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Egerton MS 3758

Record Id:

032-001986100

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001986100

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000036.0x00002d

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Egerton MS 3758

Title:

SCOTT PAPERS. Vol. XXXIV. Records of a London dining club, apparantly the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers; 1825-1841. Accounts for each dinner, usually receipted by John Cuff, proprietor of the Freemasons' Tavern, are generally accompanied by signatures of members present, who include William Chadwell Mylne (d. 1863) and his son, Robert William Mylne (d. 1890), successive Treasurers of the Society. A facsimile of two previous record books of the Society is in the Department of Printed Books, Ac. 4314/2. See also S. B. Donkin, 'The Society of Civil Engineers (Smeatonians)', Newcomen Society Transactions, xvii, 1936-7, p. 71.

Paper; ff. i+130. 1825-1841. Duodecimo. Armorial bookplate of William John Home Mylne, son of R. W. Mylne, on f. i. White vellum binding, inscribed 'Civil Eng[ineers]'.

Scope & Content:

Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers: Records: 1825-1841.

Accounts: Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers: 1825-1841.

includes:

f. i Bookplates and Book-stamps: William John Home Mylne, of Great Amwell: Armorial bookplate of William John Home Mylne: aft. 1882.
ff. 3b-123b passim Charles Babbage, FRS; mathematician: Signatures: 1825-1841.
ff. 3b-127b passim Major-General Thomas Frederick Colby, RE; FRS: Signatures: 1825-1841.
ff. 3b-127b passim Francis Baily, astronomer: Signatures: 1825-1841.
ff. 3b-128b passim Sir John Rennie, FRS; civil engineer: Signatures, etc.,: 1825.
ff. 3b-56b passim General Sir Edward Sabine, RA; KCB; PRS: Signature, etc.,: 1825-1830.
ff. 4b-127b George Rennie, FRS; civil engineer: Signatures: 1825-1841.
ff. 4b-127b passim William Chadwell Milne, FRS: Signatures, etc.,: 1825-1841.
f. 7b James Watt, FRS; engineer: Signature: 1825.
ff. 7b, 46, 56b, 73b, 83b Davies Gilbert, formerly Giddy; MP; PRS: Signatures: 1825-1834.
ff. 7b, 47 Sir Robert Seppings, surveyor of the navy; FRS: Signature: 1825, 1829.
f. 13b Philip Taylor: Signature: 1826.
ff. 14b, 66b Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey, sculptor: Signatures: 1826, 1831.
ff. 18b, 70b Peter Ewart, of Manchester: Signatures: 1826, 1832.
f. 23b John Walker, civil engineer: Signature: 1827.
ff. 23b, 65b, 83b, 84b, 100b William Wolryche Whitmore, MP: Signature: 1827-1837.
f. 24b James Jardine, civil engineer: Signature: 1827.
f. 25b General Sir Charles William Pasley, KCB; RE: Signature: 1827.
f. 34 J[ohn?] W[atson?] Pringle: Signature: 1828.
f. 38 Robert Stevenson, FRS; civil engineer: Signature: 1828.
ff. 41, 48, 122b, 124b Francis Giles, civil engineer: Signatures: 1828-1841.
ff. 42b, 55b, 68b, 72b, 75b, 76b, 78b Frederick Page, civil engineer: Signatures: 1829-1833.
ff. 43-127b John Taylor, FRS: Signatures: 1825-1841.
ff. 49, 51, 60b, 61b, 62b Major-General Joseph Ellison Portlocke, RE: Signatures: 1829-1830.
f. 64b John Taylor, the younger: Signature: 1830.
ff. 69b-127b passim Sir William Cubitt, FRS: Signatures: 1832-1841.
ff. 73b, 75b, 115b, 117b, 120b, 127b Sir John Benjamin MacNeill, FRS: Signatures: 1832-1841.
ff. 88b Samuel Wells, barrister-at-law: Signature: 1835.
f. 89b Alexander Milne, Commissioner of Woods and Forests: Signature: 1835.
f. 89b Bryan Donkin, the elder; FRS: Signature: 1835.
f. 89b Thomas Donkin, engineer: Signature: 1835.
ff. 89b - 126b Joshua Field, FRS: Signature, etc.,: 1835-1841.
ff. 89b, 98b Joseph Cubitt, civil engineer: Signatures: 1835, 1836.
ff. 90b-125b passim James Simpson, civil engineer: Signatures: 1835-1841.
ff. 91b, 94b, 110b, 124b James Pine, the younger: Signatures: 1835-1841.
f. 92b Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Stoddart, Royal Staff Corps: Signature: 1835.
ff. 92b-97b, 100b, 102b William Tierney Clark, civil engineer: Signatures, etc.,: 1835-1837.
f. 95b Joseph Locke, FRS: Signature: 1836.
f. 96b Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Watt Robe, RE: Signature: 1836.
f. 97b Sir Richard John Griffith, 1st Baronet: Signature: 1836.
ff. 97b, 122b, 124b Colonel George Landmann, civil engineer: Signatures: 1836-1841.
f. 98b Reverend William Whewell, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge: Signature: 1836.
f. 101b James Combe, [civil engineer?]: Signature: 1837.
f. 101b George J. P. Sutton: Signature: 1837.
f. 101b C. J. Crowley: Signature: 1837.
f. 101b John Robertson: Signature: 1837.
ff. 104b, 106b Reverend Thomas Webster: Signatures: 1837, 1838.
f. 105b Marc Isambard Brunel, engineer: Signature: 1838.
f. 106b Andrew Murray, naturalist: Signature: 1838.
f. 106b Grant S. Dalrymple, [civil engineer?]: Signature: 1838.
ff. 106b, 114b Joseph Miller: Signatures: 1838, 1839.
f. 109b Charles Falcon, [civil engineer?]: Signature: 1838.
f. 109b William Lindley, civil engineer: Signature: 1838.
f. 110b Charles Ewart: Signature: 1838.
f. 112b Robert William Milne, son of W C Milne; civil engineer: Signature: 1839.
f. 112b Francis Bramah, [engineer?]: Signature: 1839.
f. 114b Richard Ravenhill, engineer: Signature: 1839.
f. 114b Joseph Glynn, engineer: Signature: 1839.
f. 114b James Smith, agricultural engineer; of Deanston: Signature: 1840.
f. 114b John P[eter?] Fearon, [solicitor?]: Signature: 1839.
f. 115b Thomas Love Peacock, writer: Signature: 1839.
f. 116b Thomas O'Neill: Signature: 1839.
f. 117b William Eagle: Signature: 1840.
ff. 117b, 128b Frederick Lane, Town Clerk of King's Lynn: Signature: 1834, 1841.
f. 118b Reverend Dionysius Lardner, LLD; scientific writer: Signature: 1840.
f. 118b Charles Buchanan, agriculturalist: Signature: 1840.
f. 118b Apsley Pellatt, the younger: Signature: 1840.
f. 120b John B. Hartley, civil engineer: Signature: 1840.
f. 122b John Murray, [engineer?]: Signature: 1840.
f. 124b James Meadows Rendel, FRS: Signature: 1841.
ff. 125b, 127 Peter Mark Roget, MD; FRS: Signature, etc.,: 1841.
f. 126b J. G. Lynde: Signature: 1841.
f. 127b Thomas Fulljames, [civil engineer?]: Signature: 1841.
f. 127b Charles Lanya, [civil engineer?]: Signature: 1841.
f. 127b Richard Taylor, FRS: Signature: 1841.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Egerton Manuscripts

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001986100

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-001986100

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1825

End Date:

1841

Date Range:

1825-1841

Era:

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Custodial History:

William Chadwell Milne, FRS: Owned.

Robert William Mylne, FRIBA; d.1890: Owned.

William John Home Mylne, of Great Amwell: Owned (armorial bookplate, f. i), aft. 1882.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

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Names:

Babbage, Charles, mathematician and computer pioneer, 1791-1871
Baily, Francis, astronomer, 1774-1844
Bramah, Francis, engineer?
Brunel, Marc Isambard, engineer
Buchanan, Charles, agriculturalist
Chantrey, Francis Legatt, Knight, sculptor, 1781-1841
Clark, William Tierney, civil engineer
Colby, Thomas Frederick, Major-General RE, FRS
Combe, James, civil engineer?
Crowley, C J
Cubitt, Joseph, civil engineer
Cubitt, William, FRS
Dalrymple, Grant S, civil engineer, fl 1835-1837
Donkin, Bryan, called the Elder, inventor and engineer, 1768-1855
Donkin, Thomas, engineer, fl 1835-1861
Eagle, William, civil engineer, fl 1840
Ewart, Charles, civil engineer, fl 1838
Ewart, Peter, engineer, 1767-1842
Falcon, Charles, civil engineer, fl 1838
Fearon, John Peter, solicitor, fl 1820-1855
Field, Joshua, civil and mechanical engineer, 1786-1863
Fulljames, Thomas, civil engineer?
Gilbert, Davies, formerly Giddy, engineer, author and politician, 1767-1839
Giles, Francis, civil engineer and surveyor, 1787-1847
Glynn, Joseph, engineer and steam engine designer, 1799-1863
Griffith, Richard John, 1st Baronet, geologist and mining engineer, 1784-1878
Hartley, John B, civil engineer
Jardine, James, civil engineer
Landmann, George, Colonel civil engineer
Lane, Frederick, Town Clerk of King's Lynn
Lanya, Charles, civil engineer?
Lardner, Dionysius, Reverend LLD, scientific writer
Lindley, William, civil engineer
Locke, Joseph, FRS
Lynde, J G
MacNeill, John Benjamin, FRS
Miller, Joseph
Milne, Alexander, Commissioner of Woods and Forests
Milne, Robert William, son of W C Milne, civil engineer
Milne, William Chadwell, FRS
Murray, Andrew, naturalist
Murray, John, engineer?
Mylne, Robert William, FRIBA, d1890
Mylne, William John Home, of Great Amwell
O'Neill, Thomas
Page, Frederick, civil engineer
Pasley, Charles William, General KCB, RE
Peacock, Thomas Love, writer
Pellatt, Apsley, the younger; glass manufacturer, 1797-1863
Pine, James, the younger
Portlocke, Joseph Ellison, Major-General RE
Pringle, John?Watson?
Ravenhill, Richard, engineer
Rendel, James Meadows, FRS
Rennie, George, mechanical and civil engineer, 1791-1866
Rennie, John, Knight, civil engineer, 1794-1874
Robe, Alexander Watt, Lieutenant-Colonel RE
Robertson, John
Roget, Peter Mark, MD, FRS
Sabine, Edward, General RA, KCB, PRS
Seppings, Robert, surveyor of the navy, FRS
Simpson, James, civil engineer
Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers
Smith, James, agricultural engineer, of Deanston
Stevenson, Robert, FRS, civil engineer
Stoddart, Charles, army officer and diplomat, 1806-1842
Sutton, George J P
Taylor, John, FRS
Taylor, John, the younger
Taylor, Philip
Taylor, Richard, FRS
Walker, John, civil engineer
Watt, James, FRS, engineer
Webster, Thomas, Reverend
Wells, Samuel, barrister-at-law
Whewell, William, Reverend Master of Trinity College Cambridge, natural philosopher, 1794-1866
Whitmore, William Wolryche, MP