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Members of the Faculty will be saddened by news of the death of Ian DuQuesnay.

Mr DuQuesnay was appointed to a University Lectureship in the Faculty from October 1983.  He was the author of various studies of Republican and Augustan poetry and co-editor of Catullus: Poems, Books, Readers (2012) and The Cambridge Companion to Catullus (2021). Ian will be remembered for his tireless service in a number of major administrative roles, including Chair of the Faculty Board.  He was also instrumental in setting up the CamCORS supervision report portal.
He was a Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge and served there as Admissions Tutor and Senior Tutor.

In 2002 he took up the position of Bursar at Newnham College which he held until his retirement in 2014.

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