Ardal dynodi
Cod cyfeirnod
Teitl
Dyddiad(au)
- 1817-1852 (Creation)
Lefel y disgrifiad
Fonds
Maint a chyfrwng
36 volumes ; all 185 x 120 mm.
/1-/19, /21-/36: Half leather commercial bindings. Marbled paper covers with gold lettering 'PRIVATE DIARY' on the spine of each volume, and printed labels, with date added in ink, on the front covers.
/20: Notebook with limp covers ('Journal 1836' written in ink on front cover).
Ardal cyd-destun
Enw'r crëwr
Hanes bywgraffyddol
Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778-1855) was a naturalist and a Whig MP. He was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, the son of William Dillwyn (?1743-1824) of Walthamstow, and Sarah Weston of Essex. He attended the Friends' School in Tottenham, and in 1797 went to Dover to study botany. He ran the 'Cambrian Pottery' in Swansea, 1802-1817, living at Burrough Lodge and then Sketty Hall. He was a noted naturalist, publishing works on botany and conchology, and was elected FRS in 1804. He was a Justice of the Peace, sheriff of Glamorgan, 1818, mayor of Swansea, 1839, and MP for Glamorgan, 1832-1841. Among his publications were Natural History of British Confervae (1802-9), Botanist's Guide through England and Wales, written with Dawson Turner (1805), A Descriptive Catalogue of British Shells (2 vols, 1817), An Index to the Historia Conchyliorum of Lister (Oxford, 1923) and a short history of Swansea published in 1840. In 1807 he married Mary, daughter and heir of John Llewelyn of Penlle'rgaer, Llangyfelach, Glamorgan. They had two daughters and two sons, John Dillwyn-Llewelyn (1810-1882) of Penlle'rgaer and Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn (1814-1892). Lewis Weston Dillwyn died on 31 August 1855.
Hanes archifol
Ffynhonnell
Deposited by the family of Lewis Weston Dillwyn.
Ardal cynnwys a strwythur
Natur a chynnwys
Diaries, 1817-1852, of Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778-1855) of Penlle'rgaer, Glamorgan, containing entries relating to family and estate matters, his business interests, his work as a naturalist, together with his public duties as a magistrate and as a Member of Parliament. Also included is the journal of his tour on the Continent in 1836. Most of the volumes are partially indexed by him, and many contain appendices, some relating to events before 1817 (see file level descriptions for further details).
Gwerthuso, dinistrio ac amserlennu
Croniadau
Accruals are not expected.
System o drefniant
Arranged chronologically.
Ardal amodau mynediad a defnydd
Amodau rheoli mynediad
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions set out in information provided when applying for their Readers' Tickets, whereby the reader shall become responsible for compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library.
Amodau rheoli atgynhyrchu
Copyright in the diaries belongs to Richard Morris and the family of Lewis Weston Dillwyn. All requests for use or reproduction should be made to archives@swansea.ac.uk.
Iaith y deunydd
- Saesneg
Sgript o ddeunydd
Nodiadau iaith a sgript
English.
Cyflwr ac anghenion technegol
Cymhorthion chwilio
Ardal deunyddiau perthynol
Bodolaeth a lleoliad y gwreiddiol
Bodolaeth a lleoliad copïau
Unedau o ddisgrifiad cysylltiedig
Ardal nodiadau
Nodiadau
Title compiled from content of fonds.
Nodiadau
Partial transcripts of the diaries are available at the National Library of Wales (NLW, Calendar of Lewis Weston Dillwyn Diaries). Extracts have also been published in South Wales and Monmouth Record Society, Publications no. 5 (1963), eds. Henry John Randall and William Rees. The diaries have been fully transcribed by Richard Morris over a number of years, and are now available online for academic and research use from https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/dspace/handle/10512/111
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Virtua system control number
Project identifier
Pwyntiau mynediad
Pwyntiau mynediad lleoedd
Pwyntiau mynediad Enw
Pwyntiau mynediad Genre
Ardal rheolaeth disgrifiad
Dynodwr disgrifiad
Dynodwr sefydliad
Rheolau a/neu confensiynau a ddefnyddiwyd
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
Statws
Lefel manylder disgrifiad
Dyddiadau creadigaeth adolygiad dilead
December 2011.
Iaith(ieithoedd)
- Saesneg
Sgript(iau)
Ffynonellau
The following sources were used to compile this description: NLW, Calendar of Lewis Weston Dillwyn Diaries; Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940 (London, 1959); Dictionary of National Biography (London, 1885-1901); online transcripts of the diaries (https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/dspace/handle/10512/111), viewed December 2011.
Nodyn yr archifydd
Compiled by Alwyn J. Roberts.