Samuel BICKERSTETH ¹

  General Notes:

The third section (C), papers of their second son Samuel Bickersteth (1857-1937), forms a large part of the collection. He was ordained priest in 1882, having married in 1881 Ella, daughter of Sir Monier Monier-Williams founder of the Indian Institute in Oxford. They had six sons, one of whom was killed in the First World War. This section includes weekly letters from three of the boys to their parents throughout their school and university days. The letters continue through the First World War forming an eleven volume record known as the Bickersteth Diary, 1914-18, which was kept by their mother, and in 1995 was edited and published (London, 1995) by her grandson John Bickersteth, sometime Bishop of Bath and Wells. This section also includes scrapbooks containing newscuttings, and printed ephemera concerning family, parish and national events, family photograph albums and correspondence of the Monier-Williams family.

Samuel married Ella MONIER-WILLIAMS, daughter of Sir Monier MONIER-WILLIAMS and Unknown.