Helen Augusta, Lady Younghusband (nee Magniac) (1861-1945), wife of Sir Francis Younghusband: papers relating to the Magniac and FitzPatrick families; and miscellaneous
Letters of Sir Charles Theophilus Metcalfe (1785-1846), 1st Baron Metcalfe, Acting Governor-General of India 1935, Lieutenant-Governor of Agra, India 1836-38, Governor of Jamaica 1839-42, Governor General of the Province of Canada 1843-1845.
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Comprises two bound volumes of letters from Metcalfe to his sister Georgiana, covering the period 1819-1845, including his postings in Hyderabad, Delhi, Calcutta, and Agra, as well as a brief period in England and then the three years he spent first in Jamaica, 1839-42 and later in Canada, 1843-4...
Edward Clive Bayley (1821-1884), College at Haileybury 1839, went to India 1942, deputy commissioner of Gujurat 1849. Returned to England 1854. Recalled to India during the Mutiny in 1857 and remained in India holding judicial roles. Appointed as Indian Home Secretary, 1862-1872, became a member ...
Papers of Charles Canning, Viscount (later Earl) Canning
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The Governor General's papers were dealt with by Charles Canning directly, and include the most important sequences of correspondence such as with the Officers of the East India Company, the President of the Board of Control, and the Secretary of State for India. The Governor General was suppor...
The collection consists of the personal papers of Charlotte Canning, including diaries and journals kept on her European travels and while carrying out royal duties as Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria, and whilst in India with her husband Charles Canning, as Governor General and later Vi...