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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D5950
TitleJohn B. Wallis of Whatstandwell and Crich (1877-1953), local natural history writer
Date1901-1953
DescriptionDiaries, papers, and other family documents.
Extent4 boxes
LevelFonds
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
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Archive CreatorJohn B. Wallis of Whatstandwell and Crich (1877-1953)
Administrative HistoryJohn B Wallis was a writer on local natural history. He contributed articles regularly to local papers, many under the byline 'the Rambling Naturalist'. He married on 15 July 1899 and died in 1953. He recorded his natural history observations in a series of 90 diaries beginning in 1901 and continuing until just before his death in 1953.
Custodial HistoryThese records were donated to Derbyshire Record Office in February 2003.
Organisation Sub-TypeLocal historians
Writers
TermWeather
Climate
Nature
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Place (click for further details)Type
Crich 
Whatstandwell 
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