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RC - Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Archive
H - Collections on Permanent Loan
1 - Prince Albert's Archive
8 - Volume VIII : August 1851 - October 1851
Ref No
RC/H/1/8/105
Title
17 Oct 1851 Col. Phipps to Prince Albert
Description
Copy of a letter from Col. Phipps to Prince Albert in which Col. Phipps expresses his displeasure at Lyon Playfair being made a Gentleman Usher. He describes Playfair as "a man of low birth, ordinary appearance and uncouth manners".
Date
17th October 1851
Format
Manuscript
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Dates
DS/UK/43
Phipps; Sir; Charles Beaumont (1801-1866); Knight, Lieutenant Colonel. official of Royal Household
1801-1866
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