Record

Document Reference	Os C 166
Title	Letter from [H.W. Lamb], 2nd Viscount Melbourne, to Rev. E. Denison, [later Bishop of Salisbury], Merton College, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire; 7 Mar. 1837
Date	7 March 1837
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Informs him that he has submitted his name to King [William IV] for confirmation of appointment as Bishop of Salisbury and has received royal assent; states that his name was not put forward out of friendship to J.E. Denison; comments on Ecclesiastical Commissioners' report on value of See.
Term	appointments, clerical
	patronage, royal
	financial affairs, ecclesiastical

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA199	Denison; J. Evelyn (1800-1873); 1st Viscount Ossington; M.P. Speaker of House of Commons 1857-72 created Viscount Ossington 1872	1800-1873
NA6030	William IV (1765-1837); King of Great Britain and Ireland; succeeded 1830	1765-1837
NA6068	Lamb; H. William (1779-1848); 2nd Viscount Melbourne; M.P., Home Secretary 1830-4, P.M. 1834 and 1835-41	1779-1848
NA8625	Denison; Edward (1801-1854); Bishop of Salisbury; brother of J.E. Denison	1801-1854