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Identity statement
- Reference code(s)
- GB0100 KCLCA Stone
- Title
- STONE, Sir (John) Leonard (1896-1978)
- Date(s)
- 19th century
- Level of description
- Collection (fonds)
- Extent and medium of the unit of description (quantity, bulk, or size)
- 1 volume
Context
- Name of creator(s)
Not known.
- Administrative / Biographical history
Born, 1896; educated at Malvern College; called to the Bar, Gray's Inn, 1923; joined Lincoln's Inn, 1931; Bencher, Gray's Inn, 1942; knighted, 1943; OBE, 1943; Chief Justice, High Court, Bombay, 1943-1947; President, Commission of Inquiry, Bombay Explosions, 1944; Queen's Counsel, 1948; Vice-Chancellor, County Palatine of Lancaster, 1948-1963; Treasurer, Gray's Inn, 1956; Chairman of Departmental Committee on Hallmarking, 1956-1958; died, 1978.
- Archival history
The book was in the family of Sir Leonard Stone, c1906-1976, but no further information about its provenance is known.
- Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Given to King's College Library via Professor R H Graveson, Faculty of Laws, by Sir Leonard Stone in 1976.
Content & structure
- Scope and content
Bound manuscript classical dictionary, [19th century]. Compiler unknown.
Conditions of access & use
- Conditions governing access
- 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, King's College London.
- Language/scripts of material
Greek, Latin, English
- Finding aids
Collection level description available in reading room at King's College London Archives.
Allied materials
- Existence and location of originals
King's College London College Archives
Description control
- Archivist's Note
Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Sources: brief description in King's College London Manuscripts and Private Papers: A Select Guide (1982); Who's Who.
- 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.
This catalogue is made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License. This catalogue may be updated from time to time in order to reflect additional material and/or new understandings of the material.
- Date(s) of descriptions
Jan 2001
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Subjects
- Books
- Communications media
- Dictionaries
- Greek (classical)
- Indo-european languages
- Information sciences
- Latin
- Publications
- Reference materials
Personal names
- Stone, Sir, John Leonard, 1896-1978, Lawyer
Corporate names
- King's College London College Archives
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