Collection K/PP96 - GUEST, Professor Anthony Gordon (b 1930)

Key Information

Reference code

K/PP96

Title

GUEST, Professor Anthony Gordon (b 1930)

Date(s)

  • 1976-1977 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 file

Scope and content

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.

General Information

Name of creator

(1930-)

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).

Custodial history

Professor Stuart George Hall, 1994.

Conditions governing access

Administrative records are generally closed for 20 years except for published material and some committee and other minutes.

Where open, access is subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.

Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archives.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Finding aids

Detailed list available for consultation in the King's College London Archives Reading Room.

Existence and location of originals

Off-campus collection

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Related materials

King's College London Council minutes and the main secretarial series contain relevant material relating to the future of the religious studies department.

Related descriptions

Alternative identifier(s)

Place access points

People and Organisations

Genre access points

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

Script(s)

Archivist's note

Sources: Who's Who. Entry compiled by Geoff Browell as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

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