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Minute book of the Bedfordshire Archaeological and Architectural Society
Catalogue reference: X69/16
What’s it about?
This record is a file about the Minute book of the Bedfordshire Archaeological and Architectural Society dating from nd 1847 onwards.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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X69/16
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Title (The name of the record)
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Minute book of the Bedfordshire Archaeological and Architectural Society
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Date (When the record was created)
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nd 1847 onwards
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Description (What the record is about)
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Subscription 10s 6d (page 1)
Presidents: Duke of Bedford and Earl de Grey
Vice-Presidents: Lords St John, Carteret, Ongley and Alford; Baron Parke; Lord C J F Russell: The Rev H C Cust; Sir R H Inglis, Sir C G Payne, Hon G Rice-Trevor, Hastings Russell, Sir John Burgoyne, Sir H Verney, Henry Stuart
Council of 38; includes 17 clergy; also W Cooper Cooper, J Gibbard, J Harvey, R Orlebar, F Pym, W H and S C Whitbread, J T Wing
Treasurer: T Barnard
Secretaries: 7 (include B Rudge)
Proposal to include Buckinghamshire, made by Sir Harry Verney, rejected (page 7)
Pages 1 - 4 minutes of inaugural meeting
5 - 28 minutes of Council meetings (at first held monthly, 1847 - 1848
29 - c. 470 minutes of general meetings and Council meetings, 1843 - 1873; latterly increasingly short and supplemented by press-cuttings; finally presscuttings only
Division of the county into districts, pages 11 - 14
Rules pages 51 - 54
Initial circular (printed) with objects: page 21, also stuck at back 1847 - 1873
Pencilled note on front cover: 'Acquired for the Bedford Natural History and Archaeological Society by W N Henman for £1. Feb. 1948'
[Pages 75 - 80: Duke of Bedford's proposal to pull down Willington dovecote, stables and barn, 1850]
N.B. A sketch of the barn in B M Add. Ms 17, 456 (Powell, Topographical Collection for Beds. and Bucks) f 44 shows it as partly half timbered.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Bedfordshire Archives & Records Service
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
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[fo. leather bound, approx 600 pages)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/bdcadc14-d579-453b-a1c6-849876cff374/
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This record is held at Bedfordshire Archives & Records Service
Within the fonds: X69
Bedford Archaeological Society Collection
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Minute book of the Bedfordshire Archaeological and Architectural Society