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Macartney | George | 1737-1806 | 1st Earl Macartney | diplomatist and colonial governor

 Person

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Additional papers of George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney

 Collection
Additional papers of George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737-1806) relating to his governorship of Fort St. George, Madras (India), 1781-6, and his embassy to China, 1792-4
Extents: 0.85 Linear metres (5 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1757-99

Archive of George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, as governor and president of Fort St. George, Madras

 Collection
Archive of George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, as governor and president of Fort St. George, Madras, 1762-1790.
Extents: 2.52 Linear metres (24 boxes)
Dates: 1762-1790

Archive of Wyndham Damer Clark

 Collection
Archive of Wyndham Damer Clark (1884-1961)
Extents: 10.80 Linear metres (158 boxes)
Dates: 1757-1919

Cape Colony Letters

 Collection
Letters written from Cape Colony. Correspondents include Sir Henry Barkly, Robert Brooke, Sir William Eyre, George Macartney, Sir Rawson William Rawson and Sir Richard Southey. Also included are 81 letters from Robert White to his uncle, Robert Godlonton, both partners in the firm of Godlonton, White & Co., printers, publishers and stationers of Graham's Town.
Extents: 2 Volumes
Dates: 1795-1880

Correspondence of George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, whilst Governor of Grenada, the Grenadines and Tobago

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS.W.Ind.s.9
Official correspondence between Macartney (as Governor-in-Chief of Grenada, the Grenadines and Tobago) and Admiral John Byron, Admiral Samuel Barrington, and the naval and military officers in the West Indies, relating to operations against the French.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: 1767-1806

Correspondence of George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, whilst Governor of the Cape of Good Hope

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The correspondence consists of: Official letter-book of Macartney whilst Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, comprising his entire correspondence with people connected with the government at the Cape, 8 May 1797 to 20 November 1798 (reference: MSS.Afr.t.2) Original entry book of letters addressed to various Statesmen, Admirals, Generals, Governors, on affairs of state, 9 February 1797 to...
Extents: 4 Volumes
Dates: 1797-1798, 1801

Letters to George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, whilst Governor of the Cape of Good Hope (microfilm)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: Micr.Afr.511
Letter-book into which have been inserted letters from Britain to the Cape, 1797-1798, mainly instructions to Macartney. Microfilm.
Extents: 1 item
Dates: 1797-1798