Tea will be served in Hall afterwards. All former pupils and friends are welcome. In addition, if anyone would like to do a reading, or making some other contribution to the service, please get in touch with Hugh's brother Robert (1965, Oriental Studies): robert@wadhurst.net.

Professor Lindsay Judson, Professor of Ancient Philosophy, remembers Hugh Rice's time at Christ Church: 

“Hugh read Classics here as the Marjoribanks Scholar 1961-5, and then took the BPhil in Philosophy as a Senior Scholar 1965-7.  Apart from one year spent teaching at the University of Connecticut, he taught at Christ Church, first as a lecturer and then as an Official Student, from 1968 until his retirement in 2008. He worked tirelessly as Junior and Senior Censor, Tutor for Admissions, Secretary to the Salaries Board, and Censor Theologiae, while also overseeing the Philosophy Faculty’s IT operation and being heavily involved in many of its teaching audit and research assessment exercises. Somehow he found the time to publish God and Goodness (Clarendon Press, 1999) – a strikingly original book which is still on my tutorial reading lists – as well as important articles on metaphysics and the philosophy of religion.

Hugh had an acute and rigorous intellect and a perceptive eye, usually concealed behind a calm, genial, and almost self-effacing manner – though with occasional flashes of asperity at committee meetings in the face of poor understanding of the issue at hand. He was a wonderful colleague: supportive, wise, and always ready to take on more than his fair share of any task.”