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2057 - WILTON HOUSE AND ESTATE ARCHIVES

1 - SURVEYS AND VALUATIONS

2 - ACCOUNTS

3 - RENTALS AND RENT ACCOUNTS

4 - MANORIAL

5 - ENCLOSURE

6 - PLANS AND MAPS

7 - OTHER ESTATE RECORDS

8 - WILTON HOUSE AND PARK

9 - CHARITIES

10 - FAMILY AND PERSONAL

1 - Genealogy and history of the family

1 - Catalogue of the Earls of Pembroke: pp.1079-1114 of a printed peerage.

2 - A catalogue of all the earls of Pembroke by George Owen. With a dedicatory address to William 3rd earl of Pembroke by the author’s son. MS. Volume with coloured illustrations of the coats of arms.

3 - Origo praeclara Herbertorum, dealing mainly with the Welsh branch of the family from the year 700. MS. Volume with illuminated portraits. Inscribed on the flysheet ‘Tho. Herbert 1632’. Missing (from Wilton) since 1980.

4 - Pedigree of Herbert, earls of Pembroke: pp. 473-478 of A complete English peerage.

5 - Pedigree of the descendants of Guillim ap Jenkin ap Adam ap Herbert and Guenllian daughter of Howell Vechan ap Howell. An enormously long roll, showing eight generations.

6 - Pedigree of the Herbert family. (2 copies)

7 - Charts prepared by the College of Arms, showing the pedigrees of the earls of Pembroke and the earls of Carnarvon, with related correspondence.

8 - Pedigree of Fitzwilliam, MS. Volume. with coloured coats of arms.

9 - Pedigree and miscellaneous heraldic material, monumental inscriptions, etc., relating to the Fitzwilliam family.

10 - “A transcript of all letters and documents of interest relating to the Earls of Pembroke and Montgomery from the Ashmole, Tanner and Rawlinson MSS. in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.”

11 - Memoirs of Sir Robert Naunton, knt. (Penelope Naunton was the first wife of Philip, 5th earl of Pembroke).

12 - Printed books and articles about the family. Includes Epistolary Curiousities: ... unpublished letters of the 17th century illustrative of the Herbert family; edited by Rebecca Warner, Bath, 1819. Includes a few letters of George Herbert, and members of the family of Herbert of Cherbury.

13 - Miscellaneous printed and Ms. genealogical and heraldic material relating to the Herbert family; with typescript pedigree of the Woronzow family.

14 - Newspapers and newspaper cuttings relating to the family, with other printed items, engravings, extracts from the Gentleman’s Magazine, etc., pasted on to paper.

15 - Miscellaneous notes and newspapers articles about the family.

16 - Sermon delivered at the funeral of William 3rd earl of Pembroke. Two copies.

17 - Sketch for a tomb for Henry 10th earl of Pembroke.

18 - A description of the deathbed of George 11th earl of Pembroke and of the post mortem

19 - Four photographs of monumental inscriptions from coffins in Wilton church and Salisbury cathedral.

20 - Two photographs of the crypt of Wilton church.

21 - Birth certificate of George Sidney Herbert, 8 October 1886, and death certificate of Sir Sidney Herbert at Cannes, 22 March 1939.

22 - Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings about the death of George, 13th earl of Pembroke.

23 - Newspaper cuttings about the Honourable Sir Michael Herbert.

24 - Letters from an impostor in Welwyn Garden City claiming to be the heir to the earldom of Pembroke, with a covering letter from Lord Pembroke to Edith Olivier.

25 - Engravings and photographs of portraits of 16th and 17th century members of the Herbert family.

26 - Engravings of portraits of 18th century members of the family.

27 - Engravings and a photograph of portraits of members of the family, with two original sketches. All 19th century apart from a photogrpah of a painting thought to be of Geordy, younger brother of the earl of Pembroke in 1950.

28 - Photographs of members of the Herbert family.

29 - Photograph album of the Honourable Sidney Herbert with some loose photographs inserted, showing his house at Boyton and himself as parliamentary candidate for Westminster.

30 - Photograph of two visits of the Prince of Wales to Wilton House.

31 - Report of the burial of George, 13th earl of Pembroke

2 - Public Office

3 - Royal household: Most of the following are printed items. They relate chiefly to the time when Sidney 14th earl of Pembroke was Lord steward of the royal household, 1895-1905, to the Duke of Kent, 1935-1942, and comptroller and private secretary to the Duchess of Kent, 1942-1948. See also 2057/F2/49

4 - Correspondence

5 - Diaries

11 - Other activities of the family

12 - Public and State papers of Sidney Herbert (1810-1861), Baron Herbert of Lea. Herbert was Secretary to the Admiralty, 1841-1845, Secretary at War 1845-1851, and Secretary of State for War 1852-1860. The papers are an important source for the reorganisation of the army, particulaly medical reforms and the campaign in the Crimea. Florence Nightingale was a frequent correspondent and she figures heavily in the series. Other subjects covered include campaigns in China, India in 1860, Ireland, Wellington College and the Royal medical School at Chatham. See also 2057/F4/50-71 for related correspondence. This list to 2057/F8/I-VI was made by Dr. James G. Provan, Associate Professor of History at Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois, U.S.A. and completed in 1975. Parts VII to XI were listed in 1992, by Nicola Bailey, a student in the Wiltshire Record Office, when the following items in the original list were not found: 2057/F8/III/A/9c, 2057/F8/IV/A/8, 2057/F8/V/A/67-73, 2057/F8/V/A/140, 2057/F8/V/A/216, 2057/F8/V/B/393h, 2057/F8/V/C/71j. Index F8/I 1833-1846 F8/II 1847-1852 F8/III 1853-1855 F8/IV 1855-1858 F8/V 1859-1861 F8/VI Documents dated prior to 1833 or after 1861 F8/VII Additional miscellaneous papers F8/VIII Emigration to Australia; Family Colonisation Loan Society and Female Emigration Fund F8/IX Emigration to Australia; Female Emigration Fund F8/X Appointment of nurses to the army in the Crimea F8/XI Miscellaneous

13 - Deeds

14 - Legal

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