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Brownrigg, Sir Robert, (1759-1833), Knight, 1st Baronet General Governor of Ceylon

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Surname: Brownrigg
Pretitle: Sir
Forenames: Robert
Gender: Male
Date: 1759-1833
Title: Knight
History: General Sir Robert Brownrigg: Military Secretary to the Commander in Chief, 1795-1803; Quartermaster General, 1803-1811; and Governor of Ceylon, 1811-1820.
Biography: ODNB link for Brownrigg, Sir Robert (1759-1833) 1st Baronet General Governor of Ceylon
References: DNB; NCA Rules
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P275581 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P135073 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1792-1820: War Office: General Sir Robert Brownrigg, Military Secretary to Commander in Chief, Quartermaster General and Governor of Ceylon (Sri Lanka): Papers
The National Archives, Kew
WO 133
2
1792-1820: letterbooks and papers
The National Archives
WO 133
See HMC Papers of British colonial governors 1782-1900, 1986
3
1803-11: papers as Quartermaster-General
National Army Museum Templer Study Centre
6911/4
NRA 18641 Nat Army Mus misc
4
1796-97: corresp with Earl of Chichester
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 33101-05 passim
5
1811-17: corresp with Sir Ambrose Hardinge Giffard etc
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 56367
NRA 6238 Giffard
6
1795-99: corresp with 1st Earl Grey
Durham University Library and Collections
Grey of Howick collection
NRA 6228 Grey
7
1809: corresp with Sir J W Gordon
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 49505; 49517 K-M Passim
8
1796-1810: letters to Lord Hardwicke
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 35642-733 passim
9
1813-19: letters to Lord Hastings
Bute Archive at Mount Stuart
NRAS631
NRA 15459 Crichton-Stuart
10
1809-10: letters to Sir John Hope
Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland
NRAS888
NRA 17684 Hope
11
1800-20: corresp with William Huskisson
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 38736-42 passim
12
1798-1811: corresp with Lords Melville
National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
GD51
NRA 10188 Dundas
13
1812: corresp with Earl of Minto
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MS 11675
NRA 10476 Minto
14
letters (32) to Sir James Murray-Pulteney
The Morgan Library
MA487,297,1260-90
NRA 30863 Murray-Pulteney
15
corresp with Sir George Nugent
National Army Museum Templer Study Centre
6807/173-83
NRA 20793 Nugent
16
1798-1804: corresp with Richard Vyse
Buckinghamshire Archives
D/HV; D121
NRA 7840 Howard-Vyse