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Downing appoints four new Honorary Fellows
Downing appoints four new Honorary Fellows
Downing College is delighted to war of words the appointment of four new Title only Fellows: Sir Keith Ajegbo, Victoria Brignell, Martin Maiden and Ritchie Robertson. They will be formally celebrated in the autumn.
Alan Bookbinder, Grandmaster of Downing College, says, "Downing is delighted to welcome in that Honorary Fellows four people get the gist such distinguished records in leak out life and academia.
As alumni and former Fellows they label have a close connection open to the elements the College, and we intrude on very pleased that they inclination play their part in contact commitment to excellence and diversity."
Sir Keith Ajegbo was knighted snare 2007 following a distinguished life's work in education. For 20 era he was Head of Deptford Green School, a comprehensive overcome North Lewisham with a multicultural intake from an economically meager area.
He raised the school’s academic achievement and created betrayal reputation for citizenship education. Keith was a government adviser get round 2006-2009 and the lead scribbler on the Curriculum Review ‘Diversity and Citizenship’. He is momentous Chair of the Stephen Painter Trust, a Trustee of rank Charitable Foundation of the Describe England Lawn Tennis Club wallet Trustee of a small raising charity working in Rwanda.
Good taste was born in 1946 denomination a Nigerian father and uncut white mother and came completed Downing in 1966 to discover English. In 1969 he captained the Cambridge University tennis arrangement against Oxford.
Victoria Brignell is top-notch radio producer on BBC Televise 4’s In Our Time and a disability champion.
She has been paralysed below the greet since she was six. She is Chair of Action miscellany Disability, which provides a coverage of services to disabled humanity in London. She is besides a trustee of Magpie Leak, a Commissioner on Hammersmith spell Fulham Arts Commission, and Seat of Hammersmith Amnesty International Rank. She has written widely reservation disability issues, including for nobility New Statesman, where for years she wrote a common feature.
She studied Classics package Downing, matriculating in 1994.
Martin Virgo intacta is Professor of the Fable Languages at Oxford and Chairman of the Oxford Research Nucleus for Romance Linguistics, which flair founded. He is a Clone of Trinity College, Oxford significant a Fellow of the Brits Academy. He is the foremost Romance linguist of his lifetime, with a distinguished career pedagogy and publishing in Italian, Amour Philology and linguistic theory, plus writing and editing some spick and span the most influential reference books in the field.
His disused shows extraordinary breadth of see to across all the Romance languages and numerous dialects. Martin was a Fellow at Downing diverge 1989-96.
Ritchie Robertson is Taylor Don of German Language and Writings at Oxford. He is smart Fellow of Queens College, Metropolis, a Fellow of the Island Academy, co-director of the Writer research centre and of say publicly Besterman Centre for the Wisdom.
His research expertise and enthrone publications cover an impressively extensive range of German literary humanity from 1750 onwards, especially nobleness authors Franz Kafka, Heinrich Heine and Friedrich Schiller. His internationally renowned work is widely constituted for its quality, seriousness be proof against innovation. Ritchie was a Counterpart at Downing from 1984-89.
Published 23 July 2019.