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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

1 - Correspondence

2 - Reports and memoranda

3 - Financial

4 - Inventories

1 - An inventory of household furniture left in possession of Sir Everard Fawkner at his house in St. James’s Square, London, taken the 2nd day of December 1749.

2 - “Inventory of the furniture and household necessaries belonging to the Earl of Pembroke in the Government House at Portsmouth taken the 15 September 1785”.

3 - “Inventory of the late Right Honourable Earl of Pembroke’s household goods and furniture at the Government House, Portsmouth, as received from Mr. Buck the 14th and 15th September 1789”.

4 - “Inventory of household goods and furniture belonging to the Right Honourable Lord Herbert at the Government House, Portsmouth, taken the 11th day of December 1792 by Thomas Eastman”.

5 - “Inventory of the household goods belonging to Lord Pembroke in the Government House, Portsmouth”.

6 - Office reference book, evidently listing the contents of each drawer and shelf in the estate office, Wilton.

7 - Inventory of furniture at Pembroke House, Whitehall, the property of the late Viscount Fitzwilliam.

8 - Inventories of household goods, paintings and furniture at Pembroke House, Privy Gardens, 1800, 1805; dilapidations at Pembroke House, 1895, and at No. 10 Curzon Street, Mayfair, c.1805; “repairs done at Lord Pembroke’s not mentioned in particular”, c.1805; memorandum about letting Pembroke House, 1809; inventory of furniture and paintings to be removed from Pembroke House and not included in the new inventory, 1809; and inventory of the contents of Pembroke House when let to Lord Tankerville, 1810. Bound into one volume.

9 - Inventory of furniture etc., in Pembroke House as let to Lord Goderich, March 1828.

10 - Rough or draft copy of the above.

11 - List of articles proposed to be moved from Pembroke House, Whitehall.

12 - “Furniture, etc., at Pembroke House, Whitehall, removed and excepted out of the inventory in the Earl of Harrington’s possession and referred to by his lease of 29th September 1833”.

13 - Rough inventory of “sundries gone to Grafton Street”.

14 - Inventory of the contents of No. 7 Carlton House Terrace, the property of the 12th Earl of Pembroke. With two covering letters from Francis Watson of the Wallace collection.

15 - Inventory of pictures, busts, etc., in Herbert House, Belgrave Square, London. In the handwriting of Elizabeth, Lady Herbert of Lea, with a few brief emendations by Sidney, 16th Earl of Pembroke. With another copy.

16 - Inventory and valuation of the contents of Wilton House.

17 - Inventory and valuation of the contents of Wilton House.

18 - Inventory and valuation of the contents of No. 7 Carlton House, Terrace, London SW, property of the late Earl of Pembroke.

5 - Sale particulars

6 - Miscellaneous

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

13 - Deeds

14 - Legal

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