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No. 10, Downing street, Whitehall ; its history and associations

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No. 10, Downing street, Whitehall ; its history and associations / By Charles Eyre Pascoe. The illustrations in colour, and other sketches, by Charles E. Flower.
Author
Pascoe, Charles Eyre.
Publication
London : Duckworth, 1908.

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Description
ix, 344 pages, color plates : color frontispiece, illustrations (including plans), portraits; 25 cm
Subject
  • Number 10 Downing Street (London, England)
  • Streets > London
  • Prime ministers > Great Britain
  • Whitehall (London, England)
Note
  • Title vignette.
Contents
Introductory.--The builder: Who was George Downing? Downing's career dissected.--The street: The beginnings of Whitehall. The beginnings of Downing street. "His Majesty's house called the Cockpit." Office of first lord of the Treasury.--The house: No. 10. Some of the rooms. A cabinet-room colloquy. Reverie.--Some past associations: Note. Prime ministers from 1735. Walpole, Wilmington and North. The Pitts, father and son. Fox and Grey. Melbourne, Peel, and others. Palmerston, Beaconsfield, Gladstone.--Conclusion.--Historical notes.--Index.
LCCN
08012584
OCLC
ocm02890546
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries