W3956

Letters to Samuel Whitbread III on "Parliamentary business", including letters from Sir George Grey, Lord Palmerston, Mr. Gladstone, H. Brand (Speaker of the House of Commons) and the Duke of Somerset

1852-1911

From: 1852 To: 1911

Appointment of Samuel Whitbread of Cardington as Deputy Lieutenant for Bedfordshire, 21 October 1852. Various offices offered to Whitbread (mostly declined). Proposal of Arthur Peel as Speaker of the House of Commons, 1884 Whitbread's retirement from the House of Commons, 1894. Offer of a Coronation peerage, 1902 Letter from Lord St.John, Melchbourne, requesting Samuel Whitbread to remain on the Commission of the Peace as a JP, June 1911

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Whitbread, Samuel III,
Grey, George,
Temple, Henry John, 3rd Viscount Palmerston,
Gladstone, William,
Brand, Henry,
Duke of Somerset,
Peel, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Viscount,
Lord St John

political correspondence, PARLIAMENT, CARDINGTON, Deputy Lieutenant, Speaker of the House of Commons, retirement, MELCHBOURNE, specific justices of the peace