Troubridge family papers

Sir Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet, (1758-1807)
TRO/1/1- 3 Papers including correspondence, commisions and orders (1793- 1810)

Rear Admiral Sir Edward Thomas Troubridge, 2nd Baronet, (1787-1852)
TRO/100 Orders, Correspondence and miscellaneous material, 1810- 12
TRO/101 Orders, commissions and correspondence, ARMIDE, 1812- 3
TRO/102 Orders, commissions and correspondence, ARMIDE, 1813-4
TRO/103 Orders, official and personal correspondence, 1815- 6
TRO/104 Orders, official and personal correspondence, 1817- 9
TRO/105 Official and personal correspondence, 1819- 22
TRO/106 Correspondence, 1823- 4
TRO/107 Correspondence, 1825- 9
TRO/108 Correspondence and notebook, 1825- 31
TRO/109 Correspondence, 1830
TRO/110 Orders and correspondence, STAG, personal correspondence, 1831
TRO/111 Orders and correspondence, STAG, personal correspondence, 1832
TRO/112 Orders and correspondence, STAG, personal correspondence, 1832
TRO/113 Orders and correspondence, STAG, personal correspondence, 1832
TRO/114 Official and personal correspondence, 1833
TRO/115 Orders and personal correspondence, 1834
TRO/116 Official and personal correspondence, 1835
TRO/117 Official and personal correspondence, 1836
TRO/118 Official and personal correspondence, 1837
TRO/119 Appointments, official and personal correspondence, 1838
TRO/120 Official and personal correspondence, 1838
TRO/121 Official and personal correspondence, 1839
TRO/122 Official and personal correspondence, 1840
TRO/123 Orders, official and personal correspondence, 1841
TRO/124 Orders, official and personal correspondence, 1842- 3
TRO/125 Official and personal correspondence, 1844- 6
TRO/126 Official and personal correspondence, 1847- 8
TRO/127 Correspondence, 1849, including miscellaneous 1840’s material
TRO/128 Official and personal correspondence, 1850- 3

Major Sir Thomas St. Vincent Hope Cochrane Troubridge, 3rd Baronet (1815-1867)
TRO/200 Correspondence, 1854
TRO/201 Correspondence, 1855
TRO/202 Correspondence 1856-59
TRO/203 Correspondence 1860- 66
TRO/204 Correspondence 1867- 69

Troubridge and Cochrane Family Papers, 1800-1900
TRO/250 Correspondence with the Noel Family
TRO/251 Troubridge family correspondence, undated, 1800 to 1900
TRO/252 Undated correspondence 1800-1900 Troubridge and Cochrane Family
TRO/253 Undated correspondence 1800-1900 Troubridge and Cochrane families
TRO/254 Undated correspondence and letters from the children of St. Vincent Troubridge and Louisa Jane (nee Gurney) daughter of Daniel Gurney (1791-1880)
TRO/255 Undated correspondence Troubridge family and Cochrane correspondence
TRO/256 Undated Troubridge family correspondence, Cochrane family correspondence, miscellaneous letters
TRO/257 Miscellaneous material, 1826- 1936
TRO/258 Pamphlets, 1808- 1948

Admiral Sir Ernest Charles Thomas Troubridge (1862-1926)
TRO/300 Official correspondence, notebooks and a scrapbook, 1889- 1924

Sir Thomas Herbert Cochrane, 4th Baronet, (1869-1938)
TRO/350 Letters and transcript.

Vice- Admiral Sir Thomas Hope Troubridge (1895- 1949)
TRO/400 Typescript Papers including Commander W S Chalmers’ Standing Orders and Index, HMS REVENGE
TRO/401 Lecture notes and papers, 1914- 27
TRO/402 Two volumes including An Inventory and Valuation of No.41 Brampton Square SW (1926) and 14 Egerton Gardens SW3 (1932).
TRO/403 Miscellaneous material, 1831- 1948 including reports on Maintenance Support When Disembarked and notes on fly fishing
TRO/404 Essays, 1931- 5
TRO/405 Orders, correspondence, interviews and notes, 1932- 45
TRO/406 Reports, drafts, notes, lecture notes and commissions, 1915- 1949
TRO/407 Louis Shennans research and biographical information

Administrative / biographical background
The Troubridge Baronetcy, of Plymouth, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 30 November 1799 for Captain Thomas Troubridge, a distinguished officer of the Royal Navy, as a reward for retaking Naples. He was made one of the Admiralty commissioners which he held from 19 February 1801 to 15 May 1804. The second baronet (Rear Admiral Sir Edward Thomas Troubridge) was also a Royal Navy admiral and sat as Member of Parliament for Sandwich. He was present at the Battle of Copenhagen and served during the Napoleonic Wars. The third baronet (Major Sir Thomas St. Vincent Hope Cochrane Troubridge) entered the army as ensign in the 73rd foot on 24 January 1834. Promoted to Lieutenant on 30 December 1836 and exchanged into the 7th Royal Fusiliers; serving with the regiment at Gibraltar, the West Indies, and Canada, becoming captain on 14 December 1841 and major on 9 August 1850. Troubridge served with the 7th Royal Fusiliers in the Crimea, 1854. He was in the forefront of the battle at the Alma. Other members of the family may also be mentioned. Edward Norwich Troubridge, second son of the second baronet, was a captain in the Royal Navy. Admiral Sir Ernest Charles Thomas Troubridge (1862–1926), was a younger son of the third baronet and grandfather of the sixth. At the outbreak of the First World War, he was second in command of the Mediterranean Fleet and failed to engage the German ships Goeben and Breslau. Although Sir Ernest was exonerated by court martial, remained in the Navy and was promoted, he was not again assigned to duty at sea. His estranged wife Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge was most famous as the partner of the author Radclyffe Hall. Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Hope Troubridge (son of Admiral Sir Ernest Troubridge and Edith Mary (née Duffus) he joined the Royal Navy in 1908,and served in the both First World War and the Second World War. On 1 May 1945 Troubridge was made Fifth sea lord on the Board of Admiralty, with special emphasis on the naval air service. Later in that year he was promoted KCB. In 1947 he was promoted Vice-Admiral.

Record Details

Item reference: TRO; GB 0064 MSS/82/149
Catalogue Section: Personal collections
Level: COLLECTION
Date made: 1793-1949
Credit: Private Collection on loan to the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Reproduced by kind permission of Sir Tom Troubridge