1849-1863
_Miss Eden to Lady Campbell._
EDEN LODGE, KENSINGTON GORE,
_Tuesday evening, 1849_.
MY OWN DEAREST PAM, I hear to-day that you too are bereaved of what was
most dear to you;[549] and it has roused me to write, for if any one has
a right to feel for and with you, through my old, deep, unchanged
affection, early ties, association in happy days, and now through
calamity,--it is I. Dearest, how kindly you wrote to me in my first
bitter hours,[550] when I hardly understood what comfort could mean, and
yet, your warm affection did seem to comfort me, and I wish I could now
say to you anything that could help you.
You have children, to love and to tend, and yet again, they may be fresh
sources of anxiety. I have heard nothing but that there was a long
previous illness; and though you may have had the anxiety of much
watching, still I think that it is better than a sudden rending of the
ties of life.... We came here Friday, but I have not been able to go out
of my own room. This reminds me of you as well as of him. Your ever
affectionate
E. E.
_Miss Eden to Lady Theresa Lewis._
EDEN LODGE,
_Saturday, December 1849_.
Thank you very much, my dear old friend, for thinking of me and my
sorrows in the midst of all your gladsome family, and your happy
Christmas. I earnestly hope and trust you will have many as happy, and
even more so as your children grow up around you, and become what you
have tried to make them.
The paper-knife is beautiful, and if it were not so I should have been
pleased at your thinking of me; and considering how long I have tried
the patience of my friends, it is marvellous how little it has failed.
It was a twelvemonth yesterday since he left me to go to the Grange. I
had got out of bed and was settled on the sofa, that he might go off
with a cheerful impression of me, and we had our luncheon together; and
he came in again in his fine cloak to say good-bye, and I thought how
well he was looking. And that was the close of a long life of intense
affection. I do not know why I should feel additionally sad as these
anniversaries come round, for I never think less or more on the subject
on any day. It is always there. But still this week is so burnt in on my
mind that I seem to be living it all dreamily over again.
I wish at all events to be able to keep (however cold and crushed I feel
myself) the power of entering into the happiness of others, and I like
to think of you, dear Theresa.... Your ever affectionate
E. E.
_Miss Eden to Lady Theresa Lewis._
[VILLETTE], BROADSTAIRS,
_Wednesday_ [1853].
MY DEAREST THERESA ...I do not know whether you have heard of dear
little Mary Drummond’s marriage to Mr. Wellesley.[551] He is a really
good, sensible young man, the greatest friend her brothers and sisters
have, much looked up to in his office; and though he might have been a
little richer, they will not be ill off, and there is a tangible sum to
settle on her, and altogether I think it is a cheerful event. Their
_young_ happiness will do good to all our old unhappinesses, and I think
Mrs. Drummond’s letters are already much more cheerful from her having
all the love-making, trousseau, etc., to write about instead of her
health. Little Mary is such a darling--so bright and useful and
unselfish, and so buoyantly happy, that I do not see how they are to get
on without her. Her letters make me feel almost youthful again. She is
so thoroughly pleased with her lot in life.
Maurice[552] and Addy are taking their holiday at Broadstairs. I had
never seen them in this sort of intimate way, and I did not expect to be
so pleased as I am with both of them. His manner to her is perfect--not
only full of tenderness and attention, but he is very sensible in his
precautions about her health, and takes great care of her in every way.
She looks fearfully delicate. He is very attentive to me too, and as
they came in this direction partly to see if they could be of use to me,
I am glad it has all turned out so well. My health is in a very poor
state, and I am obliged to give up going down to the Baths, but a
cottage always has room for everything; and we are turning what is by
courtesy called a Green-house, into a bath-room, opening out of my
sitting-room. I like the place, and its quiet and bracing air and its
busy sea. It is always covered with ships, and I do not regret the move.
Your ever affectionate
E. E.
_Miss Eden to Lady Dover._[553]
BROADSTAIRS, 1851.
Your letter, dearest, was by some accident delayed on the road, and when
I received it the life you were all watching so anxiously was then only
to be numbered by hours, and I did not like to break in on you. Your
poor sister![554] From my heart I grieve for her, and from the very
beginning of this severe trial I have had almost daily accounts of her.
I would have written to you sooner about your own child’s[555]
happiness, but I was very ill when I heard of it. It is one of the
marriages that seems to please everybody, and as I do not think anybody
would have been satisfied with a moderately good son-in-law for you, or
a commonplace husband for Di, I am quite convinced that all that is said
of Mr. Coke must be true.
I sometimes hope that when your child is married, and your poor sister
can spare you, that you and Lucia[556] might be tempted to come here for
a few days. The journey is only three hours, and it is such a quiet
little place to stay in. The hotel is only a little village inn. I do so
long to see you.
Lord Carlisle talked of coming here for a day or two, but then I was not
allowed to see anybody. I wish you would tell him with my love how much
I should like to see him at any time, when he can leave his family and
his public duties.
Lady Grey kindly came here on Saturday, and is gone back to-day, and I
had a visit from the Ellesmeres last week, for which I had been
anxiously looking, as I was obliged once to put them off, and I wanted
much to see her. She is looking very thin, and is much depressed; but
still it always does me good to be with her, and to see such a
well-regulated Christian heart as hers. The second day she talked
constantly of her boy,[557] and as it was her own volunteering I hope
the exertion may have done her good. Lord E. is particularly well. The
suddenness of the poor boy’s death preys on her, and much as your sister
has witnessed of pain and illness, I still think that it is the sudden
grief which breaks the heart-strings. It is the difference between the
avalanche which crushes and the stream which swells gradually and has
time to find its level. But perhaps every one that is tried finds the
readiest excuse for their own especial want of resignation.
My health does not improve. They say the last attack a fortnight ago was
gout in the stomach. I trust God will spare me a recurrence of such
suffering, for I am grown very cowardly; but, at all events, every
medical precaution has now been taken, and I am not anxious as to the
result, though shamefully afraid of pain.
God bless you. Yours affectionately,
E. EDEN.
_Miss Eden to Lady Theresa Lewis._
[VILLETTE], BROADSTAIRS, 1851.
There is nothing I like so much as a letter, dearest Theresa, but I am
so often unable to answer them that, of course, my correspondents are
disheartened, and I cannot wonder at it. Just now a private letter is
invaluable, for when I woke up after six days of agony, which cut me off
even from a newspaper, I found that there had not only been various
Ministries formed and destroyed, but that _The Times_ had become
perfectly drivelling. Its baseness and inconsistency did not shock me,
and we have been brought up to that; but it writes the sort of trash
that a very rheumatic old lady who had been left out of Lord John’s
parties might indite. It really worries me, because I cannot make out
who or what it is writing for or about, or what it wants. There is no
use in commenting on your letters. I am very sorry for all that is past,
because I like Lord John, and he seems to have played a poor part. This
last abandonment of the Papal Bill[558] is to my mind the falsest step
of all, and I think the most ruinous to his character and the country,
and totally unlike him. I always keep myself up by setting down
everything wrong that is _done_ to the Attorney-General,[559] and
everything foolish that is _written_, to C. Greville. Quite unjust; but
I have never forgiven the Attorney-General that Park history, and C. G.
tried to do as much mischief as he could in _The Times_ last year about
foreign politics, and this year about the Pope.
Anyhow, it is an ugly state of things, and cannot last long. I heard
from a person to whom Sir James Graham said it, that he would not serve
_under_ Lord John, but that he would under Lord Clarendon; and I cannot
imagine that Lord Clarendon will not be Prime Minister before three
months are over.[560] I am afraid he is papally wrong, but I give that
point up now. The Pope has beat us and taken us; and when once a thing
is done there is no use in grumbling. England will be a Roman Catholic
country; and I shall try and escape into Ireland (which will, of course,
become Protestant and comfortable eventually), unless I fall into the
hands of Pugin,[561] who has built a nice little church and convent,
with an Inquisition home to match at Ramsgate. I suppose we shall be
brought out to be burnt on the day of Sanctus Carolus,[562] for the Pope
cannot do less than canonise Charles Greville.
I did not admire Lord Stanley’s speech as many Whigs did; there was the
old little-mindedness and grudging testimony to adversaries in it. I
always think Lord Lansdowne comes out as a real, gentlemanlike,
high-minded statesman on these occasions. However, I know nothing about
it really, for I have not seen a human being this fortnight.
Eden Lodge had been let to what seemed an eligible tenant, a rich widow
with one daughter, but three days before she was to have taken
possession she said her friends had frightened her about the Exhibition.
I do not suppose anybody will take it this year, which is inconvenient
to me, in a pecuniary point of view; but it cannot be helped. You do not
mention the children--is Villiers grown up? married? Prime Minister or
what? Your book looks imposing in the advertisements.
Love to Mrs. Villiers and to Lord Clarendon when you write. Your
affectionate
E. E.
_Miss Eden to Lady Theresa Lewis._
EDEN LODGE, KENSINGTON GORE,
_Saturday, March 1856._
MY DEAREST THERESA, Such a fascinating bullfinch! Mr. Whittaker’s
assortment arrived two days ago, and he brought six here this morning
in small wooden prisons; and the scene was most interesting. All of them
clearing their throats and pretending that they had taken cold and did
not know whether they _could_ sing; and all swelling into black and red
balls, and then all bursting at once into different little airs; and
Whittaker, who partakes of the curious idiosyncrasy which I have traced
in Von der Hutten and other bird dealers, that of looking like a
bullfinch and acting as such, going bowing and nodding about to each
cage, till I fancied that his coat and waistcoat were all _purfled_ out
like bird’s feathers; and I, lying on the sofa, insisting in a most
stately manner that some of the birds did not bring the tune down to its
proper keynote, though it was impossible I could tell, as they all sang
at once. However, I chose one that sings to command (a great merit).
“’Tis good to be merry and wise,” and now I have him alone, I am
confident you will like him. If not, the man will change him. I shall be
so pleased, dearest Theresa, if he gives you even a moment’s pleasure,
and I am certain from sad experience that in a settled deep grief,[563]
it is wise to have these little adventitious cheerfulnesses put into the
background. It is good for those who are with us, at all events. And
there is something catching in the cheerfulness of animals, just as the
sight of flowers is soothing.
You must find Harpton looking pretty for March, particularly if it is
suffering under such a very favourable eruption of crocuses, etc., as my
garden is. I never saw them in such clumps.
I have been fairly beat by Miss Yonge’s new book, _The Daisy Chain_,
which distresses me, as I generally delight in her stories; but if she
means this Daisy Chain to be amusing, it is, unhappily, intensely
tedious, and if she means it to be good, it strikes me that one of
Eugène Sue’s novels would do less harm to the cause of religion. The
Colviles are very angry with me for not liking it; and, above all, for
thinking Ethel, the heroine, the _most_ disagreeable, stormy, conceited
girl I ever met with. Starting with the intention of building a church
out of her shilling a week--which is the great harrowing interest of all
Puseyite novels; finding fault with all her neighbours; keeping a school
in a stuffy room that turns everybody sick, because she cannot bear
money that was raised by a bazaar by some ladies she disliked; and
always saying the rudest thing she can think of because it is _her way_.
I read on till I came to a point when she thought her father was going
to shake her because she was ill-natured about her sister’s marriage;
and finding that he did not perform that operation, which he ought to
have done every day of her life, I gave it up. The High Church party are
all going raving mad!
That pretty Mrs. Palmer[564] has had herself taken to a hospital as a
sort of penance in illness, and has left her most excellent husband and
five little children to take care of themselves. She has, moreover,
taken a vow of six hours’ silence every day during Lent, but will write
an answer on a slate. If I were her husband I should take advantage of
that vow and give her my mind for six hours at a time. She may not
answer again. Ever your affectionate
E. EDEN.
_Miss Eden to Lady Theresa Lewis._
EDEN LODGE, KENSINGTON GORE [1861].
MY DEAREST THERESA, Will you tell me what I am to think about the India
Bill?[565] I believe I think with Roebuck, that it is claptrappy, and
generally that it would make a mess of India, but I have not the least
idea what it means, and will you tell me what effect it had?
I am still so much occupied in rearing up Sir George Lewis to be Leader
of the House, that I have hardly time to write. May I ask you to make
his holidays advantageous, by pointedly contradicting everything he
says, or does not say, while you are at Harpton; allowing him to argue
in defence of his opinions, but continue to contradict him in the
pertest and most offensive manner. I am afraid, too, I must trouble you
to allow him to find fault with everything you do--from ordering dinner,
downwards; because, though I hope this India Bill will finish the
Derbyites, still my Leader must be up to his Opposition duties. After
the recess, the House will continue his education, and your domestic
felicity will be more complete than ever for this little sacrifice to
the public good. You are quite wrong, my dear, about Lord John. A
charming individual in private life, but not fit to govern a country or
lead a party. So please attend to the above directions. Your affect.
E. E.
_Miss Eden to her Niece, Lena Eden._
EDEN LODGE
[_October or November 1858_].
MY DEAREST LENA, It is pitch dark to-day, so that I have not been able
to attempt my newspaper. I am afraid you will have to go out as a daily
governess when I die, for I am spending my whole fortune in coats. Lady
Georgina Bathurst’s[566] letter was very amusing, but it is clear that
her friend Bennett[567] makes himself generally odious, and that poor
Mrs. Bennett suffers as much from it as she did formerly. I am sick of
the High Church clergy’s cant about respect for their Diocesan, etc.,
when they always do everything they can that is rude and disrespectful
to their Bishop; and it always surprises me that a sensible woman like
Georgina can be taken in by them. But she always was in extremes. In her
political days she did not think it possible that a Whig soul could be
saved, and may think so still....
The seagull pigeon is sitting. I am so glad I am not married to a
pigeon; they are such teasing, tyrannical husbands. Yours
affectionately,
E. E.
_Miss Eden to Lady Theresa Lewis._
RICHMOND,
_Tuesday evening_ [1862].
DEAREST THERESA, Sorry you did not come; hope for better luck Thursday.
I have had a _passage at arms_ with old Bentley, who has dawdled over
the “Auckland Correspondence”[568] till he says it is now too late for
the publication this season, and it will not appear till October; but
that this is the best time for a work of fiction, and he wanted mine
instantly. I wrote him a coldly savage letter, conveying all sorts of
reproaches in political terms, and saying that, as of course he could
not undertake a second book till he had done with the first, and as I
was in a hurry, I must accept the offer of some other publisher (I have
had several offers). Whereupon he rushed down here early this morning
and told Lena he was “a persecuted victim,” that he would bring out the
_Semi-Detached_[569] in a month, and that he must have it, etc. He
offered only _£_250, and I really will not take less than _£_300. Lena
told him so afterwards, and he said he dared to say that there would be
no difficulty about terms if he could talk it over with you. So mind
you stick to £300 and a very early publication. I really do want the
money, for poor Richard Wellesley has been obliged to resign, and they
are ordered to winter abroad for the winter and will have some
difficulty in managing it, so I want to be able to help them.
Dear little Mary is a greater darling than ever. Ever your affectionate
E. EDEN.
_Miss Eden to Lady Charlotte Greville._
CHILD’S HILL, HAMPSTEAD,
[_August_] _Saturday, 1859_.
So like you, dearest, to think of sending that review, which I thought
very flattering. Lena had already picked it up at a neighbour’s house,
and I am told it is a great help to a book to be reviewed by the
_Globe_. A review in _The Times_, even unfavourable, is supposed by
publishers to ensure a second edition, but _The Times_ does not stoop to
single volume novels. “Semi” has had more success than I require, and
considerably more than I expected.
It gave me real pleasure to think that I had amused you. That, and a
kind note from Lord Lansdowne, who said that the book had been a great
amusement to him in his convalescence, gave me intense gratification.
Altogether, people have been marvellously good-natured about it, and if
ever I write another story, which is not very likely, I shall call it
“The Good-natured World.” I really do think that, though we all carp in
a petty childish way at each other, that there is an immense amount of
solid _bienveillance_ in constant circulation; only we do not think
about the kindness we meet with, till we actually want it, and then we
see the amount and the value of it.
I wrote my congratulations with very great ease to the Buccleughs. That
marriage seems to give universal satisfaction, and Char was in such a
fidget to have her son[570] married, that she would have put up with a
very inferior article in the way of a daughter-in-law. I am more puzzled
with my letters to Theresa Lewis. Lord Clarendon had cut him[571] on
account of his writings, and Theresa Lewis had never asked him to Kent
House, so you see there is rather a mess to be cleared up before
congratulations come out in a clear brilliant stream.
However, Lord Clarendon has been extremely amiable about it, which he
was sure to be, and Thérèse was so regularly and thoroughly in love that
I think T. Lewis was quite right to make no objections on the ground of
poverty. After twenty-one, young people may surely choose for
themselves, whether they will be rich or poor.
Do you want a perfection of a little dog to _égayer_ you? Lady Ellesmere
knows my little Manilla silk dog, a small bone run through a large skein
of white floss silk, full of wit and affection. I feel certain it would
be a happiness to you and no trouble, except that you would have to coax
it fourteen hours out of the twenty-four, and then strike for thirteen
hours.
Love to Lady E. Ever your affectionate
_E. Eden._
The Duke of Bedford was here yesterday. He is looking very thin but in
good spirits, and happily satisfied that Lord John is the best Foreign
Secretary we have ever had, and a _juste milieu_ between Lord
Palmerston’s extreme French, and Lord C.’s extreme Austrian views.
_Lord Lansdowne to Miss Eden._
RICHMOND,
_August 22_ [1862].
MY DEAR MISS EDEN, Many thanks for your very kind letter. You will see
from the date of this I have advanced a step, and tho’ not quite well
yet, am at least convalescent, and just in a state fully to appreciate a
pleasant letter or a pleasant book; the _Semi-Detached_, innocent as it
is, did indeed amuse me greatly. I only wish all people could be made
half as agreeable. You have been able to hurry on a catastrophe without
the assistance of one villainous couple.
I am much disposed to be seduced by your view of Napoleon III.; no man
ever committed such mistakes and knew so well how to get out of them. A
friend of Mme. de Staël once said to me that she had an irresistible
propensity to throw her friends into the river; but that it was relying
upon her skill _pour les repêcher, l’un après l’autre_. This is somewhat
the case with him. He would not run so voluntarily into blunders if he
did not feel confident of extricating himself. Believe me, always,
affectly yours,
LANSDOWNE.
Pray read B. Osborne’s speech at Liskeard. One can afford to forgive
impudence when it is so amusing.
_Miss Eden to Lady Theresa Lewis._
CHILD’S HILL, HAMPSTEAD,
_Monday evening_ [1862].
MY DEAREST THERESA, This has been a great “Semi” day, concluding with
your letter which is just come; and I began the morning with four
closely-written pages from Locock, who generally throws very cold water
on any of my little pursuits. But he says the grandest things of “Semi,”
which he had read on Saturday evening, and says that a bystander would
have thought him quite mad; he was screaming with laughter by himself,
and that he is ashamed to add that in church next day it _would_ come
back to him. “It really haunts me.” He was longing for Monday to read it
loud to Lady L., and he says that he must, at all events, be a good
judge of a confinement. _Blanche_’s lying-in is so thoroughly true.
I enclose a bit of Mary Auckland’s[572] letter, which also came to-day,
and which is the third she has written about it. All the family from
Wells have written in the same strain, and Robert, who is painfully
punctual, was missing at breakfast the morning after “Semi” arrived; and
was discovered in bed, peremptorily declining to get up till he had
finished his book. We look upon this as a great compliment, as he never
looks at a word. Anne Cowper is equally civil; but then these are all
friends, and would say anything that would encourage me to fill up my
sedentary sick life with any occupation; so any little word that you
hear from strangers is more valuable as a genuine judgment.
To be sure--the luck of having you as my editress, my shield, my sword,
my everything. You know everybody, and are good friends with them all.
_Miss Eden to Lady Theresa Lewis._
CHILD’S HILL, HAMPSTEAD,
_Monday_ [_August_ 1859].
MY DEAREST THERESA, The important enclosure arrived safely this morning,
and I sent Ellis forthwith to get the money and pay it in at Drummond’s,
for fear Bentley should fail to-day. But my belief is that he is a
wealthy Bentley; and he has behaved like a gentleman, and evidently is
not discontented with his bargain. And so, all’s well that ends well,
even if it be only a Semi-Detached House.
Thank you again and again, dearest Theresa, for all the successful
trouble you took. Nobody but you could have brought the affair to such a
good end, and I now fondly think that between this and November you will
work up the Harcourt income to _£_4000 a year! You made _£_100 out of
the _£_25 I expected, therefore, etc., etc.
You all sound very happy at Harpton, and Lord Clarendon had given me the
same account, and said how much his girls[573] were taking to their new
cousin, and how pleased they were with Thérèse’s perfect happiness.
The house in Pont Street is a good idea. Thérèse will be so handy for
you to fetch and carry, and it will be such a mere step for her to Kent
House. I do not mean to settle yet what my little offering is to be. I
want to choose it myself when I go back to town. And then I have rather
set my heart on a china dessert service, but if anybody else steps in, I
can easily set my heart on something else. There are so many duplicates
in wedding presents; such unnecessary quantities of inkstands and cream
jugs; that I think it better to wait a little and hit the spot at the
end. I began life by giving my sister Mary a dessert service when she
married on _£_900 a year, and settled in that little cottage at Neasdon;
and in all their after wealth Mr. Drummond never would have any other,
but went on filling up the breakages in the old pattern to the end. And
so it has been my usual wedding _cadeau_ since, and I gave one to J.
Colvile[574] when he went to India, and as I look on Thérèse as a niece,
I should like to go jogging on in the old dessert fashion; so, if
anybody consults you, say _that_ is bespoke. So Mr. Harcourt may have
one. But you will let me know in the course of time. The Sydney Herberts
called here yesterday. They had slept at the Grenville farm and he came
very good-naturedly to assure himself, he said, that I was aware of the
complete success of “Semi,” which seems to have taken his fancy
prodigiously. He said it had become a sort of byword in London, and that
if anybody talked of taking a house, the answer was, Semi-detached, of
course. I have not seen him for 12 years, and he is not the least
altered in looks. They were going to dine with Florence Nightingale[575]
at Hampstead, or rather at her house, for she has come quite to the last
days of her useful life and is dying of disease of the heart. Every
breath she draws may be heard through her closed doors, but when she can
speak she still likes to talk to Mr. Herbert of soldiers’ hospitals and
barracks, and to suggest means of improving them. Ever your affectionate
E. EDEN.
_Miss Eden to Lady Theresa Lewis._
EDEN LODGE, KENSINGTON GORE,
_Saturday evening, November 1859._
MY DEAREST THERESA, Between Lena,[576] and Lady Ribblesdale,[577] and
Eddy and Theresa, and all the maids in the house, I am mistress of every
detail of the wedding, and I am so very glad that it all went off so
beautifully. Lena says it is the most interesting wedding she has been
at; there was so much feeling and family affection floating about; and I
hear dear Thérèse looked very pretty and very pale. But it is _you_,
my old dear, that I have been thinking of all day--thinking so much that
I am obliged to write to get the subject off my mind. I am so sorry for
you, but only just at this moment. And, after all, the wedding is not so
bad as the day of proposal to the mother. Then you had nothing to look
to but her going away; and now your next prospect is her coming back;
and in the meanwhile you have done all in your power to secure her
happiness.
[Illustration: The Hon. Emily Eden
from a drawing by George Richmond, R.A.
Emery Walker Ph. sc.]
God bless you, dear. This does not require an answer, but I could not
resist writing, and I thought you would like to know that I was as well
as could be expected; after the fatigue of being at Mrs. Harcourt’s
wedding this morning. I really feel as if I had been there. Your
affectionate
E. EDEN.
_Miss Eden to Lady Theresa Lewis._
RICHMOND,
_Monday evening_ [_October 1860_].
MY DEAREST THERESA, It is just bedtime, but I must write a line of warm
congratulation on the advent of the grandchild and our dear Thérèse’s
safety;[578] I missed the announcement in _The Times_ this morning, and
it was not till the middle of the day that Lena, with a railroad sort of
screech, made the discovery, and then with infinite presence of mind I
said, “Then Theresa cannot be come to town and I shall hear from her
this evening.” And so I did.
What a discovery chloroform is. By the time we are all dead and buried,
I am convinced some further discovery will be made by which people will
come into the world and live through it and go out of it without the
slightest pain.
Don’t you think that if Thérèse continues to go on as well as she has
begun you will be able to drive down here? Lady Clarendon sometime ago
got an order for Lena to see Strawberry Hill, but as Lena only returned
from Wells on Saturday I made no use of it till to-day, and then we
found Lady Waldegrave was living there. However, an imposing groom of
the chambers showed us the pictures, and Lena saw the rest of the home,
while I was all the time longing to ask him if he knew anything about
Thérèse, but felt too low in the scale of creation to propound such a
question to him.
My best love to her. Do come here. Your affectionate
E. EDEN.
_Miss Eden to Lady Charlotte Greville._
EDEN LODGE, KENSINGTON GORE,
_October_ 24 [1863].
MY DEAREST LADY CHARLOTTE, A sudden wish has seized me to write to
you--not that I have an atom of a thing to say except the old hacknied
fact that I am very fond of you, and also that I heard constantly of you
when I was at Richmond through your sons,[579] and the Flahaults,[580]
and that now I do not see how I am to hear of you at all, except
somebody at Hatchford (not you) will have the kindness to write to me.
Barring the loss of the view, and the drives in that beautiful park, I
do not miss my Richmond so much as I expected.
There is always something intensely comfortable in home, and my own
books and things, and I am very busy with a new sitting-room that I have
made upstairs, by throwing two small bedrooms into one. It has made a
very pretty warm room, looks clean and bright, and then there is the
fun of furnishing it. It is painful to look out of the window. Those
dreadful Royal Commissioners have cut down all the fine trees belonging
to Gore House[581] and are running up a blank wall 20 feet high, for
their new garden.
My own trees are the only ones left in this neighbourhood, and though
the blank wall is better than another row of houses staring into my
garden, the general effect is that of living just outside the King’s
Bench Prison. I look upon a man who cuts down a large tree in London as
capable of committing murder, or any other crime, and have a vague idea
that the Road Murder[582] might be traced home to Prince Albert and Lord
Granville, or one of these Commissioners.
It will interest Lady Ellesmere to know that Lena[583] has returned to
her navvies, and has been greeted with the greatest warmth. Indeed, I
should prefer a little more coolness in her place, as they all insist on
shaking hands, and I imagine washing is a virtue they do not practise
more than once a week. However, they are an interesting race, very
grateful in their rough way; and the Controller and Clerk of the Works
both say that there is a great improvement in their habits, and are very
eager now to encourage the readings. A great deal of the work in these
gardens has now passed into the hands of London bricklayers and
carpenters. They steadily declined listening to Mr. Ward, the
missionary, and were very rude to him.
He was very anxious Lena should try and tame them, so she began by
collecting the débris of her navvies, and sitting down with them under
the old tree (which they have killed of course), and some of the
bricklayers gathered round and began to laugh, so she told them very
quietly that they need not come out of their shed to listen to her if
they did not like it, but that if they came out she could not allow any
laughing at such a serious subject. And they took it very well and said
they did not mean to jeer, and that if she would come to their shed,
they would listen if they might smoke; and the navvies in their
gentleman-like way advised her to go, and said they would go with her,
and they made a path with planks and put up a sort of seat, and showed
the bricklayers how the little lady, as they call her, was to be
treated. And it all went well. She read them a tract called Slab Castle,
which always touches them, and when she came to the chapter on the
Bible, half of the bricklayers were in tears, particularly the ones who
had laughed, and they conveyed her to the gate, begging she would come
again, and clamorous for copies of Slab Castle--which I advise her to
decline giving for the present. But they have been extremely civil and
attentive since, and she has certainly heard such satisfactory accounts
of her old congregation, that it is an encouragement to go on. My love
to Lady or Lord E., and believe me ever, dearest, your affectionate
E. EDEN.
I hope Alice will not insist on my liking Miss Yonge’s new book.[584] It
is more unintelligible than “The Daisy Chain,” though not quite so
tiresome. But she brings in too many people. There are four generations
of one family, and her moral is quite beyond me. Those that are well
brought up turn out wicked, and the worldly family produce a crop of
saints. I am proud to say I am quite incapable of construing the slang
she makes her ladies talk.
_Miss Eden to Lady Theresa Lewis._
EDEN LODGE, KENSINGTON GORE,
_Monday_, _December_ [1863].
MY DEAREST THERESA, It is obvious that I must write and wish you and
yours a happy New Year, and a great many of them, and one happier than
the other; but barring that I do not see that I have anything else to
say. London is so utterly empty during Christmas week, everybody
thinking it right to go to somebody else’s house, and it is always the
most solitary week of the year to me. But I feel so comfortable in the
thought that I am not passing it in bed as I have for the twelve
preceding years, that it seems to me a singularly merry Christmas.
I suppose you are all rehearsing and acting. Lady Derby writes word that
she hears Alice[585] is well enough now to think of acting on the 11th,
so I hope she has made great progress in health since she got home. Lady
Derby gives rather a poor account of him; he gains strength so slowly,
but she says that after being confined to his own room for three months,
he was now able to get about the house at times....
The only two people I have seen this week have been Lord Brougham and
Sir C. Wood.[586] Lord Brougham was only in town for two nights on his
way to Cannes. He is quite enthusiastic about my father’s papers, and
has written something about them in the _Law Review_, and he was rather
good-humoured and pleasant. But on going away he always cries so much at
the prospect of our not meeting again, that he leaves me in a puzzled
state of low spirits. All the more, that I have not the remotest idea
whether it is his death or mine that he is crying over; but he looks so
well, I think it must be mine.
By the bye, your old Dean Milman[587] came hobbling into the room on
Saturday, full of abject apologies to Lena, whom he chose to suppose he
had affronted, and taking great care to ignore his real grand sin of
abducting the papers without asking leave. However, he came to say that
he was most agreeably surprised that Mr. Hogge has done his part
well,[588] and that he and Mrs. Milman had been greatly interested,
etc., which she amply confirmed. I like her very much, and she is still
so handsome.... Good-bye, dearest. I did not write sooner, as I had just
written to the Grove when your letter came, and as everything is public
property there, this counts for a letter to Lord Clarendon as well as to
you. Your affectionate
E. EDEN.
_Miss Eden to her Niece, Mrs. Dickinson._[589]
EDEN LODGE, KENSINGTON GORE [1864].
MY DEAR MRS. DICKINSON, I am charmed with your letter, I wanted to have
one from you. Dear old Longleat! I should so like to see it again. I
passed so much of my youth so very happily there, and I do not think I
ever attained loving anybody more than Lady Bath,[590]--not this
one[591]--but her mother-in-law, and the daughters pay back to me the
affection I had for their mother....
I suppose they told you about the Horticultural Fête? I saw and heard
nothing but the crash of carriages, and linkmen went on screaming for
them till nine at night. I have not heard linkmen screaming for the last
thirteen years.
Yesterday Lena got leave from one of her friends working in the garden,
to bring me in thro’ a little obscure door into the great conservatory,
which we had to ourselves, and I really could hardly believe the flowers
were real, they were so unearthly beautiful, particularly the geraniums
and roses, great round stools of flowers of the brightest colours. Some
day I have a fancy that I shall be well enough to go down and visit you,
my old pet. What a bore for you! Your aff.
E. E.
_Miss Eden to Lady Theresa Lewis._
_March_ [1865].
MY DEAREST FRIEND, I would rather write to you myself. I am so thankful
I saw and took leave of dear Mary. She wished it so much herself, and
was as loving and as dear as ever. You know we had always been the
greatest friends of the family, and till I went to India, we had never
missed for a single day writing to each other. It was an intimacy that
only two sisters nearly of an age can have, and she referred to it again
on Tuesday, and told me still to be a mother to her children. They
always _have_ been like my own children. But I am most thankful I was
able to witness such a really happy deathbed as hers, so calm, so
peaceful, and her mind as entirely clear as it ever was in its best
days. And to see those six tall sons, four daughters-in-law, and her
three daughters all round her bed, the sons more overwhelmed even than
the daughters, and she thanking them, and saying how happy they had made
her, it was a scene that quite comforts me for her loss, and her poor
daughters had quite the same feeling. I saw them yesterday after the
case was hopeless and they were quite calm.
Dearest Theresa,[592] I do not think it good for you just now to go
through more melancholy scenes, otherwise you are one of the few I
should like to see. I _depend_ on you so much. Is it not strange that
with my health I should have outlived my six sisters--all, except Lady
Godolphin, in perfect health when I came from India? Ever, dearest, your
affectionate
E. EDEN.
_Miss Eden to Mrs. Dickinson._
EDEN LODGE, 1863.
I have been out only four times since I came to London. The very
ordinary looking women who inhabit London at this time of year, with
last year’s dirty little bonnets put at the back of last year’s dirty
little faces, and with dirty gowns to match spread over absurd hoops,
make me quite uncomfortable.
The “Semi-Attached Couple” was written in that little cottage at Ham
Common. I do not exactly know who Mrs. B. was at this moment, but all
our Camp ladies were always lying-in, and it is a very easy business in
India.
I do not exactly see unless I turn back, and grow young again, that I
shall ever visit you at Berkley,[593]--Richmond is looked upon by
doctors as an immense journey for me. I am very much pleased my book
altogether amused you. I have such quantities of old letters of thanks
for it, from people I had forgotten. I had a grand letter from Lord
Houghton (Monckton Milnes) in praise of my pure facile English, among
other things _Slang_ was not invented in my day.
You are quite right to make your children’s childhood happy, and as
merry as possible, but please do not spoil them. Life does not spoil
anybody, and so teach them early to take it as it comes--cheerfully.
Your aff.
E. E.
[Miss Eden died in August 1869: her friend Lady Campbell three months
later.]
INDEX
Abby, Mr., 161
Abercromby, James, 50
Aberdeen, George, 4th Earl of, 352
Acton, Miss, 150
Adderley, Mr. and Miss, 82
Adeenanuggur, 300
Adelaide, Queen, 323
Admiralty House, 235, 240, 243, 246
Albemarle, William, Earl of, 244
Albert, Prince Consort, 372, 399
Allahabad, 292
Almack’s, 134
Alvanley, Lord, 102-3, 128;
Boyle Farm breakfast, 134-5; 164, 167, 201;
ruined, 216-17
Amherst, Sarah, Countess, 340
Amherst, Lady Sarah, 279
Amherst, William Pitt, 1st Earl, 279, 295
Amoy, 357
Anglesey, Henry, 1st Marquis of, 127, 208
_Ann Grey_, 245
Anson, Colonel, 202
Anson, Viscount, 202
Apsley House, ball, 198
Arden, Colonel, 91-2, 216
Arkwright, Mrs. Robert, 226
_Arlington, note_ 217
Ashburton, Alexander, 1st Baron, 377
Ashburton, Lady (Mrs. Alexander Baring), 376-7
Ashburton, Lord and Lady (Bingham Baring), 377
Ashley, Hon. Lionel, 214
Ashley, Lord, 157, 187, 199
Ashley, Lady Harriet, 191
Ashley, Mr., 177
Astley’s, 91, 133
Atholl, Duke of, 156
Auckland, Eleanor, Lady (wife of 1st Lord Auckland), 1-2, 10-11, 16-18
Auckland, George, 2nd Lord, created Earl of, 2;
Melbury, 4, 7, 10;
Dropmore, 12; 13, 18, 32;
the Drummonds, 36, 37; 54, 58;
Middleton, 59; 87;
Bowood, 98;
Tunbridge, 101-2; 104, 110, 113;
Nocton, 121; 128, 136-7, 139-40;
Ireland, 143-4, 148;
Stackpole, 151, 159; 163;
Greenwich Hospital, 165-6, 168; 172, 175, 187;
Lady C. Sturt, 189;
Lord Ilchester, 191; 199;
Board of Trade, _note_ 204; 207, 218;
death of Mr. Hyde Villiers, 223;
letter from Mrs. Norton, 227; 232;
the Exchequer, 233;
Park Lodge garden, 235;
Admiralty, 239-40; 251;
Indian appointment, 252;
departure, 259;
journey, 261;
Calcutta, 265-6; 268-9, 271;
Simla, 296;
Mission, 301; 310, 322;
Burmese War, 356-7;
return, 358;
Naval Reviews, 366; 369, 371;
death, _note_ 380
Auckland, Mary, Lady (wife of the
Bishop), 394
Auckland, Robert, 3rd Lord Auckland
(Bishop of Bath and Wells), 394. _See_
Eden, Robert
Auckland, William, 1st Baron, 2
Austin, Thomas, 165
_Avenger, The_, 369
Bagot, Mr., 215
Baring, Alexander (1st Lord Ashburton), 106, 128, 136, 158, 182, 196.
_See_ Ashburton
Baring, Mrs. Alexander (Lady Ashburton), 35; 159;
her daughter’s love affairs, 181; 184;
death, 376-7
Baring, Alexander Montagu (son of Bingham Baring), 189
Baring, Bingham (2nd Lord Ashburton), 159, 169, 189, 363, 367, 377
Baring, Lady Harriet (Lady Ashburton), 128, 159, 164, 169;
praise of Miss Villiers, 183; 185, 188-9, 190, 193, 367, 377
Baring, Mr. F., 159
Baring, Miss Harriet (Marchioness of Bath), 181, 183, 184, 402
Baring, Henry, 195-6
Baring, Mrs. Henry, 379
Barings, Miss, 134, 377
Barrackpore, 263;
menagerie, 266; 270, 284;
native school, 286; 321
Bath, Thomas, 2nd Marquis of, 183, 192, 197
Bath, Isabella, Marchioness of, 32, 59, 77, 153, 158; 163;
her daughter’s marriage, 180-81, 182-3; 186, 190;
Longleat, 192;
her son’s marriage, 195;
death, 196, 402
Bathurst, Lady Emily, 17
Bathurst, Lady Georgina, 17, 80, 389-90
Bathurst, Lord, 139
Beckenham, 12
Bedford, Francis, 7th Duke of, 378, 392
Bedford, Georgiana, Duchess of, 49, 75
Begum, the, of Moorshedabad, 335-6
Belvidere, exhibition of pictures at, 259
Bennett, Rev. W. Early Bennett, 389
Benson, Mr., preaching at Tunbridge, 20
Bentinck, Lady Lucy Cavendish, 170
Bentinck, Lady William, 340
Bentley, Richard, 390, 394
Beresford, Colonel, 272-3, 297
Beresford, Mrs., 271-3, 297
Beresford, Miss, _note_ 91, 379
Berkley, 404
Bessborough, 145
Bethune, Captain, 322
Bexley, Lord (N. Vansittart), 1, 4, 11, 17, 93-4
Bigods (Mr. Drummond’s house), 127
Bingham, Lady, 244
Bogue, forts, 336, 338
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 13, 74
Bonchurch, 362
Bonnington, 57
Bowood, 5, 47, 50-52, 62, 99, 108, 229, 367
Boyle Farm, 38, 97, 132-3, 262
Bramley, Doctor, 276; death, 284
Bramley, Mrs., 277
Bremer, Sir James Gordon, 336, 342, 346, 357
Broadstairs, 199, 202
Brougham, Henry, Lord Brougham and Vaux, 158, 193, 204, 207, 215, 237-8,
247, 315, 401
Buccleuch, Walter, 5th Duke of, marriage, 182-3; 392
Buccleuch, Charlotte, Duchess of, 153, _note_ 180, 181;
her son’s marriage, 392
Buckinghamshire, Robert, 4th Earl of, 82
Buckinghamshire, Eleanor, Countess of (Sister), 35, 36-7, 81;
Strathfieldsaye, 81-2; 87, 93;
her attendance on Lady Sarah Robinson, 100, 113, 114;
Nocton, 122-3; 128, 131-2;
Downing Street, 141-2; 145, 152-3, 154;
Wrest, 190;
Dandy, 332;
Bonchurch, 363
Buller, Rt. Hon. Charles, 377
Burgh, 38
Bushy, 40
Bute, Isle of, 57, 62
Bute, Lord and Lady, 64, 66-7
Butler, Lady Charlotte, and Lady Emily, 148-50
Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell, 132
Byng, George, 188
Byrne, Major, 288-9, 340
Byron, George, Lord, 1, 3;
Moore’s _Life_, 194, 209-10
Byron, Lady, 1, 3, 19.
_See_ Milbanke
Cabul, 314, 318
Cahir, 147-8, 149-50
Calcutta, 245, 262, 265;
society, 273
Caledon, 174
Caledon, Catherine, Countess of, 174
Caledon, 2nd Earl of, 174
Calne, 97
Campbell, Caroline Frances Eden (Mrs. Percy Wyndham), 250-51, 252
Campbell, Miss Christina, 68
Campbell, Edward, 227, 326, 328
Campbell, Lady Elizabeth, 32.
_See_ Cawdor
Campbell, Emily, 227, 232-3, 262.
_See_ Ellis
Campbell, Fanny, 174;
marriage, 329
Campbell, Miss Frances (sister to Sir Guy), 84
Campbell, Frederick, 331
Campbell, Georgina, 125, 329.
_See_ Preston
Campbell, Sir Guy, 60-62, 64-6;
description of General Way, 67-8; 69-70, 71, 73, 76, 83, 84;
Crambo at Bowood, 98;
appointment in Ireland, 115; 148;
Armagh, 160; 172, 228, 329, _note_ 380
Campbell, Lady (Pamela FitzGerald), her aunt’s illness, 32-3;
Mary Drummond, 37, 38;
her pig, 39;
Mr. Rose, 40;
Mule drive, 44;
Lansdowne family, 47-53;
Lady Mary Ross, 57;
opinion of the Scotch, 58;
marriage, 60;
her husband, 61;
the Scotch, 63;
_The Times_, 64;
Mount Stuart, 66;
Emily Eden’s hysterics, 69;
Lady Jane Paget, 70;
Lord and Lady Foley, 71;
Mr. de Roos, 72;
Queen Caroline’s funeral, 74;
Arques, 76;
Whig vice, 79;
Mr. de Roos’s marriage, 83;
Strathfield Turgess, 84-5;
Lucy’s marriage, 96;
Lucy’s death, 97;
Bowood, 97-9;
scarlet fever, 111-12;
journey to Ireland, 125-7, 130;
Limerick, 139; 144, 149-50;
Armagh, 160-63, 172-5;
her daughter Emily, 227, 231-3;
_The Sunny Baby_, 250-52;
Carton, 254-6;
her children, 328-31
Campbell, Guy Colin, 329
Campbell, Pamela (Mrs. Charles Stanford), 79, 99, 147, 329, 331.
_See_ Stanford
Campbell, Mr., of Stonefield, 72
Canning, Rt. Hon. George, 129, 139
Carnarvon, 2nd Earl of, 105, 221
Carnegie, Mr., 146
Carton, Maynooth, 254
Cassiobury, 86, 306
Castlereagh, Viscount, 134-5, 187, 210
Cator, Mr., 13
Cavendish, Lady Catherine, 311
Cavendish, Mrs., 90
Cawdor, Countess of, 32, 59-60, 137, 151, 196
Champneys, Captain, 295
Chance, 240;
India, 259-61, 269;
his suite, 286-7, 332, 337-8, 345, 349
Chantry, Sir Francis, 184;
statue of Mr. Pitt, 185
Charing-Cross, 42, 50, 63
Charlemont, Francis, Lord, 331
Charlton, Kent, 19
Chatsworth, 89, 90, 169
Chesterfield, Lord, 134-5
Chichester, Lord, 75-6, 88
Chichester, Lady, 87-8
Chilvers, Mr., 69, 71
Chinese Expedition, 322, 328, 333
Chusan, 339-42
Clanwilliam, Lord and Lady, 152
Clarendon, George, 4th Earl of, 306-7;
marriage, 309, 310;
Ireland, 375, 385;
Mr. Harcourt, 392;
Harpton, 395.
_See_ Villiers, George
Clarendon, John, 3rd Earl of, 310, 313
Clarendon, Maria, Countess of, 313
Clarke, Dr., 118-19, 124, 154
Clements, the, 74
Clerk, George Russell, 316
Clifford, Lord, 177
Cockburn, Sir Alexander, _note_ 385
Cockerell, Mrs., 277
Codrington, Sir E., 158
Codrington, Captain, 317
Coke, Hon. Mrs. Edward, 383
Cole, Mr. G., 178
Cole, Sir Galbraith Lowry, 355
Colvile, Mr. Andrew Wedderburn, 13, 186
Colvile, Eleanor, 86, 87
Colvile, Sir James, 395
Colvile, Hon. Mrs. (Louisa Eden), 18, 42, 59, 61, 63, 79;
Eyam, 89;
daughter’s marriage, 231;
seventeenth child, 240; 379, 388
Colvin, Sir Auckland, 316
Colvin, John Russell, 290, 316, 347, 355
Conyngham, 2nd Marquis, 246
Cootes, the, 40, 74
Copley, Sir Joseph, 91, 128, 220
Copley, Maria, 86, 87, 91, 121, 163, 165, 179;
marriage of Miss Villiers, 200; 203, 216;
marriage, 220.
_See_ Howick, Lady
Copley, Miss, 86, 91, 165, 169-70
Corry, Mr., 191
Cotton, Sir Willoughby, 306, 334
_Court and Camp of Runjeet Singh, The_ 324
Cowan, Mr. C., 365
Cowper, Amelia, Countess, 6, 107, 167, 187, 199, 214-15, 245
Cowper, Anne, Countess, 394. _See_ Robinson, Anne
Cowper, Lady Emily, 167, 171, 178, 187. _See_ Ashley
Cowper, William, Earl, 214, 379
Cray, 80
Crichel, 189
Croker, Mr., 100;
Boyle Farm breakfast, 135
Cust, Captain, 28
Custs, Miss, description of, 29
Cuvier, George, 251
_Dacre_, 271
Dacre, Lady, 176
Daltrey, Dr., 189
Danford (Lady S. FitzGerald’s servant), 54, 262, 270
Darnley, Countess of, 36, 156
_Daughters_, 372
Dawkins, Captain, 318
Delancey, Lady, 13-15
Delancey, Sir William, 13-15
Derby, Elizabeth, Countess of, 145, 177-178
Derby, Emma, Countess of, 401
D’Este, Miss, 248
_Destiny_, by Susan Ferrier, 206
Devonshire, 6th Duke of, 5, 89-90;
Fox cloak, 116, 157
Dickinson, Hon. Mrs. Edmund, 402, 404
Dino, Madame de, 202, 214
Donoughmore, Earl of, 146, 148
Douglas, Lady K., 16
Douglas, Mr., 28
Dover, Lady, 383
Downing Street, 138, 141, 153, 159
Doyle, Sir Charles, 146
Dropmore, 2, 12
Drummond, Charles, marriage, 35-7; 38-9, 56, 131, 201, 395
Drummond, Hon. Mrs. Charles (Mary Eden), 1-4;
Bowood, 5, 7-9;
Melbury, 10-11;
Dropmore, 12, 17, 18, 21, 31;
Mrs. Baring’s ball, 35;
Mr. Drummond, 35; 37;
party at Burgh, 38; 40, 42, 49;
dromedaries, 50; 52;
Charing-Cross, 63; 70, 96, 114;
children’s education, 127-9; 130, 132;
Bigods, 136-7, 140, 148;
Grosvenor Place, 156; 240, 252, 320, 323;
children, 326, 328, 330;
Mary’s marriage, 382;
death, 403
Drummond, Doctor, 300, 332
Drummond, Edward, 46, 70
Drummond, Ella, 374
Drummond, Lady Harriet, 77
Drummond, Mary Dulcebella, 140.
_See_ Wellesley, 382, 391
Drummond, Maurice, 364, 382
Drummond, Hon. Mrs. Maurice, 382
Drummond, Theresa, 323, 396
Dudley, John, Earl of, at Bowood, 98
Dumont, Pierre Louis, 48
Duncannon, Viscountess, 75, 148, 151
Duncombe, Mr., 28
Dundas, Mr., 367-8
East Combe, Charlton, Kent, 23, 28, 74, 93, 333
Ebrington, Viscount, 40, 329
Ebrington, Viscountess, 40
Eden, Hon. Emily, letters from Eden Farm, 1-18;
her sister Mary, 3-5;
sattin gown, 12;
steam-party, 17;
visit to Lady Grantham, 21-30;
Longleat, 31;
Rogers the Poet, 35;
Mary’s marriage, 36;
Drummond party, 38;
Duchess of Bedford, 75;
George Osborne, 87;
Chatsworth, 89-90;
water-party, 91;
Gog Magog, 93;
Hertingfordbury, 95;
education, 107;
Bowood, 109;
Lady Campbell’s troubles, 111;
Nocton, 117;
Lady Sarah Robinson, 118-24;
Bigods, 127;
Barings, 128;
Goderich tricks, 131;
Boyle Farm, 132-4;
Ireland, 143;
Knowsley, 145;
Lord Henry Thynne, 147;
Lord and Lady Goderich, 154;
_Journal_, 156;
Panshanger, 167;
Greenwich, 168;
Hatfield theatricals, 176;
Mrs. Baring’s fidgets, 181;
love affair, 188;
Lady Bath’s death, 196;
energy at Court, 198;
district visiting, 205;
Guildhall, 206; 214-15;
Church lectures, 218;
Admiralty, 235;
India, 252;
voyage, 260;
Barrackpore, 264;
Calcutta, 267-84;
journey up country, 288;
camp life, 293;
Simla, 298;
Runjeet Singh, 300-2;
the Begum, 335;
Chinese expedition, 341-2;
home, 358;
tea-party, 367;
illness, 369;
Lord Auckland’s death, 380;
bullfinches, 387;
navvies, 399
Eden, Hon. Fanny, 31, 46, 97, 103, 135, 137;
Knowsley, 145; 152, 159;
Lady Derby’s death, 178; 196;
Broadstairs, 199; 220;
Ham Common, 242; 244, 266, 277;
drawings, 303; 328;
Chinese expedition, 346;
Bonchurch, 363
Eden Farm, Beckenham, Kent, 5, 27, 188
Eden, Henry, Admiral, 91;
marriage, 379
Eden, Henry Johnes (son of the Bishop), _note_ 199
Eden, Lena, birth, 112; 390, 396, 398;
her navvies, 399; 402
Eden Lodge, Kensington Gore, 277, 358, 386
Eden, Hon. Morton, 5, 11, 28, 225
Eden, Rev. the Hon. Robert (3rd Baron Auckland, Bishop of Bath and Wells),
11, 13, 74, 82-3;
Eyam, 88-90;
marriage, 92-3;
Hertingfordbury, 95; 99, 103, 167, 171, 222, 230, 363.
_See_ Auckland
Eden, Hon. Mrs. Robert, 112, 199, 230, 240.
_See_ Auckland, Lady
Eden, William, General, 242
Edgeworth, Miss, 144, 180
Edridge, Henry, 253
Egerton, Lady Francis, 241, 244, 384, 392, 399.
_See_ Leveson and Ellesmere
Egerton, Mr., at Hatfield, 176
Eldon, Lord, 43, 46, 107
Ellenborough, 1st Earl of, 133;
Governor-General, 356
Ellesmere, Harriet, Countess of, 384, 392, 399
Ellice, Rt. Hon. E., 228
Ellice, Mrs., 236, 238, 242
Elliot, Sir Charles, 333, 336;
Chusan, 338-9, 341-2, 346, 350-51, 352, 357
Elliot, Mrs. Charles, 336, 339, 350-51, 357
Elliot, Admiral Sir George, 13, 325, 333
Elliot, Mrs. George, 14
Elliot, Rt. Hon. Hugh (Governor of Madras), 62, 69
Ellis, Mr., 28
Ellis, Hon. Lucia Agar, 383
Ellis, Mrs. Charles (Emily Campbell), 227, 232-3, 262
Elphinstone, John, 13th Lord, 315, 341
Elphinstone, William G. Keith, General, 334
Erroll, Elizabeth, Countess of, 34, 160
Esterhazy, Prince, 202
Ewhurst, 188
Eyam Rectory, 88
Fane, Sir Henry, 272, 306, 327, 354
Fane, Mrs., 327
Fane, Miss, 303
Fazakerley, Mr., 51
Feilding, Caroline and Horatia, 70
Feilding, Captain and Lady Elizabeth, 5, 6;
their children, 7; 26;
fuss, 66
FitzClarence, Elizabeth, 34, 160.
_See_ Erroll
FitzGerald, Edward, 33, 56, 132-3
FitzGerald, Lady Edward, 76, 130
FitzGerald, Lord Henry, 39, 85
FitzGerald, Lucy, 33, 36, 39, 40, 45;
rabbits, 46; 49, 51, 52;
Mount Stuart, 66;
gingerbread, 68; 69, 70, 74, 82;
marriage, 96; 97;
death, 111
FitzGerald, Pamela, 32-4, 36-41, 43-58, 60.
_See_ Campbell, Lady
FitzGerald, Lady Sophia, 32-3, 37-9, 44-6, 53-6;
in the grumps, 62; 66, 73
FitzMaurice, Lady Louisa, 7, 15, 331
Flahault, Comte de, 398
Foley, Thomas, Baron, 71
Foley, Cecilia, Lady, 71
Fonthill, 78
Forbes, Lord, 133, 160
Fordwich, Viscount, 214, 245
Forester, Hon. Isabella, 96
Foster, Mr., 90, 141
Foster, Mrs., 236
Frognal, 21
Fry, Elizabeth, 373
Garrett, Mr., 75
George IV., King, 139, 157-8, 198
Glenelg, Lord, 299
Glengall, Countess of, 144, 146-9, 160
Glengall, 2nd Earl of, 149, 201
Goderich, Lord (Right Hon. R. Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon), 101, 113, 118-22,
131-2;
Prime Minister, 138-9, 142-3, 156-7
Goderich, Lady (Lady Sarah Robinson), 131;
her rage, 132;
her husband Prime Minister, 138; 139;
behaviour in Downing Street, 141;
son’s birth, 151, 153-4;
cause of her husband’s resignation, 156-7; 159-60;
Wrest, 190, 204.
_See_ Robinson
Godolphin, Lord, 379
Godolphin, Lady, _note_ 379, 404
Gog Magog, 22, 93
Gordon, Lord Henry, 295-6, 310
Gordon, Lady Henry, 279, 295
Gordon, Sir Alexander Duff, 3rd Bart., 368
Gordon, Lady Duff, 368
Gore House, 399
Gosford, 2nd Earl of, 174
Goulburn, Rt. Hon. Henry, 159
Government House, Calcutta, 265-7, 271;
balls, 275
Graham, Mr. (Sir James Graham of Netherby), 23-4, 27, 239, 385
Graham, Mrs., 23
Grange, The, 104, 109, 180;
Lord Henry Thynne’s visit, 181-2;
Lord Auckland’s death, _note_ 380, 381
Grantham, Thomas, 3rd Lord (2nd Earl de Grey), his theatre, 24, 25, 116, 118;
142
Grantham, Lady, 21, 23-6, 47, 54;
liking for London, 61;
child’s illness, 141-2, 163, 165, 182
Granville, 2nd Earl, 399
Granville, Harriet, Countess of, 59
Gravesend, review of Tide-waiters, 103-4
Greenwich, 11, 165-7;
Park Lodge, 168, 178, 183, 197;
pensioners, 228, 231;
departure from, 235
Greville, Mr. Brooke, 147, 150, 217
Greville, Lady Charlotte, 102, 157, 166, 190, 224, 226, 398
Greville, Charles, 141, 220, 230, 379, 385-6, 398
Greville, Henry, 92;
cross, 96; 398
Grey, Captain, 261, 266, 351
Grey, Charles, 2nd Earl, Guildhall, 206, 207; 209;
Reform Bill, 218;
son’s marriage, 220, 235, 237-8
Grey, Rt. Hon. Sir George, 2nd Bart., 366
Grey, Henry, 3rd Earl, 367-8, 379
Grey, Maria, Countess, 376, 384
Grindlay, Captain, 257, 343
Grove, The, 58, 369
Grosvenor, Lord and Lady, 135
Grosvenor, Hon. Robert, 134-5
Grosvenor Street, Lower, No. 30; 28, 41, 262
Guiccioli, Countess, 210
Ham Common, 239, 242, 404
Hampden, Renn Dickson (Bishop of Hereford), 372
Hampton Court Palace, 244
Harcourt, Rt. Hon. Sir William Vernon, 392, 396
Harcourt, Mrs., 397-8
Harpton, 377, 387, 389, 395
Harrington, Mr. F., 259
Harrowby, Lord and Lady, 17, 40, 220
Harvey, Captain, 329
Hatchford, 398
Hatfield, theatricals, 176; 204
Hawkins, Mrs., 290
Hay, Lady Isabella, 13
Hay, Lord, 13
Hayley, William, 85
Hazlewood, Captain, 332-3, 349
Heaphy, Mr., 15
Heber, Bishop, 184
Heber, Mrs., 198
Herat, 299, 342
Herbert, Hon. Sydney, 396
Herries, Rt. Hon. J. C., 157
Hertingfordbury, 93-5, 106, 176, 222
Hibbert, Mr. George, 186
Hill, Lord Arthur, 146, 148
Hill, Captain, 340
Hill, Lady Charlotte and Lady Mary, 62
Hill, Rowland, 1st Viscount, 244-5
Himalayas, the, 290, 297
Hindu College, 265, 281, 284
Hobhouse, Rt. Hon. John Cam, 27, 158
Hogge, Mr. George, 402
Holland, Lady, 49
Hollyer, Captain, 345
Hooghly, the, 262, 287
Hook, Theodore, 326
Hope, Mr. and Lady Elizabeth, 71
Hope, Sir G., 17
Houghton, Lord, 404
Howard de Walden, Charles, 6th Baron, 170
Howick, Lord, _note_, 220, 238, 367-8, 379.
_See_ Grey, 3rd Earl
Howick, Lady (Lady Grey), 224, 376.
_See_ Copley, Maria
Huskisson, Rt. Hon. W., 157-8, 203
Ilchester, Earl of, 8, 32, 191
Ilchester, Dowager Countess of, 8, 10
Jacquemont, Victor, 304
Jekyll, Mr., _note_ 154
Jersey, Countess of, 6, 59, 75, 135, 152, 187, 221
Jocelyn, Viscount, 321, 323, 325, 328
_Jupiter_, the, 258, 266
Kemble, Charles, 185
Kemble, Fanny, 185
Kenmare, Earl and Countess of, 150
Kent, Duchess of, 102
Kent House, Knightsbridge, 367, 392
Keppel, Major, 176
Keppel, Mrs., 217
Kerry, Earl of, 7, 47, 232, 234
Killarney, 150
Kingston, 5th Earl of, 144, 150
Knighton, Sir William, 157
Knocklofty, 146, 148
Knowsley, 137, 145, 152, 378
Kurnaul, Nawáb of, 314-15
Labouchere, Mr. Henry, 159
Laleham, 153-4
Lamb, Lady Caroline, 3
Lamb, Sir F., at Panshanger, 167, 215
Lamb, Lady F., at Brocket, 199
Lamb, Hon. George, Westminster election, 27, 90, 116, 221
Lamb, Mrs. George, 88, 141
Lamb, Hon. William, 3, 144.
_See_ Melbourne
Landseer, Mr., 75
Langley Farm, Beckenham, Kent, 36, 58
Lansdowne, Henry, 3rd Marquis of, 7;
Bowood, 47-50, 52-3, 63, 73;
Fonthill, 78; 80, 81, 109-10, 157, 201, 207, 214, 229, 232, 234-5, 237-8;
looks, 331; 386, 391;
letter to Miss Eden, 393
Lansdowne, Lady, 6-7, 15, 46-7, 49, 52, 63-4;
Bridget, 76;
kindness of, 99; 110, 141, 171, 214, 233;
Lord Kerry’s marriage, 234;
sister’s death, 330
Lascelles, Lady Caroline, _note_ 383
Lascelles, Hon. Edwin, 361
Lascelles, Mr., 28
_Last of the Mohicans, The_, 100
Leinster, Duke of, Lady Foley’s extravagance, 71
Lennox, Lady Georgina, 83.
_See_ de Roos
Lennox, Lady Louisa, 80
_Letters from India_, by E. Eden, 259
Leveson Gower, Lady Francis, 102, 105, 129, 153, 157-8;
Hatfield, 176-7; 196;
her daughter’s birth, 201, 222, 224, 241, 244, 384, 392, 399.
_See_ Egerton, Lady Francis; and Ellesmere
Lewis, Mr. George (Sir G. Cornewall Lewis), 374, 378, 389
Lewis, Lady Theresa, 392, 403.
_See_ Lister, Mrs.; and Villiers, Miss
Lieven, Madame de, 156, 214, 229
Limerick, 126
Lister, Alice Beatrix (Lady Glenesk), 312
Lister, Mrs. (Lady Theresa Lewis), 199;
her brother’s death, 225; 257;
death of Lady John Russell, 306;
becomes Lady Theresa, 309; 312;
death of Mr. Lister, 359.
_See_ Lewis
Lister, Mr. Thomas Henry, 199, 201, 204, 217, 220, 224-5, _note_ 245, 276
Lister, Thérèse, 367, 395, 397-8.
_See_ Harcourt, Mrs.
Lister, Thomas Villiers (Sir), birth, 217; 307, 367, 369, 386
Liston, John, 150
Littleton, Rt. Hon. Edward, 228, 237
Liverpool, Lord and Lady, 17-18
Locock, Sir Charles, 376, 393-4
London University, Professors, 137, 170, 193
Londonderry, Lady, 80
Longleat, 31, 62, 186, 192, 194, 195, 377, 402
Lushington, Mr., 17, 164
Luttrell, Mr. Henry, 153, 159, 164
Lyndhurst, Lord, 247
Lyon, Captain George, 96, 112
Macao, 325, 357
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 365;
Bowood, 367-8, 371; 379
Macdonalds, the, 50
MacGregor, Captain, 300-1
Macintosh, Captain, 335, 341, 344-5, 348
Mackintosh, Sir James, 158
MacNaghten, Mr., 300-1
MacNaghten, Mrs., 290
MacNiel, Mr., 300
Madden, Mr., 16-17
Mahomed, Dost, 299, 302, 314;
attends Queen’s ball, 347; 355
Maitland, Sir P., 299
_Malachi_, 100
Manchester Square, 305
Mansfield, Countess of, 40, 134
Markhams, Miss, the, 23
Matthews, Thomas, the actor, 55
Maynard, Viscount, 127
Mayor, Lord (Alderman Key), 206-7
Meerveldt, Count, 5
Melbourne, Lady, 3
Melbourne, Viscount, 167, 215-16, 222, 237, 240, 244-5, 246-8;
letter to Miss Eden, 258.
_See_ Lamb, W.
Melbury, 2, 4, 7, 10, 190
Mellish, Miss, _note_ 195
Melville, Lord, 139, 157
Melville, Lady, 26
Merewether, John (Dean of Hereford), 371
Metcalfe, Sir C., 263
Middleton, 5-6, 52, 202
Miguel, Dom, 156
Milbanke, Anne, 1, 3, 19.
_See_ Byron, Lady
Mildmay, Sir Henry and Lady, 159
Miller, General, 171-2
Milman, Dean, 402
Mimms, 331
Minto, Earl of, 229
Mitchell’s, 150
Montagu, Hon. Caroline, 220
Montagu, Edward, 40
Montagu, Hon. Henry, 62, 262
Montagu Hall, 359
Moore, Colonel, 162
Moore, Sir Graham, 162
Moore, Mr. (Lord Bute’s agent), 67
Moore, Mrs., 5
Moore, Thomas, 110;
_Life of Lord Byron_, 194, 210
More, Hannah, 42, 43, 243
Morley, General, 354
Morley, Lady, 276, 296, 363
Morpeth, Lord, 157, 176, 213, 254;
chief secretary, 271; 330-31
Mostyn, Hon. Mrs., marriage, 163, 171
Mostyn, Hon. Edward, 362
Mount Shannon, 149
Mount Stuart, 65, 69, 71
Muir, Mrs., 58
Murray, Lady Caroline, 134
Murray, Lady George, 9
Murray, Mr. John, 115
Napier, Sir Charles, 370
Napier, Miss Louisa, 80
Napier, Mrs., 82
Napoleon III., Emperor, 393
Nawâb of Moorshedabad, 334
Newton, Mr. (the artist), 106, 109, 113, 115
Nicholls, Sir Jasper, 326, 353-5
Nicolson, Dr., 344
Nightingale, Miss Florence, 396
Nocton, 58, 117-18, 138
Noor Mahal, 325
Norfolk, Duke of, 177
Norman Court, 78, 102, 152, 170, 187
Normanby, 1st Marquess of, 329
Norton, Hon. Mrs., 227, 230, 241
Oatlands, 224
O’Brien, Lady Susan, 8
O’Connell, Daniel, 208, 237
O’Connor, Feargus, 364
Ogilvie, Mr., 45, 46
_Oliver Twist_, 303
Osborne, Charlotte, 93
Osborne, Lord Francis Godolphin, 3, 21, 88, 93.
_See_ Godolphin, 379
Osborne, Lady Francis Godolphin, 2;
Gog Magog, 93.
_See_ Godolphin, Lady
Osborne, George Godolphin, 3;
marriage, 87-8
Osborne, Godolphin, William, 3, 10, 233, 259-60;
Military Secretary, 266, 271, 277, 279, 286-8;
Sikh Mission, 300-1;
his _Court and Camp of Runjeet Singh_, 303-4, 320;
Singapore, 325, 328;
tiger-shooting, 339, 343, 346, 350
Osborne, Ralph Bernal, 393
Ossory, Lord, 79
Oudh, Prince of, 263
Ouseley, Sir Gore, 107, 164
Ouseley, Miss, 107, 140
Ouseley, Lady, 107
Paget, Lady Jane, 70-71
Palk, Mary, 129
Palmella, Mademoiselle de, 156
Palmer, Mrs. Edward, 388
Palmerston, Henry, Viscount, 214, 352, 371, 379, 392
Panshanger, vice and agreeableness, 167, 214-15, 226
Parliament, Houses of, 245
Parry, Captain, 81
Paul, Sir George, 8, 10-11
Peel, Lady Jane, 105
Peel, Lawrence, 105
Peel, Rt. Hon. Robert (Sir), 139, 158, 246, 251, 299
Peel, Right Hon. W., 34
Penge Common, 15, 18
Pengwern, 362
Pennant, Colonel Douglas, 360-61
Pennington, Dr., 154
Penrhyn Castle, 360-61
Percival, Mrs., 5
Petre, Edward, 177
Petre, Lady, 74, 177
Petre, Miss, 177
Petre, Mr., 28
Phipps, Mr., at Hatfield, 176
_Pickwick_, 298
Pidcock, Dr., 92
Pierpont, Mr., 188
Pinjore, 313
Pitt, William, statue of, 185
Plunkett, Lord, 251
Ponsonby, Mr., 159
Portland, Duke of, 170
Pottinger, Sir Henry, 357
Preston, Mrs. T. H., 125, 329
_Pride and Prejudice_, 104
Prinsep, Henry Thoby, 320
Pugin, Mr., 386
Punjab, the, 308, 342
Quintin, St., Mrs. Darby, 81, 97, 160.
_See_ Wellesley, Georgina
Rajmahal Hills, 277
Reform Bill, 212
Ribblesdale, Emma, Lady, _note_ 306, 396
Ribblesdale, Thomas, 2nd Lord, 224, _note_ 306
Rice, Rt. Hon. T. Spring, 241, 244, 246
Rhinocera. _See_ Mrs. Percy Wyndham, 251
Riversdale, Lady, 12
Road Murder, 399
Robinson, Hon. Amabel (Lady Grantham’s child), 141-2, 145
Robinson, Hon. Anne, 25;
Nocton, 119, 121, 123;
sister’s death, 142, 182;
Greenwich, 213.
_See_ Cowper, Lady, 394
Robinson children, 31
Robinson, Elinor (Lady Sarah Robinson’s daughter), 113-14;
death, 116, 124
Robinson, Rt. Hon. F. G., 101, 113;
Nocton, 118-22.
_See_ Goderich
Robinson, Hon. Frederick W., 25, 167;
Lady Emily Cowper, 171, 178
Robinson, Hon. George (1st Marquis of Ripon), 113
Robinson, Hon. Mary (Mrs. Henry Vyner), 25, 119, 121, 123;
admiration for Lady Grantham, 142
Robinson, Lady Sarah (Lady Goderich), 2, 18, 30, 36, 81;
behaviour in Downing Street, 100;
Wrest, 113;
her child’s illness and death, 114-17;
Doctor’s party, 118-20;
Nocton, 121-4, 129.
_See_ Goderich
Rogers, Mr., the poet, 35
Romilly, Sir Samuel, 26-7
Roopur, 304
Roos, Hon. Arthur de, death, 97
Roos, Hon. Cecilia de, marriage, 263
Roos, Charlotte, Baroness de, 139
Roos, Lady Georgina de, 83, 85, 200-202
Roos, Hon. Henry de (Lord de Roos), 134-5, 262
Roos, Hon. William de, 72;
marriage, 83-5, 99, 105, 115, 182, 244, 262, 270
Rose, Mr., 40-41
_Rosenberg, Ella_, acted on board the _Jupiter_, 261
Ross, Lady Mary, 57, 71
Russell, Lord Charles, 75
Russell, Eliza, 75, 94-5
Russell, Francis, Col., 216
Russell, George, Captain, death, 94-5
Russell, Lord John, 306, 371-2, 377-8, 385, 389, 392
Russell, Lady John, death, _note_ 306
Russell, Lady John (Lady F. Anna Maria Elliot), 376
Russell, Lord William, 378
Ryder, Lady Mary, 40
Sale, Mr., 226
Salisbury, Emily, Marchioness of, 263
Salisbury, Frances, Marchioness of, 176-7, 204
Sandheads, the, 262
Sarpent, the (Hon. Henry de Roos), 134-5, 262
Saugur, 263
Selkirk, Earl and Countess of, 14, 15
_Semi-Attached Couple_, the, 404
_Semi-Detached House_, the, 390, 393
Seymour, Lady Mary, 279
Seymour, Mrs., 33
Shelley, Mr., 75
Shottesbrook, 2, 5, 12, 44, 111, 188
Showers, Captain, 335
Simla, 295, 302-5;
gaiety at, 311
Singapore, 328
Singh, Kurruck, Maharajah, 308, 325
Singh, Runjeet, Maharajah, 260, 300-304, 308, 320, 342
Singh, Shere, 308
Skelmersdale, Lord, 216
Skelmersdale, Lady, 401
Smith, Sydney, 115-16
Spencer, Earl, 248
Sprotborough, 86, 92, 203
Stackpole, 137, 149
Stanford, Mrs. Charles, 79, 147, 329.
_See_ Campbell, Pamela
Stanley, Hon. Edward (Lord Stanley), 236, 244, 303, 378, 386
Strangways, Giles Fox, 53
Strangways, Hon. William Fox, 53
Strangways, Lady Theresa, 9
Stratford Place, No. 2; 46
Strathfieldsaye, 81, 85
Strathfield Turgess, 80, 83-5
Strawberry Hill, 398
Strutt, Lady Charlotte, 73
Strutts, the, 74, 135
Studhouse, 244
Studley, 24
Sturt, Lady Charlotte, 188-9
Sue, Eugène, 388
Sugden, Rt. Hon. Sir Edward, 251
Sullivan, Mr., 43
Sullivan, Mrs., 242
Sussex, Duke of, 206
Sydney, Lady T., 248
Sydney, Viscount, 21
Taglioni, Mademoiselle, 171, 220
Talbot, Mr., 290
Talleyrand, Charles, Marquis de, 202, 214
Taylor, Letitia, 17
Taylor, Mr., 326, 328
Taylor, Mr. Pearce, 327
Thames Ditton, 36, 38, 43, 52, 73, 97
Thurlow, Captain, 350
Thynne, Lady Charlotte, 153;
marriage, _note_ 180, 181, 183.
_See_ Buccleuch
Thynne, Lord Edward, 192, 194-5
Thynne, Lord Henry, 91, 147;
Miss Baring, 180-82, 184, 195
Thynne, Lady Louisa, 32.
_See_ Cawdor
_Times, The_, 385, 391
Todd, D’Arcy, Major, 342
Torrens, Mr. See _note_ 290
Townshend, Miss, 21
Truval, 62
Tunbridge Wells, 101, 105
Tweddell, Mrs., 321
Union, Trades, 234
Valsomachi, Sir Demetrie, 198
Vansittart, Hon. Mrs. Arthur (Caroline Eden), 44, 96;
daughter’s marriage, 163;
illness, 170-71; 179, 188;
Broadstairs, 199, 200
Vansittart, Caroline, marriage, 163.
_See_ Mostyn
Vansittart, Henry, 316
Vansittart, Miss, 11, 17
Vansittart, Rt. Hon. Nicholas, 1, 4, 11, 17.
_See_ Bexley
Vansittart, William, 375
Verulam, Countess of, 310
Victoria, Queen, 288, 323, 372
Villiers, Mr. Charles, 170
Villiers, Mr. Edward, 214, 223
Villiers, F., 187
Villiers, George (Earl of Clarendon), 91-2;
dealings with the Goderichs, 131; 152, 160, 161, 170;
popularity in Dublin, 194; 196, 200, 208, 213;
his brother’s death, 223;
in Spain, 228; 267, 294.
_See_ Clarendon
Villiers, Hon. Mrs. George, 89, 92, 115, 131-2, 138, 184, 224
Villiers, Lady H., 310
Villiers, Mr. Hyde, 199
Villiers, Lord, 221
Villiers, Rt. Rev. the Hon. Montagu (Bishop of Durham), 375
Villiers, Miss (Lady Theresa Lewis), 58, 109, 115, 143, 156, 159, 163;
Italy, 167-8;
marriage, 198.
_See_ Lister
Voisins, Monsieur de, 221
Vyner, Miss, 20
Wade, Claude, Captain, 300
Waghorn, Lieut., 285
Waldegrave, Frances, Countess, 398
Wall, Baring (son of Charles Wall), 78, 91, 101, 104, 128, 151-2, 188,
189, 221
Wall, Mrs. Charles, 153;
her charm, 188
Wallscourt, Lady, 173
Ward, Mr., 399
Warren, Dr., 114, 117, 119
Warrender, Sir George, 17
Waterloo, 13-15
Way, Lady, 69-70
Way, General Sir Gregory, 67, 69
Wellesley, Arthur, 81
Wellesley, Georgina, 81, 97.
_See_ Quintin, St.
Wellesley, Rev. the Hon. Gerald, 81
Wellesley, Mrs. Richard (Mary Drummond), birth of, 140
Wellesley, Richard, _note_ 382, 390
Wellesley, Mary (Lady Cadogan), 81
Wellesley, Richard, Marquis Wellesley, 232, 242, 340
Wellington, Duke of, 139, 156-7, 162, 169;
Hatfield, 177;
Ewhurst, 188, 246-7, 370
Wesley, John, 94
West, Dr., 114, 117, 119
Westminster Abbey, fire, 179
Weymouth, Viscount, 32
Whishaw, Mr., 8, 10-11
Wilberforce, Samuel, 372
Wildman, Mrs., 27
William IV., King, 198, 244, 246-8;
letter to Miss Eden, 258
Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury, 8
Wilson, Mrs., her school, 282
Winchester, John, Marquis of, 251
Winyard, Mr. and Mrs., 30
Woburn, 52, 75, 194
Wood, Rt. Hon. Sir Charles, 401
Worcester, Lord, 77
Wortley, Mr. J., 176-7
Wrest Park, 113, 190
Wright, Miss (Miss Eden’s maid), 96, 160, 268, 282
Würtemburg, King of, 198
Wyndham, Hon. Mrs. Percy, birth, 250, 251
Wynn, Mr., 22, 24
Wynn, Miss, 22
Yonge, Charlotte M., 387, 400
York, Duke of, 59
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58}
Children of Thomas Adderly=> Children of Thomas Adderley {pg 82}
Stacpole, Pembrokeshire.=> Stackpole, Pembrokeshire. {pg 109}
Mme. de Stael once said=> Mme. de Staël once said {pg 393}
Sue, Eugene, 388=> Sue, Eugène, 388 {index}
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] _Life and Letters of the Fourth Earl of Clarendon_. by Sir Herbert
Maxwell, Bart.
[2] William and his seven brothers and three sisters, were brought up by
their mother, his father having died when he was only eleven years of
age. (Lady Eden was the daughter of W. Davison of Beamish Park, Durham.)
[3] Sir Gilbert Elliot (1751-1814). In 1806 he was appointed
Governor-General of India, and created Earl of Minto in 1813.
[4] Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Bart. (1806-1863), of Harpton Court,
Radnorshire. On his father’s death in 1855 he succeeded to the
baronetcy; he became Chancellor of the Exchequer the same year, Home
Secretary in 1859, and Secretary for War in 1861.
[5] A full account of this time is given in _Life and Death of Lord
Edward FitzGerald_, by Thomas Moore, also in _Edward and Pamela
FitzGerald_, by Gerald Campbell.
[6] Hon. Eleanor Eden, married in 1799 Lord Hobart (Earl of
Buckinghamshire). He died in 1816; she was generally known as Lady
Bucks.
[7] Anne Isabella, daughter of Sir R. Milbanke Noel, married Lord Byron,
January 2, 1815. He had proposed to her and been refused in 1812.
[8] Miss Eden’s sister, who married Charles Drummond the banker in 1819.
[9] Nicholas Vansittart (1766-1851), Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1812;
he was created Baron Bexley in 1823; he had married Miss Eden’s sister,
who died in 1810.
[10] Miss Eden’s brother, Lord Auckland (the comical dog); he succeeded
his father as 2nd Baron Auckland in 1814. He became President of the
Board of Trade in 1830, First Lord of the Admiralty in 1834,
Governor-General of India in 1835, First Lord of the Admiralty in 1840.
[11] By Claude de Ruthière.
[12] Daughter of Robert, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire; she married, Sept.
1, 1814, Frederick John Robinson, second son of Thomas, Lord Grantham.
Created Viscount Goderich in 1827. He became Prime Minister after
Canning’s death.
[13] Her father, who died May 28, 1814.
[14] Her sister, Charlotte Eden, married Lord Francis Godolphin Osborne
in 1800.
[15] George, subsequently 8th Duke of Leeds.
[16] Daughter of 3rd Lord Bessborough, married W. Lamb (Viscount
Melbourne) in 1805, and finally separated from him in 1825. She died in
1828.
[17] Near Dorchester, belonging to Lord Ilchester.
[18] In Berkshire, belonging to Colonel Arthur Vansittart, who married
Caroline Eden.
[19] Miss Eden’s brother.
[20] Count Meerveldt was the Austrian Ambassador; he died the following
year.
[21] Widow of Spencer Percival, who was assassinated in 1812; she
married, secondly, Mr. Carr (Lieut.-Col. Sir H. Carr).
[22] Lady Elizabeth Fox-Strangways, widow of Mr. Talbot of Laycock Abbey
in Wiltshire, married, secondly, in 1804, Captain Feilding, R.N.,
afterwards Rear-Admiral.
[23] Amelia, daughter of Viscount Melbourne, married in 1805 5th Earl of
Cowper.
[24] Lady Sarah Fane, daughter of 10th Earl of Westmoreland, married in
1804 5th Earl of Jersey.
[25] Lady Louisa Fox-Strangways married in 1808 Henry, 3rd Marquess of
Lansdowne.
[26] Lady Louisa Fitzmaurice.
[27] Earl of Kerry, aged three.
[28] Caroline married in 1831 3rd Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe, and Horatia
married in 1850 Mr. T. Gaisford.
[29] A Treaty of Peace was signed at Ghent between England and the
United States on December 24, 1814.
[30] A great friend of Lord and Lady Holland, born in 1764.
[31] Sir George Onesiphorus Paul (1746-1820). “One of the prettiest
places” was Hill House, Woodchester, Gloucestershire.
[32] Juliana, daughter of the Hon. and Rev. W. Digby, Dean of Durham.
[33] Charles Hanbury, a diplomatist and writer; he took the name of
Williams in 1729. He was knighted in 1744.
[34] Lady Susan Fox-Strangways married Mr. O’Brien, a handsome young
actor, in 1764.
[35] Miss Eden’s sister Mary, aged twenty-two, and her brother Lord
Auckland, were staying at Melbury, Dorchester, with Lord Ilchester.
[36] Lady Theresa Strangways, married in 1837 9th Lord Digby.
[37] Miss Grant, Lady Ilchester’s mother.
[38] Miss Eden’s nephew, aged ten.
[39] Sir G. Paul was only sixty-eight years old.
[40] Morton and Bob, Miss Eden’s two brothers.
[41] Lord Auckland was auditor of Greenwich Hospital.
[42] Dropmore belonged to William Wyndham, Lord Grenville.
[43] The Corn Law of 1815 which closed the ports to the importation of
foreign grain till the prices reached eighty shillings a quarter.
[44] Miss Eden’s brother-in-law.
[45] The battle of Waterloo had been fought on the 18th June.
[46] Magdalene, daughter of Sir J. Hall, Bart., married Sir William Howe
Delancey, K.C.B., in March or April 1815. He was mortally wounded at
Waterloo.
[47] William, 15th Earl of Erroll.
[48] George Elliot, son of the first Earl of Minto; married in 1810
Eliza Cecilia, daughter of James Ness of Osgodby, York. He commanded the
Chinese Expedition in 1840.
[49] This was a party badge.
[50] Thomas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, married, 1807, Jean, daughter of James
Wedderburn Colvile. He was Lady Delancey’s uncle.
[51] Sir William Delancey died in a cottage in the village of Mont St.
Jean a week after he was wounded. His wife wrote a description of his
death, which was published in 1906: _A Week at Waterloo in_ 1815, edited
by Major B. R. Ward.
[52] Lady Louisa Fitzmaurice, married in 1845 Hon. James Kenneth Howard.
[53] The Austrian Ambassador died on July 4.
[54] Lady Delancey married, secondly, in 1819, Captain H. Harvey.
[55] Thomas Heaphy, 1775-1835. He painted on the spot Wellington and his
officers before an action in the Peninsular War.
[56] Lady Katherine Douglas, sister of Lord Selkirk, married in July
1815 John Halkett, Governor of the Bahamas.
[57] The tutor.
[58] Chancellor of the Exchequer.
[59] Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister. He
married Louisa Theodosia, daughter of the Bishop of Derry (Earl of
Bristol).
[60] Lady Sarah Robinson, Lady Buckinghamshire’s step-daughter.
[61] Miss Eden’s sister, Mrs. Colvile.
[62] Anne Isabella, only child of Sir Ralph Milbanke Noel, Bart.
Married, January 2, 1810, Lord Byron. They had one daughter, Ada
Augusta, born December 10, 1815, married in 1835 to William, Earl of
Lovelace.
[63] Eastcombe, Charlton, Kent (Lady Buckinghamshire’s house).
[64] Hon. Charlotte Eden, married in 1800 Lord Frances Godolphin
Osborne; created Baron Godolphin in 1832.
[65] Lady Henrietta Cole, married in 1805 Thomas Philip, 3rd Lord
Grantham; the Granthams had a house at Putney.
[66] Newby Hall, near Ripon, belonging to Lord Grantham.
[67] John, Viscount Sydney, married in 1832 Lady E. Paget.
[68] Lady Grantham’s niece.
[69] Lady Bucks was staying with her niece, Lady Francis Osborne.
[70] The daughters of George Markham, Dean of York.
[71] James Robert Graham, who became Sir J. Graham, Bart., of Netherby,
in 1824.
[72] Studley Royal, Ripon.
[73] Lord Grantham’s elder daughter, married in 1833 Lord Fordwich (6th
Earl Cowper).
[74] Frederick William Robinson, born 1810, and died aged twenty-one.
[75] Mary Robinson, married Henry Vyner in 1832.
[76] Anne, daughter of Richard Huck Saunders, wife of 2nd Viscount
Melville.
[77] Sir Samuel Romilly, Solicitor-General, committed suicide on
November 2, 1818, shortly after the death of his wife. According to Lord
Lansdowne, “He was a stern, reserved sort of man, and she was the only
person in the world to whom he wholly unbent and unbosomed himself. When
he lost her, therefore, the very vent of his heart was stopped up.”
[78] Charles Feilding, son of Commodore Charles Feilding, married in
1804 Elizabeth, daughter of 2nd Earl of Ilchester and widow of William
Talbot of Lacock Abbey.
[79] John Cam Hobhouse, afterwards Lord Broughton. He lost this
election.
[80] Hon. George Lamb was standing for Westminster. He was a brother of
Lord Melbourne.
[81] Mr. James Graham stood as a Whig for Hull and was successful at the
General Election of 1818.
[82] Sons of Henry, 2nd Earl of Harewood.
[83] Brother of the 1st Earl Brownlow.
[84] Anne, Baroness Lucas (Lady Cowper). Mary, married in 1832 Henry
Vyner. Frederick William Robinson, born 1810; died in 1831. Lady
Grantham had a daughter in October 1816, probably Amabel, who died in
1827.
[85] Isabella, daughter of 4th Viscount Torrington, married, 1794, 2nd
Marquess of Bath.
[86] Her eldest son. He married in 1820 Miss Harriet Robins.
[87] Lady Elizabeth Thynne, married in 1816 John Frederick Campbell
(Earl Cawdor).
[88] Lady Louisa Thynne, married in 1823 Henry, 3rd Earl of Harewood.
[89] Third Earl of Ilchester, married in 1812 Caroline, daughter of Lord
George Murray. She died January 8, 1819, leaving four children.
[90] Pamela FitzGerald, daughter of Lord and Lady Edward FitzGerald.
[91] Lady Sophia FitzGerald, born in 1762.
[92] Lucy FitzGerald, her sister.
[93] Edward FitzGerald, her brother. He married in 1827 Jane, daughter
of Sir John Dean Paul, Bart.
[94] Right Hon. William Peel; married Jane, daughter of 2nd Earl
Mountcashell, in 1819.
[95] Elizabeth FitzClarence, sister of 1st Earl of Munster. She married
in 1820 the 16th Earl of Erroll.
[96] Daughter of William Bingham, Senator of the United States. She
married Mr. Alexander Baring, who went to Paris in 1815, and there
financed a loan with France, making his own fortune and also that of the
Baring House.
[97] Mr. Colvile, Miss Eden’s brother-in-law, lived at Langley.
[98] Lady Sophia FitzGerald.
[99] Lord Auckland.
[100] Lord Henry FitzGerald married in 1791 Charlotte, Baroness de Roos.
[101] Susan, daughter of 1st Marquess of Stafford; married in 1795 1st
Earl of Harrowby.
[102] Lady Harrowby’s daughter, who married Viscount Ebrington in 1817.
[103] Daughters of the last Earl of Bellamont.
[104] William, 3rd Earl of Mansfield, married in 1797 Frederica,
daughter of Dr. Markham, Archbishop of York.
[105] William Stewart Rose, author of _A History of the Late War_.
[106] Her sister.
[107] Lord Cahir, created Earl of Glengall in 1816; he died in 1819.
[108] Hannah More (1745-1833), writer of many religious works.
[109] Peterloo; an open-air meeting held in St. Peter’s Fields at
Manchester by Mr. Hunt.
[110] Lord Eldon.
[111] Required in the proceedings for the repeal in 1819 of the
attainder of her father, Lord Edward FitzGerald.
[112] Belonging to Colonel Vansittart, who married Caroline Eden. They
had thirteen children or more.
[113] Miss Eden’s cook.
[114] Second husband of the Duchess of Leinster.
[115] Colonel Edward Drummond.
[116] Lady Louisa Fox-Strangways, daughter of Lord Ilchester.
[117] Lord Lansdowne.
[118] Lady Lansdowne.
[119] Lord Kerry, aged eight.
[120] Pierre Louis Dumont began life as a Swiss clergyman. He was
invited to England as tutor to the sons of Lord Shelburne, afterwards
1st Marquess of Lansdowne.
[121] Elizabeth Vassall, a Jamaica heiress, married first Sir Godfrey
Webster, who divorced her, and, secondly, Henry, 3rd Baron Holland.
[122] Georgiana, daughter of the Duke of Gordon, married John, 6th Duke
of Bedford.
[123] James Abercromby, M.P. for Calne; he was Speaker of the House from
1835 to 1839, when he was created Lord Dunfermline.
[124] George the Third died January 29, 1820.
[125] Lucy FitzGerald, her sister.
[126] Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire.
[127] Middleton Park, belonging to Lord Jersey.
[128] Lady Lansdowne’s half-brother (4th Earl of Ilchester).
[129] Giles Digby Robert Fox-Strangways, born in 1798.
[130] Lady Grantham.
[131] Thomas Matthews the actor.
[132] Mrs. Drummond’s daughter, Theresa, was born May 5, 1820.
[133] Lady Mary FitzGerald was Pamela’s first cousin; she married Sir
Charles Ross in 1799.
[134] Only daughter of the Hon. George Villiers, son of the 1st Earl of
Clarendon. Her mother was Maria Theresa Parker, daughter of the 1st Lord
Boringdon. Miss Villiers was six years younger than Miss Eden.
[135] Near Watford, belonging to Lord Clarendon.
[136] Lord Grantham’s house in Lincolnshire.
[137] Lady Sarah Sophia Fane, daughter of Lord Westmoreland, married in
1804 5th Earl of Jersey.
[138] The Duchess of York died August 6, 1820.
[139] Lady Harriet Cavendish, married in 1809 Lord Granville
Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville.
[140] Lady Elizabeth Thynne married in 1816 Lord Cawdor. They had seven
children.
[141] Major-General Sir Guy Campbell, Bart. He married in 1817 Frances
Burgoyne, who died the following year when her child Fanny was born.
[142] Right Hon. Hugh Elliot, Governor of Madras in 1814 to 1820,
brother of the 1st Earl of Minto, Governor-General of India.
[143] Second Marquess of Bute, married, 1818, Maria, daughter of 3rd
Earl of Guildford.
[144] Lord Bute’s home.
[145] Her maid.
[146] Sir Gregory Way, Deputy Adjutant-General in N.B.
[147] Miss Christina Campbell, aged seventy-five.
[148] Miss Eden’s doctor.
[149] Caroline, married, 1831, 3rd Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe. Horatia,
married, 1850, T. Gaisford.
[150] Lady Elizabeth Feilding.
[151] Private Secretary to Sir Robert Peel.
[152] Lady Jane Paget’s engagement to Mr. Ball was broken off.
[153] The 3rd Duke of Leinster.
[154] Lady Mary FitzGerald, married in 1799 Sir Charles Ross.
[155] Cecilia, daughter of 2nd Duke of Leinster, married Thomas, 3rd
Baron Foley.
[156] Hon. William de Roos.
[157] Lady Charlotte FitzGerald, married in 1789 Joseph Strutt, M.P.
[158] The Coronation of George IV., July 19, 1821.
[159] Lord Leitrim’s daughters.
[160] Daughters of Joseph Strutt of Terling.
[161] Robert Eden, Miss Eden’s brother.
[162] For the death of Queen Caroline on August 7, 1821.
[163] Georgiana, daughter of 4th Duke of Gordon, married in 1803 John,
6th Duke of Bedford.
[164] Lady Maria Fane married Lord Duncannon, 1805, sister to Lady
Jersey.
[165] Daughter of Lord W. Russell.
[166] He was then sixty-five.
[167] Pamela, Lady Edward FitzGerald.
[168] Daughter of 9th Earl of Kinnoull, married Henry Drummond of Albury
Park.
[169] Lady Campbell’s son Edward was born October 25, 1822.
[170] Lady Worcester died May 11, 1821. Lord Worcester married,
secondly, June 29, 1822, Emily, daughter of Charles Culling Smith.
[171] He was the son of Charles Wall, who had married Miss Harriet
Baring in 1790.
[172] Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire, built by William Beckford.
[173] Ferdinand VII. of Spain.
[174] Mrs. Colvile had seventeen children.
[175] Her daughter Pamela.
[176] Daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl Bathurst.
[177] Daughter of the Hon. George Napier.
[178] Lady Emily Hobart, married in 1794 Viscount Castlereagh. He
committed suicide, August 12, 1822, at his house, North Cray, in Kent.
[179] Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley, Prebendary of Durham, brother of
1st Duke of Wellington.
[180] Georgina married in 1827 Rev. G. Darby St. Quintin.
[181] Mary married in 1836 Henry, 4th Earl Cadogan.
[182] Sir William Parry, the Arctic explorer.
[183] Lady Sarah Robinson (Lady Goderich).
[184] Children of Thomas Adderley; his widow married Lord Hobart in
1792. They had one daughter, Sarah, who married Mr. Robinson. Lady
Hobart died in 1796. Lord Hobart married secondly Eleanor Eden, in 1799,
and became Earl of Buckinghamshire in 1804.
[185] Miss Eden’s brother, Rector of Eyam in Derbyshire.
[186] Hon. William de Roos married, June 7, Lady Georgina Lennox.
[187] Lord Henry FitzGerald.
[188] William Hayley. His _Memoirs_ were published in 1823.
[189] Married in 1832 Lord Howick.
[190] Eleanor died, aged sixteen, in November 1824.
[191] Lady Mary Osborne, daughter of 5th Duke of Leeds, married Thomas,
2nd Earl of Chichester, 1801.
[192] George Godolphin Osborne (8th Duke of Leeds), married, 1824,
Harriet Stewart.
[193] Miss St. Jules, married, 1809, Hon. G. Lamb.
[194] William Spencer, 6th Duke of Devonshire.
[195] Lord Henry Frederick Thynne, afterwards 3rd Marquess of Bath,
married, 1830, Harriet, daughter of 1st Lord Ashburton.
[196] Lieut.-Col. Richard Pepper Arden (Lord Alvanley).
[197] Mr. Baring Wall of Norman Court.
[198] Henry Eden (Admiral) married in 1849 Elizabeth, daughter of Hon.
George Beresford.
[199] Sir J. Copley and Miss Copley.
[200] Rev. Robert Eden, married in September Mary Hurt of Alderwasley,
Derbyshire.
[201] Lady Francis Osborne (Miss Eden’s sister).
[202] Charlotte Godolphin Osborne, married in 1829 Sir Theodore
Brinkman.
[203] Miss Eden’s brother-in-law, Nicholas Vansittart. He was Chancellor
of the Exchequer, 1812-23, and was made Lord Bexley when he went out of
office.
[204] Near Hertford.
[205] George Russell, son of Lord W. Russell, died September 15, 1825.
[206] Elizabeth, married, 1829, Lord Wriothesley Russell.
[207] Henry Greville, born 1801, son of Lady Charlotte and Charles
Greville.
[208] Daughter of Lord Forester, married in 1830 General the Hon. George
Anson.
[209] Miss Eden’s visit to Bowood.
[210] Pamela, aged five. She married Rev. Charles Stanford in 1841.
[211] The Hon. William FitzGerald de Roos.
[212] “Two letters on Scottish affairs from Edward Bradwardine Waverley,
Esq., to Malachi Malagrowther, Esq.” They were written by Scott. John
Wilson Croker’s reply appeared in the _Courier_ newspaper.
[213] Right Hon. F. J. Robinson, Chancellor of the Exchequer from
January 1823 to April 1827.
[214] George Welbore Agar-Ellis, created Baron Dover in 1831.
[215] Lady Charlotte Cavendish Bentinck married Charles Greville.
[216] William Arden, 2nd Baron Alvanley, born 1789, died unmarried in
1849.
[217] Francis Leveson-Gower, son of the 1st Duke of Sutherland. Later he
inherited property from the last Duke of Bridgewater and became known as
Francis Egerton. He married Harriet, daughter of Charles Greville in
1822. In 1846 he was created Earl of Ellesmere.
[218] The Tide-waiters waited for ships coming in on the flood-tides to
collect duties.
[219] The Grange, Alresford, Hampshire, belonged to Mr. Alexander
Baring.
[220] Lawrence Peel, married, 1822, Lady Jane Lennox, sister of Lady
Georgina de Roos.
[221] “Captain Macheath” was bought by Lord Lansdowne for 500 guineas.
[222] John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon (1751-1838). He was Lord Chancellor
for twenty-six years, with only one break of about a year. He resigned
in April 1827, when Canning became Prime Minister.
[223] Amelia, daughter of 1st Viscount Melbourne; married in 1805 5th
Earl Cowper, and secondly, Lord Palmerston in 1839.
[224] Sir Gore Ouseley, Ambassador to Persia in 1812, married Harriet,
daughter of John Whitelocke. Their eldest daughter was born in 1807.
[225] By Madame de Staël.
[226] By Ludovic Vitet.
[227] Lady Elizabeth Thynne, who married Lord Cawdor in 1816, and lived
at Stackpole, Pembrokeshire.
[228] Thomas Moore, the poet.
[229] Lena Eden, born September 26, 1826.
[230] Wrest Park, Bedfordshire.
[231] Elinor Henrietta Victoria, only daughter of Mr. and Lady Sarah
Robinson, died October 31, 1826, aged eleven, at Blackheath.
[232] The doctors.
[233] The illness of Mr. Robinson’s daughter.
[234] William Spencer, 6th Duke, British Envoy at the Coronation of the
Czar Nicholas of Russia in 1826.
[235] Mr. Robinson’s brother.
[236] In Lincolnshire.
[237] Probably Pelham Warren, physician.
[238] A doctor.
[239] Lord Grantham’s daughters (Mr. Robinson’s nieces).
[240] Lord Auckland’s powder-horn had blown up in his hand as he was
loading his gun.
[241] Georgina, born at Calne in 1826, married in 1847 T. H. Preston.
[242] Lady Harriet Montagu, daughter of Lord Sandwich, married in 1823
W. B. Baring (2nd Lord Ashburton).
[243] Mr. Alexander Baring, 1st Lord Ashburton in 1835.
[244] Lady Francis Leveson (1st Lady Ellesmere).
[245] Mr. Canning, the Premier, had died on the 8th of August 1827. He
was succeeded by Mr. Robinson (Lord Goderich).
[246] Mary, daughter of Sir Lawrence Palk, M.P., married, 1835, 4th Earl
of Lisburne.
[247] Lady Edward FitzGerald.
[248] Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton had married Hannah Gurney, a sister of
Elizabeth Fry. He worked for the abolition of slavery.
[249] Lord Henry FitzGerald’s house at Thames Ditton.
[250] Edward Law, 2nd Baron and 1st Earl of Ellenborough.
[251] Hon. Henry de Roos.
[252] Daughter of 3rd Earl of Mansfield; her mother was Frederica,
daughter of Dr. Markham, Archbishop of York.
[253] Emily Anne, daughter of Colonel Strutt and his wife Lady Charlotte
FitzGerald (Lady Charlotte was created Baroness Rayleigh in 1821), and
Charlotte Olivia, married, 1841, Rev. R. Drummond of St. Catherine’s
Court, Bath.
[254] William Sheen, of Christopher Alley, Lambeth, murdered his
four-month-old step-son.
[255] Lady Cawdor.
[256] Lord Goderich had become Prime Minister at the beginning of August
on the death of Mr. Canning.
[257] Mary Dulcibella, who married Richard Wellesley in 1850.
[258] Charles Greville (1794-1865), Clerk to the Privy Council.
[259] Lady Grantham’s daughter.
[260] William Lamb (2nd Viscount Melbourne), Irish Secretary.
[261] Miss Eliza Farren, the actress, married in 1797 Edward, 12th Earl
of Derby. She died in 1829.
[262] Miss St. John Jeffrys of Blarney Castle, married the 1st Earl of
Glengall in 1793.
[263] Sir Charles Doyle, Assistant Adjutant-General in Ireland.
[264] John Hely-Hutchinson, born 1757. In 1825, on the death of his
brother, became 2nd Earl of Donoughmore. He died 1832.
[265] Mr. Brooke Greville.
[266] Lady Glengall’s only son (2nd Earl of Glengall).
[267] Aged seven.
[268] Lady Charlotte (married, 1835, Christopher Mansel Talbot, M.P.)
and Lady Emily Butler.
[269] Lady Maria Fane, married, 1805, Viscount Duncannon; died 1834.
[270] Thomas, 2nd Earl of Kenmare, married, 1816, Augusta, daughter of
Sir Robert Wilmot, Bart.
[271] John Liston, the comic actor.
[272] At Norman Court.
[273] Lady Goderich’s son was born October 1827. He became 1st Marquess
of Ripon in 1871.
[274] Henry Luttrell (1770-1851); he wrote _Advice to Julia_; _A Letter
in Rhyme_, etc.
[275] Harriet, sister of Mr. Henry Baring, married in 1790 Charles Wall.
[276] Lady Charlotte Thynne, aged eighteen; she married the Duke of
Buccleuch in 1829.
[277] Lady Goderich.
[278] Lady Goderich. In Mr. Jekyll’s _Letters_ he mentions her
behaviour. “Lady Goderich is half mad. She makes my apothecary drive out
with her daily in an open carriage; she lies at length. He feels her
pulse the whole way, and two maids sit opposite with brandy and water.”
[279] Sister of the Portuguese politician.
[280] Brother of Pedro IV., King of Portugal. He caused himself to be
elected King in 1828, but abdicated in 1834.
[281] Sir William Knighton, physician to George IV. and Private
Secretary.
[282] William Huskisson, Colonial Secretary and Leader of House of
Commons (1770-1830). He was killed by a train at the opening of the
Liverpool railway.
[283] Afterwards 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (the philanthropist).
[284] The vote of thanks was for his conduct in command of the English
fleet at Navarino (October 20, 1827).
[285] Home Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons.
[286] Henry Brougham (1779-1868). In 1821 he defended Queen Caroline. In
1830 he became Lord Chancellor in Lord Grey’s ministry, and was created
Lord Brougham and Vaux.
[287] Henry Goulburn (1784-1856). He was Chancellor of the Exchequer in
the new Wellington ministry.
[288] Henry Labouchere, afterwards Lord Taunton (1798-1869). His mother
was a sister of Alexander Baring (Lord Ashburton).
[289] Lord Goderich resigned three days later.
[290] Daughter of Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley, Prebendary of Durham;
she married in 1827 Rev. George Darby St. Quintin.
[291] Elizabeth FitzClarence, sister of the 1st Earl of Munster.
[292] He had an appointment in Dublin connected with the Excise Boards.
[293] Admiral Sir Graham Moore married Dora, daughter of Thomas Eden.
[294] Duke of Wellington.
[295] Miss Eden’s niece Caroline Vansittart married, July 1828, George
Charles Mostyn of Kiddington, who became 6th Lord Vaux of Harrowden in
1838.
[296] Catholic Emancipation; the Mostyn family were Roman Catholics.
[297] Mrs. George Villiers and her daughter Theresa went abroad in 1828.
[298] The Right Hon. Stephen Lushington, M.P. (1782-1873).
[299] Thomas Austin, clerk to Sir Thomas Boulden Thompson, Deputy
Treasurer of the Hospital, embezzled £1000 in October 1827, £2000 in
November, and £250 in December.
[300] Miss Eden had been staying with her brother, the Rector of
Hertingfordbury, close to Panshanger.
[301] Afterwards created Lord Beauvale. He became Lord Melbourne on the
death of his brother.
[302] Son of the 3rd Lord Grantham.
[303] Lord Auckland’s salary as Auditor of Greenwich was £600, with
coals and candles.
[304] The present Vicarage of Greenwich.
[305] William Bingham Baring; he succeeded his father as 2nd Baron
Ashburton in 1848.
[306] Lady Lucy Cavendish-Bentinck married, 1828, Lord Howard de Walden.
[307] Rt. Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers. He lived to be “Father of the
House of Commons.”
[308] Marie Taglioni at this time was aged twenty-one.
[309] William Miller, general in Peruvian Army.
[310] Elizabeth, daughter of William Lock, married, 1822, Joseph, 3rd
Lord Wallscourt.
[311] The Orange Association.
[312] Archibald, 2nd Earl of Gosford; married, 1805, Miss Mary Sparrow.
[313] Du Pré, 2nd Earl of Caledon; married, 1811, Catherine, daughter of
3rd Earl of Hardwicke.
[314] Her step-daughter.
[315] Refers to the illness of Mrs. Vansittart, Miss Eden’s sister.
[316] Frances, daughter of B. Gascoyne, was the first wife of the second
Marquess of Salisbury.
[317] Barbarina Brand (1768-1854), daughter of Sir Chaloner Ogle, Bart.,
married, first in 1789, V. H. Wilmot, and secondly, in 1819, Thomas,
Lord Dacre.
[318] Juliana, daughter of Mr. Howard of Glossop.
[319] Julia (married in 1833 Sir S. Brooke-Pechell) and Catherine Anne.
[320] Eliza Farren, the actress.
[321] Frederick Robinson was only nineteen at this time.
[322] Lord Auckland was made a Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital in
1829.
[323] On the marriage of her daughter, Lady Charlotte Thynne, to the
Duke of Buccleuch. She died in 1895, aged eighty-four.
[324] Lord Henry Thynne, married, 1830, Harriet, daughter of Mr.
Alexander Baring (1st Lord Ashburton).
[325] Wife of Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton, daughter of William
Bingham, a Senator of the United States; Harriet was her daughter.
[326] Sir Francis Chantrey, the sculptor.
[327] Reginald Heber. He was appointed Bishop of Calcutta in 1823, and
died three years later.
[328] Fanny Kemble (1811-1893), a daughter of Charles Kemble.
[329] George Hibbert, first Chairman of East India Dock Company.
[330] Her old home near Beckenham, Kent.
[331] This is an allusion to a love-affair Miss Eden had in 1819, when
Mr. Percival (the son of the Premier) paid her a good deal of attention.
[332] George Byng, M.P., married Harriet, daughter of Sir W. Montgomery,
Bart.
[333] Lady Charlotte Brudenell, daughter of Lord Cardigan, married,
1820, H. C. Sturt of Crichel.
[334] Crichel, Wimborne, Dorset, the Sturts’ place.
[335] Alexander Montagu, died aged two, in 1830.
[336] Saltram, Devon, belonged to Lord Morley, Miss Villiers’ uncle.
[337] Daughter of the 3rd Duke of Portland. She married the Hon. Charles
Greville.
[338] Lady Caroline Murray; died in 1819.
[339] Lady Harriet Ashley married the Right Hon. Henry Lowry-Corry, son
of 2nd Earl Belmore, in 1830.
[340] _Lord Byron’s Life_, by Thomas Moore, was published 1830.
[341] The marriage came on again and Lord Edward married in July 1830
Elizabeth Mellish.
[342] Mr. Villiers was giving up his post in Dublin.
[343] The other Miss Mellish married in 1834 Richard, Earl of Glengall.
[344] The Henry Barings.
[345] Lady Bath died May 1, 1830.
[346] She was the daughter of Dr. Shipley, Dean of St. Asaph.
[347] William I., King of Würtemburg.
[348] George IV. died on June 26, 1830.
[349] Miss Villiers’ brother.
[350] Henry Johnes Eden, R.N., died aged twenty-three.
[351] Lady Georgiana Lennox married her cousin, Hon. W. FitzGerald de
Roos, in 1824.
[352] Maria Copley.
[353] Lady Francis Leveson.
[354] Alice, married in 1854 George, 3rd Earl of Strafford.
[355] Paul Antony, Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador in London
from 1830 to 1838.
[356] Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord, the French Ambassador in
London. The Duchesse de Dino was his niece.
[357] Lord Auckland was President of the Board of Trade in 1830.
[358] Lord Brougham. He had just become Lord Chancellor in Lord Grey’s
Ministry, and remained in office till 1834.
[359] Lady Goderich.
[360] Alderman Key, Lord Mayor.
[361] _Destiny; or the Chief’s Daughter_, by Susan Ferrier, had just
been published.
[362] Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, sixth son of George III.
[363] Prime Minister.
[364] Daniel O’Connell, the Irish politician.
[365] Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.
[366] Teresa Gamba, Countess Guiccioli. She lived with Byron till he
left for Greece, and one of her brothers accompanied him on the
expedition.
[367] Lord John Russell’s Reform Bill, having been passed by the
Commons, was thrown out by the Lords, October 7, 1831.
[368] Daughter of Lord Grantham; she married in 1833 Lord Fordwich (6th
Earl Cowper).
[369] Lord Grantham had a house there.
[370] Hon. Edward Villiers married in 1835 Hon. Elizabeth Liddell.
[371] Henry John Temple. Viscount Palmerston at this time was Foreign
Secretary.
[372] Miss Eden was thirty-five.
[373] Lord Melbourne. Lady Cowper was his sister.
[374] Sir Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne and Baron Beauvale
(1782-1853).
[375] Lieut.-Colonel Francis Russell, son of Lord William Russell.
[376] Thomas Villiers Lister was born on May 7, 1832. He was
Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1873.
[377] The allusion is to _Arlington_, a novel by the author of _Granby_
[T. H. Lister]. It was published in 1832.
[378] The Reform Bill was carried (second reading) in the House of Lords
on April 14 by a majority of nine.
[379] Maria Copley married, August 9, 1832, Henry George, Viscount
Howick (Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1846-52).
[380] Sir Joseph Copley.
[381] Author of the _Journals_.
[382] Taglioni married Count Gilbert de Voisins in 1832.
[383] Henry, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon, died 1833.
[384] Lord Melbourne was Home-Secretary. His wife, Lady Caroline Lamb,
had died in 1828.
[385] On the death of his favourite brother, Hyde Villiers.
[386] Lady Francis Leveson, elder daughter of Charles Greville and Lady
C. Greville.
[387] Thomas, 2nd Baron Ribblesdale, married, 1826, Adelaide, elder
daughter of Thomas Lister of Armitage Park, and died December 1832.
[388] Morton Eden died in May 1821, aged twenty-six.
[389] Wife of Robert Arkwright of Stoke, grandson of Sir Richard
Arkwright. Mrs. Arkwright was a daughter of Stephen Kemble.
[390] Caroline Norton (1808-1877) was a grand-daughter of Richard
Brinsley Sheridan. She married the Hon. George Chapple Norton in 1827,
and after his death, Sir William Stirling-Maxwell.
[391] Emily, born September 4, 1833. She married Charles D. Ellis,
nephew of the 1st Lord Howard de Walden.
[392] At Greenwich.
[393] Rt. Hon. Edward Ellice, Secretary of War.
[394] Chief Secretary.
[395] Envoy-Extraordinary and Minister-Plenipotentiary at the Court of
Madrid.
[396] Mrs. Norton, in writing to her sister Lady Seymour, mentioned this
visit to Bowood. “Lord Auckland I like very much; he has a very grave,
gentle manner, with a good deal of dry fun about him. Emily Eden is
undeniably clever and pleasant.”
[397] Isabella Colvile married, March 3, 1834, Mr. Marindin of
Chesterton, Shropshire.
[398] Lord Wellesley, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 1833-34.
[399] Lord Kerry married March 18, 1834, Lady Augusta Ponsonby.
[400] Lady Lansdowne lived till 1851.
[401] The Trade Unions procession took place on April 21. The agitation
was brought about by Lord Althorp’s unpopular budget.
[402] Lord Auckland had been appointed First Lord of the Admiralty.
[403] Lord Grey resigned 1834.
[404] Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799-1869). He had been Chief
Secretary for Ireland during Lord Grey’s ministry, and then became
Colonial Secretary.
[405] Mrs. Foster, wife of General Foster.
[406] Edward John Littleton, 1st Lord Hatherton (1791-1863). He became
Chief Secretary for Ireland in May 1833.
[407] As Prime Minister.
[408] Earl Grey had resigned on rejection of Irish Coercion Bill in the
Commons.
[409] Mrs. Ellice.
[410] He was now Prime Minister.
[411] Mrs. Norton.
[412] Lady Frances Egerton. Her son Granville was born in 1834.
[413] Major-General William Eden, son of Sir Robert Eden, Governor of
Maryland.
[414] Her dog.
[415] Hannah More’s cottage in Somersetshire.
[416] William, 4th Earl of Albemarle, who married, secondly, Charlotte,
daughter of Sir Henry Hunloke, Bart.
[417] Commander-in-Chief.
[418] The Houses of Parliament were burned, October 16, 1834.
[419] _Ann Grey_, a novel. Mr. Lister was the author of _Granby_, this
book was written by his sister Harriet, who was a Maid of Honour, and
married the Rev. E. H. Cradock, Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford.
[420] Colonial Secretary.
[421] Lord Brougham.
[422] Lord Althorp succeeded his father as Earl Spencer, November 10,
1834.
[423] Caroline Frances Eden, known as _The Sunny Baby_, born June 20,
1835, married, October 16, 1860, the Hon. Percy Scawen Wyndham.
[424] William Conyngham, 1st Baron Plunkett. Lord Chancellor of Ireland
in 1830.
[425] Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, Chancellor of Ireland, 1834-35; created
Lord St. Leonards in 1852 upon becoming Lord Chancellor of England.
[426] Georges Cuvier (1773-1838), the French naturalist.
[427] Lord Auckland was appointed Governor-General of India.
[428] Henry Edridge, a miniature painter; he died in 1821.
[429] At Carton, Maynooth, belonging to the Duke of Leinster.
[430] Henry, Baron de Roos.
[431] The servant.
[432] Her godchild [Mrs. Ellis].
[433] Provisional Governor-General, 1835-36.
[434] Hon. Cecilia de Roos married in December 1835 Hon. John Boyle.
[435] Lady Salisbury was burnt to death in November 1835.
[436] A lieutenant.
[437] Postal-runners.
[438] Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1835-1841.
[439] A novel, edited by Lady Morley, written by Mr. and Mrs. Lister.
[440] Sir Henry Fane (1778-1840). He was appointed Commander-in-Chief in
India, 1835.
[441] As Registrar-General of births for England and Wales.
[442] Eden Lodge, Kensington Gore.
[443] Miss Payne, married in 1827 Lord Henry Gordon, son of the 9th
Marquess of Huntly.
[444] Lady Mary Gordon married in 1822 Frederick Seymour.
[445] William Pitt, Earl Amherst (1773-1857). He was Governor-General of
India from 1823 to 1826.
[446] Miss Eden’s maid.
[447] Lieutenant Thomas Waghorn, R.N., had been sent to Egypt to
investigate the matter of communication between India and Egypt, _via_
Suez.
[448] Lord Auckland and his sisters left Calcutta in October, for a long
tour in the North-West Provinces.
[449] John Russell Colvin, Private Secretary to the Governor-General,
married in 1827 Miss Emma Sneyd. He became Lieutenant-Governor of the
Upper Provinces, 1853-57.
[450] Mr. Torrens, Deputy Secretary.
[451] The wife of Mr. (afterwards Sir William) MacNaghten, who was sent
as Envoy to the Afghan Court in 1840, and was assassinated at Cabul,
1841.
[452] Lord Henry Gordon.
[453] The insurrection of French-Canadians under Louis Joseph Papineau.
[454] Charles Grant, Lord Glenelg, Colonial Secretary, 1834-1839.
[455] Dost Mahomed, Emir of Cabul (1798-1863). He was expelled by the
British in 1840, but restored three years later.
[456] Envoy and Minister-Plenipotentiary to the Shah at Teheran.
[457] Captain Claude Wade, Agent for the Sutlej Frontier.
[458] Daughter of General Sir Henry Fane.
[459] _The Court and Camp of Runjeet Singh_, by the Hon. W. G. Osborne,
published 1840.
[460] Victor Jacquemont (1801-1832), a French traveller and naturalist
who explored British India and Thibet.
[461] Near Simla.
[462] Native bullock-carts.
[463] Box.
[464] Sir Willoughby Cotton commanded a Division in the Afghan War,
1838-1839.
[465] Lady Theresa’s sister-in-law died in November 1838. She was the
daughter of Mr. Lister of Armitage Park, widow of Thomas, 2nd Lord
Ribblesdale; and married, secondly, Lord John Russell.
[466] Lord John Russell had four step-children: Thomas, 3rd Baron
Ribblesdale, who married Emma, daughter of Colonel W. Mure of Caldwell,
M.P.; Adelaide married in 1847 Maurice Drummond; Isabella married in
1853 Rev. W. Warburton; Elizabeth married in 1862 Sir W. Melvill.
[467] George Villiers was given a G.C.B. in 1837, and succeeded his
uncle as 4th Earl of Clarendon, 1838. He was Minister at Madrid,
1833-1838.
[468] Villiers Lister, aged seven. He became Under-Secretary for Foreign
Affairs in 1873.
[469] Miss Eden describes thus Runjeet Singh’s appearance in her
letters. _Up the Country_: “He is exactly like an old mouse, with grey
whiskers and one eye.”
[470] Son of Runjeet Singh.
[471] Through her brother George succeeding as Earl of Clarendon.
[472] Lord Clarendon married in 1839 Lady Katherine Barham; she was a
daughter of Lord Verulam and widow of John Barham.
[473] Lady Harriet Villiers, daughter of 3rd Earl of Clarendon, died
unmarried, January 20, 1835.
[474] Lady Charlotte Jenkinson, daughter of 1st Earl of Liverpool.
[475] Lord Henry’s sister, who married the Hon. Charles Cavendish, 1st
Lord Chesham.
[476] She married, 1870, Mr. Borthwick, afterwards Lord Glenesk.
[477] John Charles, 3rd Earl of Clarendon; married in 1792 Maria,
daughter of Admiral Hon. John Forbes, brother of Lord Granard.
[478] John, 13th Lord Elphinstone (1782-1842). He was in command of the
army which met with disaster in Afghanistan in 1841.
[479] George Russell Clerk, British Envoy at Lahore, K.C.B. in 1848.
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India in 1858.
[480] John Russell Colvin. He married Miss Sneyd in 1827.
[481] Subsequently Sir Auckland Colvin, K.C.S.I., 1838-1908
(Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces).
[482] Henry Thoby Prinsep (1792-1878), author of _Origin of the Sikh
Power in the Punjab_, and _Political Life of Maharaja Runjeet Singh_.
[483] Viscount Jocelyn, born 1816; married 1841 Lady Frances Elizabeth
Cowper, daughter of 5th Earl Cowper.
[484] Son of Runjeet Singh.
[485] Hook’s _Births, Marriages, and Deaths_ was published in 1839.
[486] Sir Jasper Nicolls, Commander-in-Chief in Bengal. He died in 1849.
[487] Lady Campbell’s son.
[488] Sir Henry Fane, Commander-in-Chief.
[489] Colonel Henry Boys Harvey.
[490] Pamela married the Rev. C. Stanford in 1841. She died in 1859.
[491] Married in 1847 T. H. Preston.
[492] Guy Colin. He died in 1853 at Singapore, aged twenty-nine.
[493] Lady Lansdowne’s sister, Lady Elizabeth Feilding, died in March
1840.
[494] Lady Louisa Fitzmaurice married in 1845 the Hon. James Kenneth
Howard.
[495] Frederic Campbell, born in 1838.
[496] The British Army, under Sir John Keane, following the capture of
Kandahar, carried Shah Shuja on to Ghazni, which fell July 21, 1839.
[497] Sir George Elliot, son of the 1st Earl of Minto.
[498] Captain Elliot, afterwards Sir Charles Elliot (1801-1875), son of
the Right Hon. Hugh Elliot. He married in 1828 Clara, daughter of R. H.
Windsor.
[499] William George Keith Elphinstone died at Cabul in 1841, aged
sixty.
[500] Sir Willoughby Cotton, Commander-in-Chief in Bombay, 1847-1850.
[501] Her maid.
[502] Sir James John Gordon Bremer (1786-1850). He captured the Bogue
forts commanding the passage of the Canton River. For his services in
China he received the thanks of Parliament and was made a K.C.B.
[503] Miss Eden’s criticism of Charles Elliot’s conduct was quite
unjust, and subsequently he was completely cleared of all blame.
[504] The Hon. Sarah Archer, married first, the 5th Earl of Plymouth;
and secondly, William Pitt, 2nd Baron Amherst. She died in 1839.
[505] Mary, daughter of 1st Earl of Gosford; married in 1803 Lord W.
Bentinck, Governor-General 1827 to 1833.
[506] Major D’Arcy Todd, Bengal Artillery, was sent on a friendly
Mission to Herat, but being unable to bring matters to a satisfactory
conclusion, withdrew the Mission.
[507] A man-servant.
[508] Commander-in-Chief in Bengal.
[509] Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole, Governor of the Cape. His wife was Lady
Frances Harris. Lord de Grey was his brother-in-law.
[510] Lord Ellenborough.
[511] Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart. (1789-1856). He went as Ambassador to
China in 1840, and two years later negotiated a treaty which ended the
Opium War.
[512] Mr. Lister died June 5, 1842.
[513] Hon. Edward Douglas, born 1800, assumed the name of Pennant in
1841; became Lord Penrhyn in 1866, married 1833 Juliana, daughter of Mr.
Dawkins Pennant of Penrhyn Castle. She died in 1842.
[514] E. Mostyn, married 1827 Harriet, daughter of 2nd Earl of Clonmell;
succeeded his father as Baron Mostyn, 1854.
[515] Lady Theresa Lister married Sir G. Cornewall Lewis in 1844.
[516] Second wife of the 1st Earl of Morley. Frances, daughter of Thomas
Talbot of Gonville, Norfolk.
[517] Miss Eden’s nephew; married Hon. Adelaide Lister, 1847.
[518] Feargus O’Connor, the leader of the Chartists.
[519] In Lord John Russell’s ministry (1846) Macaulay was
Paymaster-General.
[520] Macaulay was defeated at Edinburgh in 1847 by C. Cowan. In 1852 he
was returned unopposed for Edinburgh.
[521] Sir George Grey was Home Secretary in Lord John Russell’s Cabinet.
[522] Lord Auckland, First Lord of the Admiralty.
[523] Her brother, who was now Bishop of Sodor and Man.
[524] Mrs. Colvile’s nurse.
[525] Son and daughter of Lady Theresa Lewis by her first husband.
[526] Sir Alexander Cornewall Duff-Gordon married in 1840 Lucie, only
daughter of John Austin.
[527] The _Avenger_ was wrecked, December 20, 1847, on the Sorelle
Rocks, north coast of Africa. Only five lives were saved out of two
hundred and seventy.
[528] A letter of the Duke of Wellington’s on national defence, and
urging an increase in the army, was published without his consent in the
_Morning Chronicle_ of January 4, 1848.
[529] Lord John Russell, Prime Minister in 1846-1852.
[530] Lord Palmerston, Foreign Secretary.
[531] On the appointment of Dr. Hampden (1794-1868) to the Bishopric of
Hereford.
[532] Hampden’s Bampton Lectures were considered heretical. Merewether
was the High-Church candidate.
[533] Samuel Wilberforce (1805-1873); he became Bishop of Oxford, 1845.
[534] _Daughters_ was published anonymously in 1847.
[535] Elizabeth Fry, the Prison Reformer (1780-1845). Her _Journal_ and
_Letters_ were published in 1847.
[536] Ella Drummond, her niece.
[537] Under-Secretary for the Home Department.
[538] William Vansittart married, 1839, Emily Lindsay Anstruther. She
died 1844. He married, December 1847, Henrietta Humphreys; she died in
1852. He married, thirdly, Mélanie, daughter of Sir R. Jenkins.
[539] Her doctor, Sir C. Locock.
[540] Lord Ashburton married Ann Louisa Bingham of Philadelphia in 1798.
She died December 5, 1848.
[541] W. Bingham Baring (2nd Lord Ashburton) married Lady Harriet
Montagu.
[542] Right Hon. Charles Buller, who died in 1848.
[543] Francis, Duke of Bedford. He was brother to Lord John Russell.
[544] Sir George Cornewall Lewis’s house, on the borders of Wales.
[545] Lady Godolphin, Miss Eden’s sister, died in 1847.
[546] Mr. Henry Baring died April 13, 1848. Mrs. H. Baring was Cecilia
Anne, daughter of Vice-Admiral William Windham.
[547] Macaulay published the first and second volumes of his _History_
in 1848.
[548] Probably _Lives of the Friends and Contemporaries of Lord
Chancellor Clarendon_. It was published in 1852.
[549] Sir Guy Campbell died January 26, 1849.
[550] Lord Auckland’s death on January 1, 1849, was described by Charles
Greville in his _Memoirs_: “The past year, which has been so fertile in
public misfortunes and private sorrows, wound up its dismal catalogue
with a great and unexpected calamity--the death of Auckland, who went to
the Grange [Lord Ashburton] in perfect health on Friday, but was struck
down by a fit of apoplexy on his return from shooting on Saturday, and
died early Monday morning.... His loss to the Government is irreparable,
and to his family it is unspeakably great. To his sisters he was a
husband, a brother, and a friend combined in one, and to them it is a
bereavement full of sadness, almost amounting to despair.”
[551] Mary Dulcebella Drummond married, October 17, 1850, Richard
Wellesley.
[552] Maurice Drummond married Lord John Russell’s step-daughter, Hon.
Adelaide Lister, January 12, 1847.
[553] Lady Georgiana Howard married in 1822 George James Welbore, 1st
Lord Dover.
[554] Lady Caroline Lascelles, whose husband, the Rt. Hon. W. Lascelles,
died 1851.
[555] Diana, married 1851 the Hon. Edward Coke.
[556] Lucia, married in 1851 Lord Bagot.
[557] Granville, killed at sea, 1851.
[558] The Ecclesiastical Titles Bill.
[559] Sir Alexander James Cockburn.
[560] After Lord Clarendon left Ireland he was four times Secretary for
Foreign Affairs.
[561] Augustus Welby Pugin (1811-1852), the Roman Catholic architect.
[562] Mr. C. Greville wrote a letter to _The Times_ in December 1850 on
the subject of Protestant Agitation, signed “Carolus.”
[563] Lady Theresa’s mother, Mrs. George Villiers, died January 12,
1856, aged eighty.
[564] Jessie, daughter of Vice-Admiral Henry Greville, C.B., married,
1844, Edward Palmer.
[565] Disraeli’s Government of India Bill.
[566] Louisa Georgina, daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl Bathurst.
[567] The Rev. W. J. Early Bennett the ritualist, Vicar of Frome. He
died in 1886.
[568] _Journal and Correspondence of William Lord Auckland_, published
1862.
[569] Miss Eden’s novel, _The Semi-Detached House_, was published in
1859. Edited by Lady Theresa Lewis.
[570] Earl of Dalkeith married, November 22, 1859, Lady Louisa Hamilton.
[571] William George Granville Vernon-Harcourt (Sir William
Vernon-Harcourt) married Thérèse Lister on November 5, 1859.
[572] Her sister-in-law, wife of Lord Auckland, Bishop of Bath and
Wells.
[573] Constance, married 1864, 16th Earl of Derby. Alice, married 1860,
1st Earl of Lathom. Emily Theresa, married 1868, Lord Ampthill.
[574] Sir James Colvile, Miss Eden’s nephew. He was Chief Justice of
Bengal, 1855-1859.
[575] Florence Nightingale died in 1910, aged ninety.
[576] Miss Eden’s niece.
[577] Emma, daughter of Colonel Mure, married Thomas, 3rd Baron
Ribblesdale, in 1853.
[578] Julian, born October 6, 1860, and died in 1862.
[579] Henry and Charles Greville.
[580] The Comte de Flahault died in 1864. His daughter had married Lord
Kerry in 1843.
[581] Gore House was probably built in the beginning of the nineteenth
century. William Wilberforce lived there for fifteen years; in 1836 the
house was lived in for a short time by Lady Blessington and Count
D’Orsay, who had married Lord Blessington’s daughter by his first wife.
[582] June 29, 1860, Constance Kent murdered her step-brother at Road in
Somersetshire.
[583] Her niece.
[584] _Hopes and Fears_, published in 1860.
[585] Lady Alice Villiers married in August 1860 Lord Skelmersdale (1st
Earl of Lathom).
[586] Charles Wood, Secretary of State for India, 1st Viscount Halifax
(1800-1885).
[587] Henry Hart Milman, Dean of St. Paul’s (1791-1868).
[588] Mr. George Hogge helped in the preparation for publication the
_Journal and Correspondence of William Lord Auckland_.
[589] Daughter of 3rd Lord Auckland, Bishop of Bath and Wells.
[590] Isabella, daughter of Viscount Torrington. She died in 1830.
[591] Harriet, daughter of the 1st Lord Ashburton.
[592] Lady Theresa Lewis died in 1865, aged sixty-two.
[593] Near Frome, in Somersetshire.