Personal diary of Reginald Augustus Warren, February-December 1848
- Reference:GB 237 Coll-1465
- Dates of Creation:1848
- Name of Creator:
- Language of Material:English
- Physical Description:1 volume
Scope and Content
This manuscript diary begins on 18 February and ends 31 December 1848, though there is no extended entry for Sunday 31 December.
The diary describes a variety of events, often rural, and including a visit to Scotland: 18 February, 'the hounds in Pasture woods did not find a fox till the afternoon'; 1 March, 'had a telegraph sight put to my rifle'; 7/8 March, 'mobs of young miscreants still doing damage to the shop windows - good for glaziers and no one else; 1 April, 'Chartists aided by some French Republicans and other disaffected rascals are concocting row after the manner of the rest of Europe'; and, in Edinburgh, 10 September, 'Went to the English Church at the West end of Princes Street [...] there was plate at the door into which one is expected to put coppers after the Scottish fashion'.
Administrative / Biographical History
The Englishman Reginald Augustus Warren was born in 1820. In the 1850s, known as 'Squire' Warren, he had purchased a large amount of land and farms in West Sussex, particularly around East Preston. Earlier, between 1844 and 1845 he took a journey to Egypt and travelled by camel from Cairo to Jerusalem.
Reginald Augustus Warren died in 1911.
Access Information
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Acquisition Information
Material acquired May 2013. Accession no: E2013.36.
Archivist's Note
Catalogued by Graeme D. Eddie 4 June 2013
Subjects
Personal Names