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Collection	Victorian Papers, Main Series
Reference	VIC/MAIN/A/52/112
Record Type	Correspondence
Title	Letter from Mr Gladstone to Queen Victoria
Date	24 November 1880
Writer	Gladstone, William Ewart
Addressee	Victoria, Queen
Description	Gladstone names Lefevre as First Commissioner, Office of Works. His qualifications. Sir Alexander Cockburn's death creates a vacancy in the office of Lord Chief Justice. Baron John Duke Coleridge named to succeed Sir Cockburn as Lord Chief Justice of England and Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench. (Note: Title of Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas abolished at this date.) Lord Odo Russell recommended for a Peerage. Justice Walkin Williams, Lieutenant Colonel Hume and W.W. Hughes (an Australian colonist) named for Knighthoods. Lord Herries named as Lord Lieutenant of West Riding. A Roman Catholic of the old school.
Language	English
Extent	1 document
Access Conditions	Available in surrogate form only
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