St Peter's College Record 2025

St Peter’s College Record

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St Peter’s College Record

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St Peter’s College Record 2025

Editors: Professor 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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Tel: +44 (0)1865 278900 www.spc.ox.ac.uk Front Cover: Linton Quad and College Chapel, December 2024.

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Porter Neville Pimm’s Leaving Party l-r: Richard Gibson, Katharine French, Neville, Derrick Harriott

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Editorial Heraclitus was famously sceptical that anything persists - one cannot step into the same river twice – whilst Parmenides, by contrast, asserted that all change is illusory. But neither Heraclitus nor Parmenides had the benefit of being members of St Peter’s. Had they been so, they would have faced the irrefutable truth that the College persists through change; indeed, it continues as the place it most fundamentally is not despite change, but because of it, for St Peter’s is of its essence a perennial process of alloying the best of the old with the best of the new. Each year, some colleagues leave us and some students graduate, transitioning from being student members to being, in the traditional nomenclature, old members; and, each year, new colleagues join us and new students take their first steps through the doors of the lodge and into their lifelong membership of the place and their lifelong contribution to the process. In reflecting on the academic year just gone, The College Record always reflects this continuity through change. In this edition, for example, we read in our feature articles of twenty-five years of the Gustav Born scholarship, and also of the particular research interests of one of our newer fellows, in Management. These, and the other articles and reports from our various constituencies and student bodies, are all suggestive of the blending of tradition and innovation and of the myriad human stories behind it all, a small sample of which you may find in the pages that follow.

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CONTENTS

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The Master’s Letter Editorial ........................................................................................1

Middle Common Room..............................................................23

The Master’s Letter ......................................................................3

Junior Common Room ...............................................................26

Feature Articles Twenty-five years of the Gustav Born Scholarship

By Dr Huw Dorkins, Fellow and Tutor in Medicine ............................................. 12

Chapel Choir...............................................................................29

Transparent and Inclusive – The New Openness in Strategy

By Dr Violetta Splitter, Fellow and Tutor in Management ....................................... 14 Subject News Archaeology and Anthropology .............................................. 17 Chemistry ................................................................................ 17 Earth Sciences ......................................................................... 18 Engineering Science................................................................ 18 English..................................................................................... 19 Geography ............................................................................... 19 History..................................................................................... 19 Management............................................................................ 19 Medicine.................................................................................. 19 Modern Languages..................................................................20 Music....................................................................................... 21 Philosophy............................................................................... 21 Politics.....................................................................................22

The Sporting Year ...................................................................... 32 Recent Appointments ................................................................. 38 College Library........................................................................... 41 Bursar’s Report........................................................................... 43 Development and Alumni ..........................................................46 Donor Circles..............................................................................49 Gifts to the College.....................................................................50 Members of the Howard Society................................................ 57

In common with the rest of the St Peter’s community, I love the College Dining Hall. Across the past six years, I have spent many stimulating hours in it alongside colleagues, students and alumni, at working lunches and formal dinners, meeting interesting people, enjoying its warmth and intimacy, being asked about its portraiture and admiring the work of our catering team. In the 2023 issue of The College Record, I referenced the Civil War history of the Hannington Hall site, which, as New Inn Hall, served as the Royal Mint for a besieged Charles I and his army in the 1640s. There is College news coming down the track about the coins minted on our site in this period, to which I will return in next year’s issue. In this issue, my interest in the Dining Hall starts with the pictures and the St Peter’s people evoked by them. From there it moves to the strength of reputation that the SPC Dining Hall has gained across Oxford in recent years.

Portraiture first. As someone keen to catch the history of St Peter’s as part of the project to chart its future, I find myself wishing from time to time that I might speak with those depicted in the portraits around us. I would love to have tea with Revd Julian Thornton Duesbury (‘TD’), a dram of something peaty with Sir Alec Cairncross, learn more about (historian) Professor Gerald Aylmer’s self-configuration as an ‘old Whig with Leveller

Obituary Professor John O’Connor........................................................ 59 Dr Robert Twycross ................................................................60 The Revd William Lysander Rowan Watson .......................... 62 Senior Members..........................................................................64 New Members.............................................................................69 Results and Achievements.......................................................... 74 Scholarships and Awards ........................................................... 78 Deaths .........................................................................................84

Fig 1: Dame Frances Cairncross with Bryan Organ’s portrait of her father, Sir Alec Cairncross.

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Fig 2: Professor Caroline Barron with Bryan Organ’s portrait of Professor John Barron.

leanings’, or hear (classicist) Professor John Barron discuss ancient Greece. TD’s sonorous laugh and great kindness have been wonderfully evoked for me by former students, and one of our Japanese alumni, Ambassador Masamichi Hanabusa, has reported how in 1959 TD accepted his invitation to a Japanese tea ceremony on the floor of his Besse Building student room. The Cairncrosses’ Canal House gatherings, in which, I gather, stewed fruit was regularly served to undergraduates, have become the stuff of College legend.

A framed copy of a letter written to Richard Burton by Sir Alec in 1978 shortly before he demitted office (‘Dear Mr Burton’) hangs on the wall in Canal House. The letter complains that a generous benefaction promised by the actor to the College had never been forthcoming. It is, amongst other things, a wonderful object lesson in the emotionally expressive use of a type-writer (emphatic underlinings and all). Professor Aylmer’s quiet academic distinction and contribution to Fig 3: Mark Damazer CBE, next to his own portrait by Eileen Hogan. building the estate is widely

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recognised. And Professor Barron’s vision for the College and warm sociability are remembered with great affection by former students and senior fellows alike.

Sadly, the moment has passed when it is now possible to meet many of these key St Peter’s figures. I therefore continue to glean what I can gratefully from conversations with their former students, colleagues and families. Most notably in this respect, I have found speaking with Dame Frances Cairncross, Alec Cairncross’s daughter, and Professor Caroline Barron, John Barron’s widow, to be a particularly educative pleasure and I always look forward to our encounters (figs 1 and 2). But it remains a cause of regret not to have had the chance to meet my predecessors directly, whose distinction, engaging idiosyncrasies and deep care for College I have so enjoyed glimpsing through the accounts of others.

Happily, though, in-person conversations with others depicted in our portraiture are still very possible. Eileen Hogan’s portrait of my immediate predecessor, Mark Damazer, for example, hangs on the

Fig 4: Professor Dapo Akande next to his portrait by Catherine Goodman.

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New Inn Hall Street side of the Dining Hall (fig 3) and it is always a pleasure to see Mark and Rosie when they return to College.

Others still very much with us whose portraits form part of the fabric of our daily College life include those of former Tutorial Fellows Professor Dapo Akande and Professor Christine Greenhalgh. Dapo was formerly the Yamani Fellow of International Law at St Peter’s College and is now Oxford’s Chichele Professor of Public International Law, a Fellow of All Souls College and a Member of the United Nations International Law Commission. It has been an honour getting to know Dapo through events back in College and elsewhere around Oxford.

Catherine Goodman’s portrait of Dapo (fig 4) hangs opposite Tom Croft’s portrait of distinguished economist Dr Christine Greenhalgh (fig 5). Christine was elected Fellow of the College in 1979, and was the first woman to be so. Christine has generously given me a unique perspective on how meetings of the College’s Governing Body ran when she was the only woman in the room.

(It will not surprise her former students to learn that she more

Fig 5: Professor Christine Greenhalgh next to her portrait by Tom Croft.

Fig 6: A collection of the female fellows of the College in Fran Monks’ photographic portraits.

than held her own.) Christine and other early female academic appointments in the history of the College helped to open up the wonderful scholarly community of St Peter’s for those who have followed. And many of the impressive women academics who have done so are depicted in the striking Fran Monks photographic group portraits which also hang in the Hall (fig 6).

To this list, I add the names of three of the distinguished alumni who feature among our portraiture in the Hall. Formerly a corporate lawyer, Srin Madipalli is a technology entrepreneur who founded Accomable, an online company designed to help those with disabilities find and book accessible holiday accommodation worldwide. Accomable exited to Airbnb in 2017.

At Srin’s last visit to College, we visited the Hall together and enjoyed a moment of encounter between Srin’s real-world and photographic selves (fig 7).

Distinguished alumna, and pioneering churchwoman, the Right Revd Libby Lane, Bishop of Derby, appears in another Tom Croft Hall portrait, pictured in front of the Bossanyi window in College

Fig 7: Srin Madipalli next to his photographic portrait by Fran Monks.

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Chapel (fig 8). Bishop Libby was the first woman to be ordained Bishop in the Church of England, and we are grateful for the wisdom and care with which she now undertakes her role as our College Visitor.

Professor Daniel Hastings (fig 9) is a distinguished American physicist working in aerospace engineering. Amongst other distinctions, Daniel has been Chief Scientist to the US Airforce and served on the US National Science Board. He is currently Cecil and Ida Green Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which happily makes it possible for him to join with other local alumni for SPC Boston events, most recently in April 2025 (fig 10).

Portraits on the walls of the Hall used only to record the founders and former Masters of the College. In more recent years, College has diversified its portraiture to show a greater spread of inspiring SPC people who are making an emphatic contribution to their respective fields. Those mentioned here, for example, remind us of the importance of international law, celebrate the opening up to women of fields traditionally the preserve of men, note the value

Fig 8: Bishop Libby Lane and her parents next to her portrait by Tom Croft.

Fig 9: Fran Monks’ photographic portrait of Professor Daniel Hastings.

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Fig 10: Dan Hastings and other alumni at the SPC Boston dinner, April 2025.

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Fig 11: Eifion Davies and Tony Baughan with their team: Rajeev Rana, Luca Buy, Chloe Britten, Muhammad Khan, Robert Townsend.

Figs 14 and 15: The Fellows’ Garden, relaid and back in use for garden parties

of entrepreneurship and inclusion, and register the importance of evidence-based scientific enquiry in a world in which respect for that is not assured. Other portraits in the Hall reference exceptional contributions in the world of medicine, government and other forms of leadership. If you haven’t been back to College for a while, do come and admire the broadened record of distinction that now forms the backdrop to our communal meals together.

Figs 12 and 13: more gently shaped borders, a bio-diversified planting regime and a new mulberry sapling in a refreshed Mulberry Quad.

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As you will recall from your own time here, St Peter’s communal life is predominantly informal and low-key in style – and, in relative terms across Oxford, it is markedly so. Nevertheless, our formal dining adds joyful elegance to the week. The fact that both our Tuesday and Thursday formal halls are always full testifies to how much our students enjoy them. And our formal halls have come in for some admiring attention from beyond the College recently also. In Oxford, the quality of a college’s food is rumoured to be inversely related to the relative wealth of the college. The note-worthy excellence of St Peter’s food placed alongside our lowly position in the crosscollege wealth tables does nothing to dispel this rumour.

In The Cherwell’s Trinity term cross-college survey of formal halls, St Peter’s formal hall was ranked top across all Oxford colleges. Being deemed the best for food, service and spirit is a pleasing accolade because it both celebrates the imaginative and skilled work of our catering colleagues and the perkiness of the community that helps to make an event.

So an appreciative nod to our students, and a particular thank you to our superb chefs Eifion Davies and Tony Baughan and their team (fig 11), and to our excellent Hall staff led by Ling Mahon and Dan Carausu, who deliver exceptional service for College throughout the year.

This year saw the planting of a new mulberry sapling in Mulberry Quad to replace the old tree that we sadly lost in a storm 18 months ago. We briefly considered importing a mature replacement mulberry tree to enable shade and sweet fruit to be returned to our back quad the sooner. But College is here for the long term and

Fig 16: The 2025 College Garden Play.

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we need be in no rush. When you next visit, therefore, you can expect to see a thriving young mulberry sapling that we are nurturing for the future.

We have additionally taken the opportunity to refresh the rest of the quad around it, creating better play space for our students, a bio-diversified planting regime for the bees and the butterflies, and gentler shaping to the borders to create a more relaxed environment. A special thank you to the group of generous US-based alumni who helped to support the gentle redesign and bio-diversification of the quad. The results are already being much enjoyed by the community.

As is also the case for the beautifully re-laid Fellows’ Garden.

For two and a half years, the garden to Canal House necessarily served as works access, loading bay and site office for the Castle Bailey Quad construction site. Now that that major development is complete (and with renewed thanks to all those who helped us get there), the restored Fellows’ Garden is fully back in use as a garden, and has been well used for a run of garden parties and other outdoor celebrations. This has included this year’s Garden Play which was

Fig 17: Cast and crew of the College Garden Play.

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an engaging piece of satirical whimsy written by current students Maisie Saunders (Physics, 2023) and Madi Bouchta (English, 2024). Into their (wonderfully batty) plot, Maisie and Madi managed to stitch affectionate tributes both to retiring Lodge Porter, Neville Pimm, and to our Dean for Welfare, Eleanor Tingle. The show was a hit with heart. It was also performed with entertaining zing. An admiring hat tip, therefore, to cast and crew.

Meanwhile, Castle Bailey Quad, the new quad built to exacting Passivhaus environmental standards on land between Bulwarks Lane and New Road, is everything we hoped it would be - and then some. Given how students now choose their college, we are not yet where we need to be in relation to the overall amount of student accommodation we can offer. Nevertheless, the building of Castle Bailey Quad has made a step-change difference to this key strategic objective for College. A big thank you to the whole SPC community for helping us deliver on this. And if you have not yet seen the beautiful new development, do come back and visit soon.

To help prepare our estate for our second century, we are now engaged on a project that delivers on two ambitions: (1) the relocation of the MCR and (2) a major refurbishment of the Music

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Figs 18 and 19: The student Garden Play paid affectionate tribute to retiring Lodge Porter, Neville Pimm, and to our Dean for Welfare, Eleanor Tingle.

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Fig 22: Helen Lewis (English, 2001) in informal conversation with students and colleagues in Canal House.

Room. The desire to find a suitable space for the MCR is not new.

Our graduate community has grown significantly over the years and has long been feeling the squeeze on the ground floor of the Pastry School. The MCR’s move into a much larger, open-plan space that runs along above the shops on New Inn Hall Street is therefore a welcome development. The new common room is accessed via a clever knock-through in Chavasse ensuring that the MCR remains an integrated part of the College estate. It has been pleasing seeing the MCR community make the new space their own.

Moreover, the MCR’s relocation from the Pastry School has also made it possible to address both the inaccessibility of our Music Room and its poor condition. Its inaccessibility needed rectifying: it has been a cause of embarrassment that wheelchair users have not previously been able to get there. And its shabby state and poor acoustics have been incommensurate with the striking quality of the College’s music-making. In short, the Pastry School has been in need of some love and it is now getting it, not only through an aesthetically and acoustically transformed Music Room, but also through the crucial provision of practice rooms (a first for SPC) and a multi-purpose green room to support performance moments.

As outlined in the Bursar’s report later in this issue, this ambitious

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Fig 20: Greg Jenner, Hannah Greig and Alice Skinner (2014) discuss public history in the College Chapel.

and imaginative project for College is now well under way. In next year’s College Record we look forward to reporting on its completion, on the many generous gifts that have made it possible (though it’s not too late to contribute if you might still like to be part of it!) and on the difference it is making both to our key accessibility objectives and to our College music-making.

Fig 21: Sam West conducts an acting masterclass in the Chapel with RADA students, including Darcy Dixon (Philosophy and Theology, 2019).

The number of interesting people coming through College this year has, as always, been impressive, and we try to ensure that our students can benefit from the connections this through-flow makes possible. Public historians Greg Jenner (Horrible Histories, ‘You’re Dead to Me’) and Hannah Greig (Poldark, The Duchess, The Favourite) joined us for a fascinating discussion anchored by Alice Skinner (History, 2014) about the place of history in popular culture (fig 20). Sir Greg Doran, Dame Janet Suzman, Samuel West, Alexandra Gilbreath, Akiya Henry, staff and students from RADA, and other theatre luminaries contributed to our Shakespeare@ Peter’s day, working alongside current and former students in enriching our collective understanding of Twelfth Night (fig 21). Following an inconversation event at Blackwells, writer, broadcaster and commentator Helen Lewis (English, 2001) joined us back in College for an informal

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evening with colleagues and students discussing her new book on the social and psychological operations of the ‘genius’ label (fig 22). The BBC’s Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet addressed the PPE dinner about her work in war-torn areas of the world and was generous in chatting with students afterwards about some of the challenges and opportunities of her work (fig 23).

Oscar-winning screenwriter Simon Beaufoy (English, 1986) led a special writers’ retreat in Wales for some of our student writers (including Maisie and Madi) to help them hone their writing skills.

Thanks are due to David Collard (History, 1994) for the very generous loan of his beautiful Welsh hideaway that made possible this special writers’ retreat for our students.

But alongside these special moments in the year when distinguished visitors have animated our programme, it is, as so often, some of the quieter moments in College life that leave the strongest impression: students deep in concentration playing chess by candlelight well after dark out on the Canal House terrace with Professor Stephen Baxter, our Fellow and Tutor in Medieval History; a community play reading in which there was much infectiously generous enjoyment of each other’s performances; seeing members of the community maintain human care and personal respect even while conducting politically difficult conversations with each other; observing students support each other in good times and bad; and hearing returning former students remember and celebrate - with humour and with love - the lives of

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former fellow students from College, whom we have lost far too early. With their families and SPC friends, we mourn those former students of the College lost brutally young and send our sincere condolences to those living with the acuity of those losses.

This year, we also mourn the loss of three remarkable Emeritus Fellows, Professor John O’Connor, Dr Robert Twycross and Revd Billy Watson, of our distinguished Honorary Fellow, Sir Kenneth Bloomfield, and of our much-missed former College Secretary, Miss Lily Dear. We remember them all with gratitude and honour and send condolences to all who knew and loved them.

We have said farewell to two of our academic fellows this year as they move on to prestigious new academic appointments elsewhere: after 17 years at St Peter’s, Professor Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, the Manika and Haarjeev Kandhari Fellow and Tutor in Politics, has taken up a professorial position at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris; and after 27 years at St Peter’s, Dr Hartmut Mayer, Tutor and Fellow in Politics, has been appointed to the Steven Muller Chair at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Bologna, part of Johns Hopkins University. We wish them both well for the next phase of their professional lives and have no doubt that their contributions in their new academic environments will be notably strong. Meanwhile, this year we have been delighted to welcome to the fellowship Professor Matthew Fuchter in Organic Chemistry, Dr Bridget Penman in Biology and Dr Hashem Abushama in Human Geography.

2029 is beginning to heave into view, and that will mark a very significant year for St Peter’s: 100 years since we opened our doors to our first students, and 50 years since the first women students became matriculated members of the College. There is therefore a double celebration in store and we look forward to making the most of it. We will also be launching a Centenary Campaign to take us into our second century appropriately equipped to go on inspiring minds and changing lives for the next hundred years. This is a theme to which we will return in future communications.

St Peter’s is a small college with a big heart and one that can have a big impact on those who study and work here. And the community of the College of course includes not just those present in it at any one moment in time, but all those who ever studied here also.

Thank you to you, our wider community, for your positive response to SPC events, for your supportive interest in new initiatives and for your ongoing care for the life and work of our College community.

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The deeply sad news of Billy Watson’s death, aged 99, reached me while I have been writing this piece. Over the years Billy has been a point of counsel and a dear friend to very many of us, myself included. We are feeling his loss acutely, and registering gratefully all that he has given to St Peter’s since he first joined in 1957. I therefore end with some words of Billy’s, given about St Peter’s on the occasion of his retirement in 1993: ‘St Peter’s has always been about people developing their minds and spirits. Buildings and money and success in the eyes of others come second to humanity and intellect – and a humanity which respects religious opinions of all kinds while refusing knowingly to be controlled by dogmas of any kind – religious, political, moral, economic […].

I have been very privileged to watch St Peter’s joining enthusiastically in the pursuit of excellence and not losing its soul or its humanity in the endeavour.’

Thank you, Billy, and amen to that. The privilege of watching St Peter’s pursue its fine agendas of excellence while still anchoring itself in its humanity belongs to us all. May it be ever thus.

From our College staff, leavers this year included our Chaplain of ten years, Revd Dr Elizabeth Pitkethly, and our Director of Development, Brett de Gaynesford. We said the thank yous and farewells to Elizabeth at a fun buffet lunch in Chapel, and to Brett at the gloriously sunny all-staff garden party. Our new Chaplain, Revd Matthew Routledge, is already well embedded in College life and, as I write, our new Development Director, Louise Angelou, is about to take up post.

Fig 23: BBC Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet with Haarjeev Kandhari (PPE, 1993), Manika Kaur, the Master and some current PPE students.

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Judith Buchanan Master of the College

Fig 24: Billy Watson at a College event in 2022.

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Twenty-five years of the Gustav Born Scholarship

By Dr Huw Dorkins Fellow and Tutor in Medicine In 2025, we celebrated twenty-five years since the start of the Gustav Born Scholarships in Biomedical Science.

The scheme was established by Gustav Born FRS, who was an Honorary Fellow of St Peter’s from 1979 until his death in 2018. Gus joined St Peter’s in 1959 as Lecturer in Medical Sciences, having been appointed Departmental Demonstrator in Pharmacology. He stayed at St Peter’s for only one year, moving

to the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences within the Royal College of Surgeons of England, where he was appointed to the Chair in Pharmacology1. Despite his relatively short tenure here, he retained a lasting affection for St Peter’s, which was reciprocated by all in the College who interacted with him.

Gus secured a generous donation which he used to endow scholarships to support graduate students undertaking doctoral research in the medical sciences in Oxford. We kept the eligibility for awards deliberately broad, to include work in clinical disciplines as well as basic medical science.

From the outset of the scheme, academic excellence has been the main criterion we have applied when selecting scholars. It became apparent within the first few years of running the awards competition that some applicants with outstanding track records were already quite well funded. We were anxious that the award of a Born scholarship should make a real difference to its recipient, so with Gus’s agreement a secondary criterion of financial need was introduced.

The number - and quality - of graduate students in Oxford is now so high that there are many very good students who meet both criteria.

The scholarships are meant to supplement other financial support the student may have secured. One former Born scholar wrote recently “The Gustav Born Scholarship gave me the foundation I needed to pursue my research with confidence.”

Financial constraints and, in the pandemic years, practical considerations have meant that we were not able to run a scholarship competition in every year, but as shown in the list, there is now a group of 28 scholars, many supported for two years.

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Gus remained interested in the scheme for the rest of his life.

He participated actively in the selection interviews up to and including 2013 when he was aged 92. A little earlier in 2011, we held a symposium by way of a double celebration – Gus’s 90th birthday and ten years of the scholarships. At that relatively early stage it was already apparent that the scholars were going to be high achievers.

It has been fascinating to follow the progress of former Born scholars after they have completed their doctorates. Many of them have remained in academic and/or clinical work, achieving distinction in their chosen fields. Our Born alumni now include Professors at ETH Zurich, and Alberta, Dusseldorf, McGill and Stanford Universities. Other scholars have moved into industry and government, still working in areas related to biomedical research or its application.

We hope to continue to support good graduate students in the future. Over the years, the composition of the selection committee has changed, although I have had the privilege of being involved throughout. In recent years, the awards scheme has come full circle, as the selectors have been joined by Dr Neva Kandzija, a postdoctoral research scientist in the Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health and a former Born scholar herself. She commented “Now, as a member of the scholarship committee, it’s hugely rewarding to see new scholars coming through, benefiting from that same support - a reminder of how valuable this award continues to be across generations.”

An excellent biographical memoir on Gustav Born written by his colleague Prof.

Rod Flower FRS was published in Biogr. Mems Fell. R. Soc. 68, 23–47 (2020).

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Transparent and Inclusive – The New Openness in Strategy

correlate with inclusion, but most cases of increased openness combine a shift towards aspects of both dimensions, transparency and inclusion, illustrated by arrow 3. For example, Zurich Insurance has initiated a so-called “Strategy Task Force” to involve selected employees in the strategy process, while informing the rest of the workforce through an internal social media platform about the progress of strategy development. These instances of greater inclusiveness and transparency, reflect the evolution towards strategic openness. Still, very few organizations are likely to be even close to fully open, perfectly inclusive or transparent. Under some conditions, such as the dilemmata of openness discussed below, increased openness may become less efficient or even dysfunctional, inducing movements back to lower levels of transparency and inclusion or even completely reversing to a “closed” approach.

By Dr Violetta Splitter Fellow and Tutor in Management In the past, companies formulated their strategies behind closed doors and implemented them top down. Today, many businesses rely on ‘Open Strategy.’ Thereby, employees and the public gain more insights into strategic planning and contribute their ideas to the strategy process.

In recent years, practitioners and scholars observe an increasing trend towards opening the strategy process, which is referred to as ‘Open Strategy’. Private companies as well as public institutions and non-profit organizations follow this trend. Openness refers to both, increased transparency of strategic information, and widening participation to internal and/or external stakeholder groups in the strategy process. Companies hope that Open Strategy will provide new inputs into the strategy processes and a stronger engagement of employees in the implementation of strategies developed in this way. However, openness also carries risks.

Openness involves exposure to consumer or regulatory pressure and threats to the viability of traditional strategies and sources of competitive advantage.

Global companies like Zurich Insurance, Siemens, and IBM increasingly open their strategy processes. But also universities and non-profit organizations like Wikipedia. A trend that I refer to as “Open Strategy”. This trend towards opening the strategic process has increasingly gained momentum in recent years. The opening of strategy widens the search for strategy ideas and improves commitment and understanding in strategy implementation.

Open Strategy goes against the grain of the conventional understanding of strategy development as an elite and highly confidential process. Strategy is classically defined as the job of the chief executive. The founding father of the discipline, Alfred Chandler, has held it vital that strategic responsibility be kept rigorously detached from operational management. Thus, strategic planners should form an ”elite staff” helping a detached top management carry out the “strategic overseer task effectively”, as Nobel-prize winner Oliver Williamson once said. But also, strategy is normally regarded as secret. The possibility of sustained 14 St Peter’s College Record 2025

competitive advantage relies substantially upon asymmetries of information that hamper rivals’ efforts to imitate successful strategies. Thus, opacity is important to strategy. Open strategy challenges both these orthodoxies by widening inclusion and increasing transparency.

Open Strategy is based on the two broad principles of inclusiveness and transparency. These two principles of openness should be regarded as continua rather than binary. As Figure 1 illustrates they are variable in their form and extent. The traditional, closed approach is situated in the lower left. More and more organizations depart from such a closed approach. Firms take strides towards increasing inclusion and/or transparency and move along arrows 1, 2, or 3 as they expect beneficial outcomes of Open Strategy mentioned above. When organizations increase transparency and move along arrow 1, they choose to provide more information about their strategy, potentially during the formulation process but particularly with regard to the strategy finally produced. For example, CEOs increasingly use internal and external blogs to comment on their own strategy and even those of rivals: a famous example is Sun Microsystem’s “Planet Sun”, where CEO Jonathan Schwartz ran into trouble for dismissing rival Hewlett Packard’s strategy. When organizations increase inclusion and move along arrow 2, they choose to widen participation in an organization’s strategic conversation and allow for the exchanges of information, views and proposals intended to shape the continued evolution of an organization’s strategy. For example, in the early 2000s already, IBM launched a “strategy jam” including employees worldwide in its strategy conversation. Moving further along the inclusion axis, Shell’s strategic initiative to engage in interorganizational collaboration around water scarcity exemplifies inclusion beyond corporate boundaries. Strategic transparency may or may not

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Four forces influencing open strategy

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Four forces influence the gradual progress of open strategy1, see Figure 2. To start with the organizational forces, corporations are subject to increasing pressures for both greater inclusion and greater transparency. Increasing international scope has challenged the capacity and value of exclusive central control from the centre. For example, the concept of the transnational corporation points to the value of decentralized initiatives and local expertise for multinationals. It makes increasingly good economic sense to include the organizational periphery in the strategy conversation. At the same time, the interdependent ecosystems of complementary products and services in many sectors favours the cooperative exchange of information with other members of the system.

“Platform leaders” such as Alphabet or Amazon need a degree of transparency if the suppliers and complementors making up their ecosystems are to have sufficient trust and understanding to invest in matching products and services.

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Regulatory developments are also imposing increasing pressures on big business to explain itself. Since the financial crisis of 2008, companies must increasingly disclose strategically relevant information. Openness is thus not only voluntary; it is also partly forced upon organizations from the outside. Cultural changes, particularly with regard to knowledge organization and legitimacy, are increasing capabilities for strategy involvement too. Access to strategy’s key concepts and techniques has expanded with the explosion of the business book industry. Strategy knowledge has become further banalized through Google and Wikipedia.

Strategic planning techniques are no longer the arcane possession of an elite; every manager can access them. Finally, technology forces play a large role as well, in both inclusion and transparency.

Social technologies facilitate the collaborative creation, circulation and editing of strategic ideas across many worksites. Wikimedia was able to use its wiki technology to include all volunteers in the strategy development process. The four forces are not unambiguous. By identifying how these four forces work, organizations can understand better the limits of openness and potential emerging challenges.

One such challenge is the so-called process dilemma: On the one hand, companies can access a more diverse knowledge of stakeholders through participation, such as specific industry knowhow or technical expertise. On the other hand, participation is also associated with a loss of flexibility and control over the strategic decision-making process. At Zurich Insurance, management nearly lost control over the strategy discussions when employees discussed topics that were important to them but not necessarily to the entire organization. Companies that open their strategy processes are also often subjected to demands for further openness. Such an “escalation dilemma” emerged at AXA when employees demanded that, after having participated in the strategy development, they should be allowed to participate in all organizational decision making. If these expectations are not met, frustration might emerge, potentially leading to reproach companies of “open washing”.

On the basis of the trend towards openness, we can reasonably speculate about the future of strategy and its professionals. Open Strategy will change the relative effectiveness of various strategies.

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more difficult: first movers in innovation face faster imitation.

Strategy work is being carried out increasingly by ordinary managers using taken-for-granted skills. Strategy professionals will find analytical skills of less importance, relying more on process skills such as coaching, facilitation and communication.

In short, strategy will remain a precarious profession. But Strategy’s professional bodies should avoid aiming for exclusivity either in membership or in domain definition. In a more open world, the status of strategy professional is best seen as just one more component in the developing, multi-skilled identity of the successful manager. Rather than pursuing the exclusionary social closure policies characteristic of traditional professions such as law and accounting, strategy’s professional bodies will be stronger the more people have strategy as part of their portfolio of skills and the more broadly those strategy skills are defined.

As Open strategy builds on the notion of open innovation, many of the drivers of open innovation are behind the opening of strategy too. However, open innovation can be considered a subset of Open Strategy: innovation is just one of many kinds of strategy process increasingly subject to openness.

Open Strategy also differs from open innovation in being both wider in terms of relevance and more ambiguous in its effects. Openness in strategy extends beyond external actors to include openness towards internal employees from outside the corporate elite. While open innovation is particularly relevant in high technology sectors such as software, pharmaceuticals and electronics, the pressures for Open Strategy apply across many kinds of sectors, hightech and low-tech, private and public.

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Subject News Archaeology & Anthropology It was another active and fulfilling year for Archaeology & Anthropology. In Michaelmas, we welcomed Calliope Speredakos, a Visiting Student from Brown University, USA. The first years undertook fieldwork in: Blue Creek, Belize; Waigeo Island, Indonesia; Denizil, Turkey; Cerro del Gollino, Spain; and Sedgeford, UK. The finalists produced impressive exam results and wrote dissertations on the psychology and practicalities of death at sea, the materiality of traditional textiles in the Philippines, and the role of consumption in identity formation. In Trinity, Schools dinner proved a welcome opportunity for past and present tutors and students to come together and hear about two books written by alumni. Luke Pepera spoke about ‘Motherland’ (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) and Jonah Lipton ‘In the Time of Ebola’ (Cornell University Press). Throughout the year, Helena Landels delivered the role of Undergraduate Representative for the degree. Lydia Paxton is taking up the role for 2025-26.

Dr Tim Clack’s project work enjoyed some impactful moments.

His Climate Security in Jordan Project supported the Jordanian government to set up the world’s first national climate security

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assessment capability. Separately, his Digging Market Garden Project, which is researching the preparations, in Lincolnshire, for one of the largest airborne operations of World War II, undertook its first excavations.

Chemistry Chemistry fellow Matt Fuchter completed his first academic year at St. Peter’s and is happily settling into Oxford. He was recently awarded two research grants from UKRI and published several papers in high-impact journals including Advanced Materials and the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Adam Kirrander joined the executive editorial board of the Journal of Physics B, and published several high-impact papers including in Science Advances and Communications Chemistry.

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Many of our Chemistry undergraduate students did very well in the examinations, and 4th year Aneshka Moudry was awarded the runner-up Physical Chemistry Thesis Prize.

The academic year 2024-25 was our first year with two Chemistry fellows in place at St Peter’s. It is very exciting that Chemistry is now a two-fellow subject in College!

Earth Sciences Bob Hilton has seen a large project start on how glacial melt and permafrost thaw are influencing rock weathering, moving carbon and metals out of rocks. He led a field expedition to Svalbard to collect much-needed data to help answer these questions.

The year saw important publications, including a paper on the age of river carbon in rivers around the world, published in Nature.

He also designed and delivered a new third-year module on Earth Surface Biogeochemistry.

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St Peter’s welcomed eight first-year engineers this year—the largest entry since the 1980s. Our annual dinner was moved from Hilary term to Trinity term to coincide with the memorial event for Professor John O’Connor. The dinner saw a record number of alumni return and was attended by nearly all the students. The following day, a moving memorial event celebrating the life of John O’Connor was held in the Chapel. A recording of this is available on YouTube for those who were unable to attend.

Professor Francis Leneghan was awarded an AHRC Research, Development and Engagement Fellowship for 2024–26. His book, Old English Biblical Prose: Translation, Adaptation, Interpretation, will be published early in 2026.

Professor Tom Adcock was away from College duties for the year, serving as Senior Proctor to the University in Michaelmas and Hilary terms, before taking post-Proctorial leave in Trinity. As Proctor, he served on around sixty University committees, oversaw student discipline and academic misconduct, and played a role in University ceremonies. His research continued, with major work on storm surge prediction published, as well as a much-publicised paper on a tsunami-induced seiche in Greenland.

During 2024-25 Professor Danny Dorling published a few books that had been some time in the cooking: Seven Children, with Hurst; Peak Injustice, with Bristol University Press; and The Next Crisis, which was published by Verso in June 2025.

Dr Emma Edwards, our Career Development Fellow, was awarded a Gold Teaching Award by the department (three awards made among 140 faculty) for her tutorial teaching and pastoral care of students.

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Professor Gordon L Clark is a Senior Member of St Peter’s having been a Professorial Fellow at St Peter’s and Professor of Geography and Executive Director of the Oxford University Centre for the Environment before moving to St Edmund Hall as Professor and Executive Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. He currently curates senior executive programmes for the Smith School; supervises DPhil and MSc students; contributes to other executive education programmes in the university; and publishes papers on finance, investment, and individual behaviour. His latest research focuses upon the role of pension funds in underwriting the liquidity of global stock markets.

He also advises a small number of investment companies on ethics and ESG.

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Professor Lawrence Goldman, Emeritus Fellow, continues as editor of the journal History Reclaimed (www.historyreclaimed. co.uk). He published an essay entitled ‘Back to the Future: the history of the British Welfare State 1834-2024’ in a special issue of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 41, 2025, on the future of the welfare state, and contributed an essay on the turbulent historian, John Vincent, to the Oxford Dictionary of National

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Biography. In a programme in February in the BBC Radio 4 series ‘The Long View’ on the subject of recent American tariffs, he talked about the impact of tariffs in Britain in the nineteenth century. He spoke at a conference in Nashville, TN, on the history of the early American republic and contributed to the work of the William Temple Foundation on Jewish-Christian relations. He spent periods working in archives in Liverpool while researching the life of the Victorian shipowner and social reformer, Charles Booth.

He also lectured at several local history societies, primarily on the history of British anti-slavery. He teaches regularly for a Masters’ course in ‘Atlantic History’, based in Corpus, which draws together students from different universities in the US and UK.

Management Dr Violetta Splitter received a 2024 Dean’s Research Excellence Award from Oxford Saïd Business School. The award celebrated her achievements in outstanding research, including her recent work on middle managers’ struggle over their influence on strategy when frontline employees are tasked to develop strategy. Her work is based on ethnographic data with more than 400 hours of observations and 125 interviews of a strategy development process at an international financial institution.

Medicine In the academic year 2024-25, Professor Randy Bruno restarted admitting visiting students in Neuroscience. Overseas visiting students spent the academic year in Oxford attending lectures, conducting research projects in laboratories, and—most importantly!—meeting regularly with their tutor, Dr Demi Brizee, our new Stipendiary Lecturer in Neuroscience. For 2025-26, St Peter’s will host three new visiting students from Barnard College of Columbia University, Brown University, and Wellesley College.

In 2024-25, Dr Huw Dorkins continued his role as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Medical Genetics, which became the official journal of the British Society for Genetic Medicine at the start of

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this calendar year. The journal celebrated its sixtieth anniversary with a series of invited commentaries, “Six at sixty”, on some of the most important and highly-cited papers published in the journal.

Dr Junko Takata has been appointed as College Lecturer in Clinical Medicine to look after the clinical teaching for both undergraduate and graduate-entry medicine courses for the academic years 2024-25 and 2025-26.

Whilst not of direct relevance to the subject of Medicine in the College context, one of the College Doctors, Laurence Leaver has published his first invited review in a major medical journal, on ADHD. ADHD has become a significant issue for student welfare as more cases are suspected yet NHS waiting lists for assessment and treatment can be very long; it is helpful to have a College Doctor who has taken an interest in it. He has written a review of the Medical Management of ADHD for the Drug & Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB).

The articles are also featured in the DTB’s latest podcast, available at: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-v7rz6-18b7f11 (from about 7 minutes in). Laurence also spoke about ADHD at the invitation of the University EDI forum in Trinity term.

Modern Languages German Dr Joanna Neilly has had a very Romantic year with a return to E. T. A. Hoffmann. In October 2024 she gave a talk at the Royal Opera House as part of their ‘Insights’ programme, introducing Hoffmann to audiences during a launch event for a new production of Offenbach’s opera ‘The Tales of Hoffmann’. The talk can still be viewed here, alongside performances of extracts from the opera and a discussion with the cast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asK1gUV9S2Q. Joanna is currently working on the first ever complete English translation of Hoffmann’s eight-story collection, Night Pieces, which will be published with Oxford’s Worlds Classics in 2026.

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2026 is also the 250th anniversary of Hoffmann’s birth, so more Hoffmannia is to be expected. Together with her former doctoral supervisor, Dr Eleoma Bodammer (University of Edinburgh), Joanna is organising an international conference on the theme of ‘E. T. A. Hoffmann and Other Bodies’, to take place in Oxford in July of 2026.

Dr Kevin Hilliard (Emeritus Fellow) published two articles on Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock’s Die deutsche Gelehrtenrepublik (1774), in volumes issued to mark the 300th anniversary of his birth in 1724.

Portuguese Over the summer of 2024, Claire Williams was thrilled to learn that she had been awarded the title of Professor through the Recognition of Distinction process. In the last month of her sabbatical she visited Brazil to give a keynote speech at the II Encontro de Literatura de Autoria Feminina at the University of Juiz de Fora.

She put the finishing touches to the proofs of Clarice Lispector Entrevista, a collection of interviews the author conducted for glossy magazines in the late 1960s and 1970s, and recorded a podcast about the book, with Lispector’s son, for the publisher (Rocco).

Published in October, it had sold out by Christmas!

A busy academic year was punctuated by an enjoyable Brazil Week in February, a symposium on contemporary Brazilian literature at Brown University, in April. Claire was excited to welcome to St Peter’s the Macuxi writer and activist Trudruá Dorrico and Professsor Regina Dalcastagnè from the University of Brasília, both of whom gave talks about their work.

At the end of Trinity term, she celebrated the successful vivas of her two DPhil students: Lingchen Huang (who did her MSt at St Peter’s) and Vinícius Brunette.

Retired fellows can make a contribution to their subject, because they have time and, if they are lucky, energy for research. In recent months Professor Tom Earle has been working on a translation of Rui de Pina’s Crónica de D. João II, written at the end of the fifteenth century. The chronicle is often consulted by historians, because it contains a very full account of one of the most extraordinary events in the history of contacts between Europeans and Africans, the arrival of a Portuguese fleet in Congo, now the modern republic of Angola, and the apparently spontaneous and unforced conversion of the ruling elite to Christianity. No force, not even persuasion was necessary and, in Pina’s version of events, the whole incident has no connection to the slave trade.

The new translation, the first ever, should help historians and others outside the Portuguese-speaking world to understand how and why a powerful and well-organized African kingdom, but one with few contacts with other parts of Africa, and none at all with Europe, should suddenly opt for a strange new religion. And don’t forget that all this happened in the 1480s, before Columbus sailed to America in 1492.

Music Dr Roger Allen (Emeritus Fellow) remains fully active both as researcher and performer.

His most recent book Arthur Nikisch: Connecting Cultures in a Fragmenting World was published in April 2025 and considers the rise of the virtuoso orchestral conductor in the late nineteenth century against the backdrop of the competing nationalisms which eventually led to the First World War. He continues to lecture widely and has recently begun work on his next book which looks at where the music of Edward Elgar sits within the wider European mainstream. Other current projects include the

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preparation of recent conference papers for publication and a return to serious work on an in-depth examination of the relationship between Richard Wagner and J.S. Bach. He and his wife, Pamela, keep in regular touch with former St Peter’s students and greatly enjoyed the 2025 Spring bank holiday Dunster Festival under the imaginative artistic direction of former organ scholar Rory McCleery and his wife, Rachel Wick, together with flautist, Thomas Hancox. In late August, they visited the Cumbria Opera Festival given under the musical direction of Joe Davies, featuring Gabriella Noble in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro and Britten’s Turn of the Screw produced by Jonny Danciger. Roger continues to give regular recitals with his violinist partner, where his wife Pamela is usually to be found acting as page-turner.

Philosophy Dr Peter Kail published The Routledge Guidebook to Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature in April 2025, which will be the subject of a small conference in Australia. He contributed to the ‘Dark Passions’ project by discussing the role of anxiety in Hume’s philosophy. He also appeared on the BBC’s Cunk on Life where he discussed his cat, and, in a deleted scene, Sonic the Hedgehog.

Dr Tim Mawson has continued to work on a book provisionally entitled The Nature of God, and has published two papers in journals: ‘Omnisubjectivity and some of its implications’ and ‘Theistic Practice and God’s Personhood’.

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Politics The academic year 2024-25 turned out to be a watershed for the subject of Politics at the College. By coincidence, both of our long-standing Tutorial Fellows, Dr Hartmut Mayer and Professor Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, were presented with excellent new career opportunities in the same year.

Ricardo, who had joined St. Peter’s College in 2007, accepted a Full Professorship in Political Science at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris in January 2025. He will continue his research and teaching on the International Relations and Political Economy of Africa. While beginning Professor Ricardo Soares de Oliveira a new chapter in Paris, Ricardo will retain his role as co-director of the Oxford Martin Programme on African Governance and has been appointed to a Senior Research Fellowship with the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford.

In July 2025, Hartmut was appointed as Steven Muller Chair at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University in Bologna, Italy. He already held the post on a fixedterm contract, seconded from St. Peter’s, in 2024-25, and finally opted for a permanent move to Italy. The Chair was established in 1999 in honour of Steven Muller, former President of Johns Hopkins University (serving 1972-1990), who had been a refugee from Nazi Germany and had an outstanding career in US academia.

“I was deeply honoured when I was offered this prestigious post in a targeted search”, Hartmut commented, “I felt that I simply had to accept this new opportunity. I will always have St. Peter’s in my heart after 27 very happy years at the College.”

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Generations of students were taught by Ricardo and Hartmut.

They will both miss the close relationship formed with so many outstanding undergraduate and graduate students in our unique collegiate system, and they hope to stay in touch with as many alumni as possible to continue life-long bonds with their former students.

The College very much thanks Hartmut and Ricardo for their service over the decades and wishes them well in their new and exciting roles in Italy and France.

Apart from the departure of our two Tutorial Fellows, the year followed its normal course. A special highlight was the PPE dinner in May with many alumni in attendance. The current students enjoyed great success in their exams and Politics remains a strong and stable subject at the College. Sometimes one wishes that real politics could be as calm and fun as the academic subject here at St. Peter’s…

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By Rhea Kunar, DPhil International Relations In my humble opinion, Oxford is at its most beautiful in the summer. Yet, with the arrival of the warmth and sunshine, we also bid farewell to the academic year and mark the bittersweet end of another chapter here at St Peter’s MCR. As we wish our friends well and prepare to welcome new ones, I’ve found myself reflecting on the journey that began when I stepped into the role of President last May. Learning this role was very much a trial by fire, but one that underscored the importance of student representation and laid the foundation for the many successes our MCR has achieved during the tenure of my peers and myself.

The transition was not an easy one, as College and students alike engaged deeply in discussions surrounding the crisis in Palestine, while successfully upholding the welcoming and inclusive community that Peter’s has always prided itself on being. Thanks to a full and enthusiastic committee, we began the year ready to face new challenges as Freshers’ arrival approached.

students with returning peers in similar academic fields. Feedback highlighted that this helped new students feel more connected and encouraged ongoing participation in MCR life, including committee roles and continued attendance at MCR events.

Before delving into the year’s events, I must acknowledge the incredible Executive Committee, without whom none of our achievements would have been possible. My sincerest thanks to our Vice President Emma Elley (DPhil Astrophysics, 2023), Treasurer Kim López Güell (DPhil Clinical Epidemiology & Medical Statistics, 2022), Social Secretaries Teresa Petralia (MPhil European Politics & Society, 2023) and Petr Akinshin (DPhil Condensed Matter Physics, 2023), and Secretary EJ Lord (MSt US History, 2024).

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Michaelmas events began in Week -2, as we welcomed new students starting their programmes early. The committee worked hard to create an engaging and supportive Freshers’ Week(s) filled with student-led consent workshops, welfare and social events, from ice cream socials and College tours to prosecco receptions.

Our longstanding favourites, The Amazing Race and Family Quiz Night, were, once again, big hits. One of the most successful initiatives was our College family system, pairing incoming

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Sheldonian to punting along the waterways of Christ Church Meadow. Thanks to our social secretaries, the term continued with fantastic events like Bake and Break, Midweek Mingle, and our first termly black-tie event, Guest Night, where students are encouraged to bring friends and family from outside of St Peter’s to a MCR-only formal hall.We ended Michaelmas in festive spirit with the College’s annual ‘OxMas’ Dinner, our winter holiday dinner, which featured Christmas crackers, carolling, and holiday cheer, followed by our final BOP to close out the year. This term also saw productive discussions between students and College on topics such as ethical investing and the relocation of the MCR.

The celebrations culminated in the university-wide matriculation ceremony, where our freshers were welcomed into Oxford’s centuries-old traditions, from donning their gowns in the

As the January frost settled over the cobblestones, we returned to Oxford for what students unaffectionately call “Heartbreak Hilary,” which was no match for the warmth of Peter’s MCR. Quieter than Michaelmas, the MCR still offered a strong calendar of welfare and social events, including our second Guest Night, our third annual live Jazz BOP, arts and crafts, and a variety of boardgame and film nights. The grey skies made the term feel endless at times, but, looking back, it passed in a blink. During this time, the committee and broader student body had the opportunity to preview and offer feedback on the plans for the new MCR space, an exciting step for our community.

outgoing and incoming members worked closely with College on key initiatives, including improving the MCR budget and supporting the move into the new MCR space. These achievements would not have been possible without the dedicated efforts of both the committee and College staff.

To cap off the year, the new committee organised an unforgettable Garden Party, complete with a string quartet, Pimm’s, and picnic blankets—a truly perfect send-off. If the success of this event is any indication, then the year ahead looks very bright indeed.

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And so, we come to the close of another year. Throughout it all, our community has remained as close, friendly, and supportive as ever, something that continues to define the spirit of St Peter’s MCR. It has been a true honour to serve the MCR as their President, and I’m deeply grateful for the opportunity. I am excited to pass the torch to Noah Rowe (DPhil Particle Physics, 2024), whose strength of character, compassion and steadfast commitment to student advocacy will surely lead the MCR with integrity and care. I look forward to watching our MCR prosper through his leadership.

It is important to acknowledge the outstanding contributions of individual committee members throughout the year. Special thanks to: Rosie Adams (MSc Economic & Social History, 2024) and Arun Ramanathan (DPhil Materials Science, 2024), our social assistants, who went above and beyond to support our packed calendar; Jervon Sands (MSc Environmental Change & Management, 2024), for leading on BAME and sustainability initiatives; George Raftis (DPhil Atomic and Laser Physics, 2024), for organising meaningful LGBTQI+ events; and EJ Lord (MSt US History, 2024), who also worked closely with College to further EDI efforts.

Trinity is, without a doubt, a personal favourite of mine. As summer returned, we jumped straight into Hustings for the new committee. Our social team once again excelled, hosting our final Guest Night, which also served as the handover to the incoming committee. In this transition period,

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By Grace Pearl, Y2 Modern Languages I write this report admittedly much later than I should have, days after A-Level results day, as another cohort of young adults look forward to beginning as Freshers at our College. When I undertook the role of JCR President a year ago, I was apprehensive for the year ahead and the challenges that I may face. I was also aware of the great legacy I had to uphold, and the weight of the successes of previous years, which I was hoping to continue. Fortunately, we had a strong committee who had all worked tirelessly over the vacation preparing for Freshers’ Week.

Freshers’ Week began on 6 October 2024. Student helpers and members of the committee huddled under the marquee in the rain from 8am awaiting the Freshers, keen to help them move in. The day continued without fault and by 7pm all students were sat in Hannington Hall awaiting their first ‘informal’ formal dinner.

Beginning on 7 October, the College and the JCR Committee led a week of talks, consent workshops, teas, Freshers’ fairs, and the most important event, the first college BOP of the year. We endeavoured to create a week which felt inclusive and focused on providing activities which were appropriate for both those who drank alcohol and for those who didn’t. The Executive Committee worked with the disabilities representative Phoebe Broster (History 2023) to ensure the week was inclusive for everyone.

The Welfare Lead (Margaux Dahan-Hoffman) and I also helped to run the consent workshops for which we received training from the Sexual Harassment and Violence Support Service. I will encourage this year’s committee to run these workshops too, as I feel this is an important issue.

The Bar team opened the bar on the Monday of Freshers’ Week and held the first BOP of the year on the Friday, run by the second year Entz students. The theme of the BOP was ‘dress as your subject’, with many students taking the theme seriously with impressive costumes.

Some costume highlights: two students painted head to toe in red paint who came as crayons, and a surprising number of students dressed as mice (subjects varying).

Freshers’ Week ended with the Fresher family dinners on the Saturday evening, where many second year ‘families’ held quizzes and games nights. This activity was well received and made a wonderful end to the first week. The next big event was the Freshers’ first ‘megabop’, organised with other colleges, to celebrate Halloween. Another flurry of impressive costumes filled the bar.

The subsequent weeks were, however, more serious, as a group of undergraduate students prepared a group of delegates to put forward for the Ethical Investment Committee meeting, following an invitation to the undergraduate community from the Master. This was my first leadership challenge, as the delegate group presented me with a petition asking for an Emergency General Meeting to be held. The petition meant that this action had to be carried out within a certain time-frame. I held the meeting on Thursday 7 November in the JCR, and it was well attended by many students from the undergraduate body. I was concerned that the meeting would not feel like a welcoming environment for some, and was anxious to ensure that it was a space where no one was afraid to express themselves. A form was sent out a few days prior, enabling students to voice their feelings anonymously on the motion which the delegate group was proposing. Some people did leave comments, which were duly addressed in the meeting. Voting on the motion was conducted online, in order to preserve anonymity, and the motion was passed. The group of delegates then presented the motion at the Ethical Investment Committee which was held on Wednesday 20 November; the outcome was presented in a report at the end of the academic year.

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during these meals, which were appropriately festive and enjoyable.

The usual undergraduate Christmas party ended the term and left the community feeling wonderfully merry.

As we welcomed the new year, Hilary term began with its usual collections, which were certainly a shock to many following the vacation. Fortunately, the usual termly festivities commenced properly with the Burns Night Celebrations. We were lucky to receive a dramatic presentation of Robert Burns’ poetry and a performance on the bagpipes by our own Fraser Weissen (PPE 2023).

As the term progressed, another exciting tradition took place for the second-year cohort: the Halfway Hall dinner. This dinner is held yearly for the second years to celebrate being ‘halfway’ through their degrees. The catering team were amazing, and the evening was well attended, funny and a highlight for many in their Oxford experience.

Soon Trinity term was upon us, which is my personal favourite term. We were so fortunate this year that it was a particularly warm and sunny Trinity term. The term began with the Offer Holders’ Day, and we welcomed a group of Year 13 students and gap-year students. This day is always one of great excitement not only amongst the offer holders but also the whole undergraduate body.

The rest of the term continued without much hindrance, and preparations were made for OxMas. The College Choir held a series of well-attended concerts throughout the last week of term, and two Christmas dinners were held on the Tuesday and Wednesday of that same week. I would like to thank to the catering staff for their work

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I feel the college always has a buzz of excitement about it when we demonstrate what it is like to study at St Peter’s. This event also marked the twilight of my time as JCR President as I handed over to my successor, Isabel Cumming.

The beginning of the term also brought about a new responsibility for me, in the form of becoming one of the care-givers for the College tortoise, Aristurtle. Here, I must note a huge thanks to Catherine Whalley (Registrar) and Eleanor Tingle (Welfare Dean) for their caring for and housing of Aristurtle at various points over the last year. I cannot express my gratitude enough for their kindness. This experience as tortoise-carer brought about many new opportunities for me, such as a trip to the vet, and a lot of research about the welfare of tortoises. Ultimately, the decision was taken that Aristurtle’s needs were too great to be provided by the College and that she should be rehomed. I am now very pleased to report that Aristurtle is now living happily with a group of other tortoises (known as a creep) in Stoke.

The remainder of Trinity term was wonderfully sunny and filled with the usual Oxford traditions. Week Three held one highlight of the term, the garden play. This year it was written by Maisie Saunders (Physics 2023) and Madison Boutcha (English 2024). ‘A Very Peter’s Quest’ depicted a band of heroes who embarked on a comedic quest to restore the lost ‘spirit of St Peter’s’ to its rightful

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home, and playfully parodied important figures from College.

Every performance was held in the Fellows’ Garden and they were all very popular – what a wonderful Trinity tradition. Summer VIII’s was also a success, with highs and lows of bumps, being bumped and moving up divisions.

Before concluding this report, I must mention the hard work which other committee members have done over the last year. The BAME formal commenced the EDI formals of this academic year and was well attended, as was the LGBTQ+ formal which was held in Hilary term. Several fundraising events took place during the term, led by James Abrahams, our Charities Rep (German 2023), enabling us to donate money to some local charities, chosen by vote: Asylum Welcome and the Gatehouse. A very successful fundraiser was led by Phoebe Broster (History 2023) in Week 5 of Trinity, to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support, a charity close to her heart. Phoebe organised a bake sale to which many members of the Exec Committee contributed cake. There was also a popular ‘paint and sip’ night organised by Katherine Nisbet (History of Art 2023), and the bar offered donations to charity for the entire week. Overall, £1,659.44 was raised in one week, thanks to the massive efforts made by Phoebe and the whole committee.

Another year has been completed! I am so grateful to have had this opportunity to lead such a wonderful group of students. I believe we have maintained our reputation as a college which is friendly and caring. I pass the baton on to Isabel Cumming, who I am sure will continue this trend throughout the next academic year.

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By Sophie Rowdene, Y3 Music The Choir has enjoyed another year of musical excellence, teamwork, and camaraderie under the ever-energetic leadership of Director of Music, Quintin Beer.

As usual, the Choir has continued to sing two services of choral evensong a week during term time. More recently, we have also been including services of Compline up to two times a term, as well as a service of choral Eucharist in place of a Sunday Evensong later in the year.

The special event schedule for the Choir launched with Britten’s cantata ‘St Nicolas’, in collaboration with the Saffron Walden Choral Society. Our sopranos and altos bravely took on the semi-chorus, singing from a distant gallery, following a conductor who looked like a dot on the horizon!

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The term ended with our beloved Carol Services, which once again filled the Chapel.

These were followed by an additional alumni Christmas concert at All Saints, Margaret Street, London—complete with extra repertoire (by Choir request!) and a truly delightful atmosphere of festive joy to round off the calendar year.

Hilary term was dominated by the launch of Fresh Stone, our new album of music by Piers Connor Kennedy, alumnus and Associate Composer of St Peter’s. The recording has already received glowing reviews, with Quintin summing it up as “affecting in all sorts of ways: emotionally direct, narratively compelling, imaginatively rich, harmonically supple and deeply dutiful… Piers understands what makes our students and choir tick, and has a craftsmanship that produces stylistically varied music which is an utter joy to sing.”

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The launch concert also included Mendelssohn’s Lauda Sion and was a proud moment for the Choir.

The one disappointment of the term? The legendary Choir Football Tournament was cancelled due to flooding of the Merton playing fields—although some members insisted they had their football boots ready just in case.

Trinity term brought a particularly joyful collaboration for Harjeev Kandhari’s 50th birthday, featuring a beautiful performance with his wife, Manika Kaur, blending choral music with devotional songs from a diverse range of religions in an inspiring celebration of cultures and traditions.

The year concluded with our summer Choir Tour to the Isle of Man and Merseyside, part of our outreach beyond Oxford. We began by flying to the Isle of Man, giving a concert at King William’s College, where we were warmly welcomed. A weekend of rehearsals, expertly directed by Seb Murray and Senior Organ Scholar Jason Mak, gave us a chance to refine our sound before discovering what a Saturday night in Douglas looks like (a cultural experience in itself). We were deeply struck by the true sense of kindness and community at the core of those who live there, which made our visit all the more memorable.

Then began our dramatic attempts to leave: two cancelled flights later, we sprinted—quite literally—to catch a ferry to Liverpool.

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The sight of our Chaplain running heroically through Douglas to make the ferry port will be forever engraved in our memories, a moment that truly sealed his hero status.

In Liverpool, we sang in both the Metropolitan and Anglican Cathedrals, as well as Prescot Parish Church, performing to enthusiastic audiences and further extending the Choir’s reach and spirit of connection. Deputies who joined us just for the tour were quickly embraced into the Choir family, and the whole trip was everything a Choir Tour should be: rewarding, fun, and full of stories that will be retold for years.

As we say goodbye to our leavers, I would like to give special thanks to Senior Organ Scholar Jason Mak, who has accompanied (and occasionally conducted!) the Choir this year with such excellence. He will be sorely missed.

This has been a year of music-making, growth, and friendship—the essence of life in St Peter’s Chapel Choir. We can’t wait to see where the music (and hopefully some football) takes us next year.

The Choir enjoying pizza in Liverpool Clare, Amelie and Greg at Albert Dock, Liverpool Enjoying a compensatory meal after cancelled flight from the Isle of Man. Lauda Sion concert

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Football

Overview

By Billy Grimley, Captain

By Alexis Andronikos, Sports Rep This year has been an exceptional one for sport at St Peter’s, with achievements across the board reflecting both talent and dedication within the College. Teams consistently delivered strong performances in league play and Cuppers, with several reaching their best ever finishes and semi-final runs, while many individuals also represented the University at the highest level, including in the Boat Race and Varsity fixtures. Beyond results, what stands out is the depth of involvement: large squads, thriving second teams, and strong recruitment across sports ensured healthy competition and a real sense of community. Training camps, tours, and weekly fixtures built camaraderie and showcased the commitment of players at every level, while energy off the pitch, from socials to College-wide participation in mixed formats, reinforced sport as a central part of College life. This combination of success, spirit, and inclusivity has established St Peter’s as one of the most vibrant sporting colleges, laying the foundations for further achievements in the years ahead.

This season has been a great one for SPCFC, both on and off the pitch. In the league - the highest league in the University - we finished in the top three, with resounding wins throughout the season, particularly against Jesus and Exeter. In Cuppers, we had our best run ever, getting to the semi-finals after scoring 15 goals in the first three games.

We narrowly lost to Keble while putting out a somewhat makeshift first XI, which is something we can all be proud of. Proof of our strength in depth can be found in the numbers of SPCFC players representing the Uni in the various Varsity matches this year - seven in total. We ended the season with our highest ever league finish, and our longest ever Cuppers run, marking the second successive season in which SPCFC has established itself as one of the best teams in the University.

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Our second team, the Bravehearts, have had a brilliant season as well. They started strongly, losing narrowly to Exeter on penalties.

From there they picked up form, with wins against Brasenose 2s, Pembroke 2s, and, of course, LMH 2s. In the game against LMH, they were 5-1 down at half time, but came back to win 7-5 courtesy of a few half-time snacks and some inspired substitutions made by the Bravehearts captain, D-Bag. The final game of the season saw a dramatic coronation of the new captain, Alex Ryves, after conceding a last-minute goal against the Radcam Rabbis to lose 5-4.

Both Peter’s teams have really established themselves this year, and have left behind brilliant foundations for next year’s efforts.

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By Hannah Giles, Captain

The 2024-2025 St Peter’s netball season has been wonderful from start to finish. From topping our league in Michaelmas, moving up divisions in Hilary to the semi-final of Cuppers in Trinity, the whole netball community has really made St Peter’s proud this year.

Weekly netball was a real highlight of my year and I loved the team spirit we brought (especially our face paint at Cuppers)! One thing SPCNC is unmatched in is energy and spirit and this came through with the socials this year as well. From ‘où est le poulet’ to many, many crew dates. GO SPCNC.

We played mixed netball this year so it was a chance for everyone in College to get involved across all the year groups and create a fun sense of community. To solidify our presence on the netball scene we even made joggers this year with SPCNC (St Peter’s College Netball Club) on the back, to show off our college everywhere we go!

SCR v JCR Cricket Match

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Rowing This term we were able to compete at Bedford Head and Torpids, though in the latter unfortunately only our first VIIIs were allowed to compete.

Our annual training camp in Seville was another memorable experience, giving us the chance to work on our technique, build team spirit, and enjoy some well-deserved sunshine ahead of the busy Trinity term.

We are also extremely proud to celebrate the achievements of our athletes who competed in this year’s Boat Race with OUBC. A record five members from SPCBC - a truly impressive accomplishment for a college of our size, and a testament to the depth of talent and commitment possible within our club.

Congratulations to all of them.

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SPCRFC welcomed many new recruits this season, with players committing to the club from early on, building club atmosphere.

Although we had a shaky start to our Cuppers campaign with a loss to the 7 College Cluster Team in a game that resembled a ‘David vs Goliath’ clash, experienced Props Rob Allen and Dan Miller helped us to a Plate Semi-Final appearance which concluded in a controversial manner.

Away fixtures were successful with an eventful tour to Bucharest, during which the green and gold faced up against GFP RFC, a team

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featuring many ex-Romanian professionals. Our only try of the game came from Richard John Benjamin Groom.

We also played both a league and 7s campaign, being one of the only colleges to do so.

Overall, the club is at a healthy stage with regular 15-man attendances at both league and Cuppers matches, benchmarking St Peter’s College as the Gold standard for college rugby.

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Dr Hashem Abushama Dr Hashem Abushama joins St Peter’s College as an Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow of Human Geography. He holds a DPhil in Human Geography and an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford, and a BA in Peace and Global Studies from Earlham College in the United States.

Hashem is a human geographer with interests in the urban geographies of arts and capital, and the contemporary and historical geographies of dispossession within colonial and settler colonial contexts. His training in Geography

Professor Matt Fuchter Professor Matt Fuchter joins St Peter’s College as the Sydney Bailey Tutor in Chemistry alongside his appointment as Professor of Chemistry.

Prior to joining the College, Matt was Professor of Chemistry at Imperial College London. He runs a multidisciplinary research group with a broad array of interests in functional molecules, materials and medicines.

In fundamental research, his work has significantly contributed to understanding of the intersection of chirality, spin, charge and light in organic and inorganic-organic hybrid materials. His research has also resulted in the development of leading photoswitchable molecules – molecules that can be interconverted between two different states using light – for diverse functional applications across biology and materials science. In translational research, he is an inventor of two different drugs (Samuraciclib and APL-4098) undergoing clinical trials for 38 St Peter’s College Record 2025

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is highly interdisciplinary and engages with debates in postcolonial Marxist geographies, settler colonial studies, cultural studies, and development geographies.

This past year, Dr Abushama’s essay ‘A Map without Guarantees’ won the inaugural Stuart Hall Essay Prize. His writings have appeared in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, the Jerusalem Quarterly, and Transactions of the British Institute of Geographers.

He has also appeared on the Conjuncture Podcast. His forthcoming monograph aims to offer a Gramscian analysis of settler colonialism in Palestine. cancer therapy and is a Founder, Non-Executive Director and Head of Chemistry for NK:IO Ltd, an immuno-oncology spinout company. His research has been recognised through several prizes, including the 2018 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award for Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, a Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in the United Kingdom (2020), conferred by the Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Corday-Morgan Prize (2021), Stephanie L. Kwolek Award (2022), and Malcolm Campbell Memorial Prize (2023). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (since 2015) and the European Academy of Sciences (since 2023).

Matt teaches Organic Chemistry to the St Peter’s Chemistry undergraduates and shares the Organising Tutor in Chemistry role with Professor Adam Kirrander.

In his spare time, he enjoys keeping active, the performing arts, and spending time with his family.

Bettie Hall Bettie Hall has joined St Peter’s as its new Archivist and Records Manager. Bettie will simultaneously continue her role as the Archivist and Records Officer at Wolfson College. Her experience includes positions as the Assistant Archivist at Hertford and Corpus Christi Colleges, as well as St Edward’s School, and the Strata Florida Trust.

Bettie’s area of research focuses on the complex challenges and implications of oral histories stored on obsolete storage media within archival repositories. She surveyed repositories in Wales whist studying for her MA in Archives and Records Management at Aberystwyth University, and continues her research across areas of the UK. She aims to develop strategies to overcome resource, storage, and discoverability constraints faced in her profession. Her ultimate goal is to unearth hidden histories and amplify lost voices.

Dr Bridget Penman Dr Bridget Penman joins St Peter’s College as Fellow and Tutor in Biology, taking over this role from Professor Mike Bonsall. She is also Associate Professor of Zoonoses and One Health in the Department of Biology.

Bridget previously studied Biological Sciences as an undergraduate and DPhil student at Oxford, and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Zoology department and at Merton College. She then moved to the University of Warwick, where she was an Assistant (later Associate) Professor in the School of Life Sciences and the Zeeman Institute, before returning to Oxford to take up her current position.

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At St Peter’s, Bettie is particularly keen to capture oral histories as a powerful means of preserving the individual and collective memories of students and staff, past and present. She warmly encourages all members of the College community to contribute records, photographs, ephemera, and reminiscences to the St Peter’s Archives. Such contributions are invaluable for enriching the College’s history, instilling a sense of pride and preserving institutional memory for posterity.

Bettie looks forward to exploring the College Archives and art collections, delving into the College’s rich history, making the catalogue publicly accessible, and actively engaging with the College and alumni communities.

In her leisure time, Bettie enjoys traveling, photography, stand-up paddleboarding, and spending time with her husband and two cats.

Bridget studies the genetics of infection. She uses mathematical and computational models to simulate pathogens infecting diverse, evolving host populations. Bridget is especially interested in malaria parasites and in how humans and other primates have adapted to malaria. Her work is supported by a Springboard Award from the Academy of Medical Sciences.

Bridget teaches St Peter’s undergraduates enrolled on the MBiol degree in Biology, as well as delivering lectures and practicals on the theme of infectious diseases for the Biology Department.

Outside of College life, Bridget enjoys cycling and planning family hiking adventures for when her (currently pre-school) children are that little bit older!

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Revd Matthew Routledge Revd Matthew Routledge joined St Peter’s as College Chaplain on 4 November 2024, working part-time alongside part-time parish duties in Buckinghamshire.

He originally trained as a Chartered Surveyor and worked for some years for British Waterways (predecessor to the Canal and River Trust), first in their property department, and then spent about ten years in operational management. For the last five, his ‘patch’ included the Oxford Canal, so he was rather amused that his second interview at St Peter’s was in the former offices of the Oxford Canal Company. He also worked part-time teaching Change Management to Masters’ students at University of Warwick, something he continued to do until early 2025.

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In 2007, he returned to the world of property, as a consultant advising technology companies on their property requirements. This included seven years embedded with Google managing all their property transactions across Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia, which included travel to some very interesting places and eating some very interesting food (the raw goat in Kinshasa being a particular ‘high’ point).

Though he loved this work, for some time he felt it was not all that he was meant to be doing, so, in 2018, he left the property world and was selected for ordination training, being ordained Deacon in 2022 and Priest in 2023.

Matthew is married with two grown-up children (they have left home, but not all their stuff has!) and loves walking in the beautiful countryside near his home doing church-crawls (with the occasional pub thrown in).

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Library Report

By Dr David Johnson Those with retentive memories will recall your librarian’s observation last year that whilst the College Library progressed unspectacularly, elsewhere genuinely significant and genuinely unfortunate events were taking place. This year the Library, rather like the proverbial swan, continued sailing serenely onwards (readers must draw their own conclusion on the ferocity of its staff’s sub-aquatic paddling), whilst regrettably the wider information world grew increasingly troubled.

Good news took the form of a slow rebuilding of the British Library’s online services following the 2023 cyberattack. In particular, electronic legal-deposit items again became accessible during Trinity Term. The temporary format in which such items were made available was regrettably less accessible for those with limited vision, and the College again purchased small numbers of items to fill the lacuna.

Meanwhile, whilst the excitements of Trinity’s examinations came and went, in Germany the Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin (ZB MED), an organisation seemingly remote from Oxford undergraduates or even advanced researchers, was busy. In May, its Scientific Director issued a statement that ‘Until the beginning of this year [2025], we would never have dreamed that this asset [PubMed] could be jeopardised. This threat now exists and we must act.’1

number of information providers. Equally importantly, they offer just one example amongst many of the way in which faith in those resources is breaking down.

One might think that those responsible for our current information infrastructure should have paid more attention to St Paul. A single framework for managing information presupposes an infrastructure in which all have confidence. Users and contributors become participants in a greater whole: And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honoured, all the members rejoice with it.2 This is true both in terms of hardware and intellectual content. The College Library was briefly closed for one weekend following the end of Trinity Term when the system and data which underpin Oxford’s library management system

The man on the Clapham omnibus – or indeed the Clapham operating-table – might consider this an obscure issue.

But, PubMed is the leading resource in its field. It aims comprehensively to collate and classify work in Medicine and the Life Sciences. It provides an important resource for anyone undertaking medical research or practice, wherever they are based.

However, for the ZB MED and others, PubMed’s publication under the auspices of the National Library of Medicine in Washington D.C. means it cannot now be relied upon; plans to provide an alternative are thus now underway. These events are of significance for anyone working on Medicine, whether at Oxford or elsewhere.

Importantly, they offer just one example amongst many of the ways in which people in the widest range of disciplines have come to rely on a small number of information resources produced by a small

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The beginning of the Long Vacation also saw the resumption by Rosie Lake, our Deputy Librarian, of her normal working pattern.

Rosie originally took maternity leave following the birth of her daughter a couple of years ago, returning in the Long Vacation of 2024. But, throughout the last year, Rosie worked only a proportion of her usual hours with the remainder covered by that doyenne of Oxford Librarians, Marjory Szurko. Although we were more than glad to welcome Rosie back on a full-time basis, Trinity therefore brought a double sadness with the loss both of Marjory and Brian, only then to be compounded by the end of Steve Tuffnell’s time as Fellow Librarian after two stints in that role. Steve has offered much support during that time in his culturally-significant role as “optimistic Yorkshireman”, a position for which there are currently no other candidates (especially not in the Library).

were migrated to new servers. Naturally, because we have a panOxford system, all libraries in the University were affected. But, wandering scholars who planned to escape elsewhere would might well have been disappointed. A good number of institutions across the world depend on the same software and same servers; all were equally subject to disruption.

Developments in the College Library have been mostly in the form of staff changes. We were disappointed in Trinity to see the premature end of Brian Brown’s time as Library Assistant. In his time at St Peter’s, Brian became a Library mainstay, his calm capability and unruffled manner making him invaluable whether the latest crisis was a leaking roof or a fainting fresher.

Dedicated readers know that immediately one reaches the final page of the latest “must-read” book (whether the imperative derives from a sincere desire to read, or a need to satisfy the examiners) another three volumes magically materialise. Recent difficulties notwithstanding, we too look forward to the next chapter. History however suggests that one cannot speculate with much chance of accuracy on what will happen next in the information field. It might well be true that twelve months ago “we would never have dreamed” of some recent events, but it seems certain that the coming year will be equally full of unanticipated developments. https://www.zbmed.de/en/about/press/press-releases/article/infrastructuremade-in-europe. (accessed 30 July 2025).

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DONORS OF BOOKS TO THE COLLEGE LIBRARY, 2024-25 Professor T. Adcock

Mr J. Golcher

Mr J. Poole

The Bodleian Libraries

Professor D.M.D. James

Mrs O. Thomas

Dr R. Allen

Professor C. Burgess Mr A. Burnett

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Mr B. Liebelt

Mr P. Longshaw

Lady O’Neill of Bengarve Dr R. Pitkethly

St Catherine’s College Lady Tovey

The Revd Mr W. L. R. Watson Professor M. Winterbottom

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Bursar’s Report

By Simon Jones College continues to be a thriving, multi-faceted and fascinating environment in which to ply one’s Bursarial skills, although considerably quieter than last year in the absence of any large-scale building activity.

Castle Bailey Quad as a construction site is a distant memory, replaced by a busy and well used student accommodation space, supplemented by conference activity during the holiday periods.

Those using the steps from the Fellows’ car park will testify that our summer guests enjoy the outdoor space as much as the students who occupy these wonderful new buildings during term time. The final act of the development project was closure of commercial discussions with the contractor and I offer sincere gratitude to David Collard (History 1994) and Dr Sarah Wilson, my interim predecessor, for their unstinting commitment in ensuring that College secured very best value from those negotiations.

Pastry School Project An ambitious and progressive college like St. Peter’s cannot afford to rest on its laurels. In my report last year, the upcoming conversion of the Pastry School into a bright and modern music and performance space was mentioned. College is delighted to report that work commenced in August 2025, with local contractor

Benfield & Loxley appointed to complete the scheme in Spring 2026.

This is a really exciting project for College, with a wonderful large performance space, approached via a visually striking and accessible bridge from the Perrodo Building. Considerably improved storage facilities complete the first floor, with a beautiful new spiral staircase to be installed at the rear of the building, as both a fire exit and alternative access point. The transformed ground floor, hitherto occupied by the MCR, sees the introduction of two new music practice rooms, a welcome addition for the musicians of St. Peter’s. The larger part of the ground floor layout provides a multi-purpose, bookable area, complete with kitchen, and will be used as a green room and entertaining space for visitors and those attending events, with toilets to the rear of the building.

As with all major capital projects, this superb new facility would not be possible without the incredible generosity of our alumni.

Ambitious donation targets were set to enable this superb project to go ahead and we are delighted to report that the money has been coming in, with a couple of major gifts anchoring that, and an impressive run of other gifts to help get us over the line. There is still time to join us in delivering on this project ahead of the Music Room opening events in prospect for early summer if you would like to be part of this, but we are so grateful for the ongoing commitment to the College of so many of you that enables us to keep improving the estate for the enjoyment The planned stunning new performance space on the first floor of the redesigned Pastry School. of all. Thank you.

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MCR Relocation The end of Trinity Term 2025 saw the MCR move from the ground floor of Pastry School to a larger and customised new space in Thomas Hull House, a long-lease building adjoining Chavasse that overlooks both New Inn Hall Street and Bonn Square. The MCR Relocation project has been ably supported through the collaboration of the St. Peter’s MCR, superbly led by Rhea Kunar (outgoing President), by her successor, Noah Rowe, and by their respective committees, in order to maximise the benefits of this wonderful new space for our graduate students.

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Pedestrian access to the new space was completed in time for the start of the 2025-26 academic year, with bold plans currently proceeding through the local planning system for a fully accessible lift connection between the new MCR and the Chavasse Building. These exciting plans will absorb Thomas Hull House directly into the main site.

As well as ensuring that the MCR remains integrated in the College community, connecting these buildings also opens up future strategic possibilities to further enhance our site and facilities.

We continue to expand our conference trade in ways crucial for our income streams. The c£2m generated annually from conferencing activity is a vital component of the College’s business model. Do be in touch if you know of a conference that might like to use our excellent premises: we are always seeking new initiatives to bridge the minimal space that remains in the conferencing calendar.

SPC colleagues on an early project site visit with the construction team.

BLT Not a sandwich as many of you might immediately imagine but in fact the small, hardworking and highly effective unit which I am proud to be part of. The Bursary Leadership Team (BLT) is made up of the Bursar, Domestic Bursar (Kevin Melbourne) and College Accountant (Kathryn Marshall). Our role in College is to ensure that the support services for the whole community operate effectively and efficiently. These include tight financial management, provision of excellent student accommodation, superb catering for all, operating a successful conferencing business and rigorous estate management in all its guises.

Kevin and Kathryn are outstanding colleagues and St. Peter’s is very lucky to attract individuals of such high calibre in a competitive employment market. In turn Kevin and Kathryn lead strong teams across their areas of expertise, ensuring that the whole St. Peter’s community is well looked after and that our business model is sustainable and progressive in every sense.

Evidence of this can be seen in a recent poll of students by The Cherwell, when St. Peter’s was considered to have the best Formal Hall provision in Oxford. Congratulations to senior chefs Eifion Davies, Tony Baughan and the whole catering team.

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Finances College continues to operate on tighter margins than many of our wealthier counterparts in the city. We therefore need to make our assets work harder (for example, through our conference trade) than most estates in Oxford, to ensure the business model works effectively. Given the costs of our (excellent but expensive!) tutorial educational model, a thriving conference business and tight cost controls are ever more important to ensuring the financial sustainability of the College.

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years’ service, although we do still see him in a casual capacity from time to time. Sbigniew (Zibi) Szalankiewicz (Kitchen Porter) retired at the end of March having served St. Peter’s for just short of nine years. We wish them well in the future, alongside all others moving on to pastures new or enjoying a well-earned retirement.

We also welcome their successors and those filling new roles at the College.

In addition we also extend our warmest wishes to the six newcomers to the extended St. Peter’s family and offer congratulations to new parents Ed, Fabio, Antonio, Agripino, Melania and Filipina. Fabio Simões also shares a further celebration with Constantin (Dan) Carausu, in that both secured promotions in the year to roles as Maintenance Team Leader and Deputy Food & Beverage Manager respectively.

Constantin (Dan) Carausu

We also rely heavily on the support of so many of our alumni, who contribute enormously both financially and as part of the College community. We are extremely grateful for your contributions and look forward to celebrating with you in many ways as the 2029 centenary year approaches.

Starters and leavers Statistics always provide an interesting additional context to College life, particularly where people are concerned. This year Graham Stowell (HR Manager) has looked at staff turnover as a way of celebrating our St Peter’s culture. The largest proportion of our staff line work in catering or on the domestic team as scouts.

There is typically a high turn-over in these sectors. However, on average we see less than 15% role changes per annum at St. Peter’s, compared to a national average of around a third, and even the lowest-scoring category (public administrators) typically sees a quarter of their staff change each year. We will continue to work to make St Peter’s a good place to work for all, but as we do so, we are encouraged that staff remain in post longer here than with many other employers.

Fabio Simões

We look forward to another busy and successful year in College and wish readers the same.

We do of course experience some change, so I take this opportunity to thank leavers for their dedicated service to the College. Neville Pimm (Lodge Porter) retired from his substantive post after 14

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2025 Development Office Report

By Tom Gould (SPC Development Officer), on behalf of the Development Team It’s been another happy, busy year of alumni events, campaigns, correspondence and connections. Over 1,200 alumni attended events in Oxford, London, and around the world. This included lively Gaudies for alumni who matriculated in the 1990s, and a 50th/55th/60th Anniversary Reunion for those who matriculated in 1964, 1969 and 1974 respectively. As always, it has been a pleasure to see old friends back in College, reconnecting, telling stories, and laughing together late into the evening.

In December 2024, we held our first London Christmas concert in the atmospheric venue of All Saints Church, Margaret St, with impeccable music from the SPC choir and organist, directed by Quintin Beer. December 2025 will see the College Choir back there for another London-based Christmas performance to add to the festive services and celebrations held in College.

Subject dinners were well attended again this year; the annual Engineering dinner preceded a memorial celebration for our late Emeritus Fellow, Professor John O’Connor. Moving tributes were paid to Professor O’Connor by former colleagues, former students and by John’s wife Gemma. The PPE dinner, generously supported

by Haarjeev Kandhari (1993), brought together current and former SPC students from across the generations. Over dessert, our guest speaker, BBC Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet, spoke engagingly about her work reporting from some of the most troubled regions of the world and, following the dinner, she discussed news cycle challenges with current students.

The Boat Club dinner was a joyful occasion tinged with sadness, as our student body celebrated this year’s rowing achievements, joined

by key friends and supporters from the alumni community. This provided the welcome opportunity to honour former Club Captain, the late Brian Dodd (1964), for his deep care for, and striking generosity to, the SPC Boat Club. With his wife, Pat, we mourn his loss. Alongside the Boat Club Committee, we were also pleased to welcome back alumni gathered to remember former Women’s Boat Club Captain Helen Snelson (1988) and former Vice Captain AnnaMarie Edmunds (1988) – two remarkable SPC women who sadly passed away in 2024.

As always, we have enjoyed helping alumni to rekindle, or form new SPC connections internationally. This year the Master was pleased to catch up with old members at SPC international dinners, receptions and events in Vienna, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Kyoto, Washington D.C., New York and Boston, while also visiting partner institutions in each place. We are grateful to alumni David Atkinson (1983), Patrick Turner (1978), Sarah Bamber (1992), Natasha Jakubowski (1992), Kenshiro Kawasaki (2022), Arina Kondo (2022) and William Lau (1995) for hosting some of these occasions, helping to support and strengthen the SPC community beyond Oxford.

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The SPC Telethon in March 2025 included a new online portal which prompted both generous donations and heart-warming messages of support. Ten current students of the College anchored the calls and reported how much they had enjoyed sharing SPC stories across the generations. Thank you to all of those who took the call – every conversation and piece of generously delivered advice was appreciated by students as they navigate Oxford life and prepare for the wider world. And, of course, the total sum of £92,000 raised through this year’s Telethon is being put to good use in supporting our students: thank you to all who gave so generously.

This year saw both the move of the Middle Common Room into a larger and more versatile common room adjacent to College (see MCR report) and the start of work on our Music Room transformation project in the Pastry School (see Bursar’s Report).

Shakespeare@Peter’s was once again a highlight of the College calendar, and the focus this year was on Twelfth Night. This included an entertaining introductory talk by the Master followed by fascinating insights from actor Samuel West, fresh from playing Malvolio at the RSC. The event concluded with a gala dinner in Hannington Hall, with further performance entertainments provided by Samuel West; Artistic Director Emeritus of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Sir Gregory Doran; RSC actor Alexandra Gilbreath (Juliet to David Tennant’s Romeo); Akiya Henry (Beatrice in the RSC’s recent Much Ado About Nothing); Dame Janet Suzman; the College Choir; and students past and present.

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It was a wonderful and stimulating occasion, and we are grateful to the members of St Peter’s College Foundation whose generosity made it possible.

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Sir Greg Doran, Dame Janet Suzman, Samuel West, Alexandra Gilbreath, Akiya Henry, the Principal of RADA, and students past and present with the SPC Director of Music, the Master and members of the Choir.

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By summer 2026, the Music Room will have been become a fully accessible, state-of-the-art rehearsal and performance venue, with a wonderful arts-and-crafts aesthetic. A huge thank you to all those who have already given generously to help us with this exciting project. And if anyone else would like to join the collective endeavour, do be in touch: there is still time to be part of this transformational project for College music-making. We look forward to reporting properly on this next year.

At the end of the academic year we said farewell to Brett de Gaynesford, who has been our Director of Development and Alumni Relations since January 2022. We are grateful for Brett’s dedication to College and her commitment to working for its future. In next year’s College Record, we will be able to introduce you to our new Development Director who will be spearheading our Centenary Campaign. Alongside the new appointment, stand by for exciting news both on the College Centenary in prospect, and on the accompanying campaign that will see us into our second century.

As I write, we are preparing for this year’s Howard Society Lunch, a special annual occasion for those who remember St Peter’s in their will at any level, and their guests. Choosing to leave a legacy gift to St Peter’s is an extremely thoughtful way to contribute to the future of the College. We are very grateful to those who have made this personal commitment and at our annual lunch we enjoy recognising the generosity of this individual and collective investment in the future.

Our 2025 Telethon student callers

We remain thankful to the alumni and friends who support the life and work of the College in so many different ways: your generosity makes everything we do possible. We will look forward to seeing many of you back in College for events of various kinds and to being in touch in other ways across the coming year.

Email: development@spc.ox.ac.uk Telephone: +44 01865 614985 Stay in-touch and up-to-date: https://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/alumni/stay-in-touch

Anonymous (7) 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) Dr Sylvie Jackson 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

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Alumni events in Tokyo (Jan 2025) and NYC (April 2025)

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Anonymous (4) A. G. Leventis Foundation Mr Stuart Banks (1992) Mr Daniel Bilbao (1978) Professor Olivia Choi (1995) Professor Thomas Cook (1959) and Fay Cook Sir Ian Davis Mr Peter Foy (1960) Mr Carl Hughes (1980) Mr Jeffrey Knight (1957) Landau Foundation Sir Michael Moritz Pepsi Co Foundation

Mr Clive Rutherford (1965) Mr Stephan Shakespeare (1976) Mr Lawrence Smith (1978) 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 Jonathan Barry (1999) Mr Michael Batchelor (1956) Mr Gregga Baxter (1978) Professor John Benson (1978) Dr Richard Brady (1973) Mr David Britten Mr David Bucknall (1986) Mr Paul Bushell (1964) Mr Robert Calcraft (1983) Dr Robert Calderisi (1968) Mr Sunir Chandaria (1998) Mr Adam Chinn (1979) Mr James Dalrymple (2000) & Mrs Sophie Dalrymple (2002) Mr Benjamin Dell (1995) Mr Barry Douthwaite (1958) Mr Roger Dyer (1976) Professor Sir David Eastwood DL (1977) Esmee Fairbairn Foundation Dr Jon Fuller (1960) GAV Properties Miss Tara Glen (1988) Mr Jim Golcher (1964) Mr Jeremy Greenhalgh Mr Richard Heffer (1965) Dr Takeda Hitachi The Houghton Dunn Charitable Trust Mr Lijian Jiang (2003)

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Mr David Lane (1982) Mr Clay Maitland Dr Roger Marshall (1958) Murphy Foundation Ox-Academic Summer School Tours Ltd Mr Paul Pearman (1970) Mr Michael Percival (1963) 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) Dr Grant Rhode (1974) The Reverend Geoffrey Riba-Thompson (1977) Mr Nicholas Segal (1976) Professor Edith Sim (1981) Dr Ian Skidmore (1959) Mr Stuart Smith FRCS (1969) Sir Stephen Stewart (1971) Mr Christopher Stuart (1977) St Peter’s Society Mr Jeremy Taylor (1992) Mr Richard Thompson (1981) & Ms Louise Wood (1981) Mr A J Tracey Mr Anthony Tuckwell (1962) Professor Robert Tyrrell (1969) Vandervell Foundation Sir Gerald Warner KCMG (1951) Weinstock Fund Mrs Rosemary Wharton & Mr David Wharton Mr Nicholas White (1978) Mr Alan Wills (1982) Mrs Susan Wulstan 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 2024 - 31 July 2025 from the following:

1946 Mr Michael Tibbs OBE* 1947 Mr Eric Gordon* 1948 Mr Richard Hales 1949 Sir Kenneth Bloomfield MRIA* 1950 Mr Frederick Moysen Mr James Siddons* 1951 Dr Colin Bailey OBE Mr Robert Leslie* Sir Gerald Warner KCMG Mr Eric Wood 1952 Mr Gordon Newbery Mr Arnold Taylor Mr Colin White* 1953 Mr Frank Cookson Mr Sean Hignett Mr Bryan Maybee JP Dr Bryan Pierce 1954 The Right Reverend Colin Bazley Mr John Cole Mr Christopher Lilwall

Professor Dr Terence Meaden Dr Derek Rushton Mr Peter Waterman Mr George Yacoub* 1955 Anonymous Mr Michael Rogers Mr Martin Slatter Mr Brian Weston OBE Dr Mark Weston 1956 Anonymous Mr Michael Batchelor Mr Keith Garland Mr Michael Pipes MBE Mr Michael Richardson Professor John Widdowson

Mr William Stevenson Mr Hugh Turrall-Clarke Mr Donald Webber 1958 Anonymous Mr Barry Anson Mr John Bain OBE The Revd Canon David Callard Dr Colin Lambert Dr Roger Marshall Mr Colin Pearson Mr Ken Pye Air Commodore Philip Wilkinson Mr John Wright

1959 Professor David Berry Professor Thomas Cook 1957 Mr James Dawson Mr Colin Bailey* Mr John Dobson Professor John Bradfield Mr David Fuller Mr Christopher Curson Mr Stephen Metherell Mr Ian Fleming Mr Melvyn Pamplin Dr David Griffiths Mr Robin Privett Mr Roger Herrera Dr Peter Raggatt Mr Albert Johnson Dr John Salinsky Professor Meirion Lewis CBE Dr Ian Skidmore Mr Peter Lewis Dr Robert Twycross* Mr Ken Loach Mr Richard Wells Mr Nick Metcalfe The Reverend Prebendary Mr Norman Philbey John Wesson* Mr John Richardson Mr Brian Snelson

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1960 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 Mr Robert Morgan FRCS Mr Robert Savage Dr Philip Surman Mr Nick Towers The Reverend Dr Iain Whyte 1961 Anonymous (2) Mr Tony Bomber The Reverend Canon John Brown Mr Robert Bryce Professor Dr Stanley Cameron Professor Dwight Eddins Mr Jonathan Edwards The Reverend Canon Anthony Hawley Mr John Jarvis Mr Christopher Legge Dr Christopher Lynch Mr Frank Parker Mr Derek White

1962 The Reverend Barry Ashdown Sir Roger Bone KCMG Mr Christopher Booth Mr David Carter Dr David Edwards Dr Charles Griffin Mr John Griffin Mr Clive Jackson Mr Paul Jenkins Dr Andrew King Professor Robin Leake Mr Norman Maxwell Mr Bryan Morgan Mr Mike Orriel Mr Jonathan Petitpierre Mr David Scott Dr Martin Shain Mr Anthony Tuckwell Mr Paul Wolff 1963 Mr Frank Blewett Dr John Doveton Mr Ian Ewing Mr Patrick Howard Mr Geoffrey Nicholson Mr Derek Parr Mr Michael Percival Mr Christopher Purcell Mr Mike Redman Mr Mervyn Samuel Mr Guy Stokely Mr Timothy Taylor

Mr John Watson The Reverend Paul Winchester 1964 Anonymous Professor Chris Ashton Ambassador Anthony Benjamin Mr Robin Browne Mr Paul Bushell Mr John Clark Mr Rod Dalmaine Mr Robin Dixon Mr Donald Gardner Dr Christopher Green Mr Jocelin Harris Mr William Homan-Russell The Reverend Christopher Jackson 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 Andrew Flockhart Mr Philip Hunwick Mr Brian Jones

Mr John Modley Mr Duncan Paylor Mr John Pope Mr Clive Rutherford Mr Mike Tiley Mr Richard Tudway Mr David Wightman Mr Graham Wood 1966 Mr Paul Burden Mr Ian Collins Mr Andrew Davison Mr Michael Galey 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 Timothy Smith Mr Anthony Staples Mr Philip Wilkes 1967 Mr Rupert Birtles Dr John Bolland The Very Reverend Philip Buckler

Mr Jim Burrows Mr John Corran Mr Roger Holehouse OBE Dr Andrew Holton Mr Patrick Hooper Mr Douglas Johnson Mr Joseph Keating Mr Philip Lawder Dr Barry Lloyd 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 Mr Francis Wood 1968 Anonymous (2) Dr Jonathan Angel Mr Richard Belfield Dr Robert Calderisi Mr John Clifford Dr Malcolm Coe Mr Guy Fiegehen Mr Paul Gompertz Mr Stephen Hill Mr Barry Hunt Dr Andrew Jones Mr Martin Leeburn Mr Peter Lee-Wright Professor Stephen Nussey MRCP Mr Anthony Ollerenshaw*

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Mr Richard Pengilley Dr Paul Sanders Mr Geoffrey Walker* 1969 Anonymous (4) Mr Douglas Angus Mr Stephen Berry Mr Ian Birch Mr Patrick Callaghan Dr Philip Christie Professor Douglas Davies Dr Anthony Gore Mr John Hall DL Mr David Hart Mr Ian Hill Mr Ronald Jenkins Mr John Noyce Mr Edward O’Neill Mr Andrew Pryce Mr Kim Slater Mr Jeremy Stickings Professor Robert Tyrrell Mr Philip Wiper 1970 Anonymous Mr Paul Ardern Dr Christopher Austin Commander Ronald Bramhall The Reverend Monsignor Christopher Brooks Mr Dick Brown Mr John Evans Dr Nicholas Evans Mr David Frampton

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Mr Peter Garforth-Bles Mr Ronald Higham Mr Victor Knight Dr Dennis Leuer Councillor David Norman MBE Mr Steve Shepherd Dr Nicholas Simpson FRCS Professor Mark Williams 1971 Mr Roger Adams Dr Stephen Bailey Mr Michael Colinese Mr Stuart Cooke Dr Martin Dace Mr Robert Gill Dr Philip Harbottle Mr Geoffrey Hatcher Mr Alan Heath Mr Stephen Hughes Mr Paul Kendall Dr Ervine Long Dr John Marshall Mr Ian Mason Mr Jerry Moore Mr David Potts Mr Stephan Roman Sir Stephen Stewart Mr John Towers Mr Christopher Wain 1972 Mr Ian Biddlecombe Mr David Campbell Mr Christopher Dale Dr Ian Dennis

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Mr Stephen Despres Mr Martin Eldred Mr John Gabriel Dr Peter Galliver Mr John Glencross Dr Paul Hancock Dr Simon Helan Mr Peter Johnson Mr Norman MacLeod Dr Philip Newman Dr Charles Pell Commodore Michael Potter CBE Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope GCB OBE ADC Mr Robert Wilson Mr Anthony Withnell 1973 Anonymous* Mr Robert Atkins Professor Richard Bessel Dr Richard Brady Mr John Clark Dr Christopher Davies Professor Gerard Evan Professor Nicholas Goddard Mr Jonathan Harwood Mr Matthias Holland Dr Norman James Mr Peter Jones Mr David Kerry Mr Richard Leafe Mr Charles McDowall Mr Martin Moss Mr Paul Rowson

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Mr Jeremy Sackett Dr John Sheldrake Mr David Sheppard Mr Leslie Sheppard Mr Trevor Ward Mr Simon Williams Mr Philip Wood 1974 Anonymous (3) Mr Stephen Callen Mr Paul Chamberlain The Reverend Paul Day Professor David Edwards Mr John Gavan Mr Robin Hodgkinson Mr Andrew Mercer Dr Christopher Minns Mr Stephen Perkins Dr Alexander Popovich Mr Stephen Pull Dr Grant Rhode Mr Ian Robinson Mr Graham Shore Dr Christopher Waddington Mr Hugh Watson Mr Andrew Williamson

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Mr Matthew Hayes Mr Brian McMahon Mr Richard Millward Mr Mark Rogers Mr Neil Rostron Mr Ian Walker Mr Richard Wilkinson Mr Stephen Wilkinson 1976 His Honour Michael Chambers QC Mr Roger Dyer Dr Philip Hirst Mr Julien Hofer Mr Timothy King Mr Guy Leach Mr Alan Mason Mr Nigel Penn-Simkins Mr Nigel Perry MBE FRENG Mr Pip Squire Mr John Stephenson Mr Peter Tonissoo Mr Walter Uhl Professor Rory Wilson

1977 Anonymous Mr Nicholas Cattermole 1975 Mr William Clare Anonymous The Reverend Austen Atkins Professor Sir David Eastwood DL Mr Peter Bettley Dr William Evershed Dr Roger Brambley Mr John Fray Mr Andrew Burnett Mr John Guthrie Mr Christopher Chantler Mr Michael Harris Dr Mark Eller Mr Stephen King Mr Daniel Freeman

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Mr Robert Kirk 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 Jeremy Morrish Mr Robin Nielsen Mr Christopher Parker Mrs Ruth Scotson Dr Christopher Slinger

1980 Anonymous Dr Thomas Bailward MA MBBS MRCGP MRCPCH Mr Mark Emerton Mr Brett Hannam 1978 Dr Alan Bacon Mr Simon Hardy Dr Michael Barnard The Right Reverend John Holbrook Mr Sherry Bates Mr Adrian Hopkins KC Professor John Benson Professor Robert Huddart Mr Richard Brake Mr Carl Hughes Mr Anton Bray Mr Mark Jackson Mr Ian Edward Dr Robert Lunn Mr Nigel Grice Mr Pat Nichols Mr David Hardcastle Dr Andreas Nowak Mr Mark Powell The Reverend Robert Ritchie Dr Karen Popp JD Mrs Helen Riddle Professor Gerhard Schneider Mr Jonathan Riddle Mr Lawrence Smith Mr Mark Wilson Mr Patrick Turner Mr Nicholas Worth Mr Nicholas White Mr Ian Yorston 1979 Mr Mark Allen Mrs Karin Carver Mrs Elizabeth Dale Mr Nicholas Fellows Mr Marcus Hine Mr Christopher Horril Mr Nicholas Martin

1981 Mr Waseem Baloch Mrs Sarah Biggs Dr Sara Caine Mr Ivor Chomacki Ms Joanna Duckworth Mr Richard Hillebrand Mrs Judy Luddington

Mr Vincent Lugthart Dr Carole Lunn Dr Kevin Morgan Mr Geoffrey Oates 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 Michael Woolrich Mr Jonathan Yousafzai

1983 Mr Keith Bailey Mrs Kathryn Biggs Mrs Susi Clargo Ms Maria Hall Mr Sean Kelly Mr James Kinsley Mr Jonathan May Mrs Amanda Mobbs Mrs Anne Oram Mr Michael Powell Dr Matthew Seccombe Mr Graham Smith Mr Christopher Warren

1982 Anonymous (2) Mr Alistair Carder-Geddes Mr Dave Carey Mr David Chalfen Mr John Clark Mrs Nicola Halls Dr Ronald Haynes Dr Lawrence Impey Mr Charles Ind Mr Thomas Jenkinson Mr Ashwani Kochhar Mr David Lane Mr Stuart Nicholson Mrs Kathryn Oates Mr Andrew Packman Mr Peter Petyt Squadron Leader John Richardson Miss Rachel Shapton Mr Alan Wills Miss Karen Woodall

1984 Mr Toby Davies Mr Peter de Wesselow Mr Paul Farmer CBE Dr Peter Francis Mr Simon Fretwell Mr Dominic Hardisty Mr Andrew Horn Mr Peter Jackson Mrs Nicola Kelly Mr Jeremy Kemp Dr Martyn Knowles Mrs Elizabeth May Ms Jacquelyn Pidgley Mrs Kathryn Samano Mr Dov Scherzer Dr Peter Stephenson 1985 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 Mrs Caroline Robertson ASRM Ms Dalia Salaam Rishani Dr Duncan Spiers Mrs Katherine Stenner Miss Lavell Thompson Mr John Turner Mr Peter Van den Berghe Dr Sean Walls 1986 Anonymous (2) Mrs Ruth Appleton Mr Timothy Bishop Mr David Bucknall Professor Kate Crosby 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 Mr James Rice Mrs Anna Sedenu Mr Paul Thomasson Mrs Rachael Wardell OBE

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1987 Mr Nicholas Andrews Mr Kevin Bibby Mr Charles Bithell Professor Jacek Brodzki Ms Georgina Calvert-Lee Ms Jennifer Duvalier Mr Paul Geddes Mr Stephen Harris Mrs Suzanne Haywood Mrs Lucy Helliker Mr Neil Hemingway Mr Richard Horrocks-Taylor Mr Stephen Judd Ms Anna Locke Mrs Sarah Margolin Mrs Catherine McMahon Ms Kerynne Metherell Dr Dominic Mort Dr Dominic Neary Mrs Emma Ritson Mr Michael Saunter Dr Mark Steel Dr John Turner Mr David Vaughan 1988 Anonymous Mr James Anderson Mrs Kate Andrews Mrs Rebecca Bolevin Mr Matthew Born Mr David Churchill Ms Christina Galbraith Ms Samantha Gibson Miss Tara Glen

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Dr Neil Hampton Mr Philip Lowe Ms Claudine Macintosh Ms Gwyneth Marshman Mrs Clare Oglesby Mrs Jacqueline Ranawake Mr Gregory Shepherd Ms Helen Snelson* Mr Keith Thomasson Mr Guy Voizey Mr Ian Walton Mr Robert White Dr Alan Wiles Mrs Helen Williams 1989 The Reverend Dr Jonathan Arnold Mrs Louisa Gosden Dr Bernhard Gunther Mr Peter Hamer Mr Stephen Hodbod Mr James Lonsdale Mrs Sarah McGlyne The Honourable Kimberly McGraw Dr Gautam Prakash Mr Daniel Smithers Mr Tsutomu Tanaka Mrs Suzanne Waggett 1990 Anonymous Mr Christopher Bates Mr Peter Blackman Mr Michael Briest Dr Richard Chapman

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Ms Andrea Chipman Dr Guy Stuart Mr David Little Mr Stefan Reid Dr Jeffrey Simon Dr John Skidmore Mr Andrew Taggart Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Thomson Mr John Vater KC Dr Nicola Warren

Professor Robert Chambers Ms Jenny Galimberti Ms Louise Gooch Ms Natasha Jakubowski Mrs Juliet Jukes Mr Matthew Jukes Mrs Katerina Mirkou Ms Elena Papazoglou Mrs Caroline Peach Mr Martin Russell-Jones Mr Steven Sabey

1991 Anonymous (3) Dr Rachel Barnard Mr Danny Broderick Dr Frazer Clark Mr Dominic Ely Dr Claire Fox Mrs Elizabeth Fullalove Professor Adam Mead Ms Rebecca Morrison Ms Gillian Orrell Dr Mohammed Patel Mr Hew Smith Dr Benjamin Underwood Dr William Whyte Mrs Caroline Wilson Mr Jonathan Wilson

1993 Anonymous Dr Christopher Briggs Mr Cameron Brown KC Dr Joseph Burn Mr Mark Charles Mr Christopher Herbert Mr Jeremy Hill Mr Peter Hodgins Mr Tom Ibbotson Mr Haarjeev Kandhari Dr James Mason Mrs Francesca Modi Mr Chris Hoyer Millar Mr Ed Nottingham Mr Dominic Oliver Dr Elizabeth Pilling Dr Neil Scotchmer Mr Robert Sheppard Mrs Fleur Sinclair Mr Alexander Skinner Dr Tony Tsang Mr Cameron Walton Masters Ms Elaine Whitehouse

1992 Anonymous(2) Mr William Adlam Mr Stuart Banks Mr Benjamin Beabey Mr Brice Benaben Mr Simon Blake

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Mrs Ruth Williams Mr Stuart Williams 1994 Anonymous Dr Hashim Ahmed Mr Mark Alliban Mrs Cat Bagshaw Mr Asa Bridle Dr Rosalind Bridle Mrs Elizabeth Duggan Mrs Helen Fowler Miss Nicole Gregory Mr John Hagan Mr Danish Hamid Mrs Emma Hardaker The Reverend David Harknett Dr Richard Harrison Mr Timothy Harrop Mrs Natalie Hodgins Mrs Esther Ibbotson Mr Howard Landes Mrs Laura Massey Mr Montu Modi Lieutenant Colonel Beverley Morgan Miss Christine O’Connell Mrs Kate Scotland Mrs Katie Simons Mr Peter Spicer Mr John Wilks 1995 Anonymous Dr Janet Bastiman Dr Olivia Choi

Mr Matthew Dunn Miss Emily Elias Mr Stuart Frizell Miss Kimberly Getgen Mr Paul Hallam Mrs Clare Humphreys Mrs Caroline Kamana Dr Niall Keenan Mr Rupert Manduke Curtis Dr Luke Massey Mr Andrew McGuffie Mr Nicholas Owers Mr Jonathan Pocock Mrs Sarah Richmond Mrs Claire Roughton Ms Trudi Roberts Ms Katherine Tozer Mr Simon Whittaker Mrs Ana Wilks Mr Alex Young 1996 Mr Benjamin Arnoldy Mr James Chapman Dr Gerald Clancy Mr Philip Eagle Mrs Charlotte Fletcher Mrs Flavia Kenyon Mr Anton Orlich Mrs Manfreda Penfold Ms Erato Porphyrios Mr Paul Squire Mr Benjamin Warner Mr Peter Wicks

1997 Anonymous (2) Ms Louse Asher Dr Muhammed Anwar Mr James Brunt Dr Lena Ciric Dr Helena Clarkova Mr Joshua Doctor Dr Sophie Donaldson Mr Samuel Gervaise-Jones Mr Justin Gill Ms Sarah Grainger Mr Alan Greer Mr Mori Jenkins Mr Ralph Kerr Mr Warwick Okines Ms Antoaneta Proctor Mr Alexander Salvoni Mr Jonathan Trup Mr Dexter Whiting Mr Peter Wigley Dr Bethany Wright 1998 Mrs Ilona Chavasse Mr Roland Chavasse Mr Adam Dickinson Mr Marcus Efstratiou Mr Craig Giles Dr Andrew Hutchinson Dr Rachel Hutchinson Mrs Susan Jackson Mrs Katherine Lang Mrs Stephanie Maier Rabbi David Mitchell Mr Ron Moscona

Mr Tom Payne Mr Peter Pulsford Mr Mark Roberts Mr Richard Silcock Mrs Louise Springthorpe 1999 Anonymous Mr Jonathan Barry Dr Edward Botcherby Mr David Century Mrs Cecily Footner Mr Matthew Foy Professor Andrew Hayashi Mr Iwan Lamble Mrs Georgina Loxton Mr Gareth Lyons Ms Catherine McShane Miss Hannah Rickard Dr James Zacks 2000 Anonymous Mr Nicholas Badger Mrs Rachael Badger Mr David Chavda Lieutenant Commander Oliver Clark Mr William Collinson Mr Charles D’Arcy-Irvine Ms Lucy Davis Mr Abhinandan Deb Mrs Nicola Edger Mr Jonathan Eves Mr Tim Gaul Mr Adam Heal Mrs Hannah Jefferies

Mr Paul Jefferies Dr Daniel Lambauer Miss Hayley Moffat Mr Christopher Morrison Mr William O’Connor Mrs Phillippa O’Connor Mr Nicholas Redman Mr Matthew Reynolds Dr Matthew Richardson Dr Christopher Smith Mr Jonathan Smith Dr Jonathan Weiss 2001 Anonymous Mr Lewis Brito-Babapulle Mrs Penelope Durant Mrs Eleanor Franchitti Mr William Gowdy Dr Razi Hussaini Mr Desmond Lau Ms Helen Lewis Miss Stephanie Moorsom Mr Joseph O’Brien Mrs Laura O’Brien Mr Peter Okell Mr Somerset Pheasant Dr Jeanne Salje Mr Thomas Try* Mrs Zoe Vickerman Dr Cheryl Walsh 2002 Miss Amy Beckenstrom Dr Alice Beverly Mr Michael Botcherby Ms Isobel Bradshaw

Dr Scott Crawford Mrs Lydia Dutton Mr Robert Erbmann Mr Stephen Harrison Mrs Catriona Jenkins Mr James Loat Mr Damian Payne Mr Andrew Prentice Mr Sanjay Ranpuria Squadron Leader Joseph Rigg Ms Malini Skandachanmugarasan Mrs Sophie Solly Ms Carol Storey Mrs Ella Williams Mr Paul Williams 2003 Mr Jaimin Allen Mr Antoine Artiganave Mr Matthew Cates Dr Alexis Gallagher Dr Carolyn Haggis Mr Eric Jiang Mr Daniel Lowther Mrs Sarah Lowther Mr Boris Majstorovic Mrs Sarah Mitchell Mr Robert Mitchell Mr James Partington Mr William Pearce Mrs Emily Pheasant Mr Thomas Rayner Mr Joseph Stewart Ms Anna Whitfield Mr Freddie Yiend

2004 Miss Tamara Barnett Wildman Mr Colin Betteridge Mr Philip Brack Mr Matt Coles Dr Rosemary Gowdy Dr Gergely Imreh The Reverend Dr Michael Leyden Ms Shulu Li Ms Amanda Lo lacono Mrs Abigail Rosenberg Mr Benjamin Rushton Mr Gareth Russell Mr John Theis

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2006 Anonymous Mr Steven Altmann-Richer Mr Dawit Demetri Dr Jessica Ehinger Mr Adam Grodecki Mr Stefan Hargreaves Miss Oyinkansola Johnson Mr Carl King Mr Andrew Pilkington Miss Marissa Pueschel Mr Luke Ryder Mr Christopher Sykes Mr Yuchen Xia

2007 Anonymous 2005 Miss Fiona Cheung Anonymous Ms Jessica Davies Mrs Alexandra Britton-Davis Mr Nick Green Dr Merima Brkic Mr Thomas Hancox Mr David Conway Mr Jack Kennedy Mr Kristopher Doyle Mr Samuel Moreton Mr Lee Kerslake Mr Mitul Patel Miss Maya Kommer Mr Thomas Pearman Dr Aaron Krom Miss Laura Sweet Mrs Anna Leyden Miss Emma Waldock Dr Peter Newbold Mr David Watson Mr Amardeep Pannu 2008 Mr Robert Payne Mr Christopher Avellaneda Mr Edward Rees Miss Emily Bennett Dr Rok Sekirnik Mr Edward Bersuder Mr Thomas Smith Ms Gabriela Bersuder Mrs Chen Wang Miss Alexandra Cairns Ms Denise Xifara Mr George Carr Mrs Olivia Cohen St Peter’s College Record 2025 55

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Mr Nathan Collins Dr Fyodor Gainullin Mrs Mary Anne Gayford Dr Lily Harrison Ms Jenny Hayes Mr Alex Hern Miss Poppy Hodgson Mr Josh Hopgood Mr Osamu Hoshino Dr Henry Jackson-Flux Miss Una Kim Ms Anita Latsis Mr Alasdair Morgan Miss Caroline Pearman-Gibbs Ms Cheryl Pilbeam Mr Daniel Rozier Mr Tendai Sibanda Mr Ben Slingsby Mr Oliver Tomlins Mr Guy Watmore Mr Samuel Willis 2009 Anonymous Mr Christopher Ainscough Mrs Bethan Coulson Miss Eleanor Griffiths Mr Peter O’Connor Miss Eve Ryle-Hodges Dr Emily Turner Mr Nathan Turner Mr Alex Worth Mr He Zhu

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2010 Mr Oliver Bristowe Ms Alice Fraser Mrs Gabrielle GleesonSolomon Mr Jonathan GleesonSolomon Mr Thomas Haigh Ms Matilda Henderson Mr Samuel Hirst Ms Katy Kim Mr Samuel Lecacheur Miss Hannah Ledbury Mr Chand Mehta Mr Charles Miller Mr Nakulkumar Patel Mr Robert Sheeran The Reverend Yaroslav Walker

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Miss Emilia Marsden Mr Daniel Moore Miss Jennifer Wallin Ms Megumi Yamamoto 2013 Anonymous Miss Sophie-Elise Anker Miss Anissa Berry Mr Matthew Brady Mr Hussein Elbakri Mr George Postlethwaite Miss Grace Richardson Banks Mr Douglas Smith Dr Yegor Stepanov Mr Nikolay Vasilev Mr Jonathan Watson

2011 Mr Daniel Beesley Dr Joel Beevers Mrs Erin Dickens Miss Rachael Franklin Mr Samuel Iles Dr Greer Mellon Miss Amy Pether Miss Alice Sorby Ms Elizabeth Stockdale Mr Gabriel Trueblood

2014 Anonymous Dr Thiago Alves Pinto Mr Karn Dasgupta Mr Thomas Foxton Mr Isaac Kang Mr James Lavin Mr Michael Linford Mr Noah Miller Mr Robert Smillie Mr Joel Willmore Mr Miles Winter

2012 Mr John Armitage Mr David Fitzpatrick Mr Samuel Gebreselassie Mr Craig Kirkham-Wilson Mr Edward Lund

2015 Anonymous Mr Sebastian Braddock Dr Andreas Dürr Miss Marina Goodman Mr Neil Tang

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2016 Mr Owen Ace Mr Jonathan Gough Ms Georgina Hayward Miss Rhianna Jones Mr Thomas McAuliffe Mr Tanmay Patankar Miss Isabel Watts 2017 Anonymous Ms Olivia Mappin-Kasirer Mr Alexander Mash Mr David Morrison 2018 Mr William Connell Mr Luke Cooper Mr Arjun Goswami 2019 Mr Frederick Wright 2020 Mr Jude Neanor 2021 Mr Kuan Yang *-Deceased Fellows and Friends Anonymous (5) Dr Roger Allen Mr David Britten Mrs Susan Buckman Miss Eriko Darcy Mr Brian Durrant Ms Carol Ann Ferris Mr Gatsby Frimpong

Lady Nancy Kenny Mr Daniel Keyworth Dr John Latsis Dr Alexander Lingas Professor Henry Mayr-Harting Dr Kevin Hilliard Professor John O’Connor Mrs Gemma O’Connor Ms Tara Pober-Thompson Mr Nic Price Ms Ann Rypstra Professor Edith Sim Dr Giacomo Tortora Institutions Anjool Malde Memorial Trust Google St Peter’s College Foundation Legacy Donations Received 1 August 2024 - 31 July 2025 Mr Charles Beaufoy 1954 Mr John Botterill 1958 Mr Peter Harrison 1948 Mr Michael Hicks 1974 Mr Ian Gollop 1955 Mr Eric Gordon 1947 Mr David Kay 1968 Mr David Rogers 1962 Ms Helen Snelson 1988 Mr Michael Tibbs OBE 1946 Mr John Trueman 1949

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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 Peter’s from 1945-1955.

Anonymous (11) Mr Roger Adams Mr Ronald Akhurst Miss Sarah Alford 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 Mr Gordon Bottoms Mr Mensun Bound Dr Richard Brady Mr David Britten The Reverend Canon John Brown Mr Richard Bunker Mr Stephen Buswell Dr Sara Caine Mr William Chapman Mr Charles Chevers-Coppen Mr Derek Clarke MBE Ms Gloria Clutton-Williams Dr Malcolm Coe Mr John Cole

1971 1965 2018 1958 1970 1965 1983 1937 1986 1958 1974 1981 1954 1962 1967 1978 1965 1978 1973 1961 1961 1976 1981 1970 1973 1959 1968 1954

Professor Richard Collacott Mr Graham Cooksey 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 Mr Robin Dixon Mrs Pat Dodd Professor Sir Gordon Duff Mr John Duff Mr Brian Durrant Mr Richard Edgecliffe-Johnson Mr Simon Edsall Mr Ian Ellingworth Mr Simon Ellis Mr Anthony Evans Dr Paul Evans Mr Gerald Eveleigh Mr Derek Flynn The Reverend Michael Forrer The Reverend Dr Michael Fox Mr Peter Foy

1965 1954 1953 1960 1960 1961 1960 1973 1969 1972 1959 1981 2011 1954 1964 1966 1986 1963 1985 1977 1960 1964 1976 1960 1974 1956 1977 1960

Mr Keith Garland 1956 Professor John Gaskin 1956 Professor Roger Gill 1964 Mr Harvey Glasgow 1957 Mr Barry Glazier 1960 Miss Tara Glen 1988 Mr Travis Good 2004 Mr Frederic Goodwin 1960 Mrs Edith Gowdy 1996 Dr Christopher Green 1964 Dr Charles Griffin 1962 Mr Richard Hales 1948 Mr Philip Hall 1978 Mr James Harding 1972 Mr Richard Harding 1970 Mr Simon Hardy 1980 Mr Richard Heffer 1965 Mr Philip Helm 1962 Mr David Hewitt 1959 The Rt Hon the Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts CBE 1961 Mr Patrick Holt 1972 Mr David Howard 1963 Mrs Janice Hoyle Dr Michael Hulse 1962 Mr Philip Hunwick 1965 Mr Daud Ilyas 1955 Professor David James 1961 Mr Michael Jerrom FCA 1961 Mr Philip Johnston 1959 Dr Andrew Jones 1968 Mr Norman Jones 1959 St Peter’s College Record 2025 57

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Mr Anthony Jones Mr Haarjeev Kandhari Dr Geoffrey Kemp Mr Christopher King Mr Jeffrey Knight Mr David Lake Mr David Lane Mr Philip Lawder Professor Meirion Lewis Mr Christopher Lilwall Mrs Judy Luddington The Reverend Canon Brian Macdonald-Milne Dr Roger Marshall Mr Richard Marson Mr Bryan Maybee JP Mr Jeremy McGahan Mr Andrew Mead Professor Dr Terence Meaden Mr Alan Mees Mr Stephen Metherell Dr Christopher Minns Lieutenant Colonel Beverley Morgan Mr Lewis Morgan Mr Robert Morgan FRCS Mr Mike Orriel Mr Jena Pang The Reverend Nigel Panting Dr Neeth Paramananthan Mr Frank Parker Mr Timothy Parkinson Professor Chris Parsons Mr John Patchett Mr Martin Pearman Mr Richard Pengilley Mr Peter Phelan 58 St Peter’s College Record 2025

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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 Chris Rawlins 1982 Mr Lewis Redhead 1978 Mr Bernard Reed 1956 Mr Richard Reeves 1961 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 Dr Martin Shain 1962 Mr Martin Slatter 1955 Mr David Smith 1964 Mr Kenneth Sprague Mr Gordon Stanion 1953 Mr Guy Stokely 1963 Mr Michael Symes 1959 Professor Barrie Thompson 1965

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Mrs Margaret Thompson Mr Peter Thompson Mr Michael Tiley Mr Anthony Tuckwell Mr Patrick Turner Mr Hugh Turrall-Clarke Professor Robert Tyrrell Mr Christopher Wain Mr Ian Walton Dr Tim Ward Sir Gerald Warner KCMG Mr Peter Waterman Mr Roy Waters The Reverend William Watson Mr Richard Wells Mr Brian Weston OBE Mr Nicholas White Mr Stephen Wilcock Dr Rhodri Williams The Reverend Paul Winchester Mr George Winspur Professor Mike Woloch Mr Eric Wood Mr Francis Wyman

Professor John O’Connor 1934-2024 1965 1962 1978 1957 1969 1971 1988 1964 1951 1954 1960 1957 1959 1955 1978 1956 1977 1963 1962 1957 1951 1981

By Professor Tom Adcock John O’Connor, “JJ” to generations of St Peter’s engineers, passed away on 8 September 2024 aged 90. As Mark Damazer said at

John’s memorial event, John was the most distinguished scientist St Peter’s has had amongst its Fellowship. But John was not just an academic of distinction, he was also a wonderful man, whose memory many of us will cherish.

John was born in Dublin in 1934 and schooled by the Augustinian Friars in New Ross, County Wexford. He made his way to University College, Dublin, where he took a first in Mechanical Engineering. Following two years in industry, he did a PhD in Cambridge on fretting mechanics (what happens when surfaces rub together). From there he briefly held a role at the University of Minnesota before coming to Oxford as a University Lecturer in 1964 and being elected Vandervell Fellow in Engineering at St Peter’s the following year. He continued in this role until his retirement in 2001, receiving the title of Professor in the first group of academics to do so through the “Recognition of Distinction” process, in 1996.

John married Gemma, an Irish mystery writer, notably selling his golf clubs in order to purchase the engagement ring. She, and their three children - Oscar, Emily and Simon - as well as many much-loved grandchildren, survive John. In College, we saw John’s professional success and great generosity to others. He was also a wonderful family man, supporting Gemma with childcare and standing by his family wherever their paths took them. John was a man of culture with a love of books and classical music. He also took an interest in sport, particularly rugby, and would love to discuss this over a drink or two.

The academic breakthrough for which John is best known is his co-invention of the “Oxford Knee” with surgeon John Goodfellow.

Whilst nowadays biomedical engineering is a major part of the wider field of Engineering, in the 1960s this was far from the case.

As such, taking on the challenge of working across disciplines was in itself daring. With hindsight, it is easy to see the knee as a simple success story, but of course it took years, decades even, of perseverance and overcoming setbacks until they found a solution that worked. The Oxford Knee remains the most widely used partial knee replacement in the world and nearly two million people have benefitted from the invention. John continued to refine the knee and monitor its progress over the rest of his career, and well into retirement, including working with St Peter’s Fellow in Statistics John Bithell (1939-2020), on analysing knee pain. John earned many plaudits and prizes for his work but, ultimately, it is the lives he transformed that are the real reward.

I came up to St Peter’s as an undergraduate the year after John retired and so never had the benefit of his wisdom in tutorials. But accounts from those he had tutored made it clear that I missed out.

At John’s memorial event, Tara Glen paid tribute to John’s ability to teach his students to think. It was not just about passing on some Engineering knowledge, it was about teaching students how to

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approach technical problems. This is at the heart of why we have

fund, enabling them to disseminate research and form connections

Over the course of his career, Robert authored and co-authored

for each of us, a cut-off point might come with us thinking that,

tutorials in Oxford. There are other ways to teach people to solve

which would not otherwise have been possible.

over 300 papers, chapters, and editorials, and also many textbooks,

beyond that point, we would prefer to die than continue on with the

including the standard palliative medicine textbook, ‘Introducing

condition or conditions we were considering. We thus each filled

regular Engineering problems. But teaching people to solve the problems that have yet to be solved can only really be done through

I would like to sum up the person John was in the light of the

Palliative Care’. He was also a founding member of multiple

out our ‘score-cards of horrors’, as it were, and there followed

interacting in a small group with those who are active in research

current discussions in the University regarding academic careers.

medical societies, including the Association for Palliative Medicine

some inter-audience discussion and debate. Robert then revealed

and innovation. He also took an interest in his students, organising

It is widely held across the University to be impossible that any

(UK); the Palliative Care Research Society (UK); the European

how people who actually had these conditions did in fact rate

social functions and theatre trips, and finding time to talk to the

one academic can excel in the three strands of research, innovation,

Association for Palliative Care; and the International Association

them, initially, and then, as I recall, after they had had them for

students about their interests.

and teaching. John O’Connor was someone who broke this rule.

for the Study of Pain. Whilst teaching several generations of

a period of months, and then after year or so. And there was a

John’s exceptional discoveries led to real world impacts and all this

medics from across the world, as a Senior Research Fellow with

marked difference between their cards and the cards generated

John and Gemma’s contribution to College continues through the

was done whilst putting in the hours inspiring a new generation

no College-specific teaching duties, Robert did not regularly teach

by the audience, including my own. As I recall it, the pattern was

John O’Connor Fund which they set up to support the research of St

of engineers in his tutorials. And he did it all with charm and

St Peter’s students as such. But he and his wife, Deirdre, attended

that, after an initial shock, when their cards were similar to ours,

Peter’s academics. Nearly all the Fellows have benefitted from the

generosity, whilst making many friends.

Chapel, where he occasionally preached. And it was there that I

within what seemed to me to be a very short time - perhaps six

first met him, being at that stage an undergraduate reading for a

months or so - some of the conditions which we in the audience

Philosophy degree. Despite it being of no possible benefit to him,

had largely rated as worse than death, those who suffered from

I remember him kindly engaging me in a relatively prolonged

them rated as having almost negligible impact on their quality

conversation after the service and I think that, on hearing of his

of life. In any case, the ‘take home message’ was clear. However

area of professional interest, I may have mentioned that I was

bad you think a particular condition would be in advance of your

volunteering with a charity that supported people at the end of

actually having it, you would almost certainly think that it was not

their lives, in a sort-of ‘Philosophy is preparation for death’ way.

that bad by a significant margin after you had lived with it for six

Whilst this charity was in itself not doctrinaire on the matter, there

months. Although it would have been almost forty years ago now,

was a natural tendency for those it helped to make ‘Living Wills’,

I remember this lecture in a way that I do not remember many

or Advance Directives as they are sometimes known. Robert

others from my undergraduate days: engaging one in an important

mentioned that he was giving a lecture that might be of interest and

topic; drawing out one’s preliminary conclusions; and then forcing

I made a mental note to attend, primarily as he had been so kind

one to rethink them. In a 2021 interview, Robert reflected on his

as to be interested in my thoughts (or at least to appear to be). I

approach to Medicine with words which summed up the ethos that

thought I could at least return that favour, though I didn’t hold out

had suffused that lecture and, no doubt, also suffused his wider

much hope for it – what could a medic say that could be of interest

teaching, research, and his practice of Medicine: ‘Listen, listen,

to a (would-be) philosopher?

listen! Let the patient tell their story.’

Robert’s lecture began by his asking each member of the audience

As was deserved by someone who had devoted his working life to

to rate how badly they would predict their quality of life would be

the relief of suffering for the dying and their friends and relatives,

affected were they to suffer from a variety of conditions: losing

Robert died pain-free and surrounded by his loving family on 20

one’s capacity to move one’s writing hand; losing the whole arm;

October 2024.

Dr Robert Twycross 1941-2024

By Dr Tim Mawson, Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy Dr Robert Twycross, MA, DM Oxf, FRCP, was born in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, on 29 January 1941, going to St John’s School in Leatherhead before coming to St Peter’s to study Medicine, in which he graduated in 1965. After completing his training in general medicine in Manchester, in 1971 he joined Dame Cecily Saunders at St Christopher’s Hospice in London, in the position of Research Fellow in Therapeutics. Robert’s research at that time focused on what was then the standard cancer pain-management medication, sometimes called ‘The Brompton Cocktail’. This combined morphine, cocaine, and alcohol, and – not surprisingly perhaps - it sedated the patient, not simply ameliorated their pain. Robert’s research established that oral morphine alone was equally effective as an analgesic, these findings later being incorporated into World Health Organisation guidance on the matter. In 1976, Robert became Consultant Physician-in-Charge of Sir Michael Sobell House in Oxford, a position he held until 1988, when he took up the Macmillan Clinical Readership in Palliative Medicine and returned to St Peter’s as Senior Research Fellow. In parallel with his new position here, Robert continued at Sobell House, becoming its director. He was elected to an Emeritus Fellowship in 2001 and remained active in ‘retirement’, continuing writing and lecturing around the world, and standing down as Director of Sobell House only in 2005.

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becoming paraplegic; losing one’s sense of smell; losing one’s sight; and so on. And we were encouraged to reflect on where,

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The Revd William Lysander Rowan Watson MA Camb, MA Dub, MA Oxf 1926 – 2025

By Eric Southworth, Emeritus Fellow Billy Watson died in the early hours of the morning, on 28 August 2025, months short of his one-hundredth birthday.

He had been born on 4 March 1926 in Drogheda, the town and port in the Irish Free State that straddles Co. Louth and Co. Meath, on either side of the Boyne. It had a majority Catholic population, with a range of industry, mostly owned or controlled by Protestants. This is country soaked in history, torn by bitter political and religious conflicts.

His mother, née Moody, a nurse, came from Co. Wicklow. She was long-lived and exceeded her century. (This came as a surprise, since she had kept her age a secret.) His father was from Dundalk and Downpatrick, Co. Louth, Dundalk being a border town on the Castleford River, some 20 miles north of Drogheda. He was a railway engineer who designed locomotives; some of his forebears had been in the police. Billy’s sister, some four years younger than himself, is still alive.

Baptised at St Mary, Drogheda, Billy attended a National Primary School, followed by Drogheda and Dundalk Grammar Schools, both co-educational and both Erasmus Smith schools, intended for Protestants. Schools were segregated; had he been a Catholic, he would have been sent to the Christian Brothers.

At the age of seventeen, he sat the entrance examination for Trinity College Dublin and gained a place to read History, matriculating in 1943. It was an Honours course, examined by written papers and vivas. There was no requirement to dine, and no tutors or tutorials in the Oxford sense. Rather, one’s studies were loosely overseen by a senior academic. He lived at home and commuted by train daily. He gained Firsts throughout, and in Finals (‘Moderations’), taken in September 1947 at the end of his fourth year, he left Trinity as First of Firsts.

He then spent two years in Trinity’s Divinity School, was made Deacon in 1949, and ordained Priest in 1951, both at Christ Church Cathedral Dublin. There followed a joint curacy at Chapelizod and Kilmainham.

But what next ? When it came to benefices, there was an over-plentiful supply of clergy in Dublin itself. Might he attach himself to a Training College ? He had done a Dip.Ed. whilst a curate and wondered about going into teaching. The question was solved by a casual meeting in the street with George Simms of Trinity College Dublin, later Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland.

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Simms put Billy in touch with Cyril Bowles, later Bishop of Derby, Principal of a moderate evangelical theological college, Ridley Hall, across the water in Cambridge. (‘Moderate’ here means, whatever else, not fundamentalist.) Ridley were looking for a tutor in Church History. Billy had the right credentials and was hired, starting in Lent Term 1952. There were forty-five students and a young staff, joined soon afterwards by Maurice Wiles, later Regius Professor of Divinity in Oxford. Paddy, Wiles’s wife, was Irish, and Billy eventually became godfather to (now Sir) Andrew, famous for his proof of Fermat’s last theorem.

What can it have been like to pitch up in an England that was and is so different from Ireland ? Being an outsider brings advantages as well as puzzles. One takes less for granted. One has a measure of detachment. One’s not so quickly ‘slotted in’ to the foreigner’s ready-made categories -- and English prejudices can be brutal. The mores of the Church of Ireland didn’t map straightforwardly onto those of the Church of England.

But Billy was a trained historian, the top of his year. Blessed are the peacemakers : that is a Beatitude for an Irish clergyman with a sense of the past. How is one to ‘rescue’ what is positive about that past, without being buried by its sometimes deadly weight ? That consideration was to remain in place.

Four years later, Bowles heard from Thornton-Duesbery that St Peter’s Hall in Oxford was seeking a replacement for Basil Naylor, who was moving to a canonry at Liverpool. Billy was thus invited to a Guest Night -- that occasion was also Reg Perman’s first as a Fellow, under the obligation to buy wine for all present – and on the strength of that, he was appointed Lecturer in Theology and Chaplain. He was also to serve as curate to T-D who himself multi-tasked as Rector of St Peter-le-Bailey, still a parish church, as well as Hall chapel. (The parish worshipped in the North Aisle; the Hall used the Nave; usefully, we then had burial plots in Mill Street cemetery.)

Elected to a Fellowship in 1959, Billy in 1961 was one of the then only eleven fellows forming the new College’s first Governing Body. It was a small SCR, and a small number of undergraduates. He knew every Master since those days, and many another figure in our history besides.

In due course, he was appointed to a CUF Lecturership in the Faculty of Theology and served St Peter’s in a range of formal roles: as Chaplain and Tutor, and as Dean of Degrees, Senior Tutor, and (with memorable felicity) as Vice-Master.

On retirement from his Tutorial Fellowship in 1993, he was duly elected emeritus, succeeded as Chaplain by Christopher Jones.

He has made an immense personal contribution to our Society, over a period of nearly seventy years. He had a strong sense of the College as a community, supporting it with his regular presence until, relatively recently, poorer health made this impossible.

He was the best of the College’s past in its present. He was modest and understated about his intellectual gifts, independent-minded, tolerant, shunning dogmatism; neither clerical nor churchy; hospitable, and with the greatest gift for friendship; tactful, un-puritanical, un–holier-thanthou, to be relied upon for good counsel. People felt easy in his company, able to voice their own thoughts and cares to someone who did not sit in judgment on them. He helped many younger people on their way in life, many of whom are not by now quite the younger people they once were. Notable pupils of his include Paul Fiddes, John Pritchard, David Moxon, Sir Paul Reeves, Libby Lane, and George Brooke -- and that is not an exhaustive list.

His influence – and I borrow George Eliot’s words from the end of Middlemarch -- has been ‘incalculably diffusive’. ‘The growing good of the world’, she continues, ‘is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life.’

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Kail, Peter James Edward, BA Keele, MA Oxf, MPhil PhD Camb, Tutor in Philosophy; Tutor for Undergraduates Nicholls, Geoffrey Keith, BSc Canterbury, New Zealand, MA Oxf, PhD Camb, Tutor in Statistics, Tutor for Welfare

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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 (until 31 December 2024) Hausner, Sondra, BA Princeton, MA PhD Cornell, MA Oxf, Tutor in Study of Religion, Professor of Anthropology of Religion Williams, Claire Elizabeth, BA Durh, MPhil PhD Camb, MA Oxf, Tutor in Portuguese, Professor of Brazilian Literature and Culture Adcock, Thomas Alan Adcock, MEng, DPhil Oxf, Tutor in Engineering Science, Professor of Engineering Science Burrows, Daron, BA MSt DPhil Oxf, Tutor in French, Professor of Medieval French Baxter, Stephen, MA MSt DPhil Oxf, Barron Fellow and Tutor in Medieval History, Professor of Medieval History MacKay, Marina, MA St And, PhD East Ang, Tutor in English, Professor of English Literature Moreno de Barreda, Inés, BSc UCM Madrid, MRes PhD LSE, Tutor in Economics Leczykiewicz, Dorota, MSt DPhil Oxf, MLaw Wroclaw, Tutor in Law

Lane, the Right Revd Libby, MA Oxf, DD (Hon) University of Wales Trinity St David, Bishop of Derby

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Hilton, Robert George, BA PhD Camb, Tutor in Earth Sciences, Professor of Sedimentary Geology Gilroy-Ware, Cora, BA Sus, MSt Oxf, PhD York, Tutor in History of Art Bruno, Randy M, BSc Carnegie Mellon, PhD Pittsburgh, Tutor in PreClinical Medicine, Professor of Neuroscience Kirrander, Adam, MSc Uppsala, MSc, DPhil Oxf, Tutor in Chemistry, Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Whalley, Catherine, MA Camb, MEd Open, College Registrar Splitter, Violetta, UG degree, University Libre de Bruxelles, PhD Zürich, Dip in Business Administration Ludwig-Maximilian University Münich, Tutor in Management Jones, Simon, CIMA, Bursar Fuchter, Matthew, MSci Brist, PhD Imp, Sidney Bailey Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry, Professor of Organic Chemistry (from 1 September 2024) Abushama, Hashem, BA Earlham College, MSc DPhil Oxf, Edgar Jones Fellow and Tutor in Geography (from 1 September 2024) Penman, Bridget, BA DPhil Oxf, Tutor in Biology (from 1 October 2024)

PROFESSORIAL FELLOWS Taylor, Peter C, BM BCh Oxf, MA Camb, PhD Lond, FRCP, Norman Collisson Professor of Musculoskeletal Sciences (until 28 February 2025) Dorling, Danny, BSc PhD Newc, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography Rothwell, Phillip, MA PhD Camb, King John II Professor of Portuguese Studies Donnelly, Christl, CBE, BA Oberlin, MSc ScD Harvard, FMedSci, FRS, Professor of Applied Statistics Burrell, Robert, LLB KCL, LLM Lond, PhD Griffith, Professor of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law Dekker, Nynke, PhD Harvard, MS Harvard, Doctorandus Leiden, BS Yale, Professor of Biophysics

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Cartwright, Joe, BA DPhil Oxf, Shell Professor of Earth Sciences, Senior Research Fellow Clack, Timothy Andrew Robert, MA PhD Manc, FRGS, Chingiz Gutseriev Research Fellow in Archaeology and Anthropology Cohen, Corentin, BA Paris Nanterre, MA PhD Sciences Po, Junior Research Fellow in Politics Hallam, Elizabeth, PhD Kent, Research Fellow in Anthropology 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 in Medicine Malik, Adeel, BA Punjab, MPhil DPhil Oxf, MSc Quaid-e-Azam, Research Fellow in Economics Middelkoop, Mary-Ann, MA Utrecht, MSc LSE, PhD Camb, Junior Research Fellow in History of Art (until 31 December 2024) Mykhnenko, Vlad, BA MA Taras Shevchenko Kiev, MA CEU Budapest, PhD Camb, Research Fellow in Sustainable Urban Development Power Smith, Mark, BA PhD UCL, MSt Oxf, Research Fellow in History Taylor, Angela, MA MSc PhD Camb, Professor of Experimental Astrophysics, Senior Research Fellow in Physics

CAREER DEVELOPMENT FELLOW Edwards, Emma, BA UNC-Chapel Hill, PhD MIT, CDF in Engineering Science (Fluid Mechanics)

SUPERNUMERARY FELLOWS Henley, Olivia Rosalyn, BA Brist Johnson, David Paul, BA Nott, MA Lond, DPhil Oxf, College Librarian Marshall, Kathryn, BAcc Glas, CA, College Accountant Melbourne, Kevin, Domestic Bursar Tingle, Eleanor, BA Roeh, MPhil Brist, Dean for Welfare, SCR President

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Pitkethly, Robert, MBA INSEAD, MA DPhil Oxf, MSc Stirl Moloney, Mark Gerard, BSc PhD Sydney, MA DipLATHE Oxf Cooper, Cyrus, OBE, MB BS DM Lond, MA Camb, FFPH, FMedSci, FRCP Taylor, Peter C, BM, BCh Oxf, MA Camb, PhD Lond, FRCP (from March 2025)

FOUNDERS’ FELLOWS Ind, Charles, MA Oxf, MBA Harvard Salaam Rishani, Dalia, MA Oxf, MA Georgetown

HONORARY FELLOWS Bloomfield, Sir Kenneth Percy, KCB, MA Oxf, LLD(Hon) Belf, DUniv(Hon) Open, DLitt(Hon) Ulster, (until his death in May 2025) 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 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 Lond, FMedSci, FRCP, FRCPE, FRSE

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Waghorn, Nicholas, BA Oxf, DPhil R’dg, Philosophy, Tutor for Visiting Students Willmore, Benjamin, BA PhD Camb, MSc Birm, Biomedical Science Yelleshpur Srikant, Akshay, BS-MS Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, PhD Princeton, Mathematics Zervou, Sevasti, BSc Wolv, PhD Warw, Biochemistry Zionts, Jessica, BS John Hopkins University, MSc Oxf, Geography

BURSAR Jones, Simon, CIMA

CHAPLAIN Routledge, the Revd Matthew, BSc R’dg, BA PGDip Dur, MSc Warw, MRes Salf, DipArb, MRICS, ACIArb (from 4 November 2024)

COLLEGE ACCOUNTANT Marshall, Kathryn, BAcc Glas, CA

COLLEGE ARCHIVIST Hall, Bethany, BA Oxf Brookes, MA Aberystwyth (from 14 March 2025)

COLLEGE REGISTRAR Whalley, Catherine, MA Camb, MEd Open

DEAN FOR WELFARE Tingle, Eleanor, BA Roeh, MPhil Brist

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS de Gaynesford, Brett, BA College of William and Mary (until 30 June 2025)

DIRECTOR OF MUSIC Beer, Quintin, MA Camb, MA Lond, DipRAM, LRAM

DOMESTIC BURSAR Melbourne, Kevin

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

New Members 2024-25 Undergraduates Ananya Apte, BA History and Economics Charles Bach, MPhys Physics Aoife Baines, BA Modern Languages (German) Emma Baltzer, BA Modern Languages (Spanish and Czech) John Blake, BA Music Madison Bouchta, BA English Language and Literature Catherine Broadbent, BA Theology and Religion Alexander Brown, MPhys Physics Celia Brumsen, BA History and Modern Languages (German) Lucy Butlin, BA Music Emily Cairncross, MEng Engineering Science Hoi Chan, BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics Sanjna Chittapragada, MEarthSci Earth Sciences Georgia Clarke, BA Jurisprudence Elsa Clements, BA Jurisprudence Isabel Corbett, BA Geography Gabriel Correia, MPhys Physics Amy Crabtree, MMath Mathematics Isabel Cumming, BA History of Art Stephanie Currie, BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics Clara De Sancha, BA English Language and Literature Alfred Dickenson, MEarthSci Earth Sciences Frank Duffy, BA History and Politics Olivia Elford, BA Economics and Management Archibald Emery, BA Jurisprudence

MEMBERS

Thomas Farmer, BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics Edward Featherstone, MEng Engineering Science Taya Fernando, BA Archaeology and Anthropology Gabriel Fetai, BA Economics and Management India Francis, BA Archaeology and Anthropology Dylan French, MBiol Biology Yixuan Gao, MChem Chemistry Zishun Gao, MMath Mathematics Alice Garnier, MChem Chemistry Dorothy Gaskell, BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics George Gibb, BA History Matthew Green, MChem Chemistry Conor Halpenny, BA History Allegra Hannan, BA Music Jia Hei, BA Modern Languages (Spanish and Portuguese) Laurena Hellel, BA Economics and Management Jacob Hemsley, BA Jurisprudence Fathema Hoque Mazumder, MChem Chemistry Mohammed Hussain, BA Jurisprudence Sophie Jubb, BA History and English Alicia Justham Bello, BA Economics and Management Ramil Kamal, MEng Engineering Science James Keane, BA Modern Languages (French) and Linguistics Adam Kebbouche, MBiochem Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Lillian Kent-Taylor, MMath Mathematics Theo Ladure, MMath Mathematics Gabriel Lee, MBiochem Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry St Peter’s College Record 2025 69

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Sum Wing Lei, MChem Chemistry Giulia Lesa, MBiol Biology Charles Lewis, BA Philosophy and Modern Languages (French) Katie Lindsey, Medicine Pre-Clinical Yi Lu, MEng Engineering Science Antonia Lunn, MBiochem Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Mae MacAdam, BA Geography Harrell Maguru, MEng Engineering Science Barnaby Maisey, MMath Mathematics Alisa Mavlikaeva, MBiol Biology Lars Meijer, Diploma in Legal Studies Tarund Mohanthas, BA History Elwyn Mollart, BA Philosophy and Theology Suzan Mozak, Medicine Pre-Clinical Arlo Mulligan-Vassel, BA Modern Languages (French & Portuguese) Sebastian Murray, BA Music Scarlett Nathan-Palmer, BA Philosophy and Theology Peter Neale, BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics Callum Newman, MPhys Physics Rinyu Oshimbe, BA Economics and Management Barnaby Paterson, BA History Lydia Paxton, BA Archaeology and Anthropology Samantha Pickering, MBiochem Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Sophie Price, BA English Language and Literature Justine Ram, BA Philosophy and Theology Zia Ratnasothy, Medicine Pre-Clinical Maya Reiss, MBiol Biology Lily Richards, BA Jurisprudence Benjamin Ross, BA Philosophy and Modern Languages (Portuguese) 70 St Peter’s College Record 2025

Hannah Russell, BA Archaeology and Anthropology Olivia Russell, Medicine Pre-Clinical Alexander Ryves, BA English Language and Literature Kushaan Sainani, Medicine Pre-Clinical Sofia Secchi, BA History Falak Shah, BA Archaeology and Anthropology India Simpson, BA English Language and Literature Jack Smith, MEng Engineering Science Cameron Spruce, BA Music Mithusan Srithan, Medicine Pre-Clinical

Graduates

Aaron Cole, MSc in Intellectual Property

Dayee Abdullah, MSc in Intellectual Property

Rhisiart Davies, DPhil Atomic and Laser Physics

Rosie Adams, MSc Economic and Social History

Isabel Díaz López, MSc Archaeology

Aleeza Adnan, MSt English and American Studies

Johannes Domsgen, MJur

Céline Aldenhoven, DPhil Primary Health Care

Caroline Dry, MSc in Intellectual Property

Söğüt Atilla, DPhil Law

Lise du Buisson, BPhil Philosophy

Ethan August, BM BCh (Graduate Entry Medicine)

Melissa Engelhardt Verdejo, MSc Sustainable Urban Development

Joseph Stern, MChem Chemistry Amy Thornley, BA Modern Languages (French and Modern Greek) Vishnu Vadlamani, BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics Scarlett Wakefield, BA Modern Languages (French and Spanish) Freya Wheen, BA English Language and Literature Mackenzie Whitehouse-Baker, BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics Honor Whittome, MEng Engineering Science Wing Wong, BA Geography Motong Xiao, BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics Naiwen Xiao, MEng Engineering Science Marina Yakimova, MEarthSci Earth Sciences Yikuan Yan, MPhys Physics Grace Yu, BA Economics and Management Enhe Zhang, MMath Mathematics Frank Zhang, MMath Mathematics Siyuan Zhao, MMath Mathematics Yunxi Zhu, MMath Mathematics

Genevieve Badia-Aylin, MSt Modern Languages (Spanish)

Arushi Avachat, MSt English and American Studies Stephany Aw, DPhil Law

Carys Davies, DPhil Materials

Sebastian Faber, MSt Modern Languages (German) Simone Ferretti, MPhil Economics Samson Kong Jee Foo, DPhil Engineering Science

Ban Beidas, MSc Law and Finance

Emily Fu, MPhil Economics

Martin Brennan, DPhil Mathematics

Florian Gaar, MSc Mathematical & Theoretical Physics

Abigail Brown, MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management

Shayor Ghosh, DPhil Chemistry

Max Buhlan, MSc Neuroscience

Emma Graham, MSc Pharmacology

Phuoc Bui, MBA

Ondrej Hajda, MSc in Intellectual Property

Kevin Carlson, MSt Medieval Studies

Ziqin He, MSc Financial Economics

Leyuan Chen, MSc Financial Economics

Su-Yen Hu, MPhil Buddhist Studies

Liuhua Chen, Interdisciplinary Bioscience (BBSRC DTP)

Jacqueline Huang, MSt History of Art and Visual Culture

Yi Chen, MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management

Jasmine Huang, MPhil Economics

Lele Cheng, MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance

Lewis Hughes, MSt Study of Religions

Cherry Chung, DPhil Chemistry James Clarke, MBA Gabriel Clisham, MSt Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Mirella Cockerill, MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology

MEMBERS

Xin Huang, MPhil Social Anthropology Michael Hughes, MPhil Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Sophie Hughson, BM BCh (Graduate Entry Medicine) Ke Jiang, MPhil Buddhist Studies Marie Kruth, DPhil Musculoskeletal Sciences Kevin Lam, DPhil Statistics St Peter’s College Record 2025 71

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Chun Lam Li, DPhil Mathematics

Kellerine Quah, DPhil Primary Health Care

Tim Van Laere, Master of Public Policy

Kristina Li, MBA

Georgios Raftis, DPhil Atomic and Laser Physics

Wessel Vinke, MSt Philosophy of Physics

Yuhan Li, DPhil Biology

Syed Abdur Rahman, DPhil Materials

Ruohong Liu, DPhil Engineering Science

Aisling Railton, MSc in Intellectual Property

Anhelina Volchok, BM BCh (Graduate Entry Medicine)

EJ Lord, MSt History - US History

Arun Ramanathan, DPhil Materials

Sara Wahedi, Master of Public Policy

Shuying Lou, MSc Economic and Social History

Ioannis Raymond, MSc Mathematical Sciences

Chen Wang, MSc Statistical Science

Derick Luong, MPhil Law

Noah Rowe, DPhil Particle Physics

Yichen Wang, DPhil Clinical Medicine

Junxi Ma, MSc Mathematical & Theoretical Physics

Tanuj Ashish Rungta, MBA

Aravindraj Malairajan Govindan, BCL

Nilofar Aasimhusain Saiyed, Master of Public Policy

Joshua Webster-Ford, MSc Medical Physics with Radiobiology

Nicoletta Marrani, DPhil Engineering Science

Jervon Sands, MSc Environmental Change and Management

Luke Martin, MPhil Politics - Political Theory

Meng-San Wu, DPhil Clinical Medicine

Mothibi Mathivha, MSc Mathematical & Theoretical Physics

Catherine Savard, DPhil Law

Lawrence McIlvenna, DPhil Engineering Science

Jayadeepan Selvam, MBA

Janielle McKoy, MSc Medical Physics with Radiobiology

Laila Shah, MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology

John Meyer, MPhil Economics

Yujun Shen, MSc Mathematical Sciences

Qianyi Zhang, DPhil Chemistry

Amelia Mills, MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management

Diwen Si, MPhil Economics

Shuheng Zhang, MSc Mathematical Sciences

Sheenal Singh, MSc in Intellectual Property

Shuyang Zhang, PGCE - Physics

Shoichiro Miyakawa, MSc Public Policy Research

Joelle Solowiejczyk, MSc Water Science, Policy and Management

Tianen Zhang, BM BCh (Graduate Entry Medicine) Kai Zheng, DPhil Chemistry

Louisa Niewerth, MSc Social Anthropology

Jingcheng Song, MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance

Takashi Omori, MJur

Christian Stecher, DPhil History

Ethan Ossip, MSc Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science

Stanisław Stefaniak, MSc Law and Finance

Alanzo Paul, DPhil Theology and Religion

Aidan Strong, DPhil Mathematics

Jack Pavier, MSc Archaeology

Shiyi Sun, DPhil Statistics

Sofia Pearson, MSc Medical Physics with Radiobiology

Katerina Szylo, DPhil History

William Poulter, DPhil History

Madison Ulvenes, MSc Sustainable Urban Development

Sarah Morrow, DPhil Primary Health Care Felix Müller, BPhil Philosophy

Jiaqi Pu, MSc Statistical Science 72 St Peter’s College Record 2025

Kadison Willis, MSc Nature, Society and Environmental Governance

Benjamin Seiler, PGCE - Modern Languages

Tihana Štefanić, DPhil Engineering Science

Sirui Tang, MSc Statistical Science

Yingqi Xia, MSc Financial Economics Ke Xu, MSc Financial Economics Yuk Hang Yiu, DPhil Mathematics Lingtao Yu, MSc Financial Economics

Xulin Zhang, DPhil Biochemistry Rui Zhu Wang, MSc Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science

MEMBERS

Visiting Undergraduates Evelyn Chang, English Ariel Chen, Neuroscience Joyce Choi, English Jia Duan, Mathematics and Statistics Jonathan Fang, Physics and Music Prune Fargetton, French and Philosophy Lucia Garcia Sancha, Spanish David He, Philosophy Jiahui He, Mathematics and Statistics Momoka Ikeshita, History Lauren Kim, Philosophy and Politics Su Lee, History and Politics Ningchen Lu, Mathematics and Statistics Yingkai Lu, Mathematics and Statistics Xiyu Mao, English Adrian Musat, Philosophy and Politics Shino Nakano, Philosophy and Politics Sadaqat Omar, History and Politics Yifei Qi, Mathematics, Statistics and Philosophy Jacqueline Quach, Neuroscience Jada Shorter, Physics Calliope Speredakos, Biology and Archaeology Tanvir Thamid, Economics Laura Vintner, Mathematics and Statistics Adora Wen, Economics Suyang Xiao, Mathematics and Statistics Jingxiang Xu, Mathematics and Statistics Jiayi Yan, Mathematics and Statistics

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Results and Achievements 2024-25 FIRST IN FHS

Ayesha Nasir, Medicine

Chloe Allsopp, English Language & Literature

Ricardo Padilla, Geography

Julia Bator, Geography

Martha Sainty, Geography

Joshua Cruice, Philosophy & Theology

Frederick Saunders, Economics & Management

Jonathan Dickinson, Biology

Caitlin Small, History

Emily Egerton-Warburton, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Emma Tan, Medicine Frederick Thompson, English Language & Literature

Motong Xiao, Philosophy, Politics & Economics

DISTINCTION/FIRST IN PRELIMS/ MODS

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Tanuj Rungta

Aaron Cole (Distinction)

Jaradeepan Selvam

Isabel Díaz López (Merit)

Naiwen Xiao, Engineering Science

Caroline Dry (Distinction)

Marina Yakimova, Earth Sciences

MPP

Florian Gaar (Distinction)

Yikuan Yan, Physics

Nilofar Saiyed

Joshua Garry

Hoi Chi Chan, Philosophy, Politics & Economics

Grace Yu, Economics & Management

Tim Van Laere (Distinction)

Jack Glover

Enhe Zhang, Mathematics

Sara Wahedi

Isabel Corbett, Geography

Emma Graham (Distinction)

Frank Zhang, Mathematics

Celia Brumsen, History & Modern Languages (German)

Isabel Cumming, History of Art

BCL

Frank Duffy, History & Politics

Aravindraj Malairajan Govindan (Distinction)

Ondrej Hajda (Merit) Ziqin He (Merit)

Zishun Gao, Mathematics

HIGHER DEGREES, CERTIFICATES AND DIPLOMAS

Alice Garnier, Chemistry

Postgraduate Certificate in Education

Conor Halpenny, History

Benjamin Seiler

MJur

Shuying Lu

Zoe Guy, Earth Sciences

Allegra Hannan, Music

Shuyang Yang

Johannes Domsgen (Distinction)

Junxi Ma (Merit)

Grace Hall, Music

Takashi Omori (Merit)

Mothibi Mathivha (Merit)

Thomas Farr, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Zephyr Goriely, Biology

Rebonto Haque, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Luke Vernon, Engineering Science Tanya Watson, Chemistry

DISTINCTION IN PART C OF THE MMATH OR THE MMATHSTAT

Yi Lu, Engineering Sciences Mae Macadam, Geography

Faris Saadat-Yazdi, Mathematics

Scarlett Nathan-Palmer, Philosophy & Theology

DISTINCTION IN THE UNDERGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN LEGAL STUDIES

Peter Neale, Philosophy, Politics & Economics

Joshua Hayward

Barnaby Paterson, History

Abigail Robinson

Isobel Laux, Modern Languages (French and German)

Lars Meijer

Lydia Paxton, Archaeology & Anthropology

Tara Slade

Francis Lee, History

DISTINCTION IN GRADUATE ENTRY MEDICINE (YEAR 2)

Sami Haroon, Philosophy & Theology Arshiya Hendi, Modern Languages (French and Italian) Abigail Jones, Medicine Ishwar Karthik, Mathematics

Reuben Leyland, Engineering Science Finn McHale, Biology Aneshka Moudry, Chemistry 74 St Peter’s College Record 2025

Matthew Cornall

Anne Johnakin (Merit, 2023-24)

Alexander McDonald (2023-24)

BM BCh

Li Gu, Mathematics

Yafei He (Distinction)

James Bezer

MSc

Janielle McKoy

James Davies

Rosie Adams (Distinction)

Amelia Mills (Distinction)

Sara Anwar

Shoichiro Miyakawa (Distinction)

Kazi Momin Ashraf (Merit)

Louise Niewerth

Anousheh Barbezieux (Merit)

Makhosana Nyamazana

Ban Beidas

Ethan Ossip (Distinction)

Max Buhlan (Merit)

Paul Paller

Anna Jones

Alexander Ryves, English Language & Literature

MBA

Leyuan Chen (Merit)

Chhayal Patel

Joseph Stern, Chemistry

Phuoc Bui (Distinction)

Yi Chen (Merit)

Jack Pavier

Mackenzie Whitehouse-Baker, Philosophy, Politics & Economics

James Clarke

Lele Cheng

Sofia Pearson (Distinction)

Kristina Li

Mirella Cockerill (Distinction)

Jiaqi Pu St Peter’s College Record 2025 75

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Aisling Railton (Distinction)

Jacqueline Huang (Merit)

DPhil

Ioannis Raymond (Merit)

Lewis Hughes (Merit)

Jervon Sands (Merit)

Felix Müller (Distinction)

Laila Shah (Distinction)

Margot Stakenborg (Merit)

Alexander Bebb, DPhil Engineering Science, Transient Thermo-Mechanical Response and Failure in Selected Turbine Cooling Geometries

Yujun Shen

Wessel Vinke

Sheenal Singh (Distinction) Joelle Solowiejczyk (Merit) Jicheng Song (Merit) Stanisław Stefaniak (Distinction) Linda Berenice Sylervain Sirui Tang (Merit) Joshua Webster-Ford (Distinction) Yingqi Zia Ke Xu (Merit) Shuheng Zhang (Distinction) Chen Wang Rui Zhu Wang (Distinction) Kadison Willis (Merit) MSt Aleeza Adnan Arushi Avachat Genevieve Badia-Aylin (Distinction) Kevin Carlson (Distinction) Gabriel Clisham (Merit) Sabastian Faber (Distinction) 76 St Peter’s College Record 2025

BPhil Anna Connell (Merit) Aaron Deller MPhil Laura Andersen (Merit) Emma Classen-Howes (Distinction, 2023-24) Derick Luong Daniel Miller (Distinction) Ban Kheng Ng (Merit) Konstantin Panchev Teresa Petralia (Merit) Catherine Savard (2023-24) Yuning Wang (Merit) Xiaoyu Zhang

Ioana Bouros, Sustainable Approaches to Biomedical Science: Responsible and Reproducible Research (CDT), Understanding the Impact of Modelling Assumptions and Population Heterogeneity on the Robustness of Outputs of Different Epidemiological Models in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Beyond Demi Brizee, Interdisciplinary Bioscience (BBSRC DTP), On Superficial Interneurons of Dorsal Hippocampal CA1 Andrew Campbell, Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning (CDT), Generative Models for Generic Data Romualdo Canini, DPhil Law, EU Financial Governance and Brexit Adam Dawson, DPhil Archaeology, Going Out for the Loot: An Archaeology of Illicit Jacobite Maritime Networks (1680-1715) Mary-Anne Durin, DPhil Medical Sciences, Mechanisms Governing the Functions of BRCA1-BARD1 Complexes during DNA Repair Niamh Fearon, DPhil Physics, Constraining Cavern Backgrounds for the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment

Annie Forster, DPhil Genomic Medicine and Statistics, Parasite Genetic Effects and Host Interactions in Plasmodium Falciparum Malaria

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Abigail Lister, DPhil Materials, Two Dimensional Metal-Organic Frameworks for Gas Sensing

Yuanfeng Shi, DPhil Physics, Relaxation Dynamics of Non-thermal Electrons in a Warm Dense Plasma

Ao Fu, DPhil Engineering Science, Microbial Communities: Network Reconstruction and Control

Emily Mazey, DPhil Women’s and Reproductive Health, Developing a Targeted Therapeutic Delivery System to Increase Placental Function in IUGR

Lucile Ter-Minassian, Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning (CDT), Towards Trustworthy AI: From Local Explanations to Causal Understanding

Fei Gao, DPhil Oncology, T Cell Receptor Redirected T cells in Tumour Immunotherapy

Zhoudan Pan, DPhil Engineering Science, First Order Optimisation Algorithms in Uncertain Environments

Jake Holmes, DPhil Chemistry, Porphyrin-Based Nanorings and Helices

Jiayu Peng, DPhil Chemistry, Simplified Operation of Flavin-Dependent Halogenases using H2-Driven Flavin Recycling

Zoi Tsangalidou, Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning (CDT), Inferring Genealogical Relatedness in Modern and Ancient Human Genomes

Charlotte Hoskins, DPhil Anthropology, Makushi Women Feed: The Body and Social Change in Guyana’s Indigenous Hinterland Daniel Hunt, DPhil Physics, Optimising Low-Mass WIMP Searches in the LUXZEPLIN Experiment Abdulazeez Imam, DPhil Clinical Medicine, Evaluating the Effects of a Health Workforce Intervention on Indicators of Quality of Newborn Care in Kenyan Neonatal Units Piyush Kumar Sharma, DPhil Oncology, Single Cell Characterisation of T Cell Receptor Repertoire in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma & Dissecting the Effect of Checkpoint Immunotherapy on Peripheral Natural Killer Cell Transcriptome in Metastatic Melanoma Fang Rui Lim, DPhil Mathematics, Causal Transports on Path Space

Lin Qiu, DPhil Clinical Neurosciences, Neural Evidence Underlying Phasic and Tonic States of Breathlessness and COVID-19

Sophie Twigger, DPhil Oncology, Investigation of the Contribution of Redox Stress to the Therapy Resistance of Cells Experiencing Hypoxia Yipei Wang, DPhil Engineering Science, Automatic Sonographer Skills Assessment

Raivi Rahman, DPhil Theology and Religion, The UK Parliament, Law, Government Policy, Monarchy and the Anglican Communion

Kathy Wen, DPhil Wind and Marine Energy S and S (EPSRC CDT), Mechanical Behaviour of Cohesionless Soils: Implications for Offshore Foundation Design

Simone Rijavec, DPhil Physics, Clocks, Correlations and Interactions in Timeless Quantum Theory

Finn Wiersig, DPhil Mathematics, Reconstructing D-cap from p-adic Hodge Theory

Alexander Roth, DPhil Physics, Modelling the Diverse Population of Hot Jupiter Dynamical Atmospheres

Rubi Wu, DPhil Archaeology, An Integrated Study of Neolithic Wetland Agroecology in the Lower Yangtze River Basin, China

Vassilena Sharlandjieva, DPhil Genomic Medicine and Statistics, The Role of Menin in Transcriptional Regulation of MLL-AF4 and NPM1-Mutated Leukaemia

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Scholarships and Awards 2024-25

India Hazelwood, Economics and Management

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AWARDS

Steve Jackson Physics Prize

New Horizon Prizes (Mathematics)

Yiming Hu

Laura Golding, Mathematics and Philosophy

DOMUS SCHOLARSHIPS

Katherine Nisbet, History of Art

Zhikun Li, Mathematics

Fathema Hoque Mazumder, Chemistry

awarded in Michaelmas term 2024

Emily Pitfield, English Language and Literature

Ganga Nair, History

Ramil Kamal, Engineering Science

Li Gu

Robert Simpson, Physics

Rivington Prize (Theology)

Megan Radcliffe, Theology and Religion

Nell Wightman, Biology

Priscilla Nazziwa, Archaeology and Anthropology

Laura Kościelska, Religion and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Pearman Prize (German)

Jordan Parkinson, Medicine Pre-Clinical

T W Mason Prize (History)

Joseph Stoner, Modern Languages (German and Portuguese)

Eden Powell, Medicine Pre-Clinical

Francis Lee

Isaac Sandhu, Earth Sciences

Caitlin Small

Mark Allen, Philosophy, Politics and Economics Cerys Bennison, History of Art Lucas Bray, Biology

Lola Record, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

DOMUS EXHIBITIONS

Rohan Chauhan, Engineering Science

Isaac Sandhu, Earth Sciences

awarded in Michaelmas term 2024

Ved Chintawar, Economics and Management

Maisie Saunders, Physics

Parv Choudhary, Physics

Annabel Shone, Biology

Daniel Crapper, Earth Sciences

Joseph Stoner, Modern Languages (German and Portuguese)

Antonia Corvi-Mora, Modern Languages (French) and Linguistics

Phoebe Davies, Archaeology and Anthropology Laura Golding, Mathematics and Philosophy

ANJOOL MALDÉ SCHOLARSHIPS

William Grimley, History and Politics

Margaux Dahan Hoffmann, History

India Hazelwood, Economics and Management

Kathryn Jackson, Philosophy and Theology

awarded in Hilary term 2025

Karishma Parekh, Medicine Pre-Clinical

Ali El Moselhy, Medicine Pre-Clinical Daan Groot, Mathematics Matthew Mair, Theology and Religion Sophia Margolin, Modern Languages (French) and Linguistics Priyanka Menon, History Anna Sadowski, Modern Languages (French and Italian)

Hassan Shaffe, Medicine Pre-Clinical

Samuel Green (Homerton College Cambridge)

PRIZES awarded to students who completed their courses in Trinity term 2025

Ella Miles, Archaeology and Anthropology Maisie Saunders, Physics

George Hill, History of Art

Efe Shimwell, History and Economics

Efe Shimwell, History and Economics

Carl Albert Prize (most distinguished Finalist)

Sashank Uday, Medicine Pre-Clinical

Finn McHale, Biology

BARRON SCHOLARSHIPS

Abigail Jones, Medicine Pre-Clinical

awarded in Michaelmas term 2024

Ho Man Yiu, Mathematics

CRAYTHORNE SCHOLARSHIPS

Helena Landels, Archaeology and Anthropology

Chloe Allsopp, English Language and Literature

awarded by the Worshipful Company of Cutlers

Daniel Loach, Music

Zoe Guy, Earth Sciences

Phoebe Broster, History

Chuyang Lu, Economics and Management

Thomas Humphrey, History

Rahul Mehta, Economics and Management

Francis Lee, History

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Joshua Haywood, Medicine

Megan Radcliffe Francis Warner Dissertation Prize

LANDAU FORTE BURSARY

Liesbeth He, Economics and Management Benjamin Horsell, Economics and Management

Rivington Prize (Theology)

New Horizon Prizes (Mathematics) Ishwar Karthik Faris Saadat-Yazdi Charles Caine Mathematics Prize

Louis Bryan, English Language and Literature

Smith Prize (History)

OTHER PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Simpson Prizes

awarded during 2024-25 to continuing students

Lucas Bray, Biology

Houghton Prize (English) Emily Pitfield McCartney Fund Prize (History)

William Grimley

Rohan Chauhan, Engineering Science Daniel Crapper, Earth Sciences Phoebe Davies, Archaeology and Anthropology

Thomas Humphrey

Laura Golding, Mathematics and Philosophy

Caitlin Small

George Hill, History of Art Daniel Loach, Music

Michael Latner Prize (Law)

Chuyang Lu, Economics and Management

Katie Darroch

Maisie Saunders, Physics

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Steven Latner Scholarship (English) Emily Pitfield

Jatinder Singh Uppal Choral Scholarship Zia Ratnasothy, Medicine Pre-Clinical

Sutton Prize (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) Mark Allen

SCHOLARSHIPS

OTHER CHORAL SCHOLARSHIPS

Allen Organ Scholarship

Allegra Hannan, Music, Latner

Bernard Rose Choral Scholarship, supported by John Bain

Chi (Jason) Mak, Music

Jia Hei, Modern Languages (Spanish and Portuguese), Latner

Claudia Leung, Mathematics

Jacob Barnes Instrumental Scholarship, supported by Thomas Hancox

Karan Singh Uppal Choral Scholarship

Helen Williams Choral Scholarship

Jenny Hayes (New College)

Kirsten Fernie, Music

William James Clarke Prize (French) Alexandra Akins, Modern Languages (French and Greek)

SCHOLARSHIPS SUPPORTED BY HAARJEEV KANDHARI

Thomas Kelly, Physics, Latner and Simpson

Isaac Sandhu, Earth Sciences, Durham

Laura Kościelska, Religion and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Arabella

Hassan Shaffe, Medicine (Pre-Clinical), Simpson

Abigail Evans, Music

Jasmin Kypri, Theology and Religion, Arabella

Joseph Stoner, Modern Languages (German and Portuguese), McKinsey

Jonathan Arnold Choral Scholarship

Usher Instrumental Scholarships

Amabel Lea, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Latner and Simpson

Zhen Yi Tan, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Latner

Jenny Hayes (New College)

John Blake, Music Lucy Butlin, Music

Arthur Lingham, Biology, Deelman and Foundation

Long Tse, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Deelman and Latner

Joseph Rudge, Music

Jinyu Liu, Biology, Latner and Simpson

Sashank Uday, Medicine (Pre-Clinical), Foundation

TRAVEL AND INTERNSHIP AWARDS

Annika Michael, Engineering Science, Latner and Simpson

Graduate Choral Scholarships

James Abrahams, Modern Languages (German), McKinsey

Ella Miles, Archaeology and Anthropology, Durham

Arun Ramanathan, DPhil Materials

Ho Man Yiu, Mathematics and Statistics, Simpson

Cerys Bennison, History of Art, Latner

Marcus Wells (University College)

Daniel Crapper, Earth Sciences, Durham

Arlo Mulligan-Vassel, Modern Languages (French and Portuguese), Latner

Shuheng Zhang, Mathematical Sciences, Foundation

OTHER MUSIC AWARDS

Ali El Moselhy, Medicine Pre-Clinical, Foundation

Isobel Murray, English Language and Literature, Latner

GRADUATE AWARDS

Siraj Singh Kandhari Junior Organ Scholarship

Paul and Fiona Geddes Awards for Musical Excellence

Nathan Ewer, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Deelman

Sai Ranhita Nallapareddy, Medicine (Pre-Clinical), Latner

Sebastian Murray, Music

Grace Hall, Music

Kirsten Fernie, Music, Foundation

Sophie Rowdene, Music

India Francis, Archaeology and Anthropology, Durham

Ciara O’Brien, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Simpson

Manika Kaur Kandhari Choral Scholarship Cameron Spruce, Music

Roy Burgess Choral Scholarships

Raveena Kaur Uppal Choral Scholarship

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Benjamin Ross, Philosophy and Modern Languages (Portuguese), Latner

Aman de Silva, Chemistry

Marcel Laska, Music

Michael Donlon, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Benjamin Horsell, Economics and Management, Foundation

Johnny Evans-Hutchison, Modern Languages (Spanish and Portuguese)

Sarvesh Sabale, Economics and Management

Raisaa Kaur Kandhari Scholarship (Politics)

James Robinson, Physics, Simpson

John Bain Choral Scholarship

Narankar Singh Uppal Choral Scholarship

Sami Haroon, Philosophy and Theology

Eden Powell, Medicine (Pre-Clinical), Foundation

Kirtan for Causes Choral Scholarship

Piyada Wattanapalanon Scholarship (Economics)

Raisaa Kaur Kandhari Scholarship (Philosophy)

AWARDS

Christopher Ross Instrumental Scholarship, supported by John Bain

St Peter’s Society Prize Rhea Kumar, DPhil International Relations

Allegra Hannan, Music

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Annabel Shone, Biology

William Revill, Geography

Owen Thomas, Music

William Grimley, History, Latner

Jordan Parkinson, Medicine (PreClinical), Arabella and Simpson

Annabel Shone, Biology, Latner

Yikuan Yan, Physics, Simpson

Marshall Scholarship Arushi Avachat, MSt English and American Studies Sim Studentship Emma Graham, DPhil Pharmacology

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Jiang – St Peter’s College Graduate Scholarships

Filip Butuc-Mayer, DPhil Atomic and Laser Physics

Daniel Miller, MPhil Modern Middle Eastern Studies

Mariana Tome, DPhil Women’s and Reproductive Health

Joshua Webster-Ford, MSc Medical Physics with Radiobiology

Rachel Williams, DPhil Organic Chemistry

Max Buhlan, MSc Neuroscience

Tahmid Choudhury, DPhil Materials

Kelvin Vries, DPhil Law

Ying We, DPhil Engineering Science

Kang Yuan, DPhil Organic Chemistry

Sara Wahedi, Master of Public Policy

Mirella Cockerill, MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology

Divyanshu Mishra, DPhil Engineering Science

Yuning Wang, MPhil Social Anthropology

Zhaoyi Mo, DPhil Clinical Neurosciences

Albert Ward, DPhil Politics

Morganne Wilbourne, DPhil Inflammatory and Musculoskeletal Disease

Shuyang Zhang, Postgraduate Certificate in Education - Physics

Crowther Prize (for strong performance in FHS Biology Parts 1A and 1B)

Law Faculty Prize in Comparative Constitutional Law

Gustav Born Scholarship

Caroline Croasdaile, DPhil Archaeology

Marie Kruth, DPhil Clinical Medicine

Emma Elley, DPhil Astrophysics Emily Fu, MPhil Economics

J Bossanyi Bursary Abigail Brown, MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management

Tatjana Gibbons, DPhil Women’s and Reproductive Health Julia Gustavsson, DPhil History

Aninda Nishat Moitry, DPhil Clinical Medicine Joseph Morgan, DPhil Engineering Science Nathan Mudrak, DPhil Paediatrics Isabelle Napier, DPhil International Relations

Kadison Willis, MSc Nature, Society and Environmental Governance

Jake Holmes, DPhil Organic Chemistry

GRADUATE AWARDS

Ke Jiang, MPhil Buddhist Studies

funded by the St Peter’s College Foundation

Lucy Jobbins, DPhil Clinical Neurosciences

Rosie Adams, MSc Economic and Social History

Poornima Kumar, DPhil Geography and the Environment

Laura Andersen, MPhil Traditional East Asia

Sirui Li, DPhil Materials Fang Rui Lim, DPhil Mathematics

Laila Shah, MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology

Kazi Momin Ashraf, MSc Sustainable Urban Development

Ruo Han Liu, MSc(Res) Clinical Neurosciences

Vassilena Sharlandjieva, DPhil Genomic Medicine and Statistics

Genevieve Badia-Aylin, MSt Modern Languages (Spanish)

Ruo Hong Liu, DPhil Engineering Science

Abigail Brown, MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management

Sitong Liu, DPhil Statistics

Vikrant Shirvaikar, Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning (EPSRC CDT)

EJ Lord, MSt History - US History

Sheenal Singh, MSc Intellectual Property

Shuying Lou, MSc Economic and Social History

Stanisław Stefaniak, MSc Law and Finance

John Meyer, MPhil Economics

Katerina Szylo, DPhil History

Max Buhlan, MSc Neuroscience Alex Buna-Marginean, Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning (EPSRC CDT) 82 St Peter’s College Record 2025

Yalda Jafari, DPhil Clinical Medicine

Anastasiia Oleshchuk, DPhil Medieval and Modern Languages (Russian) Teresa Petralia, MPhil Politics: European Politics and Society

UNIVERSITY AND OTHER PRIZES Gibbs Prize (best performance in MBiol FHS Part 2) Casselton Prize (best research project in the field of Evolution and Development) Finn McHale

Nicholas Pilaud, DPhil Geography and the Environment

Gibbs Prize (performance in the Physics Department Speaking Competition)

Catherine Savard, DPhil Law

Maisie Saunders

Bethany Thomas

Law Faculty Prize in Law and Technology Johannes Domsgen

RGS-IBG Historical Geography Research Group Undergraduate Dissertation Prize JCA Meldrum Fieldwork Prize – Human theme (for performance in FHS Geography)

Charles Oldham Shakespeare Prize (best performance in the Shakespeare paper in FHS English) Chloe Allsopp

Ricardo Padilla Gibbs Prize (best performance in Theology papers in FHS Philosophy and Theology)

Wronker Research Project Prize (FHS Medical Sciences)

Sami Haroon

Abigail Jones

Research Project Prize in Animal Behaviour and Psychology (MBiol FHS Part 2)

Law Faculty Prize in Regulating Relationships: Violence and Intimacy Aravindraj Malairajan Govindan

Zephyr Goriely

Wee Ling Tan, DPhil Engineering Science

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D E AT H S

We announce with regret the deaths of the following Old Members Of St Peter’s*: Thursday, 10, January 2019........... Professor Harry Thirlwall Norris .............1950....Commoner

Wednesday, 20, November 2024 ... Mr Geoffrey Henry Walker......................1968....Commoner

Friday, 16, October 2020............... The Rt Hon Alexander Roy Beldam.........1947 ....Commoner

Monday, 25, November 2024 ......... Mr Allen Frederick Gick.........................1963....Commoner

Friday, 08, July 2022 .................... Mr John Witherspoon Foster .................1970....Commoner

Sunday, 01, December 2024.......... Dr Donald Stewart Malkinson ................1948....Commoner

Tuesday, 18, October 2022............ Mr Roger Glen Freebairn ..................................Friend

Friday, 06, December 2024........... The Revd Philip Henry Hacking ..............1950....Commoner

Wednesday, 12, April 2023 ............ Mr Thomas Paul Juliusburger ................1952....Commoner

Wednesday, 11, December 2024 .... Mr Nigel John Arthur Glassey ................1959....Commoner

Monday, 18, September 2023 ........ Mr Robert Leslie...................................1951 ....Commoner

Tuesday, 17, December 2024.......... Mr Brian James David Harvey ................1955....Commoner

Wednesday, 14, February 2024 ...... Professor Peter Armitage.................................Felllow

Saturday, 21, December 2024........ Mr John Anthony Lloyd .........................1953....Commoner

Friday, 15, March 2024 .................. Mr John Barry Trueman.........................1949....Commoner

Saturday, 04, January 2025 .......... Dr David Graham Parkinson...................1966....Commoner

Sunday, 17, March 2024................. Mr David Nuttall ...................................1959....Commoner

Friday, 17, January 2025................ The Revd Canon Arthur Cyril Mawson.....1953....Commoner

Monday, 01, April 2024.................. Mr Edward Moon ..................................1967 ....Commoner

Monday, 03, February 2025........... Mr Richard David Hird ...........................1964....Commoner

Friday, 26, April 2024.................... Professor William Nigel Ridley Thomas...1957 ....Commoner

Wednesday, 05, February 2025 ..... Mr Peter Dawson Harrison.....................1948....Commoner

Wednesday, 30, April 2024............ Professor Andrew Mark Fry ...................1985....Commoner

Sunday, 09, February 2025 ........... The Revd Richard Brereton Handforth ....1952....Commoner

Saturday, 04, May 2024 ................ Mrs Alyssa Tisne...................................2000...Graduate Student

Monday, 10, February 2025 ........... The Revd Prebendary John....................1959....Commoner Graham Wesson

Friday, 21, June 2024.................... Mr Arthur Douglas Grounds..............................Friend

Monday, 17, February 2025 ............ Dr Kevin Robert Cadigan .......................1962....Graduate Student

Friday, 12, July 2024 ..................... Mr Peter Rowland Glazebrook................1955....Friend Saturday, 20, July 2024 ................ Mr David Morrison Rogers .....................1962....Commoner Tuesday, 20, August 2024............. Mr Owen Henry Shillington Darling.........1965....Commoner

Friday, 21, February 2025 .............. Mr John Harvey Boteler.........................1973 ....Commoner Tuesday, 25, February 2025 .......... Dr David Jamil El Kabir.....................................Friend

Wednesday, 28, August 2024 ........ Mr Martin Landau ............................................Friend

Saturday, 08, March 2025............. Mr William Michael ...............................1957 ....Commoner Allingham Ashton OBE

Friday, 30, August 2024................ Ms Helen Elisabeth Snelson ..................1988....Commoner

Tuesday, 11, March 2025 ............... Mr Simon Peter Jones...........................1982....Commoner

Sunday, 08, September 2024 ........ Professor John J O’Connor ..............................Fellow

Tuesday, 18, March 2025............... Dr David Neil Bell..................................1968....Commoner

Saturday, 14, September 2024....... Professor Roland Vaubel.......................1967 ....Commoner

Saturday, 29, March 2025 ............. Mrs Irene Dorothea Snook ...............................Friend

Saturday, 21, September 2024....... Mr Thomas Edward Try..........................2001....Commoner

Tuesday, 01, April 2025................. Mr John Wright.....................................1964....Commoner

Tuesday, 01, October 2024............ Mr Arthur Kennedy................................1976 ....Commoner

Tuesday, 08, April 2025 ................ Mr Charles Roger Beaufoy.....................1954....Commoner

Wednesday, 02, October 2024 ...... Mr Geoffrey Michael Graydon Tibbs........1946....Commoner

Thursday, 01, May 2025 ................ Mr Mihails Starodubovs.........................2005...Commoner

Thursday, 16 October 2024............ Mr Nick Robert John Cowley .................1984....Commoner

Wednesday, 28, May 2025............. Dr Klaus Richard Wormer ......................1971.....Commoner

Sunday, 20, October 2024............. Dr Robert Geoffrey Twycross.................1959....Commoner

Friday, 30, May 2025 .................... Sir Kenneth Percy Bloomfield ................1949....Commoner

Saturday, 26, October 2024........... Mr Colin Ian White................................1952....Commoner

Friday, 13, June 2025.................... Mr George Tuma Yacoub .......................1954....Commoner

Saturday, 09, November 2024 ....... Mr William Arthur James Brown.............1959....Commoner

Friday, 25, July 2025..................... Mr Anthony Ollerenshaw.......................1968....Commoner

Tuesday, 19, November 2024......... Mr Eryl Lloyd Parry................................1959....Commoner *Notified between 1 August 2024 and 31 July 2025

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