Francis Beaufort (Sir) Papers, circa 1750-1900

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Francis Beaufort (Sir) Papers, circa 1750-1900

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The Beaufort Collection contains two groups of manuscripts related to him only indirectly. The first consists of travel diaries and correspondence of his daughter Emily Anne, who under her title by marriage of Viscountess Strangford, was very active as a traveller, writer and humanitarian until her death in 1887. The second group contains papers of the Larpent family, mainly consisting of the diplomatic correspondence of John James Larpent, 7th Baron de Hochepied, during his tenure as British consul in Antwerp, circa. 1825-1837.

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Beaufort, Francis, Sir, 1774-1857

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Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort: hydrographer of the British Navy and member of the Royal Society, creator of the wind force scale and weather notation coding, and author of Karamania, or, A brief description of the south coast of Asia-Minor and of the remains of antiquity (London, 1817). Beaufort was married twice. His first wife was Alicia Magdalena Wilson (d. 1834). In 1839 he married Honora Edgeworth, the daughter of his long-time friend Richard Lovell Edgeworth and sister of the novelist Maria...