[GREY
(Charles, 1764-1845, 2nd Earl, Prime Minister of the Reform Bill)]
Group of 5 different engraved portraits, all half length,
by I.R.West (7½" x 5", London Magazine, Dec. 1820), R. Page from an original drawing, in peer's robes (5½" x 8¾", c. 1820), published by G. Smeeton (4¾" x 3", 15th November 1823), R. Hicks after T. Phillips (6½" x 4", pub. Fisher, 1831), and H. Cook after R. Scanlan, wearing the Garter Star (10¾" x 8", c. 1840), with a very interesting and searching printed account of his political life from 1786, 4 folio pages headed with Grey's arms and numbered [5]-8, c.
small defect in blank right margin of second portrait
Item Date:
1840
Stock No:
51297
£150
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THE INTRODUCTION OF TRAMS IN LONDON IN 1870
GREY
(Sir George, 2nd Baronet, 1799-1882, Statesman, Home Secretary under Russell and Palmerston)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to W. Booth Scott
thanking him for his letter and "the Report sent with it which I have read with much interest. It confirms strongly the opinion I expressed in the House of Lords that if tram ways are to be laid down in the streets they should be so by some public authority and not by private companies. Your sketch of a plan for that purpose seems to me on the whole judicious, only that I should doubt the expediency of creating a new board to take charge of tramways in the Metropolis We have too many independent authorities in London already, & it seems to me that the Metropolitan Board of works would be the proper authority to be entrusted with the duty of deciding what tram ways ought to be laid down & of making such as might be found to be proper. I think the whole charge of maintaining the ordinary roads in the streets along which tram ways are laid down ought to be undertaken by the authority which has charge of them. Your calculation seems to show that there would be more than profit enough ...", 4 sides 8vo., 13 Carlton House Terrace, 14th February
Item Date:
1870
Stock No:
40287
£175
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GREY
(Charles, 1764-1845, 2nd Earl, Prime Minister of the Reform Bill)
Fine Letter Signed to "My dear Graham"
saying that he owes "you the answer of Lord Hill, to my application in favour of the son of Commissioner Hill ...", with a note in another hand that "Lord Grey and Lord Hill's letters relating to J.E.D.H's Father in his early military career. 'Of great interest' ...", 1 side 8vo., no place, 29th August
Item Date:
1831
Stock No:
41615
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GREY
(Sir George, 2nd Baronet, 1799-1882, Statesman, Home Secretary under Russell and Palmerston)
Final page of a Licence to Plead Document Signed, addressed to William Whateley
saying that "Counsel for the said Petitioner in the trial of the said Indictment, We being graciously pleased to condescend to the Petitioner's Request do accordingly dispense with the said William Whateley and grant him Our Royal Licence and Authority to be of Counsel for the said Petitioner on the trial of the said Indictment as often as there shall be occasions. Given at Our Court at Saint James's ...", 1 side folio with endorsement on the verso, Court at St James's, 1st February
Item Date:
1850
Stock No:
40942
£150
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THE PRIME MINISTER URGING HIS FOLLOWERS TO SUPPORT THE REFORM BILL
GREY
(Charles, 1764-1845, 2nd Earl, Prime Minister of the Reform Bill)
Fine Letter Signed to "My Lord"
saying that "s the second Reading of the Bill for the Reform in Parliament is paid for Monday the 3rd of October, I most earnestly request Your Lordship's attendance. It is unnecessary for me to call Your Lordship's attention to the paramount importance of this Question or to remind Your Lordship how essential the presence of the Friends of the measure is on that day ...", 2 sides 4to., Downing Street, 29th September
blank top left hand corner neatly removed
Item Date:
1831
Stock No:
40999
£375
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