| AdminHistory | Johann Heinrich Ott (1617-1682) was a Swiss Calvinist theologian, linguist and historian of distinction, whose grandson, also Johann Heinrich, or John Henry Ott settled in England in 1715 and became a canon of Peterborough. |
| CustodialHistory | Inherited by Edward Renouard James, who was descended from the daughter of J. H. Ott the younger. A note left by General James indicates that his papers included ten volumes of MS letters to J. H. Ott the elder, and gives particulars of five. Professor Leonard Forster learnt that the rest of General James's papers, presumably including the missing volumes, had passed to a relative who had bequeathed the contents of his house to his housekeeper, and she had burned all his papers. |