Percival - Alan Percival

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JCPP/Percival

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Alan Percival

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  • 1926 - 1945 (Creation)

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1 album, photographic prints

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Percival, Alan

Biographical history

Alan Percival came up to Jesus College to read Mechanical Sciences in 1932. He proceeded to Harvard for his post-graduate studies, returning to Jesus as the first ever Engineering Fellow in 1938, and Lecturer in Engineering from 1946 to 1978.

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The photographs are as follows:

  1. A loose photograph of the Hall at Jesus College, Stearn & Sons, Photographers, Cambridge.

  2. Part II, 1950/51 Group B. A loose card with montage thumbnail portrait photographs of the following students: Baker, D.K., Joh; Buckler, H. McC. Tr H; Engert, M.V., Cla; Holliday, R.P.M., Cla; Otway, F.O.J., Trin; Packman, G., Emm; Seib, M.R.P., Jes; Speyer, DS, Trin; Walter, G.H., Pet; Wilson, W.J., Pet.

  3. A reproduction of a map of Cambridge, from Camden's Britannia, 1626, by Christopher Saxton.

  4. The Home Waters of Jesus College Boat Club. A map printed in black and red, E.J.S.S. 1928

  5. Jesus College 5th Boat Fairbairn Cup Races 1932.

A photograph with the following names: R.A. Cowling; C.J. Ll Jones; W.H. Melish; F.N. Leonard; F.H. Irving; N.W. Collett; W.H. Waring: A.L. Percival; J.C. Bridgman and N.S. Dickinson.

  1. 1932 Fairbairn Cup Crew.

  2. Jesus Coll: 4th Lent Boat, 1933.

A photograph with the following names: W.H. Melish; A.D. Brokenshaw; P.G. Masefield; A.L. Percival; P.H. Irving; J.E. Smith; L.W. James; F.N. Leonard; J.C. Bridgeman; Steve Fairbairn and Arthur Fraser

  1. Jesus Coll: 4th Lent Boat, 1933.

Jesus Coll: 4th Boat, Fairbairn Cup Crew, 1933.

A photograph with the following names: G.B. Bowles; D.D. Morgan; G.H. Smith; L.W. James; A.R. Tainsh; A.T. Stockings; J.D. Usher A.L. Percival; A. Wells and A.B. Fraser.

  1. 4th Boat, Fairbairn Cup Crew, 1933.

  2. Jesus Coll: 3rd Lent Boat, 1934.

A photograph with the following names: G.B. Bowles; N.W. Collett; D.L. Williams; W. Anderson; P. Willsallen; R.E. Selby; W.P. Dakin; A.L. Percival; H.L.D. Beauchamp, A.B. Fraser and S. Fairbairn.

  1. Jesus Coll: 3rd Lent Boat, 1934.

  2. Jesus Coll: 3rd Lent Boat, 1935.

A photograph with the following names: P.G. Tait; E.O.B. Grant; A.T. Stockings; S.P. Bourn; G.B. Bowles; N.W. Collett; G.M. Woodman; W.R. Milne; A.L. Percival; H.D.A. Yates, S. Fairbairn and R.T. Coulton.

  1. Jesus Coll: 3rd Lent Boat, 1935.

  2. Jesus Coll: 3rd May Boat, 1935.

A photograph with the following names: P.G. Tait; J.T.H. Foottit; N.C. Elliott; S.P. Bourn; R. Corbet-Ward; G.M. Woodman; N.W. Collett A.L. Percival; J.C. Bridgman; S. Fairbairn: R.T. Coulton and T.S. Cree.

  1. Jesus Coll: 3rd May Boat, 1935.

  2. Jesus Coll: Bump Supper, May Term 1935.

  3. An untitled photograph of boating trophies.

  4. An untitled photograph of Jesus College Chapel, lit up at night.

  5. Three untitled photographs showing undergraduates and others.

  6. A loose card with a hand-painted crest 'University of Harvard, 1636'.

  7. Three loose postcards of boats on the Thames at Henley.

  8. A studio portrait of an un-named woman, Ramsey & Muspratt, Photographers, Cambridge

  9. 'Always thinking of you', two mounted photographs.

  10. Group photograph of guides/scouts under a tree.

  11. Photograph of four men around a table, with tea, set in long grass under a tree.

  12. Photograph of rowing eight.

  13. Photograph of rowing eight on the Cam by the Pike and Eel pub, Chesterton.

  14. Photograph of a motor launch.

  15. Photograph of a seasick man on a motor launch.

  16. An Approximate Analysis of the Torsion of Shafts. 3 copies, 4pp, typescript.

  17. '1. Basic Theory of Torsion', and '11. The hydrodynamic analogy' 9pp, typescript.

  18. Jesus Breakfast Club. Stearn & Sons, Photographers, Cambridge

  19. Envelope labelled 'Rooster Photos' and addressed to B.L. Manning Esq. (Senior Tutor), Jesus College, from Stearn & Sons, Photographers. The envelope contains five photographs of members of the Roosters Club, one of which is dated 1941, and a sheet of hand-drawn names for four of the photographs,

  20. Bernard Manning as an undergraduate - to face the last page of chapter III

  21. Bernard Manning in 1927 from a photograph by Lafayette, Ltd - to face the last page of chapter V.

  22. Bernard Manning in 1940 from a photograph by C.C.E. Woodger - to face the last page of chapter VII.

  23. Bernard Manning in 1940 from a photograph by C.C.E. Woodger - frontispiece

  24. Jesus College Cambridge about 1925 from an air photograph - to face the first page of chapter II

  25. Postcard, inscribed 'Ducking after races in Lents 1941'.

  26. Postcard inscribed 'Jesus II bumping Hall I Lents 1941'.

  27. With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year from F. Brittain - a loose copy of 4 above.

  28. 'Bruafz Bott', a souvenir brochure from Saalfelden in the Austrian Alps.

  29. 'The Gang - with congratulations and condolences', a card to A. Perceval from Hazel Guest, Newnham College, June 15th 1935.

  30. A letter to A. Percival from Bernard [Manning], Jesus College, admonishing him for his over-speedy reading of grace in hall.

  31. A letter to Hazel, signature of author illegible, from Dunford House, Heyshott, Midhurst, Sussex, dated April 15th.

  32. A loose photograph inscribed on the reverse 'Percival, Red Herring, 1945'. Stearn & Sons, Photographers, 72 Bridge Street, Cambridge.

  33. A group photograph, without title or description, but showing a Chanticlere trophy and banner. The photograph is accompanied by a sheet of handwritten names, presumably an attempt to identify the individuals in the photograph. Stearn & Sons, Photographers, 72 Bridge Street, Cambridge.

  34. Photograph, possibly of Rooster Club members, Stearn & Sons, Photographers, 72 Bridge Street, Cambridge. Nd.

  35. Group photograph of college members, with a separate sheet of handwritten names. Stearn & Sons, Photographers, 72 Bridge Street, Cambridge. Nd.

  36. One spare sheet of paper with names written in pencil, presumably to identify individuals in a photograph above, but with no recognizable connection with the photographs above.

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      Leather bound with gold leaf page edges, 480 x 315 x 48mm photographic prints in an album.

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      The album has the following inscription on the inside cover:

      Album presented by Moira Percival 21 Sep 2005 property of her late husband Alan Percival, Fellow of Jesus College 1938 - 78, Emeritus 1978 - 2000.

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