Reminiscences of Alderman Charles Robert Keene c. 1955

City of Leicester Polytechnic, 1969-1975

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Sir Charles Robert Keene, 1891-1977

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Charles Robert Keene was born on the 21st September 1891, one of twelve children born to Charles and Emma Keene. The family moved to Leicester in 1899 where Charles senior set up businesses in box manufacturing, die stamping and the Mutual Clothing and Supply Company, a credit finance company. Charles junior left school at fourteen and worked for his father. From 1910 he became a preacher at the Methodist church attended by the family, in line with his ambition to train ...

Leicester Colleges of Art and Technology

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The School of Pharmacy was founded under the Leicester Municipal Technical and Art School in 1909. Now part of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, it still teaches from its original base in the Hawthorn Building. From its establishment until 1969, Pharmacy, in addition to nursing, was offered as part of the Technical School courses. Pharmacy already had its own school set up unlike nursing which came under Biology. However a formal Faculty or department did not exist until the Polytechnic w...

Keene, Sir Charles Robert., 1891-1977

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Leicester Polytechnic, 1975-1992

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