THRING, Henry, 1st Baron Thring (1818-1907)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1249 Thring
Held at	: Royal College of Music   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.rcm.ac.uk/library/contactus/archivesandrecords/ ›
Full title	: THRING, Henry, 1st Baron Thring (1818-1907)
Date(s)	: 1877-1951
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 3 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Thring | Henry | 1818-1907 | 1st Baron Thring, lawyer and jurist

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The lawyer Lord Thring (1818-1907), renowned for his work as a parliamentary draftsman and innovator in the framing of legislation, served on the Council of the Royal College of Music.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Henry Thring, 1st Baron Thring, relating to the establishment and constitution of the Royal College of Music (RCM), 1877-1883, mostly comprising correspondence of Thring (mainly his office copies) and members of the Committee of Management of the National Training School for Music, Prince Christian's Executive Committee of the Royal and National College of Music and the Council of the RCM, particularly in regard to the drafting and granting of the royal charter to the RCM, with manuscript and printed drafts of the charter of the RCM and regulations of the RCM. The papers also include a small quantity of material relating to Thring's RCM Building's Sub Committee to report on the heating, ventilation and drainage of the new RCM building, 1889; the minute of condolence of the Council of the RCM on the death of Lord Thring, 14 Mar 1907; correspondence relating to the donation of the Thring papers to the RCM, 1951.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

A small portion of correspondence has been placed in chronological order; the majority of the papers are unsorted.

Conditions governing access:

Usual conditions of the Library of the Royal College of Music apply. See the RCM website or contact the RCM Library for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopying is permitted at the discretion of the Archivist for research purposes only.

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated by Mrs E Thring Bolton via the British Records Association (BRA 810) in 1951.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The RCM also holds records of the National Training School for Music, 1873-1882 (Ref: NTSM).

Papers of Lord Thring are also held by the British Library, the Bishopsgate Institute, Lambeth Palace Library and the National Archives of Canada. See the National Register of Archives for further details.

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Robert Baxter as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

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:
May 2001