Envelope
Category
Books
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 3168014.2
Summary
A white paper envelope printed with return address in a black outlined oblong in the top left corner; 'IF UNDELIVERED PLEASE RETURN TO BERNARD QUARITCH, LTD., 11, Grafton Street, New Bond Street, London.' Handwritten in pen on envelope vertically is the book title 'Feather Collections relating ..... 1887', above this 'Family Histories' outlined and beneath '7/6d'. Also in the same blue pen; 'To 8446 ------- F66ET UP To'. The back of the envelope is plain. Contains the book 'Collections relating to the surname of Feather' by George William Marshall (1839-1905) (record 3168014). MARSHALL, George William 1839 - 1905, genealogist, born at Ward End House, near Birmingham, on 19 April 1839, and descended from a family settled for several generations at Perlethorpe, Nottinghamshire, was the only child of George Marshall, a Birmingham banker, by his second wife, Eliza Henshaw Comberbatch. Educated privately and at St. Peter's College, Radley, he entered Magdalen College, Cambridge, in 1857, but soon removed to Peterhouse, whence he graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1861, and proceeded LL.M. in 1864, and LL.D. in 1874. In 1861 he entered the Middle Temple, was called to the bar on 9 June 1865, and for some time practised on the Oxford circuit.
Provenance
Straw collection bequeathed to The National Trust on the death in 1990 of William Straw.