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Durham Cathedral Library
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Collections information
Organisations (3)
- Durham Cathedral Chorister School Durham, Durham
- Durham Cathedral Old Choristers Association Durham, Durham
- Durham University: University College Durham, Durham
Persons (56)
- Alford, Henry, (1810-1871), Dean of Canterbury
- Allan, George, (1736-1800), antiquary and topographer
- Barry, Alfred, (1826-1910), Archbishop of Sydney, Canon of Windsor
- Basire, Isaac, (1607-1676), Archdeacon of Northumberland Traveller Collector of MSS
- Bradley, George Granville, (1821-1903), Dean of Westminster
- Browne, Edward Harold, (1811-1891), Bishop of Winchester
- Butler, Henry Montagu, (1833-1918), Headmaster of Harrow Master of Trinity Cambridge
- Church, Richard William, (1815-1890), Dean of St Paul's historian
- Cook, Frederic Charles, (1810-1889), Editor of the Speakers Commentary
- Cosin, John, (1594-1672), Bishop of Durham
- Coxe, Richard Charles, (1800-1865), Canon of Durham
- Cunningham, John, (1729-1773), Poet and Strolling Actor
- Dyer, John, (1699-1757), Welsh poet and painter
- Eden, George Rodney, (1853-1940), Bishop of Wakefield
- Ellicott, Charles John, (1819-1905), Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol
- Farrar, Frederic William, (1831-1903), Dean of Canterbury
- Gladstone, William Ewart, (1809-1898), statesman
- Goodwin, Harvey, (1818-1891), Bishop of Carlisle, mathematician
- Greenwell, William, (1820-1918), rector of St Mary Durham, archaeologist
- Grenville, Denis, (1637-1703), Jacobite Archbishop of York
- Harmer, John Reginald, (1857-1944), Bishop of Rochester
- Henson, Herbert Hensley, (1863-1947), Bishop of Hereford and Durham Durham, Durham
- Hopkins, Charles Henry Gordon, (1909-1988), clergyman
- Hort, Fenton John Anthony, (1828-1892), scholar and theologian
- Howson, John Saul, (1816-1885), Dean of Chester Biblical Scholar Archaeologist
- Hunter, Christopher, (1675-1757), Physician and Antiquary
- Jackson, John, (1811-1885), Bishop of Lincoln (1853) and London (1868)
- Jeremie, James Amiraux, (1802-1872), Dean of Lincoln
- Lake, William Charles, (1817-1897), Dean of Durham
- Liddon, Henry Parry, (1829-1890), Canon of St Paul's
- Lightfoot, Joseph Barber, (1828-1889), Bishop of Durham
- Longstaffe, William Hylton Dyer, (1825-1898), Historian of Darlington
- Moule, Handley Carr Glyn, (1841-1920), Bishop of Durham
- Raine, James, (1791-1858), antiquary and topographer
- Ramsey, Ian Thomas, (1915-1972), Bishop of Durham
- Randall, Thomas, (1711-1774), Headmaster Clergyman and Antiquary
- Savage, Henry Edwin, (1854-1939), Dean of Lichfield Antiquary
- Selwyn, William, (1806-1875), Canon of Ely
- Sharp, Sir Cuthbert, (1781-1849), Knight, antiquary
- Smart, Peter, (1569-? 1652), Prebendary of Durham, Puritan
- Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, (1815-1881), Dean of Westminster Abbey, historian Nether Alderley, Cheshire
- Surtees, Robert, (1779-1834), antiquary and topographer
- Swainson, Charles Anthony, (1820-1887), Theologian
- Tait, Archibald Campbell, (1811-1882), Archbishop of Canterbury
- Thompson, William Hepworth, (1810-1886), Master of Trinity College Cambridge
- Thomson, William, (1819-1890), Archbishop of York
- Tucker, Alfred Robert, (1849-1914), Bishop of Uganda
- Turner, Henry Ernest William, (fl 1927-1969), Theologian
- Vaughan, Charles John, (1816-1897), Dean of Llandaff
- Venables, Edmund, (1819-1895), Precentor of Lincoln Antiquary
- Wace, Henry, (1836-1924), Dean of Canterbury Historian Controversialist
- Waller, Charles Henry, (1840-1910), theologian
- Westcott, Brooke Foss, (1825-1901), Bishop of Durham
- Whewell, William, (1794-1866), Master of Trinity College Cambridge
- Williams, Alwyn Terrell Petre, (1888-1968), Bishop of Winchester
- Woodford, James Russell, (1820-1885), Bishop of Ely
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (4)
- NRA 32991 Durham Cathedral Library: MS collections
- NRA 28047 Herbert Hensley Henson, bishop of Durham: journals, corresp and papers
- NRA 28624 Joseph Barber Lightfoot, bishop of Durham: corresp and papers
- NRA 32990 Alwyn Terrell Petre Williams, bishop of Winchester: papers
Accessions
These are selected lists of new or additional collections that were acquired by this archive during a specific year. If a date is not displayed there are no accessions for that year.