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Saint John, Henry, (1678-1751), 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, statesman

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Alternative name(s):
  • Bolingbroke, Viscnt (Also known as)
Surname: Saint John
Forenames: Henry
Gender: Male
Date: 1678-1751
Title: 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
History: Statesman. Secretary at War, 1704-1708; Secretary of State, 1710. In charge of negotiations for Treaty of Utrecht 1712. Attainted, 1714. Joined pretender in France as Secretary of State. Pardoned and returned to England, 1723. Created viscount, 1712.
Biography: ODNB link for John, Henry St (1678-1751) 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, statesman
References: DNB; NCA Rules
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P276014 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P140331 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Henry St John
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
literary MSS
See information in published source
See Index of English literary MSS vol 3 1700-1800
2
1707-14: military papers, letterbooks, diplomatic corresp and despatches
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 22205-07, 22264, 37272-73, 49970-71
3
1665-1739: corresp and papers (248 items)
New York Public Library: Manuscripts and Archives Division
See NUC MS 71-337
4
misc corresp and papers
Royal Archives
See HMC [56] Stuart MSS
5
corresp
Lambeth Palace Library
See Annual Report 1983-84
6
1714-54: Berkshire estate papers
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 36243
7
1710-11: letters to John Drummond
Alnwick Castle
NRA 836 Percy
8
1705-08: corresp with Thomas Erle
Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre
DRAX
NRA 1075
9
1732-36: letters to Lord Essex
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 27732-35
10
1733-45: letters to Lord Hardwicke
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 35585-88 passim
11
corresp with Robert Harley, Lord Oxford
Longleat House
PO
See HMC [58] Bath MSS I
12
corresp with Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford
British Library, Manuscript Collections
loan 29
NRA 20953

See HMC Portland V-VI
13
1712: corresp with T Harley
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 40621
14
1736-38: letters to Henrietta Knight
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 45889
15
1712-13: corresp with Lord Lexington
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 46543, 46545
16
letters to Lord and Lady Luxborough etc
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 34196
17
1740-50: letters (61) to Lord Marchmont
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 37994
18
1709-13: letters (incl copies) to Earl of Orrery
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Eng lett e 44; Eng misc e 180
See Friends of the National Libraries Annual Report 1989
19
1711-14: letters (10) to Earl of Orrery
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 37209
20
1713-14: corresp with Shrewsbury and Stanley
Trinity College Dublin
MSS 2021-23
NRA 24846 Talbot
21
1711-12: corresp with Lord Strafford
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 70286
22
1713: letters to Lord Strafford
British Library, Manuscript Collections
See Annual Return 1997
23
1711-34: corresp with Jonathan Swift
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 4291, 4804-06 passim
24
1702-10: corresp with Sir William Trumbull
British Library, Manuscript Collections
NRA 7864
25
1710-14: corresp with Charles Whitworth
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 37358-61
26
1723-41: letters (58) to Sir William and Charles Wyndham
Collection held privately: enquiries to West Sussex Record Office
PHA
NRA 15719 Wyndham (Petworth)