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The Sutherland Estates: Staffordshire, Shropshire & Scotland
The Sutherland Papers contain a huge variety of documents relating to the Leveson-Gower family’s estates in Trentham, Lilleshall and Sutherland and the agents employed to oversee them from medieval times to the early twentieth century. Documents relating to the Trentham Hotel in the early twentieth century, including a collection of photographs, survive alongside sixteenth century maps of Shropshire and documents relating to life in the Scottish Highlands in the late nineteenth century.
William Lewis, local agent on the Leveson-Gower family’s Staffordshire and Shropshire estates, kept a daily account of his professional activities and family life, reporting on his travels and work overseeing agents and tenants. His diaries allow us to find out about events on the Sutherland estates in the early nineteenth century.
Dr. Sylvia Watts and Robert Cromarty have examined and researched medieval life in Shropshire using the Lilleshall Collection at Shropshire Archives. Their interpretation and transcriptions of documents in this collection provide an invaluable insight into medieval life in Shropshire, exploring topics such as excommunication, piety and death.
Dr. Annie Tindley, a lecturer in history at the School of Law & Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University has studied the Sutherland family’s Scottish estates in the later nineteenth century. Her extensive work with the Sutherland Papers has included examination of documents relating to the management of the Scottish estates and the lives of people living in Sutherland during this period.
Click here to see documents relating to the Sutherland estates in the Sutherland Papers:
 The Trentham Estate
The Lilleshall Estate
Shropshire: Medieval Life
The Scottish Estates
James Loch, (1780-1855) Chief Agent on the Sutherland Estates (1812-1855)
William Lewis: The Life of an Estate Agent
Click here to learn more about Staffordshire in the Sutherland Papers
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