Wood family and Whitfeld family further papers, ca. 1857-1976
Wood family and Whitfeld family further papers, ca. 1857-1976
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Date
ca. 1857-1976
Call Numbers
MLMSS 8917/Boxes 1-4 , MLMSS 8917/Box 5X
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Physical Description
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1.15 metres of textual material (4 boxes, 1 outsize box)
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Fonds
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The collection comprises papers of the Wood and Whitfeld families, in particular concerning Professor George Arnold Wood and his wife Eleanor Madeline Wood (née Whitfeld)
BOX 1
Envelope containing typescript carbon copy of lecture by R.M. Crawford entitled ‘George Arnold Wood’, 1946
Envelope labelled ‘Mrs Danvers Power – A Socialist F...
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Full title
Wood family and Whitfeld family further papers, ca. 1857-1976
Notes
General note
Bishop D. A. Garnsey was married to Evangeline (Evanne) Eleanor Wood (1909-1987), daughter of Professor George Arnold Wood (1865-1928) and Eleanor Madeline Whitfeld (1873-1967)
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Information upgraded as part of the Manuscripts Unprocessed eRecords Project 2012-2013
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Bishop D. A. Garnsey in 1992
Administrative / Biographical history
George Arnold Wood (1865-1928), the eldest child of George Stanley Wood, was educated at Owens College, Manchester and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1891 he became the first Challis Professor of History of the University of Sydney, a position he held for the remainder of his life. His major research work was ‘The Discovery of Australia’ (London, 1922...
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
MLMSS 8917/Boxes 1-4 , MLMSS 8917/Box 5X
Record Identifier
1kVdJDxn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1kVdJDxn
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Reference code
414256
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