Fonds WMH - Personal and Family Papers of Wilhelmine, Lady Harrod

14 December 1775-31 October 1860. Served with the Royal Navy and also the Navies of Chile, Brazil and Greece.

20 August 1794-29 July 1863.

20 December 1800-8 August 1885. Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1846 to 1858 underneath John Russell.

6 July 1815-14 November 1889.

19 December 1790-8 July 1855.

6 November 1796-23 June 1878.

16 September 1812-11 June 1858. Son of Thomas Foxwell Buxton. MP for East Norfolk in 1857-1858.

14 June 1790-2 May 1868. MP for Hindon and Bramber.

Wife of Francis Joseph Cresswell.

Sister-in-Law of Francis Cresswell.

Son of Francis Cresswell.

Son of Francis Cresswell.

Brother of Francis Cresswell.

30 December 1779-20 December 1862. In the Royal Navy.

20 February 1816-12 August 1854. MP for King's Lynn from 1842 to 1854.

22 September 1820-8 December 1907. MP for Coleraine from 1862-1874 and 1880-1885.

Born at King's Lynn, 26 September 1827. Third son of Francis and Rachel Cresswell. Captain in the Royal Navy. Died at King's Lynn 14 August 1867.

Francis Cresswell (1789-1861, mayor of Lynn, 1845), and his wife Rachel (1803-1888), daughter of Joseph Fry (1777-1861) and his wife Elizabeth Fry, née Gurney (1780-1845), lived at Bank House, King's Lynn. Their children were Francis Joseph (1822-1882, John Addison (b 1824), Samuel Gurney (1827-1867), William Edward (b 1835), Gerard Oswin (b 1837), Oswald (b 1839), Harriet Frances Elizabeth (b 1842).

Francis Cresswell, F.J. Cresswell, G.F.A. Cresswell and S.A. Gurney were partners in Gurneys, Birkbeck, Barclay, Buxton and Cresswell's Bank at King's Lynn (later Barclay's Bank).

Born 1 Dec 1911, died 9 May 2005. Baptized at Hunstanton, 1912. Wilhelmina, known as Billa, was the daughter of Captain Francis Joseph Cresswell of the Norfolk Regiment and Barbara (née Folkes, later Lady Strickland of Old Hall, Snettisham). She married Roy Harrod in 1938 and thereafter lived mainly at Oxford until Sir Roy retired in 1963, when the couple bought The Old Rectory, Holt. They had two sons, Henry (b 1939) and Dominick Roy (1941-2013).
Co-writer with Charles Linnell, of the 'Shell Guide to Norfolk' (1957) and founding chairman of the Norfolk Society Committee for Country Churches, which evolved into the Norfolk Churches Trust, of which she was president.

Mayor of King's Lynn in 1845.

Eldest son of Francis Cresswell (1789-1861) and his wife Rachel (1803-1888), née Fry, of Bank House, King's Lynn. He married the Hon. Charlotte Frances Georgina Gough, a daughter of Lord Calthorpe, in 1850 and they set up home at 3 King Street, King's Lynn.

Fought in the Napoleonic Wars and the Crimean War.