Commemoration underlines the relationship between Somerville and its members, one founded on the values, ideals and history we share as a community.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Somerville’s Commemoration Service was substituted this year with an online video Service on May 29th, which featured an address from the Principal and music from the choir.
In more ordinary times, the Service commemorates Somerville’s founders, governors and major benefactors, and especially our alumni who have died during the past year. The full list of names to be commemorated has been published on the college website, and a commemoration booklet of obituaries has also been published.
We invite all Somervillians to join us next year, when we hope we will be able to meet again in the Chapel for the annual Service. We particularly invite close families and Somervillian friends of those who have died to join us.
If you know of any Somervillians who have died recently but are not listed here, please contact Liz Cooke (elizabeth.cooke@some.ox.ac.uk).
2021 Commemorations
Fellows and Principals
Fiona Caldicott née Soesan (1960 St Hilda’s; Principal of Somerville 1996-2010) on 15 February 2021 Aged 80
Mary Jane Hands (Bursar 1960-63; Fellow and Treasurer, 1963-1995; Emeritus Fellow 1995) on 13 December 2020 Aged 92
Jane Kister (1963; Fellow 1971-78) on 1st December 2019 aged 75 Mathematics
Theresa Joyce Stewart née Raisman (1948; Honorary Fellow) on 11 November 2020 Aged 90 Mathematics
Shirley Vivian Brittain Williams (1948; Honorary Fellow) on 12 April 2021 Aged 90 bPPE
Alumni
Sonia Primrose Anderson (1962) on 8 September 2020 Aged 76 History
Geraldine Jasmine Ashworth (1973) on 4 February 2020 Aged 75 Physiology
Gillian Margaret Batty née Lipsham (1964) on 2 January 2021 Aged 75 Physiology
Julie Gabrielle Beadle née Molloy (1982) on 26 August 2020 Aged 56 Jurisprudence
Rosalind Irene Bearcroft née Chamberlain (1946) on 18 January 2020 Aged 93 Physiology
Catherine (Kate) Belsey née Prigg (1959) on 14 February 2021 Aged 80 English
Cecily Mary Eleanor Bennett née Hastings (1942) on 25 September 2020 Aged 96 Mod Langs
Vivienne Blackburn (1949) on 31 March 2020 Aged 89 Mod Langs
Gabrielle (Gaby) Eve Charing (1962) on 24 May 2020 Aged 76 PPE
Anne Margaret Clayton née Crennell (1949) on 8 November 2018 Aged 87 Physics
Valerie Sylvia Diamand née Armstrong (1956) on 2 May 2020 Aged 82 Chemistry
Ann Cunnington Diamond née Geale (1950) on 29 August 2020 Aged 89 Chemistry
Audrey Gladys Donnithorne (1945) on 9 June 2020 Aged 97 PPE
Clare Margaret Cruice Eaglestone née Goodall (1953) on 6 August 2020 Aged 85 History
Josephine Eckhard (1946) on 21 January 2021 Aged 93 History
Gillian Laura Condie Falconer (1944) on 27 October 2016, aged 90 History
Judith Gray (1970) on 3 June 2020 Aged 68 History
Daphne May Green (1954) née Fenner on 14 November 2020 Aged 84 Mathematics
Gladys Brett Green (1946) née Brett-Harris on 6 January 2021 Aged 93 Mod Langs
Jane Greenall-Scott (1987) née Greenall on 13 December 2020 Aged 52 PPE
Rhiannon Berresford Griffiths (1995) in May 2020 Aged 42 Music/English
Ann Mary Margaret Hales Tooke (1944) née Petre on 6 November 2020 Aged 94 PPE
Ruth Mary Katharine How (1947) on 29 June 2020 Aged 91 Physics
Penny Iles née Hornblower (1954) on 9 January 2020 Aged 84 Physics
Gabrielle (Gay) Mary Jones née McGrath (1968) on 17 June 2020 Aged 70 Mathematics
Angur Baba Joshi (1957) on 20 June 2020 Aged 87 B.Litt Social Studies
Katherine Mary Lambert (1968) on 3 September 2020 Aged 70 PPE
Carol Ann Mariotti née Ashton (1958) on 23 February 2021 Aged 82 History
Jane Helen Victoria Mellanby (1956) on 8 February Aged 82 Phys.sci
Margaret Middleton née Rider (1960) on 12 July 2020 Aged 79 Mathematics
Elly Miller née Horovitz (1946) on 8 August 2020 Aged 92 PPE
Olga Olver née Robb (1942) on 7 December 2019 Aged 95 Mod Langs
Sheila May Porter (1951) 1 August 2020 Aged 88 Lit Hum
Clare Robertson (JRF, 1982-5) on 20 June 2020 Aged 63 History of Art
Lorna Miranda Shea (1953) on 14 February 2021 Aged 85 English
Gillian Anne Simmill née Evans (1954) on 28 September 2019 Aged 84 English
Lydia Margaret Speller née Agnew (1975) on 9 February 2021 Aged 66 DPhil Theology
Nancy Stratten née Coward (1954) on 29 June 2020 Aged 84 Botany
Alison Jean Sutherland (1951) on 10 March 2020 Aged 87 Chemistry
Dorothy Twiss née Casson (1940) on 1 July 2019 Aged 97 Lit.Hum.
Diana Caroline (Carol) Uhlenbroek née Barnsley (1951) on 26 October 2020 Aged 87 Chemistry
Ann Elizabeth Wardle née Taylor (1969) in about June 2020 Aged 72 Dip. Statistics
Valerie Margaret Warner (1965) on 10 October 2020 Aged 74 History
Michael Jonathan Wyman on 3 January 2021 Aged 40 History