Letters to Godfrey Macdonald, 3rd Lord Macdonald, from Bishop of Sodor and Man; Duke of Devonshire; Spencer Stanhope; K. Duncombe; Jemima Wilson; Clanranald; D, Baird; Duke of Kent; J. W. Macdonald (peninsular); 2nd Lord Macdonald; William F. Burdett; Charles James; George Sinclair; J. Maister; Samuel Dashwood; Ralph Creyke; William Curtis; John Greame; F. W. Blanberg; Prince Polignac; Lord Stafford; Admiral Ross Donnelly; Sir John Lowther; Thomas Wildman; Lord Melbourne; J. Polkinghorne; Tatton Sykes; Sir James Graham; James Hall; Archibald Macdonald (one from Saint Petersburg); Walter Pollard; John Hall; Diana Sinclair; Sons, Alexander, Godfrey, James and William; Duke of Wellington; and others

Reference No:
U DDBM/32/13
Dates:
1806 - 1832
Description:
Family, estate and political matters including references to enlargement of Cawthorne Church; William Cobbett; coursing meetings at Malton; son's absence from school at Eton, 'your son lately under pretence of Illness staid out of school ... Dr Keate has punished him and turned him down to the bottom of the fourth form. It is discovered by his own confession, as was suspected that he was at Epsom Races'; proposal that the magistrates meeting should be established at Driffield instead of Barmston; the Reform Bill; appearance of Paginini in Exeter, Sheffield and York; furnishings for communion table in Rudston Church; marriage of daughter Susan to Capt. Beaumont; Peninsula War, mentioning Duke of Wellington and Napoleon; costs of rebuilding Denby and Middop corn mills; erection of monument to Sir Walter Scott
Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
c. 200 items
Language:
Access Conditions:
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Papers of the Bosville-Macdonald Family of Gunthwaite, Thorpe and Skye