IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0064 WRE
Held at: National Maritime Museum
Title: Wrey Papers
Date(s): [1823-1919]
Level of description: Collection
Extent:
Name of creator(s): Greive | William Samuel | c 1830-1892 | Vice-Admiral
Wrey | William Bourchier Sherard | 1865-1926 | Captain
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
See sub-fonds level descriptions for individual biographies.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Greive, William Samuel, containing logs, 1845 to 1847, and 1851 to 1855; a letterbook, 1871 to 1874; commissions, 1851 to 1884, and a few single documents.
Papers of Cpt William Wrey. They include logs, 1882 to 1885; photographs, 1882 to 1918; office diaries, 1918 to 1919, and secret sailings, reports, statistics of troops embarked and disembarked at Southampton and other official papers, 1914 to 1918. There are also papers of the following relatives: General John Tatton Brown, R.M., notes and memoranda, 1823 to 1826 and 1849; Commander John Bathurst (d.1866), commissions, 1838 to 1860; Captain Lord Francis Granvill Godolphin Osborne (1864-1924), a log, 1888 to 1889, and notebooks, 1887 to 1889.
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:
Presented to the Museum in 1956 by Commander Windham Mark Phipps Hornby (q.v), executor of Mrs Wrey.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Oct 2011.
Date(s) of descriptions: 2010-08-26