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TENNENT
(Sir James Emerson, 1804-1869, Traveller and Politician)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to George PHILLIPS
(1804-1892, Churchman and Academic) thanking him for his most kind invitation, & to say that I shall make my arrangements conformably to your wish; so as to reach Cambridge by the 6.42 train... with a long postscript asking to add to your kind attentions by letting me know, in what dress I should present myself - whether in plain black with the star of the order of Knighthood or whether I should wear the official uniform blue & gold. My own feeling is in favour of plain black; but of course my wish is to do what ever is customary & becoming..., 2 sides 8vo., with original autograph envelope signed, London, 26th May
Item Date: 1862
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Background
Phillips was an orientalist and mathematician. He was also the Rector of Sandon, Essex, the President of Queens' College, Cambridge, from 1857 until his death and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University from 1861 to 1862. Tennent was a Conservative Member of the United Kingdom Parliament for the Irish seats of Belfast and of Lisburn, and a resident Colonial Secretary in Ceylon. Opposed to the restoration of a parliament in Dublin, his defence of Ireland's union with Great Britain emphasised what he conceived as the liberal virtues of British imperial administration. In Ceylon, his policies in support of the growing plantation and wage economy met with peasant resistance in the Matale Rebellion of 1848. In recognition of his encyclopaedic surveys of the colony, in 1862 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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