Richard Dowden Papers Descriptive List

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U140/J/02/01/20

Date:

c1835

Level : item Title:

Circular letter

Extent: 2pp Scope and Content:

Printed circular letter, from 'a few friends of the liberal party', concerning the immediate steps necessary for the complete registration of the Irish constituencies. Suggests a general meeting in Dublin. Gives instructions. Reply to be sent to CJ French Esq. 6 Westmoreland Street Dublin. With 18 signatures including R Musgrave, Peter Purcell, William Murphy, Richard Caddell, and G. Ponsonby. (Similar to U140/J/02/01/19)

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U140/J/02/02

Date:

c1829 - c1856

Level : series Title:

Cork Corporation material kept by Richard Dowden Mayor/Alderman

Extent: 100 items Scope and Content:

Material (mainly printed MSS.) relating to Cork Corporation kept by Alderman Richard Dowden, who was also Mayor of Cork in 1845. Including petitions, notices of meetings and resolutions, circular letters, notices and cards canvassing for elections and jobs, list of freemen.

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U140/J/02/02/01

Date:

c1829, 1830

Level : file Title:

Petitions to Mayor

Extent: 2 items (2pp) Scope and Content:

1. c1829 MS. Petition to the Right Worshipful Thomas Pope Esq. Mayor of the City of Cork from 19 undersigned householders to request a meeting to consider the measure of establishing a police in the city. (1p)

2. 1830 Copy of petition to the Right Worshipful George Knapp, Mayor of the City of Cork, requesting a public meeting of the citizens of Cork, '...for the purpose of expressing their approbation of the last Revolution in France and....ardent gratitude and admiration to the heroic and enlightened patriots who achieved a victory so honourable to Frenchmen and so beneficial not only to their own country, but to all nations which aspire to free institutions'. (Note in pencil 'From Francis Bernard Beamish'). Signed by about 90 people including Herbert Baldwin MD, Richard Dowden, Francis Lyons, Daniel O'Connell MP, James Ludlow Stawell, William Crawford Jnr., John McCarthy, Richard Beamish. (This item refers to the Second French Revolution which saw the overthrow of King Charles 2nd). (2pp)

U140 Richard Dowden Papers Descriptive List