Guide to the Papers of the Stanhope Family (as filmed by the AJCP)
M1904
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Stanhope Family
- Title
- Papers of the Stanhope Family (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1700 - 1900
- Collection Number
- M1904
- Extent
- 25 items
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Australian Joint Copying Project
- Sponsor
- The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.
Introduction
Scope and Contents
Papers 1840-1843 of Philip Stanhope, Lord Mahon, referring to: motion of William Molesworth for abolition of transportation; land sales in South Australia; draft motion deploring increase in number of convicts on hulks; and convict discipline in Australia.
Letters 1863-1865 of Philip Stanhope while serving on HMS Sutlej on Pacific Station.
Papers 1886-1891 of Edward S. Stanhope. Subjects include: Australian divorce bills; admission of foreign troops and warships to colonies; New Guinea; Borneo; Adelaide International Exhibition 1887; Melbourne Centennial Exhibition 1888; defences of King George's Sound and Thursday Island; Samoa; Sir Henry Parkes; and Australian Federation. Correspondents include Lord Knutsford, Lord Salisbury, W.H. Smith, Lord Carrington, Lord Kintore, Sir Frederick Weld and Major Gen. J.B. Edwards.
Manuscript chart of coast of New Guinea 1700.
Letters 1791-1803 of William Pitt referring to Dutch East Indies, panopticon proposal of Jeremy Bentham, and conditions at Port Jackson.
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use
Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
Archival History
Material selectively filmed at the Kent Archives Office, Maidstone, England, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1983 (AJCP Reel: M1904). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
Kent History and Library Centre, James Whatman Way, Maidstone ME14 1XQ, England. For further information see Stanhope Family at the Kent Archives Office (https://www.kentarchives.org.uk/collections/getrecord/GB51_U1590).
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn761102] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Finding-aid Notes
This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2018. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.
Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.
Subjects
Adelaide International Exhibition (1887); Albany, Western Australia; Australia; Austalia: laws; Australia: defence; Australia: Federation; Bentham, Jeremy; Borneo; Convict ships; Convicts; Dutch East Indies; Edwards, J.B., Maj. Gen.; Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert A.T., 3rd Marquess of salisbury; Great Britain; Great Britain. War Office; Holland, Sir Henry T., 1st Viscount Knutsford; Keith-Falconer, Sir Algernon, 10th Earl of Kintore; Land: South Australia; Maps, plans and charts: Papua New Guinea; Melbourne International Exhibitions (1881); Molesworth, Sir William; New Zealand; New Zealand: army and defence; Papua New Guinea; Parkes, Sir Henry; Pitt, William; Politicians: Britain; Queensland: army and defence; Royal Navy: Pacific station; Samoa; Smith, W.H.; Stanhope Family; Stanhope, Edward; Stanhope, Philip, 1st Baron Weardale; Sutlej, HMS (ship); Sydney, New South Wales ; Thursday Island, Queensland; Transportation of convicts: cessation; Weld, Sir Frederick; Wynn-Carrington, Charles R.W., 1st Earl Carrington
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 434, pp169-170.
Biographical / Historical
James Stanhope (1674-1721), 1st Earl Stanhope (created 1718). M.P. 1701-1721. Minister to Spain 1706-1712, Commander-in-Chief of British forces in Spain 1708-1712. Secretary of State 1714-1717. First Lord of Treasury and Chancellor of Exchequer 1717-1718, 1718-1721.
Charles Stanhope (1753-1816), 3rd Earl Stanhope (succeeded 1786). Scientist. Married Lady Hester Pitt (d. 1780), sister of William Pitt, Prime Minister in 1783-1801 and 1804-1806. Their daughter, Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839), was Pitt's secretary and housekeeper, and later a traveller and eccentric.
Philip Stanhope (1805-1875), 5th Earl Stanhope (succeeded 1855), styled Viscount Mahon, 1816-1855. Conservative M.P. 1830-1833, 1835-1852. Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs 1834-1835, Joint Secretary to India Board 1845-1846. President of Society of Antiquaries 1846-1875, President of Royal Literary Fund 1865-1875, Trustee of National Portrait Gallery, 1856-1875. Historian and biographer of Pitt.
Philip Stanhope (1838-1905), 6th Earl Stanhope (succeeded 1875). Served in Royal Navy on Pacific Station, 1863-1865. Conservative M.P. 1868-1875.
Edward Stanhope (1840-1893), son of 5th Earl Stanhope. Educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford. Conservative M.P. 1874-1893. Parliamentary Secretary to Board of Trade 1875-1878, Under-Secretary of State for India 1878-1880, President of Board of Trade 1885-1886, Secretary of State for Colonies August 1886-January 1887, Secretary of State for War 1887-1892.
Item Descriptions
Fonds C 296-477. Papers of Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope, and Lady Stanhope
6 itemsSeries C 316-380. General Correspondence: Correspondence with Lord Derby, 1840 - 1869
2 items
Correspondence between Lord Mahon (P. Stanhope) and Lord Stanley, May 1840 - August 1841 (File C 362/2)
Motion of W. Moleworth for abolition of transportation; views of E. Macarthur on need for convict labour; ticket of leave system; Molesworth Committee; amendment to report of Committee on land sales in South Australia.
(6 letters)
Series C 381-400. Political letters and papers
1 item
Draft motion deploring increase in number of convicts on hulks. Correspondence between Lord Mahon and E. Macarthur, J.G. Howard, F.M. Innes, W. Mann, February 1841 - March 1841 (File C 387)
Discusses: transportation; shortage of labour in N.S.W.; Justice W. Burton; A. Maconochie; Van Diemen's Land; J. Backhouse.
(5 items).
Fonds 0219-342. Papers of Edward S. Stanhope
15 itemsPrinted papers on imperial defence and other subjects, 1886 - 1891 (File 0235)
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Printed papers on New Guinea and Borneo, 1886 - 1887 (File 0247)
Cabinet and Foreign Office papers, including correspondence on British New Guinea Protectorate, Nov. 1886 (32 pp.), distribution of Pacific Islands between Great Powers, 1 August 1887 (5 pp.), affairs of North Borneo, March 1887 (3 pp.), German protectorates in South Seas and elsewhere, July 1887 (4 pp.)
Printed papers on Australia, 1888 - 1889 (File 0248)
Colonial Office papers, including correspondence on appointment of Governors in South Australia and Queensland, Nov. 1888 (10 pp.), Chinese immigration into Australia, June 1888 (7 pp.), responsible government in Western Australia, 13 May 1889 (16 pp.).
Letters from Sir Robert Herbert, 1886 (File 0288)
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Letters from Lord Knutsford, 1886 - 1892 (File 0292/1)
10 itemsFilmed selectively.
E. Wingfield (Colonial Office) to Stanhope, 27 May 1887 (Item)
Invitation to serve on Royal Commission to promote Melbourne Centennial Exhibition.
[Wanton?] to Stanhope, 17 December 1887 (Item)
Regarding Chief Justice Onslow's suspension and [Wanton's] application for his position. Asking for assistance in gaining the position.
Sir Henry Holland to Stanhope, 23 January [1888] (Item)
Impossibility of appointing A. Warton Chief Justice of Western Australia; opposition to responsible government in Western Australia.
Lord Knutsford to Stanhope, 26 January 1888 (Item)
Speech given regarding the postion of the Office.
Lord Knutsford to Stanhope, 22 May [1889] (Item)
Suggestion of Sir Henry Loch that Australian volunteer or militia force serve in India.
Lord Knutsford to Stanhope, 24 May [1889] (Item)
Arranges interview with Sir Henry Loch; suggestion of Lord Lamington imperial troops be sent to Australia.
Lord Knutsford to Stanhope, 4 June 1889 (Item)
Sends extract from Lord Onslow on Australian defences.
Lord Knutsford to Stanhope, 15 October [1889] (Item)
Lord Onslow urges J. Edwards to inspect New Zealand volunteers.
Letters from Lord Knutsford (File 0292/2)
7 itemsFilmed selectively.
Lord Knutsford to Stanhope, 6 January 1891 (Item)
Defences of King George's Sound and Thursday Island.
Stanhope to Lord Knutsford, 17 March 1891 (Item)
Defences of King George's Sound and Thursday Island.
Lord Knutsford to Stanhope, 30 June 1891 (Item)
Parliamentary question on military contribution of Straits Settlements.
Letters from Lord Salisbury, 1878 - 1892 (File 0308)
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Letters from Australian Governors (6 letters), 1886 - 1891 (File 0321)
4 items
Lord Carrington (Sydney) to Stanhope, August 1886 - February 1887 (Item)
Sir Henry Loch; Naval Defence Scheme; N.S.W. politics; memorials to Sir Joseph Banks in N.S.W.; Sir Henry Parkes; Sir Patrick Jennings; honours. (3 letters)
Lord Carrington (High Wycombe) to Stanhope, 29 January 1891 (Item)
Work of Major-General J.B. Edwards in Australia.
Letters from Colonial Governors, 1886 - 1890 (File 0322)
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Fonds P. Maps and plans
1 item
Manuscript chart of coast of New Guinea, c. 1700 (File P56)
The chart, 37" × 20", shows the route of a voyage, presumably that of William Dampier in the Roebuck, from Timor to Ceram, Banda Island, along the western coast of New Guinea (Cape Maba, Goram), and the coast of New Britain. It refers to the discovery of Dampier Strait between New Guinea and New Britain, 25 march 1700.
Fonds S5. Papers of William Pitt
3 items
J. Bentham to Pitt, 23 January 1791 (File S5 06/7)
Sends papers on panopticon penitentiary house; refers to bad news of N.S.W. establishment; failure of convict hulks.
Enclosure: Outline of plan of construction of a panopticon penitentiary house. (8 ff.)
M. Margarot (Pt. Jackson) to Pitt, 1 October 1800 (File S5 06/43)
Governor J. Hunter; high cost of penal settlement; impossibility of defending Sydney; need for soldiers to be employed on civil works; lack of progress of colony; qualities needed in governor; need for code of laws, better educational system, better communications with England. (11 pp.)