---- William Thompson, Archbishop of, iv. 473.
---- Edward Vernon Harcourt, Archbishop of, vi. 360.
---- H. R. H. Victoria Mary, Duchess of, vi. 353, 516.
Yorke, Hon. Alexander, iv. 250, 251; v. 222.
----Frances Graham, Mrs. Dallas, vi. 475.
---- Hon. Eliot, iv. 288-290, 410.
Yorke, Annie de Rothschild, Hon. Mrs. Eliot, iv. 410.
Z.
Zanzibar, the Sultan of, iv. 328.
Zermatt, i. 460.
Zouche, Robert Curzon, Lord de la, vi. 296.
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] J. Greenleaf Whittier, “Letters.”
[2] I had to pay a duty of 10 per cent, even on all my own money and
savings, as it had been unfortunately invested in her name.
[3] Archibald, eldest son of John Archibald Colquhoun of Killermont,
N.B., and Chartwell, near Westerham, in Kent.
[4] Archie Colquhoun died at Nice in the following spring.
[5] From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”
[6] These rooms have been entirely altered since Lady Waterford’s death.
[7] Mary Amelia, widow of the first Marquis.
[8] Daughter of the 5th Earl of Balcarres.
[9] James Edward, 2nd Earl.
[10] Afterwards Dean of Wells.
[11] The picture was exhibited in the spring of 1845, and was sent
straight to Hurstmonceaux from the Exhibition.
[12] Our cousins Sir Alexander and Lady Taylor. See vol. iii.
[13] The Rev. Henry Liddell, brother of my great-uncle Ravensworth, and
whose wife, Charlotte Lyon, was niece of my great-grandmother, Lady Anne
Simpson.
[14] Don Juan died in 1880, leaving his last great work, the restoration
of Leon Cathedral, unfinished.
[15] This was my first meeting with Everard Primrose, afterwards for
many years one of my most intimate friends. He had a cold manner, which
was repellant to those who did not know him well, and in conversation he
was tantalising, for nothing came out of him at all comparable to what
one knew was within. But no young man’s life was more noble, stainless,
and full of highest hopes and purposes. He died--to my lasting
sorrow--of fever during the African campaign of 1885. His mother printed
a memoir afterwards, which was a beautiful and simple portrait of his
life--a very model of biographical truth.
[16] It has since been entirely destroyed.
[17] From “Paris.”
[18] W. S. Landor.
[19] Dr. Chalmers.
[20] Wordsworth.
[21] For these old friends of my mother, _vide_ vols. i. and iii.
[22] This dear old lady (widow of a first cousin of my father’s) lived
in uncomplaining poverty till 1891, and was a great pleasure to me. I
was glad to be able to contribute to the support of her small
establishment at Norbiton.
[23] Since this was written the pictures have all been dispersed.
[24] From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”
[25] Mrs. T. Erskine’s novel.
[26] George Macdonald.
[27] Lady Margaret Beaumont, whom I afterwards knew very intimately, and
learnt to regard with ever-increasing esteem and affection, died, to my
great sorrow, March 31, 1888.
[28] Afterwards Lieutenant-General Henry Hope Crealock. He died May
1891.
[29] The Mote has since been sold and its contents dispersed.
[30] Mr. Hailstone of Walton Hall died 1890, his wife some years
earlier. He bequeathed his topographical collections to the Chapter at
York, where they are preserved as the “Hailstone Yorkshire Library.”
[31] This church, the most interesting memorial of the Brontë life at
Haworth, was wantonly destroyed in 1880-81.
[32] Lady Salisbury’s description.
[33] Told me by Lord Houghton.
[34] _Note added 1890._--Authorities now decide that this picture does
not represent Mary at all, and it is certainly not, as formerly stated,
by Zucchero, for Zucchero, who was never in England till the Queen was
in captivity, never painted her.
[35] Afterwards Lady Sherbrooke.
[36] This was so for a long time. Then in about ten years several more
editions were called for in rapid succession. One can never anticipate
how it will be with books.
[37] 1890.--This was so for many years: then the sale of “Days near
Rome” suddenly and unaccountably stopped.
[38] From “Days near Rome”
[39] Miss Margaret Foley died Dec. 1877.
[40] Afterwards Lady Compton.
[41] From “Days near Rome.”
[42] From “Days near Rome.”
[43] Perhaps the interest of these details is of the past, but I insert
them because the conduct of the Sardinian Government is being rapidly
forgotten, and I was at great pains in obtaining accurate statistics and
verifying the facts mentioned.
[44] From “Days near Rome.”
[45] Afterwards Duchess of Marino.
[46] Mother of the Duchess S. Arpino.
[47] Shortly before this my publishers had given me a magnificently
bound copy of “Walks in Rome,” with the desire that I would present it
to Princess Margherita. I demurred to doing this, because, owing to the
strictures which the book contains on the “Sardinian Government,” I
thought it might be considered little less than an impertinence; but I
told the Duchess S. Arpino, who was in waiting at the time, and she
repeated it. The amiable Princess said, “I am sorry Mr. Hare does not
appreciate us, but I should like my present all the same,” and the book
was sent to her.
[48] From “Days near Rome.”
[49] From “Days near Rome.”
[50] This quaint journey is described in the introductory chapter of
“Days near Rome.”
[51] From “Days near Rome.”
[52] From “Days near Rome.”
[53] From “Days near Rome.”
[54] From “Days near Rome.”
[55] From “Days near Rome.”
[56] From “Days near Rome.”
[57] From “Days near Rome.”
[58] Miss Kate Malcolm, the last of her family, died, universally
beloved, in May 1891.
[59] From “Northern Italy.”
[60] From “Northern Italy.”
[61] Samuel Wilberforce.
[62] Rev. Hugh Pearson, Rector of Sonning.
[63] The house of William Wickham, who married my cousin Sophia Lefevre.
[64] In 1884 this fine old property of the Needhams was sold to A. P.
Heywood Lonsdale, Esq. (now Heywood), who is also owner of the
neighbouring estate of Cloverly.
[65] This old friend of my childhood died Dec. 1890, in her 99th year.
[66]
“Andrew, she has a face looks like a story,
The story of the heavens looks very like her.”
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, _The Elder Brother_.
[67] From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”
[67] Afterwards Lady Harcourt.
[69] This is much like the epitaph which Ruskin has placed on the grave
of his father.
[70] A rich farmer, the landlord of our Lime farm at Hurstmonceaux.
[71] Mrs. Harford of Blaise Castle, third daughter of Baron de Bunsen.
[72] From “Northern Italy.”
[73] From “Northern Italy.”
[74] From “Northern Italy.”
[75] Beatrice, afterwards the first wife of Charles Stuart Wortley.
[76] From “Days near Rome.”
[77] From “Days near Rome.”
[78] From “Days near Rome.”
[79] From “Days near Rome.”
[80] From “Days near Rome.”
[81] From “Days near Rome.”
[82] From “Days near Rome.”
[83] From “Days near Rome.”
[84] From “Days near Rome.”
[85] From “Days near Rome.”
[86] Daughter of Lord Howard de Walden, afterwards Duchess of Sermoneta.
[87] From “Days near Rome.”
[88] This excellent old Abbot was afterwards cruelly murdered at Rome.
[89] From “Days near Rome.”
[90] From “Days near Rome.”
[91] From “Florence.”
[92] _All_ the women have fainted.
[93] Sermon on Ezekiel.
[94] From “Northern Italy.”
[95] From “North-Eastern France.”
[96] Afterwards known as “Sunday Hill.”
[97] Fanny Blackett, Vicomtesse du Quaire, who died, universally beloved
and regretted, in the spring of 1895.
[98] Feb. 8, 1814.
[99] Hon. E. Primrose, second son of the Duchess of Cleveland by her
first marriage with Lord Dalmeny.
[100] Cambry.
[101] From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”
[102] From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”
[103] Eighth daughter of the 7th Earl of Wemyss. She died, deeply
mourned and beloved, in 1891.
[104] Author of “Rab and his Friends.”
[105] Daughter of the 8th Earl of Cavan, afterwards Baroness von Essen.
[106] From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”
[107] From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”
[108] John, second Duke of Argyll, immortalised by Pope.
[109] Author of “Music and Morals,” &c.
[110] From “Walks in London.”
[111] From “Walks in London.”
[112] From “Days near Paris.”
[113] This was my first sight of the contentious and arbitrary essayist
Abraham Hayward, whom I often saw afterwards. He was always interesting
to meet, if only on account of his perverse acerbity. Constantly invited
by a world which feared him, he was always determined to be listened to,
and generally said something worth hearing.
[114] From “Walks in London.”
[115] From “Walks in London.”
[116] Lady Victoria Liddell married Captain Edward Fisher, now Rowe.
[117] John FitzPatrick, Baron Castletown of Upper Ossory.
[118] From “Walks in London.”
[119] Emily, wife of the 5th Earl Stanhope, died Dec. 31, 1873.
[120] Evelyn Henrietta, daughter of R. Pennefather, Esq., afterwards 6th
Countess Stanhope.
[121] Daughter of Amos Meredith, Esq. She married, secondly, a son of
the 4th Duke of Argyll.
[122] Lady Harriet Pelham, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Chichester, wife
of the 6th Earl of Darnley.
[123] Tasso.
[124] My real mother’s youngest sister Jane (see vol. i.). She married
Edward, only son of the famous Lord Edward FitzGerald and of the
beautiful Pamela. She lived till November 1891.
[125] The family circle was broken up by the death of Mr. Carew in 1888,
a few months after that of his eldest daughter.
[126] I learnt to value Dean Church very much afterwards. The story of
his beautiful and noble life is told in a wonderfully interesting
“Memoir.”
[127] William, afterwards 4th Earl of St. Germans, died Oct. 7, 1877.
[128] Edward Granville, 3rd Earl of St. Germans, died 1877.
[129] George, second son of the 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, married
Fanny Lucy, eldest daughter of Sir John Shelley.
[130] Sophia, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire.
[131] Hugh, 3rd Earl Fortescue.
[132] The Queen of the Gipsies died in July 1883, at the age of
eighty-six.
[133] Her mother, Lady Stuart de Rothesay, was daughter of the 3rd Earl
of Hardwicke.
[134] Charles, 3rd Earl of Somers.
[135] George Guy Greville, 4th Earl of Warwick, died Dec. 2, 1893.
[136] I afterwards heard the same story, almost in the same words, from
Lord Warwick himself.
[137] from “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”
[138] From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”
[139] Bk. vi. 73, 74.
[140] Anne, wife of the 4th Earl of Warwick, daughter of Francis, 8th
Earl of Wemyss and March.
[141] My mother’s first cousin, Georgiana Liddell, had married Lord
Bloomfield, formerly ambassador at Berlin and Vienna.
[142] From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”
[143] I have heard Professor Owen tell this story himself.
[144] Louisa, fourth daughter of 2nd Earl of Lucan.
[145] John Patrick, 3rd Marquis of Bute.
[146] Gwendoline Mary-Anne, eldest daughter of Lord Howard of Glossop.
[147] Prior.
[148] Sir Hedworth and Lady Elizabeth Williamson. The parents of both
were first cousins of my mother.
[149] My mother’s first cousin, Henry Liddell, 1st Earl of Ravensworth.
[150] John Axel Fersen, making the tour of France at nineteen, was
presented to the Dauphine, herself nineteen, in 1774. Throughout his
friendship with her, the perfect reserve of a great gentleman and great
lady was never broken.
[151] In 1879 I told this story to the Crown Prince of Sweden and
Norway, who took the trouble to verify facts and dates as to the
Löwenjelms, &c., and found everything coincide.
[152] Mrs., then Lady Pease, died, universally beloved and regretted, in
1892.
[153] The 6th Earl of Fitzwilliam.
[154] Lady Frances Douglas, daughter of the 18th Earl of Morton.
[155] Eldest daughter and youngest son of Viscount Halifax.
[156] Edward Carr Glyn, afterwards Vicar of Kensington, son of the 1st
Baron Wolverton.
[157] Mother of the 9th Duke of Bedford, a most charming and hospitable
person. She died August 1874.
[158] Lord Moira was created Marquis of Hastings 1816, and died at
Malta, November 26, 1826.
[159] “In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth
upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then He openeth the ears of men,
and sealeth their instruction.”--_Elihu in Job._
[160] Charles, 2nd Earl Grey.
[161] I have since heard this story as told by a Captain Campbell, and
as having happened in Ireland near the Curragh. A similar story is told
of two officers invited to the house of a Mr. T. near Dorchester. The
appearance of the hostess at dinner was excused on plea of illness, and
the younger guest, staring at the place where she would have sat,
implored his elder friend to get him away from this devil-haunted place.
An excuse of early parade was made, and as they were returning over the
hills, the young man described the figure of “a lady with dripping hair
wringing her hands.” Soon afterwards her body was found in the moat of
the house. It was Mrs. T.
[162] My old schoolfellow, George, Equerry to the Prince of Wales, only
son of the Right Hon. Sir George Grey.
[163] Anthony Lionel Ashley, died Jan. 14, 1836.
[164] I afterwards heard this story confirmed in every particular by
Lord Waterford’s widow.
[165] From “Central Italy.”
[166] Miss Wright
[167] Whose real name is Cincinnatus.
[168] From “Northern Italy.”
[169] From “Northern Italy.”
[170] From “Central Italy.”
[171] From “Central Italy.”
[172] From “Florence.”
[173] From “Florence.”
[174] From “Northern Italy.”
[175] From “Northern Italy.”
[176] From “Walks in London.”
[177] He died March 1888.
[178] Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
[179] Professor Forster has since assured me that this was impossible,
for that hair will only continue to grow for a few hours after death.
[180] Daughter of the famous English tenor, John Braham.
[181] From “Walks in London.”
[182] From “Walks in London.”
[183] From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”
[184] From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”
[185] Story told me by Sir J. Shaw Lefevre.
[186] Afterwards Sir Charles Newton. He died Nov. 28, 1894.
[187] I need scarcely say that, as soon as possible thereafter, I
eliminated all reference to Mr. Freeman, and all quotations from his
works, from my books.
[188] From “Walks in London.”
[189] From “Walks in London.”
[190] Tom Taylor, editor of _Punch_, died 1880.
[191] _Née_ Sabine Thellusson.
[192] Chancellor of the Exchequer.
[193] From “Walks in London.”
[194] From “Walks in London.”
[195] From “Walks in London.”
[196] From “Walks in London.”
[197] From “Walks in London.”
[198] From “Walks in London.”
[199] From “Walks in London.”
[200] William Reginald Courtenay, 12th Earl of Devon.
[201] Sir Samuel Baker died Dec. 1893.
[202] This picture was sold to the National Gallery in 1880 for £9000,
and is probably the cheapest purchase the Gallery ever made.
[203] Isabella, second daughter of Lord Henry Howard.
[204] Mr. Abraham Hayward, the well-known critic and essayist, who had
been articled in early life to an obscure country attorney, always
seemed to consider it the _summum-bonum_ of life to dwell amongst the
aristocracy as a man of letters: and in this he succeeded admirably, and
was always witty and well-informed, usually satirical, and often very
coarse.
[205] Fourth son of the 4th Earl of Clarendon.
[206] Eldest sister of Prince Christian.
[207] From “Walks in London.”
[208] Many years afterwards I saw her again: her name was Mrs. Macnabb.
[209] Lord Russell died May 28, 1878.
[210] Lady Gladys afterwards married the 4th Earl of Lonsdale.
[211] My mother’s first cousin, Susan, sixth daughter of the 1st Lord
Ravensworth.
[212] Eliot Yorke died Dec. 21, 1878--a bitter family sorrow.
[213] From “Walks in London.”
[214] Anne-Florence, Baroness Lucas, Dowager Countess Cowper, elder
daughter and co-heir of Thomas Philip, Earl De Grey. She died in 1880.
[215] _P.S._--The unpublished letters of Lady Mary Cooke show that this
local tradition is incorrect. Lord Tavistock’s accident occurred far
away, and he lingered afterwards for three weeks; but it is true that
the family never lived at Houghton after his death.