Henry Austin Bruce, Baron Aberdare, Correspondence: Finding Aid mssAberdare

Gayle M. Richardson

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November 2023

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Title: Henry Austin Bruce, Baron Aberdare, correspondence

Creator: Aberdare, Henry Austin Bruce, Baron, 1815-1895

Identifier/Call Number: mssAberdare

Physical Description: 9.6 Linear Feet (8 boxes)

Date (inclusive): 1843-1923

Abstract: A collection of letters related to the British barrister and politician, Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare.

Language of Material: Materials are in English.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item]. Henry Austin Bruce, Baron Aberdare, correspondence, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased from Alta California Bookstore, 1970.

Biographical / Historical

Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, (1815-1895) was a barrister and politician. He was a Liberal member of Parliament for Merthyr Tydvil (1852 to 1868) and for Renfrewshire (1869 to 1873); Undersecretary (1862 to 1864) and Secretary of State for Home Affairs (1869 to 1873); admitted to the Privy Council in 1864 as Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education; a charity commissioner for England and Wales (1864); peer (1873) appointed by William Ewart Gladstone Lord President of the Council; the first president (1883 to 1895) and first chancellor (1895) of University College of South Wales; Fellow of the Royal Society (1876); member of the Royal Geographical Society (1876), and governor of the Royal Niger Company (1886).

Scope and Contents

A collection of letters addressed to Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare. The letters include a wide variety of subjects, including women in medicine, Scottish commercial fishing, capital punishment, education, patronage in church and state, electioneering, English and Irish politics, the Royal Horticulture Society, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Sanitary Law Commission.

Processing Information

Processed by Huntington Library Staff in approximately 1975; in November 2023, Gayle M. Richardson created the finding aid.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by last name of correspondent.

General

Former call number: mssAberdare correspondence.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Capital punishment –- Great Britain -– History –- 19th century

Educators -- Great Britain

Fisheries -- Scotland -- History -- 19th century

Patronage, Ecclesiastical -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century

Patronage, Political –- Great Britain –- History –- 19th century

Politicians -- Great Britain

Women in medicine -- Great Britain

Great Britain -- History -- 19th century

Great Britain -– Politics and government -- 19th century

Ireland -- Politics and Government -- 19th century

Letters (correspondence)

Liberal Party (Great Britain)

Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)

Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain)

Sanitary Law Commission (Great Britain)

Box 1

A - B

Box 2

C - E

Box 3

F - H

Box 4

J - L

Box 5

M - P

Box 6

R - T

Box 7

T - Z; miscellaneous

Box 8

Miscellaneous