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Wandsworth Heritage Service

Cecil Tudor Davis Collection


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0347 D133

Held at: Wandsworth Heritage Service

Title: Cecil Tudor Davis Collection

Date(s): 1898-1914

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s):

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CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Cecil Tudor Davis was born in 1854 at Upton St Leonards near Gloucester. After working as the senior officer at Birmingham Reference Library, he moved to Wandsworth in 1886 to take up the position of Librarian of Wandsworth, based at West Hill Public Library. He held this position for 34 years before retiring in 1920. He died following a short illness in 1922. He lived at 55 West Hill and was married twice with five children. He was very interested in local history and wrote many articles and frequently gave lectures on the subject, as well as collecting books and documents relating to Wandsworth.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The collection contains material written by Cecil Tudor Davis, Librarian of Wandsworth, including material on the history of Wandsworth, the River Wandle, industry in Wandsworth and other local interest topics. Additionally there is material of local interest collected by Davis, such as manuscripts belonging to the writer A M W Stirling, a diary of the portrait painter George Richmond, as well as various maps, plans and other papers.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

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Conditions governing access:

This material is only available in the Wandsworth Heritage Service search room at Battersea Library. Please contact Heritage Service staff for more information.

Conditions governing reproduction:

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Finding aids:

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Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

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ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

Finding aid created by export from CALM v8.0.2.40 Archives Hub EAD2002. Entry amended by Barbara Ball.

Rules or conventions: 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: April 2011


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Diaries | Nonfiction
Documentary heritage | Cultural heritage
Local history | History
Painters | Artists
Primary documents

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Wandsworth | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe