St Peter's College Record 2022

St Peter’s College Record

2022

St Peter’s College Record 2022

Editors: Dr Claire Williams Fellow and Tutor in Brazilian Literature and Culture Dr Tim Mawson Edgar Jones Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy Anne Millard Executive Editor and Fellows’ Secretary

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EDITORIAL

Editorial Last year’s College Record Editorial ended with hope for the future academic year, as the College and its members forged forward resiliently, dealing as best we could with the continued effects and aftershocks of the Covid pandemic. The current issue, looking back on that year, 2021-2022, shows how students and staff alike persevered, adapted and flourished. The feature article by Chemistry Fellow, Professor Mark Moloney, describes a project directly provoked by the pandemic: his group’s mission to develop antiviral coatings for PPE. The College is changing shape and size as the Castle Bailey Quad building project moves onwards and upwards, between Canal House and Oxford Castle, overseen by an enormous crane emblazoned with the St Peter’s logo. Our community also grows every year, as can be seen from the list of Recent Appointments and summarised in the Master’s Letter. The new College Archivist, Dr Alison Ray, takes us through the elements of the college crest and its most recent incarnation (as seen on the aforementioned crane).

Another form of growth is research, in the ways it pushes the boundaries of knowledge. Dr Cora Gilroy-Ware, Fellow in Art History, contributes an article on her recent collaboration with filmmaker and installation artist Sir Isaac Julien. The boundaries can also extend into the past, and underground, as we learn from the article by Dr Tim Clack, Director of Studies in Archaeology and Anthropology, about the Falklands War Mapping Project he has been developing.

Our undergraduate and postgraduate students continue to thrive and achieve great things; academic and beyond. For example, there have been momentous wins for our sports teams, especially on the river (spoiler alert), where college history was made.

We end this Editorial with enthusiasm and optimism for the forthcoming academic year, and look forward to presenting you with more news of the College’s achievements.

The Editors

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CONTENTS

Editorial...................................................................1 The Master’s Letter.................................................3 Feature Articles Coats of Many Colours?

By Professor Mark Moloney, Sydney Bailey Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry...........................12 From the Living There is Nothing to Fear

By Dr Cora Gilroy-Ware, Fellow and Tutor in the History of Art and Associate Professor of the History of Art.......14 Return to Tumbledown

By Dr Tim Clack, Chingiz Gutseriev Research Fellow in Archaeology and Anthropology and Director of Studies in Archaeology and Anthropology.....17 What’s in a Shield? The 1929 Granting of the College Arms

By Dr Alison Ray, Archivist and Records Manager.....................20 Subject News Archaeology and Anthropology..........................22 Biochemistry......................................................22 Chemistry..........................................................23 Earth Sciences..................................................23 Engineering Science..........................................24 Mathematics......................................................24 Medicine............................................................25 Modern Languages............................................26

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Achievements and Activities of Senior Members................................................27 Middle Common Room..........................................33 Junior Common Room..........................................35 Chapel Choir.........................................................37 The Sporting Year..................................................38 Recent Appointments............................................43 College Library......................................................45 Bursar’s Report.....................................................47 Development and Alumni......................................50 Donor Circles.........................................................52 Gifts to College......................................................53 Members of the Howard Society...........................60 Obituary Dr Francis Warner.............................................62 Dr Stuart Turnbull..............................................65 Senior Members....................................................66 New Members.......................................................72 Results and Achievements....................................79 Scholarships and Awards......................................83 Congratulations.....................................................91 Deaths...................................................................92

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The Master’s Letter Had David Durell sat where I am sitting now – as, in the summer months, he may well sometimes have done – the view he would have looked out on would have been quite different from the one now before me. David Durell was chairman of the Oxford Canal Company.

Between 1826 and 1865, he lived with his wife Mary, their children and servants on New Inn Hall Street, in the property we now know as Linton House. Between 1828 and 1829, Durrell oversaw the building of the company’s offices (now Canal House) on the far side of the public lane (now Bulwarks Lane). Once built, Canal House, as the company’s headquarters, was Durell’s chief place of work.

Durell’s places of residence and work inversely mirror my own. I live in Canal House and go to work each day in Linton House. Durell’s work-home axis, however, is a reminder of the significance of the Oxford Canal Company to the history of the St Peter’s estate.

Basin (2). The ease with which they would have been able to catch up on canal business from those working the canal is striking. The connection between house and canal was, by design, both direct and close.

1. Canal House, designed by Richard Tawney, built 1828-9

I am currently sitting on the portico-ed terrace of Canal House (1), writing this while looking out at the Nuffield College Tower before me. There is nothing in my line of vision to explain why Canal House should have been so named. This was not the case in Durell’s time. Had he, or any of his successors up until the mid-1930s, taken their tea on the terrace here, they would not only have had a view directly out upon the canal, but they could, had they wished, have strolled down a set of wide steps directly ahead, and found themselves immediately on the Coal Wharf beside a spur of the Canal

2. The Oxford Canal Coal Wharf, mid-1930s, with Canal House and the newly opened Staircase IV (the Emily Morris Building) visible beyond. Soon after this photo was taken, the land of the Canal Basin spur and the Coal Wharf was purchased for the founding of Nuffield College, the wharf was no more and the direct relationship between Canal House and the canal itself was lost.

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3. Detail of the Oxford Canal Company’s 1838 cadastral ‘Plan of the Wharf and Premises’ (Warwickshire Record Office). ‘Canal Basin’ runs alongside New Road with the Coal Wharf adjacent.

Canal House is marked ‘Canal Offices’ (on ‘Bullock’s Lane’) and Linton House ‘House’. Both were Oxford Canal Company properties.

Canal House was built in 1828-9 to architect Richard Tawney’s designs. Tawney planned Canal House in site-specific ways, taking account, on the one hand, of its placement on one of Oxford’s historic alleyways, and, on the other, of its status as the prestigious headquarters of the Oxford Canal Company. The neoclassicism of its doric-pillared north-western entrance, where I am currently sitting, and its elegantly proportioned windows facing south-west (1) carry weight. By contrast, its plain brick side wall onto Bulwarks Lane has more the appearance of a warehouse than an elegant residence (4).

4. Bulwarks Lane, with the side wall to Canal House to the left and Mulberry Quad to the right.

It is no accident that Canal House turns its gaze towards castle and canal, while sitting light to its Bulwarks Lane belonging. In the early modern period, Bulwarks Lane had been known as Bullock’s Lane – named after Bullock, who in 1558 had built his house on the lane, and reportedly dumped dung and rubbish there, scavenged from the city. Whether by accident or design, the spelling of the lane’s name changed in the mid nineteenth century,1 no longer

memorialising the name of a sixteenth-century rubbish collector, but – more respectably – the significance of the lane’s placement along the defensive boundary (bulwark) of the old Castle Bailey above the Castle Ditch.

Despite many changes around it, the lane has never quite shaken off the reputation it earned in the sixteenth century. This being the case, the fact that the unprepossessing (and oft-graffitied) side wall to Canal House on the lane gives no hint of what lies behind it is not unhelpful. Shrouding itself in ordinariness in one orientation while emulating a Greek temple in another makes Canal House brilliantly idiosyncratic in its simultaneous desire to blend in and to stand out, in ways directly responsive to its liminal placement.

St Peter’s purchased Canal House in 1958. The first Master to occupy it was Julian Thornton Duesbury (‘TD’) who moved in in April 1959, and Canal House has served as the Master’s Lodgings for every Master since, while also providing offices for four fellows in its spacious

It is listed as Bullock’s Lane on maps up to 1838, including on the Canal Company cadastral plan above. On Robert Syer Hoggar’s 1850 city plan, however, it has become Bulwarks Lane and it appears consistently as Bulwarks Lane thereafter.

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The place is happiest when abuzz with people and events, contributing to the warm and vibrant community life of the College. The run of events Canal House has hosted this year has been characteristically varied: Sir Terence English,

5. Sir Terence English and Lady Judith English in conversation with the SPC medics

basement. More than sixty years of St Peter’s footfall across Bulwarks Lane to and from Canal House is now well evidenced in the worn step down from Mulberry Quad across to this ‘outpost’ of St Peter’s – conveniently close, but an outpost nonetheless – on the far side of the lane.

The final question I was asked in interview, was whether, if offered the position of Master of the College, I would be willing to live in Canal House.

Some of the questions that had preceded it were tough. By contrast, this one was not – and here we are. Notwithstanding the ‘lively’ moments that living on Bulwarks Lane can deliver late on a Friday and Saturday night, it is a significant privilege to live here. Many of you will remember elegant, educative and entertaining events in Canal House hosted by one or other of my predecessors.

It is a house that is beautifully well placed to accommodate many different types of College events. This year it has been heartening to see the community life of the College as a whole return to pre-pandemic levels and, as part of that project of collective unfurling, to see Canal House come alive once again with earnest discussion, skittish chat, music, meetings, poetry and games, as members of the community – from nervous freshers to the University Chancellor, Lord Patten – have once again stepped across the lane into Canal House.

6. BBC Symphony string players perform alongside St Peter’s students

the eminent surgeon who performed the first heart transplant in the UK, in conversation with our medical students (5); BBC symphony orchestra string players performing a memorable recital alongside our own student musicians (6); an informal student supper on the Canal House terrace with distinguished actor-director Adjoa Andoh; academics playing skittles in the hall corridor (the Vice Master emerged undefeated); students playing chess on the sitting room floor (the new MCR Vice President sweeping all before him) (7); happy return visits to College from Rabbi David Mitchell, Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (Head of the Irish Research Council) and Archbishop Sir David Moxon; a celebratory reception for students who had won a sporting blue or a blade (an extremely impressive crop this year, with notable success for the Boat Club) (8); a concert of piano duets from graduate students;

7. Chess evening, Canal House

8. Blues and Blades reception

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9. AJ Tracey meets St Peter’s students to discuss the Oxford experiences of students from underrepresented communities.

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a visit from celebrated rapper AJ Tracey whose animating effect on St Peter’s students was eclipsed only by his reception at the Glastonbury festival a few weeks later (9); a warm welcome back to Canal House for Dame Frances Cairncross; a 96th birthday party for Billy Watson (10); a Jamaican performance poet/lawyer, accompanied on double bass, reminding us, inter alia, to “slo’ down, ma busy friends, slo’ down” (we should) (11); plus any number of meetings, interviews, drinks and tea parties through the year, accompanied, whenever possible, by some homegrown jazz to add fizz to the mix.

Currently, Canal House sits in the midst of a construction site (12 and 13). The garden has been turned over as the site entrance to the major building project now in train, with the new student accommodation due to open in summer 2023.

Given the costs of the private rental market in Oxford, we know that many Oxford applicants now choose their college partly on the basis of the number of years ‘living in’ on offer. We are proud to be a college with both significant heart and considerable momentum: to build on this, we need, of course, to continue to attract the brightest and

10. Billy Watson’s 96th Birthday Party, Canal House

11. Jamaican Performance Poet/Lawyer, Dave Neita, gives a charismatic poetry recital accompanied by Deborah Pritchard on double bass.

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best applicants to St Peter’s, irrespective of means or background. And to do this, we need to take action to rectify the ways in which we have fallen behind other colleges in our accommodation offer.

We are so grateful to all those who have helped us raise the money for this important and ambitious new build. This is a project that we could not have undertaken without significant financial assistance from our wider community and, once built, it is going to make a step-change difference both to the feel of the estate and to the life of St Peter’s students for generations to come. A heartfelt thank you to all those who have given, and we very much look forward to sharing the expanded estate with you from summer 2023 onwards.

The new development includes two new student accommodation buildings, a new courtyard and a new entrance to College via New Road. Once it is open, the far side of Bulwarks Lane will then be a College outpost no longer, but rather an integrated part of the now considerably expanded St Peter’s estate. In next year’s Record, I will be able to report on the unveiling of ‘Barron House’ as the wonderful new name for the Law Centre as part of the integrated and expanded St Peter’s estate across the lane. This year, I restrict myself to reporting on the names for our two new student accommodation buildings. As previously announced, one will be called Damazer House in recognition of the vibrant and lasting contribution made to St Peter’s College by my predecessor, Mark Damazer CBE. And, as a College, we have been very pleased to take on the naming of the other student accommodation building as a whole community project.

Everyone who is currently a member of the College, as a student or employee, has had a chance to participate in this naming project – undergraduates, postgraduates, scouts, porters, academics, librarians, professors, finance officers, kitchen staff, all. I know of no other college that has undertaken a project together in such an inclusive way, and it has been a pleasure pursuing it in these terms.

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The naming process was run in Trinity Term, across several rounds of discussion and single transferable voting.2 As part of this, the significance of the task in hand was well logged and it was good to see the community researching, reflecting, assessing, discussing, advocating and voting. Copies of Eric Smith’s invaluable history of the College came down from the shelf and were profitably thumbed; students debated and proposed; scouts voted enthusiastically (with encouragement from Senior Scout, Gail Jones); elements of our history that may temporarily have slipped from view were helpfully brought back into circulation. Naming Committee meetings, featuring representation from all sections of the community, were both exploratory and procedural, and two open College meetings were held. In sum, it has been an all-in community endeavour properly invested in both the history and the future of St Peter’s.

Potentially entertaining as this might have been, the process included sufficient checks to minimise the likelihood of a Boaty McBoatface outcome.

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And when we got to the final vote, the two names standing were Westfield House and Castle Bailey House.

Westfield House takes its name from Westfield College, a women’s residential higher education college founded in Hampstead in 1882 – the first designed to prepare women for University of London degrees. At a time when few higher education opportunities were available for women and opposition to the idea of women’s higher education remained strong, Westfield College was a pioneer.

In 1939, with the outbreak of War, the women of Westfield College were evacuated to St Peter’s as a place of safe residence and study outside London. The small numbers of St Peter’s men not off fighting were boarded out in other colleges to make space for the Westfield women. The Westfield community stayed happily in St Peter’s from 1939 through until the end of the war in 1945 (14). The College archive holds correspondence relating to the daily life of Westfield students during the war years.

12 & 13. The SPC construction site from Canal House windows: building new student accommodation

14. The women students of Westfield College in St Peter’s in the war years.

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Several became presidents of University societies and all enjoyed the benefits of access to Oxford libraries, lectures, laboratories and the Botanical Gardens. Westfield Principal Mary Stocks ensured that their college life continued as normally as possible in their new-found home.

The other name standing in the final round of voting was Castle Bailey House. In medieval Oxford, when gates were gates and shopping centres were not yet, the town’s motte and bailey castle sat just inside Oxford’s West Gate. Much of the castle was destroyed in the English Civil War: thereafter the perimeter of the bailey ceased being

15. Detail from David Loggan's ‘Oxonia Illustrata’ reconstruction/bird's eye view map, published 1675, with north at the bottom.

The site of St Peter’s new development, marked by the red ellipse, sits on the rising land within what used to be the Castle Bailey above the tree-lined moat (now part of New Road).

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a continuous bulwark and the remaining castle buildings became the Oxford prison, with part of the site being used for county administration. In modern-day Oxford, the surviving Castle Mound remembers the site of the castle’s original motte and a significant section of the perimeter of the bailey is still marked by Bulwarks Lane.

The relevance of St Peter’s proximity to the old Oxford Castle is written into the formal title of the College – the College of St Peter-le-Bailey – with its close connection to the parish church of St Peter-le-Bailey, now the College chapel.

The College’s new development on the Castle

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Hill House site on the far side of Bulwarks Lane occupies land that used to form part of the bailey of the old castle.3 In registering the history of the ground on which we are building, the name Castle Bailey acts as a useful reminder of how closely imbricated the colleges of the University are in the broader civic history of Oxford.

And the result? Westfield House won the final community vote. Even ahead of seeing it up on the building, it is a name that we are already collectively finding stimulating. In remembering a piece of cross-institutional solidarity, it also reminds us of the need to offer refuge in time of war, and celebrates those who work for equal opportunities in Higher Education - both still highly relevant today.

Given the geographic, historic, civic and college resonances of the Castle Bailey name, though, it seemed a shame not to find a way to make use of our runner-up name as well as the winning one. A name was wanting for the new quad on which both new student accommodation buildings will sit, and so it is that Castle Bailey Quad has now been formally adopted for that purpose. We are delighted, as a result, that not one but two names emerging from the grass-roots community processes of the naming project will be used on the College estate. And we hope that the process of thinking together about history and the future, about systems of recognition, and about how history works on value over time, will prove memorable for many who have participated.

The trauma of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been felt in refracted ways in St Peter’s, as across the world. Our Ukrainian colleague, Dr Vlad Mykhnenko, has been writing and speaking about the war via multiple media outlets to ensure that the issues remain clearly focused and discussion appropriately informed. I report to you, with his permission, that he has been doing this, while awaiting news of his own relatives whom he last heard of trapped in Mariupol. There has been no 3

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news at the moment of writing, and we stand with Vlad and our Ukrainian students, and with any of you also directly affected, in the unbearable pain of this war.

In the weeks immediately following the invasion of Ukraine, communities across the world found ways of expressing their solidarity in symbolic ways. In St Peter’s we invited one of our Ukrainian students to say a Ukrainian grace in Hall, which prompted an eruption of applause from the community in a heartfelt gesture of symbolic support, and we lit the trees in Linton Quad in blue and yellow. Such ‘soft’ indications of support offer a temporary fillip but mean little unless supported by positive action. In more substantial vein, therefore, in a consortium with other colleges, we have participated in a CARA support programme for At Risk Academics from Ukraine, as we did also for Afghanistan the year before. We have advertised a place for a Ukrainian visiting student to join us without charge and have asked generous friends of the College to help Ukrainian students stay on course as other sources of funding have fallen away. We have been grateful to channel financial support, employment opportunities and rent-free accommodation for Ukrainians in need of support. Thank you for most generous support from those kind friends who have helped out in these ways.

16. Professor Balázs Szendrői discusses the abstract works of Szabó with visitors to the ‘Thought Forms’ exhibition in Chapel.

From the current fellowship, this year we said goodbye to our professorial fellow in Pure Mathematics, Professor Balázs Szendrői, who has left us to take up a prestigious chair at the University of Vienna. With characteristic intellectual range and cultural flair, Balázs’s final College project was to mount, with his co-curator Nico Kos, an exhibition of art works in the Chapel

by Hungarian Jewish existentialist philosopher and Auschwitz survivor, Lajos Szabó (1902-1967).

The beautiful and provocative abstract works on display teasingly seemed simultaneously to invite and deflect interpretation and proved a stimulating talking point for the community (16).

Castle Hill House was a nineteenth-century building on the site. Castle Bailey recovers the site’s older identity.

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In the meantime, we have welcomed in to the tutorial fellowship this year Dr Cora Gilroy-Ware from York, Professor Bob Hilton from Durham and Professor Randy Bruno from Columbia, as new fellows in History of Art, Earth Sciences and Neuroscience respectively. We are delighted to have them with us. And the scholarly distinction of our colleagues Tom Adcock, Marc Macias-Fauria, Charles Monroe and Francis Leneghan has been recognised by the University through the awarding of the title of full professor of the University. We celebrate for each of them.

Our staff line has seen the usual degree of comings and goings this year. Our archivist Dr Richard Allen left to take over the large Medieval archive at Magdalen College. He was replaced by Dr Alison Ray who joined us from the archives at Trinity College Dublin. Alison is responsible for our College archives, picture collection and broader records management systems.

17. Farewell to Paul Irons, departing Lodge Supervisor.

Seen here with Derrick Harriott, new Lodge Supervisor.

From the Lodge, our long-standing Lodge Supervisor, Paul Irons, retired. Paul was a ‘legend’ to the students and a very fine colleague to the rest of us. We wish him a happy retirement. Derrick Harriott has been appointed to take Paul’s place as our excellent new Lodge Supervisor (17). Also from the Lodge, we said farewell to our porter Jack Metcalfe, who returned to a boyhood dream of being an archaeologist: we wish him well in the adventure ahead.

There has been a changing of the guard in our catering operation. With Colin Purvis’s retirement and ‘Elvis’ having left the building (see the Bursar’s piece in this College Record), we welcomed in Eifion (‘Ave’) Davies and new second chef Tony Baughan who are now rethinking our catering approaches in energetic, thoughtful and creative ways.

We said goodbye to several colleagues from the Development team, including Christopher Shakespeare, who held the reins on our development operation through the pandemic, and Honor Dawkins-Stean, our former Alumni

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Engagement Officer. We said hello to our new Director of Development and Alumni Relations, Brett de Gaynesford, from whom you will hear directly later in this issue of the College Record. Brett joined us from Somerville College.

And a warm welcome also to Nasreen Sardar, Ewan Miller and Sarah Alford. In the new role of Communications Manager for College, combining some of the responsibilities of two former colleagues working across our website and communications briefs, we welcomed in Hannah Hempstead. Amongst some of Hannah’s early projects, she has overseen the launch of our striking new College website.

New on the wall of the Dining Hall this year is a portrait of Mark Damazer by artist Eileen Hogan, unveiled jointly by the Vice Chancellor, Professor Louise Richardson, and Mark’s mother, Suzy.

The portrait itself is pleasingly relaxed, capturing Mark full length and seen as part of the landscape of front quad. Let this addition to the portraiture in the Hall constitute an additional draw to encourage you to come back and visit College at some point in the year ahead.

In April 2022, we were finally able to welcome back our 2020 leavers for a proper celebration of their pluck and very considerable achievements.

It was lovely to see them again for a warm and lively reunion as the cohort from whom the wretched pandemic had robbed the entirety of their final term (18). Other post-pandemic ‘catch up’ activities included our ambitious and bespoke residential outreach programme for bright young people from Liverpool, and the much-delayed College Ball. In their very different ways, both were joyful moments in the year.

St Peter’s remains as famously friendly in spirit as ever it was: those from previous generations should have no concerns that our college’s much-loved informality, friendliness and even impishness (in which regard, thank you to those who have now returned the ‘borrowed’ gavel (19)) are under threat.

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18. The 2020 leavers’ reunion in April 2022.

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But we are also, consciously and without apology, a place of academic excellence and academic aspiration, and our smart and hardworking students are confirming, and building on that reputation, year on year, with expert and committed support from our fine tutors and support staff. We do not yet know how our 2022 finalists fared in their degree results in relative terms across colleges. The Norrington Table takes an inordinately long time to be published.

We do know that in absolute terms, they – like the 2020 and 2021 cohorts before them – have done extremely well and we are proud of what they have managed to achieve across the highly disrupted period of their degree. From amongst the many highlight marks in the cohort (and there are many), let me draw attention to two in particular.

Joe Lewis was placed first across the whole University in the Final Honours School of History; Clara Schreiner was placed first across the whole University in the Final Honours School of PPE. These are large and highly competitive schools and so particular congratulations to Joe and Clara on these stellar results. But well done also to the whole of the very fine 2022 graduating cohort: every single individual story is a triumph. As I write this, we are very much looking forward to celebrating with you all at graduation shortly.

Despite the significant challenges facing us all this year – the impacts of climate change, the run of financial pressures – I wish you all a good year. For me, it is always a pleasure meeting up with those who hold the stories of the College from previous eras. I will therefore look forward to more enriching encounters in the year ahead, in the confident hope of adding to my stock both of entertaining tales (keep ’em coming) and of stories of lives changed. It is, of course, these that form the backdrop, and indeed the raison d’être, of this fine place.

More immediately, for Kostja and myself, a short stroll up the canal now beckons, to St Sepulchre’s cemetery to visit the graves of David and Mary Durell.

19. The contents of a parcel received through the post, after the gavel temporarily went AWOL.

Photo credits: Figs 8 and 18 Edmund Blok Fig 16 Kevin Potter (Potters Instinct Photography)

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Coats of Many Colours?

By Professor Mark Moloney, Sydney Bailey Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry At interview for my Fellowship at SPC I was asked, ‘And what is the use of Chemistry?’ I do not remember what (feeble) answer I gave, but in retrospect I have spent the bulk of my career coming to at least some sort of response, and in recent years I have become interested in specific commercial applications of our own academic research in chemistry.

A particular interest for me for a long time has been disinfection and hygiene, and the events of the last two years have focused many scientific minds on innovation related to Covid infection.

In my case, we wondered if we might be able to find a way to make material surfaces antiviral, by destroying the Covid virus on contact. This would have particular use in, for example, face masks and PPE, which would not only slow or prevent the spread of infection but also permit the reuse of these materials. The disposal of single-use PPE creates a substantial environmental burden, and the global used-PPE mountain is colossal in size (there are estimates for the disposal of 4.5 trillion face masks in 2020 alone, and 65 billion singleuse gloves monthly throughout the pandemic, contributing to over 8 million tons of pandemicrelated plastic waste). So that leads to the question, ‘Might we be able to make PPE antiviral?’ The simplest solution would be to coat the surface with an antiviral layer, but this is not necessarily trivial since PPE is made from hydrocarbon polymers from an oil feedstock, and is very hydrophobic (i.e. does not wet with water easily); coating it with anything can be challenging because it wets very poorly (indeed, this is why it finds so many applications in packaging, clothing, and engineering materials) and achieving the formation of an even, thin coating is highly problematic.

The coating process (L to R): dipping coating, drying, and the finished fabric.

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Our solution came from a collaboration with Oxford Suzhou Centre for Academic Research (OSCAR) in Suzhou, China, which arose from a mutual interest to see the application of university innovation in a commercial setting. My research team there was working on a novel coating strategy, using a natural gel material sourced from brown algae in the marine environment, called alginic acid. This material is very hydrophilic and, when hydrated, forms a viscous gum suitable for coating many materials. We wondered if this might provide a solution to our coating challenge, and were delighted to find that it could be used to coat many materials––polypropylene, polythene, PET, aluminium, cotton, nylon––giving a strongly adhering layer which could then be used to impart antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral activity, by inserting a further appropriate chemical agent into the surface layer. This idea worked much better than we might have hoped, and we have spent much of the last year developing the technology in detail to satisfy ourselves that it is robust, scalable, and cost-effective. We found that the surfaces with this treatment were antibacterially active against common infectious agents, including both Gram positive (e.g. Staphylococcus aureus) and Gram negative (e.g. MRSA) agents, common fungi (e.g.

Aspergillus), but most importantly against viruses, including Covid-19.

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With these assessments complete, our next challenge was to scale the process up from the 10mg of material need to coat 2 cm2 on the lab scale to something significantly larger, in which we needed to make 5 kg of coating and use that for coating up to 100 m of polymer sheet. This proved to be a big job! At various stages our lab looked like a washing room, in which the coated material was hanging from the ceiling to dry, but we have recently improved our sophistication and have had access to a roll-to-roll coater, in which the material passes through a bath of the coating agent fed in by rollers, giving a controlled even surface coverage, and allowing for appropriate drying. This material has been converted into face masks, and we now have the first batches for evaluation. In the course of this work, other possible applications emerged, largely relating to public transport. Even after the pandemic has eased, post-Covid, the possibility of cross-infection in public areas remains significant, and public transport is noteworthy for the large numbers of people transiting or occupying small volumes of space, contacting handrails, carpets, and seat fabrics, where there is limited capacity for refreshment of air. Therefore, being able to coat the surfaces of carpets, floor coverings, curtains, and seat fabrics, as well as filters in air handling and conditioning units, with antiviral agents, provides an immediate important opportunity for reduction of disease transmission. Once again, though, this simple concept is not easy to execute in practice, where, for example, regular abrasion would be expected to remove a surface coating quite quickly. This idea thus needed further evaluation, and we are currently wrestling with some unusual questions––how to assess abrasion and wear in fabrics, how to decide how long a filter remains effective to kill bacteria, how humidity affects function, how to assess antibacterial function over time . . . the list goes on.

Notwithstanding this simple concept, there are many trivial and not-so-trivial considerations to address in the implementation of new technology. One relates to toxicity––clearly, the coating needs to be toxic to bacteria and viruses, but not to the wearer, and an interesting challenge is how to assess that suitable specificity has been achieved! Another relates to colour: surface

treatment often leads to (inadvertent) colour change, most usually yellowing, which is not often well received by consumers. This is not something that can simply be tuned out of a coating process, since the colour is a direct manifestation of the chemical composition. Another is odour. These side effects of the treatment can be enough to render new technology unacceptable to the consumer, notwithstanding their principal benefit, but because they can only be assessed in the final stages of development, a lot of earlier (expensive) research and development work can be irretrievably lost if there is a late adverse finding.

Simultaneously, we have also been working to upscale our process to the 1 tonne level––a significant uplift from the 100 g of our lab scale––and to coat 1 sq km (yes, km!!) of plastic sheet each day! The scale of global face mask production––almost exclusively in China––is colossal, and the modification of production processes at this scale is very unwelcome (even if there are evident advantages) unless there is a near-certain guarantee of a successful outcome. To have a production plant unnecessarily out of operation for days is very expensive, and similarly so is any change which does not allow return to full levels of output.

Our current plan, therefore, is to create a facility which we run ourselves, allowing an intermediate scale of coating, so that we can assess how well our process runs at moderate scale before we implement full production scale.

Promoting our work at a local exhibition in Shanghai.

This scheme has brought interesting challenges while we locate premises and install coating machines which are 10 m in length. We have no idea what we are doing––but unless we can do it, and do it successfully, no one will accept our technology! We have come a long way over the last year, and there is still much to do, but the light is beginning to appear at the end of the tunnel, and we are becoming more confident that we might achieve a successful outcome in the not-too-distant future.

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From the Living There is Nothing to Fear

By Dr Cora Gilroy-Ware, Fellow and Tutor in the History of Art and Associate Professor of the History of Art To date, most of my research has centred on the achievements of artists who have been dead for at least a century. For years I avoided working on any material by living practitioners because I was reluctant to give up any of the freedom one has when interpreting art of the distant past. Reflecting on it now, I am reminded of a line in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s 1809 novel Elective Affinities, in which one of the protagonists, Charlotte, declares that ‘from the dead we have nothing to fear’.

Not only was I drawn to dead artists; I also chose to cultivate an area of specialism—late 18th- and early 19th-century British academic sculpture— that was vastly under-researched. The works of artists such as John Bacon, Thomas Banks, and John Flaxman among others have frequently been dismissed by previous generations of scholars on the grounds that they are derivative, mawkish ripoffs of Graeco-Roman marbles. I felt comfortable tending to the patch of garden I created in the weeds of this unkempt field.

Lessons of the Hour book cover

In the past few years, however, I have had the unexpected opportunity to work with living artists, collaborating with them on projects that involve the interpretation of their latest work, often as this work is still in the process of being created.

Although very different to tending to my lonely sculpture garden, I have enjoyed this process and its distinct challenges. In 2018 I J.P. Ball Studio 1867 Douglass (Lessons of The Hour), 2019 © Isaac Julien began a project with Sir Isaac Julien that resulted in a sumptuously illustrated book centred on Lessons of the Hour, his filmic portrait of the African-American activist Frederick Douglass. This book was published by the artist’s studio in collaboration with the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester in February 2022.

One of the exciting things about Lessons of the Hour is that it is a layered, diachronic artwork that, like many of Julien’s achievements, takes on a different form each time it is exhibited.

In addition to soliciting fresh scholarship on Frederick Douglass, the book allowed us to consolidate the themes of the

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different installations of Lessons of the Hour to date. The work was first shown between February and May 2019 in Rochester, where it consisted of a 10-screen film installation accompanied by a series of portraits of characters from the film processed as tintypes, a 19th-century photographic technique Julien used to pay tribute to Douglass’s fascination with photography. That April, a series of still images from Lessons of the Hour was exhibited at Metro Pictures Gallery in New York City. This display featured large photographic prints from the 10-screen film, some of the tintypes, and some found archival photographic prints dating from Douglass’s lifetime. For Douglass, photography was a new technology that promised to combat racism by showing people of colour not as brutal stereotypes, but as unique, varied, beautiful individuals.

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movement that became internationally recognized in 2014 was, by 2019, a formidable presence in the consciousness of many visitors to the exhibition, yoking the stills from Who Killed Colin Roach to the numerous protests against police violence that have taken place over the course of the last eight years or so, particularly in the US. The following summer, the politics of Julien’s 1983 work were recharged following the tide of protests in response to the 2020 murder of George Floyd.

Who Killed Colin Roach was made while Julien was still a student at St J.P. Ball Salon 1867 (Lessons of The Hour), 2019 © Isaac Julien Martin’s School of Art in London.

Although technically a documentary, it eradicates any division between an accurate, Together with these photographs, the display at informative visual record of the subject and an Metro Pictures included a series of stills from aesthetic reflection on the aftermath of Roach’s Julien’s very first film, Who Killed Colin Roach. murder. Hard-hitting words from the various Made in 1983, so over thirty-five years before interviewees are amplified by the transcendent Lessons of the Hour, Who Killed Colin Roach power of the film’s reggae soundtrack, while the is focused on the death of Colin Roach, a young greyscale bleakness of London in the early 1980s black British man, outside Stoke Newington finds its perfect representational vehicle in the Police Station that same year. Footage of the grain of super-8 video. numerous protests that took place after this incident appears alongside poetry performed by In the book, we chose to include stills from Benjamin Zephaniah and interviews with Roach’s Who Killed Colin Roach alongside images from grieving family. Displaying images from Lessons Lessons of the Hour, thus sealing the connection of the Hour and Who Killed Colin Roach together between the 1983 and the 2019 film. Although created a rich tapestry of resistance, a temporally one’s personal freedom as a scholar is inevitably complex weaving of histories of violence and curtailed when collaborating with living artists histories of activism, spanning Douglass’s who are informing how their work is described, lifetime, in 1983 and 2019. The artist used the there is a different, but equally rewarding freedom display at Metro Pictures Gallery to visualise the to be found in making these kinds of connection vital connection between Douglass’s campaign across different eras of an artist’s work. Although against racism in the 19th century, and subsequent Colin Roach and Frederick Douglass have little in battles against racial discrimination and violence common beyond the colour of their skin, art allows in the anglophone world. As a display, it for us to draw their names together and consider showed that photography was one of the threads their legacies under one light. connecting each of these moments in time.

The contemporary context for this display was highly significant. The Black Lives Matter

Daguerreotype of Frederick Douglass, c. 1855 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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of his political imagination. Partly because of this, we began this book project thinking about the publication itself as a work of art. One of the things that interested me was the fact that Douglass’s lifetime witnessed the emergence of the art book.

Prior to the second half of the 19th century there had been volumes of prints that were available to elite collectors, but the art book as we know and understand it, a finely presented volume of images and text, emerged at precisely the time in which Douglass was establishing himself as an activist.

Stills from Who Killed Colin Roach, 1983 © Isaac Julien

An exact contemporary of Douglass was the queer Oxford classicist and writer Walter Pater, a direct influence not on Douglass, as far as we know, but on one of his intellectual and political heirs, the Harlem Renaissance author Alain Locke. Pater was a pioneer of the kind of publication that was designed to be haptic and sensual as well as literary and informative. Cherished by Oscar Wilde during his time in prison, Pater’s book The Renaissance is a manifesto for the Aesthetic Movement that began to grow in Britain during the years in which Douglass crossed the Atlantic to England and Scotland. Pater insisted that the first edition (1873) be printed on special materials, including ribbed paper with a corrugated surface, to make the book an art object as well as a consolidation of texts. Pater’s fixation on the haptic and generally sensuous aspects of the book was in my mind during those early conversations with Julien. Together we decided that we wanted it to be partly a catalogue to accompany the 2019 work, partly meditation on the politics of antiracist activism from Frederick Douglass to the present, and partly artefact/aesthetic object in and of itself.

Frontispiece and title page of My Bondage and My Freedom, 1856 (The New York Public Library)

I began working on the Lessons of the Hour book shortly after finishing my first monograph, The Classical Body in Romantic Britain, published with the Paul Mellon Centre in association with Yale University Press in 2020. The opportunity to work with Julien came at the right time, just as my garden among the weeds was finally in good shape, allowing me to step away for a while and work on other things with different people. The project taught me that there are different kinds of creative freedom, and that, contrary to the words of Charlotte, from the living there is nothing to fear.

Lady of the Lake (Lessons of The Hour), 2019 © Isaac Julien

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Return to Tumbledown

By Dr Tim Clack, Chingiz Gutseriev Research Fellow in Archaeology and Anthropology and Director of Studies in Archaeology and Anthropology In this fortieth anniversary year of the events of 1982, the Falklands War Mapping Project explored the possibilities of using archaeology for therapeutic effect.

Falklands War The Falklands War, which began on 2 April 1982 with the Argentine occupation of the Islands (Operation Rosario) and ended with their surrender to the British Taskforce (Operation Corporate) on 14 June, resulted in the deaths of over 900 people, including 649 Argentinians, 255 British service personnel, and 3 islanders. The war was informed by a longstanding sovereignty dispute between Argentina, which calls the archipelago ‘Islas Malvinas’, and the UK. The war has been described variously as: ‘a freak of history’ (Max Hastings); ‘two bald men fighting over a comb’ (Jorge Luis Borges); ‘an imperialist revival’ (Ezequiel Mercau); ‘forgotten’ (Hugh McManners); and ‘curiously old-fashioned’ (Lawrence Freedman). Caution was taken by both sides to ensure a limited war––limited in time, geography, objectives, ways, and means. However, the psychological and physical traumas of this war have been by no means limited nor unremembered.

Indeed, many veterans of the Falklands War and those who lived under occupation live each day with the impacts and injuries. Time by itself does not always heal.

A Project of the Personal The Falklands War Mapping Project (FWMP) is a collaboration between Oxford University, Glasgow University, the Falkland Islands Museum and National Trust, and Waterloo Uncovered, a veteran welfare charity. Under the direction of the author and Prof. Tony Pollard (Glasgow), the project team comprises archaeologists, anthropologists, heritage specialists, artists, and veterans. In many respects it is a ‘project of the personal’. Most of the team are of an age such that they can remember the situation unfolding and many have friends and family who were involved directly in the events. Importantly, the project has also enjoyed the input of veterans and islanders as core members of the team. The first season of fieldwork was completed in March and April 2022 and focused on the survey of Mount Tumbledown, the site of a fierce night battle on 13/14 June 1982. Battlefields, of course, often continue to serve as a focus for symbolic conflict long after physical fighting has finished. Tumbledown is no different and, for example, memorials are sometimes removed or defaced (Argentinian memorials are targeted primarily, but there have also been incidents of damage to British ones).

In an attempt to mobilise the potency of the Tumbledown battlefield, the FWMP aspired to use it as a vehicle of veteran catharsis.

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Mount Tumbledown In comparison with many battlefields from other wars––those in Europe from the two World Wars, for example––Mount Tumbledown has been less transformed in the decades that followed. The low footfall and location have, in places, ensured better preservation of remains. That noted, over the past forty years the landscape and materials have not remained untouched. People have collected relics; livestock and vehicles have damaged features; the weather (this latitude being described as the ‘furious fifties’) has decayed exposed remains; and craters from exploding ordnance have started to heal. As Tumbledown sees the highest levels of visitation––not only is it the site of an iconic battle of the war but is located approximately 4 miles to the west of Port Stanley, the main settlement, and is thus comparatively accessible––systematic survey has been prioritised there.

Battlefield Survey Surveys of battlefields can reveal a lot. Unlike historical sources and memories linked to battles, material remains offer what might be described as a more neutral account of events. Through archaeology, the silent remains get to speak. The scale of analysis is also often wider and goes beyond personal experience. This is not to imply memories have less value––testimony from those who were actually there can be crucial––but physical remains can challenge accounts, fill in gaps, and enhance understandings. Thus, the project has been able to interdigitate different scales and forms of evidence.

On Tumbledown, the team found lots of Argentine military positions. These remains inform us as to the depth and preparation of defensive positions, materials used in their construction––lots of material, such as angle-irons, corrugated metal sheeting, and railway track, was scavenged from elsewhere on the Islands––and how soldiers adapted to the harsh conditions. Argentinian forces inhabited Tumbledown for two and a half months and for most of that time their fight was

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against the conditions. Lots of evidence was found indicating some of the ways soldiers adapted to an environment for which they were ill prepared–– everything from building shelters and cooking stands to butchering sheep and eating looted tins of food.

As one would expect, working on battlefields, particularly recent ones, means working to strict risk-management procedures. The risk of Unexploded Ordnance [UXO] is high and great care must be taken. During the season on Tumbledown, we stayed alert to risks. Before starting in the field, we were thankful for a detailed UXO brief from the British Army which outlined the types of things that had been found in the past, including grenades, anti-personnel mines, and artillery rounds. None of these were encountered by the team on Tumbledown fortunately, but finds did include live rifle rounds and expended casings, both British and Argentinian, from the battle. As per local regulations, after recording them they were passed to the Royal Falkland Island Police in Port Stanley for disposal.

Veteran Contributions It was a privilege to be in the field with two people who lived through the Battle of Tumbledown.

Both veterans of Left Flank, Scots Guards, Jim and John were young men when they fought in the battle and the experience lives with them four decades later. Both have had issues with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder [PTSD] from their experiences but the courage they exhibited in 1982 was present again in 2022 as they, in their words, ‘faced their demons’. Their contribution to the research was immense. They were able to talk the team through their personal actions on the night of the battle––taking us step by step through the terrain––and offer crucial context on finds and features. They were also able to deploy their experience as soldiers to assist the survey by asking questions of themselves: ‘where would I dig in if I had to defend this ridge?’, ‘which position offers the best cover?’, ‘where is the threat coming from?’, and ‘which ground do I

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and spending time with locals. Immersion and exposure to the location of past trauma, under controlled conditions, has allowed them to make new memories and associations.

need to dominate?’

The return to Tumbledown was emotional.

This was, of course, a place of deep personal significance to both veterans. They also felt the archaeological side of the project was important–– they wanted to help tell the story of the battle.

Their involvement was unique: this was the first time anywhere that veterans had been involved in the archaeology of a battlefield on which they themselves fought. As such, they saw the return as part personal pilgrimage and part responsibility.

As trusted friends, they benefited from returning together and speaking to each other about their memories and how these aligned with what was being found. This became a process of mutual meaning-making and something they described as ‘very special’. John and Jim also commented that the process of archaeological mapping helped them understand the wider battlefield and actions of others.

Towards the end of the field season and with quiet dedication, John and Jim spent a day polishing the Tumbledown memorial. Recalling their ‘inner guardsman’, they buffed the metal until it was sparkling and, in a deeply moving moment, laid a wreath to their fallen brothers in arms. Rod Eldridge, the project’s welfare officer, worked closely with the veterans on the project. They revealed to Rod that, despite it being emotionally draining at times, they thoroughly enjoyed their return to the Falklands, working with the team,

Veterans of the Falklands War often have the impression that it is a forgotten episode of history and, in turn, that their sacrifices were not worth it.

The response of the locals to the fieldwork ensured Jim and John felt valued. (The local community in the Falkland Islands was also central to the fieldwork. A cohort of local volunteers assisted enthusiastically with the survey on Tumbledown and the FWMP ran a series of ‘art and conflict archaeology’ sessions with schools and museum groups.) The project will continue to offer support to the veterans. Time will tell on the long-term outcomes, but the initial signs are positive.

Going Forward We are now in the process of analysing the mapping results, which includes drone survey, photogrammetry, and LIDAR data, and triangulating these against historical sources.

This will take several months. Doug Farthing, the project artist, himself a veteran of the Parachute Regiment, has been producing artwork linked to his time with the team on Tumbledown. (An exhibition of the art and photography of the FWMP is to be held in the College Chapel, 4–18 November 2022.) The team will return to the Falkland Islands next year for further survey and to share results. Veterans will, once again, be central to the team, and Jim and John will return as mentors. The author will also travel to Argentina to interview veterans and share results. In the longer term, the project intends to map other 1982 battlefields, including Mount Longdon and Mount Kent. More details and images are to be found on the project website: https://www.falklandswarmappingproject.uk.

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What’s in a Shield? The 1929 Granting of the College Arms

By Dr Alison Ray, Archivist and Records Manager As first Master of St Peter’s, Christopher Chavasse (1884–1962) understood the importance of establishing a visual identity and history for the newly founded permanent private hall. Between 1928 and 1929, Christopher personally oversaw the creation and design of the arms of the hall, and the records of this fascinating process are preserved today in the College Archive.

or viewer’s left) representing St Peter-le-Bailey Church and the other (sinister or viewer’s right) signifying the arms of his beloved father and hall founder, Francis Chavasse, who had recently died in March 1928. However, the contemporary York Herald, Philip Cary, informed Christopher of a problem with this plan. The right to arms depends upon direct descent in the male line from an ancestor whose arms have already been granted by patent, but the Chavasse coat of arms used by Francis had not been legalised.

Fig. 1: The Grant of Arms to St Peter’s Hall, dated 19 December 1929 (SPCA, GB9/2/1)

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The granting of new coats of arms in the United Kingdom is strictly controlled by the College of Arms, which was founded in 1484 and operates under Crown Authority. Christopher enlisted the help of Charles Franklyn (1896–1982), a noted expert on heraldry and academic dress, to design a shield to his specifications, one side (dexter

Christopher hurriedly sent out letters to extended family members to find any connections to the shield used by Francis in his episcopal seal as bishop of Liverpool, even tracking distant relatives in Canada, but he eventually agreed to pay approximately £100 to patent the Chavasse arms with a bishop’s mitre added to the design. The final shield entails ‘a cross gules, surmounted by a mitre of the third between four martlets sable, the whole within a bordure gold’. The Chavasse coat of arms made one of its first appearances in St Peter’s in the memorial reredos of St Peterle-Bailey (now the College Chapel) installed in 1929 and dedicated to Christopher’s mother, Edith Chavasse (d. 1927).

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close links to the founding Chavasse family and the city of Oxford’s rich medieval history. The name ‘St Peter-le-Bailey’ refers to the church’s location in proximity to Oxford Castle, which appears on the shield in grey with the crossed keys of St Peter in gold, against a field of green: ‘per pale vert and argent, dexter two keys in saltire or, surmounted by a triple towered castle of the second, masoned sable’. Charles further shaped the key handles to feature the letter ‘C’ for ‘Chavasse’.

reredos as well as on blazers, stationery, and china cups, before the Grant of Arms, illuminated on parchment and sealed by the three Kings of Arms, was formally issued to St Peter’s Hall on 19 December 1929. A large charter measuring roughly 39 cm × 52 cm, the grant was copied and illuminated on parchment and sealed by the three Kings of Arms.

The crossed keys were also subject to theological debate by Oxford dons, according to a letter by Christopher to Charles dated 3 July 1929. He queried the wards of the keys being presented as the same: ‘For would the same keys unlock the doors of Heaven and Hades? I don’t know if the keys of the Pope’s arms are the same but the matter was discussed in an Oxford common-room the other night, and the opinion was that St Peter should have two keys with different wards, one for each of the two gates he unlocks.’ The papal arms in fact display matching wards in reference to Christ’s statement to Peter, ‘I will give you the keys of the kingdom of Heaven’ (Matthew 16: 19). This may have been an accepted answer, as matching wards appear in the final design.

Christopher was determined to have the St Peter’s coat of arms issued in time for the opening of the hall in Michaelmas 1929 and even sent newly wed Charles the following message: ‘My warmest congratulations on your marriage. I hate to worry you on, what may be, your honeymoon, but I am anxiously awaiting the drawing of the coat of arms for St Peter’s Hall’ (letter dated 29 July 1929). Charles replied several days later from his honeymoon destination, the Palace Hotel in Torquay. The College of Arms sent Christopher the designs and colours for use in the Chapel

Fig. 2: Letter dated 15 June 1928 from Charles Franklyn to Christopher Chavasse outlining the design of St Peter’s coat of arms, including the letter ‘C’ for ‘Chavasse’ in key handle (SPCA, GB9/1/1)

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Archaeology & Anthropology

By Professor Edith Sim

By Dr Timothy Clack This has been a rewarding year for Archaeology & Anthropology. As ever, the undergraduate and postgraduate cohorts worked hard in their respective studies. The lifting of Covid restrictions throughout the year saw a welcome return of certain aspects, such as teaching with museum collections, study trips, and fieldwork. In Michaelmas, we were joined by Bolong Wong as a Visiting Student from Jilin University, China.

The second years discussing collections in the Pitt Rivers Museum, March 2022.

The three finalists received excellent degree results and researched a wide range of dissertation topics. These included: an ethnographic investigation of gentrification in London’s Elephant and Castle; the ethics of the display of human remains; and bodily perception in the dance tradition of classical ballet.

In week 5 of Trinity Term, Lucy Koster and Ashley Wong, two recent graduates from the degree came back to College to talk to students about ‘life immediately after Oxford’. We were impressed to learn that Lucy is doing a PhD at Aberdeen researching Pictish isotopes and genetics and, after a digital apprenticeship with Google, Ashley is working for Singapore’s National Heritage Board and involved centrally in the delivery of the country’s first outdoor museum. The current students also appreciated the opportunity to ask questions about job applications, internships, and the ways that the degree has been relevant to their current endeavours.

Another alumnus, Etienne Berges, who works in the NGO sector, had an essay published in an academic book on the role of cultural heritage in peacebuilding initiative in Rakhine State, Myanmar.

Ashley Wong (left) and Lucy Koster (right) visit College, May 2022.

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On 3rd September 2021 an alumni celebration was held for Biochemists at St Peter’s. It was a lovely late summer evening and we were delighted, after a full year’s delay, to be able to hold the event. Due to the lock-down circumstances, the Gaudy was eventually arranged at short notice, but as a result of the success of the evening and of the correspondence from those who were unable for a range of reasons to attend, it appears that a similar event held every three years would be ideal.

A former Biochemistry student, John Elcock (198993) (www.johnelcock.co.uk) gave an excellent introduction to the evening in the chapel talking about his paintings and also how his scientific studies had influenced his art. John has generously donated one of his paintings (The Jackdaws of Bevagna) to the College; and it is currently housed in Nick Lakin’s rooms.

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The artistic side of the Biochemistry cohort was also on display during the evening when a present undergraduate (Lewis Stubley, now in his fourth year) played the cello as guests entered the Hall.

We are also particularly grateful to Professor Judith Buchanan for hosting the event, and to her husband, Dr Kostja New, for joining us. We also thank their son, Douglas Buchanan, for creating a relaxed atmosphere during the guests’ arrival, as he played jazz numbers on the piano.

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educational experience which it provides. Online lectures remain very popular, even when live lectures are provided, and so an interesting question will be how this pairing evolves over the next few years to enhance the teaching experience. For chemists, the re-introduction of laboratory sessions has been well received from an educational and social context; and the recently completed Chemistry Teaching Laboratory is on the way to finding its full application, having been idle for significant periods during pandemic isolation. A major change to the structure of Chemistry at St Peter’s has been the appointment of a new Fellow in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Dr Adam Kirrander, currently at the University of Edinburgh, who will be joining us from October 2022. Physical Chemistry teaching has been ably provided by Dr Dean Sheppard, who I gratefully thank for his attentiveness to all of his teaching and to the needs of our students during his time with us.

Earth Sciences It was wonderful to catch up with former students who have gone on to a range of careers including a Professor of Biochemistry, a consultant physician, and others at earlier stages of their careers, or where they have adapted as employment opportunities have changed. Peter Newell, Nick Lakin and Edith Sim were present, covering the full span of Biochemistry teaching at St. Peter’s, and each welcomed their former students. We were also delighted to welcome Professor John O’Connor, our Emeritus Fellow in Engineering, and his wife Gemma. Prof O’Connor is related to John Elcock by marriage. Peter, Nick and Edith look forward to welcoming the Biochemists back in 2024. The evening was such a great pleasure, as well as useful for exchanging ideas. Those who wished were given a tour of the new Biochemistry building on the following day.

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By Professor Mark Moloney A return to normal – or, at least, new normal – face-to-face teaching this year has been widely appreciated by students and tutors for the better

By Professor Bob Hilton The 2021/22 academic year was another where we had to face the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we were very pleased to be able to return to in-person, face-to-face teaching.

A particular joy was the return of our much-loved field trips, where students build significantly on their skills from the classroom and laboratory. The St Peter’s Earth Scientists were able to enjoy trips to Pembrokeshire, Cornwall, Assynt, and Cumnor amongst other places. We are looking forward to trips coming at the start of next academic year – Bermuda, Greece and the ever-glamorous Dorset fieldtrip.

Another pleasing return was that of our Earth Science dinner. Unfortunately, Bob Hilton was unable to join due to COVID, but we were able to get the whole cohort together to enjoy an evening in the college SCR, with Joe Cartwright hosting (and providing Choral entertainment). We are very much looking forward to welcoming back Alumni to the Earth Scientists Dinner next academic year.

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The St Peter’s Earth Scientists had lots to celebrate academically. Our finalists did very well indeed, with Dan Phillips, Alec Damley-Jones and Sam Hollowood all receiving 1st class degrees, and Sam awarded the MOAP Prize for outstanding 4th year project on climate. Ana Pantazopoulou (3rd year) was awarded a department prize for her outstanding Independent Essay on “Weathering as a CO2 source or sink”. Ana and Amy Wahab (3rd year) won places on a NERC Research Internship programme at Cambridge. Isabelle Goddard (2nd year) was awarded the Keith Cox mapping prize for her exemplary work deciphering the geology of Assynt. Finally, Zoe Guy (1st year) and Ben Webb (2nd year) contributed to excellence beyond their degree, with University team Varsity match call ups in Rugby League and Football.

Engineering Science

By Dr Tom Adcock Another difficult year for the students as pandemic restrictions came and went. Despite this, our engineering dinner was held again and had a record attendance; and it was delightful to catch up with many former students.

We were delighted to run our two-day, fully-funded, “residential” programme for prospective students in person—although unfortunately both Professors Monroe and Adcock caught COVID in the days leading up to this which led to some last-minute changes. The quality of the students we attract to this is exceptional and the programme is producing a steady stream of undergraduates joining the college from backgrounds under-represented in the university.

We were delighted that our stipendiary lecturer Dr Jon Gammell won a silver teaching award from the department, in part for his college tutorials.

Mathematics

By Professor Lionel Mason It has been a relief that, with the winding down of the pandemic, in-person teaching has come back and we have even been able to have social events; our Pure Maths Lecturer, Otto Overkamp, gave us an introduction to Arithmetic geometry at one of these; at the other, Balázs Szendrői gave us a talk on Mathematics in Africa. Our Applied Maths Lecturer, Omer Gurdogan, leaves to take up a Lectureship in Southampton and we wish him well.

We are also very sorry to be losing Balázs Szendrői, who has been a Tutorial Fellow in Pure Mathematics here since 2005 and is leaving us for a Chair at the University of Vienna. Balázs joined St Peter’s from Trinity College, Cambridge, via postdocs in Warwick and Utrecht. He came with his wife, Kriszta, a distinguished linguistics scholar specializing in Yiddish studies who is now the Professor of Information Structure in Linguistics at University College London.

Soon after his arrival, Balázs became Tutor for Admissions. In this role, he was pro-active in outreach, giving talks to schools on the beauty of mathematics and contributing to University policymaking surrounding diversity and fairness in the admissions process. He went to great efforts to put these ideas into practice at the College level, bringing in students from disadvantaged schools - often students with lower test scores, but in whom he had

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detected some spark at interview. Some of them have gone on to Firsts and PhDs, and all have been interesting to teach. Balázs later took on the role of Senior Tutor, implementing several forward-looking policies, such as strengthening single-tutor subjects and introducing mock-Finals exams.

Whilst with us, Balázs’s research has gone from strength to strength. He was a recipient of a Humboldt Research Fellowship for experienced researchers in 2012 and held a Royal Society Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship in 2014. He is a master of categorification, defining both motivic and non-commutative Donaldson-Thomas invariants.

His work is not confined to his specialist area of algebraic geometry either; he takes an interest in mathematics broadly, having published papers on networks and big data and mathematical physics.

Many of his former students and postdocs now have academic positions in departments around the world.

Many colleagues find it hard to keep all the balls in the air with just their regular teaching, research and administration duties, but Balázs has always done so with a surplus energy. His artistic interests extend to the influence of mathematical symmetry on Islamic art and, most recently, he has curated an exhibition of the abstract but expressive `Thought-Forms’ of the Hungarian thinker and artist Lajos Szabó in St Peter’s Chapel. He also has a longstanding fascination with Africa, seeking to improve mathematics research on the continent. As part of this effort, a number of our St Peter’s undergraduates have travelled to Cameroon, Ghana and Kenya to teach mathematics in math camps, a unique and formative experience both for those teaching and for those taught.

So it is that the College is profoundly grateful to Balázs for all his service and to Kriszta for providing the stable support that has enabled him to do so much in his time here. A thing that perhaps hasn’t been emphasized enough though is how much fun it had been to have him around - as a dynamic force with new ideas and enthusiasm. Vienna is lucky to be taking Balázs and Kriszta from us and we wish him and his family joy in their new home.

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By Dr Huw Dorkins During the absence in 2021/22 of Dr Huw Dorkins on sabbatical leave, overall responsibility for preclinical medicine has been in the extremely capable hands of Dr Claire Pearson. Claire is an immunologist at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology. Her research focuses on how the intestinal immune system interacts with the bacteria residing within us, and how changes in the balance between this microbiome and the immune system can affect inflammatory disease.

Claire has been a very effective tutor of the medical students; this is reflected in the strong set of Final Honour Schools results in Trinity term.

We are delighted to welcome Professor Randy Bruno as the new Tutorial Fellow in Neuroscience. He holds a joint appointment with the University Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics. He joins the college from a faculty position at Columbia University in New York. He undertook his PhD at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. This was followed by a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research before he moved to Columbia. Randy’s research interest is the cerebral cortex. This part of the brain mediates the highest levels of cognition, from sensing our world, applying learned knowledge, making decisions, to executing movements. His group is working to uncover principles of cortical microcircuitry and computation by exploiting electrophysiology, cellular imaging, cellular manipulation, and computational modelling—all in the context of behaviour.

Other new members of the teaching team in 2021/22 have included Dr Sanjay Ramakrishnan (Systems Physiology) and Dr Manu Shrivastava (Anatomy).

Sanjay is a respiratory physician currently completing a research degree in the Respiratory Medicine Unit of the Nuffield Department of Medicine, while Manu is a surgeon in training based at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

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with Dr Pamela Lear of Oriel College, Harriet has been a highly effective teacher of neuroscience for our preclinical students. We hope she will remain a member of the wider St Peter’s medical community, and continue to do some teaching for the college.

In the clinical years, Dr Susanne Hodgson continues to provide continuity of teaching and oversight of St Peter’s graduate entry and clinical students. Susanne now has a team of Associate Clinical Tutors who provide additional clinical teaching in their own areas of expertise such as radiology and surgery, to complement the main teaching provided by Dr Hodgson.

by Iranian-born German writer and journalist, Asal Dardan, from her 2021 collection Betrachtungen einer Barbarin [Observations of a Barbarian].

Dardan’s parents fled Iran during the 1979 Iranian Revolution when she was just a baby, and arrived in Cologne where she grew up. The essay we have been translating reflects on questions of migration, identity, and what constitutes the (ever-untranslatable) ‘Heimat’.

We continue to be very grateful for financial support from the Pearman Fund for German, which has enabled students to complete research projects and dissertations which required travel, as well as to buy essential coursebooks.

One highlight of the past academic year was a fascinating talk given by Sir Terence English, former Master of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, on the beginnings of heart transplantation in the United Kingdom. The event was hosted by the Master in Canal House and was very well attended. Sir Terence was accompanied by Lady Judith English, herself a distinguished psychiatrist and former Principal of St Hilda’s College, who also spoke about her own career in medicine.

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By Dr Claire Williams and Dr Joanna Neilly This academic year has not been as disrupted as the last one, meaning that St Peter’s Modern Languages students have managed to depart for their Years Abroad across the world and return to Oxford, their language skills honed, to complete their degrees.

Our second-year students have been participating in the Diversity Translation Project, an initiative of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, for all languages, masterminded by St Peter’s Fellow (and King John II Professor of Portuguese), Phillip Rothwell. The project aims to highlight the great variety of excellent writing by minorities in contemporary cultures, and the translations may be selected for publication upon completion. Our St Peter’s German group, in collaboration with their Hertford colleagues, have been translating an essay

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In December, we said a fond farewell to Sandra Kotzor, who has been organising tutor for Linguistics at St Peter’s and Hertford for eight years. In recognition of her baking expertise, we gave her a cookery book and some Great British Bake Off merchandise, including a Star Baker apron. Taking over from Sandra is Dr Afra Pujol i Campeny, a specialist in Old Catalan syntax.

Félicitations to Anthony Walker, a finalist studying French and Portuguese, who has won the Clarke Prize with his poem ‘Ma Bicicleta’, written in Occitan dialect.

Congratulations also to Jamie Green (German and Italian) and Rafael Martins (Portuguese) who were awarded their DPhils this year, and to all our finalists on achieving excellent results in trying times.

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Henry V with Royal Shakespeare Company actors and hosted an ‘in conversation’ with actor Akiya Henry about playing Beatrice in the RSC’s recent production of Much Ado About Nothing. She continues as chair of the Cameron Mackintosh Drama Fund Board and of the Electoral Board for the Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor in Contemporary Theatre, contributes to the work of Oxford’s Humanities Cultural Programme through its Advisory Board, serves as a government appointment on the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission, and has been elected to the Council for RADA (The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art).

This year PROFESSOR JUDITH BUCHANAN spoke at the University of Edinburgh on the classicism of Shakespeare’s late plays, at the National Film Theatre, BFI Southbank, about the work of ground-breaking silent-era film star Asta Nielsen, and at Sotheby’s New York to mark the occasion of the sale of a rare 1623 Shakespeare First Folio. At Sotheby’s invitation, she spoke about the significance of the Shakespeare First Folio per se and about the specifics of the particular copy for sale, complete with its marginalia (pertinent and diversionary) accrued down the centuries. The volume fetched $2.5m at auction. She ran an online masterclass workshop on

PROFESSOR DARON BURROWS continued work on his three-volume critical edition of the Anglo-Norman Verse Psalter, an early thirteenthcentury metrical translation (often very loose) of the Gallican version of the Old Testament book of Psalms, and was particularly honoured to deliver the annual memorial lecture at Aberystwyth in honour of David Trotter, the sorely missed editor of the Anglo-Norman Dictionary.

DR TIMOTHY CLACK convened his ‘Culture at War’ undergraduate option paper for the first time. He continued his other teaching and supervision of research students. As of Trinity Term, he also mentored a Visiting Fellow from the Somali Red Cross at the Changing Character of War Centre.

In October, he had an article published in the British Army Review on threats to Iranian cultural heritage. In November, the Falkland Islands Journal published his write up of archaeological excavations at a British World War II camp outside of Port Stanley. In January, he wrote a piece for The Conversation on the security implications of climate change.

Tim accepted invitations to speak at a number of events: a Defence Human Security Advisor course at Shrivenham on culture in conflict (October); Oxford’s Natural History Museum on climate change and conflict (November); a climate security session with COP President Alok Sharma MP (February); and a ‘Fields of Conflict’ conference in Edinburgh on the archaeology of the Falklands War (May).

Tim directed fieldwork on Mount Tumbledown as part of the Falkland Islands Mapping Project (March/ April) and at the site of Battle of Waterloo in Belgium (July).

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PROFESSOR GORDON L CLARK, Halford MacKinder Professor of Geography Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow at St Peter’s has published a number of papers over the past academic year including “Agency, sentiment, and risk and uncertainty: fears of job loss in eight European countries”. This paper draws upon a research program on precautionary behaviour with Zurich Insurance which used advanced statistical methods and bespoke surveys across 18 countries designed to understand responses to risk and uncertainty notwithstanding differences in underlying employment conditions across the world. As well, Professor Clark gave a number of major presentations including a keynote address to the global economic geography conference in Dublin.

There, his presentation was devoted to the role of finance in giving effect to global economic and political objectives. His advisory work continues including chairing the IP Group’s ethics committee along with commitments to significant US FinTech start-ups. He is also a university-appointed trustee on the Oxford Staff Pension Scheme.

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His other activities in the year have included work with colleagues on the completion of a new textbook on clinical genetics and genomics, to be published later this year. He also served on the nominating (appointing) committee for the next ViceChancellor, who will take up office in January 2023.

During 2021/22 PROFESSOR DANNY DORLING has continued to look into statistics about the pandemic. He has published several comment pieces on the possible implications of the continuing pandemic, and continues to believe that it is still too early to be at all sure of what its medium-term implications may be. He is not just interested in its health implications, but also in the social and economic effects of the worldwide slowdown in areas ranging from population movement and productivity to the number of children being born both worldwide and in the UK. Alongside his DPhil student, Lu Hiam, he has published a short editorial in The British Medical Journal on the terms of reference of the forthcoming

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enquiry into the pandemic; and papers in journals on topics including current employment trends in academia (Geography), trends in homelessness, and in health more widely. He is also looking into the implications of the cost of living crisis and how the pandemic, austerity and Brexit has (and is) affecting the distribution of poverty and income in the UK. Thankfully public talks have resumed and so he can travel a little again to give these.

On 5 April 2021 PROFESSOR TOM EARLE made it to the age of 75. He was surprised and touched that, some time later, this anniversary, which he had thought was only important to him and to his immediate family, was marked by a special conference and a dinner, organized by his kind friends and colleagues in the Sub-Faculty of Portuguese. The conference was about Portuguese literary culture around 1500, a highly significant year not just because it marked half a millennium, but because in 1499 Vasco da Gama had returned from the first voyage to India. It was a moment when great things were expected, and it was especially gratifying that a number of scholars from Portugal were able to come to St Peter’s and talk about them.

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It is indeed agreeable to have the odd laurel to rest on, even if only briefly. However, Tom also continues to write and to publish, though sometimes very slowly.

One article which appeared this year had been submitted nearly a decade before. He has also finished his edition of Rui de Pina’s Crónica de D. Afonso V which now awaits a publisher.

PROFESSOR LAWRENCE GOLDMAN, Emeritus Fellow, published Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain (OUP, 2022). The book explains how the collection and analysis of statistics changed subjects like medicine, natural science, economics and sociology, and began the professionalisation of government. He lectured at the Royal Statistical Society, and participated in an ‘In Our Time’ programme on Radio 4 on Charles Booth, the Victorian social investigator. He objected to the request made by his undergraduate college, Jesus in Cambridge, to remove the monument to the cavalier Tobias Rustat from the college’s chapel.

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DR KEVIN HILLIARD published an article on Johann Hugo Wyttenbach (1767– 1848), a leading figure of the Enlightenment in Trier. Later in life Wyttenbach taught the young Karl Marx. The article appeared in a Festschrift presented to Ritchie Robertson on the occasion of his retirement as Taylor Professor of German: From the Enlightenment to Modernism: Three Centuries of German Literature. Essays for Ritchie Robertson, ed. by Carolin Duttlinger, Kevin Hilliard, and Charlie Louth (Cambridge: Legenda, 2021).

PROFESSOR BOB HILTON: This year saw a large project come to an end. ROC-CO2 which was a European Research Grant (ERC) Starting Grant focused on better quantifying and understanding the release

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of carbon dioxide during rock weathering. With it, two significant papers from the project were published. The first revealed a previously unrecognised link between climate and CO2 release from rock weathering – showing that CO2 emissions increase with temperature, challenging our current thinking of the long-term carbon cycle (Soulet, Hilton et al., 2021, Nature Geoscience).

Second, we developed a new geochemical tool, being the first to explore the rhenium isotope system in soils, sediments and rivers, and showing its use to track weathering (Dellinger, Hilton et al., 2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters).

Another large project has recently started. Bob is leading an ERC Consolidator Grant – RIVESCAPE – which will determine how carbon dioxide and methane release from river surfaces may change over the coming decades. We are currently hiring the research team and graduate students, and this research will form the focus of Bob’s research over the coming years. Bob was also recently awarded a Fell Fund Pump-priming award to facilitate the building of a new “Ionomics” Water Geochemistry facility in the University.

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for the project “Compulsory licensing for expensive medicines” prepared by the Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE), an independent federal research institute in Belgium.

This report is timely when public attention to IP rights and its role in the pharmaceutical sector has significantly reinvigorated due to Covid 19.

Also, in the same month, Van Anh was awarded the Social Research Fund of £4000 to research “What are the British and French colonial legacies on IP laws of Southeast Asian countries?”. While the implications of British patent laws can be found in the Indian 1970 Patents Act, similar effects on its SE Asian colonies have not yet been identified. Likewise, the French influence on some African countries’ IP laws have been well understood but its legacy in IP legislation of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia is largely missing from current literature.

DR ADAM LEWANDOWSKI was awarded the title Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Science in September 2021.

He has also been awarded a £2 million, five year MRC programme grant together with colleagues in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine that started in February 2022 to help understand how hypertension during pregnancy affects the heart, brain, and blood vessels throughout the life of women, as well as the children born after such a pregnancy.

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Our tutor in Applied Mathematics, PROFESSOR LIONEL MASON, has been making up for lost time during the pandemic, attending conferences around the world focused on a variety of topics — from the scattering of gravitational waves, through to holography (in which gravity theories in space-time are understood from structures on their boundaries at infinity) and geometry. He takes sabbatical in Paris next year at the Institut des Haut Études Scientifique and the École normale supérieure.

DR TIM MAWSON has continued to enjoy his teaching and research duties for the College this year. Over the course of the year his paper ‘Why might God create?’ was published in Religious Studies and his chapter ‘Am I here by accident?’ came out in L. Vicens and P. Furlong (eds.) Theological Determinism: New Perspectives (CUP).

DR JOANNA NEILLY is starting work on a new book project, provisionally titled Winter Worlds: Transtemporal Critiques of a German Tradition. This is a new contribution to adaptation studies via the case study of the Romantic poet Wilhelm Müller’s cycle Die Winterreise (1824).

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conditions for homeless mothers in California. Joanna spoke about the “Wandering Winter Poets” Wilhelm Müller and Heinrich Heine on 12 October 2021 for an in-person and livestreamed lecture at the Oxford Lieder Festival. She has also expanded her public engagement work this year by appearing on BBC Radio 3’s “Free Thinking” programme to discuss E.T.A. Hoffmann on the 200th anniversary of his death.

Hoffmann was a true polymath – a musician, music critic, composer, artist, author, and a professional lawyer – whose influence has spanned continents and genres, most notably in opera and ballet.

The programme aired on 22 June 2022 and is still available to listen to on the BBC Sounds website.

Our Tutor in Statistics, DR GEOFF NICHOLLS, was on sabbatical in Michaelmas and Hilary terms. This was an enriching and productive time, attending online seminars around the world, coming up to speed with recent developments in Machine Learning and Computational Statistics and their applications to Data Science and leading a vibrant research team. This included three papers on work with archaeologists, including Amy Bogaard from St Peter’s, on data from early farming methods, that engaged also in deep problems of model misspecification in statistics, and a separate problem on ranking data related to questions from the St Peter’s College Librarian on witness lists from the 12th century! He returned to full teaching mode in Trinity.

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PROFESSOR BALÁZS SZENDRŐI’s academic year started off with two major, though remote, activities in East Africa: teaching at a summer school hosted at AIMS-Rwanda, and at a workshop hosted at the University of Nairobi. He was then very pleased to be able to return to face-to-face activities in Autumn 2021, both in teaching and research, hosting research collaborators from Nigeria and Kenya in Oxford. A highlight of the Spring was running a major workshop at Chicheley Hall for the Abram Gannibal Project, a collaborative research programme in applied algebra and geometry in Africa. At the end of the academic year, Prof Szendrői is leaving his post at St Peter’s College and the University of Oxford, moving to a Professorship in Algebraic Geometry at the University of Vienna, starting in September 2022 (see also Subject News).

ELEANOR TINGLE, the Dean for Welfare, was formally elected Chair of the British Association for Music Therapy (BAMT) in November 2021. Eleanor has been a music psychotherapist for nearly 30 years and continues to be involved in the development of the profession. The work of the BAMT is to support music therapists in the UK in a variety of ways including advocating for the profession in the wider context of other Allied Health Professions; supporting post graduate music therapy training courses; providing CPD opportunities; running a biennial conference; and connecting

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Eleanor also continues to provide clinical supervision to music psychotherapists and remains strongly connected to clinical work focused on areas including traumatised children and young people; gender identity; acute mental health concerns; and end of life.

Following the publication of Made in Britain: Nation and Emigration in Nineteenth Century America (2020) DR STEPHEN TUFFNELL has resumed research on his second monograph Uncle Sam in Africa: The Sub-Saharan Origins of American Empire, c.1867-1910.

He has also begun collaborative projects with scholars in the United States on the history of “US-Africa relations in the long-nineteenth century”, and with scholars from Australia on “The Global Gladstone” examining the global impact and memory of Britain’s fourtime Prime Minister. He would especially like to thank the St Peter’s Foundation and the O’Connor Fund for supporting his research through a generous gift that enabled him to employ a Research Assistant to develop the final chapter of Uncle Sam in Africa, which will examine Anglo-American relations in the Boer War. PROFESSOR DAVID VAVER, an emeritus fellow of St Peter’s who retired as Professor of Intellectual Property & IT law in

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2007, and is currently Professor of IP law at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, continues to publish and speak on IP. Among his addresses this academic year were the 51st annual Donald C. Brace Memorial Lecture to the Copyright Society of the USA on “User Rights: Fair Use and Beyond” (November 2021); the keynote address to the Ontario Library Association’s Copyright Symposium on “User Rights in Canadian Copyright Law” (December 2021); and the 14th Annual Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture on “Mr Justice Laddie and his intellectual property cases: of millefeuilles and a fish called Elvis”, presided over by Sir Robin Jacob, an honorary fellow of St Peter’s (June 2022). The talks were all live-streamed and are available on YouTube, as well as UK, US, and Canadian law journals.

PROFESSOR PAUL WHITEHEAD attended the COP26 meeting last November and this followed on from his attending the first Global climate and biodiversity meeting known as the Rio Earth summit, representing UK Universities and the UK Natural Environment Research Council.

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around Dhaka, in order to assess current pollution and control strategies, as well as climate change impacts.

Paul has also written a new lecture course called Surface Water Quality, Modelling and Management which will go online in September 2022 and be available to academics, students, industrial and Government partners.

DR CLAIRE WILLIAMS has enjoyed being able to attend conferences in person once again, as Covid restrictions eased over the course of this academic year, although she has also participated in a number of online events.

First was the biennial conference of the Association of British and Irish Lusitanists, in Newcastle, in September. Brazil Week, in February, commemorated the centenary of the arts festival known as the Semana de Arte Moderna [Modern Art Week], which represented a watershed moment in Brazilian culture.

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exhibitions. Claire and her co-organisers decided to mark the occasion by recreating the original Semana by inviting specialists from around the world to talk about the same subjects one hundred years later and to reflect on the legacy of Modernism today. Academics, writers, actors and musicians from across the UK and further afield joined students and staff from Oxford via Teams to discuss Brazilian culture. The grand finale was a ‘lecture show’ by singersongwriter Adriana Calcanhotto from her studio in Rio. Later in February, Claire participated in an event to mark the publication of the translation into English of Paulo Scott’s novel Phenotypes (And Other Stories, 2022), along with colleagues from the University of Sheffield and UCL, the translator (Daniel Hahn) and the author himself. The novel, about racial tensions in Brazil, was longlisted for the International Booker Prize.

In May, Claire was delighted to speak at a day conference at the University of Salamanca celebrating the awarding of Spain’s most prestigious literary award, the Queen Sofia Prize for IberoAmerican Poetry, to the Portuguese poet Ana Luísa Amaral (one of whose works is a Prelims set text).

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honorary doctorate for Brazilian film director Walter Salles.

Claire’s paper discusses his 2004 film The Motorcycle Diaries.

One of the projects that Claire has most enjoyed being part of this year is ‘Maps of Confinement’ (www.mapasdoconfinamento. com). It’s a collaborative project, organised by two Portuguese writers, which involves publishing short texts and artworks evoking the experience of living through the pandemic produced by authors from across the Portuguese-speaking world.

The works are being translated into English, Mandarin and French and published online, and eventually (hopefully) in book form. In June 2021, Claire was invited to participate, so she mobilised her former and current students, and the Oxford team’s efforts can be now be read in the online magazines (https:// www.mapasdoconfinamento. com/english). It is not only a wonderful means of discovering new writers, but also, for Claire, an excellent way of keeping in touch with students who have recently graduated and others on their year abroad.

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By Niamh Fearon The MCR has thrived and flourished this year into a social hub that St Peter’s can be very proud to call its own. Starting the year with a jam-packed Freshers’ week schedule, the MCR committee put in a huge amount of effort to throw events almost every day of Week -1 running into ‘Noughth Week’.

This helped create a tight-knit community that then went on to enjoy Oxford both academically and socially throughout Michaelmas, into Hilary, and drawing to a close in Trinity.

Freshers’ week saw our students enjoying ice cream in Chavasse quad, guided city tours by MCR members well versed in all of the quaint nooks and crannies of Oxfordshire streets, and cosy movie nights. Our students also got to enjoy matriculation in person this year, as Oxford was filled with the conveyor belt of black and white sub-fusc on Broad Street and Radcliffe Square.

Finally, the end of Freshers’ week culminated in the Amazing Race. This is where students group into teams with their College parent and spend a few hours treasure hunting and completing tasks racking up points, with the ultimate goal of finding the ‘Golden Snitch’ hidden away in a topsecret location.

After the hustle and bustle of Freshers’ week, the rest of the year gave us all an opportunity to rest and relax with some well-earned welfare events led by our amazing VP Vassi. With the new MCR cohort also came two new MCR dogs – Ruby and Laura. It turns out dogs are the perfect way to entice people into the MCR for some tea and biscuits and a well needed chat. We also celebrated the huge amount of cultures and identities that are represented in our MCR community this year. We hosted LGBTea events, had a dumpling feast for Lunar New Year, and enjoyed souvlaki and dancing at Greek Night. Our MCR piper, Angus Phillips, stole the show at this year’s Burns Night formal with his Highland Dress and rendition of Auld Lang Syne.

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SPC MCR continues its record of amazing sporting achievements this year. We’d like to congratulate our two resident members of the Oxford University Boat Club, Megan Stoker and Roman Röösli for competing in the Boat Race this year. Many members of the MCR made the short

trip down to the banks of the Thames to watch the men’s team secure victory for the first time in six years. Peter’s also enjoyed rowing success in this years Summer Eights competition, with a total of 4 crews winning blades. Many of these teams were made up with large MCR contingents, and we plan to proudly hang the blades in our common room soon, though we may not have space for so many! The Peter’s/Hilda’s women’s football team also triumphed in both 11-aside and indoor 5-aside competitions, claiming both the Hassan’s Cup and Futsal Cuppers trophies this season.

They also enjoyed playing in a brand-new purple kit blazoned proudly with a set of cross keys and unicorn, making us the most stylish team Marston grounds have ever seen. Up the Heaters!

I am so pleased that the year 2021/2022 has been such a delight to be a part of, and would like to take the opportunity to thank all the members of the MCR that made this such a wonderful year to experience. I am very much looking forward to seeing what we do in the future.

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By Keelan Daye This past year was incredibly significant as the College, the country and the world emerged from the pandemic and entered what we might consider ‘normal’ College life, many of us for the first time. After several terms that necessarily lacked BOPs, formal halls, spectator sports, and in-person teaching, the JCR community was very excited to discover or rediscover these aspects of life at St Peter’s. A key challenge for the JCR committee this year was keeping up with the traditions and institutional memory of the College, planning and hosting events the likes of which we had never attended. We as a committee were incredibly grateful to students in the upper years and to recent graduates who gave so generously of their time and knowledge in order to preserve the JCR’s long standing traditions. It is heartening to see that, even after a long period of separation, there is still such a strong desire among the wider Peterite community to come together: where many communities, even in Oxford, struggled to find their feet in a post-COVID world, St Peter’s has thrived.

The year began with the Freshers’ arrival. By the time of Freshers’ Week, we could for the most part dispense with masks and social distancing. The inperson matriculation was particularly exciting: the sight of a hundred nervous Freshers milling about the quads in sub fusc was a novel one for many of us. The week was rounded off with the JCR’s first BOP in four terms, with the essential ‘Come as Your Subject’ theme.

Michaelmas also saw the long-awaited return of MiSC, the JCR’s termly arts magazine. The first issue, with a theme of Vertigo, featured poetry, prose, and artwork from members of the JCR and MCR, as well as others across the collegiate University. Alongside that came an extensive programme of arts-related events, including a MiSC launch party, open mic nights, and a fashion upcycling event.

At the beginning of Hilary, we experienced that most surreal of Oxford celebrations: Burns Night, replete with flamboyant haggis stabbings and bagpipe playing. A bingo night in the College bar raised funds for an LGBTQ+ homelessness charity, Halfway Hall was celebrated by the second year students, and the darts tournament was back in full swing. However, there were also more sombre tones: the conflict in Ukraine cast a shadow over the term. Nevertheless, the community pulled together as it has done so many times before. A minute of silence was observed in the JCR, and welfare events were put on for all those affected by the conflict. The JCR committee also hosted a bake sale, which raised £320 for charities working both in Ukraine and with Ukrainians in the UK. We are proud of the way in which we supported each other, and especially those members of our community who were directly affected by the conflict.

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Trinity Term was highly anticipated: as the sun comes out, so too do the barbeques and punts and bottles of Pimms. Perhaps the highlight of the term was the College Ball, where the JCR Ball Committee welcomed Peterites old and new back to New Inn Hall Street for a long overdue night of Deception, Taylor Swift tribute acts, and hash browns. We saw Linton Quad lit up with fairy lights, Chavasse Quad converted into a concert stage, and the JCR transformed into a ball pit.

one of our members to travel to Prague to play badminton at the international level. Moreover, the College Boat Club had an unprecedented four crews be awarded blades in Summer VIIIs. The JCR made contributions to the College sports scene as well, supporting our burgeoning table tennis and darts leagues. The College sports teams performed spectacularly in cuppers tournaments.

It was a triumphant return for St Peter’s to sports after a long hiatus.

Trinity also saw an Arts Week programme which included karaoke, the inaugural session of the JCR KnitSoc, as well as the annual Garden Play.

Owing to the archaeological wonderland that is known to some as the construction site of the new accommodation buildings, the Canal House gardens were off limits. Instead, Chavasse Quad was brought back to Ancient Athens for two nights of Lysistrata. None of us were sure quite how many innuendos could be included in the script of a play, nor how many togas one could fashion out of old bedsheets and scarves, but the cast and crew certainly surpassed the limits of our imaginations on both fronts.

The JCR also looked to support and celebrate the diversity in our community. The BAME representatives organised a BAME formal dinner, attended by students from across the University. LGBTQ+ members came together for a charity bingo night, as well as a collegewide LGBTQ+ dinner during Pride Month.

We undertook a complete overhaul of the JCR governance structures and constitution which saw the introduction of faith and transgender representatives among other reforms aimed at increasing inclusivity. Many of our members eagerly participated in access and outreach programmes run by the College, which could finally take place in-person again. There is still much to be done, but we know as a community that this is the direction we must go.

We are happy to say we stayed true to ourselves and our values as a community over the course of this year. We donated over £10,000 to various charities which address homelessness in Oxfordshire, support refugees and asylum seekers living in the city, and provide therapy services to those suffering from childhood trauma. The JCR is also supporting three of our own to travel to Ghana in the summer as part of an effort by the University’s rugby league team to bolster a love for that sport among the Ghanaian people.

On the sports front, we saw roaring success at all levels, with several JCR members being awarded Blues in such sports as cricket, rugby league, and rugby fives.

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The JCR has emerged into this brave new world not only intact but stronger than ever. The physical separation required by the pandemic did nothing but reinforce our eagerness to come together as a community, and it was wonderful to see just how keen the members of the JCR were to reconnect with each other and with the wider Oxford sphere.

Despite the unique challenges that came before us, we succeeded in preserving our traditions and furthering our values.

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By Stanley Godfrey, Allen Senior Organ Scholar After two long years of disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a certain jubilation at the Choir’s first rehearsal this year; at long last, we were able to make music together without the need for social distancing, mask-wearing, or other precautions. The Choir was, in a way, back together as if nothing had happened.

This sense of relief – however long into the rehearsal it might have lasted – set the tone for the rest of the year. As the end of 2021 drew closer throughout Michaelmas Term, the Choir tackled a repertoire by composers such as Whitacre, Dyson, and Ireland. Attention, of course, then quickly turned towards the two Carol Services, with the Choir singing an ambitious repertoire by Mathias, Macmillan, and Weir. Throughout this year, there has been a concerted effort to feature works by composers representing groups who do not receive equal representation in the realms of classical music and, more specifically, church music; this has led to the choir experiencing some breathtakingly beautiful music by Judith Weir, Undine Smith Moore, and Imogen Holst – just to name a few – and we are all incredibly excited to discover more over the coming years.

Hilary Term brought the return of large-scale music-making in College with a performance of the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré by the Choir and the St Peter’s College Chamber Orchestra, formed this year by Beth Fitzpatrick; whilst I was personally

unable to take my place in the concert – a rather poorly timed bout of COVID-19 taking me out of the picture – I have been assured by many, from both inside and outside College, that it was a tremendous success. Particular credit must be given to Sian Sulke and Joshua Bamford for their especially gorgeous solos.

The term also brought a particularly special performance in one of our Sunday Evensongs, in which the Choir gave the live premiere of the House Canticles by St Peter’s alumnus, Piers Connor Kennedy. Together with Vinaya Roehrl on the piano and myself on the organ, this was a particularly moving service – the voices of the choir and the controlled anarchy of the instrumental parts coming together in perfect harmony. The Choir is delighted that Piers will be joining us in the 2022/23 Academic Year as our Associate Composer, and we are all especially excited for the potential musical delights such a partnership will bring.

Trinity Term brought a yet more expanded repertoire for the Choir in anticipation of its tour to Liverpool and the surrounding area in June and July, including works by Palestrina, Helen Williams, and Finzi. The Choir’s tour to Liverpool featured a Vigil Mass at the Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral; an organ recital given by the College’s Organ Scholars; an Evensong for St Peter and St Paul’s Day in the Anglican Cathedral; and a concert as part of the Prescot Festival. The Choir is incredibly grateful to our Director of Music, Quintin Beer, for organising this trip, and we look forward to another year of full-throated music-making.

Piers Connor Kennedy, 2022/23 Associate Composer

View of Liverpool Cathedral taken by Quintin Beer

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The Sporting Year This year at St Peter’s sport came back in full force, and what a year we’ve had! This year saw the launch of the SPC sport Instagram, @s.p.c.sport, university wide boat club history being made, badminton setting college records and the return of the rugby cuppers plate to St Peter’s! St Peter’s have vigorously shaken up the leader boards this year, sending a clear message that we’re coming back with a vengeance! I cannot wait to see what’s to come next year for us under the leadership of next JCR sports rep, Milly Troup.

Maddie West-Nelson (JCR Sports Rep)

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The festive season came and went and before we knew it, we were in Hilary! We started the term off with high hopes and good spirits, excited for the Bumps on their way. Little did we know what was to come – Storm Eunice, river flooding and a final round of Covid isolating all did their best to add a little bit of excitement to the frosty days of the Oxford winter. Hilary soon became known as the term of ergs, with the majority of the club

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stuck inside on rowing machines instead of out on the river. We didn’t let this deter us though, with a solid 4 crews qualifying for Torpids in Week 7.

All boats fought their way through some pretty tricky division placements to survive the week net positive. The highlight, however, has to be our M2 who bumped every day, going on to achieve blades. And if you thought that was good, just wait til you hear about Trinity…

Trinity truly was the star of the show. From the off, commitment levels were at an all-time high.

Rowers were back 2 weeks before term began and on the river almost every day putting in the hours. When they weren’t in a boat, they were on an erg and when they weren’t on an erg, they were bumping into people on the street muttering “concede!”, in preparation for Summer VIIIs. And it all paid off. A record 6 crews qualified for VIIIs, a clean sweep of all those we entered, and the most Peter’s has ever had. A singular historic achievement, however, was apparently not enough for us, and we went on to collect 4 sets of blades and go +16 overall, making us the most successful club on the river, and making college boat club history. Short of Headship (we’re working on it…), we really couldn’t have done any better. A phenomenal end to a phenomenal year.

Mika Alvarez Nishio (President)

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Women’s Football The Peter’s women’s football team once more combined with St Hilda’s this season, creating a formula that proved near-unstoppable. Evidence was immediately provided by the team’s first ever game together, a highlight of the season that resulted in a huge 17-0 score line and their first victory of many! The team went on to finish second in Division 2 after winning all their games bar one, a huge feat in such a competitive league. Although the team was knocked out in the second round of cuppers

by Worcester, the eventual semi-finalists, they went on to win the plate final 3-1 against a very strong combined St Anne’s/St John’s team. The team also showed huge amounts of spirit and camaraderie throughout the season. SPC MCR president Niamh Fearon was a crucial part of the team, featuring in almost every game and usually

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sneaking a couple of goals each time. Other SPC players who made key contributions to the joint Peter’s/Hilda’s glory were Julieta Macome, Kim Lopez and Tara Alisha. Jules was one of our top goal scorers; Tara’s pace terrified every opposition; and Kim’s versatility was essential to the team, happy to cover any position with equal success. SPC captain Iona Ffrench-Adam was also a stalwart at the back, with some plucky saves and strong leadership throughout the year.

The culmination of this season of successes was the team winning the futsal cuppers competition on the last day of Trinity term: here they convincingly beat Hertford/Keble with a 6-1 victory in the semi-finals, before storming to a 2-1 win against Foxes in the final. Overall it has been a stellar year for women’s football at St Peter’s, and we look forward to seeing what the next season brings.

Iona Ffrench-Adam (Captain)

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Men’s football SPC men’s football had a truly exciting season this year, complete with a hair-raising conclusion in which the team saved themselves from relegation on the very last day. Unfortunately, after an incredible underdog victory over Hertford in the first round of football cuppers, they were unable to extend their cuppers run further. However, the team’s proudest moment would probably have to be ‘doing the double’ over Teddy Hall, a prime example of the Peter’s chant come true. This year saw many brilliant and varied players donning their SPC shirt with pride. However, special commendation has to

Cricket I knew it was going to be a strong season for St Peter’s College cricket when only five players showed up for the first game. It’s hard to know what to do at the toss when you only have a fivea-side team for an eleven-aside game, but in the

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go to Iván Mahoney and Gabe McCall, who put in stellar performances a mere 12 hours after completing the crosskeys challenge – truly the stuff of folklore. A deserving mention also goes to Freddy Wood, who excelled as a wind-up merchant; as well as Rio Mitani, who will be sorely missed after proving himself a truly positive and committed member in his one and only year at the club. Finally, Patrick Clarke and Harry Crichton-Miller both provided veteranlevel college football experience, making a huge contribution in what may be their final season. Their service to SPCFC is one which has solidified their status as club legends.

Ben Webb (Captain) end, in an undoubtedly alpha move, we informed Hertford that we would have a bat. It soon became clear that despite the aggregate quality of our team being low (due to our sheer lack of players), the average quality was sky high. Ultimately Hertford scrambled past our score of 120 in the 20th over, but I couldn’t’ have been prouder of the eight Peterites – three more turned up halfway through – and was certain, should we ever reach the heights of a full eleven, that we would be a force to be reckoned with.

Indeed, from that moment onwards we went from strength to strength comfortably beating Univ in the first round of Cuppers and sweeping Keble aside in a friendly in week 9.

In between, we were unfortunate to lose narrowly to New in Cuppers, despite an admirable effort from Doug Shaw, our college bursar, who top scored despite his most recent college game being in 1986.

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Undoubtedly the most important game of the season, however, was the annual JCR vs SCR game. The SCR, having won the fixture last year for the first time in living memory, turned up at Exeter grounds with an all-star team: rumour had it that their seamers were touching speeds of 90mph in practice. Alas, due to a pitch which was literally deemed unplayable ten minutes before the game, they were tragically restricted to bowling mediumslow only. The JCR breathed a huge sigh of relief.

The SCR dispensed with the toss and announced they would bat first (which apparently they are allowed to do…) and faced a fired up JCR bowling attack. In particular, George Robson, bowling like Shane Warne in his pomp, tore through the SCR middle order, before a counter attack by Shaw this time playing for the wrong team - saw the JCR reach a total of 82. After a batting wobble saw the JCR go five down, a battling 26 retired from Freddie Wright, and a quickfire 16 from Gabe McCall saw the JCR home.

Overall, it was a tremendous season for SPCCC and I look forward to more fine performances from McCall, Shaw and Fairweather in 2023!

Louis Odgers (Captain)

Rugby Despite a tough year of college rugby across the board, SPCRFC managed to end the year with some silverware in the form of the Cupper’s plate.

The club played friendly and division 1 league fixtures, before starting our cuppers run. After receiving a bye for the first round, we ended up on the wrong end of a very tight fixture against St. Hilda’s. After this however we went on a storming run, besting Catz and Pembroke to reach the cupper’s plate final. We were fortunate enough to have the help of several excellent Wadham players who were without a club, and they all showed outstanding commitment and skill. We fielded a very strong 23 for the Plate final at Iffley road, beating Oriel 10-5 after an arm-wrestle of a contest.

Aside from inter college competitions, our Old boy’s event in 8th week of Hilary was a huge success. A wide range of alumni returned for an entertaining rugby match and an even more entertaining dinner, keeping long standing traditions alive.

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Touch Rugby This year, the St Peter’s mixed touch rugby team met every week for a chilled and sociable session of touch. A highlight would have to be the Michaelmas taster session, which directly followed the first years’ matriculation ceremony – this resulted in several freshers playing in sub fusc, complete with celebratory prosecco instead of water breaks! The team’s primary competitive fixture was the cuppers tournament in Trinity term: the team had a great turnout, even with several players’ exams looming, and they managed to reach the semi-final of the plate competition against some very strong opposition.

Overall, the team really gelled despite the huge range of years, subjects, and personalities on show, evidencing the true power of the classic Peter’s spirit and camaraderie. Freshers Emma Wiggetts and Milly Troup were a vital part of the team’s success, attending nearly every training session, as well as Natalie Hytiroglou and Justin Sy Limkaichong, who both returned to the team after a successful 20/21 campaign. Honourable mentions also go to Anna Williams and Matt Barrett – despite being somewhat late to the party in joining touch, they more than made up for it with their enthusiasm, aggressive tag technique and coaching expertise.

Iona Ffrench-Adam (Captain)

Volleyball St Peter’s volleyball got off to a thunderous start this year, demolishing the Reimenn team in one of the best examples of volleyball ever to grace Iffley Road. Lead on-field by Zeph and Chloe, the dominant tone was set early on with Peter’s controlling the score line and using their sub to freshen up tired legs when required. A late resurgence by the opponents saw the game tied at one set apiece before a couple of strong service games from George and Lucien brought the game home. Through to the quarter-finals the Development squad put up a greater fight. After difficulty gelling Peter’s found themselves at a long series of deuces in the first set. In the next set Peter’s volleyball started picking up but they couldn’t quite manage to convert their chances and unfortunately were knocked out. Looking to next season we are keen for nominations for captain to build on this year’s success and create a true Peterite dynasty.

Zéphyr Goriely (Player)

Basketball SPC basketball had a relaxed start to the year, playing in friendlies in Michaelmas and Hilary, in which anyone who wanted to try out Basketball at college level could give it a go.

This continued into a more competitive term in Trinity where they played in the cuppers tournament in which they got to the quarter finals! Cuppers consisted of a group stage followed by an elimination bracket and again,

anyone was welcome to play, regardless of their experience. In the ground stage they won 2 out of their 3 games and managed to stay in the game till the quarter finals in the bracket. We are very proud of their success this year in such an inviting team sport welcoming all experience levels. The key players this season were: Lucien Mulberg, Josh Hayward, Timothy Schiller, Justin Limkaichong, Marcus Spiegel, Sophie Taylor, and captain Shivani Abensour.

Shivani Abensour (Captain)

Badminton This season saw SPC Badminton team win their first Men’s Cuppers on record! With our two blues players leading the team to 4 impressive victories in the knockout competition. In the league we finished mid table with many different players getting a chance to play.

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RECENT

Professor Randy Bruno As of January 2022, Randy Bruno joined St Peter’s as a Tutorial Fellow and the Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics as a Professor of Neuroscience. Prof Bruno is originally from New Jersey, just outside of New York City. He earned a BS in Cognitive Science at Carnegie Mellon University and then a PhD in Neurobiology from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine under the supervision of Prof Daniel J Simons. He performed postdoctoral research with the Nobel laureate Prof Bert Sakmann at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany. His research during these periods was on the pattern of connections from sensory organs to various cell types of the cerebral cortex.

Brett de Gaynesford Brett de Gaynesford joined St Peter’s College as the Director of Development and Alumni Relations in January 2022. A native of Virginia, she read English at William and Mary and began her career in development working for GuideStar, a non-profit organisation collecting financial information on all US-based NPOs and promoting transparency in the sector. She worked briefly in political fundraising before moving to the UK (now more than 15 years ago), and settling into a career in development and fundraising for education.

She has held posts at University College, Oxford, Magdalen College School, and most recently served as Deputy Development Director at Somerville College, Oxford.

The St Peter’s Development and Alumni Relations team aspires to enrich the long-term relationships between College

Dr Cora Gilroy-Ware As a scholar, I enjoy making unexpected connections between artworks made in different times and places. My publications include an article exploring the continuity between the work of the photographer Cindy Sherman and the 18th century portrait painter Joshua Reynolds. Another teases out a relationship between the sculpture of Antonio Canova—the most famous artist in 19th century Europe— and contemporary fashion advertising. Currently, I am working on a late 18th century British print—The Voyage of the Sable Venus by William Grainger after a painting by Thomas Stothard—and the various reinterpretations of its imagery by contemporary artists, including Kara Walker.

For me, scholarship is a fundamentally creative practice. I am also an artist and express many of the same art historical interests in my non-academic work.

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In 2007 he returned to the New York City area to take up a faculty post at Columbia University, where he led a research group of PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. During this time, he rose from Assistant Professor to a tenured Associate Professor. His work as a faculty member garnered several honours, including the Society for Neuroscience’s Young Investigator Award.

Shortly after his arrival in Oxford, he was awarded a Professorship with the Academy of Medical Sciences.

Prof Bruno will be conducting tutorials in medicine at St Peter’s as well as continuing to lead a research group, which will investigate how microcircuits of the cerebral cortex enable our behaviour, including perception, learning, and decision making. and its wider community, to deliver an ambitious alumni relations programme, and to continue connecting people who want to make a difference with the worthy projects and priorities that ensure future generations can benefit from a world-class St Peter’s education.

Outside of the office Brett is a keen tennis player with a determination to cultivate an interest in gardening despite a lack of natural talent. She lives with her partner, Camille, and her daughter Elisabeth. They are currently expecting a new addition to their family to arrive in Hilary, and after a period of leave, she will return to College in Michaelmas 2023.

Brett is very grateful to have received a wonderfully warm welcome to St Peter’s this year, and has thoroughly enjoyed getting to know many alumni. You can find her and the Team in the Development Office in Staircase 1 - do pop in when passing by and say hello!

Since finishing my first book, The Classical Body in Romantic Britain, I have published an array of articles for scholarly and broader audiences including, most recently, a catalogue essay on William Hogarth’s print The Discovery, co-authored with Dr Temi Odumosu for Tate Britain’s 2021 exhibition Hogarth and Europe. Research into this striking 1743 depiction of racialised female figure placed in a reclining Venus-like position has helped to develop my second book project. Provisionally titled The Ornament Speaks, this book argues that the female artists of African descent who, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, turned to classicism (Edmonia Lewis, May Howard Jackson, Selma Burke) did so as a means of claiming subjectivity in the face of a long history of objectification in European art. In addition to my academic and artistic work, I am also currently employed by the Royal Academy on a major exhibition relating to my research.

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Hannah Hempstead Hannah Hempstead joined St Peter’s College as the College Communications Manager in November 2021.

As College Communications Manager, Hannah is responsible for external and internal communications at St Peter’s College. She runs the St Peter’s website and social media accounts, advises and leads on public relations and promotional matters and manages the visual identity of the College. Hannah also supports the Development and Alumni Relations Office with its communications efforts and other activities. She compiles the termly alumni newsletter, edits Cross Keys and is leading the development of a new biennial donor report publication.

Hannah has degrees in the history of art and historical theology and manages social media for the Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art, an affiliated society of the College Art Association.

Professor Bob Hilton Bob Hilton joins us as the Sackler Fellow and Tutor in Earth Sciences alongside his appointment as SacklerClarendon Professor of Sedimentary Geology. Prior to joining us, Bob was Professor at Durham University. His research focuses on the carbon cycle, and how erosion and weathering processes exchange carbon between the atmosphere (as a greenhouse gas, CO2) and rocks, where it can act as a long-term store of carbon.

sedimentary rocks – when the rocks warm, CO2 release increases. Bob has led a number of projects funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council and the European Research Council (Starting Grant 2015 and Consolidator Grant 2020) and his research has been recognised by international awards – the 2019 Philip Leverhulme Prize, a Finalist in Chemistry for the 2018 Blavatnik Awards, the 2016 Chinese Academy Sciences International Partnership Award for Young Scientists, and the 2014 Outstanding Young Scientist Award from the European Geosciences Union.

He has developed new geochemical methods to track carbon (or other reaction products) in soils and rivers, and applied them to modern river basins around the world. Recent research has uncovered a link between temperature and CO2 release from the weathering

He teaches across the year groups in Earth Sciences on themes of sedimentary processes, weathering and erosion, and biogeochemical cycles (e.g., carbon cycle).

In his spare time, he enjoys exploring the outdoors with his family.

Dr Alison Ray

Prior to St Peter’s, Alison has held roles at Trinity College Dublin Library, Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library, and in the British Library’s Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern curatorial team. She is currently an honorary researcher at the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent, and is Executive Officer of the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature.

Alison Ray joined St Peter’s as Archivist and Records Manager in January 2022. Alison grew up between New York City and Atlanta in the US and Galway, Ireland, before coming to the UK to study History and English Literature as an undergraduate at the University of Glasgow. She then completed her MA in Medieval and Renaissance Studies at University College London, which is where she also gained her PhD in Medieval History under the supervision of Prof David d’Avray.

This was on the Paris pecia system of university book production in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. She recently earned her professional qualification in Archive Administration from Aberystwyth University.

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Before coming to St Peter’s College, she worked at Wheaton College in Chicago on an award-winning marketing and communications team as the Graduate School Marketing Manager.

A native of New York state, Hannah now lives in East Oxford where she enjoys reading, knitting, learning German and volunteering with Asylum Welcome’s communications, advocacy and Afghan resettlement efforts.

She is delighted to manage the College’s archives and records relating to the members, governance, fabric, and history of St Peter’s. She further cares for the College’s silverware and artwork, and looks forward to working with current staff, students and alumni of St Peter’s.

Alison lives in Oxford, and enjoys exploring the city’s museums, historic buildings, and beer gardens.

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By Dr David Johnson It came as rather a surprise when, late in Trinity Term, we received several requests for books to be delivered to rooms whose inhabitants had contracted COVID-19 and, in consequence, were isolating.

This had not otherwise happened since early in Michaelmas. Equally, your Librarian (although not perhaps those more perspicacious Library staff) was surprised when during the usual push to ensure that those leaving Oxford had returned all their books, one undergraduate repeatedly had to extend her loans having contracted the virus and become seriously unwell as a result.

That said, this all represents a major improvement on the situation of ever-evolving rules and higher rates of infection in the previous year. A visitor to the Library in Hilary 2022 would have noticed little difference between the way things were then, and the way they had been two years before. Little difference that is with one exception. For more or less the entire year, the reading-rooms were busier than was ever the case, certainly in recent memory. Readers arrived early and left late; and it was not unknown for those coming later in the day to discover no space could be found, and so leave disappointed. A lack of seating in the Library has, of course, long been a problem. But, as we have noted before, one continuing effect of lock-downs and restrictions has been an increase in the desire for what was denied. Observation of Library users suggests that any desire to work in one’s room has more or less perished. People may wish to work alone; they don’t wish to work in isolation.

We had begun the academic year with in-person inductions to the Library for the first time since Michaelmas 2019. There was some debate about this, although most (if not all) college libraries followed a similar path. Nevertheless, we changed the way in which inductions were offered, not because of COVID but as a response to alterations in the Bodleian’s procedures. They had decided to offer less in the way of instruction on “SOLO”, Oxford’s online finding-aid for information resources. In addition to introducing the Library and its facilities, your librarian and the College’s

new deputy librarian, Rosie Lake, therefore provided a much more comprehensive overview of SOLO than was done before. As a result, we went from not offering in-person inductions in 2020 to spending twice as much time with new arrivals as before the pandemic in 2021.

A major difficulty at the start of the year, and indeed throughout the whole of Michaelmas term, was a delay in completing renovations to the lower floor of Linton House. We were able to arrange for the company that had removed and stored the books normally shelved in the Lower Library to keep them for longer; but consequently, they remained inaccessible until the end of term.

With work-space in such great demand, this delay proved doubly challenging.

New storage for the Wulstan collection was also created at the north end of the lower floor of Linton House. When access to this floor was restored in the last week of Michaelmas term, we were able to recruit a small team of students to help us in moving that collection (we hope for the last time) during the Christmas Vacation.

In large part because of COVID, this year’s theme was “trying to be the same, but ending up slightly different”. Some other changes were more fundamental. Nothing is more important to an organisation than those who make it work.

This year has been “bookended” (pun shamelessly intended) by staff changes.

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The redoubtable Rosie Lake, who joined us in summer 2021, established herself as a formidable presence in, and vital part of, the Library. She voiced new ideas and made different things happen exactly as was wanted. But, sadly for St Peter’s, at the end of Trinity our Library Assistant, Ana Belén Rodríguez Riego, decided to leave Oxford and return to Spain. Ana joined the College in 2016 and, putting it simply, has ever since done everything asked of her with the least amount of fuss, (relatively) quietly and always (supremely) efficiently. She was vital to the Library’s smooth functioning in difficult times. Especially in the year in which we lacked a permanent deputy librarian, Ana kept things running and ensured that your Librarian didn’t entirely lose his marbles albeit that, on occasion, he might temporarily have misplaced them.

Ana now plans to return to work in the Spanish library system. She will be an asset to it, and a loss to St Peter’s. Plus ça change - of course.

Plus c’est la même chose – of course not.

Independent-minded personalities always suggest changes and bring new ideas, as Rosie has done and as Ana did before. But, whilst doing so, the Library’s unchanging objective of facilitating intellectual exploration remains the same. Plus c’est la même chose – of course.

BOOKS PRESENTED DIRECTLY TO THE LIBRARY 2021–2022 Mr D Ashton The family of the late Mr C. Bailey Mr M. Cheesman Dr T. Clack Col. N.A. Collett Prof L. Goldman Mr D. Hardcastle Mr R. Heffer Dr R. Hirschon

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Mr J.R. Knight Mr M. Lazar Mr W.K. Lee Mr P. Longshaw Mr J. Poole Mr M. Tiley Lady Tovey Dr S. Tuffnell Dr C. Williams

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By Douglas Shaw

The short bursarial story is that St Peter’s delivers an amazing Oxford experience on only two thirds of the core spend of the average Oxford college. Our estate is used intensively as a consequence and there is never much slack in the system. As ever, we need to think our way through our issues because we have not the cash to enable simple fixes. In accounting terms, the College closed out the 2021/22 financial year less badly than we had anticipated at the start. A large budgeted operational deficit might yet scrape over the line as a tiny surplus. If so, in large part this is due to the extraordinary generosity of our alumni. Both those who donate directly to College and those who donate through the Foundation have given significant unrestricted support this year for which we are immensely grateful. Additionally, conference revenue in summer 2021 showed the green shoots of recovery and Visiting Student revenue beat earlier expectations.

In summer 2022, it looks like our summer school partners Oxford Royal and Oxford Scholastica are having bumper years from which we too will benefit. It is a tribute to them that they have been able to dial down their businesses and then dial back-up so impressively when COVID allowed. Every single seminar room is being used and the queue of international teenagers for Hall is impressive!

Sincere thanks to Mariola Serednicka, our Head of Housekeeping, and her team of scouts for turning College accommodation around so efficiently and to Charlie Kisiel and Jessica Black for hosting these and other conference partners over the year.

Inflation is an issue, however, with which our Finance Team, led by Kathryn Marshall, is grappling. Our cost base is experiencing double digit inflation across the board (the scope of capital works has been shrunk in response), whereas our revenue lines are seeing only single digit rises. Notably, governmentset per capita undergraduate fee income (about a third of our core income) is unchanged in 2022/23 vs 2021/22. The pinch is being felt. Energy costs are budgeted to be £500k in 2022/23 vs £180k this year. Members of College should expect a muscular approach to any suggestion of an open-window / radiator-on dynamic this winter. Energy costs have given strong additional impetus to our sustainability agenda. Led by Facilities Manager Lidia Hemmings, we have made an application to the Low Skills Carbon Fund.

This external funding, if received, will help us identify the most worthwhile energy/carbon reduction projects, be they secondary glazing or solar panels (record temperatures as I write!).

This, in turn, might become a grant application for a Heat Decarbonisation Plan which, if successful, would pay for material, energy saving and carbon reducing capital projects around College.

In Michaelmas Term, we started a new system by which students pay for their food.

For many years, we have operated Hall on a Pay As You Go basis. Older readers will recall that several previous systems have been used over the years and that cost control might not have been our strong point. But the footfall did not reflect the high fixed costs we incur in bringing ingredients from the Mair Gate to the table.

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Colin retired after 24 years of service

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Getting Hall back on track after COVID was an important milestone. The team, led by Colin Purvis, proved very adaptable at creating meals for walking around to those in isolation but it was a pleasure to see formal halls back on.

I particularly enjoy seeing students’ parents at Thursday guest nights - it always suggests to me that junior members are proud of their own college and want to show it off. But, alas, after 24 years of terrific service, Colin decided to retire. He had overseen so many terrific evenings in Hall and he will be greatly missed.

His eyes moistened as he bade us farewell over some cool beers on the Jonny Fraser Terrace over-looking the History Faculty. His wife, Angie, provided emotional support! We also said good bye to Joao Rodrigues, Colin’s long standing Second Chef and the beating heart of the kitchen. Joao, a Portuguese national, joined us from Nandos 14 years ago, acquired the nickname Elvis on account of his luxuriant and frequently changing hairstyles and became the finished article with us. He is moving to Spain with his young family. Obrigada, Elvis.

Having researched how others do it, we settled on retaining the PAYG basis but with a termly pre-paid minimum spend. The minimum spend is set at different levels depending on where one lives: more for those living in than for those in the annexes; more for those in the annexes than for those living out. We trialled this for Freshers alone in 2021/22 before rolling it out to all in 2022/23. The new system has delivered well: footfall increased and food sales were both more stable and more predictable. Having eaten their way through the minimum, most then topped up to continue accessing our good Hall food. And College community life and the social feel of the Hall have both been well served by the enhanced expectation of eating together on a regular basis.

So, how to rebuild the kitchen brigade?

We had a terrific range of candidates with which to replace Colin. An interview process, more Ready Steady Cook than MasterChef, designed by Kevin Melbourne, our Domestic Bursar one year in to his role, saw Ave Davies appointed Head Chef.

Tony Baughan, once of Wolfson, returned to Oxford, as Second Chef. The early signs are very promising and very tasty!

Our most material capital project is, of course, the Castle Hill House Project. Having excavated down, discovering archaeologicals of interest which delayed the start proper, we are now building up. 114 piles were driven 21 metres deep then filled with concrete. These

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Tony Baughan (left) and Ave Davies (right)

are the foundations for the podium upon which Castle Bailey Quad, bounded by both Damazer and Westfield Houses, will sit. I am assured that I will be given the keys in the last week of May; I dare not tempt fate by remarking we appear to be on budget also, at this time. If this remains the case, these 54 extra rooms will be in the room ballot at the end of Michaelmas. We’ll still be 50 or so rooms short of a 100% offer to undergrads of living in for three years. So we remain on the hunt for more suites of rooms and we thank Andy Dore, Peter Minns (44 years of service going strong) and Gareth Hathaway for maintaining those we do have and our estate more generally.

Work continuing on Castle Bailey Quad

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The Development and Alumni Relations Office Report

By Brett de Gaynesford, Director of Development and Alumni Relations The 21-22 academic year saw St Peter’s emerge from the shadow of lockdowns and restrictions and gradually return to an exciting and dynamic programme of alumni events and activities.

1. The Anniversary Reunion Dinner (1960, 1961, 1965, 1966).

Quiz time!

2. At the inaugural PPE dinner, sponsored by Mr Haarjeev Kandhari: The University Chancellor, The Rt Hon. the Lord Patten of Barnes, and the Master.

The year also brought with it some new faces in the Development and Alumni Relations team – myself amongst them. I joined St Peter’s from having previously worked at two other Oxford colleges. In my first year here, I have so much enjoyed discovering all the things that make St Peter’s the very special place that it is.

The opportunity to get to know our famously friendly community has been a privilege.

During Michaelmas 2021, College began with a gentle, phased process of welcoming alumni back to College in person. The sight of many of you strolling back through the Lodge into Linton Quad in September 2021, for (slightly spaced out) gaudies, and an anniversary reunion dinner, and for the annual Howard Society1 lunch was uplifting for all.

Gaining momentum in Hilary Term as we were able to ease up on the Covid protocols, we launched a full schedule of events, beginning with the Green and Gold Dinner in February celebrating the generosity and loyalty of some of College’s closest supporters.

The annual College Telethon took place in March 2022. It is a great experience for our current

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students to speak with so many of our alumni, to hear their stories and benefit from their advice, while also sharing stories of their own life at St Peter’s. As ever, the alumni community was beyond generous. Thanks to the many of you who donated or pledged donations, over £117,000 was raised. These are much-needed funds that help us continue to support the special tutorial system and valuable College experience for our students – an experience that, as has always been the case, costs considerably more than student fees can bring in.

In Hilary term St Peter’s was also delighted to welcome in to College both the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Louise Richardson, who unveiled the portrait of our previous Master, Mark Damazer CBE, and the Chancellor, Lord Patten, who was our engaging guest speaker at the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Dinner.

In March we were pleased finally to welcome back into College the St Peter’s students who had sat finals in 2020, but who, due to Covid restrictions, had missed out entirely on their final term at Oxford. As soon as the instruction to go home was issued back in March 2020, the Master had told the whole year group that as soon as we were able to, we would invite them all back in for a special compensatory celebration. That anticipated moment then had to be serially delayed, due to ongoing Covid restrictions. But finally, in March 2022 the 2020 completing cohort gathered for a reunion dinner, overnight stay and nostalgic brunch in Hall. It was an opportunity to celebrate their very considerable successes together and to enjoy a moment of joyful farewell to their student days in ways that had simply not been possible in 2020.

Membership of The Howard Society is for all those who remember St Peter’s College in their will.

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We were also excited to host British rapper and musician AJ Tracey to formal Hall, where he met students, lecturers and Fellows, and learned about the experiences of underrepresented groups at St Peter’s, and about the work that the College is doing to ensure that all who deserve a place at St Peter’s are able to come and to make the most of their time here.

The Women’s Gaudy in June offered a wonderful celebration of the many cohorts and generations of women alumnae, who gathered for a dynamic conversation between the Master and Helen Lewis, alumna and author of Difficult Women, followed by dinner and dancing. Former Masters of the College looked down from their gilt-framed portraits, unperturbed, as St Peter’s women from across the generations danced in the aisles.

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Keep in Touch with the Development Office Telephone: +44 01865 614985 Email: development.office@spc.ox.ac.uk Alumni Engagement Officer: Sarah Alford (2018) Development and Alumni Relations Office St Peter’s College New Inn Hall Street, Oxford, OX1 2DL www.spc.ox.ac.uk You can follow us on social media, including Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and our LinkedIn Group.

Photo credits: Edmund Blok

As well as the run of subject dinners and Gaudies, our Benefactors’ Day in June included a service in the Chapel at which the choir sang movingly, and a Garden Party at which the Master was able to issue the heartfelt thanks to donors to St Peter’s for the vital support they give to the life and work of the College. It simply would not be possible for St Peter’s to be the thriving place of scholarship and community that it is without you.

To all who have given donations this past year, please know that every gift makes a difference to the College and to the lives of our students. In our Report for Donors, which will be out shortly, we will be sharing some of the impact this generous support makes, alongside updates on a selection of key projects, including the construction of the new Castle Bailey Quad. We look forward to circulating this Report to all alumni. Thank you also to the many who have been in touch with such warmth during the year.

We hope to hear from you or to see you soon at an upcoming or future event. Or if you are in the area and would like to see College again, please let us know; it is always a pleasure to welcome back old members to St Peter’s.

3. The 2020 leavers’ Covid-delayed reunion celebration.

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CHAVASSE CIRCLE DONORS Anonymous (6) Alexander Mosley Charitable Trust Mr Stephen Diggle (1982) Sir Lloyd Dorfman CBE Dr Mortimer & Theresa Sackler Foundation Edward Penley Abraham Cephalosporin Fund (EPA) The Lord Farmer Mr Jocelin Harris (1964) The Rt Hon the Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts CBE (1961) Mr Charles Ind (1982) Mr Haarjeev Kandhari (1993) Latner Family Latsis Family Mr William Lau Laura Ashley Holdings PLC Lemos Family Perrodo Family Rhodes Trust Rothermere Foundation Sackler Trust Ms Dalia Salaam Rishani (1985) & Mr Ramzi Rishani St Augustine’s Foundation Mr Guy Stokely (1963) St Peter’s College Foundation TEPCO Mr Anthony Weldon

MASTER’S CIRCLE DONORS Anonymous (3) A. G. Leventis Foundation Mr Daniel Bilbao (1978) Sir Ian Davis Mr Peter Foy (1960) Mr Richard Harding (1970) Mr Carl Hughes (1980) Mr Jeffrey Knight (1957) 52 St Peter’s College Record 2022

Landau Foundation Sir Michael Moritz Professor John O’Connor Pepsi Co Foundation Mr Stephan Shakespeare (1976) Thames Water PLC Thomson Reuters Foundation Mr Patrick Turner (1978) Mr Neil Warriner (1981) Mr Stephen Wilcock (1956) Mr Charles Wilkinson (1982) Wolfson Foundation

GREEN AND GOLD CIRCLE DONORS Anonymous Angus Lawson Memorial Trust Mr Robert Appleby (1980) Mr John Bain OBE (1958) Mr Stuart Banks (1992) Mr Jonathan Barry (1999) Mr Michael Batchelor (1956) Mr Gregga Baxter (1978) Mr John Botterill (1958) Mr David Bucknall (1986) Mr Paul Bushell (1964) Mr Robert Calcraft (1983) Dr Robert Calderisi (1968) Mr Sunir Chandaria (1998) Mr Adam Chinn (1979) Professor Thomas Cook (1959) Mr James Dalrymple (2000) & Mrs Sophie Dalrymple (2002) Mr Benjamin Dell (1995) Mr Barry Douthwaite (1958) Mr Roger Dyer (1976) Esmee Fairbairn Foundation Mr John Foster (1970) Dr Jon Fuller (1960) GAV Properties Miss Tara Glen (1988)

Mr Jeremy Greenhalgh Mr Richard Heffer (1965) Dr Takeda Hitachi The Houghton Dunn Charitable Trust Mr David Lane (1982) Mr Clay Maitland Dr Roger Marshall (1958) Murphy Foundation Ox-Academic Summer School Tours Ltd Mr Paul Pearman (1970) Mr Jonathan Petitpierre (1962) Mr Peter Phelan (1964) Mr Anthony Pilkington Mr John Poole (1953) Mrs Tessy Porphyrios Mrs Sharon Powers (1989) & Mr Stuart Powers (1989) Mrs Jacqueline Ranawake (1988) Mr Clive Rutherford (1965) Mr Nicholas Segal (1976) Dr Ian Skidmore (1959) Mr Lawrence Smith (1978) Mr Stuart Smith FRCS (1969) St Peter’s Society Mr Jeremy Taylor (1992) Mr Richard Thompson (1981) & Ms Louise Wood (1981) Mr Anthony Tuckwell (1962) Vandervell Foundation Sir Gerald Warner KCMG (1951) Weinstock Fund Mr David Wharton & Mrs Rosemary Wharton Mrs Susan Wulstan Mr George Yacoub (1954) Mr Faisal Yamani (1995) Yellowwoods Trust Mr Martin Yuen *Bold – New Members of the Circle

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St Peter’s College is grateful for the generous gifts during the year 1 August 2021 - 31 July 2022 from the following:

1946 Mr Michael Tibbs OBE 1947 Mr Eric Gordon 1948 Dr William Craig Mr Richard Hales Mr Peter Harrison Dr Donald Malkinson The Reverend Canon Derek Price

1954 The Right Reverend Colin Bazley Mr Robert Broadhead Mr John Cole Mr Christopher Lilwall Professor Dr Terence Meaden The Reverend Robert Mighall Mr Jim Rogers Dr Derek Rushton Mr Peter Waterman Mr George Yacoub

1949 Sir Kenneth Bloomfield MRIA 1955 Mr John Trueman Mr Roger Bradley* Mr Mike Loach 1950 Mr Barrie Porter Professor John Annett Mr Michael Rogers Mr Frederick Moysen Mr Martin Slatter Mr James Siddons* Mr Brian Weston OBE Dr James Tomkinson Dr Mark Weston 1951 Dr Colin Bailey OBE 1956 Dr Jack Davies* Anonymous Mr Robert Leslie Mr Michael Batchelor Sir Gerald Warner KCMG Mr Keith Garland Mr Eric Wood Dr Tony Hellen Mr John Mellor 1952 Mr Michael Pipes MBE Mr Michael McClew Mr Michael Richardson Mr Gordon Newbery Mr Frank Roberts* Mr Arnold Taylor Mr Terence Stevens Mr Colin White Professor John Widdowson 1953 Mr Geoffrey Yates Mr Frank Cookson 1957 Mr Richard Dilley Mr William Ashton OBE Mr Deyman Eastmond Mr Colin Bailey* Mr Sean Hignett Mr Graham Blackbourn Mr Bryan Maybee JP Professor John Bradfield Dr Bryan Pierce

Mr Christopher Curson Mr Ian Fleming Mr Harvey Glasgow Dr Jean Griffiths Mr Roger Herrera Mr Albert Johnson Professor Meirion Lewis CBE Mr Peter Lewis Mr Ken Loach Mr Nicholas Metcalfe Mr Norman Philbey Mr John Richardson Dr David Rogerson Mr Brian Snelson Mr William Stevenson Mr Hugh Turrall-Clarke

Mr James Dawson Mr John Dobson Mr David Fuller The Reverend Christopher Idle The Reverend Robert Lewis The Reverend Canon Richard Marriott Mr Stephen Metherell Mr David Nuttall Mr Robin Privett Dr John Salinsky Dr Ian Skidmore Mr Richard Wells The Reverend Prebendary John Wesson

1958 Anonymous Mr Charles Akeroyd Mr David Ashton Mr John Bain OBE Mr John Botterill The Reverend Canon David Callard Mr John Carter Mr David Hall Dr Colin Lambert FRCP(C) Dr Roger Marshall Mr Colin Pearson Mr Ken Pye Mr John Strachan Air Commodore Philip Wilkinson Mr John Wright

1960 Anonymous Mr John Armstrong* Dr Anthony Blake Mr Richard Bond Mr David Cox Mr Hector Davie Dr Christopher Davies Mr Gerald Eveleigh Dr Jon Fuller Mr Barry Glazier Mr Frederic Goodwin Dr Peter Hartley Mr John Hermon Dr Geoffrey Kemp Professor Richard Mayne Mr Robert Morgan FRCS Mr Robert Savage Dr Philip Surman Dr David Tibbutt DM FRCP Mr Nick Towers Mr Roy Waters The Reverend Dr Iain Whyte

1959 Anonymous Professor David Berry Professor Thomas Cook

1961 Anonymous (2) The Reverend Dr David Agassiz Mr Anthony Bomber The Reverend Canon John Brown Mr Robert Bryce Mr Richard Bunker Dr Stanley Cameron Professor Dwight Eddins Mr Jonathan Edwards Mr David Giddings Mr Peter Green The Reverend Canon Anthony Hawley The Rt Hon the Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts CBE Mr John Jarvis Mr Michael Jerrom FCA. Mr Christopher Legge Mr Simon Leslie-Carter Dr Christopher Lynch Mr Derek McRonald Professor Graham Orpwood Mr Frank Parker Mr Guy Reeves Dr Derek White Dr Timothy Woolmer Dr David Young 1962 The Reverend Barry Ashdown Sir Roger Bone KCMG Mr Christopher Booth Dr David Edwards Dr Charles Griffin Dr Michael Hulse Mr Brian Jackson

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Mr Clive Jackson Mr Paul Jenkins Dr Andrew King Professor Robin Leake Mr Peter Macleod Mr Norman Maxwell Mr Bryan Morgan Mr Mike Orriel The Reverend Canon John Payne-Cook Mr Jonathan Petitpierre Dr Martin Shain Mr Anthony Tuckwell Mr Paul Wolff 1963 Mr George Armstrong Mr Frank Blewett Mr Richard EdgecliffeJohnson Mr Ian Ewing Mr Patrick Howard Professor Geoffrey Le Grys Mr Geoffrey Nicholson Mr Hugh Norman Mr Derek Parr Mr Michael Percival Mr Christopher Purcell Mr Mervyn Samuel The Reverend Father John Smethurst Mr Guy Stokely Mr Timothy Taylor Dr Keith Thrower Mr John Watson The Reverend Paul Winchester 1964 Anonymous Professor Christopher Ashton Mr Malcolm Burns Mr Paul Bushell

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Mr John Clark Mr Rod Dalmaine Mr Robin Dixon Mr Donald Gardner Mr Jim Golcher Dr Christopher Green Mr Jocelin Harris Mr Bill Homan-Russell The Reverend Christopher Jackson Mr Peter Johnson Dr Hubert Messing Mr David Perfect Mr Peter Phelan Dr John Pidgeon Mr Peter Theodoulou Dr Timothy Ward 1965 Anonymous Mr Ronald Akhurst Mr David Aspinwall Mr Gordon Bottoms Mr David Brearley Mr Alan Brown Mr Owen Darling Mr Andrew Flockhart Mr Richard Heffer Mr Philip Hunwick Mr Brian Jones Dr Roger Kerr Mr John Modley Mr Duncan Paylor Mr John Pope Mr Clive Rutherford Dr David Sturgeon Professor Barrie Thompson Mr Michael Tiley Mr Richard Tudway Mr David Wightman Dr Peter Williams Mr Graham Wood Mr Richard Woolmer

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1966 Anonymous Mr Paul Burden Mr Roy Crowder Mr Jonathan Curtis Mr Andrew Davison Mr Michael Galey Mr Timothy Glasscock Professor Roger Jones OBE Mr Alan Lane Mr Peter Nunn The Reverend Nigel Panting Mr Robin Percival Dr John Pilling The Right Reverend John Pritchard Mr John Rawling Mr Paul Richards Mr Anthony Roberts Mr Alastair Robertson The Reverend Howard Rogers Mr Bob Schofield Mr Stephen Shaw Mr Roger Simpson Mr Timothy Smith Mr Anthony Staples Mr Martin Taylor Mr Stephen Thompson Mr Philip Wilkes 1967 Mr Glenville Ansine Mr Rupert Birtles Dr John Bolland The Very Reverend Philip Buckler Mr James Burrows Mr John Corran Mr Alan Evans Mr David Gordon-Macleod Mr Roger Holehouse OBE Dr Andrew Holton

Mr Patrick Hooper Mr Douglas Johnson Mr Joseph Keating Mr Philip Lawder Professor Merfyn Lloyd OBE Professor Jonathan Poulton Mr Ashley Ray Mr Jeffrey Saunders Dr John Seager Dr John Sloper Dr Geoffrey Thomas Mr Timothy Tiley 1968 Anonymous Dr Jonathan Angel Mr Richard Belfield Mr Michael Clark Mr John Clifford Dr Malcolm Coe Dr Robert Crittenden Mr Guy Fiegehen Mr Stephen Hill Mr Barry Hunt Dr Andrew Jones Mr David Kirk Mr Martin Leeburn Mr Peter Lee-Wright Professor Stephen Nussey MRCP Mr Anthony Ollerenshaw Mr Richard Pengilley Dr Paul Sanders Mr Geoffrey Walker 1969 Anonymous (2) Mr Jeremy Angel Mr Douglas Angus Mr Stephen Berry Mr Ian Birch Mr Patrick Callaghan

Dr Philip Christie Professor Douglas Davies Dr Anthony Gore Mr John Hall MBE DL Mr David Hart Mr Ian Hill Mr Ronald Jenkins Mr Anthony Lessiter Mr John Noyce Mr Clive Nunn Mr Edward O’Neill Mr John Round Mr Kim Slater Mr Jeremy Stickings Mr Philip Wiper 1970 Anonymous Dr Christopher Austin The Reverend Monsignor Christopher Brooks Mr Richard Brown Lieutenant Colonel Nigel Collett Mr John Evans Dr Nicholas Evans Mr David Frampton Mr Peter Garforth-Bles Mr Richard Harding Mr Ronald Higham Mr Victor Knight Dr Dennis Leuer Dr Peter Lilley Mr Anthony Newman Councillor David Norman MBE Mr James Savin Mr Steve Shepherd Dr Nicholas Simpson FRCS Sir Nigel Teare Mr Mark Westaway Professor Mark Williams

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1971 Anonymous Mr Roger Adams Dr Stephen Bailey Professor David Bradshaw Mr David Brigginshaw The Reverend Christopher Butt Mr Michael Colinese Mr Stuart Cooke Mr Jerome Curran Dr Martin Dace Mr Geoffrey Hatcher Mr Alan Heath Mr Stephen Hughes The Reverend Peter Jackson* Mr Paul Kendall Dr Ervine Long Dr John Marshall Mr Ian Mason Mr Jerry Moore District Judge David Potts Mr Stewart Roberts Mr Stephen Roman Sir Stephen Stewart Mr John Towers Dr Ebrahim Versi Mr Christopher Wain 1972 Mr Paul Adams Mr Ian Biddlecombe Mr David Campbell Mr Christopher Dale Dr Ian Dennis Mr Martin Eldred Mr John Gabriel Dr Peter Galliver Mr John Glencross Sir Andrew Hamilton

The Reverend Dr Paul Hancock Dr Simon Helan Mr Howard Hull Mr Peter Johnson Mr Norman MacLeod Mr John Overs Dr Charles Pell Commodore Michael Potter CBE Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope GCB OBE ADC Mr Robert Wade Mr Robert Wilson Mr Anthony Withnell 1973 Anonymous (2) Mr Robert Atkins Professor Richard Bessel Dr Richard Brady Mr John Clark Dr Christopher Davies Professor Gerard Evan Professor Nicholas Goddard Mr Jonathan Harwood Dr Malcolm Heyward Mr Matthias Holland Dr Richard Hollins Dr Norman James Mr Peter Jones Mr David Kerry Mr Richard Leafe Mr Charles McDowall Mr Martin Moss Mr Phil Nicholson Mr Paul Rowson Dr John Sheldrake Mr David Sheppard Mr Leslie Sheppard Mr Trevor Ward

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Mr Simon Williams Mr Philip Wood

Mr Richard Wilkinson Mr Stephen Wilkinson

1974 Anonymous (3) Mr Stephen Callen Mr Paul Chamberlain The Reverend Paul Day Professor David Edwards Mr John Gavan Mr Michael Hicks Mr Robin Hodgkinson Mr Andrew Mercer Dr Christopher Minns Mr Steve Perkins Dr Alexander Popovich Mr Stephen Pull Dr Grant Rhode Mr Graham Shore Dr Christopher Waddington Mr Hugh Watson

1976 Mr Roger Dyer Mr David Dzimitrowicz Dr Paul Evans Dr Philip Hirst Mr Julien Hofer Mr Robert Kendrew Mr Timothy King Mr Guy Leach Mr Alan Mason Mr Nigel Penn-Simkins Mr Nigel Perry MBE FRENG Mr Alistair Poulton Mr Philip Squire Mr John Stephenson Mr Peter Tonissoo Professor Rory Wilson

1975 Anonymous Mr Robert Ashley Mr Peter Bettley Dr Roger Brambley Mr Andrew Burnett Dr James Chan Mr Christopher Chantler Dr Mark Eller Mr Peter Finch Mr Matthew Hayes Mr Brian McMahon Mr Richard Millward Mr Douglas Nicholls Dr Richard Rahm Mr Mark Rogers Mr Neil Rostron Mr John Tyler Mr Ian Walker

1977 Mr Nick Cattermole Mr William Clare Professor Sir David Eastwood DL Dr William Evershed Mr John Fray Mr John Guthrie Mr Michael Harris Mr Stephen King Mr Robert Kirk Mr Mark Klimt Mr Gavin Millar KC Mr John Ngumi Mr Martin Nicholls Mr Ian Parker Mr Martin Pearman Mr Bruce Potter The Reverend Geoffrey Riba-Thompson

Mr Allan Silverman Mr Mark Simmons Mr Roderic Sparks Mr Andrew Tarling Mr Andrew Wright 1978 Dr Alan Bacon Dr Michael Barnard Mr Sherry Bates Mr Gregga Baxter Professor John Benson Mr Richard Brake Mr Anton Bray The Reverend Dr Michael Carreker Dr William Chapman Nyaho Professor Kevin Dunn Mr Ian Edward Mr Nigel Grice Mr David Hardcastle Mr Mark Powell The Reverend Robert Ritchie Mr Lawrence Smith Mr Nicholas White 1979 Mr Mark Allen Mr Martin Benjamin Mrs Karin Carver Mr Nicholas Fellows Mr Christopher Horril Mr Nicholas Martin Mr Jeremy Morrish Mr Christopher Parker Mrs Ruth Scotson Dr Christopher Slinger Mr Julian Townsend

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1980 Anonymous Dr Thomas Bailward MBBS MRCGP MRCPCH Dr Geoffrey Barrett Mr Martin Diggle Employment Judge Mark Emerton Mr Brett Hannam Mr Simon Harding Mr Simon Hardy The Right Reverend John Holbrook Mr Adrian Hopkins KC Professor Robert Huddart Mr Carl Hughes Mr Mark Jackson Dr Robert Lunn Mr Patrick Nichols Ms Karen Popp JD Mrs Helen Riddle Mr Jonathan Riddle Mr Mark Wilson Mr Nicholas Worth Mr Ian Yorston 1981 Mr Waseem Baloch Mrs Sarah Biggs Dr Neill Burgess Dr Sara Caine Mr Ivor Chomacki Mr Nicholas Cummings Ms Joanna Duckworth Mrs Sarah Garrett Mr Richard Hillebrand Mrs Judy Luddington Mr Vincent Lugthart Dr Carole Lunn Dr Thomas Martin Dr Kevin Morgan

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Mrs Michaela Mouquet Mrs Paula Packman Mr John Rabin Mr John Steveni Mr James Thompson Mr Richard Townsend Mr Marc Versloot Mr Karl Wallendszus Mr Christopher Woodward Mr Jonathan Yousafzai 1982 Anonymous (4) Mr Alistair Carder-Geddes Mr David Chalfen Mr John Clark Mrs Nicola Halls Dr Ronald Haynes Dr Lawrence Impey Mr Thomas Jenkinson Mr Ashwani Kochhar Mr David Lane Mr Graeme Moyse Mr Stuart Nicholson Mr Andrew Packman Squadron Leader John Richardson Mr Warren Shiell Miss Karen Woodall 1983 Anonymous Mr Keith Bailey Mrs Kathryn Biggs Mrs Susi Clargo Ms Maria Hall Mr Max Hill KC Mr Sean Kelly Mr Jonathan May Miss Elizabeth Middleton MBE Mrs Amanda Mobbs

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Mrs Anne Oram Mr Michael Powell Dr Matthew Seccombe Mr Lawrence Simanowitz Mr Graham Smith Mrs Sarah Speller Mr Christopher Warren

Ms Dalia Salaam Rishani Dr Duncan Spiers Mrs Katherine Stenner Miss Lavell Thompson Mr John Turner Mr Peter Van den Berghe Dr Sean Walls

1984 Anonymous Ms Madonna Benjamin Mr Toby Davies Mr Peter De Wesselow Mr Paul Farmer CBE Dr Peter Francis Mr Simon Fretwell Mr Peter Jackson Mrs Nicola Kelly Mr Jeremy Kemp Dr Martyn Knowles Mrs Elizabeth May Professor Dr Makoto Ogino Ms Jacquelyn Pidgley Mrs Kathryn Samano Dr Peter Stephenson

1986 Anonymous Ms Ruth Appleton Mr Timothy Bishop Mr David Bucknall Mr John Duff Mrs Alice Francis Miss Katherine Goulden Mr Guy Hopkins Mr Michael Jarrett Mrs Amanda Jewell Mrs Jessica McCarthy Mr Timothy Parkinson Mr Kempton Rees Mrs Anna Sedenu Mr Paul Thomasson Mrs Rachael Wardell

1985 Mr Julian Beck Mrs Victoria Belovski Mrs Sarah Christie Mr John Clargo Mr Simon Edsall Mr Jeremy Hill FIA Mr Paul Holloway Mr Allen Hubsch Dr David Livings Mrs Caroline McDowell Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery Ms Anne Pitcher Mrs Caroline Robertson ASRM

1987 Mr Nicholas Andrews Mr Charles Bithell Mr Patrick Brandt Professor Jacek Brodzki Mr Timothy Chapman Ms Catherine Durham Ms Jennifer Duvalier Mr Paul Geddes Mr Stephen Harris Mrs Suzanne Haywood Mrs Lucy Helliker Mr Neil Hemingway Mr Stephen Judd Mrs Sarah Margolin

Mrs Catherine McMahon Dr Dominic Mort Dr Dominic Neary Mrs Emma Ritson Mr Michael Saunter Dr Mark Steel Dr John Turner Mr David Vaughan 1988 Mr James Anderson Mrs Kate Andrews Miss Claire Brown Mr David Carter Mr David Churchill The Honourable Grant Dorfman Ms Samantha Gibson Miss Tara Glen Dr Neil Hampton Mr Philip Lowe Mrs Gwyneth Marshman Mrs Clare Oglesby Professor Chris Parsons Mrs Jacqueline Ranawake Mr Gregory Shepherd Ms Helen Snelson Mr Guy Voizey Mr Robert White Dr Alan Wiles Mrs Helen Williams 1989 Anonymous The Reverend Dr Jonathan Arnold Mrs Louisa Gosden Mr Peter Hamer Mr Stephen Hodbod Mrs Dalia Joseph Mr James Lonsdale Mr Daniel Smithers

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1990 Mr Christopher Bates Mr Peter Blackman Mr Michael Briest Dr Richard Chapman Ms Andrea Chipman Dr Nicholas Edwards Mr Andrew Grimshaw Mr David Little Professor Nandini Ramanujam Mr Stefan Reid Dr John Skidmore Mr Andrew Taggart Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Thomson Mr John Vater KC Ms Joanna Zonneveld 1991 Anonymous (4) Dr Rachel Barnard Mr Danny Broderick Dr Frazer Clark Mrs Julia Crenian Dr Henri de Marcellus Mr Dominic Ely Dr Claire Fox Mrs Elizabeth Fullalove Mr John Green* Mr Mark Hanlon Professor Adam Mead Professor Svante Norrhem Ms Gillian Orrell Mr Hew Smith Dr Ian Starks Mr Paul Strecker Dr Benjamin Underwood Dr William Whyte Mrs Caroline Wilson Mr Jonathan Wilson

1992 Anonymous Mr William Adlam Mr Stuart Banks Mr Benjamin Beabey Mr Simon Blake Professor Robert Chambers Ms Jenny Galimberti Ms Louise Gooch Mrs Natasha Jakubowski Mrs Juliet Jukes Mr Matthew Jukes The Reverend Dr Andreas Loewe Mr Alexandros Mandilas Mrs Katerina Mirkou Mrs Caroline Peach Mrs Louise Rogers Mr Steven Sabey Mr Jeremy Taylor 1993 Anonymous Dr Christopher Briggs Mr Cameron Brown KC Mr Mark Charles Mr Christopher Herbert Mr Jeremy Hill Mr Tom Ibbotson Mr Haarjeev Kandhari Dr James Mason Mrs Francesca Modi Mr Ed Nottingham Dr Elizabeth Pilling Dr Neil Scotchmer Mr Robert Sheppard Mr Alexander Skinner Mrs Fiona Steel Ms Elaine Whitehouse Dr Michael Wruss

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1994 Anonymous (2) Dr Hashim Ahmed Mr Mark Alliban Mrs Catherine Bagshaw Mr Dominic Bown Mr Asa Bridle Dr Rosalind Bridle Mr David Collard Mr Glen Duncanson Mrs Helen Fowler Miss Nicole Gregory Mrs Emma Hardaker The Reverend David Harknett Mr Timothy Harrop Mrs Esther Ibbotson Mr Howard Landes Dr Jeev Mantotta-Maxted Mrs Laura Massey Mr Montu Modi Lieutenant Colonel Beverley Morgan Miss Christine O’Connell Miss Kate Scotland Mr Peter Spicer Mrs Clarissa Vallat Mr John Wilks Mr James Young Mrs Jennifer Young 1995 Anonymous Dr Janet Bastiman Mr Maximilian Coqui Mr Matthew Dunn Miss Emily Elias Dr Rachel Freathy Dr Rob Freathy Mr Stuart Frizell Mr Paul Hallam

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Mrs Shari Hilliard Mrs Clare Humphreys Mrs Caroline Kamana Dr Niall Keenan Mrs Candida Lahaise Mr Rupert Manduke Curtis Dr Luke Massey Mr Andrew McGuffie Mr Nicholas Owers Mr Jonathan Pocock Ms Trudi Roberts Mrs Claire Roughton Mr Simon Whittaker Mrs Ana Wilks Dr Michael Wykes 1996 Mr Benjamin Arnoldy Mr Philip Eagle Mrs Charlotte Fletcher Mrs Flavia Kenyon Mr Fred Kooij Dr Christina N’tchouganSonou Mrs Manfreda Penfold Mr Paul Squire Mr Benjamin Warner Mr Peter Wicks 1997 Anonymous (3) Ms Louise Asher Mr James Brunt Dr Lena Ciric Dr Helena Clarkova Mrs Pollyanne Conway Mr Joshua Doctor Mr Samuel Gervaise-Jones Mr Justin Gill Mr Thomas Miller Mr Warwick Okines

Ms Antoaneta Proctor Mr Alexander Salvoni Dr Bethany Wright 1998 Mrs Ilona Chavasse Mr Roland Chavasse Mr Adam Dickinson Mr Marcus Efstratiou Mr Craig Giles Mr Alan Greer Mrs Susan Jackson Mrs Katherine Lang Mr Anthony Lye Mrs Stephanie Maier Rabbi David Mitchell Mr Tom Payne Mr Peter Pulsford Mr Mark Roberts Mr Richard Silcock Mrs Louise Springthorpe Ms Shelley White 1999 Anonymous Mr David Brooke Mr David Century Dr Hannah Clark Mrs Cecily Footner Mr Matthew Foy Professor Andrew Hayashi Mr Alexander Henlin Mr Iwan Lamble Mr Gareth Lyons Mr Ron Moscona Mr Lee Whittaker Dr James Zacks Mr Nikolaos Zygouropoulos

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2000 Mr Philip Alderton Mr Nicholas Badger Mrs Rachael Badger Mr David Chavda Lieutenant Commander Oliver Clark Ms Lucy Davis Mr Abhinandan Deb Mrs Nicola Edger Mr Jonathan Eves Mr Tim Gaul Mr Ivan Gregory Mr Adam Heal Dr Daniel Lambauer Mr Christopher Morrison Mrs Phillippa O’Connor Mr William O’Connor Mr Nicholas Redman Mr Matthew Reynolds Dr Matthew Richardson Dr Christopher Smith Mr Jonathan Smith Mr Charlie Sparling Dr Jonathan Weiss Miss Hayley Wilson 2001 Anonymous Mr Lewis Brito-Babapulle Mrs Penelope Durant Mrs Eleanor Franchitti Mr William Gowdy Ms Lily Green Dr Carolyn Haggis Miss Binita Haria Miss Pia Luck Miss Stephanie Moorsom Mr Joseph O’Brien Mrs Laura O’Brien

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Mr Somerset Pheasant Dr Jeanne Salje Mrs Zoe Vickerman Dr Cheryl Walsh 2002 Anonymous Dr Alice Beverly Mr Michael Botcherby Dr Scott Crawford Mr Robert Erbmann Mr Stephen Harrison Mrs Catriona Jenkins Mr Damian Payne Mr Andrew Prentice Squadron Leader Joseph Rigg Ms Malini Skandachanmugarasan Mrs Sophie Solly Ms Carol Storey Mr August Walker 2003 Anonymous Mr Antoine Artiganave Mr Matthew Cates Ms Tracey Gent Miss Josie Green Dr Wendy Leutert Mr Andrew McNeil Mr Charles Meyer Mr James Partington Mr William Pearce Mrs Emily Pheasant Mr Thomas Rayner Dr Judith Samson Mrs Ghislaine Sparling Ms Anna Whitfield

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2004 Miss Tamara Barnett Mr Colin Betteridge Mr Philip Brack Mr Mark Brewer Mr Travis Good Dr Rosemary Gowdy Dr Greg Imreh The Reverend Dr Michael Leyden Mr Patrik Neckelmann Mrs Abigail Rosenberg Mr Gareth Russell Mr John Theis 2005 Mrs Alexandra Britton-Davis Dr Merima Brkic Mr David Conway Dr Thomas Eaton Mr Lee Kerslake Miss Maya Kommer Dr Aaron Krom Mrs Anna Leyden Ms Mary Mills-Curran Dr Peter Newbold Mr Amardeep Pannu Mr Samuel Pape Mr Adam Price Dr Saiqa Qureshi Mr Edward Rees Dr Rok Sekirnik Mr Thomas Smith Mrs Chen Wang Mrs Catherine Waton 2006 Anonymous Mr Steven Altmann-Richer Miss Amy Bilderbeck Dr Jessica Ehinger

Mr Adam Grodecki Ms Sarah Heald Miss Oyinkansola Johnson Mr James Poole Miss Marissa Pueschel Mr Luke Ryder Mr Yuchen Xia

Ms Cheryl Pilbeam Mr Daniel Rozier Mr Tendai Sibanda Mr Ben Slingsby Miss Rimika Solloway Mr Thomas Stevenson Mr Samuel Willis

2007 Anonymous Miss Fiona Cheung Dr Gerald Clancy Miss Jessica Davies Mr Nicholas Green Mr Thomas Hancox Mr Jack Kennedy Mr Thomas Pearman Miss Laura Sweet Miss Emma Waldock Dr Nicola Warren Mr David Watson

2009 Anonymous (4) Mrs Bethan Coulson Miss Eleanor Griffiths Mr Peter O’Connor Mrs Zahava Rosenthal Miss Eve Ryle-Hodges Dr Emily Turner Mr Nathan Turner Mr Alex Worth Ms Denise Xifara Mr He Zhu

2008 Mr Christopher Avellaneda Miss Emily Bennett Mr Edward Bersuder Ms Gabriela Bersuder Mr Raphael Clarkson Mrs Olivia Cohen Mr Nathan Collins Mr Fjodor Gainullin Ms Jenny Hayes Mr Alex Hern The Hon Poppy Hodgson Mr Osamu Hoshino Dr Henry Jackson-Flux Miss Una Kim Dr Despoina Magka Mr Alasdair Morgan Dr Lily Muller Miss Caroline Pearman-Gibbs

2010 Mr Oliver Bristowe Ms Alice Fraser Mrs Gabrielle GleesonSolomon Mr Jonathan GleesonSolomon Mr Thomas Haigh Ms Tilly Henderson Mr Samuel Hirst Dr Karl Hudspith Mr Samuel Lecacheur Miss Hannah Ledbury Mr Adam Lomax Mr Chand Mehta Mr Charles Miller Mrs Alyssa Ovadis Mr Nakul Patel Mr Robert Sheeran The Reverend Yaroslav Walker Miss Sophie Weisenberger

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2011 Ms Natalie Cappellazzo Miss June Choo Mr Jamie Cruickshank Mrs Erin Dickens Miss Rachael Franklin Mr Samuel Iles Miss Louisa Manning Miss Amy Pether Miss Alice Sorby Miss Elizabeth Stockdale Mr Gabriel Trueblood Ms Stephanie Zhang 2012 Anonymous (2) Dr Joel Beevers Mr Michael Comba Mr David Fitzpatrick Mr Samuel Gebreselassie Mr Craig Kirkham-Wilson Mr Edward Lund Miss Emilia Marsden Miss Jonny Wallin Miss Amy Watts Mr Robert Wheeldon Miss Megumi Yamamoto 2013 Anonymous Miss Sophie-Elise Anker Miss Anissa Berry Mr Robert Dennis Mrs Zoe Hall Mr Benjamin Kobryner Mr George Postlethwaite Mr Nikolay Vasilev 2014 Anonymous (3) Dr Thiago Alves Pinto Dr Michael Beverly Mr Timothy Bird

Mr Karn Dasgupta Mr Thomas Foxton Mr Isaac Kang Mr Michael Linford Dr Hitoshi Takano 2015 Anonymous (4) Miss Marina Goodman Mr Neil Tang Miss Amy Trimble 2016 Mr Joseph Bondatti Miss Alexa Copeland Miss Rosie Crawford Ms Georgina Hayward Miss Kerenza Hurr Miss Rhianna Jones 2017 Mr David Morrison Dr Nandor Nemes 2018 Ms Sofia Lorda Andrade 2019 Mr Robert Forestell * – Deceased Fellows and Friends Anonymous Ms Shankari Abensour Dr Roger Allen Mr Peter Bentley Mr Brian Durrant Mr Douglas French Mrs Carolyn Goetz & Professor Stewart Goetz Mrs Helen Grantham Mr Douglas Grounds Lady Nancy Kenny

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Dr John Kenyon Mr Daniel Keyworth Mrs Justine Kingham Dr John Latsis Mr Jon Lawrence Dr Alexander Lingas Professor Henry Mayr-Harting Professor John O’Connor Dr David Painter Dr Thomas Payne Mr Douglas Shaw Professor Edith Sim Dr Giacomo Tortora Institutions Anjool Malde Memorial Trust Datascope Recruitment Gonerby Hill Ltd Google Rothermere Foundation St Peter’s College Foundation St Peter’s College JCR Yellowwoods Trust Legacy Donations Received 1 August 2021 - 31 July 2022 Anonymous Mr Paul Berry 1961 Mr Brian Caulkett 1955 The Reverend Canon Godfrey James 1960 Mrs Joyce MacDonald Mr John Milward 1953 Mr Jamie Woods 1960

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OXFORD BURSARIES (Formerly known as the Oxford Opportunity Bursaries) We are grateful to Friends and Alumni of the College who support Oxford Bursaries for undergraduate students: BURSARY NAME DONOR NAME Bilbao Oxford Bursary at Mr Dan Bilbao (1978) St Peter’s Laura Ashley Holdings Oxford Laura Ashley Holdings PLC Bursary (6) James Phelan Bursary Mr Peter Phelan (1964) Lord Gavron Oxford Bursary Lady Kate Gavron Wally Olins Oxford Bursary Lady Kate Gavron St Peter’s Foundation Oxford St Peter’s Foundation Bursary (6) Noel Speake Bursary (2) St Peter’s Foundation Professor R L Wain Oxford Mr David and Mrs Rosemary Bursary Wharton St Peter’s Society Oxford St Peter’s Society Bursary Wilcock Oxford Bursary Mr Stephen Wilcock (1956) Chinn Oxford Bursary at Mr Adam Chinn (1979) St Peter’s Jo & Edgar Jones Oxford Mr Edgar Jones and Mrs Jo Bursary Jones Alexander Mamut Bursary Anonymous

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Current Members of the Howard Society A legacy represents the greatest honour that St Peter’s can receive. The Howard Society was set up in 1988 as a means of recognising in their lifetime, and after, those whose legacy gifts create opportunities for future generations to excel. It is named in honour of Robert Wilmot Howard, Master of St Peters from 1945-1955.

Anonymous (8) Professor Thomas Adcock Mr Ronald Akhurst Mr Barry Anson Mr Paul Ardern The Rt Hon. the Lord Ashcroft KCMG Mr David Aspinwall Mr David Atkinson Mr John Austin Mr John Austin Mr John Bain OBE Mr Adrian Baird Mr Waseem Baloch Mr Reginald Bannerman Mr Mike Beevers Professor Ellis Bell Professor John Benson Sir Kenneth Bloomfield MRIA Mr Gordon Bottoms Dr Richard Brady The Reverend Canon John Brown Mr Richard Bunker Mr Stephen Buswell Dr Sara Caine Mr Charles Chevers-Coppen Mr Derek Clarke MBE Ms Gloria Clutton-Williams Dr Malcolm Coe Mr John Cole Professor Richard Collacott Mr Graham Cooksey 60 St Peter’s College Record 2022

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Mr Frank Cookson Mr David Cox Mrs Daphne Cross Mr Peter Dale Brigadier Clendon Daukes FCMI MIoD Mr Adrian Davies Dr Christopher Davies Dr Christopher Davies Professor Douglas Davies Mr Philip Davies Mr James Dawson Mr David Dean Mrs Erin Dickens Mr Peter Dickinson Dr John Diggle Mr Robin Dixon Professor Sir Gordon Duff Mr John Duff Mr Brian Durrant Mr Richard Edgecliffe-Johnson Mr Simon Edsall Mr Simon Ellis Dr Paul Evans Mr Gerald Eveleigh Mr Derek Flynn The Reverend Michael Forrer The Reverend Dr Michael Fox Mr Peter Foy Mr Keith Garland Professor John Gaskin Mr Harvey Glasgow

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Mr Barry Glazier Miss Tara Glen Mr Travis Good Mr Eric Gordon Mrs Edith Gowdy Dr Christopher Green Dr Charles Griffin Mr Richard Hales Mr Philip Hall Mr James Harding Mr Richard Harding Mr Simon Hardy Mr Peter Harrison Mr Richard Heffer Mr Philip Helm Mr David Hewitt The Rt Hon the Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts CBE Mr Patrick Holt Mr David Howard Mrs Janice Hoyle Dr Michael Hulse Mr Philip Hunwick Mr Daud Ilyas Mr Stephen Jackson Professor David James Mr Michael Jerrom FCA Mr Philip Johnston Mr John Jones Mr Norman Jones Mr David Kay

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Dr Geoffrey Kemp 1960 Mr Christopher King 1965 Mr David Lake 1976 Mr David Lane 1982 Mr Philip Lawder 1967 Mr Christopher Lilwall 1954 Mrs Judy Luddington 1981 The Reverend Canon Brian MacdonaldMilne 1981 The Reverend Canon Richard Marriott 1959 Dr Roger Marshall 1958 Mr Richard Marson Mr Bryan Maybee JP 1953 Mr Jeremy McGahan 1975 Mr Andrew Mead 1961 Professor Dr Terence Meaden 1954 Mr Alan Mees 1968 Mr Stephen Metherell 1959 Dr David Mills 1967 Dr Christopher Minns 1974 Lieutenant Colonel Beverley Morgan 1994 Mr Robert Morgan FRCS 1960 Mr Nigel Mussett MBE 1964 Professor John O’Connor Mr Mike Orriel 1962 Mr Jena Pang 1996 The Reverend Nigel Panting 1966 Dr Neeth Paramananthan 1986 Mr Frank Parker 1961 Mr Timothy Parkinson 1986 Professor Chris Parsons 1988 Mr John Patchett 1974 Mr Martin Pearman 1977 Mr Richard Pengilley 1968

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Mr Peter Phelan 1964 Mr John Poole 1953 Dr Michael Pope 1951 Mr John Pope 1965 Dr Christopher Porter 1980 Commodore Frederick Price MBE 1976 Mr Andrew Pryce 1969 Mrs Carol Pryce Mr Lewis Redhead 1978 Mr Bernard Reed 1956 Mr Donald Reid 1957 The Reverend Geoffrey Riba-Thompson 1977 Mr Michael Richardson 1956 Mr Anthony Roberts 1966 Mr David Russell 1957 Mr Mervyn Samuel 1963 Mr James Savin 1970 Dr Martin Shain 1962 Mr Martin Slatter 1955 Mr David Smith 1964 Mrs Irene Snook Councillor Malcolm Spalding Mr Kenneth Sprague Mr Gordon Stanion 1953 Mr Guy Stokely 1963 Mr Michael Symes 1959 Professor James Thomas 1954 Professor Barrie Thompson 1965 Mrs Margaret Thompson

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Mr Peter Thompson Mr Peter Thornton 1955 Mr Michael Tibbs OBE 1946 Mr Michael Tiley 1965 Mr Anthony Tuckwell 1962 Mr Patrick Turner 1978 Mr Hugh Turrall-Clarke 1957 Professor Bob Tyrrell 1969 Mr Christopher Wain 1971 Mr Ian Walton 1988 Sir Gerald Warner KCMG 1951 Mr Peter Waterman 1954 Mr Roy Waters 1960 The Reverend William Watson 1957 Mr Richard Wells 1959 The Reverend Prebendary John Wesson 1959 Mr Brian Weston OBE 1955 Mr Nicholas White 1978 Mr Stephen Wilcock 1956 Dr Rhodri Williams The Reverend Paul Winchester 1963 Mr George Winspur 1962 Professor Mike Woloch 1957 Mr Eric Wood 1951 Mr Francis Wyman 1981 Mr James Young 1994 Mrs Jennifer Young 1994

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Dr Francis Warner (1937–2021)

By Revd Professor Paul Fiddes Francis Warner (or, Francis Robert le Plastrier Warner) came to St Peter’s College as Fellow and Tutor in English Literature in 1965. St Peter’s had received its Charter only four years earlier, and its growing reputation was to be intertwined with his. He came, at the age of 28, with an exceptional list of achievements already behind him. Having left Christ’s Hospital at the age of 16, and having secured a choral scholarship at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, he became the youngest-ever director of a play in the West End of London, putting on Dr Faustus in the Irving Theatre. He filled in the rest of his time before going up to Cambridge, to read English, by studying composition and conducting at the London College of Music. He was an accomplished musician, playing the trumpet (often in jazz bands in his school years), the cello and piano.

While an undergraduate, he formed his own orchestra and chorus and put on notable concerts, conducting his own re-scoring of Honegger’s King David in King’s College Chapel. While he was the final graduate student of C. S. Lewis, engaged in research on the medieval occult philosopher, Cornelius Agrippa, he became an undergraduate supervisor in English at St Catharine’s College, and published two books of lyrical poetry, Perennia and Early Poems. These, together with his Experimental Sonnets and Madrigals which soon followed, were to be awarded America’s Messing International Award. Thus early-accomplished in music, the theatre and poetry, Francis Warner was to excel in each of these areas as the years at St. Peter’s went by and as he dedicated himself to the life of the college. His Fellowship was to receive substantial endowment in recognition of his creative work, and he would be named Lord White Fellow and Tutor in English Literature from 1984. After his retirement, his two academic homes would recognize his distinguished career, Oxford awarding him a D. Litt., and William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri, an Honorary D. Mus.

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When he arrived from Cambridge as a new, young Fellow in 1965, I was among the first batch of undergraduate students he taught. I and generations of undergraduates to come recall with gratitude trudging up the flight of stairs to his lofty room above the library, as if climbing the winding steps of Yeats’ tower towards ‘the breathless starlit air’.

Later it was the stair to the top of staircase one. We would always climb the stairs with anticipation: perhaps Francis would be harbouring W.H. Auden, or Richard Burton, or Edmund Blunden, or Kathleen Raine in his high room—or one of the many other poets, playwrights or actors who struggled up those same stairs and whose acquaintance and conversation he would generously share with us. If Francis were on his own, this would be even better, for we would then have his undivided attention. And I do want to underline the word ‘attention’. All his pupils were made to feel they had a special contribution to make, that they had glimpsed what others before had so lamentably failed to see. In her recent memorial address for Francis, his daughter Miranda exactly caught this gift of Francis as a teacher and a friend when she recalled, ‘He believed people into being’.

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Photograph by Billett Porter of Richard Burton giving a class to Francis’ undergraduates, 1975

His pupils caught the infectious enthusiasm he had for literature; he made them feel that reading mattered, and they would want to go and find the book in the library that Francis had just taken down from his shelves, locating it effortlessly, as if by magic, during the uninterrupted flow of his talk. Francis was his own theatre, always presenting himself with flair, but behind the dramatic front was solid substance. He made his pupils want to explore the landscape of both the mind and the spirit that he inhabited so easily.

From the beginning of his time in Oxford, Francis was making a considerable impact on the scene beyond the tutorial. Heedless of the fact that the English literature syllabus

stopped at 1900, he drew enthusiastic audiences for lectures in which he energetically promoted the works of Beckett, Yeats, Joyce, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot. In the words of Barry Webb, another member of that first tutorial group, ‘He burst like a firework both in the tutorial room and in the lecture theatre. In both places he turned them into stage sets.’ From 1967 onwards, he began a most audacious project for another kind of stage set, a theatre under the surface of Chavasse Quad in the form of a geodesic dome anchored into the water-table.

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Trust still provides generous awards which fund innovative theatrical productions.

Francis’ experience in fund-raising also proved invaluable for several of the College building projects thereafter, which owe much to him personally.

At the same time as the Beckett Theatre project, Francis was developing his own skills as a dramatist, finally publishing sixteen plays. The trilogy Requiem, together with its three Maquettes both enchanted and shocked as the daring visual images and dazzling word-play combined to expose human life for what it truly is. After A Conception of Love, a love-comedy, Francis began a series of nine verse-plays which enable the audience to enter into the western tradition of intellect, religion and art. From classical Athens to Rome, and then on to the Renaissance and early modern Europe, we participate in the key intellectual debates and the personal passions of the time in often lyrical poetry.

The plays were a great Oxford experience, most of them drawing in current pupils, past pupils, family members—his children Lucy, Benedict, and Miranda are in the cast lists, only Georgina seeming to have missed out— and their school friends. Francis also set up a visiting programme for American students to spend their term abroad in Oxford, and this was managed expertly by Penelope, whom he had married in 1983. Nor, certainly, was it just this venture to which he was referring when he in 2019 dedicated his Anthem for Easter Day to Penelope, ‘who shared it all’.

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afterwards Residential Honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, thereafter dividing his time between Oxford and Cambridge. In 2001–2, in two long poems (By the Cam and the Isis) he celebrated his experience and love of both ‘holy cities’, providing verse portraits of his many colleagues and friends (including me) which brilliantly evoke the period.

Just as Oxford had been the stage for his drama over some thirty-five years, now Cambridge for the next twenty became the scene for his involvement in music, as it had been in his early days. In collaboration with the composer David Goode, he published seven volumes of musical settings of his poetry. One of these was the ambitious Blitz Requiem, performed by the Bach choir and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in St. Paul’s Cathedral in September 2013, and later presented in the Sheldonian theatre to celebrate Francis’s eightieth birthday.

In this period, he also finally responded to the demands of his friends and admirers to publish the many prose pieces he had written over the years, and the title of the volume, Beauty for Ashes (from Isaiah 61) expresses his conviction, both aesthetic and deeply spiritual, that new life is always possible in the midst of the old.

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Dr Stuart Turnbull (1939-2022)

By Dr Tom Adcock Stuart was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1939. He passed the next twenty-five years of his life living on the southernmost edge of Gateshead, an area still then surrounded by fields and derelict coal mines. He failed the 11+, and went on from the local Board School to the local Secondary Modern, staying on an extra year until he was sixteen in order to take some O Levels. After school he started work as an apprentice draughtsman for a heavymachine-tool company, simultaneously attending Technical College three times a week over a period of six years, winning each year a prize and a further year’s scholarship. In 1959 he was awarded a Whitworth Society Prize for having come top in the country in the Ordinary National Certificate Examinations. Two years later he obtained the Higher National Certificate in Mechanical Engineering (roughly equivalent to an ordinary degree).

As a mature student at the age of 26, he started reading Mechanical Engineering at Newcastle University. He came second in his year. His next move was to work for Vickers as a senior project engineer in their research and development office. In 1969 he left industry to read for his doctorate in Newcastle. In 1974 he took up a lectureship in Lancaster where he stayed for over a decade.

Stuart passed away on 22 February 2022.

Stuart is survived by his daughter Sarah, son Michael and his granddaughters Emma and Lucy.

Stuart came to Oxford in 1987 as a University lecturer in Engineering Science and Robin Herd Fellow at St Peter’s. In College he served as Dean, Senior Tutor, Tutor for Undergraduates and Vice-Master. His research focused on dynamics including working on how to how to secure vehicles on roll-on/roll-off ferries. He retired in 2008.

As a tutor Stuart had great insight and was skilled at explaining concepts to his students.

His unusual education, for an Oxford academic, gave him a unique perspective on engineering questions insight that complimented the more theoretical treatment of the material in lectures.

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Senior Members 2021-22 VISITOR

Bayes, the Rt Revd Paul, BA Birm, DipTh Queen’s Coll Birm, Bishop of Liverpool (until his retirement on 1 March 2022) Lane, the Right Revd Libby, MA Oxf, DD (Hon) University of Wales Trinity St David, Bishop of Derby (from 6 May 2022)

Lakin, Nicholas David, BSc Nott, MA Oxf, PhD Warw, Rank Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Williams, Abigail, MA MPhil DPhil Oxf, Lord White Fellow and Tutor in English, Professor of EighteenthCentury English Literature Mawson, Timothy James, MA MPhil DPhil Oxf, Edgar Jones Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Dean

TRUSTEES

Mayer, Hartmut, MPhil Camb, MA Tufts, DPhil Oxf, Tutor in Politics and International Relations

Hodgson, Robin Granville, the Rt Hon Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, CBE, MA Oxf

Antonini, Massimo, Laurea Venice, MA Middx, PhD Leic, Tutor in Economics; Tutor for Welfare

Barron, Caroline Mary, OBE, MA Oxf, PhD Lond, FRHistS, FSA

Bonsall, Michael, BSc PhD Lond, MA Oxf, Tutor in Biology, Professor of Mathematical Biology

Harris, Jocelin, MA Oxf

Kail, Peter James Edward, BA Keele, MA Oxf, MPhil PhD Camb, Tutor in Philosophy

Mayr-Harting, Henry Maria Robert Egmont, MA DPhil DD Oxf, LittD (Hon) East Anglia, FBA MASTER

Buchanan, Judith, BA PGCE Brist, MPhil DPhil Oxf OFFICIAL AND PROFESSORIAL FELLOWS

Moloney, Mark Gerard, BSc PhD Sydney, MA DipLATHE Oxf, Sydney Bailey Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry, Professor of Chemistry; Senior Tutor Foot, Christopher John, MA DPhil Oxf, Perenco Fellow and Tutor in Physics; Professor of Physics Dorkins, Huw Richard, BM BCh MA Oxf, MSc Lond, FRCP, FRCPath, E P Abraham Fellow and Tutor in Medicine; Dean of Degrees Mason, Lionel Jeremy, MA DPhil Oxf, Tutor in Mathematics, Professor of Mathematics; SCR President

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Pitkethly, Robert Hamilton, MBA INSEAD, MA DPhil Oxf, MSc Stirl, Tutor in Management; Tutor for Undergraduates; Tutor for Undergraduate Admissions

Nicholls, Geoffrey Keith, BSc Canterbury, New Zealand, MA Oxf, PhD Camb, Tutor in Statistics Szendrői, Balázs, MA PhD Camb, Martin Powell Fellow and Tutor in Pure Mathematics, Professor of Pure Mathematics (until 31 August 2022) Wójcik, Dariusz, MEcon Cracow, University of Economics, MGeog Jagiellonian, MSc Stockholm, DPhil Oxf, Edgar Jones Fellow and Tutor in Geography, Professor of Economic Geography Cooper, Cyrus, OBE, MB BS DM Lond, MA Camb, FFPH, FMedSci, FRCP, Professorial Fellow, Professor of Musculoskeletal Epidemiology Soares de Oliveira, Ricardo, BA York, MPhil PhD Camb, Manika and Harjeev Kandhari Fellow and Tutor in Politics, Professor of the International Politics of Africa

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Hausner, Sondra, AB Princeton, MA PhD Cornell, MA Oxf, Tutor in Study of Religion, Professor of Anthropology of Religion

Donnelly, Christl, CBE, BA Oberlin, MSc ScD Harvard, FMedSci, FRS, Professorial Fellow, Professor of Applied Statistics

Williams, Claire Elizabeth, BA Durh, MPhil PhD Camb, MA Oxf, Tutor in Brazilian Literature and Culture

Shaw, Douglas, MA Oxf, Bursar

Taylor, Peter C, BM, BCh Oxf, MA Camb, PhD Lond, FRCP, Professorial Fellow, Norman Collisson Professor of Musculoskeletal Sciences Adcock, Thomas Alan Adcock, MEng, DPhil Oxf, Tutor in Engineering Science; Fellow for IT and Website

Alonso, David, BSc MSc PhD Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Carrie Perrodo Fellow and Tutor in Physics Rajamani, Lavanya, BA LLB National Law School, BCL Oxf, LLM Yale, DPhil Oxf, Yamani Fellow and Tutor in Law, Professor of International Environmental Law

Dorling, Danny, BSc PhD Newc, Professorial Fellow, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography

Burrell, Robert, LLB KCL, LLM Lond, PhD Griffith, Professorial Fellow, Professor of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law

Burrows, Daron, BA MSt DPhil Oxf, Tutor in French, Professor of Medieval French

Hill, Sarah, BA California at Santa Cruz, MA Chicago, MA PhD Cardiff, Tutor in Music

Rothwell, Phillip, MA PhD Camb, Professorial Fellow, King John II Professor of Portuguese Studies

Hilton, Robert George, BA PhD Camb, Sackler Fellow and Tutor in Earth Sciences, Sackler-Clarendon Professor of Sedimentary Geology

Macias-Fauria, Marc, BSc Barcelona, MSc Calgary, PhD Helsinki, Tutor in Physical Geography; Fellow for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Gilroy-Ware, Cora, BA Sus, MSt Oxf, PhD York, Tutor in History of Art

Baxter, Stephen, MA MSt DPhil Oxf, Barron Fellow and Tutor in Medieval History, Professor of Medieval History; Vice-Master and Fellow Archivist

Bruno, Randy M, BSc Carnegie Mellon, PhD Pittsburgh, Tutor in Pre-clinical Medicine, Professor of Neuroscience

MacKay, Marina, MA St And, PhD East Anglia, Tutor in English, Professor of English Literature; Fellow for Access and Tutor for Graduates

RESEARCH FELLOWS

Moreno de Barreda, Inés, BSc UCM Madrid, MRes PhD LSE, Tutor in Economics Leczykiewicz, Dorota, MSt DPhil Oxf, MLaw Wroclaw, Tutor in Law Tuffnell, Stephen, BA MSt DPhil Oxf, Tutor in Modern United States History, Fellow Librarian

Allen, Richard, MA MLitt PhD Glas, Research Fellow in History (until 31 October 2021) Booth, Philip, BA MPhil PhD Camb, Research Fellow in Theology and Religion, and History Cartwright, Joe, BA DPhil Oxf, Senior Research Fellow, Shell Professor of Earth Sciences

Monroe, Charles William, BSE Princeton, MA Oxf, PhD Berkeley USA, Alexander Mosley Charitable Trust Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Science

Clack, Timothy Andrew Robert, MA PhD Manc, FRGS, Chingiz Gutseriev Research Fellow in Archaeology and Anthropology; Tutor for Visiting Students

Neilly, Joanna, BA Oxf, MA Belf, PhD Edin, Tutor in German

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Hodgson, Susanne, MA Camb, BM BCh PGDip LATHE Oxf, DTM&H Witwatersrand, MRCP, Research Fellow in Clinical Medicine Jin, Hanqing, BA MPhil Nankai, PhD Chinese University, Hong Kong, Research Fellow in Mathematical Finance Kehoe, Sean, MA Oxf, MD Dub, DCH, FRCOG, Senior Research Fellow Lewandowski, Adam, BSc Guelph, Canada, DPhil Oxford, Research Fellow in Systems Physiology Malik, Adeel, BA Punjab, MPhil DPhil Oxf, MSc Quaide-Azam, Research Fellow in Economics Mezger, Cora, MA PhD Sussex, Research Fellow in Statistics Middelkoop, Mary-Ann, MA Utrecht, MSc LSE, PhD Camb, Junior Research Fellow in History of Art Mykhnenko, Vlad, BA MA Taras Shevchenko Kiev, MA CEU Budapest, PhD Camb, Research Fellow in Sustainable Urban Development Taylor, Angela, MA MSc PhD Camb, Professor of Experimental Astrophysics, Research Fellow in Physics Tycko, Sonia, BA Columbia, AM PhD Harvard, Junior Research Fellow in Atlantic History (until 4 January 2022) Whitehead, Paul, BSc Lough, MSc UMIST, PhD Camb, Senior Research Fellow in Geography, Professor of Water Science SUPERNUMERARY FELLOWS

Henley, Olivia Rosalyn, BA Brist Johnson, David Paul, BA Nott, MA Lond, DPhil Oxf, College Librarian Whalley, Catherine, MA Camb, MEd Open, College Registrar

EMERITUS FELLOWS

Armitage, Peter, CBE, MA Camb, MA Oxf, PhD Lond Watson, The Revd William Lysander Rowan, MA Camb, MA Dub, MA Oxf Coe, Malcolm James, BSc PhD Lond, MA Oxf Sanderson, Charles Denis, MA Oxf Mayr-Harting, Henry Maria Robert Egmont, MA DPhil DD Oxf, LittD (Hon) East Anglia, FBA, Trustee Warner, Francis Robert Le Plastrier, MA Camb, MA DLitt Oxf, Hon DMus, Wm. Jewell College, USA (until his death on 7 December 2021) Marson, Richard Benjamin, MA Oxf O’Connor, John Joseph, BE NUI, MA DPhil Oxf, PhD Camb Twycross, Robert Geoffrey, MA DM Oxf, FRCP Kenyon, John David, MA PhD Camb, MA DPhil Oxf Newell, Peter Copeman, MA DPhil DSc Oxf Teddy, Peter Julian, BM BCh DPhil Oxf, FFPMANZCA, FRACS, FRCS Daukes, Brig Clendon Douglas, BA Open, MA Oxf Russell, (Robert) Graham Goodwin, MB ChB MA Camb, PhD Leeds, DM Oxf, FMedSci, FRCP, FRCPath, FRS Turnbull, Stuart Robert, BSc, PhD Newc, MA Oxf (until his death on 2 February 2022) Vaver, David, BA LLB Auckland, MA Oxf, JD Chicago Greenhalgh, Christine Anne, MSc Lond, MA Oxf, PhD Princeton Southworth, Eric Alan, MA Camb, MA Oxf Williams, Gavin Peter, BA Stellenbosch, MA MPhil Oxf, DLitt Rhodes Hunt, Anthony Blair, BLitt MA Oxf, DLitt St And, FBA Leyser, Henrietta, BLitt MA Oxf

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Earle, Thomas Foster, MA DPhil Oxf Ripley, Brian David, MA PhD Camb, MA DPhil Oxf Hilliard, Kevin Foster, MA DPhil Oxf Addison, Kenneth, MA DPhil Oxf, FGS, FRGS, FRMetS Hesselbo, Stephen Peter, BSc Aberd, MA Oxf, PhD Brist Sim, Edith, BSc Edin, MA DPhil Oxf Hirschon, Renée, BA Cape Town, MA DPhil Oxf Allen, Roger, BA BMus Liv, MA DPhil Oxf Graham, James, MA Camb, FRSA Goldman, Lawrence, MA PhD Camb, MA DPhil Oxf, FRHist HONORARY FELLOWS

Bloomfield, Sir Kenneth Percy, KCB, MA Oxf, LLD(Hon) Belf, DUniv(Hon) Open, DLitt(Hon) Ulster Weldon, Anthony Henry David, FRCM Foy, Peter, MA Oxf Kogelnik, Herwig Werner, DPhil Oxf, Dr Tech Vienna, Dipl Ing Condon, Sir Paul Leslie, the Rt Hon Lord Condon of Langton Green, DL, KBE, QPM, MA Oxf Angel, James Roger Prior, MA DPhil Oxf, FRAS,FRS Loach, Kenneth Charles, MA Oxf Jacob, the Rt Hon Prof Sir Robert Raphael Hayim (Robin), LLB Lond, MA Camb Lau, William W Godfray, Professor Hugh Charles Jonathan, CBE, MA Oxf, PhD Lond, FRS Hodgson, Robert Granville, the Rt Hon Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, CBE, MA Oxf, Trustee Eastwood, Professor Sir David Stephen, MA DPhil Oxf, FRHistS Dorfman, Lloyd M, CBE

MEMBERS

Bell, Graham Arthur Charlton, MA DPhil Oxf, FLS, FRSC Cairncross, Dame Frances Anne, CBE, MA (Econ) Brown, MA Oxf Fiddes, the Revd Paul Stuart, MA DPhil DD Oxf Moxon, Archbishop Sir David, BA Canterbury, New Zealand, MA Massey, MA Oxf, LTh Dipl Aotearoa, KNZM Duff, Professor Sir Gordon, BM BCh, MA, Oxf, PhD London, FMedSci, FRCP, FRCPE, FRSE Lemos, Captain Nikolas S Pritchard, the Rt Revd John, MLitt Durh, MA DipTh Oxf Williams, Professor John Mark Gruffydd, MA MSc DPhil DSc Oxf, FBA, FBPsS Houghton, General Sir (John) Nicholas (Reynolds), CBE, GCB, MA Oxf Stanhope, Admiral (Rtd) Sir Mark, KCB, OBE, MA Oxf, FNI Woolf, Professor Daniel, BA Queen’s Ontario, DPhil Oxf, FRHistS, FRSC, FSA Teare, Sir Nigel (John Martin), MA Oxf Mann, Sir (George) Anthony, MA Oxf Jackson, Kurt, MA Oxf, DLitt(Hon) Exeter Carney, Mark Joseph, BA Harvard, MPhil DPhil Oxf Lang, Lang Marr, Andrew William Stevenson, MA Camb Sackler, Dame Theresa (Elizabeth) Perrodo, Bertrand Perrodo, Carrie Perrodo, François, MA Oxf Perrodo, Nathalie Lane, the Right Revd Libby, MA Oxf, DD (Hon) University of Wales Trinity St David Barron, Professor Caroline Mary, OBE, MA Oxf, PhD Lond, FRHistS, FSA, Trustee Farmer, Paul David Charles, MA Oxf St Peter’s College Record 2022 69

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Stewart, Sir Stephen, MA Oxf Rugege, Chief Justice Professor Sam, LLB Makerere, Uganda, LLM Yale, DPhil Oxf Warner, Sir Gerald, BA Oxf, KCMG Gutseriev, Said, MA Oxf Paladina, Nicholas, MA Oxf Damazer, Mark, CBE, BA Camb, MA Oxf LECTURERS

Allen, Sophie Rebecca, MA Glas, PhD Lond, Philosophy Ali, Kawsar, Btech NIT Durgapur, PhD NUS, Engineering Baker, Eleanor, BA RHUL, MPhil Camb, English Baroghel, Elsa, BA MA(Res) Sorbonne, DPhil Oxf, French Bogaard, Amy Marie, BA Bryn Mawr, MSc PhD Sheff, Professor of Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology Burkert-Burrows, Stefanie, MSt Oxf, Staatsexamen Eichstätt, PGCE Manc Met, German Language

Goddard, Stephen, BA DPhil Oxf, French (MT21 only) Grant-Downton, Robert, BA DPhil Oxf, Biological Sciences Gunn, Steven John, MA DPhil Oxf, History Gürdoğan, Ömer, MSc Crete, PhD QMUL, Mathematics Head, Catherine, BSc MSc RHUL, DPhil Oxf, Biological Sciences Hodgson, Susanne, MA Camb, BM BCh PGDip LATHE Oxf, DTM&H Witwatersrand, MRCP, Clinical Medicine Jamil, Nadia, MA Edin, DPhil Oxf, Arabic Jaworzyn, Michael, BA Warwick, MA MPhil PhD KU Leuven, Philosophy (MT21 and HT22 only) Jenkinson, Sarah, MChem DPhil Oxf, Chemistry Johnson, Brooke, BSc Lond, Earth Sciences Kadlec, Ondrej, LLB Prague, JD Nova Southeastern University, MPhil Oxf, Law

Carver, Dylan, BA MPhil PhD Camb, English

Koepernik, Peter, BSc Karlsruhe IT, MSc Oxf, Mathematics

Clack, Timothy Andrew Robert, MA PhD Manc, FRGS, Archaeology and Anthropology

Kotzor, Sandra, MA Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ.

Munich, DPhil Oxf Linguistics (MT21 only)

Clark, Thomas, BA MSt DPhil Oxf, Spanish

Krkoska, Eduard, Economics

Davy, Martin Howard, BEng PhD UCL, Engineering

Larsen, Signe, BA Copenhagen, MA New School for Social Research, PhD LSE, Law

Ewart, Elizabeth Jacqueline, BA East Ang, MPhil Camb, MA Oxf, PhD LSE, Anthropology Farrant, Timothy John, MA DPhil Oxf, French Feldman, Harriet, BA Camb, BMBCh Oxf, PhD UCL, Neuroscience Gammell, Jonathan, BASc, Waterloo, MASc PhD Toronto, Engineering Gant, Andrew John, MA Camb, MMus RAM, PhD Lond, Music

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Gilday, Lydia, MChem DPhil Oxf, Chemistry

Leneghan, Francis, BA MPhil PhD Dub, Medieval English Lewandowski, Adam, BSc Guelph, Canada, DPhil Oxford, Medicine Li, Guanchen, BS Peking, PhD Virginia Tech, Engineering (MT21 only) Lombardi, Elena Laurea Pavia, MA PhD New York, Italian Lucas, Hannah, BA Oxf MPhil Camb, English

SENIOR

Mayhew, Nick, BA MPhil PhD Camb, Russian

BURSAR

McElroy, Caitlin, BA Pennsylvania, MSc DPhil Oxf, Geography

Shaw, Douglas, MA Oxf

Noble Wood, Oliver James, MA MSt DPhil Oxf, Spanish Osborne, Michael, BEng BSc Western Australia, MA DPhil Oxf, Engineering Outeiral Rubiera, Carlos, BSc Oviedo, MPhil Manc, Biochemistry Overkamp, Otto, BSc Tuebingen, MSc PhD Imperial, Mathematics Papiez, Bartek, PhD UCLan, Engineering Pearson, Claire, BSc Imperial, PhD NIMR, Medicine

MEMBERS

CHAPLAIN

Pitkethly, the Revd Dr Elizabeth, BA MMus PhD KCL, BPhil Warwick, MSt MLitt Oxf, PGCE Institute of Education London, ODM, ACK Theology COLLEGE ACCOUNTANT

Marshall, Kathryn, BAcc Glas, CA COLLEGE ARCHIVIST

Allen, Richard, MA MLitt PhD Glas (until 31 October 2021)

Pujol i Campeny, Afra, BA MPhil, PhD Camb, Linguistics

Ray, Alison, MA Glas, MA PhD UCL (from 31 Jan 2022)

Ramakrishnan, Sanjay, Medicine

COLLEGE REGISTRAR

Schlackow, Waldemar, MMath DPhil Oxf, Mathematics

Whalley, Catherine, MA Camb, MEd Open

Sheppard, Dean, MChem DPhil Oxf, Chemistry Skordyles, Kostas, BA Athens, MPhil Paris, Modern Greek Watson, Alice, MA St Andrews, MSc DPhil Oxf, Geography (MT21 only) Willmore, Benjamin, BA PhD Camb, MSc Birm, Biomedical Science Yang, Jun, PhD Toronto, Applied Mathematics (MT21 and HT22 only) Yovanof, Daphne, LLB Athens, LLM Chicago, Law Zervou, Sevasti, BSc Wolverhampton, PhD Warwick, Biochemistry

DEAN FOR WELFARE

Tingle, Eleanor, BA Roehampton, MPhil Bristol DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS

de Gaynesford, Brett, BA College of William and Mary (from HT22 onwards) DIRECTOR OF MUSIC

Beer, Quintin, MA Camb, MA Lond, DipRAM, LRAM DOMESTIC BURSAR

Melbourne, Kevin, (from MT21 onwards) LIBRARIAN

Johnson, David Paul, BA Nott, MA Lond, DPhil Oxf

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New Members 2021-22 Undergraduates ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY

Amy Gadhia, Wellington College, Crowthorne Elizabeth Haile, St Benedict’s School, Ealing, London Elizabeth Hockin, St. Joseph’s Catholic School & Sixth Form Centre, Port Talbot Alexia Saettone Prado, Uppingham School, Rutland BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR

Emily Egerton-Warburton, St Marys School, Ascot, Berkshire Rebonto Haque, SFX Greenherald International School, Dhaka, Bangladesh Madia Harvey, Archbishop Holgate’s Sixth Form, York Zinuo Wu, North Cross School, Shanghai, China BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Jonathan Dickinson, Magdalen College School, Oxford Zephyr Goriely, The Cherwell School, Oxfordshire Lauren Homan, Bishop’s Stortford College, Hertfordshire Finn McHale, King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford, Essex CHEMISTRY

Xinlan Bao, Ulink College of Suzhou Industrial Park, Jiangsu, China Aneshka Moudry, Hockerill Anglo-European College, Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire Tanya Watson, Peter Symonds College, Winchester, Hampshire

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EARTH SCIENCES

Thomas Guest, Runshaw College, Leyland, Lancashire Zoe Guy, Iveshead School, Shepshed, Loughborough Manreet Jassal, Greenford High School, Greenford, Middlesex ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT

Isabel Greenslade, Uppingham School, Rutland Grace Kelly, St Ninians High School, Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, Scotland Bechara Obegi, Sevenoaks School, Kent Benedict Okungbowa, All Saints Catholic School & Technology College, Dagenham, Essex Ruby Slinn, South Hampstead High School, London Serrena Srithavarajah, King’s College School, Wimbledon, London ENGINEERING

Eunsoo Chang, Auckland International College, New Zealand Reuben Leyland, Heathside School and Sixth Form, Weybridge, Surrey Eleanor Reece, Carmel College, St Helens, Merseyside Wisam Sherwi, UTC Reading, Berkshire Luke Vernon, Peter Symonds College, Winchester, Hampshire ENGLISH

Vladimir Molchanov, The International School of Moscow, Russia Shannon Murphy, Cardinal Newman College, Preston, Lancashire Ruby Paton, Queens Park Community School, Brent, London Emily Power, Esher College, Thames Ditton, Surrey Darcey Willing, University College School, Hampstead, London Poppy York, St Edward’s College, Liverpool

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GEOGRAPHY

Julia Bator, Akademeia High School, Warsaw, Poland Daisy Moll, Brighton College, East Sussex Angus Norman, Whitgift School, South Croydon, Surrey Anna Williams, King Edward VII School, Sheffield, South Yorkshire

MEMBERS

John Heller, Leiden University, Netherlands (Diploma in Legal Studies) Sanmay Moitra, Delhi Public School, Gurgaon, India Zi Hao Tan, Eunoia Junior College, Singapore Julia Tomasiak, 33 Liceum Im. M Kopernika, Warsaw, Poland MATHEMATICS

HISTORY

Holly Brooker, Guildford High School, Surrey Marielena Demetriou, Dame Alice Owen’s School, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire Luca Dileto, The Broxbourne School, Hertfordshire Elizabeth Eilers, Brighton College, East Sussex Alyssa Hickman, Bitterne Park School, Southampton Charlotte Knights, The Perse School, Cambridge Cecily O’Neill, St Peter’s School, York Ella Thiagarajah Ozkan, Fortismere School, Muswell Hill, London Marcus Wells, Peter Symonds College, Winchester, Hampshire Emma Wiggetts, St Albans High School for Girls, Hertfordshire

Daniel Finn, Bexhill College, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex Hannah Franklin, The Brakenhale School, Bracknell, Bershire Yiyao Ge, Pennon Education Group, Hangzhou, China Li Gu, Shanghai Foreign Language School, China Yuhan Jiang, The Castle School, Thornbury, South Gloucestershire Joshua Wright, Haileybury & Imperial Service College, Hertford, Hertfordshire MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS

Bogdan Baban, Colegiul Național International de Informatică “Tudor Vianu”, Bucharest, Romania MEDICINE

HISTORY OF ART

Isabel Walter, Alleyn’s School, Dulwich, London Dora Xu, Lycee Fustel de Coulanges de Strasbourg, France LAW

Katie Darroch, Winstanley College, Wigan, Greater Manchester Evina Evina, Mereweather High School, New South Wales, Australia Anna Hearne, Beaconsfield High School, Buckinghamshire

Meg Aitken, Peter Symonds College, Winchester, Hampshire Tharin Azad, King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford, Essex Ellie Faulkner, Esher College, Thames Ditton, Surrey Edward Harris, Balcarras School, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire Rebecca John, St David’s Catholic College, Cardiff, Wales Kirsten Parsons, John Taylor High School, Burton Upon Trent, Staffordshire

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MODERN LANGUAGES

PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS AND ECONOMICS

Alexandra Akins (F&Gk), King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham, West Midlands Awais Aslam (S), Dixons Sixth Form Academy, Bradford, West Yorkshire Charles Dray (G), Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School, Elstree, Hertfordshire Arshiya Hendi (F&I), Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School, Elstree, Hertfordshire Isobel Laux (F&G), Thomas Hardye School, Dorchester, Dorset Sonya Oczkowicz (S&Pol), Ecole Jeannine Manuel, Paris, France Magdalena Schwarz (G&S), Devonport High School for Girls, Plymouth, Devon Justine Streichenberger-Nicolas (F&P), International School of Geneva, LGB, Geneva, Switzerland Daniel Taylor (G&Ling), The Whitby High School, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire Amelia Troup (F&P), Magdalen College School, Oxford

Kieran Casserly, Wilmington Grammar, Dartford, Kent Ruby Johnson, Harrogate Grammar School, Harrogate, North Yorkshire Victor Lamotte, Lycee Janson de Sailly, Paris, France Grace Li, Nottingham Girls High School, Nottinghamshire Ivan Mahoney, Haydon School, Pinner, Greater London Thomas Storey, St Peter’s School, York Vedant Vishwanath, R.N. Podar School, Mumbai, India

MUSIC

Alfred Fardell, Winchester College, Hampshire Luke Marsh-Muir, Wakefield Girls High School, West Yorkshire Charlie Potts, St Nicholas Catholic High School, Hartford, Cheshire Sophia Short, Bromley High School, London Phoebe Smith, The Grange School, Northwich, Cheshire PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY

Megan Harley-Martin, St Mary’s School, Calne, Wiltshire Katherine Peachey, The Godolphin and Latymer School, Hammersmith, London

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PHYSICS

Archie Bermingham, Abingdon School, Oxfordshire Yiming Hu, Jiutian International Education, Beijing, China Denisa Jaksicova, The Commonweal School, Swindon, Wiltshire Gabriel McCall, Durham Johnston Comprehensive School, County Durham Jack Meredith, Riverside College Halton, Widnes, Cheshire THEOLOGY AND RELIGION

Harsirat Kaur, Workington Academy, Cumbria Xanthe Luckham-Down, Radnor House, Twickenham, Middlesex Maanya Patel, Ibstock Place School, Roehampton, London

NEW

Graduates Sally Adams, University of Colorado at Boulder, MSc Water Science, Policy and Management Alana Adams, Kings College, London, MSc Archaeology Mohammed Akhtar, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, DPhil Medical Sciences Motaz Al-Ashhab, University of Waterloo, Canada, Master of Business Administration Fatima Ammar, University of Wales, Bangor, DPhil Plant Sciences Dimitrios Andreakis, National and Capodistrian (Kapodistrian) University of Athens, Greece, MSc Mathematical Sciences Maaian Aner, Tel Aviv University, Israel, DPhil History Jed Avissar, University of Cambridge, Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning (CDT) Joseph Benton, University of Cambridge, Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning (EPSRC CDT) Julie Bernard, University of Warwick, MPhil International Relations James Bezer, Imperial College, London, BM BCh (Graduate Entry Medicine) Camille Britton, Wesleyan University, MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology Balam Budwal, University of Oxford, MBA Alex Buna-Marginean, University of Oxford, Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning (CDT) Thomas Bunting, Macquarie University, Australia, MSc Environmental Change and Management George Buss, Canterbury Christ Church University College, Master of Science (Research) Paediatrics Filip Butuc-Mayer, University of Southampton, DPhil Atomic and Laser Physics Derich Cabrera, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines, Master of Business Administration

MEMBERS

Catherine Chahrour, Open University, DPhil Genomic Medicine and Statistics Zexuan Chen, Chang’an University, China, DPhil Materials Ziyi Chen, University of Oxford, MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance Tahmid Choudhury, University College London, DPhil Materials Patrick Clinch, University of Oxford, MPhil British and European History (1700-1850) Tara Coomaraswamy, University College London, Bachelor of Civil Law Lev Cosijns, Bar-ilan University, Israel, MSc Archaeology Julien Creytens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, MSc Law and Finance Alesha De Fonseka, University of Oxford, MSc Learning and Teaching Sarah De Jong, Amsterdam University College, MSc Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science Dominic Deane, The University of Newcastle-uponTyne, MBA Tobias Dove, University of Bristol, MSc Learning and Teaching David Drabble, University of Bath, MSc Educational Assessment Jonny Edwards, University of Essex, DPhil Evidence Based Health Care Ellen Fanning, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Republic of Ireland, MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology Adam Fowler, Aberystwyth University, DPhil Clinical Medicine Kanshi Gao, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, US, MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance Ziming Gao, University of Liverpool, MSc Mathematical Sciences

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MEMBERS

Ofir Gabrieli, Hebrew University, Israel, MSc Sustainable Urban Development Tatjana Gibbons, Imperial College, London, MSc by Research Women’s and Reproductive Health Joe Glick, University of Cambridge, MSt Jewish Studies Colin Goad, University of Oxford, DPhil Politics Brigit Goebelbecker, Georgetown University, US, Master of Public Policy Simon Handreke, Universitat St. Gallen, Switzerland, MPhil Economics Holly Haynes, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, MSc Latin American Studies Yixiao He, Zhejiang University of Technology, MSc Financial Economics Jake Holmes, University of Bath, DPhil Organic Chemistry Chandrasekhar Iyengar, University of Warwick, MSc Mathematical Sciences Yalda Jafari, Ryerson University, Canada, DPhil Clinical Medicine Olav Johannessen, University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway, DPhil Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Aimen Khan, Lahore University of Management Sciences, MSc Social Anthropology Robert Klapper, University of Oxford, DPhil History Ashlyn Koh, Cornell University, US, MSc Sustainable Urban Development Tsovinary Kuiumchian, University of Oxford, DPhil Anthropology Zhihao Lai, University of Oxford, MBA Christian Lantz, Lebanon Valley College, US, DPhil Biomedical Sciences: NIH-OU Bárbara Larraín Alliende, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile, MSt Modern Languages Thomas Latham, University Edinburgh, MSc Archaeology 76 St Peter’s College Record 2022

Jensen Lee, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, Canada, MBA Su Hyeong Lee, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, MSc Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing Wenyan Li, University of Toronto, Canada, MSc Financial Economics Fang Lim, Imperial College, London, DPhil Mathematics Xinyi Liu, University of Cambridge, MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance Ziyang Liu, University of Bristol, MSc Mathematical Sciences Elena Lopez, Harvard University, US, MSc Integrated Immunology Roxana Lungu, The University of Aberdeen, MSc Pharmacology Kim López Güell, University of Oxford, MSc Mathematical Sciences Manseeb Malek, University College London, MSc Sustainable Urban Development Luca Marsico, King’s College London, BPhil Philosophy Alexander McDonald, University of Gloucestershire, MSc Learning and Teaching Dallas McInerney, University of New England, Australia, MSc Educational Assessment Emily Moody, University of Leicester, MSt English (1830-1914) Joseph Morgan, University of Warwick, DPhil Engineering Science Alejandro Mosqueda Perez, Escuela Libre de Derecho, MSc Law and Finance Morgan Motzel, University of Pennsylvania, US, MBA Pascal Mowla, University of the Arts London, DPhil Politics Zohra Nabi, University of Cambridge, Bachelor of Civil Law

NEW

Sachin Nair, University of Manchester, Bachelor of Civil Law Georgios Nathanael, University College London, MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance Michael Ng, University College London, MSc Mathematical Sciences Emily Parker, University of Oxford, PGCE – History Alison Peard, University of Oxford, DPhil Geography and the Environment Jiayu Peng, Nanjing University of Technology, DPhil Inorganic Chemistry Katherine Peters, Texas A & M University, MSc Archaeology Olivia Phillips, University of St Andrews, MSc Latin American Studies Angus Phillips, University of Oxford, Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning (EPSRC CDT) Phoebe Preston, University of Liverpool, MSc Pharmacology Raivi Rahman, University of Oxford, DPhil Theology and Religion Vidya Ramachandran, University of Oxford, DPhil Socio-Legal Studies Marianne Richards, University of Newcastle-UponTyne, MSc Integrated Immunology Alexander Routledge, University of Newcastle-UponTyne, MBA Abigail Robinson, University of Cambridge, BM BCh (Graduate Entry Medicine) Roman Röösli, Universitat Bern Switzerland, MSc Water Science, Policy and Management Ohana Rowen, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, PGCE - English Daniel Ruin, University of Glasgow, MPhil Buddhist Studies Sofia Sam Chung, New York University, MPhil Politics: Comparative Government

MEMBERS

Naomi Sankaran, University of Cambridge, MSt Modern Languages (R) Timothy Schiller, University of California, Berkeley, US, MSt English (1700-1830) Vikrant Shirvaikar, University of Texas at Austin, Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning (CDT) Tara Slade, University of Cambridge, BM BCh (Graduate Entry Medicine) Kazumasa Soga, Peking University, China, MPhil Law Morad Sóvári, University of Debrecen, Hungary, MSc Nature, Society and Environmental Governance Wee Ling Tan, University of California, US, DPhil in Engineering Science Taimur Tanoli, Concordia University, Canada, MBA William Teasley III, University of Sussex, MSc Educational Assessment Ankit Tiwari, Jabalpur Engineering College, India, MBA Efnan Vaelimaeki, University of California, US, MSc Pharmacology Simon Van Teutem, University of Oxford, MPhil Politics: European Politics and Society Joe Verbist, Delft University of Technology Netherlands, MSc Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing Kelvin Vries, University of Namibia, DPhil Law Tianqi Wang, Zhejiang University, China, DPhil Zoology Jiayi Wang, University College London, MSc Mathematical Sciences Albert Ward, University of York, DPhil Politics Pachara Wattanaskolpant, Thammasat University, Thailand, MJur Yi Wei, University of Oxford, DPhil Economics Jennifer Wells, University of St Andrews, MSc Water Science, Policy and Management

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MEMBERS

Daniel Whitesman, University of Cambridge, MSt Modern Languages (F&S) Hallelujah Wondimu, Hawassa University, Ethiopia, DPhil Politics Andy Xie, Yale University, MSc Environmental Change and Management Kuan Yang, University of Leeds, MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance Alice Yu, University of Missouri, MPhil International Relations Chun Yung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), MSc Statistical Science Zhiyang Zeng, Peking University, DPhil Condensed Matter Physics Jingyan Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, DPhil Medieval and Modern Languages Paul Zhang, University College London, MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance Zhefan Zhou, University College London, MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance Danlei Zhou, University of Edinburgh, MSc Archaeology

Visiting Undergraduates Charlotte Atkins, Columbia University, USA, English Language and Literature Elisabeth Bockler, Universitat Tuebingen, Germany, Theology Tuna Dincer, Sciences Po, Paris, France, Modern Languages Dimitrios Elafropoulos, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece, Modern Languages Uli Hundhammer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich, Economics

Qingying Li, Columbia University, USA, History and Politics Ziming Lin, Zhejiang University, China, Mathematics and Statistics Sitong Liu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, Mathematics and Statistics Julie Ma, Wellesley College, USA, Economics and Politics Sophie Michi, Barnard College of Columbia University, USA, English Language and Literature Rio Mitani, Waseda University, Japan, Philosophy and Politics Rin Miyake, Waseda University, Japan, Economics and Politics Ruikang Ouyang, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China, Mathematics and Statistics Ryan Safiry, Columbia University, USA, Economics and Politics Wenqi Shi, Tsinghua University, China, Mathematics and Statistics Julia Waddles, Columbia University, USA, Philosophy and Politics Bolong Wang, Jilin University, China, Archaeology and Anthropology Yiran Yang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, Statistics

Visiting Postgraduates Sara Ruiz Notario, University of Cordoba, Spain, Modern Languages

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Results and Achievements 2021-22 FIRST IN FHS

DISTINCTION IN PART C OF THE MMATH, THE MMATHSTAT OR THE MMATHPYS

Christopher ALBERTYN, Medicine

Solace HUSSEIN, Engineering Science

Dominic ANWYL-JONES, English Language and Literature

Joseph KEARNEY, Modern Languages (Spanish and Czech)

Beatrice BARR, History and Politics

Tamzin LENT, English Language and Literature

Joshua JONES, Mathematics and Statistics

Martina BORTOLAN, Archaeology and Anthropology

Joseph LEWIS, History

Sebastian LEONTICA, Mathematical and Theoretical Physics

Patrick CLARKE, History and Politics

Duarte LOURENÇO MARCOS CORREIA AMARO, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Xihang CHEN, Mathematics

Luke COOPER, Modern Languages (German)

Lucy LUPTON, History

Peize LIU, Mathematical and Theoretical Physics

Meri MIETTINEN, History

Dekun SONG, Mathematics

Harry CRICHTON-MILLER, Philosophy and Modern Languages (French)

Giovanni MUSSINI, Biology

Alec DAMLEY-JONES, Earth Sciences

Jack PERRAUDIN, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Daniel PHILLIPS, Earth Sciences

James DAVIES, Medicine

Gautham RAO, Medicine

Paul DAVIS, Chemistry

Emma RATH, Religion and Oriental Studies

Harriet DENT, Medicine Benjamin DUVIESART, Engineering Science Chloe FOX-ROBERTSON, Geography Annabelle GRIGG, History Edward HODGSON, Geography Samuel HOLLOWOOD, Earth Sciences Seyed HOSSEINI, Jurisprudence Helena HUGHES-DAVIES, Medicine

Natalya ROBINSON, History

DISTINCTION IN PRELIMS/ MODS

Julia BATOR, Geography Holly BROOKER, History Jonathan DICKINSON, Biology Emily EGERTON-WARBURTON, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Clara SCHREINER, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Elizabeth EILERS, History

Dillon SOMIA, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Li GU, Mathematics

Adrian WANG, Geography Shuwei WANG, Mathematics and Philosophy

Alfred FARDELL, Music Elizabeth HOCKIN, Archaeology and Anthropology Finn McHALE, Biology

Claudia WARREN, History of Art

Charlotte KNIGHTS, History

Luca WILLIAMS, Philosophy and Theology

Reuben LEYLAND, Engineering Science

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Xanthe LUCKHAM-DOWN, Theology and Religion

BM BCh Talia HUBBLE (Distinction)

Aneshka MOUDRY, Chemistry

Mickaela NIXON

Angus NORMAN, Geography

Alexander TOUGH

Katherine PEACHEY, Philosophy and Theology

Matthew WEDLICH

Thomas STOREY, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Xi Hao TAN, Jurisprudence Amelia TROUP, Modern Languages (French and Portuguese) Kamran VAISHNAV, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

BCL Tara COOMARASWAMY (Merit) Zohra NABI (Merit) MJur Pachara WATTANASKOLPANT (Merit)

Isabel WALTER, History of Art Marcus WELLS, History

MSt Joe GLICK (Distinction)

Anna WILLIAMS, Geography

Emily MOODY

Darcey WILLING, English Language and Literature

Naomi SANKARAN (Merit)

Zinuo WU, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Daniel WHITESMAN (Merit)

Dora XU, History of Art

MSc Alana ADAMS (Merit) Sally ADAMS (Merit) Dimitrios ANDREAKIS (Merit) Jed AVISSAR (Distinction) Camille BRITTON (Distinction) Thomas BUNTING (Merit) Zexuan CHEN (Distinction) Ziyi CHEN (Merit) Lev COSIJNS (Distinction) Julien CREYTENS

Tanya WATSON, Chemistry

HIGHER DEGREES, CERTIFICATES AND DIPLOMAS

Postgraduate Certificate in Education Emily PARKER Ohana ROWEN

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Timothy SCHILLER

Sarah DE JONG (Distinction) Kanshi GAO Ziming GAO (Distinction) Holly HAYNES Yixiao HE (Distinction) Chandrasekhar IYENGAR (Merit) Aimen KHAN (Merit) Thomas LATHAM Distinction) Su Hyeong LEE (Distinction) Wenyan LI Xinyi LIU Ziyang LIU (Distinction) Elena LOPEZ Kim LÓPEZ I GÜELL (Distinction) Roxana LUNGU (Merit) Alejandro MOSQUEDA PEREZ Georgios NATHANAEL (Merit) Michael NG (Merit) Olivia PHILLIPS (Distinction) Phoebe PRESTON (Distinction) Marianne RICHARDS Roman RÖÖSLI Efnan Meri VAELIMAEKI (Merit) Joe VERBIST (Merit) Jiayi WANG Jennifer WELLS (Merit) Andy XIE (Merit) Zexuan XING (Distinction) Kuan YANG (Merit) Paul ZHANG (Distinction) Zhefan ZHOU (Merit) Danlei ZHOU (Distinction)

R E S U LT S

BPhil Julieta MACOME MPhil Yasmynn CHOWDHURY (Distinction) Samuel DONG (Distinction) Micaela GIESECKE CHERO (Merit) Kalyani NEDUNGADI (Distinction) Jingyang RUI (Distinction) Yuan ZHANG (Distinction) DPhil Marcin Bielinski, Synthesis for Biology and Medicine (EPSRC CDT), Development of Novel Nuclease Inhibitors as Potential Anticancer Agents Stefan Bostock, Systems Approaches to Biomed Sc (EPSRC & MRC CDT), The application of wearable cameras, accelerometers and motion capture for the analysis of complex gait Tom Brewer, DPhil Zoology, Integrating Genetic Control tools for Insect Pest and Insecticide Resistance Management Ying Chen, DPhil Archaeology, Chinese apocrypha titled Foshuo fumu enzhong jing as material culture in medieval Chinese society

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ACHIEVEMENTS

Howie Chu, DPhil Engineering Science, Characterization of Coupled Transport Phenomena in Large-Format Lithium-Ion Batteries

Jack Holland, Synthetic Biology (EPSRC & BBSRC CDT), Phase separation & interfacial phenomena of a model biomolecular condensate

Nils Cwiekala, DPhil Engineering Science, Damping and Fretting of Frictional Contacts in the SteadyState

Alice Kennett, DPhil Chemistry, Design, synthesis and evaluation of tool compounds for studying endosulfatases

Emmanuelle Afaribea Dankwa, Statistical Science (EPSRC & MRC CDT), Intervention evaluation and structural identifiability in compartmental models of infectious disease transmission

Petya Kindalova, Statistical Science (EPSRC & MRC CDT), Advances in statistical methods for large-scale binary-valued neuroimaging data

Weikang Gong, DPhil Clinical Neurosciences, Modelling multimodal population brain imaging data

Yiyang Li, DPhil Chemistry, Development of Novel Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting Systems at Elevated Temperatures for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution

Jamie Green, DPhil Medieval and Modern Languages, Cultural identity and multilingualism in South Tyrol from 1919 to 2019

Jingyue Lu, Statistical Science (EPSRC & MRC CDT), Towards Robust Neural Networks: Evaluation and Construction

Benjamin Griffiths, DPhil Materials, Laser Engineering of Defects in Diamond for Quantum Technologies

Yang Lu, DPhil Materials, Synthesis and Properties of 2D Layered Semiconductors and Heterostructures

Oliver Groth, DPhil Engineering Science, Learning Physical Intuition for Robotic Manipulation

Sérgio Rafael Martins, DPhil Medieval and Modern Languages, O Canto Precário: Epopeia, derrogação heróica e desumanização em Caramuru (1781)

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Cian Naik, Statistical Science (EPSRC & MRC CDT), Bayesian Methods for Statistical Network Analysis and Data Subsampling Francesca Panero, Statistical Science (EPSRC & MRC CDT), Power-law phenomena in Bayesian nonparametrics Sabine Parrish, DPhil Anthropology, ‘Life is Made of Courage and Coffee’: An Ethnography of Specialty Coffee in São Paulo, Brazil Emilia Pompe, Statistical Science (EPSRC & MRC CDT), Monte Carlo Algorithms for Bayesian Inference Albert Prats Uribe, DPhil Musculoskeletal Sciences, Methods for Medical Device and Surgical Epidemiology: Applications in knee replacement and COVID-19 related tracheotomy Benjamin Rigler, DPhil Mathematics, Decidability in extensions of Fp((t)) Sascha Roest-Ellis, Oil and Gas (NERC CDT), Experimental and analytical investigations of nonskeletal carbonate production

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Amy Sheader, DPhil Materials, The Applications of Quantitative Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy to the Analysis of Intracellular Elemental Distributions Tomas Vaskevicius, Statistical Science (EPSRC & MRC CDT), Risk Bounds for Improper Prediction Procedures Teresa Vilanova Perez, DPhil Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Developing exosomes as a non-invasive delivery platform for therapeutic compounts into mammalian sperm Chaoyue Wang, DPhil Clinical Neurosciences, Mapping tissue magnetic susceptibility and its biological correlates in the human brain Fan Wu, Statistical Science (EPSRC & MRC CDT), Mirror descent for high-dimensional statistical models

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Scholarships and Awards 2021-22 DOMUS SCHOLARSHIPS

William Garrett, Mathematics

Christopher Albertyn, Medicine

Ellla Henry, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Rory Allen, Physics

Edward Hodgson, Geography

Zackary Allinson, Mathematics

Samuel Hollowood, Earth Sciences

Matthew Antrobus, Mathematics

Talia Hubble, Medicine (Graduate Entry)

Dominic Anwyl-jones, English Language and Literature

Simai Jia, Physics

Orlando Bell, Geography

Joshua Jones, Mathematics

Arun Bhandari, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Theo Jupp, Modern Languages (French and German)

Olivia Bryant, Archaeology and Anthropology

Alastair Kidd, History and Politics

Evangeline Burrowes, Geography Isis Buse, History

Krzysztof Kropidlowski, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Yinuo Cai, Chemistry

Shaimerden Kuanganov, Engineering Science

Aaron Chen, Engineering Science

Usman Ladan, Mathematics

Phoebe Cherrington-Walker, Medicine

Tamzin Lent, English Language and Literature

Patrick Clarke, History and Politics

Sebastian Leontica, Physics

Dominic Cox, History of Art

Peize Liu, Mathematics

Jakub Curda, Mathematics

Lucy Lupton, History

Shannon Dagnell, Biology

Scott Macken, Chemistry

James Davies, Medicine

Abigail McBain, Earth Sciences

Harriet Dent, Medicine

Grace Middleton, History

Qingyi Di, Physics

Vani Mohindra, Economics and Management

Madeleine Dunne, History

Thomas Morgan, Medicine (Graduate Entry)

Rhiannon Evans, History

Giovanni Mussini, Biology

Jimi Fafowora, Mathematics and Statistics

Anastasia Pantazopoulou, Earth Sciences

Chloe Fox-Robertson, Geography

Anya Paopiamsap, Physics

Weronika Galka, Jurisprudence

Ryan Parry, Economics and Management

Lois Gardner, History of Art

Heather Piare, English Language and Literature

Natasha Gargan, English Language and Literature

Daniel Phillips, Earth Sciences

Bethan Jenkins, Modern Languages (French)

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AWARDS

Lucas Quinn, Theology and Religion

Tamzin Lent, English Language and Literature

George Rabin, Biology

Lucy Lupton, History

Emma Rath, Religion and Oriental Studies

Abigail McBain, Earth Sciences

Vinaya Roehrl, Biology

Lewis Stubley, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Clara Schreiner, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Tricia Seow, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

BARRON SCHOLARSHIPS

Dekun Song, Mathematics

Shivani Abensour, Chemistry

Lewis Stubley, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Qi Chen, Mathematics and Statistics

Adrian Suen, Jurisprudence

Xihang Chen, Mathematics

Ben Swanson, Medicine (Graduate Entry)

Alec Damley-Jones, Earth Sciences

Stanislaw Switala, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Lucy Greenwood, Mathematics

Shuwei Wang, Mathematics and Philosophy

Ethan Hall, Economics and Management

Luca Williams, Philosophy and Theology

Katie Harkins, Theology and Religion

Oliver Williams, Chemistry

Soroush Hosseini, Jurisprudence

Hector Wilton, History

Solace Hussein, Engineering Science

Enam Yuen, Chemistry

Aalim Khan, Economics and Management

Krzysztof Zdanowicz, Economics and Management

Joseph Lewis, History

Yongrui Zhang, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Ali Morris, Economics and Management

Yuqi Zhang, Mathematics

Natalya Robinson, History

Yuhan Zheng, Engineering Science

Toby Rose, Jurisprudence

Benjamin Duvieusart, Engineering Science

Dillon Somia, Philosophy, Politics and Economics ANJOOL MALDÉ SCHOLARSHIPS

Joao Walsh Crema, Engineering Science

Harriet Dent, Medicine

Claudia Warren, History of Art

Chloe Fox-Robertson, Geography

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Weronika Galka, Jurisprudence

DOMUS EXHIBITIONS

Edward Hodgson, Geography

Shivani Abensour, Chemistry

Solace Hussein, Engineering Science

Mika Alvarez Nishio, Archaeology and Anthropology

Joshua Jones, Mathematics

Qi Chen, Mathematics and Statistics

Krzysztof Kropidlowski, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Freya Gnodde, Archaeology and Anthropology

SCHOLARSHIPS

AND

AWARDS

Benjamin Green, Modern Languages (French and Linguistics)

ST PETER’S COLLEGE TEACH FIRST BURSARY

Natalie Hytiroglou, History of Art

Saskia Geddes, Modern Languages (Spanish)

Zuhaira Islam, History and Politics Brian Kwizera, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

OTHER PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Joseph Lewis, History

Bailey Prize (Chemistry)

Louis Odgers, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Yinuo Cai

Daniel Parr, Physics Jacobus Petersen, Geography

Carl Albert Prize (most distinguished Finalist 2021)

Hugo Pralle, Geography

Ella Johnson, English Language and Literature

Natalya Robinson, History Toby Rose, Jurisprudence

Charles Caine Mathematics Prize

Sophie Shorthose, Geography

Bethany Clarke

Louis Vyas, History Adrian Wang, Geography Claudia Warren, History of Art Rose Wei, Modern Languages (French)

Houghton Prize (English) Natasha Gargan McCartney Fund Prize (History) Beatrice Barr

CRAYTHORNE SCHOLARSHIPS (AWARDED BY THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF CUTLERS) Ben Aldridge, Earth Sciences Ellie Faulkner, Medicine Brian Kwizera, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Mate Naszai, Medicine (Graduate Entry)

Joseph Lewis Isis Buse Anna Covell Annabelle Grigg Lucy Lupton Natalya Robinson

Mohammed Raza, Medicine

New Horizon Prize (Mathematics)

Rebecca Southwart, Chemistry

William Garrett Matthew Antrobus

LANDAU FORTE BURSARY

Dekun Song

Gracie Green (St John’s College)

Bethany Clarke Wolt Moltmaker St Peter’s College Record 2022 85

SCHOLARSHIPS

AND

AWARDS

Piyada Wattapalonon Scholarship (Economics/ Management):

T W Mason Prize (History) Maarten Jonker

Clara Schreiner, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Ethan Hall, Economics and Management

William James Clarke Prize (French) Anthony Walker

Raisaa Kaur Kandhari Scholarship (Philosophy): Jack Perraudin, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

CHORAL SCHOLARSHIPS

Raisaa Kaur Kandhari Scholarship (Politics):

Bernard Rose Choral Scholarship, supported by John Bain

Clara Schreiner, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Amy Gadhia, Archaeology and Anthropology

Dillon Somia, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Helen Williams Choral Scholarship Smith Prize (History)

Felicity Henry, Music

Hector Wilton Jatinder Singh Uppal Scholarship Simpson Prizes (for 1st year performance)

Hector Wilton, History

Evangeline Burrowes, Geography Aaron Chen, Engineering Science

John Bain Choral Scholarship

Lois Gardner, History of Art

Noah Radcliffe-Adams, Music

Bethan Jenkins, Modern Languages (French) Lucas Quinn, Theology and Religion

Jonathan Arnold Choral Scholarship

George Rabin, Biology

Megan Harley-Martin, Archaeology and Anthropology

Tricia Seow, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Adrian Suen, Jurisprudence Krzysztof Zdanowicz, Economics and Management Steven Latner Scholarship (English) Natasha Gargan Tamzin Lent Sutton Prize (PPE) Stanislaw Switala

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Karan Singh Uppal Scholarship Sian Sulke, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Kirtan for Causes Scholarship Jack Edis, Music Manika Kaur Kandhari Scholarship Emma Wiggetts, History

SCHOLARSHIPS

AND

AWARDS

Narankar Singh Uppal Scholarship

TRAVEL AWARDS

Alfred Fardell, Music

Meg Aitken, Pre-clinical Medicine, Latner Ben Aldridge, Earth Sciences, Durham

Roy Burgess Choral Scholarship Laura Massey (Trinity College)

Trinity Ashley, Archaeology and Anthropology, Durham

Cecilia Wilkins Dulanto, Music

Awais Aslam, Modern Languages (Spanish), Latner Safaa Baig, Philosophy and French, Arabella

OTHER MUSIC AWARDS Paul and Fiona Geddes Awards for Musical Excellence

Imogen Barrett, Modern Languages (Italian) and Linguistics, Latner Jason Bennett, Biology, Latner

Melissa Terzi, Music

Eve Caston, Music, Arabella

Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, Music

Gabrielle Cognacq, Graduate Entry Medicine, Latner

Vinaya Roehrl, Biology

Sofia Cristobal Holman-Smith, English Language and Literature, Latner

Allen Senior Organ Scholarship

Charis Daaffour-Ahenkora, Modern Languages (Italian and Portuguese), McKinsey

Stanley Godfrey, Music

Ruby Davies, English Literature and Language, Latner Siraj Singh Kandhari Junior Organ Scholarship

Darcy Dixon, Philosophy and Theology, Arabella

Luke Marsh-Muir, Music

Elizabeth Eilers, History, Latner Anna Fairweather, Mathematics, Deelman

Jacob Barnes Instrumental Scholarship, supported by Thomas Hancox Sophia Short, Music Christopher Ross Instrumental Scholarship, supported by John Bain Charlie Potts, Music

Amy Gadhia, Archaeology and Anthropology, Durham Lois Gardner, History of Art, Arabella Natasha Gargan, English Language and Literature, Latner William Garrett, Mathematics, Simpson Isabelle Goddard, Earth Sciences, Durham Zoe Guy, Earth Sciences, Durham

Usher Instrumental Scholarship Morgane Breabout, Engineering Science

Reuben Harris, English Language and Literature, Latner Naomi Hawrylak, Biology, Latner Felicity Henry, Music, Latner Helena Hughes-Davis, Pre-clinical Medicine, Latner St Peter’s College Record 2022 87

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AWARDS

Natalie Hytiroglou, History of Art, Latner

Ava Spencer-Jones, Theology and Religion, Latner

Simai Jia, Physics, Simpson

Thomas Storey, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Deelman

Brian Kwizera, Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, Latner Isobel Laux, Modern Languages (French and German), Arabella

Alfred Taylor, History, Latner Luke Vernon, Engineering Science, Arabella

Tianjin Li, Mathematics and Philosophy, Simpson

Ned Vowell, Modern Languages (German and Italian), McKinsey

Sophie Lord, Theology and Religion, Latner

Ben Webb, Earth Sciences, Durham

Abigail McBain, Earth Sciences, Latner

Max Williamson, Graduate Entry Medicine, Latner

Madeleine McInerney, English Language and Literature, Latner

Poppy York, English Literature and Language, Latner Yuqi Zhang, Mathematics and Statistics, Simpson

Daisy Moll, Geography, Latner Mate Naszai, Graduate Entry Medicine, Simpson Ryan Parry, Economics & Management, Deelman Katherine Peachey, Philosophy and Theology, Latner

GRADUATE AWARDS The Hrothgar Singaporean Clarendon Scholarship Daniel Kor

William Peat, Biology, Latner Verity Peterken, Modern Languages (French and Linguistics), McKinsey

St Peter’s College Bushell Scholarship in History Katherine Fapp

Eleanor Reece, Engineering Science, Deelman Vinaya Roehrl, Biology, Simpson

Edith Sim’s Studentship (MSc in Pharmacology)

Faris Saadat-Yazdi, Mathematics, Simpson

Zeba Chowdhury

Alexia Saettone Prado, Archaeology and Anthropology, Durham

Bossanyi Bursary

Fergus Sandham, Jurisprudence, Latner

Jennifer Wells

Magdalena Schwarz, Modern Languagues (Spanish and Beginners’ German), Latner Ruby Slinn, Economics and Management, Latner Michael Smith, Modern Languages (French and Spanish), McKinsey Dillon Somia, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Latner

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OTHER GRADUATE AWARDS Sally Adams, MSc Water Science, Policy and Management Katrina Andrews, Systems Approaches to Biomedical Science (EPSRC & MRC CDT) - Chemical Biology

SCHOLARSHIPS

AND

AWARDS

Maayan Aner, DPhil History

Kim Lopez Guell, MSc Mathematical Sciences

Joshua Bamford, DPhil Anthropology Moshe Ben Hamo Yeger, DPhil Politics

Claire Lunde, DPhil Women’s and Reproductive Health

Stefanos Bennett, Mod Stats and Statistical Machine Learning (CDT)

Emily Mazey, DPhil Women’s and Reproductive Health

Lucy Browne, DPhil Inorganic Chemistry

Geoffrey Mboya, DPhil Mathematics

Thomas Bunting, MSc Environmental Change and Management

Pascal Mowla, DPhil Politics

George Buss, MSc(Res) Paediatrics

Michael Ng, MSc Mathematical Sciences

Adam Dawson, DPhil Archaeology

Lorenzo Pacchiardi, Statistical Science (EPSRC & MRC CDT)

Mariana De Oliveira Silva, DPhil Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

Sachin Nair, BCL

Foley Peters, MSc Archaeology

Catherine Fan, DPhil Condensed Matter Physics

Jessica Pointing, DPhil Atomic and Laser Physics

Ellen Fanning, MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology

Marianne Richards, MSc Integrated Immunology

Niamh Fearon, DPhil Particle Physics Natalia Garcia, Martin Statistical Science (EPSRC & MRC CDT) Micaela Giesecke Chero, MPhil Social Anthropology Matthew Holland, Sus App to Biomed Sc: Resp and Repro Res (CDT) Jake Holmes, DPhil Organic Chemistry Charlotte Hoskins, DPhil Anthropology Abdulazeez Imam, DPhil Clinical Medicine Piyush Kumar Sharma, DPhil Oncology Su Hyeong Lee, MSc Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing Jensen Lee, MBA Yiyang Li, DPhil Inorganic Chemistry Abi Lister, DPhil Materials

Simone Rijavec, DPhil Atomic and Laser Physics Jingyang Rui, MPhil Economic and Social History Yuling Sang, MSc(Res) Engineering Science Ali Sherzad, DPhil Organic Chemistry Ana Sousa Gerós, DPhil Clinical Medicine Benedikt Stock, DPhil Mathematics Deborah Sulem, Statistical Science (EPSRC & MRC CDT) Zoi Tsangalidou, Mod Stats and Statistical Mch Learning (CDT) Simon Van Teutem, MPhil Politics: Politics and Society Jean-Baptiste Verstraete, DPhil Organic Chemistry Nathan Wallace, DPhil Theology and Religion Yipei Wang, DPhil Engineering Science Xiaoyun Wang, DPhil Organic Chemistry St Peter’s College Record 2022 89

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AWARDS

Yi Wei, DPhil Economics Kathy Wen, DPhil Wind and Marine Energy Systems and Structures (EPSRC CDT) Daniel Whitesman, MSt Modern Languages (FRE and SPA)

Tong Yu, DPhil Engineering Science Zhiyang Zeng, DPhil Condensed Matter Physics

Bethan Winter, DPhil History

Paul Zhang, MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance

Rubi Wu, DPhil Archaeology

Danlei Zhou, MSc Archaeology

Andy Xie, MSc Environmental Change and Management

Florian Zirpel, DPhil Clinical Neurosciences

UNIVERSITY PRIZES Gibbs Prize (highest average mark in FHS History) Joseph Lewis

T.F. Earle Prize (best performance in Portuguese Prelims content papers) Justine Streichenberger-Nicolas, Modern Languages (French and Portuguese)

Gibbs Prize (best performance in Philosophy papers in the FHS Philosophy and Theology) Luca Williams, Philosophy and Theology

Stephen Parkinson Prize (best performance in Portuguese Prelims language papers) Amelia Troup, Modern Languages (French and Portuguese)

Gibbs Prizes (Mathematics Part C) Dekun Song, Mathematics Shuwei Wang, Mathematics and Philosophy Gibbs Prize (Mathematics dissertation) Joshua Jones, Mathematics and Statistics C.D.D. Gibbs Book Prize (FHS Geography) Edward Hodgson Gibbs Prize for practical work in Part B Physics Simia Jia Gibbs Prize (Y2 Graduate Entry Medicine) Ben Swanson

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Kuan Yang, MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance

Canon Hall Preliminary Greek Testament Prize Xanthe Luckham-Down, Theology and Religion John Potter Prize in Neurology Remarez Sheehan, Medicine (Clinical) Earth Sciences Mapping Project Prize Isabelle Goddard, Earth Sciences Third-Year Essay Prize Anastasia Pantazopoulou, Earth Sciences Prize for Excellence in the 2022 Preliminary Examination (Biology) Finn McHale

C O N G R AT U L AT I O N S

Congratulations We are pleased to wish a very happy 101st birthday to Geoffrey Michael Tibbs (Geography, 1946) on 21 November 2022!

Congratulations to Brian Wilson (1948) and Joy Wilson, who shared their 65th Wedding Anniversary (and Joy’s 90th birthday) in July 2022.

Marriages Tamara Barnett (2004) Adam Wildman Brent Rowan Hyder (1977) Elisabeth Bishop Peter Mason (St Anne’s College, 2005) Alexandra Schneiders (Son of Joseph Mason (1968)) Ben Slingsby (2008) Jennifer Andre (2009) Matthew Born (1988) Sarah Lee David Mahoney (2006) Joanne Popham

16 June 2021 (Civil) 15 August 2022 (Religious) 13 August 2021 2022 2022 September 2022 28 December 2022

Births Name Lucas Spartera Charlotte Xia

DOB 04/02/2021 10/03/2021

Family Marco Spartera (2017) and Anna Lena Schaupp Yuchen Xia (2006) and Chen Wang (2005)

Notes Brother to Elsa

Dylan Sanjay Nanwani Caio Luís Gordon-Rodriguez Yannis Philip Marnette Adora Maria Dulce Clara Seren Joseph Theodore Jack Swinton Hughes

18/09/2021 08/10/2021 11/12/2021 04/02/2022 21/02/2022 24/05/2022

Sanjay Nanwani (2007) and Kara Phang (St Catherine’s College, 2010) Isobel Gordon (2010) and Filipe Rodriguez Bruno Marnette (2007) and Despoina Magka (2008) Maria Adela Dulce (Scout) Sister to Adeola Mercy Adegbite Rhiannon Drake (2007) and Thomas Joseph Eloise Swinton (2008) and David Hughes

Leah Nazar Max Wick McCleery Maeve Brooker Eimear Holly Tuffnell Alice Conway

06/06/2022 13/07/2022 09/08/2022 21/10/2022

Karolina Kolodziejczyk (Scout) and Vishal Nazar Rory McCleery (2005) and Rachel Wick (2007) Jessica Black (Accommodation Officer) and Mark Brooker Joanna Neilly (Fellow) and Stephen Tuffnell (Fellow) David Conway (2005) and Victoria Young (Merton College, 2005)

Sister to Alesha Brother to Archie Sister to Aoife Sister to Daisy

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D E AT H S

We announce with regret the deaths of the following Old Members Of St Peter’s*: April 1985 ....................................PROFESSOR CHUNG SHU LO...............................1937 ...........Commoner Tuesday, 13 January 2015 ..............MR JAMES HENRY MEGENIS ...............................1950 ..........Commoner April 2018 ....................................MR ROBERT JAMES MARPLE ...............................1954...........Commoner Monday, 3 September 2018............MR DONALD HOLDER .........................................1958 ..........Commoner Saturday, 12 September 2020 ........MR PETER CHARLES RANDALL BEWS ..................1970 ...........Graduate Student Wednesday, 16 December 2020 .....MR IAN CHARLES KING ...................................... 1981 ..........Commoner Friday, 29 January 2021 .................MR MICHAEL STEPHEN COX ................................1953 ..........Commoner Friday, 30 April 2021 .....................THE REVD MICHAEL ATKINSON SAVAGE ..............1954...........Commoner Saturday, 10 July 2021...................MR ROGER FREDERICK MARSHALL MILLS ............1955...........Commoner Friday, 16 July 2021 .......................MR BERNARD ROY SHILLAKER ............................1955...........Commoner Wednesday, 21 July 2021 ...............PROFESSOR ALAN CROWE .................................1959 ..........Commoner Sunday, 22 August 2021 ................MRS SHIRLEY ROSINA SLATTER ............................................Friend Friday, 27 August 2021...................MR PETER WILLIAM WALTER SNOOK ...................1956 ..........Commoner Sunday, 4 April 2021......................MR PAUL KARFOOT BERRY ..................................1961 ...........Commoner Thursday, 29 April 2021 .................MRS JOANNA BENT-HAZELWOOD........................1993 ..........Commoner Tuesday, 7 September 2021............THE REVD JOHN ANTHONY WALLIS .....................1957 ...........Commoner Tuesday, 9 November 2021 ............MR DAVID JOHN FRANCIS KING ..........................1966 ..........Commoner Saturday, 4 December 2021 ...........THE VENERABLE DAVID HERBERT SHREEVE.........1954...........Commoner Tuesday, 7 December 2021.............DR FRANCIS ROBERT LE PLASTRIER WARNER ........................Fellow 2022............................................MR KURT ALEXANDER SCHWEITZER ....................1958 ..........Commoner 2022............................................MR WILLIAM STEPHEN BERRY.............................1965 ..........Commoner Saturday, 8 January 2022 ..............MS CORDELIA JADE FELDMAN ............................1998 ..........Commoner Thursday, 13 January 2022 ............MR ROGER MARTIN PERRET GREEN.....................1955...........Commoner Wednesday, 19 January 2022 .........MR COLIN HASELDEN BAILEY .............................1957 ...........Commoner Tuesday, 25 January 2022 .............MR AKHTAR HAMID ............................................1966 ..........Commoner Monday, 31 January 2022 ..............MR JAMES COLLIER SIDDONS ............................1950 ..........Commoner Wednesday, 2 February 2022 .........MR BARRY BATES...............................................1962...........Commoner Thursday, 3 February 2022 ............MR ROGER THUBRON BRADLEY ..........................1955...........Commoner Thursday, 3 February 2022 ............MR JOHN REGINALD GREEN ...............................1991 ...........Graduate Student Monday, 14 February 2022 .............MR DAVID CHARLES BACH..................................1968 ..........Commoner Tuesday, 22 February 2022 ............DR STUART R TURNBULL ......................................................Fellow Tuesday, 5 April 2022 ....................DR HAROLD RICHARD JOHN DAVIES ...................1951 ...........Commoner Friday, 6 May 2022 ........................MR JOHN GREENWOOD ......................................1965 ..........Commoner Thursday, 26 May 2022 ..................MR GWYN MCDONALD RAMAGE ..........................1963 ..........Commoner Tuesday, 28 June 2022 ..................DR OLIVER JOHN MORE ORMEROD......................1972 ...........Commoner Sunday, 3 July 2022 ......................MR CHRISTOPHER JOHN WEEKS .........................1955...........Commoner Saturday, 9 July 2022 ...................REVD EDWARD GEORGE LONGMAN .....................1955...........Commoner We also record with sadness the death of Sylvie Jaffrey, who copy-edited the College Record for many years. *Notified between 1 August 2021 and 31 July 2022 92 St Peter’s College Record 2022

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