Subseries 22 - 'Lord Acton's History of Liberty'

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Watson/5/22

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GB 275 Watson/5/22

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'Lord Acton's History of Liberty'

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  • 1994 (Creation)

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(1927-2013)

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George Grimes Watson was born in Brisbane, Australia, on 13 October 1927. He was educated at Brisbane Boys' College and the University of Queensland, where he graduated in 1948 with a degree in English. He secured a scholarship for a second degree and received an English degree from Trinity College, Oxford in 1950; he worked for the European Commission as an interpreter before becoming a lecturer in English at Cambridge in 1959 and a Fellow of St John's College in 1961. He remained at St John's until his death on 2 August 2013.

Watson edited 'The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'. As well as producing wide-ranging literary and cultural criticism, he was involved in leftist politics, campaigning as a Liberal candidate in 1959 and 1979 and working as Editor for the Unservile State Group; his political writing often critiques socialism from a liberal perspective.

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First published 1994. This subseries contains research material, a memorandum of agreement, correspondence and reviews; it opens with a copied transcript of Lord Acton's 'Notes for the History of Liberty', and correspondence arranging for Cambridge University Library to make a further copy. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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Copied transcript of Lord Acton's 'Notes for the History of Liberty', accompanied by correspondence between George Watson and the Cambridge University Library

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George Watson's invitation to his talk for the Acton Society on 'Acton and the Language of Politics' (23 November 1979)

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Four posters for George Watson's 1992 Sandars Lectures on 'The Library of Lord Acton'

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Two copies of the memorandum of agreement between George Watson and Scolar Press

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CORRESPONDENCE

ACTON, Edward
ACTON, S J
ALTHOLZ, Josef L

BAILYN, Bernard
BATTESTIN, Ruthe
BEALES, Derek Edward Dawson
BUTTERFIELD, Herbert

CEADEL, E B
CONZELMUS, Victor

DANGÉ, François

FARROW, Nigel
FASNACHT, Ruth
FOX, Peter K

GASKELL, Philip

HILL, Roland
HYAM, Ronald

KELLIHER, William Hilton

LEE, Brian North
LINEHAN, Peter A
LOOSE, John
LOWE, David K
LYON-DALBERG-ACTON, Richard Gerald

MATTHEW, Henry Colin Gray
McCONICA, James

NAUTH, Dorothee
NURSER, John S

OWEN, Arthur

PARKER, G
PARSONS, Phyllis

RATCLIFFE, Frederick William
ROBSON, Robert
ROGERS, Malcolm

SCHOFIELD, Malcolm
SIMMONS, J S G
SPEIDEL, Annie
SWIRE, Rhoderick

THOMPSON, C R

WALEY. Daniel
WALLACE, Janet
WELLS, John
WILLIAMS, R T
WOODHOUSE, Christine
WOODRUFF, Mia

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