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HOUG/D/A/7/12
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Letter from Connop Thirwall, Bishop of St. David's, to Lord Houghton
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- 5 May 1873 (Creation)
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2 ff.
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Embossed notepaper, 'Palace, Abergwili, Carmarthen'. - Recollections of figures commemorated in Monographs, including 'the excellent renegade who treated us with anecdotes of Napoleon' [Suleiman Pasha?] at one of Houghton's breakfasts; accounts of von Humboldt and Whewell are surprisingly charitable. Landor well represented; 'I met him at Whewell's table. He unfolded his ideas of the most pressingly needed reforms of the Church. "I would give every Bishop £500 a year. The Bishop of London only should have £1000. And I would make it a capital felony for any Bishop to leave his Diocese." Whewell got very hot indeed and we narrowly missed a scene'. Sydney Smith's antipathy to Bishops appeared to be aggravated by seeing Thirwall.
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- Thirlwall, Newell Connop (1797–1875) bishop of St David's, historian (Subject)
- Sève, Joseph Anthelme (1788-1860), French-born Egyptian military commander, known as Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi (Subject)
- Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von (1769-1859), Baron von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (Subject)
- Whewell, William (1794-1866), college head and writer on the history and philosophy of science (Subject)
- Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864) author (Subject)
- Smith, Sydney (1771-1845), author and wit (Subject)