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Catalogue description Racket family papers.
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| Title: | Racket family papers. |
| Description: |
The Collection centres round the Rev. Thomas Rackett, rector of Spettisbury, co. Dorset (1757-1841). Together with letters and papers of himself, his wife and his daughter, Dorothea, are those of the Caillouel, Tattersall and Solly families. The Rev. Thomas' mother was Marie Caillouel, a member of a Huguenot family of merchants who had come to England in 1685 and had interesting family and commercial connections with Boston, New England. The Rev. Thomas' wife was Dorothy Tattersall, of a clerical family with members in various parishes in the South of England. Their daughter married Samuel Solly, who owned estates in Lincolnshire and later moved to Parkstone, Dorset. The Rev. Thomas Rackett was a man of wide interests, archaeological, scientific and literary, He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a protegé of David Garrick, and his correspondence with a varied circle of friends and "kindred spirits" produces much interesting material. He was an executor of Tiberio Cavallo, the natural philosopher, and the papers concerning Cavallo and the search for his heir are an interesting item. In a narrower world, the everyday and social life of the Blandford district of Dorset are mirrored in the letters from friends of the Rackett ladies. |
| Date: | 1558 - 1881 |
| Held by: | Dorset History Centre, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical description: | 162 Files |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
Papers deposited in the custody of the Dorset County Museum in 1950 by Lt. Colonel R. J. N. Solly. |
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