Diaries and Sketchbooks detailing travels in Ireland and Scandanavia.

This material is held atSt John's College Library Special Collections, University of Cambridge

Scope and Content

Diary of a tour from London to Ireland August 1806 to March 1807 in 5 notebooks:
London to Holywell in Wales.
Holywell to Dublin and Fermoy.
Mallow to Bantry.
Bantry to Castlemain.
Killarnay to Dublin.
3 sketchbooks containing pencil and pen sketches from the above tour.
Sketchbook containing pencil and pen sketches from tour of Sweden August – November 1807.
Sketchbook containing pencil and pen sketches from tour of Denmark and Sweden 1808-9.

Administrative / Biographical History

Traveller, astronomer, antiquary; son of John Fiott; educated at St John's College; made a tour through Europe and the East collecting objects of antiquity, 1807-10; MA 1809; assumed name of Lee by royal license, 1815; FSA, 1828; built observatory on his estate, 1830; FRS, 1831; practising member of the ecclesiastical courts till 1858; QC, 1864; published scientific and antiquarian works.

Note

Traveller, astronomer, antiquary; son of John Fiott; educated at St John's College; made a tour through Europe and the East collecting objects of antiquity, 1807-10; MA 1809; assumed name of Lee by royal license, 1815; FSA, 1828; built observatory on his estate, 1830; FRS, 1831; practising member of the ecclesiastical courts till 1858; QC, 1864; published scientific and antiquarian works.

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