Scrope, George Poulett 1797-1876
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1797 · died 1876
George Julius Poulett Scrope FRS was an English geologist and political economist as well as a Member of Parliament and magistrate for Stroud in Gloucestershire.
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Scrope left his papers to his nephew, Hugh Hammersley, but the Hammersley family no longer has them. See reference in the C. E. P. Thomson list.
Genealogical material on the family of Scrope, including one volume of notes by Poulett Scrope. BL Add. MSS. 28205-28213.
A ten-page memorandum on parochial assessments, 1861. National Library of Wales (NLW), Harpton Court papers, 3689.
Correspondents
EDWIN CHADWICK, nine letters, 1837-1859. Chadwick papers, University College London (UCL)
JAMES DAVID FORBES, four letters, 1847-1858. Forbes papers, St Andrews UL
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE, four letters, 1867-1874. BL Add. MSS. 44412-44442.
HENRY GEORGE GREY, 3rd Earl Grey, four letters, 1831. Grey of Howick papers, Durham DP
SIR CHARLES LYELL, two letters, 1859-1872. American Philosophical Society Library, Philadelphia.
SIR ROBERT PEEL, three letters, 1838-1849. BL Add. MSS. 40425-40G02.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL, 1st Earl Russell, two items, 1848. Russell papers, Public Record Office (PRO)
HENRY JOHN TEMPLE, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, two letters, 1841-1848. Broadlands papers, National Register of Archives (NRA) 12889.
Printed Material
New Palgrave; ODNB; Boase III 465; ESS XIII 610.
Portraits: Geological Magazine (1870) 193; Archibald Geikie,
Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison , 2 vols. ( London, 1875).