Record

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

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