Item 5 - Letter from Henry Riversdale Grenfell to Lord Houghton

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HOUG/EM/13/5

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Letter from Henry Riversdale Grenfell to Lord Houghton

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  • 20 Sept. 1875 (Creation)

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2 ff.

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Milnes, Richard Monckton (1809-1885), 1st Baron Houghton, author and politician
(1809-1885)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Taplow Court, Maidenhead. - Recommends Mr Macdonald as Engineer to the Lancs & Yorks Railway; his wife is Grenfell's cousin and daughter of an adventurer who first fought in Paris in 1830; his experiences in Sacramento, Gibraltar and the River Plate; was condemned to death for attempting to burn Chicago during the American Civil War; sent instead to the 'dry Tortugas' whence he escaped in an open boat and was drowned; 'Is this not a good reason for making his son in law your engineer?'.

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