Table Of ContentThe Brazen Nose
Volume 42
2007-2008
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The object of the Society shall be the advancement of the welfare and
interests of Brasenose College by:
(i) encouraging closer relations between past and present
members of the College and fostering interests which they have in
common;
(ii) keeping members of the Society informed of events in the
College;
(iii) any other methods which from time to time appear likely to
achieve the Society’s object.
(Revised 1999)
Fellow Editor - The Rev’d Graeme Richardson
Editor - Laura Wu
Assistant - Harry Ford
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CONTENTS
Senior Members ................................4 Germany..........................................91
Principal’s Notes .............................11 Niger...............................................93
Class Lists and Higher Degrees ......17 Spain ...............................................97
Matriculations 2008 .......................22 Central America ............................99
College Prizes .................................22 Nepal .............................................101
National Prizes ...............................23 Eastern Europe .............................102
Award Holders ...............................23
Articles
University Prizes ..............................24
Why have a Chaplain? ..................107
Elections to Scholarships ...............25
The Quatercentenary of Brasenose .109
Scholars ..........................................26
Brasenose and Brain Disease ........118
Blues ................................................27
(Un)Brazen Rhodes.......................120
Reports Prague Spring ................................122
JCR ..................................................31 The Head Butler Speaks ...............125
HCR ...............................................33 The College Secretary Speaks .......127
The Library ....................................36
News and Notes
Chapel .............................................41
News and Notes ............................143
Staff ................................................43
Arts Week ......................................45 Obituaries
Arts Week Poetry ............................47 Deaths notified .............................151
The King’s Hall Trust for the Arts 49 Nigel Acheson ..............................153
The Ellesmere Society .....................51 Professor J. L. Ackrill ...................155
The Pater Society ...........................53 Sir Jonathan Backhouse, Bt. .........161
The Addington Society ..................55 Matthew Carver ............................163
The ‘Runcie Sermon’ ......................57 The Rt Rev Anselm Genders ........165
Ale Verses .......................................59 Crispin Hill ...................................168
Professor Susan Hurley .................169
Sports
Professor Ian Jack ..........................172
The Boat Club ...............................65
Robert Arthur Jenkinson..............175
Men’s Rowing .................................67
John Anthony Johnson .................179
Women’s Rowing ...........................70
Nicholas Paul Johnson ..................181
Cricket ............................................72
Henry Lawrence Seccombe ...........183
Hockey ...........................................75
Derek Wilson ................................184
Football ...........................................77
Rugby .............................................79 Brasenose Society
Netball .............................................81 Brasenose Society Minutes ...........189
Ultimate Frisbee ............................83 Past Presidents ..............................200
MBATs ...........................................85
Donors to Brasenose
Travel Grant Reports Donors to Brasenose 2007-8 ........205
Ghana ............................................89 The Alexander Nowell Circle .......213
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BRASENOSE COLLEGE 2007-2008
VISITOR
The Bishop of Lincoln
PRINCIPAL
Cashmore, Roger John, CMG, MA, DPhil, DSc, (MA Cantab.), FRS
Professor of Experimental Physics
FELLOWS
Bogdanor, Vernon Bernard, CBE, MA, FBA
Professor of Government, Tutor in Politics
Courakis, Anthony Stylianos, MA, (BA Manc.)
Tutor in Economics
Haydon, Richard Geoffrey, MA, (MA, PhD Cantab.)
Professor of Mathematics, Tutor in Mathematics
Cooper, Richard Anthony, MA, DPhil
Professor of French, Tutor in Modern Languages, Vice Principal
Boyd, Charles Adam Richard, MA, BSc, DPhil, (BM Lond.)
P.V. Curran Tutor in Physiology
Daniel, Ronald William, MA, (BSc Brun.; PhD Cantab.), CEng, MIEE
Professor of Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering Science
Burd, Harvey John, MA, DPhil, CEng, MICE
Tutor in Engineering Science
Ingram, Martin John, MA, DPhil
Tutor in Modern History
Houlsby, Guy Tinmouth, MA, DSc, (PhD Cantab.), FREng, FICE
Professor of Civil Engineering
Robertson, Jeremy, MA, DPhil
Tutor in Organic Chemistry
Edwards, Anne, MA, MRCP
Adviser to Women Students
Swadling, William John, MA, (BA CNAA; LLM Lond.)
Tutor in Law
Morgan, Llewelyn William Goronwy, MA, (PhD Cantab.)
Tutor in Classics
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Eltis, Sos Ann, MA, MPhil, DPhil
Tutor in English
Klenerman, Paul, BM, BCh, DPhil, MRCP
Professor of Immunology, Fellow in Clinical Medicine
Bispham, Edward Henry, MA, DPhil
Tutor in Ancient History, Librarian
Green, Abigail Frances Floretta, MA, (PhD Cantab.)
Tutor in Modern History
McKenna, Christopher Davis, MA, (BA Amherst; MA, PhD Johns Hopkins)
Tutor in Management Studies
James, William Siward, MA, DPhil, (BSc Birm.)
Professor of Virology, Tutor in Physiological Sciences
Davies, Anne Caroline Lloyd, MA, DPhil
Reader in Public Law, Tutor in Law
Knowland, John Sebastian, MA, DPhil
Bursar
Groiser, David Simon, MA, DPhil, (BA Sussex)
Tutor in Modern Languages
Jones, Jonathan Alcwyn, MA, DPhil
Professor of Physics, Tutor in Physics
Bowman, Alan Keir, MA, (MA, PhD Toronto), FBA
Camden Professor of Ancient History
Krebs, Thomas, MA, (LLB Kent), BCL, DPhil
Tutor in Law
Herz, Laura, MA (Dipl. Bonn; PhD Cantab.)
Tutor in Physics
Vogenauer, Stefan, MA, MJur
Professor of Comparative Law, Tutor in Law
Wiggs, Giles Frederick Salisbury, (BSc, PhD Lond.)
Tutor in Geography, Dean
Sharp, Robin Elisabeth, (BA Denison)
Director of Alumni Relations and Development
Thun, Eric, (BA, PhD Harvard)
Peter Moores Tutor in Chinese Business Studies
Palfrey, Simon David, MA, DPhil (BA ANU)
Tutor in English
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Olson, (Carl) Jonas Peter, MA, (MA Lund.; PhD Uppsala)
Tutor in Philosophy
Stockley, Andrew, MA, (BA Canterbury, New Zealand; LLB Victoria University of
Wellington; PhD Cantab.)
Senior Tutor, Tutor for Admissions
Lea, Susan Mary, MA, DPhil
Reader in Structural Biology, Tutor in Biochemistry, Tutor for Graduates
Wills, Abigail Grace, (BA, PhD Cantab.)
Career Development Fellow in History
Gaffney, Eamonn Andrew, (BA, PhD Cantab.)
Tutor in Mathematical Biology
Johansen, Thomas Kjeller, (BA, PhD Cantab.)
Tutor in Ancient Philosophy
Esteves, Rui Pedro Ferreira da Costa, (BA, MA do Porto; PhD Berkeley)
Tutor in Economics
Wilson, Mark, MA, DPhil
Tutor in Theoretical Chemistry
Timpson, Christopher Gordon, BA, BPhil, DPhil
Tutor in Philosophy
Lewis, Owen Thomas, MA, (PhD Leeds)
Tutor in Zoology
SUPERNUMERARY FELLOWS
Chevska, Maria, MA status
Fellow in Fine Art
Popplewell, David Arthur, MA status, (PhD Sussex)
Fellow in Psychology
Crook, Joseph Mordaunt, CBE, MA, DPhil, Hon DLitt, FBA, FSA
Parrott, Melanie Jane, LLB
Domestic Bursar
Dennis, Paul David, BA, BSc, BM, BCh
Richardson, The Rev’d Graeme, BA, MPhil, MTh
Chaplain
Goulder, Philip Jeremy Renshaw, MA, DPhil, (BA, BChir, MB Cantab.) MRCP,
FMGEMS, MRCPCH, FRCPCH
Professor of Paediatrics
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WILLIAM GOLDING AND
NICHOLAS KURTI FELLOWS
Zisserman, Andrew, MA status (MA, PhD Cantab.)
Senior Kurti Research Fellow, Professor of Engineering Science
Somogyi, Peter, (MSc, PhD, DSc Hungary), FRS
Senior Kurti Research Fellow
Higgs, Douglas Roland, MA status, (MB BS, DSc Lond.), FRCP, FRCPath, FRS
Senior Kurti Research Fellow
Marzano, Annalisa, (BA, MA Florence; MPhil, PhD Columbia)
Junior Golding Research Fellow
Robinson, Damian Jason, (BSc, PhD Bradford)
Junior Golding Research Fellow
Weir, Alexander, BA, DPhil
Junior Kurti Research Fellow
Foster, Russell Grant, (BSc, PhD Bristol)
Senior Kurti Research Fellow
Fries, Steven Michael, MPhil, DPhil, (BSc Pennsylvania)
Senior Golding Research Fellow
Dawe, Helen Rebecca, (BSc Manc.; PhD Lond.)
Junior Kurti Research Fellow
van der Merwe, Philip Anton, (MBChB, BSc, PhD Cape Town)
Senior Kurti Research Fellow
Carbonell, (Warren) Shawn, (BS Washington; PhD, MD Virginia)
Junior Kurti Research Fellow
Farrington, Sinead, (MPhys Edin.; PhD Glas.)
Junior Kurti Research Fellow
Hinarejos Parga, Alicia, MJur, MPhil, (BA Valencia)
Junior Golding Research Fellow
EMERITUS FELLOWS
Barltrop, John Alfred, MA, DPhil, DSc
Ackrill, John Lloyd, MA, FBA
Altmann, Simon Leonardo, MA, (PhD Lond.)
Stockton, David Leonard, MA
Hockaday, Thomas Derek, MA, DPhil, FRCP
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Judge, Harry George, MA, (PhD Lond.)
Birch, Bryan John, MA, (MA, PhD Cantab.), FRS
Rudden, Bernard Anthony, DCL, (LLD Cantab.; PhD Wales), FBA
Cook, Peter Richard, MA, DPhil
Davies, John Windsor, BCL, MA, (LLB, Birm.)
Gasser, Robert Paul Holland, MA, DPhil
Millar, Fergus Graham Bautholme, MA, DPhil, DLitt, FBA
Peach, John Vincent, MA, DPhil
Proudfoot, Nicholas Jarvis, MA, (PhD Cantab.), FRS
Rowett, John Spencer, MA, DPhil
Foster, John Andrew, MA
Richards, William Graham, CBE, MA, DPhil, DSc
HONORARY FELLOWS
Freeman, Rt Hon John, PC, MBE, MA
Brademas, Stephen John, DPhil
Fraser, Peter Marshall, MC, MA, FBA
Eveleigh, Rt Hon Sir Edward Walter, PC, ERD, MA
Clower, Robert, MA, DLitt
Moore, Philip Brian Cecil, The Rt Hon Lord Moore of Wolvercote, PC, GCB,
GCVO, CMG
Kornberg, Sir Hans, MA, DSc, (ScD Cantab.; PhD Sheff.), FRS, FIBiol
Totterman, Richard, DPhil
Judd, Brian Raymond, MA, DPhil
Hahn, Erwin, (PhD Illinois), FRS
Hodgkin, Sir Howard, CBE, Hon DLitt
Acheson, Sir (Ernest) Donald, KBE, MA, DM
Blundell, Sir Thomas Leon, BA, DPhil, FRS
O’Neill, Robert John, AO, MA, DPhil, (BE Melbourne), FASSA
Young, Sir John, AC, KCMG, MA
Wates, Sir Christopher Stephen, BA, FCA
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Smith, Anthony David, CBE, MA
Vallance, Iain David Thomas, Lord Vallance of Tummel, Kt, MA, (MSc London
School of Business Studies)
Saville, Mark Oliver, The Rt Hon Lord Saville of Newdigate, PC, BA, BCL
Janvrin, The Rt Hon Lord Robin Berry, PC, KCVO, CB, MA
Windlesham, The Rt Hon Lord David James George Hennessy, PC, CVO, MA,
DLitt, Hon LLD, FBA
Mellor, Julie Therese, BA
Baker, The Rt Hon Sir (Thomas) Scott Gillespie Lord Justice, Kt, PC, BA
Palin, Michael Edward, CBE, BA
Akers-Jones, Sir David, DBE, CMG, GBM, MA
Gill, Robin Denys, CVO, MA
Allen, Katherine, MA
Cameron, The Rt Hon David, MP, BA
Khattak, Mohammad Aslam Khan, MA
Mortimer, Sir John, CBE, QC, BA, FRSL
VISITING FELLOW
Grindley, Nigel D. F., (MA Cantab.; PhD Lond.), FRS
LECTURERS NOT ON THE FOUNDATION
Harker, Anthony Henry, DPhil, (MA Cantab.)
Solid State Physics
Wollenberg, Susan Lesley Freda, MA, DPhil
Music
Bird, Richard Simpson, MA, DPhil
Computation
Nicholson, Michael Andrew, MA, DPhil
Russian
Horder, Jeremy Christian Nicholas, BCL, MA, DPhil, (LLB Hull)
Law
Taylor, Jeremy Simon Hudson, MA, (BSc Brist; PhD Lond.)
Human Anatomy
Rogers, Alisdair Peter, MA, DPhil
Geography
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