| Description | File of personal records comprising:
1) Birth certificate of Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton, dated 31 May 1920.
2) Indenture of Apprenticeship to Sir William George Armstrong, dated 25 July 1882.
3) Harrow School Alphabetical List, Spring Term 1940
4) Two official permissions to travel to Europe, dated 10 March 1894 and 26 August 1912.
5) Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton's passports, in concertina format, encompassing various renewals, names of places travelled, photographs, as well as two physical descriptions of Swinton.
6) Last Will and Testament of Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton, 1928.
7) Death Certificate of Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton, two copies, first dated 1 March 1920, and the second dated 5 March 1930.
8) Sketch for the memorial tablet commemorating Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton.
9) Membership Certificate of The Insituttion of Civil Engineers, dated 6 December 1898 [oversized item].
10) Membership Certificate of The Institution of Electrical Engineers, dated 7 February 1900, signed by Silvanus Thompson [oversized item].
11) Ink cartoon of Swinton, in the style of a previously published cartoon of Benjamin Disraeli which appeared in Punch magazine, on 28 February 1874, depicting Swinton as an angel holding a paper inscribed 'F.R.S', featuring the following poerm, by Lalla Rookh: 'Paradise and the Peri. Joy, joy for ever, my task is done, the gates are past, and heaven is won!', dated 13 May 1915. Likely to have been sent to Swinton upon his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society. The cartoon is unauthored but features Swinton's initials and therefore may have been executed by Swinton himself.
12) Knight of the Garter certificate of Captain George Sitwell Campbell Swinton, the brother of Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton, dated 18 November 1927 [oversized item].
13) Office of Herald certificate of George Sitwell Campbell Swinton, the brother of Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton, dated 1 October 1923 [oversized item]. |