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Autograph Letter Signed ‘Robeck’, to John Power, regretting that Indisposition will prevent a preliminary meeting “& also attending at the Cobourg Gardens”. 1 page 9 x 7 inches, in good condition, with the integral address leaf. Merrion Square, 15 May 1837. John Michael Henry Fock, 3rd Baron de Robeck (c. 1790 – 1856) lived in Ireland and was appointed High Sheriff of Kildare for 1834, High Sheriff of County Dublin for 1838 and High Sheriff of Wicklow for 1839. His marriage in 1820 to the Hon. Mary Lawless, daughter of Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry, became a subject of much gossip when she divorced him to marry Lord Sussex Lennox.