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HOUG/E/M/21/16
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Letter from Robert Whiston to Lord Houghton
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- 10 Mar. 1881 (Creation)
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Rochester. - His son [Robert Wilmot Whiston] is reading for the Bar and seeks pupils or work with Records Commission; would have written to Beresford Hope but he is at Biarritz owing to his wife's serious illness; Spedding's sad end; survived his own cab accident through receiving a copious draught of sherry from 'our "Robert" of the Club'; glad Houghton voted for retention of Candahar [sic: Kandahar, Afghanistan]; enjoying horse riding.
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- Whiston, Robert (1808–1895) headmaster and reformer of cathedral charities (Subject)
- Whiston, Robert Wilmot (1856-1928), barrister and clergyman (Subject)
- Hope, Alexander James Beresford Beresford (1820–1887), politician and author (Subject)
- Hope, Lady Mildred Arabella Charlotte Henrietta Beresford (1822-1881), daughter of James Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury (Subject)
- Spedding, James (1808-1881), literary editor and biographer (Subject)