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Businesses (7)
- Cygnet Theatre, Exeter Exeter, Devon
- East India Co London
- Leeds & Liverpool Canal Co Liverpool, Lancashire
- Northcott Theatre, Exeter Exeter, Devon
- Somerfield Stores Ltd Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Theatre of Public Works
- W T Hayward, agricultural merchant, Lifton Lifton, Devon
Organisations (20)
- Arvon Foundation London;Totleigh Barton, Devon;Heptonstall, Yorkshire
- Association of British Chambers of Commerce London
- Common Ground, environmental and cultural pressure group, Dorchester Dorchester, Dorset
- Erratics Cricket Club (University of Exeter Staff Cricket Club) Exeter, Devon
- Exeter Anti-Apartheid Group Exeter, Devon
- Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society Exeter, Devon
- Exeter University Exeter, Devon
- Exeter University Ladies Circle Exeter, Devon
- Exeter University Liberal Club Exeter, Devon
- Henry Williamson Society
- HMS Australia (1888)
- Imperial Institute London
- International Association for Research in Economic Psychology (IAREP)
- Middle East Centre for Arab Studies, Lebanon Lebanon
- Norman Lockyer Observatory Salcombe Regis, Devon
- Palestine Studies Trust
- Powys Society, literary society
- Royal Western Counties Institution Starcross, Devon;Plymouth, Devon
- Syon Abbey (Bridgettine) Syon, Middlesex;South Brent, Devon
- University of Exeter
Persons (138)
- Acland, Richard Thomas Dyke, (1906-1990), 15th Baronet, politician
- Adams, Michael Evelyn, (1920-2005), journalist and campaigner Ethiopia;Exeter, Devon
- Airy, Sir George Biddell, (1801-1892), Knight, astronomer and mathematician
- Al-Azmah, Adil, (c1888-1952), lawyer and state official
- Al-Azmah, Nabih , (1886-1972), Damascene politician
- Alcock, Deborah, (1835-1913), novelist
- Allcroft, Arthur Hadrian, (1865-1929), translator and archaeologist
- Andrews, HG, (fl 1934-1940), poet and artist
- Balfour-Paul, Hugh Glencairn, (1917-2008), diplomat
- Barber, Donald, (1901-2000), biophysicist and astronomer
- Barlow, Frank, (1911-2009), historian Exeter, Devon
- Baskin, Leonard, (1922-2000), sculptor
- Beales, Hugh Lancelot, (1889-1988), economic historian
- Beer, Patricia, (1924-1999), poet and writer
- Beeson, Mark, (1954-2022), theatre director and playwright
- Belgrave, Sir Charles Dalrymple, (1894-1969), Knight Financial Adviser to Government of Bahrein
- Bellerby, Mary Eirene Frances, (1899-1975), poet
- Bennet, Francis, (fl 1650), preacher and theologian
- Bent, Richard, (fl 1718), astrologer
- Betjeman, Sir John, (1906-1984), Knight, poet, writer on architecture and broadcaster
- Bidwell, Robin Leonard, (1929-1994), scholar and editor
- Black, Jeremy, (b 1955), historian
- Blackburn, Sir Thomas, (1899-1974), Knight, newspaper Chairman
- Blackmore, Richard Doddridge, (1825-1900), author
- Boundy, Joyce, (fl 1950-1985), art teacher
- Britton, Hubert Thomas Stanley, (1892-1960), chemist
- Brockett, Arthur Allan, (b 1920), librarian, historian, conscientious objector
- Brown, Bobby George, (1923-2011), teacher
- Brown, Theodora, (1914-1993), folklorist
- Brownridge, Carl Richard, (1947-2010), artist and photographer
- Bush, Geoffrey, (1920-1998), composer
- Caddick, Arthur, (1911-1987), poet
- Cahen, Edward, (1880-1961), photographer
- Carpenter, Spencer Cecil, (1877-1959), Dean of Exeter
- Carter, John, (fl1955-1980), intelligence officer and personnel manager in the oil industry
- Causley, Charles Stanley, (1917-2003), poet, broadcaster and teacher
- Cavaliero, Glen Tilburn, (1927-2019), poet, critic and university teacher Cambridge, Cambridgeshire;Tonbridge, Kent
- Chanan, Noel, (b 1939), director and photographer
- Child-Villiers, Sarah Sophia, (1785-1867) Countess of Jersey, noblewoman and banker
- Christie, Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa, (1890-1976), author
- Clayton, Frederick W, (1913-1999), classicist and Shakespeare scholar
- Clemo, Reginald John, (1916-1994), poet
- Cockerell, Sir Sydney Carlyle, (1867-1962), Knight, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, bibliographer
- Croft-Cooke, Rupert, (1903-1979), Author
- Curtis, Anthony, (1925-2014), literary journalist and editor
- Davis, Uri, (b1943), Middle Eastern scholar
- Day Lewis, Cecil, (1904-1972), poet
- Deacon, Lois, (1899-1984), novelist and literary critic
- Delderfield, Ronald Frederick, (1912-1972), author
- Dienes, Zoltan, (b 1916), mathematician
- Doddridge, Sir John, (1555-1628), Knight, judge, MP and historian
- Du Maurier, Dame Daphne, (1907-1989), author Cornwall
- Du Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson, (1834-1896), Artist and Novelist
- Dumper, Michael , (b1956), political scientist
- Duncan, Ronald Frederick Henry, (1914-1982), poet, playwright and librettist
- Elliott, Janice, (1931-1995), novelist
- Elwin, Malcolm, (1903-1973), biographer and critic
- Estlin, John Bishop, (1785-1855), Ophthalmic Surgeon Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Fairfax, John, (b 1930), Writer
- Farrar, James, (1924-1944), Poet
- Fletcher, John George, (1861-1944), Roman Catholic Canon of Southwark Historian
- Forster, Margaret, (1938-2016), author and biographer Carlisle, Cumberland
- Fowles, John Robert, (1926-2005), Novelist
- Frankland, Sir Edward, (1825-1899), Knight Chemist
- Furbank, Philip Nicholas, (1920-2014), literary scholar
- Gale, William, (d 1785), Plantation Owner in Jamaica and America
- Gendall, John, (1790-1865), Painter
- Gogarty, Oliver St John, (1878-1957), Irish Senator and Writer
- Golding, Sir William Gerald, (1911-1993), Knight, novelist
- Greeves, Tom, (1970s-1990s), archaeologist, cultural environmentalist, writer
- Haggard, Sir Henry Rider, (1856-1925), Knight, novelist
- Harding, Sir Harold John Boyer, (1900-1986), civil engineer
- Harmsworth, Cecil Bisshopp, (1869-1948), 1st Baron Harmsworth, politician
- Hudson, Charles Thomas, (1826-1903), naturalist
- Hughes, Edward James, (1930-1998), OBE, poet Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire
- Huxley, Thomas Henry, (1825-1895), Scientist
- Jarmain, John, (1911-1944), poet
- Johns, Ewart Morien, (1923-2013), painter, muralist, draughtsman and lecturer Barry, Glamorgan
- Jones, David Michael, (1895-1974), painter, poet and essayist
- Kantaris, Sylvia, (1936-2021), poet
- Kemp, Harry, (1911-1994), poet
- Kendall, Tim, (b 1970), professor of English Literature and writer Exeter, Devon
- Keymer, John, (fl 1601-1620), writer on economics
- King, William Joseph Harding, (1869-1933), explorer, writer
- Knight, George Richard Wilson, (1897-1985), Professor of English
- Knight, William Francis Jackson, (1895-1964), Classical scholar
- Lackner, Helen , (b1947), academic, activist, consultant
- Law, William, (1836-1901), Rochdale mill owner and collector of manuscripts and rare books Haworth, Yorkshire;Rochdale, Lancashire
- Lee, Clive, (1939-2021), design engineer Solihull, Warwickshire
- Lee, Martin, (1940-1999), sports psychologist
- Lloyd, Reginald James, (b1926), artist Hereford, Herefordshire
- Lockyer, Sir Joseph Norman, (1836-1920), Knight Astronomer
- Luce, Sir William Henry Tucker, (1907-1977), Knight, colonial governor
- Mannin, Ethel Edith, (1900-1984), writer
- Mantoura, Leila, (1927-2000), Palestinian activist, humanitarian, company director
- Mariette, Pierre Jean, (fl 1750), Author of "traite' Des Peirres Graves"
- Marshall, John, (1818-1891), Anatomist
- Martin, Ernest Walter, (1912-2005), historian
- Martin, William Keble, (1876-1969), botanist
- Masefield, John Edward, (1878-1967), poet
- Maubec, Edith, (fl1938-20117), French photographer
- Maubec, Paul, (1938-2017), French journalist and writer
- Moat, John, (1936-2014), writer and artist
- Mortimer, Ian, (b 1967), historian and historical biographer
- Munday, Sir William Luscombe, (1865-1952), Knight, lawyer
- Northcote, Henry Stafford, (1846-1911), 1st Baron Northcote, Governor General of Australia
- Northcote, Stafford Henry, (1818-1887), 1st Earl of Iddesleigh, statesman
- Parfitt, Edward, (1820-1892), naturalist
- Parr, Olive Katharine, (1874-1955), writer Dartmoor, Devon
- Partridge, Eric Honeywood, (1894-1979), author and lexicographer
- Penn, Margaret Hilda, (1896-1982), Author
- Phillpotts, Eden, (1862-1960), writer
- Powys, John Cowper, (1872-1963), novelist and writer
- Powys, Theodore Francis, (1875-1953), author
- Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas, (1863-1944), Knight, novelist and literary scholar
- Radford, Courtenay Arthur Ralegh, (1900-1998), Archaeologist
- Rees, David Bartlett, (1936-1993), children's author
- Richmond, Sir John Christopher Blake, (1909-1990), Knight Diplomat
- Ross, Roderick, (d 2010), Registrar, University of Exeter Exeter, Devon
- Rowse, Alfred Leslie, (1903-1997), historian
- Rushforth, George McNeil, (1862-1938), Classical Scholar
- Sail, Lawrence, (b 1942), poet, critic and translator
- Schnitzler, Arthur, (1862-1931), author
- Sewell, Brocard, (1912-2000), Roman Catholic priest and Carmelite friar, editor of Aylesford Review
- Sheikhmous, Omar, (b 1942), lecturer and researcher
- Spencer, Herbert, (1820-1903), philosopher
- Styring, Harold Percy, (1896-1977), soldier, businessman and photographer
- Sylvester, James Joseph, (1814-1897), mathematician
- Thompson, Ernest Victor, (1931-2012), author
- Thompson, Flora, (1876-1947), author
- Tozer, Ferris, (1857-1944), organist and composer
- Wallace-Crabbe, Chris, (b1934), Poet
- Walsh, William, (1836-1918), Suffragan Bishop of Dover
- Welch, Denton, (1917-1948), Author
- Whitham, Jan Mills, (1883-1956), Novelist
- Williams, Henry Frank Fulford, (1885-1966), clergyman and antiquary
- Williamson, Henry, (1895-1977), naturalist and author
- Wilton, Sir Arthur John, (b 1921), knight diplomat
Diaries (30)
- Ayres, Joseph, (fl 1650) Pilton, Devon
- Ayubi, Nazih Nassif Mikhail, (b 1944) Exeter, Devon
- Bennett, John Stokes, (fl 1773-1829), actor manager Exeter, Devon
- Bennun, Mervyn, (b1965) Exeter, Devon
- Cleave, Margaret, (fl 1930-1965), teacher
- Collinssplatt, R Anthony, (fl 1956-1963), student Exeter, Devon
- Crusoe, Jonathan, (fl 1979-1991)
- Hillman, H E, (fl 1920-1937), Journalist, Shanghai
- Hodges, Sheila, (fl 1942-2002), publishing editor and music critic
- Holroyd-Doveton, John, (fl 1996), writer
- Hourde, Marjorie Lovegrove, (fl 1949-1980), teacher and lecturer in education
- Jennings, Sue Emmy, (fl 1964-2004) Devon
- Johnson, Dorothy, (1909-1966)
- Kemp, Harry, (fl 1944-1993), poet
- Ley, Thomas, (fl 1689-1721), vicar of Crediton Crediton, Devon
- Lloyd, John, (dc1975), librarian and bibliophile Exeter, Devon
- Lynd, William, (b1844)
- Martin, Edgar, (fl 1906-1908), geologist and paleontologist
- Morris, Peter, (fl 1970-2000), lecturer in history Exeter, Devon
- Osman, Charles, (fl 1922-1923) Chagford, Devon
- Perrott, David
- Petty, Samuel Lister, (c1860-1919), botanist and bibliophile Ulverston, Lancashire
- Picardie, Justine, (fl 2002-2012), author
- Pickard, Ransom, (1867-1953) Exeter, Devon
- Shebbeare, John, (fl 1970), Secretary of Ministry of Interior Affairs, Oman Oman
- Spence, Margaret, (fl 1956-1966), Biographer of Ruskin
- Stirling, D M, (fl 1830-1838) Uplyme, Devon
- Varma, Devendra, (fl 1972-1984), Professor of English Exeter, Devon
- White, G H P, (fl 1819-1838), Admiral Newton Abbot, Devon
- Woodhams, Frank G, (fl 1953-1975), author
Families (5)
- Barker family of Alexandria Alexandria, Egypt
- Du Maurier family of Fowey Fowey, Cornwall
- Gale family of Jamaica Jamaica
- Morant family of Brockenhurst Park Brockenhurst, Hampshire;Boldre, Hampshire;Ringwood, Hampshire
- Whittall family of Smyrna Smyrna, Turkey
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (10)
- NRA 44237 Alfred Leslie Rowse, Historian: literary papers
- NRA 18540 Charles Causley, poet: papers
- NRA 44236 Du Maurier family of Fowey: corresp and papers
- NRA 38395 Ronald Frederick Henry Duncan, poet, playwright and librettist: corresp and papers
- NRA 10656 Exeter University collections
- NRA 18531 Gale and Morant families of Jamaica: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 11128 Salcombe Regis, Devon: Norman Lockyer Observatory MS collection link to online catalogue
- NRA 44234 Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh, statesman: papers
- NRA 44235 Theodora Brown, folklorist: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 43036 Henry Williamson, author and journalist: corresp and literary papers
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