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