Collection GB 0064 CBT - Corbett, Sir Julian Stafford (1854-1922)

41 Boxes

The collection was originally loaned to the NMM by Mrs J B E Tunstall. When Mr and Mrs Tunstall died their sons Prof. Jeremy Tunstall and Robert Tunstall were executors of the will. The papers were partially compiled by Corbett's son in law, Brian Tunstall.

GB 0064 CBT [1854-1922] Collection 41 Boxes Corbett , Sir , Julian Stafford , 1854-1922 , Knight

As an historian, he published nine principal naval works and three works of fiction (The fall of Asgard, 1886, For God and Gold, 1887 and Cophetua the Thirteenth, 1889.) Between 1898-1914, he edited five historic works for the Navy Records Society. Serving for many years as Vice President of both The Navy Records Society (NRS) and the Society for Nautical Research (SNR), he was also a member of the Editorial Boards of both societies. In addition, he wrote two articles for the Mariner's Mirror between 1913 and 1921. Amongst his other major titles he was an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, The Director of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence, Lecturer at the Royal Naval War College, Lectured at Oxford, Cambridge and London and was the Official Naval Historian of the Great War.

The collection was originally loaned to the NMM by Mrs J B E Tunstall. When Mr and Mrs Tunstall died their sons Prof. Jeremy Tunstall and Robert Tunstall were executors of the will. The papers were partially compiled by Corbett's son in law, Brian Tunstall.

The collection was purchased with the assistance of the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Society for Nautical Research Macpherson Fund, 2004.

Papers of Sir Julian Stafford Corbett, comprising correspondence with publishers including Longmans and Macmillans; manuscript drafts, working papers, notes and essays, lecture notes for the Royal Naval War College, Portsmouth, reports, press cuttings for his Naval reviews. Also included is correspondence from Naval Officers, Corbett's parents, from his wife E.R.C (previously Edith Rosa Alexander), the Fisher Correspondence and letters to Sir John Pakington, Admiralty, 1858/9, including a series of letters from Sir Houston Stewart to Pakington.

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Copyright on Brian Tunstall's work belongs to Professor Jeremy Tunstall and Mr Tunstall (until 2040).

English

Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .

Edited by Sarah Drewery, Jun 2011.
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

2010-08-26 History Corbett , Sir , Julian Stafford , 1854-1922 , Knight , naval historian Naval history Royal Naval War College , Portsmouth

The collection was purchased with the assistance of the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Society for Nautical Research Macpherson Fund, 2004.

Papers of Sir Julian Stafford Corbett, comprising correspondence with publishers including Longmans and Macmillans; manuscript drafts, working papers, notes and essays, lecture notes for the Royal Naval War College, Portsmouth, reports, press cuttings for his Naval reviews. Also included is correspondence from Naval Officers, Corbett's parents, from his wife E.R.C (previously Edith Rosa Alexander), the Fisher Correspondence and letters to Sir John Pakington, Admiralty, 1858/9, including a series of letters from Sir Houston Stewart to Pakington.

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Copyright on Brian Tunstall's work belongs to Professor Jeremy Tunstall and Mr Tunstall (until 2040).

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English

Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• anglais