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King's College London College Archives

BURROWS, Ronald Montagu (1867-1920), office files


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA KAP/BUR

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: BURROWS, Ronald Montagu (1867-1920), office files

Date(s): 1912-1920

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 36 boxes

Name of creator(s): Burrows | Ronald Montagu | 1867-1920 | Principal of King's College London

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Office of the Principal supports the academic and administrative work of the College's chief officer. Ronald Montagu Burrows was Principal of King's from 1913 until 1920, following a distinguished career as Professor of Greek at University College, Cardiff (1898-1908) and the University of Manchester (1908-1913).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The collection comprises Principal Ronald Montagu Burrows' office files including correspondence, memoranda and accounts, 1912-1920. These include correspondence relating specifically to the impact on the College of World War One, including war grants, War Office classes, war-work by staff, lists of student casualties, the Officer Training Corps (OTC), the special constabulary, War Relief Council, erection of a war memorial, lists of refugee students, their status, examinations taken and the hospitality they enjoyed; reports and correspondence relating to the teaching and assessment of individual subjects or departments including Anatomy, Chemistry, Chinese, Day Training, Engineering, Law, Modern Greek, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Theology, 1913-1919; correspondence relating to scholarships, studentships and medals, 1913-1917; correspondence on staff, notably academic appointments and pensions, and the establishment of new chairs, 1913-1918; correspondence relating to public lectures, 1913-1918; correspondence concerning Egyptian students at King's including lists of names, 1914-1915; correspondence and accounts of King's College for Women including the transference of many of its functions to King's College in the Strand, 1915-1917; correspondence relating to the Westminster Training College, Horseferry Road, 1913-1917; typescript accounts of the Plantanes Hall of Residence [King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill], 1913-1915; estimated accounts of King's College London, 1913-1919; incomplete examination pass lists, 1914-1918; framed photograph of Eleutherios Venizelos, Greek Statesman, [1913-1920].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide entry on-line and due to be published in hard copy. A brief list is available in hard copy in the College Archives reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Principal's Office, King's College London, 1980.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

King's College London: the private papers of Ronald Burrows (Ref: KCLCA K/PP 47); records of the Office of the Principal (Ref: KCLCA 1984/P, 1988 KAP, 1990/ KAP, 1992 KAP, 1999 KAP, KAP/F).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Geoff Browell

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: July 2001


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Academic teaching personnel | Teachers | Educational personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Educational budgets | Educational finance | Economics of education
Examination marks | Student evaluation | Educational evaluation
Lectures (teaching method) | Teaching methods
Scholarships | Educational grants
University curriculum | Curriculum
University governing bodies | Governing bodies | Educational supervision
University students | Students
War | International conflicts
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Educational governing bodies
Organizations

Personal names
Burrows | Ronald Montagu | 1867-1920 | Principal of King's College London
Venizelos | Eleutherios | 1864-1936 | Greek Statesman

Corporate names
King's College for Women | Household and Social Science Department | 1915-1928
King's College Hospital
King's College London
King's College London | Department of Anatomy
King's College London | Department of Chemistry
King's College London | Department of Chinese
King's College London | Department of Day Training
King's College London | Department of Law
King's College London | Department of Modern Greek
King's College London | Department of Portuguese
King's College London | Department of Spanish
King's College London | Department of Theology
King's College London | Faculty of Engineering
Officer Training Corps | OTC
War Relief Council
Westminster Training College | London

Places