Home Office Althorp Papers. Vols. dlxix-dcix. Correspondence and papers of Lord Spencer as Secretary of State for the Home Office, in Grenville’s ‘Ministry of All the Talents’ (Feb. 1806-March 1807); 1803-1807, but chiefly Feb. 1806 to March 1807, n.d. Partly French. Many are endorsed with the writer's name and date; numbers in the top left-hand corner apparently indicate dates of reply. Spencer's secretary, Rev. Joseph Allen, was responsible for writing the majority of responses. Thirty-s...
Althorp Papers. Vol. dlxx. Correspondence with the Board of Admiralty and the Board of Longitude; Feb. 1806-Jan. 1807. Viscount Howick was First Lord of the Admiralty between Feb. and Sept. 1806, followed by Thomas Grenville until March 1807. Spencer’s, having formerly held the office, was often...
Althorp Papers. Vols. dlxxi-dlxxxiii. Correspondence and papers arising from the Commission of Enquiry established to investigate the sexual conduct of Caroline, Princess of Wales, known as the 'Delicate Investigation'; 1806-1807. The Commission comprised the Prime Minister Lord Grenville, Spencer as Home Secretary, the Lord Chancellor Erskine and the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Ellenborough. It concluded with the recommendation to the King to give her `a serious admonition' to be more circumsp...
Althorp Papers. Vol. dlxxiv. Correspondence, minutes, etc., put together by Spencer, concerning events leading to the fall of the Grenville ministry; Feb.-March 1807.