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Kelly family papers


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0064 KEL

Held at: National Maritime Museum

Title: Kelly family papers

Date(s): [1831]-1944

Level of description: Collection

Extent:

Name of creator(s): Kelly | Sir | John Donald | 1871-1936 | Knight | Admiral Of The Fleet
Kelly | Sir | William Archibald Howard | 1873-1952 | Knight | Admiral

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

See the subfonds for biographical histories.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Sir John Donald Kelly, consisting of reports on the unsuccessful attack on the Goeben; on the Dardanelles, February to May 1915, and on a German raider in West Indian and South American waters, December 1916 to March 1917. There are orders relating to the Dardanelles, 1915, to the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet, 1918, to the Chanak incident of 1922, to the Invergordon mutiny in 1931 and to Kelly's final commands. The letters are mainly official but the private correspondents include Prince Louis of Battenburg (1854-1921), 1903, Earl Beatty (1871-1936), 1918 and 1932, Lord Louis Mountbatten (1900- ), 1929, Sir Roger Keyes (1872-1945), 1930 to 1931, and Lord Chatfield, 1932 to 1936. In addition, a small collection of fifteen letters, 1831 to 1847, relate to Captain, later Vice-Admiral, William Kelly (c 1795-1874), and are mostly concerned with the attack on the forts of Tamatave, Madagascar, in 1845. William Kelly is believed to have been a relative of Sir John Kelly.

Papers of Sir William Archibald Howard Kelly, consisting of a draft of his memoirs which is very detailed until 1933; after this period it has only a few notes and observations on Turkey. The diaries for 1899, 1901, 1903, 1905 to 1907, 1910, 1914 to 1916, 1919 to 1921, 1923 to 1929 and 1931 to 1933 are also detailed. The correspondence forms two groups; the first, 1914 to 1917, includes letters from Earl Beatty (1871-1936), Admiral Tyrwhitt (1870-195T) and Lord Jellicoe (1859-1935); the second group, 194G to 1944, includes those from Admirals Cunningham (q.v.), Harwood (1888-1950) and Willis (1889-1976). Some notebooks, news cuttings and articles complete the collection.

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:

See subfonds level.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Sep 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
Diaries | Nonfiction
Mutiny | Crime
Naval operations | Military operations | Military engineering
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Primary documents

Personal names
Beatty | David | 1871-1936 | 1st Earl Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby | Admiral of the Fleet
Chatfield | Alfred Ernie Montacute | 1873-1967 | 1st Baron Chatfield of Ditchling | Admiral of the Fleet
Cunningham | Andrew Browne | 1883-1963 | 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope | Admiral of the Fleet
Harwood | Sir | Henry Harwood | 1888-1950 | Knight | Admiral
Jellicoe | John Rushworth | 1859-1935 | 1st Earl Jellicoe | Admiral of the Fleet
Kelly | Sir | John Donald | 1871-1936 | Knight | Admiral of the Fleet
Kelly | Sir | William Archibald Howard | 1873-1952 | Knight | Admiral
Keyes | Roger John Brownlow | 1872-1945 | 1st Baron Keyes | Admiral of the Fleet
Louis | 1854-1921 | Prince of Battenburg
Mountbatten | Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas | 1900-1979 | 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Admiral of the Fleet
Tyrwhitt | Sir | Reginald Yorke | 1870-1951 | Knight | Admiral
Willis | Sir | Algernon Usborne | 1889-1976 | Knight | Admiral

Corporate names

Places
Dardanelles | Turkey | Middle East
India | South Asia
South America