Speeches
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Sub-sub-mangmt group
Records of and relating to the Orator, 1657 - 2022
Sub-sub-mangmt group
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/O.VIII
Scope and Contents
The duties of the Orator are 'to write addresses for presentation to the Sovereign and formal letters for presentation to other Universities and institutions' and to 'present to the Chancellor and University persons on whom the titles of degrees are conferred honoris causa'. The office was founded by statute in (probably) 1521, but there are both earlier and later records of one-off payments for such compositions. The title changed from ‘Public Orator’ to ‘Orator’ in 1926.
Dates:
1657 - 2022
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).
Series
Speeches, 2004 - 2012
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/O.II 323
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-sub-mangmt group:
So long as the Chancellor was normally resident, as the statutes required him to be, Vice-Chancellors were appointed only to act in his absence. When, from 1504, the Chancellor was a non-resident magnate, the election of a Vice-Chancellor took place regularly each academic year, his term of office starting on 1 November. From 1884 to 1889 he held office from January to December, and from 1889 to 1989 from 1 October, the beginning of the academic year. Vice-Chancellors from the early...
Dates:
2004 - 2012
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).