Miss Eden's Letters

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.