MS 989
Reference code
MS 989
Title
Tony Jarvis collection of royal autographs and portrait photographs
Level
Sub-fonds
Administrative / Biographical history
Reverend Frank Washington (Tony) Jarvis III (1939-2018) was an American Episcopal priest, teacher and headmaster. He was born in 1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Frank Washington Jarvis and Prudence Crandall Jarvis. He was educated at St. Mark’s School, Southborough in Massachusetts, Harvard College, Cambridge University and the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 1964 to 1971 he served as curate at St. Paul’s Church in Cleveland and taught at University School in Cleveland. For thirty years, from 1974 to 2004, Jarvis was headmaster of the Roxbury Latin School in Boston, the oldest school in continuous existence in North America. After retiring, he served twice as a supernumerary chaplain and master at Eton College, was instrumental in developing a close relationship between Eton and Roxbury Latin and establishing a scholarship programme. He went on to teach at Yale University, where he was founder and director of the Education Leadership and Ministry Program at Berkeley Divinity School. From 1976 and until his death in 2018 he was priest associate at the Parish of All Saints, Ashmont, an inner-city parish in Boston. Jarvis wrote eight books and numerous articles in the fields of history, education, and religion. He was a member of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, the Society of Mary, the Society of King Charles the Martyr and an honorary member of the Old Etonian Association.
Date
1679 - 1990
Content description
A collection of royal autographs and portrait photographs assembled by Reverend F Washington (Tony) Jarvis III
Provenance
Collected and assembled by Tony Jarvis and bequeathed by him to Eton College, August 2019.
Arrangement
Divided into two artificial series, autographs and photographs by the archivist, and chronologically arranged within the two series.
Location of this record in the archive hierarchy
Click the hyperlinked text below for further details.
(Click here to scroll to the current record within the hierarchy)
Number 106 of 106 at this Level
- Next: No next sibling at this level
- Previous: Alan Stevenson Nuremberg Trials collection, MS 988, (1945-1946)