IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA Stone
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: STONE, Sir (John) Leonard (1896-1978)
Date(s): 19th century
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Not known.
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1896; educated at Malvern College; called to the Bar, Gray's Inn, 1923; joined Lincoln's Inn, 1931; Bencher, Gray's Inn, 1942; knighted, 1943; OBE, 1943; Chief Justice, High Court, Bombay, 1943-1947; President, Commission of Inquiry, Bombay Explosions, 1944; Queen's Counsel, 1948; Vice-Chancellor, County Palatine of Lancaster, 1948-1963; Treasurer, Gray's Inn, 1956; Chairman of Departmental Committee on Hallmarking, 1956-1958; died, 1978.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Bound manuscript classical dictionary, [19th century]. Compiler unknown.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Greek, Latin, 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, King's College London.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Collection level description available in reading room at King's College London Archives.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
The book was in the family of Sir Leonard Stone, c1906-1976, but no further information about its provenance is known.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Given to King's College Library via Professor R H Graveson, Faculty of Laws, by Sir Leonard Stone in 1976.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Sources: brief description in King's College London Manuscripts and Private Papers: A Select Guide (1982); Who's Who.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2001