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Fortescue: The Papers of Hugh Fortescue

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/3243/FOR

Scope and Contents

Letters written by Third Earl Hugh Fortescue to Joseph Lloyd Brereton concerning educational proposals/activities, political and rural issues and personal matters. The pair had a life-long friendship having met as neighbours in West Buckland where they opened a proprietory boarding school for farmer's sons. Fortescue was a considerable landowner, concerned with the welfare of rural England and sympathetic to the unsectarian religious views of Brereton. He became Brereton's first convert to the importance of middle-class education and a loyal supporter of his attempts to establish middle-class schools. The pair championed the "proprietory principle" for free enterprise in education. Other letters written to Brereton are included as well as covers/envelopes addressed to him.

The collection also includes sixty letters shared between the Fortescue and Brereton families between 1867 and 1869.

Dates

  • Creation: 1856 - 1901

Creator

Extent

1 collection (1127 items, organised by year and divided into two boxes: 1856 - 1880 and 1881 - 1901.) : Paper

Language of Materials

English

Other Finding Aids

Simms Collection Library Classification system - not found (individual item numbers only)
Former classification - ARC/BRE
Former archive accession number - not found
Heritage database reference - A108508
Archives Hub Reference - not found



Related Materials

Letters were transcribed by PHL Brereton and stored separately in the Brereton Collection:

GBR/3243/BRE

Simms Collection Library Classification system: B8012 (1859 - 1864) and B8013 (1865 - 1901).

The collection also includes sixty letters shared between the Fortescue and Brereton families between 1867 and 1869 (Simms Collection Library Classification system: ?F.60.67-69).

Twenty-two of the covers/envelopes addressed to Brereton have also been saved.

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Homerton College Archive Repository

Contact:
Homerton College
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