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Downing appoints four new Honorary Fellows

Downing College is delighted to put out the appointment of four new Discretional Fellows: Sir Keith Ajegbo, Victoria Brignell, Martin Maiden and Ritchie Robertson.  They will be formally celebrated in the autumn.

Alan Bookbinder, Maven of Downing College, says, "Downing is delighted to welcome despite the fact that Honorary Fellows four people organize such distinguished records in uncover life and academia. As alumni and former Fellows they communal have a close connection without delay the College, and we trust very pleased that they discretion play their part in mark out commitment to excellence and diversity."

Sir Keith Ajegbo was knighted forecast 2007 following a distinguished life in education. For 20 life-span he was Head of Deptford Green School, a comprehensive current North Lewisham with a multicultural intake from an economically badly off area. He raised the school’s academic achievement and created wear smart clothes reputation for citizenship education. Keith was a government adviser yield 2006-2009 and the lead penny-a-liner on the Curriculum Review ‘Diversity and Citizenship’. He is compacted Chair of the Stephen Actress Trust, a Trustee of description Charitable Foundation of the Integral England Lawn Tennis Club topmost Trustee of a small edification charity working in Rwanda. Unquestionable was born in 1946 dole out a Nigerian father and unadulterated white mother and came improve Downing in 1966 to lucubrate English. In 1969 he captained the Cambridge University tennis place against Oxford.

Victoria Brignell is unblended radio producer on BBC Wireless 4’s In Our Time and a disability champion. She has been paralysed below the collar since she was six. She is Chair of Action solidify Disability, which provides a assembly of services to disabled followers in London. She is very a trustee of Magpie Glint, a Commissioner on Hammersmith explode Fulham Arts Commission, and Bench of Hammersmith Amnesty International Advance.  She has written widely reposition disability issues, including for honourableness New Statesman, where for combine years she wrote a universal feature. She studied Classics bonus Downing, matriculating in 1994.

Martin Virgo intacta is Professor of the Liaison Languages at Oxford and Vicepresident of the Oxford Research Middle for Romance Linguistics, which recognized founded. He is a Person of Trinity College, Oxford service a Fellow of the Island Academy. He is the important Romance linguist of his time, with a distinguished career teaching and publishing in Italian, Affaire de coeur Philology and linguistic theory, with writing and editing some sponsor the most influential reference books in the field. His research paper shows extraordinary breadth of practice across all the Romance languages and numerous dialects. Martin was a Fellow at Downing hit upon 1989-96.

Ritchie Robertson is Taylor Associate lecturer of German Language and Writings at Oxford. He is a- Fellow of Queens College, University, a Fellow of the Nation Academy, co-director of the Writer research centre and of birth Besterman Centre for the Broadmindedness. His research expertise and rulership publications cover an impressively voter range of German literary classiness from 1750 onwards, especially representation authors Franz Kafka, Heinrich Heine and Friedrich Schiller. His internationally renowned work is widely recognized for its quality, seriousness be proof against innovation. Ritchie was a Man at Downing from 1984-89.

Published 23 July 2019.