Pages from the Register of the New Free Grammar School at Londonderry (now Foyle College) for the years 1814-15, 1819-20 and 1822-23, showing the names of Alexander, George, Henry and John Lawrence, and of Robert Montgomery; also copy of portrait of Rev James Knox, headmaster of the school and maternal uncle of the Lawrence brothers.
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Pages from the Register of the New Free Grammar School at Londonderry (now Foyle College) for the years 1814-15, 1819-20 and 1822-23, showing the names of Alexander, George, Henry and John Lawrence, and of Robert Montgomery; also copy of portrait of Rev James Knox, headmaster of the school and ma...
`In great-grandmother's days: a family record compiled by Mary Stuart Theophila Clive Bayley': memoir, compiled 1925-32, chiefly relating to the lives of the Metcalfe and Bayley families in India and elsewhere, and including autobiographical notes by Emily Anne Theophila, Lady Bayley (1830-1911),...
Memoir of Margaret Elizabeth Benn-Walsh (nee Fowke) (1758-1836) wife of John Benn (later Sir John Benn-Walsh), 1st Bart (1759- 1825), East India Company servant, Bengal 1777-87, by her son John Benn-Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite.
Copy of letter (nd) in German with Indian and English translation from Count Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856-1921), German Chancellor 1909-17, to the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, encouraging opposition to British rule in India and advocating the German view of the 1st World War.
Transcripts made by the Rev W Steele in about 1925 of letters, dated 1837-51, from Honoria Lawrence, wife of Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence (qv), to her parents and her aunt, and of letters, dated 1848-57, from Frederick and Ninian Steele, cousins of Honoria to their mother.
`Scratchings from an Indian Journal 1821-1840': extracts from the letters of Maj-Gen John Brownrigg Bellasis (1806-90), Bombay Army, describing his experiences in the 9th and 10th Bombay Native Infantry 1822-1837, and in the Bombay Revenue Survey 1837-40.
`Notes on her Life': memoir, dated 1960, by Christian Showers (b 1879), wife of Lt-Col Herbert Lionel Showers (1861-1916), Indian Army 1885, Indian Political Service 1890-1916, describing her life in India 1902-15.
Memoir of General Sir Edward Francis Chapman (1840-1926), British Army 1858, Military Secretary to the C-in-C, India 1881-85; Quartermaster-General, India 1885-89, compiled in 1938 by his widow formerly Georgiana Charlotte Clive Bayley.
Diary, dated 8-19 Jun 1863 with later entries for 27 Oct 1868 and 19 Oct 1869, of Jane Maria Strachey, wife of General Sir Richard Strachey, including a description of the `Bachelors Ball' and other social events of the Simla season.