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HOUG/EM/9/7
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Letter from William Henry Hepburne to Lord Houghton
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- 16 Mar. 1864 (Creation)
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2 ff., with enclosures, 3ff.
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Villiers Cottage, Villiers Road, Bushey, Herts. - Formerly Secretary to the Suburban Village Association; is brother of Mrs [Jane Lindsay] Blackwell; encloses testimonials as he has been searching for an appointment since his return from Canada; was only successful there during the visit of the Prince of Wales; congratulates Houghton on peerage. Postscript: hopes financial distress will not force him to break up home. Enclosures: copy testimonials for Hepburne from the Earl of Carlisle; Samuel John Cooke, Secretary of the Ottoman Railway Co; T. L. Seccombe, India Office; Thomas Page, civil engineer; W. B. Moffatt (architect), with note of loss of other testimonials at sea on leaving Melbourne in 1859.
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- Hepburne, William Henry (1812-1878), secretary (Subject)
- Blackwell, Jane Lindsay (1804-1891), née Hepburne, wife of Rev. William Whitehead Blackwell (Subject)
- Edward VII (1841-1910), King of Great Britain and Ireland (Subject)
- Howard, George William Frederick (1802-1864) 7th Earl of Carlisle, politician (Subject)
- Seccombe, Sir Thomas Lawrence (1812-1902), knight, civil servant (Subject)
- Page, Thomas (1803-1877), civil engineer (Subject)
- Moffatt, William Bonython (1812-1887), architect (Subject)