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MICHAEL GEORGE RAMER. Jesus College. Born 1929
(in Hungary). Professor of Finno-Ugric Philology; but better
known as a writer of romances. His parents returned to England
when he was four; but he spent a good deal of time in Finland
and Hungary between 1956 and 68. [Among his interests are
Celtic languages and antiquities.]

RUPERT DOLBEAR. Wadham. Born 1929. Research Chem-
ist. Has many other interests, notably philosophy, psychoanaly-
sis, and gardening. [A close friend of Ramer. He is redhaired
and redbearded, and known to the Club as Ruthless Rufus.]

NICHOLAS GUILDFORD. Lincoln. Born 1937. Archaeol-
ogist. The Club reporter; because he likes it and knows short-
hand. [He is seldom recorded as reading anything to the Club,
and it is then not reported; but he appears to have written
several novels.]

ALWIN ARUNDEL LOWDHAM. B.N.C. Born 1938. Lec-
turer in English Language. Chiefly interested in Anglo-Saxon,
Icelandic, and Comparative Philology. Occasionally writes
comic or satirical verse. [Known as Arry.]

PHILIP FRANKLEY. Queen's. Born 1932. A poet, once
well-known as a leader of the Queer Metre movement; but now
just a poet, still publishing volumes of collected verse; suffers
from horror borealis (as he calls it) and is intolerant of all things
Northern or Germanic. [He is, all the same, a close friend of
Lowdham.]

WILFRID TREWIN JEREMY. Corpus Christi. Born 1942.
University Lecturer in English Literature. He specializes in
Escapism, and has written books on the history and criticism of
Ghost-stories, Time-travel, and Imaginary Lands.

James Jones. Born 1927. Has been a schoolmaster, journalist,
and playwright. Is now retired, living in Oxford, and divides his
time between producing plays and his hobby of private printing.
A very silent man, but assists the Reporter with his retentive
memory.
Dr. Abel Pitt. Trinity. Born 1928. Formerly Chaplain of
Trinity College; now Bishop of Buckingham. Scholar, occa-
sional poet.
Colombo Arditi. St. John's. Born 1940. Tempestosa Professor
of Italian. Is fond of (and not unskilled in) singing (basso),
swimming, and the game of bowls. Collects books and cats.