NO.122
T H E T R U S T Y S E RVA N T
Wiccamica
Do Co Ro: Ave atque Vale
The new Headmaster, Dr Timothy Hands,
began his reign on 1st September. We
wish him every success. We also offer a
warm welcome to this half’s new cohort of
dons: Sam Baddeley (Classics); Irina
Nekhlyudova (Russian Assistant);
Matthew Pawlowski (Gordon Junior
Fellow, Classics and Sport); Dominic
Rowland (Mathematics); Edward Steer
(Junior Fellow, Chemistry); Cheryl Syrett
(Art); Nicholas Townson (Junior Fellow,
History); Matthew Weaver (Gordon
Junior Fellow, Sport); Claire Webster
(Classics); John Wright (Geography,
HoD); Nicola von Bossel-Hill (part-time
German). We hope that their time with
us will be happy.
At the end of Short Half, we shall bid a
fond farewell to Hugh Hill (Mathematics,
since September 1983).
Co Ro Beyond the Gates
Several industrious members of Co Ro
have clearly found that a week crammed
with lesson preparation, marking,
coaching soccer on Gater Field and
putting Jun Men to bed left them with
enough spare time to contribute to the
wider academic world.
British Library’s Discovering Shakespeare
digital project (www.bl.uk/shakespeare), he
has also published on the sonnet, Keats,
Brexit (in Catalan), the migration crisis,
and the depiction of mental illness in
television crime dramas.
Lucia Quinault (English) addressed the
British Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies conference in Oxford on the
subject of Thomas Le Mesurier (Coll,
1769-73), a clergyman whose eminent
public career (including published
sermons and relentless contributions to
ecclesiastical debate) was undergirded by
the composition of personal verse, a habit
begun at Winchester.
Quid Suavius Elegantiusve
Not to be outdone by his scholarly dons,
George Jones (A, 12-) deserves plaudits
for coming second in the Stephen
Spender translation prize, a national
competition for translation from any
language into English. His version of
Catullus 13 will be published in The
Guardian in November and in a booklet
later in the year. Those who cannot wait
can read it here:
Henry Cullen (Classics) co-authored
Latin to GCSE (Bloomsbury), a new
course in two volumes for the reformed