Giffen, Sir Robert 1837-1910
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1837 · died 1910
Sir Robert Giffen was a Scottish statistician and economist.
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Correspondence, 1861-1910, mainly on personal matters, but some on currency and other economic topics. Miscellaneous papers and newspaper cuttings, six volumes in all.
Giffen collection, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
Correspondents
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, six letters, 1881-1887. Chamberlain papers, Birmingham UL
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, three items, 1886.
Churchill papers, Churchill College, Cambridge.
HERBERT SOMERTON FOXWELL, 41 letters to, 1889-1901, in RDFC
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE, nine letters and memoranda, 1879-1886.
BL Add. MSS. 44258 – 44666.
SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH, several letters, 1889-1897. St Aldwyn papers, Gloucestershire RO
SIR ROBERT HARRY INGLIS PALGRAVE, six letters, 1871-1894. Palgrave papers. 9
EDWIN ROBERT ANDERSON SELIGMAN, two letters, 1895. Seligman papers, Columbia UL, New York.
HERBERT SPENCER, two letters, 1885-189G. Spencer papers, London UL, MS. 791.
Printed Material
ESS VI G 5G; New Palgrave; ODNB; IESS VI 181.
Portrait: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (May 1909).