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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

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

1 - 1833-1846 Documents

2 - 1847-1852 DOCUMENTS

1 - 1847 Documents

2 - 1848 Documents

3 - 1849 Documents

4 - 1850 Documents

5 - 1851 Documents

6 - 1852 Documents

1 - Copy of a bill to consolidate and amend the laws relating to the militia in England April 2.

2 - Return from the recruiting department of the Horse Guards of the number of recruits raised in the last ten years (1842-1851) April 7.

3 - Letter to Sidney Herbert from G. Brown, Adjutant General, recruiting department of the Horse Guards, commenting on recruiting for the army and the militia. April 9.

4 - Statement of the armed forces in Great Britain and Ireland, prepared at the Horse Guards. April 27.

5 - Report from the select committee appointed to prepare militia estimates for the year ending 31 March 1853. June 11.

6 - Copy of the militia estimates 1853-54. No date.

7 - Memorandum on the distribution of annual government grants to schools in 1852. No date.

8 - Two separate minutes from the committee of the Privy Council on education relating to the grants for the support of schools in agricultural districts and in towns not having charters of incorporation in England and Wales. [See 2057/F8/III/A/37a] No date.

9 - Report from the Lords of the committee of the Privy Council on education relating to the management clauses in the council’s minute on the promotion of poor schools in accordance with the principles of the Church of England. [Ed. The report provides machinery for resolving disputes between the minister or curate and the committee of management in the poor schools in matters such as prayers used in the schools, religious instruction, exclusion of any book on religious grounds, or the dismissal of any teacher on account of defective religious instruction.] No date

10 - Minute from the Lords of the committee of the Privy Council on education relation to the augmentation of the salaries of schoolmistresses who have obtained certificates of merit. Also, a minute on the apprenticeship of pupil teachers or stipendiary monitors. No date.

11 - Copy of a bill to establish free schools in England and Wales for secular instruction.

12 - Letter from Sidney Herbert to Prince Albert relating to the militia as it effects the augmentation of the army. November 27.

7 - 1847-1852 Undated Documents

3 - 1853-1855 DOCUMENTS

4 - 1855-1859 Documents

5 - 1859-1861 DOCUMENTS

6 - Emigration to the Colonies (Australia, New Zealand, The Cape and Canada) 1849-1854

7 - Emigration to Australia: Female Emigration Fund 1850-1853

8 - Appointment of Nurses

9 - Miscellaneous

13 - Deeds

14 - Legal

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