Corbett, Sir Julian Stafford (1854-1922)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0064 CBT
Held at	: National Maritime Museum   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://collections.rmg.co.uk/ ›
Full title	: Corbett, Sir Julian Stafford (1854-1922)
Date(s)	: [1854-1922]
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 41 Boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Corbett | Sir | Julian Stafford | 1854-1922 | Knight

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

As an historian, he published nine principal naval works and three works of fiction (The fall of Asgard, 1886, For God and Gold, 1887 and Cophetua the Thirteenth, 1889.) Between 1898-1914, he edited five historic works for the Navy Records Society. Serving for many years as Vice President of both The Navy Records Society (NRS) and the Society for Nautical Research (SNR), he was also a member of the Editorial Boards of both societies. In addition, he wrote two articles for the Mariner's Mirror between 1913 and 1921. Amongst his other major titles he was an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, The Director of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence, Lecturer at the Royal Naval War College, Lectured at Oxford, Cambridge and London and was the Official Naval Historian of the Great War.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Sir Julian Stafford Corbett, comprising correspondence with publishers including Longmans and Macmillans; manuscript drafts, working papers, notes and essays, lecture notes for the Royal Naval War College, Portsmouth, reports, press cuttings for his Naval reviews. Also included is correspondence from Naval Officers, Corbett's parents, from his wife E.R.C (previously Edith Rosa Alexander), the Fisher Correspondence and letters to Sir John Pakington, Admiralty, 1858/9, including a series of letters from Sir Houston Stewart to Pakington.

Access & 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.

Copyright on Brian Tunstall's work belongs to Professor Jeremy Tunstall and Mr Tunstall (until 2040).

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .

Archival Information

Archival history:

The collection was originally loaned to the NMM by Mrs J B E Tunstall. When Mr and Mrs Tunstall died their sons Prof. Jeremy Tunstall and Robert Tunstall were executors of the will. The papers were partially compiled by Corbett's son in law, Brian Tunstall.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The collection was purchased with the assistance of the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Society for Nautical Research Macpherson Fund, 2004.

Allied Materials

Related material:

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Edited by Sarah Drewery, Jun 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