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MAURICE, Maj Gen Sir (John) Frederick (1841-1912)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Maurice J F

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

Title: MAURICE, Maj Gen Sir (John) Frederick (1841-1912)

Date(s): 1806-1927

Level of description: Collection (Fonds)

Extent: 0.5 box (0.005 cubic metres)

Name of creator(s): Maurice | Sir John Frederick | 1841-1912 | Knight | Major General

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1841; educated Addiscombe College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; commissioned into Royal Artillery 1861; passed through Staff College, 1870; Private Secretary to FM Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley in Ashanti Campaign, 1873-1874; served in South Africa, 1879-1880, Egypt, 1882, and the Sudan, 1884-1885; also served in Intelligence Department, War Office; Professor of Military History, Staff College, 1885-1892; Aldershot, 1892-1893; commanding Royal Artillery, Eastern District, 1893-1895; Maj Gen, 1895; commanded Woolwich District, 1895-1902; died in 1912.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers collected or created by Maj Gen Sir (John) Frederick Maurice, dated 1872-1912, principally comprising letters from Gen Sir Archibald Hunter concerning operations in the Sudan, 1885, 1896-1898, notably including description of Battle of Obdurman, 1898; correspondence with FM Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, 1879, 1881, 1886, [1889-1905], notably including letters from Maurice concerning operations against the Zulu king Cetewayo (Cetshwayo), 1879.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

These papers make up section 2 of the Maurice family collection. Sections 1, 3 and 4 consist of the papers of Maurice's son, Maj Gen Sir Frederick Barton Maurice.

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 College Archivist.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1973.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The archives of King's College London (GB0100) include papers relating to Frederick Denison Maurice (father of John Frederick Maurice).

Manuscript Collections, British Library (GB 0058) hold notes relating to his edition of Sir John Moore's diaries, 1899-1902 (Ref: Add MS 57545) and correspondence with Macmillan and Co, 1872-1911 (Ref: Add MS 55075). The Department of Manuscripts, National Library of Scotland (GB 0233) holds correspondence with Blackwood and Sons (Ref: MSS 4201-4634).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

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: Mar 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects

Personal names
Hunter | Sir | Archibald | 1856-1936 | Knight | MP General
Maurice | Sir John Frederick | 1841-1912 | Knight | Major General

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