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Rotton Papers


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS ADD 156

Held at: University College London

Title: Rotton Papers

Date(s): 18th century-1924

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 folder

Name of creator(s): Rotton | Sir | John Francis | 1837-1926 | Knight | legal adviser

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Rotton was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1860. From 1869 to 1876 he was Legal Assistant to the Medical Department of the Local Government Board, becoming Legal Adviser in 1883. He was a member of the Council of University College London, 1869-1906, and Vice-President of the Senate in 1878 and 1882. Rotton was knighted in 1899. He died on 9 April 1926.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Letter from Horace Walpole, later 4th Earl of Orford, to an unknown man. With related correspondence, notes and newspaper cuttings about Walpole.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Open.

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Normal copyright restrictions apply.

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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Found in a volume of Walpole's letters in the Sir John Rotton Library, left to University College London by Sir John Rotton in 1926 and including in particular works on the eighteenth century.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Archivist's note: Source: University College London Special Collections website.

Date(s) of descriptions: 1999, revised Jul 2001


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Rotton | Sir | John Francis | 1837-1926 | Knight | legal adviser
Walpole | Horace | 1717-1797 | 4th Earl of Orford | author, antiquary and MP x Orford | 4th Earl of

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