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Official table and individual results slip showing examination marks achieved by George Ralph Charles Ormsby-Gore in his army entrance examinations, 1874, and a certificate for musketry training in the Coldstream Guards, 1878.

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.

Notebooks containing very detailed descriptions as well as shorter notes and sketches of church architecture in Shrewsbury, Cheshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, and Northamptonshire, 1903; European religious paintings and church decoration, mainly Italian and Austrian, 1904; and architecture and art seen on a visit to in Spain, with further notes on Italian art and the contents of British galleries, 1927.

Two large files and several other individual drafts, copies and published versions of speeches, broadcasts, essays and lectures given by William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore to various colonial and international organisations, scientific bodies, educational and cultural institutions, and conferences between 1925 and 1944. The subject matter reflects both his work in colonial administration and politics, and his personal interest in fine art, galleries and museums.

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].

Papers relating to interests of the Owen and Ormsby-Gore families, namely genealogy, 1698-1951, literature, 1624-1868, the arts, [1684]-1888, and academic pursuits, [14 cent.]-1946, including catalogues of their own library, together with accumulated newspapers, newsletters and printed leaflets, 1666-1887.

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.

Large volumes, notebooks and folders, containing mainly poetry and prose compositions accumulated by various members of the Owen and Ormsby-Gore families, 1624-1868, and in particular by Frances Morres Gore, 1809-1832. The great majority are in English, but they include some works in French, Welsh, Latin and Italian by published and unpublished authors, including members of the Gore family. They broadly cover contemporary national events and politics of the Stuart period, the Hanoverian monarchy and the Napoleonic Wars, together with matters of local interest, and various romantic and moralistic themes.

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).

Papers relating to music, produced between 1731 and 1888, including instructions from a printed manual on technique and music for playing on the harpsichord; notes, programmes and other items associated with concerts and musical scores; and a paper relating to art, consisting of remarks on a famous equine portrait.