| Administrative History | Murray L.R. Beaven ( - 1920), Assistant and then Lecturer in (Modern) History, University of Aberdeen, 1908/1909 - 1914/1915
Harold Beaven (1880 - 1939), teacher
Murray L.R. Beaven, Assistant and then Lecturer in (Modern) History, University of Aberdeen, 1908/1909 - 1914/1915 ( - 1920). Former lecturer in history at Sheffield University. Was appointed a Professor at Nottingham Univsrsity but ill health made him unable to take up his duties. |
| Custodial History | In the accession file there is a letter from Beaven's widow to Peter Hunter Blair (1957) and a later letter from Blair to Simon Keynes granting the right to dispose of the materials as wished. They were then passed to Professor David Dumville, Emeritus Professor·Celtic & Anglo-Saxon (in 2009). |