Buckland family papers

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0814 ZCAB
Held at	: Zoological Society of London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.zsl.org/ ›
Full title	: Buckland family papers
Date(s)	: 1824-1933
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: Buckland | William | 1784-1856 | geologist and Dean of Westminster

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1984; educated: Blundell's School, Tiverton, 1797; Winchester College, 1798-1801; Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1801-1804; fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1808; ordained as a priest, 1808; reader in mineralogy, 1813; reader in geology, 1818; Royal Society's Copley medal, 1822; canonry of Christ Church, Oxford, 1825; dean of Westminster and rector of Islip, 1845; died 1856.
Publications: Geology and Mineralogy (1836)

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of the Buckland family, 1824-1933, including letters from William Buckland; letters to William Buckland from various correspondents, including A Sedgwick, G Stephenson, Mary Anning, WJ Broderip; invitation card from Sir Robert Peel to invite William Buckland to a dinner with the King of Saxony; press cuttings; photographs of William, Mary, and Frank Buckland; portrait of Elizabeth Buckland; invitation to an 'At Home' with Lady Peel; letter from CW Gordon about article in 'Sunday Companion', 1933; letters to Mary Ann Buckland from Bompas; letters to WB from Mary Morland (before her marriage to WB); letters to Frank Buckland, including G von Bunsen about the International Fishery Exhibition in Berlin, 1880.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

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Conditions governing reproduction:

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Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donation.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry transcribed by Sarah Drewery, April 2011.

Rules or conventions:
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:
April 2011