COMBRIDGE, John Theodore (1897-1986)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP15
Held at	: King's College London College Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/ ›
Full title	: COMBRIDGE, John Theodore (1897-1986)
Date(s)	: Created [1926-1937]
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 3 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: Combridge | John Theodore | 1897-1986 | Registrar of King's College London

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 28 August 1897; BA honours, University of Cambridge; MSc with distinction, Mathematics, King's College London, 1925; Assistant Lecturer, and Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, King's College London, 1926-1937; Assistant to the Secretary of King's College London and King's College for Women, London, 1937-1947; Registrar, King's College London, 1947-1962; President, King's College Rowing Club; died 1986.

Publications: Editor of Count me in: numeracy in education (Queen Anne Press, London, 1968); Mathematics in education and industry. A survey of regional reports prepared by the chairman [ie J T Combridge] for the Schools and Industry Committee of the Mathematical Association (London, 1969).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Three volumes of typescript and manuscript research notes on papers on general relativity and related subjects, [1926-1937].

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

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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, King's College, London.

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Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Library at King's College London.

Allied Materials

Related material:

King's College London Archives also holds 'Algebra' and 'Integral calculus and differential equations', lecture notes given by Combridge (Ref: GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP16/2 & 16/4).

Combridge's papers relating to the teaching of mathematics are held by the Mathematical Association, Leicester, UK.

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Date(s) of descriptions:
Feb 2000