Record

Document Reference	Bu 2/37
Title	Letter from H. Canning de Burgh [later 2nd Marquess of Clanricarde], St Leonards on Sea, Sussex, to A. Buchanan; 28 Dec 1851.
Date	28 December 1851
Extent	2 ff
Level	Piece
Content Description	Discusses changes in British political structure; thought Lord Wodehouse would be the new Under Secretary; was annoyed that Lord Palmerston [Foreign Secretary] should persist [on a course of action of which he disapproved]; the seals were offered to Clarendon [who was at the Board of Trade] but he turned them down; suspects he enjoyed his present post but thought he has made a blunder for such an ambitious man.
Term	politics, British
Term	appointments, political

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA6093	Villiers; George W.F. (1800-1870); 4th Earl of Clarendon	1800-1870
NA6094	Phipps; Constantine H. (1797-1863); 1st Marquess of Normanby; Ambassador to Paris 1846-1852 created 1838	1797-1863
NA143	Temple; Henry John (1784-1865); 3rd Viscount Palmerston; succ. 1802; statesman; Prime Minster 1855-1858 and 1859-1865	1784-1865
NA6095	Wodehouse; John (1826-1902); 1st Earl of Kimberley; 3rd Baron Wodehouse 1846 created earl 1866	1826-1902
NA6071	De Burgh; Hubert G. Canning- (1832-1916); 2nd Marquess of Clanricarde; M.P.	1832-1916
NA136	Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat	1807-1882