- Miscellaneous/Box 7/DA5/10
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- 12 June 1854
Part of Miscellaneous Papers
Informs Palmerston that before giving up the seals of the Colonial Office that morning, he had passed on the recommendation that Sir John Davis be awarded the Commander's Cross of the civil order of the Bath, and that the Queen had approved the recommendation. He feels that the award is justly merited.
Clinton, Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham- (1811-1864) fifth Duke of Newcastle under Lyme