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SJCR/SJAC/1/2/Parkinson/2/2
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- 1866-1898 (Creation)
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1 file and 2 volumes. Paper
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Biographical history
The Reverend Stephen Parkinson was born in 1823 near Keighley in Yorkshire. He was admitted Sizar to St John’s in 1841, gaining his BA as Senior Wrangler and 2nd Smith’s Prize in 1845. He graduated Bachelor of Divinity in 1855 and Doctor of Divinity in 1869.
The rest of his life was spent in connection with the College, and he was elected to a Fellowship the same year that he completed his BA. From 1864 to 1882 he served as a College Tutor, and as President between 1865 and 1871. In 1881 the Mastership of the College was vacant, however Parkinson declined to enter as a candidate.
Parkinson published two textbooks, An Elementary Treatise on Mechanics, and A Treatise on Optics, both of which ran to numerous editions and were the standard works in use at the University. He was a well-liked and generous Tutor, with his Eagle Obituary detailing a student who would have been unable to complete his degree without Dr Parkinson’s financial support. A window in the College Chapel was also gifted by Parkinson, as well as a donation to the College Mission.
In 1870 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society , and a year later married Elizabeth Lucy, who was to outlive him following his death in 1889.
Obituary in the Eagle: Vol. 15, 1889, p. 356.
Accessible online at:
https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Eagle/Eagle%20Volumes/1880s/1889/Eagle_1889_Lent.pdf
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Includes: lists of pupils for Stephen Parkinson and others, document titled 'Scholars, Proper Sizars and Sizars', lists of scholarships vacated, scholars & sizars, lists of student names & terms kept.
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Parkinson/2/2/2 is a file and is stored in 4/TUTORIAL
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1) Pupils book dated from 1866 to 1878. Includes lists of pupils for Dr Stephen Parkinson, Mr Bonney, Mr J.E. Sandys (all from 1866) and Mr Hills (from 1873). Names of pupils followed by columns headed ‘New System’ with places to tick under ‘Oct.’, ‘Lent.’, ‘East.’ And ‘L.V.’.
2) Document titled ‘Scholars, Proper Sizars and Sizars – June 1883’. List of scholars, scholarships vacated, proper sizars and sizars. [Some names are followed by numbers – possibly values of scholarship for that period?]
3) Attributed to Stephen Parkinson. Exercise book containing names of students and terms kept until the conferral of a degree. Dated from 1889 to 1898. [Most of book is empty.]