Obituary: Frank Selby, 1918–2018, Founder of Rex Features. David Scrase’s partner, the distinguished architect Rick Mather (1937-2013), a number of whose major achievements were museum projects, brought him great happiness in the latter part of his life. His early life was far from easy, with childhood polio and an absent father to overcome, but his years at school at Westminster were very happy ones, and he, his twin brother John, who predeceased him, and his mother Kathy formed an exceptionally close-knit trio. The institution was originally based at Fitzwilliam Hall (later renamed Fitzwilliam House), opposite the Fitzwilliam Museum in south-west Cambridge. A A A. HAY, Alastair Michael M.A FRICS June 30, 1936 – January 6, 2018 It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Alastair Hay on January 6, 2018 in Calgary. Glenn Sillanpaa, 68, died from a thermal inhalation injury, according to the N.H. Medical Examiner's Office. Unlike most college libraries, it is open 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. FITZWILLIAM, NH – Karl H. Anderson Jr, 70, of 40 Keene Avenue, died peacefully Monday evening, August 29, 2016 in Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH. The current Master of the college is Sally Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Huyton. Obituaries Australia Wentworth, Fitzwilliam (1832–1915) from Sydney Morning Herald The remains of the late Mr. Fitzwilliam Wentworth, who died on Sunday at the age of 83, were laid to rest yesterday morning beside those of his revered father, William Charles Wentworth, in the family mausoleum at Vaucluse. It toured and recorded on a regular basis and performs University concerts once a term. [25] Although used primarily for music, the building has also hosted drama performances and important lectures. In 2010 Fitzwilliam had more active music groups than any other college. It is a mark of its author’s intellectual curiosity that he did not shy away from taking on drawings ranging in date from Pisanello in the 15th century to Sandro Chia in the 20th, and for good measure added in the Spanish school. in his obituary in the Fitzwilliam College Alumni period-ical reads as follows: ‘‘Denis New was born on April 14, 1929 in Eltham, Southeast London, and was educated at Eltham School.’’ I would have begun his obituary with the statement: ‘‘Denis New, who was an outstanding member of the faculty of Cambridge University, died unexpectedly on November 21, 2009. They went on to become the first group to perform and record all 15 of his string quartets and Shostakovich himself described them as his "preferred performers". They have a long-term contract with Decca Records and perform regularly all over the world. The motto has since been adopted by the nearby village of Hardwick and is very similar to that of St Catherine’s College, Oxford, which was established with aims very similar to those with which Fitzwilliam was. In 2011, alumnus Ken Olisa donated £1.4m to the development of the Library and IT Centre. Just a year into their residence, they became personally acquainted with the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich and gained international recognition when they were asked to premier several of his string quartets. By Easter 1892, the colours were more closely defined as 'cardinal and French grey'. The main hall, which has been praised for its acoustics,[citation needed] houses a Steinway grand piano, and a tympani, a full-size drum kit, amplifiers and a Bösendorfer piano for student use. He spent much of his career at the Fitzwilliam Museum and was a great Cambridge character, a much-loved presence in the life of the city. During this time, she had the interior lined with original William Morris wallpaper[15] and two of her sons had smaller houses built in the grounds. Because Fitzwilliam is at the top of one of the few hills in Cambridge, the Olisa Library's tower is one of the highest points in the city, sometimes said to be the highest.[39]. The grounds include tennis courts, a netball court, a cricket pitch, a rugby pitch, and both full-size and five-a-side football pitches. She was recently predeceased by Abraham C. Dearani, MD, her loving husband of 58 years. [citation needed]. [63], The college's main sports grounds are located on Oxford Road,[63] just a few minutes' walk from the college's Huntingdon Road entrance. David Scrase, who has died after a fall aged 71, was one of what may prove to be a dying breed of museum curators, whose knowledge of and devotion to the collections in their charge is the guiding principle of their professional lives. Find out more, David Scrase, photograph by Frédérick, September 1994, David Scrase, Maggi Hambling, charcoal on paper, 2016, Scrase's magisterial book on Italian Drawings at the Fitzwilliam was published in 2011, The Ven David Rogers, communications officer who served with Montgomery at Lüneberg Heath – obituary, Tim Severin, explorer who retraced the journeys of Ulysses and Genghis Khan – obituary, Tony Hooper, co-founder of folk-rockers the Strawbs who left the band on brink of stardom – obituary, June Rose Bellamy, Burmese princess who married a dictator and later taught cookery – obituary, Jeremy Bulloch, British actor who played popular character Boba Fett in Star Wars films – obituary, Nigel Jaques, popular Eton beak who taught Princes William and Harry – obituary. [53] Fitzwilliam also offers many music scholarships and bursaries, including, somewhat unusually, a saxophone scholarship. The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful. A graduate of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and George Washington University he worked as a legal translator for the Federal Government retiring in 1995 after 25 years service. On the scholarly front, Scrase always gleefully denied that he was a “real” art historian, but proved himself to be a true scholar, above all by virtue of his magisterial 863-page Italian Drawings at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge of 2011. [40], The college motto is: Ex antiquis et novissimis optima (the best of the old and the new).[41]. Built using a similar brick to that used for the Grove almost 200 years earlier, the building is largely below ground-level, resulting in a direct view of the surrounding landscape for audience members towards the back of the gallery. [54], Fitzwilliam new Auditorium performance venue hosts the Fitzwilliam Chamber Series,[55] a collection of concerts by professional musicians. The main grounds of the College are located off Storey's Way, towards the north-west of Cambridge. The completion of Gatehouse Court in 2003 saw the realisation of Sir Denys Lasdun's original vision. It also provided an extra 42 en suite bedrooms for student accommodation. Kenneth Odell Turner, M.A., Life Fellow of Hughes Hall, died on 26 March 2020, aged 89 years. Post-retirement he worked part-time for some years at the Centre for Legal Translation, University of Ottawa. Scrase was never what has been described as an automatic writer, but – whether in the form of learned articles or exhibition and book reviews – his insights were invariably well worth waiting for. After "retirement" in 1995, Milstein continued to pursue his research with vigour, publishing more than 25 … By the same token, as Scrase himself became a species of – distinctly ageless – elder statesman, he attracted immense respect and genuine affection from younger generations of drawings experts. It was initially called the West Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, because the majority of its members were from West Cambridge colleges – predominantly Fitzwilliam, Churchill and New Hall. ST. ELMO — Thomas Fitzwilliam, 72, St. Elmo, died Friday (Jan. 2, 2015). Notable alumni of Fitzwilliam College include six Nobel Laureates, prominent academics, three heads of state or government, one current UK Supreme Court Justice, and a significant number of political figures including a former Liberal Democrats leader, a former Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the current and former Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police. Other prominent music graduates include violist Martin Outram, baritone John Noble, bassist Simon H. Fell and two founding members of the Fitzwilliam String Quartet, which often returns to the college to perform and hold workshops. The college places an increasing emphasis on Natural Sciences, with students of the discipline accounting for approximately 20% of its undergraduate intake, and has developed traditional strengths in both Music and Politics; in 2010, there were more Fitzwilliam graduates in Parliament than graduates of any other college (6 MPs and 4 life peers). Joan A. Fitzwilliam February 26, 1963 - December 16, 2020 Obituary Frank Selby, 1918–2018, Founder of Rex Features. He passed away in his home, surrounded by his loving family. While reading English and Italian at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, Nichols was awarded an athletics blue and also represented the university at football. In recent years, Fitzwilliam has developed a strong musical tradition. Having moved to its present site in the north of the city, Fitzwilliam attained collegiate status in 1966. [62], On site, the college has a multi-gym in the Hall Building, a badminton court in the Auditorium Building and three Squash courts, which are also used for table tennis, in a separate sports hall towards the front of the college. Funds were accumulated and a new site was acquired at Castle Hill, about one mile north of the city centre. Consisting of a large central performance area, three smaller practice rooms and an entrance hall, the auditorium is the official home of the Fitzwilliam Quartet.[34]. Tree Court was Lasdun's first student accommodation; he would go on to design similar buildings at the University of East Anglia and Christ's College, Cambridge. Sillanpaa's death has been ruled accidental. The suggestion that Fitzwilliam close prompted an outcry from former students and it was therefore decided that it should aim for collegiate status. The same enviable range is revealed in such other publications as his exhibition catalogues, Drawings and Watercolours by Peter de Wint (1979) and Flowers of Three Centuries: One Hundred Drawings from the Broughton Collection (1983-84), and the successor to that volume in the Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks series, Flower Drawings (1997). [22] The building won 1989 David Urwin Award for Best New Building.[23]. In 2005, a number of their recordings were included in Gramophone magazine's list of the "Hundred Greatest-ever Recordings". Performers at the college have included the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber,[56] the DJ Annie Mac[57] and the English Touring Opera. Dr Gerald Zeitlin 1931 to 2020 . A new library and IT centre was completed in 2009. [36] At a cost of £5m, the building was designed by Edward Cullinan, who had worked with Lasdun on the original college plan, and who was undertaking his first major project after receiving the Royal Gold Medal in 2008. As a consequence, the goat has become a popular college mascot and the image of a goat can be found on the front of the boat house, on the boat club flag, and in various places around the college. Vishwa Nath Datta Funeral, Obituary, Service, Notices, Bio, Death: Vishwa Nath Datta Passed away on October, 2020, You can send your sympathy in the comment provided and share it with the family.. Died: 30 November 2020 Details of death: Not yet confirmed Vishwa Nath Datta was an Indian historian. She later received an MA in Education from the Institute of Education. However, as many of these are either overseas students or from provincial grammar schools and leading comprehensive schools, membership is a lot more diverse than the figures may suggest. Gordon Campbell Cameron (28 November 1937 – 14 March 1990) was a British economist and academic. FITZWILLIAM — The N.H. Fire Marshal's office has released the identity of the man killed in a house fire Sunday morning on Royalston Road in Fitzwilliam. Fitzwilliam is now home to around 475 undergraduates, 500 graduate students and 90 fellows. Today, Tree Court provides residence for the majority of first-year students. Gopi’s school education ­continued in Stockton-on-Tees and Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Wakefield. He was … It developed a tradition in Medicine and established a reputation as one of the most internationally diverse institutions within the University.[5]. The University of Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra (UCPO) was founded as an offshoot of Fitzwilliam College Music Society. Arrangements incomplete: Gieseking Funeral Home, Altamont. At the same time, he was a familiar and much-loved presence in the life of the city far beyond the world of the museum. March 4, 2018 . It is the only sports ground in the University with an on-site club house, complete with a bar. From 1985, she worked for the Labour Party in opposition and then government under Neil Kinnock, John Smith and Tony Blair. [59] Although membership has changed over the years, the group returned to Fitzwilliam in 1999 when they were appointed the college's Resident Quartet. [citation needed]. Returning to England, he taught at Rugby for a year, moving to Eton in 1967. Indeed, one of the most inspired exhibitions Scrase organised (together with Julien Stock) was The Achievement of a Connoisseur: Philip Pouncey – Italian old master Drawings (1985), which involved a display of 62 sheets first correctly attributed by Pouncey. He was a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge, and an Honorary Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, where he had studied as a research student. Having overseen the construction of Gatehouse Court, Allies & Morrison were employed to design the college's new performance facilities. In the last decade, between 2007 and 2016, Fitzwilliam averaged 21st place, near the top of the bottom third. The land was donated to Fitzwilliam Hall in honour of the students who died in the First World War. He was Professor Emeritus in Kurukshetra University and General President of the Indian … Students from Fitzwilliam are sometimes informally referred to as Fitzbillys or Billygoats. Educated at Whitgift School, Croydon and then Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, where he received a B.A., Natural Science and Geography (1954), and MA (1958). Alastair HAY . The building, opened in April 2010 by the Duke of Edinburgh, is also fitted with extensive computing facilities and includes separate underground computer rooms for undergraduates and postgraduates. Dave Lent Police said a Fitzwilliam man involved in a standoff assaulted a woman in her home in front of a child. [4], Since Fitzwilliam began operating at its current site in the north-west of Cambridge, it has grown steadily and developed into one of the University's larger, more cosmopolitan colleges. The coat of arms of the new establishment appropriated the arms of the FitzWilliam family (lozengy argent and gules), to which it had no connection, and added as a chief the arms of Cambridge University. [11] The same team featured in the 2002 Reunited Series and won its only game, which was against a team from neighbouring college Churchill, winner of the 1970 series.[12]. In 2007, the college completed its new boat house, home to Fitzwilliam College Boat Club. In its turn, the addition of the sheet in question led in 2006 to Scrase’s exhibition A Touch of the Divine: Drawings by Federico Barocci in British Collections, which was accompanied by an elegant and authoritative catalogue. Gopi’s school education ­continued in Stockton-on-Tees and Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Wakefield. We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. Initially, the design was used unofficially and it was only when Fitzwilliam was in the process of attaining collegiate status, some 80 years later, that it actually applied for a Grant of Arms. Brian played a leading role in applying quantitative methods to urban geography, publishing the landmark studies Urban Analysis (1969) and Urban Social Areas (1975) In 1977, Brian was appointed Professor of Geography at Manchester, where he was to spend the rest of his academic career. Become the owner of this obituary to manage the guestbook, edit the notice, and more. Like the Hall Building, Fellows' Court was part of the initial construction, designed by Sir Denys Lasdun and completed in 1963 at a cost of approximately £300,000. [24] The firm later used a similar design for the Ruskin Library at the University of Lancaster. Gifts to friends, but also to institutions, often in honour of friends, were one of his specialities. [32], Located near the front of the college, the building faces New Court and backs onto the college gardens. He was 83.Chris was born in … He was possessed of a dangerously sharp wit, but also of an exceptionally warm heart. Fitzwilliam is also home to a noted Criminology department, headed by Emeritus Professor Sir Anthony Bottoms and the former College Master Professor Nicola Padfield, and is one of the two colleges (the other being Wolfson) that takes in postgraduate students, in association with the Institute of Criminology, as part of the Police Executive Programme. [3] By overall student numbers, it is the seventh-largest college in Cambridge as of 2018/19. [32], The Auditorium building was completed in 2004. Cameron read Politics and Economics at Durham University. 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