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Besly Family
Fonds number:
59
Title: Besly Family
Dates of Material:
1797–[1907?]
Extent:
12 cm of textual records
1 photograph: sepia
1 photograph: sepia
Biographical sketch
Rev. John Besly was born in 1800 and attended Balliol College in Oxford, earning a B.A. He was ordained into the Church of England in 1823, and appointed Vicar of St. Bartholomew in Long Benton, Northumberland in 1830, where he remained until his death in 1868.
Barton Hope Besly served as a Lieutenant in the British army during the Boer War.
NOTE(S)
Source of supplied title
Title based on contents of the fonds.
Extent
The fonds is stored in 1 box.
Immediate source of acquisition
Purchased from Pickering and Chatto antiquarian booksellers in 1991, along with a manuscript of a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge titled “Absence”
Language of material
Most of the material is in English. Some correspondence is in Latin.
Access restrictions
Restrictions on access: No restrictions on access.
Finding aids
Box/file list available
General notes
The name “Besly” also appears as “Besley” in various records, as well as sources for biographical information
The manuscript of the poem “Absence” is in the Samuel Taylor Coleridge Collection, Part 1.Works by Coleridge,84c.
Desultory Notices of the Church and Vicarage of Long Benton, in the Diocese of Durham, with Extracts from Registers, Traditions (BX5110 .L66 B47 1843a VIC Rare), by John Besly, is available in the Victoria University Library
St. Bartholomew’s Church, Longbenton (BX5110 .L66 S24 1985 VIC Rare) and The Parish and Church of St. Bartholomew, Long Benton, Newcastle upon Tyne: a Social History (BX5110 .L66 E44 2002 VIC Rare) are also available in the Library
Accruals
No further accruals are expected
Access points
Provenance access points
Besly (family)
Besly, John, 1800–1868
Besly, Barton Hope
Subjects
Boer War
Related special collections at Victoria University Library
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
