Printed sources relating to the early history of the Wilson family
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Photocopy of Historical Memoir of Charlton House and of the Maryon-Wilson Family, with preface by the Rev C Swainson, Rector of Old Charlton (Woolwich, 1800). Photocopy of an article on 'Sir Thomas Wilson and The Art of Rhetoric' by Nicholas Sharp (6 November 1997). Print-outs from the Encycloped...
Includes correspondence relating to the inheritance of the Baronetcy and a transcript of the Baronetcy Patent; Correspondence regarding a portrait of Sir Thomas Wilson at Montacute; Orders of service for the funeral and memorial window of Sir Hubert Guy Maryon-Wilson Bt. (1888-1978).
Note written by John Henry Wilson on the career of his father, Thomas Henry Wilson
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Includes handwritten extracts from Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain by Robert Beatson (published 1804), and The Life of Nelson by Robert Southey (published 1830).