Identity area
Reference code
SJCR/SJAC/1/3/2/Macalister/2
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Title
Date(s)
- 1893-1905 (Creation)
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Set
Extent and medium
4 volumes. Paper
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Sir Donald Macalister was born in Perth, Scotland, on the 17th May 1854, the son of another Donald Macalister. He was educated in Scotland for the first few years of his life, and then in Liverpool, before being admitted to St John’s College, Cambridge in 1874. He had won a scholarship from St John’s, but also from Balliol, Worchester, and Oxford. He was Senior Wrangler and a Smith’s prizeman in 1877, and was immediately elected as a fellow of the college.
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Includes: ledgers recording students’ charges and bills from 1893-1905. Charges include examination fees, matriculation fees, admission fees, public lectures fees, tuition, medical, coals, window cleaning, caution money and room rents. It also records the names of scholars and exhibitioners and the money they received, and details on the valuation of furniture which students bought for their rooms. A detailed student account is also recorded in each term with a list of students’ names, the total bill they paid, and the dates they paid the bills.
Also included are some loose sheets containing the following:
1) A list of students whose accounts remain unpaid.
2) A list of students whose accounts have credit balance.
3) A list of students transferred to another tutor. The list also records the caution balance, admission date, degree or next examination of each student. A separate page lists the names of scholars and exhibitioners.
4) A list of late tenants, location of their rooms (court, staircase and number). A few names of new tenants are also included. Some notes and comments on a few students.
5) Amended accounts recording room rent, cost of repairs and valuations of furniture.
6) A written note on the amount of money owed to the steward, kitchen and coals
7) Letters to the tutor.