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PHILLPOTTS FAMILY

1851 - 1964

From: 1851 To: 1964

Accessions 4449 and 4488

Documents relating to the family of James Surtees Phillpotts, headmaster of Bedford School, 1874 - 1903. Preliminary list (numbers indicate bundle). 1. "Phillpotts heirloom letters" 2 "Phillpotts lineage notes" 3. "Phillpotts family" 4. "Phillpotts family" 5. "Phillpotts (mainly James Surtees Phillpotts) legal documents" 6. "J.S. Phillpotts business papers" 7. "J.S. Phillpotts business (investment ledgers, account books etc.)" 8. A folder of mounted press cuttings, pamphlets etc. by J.S. P. 9. "Cordery family notes" 10. "Lt. Col. B. S. Phillpotts 1875-1917" 11. "Geoffrey S. Phillpotts 1876-1952" 12A. "G.S.P: Business papers" 12B. "G.S.P: Papers relating to the estate of J. S. P" 13. "G.S. Phillpotts bank" 14. "G.S. Phillpotts business files" 15."Cuttings Irish History" 16. "Brian S. Phillpotts 1921-1964" 17. a 'Nature Note Book' containing a diary of B. Phillpotts aged 10 1/2 with some photographs 18. album of photographs "[G.S.P] H. C. P. Honeymoon 1910 N. Italy". Subjects mainly Italian landscape. 19. photograph albub "Geoffrey S. Phillpotts Aug 31-93" subjects: Bedford, Wales, family groups, Hampstead, Kingston in Somerset, boats on Ouse. J.S.P. on horse in Old School Yard, Castle Rising, Castle Acre, Ouse in flood (Renhold, Bromham, Oakley(, Kempston, Poole, old Headmaster's house in Bedford and new Headmaster's house which stood on corner of Kimbolton Rd. and St. Augustine's Rd. demolished 1974. 20. photograph album covering J.S.P's life up to the time he came to Bedford. Scenes and people, mainly Oxford and Rugby. Old Grammar School and old Headmaster's house at Bedford. Good Oxford portraits. 31 photograph alubum "Ypres 1919" 22. photograph album J.S.P: Bedford, old headmaster's house and garden; old Grammar School; house interiors; river views; new Grammar School and new headmaster's house. Holidays: Poole, Wales, Heacham, Kingston in Somerset, Robin Hood's Bay, New Forest, Norfolk, Scotland, Italy. Family groups. 23 and 24 two photograph albums of Geoffrey Surtees Phillpotts, subjects mainly landscape in Ireland 25. album with very fine photographs of all the buildings in Bedford used by the Grammar School when in the old premises, and also the new Grammar School with interiors. 26. box containing illuminated address to J.S.P on occasion of presentation of his portrait. the volume includes watercolours of both the old and new Grammar Schools. List of subscribers. 27.folder of photographs, engravings 28. bundle of loose, very fine photogrpahs, mainly of Ireland. 29. bundle: "Bedford School. school reports of sons of James S. Phillpotts" 30. bundle: "Bedford School various papers (1890-1930) 31. bundle: "Bedford School, notes and writings of James S. Phillpotts headmaster 1875-1903" 32. bundle containing two notebooks of Marian Cordery 1866 and undated, and 3 blank notebooks 33. bundle of four lecture notebooks of J.S.P when at New College, Oxford 34. book cont. ms latin verse "J.S. Phillpotts Rugby 1866" 35. bundle of 5 notebooks 36 book of pressed ferns "Probably from Louisa Phillpotts nee Buller" 37. bundle of prints and photogrpahs including engravings of the new Grammar School, Bedford; photographs of Bedford School groups C20; 2 photographs of ladies on bicycles "Bedford Gymkhana c 1900" 38. bundle of 8 notebooks, mainly J.S.P 39. notebook, pres. J.S.P in retirement, press cuttings interleved 40. bundle of printed material including: Basil Maclear, a Short Memoir [1881-1895 - grandson of Sir Thomas Maclear]; Old Bedfordians 1929; Education and Training by Sir Maurice Craig 1922; After Ten Years 1928; Bedford Grammar School Old and New 29th October 1891; with volume of mounted letters received on J.S.P's resignation 1903 41. bundle of letters: "Miscellaneous ltters to J.S.P" 42. bundle of letters: "Letters of thanks for M. H. P. memoir" 43. bundle of letters: "Letters (G.S.P.)" 44. bundle of letters: "G.S.P" 45. bundle of letters: "Letters from and to B.S.P (Broo)" 46. bundle of letters: "Letters of condolence re death of B.S.P.)" 47. box containing 25 small bundles of Phillpotts family correspondence from c.1851 48. photogrpahs being copy of Phillpottss family pedigree and record book pp1-100 lacking pp 49, 50,55-6, 59, 60, 76, 78-84, 88-89, 98 but with unnumbered page headed by print of Mr. John Philpot Mayan martyr which may be p.59 or 60. 49. Scotts Poems 'the Lay of the Last Minsterel' with an introduction, notes and glossary by J. Surtees Phillpotts, M.A., B.C. L, Longmans Green and Co., 1915 [English School Classics] 50. The Psalms chronologically arranged..by Four Friends [C.T. Arnold, F.E. Kitchener, A. Potts, and J. S. Phillpotts] 51. How to appreciated Literature by J. S. Phillpotts. Sideny Press, Bedford undated but c.1930 52. Henry Phillpotts Bishop of Exeter 1778-1869 by G.C.B Davies, London S.P.C. K. 1954

Given by Mr James Surtees Phillpotts on 15 December 1977. Further gift made 11 March 1978 by Mr. J. S. Phillpotts

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Phillpotts, James Surtees,
Phillpotts, Geoffrey S