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James Family: Correspondence

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7480

Scope and Contents

William Rhodes James (d. c.1847) married Caroline Pope (fl.1814-1855). The children of the marriage included Herbert (1822-1909), William Rhodes, Montagu (1830-1854), and Thomas (d.1850). Herbert James married Mary Emily Horton, daughter of Admiral Joshua Sydney Horton, and became rector of Livermere, near Bury St. Edmonds. They had four children, Sydney Rhodes (1855-1934), who married Linda Hoare, Herbert Ellison Rhodes (1857-1939), Grace Caroline Rhodes (c.1860-1936), who became Mrs. Woodhouse in 1910, and Montague Rhodes (1862-1936), who became a biblical scholar, antiquary and palaeographer.

Dates

  • Creation: 1835-1918

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

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).

Extent

2 archive box(es) (2 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented by the executors of the late Dr M.R. James, 1954.

Related Materials

Cambridge University Library also holds sermons, lectures and addresses of Montague Rhodes James, MS.Add.7484 and 7485.

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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