Townshend, Thomas, (1733-1800), 1st Viscount Sydney, statesman

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Surname:	Townshend
Forenames:	Thomas
Gender:	Male
Date:	1733-1800
Title:	1st Viscount Sydney
Biography:	ODNB link for Townshend, Thomas (1733-1800) 1st Viscount Sydney, statesman
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P140344 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P28659 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Thomas Townshend

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1754-89: corresp and papers	University of Michigan: William L Clements Library	Sydney papers	See Guide 1978 pp136-37
2	1775-89: corresp rel to Ireland	National Library of Ireland	MSS 51-53	See HMC Papers of British cabinet ministers 1782-1900, 1982
3	1743-1801: political corresp	Leeds University Library, Special Collections		See HMC Papers of British colonial governors 1782-1900, 1986
4	1750-98: corresp and papers rel to Canada	Library and Archives Canada	MG23 A3	See General inventory manuscripts
5	1765-87: corresp and papers (47 items)	Huntington Library		See Guide 1982
6	1784-1793: accounts	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library	OSB MSS 161	NRA 20037
7	1783-85: corresp rel to India	British Library: Asian and African Studies	Home misc series
8	1785-1800: corresp and papers rel to illness of George III	Royal College of Physicians of London	MS 3011
9	1784-87: corresp with Lord Bolton	National Library of Ireland		NRA 8638 Orde-Powlett See MS sources for the history of Irish civilisation, suppl 1965-1975, 1979
10	corresp with 1st Marquis of Buckingham	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 40177-78
11	corresp with 1st Earl and Lady Chatham (32 items)	The National Archives	PRO30/8
12	c1780-83: corresp with Lord Grantham	Bedfordshire Archives	L 30/14/385	NRA 6283 Wrest Park
13	letters to George III	Royal Archives		See Later Correspondence of George III, ed AAspinall, 5 vols 1962-70
14	1778-85: letters to Frederick Haldimand	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 21705, 21708, 21734-36
15	1781-89: letters to Lord Hardwicke and RM Keith	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 35531-682 passim
16	1784-85: corresp with Duke of Leeds	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Eg MSS 3498, 3505
17	1782-1800: corresp with Lord Liverpool	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 38222-34, 38309-11 passim
18	c1776-86: corresp with Lord Macartney	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng hist b 173-76 passim	NRA 23419 Macartney
19	1747-93: letters to Duke of Newcastle	Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections	Ne	NRA 7411 Pelham
20	1762-86: corresp with Duke of Newcastle	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 32940-33101 passim
21	1794-1801: letters to William Pitt	Kent History and Library Centre	U1590/S5/O4/6	NRA 25095
22	1763-84: corresp with Duke of Portland	Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections	PwF8781-95	NRA 7628 Cavendish-Bentinck
23	1782-83: letters to Lord Shelburne	Collection held privately: enquiries to Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Film dep 961-1005	NRA 37645 Petty
24	1782-83: corresp	The National Archives	PRO30/55	See HMC [59] American MSS
25	1765-99: letters	Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre	9/35/254	NRA 30725 Brudenell-Bruce