Charles James Monk was born at Peterborough in 1824, the son of James Henry Monk and Jane Smart Monk, née Hughes. He attended Eton and was admitted a pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge, on 9 July 1842, becoming a Fellow Commoner on 18 October 1843. He was Browne Medallist in 1845 and graduated BA in 1847 and MA in 1850. In 1850 he married Julia Ralli. Monk was admitted at Lincoln’s Inn in 1845 and called to the Bar in 1855. In the latter year his father made him Chancellor of Bristol and Vice-Chancellor of Gloucester – he became Chancellor of Gloucester in 1859 – holding both Chancellorships until 1885. In April 1859 he was elected Liberal MP for Gloucester, but was unseated on petition. He represented the constituency from 1865 to 1885 and from 1895 until just before his death in 1900.
'[Henry Arthur Morgan] was helped by another, unrelated, Morgan (E.H.), who was Dean from 1866 and a Tutor from 1882. The two were known respectively as the Senior and the Junior Tutor or, less respectfully and for much longer, as Black Morgan and Red Morgan because their hair mimicked the College’s colours.' Jesus College website
Henry Hallam was born on 9 July 1777, the son of John Hallam, Canon of Windsor. He attended Eton College and Christ Church Oxford, graduating BA in 1799. Hallam began a legal career and was a barrister on the Oxford circuit, but in 1806 he became a commissioner of stamps while contributing articles to the Edinburgh Review. In 1809 Hallam began to work on the large-scale historical works for which he is known; View of the state of Europe during the Middle Ages was published in 1818 and The Constitutional history of England from the accession of Henry VII to the death of George II in 1827. His final work, published in 1837-39, was his Introduction to the literature in Europe in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He married Julia Maria, daughter of Sir Charles Elton, in 1807, and was the father of Arthur Henry Hallam, favourite of Tennyson, and Henry Fitzmaurice Hallam. Both sons, who predeceased their father, were members of Trinity College Cambridge. Hallam died in 1859.
Hallam's papers in Trinity College Library include commonplace books; historical notes; journal of a trip to Italy, 1828; diaries 1799-1800; household accounts, 1812, 1845-1851.
This material forms a series within the additional manuscripts series a, b, c and d, catalogued as Add.Ms.a.22-28, Add.Ms.b.18-21A, Add.Ms.c.17-20 and Add.Ms.d.13-52.