Miss Eden's Letters

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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 179 °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.

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