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Oxford University: Balliol College Manuscripts & Special Collections
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St Cross Church
Manor Road
Oxford
England
OX1 3TP
Correspondence address:
Balliol College
Broad Street
Oxford
OX1 3BJ
Telephone: 01865 217 900
Email: library@balliol.ox.ac.uk
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Manuscripts and personal papers collections are now open by appointment to researchers in new premises at St Cross Church, Manor Road. N.B. Balliol College's archives and manuscripts are all at St Cross and no longer held in the College Library on the Broad Street site
ARCHON code: 451
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Organisations (10)
- Birmingham Clerical Society Birmingham, Warwickshire
- Crowcombe tithes Crowcombe, Somerset
- Durham University Durham, Durham
- Gertrude Pyncombe Charity, Poughill Poughill, Devon
- Hampstead Garden Suburb Institute Hampstead, Middlesex
- Lullington tithes Lullington, Somerset
- Newcastle upon Tyne Literary and Philosophical Society Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
- Oxford University, Balliol College Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Wells city elections Wells, Somerset
- Workers Educational Association: Oxford branch Oxford, Oxfordshire
Persons (246)
- Abercromby, Lady Julia Janet Georgiana (1840-1915), Lady of the Bedchamber, artist Naples, Italy
- Acland, Sir Thomas Dyke (1809-1898), 11th Baronet, MP, educational reformer
- Adye, Sir John Miller (1819-1900) Knight, General Sevenoaks, Kent;Woolwich, Kent;Rothbury, Northumberland
- Ahmed, Sir Syed Sultan (1880-1963) Knight Lawyer
- Aird, Ronald (b 1902) Secretary of Marylebone Cricket Club
- Aitken, William Maxwell (1879-1964) 1st Baron Beaverbrook, newspaper proprietor
- Allen, Sir Albert George (1888-1956) Knight, solicitor
- Amery, Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett (1873-1955), politician and journalist
- Anderson, Sir Henry Percy (1831-1896) Knight, civil servant
- Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888), poet and critic
- Arnold, Thomas (1795-1842), headmaster of Rugby, historian
- Arnold, Thomas (1823-1900), professor of English Literature
- Baring, Francis Thornhill (1796-1866) 1st Baron Northbrook, statesman
- Barrington, Sir Bernard Eric Edward (1847-1918) Knight Diplomat
- Barwick, Sir Garfield Edward John (b 1903) Knight Chief Justice of Australia
- Beckett, Sir William Eric (1896-1966) Knight, lawyer
- Bell, Kenneth Norman (1884-1951) Clergyman and Historian
- Beloe, Robert (1905-1984) Educationalist Secretary to Archbishop of Canterbury
- Bennett, Sir John Wheeler Wheeler- (1902-1975), Knight historian
- Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832), lawyer, philosopher, writer on jurisprudence
- Bhopal, Hamidullah (1894-1960) Nawab of
- Biddulph, Sir Michael Anthony Shrapnel (1823-1904) Knight General
- Birkett, William Norman (1883-1962) 1st Baron Birkett, judge
- Bodley, John Edward Courtenay (1853-1925), civil servant and historian
- Boyle, Richard (1566-1643) 1st Earl of Cork, statesman
- Bracken, Brendan Rendall (1901-1958) 1st Viscount Bracken, politician and publisher
- Bradley, Andrew Cecil (1851-1935), literary critic
- Brand, Robert Henry (1878-1963) Baron Brand, civil servant and banker
- Bridges, Edward Ettingdene (1892-1969) 1st Baron Bridges, civil servant
- Browning, Robert (1812-1889), poet
- Bruce, Thomas (1766-1841) 7th Earl of Elgin
- Brydges, Sir Harford Jones (1764-1847) Knight, diplomat and author
- Bullock, Sir Christopher Llewellyn (1891-1972) Knight, civil servant
- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert (1831-1891) 1st Earl of Lytton, Viceroy of India
- Bunsen, Georg (1824-1896) German Politician
- Burn, Sir Roland Clive Wallace (1882-1955) Knight Secretary to Duchy of Cornwall
- Burne, Sir Owen Tudor (1837-1909) Knight, Major General
- Butler, Josephine Elizabeth (1828-1906), feminist and social reformer
- Butler, Richard Austen (1902-1982) Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, politician
- Butterfield, William (1814-1900), architect and antiquary
- Byron, George Gordon (1788-1824) 6th Baron Byron, poet
- Cadogan, Sir Alexander George Montague (1884-1968) Knight, diplomat
- Caird, Edward (1835-1908) Master of Balliol College Oxford
- Cambridge, Augusta Wilhelmina Louise (1797-1889) Princess, wife of Adolphus Frederick, 1st Duke of Cambridge
- Cambridge, George William Frederick Charles (1819-1904) 2nd Duke of Cambridge, Field Marshal
- Campbell, Frederick Archibald Vaughan (1847-1911) 3rd Earl Cawdor
- Campbell, Sir Gerald (1879-1964) Knight Diplomat
- Campbell, James (fl 1810-1817) Physician to the British Mission in Persia
- Campbell, Lewis (1830-1908) Classical Scholar
- Canby, Henry Seidel (1878-1961) American Economist
- Canning, Stratford (1786-1880) Viscount Stratford De Redcliffe, diplomat
- Capodistria, Count Giovanni Antonio (1776-1831) President of Greece
- Cartwright, William Cornwallis (1826-1915) MP and Diplomat
- Cavendish, Spencer Compton (1833-1908) 8th Duke of Devonshire, statesman
- Chester, Greville John (1831-1892) Egyptologist
- Child-Villiers, Sarah Sophia (1785-1867), wife of 5th Earl of Jersey
- Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer (1874-1965) Knight, prime minister and historian
- Churton, William Ralph (1801-1828) Author
- Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819-1861) Poet
- Cobden, Richard (1804-1865), statesman and businessman
- Cochrane, Thomas (1775-1860) 10th Earl of Dundonald, Admiral
- Conroy, Sir Edward (1809-1869) 2nd Baronet Antiquary
- Conroy, Sir John (1786-1854) 1st Baronet Courtier
- Conroy, Sir John (1845-1900) 3rd Baronet Scientist
- Couper, Sir George Ebenezer Wilson (1824-1908) 2nd Baronet Indian Administrator
- Coupland, Sir Reginald (1884-1952) Knight Colonial Historian
- Crawfurd, Oswald John Frederick (1834-1909) Author and Diplomat
- Croker, John Wilson (1780-1857), politician and essayist
- Cross, Mary Ann (1819-1880), novelist and poet Nuneaton, Warwickshire
- Crossley, Sir Francis (1817-1872) Baronet MP and Manufacturer
- Crouch, Nicholas (d 1690) Physician
- Cunnack, Alice Elizabeth Millicent (1906-1995), daughter of 1st Baron Wester Wemyss
- Dicey, Albert Venn (1835-1922), jurist
- Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth (1843-1911) Knight, 2nd Baronet, politician and author
- Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965) poet
- Elliot, Gilbert (1800-1891) Dean of Bristol
- Evelyn, John (1620-1706) Diarist Traveller Numismatist Antiquary Gardener
- Farrer, Thomas Henry (1819-1899) 1st Baron Farrer, civil servant
- Fisher, Henry (1685-1773) Rector of Bere Regis
- Forsyth, Sir Thomas Douglas (1827-1886) Knight, Indian administrator
- Fould, Achille Marcus (1800-1867) French Statesman and Financier
- Frere, Bartholomew (1776-1851) Diplomat
- Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882) Italian Patriot
- Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert Arthur James (1893-1972) 5th Marquess of Salisbury
- Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot (1830-1903) 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, statesman
- Gathorne-Hardy, Gathorne (1814-1906) 1st Earl of Cranbrook, statesman
- Gibbs, Henry Hucks (1819-1907) 1st Baron Aldenham, banker and scholar
- Giustiniani, Maria Cecilia (1796-1877) afterwards Bandini, Princess Guistiniani Countess of Newburgh
- Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898), statesman
- Gould, Gerard Francis (d 1883) Diplomat
- Green, Thomas Hill (1836-1882) Philosopher
- Greene, Graham (1904-1991), novelist
- Grenville, William Wyndham (1759-1834) Baron Grenville, statesman
- Grey, Albert Henry George (1851-1917) 4th Earl Grey, Governor General of Canada
- Grey, Charles (1804-1870) General Private Secretary to Prince Albert and Queen Victoria
- Grey, Edward (1862-1933) Viscount Grey of Falloden, statesman
- Grosvenor, Hugh Lupus (1825-1899) 1st Duke of Westminster
- Guizot, Francois Pierre Guillaume (1787-1874), French statesman and writer
- Hamilton, Terrick (fl 1812-1863), diplomat
- Harcourt, Augustus George Vernon (1834-1919) Chemist
- Hardie, William Ross (1862-1916), classical scholar
- Hardinge, Sir Arthur Edward (1828-1892) Knight General Governor of Gibraltar
- Hardinge, Sir Arthur Henry (1855-1933) Knight Diplomat
- Harris, Sir Charles (1864-1943), Knight, civil servant
- Hartley, Sir Harold Brewer (1878-1972), Knight, engineer, physical chemist
- Hawkins, Edward (1789-1882) Provost of Oriel College Oxford
- Hay, Sir John Hay Drummond- (1816-1893) Knight, diplomat
- Herbert, Sir Robert George Wyndham (1831-1905), Knight, Colonial administrator
- Hill, Sir Clement Lloyd (1845-1913) Knight Diplomat and Colonial Administrator
- Hobhouse, Henry (1776-1854), civil servant and archivist
- Hobhouse, Henry William (1791-1868) MP
- Hope, Sir Theodore Cracraft (1831-1915) Knight Indian Administrator
- Hubbard, John Gellibrand (1805-1889) 1st Baron Addington
- Hudson, Sir James (1810-1885), Knight, diplomat
- Isaacs, Rufus Daniel (1860-1935) 1st Marquess of Reading, Viceroy of India
- Jenkyns, Henry (1796-1878), Canon of Durham and classical scholar
- Jenkyns, Richard (1782-1854), Master of Balliol, Dean of Wells
- Jowett, Benjamin (1817-1893), biblical and classical scholar Master of Balliol College Camberwell, Surrey;Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Kennedy, Sir Charles Malcolm (1831-1908) Knight, diplomat
- Kent, Victoria Mary Louise (1786-1861) Duchess of Kent
- Wodehouse, John (1826-1902) 1st Earl of Kimberley, statesman
- Laurence, Thomas (1598-1657) Master of Balliol College Oxford
- Layard, Sir Austen Henry (1817-1894) Knight, politician, diplomat and archaeologist
- Lear, Edward (1812-1888), landscape painter and writer
- Leigh, Theophilus (1694-1785) Master of Balliol College Oxford
- Leveson-Gower, Granville (1773-1846) 1st Earl Granville, diplomat
- Leveson-Gower, Granville George (1815-1891) 2nd Earl Granville, statesman
- Lieven, Dorothea Christoforovna (1784-1857) Princess Lieven, political hostess
- Lingen, Ralph Robert Wheeler (1819-1905) 1st Baron Lingen of Lingen
- MacDonald, George (1824-1905), novelist and poet
- Mackail, John William (1859-1945), classical scholar, literary critic and poet
- Mallet, Sir Bernard (1859-1932) Knight Civil Servant Statistician Biographer
- Mallet, John Lewis (1775-1861) Secretary of Audit Office
- Mallet, Sir Louis (1823-1890) Knight Civil Servant and Economist
- Mallet, Sir Louis Du Pan (1864-1936) Knight Diplomat
- Mallet, Marie Constance (1861-1934), Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria
- Maltby, Edward (1770-1859) Bishop of Durham
- Manners, John Henry (1778-1857) 5th Duke of Rutland
- Markby, Sir William (1829-1914) Knight Colonial Judge
- Markham, Violet Rosa (1872-1959), Liberal activist and public servant
- Marten, Sir Clarence Henry Kennett (1872-1948) Knight Provost of Eton College
- Meade, Sir Robert Henry (1835-1898) Knight, civil servant
- Mildert, William Van (1765-1836) Bishop of Durham Durham, Durham
- Milles, Jeremiah (1675-1746) Rector of Duloe
- Montefiore, Claude Joseph Goldsmid (1858-1938), Jewish biblical scholar and philanthropist
- Morier, Alice (c1832-1903), wife of Sir Robert Burnett David Morier
- Morier, Anna Burnet (c1793-1855), wife of David Richard
- Morier, Clara (1760-1834), wife of Isaac Morier
- Morier, David Richard (1784-1877), diplomat
- Morier, Dorothea Clara Horatia (1817-1891) daughter of David Morier
- Morier, Greville (fl 1831-1867) Foreign Office Clerk
- Morier, Isaac (1750-1817) Consul General at Constantinople
- Morier, James Justinian (1782-1849) Diplomat Traveller and Novelist
- Morier, John Philip (1778-1853) Diplomat
- Morier, Sir Robert Burnett David (1826-1893) Knight Diplomat
- Morier, Victor Albert Louis (1867-1892) son of Sir Robert Morier
- Morier, William Robert (1790-1864) Admiral
- Muller, Friedrich Max (1823-1900) German orientalist and philologist
- Newman, John Henry (1801-1890) Cardinal, priest, poet and theologian
- Nicolson, Arthur (1849-1928) 1st Baron Carnock, diplomat
- Nicolson, Sir Harold George (1886-1968) KCVO CMG, Knight, diplomatist, politician, journalist and writer
- Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910), reformer of hospital nursing
- Noel-Baker, Philip John (1889-1982) Baron Noel Baker, politician
- Northcote, Stafford Henry (1818-1887) 1st Earl of Iddesleigh, statesman
- Oakeley, Frederick (1802-1880) Tractarian
- Oppenheimer, Sir Francis Charles (1870-1961) Knight Diplomat
- Palmer, Edwin (1824-1895), Archdeacon of Oxford, classical scholar
- Palmer, Edwin James (1869-1954) Bishop of Bombay
- Pan, Jacques Mallet Du (1749-1800) Swiss Journalist
- Parsons, Lawrence (1758-1841) 2nd Earl of Rosse
- Pauncefote, Julian (1828-1902) Baron Pauncefote, diplomat
- Peel, Lady Alice Jane (1805-1887), wife of Jonathan Peel daughter of 1st Marquess of Ailsa
- Peel, Jonathan (1799-1879), Major General, politician
- Percy, Algernon George (1810-1899) 6th Duke of Northumberland
- Petty-Fitzmaurice, Lord Edmond George (1846-1935) 1st Baron Fitzmaurice, statesman and historian
- Petty-Fitzmaurice, Henry Charles Keith (1845-1927) 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, statesman
- Planta, Joseph (1787-1847), diplomat
- Play, Pierre Guillaume Frederic Le (1806-1882) French Engineer and Economist
- Ponsonby, Sir Henry Frederick (1825-1895) Knight, General, private secretary to Queen Victoria
- Ponsonby, John (c1770-1855) Viscount Ponsonby, diplomat
- Portal, Sir Gerald Herbert (1858-1894), Knight, diplomat
- Prest, John Michael (b 1929) Historian
- Price, Sir John (?1502-1555), Crown Servant and antiquary
- Primrose, Archibald Philip (1847-1929) 5th Earl of Rosebery, statesman
- Pyper, Arthur Spring-Rice (b 1916) Schoolmaster
- Rawnsley, Hardwicke Drummond (1851-1920), Canon of Carlisle Cathedral, poet, antiquary, co-founder of the National Trust
- Reinold, Arnold William (1843-1921) President of the Physical Society
- Robinson, George Frederick Samuel (1827-1909) 1st Marquess of Ripon, statesman
- Rodger, Alexander Bankier (c1895-1961), historian
- Romilly, Edward (1804-1870) MP Chairman of Audit Board
- Ruskin, John (1819-1900), author, artist and social reformer
- Russell, Lord Arthur John Edward (1825-1892) MP Private Secretary to Lord John Russell
- Russell, Lord John (1792-1878) 1st Earl Russell, statesman
- Russell, Odo William Leopold (1829-1884) 1st Baron Ampthill, diplomat
- Savage, Henry (? 1604-1672), Master of Balliol College Oxford, theologian and historian
- Scott, Charles Prestwich (1846-1932), journalist, politician and editor of the Manchester Guardian Bath, Somerset
- Scott, Robert (1811-1887), Master of Balliol College and Dean of Rochester
- Seymour, Sir George Hamilton (1797-1880) Knight, diplomat
- Smith, Arthur Lionel (1850-1924), historian, Master of Balliol
- Smith, John Alexander (1863-1939), philosopher and classical scholar
- Smith, Sir William (1813-1893), Knight, lexicographer
- Smyth, William (1765-1849), historian and poet
- Squire, Adam (d ? 1588) Master of Balliol College Archdeacon of Middlesex
- Stanhope, Edward (1840-1893) Statesman
- Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn (1815-1881), Dean of Westminster Abbey, historian Nether Alderley, Cheshire
- Stanley, Edward George Geoffrey Smith (1799-1869) 14th Earl of Derby, statesman
- Stanley, Edward Henry (1826-1893) 15th Earl of Derby, statesman
- Stanley, Henrietta Maria (1807-1895), wife of 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley
- Stanley, Mary Catherine (1824-1900) Countess of Derby, political hostess and wife of 15th Earl of Derby
- Stead, William Thomas (1849-1912), journalist and author
- Steel-Maitland, Sir Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay (1876-1935), Knight, politician
- Stokes, Sir George Gabriel (1819-1903), 1st Baronet mathematician and physicist
- Strachan-Davidson, James Leigh (1843-1916), Master of Balliol College, classical scholar and historian
- Strachey, Sir John (1823-1907) Knight, Anglo-Indian administrator
- Strachey, Sir Richard (1817-1908) Knight, Lieutenant General, consulting engineer
- Sumner, Benedict Humphrey (1893-1951) Historian
- Sutton, Charles Manners- (1780-1845) 1st Viscount Canterbury, Speaker of the House of Commons
- Sweet, Henry (1845-1912) Philologist
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909), poet
- Talbot, Edward Stuart (1844-1934) Bishop of Winchester
- Taylor, Sir Herbert (1775-1839) Knight, Lieutenant General
- Temple, Sir Richard (1826-1902) 1st Baronet MP Anglo Indian Administrator
- Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892) 1st Baron Tennyson, poet
- Thomson, William (1824-1907) Baron Kelvin, physicist
- Thorp, Charles (1783-1862) Warden of Durham University
- Toynbee, Arnold (1852-1883) Social Philosopher and Economist
- Trevor, John (1749-1824) 3rd Viscount Hampden, diplomat
- Trott, Adam von (1909-1944), German lawyer, diplomat and anti-Nazi intellectual
- Tyrrell, William George (1866-1947) 1st Baron Tyrrell, diplomat
- Urquhart, David (1805-1877) MP Diplomat
- Vernon, Robert (1774-1849) Art Patron
- Victoria (1819-1901) Queen of Great Britain and Ireland
- Villiers, George William Frederick (1800-1870) 4th Earl of Clarendon, statesman
- Waldegrave, George Granville (1786-1857) 2nd Baron Radstock, Vice Admiral
- Waldegrave, William (1753-1825) 1st Baron Radstock, Admiral
- Walker, Ernest (1870-1949) Author Pianist and Composer
- Wallace, Sir Donald Mackenzie (1841-1919) Knight, journalist
- Ward, Edward Michael (1789-1832) Diplomat
- Ward, Mary Augusta (1851-1920), novelist and social worker Hobart, Tasmania;Oxford, Oxfordshire;London
- Wellesley, Arthur (1769-1852) 1st Duke of Wellington, Field Marshal, statesman
- Wemyss, Victoria (1865-1945), wife of Baron Wester Wemyss
- White, Sir William Arthur (1824-1891), Knight, diplomat
- Willock, George (fl 1822) Major
- Willock, Sir Henry (1790-1858) Knight Chairman of East India Co
- Wills, John (1741-1806) Vice Chancellor of Oxford University
- Ypsilante, Demetrios (1793-1832) Greek Patriot
Diaries (1)
Families (4)
- Conroy family, baronets, of Llanbryn-mair Llanbryn-mair, Montgomeryshire;County Roscommon
- Jenkyns family of Botley Botley, Hampshire;Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire;Chewton Mendip, Somerset
- Mallet family of Wittersham Wittersham, Kent
- Strachan family, Ardgaith estate Perthshire;Tayside
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (14)
- NRA 33716 Phyllis Helen Bodley: memoir of her husband John Edward Courtenay Bodley, civil servant and histori
- NRA 22851 Conroy family, baronets, of Llanbrynmair, Montgom: family corresp and papers
- NRA 25536 Sir Harold Hartley, chemical engineer: misc corresp and papers
- NRA 25537 Richard Jenkyns, master of Balliol: corresp and papers
- NRA 37008 Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol: corresp and papers
- NRA 42077 Mallet family of Wittersham: corresp and papers
- NRA 26039 David Richard Morier, diplomat: corresp and papers
- NRA 26599 Sir Robert Burnett David Morier, diplomat: corresp and papers
- NRA 26778 Sir Francis Charles Oppenheimer, diplomat: corresp and papers
- NRA 35577 Oxford University: Balliol College Library: misc accessions
- NRA 36386 Arthur Lionel Smith, historian and Master of Balliol: corresp and papers
- NRA 35576 James Leigh Strachan-Davidson, master of Balliol: corresp and papers
- NRA 11691 David Urquhart, diplomat: papers
- NRA 38701 Adam von Trott, anti-Nazi intellectual: corresp with Diana Hubback
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