IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP96
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: GUEST, Professor Anthony Gordon (b 1930)
Date(s): 1976-1977
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Guest | Anthony Gordon | b 1930 | Professor of English Law
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1930; educated at Colston's School, Bristol and St John's College Oxford; called to Bar, Gray's Inn, 1956; Bencher, 1978; Lecturer, University College, Oxford, 1954-1955; Fellow and Praelector in Jurisprudence, 1955-1965; Dean, 1963-1964; Reader in Common Law to Council of Legal Education (Inns of court), 1967-1980; Travelling Fellowship to South Africa, 1957; Professor of English Law, King's College London, 1966-1995. Publications: edited Anson's principles of the law of contract, 21st to 26th editions (1959-1984); edited Chitty on contracts, 22nd to 27th editions (1961-1994); edited Oxford essays in jurisprudence (1961); The law of hire-purchase (1966); edited Benjamin's sale of goods, 1st to 4th editions (1974-1992); edited Encyclopedia of consumer credit (1975); Introduction to the law of credit and security (1978); edited Chalmers and Guest on bills of exchange, 14th edition (1991); Only remember me (1993).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
The papers of Professor Anthony Guest consisting of minutes and correspondence, notably relating to a working party on Religious Studies at King's College London, set up to consider the future of the discipline, and of which Professor Guest was chairman, 1976-1977.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Administrative records are generally closed for 30 years except for published material and some committee and other minutes
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.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Detailed list available for consultation in the King's College London Archives Reading Room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Professor Stuart George Hall, 1994.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
King's College London Council minutes and the main secretarial series contain relevant material relating to the future of the religious studies department.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Sources: Who's Who. Entry compiled by Geoff Browell as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.
Date(s) of descriptions: May 2002