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Britton, John, (1771-1857), antiquary and topographer

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Surname: Britton
Forenames: John
Gender: Male
Date: 1771-1857
Biography: ODNB link for Britton, John (1771-1857), antiquary and topographer
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P126124 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P3553 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for John Britton
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
c1813-48: corresp and papers rel to Dulwich Picture Gallery and to his Authorship of the Letters of Junius
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Montagu d 24; Montagu Illustrated 200*
See HMC Papers of British antiquaries and historians, 2003
2
corresp and papers rel to Fonthill Abbey
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Eng misc d 222
See HMC Papers of British antiquaries and historians, 2003
3
authorial copy of Rights of Literature, incl notes and additional papers
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Top Gen e 41
See HMC Papers of British antiquaries and historians, 2003
4
notes and papers, incl biographical collections and annotated printed works
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Oo VI 78-85, 88-90
See Catalogue of MSS 1867
5
1809-43: misc papers rel to him
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
See Annual Return 2007
6
1811-15, 1852: antiquarian and topographical letters (11) to him
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 38794
See HMC Papers of British antiquaries and historians, 2003
7
corresp (90 items)
Boston Public Library
NRA 11046 Boston Library

See HMC Papers of British antiquaries and historians, 2003
8
1823-50: corresp
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
La II 425-26, 646-48
See HMC Papers of British antiquaries and historians, 2003
9
1803-10: index to Wiltshire sketches
Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
OSB MSS FILE
NRA 18661 Osborn coll
10
c1853: MS catalogue of his Wiltshire collection
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
See Friends of the National Libraries, Annual Report 1995, p36
11
1822-43: corresp with William Beckford
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Beckford
NRA 22980 Beckford
12
1824-31: letters to Thomas Bird
Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre
C78/8-16
NRA 32339 Bird
13
c1798-1810: corresp with William Cunnington and his family, and others
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
MSS 2592-602, 2638 passim
NRA 41673 Cunnington
14
corresp with Matthew Gregson
Liverpool Record Office
942 HOL
NRA 17047 Holt
15
1841-52: letters to James Halliwell-Phillipps
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
Coll/103
16
c1804-33: letters from Sir Richard Colt Hoare
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
MS 2519
NRA 41288 Thomson
17
corresp with JE Jackson
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
MS 2601/Box 327
NRA 41673 Cunnington
18
1819-30: corresp with Sir Thomas Phillipps
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Phillipps-Robinson
NRA 26260
19
1811-52: letters (18) to the Duke of Richmond
West Sussex Record Office
vol 3
NRA 850 Gordon Lennox
20
letters to Henry Crabb Robinson
Dr Williams's Library
101
NRA 13168 Dr Williams's Lib
21
1810-1857: a collection of drawings, manuscripts and engravings assembled by John Britton relating to the architecture and restoration of Rosslyn Chapel, Midlothian, Scotland, incl drawings by Joseph Gandy, David Roberts, and George Meikle Kemp
Historic Environment Scotland
2021/8
See Annual Return 2021