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Auction: 14035 - Postal History, Autographs and Historical Documents
Lot: 3091

Historical Documents
Passports
1790-1824, a group of passports in the name of John Tarren (Gentleman) of London (born 1768) with 1790 British French passport with signatures including "Gower"; 1792 Ostende pass, 1792 Bruxelles pass signed "Elgin", 1792 German pass, 1792 large Dutch pass with handstamped signatures of Marie Christine, Princess Royal and Albert Prince Royal of Poland and Lithuania (before the couple fled to Vienna in 1793); also a group of 1817-24 French passes which include the travel stamps and endorsements on the reverse. There is also an embossed London Institution lecture ticket. A fine and very interesting group of an unusually well travelled gentleman. (10 items)

George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (1758 – 1833).
Known as Viscount Trentham from 1758 to 1786, as Earl Gower from 1786 to 1803 and as The Marquess of Stafford from 1803 to 1833, was a British politician, diplomat, landowner and patron of the arts. He is estimated to have been the wealthiest man of the 19th-century. He remains a controversial figure for his role in the Highland Clearances. Between 1790 and 1792 he was Ambassador to France, despite not having any previous diplomatic experience.

Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine (1766 - 1841) was a Scottish nobleman and diplomat, known for the removal of marble sculptures (also known as the Elgin Marbles) from the Parthenon in Athens. In 1791, he was sent as a temporary envoy-extraordinary to Austria, while Sir Robert Keith was ill. He was then sent as envoy-extraordinary in Brussels until the conquest of the Austrian Netherlands by France.


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Sale 14035 Notices
John Farran, not Tarren. He was Secretary to the East India Dock Company during the period of these travels. One of the French passports is signed by Chateaubriand