IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0064 DEV
Held at: National Maritime Museum
Title: De Vitre, Reverend John Durham Denis (fl 1870-1949)
Date(s): [1870-1949]
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 box
Name of creator(s): Vitre | John Durham Denis | De | fl 1870-1949 | Chaplain, Royal Navy
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
De Vitre, a naval chaplain who joined the service in 1898, served in the Mediterranean before the First World War and in the Canopus in the Dardanelles. He later retired to a parish in Berkshire.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Revd John De Vitre consisting of letters and drafts of letters concerning his service but most of the collection is concerned with his family, which originated in Canada with Mathew Theodosius, Marquis de Vitre (d.1771) and his son John Denys de Vitre, who entered the Royal Navy in 1771. There is a mathematical work book belonging to the latter.
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:
The papers were presented in 1938 by the Reverend de Vitre.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Jun 2011.
Date(s) of descriptions: 2010-08-26