National Maritime Museum

Williams, Hamilton (fl 1877-1905)

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0064 WMS

Held at: National Maritime Museum

Title: Williams, Hamilton (fl 1877-1905)

Date(s): [1877-1905]

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 11 vols

Name of creator(s): Williams | Hamilton | fl 1877-1905

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Hamilton Williams was Instructor in English literature attached to HMS BRITANNIA, between 1877 and 1905. He published Britain's naval power: a short history of the growth of the British Navy from the earliest times to Trafalgar, 2 vols, London 1898 and 1904.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Hamilton Williams consisting of eleven volumes of transcripts, lectures and notes on naval history.

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:

Provenance unknown.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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

INDEX ENTRIES

Subjects
Lecturers | Academic teaching personnel | Teachers | Educational personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Naval history | History
Lecturers x Academic teaching personnel

Personal names
Williams, Hamilton (fl 1877-1905)

Corporate names
Royal Navy

Places