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Hugh Culling Eardley Childers: Papers
Catalogue reference: PRO 30/61
What's it about?
PRO 30/61
Correspondence of Hugh C E Childers, consisting mainly of letters from the Queen and her Private Secretary, General Sir Henry Ponsonby, and mostly relating to his term of office as Secretary of State for War, 1880 to 1882.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- PRO 30/61
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Title (The name of the record)
- Hugh Culling Eardley Childers: Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1870-1891
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence of Hugh C E Childers, consisting mainly of letters from the Queen and her Private Secretary, General Sir Henry Ponsonby, and mostly relating to his term of office as Secretary of State for War, 1880 to 1882.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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The bulk of the Childers Papers are preserved at the Royal Commonwealth Society Library.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Not Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Childers, Hugh Culling Eardley, 1827-1896
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1 volume(s)
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Victoria Art Gallery and Municipal Libraries, Bath , in 1963
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Hugh Childers was First Lord of the Admiralty 1868-1871, and Secretary of State for War, 1880-1882, which post he relinquished to succeed Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer, continuing in office until 1885. He was Home Secretary for a short period in 1886, after which he held no further office.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12007/
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