Description: RP VIII - Theodore Woolman Rathbone.

RP VIII - PAPERS OF THEODORE WOOLMAN RATHBONE date from 1798-1863 and include:

RP VIII.1 - GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE
RP VIII.2 - DEEDS AND ACCOUNTS (which include personal deeds and financial records)
RP VIII.3 - PERSONAL PAPERS (which include notes, notebooks, a journ...

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Main Creator: Hesketh, Thomas

Archive level description: Series

Physical Description: 8 boxes

Summary:	RP VIII - PAPERS OF THEODORE WOOLMAN RATHBONE date from 1798-1863 and include: RP VIII.1 - GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE RP VIII.2 - DEEDS AND ACCOUNTS (which include personal deeds and financial records) RP VIII.3 - PERSONAL PAPERS (which include notes, notebooks, a journal and artefacts)
Date:	1817-1865
Reference Number:	RP VIII
Biographical/Administrative Information:	THEODORE WOOLMAN RATHBONE (1798-1863), of Allerton Priory, son of William Rathbone IV and Hannah Mary (née Reynolds), was a director of the London and Birmingham Railway and a cotton broker. Married Lucy Pearson (d.1848), daughter of Edward Pearson and Lucy (née Hesketh) in 1826 and had seven children, only three of them: Lucy, Theodore William and Jessie, living to adulthood.