Seward, Sir Albert Charles, 1863-1941 (Knight, botanist and geologist)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1863 - 1941
Biography
Albert Charles Seward (1863-1941) was educated at Lancaster Grammar School and St. John's College, Cambridge, where he took a first class in each part of the Natural Sciences tripos. He became university lecturer in botany (1890), FRS (1898), and fellow and tutor of Emmanuel College (1900). In 1906 he was appointed professor of botany, holding the chair for thirty years, from 1915 in conjunction with the mastership of Downing College. He retired from both posts in 1936, the year in which he received a knighthood.
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
A.C. Seward: Letters from D.H. Scott, and notebooks
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8179-8180
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from the distinguished palaeobotanist Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854-1934), honorary director of the Jodrell Laboratory at Kew and notebooks containing notes on plant fossils.
Dates:
1888-1932
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Series
Cambridge University Free Trade Association: letters mostly concerning subscriptions, 1906-1911 (Circa)
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9787/1/1-94
Scope and Contents
The date at which the Association was founded has not been ascertained, but it was presumably part of the opposition to the movement for tariff reform that developed within the Conservative party and elsewhere from 1902. With the exception of one undated letter (Add.9787/1/1) that was apparently written while the Association was being formed, the correspondence in this collection begins in March 1906, when a circular (not present) was sent to members announcing that the Association would...
Dates:
1906-1911 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds
Correspondence of A.C. Seward over publication of Darwin and Modern Science
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7733
Scope and Contents
Correspondence concerning the publication 'Darwin and Modern Science', edited by A.C. Seward.
Dates:
1908-1909
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Collection
Family papers and photographs of Albert Charles Seward and Marion Seward and their children (mainly copies), 1880 - 1950
Collection
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/SEW/4
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Correspondence and other papers compiled in his capacity as Master of Downing College.
Dates:
1880 - 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open to researchers. The majority of the collection is available in digital form only. Publication requests to be approved by the family.
Series
International Botanical Congress Letters, 1930-01-01 - 1938-06-07
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9697/62-79
Scope and Contents
Letters to F.T. Brooks from I.H. Burkill, Sir A.W. Hill, A.B. Rendle, B.J. Rendle, Sir A.C. Seward and Cambridge University Press, and carbon copies of letters from Brooks, 15 April 1935-7 June 1938.BURKILL, (ISAAC) HENRY (1870-1965) (botanist). Letters to and from F.T. Brooks (1938) Add.9697/73-74,76CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS. Correspondence with F.T. Brooks and G.A. Rendle (1935-38) Add.9697/64,67(ii),68,77-79CHIPP, ISABEL MARY (1888- ) (widow of Dr T.F. Chipp). Letter to...
Dates:
1930-01-01 - 1938-06-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
Letter from Sir Albert Charles Seward to Henry Jackson, Emmanuel College, 26 March 1906, 26 Mar. 1906
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7319/18
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Correspondence and papers of Henry Jackson concerning the place of Greek in the University of Cambridge's curriculum and examinations at the University 1878-80 and 1904-06 [1] An account of the movement for examination reform in the 1870s and of the work of the Greek Syndicate is given in D.A. Winstanley, 'Later Victorian Cambridge' (1947), chapter V. Further papers of Jackson concerning the Syndicate are at MS Add.5944/25 and /39. [2] A scrapbook made by A.C. Seward dealing with the 'Greek...
Dates:
26 Mar. 1906
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
Photograph of a large group of botanists [possibly the 1922 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Section K (Botany) group] including A C Seward and H Hamshaw Thomas, 1922
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/THO/3
Scope and Contents
Includes Prof. A. C. Seward (2nd from right on front seated row) and Hugh Hamshaw Thomas and Edith Gertrude Torrance ['Torrie'], his wife from 1923 (3rd and 4th from right on row behind). Also includes John Walton (Seward's son-in-law) seated 2nd from left on ground. Henry Horation Dixon (President of Section K, 1922) is seated centre on the front row, with Edith Saunders (in black) to his right.
Dates:
1922
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Open
Additional filters:
- ARCHON code (for CUL materials)
- Archives and MSS Dept. (GBR/0012) 5
- Type
- Archival Object 5
- Collection 2
- Subject
- Botany 2