Administration
For many years the day-to-day administration
of the PCL was in the hands of Miss Binnie and John Danby, Assistant to Dr
Lee's Professor. There was no computer and no photocopier: the accounts were
kept in the Department, and there were memorable days in the summer when these
were being prepared for audit. Computerisation of the accounts, now kept in
Wellington Square has simplified the system (fears that this would lead to
control of the policies of the PCL by the Chest proved to be illusory!), but
increases, in the numbers of senior academics (now twenty-six) and research
students, in the complexity of their needs (also, it must be said, in an
increasingly democratic way of life), in the physical size of the Department,
and, not least in the bureaucratic demands from Whitehall and from Swindon for
information of all kinds, has led to a concomitant increase in the numbers of
administrative staff. Miss Binnie has been replaced by an administrator and his
secretary, an accountant, another full-time secretary, two half-time
secretaries and a telephone lady. Even so, this is by no means a large support
staff for an o peration which involves control of a considerable building, an
annual budget of the order of £1.5M, and, in 1991, a total of 163 academic
staff, post-doc, D.Phil and Part II research students.
Since 1965, the administration of the PCL
has been in the hands of the following:
P.A.
Gore (1966 - 74)
R.B. Winter (1974 - 76)
A. Marks (1976 - 87)
C.A. Ryde (1987 -93)
J.N.B. Mogg (1993 -
