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Lady Gifford's Harriers Point-to-Point Steeplechases

Catalogue reference: Add Mss 11,846 - 11,899

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This record is about the Lady Gifford's Harriers Point-to-Point Steeplechases dating from 1904 - 1931.

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Reference
Add Mss 11,846 - 11,899
Title
Lady Gifford's Harriers Point-to-Point Steeplechases
Date
1904 - 1931
Description

Records of Lady Gifford's Harriers Point-to-Point Steeplechases, 1904 - 1914, with allied papers, 1919 - 1931

Related material

<p>For Old Park, Bosham, see Sussex: historical, biographical and pictorial (1907)</p>

Held by
West Sussex Record Office
Language
English
Creator(s)
<corpname>Gifford, Sophia Catherine, d 1947, nee Street, Baroness Gifford</corpname>
Physical description
54 pieces
Access conditions

Open to consultation, unless otherwise stated

Immediate source of acquisition

Presented by G.A. Russell Purchase, Esq., Chichester, July 1968

Administrative / biographical background

Sophia Catherine Street married Edric Frederick, 3rd Baron Gifford of St. Leonards, V.C. in 1880; he died without issue in 1911. Lady Gifford kept a pack of harriers at her residence, Old Park, Bosham, and she, who acted as Master and Huntsman, did not die until 1947. Arthur Purchase and T.G. Purchase, the grandfather and father respectively of the donor of the records listed were secretaries for the point-to-point steeplechases

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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/32ae0463-e870-4505-af25-5fc5ef8ca284/

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Lady Gifford's Harriers Point-to-Point Steeplechases