Record

Document Reference	Os C 553
Title	Letter from [S. Wilberforce], Bishop of Oxford, All Souls College, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, to J.E. Denison; 4 Feb. 1863
Date	4 February 1863
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Informs him that he was proposed as British Museum trustee by late Archbishop [Sumner]; states that Lord Lansdowne's death makes another vacancy; Lord Stanhope has recommended he ask Speaker [Denison] to recommend him to Palmerston for post if present Archbishop [Longley] is agreeable. Marked 'Private' on f 1r. Relates to Os C 554.
Term	legal business, trustees, British Museum
	appointments, political
	patronage, political

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA6012	Sumner; John B. (1780-1862); Archbishop of Canterbury	1780-1862
NA6250	Fitzmaurice; Henry Petty- (1780-1863); 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne; succeeded 1818	1780-1863
NA9855	Stanhope; Philip H. (1805-1875); 5th Earl Stanhope; styled Viscount Mahon 1816-1855 historian	1805-1875
NA143	Temple; Henry John (1784-1865); 3rd Viscount Palmerston; succ. 1802; statesman; Prime Minster 1855-1858 and 1859-1865	1784-1865
NA9507	Longley; Charles T. (1794-1868); Archbishop of Canterbury; Archbishop York 1860-2, Canterbury 1862-8	1794-1868
NA7627	Wilberforce; Samuel (1805-1873); Bishop of Winchester; Bishop of Oxford 1845-69 Winchester 1869	1805-1873
NA199	Denison; J. Evelyn (1800-1873); 1st Viscount Ossington; M.P. Speaker of House of Commons 1857-72 created Viscount Ossington 1872	1800-1873