Catalogue description Statutory Commission for Oxford University

Details of Subseries within PC 10
Reference: Subseries within PC 10
Title: Statutory Commission for Oxford University
Description:

This subseries consists of minutes of the Statutory Commission for Oxford University, and correspondence with the colleges, boards of education and other interested parties, on the many subjects dealt with by the commissioners.
Administrative / biographical background:

In 1919 a Royal Commission enquired into the financial resources and administration of colleges and halls. It produced a report recommending the setting up of a Statutory Commission to carry out changes in statutes and to revise trusts. The Oxford and Cambridge Universities Act 1923, set up two commissions, one for each University, and appointed their respective commissioners for two years. The duties and powers of the comissions were to make statutes and regulations.

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