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William Hamilton Fyfe fonds
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Fonds
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1919-1967 (Creation)
- Creator
- Fyfe, Sir William Hamilton
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0.25 m of textual records
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Biographical history
William Hamilton Fyfe was born in London in 1878. William won scholarships to Fettes College, Edinburgh, and to Merton College, Oxford. He took his drgree in 1901. After several years in the British educational system he toured Canada in 1930 with a group of English public school headmasters. He was offered, and accepted, the principalship of Queen's University where he remained until 1936, when he returned to Britain as the Principal of the University of Aberdeen. He remained there until he retired in 1948.
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The fonds consists of correspondence, sermons, speeches, broadcasts, printed material and some obituary notices. The material deals primarily with his period at Queen's and his principalship at Aberdeen, his correspondence about the Dowling Memorial Plaque, and his correspondence about Grant Hall and the Coat of Arms.
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Donated by the Fyfe family.
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- English
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1026
2999 (QU-Dowling)
2999 (QU-Grant)
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Open
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Public domain
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No further accruals are expected