Section 8: Aularian News

1950s

1953 In his retirement Jim Grindle has had a second career leading mountain walks for several companies in the UK and across Europe. He has published walking guides to the Lake District, North West England and North East Wales and recently topped 600 walks for walingworld.com. Things are slowing down as he approaches his 90th birthday. 1953 David Picksley and Anna celebrated their sapphire wedding anniversary on 15 September 2021. David marked the occasion by walking the Virtual London Marathon in seven hours and twenty-eight minutes to support the Hall Bursary Fund. Read more about David’s exploits on p.67. 1957 Jeremy Bell has lived in Melbourne Australia since 1984, and retired in 1999. He recently celebrated his 85th birthday. 1958 Peter Davies has started his ninth year as Chairman of Bath Shakespeare Society, and, in collaboration with Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, is planning a celebration in 2023 of the 400th anniversary of the publication of the First Folio edition of Shakespeare’s plays. 1959 Giles Conway-Gordon has published a book - Shamanomics: a Short Guide to the Failure, Fallacies and Future of Macroeconomics. The book is a chronicle and caustic criticism of the disastrous track-record of neo-classical economics over the last 60 years, culminating in the global Crisis of 2008. The book was published in the USA where Giles now lives. The review by Kirkus Reviews, the respected American company, included the comments “impressively accessible” and “as sober as it is provocative”. See the book’s website, www.shamanomics. info, for a summary. 1959 In 2021 the book Healthy Soils for Healthy Vines, co-authored by Robert White and Mark Krstic, was awarded the OIV prize for Sustainable Viticulture and Viniculture by the International Organization for Viniculture and Viticulture in France. The award ceremony originally scheduled for December 2021 was postponed until September 2022.

1960s

1960 Jeremy Cook became a grandfather for the first time at age 80, thanks to daughter Elinor and her husband Tom. Lorcan Arthur Doyle was born 14 June 2022, and he and his parents are doing well. Further reflected glory from Jeremy: his daughter was part of the writing team on the recent Apple TV series, Essex Serpent, and is working with Theatr Clywd on a musical to be launched this autumn, based on the Famous Five, now grown up. 1960 Malcolm Livesey has been living in Paris for the past half century. He has worked as a translator and editor for the OECD and subsequently as a Guide/Conférencier giving tours and lectures in and around the city on cultural, historical and musical themes. He is also a clarinettist and singer.

1962 Rex Chapman writes: “I am 84 years old so I reflect more past news than present. After school before university, I spent two years National Service in the RAF learning as much Mandarin as I could in the first year before being sent to Hong Kong to listen with others (including Hinton Bird,1959) to radio transmissions in three 8-hour periods. I am very sad of the situation there now. I returned from Hong Kong to read Classics at UCL before being invited by Principal JND Kelly to read Theology. Undergraduates coming up straight from school have a different experience from mine, as I know from my son’s experience at Queen’s. However I respect equally both universities as well as my experience with the RAF. Then came ordination for me in the Church of England, a period with the Scottish Episcopal Church and the experience and honour of being a Chaplain to The Queen. Oxford was a part of all that.” 1962 Simon J. Simonian celebrated his 90th birthday and 57th wedding anniversary. He described characteristics of achieving both at his Friends-Quaker Meetings in Los Angeles. He spoke about achieving World Peace and World Union at the Interreligious Council of Southern California.

23 Simonian Prizes were awarded in 2021-2022: at the Hall and Harvard, Georgetown and Tufts Universities, USA. Trent Simonian, his grandson, creator of Side-Talk, has five million followers on social media, including President Joe Biden. 1963 Michael Scannell published a novel A Disturbance of Memory as a Kindle e-book available on Amazon. Much of the action takes place in Oxford, including the final chapter. The ideal reader will be someone who is alive to nuances in words, who enjoys following the ins and outs of complex feelings—and who is prepared to be shocked.

1967 Having sold his Glasgow practice and retired as an architect, Hugh Anderson is reinventing himself as a painter with an exhibition of recent work coming up in October. Otherwise, family and continuing commitments to a rural school in South Africa keep him happily busy. 1967 John Orton has published his fourth book in the series Tales of Auld Shields. He Wears a Blue Bonnet tells the story of five Scottish highlanders who are taken prisoner by Oliver Cromwell at the battle of Dunbar, 1650, who survive the infamous Dunbar death march, and who are sold as indentured servants to work in the salt pans of South Shields. 1967 Dave (Fogg) Postles has had an article accepted for The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. 1968 In June 2022 David Christian’s latest book came out: Future Stories: What’s Next? (Penguin/Random House). It is a companion to Origin Story: A Big History of Everything (Penguin, 2018) which surveyed the whole of the past from the Big Bang to the present day. The new book is a user’s guide to the future. It

discusses the philosophy and science of time, how living things prepare for uncertain futures, and what is different about human future thinking. It begins by discussing several scenarios for the future over the next century or so as well as at much larger scales. 1969 Roger Callan, a priest of Roman Catholic persuasion, was not enchanted by the standard of exposition of Holy Scripture as proclaimed on Sundays and typically found online. So, he created SundayMassReadings.com to give a novel angle for those interested in what the readings mean each Sunday. For example, take a look at this from the archive: sundaymassreadings. com/2022/02/02/6-february-2022-the-fifth-sunday-in-ordinary-time and see if you believe it to be an improvement. Oh - there’s nothing for sale or any requests for donations on this website, just (hopefully) clarity. Next Sunday’s exposé comes out on Wednesday. 1969 On 20 June 2022, David Monkcom’s daughter Emily Charlotte Monkcom was awarded a PhD from the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. She is a Chemist: her doctoral research was in the field of non-noble metal catalysis, specifically focusing on bioinspired model complexes of non-heme iron enzymes. For those interested, her thesis can be consulted online or ordered in print: ISBN 978-946458-342-7.

1970s

1970 Michael Arnold was priested in 1998 in the Anglican Church and was successively Chaplain at Clayesmore School, Dorset and St John’s College, Johannesburg. In retirement in Cape Town, he has published two books, The Forgotten Feast and Evidence for the Christian Faith and is writing a third. 1970 Christopher Merrett continues his post-retirement work as editor and indexer for various South African publishers. He has also been responsible for the publication programme of the Natal Society Foundation (NSF), which is now drawing to a close. In 2000 the NSF published Born out of Sorrow: Essays on Pietermaritzburg and the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands during the Apartheid Era, 1948–1994, which he compiled and edited. 1970 After his Oxford years, Hitoshi Tanaka spent 36 years in the Japanese Foreign Service retiring as Deputy Foreign Minister. Since his retirement in 2005 he taught at the University of Tokyo and is currently Chairman of the Japan Research Institute Limited.

1970 Malcolm Thick’s latest book was published on 1 July 2022 by Hertfordshire Publications. Entitled William Ellis: Eighteenth-century farmer, journalist and entrepreneur, the book examines the life of Ellis, his farming, sales of agricultural machinery and his many publications. Ellis wrote a book about country living which is a mine of information on diet and medicine in mid-eighteenth century Hertfordshire. He encouraged new agricultural practices and reported on their success or failure.

1971 Half a century after matriculating and still putting off retirement, Nick Staite continues to work full time in the law, particularly in the field of criminal

prosecution and the pursuit of the proceeds of crime. Following a five-year engagement in Malawi, supporting law enforcement efforts to combat corruption (and a two-year break prompted by the Covid pandemic) he is now in Nairobi and working once more with the International Centre for Asset Recovery (Basel Institute on Governance) on another anti-corruption programme funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). During the two-year hiatus at home, Nick’s son added a first grandson to the spear side, heavily outnumbered by the distaff side of four daughters and five granddaughters. 1972 After a career in taxes spanning almost 38 years, on 31 March 2022 George Bull retired from accounting firm RSM where he had been senior tax partner. Although he failed in his career-long advocacy for the notion that the UK should have a tax system which looks as though it was designed to be that way, he was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Taxation Awards in May 2022. 1972 In October 2021 Paul Croke retired as Chair of Governors, Bridgend College. In May 2022 he won All Wales Non-Executive Director of the year (Institute of Directors) 2020-2021. He has also been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Bridgend College. 1972 Kevin Fisher is happily retired, and now playing football with grandchildren (sadly his Hall football shirt no longer fits!). Kate and Kevin have been married for 50 years in August. When the Principal found out about the engagement in Trinity term 1972 he told Kevin that he should have asked his permission. 1972 Jeremy Lazenby continues to work in the Western Balkans and will be based in Belgrade until 2026 managing infrastructure projects across the region funded by blend of EU grants and European Banks. After twenty years spent supporting countries that were delighted to join the EU, he was in shock to find the UK leaving! 1972 Douglas Robertson is exploring coming out of retirement to become a part-time stipendiary Priest in Charge of the Howardian Hills Benefice. 1974 James Ede has been elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. 1975 Completely inexperienced, but with two acres available in North Shropshire, currently grassland, and having been inspired by visits to Martin Crawford’s Devon sites, Alan Lomas would be pleased to hear from you if you have any interest in or experience of forest gardening. 1976 Steve Charters was the co-ordinating editor of the Routledge Handbook of Wine and Culture, published in March 2022 - a book covering the relationship of wine to its cultural contexts across a complete range of disciplines. 1977 Stephen Clingman is the author of the catalogue (also available as a book) for a major exhibition of the renowned South African artist William Kentridge at the Royal Academy of Arts, September – December 2022. Among Stephen’s other publications (on South African literature, transnational fiction), his biography of Bram Fischer, the lawyer who defended Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia Trial, was cowinner of the 1999 Alan Paton Award, South Africa’s premier prize for nonfiction.

1977 After a long career at different universities, Ronald Shusterman has become Professor Emeritus at the University of Lyon (Saint-Étienne). He is also the proud father of a baby girl, Tess, born on May 4th, 2022. He will be continuing his activities as a researcher and an expert for the Research Evaluation Council (HCERES).

1977 Steve Vivian is delighted to announce the 15 July 2022 arrival of a grandson, Alex Edmund Vivian.

1980s

1981 Paul Gale has written two papers on predicting the infectivity of Covid-19 virus from biochemical properties: • Gale, P. (2022) ‘Using thermodynamic equilibrium models to predict the effect of antiviral agents on infectivity: Theoretical application to SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses’. Microbial Risk Analysis 21, Article 100198. • Gale, P. (2020b) ‘Thermodynamic equilibrium dose-response models for MERSCoV infection reveal a potential protective role of human lung mucus but not for SARS CoV-2’. Microbial Risk Analysis 16, Article 100140. These draw heavily from his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at Teddy Hall. He had previously developed the approach for arboviruses and HIV in two earlier papers applying thermodynamic principles to understanding viruses. 1981 Seymour Segnit has launched MAGFAST® which designs and markets a range of premium charging devices for all our smartphones – and other devices that forever run out of power. After a development process that lasted several years longer than expected MAGFAST.com now features a range of unique designs which have attracted tens of thousands of pre-orders. Customers who waited patiently are delighted. The Internet’s many doubters less so. 1982 Tim Hayward continues to live out his mid-life crisis at Astley Vineyard, where he has suckered the rest of his family to join him in the rural idyll of Worcestershire. Recently awarded UK Food and Drink Producer of the Year, and Worcestershire’s Visitor Experience of the year, it’s clearly going ok. A third generation has joined the workforce, with the arrival of grandson Arlo. 1982 Robert Schofield’s most recent novel, The Treasury of Tales, was short-listed in 2021 for the Prix Servais, the key annual literary award of Luxembourg where Robert lives. Robert was also a prize-winner for short stories written during the Luxembourg lockdown. 1983 After 25 years running treasury operations for two major film studios, Simon Baker retired from his position as Treasurer of Fox Entertainment Group and he and his wife, Maryann, moved from Los Angeles to Reno, NV. 1984 John Bloomer will be ordained Deacon in the Church of England at Chelmsford Cathedral on Sunday 11 September 2022, having completed his ministry training at Westcott House and an MPhil in Theology at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He will serve his curacy in the parishes of Writtle with Highwood and Roxwell, Chelmsford Diocese, alongside his ongoing professional work as an independent adviser and Non-Executive Director in the agri-tech industry.

1985 Nicolas Kelepeniotis the junior, grandson of Nicolas Kelepeniotis was born on 1 October 2021. Nicolas Kelepeniotis wishes his grandson a prosperous and healthy life without overlooking his wish for his grandson to study in the University of Oxford and join the St Edmund Hall community. 1987 Kate Ward Ralph’s work as a Chair of Governors to support local education and promote equality of opportunity, educational excellence, and social mobility in the state sector was recognised in 2022 by admission to the Freedom of the City of London in the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers. Kate currently sits on the Governing Board of the Leathersellers’ Federation of Schools, which serves nearly three thousand children and young people in Lewisham. 1988 Lucia Bly Gillham lives in Devon with her husband and four children. The eldest of the brood is now at university studying medicine when not sailing, the second is teaching skiing on his gap year in Canada, the third is into politics and American sport, and the fourth is a 12-year-old beekeeper and bass player. Serial house renovators Lucia and Dan run a holiday accommodation business at their farmhouse called Swallows’ Flight, offering stunning places to stay in glorious South Devon. Lucia is also Marketing & Design Director at Salcombe Dairy, who make ice cream, sorbets and bean-to-bar chocolate in sunny Salcombe. Never a dull moment... 1988 As Chairman and CEO of AGC Studios, one of Hollywood’s leading global film and television content studios, Stuart Ford was in 2022 inducted into the Variety 500, consisting of the 500 most important individuals in the global entertainment industry. 1988 From Emma McCartney Field: “James’ Jar of Gifts was established in memory of my son James who died in 2016 aged just 7 after a battle with a rare immune disorder. We raise funds to support projects in the UK and Kenya and are currently supporting Ukrainian refugee youngsters recently arrived in the UK. Our vision is that no child should ever get left behind. Please visit our website and support us www.jamesjarofgifts.co.uk.”

1990s

1990 Akaash Maharaj was elected a Supporter Category Member of the Canadian Olympic Committee. His focus is on combatting corruption and human rights abuses in international sport. In previous years, he was a triple gold medallist at the International Championships of Equestrian Skill-at-Arms, and he led the national equestrian team as Chief Executive through its most successful Olympics and Paralympics of all time. 1992 Marc Biver writes: “I matriculated in 1992 and Dr Francis Rossotti was my Inorganic Chemistry tutor, his field of expertise was the determination of stability constants of complexes in aqueous solution. Together with his wife Hazel, who was the inorganic tutor at St Anne’s, he wrote an authoritative textbook on the subject, in 1961, which continues to be cited. When I heard that he had passed away, I happened to be in the process of writing an article on stability constants of some group 15 tartrates, which I then

published in the ACS journal Inorganic Chemistry and I dedicated the paper to Dr Rossotti’s memory. Francis published his last paper (in 1997, I believe) in that same journal.” 1992 Xen Gladstone moved back to the UK after 25 years in Hong Kong and switched career from finance/investment banking towards directorships and consultancy in the finance industry with a nascent interest in a local brewery. 1992 Simon Kelly published the book, Theodore Rousseau and the Rise of the Modern Art Market: An Avant-Garde Landscape Painter in 19th-Century France (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021). 1992 Jointly with two of his colleagues in Canada, Radek Pelc has published a book, Neurohistology and Imaging Techniques (Springer, New York 2020). Sadly, he forgot to inform the Hall about it in the 2021 edition of the Hall Magazine. He also started teaching microscopy techniques and bits of histology to medical students at Charles University in Prague where he works at the Czech Academy of Sciences.

1993 Ian Hunter has been elected to the Council of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

1994 Geoffrey Payne was appointed a Circuit Judge on 20 September 2022 and sits in the criminal jurisdiction at Aylesbury Crown Court. He was appointed a Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple in July 2022. 1996 Deograsias P. Mushi is now an associate Professor at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He is also a Principal Researcher and Consultant at EcomResearch Group Ltd - also in Tanzania. 1997 Lucy Reynolds and Jenna Herman (1999) are an Aularian author/illustrator duo who create beautiful books for little explorers. Their third book, We Are Family, hit the shelves in February 2022 and has been widely celebrated for its empathy, beauty and inclusivity. Based on its successes, two foreign language translations will be published next year. Lucy and Jenna are very active through schools, bookshops and festivals so please do get in touch at www.doodlesandscribbles.co.uk if you’d like to discuss an event - or just say hello! Praise for We Are Family: “Delightful, original book about diversity” – Sara Keating, The Irish Times “A heartwarming and inclusive celebration of all types of families” – Little Library Owl 1998 In 2021 Nick Thomas-Symonds was sworn of Her Majesty’s Privy Council. In November 2021, he was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade. On 1 September 2022, he is publishing a biography of Harold Wilson. 1999 Catriona Ward has published a new novel, Sundial. Stephen King said of it, “Do not miss this book.” Her previous book The Last House on Needless Street was shortlisted for Pageturner of the Year at the 2022 British Book Awards. She is nominated for the Times Breakthrough Artist of the Year at this year’s South Bank Sky Arts Awards.

2000 Charlie Ramsay is living in Suffolk near Bury St Edmunds with a young family and is running the bookings platform SpeedyBooker (which started when he realised his Teddy Hall room was empty in the holidays) and Fortingall Ventures. Please get in touch via LinkedIn! 2001 Dr Catherine Blair was appointed Finance and Business Director for Transformation at HM Revenue and Customs in September 2021. 2001 Eugen Kogan has co-authored a new book Mediation. Negotiation by Other Moves (Wiley, 2021) with A. Salzer Lemepereur, J. Colson and A. Pekar. 2001 We are delighted to announce that Alexander Robert Young, first child of William Young and Kristýna was born on 21 June 2022, the summer solstice, at Queen Charlotte’s in West London.

2002 Anglo-India and the End of Empire, Uther Charlton-Stevens’ second book, was recently released by Hurst Publishers (UK) and Oxford University Press (USA). Drawing upon the author’s own family roots in Bangalore, it explores of the history of the Anglo-Indian community, including the experiences of famous mixed-race film stars such as Merle Oberon and Boris Karloff, during the dramatic death-throes of the British Raj. Benjamin Kingsbury described Anglo-India in a review as “Original, fascinating and gripping.” 2002 Ruth Evans, who is Head of Artistic Planning & Participation at the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Welsh Music Guild from July 2022. 2002 Pierre Stallforth was promoted to full Professor in a joint appointment between the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (Leibniz-HKI) and the University of Jena, Germany. He leads the Department of Paleobiotechnology and his research focuses on identifying novel natural products – such as antibiotics – within interacting microorganisms and, most recently, from ancient samples. 2003 Raymond Duddy married Kate Mary Crinion in Slane, Ireland, on 28 August 2021. Oliver Rees-Jones (also Teddy Hall, 2003) was his best man. 2003 Andy Smye was appointed to Associate Professor of Geosciences with tenure at Penn State, USA.

2004 Emily Coates has founded the business Visit Wild Wales. If any Aularians or their friends or family would like a guided experience of some of the remote spots in the stunning and fascinating country, please get in touch. The visits take participants on journeys through glaciated landscapes including their social setting allowing the history and geography of the region to be interrogated en route. The business aims to be both socially and environmentally sustainable with as low an impact and as long a timeline as possible. Contact: visitwildwales@ gmail.com. 2004 After stints in Southeast Asia and London, Xin Hui Chan is delighted to return to Oxford to join the Nuffield Department of Medicine and Pandemic Sciences

Institute as an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Infectious Diseases. She looks forward to (re-)connecting with colleagues old and new. 2005 Will Frass was elected as the Liberal Democrat Councillor for Timperley in Trafford Metropolitan Borough Elections, unseating the Local Leader of the Conservatives.

2005 Dr Georgina Gosney married Dr Feng Rao (Trinity, 2006) at Chippenham Park on 16 October 2021 with Teddy Hall friends in attendance, including Natalie McManus (2005) who acted as Maid of Honour.

2005 Natalie McManus married RAF Squadron Leader Jonathan Barnett at Hampton Court House on 26 September 2021, in the company of many Teddy Hall friends and peers. Dr Gina Gosney (2005) and Tom Braithwaite (2004) were Maid and Man of Honour.

2005 Jane Lilly Lopez has a new book out about mixed-citizenship and transnational marriages and the ways immigration laws interfere with family development, stability, and success. Unauthorized Love: Mixed-Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State is published by Stanford University Press. Read more: www.sup.org/books/title/?id=32919 2006 Katie Glencross and her partner Ainsley welcomed a daughter named Effy Sophia Scorah on 20 May 2022. 2008 Maire Gorman has been Appointed as a Lecturer (Education Research) within School of Physics at University of Bristol. 2008 From Jenny Lim: “Greetings! A couple of us rowed in the Regatta organised by the Oxford & Cambridge Society of Hong Kong on 26 June 2022. The Oxford crew won the mixed race by a significant margin (like more than eight boat lengths), and in the men’s race, Oxford was two seconds behind Cambridge (as we don’t have enough rowers in the men’s, I rowed in both races). Overall, Oxford won this year’s race by challenging Cambridge with a powerhouse of rowers pulling off the wind and waves in Deep Water Bay/Middle Island just before the first typhoon struck HK. The race was immediately followed by a prize-giving, free-flow drinks, and champagne celebrations among the crews! Thereafter, a full-house family buffet event was well-attended by OxBridge alumni, and their families at the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club (Middle Island Clubhouse).” 2009 For the past five years Nicolas Boem was based in Lisbon and worked for the Portuguese oil & gas company Galp. In his most recent role he worked as the Executive Assistant to Galp‘s Head of Upstream. Now Nicolas will embark on a new journey this August by moving to Saudi Arabia for a PhD in Geology & Geophysics at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

2010s

2010 Park Maneepairoj is now a father of two boys, Rio (four years) and Dan (four months). He spent the last three years working in Tokyo and is now back in his hometown, Bangkok. He is now currently working at a major e-commerce

platform company and often relishes his time at Oxford. He misses his MCR Footy mates and the memory of Julien screaming out the Teddy Hall anthem mid-match. “Oh Teddy Hall, Oh Teddy Hall, Oh Teddy Hall is won-der-full!” (to the tune of ‘When the Saints go Marching in’). 2010 David Hewitt and Laura (nee nee Murphy, LMH 2008) are pleased to share news of the birth of their first child, Edward Arthur Hewitt, on 11 March 2022. He was delivered safely and continues to do well as of current age of four months (as of mid-July 2022). 2010 In 2019 Suriya Prabhakar achieved a Distinction in her Diploma in Carnatic Vocal (Classical Indian singing), both in theory and in practical, and recently attended the graduation ceremony to celebrate this huge achievement. She had been learning classical music since the age of thirteen and despite a four-year hiatus when attending Oxford University, she resumed her studies after her BA graduation. She is now qualified to teach Carnatic music to young students. 2011 Mohammad Firdaus Bin Abdul Aziz has recently been appointed as the Program Coordinator of Bachelor of Jurisprudence at the Faculty of Law, Universiti Malaya. This is an external legal education, the first of its kind offered by a public university in Malaysia, which aims to enable working adults to obtain a degree in law and join the legal profession. He and colleagues have successfully secured a research grant from the UK Wellcome Trust to develop bioethics scholarships in Southeast Asia and establish a regional bioethics network between Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore. 2011 Kristina Murkett and Theo Silkstone Carter were married on 22 July at the University Church before hosting their reception at Teddy Hall and the Ashmolean Museum. Kristina’s father John (1981, Jurisprudence), Theo’s uncle Richard (1978, Mathematics) and grandfather Thomas (1948, History) are all Aularians too.

2013 Susana Hancock spent the spring on a self-supported trans-Arctic ski (The Jubilee Expedition 2022) that retraced one of the first North Pole expeditions. Throughout the ski, she collected climate data that she has shared with global leaders at international for a. Her work will be featured in an upcoming film, book and traveling exhibition. 2013 Zabrina Lo, the Associate Features Editor of Tatler Asia magazine, won gold in this year’s WAN-IFRA Asian Media Awards for her cover story published in August 2021, which looks at how New York power players combat Asian hate, and why Hong Kong and the rest of the world should care. Read the story: www.tatlerasia.com/power-purpose/philanthropy/stop-asianhate-racial-diversity

2014 Yasmina Abouzzohour has been appointed to a Fellowship at Princeton University. In 2021-22 she held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Harvard University. She was awarded a Research Award by the American Political Science Association in January 2022. Also in 2022, she contributed a chapter to The Gulf Cooperation Council at Forty: Risk and Opportunity in a Changing World (Brookings Institute Press, 2022). 2016 Ella Penny recently completed the gruelling Marathon des Sables race across the Sahara. This involved six back-to-back marathons in six days and a total of 250km. All equipment and food had to be carried. Temperatures reached 40 degrees Celsius with extreme winds at times. Ella, part of a team of four, raised £20,000 for a South African charity addressing domestic violence. 2017 Dr Yusuf Ikbal Oldac received the prestigious Prize for Newer Researchers from the Society for Research into Higher Education in the United Kingdom. With this new grant, Yusuf will investigate the Scientific collaborations between the United Kingdom and Middle Eastern and North African countries in the post-Brexit and post-pandemic world. 2017 Catherine Joy White made the 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 list for her work as an actor, writer, filmmaker and founder of award-winning Kusini Productions. More about Cat’s work with on p.70. 2018 New research by Dr Lena Fuldauer demonstrates that adapting to the impacts of climate change is of paramount importance to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The study published in Nature Communications proposes a novel framework to better assess the cascading impacts of climate change on sustainable development and systematically align national adaptation plans across sectors with the global development agenda. 2018 Paul Shields has had many changes to his life since graduating with his MPhil in 2020. He joined the United States Marines Corps as an Officer, got married, and welcomed his son - George - in November of 2021. He was able to publish his MPhil thesis in Communist and Post-Communist Studies. Paul feels grateful to Teddy Hall - the memories and lessons learned have been a tremendous source of strength and joy. 2019 Haffendi Anuar is an artist originally from Kuala Lumpur and now based in London. His work spans sculpture, painting, installation, and drawing and explores notions of home and movement contextualised in relation to postcolonialism, architecture and identity construction. He recently presented his first institutional solo exhibition, Rumah Berkaki (Legged House) at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (www.ikon-gallery.org/exhibition/rumah-berkaki-legged-house) and exhibited textile sculptures and painted archival photographs in the Tower Room. It ran from 10 July to 29 August 2022. More about Hafeendi’s work: www.haffendianuar.net

We record with sadness the passing of fellow Aularians and salute them. Sincere condolences are offered to their families and friends.

1940s

Mr John Featherstone Dixon BCom, FCA, 9 July 2022, aged 97, Gloucestershire. 1943, Army Course Mr Eric Charles Jones MA, DipEd, 1 October 2021, aged 96, Norfolk. 1943, Mathematics Mr Alan John Pickett MA, 31 August 2021, aged 96, Kent. 1943, History Mr Michael Gordon Anson Jack BA, 30 March 2022, Age 95, Devon. 1944, English Mr Geoffrey Gordon Allen MA, 24 October 2021, aged 94, Western Australia. 1945, Chemistry Mr John Gilbert Ayers MA, 29 June 2021, aged 98, London. 1947, History The Revd Canon Charles Hilary Davidson MA, 24 January 2021, aged 91, Northampton. 1949, Theology Mr David Anthony Singleton MA, 22 October 2021, aged 92, Cheshire. 1949, Modern Languages

1950s

Mr Timothy Patrick Denehy MA, 26 August 2020, aged 91, Hampshire. 1950, English Mr Noel Harvey MA, 16 February 2022, aged 92, Norfolk. 1950, Modern Languages Mr Derek Bloom MA, 15 September 2020, aged 90, London. 1951, Philosophy Mr Brian Charles Osgood MA, 10 May 2022, aged 90, Kent. 1951, History Mr John David Anthony MA, 31 March 2022, aged 88, South Glamorgan. 1952, Jurisprudence Mr Christopher Brian Benjamin BA, 25 July 2021, aged 87, London. 1954, English The Revd Anthony Murray Crowe MA, 27 January 2022, aged 87, Kent. 1954, Theology Mr Brian Albert Saunders BA, 2020, Gloucestershire. 1954, Modern Languages Mr Charles Francis Taylor MA, 3 February 2022, aged 88, Suffolk. 1954, French Mr Philip Morgan Bevan-Thomas MA, 18 February 2022, aged 87, Suffolk. 1955, Jurisprudence Mr John Maurice Daniels MA, 6 May 2022, aged 87, London. 1955, English Mr John Edward Hancock BA, 24 June 2022, aged 87, Northumberland. 1955, Jurisprudence Mr William John Scarlin Moorcroft BA, 30 January 2022, aged 83, Staffordshire. 1956, Geography Mr George Enoch Wiley MA, September 2022, aged 87, South Yorkshire. 1956, English

Mr Gerald Guyse Williams MA, 1 March 2022, aged 85, Cheshire. 1956, Chemistry Mr John Womack Harrison BA, 27 November 2021, aged 85, London. 1957, PPE Mr Colin Campbell Nichols BA, Dip, 1 September 2021, aged 85, Warwickshire. 1957, Geography Professor John Brian Walmsley MA, 8 March 2022, aged 84, Bielefeld, Germany. 1957, English Mr Gordon Rathbone Crosse MA, 21 November 2021, aged 83, Suffolk. 1958, Music Professor Thomas Gould Phillips BA, DPhil, 6 August 2022, aged 85, California, USA. 1958, Physics Mr Brian Frederick Taylor MA, July 2021, Cornwall. 1958, English Mr John Lionel Toole MA, 28 October 2021, aged 83, Cumbria. 1958, Modern Languages and Linguistics Mr Denis Pritchard Evans DipEd, 8 July 2022, aged 86, East Sussex. 1959, Educational Studies

The Revd Canon Hugh Edwin Wilcox MA, 13 March 2022, aged 84, Hertfordshire. 1959, Theology

1960s

Mr Graham Robert John Morris BA, 16 February 2022, aged 80, Avon. 1961, English. Professor Geoffrey Vernon Davis MA, PhD, 22 November 2018, aged 74, Aachen, Germany. 1962, Modern Languages Mr Alan James McNamee BA, 17 January 2022, aged 77, County Durham. 1962, English Mr Robert Duncan Clegg MA, 19 May 2022, aged 80, Gloucestershire. 1963, English Mr Angus Farre Doulton BA, November 2021, aged 77, Devon. 1963, English Mr Peter John Webb MA, DipEd, 5 July 2021, aged 77, Wiltshire. 1963, History Mr David James Whyte DipEd, 25 November 2021, aged 81, Fife. 1963, Educational Studies

Mr Graham Alexander Dimitris Revill-Taylor BD, MA, CEng, MBCS, 31 July 2021, aged 77, Kent. 1964, Chemistry Mr David William Alder BA, 8 April 2022, aged 75, Lancashire. 1966, History Mr Maurice Leslie Bason BD, DipEd, MEd, 16 March 2020, aged 75, Ohio, USA. 1966, Educational Studies

Captain Peter Adrian Dylsmor Griffiths MA, 18 November 2021, aged 76, West Sussex. 1966, Geography Mr Nicholas Benbow Evans BA, 9 August 2022, aged 72, Devon. 1969, Jurisprudence Mr Peter William Mayne MA, PGCE, MEd, 9 June 2022, aged 72, Norfolk. 1969, History

Mr Alan Norman Smith MA, BPhil, December 2021, aged 68, Oxfordshire. 1972, History Mr Keith Eric Jackson BA, March 2022, aged 66, Surrey. 1973, Mathematics Dr Andrew Robert McCabe MA, DPhil, Oxfordshire. 1978, Metallurgy

1980s

Mr Ian James Harvey MA, 1 August 2022, aged 59, Middlesex. 1982, Geography Dr John Saville Thurston MA, PhD, London. 1980, Psychology Ms Beryl Louise Rands Silva MA, 26 December 2021, aged 57, Devon. 1984, English Mr Andrew James Ashelford BA, ACA, 25 August 2021, aged 54, Avon. 1985, Mathematics Mr Christopher Ian Vigars BA, 10 August 2021, aged 50, Avon. 1989, Engineering Science

2010s

Mr Matthew Kilford BA, 4 May 2022, aged 25, Hampshire. 2017, English

SCR Obituaries

JUSTIN GOSLING HONORARY FELLOW, PRINCIPAL 1982-1996 It was with great sadness we reported the recent death of Justin Gosling, who passed away on 31 October 2022 following a short illness. Justin served the Hall as Lecturer and later Tutor in Philosophy between 1960 and 1982, when he was appointed the Hall’s 60th Principal, in which capacity he served until retirement in 1996. Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor, former Bursar (19882007) writes this brief tribute to him: Frozen in stone in the Front Quad and commissioned by me as possibly the last working gargoyle in Oxford, is a likeness of Justin Gosling. Justin had agreed that his image be installed opposite the Buttery on his retirement as a retort to similar performances he and his family had witnessed outside the Buttery, opposite the Lodgings. When he saw the potential blackmail photographs he had posed for, he wrote:

“He who sews mischief Is a born tailor But he who waters the summer flowers Is just in all things.” It amused him even more to hear tour guides claiming to their innocent audiences that the carving represented Teddy Hall alumnus Robin Day – I think it was the horn-rimmed specs that were the link. And it is to his seemingly endless dry humour that I wish pay tribute in this short retrospect of over 30 years friendship with Justin. I have always been convinced that his wit was inspired by Maurice Bowra, the At interview, I had responded to one of his questions: “Up to a point Lord Copper, up to a point.” I discovered later that he and his wife Margaret had been friends with Evelyn Waugh: I like to think that my reference to Waugh’s words was what clinched my appointment. Justin’s intellect was the size of Europe and one could just see his satisfaction as he would halt recalcitrant Dons in their tracks at Governing Body meetings. I was not immune; his enigmatic, “Geoffrey, we just hide our ignorance better than you do!”. Or, his squib (to a colleague) in the margin of a philosophy student’s essay: “You have a duty to enjoy reading this”. We are warmly reminded of Justin whenever we study David Tindall’s gentle portrait of him, in his study, mastering the complexity of the Psion handheld computer that tickled him; family dog in the doorway, equally puzzled. In the days before fundraising, we sat with a potential donor, who, reaching for his wallet, asked, “Do you have a building fund?”. “No,” replied Justin, truthfully, before I could kick him under the table; but one couldn’t help loving him for it. Those who passed through Justin’s care during probably 50 years of his Philosophy tuition at the Hall will remember him as probably one of the last of the old school Dons: laser sharp, logical to the point of exasperation, laconic. But above all, sensitive, open minded and completely without prejudice. Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor

Justin Gosling went to school at Ampleforth College and later won an Exhibition in Classics at Wadham College where he got a first in Mods and a first in Greats (1953). He was awarded a BPhil in Philosophy in 1955 and was appointed to a Fereday Junior Research Fellowship at St John’s College (1955-1958). Justin was Lecturer in Philosophy at Wadham and Pembroke Colleges 1958-1960, and then became Tutor in Philosophy at St Edmund Hall until he was appointed Principal in 1982. Before becoming Principal, he had been Secretary of the Governing Body and Senior Tutor. Even after retiring, Justin continued to serve the College in many different ways from teaching to supporting alumni events and his former students. Justin was elected Senior Proctor of the University for the year 1977-1978, he was Pro-Vice-Chancellor from 1989-1995, Chairman of the Conference of Colleges 1987-1989, and served on various University committees. He held a Visiting Professorship at Macalester College in 1964, a Visiting Fellowship at the Research Institute of Social Studies, Canberra, 1970, and a Visiting Professorship at the University of Minnesota and Macalester College in 1986. Justin was a keen writer and in addition to a variety of articles, he published a number of books including Pleasure and Desire, Plato, Plato: Philebus (a translation and commentary), The Greeks on Pleasure (with C.C.W. Taylor), Weakness of the Will, and The Jackdaw in the Jacaranda (a collection of poems). Justin is survived by his wife Margaret, whom he married in 1958, and four children. In October 2021 Justin reflected on his career in an episode of the SEHA Podcast ‘Spirit of the Hall’: anchor.fm/ spiritofthehall/episodes/Justin-Goslinge18kidd A full obituary and other reflections will appear in the 2023-2024 Hall Magazine.

PROFESSOR NIGEL PALMER FBA, EMERITUS FELLOW Nigel F. Palmer, Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Emeritus Professor of German Medieval and Linguistic Studies, FBA, died on Sunday 8 May 2022. Nigel was Professor of German at Teddy Hall from 1992 until his retirement in 2012, upon which he was elected as an Emeritus Fellow of the College. He served both as a Steward of the Senior Common Room and as Library Fellow; he was instrumental in securing the in-depth cataloguing of the collection in the Old Library. Professor Henrike Lähnemann, his successor in the Hall, writes:

“Nigel Palmer was one of those scholars defining medieval studies, reaching out across the world to colleagues in Germany and far beyond. He was also one of the kindest and most generous friends and colleagues. Oxford without Nigel will never be the same.” Professor Andrew Kahn, Professor of Russian Literature and Modern Languages, writes:

“Nigel was always one of the friendliest and kindest colleagues at St Edmund Hall and in the Faculty. He was also quite funny and observant.” Dr Stephen Mossmann, now a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Manchester, one of Nigel Palmer’s former students remembers the man and the scholar: Nigel Palmer, who has died aged 75, shaped the experience of an entire generation of students of medieval German language and literature at Oxford. He first came up to Oxford as a student in 1965 to read German at Worcester College, and was appointed to a lectureship at the University of Durham after just one year of doctoral study in 1970. Having completed his thesis while in full-time academic post in 1975, he returned to Oxford in 1976 as Fellow in German at Oriel College. He moved to St Edmund Hall in 1992 upon his appointment to the University Professorship in German Medieval and Linguistic Studies, from which he retired in 2012. If anything, retirement enabled him to work even more intensively than he had done before, and he was a firm fixture in the academic life of his field, and in Medieval Studies at Oxford, until the very end of his life.

It is as a tutor and supervisor of graduate students that most alumni of the University will remember Nigel. He was immensely supportive, firmly engaged, and those to whom he offered his tremendous expertise and wise counsel, which he did freely and generously, far exceeded those for whom he was formally responsible. His medieval German graduate seminar was an institution, and much treasured. The standard was resolutely professional. Several doctoral theses had their roots in topics first encountered through that Wednesday morning seminar, and many journal articles started life as papers first given there. Participants had to tackle texts

and subjects well beyond the confines of their own particular research interests, opening their eyes to new fields of study and approaches in a shared endeavour of learning and discovery. The emphasis was very much on the ‘shared’: Nigel was as much a fellow participant as any of his students, and hated academic grandstanding. That was often in evidence at conferences, where he was a real friend to younger scholars and students, especially to those accustomed to the stricter hierarchies of institutions abroad. He was firmly resistant to the idea of the academic Festschrift. His was an active commitment to inclusivity long before the word had entered the realms of academic policy. Nigel understood his academic position as a stewardship of his subject, and felt a deep responsibility to ensure that it should thrive. During his tenure, Oxford advanced to a position of international standing in the study and scholarship of the language and literature of medieval Germany. He considered himself responsible for the languages spoken and written in the medieval German lands – Latin, German and Dutch – in equal measure. These were to be encountered in the forms in which they had been transmitted from the Middle Ages, in manuscript and early printed book. Nigel was one of the foremost experts in the world not just in his primary field of medieval German studies, but also in medieval Latin literature, and (especially) in codicology, the study of the manuscript and early printed book. His methodological contribution was to bring the accumulation of detailed evidence to bear upon intellectual questions of wider significance: to take disciplines like palaeography, codicology and philology beyond themselves, and so to extend the boundaries of human knowledge. He did that in a deliberate and conscious manner that sought to overcome the division in Germanophone scholarship between the ‘auxiliary’ disciplines (the so-called Hilfswissenschaften) and academic research proper. The latter should not exist as an abstract pursuit undertaken in ignorance of the former, but equally the former should not remain merely at the level of description. The body of scholarship that Nigel published in the course of his academic career will long remain as the foundation on which all who work on those subjects henceforth must build. He wrote for specialists, often on recondite topics, but always in an accessible manner, whether in English or in German, such that to read his books and articles is a pleasure both aesthetic and intellectual, and always fundamentally instructive. His is a great loss to scholarship, but will be most keenly felt in his home, in Oxford, to the colleges and libraries of which he was so deeply committed.

Dr Stephen Mossman, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History, University of Manchester

This obituary originally appeared in the Oxford Polyglot newsletter of the Modern Languages Faculty

ROBERT DUNCAN CLEGG (1963) This obituary has been provided by Duncan’s son Rob. Robert ‘Duncan’ Clegg, born Richmond upon Thames on 12 April 1942, son of Alexander (Sandy) Clegg, who worked for London Transport (“as some sort of manager not on the trains”), and Hilda née Duncan. Duncan attended Tiffin School, Richmond, from where he went after several attempts at Latin ‘O’ Level to St Edmund Hall, Oxford. There he studied English Literature with a particular interest in Anglo-Saxon and early English literature. He rowed for the University against Cambridge for Isis in 1964 and for the Blue Boat in 1965 and 1966 (both Oxford wins) and served as Oxford University Boat Club President in 1966. His son Robert followed him as OUBC President in 1996, exactly 30 years later.

Duncan was one of five St Edmund Hall rowers to win the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race in 1965 and one of two in 1966, competing as the team’s single former Blue, Boat Club President, and number two. Writing about the win of 1965, journalist Stanley Baker of the Guardian wrote that the Dark Blues were the “strongest and toughest crew Oxford have sent to the Tideway since the war.” Duncan met Jennie, his future wife, at the Boat Race Ball following a victory in 1966. After graduating in 1967 he followed Jennie back to Melbourne, Australia, where she had returned after a stint in London. Duncan and Jennie were married in Melbourne in 1968. While in Melbourne, Duncan did an MBA part time while working for Australian United Corporation. He then worked for Capel Court Corporation who sent him back to London in 1972 to work for Samuel Montague (shareholders in Capel Court). In 1976 Duncan moved to Lazard’s and worked in the corporate finance department. Amongst other things, he supervised the flotation of TSB and later specialised in the privatisations of water and electricity companies. He left Lazard’s in 1993 and became chairman of Cox Insurance and Low & Bonar PLC as well as Deputy Chairman of the London Port Authority. In 1984 Duncan became the London Representative of the Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race. This entailed organising everything that was needed to run the Boat Race including finding sponsorship, ensuring the race was run safely and securely, and managing and liaising with the police force, the Port of London Authority and the four London Boroughs that the race ran through. During his 21 year tenure, amongst other ‘highlights’, he had to contend with the Cambridge crew steering into a large river barge and destroying the bow of their racing shell shortly before the race start, and trying to ensure there was a race at all following the Oxford Mutiny. Duncan played a key role in managing the rules and legalities of how the Mutiny was ultimately resolved. Duncan was made a Steward of Henley

Royal Regatta at which he umpired races for twenty years and sat on the Finance Committee.

Duncan was Chairman of Dorney Lake Trust from 2004 to 2012, which was a period dominated by the run up to the London Olympics. Dorney Lake, Wimbledon and the sea at Weymouth were the only sports venues that did not have to be constructed for 2012. It took Duncan’s leadership and astute business sense to prise proper financial compensation from the shockingly tightfisted Olympic Oganising Committee for using the lake which had been built by Eton College. It was developed into the greatest venue ever for Olympic and Paralympic water sports with a lasting legacy for the benefit of UK rowing. Following his City career, Duncan became the Master of the Watermen and Lightermen Livery Company in 20102011 and was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 2012-13. Duncan and Jennie had four wonderful sons, who are now spread across the world pursuing a range of careers. All sons rowed competitively at Radley College with Robert, his eldest, rowing in three Boat Races and representing Great Britain at the under-23 World Championships winning gold in the VIIIs. This follows Duncan and also Jennie’s Australian uncle, Lewis Luxton, who stroked Cambridge in the Boat Race then went on to row for Great Britain at the Olympics. Duncan is survived by Jennie, his sons, and by eleven grandchildren.’ Rob Clegg (Keble, 1993, MPhil Management Studies) Other tributes to Duncan Clegg appeared in the Times (www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ duncan-clegg-obituary-mjtrt0mtl) and the Daily Telegraph (www.telegraph. co.uk/obituaries/2022/06/09/duncanclegg-city-financier-ran-oxfordcambridge-boat-race-20/)

GORDON CROSSE (1958) Gordon Crosse died on 11 December 2021, this obituary has been provided by his friend John Turner. Gordon Rathbone Crosse was born on 1 December 1937 in Bury, Lancashire, where his father worked for the Midland Bank. Though plagued by illness for much of his life his father was a talented amateur pianist, organist and cellist, as well as an ingenious amateur inventor and engineer.

The family moved to Cheadle Hulme when his father was transferred to the Bank’s Cheadle Branch, and Gordon attended Cheadle Hulme School, whose other musical alumni have included the composer Peter Hope and the announcer and Strictly Come Dancing contestant Katie Derham, as well as the broadcaster Nick Robinson – a distinguished roll call indeed! Crosse wrote A Cheshire Man for performance at the School for Peter Hope’s 90th birthday, but alas the pandemic forced cancellation of that concert, among many others.

Crosse gained a first-class degree in Music from St Edmund Hall in 1961, and he then went to Rome on an Italian Government Scholarship, where he attended Petrassi’s classes at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia. On his return to the UK, he worked briefly for the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) and researched early-fifteenthcentury music. He was appointed Haywood Research Fellow at Birmingham University, a post he held from 1966 to 1969. Gordon’s colleagues and friends at Birmingham included both Peter Dickinson and David Munrow, and in memory of the latter he was later to write a beautiful elegy, Verses in Memoriam David Munrow, and subsequently A Wake Again. Gordon was snapped up by the Oxford University Press as a house composer shortly after his Oxford degree, his first publication being Two Christmas Songs, to Latin texts, in two parts, for female voices, which were published by the Press in 1963. Other works from this early period included Three Inventions for flute and clarinet, a first (of two) violin concertos (Concerto da Camera), Villanelles for chamber ensemble, and Corpus Christi Carol for soprano, clarinet and string quartet. His Opus 1 was actually a first Elegy for orchestra, performed by the Halle in April 1962 at Manchester’s Free Trade Hall under Maurice Handford in an SPNM open rehearsal concert. Within a very short time, Gordon’s works were being regularly commissioned and performed to great acclaim – works such as the oratorio Changes, Ariadne for oboe and small ensemble, and the orchestral song cycles For the Unfallen, and Memories of Night: Morning. A strong literary bent became quickly evident in his music, the words of these last two cycles being by the poet Geoffrey Hill and the novelist Jean Rhys respectively. Gordon’s fellow Mancunian and great friend Alan Garner (he of The Weirdstone of Brisingamen) wrote the text for two works for children, the mini-operas Potter Thompson and Holly from the Bongs. This friendship was celebrated many years later by Gordon’s Chimney Piece, for recorder, clarinet and viola, performed in the enormous fireplace in part of Alan’s medieval home, the Medicine House (reerected by the author next to his original cottage, Toad Hall). It was written in fulfilment of a long-standing promise, for Alan’s 80th birthday. Gordon’s other principal literary collaborator was the Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, with whom he wrote the children’s cantatas Meet my Folks and The Demon of Adachigahara. Hughes also provided the translated libretto for his opera The Story of Vasco. One of the first operas performed at the newly formed Royal Northern College of Music was Gordon’s Purgatory, based on a short play by William B. Yeats, paired with William Walton’s The Bear. Later operas of Gordon’s were The Grace of Todd (for the English Opera group, Aldeburgh, 1969) and The Story of Vasco (Sadlers Wells, 1974), but the latter was not a success and some of the music was reworked for the orchestral Some Marches on a Ground (1970). Ballet also figures in Gordon’s output. Young Apollo, for The Royal Ballet, extended Benjamin Britten’s short fanfare for piano and strings into a full-length ballet. Playground (also for The Royal Ballet) was an arrangement of material from his children’s opera Potter Thompson, and Wildboy was arranged for orchestra for the American Ballet Theatre, with Mikhail Baryshnikov in the title role. The Aldeburgh music scene very much appealed to Gordon, as he had always greatly admired the music of Benjamin Britten. Gordon in fact met his wife Elizabeth Bunch in the porch of Orford

Church during an Aldeburgh Festival. Her parents had retired to a cottage in nearby Walberswick, and Gordon and Elizabeth bought a rambling house in Wenhaston, near Blythburgh. He and Elizabeth had two sons, both of whom became distinguished in their respective businesses. Jo is a motorcycle engineer, specialising in BMS motorcycles. Gabriel is a highly respected events stager, for political conferences, music festivals and the like.

Britten’s many works for children were an inspiration for Gordon’s own pieces for children, among which was the late work A Chethams Suite for String Orchestra (2019), composed for the Junior Orchestra of Chetham’s School in Manchester.

Along with his composing, Gordon had several academic posts, at Essex University, Kings College Cambridge (where he was a Visiting Fellow), The University of California Santa Barbara (where he joined on the staff his fellow Brit Peter Racine Fricker), and the Royal Academy of Music in London. He had always found it difficult to write to deadlines, and a slew of bad reviews, mostly unwarranted, resulted in ‘the silence’. In particular, the poor reception of The Story of Vasco, his trumpet concerto, Array, written for and premiered at the Proms by Hakan Hardenberger, and a fiasco over Sea Psalms, with an uncompleted premiere and inaccurate parts, commissioned for Glasgow as City of Culture, were all setbacks, and eventually prompted a change of career. He became a computer programmer, writing programmes for Cadbury and others. He frequently told me that this work utilised the same brain cells as composition. But it certainly did not need the same imagination, and I regularly pestered him to get back to the music. The silence was finally broken in 2008, when Gordon had retired from computer programming. I persuaded him to write a work for the 80th birthday of his old friend Sir John Manduell. This was a cycle of songs to words by another favourite author, Rudyard Kipling. The cycle was premiered in Bowness (two of the songs) and London (with the addition of L’Envoi) in 2008.

Then the flood gates opened. There followed in quick succession a Fantasia on ’Ca’ the Yowes’ for recorder, strings and harp; Brief Encounter for recorder, oboe d’amore and strings; and a trio (Rhyming with Everything) for oboe violin and cello. Gordon wrote: “The Summer and Autumn of 2009 was the most exciting and productive period I have ever experienced. I had returned to composing after a break of some eighteen years and I found I couldn’t stop working. The music was simpler than it was in 1990 but I think more communicative because more concentrated and focused”

After that, the flood became a torrent with a third Elegy: Ad Patrem, in memory of his adored father; The Barley Bird for a festival in nearby Beccles); three more symphonies; three piano sonatas; five new string quartets, including one for the 150th anniversary of the Quaker Meeting House in Leiston; a viola concerto, drawing material from the earlier trumpet concerto; and a host of shorter instrumental and choral pieces for friends and colleagues, mainly written just for pleasure. It is a treasure trove for future exploration. His stated aim was to strive for “a blend of elegance and passion that I always try to achieve in my own music, though I succeed but rarely.” Very frequently, others would say. Elizabeth died of cancer in 2011. Gordon found solace in attending the Quaker Meeting House in Leiston. Through his connections there he met the poet Wendy

Mulford, who became his companion in his later years. Together they purchased a house on the shores of Papa Westray, the northern-most of the Orkney Islands, and this resulted in several works inspired by the local landscape and wildlife. For me, he wrote the last of his concertante works for solo wind instruments (a project inspired by Nielsen’s unfulfilled ambition to write a concerto for all the instruments in the woodwind family), On the Shoreline. The piece, written in just a few days, is based on the cries of fulmars and sanderlings outside their window. The others, following on from his early success with Ariadne (now a standard piece for

TONY CROWE (1954) This obituary originally appeared in the Church Times The Revd Anthony (Tony) Crowe was a progressive and sometimes controversial priest, who was committed to an inclusive Church. He came to national prominence for blessing gay partnerships in church as early as 1978, and he was a longstanding campaigner for the ordination of women, for the marriage of divorcees in church, and for Palestinian rights. His main ministry was at St Luke’s, Charlton, in Southwark diocese, where he was Rector from 1973 to 1994. Under his leadership, St Luke’s became a very distinctive church community; his legacy oboists) were Thel for flute, Wildboy for clarinet (later revised for Psappha as L’Enfant Sauvage), Gremlins for bassoon, and Ceili De for horn.

His last piece was Déploration, in tribute to his late friend Peter Maxwell Davies. He told me, with his wry sense of humour, how sorry that he had not managed to get round to writing one for himself! I treasure the many pieces that Gordon wrote for me. His late Three Twitchings for recorder and piano were dedicated to “John Turner, who helped raise me from the dead”. I am proud of that! John Turner

of inclusivity remains embedded. His commitments to radical causes were sincere and principled, but Tony also enjoyed sticking his head above the parapet, and very visibly breaking the rules. Tony was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, and, after National Service with the Gloucestershire Regiment, he studied theology at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Tony first felt his calling as a schoolboy in Bristol, and his views about the nature of the priesthood were shaped by Mervyn Stockwood’s ministry there. Later, Stockwood - when Bishop of Southwark - appointed him to parishes in Clapham and Charlton. While Tony’s attitudes to homosexuality and Christian Socialism were influenced by him, he was more critical of Stockwood’s gender politics. Tony trained for the priesthood at Westcott House, Cambridge, between 1957 and 1959, a time of heated theological debate. He was a direct contemporary of Don Cupitt, and Tony’s sermons were informed by Sea of Faith ideas, as well as a recurrent theme that explored relationships between the Bible, tradition, and reason.

was the first deacon to be ordained in the crypt of the new Coventry Cathedral in 1959, three years before its consecration. He served his title at St Paul’s, Stockingford, a mining village outside Nuneaton, where he met Ailsa Wood, a health visitor. They married in 1962, moving to Eltham, in south London. Tony became Vicar of St John’s, Clapham, in 1966. He plunged into the politics of 1960s inner London, aligning the church with local groups campaigning for racial justice. For a time, the Black Panthers used the church hall.

It was at St Luke’s, Charlton, that Tony’s ministry had its fullest expression. Tony was forever grateful that the parish was willing to come with him, even at the cost of criticism and attacks from the wider Church, local community, and national press. Tony was physically assaulted, and his family were verbally abused, primarily because of his support for gay rights. In November 1978, Tony was the celebrant for the blessing of the partnership of Rodney Madden and Saxon Lucas. The ‘gay wedding’ was widely covered, in the national tabloid press and elsewhere. It was indicative of Tony’s commitment to the cause (and eye for publicity) that these vows were reaffirmed in 1988 for a BBC Panorama programme about Church of England divisions. Tony’s support for the ordination of women was also expressed through action. He mentored Liz Canham, who travelled to Newark, New Jersey, in 1981 and was ordained priest in the Episcopal Church by Bishop Stockwood and Bishop Jack Spong. Three weeks later, she celebrated the eucharist in the rectory at St Luke’s; the service was covered on BBC’s Newsnight that evening. In 1986, at the invitation of the PCC, she celebrated the eucharist in the church. compassionate support for women who were training for ordination as deacons and then priests during the late 1980s and 1990s. His work was particularly important in quietly supporting those who were knocked back by selection processes that he saw as marked by ingrained sexism. The third cause central to Tony’s ministry was the Palestinian struggle. He visited the Middle East in a Labour Party delegation in 1970, crystallising his sense of injustice about the Occupation. He later met Yasser Arafat, and regularly wore a keffiyeh (Palestinian scarf), sometimes over his vestments. He was a trustee for Bible Lands (now Embrace the Middle East) for 34 years. What linked these issues for Tony was injustice. He was prepared not just to have opinions, but to act upon them even at personal cost. Tony and Ailsa had six children, three of whom were adopted or fostered into what became a happy multi-racial family. In 1994, they retired to Whitstable, in Kent, and acquired a beach hut that they named St Luke’s. Tony became a part-time prison chaplain at Swaleside and Emley in the late 1990s, and worked as a counsellor for Cruse.

Ailsa strongly supported Tony’s values and provided emotional stability for the family. Although she disliked the term ‘vicar’s wife’, theirs was a shared social ministry. Ailsa died in 2020. They are fondly remembered in Charlton and beyond for their community work, radicalism, humour, and open house. Tony died on 27 January, aged 87. He is survived by five children, thirteen grandchildren, and a great-granddaughter. This article was first published in the Church Times on 18 March 2022. To subscribe, please call 01603 785911 or email subs@churchtimes.co.uk.

ERIC JONES (1943) This obituary has been provided by Eric’s son, Martin. Eric Jones passed away on 1 October 2021. He entered the Hall in 1943 on an army six-month short course having volunteered for the Royal Signals at eighteen years old. One of perhaps eight men dropped off the back of an army three-tonner late at night, having completed basic training at Catterick, he studied at Teddy Hall from April to September 1943. Living in Hall as an undergraduate, he had a schedule of academic lectures and additionally, one day a week, military training in Christ Church meadow under a Guards sergeant - part of the Officer selection procedure. Later in life, Eric would often recall memories of ‘the Abe’ (A. B. Emden) then Principal, and the Rev John Kelly, known as ‘the VP’ and later, famously, Principal. “If the sirens went off in 1943, we were liable to be commanded by the VP to get out of bed and stand in the quad until the all-clear, listening to aircrafts searching for Cowley, and getting very cold. I am not sure how that helped, but very British!” Such was Eric’s academic performance, Principal Emden offered him the chance to return to the Hall once the war was over, whenever that should be, to study for a degree. After serving in Italy and Greece, Eric was demobbed in 1947 and welcomed back at the Hall. Despite taking his Higher School Certificate, or ‘matric’, in Latin, Greek and Ancient History, Eric requested to take a degree in Mathematics. Although somewhat surprised with his choice, Dr Fletcher, the Senior Tutor, accepted him on a war degree in Mathematics. Feeling there was no time to lose in resuming his formal education, securing a job and starting a family with his wife-tobe – his long-time girlfriend since his early war days – Eric completed his degree in two years, gaining his BA (subsequently MA), and then trained to teach on the DipEd course at Norham Gardens. From 1950 to 1985 he taught Maths at Sir Joseph Williamson’s Mathematical School, Rochester, for much of that time as Head of Department, successfully guiding many students through their O and A Levels as well as a number onto Oxbridge. Eric would often make visits back to the Hall, establishing contact with Dr Peter Collins, rejoicing in the familiarity and unique atmosphere of the Front Quad, and also in seeing the development of the small Hall he knew into a flourishing College under the steady guidance of JND Kelly. As a KCS Wimbledon scholarship boy whose parents were a milliner and a gardener, Eric was always very grateful for the happy times at Teddy Hall and the significant opportunities it gave him. Martin Jones (1975, Mathematics)

PETER MAYNE (1969) Peter Mayne, who read Modern History at the Hall, died on 9 June 2022 at the age of 72, after living with cancer for eighteen months. Peter’s professional life lay in education. His first post was teaching History at a boys’ grammar school in Leicester, the Headmaster of which was the father of the current Governor of the Bank of England. There followed a variety of jobs in teaching, including implementing and supervising various Government learning initiatives, before, in 1996, he became Principal of Paston College, a sixth form college in North Walsham, Norfolk. This was a position that he held until 2012. Peter’s philosophy was that the students’ interests always came first, and through the hard work of Peter and his team, the college grew and prospered under his stewardship. He was very proud of the success of his college and when Peter was presented to the Queen at the opening of the Millennium Library in Norwich, he took much delight in informing her Majesty that his eldest student was more than 90 years old. After retirement from Paston, Peter kept in touch with the world of education through consultancy work. He was a campanologist, originally learning to ring while at the Hall through the course organised by the Oxford University Society of Change Ringers. With his wife, Beverley – whom he first met as a fellow student of Latin at Beauchamp College, Leicestershire, the beginning of a relationship of more than 50 years – Peter rang at many towers in the Midlands and later mainly at Aylsham in Norfolk. Many ringing tours were also undertaken. For many years, Peter was musician to Kemp’s Men of Norwich, who dance a wide mixture of Cotswold Morris and dances, composed by the Men, often based on the Norfolk long dance. Peter went on many tours with the Men in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. He also played melodeon, as a guest musician, for the Woodside Morrismen (based in Watford), again with tours in the UK and Germany. All matters railway related were an abiding passion. Model railway clubs, trainspotting expeditions, contact with the Reverend Teddy Boston, the original Fat Controller and the narrow gauge railway he built in the grounds of his Rectory at Cadeby, Leicestershire, made sure the railway bug had well and truly bitten. When Peter did eventually fully retire, he upgraded to fullsize train sets by volunteering on the North Norfolk “Poppy Line” heritage railway as a ticket inspector and then a guard, before becoming a director of the company that maintains and runs the line and becoming Chair of the Community Rail partnership for the Bitterne Line, the branch line that links Norwich to Sheringham. A service of thanksgiving and celebration of his life was held on 5th July 2022 at St Nicholas Church, North Walsham. Appropriately, it was a clergyman in the regalia of Kemp’s Men who led the prayers at the celebration.

Graham Jenner (1969, History and Modern Languages)

LOUISE RANDS SILVA (1986) This obituary originally appeared in The Guardian. Louise Rands Silva, who has died of cancer aged 57, worked as my assistant for nearly 30 years, on cases, books and a myriad of other activities relating to matters of international law and justice. She also had a strong commitment to community engagement, working in parallel in education, for Sure Start, as a forest school leader, at a school working with children with behavioural difficulties, and as a teaching assistant at a primary school. Born in Byfleet, Surrey, Louise was the daughter of Barbara Wright, a primary school teacher, and John Rands, a public health inspector. When the family moved to North Devon she went to school at South Molton Community College and Kelly College, then spent a year working on a kibbutz in Israel. In 1986 she went to St Edmund Hall, Oxford University, to study English literature. She moved to Brazil, to teach English as a foreign language, returning to London to work as a paralegal at a Brazilian law firm.

In 1992 I employed Louise at the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development at SOAS University of London. There we worked together on projects about climate change, sustainable development, and international courts and tribunals. A highlight for her was being part of the team in The Hague on the 1996 case on the legality of the use of nuclear weapons which ruled that environmental protection was now part of international law. While there, Louise took a part-time master’s degree at SOAS, in South American Development Studies. In 1993 she married Maú de Jesus Silva, a guide and musician whom she had met in Brazil, and later they moved to Bideford, north Devon, to raise their children. There, Louise began her work in education, focusing on young families and in her work as a forest school leader, taking children into the outdoors to help them understand the wonders of the natural world. In later years she worked with refugee families in North Devon, teaching English. Over this entire period, Louise and I never stopped working together. She transcribed every interview I conducted, for books and cases, and typed and corrected the manuscripts of 15 books, from a treatise on international environmental law to the more recent East West Street (2016) and The Ratline (2020). She shared thoughts about characters and themes, enriching every book. She was a first sounding board, a trusted colleague and friend who offered significant input on the issues she cared about. A few weeks before her death she was still working, on my forthcoming book about Chagos, The Last Colony, and was immortalised by Martin Rowson in one of his illustrations for the book. Louise was a truly decent person, smart and warm, humorous and generous, understated and utterly reliable. Maú died in 2007. She is survived by their sons, Gabriel and Rafael, by her siblings, Caroline and Edward, and by her mother, Barbara. Philippe Sands Reproduced with permission

JOHN LIONEL TOOLE (1958) Lionel passed away peacefully at his home in Cumbria on 28 October 2021. Born in Chester in 1938, Lionel studied French and Russian at St Edmund Hall, as well as being a member of St Edmund Hall 1st VIII (1960), after completing his National Service.

After graduation, Lionel spent the majority of his professional life working abroad, in China, Nigeria, Morocco, Senegal, Sweden and Canada to name a few, before retiring to his beloved Lake District.

In his later years, he taught himself piano and developed a love and aptitude for genealogy. Lionel is greatly missed by his wife, Diana, sons David and Andrew, and four grandsons. REVD CANON HUGH WILCOX (1959) This obituary has been provided by Hugh’s brother, Martin Hugh was born in Barnsley and educated at the Royal Grammar School, Colchester. After National Service, he came to the Hall to read Theology in 1959. As a student he served as President of the University U.N. Association, and on committees of the Student Christian Movement. He was Chair of the University World Refugee Committee, and was President of the Freedom from Hunger Campaign. He treasured his time at the Hall, and his studies with the late Principal, Dr John Kelly. After his training at St Stephen’s House, Hugh was ordained Deacon in 1964, serving his curacy at St James the Great, Colchester, and becoming Priest in 1965. He married his first wife, Mary, and they had two sons. The following year he became a staff secretary for the SCM, and from 1968-1976 held secretarial posts with the British Council of Churches, and travelled widely representing the BCC International Affairs Department. He contributed to Violence in Southern Africa

published by SCM Press and to World Council of Churches work on international projects. Hugh visited the United Nations for six weeks in 1974 as a representative of the Society of Friends. In his words this was “a considerable ecumenical honour for an Anglican priest to represent Quakers.” In September 1976 Hugh became Vicar of St Mary’s Church, Ware, and served there until his retirement in August 2003. His work included governorship of two church schools, periods as Mayor’s Chaplain, and considerable work with the creation of an extension built at the church. His work involved much community involvement and he sought to attract worshippers to join the congregation. In 1989 Hugh was elected to the General Synod of the Church of England to represent the clergy of St Albans diocese. There he served as a Church Commissioner first advising on redundant churches and then on the Assets Committee. Hugh also helped to draft the Common Worship services now in use. He became widely known as a Prolocutor in the Synod, contributing to and guiding many key debates. Having learned the piano at an early age, Hugh was a talented musician who enjoyed singing tenor in the choir whenever possible, and continued as a chorister after his retirement. At the service of thanksgiving after his death the congregation sang a ‘Candlemas Hymn’ written by Hugh. He was a family man and is survived by his second wife Barbara, sons Dave and Andy, and three grandchildren. In 1996 he became an Honorary Canon of St Albans Cathedral in recognition not only of his pastoral work as Vicar in Ware, but also his contribution to many influential committees both national and international. After retirement Hugh and Barbara lived in Royston where he enjoyed doing extensive research into his family history. Hugh described himself as “a High Churchman” by upbringing, training, and inclination”, and considered it a privilege to serve God in the “often infuriating, but always challenging and rewarding process that has made up a very varied ministry”. Martin Wilcox (1967, Theology)

Hall Magazine 2020-2021 Aularian News Erratum

P. 186 At the end of his obituary for his father, John Pike, we erroneously listed Michael Pike’s Oxford affiliation. Like his father, Michael is an Aularian (1968, English), we apologise deeply for the mistake.

To end the Magazine for another year, a toast proposed at the end of a 1960 reunion dinner held in the Old Dining Hall on 28 September 2022: Vintage Aularians, 1960 survivors; it falls to me to propose our Aularian toast. We are gathered here in this evocative Old Dining Hall – possibly for the last time. Fortunately, there are still just enough of us left to justify a reunion dinner but that may not continue. Indeed, sadly, we have lost, among others, Alex McCallum, Andrew MacLachlan, David Henderson, John Blackburn, John Heath, Mike Roberts, Mike Notley, Peter Bayliss, Roger Plumb, Roger Williamson, Roger Wilcock, Tim Cannon and Tim Richards. May they rest in peace. Additionally, there are some of us who have vanished in cyberspace. They remain out of contact despite the best efforts of Francis and the Alumni staff. But we who are here can look back on our youth at the Hall – probably with affection and gratitude. So what do we remember about it? If indeed we can still remember anything! It was almost exactly 62 years ago that 112 of us entered this great College for the first time. None of us knew each other – mostly we were among other youthful strangers each of us wondering what lay ahead. Feelings were of anticipation, excitement and perhaps trepidation. None of us knew what was in store for us. Some of us had expectations – most of us just hopes. What happened in our three or more years here? First, there was the obligatory year group photograph. If you still have it, you will probably not recognise others or indeed yourself. Then there was an enthusiastic welcome from our unforgettable Principal, Canon John Kelly, whose magnificent portrait we see over there, gazing benevolently on us. We were helped in getting to know each other by our cosy and iconic Front Quad – unique among Oxford colleges. With its small size and intimate atmosphere, it was able to generate all manner of chatter and interaction throughout the day and sometimes nights – with song emanating from the Buttery. Not much intellectual discussion though – sporting talk was prevalent, reflecting the main activity then. That talk was enlivened by the presence of many distinguished sportsmen, most of whom had done National Service before coming up. We were the first year not to have had the advantage of two years military service – or was that fortunate? Rugby was the premier sport. Hard to believe, in that first Michaelmas term the Hall provided over half of the Oxford rugby team.

In fact, we ourselves were involved in many sporting activities – too numerous to talk about here –but I will just trigger some memories by mentioning the victorious Torpids crew of 1962. They bumped St Johns early on and then rowed over as Head of the River. Julian Rogers was stroke followed by John Sherman at 7, John Adey at 6, Jeff Goddard at 5, Robin Brackley at 4, Bob Chard at 3, Tim Richards at 2, Patrick Sankey-Barker as bow with David Henderson as Cox. Truly an illustrious team! In other sports, we eventually had seven Blues, and others who represented the University at various times. You may recall that in that Hilary term of 1962, as well as Torpids, we won nearly every inter-college competition: including rugby, soccer, hockey, drama and even ping pong. Although sport

was the main catalyst, we had an easy camaraderie among many different personalities and spanning many different activities – including chess, bridge, drama, music, religion, shoot pontoon and the Scope Club. I suppose I should mention our academic prowess – I use that description loosely. It was not apparent that much attention was given to work. We had few eventual firsts. It is quite different nowadays – the number of firsts verges on 25 percent. That perhaps reflects the brilliant women who now make the Hall their first choice of Oxford colleges. They have contributed greatly to its current prominence. Of course, the Hall’s teams – men’s, women’s and mixed - still excel at sport and we continue to win Rugby Cuppers (alas not this year). You don’t need me to tell you that the College has gone from strength to strength – even without us – or perhaps due to the enduring springboard which we helped to create all those years ago, only three years after the Hall was granted its full charter by the late Queen. Maybe we will come to rival Balliol in having a line of future prime ministers, starting with Sir Keir Starmer… How did we all turn out? Well, all of us will have had our triumphs, some small and personal, others more widely consequential. However, as we look back, now is not the time to dwell on any of those. When the moving finger of life nears its end, it does not really matter what heights you reached or what achievements were yours. The paths of glory, or otherwise, fade away into insignificance. Anyway, some of us may have wasted our sweetness on the desert air. More cheerfully, during whatever time we have left, as our fading sun goes down, we can all be truly grateful that our rising dawn was here at this distinguished and unique College – indeed like no other. Please rise for the Floreat Aula toast. Guy Warner (1960, Mathematics)