Copy will and codicil of Anne Isabella, Baroness Noel Byron
MS. 20714
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Copy will and codicil of Anne Isabella, Baroness Noel Byron
Shelfmark
MS. 20714
Summary
Copy will and codicil of Anne Isabella, Baroness Noel Byron, 1860-1906.
Date
1860-1906
Language
English
Physical extent
1 box
Custodial history
These papers were inherited by the donor's father, Major John Surtees OBE, from Miss Nora Hermione Wentworth Byron (1886-1969), grand-daughter of the Rev. Augustus Byron (1828-1907), Rector of Kirkby Mallory in Leicestershire. The Rev. Augustus Byron was the son of Lord Byron's cousin and heir, George Anson Byron, 7th Baron Byron (1789-1868).
Nora Byron was a House Dame at Eton for thirty-five years between 1928 and 1963, and published her memoir, Eton: A Dame's Chronicle in 1965. Nora Byron was House Dame when Major John Surtees attended Eton and helped him to return to civilian life after the Second World War (he was captured at Calais in 1939). Nora died unmarried and Major John Surtees was her Executor.
Acquisition
Donated to the Bodleian Libraries by Christian Hepburne Scott, March 2021.
Subject
19th century
Deeds -- England
Wills
20th century
