IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0064 HAW
Held at: National Maritime Museum
Title: Hawker Collection
Date(s): [1779-1830]
Level of description: Collection
Extent:
Name of creator(s): Boyles | Sir | Charles | 1756-1816 | Knight | Vice-Admiral
Hawker | Edward | 1782-1860 | Admiral
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
See sub-fonds level descriptions for individual biographies.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Sir Charles Boyles comprising an out-letterbook, 1810 to 1811, and copies of letters to the Sicilian court, 1811.
Papers of Adml Edward Hawker. They consist of logs covering Hawker's service afloat, two order books for the BELLEROPHON and BRITANNIA and a notebook of vessels captured 1805 to 1806. There is also a letterbook of his father, Captain James Hawker, kept during his command of the IRIS, 1779 to 1781, on the North America and West Indies Station.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Please contact the Archive for further information.
Conditions governing reproduction:
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Finding aids:
Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased through the Caird Fund from Sotheby's in 1955.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Jul 2011.
Date(s) of descriptions: 2010-08-26