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Roscoe, William, (1753-1831), banker, botanist, historian and politician

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Surname: Roscoe
Forenames: William
Gender: Male
Date: 1753-1831
Biography: ODNB link for Roscoe, William (1753-1831), banker, botanist, historian and politician
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P162980 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P24683 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for William Roscoe
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
18th-19th cent: corresp, literary MSS and misc papers
Liverpool Record Office
NRA 18450

See Accessions to Repositories 1980
2
1816-19: corresp
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
3
1817-23: letters as President of Liverpool Royal Institution
University of Liverpool: Special Collections and Archives
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
4
1810-12: letters (12) to Henry Brougham
London University: University College London (UCL) Special Collections
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
5
1806-19: corresp with Cadell & Davies
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
6
1814-30: letters to TW Coke
Holkham Hall
NRA 12332 Coke
7
1804-13: letters (20) to Thomas Creevey
Northumberland Archives
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
8
1800-21: letters (10) to Richard Heber
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
NRA 1187 Heber
9
1795-1824: letters to Lord and Lady Holland and Lord Lansdowne
British Library, Manuscript Collections
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
10
1791-95: letters to Lord Lansdowne
Collection held privately: enquiries to Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
NRA 37645 Petty
11
1826-29: corresp with Frederic Madden
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
12
1808-12: corresp with James Montgomery
Sheffield City Archives
NRA 8514

See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
13
1794-1826: corresp with Rathbone family
University of Liverpool: Special Collections and Archives
NRA 7187 Rathbone
14
letters to the Royal Society of Literature
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
NRA 33254
15
1803-28: corresp with Sir James Smith (c148 items)
Linnean Society of London
NRA 9516
16
1809-29: corresp with Thomas Traill
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
17
1814-30: letters (62) to Dawson Turner
Cambridge University: Trinity College Library
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
18
1808: corresp with Sir F Vincent
British Library, Manuscript Collections
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
19
1818-30: letters (35) to Nathaniel Wallich
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives
NRA 25004

See Bridson, Natural history MS resources 1980
20
letters (16) to Samuel Whitbread
Bedfordshire Archives
NRA 1123 Whitbread
21
corresp
London University: University College London (UCL) Special Collections
See Dictionary of Modern British Radicals I
22
corresp
Duke University: William R Perkins Library
See Dictionary of Modern British Radicals I
23
corresp
Cambridge University: Trinity College Library
See Dictionary of Modern British Radicals I
24
1796-1825: letters (22)
Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
NRA 38865 Osborn colln