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
Note:
Archivist's note: Source: University College London Special Collections website.
Date(s) of descriptions: 1999, revised Jul 2001