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The Eclectic Collector · 17 September 2016
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1834 (March 19) Letter from Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland rejecting a
plea for mercy.
A three page letter to Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley (1799-1869), in a secretarial hand and signed by
Wellesley. Edmond Dwyer was convicted at the 13 March 1834 sitting of the Limerick Assizes of the violation of
Brigid Carey, and was executed by hanging.
Born in 1760 in Dangan in Co. Meath, Richard Colley Wellesley rose to become both governor of Madras and
governor-general of Bengal (both 1797 1805). He greatly enlarged the British Empire in India. He was lord
lieutenant of Ireland (1821-28, 1833-34) and was a staunch supporter of Catholic Emancipation, in contrast to his
brother Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington, with whom he had a difficult relationship.
Estimate €200-€400 £170-£340
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 2223
1836 Return of Loan Fund Societies for county of Carlow and two letters relating to the regulation of Friendly
Societies in Ireland.
The financial return listing the names and addresses of the officers of the eight Loan Fund Societies in Co. Carlow,
and the amounts guaranteed by their sureties . The letters to the Cumberland Philantropic and Friendly Societies
seeking their ‘Return of Sickness and Mortality’. (3)
Estimate €150-€200 £130-£170
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 23