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Chetham's Library
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Long Millgate
Manchester
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M3 1SB
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Businesses (10)
- Belle Vue (Manchester) Ltd, zoological gardens, circus and amusement park Manchester, Lancashire
- Bridgewater Canal Manchester, Lancashire
- British Engine Insurance Ltd Manchester, Lancashire
- Brownsfield Mill Manchester, Lancashire
- Budenberg Guage Co Ltd Altrincham, Cheshire
- James Crossley, solicitors Manchester, Lancashire
- James Weatherley, bookseller Manchester, Lancashire
- Manchester City Circle Railway Manchester, Lancashire
- Robert Yates Ltd, paper merchants Bolton, Lancashire
- Sherratt and Hughes bookshop, Manchester Manchester, Lancashire
Organisations (41)
- 72nd (Royal Manchester Volunteers) Regiment of Foot Manchester, Lancashire
- Agecroft Hall Agecroft Hall, Lancashire
- Arkholme with Cawood parish Arkholme, Lancashire
- Association for Preservation of Constitutional Order, Manchester Committee Manchester, Lancashire
- Association for Preserving Constitutional Order against Levellers and Republicans Manchester, Lancashire
- Association for Promoting a Reform in the Ecclesiastical Provision for the Parish of Manchester Manchester, Lancashire
- Barton Turnpike Barton, Lancashire
- Belle Vue Speedway Club, Manchester Manchester, Lancashire
- Booth Charities, Salford Salford, Lancashire;Manchester, Lancashire
- Chetham Society Manchester, Lancashire
- Chetham's Hospital Manchester, Lancashire
- Chetham's Library Manchester, Lancashire
- Chetham's School of Music Manchester, Lancashire
- City of Manchester Municipal School of Technology Manchester, Lancashire
- Cockersand Abbey Cockersand, Lancashire
- Dunkeld bishopric Dunkeld, Perthshire
- Hague Bar Board School, Stockport Stockport, Cheshire
- Holcombe Moor Heritage Group Holcombe, Lancashire
- Knutsford parish Knutsford, Cheshire
- Lancashire Archery Association Lancashire
- Lancashire Rifle Volunteers Lancashire;Lancashire
- Lancaster Poll Book Lancaster, Lancashire
- Lichfield Corvisers and Curriers Lichfield, Staffordshire
- Manchester Classis Manchester, Lancashire
- Manchester Diocesan Church Building Society Manchester, Lancashire
- Manchester elections Manchester, Lancashire
- Manchester Glee and Catch Club Manchester, Lancashire
- Manchester Pitt Club Manchester, Lancashire
- Manchester Prince Consort Memorial Fund Committee Manchester, Lancashire
- Manchester Region Industrial Archaeology Society Manchester, Lancashire
- Manchester Sunday School Manchester, Lancashire
- Manchester Warehousemen and Clerks Orphan Schools Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire
- Moss Side Baptist Ladies Hockey Club Moss Side, Lancashire
- Nicholls Hospital, Manchester Manchester, Lancashire
- Penwortham Priory, cell of Evesham Abbey Penwortham, Lancashire
- Revd William Turner's School, Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
- St James parish, Ashworth Ashworth, Lancashire
- St John parish, Deansgate, Manchester Manchester, Lancashire
- Stoneclough and District Nursing Association Stoneclough, Lancashire
- Sutton parish Sutton, Cheshire
- Worsley Quoiting Club Worsley, Lancashire
Persons (80)
- Abbot, John, (1750-1840), ornithologist
- Assheton, Abdias, (1563-1633), clergyman
- Axon, Ernest, (1868-1947), Librarian and Antiquary
- Bailey, John Eglington, (1840-1888), antiquary
- Barritt, Thomas, (1743-1820), Manchester antiquary
- Bell, John, (1783-1864), antiquary and land surveyor
- Bertenshaw, Mary , (b1904), author
- Black, William Henry, (1808-1872), antiquary
- Bracegirdle, Albert Edward, (1920-2014), Flight Sergeant, RAF and prisoner of war, Stalag 3A Bucklow, Cheshire;Manchester, Lancashire;Germany
- Brierley, Benjamin, (1825-1896), Lancashire Dialect Writer Journalist
- Burges, George, (1786-1864), Classical Scholar
- Byrom, John, (1692-1763), Teacher of Short Hand
- Chalmers, George, (1742-1825), antiquary and public servant
- Chesshyre, Sir John, (1662-1738), Knight serjeant at law
- Chetham, Humphrey, (1580-1653), Founder of Chetham's Library
- Clowes, John, (1743-1831), Swedenborgian
- Collier, John, (1708-1786), 'Tim Bobbin' Author and Painter
- Corser, Thomas, (1793-1876), bibliographer
- Crossley, James, (1800-1883), author and antiquary
- Dade, William, (1741-1790), Rector of Barmston, Yorkshire antiquary
- Davies, Thomas Stephens, (1795-1851), mathematician and writer on science
- Deacon, Thomas, (1697-1753), Physician and Nonjuror
- Dodderidge, Sir John, (1555-1628), judge historian
- Doddridge, Sir John, (1555-1628), Knight, judge, MP and historian
- Dodsworth, Roger, (1585-1654), antiquary
- Edge, Sir John, (1841-1926), Knight, Indian judge
- Etherton, Michael, (fl 1960-2005), academic
- Ford, William, (1771-1832), bookseller and bibliographer
- Fraser, James, (1818-1885), Bishop of Manchester
- Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard, (1820-1889), antiquary and literary scholar
- Harland, John, (1806-1868), Lancastrian Journalist and Antiquary
- Hartlib, Samuel, (c 1600-1662), scientist
- Hay, William Robert, (1761-1839), Prebendary of York
- Hills, Rev Dr Richard Leslie, (b 1936), historian Manchester, Lancashire
- Hindley, John Haddon, (1765-1827), Orientalist Librarian
- Hobson, Edward, (1782-1830), Naturalist
- Holme, Edward, (1770-1847), Physician
- Huntingdon, John, (1422-1458), Warden of Manchester Collegiate Church Manchester, Lancashire
- Jackson, Richard, (fl1623-1690), physician, antiquary
- Jones, Ernest Charles, (1819-1869), Chartist and poet
- Jones, Thomas, (1810-1875), Chetham librarian, antiquary
- Knowles, Sir Lees, (1857-1928), 1st Baronet Politician and Writer On Military Matters
- Lawson, John, (1723-1779), Mathematician
- Lee, James Prince, (1804-1869), Bishop of Manchester
- Madden, Sir Frederic, (1801-1873), Knight, antiquary and palaeographer
- Madden, Frederic William, (1839-1904), numismatist and librarian
- Maidment, James, (1793-1879), antiquary
- Marshall, William Morris, (fl 1960-1989), director of Belle Vue (Manchester) Ltd Manchester, Lancashire
- Mumford, Alfred Alexander, (1862-1943), school medical officer
- Newcome, Henry, (1627-1695), Nonconformist Minister Diarist
- Newcome, Henry, (1650-1713), Anglican Clergyman Diarist
- Nicholson, Francis, (1843-1925), Antiquary
- Nowell, Alexander, (c1507-1602), Dean of St Pauls
- Palmer, John, (1783-1846), architect, antiquary
- Phillips, Charles Thomas Ellis, (1883-1943), librarian Stockport, Cheshire;Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Piccope, George, (1818-1872), Lancashire Antiquary
- Piccope, John, (1788-1854), Lancashire Antiquary
- Pringle, Ian, (1951-2018), local historian
- Raines, Francis Robert, (1805-1878), antiquary
- Seward, William, (1703-1740), Methodist preacher
- Smith, William, (? 1550-1618), herald
- Sotheby, Samuel Leigh, (1805-1861), auctioneer and antiquary
- Southey, Robert, (1774-1843), poet, journalist and biographer
- St George, Sir Thomas, (1615-1703), Knight Herald
- Stanley, James, (1607-1651), 7th Earl of Derby
- Thyer, Robert, (1709-1781), Chetham Librarian Literary Scholar
- Tonge, William Asheton, (1860-c 1930), Antiquary
- Towneley, Christopher, (1604-1674), antiquary
- Tupling, George Henry, (1883-1962), antiquary
- Vaux, Laurence, (1519-1585), Roman Catholic Warden of Manchester collegiate college
- Walpole, Horace, (1717-1797), 4th Earl of Orford, author collector antiquary MP
- Watkin, Sir Edward William, (1819-1901), 1st Baronet, MP, Railway Promoter
- Watkin, William Thompson, (1836-1888), Archaeologist
- Watson, John, (1725-1783), Rector of Stockport Antiquary
- Whatton, William Robert, (1790-1835), Surgeon and Antiquary
- Whitaker, John, (1735-1808), Historian of Manchester
- Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, (1759-1821), vicar of Blackburn, antiquary
- Whitworth, Charles?, (c1806-1867) Manchester, Lancashire
- Wilkins, David, (1685-1745), Archdeacon of Suffolk Classical Scholar and Antiquary
- Wilson, Thomas, (1747-1813), schoolmaster
Diaries (13)
- Banne, Nathaniel, (1671-1736) Lytham St Anne's, Lancashire
- Barton, William, (d 1829)
- Harrold, Edmund, Wigmaker Manchester, Lancashire
- Heywood, John, (fl 1666), clergyman Walton-le-Dale, Lancashire
- Kay, Richard, Doctor Bury, Lancashire
- Lempriere, Mary Ann, (fl 1822-1825), of Jersey Jersey
- Miller, James, (fl 1745-1750), rebel and emigrant Manchester, Lancashire
- Proctor, Dorothy, (1832-1834)
- Raworth, Printer London
- Robinson, John, (fl 1870-1900), confectioner Eccles, Lancashire
- Rogerson, W M, Alderman Worsley, Lancashire
- Rowbotham, George H, (fl 1873-1878), antiquarian and artist
- Turnor, Dora, (1858-1899), daughter of Christopher Turnor (1809-1886) of Stoke Rochford Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire
Families (8)
- Assheton family, baronets, of Middleton Middleton, Lancashire
- Cholmondeley family, Marquesses of Cholmondeley Cholmondeley, Cheshire;Rocksavage, Cheshire;Houghton, Norfolk
- Dauntesey family of Agecroft Hall Pendlebury, Lancashire
- Heywood family Salford, Lancashire;Manchester, Lancashire
- Leech family of Manchester Manchester, Lancashire
- Sherrington and Downes families of Wardley Hall estate Wardley Hall, Lancashire
- Stanley family, Earls of Derby Glassmore, Cambridgeshire;Crag Hall, Cheshire;Macclesfield, Cheshire;Wildboarclough, Cheshire;Corney, Cumberland;Whicham, Cumberland;Bradworthy, Devon;South Weald, Essex;Hamerton, Huntingdonshire;Bickerstaffe, Lancashire;Bolton-cum-Adgarley, Lancashire;Bury, Lancashire;Knowsley, Lancashire;Lathom, Lancashire;Liverpool, Lancashire;Manchester, Lancashire;Pilkington, Lancashire;Preston, Lancashire;Epworth, Lincolnshire;London;Colham, Middlesex;Hillingdon, Middlesex;Brackley, Northamptonshire;Fleetham, Northumberland;Eynsham, Oxfordshire;Milton, Oxfordshire;Ellesmere, Shropshire;Knockin, Shropshire;Newmarket, Suffolk;East Lavant, Sussex;Halnaker, Sussex;Meriden, Warwickshire;Beetham, Westmorland;Witherslack, Westmorland;Burton in Lonsdale, Yorkshire;Kirkby Malzeard, Yorkshire;Mewith Head, Yorkshire;Thirsk, Yorkshire;Hawarden, Flintshire;Hope, Flintshire;Mold, Flintshire;Coonagh, County Limerick;Clonmore, County Louth;Smithstown, County Louth;Priestown, County Meath;Lyonstown, County Tipperary
- Towneley-O'Hagan family, Barons O'Hagan Chester, Cheshire;Warwick, Cumberland;Wetheral, Cumberland;Calais, France;Chesterfield, Derbyshire;Stella, Durham;Winlaton, Durham;Wiggold, Gloucestershire;Pembridge, Herefordshire;Welsh Newton, Herefordshire;Eastbridge, Kent;Clitheroe, Lancashire;Cliviger, Lancashire;Duxbury, Lancashire;Hapton, Lancashire;Ightenhill, Lancashire;Standish, Lancashire;Towneley, Lancashire;Whalley, Lancashire;Worsthorne, Lancashire;Blankney, Lincolnshire;Nocton, Lincolnshire;Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland;Gateford, Nottinghamshire;Whitchurch, Shropshire;Strickland, Westmorland;Grindleton, Yorkshire;Slaidburn, Yorkshire
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (4)
- NRA 41949 Booth Charities, Salford link to online catalogue
- NRA 17002 Chetham's Library, Manchester: MS collection
- NRA 10079 John Dalton lecture notes and papers
- NRA 30695 James Fraser, Bishop of Manchester: papers
Accessions
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