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ISSUE 9 SPRING 2009 GONVILLE & CAIUS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE

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Contents

2 Bridges to China – Sir Christopher Hum (2005)

6 Joseph Needham – Bridge Builder – Neil McKendrick (1958)

10 Our President – Yao Liang (1963) interviewed by Mick Le Moignan (2004)

14 2008 Nobel Prize Winner, Roger Tsien (1979) visits Caius

16 China comes to Caius

18 Caius goes to China

20 Capitalising on Carbon – Mike Richards (1981) interviewed by David Elstein (1961)

22 Here’s No Place for You Maids! – The 1897 Vote on Degrees for Women

26 The 1956 Lectureship and the Peter Walker Organ Scholarship

28 The 2009 Telephone Campaign and the 2009 Caius Fund

30 Thanks to our Benefactors…

34 CaiMemories

36 Your College Needs You!

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“A gift to Gonville & Caius College counts towards theCambridge 800th Anniversary Campaign”

From the Director of Development

This is a rather special issue of Once a Caian… As Cambridge University celebrates its800th Anniversary, Caius is celebrating its close links with China.

Our current Master served as British Ambassador in Beijing (p.2). We have a ChinesePresident (p.10), two other Chinese Fellows, Professor Kay-Tee Khaw (1991) andDr Liana Chua (2007), and many Chinese undergraduates and postgraduates. We nowhave our first Chinese-American Nobel Laureate (and the first in my own subject,Chemistry), Professor Roger Tsien (1977), who came back to College (p.14) to acceptan Honorary Fellowship and to give a highly entertaining lecture on his work and histime as a Research Fellow at Caius.

Neil McKendrick (1958) writes with customary eloquence (p.6) on the life and legacyof Joseph Needham (1918), and his monumental study of science and civilisation inChina. As Master, Neil was fond of telling Caian after-dinner gatherings that theCollege had won as many Nobel Prizes as Russia. For the benefit of anyone who haslost count, the list reads:

At a less rarefied level of College life, global financial difficulties mean that fundraisingis ever more vital to the College’s continuing success. Last year’s Telephone Campaignraised over half a million pounds, a record for any Oxbridge College: Caians respondedwith unprecedented generosity to the new Caius Fund, which provides money formuch-needed, immediate expenditure (p.28).

We are immensely grateful to those who have set up regular gifts over 4, 7 or 10years and we hope that many more Caians will do so in 2009. Every donation reallydoes make a difference. We are also grateful to the many Caians who have told usthey plan to remember the College in their wills. The fabric of Caius is woven fromlegacies and built on bequests, from the founding gifts of Gonville and Bateman in thefourteenth century to the legacies of Lord Bauer and Wilfrid Holland in recent years.

Many of you will already know that the founding editor of Once a Caian…,Mick Le Moignan (2004), is leaving Caius to take up an appointment at the Universityof Sydney. Mick lived in Sydney for 14 years and had always planned to move backthere. He will be much missed by his many friends and colleagues at Caius and wewish him well in this new venture.

Dr Anne Lyon (2001)Fellow

Charles Sherrington (1880) Medicine 1932James Chadwick (1919) Physics 1935Howard Florey (1924) Medicine 1945Max Born (1908) Physics 1954Francis Crick (1949) Medicine 1962John Hicks (1935) Economics 1972Anthony Hewish (1942) Physics 1974Milton Friedman (1953) Economics 1976Nevill Mott (1930) Physics 1977Richard Stone (1931) Economics 1984Joseph Stiglitz (1965) Economics 2001Roger Tsien (1977) Chemistry 2008

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Crossing the bridgeThe bridge that took me into mainland Chinafor the first time was a modest, ricketystructure spanning a little river betweenHong Kong and Guangdong Province. It was asunny afternoon in May 1970, and I was ayoung diplomat interrupting my studies inMandarin Chinese at Hong Kong Universityto fill a temporary gap in the small BritishOffice in Peking.

I got off the train on the Hong Kong sideand struggled with my suitcase across thebridge to the station and immigration poston the other side. Around the station werepaddy fields, and a small group of peasantwomen were planting out the rice shoots inshallow water. The only other sound wastinny music – a revolutionary opera – comingfrom a loudspeaker in a village a little wayaway.

That scene has remained in my mind as apicture of the China I first knew. The countrywas poor, largely rural, revolutionary andisolated. China had turned in on itself. Theeconomy was stagnant and the CulturalRevolution raged. The office I was going tojoin had been burned down by rioting RedGuards three years earlier, and remained ablackened ruin. At that time there was noother travel route operating into China andthere was only one train a day to the border:in fact my two fellow passengers and I werethe only three people entering the countrythat day.

state investment, immigrantlabour from the rural hinterland and theemergence of a westernised professionalmiddle class.

The pace of China’s engagement with theoutside world has been no less astonishing.The Communist regime that took control in1949 had to struggle for internationalrecognition, in part because it was seenexternally as a dangerous exporter ofrevolution. Even after it was admitted intothe United Nations in 1971 it remained waryof external entanglements. Again 1978 wasthe watershed year – “reform” was to beaccompanied by “opening”.

In economic terms that has meantprogressively opening the economy tomarket forces, and to investment by foreigncompanies. The outcome has been a curious

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Decline and revivalWithin my working lifetimeI have witnessed China’sexplosion on to the world stage.Of course China can claim along history and a gloriouscivilisation. As recently as theseventeenth century itpossessed the largesteconomy in the world, andarguably the mostsophisticated culture. Allthe other peoples in contact withit were seen as inferior, as “barbarians” fitonly to pay tribute.

Then something went wrong. Its cultureand technology stagnated; it was subject toinvasion, occupation and humiliation byforeign powers; and even after it regained itsindependence in 1949 it was plunged by MaoZedong into one disastrous politicalexperiment after another.

After 1978 and Deng Xiaoping’sconsolidation of power, however, that longprocess of decline and demoralisation wasreversed. We have since seen one of themost stunning economic revivals that theworld has ever known. The Chinese economyis now the third largest in the world, and setto overhaul first Japan then the UnitedStates in the decades ahead. Hundreds ofmillions of people have been lifted out ofabject poverty. The cities have undergonephysical and social transformation, thanks to

the World Trade Organisation, the G20 ofadvanced economies, the group working toeliminate North Korea’s dangerous nuclearpotential. Chinese leaders travel widely toextend their influence, open markets andsecure sources of raw materials. Theyunderstand that global problems – climatechange, environmental degradation, energyshortages, all afflicting China on a huge scale– need global solutions.

In driving so successfully for growth,China’s leaders have exploited someformidable national advantages. There is atradition of massive and complex civic works

that goes back thousands of years –think of the Terracotta Army,

ancient irrigation

Fragile achievementsChina has moved so fast that its rise hasprovoked anxious questioning. Where will itstop? For the rest of us is it a threat or anopportunity?

Its achievements have been great, butthey are fragile. I have taken part in manyhours of discussion with China’s currentleaders, and I have seen how burdened,almost oppressed, they feel by the sheerscale of their task. They like to refer toChina’s population of 1.3 billion inmathematical terms: its achievements – sayan increase in absolute GDP – have to bedivided by 1.3 billion to give a still modestper capita figure, while its problems need tobe multiplied by the samefactor.

And whenwe turn tothose problems

hybrid known as “socialism with Chinesecharacteristics”, where a slimmed-down,toned-up state sector coexists with aflourishing private and foreign-investedsector. Foreign investment on a huge scalehas brought Western capital andmanagement techniques into productivepartnership with China’s innate industry andentrepreneurism.

So we have all seen how manufacturingfor the multinationals has shifted to China,attracted by low costs and cheap, disciplinedlabour. China has become “the workshop ofthe world”: from a vantage-point in the PearlRiver Delta I have seen for myself large partsof the total global production of microwaves,sports shoes, Christmas decorations andmany other commodities in full swing.

At the same time society has beenopened to foreign influences, albeit whileremaining under the strict oversight andcontrol of the Communist Party. Westernculture, from Hollywood movies to streetfashion to the National BasketballAssociation, has been enthusiasticallyembraced. Chinese tourists have fanned outacross the globe. China has more internetusers than any other country, even thoughBig Brother reads their emails, listens in totheir chat-rooms and filters their access toforeign websites.

In foreign policy China is engaged asnever before. It has learnt the benefits, in aninterdependent world, of joining the clubs –

by Sir Christopher Hum (2005) The Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao, came to Cambridge in February to give the prestigious Rede Lecture. The Master acted as mediator in the question session, whichwill probably be remembered for the heckler who threw his training shoe at the Premier, missing by a wide margin but attracting press coverage all over the world.

projects, orthe Great Wall.Add to this the abilityof a centralised, authoritarianstate to focus national energieson a single objective, unhampered bypolitical opposition, planning inquiries orcarping in the media. The Beijing Olympics,successfully executed with no expensespared, was just the latest achievement inthis absolutist tradition.

Above: The bridge at the BeiHai Teahouse, photographedby Julia Hum.

Above right: Sir Christopherand Lady Hum in the garden atthe British Embassy in Beijing.

Right: Keeping warm in aChinese winter.

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is continuing to grow and age as a result ofincreased life expectancy.

Many times I have heard China’s leadersargue eloquently that their overriding priorityhas to be to tackle these vast and pressingdomestic issues: given this preoccupation,how can China be a threat to the rest of theworld? They know very well that they cannotkeep themselves in power by force, or byinvoking ideology. They can do it only bydelivering the economic goods – jobs, growthand rising living standards. They need apeaceful international environment to helpthem, and their engagement with theinternational community has that as its aim.

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it is hard to know where to start. There is thegrowth in inequality. In economic termsChina’s cities have forged ahead of thesurrounding countryside, and its easternseaboard ahead of the western hinterland.From relative equality in poverty China’spopulation has become one of the mostunequal in the world – more so even thanthe United States.

There are problems with the quality ofgovernance. Chinese leaders speak openly oftheir fear that corruption, if it is unchecked,could bring down the Party. They areuncomfortably aware of the potential forsocial unrest, often sparked by frustration at

most importantly, of course, through the workof Joseph Needham, a predecessor of mine asMaster.

The West owes to Needham the firstrecognition of the extent to which itsscientific and technological discoveries hadbeen anticipated in China, often by hundredsof years. It has him to thank too for the firstattempt to address the so-called “NeedhamQuestion” about China’s subsequent pause indevelopment – why, despite its rich scientificpast, did China miss out on the IndustrialRevolution?

Needham brought to the College researchassistants and visiting scholars from China

stubbornness over Tibet. Nonetheless theseissues need not stop the internationalcommunity from working to strengthen itsdialogue with China: and China will respondprovided it feels it is being treated withrespect, on a basis of mutual interest.

Bridges over the CamThe bridges connecting China with theoutside world have thus been rebuilt andstrengthened to carry huge two-way traffic ofevery sort. The area of education is anotherwhere contacts have proliferated. Cambridge’sinvolvement with China goes back over acentury: the first Professor of Chinese, Sir

Thomas Wade, was appointed in 1888 after adistinguished career as a diplomat (he hadserved, like me, as Chinese Secretary at theBritish Legation in Peking).

Until recently Chinese students atCambridge were a rare and exotic species, butin the first half of the twentieth century a fewdid manage to leave their war-torn countryand come to study. A young poet, Xu Zhimo,was at King’s College in 1921-2, and a poemof his, “On Leaving Cambridge” is known toevery Chinese schoolchild. With its romanticevocation of willow leaves trailing in the riverCam it has shaped the dreams of successivegenerations of Chinese students. Since lastyear an inscribed marble boulder on theBacks, bearing lines from his poem, hasbecome a new destination for the ever-growing crowds of Chinese tourists.

Over the past few years the trickle ofChinese coming to study and do research atCambridge has turned into a flood – theyhave now overtaken the Americans to formthe largest group of overseas students at theUniversity. In Caius we can claim to haveanticipated the trend in a number of ways;

who collaborated with him on hismonumental work. Others have come on theirown initiative – the current President of theCollege, Professor Yao Liang, as well as youngresearchers and undergraduates who find inthe College a stimulating and welcomingenvironment. Further articles in this issue tellsome of their stories.

After thirty years of China’s reform andopening, Cambridge University is engagedwith China in innumerable ways. It overseescollaboration between faculties and individualacademics, offers training for senior officialsand business executives and engages instudent exchanges. I am delighted to help theVice-Chancellor with some of the officialvisitors that come her way: so again, as inNeedham’s time, Chinese delegations troopthrough the Old Courts and Chinese visitorsare welcomed to dine on High Table. The visitof Premier Wen Jiabao to Cambridge inFebruary – undertaken despite snowy weather– took these exchanges to the highest level. Itwould be wrong to remember it solely for thediscourteous act of a single protestor whointerrupted his lecture by throwing a shoe:

Sir Christopher (back row, just left ofcentre) in an official photograph withDeng Xiaoping (front row, centre).

Sir Christopher (back row, second from left) with British Prime Minister, Tony Blair and Chinese Premier,Wen Jiabao.

The current global economic crisis willtest China’s leaders to the utmost. They areentitled to criticise profligate economicpolicies in the West. Nonetheless they are notimmune from the effects, and they arewatching with alarm as their export industriesare hit by falling world demand, causingfactories to close, job markets to contract andunemployed immigrant labourers to floodback to the country villages from which theycame. It is vital for the health of the worldeconomy as a whole that China shouldcontinue to be an engine of global growth.

Threat or opportunity? Emphatically anopportunity. But China is simply too big andtoo proud to be an easy partner. It isdetermined to protect its own interests. Itfeels there is unfinished business where itsnational sovereignty is concerned – hence itspast belligerence towards Taiwan and its

maladministration and corruption in localgovernment. To allay their fears they haveembarked on a huge exercise to improvegovernance, unwilling to recognise that someof the problems could lie in the totalitariansystem itself, with its absence of checks andbalances.

There is the devastation that the dash foreconomic growth has caused to China’senvironment. Air pollution and waterpollution are among the worst in the world.Desertification and deforestation threatenthe countryside, as does uncontrolledurbanisation. It will be hugely difficult andexpensive to reverse this damage. It will beno less so to deal with some of the problemsendemic to China’s situation – restrictedagricultural land relative to population, ashortage of water in Northern China, a hugepopulation which despite draconian controls

On Leaving Cambridgeby Xu Zhimo

that aside, the lasting impression the Premierleft was one of evident respect forCambridge’s achievements and a strongendorsement of the University’s thrivingpartnerships in China.

There is no doubt that China will continueto play a crucial role in the world of thetwenty-first century – in education, cultureand science just as much as in global politicsand economic management. The partnershipthat Cambridge has formed with the Chinesegovernment and Chinese partner universitiesis an immensely promising one, and one thatcoincides with an important national interest.And as before there is a part for Caius to playas a college with a special sympathy for Chinaand a history of fruitful contacts.

Calligraphy by Madame Zhaolin Fang, mother ofJohn Fang (1967), aunt of Professor Michael Fang(1963) and great aunt of Dr Christopher Fang (1991).

Xu Zhimo’s poem, which is known to every Chineseschoolchild, reflects the deep affection that manyChinese academics feel for Cambridge. An Englishtranslation may be found on page 37.

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In 1971 I invited Joseph and DophiNeedham and Lu Gwei-Djen to dinewith me at home to inspect aportrait drawing of Joseph by MichaelAyrton. The artist had recently

offered it to me when the College Councildeclined to accept it. Following the dictumthat all pictures are enhanced by a touch ofred, I asked Joseph if he would be willing toembellish it with some of his favouriteChinese seals.

Joseph brought his collection of seals,tried out sixteen for me to choose from andthen added the three I liked best to theportrait. He explained that the commontheme to his collection of seals was theletter “J” and the use of the metaphor of thebridge between apparently opposing sides –so there were seals representing Josephthe bridge between Arts and Science,Joseph the bridge between East and West,Joseph the bridge between Capitalism andCommunism, Joseph the bridge betweenChristianity and Taoism.

Revealingly, he explained that hisinspiration to act as such a bridge was hisexperience as an only child living with, andtrying to keep the peace between, hiswarring parents. His father, a successfulHarley Street consultant, and his mother, ared-haired Irish writer of popular songs likeNellie Dean, were a particularly ill-matchedpair. They found it so difficult to agree thatthey even insisted on calling their infant sonby different first names. Fortunately he hadfour Christian names for them to choosefrom – Noel, Joseph, Terence andMontgomery. His father called him Noel. Hismother called him Terence. Perhaps notsurprisingly, in adulthood he chose to useone not favoured by either of them.

Joseph Needham’s passionate adherenceto apparently contradictory sets of beliefs,and his lifelong ambition to bridge theyawning gap between them, could be traced,he said, to the painful tensions of his lonelychildhood in a talented, wealthy butdysfunctional family. His mother was hisfather’s second wife. He married her after anacquaintanceship of only six weeks, and livedto regret the marriage for a further thirtytempestuous years. She was wildlyextravagant with money, and much given toalmighty tantrums replete with tears,screams and plate throwing – mainlydirected at her husband.

Even more of his desire to conciliate

Cambridge.” This was an absurd over-statement but it was not an atypicalresponse to his death. The BBC initiallyreacted in not dissimilar fashion.

Waugh went on to argue that, by dying,Joseph Needham had shown “what a usefulinstitution is death. Now Dr Needham’sachievement is remembered and assessed bymillions of his fellow countrymen. Even hadhe lived another 200 years at Cambridge, stillnone of us would have heard of him. Now allour lives are enriched.”

The causes of this dramatic ascent tofame and recognition were his obituaries.They really were quite remarkable – soremarkable that a reassessment of hisimportance was irresistible.

The Economist compared him as anhistorian with Gibbon. The New York Timescompared the significance of his work withthat of Darwin – as well as that of Gibbon.The Daily Telegraph and The Independentcompared him as a thinker (to Needham’sadvantage) with Erasmus. Indeed TheIndependent went further by claiming thathe had produced “the greatest work ofscholarship by one person since Aristotle”.In the company of such eulogies, TheGuardian seemed to be almost restrained injudging him to be simply “one of the greatestEnglishmen” of the twentieth century.

Other judgements called him “theErasmus of the 20th century” and went on tosay that with the passage of time “he will berecognised as a greater figure than thescholar from Rotterdam”. Perhaps the mostremarkable tribute was the one that includedthe sentence “With the death of Dr Needhamthe world of learning has lost one of thegreatest scholars of this or any country, ofthis or any century”.

It was, of course, his huge multi-volumetreatise on Science and Civilisation in Chinawhich largely inspired such outstandingtributes, but it is important to realise thatthere was a Needham B.C. – a Needhambefore China.

We must not overlook that he had beena brilliant scientist before he became anhistorian of such highly acclaimedachievements. As a biochemist he publishedearly and prolifically. He was elected into aFellowship at Caius at the age of 23. Hepublished his first book before he was 25. Hepublished a three-volume magnum opus onChemical Embryology by the time he wasthirty. As a result he was given a Readership

at Cambridge by the age of 32 and was madea Fellow of the Royal Society at theremarkably early age of 40.

His reputation as a scientist of greatdistinction seemed beyond doubt. His futurein biochemistry seemed assured. When hissecond major work had been published in hislate thirties, a reviewer at Harvard, who ofcourse could know nothing of what was stillto come, declared that this work,Biochemistry and Morphogenesis, “will godown in the annals of science as JosephNeedham’s magnum opus, destined to takeits place as one of the most truly epoch-making books in biology since CharlesDarwin”. His work as an embryologist waslater held by some to have anticipated thediscovery of DNA by two decades.

Such achievements as a biochemist makehis future work as an historian of China allthe more remarkable. In the middle of hisscientific career, under the influence of LuGwei-Djen, he suddenly began his great loveaffair with the language and history andscience and civilisation of China.

He already knew seven Europeanlanguages but now he taught himself to readChinese and taught himself to write it. Hewas determined to understand its scientificand technological past. So began a study ofbreathtaking scope and ambition. It nowamounts to twenty-four massive volumes.It has succeeded in revolutionizing ourassessment of China’s scientificachievements – and, in consequence, hasdramatically changed our attitude to theachievements of Western science.

When, in the seventeenth century,Francis Bacon famously declared thatnothing had changed the world moreprofoundly than Western Europe’s threegreat inventions – gunpowder, printing andthe compass – he and his contemporarieshad no idea that all three of these greatbreakthroughs had been invented andsuccessfully employed many centuries beforein China.

Needham was to discover far more thanthis. Sent by the British Government on adiplomatic mission to China in 1943 to helpto sustain the universities of China from theoccupying Japanese forces, he used his timeto amass an astonishing store of researchmaterials. They were to prove the basis ofthe rest of his life’s work. From these original

between opposites could, in my opinion, betraced to the benign and inspiring influenceof the delightful Lu Gwei-Djen, who was forhalf a century his colleague, his collaborator,his mistress and his muse. They were notable to marry until he was 88 and she was85 but she played a huge role in his life andwork. As she whispered to me, somewhatmischievously, at my portrait-embellishingdinner party – “Joseph may be the bridgebetween East and West, but I am thesupporting arch”.

It is, perhaps, worth asking ourselveswhat manner of man it was who harbouredsuch grand altruistic ambitions, what kind ofwork was it with which he hoped to bridgethese great divisions, what success did heenjoy and how did the world recognise andapplaud his efforts.

During his lifetime Joseph Needham wasthe very reverse of a celebrity. Judged interms of name recognition he would havescored very modestly indeed, even amongstthe educated elite. When he died, manyamong the chattering classes of Londonexpressed amazement that they hadremained wholly ignorant of this learnedscholar who, they were now realising, was ofsuch towering, almost unrivalled stature.Auberon Waugh wrote an article “In praise ofdeath” in The Daily Telegraph to admit that“before Joseph Needham, the Cambridge donand Morris dancer, died at the age of 94 thisweek, I am ashamed to admit that I hadnever heard of him. Nor had anyone else Iasked. Perhaps he was known only in donnishand Morris dancing circles, chiefly in

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sources, he managed, in Simon Winchester’srecent judgement, “almost overnight andalmost single-handedly” to replace “thedismissive ignorance with which China hadlong been viewed” with “a sense of respect,amazement and awe”.

The change in attitude was nothing likeso dramatic or so quick. Not everyoneaccepted uncritically Needham’s initialclaims. But, as the successive volumes issuedfrom the press, the weight of evidence (andthe range, depth and antiquity of theinventiveness it revealed) gradually assumeda magisterial authority that could not lightlybe dismissed.

The Chinese had got there first not onlyin inventing gunpowder, printing and thecompass, but had also done so with nearlythree hundred other useful inventions. Theyincluded the abacus, asbestos, the belt drive,blast furnaces, ball bearings, callipers, castiron, the chain drive, the crossbow,flamethrowers, gear wheels, the harness,lacquer, extendable ladders, leeboards andcentre boards, porcelain, powered flight,rotary fans, seawalls, seismographs, silkspinning, smallpox inoculation, the spindlewheel, steroids, the stirrup, tea, tilt-hammers, and many, many more. Chineseinventiveness also encompassed many light-hearted ideas – chess, umbrellas,wheelbarrows, toilet paper, wallpaper, kites,fireworks, fishing reels, and the weather vane– but the inventions that must haveespecially lifted Joseph Needham’s spiritswere those relating to bridges: thesegmental arched bridge, the releasablebridge and the iron-chain suspension bridge.As Needham wrote of these Chineseinventions “The mere fact of seeing themlisted brings home to one the astonishinginventiveness of the Chinese people”. It wasby then difficult to disagree.

Some had thought it. Voltaire had said it(“Four thousand years ago, when we couldn’teven read, the Chinese knew all theabsolutely useful things we boast abouttoday”). Now Needham had proved it. Withan astonishing array of detailed scholarshiphe had systematically charted, dated andevidenced the amazing achievements ofChinese science.

It was no longer simply collegiate pridethat was growing with each new volume. AsNeedham repeated his characteristic ritualof trundling a trolley loaded with thecompleted typescript of each huge volumethrough the Gate of Honour and alongKing’s Parade to the Press, the scholarlyworld at large was also increasingly takingnotice. Not only historians and sinologistshad to revise their views. Even literary criticswere beginning to react – and in a verypositive way. George Steiner said thatNeedham’s books could be favourably

of course have received the Order of Merit –I have known several very worthy historianswho were awarded that supreme honourwho were not remotely as distinguished asNeedham.

However, considering how he wasvirtually shunned at one time in his ownCollege, was at times deeply unpopular inthe Department of Biochemistry, was deniedadmission to the United States for manyyears and was held in great suspicion bymuch of the British Establishment, he endedhis life pretty adequately garlanded withhonours. His College made him firstPresident and then Master, his Universitygave him an Honorary Degree, which is its

compared with Proust’s multi-volume À laRecherche du Temps Perdu because “bothProust and Needham have made ofremembrance an act both of moral justiceand of high art”. Needham, he felt, was“literally recomposing an ancient China, aChina forgotten in some degree by Chinesescholars themselves and all but ignored bythe West”. In Steiner’s judgement: “Thealchemists and metal-workers, the surveyorsand court astronomers, the mystics andmilitary engineers of a lost world come tolife, through an intensity of recapture, ofempathic insight which is the attribute of agreat historian, but even more of a greatartist”.

highest accolade, and American universitiesadded their tributes too. Not surprisinglyChina gave him the highest honour it couldgive to someone who was not a Head ofState.

When he ended his life as JosephNeedham, C.H., F.R.S., F.B.A., Hon. Litt .D, hewas the only person in the country whocould boast that constellation of awards.

It is a poignant footnote to the world ofhonours to note that the Marxist couple,Joseph and Dophi Needham, couldlegitimately boast that they were the first

Not everyone climbed on to thebandwagon. Astonishingly, Needham wasnever offered a professorship in Cambridge –neither the Faculty of History nor theHistorians of Science nor the Faculty ofOriental Studies ever proposed him for apersonal chair. Remarkably, he had to waituntil he was in his seventies to get his FBA.Even more remarkably, he was offered nonational gong until he was 90. He could notresist saying “And about time too” when hewent to Buckingham Palace to collect his CHor what he called his “failed OM”. He should

It has to be admitted that Needham wasnot the saintly character that some of hisadmirers liked to think. Faced with a manwho had published over 100 books, who wasresponsible for putting the S for Science intoUNESCO, whose scholarship was so originaland so vast, it is understandable that manyacademics wished to cast him as anunblemished hero. Indeed it was difficult notto be so bowled over by his achievements, sohumbled by his stamina, so astonished by hisphotographic memory, so amazed by therange of his gifts and so dazzled by hisintellectual accomplishments that one wasblinded to his many flaws. But flaws therecertainly were.

Like many great men he had what hisfriends regarded as forgivable peccadilloesand his enemies called unforgivable characterflaws.

It cannot be denied that Joseph madesome major errors of judgement andprovided his enemies with ampleammunition with which to attack him, butthis is not the place to rehearse thatevidence or to examine his many faults.

When he died, many of the yawningdivisions that Joseph Needham had hoped tobridge were still very far from beingharmoniously healed. He could reasonablyclaim, however, to have made a majorcontribution to a better mutualunderstanding between some of them. Hiswork had already done much to banishcenturies of Western ignorance aboutChinese science and technology. As theknowledge of his work seeped ever furtherout into the educated world it promised tobuild more of the bridges of reciprocalcomprehension he worked so hard toachieve.

And the Needham legacy lives on. In K2,Caius Court, the room now occupied byStephen Hawking (1965) there is a pleasingtribute to the immortality of Joseph’sinfluence and the survival of his work. On theancient panelling there is an elegant four-character Chinese aphorism. It can betranslated as “The Man departs – thereremains his Shadow”.

Needham’s shadow – his intellectuallegacy – will certainly survive in Caius and inCambridge. Let us hope that it will survive inthe world at large and will help to heal someof the divisions that still plague our lives. Itwould be an apt posthumous exercise in thebridge building to which Needham soardently aspired.

As the Chinese economy dramaticallyexpands and China moves forward to itsseemingly inevitable position as the world’sgreatest power, the reputation of JosephNeedham (or of Li Yue-se as he isknown in China) will surely be cherished andrevered. After all, he was the man who firsttrumpeted to the world China’s once pre-eminent scientific achievements and forcedChina to question why it had not done moreto exploit their economic potential.

Above: Joseph Needham with hissecond wife, Dr Lu Gwei-Djen, aftertheir wedding in the Caius Chapelin September 1989.

Left: Joseph Needham with hisfirst wife, Dr Dorothy Needham,after the onset of her debilitatingAlzheimer’s Disease.

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Portrait of Joseph Needham by Michael Ayrton.

married couple to be Fellows of the RoyalSociety since Queen Victoria and PrinceAlbert held honorary versions of that signalhonour.

It is even more poignant that Dr LuGwei-Djen (the self-proclaimed “archbeneath the bridge between East and West”,and in some ways “the onlie begetter of thegreat work” and certainly the co-author ofmuch of it) died with no honours at all.

What mattered most to them, however,was the knowledge that they had beeninvolved in the production of a majesticwork of pioneering scholarship. They hadhelped to produce one of the scholarlyglories of the twentieth century.

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Barack Obama’s rise from povertyand obscurity to the Presidencyof the United States isencouraging evidence that talentand tenacity can make anything

possible. The story of our own President’sjourney from equally humble origins to aposition of great academic eminence isalmost as remarkable.

Professor Yao Liang (1963) was born atPalembang in Sumatra on 23 September1940, the fourth and youngest child of aSingapore-born Chinese father and anIndonesia-born Chinese mother. Both wereoriginally teachers but his father then workedat the Dutch petroleum refinery atPalembang and rose to become Chief Cashier.

When the Japanese invaded Sumatra in1943, the Liangs had to escape toJava to avoid internment and almostcertain death. On the instruction ofthe Dutch owners, Yao’s father andothers had tried to blow up the refinery,but having never handled explosives,caused only minor damage. The job waseventually completed by another Caian,David Foster (1938), who led the Fleet AirArm’s bombing raid in 1944 (See Once aCaian… Issue 3, page 12.)

After the War, Yao attended primaryschool in Jakarta but preferred play to study,regularly failed exams, came bottom of theclass and twice had to change schools toavoid being kept in the year below! But in hisfinal year, he met the first of the “protectors”with whom he feels his life has been blessed:Mr Li taught mathematics and chemistry andmiraculously inspired in young Yao a liking for“the discipline of thought that is the basis ofall sciences”. Mr Li also taught him at BaZhong secondary school, where Yaoconfounded his earlier academic record bycoming top of the class for six years in a row!

Ba Zhong was a “leftist” school: successfulpupils were expected to go to CommunistChina, where higher education was free, andto contribute to the development of themotherland. Yao’s sisters and brother were inChina already, but he saw signs of struggle,imperfect leaders and cracks in the systemand wondered about going elsewhere tostudy. America was not an option, being fartoo expensive and disliked for its culture andimperialism. “Materialism was a dirty wordand we thought there was no spirit inAmerican life.”

An older school friend was studying atBattersea College, London and suggestedcoming to England. Yao had a British passport,thanks to his Singaporean father, and hisparents encouraged him to go: “Although theyhadn’t quite figured out how to find themoney, they promised to support me!”

In England, in September 1958, his friendintroduced him to a former student at the

Two young teachers had aparticular impact on him and

protected him, Mr Likely in Mathsand Harry Howarth in Physics. Yao

was delighted last year to receive aletter from Mr Howarth’s widow, Gill, whohad spotted his name in a copy of Once aCaian… that she had been lent by her Caianbrother-in-law, Peter Joseph Bulman (1955).In due course, Yao completed his “A” and S”levels with results that vindicated thepromise his friend made on his behalf twoyears earlier and won a place at ImperialCollege, London, to read Physics. Yao said“Physics examiners must be generous people:they give students like me the benefit of thedoubt when they don’t quite understandwhat was written in the script.”

At ICL, the pattern was repeated: “I wasjust not good enough at English to write long

reports.” By the thirdyear, it was obvious

that he should doTheoretical Physics,since there would

be no experiments towrite up, and he justified his

selection by getting a First. He wasdelighted to be offered a PhD place at

Manchester and went to enrol, but a letterfrom Philip Bowden (1926), then Director ofthe Physics and Chemistry of Solids at theCavendish, changed everything. When Yaotold his supervisor-to-be in Manchester thathe had been invited to visit the world’s topPhysics Department in Cambridge, he said“I know them: you’re not coming back!”

And so it turned out. Yao remembersPhilip Bowden as “a very slick operator – andvery authoritative.” He introduced Yao to

PortsmouthCollege of Arts andTechnology, who had brokenthe College record by passing fourScience “A” levels with Distinction. Yao’snew friend took him there, the next day, tomeet the Head of Physics. Assuming thatevery educated person could read Chinese,Yao handed over his school papers. TheHead of Physics scanned them thoughtfully,then asked his companion: “Is he as good asyou?” – “Oh, yes!” came the answer – so Yaowas in!

At this stage, he could not understandthe lectures, answer questions or write upreports of experiments. “The saving gracewas that I had a good grounding from myIndonesian school and I’d brought myChinese text-books. I taught myself Englishby translating them!”

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several distinguished scientists at theCavendish, wined and dined him at the ArtsTheatre and when Yao mentioned his PhDplace at Manchester, simply sat him downand asked him to write something on a pieceof paper: “Just write this down: ‘Dear DrBowden, I’m very pleased to accept youroffer.’ Now write your name. That’s fine.” Yaosaid: “I thought it was a dictation, a way oftesting my English. But then he put his armround my shoulders and showed me to thedoor, saying ‘Now you need a College!’”

Bowden directed him to “N” staircase,Tree Court, to see Freddie Stopp (1958), theSenior Tutor, then phoned ahead to makesure Stopp would accept this reluctant Caian.After the formalities, Freddie looked out ofthe window and pointed to K1: “That’swhere Dr Needham works.” “Who’s he?”enquired Yao.

Installed at the Cavendish in October1963, Yao met perhaps the greatest of all hislife-long “protectors”, his PhD supervisor, AbeYoffe: “Right from the start, I felt I had foundmy mentor.”

doing, and I had everything I needed for myresearch right here. And those were thegolden days of solid state physics, in that somuch was yet to be discovered.” In 1968, achance conversation with John Casey (1964)planted the idea of a Research Fellowship, butfirst Yao had to ask Abe Yoffe what it was!

The Fellowship gave him the financialsecurity he needed to marry the girl he hadbeen courting for four years, the beautifulChoo, who provided him with three lovelydaughters. Although he was still doubtfulabout his English, Yoffe “pushed me out intothe world to give papers at internationalconferences. Abe could have done it muchbetter himself, but he thought it would begood for me. Then I began to realize I wasone of the small group of people at theforefront of semi-conductor physics, trying todevelop a better understanding of thematerials used in hi-tech electronics, not onlytransistors for radios but integrated circuitseventually used in miniaturization for

As one of the first occupants of HarveyCourt, Yao found Caius a very strange place.“I was amazed at how friendly people wereand how willing to help. The friendliness gaveme the confidence to reach out to people.Hostel life had been very lonely and I had mymind on my work. At Caius, for the first time,I had to try speaking English properly, in agroup of ten or twenty people in the BAs’Room (now the MCR) after dinner. And themost wonderful aspect was getting to knowpeople other than physicists, people fromdifferent countries and different disciplines.I found myself invited to tea and sherry bytotal strangers – who turned out to be myTutor, the Physics Fellows and the legendaryMrs Roughton (a local lady GP who tried tomake sure that Chinese students were nottoo homesick, especially at Christmas andChinese New Year). I had a lot to learn,quickly."

Caius became his spiritual home and hasremained so: “I’m not a man with plans, stillless ambition: I’m just interested in what I’m

building in West Cambridge where the lightswere never turned off! In 1994, he wasappointed to the new Chair ofSuperconductivity, established for one tenureonly. Before he retired from the University in2007, he headed the Shoenberg Lab forQuantum Matter at the Cavendish, (namedafter Dr David Shoenberg (1947)) where heturned his attention to materials that changestates near the Absolute Zero, the so-calledQuantum Phase Transition.

In 2005, the Fellows of Caius chose himas their President. Initially he was unsure butonce elected, he threw himself into it withgreat energy. The President has to fulfill adual role of providing support to the Masterand representing the interests of theFellowship. It helps to have a broadknowledge of the College, Fellows, studentsand staff.

On top of all this, for the past four years

he has been pestered constantly byunreasonable requests and demands forphotographs from a bothersome Editor ofOnce a Caian… Yao has responded withunfailing good humour, exceptional skills withboth his camera and his computer and totaldetermination to do anything in his power toimprove the magazine or benefit the College.The bothersome Editor and Caians at largeowe him a considerable debt of gratitude.

computers, mobile phones, digitalcameras, etc.”

His areas of research changed over thenext four decades: he looked into bandstructure (how electrons are distributed indifferent materials to make them a metal, asemi-conductor or an insulator). Then hetried to develop thin film secondary solid-state batteries (rechargeable batteries onchips) – an idea where the physics hassucceeded, (i.e. it works in the lab), but whichtechnology has not yet perfected forcommercial use. In 1987 came the discoveryof “High Temperature Superconductivity”.This meant lab work with liquid nitrogen(minus 196°C.) instead of liquid helium(minus 269°C.). Only a physicist wouldconsider that a high temperature!

In 1988, Yao was appointed Director ofthe Inter-disciplinary Research Centre (IRC) inSuperconductivity, which began ten years ofmuch pressure and little sleep in a new

Photographs above (clockwise, from top left)Yao Liang with his Cambridge supervisor, AbeYoffe; Yao with Edward Teller, one of thearchitects of the Atomic Bomb, and Nevill Mott(1930); at work at the IRC in Superconductivity;lecturing to the Caius MCR; Yao and Choo Liang;lecturing at Caius; Yao with Nevill Mott; ChooLiang with their three daughters on Jesus Green.

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Caian audiences at AnnualGatherings and other Collegeevents are usually delighted tohear that Caians have won asmany Nobel Prizes as Russia.

Until last year, the score stood at 11-all, butthe award of the 2008Nobel Prize in Chemistry toProfessor Roger Tsien (1977)and two other scientists hasonce again given the Collegea slender lead in this ratherunequal contest.

Roger Tsien spent fouryears at Caius as a ComynsBerkeley Research Fellowand is still enormouslygrateful to the College forsupporting him at a crucialtime and for theopportunity it gave him towork on his own initiative,after completing his firstdegree at Harvard and aPhD at Churchill College, Cambridge.

The essence of a Research Fellowship, hesays, is “being given enough rope either tohang yourself or to climb up!” He still hasdreams in which he is still a Research Fellowand remembers this personal landmark nearlyas vividly as the telephone call in the early

Professor Jeremy Sanders:“Roger decided that it was important to

know the concentration of calcium in cells,and he had an entirely novel idea about howto measure it,” said Professor Sanders. “Hisidea was to design a molecule that could get

into cells and change colourwhen it contacted calciumions. It was a brilliantconception, combiningchemistry and biology. Hemade the compound inChemistry, then he wentback to Physiology andproved his idea worked.Roger’s original compoundand its descendants havetransformed ourunderstanding of cellbiology. He has continuedhis work in this area, and isan inspiration to everyonewho reads his work or hearshim speak.”

After leaving Cambridge, Roger movedback to the USA and is now based at theHoward Hughes Medical Institute at theUniversity of California in San Diego, wherehe transferred his attention from calcium tothe remarkable, brightly glowing GreenFluorescent Protein, GFP.

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hours of 8 October 2008 which brought newsof his Nobel Prize. The vital differencebetween the two, he says, is that: “A ResearchFellowship is a promise for the future ratherthan recognition of the past.”

He believes that many of the most

important scientific discoveries of the futurewill be found in the territory crossingbetween two or more different disciplines. AtCambridge, he was officially attached to thePhysiological Laboratory but spent much ofhis time working in the Department ofChemistry, where he was supervised by

learned it phonetically. Over the past 27years, he has enjoyed reciting it from memoryas a party trick. It was, he says, “ingrained overfour years of uncomprehending listening whilemy neurons were still young enough to learnstuff like that.”

He also recalls his first after-dinner visit tothe Panelled Combination Room, where, asthe Junior Fellow present, it was his duty torecord each glass of port, claret or dessertwine taken by himself and his colleagues.After one such evening, he made a consciousdecision to say he was “going back to the Lab”after dining at High Table, whether or not heactually did so!

Roger Tsien’s visit and his lecture werehugely inspiring to all who were fortunateenough to attend. He closed with sixcharacteristically practical pieces of advice for

The Nobel Prize was given to reward thediscovery of GFP and a series of majordevelopments which have led to its use as atagging tool in molecular biology. GFP wasfirst observed in the beautiful jellyfish,Aequorea victoria in 1962. Since then, it hasbecome vitally important to bioscience,allowing researchers to watch processes thatwere previously invisible, such as nerve celldamage in the brain during Alzheimer’s or thespread of cancer cells.

There are tens of thousands of differentproteins in each living organism, controllingchemical processes in minute detail. If thisprotein machinery malfunctions, illness anddisease often follow. So it is imperative forbioscience to map the roles of differentproteins in the body. Researchers can nowconnect GFP to other interesting butotherwise invisible proteins. The glowingmarker allows them to watch the movements,positions and interactions of the taggedproteins.

The Nobel Prize was shared with twoother US-based scientists: Osamu Shimomura,who first isolated GFP from the jellyfishAequorea victoria and discovered that itglowed bright green under ultraviolet light,and Martin Chalfie, who demonstrated thevalue of GFP as a luminous genetic tag forvarious biological phenomena.

Roger Tsien contributed to theunderstanding of how GFP fluoresces andextended the colour palette beyond green,allowing researchers to give various proteinsand cells different colours, which enablesthem to follow several different biologicalprocesses at the same time.

Professor Tsien came back to Caius on16 January 2009, for the first time since hewas awarded an Honorary Fellowship of theCollege last year. He gave a highlyentertaining, informal lecture in a packedBateman Auditorium, completely winning overhis audience of students and Fellows with awhimsical, self-deprecating account of hisown life and work, reflecting on how thingshave changed since he was “sprinkled withSwedish fairy-dust”!

He was the first member of his family tobe born after his parents moved from Chinato New York. There was a strong familytradition in engineering: the best-knownmember was his father’s cousin, who directedthe Chinese ballistic missile programmeduring the Cold War. Roger’s own preferencehad always been for chemistry: as an allergicchild in New Jersey, he recalls watching hisfather digging weeds by hand from their lawnand says he always wanted to spray themwith herbicide from sufficient distance toavoid their pollen!

One of his clearest memories of Caius isthe Latin Grace, “Benedic, Domine, nobis...”He didn’t really understand what it meant, but

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aspiring young scientific researchers:1. Try to put your neuroses to constructive

use.2. Try to find projects that give you some

sensual pleasure.3. Accept that your batting average will be

low – but hopefully not zero! 4. Learn to make lemonade from lemons –

sometimes persistence pays off.5. Find the right collaborators and exploit

them kindly for mutual benefit.6. Prizes are ultimately a matter of luck, so

avoid being motivated or impressed bythem! Roger Tsien clearly still feels a great

affection for Caius: “The College took a risk onme and I appreciated it!” As a tangibleexpression of his gratitude, he has generouslydecided to leave a significant legacy to Caiusin his will, to help to give similar opportunitiesto the brightest young students of the future.So Russia had better look to its laurels!

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From top: Computer simulation of GFP crystalstructure.

Left to right: Professor Christine Holt (1997),Dr Anne Lyon (2001), Professor Roger Tsien (1977),Sophie Robinson (2006), Professor Bill Harris,Dide Siemmond (2006).

The extended palette of fluorescent proteins, nowin more colours than a rainbow.

Below: Agar plate of fluorescent bacteria coloniesarranged in a fanciful beach scene.

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A packed house of Fellows and students in the Bateman Auditorium listens to the John Haines CollegeLecturer, Dr David Summers (1974), introducing the College’s latest Nobel Laureate, Professor Roger Tsien(1977). There were no empty seats – the two that are apparently vacant were reserved for Dr Summersand the President, who was taking this photograph!

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Tien Chin Ts’ao (Pinyin Chinese:Cao Tian Qin ) came toCaius in 1946 as an affiliatedstudent to read biochemistry.After obtaining a First class

degree, he embarked on research into muscleprotein structure. Upon completion of hisPhD in 1951, he was elected to a DrosierResearch Fellowship, the first Chinese toachieve that distinction at Caius.

Tien Chin was born and grew up inPeking (Beijing). He was admitted toYenching ( ) University, Peking, to readchemistry at the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war. Yenching, an elite institutionwith a close association with Harvard,became part of Peking University in 1952.The war meant that the University moved totemporary sites several times and Tien Chinended up graduating in 1944 as a chemistfrom Chengtu ( ), 218 miles north-westof the wartime capital Chungking (ChongQing ). In those days Chengtu-Chungking

church in Thaxted, south of Cambridge,before journeying back to China. There is noreal surprise in the choice of Thaxted;founded in 1340, eight years earlier thanGonville Hall, it was the favourite church ofJoseph Needham for its Morris dancing andfor its Anglo-Catholic Marxist Vicar, the RevdJack Putterill.

Tien Chin based his professionalresearch career entirely in Shanghai, first asa Research Fellow at the Institute ofBiochemistry, where he rose to become itsDirector, followed by various high offices ofthe Chinese Academy of Sciences includingthe Presidency of the Shanghai branch ofthe Academy. As soon as China opened upin the early nineteen-eighties, until hisparalyzing illness in 1987, he took an activepart in the international biosciencecommunity. In 1983 he was elected aforeign member of the Royal SwedishAcademy of Engineering. His sense ofhumour, wit, generosity and intellect won

was a hotbed of the finest intellects ofChina, and many postwar leaders in scienceand letters could trace their roots there. Evenmore significantly, Tien Chin was introducedto Joseph Needham (1918) after graduatingand became Needham’s personal secretaryand assistant for nearly two years, travellingwidely in China. His contact with DorothyNeedham at this time evidently ignited hisinterest in biochemistry.

Throughout his secondary school anduniversities (Yenching and Cambridge), hewas separated from his childhood sweetheartXide Xie ( ), who later played a pivotalrole in establishing solid-state physics andsurface science research in China, as well asin education. But they met again briefly andgot engaged in 1946 before they both wentto study abroad, Tien Chin to Cambridge andXide to Smith College, Massachusetts. In1952, after obtaining her PhD from MIT, Xidecame to Cambridge and early that summer,they were married at the ancient parish

him many friends and great respect outsideChina. It is said that internationalconferences often turned quickly into Ts’aosymposia in his presence.

He made groundbreaking contributionsin several areas of biochemical andphysiological research. His discovery, inCambridge, of the light and heavy chainstructure of myosin has developed into amajor discipline and he was also responsiblefor the earliest application of fluorescencepolarization technique to study muscleprotein. All this led to him being accreditedas ‘Mr Tropomyosin’. His work on themuscle structure of the Han mummy(c. 100 AD), excavated in 1973 atMawangdui ( ), was an importantcontribution to bio-archaeological science.

He was also among the first toinvestigate plant diseases at a molecularlevel. This led to the discovery of a numberof plant disease pathogens and theidentification of new domestic plant virusesor strains of viruses. He headed a smallteam of research workers and started toexplore techniques for insulin synthesis in1958. They succeeded in November 1965and the full publication of their results tookplace in April 1966, which appears to bemonths ahead of similar work in the West.The synthesis of bovine insulin is one of fewscientific breakthroughs to come out ofChina during this period of extreme socialand economic difficulty. Sadly, politicalinterference and the poor communicationsof Chinese science with the outside worldprevented its ready recognition at the time.

Tien Chin and his wife paid a heavy tollduring the ‘Cultural Revolution’ between1966 and 1976. It was bad enough for bothof them to have come from long-established, intellectual families and to haveheld responsible positions before this tragicperiod. Their association with the West andwith Joseph Needham added to their‘misdeeds’; they were branded as workingfor foreign spies. He was subjected tophysical punishment that producedpermanent injuries to his neck and mayhave contributed to his accident and illnessin 1987. His wife had an operation forbreast cancer in early 1966 and alsosuffered from long-term neglect of herillness. It was only after the directintervention of Premier Chou Enlai in 1972that Tien Chin was relieved of heavy labourand given the lighter work of packing coalbricks in his own Institute. This continued tothe end of the ‘Cultural Revolution’.

Tien Chin Ts’ao was a beacon ofbioscience in 20th century China. Despitehis untimely illness and the political turmoilhe experienced, his was a most remarkableachievement and he left the world manylasting legacies.

Peter Bauer (1934) came to Cambridge from Hungary with very littleEnglish and even less money and succeeded in becoming one of the mostrespected economists of his generation. When he died in May 2002, shortlyafter winning the first Milton Friedman (1953) Prize for Advancing Liberty,he left a substantial bequest to fund scholarships and bursaries for

undergraduates and graduates “to whom funding would not otherwise be available”.Bauer was conscious of his debt to those who had supported him during his early

days at Caius and wanted to do the same for gifted young people in the nextgeneration, even though he himself would never meet them. Unusually, to maximizethe impact of his gift, he stipulated that both the capital and the interest should bespent within a few years of his death.

He wished the scholarships to commemorate two exceptional friends andcolleagues, Richard Goode (1934), a Spitfire pilot who was killed in action in WorldWar Two at the age of 25, and Sir Ronald Fisher (1909), the celebrated statistician andbiologist, winner of the Copley Medal of the Royal Society in 1955 and President ofCaius from 1956 to 1959. Lord Bauer’s executors have agreed that a bursary orscholarship awarded from the fund should also bear his own name.

Last year, the Fisher and Goode Bursaries were both awarded to Chinese studentsof Engineering, Andrea An (2004) and Qi Tu (2004), to help with the costs of theirfourth year of study at Caius. Their Tutor, Dr Dino Giussani (1996) said: “As a tutor,I was very fortunate to get to know Andrea and Qi very well during the 4 years oftheir course. They were a breath of fresh air, a joy to work with and they will both bewonderful ambassadors for Caius and the University in what are certain to be careersfull of distinction.”

Both students graduated in June 2008 and their parents made the journey fromChina specially to attend both the College’s May Week Party and their children’sGraduation. Andrea is now working for a marketing company in London. Qi is still atCaius, studying for a PhD. Andrea and Qi are the latest to benefit from the Caiustradition, begun by Joseph Needham (1918) and continuing to the present day, ofwelcoming the very brightest Chinese scholars into our community.

Left to Right: Min Zhou and Yinping Tu, proud parents, with their son, Qi Tu (2004), the President,Professor Yao Liang (1963), the Master, Sir Christopher Hum (2005), Andrea An (2004) and her equallyproud parents, Baoding An and Hongwei An, in front of the Gate of Honour on Graduation Day, 2008.

Lord Bauer’sLegacy

Tien Chin Ts’ao (1946)

– A Beacon ofBioscience by Yao Liang (1963)

This statue of Tien Chin Ts’ao and Xide Xie in the Memorial Park in Shanghai is evidenceof how highly their scientific achievements are still regarded in China.

Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-Djen with Tien Chin Ts’ao on his returnvisit to Caius in 1986.

Tien Chin Ts’ao with Yao Liang in Thaxted Church.

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Jeremy Prynne (1962) will always be remembered at Caius forhis heroic and uncompromising leadership in transforming theCockerell Building into what is arguably the finest CollegeLibrary in Cambridge. He insists that his professional staff didall the serious work! He has now retired as Librarian and Director of Studies in

English but remains a Life Fellow and continues to playan active part in College life as well as pursuing his manyresearch interests, including his connection with China.

He has long been interested in Chinese literatureand historical culture, having been encouragedoriginally by Laurence Picken, the great Cambridgescholar of early Chinese music. Jeremy first visitedChina in 1986 and since then has made manyfurther visits, chiefly as a teacher of English andAmerican literature; three of these visits were six-months attachments to major universities there.

He is currently Guest Professor at Sun Yat-senUniversity in Guangzhou (Canton), and the

Curator of their English Poetry Studies Institute(EPSI) Library, which is used by an extremely talented sequence of

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doctoral candidates in this highly specialised field. He has establishednumerous friendships with poets and scholars in many parts of China,and a series of Chinese students and visiting scholars have spent study-time here in Cambridge under his guidance.

Of course, they were pleased and proud to be associated in this waywith the College of Joseph Needham (1918), Master of Caius from 1966to 1976 and famous all over China. These contacts have enabled Jeremyto form many insights into China's recent social and political history,from the inside as well as from the outside, and to study their ancientand modern arts of poetry.

In this way there has been a flourishing connection, over severalgenerations, between teaching and research in the humanities aspursued in some Chinese universities and as extended and developedhere in Cambridge; the Caius Library has assisted a regular line ofvisitors and has earned from them the most devoted admiration.

During Jeremy’s travels in various regions of China he has acquiredmany works of calligraphy which have nourished his interest in thiscomplex and inspiring tradition. Although modern China is forgingahead with rapid technical advancement, he is pleased to see that itscommitment to the study of poetry and ancient text traditions remainsas strong as ever.

Every other year, the Master and the Director ofDevelopment visit Hong Kong, where an increasinglyloyal and enthusiastic group of Caians who live and workin China hold regular get-togethers. Since 2004, a lunchor dinner has been hosted by the Hong Kong Caians

during the visit, at which the Master presents a brief report on currentactivities at College.

In 2008, there was also a magnificent dinner for all Members ofthe Court of Benefactors in the region, kindly hosted by Oliver Bolitho(1987). In view of the popularity of this event, it is planned to make adinner for Members of the Court of Benefactors a regular feature offuture visits.

The Caians based in Hong Kong and China are well-known fortheir strong support for the College and 2008 was no exception. Threeparticularly generous donations were made, by Nick Sallnow-Smith(1969), Raymond Leung (1986) and Paul Rhodes (1996), a nephew ofthe Senior Fellow, Michael Prichard (1950). Nick Sallnow-Smith haspledged to give £300,000 to endow a College Lectureship inPhilosophy in perpetuity.

The Master and the Director of Development are planning to visitHong Kong and Beijing in the Spring of 2010. They would be delightedto hear from any Caians who would like to join in the festivities.

Caius to Hong Kong

Professor Stephen Hawking (1965), one of the most widelytravelled members of the Caius Fellowship, is greetedwherever he goes by a pack of press photographers andjournalists and, more often than not, huge audiences ofwildly enthusiastic students.

In June 2006, he attended the International Conference on StringTheory and gave his public lecture on The Origins of the Universe in theGreat Hall of the People, which seats over 10,000. A team of Chinesewrestlers were on hand to carry his wheelchair up the steep steps ofThe Altar of Heaven. Earlier they had carried him into a special openingceremony for the new Scented Garden pavilion in the Forbidden City.

Stephen’s personal assistant, Judith Croasdell, who has travelled allover the world with him, remembers the Beijing press conference.Someone asked Stephen what sort of person he was and he replied:“I am optimistic, romantic and stubborn!” Another questioner askedhow his Motor Neurone Disease affected his ability to work. Stephenanswered:

“Although my body is very limited, my mind is free to explore theuniverse, back to the beginning of time – and into black holes. There areno limits to the human spirit. I still have many things I want to achieve.When we lose our dreams we die.”

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In China as elsewhere, whereverStephen Hawking goes, he is thefocus of attention.

Hong Kong Caians at one of their regular dinners in January 2008.

Poetry to China

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A pictographic ritual script inscribed and given to Jeremy Prynne by a scholar-

priest of the Naxi minority peoples, in North-western Yunnan Province.

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Mike Richards is a manwith a mission. Fewpeople are as closelyinvolved in the deliveryof renewable energy

resources around the world. His manyactivities could well deliver him a substantialfortune in the coming years (with a sizeabledividend for Caius, but more about thatlater). He is a Caius engineer by training, buthis life had long before been shaped by hisfather’s forestry experience in pre-independence Tanzania.

As a child – the youngest of four – Mikecould see how his father’s wattle productionhelped the local communities in Tanzania, byproviding an income for the local farmerswho grew wattle and sold the bark forprocessing, whilst using the wood for theirfamily’s fuel needs. Yet for all theinternational praise heaped upon PresidentJulius Nyerere for his socialist idealism,newly-independent Tanzania showed itsnationalist claws by seizing foreign firms,leaving the Richards family almost penniless.They fetched up in Southend, where Mike’sfather found work with Securicor.

Undeterred – if anything, inspired – bythe pain of upheaval and dispossession, Mikespent his gap year after leaving the localgrammar school, Southend High School forBoys, studying how to set up a sugar industryin Tanzania, and devoted his Cambridgeengineering degree project to deforestation.His main academic influence at Caius was DrJohn Thwaites (1966), who later turned hishand to researching the relationship betweentextiles and the structure of DNA.

After graduating, Mike joined Mars as aproduction engineer, then studied for anMBA, and became a management consultant,working initially for Booz Allen. He spent 10years as a consultant, mainly in Nigeria,helping Shell clean up over 2,000

In Richards’ view, the true clean-up costsfrom oil exploration in Nigeria should havebeen around $10 million, rather than the$2 billion+ proposed by environmentalists.Tractors tilling the soil would have reducedoil contamination from 30% to virtually 0%in six months, as microbes did their naturalwork. But so many people were on kickbacksand insurance scams that costs weremassively overstated. Likewise, the ExxonValdez clean-up should have cost $20million, not $8 billion.

Even more stunning is his estimate thatthe entire global reduction sought in carbonemissions by 2012 could be achieved byre-foresting an area of land less than thatdeforested in Brazil alone since the Kyotoprotocol was signed. The $10 billion costwould yield around $50 billion a year inrevenues from wood products. Mike’s ownjoint venture with Shell in recyclable cement– C-Fix – could reduce world carbonemissions by over 8% if it fully replacedtraditional cement production. An evenlarger benefit could be derived fromrenewable forestry. Clearing forests byburning accounts for 25% of all carbonemissions: and 98% of all commercialforestry is currently nonrenewable.

In Uganda, Mike established the NewForests Company, now the country’s largestforestry company and “Ugandan Investor ofthe Year 2007”. Mike has watched forestcover reduce from 50% of the land to 20%,with the expectation that it might disappearaltogether in the next 20 years. Uganda iscurrently importing timber from SouthAfrica. If 150,000 hectares were re-forested,Uganda’s internal timber needs would bemet, and energy capacity doubled. Planting3 million hectares would allow enoughenergy generation to provide lighting to allof Uganda: presently, it reaches only 5% ofthe country. That scale of activity would

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contaminated sites. This experience gave himan early grounding in the politics ofenvironmentalism.

Surprisingly, or perhaps not, in thedispute between Shell and Greenpeace hecame out strongly against the lobbyists,dismayed by their weak science and dubiousposturing. The sight of Jesse Jacksongrandstanding on a piece of derelict landthat had nothing whatever to do with Shellwas part of what persuaded him that actionsspeak louder than words. For all his powerfulcondemnation of misguided politicalinitiatives in response to global warming, andhis view that climate change is a nonsenseindustry, he wastes no time on advocacy, andinstead uses his skills to demonstrate howcarbon emissions can be reduced massivelyand cheaply, with a minimum of consumerpain.

turn Uganda into a timber exporter. OutsideKampala, another of Mike’s companies hasacquired 400 acres on which to buildhousing, whereby its status as a single title-holder will cut through mortgage problemsfor scores of middle-class families otherwiseunable to afford their own homes.

In Yunnan, in China, one of Mike’scompanies employs 5,000 workers on amajor re-forestation project, aiming to plantaround 300,000 hectares. They have furtheroperations across the world – in Tanzania,Mozambique, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Brazil,Ethiopia, Colombia and elsewhere.

Richards shakes his head at some of theprojects that narrow thinking generates.Why install solar panels in a sun-starvedcountry like England, with 20+ yearpaybacks, when they are far moreappropriate in places such as the deserts ofthe Middle East? But when trees alreadyprovide a solar energy solution with anannual return of investment of over 30% –why not focus investment on forestswherever they can be planted? He has justreturned from a visit to one project wherelast year’s eucalyptus plantings are already20 feet tall. His companies have plantedover 60 million trees so far: his target in5 years is 1 billion. Bio-diesel he dismisses asvalue-destructive: vegetable oil is already aperfectly good biofuel, so why add the costand complexity of converting it intobiodiesel, in so doing doubling the price anddestroying 20% of its energy value?

As we speak, I show him a business pagestory about EAGA, a renewable energycompany that is being floated with avaluation of £450 million. He smiles at theitem, noting that EAGA’s initial activities inrenewable energy used the 450,000 strongmailing list supplied by the disability charity,Motability – to which he had donated hisshares in his carbon trading company.Another beneficiary of his charity has beenthe Royal Opera House.

Why did he donate a portfolio of sharesto Caius (with an initial face value of£1 million)? Because I asked him to do it!He also supports “The Learning Paper” inUganda, whereby three times a yearstudents are sent an educational publication,which – once read – can be used for fuel!With a circulation of 100,000, the cost ofsupply is just 50 cents a head. Like BillGates, he sees the immense economicpotential of a single shared language. Thereare 30 languages in Uganda.

What drives Mike Richards is not a desireto save the planet (though he might), nor aplutocratic itch: his mission is to deliveraround the world what his father offeredTanzania – until politics intervened. Maybesome of our politicians (including Caians)should take note.

Right: Forestry expert, Hans Verwij,and Mike Richards inspecting

Sunshine Technology’s newjatropha plantation in China.

Jatropha – green biofuel of the future.

Charlie Bosworth (2000) (right) showing Mike Richards’ business partner, Robert Gold and Sir Edward duCann, Chairman of Sunshine Technology, around the company’s new jatropha research station at Honghe,Yunnan Province, China.

David Elstein with Mike Richards at Carbon Capital’s London offices.

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Ugandan students at a schoolbuilt by the New Forests Companyand UK charity PEAS have animportant message.

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Curiously, CambridgeUniversity startedopening its doors toChinese and Chineseculture about 60 years

before it fully opened them to women:the first Professor of Chinese wasappointed in 1888; women were finallyadmitted to degrees in 1948.

Emily Davies founded Girton atHitchin in 1869 and moved it to itspresent site, at a safe distance frommarauding male undergraduates, in1873. By then Henry Sidgwick hadestablished the group of womenstudents who were to settle atNewnham in 1875. St John’s College,owners of the land, prudentlystipulated that the new Collegebuildings should be a group ofsubstantial cottages, so that they couldeasily be converted into private housesif the College failed!

On 24 February 1881 the Senate –then the governing body of theUniversity – voted by 398 votes to 32to admit women to universityexaminations. Their results were to bepublished separately from the men’sand their places relative to the maleWranglers in the Maths Tripos were tobe stated in the lists. The womenstudents did rather well: in 1890Philippa Fawcett was famouslyrecorded as performing “above theSenior Wrangler”. But they were stillnot allowed to proceed to degrees.

In 1896 a demonstration by Girtonstudents demanded more recognition;it was broken up by young men andthe police had to intervene. TheUniversity was alarmed and set up aSyndicate which recommended thatwomen should either be granted thetitles of degrees or be established in aseparate university. Meanwhile in astudent poll, a massive majority of1,723 voted against degrees forwomen while only 446 voted in favour.After publication of the Syndicate’sReport, student opposition hardened.A petition presented to the Vice-Chancellor gathered 2,137 signaturesagainst the proposal, with only 298 infavour.

The Council decided that membersof the Senate should vote on the

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proposals on 21 May 1897. The debateraged in the weeks leading up to thevote and, since all MAs were entitled tovote, members were summoned fromfar and wide. The day itself began as acarnival, with placards and parades, andalmost turned into a riot, in which theland in front of Caius and the SenateHouse was the crowded epicentre.

Male undergraduates balancedprecariously on roof-tops and windowledges; dummies of femaleundergraduates (one on a bicycle!)swung from ropes between Caius andthe buildings opposite. A huge bannerover the Great Gate proclaimed:

“GET YOU TO GIRTON, BEATRICE,GET YOU TO NEWNHAM. HERE’S NOPLACE FOR YOU MAIDS!”

When the Senior Proctor read theGrace, shouts of “non-placet!” eruptedand as the MAs started voting by goingthrough the placet or non-placet doors,it was soon clear that the placets werehopelessly outnumbered. Some of theundergraduates tried to enliven thedemocratic process by hurling bags offlour at those who emerged from theplacet doors (and windows) in theSenate House. The final vote wasrecorded as 661 placet and 1,707 non-placet, the celebrations continued longinto the night and women students hadto wait until 1921 for the titles ofdegrees, until 1947-8 for degrees anduntil 1979 to become Caians.

The vote of 1881 was enlightenedfor its time; the vote of 1897 seems tous shockingly unenlightened – but wethank David Childs (1949) and hisgodfather, Reginald Jeffcoat (1891), forpreserving the accompanyingphotographs, which bring thisextraordinary event so vividly to life.

Sources:A History of the University of Cambridge,IV, 1870-1990 (1993) by ProfessorChristopher Brooke, published byCambridge University Press.University Politics (1994) by GordonJohnson, also published by CUP in anew edition last year, which includesthe whole text of Francis Cornford’sdeservedly famous 1908 satire onCambridge politics,Microcosmographica Academica.

Here’s No Place for You Maids!by Mick Le Moignan (2004) & Christopher Brooke (1945)

A dummy of a “Girton girl” wearing bloomers andriding a man’s bicycle hangs from an upperwindow of the shop opposite Caius, now the CUPbookstore. Note what may be one of ourphotographers on a high vantage point on GreatSt Mary’s.

Bacon’s Tobacco Warehousein Petty Cury after the maleundergraduates have demonstratedtheir superiority to a group ofimpressed younger boys bysmashing several windows.

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The Master, Sir ChristopherHum (2005) announced at theFeast for the Commemorationof Benefactors in November2008 the splendid news that

Caians who matriculated in 1956 haveachieved their target of raising £300,000 tofund a College Lecturership in perpetuity, tocommemorate the golden anniversary oftheir time at Caius.

The College Council has appointed DrRichard Gibbens (1980) to be the first 1956College Lecturer. Richard read Mathematicsat Caius and went on to take a Diploma inMathematical Statistics in 1984 and a PhD in1988. For his PhD, with colleagues inCambridge and at British Telecom, hedeveloped the Dynamic Alternative Routing

All 1956 Caians who have contributed tothe Lectureship Fund will be invited to meetRichard at a special Reception to be held inthe garden of the Master’s Lodge (weatherpermitting!) during the May Week Party forBenefactors on Saturday 13 June 2009.

As the Master pointed out: “Permanentlyendowed College Lectureships help to ensurethat undergraduates can continue to besupervised in small groups by world classexperts. The supervision system is one of thehallmarks of a Cambridge education and weare determined to preserve it.”

The Master went on to express theCollege’s gratitude to Dennis Levy, theorganizing committee and all those whocontributed to the fund to make the new1956 Lectureship possible.

strategy now used for routing telephone callsin BT’s main trunk network.

In 1993, he was appointed to a Bye-Fellowship at Caius and a Royal SocietyUniversity Research Fellowship, whichcontinued until 2001, when he was appointedto a full Fellowship at Caius and a UniversityLectureship in the Cambridge UniversityComputer Laboratory, becoming a SeniorLecturer in 2003. Unusually, his CollegeLectureship is in both Mathematics andComputer Science.

Richard’s recent research interests includemathematical modelling of bothcommunication and road traffic networks.When he solves the problem of how to getthe traffic flowing smoothly on the M25, hehas promised to let Once a Caian... know first!

Professor Peter Walker (1960), a leading expert onorthopaedic implants and biomedical engineering, isa director of the Caius Foundation who regularlyorganizes gatherings for the Caius community inNew York City.

Originally from the North East, Peter attended the RoyalGrammar School in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where a youngschoolboy photographer caught a dramatic shot of his triumph inthe school high jump. The photographer was none other thanBarry Hedley (1964), later Schuldham Plate winner, Senior Bursarand Fellow Emeritus.

At the start of the Michaelmas Term, Peter and his wifeWuliang made a special journey to Caius to meet the first holderof an Organ Scholarship that has been made possible by hislatest generous gift to the College.

Peter Walker Organ Scholar, Matthew Fletcher (2007) put ona private organ recital of favourite pieces for Peter and Wuliangin the College Chapel, including Bach’s B-minor Prelude & Fugue,Widor’s Toccata and a piece by Sigfrid Karg-Elert. Peter said he isdelighted that his gift is being put to such good use, insupporting Caius music, and he and Wuliang will long rememberthe privilege of this very special performance. The First 1956 College Lecturer

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Matthew Fletcher (2007) and Peter Walker (1960)in the organ loft of the Caius Chapel.

A future Caian’s school record high jump iscaptured by another future Caian, who wouldlater become the College’s Senior Bursar.

Dr Richard Gibbens (1980),the first 1956 College Lecturer.

Left to right: Dr Anne Lyon (2001), Director ofDevelopment, with three of the major benefactorsto the Fund, Ivor Samuels (1956), His Honour,Judge Dennis Levy (1956) and Stanley Rowan(1956), together with the first holder of theLectureship, Dr Richard Gibbens (1980).

Dennis, Ivor and Stanley asked that particularmention should be made of the late JohnNewsome (1956) (inset), without whoseexceptional generosity it would have been difficultto meet the fundraising target of £300,000 toendow the Lectureship in perpetuity.

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Our annual TelephoneCampaign has become apopular part of the Caiusyear, a chance for Caiansof different generations to

talk together and discover their shared loveof the College. Last year’s innovation, theannual Caius Fund, has proved to be a greatsuccess.

Gifts to the Caius Fund from Caians,parents and friends provide funding forimmediate use – for a variety of projectsthat would not happen without suchsupport. The Caius Fund supports initiativesthat are vital to the continued health andprosperity of the College.

First, a huge ‘thank you’ to everyonewho gave to last year’s Caius Fund.Without your support, so much would nothave happened. We were overwhelmed byhow keen the Caius community was tohelp us to achieve our aims.

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• Over the summer “U” staircase in TreeCourt was completely renovated andrefurbished from roof to cellar, includinga set for a disabled student.

• The Library has been able to restore afew of our priceless medieval manuscripts,including the College’s magnificent earlyfifteenth century Psalter (MS 148/198),which was given an elegant newgoatskin cover.

• Your support for the unique andprecious supervision system providedfunding for two College Teaching Officersfor 2008-2009.

• Last year you funded ten undergraduatebursaries, three postgraduate studentshipsand a choral scholarship.

• A replacement for the leaking roof ofthe Sports Pavilion will be able to goahead when further funding is receivedthrough gifts that are being spread overseveral years.

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All of this proves that your gifts really do make a difference.

This year’s Caius Fund projectsrepresent key areas of Collegelife, from buildings to boatsand from books to bursaries,so your contribution to the

Caius Fund can support the area thatinterests you most. Our student callersreflect the variety and breadth of subjectsthat are studied at Caius, from Classics toLand Economy, and they take part in a greatrange of activities, from rowing and music topeer support and the access scheme. Theyknow, as you do, that a chance to come toCaius is to be seized with both hands. Theyall believe that our College is worthsupporting. Their telephone calls to Caians,parents and friends between 15 March and2 April will be a chance for them to discoverthat you feel the same way.

CaiusCalling!

The Caius Fund 2009

by Dr Emma Beddoe, Alumni Officer

Student Support Fund (10 undergraduate bursariesand 3 postgraduate studentships) £105,000

Two College Teaching Officers for 2009-2010 £100,000

Waterhouse Building (restoration and replacement of stonework) £95,000

Library (books for undergraduates and restoration of medievalmanuscripts and early printed books) £40,000

A new Four for the Boat Club (training in small boats isparticularly good for technique and team coordination) £15,000

One Research Fellow for 2009-2010 £40,000

A Choral Scholarship (one student for three years) £6,750

The student callers who will betaking part in the 2009 CaiusTelephone Campaign gather in theCollege Library with the Master.

Rebekah Law and MushfiqurRahman are also callers, but wereunable to be in the photographs.

1. Anthony Ng

2. Sophie Robinson

3. Natasha Brown

4. Sebastian Gertz

5. Amy Brecken Simons

6. Mgawa Mkandawire

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10. Irfan Rahman

11. Ellie Paul

12. Sneha Ramakrishnan

13. Rebecca Tennyson

14. Tanya Kohli

15. Lucy Plint

16. Nicola Di Luzio

17. Derek Ho

18. Di Shen

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The 2008 Caius Fund Choral Scholar, Hannah Crawford (2008),whose award was generously supported by donors to the CaiusFund in last year’s Telephone Campaign.

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The Master and Fellows express their warmest thanks to all Caians, Parents and Friends of the College who have generouslymade donations since 1 January 2005. Your gifts are greatly appreciated as they help to maintain the College’s excellencefor future generations.

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1922Mr K P Pool *

1926Dr P W Hutton

1927Mr C Graham

1928Mr P Hodder Williams *Mr C A M Peaty *Mr W S Porter *

1929Professor P Grierson *Mr H B Hutton *Dr R F JarrettMr J A Seymour-Jones *

1930Mr L J Burrows *Dr T E Faulkner *Mr F L Kidd *

1932Dr J M Marchant *Mr R W Morris *

1933Dr P P Brown *Mr H M Burkill *Dr J M Drew *Mr C P FoggProfessor E C Ryder *

1934Mr M B Coyle *Dr S C GoldMr H J L Hartford *Mr G D Woolley

1935Mr W Brown *Dr A J M Hargreaves *Mr E S Howarth *Maj Gen I H Lyall Grant

1936Dr J A BlackDr R E DanckwertsThe Revd Dr J B FooteMaj J G Logan *Sir Peter Thornton

1937Sir Maurice Bathurst *Sir Alan Campbell *Dr E W Deane *Mr R A HoldenProfessor H G KoenigsbergerMr R E M Le GoyMr J H PageMr G N ShannDr J W SquireDr J B Wyon *

1938Mr R L BickerdikeDr M H ClementMr R R Darlington *Mr W E Lane *The Rt Revd D F PageMr M M A RamsayDr M H RussellMr P H SchurrMr J A Seldon

1939Mr J McP Adams *Mr J H Arrowsmith-BrownThe Revd Canon R S C BailyMr T C Beswick *Mr H A H BinneyMr M H ClayeDr J P ClaytonMr C H De BoerProfessor A E FlattMr A R McMurchyMr J P PhillipsDr J E M Whitehead *

1940Dr C M Attwood

Mr D A Bailey *Dr J E BlundellMr R F CrocombeMr G H DixMr M L Dowling *Mr T G FreemanDr W S GriffithsDr R F PayneDr G S Plaut *Mr W F Poll *Dr D N SeatonMr F P S StricklandMr S K Walker

1941Mr D M C AinscowMr F H ButlerProfessor I G CunnisonDr W H Davies *Mr W M EbdenDr C EdeleanuDr W M EdgarMr J B FrostDr B HardieMr H C HartDr T M Howell *Mr M G ManbyDr J M S McCoyDr J A McDonaldProfessor M A M Roberts *Dr W R Throssell

1942Mr P H B AllsopMr G S F AntonMr K V ArrowsmithMr C BillingtonMr D E C CallowMr K C J CaseMr I V Davies *Mr R A EscoffeyMr A A GreenProfessor A HewishDr G A JonesMr A W Mallinson *Dr K M McNicolDr A R MerrillDr R H B ProtheroeMr C RavenhillDr E V RowsellDr A J RussellProfessor E M ShooterMr E R SlaterProfessor A Steele-Bodger *Mr M A H WalfordMr L C WatsonDr A R H Worssam

1943Mr L R Atkinson *Professor J A BalintDr R BarnesDr D G H DanielsMr A M DanzigerMr C H DevonaldMr W L FryerProfessor R H GarstangDr W M GibsonProfessor R HarropMr A G H HouseProfessor L G JaegerMr C H KelleyDr C KingsleyMr P S MorrellMr H PiggottMr J B SelfDr J W M Stone *Mr J W H Thomas *Dr P W ThompsonDr W R WalshMr A M Wild

1944Mr P J BexsonAir Vice Marshal G C CairnsMr W G CareyDr E A CooperMr N S DayDr B O L Duke *Mr P G HebbertMr B S Helliwell *Mr D J HyamThe Revd G H JonesDr H K Litherland

Mr J C MacChesney *Dr J L MilliganMr N T RoderickMr W T D ShaddickMr R C ShepherdMr M R Steele-BodgerMr D J StoreyMr J H Walford *Mr J A Wells-Cole

1945Dr M D BillingtonProfessor C N L BrookeDr J M H DicksonProfessor Sir Sam EdwardsMr J J H EverittMr K HansenMr J L HarrisonMr R K HaywardDr J E HerbertMr P A L Jones *Professor B LythgoeMr F R McManusMr J D PowellMr D E RaeMr I W RobertsDr F C RutterMr J L SomervellDr J C S Turner

1946The Rt Hon the Viscount of

ArbuthnottMr G AspdenDr D A P BurtonMr G G CampbellDr W J ColbeckMr D V DruryDr J R EdwardsMr K GaleMr P N Hamilton *Dr A F HignellMr W M Holland *Professor B S Jay *Mr G R KerpnerMr P F Owen *The Revd Canon A M

Percival SmithMr R V C Phillips *Dr R F SellersDr G W SmallcombeThe Revd P A TubbsHis Honour Judge Vos

1947Mr J R CowardMr H L Fisher *Mr K J Gardner *Mr F N GoodeMr J M S KeenMr H LathamMr B J Loffler *Mr D L Low *Mr N E A Moore *The Revd J D PhilipsMr R J SellickMr A C StruvéThe Revd Canon C N TubbsMr R B R WatkinMr H G Way

1948Dr P C W AndersonDr A R BakerMr J B BoothMr P J BunkerMr E J ChumrowMr D P CreaseMr D E CreasyProfessor N C H DunbarMr E V A EscoffeyMr T GarrettMr L J HarfieldMr R C HarrisMr W A O JacobProfessor J F MowbrayMr T R Norfolk *Mr J B PondThe Revd Canon A PyburnMr J SandersMr R D ShawMr P R ShiresDr M J TurnerDr R S Wardle

1949The Hon Hugh ArbuthnottMr M A BardsleyMr A G BeaumontMr A BirchProfessor L L Cavalli-SforzaThe Rt Hon the Lord ChorleyDr J T CookeMr K J A CramptonMr R D EmersonDr J H GervisMr J J H HainesMr M J HarrapMr R T HarrisonMr E C HewittDr H H John *Mr D H JonesDr R N B KayMr J H KelseyMr J C KilnerMr F E LoefflerMr C E C LongMr M G MacGregor *Mr A F C MorrisMr A M NicolMr J NorrisMr W R PackerMr P M PooleMr I G RichardsonMr A W RileySir John RobsonDr J D SwaleDr D A ThomasMr J F WalkerMr G R W WillcocksMr C M Woodham *

1950Mr G A AshDr A E AshcroftMr I D BruceMr J G CarpenterProfessor P S Corbet *Mr R G DunnMr B L EdwardsMr W J GowingMaj J R GroganProfessor J C HigginsDr M I LanderMr A J LloydMr G S LowthMr D Malcolm *Dr F MansfieldMr C J Martin *Dr P B McFarlaneMr S M MohsinMr D L H NashDr S W B NewsomMr A G C PaishMr D S ParaviciniMr J A PottsMr G D C PrestonMr D A SkittDr J M SmythMr D B SwiftDr S G TaylorMr J S H TaylorMr S P ThompsonThe Revd Canon Dr S H TrapnellMr W A J TrenemanProfessor H U H Walder *Mr L F WalkerThe Revd P WrightMr P L Young

1951Dr R A AikenMr A C J AppleyardProfessor E BreitenbergerMr J R BrookeMr G H BuckDr A J CameronMr P R CastleMr J M CochraneMr R N DeanThe Revd N S DixonMr W L J FenleyMr R B GauntlettDr F B Gibberd *Dr J E GodrichDr N J C GrantThe Revd P T HancockThe Revd Canon A R HeawoodMr J M Hepworth *

Mr J P M HornerMr G S JonesProfessor L L JonesMr R K LaidlawMr I MacleanMr E R MaileMr P T MarshallMr P S E MettyearMr J K MoodieMr B H PhillipsMr S PriceDr R S O ReesMr J C RiddellMr M A C SakerThe Revd T J SurteesMr J E SussamsMr A R TappMr S R TaylorMr P E WalshMr C H WaltonThe Revd E R W WhalleyProfessor M J WhelanMr P Zentner

1952Dr A R AdamsonProfessor J E BanatvalaMr R H BarnesMr G D BaxterLt Gen Sir Peter BealeDr M BrettMr D Bullard-SmithThe Rt Hon the Lord Cooke of

Thorndon *Mr C J DakinMr C B d’A FearnMr G GarrettDr T W GibsonMr E S HarborneMr J A G HartleyMr D B HillMr E J HoblynMr A A HooperProfessor G W KirbyDr T S MatthewsThe Revd D K MayburyDr C W McCutchenThe Rt Hon the Lord Morris of

AberavonMr P J MurphyDr M J O’SheaMr S L ParsonsonMr J W N PettyDr M J RamsdenProfessor M V RileyMr P M Rossiter *Dr N SankarayyaMr J de F SomervellMr D WebbMr R P WildingMr J Woodward

1953Dr N A AtallaMr A J BaconMr M K A BaigDr N C BalchinMr S F S Balfour-BrowneMr D W BarnesMr K C A BlasdaleProfessor A BrockMr J M BruceMr L W J BunchMr T CopleyMr P H CowardDr P M B CrookesDr D Denis-SmithDr A H DinwoodieThe Revd H O FaulknerMr G H GandyMr B V GoddenMr H J GoodhartMr C G HeywoodMr B Higgs *Mr M A HossickMr C B JohnsonDr D H KeelingProfessor J G T KelseyMr J E R LartMr R LomaxMr D S MairDr D M MarshDr H Matine-DaftaryDr M J Orrell

Mr E C O OwenMr D Piggot *Mr J F PretloveMr T I RandMr J ReedMr C J RitchieMr J P SeymourMr I P SharpMr P T StevensMr B J Sydenham *Mr J TurnerProfessor B O WestMr G A Whalley *Mr J A WhiteheadProfessor Sir Christopher Zeeman

1954Professor M P AlpersMr D R AmlotMr J Anton-SmithMr J L BallProfessor J H J BancroftMr D G BatterhamMr P A BlockMr D W BouetteMr D J BoydProfessor I F BrockingtonProfessor C B BucknallMr S A CangDr R J CockerillMr G ConstantineMr D I CookDr R A F CoxDr D B DaviesDr J M G DavisMr J P EdwardsMr P H C EyersProfessor J FletcherProfessor J FriendDr A E GentDr A J Gordon *Professor N J GrossDr J P GurneyMr M J HardingMr J D HeapMr R A HockeyDr M C HoldernessMr R J HortonMr R W J HubankMr J S KirkhamMr R A LovelaceDr K A Macdonald-SmithDr F P MarshThe Rt Revd C J MayfieldMr J K MillarMr R W MontgomeryCol G W A NapierMr D J NobbsMr J O'HeaMr J D PainterMr B C PriceProfessor D J RadcliffeMr R M ReeveSir Gilbert RobertsMr T W J RuaneDr J M S SchofieldMr D StanleyMr M H W StoreyMr P E Thomas

1955Mr R B Aisher *Mr C F BarhamMr M W BarrettMr D I Bowen *Mr J A BrooksMr A L S BrownDr J H BruntonMr A R CampbellDr M CannonProfessor P D ClothierMr A A R CobboldDr C K ConnollyMr J R CurrieMr F S CurtisDr P G DaveyProfessor K G DaveyMr C D Donald *Dr R A DuranceMr R J ForsterDr D H Fowler *Mr R HallMr C B C JohnsonProfessor J J Jonas

Professor F C InglisMr A J KempMr A J LambellMr J S H MajorMr T F MathiasDr R T MathiesonProfessor A J McCleanMr D MollerMr A W Newman-SandersDr M J NicklinMr I H D OdgersDr J R OgleMr T PainterMr R D PerryProfessor J E PhillipsMr A P PoolThe Rt Hon Sir Mark PotterDr R PresleyMr N M B ProwseMr N R B ProwseMr P W SampsonMr G A Stacey *Dr J R R StottProfessor J N TarnMr O N TubbsThe Rt Hon the Lord TugendhatMr C B TurnerThe Revd Professor G WainwrightDr D G D Wight

1958Mr C AndrewsProfessor R P BartlettMr J E BatesDr J F A BlowersMr T J BrackMr J P B BryceMr J D G CashinSir Peter CraneMr A B CrossDr J M DaviesMr J A DixonThe Rt Hon the Lord GeddesDr M T HardyProfessor F W HeatleyMr D M HendersonMr J A HoneyboneDr P F HuntProfessor J O HunterMr H I HutchingsMr C L W JacksonMr N A JacksonMr J R KellyDr G N W KerriganMr G D KingMr R D MartinMr C P McKayMr N McKendrickMr R W MinterMr A D MyersMr T S NelsonMr R H PedlerMr V H PinchesMr G D PrattenMr F C J RadcliffeMr M RobertsMr M P RuffleLord Simon of HighburyDr F D SkidmoreSir Keith StuartMr A J TauntonProfessor B J ThorneMr C M UsherMr J B R VartanThe Revd J L Watson

1959Dr D J BealeDr D E BrundishMr S H BuchanMr L J CavendishMr A D ChilversThe Rt Hon K H ClarkeDr A G DeweyMr J E DrakeMr B DrewittMr D A DryerThe Revd T C DuffThe Rt Revd D R J EvansProfessor J E FeganMr G A GeenDr J A GibsonMr T A J GoodfellowMr D N C HainesThe Revd Dr R G Hamerton-KellyMr M J D KeatingeMr C J MethvenMr M M MinogueHis Honour Judge MottMr M H O’BrianMr A F OliverDr G P Ridsdill SmithMr J H RileyMr J R SclaterThe Revd D G SharpProfessor Q R D SkinnerDr M J SoleDr I SykesProfessor P J TyrerDr A G WeedsDr & Mrs M D Wood

1960Dr N A Bailey

Mr J G BarhamMr H V BeckMr T D Belopopsky *Mr B C BiggsMr A J MacL BoneDr A D BrewerDr G M ClarkeMr M G CollettHis Honour Judge CowellProfessor E R DobbsMr D J EllisDr C H GallimoreThe Reverend Peter GantDr D F HardyDr R HarmsenDr A B T HengDr R M KeatingMr A KenneyDr J A LordProfessor J S MainstoneThe Revd Dr A W MarksDr P MartinMr M B MaunsellMr R A McAllisterMr C D McLarenDr H F MerrickDr E L MorrisMr G R NiblettMr J A NicholsonMr M O'NeilMr W J PartridgeMr P PaulProfessor A E PeggDr A T RactliffeMr C W M RossettiDr B M ShafferThe Revd Canon P G Southwell-

Sander *Professor W D SteinProfessor M S SymesMr H J M TompkinsProfessor P S WalkerProfessor M S WalshMr A A WestMr J D WilkinMr D H WilsonMr N J WinkfieldMr R D S WylieDr G R YoungsDr A M Zalin

1961Mr C E AckroydProfessor G G Balint-KurtiMr A D BellProfessor Sir Michael BerridgeProfessor T Cavalier-SmithMr J P CollinsMr P CooperDr M D DampierMr J O DaviesDr J S DenbighMr D K ElsteinMr J A G FiddesMr M J W GageDr J M GertnerDr K N Haarhoff *Mr M D HarbinsonMr E C HuntMr R T JumpDr A B LoachMr R G McMillanProfessor P B MogfordProfessor R J NichollsMr J OwensDr J M PelmoreMr C H PembertonProfessor R H L PhillipsonMr M E SetchellMr D C W StonleyDr R I A SwannDr I G ThwaitesMr R E G TitteringtonDr M P WasseMr V D WestDr N E WilliamsMr R J Wrenn

1962Dr J S BealeMr D J BellDr C R de la P BeresfordMr P S L BriceMr R A C ByeDr D CarrMr P D CoopmanMr T S CoxCol M W H DayMr M EmmottProfessor Sir Alan FershtMr J R A FlemingDr T GarrettMr H M GibbsMr T M GlaserMr A D HarrisMr D HjortProfessor A R HunterMr P O HutchingsMr P A C JenningsDr D M Keith-LucasMr J W D KnightProfessor J M KosterlitzMr A J C LodgeMr F J Lucas

Professor Sir Andrew McMichaelMr G N MeadonMr A P NicholsonMr T K PoolMr N RedwayDr G A W RossMr G A ShindlerDr R N F SimpsonMr R SmalleyDr P J W SmithMr M J StarksMr R B R StephensMr J D SwordMr F R G TrewMr M G WadeMr D R F WalkerMr G J WeaverMr H N WhitfieldMr R G Wilson

1963Dr P J AdamsMr P N BelshawDr T G BlaneyDr J A ClarkDr C R A ClarkeMr E F CochraneMr R M CoombesDr R P Duncan-JonesMr S W EmanuelDr H FraserDr H P M FromageotMr J E J GoadMr A J GrantsMr P M G B GrimaldiSir Thomas HarrisDr M A HopkinsonDr R H JagoMr N T JonesMr B L KerrMr M S KerrProfessor W Y LiangMr J W L LonieDr C W MitchellMr V L MurphyMr D B NewloveDr H F NordenDr J R ParkerMr M J PitcherDr J S RainbirdMr P A RookeDr J StriesowProfessor D J TaylorSir Quentin ThomasMr P H VealDr R F WalkerMr D J WalkerMr J D WertheimDr J R C WestDr M J WestonMr A N Wilson

1964Mr P AshtonMr D P H BurgessMr G E ChurcherDr N C CropperMr H L S DibleyMr R A DixonMr M Elland-Goldsmith *Dr H R GlennieMr A K GlennyProfessor H GohainMr G A GrayDr R J GreenwoodProfessor N D F GrindleySir John HallProfessor K O HawkinsMr B D HedleyMr J Horsfall TurnerDr P HutchinsonMr A KirbyDr T LaubProfessor S H P MaddrellDr H M MatherMr S J MawerMr C J MeuxDr L E M MilesProfessor D V MorganMr A K NigamDr B V PayneMr J H PooleDr W T PrinceProfessor N W ReadProfessor N Y RivierMr M D RockDr C N E RuscoeMr J F SellDr N M SuessMr F M VendrellMr J G WaghornDr T B WallingtonDr F J M WaltersMr R C WellsMr I R Woolfe

1965Dr J E J AlthamProfessor L G ArnoldProfessor B C BarkerMr R BhoothalingamMr A M BrownettMr N M BurtonMr A C Butler

Mr R A CharlesSir Christopher ClarkeDr C M ColleyMr H J ElliotDr W J FieldingMr J H FinniganDr M J GawelMr A J HabgoodMr J HarrisDr D A HattersleyThe Revd P HaworthHis Honour Judge HolmanMr R P HopfordMr I V JacksonDr R G JezzardDr R R JonesDr H J KlassThe Hon Dr J F LehmanDr M J MaguireDr P J MarriottHis Honour Judge MorrisMr T MullettDr P B OelrichsProfessor C V ReevesDr P D RiceMr R N RoweMr A C ScottMr I D K Thompson

1966Mr M J BarkerMr J D BattyeProfessor D BirnbacherDr D S BishopDr J P CalvertMr P ChapmanDr C I ColemanMr S J CookDr K R DanielsDr T K DayMr C R DeaconMr D P DeardenMr P S EllistonMr J R EscottMr M N FisherMr D R HarrisonDr L E HaselerMr R E HickmanMr R HoldenProfessor R C HuntDr R JacksonProfessor S L LightmanMr G G LuffrumMr D C LunnMr M C MansfieldDr A A MawbyProfessor P M MearaMr P V MorrisMr V K PintoMr S M PosterMr N F RiddleMr K W RoseDr R L StoneMr J A StrachanMr N E SuessMr D SwinsonMr D F WhiteMr S M WhiteheadMr J M WilliamsMr P E WilsonThe Revd R J Wyber

1967Mr J G AytonMr G W BainesMr P G CottrellMr G C DaltonDr A EilonDr M C FrazerMr T HashimotoMr D G HayesProfessor D R HayhurstMr M D HutchinsonMr J R JonesMr N G H KermodeMr R B KirbyMr R J LaskoMr D I LastDr I D LindsayMr T W MortonMr A M PeckProfessor N P QuinnMr J S RichardsonProfessor J B SaundersMr H J A ScottMr G T SlaterMr C J ThompsonThe Revd Dr J D YuleProfessor G J Zellick

1968Dr M J AdamsMr I M D BarrettMr A C CoskerMr J C EsamThe Revd D B FenlonMr J M FordhamMr R J FurberMr D P GarrickDr E M GartnerProfessor P W GatrellMr D S GlassThe Rt Hon the Lord GoldsmithMr M D Hardinge

Mr P A HierMr D J LairdMr N J LewisProfessor R J A LittleDr D H O LloydMr B A MaceMr J I McGuireMr E J NightingaleMr J A NortonDr I D A PeacockDr T G PowellMr S ReadDr P G ReasbeckMr E RobinsonMr P S ShaerfDr B TeagueMr P J TracyDr M McD TwohigDr J P H WadeDr D P WalkerDr P R WillicombeMr V Wineman

1969Dr S C BamberMr S E BowkettMr M S CowellThe Rt Revd A K CraggDr M K DaviesMr J M DenkerDr M W EatonMr R J FieldDr C J HardwickMr J S HodgsonMr D R HulbertMr A KeirMr R L KottritschDr I R LacyMr R G McGowanDr D W McMorlandMr A N PapathomasDr M S PhillipsMr N R Sallnow-SmithMr M C N ScottMr A P Thompson-SmithMr B A H ToddMr P B VosMr A J WatersDr N H WhealeMr D A WilsonMr P J G Wright

1970Mr J AughtonDr M E BoxerDr C W BrownMr R ButlerDr D D Clark-LowesMr G J H CliffMr R P CliffMr D ColquhounProfessor P J EvansMr P S FosterMr L P FouldsMr J D GwinnellMr N A J HarperDr M B HawkenDr J A S HowellMr C H D JeepsMr C A JourdanMr J S Kilner *Mr L G KosminMr J H LambieMr M J LangleyMr B S MissendenDr S MohindraMr A J NealeMr C G PennyProfessor D J ReynoldsDr I N RobinsMr B Z SacksDr R D S SandersonMr D C SmithDr S A SullivanMr I R WatsonProfessor R W Whatmore

1971Professor J P ArmMr P BoeufDr S BrearleyMr J P CanterDr H H J CarterMr J A K ClarkMr P D M DunlopMr J A DuvalProfessor D M HausmanMr N R HollidayDr P KinnsDr N P LearyMr J M LevittDr P G MattosMr R I MorganMr L N MossMr N D PeaceDr M B PowellDr A J ReidProfessor P RobinsonDr P T SuchMr P A ThimontMr A H M ThompsonDr S VogtProfessor C D WoodroffeMr C G Young

Dr T G JonesThe Rt Hon Sir Paul KennedyMr A H KiddMr M E LeesMr J J MoyleDr P J NobleThe Rt Revd M NuttallDr J P A PageMr C H PrinceLt Col C B PritchettMr A R ProwseMr A B RichardsMr D M RobsonDr A P RubinThe Revd J G RussellMr J A B TaylorMr J D TaylorMr H W TharpMr T J ThrelfallDr R B WaltonMr G WassellDr P J WatkinsDr J Winter *Professor I Ziment

1956Professor D BailinDr R J BalcombeThe Revd Canon M E BartlettMr J M ButterfieldDr N G I CawdryMr J A Cecil-WilliamsMr P R Clynes *Mr G B CobboldDr R CockelMr A G A CowieDr J P CullenProfessor J S EdwardsMr J A L EidinowProfessor G H ElderMr J K FergusonMr M J L FoadMr R GibsonProfessor A H Gomme *Mr P H GrayMr M L HolmanMr G J A HouseholdProfessor I M JamesProfessor A J KirbyHis Honour Judge LevyMr R B LewisMr J D LindholmDr R G LordMr P A MackieMr B J McConnellDr H E McGlashanMr A D MooreThe Revd Canon P B MorganDr B E MulhallMr J F Newsome *Mr P A R NivenMr B M NonhebelMr T R R O’ConorThe Rt Revd J K OliverProfessor L L PasinettiMr A J PeckMr J A PoolesMr J J C ProcterMr J V RawsonMr T J ReynishMr J M RiceMr C Ridsdill-SmithMr C J D RobinsonProfessor D K RobinsonMr T S RowanMr I SamuelsMr & Mrs I L SmithMr R R W StewartMr C W SwiftMr J R S TappMr R C TongueMr A A UmurMr A G WebbDr J B L WebsterMr H de V WelchmanDr R D WildboreMr J P WoodsDr D L Wynn-Williams

1957Mr A B AdarkarMr W E AlexanderMr N AlwynDr I D AnsellDr N D BarnesProfessor V E Barnes IIMr D H BeeversMr J C BoocockMr G BoxallMr T BunnDr T R G CarterDr J P CharlesworthMr B H ClarkeDr T W DaviesMr M L DaviesMr E J DickensDr B R EgginsProfessor A F GarvieMr C P GilesMr W G B HarveyMr J D HenesThe Very Revd Dr M J HigginsMr E M HoareMr A S Holmes

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1972Mr M H ArmourMr A B S BallMr D R BarrettMr J P BatesDr D N Bennett-JonesMr S M B BlasdaleMr R J BryantMr S N BunzlMr I J BuswellMr J G CooperMr C G DaviesMr P A EnglandMr J E ErikeMr P J FarmerMr C Finden-BrowneMr N P GibsonMr R H GleedProfessor R A L H

GunawardanaMr P G HadleyMr R S HandleyDr R A HarradDr M J F HumphriesMr A M Hunter JohnstonProfessor W L IrvingMr P B Kerr-DineenDr D R MasonMr J R MoorMr R E PerryProfessor A T H SmithDr T D SwiftThe Revd Dr R G ThomasMr R E W ThompsonMr R D WakelingDr A F WeinsteinThe Revd Canon Dr J A

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1973Professor J V Bickford-SmithMr N P CardenMr A I B ClarkeMr J P CockettMr R A CohenMr S P CrooksMr M G DawProfessor P M EcheniqueMr P C EnglishProfessor C F GilksDr J A HarveyMr J R HazeltonDr R J HopkinsDr W F HutchinsonProfessor A M ListerMr K F C MarshallMr J S MorganMr J F PointsMr J E P PooleMr A W M ReicherDr D Y ShapiroMr M ShellimDr W A SmithMr J SunderlandMr D G VanstoneMr G C VosMr S J WatersMr G A WhitworthProfessor B J WilkinsonDr J B Wirth

1974Professor A J BlakeDr M J BlebyMr H J ChaseMr A B ClarkDr L H CopeMr P J Craig-McQuaideMr M L CrewDr N H CroftProfessor J H DaviesDr M A de BelderMr J R DelveDr A G DewhurstMr L D EngleDr M G J GannonMr T D GardamProfessor J GascoigneMr P A GoodmanDr P J GuiderDr M C HarropDr W N HubbardMr N KirtleyMr W S H LaidlawMr R I K LittleMr P LoganMr R O MacInnes-ManbyMr G MarkhamMr J G A McCleanDr R B Outhwaite *Mr D M PottonProfessor B D ReddyMr A H SilvermanMr E J StoreyDr N H ThomThe Rt Hon Lord J A TurnerMr C VigrassMr D K B WalkerMr L J Walker

1975Mr E J AthertonMr S L BarterMr C J A Beattie

Mr P S BelsmanMr A J CampbellDr P I ClarkMr S CollinsMr A E Cooke-YarboroughMr M G DayMr E A M EbdenMr N R GambleMr M H GrahamMr D A HareMr R F HughesProfessor H JamesDr N KoehliMr F N MarshallDr R G MayneMr K M McGivernMr K S MillerMr G MonkThe Revd M W NealeDr C C P NnochiriProfessor I P L Png & Ms J C W

ChengDr H C RaynerDr M P ReasbeckMr D J G ReillyMr G R SherwoodDr F A SimionProfessor T J StephensonThe Revd Canon I D TarrantDr J M ThompsonMr N J WardMr B J WarneMr J R Wood

1976Mr D BarhamMr J J J BatesMr S J BirchallDr H D L BirleyMr N G BlanshardProfessor J R BradgateMr L G BrewDr M P ClarkeCllr R J DavisThe Hon Dr R H EmslieMr M W FriendDr F G GurryMr J HaimDr P R HarveyDr A C J HutchessonDr S T KempleyDr C J LueckDr C MaMr A J MatthewsDr S J MorrisDr D MyersMr D C S OosthuizenMr R B PeatmanMr J S PriceMr P L SimonDr J A SpencerMr S ThomsonMr J P TreasureThe Rt Hon N K A S VazMr O H WarnockProfessor A J M WhitleyMr A Widdowson

1977Mr S T BaxMr J P BlackMr A C BouldingMr R Y BrownDr K J FristonMr A L GibbDr C-T GohMr A R D GowersMr R M HouseMr B S HundalDr M S IraniMr S R LairdMr K H McKellarDr P H M McWhinneyDr L S MillsMr H N NealDr R P OwensDr A PagliucaDr R PurwarMr I M RadfordProfessor T A RingDr G S SachsMr A J SalmonDr L F M ScintoMr S A ScottMr C SiderisMr M J SimonDr P WaddamsDr P A WatsonMr D J WhiteDr A N WilliamsMr R C Woodgate

1978Mr H M BakerMr J C BarberThe Revd Dr A B BartlettDr T G BleaseDr G R BlueMr M D BrownMr C J CarterMr J M Charlton-JonesDr T R CoeMr S A CornsMr A D Cromarty

Dr P G DommettMr M J EcclestonDr J EdwardsMr R C S EvansMr R J EvansMr P P S FeketeMr T J FelligMr A B GrabowskiDr E HatchwellDr C N JohnsonMr P R M KavanaghMr D P KirbyMr R A ListerDr D E Muckle-JonesMr A J NobleMr T D OwenMr C S PorterMr M H PottingerMr M A PriorDr B A RaynaudMr P J ReederMr M H SchusterMr S J ShawThe Revd A G ThomDr D TownsendMr D W WoodMr P A Woo-Ming

1979Dr R AggarwalDr M G ArcherMr T C BandyMr N C BirchMr A J BirkbeckDr P J CarterDr S A P ChubbMr P A CowlettDr C E CroftMr N G DoddMrs C E ElliottMr J ErskineMr S R FoxMr P C GandyMs C A GoldieDr A R GrantMr N C I HardingMr R P HayesMr T E J HemsDr A W HerbertMs C J JenkinsProfessor P W M JohnsonMr P J KeebleMr A D MayburyMrs J M PatonProfessor C T ReidDr K C SawDr M E SelbyMs D M SorkinDr J SträsslerDr P C TaylorMr N J TregearDr R P Tuckett

1980Mr C P AldrenMr A M BallheimerDr N P BatesMrs J R BurryDr C E CollinsMr S R CoxfordThe Revd Dr P H DonaldDr R J GibbensDr S L GrassieMr M J HardwickMr P L HavilandMr R H HopkinDr J MarshSir Simon MiltonMr J E MitchellProfessor J R MontgomeryMr A N NorwoodDr T M PickettMr R N PorteousMs J S SaundersMr J M E SilmanMrs M S SilmanProfessor M SorensenProfessor J A ToddMr R L TrayDr C Turfus

1981Mrs J S AdamsMrs A M BarryDr R C BethellMr S CoxMr J M DaveyDr P H DearMs C T DonaldMr N J FarrMr R FordMr P G HarrisMr W S HobhouseMr C L M HornerMr R H M HornerMr P C N IrvenMr P W LangslowDr J W McAllisterDr O P NicholsonMr G NnochiriDr J W NorrisMr M W RichardsMrs M RobinsonMr T Saunders

Dr J B ScanlonDr A Schenk Graf von

StauffenbergDr J L d’E SteinerDr D M TalbottMr K J TaylorMs L J TeasdaleMr C J R Van de VeldeProfessor C R WaltonDr E A WarrenMs S Williams

1982Mr D BakerMr J D BiggartDr M A S BlackburnDr N C CampbellThe Revd Dr E N CloustonMrs N CrossMr A R FlitcroftDr P A FoxMr J E M HaynesMr P D HickmanMrs C H KenyonMr M J KochmanMr P LoughboroughMr J S MairMs E F MandelstamDr M MaxwellMr D J MillsProfessor M MoriartyMrs R E PenfoundMs M K Reece ThomasMr A RobertsMr A A ShahMrs A J SheatMrs E I C StrasburgerDr J G TangMr J P TaylorMr C & Dr H M WardDr M J Weait

1983Dr R F BalfourMr P R BennettDr D B BethellMs J P L ChingMr H M CobboldDr S A J CrightonMr J C CurtisDr A DhimanMr A L EvansMr T M FancourtMr P E J FellowsMr H E GillespieDr W P GoddardMr N J HammondMr W A C HaywardMr S A KirkpatrickMr J F S LearmonthMr C LoongMr J B K LoughDr R C MasonMr R H MooreMr R M PaynProfessor A G RemensnyderMr S C RowarthMr A RzymMr H C ShieldsMr A G StrowbridgeMr R B SwedeMr N J Taffinder *His Honour Judge TompkinsMiss A TopleyMr C H UmurMs H E WhiteDr S F J Wright

1984Dr H T T AndrewsMs S J BradyMr J A Brodie-SmithMr R A BrooksMr G C R BuddenDr A R DuncanProfessor T G Q EisenMrs A S GardnerMr L J HunterMr A S E JohnsonDr J R B LeventhorpeMr G C MaddockMr A D H MarshallMr I PaineMr J R PollockDr K S SandhuDato’ R R SethuDr R A ShahaniMr M L VincentProfessor C Wildberg

1985Mr N M BakerMr G K BeggerowDr I M BellMrs J C CassaboisMr P R ClarkMr A H DavisonDr E M DennisonMr M C S EdwardsMr J M ElsteinMr M J FletcherMrs E F FordMr J D HarryProfessor J B Hartle

Ms P HaywardMr P G J S HelsonDr K M HockDr C H JessopMr C L P KennedyMr A J LandesMr W P L LawesMrs C F ListerMrs N M LloydDr J J N NabarroThe Revd N C PapadopulosMr K D ParikhMr M H PowerMr T M S RowanProfessor I D W SamuelDr J M SargaisonMiss J A ScrineMrs L K SharpeMrs C P SimmDr P M SladeDr D A StattMr W D L M VerekerMrs J S WilcoxMr R C WilsonMrs A K WilsonDr E F Worthington

1986Dr L M AllcockDr K BrownProfessor J A DaviesDr S D FarrallProfessor R L FultonMr A N GrahamDr K GreenDr C J HolmesMiss M P HoranMrs J Y S Ho-ThongProfessor J M HuntleyMr N J IlesMr D P JellinekMr B D KonopkaProfessor J C LaidlawMr R Y-H LeungDr D L L ParryDr M A PerryDr A A PintoMr T S SandersonMr J P SaundersProfessor A J SchofieldDr K SehatDr R G ShearmurMs V H StaceMr J W StuartDr C J TaylorMs A J TomlinsonDr M H WagstaffMr C J WatsonDr J Whaley

1987Mr J J M BaileyMr J P BarabinoMr J J BattersbyMr O R M BolithoMr N R ChippingtonMr A J CoveneyMrs J L Dendle-JonesMs S L DeVineDr A J ForresterDr G M GrantMs C M HarperDr S C HsuDr M KarimMr P KumarMr C A LevyMrs M M J LewisMr A W LockhartDr R MenghamDr R A PerryMr S L ReaMr D W ShoresMr L A UnwinMr A N E Yates

1988Dr P AgarwalProfessor N R AsherieMr R S P BanerjiDr I M BillingtonDr M BispingDr T P BlighMr H A BriggsDr A-L BrownMr J C BrownMs C StewartMrs M E ChappleVicomte R H P G de RosièreDr G B DoxeyMr A J EmussMr L D HicksMs R C HomanDr A D HossackCapt J S IrishDr I H MagederaDr M C MirowDr A N R NeddermanDr D Niedrée-SorgMr S J ParkerMr A P ParsissonMr M B PritchettMr M J RawlinsDr C I J SandersMr D Schwartmann

Ms N M SmithMr T H SnellingThe Revd J S SudharmanDr R M TarziMr M E H TippingMrs H M TrumanMr A G VeitchMr A E WellenreiterDr F J L Wvytack

1989Dr G M W AdamsMr A M Barnes-WebbMrs A S BrothertonProfessor M J BrownDr J T ChalcraftDr E A CrossMr J R F de BassDr S FrancisMr P E GilmanMr G R GlavesMr S M GurneyMr N C JacklinMr G W JonesMr J P KennedyMr P J KerrMr J R KirkwoodMrs L C LoganMr B J McGrathMs J H MyersMr N J C RobinsonMrs C RomansMr J C RouxMr S C RuparellMr A M P RussellProfessor Y SakamotoMr A S UppalMrs T E WarrenMr N D J WilsonMs G A Wilson

1990Mr R BallMs L M BeesonDr L C ChappellMrs J F ClementMr I J ClubbMr A A DillonMrs S V DysonMr N W EdmondsMrs V N M FungMr A W P GuyMr R J E HallDr A D HendersonMr I D HendersonMr R D HillMr M B JobMr H R JonesMr P A KeyDr S H O F KorbeiProfessor N G LewMr G C LiMs A Y C LimDr M B J LubienskiMr J S MarozziMr T Moody-StuartMr S T OestmannDr K P SainsburyMr P C SheppardMr L ShorterDr J SinhaMr G E L SpanierMr H K SuniaraMr D S TurnbullDr J C WadsleyDr G D WillsMs R M WindenMr K L WongMr R C Young

1991Dr R D BairdMr D BehrmanMr D D ChandraMrs B ChoiDr P A DalbyDr S DormanDr C S J FangDr M B FertlemanDr S C FrancisDr A J HodgeDr N I HorwitzMr W G IrvingDr J P KaiserMrs R R KmenttMrs V K LeamonMr D R PatersonDr A ReichmuthMs V J RichardsDr S M ShahMr A SmeuldersMr J A SpenceDr M D TarziMrs H-M A G C VeseyMiss J H Ward

1992Professor A S AlexandrovMr D AutersonMr A J BarberMr P N R BraveryMs J M CarpenterDr A A G Driskill-SmithDr R S Dunne

Ms L K GreevesMs J Z Z HuDr H M JohnsonMr J KiharaProfessor C KressMr W LiMr J LuiMr R L NichollsDr F H PerryDr A J PowerMr H E SerjeantsonMrs R C StevensDr S R J TaylorMaj D M ThomasDr D I ThomsonMr G S J VeyseyMrs K WieseMr C M WilsonMr L K Yim

1993Dr S D AlbinoMr J D H ArnoldMr A S BasarDr A C G BreezeMr P M CeelyDr E A CongdonMr P A EdwardsDr I R FisherMs G J HallamMr C E G HogbinMr E J HowDr A KalhoroDr G A J KellyMr C S KlotzMr T P MossMr R B K PhillipsDr J F ReynoldsMrs L Robson BrownDr C I RotherhamMr C A RoyleDr T WaltherMiss S T WillcoxMrs A J WordenMs R P Wrangham

1994Professor G I BarenblattMs R D BarrettMs I-M BendixsonProfessor D M BetheaDr L ChristopoulouDr T C FardonMr S S GillMr R S GreenwoodMr R J M HaynesDr S F W KendrickDr S G A PitelMr P D ReelMr P H RutkowskiDr G M ShoibProfessor M A SteinDr K-S TanMr K S TangDr A S WitherdenMr M A WoodDr H L W Yau

1995Dr K J af ForsellesMr C AitkenMr C ChewMs H Y-Y ChungDr J F L CobboldDr A C CookeDr P A CunninghamDr S L DysonDr J S FeuersteinMrs J A S FordDr M R GökmenProfessor J HarringtonDr E A Harron-PonsonbyMr A J G HarropDr A E JenkinsMs M C Katbamna-MackeyThe Revd Dr J D McDonaldDr D N MillerDr M A MillerDr T J NancooMr S M PilgrimCllr H C S PipeDr T C PorterMiss M-J RheeMs J K RoseMs T J SheridanMr M J SoperMr S J TaylorMr S S ThapaMiss C J ThorpeMr E G Woods

1996Ms E J BarlowMiss C E CallaghanMs S E CraigMr J R F DaltonMrs J H J Gilbert

Mr J D GoldsmithMiss E E GoodacreMr I R HerdMiss K J HoyleMr S J LakinMr P MacBainMs J L NixonDr I D PlumbDr T PrestidgeMr P S RhodesMr D ScannellMr D C ShawMr C M StaffordMr A H StainesMr P M SteenMr D J TaitMs E-L TohMr B T WaineDr L H A WatkinsMr C G WrightMr K F Wyre

1997Dr U AdamMr A J BowerMr R Chee-A-TowMrs C ChuDr M P ClarksonMrs R V ClubbMrs J R EarlDr E J FardonDr J P GraingerDr D M GuttmannProfessor C E HoltDr K G JohnsonMs V E McMawDr J B MorrisProfessor N MrosovskyDr S NestlerMiss R N PageMr H D PimDr K S TangMr T J UglowMr E Zambon

1998Mr I K AliMs H M BarnardMr D M BlakeMr I D CoxMr F W DassoriMr L DeardenMr S A EderMr J A EtheringtonMr J M FaradayMrs K M GrimshawMr H M HeuzenroederMs C Lo NeroMr J R MarshallDr R I R MartinMr M H MatthewsonMiss O M MihangelDr N A MorehamMr H R F Nimmo-SmithMr J C P RoosProfessor R P L ScazzieriDr T ShettyMs S C ThomasMr D J F Yates

1999Mr R F T BeentjeMr D T BellMr P BergDr A BradyDr C L BroughtonMr J A BrownMr J A CliffeMiss A S GreenwoodDr L JinMr M W LaycockMr J W MollerMr R H OwenDr C ParrishMr M A PinnaMr A M RibbansDr J D StainsbyMiss J E StaphnillDr P D Wright

2000Mr R A D AllenMr J F CampbellMr M T CoatesDr W J E HoppittMr J M HuntMr D D ParryMrs K E SymonsMr J A P ThimontDr G S VassiliouMiss C H VigrassMiss R K Walmsley

2001 onwardsMiss R L AveryMiss R J BarkerMr T A Battaglia

Miss A F ButlerMr A C McK ButterworthMr J J CassidyMrs R C E CavoniusMiss L C ChapmanMrs J A CollinsMs J L CremerDr M G DracosMr A L EardleyMr J-M EdmundsonMiss H A FraserMr T J GardinerMr J K HallidayMiss E R HarriesMr T S Hewitt JonesMr T A HodgsonSir Christopher HumMr J McB HunterMiss E R JamesMiss M F KomoriMr J P LangfordMiss F LawMr M J Le MoignanDr P A LyonMiss J J-W MantleMiss A C MarsdenMr T K NewbyMs Z OwenMs L A ShaferMr S J SpragueMr C P WoodMiss J C Wood

Friends and ParentsMr & Mrs D J AbbottProfessor J V AcrivosProfessor M AlexiouDr P S & Dr R AllanDr H AraiMr & Mrs A W ArcherProfessor E J ArcherMr J G ArmstrongDr & Mrs R E AshtonMr G W AustinMr & Mrs W J BabtieDr & Mrs X BaoMr & Mrs E R BarkerMr & Mrs I B BarrMr & Mrs M J G BatesMr & Mrs R E BaylissDr A G BearnMrs R Beatty *Dr & Mrs H J BeckMr & Mrs C R BerryMr & Mrs A R BestMr R L BiavaMr & Mrs L P BielbyMr P J & Dr A C BillingsMr & Mrs N W BishopMr G N Block & Miss P M

BeaumontMr M Bogaardt & Ms P M F

NjissenMr & Mrs J BorlandMr & Mrs C C W BraceyDr A BratkovskyMr M BrennerMr & Mrs M H BrentMr & Mrs G BrittonMr & Mrs R C BrownMr R L BucknerMr D R & Dr S L Bunn-LivingstoneMr P J & Cllr A J BurrellMr & Mrs J W ButlerMr & Mrs R J M ButlerMr & Mrs M C ButterworthMr & Mrs G B CampbellMr & Mrs L F CampbellMr C CarrollMr & Mrs A A CarruthMr & Mrs A J CattonMr & Mrs N F ChampionMr & Mrs G S ChanDr & Mrs S ChandrasekharanMr & Mrs C P ChapmanMr & Mrs I C CheethamMrs R A ChegwinMr C Chen & Mrs C ZhengDr & Mrs W C W ChengMr & Mrs D N ChesterfieldDr & Mrs J J CheungMr W G ClarkMr B Clément & Mrs C Clément

PlancherMr & Mrs J CollingwoodMr & Mrs M R CollinsMr & Mrs P CooksonMr & Mrs R CopeMs L A CortMr & Mrs J M CoxMrs A F CrampinMrs O Crick *Mr & Mrs R N CrookMr & Mrs T W B CullenMr & Mrs P R CullineyMr R R T CummingsMr & Mrs I J Curington

Dr & Mrs P G DarraghMr & Mrs G J DavieMr & Mrs F J DavisMrs S G DavisMr & Mrs A R W DaweMr & Mrs J R de FonblanqueMrs J de GrootMr & Mrs N F C de RivazThe Revd & Mrs D G DeeksMrs M DemetriouMr & Mrs R S Di LuzioMr & Mrs M F DivineyMr & Mrs J P DoddingtonMr & Mrs R H C DoeryMr & Mrs A DracosMr L Du & Mrs S Q YuMr & Mrs R A EardleyMr J Jones & Mrs S A Easton-

JonesMr & Mrs C N EdelmanMr & Mrs P EdwardsMr & Mrs A ElahiMr & Mrs A EspinMr & Mrs P EvansMr & Ms J FanshaweMr & Mrs M J C FaulknerDr & Mrs H Z FeldmanMr & Mrs B M FeldmanMr & Mrs P V FellowsMr J C FeltonMrs T FeltonMr & Mrs S FerdiMrs M FieldMr & Mrs P J FilbyMr & Mrs A J FinlaysonDr & Mrs E FishwickMr & Mrs B FitzgeraldMr & Mrs L FlemingMr & Mrs F FletcherMr & Mrs H D FletcherMr & Mrs P E FletcherMr & Mrs R G FletcherMr & Mrs M G FosterMr J FriedaMrs A FritzProfessor & Mrs M GhadiriDr M C GibberdMr & Mrs M J GilfedderMr & Mrs N S F GlennieMr & Mrs H GoldingMrs S GoldsteinMs P Gooch RobertsonProfessor J B GoodenoughMr & Mrs J GoslingMr A Gounaras & Mrs A

Temponera-GounarasDr P W Gower & Dr I LewingtonThe Revd & Mrs W S GrahamMiss J GriersonMr & Mrs I T GriffithsMr & Mrs C HaddockMr & Mrs A HadjipanayisMr & Mrs J S HallidayMr & Mrs M J HamiltonMs E HamiltonMr B Sheng & Professor X HanMr & Mrs P G HarrisonMrs V HarrisonMr & Mrs R HashimotoMr & Mrs S J HaydenMr & Mrs M HealesMr & Mrs I A HendersonDr G N HerlitzMr & Mrs T Hewitt JonesDame Rosalyn HigginsMr J H HillDr J S & Dr J J HilliardMr & Mrs A HitchinsMr & Mrs V J HoltMr & Mrs H S HooMr & Mrs N A HorleyMr & Mrs A J HoweMrs P M HudsonMrs J A B HulmMr & Mrs R ImpeyMs B A JacksonMr P G & Dr J E JenningsMr & Mrs P A C JohnsonMr & Mrs R S JohnsonMrs K JonesThe Revd Professor D H JonesMr & Mrs V JoshiMr & Mrs P KarstadtMr P KelleyMs S KhanMr & Mrs J C Kilburn-ToppinMr & Mrs J S KinghornMr & Mrs S A KingsleyLt Col J H KinkaidMr R A Kitch & Mrs M K

MajzoubDr & Mrs M P KnightMr & Mrs S C-S KoMrs F A MacE KomoriMr & Mrs S K KooMrs M KoyanoMr N J & Dr C M Kroll

Mr T W J Lai & Mrs M F Lai LeungMr & Mrs D W LandMr & Mrs J P LangfordMr & Mrs N A LangleyMr & Mrs P LanoMr & Mrs P D LawMr & Mrs P A Le VershaMr & Mrs M E LeeMr & Mrs H LennardMr & Mrs A W LeslieMr & Mrs J M LesterDr & Mrs J M LewisMiss P LewisMr & Mrs I P LeybourneMrs S A LilienthalMr B H Lim & Mrs S K TeohMr & Mrs M J LloydMrs P A LowMr & Mrs J D LynchehaunMr & Mrs N R W MacDonaldDr & Mrs H MalemMr & Mrs S R MatonMr & Mrs S MatsisMr & Mrs M K L MawMr & Mrs P J McDonaldHis Honour Judge & Mrs D K

McFarlandMr & Mrs C J M McGovernDr C K & Dr J E McKnightMr A MelchiorMr & Mrs J MiallMr & Mrs P S MidgleyMr & Mrs J E MillsMr & Mrs A MinichielloMr & Mrs D J MoseleyDr & Mrs S MothaMr & Mrs M MoynihanMr & Mrs R E MrowickiMr & Mrs M L J MunroDr & Mrs J D MurphyMr & Mrs J MurphyProfessor G D & Dr L S MurrayDr & Mrs K R MyersonMr S NackviMr & Mrs A T R NellProfessor P E NelsonMr & Mrs M W NichollsMr & Mrs R NichollsMr & Mrs R W NorthcottMr D F O’DonoghueDr & Mrs J P O’DriscollMrs C M OmandMr & Mrs B E PadleyMr & Mrs S G PanterMr & Mrs C N K ParkinsonMr & Mrs D A ParryMr & Mrs N PataniMr & Mrs C PatelMr & Mrs K G PatelMr J H Pattinson & Mrs M

Gressenich-PattinsonMr & Mrs A PaullMr A D & Dr E PenmanMr & Mrs F A PensonMrs R A PickeringDr & Mrs P PilavakisMr & Mrs R PolyblankMr W F Poon & Ms W L ChanMr & Mrs V D PopatProfessor & Mrs W S PowellMr & Mrs M S PrevezerDr A ProchaskaMr & Mrs B D QueenMr E QuintanaDr G J G & Dr C A ReesMr & Mrs G D RibbansMr & Mrs M D RiceDr & Mrs J RichardsonMr & Mrs J C RichardsonMr & Mrs M RichardtMr & Ms J R RidgmanMrs J C RobertsMr & Mrs I R RossMr & Mrs D RowlandDr S McCausland & Mrs A P

RussellMr & Mrs P RutherfordDr Y M SaleemMs C SanoMr & Mrs M D SaundersDr & Mrs P K SayalWg Cmdr & Mrs G T ScardDr & Mrs W G H SchartauMr & Mrs K R SchneiderDr & Mrs A J SchurrDr & Mrs L R ScottMr & Mrs T J ScraseMr A P SeabrokeMr & Mrs P SeelyMr & Mrs S G ShahDr X Shan & Ms Q LuMr & Mrs R S D SharpMr & Mrs S J SharrattDr & Mrs J V ShepherdDr & Mrs R L ShermanMr & Mrs T J M ShiptonMr R Sills

Dr B K & Dr R SinghDr D S & Dr S SinhaMrs C Smeaton & Mr J A KerrMr & Mrs A R SmithMrs B SmithMs C A S SmithProfessor R J SokolMr & Mrs M SpillerMr & Mrs M J SpragueMr & Mrs N F St AubynDr & Mrs P S StantchevMr & Mrs G StewartMr L E & Dr Z StokesMr & Mrs W SummerbellMr & Mrs M A SupperstoneMr S & Professor J E Svasti-SaleeMr & Mrs N S SwanMr & Mrs R J SweeneyMr & Mrs P TalwarDr & Mrs B TanMr & Mrs M B TaylorDr & Mrs P F ThanischMrs E T ThimontDr R H M & Dr A M ThomasMr D H ThomasMr & Mrs N P ThompsellMr & Mrs J E ThompsonMr & Mrs K H TickellMr & Mrs G L ToddMr W G TophamMr B N P Garvey & Ms A C

ToppingMr & Mrs G TosicDr S J TreanorMr & Mrs P TreanorMrs G M M TreanorMr & Mrs J P TunnicliffeMr P W VannDr G Venkat-Raman & Mrs K

RamanMr M J VickersMr & Mrs W D VincentMr & Mrs R von Eisenhart RotheDr S von MolnárMr & Mrs D WalkeDr & Mrs J D WalkerMrs A J WalkerMr & Mrs M J WalshMr & Mrs P R WaltonDr & Mrs P WardMr & Mrs M T WardDr & Mrs WarnerMr & Mrs R H WarringtonMr & Mrs A S WatkinsMr R N WellerMr I & Dr D C WhaleyMr & Mrs T C J WhiteMr & Mrs I G WhyteMrs J WightMr & Mrs M B WilkinsonMr & Mrs R E WillisMr J G S Willis & Miss P A RadleyMrs A S WillmanMr & Mrs W R WilsonDato’ S J WongDr & Mrs M O W WongDr A R & Dr H A WordleyMr & Mrs J A Z WrightMr Y Wu & Mrs Y YuanDr M Xie & Mrs Y YangProfessor Q Xu & Dr Y HuMrs M YanagishimaMs E S G YatesMs A YonemuraMr & Mrs T F B YoungMrs H E M YoungProfessor & Mrs I S YoungDr W Yu & Ms B ChenMr & Mrs E K J ZehMr G J Zhang & Ms S H XiongMr H Zhou & Mrs J QiMr S M Zinser

Corporate DonorsAllen & OveryAltria GroupBidwells Property ConsultantsBP InternationalCaius ClubCambridge Summer RecitalsCambridge Wine MerchantsDeloitteGoldman Sachs & Co.LinklatersLivanos Charitable TrustMBNA International BankMerck & Co.Michael Miliffe Memorial

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Siobhan Wall (1979)One of my favourite memories of being atCaius was going for walks along the RiverCam and picking wild flowers to take backto my attic room in Tree Court. Needless tosay, the following morning there werenumerous small black bugs scuttlingaround the vase and the flowers had to go,however pretty they were. Perhaps it wasthe influence of reading the Romanticpoets that led to my idyllic country walksor just the fact of living in a very greencity, but I sometimes wonder where I gotmy inspiration for ‘Quiet Amsterdam’, mynew book about hidden, tranquil places inmy new home city.

In 2000, after a decade of full-timelecturing in London, (at a university which

And finally...In a recent issue of Trinity College’s alumni magazine,The Fountain, Professor Nicholas Wolpert argued thatthe principal reason for any animal having a brain wasto control movement. His observation deserves to beshared with a wiser audience:

“Without the need for complex movements wecould, as trees have done, forgo the luxury of a brain.Perhaps the clinching evidence for the movement-brainlink is the humble sea squirt, a creature with arudimentary nervous system that spends its juvenile lifeswimming around in the ocean. Early in its life itimplants on a rock and never moves again. The first thing it then does is digest its own brainand nervous system for food! Once movement is no longer required, neither is the brain. Thisphase of the sea squirt’s life is often taken as an analogy to what happens to Americanacademics when they settle down on being promoted to Professor.”

Left-right standing:Martin Bennett, JacquiBennett, Neil Kinnear,Joel Cliff, BryanMissenden, Brian Sacks,Richard Gill, LaurenceBrian, Duncan Colquhoun,Simon Young, JohnRobinson, Jeff Aughton,Helena Bates, JulianBatesSeated: Shannon Cliff,Pam Missenden, JoannaSacks, Fiet Gill, SueColquhoun, Becky Martin,Sarah Kinnear, ZillahTooley, Julie Aughton.

Michael Barrett (1955)Having lived in Australia for the past forty years, I enjoyed coming back to Caius for a few days in September2008. I stayed in College while doing some research on the papers of my maternal great-grandfather, W TStead, at Churchill College, and looked up my paternal grandfather, Dr Sidney Edward Barrett (1888) in theCaius Biographical History. While in England, I caught up with a few old friends from fifty years ago and I waslucky enough to go for a spin in what used tobe my pride and joy, a 1932 Alvis Speed 20Tourer.

Back in 1958, when the black-and-whitephotograph was taken at 3 West Road by myfriend Jan Clark of Clark’s Shoes, the car waspillar-box red, often seen (and heard) aroundtown, very fast and thirsty. It completed a trip toIschia in the Bay of Naples in great style withmyself and two Caius friends, Dr Tony Rubin(1955) and Tim Yarnell (1955). It was successful incompetition at Snetterton in Norfolk.

The following year, I sold the car to PaulGarratt, who has owned it ever since. Paul hasmaintained it in original condition except for afew modifications in the interests of safety andreliability. It now sports British RacingGreen livery, probably moreappropriate to the age of both theowner and the vehicle. This photowas taken in Cheshire by my nephewAndrew Barrett in August 2008, fiftyyears on.

It was most exciting to drive in thisclassic car again: I’m delighted that it’sbeen looked after so well by a real enthusiast, who haspreserved a treasure from the classic age of British motoring.

Jeff Aughton (1970)“Why don’t we all meet up again in the future on some memorable date – how about 9/9/1999?” I remembersaying this to my colleagues very late one night while we were gathered in someone’s College room.Unfortunately, although I thought about it many times afterwards, it seems that I was the only one in a fitstate to remember what happened. As the years passed I began to suspect that I might be the sole attendeeand a chance meeting at the College’s 650th anniversary celebrations confirmed my fears. However, out of thatmeeting a remarkable reunion was born.

The original agreement was made in 1971 when we were freshmen and at that time “28 years from now” may aswell have been “never”. As graduates we inevitably drifted apart although some small groups remained in touch.Following my meeting with John Robinson we contacted the other members of the group through College and on theevening of 9 September 1999 (though somewhat earlier than my preferred time of 9pm) we assembled in GonvilleCourt with friends and wives to celebrate.

As most of the participants had not met for 26 years there was a danger that the evening might have been ananticlimax and yet something marvellous happened. It was a stunning success.

We took photographs, caught up on the past quarter-century and swapped stories and addresses (including thesenew-fangled ‘e’ types). Also, we pledged to meet again but felt that waiting another 26 years was pushing it a bit soquickly decided that 11/11/11 was the most obvious date to reconvene. Look out for the report in a few years’ time!

Eaden Lilley

A Big Birthday PartyCambridge University started the celebrations for its 800th Anniversary with a spectacular light show on 17 January 2009, to the tuneof bell-ringing from Great St Mary’s. Vast images of some of our greatest achievements were projected on to a screen made up of theSenate House and the Old Schools. Caian successes were prominent in the nine-minute display, including the discoveries by WilliamHarvey (1593) on how blood circulates, Francis Crick (1949) on DNA and Stephen Hawking (1965) on black holes.

The many 800th celebratory events to come this year include a major London concert featuring Cambridge music and musicians on theevening of 22 July 2009. The College hopes that as many Caians as possible will reserve the date so that they can attend. Details of the venuewill be sent by email to all Caians for whom the Development Office holds an email address as soon as the Booking Office opens.

Third Reich CorrectionNo Caians but two relatives of Caianshave spotted a small error on Page 13of Issue 8 of Once a Caian... EmmetMcIntyre, brother of Dr SarahMcIntyre (2000) and Andy Weaver,father of Holly Weaver (2008) bothpoint out that in the photographcaptioned “Tiger tanks in production,summer 1943” the vehicle shown isactually a self-propelled gun calledthe Sturmgeschütz III (Ausf G). RegiusProfessor Richard Evans (1998) agrees:the incorrect information wassupplied by the German Bundesarchiv.

Jan Clark

Andrew Barrett

Erol Suleyman

Yao Liang

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didn’t have a single blade of grass), myhusband decided that the only way to stopme working too hard was to take me toanother country, and as the internetconnections in The Netherlands wereexcellent, that’s where we ended up.

So, after a few hours writing, mostafternoons I would pick up a map, get on mybicycle, and just go off in search of all thegreen spaces in and around Amsterdam. I wasentranced by the beautiful lakes, woods andnature reserves but also wanted the book toinspire visitors as well as people who livedhere, so also took photos of museums, smallhotels, cafes, gardens and ‘hofjes’. QuietLondon is my next project, after which, whoknows, maybe Quiet Cambridge?

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Four years ago, I adapted LordKitchener’s famous phrase tohead the editorial in our firstissue. After four years ofincreasing generosity from

Caians and friends of the College (and afinancial tsunami known as “the creditcrunch” in the world at large) the College’sneed for the active, wholehearted support ofthose who care about it is even greater thanit was in 2004.

No apology is needed. Fellows, staff,students, Caians and friends have every rightto feel proud of the College’s achievementsand to treasure their own share in its work.Few institutions have had such a beneficialeffect on their own members and the worldaround them for over 660 years.

In this issue, we celebrate the part playedby Caius and Caians in seeing sooner than

most the significance of China’sre-awakening and in buildingbridges of understandingbetween East and West. Wecelebrate our twelfth Nobel Prizewinner, the first in Chemistry andthe first Chinese-American – andwe note Roger Tsien’s own warningnot to be motivated or impressed byprizes since, he says, they are just amatter of luck!

It is easy to celebrate the highflyers and natural to feel pride in theirachievements, as if a little of the“Swedish fairy-dust” might rub off onus, mere mortals. Just as valuable butharder to define is the way Caius nurturesand encourages the life of the mind in allwho come here, fostering the freedoms ofspeech and thought, careful study, widereading and rigorous intellectual debate.On such fundamental values rests ourcivilisation’s defence against the ignorance,blind prejudice and bigotry that coulddestroy it.

The College is much more than ourcelebrated prize-winners: they fly the flag forexcellence and inspire the rest of us, but theessence of Caius is more elusive and morepervasive: it is in the questioning andreasoning, the intellectual habits learned inyouth and practised in maturity by Caians inall walks of life, all over the world.

That is why so many Caians come backto Cambridge 20, 30, 40 or 50+ years

after graduating and feel instantly asense of belonging, of returning to a

vital, formative experience thathelped to shape their beliefs and

personalities. The ideal is whatDr Jimmy Altham (1965) calls

“the joyfully seeking mind”,always enquiring and

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enthusiastic but also discriminating, judging,weighing in the balance.

For Caians, involvement with Caius is atwo-way process. On the one hand, in orderto offer the meticulous attention toindividual students that is the hallmark of aCambridge education, the College needscontinuing financial support from those whohave benefited from this process in the past(and continue to benefit from it!).

Between a quarter and a third of theCollege’s annual budget of £10million comesin the form of voluntary gifts from Caiansand friends. Without this support, the Collegewould be in a desperate plight: with it, andwith the additional support of the legaciesthat many Caians tell us they are leaving tothe College, there is a real chance that in 20or 30 years’ time, Caius will once again beself-supporting and able to admit the mostgifted students, irrespective of theirbackground, parental income or ability topay. How liberating it would be, if ourstudents no longer had to take out bankloans to pay for their own education!

The other part of the two-way process isthe pleasure many Caians get from renewingcontact with the College and theircontemporaries, long after their student dayshave finished. Caians are welcome to comeback to Caius at any time and many take upthe opportunity. The experience is even moreenjoyable if shared with old friends: naturally,communal events like the May Week Party,the Annual Gatherings, the Benefactors’ Feastand the Caius Club Dinner are tremendouslypopular. Nostalgia for the past plays a partbut it is the sense of shared values and acontinuing sense of belonging to anexceptional community that really energisesand excites people.

A ValedictionOn a personal note, by the time this issue ispublished, I shall have left Cambridge for thesecond time, almost forty years after thefirst. Once again, it will be with a mixture ofregret for the loss of loyal friends andintellectual companionship and excitementabout what the future may hold.

It was a great privilege to launch Once aCaian… and to explore the fascinating workbeing done by Caians in many different

areas, both in Cambridge and elsewhere.Many have asked whether I worry aboutrunning out of material: the answer is aresounding “No!” Every Fellow and probablyevery Caian has an interesting story to tell, ifhe or she can be persuaded to tell it.

When the first issue came out, one Caianwrote back “If the College really needsmoney, stop wasting it on rubbish like this!”

A more heart-warming response camefrom another, after the fifth or sixth issue:“I find I now feel an affection and loyalty forthe College that I would not have thoughtpossible, just a few years ago!”

One of the things my time at Caius hasmade clear to me is that individuals maycome and go but the College has a life of itsown. I wrote in that first editorial: “ThisCollege is a continuous living channel ofintellectual enquiry and expression stretchingin an unbroken line all the way back to theMiddle Ages.”

I am still fascinated by this notion of achain of personal connections linking theCaians of today with all the others back toJohn Caius and even Edmund Gonville. Formyself, I shall treasure the memories ofcreative collaborations with many peoplehere, notably with Anne Lyon, Yao Liang,Jimmy Altham, Christopher Brooke, our twogreat Masters, Neil McKendrick andChristopher Hum, and many others.

I shall recall the pleasure of working withStephen Hawking, the most extraordinarymember of our community, who still dineswith us once or twice a week at High Tableand whose presence is both humbling andinspiring. For a man to do without so manyof the common consolations that we take forgranted and still to reach for the stars, tosuffer so much and still to keep the sharpestsense of humour, to lose his body and still toput his brain at the service of humanunderstanding – that is courage anddedication of an almost unfathomable order.

In future, if I am ever tempted tocomplain about my lot in life, I hope I shallbe wise enough to think of Stephen – andsay nothing.

I am moving to Australia, where I livedfor many years, to work at the University ofSydney. I shall always be pleased to hearfrom fellow-Caians, by email, telephone or inperson – and happy to offer a cold beer anda conversation to any Caian who turns up onmy doorstep. I hope to take part in Caiusgatherings in Sydney and elsewhere andI have a special message for any AustralianCaians who have so far resisted thetemptation to set up a regular donation(claimable against Australian income tax!)to the Caius Cambridge Australia TrustScholarship Fund: it may be a big country,but I know where you live! And our Collegestill needs us.

Your Collegeneeds

by Mick Le Moignan(2004)

Quietly, quietly, I am leaving

Just as quietly as I came.

Gently, I wave goodbye

To the clouds in the Western sky.

The golden willow on the bank of

the Cam

Stands like a bride in the sunset.

Her reflection shimmers in the water,

And ripples in my heart.

The rushes in the soft river bed

Sway and glisten underwater.

I’d gladly be a river reed

Tossed by the currents of the Cam.

In the shadow of the elm is a pool

Not of clear spring water, but a

rainbow from heaven

Crushed and crumpled among the

duckweed

Leaving only a rainbow-like dream.

Searching for a dream?

Take a long pole and punt

Gently back towards the greenest of

green grass

In a boat brimful of starlight,

Singing out loud in the splendour of

the starlight.

I cannot sing aloud now.

The flute and pan-pipes of parting

have gone silent.

Even the clamorous summer insects

are hushed for me.

Silence tonight in Cambridge.

Quietly, quietly I am leaving

Just as quietly as I came,

Careful not to brush away with

my sleeve

The faintest wisp of a cloud.

On Leaving Cambridgeby Xu Zhimotranslated by Yao Liang (1963),

Choo Liang and Mick Le Moignan (2004)

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An Appeal

YOU!I find that I now feel

an affection and loyalty for

the College that I would not

have thought possible, just a

few years ago!

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