Janus: Cambridge University Society for the Promotion of Religious Equality: Membership Roll and Minutes

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MS Add.6661-6663	Cambridge University Society for the Promotion of Religious Equality: Membership Roll and Minutes
MS Add.6664	Commonplace Book of Religious Poetry
MS Add.6665	Philip IV of Spain: Conveyance to Cristobal de la Fuente of Toledo
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Cambridge University Society for the Promotion of Religious Equality: Membership Roll and Minutes

Title	Cambridge University Society for the Promotion of Religious Equality: Membership Roll and Minutes
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.6661-6663
Covering Dates	1875–1883
Extent and Medium	3 volumes
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

The Society was a student body founded in 1875 which lasted until 1883. The President was Neville Goodman, M.A., of Peterhouse, a nonconformist. The Society's Rules outlined its support for 'the opening of all fellowships and emoluments, college and university offices, and degrees to all members of the University without distinction of religious opinion'. It also sought 'placing the relations of Church and State on a basis consistent with religious equality'.

Norman Capper Hardcastle, d. 1893 (see MS.Add.6663), was admitted pensioner at Downing College on 6 Oct. 1877, and matriculated in Michaelmas of that year.

Presented by Prof. Courtney Kenny, 1917.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Cambridge University Society for the Promotion of Religious Equality: Membership Roll and Minutes, MS Add.6661-6663

Further information

Further details on Neville Goodman and N.C. Hardcastle and can be found in J.A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part II, Vol. III (Cambridge University Press, 1947), p. 85 and p. 232.

Index Terms

Cambridge

Student Organizations

Equal Opportunity

University of Cambridge

Manuscripts/MS Add.6661-6663 contains:

MS Add.6661

Lists of vice-presidents and members, written in several hands.
1 volume.

1875–1882

MS Add.6662

Minute book, written in several hands. 70 folios: fo. 2: list of officers and committee, 1875-1876; fo. 3: minutes of meetings, 28 Oct. 1875 - 26 May 1876; fo. 21: list of officers and committee, 1876-1877; fo. 22: minutes of meetings and annual reports, Oct. 1876 - 23 May 1881.
1 volume.

1875–1881

MS Add.6663

Minute book, in the hand of N.C. Hardcastle.
1 volume.

1881–1883