Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College | Professor James Blyth Memorial Committee
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Description area
Dates of existence
1907-1909
History
In March 1907, a committee of former students and associates of Professor James Blyth, professor of Natural Philosophy 1880-1906, was established to raise funds for a memorial to him. The memorial eventually took the form of endowing the Blyth Memorial Prizes, and erecting a wall plaque in the College.
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Glasgow, Scotland
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Relationships area
Related entity
Blyth, James, 1838-1906, physicist (1838-1906)
Identifier of the related entity
P0013
Category of the relationship
associative
Dates of the relationship
Description of relationship
The committee was established to raise funds for a memorial for Blyth.
Related entity
Royal College of Science and Technology, Glasgow (1887-1964)
Identifier of the related entity
C0065
Category of the relationship
associative
Dates of the relationship
Description of relationship
The Committee caused the Blyth memorial prizes to be endowed for the College and a plaque to be erected in the College.
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Control area
Authority record identifier
C0192
Institution identifier
GB 249
Rules and/or conventions used
ISAAR(CPF): International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families, International Council on Archives (2nd edition, 2003); Rules for the construction of personal, place and corporate names, National Council on Archives (1997).
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Created by Lindsey Short, June 2010. Revised by Victoria Peters, September 2010.