Autograph Collection.- Royalty & Aristocracy, Politics & Diplomacy, Military & Naval
19th-20th century

A collection of autographs, manuscript letters, clipped autographs, etc, including:

Royalty & Aristocracy: letters, notes, clipped autographs, clipped seals, etc from the c18th, c19th and c20th including:

Royalty: an assortment of letters, notes, manuscripts, portrait engravings and autographs etc including: letters from courtiers such as Sir Benjamin Bloomfield (1768-1846); Sir Henry Ponsonby (1825-1895), etc, etc

Aristocracy: Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough (1877-1964); Baroness Budrdett-Coutts (small qty) (philanthropist,1814-1906); a group of letters to Margot Asquith, Lady Oxford & Asquith (1864-1945); including from Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, Lord Northcliffe, Lord Inchcape, Lord Haldane, etc (qty).

Lords Newton, Foley, Harlech, Vivian, Desart, Bateman, Brookborough, Rosslyn, Hill, Zetland, Aylesford, Hawarden, Ilchester, Loughborough, Cairns, Middlesex, Listowel, Scarborough, Carysfoot, Westmoreland, de la Warr, Ranfurly, de Grey, Suffolk, Wicklow, Delamare, Haddington, Conyngham, Manners, Stradbooke, de Clifford, Clifton, Cadogan, Bristol, Reay, Stanhope, Ellenborough, George Hamilton, Galloway, Gainford, Poulett, Dukes of Portland, Beaufort, Sutherland, Westminster, Norfolk, Manchester, Beaufort, Aldenham, Newcastle, Athol, Leeds, etc, etc; Sir Thomas Hussey Apreece Bt, manuscript copy of an address to the then Duke of Wellington, Brussels, 1852; manuscript copy of an address to Lord Montagle at Brussels, 1852; quantity of clipped monograms, quantity of clipped seals with signatures; quantity of c.18^th cut printed pages with peers’ signatures; quantity of printed signatures clipped from engravings; engraved portraits; etc etc.

Military & Naval: a good assortment of letters, notes, clipped signatures, etc from the c.17^th, c.19^th and c.20^th including: a small 1920s album of pencil signatures including many Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London etc (damaged); General Omar Bradley (US, 1893-1981); Field Marshal Lord Gough (1779-1869); Lord Cardigan (commander of the Light Brigade (1797-1868); c.18^th manuscript note “The Case of Ambrose Meres Esq”; letter to Field Marshal Wolseley of 1896 “later ridiculed in Punch Magazine”; Admiral Sir Henry Hotham (1777-1833); a collection of clipped autographs of George Cross awardees including cpl. Tommy Atkinson, Frank Naughton, Leon Goldsworthy etc (qty); collection of mounted early c.20^th letters from British generals and admirals etc including Lord Roberts; Sir Charles Madden, Lord Charles Beresford, Sir Stanley von Donop, Sir Nevil Macready etc; a large selection of c.19^th military correspondence including from General Sir James Campbell (1763-1819); etc, etc (qty)

Politics and Diplomacy: an assortment of letters, engravings, notes and clipped signatures of the c19th and c20th, including: Lord Castlereagh (statesman, 1769-1822); Edward Drummond (civil servant, murdered, 1792-1843); George Holyoake (agitator & reformer, 1817-1906); Emily Faithfull (activist and feminist, 1835-1895); Mary Anderson (activist & feminist, 1880-1921); John Burns (trade unionist & MP, 1858-1943); Frank Hodge (trade unionist, 1887-1947); Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano (1763-1839); Sir Edward Heath (prime minister,1916-2005, inc signed Christmas card); Sir Arthur Hodgson (squatter and MP, 1818-1902); Joseph Hume (MP and surgeon, 1777-1855, small qty) etc;

MPs including Richard Arkwright (1835-1918); William Morrison May (1909-1962); Sir Denis le Marchant (1795-1874); John Irving (1766-1845); Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1806-1888); Edmund Peel (1791-1850); George Goschen (1831-1907); Thomas Milner Gibson (1806-1884); Henry Goulburn (1784-1856); Walter Long (1854-1924); Joseph Cowen (1800-1873); Sir Robert Peel, 3rd Baronet (1822-1895); Henry Labouchere (1831-1912); Thomas Bazley (1797-1885); Winthrop Mackworth Praed (Poet & MP, 1802-1839); Sir William Lemon (1748-1824; John Chevalier Cobbold, Brewer & MP, 1797-1882); etc etc

Diplomats: Sir John Borrow (1764-1848); Sir Gore Ouseley (1770-1844); Sir James Bryce (1838-1922); Augustine Birrell (1850-1933 – with Lord Russell of Killowen, 1832-1900); William Arthur White (1824-1891); etc

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