Search Results

Search tip: Click 'Reference' to see the hierarchy browser for the whole collection

Collection	Victorian Papers, Main Series
Reference	VIC/MAIN/A/26/45
Record Type	Correspondence
Title	Letter from Lord Palmerston to Queen Victoria
Date	18 March 1857
Writer	Palmerston, Henry, 3rd Viscount
Addressee	Victoria, Queen
Description	Lord Palmerston on Mr Shaw Lefevre's choice of Eversley as his title, on being raised to peerage (after his retirement as Speaker). Precedents as to rank of peerage granted. Viscounty requested for him, as he 'may justly be said to have been the best Speaker who ever filled the Chair'. A record to be entered at Home Office against its being regarded as a precedent. Suggestion as to making him a Knight Grand Cross (G.C.B.) on precedent of Lord Canterbury (Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury). Lord Palmerston on position regarding Ministers' Money (Ireland).
Language	English
Extent	1 document
Access Conditions	Available for research
Level	Item

Record