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Search:. Search. Adetomiwa Edun. Adetomiwa Edun (m. 2002) read Classics at Christ's, winning the dissertation prize in his final year for a thesis on Homer's Odyssey. He is an actor, who in 2011 played Sir Elyan in Merlin, BBC. In 2009 he played

Search:. Search. ‘John Woolley’s poems have been produces in small batches which is delightful, but unfortunate, because they are poems of great distinction which deserve a much wider audience. John’s poems are formal structures , and his

Search:. Search. Lachlan Goudie (m. 1995) is a British artist. He was born in 1976 and he is the son of Alexander Goudie who was a Scottish figurative painter. Lachlan Goudie lives and works in London. He has regular solo exhibitions in New York,

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Search:. Search. Professor Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane FRS, known as F. Duncan Haldane, (m. 1970) is a British physicist, who is currently Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at the physics department of Princeton University, and a

Search:. Search. Tony Hunter. Professor Anthony (Tony) Hunter, a Professor in the Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory and Director of the Salk Institute Cancer Center, studies how cell growth and division are regulated, and how mutations in genes

Search:. Search. The Jury's Out. Anthony Harkavy. DID YOU COMMIT THE CRIME? You’re lucky if you’ve never been asked the question in a police station or court. The law deals with extremes of human behaviour. So it is not surprising authors have

Search:. Search. Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979). British Admiral of the Fleet and statesman, Louis Mountbatten was the great-grandson of Queen Victoria. In the Second World War, he was appointed chief of Combined Operations Command,

After a brief spell teaching law at the London School of Economics, he was called to the Bar in 1967.

Search:. Search. The Rt Hon Sir Martin James Moore-Bick PC (m. 1965), is a retired member of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. Sir Martin was born on 6 December 1946 and was educated at The Skinners' School in Tunbridge Wells. He then

Search:. Search. Norman Colin Dexter OBE (m. 1950), was born on 29 September 1930 and is better known as Colin Dexter, the British crime writer of the Inspector Morse series of novels. Dexter was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire and was educated at St.

Search:. Search. M.S. SUBBULAKSHMI’S life was one of extraordinary achievement. Although she was portrayed in many ways – as a musician who sought and achieved an all-India appeal; a philanthropist and supporter of noble causes; an icon of style;

Search:. Search. Baron Patrick Arthur Devlin was born in Chislehurst, Kent in 1905. He was raised as a Catholic and attended Stonyhurst College in Lancashire. Upon leaving he joined the Dominican order with hopes to join the priesthood, but after a

Search:. Search. Tom de Freston. Tom de Freston has had four solo shows at Breese Little Gallery (London), and achieved significant critical success. He is currently artist-in-residence at Medicine Unboxed, a Wellcome Trust-funded organisation that

Search:. Search. Nick English is an Olympic Rower and Wold Champion medal winner. Nick matriculated at Christ's in 1996 and learned to row with Cambridge University lightweights, graduating with a degree in Physics. He gained his first GB vest as an

Search:. Search. Pieces is the Christ's College alumni newsletter. PIECES ISSUE 45 - Easter Term 2023. Previous editions of Pieces can be viewed online here.. If you would like to submit an article, photo or news story for Pieces, we would love to

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Search:. Search. Academic Year 2023-24. Thursday 27 June 2024. (General Admission to Degrees). General Admission to Degrees is for undergraduates only. Friday 19 July 2024. 14 June 2024. Academic Year 2024-25. Date of degree ceremony. Closing date

Search:. Search. Alfred Cort Haddon (1855-1940). Undergraduate at Christ’s 1875-9. Fellow of the College 1901-1940. The pioneering researcher Alfred Cort Haddon was one of modern anthropology’s founding fathers and a highly characteristic

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Search:. Search. Claire writes: 'You get to do all sorts of interesting things when you’re researching a book. For my first one, Last Seen in Lhasa, I went to Tibet in search of a rare red lily. For my novel, The Pagoda Tree, I met a prince, rode

Search:. Search. Francis (Tibby) Marshall (1878-1949). Pioneering scholar of mammalian reproduction – a most ’unrespectable’ academic subject at the dawn of the 20. th. century. He applied an experimental and functional, rather than the

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Search:. Search. Sir Oliver Wright (1922-2009). Sir Oliver Wright had the rare distinction, a year after his retirement from the Diplomatic Service, to be invited back to be British Ambassador to the United States. John Oliver Wright was born on

Search:. Search. Duncan Kenworthy OBE (m. 1968) was born 1949 and is a British film and television producer, and co-founder of the production company DNA Films. He is currently a producer at Toledo Productions. He received a first-class degree in

Search:. Search. William Paley was an English clergyman, Christian apologist, philosopher, and utilitarian. He is best known for his natural theology exposition of the teleological argument for the existence of God in his work Natural Theology or

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Search:. Search. Sacha Baron Cohen. Sacha Noam Baron Cohen (m. 1990) is an actor, comedian and writer and producer. He was born 13 October 1971 in Hammersmith, west London. Baron Cohen was educated at The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, an

Search:. Search. John Richard Whiteley, OBE, DL (m. 1962), was an English broadcaster and journalist. Whiteley was born on 28 December 1943 in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire. At 13, he won a scholarship to Giggleswick School, Yorkshire. In

Search:. Search. Jonathan Galassi. Jonathan Galassi (m. 1971), was born in 1949 and graduated from Harvard in 1971 having won a Marshall Scholarship to study at Christ’s College, where he realised that he wanted a career in book publishing. He

Search:. Search. Ian Balding. From Pieces, Lent Term 2002:. A racing certainty. Ian Balding LVO, racehorse trainer (since 1964). Born 7 November 1938. Studied Rural Estate Management at Christ's College 1959-62 (rugby blue 1961). Trained horses for

Search:. Search. Anthony Robert (Tony) Lewis CBE (m. 1959) is a former Welsh cricketer, who went on to become the face of BBC Television cricket coverage in the 1990s, and become president of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Lewis was born in

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Search:. Search. The debut novel from the brilliant and award-winning poet Helen Mort. Alexa is a police community support officer whose world feels unstable. Caron, Alexa’s girlfriend, is pushing her away and pushing herself even harder. A climber

Search:. Search. Davidson Nicol (1924-1994). Dr Davidson Nicol was a Sierra Leonean academic, diplomat, physician, writer and poet. He was born in 1924 in Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone. His family belonged to the Creole minority who

Search:. Search. J. P. Kenyon (1927-1996). Professor John Kenyon was Lecturer in History at Cambridge (1956-62), and Professor of Modern History at the Universities of Hull (1962-1981), St Andrews (1981-7) and Kansas (1987-94). He authored nine books

Search:. Search. Dr Rowan Douglas Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth, PC, FBA, FRSL, FLSW (m. 1968), is a Welsh Anglican bishop and former Archbishop of Canterbury. He was born in Swansea, South Wales on 14 June 1950 and was educated at Dynevor

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Search:. Search. James Chuter Ede (m. 1903) was the longest-serving Home Secretary since the nineteenth century, holding the post throughout the Attlee administration, from August 1945 to October 1951. Ede came from a Liberal, nonconformist

Search:. Search. Natalie Haynes (m. 1993) is a British writer and broadcaster and a former comedian. She was born in Birmingham in 1974 and attended King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham and then read Classics at Christ's College.

Search:. Search. Annilese Miskimmon. Born in Belfast in 1974, Annilese Miskimmon came to Christ’s in 1992 to read English. After graduating, she studied Arts Management at London City University and went on to be a staff producer at the Welsh

Search:. Search. Lim Hng Kiang was born on 9 April 1954 and is a Singaporean politician. He is a member of the People's Action Party (PAP), and is the country's Minister for Trade and Industry. Hng was educated at the Raffles Institution in Singapore

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Search:. Search. Charles Darwin (1809-1882). Christ's College is where the famous biologist and naturalist and father of evolutionary biology, studied. He was a young, innovative and enthusiastic student, destined initially for a life in Holy Orders.

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Search:. Search. How to Eat Bread: 21 Nourishing Ways to Read the Bible . As a vicar, Miranda Threlfall-Holmes is used to being asked to recommend a book on how and why to read the Bible. Filling the gap between popular Bible reading notes and more

Zeeman’s applications of catastrophe theory to the social sciences (prison riots, marital strife, economics, animal behaviour, and so on) caught the public imagination.

Search:. Search. Gilbert Jessop (1874-1955). Gilbert Laird Jessop (19 May 1874 – 11 May 1955) was perhaps one of England's greatest cricketers. Between 1894 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914, he played 493 First Class matches and represented

Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and Professor of. History at Yale University and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Christ's for the academic year 2018-19, will be giving a Lady