Thornycroft, Sir William Hamo, 1850-1925 (Knight, sculptor)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1850 - 1925
Biography
Thornycroft, Sir William Hamo (1850-1925) Knight and Sculptor. Siegfried Sassoon's uncle.
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Catalogue of an exhibition of works by the late Sir Hamo Thornycroft, R.A., at the Fine Art Society, New Bond Street, London, June 1926
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/11/2/1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This section contains a variety of material such as exhibition catalogues and an extensive collection of newspaper cuttings.
Dates:
June 1926
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Journal, 8 Jan. 1921-11 July 1922 (with later annotations dated 1926, 1949 & 1967)
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/1/17
Scope and Contents
The volume is a plain notebook titled 'Journal 1921', written while living at 54 Tufton Street. It is entirely comprised of diary entries in an unusually fair hand together with many later annotations and expurgated sections. It includes: - quotations from Conrad, Sir J. Davies, Pope, Bertrand Russell, Goethe and Stendhal: /1b (r)-1b(v). - list of social engagements: /7r, 8r. - mention of the suicide of young Holloway at Nellie Burton's...
Dates:
8 Jan. 1921-11 July 1922 (with later annotations dated 1926, 1949 & 1967)
Conditions Governing Access:
This notebook has been digitised and can be viewed in full on the Cambridge Digital Library. The original item is currently unavailable for consultation due to its poor physical condition.
File
Journal, 9 Dec. 1925-9 June 1926 (with some later annotations and scoring out in Siegfried Sassoon's hand)
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/1/22
Scope and Contents
The volume is a ruled notebook marked '1925-III, 1926-I' and mostly comprises diary entries written while Sassoon was living at 23 Campden Hill Square, London. Diary entries include passages on: /8r. a biography of Thomas Hardy; /10r-11r. the death and funeral of his uncle Hamo Thornycroft; /16r-16v, /117r. Robert Graves; /39v-41v. entries concerning his War experience; /48r-48v. on meeting Sean O'Casey; /51. Virginia Woolf; /77r-109r. on the coal miner's strike; and frequent...
Dates:
9 Dec. 1925-9 June 1926 (with some later annotations and scoring out in Siegfried Sassoon's hand)
Conditions Governing Access:
This notebook has been digitised and can be viewed in full on the Cambridge Digital Library. The original item is currently unavailable for consultation due to its poor physical condition.
Item
Letter from Sir William Hamo Thornycroft to John Willis Clark, 13 Oct. 1886
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8955/84
Scope and Contents
Before going further with Henry Bradshaw's bust he should like the death mask
Dates:
13 Oct. 1886
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
Letter from Sir William Hamo Thornycroft to John Willis Clark, 8 Apr. 1884
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8955/85
Scope and Contents
Accepting invitation
Dates:
8 Apr. 1884
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
Letters from (William) Hamo Thornycroft (London and elsewhere) to Siegfried Sassoon re personal news, career advice, encouragement with poetry, 1907-01-10 - 1923-07-01
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9375/857-77
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of 1094 letters, postcards and other items known as 'Sassoon's residual correspondence' although it does also include a number of items addressed to other persons particularly to his wife, Hester, and his mother, Theresa Thornycroft.
Dates:
1907-01-10 - 1923-07-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds
Sir William Hamo Thornycroft: Letter to Francis Jenkinson, 1912
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4251/1399
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Dates:
1912
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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