GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP52 - ROUND, John Horace (1854-1928)

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GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP52 Created 1913-1915, 1920 Collection (fonds) 4 items Round , John Horace , 1854-1928 , historian
Born 1854; educated Balliol College, Oxford; a private income alleviated the need for Round to follow any definite profession, and he spent the majority of his time undertaking historical research and writing related articles, and corresponding with other historians, despite lifelong ill-health; Honorary Historical Adviser to the Crown in Peerage Cases, 1914-1922; President of the Essex Archaeological Society, 1916-1921; Vice-President of the English Place-Name Society; died 1928.

Publications: The history and antiquities of Colchester Castle (Benham and Co, Colchester, 1882); editor of Register of the scholars admitted to Colchester School, 1637-1740 (Colchester, 1897) from the transcript by the Reverend C L Acland; introduction to The Great Roll of the Pipe for the twenty-seventh year of the reign of King Henry the Second (London, 1909); editor of Calandar of documents preserved in France, illustrative of the history of Great Britain and Ireland (HMSO, London, 1899-); The manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Rutland, Vol 4 (London, 1888-1905); The manuscripts of James Round Esq, M.P., of Birch Hall, Essex; editor of Ancient charters, royal and private, prior to A.D. 1200. Part I (London, 1888); Danegeld and the finance of Domesday (1888); Feudal England: Historical studies on the Xith and XIIth centuries (Swan Sonnenschein and Co, London, 1895); Geoffrey de Mandeville: a study of the Anarchy (Longmans and Co, London, 1892); La bataille de Hastings (Paris, 1897); Notes on Domesday measures of land (1888); Notes on the systematic study of our English place-names (Harrison and Sons, London, [1900]); Peerage and pedigree: studies in peerage law and family history (James Nisbet and Co, London, 1910); St Helen's Chapel, Colchester (Private, London, 1887); Studies in peerage and family history (Constable, London, 1901); Studies on the Red Book of the Exchequer (Private, London, 1898); The chronology of Herny II's charters; The Commune of London and other studies (Constable and Co, Westminster, 1899); The early life of Anne Boleyn (E. Stock and Co, London, 1886); The introduction of knight-service into England. With a note on the Oxford Council of 1197 (Private, London, 1891); The King's Sergeants and Officers of State, with their Coronation services (James Nisbet and Co and St Catherine's Press, London, 1911); contributor to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Dictionary of National Biography, the Genealogist, the Ancestor, the Essex Archaeological Society's Transactions and the Sussex Archaeological Society's Collections.

Located in books in King's College London Library, and transferred to the College Archives in 1996.

Four letters, 1913-1920, to George Charles Williamson, author of Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery, 1590-1676: her life, letters and work (T Wilson & Son, Kendal, 1922), mainly concerning Round's opinion on the relevance of a volume containing an Elizabethan peerage to the Clifford peerage claim.

4 items

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.
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Collection level description.

London University Library holds correspondence and papers, [1885-1928] (Ref: IHR); Essex Record Office holds correspondence and papers (Ref: D/DRh) and its Colchester and North-East Essex Branch holds papers relating to family history (Ref: D/DR) and letters, 1886-1896, to his cousin James Round (Ref: D/DR/C1); West Sussex Record Office has 104 letters, 1901-1922, to Oswald Barron (Ref: AddMSS732, 1319-21); the Manuscript Collections of the British Library contain 14 letters, 1901-1911, to Henry Ellis (Ref: Add MS 41319); Edinburgh University Library holds 14 letters, 1883-1886, to James Halliwell-Phillipps (Ref: LOA); Glasgow University Library contains letters to George Neilson (Ref: NRA(S)0257); the Public Record Office, London, contains Round's correspondence as editor for the Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1893-1903, (Ref: HMC1).

Feb 2000 Clifford , Anne , 1590-1676 , Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery English history European history Genealogy National history Round , John Horace , 1854-1928 , historian Williamson , George Charles , 1858-1942 , author

Located in books in King's College London Library, and transferred to the College Archives in 1996.

Four letters, 1913-1920, to George Charles Williamson, author of Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery, 1590-1676: her life, letters and work (T Wilson & Son, Kendal, 1922), mainly concerning Round's opinion on the relevance of a volume containing an Elizabethan peerage to the Clifford peerage claim.

4 items

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.

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English

Collection level description.

London University Library holds correspondence and papers, [1885-1928] (Ref: IHR); Essex Record Office holds correspondence and papers (Ref: D/DRh) and its Colchester and North-East Essex Branch holds papers relating to family history (Ref: D/DR) and letters, 1886-1896, to his cousin James Round (Ref: D/DR/C1); West Sussex Record Office has 104 letters, 1901-1922, to Oswald Barron (Ref: AddMSS732, 1319-21); the Manuscript Collections of the British Library contain 14 letters, 1901-1911, to Henry Ellis (Ref: Add MS 41319); Edinburgh University Library holds 14 letters, 1883-1886, to James Halliwell-Phillipps (Ref: LOA); Glasgow University Library contains letters to George Neilson (Ref: NRA(S)0257); the Public Record Office, London, contains Round's correspondence as editor for the Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1893-1903, (Ref: HMC1).

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