ROSE PAPERS. Vol. LXVIII (ff. 126). Letters (a) as commander of a detachment at Lisbon under Admiral Sir George Byng; 5 Feb.-5 Sept. 1709. ff. 1-13;-(b) as Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean; 5 Nov. 1711-26 Oct. 1713. ff. 14- 116 b;-(c) after his return to England; 14 Dec. 1713-21 Sept. 171...
D. LETTER BOOKS OF ADMIRAL SIR JOHN JENNINGS Letter-books of Admiral Sir John Jennings, a Lord of the Admiralty (b. 1664, d. 1743). These two volumes were presumably acqu1red by Lord Strathnairn together with the estate of Newsells in Barkway, co. Hertf., which he inherited on the death of the Hon. Caroline Mary, widow of the Rev. L. V. Harcourt (in accordance with the will of Mrs Harcourt's mother Hester Elizabeth, the wife of John Peachey, 2nd Baron Selsey, and a granddaughter of Sir John ...
ROSE PAPERS. Vol. LX1X (ff. 36). Letters as Commander-in-Chief of the fleet sent to keep watch off the coasts of Spain (cf. Archdeacon W. Coxe, Memoirs of Horatio, Lord Walpole, 1808, 1, p. 204); 6 June-27 Oct. 1726. Followed (ff. 31-36) by official orders; 8 July-27 Oct. 1726. English, 6 B M F...
ROSE PAPERS. Vol. LXX (ff. 18). Log-book of H.M.S.'Magicienne' off the Portuguese and Spanish coasts and during her return to England; 1 June-25 Sept. 1838. Navy; England: Log of H.M.S. 'Magicienne': 1838.
E. PAPERS OF ADMIRAL THE HON. GEORGE HENRY DOUGLAS Papers of Admiral the Hon. George Henry Douglas, nephew of Lord Strathnairn (b. 1821, d. 1905) and the son of George Sholto Douglas, 18th Earl of Morton, and Frances Theodora, daughter of Sir George H. Rose.
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Commander George Henry Douglas, Admiral 1885: Papers of: 1838-1856.