Identity area
Reference code
GB 2198 PPC/GSN
Title
College correspondence and papers of Philip Grierson
Date(s)
- 1950-1994 (Creation)
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Fonds
Extent and medium
1 box paper
Context area
Name of creator
(b 1910)
Biographical history
(1910- ) Historian and numismatist. Admitted Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, 1929. Elected Fellow, 1935-; Librarian, 1944-69; President, 1966-76. University Lecturer in History, Cambridge, 1945-59. Professor of Numismatics and the History of Coinage, Brussels University, 1948-81. Reader in Medieval Numismatics, Cambridge, 1959-71. Professor of Numismatics, Cambridge, 1971-8.
(For further biographical information, see entry in the Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College, Volume VIII)
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Conditions governing access
Open access - no restrictions.
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See also records of the College Library (LIB).