COLL P 15 086
Reference code
COLL P 15 086
Title
Provost Charteris: Gifts and bequests
Level
File
Date
1936 - 1985
Extent & medium
1 item
Content description
1936, 1940 - 1942, 1954, 1962 - 1985
RECIPIENT: Elliott, Sir Claude Aurelius, 1888 - 1973, Provost of EtonRECIPIENT: Caccia, Harold Anthony, 1905 - 1990, Baron Caccia of Abernant, Provost of EtonRECIPIENT: Charteris, Martin Michael Charles, 1913 - 1999, Baron Charteris of Amisfield, Provost of Eton
Gifts and bequests : 1/ trees from Old Etonian members of House of Commons; 2/ books from Major-General and Mrs. Villiers Hatton; /3 books and watercolours by Eric Powell from C. J. M. Adie; /4 gold football medals of P. J. de Paravicini and set of stumps and bails from C. P. E. de Paravicini; /5 Georgian silver jug belonging to G. W. Swire from J. A. Swire; /6 Sir Henry Marten's bequest; /7 USD3000 from G.B.Gambut-Livingston Phelps Trust. USD62,500 from Austin Y. Hoy; /8 £100 from Capt. the Hon. R. C. D. Keppel, decd.; /9 £50 from F. E. Robeson decd.; /10 portraits of Abram Rawlinson MP and Sarah his wife, attributed to George Romney, from Robert W. S. Seton decd.; /11 £1000 from A. H. S. Coombe-Tennant decd.; /12 £200 from H. E. Bowman decd.; /13 C. M. Wells Memorial Fund; /14 Elizabethan dining table (in Election Hall) from Mrs. Johnsen; /15 item for Cricket Pavilion from A. R. B. Burrows in memory of Brocas Burrows; /16 £1000 and royalties from Miss Marten decd.; /17 correspondence of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice from Sir Shane Leslie; /18 £600 from Mrs. R. Higham for Ronald Higham Prize for English Literature; /19 proposed bequest by Lt. Col. A. J. L. Hopkins; /20 H. E. Luxmoore's Scenes from a Backwater from Mrs. L. V. Collier; /21 Schuster Bequest; /22 paintings from Mrs D.M. Berry decd. - Rye Water by W. Davis, Sweet Tranquillity by Pinwall, A Long Conversation by Pinwall; /23 George Tait Memorial Lecture; /24 Golden Cockerel edition of Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, tr. F. L. Lucas, from F.W. How; /25 Camrose Fund; /26 watercolour by William Evans from D. H. Macindoe; /27 donation for trees from Gerard Menuhin via Yehudi Menuhin; /28 anthology from Sir Edward Playfair; /29 Gray memorial from Major G. Montagu; /30 proposed bequest from Patrick Strong; /31 100 Master Drawings of 15th and 16th century from the Basle Print Room from Swiss Bank Corporation; /32 proposed bequests, including residuary estate of Henry Ley, from Mrs. Henry Ley; /33 bust of Harold Macmillan from Walter Annenberg; /34 David Landale; /35 William Johnson papers and portrait of him by Charles Wellington Furse from Sir Ralph Furse; /36 model of King Henry VI from Mrs. Y. Cochrane; /37 Doves Press Bible from A. N. G. Richard /38 C. M. Wells Memorial Trust from manor Charitable Trust; /39 statue of St. Francis for Luxmoore's Garden from H. L. Jenkyns; /40 cup for the Keeper of Lawn Tennis designed by Gerald Benney from E. M. Hornby; /41 Pilkington Gift; /42 money for seat from Ian Cameron; /43 visible memorial to Claude Elliott; /44 donation from English Speaking Union; /45 picture of olive tree by the Mediterranean by Pownoll Toker Williams from his daughter Muriel Williams; /46 watercolours by William Evans from Nancy Radcliffe Platt - Cricket on College Field, the Fourth of June, the Wall Game; /47 The Earl Fortescue : Recollections; /48 restoration of Hopgarden gazebo by J. L. E. Smith MP; /49 copyright of Etoniana from Mrs. R. A. Austen-Leigh; /50 three heraldic banners from the Department of the Environment; /51 £5000 from Sir John Aird decd.; /52 watercolour of Jake Carter's great-grandfather in Montem dress by Samuel Evans, George Winter print of Football at the Wall, and Montem badges from Jake Carter decd. via Ernestine Carter; /53 Eddie Marsh's little book - letter from his cousin Lady Spears; /54 covenants to Eton Appeal Fund from R. M. G. Turnbull; /55 drawing of Estates Bursar and Provost from the artist Edmond X. Kapp; /56 `The Tug' from Joe Burrell; /57 portrait of M. R. James by the artist Marion Saumarez; /58 books and mss of Sir Harold Acton; /59 £1000 for School Hall organ from Humphrey Whitbread; /60 Connal Rowan Bequest; /61 print of the Field Game (Field v Old Etonians 1891) and praepostor's bill 20 July 1925 from Tom Mott; /62 College Hall by Nora Davison from Mrs Truman; /63 Metaphysical Cell Structure M No. 124 from the artist Cyril Hamersman; /64 lithograph of Paul Valery by Katherine Wilczynski from Dame Rebecca West /65 Gilbert Frankau papers from Peter Halswell; /66 bronze cross from the grave of Rev. John Shephard from his grandson Lt. Col. J. Shephard; /67 £100 per term for Junior Scholars from Mr. Choyce; /68 Mayo Bequest; /69 oil of Lord Keynes by Maistre from the National Mutual Life Assurance Society; /70 College statutes from St John's College Cambridge; /71 Carter/Pollard `Enquiry' from Dudley Massey; /72 photograph of sculpture of Henry VI in the Rijkemuseum; /73 Busk Fund; /74 William III silver plate from A.F. Graham-Watson; /75 nominations for Mr. Betham's Benefaction; /76 pictures from Rev. Michael Martin decd.; /77 portrait of Samuel Evans and Evans Bible, prayer book and despatch box from the Whitcombe family; /78 photographs from W.H. Clark decd.; /79 clock on Upper Club and limited edition of novels of Ivy Compton-Burnett from Anthony Compton Burnett; /80 letter from Jane Evans to Miss Tute from Sir John Ruggles-Brise; /81 benches for Upper Club from Brigadier Mayes; /82 covenant to Special Bursaries Fund from S. Evans-Lombe; /83 A. C. Benson: On the Edge of Paradise from John Murray; /84 four cups from Dr. Clive Upjohn; /85 teak bench from Mr. and Mrs. McCrum; /86 John Florio : New World of Words from Sir Peter Norton-Griffiths; /87 Windmill Cottage, Nettlebed (Peter Fleming bequest); /88 £400 from H. Hely-Hutchinson; /89 books from the Lord Hailsham; /90 watercolour by Miss E. Warre of College Chapel from Luxmoore's Garden from Lord Congleton; /91 Irish and Welsh badges presented 1858/1864 from G. M. Nissen; /92 £100 for Charles Gladstone Library from Jonathan Parker; /93 Ronald Iredale : The Innovative Engineer, by the author; /94 chiming clock and miniatures from Canon Tufnell Barrett decd.; /95 £10,000 from the Leigh-Pemberton family (used for Hardy letters and Upper School carpet); /96 books from Joseph Burrell decd.; /97 first copies of the prints After Chambers and Eton College and the Wall from Sheeps Bridge by Liza Willink from Roy Devonside; /98 silver hunting horn from Mrs. H. Romer Nicholson; /99 £10,000 from F. J. A. Cruso decd.; /100 Henry Babington-Smith prize; /101 £20,000 from the Sir Harold Mitchell Foundation; /102 aquatint from John Doyle; /103 bell for Agar's Plough pavilion clock from R. D. Baird; /104 cricket bats from Lt. Col. Edward Northey; /105
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- College records, COLL, (1440 - present)
- Royal Patents, ECR 39, (1440 - 1686)
- Papal Bulls, ECR 05, (1441 - 1498)
- Will of Henry V, ECR 59, (10 June 1421)
- Central governing records, ECR 60, (1440 - 2019)
- Accounts and accounting records, COLL ACC, (1440 -)
- Bursar, COLL B, (1440 - 2011)
- Benefactions, gifts and obits, COLL BEN, (1730 - 1984)
- Buildings, COLL BU, (1441 - 1983)
- Buildings Bursar, COLL BB, (c.1967 - 2000)
- Collections, COLL C, (1800 -)
- Companies, COLL CO, (1960 -)
- Choir School, COLL CS, (1922 - 1968)
- Records of College officers and departments, COLL D, (1800 - present)
- Estates, COLL EST, (1440s - present)
- ECR Estate Records, ECR 01 - 65, (12th century - 19th century)
- Fellows' papers, COLL FELL, (c.1648 - 1952)
- Finance, COLL F, (1800 -)
- College Livings, COLL LIV, (1706 - 1963)
- Registrar, COLL REG, (1707 - 1896)
- School Bursar, COLL SB, (1998 - 2012)
- Estates Manager, COLL EM, (1947 - 2004)
- Junior Bursar, COLL JB, (1800 - 1970)
- Provosts' papers, COLL P, (1528 - present)
- Provost and Fellows papers, COLL PF, (1986 - 2013)
- Vice-Provosts' papers, COLL VP, (1750 -)
- Letters, GB/1472/LTR, (1794-1963)
- Legal and title, COLL LT, (1744-1999)
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