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See MH 82/12
Catalogue reference: MH 82/49
Date: 1954 Sept 16-1956 Nov 15
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Folios 190-191. An open letter from John T Tucker, Deputy President of the Board...
Catalogue reference: MH 12/10998/103
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This record is about the Folios 190-191. An open letter from John T Tucker, Deputy President of the Board... dating from 10 Feb 1849 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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- MH 12/10998/103
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Date (When the record was created)
- 10 Feb 1849
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- Folios 190-191. An open letter from John T Tucker, Deputy President of the Board of Guardians to the Editor of the Hampshire Independent of 10 February 1849 on the subject of 'Southampton Small Tenements Bill' [Southampton Small Tenements Rating Bill]. The writer begins by quoting Daniel Defoe 'If I might give a short hint to an impartial writer, it would be to tell him his fate.' the full quotation [printed] tells of the perils of unbiased truth telling, and consequences, by either the great men involved or the mob. Tucker had, he says, since entering the arena of public life tried to take the course best calculated to promote public good. He refers to Mr Saintsbury [George Saintsbury, Guardian of the Poor] who is co-incidentally the Dock Secretary and one of its Directors who had presented information to the council. The letter goes into great detail presenting those figures [including some tabulated] before addressing some of the numbered arguments in the previous publication. He refers specifically to a 'Scot and Lot Burgess List'; questions why Mr Le Feuvre had backed out of the committee and mentioned by name a list of supporters 'Messrs Atherly, Weld, Bernard, Hulton, Rushworth and Keele' before concluding by directly addressing Saintsbury and suggesting 'The Press, and Magistrates included, have by his statements been deluded'. Paper Number: 6126/1849. [See also 3498/1849.] Poor Law Union Number 407. Counties: Hampshire.
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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