Harvey Archive

11 letters written by Helen Grace Harvey and Margaret Harvey of Leeds while they were pupils of The Mount School, York, c.1897-1899, with transcriptions and biographical notes; summer term school report for Helen Grace Harvey, 1900.
Letter recipients comprise their father William Harvey; mother Anna Maria Harvey, née Whiting; and brother Thomas Edmund 'Ted' Harvey, later MP for Leeds. Subjects include school hockey; Quaker Meetings and talks given by John Stephenson Rowntree; a visit to The Retreat; and general school and family news.

The Harveys were a prominent Quaker family in Leeds in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, related by marriage to the Fryer, Firth, Jowitt and Rowntree families. In 1873 William Harvey, a teacher and art collector, married Anna Maria Whiting and the couple settled at Roundhay, a Leeds suburb. The couple had at least eight children together: Thomas Edmund ‘Ted’ (1875-1955); Mary Katherine (1877-1962); Bernard (1878-1878); Margaret (1881-1917); Helen Grace (1882-1944); William Fryer (1885-1937); Philip (1887-?); and John Wilfred (1889-1967).
The Harvey daughters, including Margaret, also known as Marnie, and Helen Grace, also known as Nell or Nellie, were educated at The Mount School, a Quaker boarding school for girls in York. Their brothers were educated at Bootham School, York.
Mary Katherine went on to marry Arnold Stephenson Rowntree, MP for York, in 1906. Margaret trained as a nurse in the East End Settlement Hospital in London and married Rawlinson Charles Ford in 1909, while Helen Grace married Quaker tea merchant Hugh Theodore Crosfield in 1911. Of their brothers, Ted became MP for Leeds, John Wilfred became Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leeds between 1832 and 1854, and William Fryer was an author and prominent campaigner for adult education.

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The archive was gifted to the Borthwick Institute in 2013.

The Harveys were a prominent Quaker family in Leeds in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, related by marriage to the Fryer, Firth, Jowitt and Rowntree families. In 1873 William Harvey, a teacher and art collector, married Anna Maria Whiting and the couple settled at Roundhay, a Leeds suburb. The couple had at least eight children together: Thomas Edmund ‘Ted’ (1875-1955); Mary Katherine (1877-1962); Bernard (1878-1878); Margaret (1881-1917); Helen Grace (1882-1944); William Fryer (1885-1937); Philip (1887-?); and John Wilfred (1889-1967).
The Harvey daughters, including Margaret, also known as Marnie, and Helen Grace, also known as Nell or Nellie, were educated at The Mount School, a Quaker boarding school for girls in York. Their brothers were educated at Bootham School, York.
Mary Katherine went on to marry Arnold Stephenson Rowntree, MP for York, in 1906. Margaret trained as a nurse in the East End Settlement Hospital in London and married Rawlinson Charles Ford in 1909, while Helen Grace married Quaker tea merchant Hugh Theodore Crosfield in 1911. Of their brothers, Ted became MP for Leeds, John Wilfred became Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leeds between 1832 and 1854, and William Fryer was an author and prominent campaigner for adult education.

The archive has not yet been catalogued.

Created by S. A. Shearn, 27.02.17.

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The archive of The Mount School, York, is also deposited at the Borthwick Institute. It includes a watercolour given to Margaret Harvey by Elspeth Backhouse in 1897 (Reference: MOU/10/4/3/10). The Borthwick also holds extensive family papers of the Rowntree family, including letters and papers relating to Arnold Stephenson and Mary Katherine Rowntree, née Harvey.
The principal archive of the Harvey family is deposited at the University of Leeds. Special Collections, as 'Papers relating to the Harvey family of Leeds' (Reference: MS 1701). The university also holds miscellaneous papers relating to Rawlinson Charles Ford, which includes papers of his first wife Margaret Ford, née Harvey, 1904-1910 (Reference: MS 866).

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