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24 Mar 2017: WWI Roll of Honour: John George Will 1892 – 1917. The cheery alertness which was so characteristic of him in the football field was part of his very nature… So much alive was he that it is difficult for us to believe he is now for. ever still

12 Mar 2018: Sources: ‘The Griffin’, Downing College magazine, 1908-11, 1918. http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Cambridgeshire/SohamGrammarSchool.html http://www.saintolaves.net/uploads/admin/download/file/113/St_Olaves_fallen.pdf.

9 Jan 2017: WWI Roll of Honour – Robert Astley Franklin Eminson (1891 – 1916). Robert was born in August 1891, the son of Dr Thomas and Mrs Clara Eminson of Gonerby House, Scotter, Gainsborough. He was educated at Epsom before coming up to Downing in 1909.

28 Nov 2016: WWI Roll of Honour: Sydney Garner Bennett (1888 – 1916) Sydney Garner Bennett was born in 1888 in Lowestoft, Suffolk, the only son of Henry and Mary Bennett. His father served as a Primitive Methodist Minister at various churches in Suffolk and

6 Oct 2017: Guy Spencer Bryan-Brown (1885 – 1917) First World War Roll of Honour. ‘…he is a sterling man, the best of fellows, and one who has no enemy’. (The Griffin, Lent 1908). Guy Spencer Bryan-Brown was born on 3rd July 1885 in Stroud,

13 Oct 2017: Frederick Charles Davies (1884 - 1917). First World War Roll of Honour. Frederick Charles Davies was born in 1884, the youngest son of Mr. William Davies J.P., the first Mayor of Battersea, and his wife Ellen. He was educated at St Paul’s School

14 Mar 2021: Part 4: Large scale energy storage solutions Improving energy storage on the electric grid (the grid refers to the infrastructure which provides electricity to homes in the UK) is key to improving the use of renewable energies. Figure 1 shows some

14 Mar 2021: Part 3: How do we evaluate battery performance? By using some of the electrochemical reaction tools outlined in Part 2: “How do we measure electrochemical reactions” we can gather key performance parameters of batteries and other electrochemical

14 Mar 2021: Part 2: How do we measure electrochemical reactions? Potentiostat A typical tool which scientists use for measuring electrochemical reactions is called a potentiostat. This tool allows you to change the voltage of your experiment while measuring the

14 Mar 2021: Part 1: Batteries What is a battery? A battery is an electrochemical energy storage device. There are many types of batteries since the conception in the 1800s and they fall into two categories; primary which are single use and secondary which can