Brydges family papers : Legal papers, 1640-1814.

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Brydges family papers : Legal papers, 1640-1814.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122540462

The papers mostly cover the lifetime of James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos and the years following the death of the 3rd Duke and the lunacy of the Dowager Duchess.

Approx. 250 pieces.5 boxes.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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SNAC Resource ID: 6755964

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Chandos, James Brydges, Duke of, 1732-1789

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Chandos, James Brydges, Duke of, 1674-1744

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Brydges family.

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The 3rd Duke of Chandos, James Brydges (1732-1789), a prominent Whig politician and courtier, married Anne Eliza (Gamon) Elletson, the daughter of Richard Gamon and widow of Roger Hope Elletson, Governor of Jamaica (1766-1767) and owner of the Hope and Middleton plantations there. The Dowager Duchess had been declared insane by 1791. From the description of Brydges family papers : Special subjects : West Indies estates, 1689-1816. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical ...

Chandos, Anna Eliza, Duchess, d. 1813.

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