NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Durham, John George Lambton, Earl of, 1792-1840 NRA: Lambton John George (1792-1840) 1st Earl of Durham statesman DNB: Lambton, John George [nicknamed Radical Jack], first earl of Durham (1792-1840), politician LBT ID: LdDurha1 VIAF ID: 66437707 LOC ID: n50038653 | B/BAP: 1792-04-12 DIED: 1840-07-28 |
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After tutoring by Francis Hodgson and Thomas Beddoes and service in the dragoons he was a
Whig MP (1813-28) and governor of the British provinces in North America (1838). | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF John George Lambton, first earl of Durham [Radical Jack]: John George Lambton to Thomas Creevey, 15 November 1822 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) |