Identity area
Reference code
IE BCA ROSSE/H
Title
Papers of the Hawke family, Lords Hawke
Date(s)
- 1682-2006 (Creation)
Level of description
Subfonds
Extent and medium
Context area
Name of creator
(c.1590-)
Repository
Archival history
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Papers of the Hawke family, Lords Hawke, 1682-1824 and 1832-2006, present among the Rosse Papers because of the marriage in 1870 of the Hon. Frances Cassandra Hawke, heiress of her father, the 4th Lord Hawke, to the 4th Earl of Rosse; including some naval, administrative and political papers of Admiral Sir Edward Hawke, K.B., 1st Lord Hawke, victor of the Battle of Quiberon Bay in 1759, and First Lord of the Admiralty, 1766-71.