St John's College W.3 (part)
Gilbert Jackson, Notes from lectures by Charles Fay on Political Economy. English, 1909
Gilbert Edward Jackson, of St John’s College (1890-1959): notes on lectures on political economy delivered by Charles Ryle Fay, then a Fellow of Christ’s College ‘in the Fellows’ Building of Christ’s College … in the Spring of 1909’. Fay has inserted a letter from Sadie Jackson, 1 July 1959, in the notebook, as well as the letter noted below.
St John's College W.3 (part)
Charles Hutton, Genealogical notes. English and Latin, c. 1917
The Revd Charles Frederick Hutton, of St John’s College (1857-1931): notes relating to his family, including his father Francis Pierpoint Burton Norman Hutton, of St John’s College (1826-84), whose diary of undergraduate life in Cambridge, much quoted here, was presented by Charles in 1917 and is in the Collection at W.33. The notes are elegantly and elaborately compiled, with hand coloured coats of arms and rubricated pedigrees.
St John's College W.3 (part)
Sir Joseph Hutchinson, Autobiographical lecture. English, 1977
Sir Joseph Burtt Hutchinson, Fellow of St John’s College (1902-88): ‘Reflections on a research career’, the St John’s College Lecture delivered in the University of East Anglia, 10 May 1977.
St John's College W.3 (part)
Henry Hughes, List of Library books. English, before 1884
Henry Hunter Hughes, Fellow of St John’s College (1796-1884): list of books from his library ‘to be sent to St John’s College Library Cambridge by my executor’. The accompanying papers record the process of identifying superfluous duplicates, finding alternative homes for some, and securing a valuation for others. Some 338 books were eventually brought into the Library collection. Hughes was for many years Rector of Layham, Suffolk.
St John's College W.3 (part)
John Herschel, Solution of the Chinese theorem. English, no date
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Fellow of St John’s College (1792-1871): ‘Proof of the Chinese theorem that (2n-2)/n is an integer whenever n is a prime, not otherwise’, no date.
St John's College W.3 (part)
Sir Maurice Hayward, Autobiography. English, c. 1960
Sir Maurice Henry Weston Hayward, of St John’s College (1868-1964): autobiography, including his service as a judge in the Bombay High Court, c. 1960.
St John's College W.3 (part)
John Fearby Haslam, College bills. English, 1832-5
John Fearby Haslam, of St John’s College (d. 1850): College bills showing expenses incurred as an undergraduate, 1832-5. With a valuation of furniture – ‘Haslam’s Goods’ – by John Swan of Sidney Street, Cambridge, dated 8 Oct. 1835. Haslam’s Tutor was the Revd Thomas Crick (1801-76), subsequently President of the College.
St John's College W.3 (part)
Claude Guillebaud, After-dinner speech. English, 1970
Claude Guillebaud, Fellow of St John’s College (1890-1971): text of a speech delivered at the College dinner on 27 December 1970, the Feast of St John the Evangelist. Fellows celebrating their eightieth birthday that year are by custom invited to speak at this dinner. In more recent times the speeches have been recorded.
St John's College W.3 (part)
T. R. Glover, Verses on College catering. English, after 1919
Terrot Reavely Glover, of St John’s College (1869-1943): untitled verses, beginning: ‘The “black ’orse” – yes, I told you we had two’, and ending ‘You can’t have profits and have apple pies!’
St John's College W.3 (part)
Sir William Gee, Will. English and Latin, 1611
Sir William Gee, of St John’s College, ?matric. 1577 (1562-1612): will, 2 Nov. 1611, including among the provisions a benefaction to the College as described in A. F. Torry, Founders and Benefactors (Cambridge, 1888), p. 100. Signed by Henry Watkinson. Torry records that the benefaction of land in and the advowson of Bainton, Yorkshire, ‘was afterwards lost to the College, although we twice presented to the Rectory’. The will has a very striking and individual preamble, of a distinctly reformist hue.