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Add MS 88900/1/5
- Record Id:
- 040-000000024
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000000007
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000128.0x000005
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88900/1/5
- Title:
- Ceylon
- Scope & Content:
-
Includes a draft of North's will, dated February 1804, his correspondence with General Wemyss, commander of troops, and correspondence with Marquis Wellesley about Wemyss' requiring native troops to parade during Divine Service.
- Messrs Alexander & Colvin
- Colonel Baillie
- Lord William Bentinck
- G Brydges
- Earl Camden
- Testimonial for Rev James Cordiner
- Major-General William Dowdeswell
- Thomas Farrell
- The Prince of Wales, later King George IV
- Captain A Gibbons
- Sylvester Douglas, Lord Glenbervie
- George Lusignan
- Major Charles Macauley (10 letters, mainly about the export of tobacco)
- Colonel Robert Mowbray
- Captain Charles Pearce
- Admiral Peter Rainier
- Marquis Wellesley
- General Wemyss (22 letters)
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000000007
036-000000008
037-000000010
040-000000024 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88900 : Guilford Papers
Add MS 88900/1 : Papers of Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford
Add MS 88900/1/1-9 : Ceylon
Add MS 88900/1/5 : Ceylon - Hierarchy:
- 032-000000007[0001]/036-000000008[0001]/037-000000010[0005]/040-000000024
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88900
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1804
- End Date:
- 1804
- Date Range:
- 1804
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- 380 x 240mm.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Alexander and Colvin, bankers of Calcutta, [c 1782-1804]
Bentinck, William Henry, army officer, diplomatist, and Governor-General of India, 1774-1839
Bloomfield, Benjamin, 1st Baron Bloomfield, 1768-1846
Cordiner, James, clergyman, fl 1804
Douglas, Sylvester, 1st Baron Glenbervie, lawyer, politician and diarist, 1743-1823
Dowdeswell, William, army officer, art collector and colonial governor, 1760-1828
Farrell, Thomas, at Colombo, Ceylon, fl 1800-1804
George IV, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1762-1830
Gibbons, A, army officer, fl 1804
Lusignan, George, Ceylon civil servant, fl 1804
Macaulay, Charles, Resident at Travancore, fl 1799-1805
Mowbray, Robert, Colonel, fl 1780-1810
North, Frederick, 5th Earl of Guilford, politician and colonial administrator, 1766-1827,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000034584770
Pearce, Charles, Captain, fl 1794-1804
Pratt, John Jeffreys, 2nd Earl and 1st Marquess Camden, 1759-1840
Rainier, Peter, admiral, 1741?-1808
Wellesley, Richard Colley, 2nd Earl of Mornington, Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, 1760-1842
Wemyss, David Douglas, General, 1760-1839