SIGNED BY THE MONARCH AND MACDONALD IN PLACE OF HIS PRIME MINISTER GEORGE V (1865-1936, King of Great Britain) & James Ramsay MACDONALD (1866-1937, Prime Minister)

Fine formal letter from the Prime Minister to the Monarch, with the King's autograph "appd G.R.I." and at the foot "J. Ramsay Macdonald" saying that in "the absence of the Prime Minister, the Lord President of the Council, with his humble duty to the King, respectfully recommends to Your Majesty the appointment of the Reverend Herbert Woodford Orton ... Vicar of All Hallows, Southwark, to the Vicarage of St George, Truro, vacant by the resignation of the Reverend Albert Palmer ...", 1 side 4to., 10 Downing Street headed paper, with the Prime Minister's stamp, 20th August

By the time of this document MacDonald's Physical and Mental health were in decline. He was aware of his fading powers, and in 1935 he agreed to a timetable with Baldwin to stand down as Prime Minister after King George V's Silver Jubilee celebrations in May 1935.

Item Date:  1935

Stock No:  40731      £525

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