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W1/1891
Title
To Samuel Whitbread II - unsigned.
Date free text
Not dated. Apparently about by-election of MPs for Cambridge University in February 1806, when Lord Henry Petty and Viscount Althorp (Lord Spencer), both Whigs, were elected.
Production date
From: 1805 To: 1806
Scope and Content
Lord Spencer is mentioned as telling writer's brother that Lord Henry (Petty?) was preferred to him. Writer hopes that, before Sir Richard Kaye's death, something will turn up to satisfy his (brother's?) college friends.
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item

Persons/institution keyword
Whitbread, Samuel II,
Spencer, Lord,
Petty, Henry, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne,
Kaye, Richard
Keywords
out-county elections, University of Cambridge, Cambridge

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Whitbread Collection - Whitbread of Southill Estate and family papers.
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- Whitbread Correspondence
  sub-fonds | W1
  - Elections
    series | W1/1815-2024
    1789-1852
    
    Elections, Cambridgeshire
    file | W1/1891-1896
    1805-1814
    To Samuel Whitbread II - unsigned.
    item | W1/1891
    Not dated. Apparently about by-election of MPs for Cambridge University in February 1806, when Lord Henry Petty and Viscount Althorp (Lord Spencer), both Whigs, were elected.