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Christ Church 3 The House in 2018 13 The Archives 17 The Cathedral 19 The Cathedral Choir 22 The College Chaplain 25 The Development & Alumni Office 27 The Library 35 The Picture Gallery 39 The Steward’s Dept. 44 The Treasury 46 Tutor for Admissions 49 Junior Common Room 51 Graduate Common Room 54

Christ Church Art Room 57

The Christopher Tower Poetry Prize 58 Sports Clubs 60 Some reflections on a career at Christ Church 66

Professor Guy Wilkinson

Fellow of Royal Society 71 Professor Carol Harrison Fellow of British Academy 73 Professor Mark Edwards Senior Proctor 74 Paul Kent Memorial

Symposium 75

Christ Church Chemists

Affinity Group 79

Blue plaque for Andrea Angel 80 Senior Members’ Activities and Publications 81 News from Old Members 99 Deceased Members 104 Final Honour Schools 106 Graduate Degrees 111 Award of University Prizes 114 Information about Gaudies 115 Other Information

Other opportunities to stay at Christ Church 117

Conferences at Christ Church 118 Publications 119 Cathedral Choir CDs 120 Acknowledgements 120

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CHRIST CHURCH Visitor HM THE QUEEN

Dean Percy, The Very Revd Martyn William, BA Brist, MEd Sheff, PhD KCL.

Canons Gorick, The Venerable Martin Charles William, MA (Cambridge), MA

(Oxford) Archdeacon of Oxford Biggar, The Revd Professor Nigel John, MA PhD (Chicago), MA (Oxford), Master of Christian Studies (Regent Coll Vancouver) Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology Foot, The Revd Professor Sarah Rosamund Irvine, MA PhD

(Cambridge) Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History Ward, The Revd Graham, MA PhD (Cambridge) Regius Professor of Divinity Newey, The Revd Edmund James, MA (Cambridge), MA (Oxford),

PhD (Manchester) Sub Dean Harrison, Carol, MA DPhil (Oxford), FBA Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity

Students Rutherford, Richard Browning, MA DPhil (Oxford)

Professor of Greek and Latin Literature and Tutor in Greek & Latin Literature

Cartwright, John, BCL MA (Oxford) Professor of the Law of Contract, Tutor in Law and Censor Theologiae (until December 2018)

Darlington, Stephen Mark, MA DMus (Oxford) FRCO Organist and Tutor in Music Hine, David John, MA DPhil (Oxford)

Development Adviser (until September 2018) Judson, (Richard) Lindsay, MA DPhil (Oxford)

Tutor in Philosophy

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Watson, Ian, MA MPhil, DPhil (Cambridge) Tutor in Modern Languages (French) Simpson, Edwin John Fletcher, BCL MA (Oxford) Tutor in Law and Tutor for Graduates Howison, Samuel Dexter, MA MSc DPhil (Oxford) Professor and Tutor in Mathematics Edwards, Mark Julian, MA DPhil (Oxford) Professor of Early Christian Studies and Tutor in Theology McCulloch, Malcolm Duncan, MA BSc, PhD (Witwatersrand) Tutor in Engineering Science Obbink, Dirk, MA, PhD (Stanford) Tutor in Greek Literature Rowland-Jones, Sarah Louise, MA DPhil (Oxford) Professor of Immunology and Research Student Jack, Belinda Elizabeth, BA (Canterbury), MA status DPhil (Oxford) Tutor in French McDonald, (Duncan) Peter, MA, DPhil (Oxford)

Christopher Tower Student in Poetry in the English Language and Curator of Pictures

Neubauer, Stefan, MA (Oxford), MD (Würzburg), FRP Ordinary Student, Professor and Clinical Reader in Cardiovascular Medicine

Parkinson, Brian, MA PhD (Manchester) Professor of Social Psychology, Tutor in Experimental Psychology

Tandello, Emanuela, BA (Padua), MA DPhil (Oxford) Tutor in Italian Moran, Dominic Paul, MA PhD (Cambridge) Tutor in Spanish Wilkinson, Guy, BSc (London) MA DPhil (Oxford) Reader in Particle Physics and Alfred Moritz Student in Physics Davies, Roger Llewelyn, BSc (London), PhD (Cambridge) Philip Wetton Professor of Astrophysics and Lee Reader Bell, Sir John Irving, KB BMedSc (Alberta), MA DM FRCP Regius Professor of Medicine Johnson, Geraldine A, BA (Yale), MA (Cambridge), PhD (Harvard) Tutor in History of Art and Junior Censor Cross, Jonathan Guy Evrill, BA (Bristol) PhD (London). MA DLitt

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Professor of Musicology and Tutor in Music Clark, Anna, MA MLitt (St Andrews) DPhil (Oxford) Tutor in Roman History and Librarian (until September 2017) Young, Brian Walter, BA (Durham) MA DPhil (Oxford) FRHistS

Professor of Intellectual History, Charles Stuart Tutor in Modern History and Senior Censor

Davis, Jason John, BSc (London) DPhil (Oxford) Professor of Chemistry and Tutor in Inorganic Chemistry Bose, Mishtooni Carys Anne, MA MPhil DPhil (Oxford) Christopher Tower Official Student in Medieval Poetry in English and

Librarian Yee, Jennifer, BA (Sydney), DEA, doctorate (Paris)

Professor of Literature in French, Tutor in French and Tutor for Admissions Kuhn, Axel, PhD (Kaiserslautern) Reader in Atomic and Laser Physics, Tutor in Physics Lawrie, James Cameron Fitzgerald Seymour, MA (Cambridge) Ordinary Student and Treasurer Aarts, Dirk, MSc PhD (Utrecht) Tutor in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Cragg, Stephanie Jane, MA (Cambridge), DPhil (Oxford) Tutor in Medicine Wade-Martins, Richard, MA (Cambridge), DPhil (Oxford) Tutor in Medicine Schear, Joseph, BA (California at San Diego), PhD (Chicago) Tutor in Philosophy Keene, Edward, BA MSc PhD (London) Tutor in Politics Mortimer, Sarah, MA MSt DPhil (Oxford) Tutor in History McGerty, Kevin, BA (Cambridge), PhD (MIT) Professor of Mathematics and Tutor in Mathematics Linières-Hartley, Pauline Anne, BA, MA (Oxford) Ordinary Student and Steward Sternberg, Karl, MA (Oxford) Ordinary Student Elder, Liesl, BA (Carleton) Ordinary Student and University Development Director Dadson, Simon, BA (Oxford), MSc (British Columbia), PhD (Cambridge)

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Professor in Hydrology and Tutor in Geography Newstead, Simon, BA (Bath), PhD (St Andrew’s) Tutor in Biochemistry King, Kayla, BSc (British Columbia), MSc (Concordia), PhD (Indiana) Tutor in Biology Joosten, Jan Thijs Alfons, Lic DTh (Brussels), ThM (Princeton Theological Seminary), PhD (Jerusalem), HDR (Strasbourg) Regius Professor of Hebrew Barker, Richard, BA (Oxford), MPhil PhD (Cambridge) Tutor in Management Studies Hiscock, Simon, MA DPhil (Oxford), PGCE Ordinary Student and Director, Botanic Gardens Hutchinson, Gregory Owen, MA DPhil (Oxford) Regius Professor of Greek Kuo, Alexander, MA (Harvard), PhD (Stanford) Tutor in Politics Lebow, Kathrine, MA (Yale), PhD (Columbia) Tutor in History Vasudevan, Alexander, BA PhD (British Columbia) Tutor in Geography Van der Schaar, Mihaela, PhD (Eindhoven), Man Professor of Quantitative Finance (until September 2018) Gal, Yarin, BSc (Open University of Israel) MSc (Oxford), PhD

(Cambridge) Tutor in Computer Science Sedláček, Peter, MSc (Prague), MA (Joint European Studies Program),

MPhil PhD (Amsterdam) Tutor in Economics Martinsson, Gunnar, PhD Texas Tutor in Numerical Analysis (until September 2018) Coote, Mark, BA (Nottingham), MA (London) Ordinary Student and Director of Development Hooper, Hayley, LLB (Glasgow), BCL MPhil PhD (Oxford) Pennington’s Student in Law Allison, James, MA DPhil Oxf Fixed Term Student in Physics Duncan, Sophie, MA DPhil Oxf Fixed Term Student in English

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Honorary Students Armstrong, Robert Temple, the Rt Hon Lord Armstrong of Ilminster, GCB KCB CB CVO MA Gurdon, Sir John Bertrand, MA DPhil FRS Urquhart, Sir Brian Edward, KCMG MBE DCL (Hon LLD Yale) Acland, Sir Antony Arthur, KG GCMG CVO MA Howard, Professor Sir Michael Eliot, OM CH CBE MC DLitt FBA FRHistS FRSL Hassan ibn Talal, HRH Prince of Jordan Lawson, Nigel, the Rt Hon Lord Lawson of Blaby, MA PC Girouard, Mark, MA PhD Morris, Jan, CBE FRSL MA Williams, Rowan Douglas, Most Revd and Rt Hon Archbishop of

Canterbury MA DPhil DD FBA Oppenheimer, Nicholas Frank, MA Scholey, Sir David Gerard, CBE (Hon DLitt London Guildhall) FRSA Smith, Douglas, MA Wood, Sir Martin Francis, OBE DL (Hon FEng UMIST Hon DSc Cranfield on DSc Nott Hon DTech Loughborough Hon DEng Birm) FRS Drury, the Very Revd John Henry, MA Oxf (MA Camb) de la Bastide, Michael, TC QC Blair, Ian Warwick, Baron Blair of Boughton Kt, QPM, MA Oxf Curtis, Richard Whalley Anthony, CBE Moritz, Michael Jonathan, BA Rothschild, Nathaniel Charles Jacob, the Rt. Hon. Lord, OM, GBE Ronus, Robert, BA Oxf McDougall, Douglas, OBE Neuberger, David Edmond, Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury, PC, QC Paine, Peter S, Jr., LLB Harvard, BA Princeton, MA Oxf, Order National du Merite Preston, Simon (John), CBE, MusB MA Camb Beard, Alexander F, MA Oxf Lewis, The Very Revd Christopher Andrew, MA DPhil Oxf, PhD Camb

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Emeritus Students Andreyev, (Constance) Catherine Laura, MA DPhil (PhD Camb) Asquith, Ivon Shaun, MA Oxf (PhD Lond) Benthall, Richard Pringle, MA (MA Camb) Bowman, Alan Keir, MA (MA PhD Toronto) FBA Burn, Edward Hector, BCL MA Butler, (Ian) Christopher, MA Oxf Cheetham, Anthony Kevin, MA DPhil FRS Conrad, Peter John, MA FRSL Darlington, Stephen Mark, MA DMus Oxf, FRCO (from 1 October 2018) Gardner, Sir Richard Lavenham, MA Oxf, PhD Camb, FRS Grossel, Martin Christopher, BSc PhD Lond, MA Oxf Haigh, Christopher Allan, MA Camb, MA Oxf, PhD Manc, FRHistS Hamer, Richard Frederick Sanger, MA Harris, John Graham, MA FIH Hine, David Johnm MA DPhil Oxf (from 1 October 2018) Lund, Peter Gradwell, MA Matthews, Peter Bryan Conrad, MA DM DSc (MD Camb) FRS Nowell, David, MA DPhil (MA Camb) CEng, MIMechE O’Donovan, the Revd Oliver Michael Timothy, MA DPhil Oppenheimer, Peter Morris, MA Pallot, Judith, MA (BA Leeds, PhD Lond) (from October 2016) Parsons, Peter John, MA FBA Paton, Jack Ellis, MA (BSc St And, PhD Birm) Pelling, Christopher Brendan Reginald, MA DPhil Pulzer, Peter George Julius, MA (MA PhD Camb BSc Lond) FRHistS Rice, (David) Hugh, BPhil MA Robinson, Christopher Frank, MA Sansom, Mark Stephen Perry, MA DPhil Speedy, Andrew William, MA (MA PhD Camb) Stacey, Derek Norton, MA DPhil Thomas, William Eden Sherwood, MA FRHistS Thompson, Ian David, MA (PhD Camb) Truman, Ronald William, MA DPhil Vaughan-Lee, Michael Rogers, MA DPhil Ward, Canon Professor Keith, BA (Wales),MA (Oxon.), B. Litt.

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Wayne, Richard Peer, MA (PhD Camb) Williamson, Hugh Godfrey Maturin, MA Phd Dd Camb, DD Oxf, FBA Wright, Jonathan Richard Cassé, MA DPhil Censor of Degrees Bose, Mishtooni Carys Anne, MA MPhil DPhil Oxf. Pallot, Professor Judith, MA (BA Leeds, PhD Lond) College Chaplain Hayns, The Revd Clare, BA Warw, MSc RHUL, PGDip Oxf Brookes Curator of the Picture Gallery Thalmann, Jacqueline Margot, (MA Berlin, Dipl. Lond Courtauld) Fowler Hamilton Visiting Research Fellows Professor Manfred Trojahn

Professor of Composition, Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. Professor Robert Watson, Distinguished Professor of English, UCLA. Lecturers Abecassis, Michael, MA status Oxf, MLitt St And French Ansorge, Olaf, Neuroanatomy Archer, Rowena, MA DPhil Medieval History Archer, Sophie, Philosophy Baines, Jennifer, MA DPhil Russian Bitel, Anton, Classics Brain, Keith, Pharmacology Breward, Christopher, MA MSc DPhil Mathematics Broad, Leah, Music Cantley, James, Medicine Cohen, Sarah, Ancient History Cotton-Barratt, Rebecca, Mathematics Deakin, Matthew, Engineering Science Frazier, Robert Lewis, (BA W Wash, MA PhD UMASS, Amherst) Philosophy Gilbert, James, Clinical Medicine

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Goddard, Stephen, French Goodman, Martin David, MA DPhil FBA Roman History Harris, Stephen, Biological Sciences IP, Pui Him, Theology Kohl, Michael, BSc Lond, DPhil Oxf Medicine Littlewood, Timothy James, (MB BCh FRCP FRC.Path MD Wales) Medicine Maw, David, MA DPhil Music Merchant, Alan Clive, MA DPhil Physics Mishra, Challenger, Physics Norton, Roy, MA MSt Oxf Spanish Papanikoloau, Dimitris, Modern Greek Pazos Alonso, Claudia, Portuguese Piccolo, Alessio, Economics Pires, Jacinta, (MSc Leics) Economics Rhoades, Peter G, College Art Tutor Roberts, Ian Simon David, FRCPath, MRCPath, MBChB, BSc Hons Pathology Schaar, Elsa, History of Art Schroeder, Severin, Philosophy Schwarz, Miriam, German Lektorin Scott, Kathryn MA MSci PhD Camb Biochemistry Simblett, Sarah, Fine Art Solopova, Elizabeth, English Thomas, Jenelle, Linguistics Thompson, Samuel, Organic Chemistry Upton, (Ann) Louise, BA Oxf, PhD Lond Medicine Van Rheede, Joram, Psychology Vilain, Robert, MA DPhil German Wilkins, Robert James, MA DPhil Physiological Sciences Willden, Richard, M.Eng, PhD DIC Engineering Science Junior Research Fellows Barendt, Timothy, MChem DPhil (Oxford) Chemistry Bath, Eleanor, BA BSc (New South Wales), DPhil (Oxford) Biological

Sciences Bennett, Joshua , BA MSt DPhil (Oxford) History Billingham, Paul, BA MPhil DPhil (Oxford) Politics

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El Khachab, Chihab, BA Ottowa Anthropology Ferguson, Samuel, BA MSt DPhil (Oxford) Modern Languages Giles, Samantha, MSci (Bristol) DPhil (Oxford) Geology Hill, Peter, BA MSt DPhil (Oxford) Languages Holmes, Ros, BA (SOAS), MSt (Oxford), DPhil (Oxford) History of Art Keum, Tai-Yeoun, PhD (Harvard) Political Theory Kolling, Nils, BA MSc DPhil (Oxford) Psychology Lockwood, Patricia, BSc (Bristol), PhD (London) Psychology Meinecke, Jena, BSc (UCLA) DPhil (Oxford) Physics Rüland, Angkana, PhD (Bonn) Mathematics Sullivan, Michael, BA (Durham) MPhil PhD (Cambridge) English Thompson, Robin, MMath (Oxford) PhD (Cambridge) Mathematics &

Biological Sciences Von Preussen, Brigid MA (Cambridge) MA (Warburg) MPhil ( Columbia) History of Art Senior Associate Research Fellow Bull, Malcolm, BA (Oxford) MA (London) History of Art Clein, Natalie Music Doyne Farmer, J., BSc (Stanford), PhD (California at Santa Cruz) Physics Hesjedal, Thorsten, Diploma (Tübingen), Doctorate (Humboldt)

Physics Neff, Gina, BA DPhD (Columbia), MPhil (City University of New

York) Sociology Ogg, Graham Stuart, MA DPhil (Oxford), BMBCh, FRCP Molecular

Medicine Thornton, Thomas, MA PhD (Seattle) Environmental Change Wright, John David Maitland, MA (Aberdeen), MA DPhil (Oxford),

FRSE Mathematics Millard and Lee Alexander Post-Doctoral Fellow Morabito, Leah, BSc (Michigan), MSc (Oklahoma), PhD (Leiden) McDonald Postdoctoral Fellow in Christian Ethics and Public Life Orr, James, Christian Ethics and Public Life (until September 2018) Moyse, Ashley, Christian Ethics and Public Life (from September 2018)

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Postdoctoral Research Fellows Al-Zoubi, Saja, Economics Donaldson-Hanna, Kerri, BSc (Florida Institute of Technology), MSc

PhD (Brown) Astrophysics Heazlewood, Brianna, BSc PhD (Sydney) Chemistry Jostins-Dean, Luke, MA, MPhil PhD (Cambridge) Biological Sciences Liu, Yiqing, BA (Nanjing), PhD (Peking) Astrophysics Ostberg, Jessica, Jur. Dr. (Stockholm) Law Parker, Lucy, MA, MSt, DPhil (Oxford) History Rashbrook-Cooper, Oliver, PhD Warw Philosophy Schneider, Fabian, Bsc, MSc, PhD (Bonn) Astrophysics Veliz, Carissa, BA (Salamanca), MA (New York), DPhil (Oxford) Philosophy Watson, Gabrielle, LLB (Edinburgh), MSc, DPhil (Oxford Law

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THE HOUSE IN 2018

At the time of writing this editorial it seems probable, though not certain, that 2018 will have been the last year of this country’s membership of the European Union. The career of the first secessionist from Europe, the self-styled Emperor Carausius, was so abortive that it can now be reconstructed only from coinage, the most mendacious literary genre of ancient times. King John was forced into a reluctant Brexit by the French, and Henry VIII by a strange combination of Spaniards abroad and Lutherans at home. Our latest departure is largely the product of popular activism, nourished as such commotions always are by genuine instances of incompetence and corruption. The consternation in academic circles - arising partly from a real sense of loss and partly from its exposure of our negligible influence on those whom we have educated - cannot but be felt with particular force at Oxford, a cosmopolitan institution even in the days when our fellow-islanders took a pride in their isolation. Indeed we have both given and received, for if our great scholars of the thirteenth century were educated in Paris, Scotus and Ockham returned the gifts of the continent with interest in the fourteenth. All this is to say that we shall inevitably wish our links with European colleagues to be as close as they can be, but also that we may justly expect them to remain close in any circumstances. After all, we shall not be less accessible to Europe after Brexit than we currently are to the United States, from which both colleagues and students continue to flow to us, notwithstanding our falling salaries and rising fees. The European Union has been a stream - in retrospect, we may think, a golden Pactolus - of funding for research, only a portion of which is likely to be replaced amid the surprises and perplexities that accompany the reorientation of industry and commerce. In the sciences a diminution of means will almost certainly be detrimental to academic endeavour; projects in the humanities which require co-operation or travel will also be impaired. At the same time, a teaching university like ours has reason to be suspicious of the growing expectation that research should always take the form of collaborative enterprise. Where a clear distinction can be drawn between the accumulation of evidence and the ordering of knowledge, the head will always be glad of the labour of the hands; in literature, philosophy or intellectual history, on the other hand, a juxtaposition of narrow specialities may offer less satisfaction to the

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curious, and less stimulus to research, than the grand synopses of a Collingwood, a Braudel or a Gombrich, all of which owe their cohesion and their fecundity to the freedom to work uncircumscribed by patronage or the arbitrary demarcation of learning. We need not dwell on the waste of time and the lowering of morale that must ensue in universities where application for grants has become the rule but success remains the rare exception because there are so few grants to be won: why build up our proficiency in attempts that are almost bound to fail when we could be securing a contract with a publisher or sharing with undergraduates the knowledge that they pay so much to imbibe? Small faculties will also be quick to point out that even if teaching can be done as well or better by junior colleagues, administrative duties are not so easily delegated. The appointment of professional administrators as chairs of faculties or directors of studies might be welcomed as a liberation of academics from vexatious duties, but only if we are prepared to accept the corollary that once we no longer govern our own affairs they may not be governed in our own interests or for the ends that we hope to serve. Teaching is the function and the pride of an Oxford college. It is most productive, as those who created the modern tutorial argued, when it is not merely a transfer of information but the opening of one mind to another. Whatever becomes of the European Union without Christ Church, three members of the college have certainly earned their retirement after giving between them almost a hundred years of teaching to our undergraduates, as well as much precious advice to Governing Body. Stephen Darlington, formerly the House’s organ scholar, was Organist and Tutor in Music from 1985 to September 2018. John Cartwright also saw education at Christ Church from both sides, arriving at first to read Literae Humaniores but taking Finals in Jurisprudence and then returning in 1982 as Official Student (i.e Tutor) in Law. David Hine, who laid down his role as Tutor in Politics in 2017, served for another year on Governing Body as an adviser on development. Both Professor Hine and Professor Cartwright held other distinguished

positions within and outside the House - none more venerable than that of Senior ex-Censor, which the former bequeathed in September to the latter, who by demitting in December made last year one of the few in which this office has been relinquished twice. How frequently the office of ex-Senior ex-Censor has changed hands we have not ascertained.

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Since the world contains many fine universities, it is not surprising that some elect to move on from Oxford before the age of retirement. Gunnar Martinsson, Tutor in Mathematics and winner of the Germund Dahlquist Prize in 2017, has now been made Professor of Mathematics at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences in the University of Texas at Austin. Even a mathematician would be hard pressed to calculate the mobility of the modern economist, but Mihaela Van der Schaar spent two years on Governing Body as the Man Professor of Quantitative Finance before being elected last year to the John Humphrey Professorship of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Medicine at the University of Cambridge. Anna Camilleri, who held a five-year tutorship in English, is now teaching at Eton College, where her erudite pupils will no doubt remind her that her favourite author, Lord Byron, could only get into Harrow. She is replaced by Sophie Duncan, whose interests in iconoclasm and female empowerment are sure to invigorate the deliberations of the House. David Alonso, employed from 2017 to 2018 as Tutor in Astrophysics, now holds a permanent fellowship at St Peter’s College, Oxford, after a brief sojourn in Cardiff. His successor is James Allison, who has followed the opposite path, having received his degree in Physics from St Peter’s. Of course it is the same path in both directions, as Heraclitus said -assuming that it is possible to take the same road twice. The Junior Research Fellows who departed in 2018 were Paul Billingham in Politics, Angkana Ruland in Mathematics, Nils Kölling in Medicine and Samuel Ferguson in Modern Languages, together with Fabian Schneider, who was attached to the college for three years as the Hintze Research Fellow in Astrophysics. James Orr’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the McDonald Centre for Ethics, Theology and Public Life has also come to an end. Good colleagues all, they are now succeeded by Emma Riley (Economics and Management), Vera Shafer (Physics), Rebecca Smethurst (Astrophysics) and Hugo Shakeshaft (Classical Archaeology). We were glad to have with us as Fowler Hamilton Visiting Fellow a distinguished student of the English Renaissance, Robert Watson, whose permanent chair is held in the University of California at Los Angeles. Irwin Zaid, whose Junior Research Fellowship terminated in 2016, makes a pleasing return as Lecturer in Computer Science. For a time at least we give up the services of six other lecturers: Sophie Archer (Philosophy), Olga Barrera (Engineering), Christopher Kowol (Modern

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History) Challenger Mishra (Physics), Lucy O’ Sullivan (Modern Languages) and Emma Turnbull (not quite so Modern History). Our numbers are replenished by Abigail Buglass (Classics, though with a specialism in ancient atomic theory), Pui Him Ip (Theology), Syafiq Johar (Mathematics), Florian Klimm (Mathematics) and Elisa Schaar (History of Art). Since Dr Ip has a first degree in Physics while Dr Klimm specialises in Quantum Mechanics and Dr Johar in Riemannian Geometry, it would seem (when we add in all our Astrophysicists) that there never was a time when so many people at the House were employed in the scrutiny of what Lucretius called the “nature of things”. Musicians we have always had in abundance. The cellist Natalie Clein may have demitted as Senior Associate Research Fellow, but we are pleased to welcome as our Assistant Organist Christian Wilson, also Director of Music at Brasenose College. Stephen Darlington is replaced by Steven Grahl, Conductor of the Schola Cantorum at Oxford, who comes to us from Peterborough Cathedral with a formidable record of acclaimed performances as conductor and organist as well as much experience of teaching music at New College and elsewhere. We must note with sadness the passing of Silvia Breu, who held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Computer Science at Christ Church before returning to teach at Cambridge, where she died of cancer at the Arthur Rank Hospice on August 3 2018. She is also remembered as a rowing coach for many colleges in Cambridge, and was one of the crew of the Blondie Boat (i.e. the Women’s Reserve) which beat Oxford’s Osiris in 2011. We do not so much lament the death as celebrate the long life of Lady Peggy Chadwick, widow of Sir Henry Chadwick, our former Dean and Regius Professor of Divinity. Lady Chadwick was 92 when she gave a talk in 2010, two years after the death of her husband, on “Theologians I have known”; shortly before her own death at the age of 100 on December 22 last year, Professor Henry Mayr-Harting paid tribute in Christ Church Matters to her “still unclouded mind”. We can all try to ensure that our minds remain clear while we have them, though we cannot all hope for longevity, and few will dare to predict an imminent parting of the clouds. Mark Edwards

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THE ARCHIVES

More than 130 readers visited the archive during 2018 with more than a thousand items produced for those researchers and for internal use. The archivist was occupied through much of 2018 with ensuring that Christ Church’s record-keeping complied with the General Data Protection Regulations which came into force in May (as the Data Protection Act 2018). And GDPR has had a considerable effect on accessions to the archive during the year with offices and retiring tutors clearing out forgotten cupboards and filing cabinets. The new regulations are designed to increase transparency in our use and storage of personal data. A policy of ‘do as you would be done by’ is our focus; we care for your data as we would wish our own to be protected. Just before Christmas, the books and papers from the UK offices of the Oxford Mission to Calcutta were deposited with the Library and Archive. The Mission was founded in 1879 in the rooms of Canon Edward King (Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology, and later Bishop of Lincoln). King was committed to the universal mission of the church, and was a founder of St Stephen’s House (the missionary training college for priests in Oxford) and supported Christ Church’s missions in Poplar and Bethnal Green. The Calcutta mission still works in north-east India and in Bangladesh. This new arrival, which is not a large collection, along with the regular intake of papers from the various offices and departments of college and cathedral, has put considerable pressure on space in the Brewhouse archive. It would be sad to have to say no to new deposits which have such a direct connection with the House or to compromise the acquisition of papers on aspects of college and cathedral history just for lack of storage facilities. In 2009, when the new archive was opened, it was accepted that there would have to be some form of expansion after a decade or so, and plans are afoot to add new shelving and perhaps a better reader space. Again in December, the archivist sent the manuscript of a history of priory and cathedral to the publisher. The third in the Christ Church ‘saga’, following on from The Cardinal’s College and The Stones of Christ Church, The King’s Cathedral will be published for St Frideswide’s Day in October 2019.

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One exciting acquisition - an engraved aquatint of a drawing by Pugin of Christ Church Hall -has come to us through the DCMS (under the Acceptance in Lieu scheme) from the estate of Walter Stoye, who matriculated at Christ Church in 1936. The search is on for a place to hang it so as many as possible can benefit from this gift while keeping it safe. A second artwork, this time painted by one of our distinguished alumni, John Croft (ChCh 1940), of a rather grim wartime Peckwater Quad was given to the archive by the artist. Work on Christ Church’s buildings continues to generate large quantities of paperwork and other materials. Drawings, archaeological reports, and other papers on recent projects, such as the new greenhouse, the refurbishment of Peckwater, the repairs to the Hall roof, the thatched barn, and the cathedral, among others, arrive regularly but it is not only new works that are represented in the accessions record. One new arrival is a drawing from [1952] by Cecil Brown, then Clerk of Works, with his suggestion for the development of the coal yard site (now Blue Boar Quad). His plan included a lecture theatre (a half-century before we eventually built one, almost on the same site); offices for the Treasury and Clerk of Works, guest rooms, and a porter’s flat on the ground floor; and senior members sets on the first. The courtyard in the centre was to include a shelter for all the bicycles belonging to the Treasury staff! The archivist will miss Lady Peggy Chadwick, widow of Henry Chadwick (Dean [1969]-1979). Lady Peggy, who died in December 2018, was a tremendous supporter of the archive and would often visit the archivist with a bag full of papers and a memory full of the most wonderful anecdotes about the family’s time at the House from the everyday tales of the girls sunbathing on the roof in Tom Quad to the heroic account of a night-time dash to London to collect the Dean ahead of a visit from the Prime Minister. Her recollections are invaluable to the history of our community as are those of all our members. The archivist is grateful for the ongoing and enthusiastic support of House men and women in her endeavours to ensure that our corporate memory is as complete and accessible as possible. Judith Curthoys

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THE CATHEDRAL

Uniquely, the Christ Church Cathedral is both College Chapel and the cathedral church for the Diocese of Oxford. The beautiful building is home to a vibrant worshipping community with a rich worshipping tradition and a world-famous Cathedral Choir. The daily offering of worship to God is at the heart of Cathedral life. In addition, we host a wide range of diocesan events, music, art and drama. The year 2018 was a full one. The year began with a special Epiphany Carol service involving local church choirs affiliated to the Royal School of Church Music. At the end of January we were delighted to host the installation of six new honorary canons (Revd Tim Harper, Revd Terrie Robinson, Revd John Paton, Maranda St John Nicolle, Jane Kennedy and Dr Helen Cameron), alongside the admission of four new members of the Order of St Frideswide (Charles Baker, Jeremy Twynam and two Gordon Gills!). We ran a series of sermons on Sunday mornings designed to tie in with the highly-rated ‘Imagining the Divine: Art and the rise of World Religions’ exhibition at the Ashmolean. In this instance, different members of Chapter took inspiration from a particular object from the exhibition. In addition to our more formal worship, during 2018 there were two seasons of ‘After Eight’, our informal Sunday evening service with discussion. In Hilary Term, the focus was upon Anglican spirituality, and in Michaelmas on the Bible in Colour. A one-off ‘After Eight Extra’ in May featured the Dean being interviewed about his new book, Reasonable Radical. On Ash Wednesday we marked the beginning of Lent with ‘Return to Me’, a special service of words and music with the imposition of ashes. On Wednesday evenings during Lent the men of the choir sang Compline, offering a peaceful candlelit setting in which to reflect and pray. At the same time, a Sunday sermon season considered the Beatitudes, to fit in with the recently-launched diocesan vision, ‘Called to be Christ-like’. During Lent we also hosted an exhibition on ‘Prayer’ by Jacqui Parkinson, supported by the Deo Gloria Trust. Holy Week began with the Palm Sunday procession around Tom Quad. Throughout the week, our evening liturgy included reflections by the Dean. As usual, our magnificent choir sang Bach’s ‘St John Passion’,

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accompanied by Oxford Baroque as part of our worship for Holy Week. In addition, our talented organ scholars performed a series of meditations (J.S. Bach’s Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor BMV582; Martin’s Passacaille; and Vierne’s Symphonie op 28 no 3). On Maundy Thursday we welcomed the ministers of the diocese to our moving annual Chrism Mass. Other seasonal services included the foot-washing and vigil until Midnight on Maundy Thursday; the Journey to the Cross interactive family service on Good Friday; the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday; and the joyful celebrations of Easter Day itself. Over the summer we enjoyed a number of musical highlights, tinged with sadness as we said farewell to Professor Stephen Darlington who stepped down after 33 years of distinguished service as Organist. Our regular Three Choirs Evensong with neighbours Magdalen and New College included music by composers from each of the three colleges. Choral Evensong was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 during May. We also marked the 40-year anniversary of the Cathedral Singers, who sing at least 100 services a year when the Cathedral Choir is absent. At the end of June, the Bishop of Oxford ordained new clergy to service in parishes in the three counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. Two services were held in order to accommodate all the candidates and their families. Summer concerts included the Andrew Chamblin Memorial Concert, an organ recital by Thomas Gaynor, the Cathedral Singers summer concert, and a pre-tour concert by the Cathedral Choir ahead of their visit to Asia. Alongside our usual activities for schoolchildren and families, we hosted for the first time a remarkable icon painting course, with the artist Dr Irina Bradley. Our Faith and Politics series, organised by the College Chaplaincy, continued throughout the year and attracted a wide-ranging audience. The 2018 lectures were on Fighting Modern Slavery (Hilary); the Radical Politics of Jesus (Trinity); and Artificial Intelligence (Michaelmas). In the summer we put on a series of open lectures on Christian ethics, which were popular and well attended. In September, the Cathedral took part in the city-wide initiative Open Doors, an event that attracted between 4000 and (??) 5000 visitors who sampled a little of Cathedral life. This includes hearing the choir in rehearsal.

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The autumn season began as usual with the season of St Frideswide, our patron saint. This starts with the Court Sermon, marking the beginning of the legal year; and is followed by our Civic Service (with the theme of European friendship for 2018, and involving local schools); and finally our Patronal Eucharist, at which we are particularly glad to welcome our girls’ choir, Frideswide Voices. It was a particularly demanding Remembrance Season, marking as it did the 100th anniversary of the Armistice. As well as the formal Remembrance Sunday services and parade, the Cathedral hosted a stunning sound and light show by Luxmuralis, called Poppy Field. Thanks to sponsorship by the Friends of the Cathedral, we were able to offer this experience to visitors without charge, through timed tickets. The event – which ran over three nights – proved highly popular, bringing in a new and diverse audience. Visitors reported being universally moved by the event, and several lingered for considerable time. In November we welcomed award-winning theatre company Antic Disposition who performed their version of Henry V by. The play – based on Shakespeare’s play of the same name, enhanced by the poetry of A.E. Housman – takes as its premise French and English soldiers caught up in the First World War who put on a performance of Shakespeare’s Henry V in a field hospital. In Advent, a few brave members of the student and cathedral body repeated the overnight sleepover to raise funds for the homeless, through the Church Urban Fund. The festive season was busy with the full list of concerts and special services for Advent and Christmas, all of which were attended to capacity as usual. More than £20,000 was raised for charity as a result. There were a number of staff changes during the year. In August, Matt Power, our Dean’s Verger, left for a similar post in London. We welcomed Paul Harris in his place, and Joseph Denby in the new role of Operations Manager. Neil McCleery left in July at the end of his one-year post as Lay Succentor. The Revd Philippa White joined the team as Succentor in September. Steven Grahl took up the post of Organist at the beginning of the Michaelmas Term. Sarah Meyrick Cathedral Public Engagement Manager

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THE CATHEDRAL CHOIR

My last two terms at Christ Church were exciting for all sorts of reasons. Readers of the Annual Report will be accustomed to my regular accounts of the extensive activities of the Cathedral Choir, but this year has been truly exceptional. We began the New Year preparing for my final CD recording with the choir: Howard Goodall’s Invictus: A Passion, with soloists from The Sixteen and a fabulous hand-picked chamber ensemble. The work is a contemporary reflection on the themes of the traditional Christian Passion story with particular attention to the roles and perspectives of women. Poems by various authors are interwoven with the 1611 verse narrative of the biblical Passion by Aemelia Lanyer, née Bassano, one of the first books published in the English language by a female poet. The recording was subsequently released on the Coro label, and was featured as Critics’ Choice: Favourite Recording of 2018, in the December issue of Gramophone Magazine. In April we were on tour in the US, singing at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York, Virginia Theological Seminary, Davidson College Presbyterian Church, and Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Chicago. One critic wrote, after our concert in New York, that the choir had “knocked [his] socks off” and that the sound was “vigorous, yet brilliantly expressive”. In Davidson and Chicago, we were very excited to work with the local communities and to involve them in our concerts there. Then, in May, we were off to the Göttingen Handel Festival to give two concerts, one in the most wonderful Basilika St Cyriakus in Duderstadt, and the other in the Stadthalle in Göttingen. The latter, broadcast on NDR, was conducted by Laurence Cummings, Artistic Director of the Göttingen Handel Festival, who was the first Organ Scholar I appointed at Christ Church in 1986. He is truly an outstanding musician and it was a great privilege for the choir to experience his direction in marvellous performances of Handel’s The Choice of Hercules and the Dettingen Te Deum with the spectacular Göttingen Festival Orchestra. A week later we were back at St John’s Smith Square for the UK and European première of Invictus, a concert which was broadcast on Classic FM.

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Trinity Term continued with more excitements, as the choir got to grips with Hans Werner Henze’s amazing setting of words by W. H. Auden, Moralities. We performed this in my farewell concert in the Church of St John the Evangelist in Oxford, and the musicians included Clive Driskill-Smith and Libby Burgess, both former Christ Church Organ Scholars, as pianists, along with Giles Underwood as baritone soloist and Gabriel Vick as narrator, both former Clerks in the Cathedral Choir. This imaginative and vibrant work is hardly ever performed, and it was a great thrill to give it an airing in my final term, not least because of W.H. Auden’s glorious versions of three of Aesop’s Fables. In the Cathedral there was a memorable performance of Bach’s St John Passion in Holy Week, and also a grand celebration of choral music with the combined choirs of Magdalen, New College, and Christ Church singing Evensong together at the beginning of May. We broadcast Choral Evensong live on Radio Three in June, the programme including Walton’s The Twelve, first performed in the Cathedral in 1965. I was the work’s accompanist on Simon Preston’s first LP recording with the choir in 1975, so it felt as though I had come full circle. The choir was vastly enlarged by alumni Choristers and Clerks for Evensong on the last day of term: it was a magnificent sound. Avie released our five CD recordings of Music from the Eton Choirbook as a box-set, to coincide with my last month as Organist and Official Student in Music, under the title The Door to Paradise: a hint of what is to come for me perhaps! The choir’s adventurous year continued with a marvellous tour to Macau and China in August. We gave performances in the Cathedral in Macau, and the major concert halls in Nanjing, Jinan, Beijing, and Xi’an. I should report that at the end of the final concert, my last as Director of the Cathedral Choir, the Clerks gave a beautiful impromptu performance of Sullivan’s ‘The Long Day Closes’. It must have been a mystery to the large Chinese audience, but it was deeply moving for me. My own reflections on thirty-three years at Christ Church appear elsewhere in this report, so since this is a column about the Cathedral Choir I will confine myself to paying tribute to the numerous superb musicians who have been nurtured by this place, not only the Cathedral Choristers and Academical and Lay Clerks, but also a series of excellent Organ Scholars and Sub-Organists, most recently Clive Driskill-Smith who leaves the stamp of his brilliance and dedication on much of the Darlington era.

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It has been a delight to pass on the baton to my outstanding successor, Steven Grahl, who writes below about Michaelmas Term. Stephen Darlington

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THE COLLEGE CHAPLAIN

Dining is an important and integral part of Christ Church life, and the welfare team and chaplaincy is no exception. One of the advantages of being a College Chaplain is that I’m one of the few people in Christ Church with permission to eat at the various different dining halls and so I enjoy floating between the SCR, staff dining room, the Hall and now even Barrie’s, the excellent new Café in the JCR. I find it’s a great way to catch up with people and find out what’s going on. Most of the welfare and chapel events involve food of some sort: we entice the welfare reps to a termly early morning meeting with croissants; encourage the Peer Supporters with tea and cakes; and give our early morning chapel attendees breakfast each Sunday. Every Thursday I host ‘Brain Strain Tea and Cake’ which is simply a chance for Junior Members to gather in my study for an hour for home-made cakes and an opportunity to take a break from the library and check in. We normally have around 30 each week and so it’s an important focus point for my week. As a welfare team we try to ensure everyone knows where to go to access support and a new welfare flowchart has been an effective way to signpost to the numerous support services available. The chaplaincy continues to thrive and we trialled some new chapel events this year, many of which were outside. We held an Ascension Day service at the top of Fell Tower and an outdoor College Communion service followed by our first ever Chapel Fête, with stocks, garden games, a ChCh Bake Off competition and scones (more food of course). We also had a service of Confirmations this year and 12 Junior Members were confirmed by Christ Church alumni Bishop Humphrey Southern in a beautiful (but cold) service in February. This year we continued our termly Faith and Politics Lectures bringing together college, cathedral and the wider community. We had talks from The Dean on the Radical Politics of Jesus (Hilary), James Ewins QC on Modern Slavery and the work of the International Justice Mission (Trinity), and the Bishop of Oxford on the ethical implications of Artificial Intelligence. One of joys of my role is being able to welcome back alumni who wish to be married in the Cathedral. Most of the weddings took place in Spring/Summer and some of our couples had met one another whilst studying at Christ Church. We had such a good number this year that

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we decided to trial a Marriage Preparation morning bringing all the couples together for a morning of reflection and planning, and then hosted them all for lunch. It was a great success and one which we intend to repeat. This year we bade farewell to Assistant Chaplain Neil McCleery who went on to be Chaplain at Bedford School, and we welcomed Revd Philippa White who joined us from Lincoln Cathedral as Assistant College Chaplain alongside being Cathedral Succentor and Cathedral School Chaplain. We ended the year thinking about those for whom plentiful food is hard to come by and held two events which raised money for those who are struggling. Our annual Cathedral Sleepout raised a record £3,034 for homelessness, and our College Choir Carol Concert ‘Singing for Syria’ raised £1,150 for people in Syria. Christ Church stands on ground that was once an Augustinian Friary and so it’s good to remember the words of the 5th Century Saint: “On this occasion of the concourse of so many strangers, and needy and suffering people, let your hospitality and your good works abound”. Revd Clare Hayns College Chaplain and Welfare Coordinator

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THE DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI OFFICE

The achievements of the Development office in any year rely on the generosity and commitment of our Members and Friends. Thank you to everyone who gave of their time, expertise, or financially, to support the core values and activities of the House. We are delighted to report that donor participation over the financial year rose by 15% on the previous year. Pledges and cash gifts amounted to £2,583,439.62 of which £1,903,603.56 was in support of endowment projects, and £679,836.06 towards expendable projects. There were 11 new members of the Board of Benefactors, 22 gifts over £25,000 and 681 gifts under £25,000. The Development Office comprised the Director of Development, Mark Coote; Deputy Director of Development & Vice President of Christ Church Association, Simon Offen; Development Executive, Aileen Thomson; Development Graduate Intern and then promoted to Development Officer, Grace Holland; Office Manager & PA to Director of Development, Sandra Harrison; Alumni Relations Officer, Anna Port, replaced whilst on maternity leave by Ingrid Heggli in December; Database Manager, Kari Hodson, replaced by Thomas Lowen (previously Development Assistant) whilst on Maternity leave in August; and Music Trust Development Officer, Joshua Copeland, replaced by Development, Alumni & Music Trust Intern, Rory Moules, in September. In his first full year as Director of Development Mark Coote began a strategic review of the state of Development at Christ Church, and highlighted the fact that there had been a hugely successful fundraising programme measured by maximising value. A small cohort of philanthropic supporters has delivered extraordinary figures. However, there had not been enough concentration on the volume of donors, and over time this model could prove unsustainable. Thus he has introduced plans to bring greater coherency to alumni engagement across the lifetime of their Membership of the House. The focus has been on developing a ‘supporter journey’ concentrating on engagement and donor acquisition. A number of developments have been introduced to bring this greater consistency, coherence and inclusion to the development programme, including:

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• The introduction of an annual Leaver’s Gift which allows engagement with current Junior Members and acts as a bridge to getting involved in the Moritz-Heyman Society. The Leaver’s Gift received two offers of matched funding from former Members, not only encouraging greater participation, but also doubling its impact.

• Two telephone campaigns focusing on contacting a broader cohort of Members.

• A legacy mailing to everyone who has a Gaudy or a college reunion;

• The launch of a Facebook group and Linked-in platform; Greater analysis of the figures has included looking at engagement other than philanthropy. Of the 9,000 contactable alumni across the globe, 13% donated, 9% attended events, 16% volunteered in some way, making a total of 31% engaged with the House. An analysis of digital engagement shows an increase across various key channels:

• The number of members requesting Christ Church Matters digitally has gone from 118 (1%) to 1147 (12%) massively helping with costs.

• We received 2500 online updates over the year. • We now have 715 members in our Alumni Facebook Group. • LinkedIn connections have gone from c. 500 to c. 800 over the

space of 6 months. As regards the challenges of GDPR which came into force in May 2018, we encourage alumni to inform us of their communication preferences and sent out a form with the last two editions of Christ Church Matters, and in targeted mailings via the Year Reps. 2,450 alumni have now responded which represents 25% of all alumni. In our communications surrounding GDPR we have been careful to emphasise that we would like to give alumni a choice about how they wish to be contacted and have steered away from language surrounding consent. This is because we are proceeding in our dealings with alumni and friends on the basis of legitimate interest, rather than consent.

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The departure of Dr Stephen Darlington was an obvious time to promote fundraising for the Cathedral Music Trust. A total sum of £569k was raised, which included completing the Stephen Darlington Organ Scholarship Endowment and the endowment of two choristerships. A major gift in support of this was received from Mrs Ann Ronus. One of the major aims of the Cathedral Music Trust is to give children from all walks of life the opportunity to be a chorister, so the concentration is to endow the remaining choristerships. Events both celebrating Dr Darlington’s 33 years at Christ Church, and highlighting the Trust took place throughout the year, including the Board of Benefactor’s reception at Merchant Taylor’s Hall in March, where the splendid Hall with its organ was taken advantage of with a short recital by Clive Driskill-Smith, and a half hour concert by the Cathedral Choir. There was also a Choir tour of the USA in April, coinciding with the University North American Reunion in San Francisco. Representatives of the House visited the following cities: New York, Washington DC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Charlotte and Chicago, with the choir performing in four of them. We are grateful to all our Members who acted as gracious and welcoming hosts during our visits, and supported our events. A total of £262k was donated to a newly aggregated endowment fund in support of college outreach, access and student (bursary) support, known as CONNECT. This fund is an extension of the Student Bursary Endowment Fund whose target of £2.8M was reached earlier in the financial year, and was made possible by more than 3000 individual donations, ensuring continuity for student bursary support, a key element of our development work. The CONNECT fund embraces the needs of college to respond quickly to appropriate projects which might attract talented students to Christ Church and/or support aspiration to higher education. Gifts to this particular area proved to be very popular with alumni and friends, and were headed by another generous donation by Anthony Ling (1984) to IntoUniversity. IntoUniversity is an award-winning national charity which provides local learning centres where young people are inspired to achieve. Christ Church has partnered with IntoUniversity South East at their centre in Blackbird Leys, where 42% of children live below the poverty line.

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Other projects within the CONNECT umbrella include: • Target Oxbridge: a very effective UK-wide initiative that works

with promising pupils of African and Caribbean heritage in UK state schools, to support them in aspiring to and applying to Oxford and Cambridge. In 2018, 35 students received offers from Oxbridge Colleges.

• A sustained contact programme, ‘Horizons’, with Year 12 students in five Target-One schools in our Barnet link area. The programme seeks to broaden the pupils’ academic experience, to enable them to explore beyond the school curriculum, to support them in developing the skills they need both to make strong university applications, and to thrive at university. We want to dispel myths about Oxford, and Christ Church, and to encourage pupils to aim high.

Securing the tutorial system remains pivotal to the work of the Development Office. So many Members attest to the value of tutorials, and cite the experience as being at the heart of what they have gone on to achieve in later life. Since 2008, 14 posts have been fully or partially endowed, including PPE, Geography and Chemistry; the ultimate aim is to endow all 34 remaining posts. We were very pleased for the Dean to be able to announce at Paul Kent’s Memorial Service in February that the Paul Kent Tutorial Fund at Christ Church had been successfully endowed. Thanks are owed to many alumni and friends who contributed to the fund, but we would like to note the generosity of Prince Nikita Lobanov-Rostovsky and Anthony Hamilton especially. The House is leading the way in the expansion of Computer Science for undergraduates across the collegiate University. Under Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, as Senior Research Fellow, and Yarin Gal, an Associate Professor and expert in Machine Learning, we are creating a ‘centre of excellence’ as a model for other colleges to follow suit. It represents the first expansion of Computer Science at Oxford since the 1980s. Numbers are necessarily small at this point in the plan but ambitions are to build to an eventual University cohort of 100 Computer Science students a year.

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The Development Office is leading on the funding for this key enterprise, looking to Members and potential corporate partners for philanthropic donations towards scholarships. To this aim, presentations were made to the Industry Forum (February 2018) and Westminster Forum (November 2018). In addition to Sir Tim himself we must thank Professor Mike Wooldridge, Head of Computer Science at Oxford, and Professor Roger Davies, the Phillip Wetton Chair in Astrophysics and Fellow at Christ Church, for their roles. Financial support and pledges totalling £185k were received in this area, with significant contributions coming from Robert Ronus and Martin Lueck. The Peckwater Quad refurbishment continues. It is a major project and our undergraduates, and their tutors, are already benefiting from, and enjoying, the upgraded facilities that this modernisation has provided. The Development office was asked to raise £3M towards the project and is two thirds of the way there, with generous lead support from the Oppenheimer family. Phase three will finish in 2019, when the final phase will also begin. The main 2018 Telethon ran between 13th and 28th March, including a large call pool, mostly made up of those alumni who have not given to College in the past. A team of 7 undergraduates and 1 graduate made the calls under the supervision of Rux Burton Associates. The total pledged was £117,586 with a participation rate of 58%. Christ Church’s support of the Ovalhouse move to Brixton involved publicising the project in Christ Church Matters, sending out c. 1000 emails to members with an interest in theatre and the arts, and also sending a targeted invitation to two dinners for existing supporters and prospects, who it is felt might become key supporters. Three alumni have helped by putting their names to the project: Hugh Quarshie, Nina Raine, and Charlotte Hope. To date, however, support has been disappointing. We saw much of our American Friends in 2018 and their combined generosity saw donations rise beyond $1M over the financial year. We held our first ever American Board of Benefactors dinner in New York in the autumn of 2017, with the irrepressible (Lord) Michael Dobbs as our speaker. Great thanks is owed to the Board of the American Friends of Christ Church, under the leadership of Peter Paine Jnr. In addition to the spring visit mentioned above, the Director of Development, Mark Coote, Simon Offen and Aileen Thomson visited the USA again in

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October, holding events in New York, Washington and Boston, including a wonderful visit to the National Archives, thanks to old member Mark Bradley. More than 150 parents attended a very successful Family Programme dinner in Hall on the 10th March, the last day of Hilary term. There are termly events for parents and families, which not only are enjoyable social occasions allowing parents a taste of college life, but have also led to some generous gifts when students go down. Every September we welcome back Members who have expressly informed us of their intention to remember the House in their Will, and are thus members of the 1546 Society. In December we also held some lunches in Hall for those who could not make the Gaudy in October, which gave us another opportunity to request support in this area. Every year we contact the cohort of Members destined to return to their Gaudy about legacies, and we owe considerable thanks to William (Bill) Rathbone and Chris Rocker for helping to drive this important initiative. Legacies have always made a considerable difference to the finances of the House, and we encourage Members to let us know their intentions so we can thank them. So, thank you to the 17 Members who notified us last year of their bequests, which brings the membership of the 1546 Society to 219. In 2018, 18 legacy gifts were received, totalling £167k. Events play an important part both in our engagement with members, friends and families, but also in our fundraising. The first event of 2018 was the Women’s Event, held on 26th January 2018 at Morton’s Club, Berkeley Square. In a change to the set up from 2016 and 2017, the event was a drinks and canapé reception. The speaker was Helen Pike (1991, History), the first female Master of Magdalen College School, who spoke about her time at Christ Church and how she had benefitted from it. There was then a Q&A with Helen and Dr Anna Camilleri, who answered questions about student life at the house today. We thank Lucy Elwes and Sarah Mackey for sponsoring this event. The Boat Club encourages its members to return for Torpids and Summer Eights, holds an event at Craven Cottage for the Boat Races, puts on the Annual dinner at the end of Trinity, has a drinks party at Henley Royal Regatta each year, and for the first time, in 2018, held a Family Day and BBQ at the Boathouse at the beginning of Michaelmas Term. This enjoyable day, during which students helped coach members’ children and families could take out boats, will be repeated in 2019. Other

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sporting events in 2018 included a most enjoyable day’s entertainment at the Varsity Rugby matches in December. In addition to the Music events mentioned above there was also a concert at St John’s Smith Square in May when the Cathedral Choir joined forces with The Lanyer Ensemble and Oxford Baroque to perform the European premiere of Howard Goodall’s (1976) Invictus: A Passion, alongside Handel’s Foundling Hospital Anthem in a concert broadcast on Classic FM. The Choir also sang their annual carol concert there in December. The Andrew Chamblin Memorial Concert took place in June, there was also a Dinner and Concert to mark Stephen Darlington’s departure in June, and a more informal Choir BBQ and Evensong for the same purpose in July. The Choir then departed on a summer Tour to China, Hong Kong, Macau. The Summer Gaudy was for the 2009- 11 cohorts, and the Autumn Gaudy welcomed back all those who matriculated pre-1960. The day included a Narropera performance in the Upper Library kindly put on by Haydn Rawstron (piano), Floriane Peycelon (violin), and Dorothee Jansen (soprano). In March Reunion dinners were help for the 1958,59,60 years, and then the following night for the 1968 & 1978 years. Both were splendid occasions. Younger age groups gathered for an AI discussion (thanks to James Wise) in London in March, and for drinks in London towards the end of the year, with the Moritz-Heyman event occurring at Hogan Lovells in October, thanks to the generosity of David Hudd. Judge Victoria McCloud kindly spoke. As ever the Chemists were busy with various events: a birthday party to celebrate Richard Wayne’s 80th Birthday and Tony Cheetham’s and Martin Grossel’s 70th Birthdays in March, and in September they held a Symposium to honour Paul Kent. They were not the only subject to hold an event; the Historians gathered for a splendid evening at Apsley House, made possible by the generosity of the Duke and Duchess of Wellington, to help raise funds for a graduate scholarship, and the Engineers held a BBQ on the terrace of the Freind room to mark David Nowell’s departure after 30 years at the House, and Malcolm McCulloch’s 25th anniversary as a tutor. The University European Alumni Reunion took place in March in Rome, and Christ Church members enjoyed a House event and tour led by Maria Cristina White da Cruz, as well as the programme laid on by Wellington Square. Many Housemen and women also returned for the

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Oxford Alumni Weekend in September, which included a Christ Church Association Dinner & Drama event in Hall which featured a visit from Shakespeare’s Globe for a one-off performance of The Queen’s Arcadia, a Jacobean comedy written by Oxford alumnus Samuel Daniel to entertain Queen Anne of Denmark in Hall. The Association AGM was held the same day. Finally, the office would like to thank Tony Hart and Matthew Robinson who both kindly continue to help with careers advice, placements and work experience possibilities, and the CCM Association News editor Jacob Ward. Mark Coote and Simon Offen

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THE LIBRARY 2018 has been another year of great activity in the College Library. Happily, there have been fewer changes to the Library team this year, but the Library’s Graduate Trainee programme continued to bear fruits as our 2017/18 trainee, Christopher Cottell, received a job offer from the Weston Library to work part-time in the music department there, and also as part of the Bodleian’s educational outreach team. Chris left us earlier than planned, but thanks to the help of Annemari Ferreira and Gabriel Ferugean, we were able to bridge the gap before our new trainee, Leanne Grainger started in August. Leanne joined us from Bristol Public Libraries, after undertaking an MRes in Complexity Sciences at Bristol University and has settled in wonderfully well. Also pleasing to report is the recruitment of Allen Fisk as a permanent member of the Library team as the Library Scout and Collections Care Assistant, meaning for the first time the Library actually has a dedicated member of staff on-site caring for and cleaning our amazing collections of early printed books. The first half of the year centred around the summer project of needing to empty the Library’s storage spaces in the Basements of Peckwater 1 and 2 before the refurbishment project started. As this space will not return to the Library once the works are completed, it was necessary to move and rehouse some 40,000 books. This was a task which required some considerable planning and organisation, let alone a huge physical effort in the unfortunately-timed searing temperatures of August. A personal thanks should be noted to the Library staff who worked tirelessly to achieve what seemed an insurmountable task not only on time, but ahead of schedule, without so much as a murmur of complaint. We are incredibly grateful to the Dean for allowing the Library to make use of an orangery in the back of the Library building, facing into the Deanery Garden, which was fitted with rolling cases to increase the storage capacity, until such times as a more permanent solution can be found. Our efforts to overhaul the quality and improve the scope of the Library’s bookstock continued apace. In 2018 we added over 3500 new books to the Libraries and student requests continue to flood in as the Library centres itself at the heart of academic life in College. We benefited from large donations from Stephen Darlington’s magnificent collection of music books and were able to take great advantage of sales

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by both CUP and OUP to enhance our collections. The impact of electronic resources seems to be having little effect on the popularity of physical books with circulation figures rising to almost 23,000 loans over the year. After yet another reorganisation of the reading rooms, another 50m of shelving has been squeezed in allowing a small amount of breathing room for the collections to grow into in 2019. During 2018 the Library worked closely with the University’s Disability Advisory Service to increase the provision of resources available for users, including adjustable-height desks, ergonomic equipment, lumbar support cushions, visual aids and better lighting, to such good effect that we were recently highlighted in an OUSU report as a leading example of good practice for others to follow; an accolade of which we are very proud and demonstrates a new level of service which the Library can offer. In the Law Library, essential repairs were carried out to the ceiling which had been damaged from a leak in the kitchens above, returning the room to its former glory. Over the summer, a new book security and circulation system was installed to improve the service to Law students who may now borrow books via the same system as in the main library, and to increase security for the collections. In order for this to happen a huge amount of work was required to tag all of the stock, and for the first time, the extensive collection of journals and case reports were catalogued into the online system. A major new treasure was acquired for the Upper Library in 2018. A rare and previously unknown Charles Dodgson photograph was offered for private sale to the Library and thanks to the amazing generosity of Christopher Forman (m. 1982) the photograph has been accessioned into the Library collection. It is one of a series of child studies made by Dodgson, who then had the prints hand coloured by Mrs Lydia Bond of Southsea, transforming the print into a work of art for the family to display. Dodgson only undertook 30 such studies, and this is only the seventh to have been discovered. The Library has also received a 1661 copy of Sir Harbottle Grimston’s Reports of Sir George Croke from John and Diane Bailey, and a beautiful print of Tom Tower from their collection, formerly owned by Francis Grenfell (both m.[1958]) (presented to them by his widow, Liza), and we are so incredibly grateful for such gifts.

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Since the completion of catalogue of pre-1600 manuscripts in the Library, Dr David Rundle has resumed work and is now focussing on the post-1600 holdings and we look forward to new discoveries from this part of the collection. Edward Wakeling has also continued to volunteer his services and has made excellent progress through the Lewis Carroll collection, dealing with the regular donations of new material and the constant stream of specialist enquiries from researchers all over the world. Dr Rahel Fronda and Professor Malachi Beit-Arié are continuing their work on the Hebrew cataloguing projects and we are hopeful that the manuscripts catalogue will appear in 2019. We are grateful to all for their good will and the expertise they bring to the Library. Core work in digitisation continued apace in 2018 with over 100 items now appearing in the Digital Bodleian repository, freely available for anyone anywhere in the world to view. Our cataloguing projects continue to turn up new and exciting finds with over 500 new records created, 67 of which are of unique copies in Oxford, and 14 where Christ Church holds the only known copy in existence. It truly is a remarkable collection! Visitor numbers have reached new highs this year, with over 6000 people coming to visit, bolstered by a particularly successful Oxford Open Doors event in September which saw almost 2000 visit the Library in just one day with people every bit as interested in the reading rooms downstairs as the Upper Library which was wonderful to see. School groups, classes with undergraduates, summer school programmes and local and national arts and history societies – to name but a few – continue to flock to the Library, demonstrating the breadth of its appeal. The Library also played host to the annual conference of the Historic Libraries’ Forum, bringing together 60 of the country’s top special collections librarians. Many of the Library’s outputs would not be possible without the support of donors who are helping us to create the best possible library for our current students, but also to keep the Library at the very forefront of bibliographical research. We extend our thanks to those who have presented books or money to fund the purchase of books of whom there are simply too many to mention by name. Support for specific projects is essential for our day-to-day activity and we are indebted to Mr Robert Ronus for his continued support of our rare books cataloguing and manuscript digitisation projects. Our Hebrew project is supported by

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generous donations from both the Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe and the Polonsky Foundation, as well as individual support from numerous old members to whom we are most grateful. Steven Archer College Librarian

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THE PICTURE GALLERY

New research on the role of museums and galleries came to the (unsurprising) conclusion that their benefits go far beyond providing knowledge, education and entertainment. As if that were not enough, studies are now focusing on the vital role museums play for a thriving economy and are gathering evidence for the health benefits they offer. A recent headline read: “Forget yoga, under-30s use museums and galleries to de-stress”. The article highlighted a study by the Art Fund conducted among 2,500 participants showing that “[people] under 30 are twice as likely to visit a museum or gallery at least once a month specifically to de-stress”. The benefits of museums on mental health and wellbeing are receiving more and more attention. A much larger American study revealed that “being able to go by myself” was a motivation for 50% of the participants to visit a cultural institution. Any institution that emboldens people to go out on their own and feel good about themselves, that offers non-judgemental surroundings while encouraging and inviting communication and interaction must be applauded. Museums are exactly these places. Loneliness has been identified as an increasing problem among all age groups, but museums and galleries can help to counteract that. They are safe and open spaces - destinations - which encourage one to leave one’s own surrounding and experience something without necessarily having to team up with someone else. Yet, if one wanted to interact, the possibility to talk to museum attendants, museum guides or other visitors is always there. The challenge is to spread the word about these benefits and to encourage everybody to use them. Our changing exhibitions are one way to invite more people to visit and benefit from the Picture Gallery, be it on one’s own or in a group. Our 2018 exhibition year started with a show of works by the Oxfordshire artist Nick Schlee, Drawing to Painting: Landscapes by Nick Schlee (20 January – 9 April), in which he explained his working methods and revealed that he often starts a motif with a painting. The monochrome drawings emerged in later steps, almost as a distillation of the colour. Staying with the theme of artists’ working methods, we explored how artists visualised their creative thoughts, in: Thinking on Paper – Drawings by Old Masters (24 January – 30 April). Once artists had mastered the art of drawing, they could depict their imagined ideas

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on paper; they could draw the images they saw in their heads not just copy nature or other artists. The exhibition underlined the importance of drawing as a tool of visualising the non-existent, a principle valid even in our digitised age and even in the most profane circumstances, be it a child’s drawing of a monster, or a grown-up scribbling down the layout of their dream house. One of the most inventive artists, whose ideas have now become firmly lodged in the world’s image repertoire, was Michelangelo. In Conserving Michelangelo (12 May – 18 June), we showed the results of the conservation of one of our Michelangelo drawings by the chief-conservator of the Metropolitan Museum in New York (see also last year’s report). The exhibition Five Paintings & a Taste for Art at the Court of Charles I (26 May – 15 October) focused on the paintings in Christ Church with a provenance from the collection of Charles I. Accompanying the paintings were over thirty drawings – some from the collection of Nicholas Lanier (1588-1666), the King’s Master of Musick, and one drawing that Charles I might even have picked up and held in his hands - Anthony van Dyck’s large preparatory sketch of Prince James, Duke of York as a three-and-a-half year old, for the group portrait of the five royal children painted in 1637. 2018 was also the 50th anniversary of the new Picture Gallery building – an occasion we wished to celebrate on a big scale, but reduced it to a smaller display, entitled: Portrait of a Building - 50 Years of Christ Church Picture Gallery (29 June – 29 October). Our next two exhibitions starting at the end of the year: Transfer: Drawings as Carriers of Motifs and Ideas in the 16th and 17th Centuries (16 November 2018 to 4 March 2019) and The Nativity in Black and White (7 November to 2 February 2019) will be discussed in next year’s report. We contributed with high profile loans, to the success of two international exhibitions. Three of our Michelangelo drawings travelled to the outstandingly successful exhibition, Michelangelo – Divine Draftsman and Designer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (13 November 2017 – 12 February 2018). The three drawings, two of them double-sided, helped to inform further understanding of the artist and the exhibition was the most visited Old Master drawings exhibition in the history of the Metropolitan so far. Our double-sided black chalk study after a model of Giuliano de’ Medici, after Michelangelo by

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Jacopo Tintoretto was on display at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. Their exhibition, Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice (15 October 2018 – 6 January 2019) shed light on the drawing practice of the Venetian artist, whose 500th anniversary was celebrated this year. Conservation and care of our collections are one of our priorities. 2018 was the Picture Gallery’s third year as part of the Oxford Paper Consortium. Their fabulous team of paper and book conservators help and advise us on conservation housekeeping (pest control, conservation cleaning, remounting of drawings and prints for exhibitions) and are also working on several larger independent projects. This year most of the time was spent on the consolidation and conservation of the largest of the print albums from Henry Aldrich’s (1648-1710) collection (V3). The size of this album (it needs two or three people to move and handle it) had been partly responsible for some of the deterioration issues. The end-covers have been cleaned and reinforced, and a protective ‘envelope’ built to ease secure handling in the future. Several of the pages have been unfurled, edges of prints flattened and surface dirt removed from the edges and sides of the pages. The Portrait of a Lady, called ‘Queen Mary Tudor’, is still in the care of the paintings conservators at the Hamilton Kerr Institute in Cambridge, but we hope it will be back in Oxford by the end of 2019. Five panel paintings with serious flaking of the paint layers were in the conservation studio of Ruth Bubb (see last year’s report). Bacchiacca’s Christ Preaching before a Temple was successfully conserved, and it is now back on view in the Gallery. The four panels depicting Hercules, Mars, Bacchus and Jupiter by Jacopo Bertoia have also returned and will be presented in an exhibition in the Gallery in 2019. We are also glad to report that a new item was commissioned for the College’s collection, the portrait of Prof. Sir John Gurdon (Christ Church Alumnus and Nobel Laureate in Medicine 2012) by Geoffrey Hayzer. It was hung in Hall in January 2018. Research and education are continuing - scholars, curators, collectors and students regularly visit the Gallery to study paintings and drawings not usually on display, and we had many more requests for print room visits than we could accommodate. The Curator is actively involved with other intuitions keeping abreast of museological developments and promoting the gallery, be it participating in the Art Fund curators’ days

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at the Frieze art fair in London or at the Print Curator’s Forum in Dublin. The general public are thrilled to discover the Picture Gallery, and delighted both by our exhibitions and the presentation of our permanent collection. Despite limitations in space and welfare facilities, we also accommodated two primary school groups from Wales on our ‘closed Tuesdays’ (when the Gallery is not open to the general public). Their visit was a memorable experience. Its success was aided by the fact that the Curator and Curatorial Assistant tailored and individualised the visit and took time to engage deeply with the pupils, parents and teachers. We are hopeful that some of the pupils will return to Christ Church as undergraduates. Tours and lectures for a variety of groups and visitors were arranged in the Picture Gallery given by the curatorial team and our trusted pool of volunteer guides. The Curator delivered a number of tailored talks for several events, including for the 60th Anniversary of the American Bar Association, a leadership class for a group of veteran soldiers and a talk at Modern Art Oxford (What’s 500 years between artists? Drawing then and now). There was also an increased demand for curator-led tours of the Hall portraits, from inside and outside the College. To discuss and think about our portraits, especially within our community with custodians, Hall staff, junior members and senior members is to face several versions of Christ Church’s history and encourages to shape it further and into more diverse directions. We also steadily increasing our social media efforts. One big step into the digital age was the acquisition of – and subscription to – a purpose-built collections management database (MuseumPlus). We are in the process of inserting the data held on the collection into the database. Laura Irwin, our Curatorial Assistant, has taken on this project and it is envisaged that our collection of eighteenth-century drinking glasses will be online before Christmas 2019. While slowly starting to embrace the digital age we must not forget that it is always the people that make an institution a happy place – the wonderful individuals working and giving their time to the Picture Gallery that contribute to its success. We tend to only mention them when they leave, but we do so with the deepest thanks and gratitude for their time and help:

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Our Head Invigilator, Mrs Judith Hosking, retired in April to move closer to her delightful new grandson Henry. Ms Kay Sentance took over from her in May. Our part-time PR Assistant Donna Ho, moved with her family to Vancouver in spring 2018 and we appointed Mary Cumming to that role. Three invigilators resigned from the Gallery due to changes in their personal lives: Emma Flint has taken over from Alice Narramore; Beatriz Ortega-Jimerez from Inga Ristau and Lucy Hudson was replaced by Xue Yang. The team of invigilators was reinforced during the busy summer period (June to September) by two summer relief invigilators – Frances Eagle, a Physics undergraduate at Bath University and Flora Faulk, who was due to start her art history degree in Oxford in October. Our conservation volunteer Cathrin Wieduwild, a graduate from the Dresden conservation institute, volunteered with conservation housekeeping in the Gallery for almost a year, while living in Oxford. Our second-year Art History intern, Helena Hayes, assisted with a number of tasks in the Gallery, from distributing posters to the installation of exhibitions and helping with inventory checks. We will miss the people who left, they all played an important part in making the Picture Gallery a successful, vigorous and happy place and we wish them all the best in their new lives away from Oxford. Their successors have already taken up their roles and are bringing their own experiences and insights to the gallery. Jacqueline Thalmann (Curator of the Picture Gallery)

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THE STEWARD’S DEPARTMENT

The year 2018 has been very eventful. Our ‘special interest’ events continue to be popular and successful. Last year, the theme was Their War and Ours: the impact of the Great War on society. This year’s event, The Elegant and Powerful Georgian Era, sold out before the end of Trinity Term. Next year’s event, to be held 26th-29th March, 2020, will be the Russian Revolution. Meanwhile, our regular Mad Hatter's Tea Party and Chef's Table events attract both alumni and visitors. If you would like to book a place at one of our events, then please go to the Christ Church website (https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/conferences/special-interest-event) for further details and to book on-line; or, if you prefer, please contact Emma Timms by telephone (01865 286848), or by email (conferenceoffice@chch.ox.ac.uk). Emma will be pleased to take your booking over the telephone or to send you a copy of the details by post. I am pleased to report that Christ Church had a full conference season. This year we added a further 79 en suite rooms in the new 117 St Aldate’s annexe, and three newly-renovated staircases in Peck 3, 4 and 5. Presently, Peck 1 and 2 are undergoing refurbishment; in October works will commence in Peck 9. There have been a few changes in staffing. The following members of staff have retired: from my accounts team, Mark Hunter and Simon Millin; Buttery Manager, Peter Keddie; Scout, Ann Mallett; and Hall Assistant, Najibul Hoque. A number of staff have left to take up new challenges: Liam Clark is now Head Chef at the Ashmolean Museum Restaurant and Adam Whitehead has gone into the family business; Assistant Buttery Manager Redon Ceka has moved to London; Custodian Kirk Ellingham is now Lodge Porter at Balliol; from the Hall, Assistant Hall Manager Rafique Ahmed has taken up a position in IT; and Francesca Tamburini is pursuing a career as a sommelier. We thank them all for their vital contributions to the House and we wish them well in their future endeavours. I am delighted to report a number of promotions: in the kitchen, Dean Lewis to Junior Sous Chef, Claire Lee to Senior Chef de Partie, and Jack Creed to Chef de Partie; in the lodge, Tony Brown to Senior Night Porter and Chris Mitchell to Senior Day Porter; and in housekeeping, Camilla Mirto to House Manager. We also welcome some key new members to the team: Karen Fisk, as Deputy House

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Manager; Emily Robotham, as Buttery/Cellar Manager; and Steve Fredericks, as Deputy Lodge Manager. Finally, if you wish to book accommodation at the House during the Easter or summer vacations, then please go to the Christ Church website (https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/conferences/staying-christ-church), or contact either Emma Timms or Haley Wiggins in the Conference Office (conferenceoffice@chch.ox.ac.uk, or by telephone: 01865 286848).

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THE TREASURY

1. The Endowment

The endowment was valued at £550m as at 31 July 2018. This reflected a total return (capital plus income) of 12.4% in the 12 months ending 31 July 2019, before donations and after spending from the endowment of about £14m, which was more than covered by dividends, interest and rent. Of the increased capital value, a significant proportion was attributable to the sale of land at Carterton for housing. During the year we made a number of property investments. Most notable were the investment in land at Kettering and Wellingborough in Northamptonshire, which has already been allocated for housing, and the purchase of Wick Farm, Barton, which is adjacent to the House’s historic holdings at Elsfield near Oxford. The House has recorded a compound return of 8.1% per annum over the last decade. As a result, primarily of the endowment’s resilience in 2008/09, this is significantly more than US academic endowments worth in excess of US$1bn, which returned 6.0% per annum in the 10 years to 30 June 2018, and even betters Yale’s 10-year performance. Much of this performance has been attributable to Oxford University Endowment Management (“OUem”) and its success over that time. We currently have about two-fifths of the endowment invested in the OUem multi asset-class fund; in the 10 years to December 2018, the fund returned 9.0% per annum or 6.7% per annum above the Consumer Price Index. University finances and endowment valuations face a number of major challenges in the near future. The House will continue to adopt a cautious and highly diversified approach, capitalising where possible on our ability to take a very long-term view of returns. As part of this long-term approach, we are reviewing our investment policy to ensure that, through our investment managers, we take an active role in Environment, Social and Governance (“ESG”) issues; we expect to publish our revised policy shortly. 2. Maintenance, repair and restoration In the year to 31 July 2018, the House spent £5m on our buildings in addition to our usual reactive maintenance. Prime among these projects

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was the completion of the new compound in the Meadow providing purpose built storage for the House’s vehicles and machinery as well as proper messing and changing facilities for our team of gardeners. Moreover, considerable progress was made on the restoration of the redundant Thatched Barn for use as an academic research and meeting space and the creation of a new building, also thatched, to house our shop (thus liberating the 13th century Chapter House) and to provide improved ticketing facilities for our visitors. We anticipate a ‘soft opening’ of these facilities in Autumn 2019.

In the autumn, work commenced on the third phase of the Peckwater Quad refurbishment (staircases 3, 4 and 5), which is due to complete in June 2019. Phase 2, the northern aspect, was delivered on time and budget in Trinity 2018. At the river, the refurbished boathouse was back in use in time for Eights Week and the newly created punt store, designed to match the 1930s boathouse, has come into use. Much positive comment has been forthcoming from both rowers and punters! 3. Clerk of Works and Gardens Keith Aldridge, Clerk of Works since April 2015 after a short period as acting CoW on Tony Morris’ retirement, and before that Assistant Clerk of Works for many years, decided to retire in December 2018. We will miss him. Steve Brown, formerly of Jesus College, Oxford, has succeeded as Clerk of Works. We also said farewell to Richard Morin, another long time member of staff, who was responsible for welding and metalwork. The new fencing around the Meadow and the replica Victorian lights in Tom and Peckwater Quads, bear witness to his diligence and skill. In 2018, the Head Gardener and his team had to cope with one of the hottest and driest summers on record. The lawns in Tom Quad and the Master’s Garden took particular punishment and will need a season to recover fully. Despite this, the gardens continue to develop with the new Alice and Hogwarts inspired beds in the Cathedral Garden making particular progress. The gardens will re-join the National Gardens Scheme in 2019, which reflects the Head Gardener’s justifiable pride in their appearance. A new focus has been on sustainability in the Meadow. Disparate disciplines including geographers and the Botanic Garden have been co-operating with the gardening team to develop a number of studies and

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new approaches alongside the resident longhorn cattle. An expanding crop of snake’s head fritillaries by the Dean’s Ham, which is beginning to rival Magdalen’s more famous flowers, illustrates the successful steps towards biodiversity that have been achieved. Fortunately, the enthusiasm of the canine Assistant Treasurer has been successfully curbed in that part of the Meadow whilst they are in bloom. James Lawrie Treasurer

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THE TUTOR FOR ADMISSIONS

Admissions, Access and Outreach

Thanks to the wide-ranging new initiatives brought in in 2017-18, 2018 saw us continue to build on a broad programme of Access activities. Our Access and Outreach Officer, Stephanie Hale, worked with a range of schools in our regional link areas Norfolk and Suffolk, and 50 year-12 pupils and their teachers came for a residential at Christ Church. Our Schools Liaison Officer, Ana Hastoy, completed the first year of the Horizons Sustained Contact programme with key schools in our Barnet area, with impressive results in the admissions round (applications to Oxford from these schools increased by 70% and 20 pupils received offers from the University). Ana and Steph have also welcomed numerous school visits from around the country to Christ Church, as well as running another ‘Women in PPE Open Day’ in May and helping, alongside our great team of undergraduate ambassadors, with our increasingly popular general open days. We also appointed two part-time postgraduate Access Officers, who alongside work on their DPhils in Engineering and History have been doing Access work for us, in particular focusing on producing audiovisual material to help demystify the admissions process. We were delighted to continue offering Maintenance Subsidies on the costs of accommodation and the termly dinner ticket for students from low income families (at 50% or 25% depending on the income bracket). 2018 was also the first year in which we offered Christ Church Summer Bursaries to support students from low to middle-income families to undertake work placements: 24 awards were made in the first year, with placements ranging from laboratory work to internships with politicians or study in areas related to future employment. We also congratulate another four brilliant Christ Church Prize Scholars: the second round of prizes went to students admitted for entry in the academic year 2018-19, on the grounds of outstanding academic potential (to students with low to middle household income). Christ Church has continued to build on partnerships with other Access and Outreach initiatives. Going from strength to strength is IntoUniversity Oxford South East. Mostly funded thanks to the generous support of a Christ Church alumnus, our local IntoUniversity centre

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holds events such as graduations in Christ Church, and many of our current students (and some alumni) contribute as volunteers, for example working as mentors for pupils at local schools through the IU programme. We also work with a range of partner initiatives, such as The Brilliant Club, Debate Mate, Oxford University Pakistan Society and Oxford First-Gen, offering rooms and the contributions of our Access team, as well as some financial support through the Christ Church Access Hub. We are delighted that we now also support Target Oxbridge, which works with students of African and Caribbean origin to help increase their chances of getting to Oxford and Cambridge. The overall admissions picture in the UK is a mixed one, but numbers of applicants to Oxford in the 2018 admissions exercise reflected continued growth. The number of pupils in secondary education in the UK is expected to continue to rise until 2025. 2018 also saw strong application numbers from the EU, perhaps because this may be the last intake of EU students for whom the fees and loans status are guaranteed to be pinned at UK level. In the 2018 admissions round Christ Church, like the University of Oxford as a whole, saw an overall rise in the number of applications. We had 934 applicants [compared to 901 in 2017]. And yet this overall growth conceals some significant discrepancies. Numbers of EU applicants were more or less the same as last year, at 152 [149], but there was actually a drop in the number of our applicants domiciled in the UK, at 500 [544]. The overall rise was due to the increase in overseas non-EU applications, which rose to 282 [208]. While we are proud to offer an internationally excellent education to the best and brightest applicants from around the globe, we clearly need to ask ourselves whether there are aspects of Christ Church’s reputation that make it more positive abroad than it is locally. The importance of our continuing Access and Outreach work is all the more apparent. Professor Jennifer Yee Tutor for Admissions

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JUNIOR COMMON ROOM

Without doubt, 2018 has been a busy and exciting year for all the members of the Christ Church JCR. The many and varied talents of our assembled members, in both academic and extra-curricular spheres, have been put to full use, while the college community remains strong, diverse and welcoming. All of the elected officers of the JCR have been actively applying themselves to their roles, introducing fresh initiatives and organising entertaining events. As ever, the JCR has raised a large amount of money for RAG and external charities. Events such as the James Trickey run in Trinity, where lots of students pushed through the heat to complete 5km and 10km races in impressive times, and the Harry Potter themed formal in Michaelmas, were very successful in this regard. JCR members have also taken part in other money raising initiatives. A group of students were sponsored to grow their facial hair out for “Movember,” drawing attention to rising rates of male suicides and mental health problems. More than £2000 was raised for the charity by them overall, the fourth highest total of any Oxford college during the month of November, and two of the students taking part finished in the top 15 of Movember student fundraisers nationwide. Another group, being sponsored to run the Bilbao Marathon in 2019 for the RAG charities, have hosted open mic nights and bake sales. These have naturally gone down very well with their peers. The culture of sporting excellence at the college continues to be fostered by the enthusiastic efforts of our sports captains. At the same time, the continued promotion of a greater number of sports teams geared towards beginners has increased the proportion of students involved in college sport. Participation in the mixed ability Netball and Hockey teams, in particular, is exceptionally high, in the case of both male and female students. Special mention in the area of sporting achievement should go to the Men’s 1st and 2nd XI Football teams, who both reached the finals of their respective Cuppers tournaments. Just as impressive as the performances of these teams on the pitch has been the support given to them by their fellow students. The sight of well over 150 House supporters at Iffley Road for the 1st team final, most wearing the latest must-have item of stash, the Christ Church puffer jacket, was a resounding exemplification of the vitality of the college community.

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Our Arts Rep took full advantage of a generous disbursement grant from college authorities to organise a rich and interesting programme of events for the newly established Arts Week. Highlights of the week included talks given by well-established artistic figures, such as Tim Walker and Alice Oswald, and an enlightening, behind the scenes tour of our very own Picture Gallery. The success of the Christ Church Arts Week, both this year and last, will hopefully cement it as an annual tradition for many years to come. Student involvement in the arts also remains high. The revitalised Christ Church Music Society stages high quality weekly evening recitals in the Cathedral; and junior members were involved in a wide variety of Edinburgh Fringe events over the summer, ranging from singing, to comedy, to acting. As ever, the tireless dedication of the Welfare team to the wellbeing of all JCR members is inspiring, and very gratefully received. The popularity of the weekly “Late Night Tea Break,” an opportunity for students to take a break from their essay crises over tea and snacks remains, predictably, high. In conjunction with the Sports Rep, the Welfare team also organised the inaugural “Welfare Sports Day” in Trinity term. Initiatives such as these demonstrate that the Welfare team is just as committed to looking after the physical wellbeing of students as they are our mental health. We are so grateful for the work they do for all members of the JCR. The JCR’s commitment to diversity and inclusivity remains strong, as demonstrated by the introduction of an Inreach officer at the end of Trinity, to sit on the JCR committee. This officer will complement the work done by our Access officers by representing the particular socio-economic concerns of first generation, low income, working class and state comprehensive educated students. Already, tutorial and exam workshops have been organised by the current incumbent, helping students from historically under-represented backgrounds to adjust more smoothly to Oxford life. Our LGBTQ+ Officer has continued the good work of their predecessor by hosting an inter-college Unity Dinner in the McKenna Room, and celebrating LGBTQ+ History month by flying the LGBTQ+ flag for the duration of February. Following a proposal submitted to college authorities by the former JCR Secretary, a college committee has been set up for the purpose of diversifying the visual environment at Christ Church, with the eventual intention being to

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introduce portraits of distinguished old members from minority backgrounds at various locations around college. Studying at Christ Church is a truly unique experience. I find it humbling that I am able to call many of its intelligent and talented students my friends; I consider myself extremely fortunate to be given the opportunity to debate a subject I love with experts in the field in my weekly tutorials. I am absolutely certain that just as many exciting events and magnificent achievements will define 2019 for the JCR. The support of college staff and alumni in all of our endeavours continues to be thoroughly appreciated by us all. Joseph Gresham-Bradley JCR President 2018-19

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GRADUATE COMMON ROOM

The past year has been an exciting and busy one for the Christ Church Graduate Common Room. The executive committee (Vice-President Matthew Buchan, Treasurer Joao Sahadi Cavalheiro, and I) set out to diversify the events put on by and for the GCR to acknowledge the growing diversity of our own GCR community. With wonderful support and immense hard work from our committee, we have started to lay the groundwork for a more inclusive GCR environment to help make Christ Church feel like home for students of all backgrounds, ages, and interests. Our first step in helping create a welcoming environment for a diversity of students was to acknowledge and celebrate the wide range of academic interests represented in our community. Through our student-led talks, we worked to bridge the gaps between different disciplines over a cup of tea and a cocktail. Discussions of Brownian motion were interspersed with debates about Dante and dunlins as GCR members presented their own work and research ideas to their peers. Given the immense success of these talks, we look forward to expanding the series in the future, perhaps also providing a forum for students to practice presenting their work before a conference or an interview. On committee, our Ethics & Environment Officer worked hard to emphasize the importance of understanding our impact on the planet, with Christ Church reaching the highest participation level of any college in the Student Switch Off Climate Change Quiz and winning 50 tubs of Ben & Jerry’s which was happily enjoyed by our members on a recent sunny afternoon. Our second step was to recognize that while graduates love to speak about their work, they also appreciate opportunities to take a break from the stresses of academic life and socialize with their peers in a more relaxed setting. Wine & Whine Wednesdays encouraged members to set aside their busy schedules to enjoy drinks with their fellow members after dinner in hall. The start of our own 2 Pound Cinema Club motivated the community to venture to the cinema with GCR-subsidized tickets. Given its immense popularity with members, we hope to expand the Cinema Club in the coming terms to also include subsidized plays and concerts. The return of our welfare yoga series was also greatly appreciated by both the GCR and JCR, providing a forum for relaxation during the week.

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We also saw immense commitment to sporting events this year, with amazing GCR involvement in the boat club leading to an immensely successful Christ Church Regatta and a strong Torpids campaign. Our GCR football team also had a great season, securing promotion into the second OUAFC MCR league. This engagement on the field and on the river was met with enthusiasm off as well, with GCR members showing up to support one another and the JCR teams during Cuppers, regattas, and varsity matches. Acknowledging the close relationship between the JCR and the GCR in sports, we aimed to strengthen our connection with our younger peers off the field as well. In addition to our welfare collaborations and our participation in a fun Pancake Day Charity race, we worked with the JCR to plan and execute an incredibly successful Arts Week with events ranging from artist talks and exhibitions to monoprinting and drawing workshops. The feedback about the events was overwhelmingly positive, and we look forward to using Arts Week as a model for other future events put on jointly between the JCR and GCR. Given the success of collaborations with the JCR, we looked to explore other collaborations that could draw in our own community and encourage engagement with others. Perhaps the most successful collaboration has been our work with the new Buttery manager Emily Robotham. Working with Emily, we have put on a series of popular tasting events in the Buttery and the Undercroft, with recent wine and whiskey tasting exchanges with other colleges proving a highlight of the GCR term card for many members. These tasting exchanges are just one example of the exciting social events put together by our committee, with intercollege bar exchanges, beer and cider exchanges, an outdoor movie viewing in the garden, and a chocolate tasting also drawing in large numbers of members. We also hosted our Black Tie after-dinner festivities in the Undercroft for the first time, which was greatly enjoyed by all who attended and will likely become standard following GCR-wide dinners. Moving forward, we hope to continue to motivate members to frequent the Undercroft and to use the space for events and activities. In conversations with members of the GCR about what would help make the GCR feel more like a home, it became clear that the notion of “home” always includes the people you love, and so we worked to better integrate the spouses and partners of our ordinary members, both by encouraging greater participation by associate members more generally

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and also by planning events that appealed to couples as well. In the future, we look forward to further expanding our term card to make the GCR a more inclusive space for spouses and partners. Finally, with the generous financial support of College and input from our members, we have just finished our revamp of the GCR space, with a new entertainment system, new sofas for the study room, new standing desks, a new coffee machine, and much more. We hope that these additions to the common room and study room will help encourage members to proactively take advantage of these spaces and recognize that home is always there for you when you need it. As I end my tenure as President, I am incredibly optimistic about the future of the GCR. As an international student, I first hand understand how important it is for graduate students to feel that they have a home away from home, and this year the committee has worked tirelessly to make the GCR that home for our members. The committee has done some truly remarkable work, and I am incredibly grateful for all of their hard work and the continued support from College. The Christ Church Graduate Common Room has been and always will be my home in Oxford, and I look forward to watching it continue to thrive in the coming years. Layla Stahr GCR President 2018-2019

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CHRIST CHURCH ART ROOM

The Art Room continues to be an active and positive resource for both the College and the Cathedral. It has been fulfilling its remit of being an attractive studio and social location in which some organised events and some tuition in the visual arts takes place. As well as being a room for studio practice by individuals, meetings of groups and societies take place and, using a recently acquired projector, film shows take place. The weekly Life Drawing class has remained popular and well attended and, after a lapse, Printmaking activity is experiencing a revival. The presence of a very good etching press has remained a particular attraction and relief printing of a very high quality has continued through use of our modest equipment. The Room is periodically useful to the Cathedral and recently an ambitious Icon Painting Workshop was very successfully undertaken in it. The presence of Dr Sarah Simblet next to the Room has augmented its use since she directs students to it and sometimes uses it as a tutorial space. Her warm and stimulating presence is a bonus in many ways. The Art Room key list, of people with approved independent access to the Room, is currently composed of about forty names selected by myself and Dr Simblet. The list represents the range of people to whom the Room is attractive and useful and contains, primarily, students (both undergraduate and post graduate) and staff (both academic and other) from Christ Church but also students from the University in general and as well as a few people from the city. An outreach function of the Room has always been seen as desirable. I believe that this very mixed clientele and the rich range of activities within it helps to make the Art Room the centre of a thriving art community at Christ Church. Peter Rhoades Christ Church Art Tutor

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THE CHRISTOPHER TOWER POETRY PRIZE

The 2018 theme of Secrets was judged by John Fuller, Christopher Reid, and Peter McDonald. They considered 923 entries from 476 British schools and colleges. The 2018 winner was Taraneh Peryie from Bristol Grammar School. The runners-up were Lucy Thynne from Lady Margaret School, London and Robbi Sher from Highgate School, London. RICHARD I used to think all men were slaves to me, but with the keen flick of your eye, faster than a serpent’s tongue, you swept through Jerusalem and called me to the foot of your bed. You smirk; some strong aphorism has played on your lips. Sweet, cool ablution; confessions to men in red; hermits fasting. All answer to you. The smooth lines of your neck, the arch of your back. I wake sweated over, filthy with want, full of threat and fallacy. I want to scream, to sing about the whiteness of your throat, your cool nakedness. Ungodly red infection of the mind. Like the black-faced eremite on his pilgrimage from Edessa to the Holy Land, my feet will blister on stone. You know me by an unspoken name. Like the hailing chorus of Gabriel’s wings, sounds that roll off your tongue, prickle against my skin. I’ll never see fire or hear the sea again. From fertile sin, out shall spring an apple tree, share its fruit with me. I will stand by you. King of England – dead, a sexless bed fellow. I gave you my soul. I damned the sweet rivers of wine and the protection of the archangel’s wing – seized hell as my home. And you gave me your sister. A marriage of starched sheets. Her sweet eyes aping your own, a reflection so dear it made me weep. And is this how you’ll keep me? A dog on a chain?

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A mocking ghost of the memory I kept of you. The faint likeness of blue irises? I will not ask. Two crowns cannot kiss. I want to rip out your tongue with my teeth. I want to ask why your face is so calm, as if you don’t remember the embrace we shared, heat that passed between our bodies like ghosts. I could tear the hair from my head, watch it scatter like leaves, the hours burning on their own funeral pyre. If only god had reached down from Elysium and scorched my tongue to blistered snakeskin. You will forget, and history will never know, like water slipping through cracks in the sky into the ocean petrified into pillars of salt useless to a parched beggar’s throat. We will disappear, but even now I will collect each moment, each sound, each soft sighing whisper like precious stones. I will etch into rock Once, I loved the king of France and keep it as a pebble in my palm, quietly turning its smooth sides around in my hands. Offish waters give their colour to you. The Seine. Now, we can say nothing at all. Copies of the 2018 booklet, as well as all our publications, are available from the Christopher Tower Poetry Prize Office. Full details of Tower activities are to be found at www.towerpoetry.ork.uk

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SPORTS CLUBS

Christ Church Cricket Club – Men’s 1st XI, Warrigals, and Women’s 1st XI Christ Church Cricket Club continues to go from strength to strength. The Men’s 1st XI had a good season under the astute captaincy of Tuppy Morrissey, finishing 3rd in Division 2 and only just missing out on promotion. Matches were often close and hard-fought; victories against Somerville and Pembroke were gained by only 7 and 5 runs, respectively. Our Cuppers run was slightly less impressive, however, being knocked out by an excellent Worcester side in the 2nd round. The number of players coming down to matches (sometimes, albeit briefly, heralding calls for a Men’s 2nd XI) remains very encouraging for the coming seasons. It would be impossible to name all the individual performances that contributed to such a fine team effort. However, special mention must go to Alfie Gibbs’ 100 in the first match of the season (when his team-mates were feeling distinctly rusty from their winter hibernation); he was later named ‘Players’ Player’ in the End of Season Awards. Other fine batting contributions were made by Tom Gnodde, Tuppy Morrissey and Jamie Golding, who all scored 50s. The potent opening bowling partnership of Lawrence Mayne and Jonah Munday also undid many an opposition, particularly when followed by the beguiling spin of Tuppy Morrissey, Richard Calver and Sam Oppenheimer. Rob Cootes’ unerring fast-medium (and contributions with the bat and on the field) led to him being named captain for this year, with Eoin Simpkins taking over as social secretary. The 2018 season also saw the revival of the Warrigals, Christ Church’s social cricket team. The team (made up of a mixture of experienced and more ‘casual’ cricketers, under the captaincy of William Brettle) had three matches in total, against the Bear Inn and teams from New College and Pembroke. Unfortunately, our Old Warrigals’ match had to be called off due to bad weather (the only blip in an otherwise excellent summer). The matches produced some memorable performances, with highlights including the innovative bowling of Nico Stone and the remarkable fielding of the ‘darting, boat-shoed figure of Irving at point’ (as Ollie Grell’s match report put it). Matches have already been arranged for the 2019 season, and talk of a tour is in the air too.

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Particularly encouraging was the resurgence of women’s cricket at Christ Church, under the expert leadership of Issy Smout, ably supported by Xue Xian Lee. Open training sessions were held for all, which were universally well attended; a few attendees later went on to represent the university at Blues level. Prospects for this summer are looking positive, with significant interest already among the Freshers. Rob Cootes Croquet In what has been a characteristically strong year for Christ Church Sport across the board, the House’s finest Croquet artists have followed suit on the lawn of the Master’s Garden and beyond. Led by the youthful exuberance of newly appointed Croquet Captain, Callum Cleary, taking on the mantle from revered departing captain Tom Ames, Croquet at Christ Church has blossomed in 2018. Cleary, in a quartet that featured the sporting specimens that are Alfred Gibbs, Lawrence Mayne, and Solomon Hardwick, took Trinity Term by storm to reach the last 16 of Cuppers, narrowly crashing out to a strong LMH side in a match that went down to the wire. Their cuppers run consisted of four victories against opposition in the form of Trinity, two Magdalen outfits, and a St Johns side. Dispatching Magdalen and Trinity on home turf with consummate ease in the first and second round respectively, they faced a strong Magdalen side away in the third round. Inspired by the skill and cool-headedness of enigmatic mallet-wielder Mayne, capping a memorable performance with ever-increasingly audacious dambusters before pegging-out, the quartet showed quality to set up a last 32 tie against a Johns side tipped for the latter stages of the competition. However, unfazed by the apparent experience and guile of their wily opposition, Christ Church played with a confidence that didn’t waver during the four-hour marathon-of-a-match that entailed. Playing on a surface that highlighted the elegance of our very own Masters Garden, Johns home lawn did its very best to trouble our own game. A quick adaptation to a more direct style of play payed off as a particularly impressive Hardwick galvanised his team to a dogged, but thoroughly deserved win. This was nearly derailed when a presumptuous Gibbs allowed a degree of apathy to creep into his game. As captain, Cleary couldn’t care less whether Alfie had an essay due in at 6 o’clock which still had eleven hundred words to be written; the match was there to be

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won. Buoyed by what Cleary describes as an ‘enthusiastic’ pep talk, as the match entered into its third hour, Gibbs, who could not be reached for comment on the contents of the discussion between himself and Cleary, seemed to play with a renewed energy that had earned him his place on the team. This ‘energy’ was mistaken by Hardwick to be “fear”, yet Cleary can confirm there was nothing for Gibbs to be fearful of had we lost due to his - and his alone – previously poor attitude. “We win as a team and lose as a team” said Cleary cheerfully at the conclusion of the game. The impressive run came to an end at the hands of an LMH side. Despite a committed performance which propelled Cleary and the boys into a healthy early lead, LMH - composed of four third years who used all the experience that two previous cuppers campaigns had bestowed – reeled in the deficit to record a narrow victory. As Gibbs pronounced at bowing out as the last Christ Church side remaining in the illustrious tournament, “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do”. I’m pretty sure he stole that from Mark Twain, but the sentiment holds – the boys did Christ Church Croquet proud and hope to build on this in the coming Trinity term. At the time of writing, croquet at Christ Church is in a period of hibernation, existing solely underground in a series of subterranean caves concealed beneath the meadows, beyond the reach of sub fifteen degrees temperatures ravaging Michaelmas and Hilary alike. Trinity exchange is on the horizon at the beginning of March, where we go up against our sister college in Cambridge – away this year – and look to continue our recent dominance in this annual fixture. Beyond that, Trinity term beckons and with it a fresh crop of talent looking to chisel their names into Christ Church croquet history. With extensive interest, gauged from the barometer that is likes raining in on the newly founded Facebook group ‘Christ Church Association Croquet Club’, 2019 holds to be another year in which croquet at Christ Church progresses from strength to strength. Callum Cleary Christ Church Croquet Captain 2018-2019

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Football 2018 began with the successful conclusion of another season for Christ Church AFC. The previous campaign had seen the House finally break free of the depths of the bottom tier, winning the title to progress to JCR Division 2 for the first time in four seasons. With a strong Michaelmas 2017 under our belts, the promotion charge was on for another year, and top-drawer performances in a term plagued by snow and cold weather saw the House end the season unbeaten and as champions, sealed by an 8-0 evisceration of a hapless Corpus Christi side on the final day to confirm top spot. The 2018/19 season thus began with Christ Church in the lofty heights of college football's second tier, but the rarefied air of JCR Division 1 proved no obstacle to the House. With a historically impressive intake of freshers, the Christ Church team is especially youthful this season, and ran into trouble on occasion, falling 0-3 behind to Teddy Hall at half time in a challenging first 45 at University Parks, but the lads always showed the quality and tenacity to claw their way back, emerging with a creditable 3-3 draw from that encounter (even having played the last 30 minutes with ten men after an unprecedented red card). Big wins against St Hugh's, Balliol and Queen’s saw Christ Church end the term with a great shot at a third successive promotion, and a return to the JCR Premiership. Even better, impressive performances on the road in Cuppers have won the House a home semi-final against Wadham in early February, offering up the prospect of a second Cuppers final in three seasons. All interested parties are directed to the league tables (ouafc.leaguerepublic.com) and to Christ Church’s own sporting social media presence (facebook.com/chchsport), to follow Christ Church AFC's latest footballing adventures. Ollie Grell Netball The Christ Church netball team has had a great couple of terms recently, holding a strong position in Division 2 (out of 5!) of the intercollegiate league. The team’s fresher numbers have grown with some crewdate-based incentives and are beginning to form a real unit. The introduction of some mixed matches has led to some rather amusing play - perhaps lacking in finesse at times - but certainly making up for it with sheer

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enthusiasm! It’s been great fun to run and see the popularity of the sport amongst such a range of students, and we can only hope to see the squad improve as regular training gets underway. Rosalie Wright Rugby It has been a memorable and successful year for Christ Church RFC. We started with a home defeat to Jesus College, but backed it up with 5 wins in a row to secure promotion into division 2. Players of the season Dom Reedy and JJ Sermon, as well as our back row made up entirely of graduates Felix Le Merle, Ben Walker and Will Aynsley and our Vice- captain Angus Irving have become the forward pack that this club has been waiting for in recent years and have become feared by our opponents. They set a strong base for our backs to build on, and new recruits Ben Kibblewhite and Henry Hackett have relished this, creating some seriously good tries. Our season will conclude early in Trinity Tern, as we compete in the semi-finals (and hopefully the final) of the Cuppers Bowl. It must also be mentioned that Angus Irving, Felix Le Merle and Richard Calver were in the victorious Oxford Colleges XV squad, Will Aynsley played in the Greyhounds victory over Cambridge and Henry Hackett played in the U20s side that was victorious over its Cambridge equivalent. It has been an honour to captain CHCHRFC this year and I look forward to seeing 2019/2020 captain Will Heylen take the club to new heights. Eoin Simpkins Squash Squash at The House has always been active at an informal level. Many students enjoy applying themselves to vigorously knocking a ball around the court in their own time, but it is this informality that has provided the basis for a very satisfactory year. Involvement has stretched from undergraduates to graduates and even the odd Porter! Freshers’ uptake can make or break a season, so it was with some surprise that after naming an unchanged First V from last year, we achieved a magnificent run in Cuppers. The House has not been blessed with exceptional squash talent in recent years, no Blues, no university players, but the team has relished its underdog status and good old-fashioned amateurish ability. Cruising past the graduates at Wolfson in

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the first round 5 – 0 was made all the more memorable by a W. Brettle special 9-0 9-0 9-0 victory at 5th seed. Next came the seeded Exeter, a strong team with widely known racket ability, only to be felled by what they claimed to be disorganisation. However, the Exeter captain commented: ‘Exeter squash has capitulated. I’m going to give up the captaincy, and I really can’t wait for it to happen tbh,’ as an ex-Christ Church captain commented, they were ‘clearly intimidated by our fierce line-up.’ Brasenose were then dismantled 15 games to 6 with an inspired performance from regular and grad F. MacDiarmid, demonstrating the superior fitness he has built a well-deserved reputation for. The new kids on the Block over at Catz found our chink-in-the-amour, however, with a cheeky adjustment from the English to the American scoring system, punishing our hit-and-hope serving, but we’d had a fantastic run and I am immensely proud of the team cruising to a Cuppers quarter-final. Elsewhere, we sit firmly mid-table in Division 2 of the league competition and are in the process of setting up an internal squash ladder again, with the intention of bring squash to more people, and also identifying the elusive freshers with supreme racket-sports ability who have slipped though unnoticed. All that remains to be said is to congratulate my fellow team-members S. Oppenheimer, F. MacDiarmid, A. Gibbs and W. Brettle on their cup run, A. Moore on being ready to step in at a moment’s notice, and the rest of the club for their commitment and keeping the game alive. Lucas Jones

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SOME REFLECTIONS ON A CAREER AT CHRIST CHURCH

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My first experience of Christ Church was during my interviews for the Organ Scholarship in September 1970. I was at the King’s School, Worcester and had made it my ambition to become Simon Preston’s first Organ Scholar, inspired by my teacher, Christopher Robinson, who had been Organ Scholar here under Sir Thomas Armstrong and Sydney Watson. When I reflect on the nature of those interviews, I recall them as very demanding but also relatively benign. I had a rigorous examination on the organ, complemented by an academic interview in the Dodgson Room, where I was grilled by the Dean (Henry Chadwick), Simon Preston and the Tutor for Admissions (Paul Kent). It was memorable for Henry’s question to me about Beethoven’s use of the Neapolitan Sixth. I was admitted despite failing to come up with a plausible answer, and I embarked on a thrilling undergraduate career, taught by Simon, the finest organist of his generation, and Edward Olleson, a brilliant academic tutor and a former Senior Scholar at Christ Church. Standards in the Cathedral Choir rose at a meteoric rate with regular broadcasts and recordings. Canons and Governing Body admired Simon Preston’s achievements whilst also tolerating his mercurial temperament. Later in life, Henry Chadwick told me that he could forgive Simon any of his outbursts when he heard the mesmerising effects of his playing and conducting: Henry rarely missed a service. During those years, he would frequently invite me to play two-piano music in the Deanery drawing room, quite a challenge for me since he was such an expert pianist. I was also much influenced at this time by Peter Parsons, who was Treasurer of the College Music Society (of which I was President), and Ron Truman who was Senior Censor. My rooms in Meadow Buildings were opposite those of Peter Pulzer, with whom I still enjoy conversations about music, much as I did then. It was comforting to find some of the Students were still here when I returned to Christ Church in 1985, after twelve years in the wilderness: Canterbury and St. Albans Cathedrals to be precise. I joined the select few as a Gremial, a title which, along with that of University Choragus

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(a post I held for fifteen years), is greeted with bemusement by the majority of people. The dual nature of my job struck me forcibly. In the Cathedral I inherited a wonderful choir and a supportive Dean and Chapter. In the College, the brilliant John Milsom was the Music Lecturer, and together we nurtured a small and very talented group of undergraduates and graduates, amongst them the current Principal of the RAM, Professor Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, and his Deputy Principal, Professor Timothy Jones. In many respects little had changed since my undergraduate days, including many aspects of the Music course. My own ambitions were, in the College to increase the profile of academic music and build a larger community of academic musicians, and in the Cathedral to maintain and develop the repertoire, recording output and touring, and to excel in both spheres. To achieve this, I needed to surround myself with gifted teachers and musicians. Over the years I had a series of College lecturer colleagues who were central to Music’s outstanding academic record: John Milsom, Simon Keefe, Emma Hornby, David Maw (all of them now Professors), and of course, when the College agreed to my proposal to embrace a second University Lecturership in Music, Jonathan Cross. The glittering list of Music alumni is testament to the way in which their potential was fostered here: I am particularly proud to have had the privilege of contributing in some way to setting these talented people on their paths to success. In the Cathedral I had a succession of brilliant organists to assist me: Catherine Ennis, Simon Lawford, Stephen Farr, David Goode and Clive Driskill-Smith, along with excellent Organ Scholars. Happily, the Deans and Chapters responded positively to my initiatives. There were many new music commissions, improvements to the Rieger organ, a new chamber organ and a Fazioli grand piano, annual Holy week oratorios, TV programmes on all the main channels, tours abroad as far afield as Brazil, Australia and China (all self-funding), over 60 CD recordings, a number of which received Grammy and Gramophone award nominations, and outreach projects both in the UK and abroad. Throughout, my guiding principle has remained unchanged: to be the best possible advocate for liturgical music at the highest possible standard. I believe strongly that there is something profound and unique about performing choral music in a sacred space and as part of the liturgy. It is self-evidently the case that music has the power to evoke deep

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spiritual responses in people: sacred choral music is probably more widely disseminated now than at any stage in history and Christ Church has played a significant part in this development. Amongst my countless precious memories of directing the Cathedral Choir, I will share just one with you. This was a BBC televised concert in Prague in 1989, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, with soloists Ileana Cotrubaș and Plácido Domingo. Václav Havel had just been elected President of Czechoslovakia and was sitting close to me. As conductor, I was acutely aware of a strong sense of history and a tangible air of optimism in the building, not least because the accompanying orchestra consisted entirely of dissident players who had refused to join the Communist Party, so were debarred from membership of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. It was an unforgettable and deeply moving occasion. At a more mundane level there have been many changes in the infrastructure of the Cathedral Choir: proper housing for Lay Clerks; shorter terms for Academical Clerks; half-term breaks for choristers; the establishment of the posts of Sub Organist and Personal Assistant to the Organist. I can even report a 100% improvement in the choir’s toilet facilities: the Priory room now has two lavatories (not one)! Also, the Cathedral School’s profile has been increasingly prominent in recent years. Of the 120 or so choristers who have been in the choir under my direction, all have left with Music awards to their next schools, and some with academic awards as well. Roughly 20% of them subsequently gained a place at Oxford or Cambridge, an enviable statistic for any school. Many of these chorister alumni are now in top positions in the fields of music performance, composition, broadcasting, teaching, law and business, to name just a few. This shows the excellence of the primary education they received here at Christ Church and is a reflection of a succession of fine Heads and their staff. As you may imagine, I have not attended countless Chapter and Governing Body meetings without amassing enough material for a book of reminiscences, but sadly only a few of these memories are repeatable. In my early years, a small minority of Governing Body members would routinely bring a pile of books to read during the meetings, not preventing them from offering occasional contributions to debates of course. True to that tradition, it was during a particularly long meeting that I wrote one of my more successful musical arrangements, of the carol

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‘Silent Night’. In the Chapter, I recall a splendid occasion when there had been a difficult discussion about the state of the Lay Clerks’ accommodation. I persuaded the Canons that they needed to see this for themselves, so in full canonical dress including mortar boards, the entire Chapter processed across St. Aldate’s to Pembroke Street: the change of policy followed shortly afterwards. There were periodical debates about hymn books too: Hymns Ancient and Modern (revised) was in use when I arrived in 1985; Rowan Williams initiated the move to English Hymnal; Christopher Lewis decided to adopt Common Praise; it’s probably time for another change! In an interview on his appointment as Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Kurt Masur commented that as a teenager he told his father he wished to be an organist like Bach and not the electrician his father hoped he would become. Masur said: ‘I wanted to be an organist, not a conductor. I didn’t want to be glamorous.’ A career as an organist may not seem glamorous these days, but there was a time when its prestige was surprisingly high. Readers of this report may be interested to know that in 1546, the Organist at Christ Church was the highest paid member of the community, paid twice as much as the Tutors in fact. Just for the avoidance of doubt: this is no longer the case! However, I think these reflections on my 33 years as Organist and Official Student in Music have demonstrated that there has been no shortage of glamour, and the rewards have been greater than I could ever have imagined. This has also been the place where I met and married my wife Moira, our daughters have been married, and our grandchildren christened. For the bulk of my career, I have been privileged to stand daily in Tom Quad and relish my surroundings. I have always loved a poem by Craig Raine which paints that scene in words, but expresses so much more, particularly the last line. I end with a shortened extract which seems to encapsulate the joy which has been my life at Christ Church. In Oxford, in Christ Church, in Tom Quad, I sway, and hiccough like Greenwich Mean Time…. Its clapper clenched like a boxing glove Of bronze, the great bell tolls and tolls.

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But while the crickets wind their watches up, I stagger like a miracle and walk on water… Stephen Darlington

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PROFESSOR GUY WILKINSON ELECTED FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY

Professor Guy Wilkinson, Tutor in Physics at Christ Church, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society for his exceptional contributions to science. Fifty eminent scientists have been elected this year, along with ten new Foreign Members, described by the Society’s President as ‘the world’s best scientists’. The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship made up of the most eminent scientists, engineers and technologists from the UK and the Commonwealth. Fellows and Foreign Members are elected for life through a peer review process on the basis of excellence in science. There are approximately 1600 Fellows and Foreign Members, including around 80 Nobel Laureates. Each year up to 52 Fellows and up to 10 Foreign Members are elected from a group of around 700 candidates who are proposed by the existing Fellowship. Candidates must have made ‘a substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science’. Venki Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society, said, ‘Our Fellows are key to the Royal Society’s fundamental purpose of using science for the benefit of humanity. From Norwich to Melbourne to Ethiopia, this year’s newly elected Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society are testament that science is a global endeavour and excellent ideas transcend borders. We also recognise the cutting edge innovation taking place across industry, with many of this year’s Fellows coming from the thriving tech industry. For their outstanding contributions to research and innovation, both now and in the future, it gives me great pleasure to welcome the world’s best scientists into the ranks of the Royal Society.’ The Dean of Christ Church, the Very Revd Professor Martyn Percy, commented, 'We are delighted that Professor Wilkinson has achieved this distinction, and been recognised for his considerable contribution to the field over many years. His research is remarkable, and has justly been recognised and affirmed for its originality and impact.' Professor Guy Wilkinson is a Professor of Physics and Alfred Moritz Student and Tutor in Physics. He is a High Energy Physicist working on the Large Hadron Collider project at CERN, Geneva. His particular

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fields of interest are quark flavour physics, CP violation and precision electroweak physics. Between 2014 and 2017 he led the LHCb collaboration as its spokesperson, having previously served as its physics coordinator during the crucial first two years of LHC operation. He was also named as the recipient of the 2017 James Chadwick Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics for his outstanding contributions to the experimental study of heavy quarks and CP violation, most especially for his leadership of, and his decisive contributions to, the LHCb experiment at CERN.

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PROFESSOR CAROL HARRISON ELECTED FELLOW OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY

The College was delighted last year by the news that Carol Harrison, elected Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity in 2014, has been elected as a fellow of the British Academy. The British Academy is a distinguished association of over 1000 leading academics in the Humanities and the Social Sciences. Every year it elects up to 52 new UK-based fellows, assigning each on election to one of eighteen disciplinary sections. The section entitled Theology and Religion has not statistically favoured women, and Professor Harrison’s achievement is therefore particularly impressive. She joins such Oxford luminaries as Martin Goodman, John Barton, Gavin Flood and Diarmaid McCulloch, as well as the former Christ Church Professors Hugh Williamson, Keith Ward, Oliver O’Donovan and Lord (Rowan) Williams of Oystermouth. Professor Harrison taught Patristics (i.e. Early Christian Studies) for many years at the University of Durham before taking up her present chair. Her principal interest is the thought of Augustine, and her book Rethinking Augustine’s Early Theology is a recognised landmark in this crowded field. At Christ Church she is not only a scholar but a preacher, and her most recent publication, Listening to the Fathers, is a reflection on the aural effects of early Christian homilies. Her study of early Christian music is currently in press.

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PROFESSOR MARK EDWARDS ADMITTED AS SENIOR PROCTOR

Professor Mark Edwards, tutor in Theology at Christ Church, was admitted as Senior Proctor of the University in a ceremony at the Sheldonian Theatre on Wednesday 14th March. The Senior Proctor, Junior Proctor and the Assessor are elected annually by colleges in a set cycle. As well as being members of key decision-making committees within the University, the Proctors and Assessors ensure that the University operates according to its statutes. They have some responsibility for student discipline, for ensuring the proper conduct of exams, and for dealing with complaints. The role also includes ceremonial duties, such as those carried out at degree ceremonies. Since 2013, the Admission ceremony has taken place in the Sheldonian Theatre. Following refreshments in the Senior Common Room, members of Governing Body assembled in Tom Quad for photos, before processing to the Sheldonian for the Meeting of Congregation with the Admission of the Proctors. After the ceremony the procession returned to Christ Church for drinks and lunch. Professor Mark Edwards is a tutor in Theology at Christ Church, having previously gained his BA, MA and DPhil from Oxford. He carries out undergraduate teaching in Theology, and his research interests include early Christianity, the New Testament, and Platonism.

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PAUL KENT MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM

1 September 2018 Address given by Rt. Hon. Lord Neuberger

The obituary of Dr Paul Kent (1923-2017) appeared in last year’s annual report, and a Service of Thanksgiving for his life was held in the Cathedral on 23rd February. On Saturday 1st September, family, friends and colleagues gathered in Christ Church for a Memorial Symposium to pay tribute to Dr Kent for his contributions to science and academic life: an afternoon of talks illustrated various aspects of Paul’s achievements. Participants at the symposium were delighted that Lord Neuberger was able to present a personal portrait of his chemistry tutor, Paul Kent, and share with the audience some of his recollections of undergraduate life in Christ Church in the 1960s. We are pleased to reprint his address to the symposium in this year’s annual report.

“I matriculated in October 1966. It was a very different world from that of today. The UK was not a member of what is now the EU, but we had been trying to get in. Sex between men was a criminal offence. Overt racism was legal. Recreational drugs were only a fringe activity. Cigarette smoking was an apparently permanent part of the social scene. The M40 didn’t exist. Recombinant gene technology and artificial gene synthesis were the stuff of science fiction. CrispR would have been thought to be a new edible potato snack. Only five Oxford colleges admitted women, and they of course did not admit men. Many colleges had closed scholarships – i.e. scholarships only open to certain people, normally from a specific school. I had one, I was then proud, and am now embarrassed, to say. I had come up to read chemistry. Paul Kent was my leading tutor throughout my four years, although Richard Wayne played an equally important part in my scientific education. They were quite a contrast in terms of character – Yin and Yang – but both were committed and excellent scientists and memorable and inspiring tutors in their very different ways. And we had other younger tutors, of whom one of the most memorable was Raymond Dwek, who managed to be quite a contrast to both Paul

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and Richard, although he shared their scientific ability and inspirational qualities. Paul was a quiet man. He was not taciturn, but he was certainly not voluble, and when he talked to you, he seemed to adopt a tone which suggested that what he was telling you was confidential. This had the effect of making sure that you listened. It was a mistake to be misled by the soft voice, because it masked a considerable strength of character. If you said something inappropriate or had let him down, he had a habit of staring at you somewhat severely and not saying anything. It was a very effective way of making one feel ashamed, and it also made one feel adult; I suppose that was partly because one was not being told off, and because one had to work out for oneself why Paul was displeased. He was also like the best teachers, and as I learned as a barrister in later life, the best judges: you wanted to do well, not because he would shout at you if you did badly, but because you didn’t want to let him down. Paul was not only devoted to science, but to higher education, indeed to public service generally. He had a strong moral sense, but he was a long way from being a prig. And he had a firm, but wholly tolerant and broad-minded, commitment to Anglicanism. These characteristics were demonstrated by his activities which Christ Church undergraduates did not see – serving on Oxford City Council, involvement in Church affairs, and even more his subsequent mastership of Van Mildert College at Durham, and his governorship of Oxford Brookes, at both of which he spearheaded and inspired important developments to enable each university to expand, and at both of which inspired young researchers and tutors and supported sports. Paul was, above all, a man of great personal dignity. In that connection a small and relatively recent moment sticks most vividly in my mind. It was at the first Christ Church Chemistry dinner when, aged nearly 90, Paul gave a speech. It was impressive in that, even at that age, he spoke movingly and clearly without a note. But, at one point, he lost his thread. We all just sat there in complete silence, while Paul, completely unflustered and calm, ruminated until after what seemed like five minutes, but was probably fifteen seconds, he recalled what he wanted to say and

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carried on imperturbably. It is sometimes hard to explain why some moments are memorable and moving, but that was such a moment at least for me. Another moment, somewhat longer ago, sticks in my mind. I was accompanying my son to his new room on the day of his matriculation. As we were passing from Peck into Blue Boar, the door from Blue Boar Lane opened, and Paul Kent appeared. Suddenly, I felt it was 1966 not 1999, and it was me, not Max starting at Christ Church. The pleasure I felt is a tribute both to Paul and to my four years here. Now I have not discussed Paul’s scientific achievements; there are many here better able to do that. Despite the encouragement of Paul (and Richard and Raymond), I did not stick at science after my Part II. For the next decade or so, I wondered whether my four years studying in chemistry had been wasted. My subsequent experiences have demonstrated to me that it was an excellent thing for someone who was to pursue a career out of science, perhaps particularly in law, to have studied science at University. First, more than almost any arts subject, undergraduate science has a rigour about it. There is a right answer to most exam questions, and the right answer is based on logical thinking. You can’t hide behind waffling or arguing that it’s a matter of opinion. And if you want to move from one area of work to another, it’s relatively easy to move to a less rigorous subject, but it’s very hard to move the other way. Secondly, reading science gives one a familiarity with numbers, and I for one found that people outside the worlds of science maths and engineering are in general quite remarkably innumerate. Numbers play an increasingly important part in life generally, and in many areas of the law in particular, and so I benefitted both as a barrister and as a judge by my relative confidence with numbers thanks to my training as a scientist. Thirdly, and much more specifically, I used my scientific knowledge very rarely indeed while I was a barrister, as for some reason beyond my control I ended up as a land lawyer. However, shortly after I became a judge, there was a serious need for more judges to try patent cases, and, solely (I think) because I had a chemistry degree, I was appointed to join the three other part-

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time patent judges (all of whom were patent experts to the tips of their toes, whereas I had never seen a patent in my life). Largely thanks to my four years of chemistry, I managed to make a reasonable fist of a number of significant gene-related patent cases, although in the only one that went to the Law Lords, they were very complimentary about my clear description of the science, but thought I had got most of the law wrong. Nonetheless, I have no doubt that my fortunate judicial career has owed a lot both to the general mental training, and to the specific scientific knowledge, which Paul, and indeed Richard and Raymond, imparted into me during my time here. Fourthly, I had the great and unexpected honour of being elected an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society, where I have taken part in discussions and lectured on the similarities and differences between scientific and legal thinking. I have also been closely involved with the Science and the Law programme initiated by the Society together with the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the judiciary. The programme represents a fascinating opportunity to educate lawyers (including myself) in scientific and technological developments at an important time. Finally, it is not just in relation to work that my scientific education has proved so beneficial and valuable. It is also in relation to my leisure time. The advances in so many areas of science over the 50 years or so since I left Christ Church are fascinating, and the changes which those advances are causing and will cause on everyone’s life, whether at home or at work, are very far-reaching. So, it is both very interesting and very valuable to read about them and, albeit at a pretty superficial level, to understand them. To the extent that I can do that, it is largely thanks to my four years as a Christ Church chemist. And for that experience, there is no-one I have to thank more than Paul, who was the tutor for admissions when I was admitted, and was my principal tutor while I was there.” David Neuberger Christ Church, Oxford, 1st September 2018

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CHRIST CHURCH CHEMISTS’ AFFINITY GROUP

On March 16th eighty-seven current and former colleagues, pupils and friends gathered for an event to mark the 80th birthday of Richard Wayne and the 70th birthdays of Tony Cheetham and Martin Grossel. The afternoon began with tea followed by two talks given in the Sir Michael Dummett Lecture Theatre. In the first of these Allan Chapman explored the history of Chemistry at Christ Church after which Judith Curthoys spoke about the Lee Readers and the Lee Bequest. These were followed by a dinner in the Hall and an excellent evening was had by everyone present! On September 1st a symposium took place in the Sir Michael Dummett Lecture Theatre to celebrate the career of Dr Paul Kent. A full house listened to accounts of life in the Christ Church SCR and as an undergraduate during the 1950s and 60s from former pupils and colleagues. These were followed by presentations tracing the development of Biochemistry within the college and the University from the 17th century to the present day and of the key role played by the Lee Trust. Accounts were also given of Paul’s other contributions to college life, particularly the foundation of the GCR. The day concluded with a dinner in Hall. This event was organised by David Dunmur, with the support of other members of the Affinity Group, and a book of lecture abstracts and articles on other aspects of Paul’s life has been produced. Martin Grossel

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BLUE PLAQUE FOR ANDREA ANGEL

On 14th July 2018 a Blue Plaque was unveiled on the wall of 15 Banbury Road, Oxford, to honour of the career and heroism of Andrea Angel who died in the Silvertown Explosion of 1917. The Angel family had lived there from 1905 while Angel was a Chemistry Lecturer at Christ Church and manager of the college’s laboratory. After some introductory comments by Professor Robert Evans (Chair of Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board), I gave a brief summary of Angel’s career and the events leading up to his heroism and death at the Brunner-Mond factory in Silvertown, East London. Duncan Rabagliati then spoke on behalf Angel’s family, followed by Councillor Gill Sanders, Chairman of Oxfordshire County Council. Also in attendance were the Dean and Sir Hugo Brunner (the grandson of one of the factory owners). This memorial was made possible thanks to the generosity of the Dean and Censors. Martin Grossel

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SENIOR MEMBERS’ ACTIVITIES

The Revd Professor N Biggar In 2018 Nigel Biggar published three journal articles: “What’s Wrong with Subjective Rights?”, History of European Ideas; “Proportionality: Lessons from the Somme”, Soundings; and “Compromise: What Makes it Bad?”, Studies in Christian Ethics. Three book chapters also appeared: “In Defence of Just War: Christian Tradition, Controversies, and Cases” in Ad de Bruijne and Gerard den Hertog, eds, The Present ‘Just Peace/Just War’ Debate (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt); “Peace and War in Christian Thought: A Partisan Guide”, in Lester R. Kurtz, ed., The Warrior and the Pacifist (New York: Routledge); and “Stagger Onward, Rejoicing: Jean Bethke Elshtain, Augustinian Realist”, in Michael Chevallier and Debra Erickson, eds, Jean Bethke Elshtain (Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press). He lectured on “Christianity, International Law, Moral Norms, and War” at the Evangelische Bildungsstätte auf Schwanenwerder, Berlin (February), “After Iraq: When to Go to War?” at the British Army’s Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research, Camberley (March), “What Military Ethics Should Learn from World War I: A Christian Assessment”, at the National Defense University, Washington, DC (July), “The Legacy of Empire” at the Cheltenham Literary Festival (October), “The Ethics of War” at the Royal College of Defence Studies (November), and “Ethics and the ‘Grey Zone’” at the Chief of Defence Staff’s Strategy Forum, London (December). He organised two McDonald Centre conferences: “Is Religious Liberty under Threat? Transatlantic Perspectives” and “Bruce Gilley and ‘The Case for Colonialism’” (May). And he published two articles in the Times, one on civility in universities (April) and another on trans-gender identity (August). Professor G Ward Unimaginable: What We Imagine and What We Can’t (London: I.B. Tauris, 2018). Two articles: ‘Extremities’, Modern Theology, July (2018). ‘Unimaginable: Between the Cataphatic and the Apophatic’ in Church

Life Journal (University of Notre Dame), July 2018.

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Professor John Cartwright Professor Cartwright retired at the end of December 2018, and from 1 January 2019 he becomes an Emeritus Student of Christ Church, and Emeritus Professor of the Law of Contract in the University. In October, he completed his period of office as Director of the Law Faculty’s Institute of European and Comparative Law, but he remains a Research Fellow of the Institute. He continues to teach at the University of Paris 2 (Panthéon-Assas), and during the year he also gave lectures or seminars in Luxembourg, Seville, Stockholm and Utrecht. This year his publications included: Books (with B Fauvarque-Cosson and S Whittaker, eds) La réécriture du code

civil: Le droit français des contrats après la réforme de 2016 (Société de législation comparée, 2018). This is a French translation (with updates) of The Code Napoléon Rewritten: French Contract Law after the 2016 Reforms (volume of conference papers, edited with S Whittaker, Hart Publishing, 2017)

Formation and Variation of Contracts: 2nd edn (Sweet & Maxwell, 2018) Article and book chapter ‘Harmonisation Projects: Lessons from the European Experience?’ /

‘Proyectos de armonización: ¿Lecciones de la experiencia europea?’ Latin American Legal Studies, vol 2 (2018), p 1

‘“Commercial” Contracts: Do they Exist in English Law?’: in Estudios de Derecho Comercial [the Proceedings of the VIII Jornadas Chilenas de Derecho Comercial] (ed L Carvajal Arenas and A Toso Milos, Thomson Reuters, 2018), p 25

Professor R Rutherford Publications R.B. Rutherford, Homer, Iliad 18, with introduction and commentary

(Cambridge Greek and Latin Classis 2019). Professor R L Judson In 2018 I published two articles, one on Aristotle’s natural philosophy: ‘Physics I.5’, in Diana Quarantotto (ed.), Aristotle’s Physics I: A Systematic Exploration (Cambridge University Press); the other on Aristotle's

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conception of metaphysics: ‘First Philosophy in Metaphysics Λ’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 54, 227-77. Professor M Edwards “Early Ecclesiology in the West”, in Paul Avis (ed.), The Oxford

Handbook of Ecclesiology (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 163-182. “The Johannine Prologue before Origen”, In C. Beeley and M.

Weedman (eds), The Bible and Trinitarian Theology (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America), 118-131.

“Numenius”, in A. Marmodoro and S. Cartwright (eds), A History of Mind and Body in Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 52-66.

“Origen and Gregory of Nyssa on the Song of Songs”, in A. Marmodoro and N. McLynn (eds), Exploring Gregory of Nyssa (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 74-92.

“The Gnostics in Early Christian Heresiology”, in G.W. Trompf and G.B. Mikkelsen (eds), The Gnostic World (London: Routledge), 124-132.

“Porphyrios”, in C. Riedweg, C. Horn and D. Wyrwa (eds), Philosophie der Kaiserheit und der Spätantike (Basel: Schwabe), vol. 2, 1327-1349.

Professor D Obbink Awarded: £89,178 from the John Fell OUP Research Fund for the pilot-project “Virtual Reconstructing Framentary Data from Ancient Written Material Culture”. Published: “Gospel of Mark 1:7-9 & 16-18”, in P. J. Parsons et al. (eds.), The

Oxyrhynchus Papyri vol. 83 (London 2018) no. 5345 pp. 4-7 with plate II.

“Gospel of Luke 13:13-17 & 25-30”, in P. J. Parsons et al. (eds.), The Oxyrhynchus Papyri vol. 83 (London 2018) no. 5346 pp. 7-11 with plate III.

“Ezekiel Tragicus, Exagoge 7-40 & 50-54”, in P. J. Parsons et al. (eds.), The Oxyrhynchus Papyri vol. 83 (London 2018) no. 5348 pp. 14-19 with plate I.

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Professor S Rowland-Jones In September 2018 I commenced a one-year term as President of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH), having served as Vice President for the previous 2 years. The Society will host the biennial meeting of the European tropical medicine societies (ECTMIH) this September in Liverpool. I also Chair the recently revived RSTMH committee on Education and Training. In May 2018 I was asked to give the annual Neal Nathanson Lecture in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and was presented with the Neal Nathanson Virology medal. My group published 6 research papers in journals including E-Biomedicine, Nature Scientific Reports, PLOS One, AIDS and International Health. I was a member of the HERES evaluation committee for the Institut Cochin, Paris, in February 2018 and joined one of the fellowship panels of the Academy of Medical Sciences for a three-year stint. I was also asked by the Royal Society to join the panel to review Future Leaders African Independent Research (FLAIR) fellowship applications. Within Oxford, I continue to co-Lead the Oxford Academic Foundation Programme, for junior doctors interested in pursuing an academic medical career, and from January 2019 will take up the post of co-Lead for Education and Training in the Biomedical Research Centre of Oxford University Hospitals Trust. Professor P McDonald A lot of time was devoted to W.B. Yeats again this year. In August, I delivered a keynote lecture at the Yeats International Summer School, Sligo, on ‘Yeats’s Early Lake Isles’, and continued with editing my Complete Poems of W.B. Yeats for Longman, bringing vol.1 (covering the period 1862-1900) towards completion. An account of the project formed part of my article ‘Editing Yeats: The Widening Gyre’, in Essays in Criticism 64/4 (Oct. 2018), pp. 415-427 (where those interested can find out – amongst other things – where the poet first found that ‘widening gyre’ for his falcon to turn in). I published two substantial pieces on modern Northern Irish poetry: a chapter entitled ‘Paul Muldoon’, in Gerald Dawe (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp. 387-400, and a review-article on Gail McConnell, Northern Irish Poetry and Theology, in

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Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies (Oct. 2018). During the year, I completed a new collection of my own poems (my seventh), which will appear from Carcanet Press in 2020 (lead-times in poetry being quite exceptionally long; then again, readers of verse are never in much of a hurry). In the meantime, a suite of five new poems appeared in Literary Imagination 20/1 (Mar. 2018), pp. 74-81. Professor G A Johnson I began my second year as Junior Censor in August 2018. In addition to spending a great deal of time working with the College’s excellent Welfare team to ensure that all our junior members are well supported during their time at Oxford, I established a new Committee reporting to GB that focuses on matters relating to Equality and Diversity. Amongst many other projects, the Committee has established a working party to explore how to diversify the College’s visual environment as we begin to approach the anniversary of forty years of having women undergraduates at Christ Church. Until the end of the 2017-18 academic year, I also served as Head of the History of Art Department and continued in my role as an elected member of the University’s Council, with both positions providing their fair share of challenges. Despite these various and varied administrative duties, I managed to continue my art historical research and give a number of public lectures in 2018. The latter included a keynote address in French at the École du Louvre in Paris entitled “Image, object, idée: appropriations photographiques de la sculpture” and a lecture at Rhodes House in Oxford entitled “Visualizing Diversity: Why Images (and Art Historians) Matter.” The talk at Rhodes House included a discussion of my involvement in a project to commission new portraits for Exam Schools, which were first exhibited in the Bodleian’s Weston Library in a show entitled The Full Picture: Oxford in Portraits. (For more information, see: http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/media/global/wwwadminoxacuk/localsites/equalityanddiversity/documents/The_Full_Picture_Exhibition_booklet.pdf) In 2018, I continued to work on two major monographs (one on Renaissance art and the senses for Cambridge University Press, the other on photography and sculpture for Reaktion Books) and several edited volumes. I also had the following publication appear last year: “‘The Life of Objects’: Sculpture as Subject and Object of the Camera’s Lens,” in

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Instant Presence: Representing Art in Photography, ed. H. Buddeus, V. Lahoda and K. Masterova (Prague: Czech Academy of Sciences), pp. 17-57. Professor J Cross My work on musical spectralism continues with preparations for the second in a series of international conferences in Paris in 2019, and the publication of a guest-edited special issue of the journal Twentieth-Century Music. I continue to act as an advisor to the London Sinfonietta, curating and presenting concerts around the UK as part of the ‘Turning Points’ series. Among other things I chose my five favourite Stravinsky recordings for BBC Radio 3, I interviewed composer George Benjamin at the Royal Opera House, I interviewed composer Unsuk Chin on film for the Philharmonia Orchestra, and I spoke about contemporary music at the Institut français ‘Night of Ideas’, where I also chatted to astronaut Tim Peake (in the gents). Publications: ‘Geschichten vom Wiedererzählen’ [‘Tales of retelling’: on

arrangement], in Simon Obert and Heidy Zimmermann (eds), Re-Set: Rückgriffe und Fortschreibungen in der Musik seit 1900 (Mainz: Schott/Paul Sacher Stiftung, 2018), 15–29

‘Du spectre musical à l’espace théâtral: le cas de La Métamorphose (2011) de Michaël Levinas’, in Héloïse Demoz, Giordano Ferrari & Alejandro Reyna (eds), L’Espace ‘sensible’ de la dramaturgie musicale (Paris: Harmattan, 2018), pp. 375–86

‘Introduction: spectral thinking’, Twentieth-Century Music, 15/1 (February 2018), 3–9

‘Musical spectra, l’espace sensible, and contemporary opera’, Twentieth-Century Music, 15/1 (February 2018), 103–24.

Professor J Yee In 2018 my publications reflected my continued interest in the intersection between postcolonial studies and nineteenth-century studies. I co-edited a special issue of French Studies (72:2, April 2018), along with Professor Charles Forsdick (Liverpool), on the theme ‘A Postcolonial Nineteenth-Century’. The issue included a jointly-written introduction (‘Towards a Postcolonial Nineteenth Century: Introduction’, 1-9) and an

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article of my own under the title ‘Colonizing the Canon: Metonymy and Metropolitan Fiction’, 225-236. I also began a new research theme (in fact a return to a much older passion for Baudelaire), publishing two articles: ‘Baudelaire and the Chinese Object’, (L’Esprit créateur, 58:1 (2018), 101-113) and ‘“La Beauté”: Art and Dialogism in the Poetry of Baudelaire’ (Neophilologus 102:1 (2018), 1-14). I was invited to give a keynote paper at the annual conference of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes on ‘The Oriental Despot in the Age of the Romantic Self: Delacroix and Baudelaire’. I was also invited to participate in a roundtable in Paris on ‘Images et Colonies’ discussing the polemical launch of the book Sexe, Race et Colonies (Paris: La Découverte, 2018) by the research group ACHAC (a short extract from my first book was included in the volume), and gave a paper at the Society of Francophone Postcolonial Studies annual conference in London on ‘The Whore, the Text and the Critics: Flaubert’s Kuchiuk Hanem as Postcolonial Fetish’. Professor S Cragg Publications include original neuroscience research articles: Zhang et al., ‘Pauses in cholinergic interneuron activity are driven by excitatory input and delayed rectification, with dopamine modulation’ in Neuron; Brimblecombe et al., ‘Targeted activation of cholinergic interneurons accounts for the modulation of dopamine by striatal nicotinic receptors’, in eNeuro; and Lopes et al., ‘Inhibition of nigrostriatal dopamine release by striatal GABAA and GABAB receptors’ in the Journal of Neuroscience. I also gave a European Journal of Neuroscience Special Feature Lecture at the Federation of European Neurosciences Societies Forum in Berlin, and my work was presented in platform presentations at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA and at the Gordon Research Conference on Basal Ganglia, in Ventura, California. I was awarded research funding from Parkinson’s UK, the MRC, and the BBSRC. Together with Dr Kohl I organized a stimulating study retreat for Christ Church medical students and neuroscience research students in Tuscany.

Professor S Dadson This year saw the start of a new research programme funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, Hydro-JULES, which I lead in

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partnership with the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, the British Geological Survey and the National Centre for Atmospheric Science. The programme will develop an open-source model of the terrestrial water cycle connected directly to the Met Office’s suite of weather forecasting models, to improve our national capability to predict floods and water resources. Alongside this project, I took a coordinating role for Oxford’s contribution to the Community Water Management for a Liveable London consortium (CAMELLIA), which will co-develop a systems approach to urban water management to enable required housing growth in London whilst sustainably managing water and the environment in the city. In international work, a study into technical and social practices to improve the efficiency of irrigation in India, led by graduate student Ranu Sinha, prompted a high-level visit from the Government of Madhya Pradesh. Hosted jointly by Somerville College’s India Centre, the overseas delegation was accompanied by representatives from the High Commission of India at a well-attended evening lecture and reception. The same work formed part of a conference paper to the American Geophysical Union in Washington D.C., in December, at which I was very pleased to see about a dozen of our alumni. Other publications this year include: Gilmont, M., Hall, J.W., Grey, D., Dadson, S.J., Abele, S. and Simpson,

M. (2018) Analysis of the relationship between rainfall and economic growth in Indian states. Global Environmental Change.

Guillod, B.P., Jones, R.G., Dadson, S.J., Coxon, G., Bussi, G., Freer, J., Kay, A.L., Massey, N.R., Sparrow, S.N., Wallom, D.C.H., Allen, M.R., and Hall, J.W. (2018) A large set of potential past, present and future hydro-meteorological time series for the UK. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 22: 611-634.

Hirpa, F., Salamon, P. Beck, H.E., Lorini, V., Alfieri, L., Zsoter, E. and Dadson, S.J. (2018) Calibration of the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) using daily streamflow data. Journal of Hydrology.

Hirpa, F.A., Dyer, E., Hope, R., Olago, D.O. and Dadson, S.J. (2018) Finding sustainable water futures in data-sparse regions under climate change: Insights from the Turkwel River basin, Kenya. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 19: 124-135.

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Lewis, H.W., Castillo Sanchez, J.M., Graham, J., Saulter, A., Bornemann, J., Arnold, A., Fallmann, J., Harris, C., Pearson, D., Ramsdale, S., Martínez-de la Torre, A., Bricheno, L., Blyth, E., Bell, V.A., Davies, H., Marthews, T.R., O'Neill, C., Rumbold, H., O'Dea, E., Brereton, A., Guihou, K., Hines, A., Butenschon, M., Dadson, S.J., Palmer, T., Holt, J., Reynard, N., Best, M., Edwards, J. and Siddorn, J. (2018) The UKC2 regional coupled environmental prediction system. Geoscientific Model Development, 11: 1-42.

Lim, W.H., Yamazaki, D., Koirala, S., Hirabayashi, Y., Kanae, S., Dadson, S.J., Hall, J.W. and Sun, F. (2018) Long-term changes in global socioeconomic benefits of flood defenses and residual risk based on CMIP5 climate models. Earth's Future: 1-17.

Paltan., H., Allen, M., Haustein, K., Fuldauer, L. and Dadson, S. (2018) Global implications of 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer worlds on extreme river flows. Environmental Research Letters.

Sinha, R., Gilmont, M., Hope, R. and Dadson, S. (2018) Understanding the effectiveness of investments in irrigation system modernization: evidence from Madhya Pradesh, India. International Journal of Water Resources Development.

Taylor, C.M., Prigent, C. and Dadson, S. (2018) Mesoscale Rainfall Patterns Observed around Wetlands in Sub-Saharan Africa. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.

Professor J Joosten Jan Joosten, the Regius Professor of Hebrew, led, together with Prof. Teresa Morgan, a successful Oxford Seminar of Advanced Jewish Studies in Hilary and Trinity terms of 2018. The topic was: “Greek Expanded, Greek Transformed. The Vocabulary of the Septuagint and the Cultural World of the Translators.” Twelve scholars from all over the world were in residence for periods of up to three months. They met in weekly sessions with teaching staff and students from the faculties of Classics, Theology and Oriental Studies. The seminar culminated in a three-day conference from 18 to 20 June. From 2 to 6 July, he directed a workshop of the Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint with financing from the new Christ Church Research Centre. His application for an advanced grant of the AHRC was successful and a three-year project called Critical Editions of the Hebrew Bible kicked off in December. His book, co-authored with Ronald Hendel of UC Berkeley, How Old is the Hebrew Bible? A Linguistic, textual, and Historical Study,

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Yale University Press, came out in November. He lectured in Moscow, Yale and Strasbourg and participated in conferences in Jerusalem, Geneva, Aix-en-Provence, Wuppertal, Moscow, Denver and Paris Professor G Hutchinson Publications Plutarch’s Rhythmic Prose (Oxford, 2018). ‘Motion in Grattius’, in S. J. Green (ed.), Grattius: Hunting an Augustan

Poet (Oxford, 2018), 135-51. ‘What is a setting?’ in F. Budelmann and T. Phillips, Textual Events:

Performance and the Lyric in Early Greece (Oxford, 2018), 115-32. ‘“Modernism”, “postmodernism”, and the death of the stanza’, Aitia.

Regards sur la culture hellénistique au XXIe siècle, 8.1. ‘On not being beautiful’, in S. Matzner, S. J. Harrison (edd.), Complex I

nferiorities: Poetics of the Weaker Voice in Latin Literature (Oxford, 2018), 185-204.

Professor A Kuo Publications in print in 2018:

“The Spread of Anti-Union Business Coordination: Evidence from the Open-Shop Movement in the U.S. Interwar Period” Studies in American Political Development, 2018 32(1): 103-126.

“The Structure of Business Preferences and Eurozone Crisis Policies” (with José Fernández-Albertos) Business and Politics, 2018 20(2): 165-207.

Accepted for publication: “Selling Austerity” (with José Fernández-Albertos), Comparative Politics Conferences attended, 2018 Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2018 Meetings of the European Political Science Association, 2018 Invited presenter at the University of York, 2018 Invited discussant, conference on “Merit, Luck, Accountability,” Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 2018

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Professor A Vasudevan A monograph on the history of squatting in Europe and North America was published in April 2017 (The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting). Over the course of the past academic year, I continued to do press work and public events related to the book. I am working on two new book projects. I have begun work on a manuscript that explores the “radical history of Berlin”. The book begins with the March Revolution of 1848 and moves forward in time to the present taking in developments in both the former West and East. The book will be the first attempt in English to examine the radical history of Berlin as well as the constitutive role of the city in the making of radical urban politics. I am also developing a project on the history of the anti-psychiatry movement in West Germany during the 1960s and 1970s. The project offers a detailed reconstruction of the anti-psychiatry movement in West Germany during the 1960s and 1970s. In the eyes of its supporters, ‘sickness’ was a political issue that had, in turn, become a vital source of radical (and increasingly) militant political action. At stake here, were ideas of care and well-being that went far beyond the space of the asylum or the clinic to include the city as a source of healing and solidarity. Over the course of the year, I’ve also completed and published a number of new papers and book chapters. In March 2019, I will be a visiting Professor at the University of Florence. I remain editor of Society & Space, one of the major journals in Human Geography and beyond. Professor P Sedlacek Published research: Creative destruction and uncertainty, Journal of the European Economic

Association, forthcoming Lost generations of firms and the aggregate labor market, Journal of

Monetary Economics, forthcoming Unemployment and the labor share, with Sephorah Mangin, Journal

of Monetary Economics, April 2018 In October 2018 Petr was awarded the Starting Grant of the European Research Council. The grant amounts to 1,200,000EUR and runs over 5 years and in December 2018 Petr joined the European Commission’s research group as an external expert. The research group aims to develop a framework in which to evaluate the impact of the EU’s R&D policies.

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Dr J Allison I joined Christ Church in May 2018 from the University of Sydney, since which I have published seven articles in peer-reviewed science journals (including Nature and Nature Astronomy). I continue to lead the First Large Absorption Survey in HI, a large astronomical program that uses the Australian SKA Pathfinder radio telescope to carry out a census of the gas that forms start and grows supermassive black holes in the distant Universe. In recently published work I discovered a reservoir of molecular and atomic gas that has been feeding a supermassive black hole for two thousand years. It is likely that this gas had been stolen from a neighbouring galaxy through tidal interaction. I work on an Oxford-led project to discover and study similar objects using the new South African MeerKAT radio telescope. Over the 2018 summer vacation I presented these results at the International Astronomical Union General Assembly in Vienna and workshop in Groningen, Netherlands. In December I was invited to give an astrophysics colloquium on my work at the University of Cardiff. Dr C C L Andreyev

Retirement is enjoyable and has allowed me to attend conferences in October which previously clashed with the beginning of a new academic year and the demands of running a Special Subject on the Russian Revolution for History finalists. In October 2016, I spoke at a conference is St. Petersburg, and my research was published: Andreyev, C. “Pis’ma P.N.Savitskogo N.E.Andreevu, 1957-1968”

In ed. Bazanov, P., and Slepukhina, N., Zarubezhnaya Rossiya. XX vek: Slepukhinskie chteniya- 2016. St.Petersburg, 2018, p 322-340.

In October 2017, I spoke at a conference on the Russian Revolution at the University of Tromso, Norway and this is due to be published later this year. Andreyev, C. “The Evolution of Émigré views on the Russian

Revolution.” In ed. Kari Aga Myklebost, Jans Petter Nielsen and Andrei Rogachevski, The Russian Revolutions of 1917: The Northern Impact and Beyond, Academic Studies Press, Boston, 2019.

In October 2018, I gave a paper at a conference in Tallinn, Estonia and, as a result of discussions at the conference, a 3rd (corrected) edition of:

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Ed. Andreyev, C., To chto vspominaetsya. Iz semeinykh vospominanii N.E.Andreeva is due to be published by in St.Petersburg later this year by the publisher Dmitrij Bulanin. A Czech edition of these memoirs is also in preparation by the Akademia publishers in Prague.

These conferences have been an interesting and valuable way of keeping in touch with Russian colleagues, who are adversely affected by sanctions, the fall in the value of the ruble and British border controls, and are unintended victims of poor diplomatic relations between our two countries. I have also been working with other colleagues and publishing the following; With M.Yu Sorokina: “Net utesheniya v razluke…” Perepiska N.P.i

N.V.Tollei i N.E.Andreeva ([1948]-1980) Ezhegodnik Doma russkogo zarubezhiya imeni Aleksandra Solzhenitsyna, 2018, Moscow, 2019, p. 203-232

With P.A.Tribunskii “ Perepiska G.A.Homyakova i N.E.Andreeva” in ed. Tribunskii Dipiitsy due to be published in Moscow in the autumn of 2019.

I am always pleased to hear from members of the House who I have known and taught and my college email still operates. Dr M Grossel During the Easter vacation I contributed a talk entitled “Christ Church and the Silvertown Explosion – Civilian Heroism in World War 1” to the college’s Special Interest Event “Their War and Ours”. I also continue to Chair the Chemistry Affinity Group and represent Christ Church as a Governor of Portsmouth Grammar School. The Very Revd Christopher Lewis Co-editing a book with the title 'Interfaith Worship and Prayer' and the sub-title 'We must pray together' - published in July 2019 by Kingsley/Hachette. It has a foreword by the Dalai Lama. Professor M McLaughlin Martin McLaaughlin published a co-edited volume: Machiavelli’s Prince. Traditions, Text and Translations (Rome: Viella, 2017). Also in 2017 he was Winner of the British Academy’s Serena Medal for “outstanding

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contribution to Italian studies in the UK”. In 2019 he will be the Francesco de Dombrowski Visiting Professor, Harvard - Villa I Tatti, Florence Dr R Truman My activities as Associate Editor of Humanistica Lovaniensia continued in this past year. I gave a paper at the XVIIth International Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies which took place at Albacete (Spain) from 29 July to 3 August. Work on aspects of the intellectual culture of Early Modern Spain and the Spanish Netherlands made progress. Canon Professor Keith Ward I continued as a Fellow of the British Academy and as Professor of Religion at the University of Roehampton. I was a visiting Professor at Stanford University. I gave two invited papers at the American Academy of Religion, Denver, in November. I published a book, 'The Mystery of Christ' (SPCK) and a Biographical Memoir for Stewart Sutherland, Lord Sutherland of Houndwood, for the British Academy. Professor Hugh Williamson A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Isaiah 1-27, 2: Isaiah 6-12 (lxi +

740 pp. International Critical Commentary; London: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2018)

Edited with Robert G. Hoyland, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Holy Land (vii + 402 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).

Dr Joshua Bennett Publications ‘A history of “rationalism” in Victorian Britain’, Modern Intellectual

History (2018) ‘Historicism and the human sciences in Victorian Britain, ed. Mark

Bevir’, English Historical Review (2018) [book review] Conference papers ‘Baron Bunsen as historian: history, theology, and philosophy in

nineteenth-century Britain and Germany’, given to a symposium which I co-organised at Christ Church on ‘Past and present: narratives of progress and decline in nineteenth-century Britain’.

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‘Doctrinal history and religious diversity: August Neander in Germany and Britain’, given to a workshop on ‘Religious diversity and the secular university’, held at the University of Cambridge.

‘Henry Hart Milman and the liberal Anglican discovery of medieval church reform’, given to a workshop entitled ‘Rethinking reform 900-1150: modern Europe meets reform’, held at the University of Leeds.

Dr Keith Brain Dr Brain continued his collaboration with colleagues in IIT Mumbai and Portsmouth, publishing article in PLOSOne including “A biophysically constrained computational model of the action potential of mouse urinary bladder smooth muscle” (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0200712) and “A four-component model of the action potential in mouse detrusor smooth muscle cell” (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0190016). He was appointed as the external examiner for 2nd year medicine at the University of Newcastle (4 year term), and became ‘Head of Intercalation, College of Medical and Dental Sciences’, at the University of Birmingham. Intercalation programs elsewhere in country allow medical students a one-year research experience, analogous to the Oxford FHS. Dr Peter Hill During 2018 I completed the manuscript of my book Utopia and Civilisation in the Arab Nahda, which will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. I was also supported by a British Academy Small Grant to conduct archival research in Europe, the USA and the Middle East for my second book project, Reason and Religion in Ottoman Syria. I presented talks on these two projects at venues including the University of Chicago, SOAS (University of London), and the Middle East Studies Association of North America's annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Dr Ros Holmes I recently co-curated an exhibition at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) in Manchester. The exhibition, entitled ‘Chinternet Ugly’ invites viewers to explore the complex and contradictory nature of China’s hyper-regulated digital sphere from the perspective of some of its most dynamic and engaging young artists.

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The exhibition opened on the 8th February and is on view till May 12th. More information can be found here http://cfcca.org.uk/exhibition/chinternet-ugly/ Dr Tae-Yeoun Keum I was the recipient of the American Political Science Association’s 2018 Leo Strauss Award for the best dissertation in the field of political philosophy. The dissertation in question forms the basis of my first book, “Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought,” which is forthcoming with Harvard University Press. Over the course of the year, I gave talks on my research at York, the Institute of Historical Research, Georgetown, the University of California Santa Barbara, and Oxford; I was also interviewed by the Los Angeles Review of Books. Dr S J Schroeder Has been awarded a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. Publications: ‘On some Standard Objections to Mathematical Conventionalism’,

Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 30; 83-98. ‘Konventionalismus und Empirismus in Wittgensteins Philosophie der

Mathematik’, in J. Bromand & B. Reichardt (eds), Wittgenstein und die Philosophie der Mathematik, Paderborn: Mentis, 2018; 101-18.

‘Wittgenstein and His Legacy’, in: Amy Kind (ed.), Philosophy of Mind in the 20th and 21st Century, London: Routledge, 2018; 233-55.

Dr M Sullivan Articles & Conference Papers Michael J. Sullivan, ‘Dickinson’s Voice’, Essays in Criticism, 69/1 (2019),

103-109 Michael J. Sullivan et al., ‘The Victorian Period (1830-1900)’, The Year’s

Work in English Studies, 97/1 (2018), 693-888, co-authored Michael J. Sullivan, ‘Tennyson’s Swan Songs: Silence and Revision

in The Lady of Shalott’, Literary Birds Conference, University of Durham (2018)

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Editing the Long Nineteenth Century In Hilary and Trinity Terms 2018 I co-convened a new seminar series, hosted by Christ Church and the Faculty of English Language and Literature. The series welcomed speakers from across the UK to advance the often-unwritten principles and practices of textual criticism. Topics included specific authors and literary circles, textual skills for close reading, and considerations for different types of edition. A number of these talks have subsequently appeared in Essays in Criticism. Tennyson Society Annual Conference In June 2018, I was elected to the Executive Committee of the Tennyson Society, and in March 2019 I shall be convening the Tennyson Society Annual Conference at Christ Church. Dr R Thompson In the last year, I have published seven new articles about mathematical modelling of infectious diseases with colleagues both in Oxford and worldwide. One of these – in which we demonstrate that high rates of global travel might in fact reduce the chance of a large pandemic – received significant press attention, initially by being reported in New Scientist. I am also currently a guest editor for the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, and a special issue on modelling infectious disease epidemics in populations of humans, animals and plants is forthcoming. Dr Gabrielle Watson In 2018, I continued my Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in the Faculty of Law and Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Law at Christ Church. I was also elected to the inaugural Visiting Fellowship in Law at the newly-instituted Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice in association with the Faculty of Law and Trinity College, Cambridge. My first book, Respect and Criminal Justice, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2019, and my review article on Didier Fassin’s The Will to Punish is forthcoming in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. I am currently working on a second book, which seeks to examine the emergence of a new ‘ethical’ vocabulary in criminal justice scholarship and practice in recent decades, with special reference to ‘keywords’ including ‘fairness’, ‘decency’, ‘dignity’, ‘humanity’ and ‘respect.’

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I continue to be involved in an interdisciplinary project on Key Legal Concepts with colleagues in Oxford and Berlin, which will lead to an edited volume in due course. At Christ Church, I was delighted to participate in the College’s Access and Outreach programme, engaging directly with pupils aspiring to read for the BA in Jurisprudence at Oxford.

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NEWS OF OLD MEMBERS 1947 Oliver Stanley Due to my advanced age and immobility I will no longer be able to accept invitations to attend The Gaudy, but I send memories of friendship to any contemporaries still alive!! 1960 Professor Robin Attfield In December 2018 Oxford University Press published my book ‘Environmental Ethics: A very short introduction’, my first book to include illustrations. 1962 Rod Dowler After a pause of half a century, I’m seeing more of the House and appreciating some wonderful changes. Since 2011, via the Development Office, I have been working with one or two undergraduates each summer to give them policy research work experience. For the last two years, the undergraduates have been brilliant young women – a welcome change from the all-male 1960s. The other great change is that, with the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, joining as a professor, Christ Church is now leading the development of Oxford computer science. I was delighted that Sir Tim and colleagues could come to talk about their exciting plans to a business audience at the Industry Forum, where I now work. I’m looking forward to catching up with old friends at the (slightly unexpected) Gaudy this year. Richard Johnstone Rather to my surprise, I am still working - as a freelance Oil & Gas Consultant. I live with my wife Elspeth (we met while we were both students in Oxford) in Great Tew, Oxfordshire. I’ve continued my passion for music: I sing in 2 very good chamber choirs based in Oxfordshire, and I conduct a local choir from time to time. I will continue to attend Gaudies as long as I’m physically able to!

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1964 Clifton Hughes Clifton Hughes has retired from his career in computing R&D and consultancy, and is now thoroughly occupied as a musician. Martin Renshaw Martin Renshaw remains active in organ building, singing, lecturing, researching and writing in England and France, and was asked to provide a temporary organ for the Cathedral for use during building work. He drew in his old room-mate Clifton Hughes to assist in the installation at the start of January 2019. They are looking forward to hearing the organ in a service when they attend their next Gaudy in the following June. His books on medieval church music and organs are available from At the Sign of the Pipe, via the Internet, on soundsmedieval.org, and his lecture to the Society of Antiquaries: ‘Unsung Lives of Medieval Churches’, can be found on Youtube. Nigel Robbins I continue as Mayor of Cirencester until May 2019. After 20 plus years we have restructured the town culture, earning a national Civic Award in 2018. I remain a councillor for district and county. 2 more grandchildren, making 5 in all. 50th wedding anniversary with Stephanie this year. Great to connect again with Housemen, Tony Pency and Derek Taylor, both now authors. 1966 Brian Grumbridge Brian has recently published a detailed history of the Guild Church of Saint Katharine Cree, Leadenhall Street, City of London. An original church was built in the late 13th century with the current building dating from 1630/31. Brian has been elected as Parish Clark of All Hallows Staining (part of the parish of St Olave Hart Street in the City of London) and has also been admitted to The Worshipful Company of Parish Clarks. Martin Mansergh In March 2018, I was elected to membership of the Royal Irish Academy.

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Simon Rothon Appointed international trade adviser at the Department for International Trade. 1967 George Paddy Benson I retired from my post as Archdeacon of Hereford at the end of August 2018. 1969 Terence (Terry) O’Leary Appointed Chair, Board of Trustees St Catherine’s Hospice, West Sussex (in October 2016) 1977 Thomas Hamilton-Jones I retired from teaching Economics and History in 2018 and left London to live in Monmouth. 1978 Piers Killeen Festival de Sainte-Mère was created by Piers Killeen to promote live chamber music and to help establish the careers of talented young musicians. Piers is the director of the festival which takes place annually at the medieval fortress of Château de Sainte-Mère in Gascony. The festival provides first class chamber music concerts and also supports the careers of the young musicians who participate. The results of this collaboration have been twelve years of outstanding music performed at the château together with great benefits for over 50 young musicians in their musical development. www.saintemerefestival.com 1986 Julia Waters Promoted to Professor of Contemporary Literature in French in 2018. My latest book, The Mauritian Novel: Fictions of Belonging, published with Liverpool University Press, December 2018. Also available in free, Open Access format with Modern Languages Open:

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https://www.modernlanguagesopen.org/collections/special/the-mauritian-novel-fictions-of-belonging/ 1987 David Forster From September 2018 I have been Headmaster of St Augustine’s Catholic College in Trowbridge. Kieron Winn For the academic year 2018-19 I am Artist in residence at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Also during 2018 I was for first poet for ages to read their own poems in Dove Cottage, the Wordsworths’ most famous home in Grasmere. There is also a video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xczej_6BrbU. 1995 Charles (Charlie) Marshall Appointed Managing Director of the European Club Association, the sole, independent body directly representing football clubs at European level. George Van Kooten In 2108 was elected to the Lady Margaret’s Professorship of Divinity at Cambridge, the oldest professorship at the University of Cambridge, and one of the “twin” professorships that Lady Margaret Beaufort endowed at Oxford and Cambridge. He will be continuing his research into the Graeco-Roman contextualization of the New Testament. Mark Worthington After completing a management buyout of Bell Pottinger’s former Asia operations, Mark is now Co-founder and Managing Director of Klareco Communications. Klareco is a strategic communications and public relations agency, headquartered in Singapore, with offices across Asia.

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2000 Stefan Bojanowski-Bubb Stefan and Amy are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Isabella Diana Juan Bojanowski-Bubb on 7th October 2018, weighing 7lb 8oz. Mother and baby are very well. 2001 Dominique Moran Appointed Professor of Carceral Geography at the University of Birmingham. 2004 David Tollerton Recently promoted to ‘Senior lecturer in Jewish Studies and Contemporary Religion’ at the University of Exeter. 2005 Nick Haines My wife Eric (née Lane, LMH 2005) and I, together with our son Charlie, are thrilled to announce the arrival of Toby Patrick Gordon on 28th August, at the JR hospital, Oxford. 2011 Rebecca Becky Stanworth On 21st July 2018 I married Alex Stanworth (Matriculated St Catherine’s in 2010), having been together for 10 years. Thrilled to welcome other ChCh alumni to what was a perfect day. 2015 Eugene Birman Composer and Christ Church Old Member Eugene Alexander Birman, who received his D.Phil in Music from the University of Oxford in 2015, has been named a recipient of one of the world’s most prestigious academic prizes, the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, for 2018.

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DECEASED MEMBERS

Edward Dennis ARMSTRONG, [1941]. 24 September 2018 aged 95. Lewis David ASHER, [1953]. 26 June 2018 aged 83. Anthony ASKEW [1957]. 26 December 2017 aged 80. Robert John Charles BATY, [1947]. 16 June 2018 aged 90. The Right Revd. Bishop John Monier BICKERSTETH, KCVO,

[1946]. 29 January 2018 aged 96. Alistair James BONAR, [1958]. In 2018 aged 81. Silvia BREU, Former Post-Doctoral Fellow. 2 August 2018 Christopher John BREWIN, [1963]. 30 July 2018 aged 73. Edmund BRIDGES, [2015]. Lay Clerk of Christ Church. 2018 Sir Rupert Charles BROMLEY, Bt, [1956]. 23 May 2018 aged 82. Stephen Nigel BURBRIDGE, CB, [1955]. 27 January 2018 aged 83. Brian Victor CAVE, [1951]. July 2018 aged 85 Richard Alan CHANTER, CEng ACMA, [1957]. 25 March 2018 aged

79. Professor Andrew John Theodore COLIN, [1954]. 25 September 2018

aged 82. Professor Steven COLLINS, [1970]. 15th February 2018. Dr Albert CONNOLLY, [1953]. 23 May 2018 aged 83. Mr Nicholas Henry Adam CURTIS [1969]. 1 December 2017. William Wolfgang DIENEMAN, [1947]. In 2018 aged 89. Malcolm DINNING [1949]. 2 December 2018 aged 89. Richard Gordon DOUGAL, [1955]. November 2018 aged 85. Graham DUGDALE (1970). 7 May 2018. Constantine Herbert FERNANDO, [1953]. 18 September 2018 aged 89 Robin Michael Heming GILKES, [1965]. 14th January 2018 aged 70. Robin Michael GILKES, [1957]. October 2018 aged 81. John GLENVILLE-DOWLING, [1970]. 5th January 2018. Sir Erskine William GLADSTONE, BT KG JP, [1946]. 29 March 2018

aged 92. Mark Roland Piers GLADWIN, [1964]. In 2018. Graham Andrew GORDON, [1945]. Donald Andrew HALL, [1951]. 23 June 2018 aged 90. Dr Peter Martin Panton HALL [1964]. In 2018 aged 72. Jasper Picton HUBBARD, [1946]. In 2018 aged 95. Roger Anthony HUTTON, [1960]. 15 May 2018 aged 76.

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Thomas Edwin JAGO, [1943]. 12 October 2018 aged 93. Orlando Michael Philip KENYON-SLANEY, [1949]. 21 June 2018

aged 89. Lord John Andrew Christopher KERR, [1948]. 3 May 2018 aged 90. Professor Michael Campbell KIRKHAM, [1952]. 29 July 2018 aged 83 Pritham Anand MADHAVAN, [1996]. In 2018 aged 47. William David MARK-BELL, [1969]. 23 July 2018 aged 68. Professor Philip Murray Jourdain McNAIR, [1941]. 6 November 2018

aged 94. Nicholas Anthony MILLER, FCA, [1964]. In 2018 aged 73. Mark Oswald Julian NICKERSON, [1954]. Died in 2018. Michael Harry POULTON, [1953]. 8 August 2018 aged 83 David Lawrence PREBBLE, [1952]. 24 June 2018 aged 85. Roderick PRYOR, [1955]. In 2018 aged 86. Martin Gwillym RAWSTORNE, [1958]. 12 May 2018 aged 78. Stewart Duncan REID, [1943]. In 2018 aged 93. Christopher Edward ROZEK, [1976]. 16 July 2018 aged 63 Jeremy James RUSSELL, [1954]. 15 February 2018 aged 82. Desmond Robin Briscoe SAWERS, [1953]. 4 March 2018 aged 83. Frank Henry Foster SCHOFIELD, [1954]. 28 September 2018 aged 83. The Venerable Archdeacon Roger Ernest Dion SHARPLEY, [1949]. 17

February 2018 aged 89. Professor Robert (Bob) Lindsay SHUETTINGER, [1987]. 3 September

2018 aged 81. Murray Alexander SINCLAIR, [1979]. 27 September 2018 aged 57. Michael Stephen SOMMER, [1960]. 7 August 2018 aged 76 TUDOR, Geoffrey David Claud, [1945]. 2 October 2018 aged 94. WAKELIN, John Derek, [1949]. 13 October 2018 aged 89. Dr. William Francis WARREN, [1950]. 19 June 2018. Professor Sir David John WEATHERALL, [1992]. Former Regius

Professor of Medicine. 8 December 2018 aged 85. Professor Richard (Dick) WILSON, [1943]. 19 May 2018 aged 92 Charles Boniface WINNIFRITH, [1954]. 7 June 2018 aged 82. Geoffrey A WOODWARD [1944]. 7 December 2018 aged 92. David Alan YOUENS, [1952]. 30 November 2018 aged 84

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FINAL HONOUR SCHOOLS

Biochemistry 2:1 Injae Chung 1 Stanislau Yatskevich Biological Sciences 1 Matthew Faull 2.1 William Howes 2.1 Thomas Silk 1 Taylor-Mae Smith

Chemistry 1 Niles Beadman 1 Ho Ting Henry Chan 1 Anna Howes 2.1 Jack McLaren 1 Theo Ropel 1 Jennifer Soderman Classical Archaeology & ancient History 2.1 Henry Ludlam-Steinke Economics and Management 2.1 Owen Good 2.1 Chi Kun Lei 1 Peter Wimmer Engineering Science

2.1 Jemima Shaw 2.1 Siriya Witchawut English & Modern Languages 1 Kirsten McLean

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English Language and Literature 2.1 Jaycie Carter 2.1 Eleanor Harmsworth 1 Dominic Leonard 2.1 Alexander Murdoch 2.1 Ben Sims Fine Art 1 Jose Mario Dellow 1 Harrie Morrison Geography 2.1 Khang Chua 2.1 Henry Jones 2.1 George Lewin Smith 2.1 Phillippe Marchant 1 Jennifer Sheppard 2.1 Henry Smith 2.1 Stephanie Williams History 2.1 Laura Betteridge 1 Harry Gilfillan 1 Georgiana Green 2.1 Ambrosia Hicks 1 Joshua Hillis 2.1 James Horton 1 Louis McEvoy 1 Katherine Sayer 2.1 Vivien Zhu History - Ancient & Modern 1 Jacob Chatterjee History & Economics 2.1 Kirsten Campbell Guion

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History & Politics 1 Juliette Aliker 2.1 Tony Diver History of Art 1 Olivia Reynolds 2.1 Ji Eun Yoon Human Sciences 1 Iona Tarbet Languages - Modern Languages 2.1 Patrick Chambers 2.1 Owen Elloway Smith 2.1 Kira Gurmail-Kaufmann 2.1 John Schofield 2.1 Miranda Zeffman Law 2.1 Buster Davidson 2.1 Benjamin Hasson 1 Gilbert Lim 2.1 James Wilkins Law with Law Studies in Europe 2.1 James Healey Literae Humaniores 1 Sebastian Hyams 2.1 Rosaline Parr Mathematics 1 Shenggang Hu 1 Ron Lam 2.2 Qays Langan-Dathi 1 Henry Rodriguez-Broadent

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Mathematics & Statistics 1 Tianyi Song Mathematics & Theoretical Physics Dist Joseph Smith Medical Sciences 2.2 Eric Edmond 2.1 Lois Graham 2.1 Robert Hyder-Wilson 2.1 Kizzy Jugon 2.1 Nader Raafat 2.1 Rory Smith Music 1 Patrick Bolton 1 Benjamin Clapin 1 Victoria Gill 2.1 Elias Tomarkin 2.1 William Wallace Oriental Studies 2.1 Marco Hernandez Poyatos Philosophy, Politics and Economics 2.1 William Cahill 2.2 Colin Hill 2.2 Mirza Hussain 2.1 Krzysztof Kruk 1 Ellie MacDonald 1 Roisin Nichols 2.2 Zain Sheikh 2.1 Felix Westeren

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Physics – MPhys 1 Timothy Davies 2.1 Han Lee 1 Joseph Ortiz 2.1 James Tricker Psychology - Experimental 1 Daisy Gibson Psychology & Philosophy 2.1 Jonathan Inigo Lapwood Psychology, Philosophy & Linguistics 2.1 Niall Biser 2.1 Charlotte Graham 2.1 Alan Shen Theology 2.1 Jacob Glover

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GRADUATE DEGREES The following Christ Church graduates successfully completed their courses and passed examinations in 2018: D.PHIL Dhruti Babriya Clinical Medicine Leah Broad Music Alasdair Campbell Music Alvin Chen History Peter Collins Theology Jack Dunger Particle Physics Mathilde Guillaumin Clinical Medicine Owain Johnstone Law Gayathri Karthik Clinical Medicine Jack Kelly Mathematics Hannah Kinney History of Art FengTing Liao Physics Benjamine Liu Clinical Medicine Sonja Noll Oriental Studies Stephanie Oade Classical Languages & Literature Sewook Oh Mathematics Kurien Parel Engineering Alexander Pollak Astrophysics Laura Prichard Astrophysics Tamsin Samuels Clinical Medicine Erfan Soliman Engineering Katherina Wagner Clinical Medicine Tomas Wallenius International Relations Rebecca Wallings Clinical Medicine BCL David Baker Civil Law Distinction Sylvie MacDonald Civil Law Distinction Milosz Palej Civil Law Distinction Katy Sheridan Civil Law Distinction

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MFA Annahita Brooks Fine Art M.Jur Simon Bela Becker Law M.PHIL Harmon Barlow IV Theology Distinction Yi He Politics: Pol Theory Claas Mertens Politics: EU Pol & Soc M.Sc Regine Ang Taxation Distinction Esteban Boj Garcia Water Science, Policy & Management

Mohamed Amine Bouchemama Maths & Computational Finance Distinction Moritz Diekgraef Law & Finance Distinction Vladislav Dunaevschi Maths & Computational Finance Distinction

Alexander Duthie Theoretical & Computational Chemistry Distinction

Raphael Heffron Taxation Leila Islam Statistical Science Christian Kappen Mathematical Finance Distinction

Aria Laidlow Environmental Change & Mgmt

Daneree Lambeth Taxation Distinction Christopher Ocampo Law & Finance Geshan Rugjee Maths & Computational Finance Distinction

Frank Vitale IV History of Sci, Med & Tech Distinction Rikard Wahlström Law & Finance Gregor Wergen Mathematical Finance M.St Bridget Brasher Ancient Philosophy Distinction Zachary Fine English & American Studies Distinction

Pietro Pantalani History of Art & Visual Culture

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Madison Porter British & European History Anna Shepherd English (1550-1700) Distinction

Zizhou Zhang Music (Performance)

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Notice of Awards and University Prizes awarded to Junior Members 2017 - 2018

Tarbutt Prize in practical Organic Chemistry:-

Charles Guthrie

Brian Bannister Prize in Organic Chemistry:-

Henry Chan

Glaxosmithkline Award in Organic Chemistry Part ll:-

Henry Chan - First Prize

Scientific Exploration Society Rivers Foundation Award:-

Olivia Grant

History of Art Good Citizen Prize

Sarah Yoon

Kirk-Greene Prize for the best thesis on African History

Juliette Aliker

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GAUDIES One of the most tangible representations of the lifelong link between the House and its members is the tradition of Gaudy hospitality. Gaudy dates are necessarily linked to Term weeks and are normally held on Fridays in late June and late September/early October. The Governing Body customarily confirms the arrangements, including the date, about four months in advance of the event and invitations are posted around two months ahead. It is, of course, important that you keep the House informed of any change of address. Any Old member who is considering advance travel plans is urged to check with the Alumni Relations Officer before making firm commitments. The College hopes to welcome as many Old Members as possible and therefore, as you may know, this is not an occasion to which it is possible to invite spouses, partners or other family members. It is hoped to adhere to the following schedule, which is based on year of first matriculating as a member of the House: 1960-1965 28 June 2019 1966-1970 4 October 2019 With your invitation you will be sent a letter confirming the details for the occasion, including parking arrangements and a booking form. On the booking form you will be asked to advise us of any special dietary or accessibility needs, whether you would like overnight accommodation. There will also be space to note any seating or room requests. You will receive an email to confirm your booking, requirements and requests no later than two weeks after the Development Office receives the returned booking form. The Gaudy programme is normally as follows: Friday 3.30pm Tea available in the Sir Michael Dummett

Exhibition Space 4.00pm Lecture by Dr Joshua Bennett ‘Religion and the

Victorian Idea of Progress’ 6.00 pm Evensong in the Cathedral

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7.00 pm Pre-dinner Drinks 8.00 pm Dinner in Hall Saturday 8.00 am to 9.30 am Gaudy Breakfast in Hall 9.00 am to midday Refreshments available 10.00 am Walking tours There will be a display of archival material, related to your year of matriculation, in the Upper Library. Dress code: Gowns are worn. Dinner Jacket – Decorations. Charges: the only charges are for a room overnight and gown hire, if required. For further information, please contact the Alumni Relations Officer Ms Ingrid Heggli: ingrid.heggli@chch.ox.ac.uk.

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OTHER OPPORTUNITIES TO STAY AT CHRIST CHURCH

Christ Church has a small number of guest rooms available in term and vacation, which Old Members are welcome to book, subject always to availability. Please contact the Conference & Events Assistant, Mrs Emma Timms, on 01865 286848 or e-mail emma.timms@chch.ox.ac.uk or conferenceoffice@chch.ox.ac.uk

The college’s Liddell Building at 60 Iffley Road offers very comfortable three and four-bedroom flats with self-catering facilities, and these are often available during July, August and September. If you would like to enquire about making a booking please contact the Conference and Events Assistant, Mrs Emma Timms, on 01865 286848 or email emma.timms@chch.ox.ac.uk. Owing to their convenient location and the comfortable appointments of these flats, they are in great demand: early booking is recommended.

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CONFERENCES AT CHRIST CHURCH Day Meetings The McKenna Room, an attractive and well-equipped private room, is available for day meetings throughout term time. Our College Catering Team can provide refreshments during the meeting and lunch can be taken in Hall. Maximum capacity – 60 Theatre Style. Dinners The McKenna Room is also available for private dinners. Wide selections of menus are offered and wines are available from the College cellars. Maximum dining capacity – 47. Banquets The Great Hall can be hired during vacation for banquet dinners. A unique opportunity to experience one of Oxford’s premier college venues. Maximum capacity – 300. Conferences For many weeks each year Christ Church makes available its accommodation, catering services, meeting rooms and the services of an experienced staff for conferences, meetings and seminars. The newly refurbished Blue Boar Quad has 75 ensuite rooms and a lecture theatre for 120. We are able to accommodate up to 300 for residential conferences (including 120 ensuite rooms). If you would like further information and a copy of the College’s Conference Pack please contact the Conference & Events Administrator, Miss Joanna Malton on 01865 276174 or e-mail joanna.malton@chch.ox.ac.uk.

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PUBLICATIONS

The following Christ Church publications are available from the Library: Some Scientists in the Life of Christ Church, Oxford, by P W Kent. Christ Church, Oxford: The Portrait of a College, by Hugh Trevor-Roper. Cartulary of the Mediaeval Archives of Christ Church, ed. by N Denholm-Young. Christ Church and Reform, 1850-1867, by E G W Bill and J F A Mason. Education at Christ Church, 1660-1800, by E G W Bill. The Building Accounts of Christ Church Library, 1716-1779: A Transcription, with an Introduction and Indices of Donors and Craftsmen, ed. by Jean Cook and John Mason. The Emergence of Estate Maps: Christ Church, Oxford, 1600 to 1840, by David H Fletcher. For information on prices and postage, please contact the Library at: library@chch.ox.ac.uk The following catalogues are sold by the Picture Gallery. Requests for purchases should be directed to the Picture Gallery staff. Drawings by Old Masters at Christ Church, Oxford, by J Byam Shaw. Paintings by Old Masters at Christ Church, Oxford: Catalogue, by J Byam Shaw.

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CATHEDRAL CHOIR: CDs CDs The Door To Paradise, Music from the Eton Choirbook Christ Church Cathedral Choir Director of Music: Stephen Darlington AVIE AV2395 Invictus: A Passion Christ Church Cathedral Choir Director of Music: Stephen Darlington CORO COR16165 Full details of CD releases with reviews and the option to purchase via Amazon or iTunes may be found on the Cathedral Choir website under Discography:http://www.chchchoir.org/discography For CDs currently available for purchase at Christ Church, please contact The Chapter House Shop, Christ Church, Oxford, OX1 1DP. Telephone: 01865 201971. Email: sacristy@chch.ox.ac.uk

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Photographs

Eleanor Sanger Ralph Williamson John Cartwright Gillman & Soame

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