Record

Document Reference	Os C 593
Title	Letter from [C.J. Canning], Earl Canning, to J.E. Denison; 6 Feb. 1855
Date	6 February 1855
Extent	4 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Comments that Lord John [Russell] has been unable to secure single member of his Cabinet; states that Clarendon has refused office and that Palmerston addressed Whig members of late Cabinet; Gladstone, Graham, Herbert and Argyll have been in discussion; discusses extent of political division; states that Government is to stand as it did without Lord John [Russell] and Lord Aberdeen; believes Granville is to take Council post and Herbert will go to Home Office.
Term	appointments, government
	politics, national
	patronage, political
	government departments, Cabinet
	governments, Palmerston Government 1855-58

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA6093	Villiers; George W.F. (1800-1870); 4th Earl of Clarendon	1800-1870
NA143	Temple; Henry John (1784-1865); 3rd Viscount Palmerston; succ. 1802; statesman; Prime Minster 1855-1858 and 1859-1865	1784-1865
NA982	Gladstone; William E. (1809-1898); P.M. 1868-74 1880-85 1886 1892-94	1809-1898
NA2016	Campbell; George D. (1823-1900); 8th Duke of Argyll; Whig M.P.	1823-1900
NA9900	Herbert; Sidney (1810-1861); 1st Baron Herbert of Lea; statesman	1810-1861
NA6110	Graham; James R.G. (1792-1861); 2nd Baronet; M.P.	1792-1861
NA139	Russell; John (1792-1878); 1st Earl Russell	1792-1878
NA142	Gordon; George Hamilton- (1784-1860); 4th Earl of Aberdeen	1784-1860
NA6137	Gower; Granville G. Leveson- (1815-1891); 2nd Earl Granville; diplomat M.P. statesman	1815-1891
NA1109	Canning; Charles J. (1812-1862); Earl Canning; governor general of India 1856-1862	1812-1862
NA199	Denison; J. Evelyn (1800-1873); 1st Viscount Ossington; M.P. Speaker of House of Commons 1857-72 created Viscount Ossington 1872	1800-1873