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Compton, Spencer Joshua Alwyne, (1790-1851), 2nd Marquess of Northampton

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Surname: Compton
Forenames: Spencer Joshua Alwyne
Gender: Male
Date: 1790-1851
Title: 2nd Marquess of Northampton
Biography: ODNB link for Compton, Spencer Joshua Alwyne (1790-1851) 2nd Marquess of Northampton
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P145358 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P6300 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1832-46: letters to James Forbes
St Andrews University Library
msdep7
NRA 13132
2
1838-49: corresp with Sir John Herschel (24 items)
Royal Society
HS
NRA 8803

See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
3
1811-50: corresp and misc papers
Castle Ashby
1064, 1145-53
NRA 21088 Compton

See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [24a]
4
1836-51: corresp (20 items) with Sir WR Hamilton
Trinity College Dublin
MS 1492
NRA 20076 Hamilton
5
1838-1846: letters (98) to Sir John Lubbock
Royal Society
JWL
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
6
1831-47: letters (64) to Gideon Algernon Mantell
National Library of New Zealand: Alexander Turnbull Library
MS-Group-0305
NRA 40579

See Microfilm copies (ref.XA 64) at East Sussex R.O.
7
1827-41: letters (14) to Roderick Impey Murchison
Geological Society of London
M/N 11
NRA 28354 Geological Soc
8
1839-47: corresp with Sir Thomas Phillipps
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Phillipps-Robinson c 469, d 143, e 382
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
9
1835-46: letters (21) to Duke of Richmond
West Sussex Record Office
Add Mss 5424-5426
NRA 850 Gordon Lennox
10
1832-47: corresp (31 items) with William Whewell
Cambridge University: Trinity College Library
WHEWELL
NRA 8804
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