Sir Robert Hugh Kennedy Papers

Military papers of Sir Robert Hugh Kennedy. These primarily relate to the his participation in the Peninsular Wars and the campaigns in southern France during the Napoleonic Wars. There are also financial papers and correspondence from the earlier and latter periods of his career..

Correspondence and papers of (Sir) Robert Hugh Kennedy (1772-1840). Kennedy was Assistant Commissary-General of H.M. Forces on the Continent, Deputy Commissary-General, and from June 1810, Commissary-General during the Peninsular War.

The collection is available for consultation by any accredited reader.

Purchased by the John Rylands Library from the London bookseller H.M. Fletcher in April 1962.

Description compiled by Jo Klett, project archivist.

Catalogued in the Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, 1952-1970 (English MSS 1308-1309).

The Library also holds the papers of General Sir Henry Clinton (1771-1829) and his brother General Sir William Henry Clinton (1769-1846); these relate to the Napoleonic wars, in particular the Peninsular campaign, 1808-13.

Papers of Sir Robert Hugh Kennedy are held at the following other repositories:

• British Library, Manuscript Collections: correspondence with the Earl of Liverpool, 1815-19 (ref.: GB 0058 Add MSS 38261-76 passim );
• National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections: letters from quartermasters general, 1811-13 (ref.: GB 0233 MSS 15337-39 );
• Southampton University Library: copy letter books, correspondence, registers and accounts relating to service in Commissariat Department, 1793-1831 (ref.: GB 0738 MS 271 ).