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Businesses (5)
- East India Co London
- W T Hayward, agricultural merchant, Lifton Lifton, Devon
- Leeds & Liverpool Canal Co Liverpool, Lancashire
- Northcott Theatre, Exeter Exeter, Devon
- Somerfield Stores Ltd Bristol, Gloucestershire
Organisations (18)
- Arvon Foundation London;Totleigh Barton, Devon;Heptonstall, Yorkshire
- Association of British Chambers of Commerce London
- HMS Australia (1888)
- Common Ground, environmental and cultural pressure group, Dorchester Dorchester, Dorset
- Erratics Cricket Club (University of Exeter Staff Cricket Club) Exeter, Devon
- Exeter Anti-Apartheid Group Exeter, Devon
- Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society Exeter, Devon
- Exeter University Exeter, Devon
- Exeter University Ladies Circle Exeter, Devon
- Exeter University Liberal Club Exeter, Devon
- Imperial Institute London
- International Association for Research in Economic Psychology (IAREP)
- Middle East Centre for Arab Studies, Lebanon Lebanon
- Norman Lockyer Observatory Salcombe Regis, Devon
- Powys Society, literary society
- Royal Western Counties Institution Starcross, Devon;Plymouth, Devon
- Syon Abbey (Bridgettine) Syon, Middlesex;South Brent, Devon
- Henry Williamson Society
Persons (119)
- Acland, Richard Thomas Dyke (1906-1990) 15th Baronet, politician
- Adams, Michael Evelyn (1920-2005), journalist and campaigner Ethiopia;Exeter, Devon
- Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892) Knight, astronomer and mathematician
- Alcock, Deborah (1835-1913), novelist
- Allcroft, Arthur Hadrian (1865-1929), translator and archaeologist
- Andrews, HG (fl 1934-1940), poet and artist
- Barber, Donald (1901-2000), biophysicist and astronomer
- Barlow, Frank (1911-2009), historian Exeter, Devon
- Baskin, Leonard (1922-2000), sculptor
- Beales, Hugh Lancelot (1889-1988), economic historian
- Beer, Patricia (1924-1999), poet and writer
- Belgrave, Sir Charles Dalrymple (1894-1969) Knight Financial Adviser to Government of Bahrein
- Bellerby, Mary Eirene Frances (1899-1975), poet
- Bennet, Francis (fl 1650) preacher and theologian
- Bent, Richard (fl 1718) astrologer
- Betjeman, Sir John (1906-1984) Knight, poet, writer on architecture and broadcaster
- Bidwell, Robin Leonard (1929-1994), scholar and editor
- Black, Jeremy (b 1955), historian
- Blackburn, Sir Thomas (1899-1974) Knight, newspaper Chairman
- Blackmore, Richard Doddridge (1825-1900), author
- Boundy, Joyce (fl 1950-1985) art teacher
- Britton, Hubert Thomas Stanley (1892-1960), chemist
- Brockett, Arthur Allan (b 1920) librarian, historian, conscientious objector
- Brown, Bobby George (1923-2011), teacher
- Brown, Theodora (1914-1993) folklorist
- Bush, Geoffrey (1920-1998) composer
- Caddick, Arthur (1911-1987) poet
- Cahen, Edward (1880-1961) photographer
- Carpenter, Spencer Cecil (1877-1959) Dean of Exeter
- Causley, Charles Stanley (1917-2003), poet, broadcaster and teacher
- Chanan, Noel (b 1939), director and photographer
- Child-Villiers, Sarah Sophia (1785-1867), wife of 5th Earl of Jersey
- Christie, Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa (1891-1976), author
- Clayton, Frederick W (1913-1999), classicist and Shakespeare scholar
- Clemo, Reginald John (1916-1994), poet
- Cockerell, Sir Sydney Carlyle (1867-1962) Knight, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, bibliographer
- Cooke, Rupert Croft- (1903-1979) Author
- Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller- (1863-1944), Knight, novelist and literary scholar
- Crabbe, Chris Wallace- (b1934), Poet
- Curtis, Anthony (1925-2014), literary journalist and editor
- Davis, Uri (b 1943), Middle Eastern scholar
- Deacon, Lois (c1899-1985) novelist and literary critic
- Delderfield, Ronald Frederick (1912-1972), author
- Dienes, Zoltan (b 1916), mathematician
- Doddridge, Sir John (1555-1628) Knight Judge MP Historian
- Duncan, Ronald Frederick Henry (1914-1982), poet, playwright and librettist
- Elliott, Janice (1931-1995), novelist
- Elwin, Malcolm (1903-1973), biographer and critic
- Estlin, John Bishop (1785-1855) Surgeon
- Fairfax, John (b 1930), Writer
- Farrar, James (1924-1944) Poet
- Fletcher, John George (1861-1944) Roman Catholic Canon of Southwark Historian
- Forster, Margaret (1938-2016), author and biographer
- Fowles, John Robert (1926-2005), Novelist
- Frankland, Sir Edward (1825-1899) Knight Chemist
- Gale, William (d 1785) Plantation Owner in Jamaica and America
- Gendall, John (1790-1865) Painter
- Gogarty, Oliver St John (1878-1957) Irish Senator and Writer
- Golding, Sir William Gerald (1911-1993) Knight, novelist
- Haggard, Sir Henry Rider (1856-1925) Knight, novelist
- Harding, Sir Harold John Boyer (1900-1986), civil engineer
- Harmsworth, Cecil Bisshopp (1869-1948) 1st Baron Harmsworth, politician
- Hudson, Charles Thomas (1826-1903), naturalist
- Hughes, Edward James (1930-1998) OBE, poet Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire
- Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-1895) Scientist
- Jarmain, John (1911-1944), poet
- Jones, David Michael (1895-1974) painter, poet and essayist
- Kantaris, Sylvia (b 1936), poet
- Kemp, Harry (1911-1994), poet
- Kendall, Tim (b 1970), professor of English Literature and writer Exeter, Devon
- Keymer, John (fl 1601-1620) writer on economics
- King, William Joseph Harding (1869-1933), explorer, writer
- Knight, George Richard Wilson (1897-1985) Professor of English
- Knight, William Francis Jackson (1895-1964), Classical scholar
- Lee, Martin (1940-1999), sports psychologist
- Lewis, Cecil Day (1904-1972) poet
- Lloyd, Reginald James (b1926), artist Hereford, Herefordshire
- Lockyer, Sir Joseph Norman (1836-1920) Knight Astronomer
- Luce, Sir William Henry Tucker (1907-1977), Knight, colonial governor
- Mariette, Pierre Jean (fl 1750) Author of "traite' Des Peirres Graves"
- Marshall, John (1818-1891) Anatomist
- Martin, Ernest Walter (1912-2005), historian
- Martin, William Keble (1876-1969), botanist
- Masefield, John Edward (1878-1967), poet
- Maurier, Dame Daphne Du (1907-1989), author Cornwall
- Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson Du (1834-1896) Artist and Novelist
- Moat, John (1936-2014), writer and artist
- Mortimer, Ian (b 1967), historian and historical biographer
- Munday, Sir William Luscombe (1865-1952) Knight, lawyer
- Northcote, Henry Stafford (1846-1911) 1st Baron Northcote, Governor General of Australia
- Northcote, Stafford Henry (1818-1887) 1st Earl of Iddesleigh, statesman
- Parfitt, Edward (1820-1892) naturalist
- Parr, Olive Katharine (1874-1955), writer Dartmoor, Devon
- Partridge, Eric Honeywood (1894-1979), author and lexicographer
- Paul, Hugh Glencairn Balfour- (1917-2008), diplomat
- Penn, Margaret Hilda (1896-1982), Author
- Phillpotts, Eden (1862-1960), writer
- Powys, John Cowper (1872-1963), novelist and writer
- Radford, Courtenay Arthur Ralegh (1900-1998) Archaeologist
- Rees, David Bartlett (1936-1993), children's author
- Richmond, Sir John Christopher Blake (1909-1990), Knight Diplomat
- Ross, Roderick (d 2010), Registrar, University of Exeter Exeter, Devon
- Rowse, Alfred Leslie (1903-1997), historian
- Rushforth, George McNeil (1862-1938), Classical Scholar
- Sail, Lawrence (b 1942), poet, critic and translator
- Schnitzler, Arthur (1862-1931), author
- Sewell, Brocard (1912-2000), Roman Catholic priest and Carmelite friar, editor of Aylesford Review
- Sheikhmous, Omar (b 1942), lecturer and researcher
- Spencer, Herbert (1820-1903), philosopher
- Sylvester, James Joseph (1814-1897) Mathematician
- Thompson, Ernest Victor (1931-2012), author
- Thompson, Flora (1876-1947), author
- Tozer, Ferris (1857-1944), organist and composer
- Walsh, William (1836-1918) Suffragan Bishop of Dover
- Welch, Denton (1917-1948) Author
- Whitham, Jan Mills (1883-1956) Novelist
- Williams, Henry Frank Fulford (1885-1966), clergyman and antiquary
- Williamson, Henry (1895-1977) Naturalist and Author
- Wilton, Sir Arthur John (b 1921), knight diplomat
Diaries (30)
- Bennett, John Stokes (fl 1773-1829), actor manager of Exeter Exeter, Devon
- Osman, Charles (fl 1922-1923) Chagford, Devon
- Cleave, Margaret (fl 1930-1965), teacher
- Collinssplatt, R Anthony (fl 1956-1963), student of Exeter Exeter, Devon
- Stirling, D M (fl 1830-1838) Uplyme, Devon
- Perrott, David
- Johnson, Dorothy (1909-1966)
- Hillman, H E (fl 1920-1937)
- Hodges, Sheila (fl 1942-2002), publishing editor and music critic
- Holroyd-Doveton, John (fl 1996), writer
- Shebbeare, John (fl 1970) Oman
- Crusoe, Jonathan (fl 1979-1991)
- Ayres, Joseph (fl 1650) Pilton, Devon
- Kemp, Harry (fl 1944-1993), poet
- Ley, Thomas (fl 1689-1721), vicar of Crediton Crediton, Devon
- Lloyd, John (dc1975), librarian and bibliophile of Exeter Exeter, Devon
- Spence, Margaret (fl 1956-1966)
- Hourde, Marjorie Lovegrove (fl 1949-1980)
- Martin, Edgar (fl 1906-1908), geologist and paleontologist
- Bennun, Mervyn (b1965) Exeter, Devon
- Ayubi, Nazih Nassif Mikhail (b 1944) of Exeter Exeter, Devon
- Morris, Peter (fl 1970-2000) Exeter, Devon
- Petty, Samuel Lister (c1860-1919), botanist and bibliophile of Ulverston Ulverston, Lancashire
- Picardie, Justine (fl 2002-2012), author
- Pickard, Ransom (1867-1953) Exeter, Devon
- Jennings, Sue Emmy (fl 1964-2004) of Devon Devon
- Varma, Devendra (fl 1972-1984) of Exeter Exeter, Devon
- White, G H P (fl 1819-1838), Admiral of Newton Abbot Newton Abbot, Devon
- Lynd, William (b1844)
- Woodhams, Frank G (fl 1953-1975), author
Families (5)
- Barker, family of Alexandria Alexandria, Egypt
- Du Maurier, family of Fowey Fowey, Cornwall
- Gale family of Jamaica Jamaica
- Morant family of Brockenhurst Park Brockenhurst, Hampshire;Boldre, Hampshire;Ringwood, Hampshire
- Whittall, family of Smyrna Smyrna, Turkey
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (10)
- NRA 44237 Alfred Leslie Rowse, Historian: literary papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 18540 Charles Causley, poet: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 44236 Du Maurier family of Fowey: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 38395 Ronald Frederick Henry Duncan, poet, playwright and librettist: corresp and papers
- NRA 10656 Exeter University collections
- NRA 18531 Gale and Morant families of Jamaica: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 11128 Salcombe Regis, Devon: Norman Lockyer Observatory MS collection link to online catalogue
- NRA 44234 Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh, statesman: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 44235 Theodora Brown, folklorist: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 43036 Henry Williamson, author and journalist: corresp and literary papers link to online catalogue
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