Domestic Life: Supplies for the Poor
As Clerk to the Duke of Sutherland’s Accountant, Mr. Prentice was responsible for sending out cheques to Mrs. Ingram, the Housekeeper at Trentham, to pay for supplies and to pay the servant’s wages. On ...
Domestic Life: Visitors, Supplies and Staff
Many letters written to Mrs. Ingram, the Housekeeper at Trentham Hall, include details about the Sutherland family, household staff and the provision of supplies. In the letter above, Mr. Prentice, the ...
Duchess Harriet and Donations to Charity
Amongst the loose papers enclosed in volumes of Duchess Harriet's accounts and vouchers are receipts for the Duchess's subscriptions to local charities. One receipt dated October 10th 1856 is for ‘the ...
Duchess Harriet and Estate Business: Letters from Mr. Flemming the Gardener
Many letters amongst Duchess Harriet’s papers demonstrate her active role in the design, building and management of her estates.
In addition to numerous letters from the Leveson-Gower family's Chief ...
Duchess Harriet and Estate Business: The Scottish Estates
In addition to letters about life on the Trentham Estate in Staffordshire, Duchess Harriet also received correspondence from the Leveson-Gower family's Scottish estates, particularly from Dunrobin.
A ...
Duchess Harriet and the Household Diaries
One notable and ornate volume in the Sutherland Papers is a household and administrative diary for 1868. The diary itself was kept by Duchess Harriet’s household staff and records the Duchess’s activities ...
Duchess Harriet and the Royal Household: Mistress of the Robes to Queen Victoria
Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1806-1868), the second Duchess of Sutherland, was closely associated with the Royal Family and became a close friend of Queen Victoria (1819-1901). Her strong relationship ...
Duchess Harriet and William Gladstone, 1853
One of Duchess Harriet’s more notable correspondents was William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898). Gladstone is one of the most famous British Prime ministers, and was an influential political reformer in ...
Duchess Harriet's Accounts and Vouchers
The Sutherland Papers include a huge variety of documents relating to life in the Leveson-Gower family's households during the nineteenth century. Papers relating to Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1806-1868), ...
Duchess Harriet's Household: Tradesmen's Accounts
Amongst household accounts kept during Duchess Harriet's lifetime is an account book for ‘Cliveden Gardens’, for ‘R. Nicholson Tea & Italian Warehouse Maidenhead’.
One of these small volumes relates ...
Duchess Millicent's Papers in the Sutherland Papers Collection
Duchess Millicent was a prolific writer and much of her correspondence survives in the Sutherland Papers, including letters relating to her personal life. Her personal papers include letters from members ...
Duchess Millicent's Pets: Gingko the Pekinese Dog
Duchess Millicent was extremely fond of her pets, many photographs showing her posing with her dogs. However, it appears from her papers that the Duchess was particularly fond of her Pekinese dog Gingko, ...
Duke of Sutherland, Politician: The Third Duke & Politics
George Granville William, the third Duke of Sutherland, was an influential figure in local and national politics. In addition to his work with the Stafford House and Mansion House Committees, letters ...
Education in Codsall
A National School was established in Codsall in 1818. Supported by subscriptions and charitable donations, by 1833 the school was providing an education for forty five boys and sixty five girls, at a ...
Empire & Enterprise: Stafford House Committee & the Asia Minor Railway Scheme
In 1878 the Duke of Sutherland acted as President of a Committee at Stafford House which was called ‘An association for promoting the construction of a Railway from the Persian Gulf to Constantinople ...
Estate at Blakelow in the Parishes of Swynnerton and Stone
The nineteenth century plan above shows land at Blakelow in the Parishes of Swynnerton and Stone which belonged to 'the Feoffees of Old Swinford Hospital'.
The plan names the people who owned land ...
Estimate of Expenditure on Codsall, 1852
Extensive landowners in Staffordshire, the Leveson-Gower family employed estate agents to oversee the administration of their lands and properties. These agents kept many documents, including accounts ...
Farming in Tittensor
The image above shows an extract from the North Staffordshire Estate Cropping Book. The document records details of the agricultural holdings on the Duke of Sutherland’s North Staffordshire Estates, providing ...