VII George III and the Southern Department: Some Unprinted Royal Correspondence
| Autor: | Ian R. Christie |
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| Rok vydání: | 1990 |
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| Zdroj: | Camden Fourth Series. 39:415-439 |
| ISSN: | 2051-1701 0068-6905 |
| Popis: | The following fragment of George Ill's correspondence once formed part of the archive of Sir Stanier Porten, who served as an undersecretary of state between 1768 and 1782. His papers eventually passed into the possession of the family of Onslow of Ripley Court, Surrey, and were drawn to my attention by a member of that family, Miss Juliana Onslow, later Mackintosh, then a student at University College London. The exact details of how these papers were transmitted to her father, Mr Guy Clevland Onslow, seem to have been lost; but the salient circumstances appear to be, that the Revd. Stanier James Porten, son of the under-secretary, who was rector of Charlwood, Surrey, 1850–1854, was succeeded in that preferment by his son-in-law, the Revd Thomas Burningham, who held it from 1855 till his death in 1883. Burningham was Mr Onslow's maternal grandfather. Of the thirty-five letters of the king in this collection six were addressed to Porten, two to Lord Weymouth, and the remaining twenty-seven to the last of the secretaries of state under whom Porten served, the first Earl of Hillsborough, who was in charge of the southern department from November 1779 till the fall of the North administration in March 1782. |
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