GRESHAM COLLEGE GETS A NEW HOME CRANBROOK (Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1814-1906, Cabinet Minister, from 1878 Viscount Cranbrook, from 1892 1st Earl of)

Autograph Letter Signed to Lord Basing, saying "You will have seen the proposal to change 'Albert' to 'Gresham' in the name of the proposed teaching University ... If you and Lord Selborne assent there will be no occasion for a formal summons of the Committee ... Gresham College will find a habitation as well ... and attract the good will of the City with good pecuniary consequences ... As we have not laid the Charter on the tables of the Houses we are in a position to amend", 4 sides 8vo., Privy Council Office, 10th February a little light rusting

Lord Cranbrook was Home Secretary, 1867-1868, and Disraeli's Secretary of State for War, 1874-1878, and Lord President of the Council 1885-1892. The Gresham Professorships were endowed by Sir Thomas, founder of the Royal Exchange.

Item Date:  1892

Stock No:  19629      £75

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