IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0064 HSM
Held at: National Maritime Museum
Title: Horton-Smith, Lionel Graham Horton, Naval Propagandist (1871-1953)
Date(s): [1895-1913]
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 5ft; 153cm
Name of creator(s): Smith | Lionel Graham Horton | Horton- | 1871-1953 | lawyer, founder of Imperial Maritime League and antiquary
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Horton-Smith was a barrister and joint founder and Secretary of the Imperial Maritime League, which was active between 1908 and 1913. It was founded as a protest against the British Navy League, which fully supported the actions of Lord Fisher. The Imperial Maritime League felt that the Navy League did not go far enough in its demands for the strengthening of British naval power. Horton-Smith was the author of numerous pamphlets on naval affairs.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Lionel Graham Horton Horton-Smith. They consist of twenty-eight volumes of pamphlets and newspaper cuttings, put together by Horton-Smith himself, on naval policy and the activities of the Imperial Maritime League, 1895 to 1913.
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 1954 by Mr I.A.G. Horton-Smith, his son.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Jul 2011.
Date(s) of descriptions: 2010-08-26