Fonds HOUG - Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Identity area

Reference code

HOUG

Title

Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Date(s)

  • [1736?]-1951 (Creation)

Level of description

Fonds

Extent and medium

160 boxes

Context area

Name of creator

(1809-1885)

Biographical history

Richard Monckton Milnes was born on 19 June 1809, son of Robert Pemberton Milnes, MP for Pontefract, and his wife Henrietta Maria Monckton, daughter of the 4th Viscount Galway. Milnes was admitted to Trinity College Cambridge in 1827 and graduated MA inread more

Archival history

Shortly after Houghton's death, his correspondence and other papers were entrusted to Arthur Edwin Scanes, who 'classified and catalogued' them; this work is praised by T. Wemyss Reid in the preface to his Life, Letters, and Friendships of... Lordread more

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

A first accession was given to Trinity College by Lady Crewe, wife of Houghton's son, in 1959; a second was given by her daughter the Duchess of Roxburghe in 1974.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Houghton's archive includes: Cambridge papers, 1827-1830; a voluminous correspondence; literary papers; publications, 1834-1873; political papers, 1837-1880s; business and estate papers; papers relating to travels, 1828-1885, papers relating to clubs andread more

System of arrangement

The two accessions are arranged very differently. The first, containing the majority of the correspondence, is essentially a box-by-box item list. The second accession is arranged hierarchically and contains more subject-related material.

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

This material is open for research unless otherwise stated.

Finding aids

A printed finding aid for the first accession and an incomplete one for the second accession are available at Trinity College Library. There are also index cards for the whole collection.

Allied materials area

Related descriptions

Publication note

T. Wemyss Reid, The life, letters, and friendships of Richard Monckton Milnes, first Lord Houghton (London : Cassell, 1890, 2. vols.)
James Pope-Hennessy, Monckton Milnes: the years of promise, 1809-1851, (London: Constable, 1949)
James Pope-Hennessy, read more

Archivist's note

May 2023: This on-line catalogue is a work in progress, as information continues to be transferred from the printed finding aids and index cards, and descriptions are expanded. It is hoped that further information about the original arrangement of theread more