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Ross, Sir John, (1777-1856), Knight Rear Admiral Arctic Navigator

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Surname: Ross
Pretitle: Sir
Forenames: John
Gender: Male
Date: 1777-1856
Biography: ODNB link for Ross, Sir John (1777-1856) Knight Rear Admiral Arctic Navigator
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P134698 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P24745 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir John Ross
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1818-56: corresp and misc papers
Oxford University: History of Science Museum
NRA 9532 Oxford scientific

See HMC Private papers of British diplomats 1782-1900, 1985
2
1805-19: misc corresp (26 items)
New York Public Library: Manuscripts and Archives Division
See R Morriss, Guide to British Naval Papers in North America (1994)
3
1815-33: papers
Royal Geographical Society
SJR
4
1834: papers (1 vol)
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
See Hamer, Archives and MSS in USA 1961
5
1787-1854: corresp and misc papers (97 items)
McCord Museum
NRA 25852 Ross

See R Morriss, Guide to British Naval Papers in North America (1994)
6
1812-56: corresp and papers
Cambridge University: Scott Polar Research Institute
MSS 486, 546, 550, 557, 655, 752, 1008, 1397, 1413
See Guide 1982
7
1818: MS of A voyage to the arctic regions in HMS Isabella and Aleexander
Cambridge University: Fitzwilliam Museum
See HMC visit, JRS 1992
8
1815-51: corresp and papers
Library and Archives Canada
MG24 H5
See General inventory manuscripts
9
1818, 1829-33: journals
Huntington Library
HM 708, HM 714
See R Morriss, Guide to British Naval Papers in North America (1994)
10
1830-33: journal
Universitetsbiblioteket i Oslo (University of Oslo Library)
See SPRI Guide 1982 p574
11
letters to Thomas, Lord Cochrane
National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
GD233
NRA 8150 Cochrane
12
1850-56: letters (43) to John Lee
National Maritime Museum: The Caird Library and Archive
HAR/301-43
NRA 30121 Nat Maritime Mus
13
1819-34: corresp with Lord Melville
Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library
See Union list of MSS in Canadian repositories 1975
14
1850-51: corresp with Sir Erasmus Ommanney
Royal Geographical Society
EO
See RGS Archives, pp105,134-35