TOWNSHEND, Thomas (1st Viscount Sidney)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0113 MS-GEORG
Held at	: Royal College of Physicians   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/archive-and-historical-library-collections ›
Full title	: TOWNSHEND, Thomas (1st Viscount Sidney)
Date(s)	: 1788-1886
Level of description	: fonds
Extent	: 62 files
Name of creator(s)	: Townshend | Thomas | 1733-1800 | first Viscount Sydney | politician

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1733; educated: Eton College, 1748; Clare College, Cambridge, 1750-1753. MP for Whitchurch, 1754; clerk to the household of the Prince of Wales, 1756; Clerk of the Board of Green Cloth, 1760; Paymaster-General of the Forces, 1767-1768; left office and was to remain in opposition for the next fourteen years, 1768; opposition candidate for Speaker, 1770; Secretary at War, 1782; Home Office, 1782-1783; Home Secretary, 1783; left office 1789; created Viscount Sydney, 1789; Chief Justiceship in Eyre, south of the Trent, 1789-; Deputy Lieutenant of Kent, 1793-; died, 1800.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Letters and papers relating to the 'madness' of King George III, 1788-1886.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Unknown

Conditions governing access:

Open for consultation, unless otherwise indicated.

Conditions governing reproduction:

All requests should be referred to the Archivist.

Finding aids:

Available at the Royal College of Physicians.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased from Chas. J. Sawyer Ltd. Booksellers. MS 3011/45 donated by A. Forbes Sieveking, 26 March 1890.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Imported from the RCP's Adlib catalogue; edited by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Oxford DNB.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Aug 2008