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Miscellaneous/Box 16/ST5/1
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- 15 Nov. 1799 (Creation)
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1 letter, 1p Manuscript paper
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Born 18 July 1769 in Dublin, son of Robert Stewart, 1st Marquis of Londonderry. Admitted Fellow-Commoner at St John's College, Cambridge, 26 Oct. 1786. Member of Parliament, County Down, 1790; MP, Tregony, 1794-6; MP, Orford, 1796-7. Styled Viscount Castlereagh, 1796-1821. Keeper of Irish Privy Seal, 1797-8. Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1799-1801. MP, County Down, 1800-5 and 1812-20; MP, Boroughbridge, 1806; MP, Plympton-Earl, 1806-12; MP, Orford, 1821-2. President of East India Board of Control, 1802-6. Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, 1805-6 and 1807-9. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the House of Commons, 1812-22. Succeeded his father as 2nd Marquis of Londonderry, 1821. Married, 9 June 1794, Lady Amelia Anne Hobart. Committed suicide at his residence at North Cray, Kent, 12 Aug. 1822. Buried at Westminster Abbey, 20 Aug. 1822.
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Purchased from Myers & Co., 1937.
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'My Dear Lord, I find so many observations and interlineations have been made in the Resolutions by the Ministers, that I shall wait till they are disposed of, before, I procure the copy you wish for. Mr King has promised to have it put in hands without delay. I shall endeavor on Sunday to take my leave of your Lordship and Lady Auckland, which I shall do with great regret. Believe me my Dear Lord most sincerely yours, Castlereagh.'