MOWATT, Sir Francis (1837-1919)

Papers of Sir Francis Mowatt, comprising correspondence with the administration department of Imperial College, 1907-1919.

Born, 1837; educated at Winchester; St John's College Oxford; member of the Royal Commission of 1851; Knighted, 1893; Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, 1894-1903; GCB, 1901; Governor, Imperial College, 1907-1919; died, 1919.

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Correspondence, 1900-1906, held at Buckinghamshire Records and Local Studies Service; miscellaneous letters to Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and others, 1893-1908, held at the British Library, Manuscript Collections; correspondence mainly with Sir William Harcourt, 1893-1903, held at the Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts (reference: MSS Harcourt); correspondence with Lord Rosebery, held at the National Library of Scotland, Manuscripts Division (reference: MSS 10101-10162 Passim); correspondence with Sir Henry Babington Smith, held at Trinity College Library, Cambridge University (reference: HBS1-95).

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Accumulated by Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine during the course of business.

Records of the Governing Body (GB), held at Imperial College.