Autograph letter signed : Sheffield Place [sic], to Sir James-Murray-Pulteney, 1803 Nov. 29.

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Autograph letter signed : Sheffield Place [sic], to Sir James-Murray-Pulteney, 1803 Nov. 29.

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Concerning militia and transport in Sussex.

1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Pulteney, James, Sir, approximately 1751-1811

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Sheffield, John Holroyd, earl of, 1735-1821

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John Baker Holroyd, first earl of Sheffield, was born in Ireland on December 21, 1735, the second son of lawyer Isaac Holroyd (1707-1778) and Dorothy Baker (d. 1777). In 1760, he joined the army, rising to the rank of captain in the regiment of light dragoons known as the Royal Foresters. Shortly after the death of his older brother Daniel in 1762, he spent three years traveling Europe; in Lausanne, Switzerland, he made a lifelong friend in Edward Gibbon, whose autobiography and pos...