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Organisations (3)
- Chertsey Abbey Chertsey, Surrey
- London Missionary Society
- Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Persons (171)
- Allardyce, Sir William Lamond, (1861-1930), Knight, colonial governor
- Amery, Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett, (1873-1955), politician and journalist
- Ashton, James, (1864-1939), Cabinet Minister Government of New South Wales
- Atwell, Winifred, (1914-1983), musician and composer
- Baines, John Thomas, (1822-1875), artist and explorer
- Baird, John Lawrence, (1874-1941), 1st Viscount Stonehaven, statesman
- Baldwin, Stanley, (1867-1947), 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, statesman
- Banks, Sir Joseph, (1743-1820), Knight, Baronet, naturalist
- Barlee, Sir Frederick Palgrave, (1827-1884), Knight Colonial Governor
- Barry, Sir Redmond, (1813-1880), Knight Lawyer
- Barton, Sir Edmund, (1849-1920), Knight, Prime Minister of Australia
- Beechey, Frederick William, (1796-1856), Rear Admiral Geographer
- Bent, Ellis, (1783-1815), Colonial administrator
- Bent, Jeffery Hart, (1781-1852), Colonial Judge
- Bigge, Arthur John, (1849-1931), 1st Baron Stamfordham, private secretary to George V
- Birdwood, William Riddell, (1865-1951), 1st Baron Birdwood, Field Marshal
- Bligh, William, (1754-1817), Vice Admiral
- Bond, Francis Godolphin, (1765-1839), Rear Admiral
- Boord, Sir William Arthur, (1862-1928), 2nd Baronet Poet and Traveller
- Booth, William Bramwell, (1856-1929), General of Salvation Army
- Brassey, Thomas, (1836-1918), 1st Earl Brassey, Governor of Victoria
- Bridges, William Throsby, (1861-1915), Major General
- Broughton, William Grant, (1788-1853), Bishop of Australia
- Bruce, Stanley Melbourne, (1883-1967), Viscount Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia
- Bruce, Victor Alexander, (1849-1917), 9th Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, Viceroy of India
- Bryce, James, (1838-1922), Viscount Bryce of Dechmount, statesman
- Bunbury, Henry William St Pierre, (1812-1875), Colonel
- Burney, James, (1750-1821), Rear Admiral
- Burns, Sir James, (1846-1923), Knight, shipowner and trader
- Carlyle, Thomas, (1795-1881), historian, essayist and philosopher
- Cavendish, Victor Christian William, (1868-1938), 9th Duke of Devonshire, Governor General of Canada
- Chamberlain, Joseph, (1836-1914), statesman
- Chapman, John, (1822-1894), Physician Author and Publisher of the Westminster Review
- Chichester, Sir Francis Charles, (1901-1972), Knight Circumnavigator
- Child-Villiers, Victor Albert George, (1845-1915), 7th Earl of Jersey
- Clarke, George Sydenham, (1848-1933), Baron Sydenham of Combe, civil servant
- Clifford, Sir Bede Edmund Hugh, (1890-1969), Knight Colonial Administrator
- Cobham, Sir Alan John, (1894-1973), Knight, aviator
- Coghlan, Sir Timothy Augustine, (1857-1926), Knight, statistician
- Colenso, William, (1811-1899), Printer Naturalist and Antiquary
- Collie, Alexander, (1793-1835), physician and explorer
- Collins, Sir Robert Henry Muirhead, (1852-1927), Knight, Official Secretary to the Commonwealth of Australia Chew Magna, Somerset;Victoria;London;Bath, Somerset
- Cook, James, (1728-1779), Captain RN Explorer
- Cook, Sir Joseph, (1860-1947), Knight Prime Minister of Australia
- Cooper, Sir Pope Alexander, (1848-1923), Knight, Chief Justice of Queensland
- Crewe-Milnes, Robert Offley Ashburton, (1858-1945), 1st Marquess of Crewe, statesman
- Curtis, Lionel George, (1872-1955), colonial historian
- Darley, Sir Frederick Matthew, (1830-1910), Knight Colonial Governor
- Darling, Sir Ralph, (1775-1858), Knight General Colonial Governor
- Davidson, Sir Walter Edward, (1859-1923), Knight Colonial Administrator
- Deakin, Alfred, (1856-1919), Prime Minister of Australia
- Denison, Sir William Thomas, (1804-1871), Knight Lieutenant General Colonial and Indian Governor
- Denman, Thomas, (1874-1954), 3rd Baron Denman, Governor General of Australia
- Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth, (1843-1911), Knight, 2nd Baronet, politician and author
- Edmond, James, (1859-1933), journalist
- Edward VII, (1841-1910), King of Great Britain and Ireland
- Edward VIII, (1894-1972), King of Great Britain and Ireland, afterwards Duke of Windsor
- Eliot, Edward Carlyon, (d 1940), Colonial Administrator
- Elton, Edward William, (1794-1843), Actor
- Fisher, Andrew, (1862-1928), Prime Minister of Australia
- Fitzroy, Sir Charles Augustus, (1796-1858), Knight Colonial Governor
- Foljambe, Arthur William de Brito Savile, (1870-1941), 2nd Earl of Liverpool
- Forrest, John, (1847-1918), 1st Baron Forrest, Prime Minister of Australia
- Forster, Henry William, (1866-1936), 1st Baron Forster, Governor General of Australia
- Forster, Johann Georg Adam, (1754-1794), naturalist
- Foster, Hubert John, (1855-1919), Brigadier General, Australian Army
- Franklin, Jane, (1792-1875), traveller and social reformer
- Frewen, Moreton, (1853-1924), MP monetary reformer
- George V, (1865-1936), King of Great Britain and Ireland
- Gibson-Carmichael, Thomas David, (1859-1926), 1st Baron Carmichael, politician
- Gould, John, (1804-1881), ornithologist
- Grant, Sir Edmund Percy Fenwick George, (1867-1952), Knight Admiral
- Gray, George Robert, (1808-1872), Zoologist
- Greene, Sir William Graham, (1857-1950), Knight, civil servant
- Gregory, John Walter, (1864-1932), geologist
- Grey, Albert Henry George, (1851-1917), 4th Earl Grey, Governor General of Canada
- Griffith, Sir Samuel Walker, (1845-1920), Knight Chief Justice of Australia
- Grigg, Edward William Macleay, (1879-1955), 1st Baron Altrincham, politician
- Gwynne, Howell Arthur, (1865-1950), journalist
- Halsey, Sir Lionel, (1872-1949), Knight and Admiral
- Hancock, Sir William Keith, (1898-1988), Knight Historian
- Harcourt, Lewis, (1863-1922), 1st Viscount Harcourt
- Hardinge, Alexander Henry Louis, (1894-1960), 2nd Baron Hardinge of Penshurst
- Haweis, Thomas, (1734-1820), Rector of Aldwinkle, executor of Selina Hastings
- Hoad, John Charles, (1856-1911), Major General
- Holland, Henry Thurstan, (1825-1914), 2nd Baronet and 1st Viscount Knutsford, statesman
- Hope, John Adrian Louis, (1860-1908), 1st Marquess of Linlithgow, colonial governor
- Hughes, William Morris, (1864-1952), Premier of Australia
- Hunter, Alexander, (1919-1971), economist
- Hutton, Sir Edward Thomas Henry, (1848-1923), Knight Lieutenant General
- Irvine, Sir William Hill, (1858-1943), Knight Lieutenant Governor of Victoria
- Jacks, Lawrence Pearsall, (1860-1955), Principal of Manchester College
- James, Walter Henry, (1846-1923), 2nd Baron Northbourne, politician
- Jebb, Richard, (1874-1953), author and traveller
- Jellicoe, John Rushworth, (1859-1935), 1st Earl Jellicoe, Admiral of the Fleet
- Jose, Arthur Wilberforce, (1863-1934), Captain Educationalist
- Just, Sir Hartmann Wolfgang, (1854-1929), Knight civil servant
- Keith, Arthur Berriedale, (1879-1944), Sanskrit scholar, constitutional lawyer and historian
- King, James, (1750-1784), Captain RN Circumnavigator
- King, Philip Gidley, (1758-1808), Colonial Governor
- King, Philip Parker, (1793-1856), Rear Admiral Naturalist
- Kipling, Joseph Rudyard, (1865-1936), author Mumbai, India
- Kitchener, Horatio Herbert, (1850-1916), 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, Field Marshal
- Lang, Andrew, (1844-1912), anthropologist, classicist and historian
- Law, Andrew Bonar, (1858-1923), Statesman
- Lee, John, (1783-1866), antiquary and astronomer
- Lehmann, Rudolph Chambers, (1856-1929), MP, barrister and humorist
- Lindsay, David Alexander Edward, (1871-1940), 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres, politician
- Linton, William James, (1812-1898), engraver, poet and political reformer
- Loch, Henry Brougham, (1827-1900), 1st Baron Loch
- Loftus, Lord Augustus William Frederick Spencer, (1817-1904), diplomat and colonial governor
- Long, Walter Hume, (1854-1924), 1st Viscount Long, statesman
- Lucas, Sir Charles Prestwood, (1853-1931), Knight civil servant and historian
- Lyttelton, Alfred, (1857-1913), lawyer, statesman and cricketer
- MacGillivray, John, (1822-1867), naturalist
- MacGregor, William, (1846-1919), Knight Colonial Governor
- Makdougall-Brisbane, Sir Thomas, (1773-1860), Baronet General astronomer colonial governor
- Masson, Sir David Orme, (1858-1937), Knight Chemist
- Maxse, Leopold James, (1864-1932), journalist and author
- Maxwell, Sir John Grenfell, (1859-1929), Knight, General
- McKenna, Reginald, (1863-1943), statesman and banker
- Menzies, Archibald, (1754-1842), Surgeon and Botanist
- Merriman, John Xavier, (1841-1926), South African statesman
- Mill, John Stuart, (1806-1873), philosopher, MP
- Milner, Alfred, (1854-1925), 1st Viscount Milner, statesman
- Mitchell, Sir Thomas Livingstone, (1792-1855), Knight Explorer
- Montagu, John, (1718-1792), 4th Earl of Sandwich, statesman
- Munro-Ferguson, Ronald Crauford, (1860-1934), Viscount Novar
- Murray, George Gilbert Aime, (1866-1957), classicist and internationalist
- Murray, Sir John Hubert Plunkett, (1861-1940), Knight Lieutenant Governor of Papua
- Nevill, Lord Richard Plantaganet, (1864-1939), Private Secretary to Governor General of Australia
- Newdegate, Sir Francis Alexander Newdigate, (1862-1936), Knight, colonial governor
- Nichol-Smith, David, (1875-1962), literary scholar
- Northcote, Henry Stafford, (1846-1911), 1st Baron Northcote, Governor General of Australia
- Parry, Sir William Edward, (1790-1855), Knight Rear Admiral Arctic Explorer
- Pearce, Sir George Foster, (1870-1952), Knight, Australian statesman
- Pearson, Charles Henry, (1834-1894), colonial minister and historian
- Pethebridge, Sir Samuel Augustus, (1862-1918), Knight Colonel Colonial Administrator
- Porcher, Edwin Augustus, (d 1878), Naval Officer
- Porter, Peter Neville Frederick, (1929-2010), poet
- Quick, Sir John, (1852-1932), Knight Australian Lawyer and Politician
- Rawson, Sir Harry Holdsworth, (1843-1910), Knight Admiral
- Robley, Horatio Gordon, (1840-1930), Major General
- Russell, Arthur Oliver Villiers, (1869-1935), 2nd Baron Ampthill, Governor of Madras
- Ruthven, Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-, (1872-1955), 1st Earl of Gowrie
- Seely, John Edward Bernard, (1868-1947), 1st Baron Mottistone
- Share, Sir Hamnet Holditch, (1864-1937), Knight Rear Admiral
- Sharpe, Richard Bowdler, (1847-1909), ornithologist
- Stanley, Arthur Lyulph, (1875-1931), 5th Baron Stanley of Alderley, Governor of Victoria
- Stanley, Owen, (1811-1850), Captain, Royal Navy and hydrographer
- Steward, Sir George, (1866-1920), Knight Lieutenant General Secretary to Governor General of Australia
- Stow, Julian Randolph, (b 1935), Poet
- Strickland, Gerald, (1861-1940), Baron Strickland, colonial administrator
- Swainson, William, (1789-1855), naturalist and artist
- Sweet-Escott, Sir Ernest Bickham, (1857-1941), Knight Colonial Governor
- Talbot, Sir Reginald Arthur James, (1849-1921), Knight MP Major General Governor of Victoria
- Taylor, Thomas Griffith, (1880-1963), Geographer
- Tennyson, Hallam, (1852-1928), 2nd Baron Tennyson, Governor General of Australia
- Thurston, Sir John Bates, (1836-1897), Knight, colonial governor
- Townshend, Charles, (1674-1738), 2nd Viscount Townshend, statesman
- Trollope, Anthony, (1815-1882), novelist
- Ward, William Humble, (1867-1932), 2nd Earl of Dudley
- Watson, Elliot Lovegood Grant, (1885-1970), Author
- Watt, William Alex, (1871-1946), Australian statesman
- Way, Sir Samuel James, (1836-1916), 1st Baronet Lieutenant Governor of South Australia
- White, Sir Cyril Brudenell Bingham, (1876-1940), Knight, General
- Whitmore, Sir George Stoddart, (1830-1903), Knight Major General
- Wigram, Clive, (1873-1960), 1st Baron Wigram, private secretary to George V
- Wood, Edward Frederick Lindley, (1881-1959), 1st Earl of Halifax, statesman
- Wrixon, Sir Henry John, (1839-1913), Knight lawyer and politician
- Wyld, James, (1812-1887), Geographer
Families (2)
- Bunbury family, baronets, of Stanney Hall Stanney Hall, Cheshire;Beeston, Cheshire;Great Barton, Suffolk;Mildenhall, Suffolk;Broughton, Flintshire
- Townshend family, Marquesses Townshend Calverton, Buckinghamshire;Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire;Ely, Cambridgeshire;Fordham, Cambridgeshire;Soham, Cambridgeshire;Ashbourne, Derbyshire;Walton-upon-Trent, Derbyshire;East Donyland, Essex;Great Bentley, Essex;Wivenhoe, Essex;Kempsford, Gloucestershire;Amwell, Hertfordshire;Balls Park, Hertfordshire;Bengeo, Hertfordshire;Gorhambury, Hertfordshire;Wigston Magna, Leicestershire;London;Canonbury, Middlesex;Clerkenwell, Middlesex;Binham, Norfolk;Coxford, Norfolk;East Raynham, Norfolk;Great Yarmouth, Norfolk;Helhoughton, Norfolk;Horsham St Faith, Norfolk;Langham, Norfolk;Morston, Norfolk;Oxwich with Pattesley, Norfolk;Raynham Hall, Norfolk;Stiffkey, Norfolk;Weasenham, Norfolk;Wellingham, Norfolk;West Rudham, Norfolk;Elkington, Northamptonshire;Tamworth, Staffordshire;Tettenhall, Staffordshire;Akenham, Suffolk;Great Thurlow, Suffolk;Kentford, Suffolk;Rendlesham, Suffolk;Flecknoe, Warwickshire;Lea Marston, Warwickshire;Wellesbourne, Warwickshire;Hannington, Wiltshire;Inglesham, Wiltshire;Ramsbury, Wiltshire;Risby, Yorkshire
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (10)
- NRA 25703 National Library of Australia: misc accessions
- NRA 22806 John Lawrence Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven, politician and governor general of Australia: corresp
- NRA 25699 Sir Joseph Banks, baronet, naturalist: misc corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 25702 Alfred Deakin, statesman: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 22804 Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman, governor general of Australa: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 25701 Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie: corresp and papers
- NRA 25700 John Stuart Mill, philosopher: letters to John Chapman link to online catalogue
- NRA 22805 Ronald Crauford Munro-Ferguson, Viscount Novar, policitian and governor general of Australia: corre
- NRA 32554 Royal Society of Edinburgh
- NRA 22803 Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, governor general of Australia: corresp and papers link to online catalogue