1978, her heart was failing. She died in the Radcliffe Hospital on the night of 16 January, shortly before she would have been 76. The loss of her presence is deeply felt by her friends. Her grave is in Willersey churchyard and her epitaph in Cymbeline — Fear no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task has done, Home art gone and ta'en thy wages. C. A. and M. H.
Mary Holdsworth (nee Zvegintzov) Mary 'Z', as she was affectionately known, came up to St. Hugh's in 1927 to read P.P.E. She took her B.A. degree in 1930 and worked for a time in the London and Eastern Trade Bank, London E.C. She was born in Voronezh and her father, Colonel A. Zvegintzov, was a member of the Duma. In 1938 she returned to Oxford to become Secretary to the Master of University College, Lord Beveridge. In 1940 she married Richard Holdsworth, R.A.F.V.R., who was a Fellow of that College and was killed on active service two years later. Mary continued until the end of the war as a teacher in the R.A.F. and R.N.A.S. under the-Central Advisory Council for Adult Education in the Forces. In 1946 she taught at the City Technical School and at Ruskin College, and she also lectured to P.O.W.s at Wilton Park Training Centre. From 1948 until 1962 she was Secretary and Senior Research Officer of the Oxford University Institute of Commonwealth Studies. In 1949 she became Secretary to the Oxford University Colonial Studies Committee and manager and governor of two schools. She also found the time to publish an annotated bibliography of Soviet-African Studies, 1918-59, and a book, 'Turkestan in the 19th century'. In 1962 she went to Durham University as Principal of St. Mary's College, and in 1973 became Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the university, the first woman to hold the post. Mrs. Holdsworth did much to break down barriers between men and women at Durham, and also established a new chapel in St. Mary's College. ED.
Christine Mary Snow (nee Pilkington) Mary Snow, who died at Perpignan on 13 November 1978, was born in 1902, the daughter of Cecil Pilkington of the well-known Lancashire firm of glass manufacturers. She came up to St. Hugh's as a scholar in 1922 and took her B.A. degree with first-class honours in Botany in 1926 and B.Sc. in 1929. In this year she was elected to a Research Fellowship at Somerville, but was unable to take up the post of Resident Tutor in Natural Science because of her marriage to Robert Sabine Snow, F.R.S., Fellow 44