Archive of the University of Liverpool: Records of Benefactors and Members of Council

Contains the Records of the following Benefactors and Members of Council

• Mr James W. Alsop
• Reverend Charles Beard
• Miss A. Lois Bulley
• The Bulley Family, Ness Gardens, and Bees Ltd: Personal and Business Records
• Photograph of Council and Senate Members at Dinner
• Colonel V. E. Cotton
• Mr. H.B. Chrimes
• Will and codicil of Sir William Bower Forwood
• Charles W. Jones
• Sir Charles Sydney Jones
• Papers of Duncan Norman
• Photocopies of papers re the Victoria Building's clock (gift of Michael S. Potts member of Council)
• William Rathbone VI (1819-1902)
• Eleanor Rathbone, (1872-1946)
• Joseph Williams
• Mrs. Anne Yates
• Mr Richard Vaughan Yates (Princes Park)

The establishment of University College Liverpool was funded largely by the generous benefactions of local people and businesses, this generosity has continued to the present day.

The University Council is the governing body of the University and shall have the custody and use of the Common Seal, the management and administration of the whole revenue and property of the University and the conduct of affairs of the University.

Arranged into alphabetical order.

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• The Rathbone Family Papers are held at Special Collections and Archives at the University of Liverpool
• Charles Booth, A Handlist of the personal correspondence of Charles Booth (1840-1916), Mary Catherine Booth (1847-1939), and their family (together with some Macaulay letters) in the University of London Library ; Compiled by T.D. Rogers and H.M. Young, University of London Library, Palaeography, CC25.8c.1 and handlist for Booth Papers held at University of Liverpool Special Collections and Archives. Held in the Reading Room
• The Brunner family papers, including those of Sir J T Brunner papers are held at the University of Liverpool Special Collections and Archives. A Handlist is available in the Reading Room
• The Derby Family Papers are held at Liverpool Record Office, 4th Floor, Central Library, William Brown Street, Liverpool
• The Papers of Charles Sydney Jones are part of the M.S. manuscript sequence held in Special Collections and Archives at the University of Liverpool Library. Newspaper cuttings concerning the activities of Charles William Jones, father of Charles Sydney Jones, are also held in this sequence. A handlist for this sequence is available in the Reading Room.
• There are some papers relating to Lord Leverhulme at Unilever Historical Archives. Estate Correspondence and papers are held at Bolton Archives and Local Studies
• There is a volume of reprints of press articles etc. relating to the libel case brought by Lever Brothers Ltd. against various newspaper publishers 1906-1909 in Special Collections and Archives, University of Liverpool. The reference number is R.18.20. A handlist is available in the Reading Room.
• A scrap book relating to Reverend Dr Robert Henry Lundie is held in the M.S. Manuscripts sequence at University of Liverpool Special Collections and Archives. A handlist is available in the Reading Room
• The Correspondence of Sir Henry Tate is held by the Tate Gallery Archive, London
• The Papers and Correspondence of Frederick James Marquis 1st Earl of Woolton are held at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, (MSS Woolton)