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- c 1823-1862 (Creation)
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19 locks of hair, each in individual paper wrapping.
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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 a commissioner of stamps while contributing articles to the Edinburgh Review. In 1809 Hallam began to work on the large-scale historical works for which he is known; View of the state of Europe during the Middle Ages was published in 1818 and The Constitutional history of England from the accession of Henry VII to the death of George II in 1827. His final work, published in 1837-39, was his Introduction to the literature in Europe in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He married Julia Maria, daughter of Sir Charles Elton, in 1807, and was the father of Arthur Henry Hallam, favourite of Tennyson, and Henry Fitzmaurice Hallam. Both sons, who predeceased their father, were members of Trinity College Cambridge. Hallam died in 1859.
Hallam's papers in Trinity College Library include commonplace books; historical notes; journal of a trip to Italy, 1828; diaries 1799-1800; household accounts, 1812, 1845-1851.
This material forms a series within the additional manuscripts series a, b, c and d, catalogued as Add.Ms.a.22-28, Add.Ms.b.18-21A, Add.Ms.c.17-20 and Add.Ms.d.13-52.
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Given as gift from Stephen Arthur Hallam Farnaby Lennard, grandson of Julia Lennard, daughter of Henry and Julia Hallam, to Julia Elton's parents.
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Presented to Trinity College Library by Julia Elton, 21 Jul. 2022.
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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 for her from E. Briggs, Chemist & Druggist, 48 Wigmore St., dated 18 Feb 1834. Three further locks of Eleanor Hallam's hair, each in separate paper wrappings, labelled: 'Ellen's hair when six years old'; 'Ellen's hair. Oct. 5th 1836' (this wrapper also labelled 'Henry Hallam Esq., 25 York Crescent', and tied with black ribbon); and 'Ellen, June 15th 1837 [the day of her death]'.
Lock of hair of Julia Hallam, afterwards Lennard, in paper wrapper labelled 'Ju's hair Febr[uar]y 1839'
Six locks of hair of Henry Fitzmaurice Hallam, each in separate paper wrapping, labelled: 'Harry's hair May 1834'; 'Harry's hair October 15th 1836'; 'Harry's hair Sept 16th 1837'; 'Harry's hair July 1838', 'Harry's hair Jan[ua]ry 1839'; and 'Harry's hair May 21 1840'
Blue paper wrapper labelled 'Juie [?] and Harry's hair', 'when quite young' added perhaps at a different time. Containing one lock of hair belonging to Julia Maria Frances Cator, afterwards Lennard, taken in Jul 1859 when she was six years old; also two locks of hair belonging to Henry Arthur Hallam Farnaby Cator, afterwards Lennard, one labelled 'Harry's hair' and one 'Harry's hair 1862'.
Three further unidentified locks of hair, each in paper wrapping, one labelled 'For my sister'.
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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., 2nd edition (London 1850), pages turned down by Henry Fitzmaurice Hallam; G.13.135, Abraham Hayward, Verses of other days , London 1847, inscribed by the author to Miss Hallam; Z.11.113, Sir Arthur Hallam Elton, A Few Years of the Life of Mary Elizabeth Elton (Clevedon Court, 1877)
Books G.13.117-127 were presented to the Library by Julia Elton in 2017.
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- Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833), poet and essayist (Subject)
- Hallam, Eleanor (1816-1837), sister of Arthur Hallam (Subject)
- Lennard, Julia Maria Frances (1817-1888), née Hallam, wife of Sir John Farnaby Lennard, 1st Bt. (Subject)
- Hallam, Henry Fitzmaurice (1824-1850), son of Henry Hallam (Subject)
- Lennard, Julia Maria Hallam (1853-1924), daughter of Sir John Farnaby Lennard, 1st Baronet, and Julia Hallam (Subject)
- Lennard, Sir Henry Arthur Hallam Farnaby (1859-1928), 2nd Baronet (Subject)