Item 669 - Samples of hair of the children and grandchildren of Henry and Julia Hallam

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Reference code

Add. MS a/669

Title

Samples of hair of the children and grandchildren of Henry and Julia Hallam

Date(s)

  • c 1823-1862 (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

19 locks of hair, each in individual paper wrapping.

Context area

Name of creator

(1777-1859)

Biographical history

Henry Hallam was born on 9 July 1777, the son of John Hallam, Canon of Windsor. He attended Eton College and Christ Church Oxford, graduating BA in 1799. Hallam began a legal career and was a barrister on the Oxford circuit, but in 1806 he became aread more

Archival history

Given as gift from Stephen Arthur Hallam Farnaby Lennard, grandson of Julia Lennard, daughter of Henry and Julia Hallam, to Julia Elton's parents.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Presented to Trinity College Library by Julia Elton, 21 Jul. 2022.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Two locks of Arthur Henry Hallam's hair, each in separate paper wrapping, one taken when he was 'about 12 years old' and another on 'Sept. 15 1833' [the day of his death].

Lock of Eleanor Hallam's hair, in wrapping previously containing prescription forread more

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Related units of description

Books given at the same time by Julia Elton to Trinity College Library: G.13.133, Selections from the Poems of William Wordsworth Esq (London 1831), inscribed by Arthur Henry Hallam with a poem to his sister Eleanor; G.13.134, Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H.read more

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