IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0113 MS-GEORG
Held at: Royal College of Physicians
Title: TOWNSHEND, Thomas (1st Viscount Sidney)
Date(s): 1788-1886
Level of description: Collection
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 AND 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
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased from Chas. J. Sawyer Ltd. Booksellers. MS 3011/45 donated by A. Forbes Sieveking, 26 March 1890.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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