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BURNABY, Col Frederick Gustavus (1842-1885)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Burnaby F G

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: BURNABY, Col Frederick Gustavus (1842-1885)

Date(s): Created 1856-1885

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 0.5 box or 0.005 cubic metres

Name of creator(s): Burnaby | Frederick Gustavus | 1842-1885 | Colonel | traveller

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1842; joined Royal Horse Guards Blue, 1859; travelled in Central and South America, [1862], Spain and Morocco, 1868, South Russia, 1870, Spain, 1874, and the Sudan, 1875; travelled in Asia Minor and Armenia, [1975-1977]; Col, 1881; commanded 3 Household Cavalry, 1881-1885; crossed English Channel in balloon, 1882; published A ride across the Channel (Sampson Low and Co, London, 1882); served in Egypt, 1882 and 1884-1885; killed in action in 1885. Publications: A ride to Khiva (Cassell and Co, London, 1876); On horseback through Asia Minor (Sampson Low and Co, London, 1877.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to his life and career, 1842-1885, dated 1856-1885, principally comprising press cuttings, 1856, 1877, 1882, [1884] and obituaries, 1885. A ride to Khiva (Cassell and Co, London, 1876); On horseback through Asia Minor (Sampson Low and Co, London, 1877).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

These papers make up section 4 of the Burnaby family papers. Sections 1-3 consist of the papers of his [nephew], Lt Col Hugo Beaumont Burnaby.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Placed in the Centre by the family in 1976.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Bedfordshire Record Office holds photocopies some of the papers.

Related material:

Department of Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library, Oxford University holds his letters to Disraeli, 1876-1878.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Date(s) of descriptions: Dec 1996


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Army personnel | Armed forces | State security
Cavalry | Armed forces | State security
Communication personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Authors
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names
Burnaby | Frederick Gustavus | 1842-1885 | Colonel | traveller

Corporate names
British Army

Places
Anadolu | Turkey | Middle East
Khiva | Uzbekistan | Central Asia
Russia | Eastern Europe
Asia Minor x Anadolu
Crimea x Krym
Soviet Union x USSR