Abbreviations
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, ed. R. Thorne, 1986
Available from Boydell and Brewer
Available from Boydell and Brewer
This section of the Survey provides a list of the abbreviations used in the volumes for this period, in addition to standard and self-explanatory abbreviations, Please note that there are separate lists for the preliminary paragraphs (the family and education and career elements) and for the notes.
In the preliminary paragraphs:
| abp. | archbishop |
| adv. | advocate |
| bp. | bishop |
| called | called to the bar |
| ch. | children |
| c.j. | chief justice |
| commr. | commissioner |
| c.p. | common pleas |
| da. | daughter, daughters |
| dep. | deputy |
| e. | elder, eldest |
| EI | East Indies, East India |
| ft. | regiment of foot |
| [GB] | Great Britain, British |
| g.s. | grammar school |
| gd.-s., etc. | grandson, etc. |
| h.s. | high school |
| [I] | Ireland, Irish |
| jt. | joint |
| l.c.j. | lord chief justice |
| m. | married |
| Mq. | Marquess |
| ret. | retired |
| s. | son, sons |
| [S] | Scotland, Scottish |
| SCJ | Senator of the College of Justice |
| suc. | succeeded |
| w. | wife |
| WI | West Indies, West Indian |
| wid. | widow |
In the footnotes:
| Add. | Additional mss, British Library |
| AHR | American Historical Review |
| AO | Archives Office |
| Bodl. | Bodleian Library, Oxford |
| Buckingham, Court and Cabinets | Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third , 4vv (1853-5) |
| Buckingham, Regency | Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Memoirs of the Court of England during the Regency, 1811-20 , 2vv (1856) |
| Burke Corresp. | The Correspondence of Edmund Burke ed. Copeland et al, 9vv (1958-70) |
| Burke LG | Burke’s Landed Gentry |
| Burke PB | Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage |
| CB | Complete Baronetage |
| CJ | Journals of the House of Commons |
| Colchester | The Diary and Correspondence of Charles Abbot, Lord Colchester ed. Colchester, 3vv (1861) |
| CP | Complete Peerage |
| D Am. B. | Dictionary of American Biography |
| Debrett | John Debrett, Parliamentary Register (for debates 1790-1803) |
| DNB | Dictionary of National Biography |
| Dublin SPO | State Paper Office, Dublin |
| DWB | Dictionary of Welsh Biography |
| Egerton | Egerton mss, British Library |
| EHR | English Historical Review |
| Farington | The Farington Diary ed. Greig, 8vv (1922-8) |
| Farington Diary (Yale ed.) | The Diary of Joseph Farington ed. Garlick and Macintyre (1978- ) |
| Geo. III Corresp. | The Later Correspondence of George III ed. Aspinall, 5vv (1962-70) |
| Geo. IV Letters | The Letters of King George IV, 1812-1830 ed. Aspinall, 3vv (1938) |
| HMC | Historical Manuscripts Commission |
| HO | Home Office |
| Horner Mems. | Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner MP ed. Horner, 4vv (1843) |
| Horner Mems.(1853) | refers to the expanded Boston edition of the foregoing |
| Jnl. | Journal |
| Leveson Gower | Lord Granville Leveson Gower (First Earl Granville), Private Correspondence, 1781 to 1821 ed. Countess Granville, 2vv (1916) |
| Lib. | Library |
| Minto | Life and Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto from 1751 to 1806 ed. Countess of Minto, 3vv (1874) |
| N. and Q. | Notes and Queries |
| NLI | National Library of Ireland |
| NMM | National Maritime Museum |
| NLS | National Library of Scotland |
| NLW | National Library of Wales |
| Oldfield, Boroughs | T. H. B. Oldfield, An Entire and Complete History ... of the Boroughs of Great Britain , 2nd ed. 2vv (1794) |
| Oldfield, Boroughs (1792) | refers to the three volume edition of 1792 |
| Oldfield, Rep. Hist. | T. H. B. Oldfield, The Representative History of Great Britain and Ireland , 6vv (1816) |
| Oldfield, Key | T. H. B. Oldfield, A Key to the House of Commons (1820) |
| Parl. Deb. | Cobbett’s Parliamentary Debates (for debates 1803-20) |
| PCC | Prerogative Court of Canterbury |
| PP | Parliamentary Papers |
| Prince of Wales Corresp. | The Correspondence of George, Prince of Wales 1770-1812 ed. Aspinall, 8vv (1963-71) |
| PRO | Public Record Office (documents being referred to by their class number only) |
| PRO NI | Public Record Office of Northern Ireland |
| RO | Record Office |
| Sen. | The Senator: or, Parliamentary Chronicle (for debates 1790-1802) |
| SHR | Scottish Historical Review |
| SRO | Public Record Office of Scotland |
| T. | Treasury |
| UCNW | University College of North Wales |
| VCH | Victoria County History |
| WO | War Office |
| Woodfall | W. Woodfall, An Impartial Report of the Debates ... |
