Transcript of the Diary of Arthur Newbury
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0372 LONDON COLLECTION MANUSCRIPTS/32 |
Held at | : Bishopsgate Institute Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/library › |
Full title | : Transcript of the Diary of Arthur Newbury |
Date(s) | : 1997 |
Level of description | : Fonds |
Extent | : 1 folder |
Name of creator(s) | : Newbury | Arthur | b 1876 | footman |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, October 1876, Barton in the Clay, Bedfordshire; by 1890, the family had moved to Luton, where the father worked as a corn and flour dealer; in 1894, just before his eighteenth birthday, Arthur began work as a footman for Clements Robert Markham of 21 Eccleston Square, London; in subsequent years, Arthur would work as a footman for many other gentlemen, including Sir Jabez Edward Johnson-Ferguson, Count Edmund de Baillet and Sir Arthur Otway.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Transcriptions of three scribbling diaries kept by footman Arthur Newbury with biographical essay of Newbury, modern photographs of addresses mentioned in the diaries, maps, index and note on sources, all compiled by David Jackson, who may have obtained the diary at a car boot sale in Cheshire (115pp), February 1997.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
No further arrangement.
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Documents cannot be photocopied at present. Digital photography (without flash) is permitted for research purposes on completion of the Library's Copyright Declaration form and with respect to current UK copyright law.
Finding aids:
Collection Level Description.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Possibly donated to the Institute by David G.Jackson in 1997.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Stefan Dickers.
Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions:
9 January 2006
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