Bundle of letters from various people

D LONS/L1/2/63

Bundle of letters from various people

5 December 1779 - 1 February 1841

Thomas Charles Fountayne, Melton - local and family news, including printed notice of County meeting at York to consider ways of helping at a time of distress 5-21 Dec. 1779 (3)

William Edridge - portrait of William Pitt, 10 Dec. 1801

Anna M Newcastle, Paris - asking for Lord Lowther's support in her son's interest in the petition against the Retford Election, 8 March 1803

Dr Joseph Hudson, Abbey, Carlisle - Inglewood forest inclosure bill, Building of bridges bill, Non Residence bill, and a proposed bill to restrain Ecclesiastical bodies from selling land 23 April - 26 June 1803 (7).

Lord Melville - Pitt hoped to see Lord Lowther at Lord Melville's, n.d. c. 1806 (1)

Lord Thanet, Hothfield - possible election in borough of Appleby, 11 March 1807 (1)

Duke of Richmond - appointment as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 6 April 1807 (1)

Spencer Perceval - proposed appointment of Robert Wharton to be Secretary of the Board of Treasury, 31 Oct. 1808 (1)

[Philip Henry Stanhope] - death of his brother Charles Banks Stanhope at Corunna, 2 Feb. 1809 [incomplete]

Sir Walter Scott, Earl's Court Reading - news of defeat in a parliamentary election, 16 Dec.1809 (1)

Lord Lyndoch - admission to a club un-named and hunting, 8 March n.d. [watermark 1810] (1)

Humphrey Davy - Chair of the Royal Society, social affairs, n.d. 23 June [1812], n.d. 27 Nov. [1816] (27)

Sir John Mackintosh - use of memoirs of Sir John Lowther and political papers in possession of the Earl of Lonsdale, 6 Feb. 1817 (1)

William Congreve - Prince Regent's thanks for letter of condolence on death of Princess Charlotte his only daughter - 11 Nov. 1817 (1)

Sir William Sydney Smith, Paris - thanks for support in his claims on government, 23rd-1818

Charles Parr Burney, Greenwich - placing Jane Jones in the Deaf and Dumb School 13 Aug. - 1 Sept.1818 (3)

Sir Robert Gardiner, Buchannan - Prince Leopold's visit to Lowther, 17' 18 Sept. 1819 (2)

John Curwen, Workington - rebuttal of claim in a handbill published by theRadical Committee at Carlisle of his support for annual parliaments and universal suffrage, October 1819 (1)

J. Danvers, Horse Guards - death of George III, 31 Jan. 1820 (1)

Lord Eldon - summons to attend second reading in House of Lords of bill to deprive Queen Caroline of her title of Queen Consort, 26 July 1820 (1)

Sir Benjamin Bloomfield - appointment of Prince Regent as President of British Institution 14 Dec. 1810 - 3 Jan. 1811 (6) appointments to meet and letters conveying the thanks of Prince Regent, later George IV for letters of condolence, on death of the King and referring to his quarrel with Queen Charlotte 23 April 1817 - 4 Feb. 1821 (13)

Duke of Newcastle - recommending Mr Guthrie as a skilled oculist, 7 Feb. 1822 (1)

Sir Thomas Lawrence - opinion on a vase and regret for Lord Lonsdale's absence from a Royal Academy meeting, 19 June 1809, 22 April 1823.

Dudley Coutts Stuart, Cambridge - Henry Fanes return to England and Lady Westmorland's health 15 March 1824 (1)

Lady L Stuart - death of her sister Lady Lonsdale 5-9 April 1824 (3)

E.H. Locker, Greenwich Hospital - Greenwich Hospital Roads and loan of papers for a biography of George III 22 Sept., 26 Nov. 1823, 30 June 1827

George O'Callaghan, Shawbally - comment on Irish affairs, social comment, Dec. n.d. [watermark 1827] (1)

E.H. Locker, Greenwich Hospital - roads, papers for a biography of George III, 22 Sept. 1823 - 30 June 1827 (3)

Michael T Sadler, Newark & Redcar - settlement of poor protestant families on the wastes of the Empire and comments on the report of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland recommending such a scheme for bringing land into cultivation, family news, shipwrecks off the coast of Redcar, 17 July, 15 August 1829 (2)

Lord Brougham - commissions of the peace for the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland 6-14 Dec. 1830 (3).

Lord Lauderdale - appeal for help on behalf of Lord Erskine reduced to poverty by his family and by a father who left him without a farthing, table to show the ruinous effect of the Corn Laws, criticism of the Government and their various policies including Parliamentary Reform arrangements to meet or visit Lowther, violence in the election of Sir Adolphus Dalrymple in Dunbar 11 July 1824 - 14 Dec. 1831 (7)

Dr W Ainslie, Kellet, Lancaster & Dover St., London - death of Mr Harrison, prosperity of his ironworks, request to put his son on the Commission of the Peace for Westmorland, support for the Liverpool to Birmingham Rail Road, 4 Dec. 1824, Fleming's visit to Whitehaven Castle, 8 Dec. 1824, Carlisle election, criticism of Canning's surgeon, 24 August [1827], health and social affairs, Curwen and Brougham called 'a low lived and malignant set' 2 Oct. 1827, 23 Aug. 1830, 9 Oct. 1833, parliamentary reform 13 January 1832, 4 Dec. 1824 - 9 Oct. 1833 (9)

William Holmes, Dublin & London - Catholic emancipation, social news, appointment of Richard Ponsonby to see of Derry, reform bill, fall of Lord Grey's government, formation of Lord Melbourne's government, 22 July 1827 - 18 July 1834 (8)

Sir James Graham - parliamentary representation of Cumberland 11 Dec. 1828 - 9 Aug. 1837 (3)

Henry Rice, Jermyn St., London - legacy in will of Lord Farnborough, 1 Feb. 1838 (1)

G.A. Browne - painted glass displaying the Lowther arms for Trinity College 12 March - 5 July n.d. c. 1839 (3)

W. Varlo Hellyer, London - thanks for visit to Lowther, Morecambe Bay expedition with Lord Lowther, 1 Sept. n.d. (1)

Lord Holland, Appleby - thanks for kindness 31 July n.d. (1)

Lord Maitland, Thirlestane Castle - death of Lord Lauderdale, 21 Sept. 1839 (1)

Professor A Sedgwick - memorial bust of Dr Ainger, Principal of St. Bees, 23 Jan. 1840, 1 February 1841 (2)

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