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AUTOGRAPHS OF KING WILLIAM THE 4TH OF ENGLAND DOUBLE SIGNED AS WILLIAM DUKE OF CLARENCE AND DUKE OF CLARENCE! (CAN BE SPLIT FOR 2 SIGNATURES!!) INCLUDING A RARE MISTAKE CROSSED OUT BY HIS HIGHNESS!!
ALSO WITH A SUPREMELY RARE AUTOGRAPH OF QUEEN CONSORT CHARLOTTE OF MECKLENBURG-STRELITZ, THE WIFE OF KING GEORGE THE 3RD!!! (CURRENTLY A SOUGHT AFTER AUTOGRAPH DUE TO THE NETFLIX SERIES ‘THE BRIDGERTONS’)
ALL OF THESE AUTOGRAPHS ARE CUT FROM LETTERS.
LIST OF DECIPHERED AUTOGRAPHS:
King William the 4th of England (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) Signed twice AND with the word 'William' crossed out on the first signature and signed again underneath as 'The Duke of Clarence'. Signed in 1822 before he ascended to the throne in 1830. This is an extremely rare full cover and it also has the remnants of the red Royal wax seal still on the page!
An extremely rare Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.(19 May 1744 – 17 November 1818)
Signed 'CharlotteR'
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was the Queen consort of the United Kingdom as the wife of King George III She was also the electress consort of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire until the promotion of her husband to the King of Hanover on 12 October 1814, which made her Queen consort of Hanover. Queen Charlotte was a patroness of the arts, known to Johann Christian Bach and Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart among others. She was also an amateur botanist who helped expand Kew Gardens.
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Baron Carlo (Charles) Poerio (1803-April 28, Naples - 1867, Florence)
A FULL LETTER IN EXCELLENT CONDITION ON BLUE PAPER IMPRESSED MARK TO TOP RIGHT 'SUPERFINE SATIN' WRITTEN TO MRS O'GRADY IN LIMERICK. SIGNED 'CHARLES POERIO' DATED 23RD OF MARCH 1859 WHICH WAS ONE YEAR AFTER HIS RELEASE FROM IMPRISONMENT!
Poerio was an Italian poet, Risorgimento and 1848 Revolution activist, politician, and brother of Alessandro Poerio.After the Battle of Novara ,the King was free to dissolve parliament and renounce the constitution; in July 1849 Poerio was arrested, tried, and sentenced to nineteen years in prison. Chained in pairs, he and other political prisoners were confined in one small room in the Labor camp on Nisida (the Flegree Islands). William Ewart Gladstones's report on the inhumane conditions in Neapolitan detention facilities (1851), emphasizing the case of Poerio, provoked an international uproar; nonetheless, Poerio was set free only in 1858. He and other exiles were than placed on board a ship bound for Argentina,but the son of Luigi Settembrini (both of them on board the ship) compelled the crew to land them at Cork, in Ireland after which Poerio made his way to London.In the following year he returned to Italy, and, in 1860 he was elected deputy to the Parliament of Piedmont-Sardinia in Turin (the original seat of the House of Savoy government), and was chosen the body's vice-president in 1861,when the Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed.
Sir William Henry Paget The Marquess of Anglesey. (1768-1854).
Known as The Earl of Uxbridge between 1812 and 1815, he was a British military leader under the Duke of Wellington and a politician. He was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Master-General of the Ordnance" Master-General of the Ordnance(Twice)and is chiefly remembered for leading the charge of the heavy cavalry against d'Erlon's column during the Battle of Waterloo.
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Lieutenant General Charles Craufurd Fraser VC KCB (31 August 1829 – 7 June 1895) A British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was also a noted Conservative politician.
Fraser was 29 years old, and a major in the 7th Hussars (The Queen's Own) during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 31 December 1858 at the River Raptee, India for which he was awarded the VC:
'For conspicuous and cool gallantry, on the 31st December, 1858, in having volunteered, at great personal risk, and under a sharp fire of musketry, to swim to the rescue of Captain Stisted, and some men of the 7th Hussars, who were in imminent danger of being drowned in the River Raptee, while in pursuit of the rebels. Major Fraser succeeded in this gallant service, although at the time partially disabled, not having recovered from a severe wound received while leading a Squadron in a charge against some fanatics, in the Action of Nawabgunge, on the 13th June, 1858.'
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Archibald Tait (21 December 1811 – 3 December 1882) former Archbishop of Canterbury. Signed as the Archbishop of Canterbury. A position which he held from 1868 to 1882.
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John Bright (16 November 1811 – 27 March 1889), Quaker, was a British Radical and Liberal Statesman associated with Richard Cobden in the formation of the Anti Corn Law League He was one of the greatest orators of his generation, and a strong critic of British Foreign Policy He sat in the House of Commons from 1843 to 1889. He was President of the Board of Trade In office 9 December 1868 – 14 January 1871
A full envelope with address and red wax seal intact.
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LORD JOHN RUSSELL
FULL LETTER IN HIS HANDWRITING
Lord John Russell Unsigned, announcing a Privy Council to be summoned at Windsor.
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FIELD MARSHALL GEORGE HAY THE MARQUESS OF TWEEDALE.
Field Marshal George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale, (February 1787 – 1876) was a noted Scottish soldier and administrator.
A FULL LETTER SIGNED.
He was Aide-de-Camp in the Penninsular war under Arthur Wellesley the Duke Of Wellington. He fought at the Battle of Bussaco on 27 September 1810, in the Grenadier Guards, where he was wounded and the Battle of Vitoria on 21 June 1813, with the 100th Foot as.He also served in the War of 1812 at the Battle of Niagara in 1812. In 1842 he was appointed Governor of Madras and Commander-In-Chief of the Madras Army. He was promoted to Field Marshal in 1875.
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George John Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (30 April 1823 – 24 April 1900). Styled Marquess of Lorne until 1847, was a Scottish peer, Liberal politician as well as a writer on science, religion, and the politics of the 19th century.
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Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower the Duchess Of Argyll (30 May 1824 – 25 May 1878) was the eldest daughter of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland by his wife Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Howard She was married on 31 July 1844 toGeorge Douglas Campbell Marquess of Lorne, the eldest son of the 7th Duke Of Argyll. He succeeded his father as 8th Duke Of Argyll in 1847, whereupon Elizabeth became Duchess of Argyll. She served as Mistress of Robes to Queen Victoria during the Liberal government of 1868. Her son Lord Lorne married the Queen's fourth daughter Princess Louise in 1871. She died in 1878.
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Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (27 October 1818 – 12 January 1887), known as Sir Stafford Northcote, Bt, from 1851 to 1885, was a British Conservative politician. He notably served as Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1874 and 1880 and as Foreign Secretary between 1885 and 1886, and was one of only two people to hold the office of First Lord of the Treasury and was never Prime Minister.
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Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook (1 October 1814 – 30 October 1906), known as Gathorne Hardy until 1878, was a prominent British Conservative Politician. He held office in every Conservative government between 1858 and 1892 and notably served as Home Secretary from 1867 to 1868 and as Secretary of State for War from 1874 to 1878.
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Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (4 January 1845 – 3 June 1927) was the great grandson of the British Prime Minister Lord Shelburne a British politician and Irish peer who served successively as the Fith Governor of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. He has the distinction of having held senior positions in both Liberal Party and Conservative Party governments.
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