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LevelItem
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)KWH/Q/777
TitleLetter from Vernon, Poynton near Macclesfield, to Donald Currie
Extent1 item
Date1832
DescriptionEncloses £5 by Macclesfield note number1293, as a donation for the Chanticleer Hospital Ship
27 January 1832

[Geroge Vernon, 4th Baron Vernon (1779-1835). In 1832 a free grant was made by the Admiralty to establish the 'Chanticleer' as a hospital ship moored off Millbank as a refuge for Thames watermen : info from 'The Gentleman's Magazine']
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