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NORMAN, Agatha Mary Bathurst (b 1897)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP53

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: NORMAN, Agatha Mary Bathurst (b 1897)

Date(s): Created [1944-1982]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Norman | Agatha Mary Bathurst | b 1897 | tutor in theology

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Scholar in Theology, Lambeth; Tutor to Women Theological students, King's College London, 1945-1954; organised [and conducted] prayer groups, study group weekends and silent retreats at Pleshey, Essex; resigned from King's College, 1954; organised and conducted prayer group meetings at St Mary the Boltons and Westminster Abbey and the St Faith's Fellowship, Westminster, [1954-1965].

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to the Reverend Eric Symes Abbott, notably handwritten notes taken from lectures, mainly by Abbott, [1945-1969], on religious subjects, including talks given for the St Faith's Fellowship, Westminster; correspondence with Abbott, 1944-1945, 1948, 1954; cutting from the London Churchman, Oct 1959, relating to Abbott's appointment as Dean of Westminster; copy of a speech by the Right Reverend Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Abbott's memorial service, Westminster Abbey, 8 Jul 1983. Papers, 1965 and [1984], relating to the Fellowship of St Faith's, including a text by Norman on the 'Story of the Fellowship of St Faith: its origin and development'. Copy Minute of the Council, King's College, on the occasion of Norman's retirement, 26 Jul 1954. Reminiscences of Norman and her work, by Helen Bowers and Sue Cokayne, [1989].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 file.

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 provided 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

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented by Mrs Norman, 1982, and the authors of the appreciation of Mrs Norman, 1989.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Related material:

King's College Archives also holds the papers of Reverend Eric Symes Abbott (Ref: KCLCA PP/44).

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2000


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Biographies | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Religion

Personal names
Abbott | Eric Symes | 1906-1983 | Anglican clergyman and Dean of Westminster
Bowers | Helen | fl 1989
Cokayne | Sue | fl 1989
Norman | Agatha Mary Bathurst | b 1897 | tutor in theology
Runcie | Robert Alexander Kennedy | 1921-2000 | Archbishop of Canterbury

Corporate names
King's College London
St Faith's Fellowship, Westminster

Places