AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY ALGERNON PERCY, 6TH DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, LORD PRIVY SEAL UNDER THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD.

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- Letter penned in black ink & filling 1-2/3 sides of a cream-colored 6-1/4 inch high by 4 inch wide sheet of his letterhead with the Stanwick Hall address printed in blue at the top. Signed "Northumberland". Folded 3 times for mailing. Fine The Northumberlands' family seat was Alnick Castle, Northumberland. Stanwick Hall in Darlington, Yorkshire was the family's secondary home. The Duke writes that he has not received an account of a meeting.Algernon George Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland [1810-1899] was a British Conservative politician. He held office under the Earl of Derby as Paymaster-General and Vice-President of the Board of Trade in 1859. In 1867 he succeeded to the dukedom on the death of his father and entered the House of Lords. He joined the Earl of Beaconsfield's second government as Lord Privy Seal in 1878, with a seat in the cabinet, a post he held until the fall of the government in 1880.

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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY ALGERNON PERCY, 6TH DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, LORD PRIVY SEAL UNDER THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD.

Verlag

Stanwick, Darlington, U.K.: November 16, 1871.

Erscheinungsjahr

1871

Zustand

Fine

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