Balfour of Balfour and Trenabie Papers
TitleBalfour of Balfour and Trenabie Papers
ReferenceD2/10/9
Date
1833 - 1836
Scope and ContentLetters to Thomas Balfour M.P., almost all 1835. Many concern his visit to Shetland and electioneering there in 1835. Includes:
1.[Professor] Thomas Stewart Traill, recommending the bearer, Mr Allan, a surgeon who had practised in South Ronaldsay and hoping that Balfour would be able to assist him in getting a position in India. N.d. c. 1834
2.Copy letter from Thomas Stewart Traill to Charles S Parker, Liverpool recommending the above Mr Allan for a position in Spanish America. 26 September 1834
3.Statement by 16 inhabitants of Eday that their signatures had been added by deception to a petition against the Established Church of Scotland in the belief that the petition had been directed against the Roman Catholics in Ireland. 9 March 1835
4.Similar statement by inhabitants of Rousay. March 1835
5.Charles Shirreff, Sheriff Substitute of Orkney, including a copy verdict of jury, 1826 as to weights and measures. 19 March 1835
6.W. Mouat, Annbrae, Shetland as to the bill for regulating Orkney and Shetland elections. 25 March 1835
7.Andrew Duncan, Lerwick as to Orkney and Shetland weights and measures. 8 April 1835
8.George Traill, M.P. - patronage in Customs and Excise with political implications, and as to possibility of Lord Dundas finding employment for Mr Cameron (W. Mouat Cameron of Gardie) which would be difficult "in consequence of Messrs Hay and Ogilvy being already so connected with the management of Lord Dundas's property in Zetland, that he will not be able to make another appointment without giving them cause of offence." ; interviews with Lord Althorp and John A Murray as to possibility of steamer mail service - proposal that Mr [Robert] Stevenson be sent to report. 12 July 1835
9.James Loch, M.P. as to Orkney mails. 19 August 1835
10.Revd J Bryden, Sandsting - "All my folks, man and woman kind, are keen Tories and I believe, in entertained opposite sentiments, I would be forced to join them for the sake of peace." 21 September 1835
11.W Mouat Cameron, Belmont, - "Dundas has been before you [to Shetland] but I do think there are very few votes that may be considered as free agents, by which I mean acting on political principles alone, independent of external circumstances. 24 September 1835
12.James Loch M.P., Dunrobin, - "Tomorrow I begin my annual tour of inspection of this County - about 210 miles of one property over roads that did not exist in 1829 - thence I go to my duties as a Railway Director at LiverpooL" 28 September & 7 October 1835
13.J H Maconochie, Meadowbank House - general Scottish election prospects; Balfour's friend Allan Maconochie to marry a Miss Wiggin, daughter of a rich American banker in London. 10 October 1835
14.Printed "Suggestions for placing two Liberal Members in the House of Commons, instead of one Tory, by obtaining for the Orkney and Shetland Islands their fair share in the Representation, - a separate member to each" - the case of the Shetland Islands as submitted to the Reform Association by Arthur Anderson. 26 October 1835
15.Printed circular - "Hints of a Plan by which a separate representative in Parliament may be obtained for Shetland." Arthur Anderson, 31 October 1835
1.[Professor] Thomas Stewart Traill, recommending the bearer, Mr Allan, a surgeon who had practised in South Ronaldsay and hoping that Balfour would be able to assist him in getting a position in India. N.d. c. 1834
2.Copy letter from Thomas Stewart Traill to Charles S Parker, Liverpool recommending the above Mr Allan for a position in Spanish America. 26 September 1834
3.Statement by 16 inhabitants of Eday that their signatures had been added by deception to a petition against the Established Church of Scotland in the belief that the petition had been directed against the Roman Catholics in Ireland. 9 March 1835
4.Similar statement by inhabitants of Rousay. March 1835
5.Charles Shirreff, Sheriff Substitute of Orkney, including a copy verdict of jury, 1826 as to weights and measures. 19 March 1835
6.W. Mouat, Annbrae, Shetland as to the bill for regulating Orkney and Shetland elections. 25 March 1835
7.Andrew Duncan, Lerwick as to Orkney and Shetland weights and measures. 8 April 1835
8.George Traill, M.P. - patronage in Customs and Excise with political implications, and as to possibility of Lord Dundas finding employment for Mr Cameron (W. Mouat Cameron of Gardie) which would be difficult "in consequence of Messrs Hay and Ogilvy being already so connected with the management of Lord Dundas's property in Zetland, that he will not be able to make another appointment without giving them cause of offence." ; interviews with Lord Althorp and John A Murray as to possibility of steamer mail service - proposal that Mr [Robert] Stevenson be sent to report. 12 July 1835
9.James Loch, M.P. as to Orkney mails. 19 August 1835
10.Revd J Bryden, Sandsting - "All my folks, man and woman kind, are keen Tories and I believe, in entertained opposite sentiments, I would be forced to join them for the sake of peace." 21 September 1835
11.W Mouat Cameron, Belmont, - "Dundas has been before you [to Shetland] but I do think there are very few votes that may be considered as free agents, by which I mean acting on political principles alone, independent of external circumstances. 24 September 1835
12.James Loch M.P., Dunrobin, - "Tomorrow I begin my annual tour of inspection of this County - about 210 miles of one property over roads that did not exist in 1829 - thence I go to my duties as a Railway Director at LiverpooL" 28 September & 7 October 1835
13.J H Maconochie, Meadowbank House - general Scottish election prospects; Balfour's friend Allan Maconochie to marry a Miss Wiggin, daughter of a rich American banker in London. 10 October 1835
14.Printed "Suggestions for placing two Liberal Members in the House of Commons, instead of one Tory, by obtaining for the Orkney and Shetland Islands their fair share in the Representation, - a separate member to each" - the case of the Shetland Islands as submitted to the Reform Association by Arthur Anderson. 26 October 1835
15.Printed circular - "Hints of a Plan by which a separate representative in Parliament may be obtained for Shetland." Arthur Anderson, 31 October 1835
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