Identity area
Reference code
GC/GOV/01/02
Unique identifier
Title
Date(s)
- 1800-1960 (Approximate date span.) (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
1 tin box and 1 transfer box Mixed
Context area
Name of creator
Administrative history
Like a number of other Oxford and Cambridge colleges in the 19th century, Caius established a fund to establish a mission settlement in Battersea in 1891. Financial support and a certain amount of manpower came from the College but day to day running was devolved. (For further information regarding the history of the settlement see The Caian).
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Transferred to the Archive by the Master.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Including printed College statutes; petitions to alter statutes and draft statutes, 1850 onwards; emergency statutes, 1915 and 1939; sealed amending statutes, 1858-1960; proposed amending statute, 1938; signed copy of Federated Superannuation system for Universities as referred to in the statutes; minute book of the Governing Body of the College under the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Act 1877, 1878-1881; memorial to the Master and Fellows, 1819; 'Sundry papers containing the more material part of the original calculations made in order to ascertain the income and expenditure of the College and other benefactions' [early nineteenth century]; papers relating to Joh Tozer's (Fellow of Gonville and Caius College) appeal to the Lord Chancellor to reform College proedure, 1849; papers relating to revision of statutes and copies of draft statutes relating to Cambridge University Commission, 1877-84.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
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Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
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Script of material
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Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
For further material on the revision of statutes see the Masters' files (MAS) and the papers of Charles Oscar Brink (PPC/COB.