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O./11a.2/29
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Letter from Lady Alicia Gordon to the Master of Trinity
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- 8 Feb. 1945 (Creation)
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1 folded sheet.
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Expresses the desire of the Executors that the Joshua Reynolds painting of William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester bequeathed to Trinity in a codicil to the will of Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester should hang in the Hall of the college, as Princess Sophia Matilda wished.
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See O.11.a.2/26-27 and 29 for more on this bequest. The papers of William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, referred to here are now at Add. MS a/1.
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O.11.a.2/29
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- Gordon, Lady Alicia (1787-1847), Lady in Waiting to Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester (Subject)
- Whewell, William (1794-1866), college head and writer on the history and philosophy of science (Subject)
- Sophia Matilda (1773-1844), Princess of Gloucester, niece of George III (Subject)
- William Frederick (1776-1834), Prince, 2nd Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (Subject)
- Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792), knight, portrait and history painter and art theorist (Subject)