| AdminHistory | The University College of Sheffield was established in 1897 by the merger of Sheffield Medical School (founded in 1828), Firth College (1879) and Sheffield Technical School (1884). This later became The University of Sheffield which received its royal charter in 1905. |
| Description | Purchased by the Education Department, Sheffield Council from the University of Sheffield in 1907.
Includes:
Abstract of title (reciting deeds 1829 - 1876), 1877 - The Corporation to Mark Firth
Abstract of title (reciting deeds 1822 - 1877), 1877 - The Corporation to Mark Firth
Abstract of title (reciting deeds 1836 - 1876), 1877 - The Corporation to Mark Firth
Abstract of title (reciting deeds 1783 - 1876), 1877 - The Corporation to Mark Firth
Abstract of title (reciting deeds 1878), 1878 - School Board to The Corporation
Supplement (reciting deeds 1878), 1878 - The Corporation to Mark Firth
Abstract of title (reciting deeds 1823 - 1850), 1878 - School Board to The Corporation
Abstract of title (reciting deeds 1877 - 1898), 1898 - James Wostenholme to The University College of Sheffield (land at London Road South and Oak Street)
Abstract of title (reciting deeds 1878 - 1906), 1906 - University of Sheffield
Deed of Settlement, 20 May 1879
1. Mark Firth, Sir John Brown, Samuel Roberts, Barnard Platts Broomhead, John Bradley Firth, Reverend James Stacey, Henry Clifton Sorby, Skelton Cole, Samuel Roberts the younger, Henry Edmund Watson, Henry Stephenson, Charles Henry Firth, James Henry Barber, John William Pye-Smith and John Hobson.
2. John Francis Moss, Clerk to the Sheffield School Board.
'Mark Firth being convinced of the benefits resulting from lectures and classes held in Sheffield aforesaid by teachers appointed by the University of Cambridge and being desirous of aiding to carry out in his native town of Sheffield aforesaid a system of higher education in connexion with English universities for the promotion of the moral, social and intellectual elevation of his fellow townsmen is desirous of providing at his sole expense a building containing a lecture hall, class rooms, lecturer's and other rooms with fixtures and furniture... known as Firth College'.
Schedule, plan, signed by all parties. |