IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1753 ATK
Held at: University of Westminster
Title: ATKINS, Richard (b 1913)
Date(s): 1995
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Atkins | Richard | b 1913 | engineer
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in Kingston-upon-Thames, 1913; moved to Brentford, c1919; enrolled as a full-time student at the Engineering School, Regent Street Polytechnic, 1927; participated in sporting activities there; gained a Ordinary National Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, 1930; employed in engineering; continued part-time education at Acton Technical College; Higher National Diploma, 1934; married Mary Eileen Senton, 1937; graduate member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, 1939; associate member, 1940; served with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, later Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, during World War Two; in India, 1942-1945; emigrated to Australia, 1951; retired, 1974; moved to New Zealand, 1982.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Typescript autobiography of Richard Atkins, 'A Thirty Year Stopover' (privately published, 1995), including reproductions of photographs, giving an account of his Irish forebears, his family, education and professional life as an engineer, in England, Australia and New Zealand, and service in India during World War Two.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signing the Regulations for Access form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies may be supplied, for research use only, unless copyright restrictions apply or the item is too fragile to be copied. Requests to publish original material should be addressed to the University Archivist.
Physical characteristics:
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Collection level description.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented by the author in 1997.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Other copies were sent to the Turnbull Library, Wellington, the Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, and the Hocken Library, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2002