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Rhys Davids familyThomas and Caroline Rhys Davids were eminent Pali scholars. They were married in 1894 and had three children: Vivien, Arthur and Nesta. Arthur was a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps and was killed during the First World War. Thomas Rhys Davids was the son of Thomas William Davids, an ecclesiastical historian and pastor of Lion Walk Congregational Church, Colchester, Essex. Caroline Rhys Davids was the daughter of John Foley, vicar of Wadhurst, Sussex, and Caroline Elizabeth Foley (née Windham). She had a brother, Charles Windham Foley, a solicitor at Morgan and Co, Calcutta, India, and a sister, Mary Cecilia Foley. Through her father, John Foley, the son of John Foley, rector of Holt, Worcestershire, and grandson of Robert Foley, vicar of Mordiford, Herefordshire, she was connected to the Foley family of Witley Court, Worcestershire. Through her mother, Caroline Elizabeth Foley (née Windham), she was a member of the Windham family of Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk. Correspondence and papers, 1722-1978The collection comprises the papers of: 30 boxes and 4 volumes The Library holds a collection of Rhys Davids' photographs of family and friends, comprising 3 boxes of negatives and prints (uncatalogued) index of people, places and institutions RD T Thomas William Rhys Davids (1843-1922), Pali scholarThomas Rhys Davids was born in Colchester, Essex, 12 May 1843. He was educated at Clive House School, Brighton, and Breslau University, where he studied Greek and Sanskrit. He held a number of posts in the Ceylon Civil Service, including District Judge and Archaeological Commissioner, 1866-72. He was taught Pali by a Buddhist scholar, Yatramulle Unnanse. He returned to England, 1873, and became a barrister, 1877. He was appointed Professor of Pali and Buddhist Literature at University College, London, 1882-1904; Secretary and Librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1885-1904; and Professor of Comparative Religion at Manchester University, 1904-15. He married Caroline Foley, 1894. He was a founder and President of the Pali Text Society, 1881-1922, and a founder of the British Academy, 1901. In his retirement, he wrote for the Manchester Guardian and worked on the preparation of a Pali dictionary. He died in Chipstead, Surrey, 27 December 1922. Correspondence and papers, 1852-1922The collection mainly comprises manuscripts, articles, lectures, diaries, correspondence and accounts. 5 boxes RD T/1 Memoir of Thomas Rhys Davids' first encounter with
Pali in Ceylon RD T/2 Sanskrit grammar RD T/3 Articles RD T/3/1 Draft article on discipline in Buddhism RD T/3/2 Draft article on the rock cave inscriptions in Ceylon RD T/3/3 Draft article on the Essenes and the Buddhists RD T/3/4 Draft article on dhammapala RD T/4 Draft notice about current work RD T/5 Draft review of Thomas Rhys Davids, Lectures on
the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by Some Points in
the History of Indian Buddhism (1881) RD T/6 Lectures RD T/6/1 Copy lecture on Buddhism RD T/6/2 Draft lecture on Buddhism RD T/6/3 Draft lecture on Buddhism RD T/6/4 Draft lecture on Islam RD T/6/5 Draft lecture on nirvana RD T/7 Diaries RD T/7/1 RD T/7/2 RD T/7/3 RD T/7/4 RD T/7/5 RD T/7/6 RD T/7/7 RD T/7/8 RD T/7/9 RD T/7/10 RD T/7/11 RD T/7/12 RD T/7/13 RD T/7/14 RD T/7/15 RD T/8 General correspondence RD T/8/1 A-L RD T/8/2 M-Y RD T/9 Correspondence and papers about school RD T/10 Correspondence and papers about Ceylon RD T/10/1 Letters of appointment RD T/10/2 Correspondence and papers RD T/11 Correspondence and papers about the estate of Thomas
William Davids RD T/12 Correspondence and papers about elections to institutions RD T/13 Correspondence and papers about the Hibbert Lectures RD T/14 Correspondence and papers about applications for posts RD T/15 Correspondence and papers about honorary degrees RD T/15/1 Invitation to receive an honorary degree from Edinburgh
University RD T/15/2 Letters about an honorary degree from Cambridge
University RD T/15/3 Letter and papers about the award of an honorary
degree by Sheffield
University RD T/16 Correspondence and papers about a Civil List pension RD T/17 Correspondence and papers about a Chair in Pali and
Buddhist Studies at Oxford
University RD T/18 Correspondence and papers about the British
Academy RD T/19 Correspondence about Manchester
University RD T/19 Personal and professional correspondence RD T/20/1 Letters from Robert
Caesar Childers RD T/20/2 Letters from S.
P. de Silva RD T/20/3 Letters from Julius
Eggeling RD T/20/4 Letters from Viggo
Fausbøll RD T/20/5 Correspondence with William
Hunter RD T/20/6 Correspondence with Max
Muller RD T/21 Family correspondence RD T/21/1 Letters from Esdaile
Davids RD T/21/2 Letters from Thomas
William Davids RD T/21/3 Letters from Arthur
Rhys Davids RD T/21/4 Letters from Caroline
Rhys Davids RD T/21/4/1 RD T/21/4/2 RD T/21/4/3 RD T/21/5 Letters from Vivien
Rhys Davids RD T/21/6 Correspondence with other family members RD T/22 Account books RD T/22/1 Income and expenditure accounts RD T/22/2 Income and expeniture accounts RD T/22/3 Quarterly and annual income and expenditure accounts RD T/23 Certificate and student card from Breslau
University RD T/24 Certificate from the Council
of Legal Education RD T/25 Draft wills [ collection ] RD C Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids (1857-1942), Pali scholarCaroline Augusta Foley was born in Wadhurst, Sussex, 27 September 1857. She was educated at home and at University College, London, BA, 1886, MA, 1889. She was a member of staff of the Economic Journal, 1891-5. She worked on behalf of various societies for the welfare of women and children, 1890-4, and was a campaigner for women's suffrage, 1896-1914. She married Thomas Rhys Davids, 1894. She was appointed Lecturer in Indian Philosophy at Manchester University, 1910-13, and Lecturer in the History of Buddhism at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1918-33. She was Honorary Secretary, 1907-22, and President, 1923-42, of the Pali Text Society. She died in Chipstead, Surrey, 26 June 1942. Correspondence and papers, 1873-1944The collection mainly comprises manuscripts, articles, book reviews, lectures, notebooks, diaries, correspondence and sketchbooks. 12 boxes RD C/1 Draft of Psalms of the Early Buddhists. Psalms of
the Sisters (1909) RD C/2 Draft preface to the second edition of A Buddhist
Manual of Psychological Ethics RD C/3 Articles RD C/3/1 Draft article on dhyana in Early Buddhism RD C/3/2 Draft article on Buddhism in South Asia RD C/3/3 Draft article on fellowship RD C/3/4 Draft article on Buddhism RD C/3/5 Draft article on purity and purification RD C/3/6 Draft article on logic RD C/4 Book reviews RD C/5 Book reviews RD C/6 Lectures RD C/6/1 Draft lecture on the evolution of the idea of God RD C/6/2 Draft lecture on the Pali
Text Society RD C/6/3 Draft lecture on women in Ancient India RD C/6/4 Draft lecture on will RD C/6/5 Draft lecture on Indian Buddhism RD C/6/6 Notes for a speech given in response to a paper by Gunapala
Piyasena Malalasekera RD C/7 School notebooks RD C/8 University notebooks RD C/9 Translation of the story of Nala (Nalopakhyanam) from
the Mahabharata RD C/10 Notes on the Vinaya-pitaka (Book of the Discipline) RD C/11 General notebooks RD C/11/1 RD C/11/2 RD C/11/3 RD C/11/4 RD C/12 Diaries RD C/12/1 RD C/12/2 RD C/12/3 RD C/12/4 RD C/12/5 RD C/12/6 RD C/12/7 RD C/12/8 RD C/12/9 RD C/12/10 RD C/12/11 RD C/12/12 RD C/12/13 RD C/12/14 RD C/12/15 RD C/12/16 RD C/12/17 RD C/13 General correspondence RD C/13/1 A-G RD C/13/2 H-P RD C/13/3 Q-Z RD C/14 Correspondence and papers about family history RD C/15 Letters and papers about universities RD C/15/1 Letters and papers about University
College, London RD C/15/2 Letters about Manchester
University RD C/15/3 Letters about the Wilde Lectureship, Oxford
University RD C/16 Correspondence and papers about the estate of Martha
Foley RD C/17 Letters and papers about Thomas
Rhys Davids' will and the gift of part of his library to Ceylon
University RD C/18 Personal and professional correspondence RD C/18/1 Letters from Alexis
Berthod RD C/18/2 Letters from Earl
Henry Brewster RD C/18/3 Letters from Ambalangoda
Polvatte Buddhadatta RD C/18/4 Letters from Laure
Cerise RD C/18/5 Letters from Ananda
Coomaraswamy RD C/18/6 Letters from Angarika
Dharmapala RD C/18/7 Letters from Francis
Ysidro Edgeworth RD C/18/8 Letters from Henry
Snyder Gehman RD C/18/9 Letters from Arthur
John Gossip RD C/18/10 Letters from Miles
Hare RD C/18/11 Letters from Isaline
Horner RD C/18/12 Letters from Don
Baron Jayatilaka RD C/18/13 Correspondence with Chintaman
Vinayak Joshi RD C/18/14 Letters from Georg
Landsberg RD C/18/15 Letters from Mary
Lilley RD C/18/16 Letters from Gina
Lomboro RD C/18/17 Letters from Jean
Przyluski RD C/18/18 Letters from Piyadasa
Dharmasiri Ratnatunga RD C/18/19 Letters from Edward
Joseph Thomas RD C/18/20 Letters from Max
Walleser RD C/18/21 Letters from Friedrich
Weller RD C/18/22 Letters from Ann
Wheaton RD C/18/23 Letters from Frank
Lee Woodward RD C/19 Family correspondence RD C/19/1 Letters from Mary
Cecilia Foley RD C/19/2 Letters from Arthur
Rhys Davids RD C/19/2/1 RD C/19/2/2 RD C/19/2/3 RD C/19/3 Letters from Thomas
Rhys Davids RD C/19/3/1 RD C/19/3/2 RD C/19/3/3 RD C/19/3/4 RD C/19/4 Letters from Vivien
Rhys Davids RD C/19/4/1 RD C/19/4/2 RD C/19/5 Correspondence with other family members RD C/20 Scrapbooks about the children RD C/20/1 Scrapbook about Vivien
Rhys Davids, Part I RD C/20/2 Scrapbook about Vivien
Rhys Davids, Part II RD C/20/3 Scrapbook about Arthur
Rhys Davids RD C/21 Certificates RD C/22 Sketchbooks and a drawing RD C/22/1 RD C/22/2 RD C/22/3 RD C/22/4 Sketch map of the Aosta Valley, Italy [ collection ] RD J Joint correspondence and papers of Thomas William Rhys Davids (1843-1922) and Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids (1857-1942)Correspondence and papers, 1861-1947The collection mainly comprises diaries, correspondence, photographs and personal effects. 4.5 boxes RD J/1 Miscellaneous notes RD J/2 Diaries RD J/2/1 RD J/2/2 RD J/2/3 RD J/3 General correspondence RD J/4 Correspondence with publishers about books RD J/4/1 Correspondence and papers about Thomas Rhys Davids, Buddhist
Birth Stories or Jataka Tales: the Oldest Collection of Folklore
Extant Being the Jatakatthavannana (1880) RD J/4/2 Correspondence and papers about Thomas Rhys Davids, Buddhist
India RD J/4/3 Correspondence and papers about Thomas Rhys Davids, Buddhism RD J/4/4 Correspondence and papers about Thomas Rhys Davids, Buddhism RD J/4/5 Correspondence and papers about Thomas Rhys Davids, Early
Buddhism (1908) RD J/4/6 Correspondence and papers about Thomas Rhys Davids, Comparative
Religion RD J/4/7 Letter from Edward
Arnold rejecting a proposed book of essays on Indian religion
by Thomas Rhys Davids RD J/4/8 Letters from T.
C. and E. C. Jack about a proposed book on Buddhism by Thomas
Rhys Davids RD J/4/9 Papers about Caroline Rhys Davids, Buddhism (1912) RD J/4/10 Correspondence and papers about Thomas Rhys Davids, Sacred
Books of the East, vols. XI and XXXV RD J/4/11 Credit note from Oxford
University Press about Thomas Rhys Davids, Dialogues of the
Buddha, part II RD J/4/12 A letter and papers about Caroline Rhys Davids, Psalms
of the Early Buddhists, part II: Psalms of the Bretheren (1913) RD J/4/13 Papers about Caroline Rhys Davids, Elements of
General Philosophy (1896) RD J/4/14 Letters and papers about Caroline Rhys Davids, Buddhist
Psychology (1914) RD J/4/15 Letters and papers about Caroline Rhys Davids, Old
Creeds and New Needs (1923) and The Will to Peace (1923) RD J/4/16 Papers about Caroline Rhys Davids, Dialogues
of the Buddha (1899-1921) RD J/4/17 Letters and papers about Caroline Rhys Davids, The
Milinda Questions (1930) RD J/4/18 Papers about Caroline Rhys Davids, Gotama the
Man (1928) RD J/4/19 Papers about Caroline Rhys Davids, Sakya or Buddhist
Origins (1931) RD J/4/20 Letters and papers about Caroline Rhys Davids, A
Manual of Buddhism (1932) RD J/4/21 Letters and papers about Caroline Rhys Davids, Indian
Religion and Survival (1934) RD J/4/22 Letters and papers about Caroline Rhys Davids, Outlines
of Buddhism (1934) RD J/4/23 Papers about Caroline Rhys Davids, What is your
Will? (1936) RD J/4/24 Papers about Caroline Rhys Davids, To Become
or Not to Become (1937) and The Birth of Indian Psychology
and its Development in Buddhism (1936) RD J/4/25 Papers about Caroline Rhys Davids, What was the
Original Gospel in Buddhism? (1938) RD J/4/26 Letters about Caroline Rhys Davids, Wayfarer's
Words (1940) RD J/4/27 Letters about Caroline Rhys Davids, Kindred Sayings
on Buddhism (1930) RD J/4/28 Papers about Caroline Rhys Davids, Poems of Cloister
and Jungle (1941) RD J/5 Letters of condolence and papers about the death of Arthur
Rhys Davids RD J/6 Personal and professional correspondence RD J/6/1 Letters from Accini RD J/6/2 Letters from Dines
Andersen RD J/6/3 Letters from Benimadhab
Barua RD J/6/4 Letters from Mabel
Haynes Bode RD J/6/5 Correspondence with Joseph
Estlin Carpenter RD J/6/6 Correspondence with Robert
Chalmers RD J/6/7 Correspondence with Albert
Joseph Edmunds RD J/6/8 Letters from Charles
Eliot RD J/6/9 Letters from Wilhelm
Geiger RD J/6/10 Correspondence with Edmund
Gooneratne RD J/6/11 Letters from George
Gould RD J/6/12 Letters from Edward
Greenly RD J/6/13 Letters from Ellen
Higgins RD J/6/14 Letters from Bettina
Kahnweiler RD J/6/15 Letters from Charles
Rockwell Lanman RD J/6/16 Letters from Edmund
James Mills RD J/6/17 Correspondence with C.
M. Mulvaney RD J/6/18 Letters from Hermann
Oldenberg RD J/6/19 Correspondence with Isaline
Philpot RD J/6/20 Letters from William
Henry Denham Rouse RD J/6/21 Letters from Shwe
Zan Aung RD J/6/22 Correspondence with Helmer
Smith RD J/6/23 Correspondence with William
Stede RD J/7 Family correspondence RD J/7/1 Correspondence with Louisa
Byles RD J/7/2 Correspondence with Lida RD J/7/3 Correspondence with other family members RD J/8 Christmas and greetings cards RD J/9 Postcards RD J/10 Bills and receipts RD J/11 Press cuttings RD J/12 Press cuttings about Arthur
Rhys Davids, the Royal
Flying Corps and the First World War RD J/13 Programmes, invitations, advertisements and miscellaneous
papers RD J/14 Golf score cards RD J/15 Cartes de visite and business cards RD J/16 Poems RD J/17 Photograph albums RD J/17/1 Photograph album of family and friends RD J/17/2 Photograph album of family and friends RD J/17/3 Photograph album of family and friends RD J/17/4 Photograph album of the Rhys Davids children RD J/18 Dried edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum) RD J/19 Lock of Vivien
Rhys Davids' hair RD J/20 Lace mat RD J/21 Robert
Chalmers RD J/22 Suzanne
Karpeles RD J/23 Makoto
Nagai [ collection ] RD V Vivien Brynhilda Caroline Foley Rhys Davids (1895-1978)Vivien Rhys Davids was born in Honor Oak, 19 July 1895. She was educated at Manor Mount Girls' School, Forest Hill; Wynthrop College, Ashton upon Mersey, 1905-12; Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls, 1912-15; and St Hugh's College, Oxford, BA, 1918. She lived in Chipstead, Surrey, 1915-78. She was a councillor of Surrey County Council and chairman of Banstead District Council, 1948-9 and 1960-1. She was active in the Girl Guides' Association and her interests included archaeology, ornithology and music. She lived with her companion, Doris Bland. She was awarded the MBE, 1973. She died in Chipstead, Surrey, 1978. Correspondence and papers, 1896-1974The collection mainly comprises correspondence and photographs. 1.5 boxes RD V/1 General correspondence RD V/2 Invitations to children's parties RD V/3 Letters and papers about school RD V/4 Letters and papers about St
Hugh's College, Oxford RD V/5 Letters of condolence on the death of Arthur
Rhys Davids RD V/6 Correspondence and papers about the estate of Mary
Cecilia Foley RD V/7 Correspondence and papers about the estate of Charles
Windham Foley RD V/8 Letters of condolence on the death of Nesta
Rhys Davids RD V/9 Letters from Arthur
Rhys Davids RD V/10 Letters from Caroline
Rhys Davids RD V/11 Letters from Nesta
Rhys Davids RD V/12 Play RD V/13 Certificates RD V/14 Obituaries and biographical articles about Thomas
Rhys Davids and Caroline
Rhys Davids RD V/15 Photograph album of Haberdashers'
Monmouth School for Girls RD V/16 Doris Bland [ collection ] RD A Arthur Percival Foley Rhys Davids (1897-1917), PilotArthur Rhys Davids was born in Forest Hill, 26 September 1897. He was educated at Sale, Brooklands and Ashton upon Mersey High School for Boys, 1906-7; Wadham House, Hale, 1909; Summer Fields, Oxford, 1909-10; and Eton, 1911-16; and won an exhibition to Balliol College, Oxford. He joined the Royal Flying Corps, 1916, and after training as a pilot was posted to 56 Squadron in France, 1917. He shot down 25 enemy pilots, including the German ace Werner Voss, and was awarded the MC with bar and the DSO, 1917. He went missing in action, 27 October 1917. Correspondence and papers, 1906-19The collection mainly comprises correspondence. 2 boxes The envelopes from letters to Arthur Rhys Davids have been preserved in a separate box RD A/1 Notecase RD A/2 General correspondence RD A/3 Correspondence and papers about school RD A/3/1 Letters from tutors RD A/3/2 School reports RD A/3/3 Examination papers, scripts and revision notes RD A/3/4 Receipts and bills RD A/3/5 Eton sports colours RD A/3/6 Miscellaneous correspondence and papers RD A/4 Correspondence and papers about treatment of Arthur
Rhys Davids' speech impediment RD A/5 Letters from Balliol
College, Oxford RD A/6 Letters and papers about the Royal
Flying Corps RD A/7 Letters from May
Foley RD A/8 Letters from Caroline
Rhys Davids RD A/9 Letters from Nesta
Rhys Davids RD A/10 Letters from Vivien
Rhys Davids RD A/11 Drawing of a train RD A/12 Placemats [ collection ] RD N Nesta Enid Rhys Davids (1900-73)Nesta Rhys Davids was born on 3 July 1900. She was educated at Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls. She lived in Amberley, Sussex, 1930-73. She was an active member of the parish council and the Women's Institute. She lived with her companion, Fay Asher. She died in Shoreham by Sea, Sussex, 1973. Correspondence and papers, 1900-23The collection mainly comprises correspondence 1 box RD N/1 General letters RD N/2 Letters from Doris
Bland RD N/3 Letters from Dors RD N/4 Letters from May
Foley RD N/5 Letters from Arthur
Rhys Davids RD N/6 Letters from Caroline
Rhys Davids RD N/7 Letters from Vivien
Rhys Davids RD N/8 School report [ collection ] RD D Thomas William Davids (1816-84), Congregationalist ministerThomas Davids was born in Swansea, 11 September 1816. He was educated at local schools and then apprenticed to a chemist. In 1831, after the death of his parents, he was adopted by a wealthy uncle, Thomas Thomas, and worked as a medical assistant. He returned to education at Homerton College, London. He was pastor of Lion Walk Congregational Church, Colchester, Essex, 1841-74. He married Louisa Winter, who died in 1853, and Mary Spelman, 1859. He retired to Upton, Essex, and concentrated on his research in ecclesiastical history. He died in Upton, 11 Apr 1884. Correspondence and papers, 1829-84The collection mainly comprises a memoir, notes, correspondence and receipts. 1.5 boxes RD D/1 Memoir of his early life, 1816-ca. 1831 RD D/2 Correspondence and papers collected for a memoir RD D/2/1 Memoir, Chapter I, Ancestry RD D/2/2 Memoir, Chapter II, Parentage RD D/2/3 Memoir, Chapter III, Boyhood RD D/2/4 Memoir, Chapter IV, Early Youth RD D/3 Notes on History and Theology RD D/4 General correspondence RD D/5 Correspondence about Lion Walk Congregational Church, Colchester,
Essex RD D/6 Correspondence about the death of his wife, Louisa RD D/7 Out-letter book RD D/8 Letters from Thomas
Rhys Davids RD D/9 Copies of an address by dissenting ministers to the
King, with a reply RD D/10 Copy of an address given at the 72nd annual meeting
of the Essex Congregational
Union and Home Missionary Society RD D/11 Papers about the Esdaile family RD D/12 Receipts RD D/13 Press cuttings RD D/14 Mary Davids [ collection ] RD F Charles Windham Foley (1856-1933), SolicitorCharles Windham Foley was born in Wadhurst, Sussex, 26 August 1856. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, BA, 1880. He worked for Morgan and Co, Calcutta, India, solicitors, 1892-1919. He died in London, 1933. Correspondence and papers, 1873-1933The collection mainly comprises a diary, correspondence and a sketchbook. 2 volumes and 1 bundle RD F/1 Diary RD F/2 General correspondence and papers RD F/3 Sketchbook [ collection ] RD M Mary Cecilia Foley (1859-1925)Mary Cecilia Foley was born in Wadhurst, Sussex, 8 October 1859. She was educated at University College, London, BSc, 1891. She was the Chief Lady Invigilator at London University, 1901-25. She died in London, 22 October 1925. Correspondence and papers, 1872-1920The collection mainly comprises a notebook, correspondence and a sketchbook. 2 volumes and 3 bundles RD M/1 School notebook RD M/2 General correspondence RD M/3 Letters from Arthur
Rhys Davids RD M/4 List of characters in a charade RD M/5 Sketchbook [ collection ] RD W John Foley (1805-88), Vicar of WadhurstJohn Foley was born in Belbroughton, Worcestershire, 19 November 1805. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, BA, 1825, MA, 1830. He was a fellow of Wadham College, 1826-46. He was ordained deacon, 1829, and priest, 1830. He was curate of Pershore, Worcestershire, 1846, and vicar of Wadhurst, Sussex, 1847-88. He married Caroline Elizabeth Windham, 1846. He died in 1888. Correspondence and papers, 1829-79The collection mainly comprises a Liber Niger of Oxford University, correspondence and certificates. 6 bundles RD W/1 Part of the Liber Niger of Oxford
University RD W/2 General correspondence RD W/3 Letters from Caroline
Elizabeth Foley RD W/4 Papers about his career RD W/5 Marriage licence RD W/6 Release [ collection ] RD E Caroline Elizabeth Foley(1815-98)Caroline Elizabeth Windham was born on 1 April 1815. She married John Foley, 1846. She died in Wadhurst, Sussex, 13 February 1898. Correspondence and papers, 1827-98The collection mainly comprises notebooks, correspondence and sketchbooks. 7 volumes and 3 bundles RD E/1 Notebooks RD E/1/1 RD E/1/2 RD E/1/3 RD E/2 General correspondence RD E/3 Marriage trust deed RD E/4 Order of service for the funeral of Caroline Foley RD E/5 Sketchbooks RD E/5/1 RD E/5/2 RD E/5/3 RD E/5/4 [ collection ] RD B Mary Christina Windham (d. ?1888)
RD B/1 Notebook [ collection ] RD H John Foley (1775-1847), Rector of HoltJohn Foley was born in Mordiford, Herefordshire, 15 January 1775. He was educated at Stourbridge Free Grammar School, 1783-6; Kingswinford School, Staffordshire, 1786-90; the College School, Hereford, 1790-2; and Wadham College, Oxford, BA, 1795, MA, 1801. He was a fellow of Wadham College, 1796-1805, and was ordained deacon, 1797, and priest, 1799. He was curate of Wibbenhall, Worcestershire, 1803-12, and Astley, Worcestershire, 1809-12. He married Martha Hickman Hayley, 1806. He was rector of Holt, Worcestershire, 1812-47. He died, 11 August 1847. RD H/1 Account book [ collection ] RD R Robert Foley, (1736-97), Vicar of MordifordRobert Foley was born on 22 October 1736. He married Ann Walwyn, 25 June 1767. He was vicar of Mordiford, Herefordshire. He died in Bath, 18 June 1797. RD R/1 Correspondence and papers about family history RD R/2 Copy of a hymn and part of an address [ collection ] |
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