FROST, Harold (1892-1975)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0096 MS 1005
Held at	: Senate House Library, University of London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections ›
Full title	: FROST, Harold (1892-1975)
Date(s)	: 1926-1937; 1954; 1967-1968
Level of description	: Collection (Fonds)
Extent	: 4 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: Frost | Harold | 1892-1975 | verger and psychic researcher
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

c 1906: Farmer near Colchester in Essex.
1914-1918: Inns of court O.T.C. Gazetted to 7th Suffolks and went to the Somme, France.
Late 1920s-1930s: Interest in psychical investigations.
1939: Medical clerk to the Chairman of Colchester Medical Board of the Ministry of Labour.
1941: Transferred to Ministry of Food Headquarters Office, Colwyn Bay for licensing of firms in Animal Feeding stuffs.
1942: Transferred to Chelmsford Essex Divisional Food Office as Salvage Officer for Essex and Hertfordshire areas.
1950: Transferred to Ministry of Supply and carried out testing at Springfield Uranium Factory, Lancashire.
1955-1961: Moved to Dacca, East Pakistan and worked as a General Manager of Zeenat Printing Works and public relations.
1962: Joined the Sue Ryder organisation and carried out general duties and nursing.
1960s: Verger.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Consists of 4 hard-bound scrapbooks with some handwritten notes and typescript notes of sittings with mediums of various circles eg. Mark's Tey circle in Essex. Some letters and press cuttings are enclosed.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

1 series of 4 volumes.

Conditions governing access:

Material can be consulted by appointment only, at 24 hours notice.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Finding aids:

List

Archival Information

Archival history:

Provenance is unknown.

Immediate source of acquisition:

n/a

Allied Materials

Related material:

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Prepared by Gillian Murphy

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with the General International Standard on Archival Description, 2nd edition, Ottawa 2000 and the National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
September 2003