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Walworth Domestic Accounts: College Mission

Includes miscellaneous receipts, invoices and calculations for maintenance work, domestic staff wages, and petty payments made at the Church of the Lady Margaret, Walworth.

Also includes a sub-set of letters sent from the Rev. A.R. Ingram to J.C.H. How, concerning receipt of pay and other financial matters and dated 1908-1909; and a second sub-set of letters, addressed primarily to C. Previté-Orton from Rev. R.B. Le B. Janvrin, the Senior Bursar and others, also concerning petty payments and the financial affairs of the Mission, dated 1914-1920.

Ingram, Arthur Ralph, Rev.

Memorial Services 1919-2022

1919 and 1946-2022. Notices and orders of service of memorial and funeral services for College members held in the Chapel. Includes order of service for Memorial Service for members of the College and Choir School and College servants who died on active service in the First World War. Also included is a list of those invited to the College's memorial service for those who lost their lives in the Second World War held on 8 Dec 1946; College guidelines and seating plan for memorial services held in Chapel and the order of service for the funeral of Alan Herbert Illingworth Swift held in the Church of St Mary the Great.

Includes orders of service for the memorial services of: James Stanley Bezzant (1967); John Douglas Cockroft (1967); Professor Sir Christopher Martin Dobson (2020); Claude William Guillebaud (1971); Robert Aubrey Hinde (2017); Edward Donald James (2018); Norman Brooke Jopson (1969); Peter Anthony Linehan (2022); James Wilson Millen (1966); Professor Stroud Francis Charles (Toby) Milsom (2016); William George Palmer (1969); Edward Craddock Ratcliff (1967); Frederick Sanger (2014); Alan Gilbert Smith (2018); Alan Herbert Illingworth Swift (1963); Francis Puryer White (1969)

Notices for the memorial services of: Professor Anderson (1959); Professor Baker (1956); John Renford Bambrough (1999); Bertram Hughes Farmer (1996); Francis Harry Hinsley (1998); Peter Arundel Jewell (1998); Mr Kendon (1960); Dyfrig Gruffydd Morgan (1998); Henry Mathison Pelling (1997); Sir James Wordie (1962)

Documents relating to the memorial services of: The Dean (1951); Professor Roger Griffin (n.d.); The Master (1952); The President (1950); Sir Percy Winfield (1953); Mr Yule (1951)

Johnian (magazine)

The magazine is the re-branded Johnian News, re-designed and re-launched in Lent Term 2018. Issues: Lent 2018, Michaelmas 2018, Lent 2019, Spring 2021, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024

College Air Raid Precautions: Junior Bursar

Manuscript and typescript papers concerning preparations for war-time emergencies during the First World War (1914-1918) and Second World War (1939-1945). Includes:

  1. A list of manuscripts and books deposited in the Muniment Room on 9th February 1915;

  2. A report compiled and signed by the Junior Bursar, Lewis E. Shore, to consider what action should be taken in view of possible injury to the College by hostile aircraft, dated 10th February 1915. Includes College map;

  3. Air Raid Precautions Scheme and Standing Instructions to Staff created by the Junior Bursar, John Douglas Cockcroft, and dated August 1939;

  4. Extract from unconfirmed Minutes of Council, dated 30th October 1936, concerning admission of the Trinity College Librarian to St. John's College Library;

  5. Abstract of unconfirmed Minutes of Council, dated 2nd February 1939, concerning measures in case of a national emergency. Measures include the appointment of J.S. Boys-Smith as Deputy in the event of the Junior Bursar leaving Cambridge, and the removal of valuable manuscripts and records from the Library to the strong room in the new building;

  6. Air Raid Precautions Scheme, dated 27th September 1938.

John Douglas Cockcroft

Porters' Instructions: Junior Bursar

Includes one mansucript and two typescript notices outlining duties of the College Porters. The manuscript notice describes the duties of the Porter at New Court, the Chapel Clerk and the Senior and Junior Porters at the Front Gate along with those of 'Abbott'.

Also includes two typescript notices issued by the Junior Bursar, J.D. Cockcroft, to the Head Porter, concerning responsibility for the locking and unlocking of the Churchyard at times determined by the College Council. The notice, dated 14th December 1938, concerns dates for the flying of the College Banner and Union Jack. One of the sheets includes instructions for the Coronation Week 10-15 May 1937.

John Douglas Cockcroft

Election of College Officers & Estate matters: 1519

Letter, no year, from John Smith, SJC president, SJC, to Nicholas Metcalfe about the election of deans and mentioning that of the proctors; Newnham and Castle End properties in St Clement's Parish; the tenancy of house opposite SJC, and the manor court at Great Stukeley, Huntingdonshire.

Films: LMBC

Includes: 3 film reels and one digital film of LMBC crews and races. Races and crews covered include: 1937-1939 Lents, Mays and IVs; 1950 1st May boat; 1954 Lent, Reading, Ely and Mays and 1999 Mays.

Ninian Shafto: SJC Fellow

Letter, n.d., Ninian Shafto SJC fellow, to Nicholas Metcalfe, related to a dispute over the philosophy lectureship (in the university?) which will cause dissension in College.

Higham lease and Richard Rainshaw

Signet letter, no year, Henry VIII to Nicholas Metcalfe and St John's College, cancelling former letters in favour of Richard Ranshaw yeoman of the guard and asking that the reversionary lease of Higham be granted as first directed to John (Jenyns) Canntle, Sergeant of the Pastry.

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