Memoranda (1852-1861) on the formation of the Aberdeen administration (1 852), ff. 60-71 ; details of Cabinet discussions on the Budget (1853), ff. 84-117 ; recruitment for the Civil Service (1854), ff. 157-163.includes:f. 1 Edward George Geoffrey ... 1852-1861

Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547

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Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is best known for his six marriages, and for his efforts to have his first marriage to Catherine of Aragon annulled. His disagreement with Pope Clement VII about such an annulment led Henry to initiate the English Reformation, separating the Church of England from papal authority. He appointed himself Supreme Head of the Church of England and dissolved convents and monasteries, for w...

Privy Council, The (active 1100-1999)

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Hamilton-Gordon, George, 1784-1860, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister

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Gower, Granville George Leveson-, 1815-1891, 2nd Earl Granville, statesman

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1837-1840 member of parliament for Morpeth; 1840-1841 under-secretary, the Foreign Office; 1841-1846 member of parliament for Lichfield; 1846 earldom, entered the House of Lords and made privy councillor; 1846-1848 master of the buckhounds; 1847-1851 paymaster-general; 1848 vice-president, the Board of Trade; 1851-1852 foreign secretary; 1852-1854, 1855-1858 and 1859-1866 lord president of the council; 1854-1855 chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster; 1856 ambassador-extraordinary to ...

Russell, John, Earl of Bedford

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Title: Earl of Bedford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000244.0x0001f1 Epithet: Bishop of Lincoln British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x0001c2 Title: 6th Duke of Bedford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000386....

Smith-Stanley, Edward George Geoffrey, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister

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Epithet: Prime Minister Title: 14th Earl of Derby British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000622.0x0002be ...

Pelham-Clinton, Henry Pelham, 4th Duke of Newcastle

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Epithet: 4th Duke of Newcastle British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000350.0x000069 Title: 5th Duke of Newcastle British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000295.0x000321 ...

Young, John, Baron Lisgar

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Epithet: Baron Lisgar British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000787.0x0003e7 ...

Canning, Charles John, 1812-1862

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First Vice-Roy of India. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Sir Henry Yule, 1859 Apr. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133453 Governor General of India during the Mutiny. From the description of Letters, 1857 April 4 and 20. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62684687 1836-1837 MP for Warwick; 1837 entered House of Lords as Viscount Canning of Kilbrahan; 1841-1845 under-secretary of s...

Parliament (active 0601-1988)

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Lewis, G.Cornewall

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Title: 2nd Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001072.0x000013 ...

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901

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Queen Victoria was the only child of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She was born on May 24, 1819 at Kensington Palace in London and she became heir to the throne when her father died. In 1837, she became Queen at the age of 18. During the early part of her reign, she was influenced by two men: her first Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, and then her husband, Prince Albert, whom she married in 1840. Both men taught her much about how to be ...

Herbert, Sidney

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Title: 1st Baron Herbert of Lea British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001240.0x000282 Title: 14th Earl of Pembroke British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000386.0x000048 ...

Halifax, Charles Wood, Viscount, 1800-1885

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1826 Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby; 1831 Member of Parliament for Wareham; 1832-1865 Member of Parliament for Halifax; 1832 Joint Secretary to the Treasury; 1835 Secretary to the Admiralty; 1846-1852 Chancellor of the Exchequer; 1852-1855 President of the Board of Control; 1855-1858 First Lord of the Admiralty; 1856 GCB; 1859-1866 Secretary of State for India; 1865 Member of Parliament for Ripon; 1870-1874 Lord Privy Seal. Epithet: statesman Title: 1...

Nicholas I, of Russia

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Title: of Russia British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001390.0x0003cb ...

Iddesleigh, Stafford Henry Northcote, earl of, 1818-1887

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British politician who served successively as a private secretary to William Gladstone, a Member of Parliament,a finance advisor to Benjamin Disraeli, secretary of state to India, chairman of the Hudson's Bay Company, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Foreign Secretary. He was created Earl of Iddesleigh in 1885. From the description of Stafford Henry Northcote, Earl of Iddesleigh papers, 1831-1887. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64060425 British politician ...

Customs and Excise (active 1262-1961)

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Peel, Robert

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Title: 3rd Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001240.0x0001f3 Epithet: Prime Minister Title: 2nd Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000750.0x00016a Epithet: Right Hon British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/v...

Petty-Fitzmaurice, Henry, 1780-1863, formerly Petty, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne

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First son of Sir William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, by his second wife, Lady Louisa. Following Cambridge and a Grand Tour, Lord [Fitzmaurice] entered parliament in 1802 and, at the age of twenty six, he joined the Ministry of All the Talents as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lord Fitzmaurice became a leading figure in the opposition following the fall of Grenville’s administration in 1807, and campaigned consistently for liberal reforms, including the international abolition of...

Peel, Julia, wife of Sir R Peel 2nd Baronet

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Epithet: wife of Sir R Peel 2nd Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x000371 ...