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Macdonald, Sir John Alexander, (1815-1891), Knight, Prime Minister of Canada

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Surname: Macdonald
Pretitle: Sir
Forenames: John Alexander
Gender: Male
Date: 1815-1891
Biography: ODNB link for Macdonald, Sir John Alexander (1815-1891) Knight Prime Minister of Canada
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P161467 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P18326 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir John Alexander Macdonald
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1879-83: letters to the 9th Duke of Argyll
Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland
NRAS1209/951
NRA 9955 Campbell
2
1878-1884: letters to the 9th Duke of Argyll
Library and Archives Canada
MG27 IB4
See HMC Papers of British colonial governors 1782-1900, 1986, p9.
3
1878-80: corresp with Sir Michael Hicks-Beach
Gloucestershire Archives
D2440
NRA 3526
4
1872-81: corresp with Lord Kimberley
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Eng a 2013-14, b 2047-49, c 3933-4514, d 2439-92, e 2790-97
NRA 1274 Wodehouse
5
1888-91: correspondence of with 16th Earl of Derby
Cambridge University: Parker Library, Corpus Christi College
NRA 11916 Stanley
6
1866: letters to Lord Monck
National Library of Ireland
MSS 27,017-27,022
NRA 26697 Monck
7
1872-78: corresp with Lord Dufferin
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)
D1071
NRA 5700 Blackwood
8
1871: corresp with Lord Ripon
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 43623-24