The Goodwood Estate Archives in Three Volumes a Catalogue

Chichester: The West Sussex County Council, 1984. A scarce and complete set in red cloth hardcovers and thick mtching illustrated red paperjackets. With a foreword by His Grace the duke of Richmond and Gordon. The first volume of the catalogue covers the development and administration of the Goodwood estates during the 17th and 19th centuries and is especially rich in its collection of maps and manorial papers. Second volumes consisits of personal records and family papers.Duke the estate had grown to some 17,000 acres in Boxgrove, Westhampnett, East Dean, Singleton, Tangmere, Lavant and West Itchenor. Today the estate has a world-famous racecourse, the newly re-opened motor racing circuit and the home of the annual festival of speed, and was until recently the venue for international dressage. The estate archives are chiefly notable for the fine late eighteenth-century estate surveys by Thomas Yeakell and William Gardner. Tangmere East Field Map, 1791 The family holds four Dukedoms - Richmond, Lennox, Gordon and Aubigny - and the surviving archives reflect this. They include the correspondence of the five Dukes of Gordon and an extensive archive of the Aubigny estates. The correspondence collections are especially rich for the 2nd. Duke, 1701-1750, Master of the Horse, literary and artistic patron and Newcastle's agent in the county, the 5th. Duke, 1791-1860, member of Grey's reforming ministry and later a leader of the protectionist party, and the 6th. Duke, 1818-1892, leader of the Conservative party in the House of Lords and first Secretary for Scotland. A fine series of accounts with local and London tradesmen survive for the first three Dukes.. Fine as New/Near Fine.