Search Results: Titles starting with D from Julian Browning Rare Books & Manuscripts

Government House, Brisbane, 1 December 1880. Vellum 12 x 17 inches, folded, in very good clean condition, Queensland seal affixed. Frederick Waymouth Gibbs (1821-1898), Barrister and tutor to Edward VII. William Hemmant (1837-1916, see Australian Dictionary of Biography) had alleged agency scandals in the purchase of railway lines and in contracts for the conveyance of immigrants.Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy GCMG CB (1809–1883), colonial administrator who served as governor of a number of British colonies, namely Sierra Leone, Western Australia, Vancouver Island, Hong Kong and Queensland. Sir Arthur Hunter Palmer (1819–1898), politician and pastoralist in Australia, Premier of Queensland (1870-74).

14 May 1675. 1 page 12 x 8 inches, wormholes. John Williams (1636-1709), Bishop of Chichester, was instituted to the rectory of St. Mildred’s Poultry in 1673. He was Boyle lecturer in 1696. A collective edition of his sermons appeared in 1708. Williams was well known as a controversialist, writing pamphlets against Roman Catholics and against dissenters.

Halifax, 18 April 1826. Vellum, 12 x 6½ inches, wafer seal affixed, vertical folds, in good condition. Sampson Salter Blowers (1742 –1842), noted North American lawyer and jurist. He was educated in Boston and at Harvard College, then went on to study law. Blowers is probably most noted as one of the defence attorneys representing the soldiers accused after the Boston Massacre, along with such notables as John Adams and Josiah Quincy Jr. In 1783, he went to Halifax, Nova Scotia. The following year, he was appointed attorney general for New Brunswick but refused the post, not wanting to relocate his family. Later that year, he was named attorney general for Nova Scotia. In 1785, he was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly for Halifax County and was chosen to be speaker for the assembly. In 1788, he was named to Nova Scotia's Council. In his later years, he served as Chief Justice of Nova Scotia for 36 years, from 1797 to 1832. Blowers was also judge in the vice admiralty court… Read More

Our Court at Saint James’s, 15 May 1914. 3 pp. 13 x 8 inches, royal wafer seal affixed, in good condition, clean tear at centre fold. Together with a printed copy of the Commission. King George V (reigned 1910-1935). The Dormant Commission was prepared for use in the event of the absence from South Africa of Viscount Buxton, High Commissioner.