BELLAMY, Reverend James, Manuscript ledger: assessment of 16 properties mortgaged by James Bellamy, 1910

Folio; 37 leaves, 17 hand-coloured plans.

Very good condition: black leather binding a little scuffed; internally clean and bright, occasional faint spotting to the plans, which are on different paper-stock; neat and legible copperplate hand throughout

An elegant ledger, well illustrated with manuscript survey plans, containing details of 16 properties, including a number in the City of Oxford. These properties were all mortgaged by the Reverend James Bellamy (1819–1909), and the ledger therefore illustrates the extent of his holdings at the time of his death.

The Oxford properties include Denver Lodge on the Woodstock Road, plots on the Banbury and Iffley Roads, houses in Leckford Place and Walton Crescent, and Fieldgarth on Woodstock Road.

Bellamy was one of the central figures of late 19th century Oxford: he was leader of the Oxford Conservatives and president of St John’s College, and his estate was valued at £300,000 at the time of his death. See Matthew Ford, Intellectual Capital Money and Mind at St John’s College, Oxford (2023).

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