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Original bundle of deeds (mainly copies and drafts) and documents relating to 40 Lowndes Street, p. St George Hanover Square, Middlesex. In 1843 the parcel of land was let by William Lowndes of Cheshunt, Buckinghamshire, esq., to William Turton Newton and John Kelk of Cavendish Square, builders, for 86 years. The following year they sold the house that they had built to Henry William Barnard, lieutenant-colonel in the 1st Regiment of Grenadier Guards. After divers assignments of the residue of the term of years (including the will of Rev. William Midleton Snell, dated 1881, proved 1899), the lease was bought by Lord Ormathwaite in 1920. Lord Ormathwaite then spent £1,875 re-decorating the house.

A six-inch Ordnance Survey map, Radnorshire XVI NE (second edition, 1904), and three undated plans, of Rhos Swydd, Canoldre House and Liverpool House, have been tranferred to the Department of Pictures and Maps (acc. nos 0200008303, 8307, 8311 and 8321). The last two plans were drawn by Addie & Son of Shrewsbury, and are only assumed to relate to Radnorshire.

Original bundle of requisitions on title relating to the sale by Lord Ormathwaite of premises in the Radnorshire estate, including in p's Colfa and Glascwm, including The Bailey, Bronllys, The Cloggy, Cwmkesti, an allotment on Llandeglau Rhos, part of Penllan Farm, and Rhos Swydd cottage and lands, and including lots 1-7, 11-12, 17, 19-23, 27-28, 30-32 and 35-36.

Letters to Margaret Walsh including a lengthy letter from A. Evans, Versailles, describing her life there, 1799 (Fe 3/2) and a letter in French from Madame le Baronne de Donckelmann, Prangen, 1819 (FC 3/6).

Diaries of Margaret Walsh. To avoid tedious repetition the general contents of the diaries can be summarised as follows: ill-health of various members of the family; visits, dinner engagements, London season, alterations to Warfield, reading and her mathematical exercises or 'propositions' as she calls them, that is, propositions in Sir Isaac Newton's Principia. All the diaries contain a list of letters written by Margaret Walsh; most contain lists of visitors received and visits made, dosages of medicine taken by her and a few medical recipes. The diaires have been numbered on the front cover by Margaret Walsh. The first diary, covering 1807-10 is now missing and her diary no. 13, for 1821, was missing when she drew up an inventory of her diaries in 1825 (Fe 4/15, f. 159) (but note that she has made an error in this inventory since she states that it is her diary no. 14 for 1822 that is missing: in fact this is FC 4/12). Her entries for Dec. 1819 were kept in a separate 'small book' (Fe 4/15, f. 159) and this is also no longer extant. Apparently, she kept her diaries until 1836, when she died, but those for 1829-36 have not survived.

Tour of Hampshire and a short stay in Cowes (ff. 5v-12) and a very detailed account of an extended tour of the continent (ff. 17v-69) including accounts of the family's stay at Le Havre (ff. 17v-33), Rouen (ff. 35v-9), Vernon (39v-40), Paris (ff. 41v-52), Fontainebleau (ff. 53v-5), Orleans (ff. 57-8), Blois (ff. 58v-9) and Tours (ff. 60-69) and including news of 'great mobs & riots in London excited by Mr Hunt' (f. 68), and account of expenses of the said tour (ff. 93v-7).

Continuation of their stay at Florence from FC 4/9 (ff. 6v-20); account of a journey from Florence to Rome (ff. 20v-9), a stay at Rome (ff. 29-91), the journey back again to Florence (ff. 92-8), their stay in Florence (ff. 98-105) and their journey to, and stay at, Venice (ff. 112v-22), including observations on the Venetians' resentment towards the Austrian government (f.121v); and account of their return journey through Italy and Switzerland to Paris (ff. 122-82).

Accounts of stays at Brighton (ff. 4v-34, 38-45) and Cowes (ff. 71-97) including a reference to disturbances in Norfolk and Suffolk (f.31v), a brief description of Winchester cathedral then undergoing repairs including the removal of Inigo Jones' screen (f.69v), and a description of the house of industry at Newport, Isle of Wight (ff. 90, 95-6); and a press cutting of a poem by John Smith describing how and why he murdered his wife, for which he was executed at Penneden Heath near Maidstone (between ff. 114-15).

Brief character sketch of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester (ff. 98-9) and a description of the actress Sarah Siddons reading Shakespeare at private dinners (ff. 112v-13, 117).

Continuation of her husband's illness until June 6 (ff. 1-27) (dec. June 7). There are no entries afterwards until Jan. 1826 and these include an account of brief holidays at Boulogne (ff. 70v-2); Malvern (ff. 86v-92, 98v-113) and Hastings (ff. 20-5).

Diaries of Sir John Walsh. In many respects the diaries are similar in contents to his mother's (i.e. personal and domestic) but with more emphasis on the London season and politics and they are, in general, far more detailed. The earlier diaries are dominated by his obsessive ambition to make a mark in society. By endeavouring to create a web of connexions he sought to become known to the most powerful and fashionable aristocratic families in England. Such connections would, he hoped, fulfil both his marital and political ambitions. He has some very pertinent things to say about the closing down of the avenues of advancement after the end of the Napoleonic wa[?r]s when the aristocracy closed ranks [see Fg 1/3-4]. After his marriage in 1825 the diaries, naturally, are more domestic: the pleasures and pains of parenthood and later of grand-parenthood, family holidays, his wife's relations, etc. The frequent visits which he made to co. Rad. to inspect his estates, or to reside there for a few months usually at the end of the year, to attend the Assizes, Quarter Sessions, etc., have not as a rule been included in what follows. The dates of these activities can be ascertained from the summary of his diaries in Fg 1/43. He also made frequent visits to his Irish estates in Cos Kerry and Cork, Ireland: these will also not be referred to below since the relevant entries have been published by James S. Donnelly Jr, 'The Journals of Sir John Benn-Walsh Relating to the Management of His Irish Estates, 1823-64' in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, vols LXXX, No. 230 (1974), pp. 86-123, and LXXXI, No. 231 (1975), pp. 15-42. His diaries covering 31 Sept. 1816 to 21 July 1822 and 1 Jan. 1825 to 31 Dec. 1829 are missing. For a summary of their contents see Fg 1/43, pp. 62-77.

A lengthy account of his sister's supposed derangement (pp. 32-109) [cf. Fe 4/4, ff. 73-86]; a tour of Hampshire and a holiday at Cowes (pp. 81-98); a tour of the continent including accounts - in far more detail than in his mother's diaries in Fe 4/5 - of the family's stay at Havre (pp. 118-80), an excursion to Caen via Hanfleur and back (pp. 157-69) and their stay at Rouen (pp. 182-94) and including a reference to a by-election at Carlisle (pp. 28-9) and to the actress Sarah Siddons in Queen Catherine (p. 101).

Brief accounts of debates and political news relating to the Irish Church Reform Bill, 1 July - 18 Aug. 1833, 18 Apr. 1834 (pp. 1, 3-5, 7, 146); reference to a dinner with Gladstone and others at Clapham, 27 July 1833 (p. 14); holiday at Aberystwyth, 20 Sept. - 21 Oct. 1833 (pp. 43-60); a description of Eaton Hall, Cheshire, 19 Nov. 1833 (pp. 83-6); references to attending the Berkshire quarter sessions, 31 Dec. 1833, 2 Jan. 1834 (pp. 108, 115), holiday at Hastings, 16-31 Mar. 1834 (pp. 137-9); references to a meeting of the 'Trade Unions' [Robert Owen's Grand National Consolidated Trade Unions], 19, 21 Aug. 1834 (pp. 147-8); references to the by-election at Sudbury following the death of the other sitting member, 21-7 July 1834 (pp. 175-7); brief account of the rebuilding of Queen Square, Bristol, following the damage caused by the 1831 riots, 5 Aug. 1834 (p. 182); accounts of local politics in co. Rad. following a probable vacancy in the county representation caused by Frankland Lewis' appointment to the Poor Law Commission, 29 Aug. - 3 Sept. 1834 (pp. 203-10); description of Hall Barn [Park], Buckinghamshire, the home of Sir Gore Ouseley, diplomat and oriental scholar, who showed him some illuminated Persian MSS, 11 Sept. 1834 (pp. 213-14); a brief description of the ruins of the Houses of Parliament following the fire at which the 'mob cheered whenever a roof fell in', 31 Oct. 1834 (p. 241); references to the Berkshire election, 17-21 Nov. 1834 (pp. 255-6, 258-9); references to, and accounts of, the Sudbury election, 19-23 Nov. 1834 (pp. 257, 260-1) and account of an exploratory visit to co. Rad. to ascertain whether he should contest co. Rad. or not, 22-30 Nov., 1834 (pp. 260-72).

Visit to Paris, 12 Dec. 1841-23 Jan. 1842 (pp. 4-25); no entries from 27 Jan. - 11 Aug. 1842; account of a sailing excursion from Liverpool to Scotland, 14 Aug. - 21 Sept. 1842 (pp. 85-107); first meeting of the co. Rad. Agricultural Association and including his account of how he was elected lord lieutenant of the county in preference to Frankland Lewis and James Price and his comments on rent reductions due to Peel's tariff and on the continuing agricultural backwardness of the county (pp. 114-71); his work on moving a Bill to amend Hobhouse's Vestry Act, 21 Feb. - 28 Mar. 1843 (pp. 182-230 passim); brief accounts of parliamentary debates, 22-5 Feb. 1842 (pp. 135, 139-40) and 12 Feb. - 4 June 1843 (pp. 180-216 passim), including debates on the repeal of the Corn Laws and the Canada Corn Bill; the Sudbury Disenfranchisement Bill which included powers to examine previous elections [later amended to examine only the last election - see Fg 1/14, p. 37], 17-19 Mar. 12, 23 June 1843 (pp. 199-200, 247-8, 250-1); attending a committee on the Cardigan Markets Bill, 21 Mar. 1843 (p. 202); meeting of all the Tory M.P.s at Downing Street re the Canada Corn Bill, 19 May 1843 (pp. 243-6) and a holiday at Cowes and a sailing trip to Holland 18-31 July 1843 (pp. 262-73).

Continuation of the marital affairs of his brother in law, the earl of Stamford, 23 June 1848 - 19 Jan. 1849 (pp. 1-16 passim, 33-4, 134-9); meeting of Irish M.P.s, 23 June 1848 - 19 Mar. 1849 (pp. 1-2, 9, 11, 155, 166-7); dinner with Stanley, Disraeli and other protectionists, 19 July 1848 and 9 May 1849 (pp. 24-5, 186); the (supposed) cause of Castlereagh's suicide which Sir John Walsh disbelieved, 30 July 1848 (pp. 36-7); brief accounts of/references to parliamentary debates, 23 June 1848 - 6 July 1849 (pp. 2-33 passim, 60, 158-9, 167-200 passim); meetings to elect a new leader of the protectionists, 31 Jan. - 1 Feb. 1849 (pp. 143-4, 154); meetings and discussions with Disraeli, 7 Feb. - 6 Mar., 27 Apr., 28 June, 1849 (pp. 145-58 passim, 182, 198); a holiday on the Scilly Isles and a sailing excursion to Brest and back to Weymouth, 10-16 July 1849 (pp. 201-7); a sailing trip from Torquay to Plymouth including a digression on the causes of cholera which had then broken out in Devonport and Plymouth, 31 July - 6 Aug. 1849 (pp. 212-17) and account of a visit to Raughlin Island during a sailing trip from Kingston Ireland to Falmouth, 27 Sept. - 9 Oct. 1849 (pp. 231-42).