Gother Kerr Mann papers, 1846-1890

MLMSS 81

fonds

1846-1890

422202

Microfilm : CY 4654, frames 1-287 (MLMSS 81)

2 volumes of textual material

Lieutenant in the Bombay Horse Artillery, came to Sydney on medical furlough in 1836. A civil engineer, he was responsible for the construction of the Fitzroy Dry Dock. He became first commandant of the N.S.W. Volunteer Artillery Corps on its formation in 1855

I. Correspondence, 1847-1875 including letters from Sir C. Cowper, 1860, Sir J. E. Home, 1852, R. Lambert, 1868, E. C. Merewether, 1860, E. O. Moriarty, 1861, O. Stanley, 1849, and Sir E. Deas-Thomson, 1849. II. Papers, 1846-1890, concerning brass mortar and ordnance projectiles designed by Mann, 1846-1870, the New South Wales Volunteer Artillery Corps, 1854-1860, Sydney Harbour defences, 1854-1866, heliostate beacons, with particular reference to Sydney Harbour, 1860, the supply of South Australian horses to the Indian Government, 1863, and the Fitzroy Dry Dock, 1890

Information upgraded from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (6-385B) as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012

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