Oriel Record 2017

Oriel college record

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front cover The roof decoration inside Oriel’s main gate

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CONTENTS

COLLEGE RECORD

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The Provost, Fellows, Lecturers Provost’s Notes Treasurer’s Notes Chaplain’s Notes Chaplain’s visit to Westbury

on Trym Memorial Service and Marriages Preachers at Evensong Development Director’s Notes Donors to Oriel The Provost’s Court The Raleigh Society The 1326 Society Tortoise Blades Donors Junior Common Room Middle Common Room New Members 2016– 2017 Academic Record 2016 –2017 Degrees and Examination Results Awards and Prizes Graduate Scholars Sports Achievements Books presented to the Library

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CLUBS, SOCIETIES AND ACTIVITIES

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Chapel Music College Sports Tortoise Club Oriel Society Oriel Alumni and Alumnae Golf Provost's Lunch

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FEATURES 90

Commemoration of Benefactors: Sermon preached by Dr William Wood Art as History by the First Historian of Art: Giorgio Vasari’s Ritratto di sei poeti toscani Adrastos Omissi Eugene Lee-Hamilton Prize 2017 Gower Memorial Creative Arts Prize 2016

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BOOK REVIEWS

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NEWS AND EVENTS

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Calum Chace, The Economic Singularity 106 Bruno Currie, Homer’s Allusive Art 107 Katharine Dell, Who Needs the Old Testament? Its enduring appeal and why the New Atheists don’t get it 109 Michael Steen, Many More Great Operas: A Guide to 40 More of the World’s Finest Musical Experiences 111

Honours and Awards Fellows’ News Orielenses’ News Obituaries Other deaths notified since September 2016 Diary Notes

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VISITOR HM The Queen

PROVOST

Moira Paul Wallace, OBE, MA (MA Cantab.; AM Harvard)

FELLOWS Andrew Timothy Boothroyd, MA (MA, PhD Cantab.); Professor of Physics, Rhodes Fellow and Tutor in Physics John Michael Spivey, MA, DPhil (MA Cantab.); University Lecturer in Computation, Misys and Andersen Fellow and Tutor in Computer Science Annette Marianne Volfing, MA, DPhil, FBA; Professor in Medieval German Studies, Knight Fellow and Tutor in Modern Languages (German), Vice-Provost (to MT16) David Michael Hodgson, MA (BSc Bath; PhD Southampton); Professor of Chemistry, Todd Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry, Vice-Provost (from HT17) Lynne Suzanne Cox, MA (MA, PhD Cantab.); University Lecturer in Biochemistry, George Moody Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry, Tutor for Admissions (MT16 to TT17) Teresa Jean Morgan, MA (MA, PhD Cantab.); William and Nancy Turpin Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History Brian Lee Leftow, MA (MA, MPhil, PhD Yale); Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion Oliver Edward Edmund Pooley, BPhil, MA, DPhil; Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy Bruno Gabriel Felix Currie, MA, DPhil; Monro Fellow and Tutor in Classics John Edgar Huber, MA (MA, PhD Cantab.); T.I. Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Science, Tutor for Graduates

Richard William Scholar, MA, MSt, DPhil; Fellow and Tutor in Modern Languages (French) Edward Wilfrid Stephenson, MA (MA Cantab.), FCT; Treasurer Yadvinder Singh Malhi (MA Cantab.; PhD Reading), FRS; Professor of Ecosystem Science, Jackson Senior Research Fellow in Biodiversity and Conservation Kristine Krug, MA, DPhil; Senior Research Fellow and Tutor in Biomedical Sciences Ian James Forrest, MA, DPhil (MA, MPhil Glasgow); Catto Fellow and Tutor in History, Fellow Librarian Christopher Charles Bowdler, MA, MPhil, DPhil (BA Cantab.); MacPherson Fellow and Tutor in Economics Juliane Kerkhecker, MA (Staatsexamen Tübingen); Fellow by Special Election and Tutor in Classics, Senior Tutor (from MT16) Michael Peter Devereux, MA (MSc LSE; PhD London); Professorial Fellow in Business Taxation Christopher Peter Conlon, MA (MB, BS, MD London), FRCP; Professor of Infectious Diseases; Fellow and Tutor in Clinical Medicine Lucinda Anne Ferguson, MA, BCL, PGDip LATHE (LLM Queen’s University, Canada); Fellow and Tutor in Jurisprudence John Hamish Armour, BA, BCL (LLM Yale; BVC London); Hogan Lovells Professor of Law and Finance Julia Carolin Mannherz (MA London; PhD Cantab.); Rhodes Fellow and Tutor in History

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Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra, MA (MPhil, PhD Cantab.); Professor of Metaphysics, Colin Prestige Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy Lars Fugger, MA (MD, PhD, DMedSc Copenhagen); Mary Machin Fellow and Professor of Neuroimmunology Ian Robert Horrocks, MA (MSc, PhD Manchester), FRS; Professorial Fellow in Computer Science Nicholas Eyre, MA, DPhil; Jackson Senior Research Fellow in Energy Kevin Joseph Maloy, MA (BSc, PhD Glasgow); Fellow and Tutor in Medicine Sandra Robertson, (BA Edinburgh); Professorial Fellow in Finance, Chief Investment Officer, Oxford University Endowment Management William Dalton Wood, MA (MA, PhD Chicago); George Moody Fellow and Tutor in Theology †Max Crispin, MBiochem, DPhil; Supernumerary Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry, Senior Dean (from HT17) Kobi Kremnitzer, MA (MSc, PhD Tel Aviv); Fellow and Tutor in Pure Mathematics Mungo Wilson, BA (MSc LSE; PhD Harvard); Non-Tutorial Fellow in Economics Kathryn Jean Murphy, DPhil (MA Glasgow); Fellow and Tutor in English Literature James Frank Sparks, MA (PhD Cantab.); Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics Sean Bernard Power, MA (BA, MA Dunelm); Director of Development Lyndal Anne Roper, MA (BA Melbourne; PhD London), FRHistS; Regius Professor of History Paul Wayne Yowell, MA, BCL, MPhil, DPhil; Benn Fellow and Tutor in Jurisprudence Justin Porter Coon, MA (BS Clemson; PhD Bristol); Emmott Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Science

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†† Francesco Manzini, BA (PhD UCL); Fixed Term Fellow and Tutor in Modern Languages (French), Senior Dean (to MT16) Hindy Najman, MA (BA Yeshiva; MA, PhD Harvard); Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture Luca Castagnoli, MA (BA Bologna; PhD Cantab.); Stavros Niarchos Foundation Fellow in Ancient Greek Philosophy Teresa Mia Bejan, MA (BA Chicago; MPhil Cantab., PhD Yale); Fellow and Tutor in Political Theory Maike Bublitz, MA (Dipl Biol Dr. rer. Nat. Braunschweig); Ron Bancroft Fellow in Biochemistry Patrick Emmet Farrell, MA (BSc National University of Ireland; PhD Imperial); Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics

RESEARCH FELLOW AND DIRECTOR OF MUSIC David Nicholas Maw, MA, DPhil, FRCO SUPERNUMERARY RESEARCH FELLOWS Eric Beinhocker, Executive Director, Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School Bernardo Cuenca Grau (PhD Valencia) ADAM DE BROME FELLOW John Albert, MA RALEIGH FELLOW Charles A. Potter (LLB Detroit) ISOBEL LAING POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES Lisa Heather, DPhil (BSc Surrey)

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HAYWARD JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOW †Tim Philip Vogels, MSc (PhD École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

CHAPLAIN †Revd Robert Benjamin Tobin, MA, DPhil (MA Cantab.; MPhil TCD; AB Harvard)

HAYWARD LECTURER Aarti Jagannath, MSc, DPhil

DEANS Alexis Brown, MA (BA Wisconsin Madison) †Mary Jones, MSc (BS Rose-Hulman) Carrie Ryan, MPhil (BA Sewanee) Alexander Von Klemperer, MSc (MB, ChB University of Cape Town)

BRITISH ACADEMY RESEARCH FELLOW †Adrastos Omissi, MSt, DPhil CAREER DEVELOPMENT FELLOW IN HISTORY Maya Corry, BA, DPhil (MA Courtauld) JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOW IN EARLY MODERN HISTORY †Hannah Saunders Murphy (PhD Berkeley) JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOW IN EUROPEAN HISTORY †Erin Neal Maglaque, MSt, DPhil GLASSTONE RESEARCH FELLOW IN MATHEMATICS Robert Van Gorder (BS, MS, PhD UCF)

GRADUATE TEACHING AND RESEARCH SCHOLARS Lucy Auton, MMath, GTA in Mathematics †James Bonifacio (BSc Canterbury), GTA in Physics Nicholas Lennings (BA, LLB Macquarie; LLM Harvard), GTA in Law Elizabeth Phillips, BA, MMathCompSci, GTA in Computer Science †Tobias Thornes (MPhys Dunelm); GTA in Physics † leaving Oriel at the end of the 2016–2017 academic year †† Fellow up to the end of Michaelmas Term 2016

EMERITUS FELLOWS William Edward Parry, MA, DPhil; former Tutor in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics James Frank Offen, MA, FRICS; former Estates Bursar Brig. Michael James Fowler Stephens, MA (MA Cantab.), CEng, MICE; former Bursar Richard Granville Swinburne, MA, BPhil, DipTheol, FBA; former Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion David William Maskell, MA, DPhil; former Tutor in Modern Languages (French)

Robert Anthony Beddard, MA, DPhil, FRHistS (BA London; MA Cantab.); former Sir Zelman Cowen Fellow and Tutor in Modern History Robert Jeremy Adam Inch Catto, MA, DPhil; former Rhodes Fellow and Tutor in Modern History Keith Owen Hawkins, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Cantab.; LLB Birmingham); former University Professor in Law and Society and Tutor in Law Graham Francis Vincent-Smith, MA, DPhil; former Philip and Pauline Harris Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics

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George Gordon MacPherson, MA, BM, DPhil; former Reader in Experimental Pathology, Turnbull Fellow and Tutor in Medicine, Senior Tutor and Tutor for Graduates Lauchlan Glenn Black, MA, DPhil (BA Cape Town); former Tutor in English Literature, Senior Tutor Robert John Weston Evans, MA, DPhil, FBA; former Regius Professor of History Derek William Russell Gray, MA, DPhil (BSc, MB, ChB Leeds); former Professor of Experimental Surgery and Hon. Consultant in Transplantation Richard Henry Stefan Tur, MA (LLB Dundee); former Fellow and Tutor in Jurisprudence

HONORARY FELLOWS

Professor Thomas Henry Byll Symons, MA, FRSC (BA Toronto; DU Ottawa; DLitt Columbia; Hon LLD Wilfrid Laurier, New Brunswick, York [Toronto], Laurentian, Mount Allison, Concordia, Trent, Dalhousie, Prince Edward Island, Manitoba); Companion of Canada; Officer of the Order of Canada; founding President and ViceChancellor, Trent University; Vanier Professor The Rt Hon. The Lord Harris of Peckham (Philip Charles); Chairman, Harris Ventures Ltd; Managing Director, Carpetright of London Ltd; Managing Director, Harvey’s Furnishing Group Professor Sir Michael Eliot Howard, CH, OM, CBE, MC, MA, DLitt, FBA, FRHistS; former Regius Professor of Modern History Sir Bryan Hubert Nicholson, KB, GBE, MA, FRSA, Hon. DEd CNNA; Hon. PhD Open University; Hon. Doctor of Letters Glasgow Caledonian University; Hon.

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Mark François Edward Philp, MA, MPhil, DPhil (BA Bradford; MSc Leeds); former Fellow and Tutor in Politics David Owain Maurice Charles, BPhil, MA, DPhil; former Colin Prestige Fellow and Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy Revd John Barton, MA, DPhil, D Litt (Hon. DrTheol Bonn), FBA; former Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture Douglas Kinnear Hamilton, MA, DPhil; former Emmott Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Science Pedro Gil Ferreira, MA (Lic Lisbon; PhD London); former Fellow and Tutor in Physics

PhD Sheffield Hallam University; Hon. Fellow Manchester Metropolitan University, Scottish Vocational Education Council, Scottish Qualifications Authority, City & Guilds of London Institute; formerly Chairman, The Financial Reporting Council, Cookson Group plc, Council of The Open University, BUPA, The Post Office, The Manpower Services Commission, Council for National Academic Awards, National Council for Vocational Qualifications, Rank Xerox (UK) Ltd; former President, Confederation of British Industry; former Chancellor, Sheffield Hallam University Professor Thomas Noel Mitchell, MA, MRIA (MA Dublin, National University of Ireland; PhD Cornell); former Provost, Trinity College, Dublin Lady Pauline Harris, Hon. Fellow, Royal Veterinary College; Vice-President, Mencap, the Dyslexia Education Trust, the National Eczema Society

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Seng Tee Lee, FBA, Director of the Lee Foundation, Singapore, and of the Lee Group of Companies in Singapore and Malaysia; Hon. Fellow Wolfson College, Cambridge, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge Professor Eric Foner, MA (BA, PhD Columbia University); former Harmsworth Professor of American History, former De Witt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University Professor Sir John Huxtable Elliott, MA, FBA (BA, MA, PhD Cantab.); former Regius Professor of Modern History Professor Charles Brian Handy, MA The Hon. Sir Francis Ferris, MA The Hon. Sir Michael Wright, MA The Rt Hon. Baron Murphy of Torfaen (Paul), MA, PC, MP; former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Dr John Hegarty (MA, PhD National University of Ireland), FInstP, MRIA; former Provost, Trinity College Dublin Anthony Peter de Hoghton Collett, MA; former Secretary to the Development Trust The Rt Hon. Lord Morgan of Aberdyfi (Kenneth Owen), MA, DPhil, DLitt, FBA, FRHistS Sir David Geoffrey Manning, GCMG, KCVO, MA; former HM Ambassador, Washington James Mellon, MA Professor Sir John Stuart Vickers, MA, MPhil, DPhil, FBA; Warden of All Souls College Professor David Hearnshaw Barlow, MA, BSc, MD, MRCP, FRCOG, FMedSci; former Nuffield Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology; former Dean, Glasgow School of Medicine

Professor Robert Fox, MA, DPhil, FRHistS; former Professor of the History of Science Sir Albert Aynsley-Green, DPhil, FRCP, FRCPE, FRCPH, FMedSci Jonathan Barnes, MA, FBA The Hon. James Farley, QC, BA (BA Western Ontario; LLB Toronto) Professor Colin Peter Mayer, CBE, MA, MPhil, DPhil; former Dean, Said Business School Sir Crispin Henry Lamart Davis, BA; Chairman and Director of StarBev Netherlands BV Professor Robert John Weston Evans, MA, DPhil, FBA; former Regius Professor of History Professor Patrick John Prendergast, (BA, BAI, PhD, ScD, FTCD), MRIA; Provost, Trinity College Dublin Dr Robert McHenry, MA DPhil; former Tutor in Psychology Sir Michael McWilliam, KCMG, MA, BLitt; former Director of SOAS Sir Derek James Morris, MA, DPhil (DSc Cran.; DCL UEA, LLD NUI); former Provost Thomas Colm Kelleher, MA, FCA Jonathan Stewart Lane, OBE, MA, FRICS Philip Strone Macpherson, MA (MBA INSEAD) Professor Julia Alison Noble, OBE, MA, DPhil, FREng; former TI Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Science; Technikos Professor of Biomedical Engineering John Albert, MA, Adam de Brome Fellow Robin Harland, MA, former Adam de Brome Fellow Professor Paul Preston, CBE, MA, DPhil, FBA, FRHistS; Príncipe de Asturias Professor, LSE

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LECTURERS Katrina Maria Kohl (BA, PhD London); Fellow of Jesus College; Lecturer in German Clive Newton, QC, MA, BCL; Lecturer in Jurisprudence Julie Alexandria Evelyn Curtis, MA, DPhil; Fellow of Wolfson College; Lecturer in Russian Mark Whittow, MA, DPhil; Fellow of Corpus Christi College; Lecturer in History Giuseppe Antonio Stellardi, MA (DottFil, DipPerfFil Pavia; DEA, Dr Univ.

Sorbonne); Lecturer in Italian Simon Andrew Skinner, MA, MPhil, DPhil, FRHistS; Fellow of Balliol College; Lecturer in History David Nicholas Maw, MA, DPhil, FRCO; Lecturer in Music †Revd Robert Benjamin Tobin, MA, DPhil (MA Cantab.; MPhil TCD; AB Harvard); Lecturer in Theology Elinor Payne (MA, MPhil, PhD Cantab., PG Diploma SOAS); Fellow of St Hilda’s College; Lecturer in Linguistics Marion Elizabeth Turner, MA, DPhil (MA York); Fellow of Jesus College; Lecturer in English Richard Tyrrell Coggins, MA, DPhil; Lecturer in Politics Andrew William Kenneth Farlow, MPhil (MA Cantab.); Lecturer in Economics Nicholas Jackson Brett Green, MA, DPhil; Lecturer in Chemistry Claire Gwenlan (MSci, PhD UCL); Lecturer in Physics Sarah Elizabeth Lilian Bennett, MSt, DPhil (BA York); Lecturer in English Hugh Robert Collins Rice, MA, MLitt (MA Sussex); Lecturer in Music Pamela Virginia Lear (BSc, PhD London); Lecturer in Medicine

Andrew Adam (BA Bowdoin; MDiv, STM Yale; PhD Duke); Lecturer in Theology Shona Murphy (BTech Bradford; MSc, PhD Essex); Lecturer in Biochemistry †Alice May Brooke, MSt, DPhil (MA Cantab.); Lecturer in Spanish †Lydia Lenore Veronica Matthews, DPhil (BA, MA KwaZulu-Natal); Lecturer in Ancient History Laura Elizabeth Quick, DPhil (BA Cardiff; MA Dunelm); Lecturer in Theology Steven James Kaye, BA, MPhil, DPhil; Lecturer in English Language Kristin Knabe (MA Leipzig; MA Kaiserslautern); Lecturer in German Victor Lee, DPhil (BSc, MPhil Hong Kong); Lecturer in Chemistry Rebecca Springer (BA Yale; MPhil Cantab.); Lecturer in History George Howard Wadhams, MBiochem DPhil; Lecturer in Biochemistry Faris Abou-Saleh (MA Cantab.; MSc, PhD Imperial); Lecturer in Computer Science Niall Allsopp, BA, MSt, DPhil; Lecturer in English †Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard, DPhil (BA Berkley; MSc Edinburgh); Lecturer in Spanish †Mary Boyle, DPhil, MSt (BA KCL); Lecturer in German Krzysztof Brzezinski (BA, MSc Warsaw; PhD Manchester); Lecturer in Economics †Emily Christiane Marie Dolmans, MPhil, DPhil (BA McGill); Lecturer in English Andrew Goodwin, MA, DPhil (PhD Syd.; PhD Cantab.), FRSC; Lecturer in Chemistry Kirstin Gwyer, BA, MSt, DPhil; Lecturer in German †Sarah Elizabeth Jones DPhil (BA, MA KCL); Lecturer in French †Emily Kesling, MSt, DPhil (BA Washington); Lecturer in English

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†Siran Li, DPhil (BA Columbia); Lecturer in Mathematics Andria Pancrazi (MA Paris Diderot); Lecturer in French †Oliver James Ready, MA, DPhil (MA UCL); Lecturer in Russian Adam Edward Stones, MChem; Lecturer in Chemistry †Evert van Emde Boas, MSt, DPhil (BA MA Amsterdam); Lecturer in Classics Kresimir Vukovic, DPhil (BA, MA Zadar); Lecturer in Classics Maya Corry, BA, DPhil (MA Courtauld); Lecturer in History

Tomasz M Czepiel, DPhil (BMus Lancaster), Lecturer in Music Mohamady El-Gaby, MBiochem (MSc UCL; PhD Cantab.); Lecturer in Medicine Stefano Gogioso, MA, DPhil (MA, MASt Cantab.; BSc, MSc Genova); Lecturer in Computer Science Douglas Kinnear Hamilton, MA, DPhil; Lecturer in Engineering Science Matthew Peter Mills, MA, BCL (LLM London); Lecturer in Law Thomas Moller-Nielsen, MSt DPhil (BSc Bristol); Lecturer in Philosophy †leaving Oriel at the end of the 2016– 2017 academic year

NEW SENIOR MEMBERS JOINING ORIEL IN MICHAELMAS TERM 2017 FELLOWS Víctor Acedo Matellán (BA Valladolid; BA, MA, PhD Barcelona); Fellow and Tutor in Spanish and Linguistics Julien Devriendt (MA, PhD Paris XI Orsay); Fellow and Tutor in Physics Andrew Wells (MA, PhD, CASM Cantab.); Fellow and Tutor in Physics

ACTING CHAPLAIN The Venerable David Meara, MA, STH, FSA, Archdeacon Emeritus of London

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PROVOST’S NOTES

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n Oxford College is often seen as a small community, and indeed those who come here as students or Fellows at any one time are few in number. But the wider group of those who have had that experience is large and diverse.

This is particularly in my mind as I write this, in late July: in the space of twenty-four hours I have said goodbye to one generation of Orielenses who have only just completed their exams and graduated, and then welcomed back to a reunion lunch another group of Orielenses who matriculated up to seventy years ago, in the 1940s and early 1950s.

The second of these occasions required me to do some interesting historical research in advance of my speech: the Oriel Record of course came to my aid and I spent a thoughtprovoking few hours reading the notes of Provosts Ross and Clark, and the accounts they gave of the challenges of wartime and the immediate post-war period. So much has changed in the intervening years, not just in society and the economy but in Oxford and Oriel. And yet as I talked with the students of that era, I felt that nonetheless a great deal has stayed the same, not least the fundamental elements of student life and the interweaving of academic work, friendships, and new interests which provide a springboard for whatever our students go on to do next.

More exams will probably not be high on the list of things to do next for anyone who has just finished Finals, but however testing the experience, Oriel’s 2017 graduates have done very well indeed. This year, there were twenty-seven Firsts, a good score, but at just under 29 per cent of the graduating cohort, not one to repeat last year’s Norrington Table glory. A number of subjects stand out for their high number of Firsts, with Modern Languages and History, alone or in various combinations, taking nine Firsts, and Physics three.

At the time of writing, twenty-two postgraduate students have completed their DPhils, with more expected to finish over the course of the summer. Of our Masters graduates, 32 per cent were awarded a distinction. It is worth commenting here on the significance of the postgraduate student community within College. Many alumni will remember from their time here that postgraduate students used to be a very small minority within College, but now they number some two hundred. The mix is very international, with over 50 per cent of our postgraduates coming from outside the UK, and they make a wonderful contribution to the life of the College, getting involved in a wide range of activities as well as maintaining a friendly welcome in the beautifully refurbished MCR, and continuing to take the lead in the success of Oriel Talks, which provides a fantastic window into the research interests of College members.

There are, as ever, some changes to record amongst the Fellowship and in senior offices this year. Patrick Farrell joined as a new Fellow in Mathematics last year. Two of our

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three Physics Fellows, Pedro Ferreira and Philip Stier, have left Oriel to take up senior research posts within the University, and Max Crispin, who has held a Research Fellowship at Oriel with funding from the charity Against Breast Cancer, has been promoted to a Chair at the University of Southampton. Our Chaplain, Robert Tobin, also leaves this summer to take up his new appointment as Vicar of the Church of St Mary and St John the Divine in Balham. We wish all of these colleagues the very best in their new roles and look forward to keeping in touch with them. At the same time, we look forward to welcoming the new colleagues who join the Governing Body. Two new Physics Fellows, Julien Devriendt and Andrew Wells, will join the College in Michaelmas Term, and the Fellowship will also be strengthened by the appointment of a new Fellow in Spanish and Linguistics, Víctor Acedo Matellán. The Venerable David Meara will kindly step in as Acting Chaplain while we recruit a permanent replacement for Robert Tobin.

Among the Senior Officers, Chemistry Fellow David Hodgson took over from Annette Volfing as Vice Provost in January. Francesco Manzini was succeeded as Senior Dean by Max Crispin, and Lynne Cox served as Tutor for Admissions while Katie Murphy was on a year’s Leverhulme Fellowship. The College owes a great debt of gratitude to all those who serve as College Officers alongside the many other claims on their time.

In addition to these changes, there are also a number of honours we can report.

In May of this year Jackson Senior Research Fellow in Biodiversity and Conservation Yadvinder Malhi was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, as was Honorary Fellow Alison Noble. John Armour, the Hogan Lovells Professor in Law and Finance, was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in July. The College has also appointed three new Honorary Fellows this year: the eminent historian Paul Preston CBE (1965), currently Professor of Contemporary Spanish Studies at LSE, and Robin Harland (1951) and John Albert (1956), both of whom have been recognised for their many years of service to the College, its fundraising, and the promotion of relationships with alumni.

As you will see from the obituaries section, sadly this year saw the loss of two former Fellows and one Honorary Fellow. Kurt Schoenenberger, Emeritus Fellow and former Secretary of the Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board (Oxford), was a Professorial Fellow at Oriel from 1987 until his retirement in 1991; sadly he passed away in November. Eminent neuroscientist Geoffrey Raisman, an Orielensis and Fellow in Medicine at Oriel between 1970 and 1974, sadly also died in January. Orielensis and Honorary Fellow Sir Ewen Fergusson (1951) passed away in April: after his time at Oriel and having played rugby at international level for Scotland, Ewen went on to a brilliant career in the Diplomatic Service, culminating in five years as British Ambassador in Paris.

In March we learned of the death of Mike Johnson (1979), still only in his fifties, who had given such service to the College and its fundraising. Mike’s funeral and memorial

The Oriel team for the Oxford Town and Gown 10k run

service conveyed his great love of Oriel, a reminder of the lasting impact of the interests and friendships that are forged in student days.

So what of the current range of student activities? It is often said that student interests go in phases and that a college can excel in only one thing at a time, but this year has been a powerful reminder of the number of different activities that are pursued to a high standard at Oriel. On the river, the Women’s 1st VIII achieved the Torpids headship in March, to great delight and celebration. This was a great achievement for the crew, most of whom had never rowed until they came to Oriel. The Men’s 1st VIII remain poised in second place ready for next year, and the Women’s 2nd VIII won Blades after achieving seven bumps in total. These Torpids results softened the blow of Eights Week, when this was not our year for victory. However, we still had a marvellous week watching the rowing in gorgeous sunshine with our supporters in very good voice.

In the meantime we have found a new event to dominate: for the second year running, Oriel fielded the largest team in the Oxford Town and Gown 10k run, which took place in May. This seems to have become a new tradition, and it is great to have an event in the calendar that brings together students, Fellows, staff and alumni to raise money for charity.

In addition to displays of sporting prowess, our students have been displaying their many artistic talents again this year in a variety of forms. Eve Finnie won the College’s Gower Memorial Creative Arts Prize, awarded every three years, and her winning painting is reproduced in this issue of the Oriel Record. Third Year English undergraduate Dominic Hand was awarded the University’s prestigious Newdigate Prize for Poetry. Previous winners have included Oscar Wilde and Andrew Motion, so he is in very good company. This year’s Garden Play, The Taming of the Shrew, took place in Eighth Week of Trinity Term and was greatly enjoyed by all who attended.

The College’s Visiting Musician this year was the distinguished mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly, who gave two wonderful masterclasses and a concert at the Holywell Music Room. The Michaelmas Term Champagne Concert featured an extraordinary child prodigy – composer, pianist and violinist Alma Deutscher, accompanied by her even younger sister Helen, the talented granddaughters of Orielensis Michael Steen (1965).

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The second Champagne Concert was a wonderful display of student, Fellow and alumni talent. This included the Oriel Choir, who have had a splendid year. Their Director David Maw deserves great credit for the standard of their music, which you can judge for yourselves as a CD of their music is now out.

These are just some of the highlights of student activity. The fact is that throughout the year there is always something going on, and those students who take the initiative to organise things deserve great credit. Particular thanks go to Peter Gent, MCR President, and Eoin Monaghan, JCR President, who have both done a superb job in helping to ensure that the student body has a good experience during their time here and that the College is always improving what it can offer.

Our students are, of course, the best ambassadors for the College, and when Open Days and the interview season come around, we benefit from a great team of student helpers.

As they show prospective applicants round the College, I am struck by the enthusiasm with which they proclaim the charms of Oriel, and the zeal with which they get across the fact that everyone is welcome here. This is further reinforced by our excellent Outreach programme, which has been led by Emma Bausch for five very successful years. The College’s programme is not limited to visiting schools and hosting visits. Last summer we ran a highly successful series of short residential programmes, funded by an Orielensis, which gave a taste of the tutorial experience to a group of high-performing sixth-formers from schools with little or no tradition of sending pupils to Oxford. Over the last few years we have seen considerable success in attracting to Oriel students who might not have thought of Oxford without these programmes: they must be one of the factors behind the 35 per cent jump we saw in candidates applying to Oriel last autumn, the largest increase in the University.

It has been a great pleasure to see so many Orielenses in College this year, returning to revisit old haunts and taking an interest in what we do. In addition to our usual programme, a couple of new events made their debut this year. In February, we held the first ‘Returners’ Dinner’, for which the previous summer’s graduates were invited back for a Saturday evening reunion. In April undergraduate Jessica Forsyth organised a College dinner to celebrate women, which was well attended by current Oriel women and quite a few men: Laura Dosanjh (1986) and Anna Sawbridge (2003) were kind enough to come and join us to talk about their career paths since College and we hope to build on this idea in future.

As you will see from our programme, there is a very rich selection of events to tempt you back to College, reflecting sports, music and the academic life of Oriel, as well as Gaudies and events to recognise donors. Most of these events are in Oxford or London, but we also try to go to meet Orielenses in other parts of the world and bring Oriel to them.

This year this included trips to Edinburgh, and a longer trip to Hong Kong and Singapore, which sadly I could not join due to a short illness. Two overseas trips are planned for the

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Bring your dog to work day

coming academic year, to the East and West Coasts of the US. Oriel is very fortunate to have such active and engaged support from its alumni.

Our students greatly value the careers advice and inspiration on offer from preceding generations. Those of us running the College are enormously in debt to many Orielenses who advise us and participate in our committees pro bono. And the whole College is hugely indebted to our many generous donors who have helped us to build the College’s increasing financial strength and to fund new developments.

This summer marks the culmination of a five-year fundraising cycle for which an ambitious £25 million target was set, and I am pleased to say that we will meet this target. This generosity makes a huge difference to what we can do and we are extremely grateful to those who contribute in this way. Hats off to the Development Office and to our Development Director Sean Power for achieving this milestone.

There are many other thank-yous to say after another year in which our administrative and domestic teams have again shown amazing professionalism and versatility. In addition to the many pressures of their day jobs, it is a sign of commitment to the College that so many of them volunteer to help in other ways beyond the call of duty. The Treasurer doubles as a coach for one of our rowing crews; the Domestic Bursar organised a ‘bring your dog to work’ day to provide stress-relieving amusement for our Finalists; the SCR Butler doubled as an actor in a play written by the French Fellow; the Librarian makes the most amazing cakes for staff celebrations. And on days when something unexpected happens, everyone joins in until the task is done. The College is very lucky to have such experienced and good-natured staff, and I thank them all for their hard work and team spirit.

I write this in the vacation, but by the time you read it the unstoppable round of busy College life will have resumed. A group I still think of as Freshers will be welcoming another group who really are Freshers, who will instantly start to make their mark in all sorts of ways. An older generation will be getting serious about Finals and making plans for what to do after that. It is an enormous privilege to be able to work with our students as they go through these important years, and also a privilege to get to know previous generations of alumni and hear about the achievements and activities that have followed their years at Oriel. As you know, I shall complete my five-year term as Provost next summer and I am looking forward to the things I will do after Oriel. But I shall also really savour my last year here, at the heart of this welcoming and beautiful College, working with our talented students and staff, and connected to a wonderful worldwide community of Orielenses.

Floreat Oriel!

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n June Mary Porter, most recently our Estates Assistant, retired after forty-eight years of service. Mary joined Oriel in 1969 and supported at least seven Treasurers or acting Treasurers. I distinctly remember the day very early in my time here when a question arose about the chancel roof of the University Church, which the College is obliged to maintain. Within five minutes the file with all the information about the fire that had destroyed the roof in 1946 was on my desk! Mary’s knowledge of the College, and estates matters in particular, will be much missed. I am enormously grateful to her for everything she did to help me over the last twelve years and for her years of dedicated service to the College. We marked Mary’s retirement with a lunch in Hall attended by past and present staff, Fellows and other academic staff, as well as College advisers and friends who worked with Mary over the years.

College financial management is a long-term game in which shorter-term budgeting and financial management play a vital role. The same can be said of maintaining our historic buildings while providing the best-possible facilities for our community. During the year we completed an update of the College masterplan, first written in 2008, and also commissioned a full survey of the condition of our buildings to identify the priorities for the next five years and implement a planned maintenance programme. This will be the culmination of efforts over the last forty years to bring maintenance of the fabric of the College up to date. However, the needs of a modern college continue to develop and for much of the last year we have been in discussion with Historic England about our proposals for redevelopment of the College kitchen and adjoining areas – the Brewhouse Project. Fortunately, by the end of Trinity Term I was able to report that Historic England had indicated they would not object to our proposals but as I write we are still waiting to hear the views of the City Council’s conservation officer.

Hopefully by the start of Michaelmas Term the final design process will be well under way prior to submitting a planning application before the end of this year.

Managing a perpetual fund is very long term but excellent returns over the short to medium term are always a goal and I am very pleased to report that we have had another good year. This has been driven by the general strength of stock markets but also by our particular property holdings. Our fund managers have done well during the year, with particularly strong performance of the equity portfolio managed by Baillie Gifford.

In December we acquired another property in Rectory Road and in February we completed the sale of our largest asset, Endsleigh Business Park, realising a significant gain over book value. Our agent in South London has been an active manager of our portfolio and has continued to deliver excellent capital and income returns. We now have an asset manager for our Central Oxford property and good progress has been made in implementing our strategy to add value while releasing space for our own use in the

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medium term. Elsewhere in Oxford site improvement work at the Oriel Meadow in Iffley continues with the planting of a further forty-nine First World War memorial trees.

As the College closed for Christmas I found myself going to the rescue of a visiting graduate student in the Politics Department. Albert Kabasele had arrived in Oxford with great determination about two weeks previously so that he could complete his doctoral thesis (at the Catholic University of Kinshasa in the Republic of the Congo) under the guidance of Dr Teresa Bejan, in spite of the cancellation of his funding. When I collected Albert from some rather unsuitable accommodation he had almost run out of money, was facing a bleak Christmas and was very uncertain about how he was going to continue his studies. Oriel provided him with accommodation and emergency funds and I was delighted that at the start of Hilary Term the Governing Body agreed to award Albert a Seton Watson Bursary, which enabled him to stay in Oxford until April to complete his studies on John Locke. He hopes to defend his doctoral thesis in Kinshasa in December.

In March I made another joint marketing trip to China with our summer school partner CBL and its parent, Worldstrides. I visited Hong Kong, Macau, Shanghai and Singapore, meeting new institutions and building on some of the partnerships we have established in recent years with leading Chinese universities, including Peking University.

While in Hong Kong I was pleased to be able to stand in for the Provost at a dinner with Orielenses and their partners and, with a last-minute change of itinerary, do the same in Singapore during the first Oxford Alumni Weekend there.

Our conference and hospitality business remains strong, with continued growth of summer schools and our bed and breakfast business, which fills many of the gaps in room occupancy during vacations. The contribution to our net revenue is equivalent to adding over a third to the College’s investment portfolio. The Domestic Bursar and his team are to be congratulated for this excellent performance. I thank him, the other senior managers and all College staff for their efforts over the last year.

As is traditional, I will finish with rowing! In February I was honoured to drive the coach’s launch for the maiden outing of the new 1st VIII, the Jonathan Close-Brooks. In April I returned as coach of the men’s 3rd VIII. However, we struggled to get many outings with a consistent crew, and lack of personnel meant extending my duties to substituting in the boat itself on the third day of Eights – an epic row over very close to my 40th anniversary of winning an oar as a Fresher at the other place! Unfortunately, by rowing over every day the boat was actually the College’s most successful men’s crew this year. I’m sure OCBC will be back to its true form in 2018. Floreat Oriel!

Wilf Stephenson Treasurer

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riel Chapel continues to develop its mission as a place for spiritual exploration, intellectual inquiry and social engagement. Under the leadership of the Director of Music, Dr David Maw, the Chapel Choir offers excellent music at Choral Evensong and College Eucharists, while the student Bible Clerks help to lead the worship and provide a warm welcome. In addition to the usual round of term-time activities, Gaudy evensongs and pastoral offices for old members also remain a feature of Chapel life. Particularly on occasions such as these, one is reminded of the Chapel’s role not just in serving present members but also in binding together generations of Orielenses in a common purpose. This aspect of the Chapel’s identity is likewise underlined by the Commemoration of Benefactors service, which takes place every Michaelmas Term in late October. On this occasion, Dr Bill Wood (Fellow in Theology) delivered an excellent sermon on the theologian John Hick, who did postgraduate study at Oriel from 1948 to 1950 and died in 2012. A few days later we marked All Souls’ Day with the customary Requiem Mass, at which the Chantry List was read aloud, along with the names of deceased loved ones of current members of College. In early November the Annual John Collins Lecture was delivered by the psychiatrist and politician Lord Alderdice, who as leader of the Alliance Party took a central role in negotiating Northern Ireland’s Good Friday Agreement in 1998. The purpose of the John Collins Society is to encourage Oriel students to explore the relationship between Christianity and contemporary intellectual, ethical and cultural concerns. To that end, Lord Alderdice offered some inspiring reflections on the way Christian faith has informed his own approach to mental health and social healing.

A few days later, on Remembrance Day, a large gathering of staff, students and Fellows met around the Great War Memorial in the Pantin Library for the 11am observance. And then, as always, the final week of term was taken up with carol services: one for College members and their guests on Sunday of Eighth Week, and another on Wednesday on behalf of St Mungo’s charity for the homeless.

After the Christmas vacation, Hilary Term followed its usual pattern of feast days and fasts. In late January we marked Holocaust Memorial Day with an Evensong address by Hindy Najman, Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture, who spoke on the title Redemptive Reading and Therapeutic Time. In a practical effort to recognise the increasingly pluralistic nature of College life, a multi-faith room has also been established, located in what used to be the Choir’s robing room. At the same time, the Chapel remains central to the celebration of Oriel’s Christian foundations, and as such we celebrated the College’s dedication feast of Candlemas with a service of Festal Evensong on 2 February.

Among the distinguished visitors we welcomed as preachers in the course of Hilary Term were the Bishop of Ely, Stephen Conway, and the Dean of Southwark, Andrew Nunn.

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Meanwhile, the Merton Street Vocations Group continued to serve as a forum for students from Oriel and surrounding colleges to explore the possibility of lay or ordained ministry in the Church of England. Towards the close of term, the Chapel community prepared for the start of Lent with our traditional pancake supper on Shrove Tuesday, followed the next day by the Ash Wednesday liturgy with the imposition of ashes. Then, on Sunday of Eighth Week, the Archdeacon of Hackney, the Venerable Elizabeth Adekunle, delivered the University Sermon for the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary (Lady Day).

Trinity Term always brings with it both excitement and apprehension, as students prepare for exams, boat races, garden plays and a range of other activities. In the Chapel it began this year on a cheerful note, with a general focus on Eastertide and the marking of St George’s Day in particular. Chaplain’s Tea continued as usual on Wednesdays, offering a bit of respite from the grind of exam revision and thesis writing. In Fifth Week, we were treated to an entertaining Evensong sermon by Orielensis Marcus Walker (1999), who reflected on his ecumenical work as Associate Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome.

Then, on the morning of Ascension Day, the parishioners of the University Church ‘beat the bounds’ at Oriel, after which the children present were treated to ice cream in the Hall.

A few hours later a group of Choristers and Bible Clerks climbed the gatehouse tower at lunchtime and sang hymns to the crowd assembled below in Front Quad. In the evening Oriel hosted our neighbours from Corpus Christi College in a joint Choral Eucharist followed by a shared dinner. On Whit Sunday we welcomed the Revd Dr William Lamb as our preacher. Dr Lamb took up the post of Vicar of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin in early May, an appointment in which Oriel had a role as the church’s patron. Then, on the last Sunday of the academic year, we said farewell to departing members of the Chapel community at the annual Garden Party and Leavers’ Service. In the final week of term we also hosted our friends from Keble College in a joint celebration of the Feast of Corpus Christi.

The last few weeks of term were especially poignant for me personally, as this was my final term at Oriel. After seven years as College Chaplain, I will be moving on to London to become vicar of Balham in the Diocese of Southwark. The Venerable David Meara (1967) has kindly agreed to serve as Acting Chaplain in Michaelmas Term 2017, while the College undertakes the process of recruiting a new Chaplain. It has been a privilege to serve this community and I shall leave Oxford with many happy memories.

For this and much else, I give thanks for Oriel and pray for its continued health and wellbeing. Floreat Oriel!

The Revd Dr Robert Tobin Chaplain

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CHAPLAIN’S VISIT TO WESTBURY ON TRYM

The Chaplain is pictured here with the vicar, Father André Hart, alongside Bishop Carpenter’s tomb

On 7 May 2016, the Chaplain preached at Holy Trinity Church, Westbury on Trym, Bristol, at a service marking the anniversary of the baptism of Bishop John Carpenter in that church in 1399. Carpenter (1399– 1476) later became a Fellow, Provost, and benefactor of Oriel. He also rebuilt the church in Westbury as part of his re-foundation of the College there.

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MEMORIAL SERVICE AND MARRIAGES

On 18 June 2017, in the College Chapel, a memorial service took place for Michael Johnson (1979), with the Chaplain officiating.

On 19 August 2017, in the College Chapel, Faye Buckingham (2007) was married to Jamie Wolstenhulme, with the Chaplain officiating.

On 1 September 2017, in the College Chapel, Rachel Turner (2004) was married to Richard Duvall, with the Acting Chaplain officiating.

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PREACHERS AT EVENSONG

Michaelmas Term 2016 9 October The Chaplain, Choosing or chosen?

16 October The Very Revd Dr Frances Ward, The fullness of time 23 October Dr William Wood, Remembering John Hick (Commemoration of

Benefactors) 30 October The Revd Canon Martin Stephenson, Which way are you looking?

6 November The Revd Mike Todd, Loving troubled saints 13 November Professor Helen King, Living with lions 20 November The Revd Skye Denno, Christ the King, a migrant servant 27 November College Carol Service Hilary Term 2017 15 January The Chaplain, Come and see 22 January Professor Hindy Najman, Redemptive reading and therapeutic time

(Holocaust Remembrance Day observed) 29 January The Rt Revd Stephen Conway, Is celebrity ever Godly?

5 February The Revd William Chatterton, Both – however hard 12 February Miss Alexandra Harrod, Redeeming our time?

19 February Dr Zachary Guiliano, The image of God in the symphony of scripture 26 February The Very Revd Andrew Nunn, Catching the mantle 5 March The Venerable Elizabeth Adekunle, University Sermon for the

Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary (Lady Day) Trinity Term 2017 23 April The Chaplain, What goes before you 30 April The Revd Chris Moody, Temples and bodies 7 May The Revd Dr Helen Orchard, Habitations and foundations 14 May The Revd Professor Teresa Morgan, Life class 21 May The Revd Marcus Walker (1999), Playing together nicely: Christians

in a secular age 28 May The Revd Dr Jennifer Strawbridge, Signs of God’s Kingdom:

Snakes and poison 4 June The Revd Dr William Lamb, Grace abiding 11 June The Chaplain, With wings as eagles

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DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR’S NOTES

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he annual Oriel Record affords me the opportunity to celebrate another great year for Development at Oriel, and to thank Orielenses and friends of the College for their continued help and support. The College continues to run events throughout the year, encouraging Orielenses to come together, in Oriel or further afield. Particular highlights this year included a celebration of rowing at Oriel at the alumni weekend in September, dinners in Hong Kong and Singapore hosted by the Treasurer, dinners in Edinburgh and London (the latter at Lambeth Palace), and a lunch for those who matriculated in or before 1952. This is in addition to the usual round of Gaudies and other events throughout the year. We also launched this year a survey of Orielenses, to find out from you what you like, don’t like, would like to see more of, or less of. As you read this we will be poring over the results which I hope will help to improve and grow the College’s relationship with its alumni and friends.

By the time you read these notes Oriel will have closed Phase Two of the 2026 Campaign, with a target of £25 million over the past five years. This has been one of the most successful fundraising campaigns of any Oxford college in recent years, has allowed the College to grow and develop in many diverse ways, and also achieves the original target of £45 million by 2026, set in 2003. You will be hearing more about this in the coming months, but I want to take this opportunity to sincerely thank all those who have given financial support to Oriel and helped us to achieve this fantastic goal.

This past year, too, has been a very successful one for Oriel fundraising. This year, £3.84 million has been raised by the College in new gifts and pledges, including over £1.26 million in legacy gifts. Of this, £95,000 has been given for the College Environment, £438,000 for Student Support, £550,000 for Teaching and Research, and £2.75 million received as unrestricted gifts.

Major donations have proved essential to the success of fundraising efforts this year. A total of twenty-three organisations or individuals have made gifts of £10,000 or more between 1 August 2016 and 31 July 2017, compared to ten last year. Those who donate £20,000 or more to the College over their lifetime are admitted to membership of the Raleigh Society; those who give over £100,000 are admitted to the Provost’s Court. There are currently 174 members of the Raleigh Society, with five new members joining this year and twenty-five members of the Provost’s Court.

Legacies continue to provide an important source of funds for Oriel. All those who formally pledge a legacy to the College are invited to join the Adam de Brome Society. There were eight new legacy pledges made this year, bringing the total of known pledges to 288.

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College. Full Members give ÂŁ1,326 a year, Young Members give ÂŁ132.60 a year.

Membership for this year stands at 156.

This year 910 individuals chose to give financial support to Oriel, for which all here at the College are incredibly grateful. With your support Oriel continues to thrive and grow.

Floreat Oriel!

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DONORS TO ORIEL

THE PROVOST’S COURT

The Provost’s Court recognises those who have made the substantial contribution of £100,000 or more to the College over the years. These donors have shown an outstanding level of commitment to the College and are invited to an annual meeting with the Provost to hear about and discuss the College’s future plans.

Sir John Ford Mr R.G.N. Nabarro Mr D.F.J. Paterson Mr J.R. Shannon Mr J.H. Cook Mr D.M.C. Steen Mr R. Stainer Mr K. Jones The Very Revd Professor I.R. Torrance Mr T.C. Kelleher

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Mr J. Mellon Mr A. Stafford-Deitsch Mr T.B. Bull Mr R.R. Warburton MBE Mr J.P. Boden Mr D.N. Lyon Dr M.G.A. Machin Sir John Elliott Mr K. Sharer Six anonymous donors

1975 1975 1977 1977 1980 1980 1984 1990

THE RALEIGH SOCIETY

Oriel’s Raleigh Society is open to all supporters of the College with cumulative giving of £20,000 or more. It aims to enable a more direct and constructive engagement between the College’s major donors and the Fellows and provide a better forum for matters of mutual interest.

Sir John Ford Mr A.E. Bond Dr D.J. Reid Mr M.B. Gilpin Dr R.M. Whittington Mr P.E. Hustwitt Mr A.B. Champniss Professor T.H.B. Symons Sir Francis Ferris Sir Michael McWilliam Mr B. Marson-Smith

1939 1943 1948 1949 1949 1950 1951 1951 1952 1952 1952

Sir Bryan Nicholson GBE Mr A.T. Jennings Sir Michael Wright Dr A.A. Campbell Mr P.D. Evans Mr M. Harvey Dr N.J. Smith Mr M.A. Ager Mr J.M. Wilson Sir John Baker Mr K.A. McKinlay

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Mr G.B. Tanner Mr A.J. Wiggins Mr G.C. Bonar Mr W.T. Carnegie Mr C.S. McDonald Mr P. Mortimer Mr G.F. Naylor Mr G.B. Spilman Dr The Hon. A.H. Todd Mr M.L. Gordon OBE Mr G.R.G. Graham Mr D.F. Hutt Sir Stephen Oliver QC The Revd W. Hill Brown III Mr R.G. Edge Dr J.S. Deech Mr I. Hardcastle Mr N. Lindsay-Fynn Sir Roger Sands The Hon. J. Farley QC Professor R.G.H. Robertson Mr R.H. Winter Dr M.P. Martineau Mr R.G.N. Nabarro Mr D.F.J. Paterson Dr J.E. Waddell Mr M.A. Kirkham N.W.L. Maclean of Pennycross CMG Mr J.R. Shannon Sir David Arculus Mr R.M. Bancroft Mr B.H. Colman Mr J.H. Cook Mr M.C.C. Goolden Mr B.M. Leary Mr D.M.C. Steen Mr D.M. Tapley Dr D.W. Costain The Revd W. Eakins Sir Crispin Davis Mr N.G. Juckes

1956 1956 1957 1957 1957 1957 1957 1958 1958 1959 1959 1959 1959 1960 1960 1961 1961 1961 1961 1962 1962 1962 1963 1963 1963 1963 1964 1964 1964 1965 1965 1965 1965 1965 1965 1965 1965 1966 1966 1967 1967

Mr B.W.J. Kingston Mr P. Poloniecki Mr R. Stainer Mr P.D. Stephenson Mr P.J. Freeman Mr V.L. Sankey Mr H.D. Bryant The Hon Sir Vivian Ramsey Mr D. Kennett Mr D.P.J. Robey Mr N.M. Stevens Mr C.G. Thring Mr A.S. Crawford Mr N.M. Davey Mr K. Jones Mr T.M. Seymour Mr K.J. Smith Mr R.A. Werner Mr S. Canning Dr C.G. Clarke CBE DL Mr W.P. Davy Mr S.J.N. Heale Mr R.G.G. Osborne Mr C.M. Reilly Mr M.J. Stanton Dr A.R. Warren Mr B.N. Dickie Mr G.L. Duncan Mr S.J.R. Philpott The Very Revd Professor I.R. Torrance Mr J.S. Varley Mr A. Williams Mr E. Cameron Watt Mr S.D.R. Chick Mr T.C. Kelleher Mr A.J.D. Leasor Mr J. Mellon Dr N. Parkhouse Mr A.P. Sellors Mr A. Stafford-Deitsch Mr J.G.M. Webster

1967 1967 1967 1967 1968 1968 1969 1969 1970 1970 1970 1970 1971 1971 1971 1971 1971 1971 1972 1972 1972 1972 1972 1972 1972 1972 1973 1973 1974 1974 1974 1974 1975 1975 1975 1975 1975 1975 1975 1975 1975

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Mr J.M. Bray Mr T.B. Bull Mr D.P. Kanak Mr O.A.C. Quick Mr P.L. Stobart Mr R. Warburton MBE Mr M.E. Bentley Mr N.F.J. Mendoza Mr C.A.L. Skinner Mr N.S. Bramwell Mr D.H. Carr Mr R.M. Johnson Mr J.M. Warnaby Mr J.P. Boden Professor S. Bramwell Mr D.N. Lyon Mr A.D.G. McMillan Dr D.G. Robinson Mr W.M. Treasure Mr P.N.A. Ward Mr G.A. Chipchase Mr M.M. Cresswell-Turner Mr D.M. Richardson Mr M.A. Rosen Mr R.E. White Mr D.M. Brooks Mr M.C. Bye Mr J.C. Dho Mr J.C. Durant Mr A.T. Jones Mr R.C. MacDonald Dr F.D. Schubert Mr J.W. Sharman Mr P.H. Sheng Mr G.N. Austin Mr D.A. Lush Mr M.W.M.R. MacPhee Mr C. Samek QC Mr N.J.R. Badman Mr R.A. De Basto Mr S. Grigg Dr M.G.A. Machin Mr C.J. Williams

1976 1977 1977 1977 1977 1977 1978 1978 1978 1979 1979 1979 1979 1980 1980 1980 1980 1980 1980 1980 1981 1981 1981 1981 1981 1982 1982 1982 1982 1982 1982 1982 1982 1982 1983 1983 1983 1983 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984

Mr P.S. Doherty Mr R.J. Evans Miss D.L. Smith Mr J.M.D. Thomson Dr A. Borer Mr P.S.J. O’Donoghue Miss T.J. Quinn Mr B.P. Wisden Mr P.D.N. Kennedy Mr P.J.C. Warren Mr T.H. Coates Miss S. Low-Kamdani Mr R.M. Carson Miss C.V. Toogood Mr D. Tsang Mr H. Tung Mr C.N. Chan Mr T.B.J. Anderson Mr A.D. Whittaker Mr J.M.L. Leong Mr J.J. Bozzino Dr J. Pfaudler Mr M. Khuram Lord P.C. Harris of Peckham Sir Derek Morris Mr C.H.S. Payne One anonymous donor

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THE 1326 SOCIETY The 1326 Society was founded to recognise, with gratitude, all those who make a generous annual gift to the College, thereby helping to support our three key areas of need: student financial support, teaching and research and restoration and refurbishment of our College buildings. Full membership is open to all those who give £1,326 or more per year. Those within fifteen years of matriculation qualify for young membership with an annual gift of £132.60 per year.

Full Members Mr A.C. Morrison Dr A.M. Roe Mr P.E. Hustwitt Mr A.P.D.H. Collett Sir Michael McWilliam Mr A.T. Jennings Dr A.A. Campbell † Dr P.C.H. Mitchell Sir John Baker † Mr Paul Mortimer Mr G.F. Naylor † The Hon. J.D. Brookes Mr S.P. Marsh Sir Stephen Oliver QC The Revd W. Hill Brown III Dr J.S. Deech Professor D.R. Stokes Mr R.M. Bancroft Mr J.H. Cook † Mr M.C.C. Goolden Mr D.M.C. Steen † Mr R.A. Wood Dr D.W. Costain The Revd W. Eakins Mr P.K. Jenkins Mr G.K. Wilson Mr M.H. Denhart The Hon Sir Vivian Ramsey Mr C.G. Thring † Mr D.A. Cox Mr S. Canning Mr C.C.A. Crouch Mr K.V. Gregory

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Mr S.J.N. Heale † Mr R.G.G. Osborne † Mr B.N. Dickie Dr D.R. Gross Mr J.R.B. McBeath The Very Revd Professor I.R. Torrance Mr A. Williams Mr G.D. Harris Mr J. Mellon † Dr N. Parkhouse Mr A.P. Sellors Mr A. Stafford-Deitsch Mr J.M. Bray Dr W.P. Ledward † Mr P.R. Romans Sir Parry Hughes-Morgan Mr N.F.J. Mendoza † Mr M.D.J. Prior Mr C.A.L. Skinner † Mr C.H.A. Wilson Mr J.P. Clift Mr N.P. Evans Mr R.M. Johnson Mr J.S. McIntyre Mr S. MacKinnon OBE Mr R.J. McLeod Mr R.I.S. Meyer Mr J.B. Sunley Mr W.M. Treasure Mr G.P. Tyler Mr P.N.A. Ward Mr M.M. Cresswell-Turner Dr H.R.G. Gibbon

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Dr J. Tahir-Kheli Mr J.C. Dho Mr J.C. Durant † Mr N.C. O’Brien Mr D.R.M. Redfern Mr G.N. Austin Mr M.H. Carnegie Mr A.J. House Mr D.A. Lush Mr M.W.M.R. MacPhee Mr G.D. Eckersley Mr E.A.N. Fergusson Mr C.J. Williams Miss D.L. Smith Mr H.L. Taylor Mr J.M.D. Thomson Mr P.S. J O’Donoghue † Miss T.J. Quinn Miss R. Lawson Mr M.T.D. Gilpin Mr C.C.R. Luthi Mr C.J.J. Bonas Mr T.H. Coates Mr K.S. Ghata-Aura Mr R.J. Hirst Mr N. Lovell Mr A.R.J. Halstead Mr C.A. Rowley Dr R.A. Saldanha † Mr P.M. Dixon Mr G.W. Pennock Miss C.V. Toogood Mr H. Tung Mr J.F. Saunders Miss T.A. Scott Mr T.B.J. Anderson Mr G.A. Chapman QC Mr S. Cottrell † Mr A.D. Whittaker † Mr W.E. Breeze Mr J.A. Redfern Mr R. MacPhee Mr M.F. Westcott †

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Dr A. Lighten Mrs H. Nicholson Mr C.H.S. Payne Mr K. Sharer Ms M.P. Wallace Young Members Mr M.A.N. Boullé Mr R.J.M. Gibbons Mr T. Lloyd-Evans Miss C.E. Parry † Mr C. Schmiedel † Miss A.V. Wilkes † Mr T.J. Akin † Mr A.E. Laverty Mr D. McCloskey † Mrs L.N.K. Murphy Dr M.G. Dalivalle Mr G.E. Jacques † Miss C.E. La Malfa Miss M. Nodale Mr J.D. Wright † Mr R.J. Ejsmond-Frey Mr F.T. Hardee Mr A.L. Nish Mr M.C. Quinn Ms Y. Sun Miss C.L. Vasilescu Mr A.S.D. Wright Dr F.C.P. Leach Dr T.L. McKee Miss H. Rowling Miss C.E. Rutter Mr T.F. Webb Mr J. Wigley Dr D.R. Woods Dr J.W. Klingelhoefer Ms C.C. Savundra Miss R.F.R. Clarke Mr M. Price Mr W. Sheldon Mr F.D.R. Keating Mr S.Peet

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continued 2008 2009 2009

Miss E. Limer Mr J.A. Dunnmon Miss J. Wang

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TORTOISE BLADES The Blades scheme was launched by the Tortoise Club in spring 2016 as part of a campaign to raise £20,000 a year in sponsorship for the Oriel College Boat Club. Tortoises with a regular annual commitment of £100 or more are invited to become Blades.

Mr J.M.D. Hughes Sir Francis Ferris Sir Michael Wright The Revd M.E.J. Garnett Dr M. Griffiths Mr J.A. Parkes Professor Dr R.J. Lee Mr T.V. Higgins OBE Mr M.R.F. Taylor Mr D.F.J. Paterson Mr D.G. Shove Professor D.R. Stokes Mr M.C.C. Goolden Mr A.R.J. Hall Mr D.M.C. Steen Mr M.J.T. Chamberlayne Mr N.G. Juckes Mr A.H.M. Kelsey Mr M.C.J. Paterson Mr R. Stainer Mr P.D. Stephenson Mr M.P. Richmond-Coggan Mr J.E. Bolt Mr P.J.S. Grove Mr J.D. Crawley Mr A.P.B. Dawson Mr T. Shepheard-Walwyn Mr C.G. Thring Mr N.M. Davey Mr C.M. Reilly

1950 1952 1953 1955 1958 1958 1959 1960 1962 1963 1964 1964 1965 1965 1965 1967 1967 1967 1967 1967 1967 1968 1969 1969 1970 1970 1970 1970 1971 1972

Mr D.M. Griffiths Dr D.R. Gross Mr J.R.B. McBeath Mr P.S.T. Wright Mr D.R.H. Beak Mr J.S. Macfarlane Major G.R.N. Holland Mr P.J. Macdonald Dr T.E.J. Hems Mr G.N. Austin Mr E.N. Gilmartin Mr C. Samek QC Dr M.G.A. Machin Mr J.M. Snell Mr V.J. Warner Mr A.D. Ward Dr R.A. Hull Mr C.H.E. Bell Mr R.J. Hirst Miss C.V. Toogood Mr T.B.J. Anderson Dr F.F.A. Lepetit Mr W.E. Breeze Dr K.D. Nawrotzki Mrs E.J. Watkins Miss W.E. Armstrong Mr P.W. Dunbar Dr A.J. Robbie Dr V. Vijayakumar Dr O.M. Williams

1973 1973 1973 1973 1974 1974 1979 1981 1982 1983 1983 1983 1984 1984 1984 1985 1986 1988 1989 1991 1993 1993 1995 1995 1997 1998 1998 1998 1998 2001

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Mr T.J. Akin Mr D. McCloskey Mr J.D. Wright Mr R.F.D. Sykes Mr D. Huebler Ms C.C. Savundra Mr M. Price Mr W. Sheldon Mr S. Peet Mr G. Chapman Mr B.R. Mansfield

2002 2002 2003 2004 2006 2006 2007 2007 2008 2009 2009

Miss B. Fryer Dr C.L. Knight Dr M.C.G. Lau Mr C. Arnold Mr H. Bigland Miss E. Burdett Miss A. Carter Mr S. Boljevic Mr E. Carroll Mr S.J.T. Salt One anonymous donor

2010 2010 2010 2011 2011 2012 2012 2014 2015 2015

DONORS TO ORIEL DURING THE YEAR

Oriel is most grateful to all those who have donated to the College during the year, whether by single gift or regular donation. Gifts received after 31 July 2017 will be recorded in the next Oriel Record. Every effort has been made to ensure that this list is accurate; please contact us if you believe there has been an omission.

1938 Mr J.S. Grindrod

1944 Mr D.S. Dearlove 1950 Dr J.M.D. Hooper* †

Mr G.G.C. Raymond-Barker

1945 Mr D.B. Vernon †

1946 Dr E.M.P. Brett †

1951 1947 The Revd Prebendary

A.T. Budgett †

1948 Dr W.N. Brown †

Mr B. George †

Mr D.B. Hassell †

Mr A.B. Moore †

Mr A.C. Morrison †

Dr E.A. Mortis † 1952

Dr A.M. Roe †

1949 Mr D.F. Corcos

Mr P.W. Rumble †

Dr R.M. Whittington †

Mr J.A. Blackwell †

Mr B.R. Escott Cox, QC † Mr J.M.D. Hughes †

Mr P.E. Hustwitt † 1953 Mr M.L. Nyman †

Mr D.A. Symington †

The Revd M.C.

Gowdey †

Professor C.B. Handy † 1954 Mr M.C. Hanson †

Mr A.C.S. Jennings †

Mr G.H. Pickles †

Two anonymous

donors

Mr C.J.F. Arnander †

Mr A.P.D.H. Collett † Dr W. Cummings †

Sir Francis Ferris †

Mr W.P. Kirkman †

Sir Michael McWilliam † Professor H.S. Micklem † Mr D. White Mr E. Glover † Mr J. Humphreys Mr J.R.L. Wells † Mr D. Wilson † Sir Michael Wright † Mr M.J.L. Armstrong † Dr A.A. Campbell † Mr L.J. Deyong The Revd C.N. Lovell † Mr M.J. Minton † Mr W.J. Singleton † Mr G.F. Skinner † Dr N.J. Smith Professor J.F. Ward Professor P.D.J.

Weitzman Mr H.R. Wilkinson †

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1955

1956

1957

1958

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Mr M.A. Ager † Mr A.R. Blazey † Mr G.R.H. Bredin Mr C.J. Bright † The Revd M.E.J. Garnett † The Revd G.B. Gauntlett † The Revd M.P. Hirons † Dr A.M. Macbeth † Mr D.J. McKie † Dr P.C.H. Mitchell Dr J.W. Rutter † Mr A.D.J. Turner †

Mr J.T.G. Andrew † 1959 Sir John Baker †

Mr P.B. Bell †

Mr R.F. Busby †

Mr D.R. Curtis †

Mr S.W. Fremantle †

Mr A.F. Sherlock †

Mr A.J. Wiggins †

Mr G.C. Bonar †

Mr W.T. Carnegie †

Mr J.B. Hamilton †

Mr D.C. Hartridge

Mr C.S. McDonald † 1960 Mr P. Mortimer †

Mr G.F. Naylor †

Mr R.S.G. Sides †

Professor M.J.

Underhill †

Mr P.A. Walton †

The Revd Professor

H.S. Wentz*

Dr R.L. Bailey †

Mr W. Bellingham †

Mr M.S. Brown

Mr D.H.M. Dalrymple † Mr R.W. Grant †

Dr M.H. Griffiths

Professor Dr R.W.

Hanning †

Mr M.F. Irvine †

Mr C.J. Lewis † 1961 Mr D.T. Miller

Mr R.J.R. Owen

Mr J.A. Parkes †

Mr M.L. Popofsky* †

Mr H.P. Powell †

Professor W.F. Ryan †

Dr The Hon. A.H. Todd † The Revd J.R.G. Watson Mr D.N. Whitwam †

Mr A.J.C. Britton

Dr K. Bromley † 1962 The Hon. J.D. Brookes † Mr M.L. Gordon OBE †

Mr G.R.G Graham †

Mr D.F. Hutt †

Mr M.B. Jones

Professor R.J. Lee †

Mr S.P. Marsh †

Sir Stephen Oliver QC † Mr C.H. Virgo † 1963 Mr R.A.S. Whitfield †

Mr G.F. Broom †

The Revd W.H. Brown III † Judge D.M.A. Bryant †

Mr R.E.H. Coles †

Mr R.G. Edge †

The Revd D.J. Ellington † Dr C.J.V. Fox †

Mr W.N.

Harrell Smith IV † 1964 The Revd A.J. Heagerty † Mr T.V. Higgins OBE

Mr R.D. O’Neill*

Mr J.A. Perry †

Mr R. Rainbow †

Mr J.H. Robinson †

Canon P.J. Stephens † Mr J.C.G. Strachan † Professor C.E. Webb Mr D.C.W. Adams † Professor T.O. Aro † Mr A.H. Brooker † Mr P.R. Daniels † Dr J.S. Deech † Mr I. Hardcastle † Dr R.T. Hughes Mr C.N.D. Maitland † Sir Roger Sands † Dr G. Vella-Coleiro † Mr J.B. Whitty † Mr J.P.B. Armstrong † Dr J.M. Beck Mr D. Bromwich † Mr F.E.K. Mercer Mr P.J. Nicholson † Professor R.G.H. Robertson Mr M.R.F. Taylor Mr R.H. Winter † Mr E.H. Biffin † Mr D.S.I. Elliot † Mr R.G. Humble Mr R.A. Kealy Dr N.D.N. Measor † Mr R.G.N. Nabarro Mr D.F.J. Paterson Mr W.J.T. Plender † Dr J.E. Waddell † One anonymous donor Mr G.W. Bradnum † Mr R.A. Campbell † Mr T. Green † Dr J. Houston † Mr J.S. Lane OBE Mr R.E.I. Newton † Dr D. O’Day †

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1965

1966

Mr J.S. Rigge Professor C.F.B. Sanderson Mr J.R. Shannon † Mr D.G. Shove † Professor D.R. Stokes Dr M.S.J. Wells Dr D.C. Wilkinson † One anonymous donor Mr C.J. Arney † Mr R.M. Bancroft † Mr B.H. Belfield Professor R.G. Bevan † Mr G.A. Browning Esq † Mr D.I.R. Bruce † Mr B.H. Colman † Mr J.H. Cook † Mr R.E. Davies † Mr J.P. Ellis † Mr D.G. Fletcher Mr N. Forrest † Mr M.C.C. Goolden † Mr A.R.J. Hall Mr B.M. Leary † Professor D.D.W. McCalla † Dr J.J. Morrissey Mr R.A. Newsom † Mr J.D. Short † Dr K.R. Smith Mr D.M.C. Steen † Mr J.L. Taylor Dr I.J. Tickle † Mr R.A. Wood † Mr J.C.P. Amos † Mr D.J. Browning † Dr D.W. Costain The Revd W. Eakins † Dr R.G. Edwards † Mr J.K. Hargreaves † Mr P.K. Jenkins

1967

1968

Mr D.S. Macpherson † The Revd Canon D.G. Meara † Mr F.E. Nicholson † Mr N.P.W. Park † Mr A.F. Rawstorne † Mr D.J. Reburn † Mr P.W. Thomas † Mr M.T. Tobert † Mr R.D. Williams † Mr M.T. Wright † Dr C.J. Young † Mr R.J. Allen Mr P.W. Burgess † Mr C.J. Butterworth Mr M.J.T. Chamberlayne † Mr M.C. Davison † Mr P.J. Hopley † Mr N.G. Juckes † Mr A.H.M. Kelsey The Revd Canon J.L. Morgan Mr P.J. Mulqueen † Mr M.C.J. Paterson Mr C.C. Payton † Mr R.N. Reeve † Mr R. Stainer † Mr P.D. Stephenson Mr C.G. Treasure † Mr G.K. Wilson † Two anonymous donors Mr A.P. Brown Mr J.W. Cockshott † Mr D. Collison † Mr P. Drew † Mr E.J. Ellwood † Mr P.R. Forrester Lieutenant Colonel M.J.D. Forster †

1969

1970

1971

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Sir David Manning † Mr D. Marshall Mr M.P. Richmond-Coggan † Mr M. Blades Mr J.E .Bolt Mr V.G.B. Cushing † Mr M.H. Denhart Mr P.J.S. Grove † Professor A. O’Neill † Professor G.D.E. Philip † Mr C.W. Phillips † The Hon Sir Vivian Ramsey † Mr J.M.L. Scott † Mr M.G. Stainsby* † Mr J.H. Stilwell † Dr I.A. Stuart † Mr S.N. Wood † One anonymous donor Mr B.H. Allen † Dr J.B. Campbell † Mr J.D. Crawley † Mr A.P.B. Dawson † Mr R.I. Gilliver † Mr S. Guffogg † Mr S. Maine † Mr P.E. Mason † Dr C.O. Record † Mr D.P.J. Robey † Dr T.M. Robinson † Mr S.R. Schwartz Mr T. Shepheard-Walwyn Mr N.M. Stevens † Mr A.L. Sutch † Mr C.G. Thring † One anonymous donor Mr L. Abbie † The Revd P.M. Arnold Dr M.R. Attwood †

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1972

1973

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Mr N.M. Davey The Hon. M.P.F. Grant † Mr M.L. Kahn Mr D.N. Martin † Mr G.E. Morris † Mr R.H.M. Poole † Mr M.H. Rosenbaum † Mr K.J. Smith † Mr C.J.G. Sykes † Mr N.F. Williams † Professor F.C. Beiser † Mr R.E. Boden † Mr S. Canning † Mr C.P.T. Cantlay † Mr C.C.A. Crouch † Mr R.D. Dalglish † Mr W.P. Davy Mr S.J.N. Heale † Mr G.S. Hoyle † Mr B. Hurst † Mr R.H. Kidner † Mr R.G.G. Osborne † Mr O.J. Parker † Mr C.M. Reilly † Mr R.C. Robinson † Mr G.K. Stanley † Mr V.P. Stothard Mr J.A. Brewer † Mr A.M. Conn † Mr B.N. Dickie † Mr G.L. Duncan † Mr A.L.R. Fincham † Mr R.M. Flaye Mr P.W. Furnivall † Mr D.M. Griffiths † Dr D.R. Gross † Mr J.R.B. McBeath Mr C.O. Richards † Mr F.S. Treasure † Mr P.S.T. Wright

1974

1975

Mr D.R.H. Beak

Mr W.G. Harer †

Mr P. Johnson

Mr J.S. Macfarlane †

Mr P.G. Mann †

Mr M.G. Paget †

Mr T.P.T. Soanes †

Dr N.P. Sykes †

The Very Revd Professor I.R. Torrance †

Mr H.C.G. Underwood † Mr A. Williams †

Mr D.A. Woodward † 1977

Mr B.M. A’Beckett Terrell † Mr D.J. Allcock †

Dr P.J. Bowman †

Mr D.S. Brodie †

Mr N.D.V. Burgess

Mr E. Cameron Watt †

Mr J. Cocker †

Mr R.W. Crump †

Mr G.D. Harris †

Mr M.J. Howard †

Mr T.C. Kelleher †

Mr C. Lane †

Dr M. Mantle

Mr P.J. Martin †

Mr J. Mellon †

Dr N. Parkhouse † 1978

Mr B. Ross †

Mr A.P. Sellors

Mr A. Stafford-Deitsch †

Mr B.I.L. Thomas

Mr J.G.M. Webster †

1976 Dr A.J. Barge †

Mr S.M.J. Bass

Mr J.M. Billingsley

Mr C.H. Birch

Mr N.C.S. Brawn

Mr J.M. Bray †

Dr D.R. Dean †

Mr A. Ghosh † Mr M.A. Green † Mr E.L. Hoare † Dr W.P. Ledward † Mr S.A. Madge Mr R.B. Manley † Mr S. Murphy Mr N.A. Rogers † Lord Rufus-Isaacs † Dr S.J. Tulloch † Mr N.W. Witt † Mr T.C.M. Barry † Dr B. Collett Mr S.L. Dance † Mr R.E. Dean † Mr S. Dubyl † Mr P.J. Head † Mr S. Kirkby † Mr S.N.M. Leasor † Mr R.D. Lonsdale Mr M.H. McKenzie † Mr D.A.J. Marais Mr S.J. Oliver † Mr R.H. Perkins † Mr P.R. Romans † Mr T. Stephenson Mr R.R. Warburton MBE Mr F.A. Binggeli † Mr J.C. Forsyth † Dr S.C.C. Goetz † Sir Parry Hughes-Morgan † Mr H.A. Kaye Dr M. Makris † Mr N.F.J. Mendoza † Mr M.D.J. Prior Mr C.A.L. Skinner † Mr H.R.A. Spowers † Mr G.P. Williams † Mr C.H.A. Wilson Mr C.P.R. Wray †

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1979

1980

Mr J.D. Bentley † Mr D.A. Brierley † Dr N. Emerton Mr N.P. Evans Mr C.D.D. Goodgame † Major G.R.N. Holland Mr P. Jenkins Mr R.M. Johnson † Mr P.M. Keyte Professor R.C. Koons † Dr A.J. O’Shaughnessy 1981 Dr G.F. Place †

Mr H.F. Rankin †

Mr D.J. Salvesen †

Mr J.A. Stenzel †

Mr C.L. Torrero †

Mr J.D. Wilson †

Two anonymous donors

Mr J.Q.N. Abel †

Mr N.J.P. Bond †

Professor H.M.

Ducharme †

Dr M.D. Flannery

Mr J.B. Gardener

Professor P.A.S. Harvey Mr P. W. McGrath †

Mr J.S. McIntyre

Mr S. MacKinnon OBE Mr R.J. McLeod †

Mr A.R. Matthews †

Mr R.I.S. Meyer †

Mr I.E. Mitchell † 1982 Mr A.A. Monk †

Mr N.R.R. Oulton †

Dr R.W. Prevost III †

The Revd Dr F.W. Schmidt Mr J.B. Sunley

Mr G.P. Tyler †

Mr P.N.A. Ward †

Mr P.C. Whitehead †

Mr R.M.B. Wilton †

Mr C.C. Wright †

Mr B.S.J. Ball † Mr F. Braunrot † Mr M.M. Cresswell-Turner Mr M.L. Emery † Dr H.R.G. Gibbon Mr J.P. Godfrey † Mr R.J.M. Good † Mr S.H. Hammad † Mr S.A.R. Hatfield † Dr D.C. Hornsby Mr P.D. Hughes † Mr R. Katz Mr P.J. Macdonald Mr R. Mize Dr M.J. Rawlinson † Mr D.B. Walker † Mr J.R. Ware † Mr A.S. Watson † Dr J.F. Wilde † Mr E.C. Zamboni Mr R. Barash † Mr M.W. Bean † Mr D.M. Brooks † Mr J.C. Dho † Mr J.C. Durant † Dr T.E.J. Hems Mr A.T. Jones † Dr L.C. Morland † Mr N.C. O’Brien Mr D.R.M. Redfern † Dr F.D. Schubert †

1983

1984

1985

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Mr M.T. Simpson QC † Mr B.E. Whelan Dr S. Williams One anonymous donor Mr S.C. Allen Mr G.N. Austin † Mr A.J. Britt Mr M.H. Carnegie Mr S.J. Dawes † Mr M.A. Gabbott † Mr E.N. Gilmartin Mr A.J. House Mr D.A. Lush † Professor S.A. McGrath Mr M.W.M.R. MacPhee † Mr T.R. O’Kelly † Mr J.M. Picton † Mr S.P. Ramchandani Mr C. Samek QC Dr T.J. Vellacott † Mr P.J. Ward † One anonymous donor Mr N.J.R. Badman † Dr R.M.L. Barrington Mr J.S. Das † Mr G.D. Eckersley Mr E.A.N. Fergusson Dr J.R. Flynn † Mr R.A. Hilton † Mr H.W. Lipman Dr M.G.A. Machin Mr M.H. Redfern † Mr J.M. Snell Mr V.J. Warner † Mr C.J. Williams One anonymous donor Mr H.W. Evans † Mr A.D. Green † Mr T.W. Monfries † Mr S. Palasingam †

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1986

1987

1988

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Mr D. Redhouse †

Mr H.L. Taylor †

Mr A.J. Telfer

Mr J.M.D. Thomson † Mr P. Vincent

Mr A.D. Ward †

Two anonymous donors

Dr K.D. Boa †

Mr P.J. Church †

Mr J.P. Dale †

Ms L.J. Dosanjh

Mr B.W. Dreyer

Dr C.J. Emeleus † 1989 Dr L.A. Fearfield †

Mr P.A. Gish †

Mr E. Hellings

Dr R.M.S. Locklin †

Dr G.S. Meyer †

Mr P.J. Parker

Miss T.J. Quinn †

Miss P.M. Sargent † Mr A.M. Waldbaum † Mr J.J. Whitting QC † Mr M.R. Wilson

Dr I.K. Boxall †

Mrs N. Crawley †

Mrs R.L. Gish

Professor Dr J.M.G. 1990 Higgins †

Mr T.J. Knight †

Miss R. Lawson †

Mr J.P. Middleton

Mr J.F. Mitchell †

Dr D.L. Saywell

Dr P.P. Swaddling

Mr C.H.E. Bell

Mr G.N. Berridge †

Mr C.A. Brand †

Mr A.M. Brown †

Mr M.T.D. Gilpin

Mr G.L. Iliffe † Mr P.D.N. Kennedy † Ms L.N. Koh Dr G.C. LeStage † Mr C.C.R. Luthi Mr S.A. Ratibor Mr P.D.G. Riviere † Mrs R.S. Starkie † Mr P.J.C. Warren † Mr P.G.X. Wuensche † Dr B.S. Yerramilli-Rao One anonymous donor Dr T.M. Berg Mr T.H. Coates † Mr P.A. Dundon Mrs C.S.J. Evans † Mr K.S. Ghata-Aura Mr R.J. Hirst Mr J.P. Hodges † Mr R.J. Jones Mr R.A. Laughton † Mr N. Lovell † Mr B.E.C. Lynch Dr C.J. Minter Mr J.D. Murray † Mrs G.E. Needham † Mr E.J. Rayner † Ms R.A. Cairns † Mr N.S. Cameron † Mr R.M. Carson † Mrs E.J. Cox † Dr C.V.S. Edwards † Mr A.S. Golledge † Mr A.R.J. Halstead Mr D.J. Hannan † Mrs G.M.O. McGovern Mr C.A. Rowley † Dr R.A. Saldanha † Mr D.R.C. Sanders † Ms S.K. Stutt †

Dr D.F. Talbot-Ponsonby † Mr P.D. Vaughan-Smith

1991

1992

1993

Mr J.D. Cook Mr P.M. Dixon Mr E.A.D. Haddon † Mr N.P. Llewelyn † Dr D. Mustafa Mr G.W. Pennock Mr P.H. Robinson † Miss C.V. Toogood † Mr H. Tung † Dr M.J. Wilson Professor M.E. Young Mr N.J. Dharamshi † Mr D.J. Emery † Dr I.G. Hagan † Mr R.F. Morrison Miss T.A. Scott Dr V.A. Snell Mrs E.J. Tregenza † Mr T.B.J. Anderson Mr D.E. Bates † Mrs A.J. Bosman † Dr D.L. Brower † Mr G.P. Cross † Mr J.P. Dawson † Mrs M.K. Derry Mr S.O.S. Duffett Mr A.J. Dunbar † Mr K. Foroughi † Dr S.M. Kingston † Miss S.H. Kundu † Dr F.F.A. Lepetit † Mrs F.J. Massey Mr A.W. Mears Mr W.P. Talbot-Ponsonby † Mr T.R.D. Wagstaff Mr M.L. White † Dr L.M.T. Withington † One anonymous donor

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1994

1995

1996

1997

Mr J.R. Burns

Mr G.A. Chapman QC Mr S. Cottrell †

Dr J.R. Evans †

Mr J.V. Goslin †

Mrs P.J. Herbert †

Mr A.E.C. McGregor † Mr R.S. Parsons 1998 Mr A.T. Rycroft †

Dr A.M. Upton

Baron B.H. von Michel † Mr R.G.H. Webber

Mr A.D. Whittaker

Mr W.E. Breeze †

Mrs S.F. Christensen

Ms C.M. Christie †

Miss R. Clark †

Mr J.R. Cockcroft †

Mr M.C. Cook †

Mr T.T.A. Cox †

Dr M.R. Gisborne

Mr M.A. Image

Dr K.D. Nawrotzki

Mr C.D. Pirie

Mr J.A. Redfern †

Mr S.R.A. Smith 1999 Mr M.R. Wareham

Miss E.F. Ashwell †

Mr J. Bell †

Dr E.L. Conran †

Ms E. Fisher

Mr C.D. Mowat †

Mr C.J. Nelson †

Mrs Y. Qiao †

Mr D.S. Rogers

Mr D.K. Stainer †

Miss S.M.

Thuraisingam †

Dr L.A. Bates

Ms C.J. Huckett

Mr N.A. King † Miss A.L.S. Lim † Mr J.C. Tetley † Mrs E.J. Watkins † One anonymous donor Mr S.J.H. Albert Mr G.R. Anderson Miss W.E. Armstrong Mr A.A.R. Black † Miss R. Blunt † Mr M.F. Bonham Mr J.A. Braid † Miss K. Donnelly Mr P.W. Dunbar Dr S. Haverfield- Gross Miss R. Marsh Mr B.M. Proctor † Dr A.J. Robbie † Mr R.J. Todd Dr V. Vijayakumar Mr T.A. Walker Dr A.V. Warren † Mrs A.W. Anderson † Mr G.R. Butcher † Mr C.F. Chapman † Mr B.B. Cosgrave † Ms A.L. Cowell † Mr J.P. Delahunty † Mr R.A.R. Farr † Mrs E.K. Goodridge Mr B.J. Huckvale † Mr D.E. Lloyd † Miss L. McNaught † Mr R. MacPhee Mr M.J. Robertson Mr O. Taylor † Dr L.K. Vaughan Mr M.F. Westcott † Dr A. Zabair

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2001

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Miss A.C. Benson † Ms C.M. Espey † Mr L.T. Finch † Miss C.E. Fisher † Mr T. Lawless † Mr M.R. Marshall † Mr K. O’Connor † Mr T.P. Pearson † Mr G.O.F. Pepys † Mr C. Reeve † Dr A.A. Reid † Mr M.J. Roddy † Mr N. Sladdin † Dr I.J. Taylor Ms L.E. Timms † Mr M.S. Vickers Dr P.P. Wyatt † Mr M.A.N. Boullé Mr P.J. Bustard Dr J.W. Fisher † Mr R.J.M. Gibbons † Mr S. Gohill † Mr S.J. Goulden Dr S.R. Jones Mr T. Lloyd-Evans † Miss C.C. McDaid Miss C.E. Parry † Dr J.W.V. Philbin † Mr C. Schmiedel † Dr O.M. Williams Mr T.J. Akin † Mr T.D. Barke † Ms G.A.A. Coghlan † Mr D.R. Lappage † Mr A.E. Laverty † Mr D. McCloskey † Dr S.C. Mossman † Mr N. Pilsbury † Mrs H.C.L. Radcliffe † Professor J.B.V. Tannous

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2004

2005

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Mr D.J. Bishop † Dr L.F. Brown † Dr M.G. Dalivalle Mr A.P. Graham † Mr G.E. Jacques † Mr S.S. Ketteringham † Mrs S.V. Kiefer Miss C.E. La Malfa Mrs L.S. Nair Miss M. Nodale † Mr D.I. Olarou Miss H.A. Race Mr R.J. Verber Mr J.D. Wright † Mr R.J. Ejsmond-Frey † Mr F.T. Hardee Mr T. Huzarski † Mr P. Nassiri † Mr A.L. Nish Dr H. Qiu Mr M.C. Quinn † Ms Y. Sun † Mr R.F.D. Sykes Miss C.L. Vasilescu Dr T.M. Ward Mr A.S.D. Wright † Mr R. Ettenfield Mr J.H. Felce † Mrs S.L. Felce Miss A.R. Hirsch-Holland Dr D. Lehmkuhl Dr T.L. McKee † Mr P.J. McNally Mr G.S. Maude † Miss V.E. Rolfe Miss H. Rowling † Miss C.E. Rutter Mr J. Wigley Dr D.R. Woods Mrs E.J. Woolard

2006

2007

2008

Mr C.M. Birt † Miss K.R. Chandler Mr C.R. Davies Miss E.L. Doherty † Mr D. Huebler † Dr J.W. Klingelhoefer Miss A.C. Millar † Ms C.C. Savundra † Mr J.W. Aiken Miss R.F.R. Clarke Miss C. Close-Smith Miss R.A. Hulatt Dr J.M. Machielsen Mr D.J. McLean Mrs P.E. Mannion Mr J.C.A. Pickering Mr M. Price † Mr W. Sheldon † Mr J.C. Wadsworth Mr M. Wherley Mr D.C. Adler Miss R. Bleach Mr S.G. Dijkstra Dr P.M. Gemmell Miss T.E. Halban Mr F.D.R. Keating Dr R.A. Musgrave Mr S. Peet Mr J.J.S. Pilgrim Miss E. Reid Mr J.G. Rennison Mr P. Schautschick

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

Mr G. Chapman Miss C. Cutler Mr S. Flynn Mr S.T. Horan Mr H. Khodabakhsh Mr K.A. Lodhia Mr B.R. Mansfield Mr R. Matthews Mr R. Fleck Miss B. Fryer Miss E.J. Harker Miss E.A. Howard Dr C.L. Knight Dr M.C.G. Lau Dr F.C.P. Leach Miss E. Limer Mr P.G. Penzo Mr C. Pontin Mr C. Arnold Mr S.T. Banner Mrs A.W. Bauerlein Mr H. Bigland Mr D.C. Branford Mr J.A. Dunnmon Miss E. Egiazarova Mr M. Mysko Von Schultze Miss J. Wang Mr A. Andrews Mr S. Boljevic Miss R.M. Evans Mr J.C.J. Humphris Mr J.M. Power Mr A.W. Ayala Mr E. Carroll Mr S.J.T. Salt

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The following are Fellows, Emeriti, Friends, Companies, Trusts and Foundations that have made donations.

Mr J. Amine Professor J.H. Armour † Mrs J. Bell Professor D.J. Butt † Mrs E. Cairncross Ms J. Close-Brooks Mr O. Close-Brooks Mrs R. Close-Brooks Professor C.P. Conlon † Ms K.W. Daniel Mrs R. Delahunty Professor Dr J. Disse Mr M. Fujii Mr R. Gooch Mrs R.B. Graves Ms M. Handler Mrs J.M. Hooper † Mr P. Huggins Mr C.J. Iley

Mrs M.R. Johnson Ms J. Kerkhecker † Dr A. Lighten Miss C.N. Love Ms B.E. Moore Sir Derek Morris † Mrs A. Newboult Mrs H. Nicholson Mr P. Popper Mr S.B. Power † Mrs L. Rawcliffe † Professor H.M. Robinson † Professor L.A. Roper Mr H.R. Rudden Mr K. Sharer Professor M. Topf Mr R.J. Turnill † Ms M.P. Wallace Mrs S.L. Wentz

Professor E. Winstanley † Fourteen anonymous donors Against Breast Cancer Apple Bank of America Merrill Lynch Charities Aid Foundation Deutsche Bank Jackson Foundation Lamport Foundation Microsoft National Manuscripts Conservation Trust Santander UK Plc Stainer and Bell Stavros Niarchos Foundation Thomson Reuters Young Vic Theatre

* Deceased † Donors who have given for five years or more Oriel is always grateful to those who decide to remember the College in their wills. We record with particular gratitude those from whom legacies were received during the year.

Sir Geoffrey Wilson KCB CMG 1928 Mr C.H.W. Hodges 1940 Mr R. Molland 1942

Mrs D.M.M. King Ms M. Eager

Oriel would like to acknowledge those who have supported the College in other ways over the past year. This includes – but is not limited to – contributions to publications such as Oriel News, hosting or speaking at an event, and offering career advice to current students and recent leavers. We would also like to thank those who have given gifts of artwork and books to the College.

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riel students continue to apply their many talents to a diverse range of activities. Successes are plentiful in sports, arts, drama, music, academia and more. This is what makes Oriel such a wonderful place to be a student, and in 2016 – 17 JCR members continued to make their mark on the College and the University. The year kicked off with a great Freshers’ Week, as this year’s Freshers were welcomed to the College.

The JCR Committee continues to play an active role, with annual events such as the First Quad pancake race, garden party and marriage formal proving as popular as ever. On top of these, the JCR Equalities team organised a wonderful ‘Equalities Fest’– a celebration of diversity at which students were treated to arts and food from all over the world. In a similar vein, International Officer Dena Latif’s hard work resulted in Oriel’s own ‘International Formal Hall’; Trinity Term’s menu was African themed, with food from across the continent.

Leda Hadjigeorgiou (JCR Vice-President) organised Halfway Hall, transporting the hall and bar back to medieval times, and even arranging for a harpist to play during dinner! And in Trinity Term we had much welcome visitors in the form of dogs, as staff members brought their pets to College for a ‘puppy petting day’ to the delight of students burdened with exams (and even those without!).

Another culinary matter was the JCR’s vote against a proposal for a biweekly ‘informal formal’, whilst in Trinity Term money was voted towards redecorating the College Bar and JCR. In Trinity Term the JCR elected Sebastien Santhiapillai as its new President, making me realize how quickly my year as President has passed!

One of the year’s most successful events was the Oriel Women’s Dinner, held in Trinity Term and organised by Jessica Forsyth. The dinner was a celebration of women at Oriel and was a sell-out, with guest speeches from the SCR’s Teresa Bejan, Laura Dosanjh (1986, Oriel’s first female JCR President), Anna Sawbridge (2003, who spoke about what it was like to work for Google and raise a family simultaneously), and even an appearance from Rachel Riley (2004) of Countdown fame. Jessica’s hard work resulted in a wonderfully enjoyable event, which will hopefully become a College tradition.

Sport continues to play a central role in the lives of many Oriel students and the year brought yet more success for students representing both College and University teams.

More detailed reports are provided elsewhere in the Record, but it is worth highlighting a few College sporting successes not mentioned there. Oriel won the Powerlifting Cuppers title – MCR members Matthew Noble and Charles Jester were accompanied by Second Year Will Pickering as they lifted and squatted their way to the trophy. Sid Baines and Rohin Burney-O’Dowd also took home the silver medal in the Gymnastics Cuppers. The College pool team, now in its second year, once more made its mark on college bars across Oxford: again donning vibrant pink bucket hats and jumpers, the team had a solid Cuppers run,

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while Wesley Rawlings and Rohin Burney-O’Dowd made the quarter-finals of the Pool Doubles Cuppers.

Oriel maintained its strong tradition in music, drama and the arts. Madeleine Pollard, JCR Arts rep, organised a successful Arts Fest, which included life drawing, ‘Pimms and Play-Doh’ and an open mic night. Eve Finnie served as creative director of the RAG fashion show and Dominic Hand was once again recognised for his outstanding poetry; his poem Borderlines was awarded top prize in the University Newdigate Poetry Competition. Meanwhile, Francis Judd entertained many as part of Oxford’s a cappella group Out of the Blue – as well as a tour and a charity single, the group performed on BBC’s Pitch Battle.

The Poor Print, Oriel’s student-run fortnightly publication, continued to go from strength to strength this year under co-editors Alex Waygood and Aidan Chivers. Over forty members of the JCR, MCR, SCR, staff and alumni made over 120 contributions to the magazine, which this year ranged from political comment and recipes to platonic dialogues and satirical cartoons. Highlights included a series of interviews with members of Oxford’s homeless community (Stories of Oxford) and a report on the Rhodes Must Fall campaign one year on (The Myth of Rhodes). The Poor Print also successfully hosted its first media and journalism careers event in collaboration with Corpus Christi, featuring Oriel/Corpus alumni Adam Raphael, Robert Rea, Daniel Hinge, Sian Cox-Brooker, Candida Evans and Robert Katz. In other student journalism news, Tristan Upton served as editor of Cherwell in Trinity Term, with Madeleine Pollard editing the student arts-based magazine Isis.

In the University drama scene Tess Leyland, Angus Forbes, Sophie Stiewe, Phoebe Mansell, Emily Bell, Georgia Robson, Eve Finnie, Albert McIntosh and Tallulah Vaughan were all involved in University productions – ranging from Narkissos to The Pillowman, and from Under Milk Wood to Keeping Up Appearances. In College, two Freshers’ teams made the final of Drama Cuppers; productions of the original Bod and an adaptation of The Real Inspector Hound delighted audiences. Trinity Term saw the return of the garden play, with Emma

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Gilpin directing Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Work is under way for the upcoming Greek play in Michaelmas Term 2017. Callista McLaughlin and Zad El-Bacha are directing Lysistrata, which will no doubt show that Oriel’s dramatists can entertain in Greek, as well as English!

Oriel also presented itself as a tour de force in another (trivial) pursuit: quizzing.

This year’s Freshers made an immediate mark when they won the Freshers’ Quiz Cuppers trophy in early Michaelmas. Moreover, JCR members took the top prize at the notoriously tough Oxford Union pub quiz, and a team of Finalists was regularly successful at the weekly Port Mahon pub quiz. Perhaps most exciting (though this writer must declare an interest), Oriel made a long-awaited return to the studios of University Challenge twelve years after our previous appearance, with a team consisting of MCR members Nathan Helms (Captain), Tobias Thornes, Alec Siantonas and JCR members Eoin Monaghan and Roxanne Taylor. A first-round contest against perennial big-hitters Manchester was aired in early August, with the Oriel team winning 150– 95 (despite, as one newspaper put it, an ‘embarrassing lack of popular music knowledge’).

A second round against Bristol followed in early January, but this time we were undone by a very strong team (I have kindly omitted the scoreline). A wonderful experience for Oriel, and the team’s nameplate now sits proudly in the Oriel bar, alongside that of our previous representatives – let us hope our next appearance is not so far away this time.

JCR Environment and Charities rep Madalene Smith was fantastic throughout the year in her fundraising efforts. Charity jumpers raised over £1,000, as did the Oriel charity auction, while Hilary’s Charity Formal was another sell-out event – the diners also being serenaded by Edward Shields’s violin performance. The total amount raised for charity by Oriel JCR was £3,000. Once again this year Oriel had the largest college team in the annual Oxford Town and Gown 10K. Congratulations should go to Henry Shalders, who accomplished the almost Herculean task of running the entire length of Hadrian’s Wall – an all round distance of 137 km, raising almost £2,500 for the John Radcliffe Hospital.

For Oriel students to achieve the amazing range of activities and successes included in this report on top of the academic demands is truly outstanding, and I look forward to another successful year for the JCR next year. Indeed, hard work is already under way for the 2018 Commemoration Ball, with an executive committee headed up

by Lena Schneidewind.

Eoin Monaghan JCR President 2016 – 2017

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his has been a tremendous year for the Oriel MCR. Following our very successful refurbishment headed up by last year’s President, Mark Johnson, we were able to welcome just over a hundred graduate Freshers and forty fourth-year undergraduates to a shining new common room, kitchen, bar, and study room.

Among the notable events this year, we were proud to have three of our MCR members – Eleanor Ainscoe, Alex Fortacz, and Rebecca Leigh – in the women’s boat that took headship in Torpids for the second time in Oriel history. We wish to also congratulate Matt Noble for achieving full Blue status in powerlifting. And finally congratulations to current MCR member, Jonas Harnau, on his marriage to MCR alumna Samantha Olyha in June this year.

The MCR was the most active it has ever been, with continuous use by students for chatting with friends, having academic conversations, studying in the study room, stopping by with lunch to meet up with other MCR members, or just dropping in for a coffee. To do our part to increase the academic success of all of our students, the MCR provided free coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and biscuits throughout the year. Our new coffee machine has been incredibly successful, with nearly 5,000 coffees or teas served each term. We also added two new adjustable standing desks to the MCR study room, which were enthusiastically received by our members.

The newly refurbished MCR bar was the centre of MCR nightlife thanks to our bar managers, Matthew Noble and Tyler Hofmeister, and the bar has been more popular than ever following increased space and better-quality drinks, with affordable prices thanks to our volunteer staff.

This year’s social events were made possible by the tireless contributions of social secretaries Gabrielle Bourrete-Sicotte, Rachel Williams, Chris Heitzig and Alexander Pateman, along with help from Marcel Stolz, Alexandra Fortacz, and our board games rep, Charles Jester.

Termly guest nights were massively successful, with all tickets being sold out The Middle Common Room Committee

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in as little as one minute after being made available. Members were happy to welcome friends and family to a five-course meal in Hall and to show off the new MCR, where we hosted dessert and provided a lovely selection of drinks at the bar.

Our weekly afternoon tea and snacks provided a friendly environment for MCR members thanks to the efforts of our Welfare Team, led by Sarah Burns and Joana Guiro, with help from the rest of the Welfare Team, especially from Katharin Tai, our international student rep. We continued this year with weekly yoga offered at no cost to MCR and JCR members. We had a families rep for the first time, thanks to Pete Tsimikalis stepping up to create the role.

Oriel Talks, started in 2015 by Nisha Mistry, continued with another year of excellent talks. We are grateful to Alexandra Fortacz and Abdel Wahab Turkmani for coordinating the talks this year and to all the SCR and MCR members who gave fascinating presentations about their fields and the contribution of their own work.

We held our annual exchange with our sister college, Trinity College, Dublin, in Hilary Term. The exchange was started in 2013 by Joelle Grogan, a Trinity alumna and Oriel MCR President in 2012–13, and the exchange has now continued for five years. In many ways the exchange is a highlight of the year, with the trip to Ireland being one of the most memorable and fun events we offer. We are grateful to Rachel Williams for her work organising the exchange and many other great events this year.

The free punting scheme has once again been a great success, with students being able to use one of our four punts on reserve during Trinity Term or the single punt we have available throughout the summer. After a year of hard work, and with exams to revise for or theses to write, punting provides a chance to relax on the river with friends and clear one’s mind before heading back to the endless grind of masters or doctoral work.

Our environment rep, Tobias Thornes, took the lead in helping us move closer to our goals of responsible energy use and sustainability. Through Tobias’s initiative, the College began holding a fortnightly vegetarian formal dinner in hall (alternating with steak nights) which has been well attended and enjoyed by students.

I am thankful to the full MCR committee, and especially Vice-President Nathaniel Helms and Treasurer Claire Lowe, and really all the members of the MCR in 2016–17 for an excellent year. I am happy to hand over to the next President, Alexander Pateman, and VicePresident, Holly Sadler, who will no doubt lead the MCR into great new adventures.

Peter Gent MCR President 2016– 2017

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NEW MEMBERS 2016–2017

FOR HIGHER DEGREES ADNAN, Sarfaraz DPhil Geography and the

Environment ATKINS, Philip MSt Late Antique and

Byzantine Studies BLAIR, Debbie DPhil Economics BREMER, Martin MSt Creative Writing (PT) BUAKAEW, Alisa MBA Business Administration BURNS, Sarah MSc Economics for

Development CASSER, Laurenz BPhil Philosophy CHAN, Man BCL Civil Law CHEN, Tianyi DPhil Inorganic Chemistry

CIKA, Arta DPhil Engineering Science CLARK, Judith DPhil Theology COLLIER, Matthew BPhil Philosophy CORREIA MORTON, Alice MSt Greek and/or

Roman History CURRIE, Elspeth MSt Womens Studies DAGLEY Michael MBA Business Administration DECKER, Hans DPhil Theology DOUDONIS, Panagiotis DPhil Law DUERR, Patrick DPhil Philosophy ELDERS, Philip MSc Integrated Immunology

ELLIS, Justine DPhil Theology ENDO, Suguru DPhil Materials EROFEEV, Nikolay DPhil History FELDMAN, Craig MSc Computer Science FERGUSON, Rory MSc (by Research)

Musculoskeletal

Sciences FORTACZ, Alexandra MPhil International Relations FOSTER, William MSt Music (Musicology) FOULK, David DPhil History (part-time) Montaigne

Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany University of Newcastle Oriel University of Connecticut Chulalongkorn University University of King's College Canada Oriel Oriel Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine Telecom ParisTech University of Manchester University of Aberdeen Oriel US Gordon College MA University of Melbourne Harvard University Somerville College Oriel Amsterdam University College Oriel Keio University, Japan Moscow State University University of Cape Town Oriel

Vienna University Austria Oriel Université Bordeaux

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GAVRILOV, Dmitry MBA Business Administration Moscow M V Lomonosov State

University Russia GONZALEZ NEGRON, MSc Economics for St Antony's College Andrea

Development GUTWEIN, Clara MSt Medieval History Barnard College HAFFAF, Wassim MSc Mathematical and

Computational Finance CentraleSupélec HANSON, John MSc Financial Economics University of Minnesota-Twin

Cities HARZHEIM, Achim DPhil Materials Harvard University HASANBEIG, DPhil Computer Science University of Toronto Mohammadhosein HEITZIG, Christopher MPhil Economics Saint John's University, USA HO, Yee MSc Financial Economics University College London HODGE, Samuel BCL Civil Law Queen Mary University of

London HOFMEISTER, Tyler MSc Mathematical and University of Calgary

Computational Finance HUARACA HUASCO, DPhil Geography and National University of Saint Walter the Environment Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco,

Perú HUBBARD, Alyssa MSt Greek and/or Latin Columbia University

Languages and

Literature HUNT, Daniel DPhil History St Anthony's College IMIOLEK, Mateusz DPhil Organic Chemistry University of Warsaw INGERSENT, Chloe DPhil History Worcester College JESTER, Charles MSt Theology Baylor University TX JONES, Rose 2nd BM Medicine Oriel KAILAYAPILLAI, 2nd BM Medicine Oriel Chenduraan KHUSHAIM, Walaa MSc (By Research) Queens University of Charlotte

Biochemistry (USA) LEE, Amy MSt. Theology Regent's Park College LETHBRIDGE, Alexander MSc Mathematical and University of Durham

Computational

Finance LI, Guoxin MSc Applied Statistics University of California, Davis LIMAN-TINGUIRI, Aida MSc Integrated Immunology University of Toronto LINEY, Nicolas MSt Greek and/or Latin University of Sydney

Languages & Literature LOWE, Claire MSt Theology Oriel LORRIMAR, Victoria DPhil Theology Wolfson College MCCLOY, Gillian PGCE Physics Oriel

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MAHADEVAN, Sheela MSt Modern Languages King's College London MAHDAVI DAMGHANI, DPhil Engineering Science Drexel University, US Babak MENDE, Maren MBA Business Administration University of St Andrews MOZOTA FRAUCA, Alvaro MSt Philosophy of Physics University of Waterloo NIPPES, Stefan MSc Economics for Universitat Bayreuth

Development Germany OLIVEIRA, Felipe MPhil Jewish Studies in the University of St Andrews

Graeco-Roman Period PARK, Richard EMBA Executive Master of University of St Andrews

Business University of South

Administration Australia PATEMAN, Alexander DPhil Materials University of Southampton PATTERSON, Matthew DTP Environmental Research St Catherine's College

(NERC DTP) PEREZ GUZMAN, Pablo MSc International Health Universidad Nacional

and Tropical Medicine Autonoma de Mexico POSCENTE, Dana MSc Biodiversity, Conservation University of Calgary

and Management QHOTSOKOANE, Tebello MPP Public Policy Stanford University RALLENS, Jenny DPhil Theology Wycliffe Hall RILEY, Karis MSt Greek and or Latin University of York

Languages and Literature ROSSITER, Joanne MPP Public Policy Australian National

University, Canberra SADLER, Holly CDT Interdisciplinary St Catherine's College

Bioscience (BBSRC DTP) SAHA, Autri MSc Law and Finance West Bengal National

University of Juridical

Sciences SCHULZE, Tatjana MSc Financial Economics Maastricht University SCHUTT, Kelly DPhil Condensed Matter Boise State University ID

Physics SHAFIEE, Roxana CDT Environmental Research University of St Andrews

DTP SHI, Xiaodong MSc (by research) University of Nottingham

Engineering Science SHUKLA, Surabhi DPhil Law University of California,

Los Angeles SISTI, Mattia DPhil Philosophy University of Durham SLATER, Rebecca MSt Creative Writing University of Technology

(part-time) Sydney SPILIOTIS-SAQUET, MPhil Economics Universite de Paris VI (Pierre Jean-Christophe

et Marie Curie) France

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STELL, Elizabeth MPhil Theology STOKES, Victoria DPhil Biomedical and

Clinical Sciences STOLZ, Marcel DPhil Cyber Security (CDT)

TSIMIKALIS, Peter MPhil Theology TUCKER, Bronwen MSc Environmental Change

and Management TURKMANI, Abdel MSc Computer Science

UNDERWOOD, Robert DPhil Philosophy URIOT, Thomas MSc Applied Statistics VAUGHAN BURLEIGH, 2nd BM Medicine Sebastian VICINI, Anna DPhil Organic Chemistry VON KLEMPERER, DPhil Neuroscience Alexander

WATTS, Gabriel DPhil Philosophy WILLIAMS, Rachel MSt Medieval History WILSON, Constanze 2nd BM Medicine WOODS, Rhys DPhil Medical Sciences WU, Le MPhil Economics YEO, Janan MPP Public Policy

YING, Guanhua DPhil Condensed Matter

Physics YU, Forest MSc Criminology and

Criminal Justice ZHENG, Junlyu MPP Public Policy

ZHOU, Yifan MSc Integrated Immunology

FOR FIRST DEGREES AGUREEV, Alexander Engineering Science ALLEN, Dominic Chemistry ANSTEY, Charlotte Louise Classics

BAKCHIEVA, Aisuluu Biochemistry (Molecular

and Cellular) BALL, Caroline Jessica Classics Sophia BATE, James Physics (4-year MPhys)

Oriel University of Cambridge Universität Bern, Switzerland University of Toronto McGill University, CA American University of Beirut Georgia State University University of Edinburgh Oriel Bologna University University of Cape Town

University of Sydney St Hugh's College Oriel University of Edinburgh Brandeis University Nanyang Technological University Singapore Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine University of Melbourne Beijing Foreign Studies University University of Wisconsin-Madison

Brighton College The Skinners' School The Lady Eleanor Holles School Fettes College Coombe Girls' School Launceston College

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BECKERHINN, Lukas Philosophy, Politics

and Economics

BEER, Michael Biochemistry (Molecular and

Cellular) BINKLE, Max Samuel Physics and Philosophy BIRD, Laura Philosophy and Theology BONNEY, Lara Physics (4-year MPhys)

BOSWALL, Robert Philosophy, Politics and Economics William Jolyon BROCKWELL, Medicine Thomas Oliver BRUENING, Nils Arne Classics BUTCHER, Juliet Classics and English BUTLER, Alexandra Theology and Religion CAMARASU, Teofil Computer Science and Philosophy CHIRNICIUC, Anna Maria Philosophy, Politics and Economics

CROSS, Orlaith Jurisprudence DAVIES, Huw Philosophy, Politics and Economics DAVY, Tom Philosophy and Theology EDGE, Louise History and French

ENGLE, Joanna Mathematics and Philosophy

FAREBROTHER, Joseph Mathematics and

Computer Science FELLINGHAM, Lucy Physics (4-year MPhys)

FINN, Phoebe Madeleine English Language and Literature FORBES, Angus Philosophy, Politics and Economics GARDINER, Joseph Mathematics and Computer

Science HAGOPIAN, Alicja Modern Languages & Linguistics HANSEN, Georgina Rose Mathematics Longworth HARRIS, Eleanor History and French HEARING, Francesca Modern Languages – French HIGGIN, Amanda Theology and Religion Catherine HILL, Christopher Music HODGETTS, Stephanie Jurisprudence Louise

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Bundesgymnasium und Bundesrealgymnasium Klosterneu Herschel Grammar School Steyning Grammar School Portsmouth High School South Wiltshire Grammar School Winchester College Sir William Borlase's Grammar Wellington College St Paul's Girls' School Marlborough College Dundalk Grammar School Saint Sava National College Bucharest St Patrick's Academy Cardiff High School Abingdon School Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Ashbourne The British School Al Khubarait, UAE Hove Park School and Sixth Form Centre, Hove Brighton, Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College Alleyn's School King's School, Canterbury Eirias High School Channing School St Paul's Girls' School St Gerard's School Thomas Hardye School Kendrick School Trent College Rugby High School

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HUANG, Pinjie Chemistry

HUGHES, Peggy English Language and Literature HUTCHINGS, Ruby English Language and Literature INSKIP, Lucy History IRVINE, Samuel Ancient and Modern History ISELIN, Louisa Hunnewell Biomedical Sciences Von Clemm JUCKES, Eleanor Jade Jurisprudence JUDD, Francis Peter Engineering Science KING, Alexandra Chemistry

LANFRANCONI, Sofia History

LITVINAS, Auridas Jurisprudence

MCGUIRE, Alastair Engineering Science

MCINTOSH, Albert Jack Physics (4-year MPhys) MCLEAN, Rebecca Anne History

MITCHELL, Jessica Chemistry MOODY, Ebony Mathematics MORILLO, Benedict Jurisprudence MUSELLA, Giovanni English Language and Literature NANKANI, Priyanka Philosophy, Politics and Economics

O'BYRNE, Katherine Medicine O'DONOGHUE, Ailsa Biochemistry (Molecular and Helen Cellular) PANEVA, Sofija Biomedical Sciences POUDEVIGNE, Marius Philosophy, Politics and Economics PRINCE, Isabel Margaret Biochemistry (Molecular and

Cellular) PUIGSECH AUTONELL, Modern Languages – French Erola and German RADOI, Andrei-Alexandru Computer Science RUBINI, Dylan Engineering Science RYAN, Brett History

SANTHIAPILLAI, Sebastien History and Economics

SAVAGE, Rhiannon Mathematics

The International Centre of Normal College, Shenzhen University Christ's Hospital Sir John Lawes School Hinchinbrooke School Olchfa School St Paul's Girls' School Chipping Norton School Peter Symonds College Nottingham Girls' High School Liceo Classico e Musicale Bartolomeo Zucchi Kauno Technologijos Univeriteto Gimnazija Royal Grammar School Guildford Magdalen College School St Thomas More RC Academy, North Shields Sir John Deane's College Meden School Fettes College Westminster School Cheltenham Ladies' College Alleynes High School Dalbeattie High School NOVA International School Lycee Louis Le Grand Paris Bluecoat Academies Trust INS Taradell Integraledu SRL Waldegrave School Oxford University (Continuing Education) St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School Ilkley Grammar School

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SOO, Yi Yun Music

STANCIU, Andreea Sabina Computer Science STEEMSON, Tabitha Lucy Theology and Religion STUART, Timothy Engineering Science SUN, Minghao Physics (4-year MPhys)

TAI, Xue Min Jurisprudence TAVARES DE WAND, Modern Languages – Saskia French and Italian TAYLOR, Molly Patricia Classical Archaeology and Mae Ancient History VERA-CRUZ, Shekinah Ancient and Modern History Oluwasemire VOONG, Yasmin Engineering Science

WALLS, Alexander Music Forster WILKINSON, Daniel Adam Philosophy, Politics and

Economics WILSON, Joseph David Medicine WILSON RUILOBA, Biochemistry (Molecular and Carmen Sheena Cellular) WILTON, Harriet Emma English Language and Literature WRIGHT, Lucy Physics (4-year MPhys) YOUNG, Rebecca Medicine Katherine VISITING STUDENTS AMAND, Cyril Modern Languages

BATTALIO, Adam Economics & Politics BUSBY, Ariana English GU, Jennifer English SWEENEY, Paul Mathematics

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The Perse School Beijing No. 8 High School Churcher's College Myton School Stroud High School Cromwell Community College Methodist College, Kuala Lumpur SC Albion Training SRL Sevenoaks School Oakham School St John's Senior School, Enfield Hwa Chong Institution Camden School for Girls Bilborough College Barton Peveril College Townley Grammar School For Girls Emmanuel College, Gateshead King Edward VI School, Warwickshire Magdalen College School St Mary's School, Ascot Skipton Girls' High School Caldew School Brine Leas School and Sixth Form

Sciences Po Paris (Campus of Reims) Notre Dame Barnard College Columbia University Notre Dame

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ACADEMIC RECORD DEGREES AND EXAMINATION RESULTS 2016–2017 DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY ABDUL PARI, Anees Ahmed (Public Health): ‘Health economic aspects in the management of bipolar disorder’ BUCHANAN, James (Public Health): ‘Issues related to the economic analysis of genomic diagnostic technologies in the UK National Health Service: an exploration of methods’ CHAVANA-BRYANT, Cecilia (Geography and the Environment): ‘Impacts of leaf age on the spectral and physiochemical traits of trees in Amazonian forest canopies’ DE SILVA, Nicole Asanka (International Relations): ‘How international courts promote compliance: strategies beyond adjudication’ DUFFY, Kirsty Elizabeth (Particle Physics): ‘Measurement of the neutrino oscillation parameters sin2 θ23, Δm2 32, sin2 θ13, and δCP in neutrino and antineutrino oscillation at T2K’ ELBERT, Holly (Astrophysics): ‘Exploring galaxy evolution with luminosity functions across cosmic time’ FOLLIARD, Thomas (Biochemistry): ‘Engineering plug and play biosensors in Escherichia coli’ GORDON, Nicola Claire (Clinical Medicine): ‘Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) as a unified platform for outbreak identification and resistance prediction in Staphylococcus aureus’ GREENACRE, Jonathan Espie (Law): ‘The regulation of mobile money’ GROGAN, Joelle (Law): ‘An EU-centric account of the rule of law’ KAPRINIS, Kosmas Ioannis (Law): ‘The institutional structure of macroprudential policy in the UK: an assessment of the accountability mechanisms of the Financial Policy Committee’ KOTOVA, Anna (Criminology): ‘“He’s got a life sentence, but I have a life sentence to cope with as well”: the experiences of long-term prisoners’ partners’ LANDAU, Christopher David (Theology): ‘A theology of disagreement’ LECHNER, Antonia Ruth (Computer Science): ‘Extensions of Presburger arithmetic and model checking one-counter automata’ MACDONALD, Ewan Alexander ‘(Geography and the Environment): ‘Clouds on the horizon: identifying global priorities for conservation marketing and planning the conservation of the Sunda clouded leopard on Borneo’ MASAKI, Charles Orina (Psychiatry): ‘Investigating the neurochemistry of depression and the novel mood stabilising agent Ebselen using magnetic resonance spectroscopy’ MILWARD, Kate Freya (Surgical Sciences): ‘Investigation of the cell biology of human regulatory T cells in the context of transplantation’ PANDUWAWALA, Tharindi Dayara (Organic Chemistry): ‘Natural product guided antibacterial drug discovery: tetramates as core scaffolds’ SIMMONS, David Edward (Engineering Science): ‘On the performance of power constrained amplify-and-forward networks’

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YU, Andy Demfree (Philosophy): ‘Fragmented truth’ ZAMDZHIEV, Vladimir Nikolaev (Computer Science): ‘Rewriting context-free families of string diagrams’ BACHELOR OF CIVIL LAW CHAN, Man Hin HODGE, Samuel

Distinction Distinction

BACHELOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN PHILOSOPHY YEAR 2 KOONS, Benjamin LUDWIGS, August

Pass Pass

MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS TAI, Katharin

Pass

MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY IN SOCIOLOGY AND DEMOGRAPHY SAUDABAYEVA, Aigerim

Pass

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE YU, Forest

Pass

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ECONOMICS FOR DEVELOPMENT GONZÁLEZ NEGRÓN, Andrea

Pass

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN FINANCIAL ECONOMICS HANSON, John HO, Yee jia SCHULZE, Tatjana

Pass Distinction Distinction

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL FINANCE HAFFAF, Wassim HOFMEISTER, Tyler LETHBRIDGE, Alexander

Distinction Pass Pass

MASTER OF STUDIES IN GREEK AND/OR LATIN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE LINEY, Nicolas Distinction RILEY, Karis Distinction

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MASTER OF STUDIES IN MODERN LANGUAGES MAHADEVAN, Sheela

Pass

MASTER OF STUDIES IN MUSIC (MUSICOLOGY) FOSTER, William

Distinction

MASTER OF STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS MOZOTA FRAUCA, Alvaro

Pass

MASTER OF STUDIES IN THEOLOGY JESTER, Charles LEE, Amy LOWE, Claire

Pass Pass Pass

MASTER OF STUDIES IN WOMEN’S STUDIES CURRIE, Elspeth

Distinction

POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN EDUCATION MCCLOY, Gillian

Pass

FIRST EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF MEDICINE (PART I) BROCKWELL, Thomas SHORTEN, Cariad WILSON, Joseph YOUNG, Rebecca

Pass Pass Pass Pass

FIRST EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF MEDICINE (PART II) LAURENSON-SCHAFER, Hannah ROTHWELL, Eve TAYLOR, Elena

Pass Distinction Distinction

SECOND EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF MEDICINE (YEAR 2) KITCHEN, Lucy Pass MURPHY, Louis Pass WELLS, Adrian Pass SECOND EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF MEDICINE (YEAR 3) ELANGOVAN, Ramyiadarsini Pass JOHNSON, Mark Pass MCLAREN, Ross Distinction MILNE, Zara Pass

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY (PART IA) LAMONT, Louis MASSINGBERD-MUNDY, Felicity

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF CELL AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY (PART II) FORSYTH, Jessica

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY (PART II) EASTWOOD, Benjamin KELLY, David KITTLE, Malcolm PRICE, Daniel SACKMAN, George

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANCIENT HISTORY MULLINGS, Angelique

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF CLASSICS AND MODERN LANGUAGES COURSE I LEIGH, Rebecca

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE (PART A) ILIE, Catalin-Andrei PACE, Ben VALEANU, Alexandru

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE (PART B) HEMPENSTALL, Ryan VASILE, Daniel

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL PHYSICS (PART C) KWAN, Yves Hon Distinction HONOUR SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS (PART A) HALL, Joshua LUO, Di

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS (PART A) STRACHAN, Daniel ZHANG, Yechuan

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES SATCHWELL, Francesca SAINI, Kirandeep SHARMA, Jaya Rani STANNARD, George WILLIAMS, Matthew

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY (PART I) BRADLEY, Samuel NIKOV, Georgi TOWNLEY, Anna

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VIRCHIS, Isaac WALKER, Freya YEUNG, Sheung Chun Jonathan

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF PHYSICS (PART A) LIU, Anna LOO, Allen RAWLINGS, Wesley SHIELDS, Edward YOUSIF, Mason

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF PHYSICS (PART B) BEVAN, Simon BISHOP, Jem FINNIE, Evelyn GEORGIOU, Matthew ZAJICEK, Zachary

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AWARDS AND PRIZES

UNIVERSITY AWARDS AND PRIZES Porter Prize for Best Performance in the FHS Part I Examination in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Gibbs Prize for First BM Part I Sir Roger Newdigate Prize for Poetry Third Year DPhil Poster Competition Ronald Victor Janson Prize for Best Fourth-year Project in Electronic Communications Vinerian Scholarship Proxime Accessit South Square Prize for Corporate Insolvency Law Law Faculty Prize in Commercial Remedies Gibbs Prize in Philosophy

Gibbs Prize (Lit Hum Course II)

COLLEGE AWARDS AND PRIZES Instrumental Award John Sanders Scholarship in Physics Shannon Prize in Modern History Hammick Chemistry Prize H. Basil Robinson Prize Audrey London Travelling Scholarship Eugene Lee-Hamilton Prize

Georgi Nikov Katherine O’Byrne Dominic Hand Martin Tweedie Shashwat Saxena Keith Chan Keith Chan Keith Chan Katherine Hong Katherine Hong

Christopher Hill Allen Loo Emma Woodhall David Kelly Rebecca Leigh Isabella Clarke Conor Wilcox-Mahon, St John’s College

GRADUATE SCHOLARS Oriel College Graduate Scholarship in Science and Religion Thomas F. Torrance Graduate Scholarship in Theology Sir Walter Raleigh Scholarship Oriel Graduate Scholars

Victoria Lorrimar Jenny Rallens Bronwen Tucker Richard Graham Kenneth Hoehn Pawel Puczkarski Leonie Wanitzek

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SPORTS ACHIEVEMENTS

BLUES Sid (Luke) Baines James Bonifacio Jessica Forsyth

Anna Mackenzie Andrea Victoria Gonzalez Negron Tom Paine Tom Scott Luke Sheridan George Stannard

Gymnastics (University Men’s Captain) Taekwondo Volleyball (University Women’s 2nd team Vice President) Lacrosse Volleyball (University Captain for 2017–18) Squash (University Men’s Captain) Boxing (University Captain) Swimming Swimming (University Open Water Captain)

HALF BLUES Alexandra Fortacz Achim Harzheim Chenduraan Kailayapillai Maren Mende Matthew Noble Lucy Wright

Handball Rowing (Isis crew) Rifle Polo Powerlifting Water Polo

OTHER UNIVERSITY-LEVEL SPORT Dominic Allen Cyrille Tristan Amand Robert Bastian Edward Brooks George Fountain Marie Leyland Tacita McCoy-Parkhill Max McCreery Maren Mende Eoin Monaghan Madeleine Pollard Surabhi Shukla James Somerville Isaac Virchis Adam Waldron Charles Wells

Hockey Newman Society football team Ski Racing (2nd team colours) Marathon American Football Cheerleading Rowing Tennis (2nd team) Clay Pigeon Shooting Football (3rd team) Cheerleading Pistol Shooting, Indoor Cricket Rugby Football (University 3rd team Captain) Gymnastics Rugby (3rd team)

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BOOKS PRESENTED TO THE LIBRARY AKINOLA, A.A., Democracy in Nigeria (Raleigh, NC, 2015) and Party Coalitions in Nigeria: history, trends and prospects (Ibadan 2014). Presented by the author.

BARTON, J., ‘Ernest Wilson Nicholson 1938–2013’ from Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, XV (2016), pp. 121–38. Presented by the author.

COE, R.N., Between the Dog Kennel and the Apple Tree: an act of autobiography (London 1992). Presented by Mrs Ada Coe. FOX, R., Science without Frontiers (Oregon 2016). Presented by the author.

SØRENSEN, S.L., Between Kingdom and Koinon (Stuttgart 2016). Presented by the author.

SPOTTS, F., Cursed Legacy: the tragic life of Klaus Mann (London 2016). Presented by the author.

TAPPE, E., Epilogue to ‘Letters from Bucharest 1944– 46’. Presented by the author’s cousin, Mr Brian Davis.

WHITTOW, M., and M. LAUXTERMANN (eds), Byzantium in the Eleventh Century: being in between (London 2017). Presented by co-editor Mark Whittow.

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The library is grateful to Dr Evert van Emde Boas, Dr Jeremy Catto, Sir John Elliott, and Professor Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra, who donated books in their subjects, and to those of this year’s current students and Finalists who showed their support in this way.

Donations of books were also gratefully received from Mr Brian Escott Cox, Professor Mark Whittow, and other kind donors who wish to remain anonymous.

Special thanks go to Mrs Jane Grove Annesley, for her annual gift of money to buy a book in memory of her brother, David Quentin Holder (1966– 9); Mr David Corcos, who presented us with magnificent early works of Fuller and Trusler, the beautifully printed Golden Asse of Lucius Apuleius, and many other volumes of note; Dr David Maskell, who gave us a wonderful collection of antiquarian French books; Mr Nigel Robson, who gave American Tabloid in honour of Matthew Robinson; Professor Dr Michael Stolz, who presented us with various volumes of books and DVDs which he had authored/edited; and Marilyn Yurdan, who gave us a beautiful volume entitled The Great Tapestry of Scotland.

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CHAPEL MUSIC

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he beginning of the academic year found the Choir somewhat depleted, after a significant number of departures the previous June. This state was successfully routed by a concerted campaign of recruitment, and the Choir regained its place at the stalls in renewed strength and vigour of tone. Judicious mixing of existing repertory and new items has enabled a continued development of the collective level of proficiency, and there has been great progress through the year. Among the music added to the repertory over the year have been canticle settings by Henry Purcell (from the Service in B flat), the late Baroque composer Frantisek Tuma, and William Denis Browne, whose youthful promise was tragically cut short during the First World War. In memoriam by the contemporary French composer and former Oriel Distinguished Visiting Musician Thierry Escaich made a powerful contribution to the Remembrance Service. Old favourites were resurrected too: Harris’s Faire is the heaven, Parry’s I was glad, Wood’s Canticles Collegium Regali, Mendelssohn O for the wings of a dove (with Elizabeth Searle as soloist), Stanford’s Canticles in G (with Emily Essex and Matthew Hull as soloists), Pärt’s Littlemore Tractus.

The series of Hilary Term pre-Evensong recitals continued with organ performances by the international concert organist Paul Derrett (including little-known music by Fasch and Cundick), and the organist of St Bride’s Church in the City of London, Matthew Morley (a programme ranging from Sweelinck to Mendelssohn). The musical palette was varied for the third recital with a selection of music for violin and organ given by the violinist William Davidson. He played works by Bach and Kreisler, the latter’s Praeludium and Allegro bringing the concert to a brilliant end. It is encouraging to see continued support for these events.

Alumni are always very welcome.

A weekend of the Easter vacation was given over to the recording of a CD, which should have been released by the time this text is read. It offers a selection of music covering the four liturgical stages of the Christmas Season: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany and Candlemas. There is a mixture of familiar items – Willcocks’s Ding dong merrily on high, Wood’s Past three o’clock, Victoria’s O Magnum mysterium – and less familiar ones – Heketh’s God rest ye merry gentlemen, Marenzio’s Epiphany motet Tribus miraculis, Byrd’s Senex puerum; and there is the first recording of Judith Bingham’s Oriel Magnificat, representing the Marian dedication of Candlemas.

In the wake of this, the Choir participated in the Champagne Concert early in Trinity Term. It presented a foretaste of the CD with performances of Lasso’s Omnes de Saba, Mendelssohn’s I waited for the Lord (with Elizabeth Searle and Emily Essex as soloists) and Wood’s Hail, gladdening light. This last made a striking conclusion even in the Senior Library’s relatively dry acoustic.

The Choir’s tour at the end of the academic year was to Lombardy. Thanks to the organisational genius of Giampiero Innocente, concerts were given to packed audiences in

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The Choir performing at the Trinity Term Champagne Concert

the Aula Magna of the Catholic University of Milan, the church of San Francesco in Lodi and the church of San Bernardino in Crema. The trip ended with Mass at the Basilica of San Marco in Milan. The programme for the tour was drawn from the music sung in Chapel during the year and included Stanford’s Coelos ascendit hodie, Rheinberger’s Abendlied, Anerio’s Magnificat octavi toni and Purcell’s Rejoice in the Lord always (with Malcolm Kittle, Matthew Woolley and William Pickering as soloists). The 450th anniversary of Monteverdi’s birth was marked by his Cantate Domino and Beatus vir. For the concert in the Aula Magna, the Choir was joined by the choir of the Catholic University to perform the two Monteverdi pieces and the Ave Maris stella from the Vespers of 1610. It was a particular pleasure to perform these and other Baroque pieces with the accompaniment of a small string orchestra.

As ever, the triumph of the tour was tinged with the regret of farewells. Christy Callaway-Gale, Emily Essex, Isabel Kempner, Malcolm Kittle and Elizabeth Searle, all choral scholars, have been invaluable members over the past three or four years, contributing enormously to the high standard of music-making week by week as well as taking solos as repertory has demanded. John-Mark Allen (St John’s) was not able to sing with the Choir this year, but had done so for three years previously and will now be greatly missed as he moves away from Oxford. Rory Turnbull sang with the Choir in his first year and returned to it at the end of his third, making a characteristically fine contribution. Choirs around the country will benefit from this Oriel diaspora. A further farewell was to our Chaplain, Robert Tobin. Robert has been a tireless supporter of the Choir during his time at Oriel; and the position of the Choir is now substantially enhanced thanks to his championship. We wish him every success in his new parish.

The Choir will continue to thrive, of course; and that it advances towards the next academic year in such good stead is thanks not only to the skill and commitment of its existing members but also to the assistance of various individuals to the on-going organisational and administrative challenges that its operation poses. Our thanks go to: Emily Essex for her leading role in nurturing Choral Compline; Elizabeth Searle for her enthusiastic promotion of the Choir’s social agenda; Matthew Woolley for his management of the meal bookings and stipends; the Choral Scholars with the management and distribution of music; Marcel Stolz and Yi Yun Soo for help with the preparation of the tour. Much in Chapel music depends on the Organ Scholars, and we are lucky at Oriel to have in Johnson Lau and William McDonald such fine representatives of that essential genus. Our thanks go to them too.

David Maw Director of Music

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COLLEGE SPORTS

CRICKET Following the Oriel CC’s (somewhat unexpected) promotion to the dizzy heights of Division 2 last season, this summer it found itself with an exciting line-up of nine fixtures stretching out over Trinity Term. As ever, Bartlemas was kept in beautiful shape by the wonderful Dave Alcock, and the XI were themselves looking spick and span in pristine whites and baggy caps – but alas, the quality of the cricket itself was not always able to do justice to the appearance of the players and their surroundings.

The team enjoyed some lively and exciting games at a range of grounds around Oxford. Some excellent individual performances made some of the matches close contests, but by mid-season the overall trend was clear: the Oriel CC was going to have to compete mainly in terms of chat, energy and team spirit rather than excellence with bat and ball.

A particular shout-out is necessary to the perseverance and Oriel love exemplified by Mr Malcolm Kittle, who ends his Oriel CC career with three years of caps under his belt but without a single run to his name. This season did, however, contain occasional moments of brilliance, not least from the rapid opening bowling of Mr Collier and the aggressive batting of Mr Lennings.

Everything did indeed come together on one fine afternoon, the season’s final home game, with a strong XI bolstered by the return of the Finalists, and featuring five Oriel Captains past, present and future: myself; last year’s Captain, Max McCreery; the 2015 skipper, Ben Eastwood; Oriel alumnus Ayyaz Mallick; and next year’s Captain! Steely and resolute batting from acting Vice-Captain Mr Wood secured a memorable victory for Oriel in the final over against a flagging St Peter’s side. The scorebook may record it as the team’s sole triumph in the 2017 season, but I hope I am not alone in holding very fond memories of happy, warm Trinity Term afternoons and evenings, surrounded by a fine selection of folks representing Oriel: it was a great pleasure to lead them over the course of the season.

I am glad to hand over the captaincy to the capable hands of the spin-bowling wicketkeeper-batsman Mr Seb Santhiapillai, who will, I am sure, lead the side on to greater things next summer.

Aidan Chivers (Captain)

FOOTBALL

The Oriel football team began the season off the back of a disappointing year, which had seen us finish bottom of the 3rd Division of college football. This was all to change, however: bolstered by the return of several key players and strengthened by the arrival of a number of JCR and MCR Freshers, the team had a very successful season and built up a strong reputation as a sporting force within College again. A fantastic run of form in

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On the steps at Bartlemas at the annual Old Boys match, with members of the 16/17 team in blue kit

Michaelmas saw the team beat Hertford, Magdalen, Brasenose (Cuppers holders, no less!) and Trinity (a smashing 9–1 performance at Bartlemas), meaning that we finished the term second in the League at the midpoint of the season – only one point off neighbours Corpus Christi, and with the best defensive and attacking records in the League.

Hilary Term was just as exciting for the team. The annual Old Boys’ match was once again a tightly contested affair, with the Old Boys picking up a 4–3 win despite a late comeback from the current side. Elsewhere, in the League, wins against Magdalen (a fantastic comeback from 3–1 down, with Virchis nabbing four goals) and Brasenose (a superb team performance culminating in a 5–0 away victory and another Burney-O’Dowd hat-trick), and draws with Hertford and Trinity put the team in a very strong position for promotion, leading up to back-to-back crunch matches against Christ Church – a very strong team who finished runners-up in this year’s Cuppers. Alas, two narrow defeats meant Oriel’s promotion hopes lay in the hands of Magdalen; if they could avoid defeat to Corpus Christi, Oriel would go up.

A sunny day in Eighth Week saw a crowd of Oriel players and supporters (and even more Oriel fans watching the match on the Facebook Live stream) arrive at Corpus Christi’s ground to watch Corpus play Magdalen in a match that would decide which of Oriel and Corpus would be promoted. A classic Division 3 encounter ensued: Oriel thought the prize was theirs when Magdalen equalised to make it 3–3 with only minutes to go. But in true college football style, Corpus were gifted a free-kick on the edge of the box and after a goalmouth scramble, their striker poked the ball home, much to the despair of the Oriel faithful both at the ground and watching online.

Sadly, promotion was not to be this year, much to the disappointment of a big squad who had worked hard together all year. However, the fact that we came so close to promotion, having finished bottom of the League last year is testament to just how well the team worked this year. It was a pleasure to captain such a great group of guys from both JCR

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and MCR on and off the pitch, and football in Oriel has definitely come a long way this year, with the team having its most successful season in over a decade.

Particular mention should go to Rohin Burney-O’Dowd, who finished second-highest scorer across all colleges, and who needs just three goals next season to break the all-time Oriel goal scoring record. Also to Aidan Lea, who played his first season for Oriel and was a stalwart at the back, deservedly being awarded the Players’ Player of the Year Award. And lastly to our leavers: Isaac Virchis (who also captained the University 3rd team this season), Charlie Wells, Jack Atkinson, Alex Lethbridge and Shashwat Saxena, all of whom once again put in terrific shifts for Oriel in their last season in navy blue.

Fingers crossed that next year’s report will contain news of Oriel FC’s successful promotion campaign – led by First Year Biochemist Michael Beer, the next Captain of the team.

Eoin Monaghan (Captain)

HOCKEY

Oriel hockey enjoyed a successful, if unusual 2016/17 season, which began with Oriel merging with St John’s College to ensure that we had enough players on a weekly basis, unlike last year. This move instantly paid dividends in Michaelmas Term, when we were in Division 2. A string of wins meant that Oriel was able to gain promotion without defeat, which was a truly remarkable turnaround from last year.

Our League momentum continued with a decent start in Division 1 in Hilary Term.

Unfortunately we could not match the quality of performance in Cuppers, where we were outgunned by last year’s champions, St Hilda’s, despite putting on an energetic display.

The Division 1 campaign was most unusual due to poor organisation from OUHC, which ensured that the League would not be completed. OUHC muddled the schedule by beginning Cuppers well before the completion of the Hilary League season, which pushed many League fixtures into Trinity, with the result that they could not then be completed because of Finals. Thus, despite our positive performances in Division 1, the final standings are unclear.

Ultimately this was a very successful season for Oriel hockey. We have established a fruitful relationship with St John’s, which has revitalised Oriel’s hockey team and gained promotion to Division 1. I would like to thank Imy Bentham, St John’s Captain, as well as Annie Hazlitt, Shashwat Saxena, Rodney Lorrimar and Dominic Allen (next year’s Captain for Oriel) for all their help. The team is in excellent hands and will hopefully cement this year’s progress moving forward. Floreat Oriel!

Charlie Wells (Captain)

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LACROSSE The Oriel Mixed Lacrosse team had a promising start this year, with many new members of the JCR joining. Our weekly practices in the University Parks ensured that the team (which consisted mostly of novices) soon became more comfortable using the lacrosse sticks. We were therefore able to participate in the League Tournament towards the end of Michaelmas Term. The weekly tournament matches continued throughout Hilary Term but unfortunately, owing to frozen pitches and last minute cancellations, we were unable to play several matches. The season also proved challenging as many of last year’s players were unable to participate and we sadly did not qualify for the finals.

The team finished the season with an enjoyable Cuppers tournament in Trinity Term, recruiting more enthusiastic novices for three excellent matches, drawing against Balliol but losing against New College and Pembroke. I was particularly impressed by the team’s effort and high morale in the match against New College, with ever-improving stick skills and an excellent goal scored by Joshua Hall. Hopefully our enthusiasm and progress throughout the year will be rewarded by more wins in the next season.

Sports Colours this year were awarded to Priyanka Nankani, Cyrille Amand and Andrei Radoi at the annual Sports Dinner in recognition of their contribution and commitment to the team during the 2016/17 season. I will be handing over next year’s captaincy to Priyanka, to whom I wish the very best of luck.

Sophie Stiewe (Captain)

NETBALL

Netball at Oriel this year has been an amazing experience. As Captain I have seen new players blossom and bloom and old players take more of a leading role, but most importantly (more so than winning) I’ve seen smiles, laughs and fun had by all.

We have two teams (A and B) in the 1st and 2nd Leagues respectively; this is such an achievement, as quite a small college, to have two teams in the top two Leagues.

Having played well in both Leagues, we will maintain this impressive status for next year, and aim to improve our position in both.

The B League has a quirky rule allowing boys to play, and (with some coercion) they have risen to the challenge incredibly. Despite initial problems with the fundamental rules (not running with/bouncing the ball), they have learned fast and add so much to the game – thanks, guys! A highlight for me, and I think for the rest of the team, was mixed Cuppers, where we played under the hot summer sun against some of the best teams in the A League along with their 7-ft male additions. Despite not having made it

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past the group stages, we had some convincing wins (against those teams that didn’t show up).

Another highlight was our final game of the League which marked the end of some Finalists’ netball careers at Oriel; it was against Keble and we stopped counting the score at around 30–0 (to Keble) but had a grand time. I wish all the Finalists good luck with their future endeavours, especially netball-related ones.

This year also saw the very first Oriel College Old Girls’ match. An incredible team of alumni came to show us how it was done in the old days – they proved that experience trumps youthful exuberance and won in style. They played so well that we had to draft in part of the rugby team, who didn’t play so well but their help was appreciated nonetheless. Thanks to the Old Girls for making the trip, I hope that this tradition continues!

From Old Girls to Old Girls-to-be. Emily Bell and Jennifer Harrap were awarded Colours this year for their many years of service to the team and for their hard work and ever-present smiles. With Jen’s bright silver coat and Emily’s gorgeous hair, they added colour and flare to the team both on and off court – thanks, girls! Colours were also awarded to our future Captain, Phoebe Homer, a Second-Year historian whose organisational skills are almost as good as her netball, so I am confident that Oriel Netball Club is in good hands.

So far this piece may feel like ‘Confessions of a Netball Team’ as I’ve yet to mention a win, however there have been some (against St Hilda’s and Teddy Hall). People often ask how we manage to stay in the best leagues across the University with so few wins; it was Woody Allen who said that ‘80% of life is turning up’: that’s what we did, and we did it in style. Even if it meant turning up with four players (sorry, Catz), turning up twenty minutes late (sorry, Worcester), or turning up at the wrong court, we always made it eventually and gave it our best. So thank you to the whole team for your commitment and enthusiasm – and for turning up.

Eve Rothwell (Captain)

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MEN'S ROWING This was the year OCBC faced its demons. Denied the Torpids headship by inches in 2016 and tied with Christ Church for Summer Eights headships, we knew this was a make or break season.

It started with a party in September. Tortoises through the ages gathered in Hall to celebrate fifty years since the crew of ’66 bumped to head in Eights. The dinner also launched the start of our Jonathan Close-Brooks new VIII campaign. Corralled by the indefatigable Susan Simons, Associate Director of Development, many generous donors came together to donate. OCBC’s thanks must go to everyone who donated, in particular to David Stokes, who was our first and lead donor, and to Rosemary Close-Brooks, Jonathan’s widow. The ‘spirit of ’66’ became perhaps the leitmotif of the year as we took inspiration from that legendary crew.

‘We went off to France at the start of the year…’ In an aquatic adventure worthy of the ‘Hoods Oarsman’, OCBC was invited to represent the University of Oxford in the Garona Cup in Toulouse in early October. We were a little surprised to find bus shelters across Toulouse adorned with posters advertising Oriel’s participation but we acquitted ourselves well and walked away with the silverware.

Back in Oxford, we knuckled down to work. We delivered an encouraging performance at the Upper Thames Autumn Head at the end of October, being placed third in the 2nd Division. Inclement weather got the novice programme off to a tricky start. We boated a men’s crew for the Christ Church regatta that was unlucky not to progress beyond the Thursday, ending up in an overhanging tree.

Eighth Week came and M1 delivered a thunderbolt at the Fairbairns Head in Cambridge. This was Oriel’s first win at Fairbairns since 1997. We had defeated the Tabs on their water but our work for Michaelmas was not yet complete as we raced Wallingford Head two days later. A very hung-over crew delivered another strong result, finishing the fastest college crew by 39 seconds.

The Christmas vacation was all too short as, to the shock of our families, we returned to Oxford on 3 January to resume training. Wins in fixtures with Abingdon School and the Oxford University Lightweight Blue Boat gave us confidence moving into Torpids. By late February it became clear that the new Jonathan Close-Brooks VIII would not be ready in time for Torpids, unless we could find a way to transport it from the Empacher factory in Eberbach in southern Germany to the Isis. Heroically, Nebojsa and Stevan Boljevic volunteered to drive to Germany to take delivery of the ‘JCB’. OCBC owes them a huge debt of gratitude.

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keep hold of the headship.

This proved to be so. We closed to half a length on the Wednesday as we came onto Greenbanks but could not find that gear shift. Thursday was no more fortuitous. On Friday we front-loaded our race plan and rocketed to a quarter of a length-off opposite the Oriel Boathouse. For a moment I thought this was it – we were going to do it! It was not to be, an ill-timed crab brutally bringing the Jonathan Close-Brooks to a juddering halt. M2 and M3 also had challenging weeks. The 2nd Torpid had trained ferociously at Wallingford throughout the term, putting in ten sessions in the fourteen days prior to Torpids. Unfortunately this did not crystallise into results, M2 falling from eleventh in Division 3 to fourth in Division 4. M3 were unable to repeat the heroics of last year’s once in a decade qualification.

The Saturday was an exciting day on and off the water. Moments before watching W1 win the Torpids headship, Rosemary Close-Brooks officially launched the Jonathan Close-Brooks. Watched by a large crowd of Tortoises, many of whom were from the crew of ’66, it was a wonderful celebration of OCBC history.

We still fancied ourselves the fastest crew on the Isis. We were selected as Oxford’s crew for the Henley Boat Races and found ourselves up against Lady Margaret’s of St John’s Cambridge. With three members of the Torpid unable to make the HBR race, we fielded a weakened crew and were turned over in choppy conditions. At the real Boat Races, a week later, Oriel oarsman Achim Harzheim enjoyed more success in an Isis crew that beat Goldie by two and a half lengths.

After Torpids we waved goodbye to our coach, John Faulkner. In came Joe Dawson as men’s side coach, a three-time Isis oarsman and twice Oriel Summer Eights headship rower. His mantra was ‘leave no stone unturned,’ and the Summer Eights crew lived by these words.

The Oriel headship retention formula is well honed: train harder, earlier and better than the chasing crews and we’d ultimately pull through. But with the Christ Church and Keble boats stacked with Blue Boat oarsmen and Olympic medallists, would it be enough?

We welcomed into the crew Achim Harzheim, who sat in the stroke seat, but we lacked a final bow sider so were forced to play an ongoing game of musical chairs as we searched for a permanent two man. After a promising start to the term we came unstuck

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at Wallingford Regatta, struggling in challenging conditions. The crew came back stronger the following weekend, winning the college eights event at Bedford Regatta for the fourth year in a row.

But we were battling giants too big at Eights. Christ Church bumped M1 two-thirds of the way along Greenbanks on the Wednesday. Keble got us on Thursday, a boat length further down. On the Friday and Saturday we proceeded to put about eight lengths into Pembroke, who were chasing us. We were, quite literally, in a league of our own, a cut below the fastest two crews but lengths ahead of the rest of the field.

M2 won spoons as they slid from twelfth in Division 2 to third in Division 3. Having risen so high in recent years, M2 were perhaps experiencing a ‘gravity check’. M3 and M4 both enjoyed exciting weeks in the lower Divisions. The 3rd VIII ended up rowing over all week, while M4 had a more turbulent time, rising from twelfth to eleventh in Division 7.

It is noteworthy that OCBC fielded the most men’s crews of any college, particularly impressive given our smallish student body. We still have some way to go until we return to 1981, when the only man in College who did not row had a wooden leg!

None of this year would have been possible without this year’s OCBC committee: Simon Bevan, Hugh Rowan, Tacita McCoy-Parkhill, Eleanor Ainscoe, Frankie Satchwell and Eddie Shields. Enormous thanks also to the Tortoise Club, to Wilf Stephenson for guiding OCBC through thick and thin, and to Matthew Gilpin for his generous financial and botanical support of OCBC.

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I wish my successor Robert Boswall all the best as he pulls the club towards headships future. I’ll leave you with this: since 1990 Oriel have had more Eights headships (fifteen) than every other college put together. There have been fallow years along the way but OCBC has always bounced back and so it will continue.

Floreat Oriel!

Henry Shalders

WOMEN’S ROWING

2016/17 was a historic year for the OCBC women’s squad. Following on from last year’s rise to second in Torpids, W1 won the second-ever headship for women at Oriel – eleven years after the first one.

Looking further down the river, the lower boats have had the strongest showing in quite some time, with W2 surging up seven places in Torpids, and two in Eights (hindered by Hertford-related klaxons). W3 finished one place higher in Eights, a feat not achieved since 2004. This year has been one that has seen a rise in the level of passion and commitment through the entire squad, and it has certainly paid off.

MICHAELMAS TERM We had a strong number of returning rowers to kick off the year, starting in VIIIs as early as Noughth Week. Our novice programme, led by my incredibly talented Vice-Captain Rebecca Leigh, had a running start with a record fourteen sign-ups. With these bolstered numbers, the entire squad got into the swing of training easily.

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Throughout Michaelmas we had our novices training on the Isis with their coach, Gail McCoy-Parkhill, and the returning rowers all training out at Wallingford together with long-time Oriel coach and legend James Armitage. At weekends we would take eighteen rowers and a coach out to do side-by-side training in matched boats – a first for Oriel women’s rowing and something that proved invaluable!

The major events of the term were a resounding success, giving everyone in the squad a chance to race multiple times – a rarity during a normal Michaelmas Term. The Novices made it to the final day of Christ Church Regatta, but were knocked out in their first race after a tough match with New College. The 1st VIII was placed ninth at Fairbairns Cup after some illness-related substitutions, but came back in force for Wallingford Head, finishing as the second fastest college of the day.

HILARY TERM Hilary started early for many of the squad, as our training camp got under way in early First Week. It was a gruelling lead into the term but very well worth it, as everyone in the crew came on immensely. Sadly, despite the gains made during training camp, we had lost some numbers over Christmas and were forced to call it quits with W3.

Early Hilary was a tale of intense training across the entire squad. With both boats training out at Wallingford side by side, and everyone doing ergs and weights together, the squad was quickly becoming a force to be reckoned with. The latter part of the term saw us race at Henley Fours and Eights, placed second of the colleges, and have a private match with Wolfson – giving us real race experience right before Torpids got under way.

Torpids flew by, though not without a very large dose of nerves! W1 bumped in to head on Wednesday, comfortably holding headship until the very last day, when Wadham came heart-stoppingly close – but a very gentle run across the river saved us and we crossed the line victorious. W2 stormed up the river, gaining an incredible seven bumps in four days – putting them up into Division 3.

The term ended with a trip to WEHoRR, competing for the first time in many years.

Starting off in 153rd, we ended up in 82nd – rising a respectable seventy-one places. The women’s squad is certainly in an excellent position for next Hilary!

TRINITY TERM Trinity began with a round of recruitment, in an attempt to resurrect W3. This proved surprisingly effective, and we finally had three boats training for Bumps. Training for Summer Eights always descends into something of a mad rush, and this year was no exception. Before long, Eights were here, and racing had begun again.

Eights were a mixed bag for the women’s squad. The 1st VIII dropped down a place

W2 moments away from a bump during Torpids

after a couple of very close races (and a full-on sprint on Saturday!). However, the lower boats both rose up the river, with W2 bumping up for the first two days, and missing out by 3 ft on the last two, stopped both times by a klaxon. Similarly, W3 had two klaxonned races over four days, though still managed to bump up a position, a great reversal of last year’s spoons. Overall this was an excellent result for the lower boats, as compared to last year things have turned around completely. For W1 we were disappointed to have dropped a Division, but having lost half of our Torpids crew to exams and no Blues incoming, we were always going to have our work cut out for us.

The squad’s achievements this year are truly testament to the hard work, commitment and passion of all of the girls, and I hope that the new culture we’ve striven to instil this year will remain strong for the foreseeable future.

I want personally to thank a couple of people for making this year what it has been: firstly my Vice-Captain, Rebecca Leigh, without whom this year would not have happened at all – she has brought such a fantastic energy and presence to the Boat Club and we’ve been lucky to have her. Secondly to our coach, James Armitage, who has stuck with us through thick and thin. We are incredibly proud to have won his first-ever (and very well deserved) headship, and look forward to more years of success.

Finally, it’s my great pleasure to hand over the captaincy to Lara Bonney, who I’m sure will have every success in the role. Roll on 2017/18!

Edward Carroll (Captain) CREWS 1st Torpid (1st Division 1, +1) Edward Carroll (cox), Eleanor Ainscoe, Meredith Ellis, Lara Bonney, Josephine Wilks, Alexandra Fortacz, Sally Foster, Alice Blanchard, Rebecca Leigh (Vice-Captain) 2nd Torpid (10th Division 3, +7) Edward Shields (cox), Charlotte Anstey, Jade Tinslay, Theresa Fruth and Katherine Macfarlane, Renée Koolschijn, Amanda Higgin, Francesca Hearing, Rhiannon Savage, Anna Chirniciuc, Juliet Butcher

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1st VIII (1st Division 1, -1) Edward Carroll (cox), Lara Bonney, Eleanor Ainscoe, Josephine Wilks and Rebecca Leigh (Vice-Captain), Alexandra Fortacz, Andrea Gonzalez Negron, Francesca Hearing, Charlotte Anstey, Sally Foster 2nd VIII (6th Division 4, +2) Edward Shields (cox), Hannah Laurenson-Schafer, Theresa Fruth, Amanda Higgin, Meredith Ellis, Dana Poscente, Dena Latif, Isabella Clarke, Rhiannon Savage, Maddy Smith, Saskia Tavares De Wand 3rd VIII (10th Division 5, +1) Priyanka Nankani (cox), Annabel Hancock, Renée Koolschijn, Tess Leyland, Mirjam Heldner, Stephanie Hodgetts, Sophie Stiewe, Amelia Tai, Eleanor Juckes

RUGBY

Our year began well with a larger than usual intake of new players. We began Michaelmas Term in Division 4, winning our first game but unfortunately losing the following three.

Although this meant relegation to Division 5, there were promising signs for the next term. Hilary Term brought better rugby and results, with our opening game being a tightly fought 29–25 victory against St Hilda’s. The annual match against the Old Boys ended with a substantial win for Old Boys, but their flair no doubt inspired us to better performances later in the season. After a disappointing loss to Brasenose, we concluded the season with two convincing and well-deserved 60–24 and 70–5 wins against University and Merton-Mansfield respectively. Unfortunately we just missed out on a place in the Cuppers quarter-finals but all players should be proud of the greatly improved standard of rugby at the end of the season, which secured us promotion to Division 4.

Overall, the season has been encouraging, particularly the latter part of it. Highlights include the many crunching tackles from Will Pickering, huge runs from Tim Stuart, and all-round exceptional play from Sasha Agureev; all awarded Sports Colours for their efforts.

We were also very lucky to get a new scrum-machine, partly funded by Orielenses and the College. On behalf of the whole team I would like to thank say thank you for this generosity. I’m sure it contributed to our better performances towards the end of the year and will no doubt help improve Oriel’s scrummaging for many years to come. Next season looks particularly promising with five Oriel players involved with University rugby at some level.

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TORTOISE CLUB

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he Tortoise Club exists with two primary purposes at its heart: the recognition and celebration of outstanding Oriel oarsmanship and the financial support of the Oriel College Boat Club. Any rower who achieved Tortoise status in their time at the College is automatically entitled to membership of the Club, including those who were previously members of the Blessed Virgins. The Club Council works to achieve the Club’s fundraising aims alongside organising Club events and acting as a point of call for Boat Club Captains seeking advice.

The Tortoise Club was supremely pleased to celebrate the success of W1 in regaining Headship in Torpids marking the second ever women’s Headship for OCBC in what was a year filled with strong performances by Oriel at Fairbairns, Wallingford Head, Women’s Eights Head of the River, Bedford Regatta and Henley Royal Regatta.

In past years Tortoises have been vital financial supporters of OCBC and this continued in 2016–17. At the time of writing, the Blades scheme is approaching its target of £20,000 in annual funding – a truly transformative sum of money which will ensure that OCBC can retain a position of strength on the river for years to come. Speaking for the Club, I am hugely grateful to all those who have made the pledge to support the Boat Club over the last twelve months and whose names are listed elsewhere in the Oriel Record. I hope that many more will join their ranks in the months and years to come. It would also be an oversight not to mention the outstanding generosity of those Tortoises who supported the Jonathan CloseBrooks fundraising campaign, in memory of the late captain of the 1966 headship crew, for a new Mens’ 1st VIII, which was the most successful fundraiser in Boat Club history.

The club hosted two primary events for its members over the year: the London Club dinner in November and the Henley Luncheon at HRR in July. The London Dinner serves as the Club AGM and featured the election of the new Club Council members alongside speeches

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from the Captains laying out their plans for the coming year to a rather demanding audience! 2017 saw the management of the Henley Luncheon taken over by the Tortoise Club from the Boat Club, moving the event to the lunch interval in the prime real estate of Lion Meadow, offering Tortoises who matriculated all the way from 1956 up to 2016 a chance to share stories and celebrate OCBC. Having built a strong platform in this first year, I am confident that we can expand to bigger and better things in 2017–18 and implore all Tortoises to reach out to their crews and consider making a return to one of our events or Boat Club dinners to recapture the magic that makes Oriel rowing so special.

Should the Captains’ reports stir a desire in your heart to support OCBC please do not hesitate to contact me at tortoise-president@orielrowing.org. Beyond financial support, the Club Council is always open to hearing from Tortoises interested in getting more closely involved in the operation of the club.

Floreat Oriel!

Stevan Boljevic (2014), President

ORIEL SOCIETY

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rielenses should be aware that they are all members of the Oriel Society, which exists to help foster and maintain contacts between Orielenses and the College. It supports the aims and objectives of the College by being a forum for friendship and fellowship among all Orielenses, Fellows, former Fellows and friends of the College. Any past or present member of the College is automatically a member of the Oriel Society, and there is no subscription fee. The Oriel Society Committee acts as a consultative body advising the College on its alumni relations strategy and representing alumni views to the College.

Over the last academic year there has been the usual plethora of events for alumni. In October 2016 there was a sell-out Champagne Concert in the Senior Library by the 11-year old composer, violinist and pianist Alma Deutscher. The concert was attended by ninety Orielenses and guests, filmed by the BBC for a documentary about Alma for the arts strand Imagine, and widely judged to have been a triumph. In November, seventy or so Orielenses attended the Young Alumni Drinks at The Counting House Pub, London EC3, the imprecision in numbers being perhaps accounted for by the location and the evident enthusiasm of all concerned to be welcomed into the Oriel Society and alumni network. Our Secretary, Hugh

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Bryant, organised the usual Oriel trip to the Varsity Match in early December, and two carol services attended by alumni rounded off the calendar year.

In February 2017 we had the first Returners’ Dinner, a new event to replace the Finalists’ Dinner of previous years. Diligent readers of these reports will recall that Oriel Society Presidents would appear at the old events to urge on Finalists with the traditional speech perfected by my predecessor, John Albert, along the lines of: ‘Finals are awful, but they don’t much matter in the great scheme of things’. This was evidently a high-risk approach and, although I softened the tone somewhat last year, no doubt as a direct result of which we had thirty-eight Firsts out of eighty students and came first in the initial version of the Norrington Table, it is probably just as well that the event is now held well after Finals… Also in February, as part of our efforts to broaden our connections with alumni, the Provost attended a dinner for thirty Orielenses and guests at the New Club in Edinburgh.

Later in the month, Oriel rowing enthusiasts were treated to a vintage Torpids, in which the Women’s 1st VIII bumped up to Head in only twenty strokes on the Wednesday and held on for the following three days; the Men came to within a canvas of Pembroke, doubtless aided by their new boat, the Jonathan Close-Brooks, funded by donations and named after the Captain of Oriel’s first Head crew of the modern era in 1966. The men were no doubt relieved that the women’s performance justified a full Bump Supper with attendant boat-burning, which was attended by various alumni.

On 20 April we had the London Alumni Dinner at Lambeth Palace and an excellent speech on his political life and times from Orielensis The Rt Hon Sir Alan Haslehurst MP (1956), MP for Saffron Walden since 1997 and Deputy Speaker of the Commons from 1997 to 2010. The event was a sell-out, with ninety Orielenses and guests attending, and Sir Alan’s speech was an elegant reminder that turbulence at Westminster is not a new phenomenon – we are most grateful to him.

The Garden Party on 28 May saw ninety-four Orielenses and their families enjoying champagne, strawberries and cream on the lawn in Second Quad, with the addition this year of face-painting and live music. However, the traditional stroll down to the river to see Oriel row over as Head was marred somewhat by the fact that the Oriel men’s 1st VIII had already been bumped by Blues-laden crews from Christ Church and Keble, and the women’s crew were not close enough to their Headship to come to their rescue as they had at Torpids. No doubt setbacks on the river will be temporary, but I may never again be able to begin a speech with the phrase ‘Oriel is Head of the Norrington Table as well as Head of the River’, as I did to the Alumni Dinner in September 2016. Ah well, it did have a slightly surreal ring to it…

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music at Oriel, particularly the Oriel Choir. There will be a ‘scratch’ Choral Evensong service sung by current and former members of the Choir and led by former Organ Scholars. The evening will no doubt represent a significant cultural upgrade on the September 2016 event focused on Rowing at Oriel, at which the singing was of a very different nature.

I trust that we will again have a full Hall!

Lack of space prevents me describing the many and varied other events open to Orielenses during the year, but these included Champagne Concerts, golf days, and many other events associated with donor groups such as the Adam de Brome, 1326 and Raleigh Societies.

Given the variety of events and other interactions with alumni sponsored by the College, I would like to draw the attention of Orielenses to the survey in which they should recently have been invited to participate by letter or email. Oriel is seeking to understand how Orielenses would like to engage with the College, and to gather views and suggestions as to the activities and functions that the College should provide for alumni. The Oriel Society is contributing to the costs of this exercise, which is the first-ever survey of the College’s alumni, and the Oriel Society Committee would be most grateful for your participation.

Before closing, I should note that this will be the last Oriel Record Orielenses will receive before the departure of our Provost, Moira Wallace. At the risk of turning the final academic year of her tenure into one long goodbye, I would very much like to thank Moira on behalf of the Oriel Society Committee and Orielenses generally for the great work she has done at Oriel, particularly in relation to alumni relations and outreach. My thanks to the Oriel Society Committee members and to the Development Office for their continued help and support.

Floreat Oriel!

Geoffrey Austin (1983), President ORIEL SOCIETY COMMITTEE Peter Collett (1952) Michael Kenworthy-Browne (1957) Hugh Bryant (1969) Secretary Jonathan Brewer (1973) John Slade (1976) Clive Mackintosh of Halifax (1977) Treasurer Geoffrey Austin (1983) President

Vincent Warner (1984) Laura Dosanjh (1986) Claire Toogood (1991) Sarah Kiefer (2003) Daniel McLean (2007) Sophie Ross (2011) Teresa Morgan (Fellow)

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ORIEL ALUMNI AND ALUMNAE GOLF

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riel’s annual golf day is a mixed-ability event that welcomes golfers who put a high premium on keeping up with old friends and generating new ones while enjoying a light-hearted round on an excellent course and then a lavish lunch. It has attracted steadily increasing numbers. Woking Golf Club, for some years now the venue, is a most beautiful course, offering broad, smiling fairways and suave, gently undulating greens. To borrow Bishop Heber’s words, ‘every prospect pleases’. But those fir-lined fairways are sheathed with knotty heather; the bunkers are artfully placed and the greens are invariably hard to read. So many congratulations on our day in September 2016 to Simon Combe, who faced down these hazards to win the silver trophy with thirty-four Stableford points. Only one point behind was Graham Davies, over from Canada for the occasion; and John Scott came third with a creditable thirty-two. Very well done, all three, and warmest thanks to Orielensis and former Woking Captain, Richard Wells, our genial host.

Oriel also enters a cross-Oxford intercollegiate competition, held each year in April at Frilford Heath Golf Club near Abingdon. Frilford boasts three eighteen-hole courses, none perhaps quite so pleasing to the eye as Woking, but offering equal if not greater challenges to scoring. Competitors play in threes, mixing different colleges, handicaps and vintages, making for many interesting conversations. Following the competition, the previous year’s winning college hosts an optional dinner for players, their guests and organisers. Sixteen colleges entered in 2017. Hertford won for a second successive year, followed by St Peter’s and Pembroke. Oriel placed eighth, level with Balliol and ahead of several other larger colleges, including Christ Church. It was very pleasing that we could field a full team of ten players, including a couple of single-figure handicappers. In the top six who scored, there were excellent performances from Richard Gordon, Simon Jackson (making his first appearance) and Patrick Hole, ably supported by Mike Howard, Richard Seddon and Simon Combe, who only edged out John Scott on countback.

We look forward to equally enjoyable events in 2018. More information may be found on the events pages of the alumni website.

Hugh Bredin (1955) and Steven Wood (1969)

PROVOST'S LUNCH

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n a rather damp Saturday in late July, thirty-one of our most senior Orielenses were welcomed back to College for a special ‘Provost’s Lunch’ for those who matriculated in 1952 or earlier. The event was rather like a lunchtime Gaudy, so the afternoon began with a special Chapel service for those who wished to attend, with readings from the Revd Michael Drew (1952) and the Revd Prebendary Anthony Budgett (1947). This was followed by drinks in the large marquee handily situated in Second Quad thanks to recent graduation celebrations, which provided excellent shelter from the elements.

After drinks the guests made their way up to the Champneys Room for a group photograph with the Provost to commemorate the occasion. A three-course lunch and coffee followed, and the Provost gave a speech to the assembled guests. It was an opportunity to recall life at Oriel in the very different circumstances of the war years and the post-war period. These were clearly stressful times for the College, as for the nation, and the College contributed to the war effort in a variety of ways. It is hard now to imagine the quads being turned over to growing vegetables, but it happened! After the war the challenges for the College were different, as a shortage of students turned into a surplus, with ex-servicemen returning to take up their degrees alongside those who were just turning eighteen. One feels for the chef and kitchen staff facing the challenge of feeding a large number of hungry students in a time of rationing.

All those present had many happy memories of their time at College and enjoyed comparing notes with their contemporaries. The earliest matriculation date among the guests at this special Gaudy was 1944 and it was wonderful to see so many here with relatives or friends, reminiscing about what Oriel was like during their time here and discussing what has changed – and indeed what has remained the same! It was a lovely occasion to organise and we intend to continue this tradition periodically in the future.

Katie Brown Communications Officer

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COMMEMORATION OF BENEFACTORS

Sermon preached by Dr William Wood at the Commemoration of Benefactors Service on Sunday 23 October 2016

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oday is Benefactors’ Sunday, when we look back to Oriel’s long history and honour important members from our past. We remember that our College has not always been ours and does not belong exclusively to us. It is also a gift that has been passed down to us, one that we in turn hold in trust for future generations. I speak today about Professor John Hick, a former DPhil student at Oriel. He was born in 1922 and he died ninety years later, in 2012. His benefaction to the College was not financial but intellectual.

Hick was one of the twentieth century’s most important philosophers of religion.

He features prominently on the A-level Religious Studies syllabus. Incidentally, by my count there are six former members of Oriel who feature prominently on the current A-Level Philosophy of Religion syllabus. Surely no other academic institution in the world has had such a disproportionate impact on the course of modern Theology and Philosophy of Religion?

Whenever I am invited to preach, I always worry that my sermon will devolve into a Philosophy of Religion Lecture, and I think that danger is especially acute tonight. So to head that off I want to begin on a pastoral note, by quoting from a passage of Hick’s autobiography, in which he describes the experience of coming to the end of his time at Oriel, when he submitted his DPhil for examination. When he recounts his DPhil viva, he cites from his own diary. He writes I did very badly in answering. I got confused and made a poor showing. They gave no indication of the result, but I felt at the end that I had certainly failed. I am extremely disappointed and depressed… When I re-read my thesis after the viva, I was shocked to see how feeble it was. It was much less well-written than I thought. I wouldn’t encourage anyone to read it and I will consider myself lucky to get a degree on it!

Of course Hick passed with great acclaim, and the thesis that he regarded as so poor became his first book, Faith and Knowledge, which remains a very important and influential work to this day. So my chief pastoral intervention this evening is to remind my academic colleagues, at whatever stage they might be, from First Years onwards: we all think our own work is poor, even those of us who are destined for academic greatness, like John Hick.

One of Hick’s most important contributions to philosophical theology is his attempt to wrestle with the problem of evil, the problem of why our world – supposedly created by an all-powerful and all-good God – is filled with so much pain and suffering. According to Hick,

suffering is a necessary condition for spiritual development: if we are to grow in virtue, first we must suffer. The world is a ‘vale of soul-making’, and our suffering is like a refining fire, burning away our imperfections so that we become ever more moral, good, and virtuous.

On this understanding, human beings are imperfect and incomplete. We are made in the image of God, as the opening verses of Genesis teach, but we are spiritually immature.

Our task is to grow up. We grow up, morally speaking, by becoming better, more virtuous people. But we cannot grow up if we are never challenged, never thwarted, never opposed.

Suffering provides us with the opportunity for growth, and this is why God allows it. Hick writes: ‘A world without problems, difficulties, perils, and hardships would be morally static, for moral and spiritual growth comes through responses to challenges, and in a paradise there would be no challenges.’

Hick’s basic response to the problem of evil, then, is that soul-making – the ability to grow in virtue – is a great good, and so it is also good that God would design a world that allows us to grow in virtue. Our world looks very well designed indeed, from that perspective. If evil is a ‘problem’, that is only because we wrongly believe that the world ought to be a pain-free, hedonistic paradise.

What should we make of Hick’s response? As Christians, followers of Christ, I think we must first agree that much of what Hick says is profoundly true. Properly understood, the life of Christian discipleship is a life of suffering, precisely because it is a life built around the imitation of Christ. To be sure, the Christian life is also meant to be one in which suffering is leavened with an even deeper joy, but Hick’s basic point is right. Someone who expects this life to be free from suffering misunderstands what it means to follow Christ.

Still, I confess that Hick’s response also leaves me unsatisfied. So much human suffering does not seem connected to spiritual growth – the suffering of infants, for instance, or the suffering of non-human animals. And sometimes a person can suffer so intensely that spiritual development actually becomes impossible. Furthermore, the sheer magnitude of the suffering we observe in the world can seem out of proportion to the moral lessons it is supposedly meant to teach. So while I believe that we have much to learn

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from Hick’s soul-making theodicy, I also believe that it cannot be the only thing that Christians say in response to the problem of evil. I say this even though I myself am unsure what more to say.

I turn now to Hick’s second major contribution to philosophical theology. According to Hick, all of the world’s great religions are equally salvific and, indeed, equally true. Here is a little story that illustrates this view. You may have heard it yourself.

Three blind men are touching an elephant. The first touches the elephant’s leg.

He says, ‘I think an elephant is like the trunk of a great tree’. The second blind man disagrees. He touches the elephant’s trunk and says, ‘I think an elephant is like a large snake’. The third blind man insists they are both wrong. ‘An elephant is like a great wall’, he says, because he is touching the elephant’s side. Each man is convinced that he is right and the others are wrong but they never realise that they are all right, because they are all touching the same elephant. Let the blind men in this story represent the major religions of the world, each in contact with the same ‘elephant’ without knowing it.

This is roughly Hick’s view of how things are for adherents of different religions: while they seem to disagree, their disagreements are only at the surface level, because on a deeper level they really do agree. They are all in contact with the same ultimate reality.

They encounter it through the medium of their own various cultural, historical and linguistic backgrounds, but the ultimate reality, that with which they are in contact, is the same. So a Jew will describe the ultimate reality in Jewish terms, a Christian in Christian terms, a Hindu in Hindu terms, and so forth.

According to Hick, these seemingly incompatible religious interpretations are all correct. What is really significant about all the world’s religions, says Hick, is not that they make propositional assertions about what is or is not really the case, but that they all foster spiritual growth and transformation, a shift from self-centeredness to othercenteredness. So, for example, Christians, Jews and Muslims identify the ultimate reality with God, and furthermore hold that this God is in some sense personal. By contrast, some forms of Buddhism or Hinduism deny that there is a personal God, and hold instead that the ultimate reality is a non-personal state, such as emptiness or Nirvana.

Remarkably, according to Hick, all sides in the dispute are correct because they do not really disagree with one another. They are all correct because of Hick’s views about what a religion is. That is, all the different religions offer equally effective, compatible ways of commending to us what really matters most: the moral imperative to shift from selfcenteredness to other-centeredness. What matters are not the metaphysical claims that a religion makes, but the forms of life they inspire. A religion’s metaphysical claims – in

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the case of Christianity, its claims about the triune nature of God, or that Christ is both fully divine and fully human – have the same status as the claims of any other great religion. They are all utterly unknowable, and in any case of secondary importance to what really matters: the ethical imperative to shift from self-centeredness to reality-centeredness.

It is easy to see the appeal of Hick’s view, and I suspect that it is a view that many people, even many Christians, intuitively endorse. It seems like a way of respecting the value of traditions other than one’s own, minimising religious disagreement and focusing on the very necessary project of fostering moral and spiritual growth and a more just world. These are all worthy goals.

Even so, I do not believe that we should endorse Hick’s views. What seems like a way of paying respect to other religious traditions is really a way of refusing to take them seriously.

(I am sure that this was not Hick’s intention, and I want to be clear about that.) We cannot take religious believers seriously if we refuse to allow that they disagree with one another about matters of fundamental importance. It could only be the case that the devout Jew who denies the divinity of Christ and the devout Christian who affirms it really mean the same thing if we insist that neither one of them really means what they think they mean – that is, if we assume that we understand their religious beliefs better than they themselves do.

It might be helpful to transpose this into a political idiom. Suppose you are a diehard anti-Brexiter. You offer some carefully thought-out arguments and evidence against the Brexit position. Now suppose that I tell you that your arguments are actually equivalent to the arguments made by your pro-Brexit opponents, and that in reality the pro-Brexit position and the anti-Brexit position are saying exactly the same thing. You might have many reactions to this, but I very much doubt that you would think that I am taking you seriously or respecting your views. You do oppose Brexit, and it is not for me to tell you that really, you don’t. My point, then, is that rational disagreement is a form of respect. If we have a theory of religion that does not admit the possibility that religious believers can actually disagree, or that religious claims can actually conflict, then we are not respecting other religions or religious belief, despite our best intentions.

To that end, you might wonder why I have spent much of my own sermon disagreeing with John Hick. And this is why: rational disagreement is a form of respect. That is a lesson that we should heed above all in a university setting, or in the setting of an Oxford college.

Any academic institution worthy of the name exists in part to foster rational disagreement.

Similarly, any religious faith worthy of the name should welcome rational disagreement, precisely because the religious life, no less than the academic life, is oriented around the pursuit of truth. I commemorate John Hick by doing him the great honour of taking his views seriously, even though I do not agree with them. Because he understood himself to be a Christian, and a philosopher, he would want nothing less.

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ART AS HISTORY BY THE FIRST HISTORIAN OF ART: GIORGIO VASARI’S RITRATTO DI SEI POETI TOSCANI Reprinted, with permission, from The Oxford Historian Issue XIII

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anging in the Senior Common Room of Oriel College, above the fireplace and in pride of place at the heart of the room, hangs a rather curious painting. Surrounded by dark portraits of former Provosts and Fellows, the painting catches the eye if for no other reason than its incongruity with the surrounding works. Depicting six men in intense discussion, its crowded frame and bright, almost fresco-like quality immediately mark it out as something different.

The painting, called Portrait of six Tuscan poets or simply Six Tuscan poets, is the work of the Italian painter and scholar Giorgio Vasari. Produced in 1544, it portrays, as its title suggests, six poets who all hailed from the region of Tuscany, the hinterland of the city of Florence and the cradle of the Renaissance. The painting’s central figure, seated on a Savonarola chair and shown in his distinct, aquiline profile, is Dante Alighieri (c.1265– 1321), author of the Divine Comedy. To his immediate right is Francesco Petrarcha, known in English as Petrarch (1304–1374), who is dressed in clerical garb and holds in his hand a copy of his own Scattered Rhymes, identifiable by the cameo of Laura on its cover. Behind Dante stands Guido Cavalcanti (c.1255–1300), author of a body of Italian love poems, who in the image can be seen pointing to the book in Dante’s hand, and Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 – 1375), author of the Decameron. A little removed from the conversation, stand Cino di Pistoia (1270 – 1336) and Guittone d’Arezzo (c.1230–1294), both likewise Tuscan poets of the dolce stil novo, the new vernacular poetry.1 Vasari himself was a Tuscan, born in Arezzo in the year 1511. Today, despite having produced a wide range of artistic and architectural works, Vasari is remembered not primarily as an artist but rather as Europe’s first art historian. His Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, published in Florence in 1550, was an enormous compendium of biographies of the greats of the Italian Renaissance, including such well-known figures as Giotto, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo. In it, Vasari not only demonstrated his own historical genius, but he birthed an entire intellectual genre – art history – that captured the spirit of an age in which artists were coming to be held in the same esteem that poets and writers had long enjoyed.

The Six Tuscan Poets fits into this genius of Vasari’s for the blending of art and intellectual history, but functions in reverse to the Lives. Where the Lives uses the techniques of biography in order to reveal art, the Six Tuscan Poets uses art in order to create intellectual history. It was an ideological and intellectual statement, painted to advertise Tuscan cultural supremacy in an Italy that was divided between a tapestry of polities and dialects. Since 1300, the literary output of Tuscany’s writers had been slowly

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The Oriel Ritratto di sei poeti toscani (Portrait of Six Tuscan Poets) by Giorgio Vasari

establishing Tuscan as the ideal standard of the Italian language. Codifiers like Pietro Bembo (1470 – 1547), who published his Prose della volgar lingua in 1525, served to concrete this position by consciously holding up Tuscan models as pinnacles of poetic expression. But this growing consensus over the form of Italian had been sharply challenged by proponents of Latin, who entirely rejected Italian as a medium either of art or of scholarship. Vasari’s painting was thus, like many produced in Florence at the time, a triumphant statement of the cultural and intellectual superiority of Tuscany.

The items laid out on the table before the conversing poets express their mastery of the intellectual world: astronomy, astrology, geometry, geography, grammar, and rhetoric.2 The copy of a book of Virgil – widely recognised as the greatest Latin poet – in Dante’s hand reminds the viewer that the six were all masters of the Latin tongue and fluent in the greats of the Classical age. They wrote in Italian not because they could not write in Latin, but because they had found in the new language a mode of expression that

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surpassed the old. As Vasari himself declared, in the Lives, ‘Tuscan genius has ever been raised high above all others’.3 Vasari sought to do more, however, than simply display Tuscan supremacy in his painting. He also sought to write his own chapter in the intellectual history of vernacular poetry. Pietro Bembo may have looked to the Tuscan poets as the pinnacles of Italian expression, but it was Petrarch and Boccaccio that he admired. Dante’s Italian, peppered with Latinisms and with vulgar terms, was, for the highly influential Bembo, ‘like a wide and beautiful field of grain which is all over mixed with oats and chaff and harmful weeds’. 4 Florentines were not happy with this increasing demotion of their native poet. Luca Martini, the patron of Vasari’s painting and an active member of the Florentine Academy, was a deep admirer of Dante and the Six Tuscan Poets constitutes a conscious and explicit response to the emerging consensus that sought to sideline him.

In Vasari’s image, Dante occupies the centre ground, the clear focus of the picture. He alone is seated, whilst the other figures crowd in around him, listening to what he has to say. He holds the work of Virgil before Cavalcanti, illustrating some technical point (a knowing reference to Dante’s view that Cavalcanti undervalued Virgil). Petrarch cranes his head in, raising his hand as if wishing to intrude on the conversation, but Dante silences him with the flick of his index finger, which gestures to Petrarch’s Scattered Rhymes, perhaps urging Petrarch to attend to Italian rather than to the Latin in which most of his works were composed. Cino di Pistoia and Guittone d’Arezzo, as minor poets, look on silently at this commanding display. The painting creates a stark and striking genealogy of Italian poetry, with the four great poets at its heart, crowned with laurel wreaths, and Dante as their core.5 Vasari’s painting was thus art acting as intellectual history. Made in dialogue with the scholarship of its day, the image was a vignette that gave Vasari’s history of Italian literature in a single glance. It was a powerful story and one that has had great influence.

Dante now is widely recognised as the great Italian vernacular poet. Likewise, Vasari’s comparative demotion of Boccaccio, who stands passive in the background of the fevered discussion, has been so enduring that Martin Eisner has recently felt the need to devote an entire book to the attempt to rehabilitate him.6 The painting thus provided, in and of itself, a programme for understanding the history of the nascent Italian literature; a curriculum and a canon.

The sour note in all of this is that, sadly, we cannot know for certain whether Oriel’s painting is the original. Two copies, both plausibly Vasari’s, are known to exist in the world. One, an oil-on-board, came to France in the seventeenth century with the notorious art collector Cardinal Mazarin, thence into the hands of Philippe d’Orléans. In the 1790s it was sold to Jeremiah Harman and moved about English high society, being

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displayed in London at various points during the nineteenth century. It was auctioned

by Christie’s in 1917 and Sotheby’s in 1961, before eventually being acquired by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in 1971.7 The other, an oil-on-canvas, was housed in the Imperial Gallery in Vienna until the mid-eighteenth century, when it came via Brussels to London where it was bought, in 1790, by James Clutterbuck Smith, an Orielensis who donated it to the College in that same year.8 Oriel’s is the less technically accomplished of the two; the faces lack the depth and naturalism of Vasari’s original, appearing flatter and more caricatured. The furrowed, concentrated expressions of Petrarch and Boccaccio have softened to become more passive, even slightly vacant. Of itself, this proves nothing, however, and the true identity of the two paintings may never be conclusively proven. We know from Vasari himself that the work was widely copied and if the Oriel painting is one such, it is nevertheless a masterful one. For many years it was simply taken for granted that it was indeed the original and guides to Oxford published in the nineteenth century routinely noted the painting, which at that time hung in the library, as one of Oriel’s great treasures.9 Whether it is the work of Vasari or of some Florentine imitator, however, it remains one of Oxford’s hidden gems, a remarkable work of both art and history by a scholar who used the written word to immortalise artists and used art to immortalise poets.

Adrastos Omissi British Academy Research Fellow 1 The identities of these figures is actually somewhat controversial, and some critics argue that these two figures are the fifteenth-century humanists Cristoforo Landino and Marsilio Ficino; cf. E.P. Bowron, ‘Giorgio Vasari’s Portrait of Six Tuscan Poets’, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts Bulletin 60 (1971–3), pp. 45–7; P.L. Rubin, Giorgio Vasari: Art and History (New Haven and London: Yale University Press,1995), p. 290, n. 19; D. Parker, ‘Vasari’s Ritratto di sei poeti toscani: A Visible Literary History’, Modern Languages Notes 127: 1 (2012), pp. 209– 10.

2 Bowron 1971– 3, p. 47.

3 Vasari, Lives, VII: Michelangelo Buonarroti.

4 Bembo, Prose della volgar lingua, 345.

5 Parker 2012, pp. 204– 5.

6 M. Eisner, Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature: Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).

7 N. Macola, ‘Dotte conversazioni davanti ai Sei poeti toscani di Vasari’, Rivista I Castelli di Yale 12 (2012), p. 57, n. 2.

8 R.T. Holbrook, Portraits of Dante from Giotto to Raffael: a critical study, with a concise iconography (London: P.L. Warner, 1911), pp. 157– 8.

9 See, for example, J. Dallaway, Anecdotes on the Arts in England Or Comparative Remarks on Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting chiefly illustrated by specimens at Oxford (London: Cadwell and Davies, 1800), p. 495; A. Chalmers, A history of the colleges, halls, and public buildings attached to the University of Oxford including the Lives of the Founders (Oxford: Collingwood and Co., 1810), p. 84; Leigh’s new picture of England and Wales (London: Samuel Leigh, 1820), pp. 393– 4; T. Joy, Oxford delineated; or A sketch of the history and antiquities, and a general topographical description, of that celebrated university and city. Illustrated by a series of views (Oxford: Whessell and Bartlett, 1831), p. 69.

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EUGENE LEE-HAMILTON PRIZE 2017

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he prize was founded by the late Mrs Eliza Ann Lee-Hamilton by bequest in 1943, in memory of Eugene James Lee-Hamilton (1864), who died in 1907, in order to encourage the composition of the Petrachan sonnet in Oxford and Cambridge. The winning entry for 2017 is printed below:

MERLIN’S TOWER While I sat staring up into that cloud Burst shimmering on the sky, pink and untame, The oculus of my thin window’s frame Bent time and light around me in a shroud.

Held transfixed by the lens, my mind was bowed Towards that great executor of shame Impressing cold what reason breaks to name With gentle force, and revelations proud.

The metered arrogance that billows out And absurd cleanness of that gradient sky Make endless statements to my feebled will: The magnifier lets no seeping doubt Diffuse down from the heavens to an eye That saw no universe, nor cannot see it still.

Conor Wilcox-Mahon St John’s College, Oxford

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GOWER MEMORIAL CREATIVE ARTS PRIZE 2016

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he Gower Memorial Creative Arts Prize results from a generous benefaction

by Mr and Mrs Robert Gower in memory of their daughter, Philippa. The prize is open to undergraduate or graduate members of Oriel College for a work in any aspect of the creative arts, other than music (for which College support is provided separately). The winner of the 2016 Prize was Evelyn Finnie, for the painting Kitty and the TV, reproduced below.

Kitty and the TV by Evelyn Finnie

Runners-up were Charlotte Willis for her series of black and white illustrations Of Strange Folk and Monsters, and Rebecca Slater for her poem All the Blues I’ve Ever Known.

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CALUM CHACE, THE ECONOMIC SINGULARITY, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE DEATH OF CAPITALISM Three Cs Publishing, Bradford 2016

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obots make for great villains. On the big screen, their cold and calculating superintelligence, coupled with their icy mechanical stare, taps into deep human insecurities. Though The Terminator is (still) just science fiction, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is booming in real life. On the Internet, the AI-tendrils of Facebook, Google, Amazon and others, feverishly excavate vast piles of personal data, extracting profit from selling it on, targeting advertising, curating news feeds, and tagging photographs. On the roads, a few nervous passengers trust their lives to the software of driverless cars.

There are those who argue that the benefits of future AI will outweigh the negatives.

A growing chorus of others – Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking among them – express deep reservations. Musk, the billionaire founder of Space X, has dubbed AI humanity’s ‘biggest existential threat’.

To capture the disquieting qualities of AI, Chace borrows, from maths and physics, the term ‘singularity’. At the centre of a black hole, where matter becomes infinitely dense, the normal rules of physics break down. So too, at the ‘technological singularity’, when AI becomes smarter than any human, the changes to our planet will be on a scale and at a speed which we mere humans cannot comprehend. Chace previously wrote about this in his book Surviving AI. In his new book, Chace coins the phrase ‘economic singularity’ for the economic transition which, he argues, is likely to occur well before the ‘technological singularity’.

If intelligent machines one day render human labour superfluous, and concentrate vast wealth into the hands of the few, how will societies organise themselves? AI, Chace argues, will spell the death of capitalism itself.

Chace shepherds his readers through the history of automation, from the earliest developments in agriculture, to the still-ongoing industrial revolution, to today’s information revolution. Luddites of yore were, he agrees, largely wrong; historically, more jobs have been created than destroyed by technology. But, Chace argues, machine intelligence is a new kind of automation, and this time the outcome will be different. Aware that this is contentious, he takes us through the spectrum of opinions of writers with varying degrees of expertise in AI. Chace finds it no small task to work out what capitalism and liberal democracy should be replaced

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with. He discusses proposals in the literature for unconditional basic income, investments in scientific research and infrastructure, reforms of the tax system, and ‘alternative types of economies’, amongst many other possibilities.

The omens are not comfortable. Already, even without the whirlpool forces of these singularities, we see capital concentrating into ever fewer hands. The stagnation of average household incomes that contributed to the financial crash – when politicians sought to boost economic demand with cheap credit – has returned to haunt policymakers after the crash. The workers in the ‘rust-belt’ regions of the US, who lost out the most to automation, helped to propel a populist candidate into the White House.

Politicians rarely manage way-over-the-horizon economic transitions with any degree of aplomb. This book is a call to pull back the blanket of denial and, at least, to debate the issues.

Andrew Farlow

BRUNO CURRIE, HOMER’S ALLUSIVE ART Oxford University Press 2016

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runo Currie is the Mason Munro Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Oriel. Homer’s Allusive Art further develops his research interests in ancient Greek poetry and its relationship to non-Western civilisations. Currie’s thesis is that allusion to earlier poetry is a significant feature of Homer’s Iliad, Odyssey and Hymns. He aims to place Homer’s works on a continuum of allusive poetry starting in Mesopotamia, and continuing after Homer in Alexandria and Rome. For Currie, establishing this continuum and Homer’s place on it is fundamental to our very conception of literary history. Supporting these arguments requires examining the interaction between Homeric texts, earlier Greek hexameter verse and Near Eastern poetry. The book’s significance lies in the author’s use of an extended ‘neoanalysis’: a critical approach to Homer that considers earlier texts such as the epic cycle as background or source material for the Homeric poems. Currie expands the field of the neoanalyst to other poetry in order to progress the debate in existing scholarship concerning allusion in Homer. The Introduction gives a literature review of the two opposing sides in the debate over the extent of allusion in Homer, and explains many of the necessary concepts in a cogent and accessible way. For Currie, an allusion must be marked and meaningful, and he seeks them out in examples of motif transference, narrative inconsistency and plot inconsequentiality.

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The chapters that follow are sufficiently distinct and robust to stand alone, but read together they support the thesis that Homer explicitly alludes to various other poets, and on various themes. Chapter 2 considers allusions between ‘The Homeric Epics and their Forerunners’. This includes allusion from the Odyssey to the Iliad; from the Odyssey to earlier lost poetry on Odysseus’ homecoming; and from the Iliad to early poetry on Achilleus and Memnon. Currie’s evidence for allusion includes similar narrative structure, similar narrative situation and verbatim quotation. The comparisons between texts in this book are generally shown side-byside in a table, which very effectively draws the eye to the similarities. Chapter 3 continues with another poem attributed to Homer, the Hymn to Demeter, which tells the story of Demeter’s daughter Persephone, who is kidnapped by Hades. Currie builds on the work of previous scholars in naming four other early Attic hexameter poems composed on the theme of the Rape of Persephone. He argues for similarities between these poems and the Hymn manifested in stable elements of the plot, specific motifs, and recurrent phraseology. Chapter 4 concerns ‘Pregnant Tears and Poetic Memory’. Currie considers five episodes from the Iliad and the Odyssey in which a character sheds tears in a way that draws attention to Homer’s allusions. Chapter 5, ‘Allusion in Greek and Near Eastern Mythological Poetry’, considers what Currie calls ‘toilette-and-seduction scenes’ from the Iliad, Odyssey and the Hymn to Aphrodite. He compares these with mythological poetry of the ancient Near East, such as the Dumuzi-Inanna songs and Gilgamesh. The epilogue returns to issues of methodology, in particular dialogism, and Currie considers the interaction between Iliad VI and various passages from the Odyssey. There follow six technical appendices, including a translation of one of the lesser-known texts used in Chapter 3.

Currie seems well aware that he is making controversial assumptions in this work, and that his bold conclusions are likely to be contentious. He does not shy away from this, however, and regularly draws the reader’s attention to the difficulties and debate. Although there is a great deal of technical material in this book, there are some lively comparisons to a broad range of poetry and even to contemporary film. These elements combine to make Homer's Allusive Art interesting and thought-provoking, even to non-specialists.

Gillian Hamnett

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KATHARINE DELL, WHO NEEDS THE OLD TESTAMENT? ITS ENDURING APPEAL AND WHY THE NEW ATHEISTS DON’T GET IT SPCK, London 2017

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longside her many scholarly contributions to the study of the Hebrew Bible’s Wisdom literature, Katharine Dell has long worked to make the riches of the Old Testament more intelligible to a general readership, particularly within the context of Christian worshipping communities. Her new book is a welcome addition to this continuing concern. As its sub-title suggests, the book seeks to counter the attacks made on the Hebrew scriptures by the so-called ‘New Atheists’, chief among them Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens. And while she is quick to credit the previous efforts of Alister McGrath in confronting the anti-religious polemics of these writers, Dell observes that no one to date has addressed in detail the specific ways the New Atheists have mischaracterised and oversimplified Old Testament texts in their campaign against theism. Faced with opponents too presumptuous to recognise the ignorance of their own assertions, Dell seizes the opportunity not only to set the record straight but to make the case once more for why the Old Testament remains a crucial part of our spiritual and cultural inheritance.

Who Needs the Old Testament? is divided into two parts. The first provides an overview of the New Atheist approach to the Bible, as evidenced by Dawkins’s The God Delusion (2006) and Hitchins’s God is Not Great (2007). In the course of this introduction Dell makes a comparison between their approach and that of the early Christian heretic Marcion, who famously concluded that the God of Moses was incompatible with the God of Jesus, and for this reason repudiated the Hebrew scriptures. Despite their very different agendas, what the New Atheists and Marcion have in common, she argues, is their eagerness to discredit these texts on moral grounds. While she acknowledges that the Old Testament contains stories ‘raw and unpalatable to modern sensibilities’, Dell insists that approaching them without reference to the context in which they were produced is to misconstrue their essential meaning and import. This insistence on the necessity of contextual reading leads to a helpful overview of the formation of the Old Testament canon and a consideration of how the Israelite conception of divine authority evolved over time. For if the earliest texts

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reflect the sensibilities of a small and beleaguered people fighting for survival and appealing to their tribal God for aid, the later ones reveal a nation cognizant of the wider world and receptive to a divinity transcending their singular concerns. In keeping with this idea of progressive revelation of God’s true nature over time, Dell identifies the Gospel of Jesus Christ as yet another step in the process, one intimately bound up in and indivisible from that which preceded it.

The remainder of the book’s first part is devoted to re-evaluating some of the passages the New Atheists have cited as evidence of the Old Testament’s essential depravity. Dell systematically addresses their criticisms and offers alternative readings that seek instead to elucidate the special function or meaning these stories may have had for those who first told them. In the second part of the book, she pursues a more positive tack, offering a wide-ranging survey of the various genres and styles to be found in the scriptural canon. Starting with the oft-neglected Wisdom literature, Dell underscores the radically different impression of ancient Hebrew culture these writings give from the one offered by Dawkins and Hitchens in their raid on the ‘bad bits’ of the Pentateuch. She does the same in her review of the prophetic texts, though here she also warns Christians against mirroring the New Atheists by selectively emphasising the ‘good bits’ from the prophets while ignoring material which may be less congenial. The problem is not finally selective reading – everyone does it – but rather mistaking such selectivity for comprehensiveness. Returning to the Pentateuch and historical books, Dell focuses on some of the ‘texts of terror’ (Phyllis Trible) that even Dawkins and Hitchens appear to have overlooked in their diatribes. In so doing, she exhibits a determination not to avert her gaze from even the most repugnant aspects of the Old Testament world, insisting that it is precisely in such unlikely places that fresh insight into the evolution of spiritual meaning can often be found.

In the final two chapters of the book, Dell turns her attention away from the New Atheists to consider the ways in which the Old Testament has become marginalised in the life and learning of Christian worshipping communities. She attributes this state of affairs in part to the widening gap between the Academy and the Church, as some biblical scholars have increasingly questioned the reliability of the Hebrew Bible as a source of historical evidence. As the academic debate over the proper relationship between these texts and archaeology continues, the challenge of translating such scholarly distinctions to the pulpit proves a task most clergy readily forgo. Another reason Christians nowadays remain ignorant of the Old Testament’s treasures is the tendency of the church lectionary toward ‘over-sanitisation’, such that ‘the difficult texts are left out, while others are reinterpreted in the service of a dominant Christian exegesis’. This is undoubtedly true, though it is hard to see how this problem can be

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easily resolved. One need not be a Marcionite to want to give priority to the Gospel, especially when working within the constraints of a weekly, ten-minute sermon slot. Yet Dell’s larger point is a valid one and lends eloquent force to the chorus of voices already crying out for more and better education within today’s church. The best reply Christians can make to the superficial arguments of men like Dawkins and Hitchens is to know the Bible – all of it – and to develop the confidence to promote its value in a society hungry for spiritual nourishment.

Robert Tobin

MICHAEL STEEN, MANY MORE GREAT OPERAS: A GUIDE TO 40 MORE OF THE WORLD’S FINEST MUSICAL EXPERIENCES Michael Steen, Mattingley 2016

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ichael Steen’s series of short guides to individual operas has been emerging over several years now. Collectively these are creating The Great Opera Companion, a replacement for Gustav Kobbé’s celebrated Complete Opera Book. Many More Great Operas is the third and largest compilation of such guides, its precursors being Great Operas and More Great Operas.

The title is a misleadingly modest one, as the 40 advertised operas are supplemented by an appendix of a further six. This is characteristic of the author’s generosity to his readers.

Steen’s approach to each opera in the present collection follows the excellent formula established in the previous publications: each opera is introduced with a section on its historical ‘Background’; then there is a concise summary of the principal protagonists and actions (‘Who’s Who and What’s What’); for those interested in a deeper appreciation of the historical and cultural issues there is a series of ‘Talking Points’; and finally the action of the work is dealt with in detail (‘Act by Act’). As he says, for many users of the book, the ‘Who’s Who and What’s What’ sections will be enough: they enable opera goers to experience the works with a sound understanding of what is taking place on the stage. But anyone reading the whole chapter will come

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away with a commendable deep and rich understanding of the work in question, its history and significance.

As Steen owns, the selection of operas in the book is ‘largely random’, and none the worse for that: one each from Handel, Beethoven, Offenbach, Saint-Saëns, Bizet, Tchaikovsky, Massenet, Giordano, Delius, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Berg, Monteverdi and Shostakovich; two each from Donizetti, Bellini, Janácek, Ravel and Purcell; three from Rossini and Britten, four Mozart, five Richard Strauss and seven Verdi. Some of these are clearly mainstream (Fidelio, Falstaff, Der Rosenkavalier), others seem more specialist tastes (Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, Andrea Chénier, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk).

It is inevitable in an undertaking of this kind, with the two previous volumes having already taken a number of the best-known works, that this third book will have slightly the air of picking up some of the pieces. This is not a fault with the book, as it derives its value from the quality of its individual chapters – which is unquestionably high – which stand on their own, and not from the coherence of its contents as a whole. It does mean, though, that the book is most likely to be useful to those who already own the other two or whose personal taste happens to coincide with the coverage of this particular collection.

As readers of his The Lives and Times of the Great Composers know, Steen is a historian with a lively style and a keen eye for engaging detail. The pleasure of his opera guides goes far beyond the utility of their summaries. Readers with the leisure to do so will find much that is interesting and illuminating in the ‘Talking Points’ sections: that the process of making castrati usually involved anaesthetisation with opium followed by a hot bath, or the compression of the carotid arteries; that Antonio Tamburini, one of the stars of Bellini’s I puritani di Scozia, had such a following that attempts by theatre management to replace him some years later were met by riots leading to his reinstatement; that the card game played in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades is Faro, made popular during the reign of Louis XIV; that in setting Hofmannstahl’s text for Der Rosenkavalier, Strauss got carried away and even set a stage direction to music.

The text is as clearly and elegantly presented and handsomely illustrated. The e-book format is probably the most convenient one for those wanting to bone up on the coming evening’s entertainment during a train journey or taxi ride; and in a work of reference like this, links enable easy movement across the book’s nearly one thousand pages to access relevant matter throughout the text. Both seasoned operagoers and newcomers to the art will benefit from this book and are enthusiastically enjoined to do so.

David Maw

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HONOURS AND AWARDS

Professor John Armour has been elected to a Fellowship of the British Academy.

Professor Ian Horrocks has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Oslo.

Professor Yadvinder Malhi has been elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society.

Professor Alison Noble (Honorary Fellow) has been elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society.

Professor David Charles (Emeritus Fellow) has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the National Technical University of Athens.

Dom Christopher Jamison (1970) has been elected Abbot President by the English Benedictine Congregation.

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FELLOWS' NEWS

Teresa Bejan has recently published her new book, Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration with Harvard University Press. The book addresses the question of the so-called ‘crisis of civility’ that some claim is polluting the public sphere. The book has been making waves in the USA given the current political climate, and in March Dr Bejan wrote an editorial in the Washington Post. The Editorial, entitled: ‘You don’t have to be nice to political opponents. But you do have to talk to them’ discusses the shift away from a traditional concept of civility in American politics under the new administration.

Max Crispin writes: This year has brought substantial change as I have accepted a Professorship at the University of Southampton. I am very excited about this new chapter but obviously sad to be leaving Oxford having first come to Oriel as an undergraduate in 1997. The last year has been particularly enjoyable as the Fellowship were kind enough to entrust me with the position of Senior Dean. This has given me lots of excuses to meet people from across the College community and spend time with much-admired colleagues. I would particularly like to thank Revd Robert Tobin for his tireless work for the College, the long-suffering Junior Deans (Betsy, Alex, Alexis and Carrie), Megan Roper, and the entire team in the Lodge. For those older Orielenses who worry that undergraduates have become dull, I can reassure them that from the decanal perspective they seem as imaginative as ever!

My research has also progressed well. Our spin-out company, Immago Biosystems Ltd, was acquired by the Swedish pharmaceutical company Hansa Medical. Work with Hansa has proved very exciting and our joint paper describing the development of enhanced cancer therapies was recently published (Järnum et al., Molecular Cancer Therapeutics 2017). I’m hopeful that these strategies will one day be applied in the clinic. On other fronts, I was very grateful to get sufficient funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to purchase and run a top-end mass spectrometer to support our contribution to the global efforts to make an HIV vaccine. My HIV research continues to take me regularly to the US and I was delighted that my collaborators at The Scripps Research Institute gave me an administrative base by making me Professor Adjunct in the Department of Immunology and Microbiology.

Finally, Oriel has been a tremendously stimulating and supportive base and I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Tony and Pat Leathem and the other trustees of Against Breast Cancer for funding my Fellowship.

Floreat Oriel!

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Bruno Currie has recently published Homer’s Allusive Art with Oxford University Press.

His book argues for a new understanding of Homeric allusion and its place in literary history through a series of interlocking case studies, exploring whether there can have been historical continuity in a poetics of allusion stretching from the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh through to the Aeneid and Metamorphoses. It is reviewed elsewhere in this issue of the Oriel Record.

Ian Horrocks has recently published his new book, An Introduction to Description Logic, with Cambridge University Press. The book serves as an introduction to DLs, which have recently gained increased importance as they form the logical basis of widely used ontology languages, in particular the web ontology language OWL. Lyndal Roper’s latest book, Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet, was selected for the shortlist for the prestigious Wolfson History Prize 2017. The book was reviewed in the 2016 issue of the Oriel Record.

Richard Scholar has recently published a revised paperback edition of his book Montaigne and the Art of Free-Thinking with Peter Lang Oxford. The book is an exploration of Michel de Montaigne’s famous Essais and received appreciative reviews when it was originally published in hardback in 2010. He also featured alongside SCR Butler Asefay Aberaha in the play Storming Utopia, a contemporary response to Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Thomas More’s Utopia, performances of which took place in various locations in Oxford and Venice.

Annette Volfing has recently published a new book with Routledge entitled The Daughter Zion Allegory in Medieval German Religious Writing. The book explores the uses of the Daughter of Zion allegory in Dutch and German religious writing.

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ORIELENSES’ NEWS

PUBLICATIONS Christopher Arnander (1952): Betrayed Ally: China in the Great War (Pen & Sword Books, 2016) by Orielensis Christopher Arnander and Frances Wood, examines China’s relatively unknown involvement in the First World War. The Chinese labourers’ contribution was vital to the allies, as was the declaration of war against Germany in 1917. The bias towards Japan at the Versailles Peace Treaty was seen as a major betrayal by China. The book was reviewed by The Daily Telegraph in November 2016 and was given five stars.

Calum Chace (1978): Orielensis and best-selling author Calum Chace recently published his latest book The Economic Singularity (2016). The book argues that developments in Artificial Intelligence could soon make it impossible for most humans to work for money as an increasingly large number of jobs become mechanised; it is reviewed elsewhere in this issue of the Oriel Record.

Alan Palmer (1944): Based on diary entries, family letters, photograph albums and newspaper cuttings, Alan Palmer's book The Wireless in the Corner is the personal account of a boy brought up in London's suburbia during the second quarter of the twentieth century, Alan's childhood is as much a personalised political, social and military history as it is reminiscence.

Michael Steen (1965): author of the acclaimed The Lives and Times of the Great Composers (2004), Michael Steen has written well over one hundred ‘Short Guides to Great Operas’. These are concise, informative and entertaining books about opera, in which he combines his expert knowledge with a light touch that makes each guide accessible and easy to read. This indispensable collection is packed with useful information and informed opinion for both seasoned opera-goers and those enjoying opera for the first time. Michael Steen’s latest book is reviewed elsewhere in this issue of the Oriel Record.

Harry Underwood (1974): Canada-based Orielensis Harry Underwood has recently had his book The Experience of Beauty: Seven Essays and a Dialogue published by McGill-Queen’s University Press (2016). He writes: ‘My book is about beauty considered as an ideal and, since an ideal is an idea that can govern a life, as an inspiration to life.

It consists of essays as well as a dialogue between two defunct thinkers, and takes as its illustrations the works of various philosophers and artists. But it also meditates upon ordinary life. Though the book is not autobiographical, or at least not more so

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than any book is, it reflects the desire I felt, after a lifetime of looking, striving, and pondering, to draw together the threads represented by these preoccupations.’

David Wright (1960): Having spent his career in education, David Wright has published his book about teaching, The End of Schooling (2017). He writes: ‘After over forty years as a teacher, twenty-one of them as a Headmaster, I concluded that though as a Head I could spend as much money on the school as the next Head, it was not, contrary to what many people, including our politicians, might say, the level of funding that really determines the quality of a school but the ethos, the spirit, that permeates it – the look in the eyes of teachers and staff as they go about their daily duties. My book attempts to illustrate what really counts in education. It shares my experiences in Zimbabwe, Australia and Botswana. Real teaching is, in the end, a triumphant vocation.’

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OBITUARIES

THE RIGHT REVD CLIFFORD BARKER (1948) Clifford Barker was born in April 1926 in Driffield, Yorkshire and was educated at Middlesbrough High School. Aged eighteen, he joined the Army and served with the Green Howards Regiment. In 1944 he saw active service in Calcutta during the period leading up to Indian independence, which greatly influenced his later life.

On his return, between 1948 and 1950, he read History at Oriel.

He then attended St Chad’s College, Durham, to study for a Diploma in Theology. In 1952 he became a deacon in the Church of England and married Marie Edwards, and in 1963 he was ordained as a priest in York Minster by Archbishop Cyril Garbutt. He served curacies in Scarborough and later at Kirkleatham near Redcar.

He rose steadily through the Church hierarchy. His first position as vicar was of the Sculcoates parish in dockside Hull. In 1963 the family moved to Hutton Rudby in North Yorkshire, where he became Rural Dean of Stokesley. In 1970 Clifford took up the posts of Vicar of St Olave’s, York, Rural Dean of York, and Canon of York Minster. He was consecrated Bishop of Whitby in 1976. Six years later, following a very short illness, his wife, Marie, died.

In 1983 Clifford became Bishop of Selby; he married Audrey Gregson in the same year.

He remained Bishop of Selby until his retirement in 1991. He was regarded in both his posts as a great pastoral leader. During his retirement he served as an Assistant Bishop in the diocese of York. He was described by his friends, family, fellow clergy and parishioners as a man of compassion, humanity, and inspiration. He had a great wit and was a talented storyteller. It was not surprising, therefore, that the Bishop was in great demand as an after-dinner speaker during his later years.

He died peacefully in May 2017 aged ninety-one and leaves behind a son Richard, daughters Helena and Kate, nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. His spirit lives on in all of us.

Adapted from an obituary supplied by his daughter Kate McGunnigle

FELICITY BULMER (2000) Felicity was a scholar at Cheltenham Ladies College before coming up to Oriel in 2000 to read Mathematics. By matriculation she had successfully negotiated a transfer to Chemistry, having impressed Messrs Prout, Hodgson and Cartwright in an impromptu interview. She sailed through the first-year course, forming part of the bumper crop of four Oriel distinctions in Prelims. I remember being particularly impressed by her mathematical ability – she made the tutorials look extremely easy!

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A brilliant lab partner, she hated to spend a single moment longer in the Dyson Perrins than was strictly necessary. With great energy and drive she would organise us to do multiple experiments in parallel, in the time it usually took to complete one! Leaving me to start work on the writeups, she would then dash off to her next sports fixture, concert, social event, etc. She set herself a demanding schedule, but her talents were such that she could maintain high standards across the board.

As a tutorial partner she was similarly efficient and effective. She had an impressive ability to cut straight to the heart of the work we were doing, in order to complete the (often lengthy) question sheets as rapidly as possible. I remember working with her in the library in the evenings; she would regularly disappear off for late-night ice hockey training sessions with the University squad, yet somehow she would still manage to complete all of the tutorial work on time!

Upon leaving Oxford we both ended up working in London, allowing us to stay in regular contact. Her cooking skills were absolutely fantastic (she ran her own catering business at one point) and I have fond memories of dinner parties at her flats in Gloucester Road and West Kensington. Although our friendship was firmly rooted in our shared experiences at Oriel, it also included a degree of cultural exchange: Felicity took me to the royal box at the Royal Opera House when she worked there as an usher, while I returned the favour by taking her to her first football match, Tottenham Hotspur vs Hull City (a genuinely thrilling 0–0)! It was around this time that we both began our doctoral studies, so I went up to stay with her in Edinburgh and she made a number of visits to see me at the other place.

Felicity was a really entertaining and inspiring person to be around; she had such an incisive, analytical mind and a wry, witty sense of humour. She was a great friend who would always take the time to write long emails updating me on her life and would, without fail, send me postcards from all of her trips around the world. She will be sorely missed.

Adam Reid’s memories of his friend

CALVIN EVANS (1961) Calvin grew up in Washington state and Alberta and started his career at his father’s sawmill in Seebe at the age of sixteen. He built his own cabin to have peace and quiet to continue studying by correspondence at night for high school and won the Governor General medal for the highest high school mark in the province.

He studied Geology and Physics at the University of Alberta and completed his Master’s fieldwork in Jasper. He won a scholarship to Oriel in 1961 and achieved a DPhil in Geology and Geochemistry in two years instead of the usual four. His thesis contributed to confirming the theory of tectonic plates. He was offered a post at Oxford, but declined and returned to Canada.

Upon his return, Calvin worked for Imperial Oil for twenty years in Calgary,

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ultimately as Vice President of Exploration, and then moved to London as Manager of Esso Europe before returning to Canada in 1986 to retire. He was made an honorary member of The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists (APEGA) and was awarded the Frank Spragins Award. He was also President of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists. His retirement did not last long before he started up Pemoco Resources with some of his colleagues, where he continued to work until 2010.

Calvin loved sports and was an avid outdoorsman; he was also an accomplished woodworker. He never hesitated to help anyone who had the ability and the need.

He died in April 2017 aged eighty-one and is survived by his wife of fifty-nine years, Doris, his children, Tom, Sandra and Darren, and his grandchildren.

From information supplied by his family

JAMES FERGUSON (1952) James Ferguson and I were Oriel contemporaries and close friends. He was born in 1931 and grew up in Stockton-on-Tees in a strong Catholic family whose original ambition for him was the priesthood. In consequence he was educated at Ushaw College in County Durham. But at the sixth form stage he decided not to pursue a priesthood career and instead applied to Oriel to read Law. James arrived at Oriel in 1952 straight from a school where there was little personal freedom. He quickly made a wide circle of friends, as was his nature, and enjoyed to the full his new-found independence. I remember he was given a room in the building on the High through whose window latecomers could enter the College; James would welcome them and, being the kindest of men, would offer them refreshments. No wonder he was exhausted by dawn!

After Oriel we all went our separate ways but tried to keep in touch. For National Service James had two years in the Navy, mainly on board the surveying vessel HMS Protector in the Falklands and Antarctica. On being demobilised he started his working life in an engineering company based in his home town of Stockton-on-Tees. This led to assignments with other companies, mainly in the Company Secretary role, and involved him working in South America, the Middle East and India. He had five years in the oil industry in Aberdeen, where he was organising the recruitment of skilled engineers from his native Teeside to work on the rigs and platforms in the North Sea. In 1973 James married Diana, a Sunderland girl. In their married life they moved many times, primarily for business reasons, and I was lucky enough to be invited to some of these splendid houses which Diana knew how to beautify. They enjoyed the countryside and kept horses. They sent their daughter Rachael to school at Downe House and she then went on to study in America. She is on the staff at Princeton, where she achieved her doctorate in Sociology and is a university professor.

James was unlucky to suffer a stroke towards the end of his life, but he had the care and love of both his wife Diana and their daughter Rachael, who, though working in America, would come home as often as possible to be with her father.

James sadly died in July 2016 aged eighty-five.

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SIR EWEN FERGUSSON (1951) Ewen Fergusson was born in Singapore in 1932, where his father, Sir Ewen MacGregor Field Fergusson, was Chairman and Managing Director of the Straits Trading Company. Young Ewen was educated at Rugby School, from where he won a History Scholarship to Oriel in 1951. While at Oriel he played lock for the University rugby team, for which he was club secretary, and attracted the selectors sufficiently for him to play on five occasions for Scotland while still an undergraduate. He left Oriel with a first class degree in History and did National Service for two years in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, being demobbed just before the Suez crisis.

He was attracted by the Foreign Service and took the entrance examination in which he gained maximum marks. Thus he entered the British Diplomatic Service in 1956 as Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Defence before being appointed as a junior diplomat in the British embassy in Addis Ababa. A gifted linguist, he quickly learned the Amharic language.

In 1959 he married Sara Carolyn Gordon-Lennox, daughter of a Scots Guards colonel and widow of Scottish baronet Sir William Montgomery-Cunninghame, a war hero. She survives him along with their son Ewen, also an Orielensis, and two daughters Anna and Iona.

Ewen’s star kept rising. In 1972, the year Britain agreed to join the Common Market, he was appointed Counsellor and Head of Chancery in the British representation at the European Community in Brussels – hard grind at any time, virtual slavery as Britain completed its negotiations for membership – and learned the hard way the habits of work in Europe. His role was to be the transmitter of decisions taken by the British Government and to ensure that ‘the machine stayed on the road’ in Brussels as a new corps of British officials got used to working with each other. A convinced European, he would recall his euphoria when Britons voted ‘yes’ in the 1975 referendum, although in later years he was something of a Eurosceptic and an opponent of monetary union.

From 1975 to 1978 he served as Private Secretary to three Foreign Secretaries: James Callaghan, who did not like to be taken by surprise; Anthony Crosland, a man of mordant wit who wanted to examine issues anew; and David Owen, who combined intellectual arrogance with a tyro’s uncertainty and involved himself in a bitter and unnecessary civil war with his officials. Fergusson managed to retain the confidence and friendship of them all.

His next appointment in 1982 to Pretoria was demanding in a different way: he had the delicate task of publicly opposing the racist government while privately protecting Britain’s political, trade and geographical interests. It would not have done for a British ambassador to weaken when faced with South Africa’s hard men or the many Commonwealth African governments pressing for Britain to impose sanctions.

He was knighted in 1987, made a GCVO in 1992, and a GCMG in 1993. He will be remembered especially in France for his tenure of the ambassadorship in Paris from 1987

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to 1992. He presided over many soirées in his trademark tartan trousers at the opulent residence in Rue du Faubourg Sainte-Honoré. The epicurean approach of his wife and himself made them the most socially active ambassadorial couple since Duff and Diana Cooper after the Second World War, and the best-connected since Christopher and Mary Soames in the 1970s. Ewen insisted that the lavish hospitality created an atmosphere of trust and was no more than the French political elite expected. Visiting French dignitaries were delighted to find a poster of De Gaulle’s ‘appel à tous les Français’ at the top of the grand staircase, seemingly taking precedence over the huge bronze bust of Winston Churchill at the bottom. When the Queen visited in 1992 on her first state visit to France in twenty years, the ambassador was praised for helping to create the warm climate that greeted her. As a fluent French speaker, he attributed his success to an understanding of the peculiarities of Anglo-French relations based on mutual admiration, respect, jealousy and mistrust. It was a sensitivity that would earn him the Légion d’honneur. In November 1990 he was entertaining Margaret Thatcher when she received a message from London saying she had failed to win outright her parliamentary party’s first ballot over her continuation as Prime Minister; she was forced to resign two days later.

Ewen retired in 1992 and became King of Arms of the Order of St Michael. He took on several non-executive roles such as Chairman of Coutts Bank. Less remunerative but preferable was chairing the government Hospitality Fund Advisory Committee for the Purchase of Wine and discussing how to replenish it. At the embassy in Paris he had surprised his French guests with one or two British vintages: ‘They don’t like being caught out when they taste English wine … they say “Ah, this is a nice wine, Ambassador”. When I say it is English they quickly add, “But quite modest”.’

Abridged from obituaries appearing in the Scotsman and The Times

THE HON. JOHN FOXCROFT (1961) John Foxcroft was born in Port Elizabeth, in the Eastern Province of South Africa. He went to the Grey School, and from 1957 to 1960 attended Rhodes University in Grahamstown, obtaining a degree in Roman-Dutch Law and History. Originally anticipating a career in History, he taught History and English for a short while at Grey School.

From 1961 to 1963 John was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to extend his studies at Oriel, but switched from History to Law. He rowed in the successful Oriel 1st VIII that made four bumps in summer 1962. He made many friends, and particularly enjoyed visiting Scotland during his time in Britain. Those who knew John were aware that he had a natural musical ability, and could play a keyboard instrument surprisingly well despite having received very little training.

To celebrate the completion of Finals, John and an Oriel friend decided to spend some time travelling round Europe by car. John perhaps viewed the venture in the tradition of the Grand Tour enjoyed by eighteenth-century gentlemen, whether aristocrats or men of culture such as Goethe, and usually culminating in a sojourn in Italy.

John returned to South Africa and in 1965 was admitted as Advocate to the Cape Bar. Two years later he married Audrey Auld. The marriage seems to have been doubly blessed,

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for Audrey also had considerable musical talent, and between 1968 and 1979 two sons and four daughters were born. All seem to have inherited the musical gene, and one daughter is today a concert pianist.

In 1985 John took silk at the Cape Bar, and within three years was appointed as Judge of the Cape of Good Hope Provincial Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa, a position he held until his retirement in 2007. The retirement was, however, parttime, as he served on the Supreme Court of Swaziland and on the Court of Appeal of Botswana until his death.

His high reputation in South African legal circles received due tribute in this brief extract from an address by the State Prosecutor, speaking after his funeral: I am honoured to represent the Director of Public Prosecutions in acknowledging the varied and valuable contribution that Judge Foxcroft made to the development of South Africa’s legal and particularly criminal justice system. My colleagues who appeared before him remember him as courteous, even-tempered and fair.

His judgments, always promptly delivered, were crisp and displayed his incisive understanding of the law. Judge Foxcroft was an enthusiastic etymologist and his proficiency with words runs a golden thread through his judgments. He was humble, quietly generous and humane. He had an intrinsic sense of justice and fairness and will be well remembered as such.

John died in May 2017. His wife, Audrey, predeceased him. He leaves six children and fourteen grandchildren.

Tony Whitfield (1959) from information provided by John’s son James

IAN GREAVES (1982) Ian Greaves was born and grew up in Nottingham, and came up to Oriel in 1982 from Belmont Abbey School (now closed) in Hereford to read Jurisprudence. He was a keen rower at school but at Oriel focused his attention on acting and he took part in a number of university drama productions.

Ian was acknowledged by friends and acquaintances alike as highly convivial and engaging company, with a wide knowledge of politics, history, sport and – unusually – a great love of poetry. Largely self-taught, he overcame the challenges of his early years with drive, determination and a few breaks which gave him a chance to find his way into Oxford and ultimately a legal career. He took time out after Oxford and contemplated a career in the Army before settling on the law. Qualifying as a solicitor in 1990 and spending time on secondment at the BBC, he found a niche for himself as part intellectual property, part broadcasting lawyer. After a few years in private practice he moved in-house, working for a range of firms from Turner Broadcasting to start-ups and content network providers.

Always quick to question and challenge, his advocacy skills were well honed. He found great pleasure in his many and varied friendships, and numbered acquaintances

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across the country and further afield, all of whom enjoyed his anecdotes. His friends always found pleasure in his colourful and challenging company and the joy with which he communicated his many enthusiasms. He was never without a book and took great delight in keeping up to date by reading reviews, essays and poetry. In later years his main focus was his family. He took great joy in his children and watching them grow and develop as they progressed through the later stages of their secondary education.

Ian died on 21 August 2016, just short of his fifty-fourth birthday, and is survived by his wife and two children.

Thomas Coops (1982)

RICHARD HADDRELL (1962) Richard Haddrell was born in Morecambe in January 1943. His family first moved to RAF Cosford and then to Stafford, where Richard attended the King Edward VI Grammar School. Afterwards they moved to Calshot in Hampshire and he transferred to Brockenhurst Grammar School. From there he won an Open Exhibition to Oriel, where he studied French under the tutelage of the legendary A.D. Crowe. After Oriel, Richard taught briefly in Lancashire before teaching for many years at the Technical High School, Tunbridge Wells.

Richard’s passion was chess. As the English Chess Federation recorded, he was Secretary of the Kent County Chess Association for many years, which meant coordinating the whole organisation and keeping everyone informed about what was happening. He did this with unbelievable efficiency. He also ran a schools league for many years and was county grading officer. He inaugurated the inter-club Kent Summer Quickplay, wrote the rules and ran the competition for many years. In all of this he was charming and helpful to everyone.

The English Chess Federation recognised that he was a great servant of chess in this country at club, county, union and national levels. His contributions included his roles as Grading Administrator, Controller of the National Schools Championship and as a member of the Governance Committee. He received the President’s Award for Services to Chess in 1994.

He died in Tunbridge Wells in September 2016. His funeral was presided over by the President of Sussex County Chess Association and was filled with friends and colleagues from the local, regional and national chess communities. Luminaries from the world of English chess gave tributes and a grandmaster whom Richard had taught attended the wake. Many attendees delighted in playing games on chess sets provided by Tunbridge Wells Chess Club. Richard was a lover of, and stickler for, the rules of chess competition, and a great teacher of the game.

Obituary provided by his brother-in-law, S.P.M. Skrein (1965)

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THOMAS HARPUR (1951) Tom Harpur was born to an evangelical family in Toronto’s east end in 1929. His upbringing led him to embark on a life of religion. After attending Oriel College on a Rhodes Scholarship, Harpur studied Theology at the University of Toronto’s Wycliffe College. He became a priest at St Margaret in-the-Pines Anglican Church in Scarborough in 1957 and served there for seven years before leaving to teach Theology at the University of Toronto.

Harpur joined the Star in 1971, where he met his future wife, Susan, who worked in the Star’s legal department. They were married in 1980. ‘He was brilliant, sensitive and just had a wonderful sense of humour,’ Susan said. ‘His education had given him such a broad exposure to so many things in the humanities, he had such a breadth of knowledge. And, of course, a quote or quip for every occasion.’

As the Star’s Religion Editor, Harpur travelled to more than twenty countries, meeting many prominent religious figures – including Mother Teresa (over Christmas) and the Dalai Lama (twice) – as well as embarking on many unique adventures. In 1976 he made the 161km trek from Nazareth to Bethlehem, the first journalist to do so, according to an Israeli official who warned him about flash floods, landmines and terrorist guerrillas. The journey did not get off to a great start. ‘Using a donkey to carry part of our gear was not our idea and, in fact, it turned out to be a not very good idea for I had to “fire” it after only one day’s trek' Harpur wrote of the first day’s adventure.

According to his wife, Susan, Harpur’s education combined with a career in journalism helped evolve his views beyond his evangelical upbringing. ‘I feel a deep compassion and pastoral concern … for the untold thousands right now who want to express the new ways in which they are experiencing God today’, he wrote in 2007. ‘What is needed, I believe, is not more “renewal” … The time has come for a radical rebirth of the Church.’

Harpur may be best known for his 2004 book The Pagan Christ, which topped the Star’s bestseller list for original non-fiction that year. He wrote it at the age of seventy-five.

In the book Harpur digs deep into the origins of Christianity and argues that there is no evidence that historical Jesus existed. In fact, he says that the story of Jesus was largely based on an Egyptian man-god and was simply an allegorical tale, meant to act as a guidepost for those striving to be better people. The book was met with controversy among some Christians, and while some may have doubted his devotion, it merely strengthened his faith. ‘He was a leading voice in the religious field and also in the broader spiritual world, in helping people grow in their lives’, Susan said. ‘He was very much hoping that Christianity could be born again, but it’s very difficult within the established Church.

That would have been his hope and goal.’

In an interview with the Star in 2011, speaking about his memoir Born Again, Harpur said that he had never had any experiences with God, but was ‘conscious all my life looking at it’. ‘It would be nice to have a great mystical experience like Paul, but I guess I have my large feet too firmly planted on the earth’, he said. ‘I’m not really a religious guy, you know.’

He died on 2 January 2017 aged eighty-seven.

Adapted from an obituary in the Toronto Star

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DAVID HOPE (1969) David Hope was born in Derby in 1951. He lived with his parents Jean and Denys in Belper, where he went to Herbert Strutts School. With his quick analytical mind he excelled in a number of subjects, including Mathematics, and soon moved a year ahead of his age group. He graduated from Herbert Strutts as Head Boy. In 1969 David began his studies in Mathematics at Oriel. Readers of the Oriel Record who studied in Oxford at the same time may remember David from the Oriel College Junior Common Room suggestions book. He became known for his frequent suggestions about all aspects of College life, each signed with a flourish: ‘D.B. Hope’.

David took up an apprenticeship with Rolls-Royce before starting at university, and after graduation he followed in his father’s footsteps to take up a career with the company.

His service to Rolls-Royce spanned forty-six years. He was very proud to work for the company and to ensure the highest quality standards, most notably in airworthiness during the latter part of his career.

In 1973 David met his wife-to-be, Rosemary, through voluntary work with the local International Voluntary Service (IVS) group, which supported vulnerable people with social activities. They married three years later and went on to have two children – Louise, born in 1979, and Chris, born in 1986. Throughout their marriage David and Rosemary enjoyed European holidays – particularly in Italy and France – classical music concerts and good food.

David had a lifelong love of the outdoors and a passion for sustaining and protecting the environment. He was a lifetime member of the National Trust and led volunteers to undertake work on National Trust estates. He volunteered with Friends of the Earth and the Soil Association and enjoyed gardening at home as well as walking with friends. David also had a strong interest in family history and had researched the Hope family as far back as the sixteenth century.

David passed away in November 2015 from adrenal cancer, aged sixty-four. He is fondly remembered by his family, friends and colleagues for his intelligence, kindness, principles and wry humour.

Edited from a tribute by his friend Professor Simon French

MICHAEL HUTCHINSON (1951) Michael Hutchinson, born in 1933, attended Radley College before coming up to Oriel in 1951 to read Law. He followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, both of whom were Orielenses. After graduating and studying at the Guildford School of Law, in 1958 he joined the family firm of Hutchinson & Buchanan, where he worked for fifty years. In so doing he matched the five decades of his father, Charles Barstow Hutchinson, known in his day as ‘Mr Ripon’ for his myriad endeavours for the city’s community, following those of his own grandfather before him. Between them they notched up almost 160 years as solicitors. Michael’s son Andrew – also an Orielensis – has now succeeded him as Senior Partner.

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Hutchinson & Buchanan would be the fulcrum of Michael’s business enterprises.

He took up the reins as Chairman of Ebor Concretes from his father, who had set up the company after the war to provide employment for the returning men of Ripon; Allton Engineering and Allton Contractors; and W.E. Dixon and W.M. Moss, Ripon electrical and paint-spraying businesses respectively.

The Hutchinson family had also had an association with the Ripon Spa Hotel since 1906, acquiring full ownership during the time of Michael’s father. It was here in the 1990s that a successful Oriel gathering was staged.

Michael’s great sporting love was horse racing – he had a badge from every British racecourse tied to his binoculars – and he was a director of Ripon Racecourse from February 1961 to August 2011, Managing Director and Company Secretary from 1977 to 2007 and Chairman from August that year until 2010. Again he followed his father and grandfather as Company Secretary and his father as Managing Director at ‘Yorkshire’s garden racecourse’. During his tenure he increased the fixture list from nine to fifteen; oversaw prize money across the season rise from £150,000 a year to more than £850,000 per year; and rebuilt a large section of the grandstand in 1992. Ten years later he introduced the first permanent big screen to show horse racing on a British course, while a new bandstand was testament to his love of brass band music. His son James, Clerk of the course since 1991, took over as Managing Director in August 2007.

Often working seven days a week, and many nights too, it is said that Michael participated in as many as fifty committees, ranging from the Ripon Ring to boost tourism in the city, to the development of the Ripon Canal Basin. He played his part in the Ripon City Partnership, which attracted European funding to the city, most notably for the paving of the Market Place. He was Chairman of Markington Parish Council and served as President of the Harrogate and District Law Society in the 1970s.

The Church of England played its part in his life: he worshipped both at Ripon Cathedral, where he was also the cathedral solicitor for forty years, and at St Michael the Archangel, where he was a long-serving churchwarden and Chairman of the Parochial Church Council.

In the field of politics, Michael was Chairman of the Ripon branch of the Ripon and Skipton Conservative Association, having earlier started the Ripon Young Conservatives.

He spent many years involved with agriculture. His life-long passions were bridge, kitchen gardening, travelling on the Continent and antiques.

He never officially retired but, struck by Alzheimer’s disease, he spent his last years at the Granby Rose dementia care home in Harrogate. He leaves a wife, Prue, three sons, Charles, James and Andrew, and five grandchildren.

Adapted from the Yorkshire Post

MICHAEL JOHNSON (1979) Born in 1960, Michael Johnson won a scholarship at the age of eleven to Solihull School, where he represented the school at rugby, cricket and squash. He had ambitions to study at Oxford and was awarded an Open Exhibition to Oriel to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Before going to Oxford he joined the Army for a

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short period and was commissioned in the same regiment as his father, the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters. At Oxford he won a rugby Blue and represented Oriel at cricket, football, and rowing.

After graduating he was awarded the R.C. Kopf Fellowship, a full merit scholarship, to study for an MBA at Columbia Business School.

There followed a summer internship at Kleinwort Benson before he joined First Boston (now Credit Suisse) in the well-regarded corporate finance business run by Bruce Wasserstein and Joe Perella. By the age of thirty-two he was promoted to Managing Director and became Head of High Yield Finance for First Boston globally. One highlight transaction was restructuring the debt of Donald Trump’s Atlantic City casino!

In 1996 he joined the American Investment Bank Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette (DLJ) to establish their London-based European Leveraged Finance operation. He was the first investment banker employed by DLJ in Europe and was initially allowed to recruit a small team, which increased to forty professionals as the European Leveraged Finance market grew. He was a shareholding partner when, ironically, DJL was acquired by Credit Suisse in 2000. He felt the highlight of his career was his pioneering creation of the fully integrated leveraged finance business as practised globally today, initially at First Boston and then with great success in Europe with DLJ. Subsequently he was recruited by Nomura’s Principal Finance Group (PFG). During the early 2000s PFG became the second most active private equity firm in Europe (behind the Royal Bank of Scotland!) and he led several transactions for them, including the creation of The Voyager Pub Company.

Throughout his working life Michael maintained close ties with Oriel and was a trustee of the Development Trust and a member of the College Campaign Board. He was also a trustee of the development board of the Young Vic Theatre, and involved himself in various other philanthropic organisations, including Riding for the Disabled and a small children’s charity in South Africa.

Michael’s family (his wife Suzanne, and their three children Max, Sabrina, and Olivia) and his many friends worldwide were shocked to learn in early 2015 that he had been diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease. He died in March 2017.

Based on his wife Suzanne’s account of his life

DEREK MOUNTAIN (1947) Derek Mountain came to Oriel in 1947, one of 126 successful applicants out of some 15,000 wishing to join the Colonial Administrative Service that year. He had just left the Fleet Air Arm and came up to Oxford newly married to Anita with a baby on the way. It was, he recalled, a happy way to begin a marriage and it was a period he and Anita remembered with affection.

At the Oxford Institute of Colonial Studies he sat at the feet of Dame Margery Perham; his course supervisor was Colonel F.B.H. Drummond, who had been with Lugard at the capture of Kano in 1904. After Oriel there was a term at SOAS and then a posting to Northern Nigeria – Tiv Division, Benue Province. Anita joined him after six months. They

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were twenty-three and twenty-four. As a young man Derek was plunged into administration of a province more than four times the size of Wales.

Following Tiv Division there were postings to Kano, Kaduna and finally, in the run-up to Nigeria’s independence, to Mubi in the Northern Cameroon; his work during the plebiscite earned him an OBE, and after independence he stayed on for the transition until 1962. The many administrative tasks of a District Officer in the 1950s included facilitating improvements to roads, irrigation systems, hospitals, schools and prisons, maintaining civil order and collecting tax.

Derek was an excellent linguist – he spoke Hausa fluently and managed well in Tiv and Fulani – and a good storyteller. Both skills endeared him to the Nigerians he worked with and for. He was also a talented artist and a lover of wildlife. Nigeria offered a cornucopia for his sketches, often carried out by the light of a Tilley lamp.

Conditions of service and pay were poor. Touring on foot in the bush was arduous and dangerous. On several leaves Derek and Anita had to be treated for malnutrition and tropical diseases of one sort or another. But to the end Derek considered his fourteen years in Northern Nigeria the richest and most important of his life.

After 1962 he continued in public service, eventually retiring to the Isle of Mull, where he sailed, fished and painted to his heart’s content, and later to Dorset. He leaves his widow, Anita, and two children, Hamish and Penny.

Written by his daughter Penny

RICHARD O’NEILL (1960) Richard Duncan O’Neill was born on 2 October 1941 and was raised in Portsmouth, where his grandfather had been a submariner. Educated at Portsmouth Grammar School, where he was Head Boy, Richard went up to Oriel in 1960 to read Physics. It was during his time here that he formed friendships that would last a lifetime. He attended Gaudies regularly and later in life was a founding member and Treasurer of the South West France branch of the Oxford University Society.

After graduation Richard worked at a stockbroker in London before settling in Cheltenham, and it was here that he met Alessandra. They married in 1964 and had two children, Nicholas in 1970 and Timothy in 1972. Richard spent time working in the family insurance business in the town, but also imported Moskvich cars in the 1970s and ran a garage. The thread that ran through his life, however, was his relationship with the Army through the Territorials and the Wessex Regiment, and during his time in Cheltenham he was also in charge of the Remembrance Day parades in the town. Often on exercise at home and abroad, Richard’s big chance came in the first Gulf War, but with unfortunate timing he

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leapt out of a moving vehicle and sustained a spiral fracture in his leg, which meant that he had to be flown home before hostilities began. After many years of treatment for this injury it was clear that the leg would not heal; it was eventually amputated, although with characteristic humour he always maintained that a pair of socks for Christmas would now go twice as far. Deep down, though, having his opportunity snatched away from him by a momentary misjudgement must have been a crushing disappointment.

Richard spent the last fifteen years or so of his life in quiet retirement in southern France, and found himself right at home with the climate and companionship this part of the world offers. He was devoted to the pipe and to the grape, edited articles by local writers, tackled the Telegraph crossword on a daily basis, and took on the role of Treasurer to the local branch of the Royal British Legion. He also began to sing in France, returning to something he had left behind in his school years but never forgotten, joining two local choirs and enjoying his time with both.

Richard was diagnosed with cancer in July 2016. He bore his illness with dignity and courage, much in the way a soldier should, and died on the evening of 25 September. His funeral at the church at Campagnac near where he lived was well attended, while his coffin, bearing his army cap, was carried out by his sons to the Last Post and Reveille. He is survived by Nicholas and Timothy, and by two granddaughters, Emilia and Romani.

Written by his son Nicholas

MELVIN (LARRY) POPOFSKY (1958) Larry Popofsky was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa, on 16 February 1936. At high school he was a champion debater. He graduated at the State University of Iowa in 1958, where he served as Vice-President of the Student Body and won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford.

He came to Oriel in 1958 and read Law. After Oxford he went to Harvard Law School, where he graduated cum laude in 1962. While in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he met his future wife of forty-nine years, Linda Seltzer, who attended Wellesley College and later received a PhD in European History from the University of California at Berkeley. The two settled in San Francisco, where Larry practised law at Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe (later Heller Ehrman) and Linda taught European History at Mills College and later ran the Chancellor's Scholarship Program at the University of California at Berkeley.

Melvin served as Heller Ehrman’s Chairman from 1985 to 1992, and was a nationally recognised leader in antitrust and appellate law, arguing the influential case Continental Television Inc. vs GTE Sylvania Inc. before the Supreme Court of the United States. Larry argued more than thirty appeals over the course of his career, most of them involving antitrust issues. In addition to Sylvania, his long-time clients included Ernst & Young LLP, Levi Strauss & Co and Visa Inc. More recently, Larry served as Senior Counsel at the Orrick law firm. He was also a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and served as a guest lecturer at the University of Oxford Centre of Competition Law & Policy.

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Larry served on the Boards of both the Jewish Home for the Aged and the Mount Zion Hospital, and as an adjunct professor of antitrust at Golden Gate University School Law School. He was a long-time member of Temple Emanuel.

Larry is survived by his son, Mark Popofsky, of Washington DC, and his daughter, Kaye Kramer, of Los Angeles, as well as his grandchildren. He died on the 9 May 2017 aged eighty-one.

Tribute provided by Larry’s son, Mark

PROFESSOR GEOFFREY RAISMAN Geoffrey Raisman, former Oriel Fellow and Tutor in Medicine, was born into a Jewish family in Leeds in 1939. His father, Harry Raisman, was a tailor, one of thirteen children of Lithuanian parents who came to the UK to escape the persecutions of late nineteenth-century Eastern Europe. Both his parents saw education as the path to success and freedom and strongly supported and encouraged Geoffrey in his learning from the earliest age.

He won a scholarship from Roundhay Grammar to Pembroke College, Oxford, when he was seventeen. Geoffrey met his wife Vivien when they were sixteen and got married at the age of eighteen. Vivien gave up her own undergraduate studies at the University of Edinburgh and found work in the Egyptian section of the Ashmolean to support their modest lifestyle. Pivotal for her, she discovered a love of things Ancient Egyptian and is now a renowned scholar in her own right. At Pembroke, Geoffrey’s mentor was Max Cowan, a neuroanatomist who enlisted him as his PhD student and inspired his interest in the workings of the brain.

After his postgraduate studies, between 1965 and 1974 Geoffrey worked primarily in the Department of Human Anatomy. When Graham Weddell, Oriel’s Tutor in Medicine, was put in charge of this Department, Geoffrey took over his tutorial work in Oriel and was made a Fellow by special election. He returned to Pembroke when Gordon MacPherson was elected as Tutor in Medicine.

Geoffrey was consumed by the dream of curing spinal injuries; for decades he insisted, despite the scepticism of others, that the injuries that condemn so many to lives of dependence might be repaired by transporting fresh cells into the damaged areas. The answer was as plain as the nose on your face. In 2014 a Polish fireman who had been paralysed by a knife attack that severed his spinal cord took a few steps after being treated with olfactory ensheathing cells from his nose. Raisman called the success ‘more impressive than man walking on the moon’ and it was celebrated as a medical marvel in a Panorama documentary and in countless column inches of print.

One success does not make a cure, yet few begrudged Geoffrey his moment of affirmation because it crowned a life of dedicated and lonely conviction. He challenged many of the accepted truths of neuroscience with a persistence bordering on obstinacy, winning some important battles but never wholly convincing his peers.

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Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Life President of the International Association of Neurorestoratology since 2010. He had many interests outside science such as art, music, literature, history and other cultures. He mastered many languages, not least among which was a deep knowledge of both classical and modern Chinese.

Geoffrey died in January 2017. His death came just as the ideas he cherished were coming to trial. Was his breakthrough to be ranked with immunisation and antibiotics?

Judgment must be postponed.

Abridged from The Times, with background from his daughter Ruth

THE REVD PETER RUSSELL (1949) Peter Russell was born the son of a minister in Swindon in 1929. The family moved to Birmingham when he was three. He went to Kingswood School and, after National Service, studied Greats at Oriel. After being accepted as a candidate for the ministry, he entered Wesley House, Cambridge, in 1954, where he made many lifelong friends. He completed his Theology degree in two years, with first class honours, followed by a postgraduate course in Philosophy of Religion. Peter was then awarded a year’s scholarship at Lund, Sweden, under Professor Anders Nygren. It was an important year, enlarging his vision and deepening his theological insight. While at Cambridge, Peter met his future wife, Sheila, a fellow Theology student. They married in 1958 and had three boys, Paul, David and Nick, of whom Peter was justly proud.

On his return to England, Peter had circuit appointments at Shooters Hill (1958–61) and Plymouth (1961–5). In 1966 he was appointed by the Missionary Society to Eastern Nigeria, as tutor in New Testament at Trinity College, Umuahia, where he worked with colleagues and students of many different backgrounds and traditions. His ministry was cut short by the Biafran civil war while he was on furlough in 1967.

While on leave, Peter taught at Wesley College, Bristol. When it became apparent that there could be no return to Nigeria, he was appointed to Epworth Theological College, Zimbabwe. He was struck by the change from an independent country where foreign scholars and political tensions ran high. Peter again taught New Testament, and was highly regarded by his students both as a scholar and a communicator. Epworth was a unique multi-national and multi-racial community, with staff and students from all over Zimbabwe and beyond. All were very aware of the tense political situation, with the college being watched, yet they were keen to witness against racism and discrimination. Peter took worship services on the radio until his Christian approach to the problems of society made him politically undesirable. He also played an important part in the National Affairs Committee of the Christian Council of Rhodesia, helping to compile reports for the British government.

After five years’ service, Peter and his family returned to England. Peter took a postgraduate course in Pastoral Studies at Birmingham University to prepare for a return to circuit life. In 1974 he was appointed to the Leeds Mission at Oxford Place, where he was University Chaplain, with many students commenting how his work had a lasting influence on their lives and the manse was a place of warmth and safety.

In 1977 Peter was appointed Principal of Kingsmead College, one of the Selly Oak

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Colleges, where he served for twelve years; this ministry supremely suited his experience and gifts of scholarship and pastoral care. As well as teaching New Testament and leading area studies on southern Africa, he prepared students for work abroad and helped those from overseas settle into a strange environment and train for further service. He built a happy community that emphasised Christian values but which was also open to people of other faiths, cultures and backgrounds. Despite the fact that many students had arrived from profoundly troubled parts of the world, many friendships were formed that survive to this day.

Following retirement to Selly Oak in 1995, Peter and Sheila were able to travel, sometimes with friends from Wesley House days, and often to Barcelona, where two of their sons have settled and four of their five grandchildren live. Peter continued to conduct services as long as his health permitted, often presiding at Sunday early communion at Selly Oak Methodist Church.

His commitment as a follower of Christ was deep and firm. Peter was a true scholar who always tackled questions with honesty. His understanding of the height and depth of the self-giving sovereign love of God provided the foundation of his many insights. He once said he had only one sermon, and that was Love.

Peter died in October 2016 in the eighty-eighth year of his life and the sixty-second of his ministry.

Written by his wife, Sheila

MARTIN STAINSBY (1969) Martin Stainsby was born in Watford in 1950 and, along with his younger brother Paul (Keble 1972), attended Watford Grammar School for Boys. As well as its good academic record the school had a proud musical heritage that has produced a long line of worldclass musicians. Martin played the piano and viola with the school orchestra and, having an established strong musical interest from his wider family, it was here that he developed his lifelong love of classical music. His passion for dinghy sailing also began at this time, when he joined a local sailing club together with his father and brother.

Martin went up to Oriel in 1969 to read Physics but had always planned a career in Engineering. He obtained a sailing Blue and was a stalwart race team member for Oxford University Yacht Club. After university he was offered the possibility of going on to do a PhD but decided that he would prefer to embark on a career. His working life was spent in the rapidly developing area of electronics and software engineering in the defence industry. After working for EMI in Feltham for a few years he moved to the Ministry of Defence in Portsmouth so that he could join Hayling Island Sailing Club in order to pursue his sailing interests. Most of his subsequent career was spent with Racal (now Thales) in Walton on Thames, where he was responsible for running the software department and also became Chief Engineer on the Command and Control system for the Type 23 frigate. Later he led a small group who were developing other spin-off commercial opportunities arising from their command and control expertise. From there he moved to become Head of Software Engineering with Marconi. He was well respected by his colleagues for his attention to detail, his tenacity in progress-chasing and review; and ultimately for his dedication to his work.

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In 1981 he married Alison, a chartered civil engineer educated at Cambridge, and they set up home in Guildford, from where they actively pursued their shared interest in sailing and music. There followed many years of dinghy racing at Hayling Island as a welcome distraction from their high-pressure jobs.

Neck pain caused Martin to give up paid work in 1999 but opened up new opportunities. He was able to devote more time to competitive sailing and took part in various National Championships in the UK and two World Championships, in Australia and the USA. He was now able to put something back into the sailing club which had given him so much sailing opportunity and enjoyment. He spent ten years on various committees, as well as organising national and international sailing events on behalf of the Club and eventually becoming Vice-Commodore.

Alison retired in 2008 and there followed several years of sailing and spending time together discovering Britain in their motorhome, a holiday lifestyle that they had discovered in the early years of their marriage. When pain forced the end of Martin’s active sailing in 2016 they moved to Milton Keynes in search of less traffic congestion and a better quality of life. They planned to make more use of the motorhome but it was not to be. Martin died peacefully on 3 March 2017 at the age of sixty-six.

Obituary by his wife, Alison

DR RICHARD (PAT) SUGGATE (1939) Pat Suggate was raised in Islington, North London. Being too young for military service at the outbreak of the Second World War, he was accepted at Oriel to study Geology.

Eventually he was called up and from 1942 served with the Royal Artillery and the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Towards the end of the war he helped deal with unexploded bombs and discarded ammunition. Demobilised with the rank of captain, he met a New Zealand geologist who suggested that he apply for a job with the New Zealand Geological Survey.

He was immediately successful in his application and he and his wife Daphne, a cartographer whom he had met in Oxford, sailed to Auckland in April 1947, en route for Greymouth. Here he worked for the Geological Survey for almost forty years, until he retired in 1986. His time in Greymouth had an enormous impact on him, as it helped define his future research interests in coal properties and glaciation.

Based in Christchurch for over a decade in the 1950s and 1960s, he played a leading role in a project to produce a modern geological map of the whole country. During that period he mapped and analysed the younger alluvial and glacial sediments over much of the South Island, culminating in the production of an integrated chronology for glacial and interglacial events over the last 1.5 million years. Combined with the work of others, this has provided a foundation on which much of the current scientific work on past and present climate change is based. He was awarded a DSc degree for this and other published work.

He was appointed Director of the New Zealand Geological Survey in 1974 and continued his own scientific work. He expanded his studies of New Zealand coals to include samples from deep oil-prospecting drill holes in Taranaki, and this led to him developing a general relationship between coal chemistry, temperature and burial depth that has become internationally known as the Suggate Rank Scale.

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Pat officially retired in 1986 but continued research as an emeritus scientist at GNS Science. He was awarded the McKay Hammer, the premier award of the Geological Society of New Zealand in 2001, for the publication of his map showing glacial advances near Hokitika. He published his final scientific paper at the age of ninety-three, in 2015.

As well as pursuing his own research, Pat played a major part in the life of the scientific community, both nationally and internationally, especially with the International Union of Quaternary Research (INQUA). He served as President of the Geological Society of New Zealand and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

He will be remembered by colleagues as a friendly and approachable boss, who personally reviewed and commented on every document produced in the Geological Survey. He and his wife worked together as a scientific partnership. She regularly accompanied him in the field and helped with his maps. As her health deteriorated, Pat looked after her; she predeceased him in 2012.

Pat died in 2016 and is survived by his three children.

Abridged from an obituary published for Stuff NZ

DR DAVID THOMAS (1950) David Thomas was born in London in 1928. His schooling was at Harrow and the Putney School in Vermont. He matriculated at Oriel in 1950 and was awarded his DPhil in Chemistry in 1952. Afterwards he worked as a researcher for the Royal Military College in Kingston, Canada.

While at a musical concert in New Jersey he met a scientist who told him about a place called ‘Bell Laboratories’. He was intrigued and began working there in 1954. Once employed, his scientific mind flourished, and for the next thirty-eight years he worked to create technological advancements that have affected our telecommunication abilities to this day. His first research at Bell Labs led him to the solid-state chemistry of semiconducting materials. Later he directed his research toward the optical properties of semiconductors, including their luminescence.

After becoming Head of the Semiconductor Electronics Research Department in 1962, he conducted studies leading to the development of gallium phosphide lightemitting diodes, which were used extensively as indicator lights of maintenance equipment, control panels, and some new multiline telephones and business telephone consoles.

In 1969 he moved from research into development and became the Executive Director of the Electronic Devices, Process and Materials Division responsible for the development of electronic devices, including their materials and fabrication. In this same year he was co-recipient, along with John Hopfield, of the Oliver E. Buckley Solid State Physics Prize of the American Physical Society for his theoretical and experimental work related to the interaction of light and solids. He was the holder of seven patents, one of which was awarded to him and his colleague Willard S. Boyle.

This patent contributed to the development of the semiconductor injection laser, which is found in many electronic appliances.

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In 1976 David became Executive Director of Bell Laboratories’ Transmission Systems Division. His chief activity here was to oversee the development and design of a variety of transmission systems, and to assist in their introduction into manufacture. These systems included digital fibre optic systems for terrestrial use, and also submarine fibre optic systems for transoceanic use. The 1988 submarine fibre optic system on which he worked was designed to increase phone transmissions from the United States, England and France to 40,000 simultaneous phone calls. One of the challenges that arose were sharks who, sensing the magnetic field created by the high voltage of the cables, bit them.

Thicker cables were subsequently designed to help alleviate this problem.

He continued to work at Bell Laboratories until 1992. He then moved to Dallas, where he briefly worked for a small electronics company, from which he retired in 1994. Not one prone to idleness, he embraced the computer age with zeal by building his own and by using his skills to help organisations computerise their data records. He was an avid reader and could be politically vocal about supporting liberal policies. He very much enjoyed the beauty and solitude of the nearby White Memorial Woods.

He died in May 2016 at the age of eighty-eight.

Abridged from The New York Times

MICHAEL WATTS (1951) Michael Watts was born in May 1930, the son of the Revd Gilbert Watts, a former Army chaplain and missionary, and his wife, Kathleen. The third of five children, Michael and his siblings lived out a peripatetic childhood, moving every three years as was then common for Methodist ministers and their families. Despite his disrupted schooling, Michael obtained commendable grades in his School Certificate examinations, first at Mexborough Grammar School then at Oswestry School.

After National Service in the RAF he won a Leathersellers’ Exhibition to read Modern History at Oriel, where he studied under the tutorship of the eminent mediaevalist Billy Pantin. For him a particular highlight was his special papers on the life and works of St Augustine of Hippo, which nurtured a lifelong interest in early Church history and late antiquity.

After Oxford Michael joined the teaching profession, working in Hoe Place Preparatory School in Old Woking for two years before obtaining his PGCE teaching qualification at Westminster College, London, in 1957. He then became Assistant History Master at Adams Grammar School in Newport, Shropshire, where he stayed for eleven years – undoubtedly his happiest in the profession. His testimonials speak of a conscientious and effective teacher who captured the interest of pupils.

After three subsequent years in Feltham School in Middlesex, Michael was appointed Head of the History Department at Oxford School in 1971, a post he held until 1980, when he opted to take premature retirement with redundancy. After twenty-five years as a schoolmaster, Michael decided to reinvent himself as a second-hand and antiquarian bookseller. He began in a small way, trading in the weekly markets in Oxford

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and Hitchin (close to where his widowed mother was living). Then in 1985 he set up his first shop, trading as Iffley Books in the Omni Antiques Emporium on George Street, Oxford. In 1987 he opened the much larger Bookshop, At The Plain, at 11 Cowley Road, which he ran successfully for eleven years assisted by a motley crew of helpers.

He left Oxford for good in 1998. He moved first to the Lake District and then to Lincolnshire, where he spent the rest of his life. For two years he ran a bookshop on West Parade, Lincoln, but it never had the footfall of Cowley Road, nor did he find such colourful assistants; so in 2001, with the help of his niece Mary, Michael switched to online trading through AbeBooks, a subsidiary of Amazon. At the same time he moved to Holbeach in the Lincolnshire Fens, where he lived for ten years before moving to a rambling four-bedroom house in Spalding, which he proceeded to fill with up to 12,000 books. By the end of his life Michael had witnessed the virtual collapse of the second-hand book trade as the world went digital and the UK switched to a more visual culture. Nevertheless, he continued trading to the end, though handicapped by a deteriorating deafness which left him frustrated and sometimes isolated. He passed away in June 2017.

Michael never married but he enjoyed a happy thirty-two-year relationship with a fellow Oxford History graduate. Over the years they travelled the length and breadth of the UK and in Europe, usually looking for saleable books. Michael was a deeply cultured, modest and unassuming man, stringently moral, honest, generous, kind, hardworking and loyal, who will be greatly missed.

Tribute by Stephen Ashley, St Catherine’s College

THE REVD BARRY WHITEHEAD (1950) The Revd Barry Whitehead was born in December 1930 and came up to Oriel in 1950 to read Theology. He then undertook his ministerial training at St Stephen’s House in 1953. His summer vacations were spent in the hop fields of Sussex, where he met his future wife, Heather Harcourt Peacock.

In the 1950s he moved to the parish of St Dunstan’s in Liverpool and was ordained Priest in Liverpool Cathedral in 1956. In 1958 he became curate at St Thomas the Martyr in Up Holland, Lancashire.

A picture of Barry is incomplete without mentioning his love of climbing, caving, hill-walking, shooting (for which he was awarded a Half Blue), his Burmese cats, and the building and racing of single-seater cars known as the RBS series (Reverend Barry Specials!). His final creation lives on, with his daughter Eve at the wheel. The first was built in 1969.

His interest in mechanics was first evidenced at the age of eight, when he took apart his parents’ petrol-driven lawn mower. This passion was fully ignited by a meeting with one of his parishioners in 1959. Bill Burton spotted Barry’s interest in mechanics and introduced him to racing vintage motorbikes and Aston Martins.

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designing, building and racing, all from his home garage. A self-taught mechanic and engineer, Barry established a record of forty-five years on the circuit without missing a season.

In 1961 he became an Industrial Chaplain with the Liverpool Diocesan Industrial Mission (IM) team. Over the next twenty years, under the leadership of Canon David Stephens, the IM team pioneered and established a new way of working with industry’s management and shop floor. They demonstrated and taught the value of human life and experience, whilst giving silent witness to the transforming love of Christ.

In 1977, while still continuing his IM work, Barry became Vicar of St Elizabeth Church, Aspull. Shortly thereafter, the Church of England was faced with a serious decline in the numbers of stipendiary clergy. Barry’s commitment to the Church’s response of Shared Ministry (SM) saw him emerge as a leading light and advisor in the North West of England. For the next fifteen years he challenged orthodox assumptions about the role of the clergy in the modern Anglican Church.

He officially retired in 1995, but his life continued much as before. He was never too busy to provide coffee and an ear to former parishioners, and just weeks before his death he was still working in his garage on RBS8. In his own words, Barry was happy and grateful to have enjoyed ‘a rich and full life’. He died in Wigan in May 2017.

Tribute by his daughter, Pat Whitehead

OTHER DEATHS NOTIFIED SINCE SEPTEMBER 2016 BIART, Douglas (1943) FAIRLIE, Captain David Ogilvy (1942) FEATHER, James Kenneth Downing (1956) FRANKEL, Cyril Soloman (1946) FROOMBERG, Philip David (1943) GINGELL CBE OBE, Major General Laurie William Albert (1943) HOBSON, Sir Ronald Frank (Benefactor to Oriel) HODGES, Cecil (Bill) Herbert William (1940) HUXLEY, Charles Grant (1962) MELLISH, Allan Raymond (1948) MOLLAND, Ralph (1942) ROBINSON, Matthew Charles Websdale (2010) SCHOENENBERGER, Professor Kurt (Emeritus Fellow) SMITH, Joseph Michael (1969) SMITH, Nicol Albert (1950) YOUNG, The Revd Martin Edward (1938)

21 March 2016 16 January 2013 30 March 2017 7 June 2017

22 September 2016 22 April 2017 14 November 2016 20 October 2015 26 March 2017 29 December 2016 2 October 2016 13 November 2016 23 February 2017 26 October 2016 25 February 2016

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DATES OF FULL TERM Michaelmas 2017 Hilary 2018 Trinity 2018

Sunday 8 October – Saturday 2 December Sunday 14 January – Saturday 10 March Sunday 22 April – Saturday 16 June

GAUDIES

From time to time we review our Gaudy scheduling, so please visit the Oriel alumni website for the latest schedule. Please note that invitations are always sent three months in advance to those eligible to attend. There may be limited spaces available for those who have missed out to join an upcoming Gaudy (with priorities given to adjacent years). Over the next two years Gaudies will be held for the following years of matriculation: 2018 1969 – 1971 2002 – 2004

2019 1972 – 1975 2008 – 2009

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 2017

SUNDAY 26 NOVEMBER College Carol Service THURSDAY 7 DECEMBER Varsity Rugby Match Oxford and Cambridge Varsity match held at Twickenham Stadium.

2018

SATURDAY 10 FEBRUARY Returners’ Dinner A dinner for Orielenses who graduated in 2017.

WEDNESDAY 28 FEBRUARY – SATURDAY 3 MARCH Rowing: Torpids

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FRIDAY 16 MARCH 1969 – 1971 Gaudy Black tie dinner in Hall preceded by drinks in the Large SCR. FRIDAY 16 MARCH – SUNDAY 18 MARCH Meeting Minds in Rome University of Oxford European Alumni Weekend.

SATURDAY 17 MARCH Adam de Brome Society Lunch Annual lunch in College for members of the Adam de Brome Society and guests.

FRIDAY 6 APRIL – SATURDAY 7 APRIL North American Alumni Weekend in San Francisco FRIDAY 11 MAY Champagne Concert Performance and champagne interlude in the Senior Library, with optional pre-concert supper.

SATURDAY 26 MAY Raleigh Society Garden Party Annual garden party for members of the Raleigh Society (by invitation).

Oriel Alumni Garden Party Garden party for all alumni to celebrate the last day of Summer Eights.

FRIDAY 22 JUNE Oriel College Ball FRIDAY 14 – SUNDAY 16 SEPTEMBER Oxford Alumni Weekend and Oriel Alumni Weekend Open to all Orielenses and guests. University-wide events over the weekend, including the annual Alumni Dinner in College on Friday and programme of events on Saturday.

SATURDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2002 – 2004 Gaudy Black tie dinner in Hall preceded by drinks in the Large SCR. If you wish to receive further details or to book for any of these events, please visit the event pages of the Alumni website (www.alumni.oriel.ox.ac.uk/events/). For queries, contact events@oriel.ox.ac.uk. Please note that for all events in College we have an induction loop permanently installed in Hall.

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ORIEL RECORD

The Editor of the Oriel College Record is Dr Douglas Hamilton, Oriel College, Oxford OX1 4EW and he wishes to record his gratitude to the College Development Office for invaluable help. The Editor will be glad to receive news of Orielenses of all generations. In addition, all Orielenses and other interested persons are warmly invited to submit items and articles with a view to publication in future editions, whether about the College or about the past or present activities of its members. The Editor is grateful to Peter Collett for compiling the Obituaries. Reminiscences or short notes for inclusion in the obituaries in future issues of the Record may be sent to him via the College Development Office (development.office@oriel.ox.ac.uk).

CHANGES OF ADDRESS

Notice of any change of address or other contact details are gratefully received.

All notifications should be sent to the Development Office at Oriel.

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If you have any questions or wish to update your communication preferences, then please contact the Oriel College Development Office at development.office@oriel.ox.ac.uk or write to us at Oriel College Development Office, Oriel College, Oriel Square, Oxford, OX1 4EW. This edition Š Oriel College 2017 First published in 2017 by Oriel College Oxford, OX1 4EW www.oriel.ox.ac.uk General enquiries 01865 276555 lodge@oriel.ox.ac.uk development.office@oriel.ox.ac.uk Edited by Dr Douglas Hamilton Designed by Raymonde Watkins Printed by Lavenham Press Ltd.

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The Editor is grateful to all those who have provided photographs for inclusion in this edition of the Oriel College Record with particular thanks to Roger Tooth and Simon Bunney.

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