Woodriff, Lieutenant Allan Robert (1846-1876)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0064 WDR/400-503
Held at	: National Maritime Museum   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://collections.rmg.co.uk/ ›
Full title	: Woodriff, Lieutenant Allan Robert (1846-1876)
Date(s)	: [1868-1874]
Level of description	: Subfonds View parent record
Extent	: 1 file
Name of creator(s)	: Woodriff | Allan Robert | 1846-1876 | Lieutenant

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

A R Woodriff, son of Commander John Robert Woodriff and grandson of Captain Daniel Woodriff, served on the North America and West Indies Station from 1868 to 1871, when he became a lieutenant. After a period in China, 1873 to 1874, he returned to England and was drowned in 1876.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Allan Robert Woodriff, consisting of service documents, 1868 to 1874, an undated letter from Woodriff (while a sub-lieutenant) to his mother and letters of condolence after his death.

Access & 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:

The papers were presented by Miss O.M. Brodie in 1973.

Allied Materials

Related material:

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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