| Description | David Pugh of Llanerchydol, Welshpool, Montgom., M.P. for Montgomery. An entry of c.6 lines for each day. Domestic events; visitors - Lord Powis, Sir John Edwards. Quarter Sessions; Assizes at Newton; Magistrates' meetings; Turnpike meetings; Recorder's meeting; Gaol meeting; Railway meetings; Canal meeting; Savings Bank Committees; Pool Bible Society meetings. Hunting, Shooting and coursing at home; planting of trees. The Salop election. Pool fair. Frequent visits to London, Brief notes re House of Commons' business from 1848: divisions, motions and changes of government. Lord Palmerston's evening party; Fergus O'Connor; Gladstone's Budget of 1860. Social events in London. Balls, theatres, churches; funeral of Duke of Sussex. Epsom. The Great Exhibition. Notes of numbers of voters for Pugh and for Whalley at polling day, 10 July 1852. 1857. Miss Pugh's wedding to Lovell. 1849. Wedding of son with Miss Gosling, in Bath Abbey. Visits to France, Lake District, Scotland etc. Visit to Hannington, Cole Park, etc. His last illness.
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