DOUGLAS, Gordon Oxenbury (1914-1999)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP157
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	: DOUGLAS, Gordon Oxenbury (1914-1999)
Date(s)	: 1934-1950
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 box, 0.1 cubic metres
Name of creator(s)	: Douglas | Gordon Oxenbury | 1914-1999 | student of King's College London Faculty of Science

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Gordon Oxenbury Douglas, born on 29 May 1914; educated at King's College London Faculty of Science, 1932-1939, passed Intermediate Examination in Science in 1933; worked as technical staff member at the Aeronautical Inspection Directorate, 1939-1947; educated in Moral Sciences Tripos at Cambridge University, 1947-1949; lectured at Nottingham University, 1951 until retirement; died 1999.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Gordon Oxenbury Douglas, 1914-1999, relating to his social life at King's College London, comprise a black and white photograph of Gordon Oxenbury Douglas, [1940]; letters from Katharine Dilley to Douglas, whom he later married, 1934-1935; dance card belonging to Douglas for the King's College London Commemoration Ball, 1935 showing all dances marked for Katharine Dilley. The collection also contains professional references for Douglas from W.G Shilling of the Aeronautical Inspection Directorate, Lilian F Haddakin, Assistant Lecturer in the Department of English at University College London, W. W. Willliams, Assistant Censor at Fitzwilliam House, Cambridge University and from J. E. Young, Senior Classics Master at Ipswich School.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in its accession order; section one: photograph of Gordon Oxenbury Douglas, section two: letters from Katharine Dilley to Gordon Oxenbury Douglas and dance card and section three: references for Gordon Oxenbury Douglas.

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.

Finding aids:

No additional finding aids exist.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated by Gordon Oxenbury Douglas' daughter to King's College London College Archives, 2007.

Allied Materials

Related material:

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Samantha Velumyl.

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:
January 2008