PETT, Douglas Ellory (1924-2005)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP170
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	: PETT, Douglas Ellory (1924-2005)
Date(s)	: 1942-2005
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 box or 0.1 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Pett | Douglas Ellory | 1924-2005 | Chaplain

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1924; student at the School of English, King's College London, 1942; BA English at Birkbeck College, University of London, 1943-; returned to King's as a member of the Faculty of Theology, 1946; awarded BD and AKC, 1948; King's postgraduate theological college (St. Boniface College, Warminster) for the final year of his ordination training; ordained, 1949; Sacrist at Gloucester Cathedral, 1954-1958; School Chaplain and taught English, King's School, Gloucester, 1954-1958; resident Chaplain at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, 1966-1983; died, 2005.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Douglas Ellory Pett, 1942-2005, including essay by Pett entitled 'The Christian as Citizen' (Winner of the Warden's Essay Prize), [1947]; essay by Pett entitled 'The Cavalier Poets - Carew, Suckling and Lovelace' (Winner of the Plumptre Prize for English Literature), [1947]; black and white photographs including of staff and students of King's College London English School, 1942-1943; staff and students of King's College London Faculty of Theology, 1946-1947 and 1947-1948; staff and students of King's College London Faculty of Theology at St. Boniface College, Warminster in Michaelmas term, 1948; staff and students of King's College London Faculty of Theology at St Boniface College, Warminster, 1949; King's College London discus medals, awarded to Pett, 1946, 1947 and programme from the Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Douglas Ellory Pett, including biography of Pett and tributes from Sir Ian Gainsford and Dr Rob Senior.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

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.

Finding aids:

Box list.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received from the family, 2008.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with 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:
Nov 2008.