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Head, Sir Edmund Walker (1805-1868), 8th Baronet, governor-in-chief of British North America and scholar
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Letter from Richard Monckton Milnes to Louisa Milnes
HOUG/36/163 · File · 27 Jul. [1863]
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

16 U[pper] Brook St. - Announces acceptance of peerage; address to Pontefract constituents will appear tomorrow; 'It is intended to be very pathetic, but I doubt their crying very much, on the eve of an election'; Sir Edmund Head is to be the Liberal candidate. Mr Smith is settled at Fryston; pleasant moonlight walks in the woods; Lancaster [a dog?] tried to bite a piece out of Mrs Tom Lee's leg but her crinoline saved her.