Autograph Collection.- Incl. Medicine, Religion and Law

Autograph Collection.- Incl. Medicine, Religion and Law

A collection of letters, papers, signatures and ephemera, comprising:

Medical an assortment of letters, notes etc of the c18th, c19th and c20th, to include: Sir James Clark, Physician to Queen Victoria (1788-1870); Dr Ethel Bentham MP (1861-1931); Surgeons: Sir William Blizard (1743-1835), Francis Seymour Hayden, (1818-1910), John Cheyne (1777-1836), George Renny (1757-1848), Sir William Crampton (1777-1858) and others;

The Church & Religion: an assortment of letters, notes and autographs etc from the c18th, c19th and c20th including: Rev. James Sheppard (Canon of Windsor, chaplain to Queen Victoria), L.P. Jacks (philosopher & Unitarian, 1860 -1955); Malcolm MacColl (theologian 1831-1907); small quantity of letters to Bishop James Edward Cowell Welldon (as Dean of Manchester) (1854 – 1937) regarding wartime entertainments; Bishops of Llandaff, Sodor & Man, Madras, Bombay, Antigua, St Germans etc;

Antiquarians and Historians: a small assortment of letters, notes and engravings etc from the c18th, c19th and c20th including: George Omerod (antiquary, 1785-1873), James Dennistoun of Dennistoun (Antiquary, 1803-1855); Sir Charles G Young, (Garter Principal King of Arms, 1795-1869); an anonymous c.40 page manuscript starting “The population of Epirus …” etc;

Academia, Science, Engineering etc: a small assortment of letters, notes, manuscripts etc from the c19th and c 20^th including: Eleanor Sidgwick (scientist, Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, 1845-1936), Benjamin Jowett (classical scholar, 1817-1893), Oscar Browning (historian, 1837-1923), Francis de Zulueta (Law Professor, 1878-1958); Lady Heath (aviator, 1896-1939), James Nasmyth (engineer, 1801-1890);

Legal and Lawyers: an assortment of letters, notes, manuscripts, portrait engravings and autographs from the c18th, c19th and c20th (mostly England & Wales jurisdiction) including: Lord Eldon (Lord Chief Justice, 1751-1838); Sir John Taylor Coleridge (1790- 1876); Sir William Grantham (1835–1911) Lord Brampton (‘the hanging judge’, 1817-1907); etc

(large quantity)