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From W. E. Gladstone   30 April 1881

30 April 1881

I take the liberty of informing you that there is a vacancy created in the Trust of the British Museum by the death of Lord Beaconsfield: and to say that I shall be very happy, if it be agreeable to your views, to suggest your name for the purpose of filling that vacancy.1

The electing Trustees will meet next week: and if you permit me to place your name before them I do not doubt that they will consider it an an advantageous opportunity for doing honour not more to you than to the Museum.

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Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield, had died on 19 April 1881. At this time, the museum had fifty trustees; the three principal trustees were the archbishop of Canterbury, the lord chancellor, and the speaker of the House of Commons (Thornbury and Walford [1878], 4: 495).

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