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Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Frederick Sydney Dainton FRS, Baron Dainton of Hallam Moors (1914-1997) VOLUME | Introduction Section A: Biographical and personal Section B: Research Section C: Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Section G: University of Sheffield Section H: House of Lords Section D: University of Leeds Section E: University of Nottingham Section F: University Grants Committee NCUACS catalogue no. 112/11/02 by Timothy E. Powell, Peter Harper and Caroline Thibeaud F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Compiled by: Description level: Fonds Date of material: ca 1885-2002 Extent of material: 162 boxes, ca 3,500 items Timothy E. Powell, Peter Harper and Caroline Thibeaud Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Frederick Sydney Dainton, Baron Dainton of Hallam Moors FRS (1914-1997), chemist NCUACS catalogue no. 112/11/02 © 2002 National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists, University of Bath. Reference code: GB0200 MS 231 Deposited in: University of Sheffield Library F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 The work of the National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists in the production of this catalogue was made possible by a grant from the Goldsmiths’ Company’s Charities. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 NOT ALL THE MATERIAL IN THIS COLLECTION MAY YET BE AVAILABLE FOR CONSULTATION. ENQUIRIES SHOULD BE ADDRESSED IN THE FIRST INSTANCE TO: ARCHIVES THE MAIN LIBRARY THE CURATOR OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD SHEFFIELD F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 LIST OF CONTENTS GENERAL INTRODUCTION SECTION A BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL SECTION B RESEARCH A.1-A.539 B.1-B.131 SECTION C UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE C.1-C.122 SECTION D UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS SECTION E UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM D.1-D.97 E.1-E.78 SECTION F UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMITTEE F.1-F.136 G.1-G.147 H.1-H.374 N.1-N.91 SECTION G UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD J.1-J.998 K.1-K.193 L.1-L.362 SECTION J SECTION M VISITS AND CONFERENCES SECTION N CORRESPONDENCE SECTION K PUBLICATIONS SECTION H HOUSE OF LORDS SECTION L LECTURES SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS 0.1-0.34 INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS SECTION O PHOTOGRAPHIC SLIDES M.1-M.183 F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 GENERAL INTRODUCTION PROVENANCE The papers were received from Lady Dainton, widow, in 2000 and from Sheffield University Library, on various dates 2002. OUTLINE OF THE CAREER OF FREDERICK SYDNEY DAINTON Frederick Sydney Dainton was born in Sheffield on 11 November 1914, the ninth child of George and Mary Dainton. His father was a Master Mason. He was educated at the Central Secondary School for Boys, Sheffield, winning an Exhibition scholarship to St John’s College Oxford in 1933 (Goldsmiths’ Company Exhibition 1935), from where he graduated with First Class Honours in Chemistry in 1937. Dainton then moved to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge for postgraduate research on reactions of simple gases, studying under R.G.W. Norrish. He was a Goldsmiths’ Company Senior Student, 1939 (Ph.D. 1940), before being appointed University Demonstrator in Chemistry 1944 and H.O. Jones Lecturer in Physical Chemistry 1946. He was elected a Fellow of St Catharine’s College Cambridge in 1945. It was at Cambridge that Dainton met Barbara Hazlitt Wright, a student at Newnham College. They were married in 1942. he had broadened his studies thereafter to the study of combustion, chain reactions and Royal Society in 1957. Although Dainton’s initial research field had been photochemistry (studying under R.G.W. Norrish), and he was to retain an interest in this field throughout his research career, He stayed in Leeds for fifteen years, a period particularly productive both in terms of building up the department into a leading centre of research in physical chemistry and in pursuing his own research. In 1950 Dainton returned to Yorkshire as Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Leeds. many areas of physical chemistry. In his own estimation he regarded his main contributions as being In recognition of his contributions to reaction kinetics Dainton was elected to the Fellowship of the polymerisation kinetics. As his Royal Society citation recorded, Dainton’s research interests spanned Of his achievements during this in the following areas: the kinetics and thermodynamics of addition polymerisation, the kinetics of cationic and anionic polymerisation, redox reactions, photochlorination, the reactivity of oxygen He took up post at a particularly turbulent time for universities worldwide and the student atoms in singlet state, photochemical electron transfer, quantum mechanical tunnelling and radiation In 1965 Dainton accepted an invitation to serve as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham. disturbances at Nottingham proved a considerable challenge. chemistry. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 period, Dainton was particularly proud of the establishment of the University’s Medical School, which was opened in 1970. Throughout his time at Nottingham Dainton maintained his links with active research work through his Honorary Directorship of the Cookridge Radiation Research Centre at Leeds. In 1969 Dainton was asked to become Chairman of the Council for Scientific Policy (of which he was already a member). its demands could not be While not a full-time post, Dainton felt combined with those of the Vice-Chancellorship. He accepted the Chairmanship of the Council, resigning from Nottingham, and also took the opportunity to return to academic research and teaching as Dr Lees’ Professor of Chemistry at Oxford. He held the Chair for three years. The Council for Scientific Policy was abolished in 1972, Dainton becoming the first Chairman of its successor body the Advisory Board for the Research Councils 1972-1973. He was then invited by the Secretary of State for Education and Science (Margaret Thatcher) to become Chairman of the University Grants Committee in succession to Sir Kenneth Berrill. before a change of government and during a worsening economic crisis. His term was marked by the introduction of government austerity measures that markedly constrained the ongoing expansion of universities. The difficulties facing the higher education sector notwithstanding, during Dainton’s Chairmanship the number of successfully encouraged industrial sponsorships of engineering courses through new undergraduate courses with an emphasis on the needs of manufacturing industry. Dainton retired from the University Grants Dainton took up this post shortly significantly increased students medical and he Council in 1978. in touch with developments thereafter. The difficulties were exacerbated when the Labour party lost the 1979 election, as the incoming Conservative Government was not committed to the project. Dainton met Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister, in September 1980 and this face-to-face meeting was important in persuading her of the case for the new site. Dainton served as Chairman of the British Library until 1985 and remained Dainton was appointed to the National Radiological Protection Board in 1977, serving to 1985 (from 1978 at Chairman). In 1978 he became Chairman of the British Library Board. His association with the national library can be said to date from his Chairmanship of the National Libraries Committee, 1967-1969. Dainton arrived at the British Library at a crucial moment. A site for the Library had been acquired on Euston Road at St Pancras but there was still considerable opposition to the move. Chairmanship of the Royal Postgraduate Medical School 1980-1989 (serving as President from 1989 Also in 1978 Dainton had been invited to become Chancellor of the University of Sheffield, a post he held to 1997. As a native of the city of Sheffield this appointment was particularly appropriate. Dainton took a keen interest in the University and was particularly conscious of his responsibilities at Dainton held many other positions and was active well into his ninth decade. These included the the University degree congregations, delivering a different address at each. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 to 1997) and membership of the Court of Governors of the London School of Economics 1980-1997 (Chairman of the Library Panel from 1986). Dainton had joined the Goldsmiths’ Company's Court of Assistants in 1973 and in 1982-1983 he served as Prime Warden of the Company. He also chaired its Education Committee. It is interesting to note that Dainton’s association with the Goldsmiths’ Company dated from his undergraduate days in Oxford when the Company awarded him a scholarship, with a postgraduate scholarship following in 1939. However, he made a This brief outline of Dainton’s career gives some indication of the range of his activities in the fields of science, university administration, academic standards and public service. great many contributions additional to those principal commitments set out above. Government advisory service included membership of the Central Advisory Council for Science and Technology 1967-1970, the Council for Scientific Policy (CSP) from 1965 to 1972 (Chairman from 1969) and the CSP’s successor body, the Advisory Board for the Research Councils (Dainton was its first Chairman 1972-1973). In the 1960s he served on two significant working parties examining issues relating to the ‘Swing Away from Science’. The first was the Enquiry into the Flow of Candidates in Science and Technology into Higher Education, established by the CSP under the chairmanship of Dainton in February 1965, to examine the causes of and remedies for the shortage of young people studying science and engineering at university. It reported in February 1968. He was also a member of the Working Group on Manpower Parameters for scientific growth, established under the chairmanship of Lord Swann in December 1965, which reported in September 1968. Dainton was involved in formulating policy fundamental to the planning and organisation of government-funded science in the following decade and beyond. He also chaired the CSP Working Group on Research Organisation which contributed to A Framework for Government Research and Development (the Rothschild Report). Dainton also chaired the CSP’s Working Group which advised on how the recommendations in this report (and the customer/contractor principle in particular) should be applied. As Chairman of the CSP Dainton was created a Life Baron in 1986, adopting the title Baron Dainton of Hallam Moors, an upland area very near Sheffield. He did not adopt a party affiliation but sat on the cross-benches. St He served on the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology, chairing three influential sub-committees, the Academic Research Careers Sub-Committee, the Systematic Biology Research Sub-Committee and the Forensic Science Sub-Committee. As a member of the House of Lords, he also made significant contributions to discussion of higher education policy, and medical teaching and training. Dainton was accorded a great many honours and awards. These included over 25 honorary degrees from universities worldwide. Overseas honours included Foreign Membership of the Royal Swedish Dainton was an active member of Parliament. Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Sciences, Gottingen, and the American Philosophical Society. Dainton was an Honorary Fellow of F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Catharine’s College Cambridge, St John’s College Oxford, Goldsmiths’ College London, Queen Mary and Westfield College London, the London School of Economics, Birkbeck College London and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1957 (Davy Medal 1969, Faraday Medal 1974). He was knighted in 1971 and elevated to the peerage as Baron Dainton of Hallam Moors in 1986. Dainton died on 5 December 1997. He was survived by his wife, Barbara Dainton with whom he had a son and two daughters. For Dainton’s own account of his life and career see his autobiography Doubts and Certainties: A Personal Memoir of the 20th Century (ed. by Barbara Dainton) Sheffield Academic Press, 2001. See also ‘Frederick Sydney Dainton, Baron Dainton of Hallam Moors‘ by P. Gray and K.J. Ivin, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society vol 46 (2000), 85-124. DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION The material is presented in the order given in the List of contents. Dainton had a full and varied career making contributions to many areas of national life and this is very well represented in the education, libraries, medical teaching and training are documented in more than one section. discipline and some of the key figures within it, and his continuing devotion to the City of Sheffield. There are also photographs, taken at various stages in Dainton’s life from boyhood to the 1990s, and audio and video tape recordings. the Central Secondary School for Boys, Sheffield and its Shakespeare Society in particular. There is material on his undergraduate education, chiefly notes on lectures and experiments, and a significant collection. His widespread and longstanding interests in fields such as science policy, higher from childhood to the end of his life. There is a draft of his autobiography, together with many accorded. Other material documents Dainton’s family background, his interest in the history of his sequence of material covering Dainton’s career and some of the many honours and awards he was autobiographical and biographical accounts. Schooldays are well documented by material relating to Section A, Biographical and personal, offers significant documentation of Dainton’s life and career significant material relating to Dainton’s wartime research on incendiaries, including a set of reports. Dainton’s research interests is patchy. There is good documentation of early work on photochemistry from the late 1930s to early 1950s, photochlorination and polymerisation from the period of Leeds, Section B, Research, documents Dainton’s own research work 1937-1972. While it includes notebooks and research notes covering his periods at Cambridge, Leeds and Oxford, coverage of and later research work (1965-1970) at the Cookridge High Energy Radiation Centre. There is also F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 This section also includes research work of Lea was based at the Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge and Dainton contacted him after reading his book Lea, 1943-1949. D.H. Actions of Radiations on Living Cells, 1946. Lea died young and after his death Dainton was given access to some of his research records. At the end of the section is a copy of Dainton’s Ph.D. thesis ‘The Mechanism of Gaseous Explosion’ (University of Cambridge, 1940), together with a number of Ph.D. theses completed by research students and colleagues at Cambridge. Section C, Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, brings together material from two distinct periods in Dainton’s career. The first period covers the period from his graduation from Oxford and move to Cambridge in 1937-1938 to his move to Leeds in 1950. It includes a copy of Dainton’s undergraduate thesis ‘The Spectroscopy and Photochemistry of the Alkyl Nitrites, Nitro compounds and nitrates’ but is principally teaching material. The second component of the section is teaching material from Dainton’s period as Dr Lee’s Professor of Chemistry at Oxford, where he returned in 1970. Section D, University of Leeds, brings together teaching material from Dainton’s years at Leeds, 1950-1965 (this includes some earlier lecture notes from Cambridge and a little later material which may relate to university teaching as Dr Lee’s Professor of Chemistry), material relating to the administration of research in the Department of Physical Chemistry and correspondence and papers the University and university life to them. Section E, University of Nottingham, provides documentation covering the period of Dainton’s Vice- and support. press releases and statements, etc. relating to protests at Nottingham and the response of the are also manuscript notes for Dainton’s addresses to first year undergraduates at Leeds, introducing in the UK and worldwide. There is also material relating to the establishment of the University Medical School, which Dainton regarded as one of his principal achievements. The section also has University administration. There is extensive background material on unrest at university campuses correspondence, student and university material including notices and papers for meetings, reports, relating to Dainton’s Honorary Directorship of the Cookridge High Energy Radiation Centre. There Chancellorship 1965-1970. His term of office coincided with a period of prolonged student unrest in the UK and throughout the world and most of the material in this section relates to this. There is There are correspondence and papers relating to the cuts in university expenditure imposed by the the University of Nottingham meant that when disputes arose in the mid-1990s relating to the management of the University, some of those unhappy with developments looked to him for advice Section F, University Grants Committee, covers Dainton’s chairmanship of the UGC 1973-1978. correspondence and papers relating to B.H. Tolley's book The History of the University of Nottingham, 2001, including drafts of chapters on Dainton’s term of office. Dainton’s close ties to F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 government and the consequent difficulties of maintaining long-term planning, and relations with the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, trades unions, individual universities and the four Secretaries of State for Education and Science with whom he had to deal (including Margaret Thatcher and Shirley Williams). There is a good record of the many visitations to higher education institutions throughout the UK conducted by Dainton and other members of the UGC, including formal reports and Dainton’s own manuscript notes. There is also documentation of his encouragement of industrial sponsorship of new undergraduate engineering courses. Section G, University of Sheffield, includes material relating to Dainton’s appointment and installation as Chancellor of the University of Sheffield in 1978 (succeeding the politician ‘Rab’ Butler), a number of managerial issues with which he was involved including the Vice-Chancellorship of the University, and University prizes. The section also has good documentation of Dainton’s speeches at degree congregations. Dainton was very conscious of his responsibilities at these occasions and delivered a different address at each. There are copies of his speeches, together with his collection of quotations, articles, press cuttings etc for themes and anecdotes. Section H, House of Lords, has good coverage of Dainton’s work as a member of Parliament from 1986. Documented here is his service on the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology and on its Subcommittees including those chaired by him - the Academic Research material. some of Dainton’s most significant contributions to public life. Documentation of his advisory role to government includes the Central Advisory Council for Science and Technology, the Committee on Manpower Resources for Science and Technology Working Group on Manpower Parameters For under discussion, annotated copies of Parliamentary literature, briefing notes and background Section J, Societies and organisations, is the largest in the collection. It documents Dainton’s involvement with 49 UK, overseas and international organisations and presents documentation of Bills and Health Bills passing through Parliament. Material includes notes for and drafts of Dainton’s contributions to debates, correspondence with colleagues and other interested parties on issues Sub-Committee. There is also excellent coverage of his interest in and contributions to Education Careers Sub-Committee, the Systematic Biology Research Sub-Committee and Forensic Science successful advocacy of the project, including his meeting with Margaret Thatcher. for the new library, opposition following the Conservative election victory in 1979 and Dainton’s very Scientific Growth, the Council for Scientific Policy and the Working Group Enquiry into the Flow of Candidates in Science and Technology into Higher Education. There are minutes of meetings, draft and final reports, correspondence with other members, Dainton’s manuscript notes, background material. Also well documented are his contributions to the library world including chairmanship of the National Libraries Committee, 1967-1971 and the British Library Board 1978-1985. The British Library material includes Dainton’s own collection of key papers from the period, such as the plans F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 The section also includes documentation of many of Dainton’s other posts and responsibilities. These include serving as a Trustee of the Wolfson Foundation 1979-1988, the Prime Wardenship of the Goldsmiths’ Company 1982-1983 and service on the London School of Economics Court of Governors 1980-1997. He was on a number of LSE committees and chaired the Library Panel, to which most of the material relates. Dainton was also Chairman of the Royal Postgraduate Medical School 1980-1989 and President to 1997. Much of the material concerns the proposed establishment of a national centre for clinical research. Dainton’s interest in medical training is also represented in material of the University of London City and East London Medical Education Group, which he also chaired. International and overseas commitments documented include the establishment of the International Federation of Associations for the Advancement of Science and Technology; Dainton was Chairman of the Inaugural Meeting in Hong Kong in 1991. In 1978 Dainton was personally requested by the Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, to undertake a review of higher education in the country. He visited the universities of Singapore the following year and advised the creation of the National University of Singapore. Dainton made a number of return visits to review progress. The material includes his notes on higher education in Singapore, reports, background material and speeches delivered during his visits. Also documented here are a number of charitable causes Dainton supported as a Patron or in an Dainton’s book reviews. Appeal, the Jacqueline du Pré Memorial Fund (St Hilda’s College Oxford) and St Luke’s Hospice, Sheffield. Section K, Publications, includes a set of Dainton’s offprints of published articles (those 1937-1973 Educational Broadcasting Services Trust, Edward Boyle Memorial Trust, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre intended for publication. These cover articles on science policy, higher education and library policy advisory capacity. These include the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council, the Campaign for Oxford, the are in bound volumes), and a sequence of drafts and related material for publications or works relating to his invitation and public lectures 1942-1996. Dainton was much sought after as a speaker was frequently asked to write obituaries and memoirs, and these are presented in a separate sequence. They include G.B. Kistiakowsky, N.N. Semenov and S. Zuckerman. There is also a set of as well as scientific articles in the field of physical chemistry. The largest single bodies of material relate to a planned but unpublished book on radiation chemistry (with E. Collinson) and to Dainton’s guide Choosing a British University A Guide for Candidates in the United States for Fulbright Awards and Marshall Scholarships (London, 1981). Dainton’s wide circle of friends and colleagues meant he Section L, Lectures, presents a chronological sequence of material, principally notes and drafts, F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 on a wide variety of topics, relating not only to his scientific work but to all aspects of public life with which he was involved. Consequently there are lectures on his scientific research and non-technical lectures on libraries, higher education, medical research and education, research and development, scientific education and manpower, and science policy. Among the lectures documented are Dainton’s lectures as Arthur D. Little Visiting Professor of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1959; his 1961 Baker Lectures on Radiation Chemistry, Cornell University, New York; the Sir Ludwig Mond Lecture ‘Science in the Universities: Salvation or Damnation: the Pursuit of Science and Human Curiosity’, Manchester 1970; the 1981 Rede Lecture on ‘British Universities: Purposes, Problems and Pressures’; the Rock Carling Lecture on ‘Universities and the National Health Service’, Sheffield, 1983; the 3rd Edward Boyle Memorial Lecture ‘Knowledge is our Destiny and Education is the Tool’, Royal Society of Arts, 1987; and the 1st British Library Dainton Lecture ‘Knowledge is power: but how can we find what we need’, 1987. There is also a sequence of notes for shorter speeches and addresses 1957-1997. Section M, Visits and conferences, presents some of the visits Dainton made and conferences attended 1946-1997. It includes visits which were primarily scientific in nature, such as those to Canada and the USA in the 1940s and 1950s (including his Arthur D. Little Visiting Professorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology), to visits which bore more on his interest in education policy and libraries, such as his visit to Japan in 1973. Much of the material here relates to extended The visits. years. education, libraries and the House of Lords. The sequence also includes some personal visits, often covering several weeks and taking in more than one country. On many occasions changes of career meant much earlier correspondence was not retained by him. professional engagements with sight-seeing and this is reflected in the material. Section N, Correspondence, is not extensive. Much of Dainton’s correspondence was kept by him correspondence here is presented in a chronological sequence weighted predominantly to the last with the material to which it related, rather than being kept as a separate sequence, and Dainton’s Dainton was accompanied by his wife, who often made independent trips on her own during the Dainton combined his attendance at conferences, discussions with colleagues, lecturing and years of his life. It reflects a wide range of Dainton’s interests including scientific research, higher correspondence. There are also references and recommendations, again mainly relating to his last There is also an index of correspondents Section O, Photographic slides, presents Dainton’s collection of slides of graphs, figures, calculations etc. used as illustrations for lectures. They are all roughly 2 inch square size and most are glass. Few are dated. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 LOCATION OF OTHER MATERIAL Papers relating to the National Libraries Committee are held at the British Library. Dainton’s medals and Honorary Degree certificates are intended to be passed to Sheffield University Library. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We are grateful to Lady Dainton for making the material available and for her advice and encouragement. T.E. Powell P. Harper C.F. Thibeaud BATH 2002 F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 SECTION A BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL A.1-A.539 OBITUARIES AND TRIBUTES AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNTS A.70-A.100A CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOLDAYS A.101-A.187 UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES A.188-A.336 CAREER, HONOURS AND AWARDS A.337-A.391 FAMILY AND PERSONAL A.392-A.418 SCIENTIFIC BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY OF SCIENCE A.443-A.495 A.496-A.510 A.511-A.539 A.419-A.442 CITY OF SHEFFIELD MISCELLANEOUS DAINTON’S ARCHIVES NON-TEXT MATERIAL F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal OBITUARIES AND TRIBUTES Obituaries in the national press: The Times, 8 December 1997. The Guardian, 8 December 1997. The Independent, 8 December 1997 and 22 December 1997 The Daily Telegraph, 10 December 1997. University obituaries: Dainton: ‘Lord Sheffield Newsletter vol 22 no 5, 9 January 1998. distinguished scientist and policy-maker’, University of ‘Lord Dainton: an appreciation’, from Annual Report of the Librarian 1996- 1997, University of Sheffield. ‘Former VC dies, aged 83’, ‘Newsletter’ no 165, 16 January 1998. by D. Greenfield, University of Nottingham Offprint. ‘Lord Dainton of Hallam Moors’ by K.J. Ivin, 5pp photocopy typescript draft of memoir for Royal Society of Edinburgh, August 1998. ‘Frederick Sydney Dainton, Baron Dainton of Hallam Moors‘ by P. Gray and K.J. lvin, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society vol 46 (2000), 85-124. See A.539 for the audio cassette recording of the service. Letter re arrangements for the service; Order of Service; ‘Lord Dainton: an appreciation’ given by Lord Walton of Detchant, 6pp typescript. Service of Thanksgiving for the Life of Lord Dainton, Sheffield Cathedral, 23 March 1998. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNTS 1939-2002 A.6-A.37 A.38-A.57 A.58-A.60 A.61-A.66 ‘Doubts and Certainties: A Personal Memoir of the 20th Century’ Articles and profiles Curricula vitae Entries for biographical directories A.67, A.68 Press cuttings A.69 Miscellaneous ‘Doubts and Certainties: A Personal Memoir of the 20th Century’ Dainton’s autobiography, This was by Barbara Dainton) by Sheffield Academic Press in 2001. Although it was unfinished at the time of Dainton’s death, the drafts indicate very substantial progress had been made. published posthumously (edited Typescripts drafts of chapters. Preface and Chapter 1: Steel City Childhood. Some of the photographs and slides used for illustrations are at A.511- A.535. Chapter 5: A Vice-Chancellor’s Life: Nottingham 1965-1970. Chapter 4: An old civic university: Leeds 1950-65. Chapter 2: Pre-war Oxbridge, 1933-1939. Chapter 3: Cambridge. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal Chapter 6: Student unrest: a vignette of a local aberration. Chapter 7: A much-distracted chemist at Oxford. Chapter 8: Science and the State: the uneasy but unavoidable relationship. Five years at the interface between government and the Chapter 9: universities. 2 folders. Chapter 10: Life as a casual worker! 1978-1985 2 folders. A.18-A.20 Chapter 11: Some travels of an elderly couple. 3 folders. Chapter 12: the last lap. A.23-A.36A A.23, A.24 Manuscript notes for summary of the book, August 1996. Background material assembled by Dainton in preparing his autobiography. Printed material, 1972-1978. ‘Papers for Chapter V: NHS’. Contents of envelope so inscribed. Chiefly re postgraduate medical education. Correspondence, notes and papers, 1980, 1981. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal A.25-A.28 ‘Material for Chapter VI.’ Contents of envelope so inscribed. Chiefly re NHS structure and reform, 1978-1982. 4 folders. A.29-A.36 ‘Autobiog. Memoir Papers for Sci. Policy Chapt 7’. inscribed. Contents of boxfile so Chiefly offprints of published lectures by Dainton. ‘“Knock-free” fuels’, Discovery, September 1939. Annotated by Dainton, ‘My first “popular” science article’. Manuscript notes for talk on ‘American Universities’ to John Ray Society, February 1947. 1971, 1974. 1975, 1976. 1979, 1980. Photocopies of possible illustrative material. 1987-1989. 1991-1996. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal Promotional leaflet; papers re formal book launch of Doubts and Certainties, British Library, 28 January 2002. Copy of letter thanks for a copy of the book from Margaret Thatcher, with tribute to Dainton, 6 June 2002. A.38-A.57 Articles and profiles 1962-1996, n.d. of draft a section of B.H. Tolley’s A The History of the University of Nottingham (Nottingham University Press, 2001) dealing with ‘Dainton and Butterfield’ is at E.59-E.63. An article ‘Coming home, hoping to repay the debt | owe to Sheffield’, Quality of Sheffield and South Yorkshire, November 1978, is at G.7. An audio tape of a ‘conversation with Lord Dainton by D.H. Whiffen’ for the Royal Society of Chemistry, 1987, is at A.536; a videotape of an interview with Lord Walton, 1991 is at A.538. ‘Biographical sketch’ for the American Chemical Society, 1962. ‘It began with Zeppelins...’, New Scientist, 12 February 1970. Interview with Dainton, ‘FUSS: Forum for University Staff and Students’ vol. 6 (1974). See also F.17. Biographies for German Academy Exchange Services and Anglo-Bulgarian Colloquium IV, ca 1973. at Harvard University, re Dainton’s contributions to chemistry, 1978-1979. Biographical account for the Graduation Day programme, Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, 11 July 1975. Dainton was College Visitor. Brief correspondence with E.N. Hiebert, Professor of the History of Science F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal ‘A scientific romantic who rose by degrees’, Sheffield Morning Telegraph, 17 August 1979. See also G.6. ‘The sensitive scientist’, Yorkshire Life, May 1980. ‘A decade of British science policy. An interview with Professor Sir Frederick Dainton, Chemistry in Britain, vol 16 (1980). Listing from Radio Times, 5 November 1980. Dainton was Guest of the Week on ‘Woman's Hour’, BBC Radio 4. ‘Hunt the Paradox and Fate may smile’, The Scientist, 13 July 1987. Interview of Dainton by P.R. Thompson for the ‘City Lives’ series in the National Life Story Collection of the British Library National Sound Archive. 1989-1991. Correspondence re arrangements, 1989-1991. Bound transcript, 223pp. 1991. ‘Profile of the Lord Dainton FRS’ by D.N. Hall for the Foundation for Science and Technology, ca January 1991. Science for the People’, /rish Times, 13 September 1994. ‘Upholding the gold standard’, Times Educational Supplement, September 1991. ‘The crystal gazer’, Guardian, 2 August 1994. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal Autobiographical notes by Dainton recalling ‘Three examples of burgeoning interest in science’ written for P. Ramsden, Field Officer (North) for the Association for Science Education, 1995. ‘Reflections of a radiation chemical dinosaur’, Radiat. Phys. Chem. vol. 47 (1996). ‘Reflections on the University of Sheffield’, Now & Then (1996). A.58-A.60 Curricula vitae ca 1965-1997 Includes versions of Dainton’s ‘Scientific biography’. See A.508 for list research put aside for his Royal Society memorialist. of ‘Scientific Publications’, and A.510 for accounts of Arranged in estimated chronological order. ca 1978, ca 1986. ‘First draft outline life of FSD’, 1997. A.61-A.66 Entries for biographical directories 1979-1997 ca 1965, ca 1968, ca 1972, ca 1973. People of Today, Debrett’s, 1991-1996. Modern Scientists and Engineers, McGraw-Hill, 1979. Who’s Who in the World, 1980, 1994. A.61 Who's Who, 1989-1997. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal ‘BBC-Vacher’s Biographical Guide’ and Dod’s Parliamentary Companion, 1994-1997. Miscellaneous entries. A.67, A.68 Press cuttings 1940-2002 Included here are cuttings from newspapers, pages of magazine articles, photocopies of articles. The material includes articles featuring Dainton as the main subject and also single references to him. Press cuttings relating to Dainton’s career, honours and awards are also to be found with the material to which it relates. 2 folders. Miscellaneous 1915-1988 A.72-A.100A A.70 A.70-A.100A A.70, A.71 Infancy CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOLDAYS Central Secondary School for Boys, Sheffield Includes ‘Membership of committees other than University committees’, late 1960s; ‘Retirement activities as remembered by BHD’ (Barbara Dainton); manuscript list of Honorary Degrees. Probably used at Hunter’s Bar School. Infants School exercise book (lacks covers) used for writing exercises, ca 1919. Banner Cross Enrolment Certificate, July 1915. United Methodist Church Sunday School Cradle Roll A.70, A.71 Infancy 1915, ca 1919 F.S. Dainton NCUACS 1112/11/02 Biographical and personal A.72-A.100A Central Secondary School for Boys, Sheffield 1919-1988 Dainton entered the school in September 1925. name to High Storrs Grammar School in 1940. The school changed its See also J.531-J.535. Exercise book inscribed on front cover ‘F.S. Dainton [Subject] Homework (Phys. & Inorg. Chem.) [Form] V Sci’. Used for homework (marked), 23 September [1929] - 9 April [1930]. ‘The Parachor’, 29pp manuscript ‘completed April 7th. F.S. Dainton VI Sc’. Latin exercise, 2pp manuscript. Sheffield Daily Telegraph newspaper cutting of School Certificate Exam Results, August 1929. Programmes for School Prize Days, 1930, 1931, 1933. Souvenir brochure of Sheffield Anglo-German Holiday School, 25 July-22 August 1930. Photographs are at A.516. Dainton was one of the Sheffield boys chosen for this educational exchange scheme. Twenty German boys visited England and twenty Sheffield boys visited Germany. Programme for Opening of New Schools at High Storrs, 28 June 1933. Dainton’s control card as a Group Leader at School Camp, Horstrake Isle of Man, ca 1932-1933. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal A.80-A.97 The Shakespeare Society The Society was established at the school in 1907. It won a high local reputation for its performances of Shakespeare’s plays before being wound up in 1933 by the Headmaster. He appeared as a Lady in King Lear, Dainton joined the Society in 1925. 1929 and a Gentleman in Much Ado about Nothing, 1930. He served as Property Master (Stage Manager) in 1931 and as Secretary of the Society in 1932. Photographs are at A.512-A.515. A.80-A.83 Papers relating to Dainton’s period as Property Master and Stage Manager 1931. Bundle of invoices, accounts, notes of expenses etc clipped together. 2 folders. Society chequebooks. One includes cancelled cheque to Hilaire Belloc. A.84-A.89 A.84-A.86 3 folders. ‘Papers relating to my year 1932 as Secretary - Mac Beth’. folder so labelled. Exercise book inscribed on front cover C.S.S.B.S.S. The Stage Manager [...] Two Gentlemen of Verona’. Note by Dainton attached reads ‘The Stage Manager’s Book Used by FSD as SM 1931 “K. Hy IV Pt I” see p31 for advice to my successor when | was Secretary in 1932 — Macbeth’. correspondence. Letters replying to Dainton’s invitation as Secretary to attend performance of Macbeth, December 1932. Retained in original order. on ticket sales and miscellaneous Contents of Lists of invitees, manuscript notes F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal Society chequebook and paying-in book. Entertainments refreshments. licence, invoices etc for cost of printing tickets and Newspaper cutting reporting the winding up of the Society, October 1933. A.91-A.95 Programmes for annual performances of plays, 1919-1932. That for 1928 missing. ‘The Merchant of Venice’, 1918; ‘Hamlet’, 1919; ‘Antony and Cleopatra’, 1920. ‘The Taming of the Shrew’, 1921; ‘King John’, 1922; ‘Twelfth Night’, 1923. ‘King Henry the Eighth’, 1927; ‘King Lear’, 1929; ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, 1930. ‘King Henry IV Part I’, 1931; ‘Macbeth’, 1932 (2 copies). ‘The Tempest’, 1924; ‘Richard the Second’, 1925; ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’, 1926. Later material relating to the school. Letter re laying of wreath to mark Shakespeare’s birthday, 23 April 1932; programme for Shakespeare Concert, Memorial Hall, Sheffield, 14 October 1932. Society memorabilia. A.98-A.100A F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal Programme for Speech Day, 19 July 1951. Correspondence with recollections of the school, 1978-1989. 100th Centenary Celebrations, 1980 Menu card for Centenary Dinner, 22 March; booklet of ‘Extracts from School Magazines 1880-1969’; newspaper supplement from Sheffield Morning Telegraph, 21 March 1980, including Dainton’s recollections of the school. Articles on the school by Dainton. Dainton wrote three articles for the High Storrs Centralians Newsletter with his recollections of the School: ‘Sixty years ago’ (April 1986), ‘Orchard Lane’ (April 1987) and ‘CSSBSS: Central Secondary school for Boys Shakespeare Society’ (Autumn 1987). Typescript drafts of articles; related correspondence 1986-1988. 1932-1942 A.101 Correspondence and papers re university entrance, 1932-1933. Includes Matriculation certificate, October 1933. A.101-A.103 General correspondence and papers, 1932-1942, with later memorabilia. A.101-A.187 UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES Dainton won an Open Exhibition scholarship to St John’s College Oxford in 1932. He went up to Oxford in 1933 to read Chemistry, graduating with First Class Honours in 1937 (see C.1-C.7 for his thesis). See also C.22. and to the Goldsmiths’ Company. Includes loan from City of Sheffield and applications to Grocers’ Company Financial support, 1933-1942. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal Oxford University Alembic Club, 1936-1939. Dainton was Honorary Secretary, 1936. Programmes of meetings; signed Club Dinner menus. Miscellaneous memorabilia. A.104-A.186 Undergraduate notes. Manuscript notes in Dainton’s original folders, most with list of contents on back of the folders. Later labels on the front of some of the folders (used in the catalogue entries) offer further identification. The material, which includes notes on the literature, draft essays and revision notes, chiefly dates from 1934-1935. The folders were in poor condition and have been discarded but the lists of contents are reproduced in the catalogue entries. A.104-A.108 5 folders. 8 folders. Contents: 2. Heterogeneous 3. Chain reactions 4. H2/O2 reactions 5. Theory of activation’. 1. Homogeneous uni, [illegible] ‘Kinetics gas) (in bi, & A.109-A.116 ‘FSD Sidgwick & Kinetics’. ‘FSD Undergraduate notes at Oxford Gen & Inorganic’. Contents: ‘1. Tautomerism 2. Steric hindrance 3. Diazo Cpds 4.Terpenes 5. Colour & structure’6. Physiology & structure (Vit B,, D (calciferol), C (ascorbic acid), bile acid). 7 folders. Contents: ‘1. 3. Kinetics of Soin Reactions (M-H) - Uni Bi Ter 4. Homo. R of non lonic type in soln 5. Polanyi (At. R), R.S. Discussion 6. General photochem. 7. H2/Clz & halogens 8. Aldehydrates & Ketanes’. ‘FSD Undergraduate notes at Oxford. Physics and Phys Chem’. lonic reactions 2.Acid-base catalysed R A.117-A.123 F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal A.124-A.128 ‘FSD Oxford Undergrad Phys Chem’. Contents: ‘1. Molecular spectra 2. Heavy hydrogen 3. Ortho/Para hydrogen 4. Surface films 5. True radicals’. 5 folders. A.129-A.134 ‘FSD Undergrad Oxford Thermodynamics’. Contents: Thermodynamics. 1. 1st + 2nd Laws problems 2. [illegible] cycles 3. Thermodynamical function - entropy 4. Activity concept 5. Third Law of Nernst 6. Solubility’. 6 folders. A.135-A.140 ‘Electrochemistry. Contents: 2. Applications of E.M.F. measurements 3. Overview [illegible] electrolysis 4. Equil. electrolytes, acids & bases, hydrolysis & buffers 5. Conductivity — methods & empirical 6. Transport nos & applications 7. Anomaly of strong electrolyte. Electricity D-M theory 8. Advanced D-H, reconstructed’. potentials electrode Galvanic cells, 1. 6 folders. 7 folders. 6 folders. Org. reactions A.148-A.153 A.141-A.147 Electronic Th. 2. Aromatic substitution 3. 5. Sugar chemistry 6. Contents: ‘1. Modern inorganic chem. 2. Radioactivity 3. Alloys 4. structure of the nuclear 5. Parachor’. Contents: ‘1. Molecular rearrangement 4. Large carbon rings Molecular cpds’. 7 folders. Contents: ‘Sidgwick |. Special notes on magnetism 2. Determination At. Wts 3. Resonance 4. Isotopes & Sepn 5. Adsorption inductors’. A.154-A.160 F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal A.161-A.169 Contents: ‘1) Stereochemistry a) Carbon: GH: TWTT: Rough & own notes b) Nitrogen. Essay GH TT. c) Other elements d) Diphenyl problem (atrophic) e) 2) Dipole moments a) Methods of Physical theory f) Cov[alence] g) Pt Pd. measurement b) Results & applications c) TFS: 1934 30 68. 3) Props of covalent link + Bragg + structure liquids’. 9 folders. A.170-A.175 ‘F.S.D. Oxford undergrad Miscellaneous’. Miscellaneous manuscript notes, bibliographical references, jottings etc. 6 folders. A.176, A.177 ‘FSD Undergrad summaries’. 2 folders. A.178-A.184 Contents of springback binder. Manuscript chemistry notes. List of ‘Work achieved’. A.179-A.181 ‘Summary of organic in Loxon files’. ‘Summary of certain points in Physical’. Loxon may refer to the type of stationery. ‘Loxon’ may refer to the type of stationery. 3 folders. Notes on Avagadro’s number. ‘Summary of inorganic in Loxon files’. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘F.S. Dainton St John’s Coll Oxford Practical Inorganic Chemistry (O.C.D.)’. Used initially for notes October-November 1933, later for research notes on results of experiments and data (paginated 1-231). A little loose material, 1937, 1939. Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Analysis. Volumetric and Qualitative’. Used 1933-1934. A little loose material intercalated. Graduation, 1937. Newspaper cuttings. 1939-1997 A.188-A.336 CAREER, HONOURS AND AWARDS Much of the material is letters of congratulation. Correspondence re award of Goldsmiths’ Company Senior Studentship at Cambridge, 1939. Dainton had a varied career spanning academia, government service and administration, during which time he received many honours. Although the material presented here includes documentation of many of the salient points in his career and honours awarded, it does not offer an exhaustive record. Officer’. August 1942. Telegram notifying Dainton of award of Ph.D., August 1940. Research Department assist the Regional Technical Intelligence Experiments and Ministry authorisation ‘to of Home visit Security fires to F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal Correspondence re Fellowship at St Catharine’s College Cambridge from 1945, 1944-1945. Includes letters of congratulation. Appointment as Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Leeds, 1950. Two letters of congratulation, May 1950. Offers of Chairs: King’s College London, 1955. University of Birmingham, 1956. A.193-A.207 Election to Fellowship of the Royal Society, 1957. A.193 Papers re election. A.194-A.207 Letters of congratulation. In alphabetical order. Not indexed. Dainton was elected FRS ‘for his contributions to physical chemistry and particularly his work on reaction kinetics, polymerisation processes and radiation chemistry’. A. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal First name only. Correspondence re offer of Senior Tutorship of Churchill College Cambridge, 1959. Letters of congratulation on Honorary Fellowship, St Catharine’s College Cambridge, 1960-1961. Correspondence re offer of Vice-Chancellorship, University of Warwick, 1962. Correspondence re offer of Vice-Chancellorship, University of Leicester, 1961. Includes letter of advice to Dainton from R.G.W. Norrish. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal Correspondence re offer 1962. of Vice-Chancellorship, University of Liverpool, Dainton’s manuscript notes and associated correspondence on his career path. Dainton was nearing his fiftieth birthday and had received a number of offers of Vice-Chancellorships. He was unsure as to which direction he should take his career. The material includes a letter from R.G.W. Norrish, to whom Dainton had turned for advice in 1961 (see A.210). Correspondence with Thornton Research Centre, 1963. Lord Rothschild re offer of Directorship of Shell Correspondence and manuscript notes University of Nottingham, 1964. re offer of Vice-Chancellorship, Dainton succeeded B.L. Hallward as Vice-Chancellor in 1965. The offer is dated October 1963. 1990, explains that the letter went unopened. Offer of Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Chemistry, University of California, Davis for 1965. Autograph book presented in tribute to the Daintons by the School of Chemistry, University of Leeds. In alphabetical order. Not indexed. A.219, A.220 Letters of congratulation. A.218-A.220 Award of Davy Medal of the Royal Society, 1969. A.218 Correspondence and papers re award. Dainton’s reply on verso, 22 September Departure from University of Leeds, 1965. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal L.-Z., first name only. A.221-A.232 Appointment as Dr Lee’s Professor of Chemistry, University of Oxford, 1969. Dainton succeeded R.E. Richards. Chairmanship of the Council for Scientific Policy. He combined the Professorship with Newspaper cuttings re appointment. A.222-A.232 Letters of congratulation. In alphabetical order. Not indexed. A., B. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal First name only. A.233-A.254 Conferral of Knighthood, 1971. A.233 Correspondence and papers re conferral of knighthood, 1970-1972. Newspaper cuttings. A.235-A.254 Letters of congratulation. In alphabetical order. Not indexed. A. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal Award of Honorary degrees, 1970, 1971. Unidentified and first name only. 2 folders. A.253, A.254 A.255, A.256 F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal Doctor of Laws, University of Nottingham, December 1970. ‘University of Nottingham Gazette’ no. 71, January 1971, with oration in honour of Dainton and his reply. Doctor of Science, University of Exeter, July 1971. Programme for Degree congregation. Doctor of Science, Queen’s University of Belfast, July 1971. Programme for congregation; dinner menu. Correspondence re Director-Generalship of the British Council, September- October 1971. Manuscript note re possible future direction of career found therewith. A.260-A.266 See section F. Correspondence re Mastership January 1972. of St Catharine’s College Cambridge, Includes certificate of admission. Chairmanship of the University Grants Council, 1973-1978. Admission to the Freedom of the City of London, October 1972. Dainton became Chairman of the UGC in October 1973, succeeding Sir Kenneth Berrill. He held the post for five years. Not indexed. Draft press-release on Dainton’s appointment, 1973; official pass allowing access to the Secretary of State for Education and Science, n.d.; photocopy of Parliamentary Question on Dainton’s credentials, annotated by Dainton, 1974. A.261-A.264 Letters of congratulation, 1973. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal Bundle found clipped together and labelled ‘All answered. Standard reply’. Bundle found clipped together and labelled ‘All answered. Special letters’. Bundle found clipped together and labelled ‘Answered in person or by letter or not requiring an answer’. Other letters of congratulation. Letters of appreciation received during period of Chairmanship. Letters of good wishes to Dainton on his retirement from the UGC, 1978. A.268, A.269 Radiological Protection Board, Election Géttingen, 1984. as Corresponding Member, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Dainton was appointed as Chairman in 1978, succeeding Sir Brian Windeyer. Retirement from Chairmanship, National 1985. Letter of thanks from Norman Fowler MP, Secretary of State for Social Services, October 1985; typescript address on ‘Presentation to Sir Frederick Dainton, 17 October 1985; Radiological Protection Bulletin no. 67, November 1985, with appreciation of Dainton on pp 4-5. Typescript notes for farewell address, 15 November 1985. For photographs taken on the occasion see A.524. A.270-A.274 Retirement from Chairmanship of British Library Board, 1985. Signed greetings card. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal ‘A look at the British Library Board’, British Library ‘Focus’, June 1985. Includes references to Dainton and his forthcoming retirement. A.272, A.273 Copies of letters sent by Dainton in reply to letters of good wishes on his retirement. Includes a few letters received. 2 folders. Signed greetings card. A.275-A.309 Elevation to the Peerage, 1986. Dainton was created Baron Dainton of Hallam Moors in the New Years Honours of January 1986. Includes formal writ of summons. Newspaper and other press coverage. In alphabetical order. Not indexed. Correspondence and papers re Barony. Includes material relating to Dainton’s choice of title and Supplement to the London Gazette 30 December announcing the New Year’s honours. Correspondence and papers re arrangements for conferral of Barony and introduction to the House of Lords. A. A.278-A.308 Letters of congratulation, 1985-1986. Biographical and personal F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 A.279, A.280 B. 2 folders. A.281, A.282 C. 2 folders. H. A.292, A.293 M. 2 folders. A.287, A.288 2 folders. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 1112/11/02 Biographical and personal A.298, A.299 S. 2 folders. 2 folders. 4 folders. A.305-A.308 First name and unidentified. A.302, A.303 W. College, February 1986. Photocopies of two standard letters of reply; list of those telephoning their congratulations. Letter of thanks to Dainton, with his reply, for his service on Court of Henley F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal Election to Honorary Fellowship, Birkbeck College London, July 1986. Correspondence. Election to Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts, June 1988. Certificate. Honorary Doctorate of Civil Law, University of Oxford, September 1988. This was bestowed during the British Association for the Advancement of Science meetings. Programme for degree congregation; ‘University of Sheffield Newsletter’ 16 November 1988, reporting the honour. A.314-A.318 Seventh-fifth birthday celebrations, 1989. The celebrations were held at the Cookridge Radiation Research Centre, University of Leeds. For photographs taken during the celebration events see A.525, A.526. Correspondence re arrangements for birthday celebrations, letters of good wishes and apologies for absence. Manuscript notes for Dainton’s words of thanks; page 2 of ‘Leeds Reporter’, 6 October 1989, with picture of Dainton at his birthday party. 2 folders. Some with personal messages of congratulation. Most first name only. A.317, A.318 Birthday cards. of Lists 1955/6-1965/66. staff and researchers at Leeds during Dainton’s Professorship, Found with the birthday celebrations material. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal Election as Foreign Member, American Philosophical Society, May 1991. For photograph see A.527. Letter of notification; publicity material. Honorary Doctorate of London, May 1991. Letters, Council for National Academic Awards, Letters of thanks to Dainton on his completion of term of office as member of the Museums and Galleries Commission, 1991-1992. A.322-A.333 Eightieth birthday celebrations, 1994. A number of different events were organised by bodies with which Dainton had been associated. Correspondence and papers re celebratory events. Lunch at British Library, London, 11 November. Dinner at Goldsmiths’ Hall, London, 11 November. Includes typescript notes for Dainton’s speech of thanks. Dinner at St Catharine’s College Cambridge, 18 November. Includes manuscript notes for Dainton’s speech of thanks and typescript of ‘Five Very Happy Years’, Dainton’s recollections of the period 1945-1950 for the College Society Magazine, 1995. Dinner at University of Sheffield, 9 December. Dinner at Corpus Christi College Cambridge, 19 November. ?Function at St John’s College Oxford. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal Includes copy of University of Sheffield alumni magazine Now & Then, Summer 1985, with reproduction of portrait of Dainton on front cover and feature on Dainton’s 80th birthday on page 5. Also includes material Research Institute on 9 December. re tour of the University Library and Humanities List of birthday presents received and senders. A.328-A.333 Birthday cards and letters. Some with personal messages of congratulation. Most first name only. 6 folders. Honorary Membership, Society of Chemical Industry, 1996. Letter of invitation, etc. April. Correspondence, 1996-1997. A.337-A.391 FAMILY AND PERSONAL Fellowship of the City and Guilds of London institute, 1997. Letter re farewell reception for Dainton at LSE, 16 July 1997. Rus Rosalind Hazlitt Dainton (younger daughter) Mary Crawford Dainton (elder daughter) A.348-A.358 A.359-A.361 A.362-A.365 A.366-A.368 A.346, A.347 Mary Jane Boittrill (mother) A.337-A.345 George Whalley Dainton (father) Barbara Hazlitt Wright (wife) John Bourke Dainton (son) F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal A.369-A.376 A.377-A.379 A.380-A.382 A.383-A.391 William Bourke Ireland Wright (father-in-law) Mabel Crawford Wright (mother-in-law) Miscellaneous Family and personal correspondence A.337-A.345 George Whalley Dainton (father) G.W. Dainton, 1857-1930, was a Master Mason. He worked on Sheffield Town Hall and was Foreman or Clerk of Works to a number of projects including Sunderland Head Post Office and the extension to Eccleshall Parish Church. He had nine children, of whom Dainton was the youngest. Copy of Death Certificate, 12 September 1930. A.339, A.340 G.W. Dainton correspondence, 1895-1924. Presentation of G.W. Dainton’s masonry tools, 1990. The correspondence is chiefly references for G.W. Dainton testifying to his contributions as Foreman and Clerk of Works. In connection with the gift Gibbs’ historical recollections of his work as a mason, the Dainton family and life in Sheffield were recorded. Mr Charles Gibbs, who had been the last apprentice to G.W. Dainton was bequeathed his tools. In 1990 Gibbs offered them to Dainton who passed them for display at the University of Sheffield. recorded April 1990; letter 1995. Two slightly different typescript transcripts Correspondence, 1990. of C. Gibbs’ recollections, F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal A.341-A.344 All Saints’ Parish Church, Eccleshall, 1991-1997. G.W. Dainton was involved in the building of the extension and the War Memorial. Correspondence with Vicar and related material, 1991-1995. ‘Times Past and Times Future’, recollections by Dainton for the ‘Spur’ (parish magazine), December 1991. 2pp typescript; copy of piece as published. Eccleshall Church Appeal brochure, ca 1907. Eccleshall Parish Church Appeal, 1997. Through his family connections with the Church Dainton agreed to act as Patron of the Appeal. A.346, A.347 Mary Jane Bottrill (mother) Miscellaneous correspondence re G.W. Dainton, 1990, 1994. Correspondence re Bottrill family and marriages of Dainton, 1986-1993. M.J. Bottrill, 1873-1943, was the second wife of G.W. Dainton, and the sister of his first wife Sarah Ann Bottrill. They were married in 1895. hee Barbara Dainton was born in 1917, the daughter (and only child) of the She studied zoology at geologist W.B.I. Wright (see A.369-A.376 below). Newham College Cambridge, receiving She was Supervisor in Zoology at Newnham 1944-1947. Bottrill sisters to G.W. Family trees and notes. A.348-A.358 Barbara Hazlitt Wright (wife) her Ph.D. in 1940. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 1112/11/02 Biographical and personal High Barbara Dainton thereafter combined her career with raising three children and supporting her husband. She undertook part-time teaching in Biology at Leeds Girls’ the Department of Zoology, University of Leeds, 1962-1965, served on Hospital Management Committees 1967-1970 and was a Member of Oxford Regional Health Authority 1974-1978. In 1975 she was elected a fellow of St Hilda’s College Oxford and served as Tutor in Zoology 1975-1984. 1954-1958, was Research Assistant School in Curriculum vitae; correspondence re career, 1948, 1949. Address delivered at Speech Day, unidentified Nottingham girls’ school, late 1960s. 5pp manuscript. ‘Newnham 33 years ago. A reflection written 33 yards from a Student “sit-in” of 1970’. 3pp manuscript. and Programme. 1941-1942. Hospital, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Lady Dainton was Guest of Honour. Saxondale Reunion Nottingham School of Nursing, 14 April 1971. Presentations, Three slightly different typescript drafts; letter of thanks. Prize-giving, Streatham Hill and Clapham High School, London, 10 January 1992. 1943-1947. The Daintons first met at Cambridge in Trumpington Parish Church in 1942. 1938. They were married in A.353-A.356 Correspondence with Dainton. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal Undated [1940s]. 1965, 1968, 1970. A.357, A.358 Personal correspondence to Barbara Dainton. A.357 1949-1951. 1970, 1984. A.359-A.361 John Bourke Dainton (son) J.B. Dainton was born in 1947. He studied physics at Oxford and received his D.Phil. in 1973. After periods at Sheffield, Glasgow and Hamburg, he was appointed Reader and then Professor of Physics at the University of Liverpool. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 2002. Letters to Barbara Dainton on birth and subsequent health of mother and baby, 1947-1948. Report on J.B. Dainton’s appointment as SERC Senior Fellow, University of Liverpool, 1992; manuscript poem by Dainton on his son’s appointment to a Chair, 1994. 2 folders. Letters to Barbara Dainton on birth and subsequent health of mother and baby, 1950. M.C. Dainton was the Daintons’ second child, born in 1950. doctor. She became a Personal correspondence, 1969-1989. A.362-A.365 Mary Crawford Dainton (elder daughter) A.362, A.363 F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal Infant school exercise book used 1957; manuscript account of childhood visit to the Alps, with memorabilia pasted to pages, n.d. but marked ‘A. Very Good‘; newspaper cutting of M.C. Dainton as a student at Oxford playing cricket. Personal correspondence, 1970, n.d. A.366-A.368 Rosalind Hazlitt Dainton (younger daughter) R.H. Dainton was born in 1952. physics at a sixth form College. She became a school teacher, teaching Much of the material concerns a visit to the USA with an American Field Service International Scholarship in 1969. She stayed with a family in Plano, Illinois. Programmes from Leeds Children’s Theatre and Leeds school plays in which R.H. Dainton took part, 1962, 1963. Personal correspondence, n.d. Barbara Dainton was the daughter (and only child) of the geologist W.B.I. Wright. 4pp manuscript ‘Notes on W.B. Wright’s early life’; copy of obituary from A.369-A.376 William Bourke Ireland Wright (father-in-law) Application for scholarship; correspondence and papers from American Field Service re arrangements, 1969. W.B.I. Wright, 1876-1939, was an eminent Irish geologist. He worked for the Geological Survey of Ireland before joining the Geological Survey of Great Britain in 1921. He added ‘Ireland’ to his forenames by deed poll in 1909. Nature, 4 November 1939. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal Issue of the /rish Naturalists Journal, March 1940. Obituary of Wright (with photograph) on pp 250-253. Baptism and death certificates marriage certificate. of Wright; manuscript copy of parents’ Deed Poll adding the name ‘Ireland’ to his forenames, 1909. ‘List of papers and memoirs by W.B. Wright’ (covers 1904-1936); pages from the journal Geography with book reviews by W.B.|. Wright and his wife Mabel C. Wright. Offprints of articles by H.J. Fleure kept by W.B.I. and M.C Wright. Opening of British Geological Survey Library, Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, 19 August 1987. Dainton spoke at the ceremony and referred to Wright in his speech. Correspondence, August, December 1987. Dainton was invited to attend and contributed a slide of Wright. Correspondence, October-December 1987. ‘A Celebration of Louis Agassiz and 150 Years of Quaternary Research’, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London, 20 November 1987. in 1939 she remarried, to Frank Osborne. He died in 1974. M.C. Wright was a geologist in her own right. She was the first woman graduate of the Royal College of Science, Dublin. She was appointed by H.J. Fleure as a lecturer in geography at Manchester (the first married woman to hold a post within the University of Manchester. After W.B.I. Wright’s death A.377-A.379 Mabel Crawford Wright (mother-in-law) Correspondence and papers re Wright, 1988-1992. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal Personal correspondence, 1919-1974. Letter from Dainton to D. Jones, University of Sheffield, about M.C. Wright 1992. Family trees, notes, etc. Letters of condolence to M.C. Osborne on the death of her husband, 1974. A.380-A.382 Miscellaneous A.380 Letters on the Dainton family, annotated ‘Dainton file’, 1990, 1991. ‘The Whitleys of Enniskillen’ by T. Whitley Moran. Privately produced bound volume, 1962. Mostly arranged in a chronological order. A.383-A.391 Family and personal correspondence The Whitley family were related to the Wrights. Miscellaneous material found with family correspondence and papers. 1990-1995. 1932-1969. 1970-1976. 1981-1989. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal 1995. ‘Get well’ cards sent to Dainton during illness. A.389, A.390 Postcards received, 1981-1984, n.d. 2 folders. Christmas letters. Master copies of circular Christmas letters sent by the Daintons, 1980-1995. A.392-A.418 SCIENTIFIC BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY OF SCIENCE A.392-A.411 Individual scientists A.412-A.418 History of chemistry A.392-A.411 Individual scientists In addition to historical material relating, principally, to chemistry, there is also material relating to scientific colleagues of Dainton. Some of this material was assembled in connection with memorial services, obituaries or tributes. ca 1984. Davies’ material on P.J.W. Debye. This includes Dainton’s correspondence with Davies, photocopies of articles by Davies on scientific method etc, and typescript and manuscript drafts sent to Dainton for interest and comment. Arranged in chronological order as far as possible, 1985-1993 and n.d. the history of chemistry, the See also K.131-K.165. A.392-A.396 Mansel Davies A.392, A.393 F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal Manuscript draft, list of captions for slides, background information. ‘Paul Debye (1884-1966): A Centenary Appreciation’, 10pp typescript. 1985-1989. Includes appreciations of J. Needham by Davies, and letter from Dainton, 10 January 1988, reflecting on chemistry teaching at school. 1991-1993. Includes outline of Davies’ project for ?article on ‘Scientists who were more than scientists’, and Dainton’s recollections of F. Soddy in a letter of 4 July 1992. A.397-A.407 R.G.W. Norrish Copy of Royal Society memoir. A photograph of Norrish is at A.533. Norrish, 1897-1978, was Professor of Physical Chemistry at Cambridge 1937-1965 and (with G. Porter and M. Eigen) winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1967. He was a great influence on Dainton’s early career; Dainton studied under him and undertook research (with P.G. Ashmore) into combustion reactions between hydrogen and oxygen. With B.A. Thrush, Dainton wrote the Royal Society memoir of Norrish (Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society vol. 27, 1981) and Dainton also prepared the entry for the New Dictionary of National Biography. The material presented below was assembled by Dainton in the course of the preparation of these two pieces. vitae. ‘A light on life. An interview with Ronald Norrish’, Chemistry in Britain vol 11 (1975); biographical accounts of Norrish compiled in his lifetime; curriculum P.G. of Obituaries and ‘Encyclopaedia Universalis’), C.H. Bamford (Nature), K.J. Laidler (American Chemical Society), J.H. Purnell. Ashmore Norrish others: Times (The by F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal A.399, A.400 Published work by Norrish. A.399 ‘Some fast reactions kinetic spectroscopy’, Nobel Lecture 11 December 1967, published in Les Prix Nobel en 1967 (Stockholm, 1969). in gases studied photolysis and by flash The book is inscribed by Norrish, ‘With gratitude to my friend Dr Frederick S. Dainton, F.R.S. for his splendid collaboration in research, and for his many personal never adequately repay’. Covering letter inside front cover. always remember but kindnesses which shall can | ‘R6le des aldéhydes dans |l’oxydation des hydrocarbures’, Revue de /’Institut Francais du Pétrole et Annales des Combustibles liquids vol 4 (1949); report on visit to USSR, April-May 1966. Science, 10 November 1967, with account of the work of the three Nobel laureates for Chemistry. A.402-A.404 Reminiscences of Norrish from friends and colleagues. A.402 A.403 Recollections. A.403, A.404 Lists of former students and colleagues. C. Kemball; V.N. Kondratiev; B. Lewis; B.P. Mullins; A.J.C. Nicholson; W.A. Noyes; G.A. Oldershaw; G.W.W. Stevens; A.R. Todd. D.W.E. Axford; W.I. Bengough; J.A. Berriman; P. Borrell; E.J. Buckler; T. Callear; J.E. Carruthers; H.J. Emeleus; P. Gray; W. Jost. Norrish, 1982. Correspondence with B.A. Thrush re preparation of the memoir; letters of appreciation, 1981-1982. Correspondence arising with Norrish’s daughters, and re archive material of F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal Correspondence and Dictionary of National Biography including corrected draft of entry. re preparation revised papers of entry for New G. Porter 7pp typescript biographical outline, with manuscript annotations by Dainton. E.W.R. Steacie Letter from M.C. King requesting recollections of the Canadian chemist E.W.R. Steacie, with Dainton’s reply, September-October 1983. A.410, A.411 J.S. Turner Turner, 1908-1991, was from Sheffield and a contemporary and friend of Dainton’s elder brothers. He moved to Australia in 1938 and took up a Chair in Botany and Plant Physiology at the University of Melbourne. He was described as’ the father of the conservation movement in Australia’. Obituary from Landscape Australia vol 3 (1991). Letter to Dainton informing him of the death of Turner, with newspaper obituaries, May 1991. ‘Cambridge-Castlemaine’, bound volume of tributes to Turner on his 80th birthday, 1988. Typescripts of tributes delivered at Turner's Memorial Service, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia, 1991. Copies of material prepared by E.J. Bowen. General correspondence and papers, 1970-1993. Includes contribution from Dainton at pp17-18. A.412-A.418 History of chemistry A.412 A.413-A.415 F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal ‘Chemistry at Oxford’, 28pp duplicated typescript. ‘The Alembic Club. The first fifty years’, 19pp photocopy manuscript. Photocopy manuscript anecdotes and stories, mostly relating to eminent scientists. A.416-A.418 Published material. A.416 ‘The Cambridge University Chemical Laboratory’ by F.G. Mann, Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, 6 July 1928; ‘The Chemistry Department of the University of Leeds’ by F. Challenger, Journal of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, April 1953. A.419-A.442 CITY OF SHEFFIELD ‘Physical chemistry in Cambridge, Massachusetts’ by E.B. Wilson and J. Ross, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, vol 24 (1973); ‘The development of transition-state theory’ by K.J. Laidler and M.C. King, Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol 87 (1983); ‘Student participation in science teaching: the early years of the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club’ by P.J. Rowlinson, Oxford Review of Education vol 9 (1983). The Physical Chemistry Laboratory: the first fifty years by R.F. Barrow and C.J. Danby, Oxford 1991. A.431-A.442 — Sheffield memorabilia A native of Sheffield, Dainton retained a great affection for the city throughout his life. He served as Chancellor of the University of Sheffield 1979-1997 (see section G) and was involved in plans for the redevelopment of the city in the 1980s and 1990s. See also J.860-J.869 Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust. A.419-A.430 The Business Action Team, the Hallam Group and Sheffield regeneration F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal A.419-A.430 Business The regeneration Action Team, the Hallam Group and Sheffield A.419, A.420 Business Action Team This was established in the late 1980s. Correspondence and papers of meetings, 1987-1988. Background information on the ‘Sheffield Compact’, a partnership involving the city’s educational establishments and industry. A.421-A.429 Hallam Group This was established to further regeneration and new enterprise in Sheffield in the 1990s. Dainton was a member as Chancellor of the University. A.421-A.423 Correspondence and papers chiefly re meetings of the Group, 1995-1997. Printed to redevelopment and regeneration found with Hallam Group material. promotional literature publicity relating civic and Sheffield Map of 3 folders. Made in Sheffield’. A.424-A.429 ‘The Valley Office Initiative’, Sheffield Development Corporation brochure, 1994. ‘A New Valley. Sheffield Development Corporation area showing ‘targetted land use areas’. 1:5000 scale, August 1992. social regeneration, 1995. ‘Sheffield Shaping the Future’, Sheffield City Liaison Group draft plans for ‘Sheffield the Way Ahead’, Sheffield City Liaison Group plan, 1994. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 1112/11/02 Biographical and personal ‘Remaking the Commission’, Sheffield City Council, revised submission November 1995. Sheffield’s Heart City. the the bid to of Millennium Millennium ‘Remaking the Commission. Project Design Drawings and Estimates’, Sheffield City Council, September 1996. Sheffield’s Heart City. the the bid of to Correspondence re twinning agreement between Sheffield and the Polish city of Lodz, 1997. Dainton was approached by the Deputy Major of Lodz at a Sheffield Degree Congregation. A.431-A.442 Sheffield memorabilia A.431-A.433 Historical material relating to Sheffield and its University sent to Dainton by G.N. Critchley. of and dental naming hospital’, Sheffield’s photocopy of Correspondence, 1981-1982. origin ‘The unidentified article, n.d. Includes Critchley’s brief biographies of some eminent men of Sheffield. ‘A Short History of Fuel Technology at the University of Sheffield’, typescript, ca 1980. ‘The Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire in the County of York’, ca 1930s. Untitled 26pp typescript on the development of the University and relations with the city’, n.d. ‘The Quality of Sheffield’, Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, 1933. General publicity and promotional literature. A.434-A.442 A.434 F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal ‘City of Sheffield’, Sheffield Publicity Department, ca 1975. ‘Sheffield. City on the Move’, City of Sheffield, ca 1975. ‘This is Sheffield!’, 1970s. ‘Sheffield comes to London’, supplement in The Star newspaper, 23 May 1988. ‘Sheffield’, folder of publicity material, 1989. ‘Memory Lane. How Sheffield has changed since the war’, supplement in The Star newspaper, 12 February 1990. A.443-A.447 Diary extracts A.448-A.457 Health A.443-A.495 MISCELLANEOUS ‘Sheffield Figures’, Sheffield City Liaison Group, April 1997. Correspondence and papers bearing on various aspects of Dainton’s life. Memorabilia Social functions and occasions Holidays Financial A.458-A.462 A.463-A.478 A.479-A.491 A.492 Water Eaton Lane A.493-A.495 F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal A.443-A.447 Diary extracts Typescript and manuscript notes of diary entries, possibly brought together or prepared by Dainton in the course of preparing his autobiography. A971. 1973 January-September. Manuscript notes on entries 1970-1973. summaries. Overseas visits’. ‘Diary manuscript notes. 4 Contents of Dainton’s plastic wallet: p 1974-1994 A.449-A.454 eyesight and re Dainton’s deteriorating A.448-A.457 Correspondence and treatment thereof, 1974-1994. papers Dainton’s manuscript notes etc referring to his general health, 1980s. Dainton took a keen interest in the scientific aspects of treatments. 1980-1983. his ailments and 6 folders 1974-1977. 1978-1979. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal 1984-1986. 1987-1994. ‘Visual aids’. Correspondence and papers so labelled, 1977-1978. Manuscript notes re difficulties with back and legs, ca 1976. Correspondence and papers re hip surgery, 1995-1997. Correspondence with others re their health, 1978-1979. A.458-A.462 Holidays 1934-1969 A.458 Material re planned holiday in Austria, August 1963. Pocket notebook used for notes on ‘Scottish Holiday “The Cairngorms’. Being details of hotels, routes, expenses etc’, July 1934. Hardback pocket notebook used for journal of holiday on the continent of Europe, chiefly by Barbara Dainton but continued towards the end with entries from her husband, 12-28 August [71964]. Memorabilia from Italian holiday 1969. Dainton’s September 1969. manuscript journal of ‘Italian holiday 1969’, 28 August-19 F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal A.463-A.478 Financial 1940-1994 Chiefly Dainton’s manuscript accounts compiled for income tax purposes, of interest not only in with from the 1980s, accountants’ schedules. illustrating Dainton’s attention to this financial affairs but also indicates the range of activities (examining, lecturing, book royalties, reviewing and other ‘casual fees’), apart from his salary and share and investment income from which he derived income. detail and careful management of is It The material is arranged in chronological order by financial year. A.463-A.474 Accounts, 1940/41-1993/94. A.463 1940/41-1949/50. 1950/51-1959/60. 1960/61-1965/66. 1966/67-1969/70. 1980/81-1984/85. 1985/86-1 987/88. 1977/78-1979/80. 1974/75-1976/77. 1970/71-1973/74. 1988/89-1989/90. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal 1990/91-1991/92. 1992/93-1993/94. A.475-A.477 Correspondence re financial affairs, 1984-1993. 3 folders. Correspondence re purchase of faulty goods, 1990-1991. A.479-A.491 Social functions and occasions This material is Dainton’s programmes for concerts and plays, menus for formal dinners, orders of service etc., presented in chronological order. 1961-1968. 1970-1977. 1980-1984. Dainton kept orders of service for Thanksgiving and Memorial Services separately and these are presented at the end of the main sequence (A.488- A.491. See also F.134 Graduation Day for students on Four Year (Dainton) course in engineering, Imperial College London. March 1991. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal May-July 1991. September 1991. Includes Daintons’ typescript notes for his ‘Toast to the [Oxford] Physical Chemistry Laboratory on its Golden Jubilee’, 28 September. 1994-1997, n.d. A.488-A.491 Orders of Service for Thanksgiving and Memorial Services, 1983-1995. In chronological order. 1983-1987. Water Eaton Lane 1990-1993 1990-1992. Correspondence re planning permission, 1990-1993. This relates to the Daintons’ home in Oxford. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal A.493-A.495 Memorabilia 1967-1968, ca 1995, n.d. University of Nottingham ringback binder used for memorabilia 1967-1968. Press cuttings, tickets, invitations, postcards etc. have been pasted to the inside cover and to pages inserted within the binder. Humorous versions of well-known poems and songs, mostly on scientific themes. Anon, n.d. Duplicated typescript and manuscript. ‘A Periodic Prose-Poem’ by Dainton, typescript draft, ca 1995. This appears to have been partly a book review of The Periodic Table by Primo Levi and partly Dainton’s personal reflections on the fascination of chemistry. A.496-A.510 mid 1950s-2002 classification system, of DAINTON’S ARCHIVES Manuscript filing by decimal Dainton’s research notes and papers, mid 1950s. organised plan, The subject headings are: processes, photochemical reactions in aqueous solution. Material re the organisation of Dainton’s own files in his lifetime, biographical material for his Royal Society memorialist and the disposition of his papers after his death. Apparatus, Undergraduate courses. The subject headings are: Radiation chemistry (with manuscript additions and annotations indicating material taken to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology), General kinetics, Thermal and photo reactions of mainly inorganic aqueous solutes, Typescript decimal Dainton’s research notes and papers late 1950s. organised Radiation chemistry, Polymerisation, Chain classification system, of reactions, Photochemistry, Polymerisation, Courses of Chain and lectures, General kinetics, Thermal filing plan, by F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal Typescript lists of contents of [?filing cabinet] drawers, latest reference 1969. ‘F.S. Dainton’s papers held at 36 Charlbury Rd, OX2 6UX’. August 1996. 14pp manuscript with manuscript note attached outlining Dainton’s wishes for the papers. Manuscript lists 1978)’ and ‘Lectures 1978- by F.S. Dainton’. of ‘Non-technical lectures & talks by F.S. Dainton (1966- Typescript lists manuscript note of ‘Files removed to Oxford by B.H.D.’, September 1999. filing cabinets, boxfiles and cupboard, with of contents of Typescript list of ‘PhD theses held by FSD’. This lists theses of Dainton and research colleagues and students. Most are from the period at Leeds and a manuscript annotation indicates that these were passed to M. Pilling in 1994. A.503, A.504 1988. 1995, 1996. The Cambridge Ph.D. theses, including Dainton’s, with one University of Leeds thesis, are at B.124-B.131. Correspondence, chiefly with the National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists, University of Bath and the University of Sheffield Library, about the disposition of Dainton’s archives, 1988, 1995-1997. Technology and its Subcommittees, 1986-1998 to which Dainton contributed. Correspondence and papers re archival material of Dainton at the House of Lords at the time of his death, 1998. Includes list of reports produced by Select Committee on Science and F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal A.506-A.510 Royal Society memoir Material assembled by Dainton for his Royal Society memorialist Correspondence re Royal Society memoir, 1990, 1992. ‘Some notes to help the person(s) charged with writing my Biographical Memoir of the Royal Society of London’. ca 1990s. 4pp manuscript categorising Dainton’s scientific published work. It refers by number to the list of ‘Scientific Publications of F.S. Dainton’ at A.508. Numbered list of ‘Scientific Publications of F.S. Dainton’, covering the period 1937-1977. List of bibliographical reference 1981. ‘A selection of publications of F.S. Dainton’, 2pp typescript, latest 1885-1998 A.511 Cartoon A.511-A.539 NON-TEXT MATERIAL A.512-A.533 Photographs Dainton’s accounts of his scientific work compiled in the mid 1960s. ee Cartoon of Dainton by ‘Horner’, Times Higher Educational Supplement, 21 July 1972. A.534, A.535 Slides A.536-A.539 Tape recordings F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal This appeared on the first page of the THES following the publication of the White Paper Framework for Government Research and Development (see J.292-J.369). Original of cartoon; copies. A.512-A.533 Photographs 21885-1990s Photographs of Dainton during visits and at conferences are to be found in section M. A.512-A.531 Photographs of Dainton. A.512-A.515 Central Secondary School for Boys’ Shakespeare Society. See A.80-A.97. Composite photograph with Dainton dressed as a Lady in King Lear, 1929. Composite photograph featuring Dainton in costume, ca 1930. Three photographs from Anglo-German Friendship School. See A.77. 3 are of performances of King Lear. 1929. 4 are from King Henry IV part I. 1931. Dainton does not appear to feature. Seven photographs of members of the Society in costume. Two (identical) postcards of Dainton dressed as a Gentleman in Much Ado about Nothing, 1930. the other features the 6 teachers (3 English and 3 German). Two of the photographs feature boys from the School (one includes Dainton); F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal Photograph of Dainton, dated on verso 1942. Possibly taken on his honeymoon. Two photographs of Dainton and his ARP team, Cambridge, ca 1944. Photograph of Dainton, inscribed on verso ‘First Term in Leeds 1950’. Mounted photograph of Dainton inscribed ‘President of Library Association Picture taken 1956’. Colour photograph of Dainton with others, inscribed on verso ‘Moscow — July 1965’. Wallet of seven informal photographs, taken 1971. 1 of Dainton in doctoral robes. 2 of Mary Dainton on her graduation. 4 taken at Dainton family home ‘Fieldside’ in Oxford. Nine photographs of the Lord Mayor’s Show, London, 1982. Wallet also includes transparencies including five featuring Dainton outside Buckingham Palace on receipt of his knighthood. Each year the Lord Mayor of London processes through the City of London, accompanied by City of London dignitaries including the heads of the Livery Companies. One is inscribed on verso ‘FSD + Clerk of Goldsmiths’. Dainton appears in the photographs in ceremonial gowns as the Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths’ Company. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal Eleven photographs taken at ceremony marking Dainton’s retirement from Chairmanship of the British Library Board, 15 November 1985. See A.270-A.274. The photographs include the unveiling by Barbara of a portrait of Dainton. A.525, A.526 Seventy-fifth birthday celebrations, University of Leeds, September 1989 See A.314-A.318. Group photograph (with key) of participants at ‘Dainton Symposium’, School of Chemistry. Four photographs of presentation to Dainton. Three photographs of excursion to Gordale Scar, with some participants identified on verso. American It See A.319. the University Grants Photograph Philosophical Society, Royal Society, London, 16 May 1991. receiving Dainton Foreign Membership, of Three photographs featuring former Chairmen of Council. Those appearing with Dainton are G. Davies, Sir Kenneth Berrill and Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer. One has inscription on verso identifying those featured and giving the place and date as St Catharine’s College Cambridge, 1994. is not certain the other two photographs were taken on the same occasion. but probably 1990s. Photograph of Dainton in envelope inscribed: climbing. West Maroon Creek’ [Colorado, USA]. N.d. Three photographs of Dainton in the Library of St John’s College Oxford. N.d. Photograph of Dainton diving into a lake. ‘The pleasures of a little N.d. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Biographical and personal Three nineteenth century photographs of members of the Dainton family. The photographs are inscribed as follows: ‘Grandpa Dainton 1885 (?)’ ‘Father's Mother’ and ‘Mother when a little girl with her father and mother’. , Miscellaneous photographs: Group photograph inscribed on verso ‘M/C Dept of Geography Fitzgerald in Chair, Kendrew on his right Barka inset’. N.d. Mounted photograph of R.G.W. Norrish. N.d. Photograph of Curie Medal, presented to Dainton in Wroclaw, Poland, 1983. A.534, A.535 Slides A.534 Four photographic slides of cartoons of Dainton. A.536-A.539 Tape recordings 1987-1998 A.536 Audio tape cassette recording a ‘conversation with Lord Dainton by D.H. Whiffen’ for the Royal Society of Chemistry, 1987. One of the slides was used in Dainton’s autobiography. Four photographic slides used in lecture on science policy, found in envelope annotated ‘ For Chapter 8’. See A.5. Audio tape cassette supplied by University of Sheffield Ceremonies Office recording Dainton’s Memorial Service, Sheffield Cathedral, 23 March 1998. VHS videotape cassette recording ‘Lord Dainton of Hallam Moors in interview with Lord Walton of Detchant. An interview in two parts. Oxford. May 1991’. Letter from Royal Society of Chemistry with information about the recording, June 1998. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 SECTION B RESEARCH B.1-B.117 DAINTON’S OWN RESEARCH B.118-B.123 D.E. LEA B.124-B.131 PH.D. THESES DAINTON’S OWN RESEARCH 1937-1972 See also B.124. B.1-B.9 Notebooks B.10-B.117 Research folders and loose papers Notebooks 1938-1960, n.d. Notebook inscribed on front cover ‘Lab Research Notes on NO.-sensitised combination of hydrogen and oxygen. Book Il F.S. Dainton’ and inside with Dainton’s address ‘Sydney Sussex College Cambridge or Dept of Physical Chemistry’. The contents comprise two paginated sequences 1-206, first page dated ‘Long Vac Term 1938’ and 1-22, first page headed ‘The Inhibition of the Photosynthesis of Phosgene’ and dated ‘April 1943’, and a few unpaginated pages at the back. Correspondence and papers found loose at the front and back of B.2. Notebook labelled with non-contemporary label ‘? World War Il Research Inscribed on first page with ‘F.S. Dainton 09 Dept’, address ‘Univ. Notes’. Chem. Lab of Departmental, NACA, R&M and Japanese Reports on Problems cognate to Aero Engine and Fuel Development’. Correspondence found loose at front of notebook and now at B.3 dated 1939 and 1944 (one letter only). Cambridge’ and description of contents ‘Abstracts F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Research Notebook inscribed on first page with ‘Photochemical Switch Book II’ and Dainton’s name and address ‘Laboratory of Physical Chemistry Free School Lane Cambridge’. Paginated 185-269 with a few unpaginated pages towards the back and dated from ‘July 6" [1942]’ to ‘Nov 18" 1942’. Small format notebook used from the front for ‘Research Problems I’ and from the back for ‘Programme’s’. Also at the front is Dainton’s name and address ‘St Caths College Cambridge’, index of problems and the date ‘March 1946’. Small format ‘filofax’ loose-leaf notebook inscribed on front cover with ‘Research Problems Il’, Dainton’s name and index. At front of notebook are details of Dainton’s research group for 1950-1951 and at the back lists of students, 1951-1960. Notebook with non-contemporary label ‘Res Notes’ on front cover. Contents relate to Cambridge Summer School on ‘Phys-Chem of Reactions in Solution Aug 16-22 1953’. B.10-B.117 Research folders and loose papers 1937-1972 B.10-B.23 Loose paper found enclosed in preceding. ‘Notes and calculations H, / O2./ NO,’. Contents of folder so inscribed: 1937- 1939. Notebook with University of Leeds crest on front cover and first page headed ‘R.M. Noyes Lectures Outline’. Presented here for convenience. N.d. divided into three for ease of reference. ‘Correspondence on Hz / O2/ NO2 (1) Hinshelwood - April 1938 (2) Lewis and von Elbe’. Contents of envelope so inscribed. B.11-B.13 ‘Research Notes (Exptl) H, /O2/ NOCI’. Contents of envelope so inscribed F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Research B.14-B.17 ‘Research Notes Hz / O2/ NO2/. Contents of envelope so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference. Includes notes dated 1937-1938. B.18-B.23 ‘Calculations and Theoretical Considerations on Hz : O2: NO2 System Jan 1939 — August 1939’. Contents of envelope so inscribed divided into six for ease of reference. B.24-B.26 ‘Report on work carried out since October 1937’. inscribed. Contents of folder so The folder is also inscribed with Dainton’s name and address: ‘Phys. Chem. Lab. Cambridge’. Correspondence, 1939, re unsuccessful application to Ramsay Memorial Fellowship Trust, 1939. ‘Graphs relating to the H, : O2: NO System’. ‘The Reaction between Hydrogen and Oxygen sensitised Peroxide’, 3pp typescript ‘Copy of letter sent to “Nature” May 30th 1939’. by Nitrogen Contents of untitled folder: manuscript and typescript drafts, letter, re ‘Foord- Bourdon Gauge’. 1938-1939. ‘Report of work carried out in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Cambridge since October 1937’ on ‘Sensitised Explosions’, 26pp typescript. of Aircraft Production, Ministry of Supply, Venner Time Switches Ltd, etc. List of reports by Dainton. Includes reports for Air Ministry, Distillers, Ministry B.28-B.42 Extramural wartime reports by Dainton. 1939-1946 See also B.43-B.70. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Research Air Ministry. Report on ‘The Chemical Aspects of the Inflammability of Kite Balloons’ by R.G.W. Norrish, P.G. Ashmore, Dainton and J.D. Reagh. 25pp typescript of report incorporating figures dated 14 December 1939. Distillers. ‘Measurement of dielectric constant & power factor. inscribed:18pp typescript with the same title as folder, [1940]. Contents of folder so N.d. no author. Dainton wrote a report on ‘The measurement of Power Factor and Dielectric Loss’ with Ashmore and Nicholson for Distillers. B.31-B.33 Ministry of Supply Advisory Council on Scientific Research and Technical Development. Sub-Committee | of the Incendiary Projectiles Committee. Reports 1943-1944. 2pp duplicated typescript. Report on ‘Visit to Orfordness Research Station’ by Dainton. June 1943. A.C.4142. Received 3 4pp duplicated typescript. 3pp duplicated typescript + figures. Report on ‘Experiments on burning duration by P.I.G.’ by A. McMullen and Dainton. Received 27 July 1943. A.C.4474. 5pp duplicated typescript. ‘Interim report on P.I.G. as an incendiary filling for S.A.A. (0.5” and 2 mm. calibres) by R.G.W. Norrish, McMullen and Dainton. Received 20 October 1943. A.C.4945. Report on ‘Trials of two further types of phosphorus incendiary fillings in 20 mm. S.A.P/I. at Swynnerton, 26 July 1943’ by McMullen and Dainton. A.C. 4487. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Research Report on McMullen. Received 27 January 1944. A.C.5599. ‘The Mechanism of Ignition the of AMVO’ by Dainton and 4pp duplicated typescript + graph. Manuscript draft + graph. B.34-B.42 Ministry of Supply Advisory Council on Scientific Research and Technical Development. Pyrotechnics, Initiators, Fuze Powders and Incendiary Compositions Sub- Committee. Reports, 1944-1946. on ‘The chemical Report containing chlorinated hydrocarbons Part Received 14 December 1944. A.C. 7530. reactions occurring in smoke compositions Ivin. by Dainton and K.J. I’ on ‘The chemical 21pp duplicated typescript + figures. B.37-B.39 47pp typescript. N.d. 2pp duplicated typescript. Report on ‘Analysis of residue and smoke produced on burning smoke composition P.N. 314’ by Dainton. Received 19 February 1945. A.C.7830. Report in smoke compositions containing chlorinated hydrocarbons Part Il’ by Dainton and Ivin. Received 5 May 1945. A.C. 8419. 30pp typescript + 2pp typescript addendum. N.d. 15 duplicated typescript + figures. occurring reactions F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Research Interim report by Dainton with covering letter from R.G.W. Norrish dated 9 March 1945 and 2pp manuscript notes headed ‘Points from PIF sub cttee : 25-4-45’. Found with typescript copy of Report Part Il. on ‘The Report containing chlorinated hydrocarbons Received 15 February 1946. A.C.8906. reactions chemical occurring in smoke compositions ...’. By Dainton and K.J. Ivin. Part Ill 37pp typescript. 19pp duplicated typescript. on ‘The Report containing chlorinated hydrocarbons Received 15 February 1946. A.C.8907. reactions chemical occurring in smoke compositions Part IV ...’. By Dainton and K.J. Ivin. 8pp typescript. B.43-B.49 of B.50-B.54 untitled folder divided into seven for ease 4pp duplicated typescript. Folder also Switch Cambridge’. The papers are presented in the order found within the original folder. ‘Photochemical Switch Graphs’. Contents of folder so inscribed: 1941-1944 Contents of reference: correspondence, manuscript notes and drafts, duplicated reports etc re report prepared by Dainton and J.C. Bevington on ‘The effect of phosporus on 100- octane fuel’. 1940-1943. Changes of Exposure of NOC! to Daylight’: graphs, August 1942. Contents of folder (found within larger folder) inscribed ‘Graphs of Pressure Contents presented in order found within the folder. Graphs, 1942, 1944, most undated. with non-contemporary label ‘F.S.D. Photochemical labelled F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Research Graphs, data found clipped together, first page titled ‘Vapour and Pressure of Nitroxyl Chloride’, 1942-1943. Graphs found clipped together with wrap-around sheet inscribed ‘Graphs: NOCI photoly (Sept 1941 - 7)’. The wrap-around sheet is a fire-watching duties rota issued under Dainton’s name and dated 25 July 1941. Graphs, 1941-1942. ‘Progress Contents of folder so inscribed: 23pp typescript with same title as folder. Report on Photochemical Switches September 16th, 1942’. ‘Correspondence correspondence and papers, 1942-1943. Switch’. on _ Contents of folder so_ inscribed: Relates to work on gauges filled with NOCI. Relates to work on gauges filled with NOCI. B.57-B.64 B.71-B.74 B.65-B.70 Contents of untitled folder divided into six for ease of reference: notes and drafts, correspondence, duplicated reports, etc., 1943-1946. Dainton’s correspondent is S.P. Kendon, Electrical Engineer of Venner Time Switches Ltd, New Malden, Surrey. Contents of untitled folder divided into eight for ease of reference: typescript and manuscript notes, graphs etc, 1942-1943. particles and an absorbing medium’. N.d. Includes manuscript, typescript and duplicated typescript copies of report by Dainton and A.I. McMullen on ‘The Ignition of A.M.V.O. in Self-sealing Tanks’. Contents of untitled folder divided into four for ease of reference: manuscript notes on the literature, off-prints etc., latest bibliographical reference, 1948. At B.72 is an incomplete typescript draft of ‘Lecture Ill More detailed consideration of particular aspects of Energy Transfer between moving F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Research B.75-B.78 Manuscript notes and drafts, correspondence, off-prints etc found enclosed within Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Chemical Engineering Report no.8 ‘Phosphorus Properties of the Element and Some of its Compounds’, 1950. 4 folders. Copy of TVA Report. Manuscript notes and drafts, graph, off-print 1929 found enclosed within off- print ‘A Spectroscopic Study of the Luminescent Oxidation of Phosphorus’ by H.J. Emeleus and W.E. Downey, Journal of the Chemical Society, 1924. Correspondence, 1946, 1948. Manuscript notes and drafts re phosphorus, proof of paper on ‘The Oxidation and Inflammation of Yellow Phosphorus’ by Dainton and Bevington, Faraday Trans. 1945, etc. B.80-B.85 The notes relate to the work of J. Rowbottom. Contents of untitled folder: correspondence and papers re polymerisation etc, 1949-1956. Manuscript notes found clipped together on ‘Colour centres in lonic Soldis’ and ‘lonising Radiation on Vitreous Solids’. ‘RAD™ IONIC POLYM’. Contents of folder so labelled divided six into for ease of reference: notes, drafts, correspondence, student softback notebook, off-prints, etc, 1959-1961. Includes notes for talks and lectures. The papers at B.83-B.85 were found loose at the front of the notebook. Relates to work of G. Palma. B.86-B.88 ‘AQ POLYM™. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference: re aqueous polymerisation, emulsion polymerisation etc, 1959-1963, n.d. off-print drafts, notes, data, etc F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Research Contents of folder stamped ‘F.S. Dainton School of Chemistry The University Leeds, 2’. Manuscript and typescript notes and drafts including ‘Points from Kondratiev “Energy Exchange in Interactions between lons and Molecules” RIC [Royal Institute of Chemistry] Lecture 1960 No 3 (Humphry Davy Lecture)’. B.90-B.93 ‘P.J. Reilly’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference: manuscript and typescript drafts, correspondence, off-prints, etc., 1962-1964. Reilly was based at Laboratory, Cookridge Hospital, Leeds until September 1963. University of Leeds High Energy Radiation the B.94-B.101 untitled Contents of reference: correspondence, manuscript notes, off-prints etc re research at the University of Leeds Cookridge High Energy Radiation Centre, Cookridge Hospital, Leeds. 1965-1970, n.d. for ease divided folder eight into of Dainton was Honorary Director Nottingham as Vice-Chancellor. after he moved to the University of B.102, B.103 Contents of envelope addressed to ‘Prof. Dainton from:- M.R. Topp’. Two typescript papers sent to Dainton with covering note dated 7 December 1972: Contents of untitled folder divided into two for ease of reference: manuscript notes on ‘diffusion in liquids’, ‘viscosity and diffusion’ etc, 1970-1971. ‘Biphotonic excitation of the fluorescence of picosecond transients’, 5pp typescript with manuscript additions and corrections. 1947-1950. ‘Mode-locking control using multiphoton absorption’, 13pp typescript with manuscript additions and corrections + list of references and figures. Miscellaneous shorter notes and drafts, 1947-1972, n.d. The sequence includes a little correspondence. For photographs see B.111, B.115. B.105-B.115 F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Research 1953-1954. 1955-1958. 1960-1965. 1971-1972. B.112-B.115 N.d. B.118-B.123 1943-1949 4 folders. 2 folders. B.116, B.117 Annotated off-prints, 1950, 1967-1972. notebooks. See Dainton’s autobiography Doubts and Certainties, p.107. Lea was based at the Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge. Dainton contacted Lea after reading his Actions of Radiations on Living Cells, Lea died young and after his death Dainton was given access to his 1946. B.118-B.120 Notebooks B.121-B.123 Notes and correspondence F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Research B.118-B.120 Notebooks 1943-1949 B.118 Notebook no XVI inscribed inside front cover with Lea’s name and address at the Strangeways Laboratory and the period covered ‘July 1943 - November 1944’, Index on first two pages and contents paginated [1]-119. Includes work with y-rays, ‘Big X-ray set’, ‘small X-ray set’ etc. Enclosed loose at the front of the notebook is carbon copy of letter from [?Dainton] to C.B. Allsopp, Physics Department, Medical School, Guy’s Hospital London, 6 May 1949. The letter begins ‘I am glad you have received Lea’s notes’. Notebook no XVII inscribed inside front cover with Lea’s name and address and period covered ‘Nov 1944 - June 1945’. Index on first two pages and contents paginated 1-78. Includes work with y-rays, ‘Big X-ray set’, ‘small X-ray set’ etc. B.121-B.123 Notes and correspondence 1943-1946 Index on first two pages and contents paginated 1-83. Includes work with y-rays, ‘Big X-ray set’, ‘small X-ray set’ etc. Notebook no. XVIII inscribed inside front cover with Lea’s name and address and period covered ‘June 1945 - June 1946‘. 3 folders Paginated sequences of notes and correspondence. Lea’s correspondents are W.M. Dale and J. Weiss. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Research B.124-B.131 PH.D. THESES 1940-1970 A list of the theses of Dainton’s research students is at A.502. With the exception of the thesis at B.131, those completed for the University of Leeds were passed to M. Pilling, University of Leeds, in 1994. The theses presented here are (with the one exception), presented to the University of Cambridge. The set includes Dainton’s Ph.D. thesis. ‘The Mechanism of Gaseous Explosion’, Cambridge, 1940. F.S. Dainton, University of ‘Copolymerisation of sulphur dioxide and olefin’ by K.J. Ivin, University of Cambridge, 1948. ‘Some reactions University of Cambridge, 1949. of Chlorine Atoms and Coci Radicals’, W.G. Burns, ‘The Oxidation Kinetics and Vapour Pressure of Phosphorous’ by H.M Kimberley, University of Cambridge, 1949. ‘Chemical Action produced in Water by lonising Reactions’, E. Collinson, University of Cambridge, 1951. University of Leeds, 1970. ‘Photochemical Electron Transfer Reactions’, D.G.L. James, University of Cambridge, 1952. ‘The Radiation Chemistry of Water’, J. Rowbottom, University of Cambridge, 1953. ‘The Quenching of Triplet States of Aromatic Compounds by Metal Chelates’, F.S. Dainton NCUACS 1112/11/02 SECTION C UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE C.1-C.122 C.1-C.98 EARLY UNIVERSITY CAREER C.99-C.122 DR LEE’S PROFESSOR, OXFORD EARLY UNIVERSITY CAREER 1937-1950, 1989 A student at St John’s College, Oxford, Dainton graduated with a first class honours degree in chemistry in 1937. He then became a research student at Cambridge, Senior Student, 1939, University Demonstrator in Chemistry, 1944 and H.O. Jones Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, 1946. The material presented here relates principally to teaching. ‘Thesis on “The Spectroscopy and Photochemistry of the Alkyl Nitrites, Nitro compounds and nitrates” submitted by Frederick Sydney Dainton Casberd Scholar of St. John’s College, Oxford, in supplication for the degree of B.A., Final Honours School of Chemistry (Part Il), and for the degree of B.Sc.’. Contents of large envelope divided into four for ease of reference: manuscript drafts, ca 1937. Bound copy of thesis, ca 1937. Contents of large envelope divided into two for ease of reference: manuscript notes and drafts re thesis, ca 1937. 3 folders. ‘F.S. Dainton Univ. Chem. Lab Cambridge’. Contents of binder so inscribed: manuscript, typescript and duplicated notes including notes found loose within covers of three notebooks, 1937-1944. Manuscript and typescript notes, found clipped together, for lectures on general physical chemistry, 1940-1942. Manuscript notes and duplicated typescript re electrochemistry, 1941. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Universities of Oxford and Cambridge C.12-C.17 ‘5 Lectures on K[inetic] Th[eor]y’. covers of notebook so inscribed, 1943-1944. Manuscript notes found loose between There are notes for six lectures. 6 folders. C.18-C.23 ‘Lectures on Chemical Kinetics and Chain Reactions and Photochemistry’. Manuscript notes and drafts, off-print etc., found loose between covers of notebook so inscribed, 1937-1944. 6 folders. At C.22 are drafts on the ‘Hydrogen-Chlorine Reaction’ from Dainton’s time as a student at St John’s College, Oxford. C.24, C.25 ‘Lectures on General Chem. to Part | 1945. F.S. Dainton’. Manuscript notes paginated 1-53 etc., found loose between covers of notebook so inscribed, 1945. 2 folders. C.27-C.32 Miscellaneous papers, 1944 and n.d. Dates on the folder (retained at C.27) suggest papers were in use 1939- 1942. ‘Demonstration Notes’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into six for ease of reference: manuscript notes, duplicated sheets re physical chemistry practical classes etc Includes notes re ‘Transition State Theory’, n.d. ‘Where is address at the Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Cambridge and Lectures Demonstration } Lent 1941’. it?’ notebook inscribed inside at front with Dainton’s name and ‘Supervision C.34-C.38 Contents of folder so inscribed: manuscript notes and drafts, ‘T.S. Theory’. 1941 and n.d. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Universities of Oxford and Cambridge ‘Some Simple Statistical Theorems and Applications F.S. Dainton’, n.d. ‘Some Points from Eyring, Glasstone & Laidler “Theory of Rate Processes” ’, n.d. The Theory of Rate Processes was first published in 1941. ‘Homogeneous Gas Reactions’. ‘Reactions in Solution’ dated ’Trinity ‘41’. C.39-C.44 Contents of folder divided into six for ease of reference: manuscript notes for ‘Part I’ lectures, 1941-1945. Includes ‘Norrish’s 2™ Lecture Oct 14" 1944’ (C.39) and ‘Norrish Lecture to Part |: Oct 26" 1944’ (C.40). ‘Practical Physical Chemistry for Part | Natural Sciences Tripos’. Title page and 22pp duplicated typescript, n.d. ‘Practical Physical Chemistry for Part | Natural Sciences Tripos Sept. 1943’, Revised Title page and 22pp duplicated typescript with manuscript additions and revision. Manuscript record ‘compiled by F.S. Dainton Sept 29" 1942’. Title page and 22pp duplicated sheets with manuscript additions and revision. ‘Practical Physical Chemistry for Part | Natural Sciences Tripos Sept. 1944’. Revised ‘Tabulated Results for Part | Phys. Chem. Practical Class Mich. 1942’. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Universities of Oxford and Cambridge C.49-C.52 Contents of folder divided into for four ease of reference: manuscript notes, correspondence, duplicated sheets etc re demonstrations, practical work etc., 1944-1947. Dainton’s correspondence, August 1945, refers to laboratory involving the loss of the index finger of my left hand’. See C.50. ‘a slight accident in the C.53-C.59 Contents of folder divided into seven for ease of reference: notes for lectures on chemical thermodynamics, off-prints etc., 1944-1950. C.60-C.68 Contents of folder divided into nine for ease of reference: manuscript notes, duplicated sheets etc re lectures on thermodynamics etc, 1945-1950. Student record cards for experimental work, 1946. 2 folders. C.71-C.74 C.78-C.81 C.82-C.85 3 folders. C.75-C.77 Notes for lectures on surface chemistry and colloids, 1947, 1949. Contents of folder divided into four for ease of reference: notes for lectures on catalysis, heterogeneous reactions and photochemistry, etc., 1947-1950. ‘Dr F.S. Dainton Demons 1947 Mich’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference: duplicated typescript re practical physical chemistry for Part | Natural Sciences Tripos. Contents of folder so inscribed: typescript note on experiment, etc., n.d. four for ease of reference: duplicated re practical physical chemistry for Part | Natural Sciences into Contents of binder divided typescript etc Tripos, 1948. ‘Experiment 11A The Photochemical Oxidation of Potassium lodide’. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Universities of Oxford and Cambridge folder. for ‘Summer School in Contents of Physical Chemistry Cambridge 1947’ on ‘An experimental determination of the radius of glycine molecule in solution’. Duplicated typescript note Also found loose in folder are duplicated notice for ‘Chain Reactions’ lectures given by Norrish and Dainton and duplicated sheet headed ‘The Physics and Chemistry of Rubber Solids Practical Experiments’. folder. for ‘Summer School in Contents of Physical Chemistry Cambridge 1947’ on ‘An experimental determination of the strength of the hydrogen bond in solution’. Duplicated typescript note Contents of folder. Duplicated typescript note on experiment ‘Examination of Surfaces. Optical Interference Methods’, n.d. Contents of folder. Duplicated typescript note on experiment ‘The Detonation of Liquid Explosives by Impact’, n.d. of folder. Duplicated typescript note Contents of folder. Duplicated typescript note on experiment ‘The Boundary Lubrication of Metal Surfaces’, n.d. Duplicated typescript note on experiments ‘Hot Spots Contents of folder. Produces by Frictional Heating’, n.d. Contents on _ experiments ‘Electromagnetic Surface Analysis: Surface Damage of Clean and Lubricated Metals’. Contents of folder. Duplicated typescript note on experiment ‘Measurement by Tracer Methods of the Surface Contours of Metals and of the Damage Produced by Sliding’, n.d. Polymerisation of Formaldehyde’, n.d. Contents of folder. Duplicated typescript note on experiment ‘The Oxidation of Aqueous Sodium Sulphite by Atmospheric Oxygen’, n.d. Contents of folder. of Yellow Phosphorus’, n.d. Duplicated typescript note on experiment ‘The Oxidation Duplicated typescript note on experiment Contents of folder. ‘The F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Contents of Polymerisation of Styrene Catalysed by Dibenzoyl Peroxide’, n.d. Duplicated typescript folder. on experiment note ‘The C.95-C.98 Miscellaneous papers including papers re teaching, a and club membership booklets, 1937-1948, 1989. little correspondence 4 folders. Letter, 1942, is from the headmaster of the High Storrs Grammar School for Boys, formerly the Central Secondary School for Boys, Dainton’s old School (C.95). Letter, 1989, thanks Dainton for giving the writer so much insight into pre-war Cambridge and considers some remarks of C.P. Snow (C.95). C.99-C.122 DR LEE’S PROFESSOR, OXFORD 1953-1973 C.99-C.108 C.109-C.113 etc. Dainton was Dr Lee’s Professor of Chemistry, Oxford University, 1970-1973. The material presented here relates almost entirely to university teaching. ‘Oxford: 1* Yr: Intro” to Reaction Kinetics + Slides‘. Contents of folder so labelled divided into ten for ease of reference: manuscript notes, duplicated sheets, slides, re Dainton’s lectures at Oxford 1971-1972 including material dating from his years at Leeds. 1953-1972. ‘Oxford: 3° Yr Odd el[ectron] Species’. Contents of folder so labelled divided into five for ease of reference: manuscript notes, duplicated sheets, etc re Dainton’s lectures at Oxford 1971-1972 including material dating from his years at Leeds. 1962-1972. Japan, 1970-1973. ‘Oxford Circus: 3° Yr: Chemistry of the Electron’. Contents of folder so labelled divided into three for ease of reference: manuscript notes, duplicated and photocopied typescript, etc re Dainton’s lectures at Oxford, including notes for lectures at Chemical Society meeting, Gordon conference and in C.114-C.116 F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 Universities of Oxford and Cambridge C.117-C.120 ‘Oxford Circus: 3" Yr: Diffusio” Contr[?] and Relax" + some slides’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference: manuscript notes and duplicated and photocopied typescript, slides etc re Dainton’s lectures at Oxford, including notes for lecture in Japan, 1956, 1971-1973. Manuscript notes and duplicated typescript re lectures, 1971, 1973. Includes note for second year lecture on radiation chemistry. Miscellaneous papers re the Luncheon Club ‘invented in the winter of 1925 by Austin Lane Poole (St John’s)’, 1993-1997. Includes letter to Dainton from Poole’s daughter, 1993. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 SECTION D UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS D.1-D.64 TEACHING D.65-D.85 RESEARCH D.86-D.94 COOKRIDGE HIGH ENERGY RADIATION CENTRE D.95-D.97 FRESHERS’ CONFERENCES TEACHING 1939-1970 The teaching material presented here predominantly relates to Dainton’s years at the University of Leeds, 1950-1965. However, there is some earlier lecture notes from Cambridge and a little later material which may relate to Dainton’s return to university teaching as Dr Lee’s Professor of Chemistry, University Vice-Chancellor, University of Nottingham, 1965-1970. 1970-1973, Oxford, period after the as of 2 folders. Course synopses, 1959-1960 - 1961-1962. Course synopses, 1968-1969 - 1969-1970. ‘Leeds Courses’. Contents of folder so labelled: duplicated typescript course synopses for undergraduate chemistry courses, correspondence, etc, 1959- 1960 - 1969-1970. chemistry courses at Leeds. Correspondence between Dainton, Vice-Chancellor, Nottingham University and P. Gray, Professor of Physical Chemistry at Leeds, re undergraduate Course synopsis, n.d. 2 folders. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 1112/11/02 University of Leeds Kinetics courses, 1947-1970. untitled Contents of folder: duplicated typescript synopses, bibliography, references, problems etc for kinetics sections of courses, 1959-1960 - 1964- 1965. ‘Kinetics 4 CH-P old Contents of folder: manuscript notes and drafts for lectures; duplicated sheets, etc, 1947 - 1963- 1964. S3 course 1 Term 1963-4’. Manuscript notes found clipped together from Cambridge and Leeds, 1947- 1958 3 folders. Manuscript draft for lectures on ‘Selected Topics in Reaction Kinetics’, 1951. Manuscript notes for lectures on ‘Free-Radical Chemistry’ at Shrivenham, July 1963. ‘4 CH-P Course 1963-4 Kinetics D.13-D.16 Duplicated typescript sheets including Problems’. P old S; course 2 Term 1963-4’. Contents of folder so four for ease of reference: manuscript notes for Report of Chemical Society Molecular Beam Kinetics Group, September 1970. Found with kinetics teaching material. ‘Kinetics 4 CH - inscribed divided into lectures, duplicated typescript synopses and off-prints, 1959-1964 - 1965. Manuscript notes headed ‘Semiquantitative Treatment’, n.d. Manuscript notes for lectures to Summer School ‘Sept 15" /17". D.18-D.21 ‘R-C [Radiation Chemistry] Lectures Contents of folder so inscribed: 1957-1960. M.I.T [crossed out] 1959 Leeds’. The group reported on the future of molecular beam research in the UK. Manuscript notes for lecture to Frankland Society, 15 November 1957. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University of Leeds Manuscript notes for ‘P.G. Course “Radiation Chemistry’ 2” 1957/8’. Manuscript notes for postgraduate course in ‘Rad” Chemistry: Inorganic Systems’. The date 13 May 1960 has been added in red ink on the first page. Typescript notices for ‘Lectures by F.G. Dainton’ dated 8 April 1959 and ‘Some Topics in Reaction Kinetics’, n.d. D.22-D.27 ‘Baker Lectures Notes on R-C’. Contents of folder so inscribed: manuscript notes, duplicated typescript etc., 1959-1973. Manuscript notes for lectures, probably given by Dainton in the USA in March-April 1959. Printed material, 1962-1973. Manuscript notes for Dainton’s Baker lectures on Radiation Chemistry at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1961. See also D.73 and L.42. Duplicated typescripts re Advanced Course on Radiation Chemistry, 1962- 1963 and 1964. Miscellaneous notes and drafts re lectures, including notes for ‘P-G R-C lecture 15/10/64’. manuscript notes and drafts, typescript notices, etc, 1943-1964. Contents of untitled folder divided into three for ease of reference: manuscript notes, Radiation Chemistry, etc., 1959-1970 Contents of folder so labelled: ‘Spectroscopy course Leeds 1955-’. re Advanced Course on duplicated typescripts etc 2 folders. D.28-D.30 D.31-D.37 F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University of Leeds Manuscript notes headed ‘Spectroscopy in manuscript draft headed ‘S; course 1955/6’ and ‘Spectroscopy’. S3 course’ found clipped to Typescript notices ‘to Students in Year 3-CH’, one dated ‘20/4/64’ found attached to manuscript notes for lecture on electronic spectra. D.33-D.36 Contents of folder (found within larger folder) inscribed ‘The Foord — Bourdon Gauge with typical calibration curves’ and ‘Lectures on Qu Th. and Spectra’, divided into four for ease of reference: typescript outline ’10 Lectures in Spectroscopy delivered in S3 course. November-December 1954’ and manuscript notes and drafts for lectures, 1943-1944. Manuscript notes with paper attached inscribed '13.9.58 S3 Spectroscopy notes borrowed by P.B. Ayscough’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of ‘Ss Stat Mech’. reference: off-print, manuscript notes, duplicated manuscripts and typescripts re Ss course on statistical thermodynamics, 1950 - 1961-1962. D.46-D.51 1954/5: Questions on_ Statistical D.40-D.42 Duplicated Thermodynamics’; off-prints, 1947-1951. typescript Course, ‘S3 Manuscript notes and drafts for lectures found clipped together for course on Statistical thermodynamics, 1952 and 1953. Contents of untitled folder: manuscript notes, duplicated typescript, off-prints re statistical thermodynamics course, 1947-1953. 1965. Contents of reference: manuscript notes and drafts, duplicated typescript re course on statistical thermodynamics, 1954-1955 - 1964-1965. Manuscript notes for lectures headed ‘S3 Course Jan - Mar 1953’. Contents of folder so inscribed: manuscript notes, etc, 1939- for ease of ‘Ss Seminar’. untitled folder divided into three D.43-D.45 F.S. Dainton NCUACS 1112/11/02 University of Leeds Includes notes for 1961 seminar on examination technique and letter, 17 January 1962. Contents of untitled folder (found within larger folder) divided into two for ease of reference: off-print, 1950, notes for seminars, 1962-1965. D.49-D.51 Contents of untitled folder (found within larger folder) divided into three for ease of reference: examination questions for Part Il Natural Sciences Tripos, 1939; off-prints, 1950, 1951; manuscript notes, duplicated typescript etc for seminars, 1953-1963. D.52-D.56 ‘Postgraduate courses’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference: duplicated typescript notices, etc, 1951-1952 - 1964-1965. ‘Postgraduate Course Synopses’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: duplicated typescript notices, 1957-1958 - 1964- 1965. 6 folders. D.65-D.71 D.65-D.85 RESEARCH 1951-1969 D.59-D.64 Miscellaneous notes etc re lectures, 1958-1965 and n.d. The material presented here is principally the contents of Dainton’s folders relating to research in the Department of Physical Chemistry. Leeds. The contents of folders is presented in the order found. typescript etc, 1951-1959. ‘Research 1959/60 (a) Suggested Problems (b) People - names - finance - rooms - date of arrival - status’ Contents of folder so inscribed: manuscript notes and drafts, duplicated F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University of Leeds Manuscript notes including ‘Aq. Solution Kinetics Programme Sept 1959’ and ‘Non Aqueous Polymerisation Programme 1959/60’. Manuscript notes re radiation chemistry programme, problems etc, 1952- 1953 - 1958-1959. Contents of untitled folder (found within larger folder): duplicated typescript of physical chemistry staff, 1956-1957 and manuscript notes headed list ‘Aqueous Polymerisation and ‘Aqueous Polymerisation Studies 1957/8’. Studies 1956/7’ Contents of folder inscribed ‘Aq. Soln of Biol Solutes’ (found within larger folder) divided into two for ease of reference: manuscript notes and drafts and duplicated typescript re ‘Aqueous Radical Studies’, ‘Future Systems for Investigation in Fields of Electron Transfer’, ‘Problems in Radiochemistry’ etc., 1953 - 1957-1958. D.72-D.77 of reference: etc manuscript notes, duplicated typescript, Contents of untitled folder (found within larger folder) divided into two for ease of - ‘1957/8/9’. reference: manuscript notes re research problems,1951 Contents of untitled folder: manuscript notes, duplicated typescript, off-prints etc found in three folders within the larger folder, 1952-1963 Contents of untitled folder (found within larger folder) divided into two for ease off-prints, including material re Baker Lectures, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1961. manuscript notes, 1959-1963. Contents of untitled folder (found within larger folder) divided into two for ease of reference: manuscript notes, etc re research programme, research students, etc., 1952-1956. Contents of folder so ‘Research Problems 1962-3 as modified for 1963-4’. inscribed (found within larger folder) divided into two for ease of reference: F.S. Dainton NCUACS 1112/11/02 D.78-D.81 D.82-D.84 University of Leeds ‘Notices to intending P-C [Physical Chemistry] Research Stud[ents] 1962’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference: duplicated typescript notices the physical chemistry and inorganic and structural chemistry departments, 1953-1954 - 1969. re research in Contents of folder so inscribed ‘Photo- and Rad- Chem. Group 1963-4’. divided into three for ease of reference: manuscript notes and drafts, duplicated typescript re work of the photo- and radiation chemistry group, 1956-1957 - 1965-1966. At D.83 is duplicated typescript headed ‘To our Russian Colleagues: Oct 26 1964 Radiation Chemistry at the University of Leeds’. ‘Summary of Research Applicants manuscript notes etc, 1963-1964. Finance’. Contents of folder so inscribed: D.86-D.94 COOKRIDGE HIGH ENERGY RADIATION CENTRE 1956-1997 Programme for opening ceremony, High Energy Radiation Unit, Cookridge Hospital, Leeds, 15 May 1956. 3pp leaflet, n.d. Photograph of 1000 Curie Radiocobalt Unit in Chemistry Position’, n.d. D.86-D.89 ‘Various Opening Ceremonies at Cookridge’. Contents of folder so labelled, 1956-1997. University of Leeds Department of Physical Chemistry Radiation Research with the 3 Million Volt Van de Graaf Electron Accelerator at Cookridge. Letter re Cookridge new development, 6 November 1967. Programme for Cookridge Hospital Extensions Opening Ceremony, 26 October 1967. Cookridge Hospital New Development brochure, 1967. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 1112/11/02 University of Leeds ‘Opening of the Spiers Wing and New Radiation Centre’, Cookridge Hospital, 17 May 1994. 5pp typescript of Dainton’s speech on the occasion. Obituary of F.W. Spiers by J.W. Boag, sent to Dainton, 3 November 1994. Correspondence and papers re history of Cookridge Hospital, 1992-1997. D.90-D.94 ‘Cookridge Minutes of Advisory Committee + Reports’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into for ease of reference: minutes and Director's reports, 1967-1971. five Dainton was the Honorary Director during the period covered by the papers. D.95-D.97 FRESHERS’ CONFERENCES 1951-1963 first year undergraduates at Manuscript notes for Dainton’s addresses to Leeds, introducing the University and university life to them. 1951. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 SECTION E UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM Dainton was appointed Vice-Chancellor of Nottingham in 1965. He served to 1970. His term of office coincided with a period of huge student unrest in the UK and throughout the world and most of the material in this section relates to this as manifested at Nottingham and other universities. E.1 GENERAL E.2-E.52 STUDENT UNREST E.53-E.58 MEDICAL SCHOOL E.59-E.63 HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM E.64-E.78 POST VICE-CHANCELLORSHIP MATERIAL F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University of Nottingham GENERAL 1969, 1970 Typescript ‘Notes ‘Possible December 1969; farewell address of Dainton, 20 August 1970. Being Vice-Chancellor, the Candidates Advisers 17 December 1969 and 31 Vice-Chancellorship’, and for on STUDENT UNREST 1966-1970 The following folders are concerned with student sit-ins, occupation of buildings and other disruptive activities that took place during the late 1960s, and with efforts made by the Nottingham student union, National Union of Students, Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals, Association of University Teachers and other bodies to resolve the disputes. Student unrest at the University of Nottingham 1966-1970 and university January-June 1968. June 1966-November 1967. includes correspondence, student material The material including notices and papers for meetings, reports, press releases and statements, etc. Issues raised by students included access to student files, possible legal procedures against students and payment of building occupation bills, the infiltration of a Sixth Form Conference by student protesters, disruption of an honorary degree ceremony and so on. November-December 1968. October-November 1968. June-September 1968. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University of Nottingham December 1968-February 1969. January-July 1969. July-October 1969. October 1969. October-December 1969. January-March 1970. March 1970 (1). April 1970 (1). April 1970 (2). April-May 1970. March 1970 (2). March-April 1970. Dainton’s miscellaneous notes, undated. May-November 1970 F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University of Nottingham Student publications (‘Red Blob’ and ‘Gonster’, 1969-1970), posters and lyrics. Newspaper cuttings on the University of Nottingham’s student unrest (21 November 1968, 6 March-23 April 1970). E.23-E.43 Student unrest elsewhere in the UK and overseas 1968-1970 Dainton kept files on disruption in other universities in the UK and abroad. Material includes correspondence, reports, notes, notices and statements, memoranda, publications, newsletters, pamphlets, academic papers etc. magazine cuttings, newspaper and student Birmingham. Bristol. Edinburgh. Cambridge. London School of Economics. Manchester. Leicester. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University of Nottingham Oxford. Sheffield. Southampton. Swansea. Canada. Copies of and Colleges of Canada), with information about student unrest, December 1967- April 1971. ‘University Affairs’ (Association of Universities 2 folders. France. United States. New Zealand. University of Victoria, Wellington. Canada. University of Toronto reports and newspaper. 4 folders. Miscellaneous pamphlets, papers, posters and reports on student unrest. UK newspaper cuttings, 1968. E.44-E.52 Press cuttings on student unrest 1968-1970 E.44-E.47 F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University of Nottingham UK newspaper cuttings, 1969. UK newspaper cuttings, 1970. US and other overseas newspaper cuttings, 1968-1970. Cuttings from US university publications, 1968-1970. Poland, 1968. E.53-E.58 MEDICAL SCHOOL 1965-1995 Newspaper cutting and photographs. Letter of thanks, 1977 Material relating to developments in the Medical School at Nottingham. Invitation, programme and correspondence re opening ceremony of Medical School/Pharmacy building, 6 October 1970. the Background reports re the Nottingham Medical School project, 1965-1967. et al, August 1977. Opening of the Queen’s Medical Centre, 28 July 1977 (part of the University Hospital and Medical School complex). 68pp photocopy typescript history of the Medical School by A.DM. Greenfield F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University of Nottingham Medical School Silver Jubilee, 6 October 1995. Correspondence, copy of address, Medical School brochure. E.59-E.63 HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM 1988-1995 Correspondence and papers re history of the University written by B.H Tolley. It was published as The History of the University of Nottingham, Nottingham University Press, 2001. Correspondence with Tolley re the latter's research on the history of the University, December 1988-November 1995. E.60-E.63 Material relating to Tolley’s research. Includes Dainton’s interview transcripts, Dainton’s notes, and drafts of sections relating to Dainton’s role as Vice- Chancellor between 1965 and 1970. 4 folders. E.64-E.78 POST VICE-CHANCELLORSHIP MATERIAL 1993-1997 Also includes draft chapters on student unrest and on W.J.H. Butterfield, Dainton’s successor as Vice-Chancellor. Dainton’s close ties to the University of Nottingham meant that when disputes arose in the mid-1990s relating to the management of the University, some of those unhappy with developments looked to him for advice and support. A number of these disputes related to the handling of affairs by the Vice- Chancellor, a matter where Dainton’s experience was thought particularly useful. Between 1994 and 1997 Dainton advised Alan Prichard, Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Nottingham. including Dainton. Matters under dispute included the dismissal in 1993 of a member of staff who subsequently appealed for unfair dismissal and the 1994 purchase of Clumber Lodge and. The most high-profile case, however, revolved around the suicide of Professor David Regan, Head of the Politics Department at the University. The police concluded his death was the result of a domestic problems but Mrs Regan claimed her husband’s suicide was a response to the University’s management style and to developments in higher education in the UK more widely. The University rejected calls for an enquiry into the circumstances behind the death, despite pressure from many leading figures, F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University of Nottingham Correspondence, 4 March 1994-25 March 1994. Correspondence 4 April 1994-2 February 1995. Special meeting of the University of Nottingham Court, February 1995. Includes meeting agenda. correspondence, resolutions, statements Court and Correspondence, 10 February-5 April 1995. Correspondence, 5 April-25 July 1995. Correspondence, 22 September-20 November 1995. Correspondence, 20 December 1995-26 February 1996. Reports on cases, 1997. Correspondence, 2 March 1996-3 March 1997. Correspondence, 7 March-6 October 1997. Notes on the cases mentioned in E.73, newspaper cuttings etc. Papers re claim for case of unfair dismissal, 1993. David Regan case. Report on his death, correspondence and statements to the press. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University of Nottingham Nolan Committee on Standards in Public Life. 2nd report (17 June 1996). of submission to the University and conclusions; copy of Independent Review of Student Complaints and Staff Disputes. Nottingham Committee Nolan Newspaper cuttings 1995-1997, mainly on the Nolan Committee. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 SECTION F UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMITTEE Dainton had first been invited to serve as Chairman of the University Grants Committee (UGC) in 1968. He declined and Sir Kenneth Berrill was appointed instead. At the end of Berrill’s term in 1973 Dainton was again approached, and this time accepted. He took office on 1 October 1973. Two days later he was told that all university capital expenditure had been cancelled. As the economic crisis deepened further real-term cuts in expenditure were made. His term of office was not helped by having to deal with no fewer than four Secretaries of State for Education and Science, including Margaret Thatcher (1970-1974) and Shirley Williams (1976-1979). Under Dainton the number of medical students increased significantly and he encouraged industrial sponsorships of engineering courses. At F.133-F.136 is material celebrating the progress of the Dainton Enhanced Engineering courses. These were established by the UGC following a proposal by Dainton to set up undergraduate courses with an emphasis on the needs of manufacturing industry. They combined the study of engineering with other subjects likely to be of use to future production managers in industry, such as accountancy, industrial relations etc. The UGC was replaced in 1989 by the University Funding Council. The event was marked by a F.1-F.46 F.90-F.128 F.132-F.136 valedictory dinner (F.132). F.59-F.89 UGC VISITS F.47-F.58 UGC COMMITTEES F.129-F.131 STAFFING LONG-RANGE PLANNING GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS ©POST CHAIRMANSHIP MATERIAL F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University Grants Committee GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS The bulk of this material was found in Dainton’s labelled folders. General information about the UGC and its work, ca 1973, 1975, 1976. ‘The University Grants Committee’, 6pp typescript, ca 1973. ‘Notes on the University Grants Committee and its work’, 6pp typescript, ca 1974. ‘Some views on the University Grants Committee during the period January 1966 to October 1975’ by A.C. Locke, 10pp typescript, October 1975. ‘Priorities and decision making in the Department of Education and Science’, 11pp typescript + figure, annotated by Dainton, February 1976. Includes Dainton’s manuscript notes on the implications of the paper for further and higher education. Papers re Government White Paper Education: A Framework for Expansion. Cmnd 5174, December 1972. This 10-year programme for education policy from nursery to university education and including the expansion of university education, had set the framework for Government education policy when Dainton took over at the UGC. ‘Sept 74 to July 75’. ‘Agendas’. Contents of Dainton’s folder so labelled divided into five for ease of reference: papers, many annotated by Dainton, and Dainton’s manuscript notes re UGC meetings. The material was grouped by Dainton by labels clipped to papers. ‘Oct 73 to July 74’. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University Grants Committee ‘Sept 75 to July 76’. ‘Sept 76 to July 77’. ‘Sept 77 [Sept] 78’. F.11-F.16 ‘The “Cuts” 1973-4’. Contents of Dainton’s folder so labelled divided into six for ease of reference. In December 1973 the Government announced a series of emergency measures to reduce public expenditure. In the higher education sector these included halting all new university capital building projects to June 1974, with a programme grant supplementation for price increases. withholding thereafter, reduced greatly and and Correspondence their implementation, discussions on ways of alleviating their effects, meetings with the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals (CVCP) and the longer term effect of the cuts on student numbers. announcement papers cuts re of and _ January 1974. December 1973. February 1974. March-April 1974. June 1974. May 1974. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University Grants Committee Interview with Dainton in ‘FUSS: Forum for University Staff and Students’, ca February 1974. Dainton was interviewed about the work of reference to the funding crisis, in December 1973. the UGC, with particular F.18-F.27 UGC grant allocation. Correspondence and papers re allocation of UGC recurrent grants. Includes meetings and communications with the Secretary of State for Education and Science and the CVCP, calculations of grants and student numbers etc. UGC letter re allocation of 1972-1977 quinquennial grant, 15 January 1973. Annotated by Dainton. This laid down the resources and student numbers anticipated prior to the emergency measures later in 1973. of of address to meeting of the 27-28 Manchester, Principals, and November-December 1974. September-October 1974. Includes typescript and manuscript draft Committee September 1974. Vice-Chancellors ‘1974-5 distribution’. Contents of Dainton’s folder so labelled divided into two for ease of reference: papers and correspondence 1974. March 1975. ‘Distribution for 75/76’. Contents of Dainton’s folder so labelled divided into two for ease of reference: papers and correspondence, 1975. February 1975. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University Grants Committee ‘76/77 allocation’. Contents of Dainton’s folder so labelled: papers and correspondence, 1976. ‘77/78 allocation’. Contents of Dainton’s folder so labelled: papers and correspondence, 1977. Includes note of points made by Dainton at a meeting of the CVCP, 20 May 1977. F.25-F.27 Papers on allocation of resources to 1981/82 and forward planning for the years 1979/80, 1980/81, 1981/82. 1978. For 1977 papers see F.107-F.113. 3 folders. F.28-F.30 UGC Conference, Oxford, 22-24 September 1977. This conference met to consider funding of higher education to the year 1980/82 and beyond. Dainton chaired the meeting. See also F.107-F.113. Information and background papers. 2 folders. F.31-F.36 Relations with the CVCP, 1978. Dainton’s manuscript notes for his ‘Chairman’s remarks’ on ‘Problems and policies’. Dainton attended to discuss future university financing with the CVCP. ‘Note of meeting’ of UGC/CVCP Consultative Group, London, 29 June 1978. F.32-F.34 Papers for visit of Dainton to the CVCP, 14 July 1978. Miscellaneous papers on university finance. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 1112/11/02 University Grants Committee Dainton’s manuscript notes for the meeting. Briefing papers. Typescript report on proceedings of the visit, 21 September 1978. CVCP papers on ‘Universities in the 1980s and 1990s, together with a review of the future of research in universities’, September 1978. Background papers, 1978. Includes manuscript notes by Dainton. F.37-F.44 Miscellaneous correspondence and papers, 1973-1978. F.37 F.38-F.41 Polytechnics, January 1975. Letter of best wishes from Dainton’s predecessor, 28 September 1973. Correspondence re student numbers and age of university staff, October, December 1974. ‘Miscellaneous UGC papers’. Contents of Dainton’s folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference. Organisations review of the UGC, 25 May 1978. Photocopied correspondence and papers re polytechnics, 1977. Correspondence Government etc, 1975-1976. and Letter re Department of Education and Science Establishments and relations with memoranda re UGC powers, F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University Grants Committee Talks on the UGC by Dainton, 1974, 1978. Brief manuscript notes for talk to medical charity administrators, 29 May 1974; typescript draft on ‘The role of the University Grants Committee in Medical Education and Research’ by Dainton, 10 May 1974, manuscript notes for talk to the Manchester Dining Club, 24 May 1978. Background material for the 1974 talks. University Grants Committee Annual Surveys. Published by HMSO. 1973-1974 (Cmnd 6034). 1974-1975 (Cmnd 6435). 1975-1976 (Cmnd 6750). 1976-1977 (Cmnd 7119). 1976-1978 Steering Group on Library Research F.47-F.50 F.51-F.56 2:07; 1-00 F.47-F.58 UGC COMMITTEES Working Party on Capital Provision for University Libraries space created by withdrawals. This Working Party reported in August 1976 (the Atkinson Report). It advanced the idea of the ‘self-renewing library of limited growth’ - libraries in which space required for new acquisitions would be largely provided by Working Group on the Management of Higher Education in the Maintained Sector Working Party on Capital Provision for University Libraries 1976-1977 F.47-F.50 F.S. Dainton NCUACS 1112/11/02 University Grants Committee Copy of Atkinson Report, with foreword by Dainton, 1976. Extensively annotated by Dainton. Manuscript and typescript notes for lectures by Dainton on the Atkinson Report to various professional library bodies: Library Association, ‘NW branch’, 10 March 1977. Library Association, autumn meeting of ‘N-W branch’, 12 October 1977. Annual Conference of Library Authorities in Wales, n.d. ‘S.L.A.’, n.d. Photocopy correspondence on Conference on National and University Libraries, October 1976 - May 1977. the Atkinson Report with the Standing Photocopy letter on the Atkinson Report, sent on behalf of the British Academy and the Royal Society to Secretary of State for Education and Science, 6 January 1977. Minutes of first and third meetings, 3 February and 5 May 1977. F.51-F.56 F.53 Steering Group on Library Research 1977-1978, n.d. This was set up following the Atkinson Report. It was chaired by E. Anne Whiteman. Press notice of the establishment of the Steering Group and terms of reference, 11 March 1977; memorandum on ‘Possible topics for research’, 18 March 1977. 15pp photocopy typescript. ‘The Urquhart Report on Academic Libraries’ by D.J. Urquhart, 9 March 1977. F.53-F.56 Papers relating to the work of the Steering Group, 1977-1978. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University Grants Committee ‘Library Policy after Atkinson’ by A. Anderson, April 1977. 4pp duplicated typescript. ‘The adequacy of libraries and the UGC system of finance’ by E.H. St G. Moss, April 1978. 12pp photocopy typescript, annotated by Dainton. Untitled lecture on the UGC support for libraries by E.A. Whiteman, n.d. 12pp photocopy typescript. Working Group on the Management of Higher Education in the Maintained Sector 1978 This Working Group chaired by G.J. Oakes MP, Minister of State at the Department of Education and Science, reported in March 1978 (Cmnd 7130). Copy of Report. F.59-F.89 UGC VISITS 1973-1978 Press release re report of the Working Group. Bedford College, London, 13 November 1973. The UGC made frequent visits to higher education institutions in the UK to review funding needs, discuss projects and receive feedback on UGC policies. The material includes reports on visits, Dainton’s manuscript notes ‘Visitation Notes 1973-8’. Contents of Dainton’s folder so inscribed. F.59-F.85 F.59 F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University Grants Committee University of Southampton, 28 November 1973. University of Reading, 29 November 1973. Queen Elizabeth College, London, 12 December 1973. University of Manchester, 24 January 1974. University of Essex, 19 February 1974. Birkbeck College, 5 March 1974. Chelsea College, 6 March 1974. University of Kent, 20 March 1974. University of Cambridge, 24 April 1974. University of Exeter, 1 May 1974. University of St Andrews, 8 May 1974. University of Dundee, 9 May 1974. University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 29-30 October 1974. University of Bath, 28 November 1974. St David’s University College, Lampeter, 30 October 1974. University College of Wales, Swansea, 31 October 1974. Queen Mary’s College, London, 16 October 1974. Royal Holloway College, London, 13 November 1974. University of Bristol, 27 November 1974. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 1112/11/02 University Grants Committee University of Birmingham, 5 February 1975. University College London, 19 February 1975. University of Newcastle, 5 March 1975. University of Durham, 6 March 1975. King’s College London, 11 March 1975. University of Edinburgh, 29 April 1975. Heriot-Watt University, 30 April 1975. University of York, 14 May 1975. University of Oxford, 21 May 1975. School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London, 6 June 1975. University of Sussex, 12 November 1975. University of Salford, 26 November 1975. University of Surrey, 28 January 1976. University of Stirling, 30 September 1975. Imperial College London, 28 October 1975. London School of Economics, 29 October 1975. Manchester Business School, 25 November 1975. University of Loughborough, 18 February 1976. London Graduate School of Business Studies, 27 January 1976. University of Nottingham, 17 February 1976. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University Grants Committee University of Strathclyde, 2 March 1976. University of Glasgow, 3 March 1976. University College of North Wales, Bangor, 26-27 April 1976 Warburg Institute, University of London, 4 May 1976. Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 4 May 1976. University of Leicester, 8 June 1976. University of Warwick, 9 June 1976. University of London, on the future of medical schools, 6 October 1976. University of London, 21 October 1976. Queen’s University, Belfast, 7-8 March 1977. Brunel University, 25 January 1978. University of Leeds, 7 February 1978. University of Bradford, 8-9 February 1978. University of Liverpool, 28 February 1978. University of Aberdeen, 27 October 1976. University College Cardiff, 3 November 1976. New University of Ulster, Coleraine, 8-9 March 1977. University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology, 2 November 1976. University of Lancaster, 1 March 1978. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 F.86-F.89 University Grants Committee University of Hull, 12 May 1978. University of Southampton, 1 June 1978. ‘Papers and timetable for the visit University on Thursday 11th May 1978’. labelled for ease of manuscript notes, briefing material (some annotated by Dainton) etc. of the Main Committee to Sheffield Contents of Dainton’s folder so reference: Dainton’s timetable, divided four into F.90-F.128 LONG-RANGE PLANNING 193-1978 by Dainton material was labelled ‘Long Range Planning Shirley This Williams’. It appears to have been assembled by Dainton for work of the UGC’s Longer Term Planning Group established following discussions in 1977 and in response to a Department of Education and Science/Scottish Education Department discussion paper ‘Higher Education into the 1990s’ (see F.115). F.90-F.93 ‘Numbers game 1974’. Papers re projections of student numbers. University Central Council on Admissions Eleventh Report 1972-3, with photocopied pages of the Report, annotated by Dainton, intercalated. The bulk of the material was found in folders or bundles with Dainton’s own labels clipped to them. These have been reproduced in the catalogue entries. of Notes by [?Department of Education and Science] projected student numbers to 1981, and to 1985. November and December 1973. Some by Dainton. Typescript memoranda to Dainton from N.P. Thomas of the UGC staff, January-February 1974. Manuscript notes, graphs, tables re projection of student numbers, ca 1974 ‘Planning Unit’ F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University Grants Committee F.94-F.98 ‘Fees matters’. Correspondence and papers re Government proposal to increase tuition fees, June - September 1976. This was part of a Government programme to reduce public expenditure. June 1976. July 1976 (1). Chiefly response to Department of Education and Science (DES) press release on tuition fees. July 1976 (2). Includes notes of UGC/DES meetings to discuss the implications of the increases in fees, held in Dainton’s office at the UGC. August-September 1976. Dainton’s manuscript notes. F.99-F.106 ‘Overseas Students’. Correspondence and papers re numbers of overseas students attending UK universities, likely trends and the issue of differential tuition fees for home and overseas students. 1976-1978. Annotated by Dainton. Cabinet Office report on overseas students, December 1975, sent to Dainton at his request, 25 February 1976. ‘Statistics of overseas students in Britain 1975/76’, British Council Report 1977. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University Grants Committee Correspondence and papers October - December 1977. Includes report on ‘Foreign graduate students in US institutions of higher education’, compiled by US Federal Office of Education at Dainton’s request. Correspondence, January-February 1978. Correspondence and papers, March 1978. Papers of meeting between Secretary of State for Education and Science and CVCP and UGC representatives, 6 April 1978. Correspondence and papers, April-May 1978. Includes report on ‘Foreign student fees in US universities’, compiled by US Federal Office of Education at Dainton’s request. Includes Dainton’s manuscript notes. F.107-F.113 ‘Planning numbers (310,000) for 1981-2. visit to Cttee in Dec [sic]’. Cttee discussion Sept 77 & S/S Correspondence and papers, June-July 1978 and n.d. The papers include material from the UGC conference in Oxford, 22-24 September 1977 (see F.28-F.30) and Dainton’s meeting with the Secretary of State for Education and Science, Shirley Williams MP, on 17 November 1977. Includes UGC memorandum ‘Planning for 1981-82: the university sector’. ‘Notes of meetings during the Committee’s conference [...] 22-24 September 1977’. Correspondence and papers, October 1977. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University Grants Committee Memoranda sent to Dainton in advance of meeting with the Secretary of State, November 1977; Dainton’s manuscript notes for presentation to Secretary of State, 17 November 1977. BS 1Ofe at Statistics on ‘Resources to 1981-82’. These were initially prepared for the September 1977 conference. 2 folders. Exchange of letters with Secretary of State, November, December 1977. Press releases re 1981-82 higher education planning figures, 30 November 1978. Memoranda on long term planning, November, December 1977. F.115-F.122 Long Term Planning Group. 115, F196 Copy of the report. This Group was established following the September 1977 conference and the visit of the Secretary of State to the UGC in November ‘Higher Education into the 1990s. A discussion document’, Department of Education and Science/Scottish Education Department, February 1978. with memoranda 6 and 7 March found therewith. Photocopy of covering note with Dainton’s reply giving his initial reaction, January 1978; press release, February 1978; leading article on the report, Nature vol 272, 2 March 1978. Agenda for first meeting of the Long Term Planning Group, 14 March 1978, F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University Grants Committee F.118-F.121 Contents of Dainton’s folder divided into four for ease of reference: papers for meeting of the Long Term Planning Group, ?June 1978. The material is chiefly statistics and projections for university student and staff numbers into the 1980s and 1990s. Final Report of the Conference of University Administrators Group on Forecasting and University Expansion, circulated to the Long Term Planning Group, September 1978. F.123-F.128 ‘Sept W.E. 78 & Long Range numbers’. Papers for UGC Conference, Oxford, 21-23 September 1978. Papers on student numbers. F.124-F.127 Statistical information. 4 folders. F.129-F.131 STAFFING AND MEMBERSHIP List of UGC staff on 1 May 1978. Letter from Dainton to Shirley Williams, Secretary of State for Education and Science, reporting on September 1978 UGC conference, 28 September 1978. Papers re successor to Dainton, 1978. Letter re UGC membership, May 1978. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University Grants Committee F.132-F.136 POST CHAIRMANSHIP MATERIAL 1989-1991 UGC Valedictory Dinner, 30 March 1989. Dainton was unable to attend. Souvenir menu; correspondence, March-June 1989; lists of members of the UGC and those present at the dinner. F.133-F.136 Dainton courses in Enhanced Engineering. Material celebrating the progress of the Dainton courses, 1990-1991 Report on progress of the University of Oxford Dainton course, 1990. Correspondence and papers re presentation of certificates to Dainton students at Imperial College London, 20 March 1991. See also A.483. Correspondence and papers re meeting of Directors of the Dainton courses, Oxford, 18 April 1991. Includes background papers for discussion. Letter re presentation of certificates to Dainton students at Brunel University, Includes 3pp typescript of remarks made at presentation, and three articles by B.J. Cory on the Dainton courses. 14 June 1991. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 SECTION G UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD G.1-G.147 As a native of the city of Sheffield it was particularly appropriate that Dainton was appointed Chancellor of the University of Sheffield in 1978, succeeding the politician Lord (‘Rab’) Butler. Dainton took a keen interest in the University and was, in particular, very conscious of his responsibilities at the University degree congregations, delivering a different address at each. G.1-G.24 ELECTION AND INSTALLATION G.25-G.47 GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS G.48-G.66 VICE-CHANCELLORSHIP G.67-G.126A DEGREE CEREMONIES G.127-G.145 UNIVERSITY PRIZES G.146, G.147 ‘SPEECHES OF LORD DAINTON’ F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University of Sheffield ELECTION AND INSTALLATION 1978, 1979 Exchange of correspondence re candidates for Chancellorship, May 1978. Prior to being nominated himself Dainton had been asked for possible candidates for the position. Correspondence re Chancellorship, May-November 1978. Letters of congratulation on nomination, June-September 1978. June 1978. July-September 1978. Articles on Dainton and his nomination and appointment. University of Sheffield Newsletter, 28 June 1978. Copy of Newsletter. Copy of article. ‘A scientific romantic who rose by degrees’, Sheffield Morning Telegraph, 17 August 1978. Copy of article. ‘Coming home, hoping to repay the debt | owe to Sheffield’, Quality of Sheffield and South Yorkshire, November 1978. Correspondence, June-September 1978; 2pp manuscript draft; copy of article. University of Sheffield Gazette, December 1978. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University of Sheffield Formal notification of election as Chancellor and correspondence arising, December 1978-January 1979. Typescript notes for Address to Council, University of Sheffield, 15 January 1979. G.11-G.14 Civic Reception and Dinner in Honour of Dainton, 15 January 1979. This was hosted by the Lord Mayor of Sheffield. Correspondence re arrangements, November 1978-January 1979. Formal invitation; guest list; menu and toasts. Typescript and manuscript notes for After Dinner Speech, 15 January 1979. G.16 Photocopy manuscript of complete programme. G.16-G.23 Installation as Chancellor, 28-31 March 1979. Includes apologies for inability to attend the installation ceremonies. Letters of congratulation on election and inauguration, February-May 1979. Press cutting reporting on the Dinner, Sheffield Morning Telegraph, January 1979. Includes citations for those receiving Honorary Degrees. ‘Orations given at Installation’. G.17-G.19 Installation Congregation, 29 March 1979. G.17 Programme for Congregation, order of procession. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University of Sheffield Dainton’s speech in reply to speaking notes and 6pp typescript clean copy. his citation, 10pp manuscript and typescript Dinner in Honour of the Chancellor, 29 March 1979. Menu; list of guests and seating arrangements. Dainton’s speaking notes for response to Toast, 8pp typescript. Installation and Dinner, Sheffield Morning Telegraph, 30 Report on the March 1979. Other functions: 4pp speaking notes for Unveiling of plaque in Computer Sciences Building, 30 March 1979. ‘Press cuttings’. cuttings re nomination and election. Contents of Dainton’s envelope so inscribed: newspaper G.25-G.47 GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS 1978-1997 Menu for Sheffield University Association of Former Students Annual Dinner, 31 March 1979. October 1979. List of ‘Points for Chancellor's Speech on the Occasion of the Press Launch of the Centenary Appeal, 30 May 1980’, 4pp typescript. Extract from Sheffield Morning Telegraph celebrating the centenary, 19 G.26-G.28 University of Sheffield Centenary, 1979-1980. Brief correspondence, 1978-1979. G.26 F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University of Sheffield Printed University literature celebrating the centenary. 1980. Papers, 1984. Includes 3pp manuscript notes for Toast at Law Faculty 75th Anniversary, 30 March 1984; photocopy of newspaper cutting Sheffield Morning Telegraph re portrait of Dainton. from Correspondence and papers, 1987-1990. ‘The future of our University’ by Dainton, University of Sheffield Convocation News, Spring 1991. Photocopy of article. Correspondence and papers re opening of Crookesmoor House, July- September 1991. Crookesmoor House was student accommodation converted from a disused Unitarian Church. 4 September 1991. Dainton spoke at the opening of the House on Includes 1p typescript of Dainton’s remarks. Letter re Readership, February 1992. ‘Message from the Chancellor of the University of Sheffield’, Foreword to The History of the City of Sheffield edited by J.G.C. Binfield et al, (Sheffield Academic Press, 1993). in 1930 Correspondence, February 1992, February 1993; 1p typescript of Dainton’s contribution. Includes letter re pioneering use of penicillin in medical treatment in Sheffield Correspondence, May 1992-March 1993. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University of Sheffield Correspondence re arrangements for and arising from visit to Hong Kong, April 1993. Correspondence re February-May 1993. physical chemistry in the University of Sheffield, Correspondence, November 1994. chiefly with G.G. Roberts, Vice-Chancellor, June- Correspondence and papers, 1994. Includes 2pp typescript ‘Message from the Chancellor’ to the Inaugural meeting of the Colleges and Schools University Club, 16 March 1994. Miscellaneous correspondence, 1995. Includes cutting from Now & Then, University of Sheffield alumni magazine, Summer 1995, on Dainton’s 80th birthday. Correspondence with Alumni Office, February 1995-February 1996. Correspondence and papers re alumni appeal and related, February 1995 - February 1996. In addition to advising the Alumni Office on fund-raising, Dainton wrote a foreword to the 1996 appeal brochure and an article ‘Reflections on the University of Sheffield’ for the alumni magazine Now & Then. Correspondence and papers, 1996. Foreword to the 1996 appeal brochure, 1p typescript; ‘Reflections on the University + photocopies of illustrations. Correspondence re February 1995-July 1996. physical chemistry in the University of Sheffield, illustrations 4pp typescript + captions for of Sheffield’, F.S. Dainton NCUACS 1112/11/02 University of Sheffield Brief correspondence, programme and memorabilia re JRI (Manufacturing) Ltd Company Silver Jubilee, Sheffield, 27 March 1996. Dainton represented the University. Correspondence and papers re Ken Hawley Collection Trust, 1997. The Ken Hawley Collection was a collection of Sheffield-made tools and cutlery housed in premises of the University. Miscellaneous correspondence, 1997. G.48-G.66 VICE-CHANCELLORSHIP 1987-1990 The Vice-Chancellor G.D. Sims retired at the end of 1990. The search for a successor began early in 1989 and Dainton was an important figure in the process of finding a successor. G.G. Roberts, Director of Research of Thorn-EMI and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Oxford, was appointed. the procedure for Dainton’s 3pp Dainton’s 6pp typescript memorandum on a new Vice-Chancellor, 22 March 1989; Correspondence and papers, March - April 1989. Letter, 30 January 1989; photocopies of extracts of University Charter and Statutes re the Chancellor's duties, with Dainton’s manuscript notes. Includes searching for typescript notes on agenda for meeting, 4 April 1989. Sheffield’s position, 1987. Includes Dainton’s ‘Notes for talk’ prepared for the meeting. Papers for meeting of University officers, 9 May 1989. at the meeting, and manuscript notes Background material: correspondence and papers re University of F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University of Sheffield Correspondence and papers, May 1989. Correspondence, June-August 1989. G.54-G.58 Selection Committee for the Vice-Chancellorship. Papers for meetings of the Committee. May include agendas, minutes, lists of candidates, annotated Dainton, and manuscript notes. 13 July 1989; 28 September 1989. 8 November 1989. ?Informal meeting, 1 January 1989; 5 January 1990. Dainton’s manuscript notes. G.59-G.64 November, December 1989. G.61-G.63 October 1989. G.59, G.60 September 1989. 19 January 1990; 27 January 1990; 31 January 1990. Correspondence re possible candidates, September - December 1989. Correspondence re candidates and short-list, January 1990. 2 folders. 3 folders. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University of Sheffield Correspondence and papers re appointment of G.G. Roberts, February- March 1990. G.67-G.126A DEGREE CONGREGATIONS 1979-1997 Correspondence re Degree Congregations, from graduates or members of their family, 1979-1997. Chiefly letters of appreciation. Letters of thanks from Honorary Graduands, 1994-1996. G.68-G.122 Speeches given by Dainton at University of Sheffield Degree Congregations, 1979-1997. Typescript speaking notes. Higher degrees: February, May and December 1980. July 1979. July 1980. July 1981. See also the University of Sheffield file copies at G.147. For background material assembled by Dainton for anecdotes, stories and points to make in these speeches, see G.126A. Higher degrees: February, June and December 1982. Higher degrees: February, May and December 1981. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University of Sheffield July 1982. Higher degrees: February, May and December 1983. July 1983. Higher degrees: May 1984. July 1984. 2 folders. Higher degrees: February, May and December 1985. G.81, G.82 July 1985. 2 folders. July 1986. Higher degrees: January, March and December 1986. Higher degrees: January, March, May and December 1987. Higher degrees: March and May 1988. July 1987. 2 folders. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University of Sheffield July 1988. 2 folders. Higher degrees: January, March, May and December 1989. July 1989. 2 folders. Higher degrees: January, March, May and December 1990. G.95, G.96 July 1990. 2 folders. Higher degrees: January, March 1991. Higher degrees: July 1991. See also G.123. G.99, G.100 July 1991. 2 folders. These marked the occasion of the XVI Universiade (Student games) held in Sheffield. magazine Now & Then (Spring 1993) recording the event. At these ceremonies Lady Dainton received an Honorary Doctorate in Science. The folder includes extract from University of Sheffield alumni Honorary degrees: March, May and December 1992. Honorary degrees: December 1991. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University of Sheffield G.103, G.104 July 1992. 2 folders. Higher degrees: February, June and December 1993. Also includes notes for speech on opening of Dainton Building, 12 June 1993. G.106, G.107 July 1993. 2 folders. Higher degrees: February, June and December 1994. G.109, G.110 July 1994. 2 folders. Gat2, GaAlds July 1995. 2 folders. Higher degrees: January, February, May and December 1995. That for January 1994 was for one Honorary Graduand, Professor J.K. Galbraith. Dainton gave the oration. occasion. The ceremony on 24 July was the 600th to be held by the University since their inception in 1908. G.115 includes extract from the University ‘News Review’ reporting the Higher degrees: February, May and December 1996. G.115, G.116 July 1996. 2 folders. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University of Sheffield Higher degrees: February and May 1997. G.118-G.120 July 1997 3 folders. G.121, G.122 Degree congregations in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1992- 1996. April 1992; April 1994. April 1996. G.123, G.124 Memorabilia from July 1991 Degree Congregations. G.123 14 July 1991. Includes musical score for the fanfare. 25 and 26 July 1991. This included the 500th Congregation of the University. In Dainton’s honour a fanfare was composed and the Vice-Chancellor, G.G. Roberts delivered an address. This marked the occasions of the XVI Universiade (Student games) held in Sheffield (14 July) and the 100th Congregation presided over by Dainton. 1996. Papers of and nominations for the Honorary Degrees Committee, 1994- Correspondence re arrangements for Congregations, 1993-1997. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University of Sheffield ‘Ideas for degree congs’. Dainton assembled a collection of quotations, articles, offprints and press cuttings for themes, anecdotes and stories for his degree day speeches. 1 bundle. G.127-G.145 UNIVERSITY PRIZES 1984-1997 G.127-G.143 Chancellor’s Prize G.144 G.145 Isobel Bosanquet Prize Centenary Medal G.127-G.143 Chancellor’s Medal 1984-1997 Preparatory sketches; photographs. G.129-G.143 1987. It was contribution to the reputation or wellbeing of the university’. initially awarded to students who had made ‘an outstanding Correspondence re institution and design of the Medal, 1984-1987. This was instituted by Dainton in 1987. He helped design the Medal and took a key role in deciding upon recipients. Correspondence and papers re candidates for and recipients of Chancellor’s Medals. B.D. Catt was the recipient. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University of Sheffield 1990. S. Affleck, N.J. Matthews and T. Goodhill were the recipients. G.132-G.138 1991. The 1991 recipients were T.B. Croft, manager of the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, who rescued R.F. Dinha (a former student of the University) from northern Iraq, and H.P. Sharman, the University of Sheffield graduate who was the first Briton in Space. G.132, G.133 T.B. Croft. G.132 Correspondence and papers, 1991. Includes Dainton’s typescript speaking notes for the award. T.B. Croft’s account of his rescue of R.F. Dinha and his family. G.134-G.138 H.P. Sharman Helen Sharman was a Chemistry graduate. Dainton’s typescript speaking notes for the award. Photocopies of newspaper coverage of Sharman. University of Sheffield coverage of Sharman’s exploits. photograph of the portrait. Sharman was compared with Amy Johnson, the greatest woman pilot of her era, who was also a graduate of the University of Sheffield. Correspondence with Sharman and others, chiefly relating to subsequent engagements, 1991-1992. Letter from the artist June Mendoza re portrait of Sharman, December 1993; F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University of Sheffield G.141, G.142 1996. 2 folders. A. Fuentes and C. Nex were the recipients. 1997. K. Frankish and V. Toulmin were the recipients. Isobel Bosanquet Prize 1992-1993 Centenary Medals 1996-1997 Correspondence and papers, chiefly re design of the Medals, 1996-1997. Correspondence and papers, 1992-1993. G.146, G.147 ‘SPEECHES OF LORD DAINTON’ 1979-2002 This prize for postgraduates in the Department of English was instituted in 1993 in memory of Isobel Mary Bosanquet, née Linfoot (1906-1992). Copy of email referring to the speeches, June 2002. Correspondence to Lady Dainton re copies of Dainton’s speeches at Degree Congregations, June, July 1998. After his death, the University of Sheffield Registry assembled copies of Dainton’s addresses as Chancellor with a view to possible publication. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 University of Sheffield ‘Speeches of Lord Dainton’. Largely duplicate set of those at G.68-G.122. 1 box. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 SECTION H HOUSE OF LORDS H.1-H.8 GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS H.9-H.137 EDUCATION BILLS AND DEBATES H.138-H.165 HEALTH BILLS AND DEBATES H.166-H.338 H.339-H.363 H.364-H.374 SELECT COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE HOUSE OF LORDS OFFICES LIBRARY SUB COMMITTEE PARLIAMENTARY OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY For material relating to Dainton’s elevation to the peerage and admission to the House of Lords see A.275-A.309. For correspondence relating to the House of Lords debate on the British Library, 1991, see J.121, J.122. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 House of Lords GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS 1986-1997 Correspondence and papers, 1986-1997. 3 folders. Correspondence and papers re Coal Industry Bill in respect of its impact on mining museums, 1993-1994. 2 folders. Information for visitors to the House of Lords. Information on the working of the House of Lords. 2 folders. See also J.823-J.826. Papers re House of Lords proceedings. H.9-H.137 EDUCATION BILLS AND DEBATES 1987-1997 Copy of the Croham Report. Cm 81. 1987. Debate to call attention to the Croham Report on the University Grants Committee, 18 March 1987. University Grants Committee, 19 [sic] March 1987. Manuscript and typescript drafts of Dainton’s speech on the review of the F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 House of Lords H.12-H.20 Education Reform Bill 1988 H.12-H.17 Official Reports from Hansard for Second Reading, Committee Stage and Report Stage, April-July 1988. 6 folders. Papers re Lords and Commons’ Amendments. Typescript drafts for Dainton’s contributions to debates. Correspondence, May-September 1988. Principally contributions to debates. letters of appreciation from university colleagues for his Debate to Call Attention to the Problems of Higher Education, 12 April 1989. H.23-H.25 3 folders. H.23-H.29 Education (Student Loans) Bill 1990 Background papers. Principals. Principally from Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Official Report from Hansard and typescript notes for Dainton’s contribution. Official reports from Hansard for Second Reading and Committee Stage, February-March 1990. 2 folders. Manuscript and typescript drafts Reading of the Bill, 27 February 1990. for Dainton’s speech on the Second Correspondence, February-March 1990. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 House of Lords Background paper on student loans, February 1989. H.30-H.33 Debate to call attention to the case for increased investment in education and higher quality provision at all stages in the education system, 21 November 1990. Official Report from Hansard. Typescript drafts of Dainton’s speech; two letters from fellow peers re debate and Dainton’s speech. Papers from Committee of Vice-Chancellors and photocopies of press-cuttings. Principals including H.34-H.39 H.34-H.55 Further and Higher Education Bill 1991-1992 Contents of folder inscribed ‘Find out if Bns Blatch connected with DES then redraft making ref Chilver’: correspondence and papers, principally relating to 21 November debate but including earlier printed papers re Education Reform Act 1988 and later (1991) papers. to Official Reports from Hansard for Second Reading, Committee Stage, Report Stage and Third Reading, November 1991-February 1992. lex Correspondence and papers re amendments at committee and report stages of the bill, December 1991-January 1992. of Dainton’s speech for Second Reading Debate, 21 H.41-H.45 Briefing papers. 6 folders. Typescript draft November 1991. 5 folders. H.46-H.55 F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 House of Lords Include typescript drafts of Dainton’s speeches. 10 folders. H.56-H.67 Education Bill 1993-1994 The bill sought to reform teacher education and the funding of students’ unions. See also J.450-J.469. H.56-H.61 Official reports from Hansard for Second Reading, Committee and Report Stages, December 1993-March 1994. 6 folders. Typescript drafts December 1993 and at the Committee Stage, 10 March 1994. Dainton’s speeches on of the Second Reading, 7 H.68-H.70 Education (Student Loans) Bill 1996 5 folders. H.63-H.67 Correspondence and papers, October 1993-April 1994. The bill sought to enable the payment of Government subsidies to private sector financial institutions which provided loans to students in higher education. The idea was to promote the availability of private sector loans as alternatives to the loans which were provided by the Student Loans Company out of voted funds. Typescript draft of Dainton’s speech in debate on Second Reading. Printed copy of the bill with printed copy of Education (Student Loans) Act it; Hansard report of Second Reading Debate, 19 1990 folded within February 1996 F.S. Dainton NCUACS 1112/11/02 House of Lords Briefing and information papers from Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals and British Medical Association, August 1994, February-March 1996. H.71-H.74A Debate to call attention to the cuts in current expenditure and in capital (including equipment) grants which have been imposed upon universities, 6 March 1996. Official report from Hansard of debate. Typescript draft of Dainton’s speech; photocopy of extract from Commons debate on the financial situation of universities, 13 January 1978, found with papers re 1996 debate; brief correspondence, February-December 1996. Contents of envelope inscribed: ‘For “University Finance Debate” Spring 1996’: photocopies of newspaper articles, Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals press-releases etc, December 1995-February 1996. 1996 Official report of debate only. H.76-H.137 Asylum and Immigration Bill Relate to ‘university cuts’ and medical teaching, research and patient care. Contents of Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, February-March 1996. information assembled for debate principally from folder: Papers for Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals Medical Press Conference, 26 April 1996. In original folder. Dainton spoke at the Committee Stage of the Bill on matters relating to overseas students. newspaper cuttings and off-prints, 1978-1982. Miscellaneous papers on a variety of educational issues kept by Dainton for reference purposes and presented here for convenience. Background papers re education, 1976-1997. H.76-H.79 Contents of Dainton’s folder divided into four for ease of reference: F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 House of Lords ‘Higher Education and National Needs in the 1980s’. Conference held at Selwyn College Cambridge, 30 June-1 July 1980. Proceedings of a Correspondence, newspaper-cuttings and other printed material, 1980-1981. Principally re report by Sir Monty Finniston into engineering. Contents of correspondence and papers re University Grants Committee, 1981-1984. Dainton’s folder divided for ease of into two reference: H.84-H.86 Correspondence, printed and duplicated material, 1982-1983. 3 folders. H.86 includes report on higher education in Australia. Correspondence, printed and duplicated material, 1984. the 1990s. The University Grants 3 folders. H.89-H.91 Training and education in the Federal Printed and duplicated material, 1985. A Strategy for Higher Education in Committee Advice. September 1984. Competence and competition. Republic of Germany, the United States and Japan. 1984. duplicated material, 1986. Contents of Dainton’s folder: duplicated and printed papers re North of England Education Conference, Chester, January 1985. Contents of Dainton’s folder: manuscript notes re ‘EB Lecture’, printed and F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 House of Lords Correspondence, January-September 1986. manuscript notes, printed and duplicated material, Correspondence with Permanent Secretary, Department of Education and Science, September 1986, and DES papers sent to Dainton by him re better science teaching and broadening the sixth form curriculum. Papers sent to Dainton, 1987. Include Nuffield Jubilee Lecture on ‘The Robbins Report: 25 Years After - and the future of the universities’ by Sir Claus Moser, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, 30 October 1987 and copy of letter from Robert Jackson MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Education and Science to Moser commenting on the lecture, 8 December 1987. H.97-H.102 Contents of folder inscribed ‘For talk with Higginson, 10 Nov 87’ divided into six for ease of reference: correspondence and papers re Committee appointed by the Secretary of State for Education and Science and the Secretary of State for Wales to review the principles governing A-level syllabuses and examinations, 1987-1988. Includes copy of published report, Advancing A Levels. D.N. Dilks, Professor of International The Committee was chaired by G.R. Higginson, Vice-Chancellor, University of Southampton. Department of Education and Science publication: Aspects of higher education in the United States of America, 1989. Correspondence with History, University of Leeds, with copy of address by Dilks on university financing, 1989. Science Education and the Royal Society. Report on Teacher Provision in the Sciences by Alan Smithers and Pamela Robinson, School of Education, University of Manchester, August 1990. The report was commissioned by the British Association, the Association for F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 House of Lords Education and the Labour Market An English Disaster by Adrian Wooldridge, The Social Market Foundation, 1990. Inscribed on front cover ‘ For Hull lecture’. H.106-H.108 Contents of Dainton’s folder divided into three for ease of reference: printed and duplicated material re higher education, 1990-1996. Higher Education: A new framework. Secretary of State for Education and Science, May 1991. Presented to Parliament by the Information from Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals for talk by Dainton on the State of the Universities, 1992. H.111-H.114 ‘Diploma of Achievement’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference: correspondence and papers, 1992-1997. Promoting quality and opportunity. England Annual Report 1992-1993. Higher Education Funding Council for Report sent to Dainton with covering letter, 16 June 1993. Review of Options for the Additional Funding of Higher Education. A Report by the London Economics for the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, August 1993. fe The review was jointly commissioned by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors, the Standing Conference of the Higher Education Funding Councils for England and Wales and the Department of Education for Northern Ireland. Committee of Enquiry Review of the Academic Year Interim Report for Consultation, [1993]. ‘Useful CVCP background material report’. Contents of folder so inscribed divided into nine for ease of reference: correspondence and papers, 1994. Gareth Williams including Principals, H.118-H.126 F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 House of Lords See H.122 for acopy of ‘Longer Higher Education’. A report to the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals by Gareth Williams and Heather Fry, Centre for Higher Education Studies, Institute of Education, University of London, July 1994. This copy is inscribed on the front cover ‘Worth Study’. Prospects British Term for See H.126 for papers re House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology Sub-Committee II - Research Careers for Graduate Students’. Thinking ahead: Ensuring the expansion of higher education into the 21st century. Confederation of British Industry, June 1994. Folder includes photocopies of newspaper articles found clipped to the cover of the CBI document. H.128, H.129 Contents of Dainton’s folder divided into two for ease of reference: papers from the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, 1994-1996, two letters from the Chairman of the Committee, Gareth Roberts who was also Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield University, January-February 1996 and two earlier University Grants Committee papers, 1976 and 1978. relate to and student H.131, H.132 university funding Correspondence and papers numbers. Paper titled ‘Student Loans: Where are we now?’ by N. Barr and I. Crawford, London School of Economics, May 1996. Papers re National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education chaired by Sir Ron Dearing, 1996-1997. Papers given at North of England Education Conference, January 1997. Publications re aspects of learning and higher education, 1996-1997. H.133-H.135 2 folders. 3 items. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 House of Lords H.136, H.137 Shorter correspondence and papers, 1991-1997. 2 folders. H.138-H.165 HEALTH BILLS AND DEBATES 1985-1997 H.138-H.140 Debate to take Embryology: A Framework for Legislation (Cm 259), 15 January 1988. note of the White Paper on Human Fertilization and Background papers only, 1985-1988. 3 folders. H.141, H.142 Debate on the motion to call attention to Government White Paper Working for Patients (Cmnd. 555); and to move for papers, 22 February 1989. Official Report from Hansard. H.143-H.149 7 folders. 3 folders. H.143-H.153 National Health Service and Community Care Bill 1990 Typescript and manuscript draft of Dainton’s contribution. Official reports from Hansard for Second Reading, Committee and Report Stages, April-June 1990. Health Service arrangements. Includes letters of thanks for Dainton’s efforts to ensure the recognition of the interests of universities in teaching and research in the new National H.150-H.152 Typescript drafts of Dainton’s contributions to debate. Correspondence and papers, April-July 1990. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 House of Lords H.154-H.160 Debate on motion to call attention to the Tomlinson Report on Health Care in London, 2 December 1992. Dainton spoke in debate. See also J.765. Official Report from Hansard. Correspondence, December 1992-February 1993. H.156-H.160 The Tomlinson Report and other publications re the health service in London, 1992-1994. Report on the Inquiry into London’s Health Service, Medical Education and Research. Presented to the Secretaries of State for Health and Education by Sir Bernard Tomlinson. October 1992. Making London Better. Department of Health, February 1993. London Health Care 2010 Changing the future of services in the capital. King’s Fund, 1992. Response of a Working Party of the Medical Royal Colleges & their Faculties in the UK to the Report of the Enquiry into London’s Health Service, Medical Education and Research (The Tomlinson Report). December 1992. fee Debate on question to the government as to the progress being made on the reallocation the expectation of the effect of research upon any further reallocation, 25 February 1997. The crisis in London Medicine; how many hospital beds does the Capital need? Special University Lecture by Professor Brian Jarman. University of London, 5 July 1994. of specialities among West London hospitals and F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 House of Lords Dainton spoke in debate. Official Report from Hansard. H.162-H.165 Background papers re health, 1982-1995. Miscellaneous papers on a variety of health issues kept by Dainton for reference purposes and presented here for convenience. Greening the White Paper: A strategy for NHS Reform by Gwyn Bevan and Marshall Marinker, The Social Market Foundation, 1989. The Health of the Nation: A Strategy for Health in England. Parliament by the Secretary of State for Health, July 1992. Presented to Department of Health Press Release ‘Virginia Bottomley announces radical new funding mechanism for NHS Research and Development’. 15 December 1994 H.166-H.338 The document is heavily annotated by Dainton. Shorter correspondence and papers, 1982-1995. SELECT COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY NHS Executive document Research and Development in the New NHS Functions and Responsibilities. N.d. but found clipped to the preceding. forensic science and academic research careers. Dainton Technology. 1979-1998 was a member of and He chaired Sub-Committees on systematic biology research, Select Committee on Science the F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 House of Lords H.166-H.189 H.190-H.194 H.195-H.200 H.201, H.202 H.203, H.204 H.205 General correspondence and papers United Kingdom Space Policy Sub-Committee Greenhouse Effect Sub-Committee Nature Conservancy Council Sub-Committee Definitions of R & D Sub-Committee International Scientific Programmes Sub-Committee H.206-H.233 Systematic Biology Research Sub-Committee H.234 H.235-H.258 H.259-H.263 H.265, H.266 Classification of Defence R&D Expenditure Sub- Committee Forensic Science Sub-Committee Priorities for the Science Base Sub-Committee Defence Research Agency (DRA) Sub-Committee H.267-H.306 Academic Research Careers Sub-Committee H.166-H.189 General correspondence and papers 1987-1997 H.307-H.338 Background material This was the occasion of Dainton’s maiden speech. Civil Research and Development. 20) Volume 1 - Report. Debate on the Report of the Select Committee on Science and Technology on Civil Research and Development, 19 February 1987. congratulation. Correspondence re the debate and Dainton’s speech. Manuscript and typescript drafts of Dainton’s speech. Includes letters of H.166-H.169 (1st Report Session 1986-87 HL Paper Official report from Hansard. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 House of Lords H.170, H.171 Debate to call attention to Command Paper 185 on civil research and development and to the consultation paper “A Strategy for the Science Base”, 18 November 1987. Dainton spoke in debate. Civil Research and Development. Government response to the First Report of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology, 1986- 87 Session. Presented to Parliament, July 1987. Cm 185. Manuscript and typescript drafts of Dainton’s speech. H.172-H.189 Correspondence and papers, 1991-1997. Principally papers for meetings. 1989-1993. 5 folders. 1996 1994. 2 folders. H.175-H.179 1995. H.179-H.188 H.173, H.174 9 folders. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 House of Lords H.190-H.194 United Kingdom Space Policy Sub-Committee 1986-1990 Lords The House of Select Committee on Science and Technology appointed a Sub-Committee, under the chairmanship of Lord Shackleton, to enquire into United Kingdom space policy. Dainton was a member of the Committee. A debate on a motion to take note of the Select Committee’s United Kingdom Space Policy Report was held on 30 March 1988. Dainton spoke in the debate. United Kingdom Space Policy. (2nd Report Session 1987-88 HL Paper 41). Volume 1 - Report. Official report from Hansard and Dainton’s typescript ‘Notes for Space Debate’. Correspondence and papers re UK space policy, 1986-1989. (7th Lords the Second 1989-90 HL Paper 61). H.195-H.200 Report Session Greenhouse Effect Sub-Committee UK Space Supplementary Report. Policy. United Kingdom Space Policy. Report of the Select Committee (Session 1987-88). HL Paper 105. 1988. Government Response to Report. The House of Select Committee on Science and Technology appointed a Sub-Committee, under the chairmanship of Lord Carver, to enquire into the Greenhouse Effect. Dainton the Committee. A debate on a motion to take note of the Select Committee’s Greenhouse Effect Report was held on 30 January 1990. Dainton spoke in the debate. Greenhouse Effect. (6th Report Session 1988-89 HL Paper 88). Volume | - 1989-1991 was a member of F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 House of Lords Greenhouse Effect. (6th Report Session 1988-89 HL Paper 88). Volume II Evidence. - Official Report from Hansard on debate. Greenhouse Effect. Government Response to the Sixth report of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee Session 1988-89. Cm 997. 1990. H.199, H.200 Background papers, 1989-1991. H.199 Miscellaneous printed and duplicated papers, 1989-1990. Greenhouse Warming: Negotiating a Global Regime. Institute, 1991. World Resources 1990 (2nd Report Session 1989-90 HL Paper 33). (2nd Report Session 1989-90 HL Paper 33). H.201, H.202 Nature Conservancy Council Sub-Committee Nature Conservancy Council. Volume | - Report. The House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology appointed a Sub-Committee, under the chairmanship of Lord Carver, to enquire into the Government's proposals for the scientific base of the Nature Conservancy Council. Dainton was a member of the Committee. ie The House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology appointed a Sub-Committee, under the chairmanship of Lord Carver, to enquire into definitions of R & D. Dainton was a member of the Committee. Nature Conservancy Council. Volume II - Evidence. H.203, H.204 Definitions of R & D Sub-Committee 1990-1991 F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 House of Lords A motion to take note of the Select Committee’s R & D Definitions Report and International Scientific Programmes Report (see H.205) was held on 23 May 1991. Dainton spoke in debate. Definitions of R & D. with evidence. (3rd Report Session 1989-90 HL Paper 44). Report Official Report from Hansard and Dainton’s typescript notes for debate. International Scientific Programmes Sub-Committee 1991 Lords The House of Select Committee on Science and Technology appointed a Sub-Committee, under the chairmanship of Lord Carver to enquire into how the United Kingdom responds to proposals for international scientific programmes. Dainton was a member of the Committee. International Scientific Programmes. Paper 24). (2nd Report Session 1990-1991 HL Lords H.206-H.233 Systematic Biology Research Sub-Committee 1979-1997 A debate to take Research Report was held on 9 July 1992. Dainton moved the motion. the Select Committee’s Systematic Biology note of Its report was published as Systematic Biology Research (1st Report, 1991- 92, H.L. Paper 22). The House of Select Committee on Science and Technology appointed a Sub-Committee, under the chairmanship of Dainton, to enquire into Systematic Biology Research and of the contribution of this research to the preservation of biological diversity and to medicine. - Report. Systematic Biology Research. Evidence received up to 21st May 1991. Systematic Biology Research. Volume | (1st Report Session 1991-92 HL Paper 22). (Session 1990-91 HL Paper 41). Written F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 House of Lords Systematic Biology Research. (1st Report Session 1991-92 HL Paper 22). Volume Il - Oral Evidence and Written Evidence received after 21st May 1991. Official Report from Hansard on debate to take note of the report. Systematic Biology Research. Government response to the First Report of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology, 1991-92 Session. 1993. H.211-H.227 Correspondence and papers arising, 1992-1997 H.211 1992. H.212-H.215 1993. 4 folders. 1994. 4 folders. 2 folders. H.220, H.221 1995. H.216-H.219 H.222, H.223 2 folders. 1996. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 H.225-H.227 House of Lords Correspondence the Preservation and Conservation of Natural History Collections, Madrid, 10-15 May 1992. International Symposium papers and on_ re 3 folders. Include drafts and photographic slides for Dainton’s paper titled ‘Systematics Biology Research: An Outsider’s Visit to the Secret Garden’. H.228, H.229 ‘Systematic Biology Follow-up papers’, 1992-1997. Photocopied Committee, [1998]. papers assembled by AM[akower], Clerk to the Select 2 folders. H.230-H.233 Background papers re systematic biology. H.230-H.232 Papers re Global Environment Facility, 1991-1996. Lords 1 bundle. and printed papers re 3 folders. diversity, biological Miscellaneous duplicated taxonomy etc, 1979-1994. Classification of Defence R&D Expenditure Sub-Committee Report with evidence. The House of Select Committee on Science and Technology appointed a Sub-Committee, under the chairmanship of Lord Flowers to a enquire into the classification of defence R&D expenditure. Dainton member of the Sub-Committee. Classification of Defence R&D Expenditure. (3rd Report Session 1991-92). 1992 was F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 House of Lords H.235-H.258 Forensic Science Sub-Committee 1992-1998 The House of Select Committee on Science and Technology appointed a Sub-Committee, under the chairmanship of Dainton, to enquire into forensic science. Lords Its report was published as Forensic Science (5th Report, 1992-93, H.L. Paper 24). A debate to take note of the Select Committee’s Forensic Science Report was held on 15 April 1993. Dainton moved the motion. H.235, H.236 Forensic Science. (5th Report Session 1992-93 HL Paper 24). H.235 Clean copy of report. Copy of report with extensive highlighting of passages of text and marginal emphasis. 7pp manuscript notes headed ‘Notes on Appendices’. Forensic Science. after 31 July 1992. (Session 1992-93 HL Paper 24-Il). Evidence received Official Report from Hansard of the debate to take note of the report. 9pp manuscript notes headed ‘F.S.S. Report’ found enclosed between pp10 and 11 of the copy of the report at H.236. Forensic Science. (Session 1992-93 HL Paper 24-l). Evidence received up to 31st July 1992. publication’. Select Committee paper ST/93/FS.96. ‘Forensic Science Debate on the report, and correspondence received since F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/1 1/02 House of Lords Forensic Science. Government Response to the Fifth Report of the Select Committee, Session 1992-93. HL Paper 24-Ill. 1993. Corrected draft and printed version. Draft note and Note by the Clerk [of the Select Committee] on ‘Forensic Science The Select Committee’s Report and the Report of the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice’, 20 July 1993. Typescript notes for Dainton’s speech in debate on Report of the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice, 26 October 1993. H.244-H.250 General correspondence and papers, 1993-1998. 1998 correspondence is between Lady Dainton and the Royal Society of Chemistry after Dainton’s death. H.244-H.246 1993. 3 folders. H.252-H.255 H.248, H.249 1995. 2 folders. 1996-1998 and n.d. 4 folders. Papers re Royal Society of Chemistry Forensic Science Working Group, 1996-1998. mostly photocopies, ‘Forensic Science - follow-up papers’. assembled by A. Makower, Clerk to the Select Committee. Papers, F.S. Dainton NCUACS 1112/11/02 House of Lords H.256, H.257 Hansard Extracts, 1993 and 1996. 2 folders. Miscellaneous printed material re forensic science, 1993-1994. 1 bundle H.259-H.263 Priorities for the Science Base Sub-Committee 1993-1994 Lords The House of Select Committee on Science and Technology appointed a Sub-Committee, under the chairmanship of Lord Flowers, to enquire into the Priorities for the Science Base. Dainton was a member of the Sub-Committee. A debate to take note of the Select Committee Priorities for the Science Base Report was held on 3 March 1994. Dainton spoke in the debate. Priorities for the Science Base. (2nd Report Session 1993-94 HL Paper 12- 1). Priorities for the Science Base. (Session 1993-94 HL Paper 12-Il). Evidence received since 1st August 1993. Priorities for the Science Base. Government response to the Second Report of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology, 1993- 94. Cm2636. 1994. setting. Typescript draft of Lord Flowers’ speech opening the debate and typescript draft of Dainton’s speech. Correspondence and papers re the work of the Sub-Committee including briefing papers and photocopies of newspaper articles, 1993-1994. Summaries of Previous Select Committee Reports which discuss priority F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 House of Lords H.265, H.266 Defence Research Agency (DRA) Sub-Committee 1993-1994 The House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology appointed a Sub-Committee, under the chairmanship of Lord Selborne, to enquire into the Defence Research Agency (DRA). Dainton was not a member of the Sub-Committee. However, the Chairman hoped Dainton ‘might be willing to take an informal interest in the Committee from the sidelines’. Defence Research Agency (3rd Report 1993-1994 Session H.L. Paper 24). Correspondence and papers, 1993-1994. H.267-H.306 Academic Research Careers Sub-Committee 1992-1998 Dainton Academic Research Careers for Graduate Scientists 1994-95 HL Paper 60). ‘Chairman’s Copy’ of report. (4th Report Session The House of Select Committee on Science and Technology appointed a Sub-Committee, under the chairmanship of Dainton, to enquire into Academic Careers for Graduate Scientists. Lords A debate to take note of the report was held on 23 May 1996. opened the debate. Its report was published as Academic Research Careers for Graduate Scientists (4th Report Session 1994-95 HL Paper 60). Report and volume of evidence. on 23 May 1996. See H.270. Academic Research Careers for Graduate Scientists 1994-95 HL Paper 60). much highlighting of text. (4th Report Session Copy of report with manuscript corrections and This copy of the report may have been prepared by Dainton for the debate Manuscript notes and ‘Chairman’s Copy’ of the report. press release found between pp30 and 31 of List of errata. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 House of Lords manuscript Dainton’s and correspondence and papers, 1995-1996, found between pages 36 and 37 of the copy of the report at H.269. debate notes 1996 May the 23 on of Academic Research Careers for Graduate Scientists (Session 1994-95 HL Paper 60-l). Evidence. Official Report from Hansard of the debate to take note of the report. Dainton’s typescript notes for his speech opening the debate. H.274-H.283 Correspondence and papers re visit of the Sub-Committee to Washington DC, Philadelphia and Boston, March 1995. Includes background material. schedules, photographs (H.280) and printed and duplicated 3 folders. 10 folders. Contents of H.284-H.286 H.287-H.297 plastic folder so Correspondence and papers, 1992-1997. Includes papers from Higher Education Funding Council England and Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. ‘Paul Whittingham Data Sets’. labelled: correspondence and papers re compilation of data for the Sub-Committee, 1995. 3 folders. H.288-H.290 1992-1994. 1995. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 House of Lords H.291-H.293 1996. 3 folders. H.294-H.297 1997. 4 folders. H.298-H.300 folder plastic Contents of for ease of Correspondence and papers, 1995-1997, re conference on Forward: Options Strathclyde, 23 June 1997. for Academic Researchers’, divided Career three into reference: ‘The Way of University Includes manuscript notes (H.298) and photographic slides (H.299) for Dainton’s talk on ‘Academic research: its role in the economy’. Dainton’s manuscript notes re the work of the Sub-Committee and academic research careers. H.304-H.306 Staff assessment. 2 folders and 1 bundle. Printed and duplicated background papers re academic research careers, 1991-1998. ‘Academic research careers for graduate scientists - Follow-up papers’. Papers, mostly photocopies, assembled by A. Makower, Clerk to the Select Committee. the first statement of overall government policy in this area for two decades. William Waldegrave MP was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1992- 1994 and as such the government minister responsible for science and technology. ‘white paper’ on science, engineering and \t was technology which was published in 1993 as Realising our Potential. Background material ‘Waldegrave correspondence, manuscript notes and printed material, ca1990-1996. Dainton’s Contents H.307-H.338 H.307-H.315 He initiated 1982-1996 Paper’. White of box folder, a F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 House of Lords Dainton’s correspondence with Waldegrave, 1992-1993. Papers sent to Waldegrave by Dainton, September 1992 in connexion with the preparation of the White Paper. Realising our potential A Strategy for Science, Engineering and Technology. Cm 2250. 1993. H.310-H.315 Duplicated and printed papers, including papers submitted to the minister during the preparation of the White Paper or commenting on after publication, ca 1990-1996. it 5 folders and 1 bundle. Miscellaneous duplicated and printed background material on science and technology issues, arranged chronologically, 1982-1996. The sequence includes a little correspondence. H.316-H.318 1982. H.316 The Social Science Research Council’s evidence to Lord Rothschild and related papers. An Enquiry into the Social Science Research Council by Lord Rothschild. Cmnd 8554. A sheet of manuscript notes by Dainton is enclosed inside the front cover. Advisory Board for the Research Councils University Grants Committee Report of a Joint Working Party on the Support of University Scientific Research. Cmnd 8567. The Cambridge Phenomenon. The Growth of High Technology Industry in a University Town by Segal Quince and Partners. H.319-H.323 1985. H.319 F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 House of Lords H.320-H.323 Correspondence and papers including newspaper articles. 4 folders. H.324, H.325 1986. 1 folder and 1 bundle. 1987-1989. 1 folder. 1990. 1 bundle. 1993. 1 bundle. 1994. 1992. 1 bundle. 1991. 1 bundle. 1 folder and 1 bundle. 1 folder and 1 bundle. H.331, H.332 H.333, H.334 1995. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 House of Lords H.335-H.338 1996. 3 folders and 1 bundle. H.339-H.363 SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE HOUSE OF LORDS’ OFFICES 1982-1998 LIBRARY SUB-COMMITTEE Dainton was co-opted as a member of the Library Sub-Committee 26 March 1987 and appointed to the Offices Committee 2 March 1988. He was Chairman of the Sub-Committee from 16 March 1988. As Chairman of the Library Sub-Committee he became ex officio a member of the Computer, Administration and Finance Sub-Committees. In 1992 the separate Library and Computer Sub-Committees were replaced a Library and Computers Sub-Committee chaired by Dainton. Note prepared for Dainton on the Library and Computers Sub-Committee by E.J.J. Wells, 7 December 1994, with covering note by Philippa Tudor, 12 March 1998. H.345-H.348 1988. H.340-H.343 4 folders. H.344 1987. H.344-H.362 Correspondence and papers, 1987-1994. List of the meetings chaired by Dainton and minutes of the meetings, 1988- 1994. Selection of letters and papers, 1989-1991, with covering note by Philippa Tudor, 13 March 1998. Correspondence and papers re meeting, 25 May 1988. Includes invitation to serve as a co-opted member of the Sub-Committee. H.345 Includes invitation to serve as Chairman of the Sub-Committee. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 House of Lords Correspondence and papers re Library periodical store. Photocopies of papers possibly made available to Dainton in connexion with his assumption of the Chairmanship in 1988. H.349-H.354 1989. H.349, H.350 Correspondence and papers re meeting, 1 March 1989. 2 folders. H.351-H.353 Correspondence and papers re Informal Working Group. 3 folders. H.355-H.360 1990. H.355, H.356 General correspondence and papers. 2 folders. General correspondence and papers. The Informal Working Group was set up by the Library Sub-Committee on 1 March 1989 ‘to consider to what extent the recommendations of the Eccles Report [issued March 1977] are being met and, if they are met, what are the implications’. The papers at H.352 are the contents of Dainton’s folder inscribed ‘H/L Lib Cttee Informal Working Group’. Finance Sub-Committee papers. Correspondence and papers re meeting, 21 June. Administration Sub-Committee papers. F.S. Dainton NCUACS 112/11/02 House of Lords House of Lords’ Offices Select Committee papers. 1991. General correspondence and papers. 1994. ‘Brief account of the history of the Library (and later also Computers) Sub- Committee’ the Parliaments with covering letter, 31 December. Dainton’s membership sent during Clerk the to of Background papers, 1982-1986. 1 bundle. H.364-H.367 4 folders. 6 folders. 1990-1997 H.364-H.374 Correspondence and papers, 1996-1997. The sequence includes papers for Board meetings. PARLIAMENTARY OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (POST) Dainton was a member of the Board of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. 1 bundle (11 volumes). POSTnotes are described as ‘intended to give Members an overview of issues arising from science and technology’. POST technical reports, 1994-1997. H.368-H.373 POSTnotes, 1990, 1994-1997.