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Organisations (10)
- Bury St Edmunds Abbey Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
- Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury Canterbury, Kent
- Dover Priory Dover, Kent
- Higham alias Lillechurch Priory (Benedictine, Alien) Kent;Kent
- Newnham Priory Newnham, Bedfordshire
- St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury Canterbury, Kent
- St Mary's Abbey, York York, Yorkshire
- St Mary's Hospital, Ospringe (Crutched Friars) Ospringe, Kent
- St Paul's Cathedral Dean and Chapter London
- Syon Abbey (Bridgettine) Syon, Middlesex;South Brent, Devon
Persons (143)
- Abbott, Edwin Abbott, (1838-1926), theologian and historian
- Adams, John Couch, (1819-1892), astronomer
- Allen, Frank James, (1854-1942), physiologist and antiquary
- Anderson, William Blair, (1877-1959), classical scholar
- Ascham, Roger, (1515-1568), aAuthor
- Ashby, George, (1724-1808), President of St John's College Cambridge, antiquary
- Baker, Henry Frederick, (1866-1956), mathematician
- Baker, Thomas, (1656-1740), antiquary
- Balguy, Thomas, (1716-1795), Archdeacon of Winchester
- Balls, William Lawrence, (1882-1960), botanist, cotton technologist
- Barnes, William, (1801-1886), Dorset poet
- Barrere, Jean-Bertrand Marie, (1914-1985), Professor of French literature
- Barwick, John, (1612-1664), Dean of St Paul's and Royalist Agent
- Bateson, William, (1861-1926), biologist
- Beaton, Sir Cecil Walter Hardy, (1904-1980), Knight, photographer and theatrical designer
- Benians, Ernest Alfred, (1880-1952), historian
- Bezzant, James Stanley, (1897-1967), lecturer in divinity
- Bland, Miles, (1786-1867), mathematician
- Bold, Alexander, (d 1625), Minister of St Benet's Cambridge
- Boys Smith, John Sandwith, (1901-1991), theologian
- Bromwich, John L'Anson, (1915-1990), fenland archaeologist and historian
- Brooke, Zachary Nugent, (1883-1946), historian
- Burbury, Samuel Hawksley, (1831-1911), barrister and scientific writer
- Burnside, William, (1852-1927), mathematician
- Butler, Samuel, (1835-1902), writer
- Carrighan, Arthur Judd, (1781-1845), Anglican clergyman, traveller
- Cayley, Arthur, (1821-1895), mathematician
- Charles II, (1630-1685), King of Great Britain and Ireland
- Cheke, Sir John, (1514-1557), Knight Classical Scholar MP
- Clark, George Sidney Roberts Kitson, (1900-1975), historian
- Clarkson, Thomas, (1760-1846), philanthropist
- Constable, William George, (1887-1976), art historian
- Coulton, George Gordon, (1858-1947), historian
- Cowell, John, (1554-1611), Professor of Civil Law and Master of Trinity Hall Cambridge
- Craven, William, (c 1730-1815), President of St John's College Cambridge Arabic Scholar
- Dalton, Michael, (d1648), legal writer
- Daniel, Glyn Edmund, (1914-1986), archaeologist, novelist and broadcaster
- Davies, Hugh Sykes, (1909-1984), scholar and writer
- Engledow, Sir Frank Leonard, (1890-1985), Knight Agriculturalist Local Historian
- Evans, George Clifford, (1913-2006), ecologist
- Fleming, Sir John Ambrose, (1849-1945), Knight, electrical engineer
- Fletcher, Richard, (d 1596), Bishop of London
- Fowler, Henry Watson, (1858-1933), lexicographer
- Foxwell, Edward Ernest, (1851-1922), economist, writer on railways
- Foxwell, Herbert Somerton, (1849-1936), economist and bibliographer
- Glover, Terrot Reaveley, (1869-1943), classical scholar and historian
- Greenhill, Sir George, (1847-1927), Knight Mathematician
- Grey, Zachary, (1688-1766), rector of Houghton, Conquest antiquary and controversialist
- Guillebaud, Claude William, (1890-1971), economist and arbitrator
- Hare, Julius Charles, (1795-1855), author and Church of England clergyman
- Hargreaves, Richard, (1853-1939), schoolmaster
- Harper, Charles Hugh Richardson, (1869-1947), Anglican clergyman
- Hawksley, John Webster, (d 1856), Anglican clergyman, author
- Heitland, William Emerton, (1847-1935), classical scholar
- Henley, John, (1692-1756), theologian and preacher
- Herbert, Edward, (1583-1648), 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, philosopher and historian
- Herschel, Sir John Frederick William, (1792-1871), 1st Baronet, astronomer
- Hicks, William Mitchinson, (1850-1934), physicist
- How, John Charles Halland, (1881-1961), Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway
- Howard, Sir Henry Fraser, (1874-1943), Knight Indian Civil Servant
- Hughes, Thomas Smart, (1786-1847), Prebendary of Peterborough Traveller Historian
- Hyde, Edward, (1609-1674), 1st Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor
- Jeffreys, Sir Harold, (1891-1989), Knight Astronomer
- Jopson, Norman Brooke, (1890-1969), philologist
- Kendon, Frank Samuel Herbert, (1893-1959), poet and critic
- Larmor, Sir Joseph, (1857-1942), Knight, physicist
- Lee, John, (1783-1866), antiquary and astronomer
- Lee, Thomas, (d 1601), Captain in Ireland Supporter of Earl of Essex
- Lloyd, William, (1637-1710), Bishop of Norwich, Nonjuror
- Locker-Lampson, Frederick, (1821-1895), poet
- Love, Augustus Edward Hough, (1863-1940), geophysicist
- Lunn, John Robert, (1831-1899), mathematician and musician
- MacAlister, Donald, (1854-1934), 1st baronet Chancellor of Glasgow University
- MacLaurin, Richard Cockburn, (1870-1920), President Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Major, Henry Dewsbury Alves, (1871-1961), Principal of Ripon Hall Oxford
- Mall, John, (d 1755), Master of Bishop's Stortford School
- Mallarme, Stephane, (1842-1898), poet
- Markland, Jeremiah, (1693-1776), Classical Scholar
- Maskelyne, Nevil, (1732-1811), astronomer
- Masters, Robert, (1713-1798), Rector of Landbeach Historian
- Mordell, Louis Joel, (1888-1972), mathematician
- More, Hannah, (1745-1833), writer
- Morton, William Blair, (1868-1949), physicist
- Moyle, Walter, (1672-1721), Historian MP Naturalist
- Mullinger, James Bass, (1834-1917), historian
- Munday, John, (d 1653), Rector of Little Wilbraham
- Newman, Maxwell Herman Alexander, (1897-1984), mathematician
- Notcutt, Stephen Abbott, (1865-1923), solicitor
- Orr, Robin Kemsley, (1909-2006), musician, composer and musical administrator
- Orr, William Mcfadden, (1866-1934), applied mathematician
- Page, Thomas Ethelbert, (1850-1936), schoolmaster, classical scholar
- Palmer, Edward Henry, (1840-1882), Orientalist
- Palmer, John, (1769-1840), Professor of Arabic, Cambridge University
- Parker, John, (b1859), schoolmaster, writer on thermodynamics
- Parkinson, Stephen, (1823-1889), mathematician
- Parsons, Sir Charles Algernon, (1854-1931), Knight, engineer and scientist
- Parsons, Laurence, (1840-1908), 4th Earl of Rosse, astronomer
- Paterson, Henry Douglas Noel, (1868-1944), Anglican clergyman
- Peirson, Robert, (1821-1891), astronomer
- Pendlebury, Richard, (1847-1902), mathematician
- Porter, Edmund, (1595-1670), Prebendary of Norwich
- Potter, George Richard, (1900-1981), historian
- Previte-Orton, Charles William, (1877-1947), historian
- Prior, Matthew, (1664-1721), poet and diplomat
- Reynolds, John, (d1758), historian
- Roberts, Sir Sydney Castle, (1887-1966), Knight Biographer Literary Scholar Bibliographer
- Rootham, Cyril Bradley, (1875-1938), musician
- Sampson, Ralph Allen, (1866-1939), astronomer
- Sancroft, William, (1617-1693), Archbishop of Canterbury
- Sanderson, Robert, (1660-1741), clerk of the rolls historian
- Sandys, Sir John Edwin, (1844-1922), Knight Classical Scholar Historian
- Schuster, Sir Arthur, (1851-1934), Knight, physicist
- Selwyn, William, (1806-1875), Canon of Ely
- Sergeant, John, (1622-1707), Roman Catholic controversialist
- Shore, Lewis Erle, (1863-1944), physiologist and neurologist
- Sikes, Edward Ernest, (1867-1940), classical scholar
- Simpson, David, (1745-1799), theologian
- Smith, Henry, (d 1642), Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge
- Soul, Joseph, (fl1840-1875), abolitionist
- Stanley, William, (1647-1731), Archdeacon of London Dean of St Asaph
- Stewart, Hugh Fraser, (1863-1948), French scholar
- Stewart, Robert, (1769-1822), 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, statesman
- Sturge, Joseph, (1793-1859), philanthropist
- Sylvester, James Joseph, (1814-1897), mathematician
- Tanner, Joseph Robson, (1860-1931), historian
- Taylor, Charles, (1840-1908), Master of St John's College Cambridge and theologian
- Temple, Henry John, (1784-1865), 3rd Viscount Palmerston, statesman
- Thompson, Alexander Hamilton, (1873-1952), historian
- Todhunter, Isaac, (1820-1884), mathematician
- Tucker, Robert, (1832-1905), schoolmaster, mathematician
- Webb, Robert Rumsey, (1850-1936), mathematician
- Westfield, Thomas, (1573-1644), Bishop of Bristol
- Wheeler, Sir Robert Eric Mortimer, (1890-1976), Knight, archaeologist
- White, Francis Puryer, (1893-1969), mathematician
- Whitehead, John Henry Constantine, (1904-1960), mathematician
- Whittaker, John William, (? 1790-1854), Vicar of Blackburn Theologian
- Whittington, George Downing, (1781-1807), architectural historian
- Whytehead, Thomas, (1815-1843), missionary and poet
- Wilberforce, William, (1759-1833), MP, philanthropist
- Wood, James, (1760-1839), mathematician
- Wood, John Spicer, (1823-1893), President of St John's College Cambridge
- Wordsworth, William, (1770-1850), poet
- Yate, Charles, (1804-1860), Vicar of Holme On Spalding Moor
Families (1)
- Adams family of Laneast Laneast, Cornwall;Altarnun, Cornwall;Egloskerry, Cornwall
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (24)
- NRA 42831 Edwin Abbott Abbott, theologian and historian: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 42832 Frank James Allen, physiologist and antiquary: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 42833 William Blair Anderson, classical scholar: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 42834 William Lawrence Balls, botanist and cotton technologist: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 42835 Jean-Bertrand Marie Barrere, professor of French literature: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 42837 Ernest Alfred Benians, historian: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 42838 James Stanley Bezzant, lecturer in divinity: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 43159 Miles Bland, mathematician: notebooks and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 44135 Cambridge Medieval History: editorial papers
- NRA 9502 Cambridge, St John's College: scientific MSS incl J Couch Adams papers
- NRA 44133 Arthur Judd Carrighan, Anglican clergyman and traveller: diaries and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 44126 Thomas Clarkson, philanthropist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 43254 George Gordon Coulton, historian: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 44131 Glyn Edmund Daniel, archaeologist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 44129 Hugh Sykes Davies, English scholar: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 44132 Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet, astronomer: scientific letters and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 22852 Sir Joseph Larmor, physicist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 44136 John Lee, antiquary and scientist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 44134 Nevil Maskelyne, astronomer: misc astronomical corresp link to online catalogue
- NRA 44137 Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman, mathematician: corresp and papers
- NRA 44139 Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, engineer and scientist: letters, mainly to the 4th Earl of Rosse link to online catalogue
- NRA 10653 CW Previte-Orton: poems
- NRA 44138 Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston: misc letters link to online catalogue
- NRA 42839 William Wilberforce MP, philanthropist: misc corresp link to online catalogue
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