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Autographs Post Office Audit Warrant 1814 (7 October) a warrant
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Post Office Audit Warrant
1814 (7 October) a warrant which reads, "After our hearty Commendations these are to authorize and require you to pass and allow in the Accounts of the Receiver General of the Post Office all such warrants as may be signed by the Earl of Chichester only until the Earl of Clancarty his Majesty's Irish Post Master General shall have returned to this country from the mission upon which he is at present employed: ..." and is signed "Liverpool" (Prime Minister), "N. Vansittart" (Chancellor of the Exchequer) and "Louther". At the foot of this page is the explanatory note, "Authority to Com. Audit to pass Warrants in accnts. of the Recr. Genrl. Post Office with only the Earl of Chichester Signature". Horizontal folds and some splitting of the paper. At this time there were, in effect, two Postmaster Generals; this practice ceased in 1823 when the Earl of Chichester became the sole P.M.G. Photo
Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770 –1828) was a British statesman and Prime Minister (1812–27).
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley (1766 – 1851) was an English politician, and one of the longest-serving Chancellors of the Exchequer in British history.
William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale (1787 – 1872), styled Viscount Lowther between 1807 and 1844, was a British Tory politician.
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester (1756 – 1826), styled The Honourable Thomas Pelham from 1768 until 1783, The Right Honourable Thomas Pelham from 1783 to 1801, and then known as Lord Pelham until 1805, was a British Whig politician. He notably held office as Home Secretary under Henry Addington from 1801 to 1803.
Richard Le Poer Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty, 1st Marquess of Heusden (1767 – 1837), styled The Honourable from 1797 to 1803 and then Viscount Dunlo to 1805, was an Irish peer, a nobleman in the Dutch nobility, and a diplomat. He was an Irish, and later British, Member of Parliament and a supporter of Pitt. Additionally he was appointed Postmaster General of Ireland, and later, of the United Kingdom.
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Post Office Audit Warrant
1814 (7 October) a warrant which reads, "After our hearty Commendations these are to authorize and require you to pass and allow in the Accounts of the Receiver General of the Post Office all such warrants as may be signed by the Earl of Chichester only until the Earl of Clancarty his Majesty's Irish Post Master General shall have returned to this country from the mission upon which he is at present employed: ..." and is signed "Liverpool" (Prime Minister), "N. Vansittart" (Chancellor of the Exchequer) and "Louther". At the foot of this page is the explanatory note, "Authority to Com. Audit to pass Warrants in accnts. of the Recr. Genrl. Post Office with only the Earl of Chichester Signature". Horizontal folds and some splitting of the paper. At this time there were, in effect, two Postmaster Generals; this practice ceased in 1823 when the Earl of Chichester became the sole P.M.G. Photo
Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770 –1828) was a British statesman and Prime Minister (1812–27).
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley (1766 – 1851) was an English politician, and one of the longest-serving Chancellors of the Exchequer in British history.
William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale (1787 – 1872), styled Viscount Lowther between 1807 and 1844, was a British Tory politician.
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester (1756 – 1826), styled The Honourable Thomas Pelham from 1768 until 1783, The Right Honourable Thomas Pelham from 1783 to 1801, and then known as Lord Pelham until 1805, was a British Whig politician. He notably held office as Home Secretary under Henry Addington from 1801 to 1803.
Richard Le Poer Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty, 1st Marquess of Heusden (1767 – 1837), styled The Honourable from 1797 to 1803 and then Viscount Dunlo to 1805, was an Irish peer, a nobleman in the Dutch nobility, and a diplomat. He was an Irish, and later British, Member of Parliament and a supporter of Pitt. Additionally he was appointed Postmaster General of Ireland, and later, of the United Kingdom.
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