French, John Denton Pinkstone, (1852-1925), 1st Earl of Ypres, Field Marshal

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Surname:	French
Forenames:	John Denton Pinkstone
Gender:	Male
Date:	1852-1925
Title:	1st Earl of Ypres
Biography:	ODNB link for French, John Denton Pinkstone (1852-1925) 1st Earl of Ypres, Field Marshal
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P132453 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P10734 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for John Denton Pinkstone French

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1900-25: diaries, corresp and military and official papers	Imperial War Museum (IWM) Department of Documents	JDPF	NRA 29546 French See Hazlehurst, Whitehead & Woodland, Guide to the papers of British cabinet ministers 1900-1964, 1996
2	1899-1900: diary	Brenthurst Library		See Guide
3	1919-20: diary	National Library of Ireland	MS 2269	See Hazlehurst & Woodland, Guide to the papers of British cabinet ministers 1900-1951, 1974
4	corresp with Herbert Asquith	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Asquith	NRA 12685
5	1904-16: corresp with Arthur James Balfour	British Library, Manuscript Collections	ADD MSS 49726 Passim
6	corresp with Lord Esher	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	ESHR	NRA 13626 Brett
7	1901-18: corresp with Brinsley Fitzgerald	Collection held privately: enquiries to Imperial War Museum Department of Documents		NRA 28543 Fitzgerald
8	corresp with HA Gwynne	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Gwynne MSS	See Chris Cook, Sources in British political history 1900-1951 vol 5 1978
9	1906-23: corresp with Lord Haldane	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.5907-6082
10	1914-1915: corresp with Lord Kitchener	The National Archives	WO 159
11	1914-15: corresp with Lord Kitchener	The National Archives	PRO 30/57
12	1912-22: corresp (51 letters) with Andrew Bonar Law	Parliamentary Archives	BL	NRA 19286
13	1916-25: corresp with David Lloyd George	Parliamentary Archives	LG	NRA 15700
14	1918-20: corresp (4 bundles) with Viscount Long	Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre	947	NRA 15883 Long
15	1912-1917: corresp with Lord Mottistone	Oxford University: Nuffield College Library	MSS MOTTISTONE
16	1914-19: corresp with Lord Northcliffe	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 62159
17	1900-04: letters to Earl Roberts	National Army Museum Templer Study Centre	7101/23, 8310/155-62	NRA 18656
18	1914-21: corresp with Lord Selborne	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Selborne	NRA 17810
19	1915: letters (99) rel to appointment as BEF Commander-in-Chief	Imperial War Museum (IWM) Department of Documents		See Accessions to Repositories 1975