Original deposits (made 1949-84) comprise mainly personal and family papers of Rt Hon William Wickham, (1761-1840), diplomat and Chief Secretary for Ireland, and include: corresponence re foreign affairs, 1793-1802; Irish papers, 1798-1804; Treasury papers, 1800-09; correspondence and papers re WW's wife, Eleanore, 1762-1836; correspondence and papers re WW's son, Henry Lewis Wickham, 1807-81.
Original deposits also include papers re WW's grandson, William Wickham, jun, MP, (notebooks, diaries, personal papers, official papers, etc.), 1854-95, and papers of the Shaw Lefevre family (Charles SL, 1789-20th century; Helena SL, 1824, 1834; Charles SL, Viscount Eversley, and family, 1817-1923; Whitbread family, 1815-1924).
Additional deposits (made 1990-91) comprise papers as follows:
Rt Hon William Wickham: official papers, estate papers, correspondence, printed and miscellaneous, papers re Eleanore Bertrand, later wife of WW, and maps, 1688-1840.
Henry Lewis Wickham (1789-1864): correspondence, financial papers, deeds and papers re family settlements, printed and genealogical material, papers of Lucy Wickham (HLW's wife, mainly household papers, correspondence, etc.), 1704-1880s.
William Wickham, jun, MP (1831-97): journals and diaries, estate and financial papers, papers re family trusts and settlements, official papers (re Hampshire County Council, elections, etc.), papers re local interests, (eg. St Cross Hospital, Winchester, Quarter Sessions, Hampshire Hunt, Binsted parish), personal correspondence, printed and general material, 1663-1897.
Personal and official papers of other family members: Sophia Emma Wickham (1833-1929), Lucy Ogilvy (1863-1946), Charlotte Bonham Carter (1893-1989), Edgar Bonham Carter (1870-1956), Eleanore Clements (1875-1955), William Wickham Ogilvy (1896-1918), and the Shaw Lefevre family, covering period 1820s-93.
