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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D3155/WH/2959
TitlePoor law matters, rates and tithes
Date1832
DescriptionCopy letters addressed to Mr Senior Sep-Oct 1832. Lord Brougham, Sep 1832; C J Blomfield, Bishop of London, Sep 1832 - inclined to agree with Senior on poor law magistrates and commissioners; Ld Lansdowne, Sep 1832 - magnitude of the evils of the present system, verified from local observation, the question being how much Parliament and the public will bear on the subject; J B Summer, Bishop of Chester, Oct 1832 - ignorance and prejudice among those to whom changes must be proposed
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Levelfile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorSir Robert John Wilmot Horton, baronet (1784-1841), Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies 1821-1828, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Ceylon 1831-1837
Wilmot-Horton family of Osmaston and Catton, Derbyshire
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