Catalogue description Viscount Edward Cardwell: Papers
Reference: | PRO 30/48 |
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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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