Introduction. Listed below are some of the largest donations given to the British Relief Association to help alleviate famine in Ireland.

Source. Charles Edward Trevelyan, The Irish Crisis (London 1848) 86–7.

The amount contributed through the British Association was £263,251. The following are some of the most remarkable contributions:–

Her Majesty the Queen—£2,000

H.R.H. Prince Albert— £500

H.M. the Queen Dowager—£1,000

His Majesty the King of Hanover—£1,000

His Imperial Highness the Sultan— £1,000

The East India Company—£1,000

The Corporation of the City of London—£1,000

The Bank of England—£1,000

The Duke of Devonshire—£1,000

The Worshipful Co. of Grocers—£1,000

An Irish landlord, for Skibbereen—£1,000

Manchester and Salford Committee—£7,785

Newcastle and Gateshead Committee—£3,902

Hull Committee—£3,800

Leeds Committee—£2,500

Huddersfield Committee—£2,103

Wolverhampton—£1,838

York Committee£1,770

Cambridge University and Town—£2,706

Oxford University and City— £1,770

Proceeds of a ball given in Florence—£891 17s. 2d

St Petersburg—£2,644

Constantinople—£620

English Church in Amsterdam—£561

Parish priests in Denmark— £504

Malta and Gozo— £720

British Guiana—£3,000

House of Assembly, Nova Scotia—£2915

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