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Photographs and other images (including copies), 1916 - 1956

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/WHI/3

Scope and Contents

Original photograph (print of signed original) of Whitby in military uniform during Second World War, but mainly copies - photographs and scans - of family photographs still held by the Whitby and Kennedy families.Copies include: Whitby as Captain and scrum half of Bromsgrove School 1st XV, Christmas 1913; in military uniform as a Lieutenant in the First World War, 1916; Lionel and Ethel's wedding day, 1922 (taken outside Shelf House (Furnace House) the home of Ethel's uncles William, Trueman and Francis Murgatroyd); several of Lionel and Ethel in uniform during the Second World War and Whitby with Sir Frederick Banting (co-discoverer of insulin) early in the war, both in uniform; four photographs of nurses of the Army Blood Transfusion Service, of which Whitby was Commanding Officer; with family on the steps of the Master's Lodge; Whitby as Vice Chancellor, 1952, with the Duke of Edinburgh (Honorary Doctor of Law) and at the Memorial Service for King George VI. Also includes photographic copies from family album, 'Cambridge Days', including: Whitby receiving his Legion d'honneur medal, 1950; Honorary Degrees procession, 1950; Whitby giving the Presidential address to the International Congress of Clinical Pathologists, 1951; laying the foundation stone for the Downing College Chapel, May 1951; International Congress of Haematologists (at Downing?), Summer 1950; procession as Vice-Chancellor, 1 October 1951.

Dates

  • Creation: 1916 - 1956

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

Generally open.

Conditions Governing Use

Unclear

Extent

1 file(s)

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

Some original albums and loose photographs, originally loaned for the 2019 archive exhibition, were subsequently donated by the Whitby family (accession 2023-24/016).

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Copies sent (with original speech notes/off prints of articles) by Whitby and Kennedy families, 2018-19.

Existence and Location of Originals

Kennedy and Whitby families

Related Materials

DCPH/1/31' photographs of Lionel Whitby during the Second World War (in relation to his Army Blood Transfusion Service work) in National Archives file WO 222/1565.

Originator(s)

Whitby family

Finding aid date

2019-02-11 14:00:36+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Downing College Repository

Contact:
Downing College Archive
Downing College
Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 1DQ United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 762905