The archive begins with John Coleridge, vicar & schoolmaster of Ottery St Mary, and his ancestors back to the 17th century.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 17th - 19th century
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 710,000 (tax remission)
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 1,250
Item cost: 4,400
Institution: Exeter University Library
Town/City: Exeter
County: Devon
This substantial collection the surviving bulk of the working research papers and professional and personal correspondence of Ernest Martin (d. 2005), an important figure in North Devon and the West Country, who made a substantial contribution to social, agricultural and local history.
Item date: c. 1921 to 1949
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 9,000
Institution: RIBA Architectural Library
Town/City: London
The collection consists of c. 105 architectural drawings by Philip Tilden (1887-1956), representing 20 schemes and including alterations to Stoke Edith, Herefordshire and Anthony House, Cornwall. Many drawings are annotated or signed by Tilden.
Item date: 1752-61
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 1,350
Item cost: 4,199
Institution: Bath Record Office
Town/City: Bath
County: Somerset
Richard 'Beau' Nash (1674-1762) arrived in Bath in 1705 and was quickly appointed Master of Ceremonies, with virtual control over all Bath's social life. This collection of 68 items mostly comprise letters written to Nash by Rowland Leffever, a fellow victim of gambling debt.
Item date: 15-20th century
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 3,000
Item cost: 25,000
Institution: Cornwall Record Office - Kresen Kernow
Town/City: Redruth
County: Cornwall
The Argal Manor papers cover a wide range of documents, including estate maps, deeds, leases, a Penryn Borough document from 1498 and the Gweek Coal papers of the 19th century.
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 156,846 (tax remission)
Institution: British Museum
Town/City: London
This archive falls into two parts. The first is the surviving archive of the Rev. Philip Hunt, who was Lord Elgin's chaplain during his embassy (1799-1803).
Item date: 1858
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 100
Item cost: 275
Institution: National Trust, Florence Court
William Cole, 3rd Earl (1806-87), assembled a collection of over 10,000 fossils at Florence Court, sold to the British Museum in 1883.
Item date: 1852-69
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 345
Item cost: 690
Institution: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
Town/City: Plymouth
County: Devon
This set of diaries provides a rare insight into the Evangelical work of the Mission in Plymouth. Many entries relate to the victims of the cholera ourbreak.
Item date: 18th & 19th century
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 985,000
Institution: Natural History Museum, Library
Town/City: London
This comprehensive collection, assembled over 20 years, comprises 1,628 printed works by Darwin (including first English editions of all titles and many foreign language editions); c.
Item date: 19th and 20th century
Date acquired: 2005
Grant Value: 4,000
Item cost: $19,000
Institution: RIBA Architectural Library
Town/City: London
This collection includes loose drawings by George Gilbert Scott Senior (1811-78), founder of an architectural dynasty, of buildings in England, France and Germany and 5 notebooks on restoration projects. The purchase includes sketchbooks by his son George Gilbert Scott Junior (1839-97).