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- 20th November 1856 (Creation)
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George Elwes Corrie was born at Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, on 28th April 1793 and was the youngest of eight children of John Corrie (the curate there) and his first wife Anne McNab. In 1813 he entered St Catherine's College, Cambridge. After graduating in 1817 he was elected a Fellow of that College and appointed tutor (a post he held until 1849). He took a BD degree in 1831 (DD 1853) and filled most college offices, often holding several at one time. He was disappointed not to be appointed Master of St Catherine's.
Instead in 1849 he was appointed Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, a post he held until his death in 1885. He was also appointed rector of Newton, near Wisbech.
He was conservative in views and spent much of his time and energy whilst Master going against the tide of affairs both in the Church and the University e.g. he opposed Catholic emancipation and the admission of dissenters to degrees.
He died on 29th September 1885 and is buried at Newton
Master of Jesus College, 1849 - 1885
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From the Revd Prof Corrie to Shallow and Coleman. Ironwork done on the following: courts and outside, hall, chapel, buttery, combination room, clock and kitchen. Items billed for the courts and outside include: nuts, screws, & fixed staple to bar of gate stable; cleaned & repaired lock to ditto; mended gas lamp gateway; new joint and mended ditto; opened stable & key to ditto porter; cleaned & repaired lock to back gate; doubled back & fixed to stove harries; plate & screws fixed latch to school; new fall door to register Mr Drake; nails & fastening bar over water closet; key to front gate; cleaned and repaired lock ditto; 2 notched bars over water closet; 100 nails & 2 men fixing ditto 1/2 day each; nails & fastened lamp on stairs; cleaned & repaired lock next Shoe Place; 2 men taking down spiking off wall next water closet length 4 standards & making higher; 4 bars with 48 spikes under ditto; 4 screw bolt; 2 men fixing ditto; padlock; hasp 2 staples fixed coals; new bridge & repair lock back gate next Cinder Place; cleaned & repaired 3 locks to front gate; oiled & eased other bolts stocks; mended gas key porter; joint & mend lamp; hook to plate of gate nails fixed; eased & oiled gas tap; wynch to ditto; eased taps & c to 3 gas lamps; alt' bar & add' 3 cross spikes Lowthers; key to gas; lead; repaired lock letter box; 2 collars to raise Master's gate; 1 collar & fixed gate hook; eased tap to gas; repaired lock bedroom Porters' Lodge; add' 5 cross spikes to bars Lowthers; 1 Lowe's drain trap Manor St; cleaned & repaired lock to gate next Close; cleaned & repaired outer gate lock ditto ditto; 1 new weed hook & steel to another; cleaning lantern & horn to ditto porters; 2 hooks & nuts & mend stove bottom & fix back Feudall; back & fix Morgan; mend gas lamp; plate screws & fix to cart; 9 hooks & loops & nuts new foot & repaired stove Porters' Lodge; 1 slip to stove; eliptic stove shoe blacks; 2 holdfasts to ditto; strapped staple screws & fixed porters; stapled & latched screws & fixed; 5 teeth and alt' rake to clean stones; sharpen weed hook; sharpen crowbar; double back & fixed to stove Sharp; coal scoop school room; taking off weather vane, cleaned spindles centre for ditto, oiled & fixed; alt' key by Porter; 2 candlesticks school room; 2 men cutting 5 upright 2 cross bars out of window school room; 1 new bar to ditto; cutting fresh holes & fixing ditto; lead for ditto; inner back screws & fixed White; sharpened 2 points; handle to coal hammer; laid 2 points, sharpened 2 ditto; handle to ditto; bow to 1 key & bit to another Porters; mend joint to gas lamp; eased tap to other. Items billed for the hall include: drill holes in lamp; handle to coal shovel; 3 men taking down stove for sweeps; charcoal for flue; springs to carving forks; thumb screw & fix to flue door; thumbscrew & fix to casement; 2 springs, 4tl lead; 1 man fixing; taking down stove, 4 plates, 12 bolts & mend cheeks, 1 new back, 1 set front bars, 16 new bars, repair stove, white, lead & fix ditto; clean & large 3 burner lamps; handle & fix to flue door; 2 baskets charcoal for flue; grate to air flue, ash pan to grate ditto; chain 2 swivels drilled holes & fix to flue; 2 bushels charcoal. Items billed for the chapel include: 2 long ferrules to join brush; new handle; 1h doubters. Items billed for the buttery include: screw spindle & nut to knife cleaner; key to inner door, bolt & repair lock to ditto. Items billed for the combination room include: laid poker, fasten fret & nut to rail 7 tighten bars; clean large lamp 4 burners. Items billed for the clock include: 2 new lines to clock; 2 men 1/2 day stringing & fix ditto, new pulley to clock line; mend lever to striking part of clock, one year's winding clock. Items billed for the kitchen include: mend & fix iron to pole for oven chains, blower to stove larder; 1 cast iron milk pan tinned; oiling jack, clean & right 10 skewers; key to patent lock, key to stocks ditto, clean & repair 2 locks; socket & mend range poker, lengthened 2 other ditto, sharpen saw; marking iron, grinding 2 cleavers, key desk & mend a lock; oiling jack, knife steel; new bar to range 21th, right 3 ditto, end & mend spit rack & fix; bottom 21th, oiling jack; 4 bars to copper 24th, right 9 ditto, piece cast plate; taking down jack cleaning repairing & oiling; 13 bars to copper 60th; shovel long handle, pan to 1 ditto, laid poker, laid 1 ditto larder; bottom 22th. Amount billed totals: £34 6s 0d. Signed by Thomas Shallow.