Miss Eden's Letters

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.