BIB_ID
423556
Accession number
MA 22896.2
Creator
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838.
Display Date
Place not specified, before 1827.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.2 x 11.3 cm
Notes
The letter is undated, however Eldon refers to being Chancellor "near twenty years." Eldon served as Lord Chancellor from 1801-1806 and 1807-1827.
Docketed "Chancellor's letter."
It is unclear to which Dundas this letter is sent.
See also MA 22896.1 and MA 22896.3.
Housed with an unsigned draft of a letter to the Editor of the Standard, docketed "March 16, 1829 / My letter to Editor of Standard suggesting a Ch[urch] building fund to be raised as a monument to L. Eldon." From a letter, cited below, it seems likely that this draft was written by William Surtees (1750-1832). See MA 22896.3.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Alexis Brialmont, History of the life of Arthur, duke of Wellington (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858-1860); PML 7901-7916, vol. V, p. 357..
Docketed "Chancellor's letter."
It is unclear to which Dundas this letter is sent.
See also MA 22896.1 and MA 22896.3.
Housed with an unsigned draft of a letter to the Editor of the Standard, docketed "March 16, 1829 / My letter to Editor of Standard suggesting a Ch[urch] building fund to be raised as a monument to L. Eldon." From a letter, cited below, it seems likely that this draft was written by William Surtees (1750-1832). See MA 22896.3.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Alexis Brialmont, History of the life of Arthur, duke of Wellington (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858-1860); PML 7901-7916, vol. V, p. 357..
Summary
Regretting that he cannot help with a Prebendship at Gloucester for Mr. Everett; saying "That Species of preferment it has very seldom indeed been in my power to give to those, most dearly & nearly connected with myself : and, in the thirty three years, in which I have executed the great affairs of the Law, I never could obtain from a Minister any Thing of the kind for those, for whom I have naturally most wished to obtain it - Of the very few of the small Prebends in the Chancellor's Gift a considerable proportion has been disposed of by Command : and it is impossible for a Man to be Chancellor - particularly to be near twenty years Chancellor, without having positive Claims upon him, as to his Sort of preferment, which he cannot pass over."
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