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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 88900 Name Hobart, Robert, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire, 1760-1816 Level [40] File

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Title:
Ceylon
Scope & Content:
Includes documents relating to the export of cinnamon and reports on relations with the Court of Kandy. George Arbuthnot Robert Arbuthnot William Henry Cavendish Bentinck Anthony Bertolacci Lord Clive Henry Dundas The Prince of Wales, later King George IV Lord Hobart William Huskisson Hugh Ingli...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1801-1803
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Hankey-Lusignan
Scope & Content:
Includes Glenbervie's correspondence with Lord Hobart, and letters from Joseph de Jonville in Ceylon. Sir Frederick Hankey Hanwell & Parker, bankers?, of Oxford Lord Hawkesbury (Baron Hawkesbury, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, later Prime Minister) Mr Hawkins With a copy of a letter from George Fore...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1798-1809
Extent:
1 volume

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Title:
Correspondence of Lord and Lady Glenbervie with North
Scope & Content:
North writes to his sister about the shortcomings of British and Dutch society in the colony. He complains of reductions in government expenditure enforced by Lord Hobart, and ironically anticipates that the next Governor to be appointed will reverse all his (North's) measures. To his brother-in-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1799-1802
Extent:
1 volume