Miscellaneous Rigaud family letters and papers, 1814-1886

File

MS. Eng. misc. c. 807

Held at the Weston Library

Comprising:

(fols. 1-37) letters of Stephen Peter Rigaud to various correspondents, 1814, 1826-1839
(fols. 38-59) miscellaneous papers of or concerning Stephen Peter Rigaud, 1823-1861, including his admission as an attendant in ordinary at Kew observatory, 1823, election as a member of the Royal Irish Academy, 1832, and copies of obituaries, 1839
(fols. 50-72) papers concerning official expressions of regret at the death of the Rt. Rev. Stephen Jordan Rigaud, Bishop of Antigua, 1859
(fols. 73-114) letters to General Gibbes Rigaud, chiefly on family history, 1880-1884, with an annotated copy of his pamphlet, The Lines Formed Round Oxford by King Charles I (1880)
(fols. 115-116) subscription list for Gibbes Rigaud’s memorial tablet in Winchester Cathedral, 1886

Dates

116 Leaves

MS. Eng. misc. c. 807

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