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Charitable bequests

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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'Endowments of the University 1904-1959', compiled 1962-mid 1970s

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Misc.Collect.121
Scope and Contents This draft document was intended to be a continuation of or supplement to J.W. Clark, Endowments of the University of Cambridge (CUP: Cambridge, 1904). It was compiled intermittently from 1953 by various members of Registry staff and typed up in 1962. Its contents were never finally checked for accuracy and it was not published. Here are two copies: one as typed in 1962, the other as updated thereafter [?to mid 1970s] by D.J. Hall, first at the General Board and later at the University...
Dates: compiled 1962-mid 1970s
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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John Humphrey Plummer Foundation papers, 1887 - 2007

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Char.II.40
Scope and Contents

The records comprise minutes, accounts, correspondence, trustees' papers and administrative material, particularly relating to the governance of the John Humphrey Plummer Foundation in the 1980s and 1990s. There is also some earlier material relating to Plummer's properties and the establishment of the trust.

Dates: 1887 - 2007
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).