Major collections

Many also have a national or international significance.

Many of the catalogues of these collections are accessible from Access to Archives.


Major collections at Bury St Edmunds

Estate and family papers of the Dukes of Grafton (the 3rd Duke was Prime Minister, 1768-70) (ref HA513 and acc 423)

Papers of Hervey family, Marquisses of Bristol, in Lincolnshire, Essex and Sussex, 14th-20th centuries (ref HA507 and acc 941)

Records of the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich (ref FE500)

Major collections at Ipswich

Sir Thomas Phillipps collection of medieval manuscripts and Suffolk antiquaries’ notes (ref HA1538) : The Iveagh Manuscripts

Cornwallis papers, including letter-book of 1st Marquis Cornwallis, Governor-General of Bengal (ref HA411)

Diaries and political papers of Gathorne Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook (ref HA43)

Correspondence of William Lowther MP and James William Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater (ref HA47)

Military, naval and political papers of 1st-7th Earls of Albemarle, Admiral Viscount Keppel, General Sir William Keppel and Baron Egerton (ref HA67)

Naval papers of Admiral Sir James Saumarez and Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke (ref HA93)

Papers of George Pretyman (Tomline), Bishop of Lincoln and Winchester, including material re William Pitt the Younger (ref HA119)

Papers of Mary C. Greenup (wife of Gen J.T. English) re South America diaries of Canon J.H. Turner re the Canadian Arctic (ref papers of William Leathes, ambassador, and of Carteret Leathers and Hill Mussenden, MPs (ref HA403)

Collections relating to the Jamaican estates of the Long family (ref HA18)

Bristol and Gloucestershire estates of the Gonning family (refLondon and Lincolnshire estates of the Boucherett family (ref Kent estate of the Barne family (ref various lands of the Hanbury-Bateman families (ref London estate of the Kerrison family (ref South Carolina estate of the Middleton family (HA93)

Lincolnshire estate of the Pretyman-Tomline families (ref HA119)

Nevis (West Indies) estate of the Maynard family (ref HA178)

Lancashire, Northamptonshire and Irish estates of the Purcell-Fitzgerald family (ref HB56)

Hertfordshire and other estates of Lord Rendlesham (ref HB416)

Major collections at Lowestoft

Adair of Flixton Hall family and estate records (ref 741)

Records of the Round Tower Churches Society containing photographs, church guides and notes on round tower churches in Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex, elsewhere in Great Britain and abroad.