| Description | Photograph album commemorating a visit by Winston Churchill to the University of Bristol, as Chancellor of the University on 25-26 November 1954. The visit included a reception at the University; a dinner given by the Society of Merchant Venturers at Merchants' House; an address to students at Colston Hall; a Congregation for conferrment of Honorary degrees; reception at the University Library; a luncheon in the Reception Room; and unveiling a tablet at the Engineering School.
See DM1462/1/6 for Registrar's files relating to the Congregation; DM2287/9/Box 12/6 for printed honorary degree orations for Sir Walter Monckton, Sir Hartley Shawcross, Sir Alan Lascelles, R.A. Butler, Sir Norman Brook, and Herbert George Tanner, conferred on this occasion. |