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Eight volumes (2 copies of each account) containing the trust settlement account of John Ralph, first Lord Harlech, 1848-1881, Mrs Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, deceased, trust account, Brogyntyn estate, 1869-1876, the executorship and general trust accounts, 1869-1881, and the trust account, Irish estate, 1870-1880; and loose accounts of the estate duty payable by the successors to the Brogyntyn estate following the deaths of Sarah Baroness Harlech and William Richard, second Baron Harlech, comprising Inland Revenue forms, valuations of Brogyntyn home farm, Glyn, Talsarnau, and 37 Chesham Place, London, and particulars of the real estate comprised in the accounts, 1899, 1904-1909

Case for the opinion of counsel to settle the form of farm tenancy agreement to be used by Lord Harlech on the Brogyntyn settled estate in the counties of Salop, Montgomery, Denbigh, Caernarfon and Merioneth, and samples of the agreements, 1908.

Lease by the Brogyntyn trustees and William Richard Baron Harlech to John Robert Banner of Liverpool of mines and minerals under land near Llidiart Carw, Llety and Llechwedd Du, 1878; notice of repossession, 1888; and a licence or take note granted to Andrew Vance Speer of Liverpool, 1908; plans included.

Copy draft agreements and conveyances by William Richard second Baron Harlech and his successor, George Ralph Charles third Baron Harlech, to Oswestry Rural District Council of land in the parish of Whittington for a water supply and the construction of reservoirs, reserving a supply to Mardy Farm, 1902; and to Oswestry Corporation of two pieces of land for hospital purposes, 1903, and easements for the construction and maintenance of a water main from Oerley Reservoir to Mount Road through High Fawr Farm, 1908; with plans

Deeds relating to farms and lands in the parishes of Llandanwg and Llanfihangel-y-traethau in the county of Merioneth, 1872-1908. The majority of the deeds relate to Erw Wen purchased by the Brogyntyn trustees from Sir Alfred Mordaunt Egerton in June 1907. They include an agreement between Samuel Holland and William Thearsby Poole for laying water pipes on Erw Wen to the farms of Lasynys, 1872; an order from the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, confirming compromise in the case of Bankes-Price and Owen, 1899; a sale catalogue of the estates of Mary Elizabeth Bankes-Price, including Erw Wen, and the purchase deed by Alfred Egerton of Glyn, 1899; an abstract of title, 1861-1899; agreements by Col. Alfred Mordaunt Egerton with Robert Griffith and Robert Jones for letting Erw Wen and a field near Harlech, 1902; the conveyance by Col. Sir Alfred Mordaunt Egerton, then of Chilton House, Thame, Oxfordshire, to the Brogyntyn trustees, 1907, with other associated documents including a copy of the tithe map and apportionment for Llandanwg in 1843, an ordnance survey map of Llandanwg (1:2500) 1889, letters and a valuation, 1907. The file also contains a conveyance by Caroline Jane Holland of Caerdeon to the Brogyntyn trustees, of Lasynys Fawr, Lasynys Fach, Garth Mawr Hen, the Castle Hotel Garden and crofts on Tan Twthill, 1908. Schedules and plans incorporated.

Bundle of accounts and receipts labelled ‘1907-1908 Lord Harlech (Brogyntyn trust) Requests, brokers’ notes, receipted bills’ showing legal costs due to Longueville and H.T. Dix from 1906, billed to the trustees in 1907-1908

Bundle in original wrapper labelled ‘Brogyntyn trust. Old receipted accounts, brokers’ notes and requests etc. to trustees’, 1895-1907. The contents include bills for legal services charged by Longueville and Co., W.W. Carruthers, and H.T. Dix and Sons of Dublin, and occasional related letters, 1896-1906; an application to the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, 1898, to enforce a payment to the current Brogyntyn trustees for land purchased by the Gorsedda Junction and Portmadoc Railway Company, together with transcripts of the relevant accounts of John Ralph Ormsby Gore and William Watkin Edward Wynne and William Kenyon Slaney against Patersons Snow Bloxham and Kinder, 1873-1898; and accounts for the sales of Dee Side, [Bangor Is-coed], the Cemais estate, Montgomeryshire, and properties in Sligo, Leitrim and Mayo, 1903-1907.

Game book of George Ormsby Gore, August 1895 –January 1907. Bookplates of George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore, 3rd Baron Harlech, inside front cover.

Papers relating to improvements to Mardy Farm in the parish of Selatyn, Salop, under the provisions of the Settled Land Acts 1882 to 1890, comprising the application form for the approval by the Board of Agriculture of a surveyor nominated by the estate trustees, he building inspection certificate of John Bligh Monck, the bill of Jones and Evans, builders, and related letters to Longueville and Co., 1905-1906.

Papers relating to unrelated individuals for whom the Ormsby Gore family acted as trustees or from whom the benefit of a trust was received, namely Charles Buckworth and Elizabeth his wife, 1790-1791, General John Despard, 1853-1854, John Edwards Donne, 1869, and Charles Arthur Ellis, 1906.

Papers relating to the accounts of estate duty payable by the successors to the Brogyntyn estate following the death of William Richard, second Baron Harlech, comprising letters and official observations from the Estate Duty Office, Somerset House, London, and answers from Longueville and Co., 1905-1906.

Schedule of heirlooms of William Richard [second] Baron Harlech, deceased, giving descriptions and valuations of the silver, electro-plate, oil paintings, furniture, jewellery, other valuables, and of heirlooms formerly at 37 Chesham Place, compiled 1906.

Family settlements and other associated papers of the Ormsby Gore family, 1844-1906. The file includes the marriage settlement of John Ralph Ormsby Gore of Portland Place, Middlesex, and Sarah Tyrell of Boreham House, Essex, 1844; the marriage settlement of William Richard Ormsby Gore of Portland Place and Emily Charlotte Seymour of Eaton Square, 1850, and appointment of Lord William Frederick Seymour as a new trustee, 1884, together with an extract of the settlement and relevant accounts, 1904-1906; a disentailing assurance by William Richard Baron Harlech and George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore of English, Welsh and Irish settled estates and trust monies investible in lands to be settled therewith and heirlooms, etc. and for limiting the same to their joint appointment, 1881, and a copy memorial of the registration of a deed concerning the uses and trusts upon the estates in Ireland, with a schedule of the lands annexed and the affidavit of John Jones of Oswestry, solicitor, 1881.

Inventories and valuations of household contents at Glyn [Talsarnau], after the death of John Ralph Ormsby Gore, first Baron Harlech, 1876, and of heirlooms belonging to William Richard second Baron Harlech, deceased, 1906

Deeds, 1895-1906. relating to a farm and lands called Llawrypant Ucha in the parish of Selatyn purchased from Benjamin Williamson by the trustees of the Brogyntyn settlement of 22 July 1881. The deeds include successive conveyances and mortgages involving John Theodore Richards, nephew of the former owner, Catherine Howell, James Partridge Baxter, William Edward Marsh, Mrs Fanny Partridge Richards, Frederick Angel Hawkins, William Rigby Harbridge, Joseph Roscoe Simm [executor of William Rigby Harbridge] and John Alfred Meredith, 1895-1904; a conveyance by Joseph Roscoe Simm to Benjamin Williamson of Wervin Old Hall, Cheshire, 1904; and the final deed of sale by Benjamin Williamson to George Ralph Ormsby Gore, Baron Harlech and his trustees, with plan enclosed, 1906; and abstracts of title, 1862-1896, 1862-1904.

Extract from the will of Charles Arthur Ellis, dated 1900, containing a trust legacy to his godson, Seymour Charles Egerton, son of Major Alfred Egerton and his wife [Mary Georgina, nee Ormsby Gore], 1906, and related letters from Cunliffes and Davenport to Longueville.

Title deeds for properties in Willow Street, Oswestry, Salop, including houses and cottages purchased by the Brogyntyn estate, 1678-1854, and a site for the gas works, 1820, and the old tan yard, 1905, formerly belonging to Brogyntyn

Deeds relating to a messuage and garden at the Brick Kilns, Oswestry, purchased from Mr John Jones of The Forest, 1851-1905. They include articles of agreement by Thomas Payne of America and others for the sale to John Jones of a moiety of the cottage and garden, 1851; a copy death certificate of Richard Jones, 1872; requisitions and abstract of title, 1850-1888, compiled 1905; the vendor’s declaration, and the conveyance to George Ralph Charles, Baron Harlech and trustees, 1905; with plans incorporated.

Agreement between George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech and Edward Jones and Thomas Evans, builders, for the sale and purchase of the old tan yard in Willow Street, Oswestry, 1905

Papers deriving from an application by the Brogyntyn estate under the Settled Land Acts 1882 to 1890 to effect estate improvements viz enlargement of a house and erection of new farm buildings at Penrhos, and the construction of labourers’ cottages at Old Port and Cross Lanes (Pentrepant), dated 1903-1904 but labelled 1905. The file includes the application form for the approval by the Board of Agriculture of a surveyor nominated by the estate trustees, 1903; specifications and architectural plans, 1903; an account of W.H. Thomas, builder, 1904; the building inspection certificates of John Bligh Monck, 1903-1904; receipts; and letters to the trustees and to Longueville and Co. by Lord Harlech and John Bligh Monck 1903-1904.