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Copies of family photographs including Hugh Hamshaw Thomas, 1913 - 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/THO/2

Scope and Contents

Includes: 1) British Association for the Advancement of Science Botany (K) Section meeting at Birmingham, 1913, including (from online sources) from back to front, left to right M.J.Legoe, T. Whitehead, Miss Jepps, Dr. Darbishire / Dr. Gordon, Miss L.J. Clarke, Miss Bancroft, F.D. Farrow / Prof. Buller, Dr. Marie C. Stopes (Birkbeck student), Prof. M.J. Benson, F.T. Brooks, R.H. Compton, R.S. Adamson, Miss E.N. Thomas, C.G.P. Laidlaw, H.H. Thomas / Miss Mitchell, Miss Hume, Miss Wigglesworth, R.C. Davie, W.N. Cheesman / Miss Samuel, Dr. Bayliss-Elliot, Miss Wortham, W.N. Jones, Miss Baker, Miss Burch, P.H. Allen / Miss Halket, Miss M.C. Rayner, Mrs. Moss, Col. Rawson, Miss E.M. Poulton, Dr. Woodhead / D. Thoday (Sec.), Mrs Thoday. Dr. Ellis, Dr. R.R. Gattes, Mrs Horne, Dr Horne, Dr T.G. Hill, Dr, De Fraine, Dr. Delf / Prof. David Thomas Gwynne-Vaughan (Birkbeck staff), Miss Pertz, Miss Saunders, W. West, W.B. Brierley, Dr. Helen Gwynne-Vaughan (Birkbeck staff), Miss Welford, Prof. Weiss / Dr. Charles Edward Moss (Sec.), W. Stiles, G.C. Druce, Mrs. Scott, W.B. Grove (Loc. Sec.) / Prof. West, Prof. Yapp, Dr. O. Stapf, Prof. J. Reinke, Miss Ethel Sargant (Pres.), Dr. Scott, Prof. Oliver (Copyright Whittock and Son?); 2) Hugh Hamshaw Thomas in military uniform (WW1), photographer illegible; mounted photograph of Hugh Hamshaw Thomas with aerial (glass plate) camera, standing beside a plane, WW1; two unidentified men standing in front of a (?WW1) aeroplane; Paleobotanical Section of the International Botanical Congress at Cambridge in 1930, including Hugh Hamshaw Thomas, seated front left and Albert Charles Seward, Master of Downing College and Professor of Botany, seated 4th from left, also including Dr Dukinfield Henry Scott (Photographer Scott and Wilkinson); photograph of Hugh Hamshaw Thomas walking his daughter across the main lawn in Downing on her wedding day, 1954; photograph of his son-in-law and daughter cutting their cake (portrait of Master Sir Herbert Richmond on the wall behind); Mrs (Torrie) Hamshaw Thomas with Sir Lionel and Lady Ethel Whitby outside the Master's Lodge, n.d.

Dates

  • Creation: 1913 - 1954

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

Open

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright retained by the family, other than professional photographers (where stated). Permission for archive use.

Extent

8 item(s) : Digital images

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Sent by Dr Hamshaw Thomas's grandson to the College Archivist, 2020.

Repository Details

Part of the Downing College Repository

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