BURNABY, Col Frederick Gustavus (1842-1885)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Burnaby F G
Held at	: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma ›
Full title	: BURNABY, Col Frederick Gustavus (1842-1885)
Date(s)	: Created 1856-1885
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 0.5 box or 0.005 cubic metres
Name of creator(s)	: Burnaby | Frederick Gustavus | 1842-1885 | Colonel | traveller

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1842; joined Royal Horse Guards Blue, 1859; travelled in Central and South America, [1862], Spain and Morocco, 1868, South Russia, 1870, Spain, 1874, and the Sudan, 1875; travelled in Asia Minor and Armenia, [1975-1977]; Col, 1881; commanded 3 Household Cavalry, 1881-1885; crossed English Channel in balloon, 1882; published A ride across the Channel (Sampson Low and Co, London, 1882); served in Egypt, 1882 and 1884-1885; killed in action in 1885. Publications: A ride to Khiva (Cassell and Co, London, 1876); On horseback through Asia Minor (Sampson Low and Co, London, 1877.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to his life and career, 1842-1885, dated 1856-1885, principally comprising press cuttings, 1856, 1877, 1882, [1884] and obituaries, 1885. A ride to Khiva (Cassell and Co, London, 1876); On horseback through Asia Minor (Sampson Low and Co, London, 1877).

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

These papers make up section 4 of the Burnaby family papers. Sections 1-3 consist of the papers of his [nephew], Lt Col Hugo Beaumont Burnaby.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Finding aids:

Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Placed in the Centre by the family in 1976.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Department of Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library, Oxford University holds his letters to Disraeli, 1876-1878.

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Date(s) of descriptions:
Dec 1996