CollectionVictorian Papers, Main Series
ReferenceVIC/MAIN/A/26/84
Record TypeCorrespondence
TitleLetter from Lord Palmerston to Queen Victoria
Date6 July 1857
WriterPalmerston, Henry, 3rd Viscount
AddresseeVictoria, Queen
DescriptionVacancy in Lord Lieutenancy of Oxfordshire, owing to the death of George Spencer-Churchill, 6th Duke of Marlborough. Choice of candidates. The present Duke (John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough) preferred. Precedents, though unusual, for a son to follow his father. Francis George Spencer, 2nd Baron Churchill, and Thomas Stonor, 3rd Baron Camoys, mentioned as a possibilities for Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire.
LanguageEnglish
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