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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 52

Documents
Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge
1852 (25 November) folio A.L.S. to Count Colloredo from Horse Guards, marked "private" he writes, "Having sealed my letter to Baron Hesse, it appeared to me that Your Excellency ought to see it. I therefore annex a copy, requesting you to return it after perusal ..." and is signed "Hardinge"

Field Marshal Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge GCB, PC, PC (1785 – 1856) was a British Army officer and politician. After serving in the Peninsula War and the Waterloo Campaign he became Secretary at War in Wellington's ministry. After a tour as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1830 he became Secretary at War again in Sir Robert Peel's cabinet. He went on to be Governor-General of India at the time of the First Anglo-Sikh War and then Commander-in-Chief of the Forces during the Crimean War.

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Estimate
£80 to £100