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Cricket

At Fenner’s on Thursday 20 June, Fitzwilliam achieved an eight-wicket victory over Emmanuel with 92 to 86 in the 20-over game. A consistent outcome: it was the fourth successive Cuppers win for the College.

Captain Tom Corner – who had already been a member of the victorious teams of 2016, 2017 and 2018 – hit the winning runs, scoring 37. Oli Taylor, also a long-term player, opened the batting with Julian Wreford (who scored 18) and scored 24; Hiram (13 not out) and Corner completed the win. Ted While took three wickets for 10 runs and Toby Hiram two for eight, while Max Burrows – who also was Fitzwilliam’s double-winning football captain – took a fine catch on the boundary.

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It has been an exciting year for Fitzwilliam College Boat Club, with a large uptake in people getting involved with the sport, culminating in six Fitzwilliam boats (three men’s and three women’s crews) competing in May Bumps for the first time since 2013.

One of the highlights for the women’s squad was a visit from the Lionesses of the University of Venice – our squad having challenged them to racing in their galeone last September, they came for a return visit, and put in a very impressive performance in St Radegund’s Mile against a Fitzwilliam composite crew. We were also incredibly lucky to have Sarah Winckless joining us for

After Cricket Cuppers – the Bursar with the triumphant team: Tom Corner, Oli Taylor, Max Burrows, Nathan McStay, Julian Wreford, Jake Marshall, Ted While, Sam North, Toby Hiram, Ben Roberts, and Omar Hatteea

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The Cambridge University Athletics Challenge Cup, donated in 1910 by W.W. Rouse Ball (1850–1925, Fellow of Trinity). In 2019, Fitzwilliam

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the weekend, leading an Alumni Four in the race, and being a very welcoming and inspirational presence to the Fitzwilliam and the Venetian rowers alike.

W1 had a strong year, going up four places in Lent Bumps and up two in Mays, both positions being the highest that a Fitzwilliam women’s crew has reached in the competition. W2 also had their first bump in Mays in five years and we fielded a W3 in Bumps for the first time in six years. We also saw success on and off-Cam,

Members of the Men's First and Second Boats with coaches at the end of the Easter Training Camp at Henley

with our scullers winning events at Star Head, and W1 winning the Spring Head to Head. This all bodes very well for the depth of the squad going into the next year.

It was a positive year for the men’s squad, with a number of successes off-Cam – with our M1 winning Norwich Head as well as winning our division at Nottingham City Regatta. This translated into some of our best results in the Lent and May Bumps in a decade; up two places in Lents and returning to Division 1, and a net-zero move in the Mays putting an end to our slide down the table in recent years. We had plenty of success for our lower boats too, who benefitted from plenty of racing and training this year.

One of the highlights for the men’s squad this year was our Easter training camp in Henley which offered some serious fun for the crews, especially those who only started rowing this year. Over the three days away there was plenty of time for training, sunshine, and team bonding. It certainly seems to have benefitted our lower boats with our M3 going on to get blades in the May Bumps. Our M2 had a strong Lents campaign, going up three places and getting an overbump – although in Mays a first-day traffic mishap saw them fall three places. With many of our squad staying on next year, we look forward to building on our success and climbing ever higher in the Bumps Tables next year.

Women’s Captains: ROBERT MACHADO (2011) & EMILY LEES (2016)

Men’s Captain: ANDRÉ NETO-BRADLEY (2016)

Tennis

In consequence of not playing in the Michaelmas League in 2017–2018, Fitzwilliam Tennis found itself in a relatively low division for 2018–2019 – so we often had more difficulty avoiding the inevitable Michaelmas rain than in winning the ties. Nevertheless, the campaign was a great success, as we finished top of our division and so were promoted for next year.

Sadly, we could not carry the success in the Michaelmas League through into Cuppers in the Lent Term. Despite a tough draw, we battled hard with some

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good individual performances, but eventually fell 5–4 to St Edmund’s in a tense series of matches.

Looking towards the next year, I am confident that under the Captaincy of Adnan Allawala we will continue to climb in the League – and perhaps even make a run in Cuppers.

GEORGE NEVILLE (2016)

Netball

Ladies' NetballThe Fitzwilliam Ladies Netball Team has performed consistently in the First Division of the College Netball League this year. Despite losing many valued players who graduated last year, the team has remained strong – throughout the year we worked together to rebuild the team with some new and some old players, all of whom have demonstrated excellent netball skills.

Our hard work paid off, as we made it through to the Quarter Finals of Ladies Netball Cuppers at the end of Lent term, being knocked out by Churchill, who were the then reigning Cuppers champions. We look forward to continuing a high level of performance next year.

EMILY BERTIN (2017)

Mixed NetballThe Fitzwilliam Mixed Netball team has enjoyed a mixed season. We started the season with the squad fairly depleted by a fair few outgoing third years, but soon bolstered it with some fresh blood. There have been tense matches where both defeat and victory were within grasp, as well as some outright victories and losses. We have seen a variety of new and unusual moves – including an attempt to shoot lying down!

We defended our Division 1 standing at the end of Michaelmas, but unfortunately dropped into the top of Division 2 by the end of Lent term, from where we will resume play this October. In Easter term, it was time for Cuppers! We had some cracking game play, with excellent shots being made, as well as some rapid interceptions – I began to think that some of our players must have some flying-squirrel DNA! We came second in our group, thus only very narrowly missing a place in the quarter finals.

Although we were disappointed in the end, I’m so proud of how a rag-tag bunch, some of whom were total newcomers, turned up week after week to represent their College, to get fit, and to have fun with their friends. They have hugely improved from the beginning of the season, and as Captain, there is nothing else I could have asked for. Finally, I would like to wish all the very best to the next captaincy trio of Ted While, Cavan Farrow and Charlie Broughton.

IRENE JESSEL (2017)

Ladies’ Netball, L–R, standing: Samantha Pinches, Clare Pearson, Nisa Hasan, Laura Dementiev, Emily Bertin, Emily Baker-Thurston,

Emma Middleton; in front: Kate Gargan, Hannah Webb, Lauren Sullivan, Duvessa Bandeen

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Development Office News

The last day of July 2019 marked the formal end of the 150th Anniversary Campaign. Thank you to all of you who have contributed to our achievements, whether by donating, by volunteering or by helping us raise the profile of the College’s needs and priorities. I am delighted to announce that the Campaign closed with a total of £23M raised.

The 2019 Fitzwilliam Telephone Campaign was the most successful to date, raising £281,655 over the next three years. Over the two-week campaign, callers had conversations with 567 alumni, leading to a 68% giving rate, with 91% of gifts made immediately over the phone. Thank you to everyone who participated this year!

As the Bursar’s remarks (p.14) make clear, however, this simply marks the end of the first chapter in our fundraising. Alumni support is fundamental to the College’s existence, and we face significant challenges in the years ahead: long-term refurbishment of student accommodation; increasing provision for students requiring financial support; ambitious targets to broaden access to Cambridge. But the College faces these challenges confident in the knowledge that alumni stand with us – thank you.

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Celebrations of the 150th Anniversary

Donors’ Garden PartyThe conclusion of the highly successful 150th Anniversary Campaign was celebrated in June with our largest ever thank-you event for donors, a garden party at which over four hundred guests were welcomed. The Campaign raised £23 million to support outreach, student bursaries, teaching, and capital projects – an extraordinary achievement, for which the College wanted to say a sincere thank you. Guests enjoyed ice-creams on the lawns, while listening to musical delights from the Fitz Sirens, Fitz Barbershop and Fitz Swing, and some younger party-goers had fun with face paint, giant bubbles, and even a Tent of Wonderment. The Master took the opportunity to thank donors, before cutting an enormous cake in the shape of Fitzwilliam’s central building. Weighing in at a colossal 100 kg, there was plenty of cake to go around! Such a day of thanks and fun was a wonderful way to celebrate such a milestone.

Access and Widening Participation ConferenceMarking Fitzwilliam’s 150th Anniversary means looking forward as well as celebrating achievement, and with this in mind the College was proud to host a September conference on Access and Widening Participation. Striving for fair representation of disadvantaged or under-represented students at Cambridge has been at the heart of Fitzwilliam’s work since its foundation, but there is more yet to be done. The 120 attendees, including alumni, students, Fellows, charity representatives, staff, teachers, academics, and leading policy voices, listened to and debated four panels. The day’s primary areas of discussion were the experience of care leavers, the attainment gap between students of different backgrounds, the idea of contextual offers, and the influence of traditional and social media. The Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Stephen Toope, concluded the day by reflecting on how Cambridge cannot be a great university without being open to the social and cultural diversity of the world around us.

There is more on the conference on p.3 & p.7.

The Master addresses donors and friends of the College at the garden party

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Executive Head Chef Richard Wayman with the celebration cake

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Events outside Cambridge

Fitzwilliam alumni enjoyed several social events beyond Cambridge this year, with the Master and Development Director hosting alumni events in Manchester and

Leeds in the spring, before travelling to Singapore in August. The Deputy Development Director also enjoyed meeting alumni over a drink in Frankfurt, Germany.

The Master participates in the official launch of three scholarships created by ST Telemedia, in partnership with Fitzwilliam College, Somerville College, and the LKY School of Public Policy

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Leadenhall Event

Fitz in the City reached dizzying new heights in June when Professor Nicola Padfield welcomed an invited audience to the 44th floor of the iconic Leadenhall Building in London. She reflected on her appointment as Master in October 2013, and the changes that had affected – and continue to affect – the Higher Education sector since then. Many thanks to John Wells (1977) for hosting us in such a spectacular venue. We look forward to similar events bringing together alumni to consider pressing contemporary issues.

London Dinner

The Fitzwilliam Society London Dinner was held on 9 May 2019 at the Regimental Drill Hall of the London Scottish Regiment, a magnificent space rising three storeys above the assembled 75 alumni, Fellows, staff, guests, and current students. After an enjoyable dinner, Society President and Fitzwilliam Fellow Mr Richard Hooley addressed the audience, and reflected on the importance of sport as part of a Cambridge degree, including how it builds community spirit and leadership skills.

The London Dinner in 2020 will be held on Thursday 14 May at The Company of Watermen and Lightermen.

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September Reunion Weekend 2019

Over 200 alumni from the UK, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, and the United States returned to Fitzwilliam College to celebrate the 85th Reunion Weekend at the end of September. The College was delighted to host two Reunion Dinners for the first time, one on Friday and one on Saturday, to allow

as many alumni as possible to enjoy the fun. Friday’s dinner was a special opportunity in particular to mark 40 years since the admittance of women to Fitzwilliam, and it was a pleasure to welcome back many 1979-ers. The Fitzwilliam Society reported on another successful year at their AGM before Saturday’s dinner.

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Other highlights included a thought-provoking lecture from Professor Michael Kenny on whether Brexit will lead to the break-up of the UK, and a splendid concert. Following the sad demise of the Caucasian Elm in Fellows Court, there was also a ceremonial tree planting of a new Pride of India, which we hope will watch over many Reunion Weekends to come.

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Reunion Concert Musical Postcards from 1869: Joseph Folley (baritone) accompanied by Pierre Riley (Music Society Junior President), with Catherine Groom (Director of Music)

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Sixty years on – 1959 matriculants at the Reunion. Back, L–R: Peter Bates, Keith Jenkinson, Edwin Lawton, Dan Harman, John Rogers, Vivian Anthony, Roger Dawe, Selwyn Image

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RowingUnfortunately, several of those who had planned to row had to drop out close to the day, so this year we were few in number. Therefore we were grateful to the Boat Club captains, not only for their help, but for organising rowers so we could have an outing in an eight.

As ever, it was a real mix – of men and women, from a wide range of years (and not just invited-year alumni), who brought back a range of memories – but we do make sure it is fun and not too strenuous.

Glen Norcliffe (1962), who had come over from Canada, commented: ‘I expected that turning the clock back 50+ years and sitting once again in an eight would be a big challenge. But lo! These new boats are light as a

feather, the spade oars correct the worst of strokes, the cox was brilliant – she kept the rating down to 20 and even lower – and the other seven rowers gave nothing but encouragement. The sun shone and we were soon speeding down the Cam. What I feared might be a challenge became the most enjoyable of experiences, one that I hope will be savoured by many more former Boat Club members in Fitz reunions to come.’

If you are interested in joining us, or if you wish to put a crew together from your year, please contact Brian Smith ([email protected]) who co-ordinates arrangements on behalf of the Billygoats Society.

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Reunion football – the 'past' team beat the 'present' 7–5

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Postgraduate alumni barbeque

In July 2019, the Development Office was pleased to host its first event aimed specifically at our postgraduate alumni, when we welcomed back around 50 former Masters students and PhD students for a BBQ on the Grove Lawn. We are keen to strengthen the College’s ties with the postgraduate alumni, and

so we were delighted to see such a strong turnout on a beautiful sunny afternoon. It was a pleasure to see alumni of all ages return – some for the first time in many years, and many with their families too – to enjoy all sorts of garden games. We look forward to similar events in future.

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The 2019 Golden Matriculants in the Auditorium

Back row: Tim Reucroft, Steve Rodgers, Peter Semmler, John Small, Paul Spencer, Martin Stirrup, John Topping, Dick Vincent, Melvyn Walmsley, Mike Watson

Third row: Ian Hurlstone, Brian Jones, Ian Jones, Tony Lawson, Oliver McIntyre, Steve Meadows, Jonathan Pitman, Nigel Porter, André Quinn, Colin Reese

Second row: Nick Collin, Barry Cropper, Nigel Davis, Neil Dodds, Martin Dyke, Richard Farndale, Don Fleet, Steve Harrison, Robert Henderson, Ian Hird

Front row: Matthew Alexander, Colin Anderson, David Bendall, Peter Boardman, Roger Brawn, Robert Burrow, Mervyn Carter, Iain Clark, Roger Clarke

Golden Matriculants’ Reunion, 1969–2019

The Golden Matriculants’ Reunion was once again a happy occasion of reunions among old friends, as Fitzwilliam welcomed 72 alumni and guests to celebrate fifty years

since their matriculation. Alumni travelled not only from all across the United Kingdom and Europe, but even from as far afield as the USA and Australia!

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news of members

Sonita Alleyne OBE FRSA (Philosophy 1985) has been elected as the new Master of Jesus College, Cambridge from 1 October 2019, becoming the 42nd Master – and the first woman to lead the College. She founded the production company Somethin’ Else in 1991 and led it as Chief Executive until 2009. She is a Fellow of The Royal Society of the Arts and of the Radio Academy, won the Carlton Multicultural Achievement Award for TV and Radio in 2002, and was awarded an OBE for services to broadcasting in 2004. She was a BBC Trustee for five years, championing diversity and inclusivity.

Judith Bunting (Natural Sciences 1979) and Dinesh Dhamija CBE (Law 1971) were both elected in July 2019 as Liberal Democrat Members of the European Parliament, respectively for South-East England and for London. Judith Bunting is the Fitzwilliam Society President for 2019–2020 and is pictured on p.93.

Sir Vince Cable MP (Economics 1962) stood down as the leader of the Liberal Democrat Party in July 2019 after two years service in office. He retired as a Member of Parliament at the dissolution of Parliament before the 2019 election.

Laurence Carter (Economics 1983) took a year out from his work at the World Bank to walk around the coast of England and Wales, to raise awareness of cervical cancer, from which his wife had died, and to raise funds for Cancer Research UK that will contribute to the work of Professor Waller at UCL, who is researching behavioural techniques to raise awareness about the importance of testing and of HPV vaccination. He completed the walk in June 2019.

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Professor Graham Lord (Medical Sciences 1985) joined The University of Manchester as Vice-President and Dean of the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health in early 2019. He will also take up the role of Executive Director of the Academic Health Science Centre as part of Health Innovation Manchester, and will represent the University on the board of the Northern Health Science Alliance.

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Professor Gary Mole (MML 1983) has been awarded the honorary distinction of Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques for his service to French culture over the last 30 years. The ceremony took place at the Residence of the French Ambassador to Israel in Jaffa on 11 April 2019.

Greg Nance (MPhil Management 2011) took part in the World Marathon Challenge in January 2019. The former Gates Scholar ran to raise funds for Moneythink, a charity he co-founded with four fellow undergraduates at the University of Chicago in 2008 – its mentorship programme connects college volunteers with high-school students to teach saving, budgeting and goal-setting, and the company has recently introduced text-based financial coaching to guide college applicants through the FAFSA (America’s compulsory financial-aid application) process. Moneythink was recognized during the Obama presidency with a White House Champion of Change award in 2012.

Gerald O’Connell (Economics 1970) taught both Sharon White and Sonita Alleyne – two friends who both appear in this news report – at Leyton Senior High School for Girls (which later became Leytonstone School), inspiring them and drawing their attention to Fitzwilliam. Currently he an artist and a blogger on political economy and current affairs.

Adam Scaife (1988) was awarded the Copernicus Medal for innovative research and international collaboration on the causes, simulation and prediction of climate variability in April 2018.

Dr Rameen Shakur (PhD Biological Science 2012) is a cofounder of Cambridge Heartwear, a start-up company based on the Cambridge Science Park. The company has developed a low-cost next-generation wearable heart and cardiovascular function monitor which uses AI to diagnose heart rhythm and respiratory problems in real time; it hopes to improve the detection of irregular and dangerous heart rhythms and reduce the impact of stroke and stroke-related mortality and morbidity, which affects 120,000 people in the UK each year. Clinical trials have begun.

Sharon White (Economics 1985), currently Chief Executive of communications regulator Ofcom, will become Executive Chairman of the John Lewis Partnership in early 2020. See also the New Year Honours 2020.

Honours & Awards

New Year Honours 2019

Brian Christian (English 1974), Principal of the British School in Tokyo, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to education and to the community in Tokyo.

Malcolm Margolis (Economics 1968) was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to cycling in Harrogate.

Shaun Sawyer (Applied Criminology & Police Management 2004), Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Police, was awarded a Queen’s Police Medal (QPM).

James Vaughan (Applied Criminology & Police Management 2005), Chief Constable of Dorset Police, was awarded a Queen’s Police Medal (QPM).

Queen’s Birthday Honours 2019

Major General Nicholas Cavanagh (Engineering 1984) was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath.

Anthony Meggs (Natural Sciences 1970), lately Chief Executive, Infrastructure and Projects Authority and Head, Government Project Delivery Profession, was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath for public service.

Philip Brook (Mathematics 1974), Chairman of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to tennis.

Richard Vince (Applied Criminology, Penology & Prison Management 2002) was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to HM Prison and Probation Service.

Robert Ormsby (Applied Criminology & Police Management 2002) was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to law enforcement.

New Year Honours 2020

Sharon White (Economics 1985), Chief Executive of Ofcom, was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for public service.

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Humphrey Burton CBE (Music 1951) was made a Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire for services to Classical Music, the Arts and Media.

Francis Habgood QPM (Applied Criminology & Police Management 2003), lately Chief Constable, Thames Valley Police, was made a Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire for services to Policing.

Ronald Hogg (Applied Criminology & Police Management 1998) was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for charitable and political services. He died in December 2019, so the award will be made posthumously.

Brendan Threlfall (History 2004) Deputy Director, Northern Ireland and Ireland, Cabinet Office, was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for public service.

Adrian Gault (Economics 1977), lately Chief Economist, Committee on Climate Change, was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to the Environment and Tackling Climate Change.

Gareth Wilson (Applied Criminology & Police Management 2012), lately Chief Constable, Suffolk Constabulary, was awarded a Queen’s Police Medal.

Births, Marriages, and Partnerships

Galina Alova (2012) married Jan Beitner (2012) on 14 April 2018 in Jan’s home town of Regensburg, Bavaria. A celebration party followed in the summer in Galina’s home of Tartu, Estonia.

Rosie Busiakiewicz (2011) married Conor Gillies on Monhegan Island (off mid-coast Maine) on 8 September 2018. Five other alumnae flew the long distance and served as bridesmaids.

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Dr Austin Tiffany (2014) married Abbie Gillgan on 1 June 2019. A number of Fitzwilliam alumni attended the wedding. Austin’s PhD is reported on p.48; he took the degree on 27 April.

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in memoriam 2019

The Obituaries Editor is grateful to all those family members and others who have contributed material for the obituaries that follow.

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With sadness we report the deaths of the wife of a former Master, Brenda Cameron, widow of Professor Gordon Cameron, Master 1988–1990, on 6 November 2019; of Beryl Hudson, wife of Dr Harry Hudson, Life Fellow and Senior Tutor 1992–1997, on 25 October 2019; and of Christine Pooley, wife of Life Fellow and former Director of Studies in Natural Sciences, Dr Guy Pooley, on 21 December 2019. The Hudsons had moved to Epsom, to be near their daughter, Sarah, some ten years ago; but Beryl’s vascular dementia advanced steadily and only after she went into a care home did Harry find rest. Brenda Cameron came to Cambridge with Gordon in 1980, and secured a post at Netherhall School, where she was a very popular teacher of Modern Languages. This kept her busy during her husband’s Mastership; but she was glad of the opportunities to remain in touch with the College after Gordon’s death; and only recently moved to be closer to one of her sons. Christine Pooley died from cancer. The College expresses its condolences to the families of all concerned.

Members of the College

john robert ja mes a ndr ews (1958)John Andrews was born on 3 August 1930 in Hampstead, London, and was educated at Marlborough College. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1958 to read Architecture, and was a member of the Boat Club. He was also very much involved in theatre at Cambridge, particularly the ADC. He graduated in 1961, and became a Chartered Architect two years later, in which profession he spent the rest of his life. He owned a practice in Shobdon, Herefordshire, and won awards for his work there. He died on 17 August 2019.

br i a n mich a el atk ins (1961)Brian Atkins was born on 27 May 1939 at Newport, Isle of Wight, and was educated at Bournemouth School and University College, London. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1961 to take a Certificate in Education, which he was awarded in 1962 (though he also found time to organise a research students’ boat on the river). His first teaching post was at King Henry VIII School, Coventry. In retirement he returned to Hampshire, this time to Christchurch. He died on 30 June 2018, suddenly after a short illness.

joa nna m a r y ba nks (1989)Joanna Banks was born on 26 February 1971 in Bedford, and was educated at Hinchingbrooke School, Huntingdon. She came to Fitzwilliam in 1989 to read Natural Sciences (Physical) and secured a good upper second class result. She was a keen member of the Boat Club and the Swimming Club in college, and while at school passed Grade V clarinet and taught members of the lower school to play. After graduation she was appointed to a post with

BP, and was working in Trinidad when she was killed in a road accident while out cycling with her club in November 2018.

the r evd der ek dona ld billings (1951)Derek Billings was born on 29 April 1930 in Cambridge, and was educated at the Perse School, and at the Bible Churchmen’s College, Bristol. During his time in College he rowed in the first boat, and in his third year he was awarded a Hirst-Player bursary. After graduating in Theology in 1954 he trained for ordination at Tyndale Hall, Bristol; he was ordained deacon in 1956 and priest in 1957, becoming Curate at Attenborough with Bramcote & Chilwell, Nottinghamshire from 1956 to 1958, a lively group with a staff of eight. In 1959 he became Rector of Ashley with Silverley in the diocese of Ely, followed by ministries at Bottisham (1966–1980) and Houghton with Wyton (1980 until retirement). He died on 17 December 2018.

the r evd w illi a m r a lph bl ow (19 49)Ralph Blow was born on 10 July 1923 in Kodai Kanal, South India, where his parents were missionaries, and was educated at Kingswood School, Bath, and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he graduated in Physics. After working as a Demonstrator for a while he felt the call to ministry and came to Fitzwilliam as a member of Wesley House in 1949 to read for Part III of the Theological Tripos, in which he graduated in 1951. After completing his theological course he married and returned to India, where he was responsible for three Methodist communities and a leprosy hospital. In 1953 he was appointed lecturer in physics at Bankura Christian College, and he became bursar of the college in 1962. The family returned to England in 1966 and he served in Bingley in Yorkshire before spending the rest of his ministry in the south east (Canterbury & Faversham, West Norwood, Brixton and Chingford). Everywhere he showed energy in setting up youth clubs and lone-parent groups and running family holidays for church groups. Always he was attentive to the need of particular church members. He retired in 1988 to Beeston, Nottingham, visiting India most years. His wife died in 2006 and Ralph died peacefully on 16 November 2018.

bur in bor r iboon (1969)Burin Borriboon was born on 3 August 1950 in Thailand, and was educated at Eastbourne College. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1969 to read Economics, graduating in 1972. He returned to Thailand and worked for Shell, Sino-Thai Construction, and affiliates of the Bangkok Bank Group, before starting his own company, Bifold Company Ltd. He died on 23 April 2010 from complications following heart surgery.

edw in lint on brooks (1959)Edwin Brooks was born on 19 April 1940 in Northampton, and was educated at Northampton Grammar School. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1959 to read Geography, graduating in 1962. While at Fitzwilliam he played cricket and darts for the College. After graduating he took articles to

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become a Chartered Accountant and worked for various City firms during his career, ending as a Partner with Rothmans and a Director of various other firms. He retired in 2007, and died peacefully on 4 June 2019.

dr i a n a lfr ed buck l ow (19 4 8)Ian Bucklow was born on 14 September 1923 in Manchester, and was educated at Stretford Grammar School and Merton College, Oxford. He volunteered for military service on leaving school, and was mobilised in April 1944 and commissioned at the end of 1945, serving for two years in the General Duties Branch of the RAF Volunteer Reserve. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1948 to read Natural Sciences, and after graduating remained to do research for a PhD in metallurgical electrochemistry, which was awarded in 1956. When not working academically he rowed in the Fitzwilliam third boat. From Cambridge he moved to the ICI Metals Division, and then back to Cambridge to set up Metals Research Ltd, which he described as probably the first of the ‘Cambridge Phenomenon’ companies, where he was Research Director. He moved to the Materials Group in the University Engineering Department, lecturing on Engineering Materials and research into the mechanism of adhesion of sprayed coatings, and from there he became Head of Surface Technology at the Welding Institute, covering a broad range of joining and coating contracts and consultancy problems. After retirement, Ian continued as a Visiting Scientist at the Materials Science Department, working on the joining of ceramics, and supervising in Engineering Materials for various colleges. His daughter bought him a flight in a helicopter as a 90th birthday gift, after which he commented that it was harder to fly than a Spitfire but easier to land. He died on 15 June 2019.

w illi a m m a l col m c a ldw ell (1957)William Caldwell was born on 6 January 1934 in Ayr, and was educated at Ayr Academy and Glasgow University. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1957 to read for the Diploma in Agriculture, which he obtained in 1958. The College has no information about his subsequent career, though he was seeking a research post at first. He died in 2018.

ch a r les fr a ncis bur ne t t cl a r k (1978)Charles Clark was born on 23 December 1959 in Taunton, and was educated at Clifton College, Bristol. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1978 to read Economics, and changed to Land Economy at the end of his first year. Coming from a family of general valuers and auctioneers stretching back seven generations, he always intended to follow the same path. He qualified with Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury, and then joined Greenslade Taylor Hunt in 1984, where he remained for the rest of his career, becoming first a partner and then Chairman. He specialised in all aspects of rural valuation work, and was the firm’s principal Property Auctioneer, auctioning every Saturday at Sedgemoor Auction Centre. He also led the GTH team managing the 4,000 acres of Somerset glebe land for the diocese of Bath and Wells. In south Somerset he was a Trustee of a large local farming trust and earlier had been a trustee of the Somerset Community Foundation, a charity dedicated to helping disadvantaged people and groups in Somerset.

In 2010 he began to serve on the General Committee of Somerset County Cricket Club, and became chairman in January 2018. His wife, Rebecca Pow, has been MP for Taunton Deane since 2015. Charles developed cancer and died on 21 June 2019.

v ic t or lyle conques t (196 4)Lyle Conquest was born on 5 July 1946 in Stockton-on-Tees, and was educated at Grangefield Grammar School. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1964 to read History, and was also a member of the Boat Club. After graduation he took a while to decide that what he really wanted to do was to teach, and he secured a place on the course in Social and Cultural Studies at Chelsea College of Technology. His first job was at Borehamwood comprehensive school, followed by Aylestone comprehensive (with a year on an exchange programme teaching in Jamaica in 1979–1980). A heart attack in 1984 forced him to stop working, but after recovery he remained in fairly good health until 2013, when his heart began to deteriorate again. He died of a further attack in the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton on 20 June 2019.

the r evd john da r r el dav ies (1962)John Davies was born on 10 February 1940 at Woodcross, near Bilston, Staffordshire, and was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School and the University of Bristol. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1962 as a member of Wesley House to read Theology, graduating in 1963. After completing ordination training he undertook missionary training for work in Jamaica but was unable to go because of ill-health. So he served in the Birmingham Mission, after which he was Chaplain at Shebbear College (1966–1970). Later he enjoyed hospital, prison and army chaplaincies. He undertook circuit ministry in the West Midlands (Stoke-on-Trent South, 1970–1975, Birmingham, Islington and Quinton, 1975–1980, and Lichfield from 1980, where he was taken seriously ill). After a long recovery, he moved to Torbay. As a superintendent he led with vision and insight. He took early retirement in 1998, and returned to the West Midlands, first to Rugeley and latterly in Lichfield. He died on 9 January 2018.

the r evd dr paul dick inson (1956)Paul Dickinson was born on 5 July 1933 in Silkstone Common, Barnsley, Yorkshire, and was educated at Penistone Grammar School and University College, Durham, where he read Geography and also obtained a PhD in historical geography on land-use around Durham, based on Domesday Book. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1956 as a member of Wesley House to read Theology, graduating in 1958. His circuit ministries were at Hyde and Denton (1958–1962), Barnsley East (1962–1965) and Wolstanton and Audley (1965–1972); after this he resigned to become a lecturer in historical geography at what is now Staffordshire University, eventually becoming principal lecturer. He returned to full-time circuit ministry in 1992, and was archivist for churches in the Chester and Stoke-on-Trent District. He had published two Land Surveys, one in County Durham (1960), for which he was awarded a PhD, and another in Surrey (1962); his speciality was medieval land use. He died on 26 March 2019.

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dr i a n rodw ell dickson (1961)Ian Dickson was born on 28 September 1942 in Leicester, and was educated at the Wyggeston Boys’ School, Leicester. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1961 to read Natural Sciences, graduating in 1964. While at Fitzwilliam he was a member of the Boat Club. He moved to Bradford, where he obtained an MSc in 1967, and then to St George’s Hospital Medical School, where he was awarded a PhD for research in Chemical Pathology. He then held post-doctoral research fellowships at the Institute of Orthopaedics, University of London, Harvard Medical School, Boston, and Northwestern University, Chicago. Returning to Cambridge in 1973 he first worked in the Strangeways Research Laboratory and later in the Department of Medicine at Addenbrooke’s. In 1989 he was appointed to a Readership in the Department of Biological Sciences at Brunel University, where he remained until retirement. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Biology in 1991. Throughout his career his research interests were in the biochemistry and pathology of bone and connective tissues, especially their protein and other macromolecular constituents and the role of vitamin D in bone. He married Isola Kerr in Chicago in 1974, and had a son and two daughters. He died on 4 November 2018, after a short illness, while visiting his daughter Marion in San Francisco.

john nev ille dyson (1957)John Dyson was born on 23 September 1938 in Clare, Suffolk, and was educated at Lord Wandsworth College, Long Sutton, Basingstoke. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1957 to read Agriculture, graduating in 1960. He rowed in the first VIII while an undergraduate. He took a job at the Shropshire County Education Department’s Agricultural College, and found the Principal a ‘slave-driver’, but managed to secure another post with a higher salary. From Shropshire he moved to Hadlow Agricultural College in Kent as Head of the Extra-Mural Department; and then in 1973 he was appointed Vice-Principal of the Kesteven College of Agriculture, based at Caythorpe Hall, Lincolnshire. In 1980 the Kesteven Agricultural College, the Lindsey College of Agriculture, and the Holbeach Agricultural Centre merged to become the Lincolnshire College of Agriculture and Horticulture, and Dyson became the Vice-Principal and Head of Caythorpe. He took early retirement in 1993, a year before the combined college was absorbed into De Montfort University (Leicester) as its School of Agriculture; he became pastor of the Barrowby Baptist Fellowship, a newly-established Baptist Church near his home, a calling that he tackled with his usual energy and enthusiasm. He had a strong link with the Baptist churches in Moldova, which he visited once or twice a year for two decades. Initially he shared agricultural advice, but more recently they asked him to focus on sharing the Gospel. His last visit was in November 2018, when he contracted legionnaire’s disease, which led to his death in Lincoln on 16 December 2018. Dyson had unbelievable energy and drive until his final week: his gifts of communication enabled him to connect with people from any walk of life, from any culture or context.

roger ellio t t (19 47)Roger Elliott was born on 7 March 1922 and was educated at Bedford Modern School. After five years’ military service in the Second Word War, he came to Fitzwilliam in 1946 to read History and graduated in 1948. After completing a PGCE in 1949, he went into teaching as a career, eventually teaching at Plymouth College, The College has no other details of his teaching career, though he presumably retired in 1985. He died on 7 March 2019 – his 97th birthday.

the r evd dr paul ellingworth (1953)Paul Ellingworth was born on 15 November 1931 at Barnsley, West Yorkshire, and was educated at Midsomer Norton Grammar School and Worcester College, Oxford, where he obtained first class honours in French. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1953 as a member of Wesley House to read Theology, graduating in 1955 with first class honours, and was awarded the Junior Scholefield Prize for New Testament Greek. A year at Heidelberg followed, where he added German to his repertoire Then he served as a Methodist missionary in Benin and Cameroon, first lecturing at the École de Théologie, Porto Novo, and then at the Faculté de Théologie Protestante in Yaoundé, Cameroon until 1967. Returning to London he was Education Society to the Methodist Missionary Society (1967–1971) and subsequently as Europe Translation Coordinator with the United Bible Societies (1971–1975). He moved to Aberdeen, where he undertook a PhD on The Old Testament in Hebrews: Exegesis, Method and Hermeneutics, completed in 1977, and the basis for his Commentary on The Epistle to the Hebrews (1993). From Aberdeen he was a translation consultant until 1996. He handled European translation projects, was involved with various scholarly publications, including the United Bible Societies Translators’ Handbooks; he was editor of Technical Papers for the Bible Translator, and advised the BFBS on translation matters. On retirement in 1994 from his Senior Lectureship in New Testament, Paul was made an Honorary Professor at the University of Aberdeen; but remained active in both scholarship and conducting worship until early in the present century. He was a regular preacher and organist for the Methodist church in Aberdeen, and was much loved there. He died on 25 November 2018.

l ouis fr eder ick ga ndolfo (19 46)Louis Gandolfo was born on 8 August 1928 in Manchester, and was educated at St Bede’s College, Alexandra Park. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1945 to read Mechanical Sciences. He rowed for Fitzwilliam, played in the Rugby XV and joined the University Air Squadron, where he flew a Tiger Moth. After graduating in 1949 he worked for a short time in the Wirral, designing heavy reinforced foundations; but keen to travel he joined the Colonial Service and sailed to Malaya to become an Assistant Engineer with the Malayan Public Works Department. He progressed to more senior postings in various Malay states, and became Deputy State Engineer of Negri Sembilan until 1965, when he retired due to Malayan independence. In 1968 Louis was appointed a civil engineer with the Public Works department in Zambia. He was a Provincial Engineer from 1968

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to 1970, responsible for all government buildings and public water supplies. In 1971 he became Senior Executive Engineer (Administration) in the Departmental Headquarters in Lusaka, and acted as Assistant Director of Buildings until handing the post over to a Zambian. Thereafter he acted as an advisor to the Zambian Director of Buildings until retirement in 1979. On returning to the UK Louis and his family settled in the Staffordshire moorlands, where he enjoyed walking and gardening, and led an art group until his death. Until 2018 Louis regularly attended the Overseas Pensioners’ Association reunions, as well as the Fitzwilliam Reunion weekends. He died at home with his family on New Year’s Day 2019. the v ener a ble fr eder ick roy h a zell (1950)Frederick Hazell was born on 12 August 1930 and came to Fitzwilliam in 1950 to read History, graduating in 1953. He was a member of the Boat Club, while at Fitzwilliam. He moved to Cuddesdon College, Oxford to read for ordination, and was ordained deacon in 1956 and priest in 1957. He was curate at Ilkeston (1956–1959) and Heanor (1959–1962) before becoming vicar of Marlpool (1962–1963). A move to the tropics followed, as Chaplain to the University of the West Indies (1963–1966). Returning to England he was briefly a curate at St Martin-in-the-Fields (1966–1968) before becoming vicar of Croydon (1968–1984) and Rural Dean of Croydon (1972–1978). At this time he became an Honorary Canon of Canterbury (1973–1984). This also included a period as Priest-in-Charge of Holy Trinity, Croydon (1977–1980). His final post was to become Archdeacon of Croydon from 1985 until retirement in 1993. He and his wife moved to Worthing, where he died on 16 July 2019.

phillip h ag on, qpm (1996)Phillip Hagon was born on 2 May 1953, and joined the Metropolitan Police, where he served for thirty-three years, rising to the rank of Deputy Assistant Commissioner. During that time he held a number of different posts, including running the Territorial Support Group (London’s Riot Squad), operations chief of several busy police boroughs, chief superintendent of two more, and chief of staff for the then commissioner, Sir Paul (now Lord) Condon, commander of all boroughs north of the Thames and Heathrow Airport, and temporary deputy assistant commissioner for the Directorate of Professional Standards. He was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal in 2005. He also chaired a range of groups including the Channel Tunnel rail link Steering Committee, and was a national member of the chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear cadre of senior police officers. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1996 to study for the MSt in Applied Criminology & Police Management, graduating in July 1999. On his retirement from Scotland Yard, he joined Sainsbury’s as their Head of Corporate Security in May 2005; he created a new security strategy focusing on the protection of people, reputation and profits. During this time he maintained close links with police and other law-enforcement bodies; he chaired the Food and Drink Security Association during this period. In March 2015 he started a third career by setting up his own security consultancy company. He had a first degree in Psychology

and a master’s degree in Criminology from Cambridge, being awarded the Victor Lissack Prize. He was made a Freeman of the City of London in 2007 and appointed to the livery in 2008. Within the Worshipful Company of Security Professionals, he chaired the Marketing and Fundraising Committee for several years before being elected as Junior Warden in 2015, and Master of the Company in 2018–1919. He died after a short illness on 6 August 2018.

thom a s v i v i a n helw ig (1961)Thomas Helwig was born on 17 December 1940 in Mandeville, Jamaica, and was educated at Jamaica College, Kingston and the Michigan College of Mining & Technology, Houghton, Michigan, USA. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1961 to read Law, graduating in 1964 but continued to follow with enthusiasm the progress of the 1st VIII and the 1st XV. He also obtained an MBA in Public Administration and International Marketing in 1967 from George Washington University, Washington DC. In 1970 he moved to Canada (becoming a Canadian citizen in 1974) to take up a position with the Dominion Government in Ottawa as a legal translator and supervisor (French to English) for the Secretary of State. He retired from the post in 1995, but continued to work part-time at the Centre for Legal Translation, University of Ottawa. He died from cancer in St Vincent hospital, Ottawa. den ys ble th y n hill (1950)Denys Hill was born on 23 September 1930 in Leeds, and was educated at Silcoates School, Wrenthorpe, Wakefield and the Colleges of Technology in Leeds and Bradford. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1950 to read medicine, graduating in 1953. He completed his clinical training in 1957, having secured his membership of the Royal College of Surgeons and Royal College of Physicians in 1956. The College has no details of his subsequent career, but he died in Norwich in January 2018.

the r evd philip hodgson (19 49)Philip Hodgson was born on 20 October 1927 in Stretford, Lancashire, and was educated at Stretford Grammar School and Manchester University. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1949 as a member of Wesley House to read Theology, graduating in 1951. His circuit ministries were in the Birmingham Mission, Stockport (Tiviot Dale), Hazel Grove and Poynton, Stourbridge and Brierley Hill, Swindon, and Sunderland (South). Retiring in 1992, he moved to Droitwich. He died on 29 August 2017.

dr leo aoi hosoya (1992)Aoi ‘Leo’ Hosoya was born on 14 August 1967 in Japan, and was educated at Waseda University. She came to Fitzwilliam in 1992 to do an MPhil course in Archaeology, graduating in 1993. She was one of the first generation of graduates at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. Although she was primarily as archaeo-botanist, she imaginatively embedded her archaeological science within a critical social-historical approach. She continued on a PhD, researching into the domestication of rice and millets in the Neolithic period: her PhD was awarded in 2002. This proved to be a pioneering work, which she

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later developed at Waseda University, as a post-doctoral research associate at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in Kyoto, and finally as an Associate Professor at Ochanimizu University in Japan. But her work was not confined to her native country: she participated in joint projects with Chinese archaeologists, and her most recent work was on a multi-disciplinary project on the use of cooking pots in the Lower Yangtze basin. (See Rice and the formation of Complex Society in East Asia: Reconstruction of Cooking through Pot-soot and Carbon-deposit Analysis in Far from the Hearth (2019)). She died on 10 July 2019, leaving a husband and daughter.

a sht on john m a doc hul me (1960)Ashton Hulme was born on 25 September 1941 in Hereford, and was educated at St Paul’s School, West Kensington. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1960, graduating in 1963. The College has no details of his subsequent legal career, but he died on 3 January 2018.

niccol o gi a nc a r l o leo infa nte (1999)Niccolo Infante was born on 12 March 1978 in the UK, and was educated at the University of Exeter. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1999 to read for a Diploma in Computer Science, which he was awarded with distinction in 2000. He worked first at Baring Asset Management as a Software Developer (2004–2011), and then at JHC as a Java Analyst Programmer until his death. He died on 7 January 2018.

dr e a monn m a rtin k insell a (1962)Eamonn Kinsella was born on 6 March 1940 in Galway, Ireland, and was educated at the Jesuit College, Galway, the Christian Brothers’ School, Dublin, and University College, Dublin. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1962 to conduct research in Colloid Science for a PhD, from which he transferred to the Department of Metallurgy after a year. He was very popular while here, and was President of the Fitzwilliam Graduate Society. After securing his PhD he was appointed to a Lectureship in the Department of Building Science at Sheffield in 1967, before leaving to take up a post at the Institute of Industrial Research and Standards in Dublin in 1970, and then establishing a Consultancy at the Circa Group, of which he became a Director in 2003. He died on 13 November 2018.

ch a r les w illi a m k it chen (1969)Charles Kitchen was born on 30 June 1951 in Smethwick, and was educated at King George V Grammar School, Southport. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1969, and secured an RAF student cadetship, graduating in 1972. Soon afterwards he went into television, and became a successful TV director, which he very much enjoyed and really fired him with enthusiasm: he especially enjoyed directing programmes about expensive cars. He met his wife, Joyce, in his job and they were married for over 40 years; he was a caring stepfather to Joyce’s two sons, and equally loving to their own son. As they grew up, the family expanded and they had five grandchildren whom he treated with never-ending patience. On his retirement he became an avid reader, especially of historical non-fiction, ordering a new book every few days. He died suddenly in November 2018.

pe ter john leona r d (1959)Peter Leonard was born in 1945 in Epsom, but came to love his adopted county of Lincolnshire, and was a member of its Historical and Archaeological Society and a contributor to its Journal.

By the time he came up to Fitzwilliam as a mature student, to read for his Master’s degree at the Institute of Criminology, he was already a prison governor of some accomplishment. In an earlier life, he had had a couple of false starts at agricultural college and in the retail trade. Then he joined the Prison Service on the bottom rung of the ladder as a prison officer. His talents were quickly recognised and in 1970 he was promoted to the governor grades. Peter Leonard worked in all kinds of establishment from the smallest (Finnamore Wood, part of an open borstal for young offenders) to the complexity of one of the largest at Wormwood Scrubs; later he had charge of Frankland High Security Prison (in Durham).

He also taught in the Prison Service, and held various Prison Service headquarters jobs. He was sent twice to Albania as senior policy adviser to its post-Communist government, and subsequently to Kosovo. In 2000 he was promoted to the senior civil service as Operations Director of the Northern Ireland Prison Service, retiring in 2004.

Peter came to Fitzwilliam in 1998 to take the Master’s Course in Applied Criminology, Penology & Management for senior police and prison officers, graduating in 2000. He was proud of his membership of the College and returned regularly. Subsequently he completed an MA in History at the University of Leicester, on the administration of the Poor Law in various Lincolnshire parishes. Continuing at Leicester, he was in the middle of doctoral research on Lincolnshire parishes when he was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a form of lung cancer.

Peter and his wife were married for nearly fifty years; they shared a love of travel, the theatre and the arts more generally. They were both involved in the restoration and maintenance of Stow Minster. Their deep Christian faith and commitment to the Church of England provided great comfort during Peter’s final months and weeks; he died on 22 April 2019.

(With thanks to Peter Quinn, Selwyn 1966, Retired Prison Governor)

dr mich a el s tephen m a r r io t t (1971)Michael Marriott was born on 14 August 1950 in Buckingham, and was educated at the University of Manchester. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1971 to work for a Certificate of Post-Graduate Study in Natural Sciences (Chemical Microbiology) under Dr David Kerridge. His course was extended so that he could continue research on the Microbiology of Opportunistic Fungi, for which he was awarded a PhD in 1975. By now he was established as a pioneer in this field, and he secured an MRC Fellowship in the Biochemistry Department; and in 1977 he was given a Research Fellowship at the University of Regensburg. He established a company called Prolysis to market the drug he had discovered, which had proved to be a life-saver among those suffering from AIDS. This was absorbed by Pfizer Central Research, where Mike became Head of Chemotherapy. Then in 1988 he moved to Glaxo to

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take a similar position there. In 1995 he became Disease Strategy Director for GlaxoSmithKline with responsibility for all GSK sites in Europe, showing the high regard in which he was held as an antimicrobial scientist in both academic and industrial research organisations. When GlaxoWellcome merged with SmithKline Beecham, Mike was offered early retirement, an opportunity which he seized in order to be able to spend more leisure time skiing and walking in the Dolomites and also to act as a consultant to small biotechnology companies and the Wellcome Trust. He died from rectal cancer and pelvic sepsis on 29 December 2018. One of the drugs he had discovered began a cure, but he was beaten by the sepsis.

george a rthur a lbert m ay na r d (1967)Arthur Maynard was born on 29 July 1932 in Bridgetown, Barbados, and was educated at Harrison College, Bridgetown. He worked for the Civil Service of the Government of Barbados from 1961 to 1967, rising to be head of the Registration Office. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1967 to undertake the one-year Overseas Service Course, with special reference to Land Administration in Developing Countries (Land Reform), which he secured in 1968. In the early 1970s he joined the legal department of the Caribbean Development Bank, eventually becoming General Counsel, before retiring in 1995. He was also a renowned organist in the Moravian Church in Barbados, as well as music director and piano accompanist for various choral groups. He died in April 2019, and is survived by his wife and daughter.

dr g opik una r menon (1973)Gopi Menon was born on 22 January 1955 in Calicut, India, and was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1973 to read Medical Sciences. He played squash, tennis, and music, and went on to do his clinical course at St Mary’s College, Hospital, London. After qualifying in 1980 he worked as a paediatrician at St Mary’s Hospital, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Liverpool, Guy’s Hospital, and Great Ormond Street Hospital, and became a registrar at Peterborough and Leicester. In 1988 Gopi became honorary senior registrar in paediatrics in Edinburgh and in 1994 consultant neonatologist at the Simpson Memorial Maternity Hospital. As a consultant he cared for infants in Lothian for twenty-five years: he worked in the high-risk intensive care unit at the Simpson and the new Simpson Centre for Reproductive Health. He was a key part of the leadership which looked after 15,000 very ill babies during his time as a consultant. Gopi set up new services, including a joint respiratory clinic with the Royal Hospital for Children. He also showed unstinting commitment to the wider issues of neonatal follow-up for Scotland, and developed a national system for monitoring babies’ health, and a minimum dataset which proved valuable to the Neonatal Consultants’ Group. He was an excellent teacher, including nursing and midwifery staff, and stimulated a resuscitation skills programme for staff in the Simpson and beyond. In this period he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. He published widely, especially in newborn nutrition, and secured several grants for research in this area. His most important contribution may have been as Honorary Secretary and then

President of the British Association of Perinatal Medicine, where he was a powerful advocate for babies and their parents throughout the UK. Gopi was a kind, thoughtful and gentle man – a doctor of complete integrity; but full of surprises, especially in lecturing or amateur dramatics. He took great pride in his family, his wife Val, and his two daughters. By his untimely death from pancreatic cancer on 21 August 2019, Gopi is missed both by professionals throughout the UK, especially his colleagues in Edinburgh, by the many parents who will always remember him, and most of all by his family.

jennifer c ather ine mill s (1993)Jennifer Mills was born on 3 November 1974, and was educated at Benton Park School, Rawdon, Leeds. She came to Fitzwilliam in 1993 to read History, but she was also very active in other ways, including two years as lead trumpet for the Fitz Swing Band, and one as conductor, playing trumpet for fifteen musicals in Cambridge. She played for the Fitzwilliam Brass Ensemble, the High Society Dixie Band, and Bazooka Joe (for modern-dance-floor-jazz); and served a year on the Music Society Committee, responsible for publicity. She played cricket for the College in the 1995 season, and was a member of Kay Schwendiger’s aerobics group. Jennifer also won several prizes and scholarships as she progressed through college. She showed the same level of distinction in performance during her initial officer cadet training at Cranwell, 2002–2004. Sadly she developed metastatic breast cancer and died early in 2019.

r aymond mill s, mbe (1967)Ray Mills was born on 8 August 1926 at Bexley Heath, Kent, and was educated at Hove County School at the height of the London blitz. He joined the local fire-watchers and then became an Air Raid Warden, before beginning teacher-training at Borough Road College, Isleworth, aged 17. He was awarded his teachers’ certificate, but only had a few weeks teaching in a primary school before being called up in February 1945 to the RAF. He was top of the class in his Pay Accountant course, and as a result was called for officer training at RAF Cosford in the winter of 1946–1947; he passed and was given the rank of Pilot Officer. His RAF career was split between bases in the UK and Germany, until he retired with the rank of squadron leader in 1967. This was when he came to Fitzwilliam to read Economics, gaining a first in Part I (for which he was awarded the Adam Smith Prize) and a 2.1 in Part II. As a married mature student he took as active part as he could in the circumstances. He retained his interest in scouting; he was a licensed Lay Reader in the Church of England for over forty years, and a member of General Synod; he was a member of the management committee of the Cambridge YMCA; he served from 1971 to 1987 in the St John Ambulance Brigade, and in 1987 was invested as a Knight of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem by the Duke of Gloucester. For many years he was an Honorary Steward at Westminster Abbey, and attended many state occasions including the funerals of Lord Mountbatten and of Diana, Princess of Wales. In 1973 he was appointed as a JP, and was chairman of the Cambridge Bench in 1991 and 1992.

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He was made MBE in 1997 ‘for services to the community in Cambridgeshire’. For a long time he was a Supervisor of Studies in Economics for the College. In his retirement he and his wife loved to travel: several visits to Africa, as well as the USA, Australia and New Zealand. They visited every cathedral in England apart from Bradford and Wakefield. He died in Addenbrooke’s Hospital on 5 June 2019.

professor a ldw in hugh munby (196 4)Hugh Munby was born on 15 January 1942 in Kidderminster, and was educated at the University of St Andrew’s. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1964 to read for the Certificate in Education, which he successfully secured a year later. He then migrated to Canada, where he taught in schools until securing a position as a Graduate Assistant in the Department of Curriculum of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, which he held until he became an Assistant Professor at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, where he remained for the rest of his career, becoming Professor of Education in 1986, and then Emeritus Professor in 2006. He also held several short-term visiting posts outside Canada. Both at Cambridge and in Canada he was an enthusiastic fencer; and in 1985 he was appointed Assistant Coach and Coach of the Women’s Team, becoming Head Coach in 2004, He successfully qualified as Maître d’Armes in his mid-70s, and only retired as Head Coach in 2016 as a result of the onset of the invasive cancer that eventually killed him. He died on 1 October 2018.

henr y hugh dy k es na ismith (1956)Hugh Naismith was born on 22 September 1935 in Sheffield, and was educated at Southport Technical College and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1956 to read Mechanical Sciences; and was Secretary of the Athletics Club, as well as playing Rugby and Squash for Fitzwilliam. After completing his military engineering training, he was transferred to the British Army of the Rhine for several years, before going to Ghana, where he trained Ghanaian military engineers. In 1960 he went to the Congo in command of a Ghanaian company of engineers (which included two subsequent Presidents of Ghana). While there he contracted what he described as ‘a weird disease’, which led to his being invalided out of the Army. He and his wife returned to Germany, where he graduated with a major in French at the University of Osnabrück. For the next twenty years he taught at a Realschüle in Osnabrück, until his wife of 42 years died of cancer. Their son and two daughters were by this time married with children; Hugh retired to Kiel, where he continued to work as a freelance cartoonist. The College was informed of his death in August 2018, but no date of death was given.

super a m a ni a m na r a pa l a singh a m (1960)Superamaniam Narapalasingham was born on 7 August 1935 in Inuvil, Sri Lanka, and was educated at St Joseph’s College, Colombo, and the University of Ceylon. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1960 to read for the Diploma in Mathematical Statistics, which he secured in 1961. The College has no information about his subsequent career. He died on 17 August 2017.

dink er h a r i pa i pa na ndik a r (1955)Pai Panandikar was born on 18 May 1932 in Goa, India, and was educated at Poona University, where he secured a BCom (Hons) degree. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1955 to read Economics as an affiliated student, graduating in 1957. On returning to India he developed a career as a prominent economist, and after being associated with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry for thirty years, he became Secretary General (1981–1991), championing the role of private industry in Indian economic growth. In retirement, he was offered various jobs; and opted to be a consultant at the RPG Foundation, a renowned business house. He also chaired the South Asia chapter of the Washington-based International Life Sciences Institute, and held a number of directorships. His views on the macro-economy were still widely respected; and successive governments regularly sought his advice. In particular his ability to explain complex economic issues in a simple way was widely appreciated. After suffering a heart attack in July 2018, he died on 19 November 2018.

nigel henr y penn y (1966)Nigel Penny was born on 22 October 1947 in Hastings, and was educated at Hastings Grammar School. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1966 to read Natural Sciences, changing to Economics at the end of Part I. He rowed in one of the middle boats while at Fitzwilliam, and began his career as an accountant with Royal Dutch Shell on graduation. His career involved extensive travel, and a particular highlight was a posting to Singapore in the 1990s to be Finance Director. Nigel retired early from Shell in 2002, enabling him and his wife to indulge their love of travel, especially in India, where he researched his family history. In his latter years he was Chair of the Shell Pensioners’ Association Committee, Head of the Trustees at the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice, and a non-executive Director of the South East Coast Ambulance Service. He died on 23 July 2019 after a short illness.

the r evd a nthon y thom a s pepper (19 46)Tony Pepper was born on 13 April 1921 in Balham, and was educated at Kings College School and the Leys School, Cambridge, before War Service in the Royal Artillery, which he left with the rank of Lieutenant, having served in France, Belgium and Holland. The Belgian government awarded him a Croix de Guerre. He came to Fitzwilliam as a member of Wesley House in 1946 to read Theology. Dr Norman Pounds asked him to take charge of reviving the Rugby Club, to which he agreed. He also became Captain of Cricket. After graduation he served as a missionary in Burma from 1948 to 1953 (at the Methodist church at Chauk and chaplain to the Burmah Oil Company), and then as Chaplain to the Leys School for eight years. A variety of circuit ministries followed; in Bradford, Wimbledon, Sunderland and Edinburgh, from where he retired to Perthshire in 1986. When his wife became ill and they lost their mobility it was necessary for them to leave Scotland, and they moved to a Methodist Old People’s Home in Hathersage in the Hope Valley near their daughter. ‘He will be remembered as a gentle, compassionate me who listened to those in need … he quietly put into practice his deeply-held Christian faith.’ He died on 21 January 2018.

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the r evd r a lph scr ine (19 45)Ralph Scrine was born on 10 June 1919 at Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, and was educated at Fitzmaurice Grammar School, Bradford-on-Avon and Bristol University, graduating in 1940; but had already begun training as a Reader in the diocese. When called up for military service he opted to be a conscientious objector and, after pleading his own case, his application was granted. He consulted the bishop about what he should do, and the bishop asked him to take charge of a parish in Avonmouth, where the docks were being bombed: he stayed for four years, taking an evening service for the fire brigade (unless there was a raid). Having been instructed to apply to Westcott House, he came to Fitzwilliam in 1945 to read Theology, graduating in 1946 and was ordained deacon in that year. He was a curate with Mervyn Stockwood in Bristol, and shared rooms with John Robinson. After various parish appointments, he was appointed chaplain at Christ Church College, Canterbury in 1965, and then Senior Lecturer in 1968; and remained there until he retired in 1984. He had been awarded an MPhil from London in 1981, and remained active in his early retirement years. After his wife died, he moved to Tunbridge Wells, and died on 8 October 2017.

professor a l a n g ough sh a k espe a r e (19 45)Alan Shakespeare was born on 19 April 1928 at Pontycymer, South Wales, and was educated at Garw Secondary School. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1945 to read Natural Sciences, but was called up for National Service at the end of his first year, returning in 1948, and graduating in 1949 in Metallurgy and Materials Science. He did a PGCE in 1979–1980, and went to South Africa to teach there; he was appointed to a position at Technikon Mangosutho, a tertiary college for black students in Umlazi on the outskirts of Durban. This was the idea of the chief minister of KwaZulu, Dr Mangosutho Buthelezi. Two of the leading mining companies, the Anglo-American Corporation and de Beers Consolidated Mines, in an act of enlightened self-interest, provided money and other resources to train black engineers, technicians, chemists and administrators to the equivalent of university level (which was impossible by the direct route of universities because of apartheid.) Alan became the second Rector of the College in 1984, and held the post through the last and bitterest part of the struggle of the African National Congress against apartheid. To add to the difficulties of Alan’s task, the college was located between an ANC stronghold on one side of Umlazi and an Inkatha (the Zulu political movement) base on the other. Alan’s ‘colour blind’ policy within the College made it a potential flashpoint, especially when protected by an eight-foot high perimeter fence. He remembered parties when guests left their guns at the door; he once had to persuade a lecturer to stay on after a concrete block was thrown through his car windscreen. His enlightened and tactful leadership over five critical years contributed to the growth and success of the College, beginning with 300 students and ending with 1500. Now it is a successful university with a Vice-Chancellor, and it numbers over 3,000 students. On retirement he returned to this country, and became a regular visitor to College Reunions. He died in April 2018.

geoffr ey a l a n s tr i v ens (19 46)Geoffrey Strivens was born on 5 June 1928 in Great Missenden. Bucks, and was educated at Ipswich School. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1946 to read Law, graduating in 1949, after which he did National Service in the Royal Army Tank Corps, finishing his service in the Suez Canal Zone in 1951. He then became articled to a solicitor in Salisbury, while reading for his Law Society exams, and he also took the LLB examination in 1953. After retirement in 1984 he and his wife moved to Oxfordshire, near Bicester; and it was there that he died on 16 March 2019.

the r evd r aymond fr a ncis trudgi a n (1957)Ray Trudgian was born on 21 March 1937 in Nanpean, Cornwall, and was educated at St Austell Grammar School, where he was head boy and also met his future wife, Angela. He undertook National Service, as a conscientious objector, with the Royal Pioneer Corps at Wrexham, 1955–1957. He gained a place at Wesley House to train for the ministry, and a scholarship to Fitzwilliam, where he read Theology, graduating in 1960. Raymond married Angela in August, and after a honeymoon in the Scilly Isles they began training at Selly Oak for missionary service overseas – in their case Zambia, where he took up his post as warden of a community centre in Lusaka. Their eldest two children were born in Africa but, when Raymond’s father died in 1964, they were compelled to cut short their overseas service; their third child was born in Cornwall. Raymond was appointed to Northfleet in Kent, where he broke up a potentially explosive confrontation between mods and rockers; and he then became international secretary for the Christian Education Movement, and had two periods as a lecturer in Religious Education – at Edge Hill College in Ormskirk, and Borough Road in west London, where he was head of department. In 1983 he returned to full-time ministry at Terrington St John, near Wisbech; Porthleven in Cornwall; Southgate in London; and finally North Hykeham in Lincoln. He retired in 2001 to live at Wiggenhall St Germans, near King’s Lynn. Even after retirement he represented the East Anglia Methodist District in faith relations, and received a special award from the Council for Christians and Jews at Lambeth Palace. His great hobby was keeping bantams, which began when he was ten. After showing both birds and their eggs he became a judge in competitions in 1973, and finally president of the Poultry Club of Great Britain and life-membership on his retirement. Ray was chaplain and Almoner of the Worshipful Company of Poulters, and was given the Freedom of the City of London and the rank of Liveryman. He wrote several books, including a biography of his ancestor, Sir Francis Tregian, who was an Elizabethan recusant (Roman Catholic), who is buried in Lisbon cathedral. Many tributes have been paid to him since his death, of which the simplest was ‘he simply loved being a minister’, from former President of Conference, Richard Jones. He died on 3 October 2018. dr nichol a s john a sht on vaugh a n (1968)Nicholas Vaughan was born on 5 April 1950 in London, and was educated at Eltham College. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1968 to read Medicine and gained a First class result in Physiology Part II in 1971. He was awarded

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an MD in 1986. From an early stage in his medical career he specialised in Endocrinology. After a series of house jobs in various London Hospitals in the 1970s, he became a registrar at the Middlesex Hospital in 1977, and then secured an MRC Research Fellowship in 1979, which he held for a year at the Middlesex. In 1981 he became a senior registrar at St George’s Hospital London for five years and then a consultant endocrinologist at Brighton Healthcare, where he remained until his retirement. He was also one of the directors of the board of the European Study Group for Diabetes Information Management from 1996, as well as holding office in the British Diabetic Association. He was group leader for diabetes and endocrinology in the UK National Health Service Executive from 1995. He died on 7 November 2018.

the r evd professor a rthur w illi a m wa in w r ight (1950)Arthur Wainwright was born on 14 October 1925 in Leeds, and was educated at Leeds Grammar School, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, during which time he did war service in the coal mines under the Bevin Scheme. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1950 as a member of Wesley House to read Theology as part of training for the Methodist ministry, and obtained first class honours. He served for a year in the Yeovil circuit, and was then assistant tutor at Handsworth Theological College, Birmingham (1953–1957). He moved to the Manchester and Salford Central Mission (1957–1962), where he served Oxford Hall, and was chaplain to Methodist students at the university and the college of technology. Here he met and married his wife of sixty years, Betty. Then south again to the Abingdon and Wantage circuit, before leaving for the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, where he spent the rest of his life. He served the Emory Faculty as Professor of New Testament for 29 years, until his retirement in 1994: most of his books were on New Testament themes, but perhaps the most scholarly was his two-volume edition in the Clarendon series of the Works of John Locke, on Locke’s Paraphrases of St Paul’s Epistles to the Galatians, Romans, 1 & 2 Corinthians, and Ephesians, A former colleague recalled his ‘clear spirit of gentle, pastoral wisdom’. He died in Atlanta on 27 April 2019.

gly nne r ich a r d e a r le w elby (19 46)Glynne Earle Welby was born on 14 August 1921 at Folkestone, and was educated at All Hallows School, Rousdon, Devon. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1946 to read History, changing to Geography after Part I, and graduating in 1948. He had already done war service in the Eighth Army in North Africa and Sicily, and after D-Day in France; and accepted a place at Fitzwilliam rather than Queens’, because he had married in 1944. (He was able to attend his interviews only because he was officially escorting three German scientists who had worked on the V1 and V2 rockets.) He was an enthusiastic member of Fitzwilliam, playing in the 1st XV regularly and joining in other activities as well. Having come from a military family, he decided to return to the Armed Forces after graduation, but this time the general division of the RAF, where he ultimately attained the rank of Squadron Leader with the Directorate Educational Services of the Air

Ministry in 1960. He was Senior Lecturer at the Mary Ward College of Education, Nottinghamshire in 1962, and finally Head of International Studies at the RAF College, Cranwell (1966–1968). After retirement he and his second wife moved to Cheshire. He died on 18 December 2017.

professor cli v e w ilk inson (1959)Clive Wilkinson was born on 25 March 1941 at Bishop Auckland, County Durham, and was educated at Durham Johnston Grammar Technical School. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1959 to read Natural Sciences. On securing a First in Part I Natural Sciences he was awarded a Prize; but he also represented Fitzwilliam at tennis, football and cricket. On graduation he stayed on to do research in Physics, spending time at Harwell, with a research fellowship in x-ray and neutron crystallography. He became a Lecturer in Physics at Queen Elizabeth College (later combined with King’s College, London). His later research work was carried out at the Institut Laue-Langevin High Flux Beam Reactor in Grenoble; from 1989 to 1999 he was based at the Grenoble outstation of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, where he was head of the Instrumentation Group. Following retirement and return to the UK he became a Visiting Professor at King’s and at Durham, with continued regular visits to Grenoble for research. He died on 3 June 2019.

nor m a n er ic w illi a ms (19 4 8)Norman Williams was born on 17 May 1925 in Abadan, Iran, and was educated at Tiffin School, Kingston-on-Thames, and Magdalen College, Oxford. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1948 to read Archaeology and Anthropology, as an Affiliated Student, having been demobilized from the RAF with the rank of Sergeant in January 1948. He gained a First in Tripos and also a rugger Blue, having changed to Economics from Archaeology & Anthropology. He stayed on to complete the Economics course, and joined the Colonial Service in 1952 and was posted to Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia. He also married in the summer of that year. When Northern Rhodesia became independent in 1961, he returned to the UK and took a position in Local Government with Kent, eventually becoming Head of Committee Services. He retired in 1990, but attended Reunions regularly. He died in March 2019.

pe ter john w illi a ms (1950)Peter Williams was born on 27 September 1932 in Croydon, and was educated at Whitgift School. He came to Fitzwilliam in 1950 to read Agriculture, but in fact read a combination of Geography and Natural Sciences. After miraculously securing a State Scholarship to do research after two Third Class results, he developed a line of interest in the behaviour of liquids in frozen ground, which was the main preoccupation of the rest of his life. He began with a scholarship at the University of Oslo for a year (his wife was Norwegian), and then in 1957 took a research post with the Northern Section of the (Canadian) National Research Council in Ottawa at the Division of Building Research, with whom he worked until 1969. He then became a full Professor of Geography at Carleton University, Ottawa in 1971 and later Director of the Geotechnical Science Labs at Carleton in 1978. His

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research work equipped him for the important task of advising on oil and gas exploration in the frozen ground of the Arctic. After retirement as Professor in 1993, he was able to travel much more according to his own interests, continuing his research with colleagues in Canada, Norway, France, Russia and the UK. He established the International Contaminants in Freezing Ground conference series in 1997. Peter was an Emeritus Associate of the Scott Polar Institute, Cambridge and a Distinguished Research Professor at Carleton; and he was honoured

with the Roger J.E. Brown Memorial Award from the Canadian Geotechnical Society in 2002 for Outstanding Contributions to Permafrost Science and Engineering. Truly his words in a letter to Bill Williams in January 1957 that his specialist line of research (frozen ground) was ‘not a very profitable one in England’ were spot on. After his wife died in 2016, he moved to London, Ontario to be closer to one of his daughters; he died on 14 January 2019.

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J U DI T H BU N T I NG

In 1979, Judith Bunting came up to Fitzwilliam from Peterborough County Grammar School for Girls, as one of the 37 members of the first group of women undergraduates. She read Natural Sciences, specializing in Chemistry, whilst undertaking numerous journalistic activities: in her first year, she wrote for the Fitzwilliam Magazine about the admission of women to an historically all-male College and also wrote for Varsity. Later she worked with the student-run radio station and was part of the team which won a half-hour slot on BBC Radio Four. Judith also was Captain of the University Women’s Judo Team, achieving two Half-Blues.

She went on to become a science journalist and TV documentary producer, spending more than 20 years at the BBC and elsewhere, directing films for Tomorrow’s World, and for Horizon as well as for National Geographic and the Discovery Channel. In May 2019, Judith was elected as the Liberal Democrat MEP for the South East of England. She is the Liberal Democrat spokesperson in Europe for Education and Research.

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All members of the College who have paid a life subscription (normally as students) are members of the Fitzwilliam Society, and every Fellow is an Honorary Member of the Fitzwilliam Society during his or her Fellowship.

The Society exists to keep the members of Fitzwilliam College in contact with each other and with the College, to provide social, business and career networking and support, and to further the interests of Fitzwilliam College.

To achieve these objectives, the Fitzwilliam Society works principally through the Development Office to:

• publish the Fitzwilliam Journal

• fund awards, scholarships, prizes and debates – see pages 43 to 46, and 55

• provide funds to support other student activities

• organise the annual Careers Fair – see page 95

• organise the annual College Reunion

• organise other reunions, including the annual London Dinner, and events in the UK and overseas

More information can be found throughout the Journal and at www.fitz.cam.ac.uk

Join the Committee.

The Society operates through a Committee. The current members of the Committee are set out on page 94, and we are always delighted to welcome new members. All members of the Society are eligible to stand for election to the Committee – please contact the Secretary through the Development Office if you are interested in doing so.

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President Judith Bunting MEP (1979)

Vice-Presidents Geoff Harrison (1955) Professor Brian Johnson FRS (ex officio) Professor Robert Lethbridge (ex officio) The Reverend Professor David Thompson John Adams (1958) Sir Kenneth Olisa OBE (1971) Professor Nicola Padfield QC (ex officio) Dr John Cleaver Dame Sarah Asplin DBE (1979) Baroness Sally Morgan (Master) (ex officio) Zoë Shaw (1979)

Secretary Peter Howard (1970)

Treasurer Robin Bell (1965)

Editor of the Journal Dr John Cleaver

Development Director (ex officio) Dr Nicola Jones

Bursar (ex officio) Andrew Powell

Senior Tutor (ex officio) Dr Paul Chirico

Elected members Retiring 2020 James Harrington (2008) Matt Bennison (2008) Dr Helen Bettinson (1982) Retiring 2021 Peter Bates (1959) Rachael Webb (1979) Susannah Odell (2011) Retiring 2022 Professor Glen Norcliffe (1962) Andrew Garden (1981) Judith Bunting MEP (1979)

Co-opted member Stjepan Mandic (2008)

JCR Presidents (ex officio) Ellie Brain (2017) [President 2018–2019] Matt Hill (2016) [President 2017–2018]

MCR Presidents (ex officio) Aisha Sobey (2017) [President 2019–2020] Pavao Santak (2016) [President 2018–2019]

Past Presidents of the Society

W.F. Reddaway, 1925–1927; C.J.B. Gaskoin, 1928; The Revd W. Harvey, 1929; The Rt. Revd Donald Baker, 1930; W.F. Reddaway, 1931; Dr P. Dunsheath OBE, 1932; G. Gyson, 1933; J.R.W. Alexander, 1934; The Revd. F. Thatcher, 1935; C. Hubert Wolff, 1936; G. Milner Walton, 1937; H.D. Cochrane, 1938; G. Granville Sharp, 1939–1946; The Revd R.J. Cobb, 1947; Group Captain J.C.C. Slater, 1948; Sir John Stratton CBE, 1949; H.T. England, 1950; W.W. Williams, 1951; C.H. Watson, 1952; E. Saville Peck, 1953; R.W. Haywood, 1954; J.W. Whitlock JP, 1955–1956; E.J. Saunders, 1957; D.W. Markwick, 1958; Dr W.W. Grave CMG, 1959; Dr L.J.M. Coleby, 1960; F.H. Taylor, 1961; R.P. Thorne MBE, 1962; W.J.M. Dennis, 1963; G.W. Barman, 1964; The Rt. Revd A.H. Morris, 1965; J.H.W. Hannant, 1966; H.M. Burton, 1967; N. St John-Stevas, MP (Baron St John of Fawsley), 1968; Dr R. Kelly, 1969; R.H. Fairclough, 1970; Professor N.J.G. Pounds, 1971; The Revd L.A. Brewster, 1972; J.R.W. Alexander CBE, 1973; Dr E. Miller, 1974; Sir John Stratton CBE, 1975; Dr S.G. Fleet, 1976; Group Captain A.E. Silvester, 1977; W.O. Rice, 1978; J.W. Skillington, 1979; Dr C.L. Wayper, 1980; Dr E. Miller, 1981; Dr R. Kelly, 1982; Professor Sir James Holt, 1983; J.O. Creasey, 1984; G. Harrison, 1985; Sir Kenneth Olisa, 1986; Sir John Williams KCMG, 1987; The Revd W.T.H.B. Davies, 1988; Professor G.C. Cameron, 1989; R.L. Coleby, 1990; Professor B.F.G. Johnson, 1991; Professor A.W. Cuthbert, 1992; A.S.A. Garden, 1993; Professor N.M. Padfield, 1994; J.V. Adams, 1995; Dr S.N. Lane, 1996; G. Harrison, 1997; Dr S.G. Fleet, 1998; Professor A.W. Cuthbert, 1999; Professor B.F.G. Johnson, 2000; N. Clarke, 2001; The Revd Dr D.M. Thompson, 2002; Dr D.R. Starkey, 2003; Professor R.D. Lethbridge, 2004; S.J. Asplin QC, 2005; C.L. Pratt, 2006; D. Dhamija, 2007; Dr M.D. Potter, 2008; G.F. Nutter, 2009; Professor N.K.H. Slater, 2010; Z. Shaw, 2011; R. Tyler, 2012; J.M. Prescott, 2013; Professor N.M. Padfield, 2014; N. Stapleton, 2015; R. Webb, 2016; Sir Peter Bazalgette, 2017; Richard Hooley, 2018.

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The Society was established in 1924. Most of the specific aims for which the Society was established (for example, to keep records of members, publish the Journal and to arrange reunions) have been delegated to the Development Office at the College. The Committee therefore reviewed the role of the Society a few years ago, to ensure that it is useful and productive for members, and to strengthen the links between alumni and students. The Careers Fair and the programme of grants for student activities (see below) resulted from this review.

The Objectives and Rules of the SocietyNew Objectives and Rules for the Society were adopted at the AGM on 24 September 2011. The objectives of the Society are now particularly focused on social and business networking and career support, as well as assisting in the development of the College.

Support for Student ActivitiesFor the last five years, the Society has been making small grants to assist a variety of student activities. Brief details of the 2019 grants can be found in the reports by the Secretary and Treasurer in the Minutes of the 2019 AGM on page 96.

Career InitiativesYou can help students with career development by• giving careers guidance to current students at the 2020 Fitzwilliam Society Careers Fair• telling the Development Office about any work experience or internship opportunities for students at

your organisation• making a gift to the Student Opportunities Fund which provides travel grants to students to help them undertake

work experience placements.

The Fitzwilliam Society Careers Fair takes place at the College every November. It is an opportunity for you to chat to students directly and, by letting them know more about what you do and answering their questions about your job or the industry in which you work, you can help them decide what career path they would like to follow.

If you would like to attend a Careers Fair or are able to help Fitzwilliam students and alumni with their career choices, please contact Dr Millie Papworth in the Development Office on 01223 332018. We would be delighted to hear from you.

The Careers Fair in November 2018

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Held in the Trust Room, Fitzwilliam College at 5:30pm on Saturday 28 September 2019

The chair was taken by Professor Nicola Padfield (Vice-President) in the absence of the President. Others present were Dr Vivian Anthony (1959), Peter Bates (1959), Robin Bell (1965), Judith Bunting (1979), Rodney Burton (1956), Dr John Cleaver, Gerald Coles (1958), John Gamlin (1958), Geoff Harrison (1955), Peter Howard (1970), Dr Nicola Jones, Baroness Sally Morgan, Professor Glen Norcliffe (1962), Andrew Powell, Pavao Santak (2016), Zoë Shaw (1979), Michael Simpson (1958), Michael Tucker (1979) and Rachael Webb (1979)

1. Apologies for absenceApologies were received from John Adams, Dame Sarah Asplin, Andrew Garden, Richard Hooley (President), Sally Howes, Professor Robert Lethbridge, Sir Kenneth Olisa, Revd Professor David Thompson and Doug Webb.

2. Secretary’s ReportThe Secretary briefly summarised the activities of the committee and sub-committees during the last year. The annual Careers Fair would be on 9 November. The 2018 Fair had attracted 36 alumni from a wide range of sectors and occupations, and over 150 students, some from other Colleges. The afternoon had started with a talk by Andrew Farrer on Questions and Advice to Help You Find Your Career, and the event had also included a CV Clinic, with students booking one-to-one meetings with alumni who had recruitment experience. Feedback from both students and alumni had been very positive. Thanks were due to the Development Office team who had organised the Fair, and in particular Dr Millie Papworth, who had also obtained and analysed feedback

The programme of grants for student activities had now run for 5 years. A sub-committee liaised with the MCR and JCR Presidents each year to discuss the application process. £2,000 had again been available and this year had produced a record 10 applications, of which 8 had been successful. The Strategy sub-committee had met this afternoon and had discussed the London Drinks, its purpose, format and venue and how to increase numbers attending. The Secretary referred to the Fitzwilliam Society Trust Fund, a report on which had been provided to those attending the AGM, and reminded the meeting of the function of the Trust Sub-Committee, which had not met in the last year. He briefly reported on the year’s two London events, the Drinks Party in March at the Walrus and Carpenter pub, and the Dinner on 9 May at the Regimental Drill Hall of the London Scottish Regiment, both of which had been well attended and much enjoyed. Thanks were again due to Graham Nutter for his generous gift of red wine from his vineyard in France for the Dinner.

Turning to the Reunion, the Secretary mentioned the change of format of the Friday Dinner and explained the thinking behind it. Thanks were due to the Master and

Fellows, the Development Office team and the many students and College staff who had again arranged an attractive programme for the weekend. He concluded by thanking the many people who had supported the Society during the year and for their extremely hard work in arranging events, in particular Dr Nicola Jones the Development Director, and her team, Andrew Powell, the Bursar, Dr Paul Chirico, the Senior Tutor, Professor Nicola Padfield, the Master, Dr John Cleaver for another excellent edition of the Journal, and Richard Hooley, this year’s President.

3. Treasurer’s Report and AccountsThe Treasurer mentioned some highlights of his report which had been included in the pack of papers for members attending the AGM. There had been a surplus of £2,803, and the Society had contributed £10,526 (about 45%) towards the cost of the Journal. £2,117 had been spent on Student Activities Grants, together with a further £500 brought forward from 2018 as the purchase of a new jukebox, for which it had been awarded, had been delayed.

Following questions about the terms of the loan by the Society to the College, and the financial relationship between the Society and the College, the Treasurer explained that the Trust Fund had been transferred to the College in about 2007 pursuant to a written agreement, and that assets of around £39,000 are currently loaned to the College interest-free. In response to another question, he briefly described the agreement with the College whereby the subscription was frozen.

The Treasurer expressed his thanks to Roger Smith for again approving the accounts very speedily and without qualification. John Gamlin proposed that the meeting should accept the accounts, and Geoff Harrison seconded the proposal and it was passed.

4. Report on the Fitzwilliam Society Trust FundIn the absence of the Senior Tutor, the Master said a few words about the Trust Fund and said that the recipients of awards were very grateful to the Society. These awards are largely made to graduate research students, and make a big difference. This year there was a slight overspend which helped to balance out an underspend in recent years.

Judith Bunting commented that some of the scholarships seem to be very small. One of these was £110, which is not much – could it be increased? The Bursar explained that this recognizes scholarship; it is a prize, not a funding award. The Development Director added that this award probably represents an increase of £10 from the equivalent award last year.

5. Election of President and other OfficersPresident: Judith Bunting (proposed by Rachael Webb. seconded by Zoë Shaw) was elected unanimously. Secretary: Peter Howard (proposed by Professor Glen Norcliffe, seconded by Michael Simpson) was re-elected

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unanimously. Treasurer: Robin Bell (proposed by Dr Nicola Jones, seconded by Peter Bates) was re-elected unanimously. Journal Editor: Dr John Cleaver (proposed by Judith Bunting, seconded by Peter Howard) was re-elected unanimously.

6. Election of Committee MembersJohn Gamlin proposed that Judith Bunting and Andrew Garden should each be re-elected for a further 3 years, and that a co-opted member, Professor Glen Norcliffe, should be elected for 3 years. The proposals were seconded by Geoff Harrison, and all three were elected unanimously.

7. Election of Independent ExaminerRobin Bell proposed that Roger Smith FCA should be re-elected as the Independent Examiner. The

proposal was seconded by Rachael Webb, and he was re-elected unanimously.

8. Any other businessJudith Bunting said that she hoped there would be another Strategy sub-committee meeting before the end of the year and invited volunteers to join the sub-committee. She also referred to the Careers Fair on 9 November and said it would be good if some of the Committee could attend.

There being no other business, the Acting President declared the meeting closed at 18.20.

Minutes prepared by Peter Howard, Secretary, and approved and signed by Professor Nicola Padfield QC (Acting President)

Fitzwilliam Society Accounts Income & Expenditure Account – Year ended 31 July 2019

Notes 2019 2018Income

Subscriptions 1 14,928.00 13,968.00 Donations received 2 857.00 878.00

15,785.00 14,846.00 Expenditure

London Dinner – Society guests 3 255.00 208.56Fitzwilliam Journal – share of costs 4 10,526.00 11,058.99 5 - Magazines for JMA Student café 6 83.99 615.30 Grants to MCR and JCR 7 2,117.50 1,855.92

12,982.49 13,738.77

Surplus for the year £2,802.51 £1,107.23

Balance Sheet – at 31 July 2019

Assets Loan to Fitzwilliam College 8 39,072.57 36,770.06 LESS: creditor 9 - 500.00

Net Assets £39,072.57 £36,270.06 Represented by:Accumulated fund at 1 August 2018 36,270.06 35,162.83 Surplus for the year 2018–19 2,802.51 1,107.23

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NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS:1. The subscriptions shown above are those received in

the period from members currently at the College.Subscription levels were reviewed in 2014–15, with all students (JCR and MCR) now paying on an equivalent basis.

2. Donations received from members of the Society towards costs of printing the Journal and the Careers brochure.

3. Income for the event totalled £6,400 (2018–£6,851) and, as in previous years, Graham Nutter generously donated the red wine served for the evening. The Society's contribution is for JCR and MCR President guests

4. The Society and the College now share the cost of printing/distributing the Fitzwilliam Journal to those members of the College who are members of the Society. The College's current contribution of 55% (2018:60%) will continue to rise. In 2019 the Society's contribution of £10,526 was 45% of the total cost, which fell this year. A review of the Journal funding formula is proposed before the end of July 2020.

5. The Careers Fair 2018 was funded by the Development Office.

The Fitzwilliam Society in past times

6. For a range of titles in the Student Café. 7. The Society made seven grants (total £2,618) to the

MCR and JCR, including £500 (Juke Box b/fwd from 2017–18)

8. The Society's assets are on loan interest-free to Fitzwilliam College, to the benefit of the Society's Trust fund at the College. The fund supports the College by awarding scholarships and prizes, funding research awards and the Milner Walton Music & Drama Awards, and an annual library grant.

9. The MCR Juke Box grant of £500 unpaid at 31 July 2018 was paid during the current year (see note 7).

Robin G. Bell, Honorary Treasurer 5 September 2019

HONORARY INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORTI have examined the Income & Expenditure Account for the year ended 31 July 2019 and the Balance Sheet at that date together with the records and vouchers of the Society, and confirm them to be in accordance therewith.

Roger N. Smith, Independent Examiner 6 September 2019

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The 11th Annual London Dinner of the Fitzwilliam Society in 1935, held at the Criterion Restaurant. W. S. Thatcher (A) was the Censor of Non-Collegiate Students at the time; W.F. Reddaway (B) was the previous Censor; C.J.B. Gaskoin (C) was a long-standing Senior Member

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The first Cambridge reunion of the Fitzwilliam Society, in 1928, when the Pavillion was new – it had been designed by the Bursar, the Rev. Walter Harvey (who had trained as an architect before coming up as an undergraduate in 1907). Harvey, in dark suit and tie, is standing in front of the nearest pillar

The first Fitzwilliam Society Dinner after the move to the present site, in the summer of 1963

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DINING IN COLLEGE

All graduates of Fitzwilliam are reminded that they have High Table Dining Rights of one free meal per term and are entitled to further meals at their own expense. As for Fellows, the cost of drinks before, during and after dinner is charged to the member. If you are in Cambridge and wish to take advantage of this privilege, please book in by telephone to the Steward’s Secretary on (01223) 332021, at least a day in advance. As there are several occasions throughout the year when dining is available for Fellows and invited guests only, it is advisable to check with the Steward’s secretary in good time if there is a particular date when you wish to dine.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Fitzwilliam College,

Storey’s Way,

Cambridge, cb3 0dg.

Telephone enquiries: +44 1223 332000

General facsimile: +44 1223 477976

Development Office: +44 1223 332015

Development Office: [email protected]

Event booking: [email protected]

College web page: http://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk

THE FITZWILLIAM SOCIETY

All members of the College who have paid a life subscription (normally as students) are members of the Fitzwilliam Society, and every Fellow is an Honorary Member of the Fitzwilliam Society during his or her Fellowship.

The Society exists to keep the members of Fitzwilliam College in contact with each other and with the College, in order to provide social, business and career networking and support, and to further the interests of Fitzwilliam College.

To achieve these objectives, the Fitzwilliam Society works, principally through the Development Office, to:

• publish the Fitzwilliam Journal• fund awards, scholarships, prizes and debates – see pages 43 to 46, and 55• provide funds to support other student activities• provide the Career Network and an annual Careers Fair – see page 95• organise the annual College Reunion• organise other reunions, including the annual London dinner and events in the UK and overseas.

More information can be found throughout the Journal and at www.fitz.cam.ac.uk

Fitzwilliam College Storey’s Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DG, UK Registered Charity No. 1137496 www.fitz.cam.ac.uk

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