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From page 109 of Abraham Ortelius’ Album Amicorum. This book is in the holdings ofPembroke College Library and contains a collection of pictures, inscriptions andsignatures by Ortelius’ international network of friends; he started the collection in1574 and continued it until his death in 1598. The book was digitised in 2003 through

the generosity of Tony and Christine Wilkinson. Other pictures from the AlbumAmicorum can be found throughout this Gazette.


CONTENTS

Editor’s NoteFrom the Master

A. WRITINGS AND TALKSMy Life in Photography – Ian Fleming 9Some Reflections on Admissions – Susan Stobbs 16A Philosophy of Decolonisation: 21Gandhi on the Power of the Powerless – Emile Perreau-Saussine

The Commemoration of Benefactors’ Sermon – 30The Reverend Robert Wiggs

Henry Kissinger at Pembroke College 32President Theodore Roosevelt at Pembroke College – 37a 100 year anniversary

Through a Glass Darkly – a poem by Colin Wilcockson 40

B. COLLEGE NEWSNew Fellows 43Fellows’ News 51Gifts to the College 53College Chapel Report 54Pembroke House Report 56Development Office Report 58College Clubs and Societies 67

C. THE COLLEGE RECORDThe Master and Fellows 2009–2010 95College Officers 2010–2011 101Matriculation 2009 102Annual Examinations, First Class Results 2010 107College Awards 109Graduate Scholarships and Awards 115Higher Degrees Conferred 116

D. THE PEMBROKE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE SOCIETYMembers’ News 123Annual General Meetings of the Society 129Dinners and Receptions 130Local Contacts 135Rules of the Society 136Presidents of the Society 138

E. DEATHS AND OBITUARIESList of Deaths 141Obituaries 144


EDITOR’S NOTE

As my first act as the new Editor of the Gazette, I would like to pay tribute to thework of my predecessor, John Dougherty, in editing the last eight issues of theGazette. The immense dedication that he brought to the job of producing theGazette each year will never be surpassed. I would also like to acknowledge thecontribution of FrancesKentish,whohelped JohnDougherty put together the lastseven issues of the Gazette and has been of immense help in producing this issue.Her wisdom, patience, good humour, and organisational skills made it mucheasier for me to take over as editor than might have been the case. Pat Aske, SallyClowes, Becky Coombs, Rosalind Dearlove and the Pembroke DevelopmentOffice team also played a crucial role in putting together a lot of the informationcontained in this Gazette. Ian Fleming was also of huge help, for reasons that willbe obvious to anyone who looks through this Gazette.When I took over as Editor, there was a consensus that it was about time we

looked again at the structure of the Gazette, which has remained unchanged since1999. I hope the new structure will make it much easier for readers to find theirway around the Gazette. The ‘Development Office Report’ in the ‘College News’section of the Gazette gathers together various items regarding the College’sfundraising activities that were formerly scattered throughout the Gazette. ‘TheCollege Record’ section has been much reduced so that it now just containsmatters of record relating to the College in the last year. Reports on the activitiesof the College’s clubs and societies in 2009–10 can now be found in the ‘CollegeNews’ section of the Gazette. And there is now a new section of the Gazette on‘Deaths and Obituaries’. There is no ‘Pembroke Bibliography’ anymore. Thosewishing to find out what books have been published this year by Members of theCollege should consult ‘Fellows’ News’ in the ‘CollegeNews’ section of the Gazetteand ‘Members’ News’ in the ‘Pembroke College Cambridge Society’ section of theGazette. ‘Members’ News’ is a new section that is intended, for the time being, tocarry news of publications by, and awards and honours given to, Members of theCollege who are not Fellows. Anyone having such news should contact me [email protected]. Happily, Colin Wilcockson has agreed – contrary to theimpression given in the last issue of theMartlet – to carry on editing the ‘Members’News’ section of the Martlet. Anyone with more informal items of news that theywould like to see appear in theMartlet should contact Colin on [email protected].

Nick McBride

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FROM THE MASTER

Amongst this year’s Pembroke obituaries are recorded the lives of four teachers,who between them gave well over a hundred years of service at their schools. Inaddition, my attention was also drawn to three other late Pembroke memberswho had prominent cultural careers as a book editor, a gallery owner and artdealer, and a museum curator. To these can also be added several universityprofessors. Though we celebrate their individual achievements, we can onlyimagine the aggregated influence they will have had on several generations ofstudents, and a wider circle that came within their various orbits. To what extentdid Pembroke prepare them for that role? I would like to think that it played animportant part in their motivation and preparation. Though they matriculatedwell over fifty years ago, this is an aspect of College life which has changed verylittle. Many young people still pass through Pembroke and graduate with theintention to play a contributing role in civic life, which in time flourishes anddevelops into a powerful and influential commitment. The description of one oftheseMembers as ‘a giver not a taker’ describes well a theme that can probably betraced back to Pembroke’s earliest days. Once the original Fellows had said theirmasses for the Foundress’ soul, they were probably preoccupied with the task ofeducating the future educators, preparing their charges to hold civic office and tomake their various contributions to society. Perhaps one of the consequences ofthe recent banking and financial crisis has been to reinvigorate the idea thatethical considerations and a socially responsible attitude should play animportant part in planning and choosing careers; and it is pleasing that this re-emphasis of these values should fit so comfortably with the College’s efforts toachieve a subtle blend of its rich historical identity with the role it should beplaying today at the leading edge of higher education.I write this year’s introduction to the Gazette in the immediate aftermath of the

June Budget. Unquestionably its impact on the University, in addition to cuts inhigher education that had already been announced, will be severe; and if thecoalition government cannot agree a substantial increase in the top-up fee, likelyto be recommended by Lord Browne’s review later in the year, because it would betoo controversial, then with no other substitute funding likely to be available tomake up for lost revenue, the University’s financial situation will become evenmore difficult.As most members will now be well aware, Pembroke has worked tirelessly to

strengthen its own financial situation, in part in anticipation of leaner timesahead. Now that those times have definitively arrived, I pay tribute to theextraordinary support we have had from the extended Pembroke community. Ialso congratulate our own financial team for the rigour which they have broughtto themanagement of the College’s affairs over recent years. That the College canbalance its books and add significantly each year to its endowment is unusual inthe present circumstances. Pembroke’s success is based on a combination of itsability to generate significant income, over and above the College norm (largelythrough its International Programmes and Corporate Partnership scheme) andits sustained fund-raising, which – now that it has achieved a certain maturity –

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regularly brings in £3million a year, andmore in its best years. Though Pembrokeis not amongst the wealthier colleges, it now certainly compares with them inrespect of the annual income that it generates.It is too soon to predict exactly what the effect of the cuts will be on the

University. However, it may force some difficult choices in some areas such as thebalance between graduate and undergraduate numbers, how many full fee-paying students it should take from outside the European Union, and howmanyacademic positions it should leave vacant. The impact on the colleges could wellbe significant, and colleges that are financially strongwill be better able to protectthemselves from consequences that they feel may be adverse to their owninterests and to their ethos.This brings me back to my original argument. It is more in the Colleges,

particularly at the undergraduate level, that the values that a College likePembroke espouses can be promoted and encouraged. The sense of a purposefulcommunity with its own identity and commanding its own loyalties, andencouraging its members to take the concepts of service to others and civicresponsibility seriously does not sit so easily in the wider University, where therelationship with individual students is necessarily usually more impersonal. Asthe University enters a very difficult period, which could last for the next five toseven years, it is all themore important that the Collegemakes a conscious effort,through being materially strong and confident of its future, to preserve andprotect these values. Apparently, they have been a part of Pembroke for a very longtime, but in difficult times we should not take them for granted.

R.B.D.



A. WRITINGS AND TALKS



Photography in my LifeIan Fleming

Photography has been an abiding interest formost ofmy life. Not a hobby: I don’tlike the word – it smacks too much of the amateur, and I think of myphotographic work as being more serious than that word implies, though ofcourse I am an amateur, only rarely being paid for it. Looking back, it’s notsurprising that I was attracted to photography, for I have a strong visual sense,expressed in other ways as well: I am passionately interested in films, and alwaysnotice the cinematographer’s contribution as well as the director’s; and I amrather more concerned than most of my colleagues about the look of my work inmy lectures, books and papers.I beganwith a Brownie Box, given tomenear the end of thewar by a neighbour

in Pedmore, where I grew up. There was no film available in the shops at thattime, so it was only a toy to play with. It actually had a roll of film in it, which Iruined when I opened the camera for the first time; but it gave me practice atloading and unloading. I was able to see how the roll was constructed, withcelluloid film and opaque paper to protect it from the light. Eventually, probablyin 1947 or 1948 when I was 12, I bought a roll of 120 Verichrome film, and tookmy first pictures. I’ve kept some of them, because they bring back memories, butthey certainly don’t look like the work of a budding photographer. I last used it tophotograph two of the barracks I lived in when I was in the army in Catterick in1955. I still have it, but it has taken no pictures for 55 years.In 1955 and 1956, during the later part of my National Service, I was stationed

in Münster at Brigade Headquarters with two other subalterns, Roger Hills andDouglas Towler, who were passionate about photography, and talked about it agreat deal. I learned the language of f-stops and depth of focus, of the balancebetween grain and film speed, of different camera formats and brands, and theirreputations and advantages, all without having a camera of my own.Roger had a Kodak Retina 1b, a simple, compact 35 mm camera. It was

capable of focussing, but only by one’s measuring the distance from the subjectto the focal plane and then setting that on the lens—fine for landscapes and anyother photographs takenwith a focus set to infinity, but a bit of a pain for portraitsand other close-ups. Shortly before Roger left for his next posting, in the earlysummer of 1956, I bought his Retina 1b. I took quite a lot of pictures, all B&W, oflife and recreation in that last summer in the army. I became quite skilful atestimating light and making quick adjustments to f-stops and shutter speedswithout always having to readmy light meter. I seemed to know instinctively howto compose, when to use portrait format and when landscape, not to mentionavoiding elementarymistakes such as placing people’s heads in themiddle of theframe instead of near the top. I soon learned how to estimate distance pretty well,and, for close-up portraits, managed to persuade my subjects to sit still while Imeasured the distance from their eyes to the focal plane.Sometime in my first year as an undergraduate at Pembroke I discovered that

the College had a darkroom. It was a gyp room on the first floor of N staircase,near the rooms of the chaplain, John Dickinson, who was also a History don.

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Since I had never done any developing or printing, I persuaded John Marriott,whom I’d met in my brief try at rowing, to teach me the rudiments. JohnDickinson dropped in from time to time to chat about photography, and on oneoccasion he commented that he really ought to take pictures of the Fellows. It wasnot his kind of photography—he was interested in detailing in churcharchitecture, the carvings and the design at the bottoms and tops of the plinthsand columns, for example—so I was not surprised to find, when I became aFellowmyself, five years later, that he had done nothing about it, before he left fora lectureship in Birmingham.I joined the University photographic society, went to many of their meetings,

exhibited photographs in their competitions, and occasionally used their superiordarkroom in a damp basement in Caius. I learned a good deal from some of thesemeetings—I especially remember a talk Nikolaus Pevsner gave aboutphotographing buildings. He also judged that year’s competition. I had onlyentered one photograph in my first year, a picture of Cologne Cathedral at night.It won no prize, but I was encouraged when he said “I like that” with a tone andGerman accent I can still hear.The College also had a photographic society from time to time, with a

darkroom, which had moved to the basement of S staircase, always available,more spacious but damp and dispiriting. They occasionally had a competitionand an exhibition, and asked me to judge it or find judges. One time Imischievously chose two wildly different judges: Sidney Kenderdine, as stolid inphotography as in personality, and my friend Missy Cusick, a bohemian whosestyle of photography was as spontaneous as she was. She was perfectly capable ofphotographing her big toe in close-up and printing it at 16×20, though I don’tthink she ever actually did so.Portraits were what I did most of (and still do). To begin with, my portraits

were mostly of Joan, my first wife. At the end of my second year, I made enoughmoney by photography to get me through the long vacation. I photographedcouples at the Pembroke May Ball; my near contemporaries in their graduationgear; and the Pembroke Players and other acting groups. I even thought ofofferingmy services to estate agents: it was obvious that they should showphotosof their properties in their windows, yet at that time they didn’t. I wish I hadoffered and been the pioneer of what they all do now.After Joan and I separated, and I moved to AbbeyWalk, I took photographs as

a way of getting to know people, especially girls. It was an intimate social activitywithout necessarily having sexual overtones, so that I was able easily to makeportraits of other people’s girlfriends as well as my own.My next camera was a two-and-a-quarter square twin-lens reflex, a Minolta

Autocord. I bought it near the end of my third year of research, in June 1962, justbefore a three-week holiday driving to Italy with two friends. I had been offered aResearch Fellowship in Pembroke College to start that autumn, somy immediatefuture was secure—I could risk spending my savings on the camera. The Retina1b came along as my colour camera. It was a joy to have two cameras, so that Icould always choose between shooting in colour or B&W. From then on I alwayshad two cameras, until digital cameras made it unnecessary. When I returned



from Italy I made some 16×20 prints, especially one of Milan cathedral, andseveral from Florence, Rome and Paestum.The next year I made two four-foot high prints from these negatives, along

with the St Ives picture, to use as decorations for my College room. I was able tomake such big prints because I hadmet Peter Goodliffe, who taught photographyat the Oxford Poly. I took the train one weekend in the spring of 1963 fromCambridge to Oxford – you could still do that then – carrying a 25-foot roll ofKodak photographic paper. It took all day tomake three prints: Peter and I cut andpinned up four-foot lengths on the wall of the Polytechnic’s big darkroom, tiltedthe enlarger on its side, and projected the negatives for minutes on end. Wedeveloped and fixed the prints in one large trough-like dish, not big enough forthe paper to lie flat in, but big enough so that each print could be run up and downthrough the liquids. I glued them to hardboard, and they hung in my rooms inCollege for the next forty years, gradually going grey and losing much of theircharm. They were never good prints, as I later realised, because they had neithergood blacks nor good whites; but even so they were interesting.The Minolta Autocord was my main camera only for 1962–3, which was my

first year as a Fellow at Pembroke. I used it to photograph theatricalproductions and theatre people, who were among the friends I made afterbreaking up with Joan. The most significant of these friends was Steve Frears,who was doing remarkable productions at the ADC, precursors of hissubsequent career as the best living British film director. I did the photographyfor his production of Expresso Bongo, including publicity pictures of Richard Eyre(later head of the National Theatre) as the pop star meeting real pop stars of theday, Helen Shapiro and Eden Kane, whom Steve had somehow arranged for usto meet.I then did publicity stills for Steve’s production of Waiting for Godot with John

Shrapnel (billed as John Patch, because his tutor had told him to stop acting),Jonathan Lynn, Saam Dastoor, Tony Vivis and Sue Andrews. I also did thepublicity and programme pictures for that year’s Footlights production, A Clumpof Plinths, with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, John Cleese, HughMacdonald andJo Kendall as “the girl”, the designation the Footlights used to acknowledge theexistence of women. (It had only been three years since the first woman had evenbeen allowed into the show: Eleanor Bron, in 1959.)1963 was also the year I started to photograph the Fellows of the College. John

Dickinson’s remark had given me a real ambition to capture them myself,especially now that I knew them all in person. I invited them, one by one, to cometo my rooms and have their photographs taken, often after dinner in Hall. Istarted with Ray Dolby just before he left for India. No one demurred, then orsince. Occasionally one of the flashes I was using would not fire, because theleads from the camera to the flashes were fragile and did not always makecontact, and I got some striking but unintentional lighting effects, especially in aphotograph of a gaunt BasilWilley, whose facewas half in light and half in almosttotal darkness, as if lightning had struck just beyond a side window. I didn’t usethis picture in the College’s copy—it wasmore dramatic than accurate—but I putit in my own copy.

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By the end of the summer I had photographed all the Fellows and made twosets of 8×10 prints, which I had bound into hard-backed books by Vere Stoakley.My copy was cloth-bound, but David Joslin had offered to pay to have theCollege’s copy bound in leather, thus creating a tradition which Bursars havebeen obliged to continue with each subsequent volume—there are now seven. Inthat first volume, I particularly like the ones of Bill Hodge, Sydney Roberts,Meredith Dewey, David Joslin and Erwin Rosenthal, but they were all a joy to take.Most of them were mature men, whose character was by now engraved in theirfaces, whereas the Fellows I photograph now are usually young. The downyfreshness of youth makes it easy to take pleasing pictures of them, but theircharacter is less often so clearly marked by lines and habitual expressions.At the end ofmy first year at Pembroke as a Research Fellow, I went to Harvard

for a postdoctoral year, to work with R. B. Woodward. It was a most importantyear inmy life: I was working with the greatest organic chemist of the century, onhis top project; and I met Mary Bernard, with whom I’ve been living ever since. Ibought two Minolta SLRs, which were my cameras for the next thirtyfive years,and I sold the Retina to Bill Grimstone, who has it still. I introduced Mary tophotography, and she was soon hooked. After a couple of years, she bought aPentax MX from our friend Eve Arnold, who had got new Pentaxes. (Eve can beseen holding the one that becameMary’s on the cover of her book Film Journal.) Ithad a beautiful 83 mm lens. Mary eventually moved on to a pair of ZX autofocusPentaxes, and I took over the Pentax MX in 1998 for a little while, though I keptborrowing one of her ZXs for portraits, because of its even more reliablefocussing.Back in Cambridge, we eventually created a darkroom to use at home.Our first

home darkroom was in the College house in Botolph Lane that we moved into inthe autumn of 1981, while the builders were joining our house at WillowWalk tothe house next door, which we had bought three years earlier. The living room ofBotolph Lane became a dedicated darkroom, with an opaque screen over thewindow, for the ten months we were there.When we moved back into WillowWalk in the autumn of 1982, the first thing

we built was bedroom closet shelving and a bed base; but the second, even beforebookshelves, was the darkroom fixtures which we used until 2005, when wemoved over entirely to digital processing, and reluctantly admitted to ourselvesthat we were never going to use B&W film again, and that we should turn thedarkroom into a badly needed storeroom. It was hard letting go of all that hard-won expertise. But at least we didn’t have to throw the equipment away. SomePembroke undergraduates had got interested in B&W photographic processing,and our enlarger, our expensive Nikon enlarging lens, our equally expensiveMicromega focus finder and most of our other equipment found a new home inthe refurnished darkroom in S-basement.I bought my first digital camera in 2003, when 5 megapixel cameras became

affordable. I judged that 5 megapixels would be just about good enough fortaking my first steps with a digital camera. I decided on an Olympus 5050 fixed-lens camera. I ordered the camera online in June 2003, from B&H in New York. Itcost about £500. They sent it to the B&B in the Hudson River Valley where we



stayed for a couple of days in order to go to Jessica Katznelson’s wedding. Wearrived a day before the wedding, but I had no time to learn how to use it. Marywas the official wedding photographer, and we spent that day checking theworkings of the big flash unit she would be using, and scouting the location. Ihad a few minutes with my new toy, but not enough to take any photos at thewedding—where in any case I was fully occupied as photographer’s mate.It was easy enough to use, once I had time to try it out and read the manual,

and it proved to be another excellent choice of camera: I used it for four years, andit gave me a lot of practice, and a good sense of what I would demand from mynext digital camera. Like the Retina 1b, it was capable of giving good resultsunder, but only under, optimum conditions. I used it for several of thephotographs in Volumes 6 and 7 of the Fellows’ photographs. The rest of thephotographs in Volume 6, and a few from Volume 7, were taken with the PentaxZX on Kodacolor film. In terms of resolution, as checked with a resolution chart,there was no doubt that film was better, but this did not mean a much betterlooking portrait. One striking difference between film and digital images is thatdigital images show skin tone as a smooth gradation, while film, even fine-grainfilm, shows it as grain. Skin is not granular, so digital was already a closecompetitor, at least for portraits.The last time I used a film camerawas inDecember 2006, when I took a Pentax

to South Africa, thinking that film might be better than digital pictures in somecritical cases. In the event, the technical quality of the photographs from Mary’snew Olympus E 400 10-megapixel SLR was better in every case than that of minetaken on film. Not surprisingly, I very soon moved up to an SLR, and 10megapixels. I chose a Nikon D-200, which cost about £1,000. This was what Iused for the last ten or so pictures in Volume 7, plus the Master, whom I had leftuntil last. I’m now using the Nikon for everything, processing with PhotoshopCS5 in a MacPro computer with two large flat screens.In all this I haven’t said a word about what kind of photographs I like to take,

and what kind of results I want to see.I didn’t see photographs by great photographers until I was 20, when I bought

The Family of Man, the book of an exhibition organised by Edward Steichen atMOMA in 1955—hundreds of B&W images of people and places, mostly people,loosely arranged from birth to death. Since the photographers included IrvingPenn, Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange, Eve Arnold, HenriCartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Margaret Bourke-White, Bill Brandt, WalkerEvans, Ansel Adams andmany others, it was an excellent introduction to the bestphotography of the first half of the twentieth century. It strongly influenced mysense ofwhat photography could and should be about, and ofwhat could be donewith nothing but a small camera and a good eye; and though I didn’t realise it atthe time, it taught me that grain and resolution mattered far, far less thancomposition, and composition less than content: images that definemoments sovividly that you say, Yes, to them.Yet the photo-journalistic ethos that permeates The Family of Man did not

greatly influence the kind of photographs I took, and still take. I admire HenriCartier-Bresson, Eve Arnold and DonMcCullin, and I might have learned how to

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snatch key moments on the fly if I had become a photo-journalist; but I’ve donevery little of that kind of thing, perhaps becausemy talent is actually for capturingpeople who are more or less posed and views that are stable. Most of myphotographs are of these two kinds. I take close-up portraits—and I do meanclose-up, as distinct from full or three-quarter length; and landscapes, includingcityscapes and buildings.In fact, the strongest influences on my photography have been Richard

Avedon, Karsh, and Irving Penn, as well as one picture by David Montgomery,printed in the Sunday Times colour magazine, of Victor Rothschild at his desk: astraight colour portrait that showed all the man’s power and force of intellect.That was the kind of picture I really wanted to be able to take. It wasn’t untildigital photography enabledme towork as I wanted to in colour that I could hopeto get anywhere near it. In the meantime, these photographers showed me thatphotography could pull beautiful and revealing fragments out of the naturalworld, whether it was a face, a building, a detail or a view.It’s very hard to describe what I mean in words rather than by showing

photographs. Of course I choose my subjects and frame them carefully. But oncethe photograph is taken, I do as little to it as possible. When I worked in B&W inthe darkroom, my manipulation of the print was necessarily limited to cropping,framing, choosing paper (high or low contrast), deciding on exposure anddevelopment times (do I want a dense, dark image or a high-key one?), and somedodging and burning—bringing up detail in the highlights and holding backdensity in the shadows. You dodged by waving bits of cardboard on flexible wirewands over the paper while it was being exposed, and you burned by wavingcardboard with holes cut in it in the sameway. Even at its simplest it involved a lotof trial and error—and it was very hard to dodge and burn on the same print. Itcan be argued that there is nothing realistic about turning the three-dimensionalmulti-coloured world into black, white and grey in two dimensions. But what Idid in the darkroom I did in hopes of rendering reality faithfully.I always wanted to photograph in colour. I knew how to choosewhich pictures

to take in colour. I even had a tiny number of them enlarged and printed biggerthan the standard en-prints, but neither commercial printing nor what I saw ofCIBAchrome was remotely satisfying—I needed to be in control. I now wish thatI had taken more colour pictures, because the gift of Photoshop has made itpossible to restore my few old colour pictures, now faded and colour-shifted, tosomething of their original state.Almost all colour photographs have a colour cast of some sort or other, to

some degree or other, even when new—all-over veils of colour cast by shadeunder trees, the setting sun, cloudy skies, artificial lighting: the list is endless.Photoshop makes it extraordinarily easy to remove colour casts. Again, thesemanipulations—and the Photoshop equivalents of dodging and burning—are inthe interests of conveying the reality that I saw when taking the photo. I don’twant my photographs to look doctored. I am not interested in the hundreds ofways that you can use Photoshop filters to turn photographs into impressionistpaintings or pencil sketches. I am not, however, above putting a blue sky into apicture that only shows a grey sky even though the sun was out—usually because



the skywas so bright that it registered as white on the sensor, although tomy eyesat the time it was blue.In telling this story, I have emphasisedmy taking portraits of Fellows; but they

are far from being all that I take. I have photographed scores of friends andacquaintances, the houses I’ve lived in, the schools I’ve been to. I’ve takenmundane pictures: a record of the College buildings all taken in the one year in1971; records of College building works for Bill Hutton; the cover photograph forthe College's Who's Who in 2000, taken at a Foundress Feast attended by myheadmaster and his twin brother, both of whom are in the picture; and details ofthe carvings in the college chapel for Bill Grimstone. I’ve used some of thesepictures, and others, for the frontispiece and endpapers of the books of Fellows’portraits. I seldom take what I would call snapshots.I usually take a camera with me when I travel. Many of my best photographs

are landscapes taken on the more substantial trips: India, China, Europe, andespecially North America, where we’ve had five or six long drives all over theUnited States and southern Canada. Some of the photographs I take on thesetrips are probably much the same as the ones hundreds of other people havetaken—the Taj Mahal, the hillsides of the Shenandoah Valley, the Golden Templein Kyoto, the GreatWall of China and Tiananmen Square, for example—with onedifference: they never, ever have Mary, or anyone else I know, standing in theforeground. But I have also caught some lovely places and people: vegetablesellers in a Mumbai market, cows lying down in the city centre of Pune, a villageconclave in Lesotho, ghost towns in Montana, a field in a deep valley in Japan, abeaver dam inWyoming…

A selection of photographs by, and of, Ian Fleming can be found at the centre of this Gazette.

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Some reflections on admissionsSusan Stobbs

My interest in the assessment of candidates for admission to the Cambridgecolleges began as a young research fellow in physics at Newnham, when I wasasked tomark the physics entrance paper, under the benign eye of the formidableKen Riley. I had previously been admitted to read Natural Sciences at Newnhamfrom a school where the physics teaching had been poor, so I had chosen not totake the physics paper (considered at the time to be notoriously difficult),preferring the comparatively (to me) simpler papers in chemistry andmathematics. Thus I fear that I was probably an over-generous examiner.In the sixties and seventies the entrance examination was a very useful and

pretty fair selection tool. Most able children at that time had access to a grammarschool, direct grant school or independent school offering a good academiceducation, resulting in candidates presenting with a fairly similar level ofpreparation for the entrance examination and subsequent Tripos. Furthermore,generous state scholarships and means-tested grants were available for the firsttime. As a result, the student body in Cambridge became increasingly diverse,with, by the late seventies, less than one third of the successful UK candidatescoming from independent schools. In 1968 one third of all students inuniversities in the UK came from families of skilled or unskilled workers, asignificantly higher proportion than found in most other European countries.(Perhaps, coming fromNewnham, I should add that the systemwas far from fairfor the women candidates: with only three women’s colleges, the competition forplaces was such that only 16% of the applicants were successful, compared with48% of comparable male candidates. With the gradual mixing of colleges duringthe late seventies and eighties the systembecamenoticeably fairer and for over tenyears now the success rate for men and women has been identical, averagingabout 22% in 2008.)The abolition of the state grammar schools and the removal of direct grant

status from many state schools, during the seventies, had a profound effect onCambridge admissions. As schools worked to become fully comprehensive itsoon became obvious to admissions tutors that many of the former grammarschools that had regularly sent us candidates in the past now ceased to do so.Applications from state schools went into decline, and, more worryingly foradmissions tutors, those who did apply were less successful in gainingadmission. Shirley Williams, in her recent autobiography, talks about ‘the anticsof a small number of militant left-wing teachers, mainly in London, eschewingcompetition and distrustful of discipline’. I think she seriously underestimatesthe extent of the anti-intellectualism prevalent amongst teachers in so manycomprehensives at that time:many were openly hostile to the very idea that any oftheir students should aspire to Cambridge. (This is not the place to argue themerits and de-merits of a fully comprehensive state education system, and manyof the problems that the Cambridge colleges encountered during this transitionperiod have now been addressed.) Direct grant schools, which were, during theearly seventies, undoubtedly the most successful institutions in gaining places at



the Cambridge colleges, were given the alternative by the government ofbecoming fully comprehensive or turning independent; most decided, albeitsomewhat reluctantly, on independence. Other independent schools, respondingto the growing perception amongst the middle classes of falling academicstandards in state schools and sensing a niche market, gradually became morefocussed on academic results. By the mid-eighties, as a result of these changes,the number of students being admitted to Cambridge from state schools hadfallen by about a thousand, and the proportion of Cambridge students comingfrom independent schools reached 60%.A very worried Admissions Forum (the inter-collegiate committee with

responsibility for co-ordinating admissions) had no option but to abolish thetraditional entrance examination and look for other ways of assessing candidatespresenting with such different levels of preparation. After extensive consultationwith schools, the decision was taken in 1983 to introduce a different form ofassessment, the Sixth Term Examination Papers, taken by students in schoolsalongside their A level papers in the summer. These papers were broadlywelcomed by all school heads, and proved to be a useful assessment tool.However, it soon became only too apparent that in many state schools teacherswere refusing to allow students to take STEP, despite this previous endorsement,and consequently such students were prevented from applying to Cambridge.Admissions tutors were faced with a dilemma: keep the useful assessment tool ofSTEP, and have a smaller and less diverse pool of applicants, or widen the pool ofapplicants by abolishing STEP and then be faced with inadequate assessmenttools, based on A level and interview alone. Inevitably, for most subjects, STEPwas abolished, although it continues to be highly successful for Mathematics.Such changes did at least stem the tide of falling state school admissions, but

progress was very slow. Typically, Pembroke was one of the more pioneeringcolleges, realising the importance of actively encouraging students from lesstraditional backgrounds to apply to the College, rather than assuming that theywould be automatically encouraged to do so by parents and teachers. In the mid-eighties James Hickson, with Bill Merrick (Pem), who was teaching in a boys’comprehensive school in Luton, and Alan Jarvis, the chief science advisor for theBedfordshire Local Education Authority (LEA), devised an innovative three-dayresidential ‘Science Masterclass’ for state school students in Bedfordshire andsurrounding areas. This has since become an annual feature in the College diaryand has been used as the blue-print for many subsequent access initiatives bothwithin Cambridge and elsewhere. Pembroke was also a founder member ofGEEMA, the Group to Encourage Minority Applicants, which was established by agroup of admissions tutors concerned about the very small number of black andAsian students who were applying to the colleges, and the Special Access Scheme.In 1996 the Admissions Forum carried out an in-depth review of the relatively

new admissions procedures and concluded that, whilst the systembroadlyworkedwell andwas reasonably fair, the colleges needed amore coherent andwidespreadaccess programme.With the increasing availability of centralised statistical data itbecame easier to make such assessments. As Chairman of the Forum I remarkedin a confidential meeting that the A level statistics indicated that we probably

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should be working towards an intake of about 60% from state schools, but thatmany of these able students were still not applying to us. I had not realised thatsuch a remark would in any way be controversial, but, to my great surprise, myremarks were quoted verbatim the next day on the front page of the Times. I thendiscovered, to my horror, that once one is quoted by one serious newspaper, allother newspapers, TV and radio programmes and news agencies then phone foran interview. Nervously I awaited my colleagues’ reactions and was somewhatrelieved to be accosted on the market square in a friendly way by the Vice-Chancellor (the much missed David Williams) who remarked teasingly that in allhis years of public life he had never once made the front page of the Times.The problem, as always, was a lack of funding: few external bodies were

interested in Cambridge admissions at that time, and bursars (not I hasten to addthe Pembroke Bursar) were wont to comment that ‘we have plenty of goodapplicants sowhywastemoney on encouragingmore?’ Then came the bombshellof Gordon Brown’s attack onOxford, and everything changed overnight: fundingfor access work was no longer a problem, although it was sometimes difficult tofind ways of spending the external funding fast enough! The inter-collegiateLEAs’ links scheme was established at this stage, in which each collegeundertakes to work with the schools in specific LEAs, raising awareness of whatthe Cambridge colleges have to offer and encouraging academic aspirations froman early age. By allocating different regions (on a friendly basis) to differentcolleges the aim of the Forum was to be able to establish long-term effectivecontact with all schools in the UK. Pembroke joined with St Catharine’s toappoint an access officer to work in several neighbouring LEAs, includingBedfordshire and Suffolk, building on the success of the originalmasterclass.Wealso considered how the resources of Pembroke House could be used moreeffectively to start programmes for the schools in Southwark, one of the mostdeprived educational areas in the UK. Fundingwas also offered to departments toencourage the setting up of interactive school websites, and some interestingprojects emerged. I remember one particularly memorable lunchtime meetingwhenwewere introduced to the ‘Iliad for primary schools’ Classics project. This hadproved to be a great hit with small boys in the Dagenham primary schools (whereit had been trialled) when they were allowed to re-enact the Trojan Wars in theschool playground.Dealing with the intense, hostile scrutiny of government, the media, schools

and parents revealed a problem: the rudimentary University Press Office was notbriefed or funded to deal with college matters and who on earth would beprepared to speak on behalf of all colleges? After the briefest of media training I,as the current (unpaid) Chairman of the Admissions Forum, was launched intothe fray. My first interview was with Anna Ford on the Today programme and aspate of hostile interviews followed. We were even asked to brief Members ofParliament at theHouse of Commons, although ‘brief ’ is probably not the correctword to use here: we were given very little time to respond to a series of hostilequestions from all sides. After a particularly belligerent question from BarrySherman (MP for Huddersfield) I tried to comment that one of the institutionsthat sent large numbers of students to Cambridge happened to be a highly



successful sixth-form college in his own constituency, but he had walked out bythat time. Fortunately the 1996 review at least provided much needed facts andfigures, although I was always worried about how colleagues in Cambridgewould react to each interview, since it is very rare to get all the colleges to agree onany policy statement.It soon became apparent that, although the colleges were satisfied that their

admissions procedures were broadly fair to all candidates, there was no formalwritten evidence to substantiate this assumption. Very little of our admissionsprocess was documented in any transparent way and the bald statistics wereunhelpful, to put it mildly. Interview and pooling procedures tended to vary fromcollege to college. Newly appointed as the first Director of Admissions for theCambridge colleges, my first task was to attempt to formulate policy papers thatcould be agreed by all the colleges: a somewhat daunting task,made a little easierby the sheer pressure of outside publicity. Thus most of the current extensiveadmissions documentation – now widely available for all to view on the web –started life in Pembroke. The interview guidelines are based on the notes thatStephen Monsell bravely produced for Pembroke interviewers almost twentyyears ago, at a time when the training of interviewers was considered unseemly;others I drafted in the light of my experiences at Newnham and Pembroke.Interviewing came under the greatest scrutiny and there werewidespread calls forits abolition, on the grounds that it would always favour the well-taught, moreprivileged applicant. Fortunately I was, at that time, invited to attend a conferencein New York, which brought together the deans of admissions of the Ivy Leaguecolleges and the admissions tutors from various Russell Group universities todiscuss ‘Widening the Pipeline’, US-speak for broadening access. In between manyfascinating discussions we were addressed by the director of a charity workingwith Afro-American students in inner-city New York, who emphasised theimportance of interviewing such students in order to make a fair assessment. Hewas very impressed to hear that we still managed to interview all our candidates,which gave us some useful ammunition.However, with little quality control at thetime there were some high-profile, and quite understandable, complaints againsta number of interviewers, and it was clearly important to develop guidelines andtraining for all interviewers as a matter of urgency. This led to some usefuldiscussions as to what interviews are for, and our current procedures haveundoubtedly benefited from this scrutiny.More than ten years on much has been achieved. Notably, our admissions

procedures no longer make headline news, and most school heads will concede,in private if not always in public, that we run a fair and transparent system. Withthe support of inter-collegiate databases the subject moderation of candidatesthrough the pooling system has greatly improved. Pembroke is particularlyfortunate in having a highly committed and hard-working fellowship: thedownside of being a very popular college is the extensive interviewing and testingthat is required in all subjects over the Christmas vacation, but few complain, atleast openly. The statistics give only part of the picture, but an interesting part: in2008 the 170 undergraduates admitted to Pembroke came from 105 differentschools and colleges from all over the world. The proportion of our UK students

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coming from state schools has risen from about 40% in 1996 to about 60% in2008with about half nowwomen. The number of students from the EU and otheroverseas countries has almost doubled, reaching 16%. The concern for the futurewill be the increasing squeeze on university finances and its effect on the diversityof our student body: but this is something for my admirable successor asAdmissions Tutor to worry about.



A Philosophy of Decolonisation: Gandhi on the Power of thePowerlessEmile Perreau-SaussineEmile Perreau-Saussine, Fellow of FitzwilliamCollege and Lecturer in Politics at PembrokeCollege, died on February 23 2010, at the age of 37. His obituary is on p 163 of this Gazette.In Emile’s memory, we are publishing an abridged version of a paper of his that waspublished in French in Actes des Journées Internationales de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan: Conférenced'�thique Militaire (Presses de L'armée de Terre, 2006). This is the first time a version of thispaper has appeared in an English translation.

Like the Third Estate in the French Revolution, the “Third World” set itself free;but, unlike the Third Estate, the Third World has never quite managed to find itsplace in the world. Countries in Africa and Asia that until fifty years ago livedunder the rule of imperial Europe are today independent. They have becomepolitically autonomous, evincing the characteristics of sovereign states andacquiring full membership of the United Nations. But what have they made oftheir freedom? The peoples of the ThirdWorld seem plighted to misery: despoticand bankrupt states plunder their own natural resources and drive their citizensto civil war.Many suffer from a sense of unsettled identity: once proud to fight fortheir nations’ liberty, today they are eager to escape them for the El Dorados of thericher nations of theWest. The time has come to assess the mixed legacy of thesedecolonisations, long considered a panacea. Why this relative failure? The bestway of answering this questionmight be found in exploring its counterpart: whatis a successful decolonisation? How should people liberate themselves?Gandhi gave deep and serious consideration to the conditions necessary for a

successful decolonisation. This consideration is indebted to his analysis ofdomination as advanced in and through the collaboration and servilility of thedominated people. His analysis of domination offers a more even-handedaccount than the received narrative of colonisation. Against those historians whopass judgement on European imperialism, often in a Marxist vein, charging theWest with a catalogue of wrongs against the countries they colonised, Gandhi’sperspective shows how this perspective risks reinforcing the very subjection itseeks to combat.

1. Domination depends on the collaboration of the dominatedCondensed into a few short sentences, the most obvious way of understandingoppression is in terms of violence. Empires impose their yoke through wars ofconquest, through violence. The strong dominate the weak through their use offorce. Reciprocally, the weak seek violent ways to liberate themselves; attackingonly where and when the strong least expect, they attack their adversary’svulnerable point by seeking to make themselves ungovernable, The weak makethemselves strong by blurring the distinction between combatant and non-combatant, by circumventing established rules. Using terror to humiliate thestrong, their force becomes as fearful as that wielded by their oppressors.This account of decolonisation is exemplified in the approach of Frantz

Fanon, who writes that ‘[i]n capitalist countries, a multitude of professors of

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morality, advisers, désorientateurs, intervenes between the exploitated and thepowerful. In colonies, by contrast, the enduring presence and frequentinterventions of police and soldiers maintain direct contact with the colonisedand urge him, with rifles or napalm, not to move. As is evident, the agents ofpower use the language of pure violence.’1 This ‘pure violence’ leads to a violentresponse. Unsurprisingly, these sentences are drawn from a chapter appositelyentitled ‘Of violence’.But the distinction that Fanon draws between capitalist countries and colonial

regions is hardly convincing. Indeed, if oppression did not encounter a certaincomplicity in the oppressed, it would need to be extraordinarily violent. AsSpinoza observes: ‘men have never so far ceded their power as to cease to be anobject of fear to the rulers who received such power and right; and dominionshave always been in as much danger from their own subjects as from externalenemies. If it were really the case that men could be deprived of their naturalrights so utterly as never to have any further influence on affairs, except with thepermission of the holders of sovereign right, it would then be possible tomaintain with impunity themost violent tyranny, which, I suppose, no onewouldfor an instant admit.’2 An historian observes in a similar vein that ‘the difficultyof managing any empire is bound to vary […]; it is the occupied, not the occupiers,who make the choice. Even the apparently powerless have that much power.’3

Oppression is never solely external or imposed. It always assumes self-interestedparticipation, a certain degree of complicity or collusion.This analysis of domination holds in widely varying contexts – in the British

Empire in India, for example, for rarely were so many men controlled by so few.By its very nature, ‘indirect’ rule granted a place to Indians in the administrationof the Empire. A nation of limited size and population relative to India, theUnitedKingdom could not have conquered the subcontinent through brutality orviolence alone: the participation of the Indians themselves was necessary. As theprominent historian of imperialism, John Seeley, observes: ‘India can hardly besaid to have been conquered at all by foreigners; she has rather conqueredherself.’4 Seeley emphasises that the acquisition of India cost Great Britain verylittle. The nation’s state budget and army were hardly affected in the endeavour.Seeley dwells especially on the divisions amongst the Indianswhich the East IndiaCompany so adroitly exploited. Extending his historical thesis to a politicalconclusion, Seeley adds: ‘We are not really conquerors of India, and we cannotrule her as conquerors; if we undertook to do so, it is not necessary to inquirewhether we could succeed, for we should assuredly be ruined financially by themere attempt.’5 Gandhi, who had read Seeley, draws on the authority of the latter,contending that, ‘in the real sense of the expression, India is not a conqueredcountry, but […] it is British because the vast majority of its people have, perhapsfor selfish reasons, accepted British rule.’6 ‘The English have not taken India; wehave given it to them.’7

Gandhi adopts Seeley’s analysis in justifying his own politics of non-violence.If it is true that the domination of India dependsmore on Indian cooperation thanon British violence, then violence is not needed to overthrow the British: it will beenough to stop cooperating. More generally, if it is true that domination assumes



a certain participation of the dominated, then a non-violent politics of civildisobedience is sufficient to end domination. Gandhi addresses himself thus tothe British: ‘You have great military resources. Your naval power is matchless. Ifwe wanted to fight with you on your own ground, we should be unable to do so;but, if the above submissions be not acceptable to you, we cease to play the ruled.You may, if you like, cut us to pieces. You may shatter us at the cannon’s mouth.If you act contrary to ourwill, wewill not help you, andwithout our help,we knowthat you cannot move one step forward.’8 Gandhi reveals the impotence of bruteforce – and the true strength of the weak. How can the powerless escape anoppressive system? By vowing not to participate in it: striking, turning to civildisobedience and refusing to pay taxes. Gandhi recommends, for example, thatthe Indians do not buy English clothing but instead spin their own. Nehrusummarises this policy: ‘The government rested very largely on the cooperation,willing or unwilling, of Indians themselves, and if this cooperation werewithdrawn and the boycotts practised, it was quite possible, in theory, to bringdown the whole structure of government.’9 It is in no way necessary to useviolence to destroy the system: to undermine government, it can suffice to ignoreit. In the absence of any contribution from the dominated, domination comes toan end. Since oppression requires complicity, the oppressed only need to refuseto take part.An objection may be raised at this point: Was Gandhi too willing to lay blame

on the Indians? Did he overestimate the responsibility of his people andunderestimate that of the British? Did he go as far as to deny the evidence of theviolence of the colonisers? Evidently not.No regime is able to rule by pure force. All too numerous are those

governments that abuse their position by oppressing peoplewhohave given themtheir trust; but rare indeed are those that do not claim the support of those whomthey govern.Gandhi’s politics of non-violence addresses itself to the latter kind ofgovernment. His politics reveals the limits of the legitimacy of such governments.A skilful politician, Gandhi repeatedly defied the British: he obliged them toresort to the police force, prison, and army. While the imperial elites may readilyhave claimed an authority founded on the consensus and gratitude of thecolonised, Gandhi forced them to disclose their own violence, eliciting theconfession that it was through the ever-implicit threat of force that they remainedin power. His non-violent campaign revealed what had been veiled, exposed whathad been kept hidden; it laid bare the naked violence of the colonisers, therepressive reality masked by a peaceable facade. To the imperial powers, Gandhiwas an agitator who sparked violence; from Gandhi’s perspective, non-violenceprovoked nothing: it was merely the tearing-off of many masks. He did notexaggerate the importance of Indian complicity. He did not underestimate theviolence of the colonisers: ‘It is perfectly true that they use brute force.’ Is this tosay that he would also recommend the use of brute force against brute force? No.‘By using similar means, we can get only the same thing that they got’: that is tosay, in the spirit of Gandhi, not much.10 For him, true strength is based less onphysical force than on moral superiority.

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2. Domination relies on the servility of the dominatedStrikes, boycotts, civil disobedience, non-payment of taxes – certainly! But thistype of resistance is not purely mechanical in nature, as if non-cooperation weremerely a matter of abstract calculation, the element of cooperation beingsubtracted here and added there. Gandhi does not simply understand oppressionin terms of a ‘technical’ cooperation of the oppressed with their oppressors: thephysical dimension of non-cooperation has a corresponding moral dimension.Does the slave tolerate his condition because his life is continually threatened

or because he has accepted subordination and internalised servility? Does theslave lose the fight because he is weak? An analysis centred on violence onlyconsiders the slave as a passive victim, forgetting the sense in which the slaveparticipates actively in perpetuating his own slavery. The slave ‘consents’ to hisenslavement, at least to the extent that he prefers slavery to death. It is not theweakest whonecessarily becomes enslaved but the onewhoprefers to save his lifeat the expense of his freedom.Gandhi underscores the importance of courage: ‘Strength lies in absence of

fear, not in the quantity of flesh andmuscle we may have on our bodies.’11 Nehruoffers a keen insight into Gandhi’s world: ‘The dominant impulse in India underBritish rule was that of fear, pervasive, oppressing, strangling fear; fear of thearmy, the police, the widespread secret service; fear of the official class; fear oflaws meant to suppress, and of prison […] It was against this all-pervading fearthat Gandhi’s quiet and determined voicewas raised: Be not afraid.’12 InHegeliandialectics, it is cowardice that makes a slave; in Gandhi’s dialectics, it is couragethat liberates the slave from his condition. This courage has two dimensions: thecourage to resist intimidation, maltreatment, and prison, and the courage toaffirm one’s ownmoral superiority, worthy of ruling.In the hierarchy of virtues, however, courage has a lowly place. Courage alone

is not enough. It depends on another virtue, one whose importance Gandhiindicated in baptising his non-violent struggle with its name: a firm dedication totruth, the strictures of truth, or ‘Satyagraha’. In the fight against the British andagainst the injustices of imperialism,Gandhi’s first reflex, as he describes it in hisautobiography, is always to get a careful understanding of the relevant situation:to listen to grievances and explanations, to hold a real inquiry. It is only afterestablishing the true facts that he begins his political campaign. Simple factualtruths are embraced daily by fighters for the non-violent campaign, but also, andabove all, ultimate truth – on human nature, the soul, and God. Gandhi’sautobiography is subtitled, ‘The Story of My Experiments with Truth’. It is thistruth that gives courage its meaning.13

Far from relying on a mechanics of ‘social engineering’, Gandhi insists uponthe importance ofmoral character. If I behave like a lowly worm, I invite others towalk all over me; if I live basely, I invite others to treat me with contempt. Inmaking the dominated behave in demeaning ways, those who dominate justifytheir domination. The oppressed do not fully realise that, in allowing themselvesto become cowardly and reticent, oppression becomes self-vindicating. The non-violent politics proposed by Gandhi refashions this vicious circle into a virtuousone. If I act as a slave, I am a slave; if I act as amaster, I am – I become – amaster.



In affirming a spiritual superiority and refusing to behave as an inferior, the‘inferior’ puts an end to his own inferiority. The self-respect that the ‘inferior’gains tends to constrain the oppressor to treat him with more respect. Sincemoral superiority justifies political superiority, thosewho intend to rule politicallymust impose upon themselves a demanding discipline and act virtuously. Gandhiencourages his companions to conduct themselves with courage and to live intruth in order to reverse the hierarchy in place. Nehru again: ‘In our hearts wewere ashamed of our subjection and our impotence in our own country, and thisinstance of a brave challenge on behalf of our own people increased our own self-respect.’14 He adds: ‘we began to look people in the face as we had never donebefore, and to speak out our minds fully and frankly.’15

The Mahatma invites the oppressed to take the moral high-ground, to behavewith a dignity that willmake their abasement unlikely or impossible. He proposesto end inferiority complexes that lead men to accept blows, insults anddomination. He aims to push his people to respect themselves and so to force thecolonisers to treat them differently. He asks the scorned to act with the grandeurthat will place themmorally above those who scorn them. Base behaviour invitescontempt; noble behaviour inspires admiration. It is by asserting their own self-worth that the weak shake off their yoke. Respect for oneself and the repudiationof oppression heralds the end of oppression, the beginning of independence.Gandhi’s pedagogy for independence shook both the confidence that manyplaced in the British Empire and the lack of confidence that Indians had inthemselves. The policy that Gandhi recommended had two dimensions, onenegative, the other positive: to exclude the British coloniser by exposing the limitsof hismilitary power and challenging his legitimacy; and to replace this coloniserwith the Indian peoplewhose authoritywould be based onmoral desert. This ableand noble politics constitutes what is perhaps the decolonisation policypar excellence.....

[3.] Terrorism or non-violence?‘To blame the English is useless,’ Gandhi maintained: ‘they came because of us,and stay for the same reason.’16 This ‘because of us’ puts things in their place. Itavoids hatred and violence, stressing the centrality of responsibility and sotempering the sense of offended honour that exacerbates passions. By charginghis own people with the moral limitations and flaws that he intends to cure,Gandhi avoids an escalation to extremes. However, a society cannot recognise theflaws exposed by its own prophetic voices without a certain strength and self-confidence; and it is these that Gandhi aims to nourish. In the absence of suchstrength and confidence, it obviously seems simpler to resort to violence, and tocast all blame on the enemy. By foisting all culpability onto the colonial power,ideologues such as Frantz Fanon (cited above) mislead their readers. In denyingthe joint responsibility of the colonised, they prepared badly these nations forindependence. Lacking a clear-sighted understanding of their own complicity,many peoples hurried into ill-considered violence, assuming their adversary to beguilty of everything.

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When the weaker party ignores Satyagraha, it resorts to irregular war, guerrillawarfare or terrorism. Non-violence puts an end to escalation; by contrast,terrorism inflames and radicalises the spirit. Non-violence succeeds through re-educating the weak; terrorism does not educate, but instead corrupts both thestrong and the weak. Non-violence honours moderation; terrorism poisons thepublic sphere by venerating extremists. Non-violence aims to reassure and tobuild confidence; terrorism spreads fear and suspicion and tears social relations.When violence breaks out, Gandhi aims to tame it by imposing a fast, even a

fast to death. This sacrifice prompts a deep unease: it is not right that he sufferswhen he did nothing wrong. This unease dissipates anger. By contrast, theterrorist aims to escalate levels of violence to achieve his ends, to keep raising thestakes in the hope that his adversary will yield.The contrast between violent and non-violent conflicts helps to shed light on

the causes and aims of terrorists. I will take as an illustration the terrorism thatwe associate today with the problems of the Middle East. In this context,terrorism is often described as theweapon of theweak, forgetting too quickly thatthere are not one, but twomethods of fighting the strong: violent and non-violent.One could argue that the Palestinians would have been better off if, long ago, intheir struggles with the Israelis, they had chosen not to entrust their destiny tosuicide bombers, but to imitate Gandhi. Their use of terrorism betrays theirfeeling of impotence.While Gandhi’s politics nourished the self-confidence of the Indian people,

reinforcing their sense of self-worth, a great number of decolonised countries areconfronted today with self-contradictions. Though in principle independent, theycontinue to imitate the Occident they reject. Subjected to television images of theWest, theyenvy the richEuropeandrichAmerica theywould like toscornandagainstwhich they aim to define their own identity. When the hatred one avows foryesterday’s coloniser reflects one’s exertions in resembling him, this hatred is in theendnothingmore thanself-hatred– self-contempt as conquered, inferior, impotent.Such imitation cannot found true independence. Perhaps the formerly

colonised world has never sought so strongly to resemble the former coloniser asit has since the end of the great European empires. Far from contributing toauthentic diversity, decolonisation could be seen as precipitating globalhomogenisation, to have wrought in “globalisation” a conformist uniformity. Itis as if the recognition of state sovereignty was a pretext to usher in a morecomplete dependence. Political decolonisation has ensured cultural colonisation.Governed in principle by their own representatives, decolonised countries can nolonger blame the coloniser and so their hatreds and resentments seek anunattainable object.These unhealthy symptoms culminate in the terrorism that we know today. Its

political objective is often unclear and its adversary rather nebulous: a power thatno longer wields official power, the entireWest. In a post-colonial age, who is theenemy of those who, despite their formal sovereignty, feel dependent? They knewhow to fight colonialism. But how can they attack neo-colonialism, an insidiousenemy which, without army or police force, successfully permeated the fabric oftheir societies – crept, indeed, into the interstices of their neo-colonised



personalities? Today’s imperialism,more economic than political, foments a rageeven stronger than the bitterness at feeling somehow dispossessed despitehaving gained a certain national autonomy. How better to strike out at thisdelocalised adversary than by employing a global strategy, a planetary terrorism?Instead of building the foundations of a political future worthy of the name,terrorists allow their desire for liberty to decay into a desire for death. Certainlythese terrorists risk their lives bravely, but criminals and pirates often do too,without any particular concern for truth. Facing the strong, the weak have achoice between two directions, one that leads to Gandhi and the primacy of truthin politics, the other to bin Laden.….

Of course, one should not contrast the violence of the terrorists and the non-violence of Gandhi too strongly. Terrorists share with Gandhi the conviction thatwith a bit of cunning, a military defeat can be put at the service of a new politicalundertaking. By forcing the occupying power to alienate the civil populations, orby giving the civil population to understand that the occupying power is unjust, alimited force can defeat the stronger force by exposing its lack of legitimacy.Forced to make use of force, power witnesses to its own weakness. ‘The strongeris never strong enough to be always the Master if it does not transform force intoright, and obedience into a need.’17

And I do not claim here that all violence is illegitimate. It is often necessary toresort to force to prevent an injustice or to defend oneself. Against the Nazis, forexample, resistance (that is, legitimate terrorism, conducted in the name of a justcause, and discriminating between combatants and non-combatants) wasundoubtedly justified. In this situation, Gandhi’s advocacy of non-violence seemsalmost outrageous. The detachment for which he can calls can involve a form ofindifference so sublime: consider, for example, his comments on the fate of theJews underHitler.18 Should Imaintain a non-violent protest in the face of a bloodytyrant systematically murdering my fellow citizens, or his own? Or have I theright, or perhaps even the duty, to take up a weapon against him? Gandhi’sposition ultimately assumes the primacy of detachment over charity—but, to thecontrary, it is in the name of charity that Saint Augustine defended the idea of thejust war. Pushed to its ultimate consequences, the Gandhian theory of non-violence does not seem easily bearable; and I for one prefer the tradition thatdeveloped in thewake of the Father of the Church.Non-violence is not the answerto everything. The careful, measured attitude of Nehru, who believed in thenecessity of resorting to violence in certain circumstances and not in others, bestrepresents the attitude of the statesman. But the unilateral aspect of Gandhi’sargument brings out its worth. With great determination, he analyses the ethicalimplications and tensions of asymmetric conflict in the era of decolonisationwithgreat lucidity.….

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independence, how farwas this due toGandhi’s personal influence? And if, asmayhappen, India and Britain finally settle down into a decent and friendlyrelationship, will this be partly because Gandhi, by keeping up his struggleobstinately andwithout hatred, disinfected the political air?’Orwell adds: ‘That oneeven thinks of asking such questions indicates his stature.’19 Gandhi thus renderedservice not only to his own country, but also to Great Britain, facilitating both itsextrication from India and its abdication of power without rancour or dishonour.Through non-violence, Gandhi created the moral and psychological conditions ofa relatively orderly decolonisation: onewhich neither abandoned itself to the erringconscience of the conquered, nor to the demonisation of the conqueror.….

[In contrast], today’s Marxist historians of colonisation and their disciples (theterrorists and demagogues of Africa and Asia, and some campaigningjournalists) readily denounce the old colonising powers for allmanner ofwrongs,imagining a uniformly exploitative North that plundered a uniformly exploitedSouth. They denounce the bourgeoisie who, in tyrannising the proletariat,benefited immensely from their brute force: with the West’s power comesresponsibility. The world is indeed deeply unjust; but it is not by chantingseductively simplistic and vacuous slogans that the most gravely afflicted will behelped. With their comprehensive indictments and victimising rhetoric, suchhistorians, journalists, terrorists and demagogues are a part of the problem thatthey denounce. To give a true liberty to those who desperately need it, they wouldgain by recalling that at the heart of every relation of power, a determining role isplayed by justice.

Translation by Judy Wang, revised by Emile and Amanda Perreau-Saussine, and by ColmO’Siochru

1 Frantz Fanon, Les Damnés de la Terre [1961] (Gallimard, 1991), pp. 68–69.2 Spinoza, Theologico-Political Treatise, ch. 17.3 John L. Gaddis,We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (OUP, 1997), p. 285.4 John Seeley, The Expansion of England [1883] (Chicago UP, 1971), p. 161.5 Ibid, p. 185.6 The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (New Delhi, 1958–1994), Vol. III, p. 383 (the text isfrom 1903).7 M.K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj [1909] (CUP, 1997), p. 39.8 Ibid, p. 114.9 Nehru on Gandhi. A selection, Arranged in the Order of Events, from the Writings and Speeches ofJawaharlal Nehru (The John Day Company, 1948), p. 11.10 M.K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj, p. 81.11 Ibid, p. 45.12 Nehru on Gandhi, p. 15.13 It is fruitful to compare Gandhi’s position with that of those dissidents who, confrontedwith Moscow’s imperialism, took up the theme of the power of the powerless. In thecontext of Marxism-Leninism, those who were dominated took part in their own



domination in accepting the lies of the Party and of official ideology; by contrast, it was inattaching themselves to the truth that the fall of totalitarian dictatorship could beprecipitated.14 Nehru on Gandhi, p. 3.15 Ibid, p. 11.16 M.K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj, p. 117.17 Rousseau, Social Contract, I, 3.18 ‘[T]he Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should havethrown themselves into the sea from cliffs… It would have aroused the world and thepeople of Germany… As it is they succumbed anyway in their millions.’ See Louis Fischer,The Life of Mahatma Gandhi (Jonathan Cape, 1951), p. 376.19 See George Orwell, The Collected Essays (Secker &Warburg, 1968), Vol. IV, p. 470.

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The Commemoration of Benefactors, May 9 2010Sermon preached by the Reverend Robert Wiggs (1969)‘Surely your servants take delight in her stones and are moved to pity by her dust’ (Psalm 102:14)

I don’t know whether everyone here gets spam email from Nigerian miracleworkers, or whether it’s just the clergy or possibly even just me. But a few weeksago I was consigning miracle workers to oblivion with joy and gusto when Inoticed that one of them was calling himself the Dean of Pembroke. On closerinspection I noticed that he wasn’t asking for money but was inviting me topreach. I am sensitive to hoaxes ever since the day, years ago, when I was almosttaken in by a spoof trial to play cricket for Somerset, so I sent a suspiciousmessage back and discovered that the invitation was genuine. So I had beenchosen. Somewhere in the Dean’s office there is a list of Pembroke clergy who arebelieved not have lost their faith or to be too boring. I am apparently on this listand now it was my turn. The feeling was one of great pleasure and reminded meof three significant moments in my life when I had been chosen before. When Iwas chosen to be a priest, when Iwas chosen bymywife, and ofmost significancetoday, when I was chosen to come to Pembroke. Maybe some of you are studentsof genius and carry around with you the knowledge of how lucky Pembroke is tohave you. But for me, however arrogant I am in other ways, I always knewPembroke was immensely bigger than me and I have carried with me since theage of 18 to this present day a sense of awe that I belong here. And of course, thisawe is incarnated in a love of her buildings, not because I am especially sensitiveto architecture but because buildings are either places of death or places of life. Iexperience a sense of death when I get near Homebase or B&Q, and life, justthrough walking down Trumpington Street and going past the front ofPembroke. ‘Surely your servants take delight in her stones and are moved to pityby her dust.’ Although I come from the class of ’69, the age when revolution gotnear even to Pembroke, I was not one of those who voted in the JP that the altar inthe chapel should be torn down tomake way for the first everWren squash court.May I ask you, do you remember when you were chosen to come here? Are you

still thrilled by that choosing? And does it sustain you when times are dark, as thelives of most people between the ages of 18 and 25 are often dark, if I am notmuchmistaken? And do you know that the world is full of people who have sucha diminished sense of anyone every having chosen them that they would probablynot even know what I am talking about. People, as it were, who were always inqueues of children waiting to be picked for the team and were always picked lastwith attendant moans from the other players. Whose very personalities arefractured by never having been chosen. And that the joy of having been chosen isthat choosing is in some sense always surprising, always gratuitous, alwaysoverwhelming. Why was it that the most beautiful girl in the whole world choseme? Such choosing is what God does. And God is being most godlike in hisutterly surprising gratuitous actions. Theologians call it creatio ex nihilo. Creatingout of nothing. Choosing otherwise unnoticed people and raising them up. Aswhen Samuel went to the House of Jesse to look for a king. And he looked at allJesse’s fine sons and knew that God had chosen none of them. So he turned to



Jesse and asked himwhether he had any other sons, and Jesse only hadDavid, theyoungest, who could not possibly have been thought of to be a king except thatwas exactly what God did think. Or we might be moved by the calling of the Jewsas expressed in the Book of Deuteronomy: ‘The Lord did not set his love uponyou, nor choose you because you were more in number than any people; for youwere the fewest of all the people.’ Or by the Virgin Mary, the highly favoured one,lifted up form lowliness, orMaryMagdalene, the apostle of the Resurrection. Andspeaking for myself, having been so richly chosen, I am eternally grateful thatwhat one might call the ‘Angel of Pembroke’ sent me to spend my summers atPembroke House both to introduce me to young people who ate undergraduatesfor their lunch, but also to helpme to discoverwhatmission is: a kind of choosingthat goes far beyond these walls to privilege. The speaking of a powerful voicethrough which people who believed themselves to be ugly and unlovely discovertheir God given beauty.And to be chosen is always to be incorporated into a great tradition. I wonder

howmany undergraduates in the age of Facebook couldmakemuch sense of ourcelebration of the living witness of the great dead: of the Countess of Pembroke;of Henry VI and of Nicholas Ridley; and, in my personal list, of Kenneth Farnes,a beautiful fast bowler, who bowled high and straight for England and was killedin 1940 at the age of 30; and Charles Andrews, the only Englishman to behonoured on an Indian postage stamp, who, when he visited by my father’suniversity, the LSE, with his friend Gandhi, caused a sense of awe among thestudents that Gandhi did not match (or so my father told me); and MeredithDewey, with respect to James, my Dean, whom I heard here at theCommemoration of Benefactors 40 years ago, exhorting us to ‘look to the rockfrom which we were hewn.’ Pembroke heroes who are still alive because thisplace is not amuseumbut a community. And if you think I am being fanciful, oneof ourmost terrible poverties is a loss of the sense of the past. If we were Africansworshipping here today we would have a keen felt sense that the ancestorsworship with us. And indeed that what we are doing here tonight is not onlytradition but also truth. It is the very livingness of the past which is part and parcelof Christian hope. That because we have so clearly come from somewhere, thatour journey is so clearly purposeful but incomplete, that even in the age ofDawkins some of us believe with reason that we are also going somewhere. Andthat in the pastoral ministry of the Church to the broken one is always trying torestore to them a tradition – which gives a sense that we have firm ground underour feet because we are travelling in good company, as the letter of the Hebrewshas it, ‘Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith’.You did not come to Pembroke because you would get a better job through

coming here but because of amysterious vocation throughwhich one day youwillhelp others find life in living traditions – families, workplaces, academicdisciplines, local communities, and underneath these things something strongerand more mysterious still, which to many is just mystery, but in the words ofThomas Aquinas is ‘what all people call God’.

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Henry Kissinger at PembrokeDr Henry Kissinger – National Security Adviser (1969–1975) to President Nixon andSecretary of State (1973–1977) to PresidentsNixon and Ford – visited Pembroke College onNovember 16 2009 as part of the annual Xchanging German Xcellence Lecture series atPembroke. He had just come back fromBerlin, where he had attended ceremonies tomarkthe 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Dr Kissinger was interviewed by AnneMcElvoy, executive editor of the London Evening Standard, and Markus Hesselmann, UKcorrespondent of Der Tagesspiegel. He then took questions from an invited audience ofPembroke Fellows, students and guests from the University and Xchanging plc, thesponsors of the lecture series. Below is a transcript of a part of the interview section of DrKissinger’s talk. A podcast of the complete talk is available on ‘Pembroke Record’. This isa new section of the Pembroke website that is designed to bring the best of the talks andevents held at Pembroke to a wider audience. ‘Pembroke Record’ can be found atwww.pem.cam.ac.uk/record.

AM: Can I press you on the response of the other powers to German reunification, and inparticular Russia. The feeling in Russia was that the humiliation that followed these eventshas led to a culture of resentment in politics in Moscow. Do you think that we failed to takeseriously enough the bruising of the Russian bear in the aftermath of 1989?

HK: There’s no doubt that the events from ’89 to the advent of Putin areconsidered a humiliating experience in Russia. This is partly because Russia hadbeen an ‘out state’ in the sense that it legitimises itself to its people not by itsdomestic achievements but by its imperial enterprises. So when Russia lost itsreach at the end of that series of upheavals that started in ’89 and it was reducedto its present borders, it meant the end of 300 years of Russian history. So theywere back after 300 years to where they had started under Peter the Great. Thatwas emotionally very painful for Russia. Now – did theWest properly understandthat? Probably not. The West thought – and there were books written at thatperiod about the end of history – the West thought that this was a naturalevolution, that history wasmoving inevitably towards democracy, that democracywould also come to Russia in the same way that it had come... and so it isinteresting, maybe astonishing, that very few Western leaders addressed thequestion of what its long-term impact would be on Russian psychology. Soperhaps one would wish that there had been a better understanding of Russianpsychology, but if one asks oneself what in fact could one have done to takeaccount of the Russian view, the Russians probably if they had conducted atougher policy, could have achieved a formal commitment not to expand NATO,at least beyond the German borders. I think they probably could have achievedthis. But I don’t knowwhether that would have improved the situation. I think thefact that Poland is in NATO gives Poland a security today that it has never had inits history. Where we have to exercise restraint is in going beyond it and goinginto the territories that were not satellite states but were part of Russia, part of itsmilitary structure.

MH: You mentioned the end of history notion that was quite widespread then 20 years ago. Iwas wondering whether did you believe in that, at least a bit, and were you quite surprisedthat it didn’t turn out to be quite that easy after all?



HK: No – I consider myself a historian, or at least I aspire to be a historian, and ifyou have studied history, you know that it is a process and not a series of terminalpoints and every apparent solution of one problem is an admission ticket toanother set of problems. Nor do I believe that history culminates in one particularapproach to politics and that is the difference between the professorial approachto foreign policy and a statesman’s approach to foreign policy. The academicapproach looks at final or best answers. The statesman always has to deal withrelatively contingent answers and look at them as a sequence of events – almostalways.

MH: Would you be willing to grant a special position to Germany in dealing withinternational conflicts, because of the history of Germany?

HK: No. I think we have reached the point now – this is 60 years after the end ofthe War – and I think Germany should play the role that is appropriate to itscapacities. I don’t think Germany should be treated as a country on which specialrestrictions are to be placed. Germany should conduct its foreign policy like anormal country, like anyone else. That gives it considerable influence, because ofthe size of its population, the importance of its economy, and the talents it hasdeveloped over the years. Germany should stop oscillating between extremes inits perception of foreign policy.

MH: The problem seems to be with that view that obviously the German public doesn’t followthat. There’s a strong majority – you’ll remember Schröder winning the election by not goinginto Iraq – there’s still a very strong majority that takes the view that because of the past weshould have a special role and not go to war as easily as Britain or the US do. So you thinkthis view you have put forward can be put into practice without the majority support of theGerman people?

HK: Two or three years ago, I thought that Schröder’s attitude was prettywidespread. This time, I felt that there was a certain sense of pride in how farGermany had come in the [last] 20 years and peoplewere less embarrassed to talkabout a role for Germany and so what you describe is very accurate for whatSchroder did but it is not perhaps fully accurate, and is in the process of changing,in the rest of Germany. But correct me if I’m wrong.

AM: Well, the Germans did in the end choose a coalition that was going to stay inAfghanistan. But it is certainly true of public opinion here in Britain as in Germany that themilitary involvement in Afghanistan is becoming less popular, almost by the week or by themonth. I just wondered whether you felt that the refinement of the strategy that is beingannounced in Washington was going to allay those fears, or would it remain a veryunpopular war, and if so, how long should we give it?

HK:Well, what would have happened on D-Day if there had been cable televisionand talking heads had analysed at the end of every day the casualties that had beenincurred? Whether democracies can fight a war at all under the conditions ofpermanent, instant analysis – that’s an open question. And especially a guerillawar. The big issues in foreign policy are always – What is your judgment ofconsequence? And you cannot prove it truewhen youmake it.When youmake the

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judgment, you don’t have enough evidence. When you have enough evidence, it’stoo late to be affected by your judgment. So one has to operate in this vague area.Would one choose Afghanistan to fight a war? Obviously not. Nobody has everconquered Afghanistan. This country knows it better than anybody else. Butthat’s not the present issue. The present issue is – being there, how does onejudge the impact of a precipitate withdrawal on Pakistan, India, Russia, and othercountries who are needed to maintain the international order? And having saidthat, what is the impact of staying and how can one translate a unilateral effort byAmerica together with some European help into an enterprise in which otheraffected nations change?What we have clearly learned over the past decade is thatwe cannot do this by simply endurance. Other countries have to understand thatthere’s a limit to what we can do. But to begin a term by a total reversal of policy,I would argue would have very serious consequences in Pakistan and India. Nowcan one sustain that with domestic opinion? That’s the obligation of leaders. Idon’t know that.

AM: If you can make comparisons across time, when you were dealing with trying to bringan end to an unpopular war in Vietnam, ‘peace with honour’ was one of the goals that you setyourself then. What would ‘peace with honour’ look like in Afghanistan?

HK: Well, Afghanistan is a different kind of issue from Vietnam. In Vietnam, ifpeople reviewed the negotiations seriously, and not used it for placards anddemonstrations, they will see that there was one issue that we identified withhonour, and one issue only, and that was that the United States would notoverthrow a government that our predecessors had established, to which we hadno individual obligation, that we would not overthrow that government and putin a communist government, and thereby betray the people who had relied on us.That was the one condition we refused to meet. All other conditions wereadjustable. And I find it interesting that recently a book has been published inHanoi, based onHanoi archives, about the negotiations between Le Duc Tho andmyself, which makes almost the opposite point to the ones the critics here athome always make: and the point in that book is that Vietnam would not settleuntil it had an absolute superiority on the battlefield. They insisted on victory. Wekept looking for compromise; they were not looking for compromise. Now in thepresent situation there is tactically a finality – that if you are a guerilla and you arefighting under these conditions, you think endurance is one of your strongestweapons and you can count on the psychological loss of your enemy andtherefore if you ‘defenders of freedom’, or whatever you call ourselves, collapse,they will learn for the next battle that this is what they can count on and if youthink – as I do, and most people who have studied this believe – that if they aregiven the impetus of inevitable victory, that Pakistan with, say, 100 nuclearweapons, becomes an ungovernable country and the line of the issue thenmovesto the Indian border, you have then made the situation infinitely worse. Now –your question is what is ‘peace with honour’? In Vietnam, you could conceive thatthere was at least a party you could negotiate with in Hanoi. In Afghanistan youhave an amorphous collection of guerilla groups whose total impact can bedisastrous but who are not necessarily in a position to settle it themselves in any



reliable way. What I don’t think has been sufficiently addressed yet, and to whichI don’t have a detailed answer, is the following anomaly. In Vietnam and Iraq youcould say, as an American, that we had a decision to make: does it affect ournational security or not? And there was a legitimate debate on this. But once thedecision had been made that it was a national security issue, only we could do itbecause there was no other country with sufficient interests – except Britain inIraq, but themajor threat had to come fromus. But nowwithAfghanistan you cansay that if you analyse it in terms of national interests, that India, Pakistan, Russia,China and even Iran if it ever can approach a rational faith, have a commoninterest in at least one thing: that Afghanistan not become a base for terrorismagainst its neighbours. Now is it possible to bring about a democracy – that is stilla generally accepted common interest – into a common policy? I don’t know that– but I think that should be the big effort over the next year or so. It shouldn’t bea purely military engagement. In the 19th century, a strategic problem in Europewas – what do you do with the ports on the Channel facing Britain? It was alwaysthought that it had to be in hands of some major power, but whenever a majorpower got this, Britain would fight. So finally when Belgium was created, theconcept of neutrality was associated with it, that was guaranteed by the powers.Now that was a very simple thing in that respect but it avoided this issue until theGermans, for reasons unconnected with the naval issue, attacked throughBelgium. Now is it possible to create a definition of prohibited terrorist activitiesthat many nations share and that they agree to enforce? And how would you dothat? But it seems to me that this is the best outcome in Afghanistan that we canunderstand. How to form a democratic government in Afghanistan is a 50 yearproject and if we tie our actions to progress towards democracy in Afghanistan,we are in a bottomless bog.

MH: In an interview with Der Spiegel, you mentioned that people who attacked you or yourviews sometimes said – in America, that is – that, ‘We have to be careful, because he’s still aGerman.’ What did they mean by that?

HK:One has to look at American historic foreign policy. America is different fromany other country first in the sense that the huge majority of its population – Imean, all of its population really – are immigrants. They had turned their back ontheir previous societies and they came to America in order to leave behind thequarrels of Europe, the oppressions of Europe. Secondly, when they got there,they were in a country that had two great oceans protecting them. So Americansdid not have to think about the vicissitudes of foreign policy theway other nationshad to. So foreign policy has appeared to Americans as a series of individualproblems that could be solved, and once they were solved, you could withdrawinto a kind of isolation. My conviction has been that this was correct and really apart of American history, but in the contemporary world you are a participantwhether you like it or not andwe have to avoid in America the temptation towardsisolation, but also the temptation to identify foreign policy with psychiatry andwith a mission. We have to understand the historical processes through whichother nations have gone and the culture that they represent, and therefore I tendto get attacked from the Left and the Right. From the Left, because they think I am

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toomuch oriented towards strategic analysis. From theRight, because I don’t liketo lead crusades. But maybe this is the arrogance of age. I believe whether peopleagree with my specific views or not, that is a secondary question. But in terms ofthe fundamental analysis that I am presenting, you cannot encompass it bysaying, ‘pragmatism against idealism’ – and I am convinced that in the yearsahead we are coming to that view because we have no choice. How can weprescribe to China, which has 4,000 years of uninterrupted history,most of whichthey traversed before we even existed, that we can prescribe to them how to runtheir own domestic affairs?



President Theodore Roosevelt at Pembroke – a 100 yearanniversaryTheodore Roosevelt was President of the United States from 1901–1909. On leaving office,he was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Cambridge on May 26 1910. Thethen Master of Pembroke, Arthur James Mason, happened to be Vice-Chancellor of theUniversity at the time of Roosevelt’s visit to Cambridge to receive his honorary degree. Hemet Roosevelt at the Cambridge railway station. They then went briefly to the Master’sLodge at Pembroke before visiting Emmanuel College to look at the portrait there of JohnHarvard (1607–1638), an alumnus of Emmanuel, and after whom Harvard University wasnamed (in acknowledgement of the fact that John Harvard was its first benefactor).Roosevelt and the Master then returned to Pembroke for a lunch in Roosevelt’s honour,attended by 100 people, before proceeding to Senate House for the degree ceremony. Afterthe degree ceremony, Roosevelt addressed an especially convened meeting of theCambridge Union, at which he was made an honorary member of the Cambridge Union.To mark the 100 year anniversary of Roosevelt’s visit to Pembroke, we reproduce here anedited version of Roosevelt’s speech to the Cambridge Union:

Something in the nature of a tract was handed tome before I came up here. It wasan issue of the Gownsman [holding up, amid laughter, a copy of an undergraduatepublication] with a poem portraying the poet’s natural anxiety lest I shouldpreach at him... I will promise to preach as little as I can, but you must take yourchance, for it is impossible to break the bad habit of a lifetime at the bidding of acomparative stranger...Now I thank you verymuch for havingmademe anhonorarymember.Harvard

men feel peculiarly at home when they come to Cambridge. We feel we are in thedomain of our spiritual forefathers, and I doubt if you yourselves can appreciatewhat it is to walk about the courts, to see your buildings, and your pictures andstatues of the innumerable men whose names we know so well, and who havebeen brought closer to us by what we see here... It gives an American universityman a peculiar feeling to come here and see so much that tells of the ancienthistory of the University...Now I amgoing to disregard your poet and preach to you just for onemoment,

but I will make it as little obnoxious as possible. The Secretary spoke of me as if Iwere an athlete. I am not, and never have been one, although I have always beenvery fond of outdoor amusement and exercise. There was, however, inmy class atHarvard, one real athlete who is now in public life. I made him [Robert Bacon]Secretary of State...and he is now Ambassador in Paris. If I catch yourterminology straight, he would correspond to your triple blue. He was captain ofthe football eleven, played on the baseball team, and rowed in the crew, and inaddition to that he was champion heavyweight boxer and wrestler, and won the220-yard dash. His sonwas captain of theHarvard University crew that came overhere andwas beaten byOxford two years ago. [Voices: ‘Cambridge’.]Well, I nevertook a great interest in defeats. [Loud laughter and applause.] Now, as I saidbefore, I never was an athlete, although I have always led an outdoor life, and haveaccomplished something in it, simply because my theory is that almost any mancan do a great deal, if he will, by getting the utmost possible service out of thequalities that he actually possesses.

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There are two kinds of success. One is the very rare kind that comes to themanwho has the power to do what no one else has the power to do. That is genius. Iam not discussing what form that genius takes; whether it is the genius of a manwho can write a poem that no one else can write, The Ode on a Grecian Urn, forexample, orHelen, thy beauty is to me; or of amanwho can do 100 yards in nine andthree-fifths seconds. Such a man does what no one else can do. Only a verylimited amount of the success of life comes to persons possessing genius. Theaverage man who is successful – the average statesman, the average publicservant, the average soldier, whowinswhat we call great success – is not a genius.He is amanwho hasmerely the ordinary qualities that he shares with his fellows,but who has developed those ordinary qualities to a more than ordinary degree...It is just so in public life. It is not genius, it is not extraordinary subtlety, or

acuteness of intellect, that is important. The things that are important are therather commonplace, the rather humdrum virtues that in their sum aredesignated as character. If you have in public life men of good ability, notgeniuses, but men of good abilities, with character – and, gentlemen, you mustinclude as one of the most important elements of character, commonsense – ifyou possess such men, the Government will go very well.I have spoken only of great successes; but what I have said applies just asmuch

to the success that is within the reach of almost every one of us. I think that anyman who has had what is regarded in the world as a great success must realisethat the element of chance has played a great part in it. Of course a man has totake advantage of the opportunities; but the opportunities have to come. If thereis not thewar, you don’t get the great general; if there is not the great occasion youdon’t get the great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in times of peace no one wouldhave known his name now. The great crisismust come, or noman has the chanceto develop great qualities.There are exceptional cases, of course, where there is a man who can do just

one things, such as a man who can play a dozen games of chess or juggle withfour rows of figures at once – and as a rule he can do nothing else. A man of thistype can do nothing unless in the one crisis for which his powers fit him. Butnormally the man whomakes the great success when the emergency arises is theman who would havemade a fair success in any event. I believe that the man whois really happy in a great position – in what we call a career – is the man whowould also be happy and regard his life as successful if he had never been thrownin that position. If a man lives a decent life and does his work fairly and squarelyso that those dependent on him and attached to him are better for his havinglived, then he is a success, and he deserves to feel that he has done his duty andhe deserves to be treated by those who have had greater success as neverthelesshaving shown the fundamental qualities that entitle him to respect...I am not speaking cant to you. I remember once sitting at a table with six or

eight other public officials, and each was explaining how he regarded being inpublic life, how only the sternest sense of duty prevented him from resigning hisoffice, and how the strain of working for a thankless constituency was tellingupon him, and nothing but the fact that he felt he ought to sacrifice his comfortto thewelfare of the country kept him in the arduous life of statesmanship. It went



round the table until it came tomy turn. This was duringmy first term of office asPresident of the United States. I said: ‘Now gentlemen, I do not wish there to beany misunderstanding. I like my job, and I want to keep it for four years longer.’[Loud laughter and applause.] I don’t think any President ever enjoyed himselfmore than I did. Moreover, I don’t think any ex-President enjoyed himself more.I have enjoyedmy life andmywork because I thoroughly believe that success – thereal success – does not depend upon the position you hold, but upon how youcarry yourself in that position. There is noman here todaywho has not the chanceso to shape his life after he leaves this university that he shall have the right to feel,when his life ends, that he has made a real success of it; and his making a realsuccess of it does not in the least depend upon the prominence of the position heholds. Gentlemen, I thank you, and I am glad I have violated the poet’s hope andhave preached to you.

With thanks to Frank King, Fellow of Churchill College, for pointing out this anniversary tothe Gazette.

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Through a Glass DarklyColin WilcocksonThe following poemwas awarded the Seatonian Prize 2009 by the University of Cambridgefor best poem by an MA of the University on a sacred theme:

The paraclete dove looks down frommy windowHead-inclined, wings wide-spreadIn offered embrace.

The fledgling had startled me as it crashed on the glass.Had it mistaken the self-image as a mateOr a threat, without reflecting?(I watched the palpitationOf its cooling bodyOn the rose-bed death-bed.)

The impacted image remains.I shall leave itTill the summer rainsLave it and disintegrate its integrity,Till the soft-feathered imageIs effaced.

When I was a child...The child in the mirrorReflected another persona.Self-absorbed, I did not understandThe face always returning smile for smile,The farewell wave of the hand.

But now I am a man...I knowThat the broken bodyPierced by Longinus’ spearAnd the cooling of the corpseAfter thirst-anguished heatWas the correlation of God made fleshDwelling among us...

No longer the reflectionOr the windowed paraclete,No longer a symbol to disentangleBut en clair face to faceThe knowing and the knownIn eternal embrace.

© Colin Wilcockson, 2010



B. COLLEGE NEWS



NEW FELLOWS

In October 2009, ten new Fellows were admitted to the College. Here theyintroduce themselves to the Pembroke College Cambridge Society in theirown words:

CAROLINE BURT was admitted to Pembroke in October 2009 as AdmissionsTutor and Fellow in History. She writes: I was born and raised in Manchester andwent to Loreto Grammar School in Altrincham, after which I did myundergraduate degree inHistory at Churchill College, Cambridge.Having alightedon medieval history early in my time at Churchill, I decided first to follow my BAwith an MPhil in Medieval History, this time at New Hall (now Murray EdwardsCollege), and a PhD, studying under Christine Carpenter. My interest initially wason governance, on how kingship operated in medieval England, and particularlyhow one king, Edward I, translated policy made at the centre into action on theground in a society that lacked either a police force or a standing army. As timewent on, I began more and more to think about the ideas which underlay kinglypolicy-making, and how far those ideas evolved in both a European and aparticularly English context. I am currently finishing a book on Edward I and amabout to embark on another, on England in the 13th and 14th centuries. Havingfinishedmy PhD at NewHall in 2004, I wasmade a seniormember of the College,responsible for teaching undergraduates at the College and across the University.A year later I became a full College TeachingOfficer andDirector of Studies for theCollege’s historians. At the same time, my interest in recruitment developed and Ibecame the College’s Admissions Tutor responsible for schools liaison. When Iceased to hold that position, I became History Faculty Schools Liaison Officer, arole I still play and very much enjoy. The post of Admissions Tutor and CollegeLecturer at Pembroke therefore represented an ideal job opportunity for me, and Iwas absolutely delighted to join the College in October.

RENAUD GAGNÉ was appointed University Lecturer inGreek Literature in the Faculty of Classics inOctober 2009and became a Fellow at Pembroke College the samemonth. Hewrites: I am a historian of archaic and classicalGreek literature and religion.My publishedwork ismostlyconcerned with the representation of religious culture inearly Greek poetry (8th–5th c. BCE). I am also particularlyinterested in the study of Greek poetry in performance aswell as the history of classical scholarship, especially earlymodern Humanism. After a BA in Classics, I received aMasters in Ancient History from the Université de Montréal. I then completed aPhD in Classical Philology at Harvard, which I partly spent on fellowships inAthens and Berlin. I was Assistant Professor of Greek Language and Literature atMcGill University before coming to Cambridge last September, where I am now aUniversity Lecturer in Greek Literature and a Fellow of Pembroke College. Thissummer I will be completing two edited volumes. One is a comparative study ofhuman sacrifice in ancient Greece, China, and Mesoamerica, the other a series of

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investigations on the chorus of Greek tragedy and comedy. I am also finishing amonograph on the theme of ancestral fault – the idea that children can bepunished for the 'sins' of their fathers – in early Greek literature.

MINA GORJI was appointed a Fellow in English atPembroke College in October 2009. She writes: I wasborn in Tehran in 1975 and moved to Britain in 1980. Igrew up in London and went on to study EnglishLiterature at Trinity College, Cambridge (1993–1996) andthen to Oxford, where I took an MPhil in RomanticLiterature at Lady Margaret Hall. I went on to complete aPhD on the poetry of John Clare under the supervision ofTom Paulin and Lucy Newlyn after which I was appointeda Career Development Fellow at Wadham College,Oxford. After two years of teaching and research, I won a Research Fellowship atMagdalen college, Oxford in 2005. I moved back to Cambridge in 2008 to take upa post in the Faculty of English,where I amnowaUniversity Lecturer.My researchis centered on the Romantic period. More broadly, I am interested in poetics andin the various forms and values of the uncultivated or ‘rude’ – literary, social,cultural and linguistic. I have edited a collection of essays, Rude Britannia (2007),and recently enjoyed speaking on the subject for the BBC (unbleeped). Otherpublished works include a monograph, John Clare and the Place of Poetry (2009),which celebrates Clare’s ‘literariness’. He was, I argue, an ‘artfully artless’ poet,widely and deeply read, whose verses are not the naive or ‘rude’ utterances of asimple ‘peasant poet’ but sophisticated and alive with echoes. I have alsopublished a number of articles and essays on literary awkwardness, the poetics ofmess, pastoral and literary allusion. I am currently editing a collection of essayson working class poetry and writing on the poetics of weeds. I have publishedpoetry in a number of journals, including The London Magazine,Magma, The OxfordMagazine, and The International Literary Quarterly.

ALEX HOUEN was appointed University Lecturer in theFaculty of English in October 2009 and became a Fellowat Pembroke College the same month. He writes: I wasborn inOxford and lived for 15 years in Australia where, atthe University of Sydney, I did a BA(Hons) in EnglishLiterature and an MPhil before coming up to King'sCollege, Cambridge where I completed a doctorate in1999. I then taught Modern British and Americanliterature for 10 years at the University of Sheffield,becoming Senior Lecturer in 2008. During his time atSheffield I published a monograph, Terrorism and Modern Literature: from JosephConrad to Ciaran Carson (OUP, 2002), along with various articles on avant-gardism,theories of affect, modern American fiction, and war literature. I am currentlycompleting a monograph on experimental US writing since the 1960s and amdeveloping another project on sacrifice. I co-edit the poetry journal BlackboxManifold (at www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk).



DANILO IGLIORIwas appointed the AdamSmith Fellowin Land Economy at Pembroke College in October 2010,and became Director of Studies in Land Economy. Hewrites:My academic trajectory goes back to the late 1980sand early 1990s. I received my BA in Economics from theUniversity of Sao Paulo in 1991. Duringmy undergraduatestudies I got interested in the theories of economicdevelopment and started to engage with environmentalissues. Reading economics on those years was veryexciting due to the huge transformations related to the fallof the Berlin Wall in 1989.Although I had always thought of pursuing an academic career, I started my

professional lifeworking for large companies. Firstly, I worked as internal auditorfor a then state run company specialized on mining and natural resources (Vale).That was a great experience as I had the chance to visit a number of operationalareas such as mines, ports, and railways. I also visited the Amazon region for thefirst time when working for Vale. I then moved to a retail bank (Unibanco) andworked as a project analyst. The contrast could not be more dramatic. In the endof 1996 I decided that it was time to return to the university and started to preparefor the national exams, which are required for admission toMasters programmesin Economics in Brazil.In 1998 I started my MSc in Economics at the University of Sao Paulo and got

interested in applied economics and econometrics. In 1999 the publication of TheSpatial Economy by Fujita, Krugman and Venables had a fundamental impact onmy career. This book, which consolidates what is now called the New EconomicGeography, introducedme to the topics that have been at the core of my researchagenda ever since. I completed the MSc programme with a dissertation entitled‘Economics of industrial clusters and development’, and that was published as abook in 2001.Whilst doing theMSc, the idea of spending some time abroad and doing a PhD

in a world class university kept growing in my thoughts. In September 2000 Iarrived at Darwin College, Cambridge to do an MPhil in Land Economy with aview to doing a full PhD. During the MPhil, I wrote a dissertation on high-techclusters in theUK, and that dissertation resulted in two articles and three chaptersin edited volumes.Everything was indicating that I would write my PhD on industrial clusters but

Professor TimoGoeschl (now at the University of Heidelberg), whowas lecturingon environmental economics to my class, invited me to join him as researchassistant in a new research programme on biodiversity and economics forconservation (Bioecon). In order to take part I would have to write my PhD onenvironmental issues and have Timo as my PhD supervisor. So my PhDdissertation ended up being on the spatial economics of conservation anddevelopment, with a special focus on the Brazilian Amazon. I completed mydissertation in 2005 and published two articles and one book (Spatial Economics ofConservation and Development: Topics on Land Use Change in the Brazilian Amazon (VDM-Verlag, 2009)) on the basis of my PhD research.

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In 2004 I started my lecturing career at the Department of Land Economy.Initially covering sabbaticals and later having my own lecture courses when Ibecame an Affiliated Lecturer. After graduating I also got a position at theDepartment of Economics in my old university in Sao Paulo. But I have nevermanaged to leave Cambridge! So, I kept my position in the Department andstarted to ‘commute’, crossing the Atlantic a few times per year. This situationstarted to change when I was appointed to the Fellowship in Pembroke during2009. However, I still fly back and forth due to research commitments andbecause my family is still living in Brazil.At the moment I am mainly involved with two research projects. One on the

urban evolution of Sao Paulo, sponsored by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy(an American institution based in Cambridge, MA). Another on land use in theBrazilian Amazon in partnership with a number of natural scientists. I am alsotrying to co-author a short book entitled Introduction to Applied Spatial Economics, tobe published by Edward Elgar.

COLIN LIZIERI writes: I joined Cambridge University inOctober 2009 as Grosvenor Professor of Real EstateFinance in the Department of Land Economy and wasadmitted as a Fellow at Pembroke the same month (atwhich point I discovered that my glasses don’t work verywell in the chapel – yes, that was me mangling the Latin).Prior to arriving in Cambridge, I was Professor of RealEstate Finance in the Henley Business School, Universityof Reading and, before that, Reader in International RealEstate Markets at City University, with a spell as visitingprofessor at the University of Toronto.I was born in Yorkshire, but from a service family which finally settled near

Oxford. My first degree was in geography from Oxford (St Edmund Hall). I thenstudied at the London School of Economics obtaining a doctorate in economicgeography (focussing on local government resource allocation policy) under thesupervision of the late Professor Emrys Jones. Before returning to academic life, Iworked in social housing, urban development and property finance workingmainly in central London.My main research interests relate to commercial real estate markets: in

particular, to financial innovation in property, international capital flows and thedevelopment of global city office markets. That last topic is the subject of Towersof Capital, published by Blackwell in 2009, which examines the connectionsbetween the officemarkets of international financial centres and the systemic riskand volatility that those linkages create – as seen in the aftermath of the financialturmoil of 2007/8. I’ve provided advice to, inter alia, the Treasury, the Bank ofEngland, the Corporation of London and the Norwegian government andappeared as an expert witness in the Lands Tribunal on property valuation issues.In my current research, I am extending the work on cities, examining linkages

between property investment flows and European city networks in an EU-fundedstudy, and am modelling the impact of shocks on the relationships between



property and equity market returns with colleagues at Cambridge. I am also co-authoring a corporate finance textbook and attempting to produce a revised editionof a joint authored textbook, the Economics of Commercial Property Markets.At university, I played many sports at college level, but focussed mainly on

athletics, obtaining a track blue in my last year before moving onto longerdistances. Road running, though, has taken its toll on my knees and back, so mymain exercise now is cycling with occasional games of cricket. As an Oxford boy,I follow the decline in the fortunes of United with a season ticket to sadness. Mypartner, Ruth, has the musical talent, but my own eclectic tastes find me atclassical, jazz and world music concerts. I also retain an unhealthy (but strictlyamateur) interest in hurricanes.

SARAHNOUWENwrites: In September 2009 two friendsand I pushed two trolleys down Downing Street. Behindme was Emmanuel College, where I had entered as anMPhil student in International Relations in 2004 and towhich I returned to do a PhD in International Law in 2006.In front of me was Pembroke College, which I was goingto join as the Mayer Brown Research Fellow in PublicInternational Law. I looked forward to the experience ofbeing a member of a community of scholars, tosupervising enthusiastic students, to expanding myresearch as a fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, and, moredown to earth, to having a set of rooms (plural!) to myself, in addition to the setof suitcases that had accommodated me over the past year of fieldwork.In 2004 I had come to Cambridge to do anMPhil in International Relations. I

had just completed my legal studies, LLB and LLM, at Utrecht University. I hadstudied in the Netherlands in the days that students had the freedom to decidewhen to take which exams and how many years to take for their studies. I madeit my policy to divide each year into six months in university and six monthsabroad. When I completed my legal studies I had interned for the Dutchambassador in the UN Security Council, studied Transitional Justice in CapeTown, assisted in arbitrations in a law firm in Paris, conducted research onmicrofinance in Senegal and worked for the Netherlands Ministry for ForeignAffairs on the legality of pre-emptive use of force. Inside the university I hadlearnt the law; outside the university I had learnt that law alone did not provideall answers. So when I came to Cambridge, it was to study internationalrelations, rather than international law.While at Cambridge, my world view changed. I arrived believing (or perhaps

wanting to believe) that theworld could be ‘fixed’; I ended theMPhil course betteraware of the politics inherent in this ‘fixing’. Addicted to new insights, I hadenrolled for a PhD, but at the end of the MPhil year I needed a summer break inthe world ‘out there’. I called up my mentor from the days at the UN, who hadbeen posted to Sudan. Hardly knowing where the country was, I volunteered tophotocopy and make coffee. Southern Sudan’s first official President, Dr JohnGarang, was buried on the day of my arrival. Lacking his leadership, the

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formation of the Government of National Unity was unstable. Would the recentlyconcluded peace agreement that ended Africa’s longest civil war hold? The issueswere gigantic and so was the workload for the Embassy. I was made legal andpolitical advisor before I could touch any coffee or the photocopy machine. Afterthree weeks of meetings with representatives from several political parties, UNofficials and Sudanese lawyers, I realised I did not want to step out of this historicprocess. I deferred my PhD.But Cambridge never left my mind. In discussions with local leaders in Abyei,

in trainings of lawyers in Darfur, and in meetings with senior Sudanesepoliticians, books that I had read in Cambridge suddenly sprang tomind: identitypolitics, globalisation of ideas, the ideology of law. Cambridge seminars lived onin Sudan. The more I became a field-worker, the stronger became Cambridge’spull. The opportunity to transcend the fog of war and to reflect upon it in theworld’s most beautiful and convenient place for studying was tempting. Ireturned to Emmanuel College to do a PhD in International Law.Back in Cambridge, however, I was never entirely back. The more I became

a scholar, the stronger became the pull from the field. The PhD appeared tocater for both tower and field. Studying the catalysing effect of the InternationalCriminal Court’s intervention in Uganda and Sudan, I could read booksand write, as well as spend time in the Court and conduct research in twoAfrican states.Pushing the two trolleys down Downing Street, I felt “my life” in a material

sense had become lighter. Having lived out of suitcases for the last year, physicalbelongings had been replaced by indelible experiences. The back gate opened –new research on peacekeeping operations, students, the Fellowship, a set ofrooms awaited me. Pembroke welcomed me home. Thank you, Pembroke.

SIÂN POOLEY writes: I joined Pembroke College inOctober 2009 as the Mark Kaplanoff Research Fellow inHistory. I was born and brought up near Lancaster, innorth-west England, before coming to Cambridge in2002 to read history at St John’s College. I remained at StJohn’s as a postgraduate, studying for an MPhil inEconomic and Social History and then a PhD.My doctoralresearch was supervised by Dr Simon Szreter on thesubject of parenthood and child-rearing in England,c.1860–1910.My research interests lie broadly in the socialand cultural history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain. In particular, Iam interested in understandings and experiences of family and intimacy. Myresearch considers the interaction between individuals, civil society and the statein a period in which national, as well as local, government took an increasinginterest in the welfare of the population and the raising of the next generation ofcitizens. I am currently working on turningmy doctoral thesis into a book, whichis provisionally entitled Placing Parenthood: Family, Community and Nation inEngland, 1860–1910. This argues that cultures of parenthood were not nationallyuniform in this period, but insteadwere fundamentally shaped by place. This was



not just because of diverse local occupational structures, but also due to distinctideas of religious and political citizenship, to parents’ contrasting attitudes tochildren’s health and needs, and to the variety of understandings of the genderand age-specific demands of caring. I consider these themes through the lens ofa wide range of archival and textual sources relating to three contrastinglocalities, drawing especially on diaries, letters, autobiographies, newspapers,and the records of schools, courts and government. I am interested in theinteraction between these diverse geographical communities and the experiencesor attitudes that were understood to be common to the nation. Shared beliefsabout the rearing of children – and perceptions of the ways in which othersperformed their paternal andmaternal roles –were a potent cultural resource thatmany religious, political, ideological and social leaders chose to mobilise. In thisway, parenthood was not only a product of, but also constitutive of, ideas aboutgender, class, welfare and nation.My plans for future research projects have emerged from these conclusions.

In particular, I hope to explore the ways in which attitudes to, and experiencesof, parenthood changed in the first half of the twentieth century as averagefamily size fell dramatically throughout England. I am also interested indeveloping two smaller projects that focus on narratives of identity through thestudy of diaries and children’s writings. In being part of the Pembrokecommunity, I particularly enjoy the opportunity to teach undergraduates. Isupervise students on the economic and social history of Britain since 1700, andfind that this teaching both enriches my understanding of the period andinspires me to pursue my own research.

ALFONSOSORRENTINOwrites: Since September 2009 Ihave been a Herschel-Smith Research Fellow in PureMathematics at the Department of Pure Mathematics andMathematical Statistics in Cambridge, and a Fellow ofPembroke College.I was born in Rome, where I received my MA in Pure

Mathematics with highest honors from the Universitàdegli Studi Roma Tre. In 2003, I moved to PrincetonUniversity (USA) to study formy PhD in PureMathematicsand in June 2008 I defendedmy doctoral thesis, titled ‘Onthe structure of action minimising sets for Lagrangian systems’. Before movingto Cambridge I spent one year in Paris as postdoctoral fellow of the Fondation desSciences Mathématiques de Paris. My main research interests are in the fields ofdynamical systems and geometry, in particular in the study of Lagrangian andHamiltonian systems and their interplay with symplectic topology. Roughlyspeaking, given a set of differential equations, i.e. equations whose unknownsare not numbers but functions, describing the relations among certain typicalvariables of a system (for instance a physical system), the goal is to deduce themathematical properties of its solutions and their geometric structure. This is avery active and important field of research, which is is transversal to manydifferent fields both in pure and applied mathematics.

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MD. TAUFIQ UR-RAHMAN writes: I was admitted toPembroke in October 2009 as a Drapers’ CompanyResearch Fellow. Before that, I spent about one and halfyear as a postodoctoral research associate in ProfessorColin Taylor’s lab at the department of pharmacology.Before starting my post-doc, I did my PhD underColin’s supervision and graduated in April 2008 fromDarwin College.I was born in Bogra, a northern district of Bangladesh,

and spent my school and college days there. Later myparents moved to Dhaka, the capital city for my higher education and I obtainedmy BPharm and MPharm degree with first class first positions in both from thedepartment of pharmacy, University of Dhaka. AsmyMPharmdissertation, I tooka bioactivity-guided approach to isolate a compound from a Pepper family plantthat accounted for its traditional use in pain and inflammatory ailments. Whiledoing this, I becamemore aware of the rich heritage ofmedicinal plants of South-East Asia and developed an interest in phytochemistry and ethnopharmacology ingeneral. After obtaining my MPharm, I spent about five months as a researchassociate in the same department and worked in a WHO-funded project thatinvolved evaluation of some natural anti-oxidants against chronic arsenicpoisoning which was emerging as a great geochemical hazard to public health inBangladesh and the West Bengal. Afterwards, I served as a lecturer in the Facultyof Life Sciences in a newly formed University in Dhaka for about a year. In 2004, Icame to the UK to pursue an MSc in Molecular Pharmacology at the University ofManchester under the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Scheme andpassed with a distinction. In 2005, I was lucky enough to obtain the YousoufJameel Family Studentship for pursuing a PhD in Cambridge. During my PhDwork, I looked at the behaviour of a family of proteins (‘ion channels’)responsible for releasing calciumwithin the cell. I remember how excited I was tosee them in action, one at a time, using the so called patch-clamp technique. Ifound that these ion channels (known as IP3 receptors) can dynamically cluster ina stimulus-dependent manner and their collective behaviour differs markedlyfrom that of individual proteins. My findings earned me a first authored paper inNature in 2009. Recently I was given an Early Career Research Award 2011 by theBiochemical Society in the signal transduction category. My current researchmainly lies in the cell signalling field with a focus on ion channels mediatingcalcium release within cells. In addition to this, my background inpharmaceutical sciences always inspires me to continue some research onmedicinal chemistry. For the last few years, I have been rather dabbling inmolecular modelling and few other in silico drug design approaches andcollaborating with some medicinal chemists. Apart from research, I enjoyteaching. I have been supervisingNST 1B pharmacology for the last few years. Myother hobbies include watching movies, photography and listening to music.



FELLOWS’ NEWS

Trevor Allan secured a two year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, to workon ‘The common law constitution of liberty’.

Polly Blakesley was appointed a Trustee of the National Gallery.

TimBusseywasmade a Reader in Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience by theUniversity of Cambridge; he also co-authored a study that showed that runningtriggers new cell growth in the brain, enhancing the brain’s ability to keep similarmemories distinct.

Vikram Deshpandewas made a Professor.

Ray Dolby was awarded the 2010 IEEE Edison Medal ‘For leadership andpioneering applications in audio recording and playback equipment for bothprofessional and consumer electronics’.

Roger Ferguson was one of four recipients of the Council for EconomicEducation’s 2009 Visionary Award. His award was made for championingeconomic empowerment.

Andrea Ferrari was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award, toconduct research into the utilisation of graphene, nanotubes and nanowires forlarge area optoelectronics.

Ian Fleming’s book Molecular Orbits and Organic Chemical Reactions: Student Editionwas published by Wiley Press.

Loraine Gelsthorpe was made a Professor.

Bill Grimstone’s book Building Pembroke Chapel: Wren, Pearce and Scott waspublished by Pembroke College.

SylviaHuot’s bookDreams of Lovers and Lies of Poets: Poetry, Knowledge and Desire in theRoman de la Rosewas published by Legenda.

The second edition of Nick McBride’s Letters to a Law Student was published byPearson Education.

Stephen O’Rahilly was elected a member of the European Molecular BiologyOrganisation. He was also awarded the Dale Medal from the Society ofEndocrinology and an honorary MSc by the University of Warwick.

Jayne Ringrose’s book Summary Catalogue of the Additional Medieval Manuscripts inCambridge University Library Acquired Before 1940was published by Boydell Press.

Dan Tucker and colleagues from the University of Cambridge and the RoyalVeterinary College won the Dieter Lütticken Award – worth €20,000 andawarded to researchers who have made a significant contribution to findingalternatives to animal testing in the veterinary sciences – for developing an organculture system based on by-products from abattoirs to study respiratory diseasesin livestock.

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Md. Taufiq Ur-Rahman has received an Early Career Research Award for 2011from the Biochemical Society of the United Kingdom.

Colin Wilcockson was awarded the Seatonian Prize 2009 (an annual prizeawarded by the University of Cambridge for the best English poem by an MA ofthe University on a sacred subject) for his poem ‘Through a Glass Darkly’.



GIFTS TO THE COLLEGE

From –

Professor John Bell, several books on international law.

Lady Butler, 77 volumes of antiquarian books.

JohnClark,Richard Methley’s ‘Divina Caligo Ignorancie’: a Latin Glossed Version of ‘TheCloud of Unknowing’ (Salzburg 2009, edited by John Clark).

Malcolm Cockrill, Chequer No. 9 (for the Ted Hughes archives).

Priscilla Drew (via Cambridge in America), $1,000 for the Pembroke CollegeLibrary.

Caroline Everitt, 12 volumes of Punch 1863–1909.

John Field, five bookswritten by him: The King’s Nurseries: The Story of WestminsterSchool; Kingdom, Power and Glory: A Historical Guide to Westminster Abbey; ConsideredTrifles; The Story of Parliament in the Palace of Westminster; and Durham Cathedral:Light of the North.

Dr Grimstone, two books on architecture.

Stephen Halliday, a book on Elizabeth Fry.

Dr L.P. Johnson, numerous Cambridge University Press publications invarious subjects.

Dr Peter Martland, 18 history books covering the Middle Ages to the FirstWorld War.

Ryden Mats, his book William Turner: Libellus de re Herbaria Novus (Uppsala1999).

Siegfried Neukirch, his book My journey to Albert Schweitzer (3rd ed, TraffordPublishing 2009)

Dr David Oldfield, a book on Toulouse-Lautrec

Mrs Doris Orr, a CD of the ‘Centenary in Honour of Robin Orr’.

Mr Richard Pargeter, mathematical books from his father Robert’s (1934)library.

Mr Daniel Rosenthal, three books on film studies.

Natacha Simon, 14 economics books

Roy Skinner, Sura of the Quran, an antique manuscript

Mr Tony Wilkinson, several very fine private press books and volumes ofParenthesis, a fine art magazine.

Mrs Albinia Willis, four books on Pembroke College history.

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THE COLLEGE CHAPEL REPORT

Nicholas Chrimes’ history of Cambridge, Cambridge: Treasure Island in the Fens,published in 2009, observes that: ‘The [Cambridge] chapels have undeniablybeen pushed to the periphery of themodern scholar’s life… [It is to be hoped that]they will...remain an inspiration to great music and as deeply moving places ofreligion. However, although historians have found reflections of the great issueswhich faced this country within them, it is unlikely that the chapels will reflect theissues of the future.’ Notwithstanding contemporary trends, Pembroke Chapelseeks to engage with the past, the present and the future – above all in dailyworship, but also through regular and lively fellowship, discussion groups (bothformal and spontaneous), exhibitions, concerts and recitals, times of celebrationand of sadness.It is true that for many members, the building and everything that goes on

within it remain an unknown entity; it is equally true thatmany could not imaginelife without it. The Chapel points to something beyond itself, and remainspowerfully but quietly a place for everyone – as its termcard notes, ‘a place ofpeace and prayer for the whole College community’.Of all its work, the regular offering of worship is the Chapel’s primary purpose

–daily Morning and Evening Prayer, attended by a handful of people; SungVespers, with texts that would have been familiar to the Foundress; gospelservices and Thursday evening contemporary worship; the Advent Carol Service(to which over 260 piled in this year); the Matriculation Service (attended by thegreat majority of first-year undergraduates); Requiem Mass on RemembranceSunday; and the Commemoration of Benefactors inMay. It is encouraging to notethat communicants this year were the highest since 2005–6, and CorporateCommunions have been very happy and representative occasions. An average of64 attended Sunday Evensong, a meeting place for a cross-section of Collegemembers. Over £2,800 was raised by retiring collections in aid of charitablecauses.But calculations can only tell, as it were, less than half the story, and howmany

unknown thousands have passed through the chapel over the last year? Visitorscome from all over to admire our Chapel’s beauty, and Dr Grimstone’s BuildingPembroke Chapel: Wren, Pearce and Scott, published in Michaelmas Term 2009, hasgiven us a far better sense of how this College gem came to appear as it does. Anexhibition of our ecclesiastical treasures was mounted in June 2010 to coincidewith the Benefactors’ Garden Party. Hundreds of visitors admired rare books,altar plate and embroidery, with items on display ranging from LancelotAndrewes’ 1581 Bible in Slavonic to a set of Eucharistic vestments presented inOctober 2009 by the congregation of St Christopher’s at Pembroke House. TheEaster Term also saw the re-appearance of the labyrinth – offering opportunitiesduring the revision period for quiet reflection on the future – and the display of aninstallation featuring 1,000 peace cranes by artist Jay Gadhia.Music enriches worship on Sundays and feast-days, and the Choir – led by Dr

Barrett and the organ scholars – has delighted and inspired congregations inCollege, at Pembroke House, in St Edmundsbury, YorkMinster and Ely, as well as



in concert performances at home and abroad. At the MayWeek Choral Evensongwe bade farewell, among the leavers, to our Kenderdine Organ Scholar, PeterYarde Martin, to whom we send thanks and best wishes. We also welcomed theSchola Cantorum of Ardingly College to sing Evensong at the start of October,and during the course of the year were joined by parties from the congregationsat Pembroke House and at Waresley.Whatmore should I say? There’s not time to tell of the Revd Angela Tilby, who

built her sermon around chocolate, or Bishop John Flack who had the tricky jobof preaching on St Valentine’s Day (and was there also a nod to the day in thechoice of ‘My eyes for beauty pine’ as the introit?); of the ethereal beauty of theChoir singing ‘O nata lux’ into the darkness on Candlemas night; of the battle forcoco-pops at Sunday breakfast; of streaming sunlight and birdsong pouringthrough the open doors on Corpus Christi morning; of howmany of the weary orperplexed, regardless of religious affiliation or inclination, have found in theChapel rest in a constantly-moving College. Men and women who will deal with‘the issues of the future’ are formed not least in places like this.

Richard Stanton

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PEMBROKE HOUSE REPORT

Change, not decay, has been the keynote of the last 12 months at PembrokeHouse, 125 years since Pembroke undergraduates committed themselves to asmall area south of the Thames. Physically, the building has undergone asplendid renaissance which has delighted all who have visited to see the benefitsof the £1.5m refurbishment appeal. The reopening took place on 24 Septemberwhen the Bishop of Southwark celebrated High Mass. A few unanticipated jobswhich need completion have not prevented the new facilities humming withactivity, for it is people who make a place what it is.The changes, indeed, were not only in the buildings, but also in the people.

In summer 2009 the first full-time CentreManager was appointed: AydinDjemalbrings a wealth of experience from his previous work inManchester. Ann Atkinsretired as Administrator in September, and she was thanked for her dedicationand commitment. Having been Warden since March 2000, the Revd MarkWilliams (1991) moved on in November, becoming Vicar of St John the Divine,Kennington. He took with him our warmest good wishes and heartiest thanksfor extraordinary accomplishments over 10 years in Tatum Street. A presentationwas made by the Master after his last College Evensong in October. Happily, thevacancy in the Warden’s post was ably covered by the Revd Andrew Moughtin-Mumby, Assistant Curate of St Christopher’s since July 2006. He, however, lefton St Christopher’s Day in July, to become Rector of St Peter’s Walworth. Againwe are very grateful to him. The new Warden and Vicar is to be the Revd DavidEvans, currently Assistant Curate in the parish of St John at Hackney and alsoChair of Hackney Winter Night Shelter. He will be instituted and inducted at8 pm on 23 September. More good news came later in the Easter Term when theCrown approved the Revd Canon Geoff Annas, a vigorous Warden from 1987to 1994, to be the next Bishop of Stafford; his consecration is scheduledfor September.Amid all the comings and goings, the work of the projects has continued. The

Pembroke Academy of Music, directed by Benjamin Ellin, has flourished.Performances have included The Marriage of Figaro in October, a splendid jointconcert with the College in February, and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in April. Aregular concert series is now planned, as well as a tour in Belgium for a dozen ofthe most able students.The Young Visions project, directed by Wayne Marshall, has had an

encouraging year, working with some 560 local pupils and students to deliverworkshops, visits to places of work andUniversity trips, some to the College. TheYouth Centre is making good use of the new facilities and has also begun acollaboration with London Youth to deliver sports training activities. Significantthis year was the departure of project director Richard Sontan (to whom we sendour thanks and best wishes) following the reduction of its annual grant by theLondon Borough of Southwark, a decision which affected all local youth services.The refurbishment means that the range of activities in Pembroke House can

now be expanded. A first sign of this was the launch of the Pembroke LuncheonClub by current resident Miriam Boyles (2005) in January. A hot lunch and



activities for over-50s, every Thursday from 11.00am! St Christopher’s continuesto prosper with a vibrant liturgy, and many Sundays the church is nearly full.In College, the support and interest of Junior Members has increased

markedly. We knew it was going to be a good year when 73 students came to theFreshers’ Supper to hear more about the work in Walworth. Some £2,000 wasraised in May Week alone thanks to the Oxford-to-Cambridge sponsored cycleride, a garden party and theMayWeekConcert. Of course, PembrokeHouse reliesupon the financial and practical generosity of a large number of supporters –public, corporate, charitable and individual. More help, however, is very muchneeded. New benefactors to join the group of committed subscribers, with whomregular contact is maintained, are most welcome and warmly appreciated. JamesGardom, the Dean, is Honorary Treasurer and will gratefully receivecontributions or provide information about ways to give: contact him at theCollege. Those in and around London are always welcome to drop in at 80 TatumStreet to visit the premises and projects.Itmight gowithout saying, though it would bewrong if it did, thatwe aremost

grateful to all members and friends who continue to give support andencouragement in this Anniversary Year. Preaching in Chapel on Whitsunday tomark the 125th anniversary of the founding of Pembroke House, Fr Andrewreminded the congregation: ‘PembrokeHouse stands today as a sign of hope andthe desire for human flourishing. It stands as a testimony to the passion and carewhich your predecessors had for the people of Walworth, people who lived thenand often live today a life of struggle, and sometimes of hopelessness. It standsas a testimony to the rich diversity and unity of the People of God drawn togetherfrom every corner of the earth… I pray that you will continue to value the amazingthings that go in Pembroke House Walworth, and that you’ll always know that afriendly welcome is waiting for you there.’

Richard Stanton

www.pembrokehouse.org.uk

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DEVELOPMENT OFFICE REPORT

From the Development Director

It is a beautiful late June day here in Pembroke, warm and sunny and for once theseasons are turning out to be, well, seasonal…But to continue the meteorological metaphor, it is clear that stormy times lie

ahead. For this particular late June has witnessed the Emergency Budget, withthreatened cuts across the board for all but what are known as ‘front-line’ services.At present, Lord Browne of Madingley is reviewing funding for Higher

Education, and it is unlikely that hewill be recommending showering universitieswith cash. More likely will be a suggestion that the contribution made to theireducation by students themselves will rise, in line with DavidWilletts’ ‘better dealfor students and taxpayers’. And that rise will be significant. At present, the ‘top-up’ tuition fee is £3,225 per annum, but this sum might need to be as much asquadrupled if the system is to be funded adequately.Without decisive action, the effect of this would be to divide the world of

higher education into those who can pay and those who cannot. £12,000 perannum is more than the fees at many private schools and so may well be out ofreach not only for the least well off, but also for those who have saved hard to puttheir children through the private system.Many Colleges already subsidise the education of every single one of their

undergraduates and graduate students, and in Pembroke’s case we calculate thisannual subsidy to be around £4,000 per year. While it is not yet possible todetermine how many students will need how much further funding to meet thecosts of their education at the College, it is clear that that subsidy will rise and theUniversity itself will not be a source.So the Colleges and the University must work together to meet this funding

challenge, and to ensure that the mantra of the last fifteen or so years – that nostudent should be deterred fromapplying to Cambridge on financial grounds – canbe maintained. The collective ability to achieve this will naturally depend on thegenerosity and investment of alumni, companies and other philanthropic sources.Earlier this month (June 2010), the University announced that it had reached

its £1 billion fundraising target, two years ahead of schedule. The Vice-Chancellor, who steps down at the end of this academic year, is naturally thrilledat what is a significant milestone in UK fundraising. The Colleges havecollectively played their part, as donations to colleges have accounted for around50% of that sum. For the remainder of the 800th Campaign, which will continueuntil its scheduled end in 2012 but with a revised target, your gifts to Pembrokewill continue to count towards the overall funds raised under the 800th banner.As I write, I do not yet know the College’s own fundraising results for 2009–10,

but it does look to be another highly successful one both in terms of new pledgesand cash received. The Excellence in Perpetuity endowment campaign has reached£22 million towards the £25 million target, for which the deadline is November2012, with a large majority of those funds raised for unrestricted endowmentpurposes. The College remains very grateful indeed to everyone who supportsPembroke at whatever level – all donations matter and make a difference.



I cannot let this opportunity pass to thank Paul Skinner (1963), as Chairman,and the members of the Campaign Board for their tremendous generosity andenergy in advising and supporting the College’s fundraising efforts, by givingtheir wise counsel through Board meetings, hosting and attending events forpotential donors and now helping us ensure that no stone is left unturned in ourefforts to maximise the potential contribution fromMembers and other sources.We are pleased thatMartin Reith has joined the groupwhich includes BobbyKing(1949), Andrew Chadwick (1961), Norman Bachop (1965), Robert Breare (1972),Richard Horlick (1977), Andrew Inglis (1977), Randall Dillard (1982), MarcusBokkerink (1983), Peter Ringrose (1997) andWilliam Charnley.Thanks to benefactionswehave been able to fundmore bursaries,more ‘Avenue

Society’ places (funding which meets the annual subsidy the College makes forevery JuniorMember), andnewsupport for research. Future issues ofThe Avenuewillshow how this generosity is enabling the College, and those within it, to thrive.Of course, the work of the Development Office spreads beyond asking for, and

receiving, money; it also includes the task of building and rebuilding strongerrelationships between Pembroke and its Members. Traditionally, the main focusfor this work has been the annual cycle of events, which continue to thrive withmore than 2,000 guests attending Pembroke events this year. Within this broadcategory, I am pleased to say that we have extended the type of event which weorganise to include not just dinners, drinks parties and lunches, but also seminarsand lectures of various types. As reported elsewhere, Henry Kissinger gave afascinating talk at theGerman Xcellence Lecture – generously sponsored byDavidAndrews (2006), Chief Executive of Xchanging, one of the College’s corporatepartners – Quentin Skinner delivered the K G Sykes Lecture in Italian Studies onMachiavelli, and several distinguished figures from academia and public lifeparticipated in the fourth William Pitt Seminar, A Blueprint for Survival. Parents ofcurrent students were privileged to hear Jonathan Lynn (1961) talk about hisexperience in film and television at this year’s Parents’ Luncheon in April.More recent developments include an increased emphasis on e-

communication. My colleague Elisabeth Wadge has spent a good deal of time onexamining the pros and cons of the various approaches to improving this aspectof Pembroke’s interaction with Members. There are several alumni groups onLinkedIn, Facebook and we send regular “tweets” from pembroke1347 viaTwitter as well as a termly email from the Master, which seems to attract a greatdeal of positive interest. As the University rolls out new software for managingonline relations with alumni, so I expect Pembroke to be part of that programme.In the meantime, we are grateful to Rebecca Caroe (1984) for the time she hasbeen putting into enhancing our online presence and communication.So great has the emphasis been on e-communication there have even been

rumours that theMartletmight be discontinued as a printed publication in favourof an online, more frequently updated, version. These rumours may have beenengendered by an unfortunate phrase in the Martlet itself, not to mention thevarious images of the fabled bird being killed, roasted and stuffed throughout thepages of themagazine! In fact, there are no plans at all to stop printing the annualMartlet and I am pleased to report that Dr Alex Houen, a new Fellow of the

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College, has agreed to become editor. The reason for the mistaken impression isthat there are plans, should funds permit, to create an online ‘flying Martlet’whose content would be produced by a resident writer with the aim of ensuringthat themany interesting aspects of Pembroke life are recorded and broadcast ona frequent basis via the College website. We have already established thePembroke Record webpage (www.pem.cam.ac.uk/record/) as an interesting anddynamic resource, but our hope is that the content of this page will grow rapidlyas a result of this new emphasis. More soon.The weather outside is now a little hazier: indeed there are clouds but the sun

threatens to break through now and then. Perhaps a fitting metaphor for ourconfidence in the bright prospects ahead for the College once the immediateuncertainty has cleared.

Matthew Mellor

The Corporate Partnership Programme

The economic climate of the past two or three years hasmeant that companies aremore reluctant to commit to a partnership, but we have continued to strengthenour relationships with the partners that we do have.During the past year we have welcomed DSM, a Dutch Life Sciences and

Materials Sciences company, to the Programme and Professor Jos Put, ChiefTechnology Officer, was admitted to the College as their William Pitt Fellow inFebruary 2010.We have already held aworkshop on Engineering Thermoplastics intheCollege for the company andwill be organising a further seminar in the autumn.Cheyney Group, new partners in 2009, have held a seminar here, and in

February the company’s managing director and William Pitt Fellow, Mr RichardParmee (1970) sponsored the Parmee Prize for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise.The competition, which is open to Pembroke students, was won by a currentundergraduate, Chris Bryan (2007), and his team, ‘Mobile MS’, who are hopingto produce aids for younger people suffering from diseases such as MS.Our two major events of the year were the fourth William Pitt Seminar, A

Blueprint for Survival, which was held in Emmanuel College’s Queen’s Building inOctober. This was a fascinating session, chaired by the former Vice-ChancellorLord Broers, with talks from: the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser,Professor John Beddington; the Government’s chief advisor on Energy andClimate Change, Professor David Mackay; the Harvard Professor ofEnvironmental Engineering, Peter Rogers; and the Cambridge Professor ofInfectious Diseases, Derek Smith. The theme continued the narrative fromprevious years’ seminars, which had looked at climate change and then at risk,and the evening was rounded off by dinner in Hall in Pembroke. This year'sseminar will again be held in Emmanuel College, and will be entitled Geopolitics:Crisis and Change. The BBC’s James Naughtie will chair the session.In November the Second Xchanging German Xcellence Lecture was given by

Dr Henry Kissinger, who spoke to a packed and enthralled audience. The subject



of the 2010 lecture is as yet to be decided. An audio recording of this, togetherwith a video of the two of the previousWilliam Pitt Seminars, can be found on theCollege’s ‘Pembroke Record’ page at www.pem.cam.ac.uk/record/.In the past year we have again been involved with various projects for BT,

including Partnership Vision and Business Vision courses, a seminar on security,and frequent meetings. We have also helped the company to find students forsummer placements. We expect that the relationship will continue to flourish inthe coming twelve months. Mr Matt Bross, who was the company's William PittFellow left the company last year, and the College elected Sir Michael Rake,Chairman of BT, to succeed him.In late January, we held an extremely well-attended graduate careers event for

Grosvenor, the UK property business, which drew students from across theUniversity.The Corporate Partnership Programme continues to be a high quality avenue

for companies with diverse research and strategic interests to interact withvarious people in and elements of the University via the network that exists in theacademic staff of the College. If you would like more information about how itworks, please do not hesitate to contact me on 01223 339080.

Matthew Mellor

The MatthewWren Society

The 13thmeeting of the Society was held in College on Saturday 17 October 2009,when 92 members, and their guests, were entertained to lunch in Hall followinga reception hosted by the President in the Old Library. After lunch, a selection ofthe watercolours left to the College by Monica Partridge (1998) were displayed inthe Nihon Room.Membership of the Society is open to anyone who has notified the College of

an intention to benefit the College by a bequest. Matthew Wren (1585–1667) –undergraduate, Fellow and President of the College (1616–24), and Bishop of Ely(1638–67) – was a notable benefactor of the College. (His body is interned in thecrypt of the Chapel, which he had built as a gift to the College, in 1665.) TheSociety has a membership of over 340. The names of those who have consentedto be identified – together with a number of recent bequests received – are listedbelow. To all, the College is extremely grateful.

I A Ewen (1933)P J D Langrishe (1935)G E Millard (1935)J A C Drew (1936)I N Turner (1938)J B H Knight (1939)M D Jepson (1940)HH Sebag-Montefiore(1943)

J F Bostock (1944)C A Price (1944)P BMackenzie Ross (1945)T O'Donnell (1945)D R Smith (1945)R G Bennett (1946)J T Edmond (1946)G R Evans (1946)K N Palmer (1946)

R T Sanders (1946)MW Thompson (1946)R BWaterhouse (1946)P R Langham (1947)H G Penman (1947)J M Smith (1947)M B Cheales (1948)R M L Humphreys (1948)J M D Knight (1948)

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J G Parker (1948)R N Quartano (1948)C J Addison (1949)R Bonnett (1949)M F Collcutt (1949)H J L Fitch (1949)J F K Hinde (1949)R H King (1949)E D Peacock (1949)R L Stewart (1949)P L Tennant (1949)M J C Annand (1950)J W Bell (1950)P C Flory (1950)A N Savage (1950)J J M Barron (1951)A B Carles (1951)J L Dixon (1951)A MHall-Smith (1951)R T Kingdon (1951)R T Lawman (1951)K A C Patteson (1951)W R Riddington (1951)G B Smethurst (1951)M BWhittaker (1951)J P Barber (1952)J C R Downing (1952)R N Field (1952)G R Hext (1952)P J Pugh (1952)D F Beckley (1953)I D Crane (1953)I D McPhail (1953)A N Paterson (1953)J D P Phillips (1953)N A Robeson (1953)N F Robinson (1953)P H Vince (1953)J MWhitehead (1953)C Beadle (1954)N I Cameron (1954)G F Fooks (1954)A H Isaacs (1954)I Meshoulam (1954)R L Allison (1955)M Bett (1955)J E Bowen (1955)DW Eddison (1955)C Gilbraith (1955)D A Hewitt (1955)

J D Hind (1955)T R Hopgood (1955)N La Mar (1955)H J F McLean (1955)NM Pullan (1955)J M P Soper (1955)R J Warburton (1955)P W Boorman (1956)B M Fagan (1956)D HMellor (1956)M A Roberts (1956)T G Rosenthal (1956)T J Harrold (1957)J M HHunter (1957)J B Macdonald (1957)DWHMcCowen (1957)R BWall (1957)M F Atiyah (1958)R A C Berkeley (1958)O C Brun (1958)R J M Gardner (1958)J D Harling (1958)J Lawrence (1958)A E Palmer (1958)G Parry (1958)K H T Schiemann (1958)J Sutherland-Smith (1958)G J Williams (1958)W RWilliams (1958)J NWoulds (1958)H A Crichton-Miller (1959)D R Ives (1959)P N Jarvis (1959)M G Kuczynski (1959)J A McMyn (1959)Y AWilks (1959)P A C Cogan (1960)J P Warren (1960)J B Wilkin (1960)P G Bird (1961)J A H Chadwick (1961)S Halliday (1961)R MWingfield (1961)RW Jewson (1962)M J Llewellyn-Smith (1962)K MMcNeil (1962)R C Sommers (1962)J C R Turner (1962)T H Gibbons (1963)S C Palmer (1963)

P D Skinner (1963)J A Stott (1963)J C D Hickson (1964)C RM Kemball (1965)R G H Bethel (1966)E M Himsworth (1966)R I Jamieson (1966)C R B Goldson (1967)M Goodwin (1967)C RWebb (1967)I C Brownlie (1968)I P Collins (1968)D E Love (1968)P DMilroy (1968)T J H Townshend (1968)J P Wilson (1968)P G Cleary (1969)B C Heald (1969)J H Kellas (1969)W R Siberry (1969)W S Gould (1970)H J Perkins (1970)J R Wiesenfeld (1970)R H Johnson (1971)R Kinns (1971)M H Thomas (1971)M S Oakes (1972)A G Singleton (1972)M A Smyth (1973)A S Ivison (1974)S G Trembath (1974)R D Jacobs (1975)K P Van Anglen (1975)M J Burrows (1976)N GWalker (1976)N J Brooks (1977)S M Andrews (1978)N T Beazley (1978)J C Finnemore (1978)M K Jackson (1978)D SWalden (1978)L J Reeve (1979)H H Erskine-Hill (1980)M E Bartlett (1981)D J Hitchcock (1982)D N Pether (1983)V J Bowman (1984)J W Laughton (1989)G P Shields (1991)J P Parry (1992)



The College apologises for any inadvertent omissions, and invites memberswilling to see their names listed in future towrite accordingly to SallyMarch at theCollege.

The following bequests were received by the College:

C E Davis (1948), a further £10,000W E Burcham (1934), £8,000PW St L Searle (1950), £995C N GWAschan (1924), £25,018H A V Bulleid (1930), £3,000T E M Douglas (1944), £3,000R B Little (1967), £16,790G B Houston (1963), a further £670

A Legacy to Pembroke College Cambridge, which contains helpful information onmaking a bequest to the College, can be obtained by telephoning Sally March on(01223) 339079, writing to her at the College, or contacting her by e-mail([email protected]).

James Hickson

The 1347 Committee Parents Luncheon

The 16th 1347 Committee Parents Luncheonwas held at the beginning of the EasterTerm,onSunday 18April 2010. 190parents andother familymembers joinedcurrentmembers of the College for the occasion in Hall after drinks in the Old Library. MrJonathan Lynn (1961), the director, writer and actor, was this year’s guest speaker.The Committee would like to thank all those who attended this year’s Lunch andthosewhomade donations. The £3,000 raised has been given to a College fund thatdirectly supports Pembroke students in need of financial assistance.The next Parents Luncheon will be held on Sunday 16 January 2011 and details

will be circulated to the parents of Junior Members in Autumn 2010.

1347 Committee Officers 2009–2010President: K W Lawson (2007)Vice-Presidents: J A Bashford (2004), HMRickman (2006), J M Sengendo (2006)Secretaries: C F Muhuza (2008) & R H Quick (2008)Publicity Officer: C J Dobbing (2008)

1347 Committee Officers 2010–2011President: R H Quick (2008)Other officers will be elected at the outset of the 2010–11 Academical Year

MA Bagnall-Oakeley(1994)

H P Raingold (1994)A R B AMydellton (1997)

J Mayne (2004)

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The Pembroke Leavers’ Group 2009–2010

This year has been yet another successful one for the Pembroke Leavers’ Group.At the time of writing, 41% of the leaving year have made a donation, pledging atotal of £9,521 to the College. This is a Pembroke Leavers’ Group record, withcontributions supporting key funds that help to maintain Pembroke’s richdiversity, while providing graduates with a way to vocalise their thanks for andtheir support of the College. Students are able to donate to seven different funds:the Pembroke Leavers’ Group Student Support Fund, the College’s endowment,the Peter May Sports Fund, Pembroke House, the Peter Cook Drama Fund, theKenderdine Music Fund and the Pembroke African Scholarship.On behalf of the Committee I would like to thank all those who took time to

meet with us, made further enquiries and especially those who pledged theirsupport.Much of ourwork this year focused on broadening the appeal of the PLGand raising participation. A product of these efforts was the design of awelcoming PLG introduction booklet that was distributed amongst leavers, witha photo memories booklet now going to print as a memento of our leavers’ timehere. We hope that by raising the profile of the PLG and by normalising this typeof activity we have been able to foster stronger connectionswith the College in thelonger term.I’d like to thank the Committee for their hard work and patience throughout

the year, to which our success has been the strongest testimony. Finally, theCommittee itself would like to thank Sally March for her fantastic guidance andsupport throughout the year and to wish next year’s Committee the very best inextending the PLG further.

Jack Tavener

President: Jack Tavener

Committee: Rona Anderson-Witty, Lucy Baldwin, Tom Bond, Chris Bryan,Hannah Brooks, Philippa Dale, Kyle Lawson, Helen Mackey, Zami Majuqwana,Laura Mckoy, Alice Newton, Imogen Taylor, Lizzy Tyler, Amelia Viney

Donors to the Pembroke Leavers’ Group 2009–2010:

S M Adams (2007)C F Alonzo (2007)R Anderson-Witty (2007)S Appleton (2006)L C Baldwin (2006)L D L Barbanneau (2006)R A Bell (2007)T G Bond (2007)H J Brooks (2007)C D Bryan (2007)T A Cane (2006)

E Coad (2006)A R Croall (2007)K Cunningham (2007)P Dale (2007)A M Day (2006)B A P Dury (2007)R E Folwell (2007)Z V Ford (2006)K L Gill (2006)N Gonella (2007)C Guyader (2007)

J W S Hale (2007)T J D Halliday (2007)T J Hammond (2006)M Janecek (2006)A P Judson (2007)A L Kaitcer (2007)C Kehagias (2006)KW Lawson (2007)H F Mackey (2007)N AMajuqwana (2007)A McClymont (2007)



There were a further 9 donors who preferred to remain anonymous.

Master’s Society

The seventh meeting of the Master’s Society was held in College on Saturday 20February 2010. 85 guests were entertained to an enjoyable lunch in the Hallfollowing a drinks reception in the Senior Parlour. Sir Richard Dearlove thankedall those present for their generous support.Membership of the Society is open to anyone who has made gifts totalling

£1,000 or more to the College in the financial year prior to the event; underrecently instituted changes, invitations are also sent to donors for the two yearsfollowing a gift of £5,000 ormore, and for five years following a gift of £10,000 ormore. Donors of £50,000 or more will be granted indefinite membership of theSociety. To all, the College is very grateful. Those attending this year included:

Mr HL Allan (1970)Mr GK Aslet (1966)Mr NM Bachop (1965)Sir Michael Bett CBE(1965) & Lady Bett

Mr PAC Campbell (1966)Mr WF Charnley &Mr R Jeffrey

Mr H Crichton-Miller(1959)

Dr JR Deane (1970) &Mrs DA Deane

Mr FCF Delouche (1957) &Mrs DC Delouche

Mr JVP Drury (1966) &Mrs C Drury

Mr CM Fenwick (1957)Mrs F Finch &Dr B Harding

Dr CB Hall (1957) &Dr E Hall

Revd RA Hamilton (1964)& Mrs S Hamilton

Mr A J Handford (1970) &Mrs AJ Handford

Mr DNHoward (1956) &Mrs JE Howard

Dr BL Irving (1961)Professor N Itoh &Mrs M Kawakami

Mr RD Jacobs QC (1975) &Mrs P Jacobs

Mr RI Jamieson (1966) &Mrs GC Jamieson

Mr RW Jewson (1962)Mr JEL Lebus (1952)Mr ADMarcus (1984)Mr RG Nasr (1984)Mr JK Overstall (1955) &Mrs AD Overstall

Mr RJ Parmee (1970) &Mrs BWhite

Mr CA Payne (1979) &Ms A Inglis

Dr DM Pirie (1966)

Dr IF Pye (1960) &Dr RM Pye

Miss JS Ringrose (1997) &Professor MMills

Dr PS Ringrose (1997) &Mrs N Ringrose

Mr GC Ryan QC (1950) &Dr SM Cameron CBEQC

Mr GM Scarcliffe (1975)Mr HM Skipp (1965)Dr JM Smith (1947) &Mrs R Dean

Mr KG Sykes (1965) &Mrs J Sykes

Mrs PA TrebilcockMr DAWalter (1970) &Mrs MNWalter

Mr PF Wigram (1958) &Mme LHG Pinson(1984)

Mr JB Wilkin (1960) &Mrs MLWilkin

L Mckoy (2007)M DMcLean (2007)L Mundy (2007)V J Neogi (2005)A E Newton (2007)J R Perry (2007)S D A Prichard (2007)

Y Qiu (2007)J Tavener (2007)I F Taylor (2007)E R Tyler (2007)C D Uglow (2006)T Underwood (2007)A S Viney (2007)

O MWeller (2006)S HWilks (2007)F C Yeldham (2007)A M R Young (2007)E L A Youngs (2007)Q Zhang (2007)

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The College was represented by:

Invitations for the next meeting of the Master’s Society, to be held on Saturday26 February 2011, will be sent out in the autumn.

The MasterProfessor JP ParryDr LRR GelsthorpeDr DC IglioriSir Roger Tomkys KCMGDL

Mr MG KuczynskiMr CJ BlencoweMr HP RaingoldMrs SH StobbsMr MRMellorDr ESWadge

Ms SAMarchMr CF Muhuza (2008)Mr F Pagden-Ratcliffe(2008)

Miss DSWambold (2008)



COLLEGE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES

BADMINTON

This season proved to be the most successful that the club has ever had. Thisassertion can comfortably be made because both the First Men’s Team and theWomen’s Team ended up playing in the top divisions of their respective collegeleagues in Lent, something that few colleges can boast. Furthermore, each teamfinished in a respectable position within their division, with the men comingjoint-third and the women joint-fourth.The First Men’s Team entered the First Division in Lent after winning the

Second Division in Michaelmas. The Second Division provided a gentleintroduction to college badminton for the freshers that had joined the team. Thehighlight of the term had to be the final match, where Peterhouse weredispatched without our conceding any games. The First Division provided a nastyshock to those members of the team that had not experienced the high standardof badminton that the Second Division had lacked. However, after some earlydefeats, the team came together and put in a number of respectableperformances, with the highlight being an extremely narrow defeat at the hand ofSt John’s, whose dominance of College badminton is rarely challenged.TheWomen’s Team started the season in the First Division and, despite being

newcomers and injury problems, put in a stunning performance, finishing joint-second. The highlight of Michaelmas had to be the crushing victory overHomerton. Lent was less successful, with St John’s and the promoted AngliaRuskin proving to be tough opposition.The success of the FirstMen’s TeamandWomen’s Teamwas continued into the

knockout Cuppers tournament, with both teams reaching the finals day. However,the fickle drawmeant that both teams cameup against Trinity, whohave numerousUniversity players. Both teams were vanquished, despite putting up strongopposition. I hope that the teams will get a more fortuitous draw next season.The Second Men’s Team had a tough time this season in the Fifth Division. In

Michaelmas, despite a decidedly shaky start, the team came through in the endsecuring fifth place. This performance was particularly promising for the futureof the club due to the fact that many unblooded freshers had played in the team.Lent was less successful with the team finishing sixth, despite a number of valiantperformances. However, the experience that the team has gained will proveinvaluable for next season.The annual Old Boys’ Match looked set to be very close, with a key member of

the Men’s First Team being absent, and the old boys fielding their strongest everteam. However, despite having to adapt to the feather shuttles, the Men’s FirstTeam soundly defeated the old boys, although the old boys pulled out somemiraculous shots. Also, the annual dinner went down a treat, especially with theimpromptu phone call to one of the old boys who had come to be idolised by twoof the freshers, despite only a brief encounter.I have every confidence that the success of this season can be repeated and

taken further. Next season will be more difficult due to the loss of experienced

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players, but this provides the less experienced members of the club with theopportunity to raise their game. An opportunity that I am sure will not be wasted.

Calum Kinloch

Outgoing Officers: Calum Kinloch (Captain), Philippa Dale (Women’s Captain),Moses Hoyt (Second Men’s Captain), Oliver Jones (Treasurer)

IncomingOfficers: Matej Janecek (Captain), Shu Yang (Women’s Captain), JulianWillis (Second Men’s Captain), Oliver Jones (Treasurer)

BOAT CLUB

Captain: Samantha Bennett Boatman: Kevin BowlesMen’s Captain: AdamMarch Senior Treasurer: Professor MelvillePresident: Sir Richard Dearlove

This year has been a tremendously successful one for the PCBC, culminating inthe women’s first Mays crew rowing over Head of the River for the third yearrunning, and themen’s first Mays crew bumping up three to come second on theRiver. This result alone clearly shows how dominant PCBC has become amongstthe College rowing programmes, yet the success in the club is not limited to thefirst boats. This Mays saw 10 Pembroke boats competing in the bumps: threewomen’s VIIIs and seven men’s VIIIs. Numbers matched, but not bettered, onlyby First and Third Trinity. Not a single one of these boats went down, with fivecrews earning their blades. Notably, our second men’s crew bumped up five togain their rightful place in the second division and will now be permitted to trainin the evenings leading up to Mays.Mays successes, however praiseworthy, are a result of hard work put in

throughout the year. To begin the year, several new training and coachingmethods were employed: two part-time novice coaches were hired with moneygenerously donated to the club for this purpose. These coaches quickly broughtour novices up to speed with the basics of the rowing stroke and began teachingthem the winning spirit that comes with rowing for the PCBC. Starting in LentTerm, we began core stability and flexibility training in the form of Yoga forAthletes, taught by the instructorwhohasworkedwith thewinningCULRC crewsthese past two years. Additionally, we began free weights training with thecompany Core Cambridge, who supervise and train CUBC in their weight lifting.Both of these new training methods were made possible by generoussponsorship – arranged by our President andMaster, Sir Richard Dearlove – fromMayer Brown LLP. The athletes have tremendously appreciated training withthese professionals, and our results suggest that the newmethods have paid off.The year’s early results saw the first womengo up three in the Lent bumps, and

the first men go up one place by bumping our neighbours, Clare. W1 went on torace in the Women’s Head of the River Race, coming 90th overall and top



Cambridge college. M1 raced in both the Kingston Head and Head of the RiverRace, although their rank as fifth fastest Cambridge college in HORR reflected amid-race collision with one of the buoys along the course.On the women’s side, three boats entered the May bumps, and by the end of

the week’s racing, all three were head of their respective divisions: W1 rowingover Head of the River,W2 bumping up to be topwomen’s second boat andHeadof Division 2, andW3 retaining their place as topwomen’s third boat. Truly, thereis no College rowing club better, at all levels, than Pembroke’s women. To retaintheir place asHead of the River,W1 rowed over the first day ahead of a remarkablyslow Jesus crew, who were duly overbumped by Downing W1. Our women wereup to the challenge from Downing on the next three days, rowing over three tofour lengths clear, retaining the Headship for the third year running.The men’s side boasted seven VIIIs in the Mays. These were led by the first

men’s crew, who started fifth. With the strength of perennial Mays coloursbolstered by three winning CULRC Blue boat rowers and the four seat from thisyear’s winning CUBC Blue boat, M1 advanced through the strong field ahead ofthem, bumping LMBC, Jesus and Caius to finish Second on the River, continuingthe truly remarkable rise through the first division in recent years. The six othermen’s crews hauled in a total of 23 bumps between them, with M7, M6, M4 andM2 earning blades, while M5 andM3went up three. By the end of Mays, I’m surethe sound of Kevin’s bell was ringing in the other College boatmen’s ears!I would like to praise the efforts and dedication put in by all the rowers,

coxswains, coaches and this year’s committee for their work throughout the year.Even more worthy of praise is our long-serving (though he may say longsuffering!) boatman, Kevin Bowles. His work as both boatman and coachthroughout the year, culminating in his finishing coaching of W1, have beeninvaluable. Finally, the Boat Club has presented a First Mays blazer to ourPresident, Sir Richard Dearlove, in grateful recognition of his enthusiasm for andcommitment to the PCBC.Please join us throughout next year, including at the PCBC Association Dinner

in February, and on the banks for Lent and May bumps, in support of the PCBC.We are all conscious of what excitements this coming year may bring. Row onPCBC!

Men’s 1st Mays Boat: Timothy Ebsworth, Alistair Chappelle, John Hale, PeterMcClelland, William Deacon, Alexander Fabry, Charles Pitt-Ford, AndrewCusdin, Paddy Daniell.

Women’s 1st Mays Boat: Alexander Whiscombe, Samantha Bennett, SarahRobley, Amy Nicholson, Rosamund Healey, Emma-Rose Coad, Emma Rowley,Kat Suddaby, Verity Bennett.

The club was represented at University level by Peter McClelland (CUBC BlueBoat), Anna Railton (CUWBC Blue Boat), Alistair Chappelle (President, CULRCBlue Boat), John Hale (CULRC Blue Boat), and Charles Pitt-Ford (CULRC BlueBoat).

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The Boat Clubwebsite provides recent news at www.pembrokecollegeboatclub.com.

Samantha Bennett

CRICKET

2010was a successful year for Pembroke cricket. Youmight not think that, to lookat our results. However, this year was a success because: for every game, wefielded a full team of enthusiastic players; we won our first match in two years;and the team had a fantastic social side. Win or lose everyone had a great time(including at the Red Bull afterwards).The team was made up of an unprecedented number of first years; some

gameswere playedwith up to ten freshers in thematch squad. This can only bodewell for the future. With only three players leaving this year the team should havea strong core for at least two years to come.Moments that stand out in the season are: Arvind Patel’s 3–0 vs Strollers CC

(yes, three wickets for no runs); star Middlesex youth player SiobhanHenderson’s debut with an impressive unbeaten innings; Mehdi Jaffer’s edgedwinning runs in the final over vs Strollers; Alan McKee’s two splendid innings of54 and 45; Matt Leggett’s incredible backwards diving catch vs Trevs XI; Wiraaj(‘The Manager’) Agnihotri fantastic bowling performances.The results were as follows: Pembroke lost toHomerton by 50 runs; Pembroke

lost to Clare by 7 wickets; Pembroke lost to Trinity by 66 runs; Pembroke beatStrollers CC by 3 wickets; Pembroke lost to Trevs XI by 54 runs; Pembroke lost toBursars XI by 20 runs.Awards for the season were: Fielder of the year: Matt Leggett; Bowler of the

year: Wiraaj Agnihotri; Batsman of the year: Alan Mckee; 2011 Secretary: MehdiJaffer; 2011 Captain: Olly Budd.A special mentionmust also go to groundsman TrevorMunns for his fantastic

pitches and top class banter. He was always up for stepping in to score some runswhen we needed him.

Andrew Bell – PCCC Captain 2010

FOOTBALL (MEN’S)

PembrokeCollegeMen’s First XI began the season full of optimismat the prospectof taking on the top flight of College football for the first time in six years.The first fixture of the season against Girton College was an important test: a

step into the unknown as we were unsure whether we would be able to hold ourown at the highest level. However, it soon became clear that we could compete atthis level. In a physical and fast paced match, we created several good chances inthe first half with both keepers being tested but neither side able to break thedeadlock. Midway through the second half an unfortunate ricochet put us behindand despite pressing forward we were unable to create a clear cut opportunity.



This narrow defeat typified our season in which we were competitive andcommitted but lacked that killer instinct and the crucial element of luck.We realised that victory against potential relegation rivals St Catherine’s

College would be crucial for the prospects of our season. The first half reflectedthe importance of the match and we went into the changing rooms 2–1 downafter a cagey performance. However, after the restart we quickly imposedourselves on the opposition and dominated possession and territory. Althoughunable to score immediately we remained patient and after the inevitableequaliser the floodgates opened and we eventually ran home 6–2 winners. Thisemphatic victory after struggling in the first part of the season confirmed ourarrival as a first division side.The decisive match of the season was away at St John’s College on a blustery

and rain-soaked day, on a sloping and uneven pitch.We took an early lead but thestrong wind pinned us down and at the break we were again 2–1 down. Weopened the second half with some flowing passing and moving and after almostscoring on a couple of occasions a superb long range effort brought us back toparity. Having equalised, we lost our impetus and the substitution of a universityplayer for John’s swung the balance and we quickly conceded. Unable to regainour composure on the ball and committed to attack we fell further behind andwere unable to recover.Following this defeat it was necessary to pick up points against some of the

strongest teams in the league. However, we were not going to bow down toreputation, and against title challengers Downing and Fitzwilliam we houndedthe ball and showed the tenacity that had earned us promotion the year before.Although we gave both teams tough battles and threatenedmajor upsets we werenarrowly defeated on both occasions, thus sealing our fate.The 2009–10 season has been a difficult one for Pembroke College Men’s

Football Club. However, despite being relegated we demonstrated that no teamwould have an easy fixture against Pembroke College.

Moji Neshat

FOOTBALL (WOMEN’S)

Three years ago, I joined an amazing, if small, Pembroke college football team,who had a surprisingly successful season with only eight players. This year PLFChad an even more spectacular season, managing to recruit so many committedplayers that every match saw six substitutes waiting eagerly for their turn on thepitch! Together we have enough talent to challenge even the best College teams ofthe University.Division 1 demands that we play well every week, and we have done so in true

Pembroke style. Our wins far outnumber our losses: even Girton College(renowned for their league domination)were nomatch for PLFC. This victory wasnot only the highlight of our season (and our footballing careers!) but a truedemonstration of our approach to football. It is really about having fun, but

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football does feature (!) and we work hard for each other on the pitch, making usformidable opponents.This is even more impressive given that most of the team had never played a

competitive match of football before October. But they trained tirelessly everyweek, putting up with my fitness tasks, heading drills and boring skills sessions,and learning formations and tactics that any pro would envy.I am so proud of what we have achieved.We finished respectably in Division 1,

and reached the Plate Final for only the second time in PLFC history. Many newly-found (and unreservedly biased) supporters would testify that we playedfantastically, and only narrowly missed winning the coveted trophy.The sporting achievements of PLFC are testament to both talent and

dedication. Jenny Hawkins, a fantastic sportswomen, who is an invaluablemember of football, hockey and basketball teams of Pembroke was awarded‘Player of the Season.’ After much convincing she took up home in goal, and herspectacular saves and fearlessness make her the best College goalkeeper around!But she was just one ofmany fantastic players, with everyone bringing somethingto the field – Tessa’s speed, Ellie’s unstoppable ‘powershots’, Becca’sorganisation, Fran’s keenness, and Louise’s formidable defending.I have been lucky enough to captain PLFC for the last two years, and have seen

women’s football grow in popularity, and watch a team struggling for playersbecome an overwhelmingly popular presence in Pembroke. The memorablemoments and team spirit of all the sporting teams of Pembroke is part of collegelife that I will miss most when I graduate this year. But I am sure next season’scaptain, Lizzie Robinshaw,will inspire PLFC to continue to grow and achieve welldeserved trophy glory (and a newmatching kit…)!

Rachel Folwell

HOCKEY (MEN’S)

The Pembroke Men’s hockey season has been somewhat mixed. After securingtwo promotions in two years, the male contingent of PCHC found themselves inDivision 2. Losing only a couple of players to graduation, notably Nick Hardingand Dan Schofield, replacements were found in the form of freshers AliMcWilliams and Laurie Martin, third year Ed Monk plus our resident graduateAntipodean Brad Hiller.The Michaelmas term got off to a flying start with a 6–1 victory against

Fitzwilliam. The next few results did not go in our favour, including a 12–0whitewash against an extremely strong St Catherine’s team, replete with no fewerthan nine University players, that had somehow found its way into the seconddivision. Further disappointing days included a first-round loss in Cuppers (inline with the last three years), and a narrow 3–2 loss against Corpus Christi.Despite losing our leading goalscorerMikeMcLean in the first few seconds of thegame to a rolled ankle, Pembroke played some neat hockey to slot two early goalspast a slightly weaker Corpus team. Early in the second half, however, an



accidental tumble from sweeper Thomas Bond led to a stick to the face – and aresulting visit to Addenbroke’s – for captain David House. This proved to be thepivotal moment, for Corpus rallied and drew level with a tiring and frustratedPembroke side before finally slotting away the winner.When Fitzwilliam netted asurprise victory against the very same Corpus side, Pembroke found themselvesonly staying up on goal difference.After the Christmas break Pembroke looked stronger. We first faced the two

new teams: Churchill, down from Division 1, and Girton, up from Division 3.Despite struggling with unavailability and injury Pembroke found a stroke ofform and managed to dispatch both sides, placing us right at the top of the Lentleague. Such a strong position proved difficult to maintain and the next fewmatches went the way of much of the previous term, with losses to Corpus,Queens’ and Trinity. The last match of the season, against a well-matched Caiusteam, at the time with only a single win, was to be crucial: a Caius victory wouldlead to equal points and Pembroke would probably go down on goal difference.To Pembroke’s absolute credit, the team played out of its skin in this match,raising their game just when it mattered. The defence, having been juggledaround earlier on in the term, found their stride and marked the Caius attackersalmost out of the match. Fantastic runs up front from Jack Tavener earned himtwo goals.With only a last-minute slip-up tomar an otherwise perfect victory, thePembroke side walked off the pitch and into the annual dinner with a well-earnedmid-table result.Division 2 has been a good challenge for the College side.Having to fight every

game has improved our hockey no end, particularly at the back with a significantimprovement throughout the year. AliMcWilliamswill be taking on the captaincyrole next year, hoping to lead the club through another strong season. I shouldlike to thank heartily all who contributed.

David House

HOCKEY (WOMEN’S)

The women’s contingent of the club had a similarly successful season. Thewomen’s section, unlike the men’s, sees one league played over the two terms. Itis fair to say that at the beginning of the year, the team promised to be the best wehave had, largely due to a good fresher intake – notably Susanne Stott andSiobhanHenderson bolstering our attack – and University players who had a yearoff and were eligible to play college hockey. These individuals’ skills fuelled ourgreat team spirit and enthusiasm which meant that for most games we had themaximum squad of sixteen players at every game, an intimidating sight for thebest of opponents!At the beginning of the season we met St John’s, who were known to be a

tough team to beat, whilst our squadwas not yet a team. Individual performanceswere good, but the linking play and communication between players was lowwhich resulted in a 1–1 draw, a disappointing start to the season. Our next league

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game was against our long- standing rivals, St Catherine’s. We went expecting achallengingmatch and thus stepped up our game in anticipation. Surprisingly, StCatz didn’t deliver a strong defence and our forwards took full advantage of this,sinking seven goals past the keeper. This allowed our defenders to relax, whilestill dealing with the few breaking attacks by St Catz elegantly and swiftly.Having inflicted such a thrashing, the team entered the first round Cuppers

draw against St Catz with some complacency. This was misguided. The match –which was organised at an awkward time – saw us field a much depleted squad.The score was 2–1 to Pembroke with five minutes to go, but alas a penalty cornerwas given in our defending D, and their University striker scored. After theprevious year, in which we were knocked out by Girton in sudden death penaltyflicks, wewere keen to get a goal before full time. However time slipped away andwe were left in the same situation. The University Blues goalkeeper gave St Catz aclear advantage and although Helen Mackey – our dedicated goalkeeper –performed brilliantly, they won on flicks.We were then left to concentrate on the league. Bad weather in Lent Term

caused many matches to be cancelled or postponed, leading to a manic end ofterm. After St John’s, we won all ourmatches, handing out significant thrashingsto colleges such as Downing, Emmanual and Fitzwilliam. We ended the seasonfacingMurray Edwards, in thematch to determine the title. Clearly up against thebest team we had yet confronted, it proved a tough match. However, all theplayers showed that our year of hard work had paid off, scoring a 4–1 victory.Hannah Rickman consolidated her title as the league’s highest scorer, with oneespecially impressive goal.All in all, great seasons for women and men alike, men staying in the high

quality hockey Division 2, and women winning the Division 1 title. Pembrokehockey didn’t limit itself to Cambridge, however. The teams once againmade theirway to Dublin, to play Durham and colleges from Oxford, to determine not onlythe best hockey team across the three universities but also which group of playerscould have themost fun! Pembrokewon at both of these, with thewomenwalkingaway with a nice shiny trophy as winners of the women’s side of the tournament.I can confidently say the club had themost success ever this season, and I hope

that next year, with another good fresher intake, the success will continue.

Philippa Dale

RUGBY

Having avoided both relegation and promotion in the 2008/9 season, PembrokeCollege RUFC began the new academic year once more in the second division ofcollege rugby. The interest shown at the freshers’ fair generated a good turnoutfor the customary introductory session in the first week of term: the many 1styears keen to continue their rugby at college were welcomed, and it soon becameclear that they were not without talent and would complement the skills of theremaining undergraduates and old timers alike, who proved not to have forgotten



how to play over the long summer break. All were looking forward to playing agood amount of rugby and enjoying the relaxed social dynamic that socaracterises the club. Optimistic ambitions for the season were encouraged by atriumphant first game against Trinity Hall (previously of the first division), with avictory of 29 points to 8, sealed by a hat trick of tries by Jack Sunter. Next up wereQueens’, Pembroke’s old rivals. Despite a vigorous start to the match, the finalscore was 10–0 to Queens’. This defeat loomed over the rest of the MichaelmasTerm for it was followed by a narrow 17–15 home defeat to Trinity Hall, a 31–12loss to Magdalene and another loss to Queens’, 27–20. This last match was thefinal opportunity the season had to offer for a victory over Queens’, and atremendously hard-fought game ensued, with Pembroke conceding early beforestaging a courageous fight-back, bringing the sides within 7 points. Specialtribute must go to Jonny Sengendo for a late try which fired the team withrenewed spirit but nevertheless the whistle went with Pembroke still seven pointsadrift. A further loss to Magdalene, the strongest team in the division, left a lot ofwork to do come the Lent Term. Early in January it became clear that to be sure ofavoiding relegation, victory was essential in the two games that remained to beplayed against Fitzwilliam, one place above in the table. Pembroke began theaway leg solidly, offering a good defence to Fitzwiliam’s powerful runners. Athalf-time the score stood 10–0 to the home side, success well within reach. Thesecond half did not proceed so smoothly: although an early try for the oppositiongalvanized Pembroke’s resolve and Archy de Berker scored an excellent runningtry in retaliation, Fitzwilliam proceeded to break Pembroke’s line at will until thefinal score: 30 points to 5.Quick calculations in the bar afterwards nonetheless encouraged the

possibility of salvation. Two 50–0 walkover victories against a team-lessSelwyn/Peterhouse gave Pembroke a healthy points difference: all that wasneeded was to beat Fitzwilliam in the home leg. Knowing that we had to winheightened anticipation before the game. Many friends turned up to providemuch appreciated support, but this crunch fixture may have yielded lessexcitement than they had hoped. It was a game for the rugby purist. Defensivelines collided and tactical kicking abounded with nothing leading to points.Withthe clock showing ten minutes remaining, the score was still 0–0. An attackingline-out for Fitzwilliam produced a destructive passage of play resulting in a try tothe opposition under the posts. Crucially, Fitzwilliam’s kicker failed to move farenough back to take the conversion, with the result that the ever incisivePembroke captain, Sean Adams, managed a charge down. With five minutesremaining, all that was required was a converted try. The kick-off was eagerlycontested and eventually the ball was tackled into touch for an attackingPembroke line-out. Pembroke made ground, steadily approaching theFitzwilliam line until Jack Sunter carried the ball over to great celebration. It wasleft up to fly-half Rob Jones to kick for the two points that would grant victory. Hemanaged this with calm confidence and shortly afterwards the final whistle went,heralding what had seemed an unlikely victory.With the pressure off, Pembroke once again faced up to Fitzwilliam away, this

time in the plate competition, after an early cup defeat to a heavyweight

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Homerton side. Playing in proper February weather, a narrow victory wasrepeated, this time 8–7 with an early try to Alex Walsh and a penalty from RobJones. In the semi-final, PCRUFC came up against the promoted Magdalenefifteen, losing 36–12, though not without a fight. The season’s finale was thesecond annual old-boys match at the end of the Lent term, played in glorioussunshine, despite the cold wind. Last year the old-boys romped to a hefty victory,but the latest College team was confident it could compete. Despite the bulk,speed and technique of a talented, if a little under-rehearsed, old-boys side, thefinal result saw them win by only a five point margin, 22–17.Sean Adams deserves praise for his leadership as captain all season. Credit

must go to Jack Sunter, top try scorer, and toRob Jones,whose reliable boot giftedthe team points where they were needed in close games. Dan Shouler alsodeserves a special mention for a solid final season on the pitch and many yearsplaying for PCRUFC. Thanks are due to all players moving on next season and welook forward to seeing them again, albeit on the other side of the pitch, for nextyear’s old-boys game.

James Savage

TENNIS

The 2010 tennis season was a great success for the Pembroke men’s team. Amuch better organised Cuppers event this year allowed the team to progress allthe way to the semi-finals, where we were finally beaten by the eventual winners,Christ’s. Perhaps the greatest strength of the club this year has been its depth.Wefielded two strong teams and there was a particularly encouraging intake offreshers, which raised the standard of the teams across the board. Also, as withprevious years, our squad was bolstered by American students on exchangeprogrammeswith Pembroke. I would encourage future captains always to look tothese programmes for players as some of our strongest team members over thelast two years have been drawn from them.In progressing to the semi-finals, the men’s first team beat Darwin, Downing

and Magdalene. The Darwin match was a comfortable 8–1 victory for us atPembroke Pitches. Dan Kim and Jon Bronitsky put in especially strongperformances in the number 5 and 6 positions. The only real opposition came inthe number 2 slot; Darwin managed to co-opt a player from Homerton as thatcollege could not field a full team this year. Overall, however, the match was aneasy win for Pembroke, with much stronger performances across the board.The Downing match sparked controversy due to organisational problems

from their captain: Pembroke claimed three (of the total of nine) points by defaultafter Downing failed to show up at an arranged time.We subsequently beat them5–4, thanks to fantastic performances by Luke Scott and Archy de Berker. Archyand Luke won their doubles in three sets, after dropping the first. The singlesmatches were equally close with Luke managing to squeak a victory against theDowning number 5 and Archy narrowly losing to the Downing captain after a



third set tie-break. Some of the best tennis I have seen this season fromPembrokeplayers came in these matches and full credit must go to Luke and Archy forkeeping us in the competition. The victory was especially sweet for Pembroke asit was Downing who put themen’s second team out of Cuppers last year. BeatingDowning brought us into a quarter-final tie with Magdalene.We were not expecting to beat Magdalene, as they have several University

players and have done well in previous years’ Cuppers. However, on the day, therewere phenomenal performances across the board for Pembroke. SamWilks andLuke Scott won comfortably, as did Adam Hanno playing at number 2. The finalresult was 7–2. This win saw us into the semi-final against Christ’s. Despitevaliant performances by Pembroke, Christ’s were too strong. Every single one oftheir six-man team played for the University. There was an especially goodmatchbetween our number 1, Jon Weigel, and the Christ’s number 1, a Blue. Jonmanaged to stay in the match and give the Christ’s player a few scares but as inother matches, this particular opponent was more match- experienced and wondeservedly.Themen’s second teamwas a late addition to Cuppers as several players came

forward late in the year. The teamwon an easy victory against the King’s first teamin the Plate, with great results for Archy de Berker and Sebastian Bray.Unfortunately, the fact that most of the year’s college tennis happens in examterm always means that some aspects of the draw remain uncompleted. This wasthe case with this year’s Plate competition. I hope that those who played for thesecond team this year will stay involved with the club so that we can build on thissuccess next year.Finally, I would like to thank the vice-captain SamWilks for sorting out tennis

polos and hoodies, a tradition that I hope the club can continue.

Peter Jefferys

VOLLEYBALL

Pembroke Volleyball has had yet another successful and fun season. We startedwith an Indoor Cuppers Tournament in Lent Term, then continued outside onJesus Green every Saturday of Easter Term. As we play mostly during exam term,the concentration is on stress relief and getting students out of the library and intothe sun.However, we also enjoy frequentwins and are consistently one of the bestCollege teams in the University.

Madeleine Sowash

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THE STOKES SOCIETY

Last October marked the centenary anniversary of the founding of the StokesSociety, and so I would like to use this year’s Gazette entry to look back at whatthe Society has achieved during its first century. The history of the Society isfantastically documented within the Society archives, which stretch back right tothe beginning of the Society, and so I have drawn a somewhat sketchy historyfrom what I’ve found within the Library basement.The first meeting of the Society was on October 15 1909, with five

undergraduates, Mr BG C Bolland, Mr R P Dalley, Mr DWalker, Mr GH Sugdenand Mr A F Hallimond, attending. Their aim was to discuss scientific papersthat interested them, eachmember giving a lecture on their paper for the othersto enjoy. After much discussion, the members arrived at the original name ofthe Society, a somewhat Victorian-romantic name: ‘The Germs’. The nextmeeting occurred just under two weeks later, where three more members wereadmitted and a constitution was drawn up. Topics for the first few talks werequite academic: ‘The general powers of matter which influence vegetation’ and‘Electrical theory of matter’ were among the first term of papers to bediscussed. The Society was also developing rapidly, with the introduction ofan important Society staple: cake and coffee, at some point that year. Overthe next few years the Society broadened its horizons to more adventuroustalks – brewing, hallucinations and ghosts, and alchemy were all deliveredby members.At the 49th meeting, the Secretary announced that the Society’s name was to

be altered, and after a selection of suitable names were proposed, the Society wasrenamed ‘The Pembroke College Scientific Society’. This change took effect as ofthe 50thmeeting, held onMay 15 1913, which alsomarked the first dinner hostedby the Society.The Society was disbanded in 1914 due to thewar (there are 10members on the

war memorial outside the College chapel), but was reformed on January 29 1920.The hundredth meeting was celebrated in 1924 with (another) dinner in the OldLibrary. By 1936, the Society’s constitution had becomemuchmore complicated:there were now 16 sections (with many sub-sections). However the first one is ofmost interest: ‘(1) That the Society be known as the Pembroke College Stokes Society’.It was also in this year that the tradition of an annual dinner was started.

Committee 2009–10President: Rob BellSecretary: Jason SandersTreasurer: Richard SaundersEvents: Louise MundyPublications: Rebecca SmithMembership: Jayan LogarajahIT: Jonathan MartenCareers: Emma BeardmoreGrad. Rep.: David O’Regan

Committee 2010–11President: David NewgasSecretary: Lydia RuddickTreasurer: Stacey JacksonEvents: Jonathan GregoryPublications: Jonathan MartenMembership: April Cashin-GarbuttIT: Jonathan BenwellCareers: James Sarsfield-Watson



The Society continued in much the same way for several years, and talks werestill held duringWorldWar II (although asmembers were uncertain if they wouldbe in residence the following term, new committeeswere elected at the beginningof a new term, rather than during the previous term). In the 1950s, the Societygained some momentum, with talks regularly attracting over 30 members, andtrips to engineering works and breweries were organised.Surprisingly, up to this point it appears that no lecture topic was repeated,

despite the fact that nearly 200 talks had been hosted. Just as impressively, thetalks offered were at the forefront of the then scientific knowledge. (Forexample, ‘Recent discoveries concerning the electron’ discussed electrondiffraction in the same year that G. P. Thomsonwas awarded his Nobel Prize fordemonstrating it.)1966 saw the first woman admitted as a member and two years later the

Society offered honorary membership to the Dean’s cat, despite protests thathe wasn’t an actual scientist. Ultimately, the cat (somehow) declined the offer.The Society changed quite a lot during the 70s, with the committee expandingto include a Computing Officer, an Entertainment Secretary, and curiously aFool (which was quite a contested position!). The archives are quiteentertaining from this time: they contain a gem of a letter (and a reply) to theBBC requesting that Monty Python’s Flying Circus be moved because it clashedwith Society fortnightly meetings. The minutes from the 503rd meetingconsisted mainly of constitutional bickering, including the fantastic “proposalthat the President entertain the Society” before a speaker began his talk. Anannual punt party was introduced in 1977, and 1985 marked the election of thefirst female President.Sadly, the archives stop at 1991. Whether no records were taken, or records

were taken homewith ex-committeemembers I do not know. I do knowhowever,that the College librarian would be delighted to complete the Stokes Societyhistory – if anyone does find an archive book then please do send it back tocollege. Despite the loss of these archives, I can deduce that several changeshappened to the Society during this time, as the Society is run very differentlynow. Firstly, a committee is elected for a whole year, not each term; the Presidentno longer delivers a Presidential lecture; there is no annual punt party: it has beenreplaced by a garden party held in the Fellow’s Garden in May Week; thecommittee now consists of nine members, including a Grad Rep, a positionintroduced last year; and finally (and perhaps also sadly) the minutes of theSociety are no longer as detailed as they used to be (and contain much less,although still some, bantering!).We of course celebrated the 100th year of the Society, asmany of youwill know:

a grand dinner was held in hall, with over 140 members of the Society attending,spanning some 64 years of the Society’s history. I must apologise to those of youthat we did not invite (sadly, the archives – despite containing excellent accountsof the talks themselves – contain few membership records). It was a fantasticnight, and a great salute to the next 100 years of the Society.

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As for the future of the Society, a new committee was elected in the days followingthe dinner, and they have many great ideas for the following year (you shouldcheck out the Society’s website www.stokes-society.co.uk which we hope willcontain videos of the talks somembers can still ‘attend’ ameeting even if they areunable to be in Cambridge!).And so I round off my brief history of the Society. Included directly after this

article is a transcription from the archives of the talk given on November 12th1956 for your enjoyment – the subject is computers, and it gives a fascinatinginsight into the development of a technology that most people use every day. Allthat remains now is for me to wish the Society the best for the next 100 years, andto look forward to hearing the Society’s developments and successes!

Rob Bell

Society archive entry for November 12 1956

The 343rd Ordinary Meeting of the Society was held on Monday, November 12th 1956 inDr McClellan’s rooms at 8:15pm. The President, the Secretary, three honorary and27 ordinary members of the Society, and two guests were present.The minutes of the 342nd ordinary meeting, and of the visit to the Cambridge

Instrument Company were read, approved and signed by the President.The President introduced the subject of a guest for the Annual Dinner. It was proposed

by Mr M. J. Flux and seconded by Mr P. J. Black that Professor Adrian, Master of TrinityCollege, be approached upon thematter. This was carried and the secretary was instructedso to do.The Secretary gave a short statement of the finances of the Society.At about 8.45 pm the speaker for the evening, DrM. V.Wilkes, arrived, accompanied by

Dr McClellan. The President introduced Dr Wilkes to the meeting and invited him to givehis address on “Digital Computers and Scientific Research”. Dr Wilkes began bycontrasting digital computers, which calculate by arithmetical methods, with analoguemachines, which work by makingmeasurements of physical quantities, e.g. voltages, and



express results in continuous form. A digital computer can solve any problem provided itcan be reduced to a series of purely arithmetical steps. It could not, for instance, calculate

(a and b are not numbers), or even

which is an analytical problem, not an arithmetical one. It could however, give anapproximate answer to such a problem by standard numerical methods.The history of the subject goes back to John Babbage, who came to Cambridge in 1810.

He read Mathematics but took no Tripos; still, he became a Professor, but delivered nolectures. He designed and partly built a specialised computer, the “Difference Engine” forevaluating the last places of decimals in tabulated functions. It was of course purelymechanical, to be driven by a steam engine. It has since been dismantled, part now beingin Cambridge and a (smaller) part at Harvard University. Babbage also had the idea ofbuilding a more ambitious ‘Analytic Engine’ which would have been a computer in thepresent sense. He realised that it would have to comprise a store, an arithmetic unit and acontrol unit. He envisioned operation by punched cards or tape, and the possibility ofusing previous results to control future operations, e.g. in summing a series. Babbage hada modern outlook in many ways. He applied for (and received) a Government grant, andwas plagued at times with foolish questions.As an example of computing routine, suppose it is desired to reduce a large angleθ by repeated subtraction of 2π. The sequence of orders is:

Clear accumulatorAdd θSubtract 2πTest sign – positive conditional

negative – continue operationAdd 2π

“Conditional operations” are used in other contexts, and are of great importance.Babbage’s work was forgotten, and it was not until 1937 that work began again on

automatic computers. Howard Aiken, at Harvard, was the pioneer and was particularlyinterested in punched card machines. He worked with International Business Machines[IBM]who produced the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, an electromechanicalmachine using punched-card techniques, but which was in fact fed by a broad punchedtape passing over a row of 24 electrical contacts. It was slow by modern standards, takingsix seconds for a multiplication.ENIAC, an electronic machine, was produced during the war, and its main use was in

compiling ballistic tables. Its speed was better – 2.8 milliseconds for a multiplication, butit relied on changing a multitude of plugs and switches when it was decided to change theprogramme. It contained 18000–19000 valves, andwas the result of a head-on approach tothe problem, on the basis of techniques then in use. It became obvious that furtherprogress would not come until some new ideas appeared. Some innovations were builtinto the next computer to be produced, EDVAC. One was the use of the binary numbersystem. The use of only two digits is well suited to bistable or flip-flop electronic devices.

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The other was the realisation that control orders could be expressed in the form ofnumbers. For instance, if Add is represented by 1, Subtract by 2, Multiply 3, Divide 4, andwe wish to:

add number in register 101to number in register 102and put the sum in register 103

the numbers 1, 101, 102, 103 are put in the appropriate register. It can be treated as anordinary number, and modified by arithmetical operations.Individual orders in a programme are very basic. For instance in a simple addition, three

are required: one each to put the two numbers into the accumulator, and one to get theanswer back into the store. Letters are used by programmers in the same way as letters areused on a telephone dial, to assist in avoiding confusion between orders of different types.The programmemust include all the fine arithmetical detail, and ‘sub-routines’ – portionsof programme covering standard operations – are widely employed. A detailed techniqueof programming has been worked out.Dr. Wilkes then turned to the effect of computers on scientific research. Computers are

used for 3 fairly distinct types of work.

1. Data reduction and table making, which would have to be done anyway.2. More extensive mathematical treatment of ordinary types of project, without the

same limitations as to ideal and special cases that are very often forced upon one bythe analytical difficulties of the problem; i.e. the use of more realistic mathematicalmodels.

3. Very big projects which would never be considered otherwise.

Computers enable research workers to go straight from their experimental results ortheoretical differential equations to numerical answers, without the necessity of a long andelaborate mathematical analysis which may cause obscurity.A big project in which computers played a vital part whilst the determining of the

structure of vitamin B12. It had been found that liver extract had a beneficial effect in casesof pernicious anaemia, and in 1948 the pure substance, which was found to the activeagent, was isolated and crystallised. It is the most complicated chemically of the vitamins,having an approximate formula of C60H90N14O20PCo.Many X-ray diffraction photographswere taken both of the pure substance and of a crystallised ‘fragment’ of the substance, aswell as a selenium compound. Some 3000 scattered intensities were measured. If it werepossible to determine the phases of X-rays, it would be a straightforward job to determinethe structure. It is not possible, however, and it is necessary to proceed by successiveapproximations to the answer; this was done in about a year, taking 300 hours of machinetime, principally by Dr. Dorothy Hodgkin at Oxford, on a punched-cardmachine, but withassistance from computers in Los Angeles and Manchester.There followed a keen discussion, in which many topics were raised, including the

much greater production of computers in America than in this country; the use oftransistors, which will undoubtedly become more widespread; the translation oflanguages; the speed of the next modern machine (multiplication in ‘a few hundredmicroseconds’); and finally the theoretical use of superconductors at liquid heliumtemperature in a bistable or flip-flop circuit.The president thanked Dr Wilkes for his most interesting and stimulating paper, and

then declared the meeting informal.



Discussions continued over tea and cakes kindly provided by Dr McClellan, and theSociety dispersed at around 11pm.

PEMBROKE PLAYERS

The Pembroke Players is often referred to as Cambridge’s most active anddynamic college drama society, and when reflecting upon our theatrical exploitsof the past year, it is easy to see why. Whether it was through providing theopportunity for students to carry out their directing visions by supplying themwith funding, or through organising our own events to further the expansion ofthe society, the Players have taken every chance to fill 2009–10’s calendar with awide range of entertaining evenings. To give you a taste of the variety of what hasbeen on offer, here are just a few of our most successful and interesting ventures,coupled with the projects and plans that are set to make next year just as thrillingas the last.Drama in Pembroke itself has always been a priority of the Pembroke Players,

and because of this, the recent refurbishment of the New Cellars studio wasparticularly important for us. Redecoration, the addition of a wall-sized mirrorand ballet bar, andmoney spent on lighting and the removal of unnecessary fixedbenches have all contributed to make the space look and feel more like aprofessional studio. This has transformed the atmosphere of a room that hadbeen termed a ‘corporate dungeon’ in the past, and will greatly enhance theperformances that will be put on in the New Cellars in future. Having said that,several productions put on over the last year in the Cellars, before therefurbishment, were highly acclaimed by their audiences; for example, Equus inNovember. This controversial play was one of the theatrical highlights inCambridge this year, with the director and cast combining puppetry with someemotional performances to create a stirring production that managed to sell outseveral nights in a row, and took Varsity and The Cambridge Student by storm. Alsovery successful (as always) were the comedy smokers, especially the sophisticatedBlack Tie smoker, held every year with an infallible mix of champagne andcomedians in the Old Library.Yet the Pembroke Players are constantly striving to extend our influence

beyond Trumpington Street, funding plays outside the College and outsideCambridge too. The Corpus Playroom’s L-shaped theatre is a popular choice fordirectors, and the Players’ productions of Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr Sloane andStephen Jeffreys’ Valued Friends (the latter directed by then-committee memberOlivia Crellin) were both hailed as comic triumphs, successfully utilising theintimate living-room feel of this difficult space. Shows were also put on by thesociety in the ADC theatre this year, and the Players will be going even furtherafield in the summer: the highly prestigious Japan Tour will take place inSeptember, performing Much Ado About Nothing to a combined audience ofthousands of students, in universities all over Japan.A particular aim of the Pembroke Players this coming year is to strengthen

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enough in the past. Our current goal is to improve communicationwith Pembrokegraduates involved in drama in their student days, through plans such as theestablishment of a Pembroke Players newsletter, with a first issue to be sent outbefore Christmas 2010. Another idea, proposed to begin in Spring 2011, is therunning of workshops and talks involving alumni who are in the theatre industryalready, with a view to linking current and past Pembroke Players and opening upthe wealth of information to which the Pembroke drama community has access.Finally, we are presently working through the society archives to develop a senseof the history of the Players, and to attempt to revive the connections betweenmembers thatmay have lapsed over recent years. I would like to invite anyonewhohas archive material of their own, or is interested in any of our other developmentplans, or would like to receive a copy of the newsletter to contact me through myemail address ([email protected]). We would really enjoy hearingfrom you. Our recently redesigned website, www.pembrokeplayers.org, also hasfurther information and contact details, and is well worth a look. The coming yearis a very exciting one for the Pembroke Players, and we would love for you tobe involved.

Rosalie HayesPembroke Players President, 2010–11

MUSIC SOCIETY

Anyone walking into the MayWeek Concert this year on Friday June 11, at around8.30 pm, was presented with a stark choice: to walk past 180 people to sit almoston the toes of the performers or to squeeze onto a bench alongside ranks ofPembroke musicians in the ante-chapel. The extraordinary concert that unfoldedthat evening capped a highly successful year for PCMS, led by the energy of RachelAmbrose Evans and administrative zeal of Richard Stanton.First up were Gregory Drott and Joseph Middleton performing Schubert’s

Fantasy in Fminor for four hands, a piece they had earlier played tomuch acclaimat the Master’s Lodge. Greg’s achievements over the years are well known toreaders of this column, while Joseph, the College Musician, continued to amazeus with the calibre of performer he is able to bring to the College for professionalrecitals. This year, Dame Joan Rodgers, Toby Spence, Sophie Bevan and RobinTritschler graced the Old Library withmusic making of the kind only heard at topLondon venues. Those yet to experience these nights are missing untold delights– all details are available on the music pages of the College website.The first movement of Beethoven’s ‘Spring Sonata’ followed, played with

impressive maturity by a first year, Robbie Stern, holder of one of the covetedUniversity Instrumental Award Scheme places. Anna Campbell, a final-yearpianist, and Rachel Ambrose Evans, singing soprano, were next in line with threewell-known Schubert songs: Gretchen am Spinnrade, Der Erlkönig and An die Musik.Their compelling presentation provided a glimpse into the fruits of a rapid growthof singing and piano coaching at Pembroke over the last five years through visitingteachers and songmasterclasses arranged by the College Musician.



The first half ended with something different. Peter Yarde Martin capped histhree years as a versatile Organ Scholar with a virtuoso trumpet rendition ofJonathanHarvey’sRicercare una melodia, notable forwhatmust surely have been thefirst laptop accompaniment in Chapel executed with appropriate gravitas byGregory Drott. As Peter’s flourishes looped through the sound system, somemories of his trumpet playing over the years resounded, from dignified LastPosts, to sparkling final verse descants, to assured concertos and sonatas.Interval – strawberries, cream and champagne on the Library Lawn. Some

things are best left unchanged.The second half featured group items. The Chapel Choir gave an engaging

rendition of Tippett’s Five Negro Spirituals, with a bravura solo spot for Tom Cane(tenor). Avid followers of the Choir on Facebookwill be familiar with its renditionof ‘Steal Away’ on a busy street corner in Singapore during last summer’s choirtour. The Chapel Choir is due to record the set later this summer and to performit on their forthcoming tour to North Germany. Liturgical singing skills werehoned this year not only through the round of College services, including a newlysung Grace in Hall after Commemoration of Benefactors, but also visits to StEdmundsbury and Ely Cathedrals. Perhaps the highlight was a three-dayresidency at York Minster in the snow over Epiphany funded by a donation fromold choir member, Raymond Nasr. A cold coming we had of it and we arrived forthe first Evensong not a moment too soon: the singing was also good; ‘Betterthan King’s’, we were improbably told.Members of the Chapel Choir also featured in a number of vocal ensembles

assembled more or less hastily through the year. An indefatigable listener wouldhave heard the polished heights of the Kenderdine Ensemble’s rendition of Bachfamily motets and Purcell’s Funeral Sentences in Michaelmas term, the livelyarrangements of the Pembroke Singers led by Charlotte Flinter and ThomasHalliday, and even livelier ones by the evocatively entitled Pembershop, early-dayperformances from the Graduate madrigal group, and collective endeavour in aCome & Sing Vivaldi ‘Gloria’ on a winter evening in November.The final item on the programme was the College Orchestra in its newly

rehearsing incarnation under the baton of Rachel Ambrose Evans. From theopening brass chords of Sibelius’s Finlandia through to the exuberant rhythms ofCopland’s ‘Hoe Down’, the audience was infected by the sheer collegiate energyof the playing. Earlier in the year, a more streetwise accent had been in evidenceas Phoebe Kemp took the piano stool for a captivating performance ofGershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue in an all-American programme, while the firstouting of the re-formed orchestra was in Michaelmas term, dipping its toe in themore familiar waters of Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture.As the older generation turned to taxis, younger ones headed to theOld Library

to play jazz into the small hours, curtailed only by a Porterly visit well past thewitching hour. Such events have become a feature of an ever-expanding PCMS,with a Fresher’s Folk & Blues night at the beginning of the year and a Blues Nightin Lent term. The bleary-eyed returned onMonday lunchtime ofMayWeek for thefinal recital of the year, featuring the virtuosic Wei Xu on violin, Domini Hogg onharp andWill Lewis-Smith on glockenspiel. Eclecticism remains the order of the

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day in PCMS recitals: through the year we were treated to solo Euphonium items,Lieder, recorder ensembles, refined chamber music, arrangements of Icelandicpop on the organ, and much, much more.Pembroke Music is undoubtedly in good shape, for which the PCMS

Committee as a whole is to be thanked and the generous bequest of Dr SidneyKenderdine acknowledged as the means to make so much of this possible. Aseven these resources are stretched by newfound musical energies, significantindividual donations have also proved of invaluable assistance in supporting anever-expanding musical culture under the watchful eye and guiding hand of theDirector of College Music.

Dr Sam Barrett

IVORY TOWER SOCIETY

The 2009–2010 academic year has been a good one for the Ivory Tower Society atPembroke. From receiving a generous donation from an Old Member to hostingthe former Prime Minister of Australia, we have seen a series of landmark eventsthat demonstrate how the society has come of age.TheMaster kicked off Lent Termwith a typically engaging talk, addressing the

increasing importance of the AfPak region in world affairs. ‘Walls have a badhistory’ he started, before admitting that in the case of Israel and the Palestinians,the recently-erected barrier surrounding the West Bank has resulted in a markeddecrease in violence. The combination of the first democratic elections in Iraqsince the invasion, and no clear policy towards Iran, has allowed theworld's focusto shift to the intractable conflicts of the AfPak region. From the on-going dirtywar between Pakistan and India's poorly controlled intelligence services, totargeted killings via US-operated drones in Waziristan, the Master emphasisedhow essential it was to maintain the integrity of nuclear-armed Pakistan and thesurrounding states. He then answered questions from the audience on topicsranging from the effect of targeted killings on radicalisation, to the surge in Iraq,to whether democratic states can ‘stay the course’ to Al Qaeda’s next most likelytarget. Those in attendance left with a new appreciation for the intricate, localproblems of the region that have profound influence on a global scale.We were then exceptionally lucky to be able to host The Hon. John Howard,

former Prime Minister of Australia. Mr Howard gave a vigorous defence of free-market liberalism in the light of the recent fiscal crisis. Arguing that it was not somuch the instruments of finance that had failed but rather the valuation of theunderlying assets, he asserted that the innovations ofmodern finance had helpedlegions of entrepreneurs and that intelligently regulated free markets remainedthe best way of dividing scarce resources. His impassioned defense fell onsympathetic ears, as the audience in the packed-out Old Library listenedattentively with the occasional nod of agreement. Mr Howard then generouslyfielded questions, before stopping to have his picture taken with severalenthusiastic Australians.



The audience was not so docile whilst listening to the talk of Dr EwanKirk, thefounder and manager of a Cambridge-based $1bn hedgefund. Dr Kirk’sprovocative talk, cheekily entitled ‘The Evil Empire strikes back: The 2008financial crisis from a hedgefund manager’s perspective’ started with a bangwhen he accused audiencemembers, as stand-ins for the general public, of beingresponsible for the financial crisis. The public’s propensity to borrow beyond itsmeans, he asserted, combined with its ‘greedy speculation that house priceswould rise without end’ were the real causes of the crisis, rather than greedybankers. Of course, this produced an outpouring of dissenting opinions. Hisspirited defence of his trade was made all the more difficult by the previous day’snews of the ‘Fabulous Fabrice Tourre’ and his exploits at Goldman Sachs. Muchof the talk was conducted as an informal two-way debate between Dr Kirk andmembers of the audience.When askedhowhe thought the financial sector shouldbe regulated, Dr Kirk replied that he thought it was perhaps impossible, and thegovernment should instead be ready to step inwhen the inevitable crash occurred,safe in the knowledge that there would be net gain in the long term. For example,he estimated the 2008 financial crisis cost the UK tax payer in the order of £10bn.This was to be set against the average £57bn/year in taxes that the financial sectorgenerated between 1997 and 2009. Whilst passions rose high during the debate,all attendees enjoyed the intellectually stimulating nature of the talk.Pembroke's own Professor Ashok Venkitaraman gave a particularly eye-

opening talk entitled ‘The price of life: How the development of newmedicines ischanging healthcare’. In his talk, Professor Venkitaraman described the currentprocess of drug discovery and the tremendous time and expense involved inprogressing from the first lab bench experiments through first-in-man testing.Whilst drugs developed through this pipeline are generally safe and effective, theyare rarely breakthroughs and, particularly in the case of cancer, often only lead toamean increase of life on the order of a fewmonths, at a cost of tens of thousandsof dollars per course. Moreover, the extreme expense of development makes bigpharma very cautious when evaluating where to target their next drug. Risks haveto be minimized, so attentions are usually focussed on a few well-understoodproteins and cell signalling pathways, known generally as ‘druggable targets’.Professor Venkitaraman likens this approach to a drunk looking for his keysunder a streetlamp, because ‘that's where the light is’. The economics of thesituation, however, do not allowmuch greater creativity. Professor Venkitaramanhas sought to address this impasse through his academic initiative, called theCambridgeMolecular Therapeutics Programme. This collaborative effort seeks toopen up new druggable targets with more innovative, and hence higher-risk,processes that would not normally be undertaken by big pharma.Professor Paul Kennedy – Director of the International Security Studies

programme at Yale University – rounded off a packed Easter Term with a semi-autobiographical talk entitled ‘An historian and his intellectual history’. This wasthe first talk in a series of ‘Conversazione’, which are intended to provide a forumfor established and aspiring academics to interact. Professor Kennedy recountedgrowing up in the ‘gritty, industrial’ North of England in the 1940s. He reflected onthe roles of parents, school teachers and mentors in his intellectual growth. He

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touched on many of the great events of the twentieth century that had shaped histhoughts – from the 1968Germanuprisings, to the disruptive ideas and literature ofthe 1960s, and to the fall of the BerlinWall.He graduallymoved away froma viewofhistory as a collection ofmutually-incomprehensible specialisms, returning insteadto a ‘large history’ approach andwriting the widely known ‘The Rise and Fall of theGreat Powers’. He then gave a brief preview of his current work entitled ‘The Turnof Tide’. It explores the ‘middle ground’ inWorldWar II; that is, the people betweenthe soldiers in the trenches and thegenerals andpresidents decidinggrand strategy:the ‘scientists and flow charts’ that played an influential role.These are only small sample of the talks, held every Monday evening in term

time. Other talks covered subjects ranging from sovereign wealth funds, toDarwinism, to stem cells research, to conterfactualism in the social sciences to theglobal food crisis of 2008. I hope this brief summary has provided some idea of thevariety of speakers and lively debate that is often elicited during this talks. I extenda warm invitation to you all to join us at the next Ivory Tower Society meeting.

Simon Schlachterwww.srcf.ucam.org/ivorytower/

JUNIOR PARLOUR

Pembroke JPC has had a busy, successful and important year of change in 2010.We have improved the support and provision of welfare available to Pembrokestudents. In Lent term, Pembroke College had the first ever ‘Refreshers Week’, aweek long programme of exciting social events that also helped integrate ourvisiting American students into the Pembroke community. A mix of daytimeevents as well as the usual student activities helped students start an importantterm with renewed vigour. Furthermore, working alongside the Collegeleadership, we have ensured that there has been extensive and ongoing supportduring Easter term to help students cope with the stress and rigours of exams.Activities and initiatives have ranged from weekly yoga sessions, tea and coffeebreaks, film nights, touch rugby sessions organised by the Rugby team, arestocking of Pembroke Library DVD collection and a fantastic picnic onPembroke lawn in fifthweek.Wehave also provided helpful subject-specific studyguides to help students approach exams and revision in a more informed way.

President: Claude MuhuzaVice-President: Annasilvia SciortinoTreasurer: Bibek MukherjeeAccess Officer: Jack TavenerEnts Officer:Michael PeacockFood and Bar Officer: TomMichaelisIT & Communications Officer:Archy deBerkerEthnic Minorities Officer: Isaac Stanley

Green Officer:George UlmannHostels Officer: David NewgasPublications Officer:Holly StoryLBGT Officer: Rose HillsInternational Officer:Marcos PayaWelfare & Equal Opportunities Officer:Rachael KellsWomen’s Officer: Charlotte LawesMen’s Officer:Moses Hoyt



This year the JPC has looked beyond Pembroke and provided a platform forstudents to contribute to theworld outside academia in a positive andmeaningfulway. A new initiative has been launched involving Jimmy’s Nightshelter, which isa Cambridge-based charity that provides emergency accommodation for thehomeless. We have collected donations of food to give to Jimmy’s Nightshelter atthe end of each term.We have also encouraged other colleges who do not alreadydo so, to start up their own schemes through Cambridge University StudentUnion meetings. In addition, we helped raise money for victims of theearthquakes in Haiti and Chile. Moreover, we raised £180 for our JPC Charity,Camfed, by holding awell-attended and highly enjoyable charity bop. The JPC hasworked hard, not only to help support and enrich the lives of Pembroke students,but we have also begun to look beyond the Cambridge bubble to help those ingreat need.As well as these new initiatives, the Committee has continued to improve and

build on our more day to day activities. We have continued to host fun andenjoyable bops in College, and we have improved the provision of quality non-alcoholic drinks both to cater for those who do not drink and to promoteresponsible drinking. Our Access Officer has worked hard, running a successfulshadowing scheme and a number of access visits as well as revolutionising therole by expanding our access activities. From next year, there will be a SeniorAccess Officer and a Junior Access Officer working together to ensure that thereis an increase in activities aimed at widening access, better continuity when newofficers are elected, and an expansion in the number of schools and areas reachedby access work. The Equal Opportunities Committee has worked very well thisyear, raising awareness about sexual health issues, and hosting film nights andsocial events to help improve the general wellbeing of all students at Pembroke.The Committee as a whole has worked very hard this year to improve the lives

of students and create a stronger and more vibrant Pembroke community.However, the Committee is looking forward to the coming academic year, whenwe are hoping to build on some of the successful changes made this year and tointroduce new initiatives such as a Careers Officer position to help preparestudents for life after Pembroke, more environmentally friendly initiatives inCollege, and a more inclusive, diverse and welcoming Freshers’ Week.

Claude Muhuza

GRADUATE PARLOUR

President: David GordonVice-President: Roseanne ZhaoTreasurer: Csilla VarnaiSecretary: Anthony LeungExternal Officer: Chris WestWelfare Officer: Kelly Randell

GP Steward: Dave VerbeetenIT Officer: Rohan ShekharEvents Officers: Urvesh Shelat, KatieMcAllister, Jenny Harcourt, SimonSchlachter, Jeremy Richardson, PaulaKoelemeijer

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Our main priority as a committee this past year was to foster a friendlyatmosphere in the GP and among the new graduates. Towards this goal, weinvested a great deal of energy in Freshers’ Week, which began with therequisite college tour, pub crawl, and of course a viewing of ‘Porterhouse Blue’.We also held a midnight BBQ which was widely praised, even by those who gota bit lost on their way back to College afterwards. Michaelmas Term saw oursuccessful Farmyard Bop, complete with plaid costumes, colourful creatures,and some straw shenanigans in the early morning. Also fondly rememberedwas a very spooky Safari Murder Mystery party held in the Old Cellars, completewith a full jungle soundtrack and script written by our own Elizabeth Dearnley.Michaelmas ended with a very merry Christmas, complete with Christmas tree,decorations, and a thorough saturation with mulled wine and mince pies –fortunately not consumed directly before our trip for ice-skating onMidsummer Common.Lent Termbeganwith a spicy Tango BADinner in theOld Library, led by expert

dancers and enjoyed by all. Indulgence followed later that term, first with a highlysuccessful cheese and port tasting evening organized by Jeremy Richardson andPaula Koelemeijer, and later with a whiskey tasting session in the Outer Parlourled by Peter Evan – after which leftovers were welcomed back to the GraduateParlour with open arms. Our James Bond Bop was also thoroughly enjoyed,enhanced by dinner jackets, glamorous dresses andwater pistols given out to onlythe most mischievous partygoers.Easter Term saw the graduates energised by the first ever Prime Ministerial

debates, each watched with thoughtful concentration in a packed GP. Followingthe formation of the Cleggeron coalition government, we organized our owncoalition team for the Graduate Cricket league, with a number of grads teamingup with Wolfson College to make the ‘Wolfbroke’ cricket squad. With ‘thehighest stash:talent ratio ever known toman’,Wolfbroke had a rough first game,dropping seven catches and seeing the least experienced player (Katie McAllister)outscoring the team coach (Phil Sterne) the first time she batted. Nevertheless,post-match pizza made it all better, as is often the case in the GP.Fortunately, Pembroke’s athletic reputation rests on more solid foundations,

as we saw during May Bumps when Pembroke grads added their age andexperience to several PCBC boats, contributing to a highly successful May Bumpscampaign that saw the W1 retain Headship for the third year running and the M1bump up three spots, with the Men's Head of the River tantalisingly close at amere one bump away. Grads who helped power these boats along include PCBCCaptain Samantha Bennett and Rosamund Healey in the W1 and Blues rowerPeter McClelland, Alexander Fabry and Will Deacon in the M1. Special mentionshould also be given to graduateswhonoviced this year such asAlexRitter,NenadBartonicek, Paula Koelemeijer, Matthias Hofer and Dave Collins and the gradcoaches such as Matthew Castle who helped develop rowers and crews.The year ended with a fantastic June Event, ‘Over the Ocean’, co-led by

graduate Gus Booth-Clibborn. The Graduate Parlour topped off our socialcalendar with our annual summer garden party, masterfully organized by thetireless Events Officer Urvesh Shelat, complete with strawberries, Prosecco,



Pimms and a Jazz Band. Despite some inclement weather, we hunkered down inour tent on the Bowling Green and had a great time.My term began with a three-person committee and an email I sent entitled:

‘Will cook for committee members’. Among the first officers were ourhardworking Vice-President, Roseanne Zhao, and our meticulous Treasurer,Csilla Varnai. We recruited some older grads to share the burden, such as JennyHarcourt, who added to her responsibilities as Graduate Union President to helpas a Social Coordinator, and Kelly Randell who served as Welfare Officer. Somenew officers also joined later in the year, such as our External Officer, ChrisWest,who deserves praise for his consistent organization of formal swaps week afterweek throughout the Lent and Easter Terms. Our committee went from a smallgroup to quite a large assemblage, and I was very proud of our leadership inregards to shaping the tone of the graduate experience this past year.Graduate leadershipwas also pivotal among Pembroke’s intellectual societies.

The Free and Easy society, run byHarvard Scholar JonWeigel, was visited this yearby Mike Hart, a former G2 head of British military intelligence in Afghanistanwho discussed the insurgent landscape in Afghanistan and highlighted theimportant role of local ethnic power divisions in the Afghan conflict. The IvoryTower Society, led by Simon Schlachter, had its usual broad range of speakers,from a former PrimeMinister of Australia, The Hon. John Howard, to the formerpolitical Islamist Maajid Nawaz.This year the Graduate Parlour was fortunate to receive the generous gift of an

original John Speed Map, donated by an anonymous donor and now hangingproudly in theGP –wewould like to take this opportunity to thank them.Wewerealso flattered to receive a generous donation by the alumnusMadsen Pirie duringour summer garden party. We are grateful to James Gardom and LoraineGelsthorpe for their support and guidance throughout the past year. Thanks alsogo to Caroline Adams and the housekeeping staff, Becky Coombs for herassistance with housing and funding, and especially Frances Kentish for helpingus with organisation and photocopying. Thanks to David Harwood, Ken Smithand the kitchen staff for the delicious food we are privileged to enjoy. We wouldalso like to thank Lauren Kassell for being a good and patient neighbour to ournew GP. We are confident in the abilities of the incoming committee – especiallythe swimming skills of the incoming President, who went for a swim twice afterthe final BA dinner of the year – and their resolve to nurture the atmosphere weall enjoy in the GP. As we pass the reins to the next committee, the future of theGP looks bright.

David Gordon

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Ian Fleming andMary Bernard, photographed by Eve Arnold in 1965

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Ian Fleming (clockwise from top left: 1965, 1973, 1999, 2005;all photographs byMary Bernard)

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Mary Bernard (clockwise from top left: 1964, 1972, 1973, 2009)

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Overleaf:Sir Roger Tomkys

(1992–2004)Sir RichardDearlove

(2004– )

TheMasters

Opposite page (from top):Sir Sydney Castle Roberts(1948–1958)SirWilliamHodge(1958–1970)

Right: Tony Camps(1970–1981)Below: Lord Adrian(1981–1992)

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Top: David Joslin

Bottom:Gerry Smith

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Top: JamesHickson

Bottom: Clive Trebilcock

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Top:MarkWormald

Bottom:LoraineGelsthorpe

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MeredithDewey

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Sidney Kenderdine

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Above:Erwin Rosenthal

Right:Bill Hutton

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Clockwise from top:James CampbellJohnDoughertyBill Grimstone

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Above:Ernest Nicholson

Right:BrianWatchorn

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Previous page (clockwisefrom top left):Howard Erskine-HillMichael KuczynskiHoward RaingoldColinWilcockson

Above:Susan Stobbs

Right:Barbara Bodenhorn

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C. THE COLLEGE RECORD



THE MASTER AND FELLOWS 2009–2010

THEMASTER

Sir Richard Billing Dearlove, MA (2003), KCMG, OBE

FELLOWS

1956 Malcolm Cameron Lyons, LittD (1997)

1958 Albert Victor Grimstone, PhD (1958), MA (1959)

1961 Leslie Peter Johnson, MA (1959)

1964 James Christopher Durham Hickson, MA (1964), PhD (1966)

1979 Nicholas Barry Davies, MA (1977), DPhil Oxon, FRS, Professor ofBehavioural Ecology

1982 (1961) John Peter Dougherty, MA (1960), PhD (1961)

(1977) Jan Marian Maciejowski, MA (1976), PhD (1978), Professor inEngineering and Pfizer Fellow in Engineering, President of PembrokeCollege

Norman Andrew Fleck, MA (1983), PhD (1984), FRS, Professor of theMechanics of Materials, Director of the Cambridge Centre forMicromechanics

1984 Michael Christopher Payne, MA (1985), PhD (1985), Professor inComputational Physics and AstraZeneca Fellow in Physics

1985 Charles Peter Melville, MA (1976), PhD (1978), Professor in PersianHistory

Trevor Robert Seaward Allan, BCL Oxon, MA (1983), Professor ofPublic Law & Jurisprudence

1990 Barbara Ann Bodenhorn, MPhil (1979), PhD (1990), College Lecturer inArchaeology and Anthropology and in Social and Political Science

1992 Jonathan Philip Parry, MA (1982), PhD (1985), Professor in ModernBritish History

Mark Roderick Wormald, MA (2008), BA Oxon, DPhil Oxon, CollegeLecturer in English

1993 Geoffrey Richard Edwards, MA (2008), BA Wales, PhD London, Readerin European Studies

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Donald Robertson, MA (1987), MSc, PhD LSE, University SeniorLecturer in Economics

1994 Loraine Ruth Renate Gelsthorpe, BA Sussex, MPhil (1979), PhD (1985),Reader in Criminology & Criminal Justice

Torsten Meißner, MA Bonn, DPhil Oxon, PhD (1997), University SeniorLecturer in Classics

1995 Robin James Milroy Franklin, PhD (1992), Professor of Neuroscience

Christopher John Young, MA (1994), PhD (1995), Reader in Modernand Medieval German Studies

Silvana Silva Santos Cardoso, PhD (1994), Reader in ChemicalEngineering

1996 Sylvia Huot, MA (2004) BA California, PhD Princeton, Professor ofMedieval French Literature

1997 Nicholas John McBride, BA Oxon, College Lecturer and JamesCampbell Fellow in Law

(2000) Nigel Robert Cooper, MA (1995), DPhil Oxon, Professor ofTheoretical Physics

1998 Kenneth George Campbell Smith, BMedSc, MB, BS, PhD Melbourne,MA (2000) Genzyme Professor of Experimental Medicine, HonoraryConsultant Physician, Addenbrooke’s Hospital

Alan Garth Tunnacliffe, MA (1994), PhD London, Reader in Biotechnology

Lauren Tamar Kassell, BA Haverford, MSc, DPhil Oxon, UniversitySenior Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science

1999 Vikram Sudhir Deshpande, BTech Bombay, MPhil (1996), PhD (1998),Reader in Materials Engineering

2001 Demosthenes Nicholas Tambakis, MA (1993), PhD Princeton, CollegeLecturer and Pyewacket Fellow in Economics

Nilanjana Datta, MA (2008), BSc Jadavpur, MSc Jadavpur, PhD ETHZurich, College Lecturer in Mathematics

John Stephen Bell, BPhil Gregorian University Rome, MA(1978), DPhilOxon, Professor of Comparative Law

Timothy John Bussey, BSc Victoria BC, PhD (1996), University SeniorLecturer in Experimental Psychology

Andrea Carlo Ferrari, Laurea, Politechnico di Milano, PhD (2001),Reader in Electrical Engineering

2002 Rosalind Polly Blakesley, MA (1996), DPhil Oxon, University SeniorLecturer in the History of Art



2003 Zoltán Sarnyai, MA (2008), MD, PhD Szeged, Hungary, UniversityLecturer in Pharmacology

Alexander William Tucker, MA (1989), VetMB (1992), PhD (1997),University Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Public Health

2004 Arwen Fedora Deuss, MA (2008), MSc Utrecht, DPhil Oxon, UniversityLecturer in Theoretical Geophysics

2005 William Fawcett, MA (1974), PhD (1979), College Lecturer andChadwick Fellow in Architecture

Simon Learmount, BA, MA University of East Anglia, MBA (1996), PhD(2000), University Lecturer in Management Studies

Alan Michael Dawson, MA (1978), PhD (1994)

Jorge M Gonçalves, MSc MIT, PhD MIT, University Lecturer inEngineering

Samuel James Barrett, MPhil (1996), PhD (2000), University SeniorLecturer in Music

2006 Alexei Shadrin, MSc Moscow, PhD Moscow, University Lecturer inNumerical Analysis

James Theodore Douglas Gardom, BA Oxon, PhD King’s College London

Katrin Christina Ettenhuber, BA (2000), MPhil (2001), PhD (2004),College Lecturer in English

Eric Alexander Miska, BA Dublin, PhD (2000), Group Leader at theGurdon Institute

Jonathan Mark James Keeling, BA (2002), MSci (2003), PhD (2005)

Kojiro Yano, MD Chiba, Japan, PhD Liverpool, AstraZeneca SeniorResearch Associate

2007 Christopher John Blencowe, BA Reading, MA Kings College London

Matthew Robert Mellor, MA Oxon

Stephen O’Rahilly, MD, MB, BCh, BAO Ireland, Professor of ClinicalBiochemistry and Medicine

Gábor Csányi, MA (1994), PhD MIT, University Lecturer in Engineering

Menna Ruth Clatworthy, BSc Wales, PhD (2006), University ClinicalLecturer in Renal Medicine

Ashok Ramakrishnan Venkitaraman, MA (1993), PhD London, MB andBS Vellore, India, Professorial Fellow of Cancer Research

Matthew John Clark, BA (2003), MPhil (2004), PhD (2008), CollegeLecturer in History

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Gheorghe Dan Pantos, BSc Timisoara, Romania, MSC Timisoara,Romania, PhD Texas, Stokes’ Research Fellow

James Alexander Nicholas Thornton, BA Oxon, PhD (2007), Drapers’Research Fellow

Ludmila Maria du Bouchet, BA Paris, MPhil Paris, MPhil (2004),Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah Research Fellow

2008 Barbara Könczöl, MA Leipzig, PhD Leipzig, University Lektorin in History

Jin-Hyuk Kim, BA Yonsei, MA Cornell, PhD Cornell, College Lecturerin Economics

Mark Strange, BA Durham, MSt Oxon, DPhil Oxon, Drapers’ ResearchFellow

Kenneth Patrick Clarke, BA Dublin, MPhil Dublin, MA Oxon, DPhilOxon, Keith Sykes Research Fellow in Italian Studies

David John Huggins, MChem Oxford, DPhil Oxon

Matthew O’Brien, BSc York, PhD Manchester

2009 Colin Martyn Lizieri, BA Oxon, PhD LSE, Grosvenor Professor of RealEstate Finance in the Department of Land Economy

Alexander Houen, BA Sydney, MPhil Sydney, PhD (1999), UniversityLecturer in Modern English Literature

Renaud Gagné, MA Montreal, MPhil Montreal, PhD Harvard,University Lecturer in Greek Literature

Mina Gorji, BA (1996), MPhil Oxon, PhD Oxon, University Lecturer inEnglish

Caroline Burt, BA (1999), MPhil (2000), PhD (2004), College Lecturerin History

Danilo Camargo Igliori, BA Sao Paolo, MSc Sao Paolo, MPhil (2001),PhD (2005), Adam Smith Fellow in Land Economy

Md. Taufiq Ur-Rahman, BPharm Dhaka, MPharm Dhaka, MScManchester, PhD (2008), Drapers’ Research Fellow

Siân Katharine Pooley, BA (2005), MPhil (2006), Mark KaplanoffResearch Fellow in History

Sarah Maria Heiltjen Nouwen, LLB Utrecht, LLM Utrecht, MPhil(2005), Mayer Brown Research Fellow in International Law

Alfonso Sorrentino, MA Rome, PhD Princeton, Herschel-SmithResearch in Pure Mathematics



EMERITUS FELLOWS

Charles William McElroy Pratt, MA (1953)Anthony William Nutbourne, MA (1954)Richard Hawley Grey Parry, ScD (1983)Colin Gilbraith, MA (1975), MVOAmyand David Buckingham, CBE, ScD (1985), FRSColin George Wilcockson, MA (1958)Michael James David Powell, ScD (1979), FRSIan Fleming, ScD (1982), FRSJohn Ryder Waldram, MA (1963), PhD (1964)Antony Gerald Hopkins, FBAHoward Henry Erskine-Hill, LittD (1988), FBASir Roger Tomkys, MA (1973)Robert Joseph MearsWilliam Bernard Raymond Lickorish, ScD (1991)Sathiamalar Thirunavukkarasu, MA (1971)Brian Watchorn, MA (1965)Howard Peter Raingold, MA (1982)Nicholas Stanislaus Baskey, MA (1998)Richard James Jackson, MA (1968), PhD (1968)Michael David Reeve, MA (1966)Michael George Kuczynski, MA (1972)Susan Helen Stobbs, MA (1970)Rex Edward Britter, MA (1979)

HONORARY FELLOWS

1983 Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, OM, MA (1956), PhD (1955), Hon ScD, FRSRay Milton Dolby, Hon OBE, PhD (1961), Hon ScD

1989 Sir John Frank Charles Kingman, ScD (1969), FRS1992 The Rt Hon James Michael Leathes Prior, Baron Prior of Brampton, PC,

MA (1970)Sir Constant Hendrick (Henry) de Waal, KCB, MA (1955), LLB (1952)Simon Kirwan Donaldson, MA (1985), FRSChristopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood, CBE, MA (1967)

1993 James Gee Pascoe Crowden, CVO, MA (1955)1995 The Revd Charles Kingsley Barrett, DD (1956), FBA1998 Sir John Anthony Chilcot, GCB, MA (1973)

The Rt Hon Sir Konrad Hermann Theodor Schiemann, PC, MA (1965),LLB (1962)The Rt Hon Sir Alan Hylton Ward, Lord Justice Ward, PC, MA (1968),LLB (1963)

1999 Emma Louise Johnson, MBE, MA (1992)2000 Sir John Edward Sulston, PhD (1982), Hon ScD, FRS

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2002 William Hall Janeway, PhD (1971)2004 Sir Michael Bett, CBE, MA (1977)

Roger Walton Ferguson Jr, (1973) PhD HarvardSir Christopher Owen Hum, KCMG, MA (1964)His Excellency George Maxwell Richards, TC, PhD (1963)Sir Marcus Henry (Mark )Richmond, ScD(1971), FRSThe Rt Hon Christopher Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, PC,MA (1977), PhD (1979)

2005 Amyand David Buckingham, CBE, ScD (1985), FRS2006 Stephen John Nickell, CBE, BA (1965), FB

Martin Biddle, OBE, FSA, MA (1965)Peter Stuart Ringrose,MA (1971), PhD (1971)

2007 The Rt Hon Paul Anthony Elliott Bew, Lord Bew of Donegore, MA(1971), PhD(1974)Stephen Jay Greenblatt, MA (1968)

2008 David Anthony Brading, BA (1960) PhD UCL, DLitt (1991)Jeremy Bloxham, BA (1982), PhD (1986)

WILLIAM PITT FELLOWS

2001 Jeremy Henry Moore Newsum, BA, Reading2003 Barrington John Albert Furr, OBE, BSc, PhD, Reading2004 Melanie Georgina Lee, BSc, York, PhD, National Institute for Medical

Research2005 Gerd Schnorrenberg, PhD, Bonn

Jonson Cox, BA (1979)2006 David William Andrews, MA, Sheffield

Cristoforo Romanelli, DrIng, Università degli Studi de Roma “LaSapienza”Jonathan Kenneth Charles Knowles, BSc East Anglia, PhD, Edinburgh

2008 Matthew William BrossIsmail Kola, BSc, South Africa, BPharm, Rhodes, PhD (Med),Capetown

2009 Richard Parmee, BA (1973)

BYE-FELLOWS

1999 Jayne Sinclair Ringrose, MA (1970)2005 Andrea Ruddick, BA (1999), MPhil (2000), PhD (2005)2008 Daniela Passolt, BA Hamburg, MSc SOAS, PhD LSE2009 Rebecca Lucy Coombs, BA Bristol, PhD Paris

Andrew Enticknap, MBA UEAMark Reinhard Norbert Kotter, MD Graz, MPhil (2001), PhD (2006)



FELLOW-COMMONERS

2004 George Simon Cecil Gibson2005 John Andrew Hulme Chadwick, MA (1968)

Keith Gordon Sykes, MA (1973)Randall Wayne Dillard, LLM (1983)

2006 Norman Mcleod Bachop, BA (1968)2007 Anthony Harwick Wilkinson2008 Christopher Bertlin Turner Adams, MA (1957)

John Charles Grayson Stancliffe, MA (1952)

Master: Sir Richard Dearlove

COLLEGE OFFICERS 2010–2011

President: J MMaciejowskiSenior Tutor:MRWormaldDean and Chaplain: J T D GardomTreasurer and Bursar: C BlencowePraelector: TMeißnerLibrarian:N J McBrideTutorial Bursar: L T KassellCollege Proctor:DN TambakisSteward:MRMellorTutor for Graduate Affairs: L R R GelsthorpeAdmissions Tutor: C BurtTutor for Graduate Admissions:N J McBrideDevelopment Director:MRMellorAssistant tutors: S J Barrett, B ABodenhorn,M J Clark,GCsanyi, KCEttenhuber,J T D Gardom, M Gorji, B Könczöl, N J McBride, T Meißner, Z Sarnyai,A W Tucker

Graduate tutors: A F Deuss, G R Edwards, J T D Gardom, A ThorntonCollege lecturers: M J Clark (History), N Datta (Mathematics), K C Ettenhuber(English), D Igliori (Political Economy); J-H Kim (Economics), N J McBride(Law),DN Tambakis (Economics),MRWormald (English)

Directors and Assistant Directors of Studies:Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic: P RussellArchaeology & Anthropology: B A BodenhornArchitecture:W FawcettAsian and Middle Eastern Studies: C PMelvilleChemical Engineering: S S S CardosoClassics: TMeißnerComputer Science: K TaylorEconomics:D Tambakis, D RobertsonEducation: E Taylor

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Engineering: V Deshpande, G Csanyi, A Ferrari, J GonçalvesEnglish:MRWormald, K C EttenhuberGeography: S RadcliffeHistory: J P Parry, M J Clark, C BurtHistory of Art: R P BlakesleyLand Economy:D IglioriLaw:N J McBrideLinguistics:DWillisManagement Studies: S J LearmountMathematics:NDattaMedicine: Z Sarnyai, K G C Smith (Clinical)Modern Languages: S Huot, M Kant, R O’BryenMusic: S J BarrettNatural Sciences: T J Bussey, N R Cooper, A F Deuss, L T Kassell, M O’Brien,D Pantos, M C Payne, A TunnacliffePhilosophy: A Stewart-WallacePolitics, Psychology, Sociology, and International Studies: B A BodenhornTheology: J T D GardomVeterinary Medicine:D Tucker

Director for International Programmes: AMDawsonDeputy Director for International Programmes:D PassoltLectrice in French: P DorioLektorin in German: A LorenzAcademic Associates:Anatomy: AMayArchitecture:MGwiazdaEngineering: J TaylorEnglish: A Lane, G YeatsSocial Anthropology:MMagalhaesWriting Skills: R BurnsZoology: J Gerlach

MATRICULATION 2009–2010

MICHAELMAS TERM 2009Abdulla, Fawaz Yusuf (London School of Economics)Aboobakar, Muhammad-Furqan (Loughborough Grammar School)Agnihotri, Wiraaj (United World College of S E Asia, Singapore)Aleksandrova, Antoniya (Butler University, Indianapolis)Ashmore, Joseph Lorcan (St Dunstan’s College, London)Bahaj, Saleem Abubakr (London School of Economics)Baker, Harry Laurence (King’s (VA) CE School, Peterborough)Balogh, Mate (Fazekas Mihaly Primary and Secondary School and Te, Budapest)Batishcheva, Alexandra (Latymer School, London)



Bennett, Verity Angelina Sharman (Torquay Grammar School for Girls)Berreby, Fiona (CPGE lycee Montaigne, Paris)Blackburn, Katherine Rebecca (Reigate Grammar School)Boreham, JohnWilliam (Windsor Boys’ School)Börjesson, Johannes Per Emil (Lund University, Sweden)Bosch, Konstantin Moritz Maximilian (Robinson College, Cambridge)Bowyer, Georgina Sophie Amundsen (Duke of York’s Royal Military School,Dover)Bridge, Christopher Philip (King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford)Bronitsky, Jonathan Bernard (Peterhouse, Cambridge)Bruce, Maria Pepa (Foleys Grammar School, Limassol)Budd, Oliver Matthew Timothy (Wellington School, Somerset (son of J D Budd(1974))Cain, Jacob Stuart (Richard Hale School, Hertford)Carr, Neal Patrick (De Lisle Catholic School, Loughborough)Carruthers, Elspeth Ruth (Latymer School, London)Chatters, Grace Margaret (Newstead Wood School for Girls, Orpington)Chew, Leroy Nicholas (Alton College, Hampshire)Chowdhury, Mubdiu Reza (Latymer School, London)Chung, Paraic Ho-Hin (London Oratory School)Coates, Richard Stephen (Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne)Coghill, James Reid (Thomas Mills High School, Framlingham)Coghlan, Niall Finian (Dr Challoner’s Grammar School, Amersham)Cox, David Wyndham Keith (Portadown College, Craigavon)Cymes, Tomasz (33 Liceum Im. M Kopernika, Warsaw)Dafinone, Isabel Onome (Wycombe Abbey School, HighWycombe)de Berker, Archy Otto Orloff (North Bristol Post 16 Centre)Deng, Zhe Xi (Roedean School, Brighton)Denis, Elizabeth Rosa (St Saviour’s & St Olave’s School, London)Dietzfelbinger, Sarah Esin (Freie Universität, Berlin)Echtermeyer, Tim Joachim (Aachen University of Technology)Ediger, Mikaela Leann (Harry Ainlay High School, Edmonton)Ewing, Alice-Andrea (Farlingaye High School, Woodbridge)Fabry, Alexander Bradshaw (Harvard University)Fallows, Michael Joseph (Wilmslow County High School, Cheshire)Fang, Fufu (Ashmole School, London)Ferrari, Anna Cecile (Emmanuel College, Cambridge)Fleming, Helen Susan (Wycombe High School, HighWycombe)Flores, Fernan Carandan (Ateneo de Manila University)Fowler, Cedar Johnson (Tufts University, MA)Foxall, Tom Bant (Solihull School)Franklin, Miriam Julie (Lady Margaret School, London)Fulwood, Alice Mary (Oxford High School GDST)Gandon, Amy Patricia (Haileybury, Hertford)Gateshill, Joseph Geoffrey (Hymers College, Hull (son of J B Gateshill (1968))Gill, Benjamin (Llanidloes High School, Powys (son of T Gill (1981))



Gutteridge, Jennifer Marie (Camberwell College of Art)Hall, Clare Elizabeth (Tonbridge Grammar School for Girls)Hallas, Gabriela Grace Macmahon (Coloma Convent Girls School, Croydon)Harrington, Christian A D E (Eton College, Windsor)Harris, Georgina Rachel (Caistor Grammar School, Market Rasen)Harvey, Joseph Edward (Pates Grammar School, Cheltenham)Hatfield, Peter William (Simon Langton Boys’ School, Canterbury)Hausien, Omar (Heaton Manor School, Newcastle upon Tyne)Hayes, Rosalie Winifred (Tormead School, Guildford)Healey, Rosamund (Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge)Heard, Daniel Keith (King Edward VI College, Stourbridge)Henderson, Siobhan Jenny (Dame Alice Owen’s School, Potters Bar)Hill, Sarah Catherine (Woodbridge School, Suffolk)Hills, Evin Rose (City of London Freemen’s School, Ashtead)Hinks, Matthew Joseph (Chatham Grammar School for Boys, Kent)Hodkinson, Jemima Eleanor Clare (Portsmouth Grammar School)Hui, Nikhol Victoria (North London Collegiate School, Edgware)Jackson, Stacey Anne Winifred (Spalding High School, Lincolnshire)Jaffer, Mehdi Husayn (Merchant Taylors’ School, Northwood)Jayaraman, Apoorva (Trinity College, Oxford)Johnson, Ian David (Bilborough College, Nottingham)Jolly, Elaine Christina (University of Glasgow)Jones, Sonia Alexandra Rosciszewska (Queen’s Gate School, London)Joseph, David Daniel (Highgate School, London)Keenan, Patrick George (Greenhead College, Huddersfield)Kemp, Phoebe Joy (Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne)Kim, Eunice Seungyeon (Brown University, Providence)King, Mark John (Jesus College, Cambridge)Kirdar, Rena Nemir (Somerville College, Oxford)Kirk, Jacob Daniel (Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Horncastle)Kleanthous, Natasha Anna Victoria (St Margaret’s School, Bushey)Kollmann, Laura (University of Maastricht)La Fleur, Emma (Occidental College, Los Angeles)la Hausse de Lalouvière, Joseph Philippe Toussaint (Hills Road Sixth FormCollege, Cambridge)Labrune, Pierre (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)Lecznar, Adam Edward (University College London)Lee, Minah (Tiffin Girls’ School, Kingston upon Thames)Leggett, Matthew Terence (Colyton Grammar School, Devon)Lewis, Rhian (Caerleon Comprehensive School, Newport)Lewis-Smith, William Oliver (Tiffin School, Kingston-upon-Thames)Lindsay, Victoria (Banchory Academy, Kincardineshire)Liu, Yun (National Junior College, Singapore)Livingstone, Emmet McMahon (European School Brussels I)Lombardo, Antonio (Universita di Palermo)Maguire, Holly Charlotte (Brighton, Hove & Sussex Sixth Form College)



Martin, Laurie William Findlay (Bedford School)Mashiter, Chloe Elizabeth (Norwich School)McClelland, Peter Geoffrey (University of Western Ontario)McGowan, Joanna Grace (New College, Swindon)McGuinness, Bronach Geraldine Mary (Dominican College, Belfast)McWilliams, Alastair Robert (King’s School, Canterbury)Mecham, Andrew Steven (Brigham Young University)Miller, Holly Patricia (Burgess Hill School, West Sussex)Morgan, Elsa Charlotte (Withington Girls’ School, Manchester (daughter of H FMorgan (1978))Msibi, Thabo Perceviarence (University of KwaZulu-Natal)Murphy, Christine Claire Ellen (Methodist College, Belfast)Nicholson, Kerry Elizabeth (Northern Regional College, Ballymena, Co. Antrim)Norman, Simon Mark (Victoria College, St Helier)Obata, Miharu (South Hampstead High School, London)Orchard, Patrick Francis (Harrow School, Harrow-on-the-Hill)Paites, Benjamin (Coopers’ Company and Coborn School, Upminster)Parsons, Lawrence Aldwell Wilde (Open University, Milton Keynes)Patel, Arvind (Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School, Elstree)Paya Ten, Marcos (International School of Indiana, Indianapolis)Petreanu, Andreea (City University, London)Phillips, Olivia Poppy (King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds)Pickworth, Frances Isabel (Norwich School)Pitt Ford, Charles William (Robinson College, Cambridge)Prina, Alberto Matthew (St Edmund’s College, Cambridge)Pugh, Benjamin John (Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet)Purdon, Rachel Elizabeth (Penglais Comprehensive School, Aberystwyth)Qureshi, Arham Farukh (Magdalen College School, Oxford)Railton, Thomas James (Ashlawn School and Science College, Rugby)Ramsden, Christopher Michael (Greenhead College, Huddersfield)Reibman, Max Yacker (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)Reith, Charles James Davidson (Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School, Elstree)Richards, Sidney William (University of Leiden)Richmond, Alex Mathew (British International School, Jakarta)Ritter, Alex Taylor (Concordia College, Minnesota)Robinshaw, Elizabeth (Bootham School, York)Robinson, Mark Philip Robert (Altrincham Grammar School for Boys)Ross, India Fleur Wilson (Truro School)Salama, Michael Howard (George Washington University)Sanderson, Charlotte Anna (Magdalene College, Cambridge)Schlaepfer, Christian (St Edmund’s College, Cambridge)Scott, Jemima Ruth (Rugby School)Scott, Luke Andrew (Edinburgh Academy)Senge, Jan Felix (University of Bremen)Senthilgiri, Lathoorshan (City of London School)Shaw, Matthew James (Desborough School, Maidenhead)



Shelat, Urvesh Mahesh (Harvard University)Shen, Lin (China University of Political Science & Law)Slade, Christopher Raymond (Sutton Grammar School, Surrey)Smith, James William (University of St Andrews)Solanki, Deepa Priya (Wreake Valley College, Syston)Stanley, Isaac Martin (City of London School)Steinitz, Rachel (British School of Rio De Janeiro)Stern, Robert Guy (University College School, London)Stewart, Jessica Carol-Ann (Sixth Form College Farnborough)Stott, Susannah Victoria (Oakham School, Leicestershire)Straus, Max Isaac (Brown University, Providence)Suddaby, Katherine Mary (Boston Spa Comprehensive School, Wetherby)Sullivan, Robert Andrew (Ridgeway Comprehensive School, Wroughton)Szlachta, Wojciech Jerzy (Girton College, Cambridge)Takano, Masao (Georgetown Univerisity, Washington DC)Takeda, Yuko (University of Newcastle)Tavernier, Marie Anne (Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV))Teh, Tian Huey (Kolej Tuanku Ja’afar, Mantin)Tham, Jonathan Volrath Sebastian (Westminster School, London)Thom, Susannah Claire (Manchester High School for Girls (daughter of C PThom (1978))Thompson, Robert Peter (Southend High School for Boys, Southend-on-Sea(son of D P Thompson (1981))Tickell Painter, Cassie Rosa (Cherwell School, Oxford)Todd, Andrew David (Omagh Academy, Co. Tyrone)Tromp, Alicia Jeanne (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)Ulmann, George Oliver (Radley College, Abingdon)Veselovská, Lenka (Charles University, Prague)Viswanathan, Vivek (Harvard University)Warren, Bryony (Watford Girls’ Grammar School)Watney, Isabella Mary Louise (Oxford High School GDST)Weigel, Jonathan (Harvard University)Welikala, Judith Himanie (Sacred Heart High School, London)Wigginton, James Leroy (Brigham Young University)Willis, Julian CW (Oakham School, Leicestershire)Wirz, Monica (London School of Economics)Wolf, Simon Maria Reinhard (Bedford School)Xu, Jia (Princeton University)Yeo, Yi Tian Felicity (McGill University, Montreal)Yeung, Wilson (University College London)Yudhanahas, Rampharaj (National University of Singapore)

LENT TERM 2010Anixter, David (University of California – Berkeley)Barrett, Samuel Clarkson (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)Chen, Siwen (Wellesley College)



Clark, Courtney Alexandra Reyes (Brown University, Providence)Crowe, Charlotte McKenna (Brown University, Providence)Eldridge, Robert Matthew (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)Finerty, Katherine (Cornell University, Ithaca)Gordon, Veronica (Yale University, New Haven)Hanno, Adam Gordon (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)Harris, Drew Colin (Brown University, Providence)Kaye-Kauderer, Jenna (Brown University, Providence)Kieschnick, Hannah (Yale University, New Haven)Merron, Eric (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)Milstein, Michael Morris (Cornell University, Ithaca)O’Connor, Kendall Marie (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)Raman, Nikhita (Brown University, Providence)Rogers, Graham Rollin Helton (Brown University, Providence)Rosenthal, Sarah Faye (Brown University, Providence)Roule, Natasha Madeleine Anne (Wellesley College)Salvador, Anjali Vyas (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)Samarth, Avinash (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)Seligman, Lara Catriona (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)Slater, Benjamin Joshua (Brown University, Providence)Tennant, Emma Philadelphia (Brown University, Providence)Tiu, Tiffany Wing Yee (Waseda University)Zhang, Chenji (Brown University, Providence)Zhou, Lily Yaoqing (Wellesley College)

EASTER TERM 2010Brodbeck Roos, Jeannette (University of Berne)Neto, Ricardo Jorge Miguel (Universidade de Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro)

ANNUAL EXAMINATIONS, FIRST CLASS RESULTS 2010

Archaeology & Anthropology, Part IHill, Sarah Catherine

Archaeology & Anthropology, Part IIABray, Sebastian Christian

Archaeology & Anthropology, Part IIBBrooks, Hannah Jean

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies,Part IACarruthers, Elspeth Ruth

Oriental Studies, Part IIColes, Isabel

Chemical Engineering, Part IIBPopel, Aleksej

Classical Tripos, Part IAGandon, Amy PatriciaPickworth, Frances Isabel

Classical Tripos, Part IIJudson, Anna PenelopeNewton, Alice Elizabeth



Computer Science, Part IBChen, Niang Jun

Economics, Part IBoreham, JohnWilliam

Economics, Part IIAFrance, RobertGorringe, Frank RichardMukherjee, BibekWiggins, Alexander David

Economics, Part IIBKaitcer, Alex LouisQiu, Yuhang

Engineering, Part IABridge, Christopher PhilipHall, Clare ElizabethRobinson, Mark Philip Robert

Engineering, Part IBKubie, Martin Gustav WilliamSharpe, Adam DouglasWalker, Michael IanWhitehead, TomWraight, MatthewWilliamWu, Menglin

Engineering, Part IIBBunch, Peter JosephCusdin, Andrew MatthewGauld, Connell MuirKehagias, ChristosMcKane, Kirsty LaurensonYung, Hoi Yue

English, Part IClear, Samuel MarcusGatzen, ClaireHerman, Katya RachelIevins, Alice Mary Anna Natalia

English, Part IIGoh, Gayle Si YiMcAdam, William PeterWheeler, Eleanor MargaretHistorical Tripos, Part IHutchby, Thomas AlexanderWall, Jonathan James

Historical Tripos, Part IICroall, Anna RebeccaIsenberg, Daniel JosephJones, Robert John Foster

Law, Part IBBrown, Thomas BarlowHillam, Andrew Jonathan

Law, Part IIAlonzo, Camilla FrancesLawson, Kyle WilliamYoung, Andrew McDonald Russell

Mathematical Tripos, Part IAChen, Chongli DanielHarvey, Joseph EdwardHatfield, Peter William

Mathematical Tripos, Part IBKileel, Joseph DavidLedwon, PaulSoh, Yong ShengWhitby, Max

Mathematical Tripos, Part IIDudfield, PeterHouse, David Michael

Mathematical Tripos, Part IIIJones, Andrew JamesMorgan, Ralph Henry

Final MB Examination, Part IIISoosainathan, Arany

Medical and Veterinary Sciences,Part IAMorgan, Elsa CharlotteRoss, India Fleur Wilson

Medical and Veterinary Sciences,Part IBNicolaidis, Eva Alexandra

Modern and Medieval Languages,Part IABott, WilliamMiller, Holly PatriciaPugh, Benjamin John



COLLEGE AWARDS 2009–2010

Kilby Prizebest undergraduate performanceAlonzo, CF

Blackburne-Daniell Prizebest second-year performanceFrance, R; Hillam, AJ

Peter de Somogyi Memorial Prizespecial merit in an Arts subjectJudson, AP

Crowden Awarddistinguished contribution to College lifeMckoy, L; Jones, AL

Modern and Medieval Languages,Part IBBickerton, Jordan James

Music, Part IICampbell, Anna CatherineMartin, Peter Thomas Yarde

Natural Sciences, Part IAAgnihotri, WiraajBalogh, Matede Berker, Archy Otto OrloffLiu, YunPurdon, Rachel ElizabethWillis, Julian CW

Natural Sciences, Part IBBullard, Christina MaryHammond, Daniel John

Natural Sciences, Part II: Biologicaland Biomedical SciencesYeldham, Francesca

Natural Sciences, Part II: ChemistryArmstrong, Roland JohnBeardmore, Emma Jane

Natural Sciences, Part II:Experimental and Theoretical PhysicsBell, Robert AndrewSanders, Jason Lloyd

Natural Sciences, Part II: GeneticsLister, Joanne Rachel

Natural Sciences, Part II: PathologyNeshat-Omidvaran, Mojtaba

Natural Sciences, Part III: BiochemistryTaylor, Martin Russell Gareth

Natural Sciences, Part III: ChemistryAppleton, Scott DavidCoad, Emma-RoseJanecek, Matej

Natural Sciences, Part III:Experimental and Theoretical PhysicsArnold, Hannah MarySmidman, MichaelStrandkvist, Charlotte

Natural Sciences, Part III: GeologicalSciencesWeller, Owen Michael

Natural Sciences, Part III: MaterialSciences and MetallurgyYoung, Callum Angus

Philosophy, Part IBSteen, Bernard Adam

Philosophy, Part IIJefferys, Peter John

Theological and Religious Studies,Part IIASkwarek, Katrina ClareStanton, Richard Oliver



Hansen Prizeoutstanding first or second-year performancein the ArtsPugh, BJ

Satish Kumar Aggarwal Prizeoutstanding first-year performance inMathematics or Natural SciencesHarvey, JE

Adrian Prizefor Medical and Veterinary SciencesYeldham, F

Atiyah Prizefor Part III MathematicsMorgan, RH

Bethune Baker Prizefor DivinitySkwarek, KC

Collins Prizefor EnglishWheeler, EM

Ginsberg Prizefor ClassicsJudson, AP

Ginsberg Awardfor ClassicsNewton, AE

Hadley History Prizefor Part II of the TriposPinkney, WE

Sir William Hodge Prizefor Mathematics or Natural SciencesSanders, JL

Hodgson Memorial Prizefor a Part II Engineering ProjectGauld, CM

Joslin Prizefor Economic HistoryWall, JJ

Lancaster Prizefor EngineeringWhitehead, T

Legg Prizefor MathematicsHouse, DM

Ann Ellen Prince Prizefor Modern LanguagesBickerton, JJ

BM Roberts Prizefor outstanding performance in Part IIIChemistryAppleton, SD

Ubaydli Prizefor Computer ScienceChen, NJ

Marie Shamma’a Frost PrizeFor Oriental StudiesColes, I

Robin Shepherd Memorial Prizefor ChemistryArmstrong, RJ

GC Smith Prizefor Material SciencesYoung, CA

Dr Stevens Prizefor Natural SciencesBell, RA

Dr Stoneley’s Prizefor Geology and GeophysicsWeller, OM

Henry Sumner Maine Prizefor Archeology and AnthropologyBrooks, HJ

Turner Prizefor MusicEastwood, MJ



Foundress Prizes

College Prizes

First year

Second yearBray, SCA (Arch & Anth)Bullard, CM (Natural Sciences)Clear, SM (English)France, R (Economics)Gorringe, FR (Economics)Hammond, DJ (Natural Sciences)Herman, KR (English)Ievins, AMN (English)Kileel, JD (Mathematics)Kubie, MGW (Engineering)Mukherjee, B (Economics)

Nicolaidis, EAC (Medical Sciences)Sharpe, AD (Engineering)Soh, YS (Mathematics)Stanton, RO (Theology)Steen, BA (Philosophy)Wall, JJ (History)Walker, MJ (Engineering)Whitby, M (Mathematics)Whitehead, T (Engineering)Wraight, MW (Engineering)Wu, M (Engineering)

Agnihorti, W (Natural Sciences)Balogh, M (Natural Sciences)Boreham, JW (Economics)Bott, W (Modern Languages)Bridge, CP (Engineering)Chen, CD (Mathematics)de Berker, AOO (Natural Sciences)Morgan, EC (Medical Sciences)Pickworth, FI (Classics)Purdon, RE (Natural Sciences)

Gandon, AP (Classics)Harvey, JE (Mathematics)Hatfield, JE (Mathematics)Hill, SC (Archaeology & Anthropology)la Hausse de Lalouvière, JPT (History)Liu, Y (Natural Sciences)Miller, HP (Modern Languages)Robinson, MP (Engineering)Ross, IFW (Veterinary Medicine)Willis, JCW (Natural Sciences)

Arnold, HM (Natural Sciences)Brown, TB (Law)Campbell, AC (Music)Hutchby, TA (History)Jones, AJ (Mathematics)Jones, RJF (History)Lawson, KW (Law)Ledwon, P (Mathematics)

Popel, A (Chemical Engineering)Pugh, BJ (Modern Languages)Qiu, Y (Economics)Smidman, M (Natural Sciences)Wiggins, AD (Economics)Young, AMR (Law)Yung, HY (Engineering)

S M Jamil Wasti Prizefor Part I EnglishGatzen, C

Willoughby Prizefor Private LawAlonzo, CF

Ronald Wynn Prizefor EngineeringBunch, PJ

Ziegler Prizefor LawHillam, AJ



Third year

Fourth year

Sixth yearSoosainathan, A (Clinical Medicine)

Elected to a Foundation Scholarship

Foundation Scholarships Continued

Foundation Award Holders

Appleton, S (Natural Sciences)Buchanan, GR (English)

Bunch, PJ (Engineering)Campbell, AC (Music)

Armstrong, RJ (Natural Sciences)Beardmore, EJ (Natural Sciences)Bell, RA (Natural Sciences)Jarrold, S (Archaeology & Anthropology)

Ralph, HLC (Modern Languages)Sanders, JL (Natural Sciences)Saunders, RJ (Natural Sciences)

Bickerton, JJ (Modern Languages)Bray, SCA (Arch & Anth)Brown, TB (Law)Bullard, CM (Natural Sciences)Chen, NJ (Computer Science)France, R (Economics)Gorringe, FR (Economics)Hammond, DJ (Natural Sciences)Hillam, AJ (Law)Hutchby, TA (History)Walker, MI (Engineering)Wall, JJ (History)Whitby, M (Mathematics)Whitehead, T (Engineering)

Kileel, JD (Mathematics)Kubie, MGW (Engineering)Ledwon, P (Mathematics)Mukherjee, B (Economics)Nicolaidis, EAC (Medical Sciences)Sharpe, AD (Engineering)Skwarek, KC (Theology)Soh, YS (Mathematics)Stanton, RO (Theology)Steen, BA (Philosophy)Wiggins, AD (Economics)Wraight, MW (Engineering)Wu, M (Engineering)

Coad, E (Natural Sciences)Cusdin, AM (Engineering)Janecek, M (Natural Sciences)Kehagias, C (Engineering)

McKane, KL (Engineering)McKee, AP (Mathematics)Strandkvist, C (Natural Sciences)Taylor, MRG (Natural Sciences)

Beardmore, EJ (Natural Sciences)Dudfield, P (Mathematics)Goh, GSY (English)Isenberg, DJ (History)Jefferys, PJ (Philosophy)

Kaitcer, AL (Economics)Lister, JR (Natural Sciences)McAdam, WP (English)Neshat-Omidvaran, M (Natural Sciences)



Foundation Award Holders Continued

Retrospective Awards to Commoners

College Scholarships

Agnihorti, W (Natural Sciences)Balogh, M (Natural Sciences)Carruthers, ER (Asian & Middle EasternStudies)Chen, CD (Mathematics)de Berker, AOO (Natural Sciences)Gandon, AP (Classics)Hall, CE (Engineering)Harvey, JE (Mathematics)Hatfield, PW (Mathematics)Hill, SC (Archaeology & Anthropology)

Boreham, JW (Economics)Bridge, CP (Engineering)la Hausse de Lalouvière, JPT (History)Liu, Y (Natural Sciences)Morgan, EC (Medical Sciences)Pickworth, FI (Classics)Pugh, BJ (Modern Languages)Purdon, RE (Natural Sciences)Robinson, MP (Engineering)Ross, IFW (Veterinary Medicine)Willis, JCW (Natural Sciences)

Coad, E (Natural Sciences)Coles, I (Oriental Studies)Cusdin, AM (Engineering)Gauld, CM (Engineering)Jones, RJF (History)Lister, JR (Natural Sciences)

McAdam, WP (English)Qiu, Y (Economics)Strandkvist, C (Natural Sciences)Wheeler, EM (English)Young, AMR (Law)

Adeloye, T (Clinical Medicine)Bellis, JR (English)Boland, JA (Natural Sciences)Chan, TS (Chemical Engineering)Charteris, CM (English)Collins, BSL (Natural Sciences)Dickerson, P (English)Firestone, E (English)Humphreys, MTG (History)McDonald, S (Clinical Medicine)

Potter, AT (Natural Sciences)Richardson, JO (Chemistry)Rickman, HM (Medical Sciences)Tay, NL (Veterinary Medicine)Voss, EAF (Engineering)West, CJ (Economic and Social History)Whiscombe, A (ASNAC)Winder-Rhodes, SE (MRC Brain Repair)Xiu, P (Clinical Medicine)

Dudfield, P (Mathematics)Eastwood, MJF (Music)House, DM (Mathematics)Yeldham, FC (Medical Sciences)Isenberg, DJ (History)Janecek, M (Natural Sciences)

Jefferys, PJ (Philosophy)Mundy, L (Medical Sciences)Newton, AE (Classics)Pinkney, WE (History)Woolley, JP (Arch & Anth)Young, CA (Natural Sciences)



College ExhibitionsBott, W (Modern Languages)Miller, HP (Modern Languages)

Searle Reading PrizeTaylor, RC

Kenderdine Organ ScholarshipMartin, PTY

Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett PrizeFor creative writingWeigel, J

Idle ScholarshipMoshenka, RCS

Christine Hansen Music TravelScholarshipAmbrose Evans, R

Nicholas Powell Travel BursaryStern, RG

Brian Riley Declamation PrizeIsenberg, DJ

GrahamMaw Organ ScholarshipAshmore, JL

Monica Partridge Award (BalkanStudies)Bosch, KMM

Rosenthal Memorial TravellingScholarshipMurphy, CCE

Derek Rose Memorial StudentshipCarruthers, ER

Jack Lander Travel ScholarshipsMcGuinness, BGM; Gutteridge, JM

Keith Sykes AwardsHowe, EK; Hoyt, ME; O’Brien, AP;Scott-Barrett, JV

Ginsberg Blues Awards

For a BluePeter McClelland (Rowing)Jan Senge (Basketball)

For a Half BlueAlistair Chappelle (Lightweight rowing)John Hale (Lightweight rowing)Todd Nichols (Lacrosse)Charles Pitt Ford (Lightweight rowing)Madeleine Sowash (Volleyball)

Peter May AwardFor Tripos and University sportsBunch, PJ; Rickman, H

Dan Rookward AwardFor excellence in sportsHannah Rickman (winner)Kate Cunningham (runner-up)Freddy Lyon (runner-up)

Peter Ringrose Africa TravelScholarshipsJones, AL; Kinloch, CM; Hill, SC;Tickell Painter, CR; Maguire, HC;Blackburn, KR



GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS 2009–2010

Pembroke puts a great value on its community of graduate students; they add agreat deal to the richness and diversity of the College’s intellectual and social life.In recognition of this Pembroke makes available a number of named awards topotential graduate students in order to allow them to take up a place at Pembroke.In addition Pembroke makes a number of awards to graduate students who haveobtained partial funding from other sources such as the CambridgeCommonwealth Trust, the Cambridge Overseas Trust and the CambridgeEuropean Trust. Pembroke also supports the University initiative for DomesticResearch Studentships for home graduates by offering half the funding for anyPembroke student nominated for such an award.

The following named scholarships and awards were made for the academic year2009–2010 (all students are from Pembroke College, Cambridge unlessotherwise specified):

Arabic and Islamic Studies (E G Brown fund)Bayan Parvizi (MPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)

Bethune Baker Scholarship in TheologyJohannes Börjesson (PhD in Theology) from Lund University, Sweden

Boustany Studentship in AstronomyApoorva Jayaraman (PhD in Astronomy) from Trinity College, Oxford

Lander Studentship in the History of ArtAnna Ferrari (PhD in History of Art) from Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Lander MPhil Studentship in the History of ArtEmily Wood (MPhil in History of Art) from Butler University, Indianapolis

Nahum Scholarship in PhysicsAntonio Lombardo (PhD in Engineering) from Universita di Palermo, Sicily

Thornton Graduate Studentship in HistoryChristian Schlaepfer (PhD in History) from St Edmund’s College, Cambridge

Ziegler Studentship in LawSidney Richards (PhD in Law) from the University of Leiden, Netherlands

The College also made significant ad hominem awards from various funds:

Pembroke College fund for MPhil studyAugustine Booth-Clibborn (MPhil in Divinity)Patrick Clibbens (MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies)



Elgon Corner (MPhil in Economics)Phoebe Dickerson (MPhil in English)Katherine McDonald (MPhil in Classics)Alexander Whiscombe (MPhil in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic)

Pembroke Research Studentship fund:Emma Firestone (PhD in English)

The College contributed to the Cambridge University Domestic ResearchStudentships awarded to:Beatrice Collins (PhD in Chemistry)Phoebe Luckyn-Malone (PhD in Oriental Studies)

HIGHER DEGREES CONFERRED

PhD

Acres, L, The organisation of the ventral temporal object processing stream

Banfi, CA, Competition and other intentional economic torts: a comparison of English andChilean Laws

Barrett, SRH, The air quality impacts of aviation

Brooke, EG, The authority of the dead among the living in Republican Rome: a rhetoricalanalysis of Cicero's oratory

Buckley, CE, Zebrafish: a transparent screening model of myelination

Carey, MA, Ephemeral Institutions: practical anarchy in the Moroccan High Atlas

Cervantes Sodi, F, Computational nanotechnology of graphene, nanotubes and nanowires

Faircloth, CR, Mothering as ‘identity work’: ‘long-term’ breastfeeding, attachmentparenting and intensive motherhood

Farr, RH, Navigating the Neolithic: seafaring and obsidian circulation in the centralMediterranean

Fasoli, A, Nanowires and nanoribbons nanoelectronics

Godfrey, NCJ, Understanding genocide: the experience of Anglicans in Rwanda,c 1921–2008



Golob, SYJ, Intentionality, freedom, method: theoretical and practical philosophy in Kantand Heidegger

Heywood, JJN, Ruminant palaeodietary reconstruction using occlusal morphology of uppermolars

Hoffman, KJ, Measurement of the pressure dependent line profiles of atmosphericallyrelevant molecules using high resolution infrared spectroscopy

Jones, CR, Hydrogen bonding from conformational control to asymmetric catalysis

Kothari, A, An approach to catalytic asymmetric electrocyclization

Kumar, P, Measurements and modelling of the dispersion of nanoparticles in the urbanenvironment

Kwan, DH, The stereochemistry of reduction in modular polyketide synthases

Leiss, AE, The role of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in nitrogen remobilisation duringsenescence in Arabidopsis and tobacco leaves

Meng, T,Magnetization properties and magnetotransport of cobalt nano-structures

Moss, L, Beta1 integrin and neural stem cell maintenance in the chicken embryo

Paul, PC,Microelectronic security measures

Payne, RC, On the computational modelling of evaporative flows in axial compressors

Regitz, S, An ultra fast air-to-fuel measurement device for cyclic combustion analysis

Rolland, SE, What legal framework for the development dimensions at the World TradeOrganisation?

Russell, BP, The micromechanics of composite lattice materials

Skelton, HJ, Applying hydrodynamic cavitation to the activated sludge process

Stagg, HR, A RNAi screen to identify novel ubiquitination genes involved in MHC Iregulation

Stevens, J, Design as a strategic resource: design’s contributions to competitive advantagealigned with strategy models

Taylor, EJ, The negotiation of distant place: learning about Japan at Key Stage 3



Willcocks, LC, The role of the low affinity Fcgamma receptors, FcgammaRIIb andFCgammaRIIIb, in autoimmunity and infection

Winfield, SA, Hybrid multiscale simulation of liquid water

Yeh, J-CC, Anti-angiogenic activity of the volatile oil of Angelica sinensis

MSc

Campbell, C C, Engineering

MPhil

MBA

MEng

Bunch, PJCane, TAChappelle, ANCusdin, AMDay, AM

Gauld, CMKehagias, CMcKane, KLPopel, AJRandell, HR

Rowan, CLSengendo, JMTuckley, CSUglow, CDWhite, CM

Yu, JYung, HY

Almoayed, ACarim, M

Elliott, DIgboegwu, G

Milward, SN

Adipa, PAA, Development StudiesAkoensi, TD, CriminologyAuguer, PA, EnglishBisno, AS, HistoryBrown, PW, International RelationsBruce, EA, PathologyCha-Kim, SS, ClassicsCoe, MJ, International RelationsCorn, CJC,MusicCuthbertson, MR, Englishdu Parc Braham, GBMH, PhilosophyEnglander, AM, DivinityFockele, KE,Modern LanguagesGolann, DW, EnglishGordon, DE, Clinical BiochemistryGrant, KF, EngineeringHarvey, DT, EngineeringHoffman, RG, HistoryHowells, JR, LawHuff, AR, International Relations

Jagadesham, VP, BiologyJohnson, WH, History of ArtKatinaite, V, EconomicsKwong, TY, ParmacologyLaBuzetta, JN,MedicineLlewellyn-Smith, CE, EducationLucero, BA, Latin American StudiesMimnaugh, ECC, HistoryNarasimhan, VK,Materials Science &MetallurgyNordby, RAM, Land EconomyPlucinski, MM, Computational BiologyPotts, JCH, EnglishRogger, DO, Economics & PoliticsRuggeri, AE, International RelationsSmith, MW, EngineeringSutcliffe, KE, Anglo-Saxon, Norse & CelticWesterman, I D, International RelationsYung, S F, Finance



MSci

Vet MB

Elis-Williams, L NMilligan, CSpiro, S G

LLM

Shen, L

Appleton, S DArnold, H MBarbanneau, L D LBasharat, M

Coad, E-RDerry, B LJanecek, MNeogi, V J

Norman, A CPetty, C HSmidman, MStrandkvist, C

Taylor, M R GWeller, O MYoung, C A




D. THE PEMBROKE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY



MEMBERS’ NEWS

1942 Neville Goldrein’s autobiography Life Is Too Serious To Be Taken Seriouslywaspublished by AuthorHouse.

1944 Timothy Dudley-Smith had two books published Praise to the Name: 36 NewHymnsWritten Between2005–2008 (OxfordUniversity Press, 2009) andAbove EveryName: Thirty Contemporary Hymns in Praise of Christ (Canterbury Press, 2009).

1945 Graham Clarke had an article entitled ‘Gravitational mass centres’published in volume 61 of the Astronomical Society of Edinburgh Journal(2009).

1946 Victor De Waal’s book Augustine Baker: Frontiers of the Spirit was publishedby the SLG Press.

1947 Laurence Lerner’s book Reading Women’s Poetry was published by SussexAcademic Press.

1948 Tom Sharpe’s novel The Gropes was published by Arrow Books.Brian Spalding was awarded the 2009 Global Energy InternationalAward, and the 2010 Benjamin Franklin Medal in MechanicalEngineering.

1949 Brian Earnshaw’s book Cafavy Gone Gothic was published by the RedcliffePress.Ian Grant-Whyte’s book A Dyslexic Doc’s Memoirs was published by ZamaPublishing LLC.

1951 Henry Stapleton was awarded the MBE for services to the Church ofEngland.

1953 Michael Wetherfield has had an article entitled ‘Personal recollections ofprogramming DEUCE in the late 1950s’ accepted for publication in TheComputer Journal.

1954 David Elms was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit.1955 Michael Faraday’s book The Bristol and Gloucestershire Lay Subsidy of

1523–1527 was published by Bristol and Gloucestershire ArchaeologicalSociety.Keith Middlemas’ book Kinship and Survival: The Middlemas Name Through600 Years was published by The Grimsay Press.

1956 Michael Counsell’s book The Canterbury Preacher’s Companion 2010 waspublished by Canterbury Press.Mark Roberts and Rosemary Roberts’ book, Zillah’s Village: A Family’sRecord of War and Peace in Rural Essex was published by them in 2009.

1957 Peter Beale’s translation of Martin Bauer’s Concerning the True Care of Soulswas published by Banner of Truth Trust.Guy Ottewell had two books published by Universal Workshop:Astronomical Calendar 2010 and Berenice’s Hair.

1958 Bernard Adams had two books that he translated published: JenoHeltai’s Jaguar: A Novel (Corvina, 2009), and Visegrad Drama III: The Sixties(Arts & Theatre Institute, 2009).A festchrift in honour of Martin Biddle and his wife was published:Intersections: The Archaeology and History of Christianity in England 400–1200:



Papers in Honour of Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjolbye-Biddle, edited by MartinHenig and Nigel Ramsay (Archaeopress, 2010).Jeremy Lawrence’s account of his early life in South Africa, Asides andIndiscretions, was published by Gryphon Press.Andrew Parkin had two books published: Star of a Hundred Years: AScenariode for Sir Run Run Shaw (A.R.A.W.LII, 2009), and ‘At the Hawk’s Well’and ‘The Cat and the Moon’: Manuscript Materials by W.B. Yeats (Cornell UP,2009).Four classic works were republished by Wordsworth Editions Ltd withintroductions by Cedric Watts: William Shakespeare, A Winter’s Tale (alsoedited, and with notes, by CW) (2005); Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy(2009), The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, trans. by Edward Fitzgerald(2009); Rudyard Kipling, The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories(2009).John Woulds was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for the County ofCheshire.

1959 YorickWilks recently obtained a number of different awards for his workon computational linguistics: a Lifetime Achievement Award from theAssociation of Computational Linguistics, Columbus, Ohio in 2008; the2008 Antonio Zampolli Prize from the European Language ResourcesAssociation; and the 2009 Lovelace Medal from the British ComputerSociety. He was also elected Fellow of the Association for ComputingMachinery in 2009. Two books by Yorick Wilks were published in 2009:Machine Translation: Its Scope and Limits (Springer); and (with ChristopherBrewster) Natural Language Processing as the Foundation of the Semantic Web(Now Publishers).

1960 Peter Cogman edited a Penguin Classics edition of Jules Verne’s Journeyto the Centre of the Earth (trans. Frank Wynne).Peter Riley’s collection of prose poems, Greek Passages, was published byShearsman Books.

1961 Jonathan Lynn’s Yes Minister Miscellany (co-authored with Antony Jay) waspublished by Biteback.JohnNicholaswas the joint winner of the 2009 Denys Fletcher Award forhis achievement in researching, writing and publishing his three volumehistory of the London and South West Railway line from Basingstoke toExeter. The third volume, Main Line to the West: The Southern Railway RouteBetween Basingstoke and Exeter was published by Irwell Press the same year.Christopher Vanier’s book Caribbean Chemistry: Tales from St Kitts waspublished by the Kingston University Press.

1962 Two DVDs starring Eric Idle were released: Not the Messiah (He’s a VeryNaughty Boy) and the Monty Python – 40th Anniversary Boxset.Michael Llewellyn-Smith was made a Life Fellow of the AustralianInstitute of Architects for his contribution to urban design andplanning.

1963 John Cowell published his book on Furriers, Glaziers, Doctors and Others: AHistory of the Preston Jewish Community (2009).



1964 The fifth volume in Clive James’ Unreliable Memoirs, The Blaze of Obscurity:The TV Years, was published by Picador.Alan Lehmann was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his work onbiochemistry.Richard Tames had two books published in 2009: Shakespeare's London onFive Groats a Day (Thames & Hudson) and Isambard Kingdom Brunel(Shire Publications).

1966 John Caroll’s book The Existential Jesus was published by Scribe.Jay Winter’s Shadows of War: A Social History of Silence in the Twentieth Century(co-authored with Ben-Ze’ev Efrat and Ginio Ruth) was published byCambridge University Press.

1967 Geoffrey Howard Samuel had two books published: the second editionof his Tort: Cases and Materials (Sweet & Maxwell, 2008), and (with PierreLegrand) Introduction au common law (La Découverte, 2008).

1968 Alistair Cooke at the Movies, edited by Geoff Brown, was published by AllenLane.Robin Perutz was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his work onmolecular biology.Graham Wynne, the former Chief Executive of the Royal Society for theProtection of Birds, was knighted for services to nature conservation.

1969 The second edition of James Dinnage’s The Constitutional Law of theEuropean Union was published by LexisNexis.Nicholas Garnett’s book, 1954: A Crime Novel was published by Austin &Macauley.John Kellas was awarded the CBE for services to the accountancyprofession.

1971 Iain Goldrein had three books published: Media Access to the Family Courts:A Guide to the New Rules (Family Court, 2009), Ship Sale and Purchase (co-authored with Matt Hannaford and Paul Turner), 5th ed (Informa Law,2008), and Child Case Management Practice (co-authored with The Hon MrJustice Ryder) (Jordan Publishing, 2008).

1972 Gerald Corbett was appointed High Sheriff of Hertfordshire.1973 JohnChamberswas appointed Professor of Clinical Cardiology at King’s

College London.Ronald Hutton’s Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain waspublished by Yale University Press.

1974 Tristram Riley-Smith’s book The Cracked Bell: America and the Afflictions ofLiberty was published by Constable.Raj Thakker became the first non-American to win the Louis V AvioliFounder’s Award from the American Society of Bone and MineralResearch for his work on inherited disorders of bone metabolism. Hewas also awarded an ScD by the University of Cambridge.

1975 Richard Hunter’s book Critical Moments in Classical Literature: Studies in theAncient View of Literature and Its Uses was published by CambridgeUniversity Press. Richard Hunter also co-edited (with Ian Rutherford) acollection of papers, Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Cultures: Travel,



Locality and Pan-Hellenism, also published by the Cambridge UniversityPress.

1976 Simon K Donaldson was (together with Clifford H Taubes) awarded the2009 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences for his many brilliantcontributions to geometry in three and four dimensions.

1978 Adam Jacot de Boinod’s book The Wonder of Whiffling: and Other ExtraordinaryWords in the English Languagewas published by Particular Books.Martin Rowson had two books published in 2009: Giving Offence (ChicagoUniversity Press) and F*ck: The History of the World in 65 Unfortunate Incidents(Universe).

1979 Patrick Derham co-edited (with Michael Worton) a book of essays,Liberating Learning: Widening Participation (University of BuckinghamPress, 2010), on the state of contemporary secondary education. Thecontributors to the book include AC Grayling, Niall Ferguson, SimonBlackburn and Stuart Rose.

1980 Ian Thomson’s The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica was published byFaber and Faber.

1981 MarcusDaniel’s book Scandal and Civility: Journalism and the Birth of AmericanDemocracy was published by the Oxford University Press.

1982 AndrewBolton co-edited (with Ian Kawaley and RobinMayor) a book onCross-Border Judicial Co-operation in Offshore Litigation (Wildy, Simmonds andHill Publishing, 2009).

1983 Jeremy Hutson has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.Andrew Tremlett has been appointed Canon Residentiary ofWestminster Abbey, Rector of St Margaret’s, Westminster and DeputyChaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons.

1984 Marcus Buckingham’s Find Your Strongest Life: What the Happiest and MostSuccessful Women Do Differently was published by Nelson.A collection of papers edited by Tom Shakespeare (with KristjanaKristiansen and Simo Vemas), Arguing about Disability: PhilosophicalPerspectives, was published by Routledge.

1985 Colin Clifford was made a Professor of Experimental Psychology at theUniversity of Sydney.SovaidaMa’Ani Ewing’s book Collective Security Within Reachwas publishedby George Ronald.Rebecca Lingwood was appointed the Director of the Institute ofContinuing Education at the University of Cambridge.

1986 Eileen Kanerwas appointed by the government to an ambassador role topromote diversity in public appointments.

1987 Helen Small was given the 2008 Truman Capote Award for LiteraryCriticism for her book The Long Life (Oxford University Press, 2007).

1988 Nazir Razak was given FinanceAsia’s 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award.1991 Allan Herbison was given the 2009 Liley Medal by the New Zealand

Health Research Council for his outstanding contribution to the healthand medical sciences.



Mark Williams was appointed Vicar of St John with St James,Kennington, Southwark.

1992 Phil Moore was appointed Senior Pastor of Queens Road Church inWimbledon, London SW19. He also had five books published this yearby Lion Hudson Publishers (Straight to the Heart of Matthew; Straight to theHeart of Acts; Straight to the Heart of Revelation; Straight to the Heart of Genesis; andStraight to the Heart of 1&2 Corinthians) as part of a projected 25 book series.

1994 Holger Hoock’s book Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War and the Arts inthe British World, 1750–1850 was published by Profile Books.

1995 Tom Atwood was named the Photographer of the Year 2009 at theWorldwide Photography Gala Awards held in London in 2010. He alsowon first prize in the Portraiture section, chosen from over 3,000 entriesfrom about 50 countries. He also won first prize in the Portraituresection of the Prix de La Photographie Paris competition, chosen fromthousands of entries from 85 countries.Robin Havers was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.Kona McPhee’s collection of poems Perfect Blue was published byBloodaxe Books.

1996 Madsen Pirie had three books published: Freedom 101 (Adam SmithInstitute, 2008), Zero Base Policy (Adam Smith Institute, 2009), and 101Great Philosophers: Makers of Modern Thought (Continuum, 2009). He wasalso awarded (with Eamonn Butler) the 2010 National Free EnterpriseAward by the Institute of Economic Affairs for developing andpromoting free-market ideas.

1998 Elton Barker’s book Entering the Agon: Dissent and Authority in Homer,Historiography and Tragedy was published by the Oxford University Press.Sam Bleakley’s Surfing Brilliant Corners was published by Alison Hodge.Jack Thornewrote the script of the 2009 film, The Scouting Book for Boys, aswell as co-creating the Channel 4 series, Cast-Offs.

1999 Tom Hiddleston won the 2008 Laurence Olivier Award for BestNewcomer in a Play.Aaron Rosen was appointed the Albert and Rachel Lehmann JuniorResearch Fellow in Jewish History and Culture at St Peter’s College,Oxford and was made an Associate Member of the Faculty of OrientalStudies at Oxford. His book Imagining Jewish Art was published byLegenda.

2000 Mubarak Al-Sabah was honoured as Young Global Leader by the 2009World Economic Forum.

2001 Paul Warde co-edited (with Sverker Sorlin) a book of essays entitledNature’s End: History and the Environment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

2002 The second edition of Alex Robson’s The Path to Pupillage (co-authoredwith Georgina Wolfe) was published by Sweet & Maxwell.

2003 James Hannam’s book God’s Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid theFoundations of Modern Science was published by Icon Books Ltd.Jonny Sweetwas given the Best Newcomer Award at the 2009 EdinburghComedy Awards.



Matthew Wilburn King (formerly Stephen Matthew Wilburn)’s bookPolitical Ecology of Mangroves in Southern Honduras: Emergence and Evolution ofEnvironmental Conflict in the Gulf of Fonseca 1973–2006 was published byVDM Verlag.

2004 Melinda Baldwin has been awarded a Jacobus Fellowship by PrincetonUniversity in recognition of her high scholarly excellence and to supporther in final year of her PhD on ‘Nature and the making of a scientificcommunity 1869–1939.Hannah Bill has been given a Thouron Award to cover the costs of herstudying for an LLM at the University of Pennsylvania.Melanie Lee was awarded the CBE for services to medical science.

2006 Francesco Anesi was awarded a prize in memoriam Ambassador EnricoAugelli (European Fellow at Harvard) for his thesis on the legal, politicaland economic implications of common development policies.Hannah Arnold had a paper (co-authored with Professor Kenneth GLibbrecht from Caltech) on ‘Aerodynamic Stability and the Growth ofTriangular Snow Crystals’ published in The Microscope Journal.Albert Bartok-Partay was appointed the Nevile Fellow for Chemistry (athree year Research Fellowship) at Magdalene College; he will take uphis position on October 1 2010.Margaret Young’s book Trading Fish, Saving Fish: The Interaction betweenRegimes in International Lawwill be published by the Cambridge UniversityPress.

2007 Laura Mckoy was given a Gareth Evans Achievement Award by theNational Association for Gifted Children for her work promoting accessto Cambridge University for underprivileged students.Tony Wilkinson was given a DLL by the University of Nottingham.

2008 Annie Katchinska’s collection of poetry, Faber New Poets 6, was publishedby Faber.

2009 Peter Hatfield was made the 2009 UK Young Scientist of the Year.



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY

AGENDA FOR THE 2010 AGMThursday 25 November; The Drapers’ Hall, London; drinks at 7 pm, dinner at7.30 pmNominations for 2010–2011President: R GMacfarlaneVice-Presidents: J G P Crowden, Lord Prior, Sir Roger Tomkys, H P RaingoldChairman of Committee: J A WilsonSecretary:MRMellorTreasurer: C J BlencoweEditor of Gazette:N J McBrideSecretary of London Dinner: A S IvisonSecretary of Scottish Dinner: RM B BrownSecretary of South Western Dinner: R H JarrattSecretary of Northern Dinner: D R SneathCommittee to 2011: P G Bird, W J Van Oosterom, J J Farrell, M R Berry, G R ILlewellyn-SmithCommittee to 2012: J H Jones, C G Toomer, N A Cadwallader, H M Redding, A CHenning, T M FunnellCommittee to 2013:G Courtauld, C M C Crawford, N P McNelly, R R Schomberg,O K R Hoggard, C S Stevenson

MINUTES OF THE 2009 AGMThe Annual General Meeting of the Society was held at the Drapers’ Hall,London on Thursday 26 November, 2009. The following were elected Officersof the Society for 2009–2010:President: J S BellVice-Presidents: J G P Crowden, Sir Roger Tomkys, Lord Prior, H P RaingoldChairman of Committee: J A WilsonSecretary:MRMellorTreasurer: C J BlencoweEditor of Gazette: J DoughertySecretary of London Dinner: A S IvisonSecretary of Scottish Dinner: RM B BrownSecretary of South Western Dinner: R H JarrattSecretary of Northern Dinner: D R SneathCommittee to 2010: F C F Delouche, N T Dummett, H L Allan, D J Hitchcock, N KSimon, A D N RobsonCommittee to 2011: P G Bird, W J Van Oosterom, J J Farrell, M R Berry, G R ILlewellyn-SmithCommittee to 2012: J H Jones, C G Toomer, N A Cadwallader, H M Redding, A CHenning, T M Funnell



DINNERS AND RECEPTIONS

Pembroke College Cambridge Society London Dinner

The 83rd annual dinner of the Society was held in the Drapers’ Hall on Thursday26 November 2009. The toast to the College was proposed by Mr Bobby King(1949), President of the PCCS, and ProfessorMike Payne, Professor of Physics andFellow of the College, gave the response.

PRESENT

The Master1946 Mr MI Gee1948 Mr JGP Crowden

CVO KStJ JP1949 Mr RH King1950 Mr JNN Boston

Mr JW Bushby JPMr PC FloryHis Hon Judge NTHague QC

1951 Mr RM Atterton TDMr RHMalthouseMr KAC PattesonDr MJS Scorer

1953 Mr ID Crane1955 Sir Michael Bett CBE

Mr GJ CurtisMr GS Pink

1956 Mr RAC BerkeleyOBE

1959 Mr RJ JonesMr MG KuczynskiMr GK Toland

1960 Mr C Barham CarterMr RJ GladmanMr GAB Knapton

1961 Mr PG BirdMr JAH ChadwickDr WB GrahamMr RH JarrattThe Rt Hon Sir AlanWard Kt PC

Mr CDDWoon1964 Dr JCD Hickson

Mr DA Streatfeild1965 Mr MJ Davies1967 Mr TED Eddy CBE

Dr PRMessent

Mr EP Orr1970 Mr HL Allan

Mr DAWalter19711973 MrWCMDastur

Mr DE DicksonMr DM EdwardsMr MA Smyth

1974 Mr CA Haddon-Cave QC

1975 Mr PR PentecostMr C ComninosMr J RepardMr M RogersonMr SJ Shotton

1976 Mr NPMcNelly1977 Mr D Brigden TD

Mr NA CadwalladerMr NGHMannsFRICS

1978 Mr JAWilsonMr CR Abel SmithMr DGMilneProfessor MC PayneFRS

1979 Mr JP FloryMr CDMorrish

1980 Mr A BatemanMr NMHeilpernMr AH JonesMr PB Kempe

1981 Dr AJ BishopDr P CampbellMr DMHollandMr DR KanerMr SE LuggMr AJ Scheach

1982 Mr AC GamesMr MGordonMr JA HodesMr DA SandbrookDr PJ Jenkins

1983 Dr AGMiller19841985 Dr J S Richardson

Dr SV Griffin1986 Dr JA Yates1987 Mr CH Bush

Mr JI ChealMr CD Foulkes

1990 Mr NA PinkMrs TH GilchristMr RWIWilkinson

1991 Mr TF Pick1992 Dr DTS James

FRHistS1993 Mrs SL Kennedy1994 Mr HP Raingold1997 Mr NJ McBride1999 Mrs TS Brown2000 Dr PMMcCormack

Mr RM BoyntonMr E BreffitMrs GEM KimbleFZS

Dr GMakaronidisMr AWMorrisARAM

Miss G RabindraDr EA SimmMrM Young

2001 Mr B AhiskaMiss CM BoyleMr AM BradleyMr RJK Clark



The 84th annual dinner of the Society will be held at the Drapers’ Hall on theevening of Thursday 25 November 2010. The Toast to the College will beproposed by Mr Oliver Heald (1973), and the response will be given by ProfessorJohn Bell, President of the PCCS and Fellow of the College.

Scottish Dinner

The 59th Annual Dinner in Scotland was held at the New Club, Edinburgh, onFriday 6 November 2009. The College Representative was Professor HowardErskine-Hill, Emeritus Fellow of the College and Professor of Literary History.

Dr K CoatesUlrichsen

Mr JM FreemanMiss HE GawMr KMannMr MSWilliamsMiss VA SkinnerMiss EA SmithMr NRWilson

2002 Miss SN BarnettMs VP JagadeshamMr ADN Robson

2003 Mr RG AlexanderMiss IJD ArthurMrWEJ BakewellMr DP ChambersMr OJ ClarkeMr T CoatesUlrichsen

Miss H D FalveyMr PWGateMr EG HighcockMr BAJ IrvingMiss JA JohnsonMiss K LangeMr GRI Llewellyn-Smith

Mr JP LovatMiss JE MacdonaldMr JWMacdonaldMiss FL MacphersonMs EV MaslennikovaDr RCMatthews

Miss AJ McCreedyMs E McPhersonMiss HJ MillardMiss SHMurphyMiss JR ScottMr AM ScrivenMiss ECN SharplesMr RJ SwanMs SM VernonDr FMWilliamsMr IS WilsonMr MWoodwardMiss RHWykes

2004 Mr DA BeckettMiss SE BennettMiss HGA BillMr RCD BlevinsMiss MC BurroughMrWJ DeaconMr TM FunnellMiss HL JaconelliMiss CN KissinMiss JO KnowlesMr J MayneMiss RP MillerMiss C MossMiss KE MurphyMiss SJ NelsonMiss JN O’DonnellMr SC PicotMr JRH ShawStewart

Mr AJ Smith

Mr JP SturgeonMiss VL ThompsonMiss KJ Woolcock

2005 Miss JLR BaumMiss JH BirdMr CJ BlencoweMiss AC BucklandMiss AC FinchMr NO HardingMiss KS NewburyMiss T PatelMiss NV ShahMr DJ WellsMiss SVWhitehouse

2006 Dr JTD GardomMr I GhoshMr DPDMacCrannMr MRMellorMiss HM RickmanMr JM SengendoMiss RSWalden

2007 Mr SM AdamsMr RJF JonesMr KW LawsonMiss HF MackeyMiss NAMajquwanaMr AJ MarchMiss AMNewell-Hanson

Miss ER Tyler

Mr WF CharnleyDr ESWadge



PRESENT

Robbie Brown (1989) has arranged to hold the 60th Annual Dinner in Scotland atthe New Club on Friday 12 November 2010. The College Representative will beProfessor Jan Maciejowski, President of the College and Professor of ControlEngineering.

South Western Dinner

The ninth annual South Western Dinner was held in the Clifton Club, Bristol onFriday 6 November 2009. The College Representative was Mr Colin Wilcockson,Emeritus Fellow of the College and Director of Studies in English (1974–1999).

PRESENT

Richard Jarratt (1961) has arranged to hold the 10th annual SouthWestern Dinnerat the Clifton Club on the evening of Friday 19 November 2010. The CollegeRepresentative will be Sir Richard Dearlove KCMGOBE, Master of the College.

Northern Dinner

This year’s NorthernDinner was held at the Leeds Club, 3 Albion Place, Leeds, onFriday 19 March 2010, and was hosted by David Sneath (1966). The CollegeRepresentative was Sir Richard Dearlove KCMGOBE, Master of the College.

1957 Professor Sir JohnKingman FRS

1961 Mr PG BirdMr NT DummettMr RH Jarratt

1966 Mr NA Rogers

Mr CG Toomer1971 Mr FGDMontagu1972 Mr JW Lumley1973 Mr MA Vye

Mr CGWilcockson1986 Mrs J Cholmondeley

Ms PJ HunterMr NL JamesMrs RS James

1999 Dr A JonesDr JRG Jones

2006 Mr MRMellor

The MasterLady Dearlove

1945 Mr PB MackenzieRoss

1948 The Revd AWMacdonnell

1949 Professor JH KnoxFRS FRSE

1950 Mr AH Trevor1957 Professor JAA

Hunter OBE1959 Professor S

Crampin

Mr HA Crichton-Miller

1961 Mr PL DixProfessor HR Kirby

1962 Mr JA Fell1963 Dr IM Cassells

Sir Garth MorrisonKt CBE

1965 Mr NM Bachop1967 Dr HB Carrick1970 Mr HL Allan

Prof RH Roberts1971 Mr RNS Grandison

1978 Mr DE Knox1979 Mr JWSMacfie1980 Prof HH Erskine-

Hill FBA1981 Dr IMMcClure1984 Mr AJ Clarkson1987 Mr SJ Nieminski1988 Mr A Kennedy

Professor AJ McNeilProf JLW Schaper

1989 Mr RMB BrownMrs CL Butler

2006 Mr CA YoungDr ESWadge



PRESENT

It is intended the next Northern dinner will be held inManchester in Spring 2011.If you would like to record your interest or recommend a venue please contactDavid Franks in the Development Office ([email protected]).

Singapore Dinner

The eighth Singapore Dinner was held at the Tanglin Club, Singapore, on 21 May2010. Professor Jan Maciejowski was the College Representative, and gave theassembled guests the latest news from Pembroke and a summary of a project todesign a robotic unicycle. Over coffee, Professor AC Palmer (1958) gave a verythought-provoking talk about Singapore’s nuclear power options from atechnical point of view, including the option of putting a plant in a deepexcavation underneath the land-scarce island. Questions, wine and a lot morespeculation flowed well into the night.

PRESENT

Cape Town Reception

This reception was hosted by Mr Jeremy Lawrence on 28 November 2009.

PRESENT

1936 Mr J A C Drew1943 Mr R K Hutton and Mrs Hutton

1964 Prof AC Palmer FRSMrs JR Palmer

1969 Mr JGC GeeMrs DR Gee

Mr IMWhiteMrs DWhite

1980 Mr JP Snoad1981 Mr BD Clarke

Mrs FYT Clarke1983 Mr CJW Trower1985 Dr HM Cheah1994 MrWL Kee

The Master1952 Dr D Blackburn1955 Mr DJ Figures1957 Prof DK Ross &

Mrs J Ross1958 Prof G Parry FSA1962 Mr GA Lammie &

Mrs J Lammie1963 Mr FD Lee1964 Mr PD Ogden1964 Mr DL Hingston &

Mrs S Hingston1965 Mr JF Winteler

1966 Mr JVP Drury &Mrs C Drury

1966 Mr DA Salter &Mrs AR SalterMr D Sneath TD DL&Mrs C Sneath

1967 Mr GPWilson &Mrs F Wilson

1968 His Hon Judge APLWoolman

1974 Mr PR Pentecost1977 Mr PCWhite1978 Revd Father JC

Finnemore OGS1981 Mr DR Oxland

Mr MA Reay1983 Dr A Verma &

Dr SN Verma1991 Mr GJ McBride &

Mrs HMcBride2003 Miss FM Barker &

Dr IAG Cameron2006 Mr EA Burgess

Dr ESWadge



1951 Mr J L Dixon1958 Mr J Lawrence1991 MrW K B Frater

Also present were Princess Charlotte of Liechtenstein, Mrs PKFV van der Byl(widow of PKFV van der Byl (1946)), Mrs KJM Frater (widow of KJM Frater (1953))and Mrs WDMolteno (widow of WDMolteno (1955)).



LOCAL CONTACTS

Australia

MrM J Llewellyn-Smith (1962)27 Kate Court, Adelaide SA 5000

Mr ME Bartlett (1981)4A Haverbrack Avenue, Malvern VIC3144

Canada

Mr JA McMyn (1959)151 Rose Park DriveToronto ONM4T 1R6

China

Mr TDP Kirkwood (1987)Kirkwood & Sons LLC3610 Capital MansionsNo 6 Xin Yuan Road SouthChaoyang DistrictBeijing 100004+86 1380 1358 [email protected]

Hong Kong

The Hon Peter Wong GBS OBE (1962)Flat 1D Ewan Court54 Kennedy Road

Japan

Mr TP Itoh (1966)Japan Venture PartnersKioichoWITH Bldg 4F3–32 Kioicho Chiyoda-kuTokyo 102-0094

Mr JA Sunley (1973)Ashton Consulting Ltd8F Landic Toranomon Building No 2Toranomon 3-7-8Minato-kuTokyo 105-0001

Singapore

Mr BD Clarke (1981)Raffles CityPO Box 1456Singapore 911749

USA

Mr DWHMcCowen (1957)Beaver Lodge5520 Gardner RoadMetamora MI 48455

Mr GF Leckie (1978)990 Edgewood AvenuePelhamManorNew York NY 10803-2902

UK

Mr AS Ivison (1974)CMS Cameron McKennaMitre House160 Aldersgate StreetLondon EC1A 4DD

Mr RH Jarratt (1961)9 Carnarvon RoadRedlandBristol BS6 7DR

Mr DR Sneath TD DL (1966)7 Kirkby RoadRavensheadNottingham NG15 [email protected]

Mr RMB Brown (1989)The Coach HouseD’ArcyNr DalkeithMidlothian EH22 5TH



RULES OF THE SOCIETY

1. The Society shall be composed of past and present Members ofPembroke College, Cambridge, and shall be called the ‘PEMBROKECOLLEGE CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY’.

2. The objects of the Society shall be:(a) To promote closer relationship among Pembroke Graduates, andbetween them and the College.(b) To compile an Address Book of past and present Members of theCollege, to publish an Annual Gazette, and to issue these free to allMembers of the Society.(c) To make grants to the College.

3. The subscription for Life Membership of the Society shall be decidedfrom time to time by the Committee.*

4. The Officers of the Society shall be a President, one or more Vice-Presidents, a Chairman of Committee, a Treasurer, a Secretary (whoshall be a resident Fellow of the College), a Dinner Secretary, an Editorof the Gazette, and such local Secretaries as may be desirable.The Officers shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting and shallhold office for one year. Nominations, with the names of the Proposerand Seconder, shall be sent to the Secretary six weeks before theAnnual General Meeting. The retiring President shall not be eligible forre-election for a period of three years after his retirement.

5. The Management of the Society shall be entrusted to a Committeeconsisting of the following Officers, namely the Chairman ofCommittee, the Treasurer, the Secretary, the Secretary for London, theDinner Secretary, the Editor of the Gazette and not less than twelve otherMembers of the Society to be elected annually. Nominations for theCommittee, with the names of Proposer and Seconder, shall be sent tothe Secretary six weeks before the Annual General Meeting. Of theelected members of the Committee, six shall retire annually by rotationaccording to priority of election, and their places shall be filled at theAnnual General Meeting; a retiring member shall be eligible for re-election after a period of one year from his retirement. The Committeeshall have power to co-opt additional members for a period of one year.

6. The Capital Fund of the Society shall be vested in the Master, Fellowsand Scholars of the College, who may administer this Fund both as tocapital and income as they in their discretion may think fit, providedalways that it be primarily applied to making contributions to the fundsof the Society.



7. The income and expenditure of the Society shall be administered by theCommittee through its Secretary.The Committee may at their discretion add to the Capital Fund vestedin the College, but shall have no power to require withdrawal from thisFund.

8. The Committee shall meet at least twice in every year. At all meetings ofthe Committee seven shall form a quorum.

9. The Committee shall arrange an Annual Dinner or other SocialMeetings of the Society in London.

10. The Annual General Meeting of the Society shall be held on the dayfixed for the Annual Dinner or other Social Meeting. The Secretaryshall send out notices of the Meeting at least one month before it takesplace.

11. The Committee in their discretion may, and upon a written requestsigned by twenty-four Members of the Society shall, call a SpecialGeneral Meeting. Fourteen days’ notice of such a Meeting shall begiven and the object for which it is called stated in the notice.

12. No alteration shall be made in the Rules of the Society except at aGeneral Meeting and by a majority of two-thirds of those present andvoting, and any proposed alteration shall be stated on the notice callingthe Meeting.

*The Committee decided (10 December 1982) that, for the time being, the LifeMembership subscription shall be nil. This decision was made possible by anoffer from the College of an annual subvention from the Bethune-Baker Fundwhich, it was hoped, would provide a sufficient supplement to the Society’sincome to enable expenses to be met, particularly the expenses of printing andpostage of the Annual Gazette.



PRESIDENTS OF THE SOCIETY

1924 J.F.P. Rawlinson1925 E.G. Browne1926 G.R. Eden1927 L. Whibley1928 F. Shewell Cooper1929 A. Hutchinson1930 F.S. Preston1931 E.H. Minns1932 J.B. Atkins1933 H.G. Comber1934 E.H. Pooley1935 J.C. Lawson1936 J.E. Singleton1937 J.K. Mozley1938 M.S.D. Butler1939 J.C.C. Davidson1946 S.C. Roberts1947 R.A. Butler1948 M.S.D. Butler1949 J.W.F. Beaumont1950 J.T. Spittle1951 P.J. Dixon1952 H.E. Wynn1953 W.W. Wakefield1954 V.C. Pennell1955 E.H. Pooley1956 B.E. King1957 H. Grose-Hodge1958 S.C. Roberts1959 H.F. Guggenheim1960 W.V.D. Hodge1961 C.B. Salmon1962 A.J. Arberry1963 A.G. Grantham1964 B. Willey1965 G.W. Pickering1966 M.B. Dewey1967 J.M. Key1968 W.A. Camps1969 D.G.A. Lowe1970 W.S. Hutton

1971 R.G. Edwardes Jones1972 T.G.S. Combe1973 H.F.G. Jones1974 G.C. Smith1975 A.E.C. Drake1976 J. Campbell1977 J.G. Ward1978 D.R. Denman1979 W.L. Gorell Barnes1980 M.C. Lyons1981 D.A.S. Cairns1982 M.V. Posner1983 P.R.E. Browne1984 Lord Adrian1985 J.G.P. Crowden1986 L.P. Johnson1987 Lord Prior1988 J. Baddiley1989 T.J. Brooke-Taylor1990 J.C.D. Hickson1991 P.J.D. Langrishe1992 J.R. Waldram1993 G.D.S. MacLellan1994 S. Kenderdine1995 Sir Peter Scott1996 A.V. Grimstone1997 The Rt. Hon. Lord Taylor1998 The Master1999 Sir John Chilcot2000 C. Gilbraith2001 J.K. Shepherd2002 B. Watchorn2003 R.H. Malthouse2004 M.G. Kuczynski2005 Sir Patrick Elias2006 Sir John Kingman2007 Ms V Bowman2008 M.G. Kuczynski2009 R.H. King2010 J.S. Bell2011 R.G. Macfarlane



E. DEATHS AND OBITUARIES



LIST OF DEATHS

The College notes with regret the deaths of the following members

1926 Eustace Neville Fox (28 February 2008; Fellow, Trinity College,Cambridge)

1927 Roger Nathaniel Frankland (date unknown)John Massingberd-Mundy (1 January 2008)

1929 Edgar Stewart Fay (14 November 2009; see obituary p 153)Harold Kirk Hughes (date unknown; BA Law)

1931 Clifford Bertram Bruce Heathcote-Smith (31 August 2003; BA Modern &Medieval Languages/History; Deputy High Commissioner, Madras; CBE)

1932 Hugh Pochin Dinwiddy (October 31 2009; see obituary p 155)William Roland Lawson (7 September 2003; BA Natural Sciences)Roy Alexander Leeming (date unknown)Harry Crispin Smith (20 March 2007; BA History)

1933 Richard Dumbreck (date unknown; BA English/Arch&Anth)1934 Fergus Lee Dempster (October 1996; BA Modern & Medieval

Languages; senior officer in Secret Intelligence Service)1935 Edgar Williams Makin (29 January 2010; BA Modern & Medieval

Languages)1936 Cecil Norman Christopher Addison (16 October 2009; see obituary p 144)

George Lenart (date unknown; BA Economics)1937 Philip James Glaessner (27 June 2009; see obituary p 154)

Robert BarnhamHarvey (date unknown; BA Mathematics; Lecturer inMathematics, University of Bath 1967–1982)James Haylock Ware (date unknown; BA Law)

1938 Hugh Remington Barker (10 December 2009; BA Theology; HonoraryCanon, Ely Cathedral)Godfrey William Alexander Keir (21 July 2009; BA Estate Management)

1939 Norman Granville Langford (10 November 2009; see obituary p 157)1940 William Renwick Juckes (November 2006; BA Natural Sciences)

John Alexander Orr-Ewing (date unknown)1941 Richard Warburton Gaskell (7 April 2009)1942 Edward GrahamWhittington Bush (29 November 2009; see obituary

p 148)John Kennedy Campbell (5 September 2009; see obituary p 149)

1943 Nigel Gregory (8 February 2008; BA Mechanical Sciences)1944 Philip Harben Crosskey (12 July 2009; see obituary p 150)

Thomas Ewen McQueen Douglas (16 September 2009; BA MechanicalSciences)Michael Frederick Down (20 December 2009)David John Male (10 June 2009; see obituary p 160)

1945 George Edward Gadd (13 March 2010; BA Mechanical Sciences)Gerard Michael Lambert (8 February 2008; BA History; Bank ofEngland 1948–1979)



1947 Charles Colin Campbell (26 December 2008; BA Mechanical Sciences)James Chester Cheng (date unknown; PhD, Anglo-Chinese DiplomaticRelations; Professor of History, San Francisco University)Chike Obi (13 March 2008; see obituary p 162)John Alexander Plumptre (date unknown; BA Classics; priest)

1948 John Challis Stewart Connell (date unknown; BA Law)Brian George Willard Cramp (date unknown; BA Theology)Ian George Freegard (10 November 2009; BA English)Ivan Radziwill Macleod Prinsep (date unknown; BA History)Paul Edwin Sangster (5 February 2010; BA English; writer, teacher andchaplain)Derek James Warbrick (19 October 2009; see obituary p 166)

1949 Mark Adayre Bence-Jones (12 April 2010; see obituary p 146)John Hugh Geoffrey Bright-Holmes (date unknown; see obituary p 147)Walter Davies (2 September 2009; BA Mechanical Sciences)Geoffrey Dearnaley (5 May 2009; see obituary p 151)David Travers Worsley Gibson (November 2009; BA MechanicalSciences; MBE)Fred Hind (date unknown)Basil Joseph Pontifex Woods (March 2010; BA Economics)

1950 Gerard Brian Dickinson (date unknown)Hugh Richard Carey Maltby (September 2009; BA Mechanical Sciences)Michael Colston Stanley (28 October 2009; BAMathematics/Mechanical Sciences)

1951 John Patrick Kenyon Asquith (10 September 2009; see obituary p 145)Philip Neville Awdry (May 1 2010; BA Medicine; Clinical Lecturer,Oxford University 1968–1993)William Alastair Buchanan Smellie (March 24 2010; BA NaturalSciences; Lecturer in Surgery, University of Cambridge)

1952 Philip Sheldon Hutchinson (31 October 2008; BA History/Theology)1953 Charles Andrew Ryskamp (26 March 2010; see obituary p 165)1954 Michael John Atkins (21 February 2009; BA Natural Sciences)1955 Gary Gerard Haydn Davies (5 April 2010; BA Law)1956 Thomas Donald Allan (18 March 2010; see obituary p 144)

Reginald Mark Glazebrook (3 November 2009; see obituary p 155)1959 Brian Carey Goodwin (15 July 2009; see obituary p 156)

Antony John Frederick Wheeler (10 March 2010; BA Modern & MedievalLanguages/Oriental Studies)

1960 Peter Alan Lindenbaum (20 January 2010; see obituary p 158)Francis Irenaeus McCarthy (31 December 2009; see obituary p 161)

1961 David Benyon Griffiths (November 2009; BA Mechanical Sciences)1964 James Roderick Campbell Morton (16 December 2009; see obituary

p 162)1967 Paul Anthony Taylor (date unknown; BA Modern & Medieval

Languages/Arch&Anth/Social & Political Sciences)Robin Little (29 June 2009; see obituary p 159)



1970 Alan William Ryder (16 September 2009; BA Natural Sciences/ChemicalEngineering)

1977 Rupert John Anderson (30 July 2009; BA Law; QC, MoncktonChambers)

1981 Charles Michael Foster Taylor (26 December 2009; BA English)1992 Timothy James Milward (date unknown; BA Mathematics)1993 David Glyndwr Tudor Williams (6 September 2009; Fellow, Emmanuel

College, Cambridge; Honorary Fellow, Pembroke; Rouse Ball Professorof Public Law)

2000 Emile Perreau-Saussine (23 February 2010; see obituary p 163)

This Gazette also carries the obituaries of the following members, whose deathswere recorded in the previous Gazette:Jack Dainty (1937): see p 150



OBITUARIES

Norman AddisonApril 1 1918 – October 16 2009

Norman Addison was a distinguished educator –teaching at Eton for 31 years – and rowing coach whoregularly came back to Pembroke for 20 years to coachits rowing crews.Norman first came to Pembroke as an undergraduate

in 1936, to study Mathematics. He became Boat ClubCaptain in 1938 and obtained his BA in 1939. He was amember of the Cambridge crew that won the 1939 Boat Race – the photo on theright was taken just before the race. After graduating, Norman spent the wartimeyears working in the Colonial Service in Africa, marrying Margaret Lawson in1941, with whom he had twin sons. The marriage was shortlived and did notsurvive the end of the war. In 1945, Norman returned to the UK and became aschoolmaster at Ardingly in West Sussex. He married Norah Butler and they hadtwo daughters.In 1951, Norman arrived at Eton as a maths teacher. He started coaching the

Eton Third VIII and soon proved his prowess as a rowing coach: the headmasterhad to inform him that there was ‘a problem on the river. The third VIII areconsistently beating the second.’ Norman coached the Eton rowing crews for12 years, but gave the position upwhenhewas appointed as a housemaster at Etonin 1962, a role which he performed for 17 years, with outstanding success. Henever had to raise his voice to his boys, and always encouraged them in theirinterests – going so far as to readbooks theywere enjoying sohe could talk to themabout them. But Norman did not entirely give up coaching rowing. From 1971 to1991, he regularly coached the Pembroke crews for the Cambridge May bumps.On his retirement in 1982, Norman and his wife moved to Devon, where he

spent his time coaching maths, fishing, and learning to windsurf. He also servedas a bell ringer and treasurer at his local church.

Thomas AllanJanuary 17 1931 – March 18 2010

Thomas Allan was a distinguished scientist whoseexpertise in satellite observations of the Earth made himan invaluable consultant to international bodies andnational space programmes. Before he died, he was dueto go to Venice in June 2010 to pick up an award from the‘Oceans from Space’ conference for his contribution tothe field.Thomas was born in Perth, the son of a railway worker and a dressmaker. His

parents constantly encouraged him in his education, and he ended up, obtaining



a BSc from the University of St Andrews in 1953. After spending three years atImperial College London, studying for a Diploma in Geophysics, Thomas cameto Pembroke in 1956 to do a PhD inGeophysics. Having obtained his PhD in 1959– and married Helen Ramsay, a nursing sister, the same year – Thomas made thebig decision to move to Italy to work as a Group Leader in the Oceanographydivision of NATO’s Undersea Research Centre (NURC), in the region of Liguria.Thomas ended up spending 14 years in Italy, acquiring a deep-seated love of thecountry. In 1975, Thomas and his family moved back to England. Thomas wasemployed by the National Environment Research Council (NERC) to assess thepotential contribution to marine research of NASA remote satellite remotesensing programs. In 1988, Thomas stepped down fromNERC and established aconsultancy group, Satellite Observing Systems (SOS), that undertookinvestigations for the EU, the British National Space Centre, UNESCO, and theEuropean Space Agency. Ten years later, Thomas was reluctantly forced to retireafter having been diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. However, while he wasfighting the illness, he still acted as a consultant for space programmes all overthe world, and contributed to debates over global warming.Thomas died of heart failure on March 18, 2010. He is survived by his wife

Helen, daughters Lois, Giulia, Terri and Sylvie, his son Tim (who came toPembroke in 1989 to study Social and Political Sciences), and 11 grandchildren.

John Patrick Kenyon AsquithFebruary 1 1932 – September 10 2009

‘Squith’, as John was known to his friends, went up toPembroke in 1951 from Purley County Grammar School,where he had been Head Boy and a fine all round gamesplayer.At Cambridge, he played rugby and cricket forboth Pembroke and the University and chaired theCollege’s Amalgamated Clubs Committee. As a secondrow forward, he played regularly for Cambridge, touredJapan with them and gained his ‘Blue’ in 1953. As a wicket keeper, he kept inseveral first class matches, including games against the Austalian and Pakistanitouring teams.Johnmet his future wife, Clare Silk, in Cambridge, where she was completing

her nursing training. They married in 1956 and had a son and two daughters.They proved to be a great asset in John’s career as a schoolmaster. Together theyformed a wonderful team.His first appointment after Pembroke was to Bromsgrove to teach French and

rugby, initially at prep, but later at the senior school. Whilst there, he playedregularly for the Moseley rugby club and came close to an England trial. His bigchallenge came in 1964when hewas appointed the first Head of CawstonCollegein Norfolk. This was a new school, set up by the Woodard Foundation, for boyswho were finding it difficult to get into more established schools. John and Clarearrived there to face the daunting task of organising, from scratch, the myriad of



things required to make a boarding school tick. Later, as boys arrived, they faceda caring and understanding environment awaiting them. John was particularlyadept at finding, and bringing out, the best in each boy and was able to instil inthem hope and confidence for the future. There are many who in later life weregrateful for the care and encouragement they had received as boys at Cawston.John retired in 1986 after 33 years’ dedicated service to the school. He had had

severe heart trouble, and both he and Clare suffered from hip and knee problemswhich, sadly, continued into their retirement. They went to Kingston, St Mary, thevillage in Somerset where they had married. They thrived on the quieter pace ofvillage life and entered fully into it. John twice served as churchwarden of StMarys’.Once a year they went to stay with friends and join a group of about 10 or so oldPembroke friends and their wives, to watch the Varsity match at Twickenham andhave dinner afterwards. They also enjoyed visits to old friends, and to Taunton towatch Somerset play cricket. One of John’s great joys in life was an annual crickettour toWorcester. It epitomised all he loved about sport – great fun, good companyand (one hopes) close-fought games. 2008 was to be their last tour and theirGolden Jubilee year. He had been on the first one in 1950 and dearly wanted to bethere for the last, having only missed four tours in 60 years. He finally persuadedhis doctors to agree. At their farewell dinner, he made a 50 minute speech, whichthose present say they will never forget. He came away happy – he hadmade it! Hedied 10 weeks later, at home with his much loved family around him.John had a great sense of humour, and was an entertaining speaker. He never

spoke ill, of anyone, nor did he ever complain about his own health problems. Hewas a ‘giver’ not a ‘taker’. However, perhaps two quotes from the tributes paid tohim at his memorial service sum up his life best. A Pembroke friend, who hadshared digs with him, simply said, ‘He was the nicest person I have ever met.’Hugh Lisson quoted the piece that could have been written specially for him: ‘itmatters notwhowonor lost, but how youplayed the game’. Clare died exactly twomonths after John: as a couple they were inseparable. They will be much missed,but long remembered.

With thanks to John Bushby

Mark Bence-JonesMay 29 1930 – April 12 2010

Mark Bence-Jones was a throwback to another age; anadmirer of the upper classes and devotee of grandhouses, and author of books such as Palaces of the Raj(1973), The British Aristocracy (1979) – co-authored withHughMassingberd – and hismasterpiece, A Guide to IrishCountry Houses (1978).Mark was born in London but grew up in India,

where his father, Colonel Philip Reginald Bence-Jones, was head of theengineering school in Lahore. Plans for Mark to return to England to be educated



there were disrupted by the outbreak ofWorldWar II, and it was only after thewarended that his family moved back to British Isles. Mark’s father bought a largeIrish country house near Cork calledGlenville Park, andMarkwent to Ampleforthto complete his education. In 1949,Mark came to Pembroke and obtained a BA inHistory three years later. He then moved on to study agriculture at the RoyalAgricultural College in Cirencester, and then moved back to Ireland to help runthe family estate. He married Gillian Pretyman in 1965 and thereafter divided histime betweenGlenville Park and hiswife’s larger property in Suffolk. By this time,Mark had already written three novels (All a Nonsense: A Novel (1957), ParadiseEscaped (1958), and Nothing in the City (1965)), but it was to be in the world of non-fiction that Mark wouldmake a lastingmark. Palaces of the Rajwas based on a tourthat Mark undertook of the great imperial residences of India 25 years after theend of British rule. A year later, Mark published Clive of India (1978), whichstripped away some of the myths that had attached themselves to Clive’s name.And then came A Guide to Irish Country Houses – the first volume in a projected seriesof books by a variety of authors on country houses throughout the British Isles.The series came to nothing (only three books on country houses in variousEnglish counties were produced), but such was the quality of Mark’s Guide –covering as many Irish country houses as Mark was aware of, in whatever state ofrepair – that it went through five more editions. The final edition had some 2,000entries, illustrated with an astonishing array of photographs, in many casesgleaned fromold books or family albums. In Twilight of the Ascendancy (1986),Markrevisited the world of the Irish upper classes, exploring its decline after 1870.Mark’s lifestyle was, unsurprisingly, aristocratic in nature. He seemed unaware

of where the kitchenwas at Glenville Park, andwas known to ask, when staying atsomeone else’s house, what time the bell rang to tell guests to dress for dinner.Mark’s pen portrait of a gentleman in The British Aristocracy is rumoured to havebeen based on himself. As a letter writer to the Daily Telegraph, Mark would inveighagainst English country houses falling into the hands ofmillionaire businessman.Mark was a devout Catholic who became Chancellor and later Regent of the

Irish Association of the Order of Malta. Each spring, he would help look after thesick that the Order took on its annual pilgrimage to Lourdes. Mark’s last dayswere spent in Suffolk. He is survived by his wife, a son and two daughters.

John Bright-Holmes1929–2010

John Bright-Holmes was estimated by GeorgeGreenfield, in A Smattering of Monsters, to be ‘one of thethree or four best post-war book editors, a man ofcommanding stature and presence, with a solid off-drive’. The ‘off-drive’ was a reference to John’s abidinglove of cricket, on which he put together twoanthologies, The Joy of Cricket: Portraits of Great Events andPlayers (1985) (acclaimed by one reviewer as ‘possibly the best [cricket] anthology



of them all’) and Lords and Commons: Cricket in Novels and Stories (1988). He alsoworked closely withMalcolmMuggeridge; together they produced Like It Was: TheDiaries of Malcolm Muggeridge (1981).John was educated at Wellington College and went on to read Modern

Languages at Pembroke in 1949, graduating in 1952. His publishing career beganat the Oxford University Press, but it was when he moved to Eyre & Spottiswoodethat he became responsible – first of all, as publicity director, and then asmanaging director – for helping to publish a wide range of books, in both fiction(including works by Bernard Malamud and JP Donleavy) and history (includingRobert Blake’s Disraeli (1967)). John then moved on to become editorial directorat Allen & Unwin. His main focus at Allen & Unwin was on fiction: while there,he was responsible for publishing books by William McIlvanney, Patrick White,Bernice Rubens, Paul Scott and Jessica Mitford. He also edited Corelli Barnett’sBonaparte (1978), and Stephen B Oates’ With Malice Towards None (1977), abiography of Abraham Lincoln.John’s love of cricket led him to editmanyworks froma range of cricketers and

cricket commentators includingMichaelManley, Tony Lewis, Richie Benaud, andTed Dexter. He also played cricket for the Hampshire Hogs, in matches betweenPublishers and Authors, and he captained the Eyre & Spottiswoode Stragglers.Johnwas John Braine’s editor formany years, and Braine’sHow To Write a Novel

(1974) is dedicated to him. Professor Corelli Barnett said of him, ‘John was mypublisher from 1970 to 1991. I remember him as a kindly but shrewd professionalguide, severe on any slack thinking or untidy writing, and yet always supportive.But John was also the jolliest of friends, radiating the bonhomie of an 18thcentury clubman. Publishing is the greyer with his passing.’John’s wife Rina died in 2008. He is survived by his daughter Katherine, who

is now UK managing director of Consortium Book Sales and Distribution Inc,and her son Humphrey, in whom he delighted and whom he taught to playcricket, of course.

Edward BushJune 19 1923 – November 29 2009

Edward was born in Hatton, Ceylon, where his fatherwas a manager of a tea plantation. He came to Englandwhen he was four years old, studied at SherbourneSchool, Dorset until 1939 and then in 1942 completedtwo terms at Pembroke on a Classics Scholarship,passing exams in Latin, Greek, History and AncientLiterature, and French. In 1942, Edward joined the RoyalNavy and spent the war in Sydney, Australia, repairing radar and radio systemsfrom aircraft in combat.After the war, Edward trained as a civil engineer, moving to America in the

1950s and then to Vancouver in 1960, where he worked on various dam projects.In 1963 he married Helen Ackland and they subsequently had a daughter,



Rowena, and a son, David. After retiring in 1985, Edward worked as a consultanton engineering projects in Japan and Korea, while turning his interest in dowsinginto a business. He gavemany lectures and taught courses over the years for boththe American and British Society of Dowsers. Edward’s interest in dowsing ledhim to explore all manner of alternative energies and forms of healing.Edward is survived by his wife and children.

John Kennedy CampbellJanuary 24 1923 – September 5 2009

John Campbell was a pioneering anthropologist whoseprimary focus was on understanding shepherdcommunities in Greece. His classic work,Honour, Familyand Patronage: A Study of Institutions and Moral Values in aGreek Mountain Community (1964), was based on intensivefield work conducted in the 1950s among theSarakatsani – shepherdswho grazed their flocks high upin themountains during the summer and in the valleys inwinter. John’s workwaspathbreaking not only because it was first time someone had studied an ethniccommunity in Greece; it was also one of the first anthropological studies of acommunity in Europe, as opposed to one based in a developing country. John’sfield work was crucially aided by his wife Sheila, who spent time getting to knowthe Sarakatsani women.Educated at King’s College School, Wimbledon, John first came to Pembroke

in 1942 to do a BA in Economics. However, his studies were interrupted by acombination of war service (which took John to Greece, North Africa, Sicily(where he was seriously injured), and the Italian mainland) and a spell oftuberculosis (which meant he had to spend a year in a Swiss sanatorium, wherehe met his future wife Sheila Methven). Returning to Pembroke in 1951, Johnswitched from Economics to study Social Anthropology and obtained his BA inthat subject in 1953. He then switched to Oxford, to do a doctorate in SocialAnthropology. John’s studies took him to Northern Greece in 1954, where hebegan to live alongside the Sarakatsani, arousing suspicion among theauthorities that he was actually a British spy, scouting locations for parachutedrops. At one point, the Greek army forcibly removed John and Sheila from theirbase in themountains among the Sarakatsani, and theywere forced to take refugein the British School at Athens. However, they were eventually allowed to resumetheir work, and John obtained his DPhil in 1957.Back inOxford, John became aResearch Fellow at St Antony’s College in 1958,

Oxford, where he was to stay until 1990, serving as Admissions Tutor, SeniorTutor and Sub-Warden at various times. In 1962, John spent a year in Athens,serving as temporary director of the new Social Sciences Centre. During the year,he got to know Andreas Papandreou, who was at the time director of the Centreof Economic Research in Athens, and would later become Greek prime minister(1981–1989, 1993–1996). John was to draw on this first hand experience of Greek



politics when co-authoring with Philip Sherrard Modern Greece (1968), one of thebest and best-written introductions to Greek history and society,In his time at Oxford, John supervised more than 30 DPhils in Anthropology.

Many of the graduate students he supervised joined John and his family in hishouse in 2008 to celebrate the publication of a festchrift, Networks of Powers inModern Greece (edited by Mark Mazower), in his honour. John was devoted to hisfamily and is survived by his wife Shelia, three daughters, Sarah, Fiona andAlexandra, and six grandchildren.

Philip Harben CrosskeyAugust 3 1926 – July 13 2009

Obituary by Ruth Crosskey

Philip was born in Birmingham, the son of a doctor. Hewas educated at Marlborough College and, hoping tobecome a diplomat, studied classics for the first year of6th form before deciding to switch tomedicine. Comingup to Pembroke in 1944, Philip successfully completed agruelling first year reading Natural Sciences while simultaneously finishing hisHigher School Certificate. He was fond of the Cam and enjoyed coxing the firstboat and occasional sculls.Once qualified, Philip spent his National Service in Egypt and Kenya, returning

to Britain to become a much-loved GP in Bromyard, Herefordshire. He marriedEithneParker andhadadaughter and twosons.Duringhisperiodas seniorpartner,the local geriatric hospital was scheduled for closure. Philip campaigned for andsecured a replacement Community Hospital with sheltered accommodation on thesame site. This was a radical idea at the time, but is nowmuch admired.Philip and Eithne enjoyed a very happy retirement together keeping sheep on

their smallholding. After Eithne died in 1998, Philipmaintained his interest in hisfamily, local history, bridge and sea voyages until his own death last year.

Professor Jack DaintyMay 7 1919 – May 29 2009

Professor Jack Dainty was an outstanding plantbiophysicist whose principal achievementwas to explainthe transport of water and ions across plantmembranes.Jack started his academic life as a physicist, having

initially come to Queens’ College, Cambridge to studyMathematics, but switching to Physics because he feltmathematics was too narrow as a subject. Jackgraduated with a First in Physics in 1940, and spent the war years in Cambridgestudying nuclear fission and teaching physics. InMarch 1945, hewas one of three



people to be awarded a Stokes Studentship by Pembroke. (Another of the threewas Professor Sir Brian Pippard, whose obituary featured in last year’s Gazette.)Jack did not stay long at Pembroke: he left in September 1946 for a position at theCanadianAtomic Energy Laboratories inOntario. By 1949, hewas back in theUK,at the University of Edinburgh. The focus of his work switched from physics tobiology (‘almost by accident’ he said) in the 1950s when Edinburgh promised tomake him head of a department of biophysics. Jack’s initial interest was instudying sodium exchange across nerve membranes of cats. However, he soonrealised that very little was known as to how ions andwatermove across plant cellmembranes, and he embarked on what turned out to be a life-long study of thesubject. Jack’s knowledge of physics helped him make rapid progress inunderstanding the processes of transport across plant membranes, and in the1960s he published two seminal articles on ion and water transport thatemphasised the importance of thermodynamics in understanding the drivingforces governing transport across plant cell membranes.In 1963, Jack moved to the new University of East Anglia as the founding

professor in biophysics in the School of Biological Sciences. In the six years hewas at UAE, he helped establish it as a world centre for plant biophysics. He thenmoved to California, to work first at the Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine andRadiation Biology, and then at the Department of Botany at UCLA. Jack’s finalmove was to the University of Toronto in 1972, where he was chair of theDepartment of Botany for 20 years. Wherever he went, he carried with him areputation as being amodest and generous personwho never sought recognitionfor himself, but was simply interested in advancing knowledge of his subject. Hewas an outstanding head of departmentwho achieved a huge amount through hislow-key approach, his willingness to listen to others, and his keen sense of fairplay. His achievements were recognisedworldwide: hewas elected to the nationalacademies of Canada, Italy, France and Scotland.Jack is survived by his first wife, Mary Elbeck (whom he married in 1941), and

their three sons, Anton, Chis and Patrick (they also had one daughter, Jacquetta,now deceased); and by his second wife, Trish Shea (whom he married in 1968),and their two sons, Jack and Matthew.

With thanks to Jayne Ringrose

Geoffrey DearnaleyJune 22 1930 – May 5 2009

Geoffrey was a Fellow of Pembroke College from1955–1958. He was a distinguished physicist, whospecialised in working on semiconductors and theinteraction of ion beams with materials. Educated atArnold School, Blackpool, in 1947 he was awarded aMinor Scholarship to come to Pembroke in 1947 to do aBA in Natural Sciences. He only came to Pembroke in



1949, having spent the two years in between serving in theRAF.Geoffrey obtainedFirsts in both Parts I and II of the Natural Sciences Tripos, and went on to do aPhD, also at Pembroke, on ‘Scattering and reaction processes in light nuclei’.Having obtained his PhD, he became a Fellow at Pembroke. Three years later, hejoined the Nuclear Physics Division of the Harwell Laboratory, and pioneered thedevelopment of semiconductor radiation detectors (publishing SemiconductorCounters for Nuclear Radiations in 1963), which in turn led to breakthroughs in thestudy of the channeling of ions in crystals. Geoffrey initiated a project on ionimplantation of semiconductors in 1965, and published Ion Implantation in 1973.Having become Chief Scientist of the Surface Engineering Department atHarwell, Geoffrey was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1993. Hethen moved to America, acting as Vice President of the Materials and StructuresDivision at the Southwest Research Institute in Texas. On retirement, Geoffreystayed in the United States, acting as a consultant and investigating whatcontribution A N Whitehead’s ‘process’ philosophy (according to which theuniverse is fundamentallymade up of occasions of experience) couldmake to ourunderstanding of quantummechanics. He died in San Antonio, Texas.

With thanks to Jayne Ringrose

Hugh DinwiddyOctober 16 1912 – October 31 2009

Hugh Dinwiddy was a distinguished educator (awarded the OBE in 1971 for hiseducational work in Uganda) and first class cricketer. He had the distinction atthe time of his death of being the last man alive to have played first class cricketagainst both Sir Don Bradman and Sir Jack Hobbs, as well as being the oldestformer Kent cricketer.Hugh was educated at Radley College and came to Pembroke in 1932 to study

first History, and then English. He made his debut for the Cambridge Universitycricket team in 1934, playing against the touring Australians, including Sir DonBradman. Bradman was dismissed for a duck, but the Australians still won by aninnings with Hugh also being dismissed for a duck in the first innings, and fortwo runs in the second. Even before making his debut for the Cambridge cricketteam, Hugh had already played for Kent (whose eye he had caught while playingfor Radley, and for whomhewould appear in 10matches) in 1933 against a Surreyside featuring Sir JackHobbs. It wasHugh’s second game for Kent, and he scored45 in the first innings, and helped Kent to a comfortable victory over Surrey, forwhom Hobbs scored 101 in the first innings (the 196th of the 199 first classhundreds he would make).Cricket wasn’t the only game in which Hugh excelled. He won Blues for rugby

union in 1934 and 1935, played for Harlequins and also trialled for England. Butwas in the field of education that Hugh was to leaving his lasting mark afterleaving Cambridge. He became an Assistant Master at Ampleforth College in1936 – teaching the future Cardinal Basil Hume, among others – and stayed there



until 1940, when he joined the Royal Navy. After the war was over he taught atBlackfriars School in Northamptonshire (1946–1947) and then at BeaumontCollege, Berkshire (1948–1956). In 1957, he moved to Africa, taking a postteaching literature atMakerere College, in Kampala, Uganda.Hewould stay therefor 13 years, seeing the College become part of the University of East Africa, andthen a university in its own right. While at Makerere, Hugh was Dean of College,andWarden of Northcote Hall, one of the halls of residence. Under his guidance,the university gained a reputation for creative writing in English.On Hugh’s return to England, he was awarded the OBE, and he continued to

promote both the study of literature and African affairs, teaching at Southamptonand Sussex universities, and the School of Oriental and African studies. Hepublished Uganda’s Relations with Britain from 1971–1976 in 1987.Hugh is survived by his wife, Yvonne, and two sons.

His Honour Edgar FayOctober 8 1908 – November 14 2009

His Honour Edgar Fay was an outstanding barrister andjudge who is most famous for having conducted twoinquiries into the Munich air crash of 1958, in whicheight Manchester United players and 15 otherpassengers died. A inquiry in West Germany had placedthe blame for the crash on the pilot, Captain Jim Thain,for failing to check that the wings of the plane were freeof ice. Thain insisted that the crash had been caused by slush on the runway. TheMinister of Aviation asked Edgar Fay in June 1959 to conduct an independentreview. Edgar concluded that Thain had been at fault for not doing enough tocheck that the plane was ice free. Thain continued to assert his innocence and in1968 Edgar was asked to look again at the evidence. This time, he discovered thatthe original West German inquiry had suppressed evidence that there had beenno ice on the plane’s wings when it crashed; and he concluded – to the upset ofthe West German government – that slush on the runway had been the cause ofthe accident.Edgar was born in London in 1908, the son of Sir Sam Fay, the general

manager of the Great Central Railway (GCR). Throughout his life, Edgarmaintained a connection with railways: joining 3 Paper Buildings as a barrister in1934 (after doing a BA in Law at Pembroke from 1929–1931) because it was theleading chambers for railway law; representing British Rail in court, beforetribunals and in inquiries; becoming vice-president of the GCR Society; andcelebrating his 100th birthday dining on a train on the GCR line that was beinghauled by an original GCR locomotive between Leicester and Loughborough.Edgar’s early life as a barrister was very hard, as it coincided with the Great

Depression.However, hemade legal history in 1939, successfully arguing in courtin Burfitt v A E Killie (1939) that a shopkeeper who sold a blank firing gun to a childwho could not be expected to handle the gun properly should be held liable for



the harm done when the child fired the gun in the face of another child, blindingthat child. Edgar’s practice picked up during the divorce boom that occurred atthe end of the war: the first time he earned 100 guineas in a day was when he dida run of undefended divorces at the Winchester Assizes. Edgar became a QC andhead of his chambers in 1956, a position he would occupy until 1971 when he wasappointed an official referee and circuit judge. He retired from the bench in 1980.The lucidity of Edgar’s writing (Edgar supplemented his income as a barrister

by writing occasional pieces for the newspapers, and books such as WhyPiccadilly? The Story of Names of London (1935), and Hanged by a Comma: Discoveries inthe Statute Book (1937)) and his ability to master the most complex set of factsmeant that he was frequently called upon by the government to conduct officialinquiries, in particular into air crashes. The most famous inquiry – after his twoinquiries into the Munich air crash – that Edgar conducted was in 1975 into agovernment quango called the Crown Agents, which had managed to lose £212million pounds (£1.3 bn in today’s money) through a series of incredibly recklessinvestments.Edgar is survived by his thirdwife, Eugenia Bishop, two of his three sons by his

first marriage (to Kathleen Buell), and one son from his second marriage (toJennie Bisschop).

Philip GlaessnerJune 29 1919 – June 23 2009

Philip Glaessner was a distinguished economist whoworked for numerous international and Americaneconomic organisations after World War II. During thewar, he gained the unenviable distinction of beinginterned by both sides of the war – in 1940, by the Britishas an ‘enemy’ national, and in 1945, by the Germans as aprisoner of war.Philip was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, but grew up in Austria. The sight of

of seeing hungry men waiting in bread lines in Vienna in the 1920s inspired himto develop an interest in economics, and a commitment to ensuring that peopleanywhere in theworldwould not suffer such privations. In 1935, Philip –whowasJewish – was sent away to boarding school in England, and thereby avoided theeffects of Hitler’s Anschluss of Austria in 1938. By then, Philip was at PembrokeCollege and first studied Modern & Medieval Languages and then Economics(under John Maynard Keynes), obtaining his BA in 1940. But the outbreak of warmeant that Philip was rounded up with 28,000 other ‘enemy’ nationals by theBritish and held on the Isle of Man. He was eventually sent to Canada, andmovedto Cuba in 1941. In 1942, he immigrated to the United States, where he wasreunited with his family, who had escaped from Austria to New York.Philip was drafted into the US Army and his German language skills meant

that hewas trained as an intelligence officer. He landed inNormandy shortly afterD-Day but was captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. He



concealed his Jewish origins, and was held as a prisoner of war in Stalag IX-B inHesse, Germany. He would gather information during the day about how the warwas going from a variety of sources – including the German language radiobroadcasts beamed into the camp for the guards – and spent each night ‘[going]around to all the American barracks and [giving] them information on how thewar was coming and where the German troops were and where the Americantroops were and when we could expect to be liberated. And I thought that wasterribly important, because you know when you are in this situation you basicallysurvive on hate, love and hope. Those are the three things. If you give up, you die.’After the war, Philip returned to the States where he obtained an MA in

Economics from Columbia University in 1946. He then worked for numerousdifferent organisations as an economist, including the Federal Reserve Bank(1946–1956), the Inter-American Development Bank (1960–1962), the Alliancefor Progress in the US State Department (1962–1968), and the World Bank(1969–1984).Philip is survived by his wife of 56 years, Elisabeth Schnabel Glaessner, and

their four children, and 10 grandchildren.

Mark GlazebrookJune 25 1936 – November 3 2009

MarkGlazebrookwas a permanent fixture in the Englishart world from the 1960s until his death last year. Hispublic career reached its peak in 1969, when he wasappointed Director of the Whitechapel Gallery, insuccession to BryanRobertson. Robertson hadmade theWhitechapel Gallery internationally famous withexhibitions of Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns, and RobertRauschenberg. However, Mark proved equal to the difficult task of following inRobertson’s footsteps, putting on the first retrospective exhibition of DavidHockney’s work and first exhibition of Donald Judd’s work. (Mark also turneddown the chance to exhibit artwork by John Lennon and YokoOno – a decision henever regretted.)Mark was educated at Eton (where the art master, Wilfrid Blunt, first

stimulated his interest in art) and did his National Service with theWelsh Guards(during the course of which he gave the troops a lecture on Picasso). Mark cameto Pembroke in 1956, obtaining a BA inHistory in 1959.He thenwent to the SladeSchool of Art in the hope of training to become a painter, but never finished thecourse. However, Mark never stopped painting and was proud to have anexhibition of his paintings put on by the Mayor Gallery in London in 2000. Afterleaving the Slade School, Mark worked for the Arts Council, while at the sametime writing art criticism for London Magazine and setting up – with JosephStudholme and Paul Cornwall-Jones – Editions Alecto, which publishedcontemporary artists’ prints. The inaugural board meeting took place in Mark’ssitting room underneath a couple of early Hockneys that Mark had bought soon



after meeting David Hockney in 1960, while Hockney was still a student at theRoyal College of Art; Mark and Hockney were to become lifelong friends.Mark was to stay at the Whitechapel Gallery for three years, eventually

resigning in frustration at its lack of funding. He became head of the ModernBritish department at the Bond Street dealers Colnagi. In 1975 he left the UK totake up a position as Lecturer in Art History at San José University in California,where he curated an exhibition, Punk, that was ahead of its time. In 1979, Markreturned to London, rejoinedwhatwas nowAlectoHistorical Editions, and beganlife as an independent art dealer. In 1986, he opened the Albermarle Gallery inLondon, but unfortunately the gallery fell victim to the recession and had to closein 1993. In order to pay off its debts,Markwas forced to sellmany of the paintingshe had bought when hewas young, as well as his Norman Shaw house in BedfordPark. At the same time, his second marriage to Wanda Osinska – who had ledMark to develop an enduring interest in the culture of her native Poland – brokedown. Eventually,Mark found his feet, buying a council flat in Kennington, SouthLondon for its amazing views, and working on his painting and art criticism,notably for The Spectator. He rejoined the Chelsea Arts Club, and threw himselfenthusiastically into its occasional theatricals and Christmas productions. It wasat the Chelsea Arts Club that Markmet Cherry Moorsom, who was to become histhird wife in 2004.Mark is survived by Cherry, and his two former wives, Wanda and Elizabeth

Claridge, and by two daughters and one stepson.

Professor Brian GoodwinMarch 25 1931 – July 15 2009

Brian Goodwin was a highly influential biologist whorejected the Darwinian notion of nature as involving astruggle for survival among species, where only thefittest survive. In books such as How the Leopard ChangedIts Spots (1994), Brian argued for a ‘new biology’according to which organisms survive and flourish notbecause they are fitter than their competitors butbecause they have managed to find a place ‘where you can be yourself ’. Brianargued that evolution is not a matter of ‘conflict, competition, selfish genes,climbing peaks in fitness landscapes’. Rather, evolution is ‘a dance. It has nogoal...it has no purpose, no progress, no sense of direction. It’s a dance throughmorphospace, the space of the form of organisms.’Brian’s early experiences exploring the forests around his home in Eastern

Canada gave him a lifelong sense of nature as ordered in some way. Whilestudying biology as an undergraduate at McGill University and then taking aMaster’s degree in plant physiology also at McGill, Brian began to move awayfrom Darwinian views of evolution, feeling that such views could not account forthe coherence and self-organisation of organisms. He went on to studyMathematics at Oxford from 1954 to 1957, moving on to Pembroke College in



1959, in order to equip himself with the skills he needed to explore further hisidea that there must exist some organising principle underlying the form oforganisms. Brian first explored this idea in his PhD, taken at the University ofEdinburgh, which explored how cells are organised over time in ways that lead todivision and the development of subsequent forms. Brian’s PhD formed the basisof his first book, Temporal Organisation in Cells (1963). In Form and Transformation:Generative and Relational Principles in Biology (1996) (written with Gerry Webster,with whom Brian collaborated after he had been appointed to a Readership inBiology at the University of Sussex in 1965), Brian argued that organisms enjoyedan internal coherence and wholeness as a result of self-organising dynamics atthe molecular and cellular level.The emphasis in Brian’s work on the coherence and wholeness of organisms

led him to embrace holistic approaches to the relationship between humanity andnature, which reject ideas of human beings as ‘controlling’ or ‘mastering’ natureand instead seek to find a place for humanity within nature. In 1996, Brianbecame a Professor at Schumacher College, in Devon, and started there theworld’s first MSc in Holistic Science with Dr Stephen Harding. In 2007, he wrotehis final book, which represented the summation of his thoughts on therelationship between humanity and nature: Nature’s Due: Healing Our FragmentedCulture.Brian is survived by his third wife, Christel, and his daughter, Lynn.

Norman LangfordApril 1 1921 – November 10 2009

Norman Langford passed away at the Hospital BeauSéjour in Geneva after a brief illness. He was aged 88.Born in 1921 in Coventry, Norman discovered he had

a natural facility for languages and won an Exhibitionfrom Bromsgrove School to Pembroke in 1939 to readModern Languages. With University life increasinglydisrupted with the threat and onset of war, he decided toenrol in the RAF in 1940. Having been selected to join Fighter Command, heunderwent training at Moose Jaw in Canada, and then saw active service with 229Squadron in Malta, North Africa, Italy and Northern France, before beingdemobbed in 1946.In 1946, Norman returned to Pembroke to complete his degree in Modern

Languages and graduated with First Class Honours in 1948. He then took up apost as an interpreter and translator in French, German, Russian, and Spanish atthe International Telecommunications Union and then at the InternationalLabour Office. He retired from the ILO in 1979, by which time he had developeda more than proficient knowledge of Arabic, Finnish and Turkish. For someyears, he continued as a freelance interpreter.Norman’s interests were wide, particularly in languages, philosophy, current

affairs, and fiction. Apart from two periods of secondment from the international



organisations forwhich heworked, he lived inGeneva for over 50 years.He foundGeneva an easy city in which to live, enjoying its vibrant cultural life, agreeableclimate, and limitless scope and opportunity for walking. He was an activemember of a number of waking clubs inGeneva well into his eighties. Hewas theoldest member of the Oxford & Cambridge Society in Geneva.

With thanks to David Danielli

Peter Alan LindenbaumNovember 4 1938 – January 20 2010

Peter Lindenbaum came up to Pembroke in 1960, aftertaking his first degree at Harvard. He read English, andrapidly found himself part of a lively and opinionatedgroup of overseas students of English, mostlyAustralian, who all arrived in 1960: John Barnes, HaroldLove, Francis McCarthy (whose obituary can be foundelsewhere in this Gazette), and Francis King. Discussionsamongst this well-read group were an important part of his Cambridgeeducation, and helped to lay the basis for his future academic career. The wholegroup in fact, went on to have careers in the academic world. After gaining his BAat Cambridge, Peter went back to the States to study for his PhD at the Universityof California at Berkeley. In 1967 he joined the English Department at IndianaUniversity in Bloomington, which remained his base until he retired in 2003.As a Professor at Indiana, Peter encouraged the development of Renaissance

Studies and set up the Center for the History of the Book. His published workfocused on the poet JohnMilton, andmore recently, on writers’ contracts and theLondon book trade in the seventeenth century, about which he wrote a series ofseminal articles. The various gatherings of Milton scholars around the world inrecent years were always enlivened by his contributions, and he was one of theorganisers of the Milton Symposium in London in 2008 which marked the 400thanniversary of the poet’s birth. His principal book, Changing Landscapes (1986),examined the ways in which Sidney, Shakespeare andMilton adapted the pastoralconventions of poetry to endorse the active life, rather than the life ofcontemplation.In 1968 Peter married Sheila Serio, who also became a member of the English

Department at Indiana, as a medievalist. They had a son, John. Both Peter andSheila were lifelong Anglophiles, and on their retirement, theymoved to London,where they enjoyed affiliations with the University of London and the Institute ofEnglish Studies, and they took particular pleasure in the music and theatre thatLondon offers. Peter began to familiarise himself with the rare book sections ofvarious London libraries, and pursued his interest in the stationers andbooksellers who had occupied the precincts of St Paul’s Cathedral in the daysbefore the Great Fire. He was able to return to reunions at Pembroke again, and awhole new life was opening up in the England when he was attacked by cancer.



Peter’s wryly amusing views of life and literature will be remembered by allwho knew him.

With thanks to Graham Parry (1958)

Robin LittleJanuary 30 1949 – June 29 2009

Obituary by Hugh Mellor (1956)

Robin Little came up to Pembroke in 1967 to readEnglish, though as that was not my subject, it wasnot how we met. We first met in two theatricalcontexts. One was that of the Cambridge University Players (CUP), a group ofCambridge students and ex-students taking productions to the open-air MinackTheatre near Lands End in August. But CUP also staged productions in the OldReader, now part of the College Library but then a small theatre. Robin playedmajor parts in these, notably Face in Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist in 1969, and Pillarin the British première of Václav Havel’s The Memorandum in 1970, as well as Parisin CUP’s 1969 Minack production of Troilus and Cressida.Robin also played Gladstone in Laurence Houseman’s Victoria Regina in the

1970MayWeek Concert. But his great contribution to Pembroke theatre was his1969 revival of the Pembroke Players German tour, which had lapsed in the1950s. For this he directed a fine production ofMeasure for Measure. It was a greatsuccess, despite (or perhaps because of ) a British Army officer’s writing to theMaster to complain (in effect) of the cast’s supplanting his troops in theaffections of German girls, and Meredith Dewey’s description, in his nextEaster letter, of the tour taking place ‘under a secret reparations clause in theTreaty of Versailles’. Unfortunately, after Robin the tour lapsed again until2005, when the Pembroke Players wowed a now-united Germany with TheImportance of Being Earnest, to whose organisers Robin gave good advice anduseful contacts, and also financial support, and got several of his Measurefriends to support it too.As if Robin’s Tripos work (which got him a 2.1, when that was rarer than it is

now), acting in two plays and taking a third to Germany wasn’t enough for himin 1969, he became President of the Junior Parlour that year. It was a time ofstudent unrest which, if less paranoid than in Paris, did sour Pembrokeundergraduate relations with Fellows and staff. Robin coped superbly, a toughnegotiator made all the more effective by his humour, humanity and manifestintegrity. Like his running of the German tour, his work as JP President showedthat he had – and perhaps helped him develop – the rare ability to combineleadership and friendship that made him so good at his later work: in Liverpoolas a photographer and organiser of support for voluntary groups and later, inBath and London, in teaching managers from around the world more about howto work together, and in Britain, than any MBA course could teach them.



Robin did many other things too: designing software; becoming a skilledwater-colourist; rebuilding a derelict cottage in a remote valley in Portugal withhis partner Nina. He had also married twice, with two children from eachmarriage. How, with all this, he found time to make and keep so many closefriends is a mystery to those whose lives his friendship enriched. We might notmeet for a year, but whenever we did, we’d pick up our conversation as if we’dadjourned it only the day before. So when he dropped dead last year in Portugal,just before his sixtieth birthday, one measure of our loss is all the adjournedconversations that will now never be resumed.

David John Male1926 – June 10 2009

David Male came to Pembroke in 1944 as a Minor Scholar, from MerchantTaylors’ School, Northwood, to read for the Mechanical Sciences Tripos. Likeseveral of his contemporaries, his military service was deferred until he hadpassed his exams. He entered fully into the somewhat limited life in the Collegeat that time of war. He sang in the Chapel Choir, the College Choral Society, andCUMS. He played rugby for the College, and rowed in the 1946 Rugger Boat.He was a member of the Royal Engineers Unit of the Cambridge University

Student Training Corps, and would have expected to become a Sapper whencalled to the colours. However, when the war ended, the Royal Navy wererecruiting science graduates for the Instructor Branch, in which David accepted ashort-service commission. On leaving the Navy, he joined a firm of consultantengineers in London butwas disappointed to find that their order book containedfew contracts and those were principally to demolish RAF airfields and reinstatethem to their original farmland. Therefore, when recalled to the Navy for theKoreanWar, he lost no time in applying for a regular commission as an InstructorOfficer. He was training cadets in HMSOcean when his ship was diverted to takepart in landings at Suez. He was in the middle of making arrangements for hiswedding to Helen Evans; fortunately the ship returned to Plymouth on time. Hewas promoted to Commander and spent most of his time educating EngineerOfficers. He felt that he was destined to oscillate between the RN EngineeringCollege at Manadon, Plymouth, and the Nuclear Department at RN College,Greenwich. He decided he would prefer to be a proper academic, took earlyretirement and, in 1967, joined the University of Adelaide, Australia, as a lecturerin the Engineering Department. When the Tasmanian College of AdvancedTechnology was created, David became founding Head of the Division of Scienceand Technology, a post he held until his retirement.With three daughters married in Australia, and with no desire to return to the

UK, David took Australian citizenship and lived the rest of his life with his familyin Tasmania. He died in hospital after a short illness on 10 June 2009. He was 83years old.

With thanks to REB Budgett (1944)



Brother Francis Iraneus McCarthyDecember 31 1920 – January 7 2010

Brother Francis was a towering figure in theeducational community in Australia and anexample to teachers worldwide. He entered theChristian Brothers seminary as a teenager (wherehis novice master gave him the religious name‘Iraneus’ after Saint Iraneus, who proclaimed ‘The glory of God is shown in manfully alive’). From the age of 19 onwards, he taught at a number of differentschools in Australia, while obtaining a BA (in English) in 1950, an MA in 1953,and a B.Ed in 1956; all were studied for in his spare timewhen his teaching dutieswere done. In 1960, he interrupted his teaching career to do a PhD in English andFine Arts at Pembroke College. He excelled so much that he was offered aFellowship, but he was unable to accept: his loyalty to the Christian Brothers andthe call of teaching in Australia was unshakeable.Returning to Australia, Brother Francis was appointed as Headmaster of

Christian Brothers’ College, St Kilda. He revolutionised the school, making it thetop performing school in Victoria. In 1977, Brother Francis was appointed to theHeadmastership at St Kevin’s College in Toorak, Victoria. He would stay at theschool for over 30 years, teaching Philosophy and Literature. Such was BrotherFrancis’ length of service at St Kevin’s that he ended up teaching threegenerations there – FrankMcDermott in 1949 (during an earlier one year teachingstint at St Kevin’s), Frank’s son Paul in 1979, and Frank’s grandson Tom in 2003.A former student of Brother Francis’ from Parade College, Melbourne (where hehad taught for 10 years in the 1950s before coming to Pembroke) sent his sons toSt Kevin’s. When the youngest son graduated, their father sent a basket of winewith themessage, ‘Not even the great FrancisMcCarthy could hope to educatemygrandsons having done so well for me andmy sons, so I take this opportunity onthe graduation of my youngest son.’ The father underestimated Brother Francis:he went on to teach one of the father’s grandchildren.Brother Francis became the oldest registered practising teacher in Victoria and

perhaps Australia. He was honoured as a Fellow of the Australian College ofEducators and with the Medal of the Order of Australia. Tributes to BrotherFrancis’ greatness as an educator and a human being were paid to himthroughout his working life. The history of Parade College, Melbourne states: ‘BrMcCarthy was the most prominent figure of Parade’s second spring of the fifties.One of his greatest attributes was his ability to fire the imagination of his pupils.They sensed that their interests were his interests and their future his concern. Hepresented the ideals of wisdom and freedom, to view all from God’s perspective;to be men of integrity, giving respect to each individual and pursue the truth thatwill make all free. He decried the evils of lethargy of spirit, coldness of heart, andweakness of will. He made great efforts with few resources to build up anadequate library for his students.’Despite all his commitments and heavy workload, Brother Francis never

forgot Pembroke. He loved the College, and helped to set up the Pembroke



Society in Australia, as well as serving on the Committee of the Davis McCaugheyPembroke College Scholarship until his death.

Dr Roderick MortonOctober 8 1944 – December 16 2009

Dr Roderick Morton was a distinguished doctor,who retired three years ago having served as apartner at the Friarsgate Medical Practice inWinchester for 34 years, and as senior partner for10 years. A month before he died, he attended theopening of the Friarsgate Medical Practice in its new location on the west side ofWinchester; the Practice was opened by Roderick’s lifelong friend, LordWinston.Roderick was educated at Winchester College. He came to Pembroke in 1964,

following in his father’s footsteps. (As would Roderick’s brother, Donald,arriving at Pembroke five years after Roderick.) Roderick obtained a BA inNaturalSciences in 1967 and served as Pembroke’s Football Club Captain the same year.Roderick subsequently qualified as a doctor and started work at the FriarsgatePractice in 1972. He subsequently became a trustee of Brendoncare, aWinchester-based charity that cares for the elderly.Dr Nigel Sylvester, the senior partner at Friarsgate, paid the following tribute

to his predecessor: ‘He was an excellent, excellent doctor, and his patients stillmiss him even after all this time. He was very generous with his time. He wasalways the man who put his hand up first for extra tasks. He was a great leader ofthe practice and kind and generous to patients, partners and staff.’Roderick is survived by his wife Jillian, and their four children.

Professor Chike ObiApril 17, 1921 – March 13, 2008

Professor Chike Obi was a distinguishedmathematician(the first sub-Saharan African to hold a doctorate inMathematics, obtained at Pembroke in 1950) andNigerian politician.Chike was educated at various places in Nigeria

before readingMathematics as an external student of theUniversity of London, obtaining a BA and then anMA inMathematics. He then obtained a scholarship to come to Pembroke in 1947 to doa PhD in Mathematics. On completing his PhD, he moved on to MIT, eventuallyreturning to Nigeria to teach at the University of Ibadan in 1959. He became aProfessor of Mathematics at the University of Lagos in 1971, Dean of the Facultyof Science in 1980, and was Emeritus Professor of the University since 1985. In1986, he was awarded the Sigvard Ecklund Prize by the International Centre forTheoretical Physics for his work on Differential Equations. Chike’s interest in



differential equations led him to take an interest in proving Fermat’s LastTheorem, which states that no three positive integers a, b and c can satisfy theequation an + bn = cn for any value of n higher than 2. This theorem was proved in1994 by AndrewWiles and Richard Taylor using highly advancedmathematics farbeyond the capacities of Pierre de Fermat, who set out the theorem in 1637 andsuggested in a marginal note that he had a wonderful proof of the theorem, butno space to write it down. In 1997, Chike claimed to have come up with anelementary proof of the theorem that Fermat might have had in mind, and it waspublished in Volume 15 of the American mathematical journal Algebra, Groups andGeometries, special issue no. 3, pp 289–298. However, it has been questionedwhether this elementary proof stands up. Such is the deep association betweenChike Obi and mathematics in Nigeria that any Nigerian children who show anaptitude for mathematics are nicknamed ‘Chike Obi’.Chike’s career as a mathematician was regularly punctuated by his political

activities. In 1951, he helped form a Nigerian political party – the Dynamic Partyof Nigeria – and served as its first Secretary-General. The Dynamic Party stood formodernisation, nationalism and ‘humane dictatorship’. When that party mergedwith the National Council of Nigeria and Cameroon (NCNC), he was elected toserve as part of the Nigerian delegation that negotiated Nigeria’s path to self-rulein two London conferences, in 1957 and 1958. On independence in 1960, Chikeobtained a seat in the national legislature but was forced (literally forced: he wascarried out of the national legislature) to give it up a year later when hewas electedto a seat in the regional Eastern House of Assembly, in which assembly he servedfrom 1961–1966. Chike wrote two books about his political activities: Our Struggle,Part I (1953), and Our Struggle, Part II (1962).Chike’s wife, Belinda, died in late 2009. They are survived by their four

children.

Emile Perreau-SaussineSeptember 22 1972 – February 23 2010

Emile Perreau-Saussine promised to become one of theleading political thinkers of his generation. He diedsuddenly of a heart condition at the age of 37. He leftbehind a substantial body of work that principallyfocused on the place and role of religion in modernsocieties. He also wrote extensively on the politicalthought of a number of different individuals, includingAugustine, Tocqueville, Alasdair MacIntyre, Quentin Skinner, Mahatma Gandhi,Carl Schmitt and Raymond Aron. His book Alasdair MacIntyre, Une BiographieIntellectuelle: Introduction aux Critiques Contemporaines du Libéralisme (2005) wasawarded the prestigious Prix PhilippeHabert, a prize given for the best writing onpolitical science by a young researcher. Hewas presentedwith the award byMme.Jacques Chirac in 2006. At the time of his death, he had just finished a majorwork, Catholic Political Thought in a Democratic Age: A History, whichwill be published



in French by Le Cerf in 2010, and in English by Princeton University Press in 2011.He had also almost finished work on two further manuscripts, Religion in aDemocratic Age and Free Markets: For and Against, as well as editing a special issue ofthe Revue Internationale de Philosophie on Alasdair MacIntyre.Emile graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris in 1994.He then

did a PhD in Political Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,and then spent two years as a Bradley Fellow at the University of Chicago(1997–1999) before becoming a member of the Department of Politics inCambridge in 2001, as a Newton Trust Lecturer, a Fellow and College Lecturer atFitzwilliam College, and a College Lecturer at Pembroke. He was an outstandingsupervisor, deploying his incredibly deep knowledge of the history of ideas over2000 years to inspire his students to see intellectual history as a living enterprisethat really mattered for their lives. One of his Pembroke students remarked afterhis death: ‘Emile to many of his students was not only an inspiration because hewas a very engaging supervisor who challenged his students, but also a belovedfriend. Personally, and I know that many students feel the same way, no one hasinfluencedme asmuch academically. Emile had a passionwhen he supervised hisstudents that was awe-inspiring and truly unique.’Emilewas a dogged seeker after the truth, and it was a quest inwhich hewould

seek to involve anyone and everyone he came across, organising book discussiongroups (always with everyone in a circle, so everyone felt equally involved, equallyentitled to voice their opinion, whatever their status) and inviting people backhome for dinner and philosophical discussions. There was no idea, howevercontroversial and unpopular, that he would not hold up to the light to see if it hadanymerit. Emile’s passion for the truthmay have sometimes cost him in terms ofadvancement in his Faculty, but for him, therewas no alternative but to pursue thetruth wherever it took him. One of Emile’s book reading companions observedafter his death: ‘I am sure that he read the following lines from [Pope BenedictXVI’s encyclical] Spe Salvi: “It is when we attempt to avoid suffering bywithdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spareourselves the effort and pain of pursuing truth, love, and goodness, that we driftinto a life of emptiness, in which there may be almost no pain, but the dark senseof meaninglessness and abandonment is all the greater.”’Emile was as outstanding a person as he was a scholar and a thinker.

Kindness, generosity, and courtesy radiated out fromhim in everything he did.Hewas utterly devoted to his wife Amanda (a Fellows of Queens’ College, andLecturer at the Cambridge Law Faculty), and his two young children, Elisabethand Martin. One of Emile’s last essays was, appropriately enough, on heaven:‘Heaven as a political theme in Augustine’s City of God’ (published in Bockmuehland Stroumsa (eds), Paradise in Late Antiquity (2010)). In the final line of that essay,Emile reminds us – quoting fromSaint Augustine – ‘thatwe are called to “rest andsee, see and love, love and praise”.’ The home that Emile, Amanda, Elisabeth andMartin created for themselves just outside Cambridge was, and is, a blessed placewhere they, and everyone who visited them, lived out that call.



Professor Charles RyskampOctober 21 1928 – March 26 2010

Charles Ryskamp was a central figure in the New Yorkmuseum world for almost 30 years, first as director ofthe Pierpoint Morgan Library and then as director of theFrick Collection.Charles was born in Michigan, into an academic

family, but not one which had an interest in aesthetics.However, Charles became hooked on art very early onand by the age of 13 was buying art at auction. He never stopped collecting art,and his private collection was the subject of two exhibitions. In 2001, thePierpoint Morgan Library put on ‘The World Observed: Five Centuries ofDrawings from the Collection of Charles Ryskamp’. And at the time of Charles’death from cancer, the Yale Center for British Art was exhibiting ‘Varieties ofRomantic Experience: Drawings from the Collection of Charles Ryskamp’. Thebook of the latter exhibition, by Matthew Hargraves, can be easily purchased onthe Internet.Charles obtained a bachelor’s degree in English at Calvin College in his home

city of Grand Rapids, before going on to Yale to obtain an MA in 1951. He thencame to Pembroke in 1953 to spend a year there as a research student beforereturning to Yale and obtaining a doctorate in 1956 for his thesis on the early lifeof William Cowper. Charles’ year at Pembroke had a formative effect on him, inexposing him to the collections of books and pictures that could be found inmuseums and salerooms in Cambridge and London.Charles began teaching at Princeton in 1955.He turned his doctoral thesis into

a book in 1959 (William Cowper of the Inner Temple, Esq: A Study of His Life and Works tothe Year 1768) and publishedWilliam Blake, Engraver ten years later. 1969 proved tobe a banner year in Charles’ life: promoted to a full professorship at Princetonthat year, he was also appointed director of the Pierpoint Morgan Library. By thenworld famous for its collection of books, manuscripts and drawings, Charleshelped to make the Library more accessible by instituting a lively programme ofexhibitions and events, notably ‘William Blake’s Drawings for the Book of Job’(1970) and ‘Michelangelo and his World’ (1979). He also built up the Morgan’scollection: drawings by Blake, books from Paul Mellon’s collection, 1,500 OldMaster drawings (including works by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Titian andBellini), and the manuscript score of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony were all donatedto the Library under Charles’ leadership.In 1987, Charles moved on to the Frick Collection – a collection he had fallen

in love with as a teenager, never dreaming that he would one day be its director.He faced an immediate crisis triggered by the death of Helen Clay Frick, who hadfunded the Frick Art Library out of her own pocket in her lifetime but hadforgotten to endow it in her will. Charles raised $34 million for the the Library,assuring its future. He retired from the Frick in 1997.Charles is survived by two brothers, Henry and Philip.



Derek James WarbrickApril 10 1926 – October 19 2009

Obituary by Jon Warbrick (1979)

Derek was born in Liverpool where his father, like hisgrandfather before him, owned andmanaged a dairy. Hewas educated locally and won the prestigious MargaretBrice scholarship to the Liverpool Institute. Despitebeing the first generation in his family to consideruniversity, he took the Oxbridge entrance exams (having already turned down theoffer of a scholarship to Liverpool University without telling his parents) and wasoffered a scholarship to Cambridge. However before he could start his degree hewas called up for National Service. Derek had been a member of the OfficerTraining Corps at school and in view of this, and his scholarship offer, he wassent on an Army Short Course at The Queen's College, Oxford followed by officertraining in theQueen's OwnRoyal Hussars. He didn’t see active service as thewarfinished before the end of his training, but he was deployed as part of the BritishArmy of Occupation in Lubeck.After completing his National Service, Derek took up his deferred Cambridge

scholarship and came up to Pembroke in 1948 to read Classics and AncientHistory, graduating in 1950. In later life he was very proud of havingmatriculatedat both Oxford and Cambridge (but was occasionally heard to say that he thoughtthe Oxford Wine Society was better). After graduation, he joined the RoyalInsurance Company, a well-respected Liverpool-based institution, as a graduatetrainee. His first job was as a clerk dealing with fire endorsements – sitting at ahigh desk, though not using a quill pen – while studying in his own time first foran Associateship and subsequently a Fellowship of the Chartered InsuranceInstitute.Derek married Mary in 1952 and the couple initially lived with Derek’s mother

and father while waiting for a promised flat to be completed. Derek worked hisway up in the company, and eventually moved to the London office in the mid-50s. He was moved back to Liverpool a few years later where he joined theInvestment Department. He and Mary settled down in Birkenhead, only to bemoved back south again in 1960, this time with their son Jonathan as a newly-born baby. Their daughter Emma was born three and a half years later. Derekcontinued to rise through the company, eventually retiring as a director andDeputyGeneralManager in 1986 at the age of 60. Following his retirement, Derekreturned to photography, a hobby that he and Mary had when they first married.They also set about improving their relatively uncomfortable house. They beganto enjoy travelling, in particular visits toGreece, allowingDerek to seemany of theclassical sites that he had studied as a young man.Derek enjoyed 20 years of retirement before his health started to fail. He leaves

behind his wife Mary, and children Jonathan and Emma.




MA Degree

The following information concerning the MA degree may be useful to membersof the Society:

Standing: a Bachelor of Arts may be admitted Master of Arts six* calendar yearsafter the end of his or her first term of residence, provided that (which is usuallythe case) at least two years have elapsed since taking the B.A. degree.

Fees: a fee of £5 is payable by those who took their BA degree in 1962 or earlier.

Please give at least four weeks notice before the Congregation at which you wishto take your degree. Correspondence should be addressed to the Praelector.

* For affiliated students, five years.

Dining Rights and Guest Rooms

Members who hold an MA or other Master’s degree or a higher degree from theUniversity, or are qualified for anMA, are welcome to dine in College during termor the period of residence in the Long Vacation. For the academic year 2010–2011,“term” means 5 October to 3 December, 18 January to 18 March, and 26 April to17 June; residence in the Long Vacation runs for five weeks from early July.

Dining for Members is available on any evening of the week during term or LongVacation residence except Tuesday or Saturday and on occasions when largeCollege events take place. A Member may dine as a guest of the College at HighTable up to four times each academic year, if a Fellow is present to preside.Ononeof those occasions, overnight accommodation is free of charge for the Member ifit is available.

Overnight accommodation may also be available in College, at a reasonablecharge, for a visit of one or two nights. The College has four en suite guest rooms:three twin-bedded rooms, and one double-bedded room. Given these limitedfacilities, early notice is strongly advised when making inquiries. The Collegewould be grateful to be informed at the earliest opportunity if a Member’s plansto visit have to be amended.We regret that it will be necessary to charge aMemberthe full cost of the room in the event of that Member cancelling his or her visitwithout notice.

Arrangements for dining, or for staying in a guest room, should bemade throughthe Development Office either by telephone (01223 339079), letter, fax (01223339081), or email ([email protected]).


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