. Howard was very generous in his support for a geographer working on Johnson and offered advice from that moment until his death. I was delighted to be able to offer some small reciprocation in the form of an essay for the festschrift arranged on Howard’s retirement by David Womersley and Richard McCabe.

I didn’t get the Draper’s research fellowship, but I ended up located a stone’s throw away at Corpus Christi where I conducted research on eighteenth-century

English geography books of which there are around a thousand, all of them neglected by modern scholarship. This work led to my first book, Enlightenment Geography, which was published in 2000 just as I moved from Cambridge to a first lectureship in Aberystwyth. I have continued to work on the history of geographical thought ever since, mainly focussing on the eighteenth century, but with essays ranging from antiquity to the late twentieth century.

From Aberystwyth I moved to a readership at the University of Bristol in 2005 and spent the next sixteen years there, being promoted to Professor in 2008. It was at this time that I began to work on the pioneering demographer Thomas Robert Malthus, about whom I have published variously a monograph (in 2014), a Penguin Classic selected edition (in 2015) and a collection of scholarly essays to mark the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth (in 2016). This work led to my election as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2021.

During my time in Bristol I also became involved in broader aspects of supporting students, being the Warden of Churchill Hall for a decade until 2018. The halls in Bristol at that time retained the aspiration of building a collegiate community with formal dinners, plays, music recitals and garden parties. As such, Bristol allowed me to recapture a little bit of the collegiate life I’d enjoyed throughout my time in Oxford and Cambridge. As Bristol’s aspirations to build residential-academic communities declined, mine increased and thus it was a pure delight to be offered the chance to come to Pembroke as Senior Tutor last year. I continue to lecture and teach in Cambridge for the Department of Geography and I am currently researching English debates about migration in the 1790s (which is peculiarly appropriate as I am surrounded by Pitt memorabilia here in Pembroke), but my main focus is on building and running the college community for Fellows, staff, students and alumni. I feel very fortunate that, some quarter of a century after my first attempt, I have at last managed to join Pembroke!

S U R E R M O H A M E D w a s a d m i t t e d t o P e m b r o k e i n October 2021 as the Harry F Guggenheim Research Fellow. She writes: I was born in Italy, where my parents were in exile as the Somali civil war wore on. Shortly before I was born, my parents were accepted for relocation to Canada as sponsored refugees. In Somali tradition, it is customary to bury a newborn’s umbilical cord. It is an act that roots the child to their homeplace. In the absence of a suitable home for me, my mother compromised by rooting me in the Arno River. She credits my ability to make home anywhere with this choice she made years ago. My childhood and adolescence were shared between Vancouver, British Columbia; Columbus, Ohio; and London, Ontario. This (other) London is where I undertook a BA and MA at the University of Western Ontario, with a year abroad at University of St Andrews. I studied African Politics and International Relations with a specialization in Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction at Western’s innovative Transitional Justice Centre. ‘What happened to Somalia?’ was the central puzzle that guided my interest. At the time, I thought it was an

answerable question. Instead, it became a research agenda that lead me to Queens’ College, Cambridge, where I pursued an MPhil and PhD in Politics and International Studies. I owe my ability to continue my studies to the generous support by the Rotary and David and Elaine Potter Foundations.

By 2012, the African Union’s AMISOM forces had ousted Al Shabaab from the capital and Somali had its first official government since state collapse. People were flocking back from the near and far Somali diasporas. This included my parents, who moved back to Mogadishu sometime between my BA and MA. My research interest in urban land and the politics of Mogadishu came from the encounters I had from my visits to them. I was fascinated by this diaspora return but also by the politics of ‘reconstruction’ it fostered. There were deep contestations remaining from the civil war, unspoken and underlying the attempts to create a ‘new Somalia.’ In my PhD, I attempted to trace these wider dynamics by analyzing disputes over land and properties from the urban war. I found that these disputes were not simply struggles over brick and mortar, but about contested claims to belonging in the reconstructing capital.

Alongside my research, my sister Saredo and I co-created the On Things We Left Behind podcast. This podcast delves into the hidden afterlives of war on those who are trying to rebuild their lives. We found through this experience that there is something elemental and deeply resonant about the human voice, and about the human ability to make connections through the telling of stories. Through the podcast, we speak to individuals about their experiences of exile, and what it means to reconstruct their lives after war.

Since I joined Pembroke in October of 2021, I have embarked upon a research agenda that expands upon my previous research. My postdoctoral research agenda considers the politics of conflict urbanization, public land use, and contestations over state construction in Mogadishu, Somalia. I ask: now with the politics of state and urban reconstruction underway, what does public land represent? How does this tie into public authority or the ways that states through the determination of land come to legitimate their own power? What of public memory as mediated through the reconstruction of iconic landmarks and monuments? That is to say, what kinds of memories are invoked about the state before state collapse through urban ‘reconstruction’? I am honored to conduct this research in my new home, Pembroke College.

RENAUD MORIEUX was admitted to Pembroke in October 2021 as an Official Fellow; he is Professor of B r i t i s h a n d E u r o p e a n H i s t o r y i n t h e U n i v e r s i t y o f C a m b r i d g e . H e w r i t e s : It is common to give a retrospective coherence to one’s intellectual trajectory what sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has called ‘the biographical illusion’. That being said, it is obvious that I was always destined to become a historian of AngloFrench relations. Consider the fact that my father was an English teacher, and my mother a French teacher. Or the fact that my hippy parents bought an old farm in the Normandy countryside in

the late 1970s, which happened to be situated exactly one mile from the historic border between the possessions of the King of France and English territories, during the Hundred Years War. I had no idea of this growing up, but this couldn’t, surely, be a coincidence. In July 1987, I travelled to England for the first time, on a ferryboat between Caen and Portsmouth. My first encounter with English culture was unforgettable. The lorry drivers engaging in friendly banter with passengers, the video games arcade and the sweet smell of fish and chips created a life-long fascination for this exotic place.

I lived in England for the first time in 1996 1997, as part of an exchange programme between Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres Sciences Humaines (now ENS Lyon), where I was admitted in 1995, and the London School of Economics. I became a French lecteur at the LSE at an interesting time, during the transition between John Major and Tony Blair. I was also writing my French MPhil, at University Paris I Sorbonne, on the French refugees of the 1871 Paris Commune in London. During this research, which led to the publication of my first article in 1999, I engaged with topics that are still important to me. I have continued, since then, to work on migrant and mobile populations. I also became interested in the social history of the law. In my dissertation, I showed how the refugees of the Commune benefited from a conflict of jurisdiction and different legal cultures between France and Britain, the former demanding their extradition, the latter clinging to the sacrosanct concept of the right of asylum. Depending on the authority, these French exiles were described as criminals or political refugees while, at the local level, the MPs of Kent saw these deprived Frenchmen as an economic burden. I also started to read sociology, and these links between history and the social sciences remain central to my work.

After obtaining the French Agrégation in 1998 (a competitive exam that ensures that young graduates can at worst get a job teaching high school students if they don’t obtain a lecturership), my interests shifted to the eighteenth century. Before formally starting my PhD, I decided to spend another year in London. Thanks to a Chevening Fellowship funded by the British Foreign Office, I became an affiliate graduate research student at University College London. This was an incredibly fruitful time for me, on the intellectual, professional, and personal fronts. I was lucky to move to London at a time when new research institutions were emerging. The National Archives opened at Kew in 1997, and the British Library in St Pancras between 1997 and 1999. I spent many days there, and one evening a week working in a book fair where I spent my salary buying second-hand books at a discount. The opening of the Eurostar certainly made life easy for a cross Channel historian. I wrote a short radio fiction for the BBC Radio 3 ‘Night Waves’ in November 2004, about this space neither French nor English, to celebrate the ten years of the Eurostar. It was, again, a fascinating time to live in London, when the first mayoral election took place as a resident, I was allowed to vote , when the new Tate Modern opened, and cycling was still a game of survival.

On my return to France, I began my PhD dissertation proper. I wrote my dissertation on the invention of the English Channel as a border between England and France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Published in French in 2008, and in English in 2016 with Cambridge University Press, this book won the

American Historical Association’s Leo Gershoy award. It argues that, rather than a natural frontier between natural enemies, the English Channel is better understood as a shared space, which mediated the multiple relations between France and England, in both a metaphorical and a material sense. Instead of arguing that Britain’s insularity kept it spatially and intellectually segregated from the Continent, I focused on the Channel as a zone of contact.

I taught in several French universities during my PhD (Rouen, Reims, and Paris X Nanterre), and after spending five years at the University of Lille, as an Associate Professor in Modern History, I decided that it was time for me to cross the Channel yet again. I took up a lecturership in Modern British History at the History Faculty in Cambridge in 2011. Since then, among other things, I have published another book, The Society of Prisoners. Anglo-French Wars and Incarceration in the Eighteenth Century (Oxford University Press, 2019). I’m currently working on a new research project, which is entitled ‘statelessness and unsettlement, 1920s to the present’, which aims to understand, at the practical level, the legal and bureaucratic complexity of the status of stateless people in the twentieth century. This is, partly, a reflexive project. It focuses on the itineraries of Polish Jews between Warsaw, Paris, Barcelona, and Casablanca, who moved between internment camps, refugee camps, prisons and hiding places, before, during and after WW2.

STEVEN WARD was admitted to Pembroke in October 2021 as an Official Fellow. He writes: I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and went to university near Boston. I then lived in Washington, DC for 6 years while I completed my PhD in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. After I graduated from Georgetown in 2012, I lived and worked in Doha, Qatar for two years, and then in Ithaca, NY from 2014 to 2021.

My research is primarily about how concerns related to a country’s status or position in the world affects its foreign policy and domestic politics. Much like people care about the standing of their favorite football team, how their university fares in the latest rankings, or how their college stacks up against others, many people also care about the status of the state with which they identify. Since my second year of graduate school, I’ve been interested in understanding how the ambitions and anxieties of individuals (both leaders and members of the public) about their country’s place in the world matter for politics at home and abroad.

In my PhD dissertation which was eventually published by Cambridge University Press as St atus and the Challenge of Rising Powers I draw on concepts and insights from social psychology to analyze how obstructed status ambitions affect the foreign policies of rising great powers (like contemporary China). Put simply, the argument is that rising powers sometimes encounter apparently unjust and impenetrable obstacles to advancement they may, for instance, be treated in a way that doesn’t reflect the status and position that they think they deserve on the basis of their rapid development and increasing material

importance. This sort of status immobility produces anger and indignation, which advantages political elites who favor aggressive foreign policies that seem to protest and reject the international status quo. One example of this dynamic in action comes from the record of Japan’s struggle to enter the ranks of the “great powers” during the decades before World War II began. While Japan had, by many measures, become as powerful as many of the states in the great power club and had demonstrated as much by, for instance, defeating Russia in 1905 Japan and Japanese nationals faced discriminatory treatment that many interpreted as evidence of a racial obstacle to full membership. This eventually empowered proponents of an aggressive approach to foreign policy, and contributed to Japan’s withdrawal from the League of Nations in 1933. The book shows that the theory also helps to explain the foreign policies of Wilhelmine Germany, Weimar/Nazi Germany, and the United States around the turn of the 20th century.

In more recent research, I’ve shifted my attention to understanding the political significance of concerns about status in the context of national decline. I’m currently at work on a book project whose central argument is that the erosion of a state’s position in the world can trigger dynamics that contribute to domestic political conflict for inst ance by reducing the strength of identification with the state among some groups of people. The first completed piece of this project illustrates the theory by exploring the domestic political consequences of Spain’s defeat in the 1898 Spanish-American War.

I don’t only research and write about status in international relations in a separate project, a co author and I are investigating the function of “tripwire” deterrence. This has recently become an especially hot topic basically, the question is whether relatively small detachments of soldiers stationed in a potentially threatened country’s territory function as effective pre commitment devices. This is the logic behind US and other NATO countries’ deployments to countries in Eastern Europe the size of these detachments of troops is not likely adequate for a defence of the Baltics, for instance, from a full-scale Russian offensive. The idea is, rather, to achieve deterrence by arranging a situation in which an attack will guarantee escalation in part by enraging the public in the state whose soldiers have come under attack. The problem here is that we don’t really know whether tripwire deployments work like this they’re very hard to study historically because they aren’t often ‘tripped’. What we’ve done is to use a series of online survey experiments to see how Americans respond to hypothetical situations in which they’re asked to imagine attacks on forward deployed US troops. The results so far suggest that the public may not actually respond by demanding escalation which has important implications for questions about NATO’s force posture in an increasingly challenging European security environment.

WEI XIONG was admitted to Pembroke in October 2021 as an Official Fellow for the academic year 2021–2022 while he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge. He writes: I was initially a PhD student in physics at Columbia University before I discovered my passion with financial economics. I eventually

transferred to Duke University to get my PhD in financial economics. I started my academic career in 2000 as Assistant Professor of Economics in Princeton University, and was promoted to Professor of Economics in 2007 and Trumbull Adams Professor of Finance in 2014.

My research interests initially focussed on analyzing how financial frictions may affect capital markets and real economy and how behavioral biases may affect people’s financial decisions. I worked on a wide range of topics, such as speculative bubbles, asset pricing with heterogeneous beliefs, asset market contagion, financial crises, limited investor attention, non-standard investor preferences, rollover risk and other financing frictions faced by firms. In recent years, I also got fascinated by the financialisation of commodity markets, the rapid rise of the digital economy, and the development of Chinese economy. I have served as a co editor of the Journal of Finance (the flagship publication of the American Finance Association). My work has been recognized by several awards, including the 2018 China Economics Prize, the 2014 Inaugural Sun Yefang Financial Innovation Award, the 2013 NASDAQ OMX Award by the Western Finance Association, and the 2012 Smith Breeden Award by the American Finance Association.

It had been my great pleasure to have the opportunity to be a Fellow of Pembroke College and a Visiting Professor and Director of Research in Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge in 2021 2022. This year allowed me to experience the extremely stimulating academic environment at Pembroke. I was deeply fascinated by Cambridge’s academic tradition and community.

FELLOWS’ NEWS

Maria Abreu was made a Professor (Grade 11) by the University of Cambridge. She was also jointly awarded the 2020 Ashby Prize for her paper ‘Disentangling the Brexit Vote’.

Arthur Asseraf was made an Associate Professor (Grade 10) by the University of Cambridge.

Rosalind Polly Blakesley was made a Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Paul Cavill published on the canon lawyer William Lyndwood (d. 1446), who founded the College’s loan-chest.

Marcus Colla’s book Prussia in the Historical Culture of the German Democratic Republic was published by the Oxford University Press.

Nicolò Crisafi’s book Dante’s Masterplot and Alternative Narratives in the Commedia was published by Oxford University Press.

Nilanjana Datta was made a Professor (Grade 12) by the University of Cambridge.

Nick Davies was awarded the Godman Salvin Medal of the British Ornithologists’ Union.

Vikram Deshpande was awarded an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council.

Hildegard Diemberger co-edited, and contributed to, a collection of essays on Cosmopolit an Ecologies Across Asia: Places and Practices in Changing Environments, published by Routledge.

John Durrell was made a Professor (Grade 12) by the University of Cambridge.

Geoffrey Edwards co-edited two collections of essays: Post-Brexit Europe and the UK (published by Palgrave Macmillan), and Small St ates and Security in Europe (published by Routledge).

Andrea Ferrari was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Robin Franklin was made a Fellow of the Royal Society and was awarded the 2021 King Faisal Prize for Medicine.

Renaud Gagné was made a Professor (Grade 12) by the University of Cambridge.

Loraine Gelsthorpe co edited, and contributed two chapters, to The Wiley Handbook on What Works with Women and Girls in Conflict with the Law, published by Wiley/Blackwell.

Mina Gorji’s latest collection of poems, Scale, was published by Carcanet Press.

Clare Grey was made a Dame in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

Mike Hulme was appointed Head of the Geography Department in the University of Cambridge for three years from October 2022. He also co-edited, and

contributed to, a collection of essays on A Critical Assessment of the Intergovernment al Panel on Climate Change, published by Cambridge University Press.

Stephen John’s book Objectivity in Science was published by Cambridge University Press. He co-edited, and contributed to, a collection of essays on Limits of the Numerical: The Abuses and Uses of Quantification, published by University of Chicago Press. He was also made a Professor (Grade 11) by the University of Cambridge.

Johannes Kromdijk was made an Associate Professor (Grade 10) by the University of Cambridge.

Anna Lapwood was made an Associate Artist of the Royal Albert Hall, and an Artist in Association by the BBC Singers.

Jan Maciejowski has written an eight-week online course on Control Engineering for Cambridge Online Education. The course is intended for the continuing education of graduate engineers, and currently runs four times per year.

Anil Madhavapeddy was made a Professor (Grade 11) by the University of Cambridge, and a J M Keynes Fellow.

Jessica Maratsos was appointed to a three-year University teaching post in Modern & Medieval Languages.

Robert Mayhew’s book Debating Malthus: A Document ary Reader on Population, Resources, and the Environment was published by University of Washington Press.

The 5th edition of Nick McBride’s Letters to a Law Student was published by Pearson Education. The recommendations of the Independent Review of Administrative Law, in which he participated, were turned into law by the Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022.

Torsten Meißner was made a Professor (Grade 11) by the University of Cambridge.

Renaud Morieux was made a Professor (Grade 12) by the University of Cambridge.

Stephen O’Rahilly was jointly awarded the 2021 Croonian Medal of the Royal Society.

Jonathan Parry’s book Promised Lands: The British and the Ottoman Middle East was published by Princeton University Press.

Amanda Prorok was made a Professor (Grade 11) by the University of Cambridge. She was also awarded a Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching.

Michael Reeve’s book The Transmission of Pliny’s History was published by Sussidi Eruditi. He was admitted to the Accademia dell’Arcadia in Rome.

John Waldram published three detective novels under the nom de plume John Malyon: Seas Threaten, Unholy War, and Lidya.

Tim Weil was awarded a Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching.

Mark Wormald’s book The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes was published by Bloomsbury Circus.

GIFTS TO THE COLLEGE

From

The Academy of Ancient Music, a collection of CD and LP recordings of performances by Christopher Hogwood (1960)

Kevin van Anglen, money for the purchase of books/other library materials in the fields of anglophone American, Canadian & W Indian Commonwealth literature

Moreed Arbabzadah, a copy of the book North Sea Crossings: The Literary Herit age of Anglo-Dutch Relations 1066 1688 (Bodleian Library, 2021), to which he contributed three chapters

Jill Buckingham, a collection of works by and from the library of David Buckingham

Anthony Campbell, a copy of his book Tony’s Lactose Free Cookbook (Welston Press, 2005)

Terry Gifford, a copy of his book A Feast of Fools (Cinnamon Press, 2018)

Iain Goldrein, an English and a Mandarin copy of the 6th edition of his co-authored book Ship Sale and Purchase

Priscilla Grew, money donated in memory of Nehemiah Grew

Stephen Halliday, three books on history

Henry, Christopher, and David Head, a collection of early printed law books from the library of the late Judge Adrian Head

Valerie Ivison, a 13-volume antiquarian edition of the works of Sir Walter Scott

Hugh Kam, money for the support of law students at Pembroke

Marion Kant, a copy of her co edited book Ein westfälischer Jude in der preußischen Armee (Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 2021)

Donata Kulviecaite, a copy of the 6th edition of Fragments on History of Physics and Mathematics by Liubomiras Kulviecas

Derek Lamport, a copy of Selected papers of Frederick Sanger (World Scientific, 1996)

Tony Laughton, 26 history textbooks from the library of Jane Laughton (m. 1989)

Guy Marriott, a copy of his co-edited booklet The Dean of British Sherlockians: a Celebration of the Life and Works of SC Roberts (2021)

Charles Melville, a copy of Nomads in the Middle East by Beatrice Forbes Manz (CUP, 2021)

Linne Mooney, a copy of her co-authored book A Descriptive Cat alogue of the English Manuscripts of John Gower’s ‘Confessio amantis’ (D. S. Brewer, 2021)

Andy Mydellton, ten books on Pembroke alumni

David Neil Smith, a copy of the edited work Twenty Priests for Twenty Years (Anglo-Catholic History Society, 2020), to which he contributed an essay

Sarah Nouwen, a copy of her co-edited book Making and Breaking Peace in Sudan and South Sudan (OUP for the British Academy, 2020)

Lydia Roberts, three medical textbooks

Daniel Rosenthal, a new edition of LS Lowry: The Art and the Artist by TG Rosenthal (Unicorn, 2021)

Pierre-François Segura, copies of Agricultural Finance (Wiley, 2015) and Doctor Faustus and other plays (OUP, 1998)

Simon Sperryn, two antiquarian books

Keith Sykes, a copy of A Key into the Language of America by Roger Williams (1643) and a copy of the Book of Common Prayer (1629)

Demosthenes Tambakis, a collected edition of the works of Herman Hesse and a copy of Otto Pflanze’s Bismarck and the development of Germany (Princeton UP, 1990)

John Tolley, four works on Austrian economics

John Stuart Waddilove, a bequest for IT provision in the Waterhouse Library

Paul Warde, a collection of history textbooks

Edmund Yorke, three of his publications on military history

Publications mentioned in the Fellows’ News section of the Gazette were donated by:

Nicolò Crisafi, Geoffrey Edwards, Loraine Gelsthorpe, Stephen John, Robert Mayhew, Nick McBride, Jon Parry, Michael Reeve

Publications mentioned in the Members’ News section of the Gazette were donated by:

Zeutschel zeta book scanner, bought with the assist ance of the bequest from John Stuart Waddilove

John Chambers (1973), Harry Hudson (2013), Robbie Low (1970), Andy Myddleton (1997), Martin Rowson (1978)

THE DEAN’S REPORT

Pembroke Chapel

Michaelmas term began with the joyful return of energy that we always experience at the beginning of the academic year, but with considerable ground to make up in chapel life. The chapel choir had not sung together regularly and in force for most of the previous year. The chapel organ was wheezing badly, and had a tendency to run out of wind if played loudly. There was only one Chapel clerk left, and as usual we needed to get services up and running almost immediately with the beginning of term.

However, Michaelmas was a good term for the chapel. Our Director of Music found an excellent organ builder who managed in a number of heroic overnight sessions to deal properly with a whole series of wind leakage problems. The organ sounds better than it has for years, and I no longer need to persuade readers and preachers to shout in order to be heard. The choirs resumed in great strength, and with considerable continuity, and set about an ambitious repertoire with energy and enthusiasm. A number of people came forward to be Chapel clerks, t aking increasing responsibility in the background for the smooth running of services.

In Michaelmas 2020 we had a waiting list for the rather small number of places we could make available for people to attend worship in person. This was almost the only communal activity possible outside lockdown households. I was interested to see whether we could rebuild a more normal congregation, now that everything else had opened up. After a slow start numbers attending services grew steadily through the year, both for Morning Communion and for Evensong, and by the end of the year we had fully recovered.

We moved to three carol services this year. The first as an opportunity to sing some beautiful Advent music, which focuses on waiting and longing. The second and third are traditional Cambridge carol services, where we celebrate Christmas together before the end of term. All three were well attended, and the chapel choir took the Advent music down to Pembroke House St Christopher’s for their Advent Carol service.

For the COP26 we projected a countdown clock against the East wall of the chapel, keeping track of how much time we have left to keep our promises to ensure that the climate does not warm above 1.5°, and how much money has been invested in projects to achieve this. We also had a ‘rewilding’ of the chapel. The gardeners filled the sanctuary area with plants, spilling over into the main chapel. It was a real pleasure to conduct services and say prayers in the transformed space.

In the middle of Lent Term I finally caught Covid-19, and found myself unable to officiate at Evensong. By good fortune the Preacher on the first Sunday was very familiar with Pembroke Evensong and officiated in my absence, and for the second Sunday a brave Chapel Clerk took over to lead the service with great aplomb. (A couple of weeks later I was caught in a traffic jam at the crucial moment, and the Master officiated for the first half of the service. It is good to discover that one is not indispensable.)

The College put on an excellent Iftar meal for the end of a day in Ramadan, and Muslim members of Pembroke invited Muslim friends around the University, and non-Muslim friends from the college to hear about fasting, Ramadan, and the celebration. Prayers were conducted by Abdal Hakim Murad (Tim Winter PEM 1980) in the Old Library. A number of students and fellows remarked how positive it was to be together in this way. We hope to repeat this in Lent 2023.

As I write this we are at the beginning of the Long Vacation. The chapel as a building is even busier over the summer than in term time. In addition to weddings, there is a constant stream of visitors, and we make considerable efforts to help them understand and use the building as a place of prayer. Candles are lit, prayer requests are left, and a lot of people leave donations (currently for the British Red Cross Ukraine appeal). Many people take away a small prayer card with a picture of the chapel, and a text reminding us of our duty of welcome to migrants and asylum seekers.

Pembroke House

The lockdown hit Pembroke House at a time of rapid expansion with some very exciting new projects getting underway. As a community organisation it faced simultaneously a poor community entering a period of food insecurity, and a major problem to its modus operandi, because face to face meetings became so difficult.

A surprising proportion of the projects continued online, but the remaining energy and resources were poured into a community Food project which delivered crucial support to hundreds of people locally, and generated a whole new set of relationships with local people as recipients, organisers, and volunteers. As a result Pembroke House emerged from the pandemic as an even stronger organisation with an even stronger sense of its purpose.

A lot of thinking and planning came to fruition with the opening of the Walworth Living Room, a new space on Surrey Square, for a whole range of community interactions. The most popular to date is the Hot Meal project that feeds school children and their parents on the way home- we wrap around some learning about health and nutrition using games and other interactive activities, on one occasion feeding as many as 120 people!

The projects in Pembroke House itself have resumed and are flourishing, with the Pembroke Academy of Music, the Performing Arts and Social Skills programme, Inclusive Dance for adults with learning difficulties, an Access to University project, all active and recruiting. St Christopher’s Walworth has resumed its services, and we look forward to further visits in both directions from the chapel to the church, and from the church to the chapel. J.T.D.G.

DEVELOPMENT OFFICE REPORT

From the Development Director

In 2019, the Botanic Gardens at Cambridge recorded the highest temperature that the UK had ever experienced. As I write today ( July 18), that location is likely to be pushed off its short-lived berth, and tomorrow may be hotter still.

Is it any wonder that the fight against climate change has been the central theme of the work of the Corporate Partnership Programme at Pembroke for the past two years, and one that has featured many times in the previous decades? There is a real network of expertise just in this College, but the programme reaches far beyond into the wider University and thought-leadership in other institutions, business and public life.

And now Mill Lane can be a place that convenes that expertise and partnership. At a fascinating William Pitt Fellows’ ‘Virtual Roundtable’, senior representatives of our partner organisations discussed, with resident College members, the challenges. There were very instructive insights from Annette Nazareth and Anil Madhavapeddy about the carbon credit scheme and the ways in which commerce and technology might be used to evaluate projects and make the process viable in a way that it truly was not at its conception. It was also particularly interesting to hear Mark Wormald and James Miller (2020) talk about the need for better “storytelling” as a way of making the dynamic changes that were necessary.

This discussion followed fairly shortly on from a really great meeting of the Campaign Board, chaired by Marcus Bökkerink (1983) and Jo Prior (1984) in which the potential that Pembroke has, with its culture and spirit of openness and with the facilities on Mill Lane to convene, and to be a locale for remedial progress on this and other major issues of the day was explored truly creatively. The multi-faceted and multi-disciplinary approach, coupled with the direct and personal engagement of Pembroke alumni, academics and students, is perfectly suited to making a genuine impact on the major questions of the day. There is so much more to come, and my team and I are excited to be part of it.

As for the fundraising, we are very nearly there: there remains some £3.7 million to be raised towards our minimum target of £75 million. With the Dolby family’s help, of course, this can be halved if sufficient donations are received by the end of this year. The College is so grateful to them and to the thousands of you who have made contributions and will be grateful to those who, in the remaining months of this year, choose to make them. It really is “our generation’s” mark on the history of this venerable institution. Thank you.

The keener readers among you may have noted that I have described the £75 million target as a ‘minimum’. The reason for the use of this word is because we are aspiring to raise the full £85 million that will complete the funding, without debt, and taking into account all the imaginable contingencies of supply, building cost inflation, other inflation and delay which have to be built into the budget. As things stand, progress is good, and the £85 million will cover everything, while there is no significant delay.

Over the course of the year we have said goodbye to Clelia McElroy, who worked tirelessly on behalf of the Corporate Partnership Programme. Her interim

replacement, Katy Bennett (2017), more than filled the gap, both by her work in support of Kate Parsley, the Corporate Partnership Programme Manager, and by her preparatory research in support of the emerging LEAP (Leadership, Engagement and Adventure at Pembroke) Programme, which we trust will bring about extraordinary opportunities for many of our students over the coming years, thanks to the inspirational philanthropy of Andy (1986) and Cindy Crossley. Michael Pritchard has taken over the role of Corporate Partnership Programme Senior Co-ordinator now and we much look forward to him becoming established in the team, not least because there are new partnerships and new ways of working with partners that Kate has been instrumental in implementing.

We also said farewell to Jamila Khalil, truly one of the most cheerful colleagues I have ever had. Her work covered a wide range of areas of interest: from working with current students and young alumni, to organising Reunion Giving and our Life Beyond Pembroke work. She will be sorely missed.

Hannah Wilson, Senior Development Officer, has left the team but happily stayed in the College, and has taken on the managership of the incipient LEAP programme. This is a huge and exciting challenge.

In her stead we welcome Jess Mackenzie, formerly of Clare Hall and St John’s, who brings a lot of experience to our efforts to improve the way we communicate with donors about how their gifts are used, as well as to raise important funds through her own efforts.

Sarah Richey, who has been in the team a good while, is now concentrating on a number of the projects that Jamila was leading, and it makes sense for her to do this in conjunction with her excellent work on our Online Community, which was created as a way of helping alumni reconnect with each other, form sharedinterest groups, make professional connections and offer career advice and even mentorship to recent leavers and current students. Anecdotally at least this is gaining traction among Pembroke alumni. It is worth looking at, if you have not already joined thousands already have.

What the aforementioned have, and which is shared with Nami, Martine, Mariola, Janette, Sally, David, Diane and me, is a huge pride in what this College is about and is trying to achieve. We will be delighted to welcome you back, whether on a one-off day-trip, at dinner or at an organised event, now that the College is officially ‘back open’ to almost total normality. Do drop by (N8) and stay well in the meantime.

M.R.M.

The Matthew Wren Society

The 25th meeting of the Society was on Saturday 16 October 2021. 68 members of the Society and their guests attended the event, with pre-lunch drinks held in a marquee on Library Lawn, before lunch in Hall.

Membership of the Society is open to anyone who has notified the College of an intention to benefit the College by a bequest. Matthew Wren (1585 1667), undergraduate, Fellow and President of the College (1616 24), and Bishop of Ely (1638–67), had been a notable benefactor (his body is interred in the crypt of the Chapel, which he had built as a gift to the College, in 1665). The Society has a membership of 499. The names of those who have consented to be identified together with a number of recent bequests received are listed below. To all, the College is extremely grateful.

1944 Mr C A Price FRICS

1945 Mr P B Mackenzie Ross

1946 Professor K N Palmer

1949 Mr H J L Fitch

Mr R H King

Mr R L Stewart

1950 Mr M J C Annand

Mr P C Flory

1951 Mr J J M Barron

Dr A B Carles OBE MBS

Mr J L Dixon

Mr G B Smethurst

1952 Mr J J Fenwick CBE DL

Mr R N Field

Dr G R Hext

Mr T J Milling

Mr M J Munz-Jones

Mr P J Pugh

1953 Mr H G Branchdale

Mr R B Carter

Mr I D McPhail

Mr N A Robeson

Mr R M Watson

Mr J M Whitehead

1954 Mr M J Flux

Dr G F Fooks

Mr A H Isaacs MBE

Mr I Meshoulam

Mr R J M Thompson

1955 Mr R L Allison RD

Sir Michael Bett CBE

Mr J E Bowen

Mr G J Curtis

Mr D W Eddison

Mr J D Hind

Mr T R Hopgood

Mr N La Mar

Dr H J F McLean CBE

Mr G S Pink

Mr N M Pullan

Mr J M P Soper

Mr J S Tucker

Mr R J Warburton

1956 Mr P W Boorman

Professor B M Fagan

Mr K E Piper

Mr M A Roberts 1957 Mr M A A Garrett MBE

Dr C B Hall

Mr T R Harman

Mr T J Harrold

Professor J M H Hunter

Mr J B Macdonald Mr J W S Macdonald Mr D W H McCowen

Mr R B Wall

Mr P J Yorke 1958 Mr R A C Berkeley OBE

Mr O C Brun Mr R J M Gardner

Mr J D Harling

Mr J Lawrence

Mr J G G Moss

Professor G Parry

The Rt Hon Sir Konrad Schiemann PC

Mr J SutherlandSmith

Mr A H Wakeford

Mr W R Williams JP

Dr J N Woulds JP DL 1959 Mr A R Bridgman

Mr S H Duro

Mr P N Jarvis

Mr M G Kuczynski

Mr J A McMyn

Mr D P Robinson

Professor Y A Wilks 1960 The Hon Justice Ian Binnie CC QC

Mr R J Gladman

Mr R E Palmer

Dr J P Warren

Mr J B Wilkin 1961 Mr P G Bird Mr J A H Chadwick

Mr N C GroseHodge OBE

Dr S Halliday Professor H R Kirby Dr R S MauriceWilliams

Mr J S Nicholas

Mr J C Robinson

Mr M C Stallard

Mr R M Wingfield 1962 Mr B A Howseman

Sir Richard Jewson KCVO

Dr M J Llewellyn Smith AM KStJ Mr R C Sommers

Professor J C R Turner 1963 Mr H R Burkitt

Dr R N Cuff

Mr A W Gunther

Mr I G A Hunter QC Mr R J Kellaway Mr P D Skinner CBE

Mr J A Stott

Mr E R Tibbs

1964 Dr W C Airey

Dr J C D Hickson

Mr S F Kelham

Mr D J Shaw

Mr H J Shields

Mr E M F Temple

1965 Mr P Bann

Mr N I C Brocklehurst

Mr R P Edwards

Mr M L Greenwood

Mr C R M Kemball MBE

Mr S R Lawrence

Mr H M Skipp

Mr J J Turner

Dr J G Vulliamy

Mr C J B White

Dr J G Williams

1966 Dr R G H Bethel

Mr J V P Drury

Mr B R Goodfellow

Dr E M Himsworth

Mr A D Jackson

Mr R I Jamieson

Mr D A Salter

Mr R C Wilson

1967 Dr D J Atherton

Mr J A Cooper

Mr C R B Goldson OBE

Mr M Goodwin

Mr C R Webb

1968 Mr I C Brownlie

Mr I P Collins

Mr G N Horlick

Mr P d’A Keith Roach

Mr D E Love

Mr P D Milroy

Mr A J Murdoch

Mr T J H Townshend

Mr J P Wilson

1969 Mr R Braund

Mr P G Cleary

Mr N I Garnett

Mr B C Heald

Dr C J D Maile

Mr I C Melia

Mr M G Pillar

Mr W R Siberry QC

Professor J R Wiesenfeld

Mr N S Wild

1970 Dr J R Deane Dr W S Gould

Mr A J C Graham Mr N A MacKinnon Mr A McDonald Dr H J Perkins Mr I R Purser

Mr D A Walter 1971 Mr P Bowman Mr W C M Dastur

Mr R H Johnson Dr R Kinns

Mr M H Thomas 1972 Mr S C Lord

Dr J W Lumley

Mr C D Newell

Mr A G Singleton

1973 The Rt Hon Sir Patrick Elias

Dr P R D H Greenhouse

Mr K J Russell

Mr S J N Shepherd

1974 Mr M T Adger Dr M H Barley Mr A L C Byatt Dr K A Foster

The Rt Hon Sir Charles HaddonCave PC

Mr A S Ivison

Dr A J Makai Dr C V Nowikow JP Mr S G Trembath

1975 Mr P W Blackmore Mr S E de Somogyi Dr R A Hood QVRM TD DL Sir Richard Jacobs Mr A J V McCallum Mr D A Rew QVRM TD Mr P R Sanford Mr R B Sloan

Dr K P Van Anglen

1976 Mr M N Armstrong

Mr M C Bullock

Dr M J Burrows

Mr N P McNelly

Mr P C Nicholls

Mr C P Robb

1977 Mr N J Brooks

Mr J E Symes

Thompson

1978 Major General S M Andrews CBE Revd Father J C Finnemore

Mr M K Jackson

Mr M Russell-Jones

Mr C D C Savage Mr D S Walden 1979 Mr P S J Derham OBE

Dr L J Reeve 1980 Brigadier W J F Kingdon

Mr J P Snoad 1981 Mr M E Bartlett

Mr W J Cowan

Dr I M McClure

Mr S D Morgan

Mr A Rahman 1982 Mr I C Carter Mr J S Davison

Mr D J Hitchcock OBE

Mr C S Teng 1983 Mr D M Benton

Mr D N Pether

Mr M J Pollitt

Dr S J Rosenberg Mr L R Somerville Dr P Wilson 1984 Mr J R Baker

Ms V J Bowman Mrs C F Holmes

Mr A D Marcus Ms J M L Prior Dr D S Richardson 1985 Mr J M Furniss

Mr C M F Viner 1986 Mr J P Johnstone Mr R D R Stark

Mr J M Wolfson

1987 Miss C M Thomé

Mr A E K Vanderlip

1988 Mr N K C Chan

Dr B J J Dent

Mr D L Gilinsky

Ms N J McCabe

Mr A T McIntyre

Mr A R Read

Mr B J L Wilkinson

1989 Mr R W Bayly

Miss L Rice

1990 Dr C L Hansen

Dr L J Walker

1991 Ms D Batstone

Mr B J S Bell

Dr S A Heise

Dr G P Shields 1992 Professor J P Parry

Dr V A Pugsley

Mrs C E Stanwell

Professor A M R Taylor

Sir Roger Tomkys KCMG DL 1994 Mr M A BagnallOakeley

Dr A Guha Mr H P Raingold Ms H E M Walton

1995 Mr J P Jackson 1997 Mr A R Danson Mr A R B A Mydellton

Mr G F Watts 1998 Ms J A Davies Mr H R Perren 2000 Mr A W Morris

2001 Miss V A Skinner 2003 Mr G R I Llewellyn Smith

Mrs H J Williamson

Dr M G Williamson 2004 Mrs J A GoreRandall

Mr J Mayne 2006 Mr M R Mellor 2009 Mr G O Ulmann 2011 Dr C L Sutherell

Mrs A Beckley Mr W F Charnley Miss C A Hammersley

Mrs M Quinn Mr M A Quinn Dr A Strazzera Mrs A Whitehead

The College apologises for any inadvertent omissions, and invites members willing to see their names listed in future to write accordingly to Janette Skinner or Mariola Thorpe at the College.

Bequests

The College acknowledges with gratitude the following bequests which were received between 1 July 2021 and 30 June 2022:

1945 Mr D R Smith OBE £10,000

1948 Mr J M D Knight DL £5,000

Sir Alan Whittome £14,851

1949 Mr R Bonnett £10,004 1952 Mr T G Goodwin £2,000

1954 Mr N I Cameron £10,000 1955 Mr J S Waddilove £55,600 1963 Dr G B Houston a further £795 1965 Nr M J Hamar £13,946

The College also received £10,000 from Mrs J M Carter, wife of Mr R B Carter (1953).

In last year’s Gazette the record of a bequest from Mr I D Crane (1953) of £16,572 was unintentionally omitted. The College apologises for this oversight.

A Gift to Pembroke in Perpetuity, helpful information on making a legacy, can be obtained by telephoning Janette Skinner or Mariola Thorpe on (01223) 339079, writing to the Development Office, or emailing do3@pem.cam.ac.uk.

J.C.D.H.

The 1347 Committee Parents’ Luncheon

The 26th 1347 Committee Parents’ Luncheon was held before Easter term, on Sunday 24 April 2022, after a two year hiatus. 180 parents and other family members joined current junior members of the College for the occasion in Hall after drinks in the Old Library.

Dr Roger W Ferguson Jr (1973), former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve, an Honorary Fellow and a Visiting Scholar at Pembroke for the first half of 2022, was this year’s guest speaker.

The Committee would like to thank all those who attended this year’s Lunch and those who made donations. All donations from the lunch have gone through CARA to help support a female academic from Afghanistan.

The next Parents’ Luncheon will be held on Sunday 23 April 2023 and details circulated to the parents of Junior Members.

Master’s Society

The 20th meeting of the Master’s Society was held in College on Saturday 12 March 2022. One 120 guests were entertained to an enjoyable lunch in the Hall following a drinks reception in the Parlours. The Master thanked all those present for their generous support.

Membership of the Society is open to anyone who has made gifts totalling £2,000 or more to the College in the financial year prior to the event; invitations are also sent to donors for the two years following a gift of £5,000 or more, and for five years following a gift of £10,000 or more. Donors of £50,000 or more will be granted indefinite membership of the Society. To all, the College is very grateful. Among those attending this year’s lunch were:

Mr H G Adshead (1959) & Mrs J Adshead

Dr R G H Bethel (1966)

Sir Michael Bett CBE (1955) & Lady Bett

Mr R A Bourne (1964) & Mrs S Bourne

Mr J A H Chadwick RIBA (1961) & Mrs M R Chadwick

Mr J N Crichton-Miller (1953) & Mrs L Crichton Miller

Mr C D Daykin CB (1967) & Mrs K R Daykin

Mr N P de la Rue (1975)

Dr B J J Dent FRGS (1988) & Ms N J McCabe (1988)

Mr G B M H du Parc Braham (1985) & Mrs O F M du Parc Braham (1986)

Lord Dykes (1959) & Mrs S Allder

Mr C M Fenwick MBE (1957)

Mr J J Fenwick CBE DL (1952) & Mrs J Harwood

Mr R N Field (1952) & Mr S Vale

Mr D J Figures (1955) & Mr T Figures

Revd Father J C Finnemore (1978) & Mr C Wood

Dr N C Flemming OBE (1957) & Professor S J Kleinberg

Mr R M H Forster (1973) & Dr M A Forster van Hijfte

Mr C R B Goldson OBE (1967) & Mrs C Annison

Mr M Goodwin (1967) & Ms O Bigault

Dr C B Hall (1957) & Mr B Hall

Dr S Halliday (1961) & Mrs J Halliday

Mr A J Handford (1970) & Mrs A J Handford

Mr G St G Hargreave (1967)

Mr A Harrison (1976) & Ms K J Wardle

Mr N M Heilpern (1980)

Mr A J Hewitt (2003) & Mrs I Quental

Mr A R Hewitt (1967) & Mrs S I Hewitt JP

Mr H Howard (1953) & Mrs P Scholfield

Mr P J Illingworth (1983) & Mrs T Illingworth

Mr A H Isaacs MBE (1954) & Mrs J Isaacs

Mr A S Ivison (1974) & Mrs A J Ivison

Mr M K Jackson (1978)

Mr D G Jones (1999)

Dr C C Joyce (1969)

Mr R P Keatinge (1984) & Mrs C M Keatinge

Mr D E Love (1968)

Mr X Ma (2014)

Mr I C Melia (1969) & Dr R J W Melia

Mr D G Milne (1978) & Dr N D Milne

Mr S K Moore (1984) & Dr J C Moore (1984) & Mr J Moore

Mr C D Morrish (1979) & Ms B Knight

Mr J K Overstall (1955) & Mrs A D Overstall

Dr R J Parmee (1970) & Mrs S Parmee

Mr D J Paul FCA (1969) & Mrs M R Paul MBE

Mr W J N O Pencharz (1963)

Mr I K Rae (1987) & Mrs S A Rae

Mr A Rahman (1981) & Mrs N Rahman

Mr A A Shah (1988) & Mrs N Shah

Mr A G Singleton (1972) & Mrs J Singleton

Mr P D Skinner CBE (1963) & Mrs R Skinner

The College was represented by:

The Master

Dr J C D Hickson

Professor M C Payne FRS

Mr M R Mellor Ms N Morris FRSA Miss S C Jat (2018)

Mr H M Skipp (1965)

Mr H A Slatter (1969) & Mrs P Slatter

Mr M P Standing (1982)

Mr A H C Stirling (1954)

Ms A M Sykes

Mr K G Sykes (1965)

Mr I M Tait (1966)

Mr P Tao (1985)

Dr M D Turnbull (1970)

Mr D A Walter (1970) & Dr D Williams

Dr J P Warren (1960) & Dr R Warren

Dr J Y Whiston (1993) & Mrs M Whiston

Mr R H D St G Wise (1976)

Mr C W Woodall (1944) & Miss C Woodall

Mr C D D Woon (1961) & Mrs G R Woon

Mr O Elchanan (2019) Mr B Mhangami (2019)

Invitations for the next meeting of the Master’s Society, to be held on Saturday 11 March, will be sent out early in 2023.

THE VALENCE MARY (1997) ENDOWMENT FUND

The value of the Valence Mary (1997) Endowment Fund stood at £3,714,619 on 31 March 2022, compared with £3,568,396 a year earlier. It is largely invested in equities. The time weighted return in the period was + 4.1%.

A copy of the accounts is available from Matthew Mellor (Development Director and Steward of the College). The Trust thanks Mr Karl Williamson of Quilter Cheviot for his good advice with regard to the Trust’s investments.

COLLEGE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES

BADMINTON

Committee 2021 2022

Committee 2023 2023

Men’s 1st team Capt ains: Maxwell Li, Men’s 2nd team Capt ain: Max Howe Oliver Reed Women’s Capt ain: Ami Fudeuchi Men’s 2nd team Capt ain: Richard Zhang Treasurer: Natasza Siwinska Women’s Capt ain: Natasza Siwinska Treasurer: Anushka Irodi

Men’s 1st team Capt ain:Tareq Omer

After the long-awaited lift of Covid-19 restrictions this year, we were glad to see Pembroke badminton back in its lively form. We welcomed many new members from various year groups to the club, especially those who participated in the social badminton sessions. The number of students attending these social sessions were the greatest I have seen during my three years at Pembroke badminton, with multiple sessions filling up all five courts in the sports centre! This was amazing to see, and reflected the friendly and supportive community that we treasure.

Our successes within the social aspect of the club were also highlighted off the courts. We had our first social swap with Gonville and Caius college, organised by our treasurer and ‘social secretary’ Natasza. This involved some friendly matches followed by a pub social. It was very refreshing to spend time with our team members and other fellow badminton players in a new setting. Another highlight of the year was the annual badminton dinner. Unfortunately, College regulations only allowed alumni to attend the dinner at very short notice, leaving little time for us to organise their attendance. This also meant that regrettably, the annual alumni match could not take place. Regardless, we were able to have an excellent night with our current members and build bonds with each other even more.

Pembroke badminton also flourished in the competitive matches this year. Although both the men’s and women’s teams fell short in the Cupper’s matches, each team succeeded in their respective league matches throughout the year. A summary for each team is given below:

The women’s team had yet another successful year. After playing some challenging matches in the Michaelmas Term league, the women’s team ranked first in division 2 in the Lent Term league, securing promotion to division 1. This was an amazing achievement, and I hope that this opens up new opportunities for the team next year. All players showed great improvement in their skills, and the team always made sure that spirits were high on the courts.

The men’s 1st team performed exceptionally this year, bolstering the ranks from division 2 to division 1 after ranking highly in the Michaelmas Term league. Not only did we win several games, but we also played the most number of matches out of all colleges, owing to our team’s commitment and determination. In the Lent Term, we had some unfortunate player absences, meaning we didn’t reach our full potential in the Cupper’s league.

Similarly, the men’s 2nd team demonstrated some great skills and determination in the league matches. They secured second place in division 5 in the Michaelmas Term league and third place in the Lent Term league, consistently maintaining high ranks in their division. Several players in the men’s 2nd team also frequently subbed in for the men’s 1st team, further contributing to the club’s success.

Finally, it was a great pleasure to be the women’s captain this year and give back to the club as a committee member. The players and other committee members were great to work with and have really made Pembroke badminton a highlight of my time at Cambridge. Thank you to all players for their amazing work. I wish all the best to the next committee and members of the club, who I am sure, will continue to excel. Huge badminton love!

Ami Fudeuchi

BOAT CLUB

Capt ains 2021 22

Capt ains 2022 23

Capt ain of Boats:Istvan Bence Kovacs Capt ain of Boats: Arden Berlinger

Men’s Capt ain: Hamish Elder Men’s Capt ain: Jack Nicholas Women’s Capt ain: Molly Foxell Women’s Capt ain: Esyllt Parry-Lowther

2021 marked a challenging year in everyone’s lives, but as restrictions eased PCBC sought to support our members as much as we could. May Bumps were cancelled and replaced with a one-off June Eights Regatta. However, this did not deter any member of the club and we had the largest fleet of boats in the Regatta. The promise of return to normality in the 2021 22 season was a great reward both for senior rowers, aiming to give it one last row down the course, as well as for the novice members to experience the full rowing calendar.

The opportunity was great, but so was the amount of work needed to fulfil it. We started the term with a training camp at Wimbleball Lake in Somerset. This camp marked the first off-Cam event since 2019, and the first time PCBC had taken a large-scale camp away from Cambridge since 2016. Molly’s and Hamish’s relentless work helped us make a head start on all other colleges and set us up for a strong Michaelmas Term.

Although the first boats saw a few absences of May’s colours rowers, due to injury or placements away from Cambridge, everyone was determined to make this term a solid foundation towards the rest of the year. University IVs marked the first step of success. M1B made it to the final, whereas W1A and W1B both won their categories. The Fairbairn Cup also brought some more success. W1 coming 10th and M1 coming 5th within the colleges promised a solid start, with half of W1 doubling up to win the 4+ event. Whilst not a result by active student members, our alumni entered Christmas Head the day after Fairbairn’s in both a men’s and a women’s four, winning both events.

We also had a solid novice intake, fielding 3 boats on each side, with the top two racing Fairbairns. All crews placed in the top half of colleges, showing good

promise for the rest of the year. Sadly, due to the cancellation of the Clare Novices Regatta, they had to wait a bit longer to experience side by side racing.

Lent Term saw PCBC go off-Cam to race on the tideway at Quintin Head, with both first and second boats participating, and W1 winning the women’s development eights event, whilst M1 put in a solid result coming 5th in Open Intermediate category. The crews continued doing well, with a second place at Newnham Head for M1 and W2, and a 3rd place for M2 in their category. Sadly, both of our first boats final bumps preparation was plagued by Covid-19, but still putting in a solid result. M1 was bumped by Caius on the first day at the railway bridge, but came within half a length of them in later days, and was never under any threat from behind, solidifying their place as one of the fastest crews on the Cam, finishing 3rd on the river. W1 had a quick bump on day 1, and continued closing in on the crews in front, getting within a canvas multiple times. Unfortunately, they encountered a fast crew on the Saturday, finishing at a net 0, and 6th on the river. The second boats had a solid campaign, M2 having gone +2, and getting close to overbumping, whist W2 earned their blades after going +4. We are also very happy to be one of the 4 colleges to have both of our 3rd boats do well in the getting on race, and compete in Lent Bumps, being bumped by 2nd boats only.

After the bumps campaign the focus for the first and second eights shifted towards the Tideway Heads, whilst M3 competed at the Talbot cup on the Cam, winning the event. This was the first time for W2 at WeHoRR, and they were the fastest Cambridge 2nd eight. W1 came 3rd within Cambridge colleges and 98th overall, overtaking crews in the progress. Between the two tideway Heads, Amy Richardson, who learnt to cox at Pembroke, led the lightweight women to a historic victory and a course record against Oxford in the Lightweight Boat Races. Head of River Race saw a strong performance from both M1 and M2, the former coming 103rd and the 3rd fastest Oxbridge college. We have also taken part in supporting College’s CARA initiative with organising a charity ergothon, being the only college society to take part in the event.

After a short Easter break, the crews returned for a final term. M1 this term aimed to widen their off-Cam racing experience, entering the intermediate 4+ at BUCS, coming 3rd in the D-final, a second-place finish at the Bedford Regatta in the academic division, coming 3rd in the E-final at the Metropolitan Regatta in the Open 8+ event, as well as just missing out on qualifying for the Henley Royal Regatta. W1 joined M1’s off-Cam efforts at Bedford, finishing 2nd in both the academic and the open 8+ events. On Cam our crews saw a great amount of success in Cambridge 99’s Spring Regatta with a cup win for W3 and a plate win for M1, M3 and W2. These events promised a strong showing for bumps.

May Bumps’ return after a three year hiatus was highly anticipated by all of our crews. Sadly, both M4 and W4 missed out on getting on, with one less division than normal being run this year. After six years of blades and a +31 record, M3 encountered some strong crews, resulting in a 3 result. Many of the crew are determined to come back and better their bumps score next year. On the other hand, W3 had a terrific term, and finished on a high note, bumping every day and earning their blades. M2 got unlucky, and were chased by first boats boasting

members of this year’s blue boat on the first few days. This sadly led to a 4 campaign, but they were still the 4th highest second boat on the river. W2 finished with a +1 campaign. Their progress upwards on the bumps table was hindered by re-rows and technical row-overs.

Both first boats had an amazing campaign. W1 finished +3 and got to within a length of Emmanuel on the last day of bumps, ending their campaign as 4th on the river. M1 bumped Emmanuel and Downing swiftly on the first two days and on the last day got within half a length of Magdalene, leaving far behind Peterhouse, who boasted three rowers who rowed at the Tokyo Olympics. They ended their campaign +2 and 4th on the river. The combined +5 of the first boats is the best Pembroke result since 2010, and next year’s crews are eager to capitalise on the position achieved this year. We hosted our traditional May Bumps Marquee on the Saturday, and it was great to see so many alumni present. We also took the opportunity at the dinner to thank one of our alumnus’s great service to the club by awarding them honorary May’s colours. Stefan Stanko (2015) has been instrumental in helping PCBC get where we are now, and during the pandemic was a driving force behind keeping the spirits up and people involved. Throughout his time at Pembroke, and ever since he has graduated he has been a reliable help and was always present to give aid to members of the club. A large part of the success of PCBC is due to the community of students, alumni, staff and supporters, who dedicate their time to the Boat Club. We are especially lucky to have alumni who volunteer such a large amount of their time to coach Pembroke crews and for this we in the Club are incredibly grateful. Finally, a thank you also has to go to the Master for his continued support, as well as PCBC President Sir Richard Dearlove for his continued help. PCBC would not be this successful or the same without our Head Coach Seb Matthews, and our Boatman Kevin Bowles Esq. Their continued support and advice make our great results possible. It has been a great pleasure and honor to captain PCBC this year, and I have great confidence in our next captain, Arden Berlinger (2020). I have full confidence that she’ll continue to lead the Club on the path to even more success. Row on PCBC!

Bence Kovacs

CRICKET

2022 Capt ain: Sam Beer

2023 Capt ain: Ben Oldham

Having had large turnouts throughout the winter net sessions, we were looking forward to capitalise on this and progress further in Cuppers than last year. This year the Cuppers groups were each made up of three teams (ours comprising Jesus, Pembroke, St Catz), with only the top team going through to the next round. Our first group stage fixture against Jesus was not the start we had hoped for. After conceding a hefty 183 runs, the chase got off to a shaky start, collapsing to 30 5, before recovering to a more respectable total of 130. As Jesus

had already won their fixture against St Catz, our chance of progressing had passed us. Jesus went on to become this year’s champions. Nonetheless we moved on to our St Catz fixture with intent, and batting first in a shortened match posted a defendable 113 thanks to Nicholas’s efforts late in the innings. St Catz were scoring at the required rate to meet our target, but lost wickets steadily throughout the innings, thanks in particular to Priyanka who took three wickets on her PCCC debut, and Jay who took two in his first three overs for the side. Ultimately St Catz fell short of the total required, and the match was much enjoyed by all.

Later in term we played three very enjoyable friendly matches against a revived Hawks’ cricket team, the touring side A&A, and a May Ball affected Trinity Hall team.

The Hawks’ match was one for the ages, a high scoring T20 that went to the last ball. Having bowled and batted for both teams, Matt was given the ball in the last over, doing well to restrict the Hawks to requiring five off the last ball, before conceding a well struck six over point to give the Hawks a well-deserved victory.

Against A&A we played a 40-over match of impressive quality, with both teams batting and bowling well. In another close finish, PCCC needed two runs to win but had just one wicket remaining when Jay came to the crease. Having previously been dismissed first ball in his other innings, he survived the remaining three balls in the over. The next over saw the winning runs scored from the other end.

This year has seen both a return to normality in the cricket season and PCCC play some high quality cricket. I hope PCCC will have similarly enjoyable seasons in the near future.

FOOTBALL (MEN’S)

Capt ains 2021 22

1st XI Capt ain: Tele Agusto

2nd XI Capt ain: Joseph Steane

3rd XI Capt ain: David Moleski

Capt ains 2022 23

1st XI Capt ain: Oliver Reed

2nd XI Capt ain: Tom Happe

3rd XI Capt ain: Jake Singer

After returning to the top division of college football last season, the 1st XI sadly finished bottom of the t able after playing just two games before the season was called off due to the pandemic. Luckily, an Easter Term run to the Cuppers semi final allowed us to mix it up with the top teams in college football and we were able to continue that momentum into this season. A pre-season ‘friendly’ against Fitz gave us an early chance to weigh up the competition and, after coming away with a 3 2 win, team morale was nice and high for the upcoming season.

Wins against Queens’, Homerton, Downing and John’s in Michaelmas as well as a draw against Robinson had us sitting pretty at the top of the table come Christmas albeit with one more game played than Fitz. We also claimed a place in

Sam Beer

the history books with our game against Downing being the first ever college game to be filmed on the Veo camera, allowing us to view post match highlights.

Cuppers was a different story, however. After a well-fought comeback against Christ’s in the first round, we were sadly unable to repeat the trick against Corpus. Despite a first ever goal for the 1s by right back Will Holmes to level the scoreline, we fell just short in the end. Having had the Christmas holidays to lick our wounds, our first game back was a top of the table clash against Fitz. Going into the half 2 0 down was far from the ideal start but a strong second half comeback meant that it ended in a narrow 3 2 defeat. The gods were clearly on their side as a second half sequence saw us hit the crossbar twice, have a shot cleared off the line and one saved within the space of a minute leaving both sets of supporters stunned. In spite of the result, the team showed great character and togetherness strong performances from all quarters emphasised that our success this season was based upon the collective. Clearly stunned at the scare we had given them, Fitz proceeded to lose to Queens’ and draw against Caius in consecutive weeks to rekindle our title hopes. During this time, with captain Tele Agusto struck down by Covid-19, Ollie Reed took the reins and led the team to a comfortable 3 2 victory against a third placed Caius team to keep the title race neck to neck.

Following Caius, we had a month-long hiatus without football which was broken by the annual match against Queen’s College Oxford which we won 9 1. To finish off Lent Term, we unfortunately lost 3 2 to Churchill to leave us 3 points off Fitz with inferior goal difference. After the Easter break, a 10 1 win against Corpus in our final game gave us a glimmer of hope but in the end we finished second in Division 1 in what was a hugely enjoyable and exciting season near the pinnacle of college football.

The 2nd XI also had a very successful season finishing third in Division 4 and narrowly missing out on promotion by two points. Highlights included 6 2 and 8–0 wins against Girton and Downing respectively. Unfortunately, a narrow 1–0 defeat against Homerton saw us knocked out of the cup in the second round in what was an otherwise successful season.

This year we were also able to enjoy the first football tour since 2019 along with the women’s + nb team, spending three days in Edinburgh after the end of Lent Term where we defeated the University of Edinburgh Economics Department 2 1. All in all, it has been a fantastic footballing year for PCAFC and we hope to build upon our success this year by winning some silverware next season. In addition, it has been great to engage more with the women’s + nb team this season and hopefully this continues next year and beyond.

Tele Agusto

FOOTBALL (WOMEN’S AND NON-BINARY)

2021 2022 Co-Capt ains 2022 2023 Co-Capt ains Maryam Grassly Monami Yoshioka Sophia Dyvik Henke May Bui Alba Eisner

Players: Aaayushi Jhaveri, Alba Eisner, Delfine Lang, Elena Russo, Eva Morris, Flo Gherardi, Georgina Gower, Dieu Hoa Ha, Izzy May, Kat Sheaf, Leonie Kallis, Liz Blackwell, Lucy Coleman, Mairi Eyres, Maryam Grassly, May Bui, Mili Ostie, Mona Hilliges, Monami Yoshioka, Pauline Eller, Rema Bean, Roisin McMillan, Ros Cooper, Sophia Dyvik Henke, Maria Victoria Rodriguez Noci.

Newbroke has had quite the year. We started as two separate teams, Pembroke and Newnham, and with just a handful of players on each. We ended the season by putting in a strong performance in the Cuppers final against a team with multiple university players. And even more importantly we’ve built up an amazing community of which we are beyond proud.

The start of the year began with our taster session. While PCAFC got 30 people to show up, all our bribes attracted a mere two players. But then Alba, the Newnham capt ain, came to the rescue with the prospect of a merged Newnham/Pembroke team and Newbroke was born.

For our first league match we trekked all the way up to Girton and what a glorious game. It was the first time we had joined forces but we gelled immediately, producing a comfortable 2 0 victory. The bubble then burst slightly in our next league match against John’s/Kings, a brutal game that saw us lose 8 1. We suddenly had flocks of players, but alas not flocks of goals. This was followed by another tragic blow to Newbroke: a 5 1 loss to Sidney/Magdalene. But we didn’t let the results get us down.

We honed our strategy, streamlined our line-up and powered through pep talks. It was then time for our first Cuppers game, when we took on Sidney/Magdalene once again. And what a turnaround. From a 5 1 loss to a 6–0 win back-to-back the game was truly something else, with spectacular performances from all the players.

We jumped right back into the thick of it when Lent Term rolled around, securing a comfortable 3 1 victory against Wolfson/Darwin in the Cuppers quarter-finals. Wolfson/Darwin put up a fight, but we were in our element. Izzy made excellent challenges to keep them from advancing, Maryam and Elena made fantastic runs, Mairi delivered a lovely finish in the bottom left hand corner, Delf cut out some dangerous through-balls and Monami and Liz made vital clearances. The play was truly beautiful.

The next weekend saw a chilled 5 a side friendly against Fitzwilliam/Corpus, before we were once again in the heart of Cuppers. Semi-finals versus Christs/Church/Lucy saw a majestic 4 0 win that projected us into the Cuppers final for the third time in four years. The wind made the game a tough one but our training in storm Eunice paid off and Hoa really did put in a ‘godly’ performance

as a keeper, as did Izzy with her goal scored off a majestic run from the half-line and past three defenders.

Next up was our final League game against St Catz, and what a shambles. We ended up playing 8-v-8 but Newbroke nonetheless put in some stunning performances. Lucy had a spectacular player of the match winning performance, as she regularly paced up the wing, dribbling past three defenders and shooting. It was a brilliant end to our season in the league.

Finally, it was time for the absolute pinnacle of our season and the conclusion of our Cuppers run: the Cuppers Final. Everything had been building up to this game. We brought all the hype PCAFC’s very own Rooty dressed up as a Pembroke martlet and Georgina transformed into a Newnham griffin. Paddy the bear made an appearance, as did our newly painted Newbroke flag, and a phenomenal crowd of over one hundred. Our goal only three minutes into the game was beautiful. Delfine put in a nifty tackle, followed by a swift turn and strong pass into May. May then took a perfect touch around a defender to dribble it up and release it into Sophia to then roll into the goal. Unfortunately, the tide turned and our opponents, Jesus, brought it all back with Boothroyd, their lethal number 3 and key Blues player. Despite the result, though, Newbroke played exceptionally well and the crowd made it all worth it.

To quote our players in their post-match interviews: ‘We kept our heads up, we kept pushing, we didn’t give up’ (Vicky); ‘We played so so so well’ (Maryam); ‘Next year they are going to cry’ (Flo); ‘I couldn’t be prouder’ (May); ‘Go Newbroke’ (Elena); and ‘I think we’re going to Spoons so it doesn’t matter win or lose’ (Kat).

We think that really sums up the spirit of Newbroke and we are so proud of all we’ve achieved this year. We progressed from 8–1 losses to 4–0 wins against powerful teams. We played together, watched matches together, danced together, drank together and ate together. Even beyond the successes of our season, we truly became a community. We are sure Newbroke has leaps and bounds to go next year and our new captains, May and Monami, are the perfect team to take us there. So there’s only one thing left to say: YAY NEWBROKE!

Sophia Henke

RUGBY

Capt ain: Max Max Murphy

Incoming Capt ain: Callum Mackenzie Finnigan

Incoming Vice Capt ain: Aakash Gupta

This year marked the fourth year since Pembroke merged with Girton to form the mighty Pirton. Over the course of the partnership, we have managed to go from the depths of Division 4 to the very top of Division 1. More import antly though, through this partnership we have tried to ensure that Pirton is an inclusive and fun rugby club so that anyone who wants to play feels comfort able

doing so. Many people in the team have made some long-lasting friendships through Pirton, and it’s been an ideal way for freshers to get to know students from other colleges.

Having spent two years playing very little rugby due to the pandemic, everyone was hoping to have as much on as possible over the season and we were not disappointed. We played virtually every weekend, and even introduced a weekly training session (which is definitely one of the reasons for the success of Pirton this year). Given how hectic our year was, I thought the best way to describe the season would be to give a brief overview of our highlights.

The semi-final of Cuppers:

On April 30th, Pirton were up against Selwyn in the semi-final of the Cuppers Shield. We had our strongest team out yet, with Max Hall, Tom Allen, and Aakash Gupta in the front row and Josh Tyler and Cal Mackenzie Finnigan as our halfbacks. The massive turnout (a total of 22 players turned up to play, with many more on the sideline) coupled with the training session the week before paid off: we won 19 17. It was a brilliant game, not least because of the fantastic performance by players like Success Anyanwu who had only started playing rugby this year.

Mixed touch

For the first time ever, Pirton put together a men and women’s side to participate in the mixed touch-rugby tournament. With the help of the women on our team who played for the university touch-rugby team, we were able to put out several strong performances. It was a fantastic day for all, and we hope that this continues in the following seasons.

The tour to Oxford

In the past, when Pirton has toured to Oxford we have tended to play Pembroke College. But this year a few of us had friends at Exeter College, so we decided to play them instead. There was a slight mismatch in ability with Exeter in Oxford’s bottom division and Pirton in Cambridge’s top one so we ended up lending them a few of our players, but we ended up getting a resounding victory regardless. It was great to be joined by some former Pirton players like Joseph O’Donnell who were studying at Oxford. To top off the day, after the match ended we all went to watch the England-South Africa game together in the Exeter Common Room.

The win against Fitz

Throughout the year, Pirton and Fitzwilliam gradually became major rivals. Fitzwilliam won the first two games, but we were convinced that with a bit more training (and joué) we could beat them. Eventually, by the end of January, our time came we beat Fitz 15 14 in what was widely agreed to be “one of the best days of all of our lives”. We hope that this rivalry continues in future seasons!

Thank you

I’d like to thank Trevor Munns for keeping Pembroke Pitches so pristine, and for allowing us to book the grounds and usually at very short notice! Also, a

massive thank you to our President, Howard Raingold, for his continued support of Pirton.

I hope that in future years Pirton continues to be a welcoming club for all and that one day we might finally beat St John’s!

Max Murphy

TENNIS

Current Capt ains: James Roy and Ronan Goss

Incoming Capt ain: Jovan Varsani

Under the solid captaincy of Igor Sterner last year, tennis at Pembroke enjoyed a massive boost in members. As a result, we made it to the final of Cuppers narrowly losing out to a very strong side from Churchill. This year, we had fewer members, but by no means less talent. Tennis in the UK outside of the summer months can have its downsides, but Pembroke put in a solid performance in the winter league. Though we occasionally struggled with numbers (due to losing a lot of members at the end of last year), our place in Division 1 was retained. Unfortunately, in this summer’s Cuppers we lost in the first round to a strong side from Downing, but we’re confident we can replicate and improve on our performance from last year. Indoor training will resume in Michaelmas and we’re looking forward to recruiting some new freshers. As always, if any Pembroke Alumni are interested in getting back on our grass courts (expertly maintained by Trevor) for a hit with the current team, please send an email to jr818@cam.ac.uk.

James Roy

MUSIC SOCIETY

PCMS President: Sam Barrett

PCMS Senior Treasurer: Andrew Morris

PCMS Secret ary: Lucy Holland

2022 has seen the Pembroke College Music Society (PCMS) continue to thrive after its successful revival during the pandemic. The society has broadened both its membership and scope of genres, with over a dozen concerts ranging from traditional Chinese music to contemporary a cappella groups. As such, music continues to be an integral part of college life as a welcoming platform for musicians of all abilities, while also providing solace for the audience in the midst of the hectic Cambridge term. With an extensive range of performances showcased this year, it is difficult to do justice here to the unique success of each concert, and so just a few highlights from each of the terms’ superb programmes are showcased below.

A crucial milestone in the PCMS calendar is the freshers’ concert that marks the beginning of the programme each Michaelmas Term. This year saw exciting performances, with Matthew Cresswell playing Chopin’s Fant asia in F minor on the piano; Bach’s Praeludium from the E major Partita for solo violin performed by Hanna Simojoki; Taneesha Datta playing Brahms Intermezzo in A on piano; Rosa Pollard Smith and Mark Wadey on the flute playing Sea Echo by Sally Adams and Ian Clark’s Hypnosis respectively; Maria Cann playing Salgarna Vid Alven on the piano, Daniel Musa Morgan on the guitar and vocals, and Isaac Marchant and Rosa Pollard Smith joining forces to perform Da Lounge Bar by Annlaug Best. The Kenderdine Organ Scholar, Andreana Chan, also made her debut on the piano, playing Copland’s Scherzo Humoristique. The Michaelmas Term also saw a concert of sonatas expertly performed by PCMS veterans Tom de Csilléry on the violin (accompanied by Daniel Liu) and Tom Myles on the clarinet (accompanied by Alex Thow). Presenting a broad array of instruments, huge support was shown for the termly ‘Come and Play’ concert performed by members of PCMS, including Keyi Yu on the guzheng, Noam Solomons-Wise on the cajon, and Rhys King, a bass-baritone, singing from the St Matthew Passion. The final concert of the term, a double bill, was particularly spectacular. By day, the generous pool of musical talent at Pembroke was exhibited by the union of Andreana Chan, Xoan Elsdon, Alma Vink, Marisse Cato, Daphne Delfas and Joel Penrose performing Prokofiev’s Overture On Hebrew Themes. By night, the jazz septet hosted in the Hall inspired an atmosphere to rival Ronnie Scott’s, attracting a large audience from a host of colleges and ending in a rightfully momentous applause.

During the Lent Term, the PCMS explored new musical territory by hosting a concert of traditional Chinese music, including Cantonese Folk songs, curated by Keyi Yu. This concert was immersive and provided an opportunity for the audience to play the instruments themselves; a great success, and I hope that there will be more interactive concerts from PCMS in the future. This term also saw performances beyond the traditional PCMS realm in the form of original songs, notably from Daniel Musa Morgan, a first-year undergraduate. It is always a pleasure to hear Andreana Chan (Kenderdine Organ Scholar) perform, and we were lucky enough to be treated to an entire concert of hers, with a programme boasting organ works of John Rutter, Bach, and Vierne. After the adaptation to virtual concerts last year, it has been fantastic to host our concerts in both the Chapel and the Old Library, particularly with the introduction of post-concert drinks enabling the audience to meet the performers and strengthen the musical connections within Pembroke. The third concert of the Lent Term showcased PCMS’s wide-ranging and collaborative talents, with a concert curated by Mark Wadey featuring the lower voices of the Pembroke Chapel Choir; Bach’s Fugue from Solo violin in G minor performed by Hanna Simojoki, and what is proving to be a favourite PCMS pairing, Mark Wadey and Matthew Cresswell preforming Dopplers’ Hungarian Pastoral Fant asy.

The Easter Term saw three hugely successful concerts featuring many returning PCMS players. This term presents an extra need for PCMS concerts, with exam stress combined with the winding down of other events for the assessment period deeming it an important means of finding peace and comfort

in music when anxiety is running high. Building on the success of the first interactive concert, a concert in May featured Noam Solomans Wise on guitar, accompanied by the audience on vocals, whom he taught Jewish music to as part of the interactive process. This concert also saw the marriage of the Polish Mazurka and the English folk waltz, in an original composition by Rosa Pollard Smith, Isaac Marchant, and Johnathan Bingham. PCMS continued to expand to international genres, with Nami Morris of Pembroke’s Development office and the Cambridge Samulnori Ensemble playing a Korean style of drumming. Perhaps my personal favourite of the concerts hosted by PCMS this year was a jazz vocal quintet (Lo-Five) led by Ben Mortishire-Smith (Pembroke 2015), which included contemporary arrangements of pop songs. The performance was exhilarating and uplifting, leaving the audience in high spirits. The 2021 22 PCMS programme was closed by Ailsa McTernan, a first-year soprano, accompanied by George Herbert, who performed three songs by Barbara Strozzi and three arias from Semele by Handel beautifully.

The PCMS concerts have been a wonderful success this year, and I have every hope that they will continue to be equally outstanding in the forthcoming years. The concerts would simply not be possible without the committee, comprised of Lucy Holland, Jonathan Bingham, Andreana Chan, Tom de Csilléry, Tom Myles, Noam Solomons-Wise, Anfu Wang, Lily Young, Keyi Yu, and led so brilliantly and enthusiastically by Mr Andrew Morris. I cannot thank them enough for all of their hard work in curating these concerts and producing a busy and exciting programme. Of course, the concerts would be nothing without the audiences which continue to expand far beyond Pembroke itself, and so I must express my gratitude to all those who have attended and enjoyed the abundant musical talent that Pembroke has to offer.

Lucy Holland

THE COLLEGE CHOIRS

Last year’s Gazette report was largely dominated by our response to Covid-19, and ended with this: ‘I think we’re all excited for the day when we can finally stand shoulder to shoulder, take a collective breath, and blast out a hymn in a completely full chapel.’ Well, I’m thrilled to report this has been possible on numerous occasions this year! The challenges of Covid-19 are definitely still being felt, but it has been glorious to return to a ‘normal’ choir schedule and use music to punctuate the high points of the academic year once more.

The choir year started earlier than usual we decided to make up for lost time by organising a pre term residency for the Chapel Choir, hiring a beautiful house next to the model railway in Audley End. We spent three days living together, cooking for each other, and rehearsing full choir in the mornings and evenings, sectionals and consorts in the afternoon, with solo song performances after dinner. Having missed out on many of the social activities associated with choral singing it was great to have the chance to reignite that spark as well as do some detailed work so that we could hit the ground running once term was underway.

The residency led into two days of ‘welcome services’ in the College Chapel, with an unconducted rendition of Byrd’s Laudibus in Sanctis being the real highlight. Auditions for new members of the chapel choir happened later than week, and just like that, term had begun.

Michaelmas Term is always a busy one, but Michaelmas 2021 took things to a whole new level. I think many musicians have found this year to be their busiest yet as all the normal events take place, alongside anything rescheduled from the previous year. This was certainly the case for us! The first couple of weeks of term included matriculation services to welcome new students to the College, Victoria’s Requiem a 4 for All Souls Day, and a hugely enjoyable solo song masterclass with College Musician Joseph Middleton. Michaelmas term also saw performances of two large-scale works. Members of the Chapel Choir performed Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony alongside the Outcry Ensemble, conducted by James Henshaw at St John’s Smith Square, whilst the Chapel Choir travelled to Ely Cathedral to perform Haydn’s Creation alongside the Gabrieli Consort & Players, led by Paul McCreesh. I think it’s extremely important that our singers experience a musical life outside the four walls of the chapel, and so it was great for them to be able to perform as part of massed choruses for both of these concerts. The first half of term also included our first two Sir Arthur Bliss Song Series performances, given by Louise Alder and Dame Sarah Connolly, both performing alongside our College musician Joseph Middleton.

One of the highlights of Michaelmas Term is always our services for Remembrance Sunday, and we were honoured to be invited to sing at the Cambridge City Remembrance Parade, held at the War Memorial. The Chapel Choir led the broadcast service alongside Waterbeach Brass. No sooner had we got through Remembrance, it was time to turn our thoughts to Christmas – one of the side effects of the length of Cambridge terms is that Christmas preparations begin in late October! This year we sang a grand total of four carol services to packed chapels; we began with an Advent Carol Service, before singing two Christmas Carol Services (one with the combined choirs and one with the Chapel Choir), and then travelling to Pembroke House in London for our fourth and final service. I confess I found it extremely emotional to finally be able to hear the choirs singing our favourite carols, glorious descants soaring over a full congregation. Term ended with a Christmas concert of music and readings performed by the combined choirs before we all parted ways for the Christmas holidays.

An exciting development in Michaelmas Term was the announcement of our new partnership with the composer Eric Whitacre who has agreed to be our Composer-in-Association. We were due to begin this partnership with a residency at the beginning of Lent Term, but unfortunately Covid-19 had other ideas, but we look forward to welcoming him to the college later this year. Lent term began, then, with another choir residency not quite what we had planned, but nevertheless another fantastic opportunity for the Chapel Choir to work on some harder repertoire without the pressures of University termtime. As is always the case, Lent term itself became something of a bootcamp term, featuring unconducted psalms, plenty of early music, and some new repertoire for them to get their teeth into. The Girls’ Choir similarly knuckled down this term, working

on their conducting and singing in 8 parts for the first time. One of the highlights of this term was definitely our annual Pembroke Festival of Voice, featuring performances from Nicky Spence, Helen Charlston & Louise Alder, all performing alongside our wonderful College musician Joseph Middleton. The Festival closed with a joyous Festival Evensong sung by the combined choirs.

The week after the end of term saw preparations begin for our next recording a Christmas CD which we were meant to be recording back in 2020 before Covid-19 struck. Having recovered from the liturgical whiplash of returning to Christmas music in March, we had a glorious weekend of rehearsals with the combined choirs. Three of the pieces we were recording had been written by the Girls’ Choir back in 2020, and two had been written by members of the Chapel Choir, so there was a great sense of ownership over the repertoire. Unfortunately, our delight soon evaporated when six choir members tested positive for Covid-19 the day after our rehearsal weekend. We cancelled the next day of rehearsals and then did the remainder of our rehearsals either outside or in the chapel but four metres apart and masked in an attempt to prevent it spreading further. Our rehearsals on the library lawn were livened up by two ducks who were attracted to the music and came to join the soprano section! I was almost entirely convinced that we were going to have to cancel the recording, but luckily our ‘circuit-break’ seemed to do the trick and we managed to prevent any further Covid-19 cases. The recording itself was hugely enjoyable, taking place at St George’s Church, Chesterton. We were particularly thrilled to be joined by Pembroke’s first female honorary fellow, Emma Johnson, who played the clarinet for a Christmas carol that she had written. The album will be released in October, so you will have plenty of time to buy copies for stocking fillers!

With the arrival of Easter Term came the beginning of the exam period for many of our choir members, so we did our best to keep extras to a minimum. We did, however, manage to fit in a wonderful joint service with St John’s Voices, held in St John’s Chapel and featuring Finzi’s incredible anthem ‘Lo, the full final sacrifice’. Over half term we hosted a newly formed choir for former choristers, geared at helping teenage boys through their voice changes, preparing them for services at St Catharine’s and Jesus Colleges. Every week throughout exam term, the Chapel choir sang ‘Mindfulness Compline’ to provide a space for calm reflection at what can be quite a stressful time. These beautiful candlelit services included a guided meditation led by the Dean, and proved extremely popular.

The end of Easter Term is always one of the highlights of the whole year. Just as Advent services build anticipation for Christmas, there is always a sense that the services in the last few weeks of term build anticipation for our May Week services. Ascension, Pentecost and Trinity Sunday all follow on successive Sundays, with our May Week service happening the following Sunday, meaning we have four weeks of particularly extravagant music-making in the Chapel! This year, Pentecost happened to coincide with the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee so we had another excuse for a celebration featuring trumpets, something usually reserved for our Commemoration of Benefactors earlier in the term! Alongside our end of year services, May Week also features our annual 24-hour Bach-a-thon, now in its sixth year. This event started off as an impulsive (and informal!) bit of

fun back in 2017, but gradually gained momentum. I always joke that once something has happened three years in a row in College it should be written into the College statutes…! This year’s event brought together more than 70 organists from all over the world, and raised £7,000 for the Disasters Emergency Committee Ukraine Humanitarian Aid Appeal.

This year’s May Week services were tinged with sadness as we said goodbye to our leavers, both from the Chapel Choir and from the Girls’ Choir. I don’t think there was a dry eye in the chapel during the final hymn of the May Week Evensong again, with a glorious descant soaring over the top. Singers who have been in our choirs over the last couple of years have been through so much together; they’ve coped with huge levels of uncertainty, unpredictability, and hours and hours of zoom rehearsals. I think I can speak for all of us when I say that choir has been a refuge, an anchor, and a source of joy. Come October, we’ll excitedly welcome a new cohort of singers through the door of the Chapel to join the Pembroke choir community, with plans next year including our first international choir tour in three years, our professional London concert debut, and the release of our new Christmas CD. Oh, and plenty of descants.

Anna Lapwood

PEMBROKE PLAYERS

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Committee 2022 23

Presidents: Jude Crawley, Naima Clarvis Treasurer: Beth King Treasurer: Beth King Secret ary and Technical Director: Secret ary: Charlie Butler Michael Norman Comedy Director: Toria White Comedy Director: Amy Mallows Artistic Director: Rory Clarke Marketing Director: Sophie Wilson

President: Anna Mahtani

It’s been a relatively quiet year for the Pembroke Players within college due to the closure of New Cellars for the better part of the year, but fortunately there has been lots of exciting activity run by the Players elsewhere! We are looking forward to hosting more events in the newly reopened New Cellars in Michaelmas, as well as continuing to make use of different spaces too.

In Michaelmas 2021, the Pembroke Players ran their playwrighting competition for the second year running. Over 50 students got involved, workshopping ideas (including in an online workshop and Q&A with writer and actor Chris Thorpe) and meeting to discuss the writing process, and 12 ended up submitting complete scripts to the competition. We were so impressed by the quality of all these, but particular mention should go to the worthy winner, Vidya Divakaran, who impressed us with a sensitively written, funny and touching play about friendship, university and grief, called ‘four hundred and twenty’. We ended the term with a successful Christmas smoker held in the JP.

In Lent, the Pembroke Players were proud to support two shows. The first, ‘Shower Power’, a sketch show based on witty and weird shower thoughts, was a successful week 1 one-night-stand in the ADC and a great way to start the term. Following this, we supported the production of a new play by student Maddie Lynes, ‘When We Were Normal’, which was staged in the Portland Arms. We’re delighted to be able to help take this show to the Edinburgh Fringe and we wish them the best of luck!

Thank you to everyone who has been involved with the Pembroke Players this year, and to the staff who have helped us. We hope to come back stronger than ever next year, starting with a grand reopening of our very own theatre space!

Beth King

PEMBROKE PAPERS

Pembroke Papers is a society that has marked its presence among graduates, undergraduates and students from other colleges. It is a space where graduate students share mostly their research, at any stage of development, with other students, independent of the expertise of the audience. Many talks, however, are on topics students are interested in or which refer to hobbies of theirs. There has not been a talk which has not wowed the audience, and we could not wish for a better level of engagement.

The origins of the society go back some years to when it was called the ‘Ivory Tower Society’. It has been supported, particularly, by our alumnus Norman Bachop (1965). The relaxed environment that marks each of its sessions allows for rich discussions among those attending, adding to the knowledge of anyone present and providing the presenter with ideas to improve their own research.

This past academic year of 2021 22 was particularly special as, similarly to so many other events and groups, we were able to gather in person, and enjoy some of the College catering’s best cakes, and drinks. A total of 23 graduates delivered a talk on one of our traditional Thursday sessions. We visited themes from across a wide range of research areas. All presenters and their session titles are listed below:

Michaelmas Term:

• Toby Parsloe: ‘Architecture of refugee shelters in Berlin’

• Nadia Hamilton: ‘Quantifying the role of perception in individual and social behaviour in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)’

• Georgina Robertson: ‘The rising tide of metal-organic frameworks’

• Melisa Basol: ‘Inoculating against misinformation’

• Richard Chen: ‘The blessings (and curses) of lithium ion-layered oxide cathode materials’

• Mark Liang: ‘Coming for hope: Hong Kong BN(O) immigrants in the UK’ (presented with Simon Cheng and Julian Chan from Hongkongers in Britain)

Lent Term:

• Coco Huggins: ‘Dickensian neoliberalism: exploring prosaics of precarity in Loach’s I, Daniel Blake’

• Sarah Gonzalez: ‘Flawed mothers and forgotten daughters: maternal motifs in Euripides’ Andromache’

• Aviv Reich: ‘Amy Levy’s Cambridge: Jewishness, narration and intercultural communication’

• Fernanda Baron: ‘Just one of the dads? Determining fatherhood, re/doing fatherhood, and how transgender men experience privilege’

• Avery Kral: ‘Scientific practice and the construction of knowledge’

• Campbell McLauchlan: ‘Quantum magic (What makes quantum computers so special? And what are they anyway?)’

• Freya Rock: ‘Hearing the victim, but at what cost? The dilemma of balancing victim input with due process in the criminal courts’

• Anna Malkowska: ‘What can we learn from flies? Studying neural stem cells in Drosophila melanogaster’

• Murray Fallk: ‘Geographies of climate change policy support’

Easter Term:

• Natthida (Natty) Sae Jew: ‘Pitt, Pittism, and the University of Cambridge, 1780 1790

• Jan Blumenkamp: ‘A brief tutorial on learning-based methods for coordinating robot swarms’

• Emma Geitner: ‘Relics on the move: life and afterlife in the Miracula Walburgis’

• Victoria Moreland: ‘Historicising pain: women’s experiences of endometriosis in late 20th-Century Britain’

• Ivan Grega: ‘Architected materials how to make light and strong materials by controlling microstructure. Template-driven self-assembly of opals with spatial variation of packing density’

• Tom Jameson: ‘Rewilding reptiles: restoring landscapes in the world’s hot places’

• Meena Venkataramanan: ‘Humanitarian immediacy, human futurity: literary representations of refugees under protracted displacement’

• Michael Kohn: ‘Beyond the baton: exploring the role of the conductor in orchestral music’

We hope this will be a space to perdure in college. A full room characteristic of most of our talks this year testifies to how much value students from college, and otherwise, place on the opportunity to learn about the research work that is being ignited around them, and to share their own. It was an immense pleasure for our team (Cristina Santos, Tobias Schaich, Sarah Gonzalez, Coco Huggins, and Anna Malklowska) to organise the talks and to gain as much as anyone else from attending them. We would like to thank especially the catering team for having been so supportive with setting up the room and organising drinks and nibbles for each event. Our gratitude also goes to Dr Becky Coombs for patiently organising the space for us and for reviewing the risk assessments for each

session. Our thanks also go to Sally White for helping disseminate the event to a wider audience linked to the Pembroke College.

Pembroke Papers will be back next year with more enriching talks.

Cristina de Oliveira Santos

STOKES SOCIETY

The Stokes Society has had a really successful year; we have organized a whole range of talks from scientists in academia and industry, and we have also held a variety of formal swaps and socials with other colleges. Our bread-and-butter remain the staple weekly talks on Mondays, which are a calm respite for Pembroke’s scientists when supervision, project, and lab report deadlines are looming. This year, topics have ranged from data science to fluid dynamics and the business of vaccine development.

Particular highlights of the year include the Annual Dinner, which we were delighted to reinstate at the end of last term following a brief hiatus. It was also a pleasure to hold talks to mark Black History Month and International Women’s Day, and to maintain a regular series of swaps with other college science societies, including at Christ’s, St Catharine’s, and St John’s.

None of this would have been possible, of course, without the hard work of the current committee, and it has been wonderful working with them throughout the year to help build Pembroke’s scientific community. We leave the committee in the capable hands of the new Presidents, Beatricˇe Baublyte and Thomas Christie, and we look forward to seeing what they have in store next year!

Anna Drummond Young and Sebastiaan Hoek

JUNIOR PARLOUR

President: Safa Al-Azami

Men’s Welfare Officer: Henry Denegri Vice-President: Joseph Edwards Ethnic Minorities Officer: Fatimah Lulat

Treasurer: Pranav Talluri Disabled Students Officer: Abbie Phelps Welfare Officer: Maddy Bowers International Students Officer: Marginalised Genders Welfare Officer: Taneesha Datta

Issie Reeves

LGBT+ Officer: Oscar Griffin Women’s Officer: Ffion Griffith Class Act Officer: Gwenno Robinson Ents Officers: Andre Faulds and Charities Officer: Mo’men Ismail

Jess Stone Green Officer: Mona Hilliges College Amenities: Mat Barrier JP and Bar Officer: Daniel Musa Morgan Publicity Officer: Amber Nip Sports Officer: Olivia Moran Access Officer: Natasza Siwinska

This year has been a brilliant one for the Junior Parlour Committee as we have eased back into post Covid 19 college life, it’s been particularly important for us

to reinvigorate a sense of college community and bring back the social connections so many of us have missed out on during the pandemic. Being able to welcome Freshers in-person, through a range of events organised by JPC officers was a fantastic change in comparison to last year. Freshers events included the Freshers’ Jo Cox Feminist Society session, a welcome Access event, an LGBT social, BME picnic, a charity quiz and a Freshers party hosted in the marquee.

As the year progressed, we saw a rise in Covid-19 cases in Lent Term and students in self-isolation. However, these numbers quickly fell and we saw the return of college spaces that had previously been unavailable to use, such as the reopening of the bar on Friday evenings and the return of bops in the JP. The Ents team ensured full use of these spaces by hosting “Hoedown Throwdown” and “Spring Break” themed bops which were very much enjoyed by the college community. They also collaborated with other colleges through events such as a pub crawl with Kings’ and Murray Edwards, and “Euphoria” and Halloween themed club nights. An informal goodbye garden party was also held.

Our JP and Bar Officer, Daniel, has also been busy working with the Ents Officers to host extremely popular karaoke nights (with some questionable singing), as well as hosting cocktail competitions which include a non-alcoholic mocktail option and an Access “Budgetail” using the cheapest ingredients. Daniel has also been overseeing plans to renovate the JP and Bar, so we’re looking forward to welcoming students to a new and fresh space! Furthermore, the College Amenities Officer, Mat, has worked on hosting not one, but two halfway halls for second and third year students, to make up for the virtual one held last year.

The Welfare Team has been especially busy during Easter Term, holding weekly welfare teas outside the library. The previous Women’s and Non Binary Welfare Officer has been hosting zumba sessions every week and the former Men’s and Non-Binary Welfare Officer organised a charity ‘Curry and Chat’ evening to raise money for men’s mental health. Alongside a collaboration with the Ents team, the International Students Officer held a Eurovision watching party during Easter Term and also helped welcome the Spring Semester students into college in Lent Term.

Many of the welfare team have also been involved in liberation work within the college. The previous Ethnic Minorities Officer, Tami, held a wide range of events, such as a Black History Month jazz night, a BME Future Leaders event to encourage networking amongst ethnic minority students and a BME Access Day targeted for prospective students. Continuing Tami’s work, Fatimah helped host an Iftar event during Ramadan and has advocated for an interfaith prayer space in college. The previous LGBT Officer, Callum, hosted a range of socials, including helping organise a drinks reception in the Masters’ Lodge and a film screening of Paris is Burning for Transgender Awareness Week. The current officer, Oscar, has continued their work in securing the flying of the Progress flag during Pride month.

Furthermore, the previous Disabled Students’ Officer created goodie bags for disabled students, held a social and created a new fund to enable disabled

students to access their needs with more ease. Previous Women’s Officer, Safa, organised a self defence class for marginalised genders, and secured marginalised genders-only gym hours in the Pembroke gym. Since then, Ffion has taken part in a menstrual products donation campaign, hosted the fortnightly Jo Cox Feminist Society with swaps and socials, distributed sust ainable menstrual products to students and hosted a range of fantastic events for International Women’s Week, including a formal and drinks reception. The proceeds for this went to raising money for the CARA scholar, an Afghan woman, to study at Pembroke, and our Charities Officer, Mo’men, played a key role in supporting charity events for this initiative. He also participated in the BOGOF and Embrace donation campaigns and organised a charity formal to raise money for Refugee Action, the JPC’s charity of the year.

The Green Officer, Mona, worked hard hosting events for Green Week, including a vegan cooking class, a clothes swap and a vegan formal. She also worked on planting herbs with the Orchard Green Society and organised a popular end-of-term vegan picnic in Easter. The Access team has also been especially busy, working multiple open days, creating an Alternative Prospectus, and Natasza and Gwenno will be visiting schools this Summer in the Access Bus to deliver workshops and presentations.

On behalf of the Committee, I am so excited to welcome more Freshers into college in October. Students have faced many challenges over the last couple of years, but we hope to put that in the past and provide the best possible welcome to new students. We plan to host our usual Consent and Equality and Diversity workshops, as well as bringing in new Drug Safety and Harm Reduction ones too. On top of this, JPC Officers will be hosting a range of discussions, socials (both drinking and non-drinking), and there will be college family nights to welcome everyone into college.

I would like to thank all the Pembroke staff who have worked side by side with us during this exceptional time; those in the Tutorial Office, in the Porters’ Lodge, in Catering, in Finance, in Maintenance, in Housekeeping, in the Library, the College Nurses, the Tutors, the Fellows who sit on many committees and the Master.

I would also like to thank the GPC committee, particularly the President and Vice-President Freya and Ira, for their constant collaboration and we hope to hold more socials and events with them in the future as the JPC-GPC dinner was a very enjoyable night that strengthened the college community. Finally, I want to thank the JPC Officers, who work tirelessly on individual and group projects to make College a welcoming and comfortable place for all. Their work does not always go recognised, and can sometimes be very frustrating, but they have persevered every time and I am extremely proud to work with them, especially for the coming Freshers Week.

Safa Al Azami

GRADUATE PARLOUR

President: Ira Shokar

Parlour Steward: Danyal Akarca Vice-President: Panos Doudesis/ International Officer: Anna Malkowska Freya Rock Women’s Officer: Nadia Hamilton Secret ary: Kate Brockie LGBTQ+ Officer: Fernanda Baron Treasurer: Vasileios Frantzis/ BAME Officer: Mark Liang Joel Hochstetter Charity Officer: Bella Boyles Welfare Officer: Natalie Wallis Environment al Officer: Arden Berlinger Events Officer A: Emily Sherman IT Officer: Jan Blumenkamp Events Officer B: Eno Mwamba Disabilities Officer: Coco Huggins External Events Officer: James Mason Access Officer: Molly Rowlands External Represent ation Officer: Sonya Xu

This year saw the return of many of the wonderful things that make Pembroke and the Graduate Parlour so special. Freshers’ Week again saw a hybrid approach with both in-person and online activities to accommodate everyone. A large marquee was erected on Library lawn that played host to the GPC welcome and introductions and the end-of-week gatherings, as well as several other events, including mingling for graduates with families and an event for returning students who missed out on a proper Freshers’ Week in 2020. The marquee also enabled the return of the GP Bop, which was greatly welcomed by both Freshers and returning students, after a 16-month public-health-induced hiatus. A myriad of other events also took place during Freshers’ Week, including tours of the college and city, a walk to Grantchester, a pub trip, a city-wide scavenger hunt, a quiz night, as well as nights for international students, BME students, LGBTQ+ students, fourth year undergraduates, subject suppers and college families. Freshers’ Week is always the most demanding time of the year for the GPC, but the positive feedback and vibrant community that the GP has become this year makes it all worthwhile.

Covid-19 has still left us with many challenges one being the staff shortages that the catering team has suffered. Despite this, Catering has been fantastic in enabling the return of formal hall and BA dinner, a beloved tradition that has been the centrepiece of college life. Each term, a number of graduates were able to again dine at high table with the fellowship as well as interact with fellows with the return of informal suppers, which has proved to be incredibly popular. Later in the year, when members could bring guests to formal hall, formals once again became a place for celebration with family and friends as well as a way to display how fantastic Pembroke is to those at other colleges. External Events Officer James was able to organise swaps with Peterhouse, Clare Hall, Selwyn, Christ’s and Trinity Hall this year, with members of the GP enjoying the array of dining experiences across the collegiate university, as well as hosting our guests here at Pembroke.

I want to take this opportunity to thank the catering team immensely for their incredible efforts through this challenging year- your hard work and going above and beyond is most appreciated, without which the social character of the college

would have been entirely different! We also saw the return of themed formals, including Halloween, featuring carved pumpkins, an array of costumes and a rendition of ‘Double Trouble’ by the choir in place of grace as well as the excellent Christmas Dinner. The GP’s own Christmas celebrations included gingerbread decorating as part of a themed tea and a Christmas festival where mulled wine, mince pies and hot chocolate were served in the College gardens.

Michaelmas Term also saw the in-person return of the ever-well-attended Pembroke Papers, with many talks taking place at or above capacity, forcing audience members to stand if they wanted to attend. This year also saw the formation of a number of very successful graduate societies, including yoga and dance classes that have taken place in college, as well as the Pembroke Graduate Bouldering Society that climbs at Rainbow Rocket on a weekly basis.

Over the Christmas vacation, the graduate parlour kitchen area was given a facelift, installing a bar-like countertop, new lighting and the addition of a card reader. Post formal drinks, now rebranded as the Barlour, have become the highlight of each week, bringing together what at times feels like almost the entirety of the graduate community. Equally as important as alcohol, a Nespresso machine was purchased and instantly became popular, operating on an honesty box basis. All of this has helped the GP return to being the heart of the graduate community after its closure last year.

This year the Committee has expanded to add two new officers: a Disabilities Officer and an Access Officer, allowing the GPC to continue its efforts in making the College and graduate community more accessible and open. Throughout the year, BME events were well attended, with BME Officer Mark organising networking events with college alumni as well as with graduate students at Peterhouse and Girton. The Lunar New Year was celebrated with decorations and dumpling making, while Diwali and Guy Fawkes were enjoyed with sparklers on Coe Fen in the absence of fireworks on Midsummer Common again this year. In Lent Term, Environmental Officer Arden organised an excellent Green Week that included a vegan cooking class, panel discussions, an up-cycling and repair workshop and a plant-based formal hall, as well as this year installing compost bins in college and in hostels to continue to push the sustainability of the college.

Our LGBTQ+ officer Fernanda organised a fantastic LGBTQ+ History Month celebration, culminating in a hugely successful Drag Formal at Emmanuel College with pre-formal drinks in the GP. Our Women’s Officer Nadia organised a superb week full of events for International Women’s Day, including speaker events, a ’70s live music session in the JP and a formal followed by a ’70s themed drinks reception in the GP, just to name a few. All proceeds from this went to the GP Charity CARA; the ’70s-themed events, organised by Charities Officer Bella, Nadia and the JP, helped towards the college’s goal of raising £70k to bring a female academic from Afghanistan to the college as a CARA scholar the efforts were a huge success with the goal of £70k being exceeded!

Given the situation in Ukraine, the GP focused on how it could help those affected, with fundraisers and donations made to the British Red Cross’ Ukraine Crisis Appeal. International Officer Anna was able to make connections with a number of Ukrainian students and researchers who had fled to Cambridge and

offer them associate membership to the GP, giving them a community to connect with and a space to feel a sense of belonging. We are continuing to determine ways to help in this conflict and future situations; this includes introducing a new Refugee Associate Membership to the Graduate Parlour, which would extend what the GP and the College can offer those displaced, as well as working with the Dean on the process of becoming a College of Sanctuary.

Events Officers Emily and Eno have organised a number of fantastic parties and Bops through the year, with my personal favourite for creativity being the Medieval themed pre-exams party. Given the jam-packed nature of Cambridge terms, low-key events were also very well received, including some very competitive board games and video game nights. Other favourites have included wine and cheese nights, crafts events and film nights, which were often themed, examples being Black History Month, Pride, an international students film night and of course, the ever-popular Eurovision song contest.

I’m certain there are a large number of events and achievements of the Graduate community that I have missed, for which I apologise the Graduate Parlour has once again become such a lively and vibrant community with so much happening. I want to thank both the GPC for their outstanding efforts this year as well as Graduate members for bringing so much to college life this year. The end of the year is always sad to see many friends leave, particularly those only here for a single year, but I am also excited to see how our excellent Vice President, now President, Freya, will make an enormous success of the upcoming academic year with the fantastic Graduate Parlour committee we have.

Ira Shokar

THE MASTER

The Rt Hon The Lord Christopher Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, PC, MA (1977), PhD (1979)

FELLOWS

1964 James Christopher Durham Hickson, MA (1964), PhD (1966), Life Fellow

1982 Norman Andrew Fleck, MA (1983), PhD (1984), FREng, FRS, Professor of the Mechanics of Materials

1984 Michael Christopher Payne, MA (1985), PhD (1985), FRS, Professor of Comput ational Physics, President

1985 Trevor Robert Seaward Allan, BCL Oxon, MA (1983), LLD, FBA, Professor of Jurisprudence and Public Law

1992 Jonathan Philip Parry, MA (1982), PhD (1985), Professor of Modern British History

Mark Roderick Wormald, MA, DPhil Oxon, College Lecturer in English

1993 Donald Robertson, MA (1987), MSc, PhD LSE, Professor of Econometrics

1994 Loraine Ruth Renate Gelsthorpe, BA Sussex, MPhil (1979), PhD (1985), Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Torsten Meißner, MA Bonn, DPhil Oxon, Associate Professor in Classics

1995 Robin James Milroy Franklin, PhD (1992), Professor of Stem Cell Medicine

Christopher John Young, MA (1994), PhD (1995), Professor of Modern and Medieval German Studies Silvana Silva Santos Cardoso, BA, MEng Porto, PhD (1994), Professor of Fluid Mechanics and the Environment

1997 Nicholas John McBride, BA, BCL Oxon, College Lecturer and James Campbell Fellow in Law (2000) Nigel Robert Cooper, MA (1995), DPhil Oxon, Professor of Theoretical Physics

1998 Kenneth George Campbell Smith, MA (2000), PhD Melbourne, ScD, Professor of Medicine and Head of Department of Medicine, Honorary Consult ant Physician, Addenbrooke’s Hospit al

1999 Vikram Sudhir Deshpande, BTech Bombay, MPhil (1996), PhD (1998), Professor of Materials Engineering

2001 Demosthenes Nicholas Tambakis, MA (1993), PhD Princeton, College Lecturer and Pyewacket Fellow in Economics

Nilanjana Datta, MA (2008), BSc, MSc Jadavpur, PhD ETH Zurich, Professor of Quantum Information Theory

Andrea Carlo Ferrari, Laurea, Politecnico di Milano, PhD (2001), ScD (2013), FREng, Professor of Nanotechnology

2002 Rosalind Polly Blakesley, MA (1996), DPhil Oxon, Professor of Russian and European Art

2003 Alexander William Tucker, MA (1989), VetMB (1992), PhD (1997), Professor of Veterinary Public Health

2005 Simon Learmount, MA University of East Anglia, MBA (1996), PhD (2000), Associate Professor in Corporate Governance

Samuel James Barrett, BA Oxon, MPhil (1996), PhD (2000), Professor of Early Medieval Music

2006 Alexei Shadrin, MSc, PhD Moscow, Senior University Lecturer in Department of Applied Mathematics

James Theodore Douglas Gardom, MA Oxon, PhD King’s College London, Dean and Chaplain

Katrin Christina Ettenhuber, MA, MPhil (2001), PhD (2005), College Lecturer in English

2007 Matthew Robert Mellor, BA Oxon, MA (2010), Development Director

Sir Stephen Patrick O’Rahilly, MD, FRS, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine

Gábor Csányi, MA (1994), PhD MIT, Professor of Molecular Modelling

Menna Ruth Clatworthy, BSc, MBBCh Wales, PhD (2006), Professor of Translational Immunology

2009 Colin Martyn Lizieri, BA Oxon, PhD LSE, Grosvenor Professor of Real Est ate Finance

Alexander Houen, BA, MPhil Sydney, PhD (1999), Associate Professor in English

Renaud Gagné, MA Montreal, PhD Harvard, Professor of Ancient Greek Literature and Religion

Mina Gorji, BA (1996), MPhil, DPhil Oxon, Associate Professor in English

Caroline Burt, MA (1999), MPhil (2000), PhD (2004), College Lecturer in History, Admissions Tutor

2011 Randall Scott Johnson, BA/BS Washington, PhD Harvard, Professor of Molecular Physiology and Pathology

Christoph Hubert Loch, Dipl-Wirtsch-Ing Darmst adt, MBA Tennessee, PhD St anford, Professor of Management Studies at the Cambridge Judge Business School

Clare Philomena Grey, MA, DPhil Oxon, FRS, Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor of Chemistry

Maria Abreu, BSc LSE, MPhil Tinbergen, PhD Amsterdam, Associate Professor in Land Economy

2012 Stephen David John, BA (2000), MPhil (2002), PhD (2007), Associate Professor in the Philosophy of Public Health

2013 Andrew Thomas Cates, MA (1991) PhD (1989), Treasurer and Bursar

Paul Ross Cavill, MA, MSt, DPhil Oxon, Senior University Lecturer in Early Modern British History

John Hay Durrell, MSci (Imperial) PhD (2001), Professor of Superconductor Engineering

Maximilian Jan Sternberg, BA (King’s College London), MPhil (2002), PhD (2007) Associate Professor in Architecture Hildegard Gemma Maria Diemberger, PhD (Vienna), College Lecturer in Human, Social and Political Sciences

Sanne Cottaar, BSc, MSc (Utrecht), PhD (California), Associate Professor in Natural Earth Sciences

Timothy Thomas Weil, BSc (St Louis), PhD (Princeton), Associate Professor in Zoology

2014 Thomas Gospatric Micklem, BSc (Imperial), PhD (1989), Professor of Comput ational and Molecular Biology

Iza Riana Binte Mohamed Hussin, AB/AM (Harvard), PhD (Washington), Associate Professor in Asian Politics

2015 Paul Simon Warde, BA (1995), PhD (2000), Professor of Environment al History

Mark Charles Wyatt, MSc (Queen Mary) PhD (Florida), Professor at the Institute of Astronomy

Anil Venkata Sesha Madhavapeddy, BEng (Imperial), PhD (2007), Assist ant Professor in Computer Science Guillaume Jean Emmanuel Hennequin, BSc (SUPELEC) MSc (Edinburgh), PhD (EPFL), Associate Professor in Comput ational Neuroscience

2016 Daniela Passolt, MA (Hamburg) MSc (SOAS), PhD (LSE), Director of International Programmes

Rebecca Verena Lämmle, MA, PhD (Basel), Associate Professor in Classics

2017 Geoffrey Francis Hayward, MA, DPhil (Oxon), Professor of Education Nicholas Gwilym Jones, MEng, PhD (Imperial), Professor of Met allurgy

2018 Moreed Ahmad Richard Arbabzadah, MA, MPhil, PhD (2012), FSA, Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics, Research Associate in the Faculty of History, Praelector

Michael Hulme, BSc, PhD (University of Wales, Swansea), Professor of Human Geography

Johannes Kromdijk, MSc, PhD (2010), Assist ant Professor in Natural Plant Sciences

Assef Ashraf, MA, MPhil, PhD (Yale), Assist ant Professor in the Eastern Islamic Lands and Persian-Speaking World

Amanda Prorok, MSc, PhD (EPFL, Switzerland), Assist ant Professor in Computer Science

Jessica Anne Maratsos, MPhil, PhD (Columbia), Keith Sykes Research Fellow

2019 Albert Cardona, BA, PhD (Barcelona), Professor of Connectomics

Hugo Andres Bronstein, MChem (Oxon), MSc (KCL) PhD (Imperial), Professor of Functional Materials

2020 Arthur Asseraf, MA (Columbia), MSc (LSE), DPhil (Oxon), Assist ant Professor in the History of France and the Francophone World

Rebecca Kilner, BA (Oxon), PhD, Professor of Evolutionary Biology

2021 Robert John Mayhew, BA, DPhil Oxon (1997), Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Geography, Senior Tutor

Renaud Morieux, BA, MPhil (Paris), PhD (Lille), Professor of British and European History

Steven Michael Ward, MA, PhD (Georgetown University Washington), BA (Tufts University Medford), Assist ant Professor in Politics and International Studies

Wei Xiong, BS (University of Science and Technology of China), MA (Columbia), PhD (Duke), Director of Research at the Faculty of Economics

Catherine Kamal, MSCI, PhD (Bristol), Stokes Research Fellow

Surer Mohamed, BA, MA (West Ont ario), MPhil, PhD (2021), Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Fellow

Marcus Colla, BA, (Tasmania), PhD (2019), Mark Kaplanoff Research Fellow

Nicolò Crisafi, MA (Cant ab), MA (Rome), DPhil (Oxon), Research/Teaching Fellow in It alian Studies/MML.

EMERITUS FELLOWS

Richard Hawley Grey Parry, PhD, ScD (1983)

Colin Gilbraith, MA (1975), MVO

Colin George Wilcockson, MA (1958)

Antony Gerald Hopkins, PhD, FBA

Ian Fleming, ScD (1982), FRS

John Ryder Waldram, MA (1963), PhD (1964)

Sir Roger Tomkys, MA (1973), KCMG

Robert Joseph Mears

William Bernard Raymond Lickorish, ScD (1991)

Leo Broof Jeffcott, MA (1994) PhD

Sathiamalar Thirunavukkarasu, MA (1971)

Nicholas Stanislaus Baskey, MA (1998)

Brian Watchorn, MA (1965)

Howard Peter Raingold, MA (1982)

Michael David Reeve, MA (1966), FBA

Michael George Kuczynski, MA (1972)

Susan Helen Stobbs, MA (1970)

Rex Edward Britter, MA (1979)

Geoffrey Richard Edwards, MA (2008)

Barbara Ann Bodenhorn, MPhil (1979), PhD (1990)

Christopher John Blencowe, MA (2006)

Alan Michael Dawson,MA (1978), PhD (1994)

Alan Garth Tunnacliffe, MA (1994), PhD London

Sir Richard Billing Dearlove, MA (2003), KCMG, OBE

Charles Peter Melville, MA (1976), PhD (1978)

Jan Marian Maciejowski, MA (1976), PhD (1978)

Nicholas Barry Davies, MA (1977, FRS

John Stephen Bell, MA (1978), FBA

Ashok Ramakrishnan Venkitaraman, MA (1993), PhD London, MB, BS Vellore, India Director of the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore

Sylvia Huot, MA (2004), BA California, PhD Princeton, FBA

HONORARY FELLOWS

1988 Sir John Frank Charles Kingman, ScD (1969), FSA, FRS

1992 Sir Simon Kirwan Donaldson, MA (1979), DPhil (Oxon), FRS

1998 The Rt Hon. Sir Konrad Hermann Theodor Schiemann, PC, MA (1965)

The Rt Hon. Sir Alan Hylton Ward, PC, MA (1968)

1999 Emma Louise Johnson, MA (1992), MBE

2002 William Hall Janeway,CBE, PhD (1971)

2004 Sir Michael Bett, CBE, MA (1977)

Roger Walton Ferguson Jr, MA (1976), PhD Harvard

Sir Christopher Owen Hum, MA (1971), KCMG

Sir Marcus Henry (Mark) Richmond, PhD, ScD (1971), FRS

The Rt Hon Christopher Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, PC, MA (1977), PhD (1979)

2006 Sir Stephen John Nickell, CBE, BA (1965), FBA

Martin Biddle, CBE, MA (1965), FBA, FSA

Peter Stuart Ringrose, MA (1971), PhD (1971)

2007 Paul Anthony Elliott Bew, Baron Bew of Donegore, MA (1971), PhD (1974)

Stephen Jay Greenblatt, MA (1968)

2008 David Anthony Brading, MA (1960), PhD (UCL), LittD (1991), FBA

Jeremy Bloxham, BA (1982), PhD (1986), FRS

2010 The Rt Hon. Sir Patrick Elias, PC, MA, PhD (1974)

2014 William Frank Vinen, MA (1952), PhD (1956), FRS

2015 Victoria Jane Bowman, BA (1987), MA

2016 Sir Simon Gerard McDonald, MA, KCMG, KCVO

2018 Eric Idle, BA (1962)

Catherine Bishop, MA (Wales), PhD (Reading)

2019 Gerald O’Collins, AC

The Rt Hon Lord Justice Sir Charles Haddon Cave

Dame Henrietta Louise Moore, DBE, FBA

2021 Professor Gail Davey, OBE Dr Karan Thapar

WILLIAM PITT FELLOWS

1996 Sir Mark Henry Richmond, ScD (1971), FRS

Richard Chiu, BA (1971)

1997 Peter Stuart Ringrose, PhD (1971)

2009 Richard John Parmee, BA (1973)

2018 Timothy John Whitley, BSc (Kent), PhD (Essex)

2019 Reza Khorshidi, MSc (Amirkabir, Tehran), DPhil (Oxon)

Rajendra Seeruthun, BSc (UCL), MBBS (Imperial), MBA

Barry John Varcoe, BA (South Bank), PhD (Glasgow Caledonian)

2020 Shi Wang, BA (Lanzhou)

Robert Davis, BA MBA (LBS)

2021 Stefano Lucchini, BA (Luiss Rome)

David Bateman, MA (1996) Richard Rawcliffe

BYE-FELLOWS

2009 Rebecca Lucy Coombs, BA (Bristol), PhD (Paris) Andrew Enticknap, MBA (UEA)

2012 Richard Ned Lebow, MA (Yale), PhD (New York), FBA

2017 Nami Morris, BA (SOAS)

Stephanie Georgina Smith, MA, MSci, PhD (2011)

2018 Anthony Louis Odgers, MA, MBA (1994)

Mark Edward Purcell, MA (Oxon), MA (UCL) Stephanie Georgina Smith, MA, MSci, PhD (2011)

2019 Géraldine Dufour, BA (Université Paris XII), BA (Nottingham Trent University), MA (Birmingham University), MA (London), MA

2020 Robert Anthony Griggs

Anna Ruth Ella Lapwood, BA (Oxon)

Juan Block, MA, PhD (Washington), MA (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella), BSc Universidad del CEMA Ms

Amber Nicole Joan Cuttill

2021 Geeta Kasanga, PhD (London School of Economics)

FELLOW-COMMONERS

2005 John Andrew Hulme Chadwick, MA (1968)

Keith Gordon Sykes, MA (1973)

Randall Wayne Dillard, LLM (1983)

2006 Norman McLeod Bachop, MA (1968)

2007 Anthony Harwick Wilkinson

2009 Christopher Bertlin Turner Adams, MA (1957)

John Charles Grayson Stancliffe, MA (1952)

John Kevin Overstall, MA (1962)

2013 Paul David Skinner, BA (1963)

Bita Daryabari, BSc (California St ate), MSc (Golden Gate University)

Graham David Blyth, BA (1972)

Mubarak Abdullah Al Sabah, BA (Buckingham), MPhil (2000)

2015 Datin Paduka Faridah Abdullah, BA (Adelaide), PhD (King’s College, London)

2016 Peter Lawson-Johnston

Robert King, MA

2018 Fadi Boustany, MBA (1994)

2020 James Patrick McCaughan, MA

FOUNDRESS FELLOW

2016 Dagmar Dolby, BA (Heidelberg)

Master: Lord Chris Smith

COLLEGE OFFICERS 2022–2023

President: M Payne

Senior Tutor: R Mayhew

Dean and Chaplain: J Gardom

Treasurer and Bursar: A Cates Praelector: M Arbabzadah

College Proctor: P Cavill

Steward: M Mellor College Curator: S Learmount

Tutor for Graduate Affairs: L Gelsthorpe

Director of Undergraduate Admissions: C Burt

Directors of Graduate Admissions: N McBride, T Weil

Fellow Librarian: P Cavill

Long Vacation Tutor: L Gelsthorpe

Development Director: M Mellor

Fellow for Freedom of Information: N McBride

Data Protection Lead: J Durrell

Financial Secretary: M Abreu

Undergraduate Tutors: A Ashraf, A Cates, H Diemberger, J Gardom, S John, N Jones, N McBride, T Meißner, M Mellor, D Passolt, M Sternberg, T Weil

Graduate tutors: C Burt, J Durrell, J Gardom, R Lämmle

College Lecturers: C Burt (History), N Cristafi (Modern and Medieval Languages), N Datta (Mathematics), H Diemberger (Human, Social and Political Sciences, K Ettenhuber (English), N McBride (Law), D Tambakis (Economics), M Wormald (English)

Directors of Studies: Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic: E Ashman Rowe Architecture: M Sternberg

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies: A Ashraf

Chemical Engineering: S Cardoso

Classics: T Meißner, M Arbabzadah

Computer Science: A Prorok

Economics: D Robertson, D Tambakis

Education: G Hayward Engineering: G Csanyi, J Durrell, A Ferrari, G Hennequin

English: K Ettenhuber, M Wormald

Geography: M Hulme History: C Burt, P Cavill

History and Modern Languages: C Burt, P Cavill, N Cristafi

History and Politics: P Cavill

History of Art: R P Blakesley, J Maratsos

Human, Social and Political Sciences: H Diemberger

Land Economy: M Abreu

Law: N McBride

Linguistics: M Deuchar

Management Studies: S Learmount

Mathematics: N Datta Medicine: M Clatworthy, M Hill, A W Tucker

Modern Languages: N Cristafi, S Huot, A Schneider, C Young Music: S Barrett

Natural Sciences: A Buskell, N Cooper, S Cottaar, S John, N Jones, R Kilner, G Micklem, M Payne, S Smith, T Weil, M Wyatt

Philosophy: A Buskell, S John

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences: A Greve Theology: J Gardom Veterinary Medicine: M Hill, A W Tucker

Director for International Programmes: D Passolt Lectrice in French: M-L Rebora

Academic Associates: Anatomy: A May Biochemistry: E Andrews Chemical Engineering: G Moghaddam

Computer Science: S Jaffer Economics: S Lu English: C Charteris

German: M Kant History: I Chambers

History of Art: K Ilko

International Programmes: J Dougal, K Zeynep

Linguistics: R Sileo

Mathematics: M Castle

Modern and Medieval Languages: G Boitani

Music: K Ashton Natural Sciences: C Buckley Neuroscience: K Scott Physics: F Lee

Psychology and Behavioural Sciences: A Segonds-Pinchon

Writing Skills: R Berengarten, M Rice Zoology: J Gerlach

MICHAELMAS TERM 2021

LENT TERM 2022

ANNUAL EXAMINATIONS, FIRST CLASS RESULTS 2022

Foundress Prizes

College Prizes

Foundation Awards Continuing

Foundation Award Foundation Scholarships

Peter Clarke Scientific Writing Prize

Searle Reading Prize

Graham Maw Organ Scholarship

GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS 2021–2022

The following named scholarships and awards were made for the academic year 2021–2022

The College part funded four University or associated Partner Institutions PhD studentships

The College part funded seven University or associated Partner Institutions awards for MPhil or equivalent study

HIGHER DEGREES CONFERRED

The College also made significant ad hominem awards

D . T H E P E M B RO K E C O L L E G E C A M B R I D G E S O C I E T Y

Photo of st ained glass window by Hannah Const antine and Haworth Tompkins

MEMBERS’ NEWS

1944 Timothy Dudley-Smith’s achievements as ‘the greatest hymn writer of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries’ were marked by a book written by Scotty Gray and David Music, and published by Hope Publishing: A Noble Theme, A Skillful Writer: Timothy Dudley-Smith and Christian Hymnody.

1955 Michael Henderson was made an officer of the Order of Australia for ‘distinguished service to motor vehicle and motorsport safety and to the prevention of road trauma’.

1957 Nicholas Flemming’s memoir Apollonia on My Mind (noted in the 2021 Gazette) is available to read for free online at www.nicflemming.net

Robin Voelcker published his memoirs A Good Life: Adventures of an Itinerant Consult ant (Story Terrace).

1959 Richard Waldram’s A Soldier and a Gentleman: Brigadier General Sir Bertram Port al 1866 1949 was published by Mat ador.

Yorick Wilks’ Artificial Intelligence: Modern Magic or Dangerous Future? was published by Icon Books.

1960 Richard Ryder was awarded the 2021 Peter Singer Prize (Berlin) for strategies to reduce the suffering of animals.

1961 Andrew Chadwick and Stephen Halliday were both recipients of the Pembroke Volunteer of the Year Award 2022.

1963 Christopher Moore was awarded an MBE in the 2022 New Year Honours List for ‘charit able and volunt ary services to herit age and to visually impaired people’.

1964 Tony Campbell’s ‘scientific mystery’ Mirror Image: What Darwin Missed was published by Welston Press Limited.

1970 Robbie Low’s illustrated children’s book The Night Journey was published by Lostwithiel Letters.

1973 John Chambers’ book Heart Valve Disease: A Guide for Patients was published by the National Services for Health Improvement.

Ronald Hutton’s The Making of Oliver Cromwell was published by Yale University Press.

1975 Michael Moore’s book We Are All Whalers was published by University of Chicago Press.

1978 Martin Rowson’s book The Happiness Manifesto was published by Rotland Press.

1979 Simon McDonald was appointed Master of Christ’s College.

Chris Williams was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in Edinburgh in April 2021.

1981 Mark Batey’s biography of Grace Darling Grace was published by Clink Street Publishing.

1982 Julian Bishop’s collection of eco-poems We Saw It All Happen was published by Fly on the Wall Press.

James Daunt was awarded a CBE in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to publishing.

Miles Rackowe relaunched the Sinfonia of Cambridge as The New Cambridge Sinfonia.

1983 Marcus Bökkerink was appointed Chair of the UK Competition and Markets Authority.

Andrew Tremlett was appointed Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral.

1984 Robert Hardman’s book Queen of Our Times The Life of Elizabeth II was published by Macmillan. He was also part of the BBC team covering the Platinum Jubilee in July 2022.

1985 John Lorimer was made the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man.

1988 Nazir Razak’s memoirs What’s in a Name: Family, Career and the Heart of Malaysia were published by Whitefox Publishing Ltd.

1991 Matthew Murray was made a Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pathology in the Clinical School at Addenbrookes Hospit al.

1992 Daniel Elkeles was appointed Chief Executive of the London Ambulance Service.

1994 Constantin Coussios was awarded an OBE in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to biomedical engineering.

1997 Andy Myddleton’s book Victorian Tottenham Hotspur was published by TSL Publications.

1998 Ben Wilson’s Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind’s Greatest Invention was published by Doubleday Books.

1999 Tricia Mundy was a recipient of the Pembroke Volunteer of the Year Award 2022.

2003 Rahul Gairola co edited (with Sharnya Jaywickrama) a collection of essays, published by Routledge, on Memory, Trauma, Asia: Recall, Affect, and Orient alism in Contemporary Narratives.

2011 Abbie Greaves’s debut novel The Silent Treatment was published by Century and was shortlisted for the RNA Debut Romantic Novel of the Year Award. Her subsequent novel The Ends of the Earth was also published by Century. Ollie Stephenson was made the 2022 2023 William L Fisher Congressional Geoscience Fellow.

2013 Harry Hudson’s book Must Do Better: How to Improve the Image of Teaching and Why it Matters (co-authored with Roy Blatchford) was published by John Catt Educational Ltd.

2014 Victoria Herrmann was made a 2021 2022 White House Fellow. Alexander Waghorn was made an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics.

2017 Tom Kosteletos was a member of the mixed Cambridge team that beat Oxford in the Open Varsity Sailing Match held at Farmoor on 2 October 2021.

2018 Maya Tutton was awarded a Kennedy Scholarship for postgraduate study at Harvard University. She will undertake the Special Student programme at Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2022 23.

2019 Max Murphy was awarded a Henry Fellowship to study at Harvard in 2022 23.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY

AGENDA FOR THE 2022 AGM

Thursday 17 November; The Drapers’ Hall, drinks at 7.00 pm, dinner at 7.30 pm

Nominations for 2022 2023

President: M R Mellor

Vice-Presidents: Sir Roger Tomkys, H P Raingold

Honorary Vice-President: Mrs C F Holmes

Chairman of Committee: Dr J E Morley

Secret ary: M R Mellor

Treasurer: Dr A T Cates

Editor of Gazette: N J McBride

Secret ary of London Dinner: A S Ivison

Secret ary of Scottish Dinner: R M B Brown

Secret ary of South Western Dinner: tbc

1950s represent ative: G J Curtis

Committee to 2023: A R K Watkinson*, Revd J C Finnemore*, S J Hilton*, Dr J E Neffendorf * , R M Sanders*

Committee to 2024: S G Sperryn, D Brigden, R W Bayly, C G Beal, T H Ellerton, J E Spencer

Committee to 2025: tbc (an appeal for self-nominations will be made over the summer)

Overseas Represent atives: T P Itoh, Dr C L Hansen, Dr A Guha, Ms D S Q G-S Wambold, Ms L Parodi-Huml

AGENDA FOR THE 2021 AGM

Thursday 18 November; The Drapers’ Hall, London; drinks at 7 pm, dinner at 7.30 pm

Nominations for 2021 2022

President: Ms E L Johnson

Vice-Presidents: Sir Roger Tomkys, H P Raingold

Honorary Vice President: Mrs C F Holmes

Chairman of Committee: Dr J E Morley

Secret ary: M R Mellor

Treasurer: Dr A T Cates

Editor of Gazette: N J McBride

Secret ary of London Dinner: A S Ivison

Secret ary of Scottish Dinner: R M B Brown

Secret ary of South Western Dinner: A B Elgood

1950s represent ative: G J Curtis

Committee to 2022: N E Orosz*, Dr C J Bishop*, Dr S E Deacon*, G H C Smith*

Committee to 2023: A R K Watkinson*, Revd J C Finnemore*, S J Hilton*, Dr J E Neffendorf * , R M Sanders*

Committee to 2024: S G Sperryn, D Brigden, R W Bayly, C G Beal, T H Ellerton, J E Spencer

*Due to a hiatus on recruiting to the Committee in 2020 it was agreed at the 2020 AGM to extend the term of serving members by twelve months to cover the Covid-19 pandemic.

DINNERS AND RECEPTIONS

Pembroke College Cambridge Society London Dinner

The 94th annual dinner of the Society was held at the Drapers’ Hall on the evening of Thursday 18 November 2021. The Toast to the College was proposed by Emma Johnson MBE (1985), President of PCCS, and the response was given by Lord Chris Smith PC, the Master.

PRESENT

The Master

1956 Mr D J Riddington OBE DL & Mrs D Riddington

1957 Mr C M Fenwick MBE

1959 Mr M G Kuczynski

Mr D P Robinson

1961 Mr J A H Chadwick RIBA & Mrs E Adair

Mr P M Clarke

Mr A B Roberts

Mr A R Stevens

1964 Mr S G Sperryn & Ms S Smith

Mr D A Streatfeild

1968 Mr J B Gateshill

1969 Mr T E D Heining

Dr C C Joyce

1970 Mr D A Walter

Mr J W Zajac

1973 S J Machin Esq

1974 Dr J D Budd

1975 Mr J V Canning & Mrs A Canning

1977 Mr A Bocock

Mr D Brigden TD

Mr P S Kirkby

1978 Mr J M Reed

1980 Mr A Bateman

Mr R J Compton Burnett

Mr J D R Howard & Mrs C Howard

Mr I D McDiarmid & Mrs H McDiarmid

1981 Mr S E Lugg

Mr A J Sheach

1982 Mr A C Games

Mr M Gordon

Mr J R Phillips Mr D J Sloper 1983 Mr M P H M Bökkerink

Dr A G Miller 1984 Professor G J G Davey OBE

Mr M P Dunfoy

Mr G S Gestetner

Mr R R H Hardman

Mr S J Hilton

Mrs C F Holmes née Buckley & Mr A Holmes

Mr P A Mastriforte Dr J E Morley née McLintock

Mr R O H Morley 1985 Ms E L Johnson MBE 1986 Mr M C R Marques CEng MICE

1987 Dr J O Maclean née Owens

Mr C W N Proddow

Ms E S Stopford

Ms E A Wanders née Macpherson

1989 Mr R W Bayly

Mr P J Dooley FRGS

Ms J L Fenner

Mrs A E C Griffin née Lees Jones Miss L Rice

1990 Mr N R P Fox & Mrs A Fox

Mrs M M Shukla née Saluja & Mr S Shukla Mr H J Urmenyi 1992 Professor D T S Janes FRHistS

1994 Mr H P Raingold 1998 Mr A Legostaev 1999 Mr J A Buckley Dr P M McCormack

2000 Dr S Sarashima 2001 Mr C J R Goodfellow

Miss K W-M Ho

Mr K Mann 2002 Mr O G Lockwood Dr D R Shouler

Dr J D Sunter 2004 Dr L Shanthakumar & Mr D Keyworth 2005 Dr A R Huff 2006 Mr P D Dewhurst

Dr J T D Gardom

Mr M R Mellor

Dr J P Woolley

2007 Dr M K Rigozzi & Mr D Rogers

2008 Dr W-A C Bauer

Miss S R Denney & Mr B O’Connell

Miss R I Kells & Mr D Satterthwaite Captain F A X Pagden-Ratcliffe

2009 Mr J W Boreham

Mr O M T Budd & Ms K Galza

Mr J S Cain

Mr J G Gateshill

Miss J E C Hodkinson

Ms K E Nicholson

Dr M Wirz

2010 Mr N L Cole

Mrs S C Fletcher née Sharman

Mr T G Fletcher Mr T E Harris Mrs M F L Lightwood née Young

Mr R A Lightwood

Miss H M Lloyd & Mr T Syms

Mr M J McBride Miss L Wang & Ms C Ng

Mr M H Y Yoon

2011 Ms F A Crole

Mr J F W Di Lizia Miss E F Fairhurst

Miss C M B Grant

Mr J I Hirschowitz

Mr T P Hoier & Ms S O’Shea

Mr H W Lazell

Dr N B Novcic & Ms B Radenovic

Mr F H Nugee

Mr R M Sanders

Mr G H C Smith Mr G D Sydenham

2012 Dr A J Barker

Mr A W Barker Miss M L Bergamasco

Mr M C Bittlestone

Mr J P Carroll Dr S G Gage Miss E L Gould Miss L A E Guyon Miss M C Innes Miss A E Johnson

Mr I S Khan

Mr R Khubchandani & Mr R Yiu Miss P Kulkarni

Mr B D Laird

Dr H Marcarian Miss E C Metcalf Mr R P Ollington Miss G V PerryHilsdon

Mr J E Spencer Miss Z C P Walker Miss K M Ward

Mr C R White 2013 Mr T Bond Ms A E Hayler Dr H J King Ms M G Messmer Mr C L Parkinson Mr J E G Perry Miss M S P Waters 2014 Miss O D H O Darby & Mr L Chapman Miss J L Flavell Miss M Gordon Miss R Jones Mr H Kirby Miss A F H Limb Miss C V McCarthy Mr S J Murray Mr J B Oldfield Mr H S Roberts

Miss I Rodol

Ms C H Ryan & Ms N Ferrari

Mr A P Westin-Hardy

2015 Ms M C Harte Miss A OShea

2016 Mr D S Bowen & Ms S Reed

Mr D A Farkas Ms A B Segal

2017 Mr T K Chung Ms N Morris FRSA Mr T M Sharp Ms S E R Van Horne &Mr C Hogg Mr C Yu & Ms J Liu

2018 Miss A A Hajee Adam Miss S C Jat Mr W J Kirby Mr Y Shen Ms J L Tridgell & Mr G Anderson Ms X Wang

2019 Mr J W Burman Ms M Edelstein Mr O Elchanan Miss E Jefferson Mr B Mhangami Mr M Murphy Mr J Roy

2020 Miss A Mikhailova & Miss E Bondal Ms G Samios Ms E G Szemraj

Miss J Khalil Miss S A March

The 95th annual dinner of the Society will be held at the Drapers’ Hall on the evening of Thursday 17 November 2022. The Toast to the College will be proposed by Mr Dan Jones (1999), historian, TV presenter and journalist, and the response given by Mr Matthew Mellor, Fellow and Development Director, and President of the PCCS.

The secret ary of PCCS would welcome suggestions from members of guest speakers for future London dinners whom they can help cont act.

Scottish Dinner

The 70th Annual Dinner in Scotland was held at the New Club on Friday 12 November 2021. The College represent ative was Lord Chris Smith, the Master.

PRESENT

The Master

1953 Mr H Howard & Miss H Whittaker 1959 Mr N C Kemp 1966 Mr C L Reilly

1966 Mr I M Tait 1981 Dr I M McClure Dr A J Milne 1984 Mr A J Clarkson 1989 Mr R M B Brown

2009 Ms V Lindsay 2014 Miss P E J McLean Dr S R Millar 2016 Dr C J Ness

Robbie Brown (1989) has arranged to hold the 71st Annual Dinner in Scotland at the New Club on Friday 4 November 2022.

PCCS Hong Kong Dinner

The PCCS Hong Kong Dinner was held at the HUE Dining, HK Museum of Art, Kowloon on Thursday 29 July 2021. The event was hosted and organised by local represent atives Paul Tao (1985), Bianca Law (1996) and Dr Terence Kwan (2012).

ATTENDED

1962 The Hon H Y Wong GBS OBE 1970 Mr C H Hall 1979 Mr J K S Foo 1985 Mr P Tao 1988 Mr D T M Chiu 1994 Mr B P H Li

1995 Dr E A H Griffiths 1996 Ms H Y B Law 1998 Ms M G Poon & Mr C W Pang 2002 Mr M Y Tang 2004 Mr H A T-T Kam 2007 Mr Y Qiu

2008 Mr J C Y Yu 2012 Miss Y Y Fung Dr T T L Kwan Mr P H Lam Mr H H N Wong Miss T K A Wong

Pembroke Victoria Society Elgee Park Gallery Viewing

On Saturday 19 March 2022 Rupert (1980) and Annabel Myer kindly hosted an informal tea party for members of the Pembroke Victoria Society and their families at the Myer family’s winery, Elgee Park on the Mornington Peninsula. To mark the centenary of the first member of their extended family matriculating at Pembroke, the Myer family made the decision to give the College a painting by prominent indigenous Australian artist, George Tjungurrayi and wanted to give local alumni the opportunity to view it before it was shipped to the UK. The painting was shown alongside the exhibition ‘Wayne Eager: A Collector’s Survey’ curated by Maudie Palmer and Rupert Myer. Warm words of thanks from the Master were read out, along with a tribute to Bails Myer (1947), who was to have hosted the event alongside his son, Rupert.

Sadly, Bails died on 22 January, aged 96. The assembled gathering also offered a toast in Bails’ memory.

The College would like to thank the Myer Family for their generosity in hosting the event, and local represent ative Peter Moore (1978) for helping to organise the gathering.

Hosts: Mr R H Myer AO (1980) and Mrs A Myer

MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE

1967 Mr P M McLennan 1969 Dr P F Crapper

1970 Professor N R Norman Dr D M Stewart 1974 Mr R J Lamb Dr S D West

1978 Mr P J Moore 1980 Mr R H Myer A O 1981 Mr M E Bartlett 1983 Mr R I J McIndoe 1989 Mr R S Doyle 1994 Mr A J R Barker 1995 Dr J A Forrest

Mr B D Turner

1997 Mr J S Emmett Miss K A O’Shea 2001 Dr M M Parish 2013 Ms K S Malone 2014 Mr D K R Kinsey 2017 Miss J Luo

LOCAL CONTACTS

Australia Adelaide

Dr M J Llewellyn-Smith AM KStJ (1962) 27 Kate Court Adelaide SA 5000 Australia Email: michael.llewellyn.smith.1962@ pem.cam.ac.uk

Melbourne

Mr P J Moore (1978) Email: peter.moore.1978@pem.cam.ac.uk

Canada

Dr A Guha (1994) Phase 5 Research 99 Spadina Avenue Suite 400 Toronto ON M5V 3P8 Canada Email: arnieg@phase 5.com

China

Mr T D P Kirkwood (1987) Kirkwood & Sons LLC 3610 Capit al Mansion No 6 Xin Yuan Road South Chaoyang District Beijing 100004 China Email: tom.kirkwood.1987@pem.cam.ac.uk Mob: +86 1380 1358 781 China office: +86 10 8486 8099 US office: +1 570 506 9850

Sydney

Miss L J Sproston (1994) Email: lorna sproston@hotmail.com

Mr T D Beresford (1994) Email: tberesf1@bigpond.net.au

Hong Kong

Mr Paul Tao (1985) Email: pt ao@nh-holdings.com

Ms Bianca Law (1996) Email: biancalaw@gmail.com

Dr Terence Kwan (2012) Email: ttlkwan@gmail.com

Japan

Mr T P Itoh (1966)

LOGOS Capit al Partners Inc

4-4-12-4-1 Takanawa Minato-ku Tokyo 108-0074

Japan Email: pitoh@logos-cp.com Tel: +81 3 3445 5890

USA New York

Mr C P Robb (1976) 161 East 79th Street Apt 12B New York, NY 10021-0433 USA UK

London

Mr A S Ivison (1974) (apply to the Development Office for cont act det ails)

North of England

Mr D R Sneath TD DL (1966) 7 Kirkby Road Ravenshead Nottingham NG15 9HD Email: david sneath@yahoo.co.uk

Singapore

Mr B D Clarke (1981) Raffles City, PO Box 1456 Singapore 911749 Republic of Singapore Email: barryclarke42@yahoo.com.sg Tel: +65 6775 0542 Mob: +65 9277 0028 San Francisco

Mr P G Cleary (1969) 531 Diamond Street San Francisco CA 94114 USA

Email: peter.g.cleary@cant ab.net

Scotland

Mr R M B Brown (1989) 79 Hamilton Place Aberdeen AB15 5BU Mob: 07507 414867

RULES OF THE SOCIETY

1. The Society shall be composed of past and present Members of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and shall be called the ‘PEMBROKE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY’.

2. The objects of the Society shall be:

(a) To promote closer relationships among Pembroke Members, and between them and the College.

(b) To publish an Annual Gazette, and to issue it free to all Members of the Society.

3. The subscription for Life Membership of the Society shall be decided from time to time by the Committee.*

4. The Officers of the Society shall be a President, one or more Vice Presidents, a Chair of Committee, a Treasurer, an Honorary Secret ary (who shall be a Fellow of the College), the Dinner Secret aries, an Editor of the Gazette, and such local Secret aries as may be desirable.

The Officers shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting and shall hold office for one year. Nominations, with the names of the Proposer and Seconder, shall be sent to the Secret ary six weeks before the Annual General Meeting. The retiring President shall not be eligible for re-election for a period of three years after his or her retirement.

The office of President is held annually and alternately by a Fellow and by a non-resident Member of the College. He or she is normally expected to give the address at the London dinner, proposing the toast to the College (if a non-resident Member) or responding (if a Fellow).

5. The Management of the Society shall be entrusted to a Committee consisting of the following Officers, namely the Chair of Committee, the Treasurer, the Honorary Secret ary, the Dinner Secret aries, the Editor of the Gazette, a current Fellow (who has not been a Junior Member of the College), and not fewer than twelve other Members of the Society to be elected annually. Nominations for the Committee shall be sought in advance of and later recommended by the spring meeting of the Committee, to be ratified at the Annual General Meeting. Of the elected members of the Committee, six shall retire annually by rot ation according to priority of election, and their places shall be filled at the Annual General Meeting; a retiring member shall be eligible for reelection after a period of one year from his or her retirement. The Committee shall have power to co opt additional members for a period of one year.

6. Members of the Committee shall have, as their primary considerations:

(a) The relationship between the College and its non resident Members.

(b) The assist ance they can give to the College in encouraging attendance at events and participation in other College activities.

(c) Evaluation of ways of improving the connection between the College and non-resident Members.

(d) The quality of the events that are organised under the aegis of the Society.

7. The Committee shall meet at least twice in every year, a week after the end of the Lent (spring) and Michaelmas (winter) Terms respectively. At all meetings of the Committee seven shall form a quorum. The spring meeting shall review nominations for committee membership and the annual accounts of the Society.

8. The Committee shall arrange an Annual Dinner or other Social Meetings of the Society in London and elsewhere.

9. The Annual General Meeting of the Society shall be held on the day fixed for the London Dinner. The Secret ary shall send out notices of the Meeting at least one month before it t akes place.

10. The Committee in their discretion may, and upon a written request signed by twenty four Members of the Society shall, call a Special General Meeting. Fourteen days’ notice of such a Meeting shall be given and the object for which it is called st ated in the notice.

11. No alteration shall be made in the Rules of the Society except at a General Meeting and by a majority of two-thirds of those present and voting, and any proposed alteration shall be st ated on the notice calling the Meeting.

*The Committee decided (10 December 1982) that, for the time being, the Life Membership subscription shall be nil. This decision was made possible by an offer from the College of an annual subvention from the Bethune Baker Fund which, it was hoped, would provide a sufficient supplement to the Society’s income to enable expenses to be met, particularly the expenses of printing and postage of the Annual Gazette.

PRESIDENTS OF THE SOCIETY

1924 J F P Rawlinson

1925 E G Browne 1926 G R Eden

1927 L Whibley

1928 F Shewell Cooper 1929 A Hutchinson

1930 F S Preston 1931 E H Minns

1932 J B Atkins 1933 H G Comber

1934 E H Pooley 1935 J C Lawson 1936 J E Singleton 1937 J K Mozley

1938 M S D Butler 1939 J C C Davidson 1946 S C Roberts 1947 R A Butler

1948 M S D Butler 1949 J W F Beaumont

1950 J T Spittle

1951 P J Dixon

1952 H E Wynn 1953 Sir Wavell Wakefield 1954 V C Pennell

1955 E H Pooley

1956 B E King

1957 H Grose-Hodge 1958 S C Roberts

1959 H F Guggenheim

1960 Sir William Hodge 1961 The Rt Hon Lord Salmon 1962 A J Arberry

1963 A G Grantham

1964 B Willey 1965 G W Pickering 1966 M B Dewey

1967 J M Key 1968 W A Camps 1969 D G A Lowe

1970 W S Hutton

1971 R G Edwardes Jones

1972 T G S Combe

1973 H F G Jones

1974 G C Smith

1975 Sir Eric Drake

1976 J Campbell

1977 J G Ward 1978 D R Denman 1979 W L Gorell Barnes 1980 M C Lyons 1981 D A S Cairns 1982 M V Posner 1983 Sir Patrick Browne 1984 Lord Adrian 1985 J G P Crowden 1986 L P Johnson 1987 The Rt Hon Lord Prior 1988 J Baddiley 1989 T J Brooke Taylor 1990 J C D Hickson 1991 P J D Langrishe 1992 J R Waldram 1993 G D S MacLellan 1994 S Kenderdine 1995 Sir Peter Scott 1996 A V Grimstone 1997 The Rt Hon Lord Taylor 1998 Sir Roger Tomkys 1999 Sir John Chilcot 2000 C Gilbraith 2001 J K Shepherd 2002 B Watchorn 2003 R H Malthouse 2004 M G Kuczynski 2005 Sir Patrick Elias 2006 Sir John Kingman 2007 Ms V J Bowman 2008 M G Kuczynski 2009 R H King 2010 J S Bell 2011 R G Macfarlane 2012 M R Wormald 2013 N G H Manns 2014 Sir Richard Dearlove 2015 Mrs C F Holmes 2016 S A Learmount 2017 A S Ivison 2018 J Gardom 2019 J A Wilson 2020 T Weil 2021 Mrs E L Johnson 2022 M R Mellor

E . D E AT H S A N D O B I T U A R I E S

LIST OF DEATHS

The College notes with regret the deaths of the following members:

1942 John Reginald Barker (10 January 2022; BA English)

John Sydney Jenkins (7 January 2022; BA Natural Sciences; BChir; MB; MD)

Murray Somerled MacDonald (24 April 2022; BA History)

1944 Dennis Frank Crompton (16 October 2020; BA English)

1945 William Stewart Paton (13 October 2019; BA Modern & Medieval Languages)

1946 Michael David Cameron (13 May 2021; BA Natural Sciences; BChir; MB)

1947 Sidney Baillieu Myer (22 January 2022; see obituary p 164

Anthony William Nutbourne (24 November 2021; see obituary p 166)

John Arnold Pritchard (29 May 2022; BA English)

1948 Brian William Haydock (10 January 2021; BA Modern & Medieval Languages)

1949 Geoffrey Keith Roberts (2022; BA English; Cert Ed)

Roger Robson Maddison (21 July 2021; BA Economics/Law)

1950 James Norman Nicholas Boston (5 September 2021; BA Modern & Medieval Languages/History)

Nigel Thornton Hague (9 October 2021; see obituary p 159)

Raymond Montford (10 October 2021; BA Geography)

1951 John Jeremy Michael Barron (26 August 2021; BA Economics/History)

Norman Richard Draper (19 June 2022; BA Mathematics

1952 Geoffrey Frith Cohen (18 October 2021; BA Natural Sciences; BChir; MB)

Thomas Geoffrey Goodwin (7 July 2021; BA Economics)

Ernest James Green (2 September 2021; see obituary p 158)

Anthony Lennox Hovenden (1 October 2021; BA Natural Sciences; BChir; MB)

1953 David Cohen (25 April 2022; see obituary p 151)

Nicolas Anthony Robeson (11 August 2021; BA History)

1954 Nigel Ian Cameron (19 December 2021; see obituary p 147)

Reginald Thomas Evers (28 February 2022; see obituary p 153)

Peter Christopher Glazebrook (24 March 2022; BA English/Arch & Anth)

Michael Robert Hodge (22 February 2022; BA Mathematics/Geography)

Ian Hugh Pirnie (17 January 2022; BA Mechanical Sciences; Rear Admiral)

Henry Hugh Potter (24 July 2021; BA Mechanical Sciences)

1955 Nathaniel La Mar (9 February 2022)

Henry Lawrence Ormerod (13 July 2021; see obituary p 168)

William Tampion (29 January 2022; BA Natural Sciences)

John Stuart Waddilove (13 November 2021; see obituary p 173)

1956 Rodney William Freakes (25 December 2020; BA Modern & Medieval Languages)

Michael Allan Nash (29 January 2022; BA Classics)

Colin Kirkby Peace (2 October 2021; BA Natural Sciences)

1957 John Anthony Chilcot (3 October 2021; see obituary p 148)

Peter Dethick (11 May 2022; BA Mathematics)

Robin Alexander Cyril Gaunt (21 January 2022; BA Mechanical Sciences)

James Martin Hugh Hunter (9 October 2021; see obituary p 160)

1958 Kenneth Mervyn Lancelot Hadfield Banting (9 February 2022; BA History/Theology)

David Hugh MacBryde (13 December 2021; BA Mathematics/Geography)

Miles David Adam Bulkyn Rackowe (7 May 2022; BA Mechanical Sciences)

William Frank Vinen (8 June 2022; see obituary p 172)

1959 Christopher Wilfred Andreae (1 August 2021; BA English/Fine Architecture & Arts)

Lucian George Bonar (16 January 2021; PhD Met allurgy)

Alan Roger Bridgman (18 March 2022; BA Natural Sciences)

Anthony John Connell (18 June 2022; BA Natural Sciences/Chemical Engineering)

Robert Joseph Jones (27 January 2022; BA English)

Richard Percy Laurence Waldram (14 May 2022; see obituary p 174)

1960 Barry Douglas William Chacksfield (20 May 2022; BA Modern & Medieval Languages)

Ronald John Gladman (2 November 2021; see obituary p 155)

Edward Peter Magill (13 February 2022; BA Mechanical Sciences)

1961 James Hugh Macdonald (2022)

Malcolm Sutherland Rees (21 August 2021; see obituary p 169)

Barry James Timms (February 2022; BA Modern & Medieval Languages)

1962 Gordon Alexander Lammie (15 September 2021; BA Geography)

James Charles Robin Turner (11 January 2022; see obituary p 171)

Roger John Aitchison Walsh (2021; BA Natural Sciences)

1963 Robert Malcolm Brown (14 October 2021; BA Geography)

Frank David Lee (7 January 2019; BA Classics)

Victor Percy Snaith (3 July 2021; see obituary p 170)

1964 Robert Benjamin Chenciner (30 October 2021; BA Mechanical Sciences)

1965 Michael John Hamar (3 May 2021; BA Economics)

Russell Edward Mackay Lawson (1 February 2022; see obituary p 162)

Ian Robert Purver (31 October 2021; BA Modern & Medieval Languages)

Robert Harry Thompson (17 March 2021; BA Mathematics)

1968 Nigel Lyons Gwynne Eastman (17 February 2022)

Kevin Gurney Blair Sloan (5 May 2022; BA Rngineering)

1971 Thomas Michael Godwin (7 February 2022; see obituary p 155)

Michael William Saxby (9 August 2019; BA Philosophy/English)

1972 David Richard Marsh (1 October 2021; BA History/History of Art)

1975 John Stephen Cave (November 2021; BA Economics)

1977 David John Asteraki (17 December 2021; see obituary p 147)

1978 Edward William Ash (6 February 2022; MPhil Lingustics)

Ali Mottaghi Irvani (5 March 2022; BA Economics)

James Paul Jardine (17 May 2021; BA Mathematics/Computer Science)

1982 Andrew Paul Woodward (1 September 2021; BA Natural Sciences)

1984 Michael Lacovara (25 February 2022; MPhil International Relations)

Ian Mason (26 April 2021; see obituary p 163)

1987 Gael Gorvy-Robertson (née Gail Robertson) (6 September 2021; see obituary p 156)

1990 Sarah Elizabeth Chavasse (30 August 2015; postgraduate study)

2000 George Simon Cecil Gibson (3 May 2021; see obituary p 154)

OBITUARIES

David John Asteraki

29 March 1958 17 December 2021

Obituary by John Asteraki (1951)

David arrived at Pembroke with an exhibition. He read economics, spoke at the Union, was active in CUCA, rowed in a gentleman’s eight, supported the Mill, and displayed an eclectic seasonal fashion sense.

His first job was as an economist with the Bank of England, and after a couple of years he seized the opportunity of secondment to the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. This two-year posting changed the course of his life. He returned to London with valuable experience and his wonderful wife, Kim. Two years later, he moved to Westpac as an economist but was soon heading up its London mortgage portfolio. He next joined the infrastructure finance team at ING. Here he found his life’s work in making plans happen, and contributed to many not able UK and international projects, including the London Eye and the Skye Bridge.

Returning to the Antipodes always appealed to David and Kim and, in 2007, David left the UK to head a Private Public Partnership team based in Melbourne, Australia, which handled major infrastructure projects for the Victoria St ate Government. The family next moved to Sydney for David’s new position with KPMG. He frequently travelled to Indonesia to advise the government on projects, including a major rail line to Jakart a. He also became immersed in the local cuisine and shared his new skills with his friends at home. David’s interests were international. He was a member of the Australian delegation to Washington to share expertise on PPP and he spoke at international conferences about finance for public works. From KPMG, he moved to the Treasury of Australian Capit al Territory and advised on several capit al projects, including a tramway system and a new courts complex in Canberra.

David had a long career in banking and finance, but it did not define him. He was a father, husband, and friend. He loved to cook and entert ain. Many of his friendships were formed at Pembroke, he was a great supporter of the College, and music from the choir was played at his memorial service. He will be deeply missed by his wife Kim, children Zoë and Nicholas, and all his family and his many friends and colleagues.

Nigel Ian Cameron

18 April 1934 19 December 2021

Obituary by Peter Cameron

Nigel Cameron was an influential senior leader in the Post Office, a keen traveller and a proud Pembroke man.

While his two uncles had sought careers in India and Argentina respectively, his father, an account ant, was General Manager of Dolphin Square, London.

His mother was from a line of priests in the Church of England. These influences surfaced throughout his life as an interest in the world, a careful concern with business and finance, and following the affairs of the Church. At St Paul’s School he enjoyed boxing and cricket, played bridge and became interested in st amps. He founded the school Historical Society (other not able members being Lord Baker of Dorking and John Adair).

Nigel did National Service in the RAF where he was proud to have learned to fly before he could drive but actively decided to qualify as a navigator rather than pilot. He commanded the RAF street-lining contingent in Belfast for the Queen’s visit in 1953, one month after her coronation.

Nigel went up to Pembroke in 1954 to read History and Geography. He enjoyed travelling and had made his first forays in continent al Europe immediately after the war with motorcycle expeditions to Florence and to Mount Athos, Greece. Cameron was one of the founders of the Cambridge University Explorers & Travellers Club. He ended his time at Cambridge by travelling overland to India and back over four months.

Having arrived back from India in October 1957, Cameron joined the Post Office almost the following day, an employer he was to remain with for the next 36 years. Notably he directed the Norwich team that laid out the first postcodes in the world and established principles which still endure. Aged 43 he was appointed as Chairman of the Midland Postal Board, serving a population of 8 million with a st aff of 26,000. Energetic, inquisitive and decisive he built a loyal and effective team. After a series of re-organisations with which he had little sympathy he retired in 1993.

Thereafter he maint ained a disciplined approach to life, sitting down at his desk each day to work at something. He wrote two published books on local history and some articles in specialist magazines. He also spent time on his st amps, his garden and his family. In 1964, he married Angela Twyford, who shared many of his interests. They continued to make intrepid travels long into old age including Sinai, Yemen, Uzbekist an, China and various parts of Africa. Angela and their three sons survive him.

John Anthony Chilcot

22 April 1939 3 October 2021

John Chilcot was an outst anding civil servant who helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland, and then came out of retirement to head the Iraq Inquiry into the UK’s involvement in the Iraq War that began on 2 0 M a r c h 2 0 0 3 . F e a r s t h a t J o h n ’ s r e p o r t w o u l d whitewash the way in which the government entered into, and prepared for, the war proved unfounded: his r e p o r t w a s w i d e l y r e g a r d e d a s h a v i n g d e a l t a

devast ating blow to the reput ation of Tony Blair, the Prime Minister who led the UK into the Iraq War.

John was educated at Brighton College and in 1960 won a scholarship to Pembroke College, where he studied English and Modern & Medieval Languages. On graduating in 1962, he began a PhD but was quickly lured into joining the civil service in 1963. He spent the rest of the decade in the Home Office, rising to become Assist ant Private Secret ary to the Home Secret ary (Roy Jenkins) in 1966. He st ayed in that position until 1971 serving Merlyn Rees and then William Whitelaw when he became private secret ary to the head of the Civil Service, William Armstrong. He returned to the Home Office in 1978, serving as Private Secret ary to the Home Secret ary until 1980, and then Assist ant Under-Secret ary of St ate from 1980 1984. He then shuttled between the Cabinet Office (where he was Under-Secret ary from 1984 1986), private industry (being seconded to Schroders from 1986 1987 and becoming a director of RTZ Pillar from 1986 1990), and the Home Office (where he was Deputy Under Secret ary of St ate from 1987 1990) before assuming the role that would occupy him from 1990 until his retirement from the civil service in 1997: Permanent Under-Secret ary of St ate in the Northern Ireland Office.

It was in that position that he received a message in February 1993. It was delivered by John Deverell, the head of MI5 in Belfast, and it came from Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness: ‘The conflict is over but we need your advice on how to bring it to a close.’ The Northern Ireland peace process had begun: the IRA announced a ceasefire in August 1994, and (after Tony Blair had t aken over from John Major as Prime Minister in 1997), the Good Friday Agreement bringing the decades long conflict in Northern Ireland to an end was signed on 10 April 1998. John had retired from the civil service by then, but played a key role in the negotiations that culminated in the Good Friday Agreement. Professor Niall Ó Dochart aigh, the author of Cont act: Back-channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland, wrote: ‘In his own underst ated way John Chilcot was probably the single most import ant driver of the Northern Ireland peace process in the crucial early years.’ John would later say that helping the transition from war to peace in Northern Ireland was the thing in his career of which he was most proud.

Retirement in 1997 saw John appointed the following year having already been knighted in 1994 to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB). The government would continue to make use of his t alents: from 1999 2004 he acted as st aff counsellor to MI5 and MI6, and performed the same role in the National Criminal Intelligence Service from 2002 2006; in 2004 he became a Privy Counsellor and served on the Butler Inquiry into the use of intelligence sources to make the case for going to war in Iraq; and in 2006 he conducted a government inquiry into the use of intercept evidence in court. In 2009, with the Iraq War winding down, the then Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, appointed John to head the official government inquiry into the UK’s entrance into, and conduct of, the Iraq War.

The appointment attracted immediate criticism: John was accused of being an est ablishment man who had, for example, been far too genial when questioning the former Attorney General, Lord (in 2003, Peter) Goldsmith, during the Butler

Inquiry. John would incur further criticism for the length of time t aken over the inquiry: having held out the hope that he might be able to report in the autumn of 2011, he ended up issuing his report on July 6 2016, by which time Gordon Brown was no longer Prime Minister and had been succeeded by David Cameron. The reason for the wait became immediately apparent when the report was released: it was 2.6 million words long, four times longer than War and Peace. Delivery of the report had also been held up for over a year as a result of a dispute over whether John’s inquiry would be allowed access to 30 notes exchanged between Tony Blair and President George W Bush in the run-up to the Iraq War. John eventually gained access to the notes and published in the Chilcot Report one from Blair to Bush, that had been delivered in July 2002: ‘I will be with you, whatever.’ This seemed to give the lie to repeated assurances that the UK would only invade Iraq as an absolute last resort, and at the behest of the UN, not the United St ates. If John had been soft on Lord Goldsmith in the Butler Inquiry, he pulled no punches in the Chilcot Report, concluding that ‘the circumst ances in which it was decided that there was a legal basis for UK milit ary action were far from satisfactory’ and that Goldsmith’s advice that invading Iraq would be lawful under international law (in contrast to his earlier view that it would not be without the support of an additional UN resolution authorising invasion) had needed to be more fully laid out and questioned by the Cabinet. The Chilcot Report also exposed how illequipped the UK forces had been to invade Iraq when the invasion came and also how little planning had been done for how Iraq would be administered once Saddam Hussein was successfully overthrown.

The Chilcot Report did not result in Tony Blair’s admitting that he has been wrong to t ake the UK to war with Iraq, but in a two-hour response to the report’s release, he expressed ‘more sorrow, regret and apology than you may ever know or can believe.’ Interviewed a year later by the BBC, John said that Blair had not been ‘straight with the nation’ about decisions made in the run-up to the Iraq War, that Blair’s evidence to the Iraq Inquiry had been ‘emotionally truthful’ and that in making decisions in relation to the Iraq War, Blair had relied on ‘beliefs rather than facts’.

John was made an Honorary Fellow of Pembroke in 1998, and an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy in 2019. When the news broke that John had died of kidney disease, Lord Smith, Master of Pembroke said: ‘Pembroke was very proud to count Sir John as one of our most distinguished alumni, and an Honorary Fellow. He had a highly distinguished civil service career, was instrumental in starting the peace process in Northern Ireland, and wrote a forensic and insightful report on the Iraq war. He dedicated his life to public service; he achieved so much; and we will all miss him enormously.’ John is survived by his artist wife Rosalind (née Forster), whom he married in 1964. They had no children.

David Cohen

25 August 1933 25 April 2022

Obituary by Esther Cohen Tovee (1984) and Adam Cohen (1988)

David Cohen was born in Leeds on 25 August 1933, and was an exhibitioner scholar at Leeds Grammar School, where he was educated largely thanks to the generosity of his uncle, Gerald Segelman, his considerable academic potential having been noted from an early age. By the age of 18 he had taken the school certificate examinations twice, first in classics and then, on the advice of his school masters on hearing of his ambition to go up to Cambridge, in sciences. In addition to classics and sciences he also excelled in modern languages, taking French, German, Spanish and Russian at school. In 1950 he was awarded an open scholarship to Pembroke, matriculating in 1953 after two years’ national service with the RAF in Norfolk, where his skills in languages and photography, including the full range of darkroom skills, proved particularly useful.

At Pembroke David soon discovered that his greatest passion within the Natural Sciences Tripos was Chemistry. He graduated with first class honours in 1956 and immediately began a PhD under Professor Lord Todd, who was awarded the Nobel prize for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co enzymes the following year. David’s research followed Todd’s biochemistry focus, which built on the pioneering work of Crick and Watson, initially focussing on the synthesis of oligonucleotides. It was not all study whilst at Pembroke David joined the Boat Club, and the Stokes Society, of which he was President in 1955. During his PhD research, he also supervised Ian Fleming, who was preparing for his Part II Tripos examinations and later became a Pembroke Fellow.

David’s passion for learning languages and having overseas experiences blossomed during the period of his PhD research. He arranged three extended summer-long work placements in successive years, with Ciba Geigy in Basel, BP in Hamburg, and Shell in Amsterdam. During the latter placement he managed to teach himself fluent Dutch from scratch, and developed a lifelong t aste for nieuwe haring and uitsmijters!

David obtained his PhD in 1959, entitled ‘Studies relating to polynucleotides’, following which he secured a post-doctoral research fellowship post at Yale University under the distinguished Yale Professor, Werner Bergmann, later becoming an instructor there. In 1961 David decided to return to the UK, and when searching for his next position his attention was drawn to the up-and-coming University College of North Staffordshire, which obtained its full university charter and was renamed Keele University the following year. David was appointed initially as an Assistant Lecturer, then became a Lecturer in Chemistry in 1962, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1969.

It was at Keele that David met Mary Kirkpatrick, who had been a librarian there since 1957. They married in early 1965, and after a honeymoon in New York David returned, with Mary, to Yale for a sabbatical semester. Their daughter Esther was born the following year.

During his research years, David published some 30 scientific papers, two book chapters, was the editor of two books, and author of The Biological Role of the Nucleic Acids (1965). Shortly after Adam was born in 1969, David was appointed Senior Tutor for Admissions at Keele. Due to Keele’s (at the time) unique policy of almost all students studying joint honours, as well as many being admitted to a 4-year course including a foundation year, the admissions were organised by a central administration, rather than by each faculty. Whilst Senior Tutor, David forged connections with counterparts in many other universities around the world, and sought to raise Keele’s profile to attract more international students, in particular from Cyprus, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong. On his appointment as Registrar in 1982 he further developed these relationships and inspired by a study visit to the USA, was instrument al in founding Keele’s Science Park in the mid-1980s, of which he became a Director and Company Secret ary. He was a member of the Council of the North St affordshire Medical Institute and played a leading role in the founding of Keele’s Medical School.

In addition to his duties at Keele, David served nationally on the UCCA Council (1970 83), the UCCA Technical committee (1972 83) and was a member of the St anding Committee on University Entrance (1972 91) and of the SCUE Executive Committee (1975 91). From 1983 1990 he was a member of the CRS/CUA International Committee (on College and University readiness) and served as chairman from 1986 88.

Beginning in 1974, David’s lifelong dedication to excellence in education expanded to include secondary school governance. He initially joined the governing body of Abbotsholme School, where he later became deputy chairman. In 1981, after a short period as a governor he was appointed to become chairman of the governors of Newcastle-under-Lyme school, the secondary school attended by both Esther and Adam, which was formed by the merger of former grammar schools the Orme Girls’ School and Newcastle High School for Boys. David thus oversaw the transition from two st ate schools to a single independent school, whilst rigorously championing the new ‘assisted places scheme’. He remained chairman of the governors until the mid-1990s. From 1987 1992 he was the chairman of the Association of Volunt ary/Independent schools.

David was delighted when both his children followed in his footsteps to Pembroke, Esther being among the first women undergraduates matriculating in 1984, and who became the first woman president of the Stokes Society thirty years after David held the role. Esther returned to Pembroke in 1988 for an M Phil in Psychopathology. Adam matriculated in 1988, and returned in 1994 for his PhD in Photonics, during which he was glad to be able to call on some fatherly advice in chemistry, whilst working with some novel nonlinear optical polymers.

Outside professional life David was an enthusiastic wine connoisseur, spending many years as honorary wine steward of Keele University’s Senior Common Room, and leading many wine tastings. He was also a keen cook to him it was another branch of chemistry, in fact! Perhaps his greatest passions were for worldwide travel, which he and Mary particularly enjoyed in the early years of their retirement, and which offered opportunities to brush up old languages or acquire new ones, and the arts, in particular music, theatre, film, and literature.

David passed away after a short illness on 25 April 2022. He is survived by Mary, Esther, Adam, and four grandchildren.

Reginald Thomas Evers

26 July 1933 28 February 2022

Obituary by Peggy Haughton

Reginald Evers, known to all as Reg, was born in Ancoats, Manchester, to Thomas and Florence Evers. Evacuated during the war years, Reg excelled at school a n d e a r n e d a s c h o l a r s h i p t o M a n c h e s t e r B o y s Grammar school.

In 1951 Reg was awarded a second scholarship, this time to study History at Pembroke College, Cambridge, but first deferred for two years whilst he completed his National Service. Serving as a second Lieutenant in Malaya he discovered an aptitude for languages: a natural mimic, he became fluent in Malay, finally spending time in the I Corps as an interpreter.

Reg went up to Cambridge in 1954, fully immersing himself in university life. He graduated in 1957 and went to work for the National Railway. This lasted a few years and, looking for greater challenge, Reg began his teaching career around 1960. He was appointed to Central Manchester Grammar School which, despite the name, he said was ‘some of the hardest teaching I ever encountered.’ Following this he moved to Audenshaw Grammar to teach A-Levels in Economics, History and British Constitution. Drawing on his former milit ary background he was also appointed officer in charge of the School Cadet Corps.

Having converted to Roman Catholicism on his first marriage, he became very active in the life of the church, particularly the Catenians, becoming leader of the North West branch from 1968 1970. He developed a passion for horse riding and was elected Chairman of Bury Agricultural Show in 1970. Around this time he moved into Further Education, initially at Salford College of Technology, where he created the largest A-Level factory in the North West. He remained there for nine years before moving to St John’s FE College, which became part of Central Manchester College, and retired from there as Head of Faculty in 1988.

He married for the second time in 1987. His enthusiasm for education never waned and in the early 1990s he became heavily involved with Fairfield High School for Girls and was elected as a Governor in 1993. He served as Chair for 3 terms of office and successfully steered the school through several st ages from Foundation to becoming one of the first Academies in 2011, only retiring in 2013.

He enjoyed travel and journeyed around Europe in the early 1970s in a Deux Chevaux. Unable to ride after a serious accident in the late 1970s, he spent many summers sailing. Always a lover of France and a fluent French speaker from a young age, he bought a holiday home in Britt any in the early 1990s and spent as much time there as he could.

Reg is survived by his wife Kath, daughters Alison and Peggy, and grandchildren Dannielle, Eric and Dexter.

George

Simon Cecil Gibson

15 October 1926 3 May 2021

Simon Gibson was a philanthropist who donated over £600,000 to Pembroke to help fund the building of the extension to the Pembroke Library in 2001. This act of extraordinary generosity was marked first through Simon’s being made a Fellow Commoner of the College in 2000 and then through the extension’s being named the Simon Gibson Wing of the Waterhouse Library.

Simon represented the third generation of philanthropists in his family. His family’s fortune was made by his great uncle, William Tatem, who was born in 1868 and st arted his working life as a cabin boy travelling on a ship that was sailing around the Great Horn. Tatem would go on to found the Atlantic Shipping Company, which became the largest exporter of coal mined in Wales. In 1916, he was made Lord Glanely. His interests in racing horses led him in 1919 to acquire Exning House, in Exning near Newmarket, and the nearby Lagrange st ables. His philanthropic activities included supporting Cardiff University, and building a church in memory of his deceased wife in Cardiff. Tatem’s interests in racing and philanthropy would be carried on by his successors, after Tatem was killed in an air raid in 1942.

Tatem’s successor was his nephew, and Simon’s father, George Gibson, as Tatem’s only son had died at the age of six in 1905. George solidified the family connection with Exning by running retirement homes in Exning and Exning Court, a sheltered housing project. Exning House was renamed Glanely Rest and used as an old people’s home. He also est ablished the George Gibson Charit able Trust in 1968; the trust exists to this day to support small to medium sized charities.

On George’s death, the mantle of carrying on his family’s passions for horse racing and charity fell on Simon, and it was a role that he took on with great gusto. As a racehorse owner he enjoyed great success, with his sprinter Society Rock winning the 2011 Golden Jubilee at Royal Ascot, and over a million pounds in prize money. Simon did a huge amount for the Exning community, something that was acknowledged on his death by the people of Exning turning out en masse to observe his funeral cortege on its way to church. Through the Simon Gibson Charitable Trust, he funded the refurbishment of the Newmarket Upper School sixth form, donated £10,000 a year to St Martin’s Church in Exning, created the Gibson Centre for staff training at the local hospital, and financially supported the Exning football, cricket and tennis teams. Simon’s charity did not, however, just stay at home, but extended to supporting the Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust, Ely Cathedral, the East Anglian Air Ambulance, and endowing the Gibson Music School at the King’s School in Ely, as well of course as making a significant contribution to the funding of the Pembroke College Library extension.

Simon’s charit able activities resulted in his being awarded the CBE. He was also a Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, and a magistrate, sitting regularly in the Newmarket courts until they were closed in 1998.

Ronald John Gladman

19 February 1941 2 November 2021

Obituary by Anthony Gladman

Ronald Gladman died on 2 November 2021 at the age of 80. He was a gifted linguist and spoke fluent French. His internationalist outlook, coupled with his study of the law at Cambridge, shaped the rest of his life.

After graduating from Cambridge, Ronald began his legal career at Slaughter & May in London then moved on to the European Commission in Brussels, where he helped smooth the UK’s entry into the EEC. Later in his career, his work took him around the world. A glance through his old passports reveals st amps for Bahrain, Hong Kong, the USA, Australia, Canada, France, Portugal, Cyprus and Turkey.

Ronald joined Reuters in 1976 and eventually became head of the legal department. He oversaw the company’s stock-market flot ation in 1984 and its transition to a public company, and became group legal adviser in 1987. During his time there he built up a strong team of lawyers in London, New York and Geneva. Ronald made many life-long friends at Reuters, where he was much respected for his sound judgment, empathy and integrity.

Ronald, ever the epicurean, was always a keen guest at Cambridge alumni dinners, and took great pleasure in keeping up with his old college. During his time at Pembroke College, Ronald coxed for the Boat Club and was awarded a decorated rudder for his success in the Lent Bumps of 1962. He displayed this trophy by his desk throughout the rest of his life.

He married Wendy in 1972 and the couple lived for a while in Brussels, before returning to England to st art a family. Ronald had two sons, Anthony and Richard, and three grandchildren, Farrah, Hester, and Rufus. Ronald and Wendy spent most of their married life in Kew, but in 2016 moved to East Wittering. They enjoyed a very good first year there, living near the sea and the beach at West Wittering, of which he was very fond.

While poor health dimmed his spirits over his last two years, his family will remember Ronald as he was in the better times, which far outweighed the bad. He was a man of great integrity, who placed a high value in friendship. He enjoyed learning, took pleasure in life, and displayed a ready sense of humour that endeared him to all.

Thomas Michael Godwin

8 October 1952 7 February 2022

Obituary by John Godwin

Thomas Michael ‘Mike’ Godwin came up to Cambridge in 1971 (from Xaverian College, Manchester) to read for the English Tripos under Professor Ian Jack and Colin Wilcockson. While at Pembroke his main interest was music and he was secret ary of the Pembroke College

Music Society in the days when meetings and informal performances were held in the rooms of the then dean, Meredith Dewey. A keen amateur bassoonist, he was a founder member of the Pembroke College Wind Quintet.

He graduated in 1974 and attended Sheffield University to read for his Master’s degree in Librarianship. An Associate of the Library Association he worked in Manchester Public Libraries, where he was recruited on to a pioneering graduate trainee programme which utilised government inner cities’ funding to renew and develop library services in the city. As Planning and Development Officer, Mike made a major contribution to this programme, which saw libraries re-designated as ‘cultural centres’. He also took a time out to complete a community arts course when he became a Senior Librarian, developing a range of community cultural activities in south Manchester, including services to African Caribbean communities in Hulme and Moss Side.

In 1986 Mike moved to Humberside County Council and rose to the position of Assist ant County Librarian. Following Humberside’s abolition in 1996, he became Head of Libraries and Community Services for East Riding of Yorkshire Council until his early retirement in 2004.

Mike died of cancer on 7 February 2022. He is survived by a son, Tom, daughters Emma and Imi, and grandchildren Daphne, Felix, Alex and Rafa.

Gael Gorvy-Robertson (née Gail Robertson)

24 March 1969 6 September 2021

Obituary by Rebecca Lloyd-Jones

Gael came to Pembroke to read English in 1987, the fourth year since the admitt ance of women, having already been one of the first girls at her school, Fettes College in Edinburgh. Gael loved Pembroke and Cambridge, relishing the beauty and history of both and underst anding implicitly the privilege of being able to immerse herself in books in such a setting. In turn, she was hugely loved by the many friends she made across the college. She was so full of life, beautiful inside and out; it is impossible to believe that she is no longer with us.

Emeritus Fellow, Colin Wilcockson writes: ‘I was Gael’s Director of Studies, so saw a lot of her both academically and socially. She was deeply committed to our literary studies, and she had a lightness of touch in her written work that made her essays a joy to read. It was a great sadness when, in her third year, she developed ME. This was depressing and debilit ating, but she bore it with wonderful courage and determination. It was a great joy to me when I was invited to be the witness at Sean and Gael’s marriage in Downing’s West Lodge. (Downing was Sean’s college.) They had hired a decorated wedding punt, and we went on to a private viewing at Kettle’s Yard gallery. We kept in touch with one another always. A later link was when their son Cal was t aught at Eton by my own son, Michael!’

Gael was sensitive, passionate, imaginative and kind. Those lucky enough to be her Pembroke contemporaries will remember her laughter, her beauty and her

gentleness. In the summer of 1989, knowing that I was lonely, she kept me company for a joyous few months when we house sat for Colin in Cambridge, tending to his garden and his very productive chickens, occasionally attempting to supply the college kitchens with eggs in exchange for a bottle of wine. (The catering st aff were less than impressed by our decision to transport the eggs to Pembroke by bicycle along Trumpington Street.)

In her final year at Pembroke, Gael met her future husband Sean Gorvy, who was studying for a PhD at Downing College. After living together in Cambridge while he completed his studies, they moved to London. Gael had studied art and art history at school and had hoped to go back to fine art practice but her long recovery from ME meant a change of focus towards photography. Study of photographic techniques enabled her to develop her own prints. In response to the trauma of 9/11, she held an exhibition of photographs, Breathing Spaces (2002). Subtle black-and-white images of det ails from within four of London’s religious buildings representing different faiths the Ismaili Centre, St Columba’s Church, Westminster Synagogue and the Brompton Oratory revealed the connecting spiritual spaces within them, powerfully but without preaching. With this and future work, she developed a reput ation for her sensitive response to architectural and interior spaces. She also put her art-historical knowledge, style and vision into overseeing the restoration of her and Sean’s Arts and Crafts home in Marlow. Further exhibitions and publications were As Fire Fades (2004), Thoroughly Modern Living (2004), Memories, Dreams and Fairyt ales (2006), and a contribution to the collection of essays, Sanctuary (2006). In 2018, Gael created and curated Naming the Beloved, an inst allation at St Columba’s Church to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armistice which focussed on weddings and baptisms that took place in the church during the First World War.

Gael’s connections with Cambridge continued in art and in sport. While an undergraduate, Kettle’s Yard had often been a refuge for Gael from the intensity of college life as well as an artistic stimulus. In recent years, she became an active supporter through membership of the Ede Circle and made regular visits to exhibitions and events.

Rowing and cycling both figured large in Gael’s family life. Sean rowed for Cambridge and inspired by him, Gael became involved, supporting him in setting up Crabtree Boat Club for Cambridge University Boat Club alumni and learning to scull herself. Their son Cal rowed at Eton and, before switching to rowing, he was on the British Cycling Talent Development pathway, competing in and winning national cycling events. Making the shift from ever-supporting parent, Gael got involved in cycling herself, giving her all, as she did in everything she turned her hand to. In 2019, Gael and Sean cycled from her London cancer hospit al to the Cambridge Cancer Research Centre at Addenbrooke’s to raise money for the cancer charity One More City, and there is now a JustGiving page for donations in Gael’s memory: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/GaelGorvy-Robertson

It speaks volumes for Gael’s character that her anonymous Inst agram profile was not only filled with beautiful and intellectually stimulating content, but also

became a support hub for other women across the world with St age 4 breast cancer, combining her gifts as an artist and photographer with frank and open discussions of the challenges of her treatment. Unsurprisingly, her focus was as much on the bigger, future picture as on her determination to live life as normally and fully as possible.

Gael had always been there to support her beloved son Cal and was so proud of him. She was determined to celebrate his 18th birthday and see him head to university in the United St ates; and against all the odds, she more than managed it. Gael’s dislike of fuss meant she kept her health a very private matter. Her older sister Sallie moved in to care for her in her last few months and Gael was supported by two close Cambridge friends, including Nat alie Savona, from Gael’s year at Pembroke and with whom she had shared a house in Panton Street. A proud Scot throughout her life, Gael’s funeral at St Columba’s London Scottish Chapel involved pipers and was followed by scones and whisky.

Ernest James Green

11 November 1931 2 September 2021

Obituary

by Stephen Green (1984)

Ernest Green grew up in Maidstone, Kent. He came up to Pembroke in 1952 following two years of National Service in the RAF. During this period he had made the decision to follow a career in the church, so after his first year he changed course from Maths and read Theology in Years 2 and 3. He involved himself fully in the life of the college chapel and choir and remained a correspondent of the Dean, Meredith Dewey, long after both had left Pembroke. Ernest was also involved in the Student Christian Movement across the University. Some years later he returned to the SCM, working in their London office for two years in the early sixties, but his life after Pembroke was largely dedicated to serving in parishes. He was respected by his parishioners and colleagues alike and often found himself volunteered to take on additional responsibilities as being “the best man for the job”.

On leaving Pembroke Ernest progressed first to Lincoln Theological College and then to a curacy near Rotherham. He was well travelled for a young man of his generation, spending a summer touring the United St ates with an American friend who he had met whilst on a summer school for organists and also several months at the Graduate School of Ecumenical Studies in the Chateau de Bossey, near Geneva. It was when he joined a party on a trip to Taize in the summer of 1961 that he met Dorothy Steel and the pair became engaged soon afterwards, marrying in the summer of 1962. They remained a very close and supportive couple for the next 57 years. Their first home together was in Bristol, where Ernest served as Precentor at the cathedral, before they moved out to parishes in Somerset, where they raised their family. He had a highly developed sense of fairness, so that each of his children thought that one of the others was his favourite. At 50, Ernest took up a parish in Ryde, on the Isle of Wight, later

assisted by Dorothy when she became deaconess. He finished his career with five years as Team Rector in a team of eight churches in Norfolk and Dorothy in his team. They were both very proud when she was ordained in 1994.

In early retirement, Ernest continued to make himself useful through his availability to take weddings and funerals and to play the organ at short notice. He and Dorothy continued to campaign for social justice, joining trips to lobby economic summits as part of the Drop the Debt campaign. They retired first to Cheddar, but when Dorothy became less mobile they moved into a series of retirement complexes, initially in Sussex but finally in Bristol, to be close to their son Andrew. Ernest devoted a lot of time and energy to caring for Dorothy as she became less able to leave the flat. She died in December 2019 and, like many across the country, Ernest found the lockdowns, which followed soon after, challenging. He threw himself into the online life of his church, St Mary Redcliffe, regularly leading the morning prayers over video, only stopping when his heart condition made him increasingly tired in the last few months of his life. He leaves two sons and two daughters, nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

Nigel Thornton Hague

29 May 1930 9 October 2021

Obituary

by John Hague (1983)

Nigel Hague celebrated a life-long career in a profession he loved, as a barrister, QC and circuit judge. He enriched this achievement by combining his time with his other passions for writing books, playing an extraordinary amount of golf and performing in opera.

Nigel’s time at Pembroke College was delayed by spending two years after leaving school doing National Service with the Royal Engineers. He matriculated in 1950 to study Mathematics, but after a year he made the critical decision to switch to study Law, leading to a life’s work. Following graduation, he became a pupil at the Bar in Lincoln’s Inn. It was during these early years in London that he was lucky enough to meet Patricia Bowick, with whom he celebrated 61 years of happily married life. On finishing his pupilage, he took a position in Chambers in Cardiff. He was there for two years during which Nigel and Patricia celebrated the arrival of two sons. After an appointment and return to chambers back at Lincoln’s Inn, two more sons also arrived in quick succession!

After practising for a few years, Nigel published his first and only legal book, Leasehold Enfranchisement. The book sought to be the source on the law and p r o c e d u r e s t o f o l l o w f o r e n f r a n c h i s e m e n t s i n v o l v i n g h o u s e s , c o l l e c t i v e enfranchisement of flats and the individual right to a new lease. His practical approach guided the reader through the process of acquiring the freehold from qualifying premises, tenancies and persons to terms of acquisition and valuation. The book aimed to clarify common problems and offer clear insight into the practical application of the law. This definitive book remains very much in demand: it is now in its seventh edition and is entitled Hague on Leasehold

Enfranchisement. The New Law Journal concluded in its review that ‘it is an underst atement to say that no library should be without it.’

Although the income from the book was modest, it did est ablish Nigel’s reput ation and expertise in the field, and he enjoyed a successful career as a barrister. In 1981, he took silk at the House of Lords and practised as a QC for nearly 10 years. In 1991 Nigel fulfilled a lifelong ambition when he was appointed a circuit judge. He left the happy cloistered life in Lincoln’s Inn to sit in the family court for over a decade at Slough County Court. These years as a judge were in some ways the hardest for him, but also the most rewarding as he applied his quiet, underst ated manner to complete judgements in the most challenging of environments.

Nigel hit the national headlines in 1994, when he presided over a case in the village of Jordans, Buckinghamshire, when he ruled that the occasional threat to neighbours from balls hit for six was not sufficient reason for stopping play on the village green. His judgement st ated that the subject touched the lives and stirred the emotions of many people. Furthermore, the cricketers were responsible and acting with good sense while the claimant, who claimed 60 balls landed in his garden in five years, was prone to exaggeration.

Golf was another life-long love for Nigel. He was a member of Denham Golf Club for 73 years, fulfilling the role of Capt ain for a period, just as both his father and mother had done before him. He also was very partial to performing in opera, and was Chairman of Windsor and Eton Opera for many years. Nigel spent his retirement after 2001 continuing to enjoy these leisure activities, mixed in with travel, watching cricket and writing books celebrating them! He never forgot Pembroke, was always active, and proud that two of his sons matriculated there.

Nigel is survived by his wife Patricia (‘Paddy’), his four sons, James, Philip, John and Richard, and seven grandchildren, John, Alexandra, Michael, Christina, Simon, Ben and Lea. A life well lived.

James Martin Hugh Hunter

23 March 1937 9 October 2021

With thanks to Linda Hunter

Martin Hunter was a law student at Pembroke who went on to become one of the most import ant figures in the field of international arbitration. Together with Alan Redfern a partner at Martin’s firm, Freshfields, and also a Cambridge graduate (Sidney Sussex) he wrote the seminal text on the law and practice of international arbitration: Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration. The first edition was published in 1986 with a seventh edition (complete with a tribute to Martin) due to come out in 2022.

Martin was educated at Shrewsbury School, while his family lived on the Isle of Wight. Martin’s father, Colin, was also a Pembroke graduate (1919): having earlier capt ained England at football and been offered a contract at Bolton Wanderers, he had been persuaded by his family to instead teach mathematics at

Winchester College, where he replaced Tom (later Lord) Denning (who was bored of teaching and wanted to go into the law). In the holidays, and back on the Isle of Wight, Martin would cultivate a life-long love of sailing, having received a 12-foot sailing dinghy for his 13th birthday and regularly achieving great success in sailing competitions. At the age of 18, Martin did his National Service by serving in the army for two years, deferring a scholarship that enabled him to follow in his father’s footsteps and study Mathematics at Pembroke. A lastminute change of mind saw him study Law instead when he came to Pembroke at the age of 20. On graduating, Martin obt ained articles at Freshfields, but again deferred t aking up the place, this time in order to spend six months sailing in the Atlantic and the Caribbean.

Martin had intended to specialise in company law at Freshfields (a subject in which he had obt ained a prize at Cambridge), but a twist of fate would change his entire career. Alan Redfern had been appointed as Freshfields’ first litigation partner in 1963, the same year Martin joined the firm. Redfern was asked to assist Freshfields’ senior partner in representing the government of Kuwait in an international arbitration. Redfern asked in turn to be given an assist ant to help him, and Martin was seconded from the corporate department to help Redfern. Martin never went back: he and Redfern worked together on further international arbitrations, helping to turn Freshfields into a truly global law firm. At the age of only 30, Martin was made a partner at Freshfields in 1967. After representing clients in a large number of very import ant arbitrations (not ably the 1982 Aminoil arbitration), Martin would himself become an international arbitrator, and went on to chair the Court of Arbitration for Sport tribunal, charged with deciding whether double amputee athlete Oscar Pistorius should be allowed to compete against able-bodied sprinters. Martin retired as a partner of Freshfields in 1994, but continued to practise international arbitration as a barrister and member of Essex Court Chambers.

It was Martin who was approached by Sweet & Maxwell with the idea of writing a book on international arbitration. Martin wanted to write the book, but not without Redfern’s participation. Redfern was initially reluct ant but Martin persuaded him that they could write the book in their spare time (a subsequent senior partner later observed he would not have allowed them to write the book, on the basis that as partners they should not have had any spare time). It was Martin who settled on the book’s distinctive pedagogical approach to the law on international arbitration, t aking the reader through concrete arbitrations, step by step. Coming out in 1986, the first edition of the Law and Practice of International Commercial Arbitration was well-timed to t ake advant age of the increasing interest in arbitration as a way of resolving international commercial disputes, resulting in the United Nations’ adopting in 1985 the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration. Martin’s distinction in this field led to his playing a leading role in revisions of the UNCITRAL rules on international arbitration, particularly with regard to the 2008 revision of the rules on investment arbitrations.

Academia was not slow to recognise Martin’s t alent and import ance: he was made a Senior Visiting Fellow at Queen Mary & Westfield College from 1987, a

Visiting Fellow at Edinburgh University from 1990 97, a Professor in Law first at Nottingham Trent University (in 1995) and then at Nottingham Law School, and a Visiting Professor at King’s College London from 2010. Martin accumulated a large number of research assist ants, who would go on to distinguished careers in international arbitration themselves, sharing the knowledge they had derived from him at regular Friday clinics at pubs in Covent Garden. Martin’s first two research assist ants were also named Martin, so to distinguish them from each other and also himself, he dubbed them ‘MII’ and ‘MIII’. The practice stuck, and each subsequent research assist ant would be given an M number, with Martin’s last research assist ant being ‘MXXVIII’. Martin’s vision for the future of international arbitration was truly international, and saw the opportunities offered by an international arbitration not just for commerce, but also peace in the world. As a result, Martin was a passionate advocate for advancing legal education in the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and he helped set up a law school at the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology in India. Martin’s work in this regard resulted in his being appointed VicePresident for Europe in the Global Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution. Despite this immense volume of activity, Martin never lost his love of sailing. Having first met his future wife Linda (also a lawyer) in 1969, they took up offshore cruising in a French ex-racing yacht named Chamois, which they would regularly use to visit France. Having married in 1972, they bought a 38 foot yacht named Rigault, spending a four month-long sabbatical in the Greek islands. This was then succeeded in time by other yachts (Farasha and Kelebek), with Martin and Linda switching to motor boats (April Rose, and a second Chamois) when Martin’s knees st arted to give out. Martin died at home after a long and debilit ating illness, during which he was tirelessly looked after by Linda. In paying tribute to him, the current President of the International Chamber of Commerce Court of Arbitration, Claudia Salomon, said that ‘Martin stood as one of the giants of international arbitration, not only because of his accomplishments, but because of his kindness, enthusiasm and support for multiple generations in the field. The light of the world burns dimmer with the loss of this great teacher, scholar, advocate, arbitrator and friend.’

Russell Edward Mackay Lawson

4 December 1943 1 February 2022

With thanks to Robert a Warman and Edward Bradley

Russell Lawson came to Pembroke College in 1965 to study Land Economy, having just completed a BA in Law at Oxford. Born in Northern Ireland, he had previously been educated at The Methodist College Belfast. He went up to Oxford, to The Queen’s College, in 1962, a time when it was by no means usual for a pupil from an Ulster grammar school to achieve Oxbridge admission.

At Cambridge, Russell quickly found a college home in Pembroke’s Graduates’ Parlour, where he made many friends, including Maurice Charret and

Ryszard Pohorecki. His home out of college was a shared house with Edward Bradley and Bill Hardy in the then peaceful de Freville Avenue in Chesterton. And it was at Cambridge that Russell met Alette Konijnenbelt, who had come from The Netherlands to work in Addenbrooke’s Hospit al. After their marriage, they moved to The Netherlands, to Zeeland, where Russell researched the redistribution of land following the 1953 floods, after the completion of the Delt a Works. Back in England, he worked as a legal adviser to the National Farmers’ Union a job whose lighter moments involved periodically informing the BBC of current concerns in the agricultural community so that these could be reflected in episodes of ‘The Archers’!

In the mid-1970s, Russell was offered a position at the new Oxford campus of the Ecole des Affaires de Paris. He and Alette, three year-old Drummond and their 9 month old twins, Charles and Anna, moved to a house in North Oxford, where they remained for 25 years. In the ‘90s, Russell became a lecturer in land law at De Montfort University Milton Keynes and later at Oxford Brookes University perhaps the work he enjoyed most, showing himself to be an excellent teacher. Retirement offered the opportunity to pursue his love of milit ary history, particularly that of Germany and Austria Hungary he himself came from a milit ary background and to explore continent al Europe. For Russell, an Ulsterman with a proud Scottish herit age, was, above all, a European by inclination, by education and through his marriage. He was saddened by Brexit, which he saw as a severance from European culture. He spoke fluent Dutch, as well as French and Spanish and could ‘get by’ comfort ably in German and It alian: visits to European countries were always conducted in the appropriate language. Russell is survived by his wife, Alette, children Drummond, Charles and Anna, seven grandchildren, and his sister, Judith.

Ian Mason

1 April 1962 26 April 2021

Obituary by Jean-Marc Boyle (1984)

Ian was CEO of Domestic & General (‘D&G’), the appliance care specialist, between 2016 2021. Previously he was CEO of London-listed company Electrocomponents PLC between 2001 and 2015, overseeing a period of dramatic change and ensuring this very oldfashioned business became a strong internet operation. He was also an independent non-executive director of technology and services firm QinetiQ PLC.

Ian, a proud Geordie, was born in Shiremoor, in 1962. He left school at 16, and, while working in a lab, was inspired to study for A levels in evenings and at weekends. He then achieved a First in Applied Chemistry from Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montford University), and went straight on to Pembroke for a PhD in Organic Synthesis. Completing the PhD in a stunning seven years, he immediately joined McKinsey & Co, the leading global strategy consult ancy. He subsequently took an MBA at INSEAD and became a FTSE CEO: all before he was

40. His former Chairman recounts a story about him returning home early on in his days at McKinsey, complaining to his parents about how tired he was. His dad, who was a bricklayer, said he could underst and it would be tiring sitting around all day, drinking coffee.

One of Ian’s sayings was that culture always eats strategy for breakfast. This philosophy drove his management style with his emphasis on customer service. Ian had a particular knack of bringing humour to a situation. He could be very patient and gentle, and Pembroke football opponents who whacked him still remember his amused smile at how graduate football could get so intense. Ian created a great life for himself living close to his office and supporting his family’s passion for equestrianism to deplete his earnings. Ian was an extraordinary man and a true friend in every sense of the word. Larger than life, charismatic, interested in how everyone was doing, willing to help and give advice, and great fun with his theories on how to improve the England rugby team. For many years we met to play golf or travel. Ian’s golf round consisted of six holes of optimism, followed by six holes of philosophy and six holes of complete despondency. When it didn’t go so well, he didn’t suffer in silence.

Ian met his wife Jaqi at McKinsey and they married in 1994, raising 3 children. He was always very appreciative of the love and support given to him by Jaqi who had given up a successful career to support him and raise the family. His upbeat personality, his positive mindset, and his dedication to getting the very best out of everyone will be sorely missed by us all. Ian had an amazing ability to bring humour to a situation without causing offence. Not easy in this day and age.

Ian hugely appreciated the opportunity given to him by Cambridge, which is why the family chose to support the Cambridge Foundation Year in his memory, while also making a subst antial donation to Pembroke to support the development of the new Learning and Wellbeing Centre. The Foundation Year scheme supports scholarships for t alented but disadvant aged students with an emphasis on those from the North East of England. Since his death over £400,000 has been raised in memory of Ian to fund new Cambridge Foundation Year scholarships. Further donations in his name will be very welcome.

Sidney Baillieu Myer

11 January 1926 22 January 2022

With thanks to Rupert Myer (1980)

Sidney Baillieu ‘Bails’ Myer was a prominent businessman, philanthropist and patron of the arts, as well as being the first of three generations of Myers to study at Pembroke. The son of Sidney and Merlyn (née Baillieu) Myer, Bails was destined to enter the family ret ail business est ablished by his Russian émigré father in Bendigo in 1900.

Bails entered Geelong Grammar at the age of 10 in 1936, two years after the untimely death of his father. During his Junior School years, he took a minor part in The Pickwick Papers in 1938, sung in the choir and rowed. He entered Francis

Brown House in 1940, and played first violin in the school orchestra, served as an assist ant librarian, and rowed in stroke seat in numerous regatt as. He matriculated with nine subjects in 1943 but deferred further studies to enlist in the Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve in August 1944, serving as an ordinary seaman on the corvette HMAS Pirie as part of the British Pacific Fleet. On board Pirie, Bails was among the first Australians to enter Tokyo Bay after the Japanese surrender and was present in the harbour for the signing of the Armistice on board the USS Missouri, which was moored nearby. Bails later recalled that about 1000 Allied bombers flew over the ships at low altitude: ‘The exercise was no doubt designed to scare the Japanese. Whether it did so or not I do not know but it cert ainly scared me.’

Having obt ained the rank of sub-lieutenant, Bails left the navy in April 1946. He first studied commerce at the University of Melbourne before going to Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1947, from which he graduated with a BA in Economics in 1949. He would later recall that the College managed the well being of the students reasonably well given the short ages that were occurring. However, he recalled being hungry from time to time. He stroked the Pembroke boat in 1949, and also rowed at Henley in the same year. Before returning permanently to Australia in 1951, Bails prepared for his future trade by t aking a course at Harrods in London and at Macy’s in New York where he investigated the use of synthetic fibres. During a visit to Sweden, he observed the Co op Movement and was most impressed by the NK department store, and especially Swedish interior decoration and functionalism.

Bails became an executive director of the family’s Myer Emporium in 1955, and married Sarah Hordern in December of the same year. Following the death in 1956 of his cousin Sir Norman Myer, who had been at the helm of the public company, Bails and his elder brother Ken pursued an ambitious expansion of the business, not ably est ablishing a Myer store in Chadstone in 1960 based on the belief that suburban expansion demanded ret ail shopping in the heart of the suburbs. The success of this venture led to the opening of further stores in both Melbourne and Sydney, and the acquisition of the ret ail chain Lindsay’s, later renamed Target. Bails stepped down as executive director in 1972 but remained on Myer’s board, serving as executive chairman during the major recession of the 1980s and overseeing the acquisition of Grace Bros in 1983. He steered the company through the merger with GJ Coles before retiring from the board in 1994.

Although Bails did not much like being described as a ‘philanthropist’ too grandiose and preferred to be described as a giver and a doer, philanthropy was an import ant motivation for the Myer family, originating with the generous bequest left by Sidney Myer senior for the benefit of the community. In 1959 Bails and Ken est ablished The Myer Foundation, of which Bails remained a board member until 1995 and an active Life Governor until his death. Among its many acts of munificence during this period, the Foundation created the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Ment al Health (in partnership with The Ian Potter Foundation) in 1971, Asialink (in partnership with the Federal Government) in 1990, and the Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership in 1993. Bails served in

leadership roles on numerous not-for-profit boards and committees, including among others the Sidney Myer Fund, CSIRO, Salvation Army, National Gallery of Victoria, Victorian College of the Arts, Australia-Japan Foundation, AustraliaChina Council, Commonwealth Research Centre for Excellence, Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal, and Art Foundation of Victoria.

Known for his warm manner, his bow ties and sense of humour, Bails made a significant contribution to the Australian wine industry through his est ablishment of the Mornington Peninsula’s first vineyard, Elgee Park, in 1972. He also est ablished an Australian branch of the Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin (the not able Burgundian wine fraternity), becoming the inaugural Grand Pilier in 1967. His contribution to Australian French relations was acknowledged in the award of the French Légion d’honneur in 1976. He was also awarded the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun in 2018 ‘for promoting mutual underst anding between Japan and Australia’. Bails was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1990, and received an honorary Doctorate from the University of Melbourne in 1993 and from Monash University in 2021. He is survived by Sarah and their three children Sidney, Rupert (1980) and Samantha, 12 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. He was last in Pembroke in June 2016 to witness the graduation of his grandson, Walter (2012).

Anthony William Nutbourne

4 June 1928 24 November 2021

With thanks to Jan Maciejowski and Tony Nutbourne’s family Tony Nutbourne was a Fellow in Engineering at Pembroke from 1968 until his early retirement in 1998, having served in the Royal Navy from 1942 to 1968. It was through the Navy that Tony first came to Pembroke, providing him with scholarship funding to t ake a degree in Mechanical Sciences at Pembroke from 1947 1950.

Tony was educated at Cheltenham Grammar School until 1941, when at the age of 13 he heard on the radio about a new scholarship being offered by the Royal Navy for grammar school boys to enter the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth. His parents agreed to his making the switch and he sat the entrance exam and obt ained the scholarship. At his admission interview (which occurred the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed) Tony was asked why he wanted to join the Navy, as he had no connection with the sea. He responded, ‘To avoid Latin homework’. The Royal Naval College did not prepare its students for O’Levels or A’Levels, but he came top of his year and won the King’s Medal. After leaving the Royal Naval College in 1945, he spent two years serving on a cruiser in the Indian Ocean, st arting off as a midshipman and obt aining promotion to sub-lieutenant. Tony then volunteered to work in the newly formed electrical division of the Royal Navy, and that led to his being sent to Pembroke.

The plan was that Tony would study Mechanical Sciences, specialising in electrical engineering, for three years. However, Tony obt ained a First Class degree in Mechanical Sciences in just two years, which left him with a spare year

that he used to study Mathematics. In 1950, Tony left Pembroke to t ake up a position as lieutenant and electrical officer aboard HMS Cheviot, in the Mediterranean. He quickly showed his abilities: the Cheviot’s guns were notoriously inaccurate, but Tony soon solved that by rebuilding and modifying the gun control system from scratch when the Cheviot spent a few days in port. After that, the Cheviot’s guns were noticeably more accurate than the rest of the flotilla in which it sailed.

After two years, it was time to move on and Tony wrote two letters to the Navy: the first suggesting that it create a new course on control engineering at Cambridge, the second volunteering to attend that course. Both of Tony’s letters were accepted, and he returned to Pembroke to obt ain a Control Engineering Certificate in 1956. He then spent some years in Bath with his new wife Patricia, whom he married in 1958, working at the Navy’s electrical branch there. After a spell working as an electrical officer on HMS Hampshire, he was promoted to the rank of Commander and returned to Bath to create an entirely new digit al system for controlling the Navy’s 4.5 inch guns. Tony seemed set fair for further promotions within Navy, but unhappy with the prospect of being assigned to HMS Collingwood, a shore est ablishment and training school for the electrical branch he resigned from the Navy at the age of 40.

Tony had no idea what he was going to do next, but a chance encounter with Professor John Coales, Cambridge’s Professor of Control Engineering, on Trumpington Street gave him a new direction in life. Coales greeted him with the words, ‘Ah Nutbourne, do you want a job?’ and Tony ended up in 1968 becoming an Assistant Director of Research in the Cambridge Engineering department (rising to the position of Lecturer in 1970) and Fellow in Engineering at Pembroke. Tony would spend the next 20 years in Cambridge, becoming renowned for lecturing without notes (a feat he accomplished by assiduously practising a lecture early in the morning of the day he would deliver it) and instituting the Pembroke Fellows’ annual summer event. One of his other services to Pembroke was to persuade his godson and future Fields Medallist, Simon Donaldson, to come to Pembroke, rather than Trinity, to study Mathematics.

In 1988, Tony took early retirement from the university, and therefore also Pembroke, and also published (with his student Ralph Martin) a book on Differential Geometry Applied to Curve and Surface Design. This book applied for the first time esoteric mathematical ideas developed by the 19th century mathematician Jean Gaston Darboux to solve problems related to using computers to manufacture awkwardly-shaped objects, such as car windscreens. Tony’s interest in computer-aided design led him after retirement to spend five years as Project Manager at Finite Element Graphical Systems.

Tony and Patricia had six children, Catherine, Susie, John, Peter, Jane and Richard, and fostered a seventh, Eileen. All of the children were encouraged from very early ages to make things and experiment with tools, and generally share in the spirit of adventure that led Tony and Patricia to explore Australia and New Zealand, go across Eastern Turkey in the back of a truck, and go white water rafting. Delivering a eulogy at his funeral, Jan Maciejowski concluded: ‘Tony was a delightful colleague and a very valued mentor. He had great common sense, but

also a great sense of fun. He was also someone of great integrity and enthusiasm, definitely one of life’s good things. ’

Henry Lawrence Ormerod

8 February 1935 13 July 2021

Henry Ormerod served as a curate and Team Rector at many churches, including St Leonard’s, Grimsbury and the Ironstone Benefice which covers the parishes of Wroxton, Horley, Hornton, Shenington, Alkerton, Balscote, Drayton and Hanwell.

Henry was born in Bristol into a family of doctors and clergymen; his maternal grandfather had been Professor of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. He had clear memories of the Blitz and was later evacuated to the village of Dunster in Somerset. He attended Rose Hill School (a boarding prep school) in Woottonunder Edge, Gloucestershire from the age of six and attended Marlborough College in Wiltshire from the age of 13, where he struck up a lifelong friendship with David Nobbs, the comedy writer best known for The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.

Henry Ormerod began his National Service in 1952 with the Royal Artillery in Oswestry, Shropshire, later transferring to the Intelligence Corps and working at GCHQ in Cheltenham. In 1955, Henry went to Pembroke to study Classics. He met his future wife, Priscilla Mallinson, at a Cambridge tea party. Having become very involved with the worshipping Christian community at Pembroke, he was encouraged to explore ordination as a priest and transferred to Theology for his final year at Cambridge, doing two years’ worth of work in one year.

Henry then went to Queen’s College, Birmingham for two years of theological training. He was ordained deacon in 1960 and took up a curacy at Chigwell in Essex. After his first year, he was ordained priest. He then took up a second curacy at Thundersley near Southend-on-Sea, before moving to t ake charge of a church on Canvey Island in 1968, just after getting married. Henry then served as a priest in the St anground area of Peterborough from 1972 to 1981; in the Park North area of Swindon from 1981 to 1990; and in North Wingfield, Chesterfield, from 1990 to 1997. He moved to Horley in 1997, serving as associate priest for the rural parishes of the Ironstone Benefice. He moved from Horley to Grimsbury in 2003 but remained involved with the Ironstone Benefice and would later help with services at St Leonard’s, Grimsbury. He did not retire fully until two years ago, aged 84.

Henry had a great passion for public transport particularly buses and became Banbury Civic Society’s represent ative for public transport. His son, Peter, said: ‘He had an astonishing memory for bus registration numbers; he could recall the registration numbers of buses from decades ago and was always fascinated by timet ables. He would know the precise history of many buses and had a det ailed knowledge of the bus industry. He was also fond of trains and would enjoy watching them from the road bridge by the st ation.’

While not ‘sporty’ as such, Henry was a keen croquet player from one of the more esteemed croquet playing families (his father had written the official Croquet Association guide to the game and his brother was a winner of the President’s Cup, the greatest prize in the sport). He also greatly enjoyed playing bridge and chaired the Banbury Monday Afternoon Bridge Club.

Henry self-published his autobiography, Keep Me Travelling, in 2006. The book shares its name with one of his favourite hymns and blends memories and reflections about his life and faith with det ailed information about public transport through the decades. Henry died peacefully of aspiration pneumonia with his family members by his bedside. He is survived by his wife Priscilla, children Sarah, Michael and Peter and grandchildren Joseph, Christopher, Luke and Harry.

Malcolm Sutherland Rees

7 June 1942 21 August 2021

Obituary by Robert Maurice Williams (1961) and Stephen Nash (1961)

Malcolm Rees was a t alented economist who spent most of working life in academia. He is much loved and much missed by his numerous friends, most of whom had known him for many years.

Malcolm was born and brought up in Enfield, north London and attended Enfield Grammar School. His father, a bank manager, was of Welsh extraction and a great uncle had translated Dante’s Divine Comedy into Welsh. The family also had a Scottish connection and for many years Malcolm was part owner of a house in the Grampians.

Malcolm was at Pembroke from 1961 1964 and read for both parts of the Economic tripos. Both his brother (Anthony Rees) and his nephew (Gavin Rees) were at Pembroke. While at Cambridge Malcolm became a great admirer of everything Swedish, especially its form of social democracy. He was an active member of the Social Democratic wing of the Labour Party and met many of the leading Labour politicians of the day, though like so many people his political views shifted to the right in later life. He was an admirer of the films of Ingmar Bergman and reviewed one of his films ‘Through a Glass Darkly’ for Varsity, the university weekly newspaper.

After leaving Cambridge, Malcolm took a Masters degree at the London School of Economics. He then worked at the University of Bristol, where he took a further degree, and then as a research fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at York University.

In the late 1970s Malcolm became a civil servant in London as an economics adviser to the Department of Health. He had an interest in the effects of the Aids epidemic which had just begun, a subject on which he published several papers.

F r o m 1 9 9 0 2 0 1 5 h e w a s a l e c t u r e r i n e c o n o m i c s a t t h e U n i v e r s i t y o f Buckingham. Before this he had moved to live nearby in Amersham where he lived for the rest of his life. He became a keen churchgoer there. He never

married but had a wide circle of friends in the Amersham area as well as many friends from his Pembroke days.

Victor Percy Snaith

15 March 1944 3 July 2021 Obituary by Anna Snaith

Victor Percy Snaith was a mathematician and beloved husband, father and grandfather. He passed away after a long struggle with myelofibrosis. Victor was born in Colchester, Essex, to Sylvia May Botham and Victor Harry Yaraslaw-Paddon, a private in the Army Air Corps during WW2. Sylvia divorced Yaraslaw-Paddon and married Alec Vasey Snaith, who worked for a Doncaster fruit company and adopted Victor in 1949.

As a pupil at Scunthorpe Grammar School, Victor’s abilities in mathematics were recognised by his teacher, Dennis Travis, who wrote on his final school report that ‘academically, I believe he will probably do better than any previous pupil of this school’. A lifelong love of chess was also nurtured in these early years as Victor played for his school team, the Scunthorpe Steel Works and at Cambridge University.

Victor studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge, between 1963 and 1966 and graduated with a BA in Mathematics. Thereafter, he took MSc and PhD degrees at the University of Warwick in 1967 and 1969. His PhD, on complex K theory, was supervised by Luke Hodgkin. While at Warwick, he met Carolyn Byers whom he married in 1969; they had three children: Anna, Nina and Daniel. In 1969, Victor returned to Cambridge to become College Lecturer at Emmanuel College until 1975. He maintained his affiliation with the University throughout his career returning in Michaelmas Term 2002 as a Visiting Professorial Fellow at Emmanuel and keeping in touch with fellow Pembroke College undergraduates through regular reunions.

In 1975, Victor moved to North America where he spent a year at Purdue University before t aking up a Professorship at the University of Western Ont ario. At UWO he galvanised a research group working in algebraic topology which remains a strength of the Maths Department. He moved to McMaster University in Hamilton in 1988 to t ake up the first Britton Professorship of Mathematics. Victor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1984 and named Fellow of the Fields Institute for Research in the Mathematical Sciences in 2002, on whose founding committee he had served a decade previously.

Although mathematics was his vocation and all consuming passion, Victor had an infectious intellectual curiosity and wide interests across the arts and sciences. His hobbies included playing a range of instruments including classical guitar and the concertina. He was a gifted actor, cast in roles as diverse as the pantomime dame and Lenin. He and Carolyn were never far from their next DIY project and enjoyed hiking the Canadian wilderness and sharing their love of folk music and dance. He published a novel, The Yukiad, in 1990 and wrote several plays.

In 1998, Victor returned to the UK to t ake up a Professorship at the University of Southampton and subsequently moved to the University of Sheffield, from where he retired in 2009. He was a visiting fellow at the Heilbron Institute at the University of Bristol in 2006–7 and remained an active member until his death. Colleagues describe his ‘absolute and full devotion’ to his work and his tremendous ‘energy for pursuing new frontiers in mathematics’. Victor was also known for his dedicated mentoring of graduate students. His work made significant contributions to the fields of homotopy theory, algebraic K-theory and number theory.

In both professional and family life, Victor was a force of nature known for his irreverence, sense of humour and gifts as a raconteur. He was adored by his six grandchildren with whom he was always up for games of football, cricket or days out by the coast. In recent years, he could be found singing in local choirs in Bristol and rekindling his love of chess. Victor was an annual finalist in the Winton British Chess Solving Championship, played for Grendell Chess Club and founded a chess club in his local café.

Victor died peacefully at home with his family at the age of 77, having faced his worsening illness with bravery and stoicism. Until days before his death he was doing chess puzzles, solving fiendish anagrams and working on his postretirement ‘Derived Langlands’ project. He is survived by his wife Carolyn; his daughter Anna, Professor of Twentieth Century Literature at King’s College London; his daughter Nina, Professor of Mathematical Physics at Bristol University; and his son, Dan, a musician who performs as Caribou. Victor Snaith is deeply missed by his family, colleagues and friends.

James Charles Robin Turner

14 July 1930 11 January 2022

James Turner was a Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge from 1955 79, becoming a Fellow at Pembroke College in 1962. In 1979, he moved on to the University of Exeter, becoming a Professor of Chemical Engineering there until his retirement in 1995.

James was born both into the world of academia and sport: his father, James William Cecil Turner, was a Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge and a county-class cricketer. James was educated at Gresham’s School in Holt and did his National Service from 1948 49 in the Royal Army Educational Corps. He then went to Trinity College, Cambridge to study Chemical Engineering, following that up with a PhD that he obt ained in 1956. By then, he had become a Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at Cambridge University. He would go on to marry his wife Anne Sellwood in 1958 and the birth of their second daughter Caroline and first son Michael coincided with his becoming a Fellow at Pembroke; Michael would go on to study Chemical Engineering at Pembroke 19 years later. While at Pembroke, James worked with Kenneth Denbigh on the second edition (published in 1971) of Denbigh’s Chemical Reactor Theory; the book would go into a

third edition in 1984, by which time James had moved to t ake up a professorship in Exeter, where he served as Dean of the Faculty from 1980 85 and 1993 95. James’ distinction as a chemical engineer saw him t ake up numerous visiting professorship positions, at Austin Texas (1965), Sydney (1970), Seattle (1975), Christchurch in New Zealand (1978), Bahia Blanca (1980) and Tufts (1992).

James is survived by his wife Anne, and their children Julia, Caroline and Michael (1981).

William Frank Vinen

15 February 1930 8 June 2022

William Frank (‘Joe’) Vinen was an internationally recognised physicist, and former Fellow of Pembroke College, who made fundament al contributions to our knowledge of the physics of quantum fields.

Joe was educated at Watford Grammar School and did his National Service as a corporal in the Royal Air Force from 1948 49. He then went to Clare College to study Physics, graduating in 1952 with a First class degree. Joe proceeded to do a PhD, working in Cambridge’s prestigious Royal Society Mond Laboratory. His thesis, which he obtained in 1956, focussed on the properties of liquid helium at low temperatures, when it becomes superfluid, and provided evidence for the existence of quantised vortex lines in superfluid helium.

Joe became a Research Fellow at Clare College in 1955, and moved on three years later to become a Fellow at Pembroke College. He would st ay at Pembroke for four years, marrying his wife Susan-Mary Audrey Master in the College Chapel in 1960. Though his st ay at Pembroke was relatively brief, he would always treasure his association with the College, and was made an Honorary Fellow in 2014. Joe’s growing distinction as a physicist with his work (conducted with Henry Hall) providing the first evidence that quantum mechanics influenced the motion of objects on a macroscopic scale led to his being made the Poynting Chair Professor of Physics at the University of Birmingham in 1962. One year later he and Henry Hall were jointly awarded the Institute of Physics’ Simon Memorial Prize.

Joe would st ay at Birmingham for the rest of his career, serving as the Poynting Professor of Physics from 1973 (the same year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society) until his retirement in 1997 (and as Head of Department from 1973 to 1981). While at Birmingham, he worked on investigating high scattering and ions in solid and liquid helium, and continued to make major theoretical and experiment al contributions to our underst anding of superfluid helium and typeII superconductors. As a result of his work in this area, the dynamics of quantum vorticity and turbulence in superfluids is referred to as ‘Vinen turbulence’ and the equation describing this turbulence is called the ‘Vinen equation’. Joe’s seminal contributions to physics which continued after his retirement in 1997 led to his being awarded the Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize by the Institute of

Physics and the French physical society in 1978, the Royal Society’s Rumford Medal in 1980 (in ‘recognition of his discovery of the quantum of circulation in superfluid helium and his development of new techniques for precise measurements within liquid helium’), the Institute of Physics’ Guthrie Medal in 2005, and an honorary doctorate from Charles University, Prague, in 2008.

Joe is survived by his wife Susan, and their children Katie and Richard.

John Stuart Waddilove

8 May 1934 13 November 2021

Obituary by Nick Griffiths

John Waddilove was born in Yorkshire. His early years were spent at Nesfield, near Ilkley, and then Weeton near Harrogate where John attended Grosvenor House School. He excelled at academic subjects and at sports, especially cricket which became one of the great loves of his life. From 1947, he attended Radley College in Oxfordshire, where he spent probably the happiest years of his life. He always spoke warmly of his years at the school and remained a proud Old Radleian. In his will, he bequeathed to Radley his collection of a complete run of Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack. And what a cricketer he was. In Junior Colts Cricket, he scored his first 100 for the school (101 Not Out) in 1949. The write up for the match credits him as one of the best in his cohort: ‘Outst anding amongst the most promising cricketers was Waddilove an unusually good capt ain for a young boy.’ Such was his skill that he played for the Cricket XI alongside future England Capt ain Ted Dexter in both 1951 and 1952, with the team’s scores appearing in Wisden’s for those years. He was also awarded colours for First XI Hockey in 1951.

In 1955, after National Service, John went to Pembroke College, Cambridge, to study Economics and Law, and represented the College in both hockey and cricket. These years became another proud memory alongside that of Radley. After Cambridge came the most exciting adventure of his early years. In September 1958, he became a management trainee in Nairobi with St andard Vacuum Oil Company East Africa. John always looked back on the four months induction programme as one of the happiest periods of his life. One highlight of his time in Kenya was his ascent of Mt. Kilimanjaro in 1959. He also worked in Uganda.

In 1963, John moved to London to work for Esso, but life in the UK and the end of his short marriage left him restlessly seeking new adventures. He decided to emigrate to Australia in September 1967. After renting a flat in Kirribilli for a few years, with a view of Sydney Bridge and the construction of the Opera House, in 1972 he bought a bungalow in Avalon Beach, north of Sydney, which was to be his home for the next forty-five years. He soon took out Australian citizenship. He worked for Esso in Human Resources until 1985 when he took early retirement in order to pursue his many interests. He was a keen bibliophile, accumulating a collection of around 3000 books by his death. The most common subjects were Africa, art, music, furniture, biography and history. He was a great fan of J.M.W. Turner and Joseph Haydn.

John did not remarry or have children, but he was an adored uncle and godfather, and had a gift for turning his friends and neighbours into family. For one of his dear friends, he was a role model of how to grow old well. He was always cheerful with a huge smile and frequent chuckle. He was conservative and appreciated tradition, but he was never stuck in his ways; shy, yet fun loving; humble, yet curious and knowledgeable; and generous not only financially but also with his time and devotion. Before the shadow of vascular dementia fell over John in his last four years, he had created a vast store of happy memories for those who knew him. He remained an adventurer, explorer and good sportsman (in both senses). One of his oldest friends said of him: ‘John belonged to an era when most men aspired to behave like gentlemen, and he, more than most, undoubtedly succeeded.’

25 January 1941 14 May 2022

Obituary by Richard Waldram’s family

Richard was educated at Merchant Taylors School, Northwood where he was a keen rugby player with original ambitions to become an architect. By the time he left school he had changed his mind as to his choice of career and was awarded a place at Pembroke to study medicine. His contemporaries may remember him for

The Pembroke Hockey Club XI featuring John Waddilove (seated, second from left)

Richard Percy Laurence Waldram

his involvement in amateur dramatics and st age management, although he spent enough time on his studies to graduate in 1962 with a degree in Natural Sciences.

He received his clinical training at St Thomas’ Hospit al, London, qualifying as a junior doctor in 1966. During this time he met Jane Draco, who was training to be a nurse at St Thomas’ and they were married in October 1966. The next nine years saw them, and a growing family of three girls, moving around the country for his posts as a junior doctor to Derby, Portsmouth, Southampton and both St Thomas’ and Kings College hospit als in London.

In 1975 Richard was appointed Consult ant Physician at Basingstoke Hospit al and the family moved to Overton, Hampshire. The newly built hospit al was, at the time, beset with problems, with continual strikes and a service that was not ‘patient centred’ at all. Richard soon became chair of the medical division and played his part in turning the place around and setting the traditions and high st andards that have endured to this day. He also st arted the Stroke Rehabilit ation Unit and led a team to promote good terminal care which eventually resulted in the Macmilllan service at the hospit al and the integration of St Michael’s Hospice with the NHS on the same site.

Outside of hospit al life, Richard loved to sail. He bought a boat and the family spent many holidays wandering around the south coast of England and across the Channel to France and the Channel Islands. He also loved being creative, with the inner architect coming out in him as he designed and built a workshop in the garden for his carpentry. Later he would combine the two passions and build his own boat on which he and Jane spent many happy holidays.

They also loved to travel. When the children became independent, they took to back-packing around Europe for their holidays and spent some time in Grenada, West Indies, examining medical students in their final exams—their first visit to a developing country which he described as an eye opener.

Following retirement at 56, Richard worked part time for the Health Services Ombudsman in London before he and Jane decided that they could not just sit back in comfort but should use their medical skills in less well developed countries. Together they travelled as volunteers with VSO where they worked as doctor and nurse in Russia for a year, followed by time working in Mongolia. Richard was then asked by the BESO Foundation in Uganda to coordinate a team of British surgeons who were dealing with birth injuries and succeeded in persuading the Ugandan Ministry of Health to set up a training programme to enable Ugandan doctors to operate in such cases. He was also asked to help prepare a strategic plan for Kisiizi Hospit al in Uganda and continued to visit the hospit al to monitor progress over a number of years. As treasurer of a Basingstoke Hospit al charity, he was also involved with Hoima Hospit al in Uganda and made several visits there.

Richard’s creativity was also expressed through writing. His first book, a medical text, was published in Russian in Moscow, after which he discovered a love of local history and wrote a number of books on the history of his home village of Overton, culminating in a fascinating biography of Brigadier General Sir Bertram Port al, A Soldier and a Gentleman. He also loved to draw and paint, always experimenting with different styles and techniques.

Richard enjoyed good health until the last year of his life when a spinal condition forced him to slow down his pace of life. Just a week before his planned spinal operation in early May he was t aken into Basingstoke hospit al where he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He died just a few weeks later in St Michael’s Hospice, Basingstoke, which, fittingly, he had helped to set up. He is survived by his wife Jane, his three daughters and his six grandchildren whom he described as ‘the joy of our lives and our future’.

F. M E M B E R S ’ C O R N E R

Poems for Ukraine Richard Berengarten

(1961)

We reproduce below (with his kind permission) Richard Berengarten’s 2020 poem ‘On Hearing Olesya Zdorovetska Singing Her Settings to Ukrainian Poems’, which has been translated into more than a dozen languages since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The poem was inspired by hearing Olesya Zdorovetska’s extraordinary and beautiful renderings of poems by ten Ukrainian poets: Iryna Starovoyt, Olech Lysheha, Yury Izdryk, Marianna Kijanowska, Kateryna Babkina, Lyuba Yakimchuk, Yurii Andrukhovych, Halyna Kruk, and Serhiy Zhadan. The recording of Olesya Zdorovetska’s settings can be heard online here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ilajc2fwqq5cc10/24th%2019.00%20Telling%20Sounds final.mov?dl=0

Richard’s poem is accompanied by three poems from his book The Blue Butterfly (Shearsman Books, 2011). These poems were inspired by his visit to a memorial for 2,793 citizens of the Serbian town of Kragujevac, mostly men and boys, who were massacred by German soldiers between 19 and 21 October 1941 in reprisals for an ambush on a German platoon on 16 October by Serbian resistance fighters. There were 9 German soldiers killed and 27 wounded, one of whom died later.

On hearing Olesya Zdorovetska singing her settings to Ukrainian poems

Once this singing st arts it somehow never stops even when all the lights go off and clouds cover the entire sky. This is a kind of singing not picked up by them but only by you or me or you and me.

This is a singing you might hear in dreams. It might well waken the unpitied dead stretching out helpless hands to be redeemed and in the feather breadth of one unbreathed unbidden inst ant make them break out in smiles.

The shadow well St and up, Soldier, ring the bell, ring it for yourself as well. Sentry, shut your telescope, surrender your horizon’s hope. Climb up, Deacon, to the tower, pull the rope and ring the bell. The butterfly burns on its flower. Gunner, you will die as well.

Survivor, go ask Presidents Does this sacrifice makes sense? And will the international liars negotiate to quench these fires?

Around this blaze, fierce shadows grope inward to quench any hope. Pull the rope, ring the bell What else is there left to tell?

Ask the bloody Brigadier why I shat myself in fear but never emptied out the bucket and just told him to go fuck it.

And ask the ribboned Generals t alking in luxurious halls if they tremble where they sit while I rot in a common pit.

The death of children

It is the death of children most offends nature and justice. No use asking why. What justice is, nobody comprehends.

Pull the rope, ring the bell, wind blows in an empty shell. Like a flickering from hell light flecks in the shadow well.

What punishment can ever make amends? There’s no pretext, excuse or alibi. It is the death of children most offends.

Whoever offers arguments pretends to read fate’s lines. Although we must swear by what justice is, nobody comprehends

how destiny or chance weaves. Who defends their motives with fair reasons tells a lie. It is the death of children most offends.

Death can’t deserve to reap such dividends from these, who scarcely lived, their parents cry. What justice is, nobody comprehends. Bring comfort then, and courage. Strangers, friends, are we not all parents when children die? What justice is, nobody comprehends. It is the death of children most offends.

Unmarked voices from a mass grave

You have come to a place, not a place, where time and space halt, where the trees’ topmost branches stop, and the last waves stop, and roots can grow no longer, and rivers no longer flow, and the last heard note grips silence and never reaches further, like a photograph of an arrow that freezes it forever suspended in its flight, trapped quivering on air and the moth or fly is caught in a honeyball of amber.

You have come to a place, not a place, where no-one can remember any words they may have heard, or ways out of the maze, or steps once learned in dancing, or their subtle variations, and time is a cat acomb, a grove of bones, a permanence, a st ation and a destiny, but not a destination, where all contours of yesterdays are stratified in a fault and tomorrow is an abyss, and the trains of space-time halt.

MA Degree

The following information concerning the MA degree may be useful to members of the Society:

St anding: a Bachelor of Arts may be admitted Master of Arts six* calendar years after the end of his or her first term of residence, provided that (which is usually the case) at least two years have elapsed since taking the BA degree.

Fees: a fee of £5 is payable by those who took their BA degree in 1962 or earlier. Please give at least four weeks’ notice before the Congregation at which you wish to take your degree. Correspondence should be addressed to the Praelector.

* For affiliated students, five years.

Dining Rights and Guest Rooms

Dining rights

Members who hold an MA or other Master’s degree or a higher degree from the University, or are qualified for one of the aforementioned degrees from the University, are welcome to dine in College during Full Term or the period of residence in the Long Vacation. For the academic year 2022 2023, ‘Full Term’ means 4 October to 2 December, 17 January to 17 March, and 25 April to 16 June; residence in the Long Vacation runs for five weeks from early July.

• Dining for Members is available on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays during term or Long Vacation Residence except on occasions when large College events take place.

• A Member may dine as a guest of the College at High Table up to four times each academic year (once a term and once in the Long Vacation Residence), provided a Fellow or other authorised person is present to preside. On one of those occasions, overnight accommodation is free of charge for the Member if it is available.

• If a Member is attending a Members’ Evening with a guest, and sharing a guest room, the charge is waived.

It is regrettably not normally possible for spouses/partners to dine at the High Table. However, for the academic year 2022 2023, the College is intending to hold six ‘Members’ Evenings’, when up to ten Members and their guests (20 people in all) may dine at the College’s expense. It is recommended that large parties of Members, or Members and their spouses/partners, should seek to use these evenings as particularly good opportunities to dine in the College. The dates of these occasions in 2022 2023 are: (in 2022) Tuesday 18 October and Sunday 13 November, and (in 2023) Sunday 22 January, Sunday 19 February, Sunday 7 May, and Sunday 4 June. Attendance by a Member and their spouse at such Evenings is restricted to two per annum, to allow as many Pembroke Members as possible to avail themselves of this opportunity.

On the evening that you have booked in to dine, we would be grateful if you could arrive at the Senior Parlour no later than 7.15 pm for drinks before dinner. The dress code is smart but it is not obligatory to wear a gown.

Guest rooms

• Overnight accommodation may also be available in College, at a reasonable charge (one person £65, two people £95 per night).

• Accommodation is available for a maximum of two consecutive nights

• Guest rooms may only be booked by Fellows or Pembroke Members. If a Pembroke Member books the room, he or she should be the one, or one of the people, to stay in it. It is not normally possible to reserve rooms for non Pembroke members.

• If available, overnight accommodation is free of charge for the Member, once a year, when a Member dines as a guest of the College at High Table.

• The College regrets that children under the age of fourteen are unable to stay overnight at Pembroke.

The College has a total of five en-suite guest rooms (one twin-bedded room in H staircase and four double bedded rooms in CC, H and K staircases). Given these limited facilities, early notice is strongly advised when making inquiries.

The College would be grateful to be informed at the earliest opportunity if a Member’s plans to visit have to be amended Pembroke regrets that it will be necessary to charge a Member for the full cost of the room in the event that that Member should cancel his or her visit without giving at least 24 hours’ notice.

College accommodation is usually available from 2 pm on the day of arrival. Guests are asked to check out and remove their luggage before 9.30 am on the day of departure (but the Porters’ Lodge can store luggage until later in the day if necessary). Breakfast is not included in the charge but Members are welcome to have breakfast in the Buttery (usually open Monday to Friday in term time between 8 am and 10 am and for brunch at the weekend between 10 am and 1.15 pm, 11 am 1.15 pm out of term). Payments are accepted by card only

How to book

Arrangements for dining or for staying in a guest room should be made by completing and submitting the Accommodation and Dining Online Booking Form (https://www.pem. cam.ac.uk/alumni development/connecting pembroke/dining rights and guest rooms/ accommodation-and-dining-online).

Bookings can be made between 9 am and 5 pm (although urgent enquiries will be dealt with outside these hours by contacting the Porters’ Lodge on 01223 338100). A provisional guest room booking will be made on receipt of the enquiry. We ask that payment be made within one working day to confirm the booking by telephoning 01223 339079 with your payment details. A full refund can be provided if the booking is cancelled with at least 24 hours’ notice.

If you experience any difficulties using the online form, please phone the Development Office on 01223 339079 or email dev@pem.cam.ac.uk.