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Registered Charity No 1137522 BURGON NOTES - ISSUE No. 28 - Summer, 2014 The University of HULL 1 From the Chairman Peter Galloway, a member of the Society, we The last few months have been busy have the use of The Queen’s Chapel of the and productive for the Society. In particular, Savoy, where he is Chaplain. Another histor- we have been fortunate to have received very ical building with ties to the Monarch, I be- generous donations of many hoods and robes lieve members will find the space well-suited of the predecessor institutions of the to our needs. University of Manchester. The details of I look forward to seeing many of you these donations are in the Archivist’s column, there and hope for good weather so that we but it would be remiss of me, wearing my can use the garden. Chairman’s cap, if I did not thank publicly Mr Colin Fleming Robin Richardson, the Chairman of J. Wippell & Co., Exeter, for facilitating the From the Archivist donation of these items. Early in March 2014 I received an In this issue you will read reports of the email from Robin Richardson, Chairman of Society’s visit to the University of Hull in J Wippell & Co. in March and of the Spring Conference held in Exeter. He explained London in May. Both events were well at- that, as a result of the tended and proved stimulating. amalgamation of The second volume of Shaw III, which Victoria University of addresses the academical dress of non-degree Manchester and awarding institutions, was launched at the UMIST to form the Spring Conference and sales have been brisk. University of Further details follow on page x. Manchester, Wippell Members may know that I have a was ridding itself of its particular fondness for the Society’s Spring redundant stocks of the Conference. This conference continues to predecessor mature as a forum for sharing on-going institutions’ robes and would the Society be research, some little nuggets unearthed in the interested in a near-complete set of UMIST most unlikely of places, more information on robes for the Society’s Collection? I rose great characters in the field of academical quickly to this particular lure and shortly dress and for reading-in of new Fellows. This thereafter a box arrived at my office in year’s event saw no fewer than seven London containing these robes. Within the scheduled talks and an impromptu letter consigning these robes to us there was demonstration from Fr Kenneth Crawford of an offer of any Victoria hoods that we might a recently completed Chancellor’s gown for not have. Once again, the lure was irresistible the University of Divinity in Australia. We and shortly thereafter another box arrived. In ran over time, but it was worth it. all, 31 items were received. Looking forward to the Annual Gener- UMIST al Meeting and Congregation on 4 October The Collection now 2014, many of you will have seen that we has all earned UMIST have a new venue for this year’s gathering. awards, other than the The Charterhouse is under increasing pres- MLitt, which was awarded sure from its governing body to charge mar- only once and the recipient ket prices for using its ‘grand rooms’, and the purchased the hood, and Society’s Trustees could not justify spending the higher doctors (which the amount proposed for 2014. However, Wippell did not store). through the offices of The Revd Professor The hoods represent: 2 PGDip, BSc, and BEng; the Other institutions first-degree Master awards We have also of MChem and MEng; MSc, acquired the robes of a PhD MPhil (p2, upper) and the (in Science) of City robes of a PhD (p2, lower). University, London, and the Victoria Manchester used Fellow’s hood of the terra cotta silk for its Institute of Trichologists technology degrees and that (left) and the Tricological colour features prominently Society. The latter was in the UMIST robes. established in 1999 when some of the In addition, we have hoods for the members of the Institute thought that not UMIST MEng and MSc enough academic research was being done or (Tech), when these were sponsored by the Institute. This might explain awarded by Victoria. why the hoods are very similar, both using a Victoria Manchester Dublin [f2] shape and a similar arrangement We now possess a of linings and facings. near complete set of Victoria Colin Fleming Manchester hoods, too. A few hoods are missing (some Visit to the University of Hull were discarded by Wippell Nineteen members of the Society from before the offer to us was across England, as well as from Wales and made), including a couple of Medicine Scotland, were given an extremely warm awards, for example ChM. Some of the welcome to the University of Hull where they prettier and more obscure hoods include the met in the University House (the home of the BNurs (above right) and the striking LLM University’s Student Union). In excellent and (above lower right). comfortable facilities the members were If anyone knows of the hood of BA/ welcomed by the Chairman, Colin Fleming BSc (via part-time study), ChM or who introduced Dr Richard Baker, a graduate BMedSci(Dentistry) that are looking for a of the University, home, please let me know. Hull As a result of the Society’s visit to Hull in March, I contacted Mr Richardson to enquire whether any of the original prototypes made at Dr Charles Franklyn’s request had been retained by Wippell after the contract to supply the robes was awarded to Ede & Ravenscroft. Alas, no; but we have been loaned the original correspondence between the Company, the University of Hull, Dr Franklyn and others involved. We have been granted permission to reproduce the files prior to returning them to J Wippell & Co later this Detail of the Hull Chancellor’s year. gown - CAHF’s original design who made a presentation 3 Hull MA hood looking at the history of the design of the Hull former BD hood, Happy Hull Party People now MTheol gowns and hoods of the University and the academical dress of Medical School, right through to the recently designed Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Medicine of HYMS. The officers’ robes were provided by Peter Buckley (University Beadle) along with robes kindly provided by Ede & Ravenscroft, from the Society’s own archives and from Richard Baker’s collection. After a buffet lunch members went on a whistle-stop tour of the campus, under the Hull York Medical School direction of Gill Anderson, PA to the Obverse Registrar (who had done so much to enable the event to take place). Several commented the University of Hull on the pleasantness of the campus and the Hull York Medical School (1954) and the Hull Reverse blend of buildings from the 1920s University York Medical School College through to the current developments (2003). The original of the Bynmor Jones library. designs were by Dr Upon their return, Dr Nicholas Groves Charles Franklyn. gave a lecture based upon his on-going research into Dr Charles A.H. Franklyn, revealing much about his early life, his professional career as a physician, his life- long interest in academical dress and also in heraldry. This session confirmed many of the preconceptions members had of Franklyn and the possibility that this biography may Hull PhD & HYMS PhD eventually be published is something to be Reverse welcomed. The afternoon finished with thanks Members were given an from the Chairman to Gill, Peter, Nick and extensive opportunity to Richard, followed by refreshments and Hull BMus hood, look at, and indeed try departure. now MMus on, officers’ robes, and Richard Baker 4 A Query … and A Puzzle the ALCM gown ‘being of a London shape From time to time the Society receives with pale blue cord’ (in the singular), although enquiries from members of the public via the in fact for the last twenty years it has not been website. Here is one from a few months ago, provided with cords at all. which in fact added to our knowledge of So John Davnall’s enquiry has led to academic dress history. the discovery that the ALCM gown seems to John Davnall was working through his have been supplied in at least three versions so late father’s papers and came across a black- far as the number of cords on each sleeve is and-white photograph of his grandmother, concerned: one cord – the original Lilian Blanche Davnall (née Jones), in specification; three cords – the same gown academic dress. He believed it must have been being commonly used for the FLCM, LLCM taken between 1913 and 1918, before she was and ALCM; no cords – to make things even married. None of the family knew that she had easier for the modern supplier. In fact, an academic qualification; she had never Northam’s, the official robemakers, now spoken of it. He was curious to know whether rarely receive orders for LCM robes, but if she had a university degree and asked whether asked they would supply an unmodified basic we might be able to identify it from the photo. bachelor’s gown [b1] and a standard black I suggested he should send a scan. When he square with black tassel. The regulations did (see below), he mentioned that as a young given on the website of the University of West woman his grandmother had been a piano London, into which the LCM is now teacher. He wondered – correctly, as it turned incorporated, say nothing more specific than out – whether a music college might be ‘gown and cap’.

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