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Biography, vol. 3 (I-R) [collaborative cataloguing]

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prattinton/02/20
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Biography, vol. 3 (I-R) [collaborative cataloguing]
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According to E A B Barnard, ‘The Prattinton Collections of Worcestershire History’ (1931) (digitised copy available at https://collections.sal.org.uk/pra.12.01) the contents include:
pp. 51-4. Four letters from John Jackson ("Gentleman Jackson," a native of Malvern), the pugilist; champion of England from 1795 to 1803. Prattinton adds a note that the letters do Jackson no discredit, and I have therefore preserved them." Jackson, who died in 1845, has his place in the Dictionary of National Biography. In his later days he kept a boxing-school in Bond Street, London, at which Byron was a pupil.
p. 310. "Oxfordshire Printed Enquiries proposed by Thomas Phillipps, Esq., F.S.A., for compiling from the answers an Account of the Antiquities and Natural History of Oxfordshire."
pp. 335-41. Extracts from the "Russell Papers in the Possession of Thos. Blayneyt, Esq., Evesham, 1816." These extracts are principally concerned with Sir William Russell and payments, etc., in Worcs. during the Great Rebellion. Thomas Blayney lived at The Lodge, Evesham, where he died in 1838. (cf. May, History of Evesham (ed. 1845), p. 446). There are several evidences that he possessed an important collection of Worcs. documents.
Archival history
This part of the catalogue is designed to facilitate collaborative cataloguing. You are warmly invited to contribute descriptions for the digitised items on these pages. Please see https://www.sal.org.uk/collections/prattinton-project for details.

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