Document Reference | Os C 590 |
Title | Letter from [H.P.F. Pelham-Clinton], 5th Duke of Newcastle under Lyne, Downing Street, London, to J.E. Denison; 4 Oct. 1854 |
Date | 4 October 1854 |
Extent | 4 ff |
Level | Item/file |
Content Description | Refers to his state of anxiety [concerning Crimean War]; comments that messenger is delayed from Constantinople and there is no news of fate of Sebastopol; he has been unable to travel to Clumber [Park]; states that he has been informed that Lawson Observatory scheme has been abandoned; Duke of Portland is in better health. |
Term | military campaigns, Siege of Sebastopol 1854-5 |
wars, Crimean War 1853-6 |
war, attitudes towards |
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Persons
Code | PersonName | Dates of existence |
NA1045 | Bentinck; William H. Cavendish-Scott- (1768-1854); 4th Duke of Portland; styled Marquess of Titchfield 1768-1809 | 1768-1854 |
NA10151 | Lawson; Henry (1774-1855); Mr; astronomer | 1774-1855 |
NA945 | Clinton; Henry P.F. Pelham- (1811-1864); 5th Duke of Newcastle under Lyne; styled Earl of Lincoln until 1851 | 1811-1864 |
NA199 | Denison; J. Evelyn (1800-1873); 1st Viscount Ossington; M.P. Speaker of House of Commons 1857-72 created Viscount Ossington 1872 | 1800-1873 |
Places
Code | Set |
PL8827 | /Sebastopol/Crimea/Russia |
PL83 | /Constantinople/Turkey |