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THE CAIAN THE ANNUAL RECORD OF GONVILLE & CAIUS COLLEGE C A M B R I DG E 1 October 2024 – 30 S e p t e mb e r 2 0 2 5

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Front cover: The Gate of Virtue following its conservation in 2022, made possible by the generosity of Janice Hu (1992 Oriental Studies)

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THE CAIAN THE ANNUAL RECORD OF GONVILLE & CAIUS COLLEGE C A M B R I DG E 1 October 2024 – 3 0 S e p t e mb e r 2 0 2 5

Editor: Joachim Whaley Assistant Editor: Declan Boyd

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Contents

The Year in College 2024-25.............................................................................................................................................................................................................5 The Master’s Report............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 7 The Chapel.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................11 The Choir..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................13 The Gonville & Caius Students’ Union.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................17 Amalgamated Clubs and Societies...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................23 Finance, Development and the Caius Foundation..........................................................................................................................................................45 Report of the Senior Bursar..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................47 Report of the Director of Development....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................54 The Caius Foundation...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................57 Articles.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................59 A Diamond Jubilee by Roy Smalley.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................60 Charles Wood (1866-1926) by Jeremy Dibble.......................................................................................................................................................................................................66 A 25th Anniversary by Tom Fardon.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................72 Caius and Freemasonry by Jonathan Price ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................75 The Caius Gardens by Edmund Tanner.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................79 Caian News...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................83 The Caius Club...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................85 Honours, Awards and Appointments...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................87 Caian Personal News.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................91 Some Books by or about Fellows and Caians Donated to the Library.................................................................................96 Deaths.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................98 Obituaries..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................101 Obituaries of Fellows, former Chaplains and Staff ..........................................................................................................................................................................103 Obituaries of Caians...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................121 The College Annual Record......................................................................................................................................................................................................169 The Master and Fellows of the College.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................171 New Fellows, Bye-Fellowships, Lectors, Postdoctoral Research Associates, Teaching Associates, and Visiting Fellows...................................................................................................................................................................................................................177 Gonville and Caius College Court of Benefactors................................................................................................................................................................................189 Donors 2024-25...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................198 Members of the Edmund Gonville Society...............................................................................................................................................................................................................211 College Officers and Staff....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................214 Junior Members and Freshmen.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................218 Degrees, Awards and Prizes........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................222

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The Master’s Report 2025 Master and Fellows

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Dr Pippa Rogerson writes:

Now in my last week of the Mastership at Caius, I am writing my final review of the year. My reflections are tinged with pride, delight and a few regrets. I’m enormously grateful for the opportunity given to me by the Fellows to become Master of our great College. My intention on taking up the Mastership was to leave the College in a little better shape than I inherited it. That I believe I have achieved. I thank all the Fellows, students, staff and alumni who have made the last seven years rich in experiences, fascinating, fruitful, and Pippa Rogerson Michael Prichard Peter Robinson goes to the Senior enjoyable. Particular appreciation Bursar(s), Master Senior Fellow President, DoS in Comp Sci, Senior President(s), andtechnology JCR Presidents, Development Director Conflict of Tutor, laws, company law Registraries, MCR Legal history and equity Comp and my EA for their support and consideration throughout my time in the Lodge. The new Fellows in 2024-25 were Dr Jane Hines, Dr Samuel Brandt, Dr Dmitri Whitmore, Dr Mor Rozner, Dr Adam Morgan, Dr Vasileios Kotsidis, Dr Ling Zhang, Dr Arjen Bakker, Professor Stephen Barrett, Dr James Alvey, Professor Nicholas Dorey and Ms Sarah Tebbutt. This year the College said farewell to Mr Robert Gardiner, Dr Michele Simoncelli, Dr Christina Faraday, Dr Vedran Sulovsky, Dr Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis, Dr R. Sánchez-Rivera and Mr Franco Basso. The College owes especial gratitude to Robert, who was Senior Bursar for a hugely successful six and a half years. His careful budgeting and attention to financing enabled the major maintenance projects: the Kitchens, the refurbishment of A-F St Michael's, the de-carbonisation andFitzsimons the James Neil McKendrick Michael Wood of the Old Courts, Medical Modern English & economic history purchase ofsocial Radcliffe Court. He also initiated andengineering oversaw an extensive review of physiology the Mechanical College’s investment advisors. Dr James Ngunje finished his year as Global South ByeFellow. Professor Andy Merrills returns to Leicester University after being the CookCrone Bye-Fellow. Sadly, Professor ATH (Tony) Smith died in August. In happier news, Professor Annabel Brett was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Photograph

available The not headline success this year was the Finalists gaining a higher percentage of Firsts (46.3%) than any other College. We believe that to be a record for Caius in the modern era. Seven students topped their Tripos. Across all subjects, we had no failures. Overall, including all parts of Tripos, the College came 11th in the tables. However, the ‘exit velocity’ of the graduating cohort, their improvement over three years, was remarkable. Richard Those achievements are the result of anTony academic yearsDuncan-Jones ago, Kirby strategy started five Jeremy Prynne Bioorganic chemistry English poetry Classics created by the Senior Tutor and endorsed by the College Council. Implementing that strategy has required changes to admissions, new Fellowships, and increased

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investment in wellbeing, as well as an amplified College focus on students. The credit for examination successes has to go to the students themselves, of course, ably supported by Directors of Studies, Supervisors and Tutors. Also crucial has been the exceptional additional assistance given by the staff in the Education and Tutorial Office, the Health and Wellbeing Centre, the Porters' Lodge and the Library, as well as those in catering, maintenance, housekeeping, the Bursary, IT and managment of our Courts and gardens who do so much to ensure that students thrive at Caius. We continue to celebrate extra- and supra-curricular activities at Caius. This year saw the largest number of Blues and Half-Blues in the College. Dancesport, cheerleading, sailing and rugby fives featured as well as athletics, golf, tennis and rowing. Women and men succeeded in gaining Blues almost equally, including women in boxing and football. Although the College did not enjoy its usual success on the Cam at the Lent or May Bumps, another double headship in the celebration of 200 years of rowing at Caius is certainly possible. The choir have produced two recordings this year: one of the Precentor Matthew Martin’s music and one of Michael Hadyn’s. A livestream of services is usually available. Theatre is thriving with a student directing a production at Corpus Playrooms in November, two students critical to the success of the musical Sister Act at the ADC, and another directing the pantomime Snow White, also at the ADC. Admissions at Caius have been transformed over the past seven years. For the second year in a row, we had around 1200 applicants for 165 places, making Caius one of the most competitive colleges to enter. The responsibility of selecting the best students falls on the teaching Fellows. Admitting the right student from a large number who are ably qualified is critical to the success of the College. First, the College must attract good applicants and not put young people off applying. ‘Caius’ is not said as it is written, which sets us apart. Our conservative, traditional reputation exemplified by our ancient buildings – though they are wonderful – is not necessarily welcoming to someone raised in a more modern environment. The Caius Schools TikTok channel is much admired and feebly copied by other Colleges. Whatever one may think about TikTok, it is where younger people go for information. The increase in applications and admissions from schools in our Link Areas of Hertfordshire, Norfolk and seven London Boroughs is testament to the hard work done, especially by the outgoing London Outreach Officer, Gwynneth Helmand. Embedding someone in London to bring Caius to the possible applicants has been a fantastic success. The post was originally funded by donations. The value of that speaks for itself in the numbers, diversity and quality of recent applicants. The University’s Honorary Degree Ceremony was celebrated with a lunch in Caius this year. The honorands included a Doctor of Letters for Simon Russell-Beale (1979 English, Honorary Fellow 2008). He described the occasion as capturing Cambridge as being: ‘absolutely wonderful and completely bonkers’. That sentiment was proved for me by the Latin oration for Stormzy (LLD) with a rap in his own metre, as well as a

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special composition by John Rutter (DMus). The fabulous day ended with a lively dinner in the Master’s Lodge for Simon attended by students and Fellows whose interests overlapped with his in music and theatre. Caius’ purchase of Radcliffe Court is the most significant property acquisition since the Cockerell Building nearly 30 years ago. The masterplanning exercise of what development might be possible on that site is almost complete and very exciting. This very complex project will probably have to be achieved in phases. Delivery of the vision will require extensive building works. Fundraising and stringent attention to value will be key. Over the last seven years my time as Master has been significantly taken up by supporting the Development Office’s engagement with alumni and donors. Donations have risen, and the active engagement of a broader range of alumni with the College has increased. We have had considerable success in shifting the focus by including Alumni Relations as well as Development in the objectives of the DARO. For example, the Caius Young Alumni programme puts students in touch with younger Caians as sources of support and information. There is now an annual Caius Auction, with items generously donated by Caians, and a Giving Day, alongside more traditional annual Telephone and Legacy Campaigns. Through the generosity of Caians, we have been able to conserve the Gate of Virtue, fund a new Organ, create much-needed Fellowships in subjects such as Maths, innovate with a Visiting Bye-Fellow from the Global South, fund postgraduate studentships, and hugely improve the funding for admissions and student wellbeing. Meeting with Caians around the world and sharing our experiences and reflections on the College's past, present and future has been one of the special delights of my time as Master. My personal carbon footprint will now decrease substantially. I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the College’s mission whether through time, treasure or talent. The renovation of the kitchens through Covid continues to bear fruit. I have been a staunch believer in the power of eating together. We maintain the Caius tradition of a served meal six nights a week, despite the cafeteria being the more cost-effective offering. When I ask at my informal Sunday brunches, the students almost uniformly reply that the best thing about Caius is dining together. Aaron Koller is returning to Caius as the Regius Professor of Hebrew after spending a year as Cook-Crone Visiting Professor in 2022-23. Aaron’s research focuses on the history of the alphabet. That investigation crosses lines of Near Eastern history, linguistics, writing systems, Mediterranean studies and the history of Arabia. He wrote so articulately about the unexpected multi-disciplinarity discussions with other people at Caius over lunch and dinner: science with John Mollon, history with David Abulafia, Sujit Sivasundaram and Peter Mandler, as well as chance discussions with other Fellows in, say, physics and biology. All of them contributed to his thinking around his research.

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I was once tasked to consider how would the world be different without Caius? This convening power of the College to harness and amplify a wider and more complex understanding of the world would be the central focus of my answer. It may be serendipity, but the close contacts made possible by the quotidian structure of eating together facilitate extraordinary insights and collaborations. Without doubt I regret the divisions in our community evidenced by disputes regarding the Fisher Window, research into legacies of slavery in Caius, or speakers against trans rights. These issues aroused very strong personal opinions, but I do not believe that there is a single unarguably correct response to any of them. Discord in a lively intellectual community is healthy and inevitable. Nevertheless, decisions have to be made and doing nothing is also a decision. The College Council has the responsibility for the management of the College. The Master’s role is to chair that Council, ensure that it reaches a conclusion and take responsibility, whatever their own views may be. We are all responsible for coming to terms with divisions of opinion and for finding a way to move on constructively. Having been a Fellow at Caius for 27 years before I became Master, I knew well the Fellowship’s pattern of deep rifts going back to the ‘Peasants’ Revolt’ of 1950. However, failing to achieve a more united College is a source of sadness to me. I’m looking positively to the future with the weight of the burdens of office lifted from my shoulders. My eldest daughter is due to have my second grandchild in December; my second daughter is getting married (in London, not the Caius chapel) in January; my youngest is finishing a law degree at UCL and the others are all well-launched in the world of work. I have been able to restart my overlooked hobbies of choral singing, cooking for friends, and volunteering with a local charity. I’ll still be a Professor in Private International Law at Cambridge, lecturing, supervising and researching. This next academic year will be taken up with rewriting my textbook and a couple of other projects while I am a visiting Professor at Hong Kong University and the National University of Singapore in the spring. I wish the College, particularly my successor Professor Richard Gilbertson, well for the future.

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The Chapel

Revd Dr Nicholas Thistlethwaite writes: The chapel maintained its regular pattern of services and observances throughout the academic year 2024-25. The weekly Sunday morning Eucharist at 10.30am was supported by Caius students and occasional visitors, with musical accompaniment provided by the Organ Scholars and a changing team of Choral Scholars. Brunch was provided in Hall after the service. Larger congregations attended the Sunday evening services of Choral Evensong & Sermon, many of them with a visiting preacher, often one from outside Cambridge. The regular weekday services were a Choral Evensong on Tuesdays and a Choral Eucharist on Thursdays, both at 6.30pm. Most days, the morning office was also said in the chapel. This regular pattern of services was occasionally varied by liturgical observances including the All Souls Requiem (with Fauré’s mass setting) in the Michaelmas Term, Ash Wednesday in the Lent Term, and Ascension Day in the Easter Term, and there was a Corporate Communion on a weekday each term, followed by supper in the Fellows’ Dining Room – a welcome opportunity for junior and senior members to mingle, as with the wine reception in the SCR after the Sunday evening services. Following a sequence of readings and music for Advent Sunday, two Christmas carol services in the final week of the Michaelmas Term attracted total congregations which exceeded 300 in number. Unusually, only one wedding took place in Chapel when William Playford and Emilie Fitzsimons were married on 7 September 2024. The Precentor has written about the work of the choir during the academic year, but it should be recorded here that the clergy and congregations have been very appreciative of the professionalism and commitment of our singers and Organ Scholars (Eben Eyres and Jack van den Heuvel), and the contribution that their music makes to the worship we offer. We have also been fortunate in our team of Chapel Clerks (Oscar Poulson, Connor Singleton and Luke Mason) whose work in preparing the Chapel for services, recruiting readers of lessons, and undertaking the role of servers when needed is essential to the smooth running of services and maintaining links with student body.

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Nor could we manage without the sterling work of the Chapel and Choir Administrator, Claire Wheeler, who keeps us all in order, and undertakes endless tasks of which the preparation of orders of service and maintenance of lists and schedules are only the most obvious parts. The list of preachers in 2024-25 included His Honour Judge Mark Lucraft KC, who is the most senior Circuit Judge at the Old Bailey and Recorder of London. Judge Lucraft preached at the annual Commemoration of Benefactors service in the Michaelmas Term on the theme of commemoration and remembrance, including some reflections inspired by his time as Chief Coroner of England. In the Lent Term, we were delighted to welcome back to Caius the Very Revd Professor Sarah Foot who was formerly a Fellow of the College (1989-1993) and is currently the Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church. Professor Foot preached the annual Perse Sermon in our Chapel, delivering her words standing, appropriately enough, beneath the kneeling figure of Dr Perse whose memorial is set into the north wall of the building. The sermons in the Easter Term drew themes from the Nicene Creed in recognition of the 1700th anniversary of the synod which formulated it, and preachers included the Revd Canon Georgina Byrne (Tutor, Queen’s Foundation, Birmingham), the Very Revd Dr Victor Stock (formerly Dean of Guildford), and the Revd Alexander Bailey (Brother of the York Oratory, attached to Campion Hall, Oxford). There is always an opportunity for junior members to meet the preachers after the Sunday service in the SCR. More informally, we have arranged an occasional series of discussion groups after Hall on a weekday, entitled ‘DDD’ (Discussion-Dessert-Drink). They are held in the Senior Parlour, open to current Caians, and provide ‘an opportunity to eat, drink (in moderation!), and listen or talk about stuff that matters’, as the term cards express it. DDD meetings in 2024-25 included discussions on animal rights and the moral case for veganism, the ethics of assisted dying, and ‘Assisted conception: self-evident good or dangerous arrogance?’. With topics such as these, it will come as no surprise that the discussions can be lively! For some weeks during the Long Vacation of 2025, the Chapel was out of bounds whilst workmen were busy installing the new heating system. The heating throughout the Old Courts has been replaced with a new, ‘greener’ system from which the Chapel is now benefiting. Further work on the Chapel fabric is under consideration, including a new lighting system with greater flexibility and less visually intrusive electrical fittings. We also hope that the internal walls of the Chapel can be cleaned and then redecorated. All of which will, we hope, prepare the scene for the installation of the new Frobenius organ in the summer of 2028.

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Matthew Martin, Precentor, writes: The University of Cambridge is synonymous with a rich choral tradition and boasts an ever more competitive playing field for those students who choose to sing. In 2024-25 Caius’ Choir has continued to hold its own in this environment as one of the leading collegiate choirs in the University and indeed, the country, while providing our students from diverse backgrounds with the opportunities to sing and make music at the highest level. In doing so, our students continue to Matthew Martin Precentor and Director of College Music, contribute to the College’s long and distinguished musical tradition. DoS in Music As the 2024-25 academic year was preceded by the much-anticipated recording of the Requiem and Missa Sancti Ieronymi by Michael Haydn with the world-renowned Academy of Ancient Music for CD release by Linn Records in September 2025, the choir was still in high spirits by the time we returned to College in October 2024 for pre-term rehearsals. In fact, the very same disc would be named ‘Record of the Week’ by Andrew MacGregor on the Record Review show on BBC Radio 3. Michaelmas Term always brings with it the particular challenge of having to welcome Christopher Scott a fresh group of first-years and other newcomers. This inevitably influences the Tutor for Admissions & Outreach complexity and variety of music one can reasonably expect the group to perform at the beginning of the academic year. Indeed, like Sisyphus, it is the fate of the Precentor to start at the bottom of the proverbial hill each year, having to educate and hone a group with new dynamics and abilities from scratch. Michaelmas 2024 was no different, although I am pleased to report that the many new members of the Choir took up the gauntlet magnificently thanks to the support and encouragement from more senior members in the group. Jennifer Phillips As readers will know, the Choir’s primary role is to serve the Chapel and its liturgy Domestic Bursar & and contribute to the musical life of the College more generally. Every week during Operations Director termtime, the Choir sings the three statutory services on Sundays and Tuesdays (Choral Evensong) and Thursday (Choral Eucharist). In addition to performing at all the Annual Gatherings and Feasts, the Choir also plays a key role in the Music Society (GCMS) and contributes to their termly concerts, as well as singing the weekly Grace before dinner on Sunday evenings.

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Highlights from this Michaelmas term included a performance of Fauré’s Requiem at the All Souls Eucharist, the Commemoration of Benefactors and a joint Evensong with the choir of Jesus College. Christmas is never far away at this time of year and, aside from the regular packed carol services within College, the Choir sang at the first Alumni Carol Service in St George’s, Hanover Square, London. It was at this occasion that we formally launched with the Development Office the appeal for the new organ by Frobenius which will arrive in the summer of 2028. During Lent Term, we held our first ever ‘Choral Workshop Day’ on 15 March. This was open to schoolchildren and prospective applicants from all backgrounds to join us for a day of singing and talks, culminating in Evensong with over 70 people singing in Chapel. This was a fantastic initiative in terms of recruitment and outreach both for the College and the Choir – and my thanks go to Jasmine Habgood (our Social Media and PR Assistant) for making that happen so smoothly. I also extend thanks to Dr Anita Bunyan and Dr Julian Sale for helping with the panel discussion. Other notable extra-Chapel events included an ecumenical Evensong at Fisher House (Catholic Chaplaincy), with a return visit by them to us for a Catholic Mass in Chapel, and a concert in St Mary’s Church, Saffron Walden of Fauré’s Requiem, Bach’s Komm, Jesu, komm plus other motets and anthems. This cavernous church was full to capacity, and we are set to return here for a BBC broadcast of Choral Evensong in December 2025. Highlights from the Easter Term included another outreach project as well as work for our two tours to France and Denmark in the summer. Our first ‘Caius Composition Competition’ for students from the maintained sector to write a short choral piece for performance in Evensong by Caius Choir received just under 20 entries. The winner was Sam Bishton, from Xaverian College, Manchester, with a setting of a text by Jeremy Taylor (Caian) and we performed his piece (in his presence) during Evensong on 11 May. The standard from all the entrants was consistently high and this served as a reminder of all the burgeoning talent in schools where students may not always have access to the highest level of facilities or music-making. We are committed to fostering this talent and will run a similar competition next year. We were delighted to be asked to sing at the 2025 Honorary Degree Ceremony on 25 June and joined with the choirs of Clare and Selwyn to honour John Rutter and also sing some works by very own Charles Wood. This came not long before the first of two tours abroad: the first to southeastern France in July, and the second to Copenhagen in September. Our base in France was an auberge in the tiny village of Dionay, near to the historic village of Saint-Antoine-L’Abbaye (where the Precentor had spent time as a teenager and had musical connections). Down winding lanes, there was little else in this place

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apart from a small bar and restaurant (both part of the auberge) and a tiny church where we could rehearse. What else could we need? There were four concerts on the schedule for this trip: L'Église Saint Bruno de Voiron, Valence Cathedral, Église Saint-Pierre de Marnans, and the Abbey Church in SaintAntoine-L’Abbaye as part of their Bastille Day Festival. It was a great opportunity to work in detail on some unaccompanied repertoire by Tallis, Taverner, Hassler and Bach, and to perform in wonderful spaces and acoustics, the latter something we are not used to. Dr Julian Sale (Fellow 1999) accompanied us and brought with him his recording equipment giving us enough material for our social media accounts for at least a year. Denmark followed at the start of September and this trip centred around a broadcast on Danish Radio from the wonderful Trinitatis Kirke in central Copenhagen. The Choir stayed centrally in Danhostel Copenhagen City, which was great for sightseeing. Our first venue was the magnificent cathedral in Helsingør, a short train ride away, and it appeared that the whole town turned out to hear our programme of Victoria, Tallis, Mozart and Jonathan Dove. This was a good dry run for the Trinitatis concert on 5 September as part of the Copenhagen Baroque Festival and broadcast by Danish Radio on 13 October 2025. On the Sunday morning the Choir sang Mass at Roskilde Cathedral and were up early to rehearse in the cavernous empty space, and then for Evensong back on the train to Copenhagen headed for Godthaabskirken where we gave them a taste of what we might normally sing during term time in Caius Chapel. Both tours gave ample opportunity for sightseeing and other activities, and we were reminded how privileged we are to have the opportunity to travel abroad and perform for new audiences. I am particularly grateful to Claire Wheeler for her invaluable expertise in helping me set up the trips. I must close by thanking my colleagues for their steadfast support all the year round notably Claire Wheeler (Chapel and Choir Administrator), Jasmine Habgood (Choir PR Apprentice) and the Organ Scholars: Eben Eyres and Jack van de Heuvel. My thanks also go to the Revd Dr Cally Hammond (Dean) and Revd Dr Nicholas Thistlethwaite (Dean’s Vicar), and also our two singing teachers: Kate Symonds-Joy and David Lowe. The 2024-25 Caius Choir comprised 23 singers: 10 Choral Scholars, 3 Lay-clerks and 10 volunteers. There were 8 sopranos, 4 altos, 4 tenors and 7 basses. The Senior Choral Exhibitioner was Hannah Brooks-Hughes. Those holding named scholarships were as follows: Peter Walker Organ Scholar - Eben Eyres Wilfrid Holland Organ Scholar - Jack van den Heuvel

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Margaret Chumrow Lay Clerks - Aleksander Jovanovic, Katherine Mann & Jack Stebbing Patrick Burgess Choral Scholar - Tanay Vajramani John Chumrow Choral Scholar - Oliver Merriman Richard Hamilton Choral Scholar - Jacob Carey Peter and Thérèse Helson Choral Scholar - William Saint

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The Gonville & Caius Students’ Union

The Junior Combination Room (GCSU) Oscar Poulson, JCR President, writes For the second year in a row, February 2024 saw the election of a GCSU committee composed primarily of first-year undergraduates, breaking the convention of secondand third-year students holding most offices. After a high number of contested elections, the 2024-25 GCSU committee were elected, bringing with them enthusiasm, diligence and care. The committee had tough shoes to fill following their predecessors, who were responsible for the successful NHS Prescription Charge Reimbursement Scheme and the popular ‘Happy Hour’ scheme in the Caius Bar. But I can honestly say that each one of them rose to the challenge with exemplary commitment, determination and team spirit. The key focus for our committee was enriching the community aspect of our student body, an essential part of Caius’ appeal to students both present and future. In our Minimum Dining Requirement, the strength of societies such as the Boat Club and the Medicine Society, and our fantastic ability to combine tradition and modernity, there is sense of community underpinning Caius which is unusually strong amongst Colleges. This led to our committee’s flagship policy of creating new spaces to rekindle student community after the highly disruptive COVID-19 pandemic. The committee refurbished the Underbar (a room plagued by sewage issues over the past years) as a social space for undergraduates to enjoy throughout the year, equipped with a pool table, table football, a dartboard and a Wii console. In addition, we also introduced a multi-sensory Welfare Room at the bottom of the Library for students to relax in, and expanded the hours that students are allowed to go onto Gonville Court lawn in Easter Term. All this was made possible by one of the highest increases in the JCR budget in many years, so that we could implement our initiatives and finance the over 30 Caius clubs and societies. To further the communal events that the JCR offers, we also organised a Summer BBQ on the Harvey Court lawn in Easter Term, and the first ever ‘Caius Culture Day,’ celebrating the diversity of countries represented in the Caius student body. The committee also implemented initiatives such as free access to sanitary products across THE YEAR IN COLLEGE 2024-25

College, running a Christmas food bank drive, and securing an annual brief on the College’s investments from the Senior Bursar. The committee were challenged by various external events that had a significant impact on the issues that students care about. However, the committee showed a steadfast resolve in fulfilling its representative function for all students, regardless of who they are or what they think. In response to growing rates of religious discrimination on University campuses following 7 October 2023 and the conflict in the Middle East, we delivered compulsory antisemitism awareness and anti-islamophobia training for all undergraduate students, led by the Cambridge University Jewish and Islamic Societies, respectively. We also initiated a ‘GCSU Listening Campaign’ to hear feedback and suggestions from a broad range of students. The committee led the way in finding a compromise solution that united opinions of all sides behind a single Flag Day Policy, resolving the issues around what has become a contentious topic in recent years. The focus on community for our committee was also demonstrated by the fantastic work of various officers to support the social side of undergraduate life at Caius. Amber Gooding, our Freshers’ Rep, worked tirelessly to organise and run a sensational Freshers’ Week packed with social events where first-year students could get to know each other. India Hansra and Jack Peters planned fantastic Formals and Superhalls as Food and Bar Reps, covering themes from Shakespeare and The Great Gatsby to Eurovision and Glastonbury. The Ents team ran several successful bops, including a ‘Florida Caius’ bop, which were well-attended by the undergraduate student body. We also held our annual Sports Day with our Oxford sister College, Brasenose, courtesy of our Clubs and Societies Officer Saskia Edwards, and bi-termly Welfare Dessert Nights organised by our Welfare Officers Jess Boddington, Esther Magedera and Calum Murray. The representation of student opinion in the College remained a key focus of the GCSU committee. Members were active in the College Council and a range of College committees and sub-committees. We raised concerns about College policies and put forward detailed and feasible suggestions for improvement. For example, we were able to articulate students’ views on issues such as rent prices, the Radcliffe Court Development Plan, a new code on freedom of speech in College, and finding ways of keeping May Ball cost increases down. I would like to take this opportunity to thank those who played significant roles in working with the 2024-25 GCSU Committee: to the former Master (Pippa Rogerson), the Senior Tutor (Andrew Spencer), the former Senior Bursar (Robert Gardiner) and the Domestic Bursar (Karen Ball). Thank you for your support and encouragement and for always engaging in constructive dialogues with us on a variety of different issues. To all members of the College Council and the various College committees and sub-committees that GCSU representatives sit on, thank you for listening to the concerns and suggestions raised by the GCSU and for being considerate to the student voice in discussions and

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debates. To all Caius staff, without whom the College would not be able to function, thank you for helping us to organise and hold a number of GCSU events and initiatives. To the MCR Committee, led by MCR President Tejas Rao, thank you for your willingness to cooperate with the GCSU on a range of issues throughout the year. Most of all, my thanks also go to all members of the 2024-25 committee for their outstanding contributions to represent and work for the interests of all students, and their tireless hours of service to the College that we all love dearly. It was a team effort, and I hope you all enjoyed being a part of the committee as much as I did! In particular, I would like to thank our Secretary Georgie Jackson Jessel and our Treasurer Luke Mason for their exemplary dedication, and, most especially, our Vice-President Misha Patel for her invaluable leadership, advice and support. I could not have done it without you. I am enormously proud of what our committee achieved in the short space of 12 months. I encourage all students and all members of the College community to continue the important work of renewing and enhancing our unique traditions and community at Caius. In that spirit, I want to wish Richard Gilbertson, our new Master, and Sarah Tebbutt, our new Senior Bursar, a warm welcome and all the best in their new roles. I am also proud of the responsibility and commitment shown already by the 2025-26 GCSU Committee, led by Evelyne Mayemba Bamba as President and Ed Pinnock as Vice-President, and I wish them all the best in their endeavours.

Committee members were: President: Oscar Poulson Vice-President: Misha Patel Treasurer: Luke Mason Secretary: Georgie Jackson Jessel Academic Officer: Luca Mihai Access Officer: Neve Mumford BME Officer: Arianna Shankardass Class Act Officer: Maddie Wills Clubs and Societies Officer: Saskia Edwards Disabilities and Mental Health Officer: Lucia Goulev Entertainment (Ents) Officers: Jess Brennan, Jack Kelly and Monty Lord Food and Bar Officers: India Hansra and Jack Peters Freshers’ Representative: Amber Gooding Green Officer: Jasmine Wong International Officer: Mari Puttick LGBTQ+ Officer: Oscar Sigee Publicity Officer: Tom Donnachie Welfare Officers: Jess Boddington, Esther Magedera and Calum Murray Women’s and Non-Binary Officer: Anna Townend

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The Middle Combination Room (GCSU) Essi Harbord, Acting Co-President, writes: As our MCR Committee term runs from the start of February to the end of January (with by-elections also in May and October), this report sits nicely at the approximate halfway point of my tenure as Co-Vice-President and Acting President. As well as looking back on the successes and challenges of our Committee tenure this far, I must also thank and applaud the 2024-25 MCR Committee, especially Tejas Rao, Jessica Moore, and Nikita Kozhushko, whose tireless work makes the MCR what it is today. Tejas especially, who led the MCR Committee for two terms (2023-24 and 2024-25), did so with professionalism and maturity. We wish them all the best in their future endeavours, whether they remain at Caius or have since graduated and gone out into the wider world. The Caius MCR is a truly diverse community, as is our Committee. With a student body of over 300 members, we span subjects from Heritage Studies through to Physics, and everything in between. Clinical Medics and fourth-year integrated master’s students, who undertook the first three years of their degree under the auspices of Caius JCR, also join the MCR once they reach postgraduate level. This means we have students on placements and in hospitals across the region, as well as in libraries and laboratories across Cambridge. We have also had a range of ages on MCR Committee this year, from 20 through to 50+, and had students join Committee during their short nine months of study as well as students for whom Caius has been home for over three years. I am always deeply appreciative of those who decide to give back to the Caius community through election to the MCR Committee despite only studying at Cambridge for a short time. It was a pleasure to see Clinical Medics and integrated master’s students join the MCR Committee in our May and October (2025) by-elections, as previously Committee positions have primarily been held by MPhil and PhD students. This has also helped foster integration between the various groups within the MCR – a cause close to my heart, and one we have been pursuing on Committee for the last few years. One of the main successes for our 2025-26 Committee thus far has been the ratification of our policy on inclusion for fourth-year (undergraduate) students. This has been a point of contention over the past five years, and we are glad to have finally concluded on the topic. As such, we are delighted to welcome all fourth-year students who started their undergraduate journey at Caius but are now studying a postgraduate-level course to the MCR community. I am sure this move will welcome greater diversity into the community and foster greater understanding between students from different disciplines, ages, and walks of life. We have also promoted greater inclusion of ‘upper-year’ PhD students, who often engage with Caius MCR during their first year or two before falling off the radar in subsequent years. We have initiated regular PhD-only social events so as to increase integration

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between year groups and hopefully retain engagement of PhD students during their time at Caius. In the Long Vacation period this summer, we also held monthly MCRonly Formal Formals in the Fellows’ Dining Room as well as our weekly Port Nights, so as to continue the community spirit during a time when many undergraduate and University-wide activities reduce or stop completely. Postgraduate study – especially at PhD level – can be very lonely, and the loneliness epidemic of the modern age is a cause we continuously try to fight through inclusion and community. It can be very easy to feel forgotten about, but I want to thank all Caius staff and the various College-level Committees and Sub-Committees who do listen to the MCR voice and help us champion causes and initiatives to support the MCR, ensuring we do not feel like a sidelined ‘middle child’ in the vast Caius community of undergraduates, postgraduates and Fellows! The welfare of our students is a top priority, and I wish to extend my thanks to the MCR Welfare Officers who have continued to support members of our community through regular Welfare Tea events, the Welfairy scheme, and meeting students one-to-one with confidentiality and consideration when they are struggling. In recent months, our Social Secretaries have also worked in collaboration with the Welfare Officers to put on weekly social events in the Gresham Road MCR which are more scaled-down than the (sometimes extravagant, and often extremely busy!) Formal and Port Night events. Through these we hope that those in our community who may find loud, busy events intimidating can also find their place in Caius MCR and develop and strengthen connections with their peers. We have also added the position of Class Act Officer to our MCR Committee, so that we continue to consider the access needs and inclusion of minority groups, in addition to our LGBTQ+ Officer, International Officer, Partners, Carers & Families Officer and BME Officer roles. In more academic pursuits, we are also grateful to our MCR Research Officers (formerly MCR-SCR Representatives) who have worked with the Caius Fellowship to put on MCR-SCR talks twice-termly, and the much-esteemed MCR Research Day, allowing postgraduate students opportunities to present their research to an academic audience and build their confidence for presenting at conferences. We have also revived the weekly writing group (‘Write Here, Write Now’) which allows postgraduate students an MCR-only workspace every Thursday afternoon for writing and accountability from their peers. We thank the Graduate Tutors for their financial support for this. Finally, I would like to extend my thanks to the countless College staff and Fellows who work with and support MCR students and our Committee. We are grateful especially to the Senior Bursar for her support in financing MCR initiatives through our grant received from College, the Senior and Deputy Senior Tutors and their team of postgraduate Tutors, the Education & Tutorial Office, and the Domestic Bursar for her support in the day-to-day operations involving postgraduate students. You – and many others! – help us to make the Caius MCR community and experience what it is.

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Committee members were: 2024-25 (between 1 February 2024 and 31 January 2025): President: Tejas Rao Co-Vice-Presidents: Jessica Moore and Nikita Kozhushko Treasurer: Adam Alderton Secretary: Lex Hoffman, Thomas Barton Dining Officers: Rajan Lal, Alice Beardmore, Sasha Hanna, Atharva Argade-Miskin, Essi Harbord, Cristina Piñel Neparidze, Kirsten Thomas, Omer Dizmen, Rachel Chalmers Social Secretaries: Owen Hoy, Natalia Emsley, Nicola Tsioupra, Atharva Argade-Miskin, Matt Francis, Antonia Martino, Nicole Awad, Javier Sanchez-Bonilla International Officers: Ivan Brea Welfare Officers: Joe Eloi, Carmen Watson, Dillon Whitehead, Kaila Borgards, Stephen Ryan Freshers’ Representatives: Shiv Kapila, Essi Harbord Research Officers (formerly MCR-SCR Representatives): Adam Alderton, Max Walk, Finn Kinsler O’Sullivan LGBTQ+ Officer: Liam MacCullum-Webb Partners, Carers & Families Officers: Liam MacCullum-Webb, Rich Brown, Rachel Robinson Sports Officers: Luke Maxwell, Haidar Mathieson Computing Officer: Leon Brindley Housing and Sustainability Officers: Mattias Makaranta and Ashley Hoblyn Access, Accessibilities & Outreach Officer: Christian Andreotti 2025-26 (starting from 1 February 2025): Co-Vice-Presidents: Essi Harbord and Cristina Piñel Neparidze Treasurer: Suchir Salhan Dining Officers: Kirsten Thomas, Cole Hunt, Yury Makarov, Emmanouil Chousakos, and Finn Snow Social Secretaries: Lachlan Peake, Matt Francis, Javier Sanchez-Bonilla, Nicole Awad, and Giaan Kler-Young BME Officers: Giaan Kler-Young and Vaneshree Vidyarthi International Officers: Rachel Chalmers and Kaila Borgards Welfare Officers: Kaila Borgards, Christina Lee, Dillon Whitehead, and Stephen Ryan Freshers’ Representatives: Charlotte Franke Research Officers (formerly MCR-SCR Representatives): Amelia Loughland and Colin Wilson Partners, Carers & Families Officers: Rich Brown and Rachel Robinson Sports Officers: Luke Maxwell and Haidar Mathieson Computing Officer: Leon Brindley Access, Accessibilities & Outreach Officers: Morgan Richards and Rich Brown.

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Amalgamated Clubs and Societies 2024-25 Art Club The Caius Art Club is a community of Caius creatives fostered through arts and crafts events – including painting, decorating, clay crafts and more – which also provide a social space for people to enjoy relaxing activities. We have a large number of students at sessions, primarily undergraduates but also some postgraduates. We held seven sessions in Michaelmas Term, including clay, painting, sketching, jewellery-making and crafting. These sessions got students to try new skills and explore their own creativity, while also generating a community of Caians interested in art. We have received much positive enthusiasm for the club, and we hope to continue to provide a fun, creative space. In 2025-26, we plan to continue to grow the club, with more frequent sessions held throughout the year and a wide range of artistic sessions planned for the future. Committee members were: Co-Presidents: Kalina Poydovska and Jemima Fung Treasurer: Fiona Meng

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Badminton Society The Gonville & Caius Badminton Society is a club for all badminton players in the College, with undergraduates and postgraduates all very welcome. The society provides a way for all badminton players with any level of experience to meet and play some badminton in our ‘casual’ session once a week at Kelsey Kerridge. There is also a more competitive side to the society with the College league, which caters for the more competitive players. The Badminton Society joins up with the other racquets sports societies in College for events, including a bowling social and a summer BBQ after exams. For many, the Badminton Society is a key part of destressing and getting some exercise throughout the year. Elizabeth Bratton led the women’s team, and since it was newly formed this year, it started at the bottom of Division 2. In the Michaelmas league, the women's team came second in Division 2 from six teams, earning promotion to Division 1. In the Lent league, the women's team came away in first place among eight teams; this rounded off an incredible year starting from the bottom and going all the way to the very top! The Open 2 team was led by Alexandre Peuch. The Open 2 team aims to be a way for people with little experience to get to play competitive matches, and we had some participants who had not played badminton before arriving at Caius. The Michaelmas league was very formative for the team, which ended up placing sixth in Division 5, resulting in demotion to Division 6. Our efforts in the Lent league were more successful, and the team managed to stay in Division 6 for next year, avoiding demotion to Division 7. The Open 1 team was led by Cian Raza. The Michaelmas league was very keenly contested and unfortunately the team narrowly missed out on promotion to Division 3 on the last match day, coming third out of seven teams. The Lent league was similar,

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and the team again missed out on promotion for next year by one place, again placing third out of seven teams. Plans for 2025-26 include keeping the ‘casual’ sessions running weekly, providing a fun and relaxing badminton session for all members of the College. Additionally, we aim to have more drills and exercises in the ‘team training’ sessions to improve and try to move up in the College league. Rhianna Yang and Tom Brennan will be taking charge of running the society next year. We are looking forward to introducing many of the incoming freshers to the society. Committee members were: President and Open 2 Captain: Alexandre Peuch Vice President and Open 1 Captain: Cian Raza Captain of Women Team: Elizabeth Bratton Treasurer: William Yang

Caius & Clare Basketball Club The Caius & Clare Basketball Club comprises students from the two Colleges. We aim to foster a friendly and welcoming community of like-minded individuals who want to play basketball and to participate in the College league. In 2025-26, the society will be dissolved owing to lack of replacements for outgoing committee members. Committee members were: Co-Captains: Gabriel Arpino and Harry Fords

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Boardgames Society The Boardgames Society runs a weekly boardgames session, open to all students but we primarily get undergraduates. During a session, we will play various boardgames of diverse types and lengths. Committee members were: President: Theodore Sinclair Secretary: Rebecca Jesson

Boat Club Founded in 1827, we are the rowing club at Caius and the largest sports team in the College. We hold strong positions in both the Lent and May Bumps across both the men’s and women’s sides, and we regularly have Caians representing the University in the Boat Races. We participated in Uni IVs, Fairbairns, Lent Bumps, May Bumps and other races held by town clubs on the Cam. Notable achievements include W2 winning their division in both Uni IVs and Fairbairns. We also had off-Cam races, with M1 racing Head of the River in London. M1 and W1 raced Henley Qualifiers, with M1 qualifying to race in the Temple Cup Challenge – the first College crew to qualify since 2021. In 2025-26, we will focus on bringing in and keeping strong novice crews, with structured coaching in Michaelmas and an affordable January training camp abroad, supported by a recent donation. In the senior squad, we will work hard to try to regain both headships.

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Committee members were: Captain of Boats: Mila Marcheva Women’s Vice Captain: Mia Bentham Men’s Vice Captains: Will Morris and Ben Burgess Junior Treasurer: Misha Patel Secretary: Javier Sanchez-Bonilla Men’s Lower Boats Captains: Matt Francis and Enrico Marriotti Women’s Lower Boats Captains: Livi Crewe and Charlotte Franke Kit Officer: Katrina Shipley Training Camp Officer: Toko Availani Publicity Officer: Citlali Flores Health and Safety Officer: Valentine Bachalez Welfare Officer: Gina Sangha Alumni Officer: Jack Campbell

Christian Union The Gonville & Caius Christian Union is a community of Christians at Caius from churches across Cambridge who meet to read the Bible and pray. Additionally, we seek to share Jesus to everyone in Caius through outreach and events such as giving out food, and hosting ceilidhs and evangelism talks. We are also connected with the College Chapel. Our events and talks are not academic in nature. Talks we have held after our events have generally been evangelistic. A speaker was invited for a crafts night with Trinity Hall in Lent Term. The main key takeaway was that the true meaning of Easter is that Jesus is the saviour of the world (John 3:16).

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Next year, we plan to run a ceilidh with Christ’s-Sidney Sussex Christian Union in the Easter Term, as well as continuing our weekly meetings and general outreach throughout 2025-26. Committee members were: Joint Leaders: Nathanael Chaffe and Reuben Fasham

Cricket Club The Caius Cricket Club is open to everyone in Caius who wants to be involved in cricket. We run indoor nets in Michaelmas and Lent terms and play matches against other Colleges and touring sides in the summer, most importantly in the Cuppers tournament. We got out of the group stage this year but were knocked out in the quarter-finals by Robinson, who went on to win the tournament. Next year, in addition to continuing with everything we have done this year, we plan to order some club shirts. We would ideally make some large purchases, such as spending on the nets at the Barton Road sportsground, or some decent bats. Committee members were: President: David Jempson Captain: Charlie Windle

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Culinary Appreciation Society The Caius Culinary Appreciation Society (CCAS) has created a new vibrant community space by bringing together students to explore the world of global cuisine. This year, we have enriched the Caius student experience and improved wellbeing within the challenging academic environment of Cambridge through regular themed events in collaboration with inter-College societies and student unions, promoting culinary appreciation, social connection, inclusivity, stress relief and arts appreciation. We hosted five popular culinary events (with an average of 30 attendees per event), with wine and cheese tasting sessions across the three terms, featuring diverse cultural themes and provisions (e.g. Italian, Spanish, French, British and others). These were held in collaboration with other societies for budgeting reasons, and to support inter-College connections and create a vibrant community, e.g. joining with Trinity Hall Cheese Society. We also ran a well-attended (30 people) ‘Watercolour, Wine and Cheese’ event with Trinity SU Welfare as part of University Mental Health Week to support student welfare, providing a selection of food and non-alcoholic beverages to inclusively cater to dietary requirements. In 2025-26, the society will continue to host culinary events for both those who attend regularly and incoming students, facilitating connections and student welfare support through the medium of culinary events. From experience this year, two events in Michaelmas and in Lent, and one event in Easter, seems optimal. These will be well publicised on social media. We will also continue to collaborate with societies and student union officers from other Colleges to expand our network. The society is excited to explore new global culinary themes this upcoming year. Committee members were: President: Lucia Goulev Vice President: Eva Fishman Treasurer: Chiara Bhardwaj Secretary: Jasmine Wong Events Officer: Saskia Edwards Welfare Officers: India Hansra and Arianna Shankardass Health and Safety Officer: Holly Baker Sommelier: Jack Peters

Economics Society The Caius Economics Society comprises Caius Economics students and Fellows, as well as individuals who take an interest in certain areas of the subject. The society encourages the broadening of conversation about areas covered in the Economics Tripos and provides a place for co-operation among the Economics undergraduate body.

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Talks held were: Alec Chrystal: shedding light on macroeconomic policy and giving an insight into careers in policy making. Peter Hammond: ‘Why economists should favour market liberalisation. And why they should not.’ This was a balanced talk on gains from trade and free markets. Douglas Moggach: an overview of three works that illustrate the transformative effects of the Kantian revolution in ethics and in political and economic thought in the German territories in the period 1750 to 1800. Committee members were: President: Tom Donnachie

Engineering: Nuts & Bolts This society includes current Caius Engineering students, both undergraduate and postgraduate. The majority of our events are open to all Caius students. Throughout the year we organise a range of activities. They include formal swaps with other Colleges, talks by professionals and Formula 1 viewings. We aim to create a space where Engineers across different years can mingle and support each other. The Michaelmas Term talk was delivered by Professor Glenn Vinnicombe, an Information Engineer and Caius Fellow. The talk was focused on his experiences and how he ended up in his current role, as well as his favourite areas of research. It provided insight on how a typical pathway into academia might look and how often you need to have a ‘good’ paper to end up a successful academic (once every decade or so!).

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In Lent, Chris Hayward, a Caius graduate who works in car engine design, spoke to us about his career, with a focus on his path into Ferrari Formula 1. He gave insights about the technical regulations of the sport and how they have evolved over time, as well as how the sport has shifted into being more sustainable. Our Easter Term talk was by Will Joseph, Lando Norris’s F1 race engineer. The talk was delivered in conjunction with the Engineering Society at St Catharine’s, where Joseph studied. There was a technical aspect to the talk including an explanation of the data he sees throughout the race and how he interprets it, as well as how they decide when it is ideal to pit. Furthermore, Will explained where McLaren’s success has come from: not the engineering, but rather how the company has structured itself. He also spoke about the travel aspect of his job and its impact on his personal life with his family. Next year, we intend to keep a similar format to this year, but perhaps to organise more frequent formal swaps and hold a larger event such as a field trip. Committee members were: Co-Presidents: Vito Cipponeri and Oscar Coburn

Enterprise Society The Caius Enterprise Society aims to foster collaboration and entrepreneurship in Caius, offering a range of exciting opportunities to connect, inspire and educate, such as speaker talks, startup competitions and technical workshops. In Lent Term, guest speaker Mike Romanos, Associate Dean for Enterprise at Imperial College London’s Faculty of Medicine, delivered a talk entitled ‘Exploiting Bioscience Innovation for Medical and Commercial Impact.’ Mike discussed the importance of biomedical innovation, commercialisation routes, spinout formation stages and THE YEAR IN COLLEGE 2024-25

strategic approaches to enhance the ecosystem for greater success. This was hosted with the Cambridge Judge Entrepreneurship Centre and moderated by Victoria Kimonides (Director at Insaitu Ltd). At our Summer Intern Matching, startups pitched to recruit talented interns within the Oxford and Cambridge ecosystem, in collaboration with Cambridge University Entrepreneurs (CUE). In 2025-26, we plan to organise more speaker talks, startup competitions and technical workshops, with stronger collaborations with the Cambridge entrepreneurial ecosystem. We also hope to expand our community beyond its current 51 members. Committee members were: President: Karthik Prabhu Vice President: Nicholas Chan Chief Communications Officer: Emmanouil Chousakos Chief Operations Officer: Kishore Murugesh

Feminist & Gender Society The Feminist & Gender Society is open to all members of Caius, providing an atmosphere which is both inclusive and inspiring. We hold a variety of events, whether educational or social, and provide a space for all people to feel welcome and have their voices heard in a respectful and respected manner. What is so important about the society is its interaction with members of the JCR and collaborations with other societies so that we can be productive and engaging and provide support for all members of the College. Amongst many bar socials, sip and paint nights, and other social-based events within College, we also connected at a University-wide level by participating with the ‘FemScene’ event exploring Cambridge-based feminism and gender societies, and with the ‘Woman and the Cambridge University Film Association’ event. This has been great in widening the support base, listening to others and gathering ideas to implement at College level. We have also collaborated specifically with the Caius Brooke Society and Law Society on separate occasions, learning about girls’ education in London in the eighteenth century and discussing the impact of Donald Trump on issues of feminism and gender in the respective collaborations. We have also provided free tickets at brunch with Caius’ LGBTQ+ society which brought lots of people together. A particularly successful event was the swap between the Caius Association Football Club and the Caius/Catz/Hughes Women’s Football Team, where we were able to discuss gender within the context of sport and its potential implications.

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Alongside all this, we invited guest speakers to the International Women’s Day Formal and have assisted with a Formal for the charity Turtle Dove Cambridge. We also recorded an episode for the podcast The Feminist Files, in which we discussed gender and fashion, and which proved extremely successful! One of our last events this year was a bra collection to donate to the charity Smalls for All, which brought lots of us together to donate nearly four kilograms of bras! Frequent social media posts and stories on topical concerns and sharing details of support and various events is another way we have ensured people feel heard and supported by our society. We are really excited by next year’s committee’s ideas for the society. Plans include more collaborations, inviting external speakers, and continuing to ensure a supportive, fun and inclusive space. Committee members were: Co-Presidents: Alanah Clark and Ellen Brewster Publicity Officer: Maddie Wills Secretary: Amber Gooding Treasurer: Alicia Lorenzo

Caius/Hughes/Catz Women’s Football Club Caius/Hughes/Catz Women’s Football Team is a social way to get involved in football with or without previous experience. As a society we train weekly and have matches against other College teams most weekends. We also hope to support everyone’s wellbeing through physical activity.

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This year, our competing players topped Division 2 and made it to the quarterfinals of Cuppers. Committee members were: Captain/Treasurer: Anise Mellodey Secretaries: Sophie Connell (Caius) and Lucy Quigley (St Catharine’s)

Football Association Club Caius Association Football Club (GCAFC) welcomes all football enthusiasts within the College, from complete beginners to experienced players. The club fields three men’s league teams and a women’s team (the latter run jointly with St Catharine’s and Hughes Hall) and is open to both undergraduate and postgraduate students. GCAFC competes in the Cambridge University Association Football League (CUAFL), with matches against other College teams taking place most weekends during the Michaelmas and Lent terms. Each team also competes in its respective knockout tournament: the first team in Cuppers, the second team in the Shield, and the third team in the Vase. Additionally, we host an annual ‘old boys’ game around February/ March, where GCAFC alumni return to Cambridge for a football match against the current squad. Our results this year were: Cuppers: Quarter-final exit to Jesus College AFC. Shield: Semi-final exit to Fitzwilliam College AFC. Vase: Winners. We head into the upcoming academic year with great ambition and excitement, especially as we welcome a new cohort of freshers to the squad. The first XI will be

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aiming for promotion back to Division 1, following relegation at the end of the 202324 season. With a strong and promising team already in place, we are optimistic about making deep runs in all Cup competitions as well. Committee members were: President: Mithil Krishnan 1s Captain: Denzel Donkor 2s Captain: Tom Donnachie 3s Captain: Jeshvin Jesudas Treasurers: Oscar Coburn and Skandha Murali Socials and Welfare: Charlie Windle and Theo Maidment Kit and Sponsorship: Sam Newman-Sanders

Land Economy Society The Caius Land Economy Society comprises those currently studying the subject within Caius and aims to enhance cross-year collaboration and mentoring. Through organising events, the society fosters bonds between year groups and allows for advice and support to be passed down. This year we succeeded in hosting numerous events aiming to foster bonds between year groups. We also hosted a record number of alumni for our annual subject dinner and aim to build on this precedent next year. Our main aim for next year is to ensure the new students are fully supported as they begin their studies through organising an internal careers event, as well as leveraging our supportive alumni network to provide external support.

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Committee members were: President: Simran Chadda (pictured centre)

Law Society The Caius Law Society brings together the College’s Law students, including undergraduates and postgraduates engaged in legal research. We are committed to supporting our members’ career development by hosting events with leading law firms and barristers. A key focus is strengthening our alumni network by connecting current students with Caians now practising in the legal field. Beyond careers, we foster a vibrant community through swaps, socials and collaborative speaker events with both law and non-law societies, creating opportunities for professional growth and interdisciplinary engagement. Dinners and drinks with Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer and Slaughter & May, with employees who were predominantly former Caius students, allowed for networking especially for those students looking for a career as a commercial solicitor. We held a swap with the Caius Feminist and Gender Society: an open-table discussion around the intersection between legal and feminist issues (and how they shape each other), with a focus on the impact of Trump’s presidency on these issues. We hosted a Palestinian speaker event in the Senior Parlour regarding the international legal issues occurring in Palestine with guest speakers Alex Smith (ex-US Aid Chief) and Zain Ali. We also held: the Sir William McNair Moot, our annual compulsory moot for the Part IA lawyers, followed by a final for the top four mooters; a Formal swap with the Cranworth

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Society (the Downing Law Society) in Caius Hall, preceded by drinks in the Long Room; an end-of-year subject dinner with alumni invited; and drinks at the start and end of each term in the Long Room for a chance for the Caius lawyers to network across years and with Fellows. We are most grateful for having received sponsorship from Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer this year. In 2025-26, we plan to continue our relationship with alumni working in the legal sector and to host more dinners and events, specifically with commercial lawyers, as most Caius Law students are interested in entering this field after they graduate. Committee members were: President: Simon Bisotto Secretary: Sammy El-Masri Treasurer: Ben Sears Firm Firm Secretary: Theo Thomson Events Secretary: Joe Stead Welfare Officer: Nicole Hua Publicity Officer: Katie Melville

Medical Society Caius Medical Society (CMS) comprises all Caius medical and veterinary students across years 1-6 (approximately 150 people). It is a highly active society which organises a wide range of academic, access, welfare and social events throughout the year. The society aims to foster a sense of community and continuity across year groups, helping students to navigate the demanding medical course by providing academic resources

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and hosting top-level speakers, as well as supporting student wellbeing through social and welfare events like our welfare run or summer garden party. We also support Year 12 students across the country through our summer access days focusing on application advice and insights into life as a medic at Caius. We regularly host high-profile speakers on a range of topics. Among our many recent talks was ‘Navigating challenges with machine learning in computational pathology, from Spectra to Insights’ by Dr Tiago Azevedo, which focused on his work to develop AI models for histopathological data for practical use. CMS also works closely with the Caius Medical Association (CMA) alumni group to provide support for medics who want to undertake a summer research project. Students then present this research at the annual CMA dinner. These research projects involve a couple of months focused on anything from lab-based science through to studying epidemic data. CMS also plays a key academic support role through a Moodle page dedicated to study resources, as well as the provision of skulls and skeletons for medics throughout their first, second and third years. We are a society committed to welfare, providing support throughout the demands of a medical degree: we organise welfare runs and welfare treats, among other things. We host a wide range of social events, including Caius MedSoc Garden Party, the annual Caius MedSoc Dinner, introduction socials for freshers, the CMS Christmas party and numerous other events throughout the year. This helps to foster a sense of community and continuity across all years, both pre-clinical and clinical. We have recently launched a new initiative, ‘Preparing for Addenbrooke’s,’ which introduces first- and second-year medics to Clinical Medicine earlier than usual. This includes talks on clinically relevant material, and the chance to speak to patients at

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Addenbrooke’s Hospital and apply knowledge in a real-life clinical scenario. This has provided a valuable opportunity to develop crucial skills for the clinical years of the course. Next year, we plan to expand this programme to not only encompass talks and hospital work for first- and second-years but also provide talks for third-years on topics such as how to fund clinical school. Looking ahead to next year, Nobel Laureate and Caius alumnus Sir Peter Ratcliffe will be visiting us with a talk in October 2025. Sir Peter won the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 2019 and will be giving a talk entitled ‘Elucidation of cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms: adventures of a physician in discovery science’. We are also launching national summer access events for Year 12 state school students across the country. This will include talks on mock interviews and UCAT preparation, as well as the opportunity to see Caius and interview current medical students. As well as these new additions, we will be continuing our academic, social and welfare events to support all medics and vets at Caius throughout the six years. Committee members were: President: Tharun Manivannan Vice President: Karthik Prabhu Secretary: David Lee Treasurer: Kishore Murugesh First-year Representative: Rohan Rana Events Officers: Anubhav Rathore and Enrico Mariotti Publicity Officer: Ayan Mohamed Jameel Academic Officer: Dave Duru Vet Representative: Katie Carter Clinical Representative: Krishnan Ajit Careers Officer: Ryan Smith Access Officer: Emie Mettam Computing Officer: Tanay Vajramani Welfare Officers: Ameer Morshed and Sandriya Sundarakumaran

Natural Sciences Society The Natural Sciences Society comprises all Caius Natural Sciences students (primarily undergraduates but also including any postgraduates on science-oriented courses). The sheer breadth of the course makes us one of the most diverse societies in the College. We aim to foster a friendly and welcoming community of like-minded individuals and to provide a dedicated support network across all years of study. We organise a variety of events throughout the year, including academic opportunities such as talks and field trips, as well as social events to help students connect and unwind outside of their studies.

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At the start of the academic year, we held our annual Pizza Party, a relaxed social event aimed at bringing together Natural Sciences students from all year groups. The event was particularly helpful for freshers, offering an informal setting to seek advice on module choices and to get to know older students who had already navigated the course. We also hosted the Natural Sciences Annual Dinner, which brought together around 70 undergraduate and postgraduate students along with 15 Fellows. The evening focused on encouraging conversation across disciplines and year groups, highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of Natural Sciences at Caius and fostering connections with Fellows beyond students’ immediate subject areas. In Lent Term, we organised our first ever society field trip to the Sizewell B Nuclear Power Plant. Attendees were taken on an in-depth tour of the plant, including the turbine halls, cooling systems and maintenance areas. We heard from several staff members about the engineering and operations behind nuclear power, with particular emphasis on safety protocols addressing both natural and human risks. The visit helped demystify the realities of nuclear energy production and was extremely well received. Based on its success, we have recommended that similar academic trips be included in future society planning. Next year we plan to continue running events similar to previous years, both social and academic. We have already arranged for a talk to be given in College by Professor Daniel Goldman from Georgia Tech on 23 October 2025. Committee members were: President: Ernest Dokudowiec Vice Presidents: Nicholas Chan and James Cater Treasurer: Alex Atkinson Secretary: Pawel Grab Publicity Officer: Tuhina Rao Freshers’ Representative: Jess Boddington

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Netball Club Gonville & Caius Netball is a casual club with two sectors: ladies and mixed. Matches are played once a week against other Colleges for each team, and both teams also play Cuppers at the end of Lent Term. All years and abilities are always welcome and commitment is casual, but a weekly commitment is encouraged. See @caius_netball_ club on Instagram for our updates! Both our teams played competitively this year but unfortunately did not win a single match. We hope that our recently-purchased new bag, ball and bibs will help boost team morale next year! Committee members were: Ladies Captain: Amber Gooding Mixed Captain: Mari Puttick Treasurer: Ellen Chelberg

Photography Society The PhotoSoc is mainly made up of Caius members, with a few attending from other Colleges, who are interested in photography and especially film. We teach members how to shoot film and also develop their own film in the dark room at King’s College due to arrangement provided by the Domestic Bursar. We try to put on four events per term, providing students a much-needed creative outlet in the hectic Cambridge environment. Committee members were: President: Connor Singleton Secretary and Treasurer: Eva Fishman

Political Philosophy Society The PolPhil Soc hosts a range of speakers across the academic year to present on politics, history and philosophy. We offer all undergraduates the opportunity chances to meet leading academics in an intimate setting, engaging directly in Q&A sessions after every talk. In Michaelmas, we hosted four speaker events including a visit from the Baroness Featherstone, organised with the Cambridge University Liberal Association. We hosted talks from Dr Arcangelis, formerly of UCL, on the philosophy of Vico and Hegel in the Italian Risorgimento; Professor Serjeantson, from Trinity College, Cambridge, on universities in early modern Europe, offering some truly inspiring insights concerning our own College; and finished the term with founder of the Idler magazine, Tom Hodgkinson, speaking on what the life of ancients can teach us about living well today.

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Lent Term saw us hosting another three events, including talks from Professor Richard Bellamy from UCL, and Professor Helen Thompson from Clare College, Cambridge, as well as Peter Geoghegan. They spoke respectively on the rule of law, progressive politics and dark money. We always offer our speakers a meal in Hall after our events, financed by ourselves, so that attendees may have the chance to discuss the topics raised further over dinner. We are currently looking into events for next year, as well as deciding the future of the society, namely whether the current executive can expand to accommodate secretaries to give lower years a chance to involve themselves in organising events. We are hoping to broaden our scope of speakers next year, so that we can offer something for everyone. Committee members were: Co-Presidents: Luca Mihai, Calum Murray and Luke Mason Treasurer: Luke Mason

Rugby Union Football Club Gonville & Caius Rugby Union Football Club (GCRUFC) brings together students with a passion for rugby, whether seasoned players or complete newcomers, to train and compete, and have fun in the process. This has been the second year that we have been merged with Downing College, which has enabled us to continue to be a strong team in College rugby. We compete against other Colleges in fixtures throughout the year, in the league (in which all teams play all the others) and the all-important knockout tournament, Cuppers. We also host an annual match and dinner against our Old Boys, which is a highlight of the year for past and present players alike. In the league, we came third with an impressive record of six wins and three losses. This included a historic 29-5 victory over St John’s, a first for all involved. Unfortunately, this success did not carry over into Cuppers, where we were knocked out in the semi-final with a 43-31 loss to Robinson after a thrilling open game. Next year, GCRUFC will continue our successful partnership with Downing, and we hope to strengthen the team after losing some GCRUFC stalwarts. We aim for even greater success in the league and to capture an elusive piece of Cuppers silverware under the new captaincy of Sammy El-Masri.

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Committee members were: Captain: Patrick Meehan Vice-Captain: Sammy El-Masri President: Ben Burgess

Sailing Society The Gonville & Caius Sailing Society comprises sailors with a range of experience who are keen to represent the College at the annual Cuppers regatta in June. Committee members were: President: Robbie McDonald Secretary: Sam Dernie

Squash Society Caius Squash Society is a relaxed society open to players of all abilities. The diversity of playing opportunities available makes us one of the most inclusive sports societies in the College. From weekly no-commitment training sessions to competitive Cuppers matches, this society has it all! As a sport which few think about trying, we aim to strengthen the presence of squash in College and allow everyone to have a chance to play! Our first team ended the year in Division 1 and our second team in Division 5. Unfortunately, we were knocked out of Cuppers in the group stages. For 2025-26, we plan to continue with the first and second team and perhaps gather a stronger squad for the Cuppers team. We hope to hold coaching sessions focusing on

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teaching newer players some tactics/drills for improvement. We also plan to roll out some kit which has been requested. Committee members were: President and Captain: Shivan Aggarwal

Table Tennis Club Caius Table Tennis Club brings together students (both undergraduates and postgraduates) who love to play table tennis and provides financial support for players in our teams participating in the College leagues and Cuppers. We have tried to raise the general interest in table tennis in Caius, and we held weekly training sessions to cultivate players for these teams, providing equipment and the environment to train, practice and challenge both themselves and each other. We have three teams in the College league. The first team finished first in Division 2 during Michaelmas Term and was subsequently promoted to Division 1 in Lent Term. Additionally, we have teams competing in Division 3 and Division 8. We took part in Cuppers, but we weren’t able to bring a win home. We are proud to have two Varsity players: Will from the Men’s first team and Linda from the Women’s second team. Furthermore, there are several players who are part of the University Table Tennis Club’s development squad. In 2025-6, we will continue to hold weekly or bi-weekly sessions. Building on this year’s success, we will have at least two teams participating in the College league. We also aim to collaborate more closely with the University Table Tennis Club to encourage more players to join the recreational and development sessions. Our club plans to continue fostering table tennis players and promoting interest in our sport among Caians. Committee members were: President and First Team Captain: Linda Zou President and Treasurer: Frank Ding

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The Senior Bursar’s Report 2024-25

Seeking with optimism Arriving in College on St Patrick’s Day, much of the year I’m reporting on had already happened. My first Bursar’s Report will therefore be forward looking for the most part as well as reporting on the work set in train by my predecessor. My first day gave a good flavour of those initial weeks, with plenty of learning from those around me, mixed with the instant necessity of getting stuck into the business of the Bursary, focusing on raising funds and spending funds. In the Bursary we were in the midst of that quarter’s endowment re-investments, following the agreed portfolio reallocation plan. In the early days, leading the budgeting round for academic year 2025-26 was a golden opportunity to meet many staff and hear about their plans for the year ahead, and then to work with Fellows on the Finance Committee and the Council to set the coming year’s budget. The support and encouragement of the Bursary team, led by Penny Gibbs, was and is invaluable. Those internal, time-honoured processes which set the rhythm of life in the Bursary were being disrupted by external forces. The tariff announcements were an unprecedented shock to globalisation and markets. The budget setting is also influenced by inflation in our costs on the one hand and the lack of inflation in academic income, adversely affecting the higher education sector. It is the job of the Senior Bursar not just to run the regular processes in an excellent way, but to surf the waves of the external forces with style and opportunistically, to ensure that the College can be sustained in perpetuity and to enable the purpose of the College to promote Education, Learning, Research and Religion. I joined Caius from a career in Government, my previous role being a Director at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, alongside fellow Caian, Ruth Hannant (1993). Forgive a sporting analogy. The period since I joined has been a relay race, with the baton passing between the former Senior Bursar to me, and then between Masters. A successful relay race relies on effective baton exchange. The baton should be passed within a specific area known as the ‘takeover zone’. Our bursarial takeover zone involved a series of days spread through in Lent 2025, where I shadowed committees and distilled wisdom and advice from Robert Gardiner.

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Secondly, the runners should focus on the grip of baton during the exchange to ensure a smooth transfer. I have been mindful to continue the grip demonstrated by my predecessor. The team should agree on an exchange method: upsweep, downsweep or push pass, choose a method that all team members are comfortable with and practice it to ensure efficiency during the race. Lastly, the relay team should aim for an explosive start! The following are the significant high-level themes of the finances in 2024-25. The primary mission of the College is Education, and so it is natural to consider how support for this mission is reflected in our finances. Academic income received by College declined by 0.4%, as student numbers reduced slightly by 2.7% UG and 1.2% PG, from the previous year’s high figure offsetting an underlying rise in academic fees of 1%, of which PG fees were up 11%. Notwithstanding this overall static picture of academic income, the College invested further in educational expenditure, driven in large part by increasing staff costs (the increased NICS rate from 13.8 to 15% and lowering of the earnings threshold to £5,000) and pay award contributing to a weighted average College inflation of 3.54%. Thus, the College spent £322k more on teaching (+7%), £52k more on tutorial (+2.9%) and £39k more on research (+2.8%). It is notable that spending on scholarships and studentships fell back by £772k (-32%) compared with the previous year’s level. Readers may recall that the previous year’s peak was a planned distribution of one-off accumulated income in a number of restricted endowments of studentships. The figure for 2024-25 is a return to the normal practice of spending only that year’s income from an endowment and spending expendable restricted funds where a worthy recipient is found. Our education strategy focuses on excellence and outreach. Spending on the Cambridge Bursary Scheme was £501k, offset by income from the University and other Colleges, giving a net cost of £249k. We can be proud of this fulfilment of the strategy. The net additional spending per student was £8,716. The College is able to commit this additional spending by raising income through commercial activity, from donations and from our financial and property investments, 'the endowment'.

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Accommodation and catering income rose by 8%, with an excellent 34% increase in conference activity (taking it up to 84% of pre-pandemic levels on an inflation adjusted basis), building on last year’s 44% rise. Donations in year were £4.3m. College has a debt of gratitude to all alumni and others giving their financial support. I have very much enjoyed meeting so many of you this year and hearing your memories and wishes for the future success of the College. Turning to the endowment. Returns from the endowment were disappointing and this will affect budget setting for 2026-27 in Easter 2026. The investments of the College declined slightly at £286m at 30 June 2025, compared with £287m in the prior year. We moved net £4.5m funds into cash, to facilitate the portfolio reallocation and the financial investment assets declined as a result of global market and economic conditions, only partly offset by property investment increases. The net investment income was £6,620, which did not meet the agreed drawdown of £6842 (a £223k shortfall). Following the Yale rule on the expendable amount, that drawdown was based on the value of the endowment at 30 March 2024. The College should not dwell excessively on the mark-to-market results at any one point in time (in this case 30 June 2025) but can look at the longer term to ensure its finances are sustainable. Property investment costs (on land and building advisory and maintenance) were up by 31%, driven by the decision to refurbish Terrington House to attract a higher commercial rent and extend the useful life of the building. I should mention borrowing. Property assets include £10m financed by a loan from the 2013-14 Cambridge Colleges Private Placement and £0.6m of amounts drawn under a Revolving Credit Facility attributable to the College’s investments. The overall borrowing from the Revolving Credit Facility was £13.5m at end June, this was largely to finance operational expenditure, principally the decarbonisation project. The cash flow forecast shows this rising to £20m by summer 2026. My first few months have also been dominated by two notable property projects, both led by the Domestic Bursar, Karen Ball. Firstly, the refurbishment of the Aston Webb building, A to F St Michael’s Court, with an in-year cost of £8,893,000, completed in 2025-26 and now re-opened for accommodation and roofing works nearing completion. Secondly, the Old Courts decarbonisation project. With an in-year spend of £1,690,000, the College reactivated a dormant subsidiary, Caius Property Services Ltd, to receive income and make payments on behalf of College for the decarbonisation project. The principal purpose of

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this approach is to ensure that most of the work in the project attracts the zero per cent VAT rating available for renewable energy installations. The government has announced that this rate will revert to a reduced rate of 5% from April 2027. Starting the decarbonisation work in 2024-25 allowed Caius to benefit from the temporary zero rate and also to receive a public sector decarbonisation scheme Salix grant from the government of £1.62m before that scheme closed. Earlier in the year, the College also installed air-source heat pumps at Goodhart House, created a new fully accessible MCR in the postgraduate campus, installed a new lift in the Stephen Hawking Building, refurbished flats in Mill Road and fully refurbished the Senior Parlour.

Priorities This financial overview supports the priorities I have set for my future work which I look forward to detailing in my next report. 1) Finance • Review of College Budget (income and expenditure) • Endowment investment strategy 2) Property • Development of Radcliffe Court options • Implementation of the Duxford Avtech development • Project and programme discipline for capital works 3 )People • Statutes and Compendia review • Staff people plan

Concluding Thoughts I am so grateful to all of the staff, Fellows and students who have made me feel welcome by generously sharing their ideas and experiences. They have coached me through the first two terms. I look forward to our discussions every day. College life is a supremely aesthetic pleasure, I couldn’t be authentic in this report without celebrating this. My days now begin with walking from Harvey Court to the Old Courts, rather than commuting to London and riding the Underground, and my first day ended in Chapel. The moments of joy are shared within a wonderful community of staff, Fellows and students. I see excellence, imagination, commitment and hope all around me.

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I would like to conclude with the words set to music by Jonathan Dove, sung by our Choir at my admission, with so many Fellows kindly present in support: Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion and turneth the shadow of death into the morning. Alleluia, yea, the darkness shineth as the day, and the night is light about me. Amen.

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Abridged Accounts for year ended 30 June 2025 Income and expenditure account Unrestricted

Restricted Endowment

Total

Income

£000

Academic fees and charges

4,016

249

4,265

Accommodation, catering and conferences

8,365

9,247

Investment income Endowment return transferred

Endowment return transferred

4,219

2,624

(6,843)

Other income

272

Total income before donations and endowments

16,872

2,873

Donations

1,088

185

1,273

319

2,471

2,790

197

New endowments Other capital grants for assets

2,404 22,149

197

17,960

3,574

4,875 26,409

Education

8,857

2,712

- 11,569

Accommodation, catering and conferences

9,449

143

9,592

Other expenditure

1,556

6,185

7,793

Contribution under Statute G,II

216

Total expenditure

20,078

2,907

6,185 29,170

Surplus/(deficit) before other gains and losses

(2,118)

667

(1,310) (2,761)

Total income Expenditure

Gain on investments

(138)

(8)

3,703

3,557

Surplus/(deficit) for the year

(2,256)

659

2,393

796

Other comprehensive income/ (expenditure) Actuarial gain/(loss) in respect of pension schemes Total comprehensive income for the year

432

(1,824)

659

2,393

1,228

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Consolidated Balance Sheet as at 30 June 2025 Consolidated 2025 £000 Non-current assets Fixed assets

152,745

Heritage assets

120

Investment assets

285,819

Total non-current assets

438,684

Current assets Stock

649

Trade and other receivables

4,801

Cash and cash equivalents Total current assets

5,450

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

(25,892)

Net Current assets

(20,442)

Total Assets less current liabilities

418,242

Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year

(12,708)

Net assets excluding pension liability

405,534

Net pension liability

(1,708)

Net assets

403,826

Restricted reserves Income and expenditure reserve – endowment reserve

98,983

Income and expenditure reserve – restricted reserve

9,827

Unrestricted reserves Income and expenditure reserve – unrestricted

295,016

Total Reserves

403,826

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The Director of Development’s Report 2024-25 (96 - 107)

Dr Maša Amatt, Director of Development, writes: ‘Change in a continuum’ sums up 2024-25. It was the final year for Professor Rogerson as the Master of Caius and the year in which we welcomed the new Senior Bursar, Sarah Tebbutt. Change can be unsettling for some, but I gratefully embrace the new viewpoints and opportunities it offers. The fundraising world never stands still and to be successful we have to be open to new initiatives and ideas, along with the ‘tried and Martin to work with the Caius Foundation trusted’. So itMatthew was exciting Maša Amatt Precentor and Director of College Music, Director ofthis Development directors year to bring to life the first DoS Caius in Music online auction. During the year, we created a number of opportunities to bid farewell to the Master by gathering Law alumni, former students and tutees in a series of events, some more, some less formal. Sally (1990) and Steven (1995) Dyson generously hosted a special dinner at Haberdashers’ Hall at which the Rogerson Studentship Fund was launched. Later in the year we partied at the London Rowing Club, superbly organised by Marisa Chan (1992), and finished off with a formal dinner in Hall in June. TheChristina Rogerson Studentship Fund will support postgraduate students at Caius, Faraday Christopher Scott irrespective subject. It addresses one&of Colleges’ key priorities and remains RF: History of of Art Tutordirectly for Admissions Outreach open to your contributions. Funding, or rather the lack thereof, is the greatest barrier in pursuit of higher academic degrees, vital for the development of future thinkers and discoverers. Academic term dates punctuate a Caius year. From the perspective of alumni, the year is perhaps more noticeably punctuated by the regular reunions (Annual Gatherings), May Week Parties and many other events that bring our family together. The September Family Fun Day is now a firm fixture and a new addition this year was the London Carol Service featuring the College Choir. It was a very popular occasion which will without Jennifer doubt become a regular event to mark thePhillips festive season.

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Your generous support extends in different ways, including hosting events for fellow Caians. Mark Boyle (1996) and Ashley Coups (1990) generously welcomed us all to the EY offices for some of the best views in London and an interesting discussion about AI. The indomitable and inimitable Adrian Pegg (2001) is the engine behind the exceedingly popular Caius Cocktails, now a regular London after-work social. Thanks to George Budden (1984), the President and David Tait (1996), Caius Boat Club alumni gathered at

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Henley and welcomed 20 of the current rowers. The new tradition is getting set typically for the Wednesday of Henley, which is also the first day of College crew races. The Master and I very much enjoy the regular visits to Caians in the US, Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. We were warmly welcomed and Caians wonderfully entertained in New York by the Directors of the Caius Foundation; in San Francisco by Heather Deixler (1999); in Kuala Lumpur by Patrick Helson (1985); in Singapore by Mike Syn (1990) and Siew Chua (1984); and in Hong Kong by Kevin Chan (1996). In Hong Kong we also enjoyed the traditional Hong Kong Chapter Lunch organised by Arun Nigam (1964). The President, Professor Robinson, is our man in Switzerland, to where he returned again in August. Rob Vinall (1992) generously opened his home to host Caians in Zürich. Following the mandatory updates from Caius and the President’s talk about affective computing, the guests enjoyed an animated discussion about AI. I am deeply grateful to all who so enthusiastically support our visits. Professor Peter Mandler's retirement is being marked by the launch of the History Studentship Fund which will support postgraduate studies in History. A magnificent dinner is planned for Michaelmas 2025 to bring together Caius historians, academics and alumni in celebration of Peter’s tenure. More than 1,600 Caians supported the College financially this year, amounting to a total of £4 million. In addition, over 340 of you have told us about leaving a legacy gift in your Wills. We celebrated your kindness throughout the year and two special annual events serve to bring those celebrations to the fore: the May Week Party and the Commemoration of Benefactors. The May Week Party always combines with a jolly afternoon by the Cam for the last day of the May Bumps. This year was very special indeed as we marked the 25th anniversary of the Double Headship (see pp 72-4 below). Tom (1994) and Emma (1997) Fardon excelled in organising a reunion weekend and row over for the ‘reconstituted’ headship crews between top divisions. The celebrations on the river were particularly poignant as we remembered Martin Wade (1962), who died last year. Martin’s widow Vicky joined the Bumps party to present a generous final gift from Martin to his beloved Boat Club. The newly formed Martin Wade Fund will ensure CBC remains on a strong footing for decades to come. Thank you very much to an ever-expanding army of volunteers who are all a wonderful addition to the core Development team: from the Development Advisory Group to dozens of you who volunteer in a ‘less structured’ way. I always like to describe fundraising as a team sport, and I could not wish for a better squad!

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In the meantime, there is a lot to do, and it is wonderful that in these endeavours I work with such brilliant people in the Development team. Over the past year we said goodbye to Lizzy Vogel and welcomed Charlie Boul. Originally from the USA, Charlie joined the Development Office as Engagement Assistant in August 2025 after completing a Classics degree at Trinity Hall. She works with Oliver to organise alumni events and answer general enquiries and particularly loves to hear stories from alumni about their time at Caius. Outside of work, Charlie is likely to be found wrangling teenagers in her church’s youth group, on a walk around Grantchester Meadows, or reading any cosy murder mystery she can get her hands on. Please do visit if you are in Cambridge; you will always be welcomed warmly. The Development team ‘lives’ on P staircase in Tree Court and we look forward to meeting you. You can, of course, always reach us by telephone, 01223 803720, or email, development@cai.cam.ac.uk, and find further information on the College website at www.cai.cam.ac.uk/alumni.

Development Advisory Group William Vereker (1985; Chair) Chris Aylard (2002) Mark Damazer (1974) Sally Dyson (1990) Veryan Exelby (1991) David Hulbert (1969) Paul Kaiser (1991) Andrew Marsden (2008) Catherine Lister (1985) Sarah Watt (1999) Stephen Zinser (Parent)

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The Caius Foundation Report 2024-25

Eva Strasburger (1982), Secretary, writes: The Caius Foundation is a tax-exempt educational and charitable organisation under Section 501(c)(3) of the US Internal Revenue Code. US taxpayers may give taxdeductible gifts to The Caius Foundation and the Foundation’s Board makes grants within the Foundation’s charitable aims.

President and Directors of the Caius Foundation President Secretary Co-Treasurers

Emeritus President Emeritus Director

Christopher Hogbin (1993) Clara Spera (2012) Ian Dorrington (1997) and Sartaj Gill (1994) Katie Harrison Rowe (1992) Greg Lyons (1997) Professor Peter Walker (1960) Mr John Barabino (1987) Professor Pippa Rogerson (1986) Robert Gardiner (2018) Dr Maša Amatt (2020) The Honorable Dr John Lehman (1965) Eva Strasburger (1982)

In 2025 the Caius Foundation disbursed $386,406 in grants to Caius, which was only possible thanks to the generosity of US-based Caians. The Master and Director of Development visited in December 2024, with stops in New York and San Francisco. Heather Deixler (1999) generously hosted a Caian gathering at Cavallo Point in Sausalito, and the Caius Foundation a reception at Seamore’s Dumbo in New York. This was Professor Rogerson’s final visit to the US in her capacity as Master of Caius. We are thankful for Professor Rogerson’s service to the College through challenging times and her support for various activities the Foundation had undertaken in recent years. We are constantly looking for ways to engage and augment opportunities to bring Caians in the US together. This year saw the Caius Foundation run the inaugural online auction. It was great to see Caians engaging with it and raising money for the College in a fun way. This was very successful fundraiser, hitting the high-end target. Engagement was also very good with 53 winning bidders and 68 registered people. The auction drew in bidders from Europe and Asia, making it a truly global Caius effort.

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Peter (1960) and Wuliang Walker generously hosted another engaging event in New York in March 2025. Mark Damazer CBE (1974) was a guest speaker attracting a good crowd and an excellent discussion about current developments in US politics and its deep roots in the country’s history. In August 2025 Caians in New York gathered again to enjoy Shakespeare in the Park, courtesy of Chris Hogbin. It was a particularly special occasion following the extensive refurbishments of the Delacorte Theatre. Alongside Chris, grateful thanks are also due to Clara Spera for making this event possible. Please do get in touch with the Development team in the College if you have ideas and suggestions for interesting and fun events in the future. We are particularly interested to hear from Caians outside the New York catchment who would be interested in hosting events in other parts of the US. Finally, our thanks go to all those who choose to support the Foundation. It is thanks to you that we can contribute to the continued prosperity of our College.

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THE YEAR IN COLLEGE 2024-25

A Diamond Jubilee!

By Roy Smalley In 1965, five friends throughout three years in Caius graduated. Sixty years later, those same friends arranged to meet to celebrate their ‘Graduation Diamond Jubilee’. They came up as freshmen in 1962, and two of them, Dick Bye and Roy Smalley, became friends at the first dinner in Hall, which at that time was a temporary building in Tree Court. Two further friends came via the Boat Club, where Robert Campbell stroked the third boat and John Blakeley was cox. Roy rowed at number five, having started as a complete novice. Richard Fleming was an electronics wizard, and, together with Dick and Roy, read Engineering, then known as Mechanical Sciences. John read Law, and Robert read Agriculture. Their regular practice became to meet before dinner in one or another of their rooms for a glass of sherry. Harvey’s Merienda was a favourite. After graduation, they all fairly regularly attended Annual Gatherings, and always exchanged Christmas cards and messages. In 2023, they all met up in Ripley, North Yorkshire, as travelling to Cambridge was becoming more difficult. In June 2025, sixty years after graduating, four of them, three with their wives, met at Aston Hall Hotel, near Rotherham in South Yorkshire, for dinner and an overnight stay. It was a truly memorable occasion. Sadly, a recent operation forced the other couple to cancel at quite short notice. They each give their story below.

The gathering before lunch… From left to right: Roma Fleming, Richard Fleming, Roy Smalley, John Blakeley, Dick Bye, Norma Blakeley, Sue Bye

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John Blakeley I came up to Caius in 1962 to read Law after working for a while at a grammar school in Nigeria through the charity Voluntary Service Overseas. At Cambridge, the teaching was fit for purpose, if pedestrian. Extracurricular activities included table tennis and the Boat Club (coxing). A particular memory arising from the latter is of an outing, the first in a boat newly allocated to our crew, when, well aware of the need to keep out of the way of course boats having a priority right of way, I spotted two such approaching, and in an avoidance measure ended up with the bow of our eight wedged into the bank. Roy Smalley, Robert Campbell and everyone (except of course me) abandoned ship into chest-high water. Afloat on the river once more, we just made it back to the boathouse before sinking, but the CBC (and I) persevered and oh, the camaraderie of those frostbitten early mid-winter mornings on the Cam! After graduating I was called to the Bar in 1967. My career, based mainly in the West Midlands, was in the engineering industry, in a bygone era when manufacturing was still an important part of the UK economy. I specialised in company and commercial law, with an emphasis on Mergers and Acquisitions around the world. I became a Public company director. After retirement, I worked with and for a number of charities, as trustee or volunteer, and in a local government context. I am married to Norma, whom I wed in 1967: we have two daughters. Dick Bye FCA When I went up to Caius in 1962, my first lecturer emphasised that I was not a top rank student and that I would take three years to get my degree, against two years for the bright students. That was not a great start to my university experience! I next tried athletics and found that the quarter milers left me behind (and I had represented my school at the county sports). My first year saw me slowly getting to know other undergraduates and myself, and even to enjoy the Mechanical Sciences course. However, I met others in a similar position who had experimented in rowing, so I joined the College third boat in my second year, and life moved up a gear. Sadly a ‘crab’ spoilt our chances of an oar. In my third year I won promotion to the first boat and enjoyed the tension of the Bumps races (and we were not bumped).

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After the Lent Bumps in 1965 a group of us, in celebratory mood, decided to suspend a boat high across Trinity Street. We were spotted and reported to the police, and at the Senior Tutor's insistence, gated for the final week of term. The news of this disciplinary action reached The Guardian and was read by my girlfriend in Liverpool the following day! My II.2 was achieved in the year that Rolls Royce had banking troubles as the board consisted of engineers, not accountants, so I then took up articles with a firm of Chartered Accountants, transferring to Deloitte, Plender, Griffith and Company in London. Having passed the examinations in the three-year article period, I was left considering the next position, including an appointment in Buenos Aires, Argentina. My father, also a Chartered Accountant in Middlesbrough, suggested that I might enjoy working as a partner in a small practice and that another practise was up for sale and he would need a third partner. After considerable thought, I decided to join him and enjoyed a good career. We supported small businesses which expanded into large enterprises with several subsidiaries in building, international machine tool selling, computer trading, milk dairy and car trading but also small businesses which stayed small or died. A fascinating collection of people. We also had a collection of farms, from hill farmers to large family farms, and several smaller charities such as two hospices. I was also a school governor for many years. Then, in my early 50s I suffered a stroke, which brought my career as a practising chartered accountant to a sudden end. My abilities with speech and language were badly hit and I was no longer eligible for professional indemnity insurance cover. In time, I made a good recovery physically and also had retained my ability with numbers. So, I was able to work, firstly as a bookkeeper for an importer of American-made furniture, which he sold to British retailers. Later I worked for a sole-practitioner solicitor, bookkeeping but also doing tax computations for his clients, under the protection of his PE insurance. I finally retired when, at 70, we decided to downsize and move south to be nearer our family. Throughout all these years I have enjoyed family life, watching my three children grow into their own university lives and subsequent careers. My eight grandchildren are currently a joy: five now at university and the other three hoping to go soon. J. Robert Campbell MBE, FRAgS I arrived at Caius in 1962 to study on the first Honours Course in Agriculture at Cambridge. My Tutor was Dr Macpherson whose Scottish accent I picked up very quickly, having been at school in Scotland, much to the amusement of my friends. I had free afternoons and, having some knowledge of rowing from my interest in sailing, I joined the Boat Club. The advantage of this was that I had no need to look where I was going so my specs were superfluous. The first Easter Term that year saw the Cam (and some

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rooms) freeze, but I lived above the Senior Tutor’s rooms which kept me warmer. My abiding memory is of looking from my bedroom straight down King’s Parade on the morning of the thaw: every building was white with frost on the stone as if it had been painted by some student prank. Once the Cam thawed, training started again and with it much enjoyment but few bumps. Looking back, it is extraordinary how much agriculture has changed beyond any expectations we had then. We were asked to create and test a chick diet which was sent to the university computer to be calculated; now computers drive swarms of machines to plant seeds and record their positions or pick raspberries. The agriculture course did not predict this but did give us the understanding to take even changes of that magnitude in our stride. Dick Bye performed his brotherly duty by asking me to escort his big sister Jane to the May Ball. Even though she discovered my dancing skills were minimal, the connection was made, and we were married in November 1966 after I had spent a further year as a farm student and sailing. I was selected by my club to join the crew to ferry the yacht Bloodhound, then owned by the Duke of Edinburgh, from Torquay to Oban, a real privilege. We bought a farm near Stokesley in January 1967and lived in a caravan for about nine months while doing up the farmhouse. Over the years we accumulated more land, and when my father died, he passed on his farm near Galashiels to me, which my son James now farms with his wife and daughter. Our two daughters, one the mother of two further grandchildren live locally on small farms. Over the years I have spent time developing training in agricultural skills and served as chairman on several local and national farming committees for DEFRA, the NFU, the CLA, and LEAF, which led to my being awarded an MBE, pinned on me by the late Queen Elizabeth II, a real honour. Richard Fleming Engineering was always my hobby. Meccano was a good start. Later I built a hi-fi system from information in a magazine and, with my cousin, built a sports car from parts of two others. Then, when the offer of a place at Caius came in spring 1962, I left school for a summer job with a company designing positive-displacement pumps. At Cambridge, as a relief from studies, I got together a recording system for concerts: some folk may remember the sewer pipe loudspeakers in Caius Chapel. I also had LPs made from a tape recording of Blanchard’s Te Deum, bought mostly by the choir members. After graduation I joined EMI, working on electronics and automation systems: machine

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tool control, warehouse control, and offshore platform deployment and monitoring. EMI offered good support to industry. From that, I moved on to safety monitoring for military ranges. Inevitably, of course, the work changed from creation to management, then ceased just as I hit 50. Kind friends and ex-colleagues offered me a job, and so I went back with a technical interest in automation systems. That lasted until I was 65. I was working for EMI when I met Roma. We married in 1967 and have two daughters and grandchildren. I had been involved in church charities since I was about 25, so it was logical once I retired to volunteer for Citizens Advice. That lasted until the Covid-19 lockdown. Since charity work was allowed by lockdown rules, I have maintained contact with a few clients, even up until now, despite a major house move. And my Grandfather’s grandfather clock is still running. Roy Smalley I came up to Caius in 1962 as a mature student, two weeks before my 30th birthday, to read Mechanical Sciences. I had served two years National Service with the Royal Engineers and had served six years as an engineer in Rotherham district of Yorkshire Electricity Board. I was married, with two sons, aged 5 and 2, so altogether an ‘odd ball’. I soon made friends with other freshmen, two of whom were also on the same course. I joined the Boat Club as a complete novice and thoroughly enjoyed it. That brought me two more friends, one reading Law and the other reading Agriculture. One thing which struck me was how kind everyone was, in the best sense of the word, both fellow students and College staff. It made me a kinder, and better, person. We all graduated in 1965 and have remained friends ever since, meeting occasionally in College, and exchanging greetings and news at Christmas time. After graduation, our third son was born. I returned to the Yorkshire Electricity Board as a first engineer in Sheffield. I spent a lot of time developing new techniques for the location and repair of gas leaks on pressurised high voltage cables and later developed a completely new method of finding electrical faults on the sheaths of some of these cables. I eventually did a lot of work on switchgear and automatic protection equipment on 132 kV systems. I took early retirement aged 57, two days before the industry was privatised in 1990. Having joined in 1948 about six months after nationalisation, I had lived through virtually the whole of the nationalisation era.

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Having retired, I joined a mixed voice choir in Sheffield, and also a church choir, both of which I enjoyed very much. I spent a lot of time renovating my homes and also enjoyed gardening. I bought an electronic organ, with two manuals and pedals, which I renovated. I started having organ lessons six days before my 73rd birthday, and continued until over 85, when I had to give more time to caring for my wife and no longer had sufficient time to practise. I had almost thirteen years of lessons and reached Grade 6. My wife died in 2018, aged 86, after 63 years of marriage, and I now live alone. I have seven grandchildren and six great grandchildren. I am in reasonably good health, but a bit ‘wobbly’, and I am no longer allowed to drive, so have had to give up my choir in Sheffield after 33 years. I am a bit isolated, but I am content, and ever grateful for all my countless blessings.

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Charles Wood (1866-1926) Caius Composer, Fellow and Cambridge Musician

By Jeremy Dibble Charles Wood, the centenary of whose death we commemorate in 2026, came to Caius in the autumn of 1889. He had entered the University the year before at Selwyn College, a newly inaugurated ‘public hostel’ where, funded by an extension of his scholarship at the Royal College of Music, he was organ scholar. At Selwyn he began his studies for the Music and BA degrees and he did his best to promote church music in the hostel’s makeshift chapel (with no organ) and concerts for the Musical Society. However, when Caius advertised the post of ‘Music Scholar,’ which offered greater opportunity and prestige, he migrated with alacrity. At Caius he successfully supplicated for his degrees in 1890 (a condition of his employment) and took his DMus in 1894. Owing almost certainly to the initiative of Ernest Stewart Roberts (Fellow 1870, President 1894, Master 1903-12), Wood was himself elected as a Fellow in 1894. It was the first time that a musician had received a Fellowship in any of the ancient universities, and it was a pioneering event which was keenly acknowledged in Cambridge and in the national press. As William Bate Hardy (1884, Fellow 1892-1934) recalled: ‘The Governing Body had chosen wisely. His unfailing kindness and nimble wit made many friends beyond the musical set, and with the latter he established relations of personal friendship which were maintained to the end’ (cf The Caian, xxxiv, 1925-27, p. 162). Wood arrived in Cambridge at an auspicious time. The Cambridge University Musical Society (CUMS) had become a fixture in the nation’s musical calendar with its imaginative and unusual programmes of orchestral, choral and chamber music, often featuring the participation of Joseph Joachim, and, through the offices of Richard Runciman Terry, a choral scholar at King’s College, the Cambridge University Musical Club (CUMC) was founded in 1889 to promote chamber music for the benefit of students in the university. Added to this, through the agency of choral and organ scholarships, improvement in choral standards in chapel choirs and the institution of college musical societies gathered momentum. Wood was a keen participant in the regular Saturday-evening CUMC concerts as a pianist (though he did once appear as a violist). He also helped train the CUMS chorus, took the role of CUMS organist, and, as part of his statutory duties at Caius, organised the concerts of the college Musical Society (GCMS). He also undertook the ceremonial duties of bandmaster for the Cambridge University Volunteer Rifles between 1889 and 1897 (which brought some useful additional income), a position he held almost certainly at the persuasion of Roberts, its Colonel in Chief. How rapidly Wood established himself within the musical life of the University is indicated by his creative energy and his acceptance among the musical fraternity.

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He was invited as one of a number of distinguished guests (including Sir George Grove, Lord Leighton, Sir Charles Parry, Sir Charles Stanford, Alma Tadema and Sedley Taylor) to attend a dinner in Caius Hall on 14 March 1889 to celebrate Joachim’s first appearance in public in 1839. As a member of CUMS, he must also have been present at the Society’s Jubilee in 1893 when Bruch, Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns and Boïto came to Cambridge to receive honorary doctorates. He must also have had the chance to meet them at the dinner afterwards in King’s College Hall together with Vaughan Williams. Other honorary doctorates awarded subsequently to Dvořák, Grieg, Dohnányi, Elgar, Glazunov and Busoni offered the same opportunity for him to meet the most preeminent figures in contemporary music of the time. The propitious reputation he had generated as a student composer at the RCM with his String Quartet in D minor (which Joachim heard there), a piano concerto, solo songs and madrigals, continued at Cambridge with a septet (possibly written for CUMC), a prizewinning wind quintet for the Wind Instrument Chamber Music Society (both 1889) which brought with it the welcome sum of 25 guineas, and an orchestral overture based on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. The following year, the Cambridge Greek Play Committee commissioned him to provide music for its new production of Euripides’ Ion. The success of this score led to a second commission in 1894 for Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris from which the composer extracted a suite of choral and orchestral pieces for CUMS. Wood loved the theatre and the opera even though it is not a genre with which he is now readily associated. An undated fantasy Irish opera, Pat in Fairyland, perhaps composed in the early 1900s in collaboration with John Todhunter (a prominent member of the Society of Authors), was left unfinished, but two delightful one-act operas, based on vignettes from The Pickwick Papers and Martin Chuzzlewit, written for and performed by the RCM Opera Class in 1921 and 1922 respectively – Wood adored Dickens – evince an inventive and idiomatic talent. At Cambridge, however, it was the Greek Plays which allowed him to interact with the student singers and professional instrumentalists. For performances of Parry’s substantial score for Aeschylus’ Agamemnon (1900) and repeat performances of Parry’s The Birds (in 1903 and 1924), Stanford’s The Eumenides (1906) and Oedipus Tyrannus (1912), he trained the chorus and conducted the performances (occasionally shared with the composers) at Cambridge’s New Theatre in St Andrews Street. These productions, which Edward Dent described in The Cambridge Review (1909, p. 156) as being forerunners of modern English opera, were challenging undertakings, even more so when the Greek Play Committee (of which Wood was an active member) commissioned Vaughan Williams’ extensive score for The Wasps in 1909 (an event which attracted national attention) and Armstrong Gibbs’ Oresteia in 1921. Wood’s presence at Caius, particularly after he became a Fellow, also soon paid dividends. Concerts by the GCMS were important termly events (especially the Ladies’ Nights)

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covered by the local press, and enjoyed a continued expansion in audience numbers (demanding formal evening dress). In 1895, the Scales Club, an association for students and staff with a more serious interest in music (members were expected not only to participate as performers but take part in musical discussion), was formed with Wood as Life President. Meeting in Wood’s or other members’ rooms, the club blossomed and it was often led by the College’s organ and choral scholars. His standing as a teacher of both counterpoint and composition (which also involved at least two days a week at the RCM) soon began to attract pupils studying for the MusBac degree. Vaughan Williams and Hugh Allen (organ scholar at Christ’s College) were two of his earliest Cambridge students, but there were, along with those at the RCM, to be many more.

Charles Wood (bottom row centre) and the Scales Club 1911 In 1893, by sheer force of personality, Stanford put forward major reforms to the music degrees. Until then, the music degree had been non-resident, but the Senate now approved a new condition of residence (nine terms) like other degrees, thereby raising music, until then a ‘second-class’ discipline, to the status of other subjects. With other reforms (which included the abolition of the Exercise), the degree, by necessity, warranted a Faculty of teaching staff and courses of lectures; Wood’s role thus became more central, especially after he succeeded George Garrett as University Lecturer in Harmony and Counterpoint in 1897. Indeed, with Stanford’s absence as a non-resident professor, Wood was often perceived as the effective ‘leader’ of the degree programme.

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As the public schools (such as Uppingham, Tonbridge, Marlborough, Repton, Wellington, Winchester and Eton) and grammar schools began to include music as part of their regular curriculum, the awards of choral and organ scholarships increasingly gained prestige, and the number of students studying music in Cambridge grew. This included the likes of Edward Dent (King’s), Cyril Rootham (St John’s), Stanley Roper (Corpus), Clive Carey (Clare), C. H. Kitson (Selwyn), Charles Hylton Stewart (Peterhouse), Paula Garcia (Girton), W. C. Denis Browne (Clare), Hubert Middleton (Peterhouse), Harold Rutland (Queen’s), Arthur Bliss (Pembroke), Boris Ord (Corpus), Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (Trinity), Denis Arundell (St John’s), Patrick Hadley (Pembroke) and Hugo Anson (Trinity). The musicians at Caius were also an endorsement of Wood’s standing as a teacher and boasted an impressive list of names which began in the late 1890s with Geoffrey Shaw (brother of Martin), Geoffrey Hatten (a John Stewart Rannoch Scholar of Sacred Music), Heathcote Statham, Maurice Besly, George Jerrard Wilkinson (a folk dancer and close friend of Wood’s RCM composition scholar, George Butterworth), Alistair McNaughton Smallwood (a Cambridge Blue and English international rugby player), Ronald Chamberlain, Christian Darnton, Eric Warr, John Meredith Tatton and (after Wood’s death in July 1926) William Glock. Many of these were organ scholars and they ably assisted Wood with the superintendence of chapel music. Shaw, for example, took on full responsibility for the choir while Wood was in Australia for several months in 1901, and Warr was especially supportive in the last couple of years of Wood’s life. Music students and those who loved to participate practically in the subject were an important presence in the Scales Club and the GCMS as well as the more University-wide activities of CUMS and the CUMC. Their names can also be found among the performers in the Greek Plays. The GCMS, furthermore, also became a regular platform for some of Wood’s miniature choral items. This included arrangements of Irish tunes, small cantatas such as The Ballad of Agincourt and Sailors Song (a setting of Tennyson’s ‘The Captain’) for solo baritone and male chorus, and the highly entertaining choral variations on ‘The British Grenadiers’ first sung at a GCMS concert in June 1913. Some of Wood’s church music was almost certainly written for Caius Chapel choir, made up of boys, three or four choral exhibitioners and voluntary undergraduate singers. After Wood arrived at Caius, it was resolved, particularly at the behest of Roberts and the Dean, Arthur Mesac Knight, that choral services should be daily and that the celebration of Holy Communion should be weekly (cf The Caian, xii, 1902-3, p. 98). Besides the annual feast days (which involved grace anthems in Hall), the choir also sang for other College ceremonial occasions including the funerals of the Masters such as Ferrers (in 1903) and Roberts (in 1912). Wood had a good working relationship with Alan Gray, organist at Trinity (and also conductor of CUMS) and Arthur Mann at King’s. In the early days of improving the

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standard and expectations of the GCMS, Mann helped with choral rehearsals; as a quid pro quo, Wood assisted with choral rehearsals for Mann’s oratorio choir and the ‘festival services at King’s. The arrival of Eric Milner-White at King’s as chaplain in 1912 further cemented his close association with King’s College Choir. Its growing national reputation also appears to have been a major catalyst in his composition of more ambitious ecclesiastical works. These included ‘Hail, gladdening light’ for double choir, published in 1919, and other works for the same forces: ‘Glory and honour and laud’ (which apes a medieval dance), ‘’Tis the day of resurrection’ (an impressive canon 4 in 2), ‘Once he came in blessings’, ‘O King most high’, ‘Father all holy’, the ‘Collegium regale’, the a cappella Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis based on melodies from Sternhold and Hopkins, ‘Expectans Expectavi’ (written in memory of its author, Charles Hamilton Sorley and Wood’s son Patrick, both of whom died in the war) and the St Mark Passion (a commission from King’s and Milner-White for Passion week). Wood’s enthusiasm for old forms, contrapuntal methods and metrical psalmody, which seems to have been inculcated while a student at the RCM, was reinforced by his meeting George Ratcliffe Woodward (a Caius graduate). The result of their collaboration, in the Cowley Carol Book, Songs of Syon (which became the standard hymn book in Caius chapel), the Italian Carol Book and Cambridge Carol Book, were an array of hymns and carols from a wide range of European and native sixteenth-, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century sources. Woodward provided the words or translations, Wood the arrangements of the melodies. Among those which have come down to us are ‘Ding, dong, merrily on high,’ ‘This joyful Eastertide’ and ‘Hail, blessed Virgin Mary.’ Wood was an exceedingly private individual and, pace his many students, painfully shy and retiring. His absence among those composition students who publicly expressed their admiration for Stanford after the latter’s death in 1924 suggests an unwillingness to divulge his personal memories, and the lack of writings he left – he was even averse to the production of a harmony and counterpoint text book which might have appropriately accompanied Stanford’s primer on Musical Composition in 1911 – confirms his innate reticence (cf Music & Letters, v, 1924, pp. 193-207). Although he was willing to stand on the conductor’s rostrum, he found the experience, not least the public gaze, awkward and unsettling. His old friend and fellow professor at the RCM, Sidney Peine Waddington, spoke of the strain he suffered at the prospect of giving a speech at a dinner among his longstanding colleagues to celebrate his appointment to the Cambridge Professorship. More congenial to him was the collegial atmosphere of Caius with musical fellows such as Hardy (who was best man at his wedding), Charles Myers, R. A. Peters and Hugh Kerr Anderson (later Master of the College 1912-28), domestic life at Cranmer Road, where he moved after his marriage in 1898, and the more intimate ambience of the classroom, where sharp as a razor, he exerted his gentle authority on those he instructed. His death in 1926 left a major gap in the fabric of Caius music which was only really remedied by the appointment of Patrick Hadley in 1938. His presence, however, could still be (and still is) heard in the ‘Caius chimes,’ created

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in 1910, which contained a quotation from his partsong setting of Walter Scott’s ‘It was an English ladye bright’. This partsong for solo baritone and male chorus was also occasionally sung at the GCMS. After his death, Wood’s widow, Charlotte, was keen to publish a substantial corpus of her husband’s unpublished work and in this she was assisted by Waddington and Tatton, one of his last and most devoted students at Caius and the RCM. This included a volume of the string quartets, all of which were still in manuscript. The edition, published by Oxford University Press (at that time still a fledgling music publisher managed by Hubert Foss) in 1929 and overseen by Edward Dent (who, as Wood’s professorial successor at Cambridge, provided an introduction), Waddington and Tatton, was financed by Caius ‘on behalf of the Master and Fellows…as a mark of their esteem and as a tribute to the eminence of their former colleague.’ Charlotte Wood later moved to Millington Road in Cambridge, at which point all of Wood’s surviving manuscripts were bequeathed to the Caius Library, where they still reside for consultation. Jeremy Dibble is Professor of Musicology at the University of Durham. His new book, The Life and Music of Charles Wood, was published in May 2026 and is available from Boydell & Brewer. A Charles Wood Day is planned at Caius for 31 October 2026 at which it will be possible to purchase Jeremy Dibble’s book at an attractive discount.

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A 25th Anniversary on the Cam The Double Headship, 2000

By Tom Fardon (1994 Medicine) 2025 marked the 25th anniversary of a remarkable Caius triumph on the river: our Double Headship. In the Summer of 1998, Caius Boat Club took the Men’s Headship for only the second time in the modern era of the May Bumps. In 1999 the club took the Men’s Lent Headship for the first time in the club’s history and retained the Men’s May Headship. In 2000, the Lent Headship was lost on day 2, to a resurgent First and Third Boat Club (Trinity College), leaving the club with ‘only’ the May Men’s Headship to defend. Meanwhile, the women’s side of the club had been steadily climbing the May divisions. In 1994 CBC W1 started 5th in the second division, 20 bumps away from what at that time seemed like a distant dream of a headship. By 1998 W1 were up to a starting position of 11th; two consecutive sets of blades put the crew 3rd with Newham and Emmanual the only obstacles to the first ever CBC Women’s Headship. The Men’s first boat rowed over comfortably from the headship station for four days. Lightweight Blues Chris Wright and Luke Lewis were joined by Heavyweight Blue, and future Olympic silver medallist, Josh West, and Heavyweight Boat Race spare oarsman, Bruce Cummings. Completing the crew were Andy McLean, Ben Deacon, Harry Pim, Paul Steen (Captain of Boats) and Carrie Bolton. The Women’s first boat ‘took care of business’ over the first two days and rowed over from the headship station on Friday and Saturday to seal an historic first ever headship for a Caius Women’s boat, and the first ever Double Headship since women’s bumping races began in 1974. The crew was coxed by Women’s captain Emma Fardon (neé Crawford), joined by Blue boat rowers Julia Gilbert (neé Davies), Rhiannon Turner, Eilis Ponsonby, Lisa Frawley and Liz Barker; the other rowers were Jo James, Miriam Hickey and Amelia Walker. It was the tradition at the time for the club of the headship boats to burn one of the wooden shells to celebrate the feat. CBC had had three headships in two years, burned three boats, and faced the ire of the groundskeepers at Harvey Court with the ashes of the other boats fresh in their memory from 1999. But the first ever Double Headship had to be celebrated, so two boats were carried through the city to Harvey Court gardens and set alight. The custom is that the crew must jump over the flaming boat, on this occasion a steeplechase over two burning boats. No reports were made of anything singed, and the groundskeepers never did catch up with us.

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The feat has only been repeated once, again by Caius, in 2002. Bumps racing is a unique form of racing, relying on consistency for many years to propel a crew up, or down, the division. Frequently, the fastest crew on the river cannot reach the headship due to their position on day 1. After a successful Bumps campaign, the following year the crew can change dramatically as students graduate, or move on to other sports, leading to the rebound freefall so often seen on the Bumps charts – blades followed by spoons. To move up consistently over six years from a nadir of 9th (men) and 21st (women) on the river, to secure the Double Headship required a culture of teamwork, dedication, friendship and support over effectively three ‘life-cycles’ of the College. The 25th anniversary nearly saw another triumph. The 2025 May Bumps started with the chance of a three-peat: W1 started on the headship station, M1 on station 3 chasing a severely weakened Magdelene M1. A row-over at head for W1 on day 1 was promising, but they could not hold off a powerful Jesus W1 on day 2 and finished 3rd on the river having been bumped by Trinity Hall W1 on day 3. This is, of course, within striking distance of a headship for 2026. M1 did catch Magdelene M1 on day 1, putting them only one bump away from the headship they lost in 2024. But LMBC were too fast this year and held off our best efforts for two days. The last day saw Peterhouse M1, unarguably the classiest and fastest crew on the river, complete their blades by catching us on the long reach, putting us down to 3rd. To celebrate the 25th anniversary, the Cambridge University Combined Boat Clubs afforded us the opportunity to put together two crews from the 2000-era, and to row down the Cam between the W1 and M1 divisions as far as Grassy Corner. The crowds assembled on the towpath, Caius Meadows, and the gardens of The Plough, saw us row down with the current M1 crews, in kit of varying vintage. The full crews of 2000 were not able to join us, but in recognition of the efforts of those who rowed in the M1 and W1 boats through the late 1990s, the crews included rowers from those boats. There was evidence of nerves before we pushed off: not everyone fits so neatly into their rowing one-piece as once they did; some have not stepped foot in a boat for 20 years; everyone wanted to make a good showing. The crews settled into a rhythm very quickly, though all were grateful for a warm-up paddle to the railway bridge before braving the crowds on the towpath. Back on dry land, the consensus was that we made a pair of decent crews, but we were glad we did not have to row the full course. M1: Carrie Bolton; Paul Steen (captain of boats 1999-2000); Tom Fardon (captain of boats 1997-98); Harry Pimm (Captain of Boats 2000-01); Mark Stafford; Ben Deacon; Chris Wright; Paul Rutkowski (Captain of Boats 1996-97); Luke Lewis. W1: Laura Watkins; Amelia Walker; Julia Gilbert (women’s captain 1997-98); Emma Fardon (Women’s Captain 1999-2000); Molly Dover; and willing volunteers from the current CBC Women’s side.

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The late 1990s were the start of a period of unprecedented success on the river for Caius that continues to this day. Since 2000 there have been 25 opportunities to finish head of the river in Lents: Caius men have 12, Caius women have 1. There have been 24 opportunities to finish head of the river in Mays: Caius men have 15, Caius women have 5 (and, crushingly, took the headship in 2017 and lost it the following day). This success is impressive and everyone likes to see our crews do well. But the Boat Club holds a special place in the hearts of so many oarsmen and women not because of Blades, Head of the River University Medals and an aggregate positive score in the bumping races, rather the memories we made together, the support we gave to each other and the friendships that were forged and continue to this day. The motto of Caius Boat Club is Labor Ipse Voluptas. There are various translations, but the one I favour is ‘Labour is its own reward’. It means the time spent on the river, down at the boathouse, with all those crews, coaches, and friends. The work was hard, but it was always done together as a team, as a family, making the very most of that special time that is so fleeting: in the College and the Boat Club. It was a great joy to us all to meet up again with old friends from CBC, and in doing so we were able to spend time with the latest generation of Caius rowers. Every year, for as long as I can remember, the Caius Club hosts a garden party in the Caius Meadows, in Fen Ditton. The Meadows occupy an enviable spot overlooking the outside of Ditton Corner, where the crews at the top stations will often converge: many a headship has changed hands by the Caius Meadows. It was here that we all met to celebrate the 25th anniversary. The current M2 and W2 crews landed their boats at the water’s edge and joined in the party, meeting many alumni, sharing stories old and new. For May Bumps 2026, the party continues, and we hope that more alumni will join the current students in celebrating all the Caius Boat Club crews as they take part in the races, whether they get blades or spoons, finish head of the river or not, as they join a family of students and alumni who have found great joy and friendship on this stretch of the Cam.

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Caius and Freemasonry

By Jonathan Price (1976 Law) Readers may be surprised to learn that Caius played a role in the history of Freemasonry in Cambridge. Many may well be unaware of the history of modern Freemasonry or unclear about what exactly the organisation represents. Freemasons have often suggested that their movement or ‘craft’ originated in the fraternities of the stone masons who built the Medieval cathedrals. Some have even claimed descent from the masons who constructed the pyramids of Ancient Egypt. Such ideas are speculative. Modern stonemasons do indeed continue old traditions such as leaving marks on their handiwork. Freemasonry, however, was founded (or ‘revived,’ as some would prefer) shortly after George I, the first Hanoverian king of Great Britain, ascended the throne on 1 August 1714. The first lodges were small and named after the Covent Garden taverns where they mostly met. By 1717 four of them had joined together to establish the Grand Lodge of England on 24 June of that year. Soon there were numerous lodges in other British cities and towns, and the movement spread through much of Western Europe over the next decades. There was no single overarching organisation. Even in Britain, the Grand Lodge had competitors. Yet, overall, there was a common cause. They were inspired by the ideal of tolerance and universal understanding of the Enlightenment, as well as by the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. They created spaces in which non-nobles could mix freely with nobles, free of state control. These were places in which the social hierarchy played no role, and in which free discussion could prevail. Broadly speaking, they were dedicated to the improvement of society and the good of mankind. Their dedication to secrecy, regarded as an essential guarantee of the Freemason’s freedom of thought and ability to fulfil his duty to do good, inevitably aroused suspicion. After the French Revolution of 1789, some suspected the Freemasons of seditious intent, or even held them responsible. The charge that they were nothing but a conspiratorial fifth column variously denounced as revolutionary or reactionary, endured into the twentieth century, and still informs some critical views today. The history of Freemasonry in Cambridge tells a different story. The first Cambridge lodge is often held to be the Scientific Lodge founded in 1754. In fact, it was neither founded in Cambridge nor called ‘Scientific.’ It was probably initially called the Bear and Barrow after the tavern where it met in Butcher Row, Covent Garden, London. It then changed names several times as it moved from one tavern to another.

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The name Scientific Lodge was first recorded in 1792 and soon afterwards the lodge became established in Cambridge. Its leading members seem to have been civic dignitaries and other Cambridge residents rather than academics. Whilst Oxford saw the foundation of the Apollo Lodge as a University-specific lodge in 1818, Cambridge lagged behind. Here, the first University lodge, though including ‘town’ members, was the Isaac Newton University Lodge. This was formally constituted (‘consecrated’) at the Red Lion Hotel in Petty Cury in May 1861. It remained there until the area was condemned to be redeveloped in the 1960s, when it joined with other lodges to purchase what became Freemasons Hall in Bateman Street. Caius Lodge was founded on 8 June 1909 with Professor John Stanley Gardiner (1891 Natural Sciences, Fellow 1898-1946 and Professor of Zoology 1909-37) as the first Worshipful Master, which is highest office in any lodge. There were 32 founding members present. It was inaugurated at the Criterion Restaurant in Piccadilly. It was subsequently decided to meet at the Connaught Rooms in Great Queen Street and then in Freemasons Hall in the same street when it was finished. It was the first London lodge affiliated to a Cambridge College and was followed by similar lodges affiliated to Trinity and St John’s. It is not clear what the initial motivation was. It may perhaps be significant that the College Club (now Caius Club) was founded in 1906 and set a precedent for a London-based association designed to provide a meeting point for Caians in the capital. Like all early masonic associations, Caius Lodge was, and remains, a male fraternity. Yet the early twentieth century also saw determined efforts to establish Masonic orders for women on substantially the same lines as those for men. In England today there are two principal grand lodges for women: the Order of Women Freemasons (OWF) and the Honourable Fraternity of Ancient Freemasons (often referred to as Freemasonry for Women), both of which work Masonic rituals and structures recognisably akin to those of the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE). These bodies demonstrate that the ethical framework and communal life of Freemasonry appeal across genders, even if formal recognition between male and female organisations varies by jurisdiction. Alongside the explicitly women’s grand lodges, a number of mixed gender organisations elsewhere in Europe and beyond also admit both men and women, underlining the adaptability of Masonic principles to contemporary expectations of inclusivity. Taken together, these developments show that Freemasonry, while rooted in tradition, has not been frozen in the social assumptions of the eighteenth century. The main women’s lodge in Cambridge is Granta Lodge, an OWF lodge, which is also very active and has a waiting list for initiates. Cambridge also has a lodge for male graduates, Alma Mater Lodge. Caius Lodge strongly supports the efforts of Professor Karen Ottewell

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to create a University Lodge for Women to complement Granta Women’s Lodge that already exists in Cambridge. It also works very closely with the CU Freemasonry Society which admits both women and men and of which Karen Ottewell is the Senior Treasurer (ko201@cam.ac.uk for enquiries). Jonathan Price is also happy to advise on all Freemasonry options in Cambridge and London (jonathan.price.masonic@gmail.com). The Masonic fraternity has counted among its members a striking cross section of statesmen, scientists, writers and reformers, reflecting its historical appeal to those interested in ideas, civic life and philanthropy. Famous Masons of the past include figures such as George Washington in the United States, the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and statesmen like Sir Winston Churchill, each of whom found in lodge life a forum for fellowship and ethical reflection alongside their public careers. In the worlds of arts and entertainment there have been many freemasons, including Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, John Wayne, Peter Sellers, Josephine Baker and Oscar Wilde. In more recent times, a number of public figures in politics, the armed forces, the professions and the arts have been open about their Masonic membership, seeing it as compatible with modern democratic values and public service. Their involvement has helped to counter the caricature of Freemasonry as purely secretive or backward looking, and to highlight instead its emphasis on personal integrity, charitable engagement and respect across social boundaries. If one wishes to understand the continuing relevance of Freemasonry in twenty-first century Britain, the most tangible starting point is its charitable work. Masonic giving, at local lodge, regional and national levels, supports medical research, hospices, community projects and disaster relief, with a consistent emphasis that funds are for the benefit of the whole community rather than reserved for Freemasons and their families. London provides two particularly vivid examples. London Freemasons have been long standing supporters of London’s Air Ambulance, raising at least £2 million to help fund a much needed second helicopter and associated rapid response vehicles, and more recently pledging a further £3 million to support the charity’s replacement helicopter appeal. That commitment has enabled the service to operate for longer hours, cover more missions and bring advanced trauma care rapidly to patients across the capital, irrespective of any connection to the Craft. Following the Grenfell Tower disaster, London Masons also played a significant role in funding new high reach firefighting equipment for the London Fire Brigade. Through a campaign that raised around £2.5 million, they helped to provide two 64-metre turntable ladder appliances, among the tallest in the UK, which greatly enhance the Brigade’s ability to tackle fires in high rise buildings and to conduct rescues from height. Again, the beneficiaries are not Freemasons as such but the residents, workers and visitors who rely on better equipped emergency services in a densely-built global city.

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Charity, however, is only one dimension of Freemasonry’s contribution to modern society. At a time when much of life is mediated through screens, and when loneliness and mental ill health have become pressing public concerns, the lodge offers a structured, face to face community built around shared ritual, meals and conversation. Members commit to meet regularly, to listen to one another’s stories and to cultivate habits of mutual support, which can be particularly valuable for students, early career professionals and retirees navigating moments of transition or isolation. The emphasis on fraternal values of kindness, tolerance, discretion and reliability can provide a counterweight to the often transactional nature of online interactions. In this sense, the fellowship of the lodge is not an antiquarian survival, but a consciously maintained space where people from diverse backgrounds and disciplines meet on an equal footing and practice the art of civil disagreement and loyal friendship. Within the Cambridge context, Masonic engagement with education has a long pedigree, and Caius is no exception. Caius Lodge, meeting under the United Grand Lodge of England, contributes to the Gillies Bursary at Caius, established in memory of Sir Harold Gillies (1901 Natural Sciences), the pioneering surgeon whose work in reconstructive surgery transformed the treatment of soldiers wounded in the First World War. By supporting a student bursary in Gillies’ name, members of the lodge link the Masonic tradition of charity and self-improvement with the collegiate mission of widening access and enabling talented students to flourish regardless of financial background. For today’s undergraduates and graduates, that connection between historic fraternity, cuttingedge medicine and educational opportunity may offer a more nuanced picture of what Freemasonry is, and what it can be, than some popular stereotypes allow.

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The Caius Gardens

By Dr Edmund Tanner (Fellow 1976), Chair of the Gardens Committee The gardens at Caius are deliberately varied in their composition, from formal in Caius Court to a wildflower garden in the Fellows Garden, with numerous trees both formal in Caius Court and informal woodland in the gardens of Finella and Newnham Cottage. There is now a full-time team of five gardeners: Head Gardener Phil Brett, Michael Ford, Chris Ford, Kevin Cook, Greg Blackman and Finley Boyden. Their work is guided by the Gardens Committee. The Caius Court gardens are our most formal, with the topiary box in the bed along the Senate House Passage wall. An herbaceous border was planted against the chapel wall in about 2015. There are small shrubs on the western walls (I and H staircases), a Clematis armandii on the wall of the Masters Lodge, and a Mexican mock orange (Choisya ternata) on the Chapel wall next to M staircase. We water the lawns in Caius Court regularly so that they look good for celebrations such as weddings. We do not, however, water the lawns in Tree Court since Cambridge Water tells the city that we must conserve our limited supply of water, which comes from a chalk aquifer. Gonville Court is small and shaded but there is always a showy bed of frequently replanted herbs such as Blue salvia, as well as pots and window boxes with Geraniums and Pansies. Tree Court is much larger and until recently had eight trees (six Swedish Whitebeam, a Walnut, and the President’s apple tree), but these were removed in December 2025 because of fungal disease. For a short time, therefore, Tree Court will be Tree-less Court. The Garden Committee are actively seeking opinions about what trees we should replant with. The leading contenders are an avenue of Maples, either Acer campestre ‘Streetwise’, or Acer campestre ‘Street Pillar’ for the avenue and a Wedding Cake Tree (Cornus controversa) in place of the apple tree. We are Caius Court, Chapel Bed still considering what to plant in place of the Walnut, but we can take our time with this: the Honey Fungus that killed the Walnut will be in the soil for some time and we need to wait until it has completely disappeared.

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In the case of all of the trees we need to replace, we have to be very careful with our choices. Once trees are established, they are protected by tree preservation orders, which means that they cannot be felled, even, for example, to put up a new building. Some will argue that we should therefore plant trees to prevent any future building in Tree Court; others will take the opposite view that we should not pre-empt decisions that Fellows might make in, say, 50 years’ time! The Tree Court flower beds contain a wide range of interesting plants. For example, the spring bulbs including Crocus Tommasinianus and some excellent shrubs including Blue salvia Hydrangea and climbers such as the white Wisteria by the Gate of Virtue along the the back wall of M staircase.

Crocus Tommasinianus The Harvey Court Gardens are extensive and have many mature trees. Indeed, in some parts the trees are so close together that one cannot ‘see the trees for the wood’! They include a Redwood which is already tall and will continue to grow over the next few centuries. There are also several beds with shrubs and flowers, including a range of spring bulbs. Adjacent to the main Harvey Court garden are the gardens of Springfield, Finella, Newnham Cottage and K Block. They too feature several mature trees including a fine Mulberry in Finella. A few years ago, we had to fell a large cedar in the Finella garden

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because it was diseased. In the open area that it once covered we have planted wildflowers including cowslips and the false oxlip (a hybrid of primrose and cowslip). We planted a Wollemi Pine to replace the cedar, but it was killed by a hard frost in the winter of 202324. In the garden of K Block (next to Harvey Court) a group of students and young Fellows tended a small allotment for several years, but that is now managed by the gardening team because the keen students and Fellow gardeners moved on to fields anew. The Fellows’ Garden is a rarely visited green lung bounded on two sides by busy streets: Newnham Road and Sidgwick Avenue. It has many mature trees and shrubs around a formal lawn, a wildflower garden (formerly a rose garden) and a currently unplayable tennis court.

Recently (Autumn 2025) a composting toilet was installed in the Fellows’ Garden in the hope that the garden will be seen as more family friendly, though not all Fellows want Cowslip in Finella garden this. A survey of Fellows’ opinions about what should be done with the Fellows’ Garden resulted in 48 replies with a large majority choosing to convert the nearly derelict tennis court into either another garden or a children’s playground; a majority in favour of letting postgrads use the Garden; and a similar majority in favour of allowing the garden to be used for Shakespeare plays in the summer; a very large majority were in favour of the wildflower garden, which replaced the aging rose garden three years ago. The gardens of Cambridge colleges contribute very significantly to the formal and informal diversity of the city. Cambridge is an oasis of diversity in an agricultural landscape with very low diversity because the country around Cambridge is relatively flat and has mostly fertile soils. The recent book The Nature of Cambridge published by the Cambridge Natural History Society reported that more dragon and damsel fly species have been recorded in the city than in the nearby national nature reserve of Wicken Fen! Caius gardens make a significant contribution to the biodiversity in Cambridge. In a survey undertaken on 13-14 August 2025, Dr Justin Gerlach of Peterhouse and a

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Caius Fellows’ Garden – wildflower garden June 2024 summer student, Ms. Polina Yakushev, collected just over 200 individual animals – mostly insects, many of which were still being identified as this article was written. They included some rarities such as the Broad-bordered pearl moth (Evergestis limbata), a recent migrant to the UK probably as a result of global warming. The gardens of Gonville and Caius are particularly extensive and they are greatly appreciated by many people. We intend to make them even more interesting in the years to come.

References GerlachJ & Yakushev P, Cambridge Colleges' Biodiversity, Preliminary Report (2025) Hill, M. (ed) The Nature of Cambridge (Newbury: NatureBureau, 2022).

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FINANCE, DEVELOPMENT AND THE CAIUS FOUNDATION

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Catherine Lister, the Chair, writes: In October 2024, the Caius Club continued its theme of celebrating Caius’ notable alumni with a dinner at Lincoln’s Inn, one of the four Inns of Court. The address was kindly given by Sir Geoffrey Vos, the Master of the Rolls and the first Caian to hold the role in over 100 years (hopefully we will do better in the future!). Sir Geoffrey regaled us with the history of his role and its relevance to the present day. We had a fantastic turnout of 120 Caians and guests, and all had a tremendous evening. In March, the Club hosted the annual dinner in College. This being her last Caius Club dinner as Master, Professor Pippa Rogerson was our speaker, and we were delighted to hear her reminiscences of her seven years in office. A healthy number attended, and the four-course meal from the College kitchens was delicious as ever, with plenty of wine and good cheer.

June saw the Caius Club back at the Caius Meadow for the May Bumps picnic. Caians old and young assembled on the bank to watch the men and women battle it out on the river, and we were happy to play host to a few other colleges as well. The weather was typical for England in the summer – warm, raining and sunny all in one day – but that didn’t stop everyone having a great time. We were pleased to welcome the new Master (although not yet in post), Professor Richard Gilbertson, to the river, to help CAIAN NEWS

us cheer on the first VIIIs, the men and women both ending up in third place in their respective divisions. A particularly special moment on the day was the presentation by Vicky Wade of a cheque for £250,000 as a bequest to the Boat Club from her late husband Martin Wade, an Emeritus President of CBC.

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Honours, Awards and Appointments

Crossick GJ (1964 History). Professor Geoffrey Crossick was appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the King’s New Year Honours for services to the Arts and to Education. Russell Beale S (1979 English and Honorary Fellow 2008). Sir Simon Russell Beale received an Honorary Doctorate in Letters from the University of Cambridge. Sasieni PD (1981 Mathematics). Professor Peter Sasieni was appointed a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the King’s New Year Honours for services to Cancer Early Detection and Prevention. Brett AS (1985 Classics, Research Fellow 1992-1995 and Fellow 1996, Classics, History and History & Politics). Professor Annabel Brett was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Miflin GK (1985 Medical Sciences). Dr Gail Miflin was appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the King’s New Year Honours for services to Blood and Plasma Services. Castor HR (1986 History). Dr Helen Castor was elected an Honorary Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, with effect from 18 June 2025. (See also p. 92 below.) Brown MJ (Fellow 1989-2016, Clinical Medicine). Professor Morris Brown was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Jena R (1989 Medicine). Professor Raj Jena was appointed the UK’s first Clinical Professor of AI in Radiotherapy. Smith RJ (Fellow 1989-1995 and 2005-2016). Professor Richard Smith was designated a Founding Fellow of the Royal Economic Society (RES), a category that was introduced this year to honour the first cohort of Fellows. Smith MC (Fellow 1990, Engineering). Professor Malcolm Smith was awarded the 2025 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Control Systems Award. The prize recognises ‘outstanding contributions to control systems engineering, science, or technology’, with Professor Smith honoured ‘for contributions to robust control, network synthesis, and applications to mechanical systems’.

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Sharma P (1994 Genetics PhD). Pankaj Sharma was appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the King’s Birthday Honours for services to Research into Strokes in South Asian People. Page RN (1997 Law). Rebecca Page was appointed as King’s Counsel (KC) in the 2024 Competition. Allen RAD (2000 Medical Sciences). Rupert Allen was appointed as King’s Counsel (KC) in the 2024 Competition. Simons ZA (2003 English). Zack Simons was appointed as King’s Counsel (KC) in the 2024 Competition. Garnett VOH (2004 Natural Sciences). Tor Garnett was appointed as Commander National by the City of London Police. Hunter AR (1962 Natural Sciences). Professor Tony Hunter was awarded the 2024 Prince Madihol Award in Medicine, presented by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn at a ceremony in the Royal Palace in Bangkok in January 2025. The award is bestowed on individuals who have demonstrated significant contributions and leadership in the field of medicine over an extended period of time. Mehta AR (2004 Medical Sciences). Arpan Mehta was awarded the 2025 John Halliday Croom Prize by the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh. The Croom Prize is awarded annually for a proposed lecture related to research within the last five years. Stantcheva S (2004 Economics). Stefanie Stantcheva was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal by the American Economic Association for her contributions to the field of public economics. Stefanie graduated in 2007 with the top first in the Economics Tripos also gaining the Gladstone Memorial Prize for Best Undergraduate Dissertation, the Adam Smith Prize for Best Undergraduate Dissertation in Economics and the Adam Smith Prize for Best Undergraduate Student in Economics. Scurr RG (Bye-Fellow 2005-2006, Fellow 2006, History & Politics and Human, Social & Political Sciences). Professor Ruth Scurr was named the Acting Chair of the Council of the Royal Society of Literature in January 2025. Pobjoy JM (2009 Law). Jason Pobjoy was appointed as King’s Counsel (KC) in the 2024 Competition. Knox TAJ (Fellow 2013-2018, Honorary Fellow 2018). Tim Knox, Director of the Royal Collection since 2018, was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the King’s Birthday Honours.

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Aydin K (2016 Business & Management). Kıvanç Aydin became a Partner at 212 Venture Capital, a firm focused on early-stage investments in high-growth technology startups, in June 2025. Fitzgerald LD (2016 Music). Luke Fitzgerald was appointed as the next Janeway Director of Music at Pembroke. Vergis F (Fellow 2022, Law). Dr Fotis Vergis was awarded the Yorke Prize by the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge. The prize is awarded ‘in recognition of the exceptional quality of [a] PhD thesis which makes a substantial contribution to its field of legal knowledge’. Charmaille F (Fellow 2023, English, and Modern and Medieval Languages). Dr François·e Charmaille was awarded the 2025 Derek Browne Prize, given annually by the Arthurian Literature journal, for their essay ‘Transgender grammar in the tale of Grisandole’. Hambleton JP (Fellow 2023, Engineering). Dr James Hambleton was honoured by United States President Joe Biden with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). PECASE recognises scientists and engineers who show exceptional potential for leadership early in their research careers, expands awareness of careers in science and engineering, recognises the scientific missions of participating agencies, enhances connections between research and impacts on society, and highlights the importance of science and technology for our nation’s future. Rauch M (Bye-Fellow 2024, Management Studies). Dr Madeleine Rauch was named in the business school publication Poets & Quants in its 40-under-40 list of talented professors. Ryten M (Bye-Fellow 2024, Medicine). Professor Mina Ryten was named a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

Awards to Students Paterson EL (2020 Modern & Medieval Languages). Emma Paterson was the winner of the Unsung Hero category at the Cambridge University Sports Awards 2025 for her lasting and meaningful contribution to the Mixed Lacrosse Club. Cox DL (2021 Classics). Daisy Cox was awarded Silver in the Best Presenter category at the Student Radio Awards 2024 for her two weekly shows: Daisy’s Magical Mystery Mix and Daisy’s Magical Mystery Mid-Week Movie Mumblings.

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Holman I (2021 Geography). Inigo Holman is the joint-first prize winner for the Royal Geographical Society’s annual Social and Cultural Geography Dissertation Prize, for his undergraduate dissertation, ‘Climbing Out of the City: Bouldering and the rejection of the urban’, supervised by Professor Matthew Gandy (King’s). Duru D (2022 Medical Sciences). Dave Duru received an award for one of the top 10 scoring abstracts at the international annual meeting of the Society for Reproductive Investigation (SRI). Lawrence A (2022 Geography PhD). Alice Lawrence was awarded the Contribution to Student Community Prize by the Cambridge Students’ Union at its annual awards ceremony.

Awards to College staff The Caius Admissions and Outreach team has been recognised at the inaugural Future Leaders UK Awards at BT Tower in London. Caius was the joint winner, alongside Wadham College, Oxford, of the Higher Education Inclusion Excellence Award.

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Edwards, AWF (Fellow 1970). Professor Anthony Edwards’ book THE LATIN SQUARE: Essays in Defence of R.A. FISHER was published by Cam Rivers Publishing in September 2025. A former student of the statistician and geneticist Fisher, Edwards suggests that Fisher was not guilty of the charge posthumously laid against him in 2020 that he was a racist and sympathetic to the eugenic policies of the Nazi regime in Germany. Started in the United States by statisticians and evolutionary biologists, the criticism soon reached Britain where it was adopted by University College London, Rothamsted Experimental Station and finally Caius, all institutions closely associated with Fisher. At Caius, this led to the removal of a stained-glass window from Hall which depicted the Latin Square featured on the dust jacket of Fisher’s book The Design of Experiments (1935). Some chapters of Edwards' book deal with the controversy at Caius. Others describe Fisher’s proposal in the early days of eugenics to counter the below-replacement birthrate of the British middle classes. These will be of particular interest to historians of science, for they contain for the first time information about Fisher’s introduction to Caius and the influence of those who taught him as an undergraduate 1909-12 and guided him as a postgraduate Wollaston Student 1912-13 (he was subsequently Fellow 1920-6, 194362, and President 1956-9). One essay is devoted to a letter Fisher wrote in response to a request for an opinion of Otmar von Verschuer, a German geneticist, after World War II. Edwards argues convincingly that Fisher’s response was misinterpreted in the controversy about his views in 2020. Wherever one might have stood in this debate, Edwards’ illuminating essays provide important new information about the life and career of a Caian widely recognised as a ‘genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science’ (Anders Hald, A History of Mathematical Statistics, New York, 1998, p. 738). Kinns R (1963 Mechanical Sciences PhD). Dr Roger Kinns’ book The World of Visual Time Signals for Mariners: Time Balls, Time Guns, Time Lights and Other Signals was published by Springer in December 2024, marking the culmination of 10 years of research on these signals. The book describes the worldwide evolution of land-based visual time signals that were used by mariners in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for accurate navigation at sea. They followed development of chronometers which were carried in ships to show mean time at Greenwich, the chosen prime meridian. The main emphasis is on the external appearance of time signals at different locations around the world and how they were used by mariners for rating chronometers. (See also Roger’s obituary pp. 148-50 below). Scinto LFM (1977 Education). Leonard Scinto gifted a seventeenth-century quarto script of Thomas Shadwell’s debut play, The Sullen Lovers; Or, The Impertinents, to the

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Shadwell Society, Caius’ creative arts society. The play, which premiered in London in 1668, follows the development of a romance between Stanford and Emilia, who are both frustrated by the impertinence of society at large. The copy gifted to the Shadwell Society dates to 1670 and has been re-bound with a new cover. It is now stored in the College Archive. Castor HR (1986 History, Schuldham Plate 1989). Helen Castor’s The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV was published to great acclaim by Allen Lane in October 2024. Richard of Bordeaux and Henry Bolingbroke were first cousins, born just three months apart. Their lives were from the beginning entwined. When they were still children, Richard was crowned King Richard II with Henry at his side, carrying the sword of state: a ten-year-old lord in the service of his ten-year-old king. Yet, as the animals on their heraldic badges showed, they grew up to be opposites: Richard was the white hart, a thin-skinned narcissist, and Henry the eagle, a chivalric hero, a leader who inspired loyalty where Richard inspired only fear. Henry had all the qualities Richard lacked, all the qualities a sovereign needed, bar one: birth right. Increasingly threatened by his charismatic cousin, Richard became consumed by the need for total power, in a time of constant conflict, rebellions and reprisals. When he banished Henry into exile, the stage was set for a final confrontation, as the hart became the tyrant and the eagle his usurper. Helen Castor tells this story of one of the strangest and most fateful relationships in English history. It is a story about power, and masculinity in crisis, and a nation brought to the brink of catastrophe. At its heart, it is the story of two men whose lives were played out in extraordinary parallel. The book was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction 2025, shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2025 and designated the Telegraph’s best book of the year 2024. Wingfield P 1988 (Fellow 1988-1990, Music). Dr Paul Wingfield’s musical drama Einstein’s Violin – a piece for violin, piano and actor, drawing on Einstein’s writing and recorded comments about music – premiered in April 2025 in Highgate, North London. The idea for the drama was sparked at the funeral wake of Paul’s brother-inlaw, Einstein enthusiast Stephen Schwartz, where Schwartz’s book Einstein for Beginners lay on a table beside a family photo album showing a young boy with a violin. Einstein had said that if he had not been a physicist, he would have been a musician, and so Paul decided to tell the story of Einstein’s life not as a physicist but as a violinist. Following several performances, Paul was approached by an auctioneer who said he might have a violin that had been owned by Einstein. Paul was able to verify that. The 1894 Zunterer violin was expected to fetch about £300,000, but, scratched and repaired and inscribed with the name ‘Lina’, the instrument was sold at Dominic Winter Auctioneers in South Cerney, Gloucestershire for £860,000 in October 2025. Marozzi JS (1990 History). Justin Marozzi’s latest book Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World, published by Penguin

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in July 2025, traces the history of the slave trade across the Middle East and North Africa between the 7th and the 20th centuries. Justin Marozzi traces the extraordinary variety of forms of enslavement in the Islamic world, which ranged from agricultural labour and domestic toil to elite concubinage, guardianship of sacred spaces, political leadership and even military command. He shows how Africa bore the brunt of the demand for slave labour, fuelled throughout the nineteenth century by expanding global markets and commodity chains. Slavers plied African coasts, traders raided inland for human cargo, and millions were marched across the Sahara into captivity. Meanwhile, North African corsairs turned the Mediterranean into a slave-raiding ‘freefor-all’ between Muslims, Christians and Jews. Taking the reader on an extraordinary historical journey from Baghdad to Bamako, Tripoli to Timbuktu, Istanbul to the Black Sea, this is the riveting human drama of those caught up in one of history’s most remarkable overlooked stories. It also shares the harrowing stories of the survivors of modern-day slavery whom Justin met in Mali and Mauretania. His book was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Allen LJ (1997 Modern & Medieval Languages). Lisa Allen has had her debut children’s book, Undercover Angel: Crash Landing, published by Tiny Tree Books in June 2025. The story follows a grumpy teenage angel-in-training in a human classroom as she undertakes a secret mission to hunt down a demon in the school. Calaresu MT 1997 (Fellow 1997, History). The Pineapple from Domestication to Commodification, co-edited by Professor Melissa Calaresu and published by Liverpool University Press in August 2025, explores the pineapple as a symbol and object of globalisation. The book investigates understudied tensions between the pineapple’s representational power and the historical and political contexts of its worldwide production and consumption, connecting the global and the local at the heart of contemporary debates about the nature and origins of our food. Roche HBE (2004 Classics). Dr Helen Roche co-created Forgotten Voices: The Third Reich’s Elite Schools, a documentary exploring the Napolas, elite boarding schools founded by the Nazis to train the future leaders of the Third Reich. The documentary compiles original videos and location footage from sites of former Napolas and had its English-language debut preview screening in Caius’ Bateman Auditorium in July 2025. Hauser ESV (2006 Classics). Dr Emily Hauser’s book Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It was published by Penguin in April 2025. Mythica examines the archaeological record of the Late Bronze Age, ranging across modern-day Greece, Türkiye and even as far as Georgia, to reveal much about the reallife women who inhabited the world of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Houghton-Walker S (Fellow 2007, English). The Cambridge Companion to John Clare, edited by Professor Sarah Houghton-Walker, was published in November 2024. Essays

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within the book examine Clare’s work within a wide range of discourses, including ecocriticism, health studies, religion, natural history and aesthetics. In her introduction, Sarah offers a brief account of Clare’s biography and major life events. She looks in depth at his development of a unique poetic voice and argues in favour of his originality of posture and verse. Taylor MH (2007 History). Dr Michael Taylor was shortlisted for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize, an annual award for UK-published non-fiction, for his book Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion, published by Penguin in February 2025. The book is a narrative history of the relationship between science and religion in the nineteenth century, offering a fresh and original perspective by approaching the subject through the lens of palaeontology and dinosaurs. Fox, J (Fellow 2011-20). James Fox has continued his successful career as a public art historian with a highly acclaimed book: Craftland: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades published by Penguin in September 2025. This reminds us that Britain was once a craft land. As the description on Amazon explains: ‘For generations what we made with our hands shaped our identities, built our communities and defined our regions. Craftland chronicles the vanishing skills and traditions that used to govern every aspect of life in the United Kingdom. From the Isles of Scilly to the Scottish Highlands, James travels the length of Britain to seek out the country’s last great craftspeople. Stepping inside the workshops of blacksmiths and wheelwrights, cutlers and coopers, bellfounders and watchmakers, we glimpse not only our past but another way of life: one that is not yet lost and might still shape our future. For as long as there are humans, there will be craft. It is all around us, hiding in plain sight, animating even the most ordinary things. Fox shows that Britain is still a craft land, if only we have eyes to see it.’ The book was shortlisted for both the Waterstones Book of the Year and the Nero Book Awards Non-Fiction Award 2025. It did not win although it richly deserved to do so. It is a superb work of scholarship and profoundly engaging. Stark BC (2012 Clinical Neuroscience PhD). Brielle Stark published her book The New Ways We Talk, written for young children who are experiencing a loved one with aphasia. The book follows a young girl whose mother develops aphasia and who must learn alternative methods of communication. Through a blend of clinical accuracy and gentle storytelling, it offers children insights into disability, speech therapy and neurodiversity, and empowers young caregivers with models of empathy and practical strategies for them to try at home. de Salis Young JA (2019 Engineering) and Gerrand AF (2021 Physics PhD). James de Salis Young and Finlay Gerrand competed at Take It to the Bridge, the Cambridge University Centre for Music Performance’s annual ‘battle of the bands’ competition, in March 2025. Both performed in the band Postbox, playing sousaphone and drums respectively, and James also played trombone for Hot Content.

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Faraday CJ (Fellow 2020-2025, History of Art). Dr Christina Faraday’s book The Story of Tudor Art: A History of Tudor England Through its Art and Objects was published by Bloomsbury in September 2025. The book provides a comprehensive introduction to Tudor art, ranging from portraiture to tapestry to household objects and beyond, and challenges familiar preconceptions about Tudor England and its visual culture. Lai MC (2020 Materials Science PhD). May Ching Lai appeared at STEM for Britain at the UK Parliament in March, presenting a poster on how compression affects battery performance using 3D imaging techniques via advanced electron microscopy. STEM for Britain invited applications from early-career research scientists, engineers, technologists and mathematicians to exhibit in one of five areas. May Ching was shortlisted from hundreds of applicants to appear in Parliament, presenting to politicians and expert judges, and was awarded a bronze medal. Browne FR (2022 English). Frankie Browne directed Fragile Contents, a touring sketch comedy show produced by the Cambridge Footlights and staged in multiple venues across the UK and the Republic of Ireland between June and October 2025. Dengler AM (2022 Law), Levett CA (2024 Education), Niggemann JE (2024 Industrial Systems, Manufacturing and Management MPhil) and Wobschall LL (2024 Natural Sciences: Biological). Alexia Dengler, Cicely Levett, Johanna Niggemann and Lily Wobschall played in the Cambridge University Association Football Club’s Women’s Blues team at the Varsity Match in March 2025, with Alexia as Captain. The team won 3-2 to make it three in a row for the Light Blues. Duthie KA (2022 History), Greenwood EA (2024 History) and Sheekey M (2024 Human, Social and Political Sciences). Katie Duthie, Eliza Greenwood and Matilda Sheekey received summer internships within departments at Caius, in the Library, Admissions, and Development and Alumni Relations respectively. The internships provided avenues for work experience, and opportunities to grow beyond their academic subject and to build connections. De R (2024 Computer Science) and Gluschove-Koppel E (2024 Engineering). Ronak De and Eliyahu Gluschove-Koppel, in a team with Clare Computer Science student Finley Stirk, claimed victory a Hackathon run by the Cambridge University Engineering Society and the Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society, and supported by software design company Arm and Artificial Intelligence research company Anthropic. The students won the Hackathon by designing an Artificial Intelligence tool to simplify lecture notes and aid revision.

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Some Books by or about Fellows and Caians Donated to the Library 2024-25

The College thanks the authors and donors listed below for their gifts. Bale, T. (1985 History) The Conservative Party after Brexit: turmoil and transformation. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2025 (updated paperback edition). Derham, R. (1981 Law) Derham on the law of set-off. 5th edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Drage, E. (Bye Fellow 2023) [et al.] (eds.) Feminist AI: critical perspectives on data, algorithms and intelligent machines. London: Routledge, 2024. Gatrell, V. (1964 History and Fellow 1971) Farewell the jacarandas: growing up in apartheid South Africa: a Cambridge historian’s memoir. Cambridge: Owlstone Press, 2024. Kunzle, D. (1954 Modern and Medieval Languages) Rebirth of the English comic strip: a kaleidoscope 1847-1870. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, ©2021. Messent, A. (1969 Law) [and Glass, D. A.] CMR: contracts for the international carriage of goods by road. 5th edn. Abingdon: Informa Law from Routledge, 2025. Skinner, Q. (1959 History and Honorary Fellow 1997) Liberty as independence: the making and unmaking of a political ideal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Sulovsky, V. (Fellow 2021-25, History) Making the Holy Roman Empire holy: Frederick Barbarossa, Saint Charlemagne and the sacrum imperium. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Üşenmez, E. (Teaching Associate 2023, Economics) Redesigning petroleum taxation: aligning government and investors in the UK. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019. Young, F. (1999 Philosophy) (ed.) The Franciscans in medieval Bury St Edmunds. Woodbridge: Boydell Press: Suffolk Records Society, 2023. Young, F. (1999 Philosophy) Twilight of the godlings: the shadowy beginnings of Britain’s supernatural beings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

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[Douglas, R.] and Young, F. (1999 Philosophy) Paganism persisting: a history of European paganisms since antiquity. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2024. Young, F. (1999 Philosophy) ed. and transl. Poetry and nation-building in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: three early modern Latin epics. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, ©2024. Young, F. (1999 Philosophy) Pre-Christian Baltic religion and belief. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, ©2025. Young, F. (1999 Philosophy) Silence of the gods: the untold history of Europe’s last pagan peoples. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.

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Notifications of Deaths, up to 30 September 2025 ADAMS, P J (1963) November 2024 AINLEY, R E (2001) 29 August 2025 ALPERS, M P (1954) 3 December 2024 (see page 121) ANDERSON, K (1959) 9 February 2025 (see page 123) ARDAVAN, H (1965) 20 December 2024 BARHAM, C F (1955) 30 June 2021 BARNES, V E (1957) 31 August 2024 (see page 125) BARRINGTON PROWSE, N M (1957) 2 January 2025 BARWICH, P T (1967) 16 May 2025 BASINSKI, S L H (1974) 10 January 2020 BAXTER, A J L (1987) 1 September 2025 BUTLER, D S (1950) 10 December 2021 CALLAGHAN, C E (1996) 13 August 2025 (see page 126) CALVERT, J P (1966) 25 April 2025 (see page 127) CAMPBELL, A I L (1969) October 2024 CANG, S A (1954) 2025 CANNON, P (1951) 19 November 2024 CARR, C J (1952) 30 January 2025 CARTER, T R G (1957) 24 June 2025 CLOSE, P A (1961) 16 February 2025 (see page 127) CONWAY, D M (1954) 14 January 2023 COX, R A F (1954) 5 April 2025 CROUCHMAN, A C (1971) December 2020 DAVIDSON, E A (1962) 2025 DAVIES OF STAMFORD, J Q (1963) 13 January 2025 (see page 128) DEAN, J T (1955) 10 July 2025 (see page 131) DE LA HOYDE, D R H (1954) 15 December 2025 (see page 115) DE VILLIERS, J I (1950) 8 October 2024 DOUGLAS, R J (1984) 21 August 2024 (see page 132) EAMES, J R (1954) 5 December 2024 EDWARDS, J P (1954) 16 March 2025 (see page 133) ELFONT, R M (1980) 5 June 2025 (see page 134) ESCOTT, J R (1966) April 2025 (see page 135) FINLAY, R L (1988) 14 March 2023 FISHER, M N (1966) 15 October 2024 (see page 137) FOULDS, LP (1970) 2025

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FULLER, DM (1955) 14 July 2025 (see page 139) FULLERTON, P S (1961) 30 May 2024 (see page 141) GANDY G H (1953) unkonwn GARRICK, D P (1968) July 2025 GILLESPIE, J S (1964) 24 April 2025 GLOVER, J D (1979) May 2025 GODRICH, J E (1951) 19 February 2025 GOODE, F N (1947) 13 May 2024 (see page 143) GREENMAN, J V (1958) 2024 GRIFFITHS, A G M (2007) 1 March 2025 (see page 144) HALL, J D H (1964) 22 June 2025 (see page 145) HARRAP, MJ (1949) 25 November 2024 HARTLE, J B (1985) 17 May 2023 (see page 117) HAUSMANN, U P (1977) 2024 HOCKEY, R A (1954) 29 March 2024 HUGHES, H (1950) 17 January 2025 HUNT, T J F (1969) November 2024 JACOBS, O L R (1955) 5 August 2025 JONAS, J J (1955) 3 February 2025 KAUFMAN, S A (1973) 13 October 2024 KAY, R N B (1949) 17 April 2025 (see page 147) KEMP, P (1963) 10 December 2024 (see page 106) KINNS, R (1963) 13 August 2025 (see page 148) LLEWELLIN, M C (1950) February 2025 KNIGHT, R A (1954) 23 September 2025 LUNN, D C (1966) 1 December 2023 MATHIAS, D W (1954) 18 May 2025 MAYBURY, J M (1950) 11 September 2025 MCCALLUM, T W (1958) 25 February 2025 (see page 150) MCNEER, R G (1959) 7 July 2025 (see page 150) MILLER, JL (1971) 11 May 2025 (see page 108) MORGAN, R I (1971) 25 August 2025 NEARY, M G J (1958) 27 September 2025 (see page 151) NICHOLSON, G J (1972) 18 January 2025 NIVEN, A N R (1963) 26 March 2025 (see page 153) NOBLE, P J (1955) 30 May 2025 (see page 155) ODGERS, G D W (1952) 8 May 2025 (see page 156) O'NEIL, M (1960) 10 January 2025 PAINTER, J D (1954) 14 February 2025 PERCIVAL SMITH, R K L (1950) 12 June 2023 PORTER, B (1953) 9 April 2025 PRABHU, J P (1972) 27 September 2021 (see page 157) RICHARDSON, J S (1967) 17 July 2025

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RILEY, J H (1959) 2024 ROBERTS, H E (1974) 3 July 2025 (see page 158) SHAW, A J (1950) 24 January 2025 SHEPHERD, D (1961) 14 October 2022 (see page 159) SMITH, A T H (1972) 19 August 2025 (see page 103) STEPHENS, W A (1951) 11 July 2025 STEWART, R R W (1956) unknown STUBBS, W F (1952) 4 December 2024 (see page 160) THOMAS, M L (1965) 14 September 2025 (see page 162) VENOUR, D E R (1987) 27 January 2024 WADE, M G (1962) 15 September 2024 (see page 111) WARDLE, E N (1953) 19 May 2020 WEBB, J H (1963) 14 May 2025 (see page 163) WEEKS, S T (1974) 12 August 2025 (see page 165) WHELAN, M J (1951) 30 November 2024 (see page 109) WIESELBERG, H M (1963) 20 May 2024 (see page 166) WILLIAMS, R G (1962) 25 January 2025 WILSON, C J (1970) 27 January 2025

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Obituaries of Fellows, former Chaplains and Staff

SMITH, ANTHONY TERRY HANMER (1972 Tapp Student in Law, Fellow 1973-81, 19902025), 18 August 2025 Professor Pippa Rogerson writes as follows: Tony (ATH) Smith had an immense affection for Caius starting from when he arrived in 1972 as a PhD student under Glanville Williams and continuing until his death in New Zealand in 2025. He left Caius twice, once in 1981 to take a chair at Durham and again in 2007 to take a chair and become Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean of the Law Faculty at Victoria University, Wellington. Tony’s connections to Caius were wide and deep. Peter Bayley (Fellow 1971-2018, obituary in The Caian 2018, pp. 106-9) was godfather to his son, Tim. Nicole Moreham, his daughter-in-law, was also a Caius Law student (1988 Tapp Student) and Fellow (2003-05). That she was taught by him, transitioned to become a colleague as well as a family member, and all the while had an easy, equal relationship says a great deal about Tony’s collegiality. Nicole continues as a Professor in the Law Faculty at Victoria. He was a genial and generous person, both with his time and in other ways. A delicious dinner cooked by Tony from his minute kitchen in H4, with carefully chosen wines from his cellar, and delightful conversation continuing long into the early hours was memorable and frequently arranged. His three grandchildren remembered Sunday lunches cooked by Grandpa as among the things they would miss most, as much for the conversation as the food. Tony made a large contribution to legal scholarship. He became a Reader in the Law Faculty in Cambridge in 1994 and a Professor of Criminal and Public Laws in 1996. His books, articles and case notes covered a broad range. He was known as a criminal lawyer, including criminal procedure. However, his interests also covered civil liberties and constitutional law, contempt of court, media law and administrative law. The major works are Offences Against Public Order (Sweet & Maxwell 1987); Property Offences: the Protection of Property Through the Criminal law (Sweet & Maxwell 1994); Harm and Culpability (Clarendon Press, 1996), edited with another Caius Kiwi connection and former Research Fellow, Andrew Simester (1993-6); and the Law of Contempt (Sweet & Maxwell 5th ed 2017, with David Eady and Tony Arlidge). These are masterly works

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of reference, kept on the shelves of academic and practising lawyers. From 2002, he authored Glanville Williams’ Learning the Law up to the latest 17th edition (2020). That small volume has launched the legal careers of many common law students around the world. Glanville had been Tony’s mentor in Cambridge and Tony told fondly the story of trying to track down Glanville’s gown which his widow had sent to a charity shop somewhere in Cambridge. Tony wrote with deft skill, clarity and precision. His words belied the deep research, penetrating analysis and insight behind them. Andrew Ashworth described Tony’s article ‘On Actus Reus and Mens Rea’, written in 1978 for Glanville’s Festschrift, as one of his finest works. In it, Tony argued against those writers who refer unthinkingly to the actus reus of an offence, for they thereby obscured ‘principles (such as, that liability for a consummated crime should be based on some outward mischief, and that the law should justify conduct that involves the doing of the lesser of two harms) on which criminal liability should be based.’ Tony believed that normative propositions of this kind should be exposed, scrutinised and not left to general statements about mens rea and actus reus. That is standard argumentation now, but uncommon in the late 1970s when Tony espoused it. He was also an insightful specialist in the law, policy and practice of policing public disorder. His 2008 article ‘May Day, May Day: Policing Protest’ in the Cambridge Law Journal is prescient in analysing the difficulties for judges and the police in the freedoms of peaceful assembly and protest. Perhaps unusually for a common lawyer steeped in doctrinal methodology, Tony also made the case for codification of the criminal law (in the Criminal Law Review 1986 and 2004). New Zealand had codified its criminal law in the late nineteenth century. Here, the Theft Act 1968 codified the law of theft. Craig Rotherham (1993 Tapp Student Law PhD, Fellow 1997-2002), a specialist in the law of equity, held Tony’s work on property offences to be a ‘signal contribution to the criminal law’. In his contribution to Tony’s Festschrift, a special issue of the Victoria University of Wellington Law Review (2003), Craig went on to explore an aspect of the intersection of theft and equitable interests that Tony had already raised. Tony was a predominantly criminal and public rather than private lawyer. It is somewhat rare to find crossovers between these two legal realms. Tony was that increasingly scarce legal academic who is equally at home in practice and in the library. He was called to the Bar by Middle Temple in 1992 and became an Honorary Bencher in 2000. He was an active member of 5 Raymond Buildings. His understanding of the practice of law enlightened and enlivened his academic work. However, he took into account jurisprudence and theory of law as well as doctrine. Among Tony’s many good qualities, he took exceptional interest in people: students, colleagues at the Bar and in the Law Faculties in which he worked and which he led. His network of friends at the London Bar, in the judiciary and academe was extraordinary.

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He remembered details about people: their cases, marriages, children and interests with equal facility. Generations of Caius law students were brilliantly taught the core subjects of constitutional law and criminal law by Tony. He was elected a Fellow in 1973 having been a graduate student for only one year. A dashing young man then, as knowledgeable about cricket, rugby and wine as he was about law, he was popular with the students (all men). Women students arrived in College in 1979, and Tony was just as popular with them. He championed women in the Faculty and was a good friend to many of us. Numerous students have written noting their gratitude for his dedication, humour and intellect. He was adroit in drawing out the complexities of the law, making them fascinating and intelligible to a range of people without being patronising or overly simplistic. In addition to being an excellent cook, Tony was a great lover of wine. He was a connoisseur and enthusiast for Old World as well as New World wines. He travelled extensively through Europe tasting and enjoying cuisines and local wines. He was famously an expert on cricketing statistics, a riveting raconteur of stories of Test Matches he had watched, often at Lord's. Rugby was another of his favourite sports. He was an All Black through and through, which made for challenging times for British Lions supporters. Tony was also very knowledgeable on architecture, able to explain and bring to life many different historical monuments. In 1976, Tony married Gill, a fellow New Zealander. The marriage ended in 1981. Gill and their son Tim returned to New Zealand. Tony was sad to have to be a rather absent father until Tim came to England, first for the LLM (not at Caius but Sidney Sussex) and then to practice at the Bar. Tim married Nicole, who was by then a law Fellow at Caius. A few years later, the family returned to New Zealand and Tony followed. Nicole and Tim have three children. The family were the light of Tony’s later life. Tony’s love for the College shone through all the years. His Goodhart Professorial year in Cambridge following his retirement at Victoria in 2014 cemented him back into the Caius Fellowship and the Law Faculty. He cherished his Life Fellowship and returned at least annually. Meanwhile Tony kept up email correspondence and phone calls to find out the latest news and gossip about the College. Once I became Master, he would generously give me wise advice on seemingly intractable issues. Tony had been a wellrespected Chair of the Law Faculty in Cambridge (2004-06), so we had Caius and Law in common. I would be so cheered after a conversation with him: early morning or late at night depending on our schedules from opposite sides of the globe. His funeral photos included many of him in his rooms in H4 or in front of the Gate of Honour, and poignantly of the flag at half-mast in his memory. We have lost one of the best ‘Gonville and Kiwis’.

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KEMP, PETER (1963 Mathematics, 1972 PhD, Fellow 1972-6), 10 December 2024 Peter was born in Maidstone in 1944. He went to the local grammar school and always felt that his academic success was due to rivalry with a classmate of equal intellect along with an inspiring headmaster. The school encouraged him to apply to Cambridge, and he won a scholarship to Caius to read Maths. Cambridge opened worlds for Peter: he gained a First in Maths – called a ‘Wrangler’, because, historically, students had to argue the case for mathematical excellence – and Peter delighted in this title. He went on to do the fourth-year Diploma in Computing Science, in which he gained a Distinction and then a PhD in Computational Mathematics. Growing up, Peter had been very involved with the Scouts, an interest he pursued via the University Scouts and Guides Club, and he met Joan through intervarsity Scouting activities. Their friendship blossomed slowly over a couple of years, and they married in 1969 while Peter was still a PhD student. While he was completing his PhD, Peter spent a year lecturing in maths at Lancaster University, before being invited back to Cambridge to work in the Computing Laboratory in 1972. He was also appointed College Lecturer and Director of Studies in Mathematics at Caius and elected as a Fellow. In 1977, he was invited to take up a senior position in the Computing Service at Newcastle University, which was then a major centre for numerical analysis, and he and Joan spent four happy years living in Corbridge. During this time, Peter became involved with NAG, the Numerical Algorithms Group, set up by Brian Ford of Nottingham University. Working with NAG became a significant part of Peter’s life, both in the UK and in the US. Partly due to his connections with NAG, Peter thought it would be interesting to spend time in the US, so he arranged a sabbatical year at the University of Delaware. His first day at Delaware was interrupted by a telephone call from the Vice-Chancellor of Reading University, inviting Peter to come and run their Computing Service when he returned. Another move! After four years in Reading, Peter was invited to run the Computing Service at Glasgow University, which he was delighted to do. He spent a very happy decade in Glasgow before moving to Stirling University to run their combined IT and Library Services as a final job before retirement. Having retired to Oban, Peter was asked by the Cathedral Dean to take on the role of Diocesan Secretary. He served in this role under three bishops, feeling that it was a

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good way of using his skills to support the work of the Church. He was also Treasurer of St John’s Cathedral for more than a decade. Peter always felt thankful that he had had a very stimulating and satisfying career, along with a happy home life with Joan, sons Tim and Richard and daughter, Alison Peter Robinson (1971 Mathematics, Fellow 1983) recalls: I matriculated as an undergraduate in 1971 with Frank Powell and John Hubbard as my Directors of Studies. Peter completed his PhD in numerical analysis, joined the University Computing Service and became a Fellow in 1972 and was my Director of Studies thereafter, being joined by Tim Pedley a year or two later. He was always an encouraging Director of Studies, and he and Joan welcomed students into their home for lunch most terms. After Peter left Cambridge, we saw each other at Caius events, notably at the May Week Party and in Ditton Meadows watching the last day of the Bumps.

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MILLER, JOHN LESLIE (Fellow 1971-5), 11 May 2025 John Leslie Miller was born in Cambridge on 5 July 1946, the only child of Professor Edward and Fanny Miller. He grew up in Cambridge and attended the Perse School from 1953 to 1964, where he was a Junior Prefect, Joint Head Librarian, a Corporal in the CCF Army Section, as well as gaining colours for cross country and rugby. He won a scholarship to Jesus College, Cambridge to read History from 1965 to 1968 and achieved a double First in the History Tripos. His PhD supervisor was J H (Jack) Plumb, and he was one of a group of gifted young historians whom Jack referred to as the ‘class of ’68.’ In 1971, he was elected to a Research Fellowship at Caius, which gave him the opportunity to turn his PhD thesis into his first book, Popery & Politics in England 1660-1688 (Cambridge University Press, 1973) and where he taught History students from various Cambridge Colleges. During his student years, he met his future wife, Carol. They married in 1967 and had two sons James (1971) and Nicholas (1973). They have two grandchildren, William and Sophie. John and Carol moved to Blackheath in 1975, and John started his long career at Queen Mary University of London. He was predominantly a historian of Britain in the seventeenth century, specialising in the reigns of Charles II, James II and the Glorious Revolution. He was a lecturer, teacher, internal and external examiner of vivas, and he represented his department on Examination Boards. Latterly, he became Head of Department and was made Professor of Modern History in 1989. When he retired in 2012, there was a two-day symposium and party in his honour. During his career, he published dozens of books, journal articles and reviews. His most popular publication was Early Modern Britain 1450–1750 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), which he wrote after his retirement. In it, he drew together his ideas on British history in its widest sense, which he hoped ‘will prove useful to future generations of students’. He was professionally involved with the Huguenot Society, where he organised academic conferences. He also had a long involvement with the Institute of Historical Research, University of London as convenor of the seventeenth century seminar series, and he served on the History of Parliament Trust Editorial Board from 1995 to 2008, latterly as Chair. He was an excellent father, husband, grandfather, friend and a renowned social organiser with a throaty chuckle and a twinkle in the eye. He died in Blackheath aged 79 and will be sorely missed.

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WHELAN, MICHAEL JOHN (1951 Natural Sciences, Fellow 1958-66), 30 November 2024 Michael Whelan played a key role in laying the foundations of the theory of image formation in electron microscopes in the Cavendish Laboratory in collaboration with Mick Brown (Fellow 1963-77) and Sir Peter Hirsch, who was the mentor of the two postdoctoral researchers. Whelan (Mike) was born at Leeds in 1931 and, after schooling at Farnborough Grammar School, he was admitted to Caius with an entrance Exhibition in 1951. He excelled in the Natural Sciences Tripos and was awarded the Schuldham Plate in 1955. Following the completion of his PhD in 1958, he was elected to a Tapp Fellowship. By 1961, he had been appointed Demonstrator in Physics and was subsequently Assistant Director of Research in Physics as well as College Lecturer and Director of Studies in Physics at Caius from 1965 to 1966. In 1966, he moved to Oxford as Reader in the Physical Examination of Materials. He was elected Fellow of Linacre College in 1968. Mike’s work in Cambridge was summarised in the volume that he co-authored with Hirsch and three others: Electron Microscopy of Thin Crystals (Butterworth, 1965). In Oxford, he continued to work on the problems that he had identified while at Cambridge. He pioneered the use of transmission electron microscopy to study defects in crystals. His research was recognised by his appointment as Professor of Microscopy of Materials 1992 until his retirement in 1997. His work attracted many awards. In 1976, he was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of the Institute of Physics. Jointly with Archibald Howie, he won the 1988 Hughes Medal of the Royal Society ‘for their contributions to the theory of electron diffraction and microscopy, and its application to the study of lattice defects in crystals’. He also received the 1998 Distinguished Scientist Award in Physical Sciences from the Microscopy Society of America and the 1965 CV Boys Prize from the Institute of Physics. In 2001, he was elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, and in 2011, he won the Gjønnes Medal in Electron Crystallography. For all his great distinction, Mike remained a modest and mild-mannered man. His colleagues in Oxford valued his combination of experimental skill with deep theoretical insight, a combination that underpinned his significant and lasting contributions to the field. Professor Angus Kirkland, also a Fellow at Linacre and a colleague at the Department of Materials, remembered Mike’s dry wit, his incredible mind for detail and his patience as an excellent teacher. As an Emeritus Fellow at Linacre, he was notable for his approachable nature and his genuine interest in the lives and work of students

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and staff across the College. He demonstrated his fondness to Linacre by leaving a substantial legacy to fund the major refurbishment and extension of a College-owned property on Iffley Road, creating additional accommodation for Junior Research Fellows and significantly improving housing for graduate students. The property will be renamed Whelan House, providing a lasting acknowledgement of his contribution to Linacre. Although he migrated to Oxford in 1966, he remained devoted to Caius and returned regularly to Caius. More senior Fellows such as Michael Prichard (Fellow 1950) and Yao Liang (1963 Research Student in Physics, Fellow 1971) remember him fondly.

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WADE, MARTIN GERALD (1962 Natural Sciences and Law, Gonville Fellow Benefactor 2013, member of the John Caius Guild 2014-24), 15 September 2024 His son Nick Wade, writes as follows: Martin Wade, businessman, benefactor, beloved husband and father, died peacefully at home with his family in Kent in September 2024, eight years after being diagnosed with dementia. He met the illness with the characteristic decency of a modest man from a humble background whose achievements, and the generosity that came with them, see his name now proudly set in the stone of the Great Gate and on the bow of the 1st Men’s rowing VIII. Martin was not from a background of privilege. His mother was one of thirteen children. His father, who shared shoes with his brother to attend school, was a police constable who made sergeant before retirement. The pair met at a local fish shop in north-east London: he was too honest a Bobby to take a bribe to look the other way if the refuse from the store was disposed of improperly; she worked there and decided he was a good bet for marriage. Those values of hard work and integrity would shine through all three of their children, rooted in a faith that education held a transformative power. That power would culminate, for Martin, in a place at Caius where both he and his elder brother, David, became the first from their family to attend university. But it began with Martin winning a scholarship for London County Council, at the time, to pay the fees for him to attend Latymer Upper School, in Hammersmith, London, which was then a Grammar school. It was at Latymer that Martin found his love of rowing. He captained the school boat club through the most successful season of its history: the photo of the eight in 1961, proudly titled ‘Won at Willesden, Chiswick, Twickenham, Putney Town, Marlow, Richmond, Barnes, and Mortlake’, has the silverware displayed beneath the conquerors’ feet. They became the first crew from the school to row at Henley Royal Regatta. Their runaway success, as surprising as it was profound, was all the more impressive for the rudimentary facilities with which they trained: dwarfed in scale and quality by the crews who they relentlessly defeated. Martin’s father was among the parents who led a campaign for a better boathouse, which was eventually granted by the Governors of Latymer: a legacy that Martin would have recalled as he led the campaign for the expanded boathouse at Caius, decades later.

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Martin became head boy at Latymer: a popular leader who, with charm and modesty, gained bonds and opened the opportunities of a lifetime. An interview in the school magazine upon his departure noted: ‘His social gifts were adequately displayed in dancing lessons with Godolphin [a neighbouring girls’ school] where his enthusiastic variations on the quickstep were warmly appreciated by all who got out of the way. His amiability and sense of humour have won him many friends, and the same qualities will no doubt win him many more at Cambridge.’ They did. Joining Caius in 1962 to read Natural Sciences and Law (and not necessarily too much of either, by his own admission, in those gentler days), he became Captain of Boats there too. He supported rowing through donations to his school and Caius and had the honour of launching a rowing VIII named after him at both. With characteristic fairness, the ‘Martin Wade’ at Caius is a men’s VIII and that at Latymer is a women’s VIII. When first invited to name a boat that he had donated, he named it of course not after himself but rather his wife: Vicky Wade. Martin was a prolific figure on the towpath and he will be fondly remembered by the Caius Boat Club that he led as President through the two most successful decades in its history. While at Caius, Martin was also a founding member of the (regrettably now defunct, but grandly named) ‘Ancient Order of Gonville Loungers’, recorded in the College archives as: ‘A society of ten “Gonville men” under a President and committee, whose purpose was to gather and lounge by the gate of Humility in order to “observe how strange creatures ye Lord hath made”.’ Members were obliged to dress in their finery to sit ostentatiously outside the Porters Lodge on Trinity Street each day at 13.00, with those who failed to do so incurring fines that inevitably accrued into a lavish banquet at the term’s end. When Martin arrived at Caius, the student body was represented to the Fellowship by a self-selecting dining society called the Gonville Gargoyles. After Caians agitated for a fairer system based on the vote, Martin became the first elected student leader. Martin’s first employment, and that which sustained him through university, was as a bin man. He recalled the heavy metal bins, and the eccentric cast of characters who

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rode the lorry with him and boasted of bawdy accomplishments, apologising to their scholarly colleague that they were simply ‘living life, Martin. Living life.’ He remembered being so tired at the end of each day that he could barely walk up the hill to the bath his mother had run for him. Upon graduation, his striking good looks sustained a fleeting career as a model. He also worked for the oil giant Shell. But, as shown by this poem in a letter to a friend at the time, he did not enjoy it: A young graduate, quite new to Shell Decided the whole place was hell It brought him to tears To contemplate years In his tiny anonymous cell. And so it was to be in financial services that the same ‘amiability and sense of humour’ earned him spectacular success and transformational wealth. Martin’s career took him from the Far East to New York, finding good friends, fun and fortune around the world. He had a preferred seat on Concorde and an ability to sing a Japanese bath-house song...in Japanese. His signet ring related to a slightly lewd tale from Hong Kong. It was at the helm of a joint venture between UK merchant bank Fleming’s and the US firm T Rowe Price, a position he held for more than 20 years, that he found arguably the greatest achievements of his career. He was described by longstanding business colleagues as a ‘James Bond without the gun’ who charmed and inspired American investors to one of the most successful joint ventures that the world of finance has known. Martin was essentially a modest man. His pleasures were simple ones: dropping his children at Cambridge, it would always be a BLT sandwich and Snickers bar from the garage by Newnham roundabout. A cold beer, olives, nuts and always crisps. He was cremated with a pack, as well as with his favourite pair of old boat shoes and his Caius Boat Club blazer. He was a captivating public speaker, a superb storyteller with a wonderful sense of humour, and astoundingly well-liked. He didn’t complain and he approached even his illness with a characteristic, quiet dignity. The hundreds of tribute letters sent to his family repeated the same word again and again and again: he was a gentleman, with a sincere and selfless concern for other people and a way of making anyone feel welcome, appreciated and special. He always retained his social conscience, funding bursaries at Caius so that those born like him to modest means could also enjoy the education that he thanked for changing his life.

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The College and its community will feel the loss of Martin Wade deeply. But his greatest legacy will surely be his example, and that will live long in many. Anne Lyon (Director of Development, 2001-2015, Development Director of Principal Gifts 2015-2016, Fellow 2001-2016, Emeritus Fellow 2016) writes as follows: Martin was a valued member of the Development Campaign Board under three Masters providing continuity and trust in the wisdom he imparted during those meetings. Martin, as President of Caius Boat Club, and I enjoyed meeting Caians in London during a campaign which raised over £4.5 million in just over a year to fund the new Caius boathouse and renovation of the graduate accommodation behind it. His support was a great example as we spoke to ‘boaties’ of all ages about how their experience of teamwork while rowing for Caius had helped as they rose in their various professions, and Martin could take the lead in this having risen to the top of his. The College was very grateful for the support of his beautiful wife, Vicky, as Martin gave much time in support of the Caius Development Campaign and Caius Boat Club. It was a privilege to work with him creating stronger links between Caians and their College, never seeking to take the limelight for himself but always stepping forward to help when he saw support was necessary. Martin’s memory will live on through his permanent memorial on the Benefactors’ Wall in the Great Gate where the College’s greatest benefactors since its foundation in 1348 are celebrated. He will be greatly missed.

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DE LA HOYDE, DENYS RAPLH HART (1954 Theology, Chaplain 1960-4), 15 December 2025 Ryder Whalley (1951 Law) writes as follows: My friendship with Denys de la Hoyde goes back at least 70 years. We just missed each other as undergraduates at Caius, for I graduated the term before he came into residence. We overlapped by one term as theological students at Westcott House. So, it was not until we were simultaneously appointed as College Chaplains – Denys at Caius; I at Magdalene – that our paths really crossed and our friendship developed. This was one of the three most important and lasting friendships of my early adult life, and spiritually the most important of all. Although we never actually worked together, and our lives followed different paths, we were able to meet fairly regularly, and to share much of what was happening to us. I am glad to say I have retained a host of happy memories of time spent together, as well as sharing in some difficult and painful experiences. Denys was born at Bisaspur in India, of Anglo-Indian stock. His father was an Anglican priest, and the family settled in England after India became independent. He was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School and admitted to Caius in 1954. Here, he was Captain of the Hockey Club (1955-6) and Chapel Clerk (1955-7). After graduating, he trained at Westcott House and became Deacon (1959) and Priest (1960) at Manchester. In 1960 he became Chaplain at Caius. Denys retained a deep love for India and returned there to work after finishing his fouryear chaplaincy at Caius. He was newly married to Judy, and they had a baby daughter, Rachel, born in 1964, and a son, Hugh, born in 1966. Sadly, their marriage broke down, and the family returned to England, where they were divorced in spite of strenuous efforts to save the marriage. Some years later Denys married Liz, who had been a childhood friend, and they were blessed with the birth of their daughter, Alice. The reaction of the Church authorities was singularly unhelpful, and in consequence Denys spent a number of years outside the ordained ministry, as Head of Religious Education and Pastoral Counsellor at Harrogate High School. Eventually, a wise new bishop decided Denys was too valuable not to be exercising his priestly ministry and appointed him to be Vicar of Poole-inWharfedale in the Diocese of Ripon. Here the family was able to settle down with Denys in his proper role. At the time of his passing, he was the grandfather of seven and great-grandfather of six.

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The real test of friendship comes when one or other is facing severe challenges. Fortunately, we were both available at different times when most needed. I am glad I was around at the time of his marriage crisis, but over the years he gave me a huge amount of emotional support, as a good pastor should, totally accepting and non-judgemental. Denys was never one to waste time. His whole life reflected a sense of purpose, and this continued after his retirement. He gained great satisfaction from his work with the Samaritans. Even more important was his commitment to the Palestinian cause. Frequently, he and Liz would go to help with the olive harvest, and he led at least three pilgrimages to the Holy Land and worked hard at home to educate us about the plight about the disenfranchised Palestinians, living in their own country under Israeli control. In January 2009 he led a daily vigil in the centre of Harrogate for the children of war-torn Gaza. Each day candles were lit for two hours and prayers were said at St Peter’s Church. Denys and his wife Liz resolved to live on bread, soup and fruit juice while the conflict continued. He also, on regular occasions, led parties to Iona, pilgrimages that were perhaps less stressful and more reflective than the Holy Land trips. But in all these ventures he showed the same care and attention to the needs of others and fostered the sense of fellowship and togetherness. I shall always remember the Iona weeks, as I shall always remember him: a great and true friend, and a truly spiritual man; a man with a firm grasp of faith, which he shared with great humility and generosity. He fully deserves his ‘rest in the Lord’.

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HARTLE, JAMES BURKETT (Visiting Fellow 1985-6, G C Steward Visiting Fellow Lent and Easter 1994), 17 May 2023 The following obituary draws on the text published on the UC Santa Barbara website on 21 June 2023. James Hartle was a world-leading cosmologist and theoretical physicist who helped to found the UCSB Institute for Theoretical Physics, now the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, and provided outstanding leadership as its fourth Director, from 1995 to 1997. He was a pioneer in exploring the deepest mysteries of the universe, from general relativity to black holes to quantum gravity. Together with Stephen Hawking (Fellow 1965-2018), he co-authored the landmark 1983 paper ‘Wave Function of the Universe’, which has played a vital role in shaping the field of quantum cosmology. Hartle was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1939. He attended the Gilman School in Baltimore for five years and then public schools in Ohio and Connecticut. His family ultimately returned to Baltimore, where he completed his senior year at the Gilman School in 1956. He completed his undergraduate degree in physics at Princeton (AB, 1960), then moved to the California Institute of Technology for his PhD where he was advised by Murray Gell-Mann. He was awarded his PhD in 1964. Turning away from the particle physics he had studied as a doctoral student, he became excited by new discoveries in astrophysics and wrote a series of important papers on relativistic stars with Kip Thorne. A Sloan Foundation award enabled him to spend a year at the Cambridge Institute for Theoretical Astronomy, where he retrained as a cosmologist. There he met Stephen Hawking, with whom he developed a long-term collaboration. Two of the papers that Hartle wrote with Hawking became classics and had a major impact on future research. The first one introduced the Hartle-Hawking quantum state for matter outside a black hole, which plays a fundamental role in black hole thermodynamics. This paper also inspired a new, so-called Euclidean approach to quantum gravity. In the second paper Jim and Hawking applied this approach to cosmology. They introduced the Hartle-Hawking 'no-boundary' wave function of the universe which showed for the first time how the conditions at the big bang origin of the universe could be determined by physical theory. Jim regarded this latter paper as perhaps his greatest contribution to the field. His efforts to apply quantum mechanics to the universe as a whole led to him being known as the father of quantum cosmology. In a long-term collaboration with Gell-

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Mann, he developed a formulation of quantum mechanics, known as the consistent histories formulation, that was sufficiently general to describe closed systems like the universe. In later years, he worked with Hawking’s student Thomas Hertog to further explore the implications of the no-boundary wave function. Studying the role of the observer in a quantum universe, they introduced a top-down approach to quantum cosmology in which quantum observations retroactively determine the outcome of the big bang. Hartle spent most of his career as a Professor of Physics at UCSB, where he was also a co-founder of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics which attracted leading physicists from around the world. He had affiliations with many centres of research, including Caius and the Cambridge Isaac Newton Institute for the Mathematical Sciences. His research accomplishments were recognised with the American Physical Society’s Einstein Prize (2009), election to the American Philosophical Society (2016), the National Academy of Sciences (1991) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1989), and an Honorary Doctor of Science from Waterloo University (2004). He was selected to be the Distinguished Faculty Research Lecturer at UCSB in 1992 and the 11th Schrödinger Lecturer at Imperial College London. He also was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1988. In addition to his 188 scientific papers, Hartle wrote an influential textbook, Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein’s General Relativity (Addison–Wesley, 2003), and published a collection of his essays: The Quantum Universe: Essays on Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Cosmology, and Physics in General (World Scientific Publishing Company, 2021). Alongside his scientific work, he was an eclectic reader. His interests included ancient Middle Eastern and Mayan archaeology, Sumerian cuneiform, American colonial history, Russian literature, evolutionary biology and eccentric nineteenth-century female religious figures. He loved classical music and especially opera and travel. He was notable for telling well-crafted anecdotes and for composing apt and amusing toasts. He is survived by his wife, stepdaughter and granddaughter, as well as other close family.

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BRETT, CHARLES (Singing coach 19882003), 4 July 2025 Francisco Salazar writes in Opera/Wire as follows: Countertenor, conductor, and teacher Charles Brett has died at the age of 83. Brett was educated at Winchester College and King’s College and studied singing with Julian Smith and John Whitworth. Brett was a revered professor who held several teaching posts, including Assistant Music Master at Eton College, and Director of Music at Malvern College and Westminster School. While at Malvern, he also conducted the Malvern Musical Society. Brett eventually turned to freelancing and became a Professor at the Royal Academy of Music from 1988 to 2003 and taught singing at Caius, to the great benefit of the choir. He went on to teach masterclasses around the world in Mexico, Guatemala, Germany, Belgium, Canada and Spain. Outside of his teaching career, Brett was a well-known soloist who made his debut in 1965 in London. He went on to work with the greatest specialists in Early and Baroque music and performed at top European Festivals, including Barcelona, San Sebastian, Cuenca, Wroclaw, Prague, Aix-en-Provence, Sable-sur-Sarthe, Lourdes, Saintes, Innsbruck and Flanders. Brett’s operatic repertoire included Oberon in Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Athamas in Handel’s Semele and Publio in Gluck’s La Clemenza di Tito. Brett was also the founder of The Amaryllis Consort, which debuted in London and performed in France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Portugal. Throughout his career, the countertenor made several recordings with the Choir of St John’s College as well as operatic albums of such works as The Fairy Queen and The Messiah, among others. In Caius he is remembered fondly as the most wonderful teacher, to whom many members of the Choir were indebted; in many cases, they literally owed their subsequent musical careers to his inspired tuition.

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ALPERS, MICHAEL PHILIP (1955 Natural Sciences), 3 December 2024 His partner Deborah Lehmann writes: Michael was born in Adelaide, South Australia on 21 August 1934 to Dr Philip Jacob Ehregott Alpers and Monica Concordia Alpers (née Graebner). He spent his early childhood in Mannum, a small town on the River Murray 100km from Adelaide. From an early age he had an enquiring mind, enjoyed exploring his environment and kept scrap books with newspaper cuttings about the War. In 1945, the family moved to Adelaide. Michael completed his high school education at St Peter’s College, where he excelled academically, was active in sports and other extracurricular activities and was School Captain. He won the Thomas Price Scholarship to the University of Adelaide, where he completed a BSc in Mathematics and Physics in two years. In 1954, Michael was awarded the Makin Scholarship to Caius. During the six-week voyage on the Strathaird, he made the decision to switch from Mathematics to Medicine, which was promptly approved by his Tutor, Mr Stanley Dennison (Fellow 1945-58). Michael thoroughly enjoyed his time in Cambridge. He completed his preclinical studies, obtaining a BA in Natural Sciences in 1957. But he also wanted to educate himself more broadly. He read widely, attended lectures on architecture and art, attended concerts and visited art galleries in London. He rowed in the Caius Medical Boat (bow) and other boats (middle) and took part in various sports whenever needed. He made many lifelong English and Australian friends. This was helped by the strategic location of his room on the ground floor next to the Gate of Honour. He would be woken to assist fellow students climbing in after hours, then offered them a sherry or port! Throughout his life he stayed connected with them and his many other friends by sending postcards from around the world. Michael completed his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degrees in 1960 at the University of Adelaide. In 1958, an article in the local newspaper sparked his interest in a new fatal neurodegenerative disease called kuru that was killing hundreds of Fore people in New Guinea. He decided he wanted to do research on kuru in New Guinea (later Papua New Guinea). In 1961, he took up a research officer position and moved with his wife, Wendy, and eight-month-old daughter Kirsten to Okapa patrol

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post, before settling in Waisa in the Eastern Highlands Province. Our family connections with the Fore people, particularly those in Waisa, continue to this day. Michael documented all cases of kuru and noted the gradual disappearance of the disease in the youngest cohort. Michael’s and anthropologists’ ethnographic studies determined that the agent of kuru was transmitted through the local mortuary practice (predominantly by women and children) that Michael termed ‘transumption’ – consuming the dead, thus incorporating the body of the dead person into the bodies of living relatives, helping to free the spirit of the dead. This practice had ceased suddenly in the 1950s when proscribed by the Australian administration. The respect and trust Michael enjoyed in the community enabled him to perform autopsies in a deceased’s home to collect specimens for transmission studies of kuru which were carried out after he took up a position at the National Institutes of Health in the United States in 1964. He diagnosed the first cases of kuru in chimpanzees, reported in The Lancet in 1966 with Carleton Gajdusek and Joe Gibbs. Kuru became the first reported human spongiform encephalopathy to be transmitted in humans. Subsequently, the infective agent was found to be a misfolded version of a normal protein (PrP), later called a prion by Stan Prusiner. Kuru stimulated future research on prion diseases. Michael collaborated with John Collinge and his team at the MRC Prion Unit and University College London Institute of Prion Diseases for many years. The early work guided global responses to the later epidemics of iatrogenic and variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD) and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). The recognition of the importance of kuru research is evident by the award of two Nobel prizes (Gajdusek and Prusiner). Between 1968 and 1976, Michael was a Research Fellow, then Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Western Australia, mentoring and training numerous scientists, continuing his work on kuru and initiating studies on arboviruses. He led a team that visited Aboriginal communities across Western Australia (WA) to hear people’s concerns and make policy recommendations to Government. In 1977, Michael returned with his family to Goroka in Papua New Guinea's Eastern Highlands as Director of the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research (PNGIMR), a position he held for 23 years, alongside his continuing kuru research. Under his directorship, PNGIMR developed from a struggling institution to become a globally respected centre of research excellence. Michael established programmes of multidisciplinary research of practical importance for PNG, addressing major health problems, namely pneumonia, malaria and lymphatic filariasis, enteric diseases and nutrition. As new diseases emerged, new programmes were established. When Michael arrived, there were five expatriate and five national staff. By the time he left in 2000 there were five expatriate staff and 250 national staff. He required the research to be of high scientific and ethical standards with a firm base in the community. An often-cited

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mantra of Michael’s was: ‘No research without service and no service without research’. Michael was Editor/Emeritus Editor of the PNG Medical Journal for 40 years. After leaving PNGIMR Michael joined the Centre for International Health at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia, where he continued his work on kuru, mentored many and was custodian of the Melanesian Film Archive. Michael published over 400 papers in peer-reviewed journals and co-edited three books. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Australian Academy of Science, and Officer in the Order of Australia. He was awarded the Medal of the Collège de France, the Macdonald Medal of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and Honorary Life Membership/Fellowship of many societies and institutions. But he was most proud of being appointed Companion of the PNG Order of the Star of Melanesia. The PNGIMR library is named after him, as is the Sexually Transmitted Infections Clinic in Goroka. Recently the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council have established a Michael Alpers Global Health Award. Michael was passionate about not only science, but also history, literature, art, theatre and music, notably Shakespeare, poetry, Beethoven string quartets, Bach cantatas and Renaissance art. He was an avid collector of silver spoons, prints, Delft tiles, wine labels and PNG artefacts, everything documented in minute detail. Michael was loved by all and respected not just for his research but for his humanity, humility, generosity, mentorship and his commitment to social justice and a sustainable environment. As his daughter Deryn said at his funeral, the idea that everyone is equal, irrespective of who we are or where we are from, underpinned everything he did. Michael’s death in December 2024 leaves Deborah, his partner and soulmate for 40 years, four children (Kirsten, James, Deryn and Ben), six grandchildren (Katrina, Jack, Lilia, Leio, Zak and Ellie) and three great grandchildren (Evie, Bea and Xavier). His wife and mother of his children, Wendy, and his brother, Professor John Henry Alpers, an eminent respiratory physician, predeceased him.

ANDERSON, KENNETH (1959 Theology), 9 February 2025 The Revd Kenneth Anderson was the son and grandson of Caians: David Anderson (1923) and James Drummond Anderson, Teacher of Bengali for the Board of Indian Civil Service Studies (1907). Born at Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, Ken was educated at Leatherhead School before coming to Caius in 1959 to read Theology. At Caius, he acted as Chapel Clerk and rowed in the 1st May Boat 1962, alongside his contemporary, The Revd Timothy Duff (1959 Law). In June 2024, he and his wife celebrated the 60th anniversary of their marriage in the Caius Chapel (The Caian 2023-24 p. 78), an event also attended by Sue Sewell one of their bridesmaids and her husband Peter Sewell

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(1964 Natural Sciences) who has been a Choral Exhibitioner at Caius and had sung at the wedding service. Kenneth Anderson’s life and career were recalled by The Revd Richard Thomson in The Church Times, 28 March 2025: If anyone had a problem in their personal lives, there was one person whom you could guarantee would listen to you: Ken Anderson. Ken trained for ministry at Westcott House, Cambridge, and served his title in Norwich. Bishop Lancelot Fleming sent him to serve at both a central Norwich church and as Chaplain of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. He wanted Ken to learn skills and knowledge directly from the doctors to be of the utmost help to the patients in the community, which stood him in good stead later. Ken took up posts at St Martin’s, Sandford, in the Isle of Purbeck, and from there Sherborne School in 1971. With Polly, his wife, by his side, Ken was a constant support to both the boys of that school and girls from the girls’ school, who soon got wind of his skills in pastoral care. Soon, his house was a refuge for every child who needed love and support in a fairly tough public school culture. He inaugurated a Friday evening candlelit communion service, which became a beacon for other school chaplains across the country. He was the first to explain to others that teenagers, contrary to popular opinion, actually loved silence. His sermons were full of stories and kept the young spellbound. After 12 years at Sherborne, Ken moved to Zimbabwe, first to Peterhouse School, and then to a parish that, he boasted, was the size of Wales. He was loved and admired by all, and returned to the UK in 1994, to work at Durham University as a Chaplain to Trevelyan and Van Mildert Colleges. In retirement, Ken moved to Eynesbury in the Diocese of Ely, to be closer to family. He continued to give counsel to many until the last months of his life. Ken died on the fourth Sunday before Lent, with his wife and daughter beside him. The collect on this Sunday aptly begins: ‘O God, you know us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers, that by reason of the frailty of our nature we cannot always stand upright’. These were words that defined his care and ministry. Ken leaves behind Polly, his wife of 60 years, Jamie and Rachel, and seven grandchildren. He will be gratefully remembered by thousands of people who had the need at some point in their early life, to be listened to and heard. He showed the love of Christ by his pastoral care and his ability to tell a good story, which always began: ‘I have a rather lovely story to tell you.’ And he had. 124

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BARNES, VIRGIL EVERETT (1957 Natural Sciences, Affiliated Student), 31 August 2024 The following obituary draws on the text posted on Legacy.com on 21 September 2024: Virgil E. Barnes II died peacefully on 31 August with his family at his side. He was a Professor of Physics at Purdue for 49 years and a leader in the golden age of subatomic particle discoveries since the 1960s that led to the modern understanding of the building blocks of the Universe. Born on 2 November 1935 in Austin, Texas, Barnes was the son of Virgil Everett Barnes, an eminent geologist at the University of Texas at Austin, and Mildred Louise Barnes. A top 10 winner of the national Westinghouse Science Talent Search competition while in high school, Barnes studied physics at Harvard, before transferring to Caius as an Affiliated Student in 1957. He completed his PhD at Cambridge on a Marshall Scholarship in 1962. His advisor, Otto Frisch, had coined the term ‘nuclear fission’. Barnes’ first job was at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, then the centre of particle physics research in the US. In 1964, he was part of the team that discovered the Omega Minus particle, a key experiment which confirmed the quark model in highenergy physics and contributed to at least one Nobel Prize. After joining the Purdue University Physics Department in 1969, Barnes served as Assistant Dean of the College of Science, and mentored eight graduate students, as well as over two dozen undergraduates. He became a founding member of the groups building particle detectors both at Fermilab near Chicago and at CERN in Europe. He developed techniques (still used around the world) for precisely measuring the energy of particles, key to identifying them and allowing many further discoveries. In 1995, Barnes and the team at Fermilab discovered the top quark, completing the discovery of this class of elementary particles, begun 31 years earlier. In 2012, he was also a member of the team that discovered the Higgs Particle, which gives all other particles mass. This was the most important discovery in particle physics of the last few decades. Barnes married Barbara Green, a fellow research scientist, in 1957. They had a son before her untimely death in 1963. He later met Linda Taylor while they were both vacationing on the French Riviera. They married in 1970 and had three sons. The couple had many friends in the West Lafayette area and around the country, including a close-knit group who shared a love of fine food, wine, and raucous laughter, known as the ‘Gourmet Group’. They were members of Parlor Club, where they presented well-received papers on various topics such as ‘Off the Beaten Path in Japan’ and ‘Terra Amata – A Palaeolithic Campsite’.

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Barnes spoke both French and German, loved classical music and collected African and Asian art. He delighted his sons and grandchildren with toys and geometric creations, including a wand that could create 20-foot-long bubbles and a dodecahedron version of the Rubik’s Cube. He even built his own harpsichord. Barnes and his family travelled widely, including to Tibet, Egypt, Peru and Tanzania, as well as throughout Europe. His favourite vacation spot, though, was a beloved home on Cranberry Lake in the Adirondacks. The couple skied together for multiple weeks every year until Linda’s death in 2011. He himself continued skiing until he was 78. Virgil Barnes is survived by four sons and eleven grandchildren, all of whom remember him fondly.

CALLAGHAN, CATHERINE (1996 Law LLM), 13 August 2025 Catherine Callaghan KC was born in Oxford in 1971, where her father (the distinguished New Zealand physicist Sir Paul Callaghan) was then undertaking doctoral research. The family returned to New Zealand afterwards, and Catherine was educated there. She began her legal education at Victoria University of Wellington, where she graduated top of her year. She came to Caius subsequently in 1996 as a Tapp student to study for an LLM, and again, was ranked first in her year. Upon graduation, Catherine worked initially for law firms in New Zealand, before moving to London to work as a solicitor for Clifford Chance. She moved to the Bar in 2000 and became a tenant at Blackstone Chambers, specialising in public, regulatory and employment law. She was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 2018 and established herself as a leading practitioner in her fields. She was chair of the Administrative Law Bar Association in 2022-23. Catherine was first diagnosed with cancer in 2013. Her treatment over the following 12 years allowed her to live a rich and full life, right up to the time of her death. Her professional activities were only a subsidiary part of her life. Only days before she died, she successfully completed a postgraduate diploma at the Courtauld Institute, reflecting her lifelong interest in the arts. Catherine was brilliant, funny, kind and popular. She travelled extensively, and she had a large circle of friends, many of whom came to stay at the home she shared with her 126

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husband in rural Gloucestershire. She leaves behind her husband Andreas Gledhill KC, mother Susan, brother Chris, and nephews James and Thomas.

CALVERT, JOHN PHILIP (1967 Medicine), 25 April 2024 His son, Will Calvert (2004 Medicine), writes as follows: John Philip Calvert came to Caius from Stockport Grammar School in 1967 with a reference from his headmaster that concluded with the words ‘you will like him’ and advised that he would be ‘quite the specialist when he chooses his subject’. His chosen subject was Medicine, and he was awarded his BA in 1969 and a BChir (Bachelor of Surgery) in 1972 following conclusion of his studies at St Thomas’ Hospital, London. He specialised as an obstetrician and gynaecologist, and true to his original reference he excelled, holding roles with the Royal College and the Welsh Health Board Higher Awards Committee. During his time at Caius, he was heavily involved in the sailing teams at both College and University level, gaining 3 Half Blues with the University Varsity team. He was a loving husband, to Sharon, an amazing father and a devoted grandfather. He died aged 77, with his wife and children at his side. He had continued to sail until that very day, liked by everyone that met him.

CLOSE, PETER ALWEN (1943 Classics), 16 February 2025 His wife Carole writes: Peter was born in India in 1943, after his father was posted there by the British Army. Back in England, Peter attended prep school, then Haileybury and ISC, where he was awarded a scholarship to Caius in 1961 to read Classics. Here he also developed his skills and enthusiasm for rugby and cricket and gained his cricket Blue in 1965. Peter achieved his BA in Classics in 1964, followed by a Diploma of Education in 1965. Peter was very proud to be a Caian, and his time at Caius was the foundation on which he built his career in education, becoming a Classics teacher and culminating

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in the Headships of Hardye’s School in Dorset and Cranbrook School in Kent. Notable achievements at the latter were enabling the school to become grant-maintained and a 1997 Ofsted Inspection which found Cranbrook under his leadership to be an ‘outstanding school’ and recognised the variety of interests, strengths and abilities of his students. In another lasting initiative, Peter was able to persuade the school governors to secure funding for the school’s first astroturf all-weather pitch. ‘Opportunity for all’ was a strong ethos of Peter’s, as were the values Humility, Virtue and Honour, that are inscribed on the sixteenth-century stone gate arches at Caius and guiding principles for Peter throughout his life. He taught in both the private and public sectors, firmly believing all students, regardless of their background, should have access to the best education that schools could provide. With his own classical education, Peter enjoyed learning Italian and exploring Italy on family holidays and during educational school trips. Persuaded by his deputy at Hardye’s School to accompany the Dorset Schools Ski Party, Peter displayed his usual determination by learning to ski at the age of 40! Peter was passionate about sport all his life, especially cricket, playing county cricket for Dorset as a young man and later for local clubs wherever he lived. Other pursuits included countryside walks with the family and their Jack Russells, and attending choral concerts, operas and films with his wife Carole. Favourite trips were those to the Royal Albert Hall and the Royal Opera House. In retirement, Peter served as a school governor at Hawkhurst Primary School for 12 years and enjoyed using his impressive general knowledge as a regular member of pub quiz teams. As well as having a positive impact on many young minds, Peter’s whole family benefited from his quiet guidance, steadying influence and constant love. Married to Carole for 58 years, Peter was a devoted family man and took great pride in his three daughters, Sarah, Gina and Gail, and seven grandchildren. He will be greatly missed by them and many others who knew him, including the life-long friends he made at Caius.

DAVIES, JOHN QUENTIN, LORD DAVIES OF STAMFORD (1963 History), 13 January 2025 The following obituary appeared in The Guardian on 10 February 2025: Nothing in his previous 30 years of political activity quite prepared Quentin Davies, Lord Davies of Stamford, who has died aged 80, for the intensity of the emotional anguish to which he subjected himself in advance of his decision to abandon his membership of the Conservative party and cross the floor of the House of Commons to sit on the Labour benches. 128

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His defection in June 2007 was prompted by despair about the mounting antipathy towards Europe that had been steadily growing throughout his 20 years as a Tory MP, in direct conflict with his own passionate conviction about the need for Britain to remain within a united European Union. The revelation of this apostasy was timed by Gordon Brown’s media team to coincide with exquisite precision for the day Brown became prime minister in succession to Tony Blair, thus adding an intended air of hoopla to the changeover at the head of government. Davies was primed to set the scene by announcing his defection in a letter, published the night before Brown took his new place in the top spot on the Treasury bench, unequivocally denouncing David Cameron’s leadership of the Conservatives for the previous two years. It provided a degree of drama on the day, but defectors are never entirely embraced within the bosom of their new political family and are generally despised by their previous one. Davies had been well aware of this when wrestling with his conscience but had nevertheless become convinced that he could not remain a Conservative and also sleep easily at night. He cut an unlikely figure as a Labour MP. He was an imposing character who wore pinstriped shirts as loud as his voice and owned an eighteenth-century manor house in his Lincolnshire constituency. When the MPs’ expenses scandal broke in 2009, he was revealed to have claimed £10,000 for repairs to windows in this ‘second home’, Frampton Hall (his first home being a London flat) and £20,700 the previous year for maintenance of a bell tower – a figure subsequently reduced to £5,376. In 1991, he had been fined £1,500 on two charges of animal cruelty after a shepherd in his employment had failed to feed sheep on his estate; he had sacked the man responsible, but nevertheless subsequently faced calls of ‘Baa’ from the Labour benches in the Commons whenever he rose to speak. It did not puncture his self-confidence. He was an assiduous MP at Westminster and also travelled widely with parliamentary groups linked with other European states. He had previously demonstrated an adherence to principle over the Scott report into the scandal over the sale of arms to Iraq in 1996 when he called for the resignation of one of the ministers implicated and was one of only two Tory MPs to vote against John Major’s government, thus bringing the administration within a single vote of defeat. By then he already had a reputation as something of an independent-minded maverick and this rebellion scored him coveted awards, including Guardian readers’ personality of the year and the Spectator’s backbencher of the year in 1997. A former merchant banker and main board director of Morgan Grenfell before his election to parliament, he was a taxation expert and proved an impressively knowledgeable member of the Treasury select committee from 1992 to 1998.

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Although he played an enthusiastic role in the fight against the anti-Europeans within the Conservative parliamentary party, characterised as ‘bastards’ by Major during his beleaguered premiership, Davies never found favour with Margaret Thatcher’s successor. His Tory colleagues at the time believed it was his failure to secure ministerial office which embittered such an openly ambitious man and subsequently led to his defection. After John Major’s departure, he had been appointed to the Opposition frontbench by William Hague and was a spokesman on social security (1998-99), the Treasury (19992000) and defence (2000-01), and Iain Duncan Smith made him shadow Northern Ireland spokesman (2001-03), but thereafter he returned to the backbenches and joined the select Committee on International Development, where he was a member until 2007. On crossing the floor of the house, he strenuously asserted that it had not been with the promise of a job in the Brown government, but in the event had only to wait just over a year before joining the defence team as the junior minister with responsibility for defence equipment and support. He was in office from 2008 until Labour lost power two years later, a period during which he was called to answer for the inadequacy of defence equipment used by troops deployed in Afghanistan, notably the Snatch Land Rover, nicknamed the ‘mobile coffin’. Davies was born in Oxford, the elder son of a Labour-voting doctor, Michael Davies, and his wife, Thelma (nee Butler). He was privately educated at the Dragon School, Oxford, and Leighton Park, Reading, and won a scholarship to Caius, from which he graduated in 1966 with a first-class History degree. He was awarded a year’s fellowship at Harvard before joining the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1967. He spoke Russian and was posted to Moscow for three years in 1969, then in 1974 took up his banking career with Morgan Grenfell. He became the bank’s director general and president in France and was head of European corporate finance until he became an MP. His other business interests included serving as a director of Dewe Rogerson International (1987-95), and as an adviser at NatWest (1993-9) and the Royal Bank of Scotland (1999-2003). He was a member of the council at Lloyds of London (2004-7). Davies’s political interests started at Cambridge where he was treasurer of the University Conservative Association. In 1975, during the referendum on continuing membership of the then EEC, he chaired the City in Europe Committee. He first stood unsuccessfully for the Commons in 1977 in the Birmingham Ladywood by-election and was elected for Stamford and Spalding in 1987. His constituency boundaries were redrawn as Grantham and Stamford in 1997. In 2010, he retired as an MP at the election and was promoted to the Lords in the Dissolution Honours list. He was a member of the Lords European select committee from 2013 to 2016 130

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and after Brexit of the European Union external affairs subcommittee (2019-23). He narrowly survived a serious road accident in 2020 and resigned from the Lords in 2023. He is survived by his wife, Chantal (née Tamplin), whom he married in 1983, and their sons, Alexander and Nicholas.

DEAN, JOHN TREVOR (1955 Rural Estate Management), 10 July 2025 His brother-in-law Charles Beresford (1962 History) writes: John Dean was born in Cambridge in 1935 and began his education at St Faith’s School. After leaving Rugby in 1953, he served his National Service in the Royal Engineers. This included commanding a Churchill tank in Germany. He came to Caius in 1955 and graduated in Rural Estate Management in 1958. He devoted his working life as a Land Agent and Chartered Surveyor to the clients of the firm started by his father in 1949. His support for his father and leadership of his colleagues in the office for so many years showed that he was the cornerstone for them all. Their clients included the owners and staff of several major estates, mainly in East Anglia and the Cotswolds. These eminent personalities confided in him and trusted him for his reliability, his thoroughness and his judgement. They appreciated his discretion, his modesty and his constant good humour in overcoming the many strategic and operational challenges that arise in caring for such lands, animals and historic buildings. He greatly valued being appointed a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) by HM Queen Elizabeth II in 1994 for personal services. His interests naturally varied over 90 years, from painting and photography to skating, skiing and windsurfing. His travels included the Americas and Asia, but especially Australia where he visited his eldest son and family regularly. He used his skills as a surveyor in several of his own projects, including the extensive improvements to his home for 60 years near Cambridge. He created a fine garden, having bought some adjacent land, and meticulously mapped the planting of hundreds of trees, shrubs and plants. He and his father also rescued and restored the lighthouse at Hunstanton in the 1960s. This then provided the extended family with an ideal base for three decades of holidays. John’s family was the centre of his life. He shared with his young son Tim the tragic loss of his wife Anne, but to quote Tim’s eulogy ‘you have to pick yourself up and keep going’, and that’s exactly what he did: he then created a great family and life with OBITUARIES

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Valerie. Their son Anthony and daughter Philippa live locally, and John greatly enjoyed the company of his six grandchildren and their parents in Cambridge and Sydney. John is fondly remembered by all who knew him for his many qualities, particularly his charm, patience and sense of humour.

DOUGLAS, ROBIN JANE (1984 Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic), 21 August 2024 The following text is excerpted from the obituary posted by Robin’s brother, Bruce Douglas, on Legacy.com on 30 August 2024: Robin Jane Douglas had struggled against chronic illness for much of her later adult life, but she was always fiercely independent and never let any illness define her. She excelled in her education and graduated in the top 10 of her high school class, which numbered almost 700 freshmen. She also played tennis and softball at Neenah High School and was the manager of the men’s Varsity soccer team in 1980. She did a first degree at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and then matriculated at Caius for a degree in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic followed by an MPhil in Archaeology. As an undergraduate at Caius, she lived in the same house as Stephen Hawking, with whom she became friends. She loved her time in England and life in Caius, attending May Balls and reportedly being invited to Prince Edward’s birthday party. She shared stories of her time there with family in the US via numerous lengthy hand-written letters. After Cambridge, she continued her education at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she completed her law degree in 1991, and then took a job with a firm in Los Angeles, where Johnny Carson from the Tonight Show was the entertainment at the group Christmas party. This firm had a branch in Honolulu and during her time employed there, Robin developed an enduring love for the South Pacific. As a result, her legal career continued for a time working in the US circuit court on the island of Guam, a period in her life which she would often refer to as her happiest. While on Guam she developed a deep and passionate love for animals, especially the large number of feral cats and dogs there. In typical fashion she followed this call to the highest level. She returned to the University of Wisconsin, from where she already held a 1984 bachelor's degree, to attend and complete veterinary school, graduating with a doctorate in Veterinary Medicine in 2003. She remained in Wisconsin until her death, living in Madison for 15 years and working at the Green County Humane Society among other places. Latterly she lived in Neenah in her childhood home providing aid to her aging mother, who died in 2022, and more recently focusing on her own significant health challenges.

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A gregarious individual with many interests, she was passionate about military history of World War II, scuba diving in her Guam years, voracious reading, Star Trek, Hawaii Five-0, and Monty Python’s Flying Circus. She never married but was devoted to her family, who will miss her greatly.

EDWARDS, JOHN PATRICK (1954 Geography) 16 March 2025 His wife of 67 years, Mary Edwards, writes as follows: John entered Caius in September 1954 having first completed two years National Service in the RAF upon leaving Wellingborough Grammar School. He had studied Russian at school, so the RAF placed him on the Russian Language course at the Joint School for Slavonic Studies, based firstly at Bodmin in Cornwall and then transferred to Cambridge. After completing all the necessary preliminary tasks, John was commissioned to Pilot Officer rank and stationed at RAF Kidbrooke as Education Officer. His task was to teach NCOs who were the drivers for all the senior staff cars. He also had responsibility for running the site library, which was a rather nice light task! John studied Geography at Cambridge and soon settled into life at Caius. Within the first few days, the three young men with whom he shared accommodation in College became close friends – ultimately, lifelong friends. They were allocated adjacent suites off the same staircase – one occupied by army Second Lieutenants and would-be lawyers – Nick Robson (1954 Law) and John Randall (1954 Law) – and the other by RAF Pilot Officers and prospective geographers – Richard Lovelace (1954 Geography) and John. After leaving Caius, John went to work for C & J Clark, the shoe manufacturers based in Street, Somerset, where he became PA to the Chairman, Bancroft Clark. John studied Cost and Works Accountancy at the Bristol College of Commerce and also completed correspondence courses in Law and Accountancy. His main role was that of Patents and Trademarks manager, which involved close contact with the research department, the Research Librarian and the legal advisers to the company. His knowledge of Russian was immensely useful in translating articles on shoe production in the Russian trade press. After seven years in Somerset, John acquired a job in the new Management Studies unit at the Bristol College of Science and Technology as a Lecturer in Production Management. Within a year, this College became the new University of Bath. By 1980, the Bath MBA was rated as the third best in the country. John ran this programme for 10 years and was also an external examiner to many European universities: Paris,

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Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Vienna, as well as South Wales and Dublin. He also lectured in Kuala Lumpur for two years and acted as a consultant to the Imperial Tobacco Group in Bristol and Allied Irish Bank in Dublin. John thoroughly enjoyed the whole of his 34 years at the University of Bath, during which time he travelled extensively and welcomed both staff and students into his family home in Combe Down, Bath. John’s interest in learning and in people continued well into retirement on his move to North Yorkshire. He took a degree in Theology at the York St John University and became involved in Probus, in the local Civic Society and with Talking Newspapers, and maintained his lifelong interest in the Methodist Church and the Boys’ Brigade, in which he was involved locally, regionally and nationally.

ELFONT, ROBERT MYLES (1980 Medicine Affiliated Student), 6 May 2025 The following obituary is based on the text that appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle on 15 June 2025: Robert Elfont was born in Philadelphia on 11 April 1958, to the late Ida (née Lapin) and Charles Elfont. He earned dual undergraduate degrees in Biology (Neuropsychology) and English from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was awarded a prestigious Thouron Fellowship to study at Caius for two years. He subsequently began a combined MD and PhD degree program at Dartmouth Medical School and earned an MD and PhD in Neuroanatomy from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He completed his medical internship at Rochester General Hospital in New York. This was followed by a residency in neurology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Neuroimmunology and Neurovirology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he also served on the faculty as an Assistant Professor specialising in multiple sclerosis. While at Johns Hopkins, he received the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Volunteer of the Year Award for the State of Maryland. He later joined the faculty of Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, where his research focused on immune cell trafficking. Over the course of more than 25 years in the biopharmaceutical industry, Robert held several executive leadership roles. Most recently, he served as Chief Medical Officer at

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Appello Pharmaceuticals. His prior roles included Senior Vice-President, Head of Clinical Development and Pharmacovigilance at Adamas Pharmaceuticals as well as CMO/Vice President of Clinical Development for several biotech companies including PhotoThera, Avigen, and Medivation. Earlier in his career, he held senior medical director positions at Roche, Pfizer and Teva Neuroscience. Robert made substantive contributions to neuroscience, having authored numerous scientific publications and received many professional honours, awards and research grants. He designed and oversaw multiple clinical trials for central nervous system drugs. As Chief Medical Officer at Aimmune Therapeutics Inc., he executed a highly successful Phase 2 proof of concept study in the treatment of peanut allergy that directly contributed to the company’s IPO and launched its pivotal Phase 3 study. In addition to his executive roles, Robert established Strategic Clinical Development LLC, through which he consulted for biotech, pharmaceutical and venture capital firms. Through this consultancy, he served as interim Chief Medical Officer for several emerging start-ups. Robert approached his work with dedication and a deep sense of purpose. He was admired for his intellect, unwavering commitment to excellence and the respect he showed to others. Robert is survived by his wife, V’Anne Singleton. Together they shared a deep appreciation for the arts and were patrons of San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Ballet. They supported many charitable organisations close to their hearts. They enjoyed travelling to new and favourite destinations to experience, learn and relax. Robert will be remembered by colleagues, friends and family for his intellect, wisdom, quick wit, gentle humour and kindness. He was admired for his strength of character, humility, honesty without concern for the outcome and courage to make everything he worked on better. He cared about people, both his patients and his friends and would go out of his way to help others. Robert Elfont was a scholar, an accomplished academic neurologist and a gentleman.

ESCOTT, JOHN RICHARD (1966 Mathematics), April 2025 We are grateful to John’s wife, Dr Margaret Escott, for information about his life and career. John was born at Horley, Surrey on 17 May 1948. He was educated, first at St Joan’s Kindergarten, and from the age of six at Prep School in Horley. He subsequently won a scholarship to Eastbourne College, where he excelled academically as well as experiencing sea fishing and swimming. After securing a place at Caius in December

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1965, John used the time before he matriculated the following October for work experience, exploring Scotland and journeying through Europe by car with friends to attend the European Games in Budapest. The phrase ‘Once a Caian, Always a Caian’ certainly applied to John. He established lifelong friendships in his student days (notably with John Coward and Norman Wilson, both 1966 Mathematics, and with his Mathematics supervisor Tommy Whitelaw, then a Trinity PhD student, later a notable teacher of Mathematics at Glasgow University) and he relished the experiences Cambridge offered. He continued to enjoy fishing and to hone his skills as a musician in his first year. Joining the Cambridge University Mountaineering Club in his second year marked the beginning a new and life-long passion. He travelled and climbed extensively throughout Britain with the club and joined their summer expeditions to the Alps, always keeping a diary, a photographic record, if practicable, and a written description of each ‘route’ accomplished. This he often sent home by letter, to be written up and shared in the club’s journal. After graduating in Mathematics in 1969 and gaining a postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science the following year, he spent nearly three years at ICL (now Fujitsu) in Bracknell. John became a pioneer in barcoding and font digitisation, and his outstanding abilities as a computer linguist, programmer and analyst led to a series of appointments that occupied him through to retirement: CRC Information Systems (London 1973-78), Générale de Service Informatique (London 1978-82), Scan Laser Printing UK (1982-86), CMB Associates (1986-92), Datascan Font Services & Datascan Form Systems (1993-94) and the Dutch firm Scanlaser bv (1994-2016). For much of his career, John remained in Berkshire (or its borders). He joined Reading Mountaineering Club, where he became a prominent member, and was valued for his winter and Alpine climbing, organisational and interpersonal skills. It was also much appreciated that he invariably found space to take his guitar and other musical instruments and song books to club ‘away meets’; he became a competent folk musician and performer – a climbing troubadour. In 1977 John realised his ambition to climb in the Himalayas when he and three other Reading Club Members became the mainstays of the British Barnaj expedition to the then little-known peak of Barnaj II. They were joined by the Sheffield mountaineers Paul Nunn and Bob Toogood, the cameraman Jim Curran who filmed the expedition, and an Indian Army officer to keep them safe along the disputed frontier between India

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and Nepal. It was a memorable trip, but unfortunately they were unable to reach the summit as the winter snows came early. John first met Maggie in North Wales in 1973. They married in 1976 and had three children. The family lived in Twyford from 1977, Hartley Wintney from 1984, and central Reading from 1992 to 2014, when John and Maggie moved to Cardiff. Folk music had continued to feature prominently in John’s life; and his extended periods working in California made the family fans of The Eagles. They enjoyed walking and energetic family holidays, but in the mid-1990s, amid increasing constraints, John decided to scale back his climbing activities. From 2004, the family spent more time in Aberystwyth, close to Maggie’s family. There they found ample opportunities for attending academic lectures, the Arts, mountaineering and walking. In 2009, John (like Maggie) became an active member of Aberystwyth Ramblers, planning and leading many strenuous walks. Plans to retire to Ceredigion were, however, put on hold by the birth of their first grandchild in 2016 since they wanted to live as near to him as possible. John delighted in his grandson, Daan. In 2018 John and Maggie moved to Mortimer, south of Reading, where John enthusiastically engaged in village life, but Parkinson’s Disease, which had been suspected in Cardiff, was soon confirmed. Parkinson’s Dementia followed and in July 2022 he had to enter Cherry Blossom Manor Care Home in Bramley, Hampshire, where he lived until he died. John was passionate about science and the natural world, and he was an avid reader of books on a wide range of topics. He had an endlessly enquiring mind and was always open-minded to other perspectives and viewpoints. He was a quiet and gentle individual and an extremely good listener, really focusing on what was being said before offering a remark or opinion. John will be remembered as a highly intelligent, accomplished and active man. He will be sorely missed by his family and his many friends.

FISHER, MARTIN NOEL (1966 Mechanical Sciences), 15 October 2024 His wife Julia Fisher writes as follows: Martin Fisher died in Jacksonville, Florida following a road accident. Martin was born in Portsmouth in December 1946. His father was a serving naval officer, as was his grandfather, who served in the First World War. Both were proud Irishmen.

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Six weeks after his birth, Martin was sailing to South Africa accompanied by his mother and older brother and sister. They were just ahead of the Royal Family making their first post-World War II overseas visit. After schooling in Ceylon (Trincomalee) and Scotland (Dunfermline), Martin entered Portsmouth Grammar lower school in 1956. He gained scholarships to the upper school in 1958 and two years later was awarded a scholarship to the Royal Navy. He subsequently progressed to the top rank in the school CCF naval section. He was a keen sportsman who played for the school first XI cricket team. However, the school did not play soccer, so Martin had to play his favourite sport on Sundays. He was an occasional thespian at school and a talented skit writer in his mid-20s. He reported to the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in September 1964. Passing out a year later, he attended Manadon Royal Naval Engineering College in Plymouth, for a year before taking up a scholarship sponsored by the Royal Navy to read Electrical Engineering at Caius in 1966. He soon became a key player in a Caius soccer team, which achieved legendary status in his second year with a shock semi-final victory over Christ’s in the KO Cuppers. In the final, Caius narrowly lost 2-1 to Fitzwilliam, the other perennial College soccer powerhouse. All this brought Martin into the ambiance of the Cambridge rugby and football elite of the day, in which he was in his element. In his first term at Caius, he met Julia at the Rehydration Ball. Julia was training at Addenbrooke’s Hospital as a nurse. They married two years later. Graduating from Cambridge in 1969, Martin returned to active service with the Royal Navy. In 1971, he served on HMS Cleopatra showing the flag in ports in many parts of the world, including the US, South Africa and the Far East, and appearing in multiple sporting contests. Ashore for the next six years, he returned to Manadon as an engineering lecturer and later took an MSc in Guided Weapons at Shrivenham College (now the Defence Academy of the UK). In his spare time, wrote skits for the occasional amateur dramatic show. In 1978, and by this time a family man with a son and daughter, Martin was posted to Washington DC to work with the US Navy on a UK-specified version of Harpoon (an anti-ship missile), internationally a competitor of the French Exocet. Harpoon would be at the centre of his working life for the next 20 years. Martin resigned from the Royal Navy in 1981, ending three generations of Naval Fishers spanning more than 80 years. Martin and Julia made the USA their family home, and in due course took citizenship.

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In 1990, Martin moved from Washington DC to St Louis, Missouri. For the next 14 years he travelled the world, collecting millions of air miles, as Director of the Missile Division of McDonnell Douglas (latterly Boeing, following a takeover). He helped Harpoon, which is still in production, rack up global sales of over 7,500. Martin resigned from Boeing in 2004, deciding at 58 to start his own consulting company to take advantage of his extensive network of US Navy and other government contracts. A further advantage was that Martin and Julia were able to move back East. They settled in Richmond, Virginia, close to their married son and their three young grandchildren. After 2000, Martin became an enthusiastic and active supporter of Cambridge and Naval reunions, which frequently brought him to the UK on summer visits. He was an occasional golfer, played soccer into his late 60s and maintained a keen interest in a number of UK and US sports. His loyalty to Portsmouth Football Club, which began in the 1950s, never dimmed. Martin is survived by his wife, Julia, their two children and six grandchildren.

FULLER, MICHAEL DAVID (1955, Natural Sciences), 14 July 2025 We are grateful to his colleagues in Hawaii, Stefanie Brachfeld, Michael O. Garcia and William Lowrie for information about his career: Dr Michael David Fuller was a pioneering palaeomagnetist whose work transformed our understanding of the Earth’s magnetic field and lunar magnetism. He was born in 1934 at New Malden, Surrey. Following schooling at Christ’s Hospital in Horsham, he was admitted to Caius to read Natural Sciences in 1955. In 1958, he was awarded a College Research Studentship in Geology and gained his PhD in 1962. He then devoted his long career to defining and deepening the fields of rock magnetism and planetary magnetism. After completing his PhD in Cambridge, Mike initially worked at Gulf Oil Research Laboratory, after which he joined Professors Takesi Nagata and Kazuo Kobayashi at the University of Pittsburgh. He was appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in 1964 and Professor of Geology in 1970, and he eventually led the palaeomagnetic laboratory there. Mike subsequently held faculty and academic appointments at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. Under his leadership and mentorship, his labs were hubs

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of innovation that attracted a new generation of geophysicists including Bill Lowrie, Peter Wasilewski, Stanley Cisowski, Susan Halgedahl and many others. Mike’s scientific legacy is immense. He established the first evidence for ancient magnetic fields recorded by Apollo lunar mission samples and demonstrating how shock remanent magnetisation could be acquired in planetary crusts. He produced some of the earliest records of geomagnetic field reversals and developed methods to estimate magnetic grain sizes through the acquisition and demagnetisation of laboratory-induced remanences and through hysteresis measurements. He also developed room-temperature parameters to estimate the palaeointensity of ancient magnetic fields preserved in samples far too precious to subject to heating, and he used Bitter pattern observations of titanomagnetites to suggest that metastable single domain states could be the source of PSD behaviour and stable TRM in titanomagnetites. While on a sabbatical in Zürich in the 1990s, Mike initiated pioneering investigations of the presence of magnetic nanoparticles in the human brain. Subsequently, his co-investigator, Jon Dobson, extended these studies to biomedical applications of magnetic micro- and nanoparticles, developing new techniques for studying neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Mike collaborated with Bill Goree in the development of SQUID magnetometers for the analysis of geologic and biological specimens. He was the first to use a SQUID in pass-through mode in order to generate records of palaeosecular variation and geomagnetic field reversals from sediment cores. Each of these scientific and technical advances remains foundational in modern palaeomagnetism and rock magnetism. Within the palaeomagnetism community, Mike is remembered not only for his scientific insights and creativity, but for his positivity, kindness and generosity, as a supporter of colleagues, students and early career scientists, and as a gregarious soul who loved life. Many have stories of Mike providing samples, sharing ideas, providing free access to his laboratory (accompanied by an introduction to Drambuie, of which Mike’s local bar kept a bottle especially for him), trading software, protocols and measurement techniques, providing kind words and encouragement and casually offering a ride home from a conference via the ‘Air Mike’ flight service. His hobby as a pilot had its roots in Mike’s UK military service. Sports was an integral part of his life. He was active in rugby while in boarding school and as a young professor at Pittsburgh. Later, Mike was an avid fan of tennis both as a player and as a financial booster of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa tennis team, of which several members gave Mike tennis lessons. He remained a dedicated fan and kept track of tournaments via tennis channels on TV. Mike’s contributions to palaeomagnetism were recognised by election as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 1985 and with the John Adam Fleming 140

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Medal in 2012. He will be remembered not only as a founder and driving force of palaeomagnetism but as a joyful person and role model for unselfish collaboration. He is survived by his daughter Karen Fuller and her son Shawn Fuller.

FULLERTON, PETER SMITH (1961 History), 30 May 2024 The following obituary is an edited version of the text published in The Times on 28 June 2024: Most of the so-called ‘Cambridge Mafia’, a group of Young Conservative student politicians at Cambridge University in the 1960s, would go on to be cabinet ministers. Members included Kenneth Clarke, Michael Howard and Norman Lamont. One of them, Peter Fullerton, broke ranks by becoming a lawyer and writer. Decades later, when newspapers printed photographs of the group, Fullerton enjoyed pointing out that he was always described in the accompanying index as ‘unknown’. Yet as a student it was Fullerton who seemed to win the most glittering prizes — a scholarship to Caius, Presidency of the Cambridge Union and a First in History. Caius Fellow Neil McKendrick considered him one of the most brilliant students he had ever taught. As President of the Cambridge Union in 1965, Fullerton organised one of the most spectacular debates in its illustrious history. It pitted James Baldwin, the American novelist and leading literary figure of the US civil rights movement, against William Buckley, the patrician editor of National Review and a controversial conservative polemicist. The debate was televised live by the BBC, and 700 undergraduates crammed into the Union chamber while outside hundreds more watched on television monitors. The motion, based on a quote from one of Baldwin’s novels, was: ‘The American dream is at the expense of the American Negro’. The debate attracted attention in America because it coincided with unrest, marches and shootings in the South and elsewhere. It became part of the history of the civil rights movement in America and is included in the syllabus for US civil rights courses. Baldwin’s speech is often cited alongside Martin Luther King’s for its impact and delivery. The debate has received over 15 million views on YouTube and inspired a book (The Fire Is Upon Us by Nicholas Buccola) and two plays, performed in the United States and subsequently on Shaftesbury Avenue. The atmosphere was electrifying, with no love lost between the two principal speakers. Baldwin won the vote with his calm, dignified manner by 544 to 164 and received a standing ovation led by Fullerton from the chair. Commentating for the BBC, Norman St John-Stevas said: ‘… the whole of the union standing and applauding this magnificent speech of James Baldwin … never seen before at the Union’.

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Buckley’s defeat riled him for many years. He used to refer to it in his regular TV debates with Gore Vidal and denounced it as ‘planned as an orgy of anti-Americanism’, which was quite untrue. Peter was born in 1943 in Bangor, Northern Ireland, to Mary Gwendraeth Fullerton (née Jones) and Peter Smith Fullerton. His father was in the Merchant Navy and one of the youngest masters to have his own ship. He attended Bangor Grammar and became the first pupil from that school to go to Cambridge. After university, Peter joined Gray’s Inn and gave every impression of planning a traditional career in law and politics. But his mind was moving in a different direction and he published two novels, An Hour for the Gods (1966) and The Sea Mark (1969), both of which received favourable reviews. He converted to Roman Catholicism but later in life renounced it and became a firm atheist. In his usual wry way, he used to say that he only ever intended to be a lapsed Catholic. Fullerton then went to Yale on a Henry Fellowship and, when he returned to England, joined Paramount Pictures as a scriptwriter, before leaving to work with George ‘Bud’ Ornstein, the European Head of Production for United Artists (UA). It was while working at UA that he met his future wife, Mary Ornstein, Bud Ornstein’s daughter. Mary was the grandniece of Mary Pickford, the silent movie icon who founded UA alongside her long-time friends Charlie Chaplin, DW Griffith and Douglas Fairbanks. Fairbanks and Pickford would later marry and build Pickfair, a 25-room residence that became synonymous with the Hollywood elite and frequently entertained everyone from JFK to Albert Einstein. Fullerton was married at Pickfair in 1970 with a guest list which included the Oscar winner Robert Mitchum. Towards the end of the evening, Mitchum asked Fullerton whether ‘this was his first [marriage]’. When he said yes, Mitchum said, ‘I’m told you will enjoy it more the second or third time’. Unfortunately, Mitchum’s words proved prophetic and the couple subsequently divorced. Fullerton’s career took yet another unexpected turn when he reverted to law but this time in America. He sat the US bar exams with little preparation and passed in the top one percentile. At this point he appeared to be settling down to a successful existence in Los Angeles, where he was a member of the Los Angeles Opera board and of the Californian committee for the Shakespeare Globe appeal. But after a property crash in California, he returned to the UK and developed a portfolio of business appointments including as a consultant to Guy Hands, the private equity pioneer. In 2010, Fullerton met Gareth Banning, a helicopter pilot serving in the RAF in Afghanistan. This meeting marked the start of the happiest period of his life. In 2013,

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they formed a civil partnership, probably the first time two members of the Garrick Club had done so. To celebrate the union, the ‘Cambridge Mafia’ gave a reception in the House of Lords for their old friend. Peter Fullerton is survived by Gareth and his children, John and Charlotte.

GOODE, FRANCIS NORMAN (1947 Natural Sciences), 13 May 2024 His grandson, Michael Goode (2010 History), writes: Francis Norman Goode died on the evening of his 100th birthday. Friends and family had gathered to celebrate and wish him well and, after listening to all their voices and messages, representing different times of his life and being told that he had definitely made it to 100, he died that evening, surrounded by close family. Caius was a very big part of Francis’ life, and he certainly lived the motto ‘Once A Caian, Always A Caian’. Maintaining a lifelong connection with the College, he attended nearly every Annual Gathering, donated to the Stephen Hawking Building, appeared in Once A Caian… several times and took a keen interest in College affairs for as long as he lived. Francis’ connection with Caius came through his uncle, Charles Douglas Shann (1925 Mechanical Sciences), who was Captain of the Caius Boat Club in 1927-28 and whose obituary appeared in The Caian (2004, p. 247). Born in York in 1924, Francis was the youngest son of Dr Henry Goode MC and Rosetta (née Shann). He was educated at Oundle and told stories of buying gunpower and concentrated sulphuric acid at the chemist as a child to conduct his own experiments – something unthinkable now! Francis was 16 when war broke out and he was very conscious of its coming. He volunteered to help on the farms before joining the Home Guard and then, as soon as he legally could, the Royal Artillery. He was interviewed extensively by the Imperial War Museum about his experience of the war but, in brief, he participated in the Normandy campaign serving as a young (possibly the youngest) Lieutenant with Fourth Durham Survey Regiment, Royal Artillery. Landing about 11 days after D-Day, he very quickly realised how small the beachhead was and barely evaded capture. As a Corps asset designed to locate enemy guns, his regiment followed 30 Corps ‘Club Route’ from Normandy and into Germany. There was tremendous risk to his work, especially when it came to counterattacks and traversing minefields. I remember asking him about the secret to a long life and our entering into a discussion about stress. He told me that after navigating minefields

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nothing seemed so awful that it was worthy of real stress. The risk was demonstrated by the fact that he lost his Sergeant to a mine shortly before the war ended: the memory stayed with him for the rest of his life. Near the end of his life, especially after receiving the Légion d’honneur, he was conscious that he was very likely the last living member of his regiment. After the war, he was part of the occupying army in the British section of Germany until 1947. From there he went to Caius to read Natural Sciences, joking later in life that he had a ‘five-year forced gap year’. For him the striking thing at that time was the mix of war and post-war students. The College was very crowded and the Master at the time had a definite policy of mixing demobbed students with ones from school. For Francis this was difficult; the age gap was notable but the gap in maturity was remarkable. He remembered getting his war medals in his pigeonhole. Francis’ happiest memories of Caius were outside of the over-crowded College. He bought a little caravan and arranged to have it in the carpark of a pub, organising for College post to go to it and even getting a milk delivery. He was very intellectually stimulated by the Tripos and he recalled that there was a real bias at the time towards nuclear expertise at the beginning of the Cold War. I know he very much enjoyed Caius. He used to break the curfew by climbing over the wall and was very active in University life. Francis went on to work in early computing for Elliot Brothers and was involved in their Festival of Britain (1951) display, before going on to eventually run Sun Printer’s Department of Fundamental Research. After this he lectured at Watford Technical College, tutoring into his seventies. Francis’ love of Caius was evident to me from my schooldays. As his grandson, I was blessed to join him on trips to the College and to hear what it meant to him. He was always supportive of the College apart from on one matter when he felt the College turned on those who had dedicated so much to it. He was close friends with Professor Fisher and the Fisher family so, over 70 years on from his time at Caius, he was actively involved in urging the College not to remove the Fisher window and was utterly dismayed when it did. Francis was married to Oonagh Mullaly until her death in 2004 and is survived by four children and five grandchildren. His sense of obligation to, and affection for, the College is something I hope to honour.

GRIFFITHS, ANNABEL (2007 Biological Natural Sciences), 1 March 2025 Her life partner Dr Philippe Collin wrote: Annabel Griffiths was a well-respected leader in the Rare Diseases community. She was tragically taken away by a very aggressive form of cancer after 11 months of battle that

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included the diagnosis, a complicated surgery, months of two different chemo treatments and several unexpected visits to the hospital and palliative care. She was 35 years young. These have been devastating times for us and my heart is broken. Not just because she was the love of my life and we had spent over a decade together but also because she was an absolutely extraordinary human being who impacted positively everyone and everything that she came across. She was kind, smart and had an unlimited drive when it came to helping others and doing the right thing. Her smile, approachability and generosity were always contagious, and she inspired many just like me on a daily basis. Sophie Costello of Costello Medical wrote: It is with profound sadness I am writing to inform the Costello Medical network of the death of Annabel Griffiths, our Global Head of Rare Diseases. Annabel changed the direction of Costello Medical for the better forever. No words can do justice to this truly remarkable individual – someone who approached her life with positivity, humour, ambition, compassion and selflessness. She was the finest this world has to offer. Since joining us in 2015, Annabel was a phenomenal force; most notably, it was Annabel who spearheaded our Rare Diseases division back in 2018. She played a critical role in supporting our academic research, was a key advisor to me as part of the Leadership team and had a huge positive impact on the rare disease sector No matter what Annabel turned her attention to, she spread her magic; whenever she spoke in a company meeting the whole room was completely captivated, and she was incredibly respected by all who worked with her. Annabel’s reputation as a thought leader within rare disease has been firmly established and her potential unlimited. Her enthusiasm and professional bravery radiated across the company, providing inspiration to everyone who worked with her. Importantly, Annabel’s inherent sense of what was ‘right’ always, always came first. She was so driven by our mission to improve healthcare in the areas that needed it most and encapsulated the values of our company totally. It was a privilege to work alongside her.

HALL, JOHN DOUGLAS HOSTE, 15th Baronet Hall of Dunglass (1964 English), 20 June 2025 Nicholas Johnson wrote in the The Guardian, 5 August 2025: My friend John Hall, who has died aged 80, was a Senior Lecturer and later Vice-Principal at Dartington College of Arts in Devon, where in 1994 he helped to create one of the UK’s first degrees in performance writing.

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He was also a published poet, with a collection of poems, Between the Cities, that appeared in 1968, followed regularly by others until 1981, all of them exhibiting a combination of sharp observation and rueful candour. John was born in Broken Hill (now Kabwe) in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), to Rachel (née Gartside-Tippinge), a translator, and Sir Douglas Hall, a British colonial administrator. His early upbringing was initially in a remote setting: the family’s nearest neighbours were 25 miles away and the closest cinema and doctor were 77 miles away. John and his elder sisters, Ruth and Marion, were the only non-missionary children boarding at Sakeji School. At 13, he was sent to England, where he finished his secondary schooling at Dover College in Kent. In 1964 he began an English degree at Caius, where his tutors were the poets J. H. Prynne and Andrew Crozier. John’s cadences were there from the start, and Between the Cities was published just as he graduated. Wry and measured, yet freewheeling and succinct, his words were always used sparingly, as in his poem from Days (1972), which ran: ‘It has rained a long time / it is March 9th / there is blossom everywhere / it is not that everything has moved.’ Later, an archival prose work, Apricot Pages (2005), and a retrospective, else / here (1998), were published. Couldn’t You? (2007) and two volumes of essays on performance writing followed. After teacher training at Southampton University, John met Angela Keys, a psychotherapist; they married in 1972 and had two sons, Thomas and Birdie. He first worked as an English teacher at King Edward VI Community College in Totnes, Devon, for five years (1971-76) before moving to Dartington College of Arts (now part of Falmouth University) as a lecturer. He became Vice-Principal in 1990. It was in that role that he led the group that planned the college’s performance writing degree, a course that I took. He taught conversationally, with a gentle, gracious manner that was laced with humour. John stayed at Dartington College until 2010, when the college was moved to Falmouth, where he was appointed Associate Director of Research and Professor in Performance Writing before retiring in 2020. He lived for 40 years in a house near Buckfastleigh, Devon, with a long garden that shaded the river. A revolving summerhouse captured his sense of fun and his eclectic range of interests. For many years he was visited by a mysterious peacock that flew regularly into his garden. He named him Percy and the two of them struck up a rapport. John and Angela divorced in 2009 but renewed their partnership in later life. She survives him, as do their sons, grandsons, Joseph and Joshua, and his sister Marion.

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KAY, ROBIN NOEL BRUNYATE (1949 Natural Sciences) 17 April 2025 His daughter Dr Christine Baker writes: Robin Kay was born in Chingford in 1928 and grew up in Reading in an academic family with his three brothers. His father, Hurbert Kay, was a biochemist and his mother, Beatrice, a botanist. He was educated at Leighton Park School, where he excelled, spending school holidays helping out at local farms and developing his enthusiasm for agriculture and horticulture and his ability to muck in. Robin entered National Service in 1947 and served in the Royal Signals in Egypt, making use of the time to learn some practical electronics and to teach himself about geology as well as developing a lifelong interest in archaeology. He gained a place at Caius in 1949 studying Zoology, Physiology, Biochemistry and Organic Chemistry, followed by a year studying anatomy as a medical student. Finally, he decided on a research career in science and completed a PhD on parotid secretion in sheep with Dr Rob Comline in 1956. He married Brenda, a biochemist, in 1956 and they moved to Aberdeen, where Robin took up a post as Science Officer at the Rowett Research Institute under Andrew Phillipson. He spent his career at the Rowett, becoming Senior Leader and Head of Physiology and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Aberdeen. His specialism was ruminant physiology and nutrition, and his major interest was in deer farming and food production in arid environments. His work took him around the world, and he enjoyed collaborations in Australia, France, Canada and Japan, particularly relishing two spells of work at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. He published prolifically, enjoying working with students and colleagues. He retired in 1982 but sustained an editorial role and a keen interest in the field. Robin had a wide range of interests and boundless energy. He embraced his adoptive Scotland, being a keen mountaineer and long-standing member of the Cairngorm Club. He enjoyed the coasts and woodland, taking pleasure in walking with his dogs and leading a local walking club. He was a keen allotment holder was active in the local community council and environmental activities. He moved to Hexham in 2023 to be close to his family, where he typically joined a lecture group and art class and relished the local Roman history and geology of Northumberland. He was a gentle and good-humoured man, warm and generous and a great sketcher and creator of some memorable limericks. He was a devoted husband to Brenda who

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died in 2019, and he will be sadly missed by his three children, Christine, Vanessa and Simon, sons-in-law Mark and Steve, and his grandchildren.

KINNS, ROGER (1963 Mechanical Sciences), 13 August 2025 Jennifer Kinns (1995 Genetics / Veterinary Medicine) and Richard H Maudslay CBE FREng, Chairman, Maudslay Scholarship Foundation, write: Roger Kinns won an open scholarship to Caius from Farnborough Grammar School. He graduated in 1966 with a First in Mechanical Sciences and was awarded the Schuldham Plate. He followed his undergraduate studies with a MSc in Control Engineering at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, before returning to Caius to do his PhD, this time in Aeronautical Engineering. His PhD thesis was entitled ‘Oscillations of an Aerofoil in a Vortex Wake: An Application of Digital Spectral Analysis’. Roger fondly remembered his time at Caius, particularly the many hours he spent on the river. He both rowed and coxed for the College, memorably coxing a Caius rugby boat into the bank when they failed to stop after a successful bump. The broken bow ball from that incident proudly sits on a bookcase at home. His academic achievement and high regard for Caius inspired his younger brother Philip (1971 Classics), who became a Fellow of the College (1979-83), and his daughter Jennifer, who was a Caius postgraduate student from 1995 and an active member of the Boat Club. His success at Caius led to a distinguished academic career. In 1971, he became the first Maudslay Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Roger worked on unsteady aerodynamics, acoustics and signal processing techniques. He became a member of the Noise Research Unit under Professor Shôn Ffowcs Williams, investigating noise problems associated with Concorde’s engines. He spent a sabbatical with Professor Hans Fernholz at the Technische Universität Berlin working on boundary layer measurement techniques. In 1975, he published, jointly with fellow Cambridge engineer John Billingsley, his first major academic paper, entitled ‘The Acoustic Telescope’, which described a new system for the analysis of jet engine noise. This work led to his lifelong interest in acoustics. Roger’s obvious potential in the field of acoustics led to his being offered a job by YARD in 1975. YARD was Yarrow-Admiralty Research Department, founded in 1946 as an offshoot of the famous Yarrow shipbuilders. It now forms part of BAE Systems. Roger was closely involved in developing techniques for the acoustic design of ships and, particularly, of submarines. He focused on research into how propellors and other machinery caused hull vibration and radiated sound. His task was to minimise these 148

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effects. Given the national importance of making our submarines as undetectable as possible, much of his work at YARD remains classified. In 1999, Roger retired from YARD to become an independent consultant, forming his own company: RKAcoustics. The scope of his acoustic work now expanded to embrace cruise liners. The modern cruising habit of going full speed at night so as to arrive at the next port of call at dawn means that cruise ships have to minimise any noise from their propulsion and other mechanical systems so passengers can enjoy uninterrupted slumber! Roger collaborated with several universities including Cambridge, Newcastle and the University of New South Wales, Sydney. From 2007 to 2019, he was a Senior Visiting Research Fellow there. During these years, he co-supervised a number of research students in the field of ships’ acoustics. In parallel with these tasks, Roger published many research papers, in various journals and with a variety of colleagues, connected with the topic of ships’ acoustics. His colleagues credit him with helping to obtain several large research grants. Roger maintained his close association with the Maudslay Society that had funded his postdoctoral fellowship. He became the long-term Treasurer of both the Society and the Maudslay Scholarship Foundation. In addition to machine tools and steam engines, Maudslay, Sons & Field also designed and made the equipment for time balls: the fivefoot-diameter metal balls which drop at a pre-determined time each day as a signal for mariners in port to reset their ships’ chronometers. A chance remark by one of the Maudslay Society members sparked Roger’s interest. This led him to undertake detailed examinations of all the time balls manufactured by Maudslay, Sons & Field (three in the UK, one in New South Wales and one in New Zealand). Once his interest was ignited, Roger broadened his studies to embrace other types of time signals for mariners around the world, including flags, semaphore and time guns; all of which were well used until superseded by radio signals by the mid-twentieth century. Roger’s work led him to publish a wide range of fascinating articles in journals including The Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage and The International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology. He became the acknowledged world expert in this field. He brought all his research together in a marvellous volume, published only months before his death, entitled The World of Visual Time Signals for Mariners. On the opening page of this magnum opus, Roger thanks his family for living with what became an obsession with this rather obscure area of maritime history. One of the characters who appears in the history of time balls is Robert Wauchope, a Royal Navy officer. Wauchope developed the idea of using a telegraph system to enable time signals for mariners. In the 1830s, Wauchope commanded HMS Thalia. By happy coincidence, the 1924 racing keelboat of which Roger was the proud co-owner is also named Thalia. Roger’s stories of sailing this vessel never failed to fascinate, although the vessel probably required almost as many hours for maintenance as it did for sailing. OBITUARIES

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Roger’s wide range of interests embraced considerably more than engineering, time signals and sailing. His interest in gardens, shared extensively with his wife, Marion, led to his becoming Chairman of the Younger (Benmore) Trust which supports the development of the Benmore Botanic Garden. He became a member of the Incorporation of Gardeners of Glasgow, rising through the Master Court to hold the post of Deacon. This ancient Craft (guild) is one of the 14 that have constituted the Trades House of Glasgow since 1605. Roger’s interests also included extensive knowledge of fine wines, his memberships of the Newcomen Society, the Society for the History of Astronomy, the Royal Northern and Clyde Yacht Club and the Tasmanian Philatelic Society. The breadth of his inquisitive mind was quite extraordinary. Roger is survived by his wife, Marion, his daughter and son and three grandchildren.

McCALLUM, THOMAS WATSON (1958 Agriculture), 25 February 2025 His son, Tom McCallum, writes as follows: Tom McCallum died on 25 February 2025 aged 85. He was born at Netherlaw Farm in Kirkcudbrightshire in 1939 and moved to Edinburgh in early years, going to school at the Edinburgh Academy. The oldest son of a farmer, he read Agriculture at Caius, though the stories he told of his time at Cambridge focused more on his playing piano in jazz bands, as well as cars and sports! After Cambridge, he pursued a career in the computer industry in the UK, in which he was a pioneer, ending his career by the early 2000s as the Chief Executive of the Scottish Software Federation. Outside of work, Tom was a devoted husband and father of four children, and a renowned motor racing driver and, yes, jazz pianist. He often spoke most fondly of his time at Cambridge, with many wonderful stories of life in and around Caius pouring forth in his later years. He leaves behind three children, four grandchildren, numerous friends and many memories.

McNEER, RICHARD GREGORY (1959 Law), 7 July 2025 The following is based on information provided by David Skidmore (1958 Natural Sciences): A chance encounter at a legal meeting between Lord McNair, then President of Caius, and Seldon Spessard McNeer resulted in an invitation being extended to McNeer’s son to study for a Diploma of Comparative Legal Studies at Caius. Seldon McNeer was 150

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a noted lawyer from West Virginia who had founded a law firm which managed the legal affairs of the many coal mining companies working in the Allegheny Mountains, sending barges down the Ohio river. He and McNair decided that the McNeers were originally McNairs who had crossed the Atlantic two centuries previously. Lord McNair therefore arranged for Greg (born on 27 May 1934) to come to Caius in 1959, following schooling at Woodbury Forest School, Washington and studies at Lee University and the University of Virginia School of Law. McNeer had a room on D staircase in St Michael’s and rapidly established enduring relationships with John Martin, an engineer from South Africa, Doug Meyers from New Zealand, Colin Campbell from Scotland and David Skidmore. He felt challenged by his fellow undergraduates’ knowledge and questions about the USA. He later said that he had to do a lot of homework on his own country. He fitted in seamlessly with the Boat Club, Chapel activities and fellow intending lawyers. He returned to the States in 1961 and joined Campbell, McNeer, Woods, Bagley and Emerson, the law firm his father had co-founded. Before his retirement in 2006, he was a member of the Cabell County Bar Association, the West Virginia State Bar (Board of Governors 1980-1983), the West Virginia Bar Association (President 1984) and American Bar Association; a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and West Virginia Board of Law Examiners (1980-1987, President 1987); and was admitted to the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, the United States District Court, Southern District of West Virginia and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He was a devoted and caring husband to his wife for more than 30 years of marriage and proud of his son and daughter and of his two stepsons. He was a gifted golfer, an ambassador for Britain. In all his dealings, he was a consummate gentleman who loved his friends, his dogs and 18-year-old Highland Heart whisky.

NEARY, MARTIN GERARD JAMES (1958 Theology and Music), 27 September 2025 James Garard wrote in The Church Times 1 October 2025 as follows: The death of Martin Neary concludes one of the most significant careers in church music of our time. As a cathedral organist for more than a quarter of a century, he maintained high standards, inspired generations of choristers and was responsible for numerous premières and commissions, largely from Jonathan Harvey and John Tavener. Martin Gerard James Neary was born on 28 March 1940. His father, Leonard, sang in the choir of St Michael’s, Cornhill, directed at the time by Harold Darke. Initial doubts about Martin’s singing ability were dispelled by the accidental discovery that he had perfect pitch, and, at the age of eight, he was admitted to the choir of the Chapel Royal. This

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led to an experience that was to be an inspiration to him for the rest of his life: singing at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. He was one of the last people to whom this occasion was a living memory. An organ scholarship at Caius followed; here, he was active in student performances, while reading at first for a degree in Theology. Initial thoughts of ordination were reconsidered, however, as he began to feel, in his own words, that ‘music provided me a means of expression, with a power beyond that of words’. As a result, the University allowed him to change to the Music Tripos. Martin was appointed assistant Organist of St Margaret’s, Westminster, in 1963, succeeding Herbert Dawson as organist in 1965. It was at this time that he met Penny Warren, daughter of Dame Josephine Barnes and Sir Brian Warren; they were married in St Margaret’s in 1967. Numerous musical engagements during this period included conductorship of Twickenham Musical Society and several recitals at the Royal Festival Hall. The Rector of St Margaret’s at that time was Canon Michael Stancliffe; he was appointed Dean of Winchester in 1969, and, when the post of Organist of Winchester Cathedral fell vacant in 1972, he appointed Martin. Thus began a partnership that resulted in a period of great productivity. Martin’s predecessor, the greatly loved Alwyn Surplice, had done much to rescue the standard of the choir from the doldrums of wartime, and Martin set about continuing the process. In this he was assisted by generations of talented choristers, from whom he drew enormous respect, loyalty and affection, and some outstanding lay clerks. The Organist’s house in the Close was a fascinating building with a Norman undercroft, and Jacobean glass in the drawing room. It was there that Martin and Penny brought up their family, at the same time making it a haven of warmth and hospitality, hospitality that I was often to enjoy during 10 happy years working with Martin as the cathedral’s Sub-Organist. A great sadness at this time was the diagnosis of their son Thomas as autistic; clearly musical, he nevertheless would never be a chorister, a grief that Martin and Penny bore with enormous faith and courage. Alongside the regular services, the choir’s lifeblood, there were many extra-curricular engagements, for example with Cleo Laine and John Dankworth, and the première of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem in 1985, which took the choir to New York to sing alongside the choir of St Thomas’s, Fifth Avenue. There were several other foreign tours, most notably to Canada and the US during the cathedral’s 900th anniversary in 1979, and also to the Channel Islands, then a part of the diocese. One of the pinnacles of what was a golden age at Winchester was the première in 1981 of Jonathan Harvey’s massive work Passion and Resurrection, the fruit of collaboration with the visionary bishop John Taylor. It is testament to Martin’s priorities that, despite all these activities, evensong was never allowed to suffer; the choir maintained an enviable standard, day in, day out.

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A lifelong ambition was fulfilled in 1987 when Martin was appointed Organist of Westminster Abbey, bringing him back to the place that had so inspired him 34 years earlier. Here, again, he drew the devotion of his choristers and maintained immaculate choral standards. Commissions and premières continued to flow, there were choir tours, and there was a constant round of special services, the most significant one being the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997, arranged at just six days’ notice and involving the choristers’ returning from their holidays three days beforehand. It was after this that he was appointed a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) in the 1998 New Year Honours List. Another service that Martin, a lifelong cricket enthusiast, will have appreciated was a celebration of the life of Brian Johnston in 1994. His departure from the Abbey in sad circumstances in 1998 might have marked the end of a career for someone less courageous; instead, it gave him the opportunity to inspire and make music with many others both in the US and at home, where he became the first conductor of the Royal School of Church Music’s Millennium Youth Choir. In his later years, he served as organist of St Michael and All Angels, Barnes, where he brought the choir to a standard at which they were able to perform Bach’s St John Passion; the onset of Parkinson’s disease brought about his retirement in 2022. A demanding musician, he was nonetheless capable of enormous warmth and generosity. His life was inspired by his Christian faith, his love of family and his passion for music. He leaves his wife, Penny, his companion through nearly 60 years of mutual support and happiness; his daughters, Nicola, a consultant at St George’s Hospital, Tooting, and Alice, principal cellist of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales; his son, Thomas; and six grandchildren.

NIVEN, ALASTAIR NEIL ROBERTSON (1963 English), 26 March 2025 His wife Helen writes as follows: Alastair was born in Edinburgh in 1944 and, although he grew up and was educated in England, he was a proud Scot. His grandfather (A.W.R. Mair) was a student (1893) and later Fellow at Caius (1899-1905) before having a distinguished career as Professor of Greek at the University of Edinburgh. Alastair followed his two brothers, P.A.R. Niven (1956 Natural Sciences) and C.H.R. Niven (1960 Modern Languages) to Caius; in all, no fewer than ten Mair descendants have been students at the College. Alastair had been educated at Dulwich College, where he developed talents for both acting and debating. In his alphabetically arranged class, for a while he sat next to and befriended Michael Ondaatje, the future author of The English Patient.

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At Caius, he was taught by the poets Donald Davie (Fellow 1959-64) and JH Prynne (Fellow 1962-2026) and continued to act. In his memoir In Glad or Sorry Hours (Starhaven Press, 2021) Alastair recalled that, with little idea of what he wanted to do after Cambridge: ‘One day in the autumn of 1965 I found myself in a corridor at Caius that I did not normally frequent. There on a notice board was an advertisement for Commonwealth Scholarships, to be held in a number of African countries. The closing date for application was the next day. I went back to my room, wrote a letter and posted it, all within a couple of hours of seeing the notice. If I had not been in that unfamiliar corridor that afternoon or in it only twenty-four hours later, my life would have evolved very differently.’ Alastair’s Scholarship took him to the University of Ghana, near Accra to study for an MA, starting a lifelong commitment to Commonwealth/Postcolonial Literature and their authors, and to the Commonwealth itself. Posts at the University of Ghana and then at Leeds University led to a lectureship at the University of Stirling, an adventurous new university where he was encouraged to introduce pioneering new courses and invite writers to visit. Jackie Kay, former Makar (Scottish Poet Laureate) was a student who recalls that the Commonwealth Literature courses enabled her at the age of 17 to discover that all landscapes exist in the imagination and that you could travel and go to all places by still being in Stirling. Eventually Alastair decided to move more into the public sphere and held a succession of Directorial posts in African and Commonwealth fields and in Literature, where he took every opportunity to expand the horizons of the organisations he worked in. The foundations were laid in the Africa Centre in the 1980s, a hub of political ferment and cultural creativity representing the new-found confidence of the post-colonial period. Later, as Director of Literature at the Arts Council for 10 years and then at the British Council, he was able to open up their perspectives to embrace all that he had imbibed of an outward-looking and international perspective. Crucially he was in a position to provide what Sir Ben Okri has described as a ‘unique bridge between cultures.’ He also made Black and Asian British writing a priority and Bernadine Evaristo has recorded what a ‘fantastic advocate’ he was for literature. Alastair said that he had spent his life in one long conversation and his last full-time post from 2001-2013, as Principal of Cumberland Lodge, an educational foundation in Windsor Great Park, gave full rein to his ability to bring people together to further the foundation’s aim of empowering people, especially young people, to discuss and make progress in resolving the ethical, moral and social issues of the day. Alastair’s working life was recognised in the award of the LVO and OBE, and he was also recognised by the Royal Society of Literature for conspicuous service to literature by award of the Benson Medal.

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Outside his working life Alastair was in demand by many bodies including the Booker Prize, of which he was a judge twice, and English PEN whose President he was from 2003-7. Caius provided a ‘Sliding Doors’ moment to Alastair’s personal life as well as his working life, because he met me, then a VSO, at the University of Ghana. We were married for 54 years, and he is survived by me and our two children, Isabella and Alex.

NOBLE, PETER JOHN (1955 Natural Sciences), 30 May 2025 Peter Noble was born in Woolwich in 1937. He attended St Olave’s Grammar School, London and then gained a place at Caius and achieved a BA (First Class Honours, Natural Science Tripos) in 1958. Subsequent qualifications were MB, BChir (Cambridge 1961), DPM (University of London 1967), MA (Cambridge 1971), MD (Cambridge 1971), FRCP (1978), FRCPsych (1979). He was awarded the Gaskell Medal of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1970. He was appointed Consultant Psychiatrist at the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals in 1972. Peter was an astute clinician. He helped develop local community services but also had responsibility for Intensive Care. Although his position was funded by the NHS, he found time for research and published widely, especially in drug dependency, forensic psychiatry and in the physiological changes associated with depression, the subject of his MD. He served on the Medical Executive Committee between 1987 and 1991, including terms as Secretary, Vice-Chairman and Chairman. Away from his work, Peter enjoyed many interests. An accomplished sailor, he did a crossing of the Atlantic in 1985 in his Rival 34, navigating by sextant. He played tennis into his 70s. He did a degree in French at University College London after retirement. He was an avid bridge player right up to the day before his stroke. He travelled extensively in Canada and Australia. In all areas of his life, he made long and lasting friendships; he was kind, generous and very good company. Caius was close to his heart, and he took great pleasure in becoming a benefactor to the College. In his later years he was a much-loved patriarch to his extended family and was very involved in the lives of his grandchildren and step-grandchildren. He is survived by his wife Joan, his first wife Mary and their two children Jonny and Mindy and four grandchildren, his stepsons Michael and Peter Holllihn and five step grandchildren, and his brother Chris and nephew John.

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ODGERS, GRAEME DAVID WILLIAM (1952 Mechanical Sciences), 8 May 2025 The following obituary is excerpted from the text which appeared in The Times on 20 May 2025: Graeme David William Odgers was born in 1934 in a mining town outside Johannesburg, South Africa, the second of three children of Arthur Odgers, who was of Cornish tin-mining descent, and his wife Elizabeth (née Rennie). His father was a self-educated engineer and the local mine manager who rose rapidly through the ranks at Anglo American. During the Second World War the family lived in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), where his father was involved in producing copper for the Allied war effort. At St John’s College, Johannesburg, Odgers came under the benign influence of the Rev Sydney Clark, the headmaster, a relationship that became increasingly important when his father died in 1950. Anglo American paid for him to read Mechanical Sciences at Caius, where holiday work at the coalface of British mining cured him of any desire to follow his father underground. He later admitted to taking poetry books down the shaft to read in a quiet corner. After a couple of years in office work with Anglo American back in South Africa, during which he married Diana Berge, his teenage sweetheart of Norwegian descent, he studied for an MBA at Harvard Business School in the US. Electing to remain there, he spent a couple of years with the World Bank in Washington DC. Diana died in 2012 and in 2014 he married Susan Tait who survives him with three children from his first marriage: Mary, a retired interior designer; Juliet, an architect; and John, a barrister. His youngest daughter, Victoria, was killed in a car crash in 1982, aged 14. Odgers settled in Britain in 1962. He became a management consultant and was briefly an investment banker with Hambros before founding Odgers & Co, the executive recruitment company, which was later run by his younger brother Ian. He had an impressive confidence in his own abilities and went on to test himself in some of the toughest private-sector jobs. These included GEC with Lord Weinstock, where he learnt much about management ‘both good and bad’; Tarmac, where ‘turnover went from £85 million when I joined to £1.6 billion when I left’; and BT, where, as group managing director after privatisation in 1984, he oversaw such a sharp rise in profits that in January 1989 he was able to present the Treasury with what was then the largest tax cheque ever written, £753 million. A year later he left clutching his own cheque, having failed to see eye to eye on strategy with Iain Vallance, the BT chairman.

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After trying to rebuild the construction company Sir Robert McAlpine against a background of downturn in the industry, Odgers was appointed chairman of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission in 1993. Ice cream, condoms and their manufacturers’ alleged monopolies were at the head of a queue of inquiries awaiting him along with online databases, residential mortgage valuations, newspapers, bread and tampons. The choice of Odgers to head the MMC was a curious one, the high-profile role previously being held by lawyers and economists. However, he brought to the table a remarkable breadth of experience. ‘I know how the machinery of government works,’ he told The Observer at the time of his appointment. However, he was soon defending himself from allegations that he favoured business over consumers. ‘I am not pro-industry or anti-consumer. I take both into account. That is the true industrial perspective,’ he said. Tall and stiffly smart, Odgers retained an unwavering faith in his own analytical mind. He championed a ‘collegiate approach’ to decision-making, saying, ‘Two heads are better than one.’ Yet, once decided, his answer became a conviction. As one newspaper profile noted: ‘With all the certainty of a salesman who feels only pity for the ignorance of the potential customer who refuses to buy, he expected sensible people to see things his way.’

PRABHU, JOSEPH BENEDICT (1972 Philosophy), 27 September 2021 We were saddened to learn only recently of the death of Joseph Prabhu. The following obituary draws on a tribute published online on PubMed Central at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM) 15 April 2022. Joseph Prabhu, known in Caius as Joseph Peris-Prabhu, was born at Mangalore, India on 27 March 1947. He was raised in Kolkata, where he attended St. Xavier’s College studying under Belgian Jesuits who moulded the early character of his life; he also served as Mother Teresa’s first altar boy in India. In the mid-1960s he was an undergraduate at St Stephen’s College (University of Delhi) and then pursued postgraduate studies in Economics at the Delhi School of Economics where he met the Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen. A three-year scholarship from the All-India Catholic Union took him to Germany, where he was influenced by Jürgen Habermas and became fascinated by the works of Hegel and Kierkegaard. He came to Caius as an Affiliated Student and graduated BA in 1973. He subsequently studied for a PhD at Boston College and after that taught at Cal State LA. Joseph was a polymath. He became known as a prominent philosopher of religion inspired by the Catalan-Nair (Nayar) philosopher and reformist Catholic priest, Dr. Raimon Panikkar, who developed an advaitic Cosmotheandric theo-sophia, and claimed simultaneously to

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be Buddhist, Hindu and secular. Other inspirations were Hegel and Kiekergaard, Gandhi (especially Gandhian economics and political thought), Indian Ethics, and Hindu-Christian Studies. Joseph’s interests included ecological studies, postcoloniality and secularism, postmodernism and a/theology, cosmology and spirituality. Joseph was a stalwart of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy and served as its President 1988-89. He had quite a following also in Germany among ecumenical theologians inspired by Hans Küng, the radical Catholic theologian. It follows that religious pluralism was a passionate commitment of Joseph’s. At the time of his death, Joseph was Professor of Philosophy (Emeritus) at California State University LA and Adjunct Professor of Religion at Claremont Graduate University. He edited The Intercultural Challenge of Raimon Panikkar (Orbis Books, 1996) and coeditor (with Purushottama Bilimoria and Renuka Sharma) of Indian Ethics: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Challenges (Routledge, 2007; 2017). He also contributed to the Routledge History of Indian Philosophy (2018, 2020) and was a prolific author of articles and book reviews. Joseph received numerous honours. He was a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, the Centre for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University and the Martin Marty Centre at the University of Chicago. He co-chaired the Southern California Parliament of the World’s Religions and was Trustee Emeritus of the Parliament of the World’s Religions. He was also a key member of the Southern California South Asia Studies Group. California State University LA has honoured him by instituting an annual lecture series in his name. Joseph is mourned by his wife Betty Bamberg (Professor Emerita of English Writing, California State University, LA) and his daughter Tara Peris (Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA), his wider family and many friends, colleagues and former students.

ROBERTS, HOWARD EDWARD (1974 Law), 3 July 2025 Howard Roberts KC OBE, who died aged 69, was born in Ipswich in 1956 and educated at Cheadle Mosely Grammar School before matriculating at Caius in 1974 to study Law. Thereafter he was called to the English Bar (Middle Temple) then worked at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) until 1983, when he and his wife Jan moved to Guernsey and he took a post as Legislative Draftsman. Following further study at the Université de Caen, he was called to the

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Guernsey Bar and became Guernsey’s first Crown Advocate, then HM Comptroller (and Queen’s Council), then HM Procureur and Receiver-General in 2009. He worked in this post until 2016. As Her Majesty’s Procureur, Howard acted for the States of Guernsey and their Committees and often represented the islands internationally. In 2014 he led a significant evaluation of Guernsey’s anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorist financing measures and in 2015 he signed an asset sharing agreement with the USA on behalf of the States of Guernsey, the only formal agreement of its type relating to Guernsey. His work ensured that Guernsey was seen as a first rank jurisdiction in the international fight against financial crime. In addition to the demanding role of being a Law Officer of the Crown, he had a great love of music and singing. He was a regular worshipper at St Andrew’s Parish Church, where he was Church Secretary and Church Warden for many years. Howard was immensely proud of and fond of Caius, where his undergraduate experience was defining. While his love of learning predated his Cambridge experience, there is no doubt that he found lifelong intellectual inspiration there. He enjoyed the opportunity to return to Cambridge on a few occasions in recent years and was especially delighted most recently to visit his niece who took up a place at Caius in 2023 (Maddie Wills, HSPS). Howard is survived by his wife Jan, sons Ben and Will and three grandsons.

SHEPHERD, DAVID (1961 Natural Sciences), 14 October 2022 David Brewer (1960 Natural Sciences) and Professor Donald Broom (St Catharine’s 1961) write as follows: David Shepherd, born in Croydon to Welsh parents in 1943, came to Caius in 1961 and read Natural Sciences. He was a Minor Scholar of the College and gained an oar rowing in a Caius boat. David had developed his lifelong interest in ornithology at Whitgift School, qualified as a bird ringer and became Secretary of the Cambridge (now Cambridgeshire) Bird Club. He carried out biochemistry research for his PhD at Bristol University and ornithological research resulting in papers on Acrocephalus warblers. He started work for Shell in 1967, spending time in the UK, the Netherlands and Oman. On leaving Shell and after a short period market gardening on the Welsh borders,

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he capitalised on his knowledge of birds by becoming Warden of Long Point Bird Observatory in Ontario, Canada in 1983. Later he became Migration Program Manager for the Ontario Bird Banding Association. With funding from the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, he conducted surveys of breeding and migration in remote northern Ontario and founded Thunder Cape Bird Observatory on the shores of Lake Superior. He returned to Guelph, Ontario with his wife Julie Cappleman and they moved to Portugal Cove South in Newfoundland in 2004. Julie became Reserve Interpreter at Mistaken Point, where there are very early (Ediacaran) animal fossils, and David assisted. Partly as a result of their work, Mistaken Point became a UNESCO World Heritage Site and David was a board member. They liaised with a group from Earth Sciences in Cambridge which resulted in an exhibit in the Sedgwick Museum. David is greatly missed by his family and friends.

STUBBS WILLIAM FREDERICK (1952 Law), 4 December 2024 The following obituary written by Lord Richards, Justice of the UK Supreme Court and Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, is based on a text that first appeared in Graya, the annual journal of Gray’s Inn. We are particularly grateful to William Stubbs’s partner, Danuta Klosok, for providing the accompanying photograph. After a stellar academic performance at Caius, William Frederick Stubbs became a highly successful barrister. Willie was brought up near Stoke-on-Trent. His father was a schoolteacher and Willie attended Newcastle-under-Lyme High School, then a direct grant school. He won a scholarship to read Natural Sciences at Caius in 1952 but chose to read Law instead. He took a double First in the Tripos, with a starred First in Part II, which won him the Schuldham Plate. He then won the Chancellor’s Medal for the top First (again starred) in the postgraduate LLB (now the LLM). Among his supervisors was Robin Cooke (later Lord Cooke of Thorndon, President of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand and then a Law Lord in the UK). He subsequently spent a year at Harvard as a Joseph Hodges Choate Memorial Fellow. He joined Gray’s Inn which awarded him the Holker Senior Scholarship and the Macaskie Scholarship in 1957. He was elected a Bencher of Gray’s Inn in 1987.

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Willie was a formidable barrister, with a huge practice, partly advisory but mainly litigation. The mainstay of his work, like the other members of Chambers (now, Erskine Chambers) was company law and corporate insolvency. Members of Chambers included Michael Wheeler QC, son of Sir Mortimer, the archaeologist and Willie’s pupil master. Sir Mortimer’s arrival in Chambers to see his son, wearing a full-length, scarlet-lined opera cape made a deep impression on Willie. In turn, Willie’s last pupil was Leslie Kosmin, who had an equally outstanding career at Caius (1970 Law) and became a Fellow (1975-78) before pursuing his own very successful career in the same Chambers. Other members of Chambers included Richard Sykes QC, Willie’s near contemporary at Cambridge. Later additions included Mary Arden, Richard Snowden, four other Caians – David Mabb KC (1975 Law), Nigel Dougherty (1988 Law) and, after Willie’s retirement, Carleen Sobczyk (2005 Law) Seamus Woods (2017 Law) – and the author of this obituary. As a junior, Willie soon built up a strong practice. In Wallersteiner v Moir (No 2), a leading case on the right of a shareholder to sue directors for fraudulent activit, he was described by Lord Denning as ‘a careful, learned and skilful member of the Bar’. Among his significant cases before he took silk was Ebrahami v Westbourne Galleries in 1972, still the leading case on the rights of shareholders to apply to wind up a company. In another case, Re New Cedos Engineering Co Ltd in 1975, the issue was whether a director had retired by rotation under the articles, which in turn depended on whether nought was a number. Accepting Willie’s arguments, Mr Justice Oliver held that nought was not a number but a cypher of no value. After being appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1978 Willie appeared in many leading company and insolvency law cases, invariably involving intellectually challenging issues. They included Barclays Bank v TOSG Trust Fund, which arose out of the collapse of Clarksons Travel Group; Re Lines Bros Ltd, a case involving the treatment of foreign currency liabilities in a liquidation; Lonrho Plc v Bond Corp Holdings and Re Lonrho Plc (No 2), part of the long-running battle between Lonrho and the Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond; and a massive case arising from the collapse of the Bak of Credit and Commerce International in the early 1990s, in which he represented one of three defendants to a claim for $10 billion by BCCI’s liquidators. Willie was also in demand abroad and practised in the courts of Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Cayman Islands and the Isle of Man. One memorable case, outside the usual run, was Clarke v Heathfield in 1984, when Willie was instructed at very short notice during the miners’ strike of that year to represent the National Union of Mineworkers on the application to appoint a receiver of the assets of the NUM. It was heard in the High Court on a Friday afternoon. Peter Heathfield, the NUM’s general secretary, attended court for the hearing, but Arthur Scargill preferred to remain in Chambers. A receiver was appointed late in the afternoon. The Court of Appeal Registrar was tracked down to a dinner at his old Oxford College, and he assembled a three-judge Court of Appeal which heard the NUM's appeal the next day

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(Saturday). Despite the best efforts of Willie, leading Lord Wedderburn, Leslie Kosmin and John Hendy (now Lord Hendy), the appeal was unsuccessful. Willie married Anne, the daughter of Professor Keith Guthrie FBA, Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge from 1952 to 1973 and Master of Downing from 1957 to 1972. Guthrie, whose magnum opus was a six-volume History of Greek Philosophy, was described in the appreciation of his life in the Proceedings of the British Academy (vol. lxviii, pp. 561-77) as a ‘giant among scholars’. Anne herself was academically outstanding, taking what the same appreciation called a ‘brilliant’ First in Greats and being placed second in the Civil Service exams in 1957, which guaranteed her a position at the Treasury. Willie and Anne had two children but, tragically, Anne died when the children were still very young. One of his children predeceased Willie, the other child and three grandchildren survive him, as does his partner Danuta Klosok. Willie’s principal interests outside the law were tennis (he was a good player, and it was very unwise to call him in retirement during Wimbledon fortnight), literature and good non-fiction (he had a substantial library at his beautifully positioned house on the Pembrokeshire coast) and philately. He built up probably the finest collection in private hands anywhere in the world of Indian feudatory stamps, those issued by the Indian princely states. When not under pressure of work, he was sociable, enjoying the company of friends in the law and outside it over drinks or meals.

THOMAS, MICHAEL LEWIS (1965 Music), 14 September 2025 His friend and sometime carer, Louise Wakeling, writes: Michael Thomas died on 14 September 2025 age 79 years after a number of years suffering with vascular dementia. He was born and grew up in Carmarthen where he attended Carmarthen Grammar School. In 1965, he was admitted to Caius to read Music, and he eventually graduated with a BA, MA and MusB, to which he added a Diploma in Performance (LTCL) at Trinity College London. Michael greatly enjoyed his time at Caius and remained thankful to the end of his life for the education that he enjoyed there as a student. His first job was as Head of Music at a large school in South Croydon, where he developed the musical talent of students with numerous concerts with his choir and orchestra. He subsequently joined Her Majesty’s Inspectorate and Ofsted in 1978, initially as Specialist Inspector of Music in Croydon from 1978. He later also became involved in the inspection of other subjects. He engaged with numerous other musical activities in the London Borough of Croydon, such as the Schools Music Festivals and the various youth and adult orchestras and choirs. He acted as chorus master for several choirs. He won an award from the National Music 162

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Council of Great Britain for having introduced a programme that enabled all primary schools in Croydon to enjoy music even if the pupils were unable to read music. As a young man, he played viola in the National Youth Orchestra of Wales and subsequently continued as Orchestra Steward and Deputy Conductor for nearly 30 years. Later he was Musical Director of the Gwalia Male Voice Choir in London for five years and occasionally for the London Welsh Rugby Club Choir. Michael enjoyed many other musical activities during his life and performed numerous solo concerts and shows for charity. As deputy organist for 20 years, he played the organ regularly at All Souls Church, Langham Place, London. He also played for several other London churches. Michael loved travelling to many parts of the world and used his photography skills to record and then video-edit the films of his holidays. Michael lived in Croydon for most of his adult life, caring for his parents until they died. He then moved to Llandudno in North Wales. His developing health problems meant he gradually needed more care than his friend could manage, so he moved to a care home in Chipping Norton, close to where she lived. There he carried on playing the piano, entertaining the residents and staff with his extraordinary musicality until the end.

WEBB, JOHN HAROLD (1963 Mathematics Research Student), 14 May 2025 His son Ian Webb writes as follows: John Webb was born and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa and attended Wynberg Boys’ School. He received an actuarial bursary to the University of Cape Town (UCT), completing his undergraduate studies in 1962, and decided to pursue an academic career as a mathematician. He was awarded the Sir Henry Strakosch Memorial Scholarship to continue his studies at Cambridge. He was admitted to Caius in 1963, was supervised by Ben Garling and graduated with a PhD in Functional Analysis in 1966. Returning to South Africa, he took up a position in the Department of Mathematics at UCT, where he remained active for the remainder of his life. John was a skilled and popular teacher and attendance often outgrew the venue as students from other classes switched to sit in the aisles of Prof Webb’s lectures. He routinely had a half-time break in his lectures in which he would tell a mathematical OBITUARIES

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joke, an anecdote or story from the history of mathematics, or review a poem or comic verse with a mathematical angle. These contributed greatly to the popularity of his classes. They also formed part of the many lectures on popular mathematics that he gave at the UCT Summer School and other venues, as well as the Mathematical Digest, a magazine which John established for high schools and published quarterly from 1971 to 2015. John’s career in mathematics gradually morphed from the standard model of a research mathematician into the broader educational realm as a promoter and populariser of mathematics. He took a particular interest in the school-university interface, with a focus on mathematical competitions and Olympiads as a means of identifying and nurturing mathematical talent among high school students. From 1987 onwards, he was the driving force behind the UCT Mathematics Competition, which annually brought thousands of high school pupils to the university campus to take part in a challenging and enjoyable test of their mathematical ability. He founded the South African Inter-Provincial Mathematics Olympiad in 1990. At that time, South Africa was subject to sanctions and an academic boycott due to the apartheid system, so participation in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), by far the most challenging of all high school intellectual competitions, was out of the question. But in 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from prison, and the doors of the academic world began to open. In 1991, John was invited to the IMO in Sweden as an observer. The following year, he was invited to take a team to the IMO in the Soviet Union. Since the Soviet Union suddenly fell apart, John ended up leading the first South Africa team to the IMO hosted in Russia. Over subsequent years, he headed a national mathematical talent search and training camps and led a number of further South African IMO teams, and after some years the teams began to bring home medals. John also brought South Africa into the Pan-African Mathematics Olympiad and hosted the event in 2000 and 2002. In 2000, John was elected Secretary of the IMO Advisory Board and held the position for 12 years. He directed IMO 2014 in Cape Town, the first and, so far, only IMO hosted on African soil. John loved Cambridge and returned there on sabbatical in 1973 (this time with his wife Anthea and their first child) and again in 2000 with the Millennium Mathematics Project. John’s contribution to mathematics was recognised through numerous awards, including the UCT Distinguished Teacher Award (1984), the Paul Erdős Award from the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions (1992), and the South African Mathematical Society's Award for the Advancement of Mathematics (2002).

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After retirement, John remained active in many of the projects he had founded. He was still active in the UCT Maths Competition problems committee at the time of his death after a short illness in 2025 at the age of 83.

WEEKS, STEPHEN THOMAS (1974 Law), 12 August 2025 His stepson, Christopher Rimell, writes: Stephen was born in August 1956 to Derek and Catherine Weeks in Kensington. He attended Bousfield Primary School before gaining a place at Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith. From there he went on to study Law at Caius in 1974. He qualified as a barrister at the Inns of Court School of Law in 1979, embarking on a distinguished legal career. His professional life was wide-ranging and impressive, taking him from consulting engineering firms to the world of Formula One racing with Lotus, and later to leading companies including Burberrys Ltd, Freemans PLC, Vanquis Banking Group, as well as others. In each role, Stephen was respected for his sharp intellect, tireless work ethic and generosity in sharing his wisdom and knowledge. It was at Burberrys that Stephen met Patricia, the love of his life. The two were married in August 1988 at Chelsea Town Hall, beginning decades of companionship, joy and shared adventures. Stephen had a lifelong passion for history, politics and world affairs, and was admired for his exceptional knowledge of military history. A dedicated sports enthusiast, he followed Formula One racing, the British Touring Car Championship and his local football clubs, and he never lost track of the cricket scores. Beyond work and study, Stephen found joy in travel and simple pleasures: holidays on the North Norfolk coast, and later North Devon and Newquay; and many memorable journeys on restored railways. One highlight was being on board the record-setting trip of the steam locomotive Bittern in June 2013, marking the 75th anniversary of Mallard’s speed record. Stephen will be remembered as a man of remarkable intelligence, sharp wit and deep loyalty to those he loved. He leaves behind his family and many friends, all of whom will miss him dearly but hold his memory with great affection.

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WIESELBERG, HUGH MICHAEL (1963 Natural Sciences), 20 May 2024 The following information is taken from the obituary that appeared in the British Medical Journal online on 16 October 2024: Michael Wieselberg MRCPsych, DCH, a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, graduated from Caius in 1966 and St George’s Hospital in 1969. He trained at the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals and was subsequently lecturer in child psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry in London and visiting assistant professor of child psychiatry at the University of Iowa. He was a valued member of the Camden and Islington Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service and a great supporter of the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. He was pivotal in setting up a service for the treatment of young people with somatic disorders and chronic pain syndromes at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore. His approach to the emotional problems of his patients and their families was insightful, pragmatic and effective. Michael’s life was characterised by his profound Jewish faith and intellectual rigour. The latter did not always make him an easy colleague, but he was an inspiring and endearing one. After retirement in 2004, he experienced progressive ill health which he managed with enormous courage, acceptance and his usual penetrating insight. Despite his difficulties, he remained active, giving his time to those in need and helping to set up two large libraries in local synagogues. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, eight grandchildren, one great grandchild and a wide circle of friends.

WILLIAMS, ROY GRAINGER (1962 Law Affiliated Student), 25 January 2025 Mrs Deborah Williams, his widow, writes as follows: Roy Grainger Williams was born in Warrington on 29 December 1940. In his early life, Roy lived in Thorpe Bay, Essex, where he developed a lifelong love of sailing. He attended Westcliff Grammar School, before going on to study at Nottingham University (LLB, 1959–1962). He was subsequently awarded a W M Tapp Postgraduate Scholarship and was admitted to as an Affiliated Student to study for the LLM (awarded 1964). Roy gained his Half Blue for Sailing in 1963. In 1965, Roy joined Linklaters & Paines, solicitors in the City of London, where he practised revenue law and was admitted as a solicitor in 1967. After practising at 166

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Samuel Montagu & Co City Merchant Bank Mergers and Acquisitions from 1969 to 1970, he returned to Linklaters & Paines from 1970 to 1972 to specialise in company and commercial law. From 1972 until 1976, he served as the Finance and Corporate Director of Shenley Investments Ltd, dealing with property insurance and banking interests. From 1972 to 1980, he was Investment Director of the Property Growth Assurance Company Ltd, a life assurance company which is now part of Royal & Sun Assurance. In 1976, Roy formed the private property group Cardinal Lysander, where he served as a Director and significant shareholder until 2025. This group specialised in commercial property investment and development, and venture capital investment across diverse areas including oil, metals and tech. A very modest man of great wit, Roy was deeply interested in the Arts. He enjoyed music and for many years supported the Orchestra of the Swan based at Warwick Schools Foundation in Warwick. He was also a keen theatregoer, even making grammatical corrections to scripts performed at the National Theatre. Throughout his life, he continued to explore the oceans and sailed his boat around Europe, the Eastern Seaboard, the Caribbean, New Zealand and Fiji. He provided funding for Cambridge University Sailing Club boats and sponsored the Youth Sailing Trust in St Mawes. Roy is sadly missed by his wife Deborah, five children Kate, Hugh, Amy, Charles and Henry, and his eleven grandchildren.

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New Fellows, Bye-Fellows, Lectors, Teaching Associates, Postdoctoral Research Associates and Visiting Fellows 2024-25

Dr Jane Hines (Research Fellow) Jane is a musicologist with interests in German intellectual history and aesthetics from around 1700 to 1950. Jane completed her PhD at Princeton University in January 2024 Her current research traces the concept of imagination – as a mental faculty or process – in musical aesthetics, theory, criticism and practice. Jane studied how the discourse around imagination transferred from general aesthetics, philosophy and psychology to specialised studies in music. Her primary interlocutors include some of musicology’s founders, such as Hugo Riemann in Leipzig and Eduard Hanslick in Vienna, as well as philosophers ranging from Aristotle to Kant to Adorno. While her research on the imagination is largely directed towards philosophical and aesthetic discourses, her starting point is always listening to and studying music in its sonic and written forms, and she is excited when she finds tangible connections between theory and practice. She has further interests in the music of Johannes Brahms, music analysis, the history of music theory and – most recently – ancient writings on music. Dr Samuel Brandt (Research Fellow) Samuel is a cultural-historical geographer of modern and contemporary Latin America, namely the Southern Cone and Brazil. Broadly, he studies how, when, and where urban meets rural, domestic meets foreign, wealth meets poverty and built meets natural. His research centres on three book projects based on his fieldwork in Uruguay since 2014. These concern respectively the value of metaphors in teaching geographic knowledge, the impact of a national scale housing program (MEVIR) for the rural poor, and the spaces where Uruguayan soccer shapes national identity. He holds a BA in Geography from the University of Chicago and an MA and PhD in Geography from the University of California, Los Angeles. His work has appeared in the Geographical Review, the Journal of Latin American Geography and the AAG Review of Books. His research has been supported by two Fulbright awards and an American Geographical Society Council Fellowship.

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Dr Dmitri Whitmore (Research Fellow) Dmitri’s research interests lie in pure mathematics. In particular, his focus is on a deep series of conjectures in number theory (the Langlands conjectures) which connect objects of a very different nature, leading to remarkable consequences for the understanding of integer (whole-number) solutions to equations. Outside of maths, he enjoys bouldering, gaming and occasionally doing puzzles and playing classical guitar. Dr Mor Rozner (Research Fellow) Mor is an astrophysicist, researching dynamics in different scales – from planet formation to black hole mergers, and is interested in science in general. Among other things, she has worked on the meter-size barrier in planet formation, binary formation and gravitational waves in gas-rich environments and the distribution of wide binaries in clusters and in the field. She uses mainly analytical tools, ie pen and paper calculations, but also numerical tools, such as N-body simulations. More than anything she enjoys thinking about ideas. Mor has just finished her PhD at the Technion, Israel. During her fellowship she will be hosted by the Institute of Astronomy and DAMTP and the Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics and will be affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton. Dr Adam Morgan (Supernumerary Fellow) Adam is a pure mathematician, working at the interface of number theory and algebraic geometry. He joins Caius as the Jan Saxl Lecturer in Mathematics. After growing up close to Cambridge and reading mathematics at Clare College, Adam completed his PhD at the University of Bristol in 2015, with a thesis on the arithmetic of hyperelliptic curves. Currently, he is interested in understanding how arithmetic objects vary in families and how geometric and topological properties of equations govern their integer and rational solutions. His most recent work centres around the descent-fibration method, first introduced by Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer as a tool for studying cubic surfaces. For the past three years he has been an EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow and prior to that held a postdoctoral position at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn. Adam’s non-mathematical interests include cycling, climbing, swimming and cooking.

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Dr Vasileios Kotsidis (Supernumerary Fellow) Vasileios uses tools from traditional and evolutionary game theory to analyse social interactions that (potentially) involve strategic motives. His research focuses on the scope and limitations of models based on methodological individualism in interpreting individual behaviour (human or otherwise) as it is manifested in social settings. It spans along three main directions: how individuals think, what they are motivated by, and what the researcher can infer. His doctoral thesis explored some theoretical aspects of social (strategic) behaviour and investigated its empirical manifestations. He also enjoys practising karate, studying the philosophy of mathematics and reading fantasy literature. Dr Ling Zhang (Supernumerary Fellow) Ling was born and raised in east China and read History, Philosophy & Literature at Peking University. She came to the University of Cambridge in 2003 and studied an MPhil and PhD at St John’s College and the Faculty of Oriental Studies. After teaching at Newcastle University for one year, she became a Ziff Environmental Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for the Environment and a Fellow in Yale University’s Program of Agrarian Studies. Before returning to Cambridge, she was an Associate Professor at Boston College, where she taught Chinese History and Environmental History. Ling was trained by the late Dr Joseph McDermott (St John’s), Professor David McMullen (St John’s) and Professor Roel Sterckx (Clare). She is an environmental and economic historian of China with emphasis on political ecology and political economy. As an intellectual disciple of the late Dr Joseph Needham (Gonville & Caius), she is a historian of Chinese science and technology with emphasis on history of earth science and geoengineering. Ling’s monograph The River, the Plain and the State: An Environmental Drama of Northern Song China received the George Perkins Marsh Prize for the Best Book in Environmental History by the American Society of Environmental History in 2017. She is currently finishing two books, one entitled 108 Metres: An EcoGeoHistory of a Corner of Earth and the other entitled Geotrauma: Earthly Healing through Geostorytelling. Revolving around historical intersections among geology, ecology and the human society, her research explores history by developing concepts such as vertical ecology, geo-bio exchange and multispecies and more-than-human transcorporeality.

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Dr Arjen Bakker (Supernumerary Fellow) Arjen is a scholar of Ancient Judaism and the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). He studied Religious Studies and Hebrew & Jewish Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He continued his studies in Theology & Biblical Studies at KU Leuven, where he completed his PhD on the Dead Sea Scrolls (ancient Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts) in 2015. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the universities of Haifa and Groningen. From 2017 to 2020, he was a College Lecturer and Research Associate at Oriel College, Oxford. From 2020 to 2024, he was Assistant Professor in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism at the University of Groningen. In September 2024, he started a new position as Assistant Professor in Second Temple Judaism at the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.

Professor Steven Barrett (Supernumerary Fellow) Steven has rejoined the University as Regius Professor of Engineering. He was an undergraduate and PhD student at Cambridge, reading engineering at Pembroke College. After being a University Lecturer at Cambridge for a year he moved to MIT, ending up as HN Slater Professor and Head of the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics. Steven’s research has focused on quantifying and mitigating the environmental impacts of aviation, including topics such as novel propulsion technologies, contrail avoidance and evaluating the sustainability of alternative aviation fuels. He also has research and innovation interests in technology for national security and contributes to efforts aimed at increasing social mobility. Dr James Alvey (Supernumerary Fellow) James joins Caius after three years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Amsterdam. In Cambridge, he will be based at the Kavli Institute and the Institute of Astronomy. Before Amsterdam, he completed his BA and MMath at St John’s and a PhD in Theoretical Physics at King’s College London. His main research interests lie in the application of machine learning and statistical techniques to the analysis of gravitational wave detector data. In particular, he is interested in the challenges posed by the space-based LISA experiment when trying to find stochastic signals from the early Universe. Beyond Physics, he is a keen cyclist and triathlete.

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Professor Nicholas Dorey (Supernumerary Fellow) Nick received his PhD in Physics from Edinburgh University in 1991 and, after postdoctoral work at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US, he was appointed to a Lectureship at the University of Wales Swansea in 1993. He has been a Professor of Theoretical Physics in the Cambridge Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) since 2007. He is currently the Director of Theoretical Physics in DAMTP. His research area is Quantum Field Theory (QFT), which is the basic mathematical framework for describing elementary particles. Most of what we know about these theories is only approximate, relying on a perturbative expansion in terms of Feynman diagrams. Nick is particularly interested in special cases where exact analytic calculations are possible allowing us to investigate the true nature of QFT. Outside of academic life he is an enthusiastic player of the guitar, both acoustic and electric. Ms Sarah Tebbutt (Supernumerary Fellow) Sarah is the College’s Senior Bursar. She graduated in Natural Sciences (Genetics) in 1990 from Murray Edwards. She was a Senior Civil Servant in HM Treasury (1992-2013) – working on financial markets, financial services, investments and internal policy. Then she was a Director at National Savings & Investments (2013-21) and most recently worked as a Director at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, covering property, security and people. She has an MBA from Imperial College Business School. Sarah lives near Cambridge with her family. Dr James Njunge (Bye-Fellow) James is a Research Fellow based at the KEMRI Wellcome located on the Kenyan Coast. His institute conducts research in clinical and population health, health systems, genomics, infectious disease transmission and vaccines, among other areas. He focuses on understanding biological mechanisms underlying childhood vulnerability to mortality and poor growth. James trained as a biochemist and his interest is in understanding the interaction between nutrition, metabolism and infection in children. He is part of the CHAIN Network, which aims to optimise care for vulnerable children in low-resource settings to improve survival, growth and development. He also heads the liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry platform that mainly does proteomics. James is the current Chair of the Higher Degrees Committee and provides mentorship and capacity building for staff

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and students at his programme. James joins as a Bye-Fellow for Scholars from the Global South. Professor Andrew Merrills (Bye-Fellow) Andrew is a historian of the late antiquity (c. 250-750 CE) and is particularly interested in Northern Africa in this period. Much of his research to date has focused on the history and archaeology of the Maghreb (what is now Tunisia, Algeria and the coastal parts of Libya), and particularly on the Vandal Kingdom which flourished in Carthage from 439-533 CE, the ‘Byzantine’ occupation which followed from 533-698 CE and the ‘Moorish’ or ‘Berber’ societies which rose to prominence across the region at the same time. During his CookCrone Research Bye-Fellowship, however, he will be turning his attention far to the south and east, in order to explore the political world of Aksumite Ethiopia in approximately the same period. This is a fascinating field of scholarship (and one in which Caius has a rich tradition, thanks to the extensive work of David Phillipson), and Andrew is hoping to explore points of correspondence between these different parts of the classical and post-classical world. Dr Madeleine Rauch (Bye-Fellow) Madeleine is an Associate Professor of Strategy and International Business at the Judge Business School. Previously, she was at Stanford and Copenhagen Business School before joining Cambridge. Her research interests include topics associated with strategising in extreme contexts and the strategy process more broadly. She conducts research in extreme contexts and challenges faced by people both working and living in challenging contexts, such as undocumented in the US, UN Peacekeepers, medical professionals during the pandemic and soldiers in warzones such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen and South Sudan. Her research has been published in Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Strategic Organization and Harvard Business Review, among others. Dr Felix Randow (Bye-Fellow) Felix is a molecular immunologist working at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, where his group investigates how individual human cells defend themselves against pathogens. His work is inspired by the remarkable ability of unicellular organisms to resist infections entirely through cell-autonomous defences. Felix’s group

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have identified novel principles of cell-autonomous immunity in mammals and how they complement the activity of professional immune cells. By better understanding these mechanisms, they hope to develop strategies for preventing and treating infectious diseases. Professor Mina Ryten (Bye-Fellow) Mina is a clinician scientist with extensive experience in both clinical and research settings. Her research focuses on using human brain transcriptomics to understand neurological diseases, with a specific interest in neurodegenerative and rare neurogenetic disorders. Mina began her medical training at Clare College, Cambridge and completed an MBPhD at UCL. Later Mina specialised in bioinformatics and clinical genetics, becoming a Professor of Clinical Genetics at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and gaining an honorary consultant role at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Since 2017, Mina has led research groups at UCL and, in 2024, she relocated her lab, becoming the Director of the UK Dementia Research Institute at Cambridge. Her clinical work focuses on diagnosing and improving the quality of life for patients with genetic disorders, while her research strives to link genetic information with neurological disease mechanisms. Cheng Ean (Catherine) Lee (Jeffrey Cheah Visiting Scholar 24 March to 22 April 2025) Catherine is an academic staff member at the School of Communication and Media Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, at Sunway University, Malaysia, where she also serves as the Deputy Dean (Education). She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Media Studies, a Master of Arts in Communication Studies and a PhD in Educational Research. With over 23 years of experience in higher education, her research interests lie at the intersection of communication, digital technologies, and education. She focuses on social media, public relations, organisational communication, technology-enhanced learning and sustainable communication. Her current research explores the integration of digital game-based learning with constructive alignment principles to enhance student engagement and learning outcomes in higher education. Titled Constructive Alignment in Digital Game-Based Learning in Higher Education: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Arts Education, this study investigates how structured pedagogical frameworks can be effectively applied to gamebased learning environments. As a Visiting Scholar, Catherine looks forward to engaging in interdisciplinary dialogue, exchanging ideas on

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pedagogical innovations and contributing to discussions on the evolving role of digital technologies in education. She is eager to collaborate with esteemed colleagues to advance research that bridges theory and practice in meaningful ways. Professor Christian Wildberg (Visiting Scholar, 12 May to 20 June 2025) Christian is a classicist with special research interests in the history of ancient philosophy and science and how it shaped and continues to shape our Western intellectual tradition. One focus of his research is the history of Platonism, but he also has strong interests in prePlatonic philosophy and Greek tragedy. He was first educated at the University of Marburg but came to Cambridge (Wolfson College) in 1979, receiving his PhD in Classics in 1984, and was a Research Fellow at Caius 1984-1987. He taught briefly at the University of Texas, Austin and then, for six years, at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is an Emeritus Professor of Classics at Princeton University, where he taught from 1996 to 2017, serving also as Master of Forbes College from 2006 to 2010 and Academic Director of the Program in Hellenic Studies from 2010 to 2017. Since 2018, he has been the Andrew W Mellon Professor of Classics and Department Chair at the University of Pittsburgh. His main publications deal with the reconstruction and interpretation of a sixth-century anti-Aristotelian treatise on the eternity of the world, written by the Alexandrian philosopher John Philoponus, and the meaning and function of deities in Euripidean tragedies. More recently, he has edited volumes on such diverse topics as mysticism, Aristotle’s cosmology, and the cult of Dionysus. Returning to Caius this year, he intends to make good progress on the Handbook of Neoplatonism he is editing for Oxford University Press and put final touches on a new edition and translation of the Corpus Hermeticum, replacing Nock and Festugière’s Budé edition and Brian Copenhaver’s English translation (Cambridge University Press). Christian is married to the artist Jannick Wildberg and has two grown-up children, Nora and Nils. He is pleased to have the opportunity to return to Caius. Professor Felicia Chung Fei Lei (Jeffrey Cheah Visiting Scholar 25 August to 25 September 2025) Felicia obtained her PhD in Biotechnology from Monash University in 2014. She began her academic career at the International Medical University in Malaysia as a postdoctoral fellow, where her research focused on cancer cell biology, cancer stem cells and drug repurpos-

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ing. In 2017, she was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in France, the specialised cancer agency of the World Health Organisation. There, she worked on epigenome stability, epigenetic biomarkers of cancer, techniques for genetic and epigenetic editing and the effects of genetic alterations on the epigenome. She continued her research at the agency as a postdoctoral scientist before returning to Malaysia in 2021. Her current research focuses on urothelial cancer genomics, epigenetic mechanisms of cancer immune evasion and molecular signatures of nasopharyngeal cancers. She is currently based in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Sunway University. Ms Clara Berne (French Lectrice) Clara serves as French Lectrice in 2024-25. Her supervisions for undergraduate students include Use of French, Translation from English into French, French through the Media and Text & Culture. Originally from Poitiers, Clara obtained her Master’s degree in foreign languages, literature and civilisation (English) in 2023 at the ENS de Lyon. Her research focuses on Irish literature, with a special emphasis on the historical novel. As part of this work, she has explored the theme of the Great Famine and its political, moral, environmental and human implications in contemporary literature. Clara is also a passionate language learner, interested in learning Spanish, German, Japanese and ancient languages. Dr Anna Breger (PDRA) Anna is an applied mathematician who is currently researching in the Cambridge Image Analysis Group at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Science. Her research focuses on image processing with real-world applications, ranging from medical images to cultural heritage imaging. Since 2019 she has held a PhD from the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Vienna and afterwards was awarded a Hertha Firnberg Fellowship by the Austrian Science Fund. She has spent time at the Harvard Medical School through a Marshall Plan Scholarship and was awarded with the ÖAW/L’ORÈAL Austria Fellowship for Women in Science for her research on image quality assessment for medical images. Anna is also a musician and regularly performs with baroque violin and Nyckelharpa.

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Dr Abigail Moffett (PDRA) Abigail is an anthropological archaeologist specialising in the study of the African past and Africa within the context of global history. Her research spans a variety of interrelated themes, from identity, power and craft production to the nature and impact of global connections across the African continent. Abigail recently joined the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge as a Senior Research Associate, and she is currently the PI of the European Research Council-awarded, UKRI-funded Starting Grant, titled ‘Entangled materialities and new global histories from southern Africa’ (ENTANGLED). Before coming to Cambridge, she held a British Academy Newton International Fellowship at the Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia. Abigail grew up in Botswana, the UK and South Africa, and completed her PhD at the University of Cape Town in 2017. Dr Yizhou Yu (PDRA) Yizhou is currently a senior researcher in computational biology at the Stem Cell Institute in Cambridge, working on elucidating cellular processes in the healthy and diseased peripheral nervous system using single-cell genomics. He is also leading a company to develop therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease, based on results from his PhD research at the University of Cambridge. Yizhou is interested in understanding mechanisms of neurodegeneration and developing therapies to slow down neurodegenerative diseases. Dr Miguel Ohnesorge (PDRA) Miguel is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of History & Philosophy of Science. His main interests lie in the history and philosophy of science, especially gravitational physics and the earth sciences. He is particularly interested in how we came to have quantitative knowledge about formerly qualitative phenomena (which include such things as gravity, temperature or earthquakes) and strong evidence for theoretical propositions (such as some of the laws of physics). He also studies the ethics and politics of employing measurements in socially consequential settings. He is writing a book (under contract at Oxford University Press), which is tentatively titled Newton’s Open Problem: Earth’s Figure and Universal Gravitation. In it, he reconstructs how we tested the ‘universal’ applicability of the law of gravitation to all massive bodies – the most daring claim in Newton’s Principia. Perhaps surprisingly, it took more than 200 years

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for us to prove Newton right. He wants to understand how we did that, which has many interesting implications for how measurement, theoretical generalisations and statistical inference contribute to scientific progress. Dr Jack Barron (TA) Jack grew up in the North-East of England, before coming to Cambridge – to Caius, in fact – to do his BA, MPhil and PhD, which was completed on the work of W S Graham and thought about phenomenologists of reading and editorship. Otherwise, his research concerns twentieth-century poetics (though will occasionally slide backwards in time). His current interests include T S Eliot, Samuel Beckett, John Cage and Muriel Spark, and he is developing a project on lyric peripherality/evasiveness. Dr Nathan Mercieca (TA) Nathan’s PhD dissertation was entitled ‘The Ethics of Musicology’ and extended an idealist-Marxist theory of culture (after the work of Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek) to the analysis of tonal music. Since then, his ideological position has shifted, and he is more interested in examining the material conditions of music making: his current research examines music and the body, theories of genre, the influence of the internet on constructions of performance, and the idea of ‘classical music’ itself. He is also interested in the economics of the music industry, and gender and sexuality—especially queer genders and sexualities. Most of his teaching centres around the tonal music of the ‘common practice period’ of Western Classical Music. He teaches 1st and 2nd year Music Analysis, 2nd year Tonal Composition, first year Music History (nineteenth century), 2nd year Music History (twentieth and twenty-first century), 3rd Year History (the Operas of Mozart and da Ponte), and supervises 2nd and 3rd year dissertations on topics including nationalism and the construction of a national style, ‘secular’ organ music, and the sexualisation of the voice in countertenor singing. Alongside his academic research and teaching, also maintains a private studio as a singing teacher and vocal coach and pursues an active performing career, appearing internationally as both a soloist and as part of a number of groups including Solomon’s Knot, Le Concert d’Astrée, and the Irish Baroque Orchestra.

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Mr Joe Robinson (TA) Joe is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics & International Relations. His research focuses on the intersections between political theory, political psychology and political science, asking how our conceptual understandings of legitimacy and contemporary findings in cognitive psychology can inform the recent literature on crises of democracy. He primarily supervises POL1 (The Modern State and Its Alternatives) in the HSPS Tripos, and in the past has supervised POL4 (Comparative Politics) and POL13 (British and European Politics). He earned a first-class degree in Human, Social & Political Sciences from Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 2017 and an MPhil with Distinction from St Edmund’s College, Cambridge in 2019. Dr Joe Ellis (TA) Joe is Deputy Senior Tutor for Teaching & Outreach at Hughes Hall and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology. Joe’s research is founded upon long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Mongolia, particularly in the ger districts of Ulaanbaatar and the more remote provinces of Khovd and Bayan-Ölgii in the far west of the country. The overarching theme of his research interests is the manner in which cosmological, political and moral concepts come to impinge upon social life in Mongolia. This has led him to work on a range of topics, including: the dynamics of violence, shamanism and alcoholism within intimate relations; the role of mythic-historical exemplars in generating ideas of ‘ethnic’ difference and tension; the impact of religious practices on the economic sphere; the cultivation of gendered mobilities within kinship ideologies; practices of deception and spheres of complicity; and the political salience of perceptions of environmental change. In addition, Joe is in the process of developing research on adult learners and their progression to Higher Education in the UK. He is particularly interested in the potential barriers that adult learners face and the wider educational and societal inequalities that they reveal. He has been an external Director of Studies in HSPS at Caius since 2019.

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Gonville & Caius College Court of Benefactors + Denotes new Members of the Court of Benefactors

The John Caius Guild Mrs R C E Cavonius (2004) Mrs S R Bailey (2009) Mrs A W S Haines (2009) Dr A Cheng (2013)

Tan Sri Dato’Seri Dr J Cheah (2014) Dr Y L K Lui

Gonville Fellow Benefactors Professor J B Saunders (1967) Mr N R Sallnow-Smith (1969) Dr H H J Carter (1971) Mr R C S Evans (1978) Mr A B Grabowski (1978) Mr S L Jagger (1987) Mr M R Nogales (1993) Mrs R C E Cavonius (2004) Mrs S R Bailey (2009)

Mrs A W S Haines (2009) Mrs L W S Sallnow-Smith (2012) Dr A Cheng (2013) Tan Sri Dato’Seri Dr J Cheah (2014) Mrs L K Evans (2014) Ms T Silkstone (2016) Mrs K Grabowska (2022) Dr Y L K Lui Ms A O’Connell

Founders Mr J D Heap (1954) The Rt Hon The Lord Tugendhat of Widdington (1957) Mr J R Kelly (1958) The Rt Hon The Lord Simon of Highbury (1958) Sir Keith Stuart (1958) Mr M B Maunsell (1960) Professor P S Walker (1960) Mr C E Ackroyd (1961) Mr D K Elstein (1961) Mr D J Bell (1962) Professor Sir Alan Fersht (1962)

Dr R N F Simpson (1962) Mr J D Wertheim (1963) Mr D P H Burgess (1964) Mr A C Butler (1965) The Rt Hon Sir Christopher Clarke (1965) The Hon Dr J F Lehman (1965) Dr P J Marriott (1965) Mr A M Peck (1967) Dr G W Hills (1968) Mr D R Hulbert (1969) Mr A N Papathomas (1969) Mr P J M Redfern (1969)

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Mr I Taylor (1969) Mr D R Barrett (1972) Mr P B Kerr-Dineen (1972) Mr P C English (1973) Mr A W M Reicher (1973) Mr J Sunderland (1973) Mr W S H Laidlaw (1974) Mr D M Mabb (1975) Mr N G Blanshard (1976) Mr N S K Booker (1976) Dr S J Morris (1976) Mr S T Bax (1977) Mr K F Haviland (1977) Mr M J Cosans (1978) Mr N C Birch (1979) Mr H M Cobbold (1983) Mr A Rzym (1983) Mr C H Umur (1983) Dr S E Chua (1984) Mrs N J Cobbold (1984) Mr P G J S Helson (1985) Mr A J Landes (1985) Mr W P L Lawes (1985) Mr W D L M Vereker (1985) Mr & Mrs R C Wilson (1985) Mr R Y-H Leung (1986) Mr J J M Bailey (1987) Mr J P Barabino (1987) Mr O R M Bolitho (1987)

Mrs M M J Lewis (1987) Mr T J Parsonson (1987) Mrs L Umur (1988) Mr S G P de Heinrich (1990) Mr J D Hall (1990) Dr M H M Syn (1990) Ms J Z Z Hu (1992) Mr J D H Arnold (1993) Mr C E G Hogbin (1993) Mr P A J Phillips (1994) Ms S S-Y Cheung (1995) Mr P S Rhodes (1996) Mr C T K Myers (2002) Mr J H Hill (2009) Mr R T C Chenevix-Trench Dr C Cheng The Rt Hon The Lord & Lady Choudrey Mr & Mrs J Emberson Mrs J C Hagelberg Mr L C L Ma Mr C C Wen Mrs H E M Young Mr S M Zinser Michael Miliffe Memorial Scholarship Fund Tancred’s Charities

Patrons of the Court of Benefactors Mr A G Beaumont (1949) Mr M J Harrap (1949) Mr J O’Hea (1954) Mr H de V Welchman (1956) Mr J A Brooks (1959) Dr A T Ractliffe (1960) Professor R J Nicholls (1961) Mr G A Shindler (1962) Mr J D Sword (1962) Mr D B Newlove (1963) Mr D J Walker (1963)

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Mr S Brearley (1971) Mr J A Duval (1971) Mr S N Bunzl (1972) Mr P J Farmer (1972) Mr B B W Glass (1972) Mr R S Handley (1972) Mr S J Roberts (1972) Mr H B Trust (1973) Mr N R Gamble (1975) Mr M W Friend (1976) Mr D C S Oosthuizen (1976) Dr R H Poddubiuk (1976) Mr I M Radford (1977) Professor T A Ring (1977) Mr C J Carter (1978) Mr P R M Kavanagh (1978) Dr M E Lowth (1979) Mr D L Melvin (1979) Mr N J Tregear (1979) Mr S R Coxford (1980) Mr S J Lowth (1980) Mr J H Pitman (1980) Mr N J Farr (1981) Mr P W Langslow (1981) Mr P S Gordon (1982) Mrs E I C Strasburger (1982) Mr W A C Hayward (1983) Mr C Loong (1983) Mr J W Graham (1984) Professor P Rogerson (1986)

Mr A W Lockhart (1987) Dr I M Billington (1988) Professor M J Brown (1989) Mr N J C Robinson (1989) Mr S C Ruparell (1989) Mr A M P Russell (1989) Ms V N M Chan (1990) Dr P A Key (1990) Mr G C Li (1990) Professor K-T Khaw (1991) Mr L K Yim (1992) Mr S S Gill (1994) Dr P A Cunningham (1995) Mr L T L Lewis (1997) Ms S Gnanalingam (1999) Dr P A Lyon (2001) Mr C D Aylard (2002) Dr A C Ho (2002) Dr E F Aylard (2004) Mrs A F Crampin Mr J Frieda Ms M Y Han Dr & Mrs H Malem Mr E W S Mok Dr P Monck Hill Mr S Nackvi Mr T C F B Sligo-Young Mr D H Thomas Ms A Yonemura Sir Simon Milton Foundation

Members Mr J B Booth (1948) Mr D C Mayer (1948) Mr M Buckley Sharp (1950) Mr W L J Fenley (1951) Professor J E Banatvala (1952) Professor M V Riley (1952) Dr D H Keeling (1953) Mr D R Amlot (1954) Mr D I Cook (1954) Professor N J Gross (1954)

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Mr A M Hunter Johnston (1972) Dr D R Mason (1972) Mr M J Spinks (1972) Mr P R Beverley (1973) Mr S P Crooks (1973) Mr R Fox (1973) Professor T J Pedley (1973) Mr M D Damazer (1974) Professor A G Dewhurst (1974) Mr R J Evans (1974) Dr J S Golob (1974) Mr A H Silverman (1974) Mr W C Strawhorne (1974) The Rt Hon The Lord Turner of Ecchinswell (1974) Mr D A L Burn (1975) Dr R G Mayne (1975) Mr D J G Reilly (1975) Mr P J Roberts (1975) Mr J J J Bates (1976) Mr L G Brew (1976) Dr K F Gradwell (1976) Dr A C J Hutchesson (1976) Mr P C Tagari (1976) Mr S Thomson (1976) Mr J P Treasure (1976) Professor K J Friston (1977) Mr R M House (1977) Mr K A Mathieson (1977) Mr D J White (1977) Dr T G Blease (1978) Dr P G Dommett (1978) Mr A D Halls (1978) Mr M H Pottinger (1978) Dr P Venkatesan (1978) Mr D W Wood (1978) Mr A J Birkbeck (1979) Mr W D Crokin (1979) Mr P C Gandy (1979) Professor Sir Jonathan Montgomery (1980) The Rt Hon The Lord Rockley (1980) Dr C Turfus (1980) Dr M Mishra (1981)

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Mrs M Robinson (1981) Dr R M Roope (1981) Mrs D C Saunders (1981) Mr T Saunders (1981) Mr K J Taylor (1981) Ms A M Tully (1981) Mr A R Flitcroft (1982) Ms E F Mandelstam (1982) Mrs R E Penfound (1982) Ms M K Reece (1982) Mrs K R M Castelino (1983) The Rt Hon Sir Timothy Fancourt (1983) Mr P E J Fellows (1983) Dr S F J Wright (1983) Dr W P Goddard (1983) Mr J F S Learmonth (1983) Mr R H Moore (1983) Dr L S Parker (1983) Mr R M Payn (1983) Mr A I Porteous (1983) Mr A E Bailey (1984) Dr S Ip (1984) Dr J R B Leventhorpe (1984) Mr A D H Marshall (1984) Mr J R Pollock (1984) Mr G K Beggerow (1985) Mr K J Fitch (1985) Ms P Hayward (1985) Dr A M Shaw (1985) Dr P M Slade (1985) Ms J A Scrine (1985) Dr I B Y Wong (1985) Dr E F Worthington (1985) Ms R Aris (1986) Mr T Hibbert (1986) Mr & Mrs J W Stuart (1986) Dr G M Grant (1987) Dr G M Gribbin (1987) Ms C M Harper (1987) Mr L M Mair (1987) Dr W P Ridsdill Smith (1987) Dr J Sarma (1987) Mr H A Briggs (1988) THE COLLEGE ANNUAL RECORD 2024–25

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Mr N P Dougherty (1988) Mr E T Halverson (1988) Ms T W Y Tang (1988) Ms J B W Wong (1988) Dr F J L Wuytack (1988) Mr S M S A Hossain (1989) Mr J P Kennedy (1989) Mr T Lim (1989) Mr B J McGrath (1989) Ms J H Myers (1989) Dr S L Rahman Haley (1989) Ms R Sakimura (1989) Mrs S C Butcher (1990) Mr P E Day (1990) Dr C C Hayhurst (1990) Mr T Moody-Stuart (1990) Mr P C Sheppard (1990) Mr J B Smith (1990) Mrs B Choi (1991) Dr C S J Fang (1991) Dr S C Francis (1991) Dr H J Lee (1991) Mr L Stephenson (1991) Mrs J L Moore (1992) Dr A C G Breeze (1993) Mr R B K Phillips (1993) Dr J F Reynolds (1993) Mr R J M Haynes (1994) Mr C Chew (1995) Ms H Y-Y Chung (1995) Mrs J A S Ford (1995) Dr N J Hillier (1995) Ms M C Katbamna-Mackey (1995) Ms T J Sheridan (1995) Mr M J Soper (1995) Mr E G Woods (1995) Dr P G Velusami (1996) Mr K F Wyre (1996) Miss J M Chrisman (1997) Mr J Frieda (1997) Dr S Nestler-Parr (1997) Mr E Zambon (1997) Ms H M Barnard (1998) Mr D M Blake (1998)

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Dr A P Y-Y Cheong (1998) Mr J A Etherington (1998) Mr D J F Yates (1998) Mr R F T Beentje (1999) Ms J W-M Chan (1999) Mr P M Ellison (1999) Dr P D Wright (1999) Mrs S Hodgson (2000) Ms M Lada (2000) Lt Col D N Naumann (2000) Mr H S Panesar (2000) Dr M G Dracos (2001) Mr H M I Mussa (2001) Dr S J Sprague (2001) Dr R A Weerakkody (2001) Dr J T G Brown (2002) Dr S Ueno (2002) Mr J E Anthony (2003) Mr J A Leasure (2003) Mr C A J Manning (2003) Mr W A Leslie (2004) Miss E M Fialho (2005) Dr S A Li (2005) Mr E Rosenthal (2006) Mr H Y Chen (2007) Mr G M Beck (2009) Dr I L Lopez Franco (2010) Dr D J P Burns (2013) Mr B A Tompkins (2015) Ms J Cheng (2017) Mrs A P Beck Mr & Mrs M Cator Mr T L & Dr M N Chew Mr D M H Chua Mrs H J Cuthbert Mr & Mrs D Dunnigan Mr & Mrs H Elliot Mr T & Mrs A Fletcher Mr K G Patel Mr D P & Mrs S Siegler Mr & Mrs J P Tunnicliffe Mr P M & Mrs A H Village Dato’ S J Wong

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The Master and Fellows express their warmest thanks to all Caians, parents and friends of the College who made generous donations between 1 July 2024 and 30 June 2025. Your gifts are greatly appreciated as they help to secure the College’s excellence for future generations. +Denotes member of the Ten Years Club

Caians 1945 TThe late Professor C N L Brooke The late Mr J J H Everitt

Dr T W Gibson + Mr P J Murphy + Professor M V Riley + Mr R P Wilding +

1946

1953

The late Mr K Gale

1947 The late Mr A C Struvé The late Mr A C Barrington Brown The late Mr E J Chumrow

1949 The late Mr M E Gaisford

1950 The late Professor K G Denbigh Dr M I Lander + Canon J Maybury

1951 Mr S H Cooke The late Dr J E Godrich The late The Revd P T Hancock + The late Mr J K Moodie

1952 Professor J E Banatvala + Dr M Brett +

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Mr J M Aucken Mr S F S Balfour-Browne + Mr P R Dolby + Dr D H Keeling + Mr J E R Lart + Mr R Lomax + Mr T I Rand + Mr J P Seymour +

1954 Mr J Anton-Smith + Mr P A Block Mr D W Bouette + Mr D J Boyd + Professor D P Brenton Mr D I Cook + Dr A E Gent + Professor R J Heald + Mr R W Montgomery + Sir Gilbert Roberts Bt Mr R J Silk Mr D A Smith Mr M H Spence + The late Mr B Tytherleigh

1955 Mr A L S Brown

Dr M Cannon + Mr D J Clayson + Mr A A R Cobbold + Dr R A Durance + Professor R E W Halliwell + Dr T G Jones + The Rt Hon Sir Paul Kennedy Mr J H Mallinson Mr J J Moyle + Lt Col C B Pritchett Mr A B Richards +

1956 Dr R Cockel + Mr J A L Eidinow Professor G H Elder + Mr M J L Foad Professor J A R Friend + Mr R Gibson + Mr M L Holman + Professor A J Kirby + Dr R G Lord + Mr B J McConnell + Canon P B Morgan + Mr A J Peck + The late Mr J V Rawson Mr C Ridsdill Smith Mr J P Woods + Dr D L Wynn-Williams +

1957 Dr I D Ansell + Dr N D Barnes +

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Mr J C Boocock Dr J P Charlesworth + The Revd D H Clark + Dr T W Davies + Mr E J Dickens + Mr R E Gadsby Dr A N Ganner + Very Revd Dr M J Higgins + Mr E M Hoare + Professor F C Inglis + Mr A J Kemp + Professor A J McClean + Mr C B Melluish Mr A W Newman-Sanders + Mr T Painter Mr G R Phillipson + The Rt Hon Sir Mark Potter + Mr P W Sampson + The Rt Hon Lord Tugendhat + Dr A Wright

1958 Mr C Andrews + Professor R P Bartlett Dr J F A Blowers + Mr T J Brack Mr J P B Bryce + Mr J D G Cashin Mr D M Henderson + Mr J A Honeybone Dr P F Hunt Dr R P Knill-Jones + Mr R D Martin Mr C P McKay + Dr J V Oubridge Mr G D Pratten + Dr G R Rowlands Mr M P Ruffle + Dr F D Skidmore Mr A Stadlen + Mr A J Taunton + Professor B J Thorne Mr F J W van Silver +

1959 The late Mr D Beck Rev K N Bradley Professor D S Brée

Dr D E Brundish + Dr A G Dewey + Mr T H W Dodwell + Mr B Drewitt + The Revd T C Duff + The Rt Revd D R J Evans + Mr G A Geen + Mr M J D Keatinge + Mr C J Methven + Mr P Neuburg + Mr B M Pearce-Higgins The late Mr J E Trice Professor P Tyrer + Mr J T Winpenny + Dr M D Wood + Mr P J Worboys

1960 Dr N A Bailey Mr J G Barham + Mr R A A Brockington His Hon Peter Cowell Mr J M Cullen Mr T E Dyer Mr N Gray + Dr P M Keir + Mr A Kenney + Dr M J Lindop Dr P Martin + Mr M B Maunsell + Dr H F Merrick + Dr C H R Niven + Professor A E Pegg + Dr J D Powell-Jackson + Dr A T Ractliffe + Dr R A Reid + Dr F H Stewart Dr M T R B Turnbull + Professor P S Walker Dr A M Zalin +

1961 Mr C E Ackroyd + Mr P A Bull The late Dr J S Denbigh Mr D K Elstein + Mr J A G Fiddes + Mr M J W Gage + Dr M P Halstead

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Dr A B Loach + Professor R Mansfield + Professor P B Mogford + Mr A G Munro + Professor R J Nicholls Mr J Owens + Mr C H Pemberton Mr D C W Stonley + Mr V D West + Mr P N Wood + Mr R J Wrenn +

1962 Mr D J Bell + Dr C R de la P Beresford + Mr M D Braham Mr R A C Bye + Mr J R Campbell + Dr D Carr + Mr R D Clement Mr P D Coopman + Mr T S Cox + Mr M Emmott + Dr C A Hammant + Mr D Hjort + Dr J B Hobbs Professor A R Hunter + Mr J W Jones + Professor J M Kosterlitz Mr A R Martin + The late Mr J R Matheson Professor Sir Andrew McMichael + Dr C D S Moss + The Revd Dr P C Owen Mr R Smalley + Mr R B R Stephens + Mr A M Stewart + Mr J D Sword + Mr W J G Travers Mr F R G Trew + Mr G J Weaver + The late Mr R G Williams

1963 The late Dr P J Adams + Dr B H J Briggs Mr P J Brown + Mr R M Coombes +

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Mr T R Drake The late Dr R P DuncanJones Dr S Field + Mr J E J Goad + Mr M S Kerr + Dr R Kinns + Dr R W F Le Page + Mr D A Lockhart + Mr J d'A Maycock + Mr D B Newlove Dr J R Parker + Dr J S Rainbird Mr P F T Sewell + Dr J B A Strange + Dr J Striesow Professor D J Taylor + Mr P H Veal + Mr D J Walker Dr M J Weston +

1964 Mr P Ashton + Dr J E Chisholm + Mr J M Dalgleish Mr H L S Dibley + Mr R A Dixon Dr P G Frost + Dr H R Glennie Mr A K Glenny Professor N D F Grindley + Professor K O Hawkins Professor Sir John Holman + The Revd Canon R W Hunt Mr A Kirby + Dr R K Knight + Dr H M Mather Mr S J Mawer + Mr J R Morley + Mr R Murray + Mr A K Nigam + Dr W T Prince Mr S D Ritter Mr J F Sell + Dr R Tannenbaum + Mr A N Taylor + Mr K S Thapa Mr C W Thomson Dr T B Wallington +

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The late Dr F J M Walters + Mr R C Wells +

1965 Dr P J E Aldred + Dr J E J Altham Professor L G Arnold + Professor B C Barker + Mr R A Charles + The Rt Hon Sir Christopher Clarke + Dr C M Colley + Mr G B Cooper Mr J Harris + Dr D A Hattersley + His Hon Richard Holman + Mr R P Hopford + Dr R G Jezzard + Mr K E Jones + Dr R R Jones Dr H J Klass + The Hon Dr J F Lehman + Dr M J Maguire + Dr P J Marriott + Mr J J McCrea His Hon Judge Morris Mr T Mullett + Dr J W New + Dr K J Routledge Dr D J Sloan + Mr I D K Thompson + Professor J S Tobias + Mr I R Whitehead Mr A T Williams + Mr D V Wilson + Lt Col J R Wood +

1966 Mr M J Barker Mr D C Bishop Dr D S Bishop + Mr P Chapman + Dr K R Daniels + Dr T K Day + Mr C R Deacon + Mr D P Dearden + Mr R S Dimmick Mr P S Elliston + Mr D R Harrison +

Dr L E Haseler + Mr R E Hickman + Mr R Holden + Professor R C Hunt + Dr W E Kenyon + The late Mr D C Lunn + Dr P I Maton Dr A A Mawby + Professor P M Meara Mr P V Morris + Dr K T Parker Mr S Poster + Mr R B N Smither Dr R L Stone + Mr N E Suess + Mr D Swinson + Dr A M Turner + Mr J F Wardle + Mr S M Whitehead + Mr J M Williams + Mr N J Wilson The Revd R J Wyber

1967 Mr G W Baines Mr N J Burton + Mr P G Cottrell + Mr G C Dalton + Dr W Day Mr A C Debenham + Mr P E Gore + Dr W Y-C Hung + Mr J R Jones Mr N G H Kermode + Mr R J Lasko + Mr D I Last + Dr I D Lindsay + Mr R J Longman + Mr T W Morton Mr W M O Nelson + Mr J S Richardson Mr H J A Scott + Mr G T Slater + Mr C A Williams The Revd Dr J D Yule

1968 Dr M J Adams + Mr P M Barker +

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Mr P E Barnes Dr F G T Bridgham + Mr A C Cosker + Mr J P Dalton + Mr S M Fox The late Mr D P Garrick + Mr D S Glass Mr M D Hardinge Dr P W Ind + The Revd Fr A Keefe Professor R J A Little + Dr D H O Lloyd + Professor J I McGuire Dr J Meyrick-Thomas + Dr T G Powell + Professor J F Roberts Mr E Robinson Mr P S Shaerf + Mr P J Tracy Dr G S Walford + Mr C Walker + Dr D P Walker + Mr P E Wallace Mr V Wineman

1969 Mr L R Baker Dr S C Bamber + Dr A B E Benjamin Dr A D Blainey + Mr S E Bowkett + Mr A C Brown + Mr M S Cowell + Dr M K Davies + Mr S H Dunkley + Dr M W Eaton + Mr R J Field + Professor J P Fry + Dr C J Hardwick + Mr J S Hodgson + The late Mr T J F Hunt + Mr S B Joseph + Mr A Keir + Mr C J Lloyd + Mr S J Lodder + Mr R G McGowan + Dr C M Pegrum + Dr D B Peterson + Mr P J M Redfern

Mr B A H Todd Mr P B Vos + Mr A J Waters + Dr N H Wheale + Professor D R Widdess + Mr C J Wilkes + Mr D A Wilson Mr P J G Wright +

1970 Mr J Aughton + Mr R Butler + Dr D D Clark-Lowes + Mr G J H Cliff + Mr R P Cliff + Mr L P Foulds + Professor J G H Fulbrook Mr O A B Green + Mr J D Gwinnell + Mr D P W Harvey Mr J W Hodgson + Professor J A S Howell + Mr S D Joseph + Mr C A Jourdan Mr N R Kinnear + Professor J MacDonald Mr B S Missenden + Dr S Mohindra + Mr A J Neale Mr J C Needes Mr J S Robinson + Mr B Z Sacks + Dr R D S Sanderson + Professor R W Whatmore + Professor G Zanker

1971 Dr J P Arm Mr M S Arthur + Mr S Brearley + Mr J A K Clark + Dr R C A Collinson Mr C P Cousins Mr J A Duval + Professor A M Emond + Mr J-L M Evans + Mr L J Hambly Professor B Jones + Dr P Kinns +

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The late Dr N P Leary Dr G Levine + Dr P G Mattos + Mr R I Morgan + Mr L N Moss + Mr N D Peace + Mr S R Perry Mr K R Pippard Mr P J Robinson + Mr C D Sullivan Mr A H M Thompson + Mr S V Wolfensohn + The late Mr S Young

1972 Mr M H Armour Mr A B S Ball + Mr J P Bates + Mr S M B Blasdale + Mr N P Bull Mr I J Buswell Mr J G Cooper Mr C G Davies Mr P A England + Mr P J Farmer + Mr C Finden-Browne + Mr R H Gleed + Mr R S Handley + Mr A M Hunter Johnston Professor W L Irving + Mr J K Jolliffe + Mr P B Kerr-Dineen Dr D R Mason + Mr J R Moor + Mr D J Nicholls Mr S J Roberts Mr J Scopes + Mr M J Spinks Dr T D Swift + The Revd Dr R G Thomas + Dr N A R Watt Canon Dr J A Williams

1973 Dr A P Allen + Dr S M Allen + Mr N P Carden Professor P Collins + Mr S P Crooks +

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Mr M G Daw + Mr A G Fleming + Mr J R Hazelton Dr R J Hopkins + Mr F How Mr K F C Marshall Mr J S Morgan + Mr J S Nangle + Professor T J Pedley + Mr J F Points + Dr W A Smith + Mr C P Stoate Mr H B Trust + Mr D G Vanstone Mr G A Whitworth +

1974 Mr H J Chase Revd Dr V J Chatterjie Dr L H Cope + Mr M D Damazer + Professor J H Davies + Professor A G Dewhurst + Dr E J Dickinson + Mr R J Evans Professor J Gascoigne Mr P A Goodman + Mr S J Hampson + Dr W N Hubbard Mr P Logan + Mr R O MacInnes-Manby + Mr G Markham + Dr C H Mason + Professor B Reddy Mr N J Roberts Professor D S Secher + Mr C L Spencer + Mr W C Strawhorne The Rt Hon The Lord Turner of Ecchinswell Dr A M Vali + Mr D K B Walker + Mr S T Weeks +

Mr S Collins Sir Anthony CookeYarborough Bt + Dr M J Franklin + Mr N R Gamble + Mr M H Graham + Professor J F Hancock Dr N Koehli Mr D M Mabb KC Dr R G Mayne + Mr K S Miller + Dr C C P Nnochiri + Dr H C Rayner Mr D J G Reilly + Professor J P K Seville Dr F A Simion Mr B J Warne

1976 Mr G Abrams + Mr J J J Bates + Dr M P Clarke + The Revd Canon B D Clover Mr D J Cox + Mr R J Davis + The Hon Dr R H Emslie + Dr M J Fitchett + Mr S D Flack + Dr G C T Griffiths + Dr I C Hayes Dr A C J Hutchesson + Mr R A Larkman + Mr M des L F Latham Dr B E Lyn Dr P B Medcalf + Dr S J Morris Dr D Myers Mr J S Price Mr S Thomson + Mr J P Treasure + The Rt Hon N K A S Vaz Professor O H Warnock Mr A Widdowson +

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1977

Dr C J Bartley + Mr P S Belsman Mr D A L Burn Mr S D Carpenter

Mr J H M Barrow + Mr A C Boulding Dr M S D Callaghan + Dr P N Cooper +

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Professor K J Friston + Mr A L Gibb + Mr K F Haviland + Mr R M House + Dr P H M McWhinney + Dr L S Mills Dr R P Owens + Professor A Pagliuca + Mr I M Radford Dr L F M Scinto Mr M J Simon Dr P A Watson + Mr D J White + Mr L M Wiseman + Professor E W Wright +

1978 Mr J C Barber + The Revd Dr A B Bartlett Mr M D Brown + Mr B J Carlin + Mr C J Carter + Mr J M Charlton-Jones + Mr S A Corns + Mr M J Cosans + Dr P G Dommett + Dr J A Ellerton + Mr J S Evans Mr R J Evans + Professor P M Goldbart Mr A B Grabowski Dr M Hernandez-Bronchud Dr C N Johnson + Mr P R M Kavanagh Mr D P Kirby + Mr R A Lister + Dr D R May + Dr A A M Morris Mr A J Noble + Mr S Preece Mr P J Reeder + Mr M H Schuster + Mr P A F Thomas Dr D Townsend + Mr R W Vanstone Dr P Venkatesan Dr W M Wong + Mr P A Woo-Ming +

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1979

1981

Mr D J Alexander Mr A J Birkbeck + Dr P J Carter Dr I M Cropley Mr W D Crorkin + Dr A P Day + Mrs C E Elliott Professor T J Evans + Mr P C Gandy + Dr M de la R Gunton + Mr N C I Harding + Mr R P Hayes + Mr T E J Hems + Ms C J Jenkins Mr P J Keeble + Mr D L Melvin Professor C T Reid Mr C S Rigby Ms A M Roads + Dr C M Rogers + Ms H Tierney Professor R P Tuckett Mr N A Venables

Mrs J S Adams Professor N M Crickmore Mr J M Davey + Dr M Desai + Mr D P S Dickinson + Mr N J Farr Mr R Ford + Mr A W Hawkswell + Mr W S Hobhouse + Mr R H M Horner + Mr P C N Irven + Professor T E Keymer + Ms F J C Lunn Mr P J Maddock + Dr M Mishra + Mr T G Naccarato Dr A P G Newman-Sanders Mr G Nnochiri + Mr G A Rachman + Mrs B J Ridhiwani Mrs M Robinson Dr R M Roope + Mrs D C Saunders + Mr T Saunders + Dr L A Silcock Dr N A Silcock Dr D M Talbott + Mr K J Taylor + Ms L J Teasdale + Ms A M Tully + Ms S Williams +

1980 Mr C P Aldren Dr L E Bates + Dr N P Bates + Mr C R Brunold + The Revd Dr P H Donald Dr S L Grassie + Mr M J Hardwick Dr E M L Holmes + Mr R H Hopkin Dr J M Jarosz + Dr S C Jarvis Mr K M C Le Goy Dr J Marsh Professor Sir Jonathan Montgomery + Dr J N Pines + Mr J H Pitman Mr T N B Rochford Lord Rockley Ms J S Saunders + Mr J M E Silman + Mr R L Tray +

1982 Dr A K Baird + Mr D Baker + Mr J D Biggart + Dr C D Blair + Mr P A Cooper + Mr G A Czartoryski + Professor S M Fitzmaurice Mr D A B Fuggle + Mr J C Gordon Mr T K Gray Mr M Hall Mrs C H Kenyon Mr P Loughborough Professor M Moriarty + Ms N Morris +

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Mr D H O'Driscoll Mr R J Powell + The Rt Hon Professor The Lord Roberts of Belgravia + Mr J P Scopes + Mrs A J Sheat + Ms O M Stewart + Mrs E I C Strasburger + Dr J G Tang + Professor M J Weait Mr A M Williams

1983 Dr R F Balfour Dr J E Birnie + Mrs K R M Castelino + Professor S-L Chew + Professor J P L Ching + Dr S A J Crighton + Dr N D Downing Mr A L Evans + The Hon Sir Timothy Fancourt + Mr P E J Fellows + Dr S F J Fellows + Dr W P Goddard + Mr W A C Hayward + Mr R M James + Mrs H M L Lee + Mr J B K Lough + Dr R C Mason Mr A J McCleary + Mr R H Moore Dr L S Parker Mr R M Payn + Mr J A Plumley + Mr A B Porteous Mr A I Porteous Mrs S D Robinson + Dr C P Spencer + The Revd C H Stebbing + Mr A G Strowbridge Mr R B Swede + Mr C H Umur Dr S C Warburton Dr K M Wood +

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Mr D Bailey Mr R A Brooks + Mr G C R Budden + Dr R E Chatwin Professor H W Clark + Dr A R Duncan + Professor T G Q Eisen + Dr J R B Leventhorpe Mr G C Maddock + Mr A D H Marshall + Mr J R Pollock + Dr K S Sandhu + Mr G N Wallace Dr H E Woodley +

Professor K Brown + Mr M T Cartmell Mr H D E Clark Mr J H F & Mrs A I Cleeve Mr A J F Cox + Professor J A Davies + Professor R L Fulton Brown Mr T Hibbert Dr M P Horan Professor J M Huntley + Mr M C Jinks Dr H V Kettle Professor J C Knight + Professor M Knight + Ms A Kupschus + Professor J C Laidlaw + Dr G H Matthews Dr D L L Parry + Professor P Rogerson Mr J P Saunders + Professor A J Schofield Ms V H Stace Dr A J Tomlinson + Dr M H Wagstaff Mr S A Wajed + Mr C Zapf +

1985 HE Mr N M Baker + Ms C E R Bartram + Dr I M Bell + Mrs J C Cassabois Mr A H Davison + Dr J P de Kock Mr K J Fitch Mr J D Harry + Ms P Hayward Mr P G J S Helson + Mr J A Howard-Sneyd + Dr C H Jessop + Mr C L P Kennedy + Mr W P L Lawes Mrs C F Lister Dr G K Miflin The Very Revd N C Papadopulos + Dr R J Penney + Ms S L Porter + Mr R Sayeed Mr E J Shaw-Smith Dr P M Slade + Dr J A Scrine + Mr B M Usselmann Mr W D L M Vereker Dr M J J Veselý + Mrs J S Wilcox + Dr J M Wilson Dr E F Worthington +

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1987 Mr J P Barabino Mr N R Chippington + Mrs H J Courtauld Mr A J Coveney + Dr L T Day + Dr H L Dewing Dr K E H Dewing Mr C H Dodwell Dr J A Ewbank Mr C P J Flower Mr J W M Hak Mr S L Jagger Dr M Karim + Dr S L Kenyon-Slade Dr P Kumar + Mr D M Lambert + Mr S P Leo Mrs U U Mahatme Mr L M Mair Ms P A Nagle

Dr W P Ridsdill Smith + Dr J Sarma Professor M Shahmanesh + Mr D W Shores + Mr A B Silas Mr S Sinclair Mr J M L Williams Dr T J A Winnifrith

1988 Dr F B Ahmed Dr K J Brahmbhatt Mr J C Brown + Ms C Stewart + Mrs M E Chapple + Mrs A I Cleeve Mr N P Dougherty Mr N D Evans Mr E T Halverson Dr E N Herbert Ms R C Homan + Dr A D Hossack + Dr O S Khwaja Mr F F C J Lacasse Mr F P Little + Dr I H Magedera Mr A P Parsisson Mr A D Silcock Dr R C Silcock Mrs A J L Smith + Mr A J Smith + Mr R D Smith + Dr R M Tarzi + Ms F R Tattersall + Mr M E H Tipping Mrs L Umur Miss C Whitaker Dr F J L Wuytack +

1989 Dr C L Abram Mr S P Barnett + Dr C E Bebb + Ms M S Brown Professor M J Brown + Dr E A Cross + Dr S Francis + Mr G R Glaves + Mr S M S A Hossain +

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Professor P M Irving + Mr G W Jones + Mr J P Kennedy + Dr H H Lee + Dr S Lee + Mrs L C Logan + Mr B J McGrath Mr P J Moore + Ms J H Myers + Dr S L Rahman Haley + Mr N J C Robinson + Mrs C Romans + Mr A M P Russell + Ms R Sakimura Mrs D T Slade Dr N Smeulders + Mr J A Sowerby Mr A S Uppal + Mrs E H Wadsley + Mrs T E Warren +

1990 Mr A Bentham Mrs C M A Bentham Mrs E C Browne + Mrs S C Butcher Professor L C Chappell + Mrs Z M Clark Dr A A Clayton + Mr I J Clubb + Mr P E Day + Mrs S V Dyson Professor M K Elahee Dr E A Evans Professor A Ferro Dr D S Game + Dr J Griffiths + Mrs C L Guest + Mr A W P Guy + Mr R D Hill + Mr H R Jones + Dr P A Key KC Mr D H Kim Mrs G Konradt Dr S H O F Korbei + Mr G C Li Ms R Mandal Dr D H McIlroy Miss M L Mejia

Mr T Moody-Stuart KC + Mr G O'Brien Mr S T Oestmann + Dr C A Palin + Dr J M Parberry + Mrs L J Sanderson Professor M C Smith Mr G E L Spanier Mr D S Turnbull Dr J C Wadsley + Ms R M Winden

1991 Mr B M Adamson Dr D G Anderson Dr R D Baird + Dr A A Baker + Mr A M J Cannon + Mr D D Chandra + Mrs B Choi Dr C Davies Dr A H Deakin + Mrs C R Dennison + Dr S Dorman + Dr D L A Doyé Dr S C Francis + Mr I D Griffiths + Dr A J Hodge + Dr M H Jones Chesters Professor F E Karet + Professor K-T Khaw Mr I J Long + Mrs L P Parberry + Mr D R Paterson Mrs C J Richards Dr J E Rickett Ms I A Robertson Miss V A Ross + Mr A Smeulders + Mr J G C Taylor + Ms G A Usher + Mr C S Wale + Mr M N Whiteley Mr S J Wright +

1992 Dr M R Al-Qaisi + Ms E H Auger + Mr D Auterson

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Mrs R Auterson Mrs S P Baird + The late Mr J P A Ball Ms S F C Bravard + Mr N W Burkitt + Ms J R M Burton + Mr P E Clifton Mr R A H Grantham + Mrs F M Haines + Ms K A Harrison Rowe Mr O Herbert + Dr S L Herbert + Ms J Z Z Hu Mr E M E D Kenny Dr R M Lees Mr J Lui + Dr S Mandal Mr A J Matthews Mrs J A O'Hara Dr K M Park + Dr M S Sagoo + Mr J D Saunders + Mr P Sinclair Mrs S L Sinclair Mrs R C Stevens + Mrs J M Walledge +

1993 Dr A C G Breeze + Dr C Byrne + Mr C M Calvert Mr P M Ceely + Mr P I Condron Dr E A Congdon Mrs J L Crowther Mr B M Davidson + Ms A D M de Chassiron Mr P A Edwards Dr A S Everington + Professor I R Fisher Mr J C Hobson Mr C E G Hogbin + Dr A B Massara + Dr S B Massara + Dr A J Penrose + Mr R B K Phillips + Dr J F Reynolds + Mrs L Robson Brown + Dr R Roy +

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Mrs A Worden Mr T J A Worden

1994 Mr J H Anderson Dr R A Barnes Professor D M Bethea Mr R P Blok Dr L Christopoulou + Dr D J Cutter + Mr N Q S De Souza + Ms V K E Dietzel Dr S C Dyton Mr D R M Edwards + Professor T C Fardon + Dr J A Fraser Mr S S Gill Mrs E Haynes Mr R J M Haynes Dr P M Heck + Dr A P Khawaja + Mr P A J Phillips Professor S G A Pitel + Mr P D Reel + Dr P J Sowerby Stein Professor M A Stein Dr K-S Tan Mr M A Wood +

1995 Mr C Aitken + Dr R A J Carson Ms S S-Y Cheung Mr C Chew + Dr P A Cunningham Dr S L Dyson Dr J S Feuerstein Mrs J A S Ford + Dr Z B M Fritz + Mr C K Goater Mr J R Harvey + Dr N J Hillier + Ms L H Howarth + Ms M C Katbamna-Mackey Dr P Krishnamurthy Mr B J Marks Canon Prof J D McDonald + Dr D N Miller + Dr M A Miller +

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Professor K M O'Shaughnessy + Mr S M Pilgrim + Dr B G Rock + Mrs G Rollins Ms T J Sheridan + Mr M J Soper Dr C H Williams-Gray + Miss M B Williamson Dr X Yang

1996 Mr M Adamson Mrs S E Birshan Dr J R Bonnington Miss A L Bradbury + Ms C E Callaghan + Mr K W-C Chan + Mr A E S Curran Mr G D Earl + Dr D A Evans Professor J Fitzmaurice Mrs J H J Gilbert Professor D A Giussani + Mr J D Goldsmith Dr V P Gunasekera Mr I R Herd + Mr T M Lock Miss F A Mitchell + Ms J N K Phillips + Dr S Rajapaksa + Mr A J T Ray + Ms V C Reeve + Mr J R Robinson + Mr A K Saha Mr C M Stafford Mr D J Tait Dr P G Velusami Mr B T Waine + Dr S Walke Mr M-H Wong Mr K F Wyre +

1997 Mrs L J Allen Mr P J & Mrs L J Allen Mr A J Bower + Mr J D Bustard + Miss J M Chrisman

Mrs R V Clubb + Mr I Dorrington + Mrs J R Earl + Dr E J Fardon + Mr J Frieda Dr D M Guttmann + Ms A M Hart Mr G P Lyons Mr G D Maassen Dr E A Martin + Ms V E McMaw + Dr A L Mendoza + Dr S Nestler-Parr + Ms R N Page + Ms E D Sarma Mr J P A Smith Mr B Sulaiman + Mr J P Turville

1998 Ms H M Barnard + Mr A J Bryant + Mr D W Cleverly + Mr B N Deacon Dr P J Dilks + Mr J A Etherington + Dr S E Forwood + Mr A R Hood Mr H R F Nimmo-Smith Dr A J Pask + Mrs J C Wood + Mr R A Wood +

1999 Mr P J Aldis + Mr I Anane + Dr A E Bamji Mr R F T Beentje + Miss C M M Bell + Mr D T Bell + Dr C L Broughton + Ms J W-M Chan + Mr J A Cliffe + Mr J D Coley + Ms H B Deixler Ms L M Devlin + Mr P M Ellison Ms S Gnanalingam + Mrs H C Jeens

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Mr R C T Jeens Mr A F Kadar + Ms R M Knight Mr C M Lamb + Mr M W Laycock + Mr N O Midgley + Dr C Parrish Mr C Patton Mr N E Ransley Ms A J C Sander Dr J D Stainsby + Mrs L N Williams Mr P J Wood + Dr P D Wright +

2000 Mr R D Bamford Mrs R A Cliffe + Mr M T Coates + Dr A D Deeks Miss J L Dickey + Mr E W Elias Mr T P Finch + Mr M J Harris Mrs S Hodgson Mrs J M Howley + Dr N S Hughes + Mr G P F King + Mrs V King + Ms M Lada + Miss N O-L Lee Dr R Lööf + Dr A G P Naish-Guzmán + Lt Col D N Naumann + Mr H S Panesar + Mr O F G Phillips + Dr C J Rayson + Dr J Reynolds Mr C E Rice + Mr M O Salvén + Mr A K T Smith + Mr H F St Aubyn Dr M Tosic Dr H E Weston-Simons

2001 Dr D M Bolser Mr J J Cassidy + Dr J W Chan +

Dr C J Chu + Mr E H C Corn Mr H C P Dawe + Dr M G Dracos + Mrs A C Finch + Mr D W M Fritz Miss E Goulder Ms L D Hannant + Mr G A Herd Dr D P C Heyman Mr C Liu Dr A Lyon + Mr M Margrett Mr A S Massey + Dr A C McKnight + Mrs J C Mendis Mr R J G Mendis Professor R J Miller + Mr H M I Mussa + Mr C P Normand Mrs S Normand Mr A L Pegg + Dr R A Reid-Edwards Dr C L Riley Ms A E C Rogers + Mrs J M Shah + Mr K K Shah + Dr S J Sprague + Mr M R P Thompson Ms F A M Treanor + Dr C C Ward + Dr R A Weerakkody Mr C P Weston-Simons Dr H W Woodward +

2002 Mr C D Aylard + Dr J T G Brown Mr M L C Caflisch Dr N D F Campbell + Miss C F Dale Mr J-M Edmundson + Mrs K M Frost + Mr Y Gailani Dr E Galinskaya Mrs J H Gilbert + Dr A C Ho Mr O J Humphries Mr T R Jacks +

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Ms H Katsonga-Woodward + Miss H D Kinghorn + Dr M J Kleinz + Dr M F Komori-Glatz Mr T H Land + Mr R Mathur Dr A Plekhanov + Mr S Queen + Mr R E Reynolds + Professor D J Riches Mr N A Shah Mr A Singh Dr N Sinha Dr D L Smith Dr S Ueno + Dr L L Watkins + Miss R E Willis

2003 Mr J E Anthony + Ms C O N Brayshaw + Mr C G Brooks Dr E A L Chamberlain Ms S K Chapman + Ms V J Collins + Mr J M Corby Dr B J Dabby Mrs L R Draper Mr A L Eardley + Mr T H French + Miss A V Henderson + Dr M S Holt + Mr R Holt Mr D C Horley + Dr S M Huisman Mr D J John Dr A R Langley + Mr J A Leasure Mrs J Lucas Sammons + Mr R A K MacDonald Mr C A J Manning + Mr M McKenna Dr D J McKeon + Miss V K C Scopes + Miss N N Shah Ms M Solera-Deuchar + Mr T N Sorrel + Mr S Tandon Mr J L Todd +

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Dr R C Wagner + Mr C S Whittleston + Mrs S S Wood +

2004 Mr S R F Ashton + Mr M G Austin Dr E F Aylard + Mrs D M Cahill Mr G B H Silkstone Carter + Mrs H L Carter + Mrs R C E Cavonius + Dr T M-K Cheng Dr J A Chowdhury Dr C W J Coomber Dr L C B Fletcher + Ms C L Lee + Mr W A Leslie Ms C M C Lloyd-Griffiths + Dr G C McFarland + Mr P E Myerson + Ms Z Owen Mr J W G Rees Dr C Richardt Mrs L R Sidey + Master B Silver Dr S M Sivanandan Miss N J M-Y Titmus Mr H P Vann + Mr L B Ward

2005 Ms P D Ashton + Dr E T Aw Mr B Barrat Mr R R D Demarchi Mr M W Evans Miss E M Fialho + Dr P Hakim Mr I J A Heames Mr J M Hunter + Mr M E Ibrahim Mr M T Jobson + Dr E Lewington-Gower + Dr S A Li Miss E C L Lister Dr A H Malem + Mr A J McIntosh Dr E M McIntosh

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Dr T J Murphy + Mr L J Panter + Mrs E L Rees Mr J L J Reicher + Mr Y P Tan

2006 Dr D T Ballantyne Miss W K S Cheung Mr B E N Crowne Mrs R M de Minckwitz Mr P C Demetriou + Mr R N Dover Mr M A Espin Rojo + Mr R J Granby + Mr P I Hill Mr V Kana Miss Y N E Lai Dr C E S Lewis Mr E P Peace + Mr J R Poole + Miss H K Rutherford + Mr W J Sellors Mr S S Shah + Dr S K Stewart + Dr E P Thanisch Mrs J B A Winthrop Mr H L H Wong

2007 Mr H Bhatt + Mr H Y Chen Dr J P A Coleman + Mr D W Du Dr J Edwards Ms A E Eisen + Dr E Evans Dr S S Huang Mr D T Nguyen + Ms S K A Parkinson + Dr S X Pfister + Dr T J Pfister + Miss S Ramakrishnan + Mr D G R Self + Dr B D Sloan + Dr V Vetrivel Mr O J Willis + Dr S E Winchester

Mr O T Burkinshaw + Dr O R A Chick Mrs E C Davison + Dr H G Füchtbauer Mr J E Goodwin + Mrs J A Goodwin Dr M A Hayoun Miss H Kearney Dr R S Kearney Dr J W G Ketcheson Mr K R Lu + Dr A W Martinelli + Mr M Mkandawire Mr J M Oxley + Mrs V C Small Dr M C Stoddard Mr X Xu +

2009 Mr G M Beck Dr S E Cope Mr E D Cronan Mr C A Gowers Mr J H Hill + Mr J R Howell + Dr S Khosla Mr C Li Mr A W C Lodge Dr E A Mayne Dr O C Okpala Miss F G Sandford Dr C E Sogot + Mr J P J Taylor

2010 Mr B D Aldridge Mrs J H E Bell Dr C Chen Ms H R Crawford + Dr T A Ellison Miss A A Gibson Mr J Goblet Mr W R Jeffs Miss L M C Jones Mr S D Kemp + Dr J A Latimer + Dr A I Leal Cervantes Mrs C E Matthews

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Miss H M Parker Dr J O Patterson Ms J Tang Miss J D Tovey Miss C M C Wong Dr S P Wright

2011 Mr A S Bell Mr F A Blair + Mr A J C Blythe Miss L E Cassidy Mr K A P-S Chew Mr J A Cobbold Miss K E Collar Miss C Y Hu Mr J C Robinson Dr B B Walker Miss H Zhang

2012 Dr M A W Alexander Dr L K Allen Dr H R Simmonds

Dr B Stark Dr R I Wakefield

2013 Dr J D Bernstock Dr L Bibby Dr C E Gascoigne Mr M M Gill Mr A Miller

2014 Miss R G T Davies Dr S V Long Mr K Purohit

2015 onwards Mr E Adair Mr A Boruta Mr T J Charnley Mr M Coote Miss A E M Edwards-Knight Dr T A Fairclough Miss N J Holloway Mr D A Le

Mr H J Mitson Mr T Reiter Mr B A Tompkins Mr V R Tray Miss E Diamanti Professor E Dimson Mrs M J Fairclough Mr M A Khan Mr J J L Mok Dr M Sanguanini Ms J Cheng Miss P C T Green Mr P Myers Mr P Rattanasirivilai Dr T Tachatirakul Mr W Tapanakornwut Mr T L Kelly Mr Y X Lim Dr A M Spencer Dr M Amatt Mr L MacCallum-Webb Mrs K Grabowska Hongwei Li Miss N Beney

Parents & Friends Ms T Arsenault Mr K & Mrs M Azizi Mrs A J Barnett Mr S & Mrs S L Barter + Miss L Barwell Dr S Basha & Dr M Palaniappan Mrs L M Bernstein + Mr S M & Mrs A Bhate + Mr R L Biava & Dr E J Clark Mr D Boyd Mr R L Buckner Mr M C & Mrs C M Burgess + Mr J W & Mrs A Butler + Mrs T Caflisch Mr D M & Mrs A J Cassidy + Dr M D & Mrs E A Chard + Mr A & Mrs G Corsini + Mr R N & Mrs A J Crook Dr T G & Mrs A J Cunningham + Mr C H Jones & Mrs E L Davies

Mrs E M Drewitt Mr P Evans + Mr P J & Mrs S M Everett + Ms O Fitzsimons Mr H D & Mrs B A E Fletcher Dr D & Mrs H Frame + The late Susan Fay Gaisford Mrs A Galea D Golden Mr N & Mrs V M Gordon + Ms S Gorman Mr D Gubb Ms E Hamilton Mrs E A Hogbin Mrs A E Howe + Mr M & Mrs E Howells Mrs A Kelly Mr K W & Mrs L Lau + Mr G Lawrenson Mr A & Mrs A Lilienfeld + Mr P Lyons Mr S Mahatme

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Mrs J Mantle Mr P C & Mrs S M Marshall + Mr W P & Dr J O Mason + Mr A & Mrs J McBeath Mr J & Mrs E Miller + Mr E W S Mok Dr P Monck Hill + Mrs H Moore Mr J E Moore + Mr M Myere Mr P Nash Mrs L Naumann Professor P E Nelson Mr P F & Mrs S J Newman + Ms T D Oakley + Miss E H Parton + Mr K G Patel + Mrs E A Peace + Mrs K E Plumley + Mr D H Ratnaweera & Mrs R A Nanayakkara + Mr S M & Mrs L M Reed +

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Dr G & Mrs D Samra Mr A & Mrs C Scully + E Shalley A Shcherbakova Mr M & Mrs L J Spiller +

Mrs K Suess + Mr P R & Mrs W P Swinn + Mr C S Tamkin Jr Mr J E Thompson + Dr A Thrush & Dr H Bradley +

Mr M & Mrs V Wood+ Mr P M & Mrs J A Woodward + Dr A R & Dr H A Wordley + Mr S M Zinser

Corporations, Trusts and Foundations Anthos Amsterdam Barclays Bank Caius Club Charles McCutchen Foundation Google

Labcorp LinkedIn Sir Simon Milton Foundation The Chumrow Charitable Trust The Ganton Furze Settlement

Our gratitude also goes to those who wish to remain anonymous.

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Members of the Edmund Gonville Society The Edmund Gonville Society was established to recognise, during their lifetime, those Caians and friends who are leaving a bequest to the College. Members are gifted a special pin to mark their belonging to the Edmund Gonville Society and are invited to the annual Edmund Gonville Society Lunch, as well as to the College May Week Party. Those indicating an especially generous bequest, a pledged value of at least £100,000, are invited to the annual Commemoration Service and Feast. Mr G Etherington-Wilson (1944) Dr G P R Bielstein (1945) Dr F C Rutter (1945) Mr H G Way (1947) Mr M Buckley Sharp (1950) Dr M I Lander (1950) Mr G D C Preston (1950) Mr M H Lemon (1951) Mr P J Murphy (1952) Mr S F S Balfour-Browne (1953) Mr C S Bishop (1953) Mr G H Gandy (1953) Mr C J Ritchie (1953) Mr J P Seymour (1953) Mr D J Boyd (1954) Mr D I Cook (1954) Professor N J Gross (1954) Dr M Hayward (1954) Mr J D Heap (1954) Mr D W James (1954) Mr R M Reeve (1954) Mr R J Silk (1954) Professor P D Clothier (1955) Mr M Duerden (1955) Mr J K Ferguson (1956) Mr M L Holman (1956) The Reverend Canon Philip Morgan (1956) Dr D L Wynn-Williams (1956) Mr J C Boocock (1957) Dr J P Charlesworth (1957) Dr T W Davies (1957) Dr A N Ganner (1957) Mr C B Melluish (1957) The Rt Hon The Lord Tugendhat of Widdington (1957)

Major General E G Willmott (1957) Mr T J Brack (1958) Mr R D Martin (1958) Mr N McKendrick (1958) Professor C S A Ng (1958) Mr M Roberts (1958) Dr F D Skidmore (1958) Sir Keith Stuart (1958) Mr A J Taunton (1958) Mr J A Brewer (1959) Mr B Drewitt (1959) Mr C J Methven (1959) Mr P Neuburg (1959) The Revd D G Sharp (1959) Dr A G Weeds (1959) Mr P J Worboys (1959) Mr J G Barham (1960) Mr D J Ellis (1960) Professor R J B Frewer (1960) Dr P M Keir (1960) Mr A Kenney (1960) Mr M B Maunsell (1960) Mr R A McAllister (1960) Mr P G Ransley (1960) Mr C W M Rossetti (1960) Dr F H Stewart (1960) Professor P S Walker (1960) Mr R D S Wylie (1960) Mr C E Ackroyd (1961) Mr D M Daniels (1961) Dr J Davies-Humphreys (1961) Mr P Marchbank (1961) Mr A G Munro (1961) Mr C H Pemberton (1961) Professor D W Phillipson (1961) Mr D E P Shapland (1961) Mr V D West (1961) Dr N E Williams (1961)

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Mr D J Bell (1962) Mr R D Clement (1962) Col M W H Day (1962) Professor Sir Alan Fersht (1962) Mr D Hjort (1962) Professor A R Hunter (1962) Mr J W Jones (1962) Mr A J C Lodge (1962) Mr A R Martin (1962) Dr R N F Simpson (1962) Mr H N Whitfield (1962) Dr T G Blaney (1963) Dr B H J Briggs (1963) Dr S Field (1963) Mr P M G B Grimaldi (1963) Dr R W F Le Page (1963) Dr M J Weston (1963) Dr J P Casey (1964) Dr J E Chisholm (1964) Mr R A Dixon (1964) Mr N R Fieldman (1964) The Revd Canon R W Hunt (1964) Mr C W Thomson (1964) Dr T B Wallington (1964) Dr J E J Altham (1965) Professor L G Arnold (1965) Professor B C Barker (1965) Mr J H Finnigan (1965) Mr I V Jackson (1965) Dr M J Maguire (1965) Dr C B Mahood (1965) Mr J J McCrea (1965) Dr P D Rice (1965) Mr D S Thompson (1965) Mr I R Whitehead (1965) Mr M J Barker (1966) Mr M Bicknell (1966) Mr S A Blair (1966)

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Mr R Bowman (1966) Mr C R Deacon (1966) Mr R Holden (1966) Professor R C Hunt (1966) Mr D F White (1966) The Revd R J Wyber (1966) Mr C F Corcoran (1967) Mr P G Cottrell (1967) Dr M C Frazer (1967) Mr R L Fry (1967) Mr D G Hayes (1967) Professor R G Holloway (1967) Mr T W Morton (1967) Mr S D Reynolds (1967) Professor J B Saunders (1967) Mr P Shah (1967) Dr C Shindler (1967) Mr P M Barker (1968) Mr P E Barnes (1968) Mr I M D Barrett (1968) Mr D F Giddings (1968) Dr T J Haste (1968) Mr D J Laird (1968) Professor J I McGuire (1968) Dr J Meyrick Thomas (1968) Mr E Robinson (1968) Mr N A Stone (1968) Mr I R T Brinton (1969) Dr M W Eaton (1969) Mr R J Field (1969) Mr A R Gore (1969) Dr C J Hardwick (1969) Mr D R Hulbert (1969) Mr S B Joseph (1969) Mr A Keir (1969) Mr C J Lloyd (1969) Mr F M Pick (1969) Mr P J M Redfern (1969) Mr T D Stanley-Clamp (1969) Mr P B Vos (1969) Mr J M Wilkinson (1969) Mr D A Wilson (1969) Dr I D Woollen (1969) Mr J Aughton (1970) Mr D N S Beevers (1970) Dr M E Boxer (1970) Dr D D Clark-Lowes (1970) Mr L G Kosmin (1970) Mr A J Neale (1970) Mr J S Robinson (1970)

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Professor M A Horan (1971) Mr P H Jacquelin (1971) Professor B Jones (1971) Dr P G W Lapinskas (1971) Mr I A Murray (1971) Mr N D Peace (1971) & Mrs N S Peace Dr P T Such (1971) Mr D R Barrett (1972) Mr S M B Blasdale (1972) Mr C D K Edwards (1972) Mr R S Handley (1972) Mr D W Kusin (1972) Dr A Lloyd Evans (1972) Mr J Scopes (1972) Mr P R Beverley (1973) Mr A B Brentnall (1973) Mr M G Daw (1973) Mr P C English (1973) Mr F How (1973) Mr K S Silvester (1973) Mr J Sunderland (1973) Mr H B Trust (1973) Mr I M Wallace (1973) Professor D S H Abulafia (1974) Professor A J Blake (1974) The Revd Dr V J Chatterjie (1974) Dr E J Dickinson (1974) Mr J C Evans (1974) Dr R D Evans (1974) Mr C D Gilliat (1974) Mr N Kirtley (1974) Professor D S Secher (1974) Dr R Baker-Glenn (1975) Professor P Binski (1975) Mr S Collins (1975) Mr T J Craddock (1975) Mr E A M Ebden (1975) Dr M J Franklin (1975) Mr D J Huggins (1975) Mr L G D Marr (1975) Professor I C Ruxton (1975) Mr B J Warne (1975) Mr K R Widdows (1975) Mr N S K Booker (1976) Mr L G Brew (1976) Mr T C Brockington (1976) Mr D J Cox (1976)

Mr S J Landy (1976) Mr S H Le Fevre (1976) Dr S J Morris (1976) Mr S J Roith (1976) Mr S Thomson (1976) Mr J P Treasure (1976) Professor O H Warnock (1976) Mr A G Wright (1976) Mr R C Zambuni (1976) Dr J W Durman (1977) Mr K S McClintock (1977) Mr G C Pattie (1977) Professor T A Ring (1977) Mr A J Salmon (1977) Dr L F M Scinto (1977) Mr S A Scott (1977) Mr M J Simon (1977) Mr J C Barber (1978) Dr J A Ellerton (1978) Mr R C S Evans (1978) Mr A D Halls (1978) Mr D J Harris (1978) Mr R A Lister (1978) Mr M C E Bennett-Law (1979) Mr N C I Harding (1979) Mr B J Isaacson (1979) Dr M E Lowth (1979) Mr D L Melvin (1979) Dr K C Saw (1979) Mr J Bond (1980) Mr C R Crawford Clarke (1980) Mr A R Dale (1980) Dr S L Grassie (1980) Mr P A du P Krikler (1980) Mr S J Lowth (1980) Dr J Marsh (1980) Mr A May (1980) Dr J N Pines (1980) Mr J M E Silman (1980) Mrs M S Silman (1980) Dr S J Ward (1980) Mrs J S Adams (1981) Mr K J Gosling (1981) Dr R L Kilpatrick (1981) Mr T Saunders (1981) Mrs D C Saunders (1981) Ms A M Tully (1981) Mr R A Warne (1981) Dr B A Weskamp (1981)

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Mr D Baker (1982) Dr H M Brindley (1982) Mrs S C Burns (1982) Mr A R Flitcroft (1982) Mr P Loughborough (1982) Dr J N Nicholls (1982) Professor J M Percy (1982) The Rt Hon Professor The Lord Roberts of Belgravia (1982) Professor M J Weait (1982) Mr H M Cobbold (1983) Dr R C Mason (1983) Mr R M Payn (1983) Dr J Reid (1983) Mr C J Shore (1983) Dr C P Spencer (1983) Mr R A Brooks (1984) Mr G C R Budden (1984) Mrs N J Cobbold (1984) Mr J J Cuss (1984) Dr N J Hamilton (1984) Dr R E G Reid (1984) Dr T C M Wei (1984) Mr P G J S Helson (1985) Mr A J Landes (1985) Dr A M Shaw (1985) The Hon Justice M A Perry (1986) Mr J P Barabino (1987)

Mr L M Mair (1987) Ms P A Nagle (1987) Mr T J Parsonson (1987) Mr J W Scholtz (1987) Dr T P Bligh (1988) Ms R C Homan (1988) Dr A D Hossack (1988) Dr O S Khwaja (1988) Mr M J Rawlins (1988) Mr S Shah (1988) Mr A E Wellenreiter (1988) Dr A Woolfson (1988) Professor M J Brown (1989) Mrs L C Logan (1989) Mr B J McGrath (1989) Mr A M P Russell (1989) Mrs Z M Clark (1990) Mr R D Hill (1990) Dr P A Key KC (1990) Mr J B Smith (1990) Dr C S J Fang (1991) Ms J R M Burton (1992) Dr C Byrne (1993) Dr E A Congdon (1993) Mrs J L Crowther (1993) Ms S T Willcox (1993) Ms V K E Dietzel (1994) Professor T C Fardon (1994) Professor S G A Pitel (1994) Dr M J P Selby (1994)

Dr P Rajan (1995) Dr K H Adcock (1996) Maj J S Cousen (1996) Mr D J Tait (1996) Dr E J Fardon (1997) Professor S G Manohar (1997) Professor R H Helmholz (2000) Dr P A Lyon (2001) Mr M L C Caflisch (2002) & Mrs T Caflisch Dr A C Ho (2002) Mr A J McIntosh (2005) Dr E M McIntosh (2005) Dr T J Murphy (2005) Dr B D Sloan (2007) Dr O R A Chick (2008) Mrs A W S Haines (2009) Mrs L K Evans (2014) Dr M Sanguanini (2016) Professor J V Acrivos Mrs E M Drewitt Lady Fersht Mrs C M Fletcher Mrs J G Howell Jones Mrs G M Kirstein Miss F A Reader Mrs A E Rose Mrs J A Walker Ms A Yonemura

The College is very grateful to the following Caians and friends from whom legacies were received between 1 July 2024 and 30 June 2025. Our thanks go to them and their families. Professor C N L Brooke (1945) Mr J J H Everitt (1945) Mr A C Struvé (1947) Mr A C Barrington Brown (1948) Mr M E Gaisford (1949) & Mrs S F Gaisford

Professor K G Denbigh (1950) Mr J K Moodie (1951) Mr B Tytherleigh (1954) Mr D Beck (1959) Mr J E Trice (1959) Dr J S Denbigh (1961) Mr J R Matheson (1962)

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Dr R P Duncan-Jones (1963) Mr S Young (1971)

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College Officers and Staff (as on 30 September 2025)

President

Professor P Robinson MA PhD ScD

Senior Bursar

S Tebbutt MA MBA

Development Director

M Amatt BA MPhil PhD

Domestic Bursar

K Ball BA MBA

Fellow Librarian

F G G Basso LAUREA LICENZA

Registrary

J A Latimer MB BS MA MD MRCOG FRANZCOG

Praelector Rhetoricus

J A Latimer MB BS MA MD MRCOG FRANZCOG

Dean

Revd C Hammond MA DPhil

Precentor

M R Martin MA

Tutors Senior Tutor

A M Spencer MPhil PhD

Deputy Senior Tutor

R A Sugden MA MPhil PhD

Tutor for Admissions and Outreach

C Scott MPhil PhD

Tutors For Postgraduate Students M T Calaresu BA MA PhD

Professor R Staley BA PhD

J M Evans MA PhD

R A Sugden MA MPhil PhD

J Fraser MA PhD BM BChir

F Vergis BA LLM PhD

M Rauch PhD

Tutors for Undergraduates M Amatt BA MPhil PhD

D Massey MB BChir PhD MRCP

F G G Basso LAURE LICENZA

A Morgan BA MMath PhD

A M Bunyan BA PhD

E Niblaeus MA MPhil PhD

E Drage MA PhD

C Scott MPhil PhD

M Ellefson BA MA PhD

A M Spencer MA MPhil PhD

J Hawkes BA MA PhD

L Wan BArch MPhil PhD

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V Kotsidis PTYCHION MSc PhD

A Zeitler StEx PhD

G Maguire MA MLitt PhD

Tutor for Discipline S Houghton-Walker MA MPhil PhD

Lecturers and Directors of Studies Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic: Archaeology: Architecture: Asian and Middle Eastern Studies: Chemical Engineering: Classics:

Clinical Medicine:

Computer Science: Design: Economics: Engineering:

English:

Foundation Year: Geography: History and Modern Languages:

History and Philosophy of Science: Human, Social and Political Sciences:

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E Niblaeus MA MPhil PhD J Hawkes BA MA PhD Professor T Brittain-Catlin MA DipArch PhD H Elias MA BA PhD A Zeitler StEx PhD A Launaro LAUREA PhD F G G Basso LAURE LICENZA K Radice BA (Lent) Z Fritz MA MB BS PhD J A Latimer MB BS MA MD MRCOG FRANZCOG Professor M Ryten MD PhD Professor T M Jones MEng PhD R Moore MA PhD Professor T Brittain-Catlin MA DipArch PhD V Kotsidis PTYCHION MSc PhD J Hambleton BEng MSc PhD D M Holburn MA PhD A Mahadevegowda BTech DPhil Professor M C Smith MA MPhil PhD FRCO FREng D L Bowman MA PhD S Houghton-Walker MA MPhil PhD Professor J E Scott-Warren MA MPhil PhD A M Spencer MPhil PhD C Sumnall BA MPhil PhD M Van Wyk de Vries BSc PhD A M Bunyan BA PhD M T Calaresu BA MA PhD G Maguire MA MLitt PhD R A Sugden MA MPhil PhD Professor R Staley BA PhD J Ellis BSc MRes PhD R Sánchez-Rivera MA PhD R M Scurr MA PhD C-A Schulz BA MA MPhil DPhil

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L Wan BArch MPhil PhD K L Miles BA LLB LLM PhD F Vergis BA LLM PhD R V Yotova MJur LLM PhD Linguistics: Professor P J Buttery BA MPhil PhD LLM: R V Yotova MJur LLM PhD Management Studies: Professor H Jiang BSc MSc PhD Manufacturing Engineering: Professor F Tietze MA Dr rer pol MSc Dipl-Ing oec Mathematics: J M Evans MA PhD A Morgan BA MMath PhD J Fraser MA PhD BM BChir Medicine and Veterinary Medicine: Professor D A Giussani BSc PhD DSc D Massey MB BChir PhD MRCP Modern and Medieval Languages: A M Bunyan BA PhD G Maguire MA MLitt PhD R A Sugden MA MPhil PhD Music: J Summerly MA MMus Natural Sciences: Professor R Blumenfeld MSc PhD Professor A Bond BA MA PhD Professor C Ducati MSc PhD Professor E M Harper MA PhD D K Summers MA DPhil Philosophy: M Frasca-Spada LAUREA PhD Psychological and Behavioural Sciences: Professor J D Mollon BA DPhil DSc FRS Theology, Religion and Philosophy of Religion: M Dhont MA PhD Professor A Williams BVMS PhD Veterinary Medicine: Land Economy: Law:

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Lectors French

Clara Berne

German

Filiz Yildirim MA

Other Staff Finance Manager

Penny Gibbs

Endowment Property Manager

Alison Stanley

Executive Assistant to Master and Registrary

Becky Rutter

Head of Communications

Matt McGeehan

Education and Tutorial Office Manager Esme Page Head of Student Health and Wellbeing

Charlotte McGuiness

Head Porter

Martin May

College Librarian

Mark Statham MA ALA

Archivist

James Cox MSc

Head of IT

Matt Mee

College Housekeeper

Karen Heslop

Accommodation Manager

Anna Volund

Director of Catering

Ricardo Soares

Conference and Events Manager

Georgina Millar

Head of Maintenance

Julie Carles

Estates Manager

Andrew Gair BSc MA

Head Gardner

Phil Brett

Head Groundsman

Mark Ward

Boathouse Manager

Simon Goodbrand

Head of HR

Charlotte Hasler

In addition to those named above, Caius employs over 200 valued members of nonacademic staff. All of them play an important role in ensuring the smooth operation of the College as a place of education and research.

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Junior Members and Freshmen 2024

The following were admitted members of the College in the academic year 2024-25:

Undergraduate Students Agrawal, Divya S Ahmed, Zain I Ajeniya, Esther Akyol, Tuna I Al-Rammahi, Abdullah L N Ali, Mysha Amazigo, Carmen O Amir, Warda Arnold, Elizabeth M Arumugam, Rokesh Arun, Justin Athill, Iris Au, Keira J Awad, Nicole H Bancroft, Sophya Banerjee, Arinjoy Banerjee, Snehaa Banks, Cameron Bannister, Harry J Bansal, Shereen Bejarano-Ramirez, Sebastian J Beney, Nana Bigham, Polly J J Bosshard, Charles Bourne, Jessica K Case, Eleanor M Chaffe, Nathanael J Chalk, Archie Chambers, William A Chen, Qiaoyi Chen, Bryan Chotanaphuti, Tanai Clark, Alexandre W

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Clarke, Ruth G Cohen, Samuel H Cohen Dominguez, Tania Coleman, Jasmine Z Conway, Joseph L R Corner, Jonathan Daniels, Sezer L Davey, Chloe A Davies, Amy De, Ronak Dodwell, Jessica I Dumont, Clotilde M B Dutton, Benjamin Dwivedi, Raghav Earl, Carys-Anne L Emmett, Tara K N Etherington, Eloise S Fasham, Reuben Folkard, Robert Frias Evans, Lina M Frutos-Morris, Poppy Fryer, Isobel Fullerton, Georgia Gada, Pooja S Galappathie, Rohan N Gaukrodger, Josie Gibson, Florence Y Gluschove-Koppel, Eliyahu Gooding, Georgia E Gotterson, Jessica B Gower, Caspar J M Grant, Levi L Green, Isaac J

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Greenwood, Eliza A Griffiths, Elinor M Hadjicostis, Panayiotis Halliwell, Oliver M Hartfield, Sophie R Hayford, Nana K D Haythorne, Alexander He, Aileen Heeps, Ellie L Helmy, Laila S E D A Heuze-Turcsany, Goulven Homewood, Heidi E L Hoy, Rebecca E Hua, Chengda Hyman, Avi Insole, Daisy A Iqbal, Mahnoor Jacob, Cian I Jagannathan, Siya Jamil, Faraz Jeevananthan, Janusha Jinzhang, Hehe Johns, Thomas Kalejaiye, Oluwadamilola G Kandel, Sanskar R Khan, Haris R Kiezun, Alexandra S Kizildag, Lorin Kothari, Divya Kumar, Renee Kurtcebe, Baran E Kwatra, Anya S Langley, Jenna Lau, Vincent Levett, Cicely A Li, Mulan Liang, Xin Y Litombe, Grace Ekila Lloyd, Lauren S Lu, Zhongyu Manton, Archie G Martino, Antonia Mayemba-Bamba, Evelyne

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McCallum, Lily McDonald, Robert A McGregor, Aysha L McLelland, Claudia McSweeney-Davis, Senan Meacher Nisbet, Lauren M Mehta, Yashashvi Melville, Katriona R M Minor, Tobias J Morgan, Lola R V R Moyes, Walter Mullin, Freya Nanda, Reneh Newport, Johnny A Nicolis di Robilant, Giulio Nunn, Finlay W Panov, Anita J Papadopoullos, George A Parizotto Lee, Gabriela Pau, Isaac Y H Peng, Simon Y-W Pinnock, Edward Polyakova, Elena Rajakumar, Meenakshi G Rajashanker, Manasa Rajiv, Vignesh Ramshaw, Jake Raouf, Muhammad H Reid, Edan W Rimmer, Ben A Ring, Charlotte C R Robertshaw, Charles S Robinson Boutin, Giselle Ronson, Mimi K Saint, William Sarriegui, Isabel L Selvaranjan, Ajanthaa Shaftoe, Jennifer P Shah, Aryan P Shaw, Anna E F Sheekey, Matilda Short, Vivien Shovelton, Jasper R

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Skiada, Georgia Smith, Ryan D Smith, Rolland W S Sossick, Esme A Stuart-Sheppard, Rosemary E Szczepkowski, Stanislaw A Tahir, Sulaiman Talks, Charles D L Taylor, George O E Tindall, Daisy S Tofts, Felix N Tomalin, Harriet Unsal, Zeynep S Upariputtanggoon, N Vadgama, Rohan S Vairavamoorthy, Chenujan Vemulapalli, Sri A Vincent, Jacob J

Vyvyan-Jones, Petroc M S Walsh, Finley Waters, Felix Welvaert, Louis Wentworth, Oliver F G Wheatcroft, Benjamin White, Joshua Whittome, Adam J Wobschall, Lily L Wong, Yvette Y W Wong, Yan H Wood, Laura I N Worth, William E Wray, Jules J K Wu, Zongwen Yang, Shangqing Zghaibe, Ali van den Heuvel, William J

Research and Postgraduate Students Albano, Maria Alexii, Raluca-Elena Barber, Holly O Bowden, Jack C Boyce, William L Bridgewater, Simeon Brindley, Leon P Brown, Richard Burgess, Benedict D K Conitsiotis, Christian L Cooksey, James C Cornwell, Jacques P Dremaux, Arthur Elbizanti, Ata A A O Fortes De Barros, Vinicius Alexandre Giridhar, Prahalad V Greenaway, Kate E Gribbin, Ewan M Harvey, Eleanor J Hassan, Hamda Mohamed Hemachandra, Samal V Hou, Siyu

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Kain, Damni Kapila, Shivam U Kataria, Rhea Kler-Young, Giaan Kupka, Lukas Langford, Robert P Lee, Heeyeon Makarov, Iurii Murphy, Naomi M Murzynowski, Jack R A Ngo, Gina Parish, Matthew D Parker, Isaac J Pullela, Raoul Salhan, Suchir Snow, Finn Stopford, Thomas Su, Ke Toong, Ping Jing Vidyarthi, Vaneshree Walk, Maxwell A Wegner-Repke, Annika J

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Wendlinger, Andre Western, Anna L Whitehead, Dillon Woodward, James A Ye, Fanyu

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Zhang, Hao Zhang, Emily Zhang, Yi Zhao, Yunyi Zheng, Yuan

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Degrees, Awards and Prizes

Higher Degrees Cambridge Higher Degrees conferred during the academic year PhD Andreou, Avgi Au, Yan Zi Barucci, Teresa Berman, Callie M Boardman, Andrew C Brion, Douglas A J Brown, Angus H Brzozowska, Natalia Carter, George T Conway, Olivia Corcoran, Sean R Eizagirre Barker, Simone Fraboni, Francesco Frisby, Saskia L Fuchs, Franz A Gleadall, Nicholas S Glyn-Davies, Alex J Gunjur, Ashray Hanna, Fergal E Hawkswell, George N Jackson, Zoe M Jiang, Pei Joykutty, Jason Kelly, Ellis C Knapton, Alice E Kunz, Vera A C Lal, Rajan S Lee, Jia Le Machel, Anne C Martinelli, Anthony W McCormack, Matthew R Micklem, Christopher N O’Neill, Stephen

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Beale, Georgia Berman, Callie M Bhatia, Shefali Birkner, Caroline B N Brooker, Holly G Chan, Jordan Y H Chen, Qi Chen, Ziyi Chousakos, Emmanouil Clinton, Grace A Day, Cicely F Derdun, Mikolaj Dizmen, Omer Eloi, Joseph O Emsden, Alice Fisher, Matilda A Gavronski, Samuel Hanna, Natasha L Heckel, Kade M Hirsi, Asma B Hoblyn, Ashley Hoffmann, Lex J Hyams, Tulliver J Jackson, Atticus Jarjour, Runa Jordan, Nicholas Krishna, Meghna Langezaal, Eric R Leung, Sally Yuen Sze Lin, Mingshi Lopez, Claudette J Moore, Jessica

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Moss, Ryan Mäkiranta, Matias A J Normoyle, David M O’Driscoll, Aoife Opp, Joseph B Parton, Alex T Paterson, Emma L Purvis, William Richardson, Kian D Rogan, Sophie C Shah, Kavya M Tempel, Katherine E Wang, Haokai Watson, Carmen D L Western, Anna L Wilson, Colin Zhang, Zoe Zhang, Xuhui MBA Matsunami, Hiromichi Ong, Shiu Jern MFin Prado Sepulveda, Rodolfo Andres MArch Heeley, Charlotte E R MAST Rudenko, Daniil

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Lock Tankard Catherine Yates Memorial Prize Harborne (Rowing) Tankard Len Sealy Fun Scholar Yaks & Crows Sir Harold Gillies Prize Ronald Greaves Bursary Emma Sclater Prize for Architecture Dorothy Moyle Needham Prize for Biochemistry Irving Fritz Prize for Biochemistry and Biology James Arthur Ramsay Prize for Chemistry and Biology Swann Prize for Biology Frank Smart Prize for Botany Vernon English Prize for Classics Derek G.W. Ingram Prize for Engineering Sir David L. Salomons Prize for Engineering Reginald C. Cox Prize for Engineering Mary Altham Prize for English Edward Buckland Prize for History James and Andrew Makin Prize for History James and Andrew Makin Prize for History & Modern Languages James and Andrew Makin Prize for History & Politics Frere-Smith Prize for Law Sir William McNair Prizes for Law Sir William McNair Mooting Prize Emlyn Wade Prize for Law Barry Hedley Prize for Management Studies Michael Latham Prize for Mathematics Simon Jagger Prize for Mathematics Ryan Prize for Higher Mathematics Anne Pearson Prize for Medicine Harold Ackroyd Scholarship for Medicine Tucker Prize for Medicine Michell Scholarships for Medicine Walter Myers Exhibitions for Medicine Brook Prize for Medicine

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D. Duru, E. Gu, N. Karve, S. Murali, A. Peuch, N. Sorabji Stewart I. Mellis-Glynn Z. Ali, J. Unokesan A. Claessens T. McBurnie E. Eyres J. Jeevananthan E. Mettam R. Tomlin N. Chan P. Grab, A. El-Bouhy E. Greensmith A. Learmount L. Merrylees M. Lal E. Gu A. Stares N. Byers L. Mihai, T. Yuille K. Duthie M. Hampton T-R. Mullings S. Bisotto S. El-Masri, M. Reed A. Selvaranjan (winner), O. Halliwell (runner-up) R. Chalmers, L. Peake K. Prabhu C. Hua A. Thoule Z. Hossain D. Duru H. I. Lin L. Crewe K. Prabhu, D. Horsfield R. Narayan, M. Kishore T. Kelly, S. Kumar, A. Sharma, T. Harris

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Frank Cook Prize for Oriental Studies or Modern Languages Frederick John Stopp Prize for Modern Languages Ian and Marjory McFarlane Prize in French Compton Wills Prize for Music H.L. Perry Prize for Music Duncan Bruce Memorial Prize for Physics Sir Rudolph Peters’ Prizes for Music Essay Prize

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K. Bashaarat A. de Groot N. Sorabji Stewart L. Cort H. Brookes-Hughes A. Wajed P. Alpin, J. Carey, O. Merriman, B. Patterson S. Jain

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University Prizes Awarded to Caius Students TB Wood Prize for Plant Sciences Tyson Medal Chemistry Examiners’ Prize Faculty of Law Prize for Intellectual Property Chancellor’s Medal in English Law Derek Brewer Prize

A. Learmount T. Kinowski A. Peuch M. Reed L. Peake G. Jackson Jessel

Scholarships and Exhibitions Honorary Scholarships Elected:

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[4th Year] Z. Ali, K. Bashaarat, N. Chan, Z. Chen, A. Claessens, E. Dokudowiec, A. El-Bouhy, P. Grab, P. Johnson, T. Kinowski, M. Lal, C. Lewis, A. Lorenzo, O. Merriman, S. Pitt, J. Sanchez-Bonilla, Martinez, Y. Shah, N. Sorabji, Stewart, W. Templeton, A. Wajed, Pei T. Zeng [3rd Year] F. Brighton, F. Browne, A. Burrell, A. Butac, L. Cort, K. Duthie, H. Eggleston, S. Gentile, L. Goulder, E. Greensmith, L. Guye, O. Hanks, L. Hicks, N. James, R. Jesson, N. Karve, A. Kaur Birdi, O. Khattar, A. Learmount, I. Mellis-Glynn, C. Merrylees, T-R. Mullings, S. Murali, R. Nar, A. Persaud, C. Prescott, M. Reed, B. Searcey, A. Shakir, R. Tomlin, J. Unokesan, N. Warren, C. White

[3rd Year] C. Abercrombie, D. Duru, D. Horsfield, D. Lee, K. Murugesh, R. Narayan, K. Prabhu

[3rd year] T. Avaliani, S. Beechey, H. Chacksfield, D. Ciesla, V. Cipponeri, O. Coburn, E. Gu, O. Gunton, E. Hayden, Z. Hossain, J. Kidger, G. Kosmas,

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A. Liu, J. Maxen, P. Meehan, W. Morley, B. Munton, O. Oliver, A. Peuch, J. Richmond, T. Sinclair [2nd year] J. Appleton, H. Baker, S. Connell, O. Crewe, A. de Groot, R. D’Souza, S. Edwards, S. El-Masri, L. Enterkin, E. Eyres, C. Fobel, J. Fung, A. Gooding, M. Hampton, H. Himaz, G. Jackson Jessel, K. Kedia, Mithil A. Krishnan, Hei I. Lin, L. Mihai, J. Mittoo, S. Newman-Sanders, R. Rana, A. Shankardass, K. Shipley, P. Skeen, Z. Song, A. Stares, A. Thoulé, N. Uddin, A. Whiteside, G. Williams, M. Wills, Jasmine Su L. Wong, C. Wystup, T. Yuille [1st Year] A. Al-Rammahi, S. Banerjee, H. Bannister, S. Bansal, P. Bigham, E. Case, R. Chalmers, B. Chen, R. Clarke, S. Cohen, C. Cox, J. Dodwell, E. Etherington, J. Gotterson, A. Haythorne, A. He, B. Horneman-Wren, C. Hua, A. Kiezun, A. Loughland, T. Minor, L. Morgan, F. Mullin, G. Parizotto Lee, I. Pau, L. Peake, S. Peng, E. Pinnock, E. Polyakova, V. Rajiv, A. Randhawa, B. Rimmer, C. Ring, J. Shaftoe, A. Shaw, E. Sossick, S. Szczepkowski, D. Tindall, N. Upariputtanggoon, R. Vadgama, W. van den Heuvel, S. Vemulapalli, F. Walsh, L. Welvaert, J. Wray Clinical Exhibitions Elected: Exhibitions Elected:

[3rd Year]

E. Mettam, E. Ungar

[3rd Year] J. Hu [2nd Year] L. Goulev, C. Monaghan, K. Pradhan [1st Year] J. Corner, P. Hadjicostis, O. Halliwell, M. Iyengar, K. Melville, L. Stephen

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Organ Scholars Peter Walker Organ Scholar Wilfrid Holland Organ Scholar

Eben Eyres Jack van den Heuvel

Choral Scholars Patrick Burgess Choral Scholar John Chumrow Choral Scholar Richard Hamilton Choral Scholar Peter and Thérèse Helson Choral Scholar

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Tanay Vajramani Oliver Merriman Jacob Carey William Saint

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