HL Deb 30 June 1879 vol 247 cc930-1
LORD WINMARLEIGH

asked the Lord President of the Council, Whether the Government have decided on the advice which shall be given to Her Majesty with regard to the institution of a new University in accordance with a Memorial recently presented to Her Majesty?

THE DUKE OF RICHMOND AND GORDON

replied, that a Memorial had been presented to the Queen in Council, praying that Her Majesty might be graciously pleased to grant a Charter for a Northern University, to be called the Victoria University, and that the advice of Her Majesty's Government was, that Her Majesty be pleased to grant the prayer of the Memorialists.