IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0064 BAX/1-3
Held at: National Maritime Museum
Title: Bax, Henry Bonham (1798-1869)
Date(s): [1844-1869]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 vol
Name of creator(s): Bax | Henry Bonham | 1798-1869 | Commander (H.E.I.C.)
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Bax was in the Navy from 1813 to 1817, after which he entered the service of the East India Company. In 1844 he became an Elder Brother of Trinity House. See Arthur Nesham Bax, A Bax family of east kent ( published privately, 1951).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Henry Bonham Bax, comprising an illustrated list of buoys and light vessels owned by Bax as an Elder Brother of Trinity House.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Please allow 4 working days to process your order for viewing (see website for full details).
Conditions governing reproduction:
Contact the Archives.
Finding aids:
Detailed catalogue online at the National Maritime Museum website.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented by Admiral R N Bax in 1956.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Bax's illustrated book of lighthouses and a journal kept in the Mulgrave are in the Department of Pictures, on loan from Canon A.N. Bax since 1953.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry transcribed from the National Maritime Museum online catalogue by Sarah Drewery, May 2011.
Date(s) of descriptions: May 2011