University of Sheffield Library. Special Collections and Archives
Ref: MS 41
Title: Wilson Papers
Scope: Papers of Henry Joseph Wilson, Sheffield Radical politician and Liberal M.P.,
for the period 1859 to 1910
Dates: 1859-1910, with some later additional material
Level: Fonds
Extent: 9 boxes
Name of creator: Henry Joseph Wilson
Administrative / biographical history:
The collection consists of the following sections:
1
Correspondence, papers and related press cuttings received by Wilson
2
Wilson’s letters to members of his family
3
Printed election material, newspapers and press cuttings
4
Sheffield Nonconformist Committee papers
5
A collection by Gertrude Lenwood, one of Wilson’s daughters, of newspaper
cartoons and copies and extracts from original letters.
Henry Joseph Wilson (1833-1914), Sheffield Radical politician and Liberal M.P. for
Holmfirth, was born on 14 April 1833 at Old Radford, Nottinghamshire, into a family
of strong Nonconformist and Reform sympathies. In 1867, following a fourteen year
period as tenant of Newlands Farm, near Mansfield, Wilson came to Sheffield to
manage the family firm, the Sheffield Smelting Company, and also began his active
involvement in politics.
His wide-ranging political interests included the temperance movement, opposition to
the state regulation of vice, non-sectarian education, disestablishment, Irish Home
Rule, internationalism, opposition to imperialism and the destruction of the opium
trade. He held several offices in organisations connected with his political activities
both local and national, amongst which were the secretaryships of the Northern
Counties Electoral League for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts from 1872
to 1885, of the Sheffield Liberal Association from 1875, and of the British
Continental and General Federation for the Abolition of Government Regulation of
Prostitution, also from 1875. Wilson was a member of the Royal Commission on
Opium in India, from 1839 to 1895, Treasurer of the National Vigilance Association
in the 1900s, a Justice of the Peace from 1881, and was for fifteen years a member of
the Sheffield School Board. He served on the Sheffield Nonconformist Committee,
set up to work for the amendment of the Education Act of 1870, from 1872 to the
Committee’s effective dissolution in 1877. He was elected Liberal M.P. for Holmfirth
division of the West Riding in 1885 and held the seat until his retirement in 1912. He
died in Sheffield on 29 June 1914.
There are two biographies of Wilson, both based in part on his papers: Mosa
Anderson, H.J. Wilson, Fighter for Freedom (London, 1953) and W.S. Fowler, A
Study in Radicalism and Dissent: the Life and Times of Henry Joseph Wilson 18331914 (London, 1961).
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Notes on the provenance of the Papers:
Wilson’s original archive was divided after his death between his children. The
section of papers in the University of Sheffield Library was deposited here by R.E.
Wilson in 1961. A further section was deposited in Sheffield City Library by Mrs.
Gertrude Lenwood at various dates, while the records of the Sheffield Smelting
Company were placed in the same repository. A third section, concerning Wilson’s
national and international work against the government regulation of vice passed from
Dr. Helen Wilson, another of his daughters, via the Josephine Butler Society to the
Fawcett Library and subsequently to the London Metropolitan University Library.
Related collections: Mundella Papers
Source: Deposited 1961
System of arrangement: Chronologically, in sections
Subjects: Liberal Party (Gt. Brit.)
Names: Lenwood, Gertrude; Sheffield, Eng.; Sheffield Nonconformist Committee
Conditions of access: Available to all researchers, by appointment
Restrictions: None
Copyright: University of Sheffield Library
Finding aids: Listed
Associated material: Other collections of Wilson Papers exist - for details see “Notes
on the provenance of the Papers” above.
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SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
HENRY JOSEPH WILSON
The papers have been arranged chronologically in sections, as follows:
1- 31 Correspondence, papers and related press cuttings received by Wilson.
32
Wilson's letters to members of his family.
33-37 Printed election material probably kept as samples, complete newspapers and
press cuttings.
38-50 Sheffield Nonconformist Committee
51-53 Gertrude Lenwood's collection of newspaper cartoons and copies and extracts
from original letters.
G.A.Dyer
January 1978.
1.
Correspondence, papers and press cuttings relating to the period of HJW's
tenancy of Newland's Farm.
1859-1869
Including leaflet The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass Offered Up in the County of
Rutland For the First Time Since A.D. 1558 At Tixover, Friday, May 22nd,
1863. The Festival of S. Ubaldus, B. C. (5), letters from R.O.Pringle (6-7,9),
papers relating to ‘Sheffield Men's Treat' at Newlands (10), note on profitsharing at Newlands (12), letter. from John Edward Ellis (13) ,copy of farm
stock account, 31 March 1866 (15), copies of auction sale catalogue of live
and dead farming stock at Newlands, 15 and 16 April 1867 (18-19), 'Mr G.
Margate's method of feeding pigs with economy and profit' (24), completed
form of ‘Queries As To Steam Ploughs To Be Answered By The Farmer'
(25), handbill 'The Execution of Barthelemy'[anti capital punishment ] (29),
handbills 'Gough Versus Lee. The Bane And Its Antidote' [temperance] (3032), and leaflet Popular Education. Duty of Nonconformists by the Rev.
Robert Vaughan D.D. (Congregational Board of Education, London, c.1861)
4pp. (33).
33 items
2.
Correspondence and papers relating to the Education Bill [subsequently Act],
1870
1870
Including letters from John Edward Ellis (1-4, 6), and Anthony John Mundella
(5).
7 items
3.
Correspondence and papers relating to Wilson Brothers' refusal to pay the
"School Rate".
92 items
1872-1876
3
4.
Correspondence, papers and press cuttings relating to the formation of the
Sheffield Reform Association, the Liberal Union and the candidature of
Joseph Chamberlain.
1873
Including letters from Anthony John Mundella
(1,8,20,29,45,48,71,115,121,179,183,220,222,234,252,262,280), James Henry
Barber (4,69-70,244), Robert Leader (10,221,224,249-251,279), J. Charles
Cox (11,15,86,89,94,112-114), Francis Adams, secretary of the National
Education League (16,19,32,41,68,91,147), John William Pye-Smith
(25,31,44,47,51,53-54,64,73-74,77,83,101-102,137,171), William Johnson
Clegg (34,63,109, 184), circular letter 'To The Liberals of Leeds And
Elsewhere' by Alderman George Tatham of Leeds urging formation of an
'Advanced Party' (21-.24), Sheffield Reform Association programme and
subscription forms (35-39), letters from Edward Miall (40), Francis
Schnadhorst (58,92,96), Joseph Chamberlain (87,93,97,118,124125,132,136,144,186,197,207,213,218,237,255,257,260,264,268,274,278,24),
Edward Backhouse of Sunderland (90), R.F. Martineau of Birmingham
(106,108), the Rev. J.P. Gledstone (138), J.Whitwell Wilson of Kendal (139),
Henry Richard (141), Speech of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain of Birmingham on
Class Legislation. Delivered at the Temperance Hall, Sheffield, September 23
1873 (161-162), John Wycliffe Wilson(174), George Otto Trevelyan
(182,202), William Harris of Birmingham (230,253,256,263,265,269),
William Rolley (235), Address of the Committee of Mr. Alderman Allott to
the Electors of Sheffield (286-288), Rules of the Sheffield Liberal Union (290291), and Ms constitution of the Sheffield Reform Association (295).
298 items
5.
Correspondence, papers and press cuttings relating to the 1874 General
Election, the candidature of Joseph Chamberlain, the Sheffield Liberal Club
and the Sheffield Reform Association.
1874
Including letters from Joseph Chamberlain (7-8,22,24,27-28,36,38-39,46,4851,59-60,62,72,97,103,106-107,110-111,113,121,128,130,138,151,156,158159, 172-173,179,182- 183), Anthony John Mundella
(15,19,31,45,47,57,194), Francis Schnadhorst (33), John Daniel Leader
(55,102), William Johnson Clegg (61,66), copy of 'Agreement between Mr
Allott and Mr Chamberlain's Committees as to test meeting' (67), William
Harris (65), Samuel Plimsoll (86), Robert Leader (93), J. Charles Cox (114),
William Christopher Leng (117), list of contributors to the Chamberlain Fund
(125), Henry Richard (145),James Stansfeld (155), and William Rolley (175).
220 items
6.
Correspondence, leaflet and press cutting relating to the Vigilance Association
for the Defence of Personal Rights.
4 items
1875
7.
Correspondence with Robert Leader relating mainly to the formation of the
Sheffield Liberal Association and to Anthony John Mundella.
1875
Including annexed letter from Henry Richard (40), and telegram from
Anthony John Mundella (41).
50 items
4
8.
Correspondence with Robert Leader and others relating mainly to the
formation of the Sheffield Liberal Association, Anthony John Mundella, the
Eastern Question and Liberal candidates for the General Election. 1876
Including letters (annexed) from Frederick Thorpe Mappin (1), and James
Henry Barber (30), telegrams from Anthony John Mundella (36,93), and
circular from the Eastern Question Association (94).
108 items
9.
Correspondence between HJW and his brother John Wycliffe Wilson, relating
to HJW's visit to the U.S.A.
3 items
1876
10.
Correspondence and papers relating to the Sheffield Liberal Association.
1876
Including letters from Frederick Thorpe Mappin (5), papers relating to election
of members of the Council of the Sheffield Liberal Association (6-8), petition
against the Elementary Education Bill, [subsequently Act] 1876 (10), and
rough minutes (12).
16 items
11.
Correspondence with Robert Leader and others relating in part to the proposed
candidature of Sir Charles Reed for Sheffield.
1877
Including letter from Joseph Chamberlain (8), copies of letters to Sir Charles
Reed (9-11,13,18-19),and letter (annexed) from Anthony John Mundella (99)
114 items
12.
Correspondence with Robert Leader and others relating to the selection of a
candidate and the adoption of Samuel Danks Waddy.
1878
Including letters from J. Charles Cox (13), James Henry Barber (2627,30,35,37,43), John Charles Clegg (31), and William Johnson Clegg (45).
75 items
13.
Deed of Settlement of Firth College, Sheffield.
14.
Election circular, questions submitted to Samuel Danks Waddy during 1879
by-election in Sheffield and blank canvassing forms.
1879
22 items
15.
Correspondence and papers relating mainly to the 1879 by-election in
Sheffield and the 1880 General Election.
1880
Including letters from Robert Eadon Leader (1-2,8-9,12,16,69), John William
Pye-Smith (15,17,23,30), Frederick Thorpe Mappin (20), William Johnson
Clegg (23), list of General Election Committee for Mundella and Waddy
(31), Lord Kensington (38), Edward Baines (39), letters and papers relating to
a proposed petition against the return of Charles Stuart-Wortley (42-57),
Francis Schnadhorst (65) , Henry Stephenson (73), List of Brightside Ward
Committee (74), and Sheffield Liberal Association balance sheet for 1880
(75).
79 items
16.
Correspondence, papers and press cuttings relating to the Sheffield Liberal
Association.
1881
5
1879
Including nominations for Sheffield Liberal Association Council (4,13),
Objects, Constitution and Laws of the Association (5), letter from Anthony
John Mundella (7), article on HJW's fitness for the magistracy (10), and
letter from Robert Eadon Leader (22).
23 items
17.
Correspondence and papers relating to the formation of the Sheffield Reform
Club and general political topics.
1882
Including resolution passed by Sheffield Liberal Association on the
assassination of Lord Frederick Cavendish (3), letters from Batty Langley
(7,9), Robert Leader (8,11-20,22,24-28,30-32,36-37,39-46,48,50-52), and
Jonathan Skinner (10).
57 items
18.
Correspondence and papers relating to the Sheffield Liberal Association, the
selection of Bernard Coleridge as second Liberal candidate for Sheffield and
general political topics.
1883
Including letters from Robert Leader (1-2,4 8,22,24,28,30-31,33,41-42,4447,49,51-53,55-60,62-63,65-66,68,70-73,76-77,81,88), Jonathan Skinner
(3,20,27,29,32,34-40,43,50,54,64,67,69,74,79-80,83-84,87), J. Powell
Williams, hon. secretary of the National Liberal Federation (23), Sheffield
Guardians election material (40,90-91), letters from Joseph Chamberlain
(75,82,85), memorial on State Regulation of Vice to the Committee of the
Bristol Liberal Association (78), letters from Bernard Coleridge (85 annex),
Thomas Adams of the Bristol Liberal Association (86),and Moore Ede (89).
93 items
19.
Correspondence, papers and press cuttings relating to the 1884 selection of
Bernard Coleridge as second Liberal candidate for Sheffield, demonstration in
favour of the 1884 Reform Bill and general political topics.
1884
Including letters from Bernard Coleridge (1-3,8,12,14,20-21,23,25,30,33-34),
Robert Leader (4,10,13,26-28,31,37-38,40-41,46-47,52-53,57-58,63-64,66,6872,74,80-82,97-101,103-105,107-110,113,122,125,129), Francis Schnadhorst
(5,16,44), Mary Priestman of Bristol (6-7,14), John Edward Ellis (9,11,15,75),
Edward Russell of the Liverpool Daily Post (16 annex), J.S. Fry (17-19), the
Rev. Charles Collyns, secretary of the British Temperance League (29),
Jonathan Skinner (36,43,45,54,61,65,67,73,79,102,106,111-112,114-115,117118,121,124,128), James Henry Barber (48), Henry Richard (49), John Morley
(50), Sir Wilfrid Lawson (51), Joseph Chamberlain (62), Frederick Thorpe
Mappin (76), Francis Egerton (77), copy of resolution passed at Reform
demonstration (88), verse "Why Do We Meet Today?" (96), Michael Hunter
(123,130), W.J. Davis of Birmingham (126), and the Sheffield and Rotherham
Independent Supplement, 11 Oct. 1884 containing article on Robert Leader
(131).
134 items
20.
Correspondence and papers relating to the selection of candidates for the
redistributed Sheffield constituencies, negotiations with Sheffield Labour
Association, the 1885 General Election and the formation of the United
Liberal Committee.
1885
Including letters from Jonathan Skinner (1-2,17-19,34-35,39,42-44,47,5556,63-65,72,74,84,90,97,103-104,106-108,111), W.J. Davis (3,7,26,33),
6
Robert Leader (4,8,11,14-16,20 [copy],24,75,88-89,100-101), William Rolley
(5,83), Stuart Uttley, secretary of Sheffield Labour Association (6,27,36,40,49,
51-52,68,80,82,86,112), Michael Hunter (32,45,79), Sheffield Labour
Association Circular "To The Working Men of Sheffield" (38), press cuttings
relating to Anthony John Mundella's decision to stand for the Brightside
division (53-54), John Daniel Leader (62,105), minutes of the meeting of the
representatives of the five Liberal Associations of the Borough of Sheffield
(70), H.J. Hardwicke (71), J. Noble of the London and Counties Liberal Union
(91,95), W.A. Coote (92-93), Mrs. H.J.W's note of William Thomas Stead's
prophecy (102) , and Sketch of W.A. Coote, Local Labour Candidate for
North Camberwell reprinted from the "Weekly Dispatch" of May 24th [1885]
With a Speech Delivered by him on Emigration (S. Howden, Camberwell,
c1885) 1d. 12pp. (113).
115 items
21.
Correspondence, papers and press cuttings relating mainly to Irish Home Rule,
Joseph Chamberlain's record on the issue and the 1886 General Election
1886
Including letters from Stuart Uttley (1,7), Jonathan Skinner (3,5,8,14-16,19),
John Daniel Leader (4), Uttley's notes in connection with the operation of the
leashold system in Sheffield (7), leaflet "Mr Chamberlain and Home Rule"
(23), The Principles of Home Rule As Explained By Isaac Butt, Esq., M.P.
and Is It Reasonable? and What Practical Advantages Are Expected From It?
By John G. MacCarthy Esq., (Sheffield: Printed at the Celtic Printing Office,
1873) 23pp. (26), Rules of the Sheffield Branch of the Irish Home
Government Association held at St. William's School (Sheffield: Printed at the
Celtic Printing Office, 1873) 16pp. (27-28), and the Rotherham Radical Song
(29).
33 items
22.
Correspondence, papers and press cuttings relating to the Doncaster byelection (1888), the Liberal demonstration on Home Rule and general political
topics.
1887-1889
Including handbills on Sheffield Council's Parliamentary Bill to purchase the
Water Company (1-3), letters from Jonathan Skinner (5-6,8-11,15-17,21),
press copy of minutes of annual meeting of the Sheffield United Liberal
Committee May 1887 (6 annex) "The Liberal March" (14), and "Songs To Be
Sung at the Albert Hall. Sheffield, On The Occasion of the Visit of Right Hon
Earl Spencer K.G. June 6th 1888 (19-20).
24 items
23.
Correspondence, papers and press cuttings relating to Home Rule, the repeal
of the duty on plate and the Brightside municipal election
1890
Including letters from Oliver Wilson (4), letters from and relating to the
attitude of Sheffield firms to the repeal of the duty on plate (13-58,68-70),
letters from and to John Wycliffe Wilson (26,41-42,49,55), Edwin Richmond
(71,73-75), Thomas Firth (72), Richard Holden (79-81), and Rules of the
Brightside Liberal Association (82).
87 items
24.
Official papers, HJW's amendments and printed circulars relating to the repeal
of the duty on plate
1890
Including House of Commons Order Papers (1,3), copies of the Customs and
Inland Revenue Bill (4-5), and "Return of Information from Foreign Countries
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relative to the Assaying and Hall-Marking of Gold and Silver Wares" (7).
11 items
25.
Correspondence, papers and press cuttings relating mainly to Joseph
Chamberlain's record on Home Rule and the 1892 General Election.
1892
Including letters from J. Charles Cox (2,13), Charles Neal of the Yorkshire
Miners' Association (8), E.Gertrude Wilson (10), and the Rev. J.P. Gledstone
(15).
17 items
26.
Correspondence, papers, election addresses and press cuttings relating to the
Brightside municipal elections.
1894-1896
Including letters from Charles Hobson (18), Jonathan Skinner (21,24), and
Thomas Firth (25-26).
41 items
27.
Correspondence, papers, election addresses and press cuttings relating to the
Brightside municipal elections.
86 items
1897-1899
28.
Papers and press cuttings relating to the Education Bill [subsequently Act]
1902.
3 items
1902
29.
Correspondence with John Wycliffe Wilson, HJW's brother, relating mainly to
Attercliffe politics, including parliamentary candidates, relations with the
Labour Party, and matters concerned with magistrates' business.
52 items
1906
30.
Correspondence with John Wycliffe Wilson, relating mainly to Attercliffe
politics including parliamentary candidates, relations with Labour and matters
concerned with magistrates' business.
40 items
1908-1909
31.
Correspondence, papers and press cutting relating to the Education Bill, 1908;
enclosure of common land and the invitation to HJW to join the Privy Council
1908-1910
Including letters from Robert Eadon Leader (5), "James Montgomery on the
Enclosure of Footpaths, 1828" (6), and letter from Herbert Henry Asquith (7).
12 items
32.
Correspondence from HJW to Helen Wilson (daughter), Gertrude Wilson
(sister) and Alick Wilson (son) relating to politics and to family matters.
14 items
1888-1909
33.
Election addresses, handbills, cards and press cuttings relating to
parliamentary elections and municipal elections in Sheffield
1872-1874
Including those of J. Charles Cox for the Boroughs of Preston [printed but not
published] (1) and Bath (3-6), Charles E. Serjeant for the Borough of Bodmin
(7), Doncaster Political Union (9), 'The Leeds Election. Dr. Lee's Explanation'
Reprinted from the Alliance News, March 14 1874 (10), 'A Radical's Opinion'
[open letter from HJW to J.D. Lewis, Liberal candidate for Oxford relating to
the Contagious Diseases Acts] (11), Attercliffe municipal election handbills
(12-13), and Park Ward municipal election address (14).
15 items
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34.
Election addresses, posters, leaflets, handbills and press cuttings relating
mainly to the 1879 by-election and the 1880 General Election in Sheffield.
1878-1880
Including "Songs for Liberals, At the Great County Demonstration, held at
Pomona Gardens, Manchester, Saturday, Oct-25th 1879" (11-12), "Manifesto
of the Liberal Leader [the Marquis of Hartington] (16), Lancashire dialect
Liberal handbill (25), East Derbyshire election material (57-58), North
Derbyshire election material (59-66), Leeds election handbill (67), West
Riding County election handbill (81), and Anthony John Mundella's address
on appointment as Vice-President of the Council (82).
89 items
35.
Newspapers relating to Gladstone's Midlothian campaign and the 1880
General Election in Sheffield
1879-1880
Including The Scottish Reformer and Weekly Review 1 and 8 Dec. 1879 (1-2),
and The Sheffield Elector's Guide A Manual For The Elections 1880 (3-4).
5 items
36.
Press cuttings relating to reduction of working hours and to ecclesiastical
affairs.
13 items
1894
37.
Newspapers and press cuttings relating to the Attercliffe by-election, 1909.
20 items
1909
SHEFFIELD NONCONFORMIST COMMITTEE
The Sheffield Nonconformist Committee was formed as the result of a meeting of
Nonconformist ministers and laymen held early in 1872 at Mount Zion School. Its
objects as stated at the meeting were:
1. To procure the amendment of the objectionable provisions of the English Education
Act, which involve the payment of religious teaching out of public funds.
2. To resist similar violations of religious liberty in the educational measures to be
enacted for Scotland and Ireland.
3. To evoke enlightened local opposition against the payment by School Boards of the
fees of children attending denominational schools, as opposed to the conscientious
convictions of ratepayers.
The first meeting of the Committee was held on 27 February 1872 at which a
provisional constitution was formulated. The Committee consisted of a combination
of delegates from Nonconformist congregations or societies and personal members,
subscribing to the funds. By 1874, when the Committee's first printed constitution
appeared, its general object was defined as "The complete legislative and
administrative adoption of the principle of religious equality". Its specific aims had
widened to include "the disestablishment and disendowment of State Churches", "The
unconditional repeal of clause XXV of the Elementary Education Act, 1870" and
"The absolute removal of all sectarian restrictions on the enjoyment of the offices and
emoluments of the National Universities".
The Committee's "Modes of Action" included "Lectures - Public Meetings - the
distribution of Literature - Petitions to Parliament - Memorials to central or local
authorities" and support for those of its members or sympathizers who refused to pay
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the "School Rate". Close contacts were maintained with local and national bodies
sharing the Committee's aims, including the Liberation Society and the National
Education League.
The passing of Lord Sandon's Education Act of 1876, as amended, transferred the
payment of fees of indigent children from the School Boards to the Boards of
Guardians. This brought about the repeal of the twenty-fifth clause of the Act of 1870
and with it, the principal aim of the Sheffield Nonconformist Committee. The final
meeting of the Committee was held on 9 October 1877.
The Sheffield Nonconformist Committee's records were probably in the original
possession of John Wycliffe Wilson as chairman or the Rev. Walter Lenwood as
secretary, rather than Henry Wilson who was a member but not an officer of the
Committee.
38.
Minute Book
Including circulars and press cuttings pasted in.
39.
Minute Book
1877
Including letter from the Marquis of Hartington, circulars and press cuttings
pasted in.
40.
Account book
1872-1876
41.
Subscriptions book
1872-1876
42.
Note book recording expenses incurred in connection with School Board
elections and public meeting addressed by Henry Vincent.
1874
43.
Note book recording expenses incurred in connection with public meetings
addressed by Henry Vincent and Alfred Illingworth.
1874-1875
44.
Note book recording arrangements made in connection with public meeting
addressed by Henry Vincent and rough minutes of Executive Committee, 15
Dec 1874.
1874
45.
Correspondence
1873-1877
Including letters from Samuel Wright of Leeds (4), Henry Vincent (8,10-12),
William Hubbard of Manchester (23), John Wycliffe Wilson (31-32,
45,94,105-106,108,110,122-123,131-132,134) ,the Rev. Marmaduke Miller
(39-40), Alfred Illingworth (48),W. Spencer Stanhope (57), George Potter,
editor of the Beehive (69), Francis Schnadhorst (97), Henry Richard (107),Sir
Charles Reed (117),and circulars in connection with the eleventh triennial
conference of the Liberation Society (135-136).
136 items
46.
Annual Reports
3 items
1874-1877
47.
Financial statements
4 items
1873-1877
10
1872-1876
48.
Draft minutes, resolutions and papers
1873-1877
Including minutes of joint meeting of sub-committees of Sheffield
Reform Association, Nonconformist Committee and National Education
League, 30 0ct 1873, not entered in minute book (7).
66 items
49.
Receipts
50.
Publications
1872-1876
Including copies of constitution (5-13), and constitution of Central
Nonconformist Committee, Birmingham (22).
22 items
117 items
1873-1877
GERTRUDE LENWOOD'S COLLECTIONS
51.
Newspaper cartoons relating mainly to the First World War but including
'A Page of Chamberlain Cartoons' from the Westminster Gazette, 7 July 1914
(3).
39 items
1906-1934
52.
Copies, extracts and notes made by Mrs. Lenwood
1929-1955
Including copies of letters from H.J.W. to members of his family (1-2,4), and
letter to Mrs. Lenwood from Herbert Jones of the British National Temperance
League (8).
8 items
53.
Typed manuscripts and extracts from letters of Anthony John Mundella to
HJW, 1875-1886.
n.d.
[Originals returned to Mundella's daughter after her father's death and now
form part of the Mundella papers.]
275 sheets
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University of Sheffield Library-Special Collections and Archives
Name Index to the Henry Joseph Wilson Papers
compiled by Victoria Hedley
Numbers refer to Sections
Adams, Francis
Adams, Thomas
Albert Hall, Sheffield
Alliance News
Allot, Alderman
Asquith, Herbert Henry
Attercliffe, Sheffield
4
18
22
33
4, 5
31
29-30, 33, 37
Backhouse, Edward
Baines, Edward
Barber, James Henry
Barthelemy
Bath
The Beehive
Birmingham
Bodmin
Brightside, Sheffield
Brightside Liberal Association
Brightside Ward Committee
Bristol
Bristol Liberal Association
British National Temperance League
British Temperance League
Butt, Isaac MP
4
15
4, 8, 12, 19
1
33
45
4, 19
33
20, 23, 26-7
23
15
19
18
52
19
21
Camberwell
Cavendish, Lord Frederick
Central Nonconformist Committee, Birmingham
Chamberlain Fund
Chamberlain, Joseph
Clegg, John Charles
Clegg, William Johnson
Coleridge, Bernard
Collyns, Rev. Charles
Contagious Diseases Acts
Coote, W. A.
Cox, J. Charles
Customs and Inland Revenue Bill
20
17
50
5
4, 5, 11, 18-19, 21, 25, 51
12
4, 5, 12, 15
18-19
19
33
20
4, 5, 12, 25, 33
24
Davis, W. J.
Doncaster
Doncaster Political Union
19-20
22
33
East Derbyshire
34
12
Eastern Question Association
Ede, Moore
Education Bill / Act, 1870
Education Bill / Act, 1902
Education Bill, 1908
Egerton, Francis
Elementary Education Bill / Act
Ellis, John Edward
8
18
2
28
31
19
10, 28
1, 2, 19
Firth, Thomas
Firth College, Sheffield
Fry, J. S
23, 26
13
19
General Election, 1874
General Election, 1880
General Election, 1885
General Election, 1886
General Election, 1892
Gladstone, William Ewart
Gledstone, Rev. J. P.
Gough
5, 8
15, 34-5
20
21
25
35
4, 25
1
Hardwicke, H. J.
Hartington, Marquis of
Harris, William
Hobson, Charles
Holden, Richard
Home Rule see Irish Home Rule
Howden, S.
Hubbard, William
Hunter, Michael
20
34, 39
4, 5
26
23
Illingworth, Alfred
Irish Home Government Association, Sheffield
Irish Home Rule
43, 45
21
21, 23, 25
Jones, Herbert
52
Kendal
Kensington, Lord
4
15
Labour Party
Lancashire
Langley, Batty
Lawson, Sir Wilfrid
Leader, John Daniel
Leader, Robert
20, 29-30
34
17
19
5, 20-21
4, 5, 7, 8, 11-12,
17-20
15-16, 31
33
20
45
19-20
Leader, Robert Eadon
Lee, Dr.
13
Leeds
Lees
Leng, William Christopher
Lenwood, Gertrude
Lewis, J. D.
Liberal (Party)
Liberal Union
Liberation Society
Liverpool Daily Post
London and Counties Liberal Union
4, 33-4, 45
1
5
51-3
33
8, 18-19, 22, 33-4
4
45
19
20
MacCarthy, John G.
Manchester
Mappin, Frederick Thorpe
Margate, G.
Martineau, R. F.
Miall, Edward
Midlothian
Miller, Rev. Marmaduke
Montgomery, James
Morley, John
Mundella, Anthony John
21
34, 45
8, 10, 15, 19
1
4
4
35
45
31
19
2, 4, 5,7-8, 11, 15-16, 20,
34, 53
Mundella, Gertrude see Lenwood, Gertrude
National Education League
National Liberal Federation
Neal, Charles
Newland's Farm
Noble, J.
Nonconformist Committee
North Camberwell
North Derbyshire
4, 48
18
25
1
20
48
20
34
Oxford
33
Park, Sheffield
Plimsoll, Samuel
Potter, George
Preston
Priestman, Mary
Pringle, R. O.
Privy Council
Pye-Smith, John William
33
5
45
33
19
1
31
4, 15
Reed, Sir Charles
Reform Bill, 1884
Richard, Henry
Richmond, Edwin
Rolley, William
11, 45
19
4, 5, 7, 19, 45
23
4, 5, 20
14
Rotherham
Russell, Edward
Rutland
21
19
1
St. Ubaldus
St. William's School, Sheffield
Schnadhorst, Francis
Serjeant, Charles E.
Sheffield
Sheffield and Rotherham Independent
Sheffield Council Parliamentary Bill to purchase
the Water Company
Sheffield Guardians
Sheffield Labour Association
Sheffield Liberal Association (s)
Sheffield Liberal Union
Sheffield Liberal Club
Sheffield Men’s Treat
Sheffield Nonconformist Committee
Sheffield Reform Association
Sheffield Reform Club
Sheffield Temperance Hall
Sheffield United Liberal Committee
Skinner, Jonathan
Spencer, Earl
Stanhope, W. Spencer
Stansfeld, James
Stead, William Thomas
Stephenson, Henry
Stuart-Wortley, Charles
Sunderland
1
21
4, 5, 15, 19, 45
33
4, 13-15, 18-23, 33-5
19
Tatham, Alderman George
Tixover
Trevelyan, George Otto
4
1
4
United Liberal Committee
United States of America
Uttley, Stuart
20
9
20-21
Vaughan, Rev. Robert
Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights
Vincent, Henry
1
6
42-43, 45
Waddy, Samuel Danks
Weekly Dispatch
West Riding
Westminster Gazette
Williams, J. Powell
Wilson, Alick
12, 14-15
20
34
51
18
32
15
22
18
20
7, 8, 10, 15-18, 20
4
5
1
38-50
4, 5, 48
17
4
22
17-22, 26
22
45
5
20
15
15
4
Wilson, E. Gertrude
Wilson, Helen
Wilson, Mrs Henry Joseph
Wilson, J. Whitwell
Wilson, John Wycliffe
Wilson, Oliver
Wilson Brothers
Wright, Samuel
25, 32
32
20
4
4, 9, 23, 29, 30, 45
23
3
45
Yorkshire Miners' Association
25
16