IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Poore R
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: POORE, Maj Robert (1834-1918)
Date(s): Created 1887-1924
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s):
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1834; served in 8 Hussars in the Crimean War, 1853-1856, and in India, [1857]; County Councillor, Whiteparish division, Wiltshire County Council, [1891-1894]; established freehold colony at Winterslow, Wiltshire, [1892]; died in 1918.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers relating to his life and career, 1887-1924, comprising published pamphlets and articles relating to his establishment of a freehold colony at Winterslow, Wiltshire, [1892], dated 1887, 1891, 1893, 1894, [1912], 1924; correspondence relating to his candidature for a seat on Wiltshire County Council, 1888; photograph of portrait of Poore by T Binney Gibbs, 1912.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Mainly English, but one item in French
System of arrangement:
1 file
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Detailed catalogue available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1988.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Related material:
The Centre also holds the papers of his sons, Philip Poore, Lt Col Roger Alvin Poore and Brig Gen Robert Montagu Poore. Additional papers relating to Maj Robert Poore can be found at the National Army Museum (Ref: 7509-60, 61) and Wiltshire County Record Office.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 1997