Event Start Date: 10 June 2023

It is Somerville tradition to hold a Service of Commemoration each Trinity Term, in which we try to remember all those Somervillians who have died during the last year. This year, the Service will begin at 2.30 in the College Chapel on Saturday 10 June.

Watch the service live

List of those to be commemorated

If you have any further information regarding dates and ages, or any corrections, please get in touch with Liz Cooke (elizabeth.cooke@some.ox.ac.uk).

April Carter (Tutor and Fellow in Politics, 1976-84) on 16 August 2022 Aged 84
Katherine Duncan-Jones (Mary Ewart Research Fellow, 1963-5, Tutor and Fellow in English, 1966-2001, Senior Research Fellow, 2001-2012, Emeritus Fellow, 2012-2022) on 16 October 2022 Aged 81
Adrianne Jill Tooke (Tutor and Fellow in French, 1981-2008, Emeritus Fellow, 2008-2023) on 2 March 2023 Aged 76
Joyce Maire Reynolds (1937, Honorary Fellow, 1990) on 11 September 2022 Aged 103
Margaret Ruth Elliot (1945, Foundation Fellow, 2004) on 6 November 2022 Aged 95

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Ruth Binns née Marsden (1944) Mod Langs
Joanna Camilla Bosanquet (1968) on 16 July 2022 Aged 72 (DPhil)
Margaret Bowker née Roper (1955) on 8 November 2022 Aged 86 History
Alicia Phyllis Cansick née Carew-Robinson (1965) on 28 May 2022 Aged 73 Mathematics
Kathryn (‘Kate’) Patricia Moir Cave née Wilson (1966) on 3 December 2021 Aged 73 PPE
Inge Cramer (1971) on 7 May 2022 Aged 69 PPE
Janetta Kathrine (Jan) Davies née Hawthorn (1964) on 23 August 2022 Aged 76 Mod Langs
Helen Cripps Donson (1951) on 11 July 2022 Aged 89 Mod Langs
Catherine Elizabeth Durie née Green (1971) on 9 October 2022
Rachel Janetta Foakes née Bladon (1987) on 28 November 2022 Aged 53 History
Nancy Katharine Forstescue (1953) on 24 October 2022 Aged 87 Mod Langs
Rosslyn Yeo Green née Hawkins (1953) on 28 September 2022 Aged 97 History
Ann Hall (1954) on 10 April 2022 Aged 86 Geography
Margaret Alice Heath née Bragg (1950) on 26 December 2022 Aged 91 History
Joan Mary Johnson née Munden (1953) on 3 January 2023 Aged 87 PPE
Katherine Joan Lack née Taylor (1977) in 2021 Aged 62 Agriculture & Forest Science
Claire Lamont (1966) on 9 April 2023 Aged 81 DPhil English
Elizabeth Annie Uttley Lonsbrough née Nelson (1942) on 15 May 2022 Aged 98 History
Jill Caroline Longmate (1978) on 29 March 2023 Aged 63 History
Mary Isobel Low (1945) on 17 January 2022 Aged 97 History
Patricia Adrienne Lucas (1949) on 30 December 2022 Aged 91 Lit Hum
Penelope Jane Mackie (1971) on 5 December 2022 Aged 69 PPE
Mary Therese (Sister Elizabeth) Mackie (1961) in February 2023 Aged 88 Lit Hum
Stephanie Mary Jennifer Martin née King (1971) on 18 March 2023 Aged 69 Mathematics
Olive Edith Merrick née Lovegrove (1951) in 2022 History
Penelope (Penny) Minney née Hughes on 22 February 2023 Aged 88 Lit Hum
Isobel Margaret Stewart Morrison née Taylor on 16 August 2022 Aged 87 PPE
Anne Wanjiru Ndungu aged 36 D Phil Clinical Medicine
Dorothy Margaret Newton née Casley (1951) on 6 January 2023 Aged 90 Mod Langs
Lesley Margaret Osborn née Clough (1969) on 10 May 2022 Aged 73 Dip.Social Admin.
Barbara Phyllis Potts née Kidman (1949) on 14 March 2022 Aged 94 Physiology
Susan Mary Rands née Connely (1948) on 25 March 2022 Aged 91 English
Ellen Elizabeth Rice on 5 April 2023 Aged 71 History
Auriol Holt Roberts (1967) on 30 November 2022 Aged 74 Lit Hum
Mary Jean Aird Seglow née Moncrieff (1955) on 13 November 2022 Aged 85 PPE
Juliet Mary Stockwell née Butler (1958) on 14 October 2021 Aged 82 Maths
Prudence Mary Stokes née Watling (1948) in February 2022 Aged 92 History
Rosemary Ann Swatman née Cox (1967) in September 2022 Aged 74 History
Nadia Tollemache née Benziger (1954) in July 2022 Aged 87 Jurisprudence
Sylvia Trench née Maizels (1954) on 28 October 2022 Aged 86 PPE
Amelia Katherine Trueta née Strubell (1943) History and Mod Langs Pass School
Daphne Flora Wall (1950) on 14 September 2022 Aged 90 Mod Langs
Patricia Anne Watkins née Bennett (1971) on 30 March 2022 Aged 71 Jurisprudence
Miriam Leah Webber née Kay (1943) on 13 September 2022 Aged 97 PPE
Cerys Ann Webber née James (1981) on 18 May 2022 Aged 59 Physics
Susan Meriel Wood née Chenevix-Trench (1942) on 30 December 2022 Aged 97 History

x-Trench (1942) on 30 December 2022 Aged 97 History

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