Misc: Letter from H A M Tyson, St Paul's School, London, to Sgt Geoffrey Best, Royal Army Education Corps, 1947

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA MISC 27
Held at	: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma ›
Full title	: Misc: Letter from H A M Tyson, St Paul's School, London, to Sgt Geoffrey Best, Royal Army Education Corps, 1947
Date(s)	: 1947
Level of description	: Collection (Fonds)
Extent	: 1 item
Name of creator(s)	: Tyson | H A M | fl.1947

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Geoffrey Francis Andrew Best: born 1928, educated at St Paul's School, London, Trinity College Cambridge (MA, PhD); served in Royal Army Education Corps, 1946-1947; Choate Fellow, Harvard University, 1954-55; Fellow of Trinity Hall, and Asst Lecturer, Cambridge University, 1955-1961; Lecturer, Edinburgh University, 1961-1966; Prof. of History, Edinburgh University, 1966-1974; Prof. of History, University of Sussex, 1974-1985; Senior Associate Member, St Anthony's College, Oxford, 1988-date

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Typescript letter from H A M Tyson, Deputy Head, St Paul's School, London, to former pupil Sgt Geoffrey Francis Andrew Best, Royal Army Education Corps, relating to Best seeking a commission in the British Army, 27 Nov 1947.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

single item

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of 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 Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services

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Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre in 1989 by Professor Geoffrey Best, St Anthony's College, Oxford, via Professor Brian Bond, Department of War Studies, King's College, London

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Date(s) of descriptions:
Nov 1999