Containing printed annual accounts for the College signed by the Auditors.
Containing printed annual accounts for the College signed by the Auditors.
The original site covered the area of First and Second Courts but not the land between the south range of first Court and the river or up as far as Chesterton Road.
In 1428 Abbot Lytlington of Crowland Abbey was licensed by Letters Patent of King Henry VI to acquire the site so that a hostel could be established in Cambridge for student monks from Benedictine houses (Crowland, Ely, Ramsey, and Walden) to live whilst studying in Cambridge. They were over the river and so away from the temptations of the town.
John de Wisbech, Abbot of Crowland, planned First Court and began by building the Chapel in the North Range between 1470 and 1472. The Hall was built in 1519 by Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham.
In 1542 Lord Audley persuaded the King to re-found Buckingham College as the College of St Mary Magdalene but he died two years later having contributed nothing to the buildings. At the time of his death First Court was not finished and was partly open to the street on the west side. Audley’s successor was the 4th Duke of Norfolk who promised, in 1564, to help finish the Court but was put in the Tower of London in 1568 and executed in 1572. The West Range and Gatehouse were finally finished in 1584 thanks to the generosity of Sir Christopher Wray.
The building and developement of the College was affected by lack of money. In the 17th century it took a long time to raise the funds to build what is now the Pepys Building. Nothing more was built during the 18th century although internal changes were made to the Chapel. In the 19th century only a very plain Master’s Lodge was built.
The College's fortunes were revived by A. C. Benson (Master, 1915-1925) who left his mark everywhere - his initials can be seen in 20 places around College. The improvements lead to an increase in the number of students and Fellows andthis in turn lead to a programme of modernisation which was carried out between the 1950s and the 1970s. In 1990 it became possible to commercially develop the Quayside and in 2005 Cripps Court was built. The most recent building to be opened (2021) was the new Student Library.
These are the individual bills submitted to the College for payment and detail work done. They run from Michaelmas to Michaelmas and are arranged in 4 separate quarterly bundles and then in one wrapper. The quarters are:
Bundle 1 - Michaelmas to Xmas
Bundle 2 - Xmas to Lady Day
Bundle 3 - Lady Day to Midsummer
Bundle 4 - Midsummer to Michaelmas
The total of each bill is recorded in the Necessary Expense Books [See MCAD/3/3]
Album of photographs of Fellows arranged in order of seniority, from F.R.F. Scott to A.T. Thomas. The following people are in the album:
F.R.F. Scott – one photograph
Dr D.W. Babbage (1933) – two photographs
Dr B.C. Saunders (1938) – one photograph
R.F. Bennett (1938) – two photographs
J.F. Burnet (1949) – one photograph
Prof. J.E. Stevens (1950) – two duplicate photographs in different sizes
Prof. L.P. Pugh (1953) – photograph of painting
J.B. Dwight and R.W.M Dias (1955), colour
D.W. Roberts (1958) – three photographs (one is a photograph of a drawing by Oakshett)
Dr P.J. Grubb (1960) – two photographs, colour
Dr R. Hyam – three photographs, one black and white (1962), two in colour (1993) and (1969). Latter shows Dr Hyam in Swaziland
J.B. Dwight (1962) – one photograph
Prof. U. Limentani (1964) – one photograph
Prof. J.A.W. Bennett (1964) – one photograph
Dr P.E. Reynolds – two photographs, one in black and white (1964), one in colour
Dr J.E. Field (1964) – one photograph
B.M. Deakin (1967) – one photograph
Dr C.F. Kolbert (1968) – one photograph
Dr N. Boyle – three photographs, two black and white (1968), one colour photocopy
R.C. Latham (1970) – one photograph
T.E.B. Howarth (1973) – one photograph
R.C. Martineau (1969) – one photograph
Dr D.K.C. Cooper (1972) – one photograph
Dr R.B. Morris – two photographs, one black and white (1973), one colour, captioned: ‘Doc Morris, ‘Doc M’, This Christmas ?2000’
Dr D.M. Turner (1973) – one photograph
Dr P.A. Maddn (1975) – one photograph
Dr R.J.S. Spence (1976) – one colour photograph
A.P. Tyrer (1974) – one photograph
Dr A.F. Wallace-Hadrill (1976) – one photograph
Dr A.T. Thomas (1976) – one photograph
Album of photographs of Fellows arranged in order of seniority, from Murphy to Burchell. The following people are in the album:
Mr Murphy – five photographs, three black and white, two colour (1977-2001)
Dr W.J.R. Mitchell (1977) – one photograph
Dr R. Luckett (1978) – one photograph
C.J. Greenwood (1978) – one photograph
Dr E. Duffy (1979) – three photographs, one black and white (1979), two colour, (one captioned ‘Dr Eamon Duffy President 2001’, taken by Tony Jedrej)
D.C. Calcutt (1980) – one photograph, captioned ‘F.Comm’ (Fellow Commoner)
Dr R.A. Klein (1981) – one colour photograph
Dr M.A. Carpenter (1983) – one photograph
Dr D.C. Clary (1983) – one photograph
Mr A. Sale (1980) – one photograph of drawing, captioned ‘F.Comm’ (Fellow Commoner)
Professor D. Hull (1984) – one photograph
Dr J.D. Lewins (1985) – one photograph, with note: ‘Jeffrey David Lewins, taken Dec ‘85 while visiting Redfern at University of Washington, Seattle’
Dr N. Rushton (1984) – one colour photograph
Dr H.A. Chase – two photographs, one black and white (1984), one colour, captioned: ‘Professor Chase at a jolly party in parlour, Xmas 2001)
Dr G.S. Garnett (1987) – one photograph
Dr J.R. Patterson (1986) – two photographs, one (1986) taken by Neville Atkinson
Revd. Dr D.M. Hoyle (1988) – one photograph
Dr A.S. Brown (1989) – one colour photograph
Prof. W.R. Cornish (1990) – one photograph
Dr B.J. Burchell (1990) – one colour photograph
Dr M.D. Buhmann (1989) – one colour photograph, captioned ‘R. Fell’
T.G.M. Keall – three colour photographs
James Hunt – one colour photograph, captioned ‘80th birthday’
Album of photographs of Fellows arranged in order of seniority:
Sir Derek Oulton (1990) – one photograph
Dr S. Martin (1990) – one colour photograph
Mrs E.M. Coleman (1990, Fellow Commoner) – one photograph
Dr P.A. Cunich (1991, fellow Commoner) – one photograph
Dr K. Patel (1992) – one colour photograph
Dr S.M. Springman (1991) – one colour photograph
Mr A.J. Hanscomb (1992, Fellow Commoner)
C.T. Whelan (1992) – one photograph
Dr B.A. Kumin (1993, Research Fellow) – one colour photograph
Prof. R.S. Ellis (1994) – one photograph
Dr J.M. Rawson (1995) – one colour photograph
Prof. P. Bew (1996) – one colour photograph
Dr P. Dupree (1996) – one photograph
Dr N.G. Jones (1996) – one photograph
Mr N.J. Tobin (1997) – two colour photographs
Dr M.D. Billinge (1982) – one colour photograph
[Six uncaptioned photographs]
13 black and white photographs that used to hang in the student library in the Pepys building.
Framed black and white photograph of Professor the Lord Blackett (Nobel Laureate in Physics).
Framed black and white photograph of Professor Henry Chadwick (Master of Peterhouse).
Framed black and white photograph of Sir Derman Christopherson (Master).
Framed black and white photograph of Sir Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce (Lord Justice of Appeal).
Framed black and white photograph of R.W.M. Dias (Fellow and President).
Framed black and white photograph of David Keilin (Quick Professor of Biology).
Framed black and white photograph of Robert Latham (Pepys Librarian).
Framed black and white photograph of C.S. Lewis (Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English).
Framed black and white photograph of Lord Michal Ramsey (Archbishop of Canterbury).
Framed black and white photograph of I.A. Richards (Fellow).
Framed black and white photograph of Sir Christopher Staughton (Lord Justice of Appeal).
Framed black and white photograph of W.S. Wigglesworth (Vicar-General, York and Dean of Arches, Canterbury).