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See MH 82/12
Catalogue reference: MH 82/49
Date: 1954 Sept 16-1956 Nov 15
See MH 82/12
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Folios 185-188. Letter from Michael Alexander Gage, Land Surveyor, to the Poor Law...
Catalogue reference: MH 12/5966/31
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This record is about the Folios 185-188. Letter from Michael Alexander Gage, Land Surveyor, to the Poor Law... dating from 23 Mar 1837 in the series Local Government Board and predecessors: Correspondence with Poor Law Unions and.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 23 Mar 1837
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- Folios 185-188. Letter from Michael Alexander Gage, Land Surveyor, to the Poor Law Commission, enclosing a prospectus of his 'Trigonometrical Plan of the Town and Port of Liverpool', including Kirkdale, Everton, Low-Hill and Toxteth-Park. He refers to the praise received for his work. He asks for 'the additional distinction of your patronage'. Enclosed is the prospectus 'Under Sanction and Patronage' of: the King, the late Duke of Sutherland, Earl of Balcarres, Lord Brougham and Vaux, Viscount Sandon MP, Robert Peel MP, the late William Huskisson MP, late Joseph Birch, the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty; William Ewert MP, William Yates Peel MP, General Gascoyne, Herbert Taylor and Olinthus Gregory, Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Testimonials for the plan are included: Olinthus Gregory and Captain Henry Mangles Denham. Also from the Liverpool Courier, Liverpool Mercury, Liverpool Standard, Liverpool Chronicle and the Albion, Paper Number: 2588/A/1837. Poor Law Union Number 220. Counties: Lancashire.
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