Identity area
Reference code
GB 2014 WS-05-BER
Title
Personal Papers of Bernard Cyril Berkinshaw-Smith
Date(s)
- 1942-1961 (Accumulation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
Two folders
Context area
Name of creator
(1929-2005)
Biographical history
Berkinshaw-Smith, Bernard Cyril, son of Cyril John Berkinshaw-Smith, bank man., of Surbiton, and Germaine, d. of Pierre Gode, farmer, of Corrèze, France; b. 1 May 1929; adm. Sept. 1942 (KS); left July 1947; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1949, BA 1952, MA 1956; a chartered accountant, ACA 1956, FCA 1962; partner Fuller Jenks Beecroft 1961-85, Touche Ross & Co. 1985-8; retd. 1988; m. 3 Apr. 1956 Eva Marianna Inez Nohel MB BCh, med. practitioner, d. of Eugene Nohel, co. sec.; d. 22 Sept. 2005.
Repository
Archival history
Collected by Bernard Cyril Berkinshaw-Smith during his time at the school (1942-1947), and passed on to the school by his son
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Papers concerning Bernard Cyril Berkinshaw-Smith's time at Westminster School. Includes:
- School Rolls and Pink Lists (Election Term 1942 - Play Term 1947)
- Roll of Service (December, 1942; Number III)
- Daily Mail newspaper clipping (2nd March, 1938)
- Programme for 50th Anniversary of the Return of the School to Westminster (9th September, 1995)
- Newspaper clipping from unidentified paper, regarding the visit of the queen to reopen College Dormitory
- 1950 Head of the River Race Programme (1st April, 1950)
- Westminster School Boat Club Almanac and Tide Table (Election Term 1947)
- Westminster School Regatta Programme (June 1948)
- Hand-drawn map of Little Dean's Yard and surrounding buildings
- 'Carmen Feriale Westmonasteriense' song lyrics (2)
- Westminster School Boat Club Christmas Card
- Programme for a Concert by the Westminster School Choral and Orchestra Societies (25th July, 1947)
- Westminster School Boat Club Almanac and Tide Table (Election Term 1946)
- Westminster School Regatta Programme (July 1946) (2)
- Westminster School Regatta Programme (July 1947)
- Westminster School Regatta Programme (July 1949)
- Putney Inter-Schools Regatta timetable (28 July 1947)
- Cast List for King Henry IV, Part 2 (8th April 1943)
- Programme for Julius Caesar presented by the King's Scholars
- Whitbourne with Bringsty parish magazine (April 1947)
- Order of Service for 'A Service of Thanksgiving for the Safe Return of Westminster School;' (26th October, 1945)
- Note from J.T. Christie to invite boys to the service for the return of Westminster School (19th October, 1945)
- Order of Service for ' A Solemn Service in Memory of The Old Westminsters who gave their lives for their country 1939-1945' (10th July 1946)
- Order of Service for the Installation of Rev. Alan Campbell as Dean of Westminster Abbey (6th June 1946)
- Order of Service for the funeral of Rev. Paul Fulcrand Delacour de Labilliere (1st May 1946)
- Order of Service for Westminster School Election Sunday (28th July 1946)
- Newspaper clipping from The Evening News, regarding Westminster boys no longer wearing top hats (26th September 1945)
- Letter from J.T. Christie regarding school dress post war (8th August 1945)
- Letter regarding the introduction of Westminster Under School (1943)
- Letter regarding 1945 Scout Camp (1st June 1945)
- Letter regarding 1944 Scout Camp (1st July 1944)
- Letter regarding 1943 Scout Camp (2nd July 1943)
- Letter from J.T. Christie regarding change in term dates (2nd March 1943)
- Glyndyfrdwy postcards, blank (4)
- Letter from J.T. Christie regarding visits from parents (6th August 1943)
- Newspaper clipping from The Times with image of Commem being celebrated in Whitbourne (18th November 1942)
- Tickets to Commem (15th November 1946) (2)
- Letter from J.T. Christie regarding taking leave from the school (August 1947)
- Commem Programme
- Letter from C.H. Fisher regarding funds for Henley Royal Regatta (June1947)
- Newspaper clipping from the Evening Standard (30th May 1961)
-Letter from Andrew Berkinshaw-Smith.
Also included were the following copies of The Elizabethan:
Vol 23, No. 17; March1945
Vol 23, No. 18; July 1945
Vol 24, No. 1; December 1945
March, 1946
July, 1946
December, 1946