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Papers and topographical drawings etc. of members of the Lysons family

Reference code
LYS
Title
Papers and topographical drawings etc. of members of the Lysons family
Date
18th - 20th century
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and format
Notebooks and papers in five boxes, with one large folio volume and one portfolio.
Scope and content
Papers and topographical drawings, etc., of members of the Lysons family, chiefly of the Rev. Daniel Lysons (1762-1834), FRS, FSA, FLS, rector of Rodmarton, Glos., his brother Samuel Lysons (1763-1819), VPRS, Director SA, Keeper of the Records at the Tower, and the former's son, the Rev. Samuel Lysons (1806-77), Canon of Gloucester, 1867; late 18th-early 20th century. See also SA Prints and Drawings Collections; BL Add. MSS 9408-71 (collections relating to D. and S. Lysons, Magna Britannica, 1806-22); Lindsay Fleming, Memoir and Select Letters of Samuel Lysons (1934) (letters and extracts from the collections at Aldwick Grange; copy in SAL).
Creator
Lysons, Daniel (1762-1834), Vicar of Rodmarton, topographer
Lysons family of Hempsted
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/782/1-15
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