Portman family, Viscounts Portman

This page summarises records created by this Family

The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection.

Date:	1200-2000
Places:	Bryanston, Dorset Buxted, Sussex Hestercombe, Somerset Inwardleigh, Devon Orchard Portman, Somerset Pylle, Somerset St Marylebone, Middlesex
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/F88554 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/F1772 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	15th cent-20th cent: Somerset deeds, plans and estate papers 15th-20th cent, with some for Devon and Dorset mainly late 19th-early 20th cent	Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)	DD\PM	NRA 31935
2	16th cent-19th cent: Somerset (Hestercombe, etc) estate plans and papers, incl Hestercombe house building papers 1873-77	Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)	DD\PR\50-71	NRA 12405
3	c1600-1758: misc Somerset deeds and papers	The National Archives	C 107/126
4	1891-1921: Dorset estate rentals	Dorset History Centre	D/BFM/8/1-10	NRA 35157 Blandford Forum MT
5	13th cent-20th cent: London estate papers 18th-20th cent, Somerset, Devon and Dorset deeds and papers 13th-20th cent and legal and family papers 16th-20th cent	Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development		See HMC Annual Review 1988-89 pp25-27
6	14th cent-18th cent: Sussex (Buxted) and Somerset deeds and manorial records, with papers rel to Jenkinson family properties	East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO)	PN/1-1457	NRA 12274 Portman
7	17th cent-18th cent: misc Sussex deeds and legal practice papers (Medley family)	East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO)	AMS 6270	NRA 12274 Portman
8	17th cent-18th cent: misc Sussex deeds	East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO)	AMS 6334	NRA 12274 Portman
9	15th cent-19th cent: Sussex deeds 16th-19th cent, manorial records 15th cent and misc papers 17th cent	East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO)	Acc 4811	See Annual Report 1987
10	1734-1929: Buxted manorial records 1734-1922, misc Sussex estate papers 1812-1931, Dorset estate accounts 1923-25 and Bryanston house inventory 1929	East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO)	BMW/C8/1-5	NRA 37657 Bush
11	14th cent-18th cent: misc Sussex manorial and estate papers (Medley family)	East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO)	AMS 5896	NRA 7797 E Sussex RO misc
12	15th cent-18th cent: misc Sussex deeds, manorial records and estate papers (Medley family)	East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO)	AMS 5897	NRA 7797 E Sussex RO misc
13	16th cent-19th cent: Jenkinson (Earls of Liverpool) family papers, with deeds for Sussex, etc (formerly amongst the Portman archive at Buxted)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 38190-489, 38564-81; Add Ch 56240-315
14	16th cent-19th cent: further Jenkinson family papers from the Portman family archive	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Loan 72	NRA 21672
15	1771-1885: Somerset (Pylle etc) deeds	Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)	DD\CN 34/3	NRA 44634
16	1894-1913: Somerset (Hestercombe) copy letterbook of the agents of the Portman estate in Somerset and elsewhere	Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)	A\ECR	See Annual Return 2015