Catalogue description Viscount Edward Cardwell: Papers

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Details of PRO 30/48
Reference: PRO 30/48
Title: Viscount Edward Cardwell: Papers
Description:

Viscount Cardwell's documents include semi-official letters and papers which accumulated while he was at the War Office.

Date: 1834-1911
Related material:

See also the private and private office papers in Division within BT

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Not Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Edward Cardwell, Viscount Cardwell, 1813-1886

Physical description: 54 box(es)
Immediate source of acquisition:

in July 1947 from 1947.

Guy Fanshawe, 1947-1947 in July 1947 from 1947.

Winifred Rycroft, 1947-1947 in July 1947 from 1947.

Administrative / biographical background:

Lord Cardwell was secretary for war from 1868 to 1874. During that time he undertook far-reaching reforms in the organisation of the British Army.

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