Papers of Lord Granville Leverson-Gower, 1st Viscount Granville, 1st Earl Granville and Granville George Leverson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville (as filmed by the AJCP), 1822-1886

Component identifier:

Fonds PRO 30/29

Content Summary:

The papers selectively filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project are predominantly those of the 2nd Earl Granville relating to his service in the first three Gladstone Ministries.

Selected correspondence filmed concerns transportation of convicts, annexations in New Guinea, colonial appointments and other colonial matters such as Australian naval defence, war in Fiji. Additional papers of the 1st Earl Granville, include claims for expenses in search of Laperouse.

Dates used in the this finding aid refer to those of the records selected for filming by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) rather than to the date range of the original , Series or File.

Extent information:

239 items,

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