Letter 2407

John Sutherland, 16th Earl of Sutherland to Hans Sloane – July 8, 1720


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Date: July 8, 1720
Author: John Sutherland, 16th Earl of Sutherland
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: f. 338



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Sutherland has ‘become [Sloane’s] tennant for a ltle house’ and wants ‘to build [a] coach house and stables’. He hopes Sloane will be accommodating. Sutherland bought the house from Mr Hammond. John Sutherland, 16th Earl of Sutherland (bap. 1661, d. 1733) was an army officer and politician who fought the Jacobites during the Jacobite Rising, which earned him the Order of the Thistle and a large pension from George I (Henry Paton, Sutherland , John, sixteenth earl of Sutherland (bap. 1661, d. 1733), rev. Jonathan Spain, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11066, accessed 18 Aug 2011]).




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