Lewis Hertslet

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Lewis Hertslet (1787–1870) was an English librarian and editor of state papers.

Life

He was the eldest son of Jean Louis Pierre Hertslett (or Hiertzelet), a Swiss

Foreign Office; and on 6 January 1810 librarian and keeper of the papers.[2]

Hertslet was one of the two secretaries of the lords justices in England while

Great College Street, Westminster, 16 March 1870.[2]

Works

Hertslet wrote:[2]

  • A Complete Collection of the Treaties and Conventions at present subsisting between Great Britain and Foreign Powers, so far as they relate to Commerce and Navigation, to the Repression and Abolition of the Slave Trade, and to the Privileges and Interests of the Subjects of the high contracting Powers, 2 vols., 1820.
  • A Complete Collection of the Treaties and Conventions and reciprocal Relations subsisting between Great Britain and Foreign Powers, and of the Laws, Decrees, and Orders in Council concerning the same, 16 vols., of which the first 11 are by Hertslet, and the rest by his son Edward.
  • Treaties, &c., between Turkey and Foreign Powers, 1835–55 (privately printed 1855).

Family

Hertslet married Hannah Harriet, daughter of George Cooke of Westminster. His youngest son, Edward (1824–1902) succeeded him as librarian at the Foreign Office.[2]

Notes

  1. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13106. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ^ a b c d Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1891). "Hertslet, Lewis" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 26. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1891). "Hertslet, Lewis". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 26. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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