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Tennent, Sir James Emerson, (1804-1869), Knight, traveller, politician and author

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Surname: Tennent
Pretitle: Sir
Forenames: James Emerson
Gender: Male
Date: 1804-1869
Title: Knight
Biography: ODNB link for Tennent, Sir James Emerson (1804-1869) Knight Traveller Politician and Author
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P149290 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P28150 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir James Emerson Tennent
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1815-69: corresp and papers
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)
D2922
NRA 23442 Tennent

See HMC Papers of British politicians 1782-1900, 1989
2
c1859: corresp and papers rel to Ceylon
Unknown location
Sothebys 15 December 1980 lot 159
See HMC Papers of British colonial governors 1782-1900, 1986
3
1860-64: letters to 1st Baron Cottesloe
Buckinghamshire Archives
D/FR
NRA 15283 Fremantle
4
1833-57: letters to 14th Earl of Derby
Liverpool Record Office
920 Der 14, box 131
NRA 20084
5
1852-62: letters (15) to Benjamin Disraeli
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Disraeli
NRA 842 Disraeli
6
1846-51: corresp with 3rd Earl Grey
Durham University Library and Collections
GRE/B84/13
NRA 6228 Grey
7
1835-48: corresp with Sir Robert Peel
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 40413-600 passim
8
letters to Marquess of Tweeddale
British Library: Asian and African Studies
MSS Eur F 96
NRA 27520