PALMERSTON (Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount, 1739-1802, Politician and father of the Prime Minister), William LYTTELTON (1st Baron, Baron Westcote, 1724-1808, Politiican and Colonial Administrator) and John BULLER (1745-1793, Politician particularly active in Cornwall)

Their Signatures on a fragment of a document 6½” x 2½”, Hardwicke, 4th August

In 1760, Lyttelton was appointed Governor of Jamaica, but he was recalled to England after he lost a standoff with the Jamaican House of the Assembly, and its leader, Nicholas Bourke, over who should stand costs for the island's defence. He was appointed envoy-extraordinary to Portugal in 1766. He was raised to the Irish peerage in 1776 as Baron Westcote

Item Date:  1781

Stock No:  42353      £30

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