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Title: Sir Francis Beaufort papers addenda
Dates: 1797-1858
Collection Number: mssFBA 1-28
Creator OR Collector:
Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774-1857
Extent:
37 items in one box
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: Correspondence, documents, photographs, poems and wills relating to Sir Francis Beaufort, Maria Edgeworth and the Beaufort
and Edgeworth families.
Language of Material: The records are in English.
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[Identification of item], Sir Francis Beaufort papers addenda, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Purchased from Francis Beaufort-Palmer, June 4, 1971.
Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort: hydrographer of the British Navy and member of the Royal Society, creator of the wind force
scale and weather notation coding, and author of Karamania, or, A brief description of the south coast of Asia-Minor and of
the remains of antiquity (1817). Beaufort married twice; his first wife was Alicia Magdalena Wilson (d. 1834) and, in 1839,
he married Honora Edgeworth, the daughter of his long-time friend Richard Lovell Edgeworth and sister of the novelist Maria
Edgeworth.
The collection is arranged chronologically.
One box of correspondence, documents, photographs, poems and wills; arranged chronologically (1797-1858), FBA 1-28. Notable
correspondents include: Daniel Augustus Beaufort (son of Sir Francis), Harriet Henrietta Beaufort, Lady Honora Beaufort, Charles
Sneyd Edgeworth, Frances Anne Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth, Archer Thomas Upton, and Lestock P. Wilson.
Also included are poems by Maria Edgeworth, one of which is written to Sir Philip Crampton, Surgeon General of the Forces
of Ireland. The photographs are mainly of Edgeworthstown House, the Edgeworth family home in Co. Longford, Ireland.
The wills and legal documents include the will of Daniel Augustus Beaufort (father of Sir Francis), an autograph 1843 codicil
by Sir Francis and copies of various other wills. Apparently, there was a dispute between the Beaufort and Edgeworth families
concerning the wills and codicils of Sir Francis, who died in 1857, and his second wife, Lady Honora, who died in 1858. Some
of the correspondence and the legal memorandum, notes and opinions relate to this dispute and involve family members and lawyers.
Beaufort, Daniel Augustus, 1739-1821
Beaufort, Daniel Augustus, 1814-1898
Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774-1857
Beaufort, Harriet Henrietta, 1778-1865
Beaufort, Honora, Lady, 1791-1858
Beaufort, Rosa Elizabeth>
Crampton, Philip, Sir, 1777-1858>
Edgeworth, Charles Sneyd, 1786-1864
Edgeworth family
Edgeworth, Frances Anne, 1769-1865
Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849
Edgeworth, Richard Lovell, 1744-1817
Louisa Anne, Marchioness of Waterford, 1818-1891
Upton, Archer Thomas, -1875
Wilson, Frances Maria, 1799-1848
Wilson, Lestock P.
Distribution of decedents’ estates –- Great Britain -– 19th century
Families –- Great Britain -– History -– 19th century
Probate law and practice -– Great Britain –- History -– 19th century
Wills – Great Britain –- History -– 19th century
Great Britain -– social life and customs -– 19th century
Documents -– Great Britain -– 19th century
Letters (correspondence) -– Great Britain –- 19th century
Photographs –- Great Britain –- 19th century
Poems –- Great Britain –- 19th century
Wills –- Great Britain -– 19th century