Archive collection
Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1797 - 1875)
Category
Archive Collections
Date
Unknown
Materials
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 292808
Summary
The catalogue of the John Gardner Wilkinson deposit, now at the Bodleain Library, University of Oxford, is available online at: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/1500-1900/wilkinson/wilkinson.html
Provenance
Bequeathed by Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1797–1875) to Sir John Harpur Crewe, 9th Bt (1824–86), together with the rest of his library, sketchbooks and notes, and thence by descent; accepted, as part of the Calke estate, house and collection, by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the National Trust, with the help of a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, grants from the Historic Buildings Council and donations from the Harpur Crewe trustees, from an anonymous benefactor and from a public appeal, 1985.
Makers and roles
Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1797 - 1875), creator