Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet to Hans Sloane – May 2, 1724
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Date: May 2, 1724 Author: Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047 Folio: ff. 172-173
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English
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British Library, London
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Charity, Patronage, Social
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Charter House, Recommendations
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May 2, 1724
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Hothfield
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Lord Pembroke
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Tufton recommends the bearer, a surgeon from Ashford, to Sloane. The man served Tufton for 20 years, but has been ill and fallen on hard times. Tufton asks Sloane to help him procure a place at Charter House and suggests Lord Pembroke might be able to help. He was worried when he heard that Sloane was sick. Thomas Tufton (1644-1729), 6th Earl of Thanet, was a nobleman and politician. He served as Captain of the Troop of Horse, Member of Parliament for Appelby from 1668 to 1679, and was eventually invested as a Privy Councillor in 1702. He was Lord-Lieutenant of Cumberland from 1712 to 1714 (G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ‘The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant’, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume III, page 297).
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