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Minute book of the Bedfordshire Archaeological and Architectural Society

Catalogue reference: X69/16

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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

X69/16

Title

Minute book of the Bedfordshire Archaeological and Architectural Society

Date

nd 1847 onwards

Description

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.

Held by
Bedfordshire Archives & Records Service
Language

English

Physical condition

[fo. leather bound, approx 600 pages)

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/bdcadc14-d579-453b-a1c6-849876cff374/

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Minute book of the Bedfordshire Archaeological and Architectural Society