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Egerton MS 2137

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040-001983072

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032-001983070

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Egerton MS 2137

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Vol. ii. ; 1787-1847 :- . The names of the writers of the more important letters are-

[Frederick North, Lord] North; London, 2 Feb. 1787, f. 3. [John Hussey Delaval Lord] Delaval; London, 19 July, 1787, f. 11. [William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, Duke of] Portland; London, etc., 21 Dec. 1787-21 May, 1796, ff. 24, 35, 47, 50, 59, 87, 119, 120, 142, 161. [Admiral Sir George Bridges Rodney, Lord] Rodney; [May, 1787], 7 Sept. 1788, n.d., ff. 29, 45, 46. [Sir] John Eden [Bart.]; Windlestone, 20 Apr. 1789, f. 37. W[illiam] Pitt [First Lord of the Treasury]; 13 Nov. 1788, f. 48. Robert Aberdein; London, Esher, 6 Apr. 1789, 17 Nov. 1791, ff. 55, 112. [Lieut.-Colonel the Hon.] Colin Lindsay [46th Regt.]; Drogheda, 5 July, 1789, f. 60. [Lieut.-General] Eyre Massey; London, 19 Dec. 1789, 1 Jan. 1790, 22 May, 1794, ff. 76, 93, 140. Edmund Burke: n.d. [circa May, 1781]. ff. 80, 81, 82. [Frederick Augustus Hervey, Earl of] Bristol; Plymouth, 24 Mar. 1792, f. 116. [Horace Walpole, Earl of] Orford; Strawberry Hill, 17 Sept. 1792, f. 121. James Boswell; Bickham, near Plymouth, 21 Sept. 1792, f. 123. [Jeffery Amherst, Lord] Amherst [General, commander-in-chief]; London, 10 Sept. 1794, f. 144. [Lieut.-General Sir] C[harles] Grey [afterwards Earl Grey]; London, 4 Apr. 1795, f. 153. R[ichard] B[rinsley] Sheridan; [8 Sept. 1798], 26 May, s.a., ff. 170, 172, 174, 175. H[enry] Beeke [D.D., afterwards Dean of Bristol]; London, 1 Aug. 1805, f. 193. [Admiral Sir] W[illiam] Sidney Smith; London, 26 Dec. [180]5, f. 195.

Hon John Vaughan, Major-General: Letters to: 1781-1790.

includes:

ff. 1, 99, 109 John Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke; 5th Earl of Sandwich: Letters to J. Robinson: 1787-1791.
f. 3 Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford; Lord North; Prime Minister: Letters to Lord Lisburne: 1768-1787.
f. 5 Douglas Hamilton, 8th Duke of Hamilton: Letter to -: 1787.
ff. 7, 8, 13, 25, 70, 74, 83, 95 Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of St Albans: Letters to W. Sleigh: 1784-1790.
f. 9 George Kinnaird, 7th Baron Kinnaird: Letter to W. Sleigh: 1787.
f. 11 Sir John Hussey Delaval, Baronet; Baron Delaval 1783: Letter to Gen. Vaughan: 1787.
f. 15 John Moore, successively Dean of Canterbury, Bishop of Bangor and Archbishop of Canterbury: Letters to Miss Shafto: 1783, 1787.
ff. 17, 21 Philip Goldsworthy, Lieutenant -Colonel: Letters to Lord Lisburne: 1787.
ff. 17-161 Wilmot Vaughan, Viscount Lisburne; 1st Earl of Lisburne: Correspondence: 1767-1796.
ff. 19, 32 John Moore, successively Dean of Canterbury, Bishop of Bangor and Archbishop of Canterbury: Letters to Lord Lisburne: 1783-1788.
f. 22 Sir John Gallini, Manager of the King's Theatre: Letter to the Duchess of St. Albans: 1787.
f. 23 Catharine Beauclerk, wife of Aubrey, 5th Duke of St Albans: Letter to W. Sleigh: 1787.
ff. 24, 35, 47, 50, 59, 87, 119, 120 Willam Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland: Letters to Gen. Vaughan, and to Lord Lisburne: 1783-1796.
ff. 29, 45 Rear-Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney 1782: Letters to Gen.-: 1787, 1788.
ff. 33, 38, 78, 97 John Palmer, Actor: Correspondence with W. Sleigh: 1788-1790.
f. 36 C- Boyle: Letter to W. Sleigh: 1788.
f. 37 Sir John Eden, 4th Baronet: Letter to Lord Lisburne: 1789.
f 38 William Sleigh, Attorney: Letters to J. Palmer: 1788.
f. 41 Sir Evan Nepean, 1st Baronet: Letter to Lord -: 1788.
f. 43 Dixie Blundell: Letter to -: 1788.
f. 48 William Pitt, 2nd son of Lord Chatham, Prime Minister: Letter to Lord -: 1788.
f. 51 George Henry Vansittart, General: Letter to - Champneys: 1783.
f. 53 Sir Joseph Banks, Baronet; PRS: Letters to G. Chalmers, and others: 1782-1818.
ff. 56, 112 Robert Aberdein: Letters to Gen. Vaughan: 1789, 1791.
ff. 57, 58, 183, 184 William Wilberforce, MP: Letters to J. Lambert: 1789-1804.
f. 60 Hon Colin Lindsay, Lieutenant -Colonel: Letter to Gen. Vaughan: 1789.
ff. 62, 104 Stephen Weston, Rector of Mamhead, Orientalist: Letters to Lord Lisburne: 1786-1790.
f. 64 Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney: Letter to Lord Lisburne: 1783, 1789.
ff. 65, 69 Emma Edgcumbe, wife of George, 1st Earl of Mount Edgcumbe: Letters to Lord Lisburne: 1789.
f. 67 J- M- Heywood: Letters to Lord Lisburne: 1786, 1789.
f. 73 Thomas de Grey, Under Secretary of State for the American département, 2nd Baron Walsingham (1781): Letter to Adm. Darby: 1789.
ff. 76, 93, 140 Major-General Eyre Massey, 1st Baron Clarina 1800: Letters to Gen. Vaughan: 1789, 1790, 1794.
ff. 80-82 Edmund Burke, Paymaster-General: Letters to Lord Lisburne: circ. 1781.
f. 88 George IV of England: Letter to W. Pitt: 1789.: Copy.
f. 88 William Pitt, 2nd son of Lord Chatham, Prime Minister: Correspondence with the Prince of Wales: 1788, 1789.: Copies.
f. 91 Lucy Hardinge, wife of G Hardinge: Letter to Lord Lisburne: 1790.
f. 94 Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford: Letter to -: 1790.
f. 101 Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon; Lord Chief Justice of Kings Bench: Order: 1790.
f. 102 William Renwick, Surgeon,RN: Letters to Lord Lisburne: 1783, 1790.
ff. 105, 107 Reverend Michael Lort, DD, Rector of Fulham: Letters to Lord Lisburne: 1790.
f. 110 London Theatres: Letter to the managers of the Royalty Theatre, from the Duke of Bedford and Lord Salisbury: 1791.
f. 110 Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford: Letter to the managers of the Royalty Theatre: 1791.
f. 114 William Petty Fitzmaurice, 2nd Earl of Shelburne; afterwards 1st Marquis of Lansdowne: Letters to W. Sleigh: 1784, 1792.
f. 116 Hon Frederic Augustus Hervey, DD, Bishop of Derry, afterwards Earl of Bristol: Letter to Lord Lisburne: 1792.
f. 118 John Ashburnham, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham: Letters to Lord Lisburne: 1779, 1782, 1792.
f. 121 Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford 1791: Letter to Lord Lisburne: 1792.
f. 123 James Boswell, the elder; biographer of Johnson: Letter to Lord Lisburne: 1792.
ff. 125, 126 Colonel Samuel Hulse, afterwards Field-Marshal: Letters to W. Sleigh: 1792.
f. 127 George Langley, Lieutenant: Letter to Lord Lisburne: 1793.
f. 130 General Sir William Schaw Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart: Letter to W. Sleigh: 1793.
f. 133 Richard Valpy, DD: Letter to Mrs. Taylor: 1793.
ff. 135, 158 Sir Francis Buller, Baronet Justice of the Common Pleas 1794: Letters to Lord -: 1793.
ff. 137-139 George O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont: Letters to W. Sleigh: 1793.
ff. 142, 161 Willam Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland: Letters to Gen. Vaughan, and to Lord Lisburne: 1783-1796.
f. 144 Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst: Letters to Gen. Hon. J. Vaughan: 1781, 1794.
f. 145 James Edward Cranstoun, 9th Baron Cranstoun: Letter to W. Sleigh: 1794.
f. 147 Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch: Letter to- Elliot: circ. 1794.
ff. 149, 150 James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale: Letters to -: 1795.
f. 151 William Sheldon: Letter to Lord Kinnaird: 1795.
f. 153 Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey: Letter to Gen. Vaughan: 1795.
f. 159 Sir John Heath, Judge of the Common Pleas: Order: 1795.
f. 160 Sir Giles Rooke, Justice of Common Pleas: Orders, etc.: 1795-1798.
f. 162 John J- Deal: Letter to -: 1796.
ff. 164, 169 Sir Isaac Heard, Garter King at Arms: Letters to J. Hanson and -: 1796, 1798.
f. 165 Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine; Lord Chancellor: Letter to - Lambert: 1796.
f. 166 William Scott, Baron Stowell; Judge of the Court of Admiralty: Letter to W. Sleigh: 1796.
ff. 167, 206, 237 Thomas Lister, 1st Baron Ribblesdale: Letters to --: 1796-1822.
ff. 170-175 Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Letters to W. Sleigh: 1798-1802.
f. 176 Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners; Lord Chancellor of Ireland: Signatures, and letter to -: 1802, 1804.
f. 177 Sir Ralph Bigland, Garter King of Arms: Letter to: 1802.
f. 178 John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon; Lord Chancellor: Letter to Bishop Burgess: 1803.
ff. 178, 207 Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's and (1825) of Salisbury: Letters to, from Lord Eldon: 1803, 1811.
f. 179 John Moore, successively Dean of Canterbury, Bishop of Bangor and Archbishop of Canterbury: Letter to - Young: 1801.
f. 181 Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's and (1825) of Salisbury: Letter to R. Clapham: 1804.
ff. 186, 189 Reverend Daniel Lysons, Rector of Rodmarton: Letters to - Lambert: 1805.
f. 188 William Markham, Headmaster of Westminster School; Archbishop of York 1777: Letter to J. Lambert: 1805.
ff. 190, 200 Hyacinthe Gabrielle Wellesley, wife of Richard, 1st Earl of Mornington and Marquis of Wellesley: Letters to-: 1805, 1806.
f. 193 Henry Beeke, DD; Professor of Modern History, Oxford: Letter to Sir L. Palk: 1805.
f. 195 Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith, GCB: Letter to J. -: 1805.
f. 197 Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland; formerly Smithson: Letter to T. Phillipps: 1806.
ff. 198, 199, 201 Georgiana Cavendish, 1st wife of William, 5th Duke of Devonshire: Letters to Lambert: 1806.
f. 202 Sir Home Riggs Popham, Admiral: Letter to J. Lambert: 1808.
f. 203 Spencer Perceval, Attorney General, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1st Lord of the Treasury: Letter to -: 1805.
f. 204 General William Knollys, self-styled Earl of Banbury: Letter to - -: 1809.
f. 205 Charles Manners-Sutton, afterwards Speaker of the House of Commons and Viscount Canterbury: Letter to J. Hanfelt: 1810.
f. 208 John Rennie, senior, FRS, Civil Engineer: Letter to-: 1811.
f. 210 William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland: Letter to -: 1812.
f. 211 Sir Francis Freeling, 1st Baronet; postal reformer: Letter to -Smyth: 1813.
f. 213 Sir John Sinclair, Baronet; FRS,President of the Board of Agriculture: Letter to A. Murray: 1813.
f. 215 Sir James Mansfield, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas: Counsel's opinions, etc.: 1768-1814.
f. 216 Edward Hawke, 3rd Lord Hawke: Letter to Lambert, Taylor and Co.: 1814.
f. 218 Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, Secretary to the Prince of Wales, afterwards Usher of the Black Rod: Letter to -: 1815.
f. 220 Sir Henry Torrens, Lieutenant -Colonel, Military Secretary to the Duke of York: Letter to- Dickons: 1815.
ff. 223, 224, 241, 243 Cropley Ashley Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury: Letters to -: 1816, 1818, 1830.
ff. 225, 227 Sir Richard Richards, Chief Baron of the Exchequer: Letters to -: 1818, 1819.
f. 226 Henry Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles; afterwards 2nd Earl of Harewood: Letter to Sir J. Moorhouse: 1819.
ff. 228, 229, 244 Nicholas Vansittart, Baron Bexley: Letters to G. T. Lambert: 1819-1832.
f. 230 George Thomas John Nugent, Marquess of Westmeath: Letter to -: 1820.
f. 231 Thomas John Hamilton Fitzmaurice, 2nd Earl of Orkney: Letter to -: 1821.
f. 232 Sir John Dutton, 2nd Baronet; of Sherborne: Letter to: 1820.
f. 233 Herbert Taylor, Lieutenant -General 1825; GCB 1834; Secretary to George III and William IV: Letter to Ensign St. Quentin: 1826.
f. 235 George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland; 2nd Baron Auckland: Letter to -: 1825.
f. 239 Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland: Letter to E. Wilson: 1821.
f. 246 Hon Henry Manners-Sutton, Under-Secretary, Home Office: Letter to -: 1843.
f. 247 Dudley Ryder, Viscount Sandon; 2nd Earl of Harrowby: Letter to H. Winch: 1847.
f. 250 George Birkbeck, MD: Letters to F. Place: 1825.
f. 252 Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave: Letter to J. Lockwood: n.d.

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Egerton MS 2136-2137 : ORIGINAL, letters of English statesmen and many others to Sir Francis Dashwood, Bart, afterwards Lord le Despencer,…

Egerton MS 2137 : Vol. ii. ; 1787-1847 :- . The names of the writers of the more important letters are- [Frederick North, Lord] North; London, 2…

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Aberdein, Robert
Amherst, Jeffrey, 1st Baron Amherst, army officer, 1717-1797
Ashburnham, John, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham, 1724-1812
Banks, Joseph, 1st Baronet, botanist, naturalist and patron of science, 1743-1820
Beauclerk, Aubrey, 5th Duke of St Albans
Beauclerk, Catharine, wife of Aubrey, 5th Duke of St Albans
Beeke, Henry, DD, Professor of Modern History Oxford
Bentinck, William Henry Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Portland, prime minister, 1738-1809
Bigland, Ralph, Garter King of Arms
Birkbeck, George, physician and educationist, 1776-1841
Blundell, Dixie
Boswell, James, the elder, biographer of Johnson
Boyle, C-, of Egerton MS 2137
Buller, Francis, Baronet Justice of the Common Pleas 1794
Burgess, Thomas, Bishop of St David's and of Salisbury, fl 1825
Burke, Edmund, Paymaster-General
Cathcart, William Schaw, 1st Earl Cathcart, General
Cavendish, Georgiana, 1st wife of William, 5th Duke of Devonshire
Cooper, Cropley, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury, politician, 1768-1851
Cranstoun, James Edward, 9th Baron Cranstoun
Deal, John J, correspondent of Sir Francis Dashwood, fl 1796
Delaval, John Hussey, 1st Baron Delaval, politician, 1728-1808
Dutton, John, 2nd Baronet, of Sherborne, landowner and politician, 1684-1743
Eden, George, 1st Earl of Auckland, Governor-General of India and politician, 1784-1849,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000027192314,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/54898570
Eden, John, 4th Baronet, politician, 1740-1812
Eden, William, 1st Baron Auckland, statesman, 1744-1814
Edgcumbe, Emma, wife of George Edgcumbe, 1st Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, 1729-1807
Erskine, Thomas, 1st Baron Erskine, Lord Chancellor
Fitzmaurice, Thomas John Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Orkney, nobleman, fl 1821
Freeling, Francis, 1st Baronet, postal reformer, 1764-1836
Gallini, John Andrew, Knight, dancer, choreographer and theatre impresario, 1728-1805
George IV, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1762-1830
Goldsworthy, Philip, army officer and correspondent of Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne, fl 1787
Grey, Charles, 2nd Earl Grey, politician and Prime Minister, 1764-1845
Grey, Thomas, Under Secretary of State for the American département, 2nd Baron Walsingham (1781)
Hamilton, Douglas, 8th Duke of Hamilton
Hardinge, Lucy, wife of G Hardinge
Hawke, Edward, 3rd Lord Hawke
Heard, Isaac, Garter King at Arms
Heath, John, Judge of the Common Pleas
Hervey, Frederic Augustus, DD, Bishop of Derry, afterwards Earl of Bristol
Heywood, J- M-
Hulse, Samuel, Colonel; afterwards Field-Marshal
Kenyon, Lloyd, 1st Baron Kenyon, Lord Chief Justice of Kings Bench
Kinnaird, George, 7th Baron Kinnaird
Knollys, William, General; self-styled Earl of Banbury; of Egerton MS 2137
Langley, George, Lieutenant
Lascelles, Henry, Viscount Lascelles, afterwards 2nd Earl of Harewood
Lindsay, Colin, Lieutenant -Colonel
Lister, Thomas, 1st Baron Ribblesdale
Lort, Michael, Reverend; DD, Rector of Fulham
Lysons, Daniel, Reverend; Rector of Rodmarton
Maitland, James, 8th Earl of Lauderdale
Mansfield, James, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
Markham, William, Headmaster of Westminster School, Archbishop of York 1777
Massey, Eyre, 1st Baron Clarina 1800, Major-General
Montagu, John, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, 5th Earl of Sandwich
Moore, John, successively Dean of Canterbury, Bishop of Bangor and Archbishop of Canterbury
Nepean, Evan, 1st Baronet
North, Francis, 1st Earl of Guilford, politician, 1704-1790
North, Frederick, 2nd Earl of Guilford, politician and Prime Minister, 1732-1792
Nugent, George Thomas John, Marquess of Westmeath
Palmer, John, Actor
Perceval, Spencer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1762-1812
Percy, Hugh, 3rd Duke of Northumberland, politician and landowner, 1785-1847
Percy, Hugh, formerly Smithson 2nd Duke of Northumberland
Petty, William, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, formerly Fitzmaurice, 1737-1805
Phipps, Henry, 1st Earl of Mulgrave
Pitt, William, Prime Minister, called 'the younger', 1759-1806
Popham, Home Riggs, Admiral
Rennie, John, engineer, 1761-1821
Renwick, William, Surgeon,RN
Richards, Richard, Chief Baron of the Exchequer
Rodney, George Brydges, 1st Baron Rodney of Rodney Stoke, naval officer, d 1792
Rooke, Giles, Justice of Common Pleas
Russell, Francis, 5th Duke of Bedford
Ryder, Dudley, Viscount Sandon, 2nd Earl of Harrowby
Scott, Henry, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch
Scott, John, 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor
Scott, William, Baron Stowell, Judge of the Court of Admiralty
Sheldon, William, of Egerton MS 2137
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, of Add MS 24228
Sinclair, John, Baronet, FRS,President of the Board of Agriculture
Sleigh, William, Attorney
Smith, William Sidney, Knight, naval officer, 1764-1840
Sutton, Charles Manners-, 1st Viscount Canterbury, speaker of the House of Commons, 1780-1845
Sutton, Henry Manners-, Under-Secretary, Home Office, fl 1843
Sutton, Thomas Manners-, 1st Baron Manners of Foston, judge, 1756-1842
Taylor, Herbert, Lieutenant -General 1825; GCB 1834; Secretary to George III and William IV, fl 1825-1834
Torrens, Henry, Lieutenant -Colonel, Military Secretary to the Duke of York
Townshend, Thomas, 1st Viscount Sydney
Tyrwhitt, Thomas, Secretary to the Prince of Wales, afterwards Usher of the Black Rod
Valpy, Richard, schoolmaster, 1754-1836
Vansittart, George Henry, General
Vansittart, Nicholas, Baron Bexley
Vaughan, John, Major-General
Vaughan, Wilmot, Viscount Lisburne, 1st Earl of Lisburne
Walpole, Horatio, 4th Earl of Orford, author, politician, and patron of the arts, 1717-1797,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000054064246
Wellesley, Hyacinthe Gabrielle, wife of Richard, 1st Earl of Mornington and Marquis of Wellesley
Weston, Stephen, Rector of Mamhead, Orientalist
Wilberforce, William, MP, philanthropist and slavery abolitionist, 1759-1833,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122783569,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/36925883
Wyndham, George O'Brien, 3rd Earl of Egremont