Reference
X69/7-15
Title
Notebooks of the Rudge Family of Bedford, Beds.
Date free text
c1840s
Production date
From: 1825 To: 1877
Admin/biog history
Bradford Rudge seems to have come to Bedford about 1835. He was still living in Goldington Road in 1877 (directory). Edward Rudge was a drawing master at Rugby School, 1830 and 1835 (ex inf. Coventry archivist); and Bradford and Lewis (aged 11 and 10) were entered at the school in 1825.
Archival history
Originally presented to the Society (then the Bedford Natural History & Archaeological Society) (The numbers are those given by the Society and the order is not chronological).
There is another Rudge sketchbook at Bedford Museum. For list of CONTENTS SEE CRT 180/195
Level of description
sub-fonds