Tennent, Sir James Emerson, (1804-1869), Knight, traveller, politician and author

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Surname:	Tennent
Pretitle:	Sir
Forenames:	James Emerson
Gender:	Male
Date:	1804-1869
Title:	Knight
Biography:	ODNB link for Tennent, Sir James Emerson (1804-1869) Knight Traveller Politician and Author
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P149290 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P28150 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir James Emerson Tennent

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1815-69: corresp and papers	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D2922	NRA 23442 Tennent See HMC Papers of British politicians 1782-1900, 1989
2	c1859: corresp and papers rel to Ceylon	Unknown location	Sothebys 15 December 1980 lot 159	See HMC Papers of British colonial governors 1782-1900, 1986
3	1860-64: letters to 1st Baron Cottesloe	Buckinghamshire Archives	D/FR	NRA 15283 Fremantle
4	1833-57: letters to 14th Earl of Derby	Liverpool Record Office	920 Der 14, box 131	NRA 20084
5	1852-62: letters (15) to Benjamin Disraeli	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Disraeli	NRA 842 Disraeli
6	1846-51: corresp with 3rd Earl Grey	Durham University Library and Collections	GRE/B84/13	NRA 6228 Grey
7	1835-48: corresp with Sir Robert Peel	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 40413-600 passim
8	letters to Marquess of Tweeddale	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur F 96	NRA 27520