Letters Patent creating Sir Robert Long, Auditor of the Exchequer, a Baronet on 21 May 1662.
Long , Sir , Robert , d 1673 , 1st Baronet , politicianLetter from William Lygon, Lord Beauchamp, of 13 Belgrave Square, London to Sir William Jameson Soulsby [private secretary to the Lord Mayor of London], 22 Jun 1914. Thanking him for his congratulations [on being made a Knight of the Garter].
Autograph, with signature.
Lygon , William , 1872-1938 , 7th Earl Beauchamp , politician x Beauchamp , 7th EarlLetter from William Cooke Taylor of the National Anti-Corn Law League, 67 Fleet Street, London to [John Lewis] Ricardo, [MP for Stoke-upon-Trent], 15 Mar 1844. Announcing that 'the Somerset House School of Design has given a very favourable hearing to the proposal for establishing a branch in the Potteries ... If you persevere in your design of offering a prize for model or pattern, which I believe would be of great value to your constitutents & certainly highly creditable to yourself, I would deem it a favour ... to announce your intention in one of my articles'. Autograph, with signature.
Taylor , William Cooke , 1800-1849 , historian and journalist