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Even the most irreligious oratheistic among Trinitarianscannot fail to have been impressedby the splendour of the collegechapel. It is a masterpiece of theEnglish baroque and was from itsinauguration regarded as one ofthe most beautiful chapels inOxford. Peter the Great of Russia,who visited Oxford in 1698, onlyfour years after the chapel wascompleted, insisted as a priority onseeing it.

If you visit Trinity in the nexttwelve months, however, you willfind the chapel closed. We havedecided to restore the chapel to itspristine glory by carrying out themost extensive works ofredecoration, repair and restoration in living memory.The woodwork and the priceless carvings by GrinlingGibbons are badly in need of restoration: they havesuffered from the extremes of heat and cold in thechapel, as well as the ravages of time. We are alsotaking the opportunity to de-ebonize the carvings (itwas probably the Victorians who decided to stainthem), to take them back to their original state, whichwas the natural wood (Gibbons used different woods,including lime wood and Bermuda cedar), coveredwith a light varnish.

The stained glass windows are being carefully cleanedand a window is being re-instated—portrayingChrist’s crucifixion and paid for by publicsubscription in memory of Isaac Williams (1821,Fellow 1831), it was removed (along with the otherwindows) to storage in 1941 but was never replaced.

The pews too are being restored andcleaned, as is the Pierre Berchet ceilingpainting of ‘Christ in Glory’. While weare at it, the case containing the tomb ofthe founder will be refurbished andrepaired. The heating and lighting arebeing completely renovated. The effectsof the new lighting design should be quitespectacular, and controlled heating is thekey to the successful maintenance of thecondition of the carvings. Overall thechapel will seem much lighter with theunstaining of the carvings and thecleaning of the windows.

It’s not clear how many organs Trinityhas had, but the current one has mostdefinitely reached the end of its working

life: replacing it has provedsomewhat problematical. As Iwrite we still have not determinedwhether it is to be rebuilt orentirely replaced with a new organ.There is a real complication in thefiendishly difficult access to theorgan loft for the organ engineers.We hope to resolve this questionwithin the next few days.

The interior of the chapel has notbeen redecorated since the 1960sand will be repainted the colour ofstone, as was originally intended.

As can be imagined, the cost of thiswhole exercise is considerable. Weare talking seven figures here, themajority of which we hope to

attract from donations. Any shortfall, exceptionally,will have to come out of the endowment. We haveafter all a responsibility to ourselves, the college andindeed the wider public to maintain this wonderfulGrade I building and restore it to its former glory.

My illustrious predecessor, Ralph Bathurst, Trinity’sPresident from 1664 to 1704 (we weaker modern soulscan usually only manage one decade in office, notfour), was not only the leading light behind thefunding of the chapel (he personally funded the entireshell of the building) but he was, in the words ofMartin Kemp, Emeritus Professor of the History ofArt, ‘the controlling intellect…As a theologian andexperimentalist, a master of the study of theologicalquestions and of the investigation of man and nature,[he] is clearly recognisable as the author of thewhole.’ Martin Kemp’s book The Chapel of Trinity

THE PRESIDENT


College, Oxford is a superb work of scholarship, andis beautifully illustrated. Copies can be obtained fromthe Lodge. A seventeenth century Fellow’s descriptionstill stands: ‘For Strength and Beauty it is reckonedamong the Chief Ornaments of the university’. In ayear’s time we shall be able to see it again throughseventeenth century eyes and, I have no doubt, toconfirm that assertion.

During the period of closure Sunday evensong will besung by the chapel choir in St Michael at theNorthgate. This church is just a short stroll fromTrinity and the current rector, the Very Revd BobWilkes (1966), is a Trinity alumnus. He and hiscongregation have kindly offered us hospitality duringour exile. The choir marked the last sung service inchapel with a solemn singing of Tallis’s Te Lucis anda dimming of the lights. Many of them will have leftCollege before we triumphantly process back into thenewly refurbished chapel in Trinity term 2016.

SIR IVOR ROBERTS, KCMG

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RICHARD HILLARY MEMORIAL LECTURE

This year’s Richard Hillary Memorial Lecture wasgiven by Professor Simon Armitage, poet andprofessor of poetry at the University of Sheffield.Towards the end of Hilary term, a capacity audienceheard him speak on the subject ‘Putting Poetry in itsPlace’—not, it turned out, an attempt to ‘belittle mychosen art or give it a bit of a dressing down in public’,but a celebration of the role of setting and situation inpoetry. Professor Armitage took his audience from thedetail of a domestic situation and the fleetingreference that gives a sense of place but might escapeattention, to poetry that puts place centre-stage,recalling places well-known only from the poetry,such as Adlestrop, or from history, as in JamesFenton’s Tiananmen. The text of the lecture can befound in the News section of the website.

Simon Armitage with the President following the lecture

Front cover:The Chapel Choir singingduring Mass atWestminster Cathedral

STOP PRESS!

At the end of Hilary Term, the GoverningBody elected five new Honorary Fellows;

John Arnold (1972), Justin Cartwright (1965),Kate Mavor (1980), David Soskice (1961) andAndrew Tyrie (1976) have been elected inrecognition of their achievements in theirrespective fields. More details can be found inthe news section of the website and will appear inthe next Newsletter.

A detail of one of the carvings, showing a test area that hasbeen de-ebonized



Two lectures on the subject of members of Trinityand their connections with the First World Warwere given in Michaelmas term.

Professor Justin Wark, Fellow and Tutor in Physics,spoke about ‘Moseley’s Law’, explaining thediscoveries and contribution to science of HenryMoseley (Millard Scholar, 1906), the most famousand accomplished Physicist ever to have studied atTrinity. It is generally acknowledged that had it notbeen for his untimely death at Gallipoli in the FirstWorld War, he would have won the Nobel Prize forPhysics. In the space of a few short months in 1913and 1914, he solved one of the greatest scientificmysteries of his time: he determined a method to order

FIRST WORLD WAR LECTURES

Professor Michael Alexander giving his lecture on‘Laurence Binyon and For the Fallen’

correctly the elements of the periodic table. Such washis contribution to science, that Isaac Asimov oncesaid that Moseley’s death was ‘…the most costlysingle death of the War to mankind generally’. Apodcast of the lecture is available in the News sectionof the website.

On Remembrance Sunday, Professor MichaelAlexander (1959), former Berry Professor of Englishat the University of St Andrews, spoke on the subject‘Laurence Binyon and For the Fallen’. LaurenceBinyon (Scholar, 1888) published his first book ofpoems as an undergraduate and he continued to writepoetry throughout his life, although his primary careerwas as a curator in the British Museum. Binyon knewFlanders well and was deeply affected by the lossessuffered in the early weeks of the First World War.Remarkably, his famous poem ‘For the Fallen’ waswritten only a few weeks after the conflict started.Published in The Times on 21 September 1914,Binyon’s prescient words had an immediate impact onthe nation’s feelings about the war. After the war,Binyon continued to publish poetry, and books onoriental art. He continued writing and lecturing afterhis retirement from the British Museum in 1933, thesame year as he was elected to an HonoraryFellowship at Trinity. He died in 1943, aged 73.

Conor Kennedy and Stuart Sanders, both Lawstudents in their final year, have won the Grand

Final of the inaugural Herbert Smith Freehills OxfordDisability Mooting Championship, which took placein Keble Chapel in November, coinciding with UKDisability History Month and having been establishedby Wadham graduate students and the Law Faculty.The moot problem was the appropriate discount rate toapply to damages awards.

The first Moot Court competition to be established bythe Faculty which focuses solely on legal issuesaffecting persons with a disability, the Grand Finalwas judged by Professor Timothy Endicott, Dean ofthe Law Faculty, Lord Phillips of Worth MatraversKG PC, former President of the United KingdomSupreme Court, Mr Ian Gatt QC, Herbert SmithFreehills’ Head of the Advocacy Unit, and Ms HelenMountfield QC, Matrix Chambers.

Conor Kennedy said, ‘Having not expected toprogress past the group stages, it was an unexpectedand quite intimidating honour to moot in front of theesteemed panel. The extremely interesting and finely

balanced moot problem made it a thought-provokingand fantastic experience.’ Stuart Sanders added, ‘Weparticularly enjoyed the stimulating panel discussionwhich followed the moot and were also very pleasedto be able to be part of the wider disability awarenessaspect of the event.’

DISABILITY MOOT

Conor Kennedy and Stuart Sanders (the Championshipwinners) with, from left, Helen Mountfield QC, Ian Gatt QCand Professor Timothy Endicott (Photo: Alice Wang)


Long gone is the memory of a washed out Torpids2014: this year’s Torpids saw beautiful weather,and a swell of support from current students and OldMembers alike.

Following a highly successful 2014 Eights campaign,the women’s 1st VIII had another excellent week—ashad been widely predicted by those who had seen thecrew training on the river this term. Wednesday sawthem bump Corpus with ease, whilst both Thursdayand Friday offered more of a challenge, with the crewpicking up overbumps on Somerville and Jesusrespectively. The finale of the week could not havebeen better for them (or indeed all of those who camedown to support) as the crew double-overbumped StCatz right in front of the boathouse to pick up itssecond consecutive set of Torpids blades and beplaced fifth in Division 2 at the end of racing. The 2ndVIII had a tricky start to the week, facing toughcompetition from Somerville, Regent’s Park and StHugh’s crews, but picked up bumps on Brasenose and


TORPIDS

Women’s 1st VIII bump St Catz to win blades

Men’s captain, Thomas Kirk, briefs the men’s 2nd VIII andcox Laetitia Nappert-Rosales before Friday’s racing.

St Anne’s on Thursday and Friday, unfortunatelybeing bumped by Balliol on Saturday to finish theweek down two places.

Sitting at eighth in Division 1, the men’s 1st VIII heldstrong through the week to stay level at the close ofracing on Saturday. Thursday saw them make aconvincing bump on St Catz, before being bumped byblades-winning Wadham and Hertford on Thursdayand Friday. However, there can be no doubt that ahighlight of the week was the bumping of Balliol onThursday, to ensure the crew remained level for thatday. The men’s 2nd VIII saw fast Wolfson and StJohn’s crews in their division send them down twoplaces in nail-biting finishes, while M3 had a verysuccessful week, barely making it to DonningtonBridge. The crew bumped Merton II, St Hilda’s I, StHugh’s II, and St Edmund’s Hall II to pick up a set ofblades and finish the week fifth in Division 5.

KATHERINE WENSLEY

BOAT CLUB PRESIDENT

NEWS FROM THE ACADEMIC OFFICE

Following the retirement of Annabel Ownsworth,and the departure of Robbie Hyland for a place onthe TeachFirst scheme, there are two new faces in theAcademic Office. Louisa Lapworth has not only takenon the role of Academic and Graduate Administrator,but shortly after her arrival at Trinity was awarded herPhD in Business and Management. Ellie Rendle is thenew Undergraduate Access and Admissions Officer.

Since coming to the end of admissions work inJanuary, Ellie has run a number of visits for schools inOxfordshire, one of Trinity’s link regions, as well astours of Trinity for schools that are in Oxford visitingother colleges. Ellie has worked closely with the JCRto encourage student participation in school visits andis grateful to the students for their help. She has also

attended a number of events at Oxfordshire schoolsand at the end of Hilary term visited schools in theNorth East link regions.

Access and outreach plans for Trinity term includeholding a conference at Trinity for sixth-formteachers, to explain the Oxford admissions processand to offer advice regarding how best schools cansupport students wishing to apply to study at Oxford,as well as a ‘Women in Science’ day, for female pupilswho are considering studying a science at university.This outreach work is supported by the new Accessand Outreach page on the college website, which willprovide useful information to schools and prospectiveapplicants to Trinity.



OLD BOYS RUGBY

MICHAEL BELOFF AFTER-DINNER SPEAKING COMPETITION

Following on from the success of the inauguralmatch last year, a successful second ‘Old Boys’rugby match has raised hopes that the fixture willbecome an annual event. The match took place onSaturday 17 January, and kicked off in glorioussunshine. Before the match the returning Trinitarianslined up, facing the current rugby team, to give theirown, unique, rendition of the Maori haka—cleverlymaking use of the nursery rhyme, ‘Humpty Dumpty saton a wall’!

It was decided that the fixture would be split into fourquarters of twenty minutes. As expected, it was theyounger cohort which took the initial lead, scoring anunconverted try in the first ten minutes. However, notto be out done, and rolling back the years, the OldBoys—all, in fact, fairly recent leavers—struck backalmost immediately with an impressive try of theirown. Failing with the conversion attempt, the matchentered the second quarter with the scores level at 5-5.In an intense end to the first half, both sides tested theother valiantly, but the Old Boys’ front row

demonstrated a commendable level of fitness to goover for a converted try just before the break.

The third quarter started with the Old Boys leading by12-5, but, having overcome the initial shock of thevisitors’ impressive fitness levels, the current XVregained the initiative, scoring two unconverted triesby the time the whistle blew to bring the quarter to itsconclusion.

If the current boys had threatened to run away with thematch in the third quarter, they did not continue to

This year’s Michael Beloff After-dinner SpeakingCompetition was, as always, extremely good, withfour excellent contestants, who kept the audienceinterested, amused and well-entertained throughoutthe evening with their wit and erudition.

Eleanor Roberts, the President of the JCR, spoke first,on the subject of Winning isn’t everything, anddiscoursed fluently and naturally, in a highlyentertaining way, on why there had not been morecontestants in this year’s competition, and why somemembers had expressed their interest in speaking buthad then withdrawn rather late in the day, leavingEleanor herself to enter only at the very last moment.

Michael Roderick entertained us royally with a verywitty and amusing speech about The Joys of drinkingwhile eating, and the agonies of returning home forthe vacation only to find no beer or wine on the table.He concluded that drinking with meals is simply aposh way of getting drunk.

The third speaker was Alan Miscampbell, who spokevery cleverly and entertainingly on the subject ofDressing to impress, while himself sporting a TrinityBoat Club top with track suit bottoms and trainers.After explaining why he thought black tie or even asuit would have been inappropriate for the occasion,he picked up very cleverly on some of the remarks

made by the two previous speakers and wittily turnedthem to his own advantage. He said he had worn a suitonly twice during his Oxford career, once for hisinterview and once for a viva on his Physics researchproject, which was conducted by three scientists whohad worked with him closely for the past three yearsand knew him perfectly well already.

Finally, Amro Nagdy gave us the one serious speechof the evening, a reflective, thoughtful and well-researched discussion of The right to be forgotten, bywhich he meant the right of individuals to require theremoval from the internet of personal informationabout themselves which was no longer relevant,illustrated with some excellent true examples drawnfrom recent legal cases.

This year’s judges were the President, Sir IvorRoberts, former president The Hon Michael BeloffQC and ex officio Robert Parker, the chairman of theTrinity Society, which puts up the prize of £100 for thewinner of the competition; they found it very difficultto agree on a winner from such a rich, varied andexcellent group of speeches, but after considerabledeliberation decided to share the prize betweenEleanor Roberts and Michael Roderick. MichaelBeloff then presented the engraved silver salver tothem for each to hold for half of the year.

ROBERT PARKER (1967)



INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SOCIETY

The Oxford International RelationsSociety (IRSoc) was delighted to hostSir Ivor Roberts at one of its meetings inHilary Term. The President gave a talkentitled ‘Reflections on the New Terrorism:how it came about and what we should doabout it’. Sir Ivor, who spent almost fortyyears working for the Foreign andCommonwealth Office, offered his thoughtson the threat of ‘Islamic State’, and how hebelieves states and world leaders should beresponding. He reflected on how the lessonsof containment from the Cold War could beapplied to the situation the internationalcommunity faces today. Convinced thatregional powers should unite as the primaryforce against IS, Sir Ivor sees a non-militaryrole for powers outside the region.

Daniel Bayliss, a second year Trinity undergraduate,reading History and Politics, is looking forward toTrinity term when, as the society’s new president, hewill welcome other well-known and prestigiousfigures who have enjoyed a career in the internationalrelations field. Future speakers will no doubt includeother former British ambassadors, but also foreigncorrespondents, journalists and international activistswho frequently work with NGOs.

There is more information about the society atirsoc.org. IRSoc is keen to hear from anyone wouldlike to support its efforts to promote interest anddebate in international relations among the students ofOxford; offers of sponsorship from either individualsor larger organisations would be very welcome—enquiries can be made to [email protected].

DANIEL BAYLISS (2013)

The President pictured, following his talk, with Daniel Bayliss

have everything their own way in the fourth—much to the assembled crowd’s delight. Withtheir determination and grit on full display, theOld Boys wrestled back control of the fixturewith an unconverted try to make it 17-15 intheir favour. However, as tired legs began tolitter the field, the young ones dealt a finalblow to their opponents with a well-workedmove that ended with a try scored under theposts. With the conversion successful, thematch ended with a scoreline of 22-17 for thecurrent team.

The current members of TCRFC are grateful tothe Old Members not only for a fantastic gameof rugby, but also for all their support inarranging the event. They are eagerly lookingforward to the third ‘Annual TCRFC Old BoysMatch’, which will be held in January 2016.

BEN LAKE (2011)



A YEAR IN THE PROCTORS’ OFFICE

Two questions are frequently asked of a Proctor:what do you do? do you enjoy it?

That such questions are asked is not surprising.Anybody who has (had) a meritorious, or simplyuntroubled career in Oxford, may very reasonablywonder who and what the Proctors are. They have analmost mythical status in the University world: theirnames appear periodically on notices or injunctions,they are invoked as a threat to recalcitrant students, orproffered as a last resort to those in trouble, but theythemselves are rarely seen, except from afar atceremonial occasions, their habitual sub-fusc areminder that the University is, first and foremost, aplace of learning.

Similar uncertainty about what a Proctor is or does isoften shared, too, by those who are called to serve inthis office—some by contested college vote, others byinopportune meeting with the head of house. Formany, the University’s administrative building inWellington Square is situated on the dark side of theinstitution, a near neighbour of Kafka’s Castle. Forthis writer, the early days of the Easter vacation 2013did bring to mind if not Josef K, then at least Harry P,entering a domain quite close, spatially, to the familiarworld, and yet offering a completely differentperspective, a domain, too, where one’s own newlyacquired wand brings both influence andresponsibility.*

The office of Proctor, traceable backto the Middle Ages, was oncereducible to patrolling the streets torid the University of rowdy elements,a role which is now (more or less)defunct. In modern times, itsfunctions are derived largely fromUniversity Statute IX, in which it isstated that the Proctors shall

generally ensure that the statutes, regulations,customs and privileges of the University are observed.At one level, the Proctor’s role can be likened to thatof a policeman, one of several different agents of self-scrutiny at the heart of the University. Proctors sit exofficio on all the main committees, they have the rightto attend any meeting at any level, and to see (almost)all papers. Their relationship with the University isoften configured in terms of a struggle betweenencroaching bureaucracy and enduring academicvalues, grey suits and gowns, a tail and a (watch)dog;but it is rather more complex than this. Nominated bythe colleges on the basis of a rota first drawn up in thereign of Charles I, Proctors have powers conferred onthem by University statute; although mandated byneither, they embody both. In their daily contributionsto business, they are a visible sign, demonstratedannually, that academics and administrators, collegesand University, are all part of the same institution.

The outside world certainly thinks in terms of anentity known for short as the University of Oxford,whether it is considering the achievements orshortcomings of a student or a senior member, acollege or a department. The reality, though, is that itis a very intricate mechanism with many diverse (ifnot irreconcilable) needs, ambitions, responsibilities:at the heart of the institution are tensions, sometimes

For the academic year 2013-14, Professor Jonathan Mallinson, Fellow and Tutor in French, gave up the lifeof a college tutor to take on one of the University’s more ancient and mysterious posts. Here he sheds somelight on what he was doing.

Jonathan Mallinson leaving the Sheldonian following his installation

* No Proctor works alone, and it is aparticular pleasure to record my thanksboth to the staff of the Proctors’ Office,and to all those in Trinity who supportedme, not least my two pro-Proctors, EmmaPercy and Kevin Knott, who attendedmany a sermon and Degree day, andprovided invaluable help with casework,and to Valentina Gosetti and MaríaBlanco, who took Modern Languages tonew heights while I was away.


creative, sometimes less so, between college andUniversity, division and department, teaching andresearch, the academic and the financial, internal andexternal, part and whole. Negotiating these tensionscan result in committee meetings of monstrousproportions, with representatives of all interestedparties. At that level, the Proctors, coming from onearea of the University to another, do not simply sitoutside the process as critical observers, they assist init, linking different constituencies as much by whatthey are as by what they do. The challenge is not somuch to maintain a proper relationship between tailand dog, but rather to assist all the different limbs ona rather implausibly-constructed body somehow to actin coordinated fashion.

The second of the Proctor’s roles brings together thecolleges and the University in a different way, at thelevel of students. The Proctors act as guardians of theinstitution’s academic and disciplinary rules, andalleged breaches of regulations are brought beforethem for investigation. Their jurisdiction extends onlyso far as the alleged offences relate to the University,as opposed to the colleges: each college has its ownprocedures. The range of issues can be very wide:from physical assault or verbal abuse to non-paymentof library fines, from falsification of Universitydocuments to over-exuberant celebration afterexaminations, not to mention the most common, and

increasingly so, plagiarism. For aninstitution as large as the University, ithas to be said that the total number ofcases is small, but many of them arecomplex, and often occupy those greyareas which rarely, if ever, fit into thegeneral categories neatly defined by theRegulations, and which imply thatoutcomes are a foregone conclusion.Where no circumstances are identical,fairness or justice are as important asconsistency, and much time is spentexploring uncharted, at timesunchartable, boundaries: between pooracademic practice and cheating,collaboration and collusion,investigative journalism andharassment, the reckless and theinadvertent. Proctors, chosen normallyfrom among tutorial fellows, can bringan academic perspective to problems,and a process, which might so easilybecome bureaucratised, mechanised,impersonalised.

However, there is a second side to theProctors’ interaction with studentswhich is, in a sense, its very opposite—that of complaints investigator, and attimes, of mediator. Statute IX states that

the Proctors shall be available for consultation bymembers of the University. Complaints from bothundergraduate and graduate students may relate to anynumber of issues: teaching, examination papers,results. Students may not question the academicjudgement of examiners, and Proctors (quite rightly)have no jurisdiction in that area. But Proctors may,and do, investigate appeals in cases where, allegedly,procedures have not been followed accurately orfairly: published examination conventions not applied,medical evidence not properly considered, borderlinecandidates not treated uniformly. By no means allappeals lead to improvements in the classification ofcandidates, but there are enough to show that thesystem does work; it is one of the most satisfyingaspects of the job to bring such moments to light.Graduate cases may relate to other, quite numerousconcerns: supervision arrangements, the nature of thedifferent qualifying tests, the appointment ofexaminers, the conduct of a viva. Unlikeundergraduate appeals, this sort of complaint cancome to the Proctors direct from the students. TheProctors serve in such cases as the University’sacademic helpline, a real person at the heart of theinstitution, who will investigate why situations whichshould not have arisen, have done so, and to exploreways of resolving them. The process is good for thestudents, because it gives them access to objective


Greeting guests at the Encaenia Garden Party



academic judgement,and the possibility ofreaching some kind ofresolution. And it isgood, too, for theinstitution, not leastwhen such cases throwup areas of imprecisionin the regulations, or inconsistencies ofpractice among differentfaculties or divisions.One may think that thesame body should not beboth an instrument ofdiscipline on behalf ofthe University, and alsoan investigator into theUniversity on behalf of astudent. In both cases,though, it is theneutrality of the Proctorwhich is paramount,acting as the intermediarybetween the individualand the collective.

The third aspect of theProctor’s role is that ofattending ceremonialoccasions—Universitysermons, degree days,Encaenia, theChancellor’s Court ofBenefactors, and manymore besides. There were many highlights of the2013-14 year, not least the May Day celebrations atopMagdalen Tower (hearing the college choir on amorning of unutterable beauty), Encaenia and the StFrideswide service in Christ Church, which bringstogether town and gown in a communal act ofcommemoration. I have to say that my favourite dayswere degree ceremonies, which combine thetraditional and the contemporary, the institutional andthe individual, solemnity and celebration. It is theSenior Proctor’s role to read out the names of all thosetaking higher degrees, and in our extensivelyinternational University, this kept his linguist’s tongueon its toes.

Proctors hold office for just one year, after which, theyreturn to their tutor’s life, the only trace of their formeridentity being a small black tassel attached to thegown (known officially as a tippet), a sign that theyremain, theoretically, available for consultation. Andit is quite right that it should be so. Although a secondyear would almost certainly be less exacting in theearly stages, it is the very immediacy of their college

experience which gives the incoming Proctors theinsights of a new perspective. And it is equally truethat the regular, if potentially random process ofselection ensures that the incumbents remainindependent. Like Cinderella, or the Carnival king,they have power (if not glory), but for a prescribedtime only; from Proctor to pumpkin is a short step, andnot just alphabetically.

On which note, I come, finally, to that secondquestion: did I enjoy it? The word ‘enjoy’ doesn’treally quite cover the experience, and as I often foundmyself saying in response: ‘Yes, but it’s not the sameenjoyment as eating chocolate ice cream.’ Not thedelight or comforting familiarity of a special treat,then, but nor is it the imperfect pleasure of the curate’segg. It was rather—at risk of overcooking thisparticular culinary conceit—the bracing excitement ofa new, exotic dish, fiery, even eye-watering, and yetrefreshing, nutritious, immensely satisfying, and afterwhich one’s daily bread will never taste quite the sameagain.

A graduation ceremony in the Sheldonian


The six-month period between the First and SecondBattles of Ypres, in November 1914 and May1915 respectively, provided a grim indication of theway the War would be fought over the next four years.Opportunity for manoeuvre—particularly the use ofcavalry in its traditional role—had almost gone andthe inaccurately labelled ‘race to the sea’ (as thearmies on the Western Front tried to outflank eachother) had resulted in a continuous snake of trenchesstretching from the Channel to Switzerland. Theresultant war of attrition between massive standingarmies, using ever-more lethal munitions on anindustrial scale, had, by Christmas 1914, alreadyproduced over two million casualties on the WesternFront alone. Losses on the Eastern Front were equallyappalling.

Before focusing on the Trinity contribution, and toprovide wider context, it is worth noting how far andfast the war had spread elsewhere. Turkey had joined

the Axis powers on 14 October and the campaign inthat theatre of war began on 19 February, when theRoyal Navy bombarded the Dardenelles. Thereafter,Gallipoli was to become as well-known as the majorbattles in France and Belgium for similar, tragicreasons; indeed the Australian and New Zealandlosses were so great at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915that the date remains sacred in both countries as anannual reminder of their sacrifices. However, conflictson the ‘forgotten fronts’ like Mesopotamia remainlargely unknown; for example, the battle of Basrabetween 11 and 21 November 1914 would be virtuallyunremembered had Basra not been occupied again bythe British Army during the recent war in Iraq.

By December 1914, the German Navy had seriouslychallenged Britain’s supremacy at sea in battles allaround the world. Firstly, in the Pacific Ocean, at theBattle of Coronel off Chile—where the Royal Navysuffered its first defeat since 1812 and lost 1,570


A PORTENT OF THINGS TO COMEIn the second of a series of articles to commemorate the First World War, offering a brief synopsis focused onthe scale of the hostilities, the early casualties and the immediate impact on Trinity’s members, John Keeling,Domestic Bursar, continues with a consideration of the next six months of the conflict.

The Canadian Geoffrey Barron Taylor(1913) was the first Trinity member fromthe dominion nations to fall in the FirstWorld War. A graduate of the Universityof Toronto, Geoffrey was 23 when hecame up to Trinity. He had visited Britainbefore, competing in the 1908 LondonOlympics, where he won two bronzemedals in the Canadian coxless IV andVIII. At the outbreak of war, he chose notto return home, but enlisted in the 48thCanadian Highlanders, in the 15thBattalion of the Canadian Infantry, as itarrived in England en route for the front.On 22 April 1915 the Canadians were inthe line at St Julien, oppositeLangemarke, where chlorine gas wasused for the first time in Flanders. In 48hours the Infantry suffered 6,000casualties, one third of them dead.Geoffrey Taylor was reported missing on24 April 1915. According to theUniversity of Toronto Roll of Service, ‘hewas last seen making his way to adeserted farm house a short distance backfrom the trenches.’ He was 25 when hefell; his name is honoured on the MeninGate.

The 1914 1st VIII. Geoffrey Taylor seated, second from left



men—then in the Indian Ocean off the KeelingIslands, and on 8 December in the South Atlantic inthe Battle of the Falklands, where the Royal Navyfully avenged its defeat at Coronel. Closer to home,German warships shelled West Hartlepool,Scarborough and Whitby on 16 December 1914,killing 137 and wounding 592 civilians. On 4February, Germany declared unrestricted use of her U-boats, one of which sank the liner Lusitania on 7 May;over 1,100 people perished. The war had spread to theair too; the first Zeppelin raid on Britain took place onGreat Yarmouth and King’s Lynn on 19 January 1915.Only four people were killed but it indicated that thiswas not going to be a war in which civilians were safe,even in seaside towns. Hence within six months thewar was indeed a World War and was certainly notconfined to the trenches in Belgium and France.

Notwithstanding events further afield, the majority ofTrinity’s men served on the Western Front, and in theperiod between the end of the First Battle of Ypres on 11November 1914 and shortly after the Second Battle ofYpres (22 April to 25 May) eleven of them had beenkilled. All of them were young officers in the Army andall of them were killed in France or Belgium. The onlyother Trinity man to die during this period, SubLieutenant Hubert Whitaker (1910), was serving in theRoyal Naval Division and became Trinity’s first casualtyin Gallipoli on 3 May 1915, sadly the first of many.

History does not relate if any Trinity men on theWestern Front were involved in Anglo-Germanfootball matches in no man’s land during the truce onChristmas Day 1914, but it does record that Oxfordlost twenty-seven Rugby Blues in the War and that sixwere Trinity men (only Univ lost more). Three werekilled in the first half of 1915; in many ways, theyepitomised the prevailing altruism of the time, whenthe brightest and the best, and the proven leaders, wereamongst the first to enlist.

Second Lieutenant Frederic Turner (1907) joined theKing’s Liverpool Scottish Regiment on the day thatwar was declared. Earlier that year he had beencaptain of the Scotland rugby team and had wonfifteen Scottish caps; he had Blues in 1908, 1909 and1910—when he was also the captain. He was killed inBelgium on 11 January 1915. Second LieutenantThomas Allen (1907) won a Blue in 1909 and playedfor Harlequins. He had also been head of the TrinityCollege Oxford Mission. Commissioned into the IrishGuards, he was killed after only three weeks in thefront line, at Guinchy on 26 February 1915.

Captain David Bain (1910) had four Blues, 1910 to1913, and was Oxford’s captain in 1913. He hadeleven Scottish caps and was captain against Wales in1914. Enlisting in August 1914 into the GordonHighlanders, he had been rapidly promoted and had

already been wounded in March. Gallantly, he soonreturned to the front line in France, where he waskilled in action three months later.

Three of the eleven Trinity casualties in this periodwere Second Lieutenants in the King’s LiverpoolScottish Regiment, Fred Turner (mentioned above),Thomas McClelland (1911) and Arthur Plummer(1910); the latter two fell within a day of each other,in France, on 16 and 17 March respectively. ‘Pals’battalions were formed later in the war to keepworkmates from specific locations together but itseems that Trinity men also joined specific units toserve with college friends. Indeed, Trinity’s mostdecorated soldier, Captain Noel Chavasse, VC andBar, MC, had already joined the King’s LiverpoolScottish Regiment, on the first day of the war—hisexceptional story will be covered later.

Trinity’s first casualty from the dominion nations,Lieutenant Geoffrey Taylor (1913) of the 48thCanadian Highlanders, died on 24 April 1915. He waskilled during the early stages of the Second Battle ofYpres and his name is one of almost 7,000 Canadians

Press report of the death of Scottish rugby internationalFrederic H Turner (1907). He was shot by a sniper on10 January 1915 as he inspected a barbed wireentanglement in the trenches near Kemmel.


listed amongst the 54,896 on the Menin Gatememorial near Ypres (see feature on page 11).

Lieutenant Harcourt Snowden (1906) died on thesame day, 11 January 1915, as Fred Turner, whilstserving with the 1st Hertfordshire Regiment in France.Second Lieutenant Duncan O’Callaghan (1909) of theDuke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry was the next to fall,at Neuve Chapelle in Belgium on 15 March. The finaltwo casualties during this period were LieutenantGeorge Joy (1910) of the Welsh Regiment andLieutenant George Chrystal (1904) of the Argyll andSutherland Highlanders; the former died in France, thelatter in Belgium and his name is also recorded on theMenin Gate. Seemingly all these Trinity men, whetherserving with Regiments from Argyll or Cornwall,Canada or Wales, Liverpool or Hertfordshire, wereprepared to lead from the front and to pay the price fordoing so.

In Gallipoli, the truce on 11 May was short and wasessentially to enable both sides to bury their dead. Thedisaster at Gallipoli will be covered in more detail inthe next article, not least to record more fully thetragic death of Second Lieutenant Henry Moseley. Allthe deaths, in all the theatres, were equally tragic, andmention of double VC recipients, Nobel Prize-levelachievers, rugby Blues or Olympic athletes is intendedsimply to convey how much so many of them hadachieved already and to provide a graphic illustrationof how selfless so many of them were.

Six months after the First Battle of Ypres, thestalemate on the Western Front was well established.With armies of over four million men facing eachother across no man’s land, supported by prolonged,

David McL Bain (1910), as a Captain in the GordonHighlanders. David Bain represented Trinity at rugby,cricket and golf. He was killed on 3 June 1915 by a shellfalling in the trenches near Festubert.

On 4 August 2014, a short servicewas held in Chapel tocommemorate the start of the War,attended by Fellows, staff andseveral Old Members. In place forthe service was a display cabinetspecially-made by the collegecarpenter, Russell Dominian, whichhouses a facsimile copy of themanuscript of ‘For the Fallen’. Thecase remained in the Chapel andhas been placed in the screenspassage outside Hall for theduration of the chapel works. Itincludes a changing list of thenames of those whose anniversaryof death falls each month.


massive artillery bombardments and protected byever-deeper trenches and miles of barbed wire, a quickor major breakthrough was unlikely. Indeed by mid-1915 both sides were well dug in and a long warof attrition was inevitable.



It was a funny feeling, the first time I returned toOxford and realised it was not our place any more. Itfelt strange walking along Broad Street withoutrecognising any faces cycling past, not stopping to chatto people walking by, while looking into Trinity neededan explanation to the new porter before being allowedin.

The opportunity for that lunchtime stroll came four orfive years after leaving College; everyone I knew hadleft, a new generation had come in and our temporarytenure was well and truly over. Of course it was naturalprogress, but after three years as a student it was strangeto feel unfamiliar in such familiar surroundings. Trinityand Oxford were under new ownership, the only reasonI recognised the people in the pictures of the WhiteHorse was because I had seen them in Morse.

However, thirty years after leaving, there has beenanother change—and I have a funny feeling once again.This time it is because I feel re-connected, a wanderdown memory lane showed that our time can still havesome relevance to the students of today. It is a situationwhich needs some explaining.

As alumni of Trinity College, we can enjoy theoccasional High Table dinner and a group of us decidedto take advantage of this fantastic privilege, includingsome former rugby players.

Then came a masterstroke from Estates Bursar KevinKnott. He had the idea of adding a couple of the currentrugby team to the High Table group, and the old and thenew were thrown together. The picture painted was aworrying one: struggling for numbers, rugby-playingstudents not turning out, a college sport in trouble. Itseemed a far cry from our time thirty years ago, whenwinning promotion and challenging in cuppers.

Kevin started a discussion about how to regain that oldteam spirit, but as the port passed to the left at anincreasing rate the constructive level of the contributiondipped. But Kevin and Director of Development SueBroers, ably assisted by Sarah Beal and Clare Stovell,were not finished with their efforts at finding a way touse the lessons of the past to improve the present day.President Sir Ivor Roberts also played a benevolent andencouraging role.

The Rugby Varsity Match now boasts a massivemarquee in the car park at Twickenham, called theBlues Village, where the colleges can play their part inorganising re-unions. Trinity, the second smallestcollege in the University, gets the biggest turnout of anyOxford college. We are not smug about that, much!

I got the chance one year to talk to someone who hadonce marked England and world rugby legend RichardSharp in a Trinity v Balliol game. It is a great andgrowing occasion I would recommend to any alumni—the rugby is just a small excuse, really.

At the 2014 game—a record-breaking win for Oxford,by the way, with Trinity student Lewis Andersonmaking history as the only person to have played in fiveVarsity Match-winning teams—Kevin and Sue oncemore pushed the blend of old and new by invitingmembers of the current college team.

The conversation flowed with the beers and the issuesof college rugby were aired once again. We relivedwhat we thought were the core strengths of Trinity sportin our time and tried to draw relevantrecommendations. Our reunion numbers demonstratedthe potential benefits of such camaraderie.

So it was a delight to get an email from one of thecurrent rugby playing students, Ben Lake, out of theblue one day this year. A bit of it read:

‘I am pleased to be able to tell you that we have seennothing short of a complete transformation in the club.We been able to field a full XV (plus a few subs) for eachof the term’s five fixtures so far. It is a completeturnaround from the dire situation in which we foundourselves but last term. Morale is high within the squad(we haven’t had a ‘squad’, let alone morale, for years!).

‘You should have received an invitation for the rugbydinner that we are holding in college for what should bea cracking evening—and hopefully something that willbecome a more frequent event.’

So a group of former players are preparing to return forthat dinner and thoroughly looking forward to it. Thereare one or two feeble excuses, wife’s fiftieth birthday,company partners meeting in Florida, etc, but aroundhalf of our team will be there, plus some of thoseinvited from other years.

It will be great to meet up with old and new friends andhear about the changes we have helped, in a small way,to encourage. Of course we did none of the hard work,but if there is any glimmer of reflected glory to bask in,then we are happy to do so.

So it will be a funny feeling once again, but it will begreat to feel a tiny part of Trinity’s ‘now’—to feel re-connected. We will even recognise some of the faces inthe familiar surroundings.

2015 has a particular significance for Trinity rugby,being the anniversary of Cuppers victories in both 1955and 1965, and so a smaller reunion dinner for membersof those teams is also taking place in April. A report onthat dinner will appear in the next Newsletter.

FEELING GOOD ABOUT GETTING RE-CONNECTEDSports journalist Hamish Stuart (1982) findsrelevance down memory lane.


Legacies have been important since the time of theFounder and with continuing cuts to governmentfunding, their importance will increase, so Trinity hasevery reason to feel gratitude to all those who supportthe college in this way. One has only to think of theCumberbatch Building, the Danson Library and theSutro Room to see how they have helped to shape theappearance of the college. And not all bequests are forbuildings and facilities. How many current studentsand Old Members have reason to be grateful to JohnBritton, the Whitehead family and John Mitchell,whose legacies have also funded countless grants?

Since 2006, Trinity has received over £1,000,000 inlegacies and the size of the bequests has ranged from£250 to more than £600,000. We are grateful for everydonation and our only sadness is that many people donot choose to tell us that they have made such abequest, so we are unable to show them ourappreciation.

While it is helpful to the college to have an idea of thesize of the bequest, it is not essential and all you needto do is to tell us in writing that you have included alegacy to Trinity in your will. Whether you havealready made a bequest to Trinity but have not told thecollege, or if you are considering drawing up a willand would like Trinity to be a beneficiary, please getin touch with Sue Broers, Director of Development,[email protected], to request a legacybrochure or to discuss your gift. We hope to welcomeeven more people to next year’s William Pitt lunch.

The William Pitt Society held its annual lunch—always a lively gathering—on Saturday 6February. This year, the event opened with a concertby a number of current students and in previous yearsthere has been, amongst other things, an opportunityto visit the Old Library and to hear the choir.

For those of you who do not recognise the name, thesociety was founded in 2006 to honour and thankpeople who have included a bequest to Trinity in theirwills. Nick Salaman (1956) and John Tepper Marlin(1962) wrote to Old Members to invite them toconsider supporting the college in this way and in thefirst year, membership stood at twenty-one. That wasalmost nine years ago and since then, the number hasgrown to 115.

A LEGACY TO TRINITY

Members of the William Pitt Society and current students atthe annual lunch


TELETHON

This academic year we have againheld two telethons, one inSeptember and one which finished inMarch, just as this Newsletter went toprint. The September campaigns arealways very successful, but we havefound that holding a secondcampaign in March allows us toreach even more Old Members andFriends, especially those to whom wehave not spoken before.

For each campaign the calling teamof around fourteen current students,from a variety of subjects, spendstwo weeks calling more than 900Old Members and Friends andspeaks to them about the many waysthrough which they can becomeinvolved in college life and about Calling during the spring telethon

the immediate and positive impactthey can make to Trinity and thewider University.

Those called have always beenenormously receptive to thesecampaigns and the two this academicyear have raised over £250,000 incash and pledges. These gifts make areal difference to all students atTrinity.

We could not be more grateful toeveryone who took a call in both theSeptember and March campaigns.The students take great enjoymentfrom speaking to Old Members andFriends, whether or not they are ableto make a donation. Thank you to allwho have taken part.



EVENTS

The Trinity Weekend, as usual, kicked off thesequence of events in the latter part of the year. Aswell as a second ‘Trinity’s Got Talent’ on the Fridayevening, the weekend also included the chance to heara presentation by Chris Jackson (1962) and view hisexhibition on the philatelic consequences of the startof the First World War in Africa. The commemorations

Sunday lunch at the Trinity Weekend The Gaudy for years 2007 to 2009

The Michael Beloff Law Society Dinner Drinks in the Signet Library in Edinburgh

Reception before the Classics Dinner

continued with an archive exhibition on ‘Trinity andthe Great War’ and an intriguing lecture given by thePresident on ‘The Black Hand and the SarajevoConspiracy’.

The Gaudy for 2007 to 2009 was followed by twoBenefactors’ Lunches, another very successfulInformal Drinks in London and, at the end of term,two carol services for Old Members and Friends and atrip to the Varsity Match at Twickenham.



Reception before a Benefactors’ Lunch

Members of the choir enjoying refreshments after themorning Carol Service

The new year began with dinners in Hong Kong andSydney to coincide with the President’s visiting bothcities, while in London a number of Old Members andFriends enjoyed hearing the choir sing at Mass atWestminster Cathedral, before a reception to launchthe choir’s new CD. Following another very enjoyablelunch for members of the William Pitt Society, it wasback on the road (or rather rail) again for a trip toEdinburgh and a dinner for fifty members and friendsat the magnificent Signet Library.

Evan Harris spoke at the Medical Society Dinner,while the Michael Beloff Law Society Dinner made a

OLD MEMBERS’ NEWS

Henry Woods (1942) was appointed a Member of theRoyal Victorian Order in the 2014 Queen’s BirthdayHonours, for services to The Duke of York’sCommunity Initiative.

Patrick Gordon-Duff-Pennington (1948) haspublished a new book of poems, Last Post andReveille (Hayloft Publications).

James Lang Brown (1951) writes, ‘Three years onfrom losing my wife Elisabeth, I have joined forceswith my girlfriend from fifty years ago. We are settledin a lovely cottage streamside in Wiltshire.’

Jos Gregson (1957) and his wife Jenny (Somerville1957) have completed the Macmillan Way (290 miles)in twenty-one days, raising over £3,500 for MacmillanCancer Support. Both are over 75! Jos will be puttingon a performance of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius in2016 with the South Cotswold Choral Group, which heformed, and which follows performances of the VerdiRequiem (2011) and Vaughan-Williams’ Sea Symphony

return visit to Gray’s Inn, at which members and theirguests were entertained by a speech about the life ofthe Master of the Rolls given by the current post-holder, Lord Dyson. Following a series of eventsduring Peter Brown’s fellowship, Hilary term came toa close with a dinner for all who had studied Classics,including a welcome chance to hear Gail Trimble,Peter’s successor, talk about her current research andto meet her over drinks and dinner.

(2013). Conducted by former King’s Singer Brian Kay,the performance will be in Gloucester Cathedral.

The late David Whitehead (1957) self-publishedInspired by the Zambezi: memories of the Barotselandand a royal river—the mighty Liambai (2014) ISBN978-0-620-58306-0. His article ‘Flying toBarotseland’ was published in Aeroletter (106, 2013,pp38-47), the journal of the Aerophilatelic Society ofSouthern Africa.

Ian Senior (1958) has published Time and Energy—Understanding human behaviour, past present andfuture. He is giving a number of invited talks about thebook and he continues to publish Trinity Matric ’58about twenty times a year, with items of interest toTrinitarians and others. He continues as chairman ofthe Herts branch of the Oxford University Society.

Mark Pargeter (1960) has been given authorisationfrom the Bishop of Reading to preach at his localchurch, St Andrew’s, Caversham.


and Teaching. He lives in Harpenden with his wifeAgnieszka and two sons.

Siân Berry (1993) was elected to Camden Council inMay 2013, representing Highgate ward for the GreenParty.

Sarah Leavesley (née James, 1993) received herCreative Writing masters (poetry) from ManchesterWriting School at MMU in July 2014. Her narrative inpoems, The Magnetic Diaries, has been published byKnives, Forks and Spoons Press this spring (the bookis a modern, English, poetry adaptation of GustaveFlaubert’s Madame Bovary, which she studied whileat Trinity). A collaborative poetry pamphlet withAngela Topping, entitled Hearth, was published byMother’s Milk Books at the start of the year. Otherhighlights of 2014 include poems in the FinancialTimes and Blackpool Illuminations. Sarah set up herown poetry press, V. Press, in 2013, with the press’sfirst solo poet pamphlets to be published in 2015.

Diana Spain (1994) is teaching Latin in South Koreafor two years.

Christian Jung (1998) has been awarded the degreeof Bakk.art. in Vocal Pedagogy from the Universitätfür Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna. Hisarticle ‘Die Funktion des Nichts in Meister EckhartsMetaphysik’ was published in Salzburger Jahrbuchfür Philosophie 59 (2014), pp43-64.


Paul Green (1964) thought he had left educationwhen he retired in 2012 as lecturer in Media andPerforming Arts at the Royal National College for theBlind in Hereford. However, now relocated toHastings, he has a part-time role as Academic SupportWorker for a blind student at the University ofBrighton’s Hastings campus. He continues to writepoetry and speculative fiction. Recent publicationsinclude Beneath the Pleasure Zones (Mandrake, 2014)

Michael Tait (1965) has recently published a revisedand updated version of his DPhil thesis, A Fair Place:Syon Abbey 1415-1539, and also One of them?Selection for the Catholic priesthood in Britain today,which contains material on life at Trinity in the 1960s.

Adam Czerniawski (1968) has published, in Polish, abook of narrations, Gry i zabawy (sports etdivertissements) (2013), essays Wielopis wielopolis(2014) and collected poetry Poezje zebrane (2014).

Jeremy Ingpen (1968) was awarded a LifetimeAchievement Award by the NeighborhoodPreservation Coalition of New York State inSeptember 2014, for significant contributions toaffordable housing and community development.

Hugh Roberts (1969) lived from 2001 to 2012 inCairo, where he directed the International CrisisGroup’s North Africa Project. In January 2012, hetook up the Edward Keller Chair of North African andMiddle Eastern History at Tufts University in Bostonand was subsequently appointed Director of MiddleEastern Studies. He has recently published BerberGovernment: the Kabyle Polity in Pre-colonialAlgeria (London and New York, I B Tauris, 2014) andAlgérie-Kabylie: Études et interventions (Algiers,Éditions Barzakh, 2014).

Peter Stothard (1969) gave the 2014 Corbett Lectureat Cambridge, ‘A Stoic on the Street of Shame’, on thesubject of Seneca and British politics in the 1980s.

Lydia MacKinnon (née Sunderland, 1981) haspublished a debut collection of poetry, Love Me Do. Itwon the Crashaw Prize in 2013 and was published bySalt in March 2014.

Andrew Weale (1982) has had a very busy yearvisiting literary festivals as far afield as Singapore. Hewas the overall winner of the 2013 Red HouseChildren’s Book Award, and Do Not Open This Book(his ninth book) has just been published.

Bridget Khursheed (née Hobbs, 1984) was awarded aScottish Book Trust New Writers Award 2014 for poetryand is now working with a mentor on her first collection.

Tim Stewart (1989) has been awarded the title ofProfessor of Business Education at BPP University.Tim continues in his twin roles as Dean of theBusiness School and University Dean for Learning

An Evening with Lucian FreudDr Laura-Jane Foley (2004) has a new play opening atthe Leicester Square Theatre in London. An Eveningwith Lucian Freud is based on a real life meetingLaura-Jane had with the eminent artist. In the summerbefore she came up to Trinity for her MSt in Historyof Art, Laura-Jane was invited to Freud’s HollandPark house. She toured his cluttered home and studio,discussed his views on art and had dinner togetherwith fellow artist Frank Auerbach. ‘At the time, as a21 year old, I rather took it all in my stride but I do feelincredibly lucky now to have met Lucian. He was ahighly skilled artist and was passionate about hiswork. He was an artist with a capital A. Everythingwas about his art’.

The play is a dramatic reimagining of the evening andblends the personal and anecdotal with art-historicaland biographical insights about Freud. Laura-Janeadded, ‘I’m thrilled the play is getting a West End run.It’s quite an intimate theatre space, so I thinkaudiences will really connect with the actress and thestory’.

The production runs from 19 May to 6 June. For more information or for tickets visitwww.leicestersquaretheatre.com or call 020 7734 2222.


Louise Hardwick (2000) published the book adaptedfrom her DPhil thesis, Childhood, Autobiography andthe Francophone Caribbean (2013), and has beenawarded an AHRC Early Career LeadershipFellowship to work on the Martinican author JosephZobel. She has been a lecturer at the University ofBirmingham since 2010, and would be happy to hearfrom other Trinitarians in the area.

Mike Hoppa (2006) is now an Assistant Professor ofBiology at Dartmouth College. He will be researchingthe role of the axon initial segment inneurotransmission in addition to teaching.

MARRIAGESLydia Sunderland (1981) to Nick MacKinnon(Hertford, 1979), in February 2014.

Charlotte Suthrell (1993) to Kalam Singh Chauhan,on 10 March 2014, in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India.

Claire Woods (2001) to Alistair Martin, in May 2014.

Nikhil Majithia (2003) to Anubha Dhal, on 1 December 2013.

Sarah Jenks (2006) to Dominic Cherry, on 26 July2014, at St Paul’s Cathedral. Sarah Walker-Buckton(née Broadbent, 2006)was bridesmaid, Mary-JannetLeith (2006) played the recorder during the serviceand several other Trinitarians were present.

Rachel Chivers (2009) to Daniel Khoo (Univ, 2008),on 19 July 2014, at Holy Trinity Brompton. SeveralTrinity alumni celebrated with them.

BIRTHSTo Joe Horn (1993) and Waan, on 7 September 2014,a son, Dan Joseph, a brother for Paul.

To Sue (née Leach, 1995) and David Lewis (1993),on 22 February 2014, a daughter, Elizabeth Marianne,a sister for Thomas.

To Peter Catalino (1996) and Natacha, on 25September 2013, a daughter, Victoria Kate Qiao.

To Rebekah Stone (née Elliot, 1998) and Matthew,on 3 October 2014, a daughter, Emma Margaret, asister for James.

To Nikhil Majithia (2003) and Anubha, on 15 September 2014, a son, Kabir.

To Xiaoke Wei (2008) and Martin Sherburn, on 19 November 2014, a son, Charlie Yiding.

To Miriam Hallatt (Development Officer) andRyan, on 6 October 2014, a son, George Christopher.


DEATHSPhilip Kinnersley (1939), on 22 January 2015

Viscount Margesson (Frank V H Margesson, 1940),on 11 November 2014

Sir Leonard Figg, KCMG (1941), on 11 August2014

Donald C M Hutchings (1941), on 25 October 2014

Gerald Taylor (1942), on 12 February 2015

Gordon O Davies (1943), on 9 November 2013

(Edgar) Basil Garsed (1943), on 22 December 2014

The Rt Revd Michael Hare Duke (1944), on 15 December 2014

Sir (Ronald) Tommy Macpherson, CBE MC TDDL (1945), on 6 November 2014

Christopher R H P Morgan (1945), on 10 October2014

Richard A Bradley (1946), on 25 March 2015

Christopher G V Davidge OBE (1948), on 22 December 2014

The Rt Hon (John) Jeremy Thorpe, PC (1948), on4 December 2014

Dr Christopher M Staveley (1949), on 29 August2014

Thomas R Winser (1949), on 8 November 2014

Paul L Wright (1949), on 1 February 2015

Philip N C Howard, FRSL (1952), on 5 October2014

Dr James L Lane (1953), on 26 November 2014

Rodney M S Allan (1956), on 27 December 2014

Timothy Haworth (1956), on 27 November 2014

The Revd Nicholas J Charrington (1957), on 31 January 2015

Professor David L Whitehead (1957), on 25 February 2015

Geoffrey W Hines (1959), on 28 November 2014

Lord Mountevans (Edward Broke Evans, 1962), on21 December 2014

F F Marques (1965), on 26 October 2014

Andrew M Hutcheson (1969), on 21 November 2014

Nicholas I Holmes (1978), in March 2015

Christos Kafasis (2001), in June 2014


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