Whately, Richard 1787-1863
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1787 · died 1863
Richard Whately was an English academic, rhetorician, logician, philosopher, economist, and theologian who also served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. He was a leading Broad Churchman, a prolific and combative author over a wide range of topics, a flamboyant character, and one of the first reviewers to recognise the talents of Jane Austen.
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A volume of letters received and drafts, copies and originals of letters sent (including seven to Nassau Senior, 1818-1841), 1818-1861. Also notes, memoranda and poems. Whately papers, Lambeth Palace Library, London, MS. 2164.
Copies of three dialogues on reasoning. National Library of Wales (NLW), Harpton Court papers, 3554.
Four letters to various correspondents, 1854-1857. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Correspondents
JOHN GEORGE BERESFORD, c. 30 items, 1833-1859. Beresford papers, Trinity College, Dublin.
HENRY PETER BROUGHAM, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, five items, 1831-1836. Brougham papers, University College London (UCL)
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH, three letters, n.d. Bodleian, MS. Eng. Lett. c189, c190, d175.
EDWARD COPLESTONE, three letters, 1821-1825. Hawkins papers, Oriel College, Oxford.
EDWARD GRANVILLE ELIOT, 3rd Earl of St Germans, copies of six items, 1853. BL Add. MS. 43207.
CAROLINE FOX, several letters, 1836-1842. BL Add. MS. 51965.
GEORGE HAMILTON GORDON, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, c. 20 items, 1853. BL Add. MSS. 43250-43251.
CHARLES GREY, 2nd Earl Grey, 30 letters, 1832-1834. Grey of Howick papers, Durham DP
SIR WILLIAM ROWAN HAMILTON, 26 items, 1837-1863. Hamilton papers, Trinity College, Dublin.
EDWARD HAWKINS, 54 letters, 1823-1861. Hawkins papers, Oriel College, Oxford.
CHARLES THOMAS LONGLEY, two letters, 1847-1863. Longley papers, Lambeth Palace Library, London.
MACVEY NAPIER, six letters, 1828-1842. BL Add. MSS. 34613-34623.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, seven items, 1834. Newman papers, Oratory of St Philip Neri, Birmingham.
SIR ROBERT PEEL, six items, 1829-1842. BL Add. MSS. 40399-40499.
ADAM SEDGWICK, five letters, 1860. BL Egerton MS. 3020.
NASSAU WILLIAM SENIOR, many letters, 1811-1859. Nassau Senior papers, NLW
SAMUEL WILBERFORCE, five letters, 1846-1861. Bodleian, MSS. Wilberforce.
SIR ROBERT JOHN WILMOT-HORTON, two letters, 1829-1830. Catton collection, Derby Borough Library.
Printed Material
WILLIAM JOHN FITZPATRICK, Memoirs of Richard Whately, 2 vols. ( London, 1864).
ELIZABETH JANE WHATELY, The Life and Correspondence of Richard Whately , 2 vols. ( London, 1866).
Miscellaneous Remains from the Commonplace Book of Richard Whately, ed. Elizabeth Jane Whately ( London, 1864).
New Palgrave; ODNB; Boase III 1295; ESS xv 407.
Portraits: BL(P); NPG(A); see Centenary History of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland , ed. R. D. Collison
Black ( Dublin, 1947).