Political papers

Item author: John Wodehouse, first Earl of Kimberley
Item date: 1862 - 1902
Grant Value: 4,000
Item cost: 48,000
Item date acquired: 1991
Item institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

Official papers of Wodehouses fifty years service in government, together with a five volume journal of particular interest for events during the Gladstone ministry 1868 - 74. The official correspondence relates to his time as Secretary of State for the Colonies and for India and during his time as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1864-6