Catalogue description Lady Gifford's Harriers Point-to-Point Steeplechases
This record is held by West Sussex Record Office
Reference: | Add Mss 11,846 - 11,899 |
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Title: | Lady Gifford's Harriers Point-to-Point Steeplechases |
Description: |
Records of Lady Gifford's Harriers Point-to-Point Steeplechases, 1904 - 1914, with allied papers, 1919 - 1931 |
Date: | 1904 - 1931 |
Related material: |
For Old Park, Bosham, see Sussex: historical, biographical and pictorial (1907) |
Held by: | West Sussex Record Office, not available at The National Archives |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
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Physical description: | 54 pieces |
Access conditions: |
Open to consultation, unless otherwise stated |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
Presented by G.A. Russell Purchase, Esq., Chichester, July 1968 |
Subjects: |
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Administrative / biographical background: |
Sophia Catherine Street married Edric Frederick, 3rd Baron Gifford of St. Leonards, V.C. in 1880; he died without issue in 1911. Lady Gifford kept a pack of harriers at her residence, Old Park, Bosham, and she, who acted as Master and Huntsman, did not die until 1947. Arthur Purchase and T.G. Purchase, the grandfather and father respectively of the donor of the records listed were secretaries for the point-to-point steeplechases |
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