King, Annie Redman

Description

Biography: Annie Redman King, née Peniston, was a Leeds graduate who gained her first class B.Sc. Honours degree in Botany in 1913. At about the same time, she married William O. Redman King, a scholar in animal physiology who had worked with Professor Jacques Loeb at Berkeley, San Francisco, and the Rockefeller Institute, New York, before becoming an assistant lecturer/demonstrator in the Zoology Department at the University of Leeds. William Redman King was to die of influenza before release from First World War Service. Annie Redman King went on to become Warden of Weetwood Hall (for women students), 1919-1948. Until 1946 she taught in the Department of Zoology, and for many years also taught zoology to Medical students. She was encouraged in her choice of career by the Vice-Chancellor, Michael Sadler.


Contents: 2 boxes containing 11 folders. Many items in fragile condition [fire-damaged].


(BOX 1)


Folder 1: Chiefly catalogues, programmes and printed items, relating to literature, music and art, including the following items relating specifically to the University of Leeds:

1: Leeds University, The Griffin, Chronicle of Past and Present Women Students in Residence Leeds University, January 1923.

2: Leeds University, Three Songs and a Sonnet, by Walter Garstang, Presented to the Students of the University of Leeds, June 1920.

3: Leeds University, Order of Service at the Dedication of a Sculpture to the Memory of Members of the University who fell in the War. [1 June 1923].

4: Leeds University Literary and Historical Society, The Frogs of Aristophanes, in the English Verse Translation of Professor Gilbert Murray, and with Sir Hubert Parry’s Music, Nov 30th - Dec 1st [?1911].


Folder 2: Appeal, including:

1: MS notes by Michael Sadler, Vice-Chancellor, [unsigned, n.d.].

2: [Leeds University], A Short Account of the Growth of the University of Leeds, December 1924.

3: Leeds University, Preliminary Notes in Regard to the Development Scheme, 1925.

4: Leeds University, An Appeal to Yorkshiremen, [1925].

5: Leeds University, The University and Agriculture, [Open Letter from the Chancellor and Chairman of the Yorkshire Council for Agricultural Education], 1925.

6: Leeds University Appeal, Donations and Promises to 23rd October 1925.

7: Leeds University, Notes on Progress of The University Appeal, 1926.

8: Leeds University, The University of Leeds and its Appeal, 1926 [reprinted from The Yorkshire Post].

9: University of Leeds, [Brochure of ceremony of laying of the foundation stone by the Duchess of Devonshire, 1928]. Also including sheet of accompanying pictures.


Folder 3: Newspaper cuttings, many relating to Leeds University life, including several cuttings relating to Sir Michael Sadler [1920s].



Folder 4: Jacob Kramer letters to Annie Redman King, 12 letters and sketches, 1920-1921:

1: 23 August 1920. 15, [Beechcroft] Grove, Chapeltown, Leeds. Re: ARK offer of use of cottage at Buckden [doodles on letter].

2: 24 August 1920. [As above 1. - sketches, no message].

3: 20 October 1920. [As above 1.]. Re: Mention of exhibition [doodles on letter].

4: 6 November 1920. [As above 1.]. Re: Not well; ARK not well - sympathy.

5: 3 March 1920. 14, Bartholemew Rd., South Kentish Town, London. Re: Life in London; dealers; financial assistance from ARK; [doodles on letter].

6: 18 April 1921. [As above 5.]. Re: His mother.

7: 21 July 1921. [As above 5.]. Re: Going to London; [doodles on letter].

8: [n.d.]. [As above 5.]. Re: Life of the artist in the big city; commercial pressures.

9 - 12: [n.d.] [Sketches, mentions poems by Herbert Read].


Folder 5: Letters to Annie Redman King from Michael Sadler and Mary Sadler, 1914; 1920; 1923-24.


Folder 6: Miscellaneous letters to William O. Redman King and Annie Redman King:

6a: Papers and letters to William O. Redman King, 1911-1919. Senders include:

W. C. McIntosh, The University, St. Andrews

Jacques Loeb, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York

Julian S. Huxley, Balliol College, Oxford

A. E. Shipley, Christ’s College, Cambridge

J. S. O. Gardiner, Zoological Laboratory, The Museum, Cambridge

H. H. Dale, Medical Research Committee

Clifford Dale, Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research

6b: Personal letters to William O. Redman King, chiefly from Canada and USA, 1911-1919.

6b: Letters to Annie Redman King and to “A. Peniston, Esq.”, and Mrs Peniston, 1911-23.


Folder 7: Letters and papers relating to Annie Redman King, chiefly personal, 1914-1939.


(BOX 2)


Folder 8: Letters to Annie Redman King, 1920-48, but chiefly 1930s and 1940s, from and about old students at Weetwood Hall.


Folder 9: Letters to Annie Redman King, 1937-46. Chiefly from and about old students at Weetwood Hall. Includes letters from Bonamy Dobrée (17 February 1941), and Louis Rey (3 September 1937).


Folder 10: Helen Baines of Elmete Grange, Menston-in-Whafedale. MS poems and letter [‘Dear Cissie’, 24 January 1910].


Folder 11: Miscellaneous loose items, including a letter to Annie Redman King from Michael Sadler [TS, copy, 13 December 1923].






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January 1998; reprinted March 2013

Originally included in Annie Redman King Archive: Photographs removed for inclusion in general photographic collection (Occasions & University Government - Officers):


3 photographic portrait studies of Michael Sadler

Michael Sadler with Lord Robert Cecil (Weetwood Entrance).

Michael Sadler with A. J. Balfour, 1925, & others.


Leeds Luncheon Club. Coming of Age Celebration, 1913-34, Michael Sadler with A. N. Bain, Walter Parsons, at Town Hall.


Visit of Prince of Wales, 1923, 6 photographs & 2 close-ups of Michael Sadler.


? Visit of Prince of Wales, 1923, 6 group photographs (+ 4 copies). Groups include Professor A. Smithells, Mr & Mrs E. Arnold, Professor A. G. Perkins, A. E. Wheeler (Registrar), 9th Duke of Devonshire, Professor Gillespie, Professor & Mrs Grant, Professor Connal, Charles Tetley & Mrs Tetley.


Bust of Michael Sadler. [3 prints + 2 copies].

Biography or history

Annie Redman King, née Peniston, was a Leeds graduate who gained her first class B.Sc. Honours degree in Botany in 1913. At about the same time, she married William O. Redman King, a scholar in animal physiology who had worked with Professor Jacques Loeb at Berkeley, San Francisco, and the Rockefeller Institute, New York, before becoming an assistant lecturer/demonstrator in the Zoology Department at the University of Leeds. William Redman King was to die of influenza before release from First World War service. Annie Redman King went on to become Warden of Weetwood Hall (for women students), 1919-1948. Until 1946 she taught in the Department of Zoology, and for many years also taught zoology to Medical students. She was encouraged in her choice of career by the Vice-Chancellor, Michael Sadler.

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Physical and technical conditions

Many items are fragile (fire-damaged).