Record

Document Reference	Bu 19/99
Title	Letter from T. Hankey, Hyams, Bagshot, Surrey, to Sir A. Buchanan, St Petersburg, Russia; 9 July 1866.
Date	9 July 1866
Extent	2 ff
Level	Piece
Content Description	Informs him that he is staying with Mrs Bathurst and congratulates him on his new honours [G.C.B.]; states that Russell was right to honour his 'old friends' before leaving office and that Hammond had also been honoured; comments on the changed state of European politics with reference to Prussia, Austria and Italy; states that Lord Stanley would do well in the Cabinet and refers to Gladstone's conduct during the problems over the passage of the Reform Bill.
Term	parliamentary business, bills, Reform Bill 1867
Term	honours and decorations, GCB

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA6523	Bathurst; Meriel L. (-1872); Countess of Bathurst; daughter of 2nd Baron de Tabley	-1872
NA982	Gladstone; William E. (1809-1898); P.M. 1868-74 1880-85 1886 1892-94	1809-1898
NA144	Stanley; Edward H. (1826-1893); 15th Earl of Derby; statesman	1826-1893
NA6204	Hankey; Thomson (1805-1893); Mr; M.P. Governor of the Bank of England 1851-3	1805-1893
NA136	Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat	1807-1882