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GOLLANCZ, Sir Israel (1863-1930)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP90

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: GOLLANCZ, Sir Israel (1863-1930)

Date(s): [1918-1921]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Parker | Dorothy Ellen | fl 1900-1921 | English student at King's College London

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Sir Israel Gollancz, born 1863; educated at the City of London School, University College London, Christ's College Cambridge, 1883-1887; degree awarded, 1887; Quain English Student and Lecturer, University College, 1892-1895; University Lecturer in English at Cambridge, 1896-1906; Professor of English Language and Literature at King's College London, 1903-1930; founding member and first Secretary of the British Academy, 1902-1930; President of the Philological Society, 1919-1922; died, 1930. Publications include: Pearl (London, 1891); Cynewulf's Christ (London, 1892); Exeter book of Anglo-Saxon poetry (London, 1895); Hamlet in Iceland (London, 1898); The sources of Hamlet (London, 1926). He was also editor of a number of important Shakespeare and other editions including The Temple Classics, The King's Library and The Mediaeval Library.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

A pencil sketch of Sir Israel Gollancz, Professor of English at King's College, by Dorothy Parker, and annotated 'Golly', a student nickname for the Professor, [1918-1921].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to the signature of a reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services.

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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

The sketch was drawn by Dorothy Parker for a fellow student of Israel Gollancz and bequeathed to her son, Dr Peter Sullivan. It was then given to a friend of Dr Sullivan, Percy Young, and passed to Professor Curtis Price of the Faculty of Music at King's College and thence to the English Department in 1990. The drawing was transferred to the Archives in 2001.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Department of English, King's College London.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Related material:

London University Library: letters to Austin Dobson, 1989-1916.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Sources: King's College London Calendars, Dictionary of national biography, Who's Who. Entry compiled by Geoff Browell as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: April 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Drawings | Visual materials
Illustrations

Personal names
Gollancz | Sir | Israel | 1863-1930 | Knight | Professor of English
Parker | Dorothy Ellen | fl 1900-1921 | English student at King's College London

Corporate names
King's College London

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