Mr. Goodwin’s Notes on the General Election & Scrutiny in Lichfield, 1761
The Sutherland Papers include a small volume entitled ‘Mr. Goodwin’s Notes’ which were made by Mr. Goodwin concerning the General Election and Scrutiny at Lichfield in 1761.
Goodwin’s book provides ...
No.9 Red Cross Hospital: The Carrell-Dakin Method
In addition to her Ambulance work, Duchess Millicent established a Tent Hospital, first at Malo-les-Bains near Dunkirk and then at Bourbourg. In October 1915 the Duchess was requested to transfer her ...
Overseas Aid to English Soldiers: The Stafford House South African Aid Committee
In 1879 a Committee was established at Stafford House to provide aid for English soldiers fighting in the Zulu War. The Sutherland Papers include many documents relating to the Committee's work. In addition ...
Poll Books: Voters and the Newcastle Elections, 1790 and 1792
The Sutherland Papers include printed poll books for the elections at Newcastle-under-Lyme in the early 1790s. A document entitled ‘A Copy of the Poll taken at the Borough of Newcastle-Under-Lyme in the ...
Preparing for Invasion: The Threat of Spanish Invasion!
Sir John Leveson’s papers include a great deal of official correspondence written to the Lord Lieutenant of Kent, William, Lord Cobham. This letter dated 2nd April 1588 addressed to Cobham from the Privy ...
Problems with Voters & Property
Amongst the papers relating to Lichfield elections in the 1740s and 1750s are a number of documents providing details about the people who voted in the Lichfield elections.
One document concerns the ...
Prohibition on Illegal Butter
Amongst the papers relating to England’s food supply in time of war are pamphlets refering to a Parliamentary Bill ‘to amend the law with regard to the sale of adulterated butter’.
The Bill appears ...
Public House Bills
Many of the bills in the Election Accounts relate to payments owed to Public Houses. The bills tell us about the importance of local pubs in the Lichfield elections and the services provided by these ...
Rejected Votes and Rejected Voters
The Sutherland Papers include a report produced by Mr. Lowndes entitled ‘Cases of Persons who Tendered their Votes for Gower & Macdonald and were Rejected’. The document details specific cases where people ...
Rejected Votes, Rejected Voters: Who couldn’t vote in late eighteenth century local elections?
When the Returning Officer scrutinised the votes cast at the poll he examined whether the people voting were actually eligible to vote in the Newcastle local elections. Voting rights were very restrictive ...
Running an Election Campaign in the 1790s: Mr. Massey’s Accounts for the Newcastle Election, 1790
Mr. Massey was an election agent working for Gower and Macdonald in the Newcastle election campaign of 1790. His detailed accounts for the election expenses tell us how an election campaign was organised ...
Shock and Controversy: Gower Quits!
The letters sent to Lord Gower - George Granville Leveson-Gower (1721-1833), Marquis of Stafford, - by people declining to support him at the Staffordshire Election suggest that the countywide popularity ...
Sir Thomas Gower and the Siege of Hull, 1642
A number of Sir Thomas Gower’s letters are addressed to his wife’s uncle Sir Richard Leveson (1598-1661) and John Langley, Sir Richard’s steward at Trentham. Many of these letters discuss military and ...
The Battle of Hopton Heath, Staffordshire
Amongst the correspondence of Sir Richard Leveson is an account of the famous battle of Hopton Heath which took place on 19th March 1643. This battle was extremely important for Staffordshire’s Royalist ...
The Clearances
During the early nineteenth century James Loch, the chief agent of the Leveson-Gower family attempted to improve the economy of the family’s highland estates in Sutherland from the bare subsistence ...
The Duke of Sutherland and Education in North Staffordshire
In October 1905 the fourth Duke of Sutherland, Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1851-1913) wrote to the Chairman of the Education Committee for Staffordshire County Council with a generous offer involving ...
The Duke of Sutherland and the Federation of the Six Towns
From as early as the eighteenth century ideas of uniting the six North Staffordshire towns of Stoke-upon-Trent, Longton, Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, and Tunstall had been considered by North Staffordshire ...
The Duke of Sutherland and the Pollution of the River Trent
The Sutherland family were extremely concerned about the pollution to the River Trent which was caused by sewage from the Potteries towns. An article from the Staffordshire Sentinel on January 11th 1908 ...