The Duke of Sutherland & Inquiries into the Federation of the Six Towns

Description:One article refers to the evidence given by the Duke himself at the Inquiry about the Federation in 1908. The document reports that the Duke promoted ‘a complete and as fair a scheme as possible’. The account mentions the ‘injunctions’ which the third and fourth Dukes had issued against the Potteries towns ‘with respect to the pollution of the Trent’. The Duke argued that federation would cause attention to be focussed on ‘the question of river pollution’ amongst the towns as a whole, adding that improvements were ‘of vital importance to the health of people’.