Papers of Lord Robert Grosvernor, 1st Baron Ebury

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Eng. lett. c. 439-41; Eng. misc. c. 667-8
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1820-91
  • Language of Material
    • English, and Turkish.
  • Physical Description
    • 5 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Five guardbooks of the papers of Lord Robert Grosvenor, containing an incomplete manuscript of Grosvenor's journal of a tour in the Mediterranean area, April-December 1829, and correspondence.

Administrative / Biographical History

Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury (1801-1893) was a politician. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

The papers were bought from Mrs M.E. Dorling in 1977.

Note

Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Other Finding Aids

A full description is available in the Library.

Related Material

See also Correspondence and Papers of Lord Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury (MSS. Eng. lett. c. 494 d. 476; Eng. misc. b. 339, c. 747).