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Tupper, Lieutenant Charles George De Beauvoir (1872-1893)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0064 TUP

Held at: National Maritime Museum

Title: Tupper, Lieutenant Charles George De Beauvoir (1872-1893)

Date(s): 1867-1891

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 5 vols

Name of creator(s): Tupper | Charles George De Beauvoir | 1872-1893 | Lieutenant

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Tupper joined the RALEIGH, flagship at the Cape of Good Hope, as a midshipman in 1888 and remained in her until 1891. He became a lieutenant in 1892. In 1893 he was on the South American Station in the RACER and died when a powder magazine exploded at Rio de Janeiro.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Charles Tupper, they include two journals, 1889 to 1891, official service documents, a collection of Admiralty charts, 1867 to 1881, and the official letters received by Tupper's mother reporting his death.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were presented by Major J.C. Wilder in 1956.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Oct 2011.

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: 2010-08-26


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Naval affairs | Military affairs | Military science | Social sciences

Personal names
Tupper | Charles George De Beauvoir | 1872-1893 | Lieutenant

Corporate names
Admiralty

Places