Survey
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 |
| contr. | contract |
| da. | daughter, daughters |
| dep. | deputy |
| e. | elder, eldest |
| E.I. | 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 |
| M.P. | a Member of the House of Commons whose entire term of membership lies outside the period 1754-1790 |
| Mq. | Marquess |
| ret. | retired |
| s. | son, sons |
| [S] | Scotland, Scottish |
| S.C.J. | Senator of the College of Justice |
| suc. | succeeded |
| w. | wife |
| W.I. | West Indies, West Indian |
| wid. | widow |
In the footnotes:
| Add. | Additional MSS, British Museum |
| AHR | American Historical Review |
| Almon | John Almon, Parliamentary Register (for reports of debates 1774-1780) |
| APC Col | Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial series |
| Bodl. | Bodleian Library, Oxford |
| Burke LG | Burke’s Landed Gentry |
| Burke PB | Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage |
| CB | Complete Baronetage |
| CJ | Journals of the House of Commons |
| CP | Complete Peerage |
| DAm.B | Dictionary of American Biography |
| Debrett | John Debrett, History, Debates, and Proceedings of both Houses of Parliament (for reports of debates 1754-1774), and Parliamentary Register (for reports of debates 1780-1790) |
| DNB | Dictionary of National Biography |
| DWB | Dictionary of Welsh Biography |
| Egerton | Egerton MSS, British Museum |
| EHR | English Historical Review |
| Fortescue | Hon. Sir John Fortescue, Correspondence of King George III |
| Grenville mss (Bodl.) | Grenville MSS, Bodleian Library |
| Grenville mss (HL) | Grenville MSS, Huntington Library |
| Grenville mss (JM) | Grenville MSS, in the possession of Sir John Murray, K.C.V.O. |
| Grenville letter bk. | George Grenville’s letter books, Huntington Library |
| HMC | Historical Manuscripts Commission |
| Jnl. | Journal |
| Laprade | W.T. Laprade, Parliamentary papers of John Robinson, 1774-1784 |
| Lib. | Library |
| N. Q. | Notes and Queries |
| NLS | National Library of Scotland |
| NLW | National Library of Wales |
| OR | [Official] Return of Members of Parliament |
| PCC | Prerogative Court of Canterbury |
| PRO | Public Record Office (PRO documents are referred to by their class numbers only) |
| Ramsay of Ochtertyre | Scotland and Scotsmen in the eighteenth century from the mss of John Ramsay of Ochtertyre , edited by Alexander Allardyce |
| RO | Record Office |
| Sedgwick | Romney Sedgwick, Letters from George III to Lord Bute, 1756-1766 |
| SHR | Scottish Historical Review |
| SRO | Public Record Office of Scotland |
| Stockdale | John Stockdale, Parliamentary Register (for reports of debates 1774-1780), and Debates and Proceedings of the House of Commons (for reports of debates 1784-I790) |
| UCNW | University College of North Wales |
| VCH | Victoria County History |
| WO | War Office |
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