Calendar: 1893-1894 Page 776

DRAFT CHARTER OF THE GRESHAM UNIVERSITY As approved by Committee of the Privy Council Victoria by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom 01 Great Britain and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting Whereas University College London originally incorpo- rated by Royal Charter and reincorporated by Act of Parlia- ment and King's College London also originally incorporated by Royal Chapter and reincorporated by Act of Parliament lately presented to Us in Our Council humble Petition undei the common seals of those Colleges and thereby represented to Us among other things as follows That there exists at present in London an urgent demand for the extension of the benefits of University Education and for the better encouragement of learning and research and that it is expedient University should be constituted in and for London for the purpose of providing and encouraging systematic teaching and methods of study for the efficiency of which it should become resppnsible And by the same Petition humbly prayed Us to be pleased to grant Charter to Body of Persons to be University in and for London Now know ye that We having taken into Our Royal con- sideration the said humble Petition do by virtue of Our Pre- rogative Royal and of Our special grace certain knowledge