| Description | for the pictures numbered 201-289 in the catalogue of the Radnor collection at Longford Castle and Brook Street prepared by Helen Matilda, Countess of Radnor (1846-1949) with assistance from the music scholar and critic, William Barclay Squire (1855-1927) and later editing by Jacob, 6th Earl of Radnor (1868-1930), with a list of the portraits and their whereabouts in the 6th Earl's handwriting; correspondence in date order (1891-1908, undated letters at the back) with other family members, such as Edward Oliver Pleydell-Bouverie (1856-1938), incumbents of parishes, including the French Protestant Church, and other record keepers, including Henry Alfred Cumberbatch, consul general at Smyrna, reporting failure to locate the grave of John Bouverie; notes include extracts from parish registers, transcriptions of memorials, brief biographies of family members, family trees, birth briefs, transcriptions of Welbeck Abbey MSS of letters between the Harley family mentioning the des Bouveries & the Levant Company; also research from 1987 on the connection of Edward des Bouveries (1621-1694) to the East India Company; families include: des Bouverie, Bouverie, Pleydell-Bouverie, Clarke, Docminique, Duncombe, Edwards, Ellice, Fawkener, Hales, Honywood Kingsmill, Marsham, Pleydell. 2 folders. |