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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY JULY 24 1991 19 NEWS 1 COURT AND SOCIAL WAY OF THE WORLD OBITUARIES Sir Robert Lusty 4 Cmnrt Circular AUBERON WAUGH New elite THERE were those who were angry when Oxford University refused to give Mrs Thatcher (as she then was) an honorary doctorate but I understood the feelings on that occasion She had not yet been elevated to the rank of lady it might have made her conceited and as Prime Minister she had to accept responsibility for much that was happening in the modern world including the hideous spectacle of Sun readers in Union flag shorts and underpants Then Oxford appointed the ludicrous proletarian Terence Eagleton in leather jacket and jeans to be Warton Professor of English Literature and I began to be seriously worried for the old alma mater Had its sense of humour always dangerously over-developed been allowed to run away with the whole applecart as it were? Now we read of a concerted effort by dons to suppress the Norrington Table by which the examination performance of different colleges can be judged on the grounds that it is elitist or in the words of the principal of St College that takes no account of the value added by colleges taking in people from slightly disadvantaged educational backgrounds It is not the proper function of an Oxford college to concern itself with the educationally disadvantaged There are specialist remedial institutions all over the country for that The Oxford college has two functions: to encourage clever and industrious students to scale the heights of learning and to humanise the children of the rich by introducing them to the finer things of life teaching them to talk with an Oxford accent etc Only the first function can be gauged by the Norrington Table but the educational role is often thought to be as important as its social function If Oxford is seriously going to abandon the educational side of its activities we must reluctantly decide that it is a lost cause and abandon it to be a centre for educational inadequates That is plainly what the dons want of the old school ters proved to be a blockbuster success Joseph and Lusty did not always see eye to eye Joseph thought him mad to pay Bates a £750 advance for Fair Stood the Wind for France in 1944 and never shared his enthusiasm for Richard Doctor novels which contributed so richly to the profits in the 1950s Eventually Joseph anxious to provide his family with capital at a time of high taxation sold his firm to the Illustrated London News without much consultation with his colleagues This made Lusty uneasy and all the more ready to accept the offer to return to Hutchinson as managing director in 1956 shortly after the death of he remained with the firm until his retirement in 1973 From 1960 to 1968 he was also a governor of the BBC and vice-chairman for the last two years This meant that he presided during the interregnum between the death of Lord Normanbrook and the succession to the chairmanship of Lord Hill of Luton Lusty resented Harold cynical decision to appoint Hill in order to bring to heel the Director General Hugh Carleton Greene and his final period at the BBC was an unhappy one He was knighted in 1969 Sir Robert served on many book trade committees and was deeply involved in literary politics: he was an excellent chairman of the National Book League from 1949 to 1951 overseeing its contribution to the Festival of Britain: and of the Society of Bookmen from 1962 to 1965 In retirement he made what almost amounted to a new career as a writer of letters to the newspapers and any discussion of publishing or broadcasting would be sure to bring a contribution from Moreton-in-Marsh After a fair number of rejections he became a master of the pithy letter on almost any subject Lusty married twice: first in 1939 Joan Brownlie who died in 1962 and secondly in 1963 Eileen Carroll SIR ROBERT LUSTY the former managing director of the Hutchinson group who has died aged 82 was one of the old breed of British publishers: he actually read the books that appeared under his imprint He would have been deeply unhappy in the modern world of international publishing conglomerates Like Sir Stanley Unwin he always insisted on opening the mail himself each morning believing this to be the best way of keeping au fait with what was going on in the office When Lusty became managing director of Hutchinson in 1956 the group was in disarray notwithstanding a list that included such bestselling authors as Dennis Wheatley and Ursula Bloom His first task was to sort out the confusion of imprints which were in effect competing against each other Lusty rationalised this haphazard arrangement assigning thrillers to John Long romances to Hurst Blackett sports books to Stanley Paul and so on For Hutchinson itself he commissioned a colophon showing a bull though in deference to his puritan temperament it looked more like a bullock Lusty also sought to make the company into something more than a purveyor of popular books Brendan Borstal Boy was an early success Arthur Koestler joined the list as did Lord Reith and Svetlanova Stalin for their memoirs His most imaginative project was New Authors Ltd which published a first novel every month with pooled roy-alties shared among the authors Stanley Middleton and Beryl Bainbridge were among those writers whose books appeared under this scheme But the successes proved unable to sustain the failures and the more promising authors tended to be poached by other publishers Lusty was also involved in the controversy over the republishing of Mein Kampf originally issued in English Harding Gen Sir Peter and Lady de la Billiere Sir James Craig Sir Michael and Lady Weir Sir Alan and Lady Ur-wick Sir David and Lady Gillmore Sir George and Lady Christie Sir David and Lady Wilson Sir Robert and Lady Scholey Sir Peter and Lady Imbert the Lord Mayor of Westminster and Sir Leslie Porter Mr and Mrs John Hill Mr and Mrs Gwilym Roberts Mr and Mrs Robert Horton Mr and Mrs Albert Hourani Mr and Mrs Jeremy Isaacs Prof and Mrs Laurence Martin Mr and Mrs John Tusa Prof and Mrs Magdi Yacoub The Queen today received Maj-Gen Robert Corbett on his appointment as Major-General Commanding Household Division The Lady Susan Hussey has succeeded the Hon Mary Morrison as Lady in Waiting to The Queen KENSINGTON PALACE July 23rd The Prince of Wales received Mrs Ann Taylor MP at Kensington Palace W8 His Royal Highness Patron Marylebone Centre Trust received Dr Patrick Pietroni at Kensington Palace W8 The Prince of Wales gave a lunch for the Ambassador of the United States of America (His Excellency the Hon Raymond Seitz) at Kensington Palace W8 BUCKINGHAM PALACE July 23rd The Princess Royal Chancellor University of London this afternoon opened the Ronald Raven Department of Clinical Oncology and Cancer Research Campaign Laboratory Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine Rowland Hill Street Hampstead London Mrs Richard Carew Pole was in attendance BUCKINGHAM PALACE July 23rd The Duchess of York today visited the Royal Welsh Show at Builth Wells Powys Wales and was received by Her Lord-Lieutenant for Powys (Mr Mervyn Bourdillon) Mrs Harry Cotterell was in attendance KENSINGTON PALACE July 23rd The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester this morning received the Chief of the General Staff (Gen Sir John Chappie) YORK HOUSE July 23rd The Duke and Duchess of Kent this morning received the Chief of the General Staff (Gen Sir John Chappie) The Duchess of Kent Colonel-in-Chief of the Army Catering Corps today received Brig Barrie Atkinson on assuming the appointment of Director and Brig Barry Bloxham on relinquishing the appointment Lusty: a publisher by a Hutchinson firm in 1935 On Foreign Office advice he delayed publication but after much agonising and against the advice of some of his codirectors he went ahead in 1960 The book was given a suitable preface but Lusty insisted that the 25 per cent royalty which Hitler had demanded should be paid to the literary agent Sir Robert had considerable charm a quiet voice high but clear and was inclined to deafness particularly when chairing committees His rather melancholy features were often lightened by a diffident smile which could accompany quite devastating put-downs Of Quaker stock Robert Frith Lusty was born on June 7 1909 and educated at Sid-cot a co-educational Quaker school from which he emerged with no academic qualifications but with a vague idea that he would like to be concerned with writing In 1928 his father found him an unpaid job as a reporter on the Kent Messenger but after a few unhappy months young Robert began writing to publishers to ask for a job Walter Hutchinson who New countryman LIKE my friend and former colleague Christopher Booker I was intrigued by a headline in this Saturday Review: Live in the Country When You Stand the Sound of Booker was unimpressed by the argument that if one lives in the country one has to expect country sounds and smells Many sounds like automatic bird scarers are the products of modem technology he avers rather than of traditional farming practices And he finds the smell of pig slurry particularly vile if it comes from a factory farm rather than from an ordinary farm True countrymen of course are outraged by the idea of scaring birds in the first place In the countryside of the future anybody who frightens a bird will face a fine of £5000 or 10 years in prison or both In a developed world where few people eat anything except fresh fruit and vegetables and nobody eats meat there should be no need for farm animals of any sort Such farm animals as are retained for sentimental reasons should be thoroughly sanitised so as not to annoy the serious BUCKINGHAM PALACE July 23rd The President of the Arab Republic of Egypt and Mrs Mubarak arrived in London today on a State Visit to The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh The Duke of York welcomed The President and Mrs Mubarak on behalf of The Queen at Heathrow Airport London The President of the Arab Republic of Egypt and Mrs Mubarak travelled by car to Buckingham Palace and were met by The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh The Queen invested The President of the Arab Republic of Egypt with the Insignia of a Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh gave a State Banquet this evening in honour of The President of the Arab Republic of Egypt and Mrs Mubarak at which Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother The Prince and Princess of Wales The Duke and Duchess of York The Prince Edward The Princess Royal The Princess Margaret Countess of Snowdon The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester The Duke and Duchess of Kent Prince and Princess Michael of Kent and Princess Alexandra the Hon Lady Ogilvy and the Hon Sir Angus Ogilvy were present The following were invited: Suite of The President of the Arab Republic of Egypt: Mr Gamal Mubarak (Son of The President) Mr Amr Moussa (Foreign Minister) and Mrs Moussa Dr Zakaria Azmi (Chief of the Cabinet of The President) Dr Ussama EI-Baz (First Undersecretary of Foreign Ministry and Director of Presidential Bureau for Political Affairs) Dr Mohamed Atteya (Professor of the Faculty of Medicine) Mr Gamal Abdelaziz (Chief of the Presidential Secretariat) Staff General Magdi Hatata (Aide-de-Camp in Chief) His Excellency Mr Sa'ad El-Farargy (Secretary to The President for Economic Affairs) Mr Ismail Sarhank (Grand Chamberlain) Specially attached in attendance upon The President of the Arab Republic of Egypt and Mrs Mubarak: The Hon Mary Morrison (Lady in Waiting) the Lord Somerleyton (Lord in Waiting) and the Lady Somerleyton Sir James Adams (British Ambassador at Cairo) and Lady Adams Wing Cdr David Walker RAF Ambassadors and High Commissioners His Excellency the Ambassador of Saudi Arabia and Madame Almanqour His Excellency the Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt and Mrs Shaker His Excellency the Ambassador of Ecuador and Mrs de Correa His Excellency the High Commissioner for Tonga and Princess Pilolevu Tuita His Excellency the High Commissioner for Barbados and Lady Marshall His Excellency the Ambassador of the State of Bahrain His Excellency the High Commissioner for the Republic of Zimbabwe and Mrs Chiketa His Excellency the Ambassador of the Syrian Arab Republic and Mrs Kbodor The Cabinet: The Lord Chancellor and the Lady Mackay of Clashfem the Prime Minister and Mrs Major the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and the Hon Mrs Douglas Hurd the Lord Privy Seal and the Lady Wad-dington the Secretary of State for the Environment and Mrs Heseltine the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and Mrs Lilley Special Invitations: The Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs Carey the Right Hon the Speaker and Mrs Weatherill the Lord Great Chamberlain the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon the Hon David and Mrs Douglas-Home the Lord Denman the Lord and Lady Callaghan of Cardiff the Lord Jenkins of Hillhead and Dame Jennifer Jenkins the Lord and Lady Rees-Mogg the Right Hon James Mo-lyneaux MP the Right Hon Neil Kin-nock MP and Mrs Kinnock the Right Hon Robin and Mrs Leigh-Pemberton the Right Hon Paddy Ashdown MP and Mrs Ashdown the Right Hon the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress Field Marshal Sir Richard and Lady Vincent Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter and Lady FORTHCOMING Capt Riddell and Miss Allsop The engagement is announced between Capt Colin Riddell ACC youngest son of Lt-Col and Mrs Duncan Riddell of Solihull and Sarah Jane younger daughter of Mr and Mrs David Allsop also of Solihull Mr Bird and Miss Oakey The engagement is announced between Peter Jonathan younger son of Mr REM Bird of Witney and Mrs Bird of Clifton Oxfordshire and Caroline Sarah only daughter of Mr and Mrs Oakey of College Farm Aynho Banbury Oxon Mr A I Gilchrist and Miss Todner The engagement is announced between Andrew Iain Gilchrist elder son of Mrs Buck and stepson of Mr Peter Buck of Totteridge London and Karen Elizabeth younger daughter of Mr and Mrs Hughie Todner of Burton Hastings Warwickshire Jasmine Bligh Forest folk had recently succeeded his father Sir George to the control of a tatterdemalion collection of publishers (a result of his penchant for buying small firms in difficulties) immediately offered him an undefined post It was not until he arrived at the firm that Lusty learnt that he would be without a salary for the first two years Soon he was reading manuscripts writing blurbs and performing other minor t3sks Thanks to uncertain temper the turnover of staff was high and Lusty though himself twice fired and re-hired found himself at 21 in charge of the imprint of Selwyn Blount For five years he built up a list which included everything from reprinted sermons to historical novels and detective stories Then in 1935 Michael Joseph who was founding a firm under his own name offered Lusty the job of production director Homblower novels were soon on the Joseph list And Richard How Green Was My Valley (1939) which Lusty had bought on the strength of a couple of chap television so everyone knew everyone Later in the 1930s Jasmine Bligh developed a sideline as a roving reporter engaging in various stunts She flew in an autogiro in the first televised air test rode in a motorcycle sidecar in a trick riding display and in a demonstration by the fire brigade she appeared trapped in a blazing building being flung over a shoulder and carried down a ladder These exploits earned her the nickname of the Pearl White of television When broadcasting resumed in 1946 Miss Bligh reopened the service with the words Do you remember But six months later she resigned A niece of the 9th Earl of Darnley and a descendant of Capt Bligh of the Bounty Jasmine Lydia Bligh was born on May 29 1913 She began her performing career on the stage appearing in Julius Caesar at His Theatre She also had a few walk-on Aviation Medicine at Farnborough He then returned as a lecturer to anatomy department where he began his researches into the nervous and endocrine systems and prepared his doctoral thesis on The Cytology of the Mammalian Pineal Body in Development and Transplantation (1957) After a seven-year sojourn at Birmingham Holmes was appointed Professor of Anatomy at Leeds where he remained until his retirement in 1983 Although his main interest lay in research he ran a good department for nearly 20 years and was active in professional and scientific affairs He was editor of the Journal of Anatomy from 1968 to 1970 His publications included papers on the pitu 1908 and joined the training ship Mercury at 14 two years later he became a boy seaman in Ganges As a gunnery rating he served in the battlecruiser Hood and the battleship Ra-millies He was a member of the rifle shooting team and was made a warrant officer at 24 After Resolution Green took a course in minesweeping and was awarded the DSC as first lieutenant of the minesweeper Cromer for her part in Operation Ironclad the Jasmine Bligh: TV veteran There was a gap of 54 seconds between performance and transmission so that nimble movers could watch themselves on television otherwise difficult in the absence of videotape was a continuous glorious Miss Bligh remembered were only 300 people altogether working in MALAYSIA has come up with the interesting idea of sending its foreign environmentalists who turn up to protest against the timber industry in Sarawak to prison It would not work here of course because all our prisons are already full to bursting point There is not even room inside them for all the people who have been accused of frightening bats picking wild flowers collecting eggs robbing banks and driving home after a meal We must resist the temptation to send the to prison Until recently they confined themselves to ringing the front door bell and inquiring politely if we wanted any of these accursed tropical rain forests Then it was easy enough to answer thank you not Prof Robert Holmes naturalist who has come to the country to demonstrate against hunting farming church bells bird-scaring and smelly pigs My purpose is to train the local geese ducks sheep and young cattle to sing like songbirds and persuade the pigs to grow bunches of flowers out of their bottoms to delight the new sort of country dweller The purpose of the countryside is to provide interesting and unusual species of bird worm and beetle for properly qualified nature-lovers to study There can be no excuse for allowing ugly sounds or smells to interfere with their enjoyment and shut the door in their faces Rain forests are clearly the last thing we want in Britain However their new ploy is to telephone at any hour of the day or night and harangue whoever answers with preposterous statistics about how rain forests are disappearing from the face of the earth at the rate of a hundred square miles a minute demanding money to preserve them Soon I hope someone will develop a mechanism which can be attached to your telephone to release a piercing shriek in response to unsolicited calls of this sort Until that happens I believe you can still buy a particularly powerful whistle called the Acme Thunderer in a shop in Carnaby Street for about £3-50 Lautier of France and now has U3 The outright leader is Evgeny Bareev of the USSR who defeated Ulf An-dersson of Sweden one of the most solid players in the world to reach 33 Smith and Wiliamson results: Tozer 0 Ward 1 Fogarasi Collinson Varga 1 Sievers 0 Teske 1 Cullip 0 Buckley 0 Hennigan 1 Parker 1 Ko-sashvili 0 Latest scores: IM Chris Ward (England) 6) IM Fogarasi (Hungary) IM Teske (Germany) IM Varga (Hungary) and the untitled Hennigan (England) 5 Collinson (England) 4 Sievers (Germany) IM Kosashvili (Israel) Parker (England) 3f Cullip 3 Tozer 2j Buckley 1 Biel round 3 results: Kozul 0 Christiansen 1 Lautier Adams Bareev 1 Anderson 0 Shirov Gavrikov Museum role The Prime Minister has appointed Sir Timothy Raison 61 Conservative MP for Aylesbury as a trustee of the British Museum Merton Steggle Trinity Davies St Watts St Isaiah Berlin Fund Scholarship: Gopnik Wolfson BRASENOSE COLLEGE Visiting Fellowship: Prof Schuster Professor of Education and Public Policy at Claremont Graduate School CHRISTCHURCH Official Studentship of the House in Biochemistry: MSP Sansom MA DPhil Senior Scholarships of the House: Anna-Lucy Allwood BA Simon BA Lecturers: Hall MA (BSc PhD Nott) biological sciences The Rev Fenton BD MA theology Fowler Hamilton Visiting Research Fellowships: Prof Vaciago Catholic Univ of Milan Prof Tunley Univ of Western Australia Prof Ball Univ of Minnesota Ward increases lead with fifth win The Queen will open Lynnsport sports and leisure centre at Lynn on Aug 2 A memorial service for Gp Capt DE Gillam will be held today at Salton Church North Yorkshire at 2 pm A memorial service for Mr Leonard Mather will be held today at St Comhill EC3 at noon BIRTHDAYS Miss Nora Swinburne actress is 89-today Mr Edwin Mirvish proprietor of the Old Vic is 77 Prof Frank Thistlethwaite founding Vice-Chancellor University of East Anglia 1961-80 76 Lord Fisher 70 Lord Digby Lord Lieutenant for Dorset 67 Mr Wilfred Josephs composer 64 Mr Peter Yates film director and producer 62 Mr A Hambro Chairman Hambros pic 61 Mr Ambler Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Texaco 1982-89 57 Mr Colin Southgate Chairman and Chief Executive Thorn EMI 53 Mr Zaheer Abbas former Pakistan cricketer 44 and Jacques Fouroux former French rugby player 44 MARRIAGES Mr Davies and Miss Creasey The engagement is announced between Mark elder son of Mr and Mrs Davies of Whissendine Rutland and Helen daughter of Mr and Mrs Creasey of Barton-on-Humber South Humberside Mr Gault and Miss Walford The engagement is announced between Wayne son of Mr and Mrs Gault of Gisborne New Zealand and Sarah twin daughter of Mr and Mrs Walford of Sundridge Kent Mr Penneck and Miss The engagement is announced between James Richard son of Mr and Mrs Penneck of Lechlade Gloucestershire and Joan Marie youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs of Chicago USA MrRJMulIis and Miss A I Grand The engagement is announced between Robert youngest son of Mr and Mrs Cedric Mullis of Great Tey Essex and Augusta only daughter of Mr and Mrs Laurence Grand of Hammersmith London Mr Williams and Miss Fonseca The marriage took place on Saturday July 20 in Penzance Cornwall between Mr Nicholas Graham Williams second son of Mr and Mrs Tony Williams of Kingston Hill and Miss Sara Jane Fonseca daughter of the late Major and Mrs Fonseca Mr Kennaway and Miss Moores The marriage took place in London on Tuesday July 23 1991 of Mr Guy Kennaway elder son of Mrs Susan Vereker and the late Mr James Kennaway and Miss Portia May Moores younger daughter of Mrs Jenny Moores and the late Mr Nigel Moores LUNCHEON Company The Master Mr Sidney Lea presented the annual Golden Glove Award given this year to the Royal College of Surgeons to Mr Adrian Marston Vice-President of the College at a luncheon held yesterday at Hall RECEPTION Royal College of Radiologists The President of the Royal College of Radiologists and Mrs Craig were hosts at a reception held at the College last night when Dr John Laws past President presented to the College busts sculpted by himself of several past Presidents parts in films before landing the BBC job at the age of 22 In 1950 Miss Bligh returned to the television screen to give a fashion commentary in a programme about nylon and the same year became a BBC radio announcer The next year she helped establish the first programme for the deaf And in 1973 she was invited to contribute a regular item to Thames Good Afternoon programme about emotional and physical disabilities In retirement she lived near Newbury where she devoted herself to fishing gardening and the local institute For a time she also ran a mobile second-hand clothes shop called Bargains touring the country with a van and a tent and doing a brisk trade at dog shows She married three times: first during the Second World War Major John Paley Johnson secondly in 1948 Frank Fox and thirdly in 1954 Howard Marshall She had a daughter itary gland in mammals and he was joint author of Control of Human Reproduction (1979) He was a Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society and from 1976 to 1980 the secretary of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland Holmes took early retirement partly in order to travel more widely than his professional life had permitted and he took a great interest in the history and topography of the Yorkshire Dales In his youth he had been a keen mountaineer and pot-holer and his cottage at Oughtershaw remained a base for hill-walking expeditions He was also interested in art and had a fine collection of British Romantic paintings He never married capture of Diego Suarez Madagascar in May 1942 In November that year Cromer detonated a mine while sweeping off in Libya and sank with many casualties Green the senior surviving officer was appointed MBE for his gallantry in rallying the survivors in the water and caring for the injured In 1943 he commanded the steam gunboat Grey Shark and later the minesweepers Pincher and Mystic Green was married and had four sons and a daughter merly professor of classical archaeology at Cambridge University He left £57000 to grandchildren £20000 to the Exeter archaeology department and the residue to the Seven Pillars of Wisdom Trust a charity named after his book about the Arab contribution to the First World War tant part of the endocrine system Holmes was also in the forefront of undergraduate teaching specialising in microscopic anatomy A popular lecturer with the necessary dash of showmanship he was somewhat impatient of administration but nonetheless played an important part in reorganising the pre-clini-cal medical curriculum The son of a rope-mill owner Robert Lewis Holmes was bom on Feb 22 1926 and educated at Sedbergh and Leeds University where he came under the powerful influence of Archibald Dur-ward the Professor of Anatomy After various junior hospital appointments Holmes spent two years as a medical officer in the RAF engaged in research at the Institute of JASMINE BLIGH who has died aged 78 was the first woman announcer on BBC television The qualities required for the appointment were charm a good voice and a photogenic face Miss Bligh was one of two chosen from 1100 candidates and engaged at the salary of £350 a year Duly instructed in and provided with two evening dresses to wear for announcements she began her career as a Miss Bligh was heard for the first time in orchestral programme Romance in Rhythm a sound broadcast from St Hall in May 1936 and that October she introduced the first regular television broadcasts from Alexandra Palace Those were the heroic days of television with no teleprompting devices and no auto-cues: announcers simply stood in front of the camera and spoke lines which they had learnt by heart PROF ROBERT HOLMES the former Professor of Anatomy at Leeds University who has died aged 66 was a world authority in neuro-endocrinology He made his name in the 1950s when he was successively lecturer and Reader at Birmingham University and a leading member of Birmingham a group of anatomists under the brilliant leadership of Prof Solly (later Lord) Zuckerman which later became part of Edward scientific think-tank In this highly charged atmosphere Holmes made some outstanding contributions notably in the study of the pituitary gland He later developed this research in his book The Pituitary Gland: A Comparative Account (with Ball 1974) which is the standard work on this impor LT CDR GREEN who has died aged 83 was the gunnery officer who in 1940 fired the first shot by the British against the French since the Battle of Waterloo He was then serving in the battleship Resolution under Adml Sir James Somerville France had fallen but Churchill was determined to show the world that Britain intended to pursue the war To Somerville fell the task of either negotiating with the French over the disposal of their fleet at Mers-el Kebir or DINNER Company The Master Mr AWF Lettin presided at the annual court dinner of the Company held last night in Hall He was assisted by the Wardens Sir William Slack Sir Gerard Vaughan MP and Mr Pincham The principal guest and speaker was Prof Sir Geoffrey Slaney and Mr Lord also spoke Among the guests were: Lord and Lady Porritt Lord and Lady Smith Aid Sir Hugh and Lady By Malcolm Pein WEDDINGS Lt Cdr Green INTERNATIONAL Master Chris Ward from Sevenoaks increased his lead to 1 points in the eighth round of the Smith and Williamson Young Masters Chess Tournament at the Aldro School Guildford Ward scored his fifth victory of the tournament defeating Richard Tozer with the black pieces in 34 moves It was another smooth game by Ward who chose an unusual defence to Pawn and obtained a solid position after the opening Tozer was then gradually outplayed There are now four people in equal second place one of whom Michael Hennigan needs 23 to score an International Master norm At the Biel Chess Festival in Switzerland Michael Adams drew with Joel UNIVERSITY NEWS The following elections and awards have been made recently at Oxford University: UNIVERSITY PRIZES Junior Paget Toynbee Prizes: A Armstrong St John's Jennifer Burns Magdalen: Jane Saunders Pembroke Cecil Roth Memorial Prize: Lucy Jenkins Witts Prize in Haematology: I Tomlinson University John Pearce Memorial Prizes: Anne Lingford-Hughes St I Mills Merton Siobham Smart Magdalen Verity St Esther Winter Prize for Latin Prose: Deborah Rooke Regent's Park College Violet Vaughan Morgan Prizes: Isabella Clarke St A Hil-dyard Lady Margaret Hall A Macer-Wright Lincoln Sarah Rutherford Mr Christie and Mrs A Howard The marriage took place on Friday July 19 in London of Mr William Christie son of the late Capt Hector Christie and of Lady Jean Christie of Lambourn and Mrs Amanda Howard daughter of Mr and Mrs Derek Nimmo of Kensington A service of blessing was held at the Church of St Pe and St Paul Easton Maudi Northamptonshire on Jul The Rev Philip Bligh officiated WOODCOTE HOUSE SCHOOL WINDLESHAM Old Boys over the age of 18 ai invited to attend a dinner i Woodcote House School dinin room at 8 pm on Friday Sept 21 For tickets and further inform tion please apply to th Headmaster Latest Wills GODFREY Mrs Ang- NET mering-on-Sea Sussex £730 029 HOPPER Acklington Northumberland 1113 322 JACKSON VV Haynes West End Beds 1129211 MORTON Eileen Poole Dorset 947769 SEARCH Mrs Kirby Merseyside 802369 SHEPHERD Mrs Bar- net Herts 721288 WINKWORTH Nora Sun- ninghill Berks 716622 immobilising their ships to prevent them joining the Axis cause After the deadline expired late in the afternoon of July 3 Resolution opened fire and it was Green who pressed the trigger Other ships followed causing many casualties among the French sailors and a lasting bitterness between the two navies In recalling the story Green used to hold up his hand and say: little finger did James Robert Frederick William Green was born in Bidwell Adml Sir David and Lady Hallifax Surg Vice-Adml Sir James Watt Sir Reginald and Lady Murley Dame Kathleen Raven Lady Tuckwell Rear-Adml and Mrs Marsden and Mr Temple-Morris MP and Mrs Temple-Morris EVENTS The Prince of Wales Patron The Royal Tournament will attend the Royal Tournament Court London 730pm Life Guard mounts Horse Guards 4pm Guard mounts Buckingham Palace 1130am Lawrence museum bequest A PAIR of brass saddle covers used by Lawrence on his camel during the First World War were left to the Ashmolean Museum Oxford by his younger brother Prof Arnold Lawrence in his will published yesterday Prof Lawrence who left estate worth £435536 (gross) £434618 (net) when he died in March aged 90 was for.