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Watson-Wentworth, Charles, (1730-1782), 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, statesman

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Surname: Watson-Wentworth
Forenames: Charles
Gender: Male
Date: 1730-1782
Title: 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
Biography: ODNB link for Wentworth, Charles Watson- (1730-1782) 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, statesman
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P152210 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P29929 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Charles Watson-Wentworth
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1750-82: corresp and papers
Sheffield City Archives
NRA 1083 Wentworth Woodhouse
2
1765-82: corresp and papers
West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds
NRA 7344 Ramsden
3
1773: letters to the Earl of Abercorn
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)
See Report 1954-59
4
1769-82: letters (18) to James Adair
British Library, Manuscript Collections
NRA 10862 Adair
5
1766-82: corresp with Edmund Burke
Northamptonshire Archives Service
NRA 4120 Burke

See Copeland & Smith, Corresp of Burke, 1955
6
letters (19) to 1st Earl of Chatham
The National Archives
7
1756-63: letters to 4th Duke of Devonshire
Devonshire Collection Archives, Chatsworth
NRA 20594 Cavendish
8
1765-82: letters (11) to Duke of Grafton
Suffolk Archives - Bury St Edmunds Branch
NRA 2567 Fitzroy
9
1753-60: corresp with Lord Holdernesse
British Library, Manuscript Collections
10
1765: corresp with Lord Hopetoun
Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland
NRA 12630 Hope-Johnstone
11
1773-93: letters and of his wife to John Lee
The Story Durham (formerly Durham County Record Office)
NRA 23425 Bowes Museum
12
1750-68: corresp with Duke of Newcastle etc
British Library, Manuscript Collections
13
1764-81: corresp with Duke of Portland
Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections
NRA 7628 Cavendish-Bentinck
14
c1756-82: corresp mainly with Sir George Savile
Nottinghamshire Archives
NRA 20442 Foljambe
15
1773-82: letters to Lord Shelburne
Collection held privately: enquiries to Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
NRA 37645 Petty
16
1759-70: letters to Charles Yorke
British Library, Manuscript Collections
17
misc corresp
West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds
NRA 11146 Leeds Library
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