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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

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

1 - Correspondence, memoranda, reports, etc. relating to Lord Pembroke’s functions as royal steward

2 - Lists of precedence, persons with the entrée, and the royal households

3 - Detailed lists of the Lord steward’s department of the king’s household

4 - Ceremonial to be observed on various state occasions

5 - Forms of service for royal weddings and funerals and coronations, 1727, 1896-1923.

6 - Official programmes, invitations and menus.

7 - Guest lists and seating plans for royal dinners.

8 - List of subscribers to Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee present

9 - Game cards for shoots at Sandringham, Norfolk and elsewhere.

10 - Correspondence with Lord and Lady Pembroke and Lord Herbert and some printed notices about various royal occasions

11 - List of royal households.

12 - Ceremonial to be observed on various state occasions. Part retained at Wilton House.

13 - Forms of service for royal weddings and funerals and coronations.

14 - Official programmes of the coronation of King George VI and of a gala performance at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in honour of the president of France, and four menus, etc

15 - Invitation cards

16 - List of wedding presents given to the Duke and Duchess of Kent, 1934, and colour picture of the royal household jubilee present, 1935

17 - Season calendars, with daily memoranda of the Duke and Duchess of Kent’s social engagements, and of Lord Pembroke’s own engagements when not with them.

18 - Newspapers and periodicals about royal and national occasions.

19 - Souvenir books about royal and national occasions.

20 - Official programmes of local celebrations of state occasions, in Salisbury and Wilton.

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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