Reference code: GB-0033-UND/CA
Title: Durham University Records: Central Administration and Officers: Basement Deed Boxes
Dates of creation: 1831-1950
Extent: 3 linear metres
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Origination: Durham University
Language:
English
The university first appointed a registrar in 1835 whose role was to record university appointments, admissions, degrees and distinctions. So they came to administer much of the core academic activity of the university.
This was a series of originally 9 metal deed boxes, stored (in 2004) in the basement of Old Shire Hall, the then administrative headquarters of the university. The boxes were used by past registrars as secure storage for some of their more
significant papers concerning the governance and administration of the university.
Transferred to the University Library at Palace Green from the university's central administration in Old Shire Hall in 2008.
Open for consultation.
Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Head of Collections (email pg.library@durham.ac.uk) and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. The Library will assist where possible
with identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material
Original arrangement retained.
Catalogued into XML by Michael Stansfield, utilising Adrian Allen's lists, 2009.
None carried out
None expected
Inventoried by Adrian Allen 1999-2004.
Durham University Records: Central Administration and Officers
Files of the University Office and Colleges Office from 1937 (UND/CB and CC) overlapped with and superseded the Deed Boxes sequence.
Basement Deed BoxesUND/CA
This was a series of 9 metal deed boxes, stored (in 2004) in the basement of Old Shire Hall which past registrars seemed to have used as secure storage for some of their more significant papers concerning the governance and administration of the
university. The fact that this does not really seem to represent the administrative papers of the university pre-1937 is perhaps to be explained by the rumour that much of the paperwork for this period went for salvage during WW2. It had perhaps by
then been deemed to be surplus to requirements as being paperwork of the old regime which had been rather swept away in 1937. The new regime had had time to establish itself by then and no longer needed to refer back to previous documentation which
was thus disposed of in the War.
An exhibition in the University Library in March 1982 made use of:
CA1/1-8, 11, 12, 14-18, 20-22, 24-28, 30; CA2/2, 9, 14, 15; CA3/10; CA4/2, 5, 8, 10, 21, 30; CA5/12, 14, 22, 23; CA6/4; CA7/1-3; CA8/2, 3, 7, 10.
Deed Box 1Reference: UND/CA1Dates of creation: 1831 - 1950
UND/CA1/1 9 December 1831
“The University of Durham. Durham College”, Durham, a printed sheet which forms an outline prospectus (covering the government, staff, students, academical year, examinations, etc.), which notes that
“farther information may be obtained from The Venerable Archdeacon Thorp, College, Durham, who is appointed, provisionally, to the Office of Warden”. On the back of the sheet is noted in MS
“University 1st Printed project drawn up by the Bishop of Durham and revised by the Dean”.
Paper 2f & envelope
UND/CA1/2a January 1934
2nd report of the Senate committee on
“Entrance Tests and Bachelors' Degrees”, printed.
Paper 8p
UND/CA1/2b 16 November 1939
“An Act to make provision for promoting economy and efficiency in the carrying on under war conditions of the work of certain chartered and other bodies not being local authorities; for enabling certain Universities and
colleges to adapt themselves to war conditions ...”, (2&3 Geo.6 Ch.119), printed.
Paper 3f
UND/CA1/2c 20 December 1939
“The Universities and Colleges (Temporary Provisions) Order, 1939”, (Statutory Rules and Orders 1939 No.1855), printed, 2 copies.
Paper 2 items each of 4f
UND/CA1/2d [1943]
“Report by the Court of the University to the University Grants Committee on Development Policy for the Post-War Period”, printed.
Paper 38p
UND/CA1/2e c.1944
“Supplementary Memorandum of Evidence to University Grants Committee on the Medical and Dental School of the University”, printed.
Paper 24p
UND/CA1/2f 6 July 1946
“A Note on University Policy and Finance in the Decennium 1947-56” by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals for the University Grants Committee, printed.
Paper 16p
UND/CA1/3a 15 March 1834
MS. copy of Statutes for Durham College (sic) submitted by the warden to the dean and chapter. Concerns what became University College, Durham.
Paper 6f
UND/CA1/3b c.1833
MS. draft of
“Titles” [i.e. regulations] governing the University of Durham, n.d. [the paper bearing a watermark including the date “1833”]. This appears to be a first draft, which has been much
amended [ ?in a different hand] throughout.
Paper 25f
UND/CA1/4 15 March 1834
MS. copy of a draft of the statutes for the university submitted by the warden to the dean and chapter, with some [later] marginal annotations by
“D.G.”.
Paper 11f
UND/CA1/5
See now (19 October 2004) AA1/1.
UND/CA1/6a 1 March 1879
Copy statute for making Masters of Science and Masters of Surgery members of Convocation, MS.
Paper file 3f
UND/CA1/6b 29 May 1880
Copy statute for increasing Senate by electing annually one additional member (elected by Convocation), MS.
Paper file 3f
UND/CA1/6c 4 March 1882
Copy statute for increasing Senate by electing the Professor of Hebrew ex officio, MS.
Paper file 2f & envelope
UND/CA1/6d 17 October 1882
Copy statute for increasing Senate by electing the Master of University College and the Principal of Bishop Hatfield's Hall ex officio members, MS.
Paper 2f
UND/CA1/6e 16 August 1886
Copy statute to introduce certain additions to and modifications in a Statute passed on 11 February 1865, providing for the affiliation of Codrington College, Barbados, and Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone, printed, 2 copies.
Paper 2 items each of 2f
UND/CA1/6f 17 April 1903
Copy statute substituting the president of the College of Medicine as a member (ex officio) of Senate, MS.
Paper file 3f
UND/CA1/6g
Original envelope for 6a-f.
1 envelope
UND/CA1/7a 19 February 1836
Letter from [the Revd. Dr] W.S. Gilly, Norham Vicarage, near Berwick on Tweed [a prebend of Durham Cathedral], to the Revd T. Chevallier, registrar of the university, transcribing a letter he has written to the bishop of St Davids as dean of
Durham on the subject of regulations for the university; together with MS. copy of letter by [?Temple Chevallier], Durham to [Dr Gilly], 20 February 1836, regarding the statute of the university and the proposed regulations drawn up under this
statute, and letter from Dr Gilly to the Revd Chevallier, 22 February 1836, concerning the [religious] declarations required of students and religious services at the university and the university's [orthodoxy].
Paper 2f & 1f & 2f
Digitised material for Letter from W.S. Gilly to T. Chevallier, 1836 - UND/CA1/7a UND/CA1/7d c.1837
Copy of
“Charter” of the university of Durham , the letters patent dated 1 June 7 William IV [1837].
Paper 4f
UND/CA1/7e 7 - 28 June 1837
In a wrapper entitled 'Oxford Forms of Convocation' are the following printed notices:-
1. Notice and agenda of meeting of the Convocation to be held on 7 June 1837 (regarding the conferment of honorary degrees of DCL and MA on named individuals).
2. Notice and agenda of meeting of Convocation to be held on 10 June 1837 (regarding the commutation of tithes in a Welsh parish).
3. Notice and agenda of meeting of Convocation to be held on 28 June 1837 (regarding the death of King William IV and the accession of Queen Victoria).
Paper 4f
UND/CA1/7f c.1838
[?Counsel's opinion] on the establishment of the university and the pledges of Bishop van Mildert that the establishment should be an efficient place of general education and be largely and liberally endowed, n.d. [
“1838” appearing in the watermark of the paper].
Paper 14f
UND/CA1/7g [12 December 1838]
Letter of the warden and Senate of the university to Lord John Russell, n.d., regarding the difficulties opposed to the acceptance of Her Majesty's warrant of December 1837 [regarding degrees in the university of London], corrected copy; together
with a copy letter of the registrar of the university (Temple Chevallier) to Lord John Russell, 12 December 1838, on the same subject.
Paper 8f & 6f
UND/CA1/7h 14 December 1838
Letter of [the Warden] to the bishop of Durham, regarding the publication of regulations of the university and the alteration of the same, corrected copy.
Paper 4f
UND/CA1/7i c.[December 1838]
Letter of [the warden] to the bishop of Durham, n.d., regarding the memorial of 14 December [1838] to Lord John Russell, copy.
Paper 2f
UND/CA1/7k 13 March 1839
Letter from [the secretary of] Lord John Russell, [Home Secretary], Whitehall, addressed to the warden, University of Durham, stating that Lord John Russell concurs with the Treasury that the expense of providing accommodation for the judges of
assize at Durham shall be included by the sheriff in his bill of cravings; together with a letter from the under-sheriff to the [?warden] on the same subject, 22 February 1839, stating that the judges will attend the assizes on 6 March and stay at
the castle and the adjacent house, and a copy of the warden's reply of 23 February 1839.
Paper 2f & 2f & envelope
Digitised material for Letter from Lord John Russell to the warden, University of Durham - UND/CA1/7k UND/CA1/7m 28 November 1839 - 6 April 1840
In a wrapper on which is written
“Clerk of the Peace 1840”:-
1. Letter from G.?B. Wharton, Lincolns Inn Fields, to the Revd Temple Chevallier, 28 November 1839, regarding the claim of the university to the office or rooms in the Exchequer building in Durham occupied by the clerk of the peace.
2. MS. corrected copy of letter of [The Revd Chevallier] to ?, 11 January 1840, regarding the opinion of Sir William Follett.
3. Letter of the deputy clerk of the peace, Bailey, to ?, 22 January 1840, regarding the case and opinion of Sir William Follett about the room in the Exchequer now occupied by the clerk of the peace for the county.
4. Letter from the deputy clerk of the peace, Durham, to the Revd Chevallier, 11 April 1840, enclosing a copy of an order made at the general quarter sessions held at Durham on 6 April 1840 whereby the court has taken into account Sir William
Follett's opinion but does not feel justified in giving up possession of the room in question in the Exchequer.
Paper file 6 items total 10f
Digitised material for Correspondence regarding rooms in the Exchequer building in Durham occupied by the clerk of the peace - UND/CA1/7m UND/CA1/8 1836
A Statute enacted by the Dean and Chapter, with the consent of the Bishop, for the University established in connexion with the Cathedral Church of Durham; with Regulations passed under its authority, by the Senate and
Convocation of the University(Francis Humble, printer to the University, Durham, 1836)
The warden (Charles Thorp) has signed at the foot of each of the pages on which the regulations are printed and has noted in MS at the front that this was the copy of the registrar, delivered to his custody on 7 February 1837.
Parchment booklet, in hard covers 40p
Digitised material for Statute enacted by the Dean and Chapter, with the consent of the Bishop, for the University established in connexion with the Cathedral Church of Durham, 1836 - UND/CA1/8 UND/CA1/9 22 February 1836
Letter from [Dr] W [William] French, [master of Jesus College, Cambridge] to the Revd Temple Chevallier, Durham, commenting on the length of Durham's academical year of 24 weeks (
“is of the shortest”) and on [ ? the minutes of the Senate] regarding examinations, oaths, etc. (On the outside of the letter has been written - ? by the Revd Chevallier - “Patronage of
offices if no stalls”).
Paper 2f
UND/CA1/10a c.1838 x 1839
1. Regulations of the University of London on the subject of Degrees in Laws, n.d., printed.
2. Regulations of the University of London on the subject of Examinations for Degrees in Arts, n.d., printed.
Paper 2 items of 2f & 20f
UND/CA1/10b 28 November 1838
Letter of the warden, The College, Durham, to the bishop of Durham, and covering letter of the same date to the bishop, regarding relations with the university of London (especially their regulations), MS copy.
Paper 4f
UND/CA1/10c 20 December 1838
Letter [?from the warden] to the bishop of Durham regarding the regulations of the university of L[ondon], ?corrected draft.
Paper 2f
UND/CA1/10d 16 January 1839
Minute of the Senate of the university of London on the above subject, transcript. (The Senate is willing to alter their regulations on the subject, as detailed in the minute.)
Paper 2f
UND/CA1/10e 18 January 1839
Letter from J.N. Lubbock, university of London, [ to the warden], regarding proposed alterations to the regulations on the subject of examinations for degrees in Arts, and transcript of this letter.
Paper 2 items each of 2f
UND/CA1/12a 27 March 1843
Letter from [the Revd] George Hills, Leeds, to Archdeacon Thorp, enquiring whether any recognition has been made of the university of Durham's degrees by the
“sister universities”, whereby the Durham MA might be admitted ad eundem at Oxford or Cambridge, he mentioning that he wishes to take up the offer of a Leeds living [Trinity Church] but
the founder prescribes that the incumbent must be a MA of Oxford or Cambridge.
[Possibly the Revd Hills is the George Hills who graduated BA of Durham in 1837 and later became bishop of British Columbia ]
Paper 2f
UND/CA1/12b [April 1843]
Petition to the warden of the university requesting a Convocation be summoned to consider the question of a petition to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge to gain ad eundem degrees of the latter for university
of Durham graduates, signed by eighteen clergymen (curates, etc.), graduates of the university of Durham, n.d. [1843] (
“1839” appears in the watermark of the paper on which it is written and the request is in a wrapper franked Stockton 21 April 1843 and Durham 22 April 1843.)
Paper 2f & 1f
UND/CA1/12c 25 April 1843 - 25 January [?1844]
MS. [copies] of letters of [the warden]:
1. to the [clergymen who wrote to him regarding ad eundem degrees] 25 April 1843.
2. to the vice-chancellor of the university of Oxford, 12 December 1843.
3. to the vice-chancellor of the university of Oxford, 25 January [?1844].
Paper 2f, 1f, 1f
UND/CA1/12d 26 May 1843
Letter from C J [Longley bishop of] Ripon, London, to [?Archdeacon Thorp], that an Oxford or Cambridge MA is essential for the incumbent of Trinity church Leeds.
Paper 2f
UND/CA1/12e 28 May 1843
Letter from the Revd George Hills, Leeds, to [the warden], regarding Mr Hills' correspondence with the bishop of Ripon about ad eundem degrees.
Paper 4f
UND/CA1/12f 23 December 1843
Letter from [Revd Dr] P[hilip] Wynter, vice-chancellor, [president of ] St John's College, Oxford, to the warden, in which he expresses his personal support for the warden's case.
Paper 2f
UND/CA1/12g 3 February 1844
MS [corrected copy, perhaps a draft of the letter sent by the warden] to the vice-chancellor of [Oxford], asking for ad eundem degrees, with a wrapper.
Paper 5f
UND/CA1/12h 13 February 1844
Letter from [Revd Dr] P[hilip] Wynter, vice-chancellor [of Oxford], St John's College, Oxford, to the warden, as a covering letter for the enclosed copy of the resolution of the [Oxford] heads of houses and proctors (12 February 1844) that the
application of the warden for admission ad eundem be conferred on graduates of Durham
“is premature” in “the present incomplete state of the University of Durham”.
Paper 2f, 2f & envelope
UND/CA1/13 [28 April 1843]
[Contemporary] transcript of arguments on the special case of the bishop of Durham v. Wharton and another held in the Queen's Bench at Westminster Hall on 28 April 1843 before Lord Denman, Mr Justice Patteson, and Mr Justice Williams. The case
concerned an action of ejectment to recover possession of a room in a building called the Exchequer within the precincts of Durham Castle, first brought before the Durham Spring assizes in 1841. The transcript comprises the text of the speech of the
solicitor-general and of his exchanges with the individual judges.
Paper file in soft covers 154p
UND/CA1/16a [?c.1862]
“In the Matter of the Durham University Act, 1861, and of the Ordinances made or proposed by the Commissioners thereby appointed: Appendix to the Case of the Warden, Masters, and Scholars of the University of
Durham”, in the privy council, n.d., printed.
Paper 22p
UND/CA1/16b [?c.1862]
“In the Matter of the Durham University Act, 1861, and of the Ordinances made or proposed by the Commissioners thereby appointed: Appendix to the Case of the Petitioners[,] the Dean and Chapter of Durham”, in the
privy council, n.d., printed.
Paper
UND/CA1/16c 1863
Report of the Commissioners appointed for the purposes of the Durham University Act, 1861 (HMSO), presented to parliament.
Paper booklet 20p
Further copies: UND/CA4/10.
UND/CA1/19a 4 March 1844
Letter from Mrs Mary D. Pemberton of Sherburn Hall, Durham, to the warden of the university about the proposed abolition of the Pemberton fellowship.
Paper 3 items each of 2f, & 3 envelopes
UND/CA1/19b May 1863
Letter from Mrs Mary D. Pemberton of Sherburn Hall, Durham, to the warden of the university against the proposed abolition of the Pemberton fellowship, with MS and printed copies.
Paper 3 items, each of 2f
UND/CA1/20 1864
The Durham University Act 1864 (27 and 28 Victoria, Session 1864); printed by H. Kemshead of Lambeth.
Paper 8p
UND/CA1/23a 12 January 1883
Letter from B.C. Browne to the Council of the College of Physical Science, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with his suggestions as to the conditions on which the title of Civil Engineer and Mechanical Engineer
“to the University of Durham” (sic) should be conferred, based on the precedent of the title Mining Engineeer.
Paper 5f & envelope
UND/CA1/23b 20 October 1886 - 11 February 1888
Letters to the Revd R.J. Pearce, DCL, sub-warden, and others from the clerk to St Oswald's Burial Board, etc., on the subject of the university selling some land to the select vestry for the purpose of enlarging St Oswald's burial ground,
together with a plan of the area (including the land in question), and copies of replies.
Paper file 16 items
UND/CA1/23c 16 November 1886
Opinion of Mr Arthur Charles, Q.C., as to the university granting degrees to females, MS copy.
Paper 2f
UND/CA1/23d 2 March 1887 - 27 February 1888
Letters addressed principally to the Revd Dr R.J. Pearce, St Giles Vicarage (sub-warden of the university) from Hargreaves and Joblin, solicitors, Durham, and others on the subject of the removal of the grandstand of Durham racecourse and the
possible sale of the racecourse by the university to the Corporation of Durham.
Paper file 18 items
UND/CA1/23e 22 November 1890
Letter from Horace Hart, controller, University Press, Oxford, to the registrar of the university of Durham (Mr W.K. Hilton), regarding the cost of printing the calendar of the university, estimating how much it will cost to produce calendars for
1891 to 1895.
Paper 2f
UND/CA1/23f 28 November 1890 & 12 February 1891
Letters from Thomas Caldcleugh, Caxton Works, 70 Saddler Street, Durham to the registrar regarding the estimate for printing and binding the university calendar.
Paper 2f & 2f
UND/CA1/23g 2 December 1890
Letter from Hargreaves and Joblin, [solicitors], Durham, to the registrar, regarding the [correct] use of the seal of the university and the actual mode of sealing.
Paper
UND/CA1/23h 1 February 1892
Letter from Hargreaves and Joblin, Durham, to the Revd Dr Pearce, South Bailey, regarding the present registrar's fees.
Paper 2f & envelope
UND/CA1/25a 8 December 1891
Letter from Hargreaves and Joblin, Durham, to the Revd. Professor Pearce (in an envelope addressed to him at Millfield, Keswick), regarding the effect of Acts of Parliament and an Order in Council (of 1842) about the university's South Shields
estate.
Paper 6f & envelope
UND/CA1/25b 1892
Draft case (drawn up by Hargreaves and Joblin) for the opinion of counsel regarding the university's South Shields estate,.
Paper 3f
UND/CA1/26a 20 June 1855
Transcript of deed poll or declaration of trust as to a building in the North Bailey and Queen Street, Durham for the use of the see and of the palatinate.
Paper 4f
UND/CA1/26b 4 February - 5 March 1886
Letters and copies of six letters from the Land Commissioners, Hargreaves and Joblin (14 Market Place,Durham), the Ecclesiastical Commission, the dean of Durham, and C.T. Whitley to Messrs. Hargreaves and Joblin, Mr W.C. Ward, the Revd. Dr Pearce
(St Giles Vicarage), and an unidentified person [at the university], regarding the Exchequer Buildings.
Paper 6 items
UND/CA1/26c [ ?1885]
Transcript of the opinion of Mr Arthur Charles, 4 Paper Buildings, Temple, London, regarding the Exchequer Buildings, n.d..
Paper 3f
UND/CA1/27a 22 January 1889
[Report] by Hargreaves and Joblin, Durham, for the university, regarding Houghall Colliery; concerns the question of liability for the damage done to the surface lands at Houghall.
Paper 6f
UND/CA1/27b 26 July 1888 - 16 October 1889
Letters regarding the Houghall property: from Hargreaves and Joblin, solicitors, Durham, to the Revd. Dr Pearce; from Joseph Hutchinson, The College, Durham, to the Revd. Dr Pearce; from the dean of Durham to the Revd. Dr Pearce; and from J.H.
Love and partner, Durham, to Joseph Hutchinson, The College, Durham.
Paper 6 items
UND/CA1/27c 2 May 1890
Transcript of questions submitted to counsel (Thomas Ridley, Newcastle) regarding Houghall Colliery, and of his replies.
Paper 3f
UND/CA1/27d 8 December 1890
Invoice of Joseph Furneis addressed to the university of Durham for crops damaged and related papers relating to Houghall Farm.
Paper 5f & envelope
UND/CA1/28a [c.1879 - 1880]
Opinion of counsel (C. Elton) on the case as to fellowship, copy, n.d.; concerns whether a fellow of Durham can hold at the same time a fellowship in another university.
Paper 4f & envelope
UND/CA1/28b 8 January 1880
Letter from J.G. Hargreaves, Durham to Mr W.K. Hilton [the registrar] about a Durham fellow holding a fellowship in another university.
Paper 2f
UND/CA1/29a 13 July 1838
Manuscript extracts from the will of James Barry, gentleman, of the City of Durham, (13 July 1838) (Mr Barry died on 4 November 1847 and probate was granted at Durham on 14 January 1848.)
Paper 6f & envelope
UND/CA1/29b 8 March 1892 - 7 February 1893
Copies of printed papers :
1. Report of committee on Barry Scholarship, n.d. [?1892];
2. Reasons for changes in reference to the Barry Scholarship, 8 March 1892;
3. Letter from R.J. Pearce, sub-warden, to the Charity Commissioners regarding the scholarship, 18 March 1892;
4. Draft Scheme of the Charity Commission re the James Barry Divinity Scholarships, 1892;
5. Scheme of the Charity Commission for the scholarship, 7 February 1893;
6. Copy of sealed Scheme of the Charity Commissioners for the James Barry Divinity Scholarship, 7 February 1893.
Paper 6 items & 2 envelopes
UND/CA1/29c 18 March 1892 - 10 May 1893
Letters from the Charity Commission to the Revd. R.J. Pearce regarding the James Barry Divinity Scholarship Scheme (an annual sum of £30 to provide a 1 year scholarship for an undergraduate Divinity student who shall read aloud 2 essays on the
liturgy or articles of the Church of England in University College chapel before examiners who are to assess the candidate on elocution as well as composition).
Paper 15 items & 1 envelope
UND/CA1/30a 1908
University of Durham Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, ch. 20), 2 copies, printed, different sizes.
Paper 2 booklets, 1 x 20p, 1 x 18p
Other copies: UND/AC2, CA5/7a and CH1/B186.
UND/CA1/30b 22 November 1909
Order in Council, appointing six named members of the university's Senate (under statutes made by the University of Durham Commissioners which provide that six members of the Senate shall be appointed by His Majesty in Council), with a covering
letter from the clerk of the Council to the registrar, 25 November 1909.
Paper 2 items & envelope
UND/CA1/31 [1920]
The University of Durham : Roll of Service 1914 - 1919 (Durham, Thomas Caldcleugh, [1920]).
Listing all university members who served in the First World War, recording their degree, college, rank, unit and decorations, and those wounded and killed.
Paper book, in vellum binding, gilt cover title with university seal viii & 112p.
Open access copy in Durham University Library, Palace Green, at L378.4281 DUR/DUR
UND/CA1/32 1937
“1832 - 1937 Centenary Celebrations July 1st and 2nd : Names of Delegates and Programme of Events” in Durham and Newcastle, printed. (The celebrations were postponed from 1932 on account of the financial crisis and
industrial depression.)
Paper booklet, in card covers, with the university arms in colour 16p
Other copies in UND/AA1/3/2.
UND/CA1/33 May 1950
“Proceedings on 24th and 25th May, 1950 in connection with the Installation of Dr George Macaulay Trevelyan as Chancellor”, printed report detailing the programmes and speeches, in Durham and Newcastle.
Paper 16p
UND/CA1/34 1941
“Statutory Rules and Orders 1941 No. 450 : War Damage : Business Scheme”, printed, 2 copies.
Paper booklet 2 booklets, each 16p
UND/CA1/35 1941
“War Damage Act, 1941 (4 and 5 George 6, ch. 12)”, printed.
Paper booklet 104p
UND/CA1/36a c.1950
Seal of the university of Durham.
Metal plate mounted on a block of wood 1 seal
Size: 128mm diameter
UND/CA1/36b c.1957
Engraved metal printer's plate of the 1957 grant of arms to colleges.
Metal plate 1 plate
Size: 177 x 131mm
For the actual grant of arms, see UND/AA3/1.
UND/CA1/36c c.1957
Engraved metal printer's plate of the 6 college coats of arms in the 1957 grant of arms to colleges.
Metal plate 1 plate
Size: 110 x 210mm
For the actual grant of arms, see UND/AA4/1.
UND/CA1/37 1951
“Congregation Pamphlet”, printed.
Paper 4f
Deed Box 2Reference: UND/CA2Dates of creation: 1833 - 1950
UND/CA2/1a 26 June 1862
Receipt of Charles J Robinson, of Healaugh vicarage, Tadcaster, for £18 8s 10d for his fellowship.
Paper 1f
UND/CA2/1b 1895
Copy of a draft lease by the university of a piece of land, part of Houghall Farm, to E.S. Robson and H.E. Ferens, esqs. (on behalf of Durham City Golf Club), with a covering letter. (The land was for the site for a pavilion.)
Paper 1f & 2f
UND/CA2/1c 1910 - 1920
Notes (quoting minutes) on a few academic and other appointments : - secretary of Council (1910), professor of Latin (1910), the tutorial fellowship of Dr Pace (1910) - (1919), professor of Mathematics (1910) - (1911), lecturer in English
(1920).
Paper 7f
UND/CA2/1d 1913 - 1915
Provisional valuations made by the Inland Revenue of the university's property in Durham, South Shields and Sunderland, and related correspondence, with a plan of Bearpark Colliery.
Paper 1 file
UND/CA2/1e 1922 - 1923
Draft of the university's annual return (student statistics) to the University Grants Committee.
Paper file 4 items
UND/CA2/1f 1923 - 1924
Copy of the university's return (student statistics) to the University Grants Committee, and associated subsidiary papers.
Paper 1 file
UND/CA2/1g 1923 - 1939
[Agenda papers for meetings of the Durham Colleges Council]:
1. Copy deed of the Durham Colleges recognising St John's College 27 February 1923. (Original in UND/F4/AA1.)
2. Abstract from the proceedings of the Arts Committee 1930.
3. Licence to Miss Angel Lawrence Lawrence to conduct a hall of house of residence (St Hild's) 30 January 1934.
4. Durham Colleges printed accounts 1937.
5. Totals of exam candidates in the Durham Division 1937-1938.
6. Minutes of the joint board of Science and Education 18 February 1937.
7. Memorandum re the serious financial situation of the Durham Colleges 15 December 1937.
8. Statement for submission to Court on the needs of the Durham Division, with a draft, [1938].
9. Statement re a public appeal for the university 11 January 1938.
10. Letter from John Beresford, University Grants Committee, about Durham's block grant, 27 April 1938, 2 copies.
11. Durham Colleges regulations, approved 10 May 1938, 2 copies.
12. Report of the comittee on lecture time-tables, 28 October 1938, 2 copies.
13. Report of the Calendar Committee 8 November 1938 with estimates for the Durham College handbook, with a list of numbers to be distributed free.
14. A. Ayton Cowap's memorandum to the Building Committee re alterations to the Union 21 February 1939, 2 copies.
15. Report of the Extensions Committee 28 February 1939.
16. Letter from A.L. Hetherington of the Department of Scientific and Industrial research re a register of Scientific Research Units and Laboratories 27 April 1939.
17. Minutes of the Estates Committee 1 May 1939.
18. Report of the Durham Castle Preservation Committee, 13 June 1939.
19. Durham Colleges Dramatic Society draft new constitution and memorandum.
20. Note of gratuities to be allowed to university policemen, 2 copies.
21. Rights, other than personal, safeguarded by the University of Durham Act 1908.
22. William Barlow and Son catalogues of Evertaut industrial seating and Tan-Sad chairs.
23. Report of the committee on terms of appointment of lecturers, with terms of future appointments of 7 June 1927 and conditions for readerships 25 November 1930.
24. Report of the committee on the government of St Mary's College 2 copies, with a constitution 2 copies, terms of appointment for a principal 2 copies, proposals for a new building, and abstracts of Council minutes re St Mary's 1924-1936.
25. Report of a committee on the government of University College, with conditions for the appointment of the master of University College.
26. Report of a committee on the mastership of University College, with drafts, account extracts and a copy of the
University of Durham Act, 1908, [1932].
Paper bundle
UND/CA2/1h 1927 - 1934
University Library annual reports, with copies, 1927/28, 1928/29, 1929/30, 1933/34.
Paper 1 file
Further copies UND/EA1/A1/1.
UND/CA2/1i 20 March 1929
Statement of the Council of the Durham Colleges re the state of the Durham Colleges to the University Grants Committee prior to their visit, 2 copies.
Paper 2 files each of 5f
UND/CA2/1j 10 August 1929 - 19 September 1931 & 26 October 1937
Letters, some copies, from the Board of Education about state scholarships.
Paper file
UND/CA2/1k 25 November 1931 - 1 February 1932
Correspondence with F. Ritson, Durham Colleges treasurer, about keys to No 13 South Bailey.
Paper file 5f & envelope
UND/CA2/1l May 1934 - October 1936
Papers of the University of Durham Commissioners, including circular letters, memoranda submitted to them (including stock of copies of the Council of the Durham Colleges' printed
“Memorandum of Evidence for the Royal Commission” of May 1934 and “Report of Commission Committee”, April 1936), the bill of 5 June 1935, copies of statutes for the University of
Durham made by the Commissioners, annotated, and copy of drafts of the statutes (prepared by the Commissioners).
Paper bundle
UND/CA2/1m 1 & 22 June 1934
Report by Luxmoore Newcombe (of The National Central Library, London) on Durham University Library, in 2 parts, with covering letters.
Paper file 13f
UND/CA2/1n 4 May - 4 December 1936
Provisional and final agendas, agenda papers, [uncirculated minutes], notes of meetings, and correspondence regarding the meeting of the vice-chancellors of the Constituency [Combined English Universities Constituency], held at Durham on 14
November 1936. (The correspondence is that of the vice-chancellor of the university of Durham, Sir Robert Bolam, with other vice-chancellors, etc.)
Paper bundle
UND/CA2/1o 1938
Rough proof of university of Durham Arts Lecture List, Easter Term 1938 and Michaelmas Term 1938 (the Easter Term's details being amended to provide the details for the Michaelmas Term and being backed with lists of students for Easter 1938).
Paper 2f
See UND/CF4/A1 for the final version.
UND/CA2/1p 9 May 1944
Letter from W.R. Niblett, acting registrar, about the teaching of religious knowledge on Arts courses.
Paper 1f
UND/CA2/2 11 December 1937
Three signed copies of a statement of the chancellor (Marquess of Londonderry), the warden of the Durham Colleges and vice-chancellor (James Duff) , and the rector of King's College and pro-vice-chancellor (Lord Eustace Percy) supporting
representations made by the Durham Colleges.
The statement records that the Court of the university held its first meeting on 7 December when it examined the financial position of the colleges of the university and felt that a full statement of the Durham Colleges' position should be laid
before the local authorities and an appeal made to them to consider the Colleges' present needs. It also states that it is enclosing a letter from the Council of the Durham Colleges, but this letter is not enclosed with the statement.
Paper 3 items each 2f
UND/CA2/3 June 1934 - March 1935
Minutes of meetings of the vice-chancellors of the Constituency [Combined English Universities Constituency], and related agenda papers and correspondence.
Paper file
UND/CA2/4 December 1935 - February 1936
Minutes of a meeting of the vice-chancellors of the Constituency [Combined English Universities Constituency] held at Liverpool on 15 February 1936, and agenda papers for the meeting, and related correspondence.
Paper file
UND/CA2/5 April - June 1937
Minutes of a meeting of the vice-chancellors of the Constituency [Combined English Universities Constituency] held at Reading on 5 June 1937, and agenda papers and related correspondence. (As in previous cases, included are MS notes on the
meeting taken by [the vice-chancellor of the university of Durham].)
Paper file
UND/CA2/6 November 1936 - February 1937
Minutes of a meeting of the vice-chancellors of the Constituency [Combined English Universities Constituency] held at Leeds on 20 February 1937, and agenda papers and related correspondence.
Paper file
UND/CA2/7 November - December 1950
Agenda papers for the Joint Committee of the Academic Board and the Council (of the Durham Colleges) which was formed to prepare for submission to Senate a statement on development and policy prior to the preparation of estimates for the next
quinquennium, 7 December 1950, with statements on
“Development for the Quinquennium 1952/57” by departments and colleges.
Paper file
UND/CA2/8
Now UND/DB2/A1.
UND/CA2/9 1919 - 1927
Bede College affiliation
Correspondence, reports and a draft licence for the affiliation of Bede College to Durham university and proposals to establish courses in education.
Paper file
UND/CA2/10 [? c.1863]
Letter from the secretary of the Durham University Commission to
“Sir” [ ? the warden ] requesting a return of receipts and expenses of the University of Durham for 1862, and asking four specific questions (regarding the South Shields estate, etc.), n.d. .
Paper 2f
UND/CA2/11 31 December 1903 - 31 December 1937
Durham Women's Hostel/St Mary's College (from 1924) balance sheets (signed by the Hon. Auditor) (with a very few gaps), and a few attached covering letters.
Paper bundle
UND/CA2/12a April 1921 - January 1933
Durham Colleges Sunderland Technical Appeal Fund (sic) bank pass book (Barclays Bank, Durham).
Paper booklet
UND/CA2/12b April 1925 - January 1928
Durham Castle Repairs Fund bank pass book (Barclays Bank, Durham).
Paper booklet
UND/CA2/12c November 1934 - March 1935
Bank statements of Sunderland Technical College Appeal Fund (sic), March 1935, and Durham Castle Repairs Fund, November 1934 and March 1935, and receipted cheques paying in the [remaining credit in both accounts] to
the treasurer, Durham Colleges, March 1935.
Paper file
UND/CA2/13a June 1923 - January 1933
Henley Fund Bank pass book (National Provincial Bank).
Paper booklet
UND/CA2/13b [1934]
Henley Fund Trustees draft recommendation to the Finance Committee advocating that the fund be taken over by the university and that the Senate appoint trustees to administer the fund, and appending a history of the fund which notes that the
moneys were collected in 1914 by Mr Theodosius [university registrar] from staff and friends of the university for the purpose of sending a four to the Henley Regatta; with an MS note regarding the transfer of £300 stock, n.d. [?1934]; and a
typescript note regarding the withdrawal of a Stock Certificate, 7 December 1934, in an envelope from the national provincial bank receipting the lodging of securities of the Henley Fund, and 2 blank Inland Revenue forms.
Paper file 6f
UND/CA2/14 1833 - 1877
[Papers relating to the University's Parliamentary Return, 1861, etc.] :-
a. Note of the annual financial sums realised from the sales of property belonging to the South Shields Estate, (1833) - (1888).
b. Approximate Statement of Income of the University derived from property and expenditure chargeable upon the same for 1859, 1860, and 1861, together with a note about this Statement.
c. MS [copy of]
“Durham University : Returns and Memoranda” connected with the Parliamentary Return of 1861 and the Commission of 1865.
d. Estimated income on the South Shields estate on the average of seven years, 1862 - 69
e. Accounts: proctor's account for 1862; tuition fund [account], 1862; warden's secretary [account], 1862 [H.F. Long being the secretary]; University Libraries, 1862; University College and Bishop Cosin's Hall for 1862; University Workshop (for 8
February 1862 - 23 January 1863); and University Chest, 1862.
f. Financial notes regarding expenditure on repairs, 1862 and n.d.
g. [Notes], 1863, for return of income and expenditure for 1862.
h. [Copy of] Statements of Account and Answer to Questions forwarded, 6 May 1863
i. MS drafts of letter ( to ? ) stating that the writer is enclosing the returns requested and the answers which the treasurer has made 'to your questions ', 5 May 1863 (the enclosures referred to are not present with these papers)
j. MS financial calculations, and notes regarding the Order in Council Estate estates of the University, (1868 - 69) - (1876 -77).
Paper bundle
UND/CA2/15 [c.1900]
“University of Durham : Statement of the Needs of the University”, printed, n.d. (This statement is clearly post 1895 and makes a reference to the 'late Professor Heath' of the Newcastle Medical School - ? Professor
George Y. Heath, who held the Chair of Surgery, 1889-1892.)
Paper file 5f
Another copy is UND/CA8/12.
UND/CA2/16 1903 - 1904
Correspondence and notes re amendments to the
Calendar.
1. Letter from E. Robinson at Abbey House to Mr Heawood: he will take up his offer of help as Mrs Thornton will take students to oblige him. 26 September 1904.
2. Notes about suggested
Calendar changes re Convocation.
3-4. Notes of arguments on behalf of the Faculty of Arts against the “entire reconstruction if the University” .
5. Draft statement re the BSc regulation.
6. Letter from Frederick Ritson to the Senior Proctor re payments to examiners for inviglating in Darlington and Ripon on the BLitt.
7. Printed regulatiopns for the BLitt degree, proof from Thomas Caldcleugh.
8. Printed Arts course subjects of examination 1903-1904.
9. Letter from George W. Garrod at Ripon Training College to William Ellershaw: objecting to two separate courses for girls on St Matthew and St Mark.
Paper file, 9 items
Found within a copy of the
Calendar for 1903-1904, 29 February 2016.
UND/CA2/17 6 May 1935
Printed out photograph of UND/CA2/17a
Paper, 1f
Copy of the text, with a thank you letter in reply, in Senate minutes of 14 May 1935
Deed Box 3UND/CA3 1920 - 1947
Papers relating to the annual returns made by the university (in common with other university institutions in receipt of Treasury Grant) to the University Grants Committee.
UND/CA3/1 1921 - 1938
Returns (MS and typescript) of the University of Durham to the University Grants Committee for each academic year, with some related correspondence, and including printed university accounts for 1935/36 to 1937/38.
Paper bundle
UND/CA3/2 1930 - 1931
University of Durham ['s return to the University Grants Committee] on educational work [for 1930/31], typescript copy; typescript copy of one page return of names, designations and salaries etc. of administrative staff ; copy of covering letter
to the U.G.C., November 1931; the U.G.C.'s circular regarding the annual returns for 1930/31 (June 1931); and a very few related papers.
Paper file
UND/CA3/3 1937 - 1938
Returns of the Durham Colleges and King's College to the University Grants Committee for the academic year 1937/38, including printed copies of:
- Durham Colleges Accounts 1938, printed.
- University of Durham
“Building Fund Special Appeal” (October 1938), printed.
- King's College's Statement [concerning educational work etc. during the Session], typescript.
-
“Particulars of Entrance and other Scholarships” for Durham Colleges, printed.
- prospectus for the department of Pure Science for 1937/38, printed.
Paper bundle
UND/CA3/4 1938 - 1939
Returns (including reports on educational work of the University of Durham and of King's College) of the Durham Colleges and King's College to the University Grants Committee for the academic year 1938/39, and related correspondence. Copies of
documents forwarded to the U.G.C. :
- Returns of King's College and the Durham Colleges for Academic Year 1938/39.
- [Prospectus] of
“King's College: The Medical School 1939-1940” (1939).
- [Prospectus] of
“King's College: Dental Department of the Medical School 1939-1940” (1939).
-
“King's College Balance Sheet, Revenue Account… and Subscription Lists”, 31 July 1939, printed.
-
“The Secretary's Report and Treasurer's Statement 1938-39 for the University Union at Newcastle upon Tyne”, printed.
-
“The Secretary's Report and Treasurer's Statement 1938-39 for The Women Students' University Union at Newcastle upon Tyne”, printed.
Paper bundle
UND/CA3/5 1939 - 1940
Copies of papers (principally relating to income and expenditure and estimates) sent to the University Grants Committee in respect of the academic year 1939/ 40, and a little related correspondence.
Paper bundle
UND/CA3/6 1939 - 1940
Copies of returns to the University Grants Committee for the academic year 1939/40 for the university of Durham, Durham Colleges, and King's College (includes printed University of Durham Revenue Account for 1939/40 and Balance Sheet at 31 July
1940, and printed Durham Colleges in the University of Durham Accounts, 1940).
Paper bundle
UND/CA3/7 1939 - 1940
Copies of the returns of King's College to the University Grants Committee for the academic year 1939/40 - principally accounting records (including printed Balance Sheet, Revenue Account…and Subscription Lists, 31 July 1940, and printed
secretary's report and treasurer's statement for the University Union and the Women Students' University Union Newcastle upon Tyne 1939-40, but also including lists of names of staff and their designations). (Does not include student statistics)
Paper bundle
UND/CA3/8 1940 - 1941
Copies of returns of King's College to the University Grants Committee for the academic year 1940/41 - principally financial, but also a list of teaching staff and principal administrative staff, printed King's College Balance Sheet...and
Subscription Lists 31 July 1941, and printed secretary's report and treasurer's statement for the University Union and the Women Students' University Union Newcastle upon Tyne 1940-41.
Paper bundle
UND/CA3/9 1940 - 1941
Copies of papers sent to the University Grants Committee for the year 1940-41; from the University of Durham and Durham Colleges. ( Includes printed University of Durham Revenue Account for 1940-41 and Balance Sheet at 31 July 1941.)
Paper bundle
UND/CA3/10 1941 - 1942
Copies of returns of the University of Durham, King's College, and the Durham Colleges to the University Grants Committee for the academic year 1941/42. (Includes printed University of Durham Revenue Account for 1941-42 and Balance Sheet at 31
July 1942, printed King's College Balance Sheet… and Subscription Lists 31 July 1942, and printed secretary's report and treasurer's statement for the University Union and the Women Students' University Union Newcastle upon Tyne 1941-42.
Paper bundle
UND/CA3/11 1942 - 1943
Copies of returns by the University of Durham, King's College, and the Durham Colleges to the University Grants Committee for the academic year 1942/43. (Includes printed Report by the Court of the University to the University Grants Committee on
Development Policy for the Post-War Period, n.d. [1943]; printed King's College Balance Sheet… and Subscription Lists, 31 July 1943, and printed secretary's report and treasurer's statement for the University Union and the Women Students' University
Union Newcastle upon Tyne 1942-43.)
Paper bundle
UND/CA3/12 1943 - 1944
Copies of the returns by the University of Durham, King's College, and the Durham Colleges to the University Grants Committee for the academic year 1943/44. (Includes printed King's College Balance Sheet…Subscription Lists 31 July 1944, printed
Durham Colleges in the University of Durham Accounts, 1944, printed secretary's report and treasurer's statement for the University Union and the Women Students' University Union Newcastle upon Tyne 1943-44, and printed University Grants Committee :
Returns from Universities and University Colleges in receipt of Treasury Grant, Academic Year 1942 - 43.)
Paper bundle
UND/CA3/13 1944 - 1945
Copies of documents forwarded by King's College and the Durham Colleges to the University Grants Committee for the academic year 1944/45 (Includes printed Durham Colleges, Accounts, 1945 and printed secretary's report and treasurer's statement
for the University Union and the Women Students' University Union Newcastle upon Tyne 1944-45.)
Paper bundle
UND/CA3/14 1945 - 1946
Copies of the returns of King's College, Durham Colleges, and the University of Durham to the University Grants Committee for the academic year 1945/46, and related correspondence. Includes the following printed accounts, etc : University of
Durham Revenue Account for 1945-46 and Balance Sheet at 31 July 1946 (also copy of University of Durham return regarding income and expenditure for 1944-45 (sic)), King's College Balance Sheet…Subscription Lists 31 July
1946, printed secretary's report and treasurer's statement for the University Union and the Women Students' University Union Newcastle upon Tyne 1945-46, and Durham Colleges in the University of Durham : Accounts, 1946.
Paper bundle
UND/CA3/15 1945 - 1946
Copy of the return (1945) to the University Grants Committee on non-recurrent expenditure likely to be incurred in 1945-46.
Paper file
UND/CA3/16 1946 - 1947
Copies of the return of the Durham Colleges, King's College, and the University of Durham to the University Grants Committee for the academic year 1946-47, and related correspondence. Includes the following printed accounts, etc : King's College
Balance Sheet…Subscription Lists 31 July 1947 and Revenue Account and Balance Sheet as at 12 May 1947 of Nafferton Farm, printed secretary's report and treasurer's statement for the University Union and the Women Students' University Union Newcastle
upon Tyne 1946-47.
Paper bundle
UND/CA3/17 1920 - 1927
Certificates of William Alexander Kirkpatrick, comprising:
- University of Cambridge school exam certificates, reports and class lists for the North Eastern County School, Barnard Castle, July 1920 - December 1921.
- letter from the University of Durham College of Medicine about his admission 16 March 1922.
- receipt from D.G Evans and L.V. Clayson private tutors of Newcastle upon Tyne 27 March 1922.
- The Pelman Institute of London work sheet, letter and certificate August 1922.
- General Council of Medical Education certificate of registration as a medical student 17 October 1922.
- Note of his Cambridge exam results from the school at Barnard Castle 28 December 1922.
- Certificates of attendance at lectures at the College of Medicine, March 1923 - June 1927, with certificates of passing his first and second exams for his MB and BS, certificate as a public vaccinator, certificate of attendance at Princess Mary
maternity hospital, Newcastle, and a reference form the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle.
- Printed notes on tumours.
Paper bundle
Deed Box 4UND/CA4 1831 - 1911
[The registrar's] collection of documents on charters and statutes for the university, and other papers concerning its governance and estates; also repairs to Durham castle and the university's programme of extension lectures.
UND/CA4/1a 5 June 1832
“Durham University : A Statement of Fines paid on the renewal of Leases, during the last seven years, of the Properties belonging to the Dean and Chapter of Durham, proposed to be sold or enfranchised for the establishment
of the intended University”, by Andrew Stoddart, printed.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/1b [c.1836]
“Mavins Specification” [for work at Durham Castle]:
1.
“A Specification of the Carpenter's work for the proposed work at the Castle”, n.d. (paper bears watermark of “A Smith 1836”).
2. [Estimate] of Carpenter's work, signed by Geo. Mavin, n.d..
3. [Estimate] of Carpenter's work at an entrance by the Meat Larder, signed by Geo. Mavin, n.d.
4. [Estimate ? or Invoice] of Mason, Bricklayer and Plasterer's work on 1st - 4th Storeys, Front, and 9 chimneys and 11 fireplaces, n.d..
5. Wrapper.
Paper bundle 5f
UND/CA4/1c 1841
“University Estate Account (Orders in Council) Balance Sheet for the year ending 29 September 1841”; noted as found correct by the Auditor ( W.N. Wharton), 30 December 1841.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/1d [? mid/late 19th century]
“University South Shields Estate etc” : [account of the history of the property vested in the Dean and Chapter to apply the rents and profits of the same for the establishment and maintenance of the University, 1832
onwards], referring to the 1832 Act of Parliament and the Order in Council of 15 March 1842 ; n.d., with envelope.
Paper
UND/CA4/1e 1842
Account
“University Seal Note No. 1 22 June 1842” specifying number in schedule, description (of [tenant's name] and property description) and place [almost all in South Shields], years “expd”. (number), and fines (monetary sum), and at the foot a note that Power of Attorney to Messrs. Coutts and Co. for the receipt of certain specified sums; noted (by Charles Thorp) as [presented to]
“Senate June 21 1842 Chas. Thorp. Warden”.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/1f [c.1844]
Copy minute of Chapter, 20 November 1844 (arrangement between the chapter and the university regarding wood); the paper bears the watermark
“J. Whatman 1843”.
Paper
UND/CA4/1g [1880s]
A [proposed new type of] blank printed form for leases of property by the warden, masters and scholars of the university of Durham dated 188_, with an example of [the old type] (2 copies of each); with a covering letter from Richard Peele,
chapter clerk, to Revd R.L. Pearce of 18 July 1888 about the consequences of the proposed change of form.
Paper bundle 5 items, each of 2f, with an envelope
UND/CA4/1h [1890]
1. [Schedule] of Durham University Estates noting ( in columns) acreage, name of tenant, name of farm, gross annual rent for each year 1883-1889, and allowances (total, for all tenants) to tenants during the years (p.a.) 1883-1889; also
[schedule] of annual rent, name of tenant, name of farm, allowances ( stamping agreements, advertising and printing), insurance, new buildings and repairs, fences and roads and work in woods, draining and fendering (sic), and rates (providing a monetary sum for each item); both [schedules] signed by Jas. Hutchinson, The College, Durham, 26 February and 6 March 1890;
2. Covering letter from Mr Hutchinson, 6 March 1890, to the Revd. Dr Farrar, enclosing schedules of university estates showing acreage, annual rent and amount expended in each holding in repairs, insurance, allowance to tenants, work in woods,
fendering, etc.
Paper 2 items of 3f and 2f, with an envelope
UND/CA4/1i [c.21]
[Dr Watkinson's] brief MS. summary list of the contents of CA4/1, n.d.
Paper 1f
UND/CA4/2 4 July 1832
“An Act to Enable The Dean and Chapter of Durham to appropriate Part of the Property of their Church to the Establishment of a University in connexion therewith, for the Advancement of Learning.”, with a schedule
detailing the tenants in South Shields, Westoe and Sunderland, printed.
Paper booklet 10 + 38p
Other copies are at UND/AC1, (open access) L+ 378.4281 GRE and (Durham Cathedral Library) Add Ms 349.
UND/CA4/3a [1831]
Copy of cases and opinions, both by Sir Charles Wetherell, Lincoln's Inn, concerning the application of the university of London for a charter, (29 January and 23 February 1831).
Paper 6f
UND/CA4/3b 2 June 1835
[Supplementary Opinion ] of [Charles] Wetherell, about the need for statutes for the government of Durham university.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/3c 30 December 1835
Copy letter of the bishop of Durham, Auckland Castle, to the bishop of St Davids, stating that it would be very impolitic to moot the question of applying to the government for a charter enabling the chapter to confer degrees
“until we have more insight into the projects and intentions which may be in the contemplation of the Government and of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners”, but suggesting communication with Sir Charles Wetherell and
perhaps with the archbishop of Canterbury on the subject in the meantime.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/3d 9 January 1836
[Draft/copy] letter of [the warden], Durham, on behalf of the Senate, to the bishop [of St Davids, as dean], thanking him for his letter of 30 December 1835 about the application for a charter; there is a MS. note on this [draft / copy] that this
letter was altered and another sent to the same effect to the bishop of St Davids, then dean, who forwarded the accompanying papers to the bishop of Durham.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/3e 1835
MS. draft (with MS. corrections) of a statute for the university of Durham for the opinion of Sir C. Wetherell, drawn up by Poole and Gamlen, Jos. Chaylor, Durham.
Paper file 17f
UND/CA4/3f [1836]
Application to Sir C. Wetherell's opinion respecting a charter -
“transmitted to the Bp of Durham Jan 9 1836” [about the dean and chapter's statute of July last, about the management of the university], copy; written on paper bearing a watermark of “R.
Allford 1830”.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/3g [1836]
Case submitted to Sir C. Wetherell, with reference to the application for a charter, 9 January 1836, corrected copy.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/3h 9 January 1836
Communication to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners from the warden and Senate about the annexation of stalls to offices in the university of Durham, transmitted to the bishop of Durham.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/3i 9 January 1836
[Draft/copy] letter of Revd Temple chevallier, registrar, Durham, to the bishop of St Davids, regarding the application for a charter.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/3j 11 January 1836
[Draft/copy] letter from [Bishop van Mildert, bishop of Durham], Auckland Castle, to the bishop of St Davids regarding the appropriation of stalls to certain offices in Durham university and about the need for a charter for the university; (inter alia, Bishop van Mildert refers to his want of health and leisure).
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/3k 18 January 1836
Copy (addressed to Revd T Chevallier) order [of the dean and chapter] that a return be laid upon the table of the Chapter House on Saturday 23rd inst.[sic; 23 January 1836 was a Sunday] containing the number of
ordinary students admitted in the university of Durham in each year from the opening and other statistics about students (both ordinary and divinity students).
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/3l [1836]
Draft/copy of a return of the number of students admitted to the university of Durham each term 1833-1836, in compliance with the chapter's order, 18 January 1836.
Paper 1f
UND/CA4/3m 4 March 1836
List of members of Convocation; signed by Cha[rles] Thorp, warden.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/3n 12 March 1836
Letter [in the hand of the warden] of the senate to the dean and chapter of Durham about a charter, copy/draft; written on the back of a printed open letter of [the Revd] Arthur Perceval, East Horsley, 16 February 1836, headed
“The Consent of the Clergy in Convocation necessary to give validity to the proposed alterations in ecclesiastical property”.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/3o 20 April 1836
Memorial of the warden and Senate of the university of Durham to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners on the subject of the Commissioners' 2nd report (about the university of Durham), [draft/copy].
Paper 18f
UND/CA4/3p [?May] 1836
Memorial [in the hand of ?the warden] regarding the university, draft/copy; annotated as
“Probably to Lord John Russell May 1836 T.C. Nov. 15 1837” but this statement has been deleted and a note added “No. T.C” [Revd Temple chevallier].
Paper 18f
UND/CA4/3q 14 June 1836
Letter from Dr Smith to the warden about the statute of 20 July 1835 taking no notice of licences to the students in theology to present themselves to the bishop for ordination, draft/copy.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/3r 31 August 1836
Letter from Revd Temple Chevallier, university of Durham, to the bishop of Durham, on the urgent importance of assessing the dilapidations of Durham Castle and suggesting engaging a competent person to examine the castle and estimate the sum to
which the dilapidations would amount, draft/copy.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/3s 31 August 1836
MS. note that at the Senate's meeting a communication was read from Lord John Russell to the warden about the occupation of apartments in the castle by the assize judges and a memorial agreed upon and stating that a letter was sent to the bishop
of Durham suggesting the urgent importance of valuing the castle's dilapidations.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/3t 14 December 1836
Letter from C.K. Murray [Ecclesiastical Commission], Whitehall Place, to the Revd Temple Chevallier, acknowledging the receipt of a plan of Durham Castle and a letter addressed to the bishop of Durham by the Senate of the university, both of
which will be laid before the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/3u 1836
Letter to the bishop of Durham about the castle's buildings and land attached to, draft/copy; [appears to be in the hand of the Revd Temple Chevallier, registrar].
Paper 4f
UND/CA4/3v 29 April 1837
Memorial [in the hand of the warden] by the warden and senate of the university of Durham to Lord John Russell regarding the university charter, draft/copy.
Paper 6f
UND/CA4/3w 30 April 1837
A
“private” letter [? written by the registrar, though not in the Revd Temple Chevallier's handwriting], Durham, to the bishop of St Davids [dean of Durham], respecting a charter, copy; together with another sheet [?
copy of continuation of a letter] comprising the end of a letter to a bishop from the Revd Temple Chevallier regarding the power of the university to grant degrees, n.d. (both sheets of paper are kept together by a piece of a letter pasted together
in a loop).
Paper 3f
UND/CA4/3x 2 May 1837
Letter from the warden on the part of the senate to the bishop of Durham respecting a charter [for the university of Durham]; draft/copy (with alterations made in drafting).
Paper 4f
UND/CA4/3y 20 July 1837
Names of persons (being MAs, B.C.L.s, and BAs of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge) who have received the consent of the dean and chapter to be admitted ad eundem in the university of Durham, copy.
Paper 4f
UND/CA4/3z 20 July 1837
Letter from [? bishop of St Davids, as dean of Durham], Cambridge, to the Revd Dr Ainslie, master of Pembroke and vice-chancellor of the university of Cambridge, (draft/copy, with deletions, etc).
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/3aa 20 December 1837
“Statement re theological students at Durham sent to several Bishops Sent to Bp. of Hereford” (concerns Divinity students at Durham and the examinations of the same, and the grant of a licence to present themselves
to the bishop as candidates for ordination); draft/copy.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/3bb 1834 - 1837
List of persons who have paid fees to the university each year. [This list does not give the amounts paid. It is probable that the persons concerned were benefactors and not students.]
Paper 1f
UND/CA4/3cc [1838]
Mr Hobhouse's opinion as regards the future depository of the records of the palatinate from a letter written on 28 June 1838; also Mr Hobhouse's opinion on the Order of Council regarding the buildings on the Castle Precincts, n.d.; in a wrapper
addressed to the Revd T. Chevallier and marked
“Mr. Hobhouse's Opinion Castle Buildings”.
Paper 4f
UND/CA4/3dd [1838]
Note on subjects of examination for the MA, 1838, and for the examination in theology, 1838.
Paper 1f
UND/CA4/3ee 29 January [1840]
Letter from the bishop of Durham, Auckland Castle, to the Revd T. Chevallier, stating that he encloses an official answer to his letter and making reference to Sir William Follett's opinion and that he has received the warden's letter (about a
communication from Lord John Russell).
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/3ff 29 January [1840]
Letter from the bishop of Durham, Auckland Castle, to the registrar of the university of Durham [the Revd Temple Chevallier], authorising him to debar access to the room (in the Castle Precincts) which the new clerk of the peace lays claim to,
and referring to his (the bishop's) research and meetings with the secretary of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and Mr Henry Hobhouse on the subject.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/3gg 30 January 1840
Copy [by the Revd Temple Chevallier] of his letter, as registrar, to the bishop of Durham, about the steps he has taken in the matter of the claim of the clerk of the peace and his (the registrar's) concern for the university to adopt a
considerate and mild character consistent with the maintenance of a just right (of the university).
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/3hh 22 May [1840]
Letter from the bishop of Durham, 28 Curzen (sic) St., [London], to the registrar of the university of Durham, regretting that the magistrates for the county have misconceived the intentions of the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners as signified by the scheme about the castle of Durham (to restrict the occupation of all buildings within the precincts to those who were then holding office under the palatinate but not to their successors); annotated as
“Bp. of D.'s letter approving the proc-s”).
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/3ii [c.21]
Also [Dr Watkinson's] brief, summary list of the contents of this package (CA4/3), n.d.
Paper 1f
UND/CA4/4 1836
“A Statute enacted by the Dean and Chapter, with consent of the Bishop, for the University, established in connection with the Cathedral Church of Durham; with Regulations passed under its authority, by the Senate and
Convocation of the University” (Francis Humble, printer to the University, Durham).
With a further copy with a bookplate of Leonard L. Hartley esq.
Paper booklet, in marbled boards 40p
Another copy is in Routh 69.D.20/13.
UND/CA4/5a 6 July 1839
Tender of George Dixon, slater, of Durham addressed to the Warden of the University of Durham, to slate the Keep Tower and New Building about to be erected at the University, for a total of £107/15/6d and naming two sureties for the due
performance of the tender.
Paper 1f
UND/CA4/5b 24 August 1839
Bonds of the following persons for due performance of contract for the completion of works at Durham Castle :-
1. George Newby of Dun Cow Lane and Christopher Newby of the head of Saddler Street, Durham, plumbers, and their sureties.
2. William Howe of Queen Street, Durham, carpenter, and his sureties.
3. George Dixon of the New North Road, Durham, slater, (dated only as - August 1839).
Paper 3 items each of 2f
UND/CA4/6a [July 1839]
Tender submitted to the university of Durham by John Forster, mason, for mason's work at the Keep Tower, Durham university.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/6b 5 July 1839
Tender submitted to the university of Durham by Newby and Son, plumbers, for lead work to be done at the Keep Tower and new buildings.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/6c 6 July 1839
Tender submitted to the university of Durham by William Howe, Queen Street, Durham for carpentry work on the restoration of the Keep Tower, Durham, according to Anthony Salvin's plans.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/7 17 April 1850
Articles of agreement for the sale by Thomas Christopher Maynard, gent., of Durham to the university of two rooms in Queen Street, Durham, being part of a dwelling house in his occupation and used as offices, for £300.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/8 15 December 1851
Articles of agreement for the establishment of the Newcastle upon Tyne College of Medicine, MS copy, with MS notes that this copy was compared with the original by the university registrar (Temple Chevallier) on 21 January 1852, and that at the
Convocation of the university held on 27 January 1852 the articles were read and it was agreed that the college be named
“The Newcastle on Tyne College of Medicine in connection with the University of Durham”.
Paper file 10f
UND/CA4/9a [?1862]
“In the Privy Council : In the Matter of the Durham University Act, 1861. And of the Ordinances made or proposed by the Commissioners thereby appointed : Case of the Dean and Chapter of Durham”, n.d., printed.
Paper file 3f
University case: UND/CA4/12.
UND/CA4/9b [?1862]
“In the Privy Council : In the Matter of the Durham University Act, 1861. And of the Ordinances made or proposed by the Commissioners thereby appointed : Case of the Dean and Chapter of Durham”, n.d., MS, with a
note of costs.
Paper file 14f
UND/CA4/9c [?1862]
“In the Privy Council : In the Matter of the Durham University Act, 1861. And of the Ordinances made or proposed by the Commissioners thereby appointed : Appendix to the Case of the Petitioners the Dean and Chapter of
Durham”, n.d., printed.
Paper file 8f
UND/CA4/9d [?1862]
“In the Privy Council : In the Matter of the Durham University Act, 1861. And of the Ordinances made or proposed by the Commissioners thereby appointed. The case of the warden, master and scholars of the University of
Durham. Appendix to the Case of the Petitioner”
With docket title.
18p
This item was originally stored in the Executive Office but has been catalogued here alongside the other printed Privy Council documents from the series
UND/CA4/10 1863
Report of the Commissioners appointed for the purposes of The Durham University Act, 1861, (HMSO), printed, 3 copies.
Paper file 20p
Another copy: UND/CA1/16c.
UND/CA4/11a 27 February 1863
“Return : Durham University (ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 27 February 1863) :...Copy of all Evidence taken by the Durham University Commissioners under the Durham University Act, 1861”, printed
(some loose sheets). “Formerly belonged to F.J. Copeman” and “J.T. Fowler” on the front cover;
- Pasted to the inside front cover are manuscript and printed copies of results of university collections Epiphany 1834 and Midsummer 1834 and Midsummer [ ?1835], providing the names of students and the class in which they have been placed.
- Inserted at p.37 is a note to Fowler from A.S. Farrar of 16 January about adding blank pages to a bound copy for the Commission's report to be copied on.
With another copy, with some notes inserted on the back of a collections paper on St Luke I to V.
Paper book, in paper covers 146p
UND/CA4/11b 20 June 1906
“Draft of an Act to make further provision with respect to the University of Durham”, printed, 2 copies, 1 with annotations.
Paper booklet 20p
UND/CA4/11c ? 1900s
“Brantwood Hall, at Durham : A Sketch of a proposed Hall in the University of Durham, framed after the manner of Ruskin Hall at Oxford”, n.d.; at the head is a note: “for Senate
only”.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/11d July 1903
“A Proposal for a Working-Men's College at Durham” by G.W. Kitchin, warden, printed; at the head is a note: “For Senate only”.
Paper 4f
UND/CA4/11e 1904
“De Bury College for Working Men, 1, South Bailey, Durham” (Co-operative Printing Society Ltd., Leicester), printed prospectus.
Paper booklet 20p
UND/CA4/11f [c.1904]
“De Bury College for Working Men, 1, South Bailey, Durham Do Working Men now care less for Learning than they did?”, by G.W. Kitchin, n.d.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/11g [? late 19th century]
“Reconstitution of the College of Medicine : Proposed Amended Articles of Association of the University of Durham College of Medicine at Newcastle-upon-Tyne”, n.d., printed.
Paper 11f
UND/CA4/11h [ ?1896]
Memorandum to the bishop of Durham from members of Senate appointed by the Durham College of Science regarding the proposed conference to which the bishop has invited the dean and chapter and the Senate, n.d., printed, 2 copies each with
amendments; advocates that the subjection of the university to the chapter be terminated.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/11i [ ?late 19th century]
“Reconstitution of the College of Medicine : Suggested Additions to Proposed Amended Articles of Association”, n.d..
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/11j 16 November 1895 - 23 January 1896
Printed letters from the dean of Durham, Professor W.C. Arnison, Professor G.H. Philipson, the bishop of Durham, and Professor A.S. Farrar regarding the conference which (at the suggestion of the bishop) was planned to be held between the dean
and chapter of Durham and the Senate of the university for discussion of questions bearing on the transfer of the power relating to the government of the university, 1895 -96. (The conference was abandoned as the six canons declined to attend and
the bishop felt it was useless to hold the conference in these circumstances.)
Paper 7 items of 1f, 1f, 2f, 4f, 1f, 1f, 1f
UND/CA4/11k [1896]
Report of the committee appointed by Senate on 11 February 1896 to report on steps to obtain the transfer to the warden, masters and scholars of the university of the powers relating to the government of the university now vested in the dean and
chapter, n.d., printed.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/11l c.1880s
Report of the committee on membership of Convocation, n.d. [post 1879], printed.
Paper 1f
UND/CA4/11m 5 May 1903
“Report of the Committee appointed to consider the Government of the University”, printed.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/11n 6 November 1902
“Report of the Committee appointed by Senate to consider the relations between the University of Durham and University College”, printed.
2 copies, 1 with annotations.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/11o 8 August 1837
Order in Council for appropriating Durham Castle to the use of the university of Durham (gazetted on 8 August 1837), printed.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/11p 5 June 1911
Letter from the bishop of Durham to the registrar regarding the conditions attached to candidature for divinity degrees, duplicated typescript copy, with an attached note calling a special meeting of the Board of the Faculty of Theology on 25
October [1911] to consider the letter.
Paper 3f
UND/CA4/11q 1903
Printed wrapper for
The Oxford English Dictionary ed J. Murray vol.VI part Leisureness-Lynn, published 1 October 1903, labelled as “D.U. Blue Book, etc”.
Paper 1f
UND/CA4/12 [1862]
“In the Privy Council : In the Matter of the Ordinances of the Commissioners under the Durham University Act, 1861 : The Case of the Warden, Masters, and Scholars, of the University of Durham”, n.d., printed.
Paper 6f
Dean and Chapter case: UND/CA4/9a.
UND/CA4/13 [1863]
Case for the joint opinion of Sir H. Cairns, Mr Rolt and Mr Wickers, regarding the powers of the dean and chapter; concerns the establishing of a new faculty or a new school with new degrees, the establishing of new professorships, etc., and asks
them to advise generally as to the powers of the dean and chapter with respect to the university.
Paper 5f
UND/CA4/14 [1865]
Report of a committee appointed by Senate on 6 June 1865 to enquire and make suggestions with regard to scholarships, exhibitions and fellowships, MS; with a note from the university [librarian] E.V. S[tocks] forwarding this report to the
registrar, 29 April 1926. (The original f.2 of the report is missing.)
Paper 6f & envelope
UND/CA4/15 [1871]
Statute of the dean and chapter of Durham to appropriate lands at South Shields in the university free from certain interests and claims of the dean and chapter, 26 June 1871, with a note that this statute was enrolled in the Chancery Court on 15
July 1871, 2 MS copies; with an undated note by R. Storry Deans, 8 Kings Bench Walk, London, regarding the procedure to obtain an extension of the charter (for the university of Durham).
Paper files 4f, 4f, 1f
UND/CA4/16 31 July 1873
Award by Messrs T.F. Hedley, valuer, of Sunderland and Samuel Richardson, land agent, of Durham, in the matter of a reference between Joseph Mordue, gent, of Wallsend and the dean and chapter of Durham regarding property at Wallsend; the award
concludes that £1475 was due from the dean and chapter to the administrator of the estate of the late Mr Mordue for compensation for damage of ground caused by the exercise by John Bowes, esq, and partners as grantees of the dean and chapter; MS
copy.
Paper file 24f
UND/CA4/17a 29 September 1878
Account of receipts and disbursements of the warden, masters and scholars of the university of Durham for the year ending 29 September 1878, and letter and memorandum regarding the Order in Council Estate balance (showing a large surplus) and the
investment of the same, 1 January 1879 and n.d. (The accounts comprise two gatherings of sheets together with two loose sheets.)
Paper file 6f
Previous number 13.
UND/CA4/17b 29 September 1878
Account for the university estate (Order in Council) for the year ending Michaelmas 1878.
Paper file 4f
Previous number 14.
UND/CA4/17c [1878]
Memorandum regarding the Order in Council Estate balance (showing a large surplus).
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/17d 1 January 1879
Letter from A. Beanlands to the dean of Durham about investing the surplus.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/18a 4 June 1878
Valuation and report of estates in and near the city of Durham and elsewhere in the county of Durham belonging to the warden, masters and scholars of the university, Durham, by Samuel Rowlandson, with plans of the estates attached. With a
wrapper.
Paper file 9f & 1f
UND/CA4/18b 18 November 1878
Letter from Mr Rowlandson to the Revd J. Cardill, St Margaret's vicarage, regarding the drainage of a field.
Paper 1f
UND/CA4/19 29 May 1880
“A Statute enacted by the Dean and Chapter of Durham, with the consent of the Bishop of Durham, for increasing the Senate by electing annually one additional member”, manuscript copy.
Paper 3f
Previous number 60.
Original is UND/AB1/24.
UND/CA4/20 10 July 1886
Conveyance by the warden, masters and scholars of the university of Durham to The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England of premises in Queen Street and North Bailey, Durham, known as the Exchequer Buildings; with a covering letter from
Hargreaves and Joblin, solicitors, of Durham to Mr W.K. Hilton, University College, forwarding this duplicate of the deed, 19 January 1887.
(In the margin of the conveyance is a site plan of the property in question. The conveyance bears the wafer seals and signatures of the warden, the dean, and the bishop of Durham, and the wafer seal of The Ecclesiastical Commissioners.)
Parchment & paper 1m & 2f
UND/CA4/21 2 July 1886 - 29 January 1887
Minutes of meetings of the Sunderland Committee [regarding the provision of evening lectures]. Inserted:
press cuttings, letters (to the Archdeacon of Durham, Mr F.B. Jevons, etc), and advertisements of university of Durham evening lectures in Sunderland, also a copy of the report of the committee on the scheme for university evening lectures
(presented to Senate, 2 March 1886), names and addresses of those attending evening lectures in Sunderland (1886), and related papers (including notes regarding evening lectures written on the back of a printed examination paper of Durham university
collections, Michaelmas 1883, requiring the translation of passages of Herodotus IX.
The minutes are prefaced by notes on the history of the evening lectures movement 11 May 1886 onwards.
Paper book, with papers loose and stuck in p.1-29 used only, largely unused
UND/CA4/22a 18 June 1887
Letter from G. Pemberton Leach to White Borrett and Co. on the same subject, regarding Tees Reclaimed Lands Arbitration, copy.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/22b 27 June 1887
Letter from White Borrett and Co., London, to the dean [as warden of the university], regarding Tees Reclaimed Lands Arbitration. (Evidently some land had been reclaimed from the River Tees partly in front of the university estate, the minerals
under which belonged to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.)
Paper 2f & envelope
UND/CA4/23a 13 January 1888
Letter from William L. Newcombe, F.R.I.BA, 89 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, to the sub-warden of the university regarding proposed building sites for the university of Durham, together with two loose [associated] plans (of sites near the
Darlington to Durham road).
Paper 4f, 1f, 1f
UND/CA4/23b 24 November 1887
Letter from Hargreaves and Joblin, solicitors, of Durham, to the Revd Professor Pearce regarding
“ground to which Mr W.H. Bramwell's application refers”.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/23c 27 February 1888
Letter from Hargreaves and Joblin, solicitors, of Durham to the Revd A Robertson, Hatfield Hall regarding the draft of a proposed lease to Mr Bramwell.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/24 December 1890
Case [for counsel's opinion] regarding a small piece of land in the rear of buildings fronting the North Bailey, Durham, conveyed to the university of Durham by the Wetherell family on 15 May 1883, with the opinion of Mr Edward P. Wolstenholme
opposite the questions posed.
Paper 4f
UND/CA4/25 1832 - 1880
A file of printed acts of parliament concerning Durham university entitled
“To be preserved by the Registrar” and “Collected April 8. 1893”:-
1.
An Act to enable the Dean and Chapter to appropriate part of the property of their Church to the establishment of a University in connexion therewith, for the Advancement of Learning, 4 July 1832, 38p.
2.
An Act to carry into effect, with certain modifications, the Fourth Report of the Commissioners of the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues (3 and 4 Victoria, cap. CXIII, 11 August 1840), 28p.
3.
An Act to explain and amend two several Acts relating to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England (4 and 5 Victoria, cap. XXXIX, 21 June 1841), 14p.
4.
An Act to give to the Universities of...Durham, and the Colleges in those Universities...power to sell, enfranchise, and exchange lands under certain conditions... (21 and 22 Victoria, cap. XLIV, 23 July 1858),
20p.
5.
An Act to extend the Provisions of the Universities and College Estates Act (1858)... (23 and 24 Victoria, cap. LIX, 6 August 1860), 8p
6.
An Act to alter the law respecting Religious Tests in the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Durham, and in the Halls and Colleges of those Universities (34 Victoria, ch.26, 16 June 1871), 4p.
7.
An Act to amend the Universities and College Estates Act, 1858 (43 and 44 Victoria, ch.46, 7 September 1880), 4p.
Paper book, in paper covers 116p
Previous number 37.
UND/CA4/26 4 August 1894
Case and opinion of counsel regarding a proposal to hold Convocation occasionally at Newcastle; the opinion answers the questions posed in response to the university council's advisers wishing to seek such a power in the new charter which the
university is to seek.
Paper 3f
Previous number 59.
UND/CA4/27 January 1895
“University of Durham Extension Lectures”, ; an introduction to and list of proposed subjects [syllabus] of courses, printed, 2 copies.
Paper 2f & 2f
Previous number 66.
UND/CA4/28 16 January 1896
“The University of Durham regarding The Office of Sub-Warden: Case for the Opinion of Counsel and Opinion”, printed copy.
2 copies.
Paper file 6f
Previous number 62.
UND/CA4/29a 19 December 1896
Letter to the registrar of the university (Mr W.K. Hilton) from the chapter clerk (of the dean and chapter of Durham) giving their consent to the foundation of a professorship of music in the university.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/29b 4 January 1897
Letter to the registrar of the university (Mr W.K. Hilton) from the bishop of Durham giving his consent to the foundation of a professorship of music in the university.
Paper 2f & envelope
UND/CA4/30a 16 November 1899
Case and opinion for the admission of women to fellowships.
Paper file 5f
UND/CA4/30b 27 October 1899
Letter from Francis E. Joblin to the dean of Durham, warden, saying that women should be able to compete for fellowships.
Paper 2f
UND/CA4/31 [1903]
Charts showing annual numbers of students, printed:
- Students at the Colleges of Medicine and Science (day and non-medicals) 1872-1903
- College of Medicine students from other medical schools and women students 1878-1902
- Students on the various courses at the College of Science 1872-1902
- Total numbers of degrees awarded, and broken down into the various subjects 1870-1902
- Numbers of the various Arts degrees 1870-1902
- Numbers of the various Medicine degrees 1875-1902
- Numbers of the various Science degrees 1873-1902
- Total number of students in residence in Durham, at the individual colleges, and women 1841-1903
- Average totals for the different faculties in Durham, and also at University College, Hatfield Hall and Unattached 1877-1903
Paper file, 4f
UND/CA4/32 [c.1900]
Memorandum on a Proposed Constitution for the University of Durham, printed.
Paper, 2f
UND/CA4/33 [1910] & 1911
The Cranmer Theological College, Burslem, Staffs. printed prospectuses, with annotations
2 paper leaflets, 2f & 4f
UND/CA4/34 [1908]
Draft Report on th eprogress of the University of Durham Bill.
Paper, 2f
UND/CA4/35 1904
British Association for the Advancement of Science, report of its 2nd meeting on 13 May 1904 at Burlington House, Piccadilly, printed by Spottiswoode and Co, London.
Paper leaflet, 12p
UND/CA4/36 1904
De Bury College for Working Men, 1, South Bailey, Durham, prospectus for the proposed college with Dean G.W. Kitchin as [chair] of the provisional committee.
Paper leaflet, 20p
UND/CA4/37 20 November 1900
Extract of a chapter minute about possible alterations ot the university, with a note that 24 copies were to be printed.
Paper, 1f
Deed Box 5UND/CA5 1896 - 1939
Printed papers, some reports and correspondence of the registrar concerning especially the case of Miss Cadell, institutions of chancellors, statutes and acts for the university, secondary schools exams and university staff on service in the
First World War.
UND/CA5/1a 16 August 1902 - 1 September 1902
Copy correspondence between Miss Cadell, her solicitors and Newcastle College of Medicine.
Paper 2f
UND/CA5/1b 12 December 1902
Letter from M.G.I. Cadell to Revd J.T. Fowler naming the examiners at the Newcastle College of Medicine who failed her in April 1901 and decrying her solicitors who no longer act for her, copy with amendments.
Paper 1f
UND/CA5/1c 29 January 1903
Letter from Francis E. Joblin, solicitor, to Revd J.T. Fowler, with enclosed:
- Notice of appeal of 12 November 1902 to the warden and Senate of Durham university by Dr M.G.I. Cadell, with a statement of her case and citing correspondence 30 April 1901 to 7 August 1902, printed.
- Case for the opinion of counsel and opinion of J.G. Butcher and R. Storry Deans of 19 January 1903 in the case of Miss Cadell, copy printed.
Paper file 3 items of 1f, 7f, 5f & envelope
UND/CA5/1d 14 August 1904
Case for the opinion of counsel to advise Durham dean and chapter in the case of Miss Cadell, with the opinion of Mr Gent.
Paper 3f
UND/CA5/1e 30 July 1904
Notice of appeal by Miss M.G.I. Cadell to the bishop of Durham as visitor of the university of Durham against the judgement of the warden in refusing her admittance to an exam, typescript, signed.
Paper 2f
UND/CA5/1f 10 November 1904
Judgement of the bishop of Durham against Miss Cadell, upholding the warden's judgement.
Paper 2f & envelope
UND/CA5/1g 21 March 1905
Letter from J.G. Wilson to W.K. Hilton about the documents and costs of the Cadell case.
Paper 5f & 2 envelopes
UND/CA5/1h 7 June 1905
Letter from J.G. Wilson to W.K. Hilton acknowledging payment and listing and returning:
1. Copy notice of appeal of 28 March 1904 by Miss Cadell against the warden's decision with copy letters from the chapter clerk to her solicitor of 7 November 1903 suggesting that appeal may not lie to the dean and chapter and from her solicitor
to the chapter clerk of 29 March 1904 sending the appeal, 4f.
2. Copy correspondence between Miss M.G.I. Cadell and the Newcastle College of Medicine January 1901 to 15 September 1902 supplied by her solicitor, 35f.
3. The rider to counsel's opinion (in the form of judgement) with red ink alterations and additions made 21 May 1904, 4f.
4. Copy resolution of Durham dean and chapter that Miss Cadell's appeal to them be withdrawn and be made instead to the bishop of Durham as visitor of the university, 4 June 1904, 2f.
5. Notes by the dean of Durham on the Cadell case to be read at the dean and chapter meeting, with a note of 27 May 1904 from the dean to J.G. Wilson asking him to check them, 6f.
Paper file 6 items
UND/CA5/2 17 April 1903
Statute of the dean and chapter of Durham substituting the president of the College of Medicine for the professor of Medicine as a member (ex officio) of the Senate of the university of Durham, printed, 2 copies, 1
noted
“Miscellaneous”.
Paper 2 items each of 2f
Original: UND/AB1/32.
UND/CA5/3 May 1905 - 29 September 1905
Letter from the treasurer to the registrar asking him to read Estates Committee minutes to Senate on 30 September 1905 and present an enclosed report of the Estates and Finance Committee. Also present:
- Report by Herbert S. Squance, F.C.A. [university auditor] on the university of Durham Scholarship and Prize Funds, May 1905, printed
- Opinion of counsel on the Scholarship and Prize Fund, 9 August 1905, typescript copy.
Paper file 25f
UND/CA5/4 [1906]
Memorandum of communications between the City and County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Education Committee and Armstrong College 1905-1906, printed.
Paper file 7f
UND/CA5/5 29 November 1906
Letter from Herbert S. Squance F.C.A. , Sunderland , to the Senate of the university of Durham attaching an amended draft of the financial provisions of the draft Act for the reconstitution of the university, printed.
Paper 4f
UND/CA5/6 12 May 1905 - 14 May 1906
Correspondence between the registrars of the universities of Durham and Oxford regarding the extension of the privileges of the university of Oxford to students in Arts of the university of Durham. (Concerns the recognition of Arts students under
Oxford's statutes Tit. II sect. vi, in particular that Oxford should accept the Durham BA as entitled to the privileges of junior or senior standing. It would appear that Oxford's final decision is not recorded in this particular
correspondence.)
Paper 15 items & envelope
UND/CA5/7a 1908
University of Durham Act, 1908 (8 Edward 7, ch. 20).
2 copies.
Paper booklet 18p
Previous number 8.
Other copies UND/AC2, CA1/30a and CH1/B186.
UND/CA5/7b 19 July 1909
University of Durham Act, 1908 : Statutes made by the Commissioners under the University of Durham Act, 1908 (HMSO).
2 copies
Paper 20p
Previous number 8
Another copy UND/AB2/1.
UND/CA5/8 [c.1910]
“The Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons and the University of London”, printed report, regarding the scheme for conjoint examinations, quoting resolutions of a conference held on the subject at Manchester on
11 December 1909 and the resolution of the Council of the university of Durham College of Medicine in support of the conference's resolutions, n.d.
Paper 2f
UND/CA5/9 1896 - 1912
Printed schemes made by the Board of Education for amending schemes regulating the following schools in Durham, Newcastle, and Yorkshire :-
a. North Eastern County School, Barnard Castle (1909).
b. King James's School, Bishop Auckland (1909).
c. Free Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth, Darlington (1905).
d. Westerman's Foundation, Easingwold, Yorkshire (1910), proof and final.
e. Grammar School, Guisborough (1910).
f. Grammar School, Northallerton (1896) & (1906).
g. Grammar School, Richmond (1909).
h. Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1909).
i. Queen Victoria High School, Stockton-on-Tees (1911).
j. Grammar School, Yarm, Yorkshire (1912).
k. Grammar School, Northallerton (1896).
l. Johnston (Technical School) and other funds, Durham ( [c. 1897]) (
“draft published”).
Paper file 13 reports & envelope
Previous numbers (k) 33 and (l) 34.
UND/CA5/10 11 July 1910
Schemes made by the Army Council for the establishment and constitution of Associations for the Counties of Durham and Northumberland under the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907, 1 for each county, printed; with a letter from the War Office
to the registrar about the scheme for the Norhumberland Association, 21 July 1910.
Paper file 1f, 1f, 2f
UND/CA5/11 1910 - 1911
Letters received by the registrar etc. from the bishop of Ballarat and others, 1910-1911, and from the principal of Ridley College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1911, and related papers (including a copy of Ridley College's
“An Appeal” document (with a plan of the college), [prospectus], and “Provisional Constitution of the College”, and printed extract from university of Durham regulations regarding
the affiliation of colleges to the university, n.d. All in an envelope on which is written: “Adjourned applications for Affiliation from St Aidan's College Ballarat [Australia] and Ridley College Melbourne”.
Paper file 20f
UND/CA5/12 23 January 1913 - 6 May 1913
The Installation of the Duke of Northumberland as chancellor 3 May 1913:
a. Programme for the Installation in at the Great Hall of Durham Castle.
b. Plan of the luncheon table (in Bishop Hatfield's Hall).
c. Printed note regarding the procession to and from the Cathedral.
d. Typescript notes on the order of proceedings.
e. Typescript copies of minutes of the Committee on the Installation of the Chancellor, 23 January, 3 and 20 February, and 4 March 1913.
f. Letter from the duke of Northumberland to the vice-chancellor offering his congratulations on the success of the excellent arrangements made for the ceremony, 6 May 1913.
Paper file 6 items
Further material on his installation isin UND/CD5/A.
UND/CA5/13a 6 February 1914
“University of Durham Powers of Senate in the Matter of Finance”: case submitted to counsel, December 1913, and report of counsel (Edward Jenks, MA) on the case, 6 February 1914, printed.); and copy of printed.
Paper booklet 4f
Formerly numbered as
“65”.
UND/CA5/13b 1913
Report of the committee [of the British Association] on the number, distribution and respective values of scholarships, exhibitions, and bursaries held by university students during their undergraduate course and on funds private and open
available for their augmentation; includes details in respect of both the university of Durham and Armstrong College, along with other universities and colleges in Britain and Ireland.
Paper booklet 20p
UND/CA5/14 June 1914
“June Week at Durham” article by J.H.H. [? Revd. Professor J.H. How], with a note that it was submitted to The Times in June 1914, to appear on 18 June, corrected manuscript and
typescript; also a cutting from [The Times] of this text, though without identifying the author.
Paper file 3 items
UND/CA5/15a 25 July 1915 - 15 December 1915
List of members of staff of the university of Durham serving with HM Forces, 10 September 1915, typescript; with drafts and letters received by the registrar of the university from the Teachers' Registration Council, J.W. Bulleswell of the
University Officers' Training Corps,
The Morning Post and the Universities Bureau of the British Empire about the foregoing and the effects of the war on the numbers of students and staff.
Paper file 19f & envelope
UND/CA5/15b 18 - 22 November 1915
Returns (in response to a request received from the Board of Education) from heads of houses etc. to the registrar (Harold G. Theodosius) of the numbers of men students now in attendance from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, and
the courses they were pursuing.
Paper file 8f & envelope
UND/CA5/16 16 November 1910 - 23 October 1917
Agenda for a meeting of the university's Secondary Schools Examining Body on 29 May 1915 copying a circular letter from the Board of Education on the subject, with 2 draft certificates for General Secondary School Examinations (as on the agenda),
and copy minutes of a meeting (attended by representatives of the university and of Durham County Council's Education Committee) on the inspection and examination of secondary schools held in Durham on 16 November 1910.
Also draft regulations for secondary school examinations to be submitted [to Senate] on 19 June [1915], and a letter from the Board of Education to [the registrar of] the university of Durham regarding application for approval of the university
of Durham as an examining body, 23 October 1917.
Paper file 14f
UND/CA5/17 23 June 1916
Senate minutes extracts, printed, for 7 March and 13 June 1916, regarding the Licence in Theology, Diploma in Theology, BD, and DD; signed by both the acting registrar (Percy J. Heawood) and the bishop of Durham (as visitor of the
university).
Paper 5f
UND/CA5/18a 20 October [1917]
“Proposal to set up a form of Preliminary Examination (Item No.5 C.A.C.T.M.[Central Advisory Council of Training for the Ministry] Agenda October 20)” and “University College, Southampton
(Item No. 5...October 20)”, typescript. In an envelope labelled “Miscellaneous papers about Training for the Ministry 1917”.
Paper 4f & envelope
Previous number: 44.
UND/CA5/18b 1917
E.W. Watson,
The Training of the Clergy in Oxford (1917), printed; a sermon preached in [Oxford] St Mary's on 14 October 1917.
Paper booklet in card covers 16p
UND/CA5/18c 1930 - 1931
Oxford University Examination Papers - Diploma in Theology, Trinity Terms 1930 and 1931, with an extract from the [Oxford University Statutes] regarding the Diploma in Theology, all printed and stamped
“Dawson Walker”.
Paper 18f
UND/CA5/18d 27 July 1932 - 20 October 1933
Minutes, agendas, estimates and resolutions of the Central Advisory Council of Training for the Ministry, nos. 244 -248 and 250 -51, printed.
Paper 14f
UND/CA5/19a 16 March 1917
Report of a conference held at the Ministry of Labour, London, about schemes for finding employment for officers or men of similar education and qualifications discharged from the forces, duplicated typescript.
Paper file 4f
UND/CA5/19b 16 February 1918
Letter from Gilbert Murray, director of Special Inquiries and Reports, Board of Education, to the vice-chancellor, requesting lists of staff now serving in the forces... and others who might be qualified to teach [in the Army].
Paper 1f
UND/CA5/19c [?1917]
Lists of graduates of the Durham Colleges serving with the forces; lists of staff of the Durham Colleges serving with the forces; and lists of staff and students of Armstrong College serving with the forces.
Paper file 10f
UND/CA5/19d 20 June 1917 - 1 September 1917
Letters from the universities of Leeds and London to the registrar regarding the establishment of an advisory committee to confer with the Ministry of Labour on co-operation between appointments boards in the country.
Paper 3f
UND/CA5/19e [1917]
“Ministry of Labour Professional and Business Register : Employment of Invalided and Discharged Officers : draft scheme for co-operation with University Appointments Boards”, and notes on the draft scheme for
co-operation.
Paper 4f
UND/CA5/20 1918
School Teachers (Superannuation) Act, (8 and 9 George 5, ch. 55), printed.
Paper booklet 14p
UND/CA5/21 4 June 1927
“Statutes to alter and supplement the Statutes in relation to the Durham Division of the University of Durham made under The University of Durham Act 1908 (1921)”, printed, with a covering letter from Francis E.
Joblin, solicitor, Durham, to the registrar.
Paper 3f
Previous number: 57.
UND/CA5/22 1922
Commission of the chancellor [The Earl of Durham] for the appointment of the Lord Chief Justice of the colony of Sierra Leone or failing him the Colonial Secretary for the colony as a deputy visitor of Fourah Bay College, typescript [draft].
Paper 1f
UND/CA5/23 1925
“Colony of Sierra Leone: Correspondence relating to the Proposed Sierra Leone College of Agriculture and Protectorate Teachers' Training College at Njala (Sessional Paper no.13 of 1925 )”.
Paper booklet, in paper covers 28p
Previous number: 67.
UND/CA5/24a 20 May 1931
Programme for the installation of the chancellor [the Marquess of Londonderry].
Paper booklet 4f
UND/CA5/24b 20 May 1931
Programme for the conferment of honorary degrees (at the installation ceremony).
Paper 2f
UND/CA5/24c 25 April 1931
Standard letter of the registrar sent in enclosing a ticket for the meeting of Convocation on 20 May 1931.
Paper 1f
UND/CA5/24d 19 May [1929]
Letter from [Mrs] Mary Bridge, St Albans, to the registrar, sending copies [which are not in the packet] of the ode composed by her late husband [Professor J.C. Bridge, Professor of Music from 1908 until his death in 1929], in 1913 and offering
to present the copyright of the music to the University, together with a note regarding the Senate's acceptance of this gift.
Paper 3f
UND/CA5/25 15 November - 2 December 1932
Programme of
“A Conference of Universities The obligation of universities to the social order” at the Waldorf - Astoria, New York, 15 -17 November 1932; with a programme of the dinner session, 17 November 1932, listing all the
delegates, and a copy of the newspaper Business Machines, New York, 2 December 1932, reporting on the conference. (Dr H.D. Senior was the university of Durham's delegate at the conference.)
Paper file 3 items
See a list of attendees for the dinner at UND/CA8/16n.
UND/CA5/26 May 1933
“University of Durham College of Medicine, Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Report of Inquiry held in February and March 1933 at the request of the Chancellor of the University by Sir Amherst Selby-Bigge, Bt., K.C.B.”,
printed. Concerns the case of the termination of the employment of Professor H.J. Hutchens, professor of Comparative Pathology at the College of Medicine.
Paper booklet 52p & envelope
Previous number: 41.
E.M. Bettenson, “The Hutchens Affair”, Durham University Journal (New Series Vol. XLIII No.2, June 1982), p.159-198.
UND/CA5/27 12 January 1937
“Statutes for the University of Durham, and for the Durham and Newcastle Divisions thereof, made by the University of Durham Commissioners appointed by the University of Durham Act, 1935”, printed. (Inter alia, these statutes provided that the court should establish university offices in both the City of Durham and the City of Newcastle, that there should be a registrar of the university and that he should be secretary of
both the Court and Senate.)
Paper booklet 34p
Previous number: 5.
Another copy: UND/AB2/3.
UND/CA5/28 1935
Royal Commission on the University of Durham : Report (Cmd.4815, HMSO, 1935); the commission was chaired by Lord Moyne. 2 copies.
Paper booklet, in paper covers 96p
Futher copies are accessible in Durham: (University Library at Palace Green) L378.4281 DUR/GRE, PamXL 378.4281 GRE; (University Education Library) 378.42865 REP; (Chapter Library) L378.4281 ROY.
UND/CA5/29 5 June 1935
A Bill intituled An Act to make further provision with respect to the University of Durham and its constituent divisions and colleges (HMSO, June 1935), being the University of Durham Bill as ordered to be printed by
the House of Lords. It provides, inter alia, for named commissioners to be appointed.
Paper booklet 10p
Previous number: 9
Another copy: UND/AC3.
UND/CA5/30 [1936]
“1st Draft of Proposed Statutes for the University of Durham prepared by the University of Durham Commissioners”, printed, 2 copies, 1 annotated and marked “Print this copy”.
Paper file 2 items, each of 30f
UND/CA5/31 8 June 1935
Print of the impression of the university of Durham's seal, together with a covering letter from the printer to the university, University Press Oxford, to the registrar, stating that the [printer's] block of the seal is being sent to the
latter.
Paper 2f & envelope
UND/CA5/32 22 June 1936
Language: Latin and English
Latin address of the university of Durham to the university of London on the occasion of the latter's centenary, July 1936, printed (but unsigned) [proof of]; with a covering letter from Andrew Reid, printers, etc., Newcastle upon Tyne, to the
registrar. Evidently Sir Robert Bolam, the vice-chancellor, was to represent the university of Durham at the ceremonies.
Paper 2f
UND/CA5/33 20 December 1939
Sealed copy of the order (
“The Universities and Colleges (Temporary Provisions) Order, 1939”) allowing emergency statutes to be made for the universities of...Durham.., printed and signed.
Paper file, tied with green silk ribbon and a paper seal applied 8p
UND/CA5/34 2 February & 28 October 1937
Board of Education Schemes relating to the James Barry Divinity Scholarship, Durham University, 2 February 1937 and to the Queen Victoria High School, Stockton-on-Tees, 28 October 1937.
Paper 2f
UND/CA5/35 29 July 1937
Appointment by the privy council of Professor J.F. Duff and, as from 6 September 1937, the Rt. Hon. Eustace S.C. Percy, commonly called Lord Eustace Percy, to be respectively warden of the Durham Colleges and rector of King's College, Newcastle,
in the University of Durham, embossed seal
Paper 1f
UND/CA5/36 March - 7 June 1937
Latin address from the university of St Andrews inviting a delegate of [the university of Durham] to attend celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the founding of St Mary's College on 27 -28 September 1937, signed by the vice-chancellor with an
embossed seal, and associated notes about the celebrations.
Paper 5f & envelope
UND/CA5/37 20 December 1939
“Statutory Rules and Orders 1939 No. 1855 : Chartered and Other Bodies (Temporary Provisions) English and Welsh Universities : The Universities and Colleges (Temporary Provisions) Order, 1939”, printed.
Paper booklet 8p
Previous number: 11.
Deed Box 6UND/CA6 1935 - 1963
Durham University students' degree parchments. These were degree certificates, generally for pass degrees, which were returned by students to be replaced by new ones as they had added further subjects to their degree. Occasionally the parchments
are endorsed with the details of the new award and occasionally there is also supporting correspondence. The parchments are organised by college, with the great majority being for King's College where a number of the students added further
disciplines to their BSc degrees. These certificates were on parchment until 1958 when paper was introduced. There is also a quantity of blank certificates for all types of degrees and certificates, including honorary degrees.
UND/CA6/1 [28 June 1935] - 20 December 1954
Degree parchments:
a. Vivienne Nova Philpott [of Armstrong College], MA, [28 June 1935]; signed by the chancellor (the Marquess of Londonderry) and the registrar.
b. Copy of the above degree parchment, dated 20 December 1954, noting that the
“original issued 28 June 1935”; not signed by the chancellor or the registrar.
c. Instructions for writing parchments [November 1953].
Parchment 3 items, a & b each of 1m, c of 3f
UND/CA6/2 26 March 1943 - 29 June 1951
Bede College students' degree parchments, signed by the chancellor (The Marquess of Londonderry's own handwriting, 1943 and 1944; in the case of Dr G.M. Trevelyan his signature is reproduced from a rubber stamp) or the vice-chancellor and also by
the registrar or the acting registrar.
Parchment 19 items, each of 1m
CLOSED FOR 80 YEARS UNDER THE UK DATA PROTECTION ACT (2018)
UND/CA6/3 29 June 1948 - 1 July 1960
St Cuthbert's Society students' degree parchments
Parchment 5 items each of 1m
CLOSED FOR 80 YEARS UNDER THE UK DATA PROTECTION ACT (2018)
UND/CA6/4 24 June 1941 - 1 February 1963
Fourah Bay College students' degree parchments, signed by the chancellor and the registrar with the exception of the 1963 parchment which is unsigned
Parchment & paper 7 items, each of 1m
CLOSED FOR 80 YEARS UNDER THE UK DATA PROTECTION ACT (2018)
UND/CA6/5 11 July 1944 - 6 July 1962
Hatfield College students' degree parchments; the 1962 parchment is not signed by the chancellor or the secretary of Senate
Parchment, occasional paper 15 items
CLOSED FOR 80 YEARS UNDER THE UK DATA PROTECTION ACT (2018)
UND/CA6/6 1 July 1955
St Hild's College student's degree parchment; unsigned
Parchment 1m
CLOSED FOR 80 YEARS UNDER THE UK DATA PROTECTION ACT (2018)
UND/CA6/7 2 July 1954
St John's College student's degree parchment; signed by the chancellor (Dr G.M. Trevelyan, in the form of a stamped impression of his signature) and the registrar
Parchment 1m
CLOSED FOR 80 YEARS UNDER THE UK DATA PROTECTION ACT (2018)
UND/CA6/8 11 July 1944 - 3 July 1959
St Mary's College students' degree parchments; signed by the chancellor and the registrar
Parchment, 1 mounted on card 3 items, each of 1m
CLOSED FOR 80 YEARS UNDER THE UK DATA PROTECTION ACT (2018)
UND/CA6/9 29 June 1935 & 23 December 1943
College of Medicine students' degree parchments; signed by the chancellor and the registrar
Parchment 2 items each of 1m
UND/CA6/10 11 July 1944 - 14 December 1963
Sunderland Technical College students' degree parchments, mostly signed by the chancellor and the registrar
Parchment & paper 40 items, 39 of 1m and 1 of 3f
CLOSED FOR 80 YEARS UNDER THE UK DATA PROTECTION ACT (2018)
UND/CA6/11 26 March 1943 - 2 July 1954
University College students' degree parchments
Parchment 18 items, each of 1m
CLOSED FOR 80 YEARS UNDER THE UK DATA PROTECTION ACT (2018)
UND/CA6/12a 30 June 1943 - 6 July 1963
King's College students' degree parchments A-E
Parchment, occasional paper 116 items
CLOSED FOR 80 YEARS UNDER THE UK DATA PROTECTION ACT (2018)
UND/CA6/12b 18 December 1942 - 6 July 1963
King's College students' degree parchments F-L
Parchment, occasional paper 101 items
CLOSED FOR 80 YEARS UNDER THE UK DATA PROTECTION ACT (2018)
UND/CA6/12c 18 December 1942 - 6 July 1963
Parchment, with some paper 163 items
King's College students' degree parchments M-W
CLOSED FOR 80 YEARS UNDER THE UK DATA PROTECTION ACT (2018)
UND/CA6/13 c.1960
Blank degree certificate: BSc Applied Science in _, to be signed by the chancellor and secretary of Senate. 2 copies.
Paper 2 items, each 1f
UND/CA6/14 c.1960
Blank degree certificate: BSc _ Class Hons. in _, to be signed by the chancellor and secretary of Senate. 2 copies.
Paper 2 items, each 1f
UND/CA6/15 c.1960
Blank degree certificate: BSc Agriculture, to be signed by the chancellor and secretary of Senate. 2 copies.
Paper 2 items, each 1f
UND/CA6/16 c.1960
Blank degree certificate: BA _ Class Hons. in _, to be signed by the chancellor and secretary of Senate. 2 copies.
Paper 2 items, each 1f
UND/CA6/17 c.1960
Blank degree certificate: BSc Applied Science _ Class Hons. in _, to be signed by the chancellor and secretary of Senate. 2 copies.
Paper 2 items, each of 1f
UND/CA6/18 c.1960
Blank degree certificate: MB and BS, to be signed by the chancellor and secretary of Senate. 2 copies.
Paper 2 items, each of 1f
UND/CA6/19 c.1960
Blank diploma certificate: to be signed by the chancellor and secretary of Senate. 2 copies.
Paper 2 items, each of 1f
UND/CA6/20 c.1960
Blank certificate: licentiate in Dental Surgery, to be signed by the chancellor and secretary of Senate. 2 copies.
Paper 2 items, each of 1f
UND/CA6/21 c.1960
Blank degree certificate: BDS., to be signed by the chancellor and secretary of Senate. 2 copies.
Paper 2 items, each of 1f
UND/CA6/22 c.1960
Blank degree certificate: BSc General, to be signed by the chancellor and secretary of Senate. 2 copies.
Paper 2 items, each of 1f
UND/CA6/23 c.1960
Blank degree certificate: BSc General _ Class Hons. in _, to be signed by the chancellor and secretary of Senate. 2 copies.
Paper 2 items, each of 1f
UND/CA6/24 c.1960
Blank degree certificate: to be signed by the chancellor and secretary of Senate. 2 copies.
Paper 2 items, each of 1f
UND/CA6/25 c.1960
Blank degree certificate: BSc Applied Science General, to be signed by the chancellor and secretary of Senate. 2 copies.
Paper 2 items, each of 1f
UND/CA6/26 c.1960
Blank degree certificate: BSc Applied Science General Hons., to be signed by the chancellor and secretary of Senate. 2 copies.
Paper 2 items, each of 1f
UND/CA6/27 c.1960
Blank certificate: certificate in Biblical Studies, to be signed by the chancellor and secretary of Senate. 2 copies.
Paper 2 items, each of 1f
UND/CA6/28 c.1960
Blank certificate: certificate in Social Studies, to be signed by the chancellor and secretary of Senate. 2 copies.
Paper 2 items, each of 1f
UND/CA6/29 c.1960
Blank honorary degree certificate at a congregation on _, to be signed by the secretary of Senate. 2 copies.
Card 2 items, each of 1f
UND/CA6/30 c.1960
Blank degree certificate: BSc Agriculture _ Class Hons., to be signed by the chancellor and secretary of Senate. 2 copies.
Paper 2 items, each of 1f
Deed Box 7UND/CA7 1837 - 1902
A small group of papers of former students - claims against the university and certificates.
A number of items have been transferred elsewhere within the university archive (January 2005):
CA7/2 is now F1/B1/1 (University College Council minute book 1834-1873).
CA7/3 is now CI1/1 (Proctor's grace book for Codrington & Fourah Bay 1877-1936).
CA7/7 is now BD1/1 (Faculty of Letters minute book 1898-1906).
CA7/8 is now BA5/1 (Board of Faculties minute book 1900-1910).
CA7/9 is now BD2/1 (Faculty of Arts minute book 1901-1911).
CA7/10 is now BA3/A1 (Colleges Council minute book draft 1911-1913).
UND/CA7/1 1837
Photocopy of
A Statute enacted by the Dean and Chapter, with consent of the Bishop, for The University, established in connexion with the Cathedral Church of Durham; and Regulations passed under its authority, by the Senate and Convocation
of the University (Durham, 1837).
Paper booklet, in grey card covers 6f
UND/CA7/4a [c.1880]
Notes [by an unnamed person, probably a member of staff of the university or in the university's employ] on the university student career and subsequent claims of the Revd. Walker Featherstonhagh, who entered the university and University College
in October 1837 as a student in Arts and subsequently claimed for caution money which he stated had not been returned to him, n.d..
Paper 4f
UND/CA7/4b 22 October 1881
Letter (in effect a statement) from J.G. Hargreaves, 47 North Bailey, to Mr W.K. Hilton, The Castle, regarding the possibility of prosecuting an appeal in the case of Mr Featherstonhagh, and covering letter of the same date from Mr Hargreaves to
Mr Hilton in which he personally expresses the opinion that there is not any strong hope of a successful result if such an appeal against the ruling of the County Court judge who had found in Mr Featherstonhagh's favour was launched.
Paper 6f
UND/CA7/4c 18 October 1882
Invoice of J.G. Hargreaves to the university for £20 paid for Mr Featherstonhagh's caution money and £16/12/- paid for his solicitor's costs as allowed on taxation; receipted.
Paper 1f
UND/CA7/4d 18 October 1882
Invoice of J.G. Hargreaves to the university for work undertaken 2 November 1880 - 16 November 1881 in connection with Mr Featherstonhagh's claim for caution money paid by him over thirty years ago and which it was presumed had been returned to
him; receipted. Also covering letter from Mr Hargreaves to Mr Hilton, same date.
Paper 9f & envelope
UND/CA7/5a September 1883 - 10 December 1902
Degree and other certificates of Bt. Lt-Col. Henry Jules Parry, CBE, DSO, RAMC (1867-1944) (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor in Surgery, 1888), all being of the University or its College of Medicine unless otherwise noted below; there is a brief
entry for Col Parry in
Who Was Who, 1941 - 1950, indicating, inter alia, that he served in both South Africa, 1899 - 1902, and the First World War, 1914 -19.
1. Certificate of registration as a student in the Faculty of Medicine, n.d.
2. Certificate of passing Registration Examination of Medical Students in English Grammar, Latin Grammar, French, etc., September 1883.
3. Medical student's registration certificate (issued by the Medical Council Office, London), 6 October 1883.
4. Certificate of passing the 1st examination for the degree of Bachelor in Medicine, 27 July 1885.
University of Durham College of Medicine certificates (awarded as a result of the results of examinations in classes of the Medical School) :-
5. Physiology (Silver Medal and Certificate of Honour), 1 October 1885.
6. Pass in Anatomy, Physiology, and Materia Medica with Pharmacy, 30 April 1886.
7. Medical Jurisprudence (Certificate of Honour), 1 October 1886.
8. Physiology (Silver Medal and Certificate of Honour), 1 October 1886.
9. Anatomy (Certificate of Honour), 1 October 1886.
10. Dissection (Silver Medal and Certificate of Honour), 1 October 1886.
11. Pathology (Silver Medal and Certificate of Honour), 4 October 1887.
12. Surgery (Silver Medal and Certificate of Honour), 4 October 1887.
13. Pathology (Certificate of Honour), 4 October 1887.
14. Operative Surgery (Silver Medal and Certificate of Honour), 4 October 1887.
(None of the medals referred to are to be found with these certificates)
15&16. University of Durham degree certificates : Bachelor in Surgery, and Bachelor of Medicine, both dated 19 June 1888.
17. Regional Anatomy (prize of books and honours certificate), 2 October 1888.
18. Medicine (prize of books and honours certificate), 2 October 1888.
19. Medicine, Surgery, Midwifery and Pathology (The Dickinson Scholarship and a Gold Medal), 2 October 1888.
20. Principles and Practice of Medicine (The Charlton Scholarship), 2 October 1888.
21. Royal College of Physicians of London: licence to practice Physic [LRCP], 30 January 1890.
22. Royal College of Surgeons of England: admission to membership [MRCS], 13 February 1890.
23. The Middlesex Hospital Medical School : certificate that [Major Henry J. Parry, R.A.M.C.] had attended an advanced course of Operative Surgery, 10 December 1902.
Paper and parchment 15 parchment items, each of 1f, 2 with pendant wafer seals, 8 paper items, each of 1f
UND/CA7/5b 20 June & 1 November 1901
Notes by T. Herbert Bindley, on the embossed headed notepaper of Codrington College, that :
1. George Paterson prays for the grace for the Licence in Theology to be granted, 20 June 1901.
2. James A. Brathwaite petitions for grace of Convocation to allow the degree of BA to be conferred on him at Codrington College by the visitor, 1 November 1901.
Paper 2f
UND/CA7/6 28 April 1894
Degree certificate of Daniel McClure Ross, Doctor of Medicine, signed by the registrar, Mr W.K. Hilton. With an attached note from Dr Ross
“When I die intimation with the date therof is to be sent to the Registrar, University of Durham and this degree (sic) is to be returned to him”.
Parchment & paper 1f of each, with envelope
Deed Box 8Reference: UND/CA8Dates of creation: c.1820 - 1968
A number of items have now (February 2005) been transferred elsewhere within the university archive:
CA8/3 is now GD4/C1 (Durham Colleges Athletics Club secretary's file 1922-1948)
CA8/4 is now GD3/B1 (Durham Women's Union Society sports club account book 1935-1946)
CA8/5 is now GD3/B2 (Durham Women's Union Society sports treasurer's account book 1936-1946)
UND/CA8/1 [1912]
Request by the president and trustees of The Rice Institute (Houston, Texas) to the university of Durham to send a representative to be a guest on 10 - 12 October 1912, in connection with the formal opening of the new university, signed by the
president Edgar O. Lovett and bearing the arms and seal of [the Institute].
(Rice University, Houston, Texas, was established as the William Rice Institute and chartered in 1891. In 1912 it first offered instruction at post-secondary level.)
Parchment 1m
Formerly numbered 25.
UND/CA8/2 25 March 1918
University of Durham War Roll, being a Supplement of the Durham University Gazette, vol. II, no. 16A. Provides both a list of graduates and undergraduates of the University who are
serving with HM Forces and the unit to which they belong, and also a list of persons who are not members of the University but were cadets of the Durham University O.T.C..
Paper booklet, in paper covers 58p
Another copy is in the
Durham University Gazette on the open shelves in the Local Collection at LL 053.784281 DUR.
UND/CA8/6 1945 - 1947
File for a lecture on
“The Work and Aims of the National Register of Archives” to be given by Prof. A. Hamilton Thompson and Lt.Col. G.E.G. Malet in Cosin's Library on 12 March 1947 under the chairmanship of Dr J.F. Duff, warden of
Durham Colleges, including:
a. Printed invite.
b. Printed brochure
The National Register of Archives (HMSO, 1945).
c. List (by the National Register of Archives)) of known private owners of archives in the County of Durham, 1946.
d. List of
“known helpers” in Co Durham.
e. List of private owners of archives in Co Durham mentioned in publications.
f. List of private owners of manorial and other archives in Co Durham.
g. List of names and addresses of agents (land, house and estate agents), colliery owners, shipbuilders, newspapers, brewers, etc.(in Co Durham) [to send invites to].
h. Fliers for a lecture on
“The House and Household in the 16th Century” to be given in 1947 by Miss H.F.M. Prescott, and other A.A.S.D.N. lectures.
Paper 1 file
Many of the pages are damaged by damp in the centre.
UND/CA8/7 1 October 1945
“List of Electors of the University of Durham to come into force on October 1st, 1945” [1945], printed.
Drawn up for the purposes of the Combined English Universities Constituency.
Paper file 374p
UND/CA8/8 1 October 1947
“List of Electors of the University of Durham to come into force on October 1st, 1947” [1947], printed.
Drawn up for the purposes of the Combined English Universities Constituency.
Paper file 416p
UND/CA8/9 August 1967 - July 1968
Records of the amount of various sizes of paper used in various departments and colleges over the academic year, figures both by department/college and overall monthly.
Paper 1 file
UND/CA8/11 [1909]
“Reconstitution of the College of Medicine : Proposed New Articles of Association of the University of Durham College of Medicine at Newcastle-upon-Tyne”, printed, n.d. (in an envelope addressed to the registrar of
the university of Durham and franked at Newcastle, 5 March [19]09.)
Paper booklet 13f + envelope
Formerly numbered
“68”.
UND/CA8/12 [c.1900]
“University of Durham : Statement of the Needs of the University”, printed, n.d. (This statement is clearly post 1895 and makes a reference to the 'late Professor Heath' of the Newcastle Medical School - ? Professor
George Y. Heath, who held the Chair of Surgery, 1889-1892.)
Paper booklet 10p
Another copy is UND/CA2/15.
UND/CA8/13 [?1936]
a. Undertaking of the university of Durham, in agreeing to become an ordinary member of the Universities Bureau of the British Empire, to observe all the regulations of the association and nominating Sir William Marris (principal of Armstrong
College, Newcastle) as its representative, n.d. (the university's seal is embossed on this document.)
b.
“Draft of Universities Bureau of the British Empire Articles of Association”, printed, n.d. .
Paper 1f + 12f + envelope
UND/CA8/14 [c.1820]
“Instrument of Foundation and Statutes of the Missionary Institution of the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, to be called and known as Bishop's College near Calcutta”, n.d.
(though the watermark reads “J. Whatman 1819”), manuscript [?draft], with later manuscript amendments.
Bishop's College was founded by Thomas F. Middleton (1769-1822), Bishop of Calcutta, in 1820. This copy of its statutes may possibly have been acquired by Bishop Van Mildert from Middleton, with whom he was in correspondence 1815-1819 (see DUL
Add MSS 137-142), as a possible model for those of Durham university.
Paper file 32f
UND/CA8/15 1932
University of Rangoon : New Buildings (London, 1932); a pictorial record of the completion of the new buildings, with a plan of the site.
Paper booklet, in soft card covers, with the university coat of arms 42p
Formerly numbered
“17”.
UND/CA8/16a 1831 - 1834
Photocopy of pages from [the minutes of the Dean and Chapter of Durham] regarding the establishment of the university.
Paper file 10f
UND/CA8/16b June 1841 - June 1842
Observatory accounts of Revd T. Chevallier, treasurer.
Paper notebook, mostly unused
UND/CA8/16c 18 June 1898
Letter from John Gibson, chapter clerk, Durham, to W.K. Hilton, registrar of the university of Durham, transcribing the 11 June 1898 opinion of the dean and chapter's solicitor and agreeing to the university's request to add to the number of
documents already handed over to the university the book entitled
“The University Renewal Book” (already with the university on loan).
Paper 2f
UND/CA8/16d 27 September 1905
Letter from Walter Spicer, secretary of the University of Durham Lodge No. 3030 (London) to W.K. Hilton, registrar of the university of Durham stating that the lodge has agreed to found a scholarship or bursary in the university of Durham for
freemasons or sons or daughters of freemasons, of the annual value of £15 for three years.
Paper 1f
UND/CA8/16e 13 February 1907
Letter from Handley Henson, bishop of Durham, to the registrar of the university of Durham regarding the draft of an Act for the university of Durham.
Paper, black-edged 4f
UND/CA8/16f [?early 20th century]
“University of Durham Proceedings in Convocation”, printed, n.d.; provides information on the general procedure to be followed, formulae to be used, etc.
Paper 4f
UND/CA8/16g 20 November 1915
Authorisation by the Local Government Board of Dr William Hanna [School of Hygiene, University of Liverpool] to give certificates of due qualification in the practice of vaccination to any person(s) after due instruction and examination by him at
the School of Hygiene, Liverpool, printed.
Paper 2f
Formerly numbered
“52”.
UND/CA8/16h September 1917
Letter from Mark F. Cahill, Belfast, to [? the registrar] regarding professional training or re-education of disabled men which the Ministry of Pensions has instructed Local War Pensions Committees to prepare and administer.
Paper 2f
UND/CA8/16i c.1920
Two photos of the obverse and reverse of a commemorative medal of the University of Paris relating to the War years, 1914 - 1918, and inscribed
“Scientia Instrumentum Justitiae...”
Paper 2 BW prints
UND/CA8/16j June 1919
Correspondence with the private secretary of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig regarding the conferment of the honorary degree of DCL on the Field Marshal at Armstrong College on 8 July 1919.
Paper 3f + envelope
UND/CA8/16k 19 April 1920
Reproduced photocopy of a manuscript [circular] letter
“To those who wish to save the culture of the world” from Professor W. Osikowski, Grojec, [Poland], with an attached reproduction of [Christ together with mothers and children] and associated text.
Paper 2f
UND/CA8/16l 19 February 1925
Letter from the general secretary of the British Dental Association asking the university of Durham to forward the names and addresses of dental students who may qualify for entry upon the dentists' register.
Paper 2f
UND/CA8/16m [1932]
New York University; an illustrated history.
Paper book, in card covers 52p
Formerly numbered
“24”.
UND/CA8/16n 17 November 1932
“A Conference of Universities : Dinner Seating List, The Waldorf - Astoria”, listing those on individual tables and with an overall index.
Paper booklet 10f
See further papers on the conference at UND/CA5/25.
UND/CA8/16o 30 January 1934
Letter from the registrar of the university of Oxford to the registrar of the university of Durham stating that the BA, BSc, and BSc (Engineering) degrees of the university of Durham appear on the approved list (in order to qualify for senior
status at Oxford).
Paper 1f
UND/CA8/16p 1934
Note of minutes etc. loaned to the secretary of the D.C.C..
Paper 1f
UND/CA8/16q 2 August 1934
Letter from Andrew Reid and Co. (printers and publishers), Newcastle upon Tyne, to the registrar regarding a Latin address to the University of Katania, (coloured letter-head showing Durham and Newcastle), with a copy reply.
Paper 2f
UND/CA8/16r 28 October 1937
Covering letter of the Board of Education to the registrar of the university of Durham stating that the scheme for Queen Victoria High School, Stockton-on-Tees has now been established, (a copy of the scheme is not enclosed.)
Paper 1f
UND/CA8/16s c.1935-c.1940
Unused certificates :-
1. Certificate of attendance of course for College diploma in - (gap) of Armstrong College, Newcastle upon Tyne in the University of Durham, 19 - (not completed).
2. Certificate of King's College for College diploma in - (gap), 19 - (gap).
3. Certificate of King's College for certificate in - (gap), 19- (gap).
4. Certificate of Armstrong College : certificate in - (gap), 19- (gap).
Paper and parchment, 2f of each 4f
Deed Box 9Reference: UND/CA9Dates of creation: 1958 - 1966
UND/CA9/1 27 November 1958 - 18 January 1960
Registrar's order book containing carbons of orders for facilities for meetings - especially tea - in Durham and Newcastle, the printing of publications, such as the Gazette, and notices, the binding up of Senate
minutes, the placing of advertisements, mainly for jobs, in local newspapers, arrangements for congregations, and stationery orders.
UND/CA9/2 18 January - 5 November 1960
Registrar's order book
UND/CA9/3 5 November 1960 - 5 July 1961
Registrar's order book
UND/CA9/4 5 July 1961 - 25 July 1962
Registrar's order book
UND/CA9/5 25 July 1962 - 5 December 1963
Registrar's order book
The orders are increasingly for stationery, especially after the separation off of Newcastle.
UND/CA9/6 9 February 1961 - 17 August 1967
Stationery orders register
Chronological listing of orders recording date, order no, supplier, quantity, item, date received and cost.
UND/CA9/7 27 September 1965 - 27 July 1966
Departmental stationery orders register
Recording the stationery orders made for each department, detailing date, order no, supplier, quantity, item and cost.
