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- 1819-30. (Creation)
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Letters, papers, vouchers and accounts including reports from school-masters, tutors and others, containing references to William Stuart's military training and career in England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany and Portugal, Henry Stuart's education at Eton, Charterhouse, Christ Church College, Oxford, Charles Stuart's education at Charterhouse, military training and career, Gertrude Stuart at Hampton Court, and her death of consumption in 1826, the change of Lord Henry Stuart's childrens' surname to Villiers-Stuart, May 1822 (L27/46-7, 53) and [the other] Henry Stuart's education at Trinity College, Oxford, and study to take holy orders. The letters also refer to the Radicals and the insurrection at Paisley, Renfrewshire, 'a Paisley weaver is venomous on terra firma. My old schoolfriend Col Thornhill who commands the Seventh Hussars at Glasgow infinitely preferred the Peninsular campaigns to his present harrassing and inglorious duty', April 1820 (L25/14, cf. L5/21 and P. Berresford Ellis and Seumas Mac a'Ghobhainn, The Scottish Insurrection of 1820 (London,1970), the death of Captain John Windsor Stuart in India, Oct. - Nov. 1826 (L31/66, 68, cf. L19/165) and a story in The Globe reporting the pensions received by peers and their families, a list headed by Lord Bute with £65,811, Aug. 1830 (L35/29). The bundles also include references to politics, electioneering and disturbances in Co. Waterford, Ireland, and Ireland generally, April 1822 - Sept. 1824 (L29/38, 48, 99), announcement of Henry Villiers Stuart's return as MP for Co. Waterford, Ireland, and his decision to stay aloof from political parties, June - July 1826 (L31/50, 54), disturbances on Slievegrieve Mountain, Co. Waterford, Ireland, April 1828, (L33/24 also enclosing a newspaper cutting of his post-electoral address to the constituents relating to the Subletting Act, 26, 29), German and Swiss reported to wonder at the exclusion of Catholics in Britain and Ireland, contrasted for example by the church of Heidelberg, where the Protestants and Catholics each occupy half, and the bell and organ are common property, July 1828 (L33/51), George William Finch Hatton, tenth earl of Winchelsea's opposition to Catholics, spurred on by his wife, Nov. 1828 (L33/64), anticipation of the Catholic Emancipation Bill in the King's Speech, Dec. 1828 (L33/66), resignation of Henry Villiers Stuart as MP for Co. Waterford, Ireland, April 1829 (L34/7), and a newspaper cutting of George Thomas Beresford's address to the constituents of Co. Waterford, Ireland, in the election against Henry Winston Barron, Nov. 1829 (L34/32).
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Preferred citation: L 25-35.