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Egerton, Granville George Algernon, Major-General, 1859-1951

 Person

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

Copy of Orlo Williams, "The Evacuation of the Dardanelles".

 File
Identifier: Acc.1700
Scope and Contents

Article published in the National Review, includes letter and marginalia of Major-General Granville-Egerton.

Dates: circa 1946.

Diaries., 1876-1933.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.1669/1-15
Scope and Contents

Diaries kept as a student at Osnabrück (1-2) and throughout his military career, both in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (3-6) and subsequently when holding various senior appointments (6-14), and in retirement, until 1933 (15), when increasing blindness forced him to discontinue. Nos 3-15, which consist of groups of three or more diaries re-bound together as a single volume, contain also press-cuttings, snapshots and other ephemera pasted or tipped in.

Dates: 1876-1933.

Diary., 1876.

 File
Identifier: Acc.1669/1
Scope and Contents

This diary was kept while Major-General Egerton was a student at Osnabruck.

Dates: 1876.

Notebook containing notes and extracts from printed sources, with some press-cuttings., 1890-1912.

 File
Identifier: Acc.1669/21
Scope and Contents

Apparently untitled notebook containing notes and extracts from printed sources copies in and some press-cuttings pasted in 1890-1912. His bookplate is pasted on the upper cover.

Dates: 1890-1912.

Papers of Major-General Granville G A Egerton.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.1656/1-2

Private diary., circa 1897-1945.

 File
Identifier: Acc.1669/16
Scope and Contents

A lockable volume gold-stamped ‘Private Diary’ containing at the front, a record of his service 1897-1901 with additional entries written in at various times between 1902 and 1914, with a retrospect, 1931, of events from 1872 to 1882 and further additions, 1937, 1944; with snapshots, press-cuttings and other items pasted in throughout. At the back, inverted, are notes on officers ca.1904-ca.1908, and pasted in a letter, 1945, of Major-General Sir Edmund Hakewill-Smith.

Dates: circa 1897-1945.

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