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Diary of George Ralph Charles Ormsby-Gore, 1883, Jan 1-Dec. 8 (lacking May 18-June 2, and Sept. 13- Dec. 3) describing routine military duties in the Coldstream Guards at Windsor, the Tower of London, Buckingham Palace and Chelsea, followed by his resignation; his interest in country sports, cricket, racing, boating, dogs and horses; family life, social activities and contact with high society aquaintenances, including [Edward] Prince of Wales. There are occasional personal accounts and remarks on national news events.

Lecture entitled 'Literary criticism of the fine arts with illustrations from the attitude of critics toward the work of Raphael'.

Large file containing various speeches, lectures and scripts for radio broadcasts, 1940-1945.
It includes the script of W.G.A. Ormsby-Gore 's inaugural radio broadcast as UK High Commissioner in South Africa, 1941, together with his professional reports to the Dominions Office, speeches and essays on typical South African issues, such as the effects of industrialisation; agricultural production, with suggested measures for improvement; the constitution and local administrative systems under colonial government; health care and education; the development of Afrikaner nationalism; political, religious and racial relations in a cosmopolitan population; South Africa 's position in the Second World War including political relations with the resident German community; and preservation of the cultural heritage by the South African Library at Cape Town, 1942-1944. The file also contains the script of a radio broadcast about the Portuguese prime minister, Dr Salazar, 1940; a memorandum on post-war British agricultural policy, 1944; a speech given at Chatham House in 1945 on the mandate system devised by the Allied Powers after the First World War; an essay about the need for more liberal education; and several lectures and essays on Western European architecture and painting, art criticism, contemporary South African art, museums and monuments in Portugal, and English place names, 1940-1943.

Statement by a constituent to celebrate the election victory of William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore as Conservative MP for the Denbigh Boroughs [c. 1910].

A notebook and loose pedigrees, research notes, extracts, abstracts and transcripts from wills, parish registers, university records, manuscripts and printed sources, and letters mainly to Mary Jane Ormsby-Gore, showing the marital connection between Gorges of Kilkenny and Gore of Leitrim, links with other branches of the Gorges family at Kilbrew, Langford, [Wilts], Wraxhall, [Somerset], Warleigh in Tamerton Foliot, [Devon], Eye and Leominster, and their kinship with Clinton, earls of Lincoln, Crewe of Nantwich, Lane of Staffordshire, Poytnz of Iron Acton, Shirley of West Grinstead and Willoughby of Eresby, [post-1814]-1866. Several of the pedigrees illustrate the descent from Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Proprietor of Maine, New England. The notebook [post-1851] includes the relationship between the Gorges and Dobyns Yate families, an extract of the will of Thomas Gorges, D.D., Prebendary of St Peters Westminster, 1667, and a summarised history of the manor of Knighton Gorges on the Isle of Wight. Other items in the file include a transcript made in 1832 of the will of Samuel Gorges, a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland, proved in 1686; and scattered references to the Gorges heraldic arms.

Mainly pedigrees and notes, [1764]x1789, together with a letter to Mrs Ormsby-Gore, 1868, elucidating the descent of the Godolphin family and Bridgeman of Castle Bromwich from Tanat of Abertanat; the marital connections of Tanat and Godolphin with Owen of Brogyntyn; the descent of the Cornish Earls of Godolphin, Francis Baron Helston and the relationship to Dr Henry Godolphin; intermarriages through the female line with the Dukes of Newcastle and Leeds; and a marital link with the Boscawen family. The file also includes a list by Mary Godolphin of the birthdays and ages of her own family and the Sleech family of Eton, 1724; notes on the deaths and burials of Susanna Godolphin and Owen Tanat in 1724 and 1768 respectively; and an eighteenth century copy of 'Achau Teilyoedd Abertanatt' compiled by the sons of David Lloyd, c. 1400.

Genealogical papers relating to the families of Wynn(e) of Glyn, Gwydir and Peniarth who were linked by common ancestry and intermarriages. They comprise eighteenth century memoranda from papers at Glyn and pedigrees [post-1830] showing the marital connections of Wynn of Glyn with Owen of Ystumcegid, Anwyl of Park, Owen of Brogyntyn and others; extracts taken in 1790 from the parish register of Llanwddyn, Montgomeryshire, for 1665-1699; an eighteenth century pedigree of Wynne of Gwydir; and a pedigree by W.W.E. Wynne of Peniarth, 1837, tracing his own ancestry through the Wynns of Glyn back to Sir William Maurice of Clenennau.

Handwritten and printed eighteenth and nineteenth century pedigrees, notes and essays relating to miscellaneous Welsh and English families, including the ancestors and descendants of James I [post-1727]; Watkin Kyffin of Glascoed, Denbighshire, 1860; Osborn Wyddel of Llanaber, 1862; Sir Roger Puleston and others (Watermark 1824); Somerset; Mansel of Margam; and Villiers. The file also contains an essay on the tribes of Wales; a list of heraldic quarterings including those of Owen, Lacon, Wynn of Glyn, Godolphin and Tanat; and an album of well-known national and individual coats of arms.

Manuscript volume, mainly of poetry, riddles and word puzzles, 1773, 1800-1801. Some of the verses have theatrical associations and include To David Garrick esq. Upon Meeting him at Mr Rigby 's House in the Country by C. Austen and Garrick 's Answer; a dramatic poem, Prologue for Venice Preserved by Richard Cumberland, Epilogue to Venice Preserved by William Hanbury and a further Epilogue by Cumberland, performed at Kelmarsh, 1773. Other works comprise a memorial to Rev. Samuel Love, a minor canon of Bristol Cathedral, 1773, and his lines to a robin residing in the cathedral; a copy of Beddgelert [by William Robert Spencer], dated at Dolymelynllyn, 1800; and poems written at Porkington by John Kynaston, 1801. The volume also contains a copy of the retort of George Nugent Reynolds, former justice for Leitrim, to the Earl of Clare, following his dismissal from the Commission of the Peace.

Manuscript volume belonging to L.M. Gore, containing elegies, odes, epitaphs, French chansons, other songs, popular rhymes and prose compositions on generally on romantic or bucolic themes, and on the Napoleonic Wars, 1785-1807. They include unpublished Lines by Mrs [Frances] Grevelle; a eulogy of Isaac Corry by Mrs [Henrietta] O 'Neill; To_'Fanny farewell...' by William Gore; copies of published works by Sir Brooke Boothby, William Cowper, Wentworth Dillon, Samuel Johnson, George Lewis, Richard Mant, Thomas Moore, Dr Thomas Percy, Mary Darby Robinson, 1788, William Roscoe, R. B. Sheridan, Thomas Sheridan, and Esther Vanhomrigh. Other titles comprise Inscription on the Cave in the Wood at Barrrowmount, 1786, To a Favorite Sister on her Birthday by 'An Etonian' [William Gore], To Eliza Gore with a Bouquet, 1797, To Capt William Gore Leaving Ireland, 1805, The Tears of the Cruets on Taxing Vinegar and Salt, 1805, and several other anonymous or unidentified works. Many other items in the volume are associated with the theatre and personalities such as David Garrick, Mrs O 'Neill of Shanes Castle, 1785, Madam Mara, 1795, Mrs Jordan at Drury Lane, 1798, George Baker, 1803, [George] Colman, Thomas Dibdin, 1803, and Robert Elliston, 1804; there is also a prelude to a children 's play, The Desert Island; and Prelude by Richard Cumberland upon Nelson 's death, 1805.

Volume apparently belonging to Owen Ormsby [pre-1804], containing copies of published poems and letters by Alexander Pope, Abraham Cowley, John Dryden, George Lyttelton and Thomas Parnell; A Recipe for the Vapours by Lord Lansdowne; letters by Countess Castelli to Baroness Treville concerning their friendship, a journey to Paris, Parisian society, fashion and etiquette, and the courtship of the Count de Castelli; other letters by unidentified authors on the subjects of romantic attraction, women and marriage; elegies on the poet 's emotional sensitivity and on separation from 'Celia'.

Exercise book of George Gore (aged 13), 1868, entitled Fairy Tales, containing a story, The Poor Man and his Sons Luck, with an exercise in gothic lettering at the back.

Two manuscripts of a play entitled Valerie, one version in three acts, the other in five acts (Watermarks 1811-1812).

A file of papers concerned with religious subjects which appear to date from the early seventeenth to the mid-eighteenth century. They include sermons; notes of sermons preached by [Thomas] Gatacre, [George] Carew, [Edward] Bentham and others; prayers and reflections on religious matters by Jane Owen [1669x1732]; considerations on appropriate attitudes to death, sin and sickness; arguments of John Frith the martyr; prayers entitled Prayers Out of Ye Christian Life; an essay on Daniel 's vision of the ram and the goat; notes on chapters of the Bible and the interpretation of various theological ideas; and extracts from the works of Bishop [Thomas] Newton.

Accounts of mysterious fires and the deaths of cattle and other farm animals in Merionethshire from an unknown disease [c. 1693]; a copy of Edward Lhuyd 's Parochial Queries [c. 1697]; notes on how the plague spread to Britain [18 cent., first quarter]; and a list of mountains and hills in North Wales and Shropshire, showing their heights in feet [19 cent., first half].

Various undated academic exercises in English and Latin, which appear to date from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Some are based on imaginary scenarios, namely an address to King Malcolm III of Scotland, speculative letters by Henry Harris to Oxford University tutors and the attempted rescue of the Earl of Desmond from the Tower of London, involving a consultation with Dr John Dee. Also included are an essay written from memory after a lecture on the history of Odonoghue, king of Kerry (Watermark 1806); notes on European alphabets, poetry and mythology; and an English translation of Undine, 1836.

A list of the nobility of England, 1680 (from Adams, J., Index Villaris London 1680), a published currency conversion table '...dedicated to the merchants of England, 1769, and a pamphlet describing the ceremonies to be observed at the coronation of William IV and Queen Adelaide, 1831.

Statutes of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, 1925.

Order of the annual service of the Order of St Michael and St George in St Paul 's Cathedral, including the installation of the banners of the Rt. Hon. Baron Harlech, 1947.