MS 681 13

Reference code

MS 681 13

Title

Moulton-Barrett family papers: Papers and portraits of Henry (Harry) Moulton-Barrett (1818-1896) and his wife Amelia (née Holland)

Level

Series

Other Number

Previous reference: MS 681 01 01 Papers of Elizabeth Barrett-Browning and her siblings.

Administrative / Biographical history

Henry Moulton-Barrett (1818-1896), known as Harry, the ninth child of Edward and Mary Moulton-Barrett, was born at Hope End, Herefordshire in 1819. He studied in Germany between 1836 and 1838, and in 1844 travelled to Egypt with his brother Charles John. He did not pursue a formal profession.

Harry reconciled with his sister Elizabeth after her break from their father following her marriage to Robert Browning. In 1860, he married the widow Amelia Morris (née Holland), and they had five children: Harry Peyton, Amelia, Frank, Leonard, and Florence.

The family lived in Devon, eventually settling in Sidmouth, where Harry died in 1896.

Date

c.1843-c.1890

Extent & medium

3 items

Content description

Only portrait photographs of Henry Moulton-Barrett and his family are present in this series

Associated material

There are other photographic portraits of Henry and Amelia Moulton-Barrett in the album MS 681 16 06 01 f.8 and the album MS 681 15 03 01 f.5, f.8 , f.14

Publication note

A colour reproduction of a watercolour portrait of Henry Moulton-Barrett by his brother Alfred has been published in R A Barrett: The Barretts of Jamaica (2000), frontispiece.