Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    OR2298/11
  • Title
    Letter (first sheet only) from ? Catherine Rouse-Boughton to Sir William father about money sent by Sir William; visits to Holder family details of Francis Mackenzie been on his brother, Sir Kenneth Mackenzie’s yacht in the Baltic – saw blowing up of Bomarsund
  • Date free text
    21 March 1855.
  • Production date
    From: 1855 To: 1855
  • Admin/biog history
    Note:- Mackenzies of Gairloch Rossshire listed in Burke’s Peerage 1930 Francis Mackenzie, whom the Rouse-Boughtons met in Pau lived from 1833-1895 and died unmarried. Lord John Manners was a noted Conservative, epitomising the ‘Young England’ of Disraeli’s novels. He married Catherine Marlay in 1851. She died 7 April 1854. Her husband became 7th Duke of Rutland in 1888 and the little boy became 8th Duke of Rutland on his father’s death in 1906 (Burke’s Peerage) see D.N.B. Lord Goderich was the eldest son of 1st Earl of Ripon (brother to Earl de Grey). He became 2nd Earl of Ripon in 1859. 1st Marquess 1871 He was viceroy of India 1880-1884 see D.N.B.
  • Scope and Content
    Lord John Manners has house opposite; does not go out as a widower, bereaved less than six months before (has one little boy), Lord and Lady Goderich, Lady Louisa Tennyson and her husband (‘both draw beautifully’), have villas. mentions Captain and Mrs Reginald Yorke; Sir Edmund Head, Governor of Canada (married a Miss Yorke) Thanks for his idea of building a green house Theresa sunlight good for her, rooms heated by stoves, bad. Southern climate suits all their healths
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  • Level of description
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