Oriel Record 2016 by Raymonde Watkins

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2016

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front cover Celebrating 50 years of success on the river: badge from George Moody’s OCBC blazer

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CONTENTS

COLLEGE RECORD

Provost’s Notes

The Provost, Fellows, Lecturers Treasurer’s Notes Chaplain’s Notes

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Baptisms, Marriages and Funerals 25 Preachers at Evensong

The 1326 Society

Donors

Development Director’s Notes

The Raleigh Society

Junior Common Room

Middle Common Room New Members

Academic Record

27 31

45 52

Degrees and Examination Results 52 Awards and Prizes

Sports Achievements

Orielensia presented to the Library

CLUBS, SOCIETIES AND ACTIVITIES

College Sports

Chapel Choir

The Oriel Society

66 83

Oriel Midlands Bursary ‘Tomb

Oriel Alumni and Alumnae Golf 87

to Tomb’ Walk

FEATURES 88

Celebrating Women at Oriel 90 Our Visitor’s Ninetieth Birthday Party 91 King Edward II’s Other ‘College’ 92 Commemoration of Benefactors: An Address by the Provost 96 Eugene Lee-Hamilton Prize 2016 99

BOOK REVIEWS

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NEWS AND EVENTS

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Lyndal Roper, Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet 102 Gabriel A. Sivan (ed.), The Jewish Emigrant from Britain 1700–2000: Essays in Memory of Lloyd P. Gartner 104 Geoffrey Treasure, The Huguenots 105 Martin Warner, The Aesthetics of Argument 106

Fellows’ News, Honours and Awards Orielenses’ News Deaths Obituaries Members of Unknown Address 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 David Michael Hodgson, MA (BSc Bath; PhD Southampton); Professor of Chemistry, Todd Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry Lynne Suzanne Cox, MA (MA, PhD Cantab.); University Lecturer in Biochemistry, George Moody Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry, Tutor for Admissions and Outreach Pedro Gil Ferreira, MA (Licenciado in Physics, Lisbon; PhD London); Professor of Physics, Tutor in Physics 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.); Treasurer Yadvinder Singh Malhi, MA (MA Cantab.; PhD Reading); 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, Tutor for Admissions Juliane Kerkhecker, MA (Staatsexamen Tübingen); Fellow by Special Election and Tutor in Classics, Senior Tutor Michael Peter Devereux, MA (MSc London School of Economics; 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 Law Philip Stier, MA (MSc Reading; PhD Max Planck Institute for Meteorology); Fellow and Tutor in Physics John Hamish Armour, BA, BCL (LLM Yale; BVC London); Hogan Lovells Professor of Law and Finance

Hindy Najman, Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture

Teresa Bejan, Fellow and Tutor in Politics

Julia Carolin Mannherz, MA (MA London; PhD Cantab.); Rhodes Fellow and Tutor in History 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); 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, MA (BA Edinburgh); Professorial Fellow in Finance, Chief Investment Officer, Oxford University Endowment Management William Dalton Wood, MA (MA, PhD Chicago); Moody Fellow and Tutor in Theology Max Crispin, MBiochem, DPhil; Supernumerary Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry Kobi Kremnizer, BA (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

Luca Castagnoli, Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy

Maike Bublitz, Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry

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

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RESEARCH FELLOW AND DIRECTOR OF MUSIC David Nicholas Maw, MA, DPhil, FRCO

JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOW IN EARLY MODERN HISTORY Hannah Saunders Murphy (PhD Berkeley)

SUPERNUMERARY RESEARCH FELLOWS Eric Beinhocker, Executive Director, Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School Bernardo Cuenca Grau (PhD Valencia)

JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOW IN EUROPEAN HISTORY Erin Neal Maglaque, MSt, DPhil

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) HAYWARD JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOW Tim Philip Vogels, MSc (PhD École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) HAYWARD LECTURER Aarti Jagannath, MSc, DPhil BRITISH ACADEMY RESEARCH FELLOW Adrastos Omissi, MSt, DPhil CAREER DEVELOPMENT FELLOW IN HISTORY Maya Corry, BA, DPhil (MA Courtauld)

GLASSTONE RESEARCH FELLOW IN MATHEMATICS Robert Van Gorder (BS, MS, PhD UCF) CHAPLAIN Revd Robert Benjamin Tobin, DPhil (BA Cantab.; MPhil Trinity College Dublin; AB Harvard) DEANS Alexis Brown, MA (BA Wisconsin Madison) Mary Jones, MSc (BS Rose-Hulman) Carrie Ryan, MPhil (BA Sewanee) GRADUATE TEACHING AND RESEARCH SCHOLARS Elizabeth Phillips, BA, MMathCompSci, GTA in Computer Science James Bonifacio (BSc Canterbury), GTA in Physics Tobias Thornes (MPhys Dunelm), GTA in Physics Nicholas Lennings (BA, LLB Macquarie, LLM Harvard), GTA in Law Lucy Auton, MMath, GTA in Mathematics

EMERITUS FELLOWS Kurt Schoenenberger (MA Edinburgh; MA Cantab.); former Secretary, Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board 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 George Gordon MacPherson, MA, BM, DPhil; former Reader in Experimental Pathology, Turnbull Fellow and Tutor in Medicine Lauchlan Glenn Black, MA, DPhil (BA Cape Town); former Tutor in English Literature, Senior Tutor 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 Tutor in Jurisprudence Mark François Edward Philp, MA, MPhil, DPhil (BA Bradford, MSc Leeds); former 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, DLitt (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

HONORARY FELLOWS Thomas Henry Bull Symons, CC, OOnt, FRSC, MA (BA Toronto; DU Ottawa; DLitt Columbia) Sir Ewen Alastair John Fergusson, GCMG, GCVO, MA The Rt Hon. The Lord Harris of Peckham (Philip Charles) 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 Thomas Noel Mitchell, MA, MRIA (MA Dublin, National University of Ireland; PhD Cornell); former Provost, Trinity College Dublin Lady Pauline Harris Seng Tee Lee, FBA

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Eric Foner, MA (BA, PhD Columbia University): former Harmsworth Professor of American History 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, KCMCO, KSG, PC John Hegarty (MA, PhD National University of Ireland), FInstP, MRI; 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 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; former Professor of the History of Science

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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, MA, MPhil, DPhil. former Dean, Saïd Business School Sir Crispin Henry Lamart Davis, BA 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 Robert McHenry, MA, DPhil, former Tutor in Psychology Sir Michael McWilliam, KCMG, MA 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) Julia Alison Noble, OBE, MA, DPhil, FREng; Technikos Professor of Biomedical Engineering

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 Jan Wilbert Hendrik Schnupp, DPhil (BSc London); Lecturer in Neurophysiology

Revd Robert Benjamin Tobin, DPhil (BA Cantab.; MPhil TCD; AB Harvard); Lecturer in Theology Elinor Payne (MPhil, PhD Cantab.), Fellow of St Hilda’s College; Lecturer in Linguistics Marion Turner, MA, DPhil; Lecturer in English Richard Coggins, MA, DPhil; Lecturer in Politics Tom Close, MMath, DPhil; Lecturer in Mathematics Andrew William Kenneth Farlow, MPhil (MA Cantab); Lecturer in Economics Nicholas Jackson Brett Green, MA, DPhil; Lecturer in Chemistry Claire Gwenlan, Lecturer in Physics Dunja Aksentijevic (PhD Hull), Lecturer in Medicine Sarah Bennett, MSt, DPhil (BA York); Lecturer in English Hugh Collins Rice, BA, MLitt (MA Sussex); Lecturer in Music Philip Derry, Lecturer in Chemistry Pamela Lear (BSc, PhD London), Lecturer in Medicine Andrew Adam (BA Bowdoin, MDiv Yale, PhD Duke), Lecturer in Theology Shona Murphy (BTech Bradford, MSc, PhD Essex), Lecturer in Biochemistry Simon Pawley (BA, MRes London), Lecturer in History Clare Deligny, Lecturer in French Alice Brooke, BA MSt DPhil; Lecturer in Spanish Lydia Matthews, DPhil (BA, MA KwaZulu-Natal); Lecturer in Ancient History Felix Charles Penrice Leach, MEng, DPhil; Lecturer in Engineering Science Anthony Hibbs, MPhys; Lecturer in Physics Laura Quick (BA Cardiff, MA Durham), Lecturer in Theology

Emma Claussen, Lecturer in French Lena Gal, Lecturer in Mathematics Yvonne Geyer, Lecturer in Mathematics Lydia Gilday, MChem, DPhil; Lecturer in Chemistry Steven Kaye, Lecturer in English Language Kirstin Knabe, Lecturer in German Victor Lee, Lecturer in Chemistry Wenjin Li, Lecturer in Economics Enrico Prodi, BA Bologna, MPhil, DPhil; Lecturer in Classics Andrew Seel, Lecturer in Chemistry Rebecca Springer, Lecturer in History George Wadhams, 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 (BA Berkley, MSc Edinburgh), Lecturer in Spanish Mary Boyle (BA King’s), DPhil, MSt; Lecturer in German Krzysztof Brzezinski (BA MSc Warsaw), Lecturer in Economics Emily Dolmans (BA McGill), MPhil; Lecturer in English Andrew Goodwin, DPhil; Lecturer in Chemistry Kirstin Gwyer, Lecturer in German Sarah Jones (BA, MA KCL), Lecturer in French Emily Kesling (BA Washington), MSt; Lecturer in English Siran Li (BA Columbia), Lecturer in Mathematics Andria Pancrazi, Lecturer in French Oliver Ready, BA, DPhil (MA UCL); Lecturer in Russian Adam Stones, MChem; Lecturer in Chemistry Evert van Emde Boas, DPhil, MSt (BA MA Amsterdam); Lecturer in Classics Kresimir Vukovic, DPhil (BA MA Zadar); Lecturer in Classics

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PROVOST’S NOTES

ach year as I sit down to write these notes, I reflect on the extraordinary variety of life at Oriel and the enormous amount that happens over the course of an academic year. But to describe this year as varied would be an understatement. As we approached this year, I thought that it would stand in memory as the thirtieth anniversary of the admission of women to the College. We were looking forward to celebrating this moment and reflecting on how the College had navigated this change – once so divisive for the College, but now seen as so natural. And indeed we had a wonderful celebration in November, on a beautiful autumn day, with over a hundred alumnae coming back to mark the occasion and enjoy a day of academic and professional debate, interspersed with reflection and the occasional outrageous reminiscence. But even at that time an issue was developing in the background that was going to put the College at the centre of an intense media debate about the legacies of empire and in particular the commemoration of Cecil Rhodes. As most Orielenses will know, Cecil Rhodes not only studied at Oriel but also, on his death, gave the College a very significant legacy from which subsequent generations have benefited greatly. Early in 2015 protest movements in South Africa led the University of Cape Town to remove its statue of Cecil Rhodes from its central location on campus. Over the months that followed a protest movement developed in Oxford too, challenging the presence of the statue of Rhodes on the College’s High Street façade, and linking this with other issues about the representation and experience of people from ethnic minorities in the University today. Many universities around the world have been, or are being, challenged on similar issues, and most, like Oriel, thought it right to allow and encourage a debate, reflecting a commitment to free speech. In December the Governing Body announced that it was prepared to listen to views about how Rhodes is commemorated, and that it would take a series of substantive actions aimed at improving the representation and experience of students from ethnic minority backgrounds. In the period of significant public debate that followed, the College received an enormous amount of input in which many different points of view were expressed. The overwhelming message was in support of the statue remaining in place, for a variety of reasons. After careful consideration the Governing Body announced in January that the Rhodes statue and the plaque in King Edward Street would remain in place, and that the College would seek to provide clear historical context to explain why they are there. More history, not less, will be the outcome – appropriately enough after a process that has caused many people to reflect on this aspect of our history more intensively than ever before.

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Though we end the year in calmer times, these events did place a strain on the College. No university has found these waters easy to navigate, and for an institution the size of Oriel they have been particularly testing. Extraordinary thanks are due to the many who put in long hours to deal with these unusual circumstances, including senior officers, staff and students, as well as to many alumni who assisted with support and expertise during this challenging time. But it is time to bring these Notes back to their normal starting place – academic results – particularly this year, when our students have achieved such spectacular exam success. Oriel is not a college that obsesses about the Norrington Table, which is a very imperfect measure and can magnify tiny distinctions between colleges. But we are immensely proud of our continuing academic success and everyone in College was delighted with the 2016 Finalists’ achievements, where no fewer than thirty-eight students achieved a First. At 46 per cent of the year group, this is the highest percentage of Firsts of any college in Oxford this year. We had a very joyful week of graduations in July, and delight at the brilliance of the results helped me overcome a slight wistfulness at the departure of a generation of whom many I saw arrive as Freshers and whose three or four years here seem to have gone very fast. It would be misleading to single out individual subjects this year when so many have seen such outstanding results. But we should particularly salute those of our students who won university and national prizes: Keith Chan and Esther Wong in Law, Daniel Christen in Politics, Jacob Warn in Classics and English, Will Foster in Music, Arianna Azari in Medicine, Ashok Menon in Computer Science, Matthew Pickering in Computer Science and Philosophy, Mark Gowers in Chemical Engineering and Alex Homer in Mathematics and Statistics. Alex Homer was awarded the Royal Statistical Society Prize (a UK-wide prize, for which the department makes nominations to the Royal Statistical Society) and Mark Gowers was awarded the Salters’ Graduate Prize in Chemical Engineering. To these achievements must be added the success of our postgraduates. Of forty-six Masters students who graduated this year, 30 per cent did so with a distinction, and thirty-seven students completed a DPhil in the course of the year. These results are a real credit to the students and their hard work, as well as to the skill of our teaching teams here at Oriel. But they also reflect the care and professionalism of all the College’s staff in all departments, who keep the College running smoothly and provide good food, excellent support and care, and a welcoming environment that makes it such a good place to live and study. I hope the results are also a source of satisfaction to the many alumni and friends who have generously donated to the College over the years and that they feel –

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as we do – the direct connection between their investment in teaching and research, in the fabric of the College, and in support for students, and the academic performance of the College. This support is enormously appreciated by staff and students alike, and we strive to make the very best possible use of it. I know that our alumni, being a proud and competitive group, will enjoy the slight shock being felt across Oxford that a college perhaps best known for dominating Summer Eights appears to have sneaked up on the competition in a different event. Will we do it again? One cannot know, and sadly, the academic tables are not decided by a system of bumps: our prowess in Finals this year does not mean that we will start in first place next year. But we should take inspiration from 2016, and next year, as every year, we shall be happy with any results where students achieve what they are capable of, have got the most out of their time here, and are going on to do something that inspires them further. So what news of our Fellows in this exceptionally busy year? A new Mathematics Fellow, Dr Patrick Farrell, joins us in Michaelmas Term 2016 from Christ Church. Patrick has been a part of the Mathematical Institute in Oxford since 2013 and in 2015 won the quadrennial Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software and an IMA Leslie Fox Prize in Numerical Analysis. In other Fellows’ news we should congratulate Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History, on being awarded the Gerda Henkel Prize in recognition of her outstanding scholarly research. Senior Research Fellow Nick Eyre has been awarded the title of Professor of Energy and Climate Policy as part of the University’s Recognition of Distinction exercise. Other Fellows’ highlights of the year included Hindy Najman’s inaugural lecture as Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture, entitled ‘Ethical Reading: Transformation of the Text and the Self’, and Teresa Bejan’s tenure as the 2015– 16 Balzan-Skinner Fellow in Modern Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. There are two changes in College Officers as of the new academic year. First, Richard Scholar steps down after two years’ service as Senior Tutor. This is a demanding role supporting academic colleagues, leading the development of academic strategy and overseeing the academic progress and welfare of our undergraduates, and Richard has performed the role marvellously. We welcome Juliane Kerkhecker as his successor in this role from Michaelmas Term. We also welcome Lynne Cox to the role of Tutor for Admissions for the coming year, during Katie Murphy’s research leave. The College is fortunate indeed in the willingness of Fellows to take on these additional roles, which play such an important part in our academic success. An additional thank-you this year goes to The Venerable David Meara, an Orielensis, who, having retired from his position as Archdeacon of London and Rector of St Bride’s,

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Fleet Street, kindly agreed to serve as Acting Chaplain for Trinity Term, allowing Robert Tobin, our Chaplain, a well-earned research sabbatical. It was a great pleasure to welcome David and get to know him, and we are indebted to him for his kindness in taking on the role. This year we have also elected four new Honorary Fellows in recognition of their professional eminence. They are: Jonathan Lane OBE (1964), the founding Chief Executive of Shaftesbury PLC, who pioneered the regeneration and development of neighbourhoods such as Seven Dials, Carnaby Street and St Martin’s; Strone Macpherson (1967), who is the Chair of Close Brothers as well as a Governor of Heriot Watt University, a Trustee of the King’s Fund and Chair of the Oriel Audit Committee; Colm Kelleher (1975), who is President of Morgan Stanley; and Professor Alison Noble OBE, who was a Fellow of Oriel from 1996 to 2004 and holds the Technikos Chair of Biomedical Engineering here in Oxford. As in any year, the Record also marks the passing of many alumni and friends of the College. In particular I should mention Emeritus Fellows Donald Walsh and Brigadier Hugh Browne, both of whom sadly passed away this year. Donald Walsh was appointed as the College’s first Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Science in 1964, and oversaw the development of the subject at Oriel until the late 1970s. He will be fondly remembered by many students. Hugh Browne was Oriel’s Bursar between 1978 and 1990, years of great change for the College as the first years of female students were admitted. We also record the passing of Honorary Fellows Sir Christopher Walford and Eric Vallis. Sir Christopher Walford (1956) studied Law at Oriel, became a Partner at Allen & Overy, and went on to serve as Lord Mayor of London. Eric Vallis joined Oriel as Treasurer in 1974 and saw the College through considerable financial difficulties. All these friends of the College will be very much missed. But on to lighter topics. As usual, my notes need to give a flavour of the nonacademic life of the College, not least given the natural concern Orielenses might feel that unprecedented exam success may be a product of some falling off in extracurricular activity. Nothing could be further from the truth, as this edition of the Record makes clear. To begin with sport, as ever our rowers were in fine form. Torpids saw both men’s and women’s first boats finish in second place and in Summer Eights, the women’s First VIII moved back up into Division 1 and the men claimed Head of the River for a third year in succession. Indeed, the men are now tied with Christ Church for the most Headships since the competition began. On the national stage, Oriel rowers also continue to shine, with Morgan Baynham-Williams’s outstanding coxing in the Women’s Boat Race leading Oxford to victory, and Orielensis Pete Reed winning another gold medal as part of the Men’s VIII at the Rio Olympics. Another sign of Oriel’s competitive spirit is the growing popularity of distance

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

running. Following the success of last year’s efforts, this May Andrew Boothroyd and my husband, David, set about recruiting the largest College team for the Oxford Town and Gown 10k race. On a wonderful spring day, more than ninety Oriel staff, students and alumni took part in the run, and were duly declared the largest team. It was a wonderful occasion and a pleasure to see so many runners in Oriel shirts making their way around Oxford. I hope that we can match this success in the coming year in what is fast becoming a new College tradition. Music is another Oriel strength that brings together different parts of the College community and this year has been musically memorable in many different ways. The Chapel Choir has been in excellent voice throughout the year. Do come and listen if you have the chance. They added to their repertoire with the premiere of a new Magnificat specially commissioned from composer Judith Bingham to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the admission of female students. It is a fantastic and challenging piece and the Chapel Choir has already performed it twice. The College’s Visiting Musician this year was pianist Joanna MacGregor, who gave two wonderful masterclasses as well as a concert at the Holywell Music Room and our Champagne Concert in May. The opportunity to see such a gifted teacher and performer in action is a great privilege for our students and something from which we all learn. In our other Champagne Concert, in October, Peter Mallinson and Matthias Wiesner, two virtuoso violists, demonstrated to the full the potential of this unique and often overlooked instrument. Students continue to be very active in drama across the University and in the summer these talents were on show in the College itself, with a marvellous production of Love’s Labour’s Lost. Oriel’s budding journalists continue to play their part at University level and our own Poor Print goes from strength to strength, setting a very high standard for essays, poetry and reviews. This is available online at www.thepoorprint.com. Particular credit for their service to the College should go to our MCR and JCR Committees, who put in an enormous amount of effort to represent their fellow students and to promote an active and supportive student community. Kate Welsh as JCR President and Mark Johnson as MCR President made a major contribution to the College during their terms of office and I thank them for all that they did.

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Celebrating Women at Oriel, 21 November 2015

As one example of student-led activity, last year an important new College tradition was born in the shape of ‘Oriel Talks’, a brainchild of the MCR. A twice-termly event, Oriel Talks gather together members of all three common rooms for an evening of short academic talks and discussion. It is a great opportunity for members of College to showcase their research and to practise conveying technical detail to a demanding, non-specialist audience. The MCR, and in particular last year’s Vice-President Nisha Mistry, deserves great credit for its leadership in putting together such an exciting programme, which is already becoming an established part of College life. At the same time, our programme of alumni events has been as busy as ever, with one or two innovations designed to appeal to the broadest possible range of interests. This year, in addition to the special November event to mark thirty years of women students, we have held gaudies for those who matriculated in 1966–8 and 1958–61, spent a week in New York and Washington reconnecting with Orielenses in the US, hosted a wonderful family garden party on the Saturday of Eights Week, and held a wellattended alumni weekend in September. The Hall was full for our dinner on the Friday night, which included a half-century special commemoration of the 1966 Head of the River crew, and the following day guests were treated to a talk by Hayward Lecturer and Junior Research Fellow Aarti Jagannath on her research into the impact of circadian rhythms on just about every aspect of our lives. In developing these events – and for much other useful feedback and support – we receive enormously valuable help from the alumni who serve on the Oriel Society Committee. We thank them, together with all those who give their time to sit as external members on College Committees or to assist us with fund-raising or other initiatives. The College is able to draw on a huge resource of talent and goodwill and we are very grateful for it. There are many more people to thank in a College such as Oriel, which could not thrive

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as it does without the skill and professionalism of a host of individuals on our staff who deal marvellously with the combination of short- and long-term issues and projects that are our daily fare here. The experience of a student, a potential student, a staff member, a returning Orielensis or a visitor is the product of the collective efforts of so many different teams within the College, from the welcome at the Lodge, to the excellent food and drink in the Hall, through to the well-maintained rooms, kept spick and span by our wonderful army of Scouts, and the much-loved Library, open twenty-four hours a day. Problems and queries of all sorts are demystified by the Academic Office, the Outreach and Admissions Officers, the Senior Dean and his team, the Bursary, the IT Office, and our Human Resources team. As is the case each year, a number of staff members have moved on to new roles elsewhere. In particular we should mark the departures of Tina Beard, our HR Manager; Dave Hart, our IT Director; Tim Pottle, our Deputy Development Director; and Junior Deans Felix Leach, Michael Jones and Charles Masaki. All these colleagues have made a real contribution to Oriel’s success and we thank them all and welcome their successors warmly. Looking at the College as a whole, special thanks after another busy year go to Kevin Melbourne for his oversight of the domestic functioning of the College, both during term and for our lively out of term conference business; Richard Noonan for his careful planning of our many different and complex building projects; Rachel Breward for her efficient and energetic leadership of the Academic Office; and Marjory Szurko for the welcoming environment she fosters in our Library. Wilf Stephenson deserves enormous credit for his oversight of our spending, investment and long-term vision for our financial security, as do Oliver Sladen for his mastery of the College’s finances and Sean Power for his continued success in fund-raising. It is to the credit of the College’s planning and professionalism that even after a difficult year for fund-raising we look well placed to meet our five-year fund-raising campaign target by next summer, and after a turbulent year for the economy, our endowment is in a healthy state and we are financially secure. This security is valuable indeed, at all times, and provides a basis of stability from which to view new challenges. As I write, universities as a whole are starting to address the new questions which will arise as the UK’s relationship with the EU changes. But as we address these questions, as in all we do, we will draw perspective from Oriel’s centuries of experience of coping with change, and will take confidence from the many successes of our recent past. Above all, as always we will be strengthened by the commitment and energy of our outstanding staff, our wonderful students and our committed and supportive alumni. Floreat Oriel! Moira Wallace

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TREASURER’S NOTES

ast year I reflected on the changes that had occurred in the Fellowship over the previous ten years and the financial progress we had made over that period. The last twelve months have been very different. There is little doubt that we have been knocked off our stride and progress in many areas has stalled, whether it be new projects or new money! However, the cautious approach to the College’s finances, and to projects, has positioned us well for less favourable times. The value of the endowment reached £69 million at the end of the financial year. Market movements and new benefactions since then have built on this position. However, it remains to be seen what the longer-term effect of current uncertainty will be. In the key financial areas of investment and asset management we have continued our long-term strategies. Budgeting remains robust but the pressures on expenditure continue to grow, with significant increases in employment costs, whilst income remains largely fixed. In a time of low investment returns this presents a considerable challenge and emphasises more than ever the need to raise funds to grow our endowment to the level of similar colleges, as well as to maintain competiveness of our facilities. In these testing times the continued commitment and dedication of all the College’s staff has been a key part of maintaining the life of our community and providing excellent experiences for all our students, and I am enormously grateful to them all. Our conference and hospitality team defied some reduction in demand from the USA to achieve another successful year. We welcomed summer school students from 95 countries. It is gratifying to see a number of former summer school students return to the College in later years as visiting students from partner universities or as graduate students. I returned to China in March with our partner, CBL International, and its parent company, Worldstrides. We visited twelve universities in seven days and co-hosted a gala dinner in Shanghai attended by a number of Orielenses living and working there. This has been a year in which two of the bursarial ‘greats’ of Oriel passed away. In January I travelled with our long-serving Estates Assistant, Mary Porter, to Canterbury Cathedral for the funeral of the late Eric Vallis, one of my esteemed predecessors as Treasurer, who joined the College in 1974, at a time when the financial position was extremely weak. His drive and initiative laid the foundations for our current financial resilience. Another who left his mark on the College was, Brigadier Hugh Browne. Much of what we are able to do today depends on his work converting the Island Site into modern student accommodation and teaching spaces, with resources provided by Eric’s skill and the fund-raising efforts of the Development Trust. Obituaries for both appear elsewhere in this issue.

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It has been a period of unusually high staff turnover. Two of my senior management team moved on during the year: David Hart, IT Manager (for Oriel, Corpus Christi and Merton Colleges) and Tina Beard, HR Manager. David created a modern and effective IT department, initially across two colleges; the addition of Merton to the partnership was a compliment to his skill and energy. I am delighted that Simon Mortimore has joined us as his successor from Exeter College. Simon has already brought further improvements to the effectiveness of this support function, which is now so critical to all that we do. Oriel was among the first colleges to recognise the importance of professional HR management and Tina Beard steadily built up the effectiveness of this function over her nine years with us. We are very fortunate that Sheila Moore, an experienced HR director, has taken over from Tina. This year we updated the College master plan to reflect projects completed in recent years and evolving needs and priorities. This incorporates much of what has been learned from two more detailed feasibility studies: The Brewhouse Yard and Tackley's Inn. Progress on the Brewhouse Yard project has been slower than I had hoped but the Governing Body gave the go-ahead at the end of Trinity Term for the project team, led by Allies & Morrison and Austin Newport, to prepare a detailed planning application; we now hope to submit this before the end of the year. The maintenance of our existing fabric is every bit as important as initiating major projects and we have commissioned a full survey of the condition of the buildings so that we can better plan future works. Whenever possible we seek to make improvements when work is carried out, particularly on energy conservation. This summer we upgraded Staircase 3 to provide proper central heating for the Senior Tutor and Chaplain, amongst others. We have also switched the heating of the Chapel from the old boiler house behind Staircase 7 to the modern one installed a few years ago under Staircase 9 (this was also part of our long-term plan for Front Quad services). Apart from improvements in energy efficiency, this will keep the Chapel fully operational when we come to carry out the redevelopment of the Kitchen and related areas.

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CHAPLAIN’S NOTES

The conversion of the property in Rectory Road, acquired in 2014, to create accommodation for graduate couples was completed early in the year. We now have seven flats available and all will be occupied by our own students and their partners from the start of the 2016 academic year. The finishing touches were put to the Rhodes Building over the summer, in particular the installation of railings reproducing those removed during the Second World War, which have received a number of compliments. Alas the progress of the men’s 3rd VIII back to the fixed divisions in Eights didn’t go as well as planned this year. The coach must take his share of the blame and has resolved to do better next year! Nevertheless, it was exciting to cheer the 1st VIII (‘powered by Gilpin’s Gin’) as it resisted all attempts from Christ Church to dislodge Oriel from the Headship. We continue to benefit from the wise counsel of a number of Orielenses who serve on our Audit and Investment Advisory Committees. We are also extremely fortunate to have the advice of two non-Orielenses, Robin Goodchild and Tim Budden. Robin advises on our property investments and Tim is a long-serving member of the Audit Committee. My thanks to them all. Floreat Oriel! Wilf Stephenson Treasurer

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riel Chapel continues to fulfil its role in the life of the College community as a place to experience both comfort and challenge. With its pattern of prayer and sacraments, beautiful music and calming environment, the Chapel serves as a retreat from the daily stresses of Oxford life. With its variety of thoughtful preachers, discussion groups and attentiveness to the struggles of the world, the Chapel also serves as a springboard for Christian witness and social responsibility. And while it seeks to be a place of spiritual constancy in the life of the College, the Chapel is itself renewed by the living stream of students, fellows and staff members who pass through its doors. As is the case every year, the first part of Michaelmas Term 2015 was characterised by the themes of commemoration and remembrance. The Provost delivered an address at the Commemoration of Benefactors service in late October, which was followed the next week by a Requiem Mass for All Souls. At this service the College Chantry List is read aloud, as well as the names of loved ones supplied by current members. This annual recitation reminds us of the continuity between past and present. Then, on 11 November, a large gathering of staff, students and Fellows met around the Great War Memorial in the Pantin Library for the 11am observance of Remembrance Day. As we continue to commemorate the centenary years of the Great War, the names of Orielenses killed in 1915 were read. Later the same day the annual John Collins Lecture took place in the Harris Lecture Theatre, this year delivered by The Rt Hon. Frank Field DL, Member of Parliament for Birkenhead. Speaking on the title ‘Equalising Life Chances: for real this time’, Mr Field emphasised the developmental needs of the very youngest children in building a healthy society. Meanwhile, members of the College community continued to gather each Friday in term time for Chaplain’s Tea, while a smaller group assembled twice a term for the Merton Street Vocations Group. And, as always, the final week of term was given over to carol services: one for College members past and present, and a second one on behalf of the St Mungo’s Broadway charity for the homeless. Weekends in Hilary Term were cheered along by two recital series: one on Saturday afternoons, when the Chapel hosted a group of concerts organised by the Oriel College Music Society, and the other on Sunday evenings, when we were treated to organ recitals just before Evensong. As has become the custom, we observed Holocaust Memorial Day at Evensong on the second Sunday of term. This year we heard a moving address by former choral scholar and recent graduate Sophie Ross (2011). Soon after, we celebrated the College’s dedication feast with a service of Festal Evensong for Candlemas, followed by the Gaudy Feast in Hall. With Easter falling early this year, it was only a week later that we held our College

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Communion for Shrove Tuesday and ate pancakes in anticipation of Lent. The John Collins Society hosted another Faith and Culture Film Series on Thursday evenings, while the Merton Street colleges joined together for a weekly Christian Aid discussion group called ‘Eat-Act-Pray’. Towards the close of term the Choir and Bible Clerks led a service of music and readings for Lent, which included compositions by Antonio Lotti, Orlande de Lassus and John Ireland, alternating with excerpts from the writings of St Augustine, Julian of Norwich, Lancelot Andrews and others. At the final Evensong of term Oriel hosted the Lady Day University Sermon, this year delivered by the Dean of York, The Very Revd Vivienne Faull. Having been granted leave in Trinity Term to pursue my current book project, I handed over the Chapel keys to The Venerable David Meara (Oriel 1967), former Rector of St Bride’s, Fleet Street and Archdeacon Emeritus of London. David proved a great success as Acting Chaplain, overseeing the usual round of services and activities and providing a warm presence around College. In First Week he hosted a John Collins seminar featuring Lord Black of Brentwood, who addressed the topic ‘A Free Press in a Free Society?’ On Thursday of Second Week Oriel celebrated Ascension Day, beginning in the morning with a visit from members of the University Church for the parish beating-of-the-bounds, followed by hymn singing from the Gatehouse Tower at lunchtime, and finishing with a joint eucharist with Corpus Christi College in the evening. A second joint eucharist took place on Corpus Christi Day in Fifth Week, when Oriel was hosted by our friends at Keble College. Then, on Saturday evening of Seventh Week, postgraduate Malte Bischof (2015) received Holy Baptism at a joyous service presided over jointly by the Chaplain and Acting Chaplain. The next day we gathered for our annual Chapel Garden Party, at which we said farewell to departing Bible Clerks and Choristers, followed by the final Evensong of the academic year. As this account makes clear, there is always something happening at Oriel Chapel. Do please consult the new College website for an overview of services and events to come. Alternatively, please join us in person at any time – you are always very welcome. Revd Dr Robert Tobin Chaplain

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BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES AND FUNERALS On 16 April 2016, in the College Chapel, a marriage blessing for Barbara and Matthew Bool (1998) took place, with Fr Dushan Croos SJ officiating. On 23 April 2016, in the College Chapel, a memorial service took place for Katlego Bagwasi-Kidisil (2010), with the Acting Chaplain officiating. On 30 April 2016, in the College Chapel, Lisette Dupre was married to Duncan Sanders (1990), with the Acting Chaplain officiating. On 11 June 2016, in the College Chapel, Kay Malte Bischof (2015) was baptised, with the Acting Chaplain and Chaplain co-officiating. On 30 July 2016, in the College Chapel, Sophia Nayak-Oliver was married to Richard Luke (2008), with the Chaplain officiating. On 3 August 2016, in the College Chapel, a funeral took place for Richard Bruce Hodgkinson, with the Chaplain officiating. On 27 August 2016, in the College Chapel, Rosie Penny was married to Oliver Pepys (2000), with Revd Marcus Walker (1999) officiating.

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Michaelmas Term 2015 11 October The Chaplain, Manifest in God’s sight 18 October The Ven. David Meara (1966), St Luke the Evangelist 25 October The Provost, Commemoration (Commemoration of Benefactors) 1 November Revd Canon Dr Malcolm Brown (1976), Unsung sainthood and community today 8 November Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, Father, forgive… (Remembrance Sunday) 15 November Revd Dr Tess Kuin Lawton, The blazing furnace 22 November Revd Professor Teresa Morgan, Do we still need God if we are no longer hungry? 29 November College Carol Service Hilary Term 2016 17 January 24 January 31 January 7 February 14 February 21 February 28 February 6 March

The Chaplain, The measure of grace Ms Sophie Ross (2011), Humanity on trial Festal Evensong for the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (Candlemas) Revd Dr A.K.M. Adam, Speaking to angels, encountering God The Very Revd Mark Bonney, Jonah: a reluctant prophet Revd Dr Johanna Kershaw (2005), Building on a firm foundation Revd Margreet Armistead, Angels ascending and descending The Very Revd Vivienne Faull, University Sermon for the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin (Lady Day)

Trinity Term 2016 24 April 1 May 8 May 15 May 22 May 29 May 5 June 12 June

The Acting Chaplain, On not making religion easy Professor Brian Leftow, The great commission Revd Professor Teresa Morgan, When inspiration strikes The Rt Revd Gordon Mursell, Seeing the Glory Mr John Simpson, Dying to tell the truth: a reporter’s tale Monsignor Roderick Strange, Scholarship and mercy: learning from Bede The Venerable Rosemary Lain-Priestley, Learning to read God’s presence in the world The Chaplain, The parting of friends

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DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR’S NOTES

t is now five years since I came to Oriel as Development Director. That period has seen a huge amount of positive change and growth for the College, and I take pride in having played a small part in those achievements. The creation of the Pantin Library; redevelopment of the Rhodes Building; endowment of fellowships in Biochemistry, History and Theology; and a number of new scholarships and bursaries for a variety of different areas of study make up just some of those successes. None of these achievements would have been possible without the support of our alumni and friends, whose friendship to the College is as much a part of what makes Oriel the community it is, as the students who study here, or the Fellows who teach and carry out their research here. The past year has been an extremely challenging one for the College, as we found ourselves the subject of national and international attention as a result of the protests around the legacy of Cecil Rhodes. This has been a difficult period for all those associated with Oriel, and at times has made many demands on the relationships that make up the wider Oriel family. The College’s core work, of global excellence in teaching and research, continues to sit at the heart of everything we do, and will only continue with your support and friendship. Inevitably there have been changes within the Development Office Team over the last year, with Sarah Jones leaving for Merton College, but now ably replaced by Hattie Partington; Tim Pottle being appointed Development Director at LMH and more than ably replaced by Rachel Graves from St John’s College; and, as I type, Kari Hodson preparing to move across Oriel Square to Christ Church. Kari has been with us for four and a half years and was the first person I appointed as Development Director. I thank her and all our departing staff for their hard work for the College and warmly welcome all those new members of the team. In addition, Verity Armstrong is now on maternity leave after giving birth to Beatrice over the summer. She has been temporarily replaced in the role of Alumni Relations and Communications Officer by Bobby Higson, who joins us from Helen and Douglas House. This year, just over £1 million has been raised by the College in new gifts and pledges, including £200,000 in legacy gifts. Of this, £25,000 has been given for the College Environment, £425,000 for Student Support, £90,000 for Teaching and Research, and £300,000 as unrestricted gifts. In all, 734 individuals donated to the College this year. Major donations have proved essential to the success of fundraising efforts this year. A total of ten organisations or individuals have made gifts of £10,000 or more between 1 August 2015 and 31 July 2016, compared to twenty-four last year. Those who donate £20,000 or more to the College over their lifetime are admitted to membership

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THE 1326 SOCIETY

of the Raleigh Society; those who give over £100,000 are admitted to the Provost’s Court. There are currently 173 members of the Raleigh Society. 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 fourteen new legacy pledges made this year, bringing the total of known pledges to 292. This year £200,000 has been received by the College in legacy gifts. In 2012 the 1326 Society was established to encourage regular giving to the College. Full Members give £1,326 a year, Young Members give £132.60 a year. Membership for this year stands at 149. As we close the year, Phase Two of the 2026 Campaign has now raised just over £20 million for Oriel in the past four years. With a number of large gifts due to come in over the next twelve months, we are now beginning the final countdown to our target of £25 million by summer 2017. With your help I hope we can realise this enormous achievement for our College. Sean Power Fellow and Director of Development

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, and recent leavers and current students qualify at £13.26 per year. Full members Mr R. MacPhee Mr M.F. Westcott Mr G.M. Marks Mr C.P.A. Humphreys Mr J.A. Redfern Mr G.A. Chapman QC Mr S. Cottrell Mr A.D. Whittaker Miss C.V. Toogood Mr D. Tsang Mr H. Tung Mr A.R.J. Halstead Dr R.A. Saldanha Mr C.J.J. Bonas Mr T.H. Coates Mr N. Lovell Mr M.T.D. Gilpin Mrs R.L. Gish Miss R. Lawson Mr P.A. Gish Mr M.C. Quinn Ms E.M. Tame Miss D.L. Smith Mr H.L. Taylor Mr J.M.D. Thomson Mr W.P. Alexander Mr E.A.N. Fergusson Mr C.J. Williams Mr G.N. Austin Mr A.J. House Mr D.A. Lush Mr M.W.M.R. MacPhee Mr J.C. Dho

1999 1999 1996 1995 1995 1994 1994 1994 1991 1991 1991 1990 1990 1989 1989 1989 1988 1987 1987 1986 1986 1986 1985 1985 1985 1984 1984 1984 1983 1983 1983 1983 1982

Mr J.C. Durant Mr N.C. O’Brien Mr D.R.M. Redfern Mr M.M. Cresswell-Turner Dr H.R.G. Gibbon Dr J. Tahir-Kheli Mr S.J. MacKinnon Mr R.J. McLeod Mr W.M. Treasure Mr G.P. Tyler Mr P.N.A. Ward Mr J.P. Clift Mr N.P. Evans Mr M.C. Johnson Sir Parry Hughes-Morgan Mr N.F.J. Mendoza Mr C.A.L. Skinner Mr P.R. Romans Mr J.M. Bray Mr D.A.B. Buggé Dr W.P. Ledward Mr G.D. Harris Mr J. Mellon Dr N. Parkhouse Mr A. Stafford-Deitsch Mr S.J.R. Philpott Mr A. Williams Mr B.N. Dickie Mr J.R.B. McBeath Mr S. Canning Mr C.C.A. Crouch Mr S.J.N. Heale Mr R.G.G. Osborne

1982 1982 1982 1981 1981 1981 1980 1980 1980 1980 1980 1979 1979 1979 1978 1978 1978 1977 1976 1976 1976 1975 1975 1975 1975 1974 1974 1973 1973 1972 1972 1972 1972

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Mr C.G. Thring Mr M.H. Denhart The Hon. Sir Vivian Ramsey Professor G.K. Wilson Revd W. Eakins Mr P.K. Jenkins Mr R.M. Bancroft Mr J.H. Cook Mr M.C.C. Goolden Mr D.M.C. Steen Mr D.M. Tapley Mr R.A. Wood Mr J.R. Shannon Professor D.R. Stokes Hon. J. Farley QC Dr J.S. Deech Revd W. Hill Brown. III

1970 1969 1969 1967 1966 1966 1965 1965 1965 1965 1965 1965 1964 1964 1962 1961 1960

The Hon. J.D. Brookes 1959 Sir Stephen Oliver QC 1959 Mr D.H.M. Dalrymple 1958 Mr M.L. Popofsky 1958 Mr P. Mortimer 1957 Mr G.F. Naylor 1957 Sir John Baker 1956 Dr A.A. Campbell 1954 Mr A.T. Jennings 1953 Mr A.P.D.H. Collett 1952 Sir Michael McWilliam 1952 Mr P.E. Hustwitt 1950 Mr G.L. Simmons 1943 Dr A. Lighten Mr C.H.S. Payne Ms M. Wallace

Young members Miss W.Y.S. Yip Mr J.A. Dunnmon Mr J.G. Craven Miss E. Limer Mr C. Ericson Mr F.D.R. Keating Mr S. Peet Miss R.F.R. Clarke Mr M. Price Mr W. Sheldon Dr J.W. Klingelhoefer Ms C.C. Savundra Dr F.C.P. Leach Ms T.L. McKee Miss H. Rowling Miss C.E. Rutter Mr T.F. Webb Mr J. Wigley

2013 2011 2010 2010 2009 2008 2008 2007 2007 2007 2006 2006 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005

Dr D.R. Woods Mr R.J. Ejsmond-Frey Mr F.T. Hardee Mr A.L. Nish Miss T.J. Quinn Ms Y. Sun Mr J.D. Wright Mr G.E. Jacques Miss C.E. La Malfa Miss M. Nodale Mr A.S.D. Wright Mr T.J. Akin Mr B.M. Gearing Mr A.E. Laverty Mr D. McCloskey Mrs L.N.K. Murphy Mr M.A.N. Boullé Mr R.J.M. Gibbons

2005 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004 2003 2003 2003 2003 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002 2001 2001

Mr T. Lloyd-Evans Miss C.E. Parry

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Mr C. Schmiedel Miss A.V. Wilkes

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Student and recent leaver members Mr C.N. Angelos 2014 Mr J.C.J. Humphris 2014 Mr J.M. Power 2014 Miss S. Barnes 2013 Miss E.B. Jones 2012

Mr G.E. Wiffin Mr S.T. Banner Mr D.C. Branford Mr R.E. McLaren

2012 2011 2011 2011

THE RALEIGH SOCIETY Oriel’s Raleigh Society is now 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. Members who have donated £100,000 or more are invited to join the Provost’s Court. Mr M. Khuram Mr J.J. Bozzino Dr J. Pfaudler Mr J.M.L. Leong Mr A.D. Whittaker Mr T.B.J. Anderson Mr C.N. Chan Mr J.F. Saunders Miss C.V. Toogood Mr D. Tsang Mr H. Tung Mr R.M. Carson Mr T.H. Coates Miss S. Low-Kamdani Mr P.D.N. Kennedy Dr A.R. Warren Dr A. Borer

2002 1997 1997 1996 1994 1993 1992 1992 1991 1991 1991 1990 1989 1989 1988 1988 1986

Mr P.S.J. O’Donoghue Miss T.J. Quinn Mr B.P. Wisden Mr P.S. Doherty Mr P.D. Evans Miss D.L. Smith Mr J.M.D. Thomson Mr N.J.R. Badman Mr R.A.De Basto Mr S. Grigg Dr M.G.A. Machin Mr C.J. Williams Mr G.N. Austin Mr D.A. Lush Mr M.W.M.R. MacPhee Mr C. Samek QC Mr D.M. Brooks

1986 1986 1986 1985 1985 1985 1985 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 1983 1983 1983 1983 1982

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Mr M.C. Bye Mr J.C. Dho Mr J.C. Durant Mr R.C. MacDonald Dr F.D. Schubert Mr J.W. Sharman Mr P.H. Sheng Mr G.A. Chipchase Mr D.M. Richardson Mr M.A. Rosen Mr R.E. White Mr J.P. Boden Mr N.S. Bramwell Mr D.N. Lyon Mr A.D.G. McMillan Dr D.G. Robinson Mr W.M. Treasure Mr P.N.A. Ward Professor S. Bramwell Mr D.H. Carr Mr M.C. Johnson Mr R.M. Johnson Mr J.M. Warnaby Mr M.E. Bentley Mr N.F.J. Mendoza Mr C.A.L. Skinner Mr T.B. Bull Mr D.P. Kanak Mr O.A.C. Quick Mr P.L. Stobart Mr R.R. Warburton MBE Mr J.M. Bray Mr E. Cameron Watt Mr S.D.R. Chick Mr C. Kelleher Mr A.J.D. Leasor Mr J. Mellon

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

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

Dr D.W. Costain Revd W. Eakins 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 Mr M.A. Kirkham Mr N.W.L. Maclean of Pennycross CMG Mr J.R. Shannon Dr M.P. Martineau Mr R.G.N. Nabarro Mr D.F.J. Paterson Dr J.E. Waddell Hon. J. Farley QC Professor R.G.H. Robertson Mr R.H. Winter Dr J.S. Deech Mr I. Hardcastle Mr N. Lindsay-Fynn Sir Roger Sands Revd W. Hill Brown III Mr R.G. Edge Mr M.L. Gordon OBE Mr G.R.G. Graham Mr D.F. Hutt Sir Stephen Oliver QC Mr M.L. Popofsky Mr G.B. Spilman Dr The Hon. A.H. Todd

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Mr G.C. Bonar 1957 Mr W.T. Carnegie 1957 Mr C.S. McDonald 1957 Mr P. Mortimer 1957 Mr G.F. Naylor 1957 Sir John Baker 1956 Mr K.A. McKinlay 1956 Mr G.B. Tanner 1956 Mr A.J. Wiggins 1956 Mr M.A. Ager 1955 Mr J.M. Wilson 1955 Dr A.A. Campbell 1954 Mr R.J. Evans 1954 Mr M. Harvey 1954 Dr N.J. Smith 1954 Mr A.T. Jennings 1953 Sir Michael Wright 1953 Sir Francis Ferris 1952 Mr B. Marson-Smith 1952 Sir Michael McWilliam 1952 Sir Bryan Nicholson GBE 1952 Mr A.B. Champniss 1951 Sir Ewen Fergusson 1951 Professor T.H.B. Symons 1951 Mr P.E. Hustwitt 1950 Mr M.B. Gilpin 1949 Dr R.M. Whittington 1949 Dr D.J. Reid 1948 Mr A.E. Bond 1943 Sir John Ford 1939 Lord Harris of Peckham Sir Derek Morris Mr C.H.S. Payne

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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 2016 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. 2014 Mr J.C.J. Humphris Mr J.M. Power One anonymous donor 2013 Miss S. Barnes 2012 Miss E.B. Jones Mr G.E. Wiffin 2011 Mr S.T. Banner Mr D.C. Branford Mr J.A. Dunnmon Mr R.E. McLaren 2010 Mr R. Fleck Miss E.J. Harker Dr F.C.P. Leach Miss E. Limer Mr P.G. Penzo Mr C Pontin 2009 Mr B.R. Mansfield Miss C. Ros 2008 Mr J. Bale Miss J. Farncombe Mr P.M. Gemmell Mr F.D.R. Keating Mr S. Peet Miss E. Reid 2007 Miss R.F.R. Clarke Dr J.M. Machielsen Mrs P.E. Mannion Mr M. Price

Mr W. Sheldon Mr J.C. Wadsworth 2006 Mr M.M. Birt Miss K.R. Chandler Miss E.L. Doherty Mr D. Huebler Dr J.W. Klingelhoefer Miss A.C. Millar Ms C.C. Savundra 2005 Mr J.H. Felce Ms T.L. McKee Mr G.S. Maude Miss H. Rowling Miss C.E. Rutter Mr T.F. Webb Mr J. Wigley Dr D.R. Woods Mrs E.J. Woolard 2004 Mr R.J. Ejsmond-Frey Mr F.T. Hardee Mr T. Huzarski Mr P. Nassiri Mr A.L. Nish Mr M.C. Quinn Ms Y. Sun Mr A.S.D. Wright 2003 Mr D.J. Bishop Dr L.F. Brown Mr A.P. Graham Mr G.E. Jacques Mr S.S. Ketteringham Miss C.E. La Malfa

Mrs L.S. Nair Miss M. Nodale Miss H.A. Race Mr R.J. Verber Mr J.D. Wright 2002 Mr T.J. Akin Mr T.D. Barke Ms G.A.A. Coghlan Miss H.C.L. Grieve Mr D.R. Lappage Mr A.E. Laverty Mr D. McCloskey Dr S.C. Mossman Mrs L.N.K. Murphy Mr N. Pilsbury 2001 Mr M.A.N. Boullé Mr J.E. Dawson Dr J.W. Fisher Mr R.J.M. Gibbons Mr S. Gohill Dr S.R. Jones Mr T. Lloyd-Evans Miss C.E. Parry Dr J.W.V. Philbin Mr C. Schmiedel Miss A.V. Wilkes Dr O.M. Williams 2000 Miss A.C. Benson Mr D.J. Brundle Miss 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 One anonymous donor 1999 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 S.E. Harry Mr B.J. Huckvale Mr D.E. Lloyd Miss L. McNaught Mr R. MacPhee Mr A.G. Stevens Mr O. Taylor Mr M.F. Westcott 1998 Mr S.J.H. Albert Mr G.R.B. Anderson Miss W.E. Armstrong Mr J.E. Bates Mr A.A.R. Black Miss R. Blunt Mr M.F. Bonham Mr J.A. Braid Miss K. Donnelly Mr B.M. Proctor Dr A.J. Robbie

Dr A.V. Warren 1993 Mr T.B.J. Anderson Mr D.E. Bates 1997 Dr L.A. Bates Mrs A.J. Bosman Dr D.J. Crispin Dr D.L. Brower Mr N.A. King Mr G.P. Cross Miss A.L.S. Lim Mr J.P. Dawson Miss N.I. Luder Mrs M.K. Derry Mr J.C. Tetley Mr S.O.S. Duffett Dr K.E. Vincent Mr A.J. Dunbar Mrs E.J. Watkins Mr K. Foroughi Two anonymous Dr S.M. Kingston donors Miss S.H. Kundu Dr F.F.A. Lepetit 1996 Miss E.F. Ashwell Mr W.G. Roberts Mr J. Bell Mr W.P. Talbot-Ponsonby Ms E. Fisher Mr T.R.D. Wagstaff Mr C.D. Mowat Mr M.L. White Mr C.J. Nelson Dr L.M.T. Withington Mrs Y. Qiao Miss S.M. 1992 Mr N.J. Dharamshi Thuraisingham Mr D.J. Emery Dr I.G. Hagan 1995 Mr W.E. Breeze Dr H.A. King Ms C.M. Christie Dr V.A. Snell Miss R. Clark Mrs E.J. Tregenza Mr J.R. Cockcroft Mr M.C. Cook 1991 Mr J.D. Cook Mr T.T.A. Cox Mr I.S. Evans Mrs C. Flatt Mr E.A.D. Haddon Dr M.R. Gisborne Mr N.P. Llewelyn Mr M.A. Image Dr F.R. Middleton Mr S.R.A. Smith Mr P.H. Robinson Mr M.R. Wareham Miss C.V. Toogood Mr H. Tung 1994 Mr G.A. Chapman QC Dr M.J. Wilson Mr S. Cottrell Dr J.R. Evans 1990 Ms R.A. Cairns Mrs P.J. Herbert Mr N.S. Cameron Mr A.E.C. McGregor Mr R.M. Carson Mr A.T. Rycroft Mrs E.J. Cox Dr A.M. Upton Dr C.V.S. Edwards Baron B.H. von Michel Mr A.S. Golledge Mr A.R.J. Halstead

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Mr D.J. Hannan Mr J.P. Dale Mrs G.M.O. McGovern Dr C.J. Emeleus Mr C.A. Rowley Mr P. Emerson Dr R.A. Saldanha Dr L.A. Fearfield Mr D.R.C. Sanders Revd J.M. Hamilton Dr D.F. Talbot-Ponsonby Dr R.A. Hull Dr R.M.S. Locklin 1989 Mr C.J.J. Bonas Dr G.S. Meyer Mr T.H. Coates Miss T.J. Quinn Mr P.A. Dundon Miss P.M. Sargent Mrs C.S.J. Evans Mr A.M. Waldbaum Mr J.P. Hodges Mr J.J. Whitting QC Mr R.A. Laughton Mr N. Lovell 1985 Mr H.W. Evans Mr J.D. Murray Mr A.D. Green Mrs G.E. Needham Mr G.A. Livingston Dr N.H.E. Pillow Mr T.W. Monfries Mr E.J. Rayner Mr S. Palasingam Mr D. Redhouse 1988 Mr G.N. Berridge Miss D.L. Smith Mr C.A. Brand Mr H.L. Taylor Mr A.M. Brown Mr J.M.D. Thomson Mr M.T.D. Gilpin Mr A.D. Ward Mr G.L. Iliffe One anonymous Mr P.D.N. Kennedy donor Mr P.D.G. Riviere Mr R.K. Sharma 1984 Mr N.J.R. Badman Mrs R.S. Starkie Mr J.S. Das Mr P.J.C. Warren Mr E.A.N. Fergusson Mr P.G.X. Wuensche Dr J.R. Flynn One anonymous donor Mr R.A. Hilton Mr H.W. Lipman 1987 Dr I.K. Boxall Mr M.H. Redfern Mrs N. Crawley Mr S.E.A. Towler Mrs J.K. Gupta Mr V.J. Warner Mr M. Hennessy One anonymous Professor Dr J.M.G. donor Higgins Mr T.J. Knight 1983 Mr S.C. Allen Miss R. Lawson Mr G.N. Austin Mr J.F. Mitchell Mr S.J. Dawes Mr W.C. Fredericks 1986 Mr P.J. Church Mr M.A. Gabbott

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Mr A.J. House Mr D.A. Lush Professor S.A. McGrath Mr M.W.M.R. MacPhee Mr J.M. Picton Dr T.J. Vellacott Mr P.J. Ward One anonymous donor 1982 Mr R. Barash Mr M.W. Bean Mr D.M. Brooks Mr J.C. Dho Mr J.C. Durant Dr M.E. Emerton Mr B.R. Marsden Dr L.C. Morland Mr N.C. O’Brien Mr D.R.M. Redfern Mr M.T. Simpson QC Mr B.E. Whelan One anonymous donor 1981 Mr F. Braunrot Mr M.M. Cresswell-Turner Dr H.R.G. Gibbon Mr J.P. Godfrey Mr R.J.M. Good Mr S.H. Hammad Mr S.A.R. Hatfield Revd Professor L.P. Hemming Mr P.D. Hughes Mr R. Katz Dr M.J. Rawlinson Mr D.A. Robson Dr J. Tahir-Kheli Mr D.B. Walker Mr J.R. Ware Mr A.S. Watson Dr J.F. Wilde

1980 Mr J.Q.N. Abel Mr G.P. Williams Mr C. Lane Mr N.J.P. Bond Mr C.P.R. Wray Mr P.J. Martin Dr M.D. Flannery Mr J. Mellon Mr D.N. Lyon 1977 Mr T.C.M. Barry Dr N. Parkhouse Mr P.W. McGrath Mr R.E. Dean Mr B.C. Rolader Mr S.J. MacKinnon Mr S. Dubyl Mr A. Stafford-Deitsch Mr R.J. McLeod Mr P.J. Head Mr B.I.L. Thomas Mr R.I.S. Meyer Mr S. Kirkby Mr J.G.M. Webster Mr I.E. Mitchell Mr S.N.M. Leasor Mr A.A. Monk Mr M.H. McKenzie 1974 Mr W.G. Harer Mr N.R.R. Oulton Mr D.A.J. Marais Dr J.P. Macfarlane Mr R.M. Parrish Mr R.H. Perkins Mr P.G. Mann Dr R.W. Prevost III Mr P.R. Romans Mr S.S.C. Morrill Mr W.M. Treasure One anonymous Mr M.G. Paget Mr G.P. Tyler donor Mr T.P.T. Soanes Mr P.N.A. Ward Dr N.P. Sykes Mr P.C. Whitehead 1976 Dr A.J. Barge The Very Revd Professor Mr R.M.B. Wilton Mr J.M. Bray I.R. Torrance Mr C.C. Wright Dr D.R. Dean Mr H.C.G. Underwood Mr A. Ghosh Mr A. Williams 1979 Mr D.A. Brierley Mr M.A. Green Mr D.A. Woodward Dr N. Emerton Mr E.L. Hoare Mr N.P. Evans Dr H.P. Joswick 1973 Mr J.A. Brewer Mr C.D. Goodgame Dr W.P. Ledward Mr A.M. Conn Mr M.C. Johnson Mr R.L.H. Long Mr G.L. Duncan Mr R.M. Johnson Mr R.B. Manley Mr A.L.R. Fincham Dr G.F. Place Mr N.A. Rogers Mr D.M. Griffiths Mr H.F. Rankin Lord Rufus-Isaacs Dr D.R. Gross Mr D.J. Salvesen Dr S.J. Tulloch Mr J.R.B. McBeath Mr C.L. Torrero Mr B. d B. Williamson Colonel F.F. Manget Mr J.D. Wilson Mr N.W. Witt Mr C.O. Richards Two anonymous Mr B.M. A’Beckett Mr F.S. Treasure donors Terrell 1972 Mr R.E. Boden 1978 Mr F.A. Binggeli 1975 Mr D.J. Allcock Mr S. Canning Mr J.C. Forsyth Dr P.J. Bowman Mr C.P.T. Cantlay Dr S.C. Goetz Mr D.S. Brodie Mr C.C.A. Crouch Sir Parry Hughes- Mr E. Cameron Watt Mr R.D. Dalglish Morgan Mr J. Cocker Mr S.J.N. Heale Dr M. Makris Mr R.W. Crump Mr G.S. Hoyle Mr N.F.J. Mendoza Mr G.D. Harris Mr B. Hurst Mr C.A.L. Skinner Mr M.J. Howard Mr R.H. Kidner Mr H.R.A. Spowers Mr J.L. Kenny Mr R.G.G. Osborne

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Mr O.J. Parker Mr C.M. Reilly Mr R.C. Robinson Mr G.K. Stanley Mr V.P. Stothard Dr A R Warren One anonymous donor 1971 Mr L. Abbie Dr M.R. Attwood The Hon. M.P.F. Grant Mr K. Jones 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 1970 Mr B.H. Allen Dr J.B. Campbell Mr J.D. Crawley Mr A.P.B. Dawson Mr S. Guffogg Mr S. Maine Mr P.E. Mason Mr J.D. Mew Dr C.O. Record Mr D.P.J. Robey Dr T.M. Robinson Mr M.M. Stevens Mr A.L. Sutch Mr C.G. Thring One anonymous donor 1969 Mr M. Blades Mr V.G.B. Cushing Mr M.H. Denhart Mr P.J.S. Grove Mr A. O’Neill Professor G.D.E. Philip

Mr P.W. Thomas Mr C.W. Phillips Mr M.T. Tobert The Hon. Sir Vivian Mr R.D. Williams Ramsey Mr M.T. Wright Mr M.G. Stainsby Dr C.J. Young Mr J.H. Stilwell Dr I.A. Stuart 1965 Mr C.J. Arney One anonymous Mr R.M. Bancroft donor Professor R.G. Bevan Mr G.A. Browning Esq 1968 Mr D. Collison Mr D.I.R. Bruce Mr P. Drew Mr B.H. Colman Mr E.J. Ellwood Mr J.H. Cook Lieutenant Colonel Mr R.E. Davies M.J.D. Forster Mr J.P. Ellis Dr J.A. Holmes Mr N. Forrest Mr D. Marshall Mr M.C.C. Goolden Mr M.P. Richmond Mr A.R.J. Hall Coggan Dr M.W. Humble Dr D.J. Jones 1967 Mr P.W. Burgess Mr B.M. Leary Mr M.J.T. Chamberlayne Professor D.D.W. McCalla Mr M.C. Davison Dr S.A. Merrill Mr P.J. Hopley Mr R.A. Newsom Mr J.A. Inge Mr J.D. Short Mr N.G. Juckes Mr D.M. Tapley Mr P.J. Mulqueen Dr I.J. Tickle Mr C.C. Payton Mr R.A. Wood Mr C.G. Treasure Professor G.K. Wilson 1964 Mr G.W. Bradnum Mr R.A. Campbell 1966 Mr J.C.P. Amos Mr T. Green Mr D.J. Browning Dr J. Houston Revd W. Eakins Mr R.E.I. Newton Dr R.G. Edwards Dr D. O’Day Mr J.K. Hargreaves Mr W. Ransome Mr P.K. Jenkins Mr D.G. Shove Mr D.S. Macpherson Professor D.R. Stokes The Venerable D.G. Dr M.S.J. Wells Meara Dr D.C. Wilkinson Mr F.E. Nicholson Two anonymous Mr N.P.W. Park donors Mr A.F. Rawstorne Mr D.J. Reburn

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1963 Mr E.H. Biffin Dr J.P.F. Broad Mr D.S.I. Elliott Mr P.J. Hawkins Dr N.D.N. Measor Dr P.G. Mole Dr J.E. Waddell Mr P.S. Walsh 1962 Mr J.P.B. Armstrong Dr J.M. Beck Mr D. Bromwich Mr S.J. Dickinson Mr F.E.K. Mercer Mr W. Mitchell Mr P.J. Nicholson Mr R.H. Winter 1961 Mr D.C.W. Adams Mr P.R. Daniels Dr J.S. Deech Mr I. Hardcastle Dr R.T. Hughes Dr D.G. Newman Sir Roger Sands Dr G. Vella-Coleiro Mr J.B. Whitty 1960 Mr G.F. Broom Revd W. Hill Brown, III Judge D.M.A. Bryant Mr R.E.H. Coles Revd D.J. Ellington Dr C.J.V. Fox Revd A.J. Heagerty Mr R.D. O’Neill Mr J.A. Perry Mr J.H. Robinson Mr W.N. Harrell Smith IV Canon P.J. Stephens Mr J.C.G. Strachan Dr K.N.B. Williamson

Mr P.M. Wilson 1959 Dr K. Bromley The Hon J.D. Brookes Mr D.F. Hutt Mr M.B. Jones Professor R.J. Lee Sir Stephen Oliver QC Mr C.H. Virgo 1958 Dr R.L. Bailey Mr J.R. Bell* Mr W. Bellingham Mr D.H.M. Dalrymple Mr R.W. Grant Professor R.W. Hanning Mr M.F. Irvine Mr C.J. Lewis Mr J.A. Parkes Mr M.L. Popofsky Mr H.P. Powell Professor W.F. Ryan Dr The Hon. A.H. Todd Revd J.R.G. Watson Mr D.N. Whitwam 1957 Mr G.C. Bonar Mr W.T. Carnegie Mr J.B. Hamilton Mr C.S. McDonald Mr H. Mitchell Mr P. Mortimer Mr G.F. Naylor Mr R.S.G. Sides Professor M.J. Underhill Mr P.A. Walton 1956 Mr J.T.G. Andrew Sir John Baker Mr P.B. Bell Mr R.F. Busby Mr D.R. Curtis Mr S.W. Fremantle

Mr P. Haye Mr A.F. Sherlock Mr A.J. Wiggins 1955 Mr M.A. Ager Mr A.R. Blazey Mr C.J. Bright Mr L.A.M. Clegg Revd M.E.J. Garnett Revd G.B. Gauntlett Revd M.P. Hirons Mr D.J. McKie Dr J.W. Rutter Mr A.D.J. Turner 1954 Mr M.J.L. Armstrong Dr A.A. Campbell Mr M. Harvey Mr J.M. Jeffcock Revd C.N. Lovell Mr M.J. Minton Mr W.J. Singleton Mr G.F. Skinner Dr N.J. Smith Mr H.R. Wilkinson 1953 Mr E. Glover Mr J. Humphreys Mr A.T. Jennings Mr J.R.L. Wells Mr D. Wilson Sir Michael Wright 1952 Mr C.J.F. Arnander Mr A.P.D.H. Collett Dr W. Cummings Mr W.P. Kirkman Sir Michael McWilliam One anonymous donor

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Revd M.C. Gowdey Professor C.B. Handy Mr M.C. Hanson Mr A.C.S. Jennings Mr G.H. Pickles Mr A.J.B. Taylor Two anonymous donors

Mr M.L. Nyman Mr D.A. Symington 1949 Mr P.W. Rumble Dr R.M. Whittington 1948 Dr W.N. Brown Mr B. George Mr D.B. Hassell Mr J.A. Blackwell Mr A.B. Moore Mr B.R. Escott Cox QC Dr E.A. Mortis Mr W.J. Frampton Mr J.M.D. Hughes 1947 Mr T.S. Acton Mr P.E. Hustwitt Mr I.G. Bowden

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Revd Prebendary A.T. Budgett 1946 Dr E.M.P. Brett Dr F.W. Rogers 1945 Mr A.K. Shepherd Mr D.B. Vernon Professor M.C.C. Wheeler 1944 Mr R.G. Anderson Mr D.S. Dearlove 1938 Revd M.E. Young

The following Fellows, Emeriti, Friends, Companies, Trusts and Foundations have made donations. Professor J.H. Armour Mr A. Beal-Forbes Professor D.J. Butt Professor C.P. Conlon Mr J.H. Felce Mrs C. Flatt Mr M. St J. Gibbon Miss F. Green Dr I.G. Hagan Mrs J.M. Hooper Miss C.N. Love Sir Derek Morris

Mr C.H.S. Payne Mr R. Pilgrim Mr P. Popper Mr S. Power Mrs L. Rawcliffe Professor H.M. Robinson Mr J.B. Rogers Jr Mr K. Sharer Professor M.J. Tonjes Mr R.J. Turnill Ms M. Wallace S.L. Wentz

Professor E. Winstanley Two anonymous donors Bank of America Merrill Lynch Contemporary Watercolours Deutsche Bank AG The Frank Jackson Foundation Prudential plc Santander UK Plc Stavros Niarchos Foundation Thomson Reuters Tull Charitable Foundation Workday, Inc.

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. Dr E.B.G. Reeve Mr J.R. Flisher Mr I.H. Lewis Mr D.M. Horne Canon J.A. Thurmer Mr G.C. Hall

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n a year where the JCR could easily have been overshadowed, Oriel’s students did not disappoint and truly excelled themselves in drama, art, sport, music, scholarship and, of course, fun. The tone for the year was set in an extremely successful Freshers’ Week that saw a year group who seemed to settle into College life almost instantly. Conveniently for the organising committee, the College also termed it one of the ‘best behaved’ Freshers’ Weeks to date. The Week always feels like an absolute whirlwind start to the year, but the pace certainly did not relent across the next three terms. Last year’s return of the Summer Garden Play was followed up with not one but two theatrical performances that took place in Oriel this year. During Michaelmas Term, Third Quad was transformed into the Peloponnese in order to host Oriel’s first Greek play, Hippolytus. Directed by Katherine Hong, the play was an enormous success and even managed to avoid any autumnal showers. In a tradition that looks set to stay at Oriel, this year’s Summer Garden Play was Love’s Labour’s Lost, which brought ruffs, disguises, singing, and some comedic parading down the middle of First Quad. Both plays highlighted not just the enormous dramatic talent within the College, but how supportive the College is as a community. Having already organised a successful series of Women in Arts talks that ran throughout the year, Tallulah Vaughan, the JCR Arts Representative, organised another extremely successful Arts Week this Trinity Term. Newly branded as ‘Arts Fest’, the week’s timetable involved life drawing, arts and crafts, a behind-the-scenes visit to the Ashmolean, the traditional tie-dying and Pimms in Third Quad event, and a charity night at Cellar. Building on the momentum of last year’s Arts Week, this year saw the formation of a brand new Arts Club within Oriel, under Eve Open Day 2016

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Finnie and Frankie Satchwell. On a weekly basis the JCR was filled with colouring pencils, glitter glue and pipe cleaners as students came to express their artistic talent or to just unwind after a long day in the library, culminating in an art exhibition at the end of the year. An Arts society wasn’t the only new addition to the extra-curricular offerings at Oriel: after a successful bid at a JCR meeting, Teddy Bear Committee, otherwise known as TedCom, was born. Keen to serve all teddy bear-related interests in College, TedCom put their funding towards the purchase of a giant teddy bear just in time for an exam-filled Trinity Term. After deciding that the bear’s home should be in the JCR, a controversial vote took the JCR by storm and crowned the bear Beary McBearface. The annual Equalities Week once again ran successfully, this time under the leadership of Jade Tinslay. The week involved workshops, talks, a comedy night, music night, and even a visit from the new Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Louise Richardson. The raffle that ran throughout the week also raised a fantastic amount of money for the two chosen charities of the week, Mind and Mencap. One of the highlights of Trinity Term is always Summer VIII’s, and with Oriel M1 retaining headship, it certainly did not disappoint this year. With a boat burning in first quad after VIII’s Dinner, the Boat Club now has its sights set on double Headship next year. Aside from the usual spectacular array of guest nights, sports dinners, international dinners and gaudies, Halfway Hall was certainly a highlight for the second years as they came together for the first time since being Freshers. This year’s theme was ‘Hollywood’ and there was an awards ceremony after the meal where, among others, prizes went to the second-year student most likely to win an Oscar and most likely to lose a winning lottery ticket. Emily Bell, the JCR Vice-President, did a fantastic job organising and great fun was had by all – and by some more than others. Once Finals had drawn to a close, celebrations were in order and once more Trinity Term came to a close with the Garden Party that took over Bartlemas sports ground with an inflatable assault course, football zorbing and jousting, ideal for some post-exam stress relief. It’s with great sadness that the end of Trinity Term means saying goodbye to committee members who have worked unbelievably hard to make Oriel the fantastic place it is. While they will all be greatly missed, there is a new committee ready to take on next year and it’s already hard at work planning the next Freshers’ Week. With the addition of newly created positions including a Women’s Officer, Ethnic Minorities Officer, Disabilities Officer and Equalities Officer, I’m very excited to see what next year has in store. Kathryn Welsh JCR President 2015 – 2016

his has been another interesting and busy year for Oriel’s Middle Common Room. We continue to have around 200–250 graduate students studying at any one time, with a diverse mix of cultures and nationalities from around forty-two different countries. Having spent the last year making use of previous editions of the Oriel Record for my Guest Night Dinner speeches, I know how important this record of College will be to future generations of Orielenses. I will therefore attempt to recount the year in both detail and haste! The MCR continues to be a thriving social community. Our social team, Gabrielle Bourret-Sicotte, Madeline Briggs, Mark Finean and Matthew Molteno, have been fantastic organisers of a variety of exchanges with other colleges, as well as our now annual trip to Trinity College Dublin and some fantastic Guest Night Dinners. Exchange dinners continue to be a key part of the social life of the MCR, meeting colleagues at other colleges and ensuring that our members have a reputation as good, fun dinner guests. Our now famous Halloween party continues to be incredibly successful, while termly events such as ‘Gin and Jazz’ night are always popular. The MCR bar has continued to be a well-used graduate resource, surpassed only by our trusty coffee machine. Our Bar Manager, Vladimir Zamdzhiev, spent his final year in the role after three years of loyal service, providing rehydration to many thirsty graduate students and ensuring we never ran out of expensive whiskey or his homemade rakia. While an active social life is of course an important part of the Oriel graduate experience, this year we have also focused on improving the academic experience of our members. Nisha Mistry (MCR Vice-President 2015 – 16) and I have worked hard to create and promote a new graduate-led lecture series, ‘Oriel Talks’. The idea is simple: a series of three short academic talks in a cross-subject brief. A broad theme means that we can have a mixture of speakers, always with a keynote by a member of the SCR. The audience then shares in a High Table dinner, with wine and dessert. The talks must appeal to members outside the subject area, meaning that, for example, there can be quantum mechanics in the talk only if quantum mechanics can be well explained to the most maths-adverse historian. This year members have already enjoyed some great discussions and talks, from ‘Tomb Raiding Today’, a talk on the struggles of a DPhil candidate fighting through war zones to research their subject, to ‘Designing Pleasure’, which was slightly less risqué than it sounds. This covered the work of a DPhil Experimental Psychology candidate on how different senses provoke and excite the mind, and included audience participation as we taste-tested chocolate with colours and sound. We hope these talks will continue well into the future. You can find out more information on our newly updated MCR website, www.orielmcr.org/orieltalks. I should also note a thank-you to our welfare secretaries, Peter Gent and Alice Correia Morton. Their organisation of weekly yoga sessions has kept the graduate community fit

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and relaxed, whilst the weekly ‘Welfare Tea’ has ensured that the MCR also gets its fair share of cake and sweet treats! I am very pleased to announce that the MCR rooms were completely refurbished over Summer 2016, replacing the MCR, study room and now thirty-year-old bar. An investment of around £140,000 into graduate facilities has given us a fantastic new space for our community. The only other record of a full refurbishment of graduate facilities we could find was in 1975, when my predecessor struggled to persuade his common room of the need for a microwave, as a wary general assembly feared the radiation it may emit! Fortunately, our current members were slightly easier to win round this time. The more controversial additions will be the new mood lighting system, though it looks so good we anticipate that very soon every common room in College will want something similar! Our MCR bar (and spirits collection), which has often been the envy of other Oxford graduate communities, has now been completely refurbished and refreshed. A brand new roof light, lighting system and sound system has transformed the area, while the new solid oak bar fits in perfectly with the existing wood panelling and has the added advantage of doubling the size of the space. Within the main MCR, graduates can find comfy leather Chesterfields and possibly the fanciest coffee machine in Oxford. Meanwhile, Lecture Room Two has been fully converted into an MCR study space with a more modern look, and still close enough to the coffee machine to be a great place for graduates to work. It has been an honour and privilege to lead the Common Room during the last year, perhaps one of the more turbulent times in Oriel’s most recent history. Despite this, it has been a year in which the graduate community has flourished, representing and embracing a greatly diverse community, with fantastic new graduate facilities and a vibrant and interesting new lecture series. I would like to thank a fantastic MCR Committee, not least our Vice-President, Nisha Mistry, and Treasurer, Emily Smith, for their invaluable contributions to the year. Best of luck to our new President, Peter Gent, and his team. I am proud to be leaving the MCR in good shape for our successors, who inherit what must be the best graduate common room in Oxford. Floreat Oriel! Mark Johnson MCR President 2015– 2016

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FOR HIGHER DEGREES AKARD, Lucia MSt Medieval Studies AL-ALI xMUSTAFA, Semsia MSc Environmental Change and Management ALASHWALI, Eman DPhil Cyber Security ALMOHSENI, Hasanain DPhil Organic Chemistry APPLEGATE, Kirby MSt Theology AYALA, Anthony MSc Financial Economics AYDIN, Rona MBA Business Administration BAYNHAM-WILLIAMS, MSc By Research in Morgan Musculoskeletal Sciences BISCHOF, Kay MSt Philosophical Theology BOLTON, Thomas DTP Environmental Research BOURRET-SICOTTE, DPhil Materials Gabrielle BROWN, Matthew DTP Environmental Research CASSER, Laurenz MSt Ancient Philosophy CASSIDY, Rachel DPhil Economics CHAUKE, Paballo MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management CHEN, Zhuoyao DPhil Clinical Medicine CHOONG, Wei Ling MSc Law and Finance COX, George MSt English and American Studies DINENIS, Nikianna MSt British and European History 1500 DUERR, Patrick MSt Philosophy of Physics ELLINGHAM, Belinda MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance FAN, Mengzhen DPhil Chemical Biology FLYNN, Josephine MSc Sociology FRUTH, Theresa DPhil Particle Physics

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GE, Qinrun MBA Business Administration Trinity College, University of Toronto GORELLI, Marco MSc Mathematics and Brunel University Foundations of Computer Science GRAHAM, Richard DPhil English Oriel GRIFFITHS, Benjamin MSt Modern Languages The University of Southampton GRUNSTEIN, Eric MSt Music (Musicology) Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford GUIRO CARVALHO DA DPhil Pathology University of Sao Paulo ROCHA, Joana HAHN, Michael MSt Theology University of St Andrews HARNAU, Jonas DPhil Economics Oriel HELMS, Nathaniel BPhil Philosophy Florida State University HUDSON, Maxwell MSt British and European King’s College London History 1500 HUNTER, David MSc Computer Science Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine HUTCHINSON, Brian DPhil Theology Pittsburgh Theological Seminary JACKSON, Timar MBA Business Administration Oriel JONES, Sarah DPhil Medieval and Modern King’s College London Languages KILCOYNE, Sarah MSt Legal Research Queensland University of Technology KITCHEN, Lucy 2nd BM Medicine Oriel KOONS, Benjamin BPhil Philosophy Princeton University KOTOVA, Anna DPhil Criminology Green Templeton College LANCASTER, Robert MPP Public Policy Australian National University LEVY, Samuel MSc Environmental Change University of Cambridge and Management LIN, Xinyue MSc Financial Economics University College London LIU, Wing Chung DPhil Materials University of Singapore LUDWIGS, August BPhil Philosophy The University of York LUO, Jingyi MSc Computer Science University of Cambridge LUPTAK, Adam DPhil History St Cross College, Oxford McGURGAN, Ian MSc Global Health Science University of Dublin Trinity College MIAO, Wenyan MSc Financial Economics Singapore Management University MURPHY, Louis 2nd BM Medicine Oriel

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MYLES, Georgina MPhil Economics University of Essex NAVARRO ROMERO, MSc Financial Economics Instituto Tecnológico y Rodrigo De Estudios Superiores De Monterrey NGETICH, Gladys DPhil Engineering Science Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi OOI, Koonpeng MSc Economics for University of British Development Columbia PHILLIPS, Elizabeth DPhil Cyber Security Worcester College, Oxford PHILLIPS, Jordan MSt Modern Languages (French) The Queen’s College, Oxford PRESCOTT, Hannah MSt Modern Languages King’s College London PRICE, Jonathan DPhil Law University of Leiden Netherlands RAFAILOV, Ruvin MSc Financial Economics International College of Economics and Finance, NRU, Moscow RAMANKUTTY, Madhavi MSt Socio-Legal Studies Princeton University RONCA, Alessandro DPhil Computer Science Universita degli Studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza’ Italy RUIZ, Denise MSt Modern Languages Queen’s University, Canada RYAN, Carrie DPhil Anthropology Green Templeton College SALT, Samuel MSt Global and Imperial University of Bristol History SAUDABAYEVA, Aigerim MPhil Sociology and Barnard College, New York Demography SHI, Wen MSc Mathematical Modelling Oriel and Scientific Computing SPIESBERGER, Julia BCL Civil Law University of Aberdeen STUART, Kelsey MSc Global Health Science University of South Africa SUAREZ-IDUETA, Lorena MSc International Health and National Autonomous Tropical Medicine University of Mexico TAI, Katharin MPhil International Relations Institut d Etudes Politiques de Paris TANT, William MPhil Theology US Columbia University TEREFE, Mastewal MPP Public Policy New York University THOMSON, Eleanor MSc Environmental Change Keble College, Oxford and Management THONG, Kar MSt World Literatures in The University of Warwick English THULIN, Lesley MSt English (1700–1830) Columbia University VALKOV, Lazar MSc Computer Science University of Newcastle- upon-Tyne

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WALLIS, Jamie CDT Synthetic Biology (CDT) WELLS, Adrian 2nd BM Medicine WHITEHEAD, Toby MSt Theology WINTER, Janice DPhil Politics WIRABOONCHAI, Tuanta MSc Financial Economics WONG, Yeung BCL Civil Law YU, Andy DPhil Philosophy ZIA, Mohammad MPP Public Policy ZOU, Jie MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance

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University of Essex Oriel Harris Manchester College, Oxford Nuffield College, Oxford Kobe University London School of Economics and Political Science Hertford College, Oxford University of Maryland Sun Yat-Sen University

FOR FIRST DEGREES ANG, Hui X. Jurisprudence Hwa Chong Institution, Singapore AU, Chun N. Engineering Science Chinese International School, Hong Kong BAINES, Luke W. Mathematics Merchant Taylors’ School BAKOWSKI, Kazimierz M. History and Russian City of London School BRANCHFLOWER, James D. Classics I Christ’s Hospital BURNEY-O’DOWD, Rohin Philosophy, Politics, Loreto College and Economics BYTHELL, Anna L. Biomedical Sciences International School Suva, Fiji CARROLL, Edward Computer Science Shrewsbury School CHIU, Ho Y. Jurisprudence Uppingham School CHIVERS, Aidan Classics and French Clifton College CHRISTIE, Edward T. Engineering Science Radley College CLEMENTS, Max History Colchester Royal Grammar School CUMBERS, Colleen French and Beginners’ German St Alban’s Catholic High School DI LORENZO, Francesca M. English and Beginners Italian Graveney School EL BACHA, Zad Classics with Oriental Studies Liceo Scientifico Marco Vitruvio Pollione FLEISCHER, Catherine Philosophy and Theology St Michael’s Catholic Grammar School GIBBONS, Lucy E. French Whickham School and Sports College GIBSON-MEE, Molly Classics and English Petroc, Barnstaple Campus

GILPIN, Emma French and German Droitwich Spa High School GOTH, Aidan Mathematics and Philosophy Ecclesbourne School HADJIGEORGIOU, Classical Archaeology and Bolton School Girls’ Leda Evelyn Ancient History Division HALL, Joshua Mathematics Sullivan Upper School HANCOCK, Annabel L. History Nailse School HICKS, Rebecca E. Physics and Philosophy Wycombe Abbey School HIGGINS, Fergus Theology Bristol Cathedral Choir School HOMER, Phoebe K. History The Warriner School HUTCHINSON, Joshua L. Engineering Science Bingley Grammar School ILIE, Catalin-Andrei Computer Science Colegiul National Mihai Viteazul Ploiesti ISHAN, Ozair Physics Kingsbury High School JACKSON, Alexander B. Biochemistry, Molecular and King Edward VI Cellular Grammar School KIM, Seyeob Philosophy, Politics, Hankuk Academy of and Economics Foreign Studies KLAPTOCZ, Anna R. History George Abbot School KORDA, Josephine Music City of London School for Girls KULAKOVA, Ksenia German and Spanish Nottingham Girls’ High School LAMONT, Louis Chemistry Norwich School LATIF, Dena History Khartoum International Community School LAURENSON-SCHAFER, Medicine Hills Road Sixth Form Hannah Lee College LEA, Aidan J. History Winstanley College LEYLAND, Marie Ancient and Modern History King George V College LIU, Anna Physics II Liceum im K I Galczynskiego w Olsztynie, Poland LOO, Allen C Physics Ratcliffe College LUO, Di Mathematics Hangzhou Foreign Language School MANSELL, Phoebe M. English Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School MASSINGBERD-MUNDY, Chemistry Cedars Upper School Felicity A. McCOY-PARKHILL, Philosophy, Politics, and St Edward’s School Adeline T. Economics

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McDONALD, William Music McGIVERN, Euan J. Medicine McLAUGHLIN, Callista M Classics I MELLOR, Lucy R. Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular MOJUMDAR, Amrita Philosophy, Politics, and Economics MONAGHAN, Eoin Philosophy, Politics, and Economics MORRIS, Jack Theology NATHAN, Eli Chemistry OLIVER-WATTS, Edwin History and Politics PACE, Ben A. Computer Science PEARSON, Lisa Jurisprudence PEPPIATT, John D.M. Philosophy and Theology PICKERING, William Engineering Science POLLARD, Madeleine O. English POOLE, Anthony Mathematics and Computer Science POTTER, Jennifer M. Engineering Science POUGET, Hadrien Computer Science PURTILL-COXALL, Saoirse History and Politics RAWLINGS, Wesley Physics ROBSON, Georgia History ROTHWELL, Eve Medicine ROWAN, Hugh J. Philosophy and Theology SALIH, Mohamed A. Philosophy and Spanish SANTOSHI, G. Philosophy, Politics, and Economics SCHERRER, Giorgio E. History and Politics SCHNYDER, Enzia N. Engineering Science SCHWIENING, Max Biomedical Sciences

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Eton College Coleg Cambria, Formerly Yale College, Wrexham St Mary’s School, Ascot Oldham VI Form College South Brunswick High School, USA Abbey Christian Brothers’ Grammar, Newry Royal Grammar School, Guildford City of London School Twyford Church of England High School Chetham’s School of Music The VI Form College, Farnborough Eton College Royal Grammar School, Guildford The Gryphon School Blessed George Napier School The Perse School English National Programme, Lycee International The Petchey Academy Barr Beacon School The Duchess Community High School Varndean College Harrow School Richmond upon Thames College Raffles Junior College, Singapore Realgymnasium Raemibuehl Wellington College Hills Road Sixth Form College

SHERIDAN, Luke D. Jurisprudence SHIELDS, Edward Physics SMITH, Madalene C. Classics II SMITH, William Medicine SOMERVILLE, James Jurisprudence STEYN, Sophie English STIEWE, Miss Sophie A. Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular STRACHAN, Daniel Mathematics TAYLOR, Elena C. Medicine TIRMIZI, Syed Philosophy, Politics, and Economics VALEANU, Alexandru Computer Science VOGT, Thorkild German WALDRON, Adam Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular WAYGOOD, Alexander G. Music WHITELING, Luke Law with Spanish Law WILKS, Josephine Classics and English WILLIS, Charlotte French and Beginners’ Italian WINN, Mary H. English WOJCIK, Iwo J. French WOOD, Max C. Theology YOUSIF, Mason Physics ZHANG, Yechuan Mathematics ZHANG, Guige Chemistry

King Edward VI Grammar School St Mary’s Catholic Comprehensive School Aylesbury High School Magdalen College School Lord Wandsworth College Westminster School Claremont Fan Court School Torquay Boy’s Grammar School Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Ashbourne Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, USA National Computer Science High School, Tudor Vianuw King Edward’s School, Birmingham Poynton High School and Performing Arts College Watford Grammar School for Boys Richmond upon Thames College Portsmouth High School The College of Richard Collyer Emmanuel College, Gateshead Chavagnes International College, France Sherbourne School Headlands School and Community Science College Qingdao Hongguang Foreign Language College Berkhamsted School

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ACADEMIC RECORD DEGREES AND EXAMINATION RESULTS 2014–15* AND 2015–16 *not reported in the 2015 Oriel Record

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY ALLSOPP, Niall (English): ‘Turncoat poets of the English revolution’ ANGUS, Ruth (Astrophysics): ‘Stellar ages and stellar rotation’ BRUCE, Douglas (Life Sciences – Computer Science): ‘A comparison of discrete and continuum models of cardiac electrophysiology’ BUCHANAN, James (Public Health): ‘Issues related to the economic analysis of genomic diagnostic technologies in the UK National Health Service: an exploration of methods’ CARPENTER, Joshua David (Politics): ‘Democracy and the disengaged: a multi-dimensional study of voter mobilization in Alabama’ CHONEV, Ventsislav (Computer Science): ‘Reachability problems for linear dynamical systems’ DE SILVA, Nicole (International Relations): ‘How international courts promote compliance: strategies beyond adjudication’ DEPOLD, Jennifer (History): ‘The martial Christ in the sermons of late medieval England’ EPERON, Giles (Condensed Matter Physics): ‘Active layer control for high efficiency perovskite solar cells’ FLETCHER, Lauren (Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics): ‘A compact, borehole, thermal-infrared radiometer and infrared reflectometer for the characterization of subsurface habitability and presence of water ice on Mars’ FREESTONE MELLOR, Paula (Modern History): ‘Sir George Scharf and the problem of authenticity at the National Portrait Gallery’ GARZA DE LEON, Federico (Life Sciences – Condensed Matter Physics): ‘Single-molecule fluorescence analysis of transcription factors in living bacteria’ GILLEN, Edward (Astrophysics): ‘Characterising young eclipsing binaries and their environments in NGC 2264’ HILTON, Catriona (Medical Sciences): ‘MicroRNA-196a in human adipose tissue’ HORE, Victoria (Life Sciences – Statistics): ‘Latent variable models for analysing multidimensional gene expression data HOWELL, Elizabeth (Law): ‘Is the European short selling regulation a justifiable response to the concerns posed by short selling?’ KHALEQUE, Tania (Mathematics): ‘Strongly variable viscosity flows in mantle convection’ KING-LACROIX, Justin (Computer Science): ‘Securing the Internet of Things: decentralised security for wireless networks of embedded systems’ LAU, Maximilian (History): ‘The reign of Emperor John II Komnenos, 1087 – 1143: the transformation of the old order’ MAJUMDAR, Krishanu (Particle Physics): ‘On the measurement of optical scattering and studies of background rejection in the SNO+ detector’

MANUEL, Ari (Clinical Medicine): ‘Factors associated with ventilatory failure in obesity’ MAWHINNEY, George (Law): ‘Schedule 21 and its impact on the sentencing of homicide’ NICHOLLS, Guy (Theology): ‘Newman’s idea of beauty: the nature, importance and role of beauty in John Henry Newman’s life and work’ ORKIN, Susannah (Development Studies): ‘The role of aspirations and identities in decisions to invest in children’s schooling’ PRABAKARAN, Arunvinay (Materials): ‘Novel chalcogenide nanomaterials production and application’ QUICK, Laura (Theology): ‘Scribal culture and the composition of Deuteronomy 28: intertextuality, influence and the Aramaic curse tradition’ SCARGILL, James (Theoretical Physics): ‘Multi-gravity: can you have too much of a good thing?’ SCHAPER, Benjamin (Medieval and Modern Languages [German]): ‘Poetik und Politik der Lesbarkeit in der deutschen Literatur’ SHER, Galen (Economics): ‘Essays in Econometrics’ SUI, Dan (Engineering Science): ‘Modelling and experimental observation of ferroelectric domains’ TOPOUZI, Marina (Geography and the Environment): ‘Occupants’ interaction with low-carbon retrofitted homes and its impact on energy use’ VENKATESH, Madhvi (Biomedical Sciences): ‘Structural studies of signal transduction in bacterial chemotaxis and metabolism-related cancer targets’ VINCENT, Robert Anthony (Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics): ‘Retrieval of trace gases using IASI’ WALKER, Sebastien (Economics): ‘Essays in development macroeconomics’ WARSH, Jonathan (Public Health): ‘Patient and public involvement: ethical justifications, expert knowledge and deliberative democracy’ ZAMDZHIEV, Vladimir (Computer Science): ‘Rewriting context-free families of string diagrams’ ZENG, William (Computer Science): ‘The abstract structure of quantum algorithms’ MASTER OF SCIENCE (BY RESEARCH) ALRAWAF, Sarah (Pathology): ‘Primary intestinal epithelial cell response to Helicobacter hepaticus in an ex vivo setting’ FORSHAW, Mark (Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics): ‘Ocean eddy-mean flow interactions over topography’ GOODIER, Henry (Musculoskeletal Sciences): ‘Investigating mechanisms driving fibrosis in pathological rotator cuff tendons’

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BACHELOR OF MEDICINE AND BACHELOR OF SURGERY GLEESON, David GRIFFITHS, Cameron

Distinction Pass

BACHELOR OF CIVIL LAW SPIESBERGER, Julia

Pass

BACHELOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN PHILOSOPHY BERNSTEIN, Câ&#x20AC;&#x2122;zar

Pass

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION GREEF, Heloise OTSUKA, Naoaki SAFAR AL-HALABI, Anas USHER, Joel

Pass Pass Pass Pass

MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE, MEDICINE, AND TECHNOLOGY GOTTLIEB, Edouard Distinction

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ECONOMICS FOR DEVELOPMENT OOI, Koon Peng

Pass

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE & MANAGEMENT AL-ALI MUSTAFA, Semsia LEVY, Samuel THOMSON, Eleanor

Pass Distinction Distinction

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN FINANCIAL ECONOMICS AYALA, Anthony LIN, Xinyue MIAO, Wenyan NAVARRO ROMERO, Rodrigo RAFAILOV, Ruvin WIRABOONCHAI, Tuanta

Distinction Pass Distinction Pass Pass Pass

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN GLOBAL HEALTH SCIENCE MCGURGAN, Ian STUART, Kelsey

Pass Distinction

MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS FIDLER, Mailyn

Pass

MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY IN LATE ANTIQUE AND BYZANTINE STUDIES DAWSON, Joseph

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN INTERNATIONAL HEALTH AND TROPICAL MEDICINE SUAREZ-IDUETA, Lorena

Pass

MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY IN MODERN BRITISH AND EUROPEAN HISTORY BRIGGS, Madeline

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN LAW AND FINANCE CHOONG, Wei Ling

Pass

MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY IN PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY SMITH, Emily

Pass

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MATHEMATICAL MODELLING AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING MIZUGUCHI, Hanako Pass SHI, Wen Pass

MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY IN THEOLOGY RITZEMA, John Pass MASTER OF PUBLIC POLICY LANCASTER, Robert Distinction TEREFE, Mastewal Taddese Pass MASTER OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE HUNTER, David VALKOV, Lazar

Distinction Pass

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL FINANCE ELLINGHAM, Belinda ZOU, Jie

Pass Pass

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MATHEMATICS AND FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE GORELLI, Marco Pass MASTER OF STUDIES IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY CASSER, Laurenz

Pass

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MASTER OF STUDIES IN BRITISH AND EUROPEAN HISTORY DAVIES, Thomas DINENIS, Nikianna HUDSON, Maxwell

Pass Distinction Distinction

MASTER OF STUDIES IN ENGLISH THULIN, Lesley

Pass

MASTER OF STUDIES IN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES COX, George

Distinction

MASTER OF STUDIES IN GLOBAL AND IMPERIAL HISTORY SALT, Samuel

Distinction

MASTER OF STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES AKARD, Lucia

Pass

MASTER OF STUDIES IN MODERN LANGUAGES PHILLIPS, Jordan PRESCOTT, Hannah RUIZ, Denis

Distinction Distinction Distinction

MASTER OF STUDIES IN MUSIC GRUNSTEIN, Eric KRAVVAS, Ioannis

Pass Pass

MASTER OF STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY BISCHOF, Kay Malte

Pass

MASTER OF STUDIES IN THEOLOGY APPLEGATE, Kirby FLINTOFT, Sam HAHN, Michael

Pass Pass Pass

MASTER OF STUDIES IN WORLD LITERATURES IN ENGLISH THONG, Kar Mun

Distinction

HONOUR SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY PART II HALL, Christopher STONES, Adam

I I

HONOUR SCHOOL OF CELL AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY MARSHALL, Abigail

II.i

HONOUR SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANCIENT HISTORY PREW, George

HONOUR SCHOOL OF CLASSICS AND ENGLISH WARN, Jacob

HONOUR SCHOOL OF CLASSICS AND MODERN LANGUAGES CLEARY, Olivia WATSON, Maire

I II.i

HONOUR SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE PART C ALEXANDRESCU, Andrei BARGIEL, Maciej CALLAGHAN, Jake MENON, Ashok

I II.i II.i I

HONOUR SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY PART C PICKERING, Matthew

HONOUR SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE PART C DENG, Jiapeng GOWERS, Mark GUO, Yujia LINE, Dale TRIGGER, Alec

II.i I II.i II.i II.ii

HONOUR SCHOOL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE HAIDEN, Leonie JACKSON, Helena PATTNI, Harshini STIRLING, Rufus

I II.i II.i I

HONOUR SCHOOL OF ENGLISH AND MODERN LANGUAGES SPIVEY, Jessica

HONOUR SCHOOL OF HISTORY ANDREWS, Anthony BARMA, Salma BARNES, Sophie GROSS, Anna OWENS, Kit

II.i I II.i II.i II.i

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HONOUR SCHOOL OF JURISPRUDENCE CHAN, Man Hin PATEL, Roma TABEART, Murray WONG, Mei-Yu Esther

I II.i II.i I

HONOUR SCHOOL OF LITERAE HUMANIORES BURDETT, Emily COLLINS, Jessica CORREIA MORTON, Alice MYSKO VON SCHULTZE, Markian

II.i I I I

HONOUR SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE PART B KHOURI III, Edward

II.ii

HONOUR SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS LANDE, Daniel

II.i

HONOUR SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL PHYSICS HILBERS, Adriaan

Pass

HONOUR SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES ANDVIG, Jonathan AZARI, Arianna JONES, Rose KAILAYAPILLAI, Chenduraan VAUGHAN BURLEIGH, Sebastian

II.i I II.i II.i I

HONOUR SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES BENTSI-ENCHILL, Jared CLAPPERTON, Molly GREENWOOD, Ianthe LOWE, Claire

II.i II.i I I

HONOUR SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY PART II DARK, Jessica DONNELLAN, Francesca SRISAKVARAKUL, Chaiyakorn YOON, Young

II.i I I I

HONOUR SCHOOL OF MUSIC FOSTER, William

HONOUR SCHOOL OF NEUROSCIENCE JUNGERIUS, Dirk

II.ii

HONOUR SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS AND ECONOMICS BISER, Liam BYSTROM, Carl CHRISTEN, Daniel JIANG, Zixin LATHAM, Georgia ROSS, Jennifer TRINER, William UNADKAT, Arjun

II.i II.ii I II.i II.i II.ii II.ii II.i

HONOUR SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY HARRIS, Olivia MASON, Benjamin SHARMAN, Eleanor

I II.i II.i

HONOUR SCHOOL OF PHYSICS PART B SAYWELL, Jack MCCLOY, Gilliam WILKINSON, Sam

I II.i II.ii

HONOUR SCHOOL OF PHYSICS PART C FINEAN, Mark HAMILTON, Eleanor

I I

HONOUR SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY BENSON-COLPI, Cosima STELL, Elizabeth

I I

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SPORTS ACHIEVEMENTS

AWARDS AND PRIZES

UNIVERSITY AWARDS AND PRIZES All Souls Prize for Public International Law Penningtons Manches Family Law Prize Wronker Prize for Best Overall Performance in Law Wronker Prize for Best Overall Performance in Law (proxime accessit) Passmore Edwards Prize in Classics and English Association of Physicians Prize in Medicine Royal Statistical Society Prize Hoare Prize in Computer Science Hoare Prize in Computer Science and Philosophy Practical Prize in Physical Chemistry Final Honour School of Biomedical Sciences, Part I Bloomberg Prize Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse Gibbs Prize in Theology and Religion Pusey and Ellerton Junior Prize in Theology and Religion Margaret Harris Memorial Prize Salters Prize for Chemical Engineering

Mei-Yu Esther Wong Jacob Warn Arianna Azari Alex Homer Ashok Menon Matthew Pickering Katherine McFarlane Felicity Massingberd-Mundy Jessica Forsyth Ryan Hempenstall Roxanne Taylor Catherine Fleischer Max Wood David Gleeson Mark Gowers

COLLEGE AWARDS AND PRIZES Eugene Lee Hamilton Prize Instrumental Awards Lady Norma Dalrymple-Champneys Prize Shannon Prize in Modern History John Sanders Scholarship in Physics Hammick Chemistry Prize

Jacob Mercer (The Queen’s College) Josephine Korda Alex Waygood Ben Pace Katherine Wood Emma Woodhall Matthew Georgiou Christopher Hall

GRADUATE SCHOLARS Paul Ries Collins Graduate Scholarship Oriel Graduate Scholarship

C’zar Bernstein Leonie Wanitzek

Mei-Yu Esther Wong Mei-Yu Esther Wong Man Hin Keith Chan

BLUES Morgan Baynham-Williams Sam Bradley Imogen Duffy Jessica Forsyth Annabel Hazlitt Adriaan Hilbers Alexander MacAulay Gladys Chepkirui Ngetich George Stannard

Rowing (coxed winning Blue boat in Women’s Boat Race 2016) Fencing (1st team) Rugby (played in the first-ever Women’s Varsity Match at Twickenham Stadium) Volleyball (captained 2nd team and played libero for 1st team) (Volleyball is a half-blue sport, but the team were awarded discretionary Blues in recognition of their performance in BUCS) Hockey Football Athletics Athletics Swimming

HALF BLUES Olivia Cleary Joe Dawson Marc Gorelli Michael Hahn Matthew W. Nobel Rufus Stirling Alec Trigger Mohammad Usman Zia

Rowing (coxed winning Isis crew in Men’s Boat Race 2016) Rowing (winning Isis crew in Men’s Boat Race 2016) Gymnastics Table Tennis (1st team) Powerlifting Rowing (winning Isis crew in Men’s Boat Race 2016) Lightweight Rowing (President of the Club) American Football (1st team)

OTHER UNIVERSITY-LEVEL SPORT Robert Bastian Jared Bentsi-Enchill Jake Callaghan Belinda Ellingham Michael Hahn Chenduran Kailayapillai Max McCreery Jennifer Ross Enzia Schnyder

Ski racing Rugby Colleges XV Poker Dance Sport Badminton (awarded Colours) Rifle (awarded Colours) Tennis Skiing (awarded Colours) Ultimate Frisbee

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ORIELENSIA PRESENTED TO THE LIBRARY BARTON, J. (ed.), The Hebrew Bible: a critical companion (Princeton 2016). Presented by the editor. BUBLITZ, M. (ed.), P-Type ATPases: methods and protocols (New York 2016). Presented by the editor. CROQUET, N., The role and extent of a proportionality analysis in the judicial assessment of human rights limitations within international criminal proceedings (Leiden 2015). Presented by the author. EMIR, A. (ed.), Selwyn’s Law of Employment, 18th edn (Oxford 2014). Presented by the editor. HARPUR, T., The Pagan Christ (Toronto 2004). Presented by the author. HARPUR, T., Water into Wine (Toronto 2007). Presented by the author. HARPUR, T., Born Again (Markham 2011). Presented by the author. ROPER, L., Martin Luther: renegade and prophet (London 2016). Presented by the author. SIVAN, G.A. (ed.), The Jewish Emigrant from Britain 1700–2000: essays in memory of Lloyd P. Gartner (Jerusalem 2013). Presented by the editor.

The library is grateful to Dr Jeremy Catto, Sir John Elliott and Professor Mark Philp, who donated books in their subjects, and to those of this year’s current students and finalists who showed their support in this way. Generous donations of books were also received from Antony Whitfield 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); to Dr Jeremy Catto, who presented us with a print of The Oldenburg Procession of 1814 etched in 1816 by John Hughes; and to Mrs Christine Hamand, who gave us a collection of books that had belonged to her late father, Eric Vallis.

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CHAPEL CHOIR

he highlight of the choir’s year was the première of a new Magnificat setting by Judith Bingham. Commissioned to mark thirty years of women at Oriel, the piece took pride of place in the Lady Day service at the end of Hilary Term. Judith Bingham is one of the country’s leading composers of choral music. A singer by training, she demonstrates in her work an intimate understanding of vocal line and choral texture within a musical language that both acknowledges tradition and is open to stylistic innovation. Because of Oriel’s dedication to the Virgin Mary, she selected the medieval chant 'O Maria, Virgo Pia' as the material on which to base her setting. As she explained: ‘It seems to have been around when the college was built, so, who knows, maybe someone sang it there?’ Her setting strikes a predominantly muted tone, almost mystical at times, with rich harmonies and gently contoured melodic lines deriving from the chant. I was due to be conducting the performance but frustratingly succumbed to flu the day before, and it was William McDonald, the Junior Organ Scholar, who took over the direction at the last moment. We repeated the work in Trinity Term, and it is set to become a permanent part of the choir’s repertory. Judith Bingham’s Magnificat was the most ambitious addition to the repertory this year, but various items of classic choral music were added too. Notable amongst these were: Orlando Gibbons’s This is the Record of John and Orlando di Lasso’s Angelus ad pastores ait for the Carol Service; and John Stainer’s Evening Canticles in B flat, Jacob Handl’s Alleluia, In resurrectione, Charles Wood’s Missa Portae honoris and Gabrieli Missa brevis in F for Hilary and Trinity Terms. These complemented items from the existing repertory in our usual pattern of Evensong and Eucharist services. Once again, in Hilary Term we ran a series of organ recitals before Sunday Evensong. Former organ scholar Tiffany Vong returned to College to give the first of them, preceding the Candlemas service; our present organ scholars, Johnson Lau and William McDonald, and I completed the series. It was encouraging to see growing audience support for these concerts.

To celebrate the end of the academic year, the choir flew off to the Côte d’Azur for a week of music-making drawing on the music sung across the year. Works by Handl, Brahms, Lasso, Guerrero, Grieg, Gibbons, Stanford, Lotti and Wood were all featured. We sang a concert and a service at the Anglican church, St John the Evangelist, in Saint-Raphaël, where we were based, and concerts in Holy Trinity Church in Nice and Notre Dame de Bon Voyage in Cannes, the latter as part of the prestigious summer concert series hosted by Les Amis de l’Orgue de Cannes. The audience reception was universally warm and enthusiastic, and we were strongly encouraged to return. The end of Trinity Term is always an occasion to say a regretful farewell to members of the choir who have come to the end of their courses, and this year there was an unusually large number of choristers leaving. From within college there were sopranos Salma Barma, Alice Correia Morton and Claire Lowe, altos Francesca Donnellan and Ianthe Greenwood, tenor Jacob Warn and bass Zixin Jiang; from outside college were sopranos Katherine Backler (Corpus), Lauren Braithwaite (Lincoln) and Ann-Kathrin Kirschbaum (Mansfield). They have all contributed an enormous amount to the choir through their regular singing and leave a big gap for our recruiting to fill at the beginning of Michaelmas Term. Behind the scenes of the choir there is a great deal of organisation and administration that goes on. As ever, we are grateful to the Chaplain for all that he has done through the year to facilitate our activities. Jacob Warn deserves special thanks for having gone beyond the call of duty in constructing a new website and bearing a large amount of responsibility for the tour. We are also very grateful to Emily Essex and her successor as Choir Chair, Matthew Woolley, for their tremendous support to the everyday running of the choir. David Maw Director of Music

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COLLEGE SPORTS

CRICKET

This season’s Oriel cricket matches have been lit up by stunning performances. Two particularly come to mind, the century scored by Magdalen’s opening batsman and the century scored by Magdalen’s other opening batsman. Magdalen matches aside, this has been a decent season, following last year’s disappointment of relegation from the 2nd Division. As it stands, a number of teams have failed to submit results, so we may actually get promoted back to where we belong. In the league we won two matches, lost two and had one rained off. This is the form of a side truly deserving of promotion. In Cuppers, we were unfortunately unable to go beyond the first round, coming up against a St Catherine’s team with a very strong batting line-up, who just about managed to chase down our total of 167. Throughout the season there have been some very impressive individual performances, the most significant of which must be Tom Scott’s four wickets in four balls – clearly after his hat-trick he hadn’t finished. Super sub Ben Eastwood made two very destructive fifties, and it was just a shame that Finals curtailed his and Will Triner’s participation. The bowling was, as ever, led by the mainstay of Oriel CCC, Shashwat Saxena, who was the top wicket taker. I will now be handing over captaincy to the very able Aidan Chivers, who starred with the ball throughout, and occasionally chipped in with some very useful runs. If he can captain with the enthusiasm that he has in the field, then next year will be an exciting one for Oriel cricket. Max McCreery

MENS ROWING

On Saturday 28 May at 5.54pm I passed the Oriel boathouse and knew Oriel would be Head of the River. The next minute was a rare moment when you push harder than ever but you feel no pain, only joy. Christ Church were fading and after imagining it a hundred times, we were going to do it. Crossing the line, I waited for the joy to rush over me but all I felt was relief. Relief that we had made it to the line, that it was over, that we didn’t have to go again. The year begun with a simple goal: GHGH–Go head, twice. Torpids and Eights. No drama. In the end it was anything but. MICHAELMAS TERM The seniors started the year in fours with some promising results, winning Autumn Fours, but couldn’t replicate the speed in an eight. This showed at Wyndhams, where we were bested by the old boys. The novices had large intake of freshers with long limbs

The mens’ First VIII rowing over as Head of the River in Summer Eights

and promising ergos – chief amongst these was David Hunter, who emerged as the novice captain. Following Dave’s ‘Domination Plan’, Oriel recorded its best result at Christ Church regatta with two boats in the quarter finals. The A-crew was unlucky to go out with a crab and could have progressed further. Hungry for Torpids, the novices ended the term in good spirits, excited for the new year. As the term drew to a close, the seniors went off to Cambridge to race in the Fairbairn Cup. We knew Pembroke had entered so it would show where we stood against our Torpids rivals. Before heading to Cambridge we took delivery of a new minibus, courtesy of sponsorship from Orielensis Matthew Gilpin and Gilpins’ Gin. Sadly we couldn’t take it to Cambridge as it broke down after its first outing! Luckily it was back in Hilary Term and became an enormous asset to the Boat Club, for which we are immensely grateful. We had heard the Cam was windy but were unprepared for what followed: calls of ‘bowside light!’ were required to take us round the bends. Having started punchy after seven minutes, the quality faded, leaving us desperate for the finish. Twelve minutes in we thought the finish must be near: should we start sprinting? In hindsight we should have read the course map more closely, as while we thought we had three minutes left the finish horn blew. We doubted that we had beaten Pembroke, with an established crew strengthened by the return of two OUBC triallists. We were thoroughly beaten by 34 seconds over 14 minutes. The silver lining of beating all but one Cambridge college on their home turf was little consolation. We regrouped before heading our separate ways, some back to Oxford for tutorials, others staying in Cambridge to build relations with our sister college, Clare, and counterparts at Downing. Ever full of wisdom, John summed it up best: ‘It’s not the result you wanted, not the result we’d expect but take an honest look and ask yourself did you really think you were capable of winning? I’ve seen them rowing; they’re nothing special. Work hard and give them the shock of their lives in February.’

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The men’s Second VIII on the way to the start in Torpids

HILARY TERM The winter saw heavy rain, meaning that M1 returned for a pre-term training camp with the Isis flooded. The crew was strengthened by the return of Judah Rand and Dale Line from the university squads and could start making proper progress at Wallingford. The camp got off to a good start but was derailed when cox Betsy Jones was knocked off her bike on the way to training. Thankfully there was no long-term damage but it kept us off the water for valuable training days. The next month followed in a stilted fashion, with flooding prohibiting rowing most weekdays. We crammed in what we could on the weekends but the Saturday would be spent frustratingly relearning last weekend’s progress. The bad weather seriously hit the lower boats. The M2 was predominantly novices with reasonable fitness in need of some technique. Whenever the flag changed to allow them to get on the water they were straight out making the most of it but sessions were few and far between. Back at Wallingford, despite limited training M1 were making strong progress. In 2nd Week we raced a mixed Oxford lightweights 1st/2nd boat and held our own in racing pieces. Two weeks and five sessions later we lined up against their full Blue boat. To our amazement, we came away with the win in all the pieces, including two bumps matchups where we rowed through the wash to bump. This gave us a huge boost of confidence going into the final stages. The final fortnight of training was not smooth. Heavy rain kept us off the river for the next five days, then bowman Dale injured his ankle playing rugby. Let this be a lesson for future captains – don’t let your crew do anything but row when it counts. We came into Torpids week with a less than ideal solution. Charlie Cornish (HOTR 2014) would row the first two days of Torpids but not the final two due to a half-marathon he was running. Dale Line assured us he would be fixed up so we would swap mid-week. Torpids week came and everyone was on edge. There had been some good training during the term but would we reproduce it? We spent all term doing 3–5-minute pieces, planning to catch Pembroke on the line. What happened next was a universal shock. We had a fast start and by the tenth stroke our bankrider shouted one length. I thought that must be wrong: we lengthened out and to everyone’s surprise kept gaining. Turning through the gut, Pembroke pushed hard but we held them. We got to half a length off down the green bank and Betsy made the call to sprint. ‘HALF A LENGTH!’ ‘CANVAS!’ ‘CONCEDE!’ We were going to do it. We were going to do it on Wednesday, and before Boathouse

Island. A whole year of dreams and we would do it on day one. We closed and closed and closed … then we missed. Pembroke crossed early, we missed them on the surge and they started pulling away. We had no idea what was going on. A forty-second sprint went on for two minutes. We blew beyond all belief, legs turning to jelly. We gathered to watch the bowcam footage that evening and were howling: it hurt to be so unimaginably close. We tried to refocus: they got lucky, we’ll get them tomorrow. We didn’t get them. We tried rowing them down over the course, we tried sprinting off the start. Nothing worked. It was the same story – close off the start, very close in the gut but not quite close enough. Half a year later I still can’t stop thinking about how we could have done things differently. What if we’d put in an extra session? Should we have had a different race plan? I’m lucky because I have another shot in 2017 but the same can’t be said for all my crewmates. Special thanks to Max Lau for bankriding M1 as well as subbing in Friday with ten minutes’ notice – you are a true Oriel hero. The lower boats had a mixed Torpids. M2 suffered a lack of water time and struggled to replicate their training pieces – getting spoons. M3 qualified for Torpids by the skin of their teeth. This was the first time in ten years that Oriel had qualified a mens’ third boat for Torpids and they did what the M3 before them did and fell to Foot of the River. Happily, they turned things around by bumping the crew that had bumped them the day before, to finish third from bottom. Hilary was another term of not good enough – we needed to step up the game come Eights. During the Easter vacation the Fairbairns crew, joined by Callum Arnold (Captain 2014/15), raced the Head of the River. We finished 96th, worse than last year but happily ahead of any other college crew with two sessions training and crew changes. A reminder that even at its worst, Oriel can beat the rest of Oxbridge at their best. We must not forget the Oriel rowers who represented the Blues this year. Alec Trigger, President of the Lightweights, went down to a strong Cambridge side at the Henley Boat Races. Joe Dawson, Rufus Stirling and Olivia Cleary raced hard to win against Goldie, Oxford’s sixth consecutive win.

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Eddie Shields taking ‘use your neck’ to the extreme with M3 at Eights

TRINITY TERM Trinity term brings Summer Eights, the culmination of the season. Missing a Headship was awful. Losing one was unthinkable. Oriel was strengthened by the return of three university rowers, with Rufus only back in 4th Week post-exams, but also lost three of the Torpid to exams and injury, leaving the seniors net zero. We returned for a pre-term camp and got to work. Despite having rotating subs in our line-up, we made progress. We raced at Bedford Regatta and won the College Eights event for the third year running – beating Corpus, Cambridge and Wadham comfortably. In the Elite Eights event we came up against Hampton School’s first boat. We expected to be beaten but we rowed neck and neck the whole way down the course and crossed the line to win by an expansive 1 ft. This was a great result for us but it took its toll, leaving us empty for the final against Winchester. The flooding subsided and the lower boats were able to get on the river. Injuries and illness meant that we had to take members of the M3 into M2. This was not all bad – there were some unrecognised talents in M3 who really came along well in M2, but it is fair to say that this M2 wasn’t as strong as the crews of 2014/15. M3 multiplied their water time ten times and under Wilf Stephenson’s tutelage improved hugely. Their dedication to training really inspires me and I know they will be back for more next year. On Wednesday M3 missed a bump to take them into fixed divisions by 7 ft and were bumped by a blades-winning LMH 2. M2 had made huge strides under Billy Smith’s coaching but knew they would be under pressure from Pembroke 2. They sprinted off the line and got to half a length off St John's but were bumped by Pembroke. This was a crushing blow for the crew and Oriel – we’ll be back next year for revenge. M1 started ahead of Christ Church, who had three members of the Blue boat and held them level through to the gut before comfortably pushed away through the second half with more in the tank. A great result knowing our training had paid off. On Thursday Iain (M1 stroke) had been violently ill all night, removing any relief from yesterday’s result. As a doctor he prescribed himself more sleep and assured us he would be fine. It is often said that the first day of bumps is 90% of the result and this couldn’t be more true for M3. Having been so close to bumping up on day, one with a good chance of blades, they were bumped again. M2 also went down. For M1 it was time to put serious distance into Christ Church and crush their hopes. Things didn’t go so smoothly. Christ Church held onto us out of the gut and started closing down to half a

length by the finish. This really rattled us but the next day I found out it was because Iain had not wanted to worry us and had lied about getting any sleep all day! On Friday M3 and M2 went down again. M1 found their rhythm, holding Christ Church at a comfortable distance. The pressure wasn’t up as Joe Dawson, our best rower, had to leave for a family event in Leeds. We turned to our go-to last minute sub – Charlie Cornish. Saturday started well, with M3 rowing over. Credit to cox Tacita for keeping calm under pressure. Coming back to the boathouse the crew was as ecstatic as if they had bumped. M2 were determined to avoid spoons. They had a shaky start and by Donnington Bridge St Anne’s were a canvas off. From there they put in the row of their lives to keep away. I cannot stress how fantastic Frankie Satchwell’s coxing was – she weaved and ran the whole way down the river, keeping St Anne’s on the back foot. Simon Bevan, M2 captain, described it as follows: ‘When the legs are burning and they’ve got overlap down greenbanks, there’s only one thing in your mind – don’t get bumped in front of the Oriel boathouse. Not on the last day of Summer Eights.’ Now time for another row over. Nobody had ever lost a Headship rowing over three days ahead of the same crew, and we wouldn’t be the first. After a big start we came out of the gut three quarters of a length clear on a strong rhythm. Christ Church put in their big push early and closed as we crossed the stream. We responded and held them at bay. We turned onto the final straight and the rest is history. Oriel took its 32nd Headship, 26 of the last 50 since 1966, drawing level with Christ Church in the record books. We burned the boat and celebrated the night away. Thank you so, so much to everybody who made this season possible. First to John Faulkner, our coach. Nobody knows how you do it but you put us into winning shape every time. To the rowers who gave up their time and lie-ins to get the training in when nobody else would. To Matthew and Kristina Gilpin, whose sponsorship made the minibus and all its benefits possible. To the Tortoise Club for their continued support and Robin Stainer for his guidance and wisdom through the good times and the tough times. To Wilf Stephenson and Billy Smith for coaching M3 and M2 Oriel College Boat Club, fuelled by Gilpins’ Gin

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in the Summer and David Hunter for laying the foundations of Oriel for years to come. If there is anything I have learned this year it’s this: it’s not about the level of rowing in your men but the standard of men in the boat. We won because we put in more training, more early mornings and a longer drinking ban than the opposition. We have a plethora of dedicated, enthusiastic and promising athletes returning to do battle in 2017. Oriel’s future is bright. I’m proud of the work we have done this year: The Minibus, the Headship, fundraising reform, but there is still unfinished business. I leave it to my successor Henry Shalders to ensure we set things right. Stevan Boljevic Men’s Captain of Boats 2015 – 2016 CREWS 1st VIII (Head of the River) Betsy Jones, Iain McGurgan, Stevan Boljevic (c), Alec Trigger, Joe Dawson/Charlie Cornish, Rufus Stirling, Louis Lamont, Sam Salt, Henry Shalders 2nd VIII (12th Division 2) Francesca Satchwell, Simon Bevan (c), Zachary Zajicek, Jonas Harnau, David Hunter, Hugh Rowan, Dan Strachan, Jamie Wallis, Ben La Trobe 3rd VIII (5th Division 6) Tacita McCoy-Parkhill, Matthew Williams (c), Rodrigo Navarro, Eddie Shields, Aidan Lea, Luke Baines, Charlie Burrell, Charlie Wells, Kaz Bakowski 1st Torpid (2nd Division 1) Betsy Jones, Matt Georgiou, Judah Rand, Iain McGurgan, Stevan Boljevic (c), Henry Shalders, Louis Lamont, Sam Salt, Charlie Cornish/Dale Line 2nd Torpid (12th Division 3) Madeline Briggs, Simon Bevan (c), Max Lau, Jonas Harnau, John Mittermeier, Josh Hutchinson, David Hunter, William Triner, Mark Finean 3rd Torpid (11th Division 6) Tacita McCoy-Parkhill, Hugh Rowan, Benjamin La Trobe (c), Mason Yousif, Aidan Lea, Ruvin Rafailov, Andrew Ledigo, Eddie Shields, Kaz Bakowski

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MEN’S RUGBY

The Oriel Rugby team came into the 2015–16 season with high hopes and although these lofty ambitions were not quite met, they certainly were not far off. This year was an improvement over the last, and a step on the way to Oriel’s returning to being a top college side. The biggest disappointment of the year came in Michaelmas Term The Oriel Rugby team in the League, when, owing to a few factors, most notably how we would always have between 11 and 15 players whereas other teams fielded far more (such as Hertford who turned out 30 men), we were relegated. This setback was deeply disappointing but we quickly righted ourselves and after a few weeks of deep introspection we set out to turn the season around. And as day follows night, Hilary followed Michaelmas. We beat Univ. in a close game and then went on to attain a string of five successive victories, most clearly against a decent Pembroke outfit, and we achieved promotion back to Division 3 with ease. Then came the Cuppers run, where we beat Queen’s and advanced to the quarter finals of the plate, only to be knocked out by Magdalen. The season ultimately finished on a very positive note as we won seven of the last eight games and the team for next year is retaining all major players except one. The group of players is both fun and talented, ensuring that the Rugby Club will maintain its vitality in the coming year. I have many great stories from this past year, some of which are hilarious and some that are not for public disclosure, but they could not have happened without the team. A special thanks goes to the lanky Dave Kelly, Ben Eastwood (but not his permanently dislocated shoulder) and next year’s captain, Matt Williams. I expect Oriel truly to challenge next year in both the League and Cuppers, and take the club to its old heights. Floreat Oriel! Charlie Wells

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The Oriel 1st VII in Hilary Term 2016 The Oriel Mixed Netball Squad

NETBALL

Oriel College Netball Club had yet another successful season. With a double promotion in 2014 and league winners in 2015, the club was looking forward to the 2015–16 season. We maintained two teams in the top two divisions of the College League as well as entering both inter-college tournaments: Cuppers and Mixed Cuppers. Unfortunately last year several members of the leaguewinning squad graduated, but our new recruits from the JCR, including Evie Rothwell, Georgia Robson, Ellie Taylor and Tess Leyland, soon made their mark on the team, demonstrating that once again OCNC would field a strong squad for the season. The season proved challenging at times, especially as injury and illness struck early, disrupting the dynamic of the team. But we still maintained strong progress in Division 1, finishing middle-top of the table at the end of Michaelmas Term. Notable wins included a match against St Hilda’s College, which secured the A team’s position in Division 1. The B team started the season off to an impressive start with a 19–0 win against Pembroke and a draw against Somerville, the current Cuppers champions. The success continued throughout the season, leaving the B team to finish as the second highestranked B team in the College League. Both Oriel’s teams retained their positions in Divisions 1 and 2 and we fielded a strong team for the Cuppers tournament in 1st Week of Trinity Term. I’d like to thank each player who has contributed the OCNC campaign this season.The successes of the season were celebrated at the annual College Sports Dinner. Colours were awarded to Shini Pattni, Georgia Latham, Georgia Robson and Evie Rothwell in recognition of their achievements during the season. Despite the season being over and with many of our players having exams, The Oriel were able to field an exceptional team for the annual Mixed Cuppers event taking place in 6th Week Trinity Term. The year finished on a high. This year we say goodbye to Charlotte Smyth, Emma Williams, Georgia Latham and Shini Pattni, five players who have been integral to the successful campaign since 2013 and have made impeccable contributions to the club over the last three years. I now just need to wish Evie Rothwell, a first-year Medicine student, the best of luck with the 2016–17 season. I’m sure she will be a fantastic captain. Imogen Duffy

VOLLEYBALL

The Oriel Volleyball team finished its second year overall fairly significantly lower on the scoreboard than its first year, but with high morale and a brand new uniform, a good season was still had. Practices in Trinity term were characterised by afternoons in the sunshine learning the ropes over a portable volleyball net in Christ Church Meadows – the incoming first years showed great potential, which puts us in good stead for seasons to come. Rather than three round robin matches spread over three weeks, this year all qualifying matches were set in a The Oriel Volleyball Team single afternoon, which meant the team went out in one big blaze of glory. While we failed to win a single set, the team spirit on the court was at champion concentration and some extremely respectable rallies were had; the other teams, with greater numbers of Blues and substantially fewer novices, proved worthy opponents. That said, the team is looking forward to a new season, hopefully with plenty more incoming talent. Jessica Forsyth

WOMEN’S ROWING

The 2015/16 season has been truly a rollercoaster of emotions for the OCBC women’s squad. After many years of flirting with the top of the 1st Division in Torpids, W1 finally rose in the ranks to second place, in readiness to storm the headship next year. In Eights, they rightfully restored their position in the 1st Division after being pushed out the year before. For the lower boats, Torpids gave them the opportunity to claw their way yet further up the river, proving themselves as a force to be reckoned with. Summer Eights sadly did not see the same level of achievement, with both crews falling relative to where they had started, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t learn and gain lots of valuable experience from the year. MICHAELMAS TERM The returning rowers on the women’s side of the Boat Club had a strong start to term, beginning in mixed fours and leading up to the Upper Thames Head in late October. The novice women, led by Meredith Ellis (2nd Year) also had an excellent start to the season, coached by the Oriel legend Max Lau. The first major event of the season was the Upper Thames Head, in which the top four rowers from W1 went to battle it out with club crews from the region. Despite having

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a really solid row, the four girls were unable to place in the top few boats; but the experience of rowing outside the college bubble was certainly extremely valuable. Next up was the Christ Church regatta, in which novice crews are pitted against each other side by side, racing up the Isis, where the Oriel novice women fielded a crew. Unfortunately, due to a lack of numbers on those days we were forced to enter as a friendly boat, however with the help of a senior rower on each of the days we won all of our races. Finally, our W1 took part in the last IWL of term, IWL B, where despite rather extreme weather conditions they managed a very respectable third out of all of the women’s crews taking part. This was especially impressive when taking into account that they used the women’s 3rd boat, making it likely the best that boat has ever done in an IWL in its many years of service. HILARY TERM Hilary started with a bang, coinciding with the return of our 1st boat, the Lioness, which had been sent to Italy to be repaired after an unfortunate incident during Summer Eights the previous year. The senior women began the term by competing in the third IWL of the year, IWL C. Due to a few last-minute substitutions, our performance was somewhat hindered; however that eventually worked in our favour as we became the underdogs for the upcoming bumps races. The early parts of Hilary were met with intense training across the women’s squad, with the W1 preparing to battle their way to the top of the first division and regain the headship after a decade, and W2 readying themselves to storm the lower divisions. The entire squad benefited immeasurably from the expert coaching (and incredible coffee) of our head coach, James Armitage. Before long, Torpids was upon us! As mentioned previously, due to our on-paper results we certainly weren’t destined for the result that we eventually achieved, but that made it all the more sweet when it was over. The week leading up to the races was not without its drama however, as W1’s 6 woman, Debbie Potter, had to duck out due to back problems. We were also not helped by less than ideal weather conditions, keeping the squad from training nearly as much as we had wanted. The first day of Torpids arrived and it was anyone’s guess what would happen. W2, after a valiant first row up the Isis, were unfortunately bumped by Regent’s Park, yet made it across the line without dropping any further in the division. For W1 the story was dramatically different. After a cool-headed and relaxed row up to the start, they sat ready for the gun to fire. When it did, it took a mere forty strokes before they clattered into St John’s at an incredible speed, moving us into third place overall.

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W1 rowing up to the start for the final race of Torpids

The second day of Torpids rolled around, and once again nobody was to see what would happen. W2 had a vastly better day, taking the bump on Green Templeton with ease, returning to their initial position on the river. W1 were all set to go when disaster struck as their cox, Ed Carroll, got into the boat. As he sat down, the steering wire got caught, before snapping, meaning that steering would have to be done by holding the top of the rudder behind him. Since we were only fifteen minutes from the start, there was no time to fix it so he made the decision to go anyway rather than risk losing their position on the river. As they lined up at the start, the look of horror on the faces of both James and Terry (Oriel’s Boatswain) was an unforgettable sight. Rather than worry the crew, however, the knowledge of the broken steering was kept secret to ensure that everyone’s heads remained in the game; and remain in the game they did. The race started and the crew rocketed off the start, gaining nearly a length and a half on Wadham in the first fifteen strokes. Opting not to settle into a longer-term rhythm, the crew stepped it up yet again, and within a further forty strokes, it was over, and W1 had done it again – rising up to second overall. The joy and relief overcame the panic of having extremely limited steering, and they rowed back to the boathouses with their heads held high. The third day of Torpids brought with it a more relaxed set of races, with both crews rowing over. W2, starting behind the crew that had bumped them on day one, were left with a clear river in front of them, so they had no choice but to row the course. Wolfson W3, despite being a solid crew, had nothing on our girls and so didn’t come close to catching up with us. W1, having had two quick bumps the day before, knew that this time it would be different: Magdalen had also bumped Wadham in a similar time-frame, so our speeds were very evenly matched. After an incredibly strong start they settled into a rhythm they knew they could maintain for the entire course. Pembroke, despite also having a good start, lost roughly a length and didn’t move on us at all, so we knew this was going to be a battle of just the top two. Moving into the final stretch of the race, W1 had gained on Magdalen significantly, closing to less than three quarters of a length away as they went past Boathouse Island. The roar from the crowd on the bank egging us on, we pressed into them as much as we could; but unfortunately it wasn’t enough, and we crossed the line half a length behind them. We knew the final day would be even more trying.

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W1 with their coach, James Armitage

The final day of Torpids brought home a brilliant result for W2, who rose two places (bumping Univ and Jesus W2) to finish in fifth place of Division 4, up two positions from where they started. W1’s race later that day proved to be an incredibly exciting race, as we chased Magdalen down to the last few inches. As we approached Boathouse Island, we had closed to half a length, and once we had passed the pontoons we had closed to a canvas. We continued to close as we approached the line, coming within a foot of the Headship that we so desperately wanted – we could feel the wash of the boat in front rocking us, just out of our grasp. Alas, Magdalen managed to muster up enough energy to push off from us, and they managed to cross the line with us close behind. A disappointing result in itself, but we never even dreamed of being in the position we ended up in, and it certainly has set us up for the coming year. TRINITY TERM Trinity Term is always somewhat of a sprint towards Summer Eights, and this year was no exception for the women. We began the term with another round of recruitment, in order to ensure that we could field our usual three boats for bumps. We were incredibly successful in the end, managing to sizeably increase the number of people rowing with us – and thanks to the tireless work of head coach James Armitage, each of those rowers had the best training they could have in that short period of time. As with Torpids, in what felt like just a few days Summer Eights was beginning to kick off. The squad had worked absolutely tirelessly to get where they were, with W1 training on the water nearly five times a week on the Wallingford stretch, and W2 and W3 sharing the Isis with the men’s crews, all interspersed with a heavy land training schedule. The first day of Eights brought with it some mixed emotions. W1, having been unfairly pushed down into Division 2 the previous year, bumped twice, moving themselves not only up two places, but rightfully back into the 1st Division. W2 and W3, however, did not have the same bumps experience – both crews unfortunately went down a position, as the crews around them just had managed to clinch more training and work from the preceding weeks. Moving into the second day, W1 took yet another bump, this time against New College, moving them up into twelfth in Division 1. W2 and 3 had yet another unfortunate day, both dropping down a place, being bumped by Regent’s Park and Linacre respectively. The third day spelled disaster for W1, as when racing up the bank leading onto Donnington Bridge their blades clipped the edge of a Teddy Hall boat, tucked in to the left-hand bank, somewhat obscured by the curvature of the bank itself. Due to this, the division was klaxonned, and W1 were awarded a penalty bump by OURC, spelling the

W2 racing past Boat House Island during Summer Eights

unfortunate end of their blades campaign. Despite this, they rowed home with their heads held high, determined to make back the position the following day. The lower boats sadly dropped another place each, putting both of them on for spoons if they didn’t turn it around on the final day. Summer Eights had a disappointing finish for the women’s squad with W1, placed back behind New College, failing to regain the position they’d held the previous day. Despite coming within inches of New College, the fighting spark had been lost the day before and so they were unable to take the bump. W2, however, had a change of fortune, when almost every single boat around them bumped out, leaving them clear to row over, breaking the downward trend from the previous three days. Sadly the same could not be said for W3, who fought valiantly against Magdalen – holding them off all the way from the gut to half way up Greenbanks – yet fell in the end to the relentless rhythm and power of the crew chasing them. Despite these less than ideal results, spirits remained high, as W2 and 3 had had excellent rows, showing that their training had paid off in that regard, and as W1 had proved they rightfully deserved their place in Division 1. There were also the results of M1, who had retained their headship for yet another year, meaning a joyous Bump Supper followed by the traditional boat burning. On balance, the women’s squad has had an outstanding year. With W1 moving up to second in Torpids and powering their way back into Division 1 in Eights, and W2 and 3 moving up in Torpids and rowing well in Eights, all three crews are poised to storm their respective divisions in the upcoming year. I am really excited for the year ahead, and what challenges and surprises it will bring with it. Edward Carroll Women’s Captain of Boats 2016 – 20 17 CREWS 1st VIII (13th Division 1) Edward Carroll (cox), Meredith Ellis, Emily Smith, Katherine Macfarlane, Deborah Potter, Jo Flynn, Aigerim Saudabayeva, Josephine Wilks, Isabella Clarke

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THE ORIEL SOCIETY

2nd VIII (10th Division 4) Anna Kotova (cox), Tacita Mccoy-Parkhill, Lucy Kitchen, Alice Blanchard, Sally Foster, Dena Latif, Jessica Forsyth, Charlie Willis, Eleanor Thomson 3rd VIII (6th Division 6) Isaac Virchis (cox), Angelique Mullings, Theresa Fruth, Anna Townley, Anja Rekeszus, Maria Macklin, Joana Guiro, Maddy Smith, Tess Leyland 1st Torpid (2nd Division 1) Edward Carroll (cox), Eleanor Ainscoe, Jessica Spivey, Deborah Potter, Emily Smith, Katherine Macfarlane, Aigerim Saudabayeva, Meredith Ellis, Jade Tinslay 2nd Torpid (5th Division 4) Anna Kotova (cox), Hannah Laurenson-schafer, Isabella Clarke, Jo Flynn, Josephine Wilks, Alice Blanchard, Dena Latif, Erin Jones, Eleanor Thomson

THIRTY YEARS OF WOMEN’S ROWING AT ORIEL Women arrived in Oriel in October 1985. Some say we were chosen for our brains, to improve Oriel’s Norrington Table scores. Some say we were chosen for our beauty, to complement Oxford’s loveliest college. Few would ever suggest we were chosen for our oarsmanship… Which makes it all the more remarkable that in the very first year of Oriel women we put two eights on the water (we were barely two dozen women in total). In summer 1987, when this photograph was taken, we got our blades – four bumps (plus an over-bump). Victoria Connolly coxed us with fierce wit, formidable Emma Tame rowed stroke and our dear departed Vicky Wiggins was strong and fit at 3. Vicky wanted to row one last time before she died and we never managed it. Something we’ll always regret. The women’s First VIII, Summer Eights 1987

Nell Butler (1985)

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. We have three new members of the Committee to welcome this year: Laura Dosanjh, the first female JCR president of Oriel, who matriculated in 1986; Sarah Kiefer (2003) and Sophie Ross (2011). We are grateful to them for helping us better to represent the Oriel alumni base. Over the last year there has been a plethora of events open to Orielenses. In Michaelmas Term 2015 there was a champagne concert attended by 103 Orielenses and guests, a trip to the Varsity Match, and the usual intercollegiate golf match. On 21 November 2015 there was also a day of ‘Celebrating Women at Oriel’, thirty years after the College went mixed. Sir Derek Morris, our previous Provost, was a prime mover in Oriel admitting women, and it was fitting that he was able to mark this anniversary with our first female Provost and no fewer than 112 other Oriel women. In early 2016 there was much public debate on the subject of the statue of Cecil Rhodes on the College’s High Street frontage. Oriel finds itself in the company of much larger institutions such as Harvard, Yale, and Oxford University itself in dealing with difficult issues such as these, and it is evidence of the College’s status, despite its comparatively small size, that it has attracted so much commentary. On behalf of the College and the Committee I thank Orielenses for their support in this matter. There is currently an exercise going on to consider the contextualisation of the statue, and the Oriel Society Committee is helping the College with that. On to happier matters… In March, watched by many alumni, Oxford won the Women’s Boat Race on the Tideway after a particularly brilliant piece of coxing by Morgan Baynam-Williams of Oriel; Cambridge almost sank. No doubt the Oxford Men’s crew will return to form and beat Cambridge with an influx of Oriel talent next year. We then had the Finalists’ Dinner in Oriel on 28 April, which, by long tradition, is attended by the President of the Oriel Society. When I took over from John Albert three years ago he instructed me to give the traditional President’s speech along the lines of: ‘Finals are awful, and they don’t much matter in the great scheme of things’. I did as I was told, but perhaps with a bit too much enthusiasm, since in 2014 Oriel had only twentythree Firsts, down from thirty in John’s last year, and went from ninth to twenty-third in the Norrington Table. At the Provost’s urging, I was not quite as vehement in 2015, and we had

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Alumni Garden Party, May 2016

twenty-seven Firsts and went back up to twelfth in the Norrington. This year, I thought that I should perhaps change the message to ‘you should take Finals as seriously as rowing’, and lo and behold: thirty-eight Firsts out of eighty students, and first in the Norrington Table! I am sorry to say that I and my predecessors had no idea of the negative effect our speeches were having on the College’s academic performance, and I hereby apologise on behalf of myself, John Albert, Sir Michael Wright and all past presidents. On 17 May we had the London Alumni Dinner at the Reform Club in Pall Mall and an excellent speech on his political life and times from Orielensis Paul (Lord) Murphy, exSecretary of State for both Wales and Northern Ireland. Given the passions aroused by the Brexit referendum and the wholesale change of most of the Government’s ranks since then, it was a reminder perhaps of a kinder and gentler political age – we are most grateful to him. The Garden Party on 28 May saw many Orielenses and their families enjoying champagne, strawberries and cream on the lawn in Second Quad before strolling down to the river to see the Oriel Men’s First VIII rowing over Head fifty years after Oriel’s first Headship of the modern era in 1966. This was both uplifting and fortunate, since the theme of the September Alumni Dinner in College was ‘celebrating fifty years of Oriel rowing dominance’, and losing the Headship immediately prior to it would have been unhelpful… I feel sure that this spurred the crew on. The good news from the river also allowed me to begin my speech to the dinner with the hitherto unknown phrase ‘Oriel is Head of the Norrington Table as well as Head

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of the River’, which caused some spluttering among those unaware of the College’s academic triumph. The dinner was sold out months in advance and we were delighted to have at high table several members of the Head crew of 1966 and, as special guests, Rosemary and Oliver Close-Brooks, widow and son of Jonathan Close-Brooks, stroke of that boat and one of the prime movers in Oriel rowing in the last half century. In my speech I quoted from Jonathan’s obituary in the Oriel Record of 2000: ‘That Oriel went Head, and quite decisively, is a historical fact. That such was achieved using the motley selection of raw material available still amazes some of us who formed the crew and is a lasting tribute to Jonathan’s leadership. That Oriel then entered a period of supremacy on the river unmatched in history by any college at Oxford or Cambridge cannot be entirely coincidental.’ I noted that that this huge enthusiasm for the sport and the College in general had now extended to the academic sphere and was cause for jubilation. I also noted that what could have been an annus horribilis had become very much an annus mirabilis, made complete by an Oriel man, Peter Reed, winning his third gold medal at the Rio Olympics this summer in the British Men’s VIII. 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, carol services, and many other events associated with donor groups such as the Adam de Brome, 1326 and Raleigh societies. My thanks to the 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 MIDLANDS BURSARY ‘TOMB TO TOMB’ WALK

The Oriel Midlands Bursary was initiated to assist the living expenses of a deserving undergraduate educated in the Midlands. Bursaries are awarded only from interest on accrued capital. With University funding improving and raising the threshold for qualification, we believe there is now a sufficient fund for the award of two bursaries of £800 per term in perpetuity, which should cover requirements. In April this year a group of us set out to walk from Gloucester Cathedral, where Edward II is buried, to the tomb of Adam de Brome in the University Church in Oxford, covering the sixty or so miles in four days. DAY 1 (28 APRIL) After a photo session at the tomb of Edward II we departed Gloucester Cathedral at 8.45am and left Gloucester via Ermine Street. After a brief stop at Witcombe, we used footpaths to climb to the top of the scarp slope of the Cotswolds, a climb of 270 metres from the starting point, followed by a relatively flat section to reach Brimpsfield at about 12.15pm. After lunch at the Golden Heart, Nettleton Bottom, we departed Brimpsfield at about 2pm and walked along country lanes with several ups and downs, plus a farm track to the junction of the A417 and the Welsh Way. This was followed by a walk along the country lanes constituting the Welsh Way, to end the day’s walk just under 1 1/2 miles west of Barnsley, Gloucestershire at 6.30pm. The total distance walked in the day was 19 1/4 miles in just under The Oriel tomb-to-tomb walkers seven hours. DAY 2 (29 APRIL) Commencing at 9.20am from the point we reached on Day 1, we walked along the Welsh Way to Fairford, where we had lunch. We then walked through Fairford section of the Cotswold Water Park, via footpaths and country lanes to Lechlade. After checking into the hotel, we then walked along the Thames Path as far as Kelmscott, where we arrived at the Plough Inn at 6.50pm for a well-earned beer. The total distance walked on Day 2 was 16 1/2 miles (26.7 km) in 6 1/2 hours.

DAY 3 (30 APRIL) Starting at Kelmscott at 9.20am, this was a walk along the Thames Path to Bablock Hythe, with a lunch stop at Tadpole Bridge and a tea / beer stop at Newbridge. Unfortunately one walker had to drop out at Radcot, due to a swollen, painful lower left leg. The arrival time at Bablock Hythe was 5.10pm. The total distance walked on Day 3 was 16 1/2 miles (26.7 km) in 6 hours 20 minutes. DAY 4 (1 MAY) Starting on the east side of the river at Bablock Hythe, this was a walk along a farm track to Cumnor, followed by a walk along the road into Oxford to the tomb of Adam de Brome in the University Church of St Mary the Virgin. The total distance walked on Day 4 was 6 miles (measured from the map). We would like to thank all past and current donors, especially those we don’t know personally or who have never been to an event. Your support has made it all worthwhile! Tim Soanes (1974)

ORIEL ALUMNI AND ALUMNAE GOLF Oriel again entered the annual intercollegiate competition held in April at Frilford Heath, a fine golf club just south of Oxford. Alumni and alumnae from some twenty colleges took part. A most enjoyable event was won by Hertford, followed by Wadham and Christ Church. Notable performances came from one of Balliol’s alumnae, who won longest drive, admittedly from the red tee, and a Hertford alumnus who finished two over gross, no fewer than twelve strokes better than his handicap. Oriel’s team finished well down the field, but we had been unlucky to lose several key players to business commitments or injury. Over a pleasant lunch afterwards we all agreed that with a little more practice and a few more players we would be more than capable of performing strongly, as we had done in 2015, and it is encouraging that the level of interest in Oriel golf, both in the intercollegiate competition and the annual Oriel golf day held in September, is higher than ever. Steven Wood (1969)

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CELEBRATING WOMEN AT ORIEL

OUR VISITOR’S NINETIETH BIRTHDAY PARTY

n Saturday 21 November 2015, Oriel welcomed back over a hundred female Orelienses comprising alumnae, former female Fellows and current Fellows and students to celebrate thirty years since the admission of the first female undergraduates in Michaelmas Term 1985. Alumna Laura Ashley-Timms (1985) was one of the original cohort of women: ‘it was such a pleasure to see so many unchanged faces. People had travelled far … and it was also great to be sitting with current students who told us about life in the College today. The afternoon provided our intellectual stimulation with a selection of lectures delivered with Oriel passion alongside a good dose of humour too. The day though wasn’t just about the past and the last thirty years – it was also about the future.’ In the words of current student Ianthe Greenwood, ‘there was palpable admiration for the first few years of Oriel women, many of whom threw themselves into all aspects of College life … As we heard from alumnae who had studied in subsequent decades, it became clear that Oriel’s female pioneers paved the way for subsequent generations to benefit from an increasingly integrated College community. As current students, we enjoyed the rare chance to meet Orielenses from previous generations and to hear where their time at Oriel has led them. For the alumnae, too, the day offered a chance to see how Oriel has developed since their student days.’

n 12 June, along with 10,000 other people who came to the Mall to celebrate the Queen’s ninetieth birthday, I was regally soaked. I also recall being soaked at her Coronation, and it poured at her Diamond Jubilee. It is one of the penalties that we British seem to have to bear when expressing loyalty to our Sovereign. Oriel College has the distinction of being the oldest royal foundation in Oxford. In recognition of this Royal connection, the College has also been known as King’s College and King’s Hall. The reigning monarch is therefore the official Visitor of the College, and I am sure this was borne in mind when she invited Robin Harland and me to be among her especial birthday guests for this very wet picnic party celebration. The tradition of Royal interest and support for Oriel still flourishes today. I was privileged to sit next to Her Majesty when she last visited the College along with the Duke of Edinburgh. I can vouch for the very keenly informed interest that she has for Oriel, because in our conversations she showed considerable knowledge of our history and academic and sporting achievements. So there were Robin and I, sitting in the pouring rain in the middle of the Mall, celebrating this most important and valued College connection. We were among some six hundred other charities headed by the Queen and invited to enjoy this celebratory picnic lunch. As I opened my Marks & Spencer hamper and sipped my tin can of Pimm’s, I did have to pinch myself to believe that this was all really happening. Then the sun came out, the rain ceased for a bit and the Royal Family came waving by. Costume dancers did their best to raise our spirits. Amongst them, Robin and I noticed a young girl dancing whilst proudly holding up a banner proclaiming Oriel College. It was a fleeting glimpse of Oriel fame as she sped down the Mall. There was a walkabout by the Royals with the Duchess of Cambridge and Princes William and Harry. Conversation was mostly about the weather. The parade came round a second time, with marching bands, a model of the Royal Yacht Britannia, a Gruffalo and a cow on a tricycle. Darcy Bussell danced to pay tribute to ‘the commitment, selfless devotion and generosity of spirit’ of the Queen. Robin and I concurred but recalled that, for us, her proper Oriel title is ‘The Queen, our Visitor’. It started to rain again. We went home full of happiness that the College had invited us to represent it at this unique celebration. We all now look forward to the Queen, our Visitor’s next visit to the College, but hopefully without the rain. Floreat Oriel. John Albert Adam de Brome Fellow

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KING EDWARD II’S OTHER ‘COLLEGE’

writer of the stature of Sir Simon Jenkins, graduate of St John’s College, former Editor of The Times, well-known and successful author, commands attention. In a belated reading of his A Short History of England (New York 2011), written with all his usual verve and wit, a passage on page eightynine was bound to catch the eye of any Orielensis. Writing of King Edward II, he says: ‘He was the first king to found colleges at both Oxford and Cambridge’. We are all well aware of our own, but is there a college at the junior university which shares with us his royal foundation and benefaction? A quick trawl through a guide book showed that the only extant Cambridge colleges of royal foundation are King’s and Trinity. But more and better research revealed that Edward II was indeed responsible for sending young scholars to Cambridge and we are fortunate that in the Public Records Office there is a document, a royal writ, which contains a great deal of information on the subject. It is dated 7 July 1317. It is written in Norman French and has six short gaps where the text is no longer legible, but which happily do not detract from the overall clear meaning. This is my translation of it: Edward by the grace of God King of England Seigneur of Ireland and Duke of Aquitaine to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire greetings. As we have sent our dear clerk Johan de Baggeshote and twelve children of our chapel to the university of Cambridge to live and study there at our expense to profit from learning … we command that from the revenue of your bailiwick you deliver to the said Johan each week for his commons … and one pence and for each of the said twelve children weekly for their commons … and for the rent of their hostel and their other necessaries between now and next Michaelmas day … forty shillings. By making a record between you and the said Johan of what you have paid him … with the evidence of which we will make a tally in our exchequer so that from it you … due allowance on your account. Given under our privy seal at Buckby the 7th day of July in the tenth year of our reign. Whilst this writ explains clearly what was happening and how it was to be paid for, it does not explain why. What was the royal chapel, who were the twelve children from it, why was Edward doing any of this at all and why a rented hostel in Cambridge? Briefly, the Chapel Royal was that part of the royal household which provided religious services, complete with choir and music, for the King, his family and possibly intimate associates, wherever they might be, at one palace or another or ‘on the road’. Our medieval monarchs moved about the country a great deal, as the fact that the above writ was sealed at the tiny Northamptonshire village of Buckby bears witness. The most

expendable members of the Chapel Royal were the choir’s boy trebles, who as they matured and their voices turned into those of an adult male would have had to move on. This was an obvious waste of talent since these boys, quite apart from their musical education and skills, would have been taught to read and write and be conversant with the Latin in which they sang and in which the services were held. At the same time, life had become more complicated and no monarch could hope to govern the affairs of the whole country without an efficient and well-staffed Chancery. But there was a pressing shortage of educated young men fit to enter the King’s service and become, like Oriel’s own Adam de Brome, respected and experienced Chancery clerks, powerful men with the ear of the King himself. Thus the idea of sending for further education boys who had become superfluous to the choir to relieve this shortage was a sound, albeit long-term, one. Part of the objective may well have been that when the best of them rose to positions of power in State or Church they would remain utterly loyal to the person whose generosity had made it possible – the King. The choice of Cambridge was not an obvious one. In the early part of the fourteenth century Oxford was much larger, well established and more prestigious, with an international reputation for scholarship. It will never be known for sure, but as likely an explanation as any is that of Alan Cobban in his book The King’s Hall (Cambridge 1969, pp. 24–5). He suggests that it may have been due to the influence of John Hotham, a close and very loyal associate of Edward II’s. Hotham had been consecrated Bishop of Ely in October 1316, and Edward had appointed him as his Treasurer on 27 May 1317, only six weeks before the writ set out above was sealed. Cambridge, being in the diocese of Ely, could have meant useful contact between Hotham and the King’s students. Unfortunately there were problems. There were ‘numerous writs issued by the King between 1317 and 1337 ordering the sheriff of Cambridgeshire to pay the arrears of sums due to the king’s scholars e.g. in 1335 no fewer than five such writs were necessary’ (Cobban, ibid., p.,13 note 3). By 1335 Edward II had been dead for eight years and the mantle of maintaining the scholars had fallen on his son and successor, Edward III, who had already had concerns about them, setting up a royal commission in 1332 to examine ‘our Cambridge scholars’ with a view to purging them of any who had independent means or were failing in their studies (Cobban, ibid., p. 14). By 1337 Edward III had had enough. He brought his father’s twenty-year-old scheme to an end and founded a college called King’s Hall with a formal foundation statute in the form of Letters Patent, establishing a permanent institution capable of acquiring and holding land in mortmain, together with other endowments. It was set up with its own land and suitable buildings, and had a constitution and rules of governance. In its early days it nearly foundered for want of funds but it survived until 1546 when, with another

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old Cambridge college, Michaelhouse (1323), it was taken over and became part of Henry VIII’s new Trinity College. So what Edward II in fact did in 1317 was, at the royal expense, to rent a student hostel (the Cambridge equivalent of an academic hall), of which there would have been many dozens in Cambridge at this time as there were academic halls in Oxford, and fill it with his own chosen master and students. It was not a separate entity but an outpost of the Royal Household, and regarded as such. No doubt this royal connection, plus the fact that its scholars had formerly been living at the royal court, performing in the presence of their king on an almost daily basis, and the consequent camaraderie, was likely to have given them an enviable and perhaps unwelcome sophistication and group identity compared with students in other hostels; but it couldn’t change the status of their own. Edward III did not abolish it or adopt it or absorb it. He just stopped paying the rent. He then brought the otherwise homeless royal scholars into his new college, King’s Hall. It is very telling that in the preamble to the Letters Patent with which Edward III founded his college in 1337, ‘there is only the briefest of all possible references, almost incidental in character, to Edward II’s original scheme’ (Cobban, ibid., p. 13). So where, one might ask, does that leave Simon Jenkins? Well, he or his researchers may have been misled by Cobban, who back in 1969 seems to have been a man with a mission. That mission was to try to create the image that Edward II’s Cambridge hostel was a royal foundation and continued to be the only one at Oxford or Cambridge for many years. He invented a faux collective title for it ,‘The Society of the King’s Scholars’ (Cobban, ibid., passim), now unhappily in general use, and frequently refers to it as a ‘foundation’ or ‘royal foundation’ (ibid.; see esp. p. 23). Equally, he states that Oriel ‘cannot be reckoned a royal foundation in any technical sense. Founded by the chancery clerk Adam de Brome, it was later re-established with the king as nominal founder’ (ibid., p. 12 note 1.) One cannot but admire Cobban’s chutzpah in portraying Edward’s hostel scheme as a royal foundation when plainly it was not, and Oriel as not one when it plainly was! However, to be fair to Simon Jenkins, although the rented hostel of the King’s Scholars could in no way be called a college, a foundation or even an institution, it was in a number of respects unique. No other Cambridge hostel or Oxford academic hall was rented en bloc by an outside third party, let alone a royal one, who then chose its master and its students and housed them at his own expense. The fact that all the students came from the same background with, one may suppose, very similar life experience, was also unique. Also, although it did not have permanence it did have continuity in the sense that when the delightfully named Johan de Baggeshote gave up the mastership he would have been replaced by another royal nominee and so on, whereas the name and identity of an ordinary hostel or academic hall changed with the master who had rented it to take in paying students.

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Lastly, it could also be argued that had it not been for Edward II’s scheme of King’s Scholars, his son would never have had occasion to found his King’s Hall college, causa sine qua non as we lawyers call it. Interestingly enough, Edward III’s King’s Hall, although subsumed into Trinity College, has not disappeared altogether. Trinity’s Great Gate was in fact built for King’s Hall in the early sixteenth century, and King Edward’s Gate, complete with statue of Edward III himself, was rebuilt on its present site with material from the original entrance to King’s Hall. Behind this is ‘King’s Hostel’, originally part of a small court (quad) of King’s Hall. Also, and very fortunately, the King’s Hall archive is preserved in Trinity College Archives, and I owe a large debt of gratitude to Trinity College’s archivist, Mr Jonathan Smith, for his encouragement, erudition and willingness to share his expert knowledge. Indeed, some of the passages in this article are verbatim or near verbatim from his correspondence with me, which has also included photocopies of archive and other material, which have been invaluable. Brian Escott Cox QC (1950)

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Address given by the Provost at the Commemoration of Benefactors service on Sunday 25 October 2016 Thank you very much for permitting me to speak this evening on the occasion of our annual Commemoration of Benefactors service. This address usually takes as its starting point the life of one individual closely connected with the College. Previous speakers have chosen from the many centuries of our history: the fourteenth century of our founders Adam de Brome and Edward II the sixteenth century of Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Harriot and Cardinal William Allen the eighteenth century of pioneering naturalist Gilbert White the twentieth century of Christian social activists George Macleod and Canon John Collins This is already a long list of names; but not all of them feature in the list we will hear read out later in this service in the College Prayer. That list focuses not on distinction in the external world. Instead it marks benefaction mainly in the sense of financial benefaction and service to the College. To me that list has always been interesting. One point of interest is that, unusually in a College that was all-male for so much of its history, the prayer acknowledges a number of women who have served or donated to the College, long before women could take a full part in College life. I think, for example, of Mary Turpin, the last name on the list. Miss Turpin, who died in 2013, is remembered for her considerable service to the College, in giving up her own teaching career to support her brother Kenneth, when he became Provost. Over many years she assisted him in making a home in the College and hosting the many students, Fellows and visitors who make up the College community. In addition to all this, on her death she left a generous legacy to Oriel, and is rightly remembered for her selfless contribution to the College. But perhaps one of the most recognisable names read out in the College Prayer is that of Cecil Rhodes, a name still making headlines, and causing controversy, more than a hundred years after his death. The facts about Rhodes as a benefactor are very simple. When he died in 1902 he left 2 per cent of his estate to Oriel, where he had been a student. The College was in a poor financial state at the time and this was a critical donation to get it back on its feet. His legacy to Oriel was dwarfed by the even more life-changing bequest that founded the Rhodes scholarships. Since their inception more than a century ago, these scholarships have enabled nearly eight thousand Rhodes Scholars from many

countries to study at Oxford. Rhodes Scholars have gone on to serve at the forefront of government, the professions, commerce, the arts, education, research and other domains. They include many well-known advocates for social justice, and people who have advanced the frontiers of science and medicine. So Rhodes is a figure whose educational bequests have been life-changing not just for Oriel but for generations of Rhodes Scholars. Yet Rhodes’s actions in his lifetime, as a businessman and politician, had many critics then and have many more now. The current campaign, under the title ‘Rhodes Must Fall’, calls on us both to examine the facts of history – Rhodes and his time – and the facts of today, in particular the fact that in Oxford, across a range of measures, the experience of staff and students from ethnic minorities is not yet all it should be. From my own reading over the last months, I can tell you that both these subjects – the history, and the current experience of BME staff and students – contain their fair share of surprises and uncomfortable truths. They prompt you to look at things in a new way; and they deserve your study and critical thought. Fortunately study and critical thought are exactly what this University, and this College, are here for. And over the coming years I think you will see Oriel continue to use its academic strengths to host and promote debate on issues to do with Rhodes’s era, and the topic of colonialism and its consequences. We will do our share to cast more light on subjects that are not as well represented in Oxford as they should be. And we will continue to demonstrate our commitment to being in the forefront of making Oxford a diverse and inclusive place for people of all backgrounds. In other words, we will continue to be true to our mission as an academic institution that is committed to learning, to rigorous research, to the study of history, to fair access, and to ethical debate about how the future should be shaped. In doing these things, we use all the resources that have been given by our benefactors over now nearly seven centuries. We study in the buildings they constructed, on the land they purchased, using the books and libraries they provided, and we worship and reflect in the chapel they built. We may not like or approve of every action of every benefactor on our list. But we should acknowledge their generosity and its impact on our lives – in the words of our College Prayer, ‘the advantages afforded in this place by their munificence’. Their gifts drop through time and benefit each generation. And these gifts will still be there to benefit future generations when all of us here tonight are long gone. There have been many changes in this College since the days of our Founders and historic Benefactors. We study all manner of subjects undreamed of in their day, and we do so as a community that is much more diverse. Progressively over the years, this College has opened its doors to people who would never previously have been allowed to study or teach here: lay people, married people, people from all countries and backgrounds, people of many faiths and people of none, women. This autumn we mark thirty years of women

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at Oriel, and women now make up over 20 per cent of the College’s alumni. The College has changed a great deal in this process. At the same time, it seems that every year we are a more international community. This term we welcomed another intake of students from all over the country and all over the world. Our intake of new postgraduates alone contained citizens of twenty-seven countries. I like to think that Adam de Brome would be pleased about this diverse community. Of course we know little of his character and views. But setting up a College is a very forward-thinking thing to do. And as Founder of the fifth-oldest College in Oxford, Adam de Brome was certainly an ‘early adopter’. He was also an innovator: as our College History reminds us, uniquely amongst the early colleges of Oxford, Oriel’s Fellows were recruited from no particular locality, unlike the restricted catchments that defined many other colleges for centuries. But in reality, who knows what Adam de Brome, or anyone else on our list, would have made of our choices if they lived in our times; or what we would have made of their choices had we lived in theirs? We should acknowledge with respect and gratitude the generosity of those who gave to support the continuation of this precious place of learning and academic freedom. And we should strive to act in a way that we can be proud of, as we discharge our part in the history and future of this College, and play our role in society. I believe that reflecting on our history helps us do this. But so does reflecting on our own times, and our own conduct, and doing so with humility. Our second lesson today – Luke’s account of the Pharisee and the Publican – is an all too recognisable illustration of the need to be rigorous in self-criticism as well as in criticism of others. Each week at this service we read the College Prayer. It reminds us, in its familiar words, that in this place we enjoy tremendous privileges, thanks to our benefactors. Let us reflect this week, as ever, on how we live up to our responsibility to make good choices in our times, and on how we may ‘rightly use the advantages afforded in this place by their munificence’. Thank you. Moira Wallace

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 Petrarchan sonnet in Oxford and Cambridge. As the winning entry for 2016, ‘The Colossus’ is written as a response to the sonnet ‘Ozymandias’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Both sonnets are printed below in order to provide the context. OZYMANDIAS I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said – ‘Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.’ Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1817

THE COLOSSUS I met a student in a spired land, Who said – ‘The man you see above in stone Made more than fortunes out of native bone And diamonds, bled from Kalahari sand. So came these walls and hallowed halls that stand Beneath his white colossus and condone His glorification. Go purge his throne! Remember those who suffered by his hand.’ To right the wrongs of history we write The sins of Man: a chronicle of dust, To which we must return. Pay heed to all, And render not their deeds in black and white. Our fate, if we forget will be thus cursed: Repeat the lives of statues doomed to fall. Jacob Mercer, The Queen’s College, 2016

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LYNDAL ROPER, MARTIN LUTHER: RENEGADE AND PROPHET VINTAGE, LONDON 2016

yndal Roper, the Regius Professor of History here at Oriel, has spent the majority of her career asking questions related to the Reformation. As it approaches its five hundredth anniversary, she turns what she has learned back to its originator, Martin Luther. This wonderful biography is the first to deal comprehensively and historically with the social circumstances, the intellectual developments and the passions, emotions and personality of its subject. Roper has never shied away from provocative ideas, and here she avoids simple or reductive causalities. His friends, followers and enemies all agreed that Luther was a deeply complicated man. This is a book that explains the variegated ways in which Luther arrived at his positions, from the social to the psychological to the theological. The biography includes magnificent place-setting. The opening chapter on ‘Mansfeld and Mining’ excavates a new world from the well-rehearsed political context of the Holy Roman Empire. In broad strokes Roper paints a picture of a specific kind of masculinity, as well as the way in which changing financial structures threatened to disrupt it. The way in which his mining family’s fortunes were frustrated by the machinations of the counts of Mansfeld and the complexities of finance, would provide context for Luther’s thinking about morality, power and eventually God at critical moments of the Reformation. Roper’s approach to Luther’s childhood anticipates the overall structure of the book, which moves Luther through spaces that enabled and circumscribed his actions – the monastery, the university, his ‘prison’ in the Wartburg, his domestic sphere. These places were peopled by figures with whom Luther had profound relationships, most importantly Johannes Staupitz, Andreas Karlstadt, Philip Melancthon. The multiplicity of places and people is important, because Roper’s Luther was a man constantly engaged in thinking through problems in many different registers. The patterns to his acquaintances were evident even as a child – profound connection, followed by disappointment, distance and sometimes enmity. His relationship with his father modelled his later connection with God, a desperate desire for closeness fraught by his own reluctance to believe. Roper’s narrative follows Luther through some of most dramatic set-pieces of the Reformation, as he arrived at what would become the theology of the Lutheran Church. The disputations and controversy of the early Reformation are well known, but Roper makes the point that even outside such performative events, Luther’s intellectual development and his theology in turn often arose through correspondence and personal discussion. She describes the way in which Luther arrived at his positions, often through informally circling back from more extreme positions. His thinking on clerical marriage or the role of images are examples of instances where he changed his mind, coming to agree or disagree respectively with

Melanchthon and Karlstadt. In this sense, the most important tenet of his theology, the issue of the Real Presence in the Eucharist, became the point of irreversible departure between Luther and other evangelical reformers. As Luther would circle back to consolidate his viewpoints, so his biography circles back into more thematic chapters on consolidation, family life and his eventual decline. A significant element in her treatment of his later years is Roper’s acknowledgement of Luther’s anti-Semitism. That Martin Luther hated Jews is a difficult truth for historians of his Reformation. This aspect of his thought has often been sidelined as an unfortunate by-product of his old age, or excused as symptomatic of the early modern attitudes more generally. Roper does not settle for such easy platitudes. She reminds us that Luther was more anti-Semitic than most of his contemporaries and she explains that his hatred of Jewish people was fundamental to his theology. Roper’s attention to Luther’s later years builds on her explanations of his earlier years. In so doing she provides a bridge between ‘the Reformation’ and the divisions within Lutheran culture that followed in the second half of the sixteenth century. These stemmed not just from Luther’s death, but also from his leadership. As Luther’s position in Wittenberg became more secure, ‘he was no longer, it seemed, interested in reforming the whole of Christianity, but rather saw it in local terms only. As a result, he was less and less interested in compromise, and more determined to protect doctrinal purity in accordance with his own beliefs’ (p. 354). This was characteristic. Luther’s unwillingness to compromise gave him the courage to face the might of the papacy, the Holy Roman Emperor and even the Devil. But this same unwillingness also limited him and his movement. It made his reformation successful but parochial, inspiring but divisive, and sometimes dangerously anti-Semitic. As we approach the quincentenary of the Ninety-Five Theses, the challenge in reconciling these aspects of Luther and the legacy of his church belongs not just to his biographer, but to historians of early modern Germany more broadly. It will inform scholarship for years to come. Hannah Murphy

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GABRIEL A. SIVAN (ED.), THE JEWISH EMIGRANT FROM BRITAIN 1700 –2000: ESSAYS IN MEMORY OF LLOYD P. GARTNER ISRAEL BRANCH OF THE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND, JERUSALEM 2013

n order to honour the memory of the late historian Lloyd P. Gartner, who left an indelible mark on the historical terrain with his now classic work, The Jewish Immigrant in England 1870 – 1914 (in addition to many other studies), the Jewish Historical Society of England’s Israel branch has produced a volume of essays based on Gartner’s magnum opus. Edited by Orielensis Gabriel A. Sivan, the scope of the recently published work is far from modest; the reader is almost spoilt for choice as the volume seeks to explore the movement of Jews from Britain into other parts of the world and the roles that they subsequently played in their new homelands. The articles broach a wide territorial range, discussing Jewish migration to North America, Australia and New Zealand, southern Africa, the territory of Israel as well as to Russia and the Soviet Union. Furthermore, for those less acquainted with the legacy of Lloyd P. Gartner, the volume also includes a brief piece of work by the late scholar himself. The book offers a number of fascinating essays that allow us to observe the development of various Jewish communities in different regions over the longue durée by tracing the roles assumed by migrants from Britain in their new homelands. Whether articles on North America, Australia and New Zealand, or South Africa and Rhodesia, the texts skilfully guide the reader through several centuries of an intricate and entangled past, bringing to the fore the positive impact of Jews arriving from Britain. Stories of Jewish migration are expertly contextualised within wider global and imperial events, which makes the book all the more accessible to a non-expert readership. This volume is simply brimming with information: whether it is the chapter on Jewish communities in Australia and New Zealand, or the articles on Zionist youth movements, it offers its readers absorbing stories of dozens of Jewish migrants who were either born in Britain or had spent some time in the country before moving elsewhere. In turn, these case studies constitute a useful addition to the fields of social, cultural and religious history, expanding our knowledge of the dynamics and outcomes of migration processes. Out of the plethora of topics covered by the essays, the question of the Jewish migrant identity warrants particular mention. Not surprisingly, bearing in mind the fascinating topic covered in the volume, one does occasionally regret that some of the essays are perhaps rather too concise. In particular, the captivating topic of the re-emigration of Jews from Britain into post-tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union demands considerably more space than it was granted, but such are the perils of edited volumes. Adam Luptak

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GEOFFREY TREASURE, THE HUGUENOTS YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, NEW HAVEN AND LONDON 2013

eoffrey Treasure’s sweeping account of two centuries of Huguenot history opens in the late autumn of 1685, with a distressing scene of religious refugees fleeing France by ships, countryside tracks and mountain passes. In the weeks and months after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, when Louis XIV officially sanctioned state persecution of Huguenot minority communities across France, many of these men and women fled as their churches and schools were destroyed. As Treasure writes, the history of the Huguenot community in early modern France is indeed ‘a story of high relevance for our times’. The Huguenots, a religious minority community that emerged in the fractured religious landscape of post-Lutheran Europe, were highly policed and eventually persecuted along lines of religious and cultural difference. Treasure’s narrative unravels the rise of the Huguenots in the sixteenth century, from the complicated and devastating effects of the Wars of Religion, to a brief and uneasy period of coexistence in the early seventeenth century following the Grace of Alès, and finally to the intense persecution faced by Huguenot men and women in the years surrounding the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685). Treasure offers an account of nearly two centuries of religious and political history. Drawing together specialist literature on varied aspects of Huguenot history – from its complex theology rooted in Calvinism, to work on Huguenot dress and customs – he sets this synthesis in the context of the high politics and theology of early modern France. The reader is then offered an excellent survey of what it meant to belong to Huguenot communities against the background of French absolutism. But it also offers a highly readable account of the complex relationship between political and religious history at the highest levels of early modern European society. As members of a religious minority community, Treasure emphasises throughout the Huguenots’ sense of moral strength through decades of vulnerability. Huguenot men and women fought relentlessly for their rights to be protected by their state, just as they endeavoured to worship according to their own devotional practices. They emerge from these pages as extraordinarily modern, even while Treasure’s sensitivity to the specificities of early modern culture sets them within their own time. Their persistence in advocating for religious and political rights throughout the Wars of Religion and even in the aftermath of the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre – the three bloody days of Catholic murder of Huguenot leaders and believers in August, 1572 – makes for remarkable reading. Given the echoes of the Huguenots’ story in our own times, there may have perhaps been more scope for a study of the Huguenot refugees from the French kingdom. These

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men and women fled after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, which brought to a decisive close any sense of toleration or coexistence between Huguenot minority communities and the Catholic kingdom. Treasure estimates the numbers of refugees to be 200,000. A history of these communities and their influence upon the development of Protestantism across the globe would perhaps have nuanced Treasure’s account, placing the Huguenot men and women who remained in the kingdom within their wider diasporic context. However, Treasure’s comprehensive account of this fascinating religious community will bring to a much wider audience the history of the Huguenots’ coexistence, persecution, and the making of religious difference, themes that will undoubtedly resonate with its readers. Erin Maglaque

MARTIN WARNER, THE AESTHETICS OF ARGUMENT OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2016

espite its title, this rich and provocative book is not about the ways in which arguments can be beautiful, or about the elegance and symmetry of proof, deduction and logic. Nor is it an account of how philosophical writings and arguments use style, or how such ornamentation might contribute to their persuasiveness. The Aesthetics of Argument is in fact about the argument of aesthetics: the extent to which, and the ways in which, literary writing can be said to argue and to persuade, in rational ways. The extent to which poetry and fiction can be read philosophically is a perennial question. In Aristotle’s Poetics, poetry is deemed more philosophical than history, because more universal, and because it deals not with what was, but what could or might be. For Sir Philip Sidney, poetry was better not only than history, but than philosophy itself, because it taught by example rather than precept: the poet was ‘the right popular philosopher’, able both to teach and to delight. But the sense that such delight might signal frivolity, and a divorce from truth, has also been a constant. Sidney protested against Plato’s banishment of poets from his ideal philosopher-governed republic by claiming that the poet ‘nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth’. But this defence itself implies a lack of seriousness in poetry; that its use of language is divorced from the rigours not only of philosophical discourse, but of common ways of making sense. While poetry is central to Continental philosophy in the Heideggerian vein, Anglo-American analytic philosophy has tended, instead, to keep up a cordon sanitaire.

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The purpose of this book is to breach that cordon: to argue that the segregation of works of literature from works of philosophy has no more force than ‘ropes thrown across a swimming pool to divide it into swimming lanes’, to use one of Warner’s own metaphors. The aim is to show that imaginative literature, broadly conceived, can be philosophically valid not only as illustration of ethical point, or as honey on the rim of the cup designed to make the hard stuff of philosophy easier to swallow, but through forms of argument which are particular to it. In this Warner differs from other modern philosophers concerned with literature. While Martha Nussbaum argues for the value of drama and novelistic fiction as a training in ethical complexity and empathy, and Stanley Cavell finds in the recalcitrance of literature an elaboration of scepticism, Warner painstakingly establishes aesthetic forms of argument which are not reducible to the norms of deductive or inductive logic, but which nonetheless deserve serious attention as argument and persuasion in their own right: through the force of parable and analogy, or the rearticulation of the familiar in challengingly unfamiliar guise; as a crucible for the testing of our own experience against the claims of others, and through a logic of imagery. This is a challenging book, both in its ideas and its execution, but nonetheless a pleasing one to read. Warner’s style is remarkably lucid and supple, all the more impressive since the arguments are dense, involved in an impressive depth and variety of debates and attendant works of critical literature, and hedged with lengthy footnotes, which are themselves rich in further debate. The book proceeds as a series of case studies: the contribution of rhetoric, irony and dramatic presentation to the arguments of Plato’s Phaedrus and Symposium; how Augustine’s Confessions and John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography exemplify or challenge their own philosophical accounts of human life and experience, and how this bears on our evaluation of those accounts; the model of ‘rational persuasion’ employed in the call to trust and believe in the Fourth Gospel; and most extensively, a study of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets as philosophical poetry, and the logic of poetic imagery. Most of the chapters have previously been published as essays, and their arguments are largely independent, particularly in the shift from prose to poetry. The arguments rely on the reader’s familiarity with the works discussed; indeed, though couched as exemplifications of the overall thesis of the book, each chapter is in fact an argument about the workings of specific texts. This corpus, as the grounds for a theory of the philosophical persuasiveness of literature, has some striking features. None of these works is straightforwardly fictional; each of them is overtly concerned with the assertion or evaluation of philosophical or theological positions (indeed half of them are intended to persuade the reader towards assent to Christian faith); and all of them make use of first-person testimony. Even in Plato’s dialogues, all of the arguments are uttered by personae, through claims to experience and

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witness. It is thus not surprising to find the objects of Warner’s attention engaged in forms of persuasion, and they thus almost inevitably provide support for his claim that literary texts encourage the reader to evaluate their argumentative validity, since their philosophical claims are focalised through the voice of a speaker, and thus invite the reader to weigh critically ethos, irony and partiality. That this subset of texts so well supports the general thesis raises some issues. There is a question about whether Warner’s arguments about these texts can be extrapolated more generally – to works with omniscient third-person narrators, for example, or those which are not apologetic in nature, or which are experimental in style and form. And since the choice of texts begs the question of whether they aim at persuasion, the real nub of the argument lies in whether readers ought, in reason, to let themselves be so persuaded. On occasion the texts themselves seem to refute Warner’s own thesis, or at least to rebuff the efforts of rational persuasion. The persuasions to assent to Christian faith sometimes incorporate moments of asserted irrationality, or, especially in Four Quartets, appeals to common feeling that runs the risk of cliché or of the suspension of critical engagement in a longing to assent or to belong – which is at once appealing and suspicious. Eliot frequently adopts a quasi-liturgical ‘we’, and part of the work’s seductiveness lies in the reader’s willingness to participate in it. The late Geoffrey Hill saw in the Four Quartets a decline from the bracingly rebarbative early poetry, such as ‘The Waste Land’, towards assuagement and consolation. And there is certainly reason to suspect we are being encouraged to relinquish our critical faculties in the face of Eliot’s authoritative tone in lines such as the following, from ‘Little Gidding’: You are not here to verify, Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity Or carry report. You are here to kneel Where prayer has been valid. One way to read this is to take Eliot’s ‘you’ as self-address, and the ‘here’ as Little Gidding, so that it dramatises a pilgrim’s abandonment of rational investigation and seeking after answer and profit, in favour of faith and submission. Warner discusses the passage only to note F.R. Leavis’s quarrel with Eliot’s authoritative assertion of the validity of that local prayer, and though deeming it simplistic, he approves Leavis’s instinct to test the validity of Eliot’s own statements. But this is precisely what Eliot has suggested we ought not do. The coerciveness of ‘you are here to kneel’ is difficult to dismiss. The ‘you’ is also the reader, and ‘here’ is not just Little Gidding the village, but also the poem ‘Little Gidding’. There are times, Eliot suggests, when you must relinquish querulous verificationist

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squabbling, and simply take, read and believe. It is a moment that runs counter to Warner’s insistence on specifically rational persuasion, though one that has a function in the advocacy of faith at work in the Fourth Gospel, Augustine’s Confessions, and the Four Quartets themselves. At points like this, the separate swim lanes for philosophy, literature, and theology are re-established. To respond from within my own, literary critical, lane: I missed more consideration of the ways in which the formal aspects of poetry might be considered as philosophical argument. In a poet like Gerard Manley Hopkins, for example, formal devices like rhyme, alliteration, antanaclasis, and pun, even more than imagery, enact assertions about the relationship of sense and reason, of the manifold variety of the teeming world and the pattern of divine ordination. And The Four Quartets is full of moments where questions of form, enjambment in particular, seem to enact or corroborate the philosophical considerations of the poem. After all, as the poem asserts, ‘Only by the form, the pattern | Can words or music reach | The stillness’; and even in this short example, Eliot’s work with enjambment makes the linebreak the still point of the turning of the poem, the fulcrum when the temporal movement of the words passes into the stillness of an object of crafted art. For Warner, in assessing ‘the logic of imagery’, the criterion of validity in deductive logic is replaced by the criterion of ‘appropriateness’. The argument could be extended to the aptness of formal device. As Warner notes on several occasions, poets and literary critics are persistently resistant to the idea that the ‘content’ of a work can be paraphrased (and are apt to point to style and formal device as the counter to such a move, as I have just done). Literary interpretation practices the opposite of Ockham’s razor: it encourages the multiplication of entities and overdetermination, and endorses a principle not of parsimony but of variety and fecundity. One test for the literary critic – this literary critic, at least – as to whether a philosophical approach to literature is sound or persuasive is whether it preserves this principle of magnanimity, or is instead reductive, using literature merely to illustrate some aspect of ethics, or considering style or form a detachable husk that conceals an author’s ‘real’ meaning. The Aesthetics of Argument easily passes this test: the close reading through which it detects and extrapolates the rational persuasion offered by its chosen works of literature brings to the texts an enriching, complicating, provocative, and magnanimous act of interpretation. Kathryn Murphy

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Teresa Bejan has been elected the 2015–16 Balzan-Skinner Fellow in Modern Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. Her first book, Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration, will be published by Harvard University Press in January 2017.

Dr Pritam Singh (1988), Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Business, Oxford Brookes University, was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award in Political Economy at the 10th Forum of the World Association for Political Economy held at Johannesburg in June 2015.

Maike Bublitz has edited P-Type ATPases: Methods and Protocols, a book published earlier this year in the Springer series Methods in Molecular Biology. It is a comprehensive collection of state-of-the-art techniques used by scientists around the world to study important molecular pumps, such as the sodium-potassium pump, which maintains the function of the nervous system; the calcium pump, which is crucial for muscle contraction; and the gastric proton pump, which acidifies the stomach. She has also recently received an Early Career Researcher Award from the John Fell OUP Research Fund and a Springboard Award from the Academy of Medical Sciences, both of which will help establish her newly founded research laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry. Her research focuses on molecular studies of membrane proteins as promising new drug targets against fungal and bacterial infections. She is also involved in organising this year’s thirtieth meeting of the European Crystallographic Association (ECM30) in Basel, Switzerland, where she is co-chairing a microsymposium on membranes and membrane-interacting proteins.

Revd Michael Garnett (1955) lives in the city of Cajamarca in the north of Peru, where he was President of the Human Rights Commission during the conflict. He works as a novelist, writing almost exclusively in Spanish, although with one exception: ‘When I wrote a novel about the virtual civil war we endured in the 1980s and 90s owing to the insurgence of the ‘Shining Path’ I wrote a novel in both Spanish and English. There are some slight differences between the two versions because I was writing for two different readerships. The Spanish version has been well received here, whilst the English remained unpublished until last year, when it was brought out in Dublin. It is titled Tempest in the Andes and the publisher speaks of it as being ‘the riveting tale of a remote Andean community torn apart by the violence of the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) terrorist campaign and the excessive and vicious response of the police and military … Among a cast of thoroughly credible characters is Fr Alfonso, a spiritual but tortured man who takes a stand against injustice and pays a heavy price … With shades of Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory and the courageous stance of Oscar Romero, a gathering storm provides the background to this gripping story that reaches its climax in the Holy Week ceremonies of the town of Yanacancha’.

Bruno Currie writes: My second son, Mattis, was born on 5 December 2015 (weighing 3.265kg) and my second book, Homer’s Allusive Art, is due to be published by Oxford University Press in October 2016. Professor Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History, has been awarded the Gerda Henkel Prize in recognition of outstanding scholarly research. Professor Richard Swinburne has received Honorary Doctorates from the Catholic University of Lublin, and from the Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest. William Wood writes: I am very pleased to announce that on 13 August 2016 Gillian Hamnett and I were married at St Mary Magdalen Church, Oxford. The reception was held in the Oriel Senior Common Room. We honeymooned in Charleston, SC, near my childhood home.

Sir Nicholas Lavender, QC (1987) has been appointed a High Court Judge with effect from 3 October 2016 and will be known as The Hon. Mr Justice Lavender. The Lord Chief Justice has assigned him to the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court.

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DEATHS NOTIFIED SINCE SEPTEMBER 2015 AINSLEY, Revd Canon Anthony Dixon (1949) 15 February 2016 ARNDT, Dr Walter Werner (1934) 15 February 2011 ATKINS, Mr Sinclair Ramsey (1946) 6 May 2016 AYANTUGA, Dr Obafemi Abioye (1986) 23 July 2015 BAGWASI, Miss Katlego Monnye (2010) 12 February 2016 BEEVERS, Mr Robert Hugh (1943) 14 January 2010 BENNETT, Dr Seton John (1964) 14 September 2015 BERMAN, Mr Marshall Howard (1963) 11 September 2013 BRAITHWAITE, Mrs Joan BRODIE COOPER, Mr Michael (1944) 13 February 2016 BROWNE, Brigadier Hugh William Longbourne 14 December 2015 BURNS, Mr Philip Stanley (1945) 3 March 2015 CAMERON, Mr Dugald Gordon (1948) 15 July 2015 CATTERALL, Mr John (1954) 6 January 2016 DONALDSON, Mr William James (1945) 1 October 2015 DU BOULAY, Mr Hubert Charles Houssemayne (1938) 17 July 2015 DYER, Mr Derrick Fenton (1951) 28 April 2014 FAWCETT, Mr Peter Ernest Sandford (1941) 28 January 2016 FERGUSON, Mr James (1952) GERRARD, Dr John Watson (1935) 3 March 2013 GETTLESON, Mr Michael Francis (1940) 2 August 2015 HEFFERNAN, Dr Miles Richard C. (1946) 23 February 2002 HORNE, Mr Dennis Morton (1946) 3 May 2015 JAMES, Dr Philip (1951) 10 February 2016 LAWTON, Mr David Lorn Dale (1960) 13 August 2014 LEWIS, Mr Ivor Herbert (1942) 30 November 2014 LITTLER, Mr Malcolm Kenneth (1955) LOWE, Mr David Michael Pedro (1962) LUNN, Mr Lionel Robson (1943) 1 September 2015 MAGEE, Dr Donal Francis (1941) 3 February 2015 MENHENNET, Dr David (1949) 5 February 2016 O’CONNER, Mr Edmund (1958) 7 December 2015 PECK, Mr Bryan Trevor (1954) 15 January 2015 PORTER, Mr Alan Morritt (1954) 8 June 2016 PRIDHAM, Mr Kenneth Robert Comyn (1941) 15 November 2015 RAY, Hon. Mr Chief Justice Ajoy Nath (1967) 1 January 2014 REDD, Mr Gareth Hugh (1956) REEVE, Dr Ernest Basil Gladden (1931) SAVIN, Mr Graham Arthur (1956) 9 March 2016 SHEPHEARD-WALWYN, Revd John (1935) 27 January 2016 THURMER, Revd Canon John Alfred (1947) 25 January 2015 TREASURE, Mr Ronald Charles (1946) 3 July 2014 VALLIS, Mr Eric Arthur (1967) 5 January 2016 WALFORD, Sir Christopher Rupert (1956) 21 October 2015 WALSH, Dr Donald 16 February 2015 WATTS, Professor Ronald Lampman (1952) 9 October 2015 WENTZ, Revd Professor Herbert Stephenson (1957) 16 October 2015 WIGGINS, Miss Victoria Sophie (1985) 30 April 2015

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OBITUARIES

WALTER ARNDT

Walter Arndt was born of German parents in Istanbul in 1916. Soon afterwards his family moved to Silesia and he was sent to school in Breslau. He came to Oriel in 1934, where he studied Economics and Political Science. For graduate studies he moved to Warsaw, where he learned Polish and later Russian. In 1939 after Hitler’s invasion of Poland he renounced his German citizenship, joined the Polish army, was captured by the Germans and, after escaping from a German POW camp, spent a year in the Polish underground, eventually making his way back to Istanbul. From 1942 to 1945 he was active in intelligence work for the Allied Forces. He worked for the Office of Strategic Services (now the CIA) and the Office of War Information, where he forged Nazi documents and passes until the end of the war. It was in Istanbul that he met and married Miriam Bach and had two sons whilst teaching and studying at Robert College, where he received a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He worked in UN refugee resettlement between 1944 and 1949 until he was able to arrange emigration to the United States with his family. They lived in Tennessee, then North Carolina, where their two daughters were born. He received his doctorate in Comparative Linguistics and Classics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He taught Classics and Modern Languages at Guilford College and then the University of North Carolina. In 1966 he accepted the chairmanship of the Russian Department at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. He was an accomplished polyglot, possessing near-native fluency in Russian, English and Polish in addition to his native German; he also had a command of Latin, Greek, French and Czech. Semi-retired since 1986, he continued to write well into his ninety-third year; his final published work, A Picaro in Hitler’s Europe, was completed in 2001. Walter Arndt died in February 2011 aged ninety-four. He is was survived by his wife, his four children, eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

OBAFEMI AYANTUGA

Obafemi Ayantuga, nicknamed Femi, was born to Dr Obafemi Ayantuga, a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and Ajoke Ayantuga. His grandmother was an Ijebu Princess and his grandfather was from the royal family of Naforija, Epe in Nigeria. He attended elementary school in Lagos and began secondary school at King’s College. Femi completed his secondary education at Strathallan boarding school in Scotland, was awarded a BSc from London University in 1986, and came to Oriel to take a DPhil in Organic Chemistry, winning the coveted Bishop Frazer Prize for excellence in research.

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In 1994 he received his medical degree from Cambridge University, earning the John and Margaret Henderson Memorial Prize in Medicine. He worked as a house officer in UK hospitals before moving to the United States to do his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Femi served as the Medical Director of the Kanabec Hospital in Mora, Minnesota, then joined the staff of Fairview Southdale Hospital in 2004. He became a US citizen in time to meet and vote for President Barack Obama in 2008. In 2010 Femi was named to lead Fairview’s group of thirty hospitalists and later the system-wide group of eighty hospitalists. He served on the hospital’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee and last year was named Fairview Southdale Hospital Physician of the Year. He led by example. He held everyone, especially himself, to high standards of integrity and excellence and was a fierce advocate for his colleagues and for giving people second chances. ‘His great talent and potential inspired people and institutions to change for the better’, said a colleague. Femi spoke with a mellifluous British accent, dressed impeccably and was a man of dignity, wry humour and routine. He was indefatigable. He worked day and night, rarely sleeping, often dispatching emails and texts to family, friends and colleagues through the night. It was this chronic lack of sleep that led to his tragic death. Ironically, just before he died in July 2015, this man of many degrees got his last one – a Master’s in Public Health (again top of his class) from the University of Minnesota. It is thus fitting that his lasting legacy is a fund that will contribute to public health in the form of promoting research, awareness and prevention of sleep disorders. He is survived by innumerable family, friends and colleagues who loved and admired him in Nigeria, London, Montreal and Minnesota.

KATLEGO BAGWASI

Katlego Bagwasi died in February 2016 aged 29. She was the wife of Augustine Kidisil. She matriculated at Oriel as a Rhodes Scholar in 2010, where she read for a BCL and for an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice. She had earlier achieved an LLB from the University of Botswana and was an active member of the Botswana Law Society. Following Oxford, she was a Lecturer of Public International Law at the University of Botswana and called herself the ‘proud mother’ of her 3rd-year Law pupils. She was also an Associate Attorney at Otto and Paul Law Chambers and worked in the Special Tribunal for Lebanon as an intern in the Appeals Chamber in The Hague. Prior to this, she worked with Monthe Marumo & Company for over two years as a litigation attorney, appearing in the High Court and the Court of Appeal. She was an ILFA fellow at Edwin Coe LLP in London during the autumn of 2015. Her love of the law and what it brought her was self-evident; she met her dearly loved husband Augustine at a moot court competition. Kat was brave, loving, wholehearted and joyful. She faced the pain of the world with ferocious authenticity and never ceased to find the humour and beauty in each of life’s moments. Her support of friends and colleagues was unwavering and she emboldened

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those around her to believe in and live to their full potential. First and foremost she was committed to honouring truth, ‘fighting the fight’ for right and changing the world, starting with her home Botswana and her Africa. She was as impressive and accomplished as she was full of conviction and promise. In her 29 years she achieved more than many do in a lifetime. Kat was guided throughout her life by her faith. She believed anything was possible, and that it is our responsibility as human beings to create and fight for a better world. She would often pray that God bestow upon her, and everyone around her, the energy and strength to change the world. Her faith was the source of her incredible strength and love, and she was dedicated to a lifelong journey to make the world a better place. Her departure challenges us all to lives as meaningful and fulfilling as hers. Those of us who were blessed to know Kat walk with a heavy heart, as we struggle to come to terms with the magnitude of our loss. However, we know that we are lucky to have been blessed with her love, light and the beauty of her spirit while she was with us. She often said, ‘Laughter is God’s cure for everything’. And so, through the pain of her loss we, her friends, family and loved ones, laugh as we remember the gift that we have all been blessed with: to know Katlego. Tribute by her close friend Allie Morse

SETON BENNETT

Seton Bennett was born in 1945 and came up to Oxford in 1964, where he read Physics at Oriel. After graduating he was recruited by National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in 1967 and worked there for eighteen years. He completed his PhD at Imperial College London in 1972. Having a strong interest in optics and spectroscopy, Seton enjoyed working in a number of areas of measurement science, in particular optical metrology. He developed a number of instruments and published thirty-five scientific papers and articles. After a period working as Branch Head, responsible for Mechanical Metrology, Seton left NPL to become Deputy Director of the National Weights and Measures Laboratory (NWML), now the National Measurement and Regulation Office. He became Director and Chief Executive of NWML in 1990, leading it through a period of performance improvements, and overseeing changes to the Weights and Measures Act. Seton was Chairman of the European Legal Metrology Cooperation, WELMEC, for eleven years, overseeing the negotiation of the Measuring Instruments Directive and setting the future legislative agenda. He also represented the UK on the International Committee of Legal Metrology and was a member of the International Organisation of Legal Metrology’s Presidential Council. Following a return to NPL as Deputy Director in 2001, Seton was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2006. He took responsibility for NPL’s international partners and stakeholders and was Chairman of the European Association of National Metrology Institutes from 2004 to 2006. He retired from NPL on 31 July 2009, forty-two years to the day after first joining.

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Following retirement, Seton continued to be a member of the International Committee for Weights and Measures and Chairman of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service Policy Advisory Committee, as well as being a member of the Court of the Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers. Seton Bennett played a significant role in NPL and the measurement community. He was highly respected and is greatly missed by his many friends and colleagues at NPL. He died in September 2015 aged seventy.

MARSHALL BERMAN

Marshall Berman was born in New York City, where his parents worked in the mid-town Manhattan rag trade. They lost their business, and his father died in 1955. He remained close to his mother, sister and aunt, who strongly encouraged his academic studies at the Bronx High School of Science. He won a scholarship to Columbia University, where he graduated in 1961. He read the works of Georg Lukács at Columbia, and attended the electrifying lectures of Meyer Schapiro, a transforming experience. It was Jacob Taubes, ‘my beloved professor of religion’, who suggested Berman look at the recently translated economic and philosophic manuscripts of Marx. In 1963 he matriculated at Oriel and took a BLitt, where Isaiah Berlin supervised his dissertation on freedom and individuality in the thought of Marx. By 1968 he had completed his PhD at Harvard. The experience of studying at Columbia, Oxford and Harvard was intellectually exciting ‘but socially lonely. They all catered to the rich, to the current and wannabe ruling class, and I felt I didn’t fit in.’ He became Assistant Professor of Political Science at City College, and turned his Harvard dissertation into his first book, The Politics of Authenticity: Radical Individualism and the Emergence of Modern Society (1970). It was a study of the ideas of Rousseau and Montesquieu and the way they prefigured the humanism that he first encountered in Marx’s economic and philosophic manuscripts. His chapter in that book on the paradox of modernity laid the foundations for his more important work in later years. In New York again, he began to contribute to Dissent, later joining the board of the magazine, and became a regular contributor to the New York Times, the Nation and other periodicals. Many of his essays from the 1970s on were collected in Adventures in Marxism in 1999. He was a warm and generous colleague, and someone who preferred always to find the positive and life-enhancing, even in figures with whom he had no particular affinity. He was a bohemian figure, with a profuse beard and shaggy, untamed hair. He wore a T-shirt at all times, preferably with a political slogan, and no hint of a corporate logo. Declining health made walking the streets a struggle, but his passion for the city was undiminished. He was often to be seen at the Metro Diner on Broadway and 100th Street. In 2013 he died at the diner while he was having breakfast with his wife, Shellie, and friends. Adapted from an obituary published in the Guardian in September 2013

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MRS JOAN BRAITHWAITE

Joan Braithwaite, George Moody’s sister, was a major benefactor of the College and always took a keen interest in its progress. She was born on 27 March 1910, the second child of Arthur and Mary Moody of Norton Close, Stourbridge. She was educated at home during the First World War before attending the Alice Ottley School in Worcester, where she played county lacrosse. After this she went to Anstey College of Physical Education in Birmingham and qualified as a PE teacher. Joan had several teaching posts during the Second World War, including a time at Kidderminster High School for Girls. As with George, boats played a major part in her life – in her case sailing rather than rowing. She owned many boats between 1928 and 1995, having first started sailing at the Midland Sailing Club in Birmingham. Dinghies of all types featured in her sailing career, including International 14s, Merlins, National 12s and Fireflies. She sailed single-handed in a Firefly at the 1948 Olympic trials. However, her particular love was the X One Design Class keel boat and she commissioned a series of these. She competed at Cowes Week in the X Class until she was eighty-six. In the early 1950s Joan moved down to Ringwood, Hampshire, and later to a converted Motor Torpedo Boat on the river at Christchurch while teaching at Fernhill Manor School in New Milton. From there she moved with her partner, and later husband, Taff Brathwaite to the Old Mill in Milford-on-Sea, where she had several dogs and two donkeys. She spent her final years peacefully in St George’s Nursing Home in Milford. In 2012 Joan established The Joan Brathwaite Sailing Trust to support sailing activities particularly among young people. She remained a director (technically Chairman) of the family company, Moody Print Holdings, until her death. It was a privilege to serve on the board with her; through her and her brother’s munificence the company is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the College. Wilf Stephenson, with thanks to Joan’s great friend Penny Arton

MICHAEL BRODIE COOPER

Michael Brodie Cooper was born in Alexandria, Egypt on 29 October 1925 to parents who had been posted abroad by their company, Cable and Wireless. Michael’s childhood was spent on the tropical islands of St Helena, the Seychelles and Malta before being sent to school in Lancashire. His school, Rossall, is described as the ‘Eton of the North’ and its seaside setting could only have added to his lifelong fascination with ships and the sea. He was a gifted sportsman and was School Captain of Hockey. It was a tough schooling on this windblown site and led the School’s first ever Head Boy, T.W. Sharpe, to say: ‘but to us, who could bear the winds and brunt the storm, it gave a hardening strength which has braced us up for life.’ War had put paid to holidays abroad with his parents and as a teenager he spent them instead with one branch or another of his huge family – he had thirty-six first cousins! Perhaps in this time he learned patience and tolerance and the easy manner that made him a favourite of so many. He was studious and in 1944 gained a place at Oriel College, Oxford. And it was from here that he volunteered to help with the aftermath of the war and enlisted into the Navy.

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He was promptly sent to the Far East to command a landing craft / troop carrier transporting Japanese prisoners of war out of Singapore. Returning to London, he was offered a career with Shell International, the start of a successful thirty-year career with this company. He spent a short time as a bachelor in London, making some of his dearest and lifelong friends and developing a passionate love of opera, classical music and ballet. In 1952 Shell posted him to Brazil and it is here that fate (with a helping hand from Jane’s mother) brought Michael and Jane together. They wed in September 1954, and during their married life they lived in fourteen countries. Michael spoke French, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili and Arabic. He ran Shell operations that spanned countries in Africa and islands across the Caribbean. Wherever he went in the world he was respected by all his staff, who for years afterwards would keep in touch. He was a fierce patriot who upheld those British and Christian values of honesty, integrity and dignity wherever he found himself, even in the most dissolute of locations. He ended his working life as an advisor to an oil Sheikh in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and on retirement back in the UK he was asked to join the Board of the Forces Help Society and Lord Roberts Workshops. As a devoted father he was a quiet, solid rock upon which the family’s expectations, traditions and foundations were firmly rooted. He loved being in his own home and was most proud when it was filled with his family. Michael’s last years were lived in the shadow of cancer, but he repeatedly amazed doctors by his response to treatments. Like many of his generation, there was never a word of complaint and everything was borne graciously. Towards the end he agreed to undertake some tough experimental treatment, a testament to his selfless attitude right to the last. He enriched his family’s world with his presence. His legacy is the memory of a full and generous life well lived and of a man well loved. He died on 13 February 2016 Adapted from an obituary by his daughter, Christine

HUGH BROWNE, OBE

Hugh Browne came from a continuous line of serving army officers going back to the days of the Raj, with his great-great uncle being Sam Browne, of belt fame. He was born in India in 1924 but came home and lived in Battersea during his early years. His father was a remote and unemotional man damaged by his experiences in the trenches. His mother made up for this and taught him to read at an early age and thrust a tennis racket into his hand, a racket of some sort seldom leaving it thereafter. The Dragon School was followed by Wellington College. With war under way and not yet old enough to sign up he went on a short course for Sapper officers at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, to which he would return after the war. In July 1944, aged nineteen, he crossed the Channel into France with a platoon of sixty-nine men. Following the advance into Germany in his role as an engineer, he and his men built a series of Bailey bridges about which he was so enthusiastic that he was

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nicknamed ‘Bailey Browne’. After the war he was appointed ADC to General Sir Brian Robertson, Deputy Military Governor of the British zone of Germany. In October 1948 he returned to Trinity Hall, about which he said: ‘we attended lectures all morning, played sport in the afternoon, socialised in the evening and studied when necessary.’ Here he read Engineering and made lifelong friends. He also met Margaret, who was then working in Cambridge and whom he married the following September. They had two daughters, Penelope and Caroline. During the twenty-eight years of his army career he moved around the south of England and served overseas from time to time. He became a Staff Officer and was sent to Suez in 1956. He was awarded an MBE for his work in the strategic planning of the operation. Unaccompanied by his family, he spent a year on Christmas Island and witnessed the explosion of the atom and hydrogen bombs. When in 1966 the Royal Engineers were directed by the Government to undertake some Far Eastern projects to halt the Communist advance, Hugh was sent out as a trouble-shooter to rebuild an airfield in Thailand, for which task he received an OBE. After his return from Thailand, he was given a desk job at the MOD and promoted to full Colonel. Very sadly, soon afterwards his wife Margaret died of breast cancer and Hugh, to regain his equilibrium, was moved to Royal Military College Shrivenham. Here, by great good fortune, he met Sanda, whom he subsequently married and with whom he had twin sons, William and Andrew. His army life ended as Chief Engineer UK Land Forces at Wilton and he retired from the army aged fifty-three with the rank of Brigadier. Next came the post of Bursar of Oriel in 1978, which he regarded as a dream job and for which he was eminently suitable with his engineering, organisational and practical skills. He presided over the change of the College to include women, which involved substantial changes to the existing buildings, and initiated the huge engineering task of creating the accommodation facilities and lecture theatre out of the old real tennis court. He retired as Bursar in 1990 and, based in Standlake, pursued his hobbies and involved himself in local affairs with his customary enthusiasm. The full church at Standlake for his memorial service testified to the high regard in which he was held throughout his full life. Adapted from his autobiography

DUGALD CAMERON

Dugald Cameron was born in 1923 in Whitley Bay, Northumberland, but at three weeks old went back to Bombay where his father was based as a municipal engineer. When he was five years old Dugald moved back with his mother from India to Essex. He started at a preparatory school, Maldon Hall, and then attended Felsted, where he described the regime as being Spartan and tough, although a very good school. During the Christmas holiday in 1939, shortly after war broke out, when Dugald was sixteen, the Gordon Highlanders put an advertisement in the London papers for young men aged twenty or over and of Scottish parentage, to volunteer to join their 1st Battalion. Adding four years to his age, Dugald volunteered, passed his interview and medical, took the King’s shilling and found himself with a large group of recruits in Folkestone. When his father received word of what he had done, Dugald soon found himself carted off back to Felsted to

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finish his schooling! Soon after, the whole school was relocated to an estate near Ross-on-Wye. Dugald enjoyed life there and he and other boys joined the local Home Guard. He was immensely proud of his school. He started a course in Commerce at Durham University in 1941, but early in 1942 he joined up and went into the Royal Armoured Corps. After officer training at Sandhurst, he joined the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards as a 2nd Lieutenant. Serving as a troop leader, Dugald landed with his squadron on Gold Beach on D-day plus 30 and the action began for him. As the war progressed, Dugald was transferred to the Sherwood Rangers and was awarded the Croix de Guerre for his service. After the war he remained in the army in Germany before finishing his degree in Durham. He then became a Colonial Administrator in Tanganyika, East Africa, training for which involved a one-year course at Oriel and a mandatory requirement to learn Swahili. Dugald met June, his wife-to-be, in Sunderland and they married in 1947. He remembered this as one of the happiest times of his life – ‘halcyon days’, he used to say. He rowed with the Oriel College First VIII and he remained keenly interested in rowing for the rest of his life. Whilst in East Africa, their son, Ewen, was born. After the country achieved independence in 1961 the family came briefly back to Scotland before moving to Sierra Leone, where Dugald worked for a mining company in Freetown. In 1969 Dugald and June moved back to Scotland, where their son was at school. They originally purchased a 150-acre farm near Port of Menteith, Perthshire, which was sold in 1993, shortly before Dugald’s seventieth birthday. He and June moved to the Scottish Borders to be close to Ewen and their grandchildren. He joined Lauder Kirk and became an active member of the community. Sadly, June died five years after the move to the Borders, followed by Ewen at the age of 55, after a short illness in 2012. Dugald was a great character – extrovert and forceful in his opinion but with a great sense of fairness. He could also be extremely funny and was a very well-read and intelligent man. He spoke German as well as Swahili – and even at his last Christmas could be heard loudly singing the carols in Latin! Dugald passed away on 5 July 2015 at the age of ninety-one. He held a unique place in the hearts of his family and will be much missed.

HUGH DU BOULAY

Hubert Charles Houssemayne du Boulay was born at Karenza, Cheltenham, in July 1920, to Captain Charles John du Boulay and Mary Alice Veronica Morgan. He was the eldest of five children, having two brothers and two sisters. He boarded for four years at Horace Hill preparatory school in Berkshire before moving on to Winchester College to complete his schooling. He came up to Oriel in 1938, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Hugh was unfortunately unable to complete his degree due to the war, and felt once it was over that he was too old to go back to Oxford. Hugh followed in his father’s footsteps by joining the Navy in 1940, reaching the rank of Lieutenant. He captained several motor torpedo boats during the Second World War and was awarded the DSO for hitting two German boats. He remained in the Navy until he was demobbed in 1945. After the war he went out to the Middle East and settled in Basra, where he worked

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in personnel for the Iraq Petroleum Company. Whilst there he met and married Marjorie Johnstone Watt in 1951 and they remained in the Middle East (Lebanon and Iraq) until 1957, when they returned to the UK. Once back in England, Hugh started working for the Engineering Employers Association, based in Birmingham, where they remained until after Hugh took early retirement in 1980. In 1981 the pair moved to Scotland, where Hugh continued to enjoy two of his favourite pastimes – shooting and fishing – until well into his eighties. Sadly Marjorie died in January 2015 after a very short illness and Hugh was lost without her. He died six months later, aged ninety-four. They are survived by their three daughters, Nicole, Chantal and Jacqueline, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Hugh will be remembered as ‘a very hard act to follow!’ Adapted from an obituary by his three daughters

DERRICK DYER

Derrick Dyer passed away on Monday 28 April at the Tony Thwaites wing of the University Hospital of the West Indies, after a long illness. He was among the first generation of administrators who took over the management of the civil service when Jamaica gained independence in 1962. His passion was the protection of the beautiful Jamaican hillsides through afforestation. A proud son of St Elizabeth, he attended Mountainside Elementary and Munro College, where he was Head Boy and Jamaica’s youngest Captain of a Cadet Corps. Apart from academic brilliance, he was a champion sportsman, being named captain and goalkeeper of the football team. He won the 880-yard race at the Inter-Scholastic Championship and was among the first set of Jamaicans to gain a scholarship in forestry, which he took at Oxford, where he also played cricket and football. He was the second Jamaican to be appointed Conservator of Forests, and led a team of Jamaicans who conducted an island-wide survey of the soils, plants and slopes of the Island. He had a special interest in protecting the hillsides by reforestation and using Jamaican-grown lumber to replace imports. In 1968, when the new Ministry of Rural Land Development was established, he became its Permanent Secretary and later served in that position in the Ministries of Agriculture, Works, Utilities, Transportation and Tourism. In 1968 he became Executive Director of the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute, headquartered in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, which allowed him to pursue his passion for sustainable farming through the eastern Caribbean chain of islands and mainland territories. On retirement from the civil service, his administrative skills and experience were extended to a number of other organisations. He was President of the Jamaica Public Service Company. He held positions of honour in the Masonic Lodge, Kingston Cricket Club and the Anglican Church. He was predeceased by his wife, Cynthia, in 2009. He will be remembered as a valiant Jamaican servant, an outstanding leader, a man of wisdom and a devoted husband.

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PETER FAWCETT

Peter Ernest Sandford Fawcett was born in 1922 of an English father and a French mother. Educated at Stonyhurst College and Haileybury, he went up to Oriel in 1940 to read History and completed a two-year ‘war degree’ before enlisting. He joined the Buffs Regiment but was immediately seconded to the King’s African Rifles. In 1943 he was posted to Madagascar, where his fluent French was put to good use in helping to bridge the gap between the invading British troops and the French colonial administration. Demobilised in 1946 with the rank of Major, he turned to Law and qualified as a solicitor. In 1952 he married Berit Kier, whose parents were Danish; they had two children, both of whom were, like him, Oxford educated (Christopher, Trinity 1973 and Manon, Brasenose 1974) and bilingual in French and English. Much of his career was focused on advising French clients, whether governmental entities, such as the French Lycée, corporations or individuals. Besides this legal work he devoted much time and energy to the furtherance of French culture. He was the President of the Alliance Française in London from 1983 to 1997. He was a strong supporter of the Maison Française d’Oxford and in 1983 was a founding trustee of the trust that underpins it. In recognition of his services to France he was made an Officier de La Legion d’Honneur, an Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite and decorated Commandeur des Palmes Académiques. Besides Franco-British culture and relations, his greatest interest was Asian art, particularly Chinese and Tibetan. He helped curate an exhibition of Ming ivories at the British Museum in 1984, was Chairman of the Sassoon Chinese Ivories Trust for many years and helped run the Oriental Ceramic Society. The fact that he was a devout Catholic did not seem to inhibit his fascination with Buddhist art. In his later years he devoted much of his energies to charitable work: he was, for example, Treasurer of the Askari Appeal, which raises funds for former soldiers living in poverty in East Africa. Peter remembered his time at Oriel with great fondness and always regretted that he had had to cram a three-year course in to two. He was a steady supporter of the College, with a particular focus, inevitably, on the French Fellowship Appeal.

JOHN GERRARD

John Gerrard was born in April 1916 in Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia), where his father, Herbert Shaw Gerrard, was a medical missionary. John, however, grew up in England and attended Bryanston School before matriculating to Oriel to read Medicine in 1935. It was here that he met his wife, Betty, whom he married in 1941. In the Second World War he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in North Africa, Italy (Anzio) and Palestine. After the war he trained as a paediatrician at the Children’s Hospital in Birmingham, joined the staff of the University of Birmingham and undertook further studies at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. In 1955 he and his family moved to Saskatoon, where he was Founding Head of the Department of Paediatrics in the new full Medical School at the University of Saskatchewan; he remained Head until 1971. As Professor Emeritus of Paediatrics he continued to treat patients until he was well into his eighties. In 1962, along with Dr Horst Bickel and Evelyn Hickmans, a biochemist, he was awarded

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the John Scott Medal by the City of Philadelphia for developing a low phenylalanine diet for the treatment of phenylketonuria (PKU). This, coupled with the work of Dr R. Guthrie, who developed a test for the early detection of PKU, has enabled affected babies to be put on special formula soon after birth and to grow up without disability. In Saskatoon he campaigned with Dr Buckwold and John Dolan for funds to build what is now known as the Alvin Buckwold Child Development Program. He conducted much research on allergies, especially milk allergies, and successfully helped many people. He is credited with an early formulation of the ‘hygiene hypothesis’: that a lack of early childhood exposure to infectious agents increases subsequent susceptibility to allergic diseases by suppressing the natural development of the immune system. Over many years he taught hundreds of medical students and helped train over a hundred paediatricians. His care, compassion and warmth were exemplary. In 1985 he received the Alan Ross Award from the Canadian Paediatric Society for his contributions to research, education, healthcare and advocacy for the health of children in Canada. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1998. John passed away peacefully in March 2013 at the age of ninety-six. Obituary from the National Post

PHILIP JAMES

Philip and I both went up to Oriel in Michaelmas 1951 to read Medicine. Because we had both been at Ampleforth, we were allocated a ground floor room to share on Staircase 1, opposite the Boat Club Room. At school he loathed the compulsory organised sport and was known as ‘eggy’ – i.e., Egghead – not only because of physiognomy but also for his serious academic and scientific attitude. He blossomed in the fun-loving lifestyle of Oxford of that time and quickly liberated a long-suppressed wry sense of humour and appreciation of jazz. Peter Arno’s cartoons were enjoyed, S.J. Perelman was a favourite author and Benny Goodman records were played loudly to combat noise from the ‘Tortoises’. At this time he acquired the nickname ‘Jackson’ from the catchphrase ‘you’re in the groove, Jackson’. However, one thing he did not appreciate was being woken almost nightly by Oriel men walking over him when ‘climbing in’, because his bedroom had a removable iron bar and was very safe and easy to access. He continued to eschew team games but was a seriously good and keen allweather dinghy sailor at Port Meadow. In competition he was an exacting helmsman who required instant almost intuitive responses from his crew. I remember one miserable wet day thinking that if I were that good at crewing, then I would be at the helm. I know that Jackson was disappointed not to get the expected better degree but he came down with a much fuller character on which to build his formidable lifetime achievements. After clinical training at St Mary’s Paddington, qualification, house jobs and registration, there then still was the requirement for National Service. Rather than accepting the usual ‘NAAFI’ option, he showed his individuality by choosing the Colonial Medical Service and went to Tasmania for a year or so. To get back to England he signed on as ship’s doctor on the general cargo ship Waroonga, sailing the Suez Canal route.

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At family level our paths continued to cross. He was godfather to our eldest child, Marika, and he married a Miss James, Margaret, the sister of an old friend, Robert. Mark, one of Philip and Margaret’s children, has continued the sailing tradition and is a Yacht Master – if you want your boat moved, e.g. from Europe to USA or the Antipodes, and can’t be bothered to sail it yourself, then he’s your man. The circumstances of Philip’s death were sad but he was well prepared for it and did not suffer. I attended the funeral in February 2016 on the Isle of Wight and it seemed that almost all the inhabitants of the Island attended to say goodbye to a greatly respected member of their community and to walk slowly in the cortege from church to graveyard for the simple and affecting burial. And then the party, as he would want, at his beloved Bembridge Yacht Club, of which he had been Commodore! John O’Sullivan’s memories of his friend

DONAL MAGEE

Donal Magee was born in Aberdeen in 1924, before moving to London. His fondest memories were of summers on his grandparents’ farm near Newry, Northern Ireland. In 1941 he went up to Oriel College, Oxford, to study Medicine. While an intern at the Middlesex Hospital, London, he met Nancy, an Irish nurse. They married in 1950. In 1948 Donal went to the USA and was awarded his PhD at the University of Illinois. His career then took him to the University of Washington (Seattle). In 1959 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to work at the Rowett Institute in Aberdeen. Donal moved to Omaha in 1965 as Chair of Physiology/Pharmacology at Creighton University Medical School. Until his retirement as Professor Emeritus in 1989, he taught thousands of nursing, medical, dental and pharmacy students and made a significant contribution to the advancement of science through his research, books and numerous academic papers. He was instrumental in making generic drugs available. He had many friends in Omaha’s academic and Irish communities. He enjoyed wide-ranging interests: walking, political activism, Irish culture and music, history, travel, growing vegetables and home brewing. After retirement, Donal and Nancy moved to Castlebellingham, Ireland, returning often to Omaha. He died on 3 of Feburary 2015.

DAVID MENHENNET

David Menhennet was born at Redruth in December 1928, the son of William and Everill Menhennet. As a scholarship boy at Truro School he showed a flair for languages – shared by his younger brother, Alan (1953), who became Professor of German at Newcastle University. After National Service in the Royal Navy, David took up a scholarship to Oriel in 1949 and achieved a First in French and German. After a further year at Oriel he moved to Queen’s College, working on a DPhil in eighteenth-century French Literature. His studies also led him to Le Havre, the home of Bernardin de St Pierre, and to Paris. He continued studying on a part-time basis and completed his DPhil thesis in 1959. He was still hoping for a career in academia when he saw an advertisement for a

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Library Clerkship in the House of Commons. He passed the competitive exam and joined the Library in 1954. From 1967 he was Deputy Librarian under David Holland and on the latter’s retirement, Speaker George Thomas appointed him Librarian, an office he filled with distinction from 1976 to 1991. Traditionally the Library had the aura of a gentleman’s club; between the wars Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon noted that ‘there is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the Libraries of the House of Commons’. When Menhennet arrived in 1954 it had thirty staff; by his retirement there were 158 and its activities had been transformed. Briefing for MPs had been provided since 1946 but under Menhennet, who took charge of the Library’s research division in 1964, the service became comprehensive and authoritative. Under his leadership, changes came thick and fast and in 1978 the Library introduced its Public Information Service, now the House of Commons Information Office. Next came electronic publication of material originated by the Library, making use of the Post Office’s Prestel system, which at its peak had 90,000 subscribers. Computerisation of the Library’s information systems also began in 1979 with the creation of Polis (the Parliamentary Online Information System). He hosted international conferences at Westminster and travelled widely, advising other parliaments. He was a founder member in 1964 of the Study of Parliament Group, and from 1986 to 1992 chaired the British Library’s advisory committee on bibliographic services. In retirement he was a visiting research fellow at Goldsmiths’ College. He was a life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman of the Stationers’ Company. He was appointed CB in 1991. His books included Parliament in Perspective (1967, with John Palmer), Erskine May’s Private Journal 1857–82 (1972) and The House of Commons Library: A History (1991). Although he loved every minute of his working life and had many friends among the staff and Members of Parliament, he never lost his love for Cornwall and the sea. He and his wife of sixty-one years and their two sons spent many holidays there. He died on 5 February 2016, aged eighty-seven.

BRYAN PECK

Bryan Peck’s first school was St. Andrew’s in the village of Old Chesterton on the edge of Cambridge. He was very bright and gained a scholarship to the Perse, a school of 400 years’ standing. He found the move very challenging – with only basic maths, ‘village English’ and no classics; for the first two years or so he had to play catch-up. But his quiet determination and easy personality carried him forward, so much so that he gained a place at Oriel in 1954. There he quickly found his feet – the inclusive style of the College and its caring attitude to those coming from a more challenging background suited Bryan. He was very happy and we often compared notes. I was at Corpus Christi, Cambridge, at the time and knew that Oriel was a very grand place. His first academic post on graduation was with a private school in Surrey, where he gained experience of basic teaching and being ‘on his feet’. Soon an opportunity arose at Trinity College, Dublin, an Assistant Lectureship; he accepted the opportunity with alacrity.

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Trinity and Dublin took to Bryan. Not the easiest place for an Englishman, but his bright, unassuming and approachable manner was well received both by Trinity and Dubliners. He spent several years there, when he applied for and was awarded a major lectureship at Glasgow University. His wider academic interests took him and wife Dorothy, who usually accompanied him, far and wide to seminars, conferences and contributory lectures on his part. But his life was more than a seamless academic progression. There was more to him than that. In the late 1950’s it was a kinder time for us undergraduates and we could easily find a vacation job. Waiting on tables, being taught full silver service, building sites and land drains 18ft deep – no health and safety then! Some even made it to Canada as lumberjacks for the summer. But Bryan beat us all. The village of Madingley, more a hamlet really, lies just outside Cambridge. It was here that the United States Air Force had an exquisite cemetery laid out for its young men lost during the war. Under federal law, the families of US Servicemen who die overseas are entitled to have their loved ones returned to the USA for more convenient local internment. This led to an extensive programme of recovery of the aircrew, often in the most dreadful state, and for them to be carefully prepared by specially hired teams for collection by Honour Guard sent over from the air bases for the move to their home towns. Bryan took on that job – so challenging and requiring reverence and care to the task in hand. I know of no other undergraduate who had the gumption to take that on. In this, Bryan showed the true metal of the man. He leaves a daughter, Sophie, and son, Julian. His loving wife Dorothy died shortly before him. He was a great credit to Perse and Oriel – a very nice person and a lovely friend. Remembered by Robin Harrie-Smith

BASIL REEVE

Basil Reeve was born in Everton in 1912 to missionary parents. He was the eldest of four boys, his next brother being Eric Reeve (died December 2011), the well-known Edinburgh geneticist. The family moved to Lowestoft when Basil’s father became vicar of St John’s, and it was here that Basil befriended Benjamin Britten. The two became piano fourhands partners, as recounted in Britten’s published diaries and letters. He became Head Boy at Norwich Grammar School, where he won a top County History scholarship to Oriel. Upon arrival, he switched to reading Medicine. His summer vacation in Hitler’s Germany impressed him with the likely inevitability of war and fuelled discussions recorded by Britten about pacifism – Basil later said that if he had not been a doctor he, like Benjamin Britten, would have been a conscientious objector. His medical career began as the future Lord Brock’s house surgeon. It nearly did not happen, because his scholarship prescribed History, not Medicine. Between them, his future wife, Sheila, and the Dean of Guy’s Medical School ensured he was fed. He was not to follow Brock into surgery, only to enhance the discipline’s possibilities: Brock, who liked Basil, found himself time and again saying, ‘Reeve: you have supplied me with reams of accurate data, none of which is of any use to me’. Subsequent ‘reams of data’ were later mined to impressive practical effect in the Special Report he and Ronald Grant published

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for the Medical Research Council after the war. Norman Veall, a later colleague, admired his laboratory pipetting of previously unheard-of accuracy, which led to a large-scale revision of the scale of blood loss in war casualties. They and others of their generation doubled the survival of the wounded in the Second World War compared with the First. In the first week of war he married Sheila, like countless other couples thinking they would be gassed within a month. Instead, he did first GP work around London Bridge and then joined Grant’s MRC research unit at Guy’s Hospital. As the air war was won over London, they prudently moved to Newcastle and were joined by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whom Basil had befriended in the Guy’s dining room and who wanted to escape from pharmacy portering. Wittgenstein accepted a vacancy as Basil’s technician, as recounted by Ray Monk and in Brigit Barlow’s autobiography. Wittgenstein ‘took Basil over’ on their weekly walks on the Northumberland moors but refused to discuss philosophy, telling Basil he was too stupid to understand it; but Wittgenstein’s Viennese musical tastes, Tolstoyan approach to living and his intense commitment to working until mentally exhausted left a profound impression. Especially influential for the rest of Basil’s scientific career was Wittgenstein’s search for the essential simplicity in complexity. Together they came up with simple rules for assessing transfusion needs for use by paramedics on the battlefield, validated with Basil’s careful measurements of blood volume. Later, at last in the army at a ‘MASH’-type facility at Monte Cassino, where the rocky terrain was hostile to digging trenches, many soldiers were wounded in the abdomen. The unthinking RAMC policy of replacing with sugarwater the salty fluids that had to be routinely sucked out of the stomach led to a temporary recovery followed by decline, delirium and death on the seventh day. As the only battlefield doctors with a mobile laboratory, Reeve and Grant observed, as their medical colleagues elsewhere could not, the disastrous fall in blood chloride preceding inevitable death. Basil saved his first such patient by injecting a strong sodium chloride solution made up by mixing the mess salt ration with drinking water. The war’s end saw Basil in high demand as a lecturer and initiator of the embryonic field of intensive care; but he was a controversial figure at Guy’s because his research had debunked some cherished medical myths fostered by Willie Mann and other Guy’s notables. His marriage disintegrated in 1952 and, declining a chair in Belfast, he emigrated to Denver, Colorado. His research thereafter concerned the proteins of the blood and their regulation. This led to the study of blood clotting, the most complex problem in protein research. He went on to immerse himself in Mathematics, following his brother Eric’s lead, so that he could write equations to describe clotting reactions in quantitative detail both inside the blood vessel and on its damaged surface. In this he was a pioneer of a completely new field in Quantitative Biology. In 1953 Basil married the pianist, teacher and composer Jeanne Schenck but they separated in 1974 and in 1984 he married Dorothy Atlee Walker, an American relative of the British Prime Minister. Her subsequent illness led him to withdraw from research on his eighty-fourth birthday, feeling no more than Wittgenstein that he had fulfilled his intellectual ambitions. Two years after Dorothy’s death, Jeanne and Basil were reconciled and they celebrated their centenaries together.

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JOHN SHEPHEARD-WALWYN

John Shepheard-Walwyn was born in Yorkshire in October 1916. He grew up near Bath, where his father had a parish. At the age of eight he fell off some wall bars in the school gym, which caused a detached retina. Repair of detached retina was in its infancy at the time, and despite being in the care of a leading surgeon in Lucerne, he was blind by the time he was twelve years old. He came to Oriel in 1935 and read history. It was in Oxford that John’s bell-ringing career started when he was persuaded to ring by his good friend Gerry Bromley, who was also blind and had started at Oxford a year earlier. He took any opportunity he could to ring, not allowing his blindness to deter him from accessing a ringing chamber, it being no deterrent to him that the access might be up a wall-mounted ladder encased in a safety collar or a series of walkways across a church or cathedral roof. After Oxford he went to Wells Theological College and was ordained deacon at Rochester Cathedral in 1940 and ordained priest in 1943. In 1944 he became curate at Holy Redeemer Lamerbey, Sidcup. There he met Anne Gillespie, who was a parish worker, and they married in 1949. From Sidcup they moved to Edenbridge, where John continued to ring on practice nights. His move to Rosherville in 1956 meant that ringing took a lesser place in his life, as the church had no bells. In 1961 the family moved to a rural parish in North Devon, Westleigh with Horwood. John taught all seven of his children to ring and his enthusiasm rubbed off to varying degrees. In his last parish, Harberton and Harbertonford, he was involved in the restoration of the bell tower, which was completed just before his retirement. John joined the Cumberland Youths in September 1960 and in 1964 he became a member of the Guild of Clerical Ringers. The Low Week ringing tours were a fixture in his calendar for many years: his last tour was in 2008, when he was ninety-one, a year before he emigrated to New Zealand to live with his youngest daughter. He was very proud when he was made an honorary life member of the Guild. When John retired, he and Anne moved to Bristol and he rang at Frampton Cotterell. He also became a member of the FarCited group, who met midweek to ring at towers in the Bristol area. Throughout his ringing career he was recognised by anyone who rang with him as being an excellent striker. When John visited a new tower at the age of ninety-one, a local ringer commented that he was a better striker than anyone else there. In 2011 he visited Wellington Cathedral on practice night, and although by then he was no longer able to ring, and had not rung for over three years, he was delighted that he had been able to follow the 2nd through a touch of Cambridge Major. Abridged and reproduced with kind permission of Robert Lewis of the Ringing World

RONALD TREASURE

Ronald Treasure died on 3 July 2014 after a mercifully brief spell in hospital. Only months before he had celebrated his ninetieth birthday with his twin sister Pamela, and had since enjoyed doing the rounds of his large family. Two years earlier he had enjoyed an occasion, surely unique in the annals of the College, attending an Oriel Society dinner

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with his younger brother and four sons (Charles, Stephen, Francis and William), who had followed in his tracks, with a handful of scholarships and Firsts between them, to reinforce his loyalty to the College. A full church at Kirbymoorside heard heartfelt tributes to his work and character, influential far beyond the bounds of the parishes he had served: Whitby as curate, North Hull, Malton and, indeed, Kirby, where successive vicars found his contributions invaluable. Before retirement he had experienced some frustrating later years at Malton. He loved the Yorkshire market town but after some years he came to feel that he should have been given a bigger challenge than was offered by his work as Rural Dean. His aversion to committees and preference for the pastoral before the political may not have stood him in good stead in the diocese. Ironically it was in the ‘retirement’ that became something like full-time ministry that he experienced a renewal of spirit and initiatives on several fronts: guiding the Diocesan Renewal Fellowship, conducting retreats, working for Amnesty International, and always giving time and prayer to individuals who sought counsel and healing. A district nurse had him top of the list for calling on in emergencies. So every word of those tributes would have run true to the many who knew him, for Ronald had been a priest of rare gifts, in whom a deep, prayerful but ever-questioning faith were allied to a lively interest in people, an aversion to dogma and a willingness to listen in patience and good humour. All was grounded in the faith that he had learned at home in Shropshire, at Shrewsbury School, where he was head of his house; tested in war; enlarged in study at Oriel, where he matriculated in 1946, and at Cuddesdon; and deepened in parish ministry. He was supported through sixty-six years by the shared faith and complementary gifts of his wife, Eliza. One may wonder if Ronald, sitting his exam in wartime Oriel, may not have wondered if he would survive to take up his Exhibition in Modern History. Casualty lists were long, subalterns figuring disproportionally. The young officer in the Coldstream Guards who led a platoon in the intense fighting in the Normandy bocage would have had no illusions. His predecessor was killed and he was soon wounded. His company being surrounded by Germans, it took a day to get him to a casualty centre. Then his hospital ship was sunk and many were drowned. Somehow Ronald, hazy with morphine, was lowered into the remaining boat. After six months’ recuperation, as his diary records, typically conscientious, he chafed to get back to his battalion – and did, serving in Germany in the last weeks of war. He had valued comradeship and regimental spirit, but had seen enough of war to ensure that he would not talk about it. His family were left to wonder – until they read the diary that recorded his schooldays and war. Cords, tweeds, ties, demob suits, some men visibly damaged by the daily recall of grim scenes, pipe-smoking, The Times (and its crossword puzzle) at breakfast, prints round the walls, sherry in the decanter – however the scene is portrayed, it may be hard for undergraduates of more recent, peaceful days to envisage – indeed, most now graduate at the age that the veterans came up. They may have sown their wild oats; now life was serious in a new way. Not all had experienced the officers’ mess, but post-war college life had something of its spirit. For some it was Elysium; others were surely impatient. The abridged two years degree course for returning servicemen sharpened the need to get on

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with life and career. Clear in his vocation, appreciating much of the theology and proud tradition of Newman’s college, Ronald brought Shrewsbury experience to the First VIII but soon had more than rowing to distract him. In the first summer vac. He had met Eliza Chance. So at Cuddesdon he was a rare bird, a married student. Living from dawn to dusk the quasi-monastic life, he returned to the cottage he shared with Eliza and soon, their first baby. The two years must have tested all parties. For Ronald it was a Catholic training with the discipline and sacramental focus that would sustain and inspire him to the end. A priest’s work, the pastoral effect, is known best by those whom he serves. In Ronald’s case they would be counted in thousands, grateful for understanding, counsel and prayer. So only a few landmarks need to be recorded: Victorian St Hilda’s and Whitby’s cliff-top church; responsibility for 15,000 souls in a vast housing estate in North Hull and the chance to build a fine new church; the Norman church in the market town of Malton, and latterly there the charismatic ministry of prayer and healing. Not all may have been comfortable with so direct an appeal to the Holy Spirit, but the theology was well grounded and never broke the bounds of Catholic discipline and training. On all fronts Ronald remained where he had begun forty years before: the diligent parish priest, available to all. His zest for life ever keen, he was a great walker along British and Alpine trails. Eliza shared in this enthusiasm, though not in his others: old churches, carpentry and trains. Their last great venture was to the Holy Land, a fitting last journey to crown a dedicated life serving, giving and learning to the end.

ERIC VALLIS, OBE

Eric Vallis was born in 1923 in Oxford and attended Southfield School. He went up to Brasenose College to read Law in 1941 but after only one term was called up for military service. This was not his first taste of military service because at the end of his school days he had joined the Home Guard and recalled being the ‘Private Pike’ of his platoon in Cowley. He joined the invasion forces shortly after D-Day and had a number of postings in France, Belgium, and finally in Germany. While in the army he met Lucy, his wife to be, who was in the ATS. After marrying, they both stayed on in the army until 1948 in the HQ of the British Army of the Rhine. Eric’s task was to help find work for those displaced by the war – and there were multitudes of them. After demobilisation he decided to follow his grandfather’s profession and went to the College of Estate Management to train as a Chartered Surveyor. On qualification he joined the Spicer Group of companies before moving to Nathan Brown Estates as a valuation surveyor and subsequently to Land Securities. In 1967 Eric returned to Brasenose College and was awarded a BLitt in 1971. He became a partner at Thurgood and Martin, then Daniel Smith, and Smith-Woolley & Perry. This led him to move to Canterbury, where he began a devotion to the Cathedral that remained for the rest of his life. In 1974 he was elected Treasurer of the College at a time of financial crisis. This turned out to be an inspired appointment: he combined great expertise in property

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investment with a willingness to take an entrepreneurial approach to the stock market. He had a keen insight and, with a clear understanding of the limits of manoeuvre of an Oxford college, set about restoring the College’s revenues. An investment sub-committee was formed towards the end of 1974. By 1976 the performance of the investment portfolio was considered ‘very satisfactory by comparison with movements of the Financial Times Industrial Ordinary Share Index over the same period’. A trading strategy had been adopted that would cause today’s Finance and Estates and Audit Committees consternation! By 1976–7 a surplus was achieved, attributed to strict budgetary control and better estate and investment management. In addition to the turnaround of investments and the operating budget, a plan to fund a major new building and maintenance programme to address deteriorating facilities was implemented. This included expenditure on refurbishment of staircases on the main site, and improvements to the Hall, Library and Senior Common Room service areas. He was a member of the College committee that planned the sympathetic renovation of the Oriel Street houses and the conversion of the former real tennis court into undergraduate accommodation and a new lecture theatre and seminar room. In the mid-1980s a portfolio of investment property, mainly in South London, was also acquired, which provided many of the best-performing College assets of the last thirty years. In anticipation of possible compulsory purchase of the College sports ground by the City Council for housing, Eric negotiated the acquisition of land adjoining an existing holding at Iffley to assemble a site large enough for a new sports field and pavilion, and potentially a boathouse. Although the plan was never carried out, the land remains in the possession of the College. Alongside his College responsibilities and continuing professional career, in the early 1970s Eric was appointed Estates Surveyor to the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. He subsequently became a Trustee of St Augustine’s in Canterbury and a Governor of the King’s School. His commitments were not limited to Oxford and Canterbury. He played a key role in negotiation of the extension of the lease from the Crown of the Oxford and Cambridge Club; his service to the Club was recognised by the award of Honorary Life membership. In 1986 he gave up his financial responsibilities to concentrate on the College property portfolio and his own historical research, as well as his responsibilities in Canterbury. He was appointed Estates Bursar and elected to a Senior Research Fellowship. In the 1990 New Years’ Honours List he was awarded an OBE. In 1991 he wrote a paper published in the Oriel Record entitled ‘Oriel’s Estates and Interests in Land, 1324–1991’. This detailed the College’s property, purchases and sales from foundation in 1324, including the benefices, and is a valuable reference document today. He was a devout Christian gentleman guided by his faith and commitment to service of the institutions he loved. He served as a Steward of Canterbury Cathedral for twenty-nine years and remained closely in touch with the College. Whether at High Table, in various London clubs or at Canterbury, he enjoyed company and conversation. He was also infinitely curious about other areas of the world and it was nothing to receive a postcard from him – in some Syrian monastery where Aramaic was still spoken. Eric was the wisest of stewards of the College’s finances and put them and the

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estates on a new, efficient basis. His interest and concern for all aspects of College life, his wisdom and kindness were a blessing to all, in particular those who worked with and for him. The College owes him an enormous debt of gratitude. Wilf Stephenson and Mary Porter

SIR CHRISTOPHER WALFORD

Christopher Walford was born in London and went to prep school in Dunchurch in the Midlands. From there he won a scholarship to Charterhouse. He was good at sport and played football and hockey for the school. He boxed for his house and the school, and performed in musical and dramatic productions. He excelled in academics and won prizes as a Modern Languages scholar. From Charterhouse, Christopher won a State Scholarship to Oxford to read Modern Languages at Oriel, with the intention of becoming a diplomat. In 1954, before university, he enlisted for National Service. He gained a commission in the 1st Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery and was posted to BOAR to serve as a troop leader. Following discharge in 1956 he became a member of the Honourable Artillery Company and was on the active list until 1972, rising to the rank of Battery Sergeant Major, and was awarded the Territorial Efficiency Medal. While on military service Christopher decided to read Law rather than Modern Languages. He came down from Oxford and in 1959 joined Allen & Overy as an articled clerk. Three years later he passed his Solicitor’s Final Examination with Honours and became an assistant solicitor in company and commercial law. In 1970 he was made a at in Allen & Overy. Between 1979 and 1989 he was Head of Graduate Recruitment and played a significant role in the major growth of the firm. As a member of the firm’s Corporate Group, his involvement in the legal aspects of corporate and financial services took him all over the world. When asked, he was quick to dispel the idea that commercial legal work was impersonal, adding: ‘A solicitor builds up close relationships with the key people in companies for whom he acts and the development of these relationships has been one of the most enjoyable aspects of my career.’ He was a member of the Institute of Directors’ Council and Policy and Executive Committee. His ‘other career’ – local government – began in 1962, when he was elected to Kensington Council. In 1964–5, after the reorganisation of local government in Greater London, he was elected to the new Council of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. He remained until 1982, served on most major committees, was Deputy Mayor in 1974–5 and Mayor in 1979–80. Soon after he was elected to Kensington Council, he met his future wife, Anne Viggars, a schoolteacher. They were married in 1967 and lived in Kensington. Thus he could continue his local government career until they moved to Hertfordshire in 1978, when he became ineligible to seek re-election. In July 1982 an aldermanic vacancy arose in Farringdon Within, the City Ward where Allen & Overy had its office. It was a contested election, although no party politics were involved. Christopher stood, as a man with local government experience who had worked for more than twenty years in the ward. He was elected, served on numerous committees and represented the Corporation on the Council of the City and Guilds of London Institute

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and the Joint Consultative Council of the London Court of International Arbitration. In 1990–1 he was installed as the Aldermanic Sheriff and served as Lord Mayor of London in 1994–5. During his year in office Christopher hosted a very well attended and memorable Oriel Dinner in the Mansion House. Christopher and Anne moved to Berkhamsted in 1978, to a house on the side of a canal where they, together with their sons Rupert and Lawrence, could enjoy their love of inland waterways. They also visited Deeside, where Anne could fish and Christopher could walk in the hills. His love of music whilst at Charterhouse continued. Whilst a student he regularly went to the Albert Hall Proms and said that when reading or working at home he would invariably have a wide selection of music playing in the background. He favoured Mozart, Brahms or something from his collection of jazz records. Rupert followed him into the legal profession and Lawrence studied history of art, design and film at the University of Northumbria. Christopher was immensely proud of his family, which included five grandchildren. It was a great loss to him when Anne died in 2004. Later he re-met a friend from university days, Denise Hudson, and they were married in 2009. They moved to Suffolk and it was here that he died. Adapted from a series of recollections by fellow liverymen.

DONALD WALSH

Donald Walsh, who died on 16 December 2015 aged eighty-nine, was Oriel’s first Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Science. After a wartime degree at King’s College, London, his early career was spent working for six years at the Mullard Radio Valve Company, followed by a similar time at the Services Electronics Research Laboratory in Baldock. He came to Oxford in 1956 on a three-year research fellowship with Dr Hans Motz, to apply his expertise in electronic devices and vacuum techniques to setting up a new research group in physical electronics. A second research fellowship followed, by which time the Engineering Department was beginning to expand. Up to that time there had been few undergraduates reading Engineering and it was not until 1959 that St Edmund Hall became the first college to elect a tutorial fellow in the subject. After being introduced to Oriel by Dr John Sanders, the College’s first fellow in Physics, in 1961 Donald was appointed College Lecturer in Engineering. In 1964 he was elected a tutorial fellow as the College recognised the increasing importance of Engineering as a subject in the University. This was around the time that the Engineering Department opened its new building (now called the Thom Building), which allowed a huge expansion in the numbers of both undergraduates and research students. Oriel was soon admitting six undergraduates each year to read Engineering. Eventually Donald was leading the Physical Electronics research group in the Department. His early work had been in microwave vacuum devices but he soon moved on to electroluminescence and microwave effects in semiconductors. In the 1970s, inspired by a visiting professor from the United States, Rudolf Kompfner, the group’s work moved into the field of applied laser optics, including scanning optical microscopy and holography. Donald’s research career was tragically cut short by a serious accident in 1977, which

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sadly led to early retirement. He continued his Oriel teaching for a short time but decided to take full retirement a year or two later. His gently cynical but pointed sense of humour was very much missed by his colleagues in both the Department and the College. He will be remembered by generations of undergraduates for the very popular textbook Lectures on the Electrical Properties of Materials, which he co-authored with Laszlo Solymar and which is now in its ninth edition. Many of us of a certain age remember attending the actual lectures, first given in 1969, which inspired the book. Donald and his wife Dorothy continued to live in Oxford until a few years ago, and they were regularly seen at College social events. Dorothy and their two sons and five grandchildren survive him. Douglas Hamilton

RONALD WATTS

Ronald Watts was born on 10 March 1929 in Karuizawa, Japan, and died on 9 October 2015 in Kingston, Ontario. His parents were Canadian Anglican missionaries in Japan and his early education was in that country and subsequently at the University of Toronto. Receiving a Rhodes Scholarship in 1952, he continued his studies at Oriel and Nuffield Colleges, from which he received a BA (1954) and a DPhil (1963) in Political Studies. He and Donna Paisley married in 1954, establishing a lifelong partnership that sustained their extensive educational, scholarly and policy-oriented activities. His career at Queen’s University, Ontario, began in 1955, when he joined the faculty in the Department of Philosophy, moving six years later to Political Studies. Shortly thereafter, he became first an Assistant Dean and then Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science and then, from 1974 to 1984, Principal and Vice-Chancellor. He took an interest in the administration at Queen’s, serving as Residence Don and helping to plan the many residences built during the 1960s. While in the Political Studies faculty he pioneered the study of British Dominions and emerged as a leading international scholar of federalism, playing decisive roles throughout the world in organisations concerned with intergovernmental relations. In 1989 he assumed the Directorship of the Queen’s Institute of Intergovernmental Relations and, as a Fellow, was continuously involved with the Institute from that time. His expertise was enlisted at the highest levels by Canadian federal and provincial governments and by a multiplicity of countries, including Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, South Africa, Yugoslavia, Pakistan and India. He served as a member of the Pepin-Robarts Committee on Canada’s Future and as an advisor to Premier Peterson on the Meech Lake Accord. There was, however, a lighter side to Ron Watts: he had a lifelong interest in aviation and an encyclopaedic knowledge of aviation history. He was a fiercely competitive sailor who competed with considerable success at national and international levels. Perhaps most importantly, he was a wonderfully kind and helpful mentor to numerous young scholars. His students, spanning several generations, in their subsequent years in education, public service, and related fields, bear witness to the continuing influence of Ron’s belief in the quest for knowledge and the importance of serving one’s community.

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He was both respected and much beloved as teacher, research scholar and Principal of Queen’s University. A prolific and respected scholar, his immense contributions both to academe and society at large were recognised by the awards of five honorary degrees, by his appointment as an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1979 followed by his promotion to Companion in 2000, and by his Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada. He is survived by his wife, Donna, and will be missed by many nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.

HERBERT WENTZ

Herbert Wentz was born in Salisbury, North Carolina, in 1934. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1956. He went on to take degrees at the General Theological Seminary in New York City and at the University of Oxford, where, at Oriel College, he was a pupil of Revd Professor J.R. Porter. Ordained to the Episcopal priesthood in the Diocese of North Carolina in 1960, Herbert was vicar of St Christopher’s Church in Garner, NC, and curate at St Luke’s Church in Atlanta. He was serving at St Luke’s when Professor James Brettmann, the founding Chairman of Sewanee’s Department of Religion, invited him to teach in the College as a sabbatical replacement in 1965. He never left. He received his PhD from the University of Exeter and served The University of the South as Professor, Marshal, Department Chairman and Secretary of the Faculty. He taught generations of Sewanee students the intricacies of the King James Version of the Bible and, as Marshal, presided over decades of convocations. Elegant, witty, and a master of detail – whether of the nature of kingship in the Hebrew Bible or of academic ceremonial in All Saints’ Chapel – he was a formidable figure, a six-foot-four-and-a-half monument to common sense and uncommon grace, to institutional memory and, above all, to intellectual honesty. Fond of bow ties, Jack Daniel’s whiskey, the British Royal Family, the ancient world, detective novels, and the nooks and crannies of popular culture, he welcomed the introduction of VCRs so that he could tape favourite soap operas, always marvelling at the true awfulness of the writing. Herbert could seem, to untutored eyes, an antediluvian figure. The truth, however, was more complicated. A student of tradition, he embraced the new when the new made more sense than the old. As a teacher he insisted on clarity, telling new students on Religion courses that if they were looking for ‘spiritual’ studies they should be in the chapel, not in the classroom. To him the academic contemplation of religion required the same clear-eyed rigour and thoughtful habit of mind that one might bring to Biology or History. ‘Define your terms’, he would urge, insisting that students think deeply and coherently about, say, the nature of civil religion in America or the creek roots of key phrases in the New Testament. He was a Renaissance man who would have disliked the term – he would have thought it trite, even sentimental. And yet he was, at heart, the most sentimental of men, forever balancing an innate sense of dignity and decorum with an astute awareness of the

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emotional currents of the age – and of the ages. With the courage of a lion and the (often disguised) sweetness of a lamb, he was the finest of friends and the best of teachers. Herbert died at his home in Sewanee in October 2015. He was eighty years old and is survived by his wife, Sofia, a former Dean of the Faculty at St Andrews-Sewanee School. Adapted from a tribute by Jon Meacham

VICTORIA WIGGINS

Victoria Wiggins was born and grew up in Barnet, and came to Oriel in 1985 from North London Collegiate School to read English, one of the first group of women admitted to the College. She had been applying to another college, but found out at the last moment that Oriel had finally decided to admit women: she was thus the first woman to follow her father to Oriel. She was an athletic girl, having been dragged mountain walking and skiing by her parents, and was in the University ski team as well as rowing in the Oriel Women’s First VIII, which made rapid progress from the Foot of the River. The first group of women had to work hard to establish themselves and managed to assemble two crews from their number, in the best Oriel tradition. Known by a variety of nicknames – Vicki, Vix, Vick, Waggins, VW – and rarely by the full Victoria – she was renowned for her great love of literature, her brilliance on the dance floor, and her unshakeable loyalty to her many friends. Her appetite for literature was borne out of her childhood in a house overflowing with books. She was never without a book or a pen in her hand and was an irrepressible keeper of journals and seeker of answers. Post-university she took a little while to find her niche in life, spending a gap year in Australia and toying with becoming a solicitor. Eventually she found her way into advertising, which suited her personality very well, and where she enjoyed working for fifteen years and made many friends. She managed to continue as the main breadwinner in her family after her son and then twin daughters were born. After a somewhat chequered matrimonial history she found great happiness with one of her colleagues in the advertising world, who supported her unstintingly when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009. She was pursuing postgraduate studies in Psychotherapy at the time of her terminal diagnosis: it was a great sadness to her that she had to give up the degree as she would not be able to follow through with her patients. She remained brave and positive during all the different treatments she had to undergo, and made a variety of expeditions on her bucket list with her husband and children. She managed to keep going until the children were settled in secondary school. She died on 30 April 2015, just short of her forty-eighth birthday. John Wiggins (1956), Nell Butler and Victoria Connolly (1985)

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MEMBERS OF UNKNOWN ADDRESS The College is extremely grateful to those who have responded to the request for information on members of unknown address. If you know the address of any of the members listed, or have any other relevant information, do please get in touch with the Development Office (development.office@oriel.ox.ac.uk). 1946 1948 1950 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961

Mr P.M. Hildyard Mr P.J. Bourke G.H. Francis Mr J.C. Aldridge Mr R.N. Berry Mr D.A. Jackson Dr J. Newbould Mr A. Roberts Mr D.S. Taylor Mr A. Butterworth Dr D. Cobern Mr J.R.H. David Mr A.J. Smith Mr W.A. De’Ath Mr M.A. Instone Mr D.G. Lawrence Mr R.D. Marcus Mr A.F. Sheppard Mr C.J. Stocks Revd A.W. Tuffin Mr W.H.M. Aaron Dr C. Dowling Mr J.B.S. Edwards Mr I.C.E. Hamilton Mr T.J.B. Locker Mr R.R. Pearson Mr C. Scott Mr J.C. Stoyle Mr C.H. Anderson Mr R.E. Clifford Mr B. Corlett T.M.P. Corley Mr L.T. Johnson Mr J.A. Mcleish Mr J.B. Oliveira Mr A.C. Pendlebury Mr D.R. Trewin Mr J.C. Fletcher Mr A.C. Jeans Mr N.F. Kemp Mr B. Stainsby M. Manasseh Mr A. Omar Mr J.S. Howarth Mr M. Steadman Mr W.K. Al Waqyan Mr Y.B. Al Khorafi

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Mr M.S. Bayley Mr R.B. Britton Mr A.S. Davis Mr A.T.F.H. De Mendelssohn Mr M.K. Kwena Mr P.R. Lloyd-Davies Mr M.W. Owen Mr M.J. Wilson Mr R.W. Brook Mr N.M.D. Brown Mr P.J. Burnell Mr J. Dickinson Mr F.E.P. Eustace Major R.J.N. Fletcher Mr A.R. Fuller Mr D.A.H. Goddard Mr J.A. Hall Mr I.G.L. McKay Dr J.H. Morris Mr M.D. Parkyn Mr R.M. Tasher Mr J.P. Warrington Dr A.R.M. Wilson Mr G.L. Blake Mr J.P. Griffin Mr C. Gullacher Mr M.F. Hewlings Mr G.M. Ivey Mr J.M. Jenkinson Mr J. King Mr J.E. Knight D.A. Shill Mr M.A. Sinker Mr G.W. Ault Mr P.M. Hildyard Dr S.A.A. Husain Mr P.D.S.J. Marr Mr S.A. Moore- Bridger Dr R.G. Peck R. Porter Revd M. Roberts Dr S.A. Sharot Mr C.J. Territt Mr F.J.P. Webster Dr G A Brown

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Mr T.J. Barrett Mr M.L. Burrell Mr D.B. Huggon Mr A.J. Mukwaya Dr M. Naiem Mr J.E. Robinson Mr P.M. Thomas Mr N.P. Wermuth Mr A.R.K. Wilson Mr C.M. Cornelius Mr G.S.L. Granville Mr I.A. Jacobs Mr S.D. Jupe Mr A. Pattison Mr S.I. Pye Dr D.C. Rogers Mr J.P. Whatley Mr M.H. Cousins Mr A.C. Davey Mr B.J. Donaghey Mr J.C. McTernan Mr A.J. Sharp Mr P.R. Wiggins Mr N.V. Arthur Mr J.M.M. Holland Mr B.R. Routledge Mr E. Stuart Mr P.K. Betterton Mr E.R. Borrer Major R.W.G. Campbell Mr R. Hart Mr M.D. Luetchford Mr P.M. Simonet Mr M. Simpson Mr I.M. Steel Mr B.M. Watson Mr M.C. Cromar Mr M.A. Levine Mr J.C. Richards Mr C.A. Skala Mr P.N. Blain Mr N.J. Boyle Mr D. Crammer Mr G.O. Crossley Mr S. Hancock Mr J.R. Houliston Mr P.N. King Mr J.S. Mackintosh Mr M.A. Mazower Mr S.M. Ryan Mr H.H. Sa'ad Mr H. Farran Said Mr R.B.E. Smith Professor S.G. Walker Mr M. Watterson

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Mr E.T. Chin Mr D.A. Greig Mr B.P. Kershaw Dr A.V.P. McManus Miss J.G. Millard Mr P.V. Miszczak Mr M. Rich Professor R.J. Rinaldi Miss V.R. Temkin Mr P. Vincent Miss W. Ang Mr R.M. Birchall Miss E.S. Eddison Dr Y.H. Erdem Miss S.J. Fishwick Ms C.J. Fox Mr D.W. Fuller A. Geoffries Dr S.H. Grime Dr G.J. Gutteridge Mr C.P. Hughes Mr M.G. O’Keefe Mr O. Wendt Mr M.A.M. Adam Mr J.R. Askew Dr M. Biermann Mr N.P. Cain Mr F.T. Elliott Ms J.K. Emmett Mr S.J. Harding Miss G.A. Holliday Miss Y.D. Karmiloff Mr G.M. Megson Mr P. Moore Miss C.M. Owen Mrs L.A. Royle Mr A.D. Skinner Mr K.R. Wilson Dr A.R. Wyatt-Walter Mr M. Alam Dr J.O. Baird Mr S.G. Bullock Mr P.S.J. Counsell Miss J.M. Deeks Miss S.C. Hinchcliffe Dr M. Howe Mr G.L. Illiffe Miss R.E. Sellick Miss A.M. Strachan Mrs J.E. Tabony Miss E.J. Thompson Mr J.E.J. Travis Mr G.D. White Dr M. Alam Mr T. Kaihara Mr D.E. Lacey

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Miss B.W.M. Weis Miss K. Williams Mr R.J. Wiseman Miss C.M. Amon Dr G.M. Cullity Ms E.J. Derry Ms R.P. Dewhurst Mrs F.C.L. Harper Miss R. Khastgir Mr S.M. Morris Mr K. Nishiyama Miss A.L. Tindale Mr S.N. Warley Miss C.A. Barrett Mr J.H. Bonas Miss Z.F. Cotty Miss L.K. Durbin Mrs R.M. Glazov Miss T. Hails Miss T.A. Holman Mr R. Lan Mr C.A. Phillips Mrs S.A. Rothwell Mr C.B. Trevitt Mrs T. Tuffin Mr H. Tung Mr S.P. Wilson Mr A.M. Anderson Mr J.D. Barlow Mr J.N.D. Clark Dr G.F. Deeks Mrs P.A. Henson Miss J.E. Kingsley-Smith Miss M. Lenton Dr M.E. Lowry Mrs F.A. Millar Dr M.P. O’Connor Mr W.T.C. Pryor Miss R.M. Sissons Mr M.D. Stenner Dr R.A.K. Stout Dr S. Biswas Dr S. Biswas-Whittaker Mr M. Blumethal Mr J.A. Dickinson Miss R. Dwan Mrs K.J. Keown Mr T. McDonald Mr C.J. O’Brian Mr L. Scible Mr D.L.M. Surrey Mr A.C. Baines Mrs A. Bates Miss K.M. Butler Mr R.J. Dodds

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Mr J.V. Goslin Mr S. Hansen Dr C.E. Humpherson Miss F.D. Lowatt Mr H.L.K. Mainwaring Miss A. Matthews Mr V. Mayer Miss A.M. Mill Dr A.L. Mitchell Mr S. Muller Mr M.I. Rudge Miss N.S. Shakerchi Dr R.I. Watson Miss K. Bevis Mr C. Doepgen Mr D.C. Gibbs Mr P.R. Hamilos Dr J.A. Hutchinson Mr S.F. Jacobson Dr G.P. Lee Dr K. Lobotesis Mr S.A. Lunn Miss A.S. Mufti Mr S.M. Pawlowski Mr H.G. Price Mr T.A. Roberts Mr M.R. Rowley Mr C.D. Smedley Miss A. Chatjouli Ms C. Edwards Miss L.M. Egle Mr P.R. Elliott Mr A.D. Gouws Mrs M. Roessler Mr P.J. Stephens Mr W.C. Weber Mr D.J. Sauer Mr P.M. Cade Miss P. Evans Dr A. Fuentes Dr A.C. Ikeme Mr S.A. Linder Mr T.C.F. Matheson Mr E. Lowe Mr B. Moshinsky Mr G.A. Welty Mr M.Z. Cader Miss S.G. Diggle Miss R. Graciasova Dr A.I. McDonald S. Rees Ms H.M.I. Tedd Mr F. Vernizzi Miss A.A. Anuar Mr P.J. Birch Miss A.S.M. Langner

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DATES OF FULL TERM Michaelmas 2016 Hilary 2017 Trinity 2017

Sunday 9 October – Saturday 3 December Sunday 15 January – Saturday 11 March Sunday 23 April – Saturday 17 June

GAUDIES

From time to time we review our gaudy scheduling, so please visit the Oriel 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 priority given to adjacent years). Over the next two years Gaudies will be held for the following years of matriculation: 2017 1981 – 1983 1987 – 1989 1999 – 2001

2018 1969 – 1971 2002 – 2004

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 2017

THURSDAY 20 APRIL London Alumni Dinner Black tie dinner in London for Orielenses. FRIDAY 5 MAY Champagne Concert Performance and champagne interlude in the Senior Library, with optional pre-concert supper. WEDNESDAY 24 – SATURDAY 27 MAY Rowing: Summer Eights SATURDAY 27 MAY Raleigh Society Garden Party Annual garden party by invitation to members of the Raleigh Society. Oriel Alumni Garden Party Garden party for all alumni to celebrate the last day of Summer Eights.

THURSDAY 26 JANUARY Donor Drinks Annual London reception for members of the 1326 and Raleigh Societies and loyal donors.

SATURDAY 24 JUNE 1987 – 1989 Gaudy Black tie dinner in Hall preceded by drinks in the Champneys Room.

SATURDAY 18 FEBRUARY Edinburgh Dinner Black tie dinner at the New Club, Edinburgh, for Orielenses.

FRIDAY 15 – SUNDAY 18 SEPTEMBER Oxford Alumni Weekend and Oriel Alumni Weekend Open to all Orielenses and guests. University-wide events over the weekend with the Oriel Society Annual Dinner in College on Friday and lunch available on Saturday.

WEDNESDAY 1 – SATURDAY 4 MARCH Rowing: Torpids FRIDAY 17 MARCH 1981–1983 Gaudy Black tie dinner in Hall preceded by drinks in the Champneys Room. SATURDAY 18 MARCH Adam de Brome Society Lunch Annual talks and lunch in College for members of the Adam de Brome Society and guests.

SATURDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 1999– 2001 Gaudy Black tie dinner in Hall preceded by drinks in the Champneys Room.

If you wish to receive further details or to book for any of these events, please visit the College website (www.oriel.ox.ac.uk) and go to the Alumni section’s event page. For queries, contact events@oriel.ox.ac.uk. Please note that for all events in College we now have an induction loop permanently installed in Hall.

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